1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 2 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,229 That which also I delivered onto you. 3 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:19,633 The Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, 4 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,229 and when he had given thanks, 5 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,751 he broke it and said, 6 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,236 "Take. Eat. 7 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,153 "This is my body, 8 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:34,152 "which is broken for you, 9 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:37,474 "this do in remembrance of me." 10 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,792 And after the same manner he also took the cup 11 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:43,797 when he had eaten, saying, 12 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:48,190 "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. 13 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:51,551 "This, oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me, 14 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,149 "or as often as you eat this bread 15 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,272 "and drink this wine, 16 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,279 "you do shew the Lord's death 17 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,152 "till he comes again." 18 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,519 Will you send a dinghy, please? 19 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,311 'Did you hear me? I'd like a dinghy, if you please.' 20 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,558 Hello, sir! Have you lost your bearings? 21 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:43,956 'No, sir, I don't think so. 22 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,869 - 'This is Summerisle, is it not?' - It is, sir! 23 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,913 'I'm right then. Now, would you send a dinghy, please?' 24 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:55,796 I'm afraid it can't be done, sir! This is private property! 25 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,754 You can't land here without written permission! 26 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,672 'I, as you can see, am a police officer. 27 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:05,911 'A complaint has been registered 28 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:09,317 'by a resident of this island about a missing child. 29 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,354 'Now, that makes it a police matter, private property or not. 30 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,949 'Now, will you send a dinghy, please?' 31 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,037 Need to tell his lordship, aye. 32 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,313 Good day to you, sir. I'm the harbour master. 33 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:04,630 Sergeant Howie, West Highland police. 34 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,274 A missing child is always trouble. 35 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,358 Aye, aye, aye, for everybody. 36 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,632 Perhaps you would be good enough to explain matters to his lordship. 37 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:15,956 He's most particular who lands here. 38 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,750 All in good time. We, too, have our own particularities. 39 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,077 You know her? Her name is Rowan Morrison. 40 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:28,029 The photo was in this letter, posted here on Summerisle. 41 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,515 No, no, never seen her before. 42 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,996 I don't know the face either. Do you know her, Kenny? 43 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,396 She doesn't belong to this island. 44 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,909 No, I never saw her before. 45 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,158 No, she doesn't belong here at all. Johnnie? 46 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:44,112 The letter is anonymous. 47 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,596 It was addressed to me personally on the mainland. 48 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:50,075 No, cannae say I know her. 49 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:54,194 Now, now, what are you saying? You're saying she's not from the island? 50 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,391 That's right. She's not from here. 51 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:00,150 You get Morrisons on Lewis and a few on Mull. I would try there. 52 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:01,714 Thanks. 53 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:07,117 "None of us has seen May Morrison's daughter Rowan since last year. 54 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:11,359 "She's only 12, and she's been missing from her home for many months." 55 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:13,471 The mother's name is May Morrison. 56 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,355 Oh, May! She quite slipped my memory. 57 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,871 Of course we've got May. She keeps the post office in the high street. 58 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,038 - May Morrison? You're quite sure? - Quite sure. 59 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,549 Well, thank you for your help. 60 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,918 That's not May's daughter, though! 61 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,235 No, she's not May's. 62 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,476 Then who is she? 63 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:42,999 - Good afternoon. - I like your rabbits. 64 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,192 Those are hares, not silly old rabbits. 65 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,473 Lovely March hares. Can I help you? 66 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:52,830 - Mrs Morrison? Mrs May Morrison? - Yes. 67 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,794 - Sergeant Howie, West Highland police. - Oh, my! 68 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:00,072 Did you come over in that aeroplane that I saw flying round? 69 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,596 - Aye, that's right. - What, just to see me? 70 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,633 Well, no, not exactly. Erm... 71 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:10,640 I'm making inquiries about your daughter. We understand that she's missing. 72 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:12,876 Missing? My daughter? 73 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,352 - Aye. You do have a daughter? - Yes. 74 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:21,997 - And that's her? - Oh, never. 75 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:25,596 I tell you no. 76 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,749 I think you'd better come with me. 77 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:36,193 This is our Myrtle. She was nine last Thursday. 78 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,954 She's not a bit like the girl in your photograph. 79 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,959 She must be at least 13 or 14, surely. 80 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,469 Myrtle, say hello. 81 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,069 - This is Sergeant... Oh! - Howie. 82 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,077 - Oh. - Hello, Myrtle. 83 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:50,759 How do you do? 84 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,753 - Look, Mummy, I'm drawing a hare. - Ah. 85 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,110 Excuse me, Sergeant. 86 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:10,793 Hello. 87 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,757 Here you are, you can fill in the ears in grey. 88 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:18,279 Oh, sorry. 89 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,031 Thank you, Myrtle. 90 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,717 Myrtle, do you, erm... do you know Rowan? 91 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:32,672 Course I do. 92 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,477 - You do? - Course I do, silly. 93 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,151 - Uh, do you know where she is now? - In the fields. 94 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:46,351 She runs and plays there all day. 95 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,393 Does she? Do you think she'll be coming back for tea? 96 00:11:49,560 --> 00:11:52,712 Tea? Hares don't have tea, silly. 97 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:56,273 Hares? 