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Long ago, the great
Frith made the world.

He made all the stars.

and the world lived
among the stars.

Frith made all the
animals and birds.

and, at first, made
them all the same.

Now, among the animals was
El-ahrairah, the Prince of Rabbits.

He had many friends.

and they all ate
grass together.

After a time, the rabbits
wandered everywhere.

multiplying and
eating as they went.

Then Frith said
to El-ahrairah:

"Prince Rabbit, if you
cannot control your people.

I shall find ways
to control them."

El-ahrairah would not
listen, and said to Frith:

"My people are the
strongest in the world."

This angered Frith, so he determined
to get the better of El-ahrairah.

He gave a present to
every animal and bird.

making each one
different from the rest.

When the fox came, and
others like the dog and cat.

the hawk and weasel.

to each of them, Frith
gave a fierce desire.

to hunt and slay the
children of El-ahrairah.

El-ahrairah knew that Frith was too
clever for him, and he was frightened.

He had never before seen
the Black Rabbit of Death.

"My friend," said Frith,
"Have you seen El-ahrairah?

For I wish to
give him a gift."

"Uh, eh.

No, I have not seen him."

So, Frith said, "Come out,
and I will bless you instead."

"No, I cannot. I am busy.
The fox and weasel are coming.

If you want to bless me, you
will have to bless my bottom."

"Very well. Be it so."

And El-ahrairah's tail grew shining
white and flashed like a star.

And his back legs
grew long and powerful.

He tore across the hill faster
than any creature in the world.

"All the world will be your enemy,
Prince with a Thousand Enemies.

And whenever they catch
you, they will kill you.

But first, they
must catch you.

digger, listener, runner.

Prince with the swift warning.

Be cunning and full of tricks.

and your people will
never be destroyed."

Along the edge of that wood, there.
Enjoyed many a game pie from it, too.

You can't hold back
progress. Shame, though.

It's gone 8:00, and I told Elizabeth
we'd go into Newbury this evening.

Old sun sets so late in
summer, it's morning before.

I think it's safe now, Fiver.

There's still something strange
about the warren this evening.

Is it dangerous?

It's not exactly danger. It's.

I don't know.
Something oppressive.

Like thunder. It seems
safe enough now, though.

Come on, see if you can find me a
coltsfoot. If you can't, no one can.

- What's going on?
- It's only that runt, Fiver.

Jumping at bluebottles again.

- Come on. Hurry up.
- Fiver found it, Toadflax.

And we'll eat it.

Coltsfoot are for
Owsla. You know that.

Tell you the truth, I'm
getting sick and tired of it.

Sometimes I feel like clearing
out of the warren altogether.

Never mind. Let's forget it,
and try to enjoy the evening.

Hazel?

Hazel, this is
where it comes from.

I know now that
terrible thing is coming.

- What do you mean?
- Look.

The field! The field!

- It's covered with blood!
- Blood? Don't be silly.

All right, Fiver.
It's getting dark.

- We should get back to the burrow.
- Back to the burrow?

It'll come there.
Don't think it won't.

It's all around us.

Now, stop it, Fiver.

We've got to go away
from here. All of us.

- Go away? What, the whole warren?
- Yes, before it's too late.

You're being silly.

They'll think you're
out of your mind.

You must listen to me, Hazel.
Something very bad is going to happen.

We'd better try and see the Chief
Rabbit. You can tell him about it.

But I don't expect he'll
like the ideia at all.

We've got to go away from
the warren! All of us!

- Go away?
- Yes, before it's too late.

Is something wrong?

- What's the matter?
- Is there danger?

Come on. Let's find
out what's happening.

- Hazel? It is Hazel, isn't it?
- It is.

- What are you doing here?
- We want to see the Chief Rabbit, Bigwig.

"We"? You mean he
wants to see him, too?

- Yes.
- I must.

- What's it all about?
- Bigwig? What do they want?

- They want to see the Chief Rabbit.
- What for?

- I have to.
- Send them away.

I'll take care of it, Holly.

Look, Bigwig, when have I ever
asked to see the Chief Rabbit before?

All right.

Wait here.

Excuse me, sir. These two
outskirts have asked to see you.

Is it all right if
I bring them down?

Come on, then. Though I'll probably
get my ears chewed off for this.

Now, Walnut.

- It is Walnut, isn't it?
- No, sir. Hazel.

Hazel.

I knew your mother
well. And your friend?

- My brother, sir. Fiver.
- Your brother.

Now, do tell me
how I can help you.

