THE BLUE LAGOON

WRITTEN BY DOUGLAS DAY STEWART

BASED ON THE NOVEL BY H.D. STACPOOLE

TRANSCRIBED BY KENDRA STEINER

Used without permission. This transcript was created solely for the

personal enjoyment of the reader. No money was made in the process.

(Note: Large portions of this movie consist of scenes and music with few or no words. These are sometimes called Musical Montages, although I believe this to be incorrect. Whenever there are many short shots (3-5 seconds long), they will be indicated as part of a musical montage, and displayed within parentheses. Any series of longer shots will be left as-is. I have done my best to include the beauty of the scenes while still conserving space. Not all musical montages will be labeled as such.)

Opening sequence: a watercolor painting of Boston, circa 1880-1890, followed by miscellaneous shots of a ship, the Northumberland, sailing on the sea.

[[[Richard and Emmeline Lestrange are two eight-or-nine-year-old cousins on a ship bound for San Francisco with Arthur Lestrange, Richard’s father (Emmeline’s uncle). They are sitting on the bowsprit of the ship.]]]

EMMELINE: Richard, don’t go out too far!

RICHARD: Em’s a fraidy cat!!

[[[Arthur Lestrange sees them and hurries over. They come down of the bowsprit.]]]

ARTHUR: Richard! Emmeline! Come back here, this minute, and be careful. What’s gotten into you Richard? Bad enough to endanger yourself, but to encourage Emmeline?

RICHARD: I’m sorry father.

ARTHUR: I know you want to have fun. All I’m trying to do is getting us all to San Francisco in one piece.

RICHARD: Will mommy be coming to San ‘Forisco’?

ARTHUR: I don’t believe so, Richard.

EMMELINE: I told you. Once they go to heaven they don’t come back. Isn’t that right uncle Arthur? My mommy and daddy haven’t come back.

ARTHUR: Because God wants them to stay, to do his work, and wait for the day when you will take the long voyage to see them.

EMMELINE: When will that be?

ARTHUR: When you’ve lived a full life, and experienced all that it has to offer.

[[[A splash. Emmeline giggles, as all three look over the side of the boat.]]]

RICHARD: Look. Father what are they called?

ARTHUR: Sharks.

RICHARD: I wish I had a hook and I’d pull ‘em aboard and the cook would fry ‘em for dinner.

[[[The cook tosses the contents of a barrel over the side of the boat, making the sharks splash. He turns and heads back to the galley, pausing to look at the children, who stare back at him. He goes inside. The children and Arthur stare off the side of the starboard side of the boat at a thick fog bank. Arthur walks into the captain’s quarters.]]]

ARTHUR: Captain, do you know there’s a fog bank coming in?

CAPTAIN: I am aware of that fact, sir.

ARTHUR: I overheard one of the men say those storms rounding the cape pushed us far west of our course.

CAPTAIN: That’s right sir. Last night’s celestial puts us about… here.

[[[Emmeline peeks into the galley. The cook is gutting a bird. She turns right and looks through another open doorway. Richard is inside the room, removing something from the drawer. He shows them to Emmeline. They’re pictures of naked women.]]]

EMMELINE: Richard what are you looking at? [gasp] They don’t have any clothes on!

[[[The cook comes into his room to find the children there.]]]

THE COOK: What the hell are you two doin’ here? I’ll teach you bucko! Come here!

[[[He picks Richard up and begins to spank him.]]]

EMMELINE: Don’t you dare hurt him!

[[[She bites his hand. He drops Richard and picks her up.]]]

THE COOK: Hey! You want a hidin’ too, do ya?

CREWMAN (OFF SCREEN): Fire!

CREWMAN (OFF SCREEN): Fire?

CREWMAN (OFF SCREEN): Ah! Ah! Fire! Fire!

THE COOK: Did somebody say fire?

[[[Out on deck, the captain is pulling on his jacket and barking orders at the crew.]]]

CAPTAIN: Man the pumps! Man the pumps!

THE COOK: Hurry

CAPTAIN [to the cook]: Button! Take the children and Mr. Lestrange well away from the ship!

PADDY: Aye. Aye sir. Come on.

CREWMAN: More water! More water!

CAPTAIN: Mr. Lestrange!

CREWMAN: Theres blasting powder in that hold, I saw them load it!

CREWMAN: Run for your life!

CREWMAN: Keep moving!

CREWMAN: All hands on deck! Get out here!

[[[The crew are pushing and shoving. Richard is separated from the cook, Mr. Button, and is shoved to the deck by a wild-eyed sailor. Richard looks around in fear as the men push and shove, desperately trying to save their own lives.]]]

THE COOK [BUTTON]: Come on will ya!

[[[He picks Richard up and brings him over to the dinghy. He lifts Emmeline in and then Richard.]]]

THE COOK: Now, up ya go. Come on now.

EMMELINE: Uncle Arthur!

ARTHUR: Richard! Emmeline!

CAPTAIN: Come on, Lestrange!

ARTHUR: The children!

CAPTAIN: Ah, they’re safe in the dinghy. Follow me.

ARTHUR: Aye sir.

CREWMAN: There’s no more room!

CREWMAN: Lower away!

CREWMAN: Abandon ship!

CREWMAN: Well, that does it!

[[[Richard, Emmeline, and the cook are in the dinghy, rowing away from the ship, towards the fog bank. They enter the outskirts of the fog bank and then stop.]]]

RICHARD: What’s happening? I can’t see. What was that?

THE COOK: The ship! Cover your faces!

ARTHUR: Richard? Emmeline?!

EMMELINE: Uncle Arthur!

CAPTAIN: There they are!

ARTHUR: Where?

CREWMAN: Captain over here!

ARTHUR: [dimly] Richard !

THE COOK: Hello! Hello!

ARTHUR: [dimly] Emmeline!

RICHARD: Father!

THE COOK: Don’t go shouting both at once, I wont know which way to steer! Long boat ahoy, where are ya? Haaalloooo!!!

RICHARD: Father!

PADDY: Gone. Lord help us.

[[[Richard puts an arm around Emmeline as they drift. The next morning, things from the ship are drifting in the ocean, including the figurehead, part of a Boston newspaper, a barrel, a basket, and a trunk. The trunk bumps into the dinghy, waking up the cook, who ties it to the boat, opens it, and begins to rummage for food.]]]

THE COOK: What’s this?

[[[Richard wakes up, followed shortly by Emmeline. The cook puts a box on the seat next to him. Emmeline wakes up and opens it.]]]

RICHARD: Where’s Father? What’s your name?

THE COOK: Paddy Button, now belay your question, can’t ya see I’m busy? Dammit. No food, no water.

EMMELINE: That’s Chopin. I can play it on the piano.

RICHARD: Mr. Button, can I ask you a question? Are you a pirate?

[[[Paddy looks at him levelly and scoops tobacco into his mouth.]]]

[[[Later that evening, Richard is wearing a top-hat and looking through a stereo-optic viewer at pictures.]]]

EMMELINE: I’m thirsty.

RICHARD: Me too.

[[[Paddy points at the setting sun to distract them.]]]

PADDY: Listen. You’ll hear it hiss when it touches the water. Hear it?

RICHARD: I think so.

EMMELINE: I don’t hear anything.

PADDY: Well listen harder. It must be fairly boilin’ by now.

RICHARD: I hear it! Don’t ya hear in now, Em?

EMMELINE: I think so. Yes, I hear it!

[[[They drift through the day, a night, and another day. The next morning, Emmeline wakes up first.]]]

EMMELINE: I smell flowers.

