The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson (1998–…): Season 1, Episode 12 - Princess from the Sea: Part 3 - full transcript

The family still look to each other - and often the dear Lord - for comfort, support and guidance as they struggle with life in the natural world which at times feels like a tropical paradise and other times like a prison. The family decide to build a fort on a hill to defend themselves in the event of attack again from any third parties such as pirates/natives. While searching for driftwood, Ernst sees a beautiful native girl arrive alone in a canoe. She is tired and distressed. He is trying to befriend her when a war canoe arrives in pursuit of the girl. She and Ernst hide in the burial chamber, where they are finally rescued by David. The family revive the girl and discover she is a princess, Moya the daughter of the king (the same king from Book Two ). Moya tells the family that a tribal war has broken out on their island. Her father has been killed and she has run away because her life is in danger. The family decide to welcome Moya into the family fold. Unknown to the family, the shaman has stayed behind from the war party, determined to kill the princess since she is heiress to her native kingdom. Moya starts to live with the family and the two cultures come to understand something of each others ways. Ernst becomes infatuated with the girl. Moya is an expert pearl diver and offers to help the family search the wreck for additional materials that may be useful for the new fortress the family are building. .The shaman, casting his dark spell, gets Moya into difficulties as she searches the submerged wreck. She is rescued by David, but shortly after, the family are alarmed to see another war canoe arrive. Fleeing to their newly built fort the family prepare to defend themselves. To their relief they discover the native party is led by the young man to whom Moya is betrothed. He has defeated the rival group and come in search of Moya. With the shaman vanquished, Moya and her prince return to their island, leaving Ernst broken-hearted at Moya's leaving - but he knows she must return to where she belongs and perhaps one day the Robinson family will return to their own home too.

Moya.

[SMACK]

[LAUGHTER]

MOYA: Much better.

Yes.

[GROAN]

I hate you.

I hate you all.

[SHRIEK]

Papa, save her!

MOYA: [INAUDIBLE].



We make new boat.

Everybody go.

JOANNA ROBINSON: Look at

the shell Billy found.

[THEME MUSIC]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

MOYA: [GASP]

See that, Moya?

Moya?

Moya, what is it?

Not good.

Not like.

Devil shell.



Very bad.

- DAVID ROBINSON: Well, it's.
- Not going to hurt you, Moya.

- No, that... that's all right.
- Uh, Billy.

Take it away.

Throw it back in the ocean.

ELIZABETH ROBINSON:

That's a good boy, Billy.

Is that better, Moya?

Emily.

CHRISTINA ROBINSON:

You're wearing pants.

JOANNA ROBINSON: You said

pants weren't dignified.

In China, many ladies

wear pants like this.

It's quite respectable.

- DAVID ROBINSON:
- Well, now that you've.

- Gotten rid of your.
- Skirts, you going.

To join us down at the beach?

I'll teach you how to

sail raft like I learn to.

No.

Thank you.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

That's good.

Put here.

Now chop here and here.

So they fit together, right?

Yeah.

Then we tie it together.

DAVID ROBINSON: Excellent.

Joanna, hand me the ax, please.

Thank you.

[CHOPPING]

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

[GROWL]

Please, Joanna.

Can you tell me a bedtime

story like you used to at home?

Oh.

What story do you want?

The one about a sea monster.

Oh, Christina.

You'll have nightmares.

Oh, yes.

I know.

Please, Joanna?

Please?

Oh, all right.

Once upon a time, there was a

little girl called Christina

who lived on an island.

You mean me?

Yes, Christina, you.

Now keep quiet.

- This little girl.
- Called Christina.

Lived on an island paradise.

How did she get there?

You know very well

how she got there.

Her family was shipwrecked.

Now don't keep

interrupting me, or we'll

never finish this story.

So one day, Christina

was swimming.

Was a mermaid there?

- JOANNA ROBINSON: Yes,
- the mermaid was there.

What about the sea god?

- JOANNA ROBINSON:
- Christina, will you.

Let me finish the story or not?

Sorry, Joanna.

JOANNA ROBINSON: All right.

Well, Christina was swimming

one day with the mermaid

when all of a

sudden, the sea god,

who looked like a huge monster,

rose from the waves and roared.

Now, the mermaid was

a really good swimmer,

and she managed to escape.

But Christina was too slow,

and got caught by the sea god

and pulled to the bottom of the

sea and tied up with seaweed.

Did she get rescued?

You'll find out if you listen.

So while Christina was at

the bottom of the sea...

Oh, that feels good.

Do you know you

have a permanent smile

on your face these days?

Oh, do I?

Yes.