Well, he says there's a bad
danger coming to our warren.

A bad danger.

How very upsetting.

Now, what sort of
danger, I wonder?

I don't know. But
it's bad. It's so bad.

Well, now. What
ought we to do?

- Go away. All of us. Now.
- Now? In May?

The mating season? And
where would we go to?

He's had these feelings before,
and he's been right again and again.

I shall have to consider
this very carefully.

Perhaps we'll discuss
it later, in the summer.

We can't wait!

It's been good of
you to come, Walnut.

Bigwig!

- Bigwig.
- Sir?

- What was that all about?
- Well, sir.

Your duty as an officer
is to protect this burrow.

- Yes, sir.
- Those two lunatics.

Yes, sir.

- Who's that?
- It's me.

Dandelion?

No, Blackberry.

Dandelion told me you were
leaving the warren tonight.

- Lf so, I'd like to come along.
- We'd like to come along, too.

I don't like the
look of things.

We must get everyone.

That Toadflax fellow
followed me down the run.

It could mean the Owsla
has been turned out tonight.

Then the sooner
we're off, the better.

It's the Owsla.
They're coming.

There aren't many of
you left, are there?

Bigwig? Are you off duty?

Off duty, and likely to remain
off. I've left the Owsla.

Fiver, I've been thinking
about what you said.

- Are you sure?
- I'm sure.

- We're leaving.
- Leaving? All of you? Where to?

We don't know exactly.
But we're going.

- You're all under arrest!
- Under arrest?

- What do you mean?
- What for?

Spreading dissension,
inciting to mutiny.

- There's a bad danger coming.
- It's not good.

You'll all come with me.

Is he alone?

I am captain of Owsla.

Go, now, or we'll kill you.

It's you who'll be killed.

- Bigwig!
- Yes, you know me.

- He'll come back with the Owsla.
- Right. I think I'll come with you.

Hazel, we'll
have to stop here.

Fiver and that other half-size,
we're all in. They need to rest.

He's right, Hazel.

Look. Once we're
beyond the woods.

we'll really be clear of
the Owsla. We can rest then.

I've never been in a wood
before, Hazel. It looks dangerous.

Follow me.

A lendri!

This way.

It had just killed. I
saw blood on its lips.

Lucky for us, it had.

Otherwise, it might
have been quicker.

- We shall have to cross it.
- Cross it? Who's going to cross it?

- What do you want to cross it for?
- Are you sure about this?

Yes. But I don't think I can
swim, Hazel. I'm worn out.

- Pipkin is even worse off than me.
- We can't just sit here.

I know what we ought
to be looking for.

A high, lonely
place with dry soil.

where we can see and hear all
around, and men hardly ever come.

- There's a dog loose in the wood.
- Well, that does it.

- A dog?
- Come on.

What do you think will happen
when he picks up our scent?

Those that can swim, swim.

The others will have to
make out the best they can.

That's not good enough.

We got into this together,
we'll get out of it together.

Hazel, look.

It floats.

That's it. That's it!

Fiver, get on, quickly.

Silver, Bigwig, get your
nose under it. Push it out.

Quickly!

Keep still!

- Are you all right?
- Of course.

That was a good ideia
of yours, Blackberry.

Yes. Let's try to remember
it. Might come in handy again.

Does anyone know
where we're going?

Hazel does, I'm sure.

I've never seen anything
like that before.

- The man-thing killed
it. - A man-thing?

A hrududu. It runs on it.

- The what?
- The hrududu.

- It runs on it?
- Yeah, faster than we can.

- It's dangerous. It could catch us.
- No, no.

It won't take any notice
of us at all. I'll show you.

Watch this.

See? It's not interested.

What are you waiting for?

Well? Come along, then.

They need to rest, Hazel.

There's something up ahead.

A warm, friendly
burrow, perhaps?

No, not a burrow. A field.

A great field of scented plants that
will cover us until we're rested.

You're beginning to
sound like a chief, Hazel.

- Hazel-rah.
- Hazel-rah?

That'll be the day I
call him chief, that will.

Violet's gone.

We'd better keep moving.

We'll have to stop soon, Hazel.
They're frightened and tired.

Over there. We'll rest there.

Can't rest there.
That's a man-place.

There are no men there now.

It looks all right.

What's happening
back home, I wonder.

Think, when we lived in
our own burrows, hein?

Doutor, soft, warm bodies.

- Now, look, we can't go on like this.
- It gets worse the further we go.

Where are we going?

It won't be much longer.
Then we can all rest.