98 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:00,593 She's a hare. Rowan's a hare. She has a lovely time. 99 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,151 - Well, tell me... - Well, now, Sergeant. 100 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,999 You will stay and have a cup of tea, won't you? 101 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:09,754 - Oh, well, yes, yes, please. - Good. 102 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:11,632 - That's very kind of you. - Not at all. 103 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,229 It must be thirsty work, asking all those questions, eh? 104 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:15,589 Aye. 105 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:33,791 - Hello. Evening. - Evening. 106 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,715 - Evening. - Hello again. 107 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,915 - Are you the landlord here? - Aye. I'm Alder MacGreagor. 108 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,509 And you must be the policeman from the mainland. 109 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,393 Aye, that's right. Sergeant Howie, West Highland constabulary. 110 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:51,478 I'm quite obviously not going to get back to the mainland tonight, 111 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:53,830 so I wondered if you had a room and a bite of supper I could have. 112 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,118 - Could you manage that? - Aye, I think that can be arranged. 113 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,471 My daughter Willow will show you to your room. 114 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,070 - Willow! - Father? 115 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,716 This is Sergeant Howie, a policeman from the mainland, 116 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,116 who will be spending the night with us. 117 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:14,199 - This is my daughter, Willow. - Good evening. 118 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,311 Show the Sergeant to his room, would you? 119 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:51,912 - I'd like my supper now, please. - It won't be long, Sergeant. 120 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,554 Och, you don't want to let them worry you. 121 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:56,830 Why don't you have a wee drink? 122 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,236 No, thank you, not just now. 123 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:12,431 I think you all ought to know that I am here on official business. 124 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:17,913 I am here to investigate the disappearance of a young girl... 125 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,919 ...as doubtless, the harbour master has already told you by now. 126 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,999 There's the girl. Her name is Rowan Morrison. 127 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:29,795 Would you pass that among your customers, please? 128 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:33,276 Now, if any of you can give me any idea as to her whereabouts, 129 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,153 I'd be most grateful if you'd let me know. 130 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:42,559 No, I've not seen her. Have you tried the mainland? 131 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:47,151 No, I've not see her. I've not seen her at all. 132 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:53,592 No, I'm afraid nobody's seen her, Sergeant. 133 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:02,556 Thank you. Are these harvest festival photographs? 134 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,069 Aye, we have one taken at the end of every summer. 135 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:09,034 - What happened to last year's? - It got broke. 136 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,276 Your supper's ready, Sergeant. 137 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,040 Willow, show the Sergeant to the dining room. 138 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:17,113 Thank you. 139 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:22,399 It's disgusting. 140 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,270 - Thank you. - What's the matter, aren't you hungry? 141 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:29,311 Aye, it's just most of the food I've had, 142 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:34,514 the farmhouse soup, the potatoes, broad beans, all come out of a can. 143 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:39,550 Broad beans, in their natural state, aren't usually turquoise, are they? 144 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:43,833 Some things in their natural state have the most vivid colours. 145 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,874 I-I-l... just wanted to know why, that's all. 146 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,277 Now, I wonder what you'll be wanting for afters? 147 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,472 - I'll have an apple. - No apples. 148 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,475 No apples? On an island famous for its fruit and vegetables? 149 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:02,989 I expect they've all been exported. 150 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,475 You can have peaches and cream, if you like. 151 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:08,319 Aye, from a can, I suppose. 152 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:10,113 All right. 153 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,470 Cheer up. Food isn't everything in life, you know. 154 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:30,956 Up, up, up, 155 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:34,277 up, up, up! Up! Up! 156 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:47,075 Where? 157 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,511 You'll find it at the top of the stair on your right. 158 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,513 Willow MacGreagor, I have the honour to present to you Ash Buchanan. 159 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,629 Come up, Ash Buchanan. 160 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:37,471 Another sacrifice for Aphrodite, Willow. 161 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:39,750 You flatter me, your lordship. 162 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,269 Surely you mean to Aphrodite? 163 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:43,549 I make no such distinction. 164 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,240 You are the Goddess of Love in human form 165 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:47,873 and I am merely your humble acolyte. 166 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,719 Enjoy yourself... and him. 167 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,912 Only, make sure you are ready for tomorrow's tomorrow. 168 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:59,635 The day of death and rebirth. 169 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:01,510 Yes. 170 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,395 And of a somewhat more serious offering. 171 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,473 I think I could turn and live with animals. 172 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,718 They are so placid and self-contained. 173 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,833 They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. 174 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:40,670 They do not make me sick, discussing their duty to God. 175 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,710 Not one of them kneels to another, 176 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,071 or to his own kind that lived thousands of years ago. 177 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,833 Not one of them is 'respectable'... 178 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,600 or 'unhappy'... 179 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:57,040 all over the earth. 180 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,432 Good morning, Sergeant. 181 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,552 - Morning. - Isn't it glorious? 182 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,796 Aye, aye, it's very nice. 183 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,434 I expect you'll be going home tonight? 184 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,513 Well, that depends. 185 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:23,877 Where's the school, please? 186 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,310 On the far side of the green. 187 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,556 Thank you. 188 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:29,990 Very well, girls. That's enough. Now it's time to pay attention to me. 189 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,358 Now, uh, Daisy, 190 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,951 will you tell us what it is, please, that the Maypole represents? 