[foghorn blasts]
[seagulls squawking]
[foghorn continues blasting]
[distant foghorn blast]
[foghorn continues]
[waves crashing]
[seagulls squawking]
[foghorn blasting]
[foghorn blasting loudly]
- [waves crashing]
- [wind gusting]
[silence]
[waves crashing]
[clock ticking]
[wind howling outside]
[match strikes]
[foghorn blasting]
[rattling]
[stairs creaking]
- [t h u d s]
- Ow.
[water trickling]
[water stops]
[man farts]
[whistling]
[farts]
[continues whistling]
[clock ticking]
[wind howling]
[distant foghorn]
[whirring and clanking]
[foghorn blasts]
[foghorn continues]
[wind howling]
[exhales]
Should pale death with treble dread
make the ocean caves our bed,
God who hear'st the surges roll,
deign to save our suppliant soul.
To four weeks.
No, sir. Thank you.
It's bad luck to leave
a toast unfinished, lad.
Oh, meanin'... meanin' no disrespect.
Man what don't drink
best have his reasons.
Uh... Ain't it... I...
I... I understood
it's against regulations, sir...
Did you?
I did, sir. From, uh...
From them's manual.
Didn't picture you a readin' man.
[snickers]
Well, I ain't trying for trouble.
Then you'll do as I say.
That's in your book too.
[grunts]
To four weeks.
[cups clank]
- [sputtering]
- [laughing]
[coughing]
Aye. Aye. The cistern needs a-lookin' to.
One of your duties, lad.
Or didn't y'read yourself about it?
You'll clean the brass and the clockwork,
and you'll tidy up the quarters after.
And there's well more
to be mended outside.
D'you hear me, lad?
[sighs] Yes, sir.
Aye, sir!
[scoffs] Aye, sir.
[hawks]
When the fog clears,
you'll work through the dog watch.
Doggin' it?
I was 'specting I'd get up
to see the lantern.
I tend the light.
Well, the rules is alternatin' shifts.
It's the mid-watch that's to dread, lad.
My watch, night to morning.
Some new junior man I'm fixed with.
See to your duties. The light is mine.
[foghorn blasting]
[machinery whirring and clanking]
[foghorn blasts loudly]
Son of a b*tch!
[foghorn blasts]
[metallic clinking]
[mechanical ticking and clicking]
[high-pitched screeching]
[screeches]
[man] Shingles.
Tend to 'em after the cistern.
And the lamp, she needs oil.
[shoes clatter]
Aye, sir.
[exhales and farts]
[seagulls squawking]
[grunting]
[splashing]
[coughing]
[sludge sloshing]
[wind howling]
[seagulls squawking]
[grunting]
[squawking]
[continues squawking]
- [rattles]
- Go!
Move it.
[squawking]
[squawking furiously]
- [thudding]
- [panting]
[grunts]
[continues panting]
[grunting, panting]
[panting heavily]
You don't go in there!
- Oil, sir.
- Tired? Use this next time.
Save you a hell of a lot of trouble.
Catch your breath, lad.
I said, catch your breath, lad.
[inhales sharply]
Then bring that drum back down
the ladder well where y'found it.
'Less you're fixin'
to burn the whole light down.
Then see to the rest of your duties.
You're behindhand already.
- Aye, sir.
- You're too slow. You a dullard?
No, sir.
Fooled me.
[clangs]
[lock clicking]
[grunts]
Should pale death with treble dread
make the ocean caves our bed,
God who hear'st the surges roll,
deign to save the suppliant soul.
[cups clank]
Still tastes o'the head?
Ah, find some chirk in ye, lad.
Now is the time for gab and chatter.
Y'best be enjoying it.
Come a fortnight,
and the brace of us'll be wantin'
to be ever silent as the tomb.
I ain't much for talkin'.
Reckon you're the first?
No, sir. I don't.
Y'ain't.
Y'ain't.
The [i>Chicopee,[/i> a fine-un she were.
Clean-built and trig-lookin'.
None more fleet in '64 than she.
We were on the breaks.
A mutiny, it were.
And why, ask ye? Why?
What's the terrible part
of a sailor's life, ask ye, lad?
'Tis when the work stops
when you're twixt wind and water.
Doldrums. Doldrums. Eviler than the Devil.