- How much longer?
- We never should have left.

- Suppose Fiver's all wrong?
- We want to go back and find out.

Go back? After all
we've been through?

And probably get killed for wounding
Captain Holly, an Owsla officer?

- Talk sense, for Frith's sake.
- We must go on, until we reach the hills.

Those that go back will not.

Not safe.

Not safe.

I don't believe you
know where you're going.

Now, listen to me, you bunch
of mole-snouted, muckraking.

It looks like you've
come a long way.

Do you live here?

Yes, this is our warren.

We need to stay
here for a while.

Why not? We
supposed you would.

But I don't think there are enough of
you to live very comfortably on your own.

There are enough of us
to protect ourselves.

Don't get upset.

Who are you? What do you want?

My name is Cowslip, and
I don't want anything.

Yeah, what about the others?

We have plenty of empty
burrows, if that's what you mean.

And now, if you'll excuse
me, I hate the rain.

Funny smell.

We ought to have nothing to do
with that Cowslip, or his warren.

It might be drier in there.

Whatever will he think
of us if we don't go in?

- I'll tell you. He'll think we're afraid.
- Afraid? Who's afraid?

He seemed friendly enough.

What has he got to gain
by asking us to join him?

We can't sit out
here like fools.

Well, come along then.

They think I'm mad,
but you know I'm not.

and you still won't listen.

Hazel?

Come along, Fiver.

There's that smell again.

It's almost like man.

Oh, it's you, is it? How
nice. I'm so glad you've come.

This is rather a big warren.

Yes. Please, help
yourself to flayrah.

There are fresh roots here
daily. The man throws it out.

Man? What man?

A lot of the burrows are
lying empty, you know.

so you're all welcome
to any that you choose.

Where are all the others?

Please, eat all you like.
We'll leave you to your.

Uh, to yourselves.

Where are they all?

Where? Try asking
Cowslip "where" anything.

They seem sad.

Like trees in November.

Well, I still think we've made
a big change for the better.

Do you think the man puts the food
out there because of a kind heart?

It's not poison.

There's something unnatural and
evil and twisted about this place.

It feels like mist.

Like being deceived,
and losing our way.

Some of us are gathering
and suggesting stories.

- We're hoping you'll tell one.
- Hazel can tell you about our adventures.

How we had the good
luck to join you.

Surely, there's
no harm in that.

Dandelion, why don't you tell
us the story of El-ahrairah?

El-ahrairah and his trickery don't really
mean very much to us, charming as it is.

Rabbits will
always need tricks.

No, we need dignity, and above
all, the will to accept our fate.

As one of our poets is fond
of saying, if I may quote.

- Yes, of course.
- Please, do.

Where are you going, stream?

Far, far away

Take me with you, stream

Take me on your dark journey

Lord Frith, take me far
away To the hearts of light

The silence, I
give you my breath

- My life, the silence
- I've had enough!

- Where are you going?
- Away, to the hills.

By yourself,
alone? You'll die.

- You're closer to death than I.
- Determined to ruin it for us, aren't you?

No!

Me, me, me. All the
time. "But I'm in a mist."

- Bigwig!
- "Everything's bad!"

- No!
- "I've a funny feeling in my toe."

- No, no!
- I'm finished with you.

What's more, I'm going to
make sure everyone else is.

Bigwig, listen. You're
in a snare. A snare.

Now, what did they tell
you in Owsla? Think.

No good biting wire.

Run to the warren and get the others.
Blackberry, Silver and Cowslip.

Be quick. He'll die.

Blackberry! Dandelion!
Come quickly!

Come on. Hurry
up. It's Bigwig.

He's still breathing.
What can we do?

- We've got to loosen the wire somehow.
- Yes, but how?

- Is Cowslip coming? Maybe he knows.
- He wouldn't come.

- He told me to stop talking about it.
- He told you what?

This is it. The wire's on a
peg. We've got to dig it out.

The peg's narrower
down there. It tapers.

I can't get my teeth into it.

Pipkin, you go in.

The splinters prick you.

It's hard to breathe.
The peg's nearly through.

Fiver, you go in.

I can't hear him breathing.

It's broken in two. It's free.

Bigwig, the peg's
out. You're free.

I think he's gone.

We've got you out, Bigwig.

You're free.

- Bigwig, please don't die.
- It's no use.

We got you out.

What shall we do without him?

My heart has joined the thousand
For my friend stopped running today

You pay for it. The food, the warren.
But no one must ever ask where anyone was.

or speak of the wires. The whole
place is snared, everywhere.

