Play for Today (1970–1984): Season 7, Episode 4 - The Elephants' Graveyard - full transcript

[upbeat music]

Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.

[klaxon echoing]

[dog barking distantly]

[klaxon echoing]

[man whistling cheerfully]

[man whistling "Flower of Scotland"]

[he gasps]

[tense music]

[man whistling "Flower of Scotland"]

How's your luck, fella?



No too terrible.

Yourself?

Fine, thanks.

Aye, aye.

That's a game, eh?

Rain's wet, innit?

Aye.

And here's me off on the
sick with my back, too.

Look at the weather I get for it.

Those farmers have been praying again.

Waste of their prayers.

The weather forecast said it'd be sunny.

Is that right?

Aye. Heard it before I left for work.



Oh, you're no idle then?

Who, me?

Oh, not at all!

I'm toiling away like a cotton picker.

Is that right?

Aye.

Working as a postman.

Well, I mean, you've gotta
do something, don't you?

Gets you out the house.

Stops the bailiffs from getting in, eh?

[Man] Aye, mate.

Hey, I have a friend that's a postman.

His name's...

Oh, it's a job, no more, no less.

Hard on the feet, mind.

Aye, it would be.

Aye, that it is.

Mind you, them rare big
boots they make these days

will be a big help, eh?

No doubt about it.

You should get yourself some,

your feet are soaking.

Didnae know it was gonna rain.

Too many people listening
to weather forecasts.

Not enough to prayers.

So you're up here
delivering correspondence?

Aye, well...

To tell you the truth, fella,

sorry, what is it they call you?

Jody.

Aye, I'm Bunny.

To tell you the truth, Jody,

I'm just having a day off.

I couldnae stand it, it
was giving me a sore brain.

Need a break, no?

Sure thing.

Are you married?

Aye.

Wife think you're at work?

Funny enough, she does, aye.

That's why I'm all wet.

Saw you coming and panicked,

in case you were somebody I knew.

Might tell the wife on me.

Oh, if she finds out, I get the strap.

Bunny, son.

Prepare yourself to be found out.

How come?

I don't, know you, do I?

[Jody] No, no.

But if you tell lies,

you should do it expecting to get caught.

Sooner or later, you always get captured.

Doing well 'til I met you.

Christ, you're a great comfort.

Well, see.

I'm not just having a day off.

I don't have a job at all.

I invented it.

Made it up.

I've been roaming about these hills

for the last four days,
feeding the wife a line.

She thinks I'm pacing the
streets delivering letters.

Jesus!

Does she no query the
absence of the grey uniform?

Told her I was getting
measured for it tomorrow.

So where have you been hiding out, then?

[Bunny] The library.

Ach, the library's nae use.

Too easy spotted.

Aye, but it's warm in there.

See,

being a postman, I've gotta
start at six in the morning.

I mean, I'm sitting about
in that park freezing

waiting for those doors to open to me!

I've nae idea why I do it.

Tell lies, I mean.

Maybe you're just buying
yourself a wee bit of time.

To think.

But what for?

Well, if you knew that,
you wouldnae need to lie

in order to buy the time
to think, would you?

Yeah, with a head like that,

you must've worked in the factor's office!

I mean, give us a break, eh?

I mean, I'm just embarrassed
'cause I cannae get a job.

Ah, there's work to be had
if you try hard enough.

Ah, maybe I just don't like working.

Aye, and maybe that's because
you've just become of age

to ask yourself why you've been doing it.

I mean, dear Christ,
what I've been suffering

these last few days, I'd
be better off working.

I mean, it's a lot easier

to get up in the morning and go.

My nerves are like streamers.

My heart's in my mouth!

Sounds to me as if you've
just discovered you're alive.

Oh aye, me and the life
force are like that.

Stretch your hearts open.

She makes these up for me every night.

Cheese, every day.

Snap. Syrup.

Want to swap?

Seen an enemy?

No. No, nothing.

Nothing at all.

I was just thinking of my wee wife,

cutting and wrapping these for me

so as I can have a bite at work.

And here's you hanging about
like Robert the Bruce, eh?

Still,

she's hardly been up all
night slaving over a hot loaf.

That's for sure.

Oh, it's for certain.

Usually knock off my hours in the park

and feed these to the pigeons.

Hey, what are you doing up here, anyway?

