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0:00:02 > 0:00:09This film contains some strong language.

0:00:09 > 0:00:12RHYTHMIC, MELANCHOLY MELODY PLAYS QUIETLY

0:00:12 > 0:00:15WIND WHISTLES

0:00:15 > 0:00:18MELODY BUILDS SLOWLY

0:00:20 > 0:00:26MELODY CRESCENDOS AND CONTINUES

0:01:22 > 0:01:24WATER SPLASHES GENTLY

0:01:24 > 0:01:26Ain't got all day.

0:01:26 > 0:01:27Dad, I can't.

0:01:27 > 0:01:29Ain't got all day, boy.

0:01:32 > 0:01:34BOY GASPS

0:01:34 > 0:01:36Come on, boy.

0:01:36 > 0:01:38Help...!

0:01:38 > 0:01:40You can do it.

0:01:41 > 0:01:44Come on... Let me see you move your arms.

0:01:44 > 0:01:46Kick your legs.

0:01:46 > 0:01:49You can do it.

0:01:51 > 0:01:54WATER BUBBLES

0:01:54 > 0:01:56- MUFFLED:- Come on!

0:01:56 > 0:01:58You're not trying!

0:01:59 > 0:02:02Nobody's gonna make it easy for you!

0:02:02 > 0:02:03It's up to you!

0:02:04 > 0:02:06'I used to imagine

0:02:06 > 0:02:10'that I'd been given to the wrong family at birth

0:02:10 > 0:02:14'and that somewhere in the world,

0:02:14 > 0:02:17' my real people longed for me.

0:02:18 > 0:02:21'From where my father stood, my failure to dog-paddle

0:02:21 > 0:02:24'was only the first of many failures.

0:02:24 > 0:02:27'Failure to speak clearly.

0:02:27 > 0:02:29'Failure to sit up straight.

0:02:29 > 0:02:34'Failure to make friends every time we moved to a dreary upstate town.

0:02:34 > 0:02:40'In me, my father recognised a failed life -

0:02:40 > 0:02:41' his own.

0:02:41 > 0:02:44'When I got admitted to the junior college,

0:02:44 > 0:02:47'my father figured it was a clerical error.

0:02:47 > 0:02:50' When I dropped out a year later, he wasn't surprised.'

0:02:50 > 0:02:51Quoyle!

0:02:51 > 0:02:53Quoyle!

0:02:54 > 0:02:56Job not stimulating enough for you?

0:02:56 > 0:02:58No. I mean, yes.

0:02:58 > 0:02:59I mean...

0:03:00 > 0:03:03..this is the best work I've ever had.

0:03:04 > 0:03:06MACHINERY CLANKS

0:03:06 > 0:03:08BELL RINGS

0:03:35 > 0:03:37I stumbled into adulthood,

0:03:37 > 0:03:40learning to separate my feelings from my life...

0:03:41 > 0:03:43..counting on nothing.

0:03:46 > 0:03:49I got used to being invisible.

0:03:50 > 0:03:51Until...

0:03:51 > 0:03:53someone noticed me.

0:03:53 > 0:03:55MUFFLED YELLS

0:03:59 > 0:04:02WIPERS BEAT RHYTHMICALLY

0:04:02 > 0:04:04I'm sick of this shit!

0:04:04 > 0:04:07ARGUMENT CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY

0:04:10 > 0:04:13Where you going, Petal?

0:04:18 > 0:04:20Let's go.

0:04:21 > 0:04:23Wake up! Go!

0:04:23 > 0:04:25HE POUNDS ON WINDOW TYRES SQUEAL

0:04:32 > 0:04:33What's your name?

0:04:33 > 0:04:35Quoyle.

0:04:35 > 0:04:37Are you all right?

0:04:37 > 0:04:39I'm starving, Quoyle. Aren't you?

0:04:42 > 0:04:44I sell burglar alarms.

0:04:45 > 0:04:47Really?

0:04:47 > 0:04:50Th-That must be interesting work.

0:04:50 > 0:04:51I'm an ink setter.

0:04:51 > 0:04:55I work for the Poughkeepsie News.

0:05:01 > 0:05:04You haven't touched your food.

0:05:04 > 0:05:07Oh. HE SIGHS ANXIOUSLY

0:05:16 > 0:05:18So, what do you think?

0:05:20 > 0:05:23You want to marry me, don't you?

0:05:27 > 0:05:29Huh? It's 8.05.

0:05:29 > 0:05:33I think I'm gonna fuck you by 10.00.

0:05:34 > 0:05:36What do you think of that?

0:05:38 > 0:05:40PASSIONATE BREATHING

0:05:44 > 0:05:47BREATHING SLOWS AND ECHOES

0:05:48 > 0:05:51PASSIONATE MOANING

0:05:58 > 0:06:01BOTH GASP

0:06:03 > 0:06:05Oh, my God.

0:06:05 > 0:06:08That was the biggest one yet.

0:06:16 > 0:06:19Yeah... I'm always hungry after I get laid.

0:06:19 > 0:06:23I guess cos I... I burn up so many calories.

0:06:27 > 0:06:29You live in a dump, Quoyle.

0:06:29 > 0:06:30WEAKLY: I love you.

0:06:34 > 0:06:35Aw!

0:06:35 > 0:06:37WEAKLY: I love you.

0:06:41 > 0:06:43GASPING BREATHS

0:06:46 > 0:06:51- BABY VOICE: - Nibble, nibble, little mouse.

0:07:03 > 0:07:05What'd the doctor say?

0:07:05 > 0:07:08If I end up with stretch marks, I'll sue his ass.

0:07:09 > 0:07:12Yeah, but Petal, Petal, is everything OK?

0:07:12 > 0:07:14Petal? Petal?

0:07:14 > 0:07:16WATER SPLASHES

0:07:16 > 0:07:17Petal, you're the only woman I've ever loved.

0:07:17 > 0:07:20You're... You're the only one.

0:07:20 > 0:07:22Mm-hmm. How do you make an Alabama Slammer?

0:07:22 > 0:07:25Where are you, sweetheart?

0:07:25 > 0:07:26Alabama, that's the point.

0:07:26 > 0:07:29Look up the recipe. It's on the fridge, where I keep the Mr Boston.

0:07:29 > 0:07:32If you come home, I'll make one for you.

0:07:32 > 0:07:34BABY WHIMPERS

0:07:34 > 0:07:37Oh, Christ, never mind. I'll have a vodka.

0:07:38 > 0:07:40BABY CRIES

0:07:41 > 0:07:44Oh, oh, it's OK, Bunny, honey.

0:07:44 > 0:07:46Oh, I know...

0:07:50 > 0:07:53TV PLAYS

0:07:56 > 0:07:58MAN YELLS OUTSIDE

0:08:08 > 0:08:11WOMAN AND MAN LAUGH

0:08:16 > 0:08:17All right, baby.

0:08:17 > 0:08:20PETAL LAUGHS

0:08:22 > 0:08:24ANNOUNCER SPEAKS IN SPANISH

0:08:24 > 0:08:26PETAL LAUGHS SENSUALLY

0:08:27 > 0:08:29LOUD THUD, CROWD CHEERS

0:08:29 > 0:08:33LAUGHTER ECHOES, REFEREE'S WHISTLE BLOWS

0:08:46 > 0:08:48Has your friend gone?

0:08:48 > 0:08:50My "friend!"

0:08:50 > 0:08:53PETAL SIGHS

0:08:53 > 0:08:54Oh, shit.

0:08:54 > 0:08:56HEAVY SIGH

0:08:58 > 0:09:00Don't do that. Don't touch me.

0:09:00 > 0:09:02SHE SIGHS

0:09:09 > 0:09:12Stop doing stuff - creeping around, cleaning up.

0:09:16 > 0:09:18Look...

0:09:18 > 0:09:20it's no good.

0:09:22 > 0:09:24Find yourself a girlfriend.

0:09:24 > 0:09:27I don't want a girlfriend, I want you.

0:09:27 > 0:09:29Your funeral.

0:09:30 > 0:09:32Listen, you going to be home for dinner?

0:09:32 > 0:09:33Don't expect me.

0:09:33 > 0:09:36- Bunny's missed you, and... - Hey, Petal.

0:09:36 > 0:09:37Hey, bunny rabbit. Petal's got to run.

0:09:37 > 0:09:40That's so pretty.

0:09:40 > 0:09:42POPPING TAB

0:09:42 > 0:09:44Here. So's that.

0:09:44 > 0:09:46Thanks.

0:09:48 > 0:09:50Beautiful.

0:09:50 > 0:09:52- BEADS CLATTER - Oh, shit!

0:09:52 > 0:09:54PETAL SIGHS

0:10:02 > 0:10:03Sorry.

0:10:03 > 0:10:05That's OK.

0:10:07 > 0:10:10MACHINERY CLANKS

0:10:18 > 0:10:19BEEP

0:10:19 > 0:10:22'Hi, this message is for Daniel Smith,

0:10:22 > 0:10:24'confirming your appointment with Dr Davis today at noon.

0:10:24 > 0:10:25BEEPS

0:10:25 > 0:10:29'Quoyle? This is your father.

0:10:29 > 0:10:32'Lost your home number.

0:10:33 > 0:10:37'It's time for your mother and I to put an end to it.

0:10:37 > 0:10:41'I left instructions with the undertaker - Dayton & Sons.

0:10:41 > 0:10:45'Told them to notify my sister, Agnis Hamm.

0:10:46 > 0:10:48'Not much of a life.

0:10:48 > 0:10:50'Nobody gave me nothing.

0:10:51 > 0:10:56'Other men would've given up and turned into bums...but I didn't.

0:10:56 > 0:10:59'I went without so you could have advantages.

0:11:00 > 0:11:03'Not that you done anything with them.'

0:11:03 > 0:11:05BEEP AND CLICK

0:11:06 > 0:11:09What, were they sick or something?

0:11:10 > 0:11:14Oh, come on. They must've left something. What's their house worth?

0:11:14 > 0:11:17'No, Petal, the bank is taking it. There's nothing left.

0:11:17 > 0:11:20'There were medical bills, funeral costs, and...it's all gone, honey.'

0:11:20 > 0:11:23You wanna marry me, don't you?

0:11:26 > 0:11:28I won't have to go to school?

0:11:28 > 0:11:30It's an adventure.

0:11:30 > 0:11:32Who goes to school when they're on an adventure?

0:11:32 > 0:11:33Is Daddy coming?

0:11:33 > 0:11:35No. Daddy is boring.

0:11:36 > 0:11:37Daddy's boring?

0:11:37 > 0:11:40Mm-hmm. That's right. You're a very clever girl.

0:11:42 > 0:11:44There's Frank. Come on, he's waitin'.

0:11:44 > 0:11:46Hey, big guy!

0:11:47 > 0:11:49Goodbye!

0:11:51 > 0:11:54Hey, hey, hey! Whoa, whoa, whoa!

0:11:54 > 0:11:56What about my pay?!

0:11:56 > 0:11:59RADIO BLARES AND TYRES SCREECH

0:12:00 > 0:12:02What about my pay?

0:12:02 > 0:12:04You owe me for three weeks.