Boredom makes men to villains,
and the water goes quick, lad, vanished.
The only med'cine is drink.
Keeps them sailors happy,
keeps 'em agreeable,
keeps 'em calm, keeps 'em...
Stupid.
[laughing]
Curse me if there ain't an old tar spirit
somewheres in ye, lad.
[chuckles]
[exhales and pours drink]
Out with it, lad.
Uh...
What, uh...
What made your last keeper leave?
Him? Me second?
Mm-hmm.
Died.
Went mad, he did.
Ravin' about sirens, merfolk,
bad omens and the like.
In the end, weren't no more sense left
in him than an hen's tooth.
He believed that there was
some enchantment in the light.
He notioned that St. Elmo
had cast his very fire into it.
Salvation, said he.
[scoffs]
[chuckles]
Tall tales.
I seen ye sparrin' with a gull.
Best leave 'em be.
Bad luck to k*ll a seabird.
[scoffs]
More tall tales.
Bad luck to k*ll a seabird!
Pay me no mind, lad.
None.
Fix us up some coffee.
Long night ahead.
Drop o'coffee will do us good.
[clock ticking]
[wind howling outside]
[tapping]
[grunts]
[soft slapping]
[grunts]
[door creaks]
[waves crashing]
- [seagulls squawking]
- [grunting]
You've been neglecting your duties, lad!
Don't deny it!
What do you call that?
- Sir?
- What?
I... I mopped and swept twice over, sir.
Ye lyin' dog.
- I swept 'em.
- 'Tis begrimed and bedabbled.
Unwiped, unwashed, and distained.
[chuckles softly]
You get some kinda peart
outta molestin' me?
Come now?
I already says...
How dare ye contradict me, y'dog.
Now look here,
I ain't never intended to be no housewife
nor sl*ve in takin' this job.
It ain't right.
These lodgings is more ramshackle
than any shanty boy's camp I ever seen.
The Queen of England's
own fancy housekeeper
couldn't even done no better
than what I done,
'cause I tell you, I scrubbed
this here place twice over, sir...
And I say y'did nothin' o'the sort.
And I say y'swab it again,
and y'swab it proper-like this time,
and you'll be swabbin' it
ten times more after that.
And if I tells ye to pull up and apart
every floorboard and clapboard
of this here house
and scour 'em down with your bare,
bleedin' knuckles, you'll do it!
And if I tells ye to yank out
every single nail
from every molderin' nail-hole
and suck off every speck of rust
till all them nails sparkle
like a sperm whale's pecker,
and then carpenter the whole light station
back together from scrap,
and then do it all over again,
you'll do it!
And by God and by golly,
you'll do it smilin', lad,
'cause you'll like it.
You'll like it 'cause I says you will!
Contradict me again,
and I'll dock your wages.
D'ye hear me, lad?
Aye, sir.
Ah.
Swab, dog. Swab!
[thunder rumbling]
[thunder rumbling]
[foghorn blasting]
Keep 'em steady, lad!
Aye, sir. [grunts]
Whitewash must be even, lad.
Bright! Shinin'!
Like a silver whorehouse token.
Give them sailors a proper daymark.
[younger man] They're not going to see it
in a g*dd*mn storm!
Keep your temper now, lad.
'Tis fine work. And you're makin'
high marks in me logbook.
Them's gospel.
I'll drop y'down a few feet.
- [creaking]
- [grunts]
Easy!
[older man] Never been in better hands.
Easy!
Quit your flailing, lad.
- I ain't!
- Y'are!
- Keep still!
- I am!
[screams]
[seagulls squawking]
[waves lapping]
- [seagull squawks]
- [shooing]
Git! Git! Git! Git!
[squawking]
[pen scratching on paper]
Thank ye, lad.
Winslow.
Ephraim Winslow.
These last two weeks, I'd...
I'd like it if you'd call me by my name.
[chuckling] Listen to ye,
giving orders, lad.
- Winslow.
- All right, all right.
Suits me just as fine, Ephraim Winslow.
So, what brung such a one as ye
to this damned rock?
Such as what?
Pretty as a picture.
[laughing] Only joshing, lad, only josh...
- Winslow.
- Winslow.
What brung ye...
[inhaling and exhaling]
...to this rock, Ephraim Winslow?
