1. She's fared well, considering
she's been eight months cold.Copy !req
2. She's banked with coal,Copy !req
3. the stokers are giving her
kisses with the oil can.Copy !req
4. I can build her up in a day,Copy !req
5. once we receive good news
from a lead party.Copy !req
6. My crown's on Le Vesconte.Copy !req
7. West is surely the first place
ice will open.Copy !req
8. You'll lose. Graham crosses to landCopy !req
9. and covers twice the distance.Copy !req
10. I'm with the Captain on that one, sir.Copy !req
11. Then you're both on.Copy !req
12. I had an aunt in Brighton.Copy !req
13. I used to go and see her on holidays,
from London Bridge Station.Copy !req
14. I have almost certainly been
pulled back and forth by that very engine.Copy !req
15. Look at her now.
From footnote to lead paragraph.Copy !req
16. I might poach that
for my journal this evening.Copy !req
17. It would be an honor, sir.Copy !req
18. And as we're in a wagering spirit,Copy !req
19. shall we put odds on Francis favoring us
with his presence this morning?Copy !req
20. I hope he does.
Perhaps it'll give him a lift,Copy !req
21. seeing the parties off.Copy !req
22. Here comes the lending library.Copy !req
23. Just in time.Copy !req
24. Will this be another Jonathan Swift,
or are you sending me back to Herodotus?Copy !req
25. Sadly, there is no more Herodotus.Copy !req
26. No, this is a comedy.Copy !req
27. I thought you could do with
a bit of a laugh on your 50 miles.Copy !req
28. Scour the ice,Copy !req
29. with providence as your sure-footed guide,Copy !req
30. and return safely with news
that our long winter sojournCopy !req
31. will soon lie behind us.Copy !req
32. And we can finally raise our sails againCopy !req
33. and force this passage.Copy !req
34. Graham.Copy !req
35. I appreciate you taking the cylinders.Copy !req
36. It will be an honor, sir.Copy !req
37. To lay our first footprints
upon King William LandCopy !req
38. and deliver your words.Copy !req
39. Be sure to come back with a story.Copy !req
40. Joyfully, sir.Copy !req
41. I only wish I could join in the outing.Copy !req
42. - Francis!
- Sir.Copy !req
43. Is there anything you'd like to say?Copy !req
44. Travel well.Copy !req
45. Right. Good luck, men.Copy !req
46. Company, three cheers!Copy !req
47. - Hip-hip!
- Hooray!Copy !req
48. - Hip-hip!
- Hooray!Copy !req
49. - Hip-hip!
- Hooray!Copy !req
50. Dr. MacDonald's been kind enough
to lend me his journalsCopy !req
51. from his time on Cumberland Sound.Copy !req
52. It was they who brought back
the Esquimaux,Copy !req
53. back to Aberdeen.Copy !req
54. Imagine.Copy !req
55. I don't recall his name,
but he was of the Inuk tribe.Copy !req
56. Lt. Gore, do you recall
that Inuk man's name?Copy !req
57. I do not, Mr. Goodsir.Copy !req
58. It was long and... terribly Esquimaux.Copy !req
59. Please let me take my part, Lieutenant.Copy !req
60. You said to watch for three days
and I've done it.Copy !req
61. Now let me relieve
someone who's earned it.Copy !req
62. Whoa! Whoa.Copy !req
63. Hartnell, let him spell you.Copy !req
64. There's nothing more natural
than pulling weight, Dr. Goodsir.Copy !req
65. Watch Morfin here in front,Copy !req
66. and me with the corner of your eye.Copy !req
67. Match our strides. You'll take to it.Copy !req
68. I know you will.Copy !req
69. Heave!Copy !req
70. Oh.Copy !req
71. Sorry.Copy !req
72. Sir John. I would have come to you.Copy !req
73. No, not at all. The stroll did me good.Copy !req
74. Shall we sit?Copy !req
75. I've come to repair our bonds, Francis.Copy !req
76. I'd like us to be friends again.Copy !req
77. You never lost my friendship.Copy !req
78. Well, that may be true,Copy !req
79. but I've certainly lost your company.Copy !req
80. And I'm not the only one to noticeCopy !req
81. you've succeeded in avoiding
Erebus most of the winter.Copy !req
82. I'm... I'm a Captain.Copy !req
83. I'm peevish off my own ship.Copy !req
84. I leave it and...Copy !req
85. hear disaster knocking at its doorCopy !req
86. before I'm ten steps away.Copy !req
87. Would it help if I said that
I made a mistake?Copy !req
88. You misunderstand me, Sir John.Copy !req
89. I only meant to describe
why I brood, not that I judge.Copy !req
90. Yes, but summer is coming, Francis.Copy !req
91. I mean, surely you can slip
your brooding now.Copy !req
92. Summer is here in name only, Sir John.Copy !req
93. Temperatures barely come up to zero.Copy !req
94. The sundogs remain.Copy !req
95. - These are the signs here.
