0:00:06 > 0:00:08'Man versus whale.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11'It's a primeval struggle.'
0:00:13 > 0:00:17'We may have been a tiny speck in the ocean's vastness,
0:00:17 > 0:00:22'but we were ruthless in battling this giant of nature.'
0:00:23 > 0:00:26'Yes, it was a one-sided contest.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29'Nature didn't stand a chance.'
0:00:30 > 0:00:33'Victory was always ours,
0:00:33 > 0:00:36'and we were shameless.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39'We turned the sea red with slaughter.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42'Whale oil flowed like gold
0:00:42 > 0:00:45'to Nantucket's harbour.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48'And we, God-fearing men,
0:00:48 > 0:00:50'were killing in his name,
0:00:50 > 0:00:53'slaughtering with impunity.'
0:00:55 > 0:00:57'Until...
0:00:57 > 0:00:59'Until, just once,
0:00:59 > 0:01:02something remarkable happened.'
0:01:04 > 0:01:13This film contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41'Leviathan.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44'The devils of the deep.'
0:01:45 > 0:01:48That's what my grandfather used to call them.
0:01:48 > 0:01:52Nothing pleased him more than to scare me witless
0:01:52 > 0:01:55with his stories of the sea.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59He said if I ever went to sea, I'd have my own tales of storms
0:01:59 > 0:02:03and cannibals and...monsters to tell.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08The way he told it, there wasn't a decker on board
0:02:08 > 0:02:11wouldn't lay down his life for his shipmates.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15"Brotherhood of the whaler," he called it.
0:02:15 > 0:02:20Where he saw light and whale oil, and a noble profession,
0:02:20 > 0:02:23others saw greed,
0:02:23 > 0:02:26and the darkness that bred it.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28Me?
0:02:28 > 0:02:31I only saw one thing...
0:02:31 > 0:02:33adventure.
0:02:42 > 0:02:47'The Essex. All 90 feet and 238 tonnes of her.'
0:02:49 > 0:02:52'Like every young Nantucketer,
0:02:52 > 0:02:55'my ambition was to hunt the mighty whale.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57'But the only way for me to get aboard
0:02:57 > 0:03:01'was to start at the bottom, cabin boy.'
0:03:01 > 0:03:03This is my maiden voyage, gentlemen. Hop to it.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Aye, aye, Captain.
0:03:08 > 0:03:13'My grandfather once said, "You choose the man you become."
0:03:13 > 0:03:16'Today was that day.'
0:03:16 > 0:03:19You survive by following orders, at all times.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23- No matter who gives them. Is that clear?- Yes.- Yes what?
0:03:23 > 0:03:25- Yes, sir.- Nice suit.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28My grandfather left room for me to grow into it.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32Every whale ship has three whalers. Every whaler has its own crew.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35- A steerer, a harpooner... - Oi, you blind, boy?- ..rowers.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38- Watch where you goin'! - Steerer, harpooner, rowers.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41We get a share of every whale caught.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43While we hunt, you only have one job -
0:03:43 > 0:03:46row, as hard as you can.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54I have duties of my own to be getting on with.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56My uncle's too soft.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Captain Pollard is your uncle?
0:04:02 > 0:04:04It's young Nickerson, isn't it?
0:04:04 > 0:04:05Tom, sir.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08So, why do you want to hunt whales?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10We light the lamps of the world, sir.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14The oil we barrel is used in Paris and London.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17- Did you know that, sir? - I've heard some rumours, yes.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Some places I can't even pronounce.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21So, you fancy yourself a traveller?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23- KNOCK AT DOOR - Come.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28They've shorted the barrels. The penny-pinching bastards.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30200 barrels of meat will not last a three-year voyage.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33We're late leaving already. What we have is sufficient.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36- We can be sure the owners' bellies won't be going empty. - I will not be tested on this.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38We sail as planned.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48Whale hunting can be exciting, Tom. That much is true.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50You travel the world, or parts of it.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54But it's also a tough life for a man, never mind a boy.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56On land, you have time to grow up.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58At sea, that's a luxury you cannot afford.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02You sleep there. Negroes there. Galleys here.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05Below deck, you answer to the cook.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Rules are simple. Captain eats first,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10- then the mates, then the crew. - BELL RINGS
0:05:10 > 0:05:11That's my watch.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Pass me that.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20I suppose he give you all that guff about calling him 'sir'?
0:05:20 > 0:05:23- Yes, sir.- And don't you hold with the crew calling us barrel scrapers.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27The real power on this boat is right here. We feed 'em.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29We're the sawbones when they're sick.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32And ones we don't like, we make sick.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34What you waiting for?
0:05:34 > 0:05:37Food here don't cut itself, boy.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51CHATTER
0:05:51 > 0:05:53Where's the rest of it, boy?
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Leave him alone, Hendricks. That's your lot.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00LAUGHTER
0:06:00 > 0:06:02All right, shut your traps.
0:06:02 > 0:06:03Hold up, hold up.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07I don't care who you are.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09I don't care who you were.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12If you're running from the law, if you're running from family,
0:06:12 > 0:06:14it don't matter horse piss to me.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17You're here. And you're mine now.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Who's worked on other decks?
0:06:21 > 0:06:23- MEN:- Yeah.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25The only thing you need to know about my deck
0:06:25 > 0:06:27is do what I tell you.
0:06:27 > 0:06:31Now, the Captain, he may run the ship, but I run you.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34And, for the next three years, I own you.
0:06:35 > 0:06:39We hunt whale, and the more we catch, the bigger your share.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43So fill the barrels with oil, follow your orders,
0:06:43 > 0:06:46and know your place.
0:06:46 > 0:06:47You'll see no trouble from me.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49MAN SNIGGERS
0:06:51 > 0:06:54- And what's your name? - Never mind that.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57We need more grub. I ain't full.
0:06:58 > 0:06:59COUGHING AND SPLUTTERING
0:06:59 > 0:07:02'It seemed my grandfather neglected to mention
0:07:02 > 0:07:07'that the Leviathan might not be the only monster of the sea.'
0:07:08 > 0:07:11Get me another man for my whaler.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13One who can keep his mouth shut.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Could've killed him.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26- Let's clean him up. - Good job, if you ask me.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Done nothing but bitch and complain since you got here.
0:07:29 > 0:07:30He only arrived this morning.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Felt like longer.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47'George Pollard Junior, Captain of the Essex,
0:07:47 > 0:07:50'was from a Quaker whaling family.
0:07:50 > 0:07:54'His father had been a Nantucket whale ship captain before him.
0:07:54 > 0:07:59'Owen Chase had fought his way up from lowly decker to First Mate.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03'These two men were coin opposites.'
0:08:10 > 0:08:11Mr Chase.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17Raise a studding on the mainsail yard. We have a fair wind.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19- Let's not waste it.- Captain...
0:08:19 > 0:08:21fast sails are hard to put up, even harder to take down.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24- The men are still green. - I gave you an order, Mr Chase.
0:08:24 > 0:08:25I expect you to carry it out.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37- Peterson.- Yeah?
