Richard, don't go out too far!
Em's a 'fraidy cat!
Richard! Emmeline!
Come back here this minute!
And be careful!
What's gotten into you, Richard?
Bad enough to endanger yourself, but to encourage Emmeline.
- I'm sorry, Father. - I know you want to have fun.
All I'm trying to do is get us all to San Francisco in one piece.
Will Mommy be coming to "San Forisco"?
I don't believe so, Richard.
I told you! Once they go to heaven, they don't come back.
Isn't that right, Uncle Arthur? My mommy and daddy haven't come back.
Because God wants them to stay, do his work and wait for the day...
when you will take the long voyage to see them.
- When will that be? - When you've lived a full life...
and experienced all that it has to offer.
Look!
- Father, what are they called? - Sharks.
I wish I had a hook and I'd pull them aboard and the cook would fry them for dinner.
Captain, do you know there's a fog bank coming in?
I am aware of that fact, sir.
I overheard one of the men say those storms...
rounding the cape pushed us far west of our course.
That's right, sir. Last night's celestial puts us about... here.
Richard, what are you looking at?
Oh! They don't have any clothes on!
What the hell are you two doing here? I'll teach you, bucko!
- Come here! - Aah! Ah-ah!
- Don't you dare hurt him! - Hey! Aah!
- You want a hiding, too, do you? - Fire!
- Fire? Did somebody say fire?
Man the pumps! Man the pumps!
- Button! - Yes, sir?
Take the children and Mr. Lestrange. Row them well away from the ship.
Aye, Captain. Come on! Come on! Mr. Lestrange?
There's blasting powder in that hold! I saw them load it!
Keep moving! Moving! Keep moving!
All hands on deck!
Come on, will you!
- Now! - God help us!
- Come on now, you! - Uncle Arthur!
- Richard! Emmeline! - This way, Lestrange!
- No! The children! - Oh, they're safe on the leave!
- Follow me, sir! - Come back for me, boy!
No, no! There's no more room!
Lower away!
Abandon ship!
Don't blow yet!
Further, just a little further.
What's happening? I can't see.
- What was that? - The ship! Cover your faces!
Richard!
Emmeline!
Uncle Arthur!
- There they are! - Where?
- Captain, over here! - Richard!
Hello! Hello!
- Father! - Don't go shouting both at once!
I won't know which way to steer!
Longboat, ahoy. Where are you?
Hel-looo!
Father!
Gone.
Lord, help us.
U-Uh, uh...
Water. Oh!
Aah!
Where's Father?
- What's your name? - Paddy Button. Now, belay your questions.
Can't see I'm busy?
Oh, damn it! No food, no water.
That's Chopin. I can play it on the piano.
Mr. Button, can I ask you a question?
- Ah, yes. - Are you a pirate?
I'm thirsty.
Me too.
Listen. You'll hear it hiss when it touches the water.
- You hear it? - I think so.
- I don't hear anything. - Well, listen harder.
Must be fairly boiling by now.
- There, do you hear it? - I hear it!
- Don't you hear it now, Em? - I think so.
Yes! I hear it!
I smell flowers.
Flowers?
Mr. Button, Richard. Look!
It's land!
Land ho!
We're saved! I would never have believed it.
Ooh!
Wow!
Where are we?
Nirvana, that's where we are!
No more yes-sir-no-sir for Paddy Button!
No more breaking me back over a stinking stove.
- Will Father be coming to fetch us? - Come on. Let's look around.
Shh.
Listen.
Come on!
Oh, I knew it! Oh!
Oh, lovely!
- Ahh, water. Water. - Whee!
Ho, down there. Look out below!
Whoo!
Hey, hey! Ha-ha! Ha, ha, ha!
Mr. Button, there's a barrel over here...
with funny stuff in it that smells like the captain's breath.
Captain's breath?
It's rum!
Sweet Jesus.
Whoo-hoo!
Look what a funny thing I found! It's got holes in it.
Oh, gimme that!
Where did you get it?
- Aaghh! - What was it?
- We better get out of here. - There's a whole bunch of them up there!
Come on! Let's get out of here!
Hurry it up, will you?
I don't see Father's boat.
Uh, no. Not yet. Maybe it'll be along later.
Maybe not.
Emmeline!
Take them things out of your mouth!
Come on. Open your mouth. Open your mouth! Take them out of your mouth!
Spit them out! Go on!
Well, don't cry. I ain't mad at you!