PADDY: Flowers…

EMMELINE: Mr. Button, Richard, look!

PADDY: Huh?

[[[Paddy and Richard sit up and find themselves looking at a smallish tropical island, complete with a coral reef, white sands, palm trees, and a Blue Lagoon.]]]

PADDY: It’s land! Land, ho! We’re saved, I would never have believed it!

[[[Paddy hoists the small sail.]]]

RICHARD: Wow, look!

[[[He and Emmeline giggle and drag their fingers through the water as they sail towards the island. Fish flit about, crabs dance, birds cluck, lizards scuttle, and the whole island seems to greet them. They land on shore, and Paddy gets out first.]]]

EMMELINE: Where are we?

PADDY: Nirvana, that’s where we are. No more yessir, no sir for Paddy Button. No more breaking me back over a stinkin’ stove.

RICHARD: Will father be coming to fetch us?

PADDY: Come on, let’s look around!

[[[The children come on shore and they begin to explore. Emmeline giggles as they come into a grove. Paddy puts his hand out to stop them.]]]

PADDY: Shhh Listen. [pause] Come on!

[[[They continue on, and come upon a waterfall, with a pool beneath it.]]]

PADDY: I knew it! Oh! Oh, it’s lovely! Oh water, water.

[[[He climbs up, grunting. Richard jumps into the pool and swims around. Emmeline steps over the pool and sits down by a barrel.]]]

PADDY: Ho down there, look out below! Bananas!

[[[He tosses a bunch of bananas down the falls, and then slides down with a mango for himself.]]]

RICHARD: Yeah!

PADDY: Hey hey! Ho ho ho!

[[[Richard gets out of the pool and scrambles up the hill to a cave. He picks up something small and turns back.]]]

EMMELINE: Mr. Button, there’s a barrel over here with funny stuff in it, that smells like the captain’s breath.

[[[He swims over and takes a taste of the contents from the stop.]]]

PADDY: Captains breath… It’s rum! Sweet Jesus.

RICHARD: Woo hoo! Look what a funny thing I found! It’s got holes in it!

[[[He is holding a small, moss-covered skull. Paddy takes it from him.]]]

PADDY: Ach! Give me that! Where did you get it? Ach!

[[[He tosses it away and gets out of the pool.]]]

RICHARD: What was it?

PADDY: Ah! We’ve gotta get out of here.

RICHARD: There’s a whole bunch of them up there.

PADDY: Come on, lets get out of here. Hurry it up, will ya!

[[[They climb up to the top of the island. Richard and Paddy shield their eyes with their hands as they look around at the vast, empty ocean. Emmeline explores the plant life, pausing to examine and pick several red berries, which she doesn’t know are poisonous.]]]

RICHARD: I don’t see Father’s boat.

PADDY: No, not yet. Maybe he’ll be along later. Maybe not.

[[[He turns in time to see Emmeline put a berry in her mouth. He jumps down to her in alarm and scoops out her mouth.]]]

PADDY: Emmeline! Take them things out of your mouth! Come on, open your mouth, open your mouth, take ‘em out of your mouth, spit em out, go on! Well don’t cry, I aint mad at ya. You eat them berries you’ll go to sleep you’ll never wake up again. They’re never-wake-up berries, do you see? Well just leave them berries alone. Come on.

[[[He takes their hands and leads them away.]]]

[[[Later that night, they sit on the beach around a fire.]]]

EMMELINE: We had a cat that went to sleep, and never woke up. Mr. Button, do you think she ate some of those berries?

PADDY: I dunno, maybe.

RICHARD: Father said she was dead ‘n buried. What’s it really mean, Paddy? Dud ‘n buried.

PADDY: It means that they put you in the ground, and they cover you up, and then you’re dead and buried, d’ya see?

RICHARD: Like Mrs. Jones’ baby, remember Em?

EMMELINE: The doctor dug it out of the cabbage patch.

PADDY: Cabbage patch...

RICHARD: That’s right, but he took it back and planted it again.

EMMELINE: So it could grow, and turn into an angel.

RICHARD: I got a trowel and dug our cabbage patch all up, but there weren’t any babies or any angels. Only worms.

[[[Daytime. Richard sits on a log looking at pictures through the viewer. Emmeline sits a few feet away listening to the music box.]]]

PADDY: What’s in them pictures Richard?

RICHARD: It’s a story about these funny people who get married. There’s a saying under each one.

PADDY: Give us a look.

[[[Richard loads up the viewer and hands it over. Paddy looks through it.]]]

RICHARD: Were you ever married?

PADDY: Seven times. Kids in every port from Callao to Macao. Seventeen at the last count, and never set eyes on a single one of em. Slant-eyed little devils, black little devils, even a couple of pink ones like you. And all with my eyes.

[[[He hands back the viewer and Richard looks through it.]]]

RICHARD: Paddy, what’s subjugation?

PADDY: Something I’ve been trying to avoid all me life.

[[[Paddy chases Richard and Emmeline down the beach.]]]

PADDY: Come back here, this aint gonna hurt ya!

RICHARD: We don’t wanna go swimming! We don’t have our bathing costumes.

PADDY: To hell with your bathing costumes, you don’t wear ‘em when you have a bath, do ya?

EMMELINE: This isn’t a bathtub! This is the ocean!

[[[A musical montage.]]]

(leaves) (stick bugs) (playing ball) (swimming) (fishing) (cleaning fish) (signal fires)

(PADDY: When you see a ship you run down quick and you light the signal fire. Do you hear me?)

(crab) (tree) (knot talk)

(PADDY: Pull it tight, and there’s your knot. Do it.)

(wind ruining the camp) (notch talk) (singing and weaving) (putting up house walls)

(PADDY: There ya are, put it there ship mate)

(calendar) (toy boat)

(PADDY: Where’d you find that thing?

RICHARD: I didn’t find it, I made it with the notch you taught me.

PADDY: You made it. Well! Pity it’s not a bit bigger, though)

(swimming)

(RICHARD: Lets go swimming!

EMMELINE: Yeah!)

(fish) (shells) (Emmeline taking of the shirt) (coral) (starfish)

(PADDY: Come back here and put your clothes on!

RICHARD: I don’t wanna wear my old britches!

PADDY: It aint proper to be runnin’ ‘round naked all the time.)

[[[End Montage. At night, there is a drum beat. Paddy stumbles out of the hut to investigate, but it stops, so he goes back to bed. Underwater, an octopus chases and catches a crab.]]]

[[[Paddy is wandering through the forest alone, with a bunch of bananas. He comes upon a clearing, stops, and then runs for his life in the other direction. There is a large stone head with an alter beneath it. On the alter lies the remains of a cannibalistic feast, the spine and part of the neck of a human being.]]]

[[[That evening, Paddy is sitting by the fire, melancholy. Richard and Emmeline are all dressed up with clothes from the trunk, and acting out a scene from a picture.]]]

RICHARD: Alone at last!

EMMELINE: Aw.

PADDY: Richard. Emmeline. I want you both to promise me something. I want you both to promise me that you will never, ever go over to the other side of the island.

RICHARD: [distracted] Why, Paddy?

[[[Paddy jumps up and takes the picture viewer away to make them pay attention.]]]

PADDY: Why because I tell you that’s why! There’s nasty things that go on over there, see. Vile, evil, sinister things!

RICHARD: Like what?

EMMELINE: Yes, Mr. Button. Like what?

PADDY: Well for a start that’s where the boogey man lives.

RICHARD: Boogey man?