What were your work afore?
- Timber.
- Timber?
Big timber. Up north. Canada ways.
- Hudson Bay outfit?
- The same.
True what they say?
"Forest as far as the eye can see"?
Yes, sir. Spruce, tamarack, white pine.
"Bush," them folk up there call it.
Had enough of trees, that it, then?
Yes, sir.
Can't say I blame ye.
I hearn tell about that life. Hard goin'.
Work one man harder
than two horses, they say.
No, thankee.
The sea, she's the only situation
wantin' for me.
Miss it?
Ain't nothing what can touch it.
- But I can't...
- [tapping leg]
...be draggin' me old stump about.
Nay. Not worth the trouble.
Now I'm a wickie and a wickie I is.
And I'm damn-well wedded
to this here light,
and she's been a finer,
truer, quieter wife
than any alive-blooded woman.
You ever married?
Thirteen Christmases at sea...
little 'uns at home.
She never forgave it.
'Tis for the better.
Since we're getting too friendly,
Ephraim Winslow,
tell me, what's a timber man
want with being a wickie?
Not enough quiet for ye up north?
Sawdust itching your nethers?
Foreman found ye too high-tempered
for carrying an ax?
Like you said,
I just had enough of trees, I guess.
Since I left Dad,
I done every kind of work
that can pay a man.
Some I ain't near proud of.
dr*fter, eh?
No, just...
Can't find a post
I can take a real shine to,
so I keep movin' along.
And I ain't the kind to look back
at what's behind him, see.
On the run?
Now look here, ain't nothin' wrong
with a man startin' fresh, startin' new,
just lookin' to earn a living.
- No.
- [sighs]
Just like any man,
just wanna settle down
quiet-like with some earnings.
I read someplace
that a man could earn 630 or...
I read $1,000 a year
if he tends a light far off shore.
The further away, the more he earns.
I read that, and hell, I says, work.
Save my earnings.
Sometime soon I'll raise my own roof,
somewheres up country,
with no one to tell me what for.
And that's all.
Same old borin' story, eh?
Well, you asked.
Say, why is it bad luck to k*ll a gull?
In 'em's the souls of sailors
what met their maker.
You a prayin' man, Winslow?
Not as often as I might.
But I'm God-fearin',
if that's what you're askin'.
[panting]
[creaking]
[Ephraim sighs]
[groans]
sh*t.
[whirring and clanking]
[Thomas muttering in distance]
[Thomas moaning]
[muttering]
[continues moaning]
[squelching]
[chittering]
- [stairs creaking]
- [footsteps thudding]
[seagull screeches]
[screeching continues]
[screeching]
[squawking]
- [screeching]
- [grunting]
[grunting]
[seagulls squawking]
- [squawking continues]
- [panting]
[wind howling]
[footsteps approaching]
Wind's changed.
Oh. Good riddance.
Oh, don't be so darn foolish.
It's the calm afore the storm, Winslow.
She were a gentle westerly wind
you're cursin'.
Only feels roughly 'cause you don't know
nothin' about nothin',
and there ain't no trees on this here rock
like your Hudson Bay bush.
- [sighs]
- Nor'Easterly wind'll come soon
a-blowin' like Gabriel's horn.
Best board up them signal house winders.
- Aye, sir.
- 'Twill keep steady
afore the tender comes in the morn,
I 'spect,
but there's dirty weather knockin' about.
Somethin' stirring in ye?
You're gettin' off this rock tomorry,
Winslow.
Don't start grudgen me now.
No, sir.
Keeping secrets, are ye?
I could just use a hand
with them boards, is all.
- [hammering]
- [foghorn blasting]
Pull, Winslow!
Look at 'em.
Better than fin fishin'.
Ain't no crime to take a snort now.
A clear night, and our last afore relief.
I ain't never known an inspector
what wouldn't turn a blind eye.
And I won't take no for an answer.
[Ephraim snickers]
Should pale death and treble dread...
[exhales] Ah, hell. To... to relief.
- [cups clank]
- And how.