If you eat them berries, you'll go to sleep, you'll never wake up again.
They're never-wake-up berries, you see?
Well, just leave them berries alone! Come on!
We had a cat once.
That went to sleep and never woke up.
Uncle Arthur said she was "dud and berried."
Mr. Button, do you think she ate some of those berries?
Oh, maybe.
What's it really mean, Paddy, "dud and berried"?
It means that they put you in the ground and make cover you up.
And you're dead and buried, you see?
Like Mrs. Jones's baby. Remember, Em?
- The doctor dug it out of a cabbage patch. - Cabbage patch?
That's right, Paddy. He took it back and planted it again.
So it could grow and turn into an angel.
I got a trowel and dug our cabbage patch all up.
But there weren't any babies or any angels.
Only worms.
What's in them pictures, Richard?
It's a story about these funny people who get married.
- Huh? - There's a saying under each one.
Give us a look.
Oh, heh, heh. Yeah.
- Were you ever married, Paddy? - Seven times.
Kids in every port from Callao to Macao. Seventeen at the last count.
I never set eyes on a single one of them.
Slant-eyed little devils, black little devils...
Even a couple of pink ones like you.
And all with my eyes.
Paddy, what's sub-ju-ga-tion?
Something I've been trying to avoid all me life.
Come back here! This ain't gonna hurt you!
We don't want to go swimming. We don't have our bathing costumes.
To hell with your bathing costumes! You don't wear them when you have a bath, do you?
This isn't a bathtub. This is the ocean!
All right. Get ready. Go. That's my man.
Whenever you see a ship, you run down quick and light the signal fire. Do you hear me?
There's a knot, you see.
There's a rabbit hole, and this is a rabbit.
And he goes up underneath it and around here like that.
There's a fox. He dives back down into the hole. Pull tight. There's your knot. Do it.
You run your finger up like that. You shove that around under there.
There are! Put your hand, mate.
- Where did you find that thing? - I didn't find it.
- I made it with the knot you taught me. - You made it?
Well! Oh, pity it's not a bit bigger, though.
- Let's go swimming! - Yeah!
Come back here and put your clothes on!
I don't want to wear my old britches.
It ain't proper to be running around naked...
all the time.
Oh.
Alone at last.
Richard! Emmeline!
I want you both to promise me something.
I want you both to promise me that you will never, never...
go over to the other side of the island.
Why, Paddy?
Why? Because I tell you! That's why!
There's nasty things go on over there, see.
There's vile, evil, sinister things.
- Like what? - Yes, Mr. Button, like what?
Well, for a start, that's where the bogeyman lives.
- The bogeyman? - That's right!
And you know what happens when the bogeyman gets his hands on little people like yourselves.
Hmm? Why, he just eats some.
He pops some into his mouth like candy and he chews some up.
And he swallows some, bones and all!
You know what law is?
Good! Well, from now on, that's the law, see.
No one goes over to the other side.
You look funny.
Hey, there! Children, where are you?
Heh-heh, look at me!
Ha, ha. Look at me!
- Ay! Ohh! - You're silly when you drink out of that barrel.
Hush. This is a serious dance.
Sing the one about the hootchie-cootchie girls.
Come on. Are you ready?
♪ Have you seen the way they shake it ♪
♪ Have you seen the way they sway ♪
♪ There ain't a man among us who'd throw that dish away ♪ Hey!
♪ I've been to London I've been to France ♪
♪ I swear by the buttons upon my pants ♪
♪ I never saw a woman dance ♪
♪ Like the hootchie-cootchie girls of old Bombay ♪♪
♪ If you look them in the eye ♪
♪ Oh, I've been to London I've been to France ♪
Where's Paddy?
He's gone!
There he is!
He must have swum over there and gone to sleep. Come on!
What are you doing that for?
I'm going to put it on Mr. Button's head.
So when you say boo into his ear, he'll jump up with it on.
Paddy! Wake up! It's us!
Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
Don't worry, Em. We'll be all right.
Take me away from this place, Richard.
Look!
This looks like a good place to stay for a while.
Em! Em, wake up! It's Christmas morning!
- Christmas? - Yesterday I counted 52 big marks on the tree.
- And last night he came. - What are you talking about, Richard?
Santa Claus. And I saw his reindeer...
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer... all of them right down on the beach.
Come on! Let's see if he brought us anything. Come on, Em. Hurry!
That's where the reindeer were, see?
