1. I'll trade my salt pork tonight
for another watchCopy !req
2. if we don't see it.Copy !req
3. Henry Lloyd saw it by
those hummocks at four bells.Copy !req
4. What told him it was Lieutenant Gore's
bear and not another?Copy !req
5. It wore
the Lieutenant's medals.Copy !req
6. I plan to ask Lieutenant
Le Vesconte for dutyCopy !req
7. in the hunting blind
once it's built.Copy !req
8. I'd like another shot
at the thing.Copy !req
9. Robert Ferrier says
you didn't see it at all.Copy !req
10. Only Mr. Goodsir saw it.Copy !req
11. That Mary Anne
doesn't know what he saw.Copy !req
12. We thought it was the bear
in front of us.Copy !req
13. It's the ice, Georgie.Copy !req
14. It's only the ice.Copy !req
15. What's it like,
to shoot a man?Copy !req
16. Shooting a man's more fun
when you mean to do it.Copy !req
17. I'll tell you that.Copy !req
18. You've a gift
with that.Copy !req
19. Me mam
was a dressmaker.Copy !req
20. Cage crinoline and
arse-torn knicker-bocker suits.Copy !req
21. But she never taught me
to tailor for no dead Eskimuck.Copy !req
22. This all of it, then?Copy !req
23. The girl, she's shoving off.Copy !req
24. They want her to take
everything with her.Copy !req
25. A girl on a boat... here.Copy !req
26. That's spooky.Copy !req
27. Call him back.Copy !req
28. There's something more in here.Copy !req
29. Snip it out.Copy !req
30. Check for more.
Suppose it's ivory.Copy !req
31. There's another one here.Copy !req
32. Man's got charms falling
off him like a plum tree,Copy !req
33. Mr. Goodsir.Copy !req
34. Put them back inside.Copy !req
35. How will he fit
in his coffin like that?Copy !req
36. I have the, um...Copy !req
37. Her father's personals, sir.Copy !req
38. She'll be happy
to be on her way now.Copy !req
39. They say she talked up a storm
until her father died.Copy !req
40. Now she's all silence.Copy !req
41. I'm sorry,Copy !req
42. that... that's all there is.Copy !req
43. I did put some supper
in there for you, though.Copy !req
44. Condolences, Lady Silence.Copy !req
45. Weight him
and get on with it.Copy !req
46. I don't understand this.Copy !req
47. This is something
Sir John approved?Copy !req
48. Aye, Mr. Goodsir.
Little lad, he was.Copy !req
49. He shouldn't plug it up.Copy !req
50. I mean to suggest,
might it be more appropriateCopy !req
51. to cut the man his own hole?Copy !req
52. A more appropriate hole?Copy !req
53. With respect to
Esquimaux custom.Copy !req
54. It's a native belief
the body retains sensationCopy !req
55. even after the soul departs.Copy !req
56. According to
Dr. MacDonald's account.Copy !req
57. Having yourself
handled his corpse,Copy !req
58. is it your opinion
he retains sensation?Copy !req
59. In your prior engagements
with the Esquimaux,Copy !req
60. did you find them at all...
unforgiving...Copy !req
61. when those they loved
are wronged?Copy !req
62. Vengeful, even?Copy !req
63. Having never wronged them,
I couldn't testify.Copy !req
64. Are we not at all concerned
that if that girl can...Copy !req
65. make it all the way back
to her people on her own,Copy !req
66. she may call on them
for revenge?Copy !req
67. Were we to put her
down the fire hole as well?Copy !req
68. She wasn't our prisoner,
Edward.Copy !req
69. The Esquimaux man's tongue
was hacked off.Copy !req
70. We don't know why.
Say it was punishment.Copy !req
71. If that's how they punish one of
their own, then what must they do to...Copy !req
72. Breakfast is ready.Copy !req
73. Jopson, my coat.
I'm leaving for Erebus.Copy !req
74. No escort is necessary.Copy !req
75. You have nothing to fear,
Lieutenant.Copy !req
76. The girl's people are far too busy
staying alive to wage a war.Copy !req
77. What plans have you made,
Sir John?Copy !req
78. All kinds of plans, of course.Copy !req
79. In case the ships
are ice-locked.Copy !req
80. Oh, we are amply provisioned,
for three years,Copy !req
81. and up to five
with strict rationing.Copy !req
82. Your rescue plan.
What is your rescue plan?Copy !req
83. Better John Ross
blame an unyielding NorthCopy !req
84. than own up
to his poor captaining.Copy !req
85. If the Arctic bedeviled him,
why should it open to you?Copy !req
86. That's his thinking.Copy !req
87. Come over here, darling.Copy !req
88. What is it?Copy !req
89. - Does it sing?
