The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson (1998–…): Season 1, Episode 16 - The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson - full transcript
Monsoon winds have destroyed the family's crops and set their animals free. Tensions run high between family members now that they're faced with the prospect of starting again and once more have to go hunting for food. Ernst in particular is angry with David for seeming to have given up on the daily ritual of lighting the beacon, in the hope of attracting rescue. He confronts his father and an angry scene ensues. Elizabeth confirms David's growing realization that Ernst is simply coming of age and both pray that he receives guidance from the dear Lord as he struggles with approaching manhood in the tropical ( and at times dangerous/claustrophobic paradise). During a hunting expedition, Billy, Ernst and Emily are "haunted" by a ghostly sound. Emily is already convinced of the presence of ghosts on the island, and the nightly moaning of the monsoon winds only adds to the feeling of dread. The ghostly figure of an old man appears to Christina and terrifies her. When the old man appears to Ernst, the young man gives chase, only to be captured by the old man and kept prisoner in a cave. The old man turns out to be "Raven Jones", an almost mythical pirate and adventurer who escaped hanging and disappeared many years ago. Driven mad by years of solitude, Jones is paranoid that the Robinsons are searching for an imagined horde of treasure, hidden somewhere on the island, which he has been looking for himself. Jones has been trying to drive them away from the island with his ghostly antics. He prepares to kill Ernst, but by appealing to the hero that Raven Jones once was, Ernst wins a stay of execution. By now, however, Parsons has got wind of the "treasure" and comes after Raven Jones. There is a violent confrontation, during which Raven Jones is killed defending Ernst, who is left hanging over a ravine. Parsons has Ernst at his mercy. The family arrive just in time to save Ernst and it is Parsons who ends up in the ravine. David and Ernst are reconciled. But Parsons lives to fight another day. Raven Jones is given a decent burial, and the family discover a bountiful crop of rice, grown by the man over many years (his real treasure). Ernst in turn through his narration realizes that his particular treasure is the love and support of his family.
[THEME MUSIC]
- ERNST (VOICEOVER): For.
- Weeks, now the monsoon.
Has raised without
letting up and our morale
is at its lowest end.
The rain stopped momentarily
only to be replaced by howling
winds heralding even more rain.
All that we have built, with the
merciful exception of the tree
house, lies in ruin.
- Our enclosures.
- Have been breached,
- And most of the.
- Animals have fled.
It's no use!
We have to give up!
Don't worry about the piglets,
we'll come back for them later!
They'll be all right.
Let's go to the house
and help the others!
- ERNST (VOICEOVER):
- We have tried somehow.
To protect our crops, which
have mostly been destroyed,
- and I fear the monsoon.
- Is taking its toll.
On our health and well-being
as well as our morale.
Barnabas!
- ERNST (VOICEOVER):
- Christina is more.
- Concerned, however,
- for the well-being.
Of a beloved pet pig... Barnabas.
[SQUEALING]
[GASP]
Barnabas!
We've run out of food.
You'd better keep quiet.
Why don't you stop
this now and take a rest?
I brought you some food.
I don't need anything!
You should eat something.
I'll have something later!
See if Billy needs it.
Where's Ernst?
Where do you think he is?
- ELIZABETH: Is he on.
- The lookout again?
Lookout?
He'd burn down half of this
island to attract a ship!
It's important to him.
What's important is
clearing up this mess!
Shall I talk to him?
No, Elizabeth,
I'll talk to him.
- Well don't be.
- Hard on him, David.
A boy his age needs a challenge.
Elizabeth, look around you!
Isn't this challenge
enough for any man?
You know what I mean.
If you don't help me,
Billy, no one else will.
Shush.
Father says the winds
will die down soon.
- Then there won't be.
- Any point in making it.
I don't even know
how to make a kite!
It's easy!
All you have to do is
tie two sticks together
and cover it with cloth.
Well do it yourself, then!
Ask Joanna.
She's helping mama.
Ernst is busy, too.
Besides, he's in a bad mood.
Please say you'll help me?
Yes!
Fish for dinner.
Hm.
- If the rain holds.
- Off, we should.