0:08:37 > 0:08:41- Studdings on the main. - You off your onion?
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Studdings on the main it is.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48Nickerson. Set to stud yard.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Mr Chase.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56The boy's not ready for that climb.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58He's my decker.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01He's ready if I say so.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13Look alive now, me hearties. Look alive there.
0:09:22 > 0:09:23HE GRUNTS
0:09:27 > 0:09:29ROPES CREAK
0:09:29 > 0:09:32A week's grog he'll end up painting the deck red.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34I ain't scrubbing it clean if he falls.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Peterson, I'll see that bet.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Your mama drop you on your head when you was born, boy?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40- He'll make it. - A pig's got four legs,
0:09:40 > 0:09:43don't mean you back it in a horse race.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44HE PANTS
0:09:47 > 0:09:49HE GASPS
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Yeah, he went there.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Looks like your whaler's going to be short of men, Mr Chase.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55It already is.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01HE GASPS
0:10:04 > 0:10:08Hey! Sunset in six hours. Get a move on.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25Studdings underneath the yard. Aye, Mr Chase!
0:10:25 > 0:10:29Greenhorn's got balls. I'll give him that.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Come on, boy.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34HE PANTS
0:10:36 > 0:10:38I'll collect my grog for later, Peterson.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42You can have the skin off my turds, too.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44You owe me.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04'I didn't need to climb to the very top...
0:11:04 > 0:11:06'but I wanted to.'
0:11:14 > 0:11:16'What a view.
0:11:16 > 0:11:20'I'd never been further than a mile from the farm before.
0:11:20 > 0:11:25'I'd never glanced further than the corner of the road out of Nantucket.
0:11:25 > 0:11:30'But up there, up there, felt like you'd sprouted angel wings,
0:11:30 > 0:11:34'and any corner of the earth was your choosing.'
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Now, I don't hold with linctus.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45There's only one cure I know for rope burn as bad as that.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Burnt you up good, didn't they?
0:11:48 > 0:11:50You ready?
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Not really, no. HE WINCES
0:11:53 > 0:11:54Sea water.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57Keeps the barrels swollen and tight.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00HE GASPS
0:12:00 > 0:12:02We'll fashion you into a man yet.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Your own mama won't recognise you by the time you get home.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07My mother's dead.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11Died in childbirth along with my sister.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13My father followed soon after.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18You left watch without permission.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20He's injured. I took him below.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22- Was I addressing you, Mr Bond? - I'm doing my job.
0:12:22 > 0:12:26- You'd do well to remember your place. - You're a hind-tit sucking runt.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38What about you, Mr Bond?
0:12:38 > 0:12:40Do you have family?
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Captain Pollard'll be expecting his evening tray later.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46Fetch it to him after we're done here.
0:12:53 > 0:12:54They're my deckers.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56It's no business of yours how I run them.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59- What authority you have comes from me.- I'm not disputing that.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01I'm disputing your handling of the matter.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03You undermined me in front of the crew
0:13:03 > 0:13:07- when I ordered that coof up the rigging.- Mr Chase, that is a term I do not care for.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10- The boy shows promise. - He's a coof.
0:13:10 > 0:13:11He wasn't born on Nantucket.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14You do your job, leave me to do mine.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17Like Captain Russell and his First, if you remember.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20I remember. But this is my ship now.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23And I'm not Captain Russell.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25No, sir.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27You are not.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32- KNOCK AT DOOR - Come in.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39- Anything else? - I've said my piece.- Good.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42It seems whales close to land are harder to find than ever.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46If we have any hope of success, we'll have to travel further out.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49I've plotted a course around the Horn.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52See it to the wheel. We sail for the Pacific.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59One more thing, Mr Chase.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05You may use beer garden language like that in from the men,
0:14:05 > 0:14:07but never in front of your captain.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09Do you understand?
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Thank you, Tom.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Good night, sir.
0:14:29 > 0:14:30'Coof.'
0:14:32 > 0:14:36Nantucket children used to taunt me with that term in school.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40They took great delight in reminding me I was an outsider.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44Captain Pollard was the first person who had ever defended me,
0:14:44 > 0:14:47and I shall never forget that kindness.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51I was beginning to feel my sea legs,
0:14:51 > 0:14:55but there were those who muttered Captain Pollard hadn't found his.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58THUNDER RUMBLES
0:15:09 > 0:15:12There's a storm brewing ahead. We should take the studdings down.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15The Essex has endured a hundred storms, Mr Chase.
0:15:15 > 0:15:16We're running at eight knots.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Travelling fast is the point of fast sails.
0:15:18 > 0:15:22We go into that storm full-masted, we're going to lose them.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24There are whales the other side of that storm, Mr Chase,
0:15:24 > 0:15:27and we still have a ship full of empty barrels.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30If I was over-zealous in raising you from second to first mate,
0:15:30 > 0:15:31please say so.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00THUNDER CRASHES
0:16:03 > 0:16:05WIND HOWLS
0:16:05 > 0:16:08All hands on deck!
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Face the topsail down!
0:16:10 > 0:16:12- Hold!- Steady!
0:16:12 > 0:16:14All hands on deck!
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Come on. All hands on deck!
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Get up, coof. Get up!
0:16:19 > 0:16:22Hold that bearing, Mr Hendricks.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30THEY SHOUT, DROWNED OUT BY WIND
0:16:36 > 0:16:38The whaler's broken free!
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Get a line to it.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Mr Joy, what do I do?
0:16:42 > 0:16:45Pray to whoever you believe in.
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Mr Joy, come here!
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Hold this! Knot it. Knot it!
0:16:54 > 0:16:55HE YELLS
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Find Chase.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01Is that all you got? Huh?
0:17:01 > 0:17:05Captain, we have too much sail.
0:17:05 > 0:17:06We have to change course.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09And turn back? It's weakening.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13Hold course. We're through the worst.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16We risk the ship, captain.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19Did you hear what I said, Mr Chase? We go on.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21- Nickerson.- Yes, sir.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23Help Owen secure the floaters.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25Hold the wheel!
0:17:29 > 0:17:31I don't need help, coof.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33- Mr Chase said...- Leave it!
0:17:37 > 0:17:39ROPE SNAPS TAUT
0:17:39 > 0:17:42- Owen! Man overboard!- Man overboard!
0:17:42 > 0:17:44HE SCREAMS
0:17:47 > 0:17:49Hold tight, Owen!
0:17:50 > 0:17:51Help! Help!
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Keep hold!
0:17:56 > 0:17:58I won't let you go!
0:17:58 > 0:18:02I won't! I've got you. I've got you!
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Come on, nearly there!
0:18:15 > 0:18:19I'm going to have to cut them down, Captain. I have to.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21Put that axe away, Mr Chase.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25- I am not losing the sails on my maiden voyage.- We've no choice!
0:18:25 > 0:18:29I said put that down. I will not tell you again, Mr Chase.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31Lose them, or lose the ship.
0:18:37 > 0:18:41It's easing. It's easing. All right.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45LAUGHTER
0:18:51 > 0:18:53It's easing! Blown itself out.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00'Somehow we had survived.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05'Nature had tried to scuttle us, but we did not sink.'
