1 00:01:42,180 --> 00:01:45,456 Is it your wish to remain a housekeeper forever? 2 00:01:45,540 --> 00:01:47,177 No, it is not. 3 00:01:47,259 --> 00:01:49,295 Then why won't you give me an answer? 4 00:01:56,178 --> 00:01:59,648 Just a little longer. I need to be sure. 5 00:02:00,298 --> 00:02:03,335 How long, Mary? Until summer, I suppose? 6 00:02:03,418 --> 00:02:04,770 Until summer. 7 00:02:04,857 --> 00:02:07,655 Then you'll say autumn, then Christmas. 8 00:02:07,737 --> 00:02:10,696 I have been patient. What more must I do? 9 00:02:10,778 --> 00:02:13,245 I treat Thomas like my own son. 10 00:02:13,337 --> 00:02:16,693 You've been kind. I'm not ungrateful. 11 00:02:16,777 --> 00:02:20,486 - I'm just not ready. - When will you be ready? 12 00:02:44,574 --> 00:02:46,723 Mary, he's dead - gone. 13 00:02:46,813 --> 00:02:52,365 One day you'll have to accept that. You have to think of the future. 14 00:02:52,453 --> 00:02:55,364 Thomas needs a father. 15 00:02:56,012 --> 00:02:59,322 I will press you no further for the moment. 16 00:02:59,412 --> 00:03:01,483 But if you keep this... 17 00:03:03,093 --> 00:03:04,571 Well... 18 00:03:04,692 --> 00:03:07,206 I will take it to mean "yes". 19 00:03:48,127 --> 00:03:51,359 Shh, shh... It's all right. 20 00:03:51,848 --> 00:03:54,237 It's only the wind. 21 00:03:56,047 --> 00:03:57,799 Shh. 22 00:04:30,123 --> 00:04:34,162 I'm home now. Let it all go away. 23 00:04:43,643 --> 00:04:45,599 ABANDON SHIP! 24 00:04:45,723 --> 00:04:48,680 SHE'S GOING DOWN! 25 00:04:48,802 --> 00:04:50,838 Mary! 26 00:04:51,762 --> 00:04:52,990 Mary! 27 00:05:24,598 --> 00:05:29,433 Never give up hope, that's my motto. Always has been, always will be. 28 00:05:29,558 --> 00:05:35,952 You remember that winter's morning? We thought we'd never find anything. 29 00:05:36,038 --> 00:05:39,586 When suddenly, out of the blue, we find a treasure! 30 00:05:39,677 --> 00:05:42,794 We found one boot with an 'ole in it. 31 00:05:42,877 --> 00:05:46,836 Yeah, but this morning we might find the matching boot! 32 00:05:46,996 --> 00:05:49,794 It was five years ago, Dad. 33 00:05:49,876 --> 00:05:51,628 I don't know. 34 00:05:51,796 --> 00:05:56,152 You haven't got scrap in your heart, that's your...trouble. 35 00:05:57,515 --> 00:06:00,268 - What's that, then? - I don't know. 36 00:06:01,435 --> 00:06:03,790 It don't look like a bomb. 37 00:06:33,832 --> 00:06:35,584 Oh, my God! 38 00:06:36,712 --> 00:06:38,781 Dad! Look! 39 00:07:32,026 --> 00:07:34,415 He's waking up! 40 00:07:39,785 --> 00:07:42,253 Don't move, giant! 41 00:07:42,425 --> 00:07:46,623 AAAAAARRGGHH! 42 00:07:47,025 --> 00:07:52,098 AAAAAARRGGHH! 43 00:07:55,104 --> 00:07:57,458 Oh! Oh, look! They're everywhere! 44 00:07:59,063 --> 00:08:00,542 Lilliputians everywhere! 45 00:08:00,623 --> 00:08:03,137 - Oh! - You're hurting me! 46 00:08:03,223 --> 00:08:05,497 Oh! 47 00:08:06,022 --> 00:08:08,536 Oh, forgive me. I'm so sorry. 48 00:08:09,623 --> 00:08:13,058 You're frightened of me, of course you are. 49 00:08:13,142 --> 00:08:17,101 I must appear terrifying to you, so huge, so monstrous. 50 00:08:17,182 --> 00:08:19,776 Don't be frightened. 51 00:08:20,062 --> 00:08:22,939 Look, I'll...I'll whisper. 52 00:08:24,621 --> 00:08:29,058 Have you fallen from the heavens? You the Man in the Moon? 53 00:08:30,141 --> 00:08:33,018 I mean, where've you come from? 54 00:08:33,180 --> 00:08:37,617 I'll tell you what, Dad. This could be the making of us. 55 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:40,133 We're going to be rich! 56 00:08:43,739 --> 00:08:45,218 Oh, no! 57 00:08:45,299 --> 00:08:47,051 Here comes the army! 58 00:08:55,898 --> 00:08:59,890 Halt! Get away from it! It's a trap! 59 00:08:59,977 --> 00:09:05,131 It's not a man at all, it's a war machine, filled with Big-Enders! 60 00:09:05,217 --> 00:09:07,811 Any minute they're going to pour out! 61 00:09:07,897 --> 00:09:11,572 - I can assure you, sir... - Fire at will! 62 00:09:12,617 --> 00:09:14,652 No, no - please! 63 00:09:17,096 --> 00:09:18,927 Ow! 64 00:09:19,056 --> 00:09:21,126 Ow! Get away! 65 00:09:21,616 --> 00:09:23,048 Get...! Ow! 66 00:09:26,895 --> 00:09:28,806 No! Don't touch me! 67 00:09:32,134 --> 00:09:35,331 Don't come too near me, I beg you. 68 00:09:35,414 --> 00:09:38,883 Have you slept here all night? 69 00:09:38,973 --> 00:09:43,763 I haven't slept at all! I was swimming for most of the night. 70 00:09:43,853 --> 00:09:45,650 Put that down! 71 00:09:49,212 --> 00:09:51,089 Who is this boy? 72 00:09:51,172 --> 00:09:53,607 This is Tom. He is your son. 73 00:09:55,573 --> 00:09:57,085 My son? 74 00:09:57,812 --> 00:10:00,485 I was pregnant when you went away. 75 00:10:02,052 --> 00:10:04,441 How long have I been away? 76 00:10:05,891 --> 00:10:08,325 They said your ship was lost. 77 00:10:08,411 --> 00:10:11,244 How long have I been gone? 78 00:10:11,331 --> 00:10:13,719 Nearly nine years. 79 00:10:31,128 --> 00:10:34,916 Food for the giant! Make way! Food for the giant! 80 00:10:35,008 --> 00:10:38,080 When will this army burst out of his stomach? 81 00:10:38,168 --> 00:10:39,486 Be quiet, son! 82 00:10:39,567 --> 00:10:43,959 What do you know about military strategy, you country oafs? 83 00:10:44,048 --> 00:10:49,405 We never see food like that. You tell him to eat seaweed soup! 84 00:10:49,487 --> 00:10:52,320 One more word and I'll have you flogged. 