Oh! [clears throat]
[sniffs]
[grunts]
[clears throat]
[both] [i>♪ Hurrah, we're homeward bound ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Hurrah, we're homeward bound! ♪[/i>
[i>♪ When we're arrived at Bedford docks ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Them bloomers comin' out in flocks ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Them pretty girls
They all did say ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Here comes Jack
With his nine-month pay ♪[/i>
[both] [i>♪ Hurrah, we're homeward bound ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Hurrah, we're homeward bound! ♪[/i>
...and a pretty lass, she were,
takin' off her bonnet,
but as I says, I'd broke me leg,
and banged meself all up.
It was to a nuns' hospital.
All of them nuns
were Catholics, I tell ye.
[both laughing]
But I never went to Salem since
without hoping that I should see her,
for beddin' down weren't the same since.
You feel shame when you lie with a woman?
I ain't 'shamed of nothing!
[both laughing]
[coughing]
Well, I'll say it...
I might even miss ye, Ephraim Winslow.
- [chuckles]
- You're fastly a true blue wickie
in the making, you is.
Thought one night you was bound to
split me skull in twain,
but you're a good-un.
Why, you'll be workin' the lamp
in no time.
Why haven't I?
What?
The light.
[chuckles]
I'm the keeper of this station, lad.
Some other station, y'can tend the light.
The manual says...
- My log is the only book on this rock...
- Since I'm wickie...
I'm the keeper of the light, lad.
I never let no man touch her...
Don't concern yourself
with the beacon, lad!
Mine!
[sighs]
- [laughing]
- [chuckling]
[exhales] Have it your way.
[groans]
- [spits]
- [cork clatters]
Say, I never...
I don't... I don't know your name.
Wake.
Your Christian name.
Thomas.
- Thomas?
- Aye, Thomas Wake.
Call me Tom.
Well...
To my friend Tom.
[cups clank]
And gettin' off this g*dd*mn rock.
[seagull squawking]
[clock ticking]
[Thomas snoring]
[groaning]
[clattering]
- [wind howling]
- [waves crashing]
[seagulls squawking]
[seagulls squawking]
[screams]
[distant foghorn]
[distant foghorn]
[screeching]
[continues screeching]
[distant foghorn]
[continues screeching]
[inaudible scream]
[Thomas]
What are y'splittin' your lungs fer?
- [panting]
- You smell o' sh*t.
Best swab this mess
afore the tender comes.
Do as you're told, lad.
The quarters are dire.
Aye... Aye, sir. Aye.
[foghorn blasts]
- [thunderclap]
- [distant foghorn]
[clock ticking]
They didn't come.
[thunderclaps]
[distant foghorn]
[machinery whirring and clanking]
The damp's got to the provisions!
What?
The damp's got to the provisions!
[foghorn blaring]
The damp's got to the foodstuffs.
The salt cod is out.
- Out?
- Blasted. Gone to rot.
- Praised be.
- Will you hear me now?
- Hear what?
- That we best be rationing.
- Rationing?
- Insubordinate again?
It's only been one day.
Devil's tail.
Look, maybe the tender did come.
We just missed her, is all.
I can take the dory out.
Weeks, Winslow. Weeks.
What?
What do you mean, what?
- Weeks?
- Weeks. Aye, weeks.
We slept in. Dead drunk.
It's been weeks ago
since we missed her, Winslow.
And I've been askin' ye
to ration for weeks now, too,
but you've kept barking at me
like a mad dog
sayin' you can take the dory out.
- Now, look here...
- Oh, no. Don't be losing your head now.
- This ain't funny.
- No, it ain't.
And I ain't want to be stranded here
with some damn lunatic.
[chuckles] Stranded?
- [Thomas] That's what I said.
- [distant foghorn]
Why, I thought... I thought you said
relief was coming.
[Thomas] If we can wait out the storm.
[stammers] The tender is coming.
In '75, [i>Ol' Striker[/i> were marooned here
for seven long months, he was.
The storm died on the mainland,
but here, the waters were too rageful
neither to launch nor land.
[wind howling]
You're just tryin' to scare me.
Look at ye. Pretendin'.
But ye well know your lot.
[thunder rumbling]
[foghorn blasting]
[Thomas] Dig!
[thunder rumbles]
Dig, says I!
Dig!
Dig!
There she lies.
Rations.
The worst of us
couldn't fend 'gainst the ship rats
what gnawed on the soles of our feet.
[distant foghorn]
Their legs withered
and turned gangree'nous,
every shade of the peacock's tail.