0:19:07 > 0:19:10There's a line in Proverbs, 16:18.
0:19:10 > 0:19:16"Pride comes before destruction and an arrogant spirit before a fall."
0:19:21 > 0:19:23"..the path of eternal life.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27"For God so loved the world that he sent his son..."
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Thank you.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37You'd have done the same for me.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00- Help me with that tackle there, boy. - Yes, sir.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03It's an old wound. Opens up sometimes.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08It's nothing.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Lost my balance. Stumbled.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Don't look like it wants to infect.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18From Mr Bond. To ease the pain.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24You're no good to me with that, Peterson.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27You chose me on account I'm the best rower on this ship.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30Reckon I still am, even with this.
0:20:30 > 0:20:31Sew it up.
0:20:34 > 0:20:35Hold that against it.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42My bark's worse than my bite, boy.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46HE BARKS
0:20:49 > 0:20:53Here. Pull it tight. Like this.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00You want me to sew him up?
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Just like the sailcloth.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08I've seen the sailcloth you darn.
0:21:08 > 0:21:09Now you hold it tight.
0:21:11 > 0:21:12Tighter.
0:21:26 > 0:21:32Captain. We lost a fully loaded whaler. Another is badly damaged.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35- We have to return to port. - We press on.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37There's only two working boats.
0:21:37 > 0:21:38So repair the broken one.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Is this because I was right about the storm?
0:21:42 > 0:21:45You may have been right, Mr Chase. But I am Captain.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47What's the point in having a first if you aren't going to listen?
0:21:47 > 0:21:51You can short the men food all you want when there's oil in the barrels
0:21:51 > 0:21:55but not when we haven't had a single kill since we left the port.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57Mr Chase, are you saying the men would be happier under you?
0:21:57 > 0:22:00I'm telling you what the men are thinking. That's my job.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Do not mistake my patience for weakness. We press on.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Repair the broken whaler.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09We'll trust to happenstance to make up for our loss.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13That'll be all.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30Does Mr Chase speak the truth? The men doubt my capability?
0:22:32 > 0:22:33Not all the men are upset, sir.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Most are behind you.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39Your skill saved us from the storm.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46You should never confuse skill with luck, Tom.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52Thank you.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01Cabin boy's often privileged to certain conversations.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04What's spoken of within these walls remains within these walls.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22We thank you, Lord in Heaven, for our safe journey.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26And we thank you for our captain,
0:23:26 > 0:23:31whose steady hand guided us through the storm
0:23:31 > 0:23:35and delivered us to calm seas and clear skies.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Amen.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Amen.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44- Amen.- Amen.
0:23:45 > 0:23:46Amen.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Thank you, Mr Peterson.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13No, go on. You ask him.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17You go first.
0:24:17 > 0:24:18Spit your craw out, boy.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Is it true?
0:24:37 > 0:24:38Were you caught by cannibals?
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Don't ask me about them things.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44It's bad luck. Cannibals.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50It was a cold night. I remember that.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55We was harboured. Island in the middle of nowhere.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59Weren't no place for a shadow to hide, let alone an animal or a tree.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04The middle of the night they came.
0:25:04 > 0:25:05Silent as death.
0:25:08 > 0:25:09Took me and the cabin boy.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Weren't much older than you.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17I seed them eat the boy.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22Sucked his eyes right out of their sockets,
0:25:22 > 0:25:24like they was barnacles from a shell.
0:25:25 > 0:25:29I seen one of them slice him from cakehole to asshole.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33Blood pouring out of him like warm piss.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36The boy screaming for his kin and God's mercy.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40He had this look on his face...
0:25:42 > 0:25:44..like none of it was happening.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Feeding on him,
0:25:48 > 0:25:50slopping bits out of him.
0:25:52 > 0:25:53And I...
0:25:56 > 0:25:57What you think I did?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06I pretended I was one of them.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09I don't believe you.
0:26:09 > 0:26:10I did what I had to do.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16And you does what you does when you want to live.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19and you do that lad a mis-service by calling me a liar.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23Sorry, Mr Peterson.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25I didn't mean to call you a liar.
0:26:38 > 0:26:39You juggins.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Long as there's a cannibal in there somewhere,
0:26:43 > 0:26:45you jossers'll believe any old spit!
0:27:11 > 0:27:14One month turned to two, and two turned to three,
0:27:14 > 0:27:16and still no sign of whales.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20The captain wrongly felt responsible for this lack.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23All the more for being a new captain.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32Now, Mr Joy, either the boat is getting bigger
0:27:32 > 0:27:35or the food is getting smaller.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38- Can't take any more of this slop. - That's it?
0:27:39 > 0:27:41Captain's orders.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48First the storm. Now shorted food - again.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50The storm was bad luck.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54Balls. Weren't nothing to do with fortune. Captain was at fault.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56The fact of the matter is,
0:27:56 > 0:27:59Pollard don't even know he took us into this pisspot.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02If we was hunting whales now, you wouldn't be bellyaching.
0:28:02 > 0:28:03Whales? We ain't seen one in months.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05I suppose the fact that the sea is fished dry
0:28:05 > 0:28:08- is Pollard's fault as well, right? - Now why you always backing Pollard?
0:28:10 > 0:28:11- What's it to you?- Nothing.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16It's something to you, though, ain't it?
0:28:16 > 0:28:17HE SETS DOWN HIS BOWL
0:28:20 > 0:28:22Where's your ball gowns?
0:28:22 > 0:28:25You're worse than women cavilling over a cheap bonnet.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27Maybe Pollard should have listened to Mr Chase,
0:28:27 > 0:28:28maybe he shouldn't have.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31Don't matter to us deckers, that's the plain and simple.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33Pollard's captain, and what he says goes,
0:28:33 > 0:28:35and where Pollard goes, we follows.
0:28:43 > 0:28:46I'd feel a whole lot safer if Mr Chase were Captain.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51You keep thoughts like that to yourself.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54Unless you want to be swinging from the mizzen
0:28:54 > 0:28:56with the birds feasting your eyeballs.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00Now quit wagging your pow.
0:29:03 > 0:29:06'I should have spoken up.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08'I should have defended the captain.'
0:29:20 > 0:29:25- Clinking on the keel could use a spare nail or two.- Yes, sir.
0:29:25 > 0:29:26She's looking good.
0:29:26 > 0:29:28She'll be fine. On short voyages.
0:29:28 > 0:29:32Are we looking at the same thing, Mr Chase?
0:29:32 > 0:29:34She's spavined.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36You're talking like you've breathed life back into her.
0:29:36 > 0:29:39What has you so sour, huh?
0:29:39 > 0:29:41No whales.
0:29:41 > 0:29:42Rotten food, and little of it.
0:29:44 > 0:29:46And this.
0:29:46 > 0:29:49I'll take her. She'll be lucky for me.
0:29:51 > 0:29:52Mr Chase.
0:30:03 > 0:30:05We're going to see the captain.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10It's time somebody told him how it was.