0:12:07 > 0:12:08'Yes, Quoyle.'

0:12:08 > 0:12:12Q-U-O-Y-L-E.

0:12:12 > 0:12:13Quoyle.

0:12:13 > 0:12:16She didn't leave me a message or anything - a note somewhere?

0:12:16 > 0:12:18Only for you to pay me.

0:12:18 > 0:12:22What? Er, yeah, Bunny.

0:12:22 > 0:12:24Bunny. Yes, that's...that's her name.

0:12:24 > 0:12:27'She's, er, six years old.

0:12:27 > 0:12:30'And Petal. Petal, yes...'

0:12:33 > 0:12:36KNOCK ON DOOR

0:12:40 > 0:12:42Agnis Hamm.

0:12:42 > 0:12:43Half-sister of Guy Quoyle.

0:12:43 > 0:12:45I'm your aunt.

0:12:45 > 0:12:47This is a really bad time.

0:12:47 > 0:12:49So I heard.

0:12:49 > 0:12:51I'm here to visit his ashes.

0:12:51 > 0:12:54No, I mean this is a really, really bad time.

0:12:55 > 0:12:57She's never done anything like this.

0:12:57 > 0:12:58I mean, she's walked out before

0:12:58 > 0:13:01but she's never, never taken Bunny. I don't understand.

0:13:01 > 0:13:03The potato chips won't do you any good.

0:13:03 > 0:13:04- Drink your tea.- Huh?

0:13:04 > 0:13:07Tea's a good drink. Keep you going.

0:13:12 > 0:13:14Do you think maybe you could stick around for a while?

0:13:14 > 0:13:17Sorry, just passing through.

0:13:22 > 0:13:25On my way to Newfoundland, where our people come from.

0:13:25 > 0:13:27You ever been there, Nephew?

0:13:29 > 0:13:33Only I want to say farewell to Guy first,

0:13:33 > 0:13:34if you'll tell me where he is.

0:13:36 > 0:13:38Oh. Uh, sorry.

0:13:38 > 0:13:41He's the one on the left.

0:13:41 > 0:13:44PHONE RINGS

0:13:50 > 0:13:52Petal, hello! Is that you? Hello?

0:13:52 > 0:13:54- 'Mr Quoyle?' - Oh. Uh, yes, it is.

0:13:54 > 0:13:57This is Investigator Danzig from the New York State Police.

0:13:57 > 0:13:59- Oh, Jesus, have you found 'em? - Yes, sir.

0:13:59 > 0:14:03Yeah? Ow! Jesus! Goddamn it! OBJECTS CRASH

0:14:03 > 0:14:04Hang on a second. Hello?

0:14:04 > 0:14:06'Yes, sir, I'm still here.'

0:14:06 > 0:14:08Oh, thank God. Hello. Can you hear me?

0:14:08 > 0:14:09'That's not a problem.'

0:14:09 > 0:14:11Yeah. Uh, how's Bunny?

0:14:11 > 0:14:13'You know what, I think she's gonna be all right.'

0:14:13 > 0:14:15Oh, Jesus, good. And, and Petal?

0:14:15 > 0:14:18'Mr Quoyle, we'll talk about that when we get there.'

0:14:18 > 0:14:20Uh-huh. You're gonna, you're gonna bring her here?

0:14:20 > 0:14:22'Yes, sir.'

0:14:22 > 0:14:24- OK. And you have the address? - 'Yes, we do.'

0:14:24 > 0:14:26Oh, good. And Petal?

0:14:26 > 0:14:28'Relax, sir, we'll be there as soon as we can.'

0:14:28 > 0:14:30OK, thank you. Thank you.

0:14:30 > 0:14:34They're gonna bring Petal, and Bunny. They found 'em.

0:14:34 > 0:14:36The cop said he's got something to tell me about Petal.

0:14:36 > 0:14:38I hope she didn't get in any trouble.

0:14:38 > 0:14:41She's got such a temper on her. There's just no telling what she...

0:14:41 > 0:14:43ENGINE RUMBLES

0:14:43 > 0:14:46The convertible went over a guardrail in Jersey.

0:14:46 > 0:14:49Fortunately, your daughter was no longer travelling

0:14:49 > 0:14:52with Mrs Quoyle and, er... and her male companion.

0:14:52 > 0:14:55She was mercifully killed on impact.

0:14:55 > 0:14:57I can promise you.

0:14:58 > 0:15:00Look, er, there is something else.

0:15:01 > 0:15:04Seems she sold your daughter

0:15:04 > 0:15:08to a black market adoption outfit for 6,000.

0:15:09 > 0:15:12There was even a receipt, if you can imagine.

0:15:12 > 0:15:14That's how we tracked her.

0:15:14 > 0:15:16Daddy!

0:15:19 > 0:15:21- Daddy!- Hi, sweetheart.

0:15:22 > 0:15:24Who's that?

0:15:24 > 0:15:26That's your Great-aunt Agnis.

0:15:27 > 0:15:28Where's Petal?

0:15:30 > 0:15:31Mommy!

0:15:35 > 0:15:37Mommy?

0:15:37 > 0:15:39Mommy?

0:15:41 > 0:15:44Maybe I could stay just a day or two.

0:15:46 > 0:15:48"Your loved one has not left your heart,

0:15:48 > 0:15:51"or your thoughts

0:15:51 > 0:15:53"but is sleeping peacefully."

0:15:54 > 0:15:56She's sleeping?

0:15:58 > 0:16:00Yes. Peacefully.

0:16:01 > 0:16:04In heaven... with the angels.

0:16:04 > 0:16:06SHE SIGHS

0:16:09 > 0:16:12If I was asleep, I'd wake up.

0:16:19 > 0:16:21Why are you so scared, Daddy?

0:16:34 > 0:16:37QUOYLE WEEPS

0:16:45 > 0:16:47What do I do?

0:17:10 > 0:17:12It takes a year, Nephew -

0:17:12 > 0:17:15a full turn of the calendar - to get over losing someone.

0:17:15 > 0:17:17That's a true sayin'.

0:17:18 > 0:17:21The move'll help. You'll see.

0:17:24 > 0:17:28What place could be better than the place your people came from?

0:17:30 > 0:17:32Smell that clean northern sea?

0:17:33 > 0:17:35I'm not a water person.

0:17:37 > 0:17:39At least the girl is.

0:17:41 > 0:17:43I hope we're doing the right thing, Aunt.

0:17:43 > 0:17:45I thought I'd never come back here.

0:17:45 > 0:17:48But the older you get...

0:17:48 > 0:17:50there's an ache, a pull...

0:17:50 > 0:17:53something you've got to figure out.

0:17:53 > 0:17:56Like you're a piece in a puzzle.

0:18:10 > 0:18:13It takes some time to get used to the rock beneath you.

0:18:13 > 0:18:15It's a place like no other.

0:18:15 > 0:18:18The people who came here came by accident.

0:18:18 > 0:18:23Those that stayed learned strange things can happen -

0:18:23 > 0:18:26omens and restless spirits...

0:18:26 > 0:18:28Magic.

0:18:29 > 0:18:32We Quoyles, we left it 50 year ago.

0:18:32 > 0:18:34Hard times.

0:18:36 > 0:18:38SHE SIGHS

0:18:40 > 0:18:42We're nearly there. Quoyle point.

0:18:42 > 0:18:45Named after us. You.

0:18:46 > 0:18:49Well, I don't understand. It's May, there's so much snow.

0:18:49 > 0:18:53Up here, forget everything you thought you knew about the weather.

0:19:19 > 0:19:22I was born in that house.

0:19:24 > 0:19:27SEAGULLS CALL

0:19:27 > 0:19:29WAVES ROAR

0:19:33 > 0:19:34Empty 44 years.

0:19:34 > 0:19:37Look at that roofline. Straight as a ruler.

0:19:40 > 0:19:42DOORKNOB RATTLES

0:19:54 > 0:19:57WATER DRIPS

0:20:17 > 0:20:18Look.

0:20:22 > 0:20:23I wonder who that is.

0:20:23 > 0:20:26It's your grandfather, Sian Quoyle.

0:20:26 > 0:20:27Died before I was born.

0:20:28 > 0:20:31Died young - 12 year old.

0:20:32 > 0:20:3512? Then he couldn't have been my grandfather.

0:20:35 > 0:20:38You don't know Newfoundlanders.

0:20:38 > 0:20:40Who's this?

0:20:42 > 0:20:44It's my father and...

0:20:45 > 0:20:47..and you.

0:20:50 > 0:20:52I never did care for that hat.

0:20:56 > 0:20:58Oh!

0:20:58 > 0:21:00My lord, the table!

0:21:00 > 0:21:02The blessed table!

0:21:02 > 0:21:03SHE CHUCKLES

0:21:07 > 0:21:10There's no way we can live here.

0:21:10 > 0:21:11It's all fixable.

0:21:11 > 0:21:13We'll get a carpenter.

0:21:13 > 0:21:16Oh, well, it might be cheaper if we just build

0:21:16 > 0:21:18a whole new house on the Riviera.

0:21:18 > 0:21:21Only I wasn't born on the Riviera.

0:21:21 > 0:21:24RAIN POURS

0:21:26 > 0:21:27WIND HOWLS

0:21:27 > 0:21:29HOUSE RATTLES AND CREAKS

0:21:37 > 0:21:39WIND WHISTLES

0:22:10 > 0:22:12Daddy?

0:22:12 > 0:22:13What?

0:22:16 > 0:22:18Why did you wake me up?

0:22:18 > 0:22:22I wanted to see if you were asleep.

0:22:36 > 0:22:39WATER BUBBLES AND SWIRLS

0:22:47 > 0:22:49INAUDIBLE

0:23:17 > 0:23:20Are these cables so the house won't blow away?

0:23:20 > 0:23:22So far, so good.

0:23:22 > 0:23:26They say it rocked in storms like a big rocking chair.

0:23:26 > 0:23:29Made the women sick, so they lashed it down.

0:23:29 > 0:23:30They're moaning.

0:23:30 > 0:23:32The house is sad.

0:23:32 > 0:23:35What?

0:23:37 > 0:23:39You should let it loose.

0:24:00 > 0:24:02I'm here to apply for a job.

0:24:02 > 0:24:03Come on in.

0:24:03 > 0:24:06Listen here... Listen here, my son.

0:24:06 > 0:24:09I'm going to need clarification on this.

0:24:09 > 0:24:12I got Doris Koontz down as runner-up in cakes and muffins,

0:24:12 > 0:24:15but her entry is listed as "strawberry rhubarb cobbler",

0:24:15 > 0:24:17which I believe ought to be under "pies."

0:24:17 > 0:24:19Name's Tert Card -

0:24:19 > 0:24:22managing editor, rewrite man, and snow shoveller.

0:24:22 > 0:24:24You'll have to do without the boss.

0:24:24 > 0:24:28Himself, Jack Buggit, has called in sick, as per usual.

0:24:28 > 0:24:30Which is why I am occupying his office, Billy Pretty,

0:24:30 > 0:24:32and no bones about it.

0:24:32 > 0:24:33Come in.

0:24:33 > 0:24:36Name?

0:24:36 > 0:24:37Uh, Quoyle.