- It chatters.Copy !req
90. Meet... Jacko.Copy !req
91. Mm.Copy !req
92. Oh...Copy !req
93. Darling, that monkey is female.Copy !req
94. Oh, is it?Copy !req
95. I have followed
every Admiralty protocol.Copy !req
96. There'll be nothing.
You hear?Copy !req
97. Nothing lives there.
Nothing grows.Copy !req
98. You'll eat your shoes again.
You'll eat worse.Copy !req
99. We've been misunderstood,
darling.Copy !req
100. John Ross isn't the only one.Copy !req
101. Van Diemen's Land
was a horrible blow.Copy !req
102. I won't allow another man
to play politics against meCopy !req
103. ever again.Copy !req
104. I was a good Governor, Janey.Copy !req
105. You were an excellent Governor.Copy !req
106. It's just that history
was given a different story.Copy !req
107. Death is slow
in the Great White Nothing.Copy !req
108. And 134 starved men
will turn devil against you.Copy !req
109. Starting with the ones
you hold closest.Copy !req
110. But in two years, when you
return from the Passage,Copy !req
111. no-one will misunderstand us,
John.Copy !req
112. You will have bested them all.Copy !req
113. I'll be giving a Divine Service
tomorrow.Copy !req
114. Mandatory, for both ships.
Tell the men, will you?Copy !req
115. Oh, except for
the men of the blind.Copy !req
116. They're to keep their focus
on hunting the bear.Copy !req
117. May I come in, sir?Copy !req
118. I wouldn't presume to ask
if it weren't important.Copy !req
119. If you must.Copy !req
120. And in Jacob's dream,
he saw the invisible world,Copy !req
121. so immense it would have to...Copy !req
122. Yes?Copy !req
123. cleaved from the frame
that carried them, yet live.Copy !req
124. The newest to their ranks,
our bright brother...Copy !req
125. Lieutenant Graham Gore.Copy !req
126. My condolences, Sir John.Copy !req
127. Amongst everything else,
I know you mourn a friend.Copy !req
128. Thank you.Copy !req
129. I apologize for the timing
of this request.Copy !req
130. But its virtue's in its speed.Copy !req
131. I'd like permission
to send a sledge party out.Copy !req
132. South. Not for leads this time.Copy !req
133. For rescue.Copy !req
134. Where?Copy !req
135. The Hudson Bay Company outpost
on Great Slave Lake.Copy !req
136. If the party leaves now,
they'll haveCopy !req
137. three full months to get there
before winter comes in force.Copy !req
138. That is 800 miles, Francis.Copy !req
139. No...Copy !req
140. I do not grant permission.Copy !req
141. At least tell me you understand
why I'm suggesting it.Copy !req
142. You are suggesting it
because you are a manCopy !req
143. who's happiest with a glass
of knock-me-down in one handCopy !req
144. and an alarm bell in the other.Copy !req
145. I'm suggesting it because...
if this cold continuesCopy !req
146. and we find ourselvesCopy !req
147. overwintering again
in this ice,Copy !req
148. help must already be
on its way, come spring...Copy !req
149. if we are to survive.Copy !req
150. I'd rather send out
eight men now,Copy !req
151. for a long, unnecessary walk,Copy !req
152. than risk a necessary one
for all of us in a year.Copy !req
153. I will not allow it.Copy !req
154. What signal
would that send to the men?Copy !req
155. It's not the men
I'm concerned about signaling.Copy !req
156. No one knows where we are.Copy !req
157. That is how you already see us?Copy !req
158. In need of saving?Copy !req
159. - I do.