0:30:10 > 0:30:11You put that down.
0:30:13 > 0:30:14This don't concern you.
0:30:14 > 0:30:17You got a foul opinion of the captain, you stash it to yourself.
0:30:17 > 0:30:20This is my deck. You put that down.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24I won't be shorted food no longer.
0:30:24 > 0:30:26I ain't going to ask again, Hendricks.
0:30:30 > 0:30:31Then you'd better step back.
0:30:33 > 0:30:37I am going to break every bone in your body.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41And I will do so without loss of sleep.
0:30:48 > 0:30:50I'll pass your concerns to the captain.
0:30:50 > 0:30:54The rest of you - get back to work!
0:30:57 > 0:30:59You heard the man, get back to work.
0:30:59 > 0:31:02Or I will flog the skin off your backs with my own hands.
0:31:02 > 0:31:04This is my ship.
0:31:04 > 0:31:06You'll eat what you're given and you'll be thankful for it.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09If I have to halve the rations again
0:31:09 > 0:31:10then that's the way it'll be.
0:31:10 > 0:31:12And do not doubt for one second
0:31:12 > 0:31:15that I will string the mizzen with corpses if you disagree.
0:31:15 > 0:31:16Is that clear?
0:31:19 > 0:31:20Sir?
0:31:20 > 0:31:22Now get back to work.
0:31:23 > 0:31:26Thar she blows!
0:31:26 > 0:31:28- Thar she blows!- Thar she blows!
0:31:28 > 0:31:32'There she blows. Three little words
0:31:32 > 0:31:36'and the atmosphere of the Essex was transformed.
0:31:36 > 0:31:41'It was finally time to do what we'd come thousands of miles to do.'
0:31:48 > 0:31:49Keep rowing.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55- How far?- We're gaining.
0:31:55 > 0:31:57I said how far?
0:31:57 > 0:32:01Speak to me! Lawrence! How far?
0:32:01 > 0:32:03- Hundred yards.- Keep pulling.
0:32:04 > 0:32:08Row! Nickerson, put some bones in!
0:32:08 > 0:32:09Come on.
0:32:09 > 0:32:11Speak to me, Lawrence.
0:32:11 > 0:32:12- Getting closer.- Pull!
0:32:19 > 0:32:21- Row!- Put your backs in.- Come on!
0:32:28 > 0:32:30Final push!
0:32:34 > 0:32:35Come on!
0:32:46 > 0:32:48Did it strike?
0:32:49 > 0:32:50Did it strike?
0:32:55 > 0:32:56Brace!
0:32:56 > 0:32:58CREAKING
0:32:59 > 0:33:01THEY LAUGH
0:33:14 > 0:33:18'They say you never forget your first Nantucket sleigh ride.
0:33:19 > 0:33:24'I never felt more alive than when skimming the waves in that whaler.
0:33:24 > 0:33:27'But the speed, the danger,
0:33:27 > 0:33:28'it all had a cost.'
0:34:20 > 0:34:23ECHOING LAUGHTER
0:35:42 > 0:35:45The last whale we caught damn near took us under, he did.
0:35:45 > 0:35:48Horseshit. There ain't a whale on God's earth
0:35:48 > 0:35:51that can dive with 150 of those floater-buoys stuck in its hump.
0:35:51 > 0:35:52I got the scars to prove it.
0:35:52 > 0:35:56You got scars for everything, Peterson. Except counting.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58Now Mr Joy, I mayn't be a mathematical...
0:35:58 > 0:36:00There ain't no such word as mathematical, Mr Peterson.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03You're just a boot-licker in my book.
0:36:03 > 0:36:05- You mind what you're going to scrimshaw?- No.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07Start a new piece every voyage.
0:36:07 > 0:36:09Just because the Essex is a lucky ship
0:36:09 > 0:36:11don't mean I'm breaking the habit of a lifetime.
0:36:11 > 0:36:15That whale you ripped that bit of jawbone from weren't so lucky.
0:36:29 > 0:36:32WATER SPOUTS
0:36:42 > 0:36:44There, there, there she blows!
0:36:44 > 0:36:45Whale on the lee bow.
0:36:49 > 0:36:53Dipped in whale brain. Ain't nothing sweeter in life.
0:36:53 > 0:36:55Food of the damn gods.
0:36:55 > 0:36:56Good news, gentlemen.
0:36:56 > 0:36:59We have a whole school a league off to port.
0:36:59 > 0:37:01We catch half of that, we'll be home by Christmas.
0:37:01 > 0:37:03Let's have at them.
0:37:03 > 0:37:06My whaler took a knock. I should see to her first.
0:37:06 > 0:37:07You go on ahead.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09The ship is yours.
0:37:10 > 0:37:11Thank you, sir.
0:38:03 > 0:38:06That one's been following us for half a day now.
0:38:08 > 0:38:09Getting closer.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12Braver.
0:38:12 > 0:38:16Maybe he wants to join the one we just barrelled.
0:38:16 > 0:38:17Make for him, Lawrence.
0:38:52 > 0:38:55- Ready.- Ready.
0:38:57 > 0:38:58Throw it!
0:38:58 > 0:38:59Now, now!
0:39:12 > 0:39:15WOOD CREAKS AND SPLINTERS
0:39:20 > 0:39:23Where'd it go? Where is it?
0:39:23 > 0:39:25Where's the whale?
0:39:25 > 0:39:26Did you get her?
0:39:26 > 0:39:31Tore the keel off like a twig. The ship's going down.
0:39:34 > 0:39:36Take what you can! Abandon ship!
0:39:49 > 0:39:52Aboard the whalers! Abandon ship!
0:40:01 > 0:40:03CUPBOARD RATTLES
0:40:06 > 0:40:08Abandon ship!
0:40:42 > 0:40:44Nickerson!
0:40:44 > 0:40:46Over here! Over here!
0:40:47 > 0:40:48Get in the whaler.
0:41:20 > 0:41:22The Essex was gone.
0:41:25 > 0:41:27The whale struck, and moments later
0:41:27 > 0:41:30there was nothing but ocean and empty sky.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35Even now, it seems impossible.
0:41:55 > 0:41:59- Over here!- Bond! Over here!
0:41:59 > 0:42:01God's sake, get in the whaler!
0:42:06 > 0:42:07Bond!
0:42:10 > 0:42:12We got you. We got you.
0:42:15 > 0:42:16Come on.
0:42:19 > 0:42:21You off your onion, Mr Bond?
0:42:21 > 0:42:24BOND PANTS
0:42:24 > 0:42:26You a lucky man.
0:42:26 > 0:42:29I hope whatever you risked your life for was worth it.
0:42:33 > 0:42:35At least we can find our way home.
0:42:43 > 0:42:482,000 miles from land, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
0:42:50 > 0:42:54We were as far away from civilisation as it was possible to be.
0:43:00 > 0:43:04Captain Pollard took the sinking worst of all.
0:43:04 > 0:43:07Not at the helm when his ship goes down.
0:43:07 > 0:43:09What shame he must have felt.
0:43:10 > 0:43:14I'd never seen a man's spirit fade so fast.