Be able to light the beacon.
- I could have used some.
- Help this morning, son.
Mending fences?
Doesn't seem to be much point.
What do you mean by that?
When we were first marooned
here, we prayed didn't we?
We sat together and we
prayed to God, thanking
him for our deliverance.
Yes.
- ERNST: Well don't.
- You sometimes wonder.
What he has in store now?
Why did he save us?
There has to be a reason.
I think he wants us
to escape from here.
Listen to me, Ernst.
Not a day goes by that
I don't pray to see
a sail come over that horizon.
- Do you think I want my.
- Children to grow up here, cut.
Off from the rest of the world?
Then let's do something.
Let's take the raft.
Absolutely not.
The whole idea's preposterous.
We're doing everything we can.
We have the beacon,
we have each other.
And that's all we have.
Except our prayers, of course.
It's all right, Barnabas.
I brought you some dinner, see?
Barnabas?
It doesn't pay to form
attachments with the pigs.
- You might get indigestion.
- When you eat them.
Please don't tell!
We can't eat Barnabas!
He's just a baby?
- Haven't you heard.
- Of suckling pig?
It's quite a delicacy in
your country, I believe.
Of course, in China we
prefer them boiled and...
Stop it!
He'll hear you.
Please don't tell.
If you keep it a secret, I'll...
You'll what?
I'll let you fly my kite.
What kite?
I'll let you make me one.
ELIZABETH: Christina!
Your mother is calling you.
Please?
Maybe.
Did you wash your hands?
Yes.
Let me see.
I mean... I was about
to when you called.
Well off you go and
wash them now, please.
Thank you.
Where's Billy's fish?
- What do you want to do.
- With your life, Billy?
Do with it?
What do you want to be?
- I'm Billy Cobb.
- What else could I be?
- Someday, I'm going.
- To tell the world.
The... the story of this island.
I'm going to write a book
about our ship wreck,
adventures, and our escape.
You could help me.
We could set up a printing
press in Boston, perhaps.
No.
Why not?
I'm not a scholar.
But you could be.
- When we get back.
- To civilization,
You can be whatever you want.
Thank you, Master Ernst, but
when the rescue ship comes I'll
stay here.
Stay?
Billy, your days of
slavery are over.
You're free.
Yes.
But if I go back...
You'll be safe with us.
I'm not like you, Ernst.
They'd make me a slave again.
It's only here on the
island that I'm free.
- ERNST (VOICEOVER): All.
- My thoughts of Boston.
- Now seemed irrelevant.
- When I considered.
- What actually lay.
- Ahead, and which
Bruno was the first to sense.
[GROWLING]
(SPEAKING) What is it, Bruno?
What?
[BARK]
There's no one there.
You're just imagining things.
[CACKLING]
DAVID: Well someone took it.
How long did you leave it there?
No more than a minute!
All I did was turn my
back, and it was gone.
- Christina?
- What?
- If this was one.
- Of your pranks...
I didn't take it.
Honestly.
What about Billy?
- Well last I saw.
- Billy, he was going.
To stand watch with Ernst.
Joanna?
I was down by the river
looking for berries.
Unless...
What?
- Some animal might.
- Have taken it.
No, I'd have seen it.
I'm sure.
- Something must.
- Have taken the fish.
Something, or someone?
Well, who's going to tell
Billy it's coconuts for supper?
[SQUAWKING]
What you got?
- It's a fever, if.
- I'm not mistaken.
What's that?
It's a fish.
I can see it's a fish.
I want weapons,
powder, and shot.
I did my best.
That's all I could find.
- Well that will have.
- To do then, won't it?
Still awake?
The house is moving.
It's just the wind
rocking you to sleep.
Good night, mama.
Good night, dear.
Good night, Barnabas.
We'll hunt in two parties.
- Ernst, you and.
- Billy go together.
Joanna will come with me.
I suggest you stick to the
paths you already know.
And whatever happens, don't
get separated from one another.
And Emily?
- Emily will do whatever.
- She chooses, as usual.
Joanna?
What do you say to a
good sporting wager?
Whoever brings home the
least amount of food cooks
for the others, agreed?