PADDY: That’s right and you know what happens when the boogey man gets his hands on little people like yourselves? Hmm? Why he just eats ‘em. He pops ‘em into his mouth like candy and he chews ‘em up, and he swallows ‘em, bones and all! Do you know what law is? Well from now on that’s the law see. No one goes over to the other side.

[[[A rainy day. Richard and Emmeline sit inside the hut. Emmeline is wearing britches, a vest, and a top-hat. Richard is wearing a dress and a shawl. His knees are drawn up to look like breasts.]]]

EMMELINE: You look funny.

PADDY: Hey there, children, where are ya?

[[[Paddy runs into the hut and stops, confused for a moment.]]]

RICHARD: Ha ha look at me!

[[[Paddy grabs the feather-boa from around Richard’s neck and quickly puts it around his own, mocking Richard.]]]

PADDY: Ha ha look at me.

[[[Richard and Emmeline giggle, and Paddy begins to laugh.]]]

[[[Nighttime. Paddy is drunk. He crawls out of the hut dressed up like a girl and begins to do a sort of hula dance around the fire, much to the children’s amusement.]]]

PADDY: La de de da uh ya de de de dup da da da dum de da da le da dee oy ah!

[[[He falls over, then sits up.]]]

EMMELINE: You’re silly when you drink out of that barrel.

PADDY: Hush. This is a serious dance.

RICHARD: Sing the one about the hootchie-cootchie girls!

PADDY: Come on! Are ya ready?

[[[They stand and begin to do a can-can dance to the song.]]]

PADDY: Have ya seen the way they shake it, have ya seen the way they sway? There aint a man among us, could throw that dish a way hey! I’ve been to London, I’ve been to France. I swear by the buttons upon me pants, I never saw a woman daaaaance… Like the hoochy-coochy girls of old Bombay.

PADDY: Ha.

[[[He falls down, unconscious. Richard and Emmeline sigh and go to bed.]]]

[[[Early the next morning, Paddy has woken up. He is still terribly drunk, and he tosses the rum barrel into the water and holds on, swimming across the lagoon to another, much smaller island. He is still singing the hootchie-cootchie girl song, albeit rather brokenly for the effort of swimming.]]]

PADDY: You know that you’re a gonner if you look ‘em in the eye. Oh I’ve been to London, I’ve been to France, I never saw a woman dance… I never saw a woman dance…

[[[The next morning, Emmeline and Richard wake up to find Paddy gone. Richard grabs the small telescope.]]]

RICHARD: Where’s Paddy?

EMMELINE: He’s gone!

[[[He looks through the telescope at the other island, and sees Paddy asleep on the shore.]]]

RICHARD: There he is! He must of swum over there and gone to sleep. Come on.

[[[He and Emmeline get into the dinghy and row for the other island. Emmeline is making a flower necklace.]]]

RICHARD: What are you doing that for?

EMMELINE: I’m going to put it on Mr. Button’s head, so when you say boo into his ear, he’ll jump up with it on.

RICHARD: Sss!

EMMELINE: He he he!

[[[They reach the shore of the other island and climb out of the boat. Emmeline puts the necklace on Paddy’s head.]]]

RICHARD: Paddy, wake up, it’s us.

EMMELINE: Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

[[[They turn him over by the wrist. His face is blank, covered in sand. His eyes are partway open and dry, and his lower jaw is slack. A crab crawls out of his mouth. He is dead. Emmeline faints. Richard catches her, puts her in the boat, and rows back.]]]

[[[Later that night, they sit in the hut, lit only by a small lamp. Richard puts his hand on her knee to comfort her. She is sniffling.]]]

RICHARD: Don’t worry, Em. We’ll be alright.

EMMELINE: Take me away from this place, Richard.

[[[The next day, the dinghy is laden with clothes, the trunk, the little boat Richard made, some fruit, and Emmeline, who is wearing her nice dress, as opposed to just her underclothes. Richard comes running up in his britches, with a bunch of bananas. He puts them in the boat, gets in, and they take off, rowing around the island. He stops when they see a beautiful white-sand beach. There are palm trees and bushes. A dolphin pops out of the water as if to greet them.]]]

RICHARD: Look!

[[[They look around in wonder at the paradise they’ve come too, amazed to find it on the same island they were on before.]]]

RICHARD: This looks like a good place to stay for awhile.

[[[Musical montage: “Growing Up.”]]]

(Roasting fish and breadfruit) (getting fish and breadfruit from fire) (swimming) (opening shells) (making hut roof) (painting shells) (learning abc’s) (cutting hair) (getting cloth from box) (swimming with turtle) (swimming together silhouettes of grownup Richard and em swimming) (playing tag underwater) (popping out of water) (getting fruit) (making spear) (fixing cloth) (getting papayas) (making flute) (fixing hut wall) (fixing roof) (making more roof from palm fronds) (tying it down) (looking at pictures in the viewer) (swimming for shells) (Emmeline’s face underwater at age fifteen: she is beautiful!) (Richard getting pearls from oysters) (open oyster shell) (getting shell) (swimming to surface)

[[[End montage.]]]

[[[Richard and Emmeline have grown up beautifully. They are both tall, strong, tanned and lean. Richard walks over to a pole and picks up his loincloth. He puts a shell on the pole, and puts his loincloth on, then heads for the hut. He goes to Emmeline’s “room” and wakes her up.]]]

RICHARD: Em! Em, wake up, it’s Christmas morning.

EMMELINE: [sleepy] Christmas?

RICHARD: Yesterday I counted 52 big marks on the tree, and last night he came.

EMMELINE: What are you talking about, Richard?

RICHARD: Santa Claus, and I saw his reindeer. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, all of them right down there on the beach. Come on, lets see if he brought us anything.

[[[Emmeline gets up and they go out of the hut and towards the tree where they’ve hung their stockings. Richard points to “hoof-prints” in the sand]]]

RICHARD: Come on, ‘Em, hurry! That’s where the reindeer were, see. Look at our stockings

EMMELINE: And there’s something in them!

[[[They get their stockings from the tree and sit in the sand beneath a palm-tree. They pour the contents of their stockings out. It’s pearls.]]]

RICHARD: Oh, look, just what I always wanted.

EMMELINE: What are they?

RICHARD: What do they look like? They’re marbles. See, these are your Japsers, and these are your peewees.

[[[Emmeline looks at him, suspicious of his knowledge. Then she gets it.]]]

EMMELINE: You did it all! But…

[[[She points at the deer-tracks in the sand. Richard chuckles and picks up a pair of home-made stilts with bags of sand at the bottom. He stands on them.]]]

RICHARD: Fooled ya, didn’t I?

EMMELINE: Oh you!

[[[She pushes him over and he falls in the sand. They both laugh a little.]]]

RICHARD: Oh!

EMMELINE: Heh heh heh.

RICHARD: Why are we always fighting so much.

EMMELINE: I don’t know.

RICHARD: That should be our new years ‘revolution’. Stop fighting so much.

EMMELINE: I’ll try, but…

RICHARD: But what?

EMMELINE: I don’t know what’s wrong with me when I say the things I say. I just keep on having all these strange thoughts .

RICHARD: What kind of thoughts?

EMMELINE: Just thoughts. Funny thoughts, about you and me.

RICHARD: Tell me.

EMMELINE: I couldn’t. They’re just thoughts; they don’t mean anything. Where did you find these?

RICHARD: I found them in those little shells.

EMMELINE: Oh, they’re beautiful, thank-you.

[[[She leans over and gives him a quick peck on the lips, then pulls back, startled. He looks at her calmly and happily. She looks back shyly.]]]