0:43:14 > 0:43:15Hold that rope over here.
0:43:17 > 0:43:20- Got it.- Come on, boys. Hold it steady.- Tighter.
0:43:20 > 0:43:23- Bring her in.- That's it, that's it.
0:43:24 > 0:43:26Pass that rope.
0:43:30 > 0:43:32What happened, Mr Chase?
0:43:34 > 0:43:36We've been stove by a whale.
0:43:39 > 0:43:41It's true, sir.
0:43:45 > 0:43:47A whale does not attack a ship.
0:43:47 > 0:43:48This one could. We all saw it.
0:43:48 > 0:43:50Are you saying it were calculated?
0:43:50 > 0:43:52It can't calculate.
0:43:52 > 0:43:56It's one of the almighty creatures. Who knows its mind apart from him?
0:43:58 > 0:44:00'He could not believe that it happened.'
0:44:01 > 0:44:04I was there myself and I still don't believe it.
0:44:06 > 0:44:11With the captain's voice gone, one person spoke loud and firm.
0:44:11 > 0:44:15Look, this is a waste of time.
0:44:15 > 0:44:17We need food and we need water.
0:44:17 > 0:44:19As much as we can fit in the whalers.
0:44:20 > 0:44:23I'm not sitting here relying on happenstance to be rescued.
0:44:23 > 0:44:26We get through the night and come daybreak we make for land.
0:44:26 > 0:44:27We catch a variable to Peru.
0:44:27 > 0:44:30No. We make for the Society Isles to the west.
0:44:30 > 0:44:33- Islands with cannibals.- I've read no reports saying that is so.
0:44:33 > 0:44:35I do not hold with your reports.
0:44:35 > 0:44:38Well, what do you hold with, Mr Chase? Going back to the Americas?
0:44:38 > 0:44:40That is a 2,000-mile journey against tide and wind.
0:44:40 > 0:44:43We go south. We catch a variable to Peru.
0:44:43 > 0:44:44That's another 1,000 miles.
0:44:44 > 0:44:47The Society Isles are closer and our best option.
0:44:47 > 0:44:50We can provision there. I am right about this, Mr Chase.
0:44:50 > 0:44:53Like you were right about the storm?
0:44:53 > 0:44:55Like you were right about the spavined whaler?
0:44:55 > 0:44:56I'm not the cause of this.
0:44:56 > 0:44:58You want to make for the Society Islands? Go ahead.
0:44:58 > 0:45:00Nobody's fighting to stop you.
0:45:00 > 0:45:02You want to stay here? That's fine by me.
0:45:02 > 0:45:05You can be captain of water for as long as you want.
0:45:08 > 0:45:10We stand a better chance together.
0:45:10 > 0:45:12I agree. I'm making for Peru.
0:45:33 > 0:45:35- You're making a mistake.- It's done.
0:45:38 > 0:45:40You know what to do. Salvage what you can.
0:45:40 > 0:45:42Food, water, canvas, anything at all. Clear?
0:45:42 > 0:45:45- Aye, sir.- Yes, Mr Chase.
0:45:45 > 0:45:46Fish out anything you can.
0:45:46 > 0:45:48If it ain't spoiled, bring it in the boat.
0:45:48 > 0:45:50Anything we can get our hands on.
0:46:04 > 0:46:08'If you ask me, that whale knew what he was doing.'
0:46:10 > 0:46:12He followed us, waited,
0:46:12 > 0:46:15and he chose that spot way out there for a reason.
0:46:17 > 0:46:19Revenge.
0:46:36 > 0:46:38Get up.
0:46:38 > 0:46:39HE KICKS THE BOAT
0:46:39 > 0:46:42Get up! We're whalers. We do not give up.
0:46:42 > 0:46:45We lost our ship, not our purpose.
0:46:45 > 0:46:46We need a sail.
0:46:46 > 0:46:48Whalers don't have sails.
0:46:49 > 0:46:52They do now. Check the lines.
0:46:52 > 0:46:54Start in the stern, work forward.
0:46:54 > 0:46:57Use a nail if you have to. This is our ship now.
0:46:57 > 0:46:59She'll look after us if we look after her.
0:47:09 > 0:47:11Where are we, sir?
0:47:14 > 0:47:16Pursuing a wrong course.
0:47:18 > 0:47:20HE SPITS
0:47:22 > 0:47:23What's to eat?
0:47:23 > 0:47:26I do believe it's fish tonight.
0:47:26 > 0:47:29That's funny-looking fish. Looks like hard tack.
0:47:32 > 0:47:33Sea soaked at that.
0:47:35 > 0:47:38I don't much care for your cooking, Mr Bond.
0:47:39 > 0:47:40Need more salt?
0:47:43 > 0:47:46THEY LAUGH
0:47:50 > 0:47:55Mr Joy, I did not think you were capable of laughing.
0:47:55 > 0:47:57Until now I had nothing I cared to laugh about.
0:47:59 > 0:48:02- It's getting worse. We're going to sink!- Lift up the boards.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04We're not going to sink.
0:48:04 > 0:48:06Canvas, quick, pass me the canvas.
0:48:06 > 0:48:09- Mr Chase! Steady.- Bail it out!
0:48:11 > 0:48:13Long days turned to longer nights.
0:48:13 > 0:48:15Days became weeks.
0:48:15 > 0:48:18We set off south, as Mr Chase suggested,
0:48:18 > 0:48:20but the winds pushed us further from land.
0:48:21 > 0:48:25Our whole world was three fragile whalers.
0:48:58 > 0:49:00My wife is with child.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05At least, she was before I left.
0:49:07 > 0:49:09Expect I'm a father now.
0:49:11 > 0:49:12Provided they lived.
0:49:14 > 0:49:17Had you a hankering for a son or a daughter?
0:49:17 > 0:49:19Don't matter to me.
0:49:19 > 0:49:22As long as theirs is a better life than mine.
0:49:25 > 0:49:28You know, I never questioned going to sea.
0:49:30 > 0:49:33And death is part of life, right?
0:49:35 > 0:49:36Ours even more so.
0:49:38 > 0:49:40But for the first time in my life...
0:49:43 > 0:49:45..I had a mind to cry off this voyage.
0:49:53 > 0:49:55MR JOY COUGHS
0:50:00 > 0:50:01It's damn cold, ain't it?
0:50:12 > 0:50:13Mr Joy.
0:50:33 > 0:50:35They're gone.
0:50:37 > 0:50:40They were there one minute, gone the next.
0:50:40 > 0:50:41I wasn't kipping, I swear!
0:50:46 > 0:50:49The whale took them. He must have.
0:50:49 > 0:50:53It's not the whale. We just separated is all.
0:50:54 > 0:50:55We'd be dead he if wanted us dead.
0:50:58 > 0:51:00Here.
0:51:07 > 0:51:09There! There!
0:51:13 > 0:51:15Well done, Tom.
0:51:36 > 0:51:38- DISTANT VOICES:- Land ho!
0:51:39 > 0:51:40Land ho!
0:51:40 > 0:51:42Land. It's land!