85 00:10:52,407 --> 00:10:54,443 Forgive his impertinence, sir, please. 86 00:10:57,406 --> 00:11:03,845 Greetings, brother! I fear the worst. The Big-Enders must have sent him. 87 00:11:03,926 --> 00:11:05,597 He's state property. 88 00:11:05,685 --> 00:11:07,437 We found him! He's salvage! 89 00:11:07,525 --> 00:11:10,403 You're under arrest for treason! 90 00:11:10,485 --> 00:11:13,521 - You can't do that! - Not to us! 91 00:11:13,604 --> 00:11:18,519 I'll summon the entire fleet. We must notify the Emperor. 92 00:11:21,804 --> 00:11:27,355 I was so hungry but it took hours and hours to eat anything at all. 93 00:11:27,523 --> 00:11:32,642 I had to swallow about a dozen loaves just to get one mouthful. 94 00:11:32,842 --> 00:11:38,201 I ate cows and pigs and chickens completely whole, bones and all. 95 00:11:38,563 --> 00:11:42,635 I had to drain at least eleven barrels of wine 96 00:11:42,722 --> 00:11:44,713 before my thirst was satisfied. 97 00:11:44,802 --> 00:11:47,838 I don't understand - why was the food so tiny? 98 00:11:47,921 --> 00:11:49,434 Because of the Lilliputians. 99 00:11:49,521 --> 00:11:53,196 Yes, that's right! There were hundreds of them. 100 00:11:53,281 --> 00:11:57,717 They were dragging tiny timbers and tree trunks towards me. 101 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:02,635 They must have cleared a whole forest. I heard banging and sawing 102 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:07,509 and I realised they were building this massive wooden frame. 103 00:12:07,599 --> 00:12:10,591 Then horses arrived - ten, twenty, thirty - 104 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:12,954 there must have been a hundred. 105 00:12:13,039 --> 00:12:16,269 They were using them to drag me. 106 00:12:16,358 --> 00:12:18,314 Lemuel, you're not making any sense. 107 00:12:18,398 --> 00:12:24,472 Well, maybe it was the wine, but suddenly, I started to feel... 108 00:12:24,677 --> 00:12:26,908 very strange. 109 00:12:27,398 --> 00:12:29,628 They're pulling me! 110 00:12:29,758 --> 00:12:32,351 They're pulling me along! 111 00:12:32,517 --> 00:12:33,916 Why...? 112 00:12:33,997 --> 00:12:36,192 Go and find Joshua - anybody - quickly. 113 00:12:59,794 --> 00:13:03,025 Take him into the surgery - quickly. 114 00:13:03,114 --> 00:13:07,391 - Why have you tied me up? - Nobody's tied you up, Lemuel. 115 00:13:07,473 --> 00:13:10,112 Mind his head. Where did you find him? 116 00:13:10,193 --> 00:13:13,469 He slept in the stable. Tom found him. 117 00:13:13,553 --> 00:13:15,508 Over there. Quickly, now. 118 00:13:15,592 --> 00:13:18,744 The procession halted outside the Emperor's palace. 119 00:13:20,033 --> 00:13:21,625 Why have we stopped? 120 00:13:27,312 --> 00:13:32,783 Make way, make way! Let all bow before Golbasto Momaren Evlame 121 00:13:32,871 --> 00:13:39,662 Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, Delight and Terror of the Universe, 122 00:13:39,750 --> 00:13:42,548 whose dominions extend 5,000 blustrugs, 123 00:13:42,630 --> 00:13:45,190 whose feet press down to the centre, 124 00:13:45,270 --> 00:13:49,308 and whose head strikes against the sun, 125 00:13:49,389 --> 00:13:52,267 the most mighty Emperor of Lilliput. 126 00:13:56,588 --> 00:13:58,897 Well, you weren't exaggerating! 127 00:14:00,188 --> 00:14:02,099 He's a whopper! 128 00:14:02,428 --> 00:14:07,421 He's under constant guard, Father. He's dead if he makes a move. 129 00:14:08,267 --> 00:14:10,065 Does he talk? 130 00:14:10,148 --> 00:14:13,856 He has a limited vocabulary, Father. 131 00:14:15,187 --> 00:14:17,178 How does one address him? 132 00:14:19,267 --> 00:14:22,702 Man Mountain is the usual term, Your Majesty. 133 00:14:27,106 --> 00:14:29,461 Good evening, Man Mountain! 134 00:14:29,546 --> 00:14:33,254 Good evening, Your Excellency! 135 00:14:34,945 --> 00:14:36,503 Splendid! 136 00:14:42,704 --> 00:14:45,093 Who are these two? 137 00:14:45,184 --> 00:14:47,744 Caught trying to steal the giant. 138 00:14:47,824 --> 00:14:51,452 That's a lie! We found him! He belongs to us! 139 00:14:51,543 --> 00:14:55,297 No, no, no. You see, we don't want him. 140 00:14:55,383 --> 00:14:58,499 We were going to donate him to the war effort. 141 00:14:59,542 --> 00:15:02,376 Traitors, are they? Hmmm... 142 00:15:06,622 --> 00:15:09,659 Let's feed them to the giant! 143 00:15:09,742 --> 00:15:12,302 An excellent test of his ferocity! 144 00:15:18,741 --> 00:15:22,415 Don't eat me and I'll be your friend for life! 145 00:15:24,500 --> 00:15:30,211 I'll see you're all right! Partners, you and me - what do you say? 146 00:15:37,579 --> 00:15:39,570 My son! My son! 147 00:15:56,817 --> 00:16:00,093 The giant has shown mercy. 148 00:16:00,177 --> 00:16:02,168 How marvellous. 149 00:16:03,617 --> 00:16:05,493 We, however, will not. 150 00:16:06,296 --> 00:16:08,935 Have them both disembowelled at dawn. 151 00:16:22,455 --> 00:16:25,890 Well, I don't think that's wise, Your Majesty. 152 00:16:33,533 --> 00:16:35,683 He can't have slept for days. 153 00:16:35,773 --> 00:16:38,048 Certainly his mind is extremely disturbed. 