Agreed.
Agreed.
Good.
May the best hunters win.
- EMILY: I don't know.
- Why I'm doing this.
It's hardly a reward for
keeping quiet, is it?
I think you must
like Barnabas.
No I don't!
There.
That should be strong enough.
Where did you learn to do that?
From my father.
Everyone makes kites in China.
Some shaped like boxes,
others with dragon faces
and great long tails.
- Can we paint a.
- Face on this one?
If you like.
Thanks for not telling on me.
It's none of my business
what you get up to.
Although I must say, I
felt sorry for poor Billy
- when I heard his.
- Fish had disappeared.
I didn't take the fish!
Well who took it, then?
It wasn't me.
Unless, of course,
it was a ghost.
This island is
crawling with them.
Ghosts?
Oh, yes.
Every kind of spirit.
You must have heard them.
I hear them all the time.
I talk to them.
Where do the spirits live?
In the trees, in the rocks.
Depends what kind
of spirit they are.
Are they friendly?
Most of them.
But I expect there are
some mean ones, too.
Really?
[CACKLING]
Billy, why don't
we rest here a while?
We aren't exactly
having any luck.
Ernst, when I said I wanted
to stay on the island I
didn't mean you had to.
Yeah, I know.
A ship will come.
You can have your
printing press.
Perhaps.
Your father's a great man.
If anyone can find their
way off this island, he can.
You know the secret to
survival in this world, Billy?
It's knowing when
to take a risk.
Something my father has
forgotten, if he ever knew it.
[SQUEAL]
Not bad, eh Billy?
Even if I do say so myself.
Come on.
Look at this.
Wow.
Look at the size of this porker.
Just one shot.
Can I have my arrow back?
- Emily, what are.
- You doing here?
Hunting.
May I?
Uh, this is my arrow.
Ernst, look.
[CACKLING]
Come on, grab the pig.
Fit for a king.
Billy, this is one wager
I was happy to lose.
- Tell me, who brought.
- Down the beast?
You or Ernst?
It was a joint effort, sir.
Well you must tell me all
about it... every detail.
I want you to spare nothing.
After which, Joanna will
recount our experiences.
That won't take long.
One lame rabbit.
And even that eluded us.
Well come on.
This is more like a wake.
- What happened to all.
- Of you out there?
Oh David, leave them alone.
They're tired and hungry.
Just let them eat.
Oh, my dear.
That was splendid.
Now then, who's going to
entertain us with a story?
- Emily says the.
- Island is haunted.
Haunted?
Ah, there's a thing.
By evil spirits.
They stole Billy's fish.
A spirit... but she's not evil.
She's a lady of noble birth.
Very finely dressed.
- She walks along.
- The beach at night.
Well what is she
doing on this island?
She was to be married.
He was the captain of the ship.
They were to marry once they
reached their destination,
but the ship floundered
and they were both drowned.
- Now the white lady.
- Walks the shoreline,
Pining for a dear departed.
But why did she steal from us?
EMILY: Wedding gifts.
But why didn't she talk to us?
She'd like to, Christina,
more than anything.
But, of course, there's one
great problem with that.
You see, she has no head!
[SCREAM]
[LAUGHING]
Now that's enough.
That is enough, or nobody
will sleep tonight.
Come, let's have another one.
Ernst, you're a writer.
There's lots
about Raven Jones.
Who's Raven Jones?
He's not real.
He's a legend.
Raven Jones was an adventurer.
He was once an
officer... a Navy man.
But, he led a mutiny.
- They call him raven.
- Because of a tattoo.
He wore... the symbol
of his free spirit.
- It was said that no.
- Jail could hold him.
- And he had his.
- Chance to prove it.
That's right.
He was captured... high treason.
They held them in the
tower awaiting execution.
But Raven taunted his jailers
saying they wouldn't kill him.
That he'd escape from the axe,
rise into the air like a bird.
Like a raven.
Soon, everybody
heard about his claim.
People came from all over the
land to see this miracle occur,
convinced that a man would fly.
Even the king got caught
up in the excitement.
He had a golden cage erected
around the executioner's block.
