Crusoe (2008–2009): Season 1, Episode 10 - Smoke and Mirrors - full transcript

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(EXHALES)

(SUSANNAH BREATHING)

(SUSANNAH LAUGHING)

(ECHOES) Robin.

Susannah.

Has the sun turned
you idle, Robin?

Susannah.

I'm dreaming.

No.

(GASPS)

(GIGGLES)



How are you here?

You're so beautiful.

Who brought you?

Are the children safe?
Are they with you?

I didn't
bring them to sea.

No. No. Of course not.
Was it Santana?

The Spaniard?

We saw the flag on the cliff on
the other side of the island.

I knew someone was coming.
We raised it only yesterday.

Friday wanted to put the
journey off to go hunting.

Friday?
You have to meet him.

You won't believe your eyes.
He's the man who's kept me sane.

We sailed right around until we
saw the smoke from your fire.

Right. The ship's on this side.



I knew
it had to be you.

Yes, but they
can't stay there.

The currents, they're dangerous.
They change at any moment.

Come, come.

SUSANNAH:
They're gone.

Gone?

The Captain was worried about
the rocks and the currents.

They've gone back to the
flag to await the next tide.

I bribed the bosun to
put me onto the water.

Alone?

I had to see you.

(MUMBLING)

But, the tides, if they change,
they'll be driven on the rocks.

They'll be wrecked.

No.

(SIGHS)

You dream something and
then you make it happen.

Hey, hey,
how's it going?

(LAUGHS)
This is Dundee.

He's heard your name about
as much as he's heard his.

What do you think
of England, Dundee?

He'll retire.

And he'll bore the local dogs with his
tales of wild beasts and gunpowder.

It's like the seeds from the maple
tree on the walk to church.

Does Sophie still try
catching them as they fall?

They both do.

This is for Daniel.

It's for his
birthday tomorrow.

You made the
children presents?

(LAUGHS)

Daniel's getting strong. He'll
kill someone with that!

Not if he has
his father's skills.

Come on, we should hurry. Did you say
the ship was heading back to the flag?

Yes.
Friday!

Go on, he's
probably hunting.

Well, if he is, how
long will he be?

An hour. A day.
I know we can't wait.

The tides will change
in a few hours

and the Captain won't stay
at anchor for long. Friday!

(GRUNTS)

Maybe he's up top.

(BOTH LAUGHING)

CRUSOE: It's not London,
I know.

But there's
so much to talk about.

(GRUNTS)

Robin?

I was here before.

Something happened.
There was smoke...

(CRUSOE YELLS)

Did you fall?
Hit your head?

(COUGHS)

(GRUNTS)

You said
you saw a fire.

There's no fire.

You said there was smoke in here.
That must be what we saw.

How long was
I lying there?

For six long years, all
I've ever hoped of

and dreamed of and prayed for is
to see you again, to hold you.

Then I open
my eyes and...

And?

Am I dead?

Then, are you?

Do you think that this is heaven?
Our own paradise island?

No. Heaven would be the warehouse.
Mmm-hmm.

The clumsy bed that I made.
Mmm-hmm.

Daniel and Sophie
sleeping safely.

And you and I complaining
about the endless rain.

Then we're not dead.

Not yet.

We have to go.

I need to make sure
Friday's okay.

What's the last thing
you remember?

I made the flag, then marked out
a route to the south cliffs...

...where your ship is now.

We've no markers on
this side of the island.

A ship could pass us.

If they are seeking for
us, they will find us.

No, they could still pass us.

What if it isn't a rescue ship?
What if a merchant ship passes?

What do you think?
I think we can hunt any day.

I think a ship
may only pass once.

Our supplies
are nearly gone.

This is the ensign
to the Triton.

Your ship?
My ship.

The story will have passed
from captain to captain.

Any ship that passes will know
that there's a survivor here.

(LAUGHS)

There will not be any survivors
here if we die from hunger.

Then I'll go by myself.

(WIND WHOOSHING)

But we made it there
and back.

Yes.

Yes, we must have.

You saw
the flag from the ship.

That's why you
sailed around here.

Friday... Friday's
spear's missing. Why?

He didn't take it
with us...

So he's taken it since...

Then he's hunting?

I suppose this could've
happened after he went...

Why can't I remember?

Friday!

(GRUNTS)

(COUGHS)

Friday!

(COUGHING)

Are you ill?

Still some
seasickness maybe.

Stay here and rest.

I'll tell your captain to
stay at anchor by the cliffs.