I spent a wee un of good
days here when I was a boy.

Oh, did you? So did I.

I remember doing a keek
in this very corner here.

Christ, it's still there!

[laughs] Och, where are you in work?

Aye, there it goes.

The rain's off and the
sun just winked at us.

What are you doing with
the rest of the day, Jody?

Well,

by the time I've wiggled
my way through these,

the day'll be done with me.

Good grief.

Aye, you're nobody 'til somebody
calls you a dark wine eh?

Oh, aye.

How'd you get your hands on them?

Well, I sneaked the cash
out the wife's purse

when she was sleeping.

She's been keeping it in the same place

these 12 year past.

In a wee teapot in the display cabinet.

She'll miss it, mind, but ach.

Oh I'd rather be hung for a bottle of wine

than a sheep, any day.

Oh.

Have you any kids, Jody?

Aye, five.

Nae telly, eh?

Aye, very good.

Well, we'll crash the sunshine

and attack these bottles, eh?

[Bunny] Ah, it's getting cold in here.

Aye, damp. Creeps into
your bones like guilt.

[gentle harmonica music]

[they laugh]

Postman! [laughs]

Hey, it's not easy, you know.

On the night when I get home from work,

I've gotta invent men I work with!

And the wife will ask if
they've got any weans.

I invent weans.

The next day, she asks,
how's Billy's wean's leg?

Billy who? [scoffs] Nearly caught.

Don't have the memory for lies, Jody.

[Jody] Oh, you have to have the memory!

Suppose you take it in your stride?

Oh, come on, Jody.

Anyone who's up at this
time in the morning's

not off with a bad back.

Nor are they up at the clean
shout of a cuckoo clock.

You're up to naughty work!

You're playing the same game as myself.

Aye.

You've got the eyes of a kicked dog, eh?

Oh, Christ!

I've been wondering these
hills for a fortnight.

And my time's up tonight.

My wife thinks I'm working at the IBM.

It's supposed to be pay night tonight.

You're no nervous at all?

I told you!

If you tell lies, you've gotta do it

expecting to get caught!

I expect it.

And anyway, you get used to it.

And the relief when you confess

makes it all worthwhile.

So says you.

I don't see my wife sympathising

when I let her into my secret.

She'll eat the carpet.

Maybe she doesnae give
you any sympathy anyway.

Hey, you've been reading my letters.

You've done this before, then?

Oh, aye.

Mind you, I've never been a postman.

Bad enough inventing people at your work

if you're having to
invent streets as well.

Thought I'd chill this stuff.

Ah, so you do have a telly!

Hey, it makes no
difference to that anyway.

It's never seen a grape in its life.

It's a good year, that.

Aye. 12 o'clock last night?

As long as it delivers a
blow to the frontal lobes.

Hey, what if the force
of the water breaks them?

I don't know abut you, son,

but I'm great at a dead man's float.

[Bunny laughs]

[upbeat country music]

Ta.

You get neither chance nor choice.

You leave school and straight to work

without even thinking about it.

Then you get married without
even knowing about it.

Then spend the rest of your days

using both as an excuse

for never having done
anything with your life.

Speak for yourself.

I am!

And look at me!

All grown up, and here I am.

Holed up in the hills,
feared to let on to my wife

that I don't know what to do with myself.

I'm feared to let on I can't get a job.

Listen, cousin, you can shoot shit

to anybody you like, but not to yourself.

There's work to be had
if you've an eye for it.

Aye, well, as I said,

maybe I just don't like it.

Well, for something that simple,

it's having a funny effect on you.

I knew a guy once, didnae
work for five years.

Had a disastrous effect on him

when he was found out.

He ran a pure savage

when they tried to put the jacket on him.

Went berserk.

A straitjacket?

No.

A working jacket.

[they laugh]

Hey, that wine'll be chilled into lumps.

Well.

Here's a go to you, Bunny, son.

[he sighs]

Good God.

This is playing in the best of tough, eh?

Oh, aye.

The library's only a cinder park.

Aye, every day I've been in that place

I've been telling myself.

Right, I'm not gonna
suffer another day of this.

Soon as I get home tonight,
I'm gonna surrender.

Confess, give myself up.

But when you get in

in front of that telly,
everything's that easy.

'Til it shuts down for the night,

and you lie awake in the snake pit.