- Yet your prediction last yearCopy !req
160. about the terrifying winter
we'd spend in the packCopy !req
161. did not come true.Copy !req
162. Not to the degree I feared,
but that will change,Copy !req
163. should there again be no thaw.Copy !req
164. It is a Captain's duty,
after all,Copy !req
165. to mind for the worst case,
not for the one he hopes for.Copy !req
166. Oh, so, now I must hear youCopy !req
167. instruct me
in a Captain's duties.Copy !req
168. It's only eight men, Sir John.Copy !req
169. And there is just enough time.Copy !req
170. I have lost six men
on this expedition to date.Copy !req
171. Six! And you ask me to risk
more than doubling that numberCopy !req
172. trekking over distant groundCopy !req
173. where you know I have lost men
in years past.Copy !req
174. I'll hear no more of this.Copy !req
175. I will not lose another man,
Francis.Copy !req
176. We may lose all our men.Copy !req
177. That is what my alarm
is ringing now, Sir John.Copy !req
178. And I... I am at a loss
why yours is not.Copy !req
179. You are the worst kind
of second, Francis.Copy !req
180. You abuse your freedoms.Copy !req
181. You complain in the safety
of speculation,Copy !req
182. you claim foresight in
disasters that never happen,Copy !req
183. and you are weak in your vicesCopy !req
184. because your rank affords you
privacy and deference.Copy !req
185. You've made yourself miserableCopy !req
186. and distant, and hard to love,Copy !req
187. and you blame the world for it.Copy !req
188. I'm not the sailor you are,
Francis, never will be.Copy !req
189. But you will never be
fit for command.Copy !req
190. And, as your Captain, I take
some responsibility for that.Copy !req
191. For the vanity of your outlook.Copy !req
192. I should have curbed
these tendencies,Copy !req
193. rather than sympathized
with them, because you seemCopy !req
194. to have confused my sympathy
with tolerance,Copy !req
195. but there is a limit
to how much I can tolerate,Copy !req
196. and that is where we are
presently standing!Copy !req
197. There are some things
we were never meant to beCopy !req
198. to one another.
I see that now.Copy !req
199. Friends... on my side.Copy !req
200. Relations on yours.Copy !req
201. So let us turn our energies
back to beingCopy !req
202. what the Admiralty, and life,
have seen fit to make us.Copy !req
203. We should give that our best.Copy !req
204. There can be no argument
between us there.Copy !req
205. Now you must excuse me.Copy !req
206. I have a service
to finish writing for tomorrow.Copy !req
207. It will have to act
as the only eulogyCopy !req
208. our boy Graham
will be given out here...Copy !req
209. and I intend it to sing.Copy !req
210. Put together a list.
Our eight most able men.Copy !req
211. - Sir John heard reason, then?