- Look at our stockings. - And there's something in them!
Oh, look! Just what I always wanted!
- What are they? - What do they look like? They're marbles.
See, these are your Jaspers and these are your Peewees.
You did it all. But...
Fooled, didn't I?
Oh, you!
Why are we always fighting so much?
- I don't know. - That should be our New Year's "revolution."
Stop fighting so much.
- I'll try, but... - But what?
I don't know what's wrong with me when I say the things I say.
I just keep on having all these strange thoughts.
- What kind of thoughts? - Just thoughts.
Funny thoughts about you and me.
- Tell me. - I couldn't.
They're just thoughts. They don't mean anything.
- Where did you find these? - I found them in those little shells.
Oh, they're beautiful. Thank you.
♪ O come, all ye faithful ♪
- ♪ La, la ♪ - ♪ La, la ♪
♪ O little town of Bethlehem ♪
♪ La, la, la, la ♪
♪ Dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh ♪
♪ All the... la ♪
♪ Ha, ha, ha Ha, ha ♪♪
Richard! Help! Help!
Help, Richard! Help!
What's wrong?
You're bleeding.
- Don't! I'm all right! - But you're bleeding!
Go away! Don't look at me!
Go away! Just go away!
What was it, Em? Why were you bleeding like that?
- I don't know. - Liar.
It's true. I don't know.
Em, people don't bleed like that unless they cut themselves.
Maybe you're hurt real bad and you just don't know it.
- Let me look. - No! I don't want you to look.
- But why? - Just because.
That is not fair! I don't keep any secrets from you!
I tell you everything! Everything!
- What are you looking at? - Your muscles.
What about it?
You're really acting silly lately, Em.
Always saying dumb things like that.
Always looking at me funny. You're not coming down with something, are you?
And don't give it to me.
Tell me again. Where's your mother and father?
- In heaven. - But where's heaven?
You know, up there. Your father might be there too.
Oh, no, he's not. He's coming on a ship someday to take us home.
- Do you hear it? - No. Do you ever hear it?
Sometimes I think I do.
I think Paddy was a liar.
He told us there was a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow.
And that was a lie.
He told us if we dug far enough, we'd reach China.
Santa Claus never came.
Em, do you ever...
think about him?
I do.
Em, I know you don't like to talk about it, but...
but don't you ever wonder what... what really happened?
I don't want to know what happened.
I do.
There's so many things I don't understand.
Like, why do the fish stop swimming and lie on top of the tide pools after a heavy rain?
Why do you hear the waves inside the big shells?
Why are all these funny hairs growing on me?
I wish a big book with all the answers to every question in the world...
would drop out of the sky and land in my hand right now.
I'd read it till I knew everything.
Oh, Richard, you can't know everything.
Only God knows everything.
God. He can't find us any better than Santa Claus.
Wonder what fish think about.
What are you doing?
Trying to cheer you up! Come on! Come on! Laugh! Come on!
It's not gonna work!
Shh. There it is again.
You think it's the bogeyman?
Maybe it's another person.
No. Or he would have come over to meet us and say hello.
- That's the proper thing to do. - What if he's not nice? What if he wants to hurt us?
Then I'll spear him!
Look! I'm the greatest fisherman who ever lived!
I'm the greatest fisherman who ever lived.
While you scare them off, I just catch as many as I want to.
That's my fish dance. It doesn't scare them off.
It brings them up to the surface where I can spear them.
Who cares what you say! It's not how many you catch that counts.
It's how you do it.
Stop that!
Please play something else!
Why would you do that when you know it makes me angry?
Ow!
Hey!
It doesn't scare them away. It brings them to the top where I can spear them.
Oh, I'll spear you!
Aha!
- Here I am! - Hey, come back here!
I'll pull your britches down and take a switch to you.
Don't you dare try to spank me, Richard.
I mean it. I'll put the never-wake-up berries in your food. I mean it.
- Say "Richard is the smartest person on this island." - No.
- Say it. - Stop it, Richard! I'm getting angry.
- Stop it! Now get off. - Say it.
- Richard is the smartest person on this island. - The fastest swimmer.
- And the fastest runner.
- The fastest runner. - The best hut builder.
You're the best everything, Richard. Now get off!
It's true.
Just you wait, Richard Lestrange! You'll never know when it's going to happen.
Just one little bite, and you'll never wake up again!