Then the worry haunts you.

'Cause I know, next day's gonna see me

jouking about that library
like a refugee as usual.

Skulk all about with your heart

sounding like a telephone exchange,

worried in case somebody's gonna spy you.

Christ, I've seen me
running through closes

and diving into bushes 'cause
I thought I recognised a face.

And you forever think that
people are looking at you

'cause they know you're a waster

who won't work to support his family.

You walk with that sort of
look about you, you know?

Oh, I know the feeling.

It's like when I had my first wank.

[Jody chuckles]

I barricaded myself in
the room for two days,

letting on I was ill.

Then you thought you'd chance
your luck in the street,

and they did notice you!

They knew your hands had been
doing dirty deeds, my boy.

Aye, must be the way I hold my mouth.

No, no.

You're just shouldering
enough guilt to buckle you.

Hunchbacks tend to get
recognised, you know.

Give us the wine.

On a long summer's day, you
can smell the heat for miles.

Only thing I remember
from school, that line.

[Bunny] Somebody make it up?

Aye, more'n likely some poet.

Must've been a day like
this he had his eye on.

I don't remember anything from school.

Not even a line.

I remember the holidays, though.

'Cause I always got a
new pair of sneakers.

Gave you your own freedom

that saw you running through
the long summer days.

The nights were never any clearer

than they are now, you know.

Nostalgia.

You're never far from your mammy's smell.

Oh, so your mummy kept
coal in the bath as well?

If you were as quick with that bottle

as you are with the craic, cousin.

It's coming over.

Ta.

[gentle country music]

Tell me, Bunny,

when was the last time you
had a look at these hills?

The last time?

Aye.

Christ, every time I look at
the back window I see them.

When's the last time you
let your senses slow down

so as you could see them,
and everything else,

the way it really is?

Christ's sake, Jody.

Have you been having that
stuff on your corn flakes?

Before you left the house?

I mean, you're talking like
you're wandering about the game.

About the game? We've
never even been in it!

Oh, we've been shown the rules,

but we've never been shown the
sort of beauty of the game.

What's the buggering beauty
of wandering up a hill

at 7:30 in the morning,
with the rain coming down,

trying to catch a bus for your work?

That's what I've been trying
to tell you, you eejit!

Don't call me an eejit!

I've got nae choice,
you're not related to me.

Och, look, Bunny, look.

When the sun catches your
eye, don't shut it out.

Away and fart in a can and rattle it.

I've nae clue what you're talking about.

Ach, you're young yet.

Aye, very good.

Time'll show it to you.

Forget about tomorrow.

Try and use yesterday.

Everything that happens
to you is good, you know.

Even the bad things.

Hey,

have you ever heard of
anybody having a bad jump?

[Bunny scoffs]

Have you ever heard of them

that got knocked over by
a bus thinking it good?

Ah, alright, alright.

Come on, we'll wander up the burn,

let things happen to us, eh?

Come on.

Jesus, Bunny, I'm getting drunk, are you?

Yes, thanks.

Great, in't it?

[Bunny chuckles]

Hey, another bottle to go to.

I don't mean to talk
funny to you, Bunny son.

It's just that, ach, sometimes
I get carried away, you know?

Jody, you talk as funny as you like.

Christ knows, you cannae talk any funnier

than what you've been doing.

Hey, do you think anybody's
gonna see us out here?

If there's somebody out here,

they're more'n likely
the same as ourselves.

And anyway, it'll only add

that wee bit more excitement to our game.

[laughs] I don't know if I can stand that.

It's barely bearable as it is.

I tell you, Bunny,

I've been living in the
same house this, oh,

12 year past.

And the other day,

I saw it from the other side of the street

for the first time.

You know something?

Didnae recognise it.

My own house.

Oh, I recognised my door,

'cause I sorta painted it and that.

And I knew the windows and the curtains.

But I'd never seen it from
that side of the street before.

Habit.

[bottle splashes]

Oh, hey!

That's really some experience.

You ought to report it

to the National Geographical Magazine!

Aye, alright, alright.

Christ, the men in the
white coats'll be knocking

on that door you painted.

All I want's the feel of money.

A car!

And a big house away from all this sludge.

See all that stuff of yours? Forget it.

Hills for me, they're just big lumps

with divots in them.

Give us a look, what's your way in?