154 00:16:39,413 --> 00:16:42,370 It's so wonderful. I...I'd given up all hope. 155 00:16:42,452 --> 00:16:43,805 Had you? 156 00:16:44,853 --> 00:16:48,209 - I didn't mean... - No, of course not. 157 00:16:50,892 --> 00:16:56,285 It's a miracle that he has returned to us. Now we must let him rest. 158 00:17:11,410 --> 00:17:16,642 We gave him enough to feed a regiment for a week - now he's hungry again. 159 00:17:16,729 --> 00:17:19,801 I have a projection from my Treasury, 160 00:17:19,889 --> 00:17:22,686 based on the multiplication of his body weight. 161 00:17:22,768 --> 00:17:29,685 He is going to consume the rations of 1,728 of your subjects every day. 162 00:17:29,768 --> 00:17:31,485 Every day?! 163 00:17:33,727 --> 00:17:35,479 We can't have that. 164 00:17:36,728 --> 00:17:38,525 Let's kill him. 165 00:17:38,608 --> 00:17:43,397 No, no, no. The decomposing corpse! It could cause a serious plague. 166 00:17:43,487 --> 00:17:47,082 If we continue feeding him, we'll have a famine. 167 00:17:47,167 --> 00:17:48,599 Is he secure? 168 00:17:49,206 --> 00:17:51,117 Absolutely, Majesty. Army matter. 169 00:17:56,366 --> 00:17:58,196 Until he decides to escape. 170 00:18:38,002 --> 00:18:39,515 Your Majesty. 171 00:18:39,602 --> 00:18:42,195 Man Mountain! 172 00:18:43,081 --> 00:18:45,595 Where's my dearest wife? 173 00:18:45,681 --> 00:18:50,470 Er... She's a little nervous of meeting our new arrival, Majesty. 174 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:53,677 Sweetmeat?! Please come out and have a look! 175 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,109 How are you today, my chick? 176 00:18:57,199 --> 00:18:59,952 Pale, my husband. Pale and fearful. 177 00:19:01,479 --> 00:19:03,549 Oh, how brutish he looks. 178 00:19:03,639 --> 00:19:05,868 Ask him to descend. 179 00:19:11,438 --> 00:19:13,076 Down 'ere! 180 00:19:13,238 --> 00:19:14,590 Gently now! 181 00:19:15,757 --> 00:19:17,827 To me... Whoa! 182 00:19:18,798 --> 00:19:22,757 He's staring at me! He has a horrible leering expression. 183 00:19:22,838 --> 00:19:25,874 Oh, really! He's in chains! 184 00:19:25,957 --> 00:19:27,549 He might bite. 185 00:19:27,677 --> 00:19:32,625 On the contrary, Empress, I should like to kiss your beautiful hand. 186 00:19:33,356 --> 00:19:35,392 How charming! 187 00:19:35,556 --> 00:19:37,547 - No! - Yes! 188 00:19:45,995 --> 00:19:47,906 Bring towels and a bucket! 189 00:19:49,554 --> 00:19:52,273 I think his lips were a bit wet! 190 00:19:52,354 --> 00:19:55,551 Please forgive me, Your Majesty. 191 00:19:58,673 --> 00:20:00,789 Where does he sleep? 192 00:20:00,873 --> 00:20:04,149 Well, nowhere, Your Majesty. We're organising a bed. 193 00:20:04,233 --> 00:20:06,746 600 beds, to be precise. 194 00:20:06,832 --> 00:20:12,146 I have the figures here - 144 blankets, 322 sheets... 195 00:20:12,313 --> 00:20:13,871 Thank you, Your Majesty. 196 00:20:16,392 --> 00:20:17,984 Majesty? What majesty? 197 00:20:18,072 --> 00:20:22,190 Lower your voice. If you speak loudly, they'll be frightened. 198 00:20:22,272 --> 00:20:24,705 Get up, man! Get up off the floor! 199 00:20:24,791 --> 00:20:26,861 I asked him to release me. 200 00:20:26,951 --> 00:20:28,623 - Asked who? - The Emperor. 201 00:20:28,711 --> 00:20:30,588 Dr Gulliver, I must insist... 202 00:20:30,671 --> 00:20:37,064 He had a great desire for me to see the magnificence of his palace. 203 00:20:37,150 --> 00:20:40,664 I trod very carefully for fear of harming any stragglers. 204 00:20:40,829 --> 00:20:46,859 I wore only my waistcoat so I did no damage to the roofs with my coat. 205 00:20:46,949 --> 00:20:50,224 The palace was a magnificent construction, 206 00:20:50,308 --> 00:20:53,186 standing 60 feet high to the Lilliputians. 207 00:20:53,268 --> 00:20:58,421 'In the courtyard, I observed the splendour of the Royal Household. 208 00:20:58,827 --> 00:21:01,387 'The Empress herself was in attendance 209 00:21:01,467 --> 00:21:04,505 and pleased to smile graciously upon me.' 210 00:21:05,868 --> 00:21:09,177 Get away from me, you horrible monster! 211 00:21:09,707 --> 00:21:11,299 Shoo! 212 00:21:12,067 --> 00:21:13,659 Shoo! 213 00:21:21,026 --> 00:21:24,654 Well, he lives in a big crater on the moon, 214 00:21:24,745 --> 00:21:27,976 eating mostly fruit and...cheese. 215 00:21:28,065 --> 00:21:33,297 He's a fascinating chap, with many wondrous stories to tell. 216 00:21:34,464 --> 00:21:38,013 I'm the only one he'll confide in, of course. 217 00:21:40,383 --> 00:21:46,015 You will not believe this - I have got my own bedroom... 218 00:21:46,343 --> 00:21:48,299 with pillows. 219 00:21:48,383 --> 00:21:51,101 Have you got pillows in your room? 220 00:21:51,182 --> 00:21:55,461 And a bell to ring, should I want anything in the night. 221 00:21:55,543 --> 00:21:59,421 'Course the trouble is I, er... I can't sleep in the bed, 222 00:21:59,502 --> 00:22:01,891 because my feet are too dirty. 223 00:22:13,541 --> 00:22:15,212 En garde! 224 00:22:24,099 --> 00:22:27,614 Allow me, Your Majesty. 225 00:22:44,137 --> 00:22:45,969 What a wonderful room! 226 00:22:46,778 --> 00:22:48,530 What is this place? 227 00:22:48,618 --> 00:22:50,608 This is the Chamber of War, 228 00:22:50,697 --> 00:22:54,246 from which the Emperor directs his campaign 229 00:22:54,337 --> 00:22:57,568 against the evil empire that confronts us. 230 00:23:01,456 --> 00:23:08,054 At first, we thought you a weapon of the Big-Enders, our sworn enemy! 