191 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,634 Really, Daisy. You've been told often enough. 192 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,434 - Miss Rose, I know! - I know! 193 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,200 - All right, then, anybody. - Phallic symbol. 194 00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:56,399 The phallic symbol. That is correct. 195 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,796 It is the image of the penis, 196 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:02,072 which is venerated in religions such as ours 197 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,591 as symbolising the generative force in nature. 198 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,910 Oh, can I help you? 199 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,960 C-could I have a word with you, please, Miss? 200 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:18,233 Certainly. Girls, open your desks and take out your exercise books. 201 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,917 Miss, you can be quite sure that I shall report this to the proper authorities. 202 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,554 Everywhere I go on this island, it seems to me I find degeneracy. 203 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:33,072 And there is brawling in bars, there is indecency in public places, 204 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,113 and there is corruption of the young, and now I see it all stems from here. 205 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,635 It stems from the filth taught here in this very schoolroom. 206 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:42,879 I was unaware that the police had any authority in matters of education. 207 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,470 Aye, aye, well, we'll see about that. 208 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,275 Girls, could I have your attention, please? 209 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,073 Now, I am a police officer. 210 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,437 Well, as you can see. 211 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,949 I have come here from the mainland 212 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,835 to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. 213 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,554 I have a photograph here... Excuse me. 214 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,913 ...which I would like you to pass around amongst yourselves. 215 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,874 Meanwhile, I'll write her name over there on the blackboard. 216 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,957 Rowan Morrison. 217 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,357 That's her name. 218 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,070 Now, do any of you recognise either the name or the photograph? 219 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,840 - No. - There's your answer, Sergeant. 220 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,157 If she existed, we would know her. 221 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:52,160 - Whose desk is that? - No one's. 222 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:56,874 Thank you. 223 00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:10,034 The little old beetle goes round and round, always the same way, you see, 224 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:14,199 till he ends up right up tight to the nail, poor old thing. 225 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:18,713 "Poor old thing"? 226 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,510 Then why in God's name do you do it, girl? 227 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,078 I'd like to see the school register, please. 228 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,840 I'm afraid you'll have to have Lord Summerisle's authority. 229 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,712 This is a police matter. 230 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,070 I'm afraid you'll have to have a search warrant or permission 231 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,714 from Lord Summerisle himself. 232 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,878 I'm afraid you'll just have to bear with me, won't you? 233 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,075 You're liars. You are despicable little liars. 234 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,080 Rowan Morrison is a schoolmate of yours, isn't she? 235 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,715 And that is her desk, isn't it? 236 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:12,400 - Well, isn't it? - I think you ought to know... 237 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,029 And you are the biggest liar of all! 238 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,754 I warn you, one more lie out of you, 239 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,589 and I will charge you with obstruction. 240 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,553 And, believe me, Miss Rose, that is a promise. 241 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:30,239 Now... 242 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,152 ...for the last time, 243 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,999 where is Rowan Morrison? 244 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,191 I would like to speak to you outside, Sergeant. 245 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,470 Girls, get on with your reading. 246 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:45,197 It's the "Rites and Rituals of May Day", chapter five. I won't be long. 247 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,039 Well? 248 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:56,474 You don't understand, Sergeant. Nobody was lying. I told you plainly. 249 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,797 If Rowan Morrison existed, we would know of her. 250 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:03,390 You mean, she doesn't exist? She's dead? 251 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,637 - You would say so. - Oh, come on, come on. 252 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,354 She's either dead, or she's not dead. 253 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,677 Here, we do not use the word... 254 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,872 We believe that when the human life is over, 255 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,880 the soul returns to trees, to air, 256 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,038 to fire, to water, to animals. 257 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,513 So that Rowan Morrison has simply returned 258 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,149 to the life forces in another form. 259 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:39,513 Do you mean to say you teach the children this stuff? 260 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:44,840 Yes. I told you, it is what we believe. 261 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,395 They never learn anything of Christianity? 262 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,194 Only as a comparative religion. 263 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,199 The children find it far easier to picture 264 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,199 reincarnation than resurrection. 265 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,718 Those rotting bodies are a great stumbling block 266 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,514 for the childish imagination. 267 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,119 Why, of course. 268 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,072 And may I ask, 269 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,158 where is the rotting body of Rowan Morrison? 270 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,432 Right where you'd expect it to be, in the earth. 271 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,030 You mean, in the churchyard? 272 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,949 - In a manner of speaking... - No! In plain speaking. 273 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,870 The building attached to the ground in which the body lies 274 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,152 is no longer used for Christian worship, 275 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,279 so whether it is still a churchyard is debatable. 276 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:39,313 But forgive me. I must get back to my girls. Good morning to you. 277 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,513 "Here lieth Beech Buchanan, 278 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,599 "protected by the ejaculation of serpents"? 279 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:18,071 - Morning. - Morning. 280 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,079 I see you plant trees on most of the graves here. 281 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,716 - Aye, that's right. - What tree is that? 282 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,036 That's a rowan. 283 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,629 - And who lies there? - Rowan Morrison. 