There was even rumor that
the Raven Jones himself
had helped him design it.
So, at the appointed hour
with thousands watching,
- the guards were.
- Dispatched to the deepest.
Dungeon in the tower.
Oh.
What happened?
Did he fly?
When they flung back
the doors to his cell,
he was nowhere to be seen.
He had fought them all and
disappeared into thin air.
ERNST (VOICEOVER): With our
tales of spirits and ghosts,
it is surprising that anyone
was able to sleep that night.
My sister, Joanna, was woken
when Bruno heard something.
[BARKING]
But rather than a
spirit or ghost,
it was Parsons reluctant
accomplice... Ben.
[GASP]
[GASP]
Lord!
[THUDDING]
JOANNA: Who painted the face?
I did.
JOANNA: Really?
Well, Emily helped.
JOANNA: You two were
getting on quite well now.
- Have you decided.
- You like each other?
Why do you say that?
Well, making kites together...
Whispering in corners.
- You should mind.
- Your own business.
All right.
Just tell me one
thing... who is Barnabas?
- I'm telling you.
- The truth, Parsons.
They have nothing to steal.
Monsoon's done for
them as it has for us.
Maybe so.
Won't stop us having a little
bit of sport with them,
will it?
What's the matter?
Ain't got the stomach for it?
Maybe you've forgotten
what we're doing here.
We swore revenge, didn't we?
I ain't forgotten.
Poor old Seth ain't neither.
He may be gone, don't
mean he's at peace.
Nor will he be till
our work is done.
Now get aboard.
You're keeping a
pig in the tree house?
Only at night.
Well, in that case.
Don't tell, Joanna.
We're looking after him.
JOANNA: Oh Christina, secrets
on the island are a bad thing.
You should tell mama and papa.
They'll decide what's best.
No.
They'll decide to eat him,
and it'll be all your fault!
Christina, the kite!
What in the devil's name?
What is it?
It's a sign, Ben.
A sign from beyond.
It's a spirit calling us on.
No!
David Robinson, your day
of reckoning is upon you.
Christina, are you all right?
Yes, mama.
Well be a good girl and go
and see if the hens have laid,
will you?
Yes, mama.
Did the kite fly?
Yes, mama.
[SQUEALING]
What have you got for me today?
Two?
Oh, thank you very much.
What have you got
in here, Henrietta?
Just one?
Is that all you can
manage, Henrietta?
[SCREAMING]
Cover it well.
We don't want them
Robinsons stealing it.
I was there, I was
cleaning the eggs
and then I saw an old man
and he was looking at me.
He was... I didn't
know what to do.
[BARK]
She imagined it.
- She saw something,
- look at her.
- Nonsense.
- Christina.
Christina?
Look at me.
- Now listen darling,
- there's no shame in it.
What you saw was real.
It existed, but only
in your mind's eye.
- And it's perfectly.
- Understandable.
After last night.
You were unduly influenced
by all this silly talk
about the supernatural.
Oh.
So now it's my fault?
It was just a shadow,
or a trick of the light.
EMILY: At midday?
Emily, that's enough.
- If you can't think of.
- Something useful to say,
- Then there are many chores.
- To be getting on with.
- We share the.
- Island with the souls.
Of the living and the dead.
If you choose not to listen to
their messages, they get angry.
Don't you understand?
They are warning us.
What's the matter with you?
Why don't you tell him?
Tell me what?
We heard something.
Go on.
On the hunt.
It was a sound like
laughing or crying.
The wind.
No.
It wasn't the wind.
Where did it come from?
All around.
As if from the
trees and the rocks.
Trees and rocks do not
laugh, nor do they cry.
Whatever you heard,
whatever Christina saw,
it was not a ghost.
That is my final
word on the subject.
[CRYING]
Mama?
Yes, dear?
I don't like living
on the island anymore.
I want to go home.
[CACKLING]
- ERNST (VOICEOVER): Christina.
- Wasn't the only one whose.
Imagination was
colored and distorted
by the recent
unexplained events.
We were all tense and
on edge until Joanna
- made a surprising.
- Announcement to father.
- You've been very.