- I'll make certainCopy !req
212. the blame falls on no one's
shoulders but my own.Copy !req
213. Proceeding with this
would be considered...Copy !req
214. It would take weeks to engineer
some way to change his mind.Copy !req
215. We don't have weeks.
We may not even have days.Copy !req
216. Lieutenant Little
will never agree to it.Copy !req
217. He won't have to.
I'll lead the party myself.Copy !req
218. With my presence,
the other members of the teamCopy !req
219. can say they were coerced.Copy !req
220. I'll tell them
it's a hunting party at first.Copy !req
221. The act won't impugn them.Copy !req
222. And if we were to meet
Esquimaux along the way,Copy !req
223. I can converse our needs
and gain help in that manner.Copy !req
224. Then send me in your place.Copy !req
225. I can speak native
as well as you.Copy !req
226. You must stay.Copy !req
227. To read the ice
if leads open up.Copy !req
228. And as for Dr. MacDonald...Copy !req
229. I'll not take a doctor
from the men.Copy !req
230. But you're the Captain.Copy !req
231. There's a spare Captain
on Erebus.Copy !req
232. You'll be despised.Copy !req
233. Sir John will have your head.Copy !req
234. And if he doesn't call for it,
the Admiralty certainly will.Copy !req
235. They can have it.Copy !req
236. After I build us
a road out of here.Copy !req
237. And what of the Terror?Copy !req
238. Make me that list, Thomas.Copy !req
239. I plan to leave at
start of last watch.Copy !req
240. Write it down this time,
Mr. Diggle.Copy !req
241. In order to heat your soup,
you must first heat the stove.Copy !req
242. Thank you for sharing
the extent ofCopy !req
243. your knowledge as a cook,
Mr. Wall.Copy !req
244. But I'd never hazard
the wreck of your kitchenCopy !req
245. unless pressed
by dire consequence.Copy !req
246. "Dire consequence"?Copy !req
247. But there's much here
for you to marvel at.Copy !req
248. Just look how happy my men are.Copy !req
249. Oh, I marvel.Copy !req
250. But about something more
intriguing than you.Copy !req
251. What on earth are you up to?Copy !req
252. I'm concerned about the number
of Terror's canned provisionsCopy !req
253. turning up spoilt.Copy !req
254. I'm here to inquire
if Erebus is seeing the same.Copy !req
255. I've discovered bad seals,
gray meatCopy !req
256. and odors that curled my hair.Copy !req
257. Now, in the event
you've already developedCopy !req
258. a method for handling
the problem,Copy !req
259. I hope you can set aside
your envy and share it.Copy !req
260. Otherwise I thought we might
together invent a solution.Copy !req
261. Mm.Copy !req
262. Add salt.Copy !req
263. Men approaching.Copy !req
264. At ease.Copy !req
265. We thought you might be
in need of a short,Copy !req
266. gentlemen, to keep warm.Copy !req
267. That's a generous,
generous thought, sir.Copy !req
268. Ha.Copy !req
269. - What bait are we using?
- Rats, sir.Copy !req
270. We pulled the biggest of
the bunch up from the holds,Copy !req
271. gutted them
and tied them up on lines.Copy !req
272. You'll put our Fagin
out of a job. Although...Copy !req
273. that layabout
couldn't catch a ratCopy !req
274. if it fell asleep in its mouth.Copy !req
275. He was meant to be a lapdog,
not a cat.Copy !req
276. Or maybe... a small pillow.Copy !req
277. Lieutenant Irving.
I was hoping we'd meet.Copy !req
278. Mind the grease there, sir.Copy !req
279. I wanted to thank you...
for your help.Copy !req
280. For your discretion, I mean.Copy !req
281. Call it anything but "help,"
Mr. Hickey. Please.Copy !req
282. I exercised clemencyCopy !req
283. for a man abused
by a devious seducer.Copy !req
284. That it also benefited you
is a sin in itself, I'm sure.Copy !req
285. - A "devious seducer"?
- Yes, Mr. Hickey.Copy !req
286. Mr. Gibson told me everything.Copy !req
287. How you pressed him
into service,Copy !req
288. threatened to expose him
should he ever refuse you.Copy !req
289. I pressed him?Copy !req
290. You laugh?Copy !req
291. Turn your wolf's ear to me now
and hear...Copy !req
292. or the next piece of counsel
you'll be given on the subjectCopy !req
293. may come from
the end of a cat o' nines.Copy !req
294. We are... separated hereCopy !req
295. from the temptations
of the world.Copy !req
296. At sea,Copy !req
297. a man can find spiritual
benefit in the collective.Copy !req
298. It is no accident the world
was reborn clean out of an ark,Copy !req
299. Mr. Hickey.Copy !req
300. Man's worst urges
can be satisfiedCopy !req
301. through Christian pleasures
and graces...Copy !req
302. singing with friends...
watercolors, study,Copy !req
303. - climbing exercises.
- Climbing, sir?Copy !req
304. Your crisis is an opportunity
for you to repair yourself.Copy !req
305. You are in
the world's best place for it.Copy !req
306. Do you think so?Copy !req
307. God sees you, Mr. Hickey.Copy !req
308. Here more than anywhere.Copy !req
309. I understand you've cleared up
our associationCopy !req
310. for Lieutenant Irving.Copy !req
311. - You spoke to him?