284 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,437 - How long has she been dead? - Oh, six or seven months. 285 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,951 They're just a wee bit late with the headstone. 286 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,350 What on earth's that? It looks like a piece of skin. 287 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,598 - Why, so it is. - Well, what is it? 288 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:51,037 The poor wee lassie's navel string, of course. 289 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:55,472 Where else should it be but hung on her own little tree? 290 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,110 Where does your minister live? 291 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:00,799 Minister? 292 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,118 "Minister"! 293 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:18,077 What a silly girl you are to make all this fuss. It's just a little frog. 294 00:34:18,240 --> 00:34:21,517 It'll do that poor sore throat good. 295 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,631 Anyone'd think you didn't want to get better. 296 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,229 Now, in he goes! 297 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,517 And out he comes. There. Now, that didn't hurt much, did it? 298 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,712 - It tasted horrid. - Never mind, darling. It's all over now. 299 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,310 Here's your sweet for being a brave girl. Which one would you like? 300 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:47,719 There. He's got your horrid old sore throat now, hasn't he, poor creature? 301 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,797 Can't you hear him croaking? 302 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,395 Can I do anything for you, Sergeant? 303 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,115 I doubt it, seeing you're all raving mad. 304 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,477 Good day. 305 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,433 I'd like to see your index of deaths, please. 306 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,597 Do you have authority? 307 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,069 No, I meant from his lordship. 308 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,395 I don't need it. 309 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:33,235 I'm afraid you have to get permission from Lord Summerisle. 310 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,471 Miss... 311 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,797 If you don't cooperate with me here and now, 312 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:43,879 you may well find yourself inside a police cell on the mainland tonight! 313 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,798 Have I made myself quite clear? 314 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,637 Please. 315 00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,233 Thank you. 316 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,510 M, M, M, M... 317 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,593 "Benjamin and Rachel Morrison." 318 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:08,791 Rachel and Benjamin... 319 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,830 - Names from the Bible. - Yes. They were very old. 320 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:19,150 But there's no record of Rowan Morrison's death, 321 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,438 which means, of course, there is no death certificate. 322 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,678 - Did you know her? - Yes, of course. 323 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,434 - Is that her? - Yes, that's her. 324 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,389 How did she die? 325 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:46,310 I don't know. I don't know anything about her. Nothing. 326 00:36:53,240 --> 00:36:54,560 Thank you. 327 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,750 Are you Mr Lennox, the photographer? 328 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,874 Oh, I'm firstly a chemist, secondly a photographer. 329 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,833 I understand you take the harvest festival photographs every year. 330 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,554 - The ones I saw in The Green Man. - Yes. 331 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,671 It's rather humdrum work, I'm afraid. 332 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,155 What happened to last year's photograph? 333 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,396 Isn't it there with the others? 334 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,876 No, no, it's not. Apparently it's been broken or damaged in some way. 335 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,994 - Oh, what a pity. - Would you have a copy of it? 336 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,999 Oh, no, I don't keep copies. 337 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:35,318 Mr Lennox, you were among the people to whom I showed the photograph 338 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,630 in the Green Man. 339 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,229 Is that the girl? 340 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,711 - It's difficult to say. - Oh, come on, man! 341 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:48,676 It was only eight months ago. Surely you remember if it was that girl or not. 342 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:52,479 Thank you. 343 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,874 - His lordship is expecting you, sir. - Expecting me? 344 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,789 That's what his lordship told me, sir. Would you please come this way? 345 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:49,999 In there, sir. 346 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,555 Good afternoon, Sergeant Howie. 347 00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,718 I trust the sight of the young people refreshes you. 348 00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:43,071 No, sir, it does not refresh me. 349 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,157 Oh, I'm sorry. 350 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:48,511 One should always be open to the regenerative influences. 351 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,520 I understand you're looking for a missing girl. 352 00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:54,517 - I've found her. - Splendid. 353 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,196 In her grave. Your lordship is a justice of the peace. 354 00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,118 I need your permission to exhume her body, 355 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:02,516 have it transported to the mainland for a pathologist's report. 356 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,473 You suspect... foul play? 357 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,513 I suspect murder and conspiracy to murder. 358 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,200 In that case, you must go ahead. 359 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,079 Your lordship seems strangely unconcerned. 360 00:41:15,240 --> 00:41:17,834 I'm confident your suspicions are wrong, Sergeant. 361 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:22,511 We don't commit murder up here. We're a deeply religious people. 362 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:24,475 Religious? 363 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:28,355 With ruined churches, no ministers, no priests, 364 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:30,710 and children dancing naked! 365 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,271 They do love their divinity lessons. 366 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,916 But t-they are... are naked. 367 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:45,713 Naturally. It's much too dangerous 368 00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,753 to jump through the fire with your clothes on. 369 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,549 Wh-what religion c-c-can they possibly be learning, 370 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,830 jumping over bonfires? 371 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,633 Parthenogenesis. 372 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,280 What? 373 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:05,878 Literally, as Miss Rose would doubtless say in her assiduous way, 374 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,192 reproduction without sexual union. 375 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,596 Oh, what is all this? 376 00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:15,998 I mean, y-y-you've got f-f-fake biology, fake religion. 377 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,272 Sir, have these children never heard of Jesus? 378 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:26,472 Himself the son of a virgin, impregnated, I believe, by a ghost. 379 00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:29,878 Do sit down, Sergeant. 