231 00:23:09,215 --> 00:23:12,844 Forgive my ignorance, Excellency, but who are Big-Enders? 232 00:23:12,935 --> 00:23:17,928 - Why are they your sworn enemy? - Well, because, er... 233 00:23:19,974 --> 00:23:23,727 - Boys, explain. - Er, yes, of course. 234 00:23:23,813 --> 00:23:25,531 Er... it's very simple. 235 00:23:25,613 --> 00:23:29,322 We're Little-Enders and the enemy are Big-Enders. 236 00:23:29,413 --> 00:23:33,928 But what does Big-Enders or Little-Enders mean? 237 00:23:34,012 --> 00:23:36,481 There's a subversive tone to his questioning. 238 00:23:36,573 --> 00:23:38,768 I agree. Are you an agitator? 239 00:23:38,853 --> 00:23:40,525 Certainly not. 240 00:23:40,612 --> 00:23:42,364 Easy to say. 241 00:23:42,932 --> 00:23:48,211 The Lilliputians competed for public office in a most strange manner. 242 00:23:48,292 --> 00:23:52,409 Promotion was not given for bravery or service to the state, 243 00:23:52,491 --> 00:23:58,122 but for skill at the noble art of "creeping and leaping". 244 00:24:02,490 --> 00:24:06,402 - What are you looking at? - Shh! 245 00:24:06,489 --> 00:24:09,481 The Emperor is demanding my presence. 246 00:24:13,769 --> 00:24:17,966 'This ceremony was presided over by the Emperor in his throne room. 247 00:24:18,048 --> 00:24:23,361 'The candidates undertake a trial of dexterity such as I have not seen 248 00:24:23,448 --> 00:24:27,122 'in any other country of the Old or New World. 249 00:24:27,888 --> 00:24:33,280 'The Emperor holds a stick, both ends parallel to the horizon, 250 00:24:33,367 --> 00:24:37,485 'while the candidates sometimes leap over the stick 251 00:24:37,567 --> 00:24:42,037 'and sometimes creep under it as the stick is raised or lowered. 252 00:24:42,126 --> 00:24:47,519 'Whoever shows the greatest skill at leaping and creeping 253 00:24:47,606 --> 00:24:50,563 'is rewarded with the highest office.' 254 00:24:50,645 --> 00:24:53,079 Come on, my son. 255 00:25:03,404 --> 00:25:06,157 Ah, yes, my son! 256 00:25:09,443 --> 00:25:13,322 Bravo! Somebody bring him a sash. 257 00:25:13,523 --> 00:25:16,116 We'll make him... oh... 258 00:25:17,562 --> 00:25:20,396 Has the old Chancellor been executed yet? 259 00:25:23,802 --> 00:25:26,999 The last member of the old Cabinet, Your Majesty. 260 00:25:27,122 --> 00:25:33,390 Oh, good - we'll make this chap the new Lord Chancellor. 261 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:45,358 - Was he really executed? - Who? 262 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,755 The old Lord Chancellor. 263 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:49,193 Most people were. 264 00:25:51,639 --> 00:25:53,595 I found you some clothes. 265 00:25:53,999 --> 00:25:55,717 Who is that man? 266 00:25:56,199 --> 00:25:58,666 What is he doing in our house? 267 00:25:59,838 --> 00:26:01,954 It isn't our house any more. 268 00:26:02,038 --> 00:26:06,190 Doctor Bates has paid for much of Tom's upkeep. 269 00:26:06,278 --> 00:26:08,427 But now he owns the house. 270 00:26:08,517 --> 00:26:12,147 He runs your old practice and I am his housekeeper. 271 00:26:12,238 --> 00:26:13,671 Mary? 272 00:26:14,398 --> 00:26:16,149 Excuse me. 273 00:26:16,357 --> 00:26:19,076 I want you downstairs for your supper. 274 00:26:20,357 --> 00:26:22,348 Don't be frightened of me. 275 00:26:25,716 --> 00:26:27,388 Come along. 276 00:26:28,436 --> 00:26:33,555 I don't want to seem indelicate, but where is he going to stay? 277 00:26:33,635 --> 00:26:37,867 - I thought he'd stay here. - For a while, but what will he do? 278 00:26:37,955 --> 00:26:40,469 I am the doctor now, there's no work 279 00:26:40,555 --> 00:26:44,706 and he is - forgive me - suffering from some form of mania. 280 00:26:44,794 --> 00:26:49,026 He is exhausted and... and clearly troubled... 281 00:26:49,114 --> 00:26:52,344 I accept his behaviour is strange... 282 00:26:56,593 --> 00:26:58,105 Mary. 283 00:26:59,712 --> 00:27:02,864 It is a joyous thing that he has returned 284 00:27:02,953 --> 00:27:05,513 and we must give thanks for it. 285 00:27:37,429 --> 00:27:40,785 - Where are you going? - I...I cannot sleep here. 286 00:27:40,869 --> 00:27:43,336 Lemuel, I understand. 287 00:27:43,428 --> 00:27:47,501 We are like strangers, meeting again for the first time. 288 00:27:47,588 --> 00:27:48,941 NO! NO! NO! 289 00:27:49,028 --> 00:27:52,542 Don't touch me. I can't bear you too near me! 290 00:27:52,627 --> 00:27:54,539 Please, you'll wake Tom. 291 00:27:55,148 --> 00:27:58,423 You cannot understand where I've been. 292 00:27:59,827 --> 00:28:03,376 Tell me what's wrong. Help me to understand. 293 00:28:03,947 --> 00:28:05,665 Please. 294 00:28:07,386 --> 00:28:09,024 You're frightening me. 295 00:28:10,666 --> 00:28:15,693 I will sleep in Tom's room, if you wish. I am used to it. 296 00:28:15,785 --> 00:28:19,983 Mary, please believe me, I want to come home, but I cannot. 297 00:28:20,585 --> 00:28:22,223 I cannot! 298 00:28:26,184 --> 00:28:27,537 I CANNOT! 299 00:28:46,503 --> 00:28:51,257 The Emperor mounted the most impressive military parade ever, 300 00:28:51,342 --> 00:28:55,176 with all the imperial troops passing between my legs. 301 00:28:55,262 --> 00:28:58,060 Sightseers came from all over Lilliput. 