Their gums grew swollen,
the color of bone, then to rot.
Tarry blood oozed,
teeth droppin' to the deck
with none to hold on to.
"Land h*!" hears I,
but only grass on that island.
So we et upon the grass.
And 'twas that scurvy
what left me locked ever since.
I thought you said you'd broke it.
Aye?
[Ephraim] Your leg.
Catholic nuns and such like.
You must've misheard.
- I told that dumb b*stard...
- Yep. Them eaves be gonners.
"Give me your cant hook," I says to him.
But... [chuckles] Foreman Winslow,
that goddamned Canady b*stard...
- Winslow?
- ...always callin' me a dog.
A filthy dog.
- I'll show you who's a dog.
- Winslow.
- What of him?
- Who, Winslow?
The eaves be fallin'...
- He's always raggin' on me.
- Ragging?
Like you. Damn fool nonsense.
That's the trouble with ye, Winslow.
Trouble with you is eatin' grass
without no teeth.
Come now?
Your sea matey's teeth had fallen out.
What are ye gettin' at, Winslow?
Ah. Well, it just seems powerful hard
to eat grass with no teeth.
'Cause goats and sheeps and cows,
well, now, they all got teeth, don't they?
Y'know how y'eat grass without your teeth?
Oblige me.
Ye rip it out and ye swallow it.
[both laughing]
"You rip it out and you swallow it."
- Ye rip it out...
- I don't know 'bout that.
Y'don't?
I don't.
[distant foghorn]
[window rattles]
[wood creaking]
What?
What?
What?
What?
What?
- What?
- What?
[both repeatedly] What?
- That's what I mean!
- What?
That's the trouble with you.
That's the trouble with ye!
- With you!
- With ye!
No! [shouting] No!
I want a steak!
I want a goddamned steak!
- [laughing]
- I...
If I had a steak... Oh, boy.
A... A rare, a bloody steak.
If I... If I had a steak,
I would f*ck it.
You don't like me cookin'?
Ugh, don't be such an old b*tch!
You're drunk!
You don't know what you're talkin'.
How could I possibly like
the horseshit you fix us for supper?
You're drunk,
or ye wouldn't be saying that!
Them tin kitchen shanty cooks
gave us fried doughnuts three times a day
- and country ham bigger than your fist.
- You're drunk! You're drunk! You're drunk!
- I'm drunk? I...
- You heard me!
- You've been drunk...
- Damn ye!
Drunk since I first laid eyes on you.
You're fond of me lobster, ain't ye?
You're drunker than a Virginy fence.
I seen it. You're fond of me lobster.
Say it.
Say it.
Say it!
I don't have to say nothin'.
Damn ye!
Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow!
- [shouts] Hark!
- [thunder cracks]
Hark, Triton, Hark!
Bellow, bid our father, the sea king,
rise from the depths,
full foul in his fury,
black waves teeming with salt-foam,
to smother this young mouth
with pungent slime,
to choke ye, engorging your organs
till ye turn blue and bloated
with bilge and brine
and can scream no more.
Only when he, crowned in c*ck shells
with slithering tentacled tail
and steaming beard,
take up his fell, be-finned arm,
his coral-tined trident screeches,
banshee-like in the tempest,
and plunges right through your gullet,
bursting ye, a bulging bladder no more,
but a blasted bloody film now,
a nothing for the harpies
and the souls of dead sailors
to peck and claw and feed upon,
only to be lapped up and swallowed
by the infinite waters
of the dread emperor himself,
forgotten to any man,
to any time,
forgotten to any god or devil,
forgotten even to the sea,
for any stuff or part of Winslow,
even any scantling of your soul,
is Winslow no more,
but is now itself the sea.
All right. Have it your way.
I like your cooking.
- [thunder rumbling]
- [clock ticking]
[clock continues ticking]
[distant foghorn]
[grunting]
Son of a b*tch.
[wind howling outside]
[foghorn blasting]
[snoring]
- [creaks]
- [Thomas snorts]
[Thomas] q*eer way to wear your shoes.
Just didn't wanna wake you, is all.
It's a long night.
And such.
Hmm. The sun is over the yardarm.
Best find some winks
afore the day draws farther on.
[Thomas farts]
Get back to your duties
or I'll give you a real keelhauling.