0:24:37 > 0:24:39I just got here yesterday from New York...

0:24:39 > 0:24:40You're a Quoyle, are you?

0:24:40 > 0:24:43Well, I should've seen that right off.

0:24:43 > 0:24:44Sit down.

0:24:45 > 0:24:48Prior experience as a journalist?

0:24:48 > 0:24:51Washington Post? London Times?

0:24:51 > 0:24:54Oh, oh, no, I'm not a journalist. I'm an ink setter.

0:24:54 > 0:24:56PHONE RINGS I had that position...

0:24:56 > 0:24:58Gammy Bird.

0:24:58 > 0:24:59'Are you in my office, Tert?'

0:24:59 > 0:25:01No, no, no, Jack.

0:25:01 > 0:25:04I'm just conducting a job interview here at my desk.

0:25:04 > 0:25:05'Job interview?'

0:25:05 > 0:25:08Yeah, there's a Mr Quoyle here. Says he's an ink setter.

0:25:08 > 0:25:10The fella's a Quoyle, you say?

0:25:10 > 0:25:12'And no mistake.'

0:25:12 > 0:25:14Hmm.

0:25:14 > 0:25:16'Have him meet me at the dock in, er...one hour.'

0:25:16 > 0:25:19That bronchitis of yours cleared up already?

0:25:19 > 0:25:20'Much better.

0:25:20 > 0:25:22'Thanks for your concern.'

0:25:22 > 0:25:24OK, Jack.

0:25:26 > 0:25:28Quoyle! Over here.

0:25:29 > 0:25:31Step lively.

0:25:35 > 0:25:37Uh... Hello there, Mr Buggit. The man at the...

0:25:37 > 0:25:39The name's Jack.

0:25:39 > 0:25:40Come on, get in.

0:25:52 > 0:25:53I'm not a water person.

0:25:54 > 0:25:57All Quoyles is water people. Boats is in your blood.

0:25:57 > 0:25:59That's why I'm hiring you.

0:25:59 > 0:26:01I need somebody to cover the shipping news.

0:26:01 > 0:26:04You'll get a list from the harbourmaster -

0:26:04 > 0:26:06what ships go in to Killick-Claw...

0:26:06 > 0:26:08But, Mr Buggit, I-I-I'm an ink setter.

0:26:08 > 0:26:10Pay attention, me old son.

0:26:10 > 0:26:13I don't need no ink setter, I need a reporter.

0:26:15 > 0:26:17And you'll do local car wrecks.

0:26:17 > 0:26:18Take the picture, write the story.

0:26:18 > 0:26:22We run a front-page photo of a car wreck every week,

0:26:22 > 0:26:24whether or not we actually have a car wreck.

0:26:24 > 0:26:28Now, there's a knack for taking photos that make you feel something.

0:26:28 > 0:26:31If there's a dark patch on the ground,

0:26:31 > 0:26:34It reads blood whether it's motor oil or diet coke.

0:26:34 > 0:26:37And you want something human, er...

0:26:37 > 0:26:39a child's mitten, a purse...

0:26:39 > 0:26:41a baseball cap lying in the road.

0:26:41 > 0:26:43See, that's what makes it human.

0:26:43 > 0:26:44That's what makes the reader feel.

0:26:44 > 0:26:47- Jack, I'm no reporter. - Jesus sweet Christ.

0:26:47 > 0:26:51You think any of them tomcods knew how to write

0:26:51 > 0:26:53when I hired them?

0:26:53 > 0:26:55I get a feeling about people.

0:26:55 > 0:26:57That's all.

0:27:25 > 0:27:28Welcome home, Guy.

0:27:30 > 0:27:32I can't do it.

0:27:32 > 0:27:36I mean, even if I knew the first thing about writing, I...

0:27:36 > 0:27:38Car crashes - I can't cover those.

0:27:38 > 0:27:40Why not?

0:27:42 > 0:27:43You know why not.

0:27:45 > 0:27:48We face up to things we're afraid of because we can't go around them.

0:27:49 > 0:27:52Car wrecks are a fact of life up here.

0:27:52 > 0:27:55Come winter, a drive into town'll be damn near impossible.

0:27:56 > 0:27:57We'll buy us a boat.

0:27:58 > 0:28:01Look, I already told you, I'm not a water person.

0:28:02 > 0:28:04They dragged it here.

0:28:06 > 0:28:10- What, honey? - The house. They dragged it here.

0:28:10 > 0:28:12You must've had a dream, sweetheart.

0:28:12 > 0:28:13Who told you about that?

0:28:19 > 0:28:22A long time ago, on Gaze Island,

0:28:22 > 0:28:25The old Quoyles couldn't make a go of it there.

0:28:25 > 0:28:29So they lashed the house with ropes and they dragged it.

0:28:29 > 0:28:31Yeah, they dragged it.

0:28:31 > 0:28:34Across the ice, clear to the mainland.

0:28:34 > 0:28:36Right here.

0:28:36 > 0:28:37ROPE CREAKS

0:28:37 > 0:28:39WIND WHISTLES

0:28:54 > 0:28:56STRAINED GROANS

0:29:20 > 0:29:22HOUSE CABLES MOAN GENTLY

0:29:23 > 0:29:26This is from the "News Of Your Neighbours" column.

0:29:26 > 0:29:30"The pole on the corner of main and west streets

0:29:30 > 0:29:32"has a sign on it that says

0:29:32 > 0:29:34"it's illegal to place anything on that pole.

0:29:34 > 0:29:38"We see the postman has landed in the clink

0:29:38 > 0:29:40"for throwing the mail in Killick-Claw Harbour.

0:29:40 > 0:29:42"He said he had too much to deliver

0:29:42 > 0:29:45"and the folks could take a dip and help themselves.

0:29:45 > 0:29:47"Guess it helps if you can swim."

0:29:47 > 0:29:50This is professional stuff. How am I supposed to write this?

0:29:50 > 0:29:53You can't. You'll get it wrong.

0:29:53 > 0:29:56Don't talk to your father like that! Course he can do it.

0:29:56 > 0:29:59Petal says Dad never gets anything right.

0:29:59 > 0:30:01Yeah, well, it'll work out.

0:30:04 > 0:30:07BANGING

0:30:07 > 0:30:09STATIC RADIO TRANSMISSION PLAYS

0:30:15 > 0:30:18Hello. You must be Quoyle.

0:30:18 > 0:30:20B. Beaufield Nutbeem.

0:30:20 > 0:30:22I head up the foreign news department.

0:30:22 > 0:30:25Steals every story off that goddamn short-wave.

0:30:25 > 0:30:28Which Tert takes the liberty of rewriting

0:30:28 > 0:30:30in his own mystical tongue.

0:30:30 > 0:30:32Only to save you from charges of plagiarism, Nutbeem.

0:30:32 > 0:30:34Ah, Mr Billy Pretty.

0:30:34 > 0:30:37An old fish dog and local landmark.

0:30:37 > 0:30:39Edits the home news page -

0:30:39 > 0:30:41poems, baby photos, household tips.

0:30:41 > 0:30:43There's your desk, Quoyle.

0:30:50 > 0:30:52Is there, um, a computer?

0:30:52 > 0:30:54Well, do you see one?

0:30:54 > 0:30:58No, I just... I see everyone else...

0:30:58 > 0:31:00Keen powers of observation.

0:31:00 > 0:31:02I can see why Jack snatched you off the job market.

0:31:02 > 0:31:03PHONE RINGS

0:31:03 > 0:31:05CHAIR SQUEAKS

0:31:05 > 0:31:07Gammy Bird.

0:31:07 > 0:31:09Uh-huh.

0:31:09 > 0:31:11Right on to it.

0:31:13 > 0:31:15Well, Quoyle, you lead a charmed life.

0:31:15 > 0:31:18Two minutes on the job and you got your first car wreck.

0:31:20 > 0:31:22As far as I can tell, the site is really fresh.

0:31:22 > 0:31:25About 10-15 minutes, er, at the most.

0:31:25 > 0:31:27You got two victims - one male, one female.

0:31:27 > 0:31:29Not one vital sign between them.

0:31:29 > 0:31:32So we're gonna wait till the police come now.

0:31:32 > 0:31:34Uh, the rate of speed we estimate at 65.

0:31:34 > 0:31:36So there's nothing unlawful here.

0:31:36 > 0:31:38There's not a whole lot you can do, right,

0:31:38 > 0:31:40when a moose decides to get in your way.

0:31:40 > 0:31:42That's for sure.

0:31:42 > 0:31:44Uh...the driver most likely had his chest crushed,

0:31:44 > 0:31:47before the car hit the water, so at least that's a mercy.

0:31:47 > 0:31:49- Yeah.- Yeah. Yeah.

0:31:49 > 0:31:51Well, there's that, and the... and the moose

0:31:51 > 0:31:54You know, which is a gift, really, when you think about it -

0:31:54 > 0:31:55out of season like that - a moose that size.

0:31:55 > 0:31:56Oh, lord, yes.

0:31:56 > 0:31:59Billy, I suppose we could split it four ways, right?

0:31:59 > 0:32:00SHUTTER CLICKS

0:32:00 > 0:32:03How much could you fit in the station wagon there?

0:32:03 > 0:32:04I'll take the hind quarter.

0:32:04 > 0:32:08I know we're gonna use recipes from the home page, you know?

0:32:08 > 0:32:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:32:10 > 0:32:12He's new, is he?

0:32:12 > 0:32:14New fella.

0:32:15 > 0:32:17There you go.

0:32:17 > 0:32:20It's wrecks like that that sells papers.

0:32:20 > 0:32:21Oh, Jack knows his readers.

0:32:21 > 0:32:25Now, mind you, there's more people down under these waters

0:32:25 > 0:32:27than are killed on the roads.

0:32:27 > 0:32:30You'll want to get yourself a nice little boat before long.

0:32:30 > 0:32:32Something that fits the water.

0:32:32 > 0:32:34I just don't want to think about a boat right...

0:32:34 > 0:32:36Wh-who's that?

0:32:38 > 0:32:40Why?

0:32:40 > 0:32:42Oh, I-I was just curious. I've seen her around.

0:32:42 > 0:32:44She's very tall.

0:32:44 > 0:32:47I-I mean... she...she's got good posture.

0:32:47 > 0:32:50She seems very...

0:32:50 > 0:32:52Her stride is different.

0:32:55 > 0:32:58It was grief that caused her boy to be not right.

0:32:58 > 0:33:02She was carrying him when her husband was drowned at sea.

0:33:02 > 0:33:04Like I was saying, there's more life lost that way.

0:33:13 > 0:33:16How's your car wreck coming, Quoyle?

0:33:20 > 0:33:22If I wanted War And Peace,

0:33:22 > 0:33:24I would have hired William bloody Shakespeare.

0:33:43 > 0:33:45BILLY SIGHS

0:33:47 > 0:33:50"The policeman ate breakfast at the Codcake Diner

0:33:50 > 0:33:53"before he arrived at the accident scene"?

0:34:01 > 0:34:02Yes?

0:34:02 > 0:34:06Your spelling is fine and I've seen plenty worse grammar.