- Quiet, Joanna.
What are you thinking?
I don't know.
Just worrying, I suppose.
You didn't say a word
during the meeting.
- What do you think.
- About our ghost?
Do you think he's real... our old
man with a long, white beard?
I have no opinion.
That's not like you at all!
- I wish I knew what.
- Was happening.
- We used to be so close...
- The whole family...
And now something's changed.
Is it me?
Am I becoming a terrible ogre?
It's not like that, papa.
Really.
Well what then?
I saw something, too.
It was no old man, though.
No spirit, either.
It was Ben.
When was this?
Last night.
I surprised him trying to
get into the tree house.
I think it was him
who stole the fish.
You said nothing this morning.
I know.
He looked so hungry
and miserable.
And should have spoken out.
I'm sorry.
That explains our ghost.
Ben?
Parsons.
If Ben is coming around here,
Parsons won't be far behind.
- Pity we haven't gotten eggs.
- Well we ain't.
[MUSIC - PAUL HOLMES AND SHIRLEY
[JAY, "GET AWAY"]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
- ERNST (VOICEOVER): For.
- Weeks, now the monsoon.
Has raised without
letting up and our morale
is at its lowest end.
The rain stopped momentarily
only to be replaced by howling
winds heralding even more rain.
All that we have built, with the
merciful exception of the tree
house, lies in ruin.
- Our enclosures.
- Have been breached,
- And most of the.
- Animals have fled.
It's no use!
We have to give up!
Don't worry about the piglets,
we'll come back for them later!
They'll be all right.
Let's go to the house
and help the others!
- ERNST (VOICEOVER):
- We have tried somehow.
To protect our crops, which
have mostly been destroyed,
- and I fear the monsoon.
- Is taking its toll.
On our health and well-being
as well as our morale.
Barnabas!
- ERNST (VOICEOVER):
- Christina is more.
- Concerned, however,
- for the well-being.
Of a beloved pet pig... Barnabas.
[SQUEALING]
[GASP]
Barnabas!
We've run out of food.
You'd better keep quiet.
Why don't you stop
this now and take a rest?
I brought you some food.
I don't need anything!
You should eat something.
I'll have something later!
See if Billy needs it.
Where's Ernst?
Where do you think he is?
- ELIZABETH: Is he on.
- The lookout again?
Lookout?
He'd burn down half of this
island to attract a ship!
It's important to him.
What's important is
clearing up this mess!
Shall I talk to him?
No, Elizabeth,
I'll talk to him.
- Well don't be.
- Hard on him, David.
A boy his age needs a challenge.
Elizabeth, look around you!
Isn't this challenge
enough for any man?
You know what I mean.
If you don't help me,
Billy, no one else will.
Shush.
Father says the winds
will die down soon.
- Then there won't be.
- Any point in making it.
I don't even know
how to make a kite!
It's easy!
All you have to do is
tie two sticks together
and cover it with cloth.
Well do it yourself, then!
Ask Joanna.
She's helping mama.
Ernst is busy, too.
Besides, he's in a bad mood.
Please say you'll help me?
Yes!
Fish for dinner.
Hm.
- If the rain holds.
- Off, we should.
Be able to light the beacon.
- I could have used some.
- Help this morning, son.
Mending fences?
Doesn't seem to be much point.
What do you mean by that?
When we were first marooned
here, we prayed didn't we?
We sat together and we
prayed to God, thanking
him for our deliverance.
Yes.
- ERNST: Well don't.
- You sometimes wonder.
What he has in store now?
Why did he save us?
There has to be a reason.
I think he wants us
to escape from here.
Listen to me, Ernst.
Not a day goes by that
I don't pray to see
a sail come over that horizon.
- Do you think I want my.
- Children to grow up here, cut.
Off from the rest of the world?
Then let's do something.
Let's take the raft.
Absolutely not.
The whole idea's preposterous.
We're doing everything we can.
We have the beacon,
we have each other.
And that's all we have.
Except our prayers, of course.
It's all right, Barnabas.
I brought you some dinner, see?
Barnabas?
It doesn't pay to form
attachments with the pigs.