302 00:28:58,861 --> 00:29:03,730 Women and children, farmers and teachers, lawyers and midwives, 303 00:29:03,821 --> 00:29:07,256 all lining the street to gape and stare. 304 00:29:07,340 --> 00:29:11,128 There had been other military parades before, but none with... 305 00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:13,458 Well, with me. 306 00:29:17,499 --> 00:29:19,854 The money is rolling in. 307 00:29:19,939 --> 00:29:22,772 We can approve unprecedented military expansion. 308 00:29:22,859 --> 00:29:25,053 What if he falls on us? 309 00:29:25,138 --> 00:29:28,096 Darling, no harm can befall you. 310 00:29:28,258 --> 00:29:31,773 I've organised every last detail. 311 00:29:35,497 --> 00:29:40,367 I understand his trousers are ragged on account of the shipwreck 312 00:29:40,458 --> 00:29:44,006 and I must warn Your Ladyship that under no circumstances 313 00:29:44,097 --> 00:29:47,214 should you look upward as we drive underneath him. 314 00:29:50,576 --> 00:29:52,214 Here we go, everybody! 315 00:29:52,856 --> 00:29:54,414 Blimey! 316 00:29:54,496 --> 00:29:56,134 Unbelievable! 317 00:29:56,216 --> 00:29:57,774 Oh...! 318 00:29:59,255 --> 00:30:00,734 Colossus! 319 00:30:04,735 --> 00:30:06,965 I want you to stop this, now. 320 00:30:07,054 --> 00:30:11,047 - Stop what? - All this! All these stories! 321 00:30:11,174 --> 00:30:13,404 Just be normal again! 322 00:30:13,494 --> 00:30:15,610 I'm telling him what happened. 323 00:30:15,693 --> 00:30:17,809 Well, I don't want you to! 324 00:30:17,893 --> 00:30:22,808 Is it your wish for me to lose my position and my home? 325 00:30:22,893 --> 00:30:26,601 That's what will happen if you persist in this nonsense! 326 00:30:26,692 --> 00:30:27,886 This is intolerable! 327 00:30:27,972 --> 00:30:31,932 How can I concentrate while he's charging about like an idiot? 328 00:30:36,132 --> 00:30:39,841 Get rid of that monster! 329 00:30:39,932 --> 00:30:45,722 My darling walnut, do you know how much money his parade raised 330 00:30:45,811 --> 00:30:48,120 for the war effort today? 331 00:30:50,010 --> 00:30:51,966 He is very ill, Mary. 332 00:30:52,050 --> 00:30:56,043 I have to say that I am worried for the child. 333 00:30:56,130 --> 00:31:02,079 The ideas that he's putting into his head are not proper - or Christian. 334 00:31:02,209 --> 00:31:04,120 But what can we do? 335 00:31:04,209 --> 00:31:07,325 I'll take him to a hospital 336 00:31:07,408 --> 00:31:11,879 where they help people who are sick like this. 337 00:31:12,008 --> 00:31:15,284 - He'll never agree. - Leave that to me. 338 00:31:28,847 --> 00:31:30,803 This has just arrived, Admiral. 339 00:31:33,286 --> 00:31:34,799 Bad news? 340 00:31:34,886 --> 00:31:38,196 The Big-Enders have built a new war fleet! 341 00:31:38,286 --> 00:31:39,605 I knew it! 342 00:31:40,526 --> 00:31:42,516 We must move our troops... 343 00:31:42,605 --> 00:31:45,073 Father, give nothing away. 344 00:31:45,245 --> 00:31:49,602 - Big-Ender spies are everywhere. - Not in my own campaign room? 345 00:31:49,685 --> 00:31:53,279 Especially here. The walls have ears. 346 00:32:03,123 --> 00:32:05,318 Man's a bloody menace. 347 00:32:05,603 --> 00:32:08,719 How substantial is their fleet? 348 00:32:09,082 --> 00:32:10,913 Warships with 500 cannons. 349 00:32:11,002 --> 00:32:13,642 But our biggest ships have only 50. 350 00:32:13,803 --> 00:32:16,874 Their warriors would rather die than surrender! 351 00:32:16,962 --> 00:32:20,671 Ours would rather surrender than die. 352 00:32:20,762 --> 00:32:22,400 What shall we do? 353 00:32:22,482 --> 00:32:25,234 Have half our farmers build warships. 354 00:32:25,561 --> 00:32:28,075 Increase the army by 600,000 men 355 00:32:28,161 --> 00:32:31,198 and construct a 40-foot wall around Lilliput. 356 00:32:31,281 --> 00:32:34,033 We did both those last month! 357 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,676 We have held back our greatest weapon for long enough. 358 00:32:46,879 --> 00:32:52,794 I was summoned to the Emperor and told the very future of Lilliput 359 00:32:53,238 --> 00:32:55,798 depended upon my courage and ingenuity. 360 00:32:55,998 --> 00:33:00,513 A massive invasion fleet stood poised, ready to attack, 361 00:33:00,677 --> 00:33:03,351 and only I stood in its way. 362 00:33:03,438 --> 00:33:07,635 I scoured the land for the thickest ropes and cables 363 00:33:07,717 --> 00:33:12,313 and bent a number of iron bars into hooks, like this. 364 00:33:13,597 --> 00:33:15,189 Bravo! 365 00:33:15,277 --> 00:33:21,431 That night, I waded across the channel separating the two empires, 366 00:33:21,516 --> 00:33:27,545 and in the last yard, took a great breath and dived underwater. 367 00:33:48,833 --> 00:33:51,107 I made it! I made it! 368 00:33:51,192 --> 00:33:54,423 The sailors screamed in terror when they saw me. 369 00:33:54,512 --> 00:33:57,505 Most of them abandoned ship and jumped overboard. 370 00:33:57,593 --> 00:33:58,991 Lemuel, don't! 371 00:33:59,072 --> 00:34:00,505 Nothing could stop me. 372 00:34:01,192 --> 00:34:04,901 I started off to Lilliput, dragging the entire fleet behind me. 373 00:34:07,072 --> 00:34:09,187 Put the child to bed. 374 00:34:09,311 --> 00:34:11,302 - What's wrong? - Do as you're told. 375 00:34:11,391 --> 00:34:12,790 But, I... 376 00:34:12,871 --> 00:34:16,146 Trust my judgement on this. Do as I request. 