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
312. Directly?Copy !req
313. Christ, Cornelius.
I'd reassured him.Copy !req
314. "Cornelius Hickey
is a devious seducer."Copy !req
315. That was your...
was your reassurance?Copy !req
316. You've got some face.
You know that?Copy !req
317. We were within an ace
of getting called outCopy !req
318. in front of all the men
and whipped for it, or worse.Copy !req
319. You were right.Copy !req
320. If he weren't such an
Anchorite, we would have been.Copy !req
321. So just keep your foot
out of it now, please,Copy !req
322. and let him forget
the whole thing,Copy !req
323. as he assuredly wants to.Copy !req
324. To think you were such a good
wife to me all these months.Copy !req
325. Oh, go to hell.Copy !req
326. We've had our beer
and skittles,Copy !req
327. but your tastes
are no rule for mine.Copy !req
328. - Hm. Oh, no?
- No.Copy !req
329. Is that why I've seen
more of your posternCopy !req
330. than your face this winter,
Billy?Copy !req
331. - Hm.
- Huh?Copy !req
332. Do you know what copulates
on this ship?Copy !req
333. Rats. Nesting in our rubbish,
swimming in our filth.Copy !req
334. Devouring each other
just to make more rats.Copy !req
335. Well, I am not a rat.Copy !req
336. I'm a man.Copy !req
337. A delightful, God-fearing man.Copy !req
338. I had to choose.Copy !req
339. No one is out here
for the view, Cornelius.Copy !req
340. My standing with command
is more valuableCopy !req
341. than my standing with you.Copy !req
342. I know you, of all people,
will understand that.Copy !req
343. Now, if this is what I need
to say, then I will say it.Copy !req
344. It's not personal,
but it is finished.Copy !req
345. So don't be pettish.Copy !req
346. I haven't done you down
as you so think.Copy !req
347. I've just made it so that
we can both keep our skins.Copy !req
348. Please.Copy !req
349. You've sketched out the ladder,Copy !req
350. but you've got me
on the wrong rung, Mr. Gibson.Copy !req
351. What does that mean?Copy !req
352. Captain Crozier
served me a drink,Copy !req
353. just the other day.Copy !req
354. Whiskey.Copy !req
355. In one of his...
cut glasses, in fact.Copy !req
356. He spoke to me as a friend.Copy !req
357. A friend?Copy !req
358. Yes.Copy !req
359. He sees something in me.Copy !req
360. - It could lead anywhere.
- Cornelius...Copy !req
361. - Anywhere.
- Cornelius, you...Copy !req
362. The Captain doesn't
see you at all.Copy !req
363. You can ask Mr. Jopson
or Mr. Genge,Copy !req
364. but they will tell you...Copy !req
365. he'll offer anyone a drink...Copy !req
366. if he can have one, too.Copy !req
367. Posterity awaits, Mr. Goodsir.Copy !req
368. Hold still! Not a twitch.Copy !req
369. Wonderful!Copy !req
370. In honor of our brother
Lieutenant Gore, be merciless.Copy !req
371. Educate this creatureCopy !req
372. as to the dominion
of the Empire,Copy !req
373. and the will of the Lord behind it.Copy !req
374. - Sir?
- Yes?Copy !req
375. Why don't you sit with us?Copy !req
376. Perhaps it can be you who fires
the shot that convinces it.Copy !req
377. At least be here
to see it felled.Copy !req
378. Yes, I'll sit with you
for a moment. Thank you.Copy !req
379. You may return to the ship,
Mr. Goodsir.Copy !req
380. - Do you need a chaperone?
- Yes.Copy !req
381. Or you may stay with us.Copy !req
382. Yes, sir.Copy !req
383. Oh!Copy !req
384. Get back!Copy !req
385. They must be waltzing
with that bear after all.Copy !req
386. Fall back!Copy !req
387. Send our Marines!Copy !req
388. - Uh. Now!