I'll come back
for you and Friday.

I'm coming with you.

The journey's dangerous.

If I have to spend another
hour alone, fearing for you...

Please.

You'll remember.

You will.

Don't look so worried.

Trust me.

We'll be right back.
Good boy.

(CRUSOE LAUGHS)

SUSANNAH: You talk.

CRUSOE: I stay in all day.
I cook and I play cribbage.

And in the evenings, I count
the number of seeds in a pile.

(SQUAWKING)

She's following us.

She's beautiful.

I used to
hate the birds.

Every year as winter would draw
near, they'd gather in the trees,

with excitement and expectation,
getting ready to fly off.

I always imagined
England.

Come.

Wait, wait.

SUSANNAH: What?

I recognize this place.

We hid here.

From what?

On the way out or back?

Back. I wasn't
carrying the flag.

(BOTH PANTING)

It is following us.

What is?

What is? You said
"It" is following us.

I assume
you know what "It" is.

Otherwise you'd have said
"Something" is following us.

You choose now to
correct my English?

I told you we shouldn't
have brought that.

We were being stalked.

Friday had a small deer.
It was dead.

I thought it might be what
was attracting the animal.

I asked him not to bring it.
I asked him to leave it here.

Did you have it
at the tree house?

(SCREAMING)

(FRIDAY EXCLAIMS)

Friday was there when
the smoke happened.

What if he hasn't gone hunting?

But his spear wasn't
there when we left.

No.

Was it there when you
got back with the deer?

Yes.
Then stop worrying.

There was smoke and you both dealt
with it and then he went hunting.

Why is my mind
shutting it out?

Robin, we will go back.

As soon as we've warned the ship.
We can't turn around now.

Ship! Come.

CRUSOE:
They've already sailed.

No. They'll be
behind the cliffs.

If I fire a shot...

We left in a hurry.
You're not yourself.

We'll get there
in time. Come on.

No, no, no. We have to
go the long way around.

Along the cliff.

That way is
a sheer drop.

There's a path to the beach from
the cliff with the flagpole.

You have a fever.

I've seen this.

I told you.

No.

From the cliffs.

A boat from my
ship, the Triton.

Other survivors?

(PANTS)

I knew these men.

Neugent.

He's the captain
of the Triton.

This was his mark.

He was to sail to Guinea, but I
persuaded him to go to England instead.

CRUSOE: Looks like
a mining cave.

(GASPS)

(PANTING)

It's gunpowder.

He must have been using it to
blast the quartz out of the rock.

But to what purpose?

It looks like this
cave has a newcomer.

Leopard.

Find something to
dig a grave with.

Leopard? It can smell
you from miles away.

Climb up the very same tree
that you try to hide in.

Let's go.

He buries
his colleagues

and then dies alone staring
at an empty horizon.

At my worst of times,

another soul has been suffering
and only from a day away.

Is a day any different
to a thousand miles?

In England I suffered.

I knew you must be alive because I
was hurting enough for us both.

We share
each other's pain.

Come on.

If it was a leopard that was following...
A leopard?

If it was...
We can't go back.

Friday could be in danger or...

We'll bring men from the
ship and search for him.

I have to get back.

And risk the
ship setting sail?

And putting those good
sailors' lives at risk?

But Friday... You don't know
for sure that he's hurt.

You don't know for
sure that he is there.

You have to remember
what happened.

Try. I asked about the deer
and you remembered that.

Think about that.
The deer.

Slow that memory down.
Slow it right down.

There's nothing. It's
just a waste of time.

Please,
one more time.

Remember the deer.
Why?

Things may not
be as they seem.

If you know something,

if you know what's
happening, what's happened,

please, just tell me.

How can I know anything
that isn't in your mind?

FRIDAY: Crusoe!

(GRUNTS)

(BOTH COUGHING)

(FRIDAY GRUNTING)

It's Neugent.

He's alive.

He was at the tree house.
We have to get back.

Wait. Stop. Robin.

Why did he attack us? Why now? If
he's been alive this whole time?

Well, maybe he didn't know you.
You didn't know him.

Yes.

He left me for dead.

He could have
killed Friday.

We'd have
seen his body.

Then where
has he taken him?

To the caves.

The caves of
the south cliffs.

Which is where we're going,
isn't it?

The flag.
The south cliffs.

Yes.

Yes, we've been going in the
right direction the whole time.

Thank God that
you've come back.

Let's just hope
that we're in time.

So what had he,
your Robinson Crusoe?