- Yes, signs of a cold May.Copy !req
96. Signs that nature does not give
a damn about our plans.Copy !req
97. Is Nature's Author nowhere in your tally?Copy !req
98. What a disappointment I must be to you.Copy !req
99. It's simply that we're two men
on two very different ships.Copy !req
100. And here I've come,
to make peace on yours.Copy !req
101. Will you not on mine?Copy !req
102. I will always come to you.Copy !req
103. I serve at your command.Copy !req
104. Very well.Copy !req
105. Oh, your seat of ease, Francis.
There's a draft.Copy !req
106. It's the shore. It must be.Copy !req
107. Look what it does to the ice.Copy !req
108. An unstoppable force
meets an immovable mass.Copy !req
109. It's beautiful.Copy !req
110. We continue on foot.Copy !req
111. You deserve a prize
for your orienteering, Mr. Des Voeux.Copy !req
112. I can see the cairn.
It can't be half a mile.Copy !req
113. Looks as if the Eskis have left it alone.Copy !req
114. Seventeen years.
Maybe it spooks them.Copy !req
115. It's hard to imagine
anyone coming here. Ever.Copy !req
116. This place make you uneasy, Doctor?Copy !req
117. You call me doctor,
but technically I'm just a surgeon.Copy !req
118. - Anatomist, in fact.
- That's a doctor in my book.Copy !req
119. Thank you.Copy !req
120. - Sir.
- Thank you.Copy !req
121. Right.Copy !req
122. I pray it's English tea merchants
coming from CantonCopy !req
123. who look upon that message next.Copy !req
124. See something, Goodsir?Copy !req
125. No, sir.Copy !req
126. Sgt. Bryant, accompany me
to the second cairn.Copy !req
127. We can walk the ice, scout for open water.Copy !req
128. Mr. Des Voeux,Copy !req
129. return with the boys
to the sledge and make camp.Copy !req
130. Get some rest if we've not returned.Copy !req
131. Godspeed, sir.Copy !req
132. Come on.Copy !req
133. Lt. Gore!Copy !req
134. - Is someone there?
- Shh.Copy !req
135. Answer me.Copy !req
136. Lt. Irving.Copy !req
137. Mr. Gibson.Copy !req
138. What are you doing down here?Copy !req
139. I'd come down for coal
earlier this morningCopy !req
140. and heard one of the ship's cats
crying back here somewhere.Copy !req
141. Is someone with you?Copy !req
142. Yes. Mr. Hickey was kind enough
to accompany meCopy !req
143. in trying to find it.
He's been looking all over behind here.Copy !req
144. - The captain.
- Got caught up...Copy !req
145. His seat of ease has a draft.Copy !req
146. Have Mr. Hickey see to it.Copy !req
147. I'm here, Lieutenant. Sir?Copy !req
148. - He's running to inform.
- No, I don't think he will.Copy !req
149. Cornelius, we'll be lashed.Copy !req
150. If Lt. Irving goes to inform command,Copy !req
151. then he's gonna have to tell them
what it is he saw.Copy !req
152. Which means he's gonna have to
open his imagination...Copy !req
153. to what he didn't.Copy !req
154. I've seen him at Sir John's
Sunday service.Copy !req
155. I've watched him pray.Copy !req
156. That's a man afraid of chaos.Copy !req
157. He's not going to invite more
if he can help it.Copy !req
158. We can't be sure of it.Copy !req
159. No.Copy !req
160. But there are worse things
than being lashed.Copy !req
161. Looking forward to getting a stove going?Copy !req
162. Wait on. Look.Copy !req
163. What could have done that?Copy !req
164. There must be a bear.Copy !req
165. A bear did that?Copy !req
166. We'll be able to tell by the tracks.Copy !req
167. There may be more than one.Copy !req
168. Shall we all go?Copy !req
169. I just don't understand
why he resists us, James.Copy !req
170. He's a disappointed man.Copy !req
171. You should not have to bear
his grievances.Copy !req
172. Perhaps it is I who's unableCopy !req
173. to truly bring him into
the bosom of my confidence.Copy !req
174. I want to. I always plan to.Copy !req
175. But then, when I'm with him,
I don't know why I falter.Copy !req
176. You have done everything for the man.Copy !req
177. - Have I?