[foghorn blasting]
[sighs]
You ain't even human no more.
Workin' apart from folks so long.
You're only tolerable when you're drunk.
[Thomas] Get to work, says I.
To work!
[mumbling indistinctly]
[machinery whirring]
[grunts]
[screaming]
[groans]
[gasping]
[grunting]
[bird squawks]
[both] [i>♪...sassy little wh*re, hurrah ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Me yaller girls, doodle let me go ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Doodle let me go, me boy
Doodle let me go ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Hurrah, me yaller girls
Doodle let me go! ♪[/i>
[i>♪ I took her in, I gave her gin
And danced her on the floor! ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Hurrah, me yaller girls
Doodle let me go! ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Doodle let me go, me boy
Doodle let me go ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Hurrah, me yaller girls
Doodle let me go! ♪[/i>
[vocalizing]
Dance! Dance, Winslow! Dance!
[Thomas continues dancing]
[grunts]
[i>♪ Come, all you boys who wish to hear
How we got up to the woods last year ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Into the sleigh we jacked our boots ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Our teamster pointed
To the big blue spruce ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Timmy-ran-tin-ah
Falla-doo-a-dah ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Rant and roar and drunk-on-the-way!
Timmy-ran-tin-ah Falla-doo-a-dah ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Rant-and-roar and drunk-on-the-way! ♪[/i>
[distant foghorn]
[Thomas humming]
[i>♪ If but the birds were gin ♪[/i>
[i>♪ If but the sun were a hearty reveler ♪[/i>
[i>♪ I might give someone else me liver ♪[/i>
[i>♪ On a Monday morning ♪[/i>
[i>♪ My lover lies asleep ♪[/i>
[i>♪ My lover is warm ♪[/i>
[i>♪ And her heart is mellow ♪[/i>
[i>♪ I would give the whole world ♪[/i>
[i>♪ Just to share her pillow ♪[/i>
[i>♪ On a Monday morning... ♪[/i>
[Thomas laughs] Aye.
[groans]
[both grunting]
[Ephraim] Get off me! Get off me!
- Thomas.
- Aye.
- It's Thomas.
- Aye.
No, I'm Thomas.
I'm Thomas. You're Ephraim.
I lied.
Well, I'll be scuppered.
I'm Thomas. Tommy.
Tommy? [chuckling] Tommy Winslow.
No. Tom Howard.
What's Winslow?
- It's nothing.
- Nothing?
[distant foghorn]
Can I trust you?
Don't be spilling any of your beans to me.
I ain't interested.
No. It wasn't that way, is all...
Just, see...
I see what you're fixin' to do.
You get me all liquored up...
Your guilty conscience
is ever as tiresome-borin'
as any a guilty conscience.
- Who...
- Worse. Worse.
It was... it was a drive, see.
It was a log drive,
and he... he's raggin' on me.
No, I see what you're doing.
Nothing.
Look, Tom, don't be working
to twist words out of my head.
I ain't.
Um, I can't... I can't do it. I can't...
Shut up your own rag box.
I trust... I trust... I trust you.
No.
I... I trust you, Tom.
You trust me?
No, I don't trust you at all.
[laughing]
- [Thomas coughing]
- [distant foghorn]
[clock ticking]
[thunder rumbling]
[Tommy] And I had 'im handy and helpless.
Alone.
Too far downstream.
And I... I wanted to do 'im in.
I admit I did.
Seein' the back of his head.
One swipe of the cant hook'd be all.
Uh... It was...
I... I didn't...
I didn't... I did not.
The day was long as hell on that drive.
I was lead-tired. I admit it.
But I saw him slippin', not me.
We saw the jam comin'.
I stood and he slipped.
He shouted up.
And I... I just stood there.
"Tom, you dog!"
I just stood there, is all. Just...
Just stood and watched 'im
get swallowed by them logs.
And all I could think
when he was done was,
"I... I could use me a smoke."
That's it.
So, I packed up his kit and fixin's,
as if they was my own and...
Ephraim Winslow, well, now,
he got a spiffy clean slate.
And Thomas Howard, well, he don't.
No prospects.
How else am I gonna find respectable work?
Tom!
Tom!
[Thomas] Why'd y'spill your beans, Tommy?
Why'd y'spill your beans?
Why'd y'spill your beans?