- They left Bigwig to die.
- Silver's right.

Let's drive them out, take their
warren and live there ourselves.

Yes. Back to the warren.

- Yes, yes. Back to the warren.
- Embleer Frith, you fools!

That warren's nothing but a death hole.
Let's help ourselves to a roof of bones.

Who killed them?

Bigwig! You're alive!

- Are you all right?
- We thought you were dead.

- Let him alone. Let him rest.
- I don't have to rest.

- What do we do now, Fiver?
- Go away from here.

Look. Look.

That's the place for
us. High, lonely hills.

where the wind and the sound carry, and
the ground's as dry as straw in a barn.

That's where we ought to be.
That's where we have to get to.

Pipkin.

Pipkin.

- Pipkin!
- Mm?

Why don't we go and
look around the farm?

Farm, Hazel? What for?

- Cats and dogs.
- I've got a little plan.

- Won't it be dangerous?
- Of course not.

- Is it safe?
- Of course.

- Let's all go.
- No.

Just you and me.

I think I see a dog.

Where? It's tied up.

But give it a wide berth. We don't
want it to wake up the whole farm.

This is the BBC Home Service.

They are up. Hazel?

- Let's go back.
- Just a little further.

Rabbits. So, that's
your secret plan.

I'm going inside to
take a look around.

Is it safe in there?

Of course. You wait here.

- But if you see a cat.
- A cat?

- You will let me know at once?
- Right.

I'm Hazel.

Hazel.

My name's Clover.

- Where do you come from?
- Oh, far away.

My friends and I
live as we please.

We eat grass, lie in the sun.

- Do you ever get out?
- Oh, yes.

Sometimes, a child takes
us out on the grass.

- Would you like to join us?
- Join you? But how?

How can we join you?

Hazel! There's a cat outside.

I must go back to my friends.

But we'll be back, and any of you
who wish can come along with us.

- Where is it?
- There. I think it smelt us.

- I'll get you away.
- Thank you.

- Just follow me closely.
- Yes.

- And run when I do.
- Run when you do.

You look hungry. Rats
getting too clever, I suppose.

I bet you can't run at all.

You pie-eyed, saucer-licking
scrap-scraper. Can you run?

You'll see.

I think not.

What's all that, then?

Tab? Tab!

Let them alone. Cruel thing.

What is it?

There's something coming
up the line of the hedge.

- Can you see it?
- I hear it. It's something big.

- A cat?
- I don't know.

Bigwig!

Quiet. I want to listen.

Bigwig!

Bigwig!

It's the Black
Rabbit of Inlè!

Don't talk like that.
They'll go tharn.

We go by the will
of the Black Rabbit.

- When he calls you, you have to go.
- Stay where you are.

- Who's there?
- All dead!

All gone!

It's Captain Holly!

- Holly, it's me, Bigwig.
- I found you.

I found you.

He's been hurt. Look at
that wound on his shoulder.

I remember you.

- You're the one that saw it coming.
- But what happened?

Our warren, destroyed.

Destroyed? How?

Men came. Filled
in the burrows.

Couldn't get out.

There was a strange sound.

You see, the air turned bad.

Runs blocked with dead bodies.

We couldn't get out.

Everything turned mad.

Warren, herbs, roots, grass.

all pushed into the earth.

- Men have always hated us.
- No.

They just destroyed the warren
because we were in their way.

They'll never rest until
they've spoiled the earth.

I tried to find you.

I wandered for days.

The Efrafans
wouldn't let me go.

They ripped my ear.

Ripped it.

I tried to find you.

Efrafans? What's
he talking about?

Holly.

Let him be.

He's had a bad time.

He can tell us about
it when he's rested.

A young doe has
a request, sire.

A doe wants to see me?

Says she represents
a group, sire.

I see.

- Your name?
- Hyzenthlay, sir.

Don't be frightened.
You're safe here.

Get on with it!

Sir, several of us proposed
an expedition to start.

a new warren somewhere else.

- Out of the question.
- But you don't understand.

The system is breaking down.

Explain that.

We can't produce litters.
We're overcrowded.

I want no further discussion.

- We'll go as far as you like.
- Here or anywhere else.

Thank you, sir.

Campion, have her watched.

That's it, Hazel. That's
where we have to be.

Let me get this
straight, Fiver.

- You want us to climb this, is that it?
- Yes!

Come on, Pipkin!

Come and look. You can
see the whole world!

I found a burrow.
Under that beech hanger.

with a great hall and no
smell of death or disease.