- You might get indigestion.
- When you eat them.
Please don't tell!
We can't eat Barnabas!
He's just a baby?
- Haven't you heard.
- Of suckling pig?
It's quite a delicacy in
your country, I believe.
Of course, in China we
prefer them boiled and...
Stop it!
He'll hear you.
Please don't tell.
If you keep it a secret, I'll...
You'll what?
I'll let you fly my kite.
What kite?
I'll let you make me one.
ELIZABETH: Christina!
Your mother is calling you.
Please?
Maybe.
Did you wash your hands?
Yes.
Let me see.
I mean... I was about
to when you called.
Well off you go and
wash them now, please.
Thank you.
Where's Billy's fish?
- What do you want to do.
- With your life, Billy?
Do with it?
What do you want to be?
- I'm Billy Cobb.
- What else could I be?
- Someday, I'm going.
- To tell the world.
The... the story of this island.
I'm going to write a book
about our ship wreck,
adventures, and our escape.
You could help me.
We could set up a printing
press in Boston, perhaps.
No.
Why not?
I'm not a scholar.
But you could be.
- When we get back.
- To civilization,
You can be whatever you want.
Thank you, Master Ernst, but
when the rescue ship comes I'll
stay here.
Stay?
Billy, your days of
slavery are over.
You're free.
Yes.
But if I go back...
You'll be safe with us.
I'm not like you, Ernst.
They'd make me a slave again.
It's only here on the
island that I'm free.
- ERNST (VOICEOVER): All.
- My thoughts of Boston.
- Now seemed irrelevant.
- When I considered.
- What actually lay.
- Ahead, and which
Bruno was the first to sense.
[GROWLING]
(SPEAKING) What is it, Bruno?
What?
[BARK]
There's no one there.
You're just imagining things.
[CACKLING]
DAVID: Well someone took it.
How long did you leave it there?
No more than a minute!
All I did was turn my
back, and it was gone.
- Christina?
- What?
- If this was one.
- Of your pranks...
I didn't take it.
Honestly.
What about Billy?
- Well last I saw.
- Billy, he was going.
To stand watch with Ernst.
Joanna?
I was down by the river
looking for berries.
Unless...
What?
- Some animal might.
- Have taken it.
No, I'd have seen it.
I'm sure.
- Something must.
- Have taken the fish.
Something, or someone?
Well, who's going to tell
Billy it's coconuts for supper?
[SQUAWKING]
What you got?
- It's a fever, if.
- I'm not mistaken.
What's that?
It's a fish.
I can see it's a fish.
I want weapons,
powder, and shot.
I did my best.
That's all I could find.
- Well that will have.
- To do then, won't it?
Still awake?
The house is moving.
It's just the wind
rocking you to sleep.
Good night, mama.
Good night, dear.
Good night, Barnabas.
We'll hunt in two parties.
- Ernst, you and.
- Billy go together.
Joanna will come with me.
I suggest you stick to the
paths you already know.
And whatever happens, don't
get separated from one another.
And Emily?
- Emily will do whatever.
- She chooses, as usual.
Joanna?
What do you say to a
good sporting wager?
Whoever brings home the
least amount of food cooks
for the others, agreed?
Agreed.
Agreed.
Good.
May the best hunters win.
- EMILY: I don't know.
- Why I'm doing this.
It's hardly a reward for
keeping quiet, is it?
I think you must
like Barnabas.
No I don't!
There.
That should be strong enough.
Where did you learn to do that?
From my father.
Everyone makes kites in China.
Some shaped like boxes,
others with dragon faces
and great long tails.
- Can we paint a.
- Face on this one?
If you like.
Thanks for not telling on me.
It's none of my business
what you get up to.
Although I must say, I
felt sorry for poor Billy
- when I heard his.
- Fish had disappeared.
I didn't take the fish!
Well who took it, then?
It wasn't me.
Unless, of course,
it was a ghost.
This island is
crawling with them.
Ghosts?
Oh, yes.
Every kind of spirit.
You must have heard them.
I hear them all the time.
I talk to them.
Where do the spirits live?
In the trees, in the rocks.