- Sir,Copy !req
178. he was no-one's first choice
for this expedition.Copy !req
179. Nor was I.Copy !req
180. How any man achieves his post
on an expeditionCopy !req
181. is less important than how he spends it.Copy !req
182. And...Copy !req
183. well, that he measures up.Copy !req
184. I will not have Francis's
melancholy touch you.Copy !req
185. I'll not have it. Do you hear me?Copy !req
186. Yes!Copy !req
187. Sorry to interrupt, sirs.Copy !req
188. What is it, Mr. Bridgens?Copy !req
189. The first lead party's just returned, sir.Copy !req
190. What news, Lieutenant? Stay seated.Copy !req
191. We traveled as far as 11 miles east, sir.Copy !req
192. We discerned no signs of the ice yielding.Copy !req
193. And the men, how did they fare?Copy !req
194. Some of them are with Dr. Stanley now.Copy !req
195. We also had an issue with our provisions.Copy !req
196. - What issue?
- Some were rotted.Copy !req
197. Inedibly so.Copy !req
198. Ask Mr. Wall to prepareCopy !req
199. an early supper
for the Lieutenant and his men.Copy !req
200. Gather your strength
before returning to your ship.Copy !req
201. I'm... sorry to disappoint you, sir.Copy !req
202. Oh, not at all.Copy !req
203. We suspected east
was not our brightest star to follow.Copy !req
204. Nevertheless, you and the men
have done a great service.Copy !req
205. Well done.Copy !req
206. Go on! Go on!Copy !req
207. Here!Copy !req
208. The western team must be nearly home now.Copy !req
209. Good thing. It looks like a sour sky.Copy !req
210. Funny to think of this place
as home, isn't it?Copy !req
211. Well, here she comes now.Copy !req
212. I thought Mohawks had carted you off.Copy !req
213. Oh, no, much worse.Copy !req
214. He proposed. Again.Copy !req
215. You declined, of course?Copy !req
216. Not firmly enough, in my opinion.Copy !req
217. In gratitude to you both for my care,Copy !req
218. must I surrender my privacy?Copy !req
219. Sophia, your safety in this worldCopy !req
220. is what we would keep you
from surrendering.Copy !req
221. This matter with Francis won't endCopy !req
222. until you are firm, my dear.Copy !req
223. He's an explorer,Copy !req
224. and you must know by now
that explorers are made of hope.Copy !req
225. They breathe hope.Copy !req
226. I can't very well ask him
to stop breathing, Uncle.Copy !req
227. No.Copy !req
228. But you really must repel
his curiosities now.Copy !req
229. I know you won't find it as much fun
as encouraging them,Copy !req
230. but you're not a child.Copy !req
231. He's suitable for a good many women.Copy !req
232. Mm.Copy !req
233. I've no doubt.Copy !req
234. But... just...Copy !req
235. under a different banner than ours.Copy !req
236. You weren't sleeping either?Copy !req
237. If only sleep were as simple
as closing your eyes.Copy !req
238. I was thinking about Tad.Copy !req
239. The first of Parry's
boat-hauling reindeer.Copy !req
240. Tad!Copy !req
241. What made you think of that poor sod?Copy !req
242. We brought those deerCopy !req
243. a thousand miles north from Norway.Copy !req
244. Only to slaughter them on the ice.Copy !req
245. Maybe that was the ice that made me
want to be a master.Copy !req
246. The way it kept moving us back.Copy !req
247. Mm. It was rough ice.Copy !req
248. The deer couldn't haul on it.Copy !req
249. We knew that in a day.Copy !req
250. But we kept them anyway.Copy !req
251. Ferrying deer from ice floe to ice floe...Copy !req
252. by boat, thinking we could
use them by and by.Copy !req
253. Rowing reindeer in our sleigh boats!Copy !req
254. Like proper little ladies...Copy !req
255. in ostrich carts.Copy !req
256. They were so confused.Copy !req
257. Is that us... now?Copy !req
258. Confused, out of our depth?Copy !req
259. We've seen worse than this, you and me.Copy !req
260. And I know you saw much worse south,
with Sir James.Copy !req
261. I've heard other versions than yours.Copy !req
262. I know them to be reliable.Copy !req
263. - This is different.