380 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:34,153 Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent. 381 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:35,640 Please. 382 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,115 Now, those children out there, 383 00:42:42,240 --> 00:42:44,516 they're jumping through the flames 384 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,553 in the hope that the god of fire will make them fruitful. 385 00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,512 Really, you can hardly blame them. 386 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,154 After all, what girl would not prefer the child of a god 387 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,557 to that of some acne-scarred artisan? 388 00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,354 - And you encourage them in this? - Actively. 389 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,199 It's most important that each new generation born on Summerisle 390 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:04,551 be made aware that here the old gods aren't dead. 391 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:06,796 But what of the true god 392 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,036 to whose glory churches and monasteries have been built 393 00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,549 on these islands for generations past? 394 00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,830 Now, sir, what of him? 395 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,998 He's dead. He can't complain. 396 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,909 He had his chance, and in the modern parlance, he blew it. 397 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:31,198 - What? - It's very simple. Let me show you. 398 00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,676 In the last century, the islanders were starving. 399 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,593 Like our neighbours today, they were scratching a bare subsistence 400 00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:41,071 from sheep and sea. 401 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:46,354 Then in 1868, my grandfather bought this barren island 402 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,630 and began to change things. 403 00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:52,913 A distinguished Victorian scientist, agronomist, free thinker. 404 00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,753 How formidably benevolent he seems. 405 00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,999 Essentially the face of a man incredulous of all human good. 406 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,509 You're very cynical, my lord. 407 00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,596 What attracted my grandfather to the island, 408 00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:11,714 apart from the profuse source of wiry labour that it promised, 409 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,593 was the unique combination of volcanic soil 410 00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:17,633 and the warm Gulf Stream that surrounded it. 411 00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:19,791 You see, his experiments had led him to believe 412 00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,389 that it was possible to induce here the successful growth 413 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,433 of certain new strains of fruit that he had developed. 414 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:29,793 So, with typical mid-Victorian zeal, he set to work. 415 00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,560 The best way of accomplishing this, so it seemed to him, 416 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,115 was to rouse the people from their apathy 417 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:38,312 by giving them back their joyous old gods, 418 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,272 and as a result of this worship, 419 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:44,553 the barren island would burgeon and bring forth fruit in great abundance. 420 00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,911 What he did, of course, was to develop new cultivars of hardy fruits 421 00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,117 suited to local conditions. 422 00:44:50,240 --> 00:44:51,639 But, of course, to begin with, 423 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:53,876 they worked for him because he fed them and clothed them, 424 00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,954 but later, when the trees starting fruiting, it became a very different matter. 425 00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,913 And the ministers fled the island, never to return. 426 00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,759 What my grandfather had started out of expediency, 427 00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,793 my father continued out of... love. 428 00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,077 He brought me up the same way, 429 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:15,036 to reverence the music and the drama and the rituals of the old gods. 430 00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:19,272 To love nature and to fear it, 431 00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,478 and to rely on it and to appease it where necessary. 432 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,911 - He brought me up... - He brought you up to be a pagan! 433 00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:32,753 A heathen, conceivably, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one. 434 00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:39,875 Lord Summerisle, I am interested - the law. 435 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,356 But I must remind you, sir, that despite everything you've said, 436 00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,677 you are the subject of a Christian country. 437 00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:54,557 Now, sir, if I may have your permission to exhume the body of Rowan Morrison. 438 00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,672 I was under the impression I'd already given it to you. 439 00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,871 Ah, there's your transport. 440 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,311 It's been a great pleasure meeting a Christian copper. 441 00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:24,274 I found that in Rowan Morrison's grave. 442 00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:31,712 Little Rowan loved the March hares. 443 00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:33,319 Hmm. 444 00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:35,714 It's sacrilege! 445 00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:41,074 Only if the ground is consecrated to the Christian belief. 446 00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:46,195 Personally, I think it makes a very lovely transmutation. 447 00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:50,234 I'm sure Rowan is most happy with it. Do you not think so, Lord Summerisle? 448 00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:54,991 Miss, I hope you don't think that I can be made a fool of indefinitely. 449 00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,396 Where is Rowan Morrison? 450 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,997 Why, here she is, what remains of her physically. 451 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,152 Her soul, of course, may even now... 452 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,516 Lord Summerisle! 453 00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:11,712 Where is Rowan Morrison? 454 00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,837 Sergeant Howie, I think that... 455 00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,999 you are supposed to be the detective here. 456 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:31,790 A child is reported missing on your island. 457 00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:37,476 At first, I'm told there is no such child. 458 00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:41,873 I then find that there is, in fact, but that she has been killed. 459 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:46,517 I subsequently discover that there is no death certificate. 460 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,792 And now I find that there is a grave. 461 00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,391 There's no body. 462 00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:57,990 Very perplexing for you. 463 00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,434 What do you think could've happened? 464 00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:10,198 I think Rowan Morrison was murdered 465 00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:14,200 under circumstances of pagan barbarity, 466 00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,630 which I can scarcely bring myself to believe 467 00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,434 as taking place in the 20th century. 