Frith on the hills!

He made it all for us!

Frith may have made
it, but Fiver found it.

- I've never seen anything like it.
- It's some kind of a bird.

Are you hurt?

Bigwig, I've got an ideia.

- See if you can find some worms.
- Worms? Me, dig for worms?

What for, for Frith's sake?

I get up plenty soon.

- He's hurt and we want to help him.
- A bird? What for?

We help you.

Piss off!

What for help me?

What happened to you?

Damn cat jump me, farm cat.

We know her.

We take you to burrow.

Go away. Wing no good,
but I walk plenty good.

- Is long way?
- Where you come from?

From big, big water.

My home by big water.

Big water.

We go.

I thought everything would be fine
once we got here, but it's not.

Because now we've got here,
I find it's not that simple.

What do you mean? This place
is as safe as Fiver said it was.

We've done very
well for ourselves.

- But we don't have any does.
- Does?

Does.

Not one, and that
means no kittens.

- And after we're gone, no warren.
- So that's why you went to that farm.

I thought we'd be able to get
some hutch rabbits to join us.

What's to be done then,
Hazel? Set off again?

And where?

There's not been a sniff of
another rabbit since we got here.

The bird, Kehaar.

We'll get the bird
to search for us.

What home? This hole?

Where are mates?
Where are chicks?

Mate make eggs,
mate sit on eggs.

hatch eggs, many
eggs. We feed chick.

Egg robbers come, we fight.

You stupid bunnies!

You got no mates!

Where are mates?

Where are chicks?

Plenty trouble for you.

You need mates!

It's working, Hazel.

You got no brains. You no
plan. You need mate for plan.

Listen.

I got plan for you.

Wing better, I go fly.

Fly for you.

I find mates.

What a splendid ideia, Kehaar!

How clever of you to think
of it. You very fine bird.

When will you be able to fly?

I fly any time. Stand back.

When I fly Stand back.

Stand back. Back, back.

I need room.

Wings good.

Feathers clean.

I soar!

I glide!

I circle.

Then, I soar!

Bigwig said you couldn't
make a friend out of him.

- He's probably gone back to the big water.
- I think you're right.

Blackberry, I want
you to get Dandelion.

and meet me here after
the others are asleep.

- It's no good asking you not to go.
- It'll be perfectly safe, Fiver.

I'll take the greatest care.

Clover.

Clover!

Who's that?

It's me. We're back.

Hazel.

- What are you doing up there?
- I've come to let you out.

Will you come with us?

- We're all right here.
- Yes.

Good.

Come on.

Come on, move, move.

Move.

- Lucy's rabbits are out, look.
- Let's get them in, quick.

There's a wild rabbit, look.

There he goes.

Keep the torch on them.

I don't know, John,
whether you hit it or not.

- I reckon he's in those nettles.
- Have a look, then.

I hit him, all right.
That's blood down there, see?

That don't signify. He might
be a long way off by now.

I reckon you've lost him.

No, we ain't.

Fiver, there's
been some trouble.

Hazel's been shot.

No.

The Black Rabbit
serves Lord Frith.

but he does no more
than his appointed task.

Hazel's not dead.

Perfect landing.

Hazel's been wounded.
The farm man shot him.

Come on, follow me.

Come on!

- You get black stones out?
- What do you mean?

Always with gun is coming
little black stones.

You never see?

Take out black
stones, he get better.

Let me see leg.

Many stones.

Did you find anything
on your flight?

- Efrafa.
- Can you guide us there?

Many rabbits.

Too many rabbits.

We wouldn't be enough to
fight one of their patrols.

What do you mean?

You see this?
They did it to me.

It's an identification mark. Tells
you when you can be above ground.

- What do you mean? Who's to stop you?
- Their Owsla.

Their chief is called
Woundwort. General Woundwort.

I don't think even you would
match up to him, Bigwig.

Under him are captains,
each one in charge of a mark.

If you're found above
ground at the wrong time.

they take you before the
council for punishment.

Some of them must get away.

They caught one trying to
run away when I was there.

Blackavar was his name.

When they'd finished with him,
both his ears were ripped to shreds.

worse than this one of mine.

He was lucky not to have been killed.
There was another one, a doe, Hyzenthlay.

I couldn't have escaped
without her help.

- Why didn't she go with you?
- She wouldn't go without the others.

Then some might be
persuaded to leave?

Yes, but you'd never
get them out of Efrafa.

You got out.

Only because Lord Frith sent
one of his great messengers.