377 00:34:26,189 --> 00:34:28,225 Give me your hand, Doctor. 378 00:34:45,587 --> 00:34:50,536 'My glorious victory was the cause of much rejoicing throughout the land.' 379 00:34:51,187 --> 00:34:53,701 'Thousands rushed to meet me 380 00:34:53,787 --> 00:34:57,780 'and there was a great cheer of relief and celebration!' 381 00:34:59,067 --> 00:35:02,297 Marvellous! Marvellous! 382 00:35:02,506 --> 00:35:04,576 The end of the war! 383 00:35:04,826 --> 00:35:07,976 Peace and prosperity! 384 00:35:09,185 --> 00:35:10,982 Ha-ha-ha! 385 00:35:11,065 --> 00:35:17,253 For doing what our greatest Generals and Admirals could not, 386 00:35:17,784 --> 00:35:21,060 you are awarded our greatest honour! 387 00:35:22,744 --> 00:35:24,302 Pageboy! 388 00:35:26,783 --> 00:35:28,933 What is our greatest honour? 389 00:35:29,063 --> 00:35:32,180 The Order of Nardac, Majesty. 390 00:35:32,343 --> 00:35:34,139 The Nardac?! 391 00:35:34,262 --> 00:35:38,541 But, Father, General Limtoc and I are only Clumglums! 392 00:35:38,623 --> 00:35:43,412 How will it look to our men if he has a higher honour? 393 00:35:57,341 --> 00:35:59,570 Father, a word. 394 00:36:02,740 --> 00:36:06,369 I fear the job is worse than half done. 395 00:36:06,540 --> 00:36:09,531 I agree. He brought home the enemy's ships, 396 00:36:09,619 --> 00:36:12,770 but could he bring home the enemy themselves? 397 00:36:12,859 --> 00:36:16,931 The monster must prove his loyalty by killing all Big-Enders - 398 00:36:17,018 --> 00:36:20,169 every last man, woman and child. 399 00:36:20,338 --> 00:36:25,969 I think you should return and destroy what remains of the enemy. 400 00:36:26,537 --> 00:36:30,736 There's no need to crush them completely, Your Majesty. 401 00:36:31,218 --> 00:36:35,335 I'm sure they will make a dignified surrender. 402 00:36:35,417 --> 00:36:38,295 My husband gave you an order! 403 00:36:38,737 --> 00:36:43,093 With respect, we've won the war, there is no more threat. 404 00:36:43,176 --> 00:36:44,529 We've won! 405 00:36:47,496 --> 00:36:49,771 We need to talk. 406 00:36:49,856 --> 00:36:51,208 Mmm. 407 00:37:02,894 --> 00:37:06,125 That night, I must confess, I got very drunk. 408 00:37:07,654 --> 00:37:12,773 I had been told that I emptied the royal cellars of everything 409 00:37:12,853 --> 00:37:15,367 save twelve barrels of sweet cider. 410 00:37:15,453 --> 00:37:19,286 I dunno, I'm working harder now than I ever did. 411 00:37:20,212 --> 00:37:24,126 - Let me fill your glass. - Thank you, it's full. 412 00:37:25,852 --> 00:37:32,041 The thing was, they'd been fighting this ridiculous war for generations 413 00:37:32,132 --> 00:37:36,568 and none of them had the slightest clue what they were fighting about. 414 00:37:36,651 --> 00:37:38,084 I know. 415 00:37:38,171 --> 00:37:44,040 They'd been at war for years and not a single Lilliputian knew why. 416 00:37:44,130 --> 00:37:48,248 No, no, I mean I know how the war started. 417 00:37:49,010 --> 00:37:50,648 You know? 418 00:37:50,730 --> 00:37:53,766 I know what my grandmother told me. 419 00:37:53,849 --> 00:37:59,048 When the Emperor's great-great grandfather were a little boy, 420 00:37:59,608 --> 00:38:03,965 he were eating a egg for his breakfast one day. 421 00:38:04,288 --> 00:38:10,760 When, breaking it off at the larger end, he cut one of his fingers. 422 00:38:10,847 --> 00:38:15,797 His father the Emperor - that's the 23rd Emperor, that is - 423 00:38:15,888 --> 00:38:19,243 he published a law commanding everybody 424 00:38:19,327 --> 00:38:23,400 to break their eggs off at the smaller end. 425 00:38:23,487 --> 00:38:24,840 Ha! 426 00:38:24,927 --> 00:38:31,445 Some Lilliputians said "We are going to break our eggs at the big end." 427 00:38:31,606 --> 00:38:36,315 "Just you try to stop us!" which is exactly what the Emperor did. 428 00:38:36,405 --> 00:38:40,114 Eventually, the rebels fled across the water to Blefescu 429 00:38:40,205 --> 00:38:44,243 and thus began the great and terrible war. 430 00:38:44,444 --> 00:38:49,120 We have had 11,000 people suffer death, 431 00:38:49,204 --> 00:38:53,435 rather than submit to breaking their eggs at the smaller end. 432 00:38:58,723 --> 00:39:00,155 Do you smell burning? 433 00:39:06,723 --> 00:39:09,441 THE EMPRESS IS TRAPPED! 434 00:39:09,802 --> 00:39:12,191 SAVE MY BELOVED! 435 00:39:15,042 --> 00:39:18,875 'A firework had set light to the palace 436 00:39:19,041 --> 00:39:22,192 'and Her Imperial Majesty's apartments were ablaze. 437 00:39:22,281 --> 00:39:26,558 'The Lilliputians had already applied their ladders to the palace walls 438 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:31,236 'and were well provided with buckets but the water was at some distance. 439 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,709 'Anyway, the ladders were not tall enough. 440 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,710 'So it seemed wholly desperate. 441 00:39:35,799 --> 00:39:41,078 'The palace would have been burned to the ground and the Empress with it, 442 00:39:41,159 --> 00:39:47,108 'if, by a presence of mind unusual to me, I had not suddenly had an idea. 443 00:39:47,198 --> 00:39:49,837 'I was still full from my drinking session, 444 00:39:49,918 --> 00:39:52,226 'and, looking down on the royal bedchamber, 445 00:39:52,317 --> 00:39:55,275 'only one course of action seemedopen to me.' 446 00:40:03,597 --> 00:40:05,428 Ah! 447 00:40:10,716 --> 00:40:14,152 Thank you! Thank you! You have saved my life! 448 00:40:14,316 --> 00:40:15,635 Ahem... 449 00:40:15,716 --> 00:40:17,228 Oh, thank you. 450 00:40:23,675 --> 00:40:26,108 AAAAAAGGGHHH! 