0:34:06 > 0:34:09But...but finding the centre of your story -

0:34:09 > 0:34:11the beating heart of it - that's what makes a reporter.

0:34:11 > 0:34:14Now, you'll have to start by making up some headlines.

0:34:14 > 0:34:15You know?

0:34:15 > 0:34:18Short, punchy, dramatic headlines.

0:34:18 > 0:34:21Now, have a look. What do you see? Tell me the headline.

0:34:24 > 0:34:27Horizon Fills With Dark Clouds.

0:34:27 > 0:34:29Imminent Storm Threatens Village.

0:34:32 > 0:34:34But what if no storm comes?

0:34:35 > 0:34:37Village Spared From Deadly Storm.

0:34:49 > 0:34:50How was your first day?

0:34:50 > 0:34:52What's all this?

0:34:54 > 0:34:55Nephew, we can't fix up the house proper

0:34:55 > 0:34:58on a journalist's wages, so I've un-retired.

0:34:58 > 0:35:01- From what?- Boat upholstery.

0:35:01 > 0:35:03All us Quoyles have a feeling for boats.

0:35:03 > 0:35:05Wh-who's this?

0:35:05 > 0:35:07That's Dennis Buggit, master carpenter.

0:35:07 > 0:35:10Ah, only till I gets me lobster license.

0:35:10 > 0:35:12I'm a fisherman in me soul.

0:35:12 > 0:35:14Buggit, huh?

0:35:14 > 0:35:17You wouldn't be related to my boss down at the Gammy Bird?

0:35:17 > 0:35:19Mm-hmm.

0:35:19 > 0:35:21Yeah, yeah. My dad.

0:35:21 > 0:35:24Tomorrow I'll run two-by-fours under your second storey.

0:35:25 > 0:35:27Oh, and, er, I was you

0:35:27 > 0:35:30I wouldn't sleep in your upstairs tonight,

0:35:30 > 0:35:32unless you want to wake up downstairs with a thud.

0:35:32 > 0:35:34Yeah.

0:35:34 > 0:35:36Yes, boy.

0:35:36 > 0:35:38WIND RUSHES

0:35:42 > 0:35:45QUOYLE SNORES

0:36:04 > 0:36:06BUNNY SCREAMS

0:36:06 > 0:36:08What? what? What is it? What is it?

0:36:08 > 0:36:10A ghost.

0:36:10 > 0:36:11The window.

0:36:11 > 0:36:15A skinny ghost and a white dog.

0:36:15 > 0:36:17I-I didn't dream it. Don't say I did.

0:36:17 > 0:36:19I won't. I won't, sweetheart, OK.

0:36:19 > 0:36:21There's a ghost there...

0:36:21 > 0:36:23OK, OK, shh, OK.

0:36:23 > 0:36:26OK, shh...

0:36:34 > 0:36:36Oh, excuse me?

0:36:36 > 0:36:38This is our first day at school.

0:36:38 > 0:36:41- I don't like these kids.- Bunny! Um, she's in...- They're boring!

0:36:41 > 0:36:43Boring, boring, boring!

0:36:43 > 0:36:45Bunny, that's enough!

0:36:45 > 0:36:48I'm sorry. She's not usually like this.

0:36:48 > 0:36:50Not usually like what?

0:36:50 > 0:36:53I hate going to new places where I don't know anybody.

0:36:53 > 0:36:56I don't know anybody.

0:36:56 > 0:36:58HE GIGGLES

0:36:58 > 0:37:00What's wrong with him?

0:37:00 > 0:37:03Bunny, that is... There is nothing wrong with him, all right?

0:37:03 > 0:37:05This is Herry. When he was being born

0:37:05 > 0:37:07he didn't get enough air to breathe

0:37:07 > 0:37:10and that makes him a little slower than most people.

0:37:10 > 0:37:12What's your name?

0:37:12 > 0:37:13Bunny.

0:37:13 > 0:37:15A bunny rabbit.

0:37:15 > 0:37:18- That's what my mother calls me. - Is mommy at work now?

0:37:18 > 0:37:21No, she's asleep with the angels.

0:37:23 > 0:37:24I am a bunny rabbit.

0:37:26 > 0:37:28Oh, you certainly are.

0:37:29 > 0:37:31Boing, boing, boing, boing!

0:37:34 > 0:37:36Which of those women are in charge here?

0:37:36 > 0:37:39Neither of them. They're just moms.

0:37:39 > 0:37:42Oh, cos somebody really ought to be paying more attention to them.

0:37:42 > 0:37:44I mean, look at that. There's scissors on the ground.

0:37:44 > 0:37:48I mean, somebody really ought to be supervising them, don't you think?

0:37:48 > 0:37:49Yeah.

0:37:51 > 0:37:53Better get back to work.

0:37:53 > 0:37:55Supervising and all.

0:37:55 > 0:37:57I'm Wavey Prowse.

0:37:57 > 0:37:58I run the place.

0:37:58 > 0:38:03They are having entirely too much fun, aren't they?

0:38:03 > 0:38:04It's a constant problem around here.

0:38:10 > 0:38:15Headline: Bumbling Dad Humiliated At Day Care.

0:38:17 > 0:38:18Quoyle!

0:38:20 > 0:38:22C'mon over, Quoyle!

0:38:22 > 0:38:23Order's up now. Come and get it.

0:38:27 > 0:38:29Aye, sir.

0:38:29 > 0:38:30Hey.

0:38:30 > 0:38:32Hmm.

0:38:32 > 0:38:34You've been to the harbourmaster's.

0:38:34 > 0:38:36Yeah, boats in, boats out.

0:38:36 > 0:38:38Not exactly the stuff of legends.

0:38:38 > 0:38:41Sometimes there's a story behind the story.

0:38:41 > 0:38:43What can I do you for then?

0:38:43 > 0:38:46Oh, um, I'll have whatever they're having. What are you having?

0:38:46 > 0:38:48Squid burger. It's good.

0:38:48 > 0:38:50All right, then. You want some fries with that?

0:38:50 > 0:38:52OK.

0:38:52 > 0:38:53All right, then, be back.

0:38:53 > 0:38:55Have you got yourself a boat yet, Quoyle?

0:38:55 > 0:38:56- No.- You ought to get Alvin Yark to build you one.

0:38:56 > 0:38:59Or you could buy Nutbeem's.

0:39:00 > 0:39:03I built a Chinese junk.

0:39:03 > 0:39:05Sailed it up from Brazil.

0:39:05 > 0:39:07Unfortunately, I missed Manhattan by a mile or two

0:39:07 > 0:39:10and got stranded here when I shipwrecked by Gaze Island.

0:39:10 > 0:39:11I've almost finished my repairs.

0:39:11 > 0:39:13I'll be sailing away soon.

0:39:14 > 0:39:16She's ugly and...

0:39:16 > 0:39:19the only thing I've ever loved.

0:39:19 > 0:39:21MOCK WEEPING

0:39:21 > 0:39:24Eh, your story tugs at me bladder.

0:39:33 > 0:39:34Excuse me.

0:39:34 > 0:39:38Um, what is it between those two?

0:39:39 > 0:39:44First thing, you'll have to understand about the curse.

0:39:44 > 0:39:48Jack Buggit's father, his grandfather,

0:39:48 > 0:39:51his great-grandfather, all died at sea.

0:39:51 > 0:39:54Second thing - Jack is...sensitive.

0:39:54 > 0:39:56Especially about the sea.

0:39:56 > 0:39:58"Sensitive."

0:39:58 > 0:40:03It's what they call people around here who, um, KNOW things.

0:40:05 > 0:40:07So, Dennis is forbidden the sea.

0:40:07 > 0:40:09But being free, Newfie,

0:40:09 > 0:40:12and 21, he goes anyway.

0:40:12 > 0:40:15- What? And that's enough...? - Death storm.

0:40:15 > 0:40:18A massive wave cracks her steel hull amidships.

0:40:18 > 0:40:20A one-inch crack from starboard to port.

0:40:20 > 0:40:23Men go in the water. Dennis is lost.

0:40:24 > 0:40:26After about a week,

0:40:26 > 0:40:30they come to Jack and tell him the search is to be called off.

0:40:30 > 0:40:33Jack stands like a stone.

0:40:33 > 0:40:36Then he turns - quick, the way he does - and says...

0:40:39 > 0:40:40"He's alive.

0:40:42 > 0:40:43"And I know where."

0:40:46 > 0:40:48So, off he goes, out to sea,

0:40:48 > 0:40:50on his own, in just a skiff...

0:40:50 > 0:40:53and finds Dennis.

0:40:54 > 0:40:56Can you imagine the odds?

0:40:56 > 0:40:58Finds him. Finds him.

0:40:58 > 0:41:00Both arms broken, 99% dead.

0:41:01 > 0:41:05The boy comes to and Jack says to him,

0:41:05 > 0:41:10"If you ever step foot in a boat again, I'll drown you myself."

0:41:10 > 0:41:13And do you know what Dennis said?

0:41:13 > 0:41:14(Say it fast.)

0:41:14 > 0:41:17He said, "All fishing licenses are spoken for.

0:41:17 > 0:41:19"I'd appreciate it if you gave me yours."

0:41:19 > 0:41:21Jack looked in his eyes and they never spoke again.

0:41:21 > 0:41:25Quoyle? You got The shipping news written up yet?

0:41:25 > 0:41:26Oh, yes.

0:41:26 > 0:41:28CLEARS THROAT

0:41:29 > 0:41:31There's nothing here.

0:41:34 > 0:41:37Boats in, boats out. What else is there?

0:41:37 > 0:41:40If I knew, I'd write it myself.

0:41:40 > 0:41:42I took a chance on you, Quoyle.

0:41:42 > 0:41:45Don't let me down.

0:41:49 > 0:41:51DOOR CLOSES

0:42:03 > 0:42:05MAN SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY

0:42:07 > 0:42:11Go get the Aspirin now!

0:42:11 > 0:42:15Oh, shut up! I had as much to drink last night as you did!

0:42:22 > 0:42:25Excuse me. Do I know you?

0:42:25 > 0:42:28I'm a... I-I work for the local paper.

0:42:28 > 0:42:31I do th-the shipping news. I was just...

0:42:31 > 0:42:33Is this your boat?

0:42:33 > 0:42:35That's a boat.

0:42:35 > 0:42:37This is a botterjacht.

0:42:39 > 0:42:40She was built for Hitler.

0:42:40 > 0:42:42He was the original owner.

0:42:42 > 0:42:43Really?

0:42:43 > 0:42:47I-I just wanted to ask you a-a couple of questions.

0:42:47 > 0:42:49The finest botterjacht ever built in Holland.

0:42:49 > 0:42:51Tell him what happened in Hurricane Bob.

0:42:51 > 0:42:54And she's incredibly heavy. 40 tons of solid oak.

0:42:54 > 0:42:55Tell him!

0:43:00 > 0:43:03She broke free of her moorings

0:43:03 > 0:43:06and pounded six boats - expensive ones - to rubble.

0:43:07 > 0:43:10Wham!

0:43:14 > 0:43:17Now tell him who let our insurance lapse.

0:43:21 > 0:43:23Wham!

0:43:23 > 0:43:28Oh, it took six very expensive lawyers to weasel us out of it.