Ach, you've ambition for us all, eh?

Don't "ach" me, you old twat.

Less of the old, kiddo.

Aye, you must be, your head's wandered.

I was wrong about you.

You are out here because
you cannae get a job.

That's what I told you, isn't it?

Now you're the one with the fancy patter.

There's supposed to be stacks of jobs

for guys like you that
can screw nuts onto bolts.

You should know, being
held together with them.

Christ. The six million dollar pensioner.

Aye, cheeky wee guy, aint you?

Oh, aye, you're as quick as him as well!

Ach, away and bow with you.

Watch this.

Watch this.

Ta-da! How about that for cheer cheek, eh?

Come on yourself, case of
The Four Feathers, is it?

[Bunny] It's nothing to do with that.

Oh, course it's not.

Oh, it's not, see?

If I fall amongst that stone and fall in,

I've gotta get home soaked.

That's what I said earlier.

Let it happen!

Oh, it's okay for you
in the old boiler suit.

This is Sunday best I've got on.

And anyway, you jumped
that like a crazed camel.

What?

I just floated across
those boulders like an elf!

Come on.

Come on!

Aye, okay, but I'm not jumping there.

[he chuckles]

-[Bunny groans]
-[Jody laughs uproariously]

Jesus!

-Jesus! [laughs]
-Aye,

well I don't think it's very funny.

Aw, no reason why you should.

[he laughs]

Now.

Oh, okay, I give in.

Up the way, Bunny, up.

A wee thing like this should be a doddle

to the likes of you.

Jesus, Jody, if that was a mountain,

I'd climb it without hesitation.

But if I get stuck halfway up there,

I'm gonna feel really stupid.

All you're concerned
about's the way you look.

Ego. I'm off.

Vanity?

Sanity. I think you
left yours in the house.

That's where it belongs.

Hey, Jody,

sorry to be the one to have to tell you,

but I think you're gonna
piss your trousers!

It's funny how height deceives you, innit?

It never looks high 'til you get up.

Hey, you're not much higher than my chest.

If you fell now it'd be
like jumping off a pavement.

Perseverance, that's what it's all about.

Yeah, you'd be better
persevering with a job.

Mind, but you're a daredevil! [laughs]

Oh, don't make me laugh, Bunny, please!

Hey, Jody, you've lost them!

So what's stopping you from leaping up

and galloping off into
the sunset? [laughs]

Hey, I cannae get a grip
of the divot, Bunny!

Nae kidding, honest!

I cannae hold on, man, spare!

Okay, coming.

Jesus Christ, diddy man.

[Bunny chuckles]

Hey, you look like a
worm coming out a hole.

I'm stuck!

Come on.

[they groan]

[Jody coughs]

[Bunny laughs]

I don't know what you're giggling at.

At least I did it.

I had to help you up, did I not?

Aye, but if I'd have been on my own,

I'd've done it, wouldn't I?

I mean, look around you!

Nobody's doing anything for themselves.

Oh, aye. If I was here
myself, I'd've done it.

And remember, I didnae ask you for help.

You certainly thirst for experience.

Listen you to me.

It's not got the beat into
me yet, I'll tell you.

What's not?

There's nothing for you to fight against,

you big diddy!

You're free as a bird.

Free? It's an illusion!

Aye, so's your bum.

I'm telling you, it's an illusion.

You can shout and bawl
as much as you like,

nobody's gonna arrest you.

But I'll tell you, Bunny, son.

We live in a sponge.

You can bite it, you can kick it,

shout and bawl against
it 'til you're hoarse.

Hey, what's the chance
of you getting hoarse?

I've a sore brain absorbing your shouts!

I've seen that in working
with your big union men.

Start off fine guys, think they
can articulate for the boys.

That's when the sponge takes over.

Get on TV, a wee interview here,

a chat show there.

Shows they can shout their
case even louder for the boys.

And that's them finished. Hoarse.

Alright, alright, that's enough of that.

I'm a union man myself.

Oh, union of postmen,
would that be? [chuckles]

Hey look, hear the way you talk,

you ought to take up something quick,

like the Band of Hope.

Oh, don't get wise and hope, son.

Mind you, I used to know a guy

that played the big drum in it.

His girlfriend used to
take up the collections.

When he was banging her he
used to just stretch her out

on top of the big drum and
roll it back and forth.