Depends what kind
of spirit they are.
Are they friendly?
Most of them.
But I expect there are
some mean ones, too.
Really?
[CACKLING]
Billy, why don't
we rest here a while?
We aren't exactly
having any luck.
Ernst, when I said I wanted
to stay on the island I
didn't mean you had to.
Yeah, I know.
A ship will come.
You can have your
printing press.
Perhaps.
Your father's a great man.
If anyone can find their
way off this island, he can.
You know the secret to
survival in this world, Billy?
It's knowing when
to take a risk.
Something my father has
forgotten, if he ever knew it.
[SQUEAL]
Not bad, eh Billy?
Even if I do say so myself.
Come on.
Look at this.
Wow.
Look at the size of this porker.
Just one shot.
Can I have my arrow back?
- Emily, what are.
- You doing here?
Hunting.
May I?
Uh, this is my arrow.
Ernst, look.
[CACKLING]
Come on, grab the pig.
Fit for a king.
Billy, this is one wager
I was happy to lose.
- Tell me, who brought.
- Down the beast?
You or Ernst?
It was a joint effort, sir.
Well you must tell me all
about it... every detail.
I want you to spare nothing.
After which, Joanna will
recount our experiences.
That won't take long.
One lame rabbit.
And even that eluded us.
Well come on.
This is more like a wake.
- What happened to all.
- Of you out there?
Oh David, leave them alone.
They're tired and hungry.
Just let them eat.
Oh, my dear.
That was splendid.
Now then, who's going to
entertain us with a story?
- Emily says the.
- Island is haunted.
Haunted?
Ah, there's a thing.
By evil spirits.
They stole Billy's fish.
A spirit... but she's not evil.
She's a lady of noble birth.
Very finely dressed.
- She walks along.
- The beach at night.
Well what is she
doing on this island?
She was to be married.
He was the captain of the ship.
They were to marry once they
reached their destination,
but the ship floundered
and they were both drowned.
- Now the white lady.
- Walks the shoreline,
Pining for a dear departed.
But why did she steal from us?
EMILY: Wedding gifts.
But why didn't she talk to us?
She'd like to, Christina,
more than anything.
But, of course, there's one
great problem with that.
You see, she has no head!
[SCREAM]
[LAUGHING]
Now that's enough.
That is enough, or nobody
will sleep tonight.
Come, let's have another one.
Ernst, you're a writer.
There's lots
about Raven Jones.
Who's Raven Jones?
He's not real.
He's a legend.
Raven Jones was an adventurer.
He was once an
officer... a Navy man.
But, he led a mutiny.
- They call him raven.
- Because of a tattoo.
He wore... the symbol
of his free spirit.
- It was said that no.
- Jail could hold him.
- And he had his.
- Chance to prove it.
That's right.
He was captured... high treason.
They held them in the
tower awaiting execution.
But Raven taunted his jailers
saying they wouldn't kill him.
That he'd escape from the axe,
rise into the air like a bird.
Like a raven.
Soon, everybody
heard about his claim.
People came from all over the
land to see this miracle occur,
convinced that a man would fly.
Even the king got caught
up in the excitement.
He had a golden cage erected
around the executioner's block.
There was even rumor that
the Raven Jones himself
had helped him design it.
So, at the appointed hour
with thousands watching,
- the guards were.
- Dispatched to the deepest.
Dungeon in the tower.
Oh.
What happened?
Did he fly?
When they flung back
the doors to his cell,
he was nowhere to be seen.
He had fought them all and
disappeared into thin air.
ERNST (VOICEOVER): With our
tales of spirits and ghosts,
it is surprising that anyone
was able to sleep that night.
My sister, Joanna, was woken
when Bruno heard something.
[BARKING]
But rather than a
spirit or ghost,
it was Parsons reluctant
accomplice... Ben.
[GASP]
[GASP]
Lord!
[THUDDING]
JOANNA: Who painted the face?
I did.
JOANNA: Really?
Well, Emily helped.
JOANNA: You two were
getting on quite well now.
- Have you decided.
- You like each other?
Why do you say that?
Well, making kites together...
Whispering in corners.