How did his wealth
compare to mine?

Where are
his diamonds?

They're nowhere!

They are not diamonds,
it is just quartz.

Kneel!

(FRIDAY SCREAMS)

Crusoe must
have been soft.

Crusoe was my brother.

Well,
I am your brother now.

Your brother, your
father, your owner

and your king.

(SQUAWKING)

(COUGHING)

(COUGHING)

You all right?

Robin!
Susannah!

(YELLING)

(GRUNTS)

This isn't like me,
Robin. This isn't me.

You must wish
I hadn't come.

No. In sickness and in health.

For richer
or for poorer.

In mountains and forests
and falling off paths.

That was it, wasn't it?

It's all right,
it's just a graze.

It's just down the valley
now, it's not far.

We'll get you to the ship
and we'll find Friday.

Come.

(GASPING)

(WHEEZING)

There you are, rest here.

(COUGHING)

Did you say a prayer for the
man who stared at the horizon?

The man you buried.

Whoever he was.

Let me hear your prayer.
Please.

Father,

you alone
saw his suffering,

you witnessed his pain
and his despair.

Lord, please allow him
into your kingdom

and let the love of your son
be his salvation. Amen.

We buried the flag.

Find Friday.

He can save you.

The flag never flew.

How could you see
a flag that never flew?

The ship...

Survive, Robin.
For us.

(GRUNTS)

(GASPS)

(GASPING)

(GRUNTS)

(GROANING)

Don't move, Crusoe.

Don't move.
He's watching me.

I thought you were dead.

How did you make it
this far in your state?

It is not possible.

Susannah.

Susannah?
Don't move.

It is the smoke from the bomb that
he threw into the tree house.

What we inhaled was toxic.

It attacks the
mind and the body.

But he gave me this to drink
so that I could work.

Drink it.

(SPLUTTERS)

(COUGHS)

(COUGHS)

You did not crawl halfway across the island
so that I could watch you die. Drink it.

Neugent.

That man is crazy.

He wants me to
build him a palace.

Liege, it is king?

Yeah.

NEUGENT: I see
what you're doing!

I said chop!
It was an order.

Yes.
Yes?

Yes?
Yes, My Liege.

Kneel! Your head never
higher than mine!

FRIDAY: I need
more medicine.

In order for me to work, I
must be able to breathe.

You breathe when
I say you breathe.

Up! Look alive.

(PANTING)

So, then? What do you think
of your proud tree house now?

Your deckhand's cuddy.

This will be a palace, built
with your sweat and blood.

Decorated with jewels.

And here the skull
of your friend Crusoe.

Once the vultures
have picked it clean.

Now we lay out
the grand design.

This will be
my throne room.

(COUGHING)

Here.

Be careful.

(COUGHING)

(YELLS)

NEUGENT: Now,
get up, alive.

(WHISPERS) Friday.

(WHISPERS) Crusoe.

What are you doing here? You're
not well enough to walk.

The medicine's working.
I'm getting you out of here.

Is there anything
to cut these?

If I had, would
I still be chained?

I have nothing.

Did you leave your
weapons behind?

Yes, along with half
my blood and my mind.

So you saw Susannah?
It is hallucination.

Somehow you must have known that
you had to find your way here.

So you made her lead you.

She was so real.

If I had been your hallucination,
I'd have told you to bring an axe.

Perhaps I can pick
the lock with these.

(GUN COCKS)
NEUGENT: Robinson Crusoe.

Kneel.
We are not your enemies.

Kneel.

If I may just speak...
Silence in court!

State your name.

State your name.

Robinson Crusoe.

My liege!

You must address me
as "My liege."

Robinson Crusoe,
My Liege.

Take the Bible
in your right hand.

(SIGHS)

Your preacher's Bible?

With the family
history written in.

You took my Bible?

You have no property.
You are a prisoner.

Now swear to
tell the truth.

Swear it!

I swear to
tell the truth,

My Liege.

The charges against
you are,

theft of property,
one deer.

Attempted
theft of land...

Land?

Your flagpole on my cliff.

You intended to raise a flag and
claim my island for yourself.

The flag was
to guide a rescue.

Your flag was a declaration
of civil war, Crusoe!

A rescue is coming. I have
sent word to England.

What would I
want with rescue?

I listened to you once.

"Take me to England. Change your course.
I need to get home."

Never will I take orders
from another man again.

You have the blood of two
score sailors on your hands.

He did not cause the storm.
Silence!

Or steer the ship.

(GRUNTS)

May I speak, My Liege?
No!