0:51:42 > 0:51:43Captain, wake yourself!
0:51:44 > 0:51:46EXCITED SHOUTING
0:51:46 > 0:51:48Oh. Oh, God.
0:51:52 > 0:51:54- Ha-ha! We're saved! - We're saved!
0:52:26 > 0:52:28'If there was a man who didn't believe
0:52:28 > 0:52:30'in the Almighty before that day,
0:52:30 > 0:52:34'there wasn't one by the time our feet touched land.'
0:52:41 > 0:52:44Come on! Move her up! Move her up!
0:52:45 > 0:52:47Heave!
0:52:48 > 0:52:49Heave!
0:52:50 > 0:52:52Heave!
0:52:53 > 0:52:57'All we had to do was wait for a passing ship to find us.
0:52:57 > 0:52:59'We were saved.'
0:52:59 > 0:53:02Let's split up. Search the island.
0:53:02 > 0:53:04We should wait here. See if it's safe.
0:53:05 > 0:53:07Where are we, anyways?
0:53:07 > 0:53:08Perhaps Mr Chase can enlighten us.
0:53:11 > 0:53:12SQUAWKING AND SHRIEKING
0:53:12 > 0:53:13What was that?!
0:53:13 > 0:53:14It's just an animal.
0:53:14 > 0:53:17What if there are cannibals here?
0:53:17 > 0:53:19This looks like that island from Mr Peterson's story.
0:53:19 > 0:53:22Every island is like another. It don't matter where we are.
0:53:22 > 0:53:23That can wait.
0:53:23 > 0:53:26We need food, water and shelter.
0:53:28 > 0:53:30Come on!
0:53:30 > 0:53:31Search the island!
0:53:49 > 0:53:52It's poisonous, like most of the stuff on this island.
0:53:52 > 0:53:53Keep looking.
0:54:02 > 0:54:04HE GRUNTS AND GASPS
0:54:10 > 0:54:13SLURPING
0:54:27 > 0:54:30Mr Chase said to keep hunting, uncle.
0:54:30 > 0:54:32We have a few hours of light yet.
0:54:35 > 0:54:37Who is Captain, Seahand Coffin?
0:54:39 > 0:54:41You are, uncle.
0:54:41 > 0:54:43The sooner you and the rest of the crew remember
0:54:43 > 0:54:45the natural order of things, the better.
0:54:57 > 0:54:59'The world was turned upside down.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02'The natural order had gone.'
0:55:03 > 0:55:05MUTTERED CONVERSATION: Share what you've got.
0:55:05 > 0:55:06Pass it over here.
0:55:07 > 0:55:10'The Captain's spirit had sunk with the Essex.
0:55:10 > 0:55:15'But instead of rallying around him, most of the crew shunned him,
0:55:15 > 0:55:18'like we were afraid of catching it ourselves.'
0:55:18 > 0:55:21PISTOL CLICKING
0:55:24 > 0:55:26Don't burn it. Don't let it drop.
0:55:26 > 0:55:28Oh, God, it smells like heaven.
0:55:28 > 0:55:31Ahhh, yeah! Got to have some of that!
0:55:31 > 0:55:35This job sure is a steaming puddle of horse piss at times.
0:55:36 > 0:55:40This is the third ship I've been on that's sunk one way or other.
0:55:41 > 0:55:43Now he tells us.
0:55:43 > 0:55:45STIFLED LAUGHTER
0:55:46 > 0:55:48It's all well and good for Peterson.
0:55:49 > 0:55:52If he fell off a mast he'd land in a hammock.
0:55:57 > 0:55:58SQUAWKING
0:55:58 > 0:56:00GUN COCKING, GUNSHOT
0:56:01 > 0:56:03WINGS FLUTTERING
0:56:04 > 0:56:05You're shooting at ghosts.
0:56:07 > 0:56:08Save your shot.
0:56:21 > 0:56:23The Captain is not himself.
0:56:24 > 0:56:27I've seen bigger men than Pollard broken, and he was strong once.
0:56:29 > 0:56:31Faced down a mob single-handed, he did.
0:56:33 > 0:56:36Long as I stay at sea, I have my own life, thanks to him.
0:56:40 > 0:56:42I killed a man.
0:56:43 > 0:56:45It was self defence, but that held no sway.
0:56:46 > 0:56:48He was white.
0:56:50 > 0:56:52Was to be peeled and lynched until Pollard stepped in.
0:56:54 > 0:56:56When they couldn't hang me...
0:56:58 > 0:56:59..they lynched my family.
0:57:01 > 0:57:02Uncle...
0:57:04 > 0:57:06..and two brothers.
0:57:13 > 0:57:15PISTOL CLICKING
0:57:17 > 0:57:20'There is a darkness blacker than the blackest night,
0:57:20 > 0:57:23'blacker than greed, even.'
0:57:23 > 0:57:25When it bites it eats you alive.
0:57:26 > 0:57:29Bad as things were between the captain and Mr Chase,
0:57:29 > 0:57:32at least we were all together. Now...
0:57:32 > 0:57:34'things tore asunder.'
0:57:37 > 0:57:41'Desperation fuels acts far worse than greed can.'
0:57:44 > 0:57:49'Every scrap of food, every morsel, spawned jealousy, discontent.'
0:57:50 > 0:57:51Who stole my fish?
0:57:51 > 0:57:53'Hatred.'
0:57:53 > 0:57:54Who took it? Which one of y'all?
0:57:58 > 0:58:00That's mine.
0:58:01 > 0:58:03- I was saving that, Lawrence. - I caught it with my own hands.
0:58:05 > 0:58:06You're a damn liar.
0:58:06 > 0:58:08I've had about enough of your bellyaching.
0:58:10 > 0:58:11It was my fish!
0:58:12 > 0:58:15STRUGGLING AND GRUNTING
0:58:18 > 0:58:20Captain?
0:58:20 > 0:58:23STRUGGLING CONTINUES
0:58:24 > 0:58:26Arrgh!
0:58:28 > 0:58:30Break it up! I said break it up!
0:58:30 > 0:58:33Fightin' over a scrap of fish.
0:58:33 > 0:58:34- Save your energy! - For what?!
0:58:50 > 0:58:53There are parts of this island we haven't explored yet.
0:58:55 > 0:58:57Now come on!
0:59:21 > 0:59:22A shoe.
0:59:26 > 0:59:28Let's see what else we can find.
0:59:32 > 0:59:35COUGHING AND WHEEZING
0:59:39 > 0:59:41We don't have to rush.
0:59:41 > 0:59:42Are you being funny?
0:59:42 > 0:59:43No, I...
0:59:43 > 0:59:46I just mean we can wait here.
0:59:46 > 0:59:47Just until I catch my breath.
0:59:55 > 0:59:58FLINT SPARKING
1:00:05 > 1:00:07We must be careful.
1:00:11 > 1:00:13There might be cannibals.
1:00:45 > 1:00:47They were shipwrecked.
1:00:47 > 1:00:48Thought they'd found a paradise.
1:00:50 > 1:00:52Island yielded food for ten days, then nothing.