- You should mind.
- Your own business.
All right.
Just tell me one
thing... who is Barnabas?
- I'm telling you.
- The truth, Parsons.
They have nothing to steal.
Monsoon's done for
them as it has for us.
Maybe so.
Won't stop us having a little
bit of sport with them,
will it?
What's the matter?
Ain't got the stomach for it?
Maybe you've forgotten
what we're doing here.
We swore revenge, didn't we?
I ain't forgotten.
Poor old Seth ain't neither.
He may be gone, don't
mean he's at peace.
Nor will he be till
our work is done.
Now get aboard.
You're keeping a
pig in the tree house?
Only at night.
Well, in that case.
Don't tell, Joanna.
We're looking after him.
JOANNA: Oh Christina, secrets
on the island are a bad thing.
You should tell mama and papa.
They'll decide what's best.
No.
They'll decide to eat him,
and it'll be all your fault!
Christina, the kite!
What in the devil's name?
What is it?
It's a sign, Ben.
A sign from beyond.
It's a spirit calling us on.
No!
David Robinson, your day
of reckoning is upon you.
Christina, are you all right?
Yes, mama.
Well be a good girl and go
and see if the hens have laid,
will you?
Yes, mama.
Did the kite fly?
Yes, mama.
[SQUEALING]
What have you got for me today?
Two?
Oh, thank you very much.
What have you got
in here, Henrietta?
Just one?
Is that all you can
manage, Henrietta?
[SCREAMING]
Cover it well.
We don't want them
Robinsons stealing it.
I was there, I was
cleaning the eggs
and then I saw an old man
and he was looking at me.
He was... I didn't
know what to do.
[BARK]
She imagined it.
- She saw something,
- look at her.
- Nonsense.
- Christina.
Christina?
Look at me.
- Now listen darling,
- there's no shame in it.
What you saw was real.
It existed, but only
in your mind's eye.
- And it's perfectly.
- Understandable.
After last night.
You were unduly influenced
by all this silly talk
about the supernatural.
Oh.
So now it's my fault?
It was just a shadow,
or a trick of the light.
EMILY: At midday?
Emily, that's enough.
- If you can't think of.
- Something useful to say,
- Then there are many chores.
- To be getting on with.
- We share the.
- Island with the souls.
Of the living and the dead.
If you choose not to listen to
their messages, they get angry.
Don't you understand?
They are warning us.
What's the matter with you?
Why don't you tell him?
Tell me what?
We heard something.
Go on.
On the hunt.
It was a sound like
laughing or crying.
The wind.
No.
It wasn't the wind.
Where did it come from?
All around.
As if from the
trees and the rocks.
Trees and rocks do not
laugh, nor do they cry.
Whatever you heard,
whatever Christina saw,
it was not a ghost.
That is my final
word on the subject.
[CRYING]
Mama?
Yes, dear?
I don't like living
on the island anymore.
I want to go home.
[CACKLING]
- ERNST (VOICEOVER): Christina.
- Wasn't the only one whose.
Imagination was
colored and distorted
by the recent
unexplained events.
We were all tense and
on edge until Joanna
- made a surprising.
- Announcement to father.
- You've been very.
- Quiet, Joanna.
What are you thinking?
I don't know.
Just worrying, I suppose.
You didn't say a word
during the meeting.
- What do you think.
- About our ghost?
Do you think he's real... our old
man with a long, white beard?
I have no opinion.
That's not like you at all!
- I wish I knew what.
- Was happening.
- We used to be so close...
- The whole family...
And now something's changed.
Is it me?
Am I becoming a terrible ogre?
It's not like that, papa.
Really.
Well what then?
I saw something, too.
It was no old man, though.
No spirit, either.
It was Ben.
When was this?
Last night.
I surprised him trying to
get into the tree house.
I think it was him
who stole the fish.
You said nothing this morning.
I know.
He looked so hungry
and miserable.
And should have spoken out.
I'm sorry.
That explains our ghost.
Ben?
Parsons.
If Ben is coming around here,
Parsons won't be far behind.
- Pity we haven't gotten eggs.
- Well we ain't.
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