I didn't see what
happened to them.

It must have cut them down.

It's not going to be easy,
but we don't have much choice.

- We'll start off when I'm fit to travel.
- I don't like this ideia at all.

Holly, I want
you to stay here.

You're known to them and it
could be dangerous for you.

I've been in Efrafa, and I tell
you you're making a bad mistake.

that might very well
get you all killed.

There's a homba.

No one move. Keep
still, all of you.

- What's he up to?
- Trying to draw it off, I suppose.

Frith and Inlè!

Come on, let's
get out of here.

Come on, hurry!

- Aren't you wounded?
- Never better! Let's go!

- What was that all about?
- I just lost my head, Hazel.

I've been strung up all
day, thinking about Efrafa.

Anyway, I feel
a lot better now.

Why did you cry out,
if you're all right?

I didn't. I just stopped limping,
you know, ready to run really fast.

when I bumped into a group
of rabbits, face to face.

I tried to warn them about the homba,
but all they did was try to stop me.

One of them said,
"You stay here."

So I knocked him down,
I had to, and raced off.

- Next thing I heard was this squeal.
- So the homba got the other rabbit?

He must have. After all,
I led them right into it.

But I never saw what happened.

It's not to rest
here, they come.

A patrol?

Yeah, is coming
for find you, is go!

You go to river, then
they not find you.

All of you, under that bridge
unless you want your ears chewed off.

Yeah, come along.

By other side iron road.

I think maybe they no like
for go across iron road.

Hazel, you go on. This may be
my chance to get into Efrafa.

But it's too.

All right, take care.

Now, Kehaar will meet you
tomorrow, in that kale field.

Tell him what
you've worked out.

Mr. Hazel, what wait for?

He's right, Hazel,
you must go now.

We'll go down to the river and wait
there for you to tell us what to do.

I want you to find some way
to keep them from following us.

Go on now, before
we're all caught!

It's a wide patrol.
Be careful, Hyzenthlay.

Sir, we've picked up this
hlessi and brought him in.

- Who are you?
- My name is Bigwig.

"Bigwig, sir!"

- What were you doing?
- I've come to join Efrafa.

- Why?
- Surprised you ask.

sir.

Is there anything odd
about wanting to join?

I'll ask the questions.
What can you do?

I can run and fight.

- Fight, can you?
- I've been an officer in an Owsla.

So, you came to join us.

I thought you might
have some use for me.

Well, for the time being, you'll
be assigned a post in the patrol.

You'll take orders
from Captain Campion.

If you want a doe, you
have your choice here.

You're not an
officer for nothing.

Thank you, sir.

And.

you'll be identified
by your mark.

Those Efrafans will
be fast and savage.

I have to find a way
to get away from them.

If what Holly says is true, we
couldn't possibly stand and fight them.

Then we'll have to
find another way.

What on earth is that, Kehaar?

Him fish.

Hazel, come and look at this.

What is it?

Is boat. Man make
them go on water.

It floats, Hazel.

It floats.

Aren't you going to silflay?

I don't silflay
at this time, sir.

Tell him why you're
here, Blackavar.

I come here for the mark to.

I come here for
the mark to see me.

how I've been punished for
trying to leave the warren.

The council were merciful.
The council were merciful.

He keeps trying to run away.

Captain Campion
caught him this time.

His ears were ripped and
he is to show himself.

at every morning and evening
silflay as an example to the others.

If you ask me, he
won't last much longer.

He'll meet a blacker rabbit
than himself one of these nights.

That doe over there,
what's her name?

Fancy her, do you?

She's called Hyzenthlay, but look
elsewhere, she's a troublemaker.

The council's got
their eye on her.

You go now, talk to Bigwig.

Yeah, I go talk to Mr. Bigwig.

He'll be in field by arch on
the iron road. Go find him.

By the iron road?
Yeah, I go and find him.

He'll tell you the plan.

He tell me the plan?
I know the plan!

Now don't attract attention.

Of course not, of course not.

I be quiet. I be clever.

They no see me.
Kehaar, Kehaar.

You wait here.

- Hyzenthlay.
- Sir?

I want to talk with you.

I am in the mark and
under your orders, sir.

Do you remember a pale gray rabbit
called Holly, you helped escape?

- You've made a mistake, sir.
- Listen carefully, Hyzenthlay.

I'm from a warren where life is
free, where you can live as you wish.

I've come to bring you out of
Efrafa, as many as will come.

You might be a spy,
sent by the council.

You know I'm not.

Will you join us, and
persuade your friends, as well?