468 00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:24,477 Now, it is my intention tomorrow to return to the mainland 469 00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,069 and report my suspicions to the Chief Constable 470 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:29,874 of the West Highland constabulary. 471 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,719 And I will demand a full inquiry takes place 472 00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,992 into the affairs of this heathen island. 473 00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,994 You must, of course, do as you see fit, Sergeant. 474 00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,919 Perhaps it's just as well that you won't be here tomorrow, 475 00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:51,398 to be offended by the sight of our May Day celebrations here. 476 00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,870 Broome, would you kindly show the Sergeant out? 477 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,037 - This way, sir. - Goodbye. 478 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:25,313 There's hardly any produce. 479 00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,795 Well, that's it, the crops failed. 480 00:51:30,240 --> 00:51:34,473 And it's Rowan. Rowan and the crops failed! 481 00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,079 Sacrifice. 482 00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,559 'Perhaps it's just as well that you won't be here 483 00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:45,799 'to be offended by the sight of our May Day celebrations tomorrow.' 484 00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,270 Sergeant? 485 00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:04,910 Wake up, Sergeant. 486 00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,839 - What time is it? - It's past nine. 487 00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:18,793 I thought you were gonna come and see me last night. 488 00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,671 I invited you. 489 00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:24,791 I'm engaged to be married. 490 00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,560 Does that stop you? 491 00:56:31,240 --> 00:56:32,560 Ave. Aye. 492 00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,433 I must say, you are a gallant fellow, Sergeant. 493 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:38,877 It's nothing personal. 494 00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,637 Just that I don't believe in it. 495 00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:44,273 Before marriage. 496 00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,118 Suit yourself. 497 00:56:46,240 --> 00:56:48,880 I expect you'll be going back today. 498 00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,992 You don't want to be around here on May Day. 499 00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:54,396 Not the way you feel. 500 00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:06,515 We carry death out of the village! 501 00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:10,190 We carry death out of the village! 502 00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:14,319 We carry death out of the village! 503 00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:16,158 We carry death... 504 00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:19,557 "'May Day festivals... 505 00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:22,798 "'Primitive man lived and died by his harvest. 506 00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:26,914 "'The purpose of his spring ceremonies was to ensure a plentiful autumn. 507 00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:31,034 "'Relics of these fertility dramas are to be found all over Europe. 508 00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:33,629 "'In Great Britain, for example, one can still see 509 00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:37,509 "'harmless versions of them danced in obscure villages on May Day. 510 00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:40,638 "'Their cast includes many alarming characters: 511 00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:42,876 "'a man-animal, or hobbyhorse, 512 00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,516 "'who canters at the head of the procession, charging at the girls. 513 00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:48,870 "'A man-woman, the sinister teaser, 514 00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:51,355 "'played by the community leader or priest. 515 00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:54,154 "'And a man-fool, Punch, 516 00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,233 "'most complex of all the symbolic figures, 517 00:57:57,360 --> 00:58:01,194 "'the privileged simpleton and king for a day. 518 00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:03,231 "'Six swordsmen follow these figures 519 00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,193 "'and at the climax of the ceremony lock their swords together 520 00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,277 "'in a clear symbol of the Sun. 521 00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:12,359 "'In pagan times, however, these dances were not simply picturesque jigs. 522 00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:14,949 "'They were frenzied rites ending in a sacrifice 523 00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:17,037 "'by which the dancers hoped desperately 524 00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:19,197 "'to win over the goddess of the fields. 525 00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:22,950 "'In good times, they offered produce to the gods and slaughtered animals, 526 00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:26,232 "'but in bad years, when the harvest had been poor... 527 00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:30,119 "'the sacrifice was a human being. 528 00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,037 'Rowan's not dead!' 529 00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:39,755 "Sometimes the victim would be drowned in the sea 530 00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:43,510 "or burnt to death in a huge sacrificial bonfire. 531 00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:48,510 "Sometimes the six swordsmen ritually beheaded the virgin." 532 00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:53,032 Dear God in Heaven, even these people can't be that mad. 533 00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:57,913 "The chief priest then skinned the child, 534 00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:00,509 "and wearing the still-warmed skin like a mantle, 535 00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:03,718 "led the rejoicing crowds through the streets. 536 00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:08,717 "The priest thus represented the goddess reborn 537 00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:12,435 "and guaranteed another successful harvest next year." 538 00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:23,551 Good morning, Sergeant! 539 00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:25,873 I need to get to my plane. 540 00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:29,749 Oh, well, on May Day, I'd better take you out myself. 541 00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:37,393 That's it. 542 00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:41,233 Here, right. 543 00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:47,072 I shall be back shortly with some more police officers. 544 01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:22,038 Have a good flight, then! 545 01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:39,434 Hey, you come back here! 546 01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:43,632 I said, come back here! 547 01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:55,790 What's the matter? Won't she go? 548 01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:59,078 No. Has anyone been here? 549 01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:01,157 Not to my knowledge, Sergeant. 550 01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:04,079 If any of the children had been interfering with it, 551 01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:05,793 I'm sure I would've seen them. 552 01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:08,594 I warn you, you're obstructing a police officer. 553 01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:12,190 I am not obstructing you, Sergeant. 554 01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:16,109 You could maybe get old Sam there to row you to the mainland. 555 01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:18,675 You'd be back in a week. 556 01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:26,154 Well, I'll just have to find Rowan Morrison myself. 