[[[At night, both Richard and Emmeline are dressed up for Christmas, in the clothes from the trunk. They hold cups of some drink or another, and sit in front of a make-shift Christmas tree, attempting to remember the words to Christmas songs.]]]

BOTH: Oh come all ye faithfull, la la…

BOTH: Oh little town of Bethlehem… la la la… la…

BOTH: Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh. All the--

EMMELINE: Ha ha ha ha ha!

[[[They clink their cups together.]]]

[[[Richard is spear-fishing from the dinghy. Emmeline chases a butterfly through the forest. She goes swimming in a cave. Richard pulls his boat up on the shore outside the cave. Emmeline stops and looks sacredly into the water. It’s full of blood. She puts her hands in the water and pulls them out to be sure, and then cries out.]]]

EMMELINE: Richard! Help! Help! Help, Richard, help!

[[[Richard runs up to the edge of a cliff and looks down on Emmeline in the pool. It takes him a moment to see the blood.]]]

RICHARD: What’s wrong? You’re bleeding!

[[[She looks down and realizes that the blood is coming from between her legs.]]]

EMMELINE: Don’t, I’m alright!

RICHARD: But you’re bleeding!

EMMELINE: Go away! Don’t look at me! Go away, just… Go away!

[[[She throws a stick at him, so he leaves. She huddles down in the water, ashamed.]]]

[[[Later, she sits by a fire, throwing twigs into it. Richard approaches.]]]

RICHARD: What was it, Em. Why were you bleeding like that?

EMMELINE: I don’t know.

RICHARD: Liar!

EMMELINE: Its true! I don’t know.

RICHARD: Em, people don’t bleed like that unless they’ve cut themselves. Maybe you’re hurt real bad and you just don’t know it. Let me look.

EMMELINE: No, I don’t want you to look.

RICHARD: But why?

EMMELINE: Just because.

RICHARD: That is not fair! I don’t keep any secrets from you! I tell you everything! Everything!

[[[Richard is spear-fishing on the reef. Emmeline sits nearby holding a baby starfish. She puts it back in the water.]]]

[[[Richard is working on a raft, which has some wood set down as a bottom, as well as a sail. He starts to tie another piece of wood to the sail. Emmeline is staring at his chest. He looks up and notices.]]]

RICHARD: What are you looking at?

EMMELINE: Your muscles.

RICHARD: What about them? You’re really acting silly lately, Em. Always saying dumb things like that, always looking at me funny. Your not coming down with something are you? Don’t give it to me.

[[[Richard is fishing in the dinghy with a line and hook. He gets a bite, and starts to pull the fish in. A shark approaches. He pulls faster and harder. The shark bites the fish and takes it away. Richard tries to salvage what’s left of the fish and the hook, and ends up scraping up his hands in the process. He gets the line back, but the fish is gone.]]]

[[[Waves crash onto the shore. Richard stands at the hut, his arms above his head, and watches. Then he looks down.]]]

[[[Evening. Richard and Emmeline sit on a large rock watching the sunset.]]]

RICHARD: Tell me again, where’s your mother and father?

EMMELINE: In heaven.

RICHARD: But where’s heaven?

EMMELINE: You know, up there. Your father might be there too.

RICHARD: Oh, no. He’s coming on a ship someday to take us home.

[[[The sun touches the water. They remember what Paddy told them about the water hissing.]]]

RICHARD: Do you hear it?

EMMELINE: No. Do you ever hear it?

RICHARD: Sometimes I think I do.

EMMELINE: I think paddy was a liar. He told us there was a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow, and that was a lie. He told us if we dug far enough we’d reach China.

RICHARD: And santa claus never came. Em, do you ever think about… him? I do. Em, I know you don’t like to talk about it, but don’t you ever wonder what… what really happened?

EMMELINE: I don’t want to know what happened!

RICHARD: I do.

[[[They sit by a fire roasting fish.]]]

RICHARD: There’s so many things I don’t understand, like why do the fish stop swimming and lie on top of the tide pools after a heavy rain? Why do you hear the waves in side the big shells? Why are all these funny hairs growing on me? I wish a big book with all the answers to every question in the world would drop out of the sky right now and land in my hands. I’d read it till I knew everything.

EMMELINE: Oh Richard, you can’t know everything. Only God knows everything.

RICHARD: God. He can’t find us any better than Santa Claus.

[[[Inside the hut, at night, they eat dinner. Emmeline waves her hand in front of his face to get his attention. She puts on a silly grin. He doesn’t react. She reaches over and grabs the top-hat and a pipe, and pretends to smoke.]]]

RICHARD: I wonder what fish think about. What are you doing?

EMMELINE: Trying to cheer you up! Come on, laugh, come on, come on!

RICHARD: It’s not gonna work!

[[[He tickles her, grinning.]]]

RICHARD: Shhh! There it is again!

[[[There are drumbeats in the background. She closes the music box and listens, too.]]]

RICHARD: Think it’s the boogey man? Maybe it’s another person. No, or he would have come over and meet us and say hello. That’s the proper thing to do.

EMMELINE: What if he’s not nice? What if he wants to hurt us?

RICHARD: Then I’ll spear him!

[[[Out on the reef, Richard is trying to catch fish with a spear. He sort of dances around a little bit, and manages to spear a fish. Emmeline looks at him like he’s silly, while she picks up many fish out of the water.]]]

RICHARD: Look! I’m the greatest fisherman who ever lived!

EMMELINE: I’m the greatest fisherman who ever lived. While you scare them off, I just catch as many as I want to.

RICHARD: That’s my fish dance! It doesn’t scare them off, it brings them up to the surface where I can spear them. Who cares what you say? It’s not how many you catch that counts, its how you do it.

[[[The day is rainy. Richard and Emmeline are inside. Richard is in the loft playing “Pop goes the weasel” on his flute. Emmeline is downstairs covering her ears.]]]

EMMELINE: Stop that! Please play something else! Why must you do that when you know it makes me angry?

[[[She goes under the loft, picks up a parasol, and pokes him in the butt with it, through the floor of the loft. He shouts, and then leans over to see her.]]]

RICHARD: Ow! Hey!

EMMELINE: [mocking] It doesn’t scare ‘em away, it brings ‘em to the top, where I can spear em!

[[[She tosses the parasol. He jumps down and begins to chase her. They laugh.]]]

RICHARD: Oh, I’ll spear you!

EMMELINE: Ha ha ha!

RICHARD: A ha!

[[[They go up to the top of the hut, he still chasing her. She slides down to the porch.]]]

EMMELINE: Here I am!

[[[He chases her over the boat and out on to the miraculously dry beach.]]]

RICHARD: Come back here or I’ll pull your britches down and take a switch to you!

[[[He pushes her onto the sand and sits on her stomach.]]]

EMMELINE: Don’t you dare try to spank me Richard, I mean it! I’ll put the never wake up berries in your food, I mean it!

RICHARD: Say “Richard is the smartest person on this island.”

EMMELINE: No!

RICHARD: Say it!

EMMELINE: Stop it, Richard, I’m getting angry! Now get off!

RICHARD: Say it!

EMMELINE: Richard is the smartest person on this island.

RICHARD: “And the fastest swimmer.”

EMMELINE: The fastest swimmer.

RICHARD: “The fastest runner.”

EMMELINE: The fastest runner.

RICHARD: “And the best hut builder.”

EMMELINE: You’re the best everything, Richard, now get off!

[[[He gets up and dusts his hands off, then heads over to work on his raft.]]]

RICHARD: It’s true!