Trust me. My friends
are not far away.

My courage, my spirit is
so much less than it was.

We can escape from
Efrafa, believe me.

Yes.

I think I do.

- Listen carefully.
- Yeah!

Shh!

We're ready. We
leave at sunset.

- Ready, good!
- Shh!

There will be lots of us. We'll
meet you at the iron bridge.

- When?
- Sunset.

Good! Good. Sunset.

Then you must guide
us to the river.

- Plenty good trick.
- Trick, what trick?

Listen, if you see a
patrol following us.

you must drive them
away, terrify them.

Yeah, I fly at them.

Shh.

Remember, sunset.

Yeah.

You plenty good fellow.

It's set.

When?

Get them to the near hind mark at
sunset, just before early silflay.

- Suppose something happens?
- Nothing will happen. We can do it.

Yes.

I think we can.

Sometimes I can tell
when things are true.

Sometimes I can see it.

A high down with trees and.

I've become foolish.

You'll have to meet this friend
of mine. He talks just like that.

We'll be ready.

Sunset, then. And a
bird will fight for us.

- A bird?
- Even Woundwort won't expect that.

Bigwig!

That white bird you were
talking to this morning.

- Talking to, sir?
- You were very close to it. Why?

Well, I've never
been hurt by a bird.

That's not what I asked.

To tell you the truth, sir, I
think I was trying to impress you.

In future, stay
in your own mark.

Sir.

What do you know
about a homba?

A homba, sir?

You led it onto some rabbits?

I didn't intend to. I
didn't know they were there.

You didn't report it.

Everything out of the
ordinary is to be reported.

I didn't know running from a
homba was out of the ordinary.

That was a patrol on the
track of a band of strangers.

Do you know
anything about them?

I saw some tracks, but I can't
tell you any more than that, sir.

I'm taking out a
wide patrol tomorrow.

We'll cross the iron road and
try to pick up their tracks.

I want you to come along.

Yes, sir.

Campion, follow him.

Don't let him
out of your sight.

I've been told to tell you early
silflay has been canceled this evening.

No one told me
anything about it.

Have a look over there
and you'll see why.

Now, Blackavar.

The new officer,
sir, he's gone.

Bigwig?

He's wounded Sherbil and taken
a crowd of the mark with him.

I'll blind him.
I'll blind him!

- Bigwig, where's the bird?
- He'll be here.

He'd better!

Where is that bird?

What I am doing here?
I am wait for long time.

Is no sunset. Is no good here.

Where are they? They
should be here by now.

Silver, go up to the iron bridge
and see if you can find them.

They're coming.

Bigwig, the general.

What will we do?

It nearly came off.

We'll take one or two of them
with us before it's finished.

Bigwig?

You traitors!

Campion, get this miserable
group back to their marks.

I'll settle with
you myself, Bigwig.

No need to take you back.

Come on and try, you
crack-brained slave driver.

Get away, blast you!

Get away, you
damned white bird!

Straight ahead, to the river.

Keep going, it's a friend.

- You did it, Bigwig. You did it.
- I did, didn't I?

It's not over yet.

They gone.

Keep going, down to the river.

- The general's behind me.
- Where do we go, Hazel?

I trusted you, Bigwig.

You can trust me now.

You'll either go into the
river or be torn to pieces.

There's nowhere left to run.

Campion, Lily.

when I give the word,
we go straight into them.

- That bird can't save you now.
- There it is!

What you do now?

We're going back to
our warren, Kehaar.

Good. You go, I go.

Is finish here for me.

- I go to big water!
- Take care of that wing.

Is winter plenty
cold, then I come back.

Come back anytime.
And thank you, Kehaar.

Big water!

Get the holes filled in.

Everyone underground.

- What's the matter?
- The general.

- Where?
- The wood behind us.

- It's full of Efrafans.
- I'm not going back.

- Maybe we ought to leave.
- Anyone who wants to can go.

We went through a lot to get
here, and I'm not leaving now.

Neither am I.

If I'm for the Black Rabbit, one or
two from Efrafa will come with me.

We'll fill in the holes deep.
They'll have to dig us out.

They can't be out there
long without attracting elil.

- The Efrafans never give up.
- Maybe we should leave.

We're staying. But there
may be a better way.

- I'll come with you.
- No, they know you too well.

I'll go alone. Now, get those
holes filled in. I won't be long.

They'll take us back to
Efrafa. Their Owsla will.

Listen, we're not finished
yet, not by a long shot.

You were one of those
on the riverbank.