0:43:29 > 0:43:32Jesus! An inch from bankruptcy.

0:43:32 > 0:43:34Moral of the story?

0:43:34 > 0:43:36When you marry a tour guide,

0:43:36 > 0:43:39confine his authority to mixing the drinks.

0:43:41 > 0:43:44Did I come at a bad time?

0:43:44 > 0:43:47Yeah. Ten years ago would've been better.

0:43:51 > 0:43:54Wife Fires Artillery On Hitler's Boat.

0:44:01 > 0:44:03Hello.

0:44:03 > 0:44:05- Hi.- Hi. - You guys need a ride?

0:44:05 > 0:44:09Thanks, but, er, Herry likes to walk.

0:44:09 > 0:44:11Oh. Well, it's a nice day for a walk.

0:44:11 > 0:44:14Mr Quoyle...

0:44:14 > 0:44:17About the other day? I'm sorry we got off on the wrong foot.

0:44:17 > 0:44:19No, that's, that's all right.

0:44:19 > 0:44:21I-I was way off base.

0:44:21 > 0:44:24I-I admire anybody that works with kids.

0:44:24 > 0:44:27That's the hardest job in the world, you know?

0:44:27 > 0:44:30- I'm a journalist, myself. - Really?

0:44:30 > 0:44:32Have you seen our local paper?

0:44:33 > 0:44:35Strictly fish wrap.

0:44:35 > 0:44:37WIPERS SQUEAK

0:44:37 > 0:44:40What?

0:44:42 > 0:44:45I'm the new reporter there.

0:44:45 > 0:44:48I... Uh... Oh...

0:44:48 > 0:44:50No, I'm... I'm sure...

0:44:50 > 0:44:52that'll be, er...

0:44:52 > 0:44:53SHE SNIFFS

0:44:53 > 0:44:56- Good luck to you. - Oh, thank you very much.

0:44:56 > 0:44:58It was nice to see you again.

0:44:58 > 0:45:00Nice to see you.

0:45:00 > 0:45:02Bye, Herry.

0:45:07 > 0:45:09Dennis?

0:45:09 > 0:45:12POUNDING

0:45:24 > 0:45:25Bunny?

0:45:25 > 0:45:28W-What are you doing?

0:45:28 > 0:45:30She's boring.

0:45:30 > 0:45:32Boring.

0:45:40 > 0:45:43How was Bunny when you picked her up from day care?

0:45:44 > 0:45:47All right. A little snotty.

0:45:53 > 0:45:55What's that?

0:45:57 > 0:45:59Robert Burns.

0:46:04 > 0:46:05Someone gave that to you.

0:46:09 > 0:46:11Someone that you're missing.

0:46:16 > 0:46:19Six year ago today.

0:46:19 > 0:46:20Leukaemia.

0:46:23 > 0:46:25We weren't married...

0:46:26 > 0:46:29..but that's a technicality.

0:46:40 > 0:46:42KEYS CLACK LOUDLY

0:46:58 > 0:47:00That your boat?

0:47:00 > 0:47:03- Yeah, I just bought her. - One question remains - why?

0:47:03 > 0:47:05Well, she's a speedboat.

0:47:05 > 0:47:06It's a shit boat.

0:47:06 > 0:47:09Wallowing, cock-eyed bastard. It'll sink in a bathtub.

0:47:09 > 0:47:11Makes you cry to look at her.

0:47:11 > 0:47:13Just a coffin, boy.

0:47:13 > 0:47:15Let me know when you're serious.

0:47:15 > 0:47:17I'll take you down to see Alvin Yark.

0:47:17 > 0:47:20He'll make you up a sweet little Rodney.

0:47:20 > 0:47:23You don't have the sense God gave a doughnut, do you?

0:47:23 > 0:47:25I'm going home.

0:47:28 > 0:47:31The best you can do is bury it...some dark night.

0:47:33 > 0:47:37What in hell a name's this?

0:47:38 > 0:47:40"Hitler's Barge."

0:47:40 > 0:47:43Uh, that's, er, a vessel in port.

0:47:43 > 0:47:45It goes with the shipping news.

0:47:45 > 0:47:48So, what about the motorcycle accident?

0:47:48 > 0:47:51Oh, I'm still working on that but I think this is a better story.

0:47:51 > 0:47:52What do you mean?

0:47:52 > 0:47:55You didn't do the one that Jack wanted you to do?

0:47:55 > 0:47:57You did one that he don't know you did?

0:47:57 > 0:47:59Well, this is worse than your boat.

0:47:59 > 0:48:04Jack even sniffs this, he'll cut you up for lobster bait.

0:48:04 > 0:48:07I think I'll run it.

0:48:13 > 0:48:16And he crawled off the grass onto a branch

0:48:16 > 0:48:20and he made a cocoon, which is like a house,

0:48:20 > 0:48:22- except it's for a caterpillar... - Hey, Bunny.

0:48:22 > 0:48:24Shh! I'm reading.

0:48:27 > 0:48:29(He thinks I know how.)

0:48:29 > 0:48:32CHILDREN LAUGH Oh!

0:48:32 > 0:48:34Oh, oh... No, no...

0:48:34 > 0:48:37HE YELLS

0:48:37 > 0:48:41CHILDREN LAUGH AND SCREAM

0:48:41 > 0:48:43HE GROANS

0:48:46 > 0:48:48Go on, get the pig.

0:49:01 > 0:49:03See you tomorrow.

0:49:03 > 0:49:05- Oh, bye, Sarah. Bye, Patrick. - Bye.

0:49:05 > 0:49:08Hey, can you hold these rods together for me?

0:49:08 > 0:49:11You have to hold them flush against each other.

0:49:11 > 0:49:14- OK.- Thanks.

0:49:14 > 0:49:16Be careful, honey.

0:49:16 > 0:49:19- I want to see if it can fly. - Well, not in the house, sweetheart.

0:49:19 > 0:49:20Throw it in the air, high as you can.

0:49:20 > 0:49:22Count till it comes down.

0:49:22 > 0:49:25One, two, three, four, five.

0:49:25 > 0:49:28Hey! Have you been to flight school?

0:49:28 > 0:49:29Not really.

0:49:29 > 0:49:31No? oh, my.

0:49:31 > 0:49:34BUNNY IMITATES ENGINE

0:49:47 > 0:49:50Aunt? Hey, guess what?

0:49:50 > 0:49:52Just keep it down.

0:49:52 > 0:49:54This is my assistant, Mavis Bangs.

0:49:54 > 0:49:55- Oh, hello.- How are you?

0:49:55 > 0:49:58Did you read my article on the Hitler boat?

0:50:04 > 0:50:07What?

0:50:07 > 0:50:09Silver and Bayonet Melville were clients of mine.

0:50:09 > 0:50:11They pulled anchor last night without paying a penny

0:50:11 > 0:50:13for all the work we did for them. The buggers.

0:50:13 > 0:50:18Now, find out where they're to, we'll give you the Pulitzer.

0:50:18 > 0:50:21What, you make juju beads out of lobster feelers?

0:50:21 > 0:50:23Oh, that's pretty remarkable, missus.

0:50:23 > 0:50:25Now, where do you export these?

0:50:25 > 0:50:27Haiti?

0:50:27 > 0:50:30Oh, well... Um, I'll tell you what.

0:50:30 > 0:50:32I'll, er, do my best.

0:50:32 > 0:50:35I'll try to get you a bit of ink in the next edition, how's that?

0:50:40 > 0:50:43Well, you know, these things take some time to work out, you know?

0:50:43 > 0:50:44Card?

0:50:44 > 0:50:46Hold on.

0:50:50 > 0:50:53If you're going to Shanghai me office, Tert,

0:50:53 > 0:50:55you best conceal the evidence.

0:50:55 > 0:50:57- Oh, no, Jack...- Nah.

0:50:57 > 0:51:00This, er, Hitler boat...

0:51:00 > 0:51:02You assign it?

0:51:02 > 0:51:05Nope, sir. It wasn't my idea.

0:51:06 > 0:51:08Get me Quoyle.

0:51:12 > 0:51:14Quoyle...

0:51:14 > 0:51:16He wants you.

0:51:24 > 0:51:27- Mr Buggit, it was what you said... - Have a seat.

0:51:27 > 0:51:32I got four phone calls last night about the Hitler boat - four.

0:51:32 > 0:51:34People enjoyed it.

0:51:34 > 0:51:36Mrs Buggit liked it.

0:51:36 > 0:51:39Of course, you don't know nothing about boats,

0:51:39 > 0:51:41but that's entertaining, too.

0:51:41 > 0:51:44So, listen here, me old son, I'm giving you a weekly column.

0:51:44 > 0:51:47A story about a different boat every week.

0:51:47 > 0:51:48Human stuff.

0:51:48 > 0:51:50Who owned the boat, who lived and died on her,

0:51:50 > 0:51:54who drowned, who was saved, who lost his fortune...

0:51:54 > 0:51:56who had his heart broke.

0:51:57 > 0:51:59You follow?

0:51:59 > 0:52:01Tert!

0:52:01 > 0:52:02Jack?

0:52:02 > 0:52:04Order this boy a new computer.

0:52:04 > 0:52:08And buy him a real one, not one of them Japan clones. You got that?

0:52:08 > 0:52:10Uh-huh.

0:52:10 > 0:52:13Oh, Mr Buggit, I-I-I don't know what to say.

0:52:13 > 0:52:16Did I not tell you? My name is Jack.

0:52:27 > 0:52:28Jack.

0:52:38 > 0:52:40IBM, please.

0:52:43 > 0:52:45Get back to your work, Quoyle.

0:52:46 > 0:52:51I-B-M.

0:52:54 > 0:52:57STIFLED LAUGHS

0:52:59 > 0:53:02Lumbering Idiot Stuns Crowd...

0:53:02 > 0:53:04For A Change.

0:53:16 > 0:53:17Herry Prowse!

0:53:18 > 0:53:21Look how well your kite is doing.

0:53:21 > 0:53:24Are you making it dance with your thoughts?

0:53:24 > 0:53:28Your kite is doing so much better than Mr Quoyle's.

0:53:28 > 0:53:30CHILDREN LAUGH

0:53:37 > 0:53:39Do you think Bunny's strange -

0:53:39 > 0:53:42I mean, mentally?

0:53:43 > 0:53:46The skinny ghost with the white dog?

0:53:46 > 0:53:48She told you about that?

0:53:48 > 0:53:50Maybe she's sensitive.

0:53:50 > 0:53:53The way some folks are around here.

0:53:54 > 0:53:56And what about the necklaces?

0:53:56 > 0:53:59Do you know how many of those she makes? I mean...

0:54:00 > 0:54:04And I found her bashing her baby doll's brains out with a hammer.

0:54:04 > 0:54:06A baby doll doesn't have brains.

0:54:06 > 0:54:07It's a toy.

0:54:09 > 0:54:12Do you know she's... saving a room for her mother?

0:54:12 > 0:54:14Did she tell you that?

0:54:14 > 0:54:15Yeah.

0:54:15 > 0:54:17Is she strange, that's all?

0:54:17 > 0:54:19Is she OK? if-if you had to take a guess.