557 01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:41,517 - Everything under control, Oak? - Aye, my lord. 558 01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:47,110 Mr MacGreagor, 559 01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:50,318 I trust we aren't going to have to let out your costume again this year. 560 01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:56,231 I think I'll manage, my lord, but it does seem to shrink a little each year. 561 01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:10,431 My friends, enough now. 562 01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:15,680 We shall all reassemble outside the town hall at 3:00 sharp, 563 01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:19,031 and then process through the village and the countryside, 564 01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,390 down to the beach below the stones, 565 01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:24,433 by the route which has become sacred to our rite. 566 01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:28,440 This year at the procession's end, as has already been proclaimed, 567 01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:32,440 a holy sacrifice will be offered up jointly to Nuada, 568 01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:34,710 our most sacred god of the sun, 569 01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:38,356 and to Avellenau, the beloved goddess of our orchards, 570 01:03:38,480 --> 01:03:42,713 in order that we may furnish them with renewed power 571 01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:45,349 to quicken the growth of our crops. 572 01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:49,394 - Hail the Queen of the May! - Hail the Queen of the May! 573 01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:52,160 Hail the Queen of the May! 574 01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:00,999 Why, Sergeant, I thought you'd gone back. 575 01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:05,193 Mrs Morrison, I don't know if you know it or not, 576 01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:08,318 but Rowan is not dead, they've got her hidden somewhere. 577 01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:09,919 They? 578 01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:13,829 If you know where she is, I beg you to tell me now before it's too late. 579 01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:16,474 - Sergeant, I've already told you... - In the name of God, woman! 580 01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:18,352 What kind of mother are you, 581 01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:20,517 that can stand by and see your own child slaughtered? 582 01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:23,951 Sergeant, if I were you, I would go back to the mainland. 583 01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:27,152 Stop interfering in things that are no concern of yours. 584 01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:30,989 I am going to search every house in this place during the next few hours, 585 01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:34,033 and if anybody, including you, stands in my way, 586 01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:36,913 they'll be arrested as accomplices to murder. 587 01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:40,999 You'll simply never understand the true nature of sacrifice. 588 01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:45,271 Heathens! Bloody heathens! 589 01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:51,632 - Yes? - Take those masks off! 590 01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:53,910 - No. - Take them off! 591 01:04:57,480 --> 01:04:59,312 - What do you think you're doing? - Searching every house 592 01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:01,750 for a missing child. 593 01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:47,153 I-I'm sorry. 594 01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:48,555 - What's that? - The life of the fields. 595 01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:51,074 John Barleycorn. 596 01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:53,316 What's in here? 597 01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:57,151 - What's that? - That's my costume. 598 01:06:57,320 --> 01:06:59,596 The salmon of knowledge. 599 01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:45,591 Hello. You're back early. 600 01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:48,234 Where are the other coppers? 601 01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:51,671 There aren't any. The plane wouldn't start. 602 01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:57,517 Give me a glass of whiskey, please. 603 01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:01,759 So he spent his time instead turning the whole village upside down. 604 01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:06,431 - Just give me a glass of whiskey! - No wonder he's worn out. 605 01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:08,591 Did you find the girl? 606 01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:12,439 No, well, I can't say I'm very surprised. 607 01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:16,395 I'm going to rest in my bed for half an hour. 608 01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:18,670 I do not wish to be disturbed. 609 01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:21,519 I'd stay there until tonight, if I was you! 610 01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:24,712 We don't much relish strangers around today! 611 01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:35,194 He's asleep. 612 01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:37,709 I don't like to use it on him, really. 613 01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:40,599 The laird said we're to take no chances, didn't he? 614 01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:44,515 I know, but with the Hand of Glory there's no telling when you wake. 615 01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:46,876 - He might sleep for days. - All the better. 616 01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:48,274 Shh! 617 01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:52,155 We don't want him butting in. Go on, light it up. 618 01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:17,990 That'll make you sleep, my pretty Sergeant. 619 01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:27,269 I'm away to change. We can't do without Punch. 620 01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:30,877 You best get on ahead. 621 01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,469 They've given you girls five minutes start, haven't they? 622 01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:34,749 Good bye. 623 01:10:53,480 --> 01:10:57,474 What's the matter with you, MacGreagor? You call that dancing? 624 01:10:57,600 --> 01:11:00,877 Cut some capers, man. Use your bladder! 625 01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,640 Play the fool. That's what you're here for. 626 01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:08,317 I suppose you've been getting drunk at your own bar. 627 01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:08,358 That's more like it! 628 01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:11,439 Good, good! 629 01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:51,798 - Chop! - Chop! Chop! Chop! 630 01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:02,356 Chop! Chop! Chop! 631 01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:26,914 Everyone must go through, MacGreagor. 632 01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:29,111 It's a game of chance, remember. 633 01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:34,513 Chop! Chop! Chop! 634 01:15:04,680 --> 01:15:07,877 It's Holly. Well done! 635 01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:10,310 It's wee Holly. 636 01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:18,552 - Now, my friends, to the beach. - To the beach! 637 01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:40,193 O god of the sea, I offer you this ale as a libation, 638 01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:44,757 that you may bestow upon us in the year to come 639 01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:49,192 the rich and diverse fruits of your kingdom. 640 01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:56,758 Hail, god of the seas! 641 01:15:56,880 --> 01:15:58,712 Accept our offering! 642 01:16:07,800 --> 01:16:12,317 And now, for our more dreadful sacrifice 643 01:16:12,440 --> 01:16:15,592 for those who command the fruit of the Earth. 644 01:16:23,880 --> 01:16:26,269 It's Rowan. 645 01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:35,873 What's the matter, Mr MacGreagor? 646 01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:37,957 Now, don't be frightened. I'm a police officer. 647 01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:40,674 - I've got to try and get you away. - Hurry, please. 648 01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:44,430 I don't like it here. They're coming. You know what they're going to do? 649 01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:47,916 I know what they're going to do. Come on, come on. Hurry, hurry! 650 01:16:51,280 --> 01:16:53,635 We can escape through the cave. I know the way. 651 01:16:58,120 --> 01:16:59,554 Quickly. 652 01:17:14,120 --> 01:17:16,953 That's the way out, up there. 653 01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:29,396 Come on. It's through a big tunnel. 654 01:17:43,440 --> 01:17:45,795 We seem to have lost our torch-bearing friends. 655 01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:48,355 I'm sorry. It was worse than I remembered it. 656 01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:05,836 - Did I do it right? - You did it beautifully. 