Did Bigwig send you?

I'm a friend of Bigwig's.

What was left unfinished on the
riverbank will be finished now.

It would be better for both of
us if we could come to terms.

Terms?

Very well.

These are my terms. Hand over
all the deserters immediately.

We couldn't agree to that.

But I can suggest something
better, for both of us.

- You're in no position to bargain.
- We shouldn't be fighting each other.

We have enough
enemies as it is.

Perhaps we should be together. A
joining of free, independent warrens.

I have no time
for this nonsense.

- Shall I kill him, sir?
- No.

You take back our terms.

And you tell your chief, Bigwig,
that if he and Hyzenthlay.

and the others aren't waiting
outside when I come for them.

I'll tear out every
throat in the place.

Do you remember the rats in the
barn? We got out of that, all right.

Yes, we did. We got
out of that, all right.

They're into the beech
roots. Start at this end.

- How cold!
- What is it? Are you all right?

I've tried to listen,
only I can't hear it.

I'm going away,
Hazel. I'm floating.

- Cold, how.
- Fiver. Fiver.

- Can you hear me?
- Listen.

They've got something
down there that's strange.

Get out, get out!

They had a great bird that
turned into a shaft of lightning.

And there was another creature
that took them away down the river.

- Here, I reckon we ought to go back home.
- Who said that?

- Nobody, sir.
- You were put there to dig. Get back to it.

Great Frith, stop him, Hazel.
The others are going tharn.

Wake up. Fiver, wake up.

There's a dog
loose in the wood.

There's a dog
loose in the wood.

We need to cross because
there's a dog loose in the wood.

There's a dog
loose in the wood.

Bigwig, I need runners.
Dandelion, Blackberry.

Hyzenthlay can run.

Good. We've hardly any
time. I've got a plan.

If it works, it will
finish Woundwort for good.

When we're gone, block this run and
get everyone back behind the wall.

Hold them off as
long as you can.

- Don't give in to them.
- Where are you going?

El-ahrairah has
shown me what to do.

Let them go. It's their
chief, Bigwig, I'm after.

Find their chief!

Hyzenthlay, you hide here.

When the time comes,
get back to the warren.

- It will all depend on you.
- I'll be ready.

Lord Frith, I know you've
looked after us well.

and it's wrong to
ask even more of you.

but my people are
in terrible danger.

So, I'd like to make a bargain with
you: My life in return for theirs.

There is not a day or night that a
doe offers her life for her kittens.

or some honest captain of
Owsla, his life for his chief.

But there is no bargain.
What is, is what must be.

Blackberry, this is
where we leave you.

Stay close and don't
move. Don't break too soon.

- Are you clear what's to be done?
- Yes.

General!

You lie in the grass,
just there, opposite him.

If we meet again, Hazel-rah.

we'll have the makings
of the best story ever.

And you'll be the
one to tell it.

Can you run?

I think not.

I think not.

Tab! Tab!

I told you once, I was
trying to impress you.

I hope I have.

And I told you that I
would kill you myself.

There's no white
bird here, Bigwig.

Why throw your life away?

Hraka, sir.

Come out.

My chief's told me
to defend this run.

Your chief?

Run! Run for your lives!

Come back! Come
back, you fools!

Come back!

Come back and fight!
Dogs aren't dangerous!

General Woundwort's
body was never found.

It could be that he still lives
his fierce life somewhere else.

But from that day on, mother
rabbits would tell their kittens.

that if they did not
do as they were told.

the General would get them.

Such was Woundwort's monument.

Perhaps it would not
have displeased him.

El-ahrairah knew, then,
that Frith was his friend.

Every evening, when Frith
has done his day's work.

and lies calm and
easy in the red sky.

El-ahrairah and his children,
and his children's children.

come out of their holes and
feed and play in his sight.

For they are his friends,
and he has promised.

Hazel.

- That they can
never be destroyed.

Hazel.

- You know me, don't you?
- I don't.

Yes, my Lord.

I know you.

I've come to ask if you
would like to join my Owsla.

We shall be glad to have
you, and I know you'd like it.

You've been feeling
tired, haven't you?

If you're ready, we
might go along now.

You needn't worry about
them. They'll be all right.

and thousands like them.

If you'll come along,
I'll show you what I mean.

All the world will be your enemy,
Prince with a Thousand Enemies.

Whenever they catch
you, they will kill you.

But first, they
must catch you.

digger, listener, runner.

Prince with the swift warren.

Be cunning.

and your people will
never be destroyed.

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