[foghorn blasting]
- [foghorn blasting]
- [panting]
[grunts]
Don't leave me!
- [foghorn blasting]
- [Thomas grunting]
[panting heavily]
[Thomas yells]
[yelling]
[yelling]
[continues yelling]
You crazy son of a b*tch!
You smashed up the lifeboat!
You're abandoning your post!
- [grunts]
- [shatters]
[thunder rumbling]
What're you gonna do?
Send for the lighthouse establishment?
Certain, says I. I'll report ye,
I'll bring the inspector up.
I'll report you! I know what you done.
Who's reportin' who?
Ephraim Winslow? Or Thomas Howard?
I know what you done.
You k*lled your second.
[laughs]
Your one-eyed junior man.
I found him. In the lobster pot.
Said he went mad?
You made him mad with that charm!
That scrimshaw trinket.
But I broke it, see. See?
Now I'm free. I'm free from your designs!
[laughing hysterically]
And I got it all figured out,
'cept what's the secret mischief
your keepin' up there!
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Tommy.
Last night you made a confession
'twould make a saint swear.
I don't have nothin' to confess,
but you, spillin' your beans,
look what it's done to ye.
It's made ye mad.
And I knew ye was mad
when y'smashed up that lifeboat just now,
a-chasing me with an ax,
tryin' to k*ll Ol' Tom.
Don't ye trust me, Tommy?
Better hand me
the dinner knife ye pocketed.
Y'ain't safe with it.
That's a good lad.
Them's government property.
Deducted from your pay.
Look at your shiverin'.
You're so mad, y'know not up from down.
How long have we been on this rock?
Five weeks?
Two days?
Where are we?
Help me to recollect,
who are you again, Tommy?
I'm probably
a figment of your imagination.
This rock is a figment
of your imagination too.
You're probably wand'rin' through a grove
of tag alders up north in Canady,
like a frostbitten maniac,
talkin' to yourself,
knee-deep in snow.
[wind howling]
[grunts]
I could use me a smoke.
[Thomas] We're outta drink.
[sputters and gags]
Ooh!
Monkey pump!
[both howling]
[machinery whirring]
[both laughing]
[thunder crashing]
[seagulls squawking]
[Tommy] This place is a sty.
[Thomas] Mornin' to you too.
[grunts]
I wish I could go for a walk.
Be my guest. You'll get drowned.
[clattering]
[coughing]
[grunts]
[clock continues ticking]
Fiery pit.
[grunts]
Ain't there no justice left in this world?
[match strikes]
Thankee.
What's wrong with your hand?
The other one.
Ye hear o' tetanus?
- Tet-a-nus?
- Hmm. Yeah.
[Thomas]
It started as a sliver of a cut, is all...
I said I heard of it.
...from the forestaysail
when we shoved off...
- Don't you ever shut up?
- ...but come a fortnight,
- the bosun was a-shakin'.
- Stop.
His jaw locked tighter than an anchor...
Shut your gum, g*dd*mn it!
I can't hear no more!
What were it ye accused me of?
Y'already told me y'had me figgerd.
I'm tired of your damned-fool yarns
and your Cap'n Ahab horseshit.
You sound like a goddamned parody.
Givin' and nagging orders
like a spinster schoolmarm,
and all the while turning this station
- to the Devil's own rum hole.
- You're makin' a fool of yourself.
Well, it's all horseshit...
your leg, and your sea life, all of it!
And if I hear one more word of horseshit
coming out of your foul, rotten-toothed,
- smelly old mouth...
- Ye... Damn ye...
Shut up your gum, g*dd*mn it!
I ain't finished yet!
You think
you're so goddamned high and mighty
just 'cause
you're a goddamned lighthouse keeper?
Well, you ain't a captain of no ship
and you never was!
You ain't no general, you ain't no copper,
you ain't the president,
and you ain't my father!
And I'm sick of you actin' like you is!
I'm sick of your laughing, your snoring,
and your goddamned farts.
Your goddamned...
- g*dd*mn your farts!
- [clattering]
[exhales] You smell like piss,
you smell like jism,
like rotten d*ck, like curdled foreskin,
like hot onions f*cked
a farmyard sh*t house.
And I'm sick of your smell.
I'm sick of it!
I'm sick of it, you goddamned drunk.