EMMELINE: Just you wait, Richard Lestrange, you’ll never know when it’s gonna happen! Just one little bite and you’ll never wake up again!

[[[Late evening. The phosphorescent planktin in the lagoon are acting up. A simple splash of the water and it glows. Emmeline plays in the water, splashing it about. Richard stares at her, enamored, from the porch of the hut, and then dives in and they swim about together, enjoying the glowing water. They twist about together, and pop up to the surface.]]]

[[[Emmeline is feeding a parrot when she hears a drumbeat. She follows in through the forest, pausing to look down at the water. Richard starts to hear it from the beach, but then it stops. Emmeline makes her way through the forest to the stone head where Paddy saw the human remains. She is surprised to see the ashes from a fire, and the head. She approaches slowly and kneels, staring up into the face. Blood drips down the alter. She jumps up, turns, and runs through the forest and back to the hut. Richard is dressed up in a turban and a short cape. He sings quietly.]]]

RICHARD: Oh, have ya seen the way they shake it, have ya seen the way they sway? Their aint a man amongs who could throw the dish away! Hey!

[[[He slides down from the hut, as Emmeline comes up. He goes to her.]]]

EMMELINE: Richard! Richard!

RICHARD: What is it? What happened?

EMMELINE: I saw him!

RICHARD: Who?

EMMELINE: The face Paddy thought was the boogeyman!

RICHARD: You went to the other side?!

[[[He throws down the turban, angry.]]]

EMMELINE: Paddy was wrong, he’s not the boogeyman. I think he’s God!

RICHARD: God?

EMMELINE: He looked like pastor Logan always said he looked, like you better be good or else, and he was bleeding.

RICHARD: I don’t believe you!

EMMELINE: Just like Jesus!

RICHARD: I don’t want you to ever go there again, it’s the law!

EMMELINE: But what if he really is God, shouldn’t we go there and pray or won’t he be mad and not let us go to heaven?

RICHARD: I don’t wanna talk about it, I just don’t wanna talk about it!

[[[Waves crash to the shore in the evening. Inside the hut, Emmeline gets her blanket and lies down. She goes to sleep and dreams of Richard eating the never wake up berries. The stone head is covered in blood. He is drowning. A crab crawls out of his mouth.]]]

EMMELINE: Aaaaaaah!

[[[Richard is in the doorway. He comes in and sits next to her.]]]

RICHARD: What is it?

EMMELINE: Richard! You ate the dud-and-berries, and—

RICHARD: No, no, I’m fine, you just had a bad dream.

EMMELINE: Oh don’t ever leave me.

[[[She hugs him, then pulls back and looks into his face.]]]

EMMELINE: Promise you wont, promise you’ll always be with me.

RICHARD: I promise

EMMELINE: Oh!

[[[She kisses him. He doesn’t know what to do. He leans her down and keeps kissing her. He throws his leg over her and starts to roll on top of her. She grunts and pushes him off.]]]

EMMELINE: Don’t!

[[[He sits on the floor, confused, as she sits on a bench.]]]

[[[The next night he is in her room in the dark, as light flows on her shoulder and hip. He goes to her, and sweeps away her curtains, then puts his hand on her shoulder. She shrugs away, so he picks up a lock of her hair and sniffs it. rubbing it against his cheek. She wakes up and sits up.]]]

EMMELINE: What are you doing Richard? Go away!

[[[The next morning, Emmeline wakes up as Richard is about to leave. He grabs his spear and a piece of fruit and walks out the door, then jogs down the beach.]]]

EMMELINE: Where are you going? Wait, what’s the matter?

[[[Awhile later, Richard is sitting out at the end of the unsubmerged portion of the reef, naked. He is moving his left hand back and forth. We can’t see what he’s holding. He rolls his shoulders. It is obvious what he is doing, but Emmeline looks confused as she approaches.]]]

EMMELINE: What are you doing?

[[[Richard is startled. He turns around to make sure she’s not too close.]]]

RICHARD: What do you want!?

EMMELINE: Why wont you talk to me?

RICHARD: Just leave me alone!

[[[Emmeline is doing laundry in the waterfall. Richard is on a beach, picking coconuts. He looks up and sees a ship near the island.]]]

RICHARD: Hey! Hey, hey!

[[[He waves his arms, and then jumps down from the tree and runs through the forest.]]]

RICHARD: It’s a ship! A ship.

[[[Emmeline starts hanging up laundry. A parrot clucks at her. She turns and sees the boat in the distance, and looks at the signal fire, then sits with the bird on the steps of the house, unsure of what to do. Richard comes running around the side of the island, and jumps.]]]

RICHARD: Emmeline! A ship, Emmeline! A ship! A ship! The signal fire, you didn’t light it! Why didn’t you light it? Why Em, why? You know how much I wanna leave, you know it’s the most important thing in the whole world to me!

EMMELINE: I know.

RICHARD: First you cry for help, then you throw sticks at me. A ship comes, a ship! The first ship we’ve seen since we’ve been here and you let it go by, just let it go by! Well that’s IT! I’ve had it! I’m sick and tired of waiting for you to get better, I’m going to San ‘Forisco’ without you!

[[[He runs off to the side and loads up a makeshift raft with clothes and food, and sets sail. He gets a little ways out, then attempts to hoist the sail. It collapses, on top of him; the raft is hardly seaworthy, much less will it sail. He comes on shore and throws down his clothes that he rescued; Emmeline gets up and goes after him, laughing.]]]

EMMELINE: You’re never gonna build a boat strong enough to get to San ‘Forisco’, Richard. That’s the forth time you’ve tried and they’ve all sunk like a stone!

RICHARD: Shut up, just shut up!

EMMELINE: Why don’t you give up? You don’t even know where San ‘Forisco’ is!

[[[He goes into a grove, picks up a piece of cane and a saw, and begins work on another raft.]]]

EMMELINE: You’re such a silly dodo, Richard. We’re never getting off this island.

RICHARD: Thanks to you!

EMMELINE: This is where we live, this is our home, now and forever.

RICHARD: No!

[[[He throws down his saw]]]

RICHARD: I could never live here with just YOU. I don’t even LIKE you. You never used to laugh at me. You never used to have secrets you wouldn’t tell me.

EMMELINE: Well you’re not so perfect either Mr. Richard Lestrange. I’ve SEEN you playing with it, and I’ll tell your father, IF he ever gets here.

RICHARD: You! I hate you!

[[[He throws a coconut at her. She dodges.]]]

EMMELINE: You almost hit me!

RICHARD: Take it back, take back what you said!

EMMELINE: I’ve seen it all. [mocking] What happens after you’ve been doing it a long time?

RICHARD: Shut up! That isn’t fair peeking, I don’t peek on you!

EMMELINE: That’s a lie! You’re always staring at my buppies.

RICHARD: Only cuz they look so funny! You know what you look like now, Em? You look like one of those pictures Paddy had in his drawer, one of his hootchie-coochie girls!

EMMELINE: I do not! I do not!

[[[Richard picks up two coconuts and holds them in front of his chest, moving them up and down as though they were breasts]]]

RICHARD: Hootchi-cootchie, hootchi-cootchie!

EMMELINE: Stop that Richard or I’ll never speak to you again!

[[[She goes to a clump of coconuts and picks one up.]]]

RICHARD: Hootchie-cootchie, hootchie-cootchie, see ‘em jiggle, wiggle, and shake!

[[[She throws a coconut at his head, and it hits him. He falls down, almost unconscious. She runs to him and tries to help him up.]]]