Except when you're

frightening sharks or pirates.

- Well, except for.
- Sharks and pirates,

It's not a bad life here, is it?

Well, I'm very happy here

in our little garden of Eden.

Well, so am I.

But what about the children?

The children?

Well, I just want them to

grow up straight and strong

and fearing nothing but God.

Hm.

But which God?

Christina is fascinated

by Moya's sea god stories.

And Ernst...

Oh, Ernst?

Well, he's just fascinated.

Ouch.

- ERNST ROBINSON (VOICEOVER):
- My father was right.

I was fascinated.

We all were, except

Emily, whom I suspect

resented Moya's presence.

I also wondered if somehow

I was falling in love,

and if Moya shared

the same sentiment.

Before long, I was

to have my answer.

There, that's done.

- It's good.
- Yes, it is.

ELIZABETH ROBINSON: Is that it?

Yes, my dear.

- You're just in time.
- For the launching.

All right, everyone.

Give her a push!

[WATER SPLASHING]

Oh.

It floats.

Of course it floats.

Yes, darling.

Of course it floats.

Can we go to the reef?

No.

No one's going anywhere yet.

First, we must make paddles.

- DAVID ROBINSON: Yes, and.
- Then we must practice.

Our swimming and diving.

It's very deep water out there.

Oh.

Do not worry,

little Christina.

- Moya teach you how.
- To swim underwater.

Yes?

Oh, yes, please.

Emily too?

No.

No thank you.

- I'll stay on dry land.
- With Mrs. Robinson.

Oh.

[WATER SPLASHING]

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

[WATER SPLASHING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Ah!

[LAUGHING]

Oh, Billy.

[LAUGHING]

[WATER SPLASHING]

Ah.

[WATER SPLASHING]

Ah, hello, son.

Oh, you're doing

well there, Father.

DAVID ROBINSON: Oh.

[WATER SPLASHING]

DAVID ROBINSON: Excellent.

[WATER SPLASHING]

Very good.

DAVID ROBINSON: Ah.

Excellent, excellent.

[SHRIEKS AND WATER SPLASHING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

- ELIZABETH ROBINSON: David,
- come and look at this.

- DAVID ROBINSON:
- What is it, my dear?

- Oh, you've done it!
- Yes.

Linen thread.

Gosh, Mama.

You are clever.

- Well, we think.
- So, don't we, Emily?

- Now I'll have to start.
- Devising a loom to weave it.

- That shouldn't.
- Be too difficult.

Oh, good!

And how have you got on today?

- How are they coming along, Moya?
- Good.

Very good.

- Ah, they're all.
- Swimming like fish.

Yes, and tomorrow we go reef.

Yay!

MEDICINE MAN:

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] You're.

JOANNA ROBINSON: That's it.

That's good.

- ELIZABETH ROBINSON:
- Yes, that's right.

Keep going.

May I have a go, Mama?

Yes, of course.

Just let Moya do a little more.

[BUZZING]

[GRUNTING]

[BUZZING]

- ELIZABETH ROBINSON:
- Moya, what is it?

Do... do you have a pain?

[MOAN]

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

[MOAN]

Moya, what is it?

[MOANING]

Ah!

MEDICINE MAN: [GROWLING]

Ah!

- MEDICINE MAN:
- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

Ah!

- ELIZABETH ROBINSON:
- What is it, dear?

Tell me.

I... I do not know.

It's like something or

someone inside my head.

It's gone now.

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

DAVID ROBINSON: Off we go.

Oh, Papa.

I wish you'd let me come.

Not this first time, darling.

Oh, but Mama,

we're not babies.

Are we, Billy?

I'm not.

Next time, Christina.

Not fair.

Life's never fair, Christina.

- Life is what you.
- Make of it, Ernst.

- Is everyone ready?
- Yes.

Yes.

Well, then let's go.

Come along now, Christina.

There's a good girl.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

[LAUGHING]

All right, stop.

I think this is the place.

Looks like it.

Joanna, drop your anchor.

Aye aye, Captain.

Yes.

Plenty reef here.

I hope plenty ship as well.

I go see.

[WATER SPLASHING]

MEDICINE MAN: [LAUGHING]

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

[EERIE MUSIC]

- ERNST ROBINSON: She's been down.
- There an awfully long time.

You don't think

anything's happened to her?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

- Moya.
- You frightened us.

- Did you see the wreck?
- No wreck.

DAVID ROBINSON: No sign at all?

Bad thing.

What bad thing?

Much danger.

Nothing down here for family.

We must go.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[GRUNT]

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

ELIZABETH ROBINSON: You know, I

used to do this with my mother,

except she didn't have to

start making it all herself.