0:54:21 > 0:54:24That little girl's the only friend my son ever had.

0:54:24 > 0:54:27So she's strange, you bet.

0:54:27 > 0:54:29It crashed!

0:54:29 > 0:54:31CHILDREN LAUGH

0:54:39 > 0:54:41All right. There you go.

0:54:50 > 0:54:54LABOURED BREATHING

0:55:01 > 0:55:04Do you know how he died?

0:55:05 > 0:55:07My husband?

0:55:12 > 0:55:15It was a calm night when Herold took the boat out.

0:55:17 > 0:55:19There was no sign of any storm.

0:55:20 > 0:55:23Storms can be sudden around here.

0:55:24 > 0:55:27He wasn't the only one whose boat went down.

0:55:31 > 0:55:33It was four years ago...

0:55:35 > 0:55:36..and it's yesterday.

0:55:50 > 0:55:54- Look how high we're up. - Uh-huh. Beat you to the car.

0:55:54 > 0:55:56CHILDREN LAUGH

0:55:59 > 0:56:02Did I blow it, or can you still be my friend?

0:56:04 > 0:56:07Your friend? Sure.

0:56:31 > 0:56:33BUNNY HUMS

0:56:39 > 0:56:41Is this yours?

0:56:44 > 0:56:45The ghost brought it.

0:56:47 > 0:56:49Then he ran away.

0:56:49 > 0:56:51The skinny ghost with the white dog?

0:56:51 > 0:56:54Don't say I dreamt it.

0:57:04 > 0:57:08Ah, you're getting the hang of it.

0:57:08 > 0:57:10Now, coax her a wee bit to starboard.

0:57:10 > 0:57:14Attaboy. You're a Quoyle - there's seawater in your veins.

0:57:15 > 0:57:18How are things with your girl?

0:57:18 > 0:57:22Oh, Bunny's just still adjusting, I think.

0:57:22 > 0:57:25Oh, I was talking about Wavey Prowse.

0:57:25 > 0:57:27Sorry... Sorry! Whoa!

0:57:27 > 0:57:29- Jesus!- Sorry.

0:57:29 > 0:57:32I... Wavey and I are just friends.

0:57:32 > 0:57:35Fine. Don't have to drown me over it!

0:57:45 > 0:57:46This is where I grew up.

0:57:46 > 0:57:49That's my poor old father there.

0:57:54 > 0:57:56And that's where your house stood.

0:58:05 > 0:58:09Before they dragged it across the ice.

0:58:09 > 0:58:12Yes, sir. Before they was driven away.

0:58:14 > 0:58:15Driven away by what?

0:58:18 > 0:58:20You never knew?

0:58:20 > 0:58:22Ah, well.

0:58:22 > 0:58:23It's neither here nor there, right?

0:58:23 > 0:58:25The point is, they made a new place for themselves.

0:58:25 > 0:58:30- No, by what? Driven away by what? - Oh, that's old stuff, boy.

0:58:30 > 0:58:33It's in my blood. You ought to be able to tell me.

0:58:36 > 0:58:40Well, they come to Gaze Island centuries ago, they did.

0:58:40 > 0:58:42The old Quoyles was rackers.

0:58:42 > 0:58:46They were, they were pirates, sort of like. You see them cairns?

0:58:48 > 0:58:50Fires used to burn in them

0:58:50 > 0:58:53to guide the ships at sea like lighthouses.

0:58:53 > 0:58:56Now, the Quoyles would move the fires...

0:58:56 > 0:58:58to fool the ships.

0:58:58 > 0:59:00They'd lure them into the rocks,

0:59:00 > 0:59:02so the Quoyles could grab their loot.

0:59:02 > 0:59:04Oh, they was a savage lot, the old Quoyles.

0:59:04 > 0:59:06Then they went too far one day.

0:59:06 > 0:59:08They...nailed a man to a tree

0:59:08 > 0:59:11and they cut off his nose

0:59:11 > 0:59:15to draw the nippers and the flies that...that ate him alive.

0:59:15 > 0:59:20And that's when the Quoyles was given their walking papers.

0:59:20 > 0:59:22Jesus.

0:59:22 > 0:59:24Now, there's still an old Quoyle

0:59:24 > 0:59:26down in one of these coves somewhere.

0:59:26 > 0:59:30They say he slept with his wife after she was dead.

0:59:31 > 0:59:33Anything else I should know?

0:59:35 > 0:59:38That about covers it.

0:59:38 > 0:59:40BUOY BELL RINGS

0:59:45 > 0:59:49# When the knitting pins You is abreast

0:59:49 > 0:59:53# Hold the tiller to the west

0:59:54 > 0:59:57# Behind the pins you must steer

0:59:57 > 1:00:02# Till the old man's shoe Does appear. #

1:00:05 > 1:00:08WOMEN SCREAM

1:00:08 > 1:00:11MEN YELL

1:00:29 > 1:00:32Pull, pull! Heave!

1:00:32 > 1:00:35ANGRY SHOUTS

1:00:41 > 1:00:44GASPS

1:00:52 > 1:00:54Show me that necklace.

1:00:54 > 1:00:57See, if you make the loops bigger you don't have to make so many.

1:00:57 > 1:00:59OK.

1:00:59 > 1:01:00Good morning.

1:01:04 > 1:01:06Can I talk to you for a minute?

1:01:11 > 1:01:13Where's that chair from?

1:01:14 > 1:01:16Excuse me?

1:01:16 > 1:01:18The chair you're sitting in. Where'd you get it?

1:01:18 > 1:01:20It's not from around here, right?

1:01:20 > 1:01:24It's foreign, it's exotic.

1:01:24 > 1:01:26I don't want pirate's loot in this home.

1:01:27 > 1:01:30Billy Pretty told me all about it.

1:01:30 > 1:01:34It's a good thing somebody finally did.

1:01:34 > 1:01:37I don't believe in dwelling in the past.

1:01:37 > 1:01:39No? Then what are we doing here?

1:01:39 > 1:01:42Making a future.

1:01:46 > 1:01:48Well, well, well.

1:01:48 > 1:01:50If it ain't the second coming of the Quoyles.

1:01:50 > 1:01:53Taking a long and hearty meal break, I can't help but noticing.

1:01:53 > 1:01:57Hope you've got a good idea for your next story, Quoyle.

1:01:57 > 1:01:59I'd hate for Jack to think it was just beginner's luck.

1:01:59 > 1:02:00Let the man digest, Card.

1:02:00 > 1:02:03Mind you, if I was the esteemed author

1:02:03 > 1:02:04Of the shipping news column,

1:02:04 > 1:02:07I'd pick up the McGonagall oil field story.

1:02:07 > 1:02:08Petro-dollars - a golden flood of jobs.

1:02:08 > 1:02:10You write a story about that,

1:02:10 > 1:02:13I'll put it on the front page.

1:02:13 > 1:02:14Thank you for stopping by, Tert.

1:02:14 > 1:02:16Yeah, thanks, Tert.

1:02:19 > 1:02:20Aw, gee...

1:02:20 > 1:02:22What was that all about?

1:02:22 > 1:02:25Oh, er, he owns Mobil oil.

1:02:26 > 1:02:29Ten shares.

1:02:30 > 1:02:32What about your column?

1:02:32 > 1:02:34What about it?

1:02:34 > 1:02:36You said you'd read it to me.

1:02:36 > 1:02:39Yeah, I will, once the game is done.

1:02:39 > 1:02:42HORN BLOWS

1:02:44 > 1:02:49"There's a 1904 photo hung in the Killick-Claw library -

1:02:49 > 1:02:52"eight schooners heading out to the fishing grounds.

1:02:52 > 1:02:55"Their sails are white and beautiful.

1:02:55 > 1:02:57"But nowadays you're just as likely

1:02:57 > 1:02:59"to see a big black shape of an oil tanker,

1:02:59 > 1:03:02"like the ruptured golden goose.

1:03:02 > 1:03:05"Last week it leaked 14,000 tons of crude

1:03:05 > 1:03:08"onto the seabirds, fish and boats at Cape Despot.

1:03:08 > 1:03:10"There will be more and more tankers.

1:03:10 > 1:03:14"They will get old and corroded and their tanks will split.

1:03:14 > 1:03:18"And there will be less fish, and less fishermen.

1:03:18 > 1:03:22"Nobody hangs a picture of an oil tanker an their wall, do they?"

1:03:26 > 1:03:29What do you think?

1:03:31 > 1:03:34I think when Tert Card sees it, he'll stay up nights

1:03:34 > 1:03:36thinking of cheap shots to pay you back.

1:03:36 > 1:03:39I think he won't stop until you're fired.

1:03:42 > 1:03:46I think I haven't been so proud of a friend...

1:03:48 > 1:03:50..since I don't know when.

1:03:54 > 1:03:56SWITCH CLICKS

1:03:56 > 1:03:59WATER BUBBLES

1:04:06 > 1:04:08Uh, what do you think?

1:04:08 > 1:04:10Pretty impressive, huh?

1:04:10 > 1:04:13Like I said, nobody hangs one of those.

1:04:13 > 1:04:15Well...your column's front-page stuff.

1:04:15 > 1:04:19Only now it's more a caption, is all.

1:04:19 > 1:04:23"More than 3,000 tankers proudly ride...the world's seas.

1:04:23 > 1:04:26"Even the biggest take advantage

1:04:26 > 1:04:29"Of Newfoundland's deep water ports and refineries."

1:04:29 > 1:04:32Spelled it all perfect, so as not to embarrass you.

1:04:32 > 1:04:34"Oil and Newfoundland go together like ham and eggs

1:04:34 > 1:04:39"And like ham and eggs, they'll nourish us in the coming years."

1:04:39 > 1:04:41Even put your name on it.

1:04:43 > 1:04:47"Let's all hang a picture of an oil tanker on our wall."

1:04:47 > 1:04:50Man of your principles...

1:04:50 > 1:04:55I understand the only honourable course is resignation.

1:04:57 > 1:04:58CRUMPLES PAPER

1:04:58 > 1:05:01If you're off to see Jack Buggit, you're going to have to swim.

1:05:01 > 1:05:04For I runs the Gammy Bird, every inch of it -

1:05:04 > 1:05:06which he'd have to do without me.

1:05:06 > 1:05:08And if you think he's going to choose you over fishing,

1:05:08 > 1:05:11then you're dumber than a doughnut.

1:05:12 > 1:05:14If that's possible.

1:05:39 > 1:05:41Jack?

1:05:41 > 1:05:44For Christ's sakes, Quoyle, cut your motor!

1:05:58 > 1:06:01All right, what's the emergency?

1:06:01 > 1:06:03- Can't it wait till I'm done fishing? - It's about my column.

1:06:03 > 1:06:06Card, he printed it not the way I wrote it.

1:06:06 > 1:06:07Well, so?

1:06:08 > 1:06:15You disapprove how Card runs my newspaper enough to lose your job?

1:06:16 > 1:06:19Yes or no?

1:06:19 > 1:06:21Yes.