451 00:40:30,394 --> 00:40:32,191 It's an outrage! 452 00:40:32,274 --> 00:40:35,071 He made water in the royal grounds! 453 00:40:35,233 --> 00:40:38,669 - It's treason! - But he saved the Empress's life. 454 00:40:38,753 --> 00:40:43,189 Our stepmother will never be able to show her face again, 455 00:40:43,272 --> 00:40:45,945 convinced that she's the laughing stock of Lilliput. 456 00:40:46,032 --> 00:40:47,785 But she's not, though... 457 00:40:49,553 --> 00:40:51,270 is she? 458 00:40:54,912 --> 00:40:59,508 And he openly defied your command to attack the Big-Enders. 459 00:40:59,592 --> 00:41:03,789 - He humiliated you! - You're right! You're right! 460 00:41:04,031 --> 00:41:05,908 We must execute him. 461 00:41:05,991 --> 00:41:08,504 Execute him?! You can't do that! 462 00:41:10,750 --> 00:41:14,663 Well, I mean, we must consider all the options. 463 00:41:14,750 --> 00:41:18,458 Are you with us, Lord Chancellor, or with the monster? 464 00:41:21,229 --> 00:41:23,868 We'll spread poison on his shirt 465 00:41:23,949 --> 00:41:27,304 which will make him tear his own flesh apart. 466 00:41:27,388 --> 00:41:32,462 Then I'll get a thousand men to fire poisoned arrows in his face. 467 00:41:32,548 --> 00:41:37,382 Good plans, boys, but I don't think we should actually murder him. 468 00:41:37,467 --> 00:41:42,098 You were so keen to kill Mother last year, and I miss her dreadfully. 469 00:41:42,188 --> 00:41:44,701 You're both too impulsive. 470 00:41:45,787 --> 00:41:48,540 But I agree, something must be done. 471 00:41:49,187 --> 00:41:51,336 Something merciful. 472 00:41:53,746 --> 00:41:57,102 We'll dig out both his eyes. 473 00:41:58,146 --> 00:42:01,740 Oh, I don't know. Just the eyes? 474 00:42:02,945 --> 00:42:05,778 It doesn't seem very much to me. 475 00:42:06,065 --> 00:42:10,615 When he's blinded, he'll be much more obedient, and even more courageous, 476 00:42:10,704 --> 00:42:14,253 because he won't see any danger! 477 00:42:18,623 --> 00:42:20,102 That way... 478 00:42:21,623 --> 00:42:23,215 Are we all here? 479 00:42:26,022 --> 00:42:27,978 Where's the new Chancellor gone? 480 00:42:30,263 --> 00:42:31,616 Wake up! 481 00:42:32,983 --> 00:42:35,177 Wake up! 482 00:42:36,262 --> 00:42:40,335 The Generals are plotting to kill you! You must escape! 483 00:42:40,822 --> 00:42:44,700 I'm a war hero, I just saved the Empress's life. 484 00:42:46,101 --> 00:42:48,137 Don't go to sleep! 485 00:42:57,620 --> 00:43:03,171 I can't stay here! They'll kill me, too, if they find out. 486 00:43:04,619 --> 00:43:05,972 WAKE UP! 487 00:43:21,858 --> 00:43:23,610 Oh...! 488 00:44:28,451 --> 00:44:31,409 'I had escaped, but to where? 489 00:44:31,971 --> 00:44:37,283 'Where could I go? Would I just swim out to sea until I drowned?' 490 00:45:23,686 --> 00:45:28,201 'With Clustril's help, I hid from the Emperor's soldiers. 491 00:45:28,285 --> 00:45:33,234 'That night I pulled up hundreds of trees to make a small raft, 492 00:45:33,325 --> 00:45:37,920 'while Drunlo collected every bed sheet for miles around, 493 00:45:38,004 --> 00:45:41,792 'and I began to sew them together to make a sail.' 494 00:45:41,884 --> 00:45:45,193 Thank you for saving my life. Sorry if... 495 00:45:45,283 --> 00:45:47,194 Don't you talk to me. 496 00:45:47,443 --> 00:45:53,790 I had it all in the palm of my hand - wealth, power, respect... 497 00:45:54,242 --> 00:45:57,952 Look at me now, eh? Back to seaweed soup. 498 00:45:58,643 --> 00:46:01,315 I'd like to leave you a gift. 499 00:46:01,842 --> 00:46:03,798 My ring. 500 00:46:04,082 --> 00:46:06,038 Oh, marvellous 501 00:46:06,122 --> 00:46:11,115 What do I want your ring for, eh? I can't wear it, can I? 502 00:46:11,201 --> 00:46:13,157 It's... It's... 503 00:46:14,681 --> 00:46:16,797 It's gold. 504 00:46:26,479 --> 00:46:28,515 I'm rich! 505 00:46:28,999 --> 00:46:32,674 You always treated me good, you was always my friend. 506 00:46:32,759 --> 00:46:35,272 I'm rich! Dad, I'm rich! 507 00:46:35,358 --> 00:46:37,189 Never mind that, son. 508 00:46:37,278 --> 00:46:39,075 Never mind that. 509 00:46:39,438 --> 00:46:42,908 I think I've found the other boot! 510 00:46:52,357 --> 00:46:53,710 This isn't right. 511 00:46:53,797 --> 00:46:55,947 It's done now. 512 00:46:56,197 --> 00:46:59,507 I feel as if I've betrayed him. 513 00:46:59,597 --> 00:47:02,554 You know it's the right thing to do. 514 00:47:05,796 --> 00:47:09,504 The doctors at the hospital are very caring people. Drive! 515 00:47:30,593 --> 00:47:34,825 'For seven days and nights I sailed without sighting land. 516 00:47:41,473 --> 00:47:46,023 'My supplies had run desperately low and I was losing all hope. 517 00:47:53,391 --> 00:47:56,940 'I was forced to eat my carefully gathered supplies, 518 00:47:57,031 --> 00:47:59,591 'until only one sheep remained.' 