-Yahoo!
-Christ's sake,

cracking jokes, now?

Hey, there's nae end to
your talents, is there?

Hey, look.

You look stupid enough
climbing up that wee rock,

don't add to it.

At least I wasnae feared to look stupid!

Meaning I was?

Course you were, flannel merchant!

I coulda climbed that easy!

It's a peasy wee rock to climb!

Come on, then! Come on!

And bring that bottle of wine with you.

And what am I supposed to do with it?

Hold it in my teeth?

Oh, you cannae be bothered? I understand.

Look, if I wanted to climb that,

I could climb it with
stookies in both legs!

You're a big pudding!

Aye, alright, Tiger Tenzing!

Let's see you do this!

Let's see you do that,
then, you big dumpling.

That's harder than climbing
up your wee daft embankment.

You're only saying that
'cause you couldnae do it.

What I did was braver,
and you cannae do it!

Can I not, just?

Go on, admit it! You cannae do it.

You're only trying to put me off!

Go on, then, I want a laugh.

[he giggles]

[he laughs]

I told you you don't
have the agility of me!

You've the agility of a
dod of putty, you bastard!

Right, let's see you do this.

Aw, hey now.

Come on!

I'm not dressed for heroics, so I'm not.

Agility is it? We'll see about that!

Aye, but I only meant as far
as that rail was concerned!

Nae matter.

Do this, you swine.

-[he yelps]
-[Bunny laughs]

I don't know what you're laughing at!

You couldnae do it anyway!

Coward.

Oh hey.

Hey, wait a minute.

Hey, come on, I was joking!

I'm gonna batter you, you shite.

Come here!

No! Get off me!

Yahoo!

[upbeat folk music]

I'm gonna turn you into ambition!

Woohoo! [laughs]

-I'll get you!
-No you won't!

Hey!

[Bunny laughs]

Yahoo!

I'm gonna join the Olympics!

Watch this, then, up on the horses!

I'll get you!

Oh, no you won't! [laughs]

Come here!

No chance!

Come on, then!

You're a dumpling, I'm
telling you! [laughs]

You're all tired!

-Rubbish!
-Aye, you're knackered.

Ach, I give in. Oh.

[Jody laughs]

You ought to see your face.

Oh.

State of me.

My legs are really trembling.

Hey.

You and me's got to be mental.

Och, we're only getting sober.

Come on, we'll go down,
give that wine a seeing to.

Last one in's a big soft Tory!

No chance!

Oh, hey!

Easy! [laughs]

Come on, then!

[water rushing]

[they laugh]

Woohoo!

[Bunny yelps]

Bunny!

Bunny!

Bunny!

What?

You gave us a fright, are you alright?

Christ, a poet as well!

Get the wine while you're in there!

[scoffs] Aye, sure thing!

[Jody laughs]

Jesus, Jody, I'm drunk.

Head's going like a carnival.

Great, isn't it?

Fantastic. [chuckles]

Mind, when I was at sea,

used to work these 10 hour shifts

down in yon hellhole of an engine room.

But when the shift was finished,

we'd come back up to the deck,

it was either sunset or sunrise.

And stand about and have a look at it.

And you know, it was kinda holy?

Bet you didn't feel any guilt then.

Guilt?

That's what they give you in the cage

to make you controllable.

A man must work hard and
long and for nothing.

Physically punish himself with toil

so as to close the distance
between him and his maker.

For idle hands are the tools of the devil,

so he who will not work is a waster.

That's a good 'un.

Do you know that one about
Pat, Mick and the minister?

Alright, alright.

You're young yet, I forgot.

You jealous?

No. Well, not in the way you're thinking.

I just don't like to see
young boys wasting themselves.

So how should I use my time, then?

Can you tell your wife's footsteps?

Course I can!

Could you recognise your own?

You don't know better than anyone else.

I know what I'm doing.

Don't you worry, you're
the one that's lost.

I still don't like to see
boys wasting themselves.

And how would you know
if I was wasting my time?

I knew a young fella once,

thought he had to get married

because he got this lassie pregnant.

Oh, come on!

What's that got to do
with the price of coal?

Well, you see, when he found
out that she was pregnant,

he was up all night, greeting, worrying,

chewing the curtains, worried about

what his mother might think, I mean,

it wasnae his mother he
was gonna have to work for

for the rest of his life.