1:06:24 > 1:06:27SHORTWAVE RADIO PLAYS QUIETLY

1:06:36 > 1:06:37DOOR OPENS

1:06:42 > 1:06:45So, this is what Jack and I think -

1:06:45 > 1:06:48We want to run Quoyle's wrong-headed oil spills story

1:06:48 > 1:06:53because controversy sells papers and papers sells ads.

1:06:55 > 1:06:58But the oil tanker picture stays.

1:07:02 > 1:07:07HE GROANS

1:07:07 > 1:07:09THEY LAUGH

1:07:09 > 1:07:13- You should have seen Tert's face. - Yeah?

1:07:13 > 1:07:17- Oh, it was a beautiful thing. - That's all right, I've seen it.

1:07:20 > 1:07:22- Oh, it's great.- Mm-hmm.

1:07:24 > 1:07:25Let's see what the special is.

1:07:33 > 1:07:35How do you feel about ordering to go?

1:07:40 > 1:07:41You ever had that before?

1:07:41 > 1:07:43No, what is it?

1:07:43 > 1:07:44Seal-flipper pie.

1:07:46 > 1:07:50Yeah, it's made from, like, the knuckle part of the flipper.

1:07:51 > 1:07:52The slimy cartilage part.

1:07:55 > 1:07:58Yeah, it's good, though. I mean, it's a good choice...

1:07:58 > 1:08:00if you like that sort of thing.

1:08:00 > 1:08:02I... You know, I'm really not all that hungry.

1:08:02 > 1:08:05I just wanted, you know, to come and sit.

1:08:05 > 1:08:08- I had a big lunch today. - Yeah.

1:08:08 > 1:08:10They say you're not a real Newfoundlander

1:08:10 > 1:08:14till you've had a piece of seal-flipper pie.

1:08:17 > 1:08:19- That's what they say? - Yeah, that's right.

1:08:28 > 1:08:31Mmm, good. That's surprising.

1:08:32 > 1:08:34I never eat it, myself.

1:08:34 > 1:08:36You never eat this?

1:08:36 > 1:08:38This is horrible.

1:08:39 > 1:08:41Here, I got you some real food - look.

1:11:06 > 1:11:10BUOY BELL CLANGS IN DISTANCE

1:11:10 > 1:11:12MOTOR CHUGS

1:11:23 > 1:11:25Christ.

1:11:25 > 1:11:28I knew somebody was out here.

1:11:28 > 1:11:30QUOYLE GROANS

1:11:36 > 1:11:38Oh, for Christ's sake!

1:11:58 > 1:12:00He's still burning off the fever.

1:12:15 > 1:12:16Any feeling yet?

1:12:18 > 1:12:20Little tingles.

1:12:22 > 1:12:24You're lucky.

1:12:24 > 1:12:26I'm fine.

1:12:26 > 1:12:29I'll be ready to get right back in that water...

1:12:29 > 1:12:31in another 20, 30 years.

1:12:31 > 1:12:35Do you know how close you were to dying?

1:12:39 > 1:12:42I'll get my uncle, Alvin Yark, to build you a proper boat

1:12:42 > 1:12:45and learn how to use it, OK?

1:12:45 > 1:12:48OK.

1:12:49 > 1:12:51Good.

1:13:04 > 1:13:06Were the eyes open or closed?

1:13:06 > 1:13:07I don't know.

1:13:07 > 1:13:10Just said it was an disembodied head.

1:13:10 > 1:13:12What'd the police have to say about it?

1:13:12 > 1:13:13Still working on it.

1:13:13 > 1:13:17A little late to return the head to its owner, though.

1:13:17 > 1:13:19SHE SNORTS

1:13:21 > 1:13:22Hello, Nephew.

1:13:22 > 1:13:27Police bulletin. "Mrs Silver Melville was arrested early today

1:13:27 > 1:13:30"In Lanai, Hawaii, for the murder of her husband,

1:13:30 > 1:13:34"socialite and raconteur Mr Bayonet Melville."

1:13:34 > 1:13:37" 'He pushed me once too often,' Mrs Melville confessed,

1:13:37 > 1:13:39" 'So I finally pushed back.' "

1:13:39 > 1:13:42Good for you, my dear.

1:13:46 > 1:13:48Well, he probably deserved it.

1:13:59 > 1:14:01- Hey.- Hey.

1:14:01 > 1:14:02Don't get your hopes up.

1:14:02 > 1:14:04You're the first man who ever cooked for me.

1:14:04 > 1:14:06You got a lot of leeway.

1:14:07 > 1:14:08How are they?

1:14:08 > 1:14:11They're both asleep in Bunny's bed.

1:14:11 > 1:14:14Should we trust them?

1:14:14 > 1:14:16I can do this. You just don't think...

1:14:16 > 1:14:18Oh, no.

1:14:18 > 1:14:20No, I know. Here...

1:14:20 > 1:14:22Let me do that, all right?

1:14:25 > 1:14:26There you go.

1:14:29 > 1:14:33- Can you feel that?- Yeah. - Through your bandage?

1:14:54 > 1:14:57What?

1:15:01 > 1:15:04Your husband, he never...?

1:15:04 > 1:15:06He never cooked you a meal?

1:15:08 > 1:15:10Why are we talking about my husband?

1:15:12 > 1:15:14Because I understand.

1:15:15 > 1:15:18You said, "It's four years ago and it's yesterday."

1:15:21 > 1:15:23I understand that.

1:15:25 > 1:15:29My husband's not who we're talking about, right?

1:15:39 > 1:15:40I'll go get Herry.

1:15:40 > 1:15:43He wouldn't like waking up in a strange bed.

1:15:49 > 1:15:52WIND WHISTLES EERILY

1:15:57 > 1:15:59HOUSE RATTLES AND CREAKS

1:16:43 > 1:16:45- Hey!- Huh?!

1:16:45 > 1:16:47- Who are you? - DOG BARKS

1:16:47 > 1:16:48DOG GROWLS

1:16:51 > 1:16:53I tied magic in these knots

1:16:53 > 1:16:55to protect you from the house.

1:16:55 > 1:16:58No good ever come from the old place.

1:16:58 > 1:17:01Never, never... Never.

1:17:01 > 1:17:04You... You have no...

1:17:04 > 1:17:07business in the Quoyle house.

1:17:07 > 1:17:09I get you out of there.

1:17:09 > 1:17:10But I am a Quoyle.

1:17:10 > 1:17:12A Quoyle?!

1:17:12 > 1:17:16I was a Quoyle before you was anything.

1:17:16 > 1:17:18HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

1:17:18 > 1:17:19Leave the house.

1:17:21 > 1:17:25Tell, er...Agnis, hello from...

1:17:25 > 1:17:27Cousin Nolan.

1:17:29 > 1:17:31You know why Agnis come back?

1:17:32 > 1:17:35To show she ain't afraid of the place no more.

1:17:35 > 1:17:39Cos I know what she's done. I know.

1:17:40 > 1:17:43She got rid of the baby she was carrying.

1:17:43 > 1:17:45What could she do? What?

1:17:45 > 1:17:49She was only 12

1:17:49 > 1:17:55and it was her own brother that done it to her.

1:18:24 > 1:18:26No...

1:18:26 > 1:18:29No! No! No!

1:18:29 > 1:18:30Please! No!

1:18:30 > 1:18:32No! Please!

1:18:32 > 1:18:34SHE SHRIEKS

1:18:46 > 1:18:48KETTLE WHISTLES

1:18:58 > 1:18:59Does that belong to you?

1:18:59 > 1:19:01Sorry.

1:19:04 > 1:19:06There's still hot water in the kettle,

1:19:06 > 1:19:07if you want some tea.

1:19:10 > 1:19:13I've started looking for a place for me and Bunny.

1:19:13 > 1:19:15You sure you're going to be OK at your shop?

1:19:17 > 1:19:18I said I would, didn't I?

1:19:27 > 1:19:31I think Silver Melville was right to chop her husband's head off.

1:19:32 > 1:19:34He probably deserved it.

1:19:44 > 1:19:47I think more women should do what she did.

1:19:50 > 1:19:53Maybe some should have done it to their own brother...

1:19:58 > 1:19:59..my father.

1:20:02 > 1:20:05Cousin Nolan dropped by last night.

1:20:37 > 1:20:41I always thought if anyone knew, I'd be turned to stone.

1:20:43 > 1:20:44Shit!

1:21:00 > 1:21:01Here.

1:21:05 > 1:21:07Tea's a good drink.

1:21:07 > 1:21:09It'll keep you going.

1:21:18 > 1:21:20When someone hurts you that much...

1:21:22 > 1:21:24..how do you...?

1:21:26 > 1:21:28Does it ever go away?

1:21:31 > 1:21:33Is it possible?

1:22:05 > 1:22:07Her name was Irene.

1:22:08 > 1:22:10The love of my life.

1:22:19 > 1:22:21You look happy.

1:22:24 > 1:22:27So, yeah, it is possible.

1:22:33 > 1:22:36Agnis tells me we got to move for the winter.

1:22:36 > 1:22:38It'll be a three-hour drive from here. All the ice...

1:22:38 > 1:22:42Me and Bunny, we'll have to find a room in town somewhere.

1:22:42 > 1:22:45I'll have the usual, please, Annie. Thank you.

1:22:49 > 1:22:53Well, if it's a place to stay you need,

1:22:53 > 1:22:55you can have my trailer.

1:22:55 > 1:22:56Timing's perfect.

1:22:56 > 1:22:58What are you talking about?

1:22:58 > 1:22:59My boat's ready.

1:22:59 > 1:23:01If I stay here any longer,

1:23:01 > 1:23:02I might begin to like the place.

1:23:02 > 1:23:06I'm throwing myself a farewell party on Saturday.

1:23:06 > 1:23:08Departure to follow Sunday.

1:23:08 > 1:23:10The rootless traitor.

1:23:10 > 1:23:12Regrets soon after, no doubt.

1:23:17 > 1:23:20BOISTEROUS DIN

1:23:24 > 1:23:25BOTTLES BREAK

1:23:25 > 1:23:27Quoyle of the north!

1:23:29 > 1:23:32Quoyle of the north.

1:23:32 > 1:23:34Have you and Wavey done the dirty yet?

1:23:35 > 1:23:38Shh! she's a grieving widow.

1:23:40 > 1:23:43Grieving for Herold Prowse. Oh, that's a good one.

1:23:44 > 1:23:47Let me tell you something about old Herold Prowse.

1:23:47 > 1:23:49It's like a party game in town -

1:23:49 > 1:23:53to look at babies and see if they look like Herold.

1:23:56 > 1:23:57Hey...

1:24:01 > 1:24:03To Nutbeem!

1:24:03 > 1:24:05ALL: To Nutbeem!

1:24:05 > 1:24:09We all loves our fucking Nutbeem, huh?!

1:24:09 > 1:24:10ALL CHEER

1:24:10 > 1:24:12Lets us keep him here then!

1:24:12 > 1:24:14ALL CHEER

1:24:14 > 1:24:17Got your chainsaw, Neddie?

1:24:21 > 1:24:22CHAINSAW BUZZES

1:24:49 > 1:24:51NOISE ECHOES

1:24:51 > 1:24:53WOMAN SCREAMS

1:24:54 > 1:24:56GLASS BREAKS

1:25:01 > 1:25:04HE GRUNTS

1:25:17 > 1:25:20ACCORDION PLAYS IN DISTANCE

1:25:20 > 1:25:23ACCORDION GROWS LOUDER

1:25:36 > 1:25:38POUNDS ON WINDOW

1:25:45 > 1:25:47What's wrong?