EMMELINE: Oh, Richard, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to hit you!

[[[He sits up and slaps her, then jumps up and runs away.]]]

RICHARD: I wish you were dud-and-buried!

[[[She goes back to the hut. He is already there, throwing her things out the upstairs door]]]

EMMELINE: What are you doing? What are you doing?!

RICHARD: It’s my hut. I built it.

EMMELINE: That’s not true, I helped you.

RICHARD: I did most of it. You can go find some other place to live.

EMMELINE: I said I was sorry, Richard, what more do you want me to say?

RICHARD: I don’t want you to say anything! I don’t ever want to see you again.

EMMELINE: You just wait, Richard Lestrange, I’ll get you for this!

[[[She grabs some of her things and storms off]]]

[[[She has built a shelter of sorts under a small rock ledge, with a rickety palm-frond “wall” to shelter it from the rain. A fire there is smoking wildly in a torrent, and she sits huddled against the back wall of the cave, shivering. Richard looks down from his perch on the covered porch of the hut and grins at her.]]]

[[[Emmeline sits on the beach, cooking a fish in a fire. Richard walks on the cliff overhead, carrying bananas. He throws a half-eaten one down on the beach and keeps walking.]]]

[[[Richard tosses stones In the air and hits them with a stick, out onto the water.]]]

[[[Emmeline leaves flowers at the base of the statue as an offering.]]]

[[[Richard takes a shower in the waterfall]]]

[[[Em steps into the ocean to bathe, walking carefully over the jagged coral chunks. She steps, mistakenly, onto a stonefish, and cries out in pain, then limps away]]]

[[[Richard, whistling, jogs cheerfully from the hut to the water, stopping to check on Emmeline on his way. He stops when he sees her just lying there.]]]

RICHARD: What’s wrong with you?

EMMELINE: [weakly] Go away.

RICHARD: What happened?

EMMELINE: I stepped on one of those fish that looks like a rock.

[[[He takes off his shirt to sponge her forehead, then shakes her to wake her back up as she keeps dozing off.]]]

EMMELINE: Richard…

RICHARD: Don’t go to sleep. Please. Oh no, please wake up.

EMMELINE: God. Take me to god.

RICHARD: But the law.

[[[She goes to sleep again, so he picks her up and carries her through the forest and over a stream, then through a forked tree, and they are in the valley of the stone god. He picks her up again and sets her at the base of the statue, then looks up reverently, sadly, with tears in his eyes.]]]

RICHARD: God… God please don’t make Em never wake up. I didn’t mean it when I said I wanted her dud-and-buried. I forgot most of my prayers God, but… our father, who art in heaven…. Kingdom come… with liberty and justice for all. Amen.

[[[The sun is going down. Later, he sponges off her bare chest. She wakes up and looks at him.]]]

RICHARD: Em? Em, are you alright?

EMMELINE: Richard…

RICHARD: Oh, Em, I’ve been so worried!

EMMELINE: You mean, you’re not mad at me anymore?

RICHARD: Oh, of course not. All I could think of was, what if I lost my Em? What would I do? What would I do?

[[[He lays his head down on her chest and begins to cry.]]]

[[[Richard stares out at the smaller island from the beach, then brings her some food.]]]

RICHARD: Here’s some food to help you get your strength back. Do you see that island out there?

EMMELINE: Yes.

RICHARD: Well I’ve been thinking, maybe the person who makes the drum noise lives there, and then comes here to pray.

EMMELINE: Maybe.

RICHARD: Would you like to try to walk?

[[She nods, and he helps her up. She limps away with his help.]]]

[[[They go swimming for a long time, then burst to the surface happily, giggling.]]]

[[[They sit in the shade near the statue, naked, drying off, and sharing a mango.]]]

RICHARD: Kiss me.

EMMELINE: You’re all sticky!

RICHARD: So what? Kiss me.

[[[She smiles at his silliness and kisses him, then pulls back when he holds her head to him.]]]

EMMELINE: Stop, I can’t breath.

RICHARD: But I don’t wanna stop.

[[[She leans back and he squeezes mango juice onto her face and neck, then begins to kiss it off.]]]

EMMELINE: Ah, what are you doing?! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Stop it.

[[[He pulls back a little and his smile fades into a smaller, more uncertain smile, but still as giddy.]]]

RICHARD: I feel so funny in my stomach.

EMMELINE: Me too.

RICHARD: My heart’s beating so fast.

EMMELINE: Mine too.

[[[They kiss again, and again and again, more and more passionately, but calmly. She hugs him and runs her hands up and down his back, and he strokes her hair, and kisses her neck, as they make love.]]]

[[[Later, afterwards, she is staring up and he is staring at her. She smiles and they both giggle and begin again. Wildlife blooms as does their relationship, as they make love again and again, in between eating, swimming and sleeping, giving each-other massages and baths, and exploring their bodies and their relationship.]]]

[[[They go swimming, and see two turtles making love, then go to the caves with the pool and make love. Emmeline sleeps in a hammock and Richard strokes her gently, waking her, and they kiss.]]]

[[[They make love in a rock pool in the ocean.]]]

[[[Emmeline and Richard sneak glances at each-other inside their hut.]]]

[[[They slide down the waterfall together, and make love underneath it. Emmeline swims in a pool of water, towards Richard, on the shore, and crawls up to him.]]]

EMMELINE: I’m so happy. I love you.

[[[Richard gives Emmeline a backrub, Emmeline cleans sand off his back, and he strokes her face.]]]

[[[Inside the hut, they dance to the tune from the music box, both dressed up. It is clear that this is some kind of wedding ceremony for them.]]]

[[[Richard swims with two dolphins, while Emmeline smiles at him from the shore.]]]

[[[Emmeline crawls through the undergrowth, searching for berries, and eating them when she finds them. Richard stands over her, and she looks up and smiles cheerfully.]]]

[[[Emmeline sits in the hut, eating coconut. Richard comes down and kisses her, then moves the bowl away.]]]

RICHARD: Will you stop eating, you’re getting fat! Come on up, keep me warm?

[[[She nods. He goes upstairs. Once he’s out of site, she picks back up the coconut bowl and eats some more.]]]

[[[It is morning. A parrot clucks, waking Richard up.]]]

RICHARD: Where’s Em, Coco?

[[[The bird clucks again. Richard sits up and looks outside the hut. Emmeline is on the rocks at the beach, naked, and puking into the ocean.]]]

[[[Emmeline sits in the lamp’s light, combing her hair with her fingers. Richard comes up the ladder, puts an arm around her, and tries to kiss her. She shrugs away. He pulls his arm back and picks up a twig, examining it closely.]]]

EMMELINE: I’m sorry, Richard.

RICHARD: You didn’t want to all day yesterday, either. What’s a-matter, Em, don’t you love me anymore?

EMMELINE: Yes, I love you more than ever, Richard.

RICHARD: Then why don’t you want to do it?

EMMELINE: It just hurts right now, that’s all. When it stops hurting we’ll do it.

RICHARD: When is that gonna be? I don’t understand, Em. Why does it hurt?

EMMELINE: I don’t know. I don’t know anything.

[[[She scoots back and leans against the wall.]]]

EMMELINE: But if you touch my tummy right now, you can feel it.

RICHARD: Feel what?

[[[He scoots over and she puts his hand on her stomach.]]]

RICHARD: How’d you make your tummy move like that?

EMMELINE: I’m not doing it.

RICHARD: It’s not doing it by itself.

EMMELINE: Yes it is.

RICHARD: There, I felt it again. What’s making it do that, Em?