657 01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:07,473 Dear little Rowan. 658 01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:20,439 Rowan, darling! Come on, now. 659 01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:47,558 Welcome, fool. 660 01:18:48,400 --> 01:18:52,280 You have come of your own free will to the appointed place. 661 01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:55,876 The game's over. 662 01:18:56,040 --> 01:18:58,919 Game? What game? 663 01:18:59,040 --> 01:19:02,192 The game of the hunted leading the hunter. 664 01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:05,233 You came here to find Rowan Morrison, 665 01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:08,990 but it is we who have found you and brought you here, 666 01:19:09,120 --> 01:19:13,000 and controlled your every thought and action since you arrived. 667 01:19:14,400 --> 01:19:16,516 Principally, we persuaded you to think 668 01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:19,280 that Rowan Morrison was being held as a sacrifice 669 01:19:19,440 --> 01:19:22,080 because our crops failed last year. 670 01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:24,714 I know your crops failed. I saw the harvest photograph. 671 01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:28,834 Oh, yes. They failed, all right. Disastrously so. 672 01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:32,316 For the first time since my grandfather came here. 673 01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:37,354 The blossom came, but the fruit withered and died on the bough. 674 01:19:37,480 --> 01:19:41,553 That must not happen again this year. 675 01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:45,310 It is our most earnest belief that the best way of preventing this 676 01:19:45,440 --> 01:19:48,956 is to offer to our god of the sun and to the goddess of our orchards 677 01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:53,233 the most acceptable sacrifice that lies in our power. 678 01:19:54,520 --> 01:19:58,115 Animals are fine, but their acceptability is limited. 679 01:19:58,240 --> 01:20:02,234 A little child is even better, but not nearly as effective 680 01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:04,869 as the right kind of adult. 681 01:20:06,480 --> 01:20:10,439 What do you mean, "right kind of adult"? 682 01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:18,349 You, Sergeant, are the right kind of adult, 683 01:20:18,480 --> 01:20:21,916 as our painstaking researches have revealed. 684 01:20:22,040 --> 01:20:26,273 You, uniquely, were the one we needed. 685 01:20:26,400 --> 01:20:28,596 A man who would come here of his own free will. 686 01:20:28,760 --> 01:20:31,400 A man who has come here with the power of a king 687 01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:33,511 by representing the law. 688 01:20:33,680 --> 01:20:36,115 A man who would come here as a virgin. 689 01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:39,198 A man who has come here as a fool. 690 01:20:41,200 --> 01:20:43,396 Get out of my way. 691 01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:12,995 You are the fool, Mr Howie. 692 01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:18,479 Punch, one of the great fool-victims of history. 693 01:21:19,480 --> 01:21:23,838 For you have accepted the role of king for a day, 694 01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:26,713 and who but a fool would do that? 695 01:21:28,120 --> 01:21:32,432 But you will be revered and anointed as a king. 696 01:21:40,400 --> 01:21:43,836 You will undergo death and rebirth, 697 01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:45,957 resurrection, if you like. 698 01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:49,355 The rebirth, sadly, will not be yours, 699 01:21:49,480 --> 01:21:51,869 but that of our crops. 700 01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:55,038 I am a Christian, 701 01:21:55,160 --> 01:21:58,073 and as a Christian, I hope for resurrection. 702 01:21:59,960 --> 01:22:02,679 And even if you kill me now, 703 01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:07,874 it is I who will live again, not your damned apples. 704 01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:27,159 No matter what you do, 705 01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:30,113 you can't change the fact 706 01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:32,550 that I believe in the life eternal, 707 01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:35,274 as promised to us by Our Lord, Jesus Christ. 708 01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:42,552 As promised to us by Our Lord, Jesus Christ! 709 01:23:44,400 --> 01:23:47,916 That is good, for believing what you do, 710 01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:53,200 we confer upon you a rare gift these days, 711 01:23:53,320 --> 01:23:55,470 a martyr's death. 712 01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:58,877 You will not only have life eternal, 713 01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:02,516 but you will sit with the saints among the elect. 714 01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:04,989 Come. 715 01:24:06,440 --> 01:24:09,751 It is time to keep your appointment with The Wicker Man. 716 01:24:10,920 --> 01:24:12,718 Now, wait! 717 01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:16,993 Now, all of you, just wait and listen to me. 718 01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:22,320 And you can wrap it up any way you like. You are about to commit murder. 719 01:24:22,440 --> 01:24:26,673 Can you not see? There is no sun god. 720 01:24:26,800 --> 01:24:30,509 There is no goddess of the fields. 721 01:24:34,440 --> 01:24:38,229 Your crops failed because your strains failed. 722 01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:43,230 Fruit is not meant to be grown on these islands. It's against nature. 723 01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:47,558 Don't you see that killing me is not going to bring back your apples? 724 01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:51,479 Summerisle, you know it won't. 725 01:24:51,600 --> 01:24:54,513 Go on, man. Tell them. Tell them it won't! 726 01:24:54,640 --> 01:24:56,438 I know it will. 727 01:24:57,800 --> 01:25:01,680 Well, don't you understand that if your crops fail this year, 728 01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:05,555 next year you're going to have to have another blood sacrifice? 729 01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:09,560 And next year, no one less than the king of Summerisle himself will do. 730 01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:11,796 If the crops fail, Summerisle, 731 01:25:11,960 --> 01:25:16,670 next year your people will kill you on May Day. 732 01:25:16,840 --> 01:25:19,559 They will not fail. 733 01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:25,915 The sacrifice of the willing king, like virgin fool, will be accepted. 734 01:25:26,040 --> 01:25:29,351 But don't you see, I'll be missed? They'll come looking for me! 735 01:25:29,480 --> 01:25:32,120 There will be no traces. Bring him up, Oak. 736 01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:34,629 - Go on. - No! No! 737 01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:37,718 Think! Just think what you're doing! 738 01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:40,958 Think what you're doing! Think! 739 01:25:41,680 --> 01:25:44,240 In the name of God, think what you're doing! 740 01:26:05,440 --> 01:26:08,717 Oh, God! Oh, Jesus Christ! 741 01:26:12,960 --> 01:26:17,238 Oh, my God! Christ! 742 01:26:18,040 --> 01:26:21,670 No, no, dear God! No, Christ! 743 01:27:19,480 --> 01:27:21,710 No! No! 744 01:27:29,520 --> 01:27:34,993 Mighty god of the sun, bountiful goddess of our orchards, 745 01:27:35,120 --> 01:27:40,399 accept our sacrifice and make our blossoms fruit. 746 01:27:40,520 --> 01:27:45,151 Mighty god of the sun, bountiful goddess of our orchards... 747 01:27:45,320 --> 01:27:48,039 Hear ye the words of the Lord! 748 01:27:48,160 --> 01:27:53,189 - ...and make our blossoms fruit. - Awake, ye heathens, and hold! 749 01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:58,713 It is the Lord who hath laid waste your orchards! 750 01:27:58,840 --> 01:28:01,958 - It is he who hath made them bare! - Reverence the sacrifice. 751 01:28:02,080 --> 01:28:08,315 Because the truth is withered away from the sons of men! 752 01:28:10,080 --> 01:28:12,720 Desire shall fail! 753 01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:16,639 And ye shall all die... 754 01:28:17,760 --> 01:28:20,229 ...accursed! 755 01:29:45,760 --> 01:29:46,909 Oh, God! 756 01:30:03,680 --> 01:30:06,433 Oh, God. 757 01:30:13,080 --> 01:30:16,550 ...who will today depart from this world. 758 01:30:18,240 --> 01:30:21,358 Do not deliver me into the enemy's hands... 759 01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:27,551 ...or put me out of mind forever. 760 01:30:32,360 --> 01:30:37,594 Let me not undergo the real pains of hell, dear God, because I die unshriven. 761 01:30:44,280 --> 01:30:45,953 ...which knows no ending. 762 01:30:50,920 --> 01:30:52,149 ...our lord. 763 01:30:56,480 --> 01:30:59,359 Jesus! 764 01:30:59,480 --> 01:31:04,270 Jesus! 764 01:31:05,305 --> 01:31:11,865 Craving big poker? 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