Theft of property
and land.

Trespass, mutiny, treason.
How do you plead?

Whose were the bones?
Who survived with you?

How do you plead?

Did it bring you no relief to
discover that we were here?

That you were not alone?

How do you plead?

Not guilty.

The bones were
Hadley Seabrooke.

The cook? Why didn't you
give him a proper burial?

A dissident. A deserter. Why
should I tend to his soul?

The court has
considered your plea.

And finds you
guilty on every count.

And, no. No part of me was pleased
to discover that you lived.

Rise.

By the power invested in me
as monarch of these islands,

I sentence you to be hanged
by the neck until dead.

NEUGENT: Lower.
More rope. More.

Less!

Not so much less.

(LAUGHS)

NEUGENT: I know
how to hang a man.

The weight, the
height, the drop.

You think
I don't know?

I know!

Twelve and a half stone.
I'm right, aren't I?

Six foot one?

See, I'm never wrong.
I always know.

By eye, I'm faultless.

I'm faultless!

Where's my measure?

NEUGENT: A yard.

You are two yards
and one inch on top.

You'll see I'm right.

Surely if I were standing, you
could measure me more accurately?

Don't give me orders.
Nobody instructs me.

Stand, stand.

You think I'm stupid? Could a
stupid man rule this island?

Could a stupid man amass my wealth?
My diamonds?

No! No, no, no, don't shoot him.

Release me.

What are we going
to do with him?

Take him home,
with us.

Up, My Liege,
and keep walking.

Don't touch that!
Don't dare! No!

He is different.
To what?

To you.

Desperation can make
a man forget himself.

Yes, but desperation does not
make every man a killer.

How long will you keep him
prisoner, fed, guarded?

My Bible.

Crusoe!
Please, please, Friday.

Keep walking, My Liege,
keep walking.

I will not waste our
food on you for long.

Hey.

(COUGHS)

(GASPS)

(COUGHS)

If I had known you
survived the Triton,

I'd have found and
killed you the same day.

It would have been as pointless
as digging into this rock.

(BOTH GRUNTING)

(COUGHING)

The roof's coming in.

(RUMBLING)

It will be your tomb.

(BOTH GRUNTING)

(RUMBLING)

(GRUNTING)

(FIRE CRACKLING)

FRIDAY: Crusoe!

(GRUNTING)

Crusoe,
you must get out now.

We have to get out.

I don't obey your orders.

Leave it,
it's worthless.

You're not a king. And they're not
diamonds, they're just rocks.

No. Diamonds!

What use is wealth to you here?
Please, come with us.

I'm king of this island, Crusoe.
I rule here.

Come on! NEUGENT: And
I judge you guilty.

There's blood on your
hands and you'll pay!

You're guilty of murder.

And you'll pay for
the blood on your hands.

You're dead Crusoe and
the sentence is death.

(BOTH GRUNTING)

FRIDAY: Are you okay?

Susannah.

Crusoe, please.

Susannah
is not there.

He used the smoke on you again.
I have the medicine.

CRUSOE: I thought
you were dying.

I'm stronger
than you imagine.

I imagine
you in many ways.

I hope you survive
without me.

Sometimes I fear
you survive too well.

I have to go.

I believe I'll
see this one day.

I would choose madness if it meant
that I could stay with you.

(SHUSHING)

It is a beautiful place.

It is.

Cribbage, cooking
and counting seeds.

And don't hate
the birds, Robin.

When they fly away, send
them with your love

and I'll look
out for them.

FRIDAY: Crusoe!

Please.

If you're so determined to choose
death, at least dig your own grave.

(WHISPERS)
Stay strong.

Thank you.

It's Daniel's birthday
today, my son.

I don't even know
if he's alive.

Crusoe.

Tell me, is the flower
dead or alive?

You cannot choose what is
happening where you cannot see.

But you can choose what
you want to believe.

They're having a party.

Yes, yes. They're
raising a toast to you.

Not to me, to
Daniel, then to me.

Susannah and Sophie. They're
in their new dresses

and Daniel
shined his shoes.

And what of your friend,
Blackthorn?

Oh, he's there.

The party's in
his drawing room.

And my father's there as well.

He pats his belly and he asks for another
piece of cake, that's three now.

Yes.

Happy birthday, Daniel.

Alice was
your grandmother.

She died
before you were born.

Is father with her?

No, Sophie.
Your father's alive.

And wherever he is, he knows
that it's your birthday.

And he's thinking
about you.