- Sir.Copy !req
389. Erebus!Copy !req
390. Erebus! Erebus!Copy !req
391. Sir John!Copy !req
392. Des Voeux,
bring three men and follow me.Copy !req
393. Yes, sir. You.
The rest of you stay here.Copy !req
394. Sir John?Copy !req
395. Call out!Copy !req
396. Erebus!Copy !req
397. Aargh!Copy !req
398. Sir John!Copy !req
399. Sir John? Give me a line!Copy !req
400. Sir John. Sir John!Copy !req
401. Give me a line!Copy !req
402. Groups of six. Carry any
wounded back to the ships.Copy !req
403. Sweep the ice. I want
every man accounted for. Go.Copy !req
404. No!Copy !req
405. The Passage was
supposed to be his.Copy !req
406. How does it know
to take our best men?Copy !req
407. Lieutenant Gore.
And now the Captain.Copy !req
408. It took Bryant.
He weren't no "best" man.Copy !req
409. He was a ranking Marine.
He was a Sergeant.Copy !req
410. He were a red-coated conscript.Copy !req
411. That bear don't "know" us.Copy !req
412. It knows one thing
and one thing only.Copy !req
413. You don't think it strange...
it should start killing usCopy !req
414. right after
we took down that Eski?Copy !req
415. He did have a... a carved bear
in his robe, the Esquimaux.Copy !req
416. A little token or such.Copy !req
417. - And one of a man.
- Where are they now?Copy !req
418. We put them back.Copy !req
419. Ain't no way
we were taking them.Copy !req
420. Go on, John.Copy !req
421. I never wanted anything
as little as I want this now.Copy !req
422. I do have an order.Copy !req
423. Mr. Blanky, proceed immediately
with the rescue party.Copy !req
424. Lieutenant Fairholme
can lead it. Let him know.Copy !req
425. Sir John forbade this plan.Copy !req
426. Swap two Marines
into the party...Copy !req
427. and lighten the load what
amount you feel you safely can.Copy !req
428. They'll need every advantage.Copy !req
429. I implore you. Please, stop.Copy !req
430. We have lost Sir John!Copy !req
431. We have lost Sir John.Copy !req
432. Do you not... Do you not feel
what has happened?Copy !req
433. I feel it.Copy !req
434. One day.Copy !req
435. I am asking one day...Copy !req
436. to allow our men to grieve.Copy !req
437. And then they go.Copy !req
438. These words are not mine.Copy !req
439. They're Sir John's.Copy !req
440. He wanted you to hear them.Copy !req
441. And, lacking words of my own...Copy !req
442. ..I give you his.Copy !req
443. His last.Copy !req
444. "In his flight,Copy !req
445. Jacob lighted upon
a certain placeCopy !req
446. and tarried there becau...Copy !req
447. because the sun was set.Copy !req
448. He thought it
a terrible place.Copy !req
449. No house, no hearth.Copy !req
450. But that night he dreamed:Copy !req
451. A ladder set upon the earthCopy !req
452. and the top of it
reaching to the heavens.Copy !req
453. Behold, the Lord
stood above it and He said,Copy !req
454. 'I am with thee,Copy !req
455. and will keep thee
in all places,Copy !req
456. wherever thou goest;Copy !req
457. for I will not leave thee.'Copy !req
458. And in Jacob's dream,
he saw the invisible world,Copy !req
459. companion to the known one
we perceive...Copy !req
460. with its rocks and moon...Copy !req
461. its ice fields
and brute animals...Copy !req
462. and all the people we know...Copy !req
463. have ever known...Copy !req
464. and will ever know.Copy !req
465. So complete
it would seem to leave no roomCopy !req
466. for its invisible
brother world..."Copy !req
467. I'll be a minute on the seat.Copy !req
468. "... which is
yet more immense...Copy !req
469. than the one we see.Copy !req
470. For in this world dwell
the Angels who keep us,Copy !req
471. the Lord
who will not leave us...Copy !req
472. and the departed,Copy !req
473. who though cleaved from
the frame that carried them,Copy !req
474. yet live.Copy !req
475. Newest to their ranks,Copy !req
476. our bright Captain...Copy !req
477. Sir John.Copy !req
478. Who, in the virtue and strength
of his every gesture,Copy !req
479. showed himself
the elect of the Lord...Copy !req
480. destined to reign
with Christ forever.Copy !req
481. The invisible world of spirits,
though unseen,Copy !req
482. was present for Jacob.Copy !req
483. Not future, not distant,
but present.Copy !req
484. And it is now, and it is here,Copy !req
485. among us,
if we open our eyes...Copy !req
486. and see His truth...
amongst us."Copy !req
487. Marines...Copy !req
488. ready!Copy !req
489. Present!Copy !req
490. Shoulder... arms!Copy !req