- Aye.Copy !req
264. You trusted Ross and you trusted Parry.Copy !req
265. Either you're a clairvoyantCopy !req
266. or I'm not doing half the job I think I amCopy !req
267. concealing my thoughts.Copy !req
268. No, it's just that I know you.Copy !req
269. What will it do to us, the ice?Copy !req
270. If no leads get foundCopy !req
271. and we have to spend another winter here.Copy !req
272. Without a thaw to clear last winter's ice,Copy !req
273. it will start to back up
and then pile up high.Copy !req
274. Like one whole countryCopy !req
275. being squeezed into
the borders of another.Copy !req
276. It'll push the boats up.Copy !req
277. Aye, I've seen boats forced
20, 30 feet in the jam.Copy !req
278. Can we survive that amount of pressure?Copy !req
279. If it drives us up, yeah, we'll ride it.Copy !req
280. It could also drive us under.Copy !req
281. Snap our beams and crush us at the waist.Copy !req
282. Let's pray for the former, then.Copy !req
283. I'll put the third tent up.Copy !req
284. We'll all appreciate the extra roomCopy !req
285. if we're in for foul weather.Copy !req
286. I was only just thinking
that's what this camp needed:Copy !req
287. more ice.Copy !req
288. Time to get inside, boys!Copy !req
289. We're just ahead of it.Copy !req
290. Are you repairing the boat?Copy !req
291. Get inside! Now!Copy !req
292. The boat, sir. We found it like that.Copy !req
293. Blast it.Copy !req
294. That bear was tracking us.Copy !req
295. We heard it a mile back, up in the ice,
and a mile before that.Copy !req
296. I fired in its direction to drive it off,Copy !req
297. but it must not before in its lifeCopy !req
298. have smelled anything like an Englishman.Copy !req
299. What do we do?Copy !req
300. Shoot it in the head.
Carve it up for supper.Copy !req
301. And if it's not alone?Copy !req
302. Everyone, a rifle.Copy !req
303. It's just up there.Copy !req
304. Mr. Goodsir! Come quickly!Copy !req
305. He took it in the chest, sir.Copy !req
306. That's a girl.Copy !req
307. Who is she looking for?Copy !req
308. I'll get the lieutenant.Copy !req
309. I'll caulk you next.Copy !req
310. Neptune, sir. He relieved himselfCopy !req
311. before I could alert Mr. Jopson.Copy !req
312. There was no warning, I'm afraid.Copy !req
313. - And yet you take up the duty.
- My apologies, sir.Copy !req
314. I know better to mind my own tasks.Copy !req
315. Not at all. I meant itCopy !req
316. as a statement of gratitude, Mr. Hickey.Copy !req
317. You're most welcome, Captain.Copy !req
318. - You're a Limerick man?
- Thereabouts, sir.Copy !req
319. But that's not
what comes out of your mouth.Copy !req
320. If I hadn't read the ship's roster,Copy !req
321. I'd never have known you were Irish.Copy !req
322. I've lived as many yearsCopy !req
323. in Liverpool and Manchester as there.Copy !req
324. I barely remember anything but England.Copy !req
325. It must have made it easier for you.Copy !req
326. Yeah.Copy !req
327. I learnt early:Copy !req
328. those who are quickest to tally your valueCopy !req
329. often do it on your spots alone.Copy !req
330. You should know that Discovery ServiceCopy !req
331. is not unlike the world in that regard.Copy !req
332. If not worse.Copy !req
333. You've done extraordinarily well.Copy !req
334. Captain of a great ship.Copy !req
335. Gives the rest of us Micks hope.Copy !req
336. Would you take a drink, Mr. Hickey?Copy !req
337. I wouldn't put the Captain out.Copy !req
338. - What day of the week is it?