1:25:47 > 1:25:49SLURRING: I'm a Quoyle.

1:25:50 > 1:25:52I'm one of the Quoyles.

1:25:53 > 1:25:55Pirates and looters and murderers.

1:25:57 > 1:25:59My father raped his little sister...

1:26:00 > 1:26:02and then he taught me how to swim.

1:26:04 > 1:26:06Stop that.

1:26:06 > 1:26:09Jesus, you smell like a brewery.

1:26:09 > 1:26:10Stop it.

1:26:12 > 1:26:14Go on, Herry. Go on.

1:26:14 > 1:26:16QUOYLE WHIMPERS

1:26:16 > 1:26:18Stop it!

1:26:22 > 1:26:24Herry.

1:26:26 > 1:26:28Sorry, Herry.

1:26:30 > 1:26:32QUOYLE SOBS

1:26:33 > 1:26:36I'm sorry, Petal.

1:26:36 > 1:26:38I'm so sorry.

1:26:41 > 1:26:43I meant Wavey.

1:26:44 > 1:26:47Good. I feel much better.

1:26:48 > 1:26:52When were you going to tell me about your fucked-up marriage?

1:27:31 > 1:27:34I'm scrambling eggs. Are you able to eat?

1:27:34 > 1:27:36No.

1:27:40 > 1:27:41Listen, I'm...

1:27:48 > 1:27:50Maybe I should just go.

1:27:54 > 1:27:57You forget where the door is?

1:28:11 > 1:28:13DOOR CLOSES

1:28:18 > 1:28:22He ran off to Winnipeg with some bitch barely out of high school.

1:28:22 > 1:28:24Is that fucked up enough for you?

1:28:25 > 1:28:27Herold...

1:28:27 > 1:28:30My husband, he didn't die.

1:28:30 > 1:28:32Not that he didn't deserve to.

1:28:32 > 1:28:35He left me when I was eight months pregnant, no good to him in bed.

1:28:35 > 1:28:39So I took his 15-footer out into the bay,

1:28:39 > 1:28:42cracked the hull with a hatchet and sunk her...

1:28:42 > 1:28:45and pretended he was drowned.

1:28:45 > 1:28:48And played the grieving widow.

1:28:48 > 1:28:50And packed my bags to leave town.

1:28:50 > 1:28:52But then a funny thing happened.

1:28:52 > 1:28:54All these folk I grew up with,

1:28:54 > 1:28:58they put their hearts around me and Herry, so we wouldn't be alone.

1:28:59 > 1:29:01And I just couldn't leave.

1:29:01 > 1:29:04I'm sorry, Wavey.

1:29:04 > 1:29:06You're always sorry.

1:29:38 > 1:29:40FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

1:29:45 > 1:29:47You're looking dishy, Quoyle.

1:29:49 > 1:29:52I'm afraid my offer to let you stay in my trailer

1:29:52 > 1:29:54will have to be retracted.

1:29:59 > 1:30:00Sorry about that.

1:30:02 > 1:30:03And your boat.

1:30:03 > 1:30:08I'm some disgusted with the human race.

1:30:08 > 1:30:11I never would have made it anyway.

1:30:11 > 1:30:14Storms would have blown me to bits.

1:30:14 > 1:30:17You boys saved my life, I imagine.

1:30:18 > 1:30:21I've gathered up my savings and I'm flying back to Brazil...

1:30:22 > 1:30:26..where the water is swimming-pool green.

1:30:29 > 1:30:31You and Bunny can stay with the wife and me.

1:30:34 > 1:30:36To Brazil.

1:30:38 > 1:30:39Brazil.

1:30:39 > 1:30:42- Brazil.- Brazil.

1:30:45 > 1:30:48We can stay with Aunt Agnis over at her shop.

1:30:48 > 1:30:50Barely enough room there for myself.

1:30:50 > 1:30:52You'll like it at Dennis' house, sweetie.

1:30:52 > 1:30:54No, I won't.

1:30:54 > 1:30:56Hi, Quoyle. Hi, Bunny.

1:30:56 > 1:30:58- Welcome, weary travellers. - Our home's your home.

1:30:58 > 1:30:59- No, it's not.- Come on in.

1:30:59 > 1:31:02Come on in, sweetie. I made a big seal-flipper pie.

1:31:03 > 1:31:05What's that?

1:31:05 > 1:31:07- Weather light.- Storm coming.

1:31:07 > 1:31:08Big one.

1:31:08 > 1:31:11DISTANT THUNDER RUMBLES

1:31:18 > 1:31:21THUNDER RUMBLES

1:31:45 > 1:31:48The house... The house...

1:31:49 > 1:31:51House...

1:31:58 > 1:31:59GASPS

1:31:59 > 1:32:01PANTS

1:32:27 > 1:32:29SHE READS SOFTLY

1:32:29 > 1:32:31THUNDER RUMBLES

1:33:04 > 1:33:07I...

1:33:08 > 1:33:10What is it, Quoyle?

1:33:10 > 1:33:12What?

1:33:16 > 1:33:18THUNDER CRASHES

1:33:26 > 1:33:29DOOR CREAKS OPEN

1:33:33 > 1:33:35DOOR CLOSES

1:33:43 > 1:33:46THUNDER CRASHES

1:34:05 > 1:34:07DRUMS BEAT

1:35:22 > 1:35:24It's gone.

1:35:25 > 1:35:26What?

1:35:26 > 1:35:28The green house is gone.

1:35:33 > 1:35:34I didn't dream it.

1:35:35 > 1:35:38Don't say I did.

1:35:40 > 1:35:42PHONE RINGS

1:35:44 > 1:35:45Yeah?

1:35:45 > 1:35:48Oh, hi, Mum. Some storm, eh?

1:35:49 > 1:35:51What?

1:35:57 > 1:35:58Oh.

1:36:00 > 1:36:03Yes. Yes, of course.

1:36:23 > 1:36:25What's a wake?

1:36:25 > 1:36:28It's to say goodbye.

1:36:28 > 1:36:31Mr Buggit is sleeping with the angels.

1:36:35 > 1:36:37He was a hard man, but he was fair.

1:36:37 > 1:36:40Another one for the Buggit curse.

1:36:40 > 1:36:41Dennis.

1:36:41 > 1:36:43Yeah, I'm still looking for my Dad's Navy medal.

1:36:43 > 1:36:44I found it.

1:36:44 > 1:36:46Don't you worry.

1:36:46 > 1:36:49It's going to be all right.

1:36:49 > 1:36:50Thank you.

1:36:50 > 1:36:52Mom.

1:36:53 > 1:36:54What?

1:36:54 > 1:36:56Oh, good...

1:36:56 > 1:36:58I found it... in his desk at the office.

1:37:00 > 1:37:03Would you write something for the Gammy Bird about Jack?

1:37:03 > 1:37:06Yes, I'll try.

1:37:10 > 1:37:13Jack is... Jack is all right now.

1:37:15 > 1:37:19You all know... we are only passing by.

1:37:19 > 1:37:22We walk over these stones a few times.

1:37:24 > 1:37:25Our boats...

1:37:25 > 1:37:28sail for a little while on the waves

1:37:28 > 1:37:30and then they have to sink.

1:37:30 > 1:37:33Jack knew that better than anyone.

1:37:33 > 1:37:35Right, Jack?

1:37:35 > 1:37:36(Yes, boy.)

1:37:43 > 1:37:46SCREAMING

1:37:57 > 1:37:58He's awake!

1:38:01 > 1:38:03- Jack...- Get a doctor!

1:38:03 > 1:38:07Oh, Jack... Oh, Jack...

1:38:07 > 1:38:09JACK COUGHS

1:38:11 > 1:38:13No, no...

1:38:13 > 1:38:16Come here, son. I beat the curse.

1:38:16 > 1:38:18The fishing licence is yours.

1:38:27 > 1:38:30Sweetheart, you ready?

1:38:30 > 1:38:32I want to have a wake for Petal.

1:38:32 > 1:38:35Why didn't we have a wake?

1:38:35 > 1:38:37Why didn't we wake her up?

1:38:37 > 1:38:39It worked for him.

1:38:41 > 1:38:44Honey, Mr Buggit wasn't really...

1:38:44 > 1:38:46It's more like he was in a coma...

1:38:46 > 1:38:47from the cold water.

1:38:47 > 1:38:49It's like he was sleeping.

1:38:49 > 1:38:51- Petal was asleep. - No, honey...

1:38:51 > 1:38:54You said she was asleep with the angels!

1:38:54 > 1:38:56- I know what I said, honey. - You said! You said!

1:38:56 > 1:38:57- I know...- You said! you said!

1:38:57 > 1:39:00- Honey, honey, listen to me. I know. - You said!

1:39:00 > 1:39:02Listen to me. Listen to me.

1:39:02 > 1:39:06I just... I was too scared to tell you the truth.

1:39:08 > 1:39:09Petal is dead.

1:39:13 > 1:39:15And you know that.

1:39:15 > 1:39:17I know you know it.

1:39:22 > 1:39:23It's OK.

1:39:24 > 1:39:27Is it because of me?

1:39:28 > 1:39:30What?

1:39:30 > 1:39:32That she drove away.

1:39:32 > 1:39:34Well, why would you say that?

1:39:35 > 1:39:37Because...

1:39:37 > 1:39:39Because I'm boring.

1:39:44 > 1:39:46BUNNY SOBS

1:39:46 > 1:39:52Oh... No, honey, it's not because of you.

1:39:55 > 1:39:57And you are anything but boring.

1:39:58 > 1:40:00Come here.

1:40:00 > 1:40:02You just come here.

1:40:04 > 1:40:06Hon...

1:40:08 > 1:40:10You believe me, don't you?

1:40:13 > 1:40:17You still don't believe ME, do you?

1:40:17 > 1:40:20About the house?

1:40:25 > 1:40:27I told you so.

1:40:40 > 1:40:41It's all right.

1:40:41 > 1:40:43Worse things have happened.

1:40:43 > 1:40:45To both of us.

1:40:47 > 1:40:50Maybe one day we'll build a summerhouse out here.

1:40:51 > 1:40:53Summer...

1:40:53 > 1:40:56Do they have summer here?

1:40:56 > 1:41:00Oh, you'll know it's summer when the partridge berries are out.

1:41:00 > 1:41:04And we can make partridge berry duff and sweet berry okie.

1:41:04 > 1:41:07Will you show me how?

1:41:08 > 1:41:09I will, yeah.

1:41:09 > 1:41:11I will.

1:41:11 > 1:41:15'There are still so many things I don't know.

1:41:15 > 1:41:19'If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind

1:41:19 > 1:41:22'and if a drowned man can awaken...'

1:41:24 > 1:41:27'..then I believe a broken man can heal.'

1:41:34 > 1:41:38Headline - Deadly Storm Takes House...

1:41:40 > 1:41:42..Leaves...

1:41:42 > 1:41:44Excellent view.

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