1:00:52 > 1:00:54They sucked it dry.
1:00:56 > 1:00:58I count eight.
1:00:58 > 1:01:01You don't mention this to anyone. You hear me?
1:01:01 > 1:01:02The men hear about this,
1:01:02 > 1:01:05they'll more than likely slit each other's throats for what's left.
1:01:05 > 1:01:07Yes, sir.
1:01:24 > 1:01:26There's hardly rainwater left for one,
1:01:26 > 1:01:28never mind a dozen.
1:01:30 > 1:01:32We ate the last of the birds days ago.
1:01:32 > 1:01:34And every day we waste here...
1:01:36 > 1:01:38..is a day we aren't moving toward home.
1:01:38 > 1:01:40Good luck with getting the men back on to the whalers again.
1:01:42 > 1:01:45It's going to take some fancy talking to achieve that.
1:01:47 > 1:01:49HE COUGHS AND WHEEZES
1:01:53 > 1:01:55You know, I...
1:01:56 > 1:01:59I never understood the time you paid to scrimshaw.
1:02:01 > 1:02:03I tells people it's to bring luck.
1:02:04 > 1:02:08Truth be known, it's an ugly world, Mr Chase, plain and simple.
1:02:10 > 1:02:12You finds your beauty where you can.
1:02:15 > 1:02:18Just see me a Christian funeral, that's all I ask.
1:02:19 > 1:02:21The way some of the men been looking at me,
1:02:21 > 1:02:24reckon they see a Christmas ham before their eyes.
1:02:24 > 1:02:25HE CHUCKLES
1:02:25 > 1:02:26Nah.
1:02:28 > 1:02:29You'd give 'em gut burn.
1:02:29 > 1:02:30Aye, I would.
1:02:39 > 1:02:41You go on ahead now, boy.
1:03:31 > 1:03:34'Mr Joy always had a spot on his on his floor for me.
1:03:35 > 1:03:37'And a bowl of gruel.
1:03:37 > 1:03:39'Never turned me away,'
1:03:39 > 1:03:41or asked for a penny in return.
1:03:43 > 1:03:45Of course, his gruel tasted like shit.
1:03:46 > 1:03:49And he watered down whatever grog he saw fit to share.
1:03:51 > 1:03:53He was a blessing to me, though.
1:03:56 > 1:03:58Saved me from myself many a time.
1:04:03 > 1:04:04Mr Joy.
1:04:06 > 1:04:09The most inappropriately named fella I ever met.
1:04:11 > 1:04:13- Mr Joy. ALL:- Mr Joy.
1:04:14 > 1:04:16(Mr Joy.)
1:04:23 > 1:04:25- MUTTERED CONVERSATION: - That won't last.
1:04:25 > 1:04:27We're running out of rope, Sir.
1:04:27 > 1:04:30To hell with Mr Chase get me some twine, make this sturdy.
1:04:38 > 1:04:40What is it?
1:04:40 > 1:04:41What is it, boy?!
1:04:43 > 1:04:44Uncle.
1:04:47 > 1:04:48- Uncle!- We've got company.
1:04:50 > 1:04:51Sir?
1:04:54 > 1:04:56We cannot stay.
1:04:57 > 1:04:58We have to leave.
1:05:00 > 1:05:02You have undermined my command for the last time.
1:05:02 > 1:05:05I've done my job, and no more.
1:05:05 > 1:05:06Liar!
1:05:08 > 1:05:10You seek my position.
1:05:10 > 1:05:13- Have done since I was raised from First to Captain.- Sir?
1:05:14 > 1:05:16You're not well.
1:05:16 > 1:05:17You too, Tom?
1:05:20 > 1:05:22The boy found skeletons in the cave.
1:05:23 > 1:05:24Eight of them.
1:05:26 > 1:05:27This place is dead.
1:05:27 > 1:05:31And if we stay, that is no shelter you build, it is a tomb.
1:05:32 > 1:05:34I will be tested on this no longer, Mr Chase.
1:05:35 > 1:05:39I am Captain, like it not, Essex or not,
1:05:39 > 1:05:42and if I have to fight you to see it my way, then I will do so.
1:05:42 > 1:05:44I am not here to fight you.
1:05:44 > 1:05:46Then you are a coward, as well as a liar.
1:05:55 > 1:05:59I have never stepped aside from anything in my life.
1:06:00 > 1:06:04But I will not...fight...you.
1:06:11 > 1:06:13I'll not follow a madman.
1:06:15 > 1:06:16What did you say?
1:06:18 > 1:06:20- Holster your weapon. - Sir...?
1:06:20 > 1:06:21- Get back. - Lower that now!
1:06:21 > 1:06:24- Stand down! - I do not take orders from you!
1:06:24 > 1:06:25ENOUGH!
1:06:29 > 1:06:30I was wrong.
1:06:31 > 1:06:33Captain, I was wrong.
1:06:35 > 1:06:39You took time to find your sea legs as Captain,
1:06:39 > 1:06:41but you did so.
1:06:41 > 1:06:42Another of your tricks, Mr Chase?
1:06:42 > 1:06:44The only trick here was nature's.
1:06:46 > 1:06:47And a cruel one at that.
1:06:49 > 1:06:50We lost our ship to a whale.
1:06:50 > 1:06:54- And I suppose I am to blame for that, am I?- No more than I.
1:06:54 > 1:06:56If I had killed the beast before he attacked us,
1:06:56 > 1:06:58then we wouldn't even be here.
1:06:58 > 1:07:01It was ill-fortune, Captain. Nothing more.
1:07:02 > 1:07:05We have been here for five days,
1:07:05 > 1:07:09and each day there has been less food than the day before.
1:07:09 > 1:07:11We have to leave.
1:07:12 > 1:07:14Think about your wives,
1:07:14 > 1:07:17waiting every day on the shoreline for your safe return.
1:07:17 > 1:07:18Think about your families.
1:07:19 > 1:07:22Hold on to anything from home.
1:07:23 > 1:07:25Those are the things that keep us alive.
1:07:37 > 1:07:39GUN CLICKS
1:07:48 > 1:07:49Today is Christmas Day.
1:07:52 > 1:07:55And we are the crew of the Essex, and you are its Captain.
1:07:57 > 1:07:59And if you think we should stay..
1:08:00 > 1:08:02..then I will dispute the matter no further.
1:08:04 > 1:08:05Sir.
1:08:14 > 1:08:16Mr Chase is right.
1:08:19 > 1:08:21This island cannot sustain us all.
1:08:22 > 1:08:25But it may yet yield life for a few of us.
1:08:25 > 1:08:28We shall draw lots. One man from each clinker shall stay.
1:08:30 > 1:08:34Those of you that can write, leave letters for your family.
1:08:35 > 1:08:38Those of you that cannot, we shall write them for you.
1:08:40 > 1:08:42Should we fail to return home...
1:08:44 > 1:08:46..our story will not have been written in sand.
1:09:12 > 1:09:13Captain?
1:09:17 > 1:09:21I wanted to thank you for taking me aboard at the start of this voyage.