- It's a Wednesday, sir.Copy !req
339. Ourselves, then.Copy !req
340. It's fitting.Copy !req
341. The second lead party returned last night.Copy !req
342. No leads west.Copy !req
343. Forgive me for saying, sir,Copy !req
344. but I have my doubts
we'll see leads this year.Copy !req
345. Perhaps I would have done betterCopy !req
346. to have played your game, Mr. Hickey,Copy !req
347. and culled the world.Copy !req
348. I applaud you.Copy !req
349. Come!Copy !req
350. Yes, John.Copy !req
351. I'm...Copy !req
352. I'm sorry, sir, the last lead party, sir,Copy !req
353. it's been sighted.Copy !req
354. Gangway! Officer coming through!Copy !req
355. Mind your backs. Mind your backs, boys.Copy !req
356. Officer coming through. Gangway.Copy !req
357. Mind your backs.Copy !req
358. Where's Graham?Copy !req
359. Dr. Stanley.Copy !req
360. Commander Fitzjames,
I will not touch this man.Copy !req
361. You needn't. This man's been
in my care for two days.Copy !req
362. Mr. Goodsir...Copy !req
363. The bullet needs to be removed
so the hole can be closed,Copy !req
364. otherwise it will keep
collapsing his lung,Copy !req
365. which I suspect is leaning
on the man's heart.Copy !req
366. What is Sir John's wish here?Copy !req
367. We may be able to spare him.Copy !req
368. May I have your leave to try?Copy !req
369. He had nothing to do with
what happened to Lt. Gore, sir.Copy !req
370. This man's her father.Copy !req
371. Sir, can you tell her
this will be painful for himCopy !req
372. but I'll be as quick as I can be?Copy !req
373. Shh.Copy !req
374. It's in too deep in the tissue.Copy !req
375. Can't you cut it out?Copy !req
376. Every breath he takes is making it worse.Copy !req
377. Who knows how badly we jostled
him getting him to the ship?Copy !req
378. What is she saying?Copy !req
379. She's begging him not to ask this of her.Copy !req
380. Ask what of her?Copy !req
381. No...!Copy !req
382. Stretcher! Bring a stretcher!Copy !req
383. - What's happening?
- She says he must die on the ice.Copy !req
384. Commander Fitzjames,Copy !req
385. you'll escort this woman off Erebus.Copy !req
386. Please see to it that the sick bay
is restored, Dr. Stanley.Copy !req
387. - Certainly, sir.
- Sir, with your permission,Copy !req
388. I'd like to take the woman aboard Terror.Copy !req
389. You're staying here, Francis,
until we've heard fromCopy !req
390. every one of Graham's team
about what happened out there.Copy !req
391. Mr. Goodsir, come with us, please.Copy !req
392. We found only one set of prints.Copy !req
393. Large.Copy !req
394. 20 inches across.Copy !req
395. How long did you search for Lt. Gore...Copy !req
396. before you decided to leave him?Copy !req
397. We searched for a half mile
in each direction, sir.Copy !req
398. Then how can you be certain
he was killed?Copy !req
399. The amount of blood, sir, on the ice.Copy !req
400. No man could have survived
losing so much.Copy !req
401. You say this with complete
authority on the subject?Copy !req
402. I do, sir.Copy !req
403. Whether it was our grief or fatigue,
I cannot say,Copy !req
404. but some of us... Hartnell
and Morfin specifically...Copy !req
405. became convinced that the bear
continued to track usCopy !req
406. here, back to the ships.Copy !req
407. Based on what evidence... Mr. Goodsir?Copy !req
408. We could not be more distressed
by what happened, sirs.Copy !req
409. Lt. Gore was one of the very best men...Copy !req
410. Leads, Doctor. Did you find any leads?Copy !req
411. The ice showed no sign of a thaw,
Captains.Copy !req
412. On the contrary, the wrack of iceCopy !req
413. built up around the shore
of King William LandCopy !req
414. was thicker than Lt. Gore expected.Copy !req
415. You're now an expert on the ice too,
Mr. Goodsir?Copy !req
416. Thank you. That will be all.Copy !req
417. There's one more thing, Captains.Copy !req
418. - Yes?
- The Esquimaux man.Copy !req
419. What about him?Copy !req
420. He had signs of a...Copy !req
421. surgical procedure in his past.Copy !req
422. What sort of procedure?Copy !req
423. He had no tongue.Copy !req
424. It was removed some time ago, I believe,Copy !req
425. with some sharp edge.Copy !req
426. These people are not our concern.Copy !req
427. We have one of our own men to mourn.Copy !req
428. - You may go.
- Sir.Copy !req
429. - What have you learned?
- She's in good condition.Copy !req
430. And she has been eating.
Fairly well, in fact.Copy !req
431. That could mean her people
have found game in the area.Copy !req
432. - Has she conversed with you?
- No.Copy !req
433. Hm?Copy !req
434. She said that if we don't leave now...Copy !req
435. we're going to huk-kah-hoi.Copy !req
436. - Disappear.
- Mm.Copy !req