You goddamned no-account,
son-of-a-b*tch-b*stard liar!
That's what you are!
You're a goddamned drunken,
horse-sh1tting, short, sh*t liar.
A liar!
[panting]
Ye have a way with words, Tommy.
[groans] Damn you!
You're relieved of your duties.
[laughing hysterically]
No need to tell me, old-timer.
[water sloshing]
[footsteps thudding]
"Assistant slept late."
"Work below standard."
"Attitude hostile."
"Assistant missing."
"Given to habitual self-abuse
in the supply shed."
"Drunk on duty!"
"as*ault!"
"Theft!"
"Recommend severance without pay."
- Severance without pay?
- [book clatters]
Are you trying to ruin me?
I'm a hard worker.
I am. I work as hard as any man.
- Ye lie, Thomas.
- Stop it!
Ye lie to yourself,
but y'ain't have the sauce to see it.
Please...
Just let me into the light, old man.
I've learned so much from you.
Just let me show you. Another chance.
Forgive and forget, I says.
Just let me into that lantern, is all.
Don't make me beg... or I'll beg.
I'll beg if that's what you want.
I'll beg.
Please.
Please. Please! Please!
Stand down.
You selfish b*stard!
Keepin' it all to yourself.
You left your old lady,
your children, for what? For what?
Look at ye, handsome lad,
with eyes bright as a lady.
Come to this rock playin' the tough.
Ye make me laugh with your false grum.
Ye pretended to some mystery
in your quietudes,
but there ain't no mystery.
You're an open book. A picture, says I.
A painted actress
screaming in the footlights,
a b*tch what wants to be coveted
for nothin' but being born,
cryin' 'bout the silver spoon
what should've been yours.
Now look at ye cryin'.
Boo. Boo.
What you gonna do?
Will ye k*ll me? Will ye?
Will y'k*ll me like y'done that gull?
- I didn't...
- Liar! Y'murdering dog!
'Twas ye what changed the wind on us.
'Twas ye what damned us, dog. 'Twas ye!
Will y'do what y'wish
y'done to Ol' Winslow?
Will ye best me then?
For Winslow were right.
Thomas, you're a dog. A filthy dog! A dog!
[both grunting]
Git down!
Let go of me!
[Thomas screaming]
[clattering]
[panting]
[Thomas laughing hysterically]
[creature chittering]
[grunting]
[Thomas] You're k*lling me!
[panting]
[Thomas groaning]
[grunts]
Bark.
Bark, boy.
Bark, laddie.
Bark.
[Thomas] Woof.
Ain't ye never been to sea before?
Bark, I says. Bark!
[Thomas] Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!
Bark, laddie!
[Thomas] Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!
- Now, there's a good boy.
- Ruff!
- There's a good dog.
- Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!
Ruff!
Now roll over.
- [waves crashing]
- [seagulls squawking]
Come on.
- [groaning]
- Come on.
- [Thomas groaning]
- Git!
Come on.
[Tommy] Get up here.
[grunting]
Good boy. Good boy.
Now you get in there, where you belong.
You do as I say, dog.
There's my good lad.
[Thomas groaning]
[Thomas] Ye wish to see
what's in the lantern?
So did me last assistant.
Shut up, old dog!
Polish your brasswork.
[groans]
O what Protean forms swim up
from men's minds,
and melt in hot Promethean plunder,
scorching eyes,
with divine shames and horror...
And casting them down to Davy Jones.
The others, still blind,
yet in it see
all the divine graces
and to Fiddler's Green sent,
where no man is suffered to want or toil,
but is...
ancient...
mutable and unchanging...
as the she who girdles 'round the globe.
Them's truth.
You'll be punished.
[seagulls squawking]
[panting]
[grunting]
[keys jangling]
The light belongs to me!
[groans]
[groans]
[squelching]
[panting]
[sighs]
Should pale death with treble dread
make the ocean caves our bed,
God who hear'st the surges roll,
deign to save the suppliant soul.
[exhales]
[crackling noises]
[inaudible]
[distorted laughter]
[distorted screaming]
[grunting]
[chains clinking softly]
[waves crashing]
[seagulls screeching]
[groaning softly]
[seagulls continue screeching]
["Doodle Let Me Go [Yaller Girls]" plays]
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