1:09:25 > 1:09:26You're going with Mr Chase?
1:09:28 > 1:09:30I have to, sir.
1:09:37 > 1:09:39But you stand a better chance in my whaler.
1:09:42 > 1:09:43I have to, sir.
1:10:06 > 1:10:10'Our Father, which art in Heaven.
1:10:10 > 1:10:12'Hallowed be Thy Name.'
1:10:14 > 1:10:16Thy kingdom come, and Thy will be done
1:10:16 > 1:10:19on Earth, as it is in Heaven.
1:10:21 > 1:10:23Give us this day our daily bread.
1:10:25 > 1:10:28Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
1:10:31 > 1:10:33Lead us not into temptation,
1:10:33 > 1:10:34but deliver us from evil.
1:10:36 > 1:10:39For thine is the kingdom,
1:10:39 > 1:10:42the power and the glory,
1:10:42 > 1:10:44forever, Amen.
1:10:50 > 1:10:53Once we're at sea, we'll go in different directions.
1:10:53 > 1:10:55If the whale is out there, then it won't get all of us.
1:10:58 > 1:10:59Good luck.
1:11:08 > 1:11:10I'll see you back home.
1:11:19 > 1:11:21Heave!
1:11:21 > 1:11:23STRAINING AND GROANING
1:11:27 > 1:11:30'We left Henderson Island with raised hope.'
1:11:33 > 1:11:36'But that hope was a line rapidly running out.'
1:11:46 > 1:11:48'After another 20 days at sea...
1:11:50 > 1:11:52'..even that island seemed like paradise.'
1:12:09 > 1:12:10A shipwreck.
1:12:10 > 1:12:12And one more white man to go
1:12:12 > 1:12:14and we finally get ourselves our own boat.
1:12:14 > 1:12:16We should have stayed on the island.
1:12:16 > 1:12:18We would have died there.
1:12:18 > 1:12:20Is it any better out here?
1:12:20 > 1:12:22If I'd have known it was this easy to command a boat,
1:12:22 > 1:12:24I would have done it years ago.
1:12:25 > 1:12:27Do you even know where we're going?
1:12:28 > 1:12:30Freedom.
1:12:44 > 1:12:46I've had to cut the rations again.
1:12:48 > 1:12:50Never thought I'd see the day,
1:12:50 > 1:12:53but I'd give my left arm for a jug of water right now.
1:12:57 > 1:12:59Eat that.
1:12:59 > 1:13:00I'm not hungry.
1:13:07 > 1:13:11'The men were certain the whale was below us.
1:13:11 > 1:13:12'Biding its time.
1:13:12 > 1:13:15'Waiting to see if we had learned our lesson.'
1:13:32 > 1:13:34I don't want to die.
1:13:35 > 1:13:36Not like this.
1:13:59 > 1:14:01Should have cut the rations earlier.
1:14:06 > 1:14:08My line is out.
1:14:12 > 1:14:14If I'm to die...
1:14:16 > 1:14:18..at least let it be with purpose.
1:14:20 > 1:14:22I promised your mother I'd see you home.
1:14:26 > 1:14:28We'll have no more talk of that.
1:14:42 > 1:14:43Whatever comes...
1:14:45 > 1:14:49..Mr Joy would have wanted you to have his scrimshaw for luck.
1:14:50 > 1:14:52Mr Nickerson.
1:14:57 > 1:15:00'Mr Nickerson. Finally.'
1:15:01 > 1:15:05'I doubt Mr Chase understood the impact that had on me.'
1:15:07 > 1:15:10'It erased a lifetime of being an outsider.'
1:15:19 > 1:15:2160 days adrift.
1:15:22 > 1:15:25The Americas were still hundreds of miles away.
1:15:26 > 1:15:29Even Mr Chase couldn't make bread out of nothing.
1:15:32 > 1:15:35It wasn't the sea or the elements,
1:15:35 > 1:15:39or even the hunger gnawing away like an angry beast that was the problem.
1:15:41 > 1:15:42It was ourselves.
1:15:46 > 1:15:48ECHOING CREAKS AND SCRAPES
1:15:50 > 1:15:52FLIES BUZZING
1:16:25 > 1:16:27Eventually, no-one said it...
1:16:30 > 1:16:32..but we could feel it.
1:16:32 > 1:16:35We were turning into something else in those whalers.
1:16:35 > 1:16:38Our old lives were disappearing before our eyes.
1:16:41 > 1:16:44That great whale...
1:16:44 > 1:16:45was finally getting its way.
1:18:38 > 1:18:40We need draw no further.
1:18:45 > 1:18:46- I shall take his place. - Captain...
1:18:46 > 1:18:48- It should be me. - It was a fair lot.
1:18:48 > 1:18:49Owen.
1:18:49 > 1:18:52- You are my nephew.- Please.
1:18:53 > 1:18:54You must.
1:19:34 > 1:19:36HE SOBS
1:19:38 > 1:19:39I cannot.
1:19:40 > 1:19:43It has been an honour to have served you.
1:19:59 > 1:20:00We're out of food.
1:20:04 > 1:20:06It's life or death.
1:20:08 > 1:20:10You choose.
1:20:20 > 1:20:21Boo!
1:20:57 > 1:20:59HE BREATHES HEAVILY
1:21:32 > 1:21:33Argh!
1:21:42 > 1:21:44GUNSHOT
1:21:49 > 1:21:50HE GULPS
1:22:35 > 1:22:37WAVERING: Now I lay me down to sleep.
1:22:41 > 1:22:42I pray thee, Lord..
1:22:44 > 1:22:46I pray thee, Lord...
1:22:49 > 1:22:51I pray thee, Lord...
1:22:56 > 1:22:59..my soul...to keep.
1:23:04 > 1:23:07SEAGULLS CAWING
1:23:20 > 1:23:23RUMBLING
1:24:08 > 1:24:12'The 18th February, 1821.
1:24:12 > 1:24:15'That was the day our whaler was found.
1:24:15 > 1:24:18'By the grace of God, Mr Chase, Benjamin Lawrence
1:24:18 > 1:24:20'and myself were still alive.'
1:24:22 > 1:24:26'Captain Pollard was rescued five days later.
1:24:26 > 1:24:29'Only the Captain and Charles Ramsdell survived.
1:24:30 > 1:24:34'They say the bottom of their whaler was full of gnawed bones.'
1:24:36 > 1:24:39'The third whaler? It was never found.'
1:24:41 > 1:24:42Beautiful isn't it?
1:24:44 > 1:24:47A whale and most of our crew gave their lives for this.
1:24:49 > 1:24:5289 days we survived under Mr Chase.
1:24:52 > 1:24:55Some people called what we'd done a miracle,
1:24:55 > 1:24:56others an abomination.
1:24:57 > 1:24:59All of it is true.
1:25:03 > 1:25:05Taken me 50 years to tell my story.
1:25:08 > 1:25:11You know, I went back to the sea just a year later.
1:25:13 > 1:25:14You're surprised?
1:25:14 > 1:25:17I was a whaler - what else could I do?