EMMELINE: I don’t know.

[[[Several months later, Emmeline’s belly has burgeoned to gigantic proportions. She stands by a rock pool, cradling it gently. It is obvious that she is pregnant.]]]

[[[On the beach, Richard is digging for shells. He hears a drumbeat. It stops briefly, so he continues digging. He hears it again, and this time there are voices with it. He looks up, startled, and then runs to the hut to check on Emmeline. She is not there, so he grabs his shirt and goes outside.]]]

RICHARD: Em! Em, where are you?!

[[[He goes through the forest, trying to find either Emmeline or the voices. Then the voices stop. He crosses a stream as the voices start again, and keeps going through the forest. By the time he reaches the voices, it is night. The moon is full and high, and the stars shine brightly. He is at the stone head. There is a fire, and a group of “savage” islander natives dance around the fire chanting in Fijian. There is a loud cry and a slave is pulled out of a cave. He is painted white. He appears to struggle but is just an act. He is brought around the fire to the stone head and laid at the alter. A wooden brace is put on his neck, and a man with a club stands over him. The chanting stops. The man with the club, who has elaborate decorative paint on his face, pauses, then clubs the man once on the head. This is enough for Richard. He turns and runs through the forest as an eerie mist settles over the island. He gets back to the hut near sunrise, and can hear a cry out in the forest. He goes towards the cry.]]]

RICHARD: Emmeline! Emmeline, where are you?!

EMMELINE: Richard!

[[[Emmeline’s cries get softer and she calms down as he enters the grove she is in. She is hunched up against a tree. Richard goes to her and puts a hand on her shoulder and her knee.]]]

RICHARD: Em, what’s wrong, did they hurt you?

EMMELINE: They?

[[[Her cries begin again and grow stronger.]]]

RICHARD: Em? Em? Em, what- Em, oh what is it? Tell me what to do. Answer me!

[[[Emmeline leans forward and gives one final long cry. She leans back, and a second cry joins in. She is calming down. She and Richard look down in wonder at what is on the ground. The sun rises, the mist clears, and Richard and Emmeline cradle a baby in their arms.]]]

[[[They walk towards the hut. Emmeline carries the baby, wrapped in Richard’s shirt. Richard looks around protectively to make sure the “drum-people” aren’t around.]]]

RICHARD: Why did you have a baby?

EMMELINE: I don’t know.

[[[Richard plays with the baby, who is lying on his cape, crying. Emmeline approaches with a piece of mango and a coconut.]]]

RICHARD: Hello, baby. Hello, baby. Ssshhhh. Nya nya!

[[[Richard puts his finger in the baby’s mouth. The baby tries to suckle from it, and is disappointed.]]]

RICHARD: Oh, look. I think he’s hungry. What do we feed him?

EMMELINE: Oh, try some fruit.

RICHARD: Shhh. Here ya go. Here. Look. Good fruit. Fruit. Oh, it doesn’t like it! Here, let me try this.

[[[Emmeline hands him the opened coconut, and he pours some into the baby’s mouth. The baby cries again, unhappy with his parent’s choice of food.]]]

RICHARD: What do I do?!

[[[Emmeline looks unsure. She picks up the baby and holds him against her chest to comfort him. He latches on to her nipple and begins to suckle. She and Richard look down at him, and then at each-other, startled and unsure.]]]

[[[Emmeline, carrying the baby, sees Richard, and walks under the hut to get to him. He is using the hatchet to carve a spear to a point. She sits down next to him.]]]

EMMELINE: Why are you doing that?

RICHARD: For the drum-people.

EMMELINE: What?

RICHARD: I saw ‘em.

EMMELINE: When?!

RICHARD: The night HE came.

[[[The baby is crying. Emmeline bounces him to comfort him. Richard gets up.]]]

EMMELINE: What did they look like?

RICHARD: I don’t wanna talk about it. Paddy was right. We should have never gone to the other side! We should have NEVER broken the law!

EMMELINE: Do they know we’re here?

RICHARD: I don’t think so. But if they ever come here I’ll do to them what I do to fish! I’ll stick it through their eyes, I’ll stick it through their gizzards, I’ll stick it through their bellies and watch their guts come out!

[[[He tosses the spear into a tree. It splits it. He looks at Emmeline, who comforts the startled baby.]]]

[[[Emmeline checks on the baby, asleep in a makeshift bed, then goes to check on Richard, who sits in the doorway holding a spear, looking tired and sad.]]]

RICHARD: Remember on the ship, when we tried to get to the dinghy? How the men pushed and shoved each-other? How their eyes looked? It’s the same with the drum people. I don’t understand why. Why people have to be so bad to each-other.

[[[Emmeline kisses him on the forehead, then takes his land and leads him upstairs to bed.]]]

[[[Richard bathes in the pool below the 2waterfall, then checks on Emmeline and the baby, who relax in the sunshine nearby.]]]

[[[Richard gets into the dinghy and rows to the little island. He comes upon Paddy’s skeleton. He looks over it, and notices the resemblence between the bones on the ground and the shape of his hand, his ribs, and his head. He turns and goes back to the big island.]]]

[[[Richard cuddles the baby, who coos. He looks at his feet, his hands, his ears, and his face. Emmeline picks the baby up and cuddles him, and kisses his feet.]]]

[[[Emmeline picks the baby up out of his bed and brings him to her breast to suckle. Richard is nearby stacking wood. He looks up and goes to her, kisses her on the neck, and leans down to taste also.]]]

[[[Emmeline and the baby are in the rock-pool by the ocean. Emmeline moves the baby about through the water on his back, then turns him over, blows in his face, and puts him under. He swims to her and she picks him up. He coos. She looks up at Richard, who sits in a chair above them, looking at the horizon.]]]

EMMELINE: Come here, hurry!

RICHARD: I’m busy keeping watch.

EMMELINE: Come on, you’ve gotta see this!

[[[Richard puts down his spear and goes to her. She has the baby swim again. Richard smiles and joins them in the pool.]]]

RICHARD: You taught him to swim.

[[[She does it once more. This time the baby laughs.]]]

RICHARD: Attaboy.

EMMELINE: Aw!

[[[The baby swims with them in the ocean, kicking mostly with one leg. Richard dives down with him in the water, then swims to Emmeline. They swim together.]]]

[[[At sunset, Emmeline stands with the baby in the water, splashing him gently, trying to teach him to say water.]]]

EMMELINE: Water. Water. Water, water. Water.

[[[At night, all three float on the lagoon, lit by a lamp. Richard holds the baby up near the edge of the boat.]]]

RICHARD: Look at the fishies.

[[[Richard tries to teach the baby how to make a knot.]]]

[[[Emmeline, Richard, and the baby float a boat in the water.]]]

EMMELINE: Get the boat!

[[[Emmeline, Richard, and the baby are on the beach with a sea turtle. Emmeline holds him down and Richard puts Paddy on.]]]

EMMELINE: Go for a ride! Gonna give Paddy a ride!

[[[Richard lays on the beach with the baby, now known as Paddy, standing on his chest. He holds him up. Paddy gets off and goes to Emmeline who has made a dummy head.]]]

EMMELINE: Boogey-boogey, boogey-boogey, boogey-boogey-boogey!

[[[Richard holds Paddy’s hands around a stick, tosses balls in the air, and swings at them, missing once.]]]

[[[Richard and Paddy are in a hole in the sand. Richard lifts Paddy up to Emmeline. Emmeline tosses him back after he reaches for Richard.]]]

[[[Emmeline and Richard make a sand-castle.]]]