So, what happened?

He's only another 39 year to go.

Married out of embarrassment, ignorance.

Oh come on, how would you know that?

[Jody] I'm telling you!

By the time he worked up the
courage to tell his mother,

that was him happy.

Poor soul.

Ach, hundreds of guys get married

when their lassies are expecting.

I mean, they don't do it just
to keep the family happy.

You would know, eh?

Aye, I would!

Because it happened to me.

I was embarrassed to
tell my mother and that,

but I got married because I wanted to.

Aye.

I thought that too when it happened to me.

18 year ago.

And anyway, you've been saying

that whatever happens to you,

you've gotta let it.

Aye, but you've gotta learn from it.

He convinced hisself that
whatever happened to him

was what he'd always wanted to.

Wait, you're talking about me, aren't you?

You think I'm some kind of
diddy that cannae think?

I came top at our school, you know.

Aye.

A wee gold star on top of your page

to show that you could
do your five times table?

What's that gotta do with anything?

You need the stars.

You cannae do anything without them!

You can't even serve
sweeties in Woolworths

without a handful of O Levels.

Rules of the game again!

So you've played by the rules,

and you were ducks at your school.

Where's the job, eh?

That's different.

Is that right?

Aye, it is.

'Cause maybe I just, I don't
want a job just now, maybe.

Och, give us the bottle.

You've the build of a man
and the mind of an infant.

They're here as your guidance,

we're here as their conscience.

I'm surprised you're here at all.

I thought they only
let you out at weekends

after they check with your relations.

Aye you havnae a thought in
your head, have you, son?

Oh, you've got the patter
and the quick craic

to stop you thinking about anything.

You're a bampot, I've a
good mind to belt you one.

What?

You couldnae belt a Burberry.

Ah, wait a minute, you
eejit, mind the wine!

Mind the wine!

You have to watch it with
these delicate wines, Bunny.

They don't travel very well.

[Bunny laughs]

Oh, Jesus.

I think I'll run away to sea in a whaler.

Become an explorer.

Just leave the house one morning,

never be seen again.

I told you I was at sea once.

Not much older than you.

It was great, but I ended up back here.

Well, if I go-

Aye, you will.

Well, if I do,

I'm not gonna end up back here.

You don't think so?

No.

Well,

look at me.

Hey, Bunny.

Come here.

Come on over here, look.

Now see the trail leading
down to the bank there,

the sandy bit?

[Bunny] Aye, I see it.

[Jody] Now look, look hard at it.

Now imagine that wee
burn's a big wide river

and these pebbles are boulders.

-Now look.
-What?

[Jody] Now look there,
coming down the trail,

towards the riverbank, a waggon train.

See all the people?

Some of them dressed in black
with big wide brimmed hats?

Must be Mormons or something.

What're you on about?

[Jody] Look!

There's the first waggons about to cross!

First two horses are in the
water, up to their bellies.

They've stopped, they must be waiting

on a scout or something.

Hey, there's the scout.

He's halfway across,
he's pulled up his horse,

he's waving them on, see?

See?

Hey, look over there.

Behind those boulders.

Indians! Apaches!

Hey, and those poor souls
cannae even see them,

it's gonna be a wipe out!

All those women and weans, too.

Singing songs waiting
for their turn to cross.

And that wee lassie, playing
with a wee doll in the grass.

Look at that scout riding out.

You'd think he'd make
it over the other side

after making all this way to them.

Apaches don't take prisoners, you know.

Hey look at this fella here!

He thinks nobody can see him,

with his long black pantaloons

and his silver buckles on his shoes.

He suspects.

He's reading a Bible.

He'll be the first to go, that fella.

Arrow right through the body for him.

Don't like this, Jody.

All these kids and women.

Apaches go in for torture, don't they?

[Jody] Ach, it might not come to that.

They were hardy men in them days.

Different from what they are now.

[Bunny] Hey, the Apaches are
moving through the cover!

-They're gonna attack!
-[ominous music]

No, they'll wait a while yet,

there's only four waggons in the water,

they'll want four more so
as they cannae turn back.

Christ, look! The leading
horse has just fallen!

The chief's just jumping out
from behind that big rock.

Clapped inches, looks like he's
got eyes for it, doesn't he?

Hey look, he's holding up his lance.