♪ Have you seen the way they shake it ♪
♪ Have you seen the way they sway ♪
♪ There ain't a man among us that could throw the dish away ♪♪
- Hey! - Richard!
- What is it? What happened?
- I saw him. - Who?
- The face Paddy thought was the bogeyman. - You went to the other side?
Paddy was wrong. He's not the bogeyman. I think he's God.
- God? - He looks like Pastor Logan always said he looked,
like you better be good, or else, and he was bleeding.
- I don't believe you. - Just like Jesus.
- I don't want you to ever go there again. It's the law! - What if he really is God?
Shouldn't we go and pray, or won't he be mad and not let us go to heaven?
I don't want to talk about it. I just don't want to talk about it!
No!
- What is it? - Richard?
I'm here.
- You ate the "dud and..." berries. - No, no, I'm fine. You just had a bad dream.
Oh, don't ever leave me. Promise me you won't.
- Promise you'll always be with me. - I promise.
Don't!
What are you doing, Richard?
Go away!
Where are you going?
Wait! What's the matter?
- What are you doing? - What do you want?
Why won't you talk to me?
Just leave me alone!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
This is it.
Emmeline!
A ship, Emmeline!
A ship, a ship!
The signal fire... you didn't light it. Why didn't you light it?
Why, Em, why? You know how much I want to leave.
- It's the most important thing in the world to me. - I know.
First you cry for help, then you throw sticks at me.
A ship comes, a ship! The first ship we've seen since we've been here, and you let it go by.
Just let it go by. Well, that's it!
I've had it! I'm sick and tired of waiting for you to get better.
I'm going to San Forisco without you!
You're never gonna build a boat strong enough to get to San Forisco, Richard.
That's the fourth time you've tried. They've all sunk like a stone.
- Shut up! Just shut up! - Why don't you give up?
You don't even know where San Forisco is!
You're such a silly dodo, Richard. We're never getting off this island.
- Thanks to you. - This is where we live.
This is our home, now and forever.
No! I could never live here forever with just you. I don't even like you.
You never used to laugh at me. You never used to have secrets you wouldn't tell me.
You're not so perfect either, Mr. Richard Lestrange. I've seen you playing with it.
- And I'll tell your father if he ever gets here. - You!
- I hate you! - You almost hit me.
- Take it back! Take back what you said. - I've seen it all.
- What happens after you've been doing it a long time? - Shut up! That isn't fair peeking!
- I don't peek on you. - That's a lie. You're always staring at my buppies.
Only 'cause they look so funny.
You know what you look like now, Em? You look like one of those pictures Paddy had in his drawer.
- One of his hootchie-cootchie girls. - I do not! I do not!
Hootchie-cootchie! Hootchie-cootchie!
- Stop that, Richard, or I'll never talk to you again. - Hootchie-cootchie! Hootchie-cootchie!
See them jiggle, wiggle and shake!
Oh, Richard, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to hit you.
I wish you were "dud and berried."
What are you doing?
It's my hut. I built it.
- That's not true. I helped you. - I did most of it.
You can go find some other place to live.
I said I was sorry, Richard. What more do you want me to say?
I don't want you to say anything!
I never want to see you again!
You just wait, Richard Lestrange. I'll get you for this.
Aaah!
What's wrong with you?
Go away.
What happened?
I stepped on one of those fish that looks like a rock.
Oh, Richard.
Don't go to sleep.
Please?
- Oh, no. Please wake up. - God.
Take me to God.
But the law.
God.
God, please don't make Em never wake up.
I didn't mean it when I said I wanted her "dud and berried."
I forgot most of my prayers, God,
but...
Our Father...
who art in heaven...
kingdom come...
for liberty and justice for all. Amen.
Em?
- Em, are you all right? - Richard.
Oh, Em, I've been so worried.
- You mean, you're not mad at me anymore? - Of course not.
Em, I was so scared.
All I could think of was:
What if I lost my Em?
What would I do? What would I do?
Oh.
Here's some food to help you get your strength back.
Do you see that island out there?
- Yes. - I've been thinking.
Maybe the person who makes the drum noise lives there, then comes here to pray.
Maybe.
Would you like to try to walk?
- You all right? - Yes.
Kiss me.
You're all sticky.
So what? Kiss me.
- Stop! I can't breathe. - But I don't want to stop.
Ow! What are you doing?
Mmm.
Stop it.
I feel so funny in my stomach.
Me too.
My heart's beating so fast.