[[[Emmeline holds Paddy and she and Richard walk through the forest. She points up in a tree where a parrot sits.]]]

EMMELINE: Look at the bird! Look, Paddy, look!

PADDY: b-b-bird!

[[[Emmeline walks along a rock with a basket. Up on top of the rock, Richard and Paddy sit on a chair side-by-side. Paddy looks through a telescope.]]]

RICHARD: What do you see? Do you see some fishies? Tell me, do you see a ship?]]]

[[[Richard tries to teach Paddy to throw a spear as Emmeline watches from the porch on the hut.]]]

RICHARD: Can you do this?

[[[Inside the hut, Emmeline, Richard, and Paddy play dress-up. Richard tries to put the top-hat on Paddy’s head but he resists.]]]

RICHARD: Put it on.

PADDY: Richard!

[[[Richard looks surprised.]]]

RICHARD: He said my name. He said my name Em!

[[[On a muddy beach, They wander. They stop to play in the sand as several crabs scuttle away.]]]

RICHARD: Look, Paddy, we’re making foot prints. Like Boston in the winter.

EMMELINE: Remember the snowball fights we had? Let’s pretend it’s snow, Paddy. Snow. See, it’s freezing!

[[[They begin to cover themselves and each-other in it.]]]

RICHARD: Oooh, it’s cold. Hey, the boogeyman!

[[[He begins to roll around in it. Paddy cries out, not recognizing his dad. Richard makes grunting noises, and Emmeline oohs and aaahs.]]]

[[[Two sailors in a boat nearby look at them through a telescope.]]]

SAILOR: Better bring him up for a look-see. He’ll only hear about it from one of the crew. We’ll have to sail back tomorrow.

SAILOR 2: Aye.

[[[The second sailor approaches a much older Arthur Lestrange, and brings him back to the port-side of the ship.]]]

SAILOR 2: Excuse me sir, we’ve sighted something.

SAILOR: There. What do you think?

ARTHUR: Can we go closer?

SAILOR: I’ll see, but we’ve got to be careful of that reef.

[[[The boat turns. On shore, they relax in the sun, drying the mud on themselves. Paddy turns and sees the ship.]]]

PADDY: Boat.

[[[Richard and Emmeline look at it, and each-other, startled, then make up their minds and head inland with Paddy. Arthur looks at them through the telescope, seeing three muddy bodies.]]]

ARTHUR: No, that couldn’t be them.

[[[He sits down in a chair, and the boat turns around.]]]

[[[Richard and Emmeline carry Paddy (atop Richard’s neck) into the water for a bath, smiling.]]]

[[[Emmeline and Richard lie face-down on the beach, drying off.]]]

EMMELINE: Do you know how to get to the other place, where we lived with Paddy?

RICHARD: Sure. I go there for bananas.

EMMELINE: Take me there?

RICHARD: I thought you were afraid.

EMMELINE: I want to see it again.

[[[Emmeline is “dressed up” in some old underclothes, and Paddy wears an old Chemise. Richard helps Paddy into the boat, then Emmeline climbs in, and Richard pushes off, laughing.]]]

RICHARD: In you go!

[[[Richard rows them over to the place where they used to live. Richard gets out and pulls the boat ashore, and Emmeline climbs out and helps Paddy out. They look at the wreck of their old house.]]]

RICHARD: You coming?

[[[Emmeline shakes her head. She walks partway up the beach. Richard goes into the forest, and comes upon a tiny boat he made when he was little. Emmeline stands at the wreck of the house, looking down on it, then turns and looks at the little island. Paddy picks some “never-wake-up berries” and puts them in the boat. Emmeline helps him in and they sit in the boat, waiting for Richard. Richard finds a good bunch of bananas and cuts it off. Emmeline and Paddy drift in the boat. Emmeline is napping, and Paddy mumbles to himself, and then shoves an oar into the water, waking up Emmeline. She looks around and then grabs the other oar to try and fish it out of the water. She’s too far away.]]]

EMMELINE: Richard! Richard!

[[[She isn’t panicking. Richard looks up and sees her, and drops the bananas and makes a run for her, diving into the water. He gets the oar. Emmeline sees a shark in the water.]]]

EMMELINE: Shark!

[[[Richard swims for the boat and looses his oar. Emmeline chucks an oar at the shark, allowing Richard to get in. Now they have no oars. The shark circles the boat.]]]

RICHARD: I have to get the oars! Help me Em! We’re drifting!

[[[He starts paddling towards the oars with his hands. Emmeline joins in. They have already drifted past the edge of the reef. Richard glares at the shark.]]]

RICHARD: Go away! Go away!

[[[Emmeline pauses and looks around.]]]

EMMELINE: Look how far out we are!

[[[The shark continues to circle them. Richard stops paddling and sits back.]]]

RICHARD: I can’t stop this.

[[[They try paddling again, to no avail. Richard puts his head in his hands. They drift away from the island.]]]

[[[Richard and Paddy play with the oar-holders while Emmeline stares into her lap.]]]

[[[Sunset. Richard tries to distract Paddy.]]]

RICHARD: Paddy, look. When it hits the water you can hear it hiss. Look, see. Hear it?

[[[Paddy giggles.]]]

[[[They drift through the night, through the next day…]]]

EMMELINE: I’m thirsty. If only we had some water.

[[[… And the next night. Now it is daylight again, and they have had no water and food since they left.]]]

[[[Paddy is eating the “never-wake-up berries.” He looks over the side of the boat.]]]

PADDY: Fishies.

[[[His comment wakes Emmeline and then Richard, who panic when they see what he is eating. They rush to him.]]]

EMMELINE: No, Paddy!

RICHARD: Where did you get those?

EMMELINE: Get those out of your mouth! What are you doing? Get those out of your mouth.

[[[She scoops out his mouth, then looks at Richard, who now holds the berry branch.]]]

EMMELINE: He swallowed some.

[[[The sun is high in the sky. Paddy cries, sick from the berries.]]]

EMMELINE: Aw, come here.

[[[She tries to comfort him.]]]

[[[Richard picks at the berry branch as Paddy lies at the bottom of the boat, near death. Emmeline tries to keep him awake. Richard picks the berries off the branch.]]]

EMMELINE: Don’t close your eyes, Paddy. Please don’t go to sleep. Richard. Please.

[[[Emmeline looks back and forth between Paddy and Richard. Richard has a palm full of the berries. He puts half in his other hand and hands them to Emmeline. She looks at him. They both look sadly at each-other. They eat the berries, and both begin to cry a little. They kiss, hug, and lie in the bottom of the boat with Paddy, waiting.]]]

[[[Later, the ship which spotted them on the island drifts nearby. Arthur sits in his chair on deck. A sailor is up in the lookout.]]]

SAILOR: Three points to port, sir! Looks to be a small craft!

ARTHUR: See anyone in it?

SAILOR: I can’t make it out.

[[[Arthur gets up and looks through a telescope at the boat, the dinghy that holds Richard and Emmeline.]]]

ARTHUR: Captain! Three points to port!

CAPTAIN: Three points to port.

SAILOR: Turn, ho.

[[[The sails furl, and the ship turns and goes closer. Arthur continues to look through his telescope. The sails are gathered, and Arthur and three sailors set out in their own dinghy to investigate. They grab hold of the dinghy, and gaze at the three forms in the bottom of the boat.]]]

ARTHUR: Are they dead?

SAILOR: No, sir. They’re asleep.

[[[Arthur looks at the berries, then at their reddened faces. A sailor helps him into the boat.]]]

(End credits)