No luck.

Moya says that the wreck has

broken up and washed away.

ERNST ROBINSON: And it's

too dangerous to dive.

Oh, what a shame.

After all that effort.

And Moya?

Well, I think she feels that

we've offended the sea god.

She's by the cliffs,

performing one of her rituals.

- CHRISTINA ROBINSON:
- Oh, can I go see?

- ELIZABETH ROBINSON:
- Christina, no.

CHRISTINA ROBINSON: I

want to see the sea god!

Christina, there is no

such thing as a sea god.

Yes, Papa.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Why you follow Moya?

I wanted to see you alone.

Jealous?

Jealous.

It means you're beautiful,

strong, a princess.

Yes.

I think bad things about you.

Yes.

Moya can feel.

But one day you be princes too.

I'm sorry about your boat.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Come.

I'll take you back.

You friend.

[BLOW PIPE]

Ah.

Emily.

[GROAN]

Emily.

[GRUNT]

She's sick.

[GRUNT]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Moya, is there

anything we can do?

- Do you know what.
- The poison is?

Devil shell.

Is there an antidote?

A cure?

Moya?

Come.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Moya!

Devil shell.

Beyond the reef?

Devil shell take life

and give life back.

- Devil shell provides.
- Its own antidote.

Make Emily better.

Isn't it too dangerous?

You said so yourself.

Moya go.

Emily friend.

[WATER SPLASHING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[GRUNT]

Moya, I think I should go.

You no good swim.

Moya go.

[WATER SPLASHING]

[EERIE MUSIC]

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

[EERIE MUSIC AND BUZZING]

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[EERIE MUSIC]

ERNST ROBINSON: No.

Moya.

[WATER SPLASHING]

What's happening?

I hope she hasn't drowned.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Moya.

Come on.

[COUGHING]

[GRUNT]

[COUGHING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[DOG WHINING]

- DAVID ROBINSON: We're.
- Going to track him down.

Before he harms anyone else.

Yes, dear.

- I've left the.
- Pistol at my house,

But I want you to

pull up the ladder

- and don't open the.
- Door till we get home.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

He came from the cove.

My guess is he's hiding

in the burial chamber.

Ernst, look.

ERNST ROBINSON: Oh, no.

[DOG WHINING]

Any sign of them, Mother?

No.

- Moya, you'd better.
- Stay out of sight.

No, I with you.

All right.

- Everyone knows what to do.
- Billy?

- BILLY: Yes, sir.
- Joanna?

JOANNA ROBINSON: Yes, Father.

Christina.

Where's Christina?

I thought she was with you.

Oh, my Lord.

Christina!

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

Come on, Henrietta.

Come on, darling.

- We've got to go.
- Come on.

We've got no time to waste.

Come on.

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Now, now.

Calm down.

You don't want those nasty

men to eat you, do you?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[SCREAM]

[GRUNT]

[EERIE MUSIC]

Moya.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Adu!

Adu!

DAVID ROBINSON: All right.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

ADU: Medicine man dead.

Adu, new king.

That's wonderful, dear.

And he wants you

to be his queen?

Yes, we marry.

CHRISTINA ROBINSON: You're

going to be a real live queen?

Will we have to bow to you?

You my friend.

You save my life.

You come live my island.

Yes, we are your friends.

But this island is our home now.

Thank you, Moya.

[BIRD SCREECHING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Won't be a minute.

You want come say goodbye?

Uh, no.

You want come my island?

Uh, thanks, but, um,

I think Father's right.

One day, you find girl.

For you.

Say you no forget Moya.

I won't forget you, Moya.

MOYA: Come.

Goodbye.

- ERNST ROBINSON (VOICEOVER):
- I was pleased that Moya.

Was reunited with Adu.

Goodbye.

ERNST ROBINSON (VOICEOVER):

As I watched them sail away,

I realized that for

all my infatuation

they truly loved each

other and belong together.

As I belonged on the

island with my family,

to whom I could always

turn for love, support,

and understanding,

which were always

there throughout my

life and the family's

adventures on the island.

But I will never forget Moya,

the princess from the sea.

THEME SONG: Time to

go, a ship is leaving.

No time for breathing,

life goes on.

Hm, ah.

When I see we're on

the same side fighting,

then it's time to leave.

Should have known how

the rain was falling.

Now we love so much more,

cause that's what life's for.

Get away.

Ah, ah.

We should get away.

This is the moment.

The day by day the

world will go away.

With you by my side,

I know what is right.

And I will stay with

you if you decide.

We should get away.

Get away.

Get away from it all.

[MUSIC PLAYING]