Mine too.
- Whoa! - Ahh!
I'm so happy.
Will you stop eating? You're getting fat.
Come on up, keep me warm?
Where's Em, Coco?
I'm sorry, Richard.
You didn't want to all day yesterday either.
What's the matter, Em? Don't you love me anymore?
Yes, I love you more than ever, Richard.
Why don't you want to do it?
It just hurts right now, that's all.
- When it stops hurting, we'll do it. - When is that gonna be?
I don't understand, Em. Why does it hurt?
I don't know. I don't know anything.
But if you touch my tummy right now, you can feel it.
Feel what?
- How'd you make your tummy move like that? - I'm not doing it.
It's not doing it by itself.
Yes, it is.
There. I felt it again.
What's making it do that, Em?
I don't know.
Em! Em, where are you?
Aaaah!
Aaah!
Emmeline!
Emmeline, where are you?
Richard!
Em, what's wrong?
Did they hurt you?
"They"?
Em?
Em, what...
Em, what is it? Tell me what to do.
What is it? Answer me!
- Why did you have a baby? - I don't know.
Hello, baby.
Hello, baby. Shh. Hey.
Na, na.
Oh, look. I think he's hungry.
What do we feed him?
Uh, try some fruit.
Here you go. Shh. Here you go. Here you go.
Look. Look. Good. Fruit, fruit.
Oh, he doesn't like it. Here, here, try this.
What do I do?
- Why are you doing that? - The drum people.
What?
- I saw them. - When?
- The night he came. - Shh.
What did they look like?
I don't want to talk about it. Paddy was right.
We should have never gone to the other side, we should have never broken the law!
Do they know we're here?
I don't think so. If they ever come here, I'll do to them what I do to the fish...
I'll stick it through their eyes, I'll stick it through their gizzards, I'll stick it through their bellies, and watch their guts come out!
Shh.
I remember on the ship when we tried to get to the dinghy...
how the men pushed and shoved each other,
how their eyes looked.
It was the same with the drum people.
I don't understand why...
why people have to be so bad to each other.
Come here!
- Hurry! - I'm busy keeping watch!
Come on! You've gotta see this!
Oh.
You taught him to swim.
- Attaboy. - Aww.
Aww.
Water. Water. Water.
Water.
Look at those fishies.
Around the tree and back down the hole. I get it.
Get the boat.
Sit on his back. Take a ride.
Sit down on his back. Go on. Go for a ride.
Ohh.
♪ Boogity-boo, boogity-boo Boogity-boo, boogity-boo ♪
Oh!
Whoops.
Wheee!
Right there. Oh, thank you.
Okay, let's try it again.
Look at the bird! Look, Paddy, look!
Oh, the bird.
See some fishies? What do you see?
Tell me, do you see a ship?
Can you do this? This?
- Put this on. Put it on. - We'll have a party with this fan.
Richard!
He said my name!
He said my name, Em!
Look, Paddy. We're making footprints.
Like Boston in the winter.
Remember the snowball fights we had?
Every time it snowed, Paddy. Say "snow."
See, it's freezing.
Ooh, it's cold.
- Brrr! - Hey! The bogeyman!
Aah!
Better bring them up for a look-see or we'll hear about it from one of the crew...
- and we'll have to sail back tomorrow. - Aye, aye, sir.
Excuse me, sir. We sighted something.
There.
- What do you think? - Can we go closer?
I'll see, but we gotta be careful of that reef.
Look at that face.
Boat.
No, that couldn't be them.
Up.
Do you know how to get to the other place where we lived with Paddy?
Sure. I go there for bananas.
Take me there.
- I thought you were afraid. - I want to see it again.
In you go.
You coming?
Richard! Richard!
Shark!
I have to get the oars!
Help me, Em! We're drifting!
Go away! Go away!
Look how far out we are!
I can't stop this.
Paddy, look.
When it hits the water, you can hear it hiss. Look, see?
Hear it?
Thirsty. If only we had some water.
Fishies.
No, Paddy!
- Where did you get those? - Get those out of your mouth!
What are you doing? Get those out of your mouth!
He swallowed some.
Oh, come here.
Don't close your eyes, Paddy.
Please don't go to sleep.
Richard.
Please.
Three points to port, sir! Looks to be a small craft!
- See anyone in it? - I can't make it out.
Captain! Three points to port!
Three points to port!
Yo ho!
Are they dead?
No, sir. They're asleep.