[horse neighing]

When he brings it down,

all those women and kids are gonna get it.

[Jody] Aye, there's nae way
they can get out to them,

the waggons are out too deep.

[Bunny] Well at least
that'll stop the Indians

from getting out to them.

Och, you're not watching right,

they're gonna fire lighted arrows!

There'll be nowhere for them to go

except into the water.

They'll stay behind the rocks

and pick off anybody
that tries to help them.

There goes the first arrow,

it's gone right into the
canvas of the waggon!

It just burst into flames!

-[men shouting]
-[gunshots echoing]

[Jody] Look at that,
the panic's spreading.

There's fellas running
about all over the place,

bumping into each other.

All the young weans,

they don't know what to do, where to go.

-[men shouting]
-[children screaming]

-[gunshots echoing]
-[men shouting]

-[hoof beats pounding]
-[Apaches shouting]

[gunshots echoing]

It's a massacre!

No it's not.

These men have spirit.

Ah well, if they did, it's wasted now.

Don't be daft.

That's the chance I was telling you about.

They knew what might happen.

But they battered on.

These men are going
through the door, Bunny,

without knowing what's on the other side.

They'll make it.

No, they won't!

And don't you try to humour me.

And don't bring in the bloody cavalry!

They always come in at the right moment.

Nae cavalry, you hear?

Hey, hey, look, Bunny, look!

The Apaches are split,
hey, they're fighting back!

You're a lying bastard.

They're just butting
their heads off of bricks.

There is nae way out!

[rock splashing]

[he sniffs quietly]

Don't greet, Bunny, son.

It's only a picture.

Hey, you never got Apaches

when Mormons came through, anyway.

[they chuckle]

It's the wine.

Oh, I know.

You need battering about
the head 'til it clears.

Come on.

Hang on a minute, the right way round.

Aye, take care.

Christ, Jody, are we daft?

I mean, do other guys do this?

Well, if they don't, they should.

Gives you that wee bit of time.

So you're always saying.

By the time I find out what it's all for,

it will have run out.

Not at all!

Just patient, the way
out soon will catch up.

Even if you're on your deathbed,

it'll give you that wee
glimpse afore it leaves you.

Funny, the way it does that.

Remember being at the old fella's bed

when he was on his way out.

Told me to sit next to him.

Didnae look at me.

Just looked out the window at these hills.

He snuffed it.

One second he was there,

next he was dead.

And I actually thought I saw
the breath come out his mouth

and fly out that window.

Couldnae catch it.

Same man I'd known all my life.

There was just this
thing missing, you know?

Hey, come on.

It's time you and me were
heading for headquarters.

[relaxed country music]

It's funny how you age.

The only buggering thing
that doesnae change about me

is this boiler suit.

I've been wearing them
every day of my time,

same old navy blue.

Mind you,

they say it's a nice colour.

They say it's kinder to you

as you get older and that, no?

Listen to you, you think
life's hardly worth living.

You've been listening wrong.

And you're just the same
as the rest of us, trapped.

You can only hope for better things.

Aye, that's how I got old,
without even noticing it.

Oh, this drink's wearing off.

Beginning to get feared
of that wife again.

Ach, it's nothing to do with her.

You're only using her.

You're a funny man.

I don't think you believe in anything.

Ach, don't be daft, course I do.

What then?

I read a book once
about three or four guys

going to sea on a whaler.

It might even have been Moby Dick.

Anyway,

they were sitting on deck

with a big bucket thing in front of them.

With bits of whale in it.

And they were massaging it

to make blubber or whatever you call it,

to make scent.

And they were sitting there,
squeezing and squeezing.

And every now and again
their fingers would touch

and they'd pull away all embarrassed.

They just sat there, nobody spoke.

They got drunk.

Well, in the book it says
they get drunk in the scent,

but me, I think they got
drunk on each other's company.

They sort of floated and
formed a kind of bond.

Something like that happened today, Bunny.

Did you feel it? Between us, I mean?

I felt it.

When we all start to share and feel that,

then we'll start moving again.

And up until then?

I doubt it.

[bottle smashing]

I'm staring at 40.

But up to then, it's the
elephants' graveyard.

[gentle country music]

It's where you come to die.

And nobody knows where it is but yourself.

See you again, Bunny, son.

The best to you, Jody.

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