519 00:48:04,990 --> 00:48:06,628 Land! 520 00:48:09,110 --> 00:48:14,786 'Land! No matter if it was more tiny people, at least it was land!' 521 00:48:19,828 --> 00:48:21,181 Where are we? 522 00:48:21,268 --> 00:48:25,102 Don't worry. I'm taking you somewhere you'll be safe. 523 00:49:26,622 --> 00:49:30,058 If I could have your signature here, Dr Bates. 524 00:49:30,142 --> 00:49:34,977 I think we can leave the rest of the formalities till tomorrow. 525 00:49:35,062 --> 00:49:36,016 GIANTS! 526 00:49:54,459 --> 00:49:56,415 GIANTS! 527 00:50:09,378 --> 00:50:12,130 NO-O-O-O-O-O! 528 00:50:14,498 --> 00:50:18,536 Really, is this behaviour absolutely necessary? 529 00:50:24,937 --> 00:50:27,530 Mother Earth! It's an omen! 530 00:50:28,736 --> 00:50:30,772 It's an omen! 531 00:50:39,335 --> 00:50:42,407 Have you found something, Grultrud? 532 00:50:42,495 --> 00:50:44,564 Nothing. Back to work. 533 00:50:48,054 --> 00:50:51,524 - Perhaps he's a hobgoblin. - He's nothing of the kind. 534 00:50:51,614 --> 00:50:56,482 He's a sign from Mother Earth, to show we'll have a fine harvest. 535 00:50:56,653 --> 00:50:59,121 I'm going to give him some meat. 536 00:51:04,852 --> 00:51:06,286 'Giants. 537 00:51:06,773 --> 00:51:08,729 'And so ugly! 538 00:51:09,213 --> 00:51:13,000 'Their skin was so crinkled and pocked and boil-infested, 539 00:51:13,212 --> 00:51:16,602 'it made me wonder how I appeared to the Lilliputians.' 540 00:51:18,571 --> 00:51:23,042 It's just a little dog. Don't be a coward. Down! 541 00:51:24,611 --> 00:51:28,159 Let me out of here! There's been some terrible mistake. 542 00:51:29,650 --> 00:51:32,528 Oi! You in there! Keep quiet! 543 00:51:32,610 --> 00:51:34,566 Come and stand by me. 544 00:51:36,049 --> 00:51:39,086 This is my daughter, Glumdalclitch. 545 00:51:41,169 --> 00:51:43,160 He's lovely. 546 00:51:44,568 --> 00:51:47,958 Who's going to take care of him, I wonder? 547 00:51:48,088 --> 00:51:50,886 Can I? Can I have him to keep? 548 00:51:50,968 --> 00:51:52,958 He's a grand little fellow. 549 00:51:53,727 --> 00:51:56,366 He can do tricks as well, I expect. 550 00:51:58,488 --> 00:52:00,444 Do us a dance. 551 00:52:16,166 --> 00:52:20,522 We could make a lot of money with this little fella. 552 00:52:21,885 --> 00:52:23,443 What is this place? 553 00:52:23,525 --> 00:52:25,402 A hospital. 554 00:52:25,565 --> 00:52:28,476 Since when do hospitals have bolted doors? 555 00:52:28,564 --> 00:52:32,273 It's a hospital for people with sick minds. 556 00:52:32,364 --> 00:52:34,434 Well, there's nothing wrong with me. 557 00:52:34,524 --> 00:52:37,401 That is for us to ascertain. 558 00:52:37,923 --> 00:52:41,199 I don't like this box. Where are you taking me? 559 00:52:41,283 --> 00:52:43,274 What are you talking about? 560 00:52:47,402 --> 00:52:51,760 Come and see the Wee Wonder - the Spirit of the Cornfield. 561 00:52:51,923 --> 00:52:53,958 Come and see him. 562 00:52:54,042 --> 00:52:56,840 The Wee Wonder. Spirit of the Cornfield. 563 00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:14,150 'Brob-ding-nag'? 564 00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,152 Yes. 565 00:53:16,240 --> 00:53:20,027 And what part of the world is this Brobdingnag in? 566 00:53:20,119 --> 00:53:22,679 I don't know, I was completely lost. 567 00:53:23,759 --> 00:53:26,637 And this little girl was carrying you? 568 00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:30,427 In the travelling box that they'd made me. 569 00:53:30,518 --> 00:53:35,194 You have to imagine yourself as only as tall as my hand. 570 00:53:35,278 --> 00:53:40,989 If you were to lie on the floor. I'm not trying to make a fool of you. 571 00:53:41,078 --> 00:53:43,751 See how different the world looks? 572 00:53:43,918 --> 00:53:50,311 Well, imagine everything you know is now huge... 573 00:53:50,917 --> 00:53:52,589 monstrous. 574 00:53:52,876 --> 00:53:54,355 Hush! 575 00:53:54,516 --> 00:53:58,509 If we make too much noise, the sprite may not come out. 576 00:53:58,676 --> 00:54:00,906 He's a timid little fella. 577 00:54:00,996 --> 00:54:06,592 Mind that none of you look him direct into the eye - he might curse you. 578 00:54:09,195 --> 00:54:12,550 Who summons the Spirit of the Cornfield? 579 00:54:12,634 --> 00:54:15,148 Oh, I do. 580 00:54:15,234 --> 00:54:17,794 I need your wisdom, O Spirit! 581 00:54:18,074 --> 00:54:21,304 Show me gold and thou shall be told! 582 00:54:26,753 --> 00:54:30,506 It's... It's my radishes, O Spirit of the Cornfield! 583 00:54:33,593 --> 00:54:35,822 O Spirit, we beseech you 584 00:54:35,912 --> 00:54:39,222 to rid these vegetables of their cursed affliction. 585 00:54:39,632 --> 00:54:45,103 And then I'd pretend to go into this - this fit, like this, you see. 586 00:54:45,791 --> 00:54:50,228 # London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down 587 00:54:50,311 --> 00:54:52,745 # London Bridge is falling down 588 00:54:52,831 --> 00:54:55,344 # My fair lady! # 589 00:54:57,030 --> 00:54:59,100 The Spirit has spoken! 590 00:54:59,310 --> 00:55:02,858 Your radishes will be the plumpest in the entire country. 591 00:55:03,349 --> 00:55:04,987 Next! 592 00:55:09,589 --> 00:55:14,059 And you believed you were possessed by this spirit? 593 00:55:14,148 --> 00:55:18,937 No, of course not! We were just doing it to make money. 594 00:55:19,987 --> 00:55:22,740 Why didn't you try to escape? 595 00:55:22,827 --> 00:55:24,705 I was helpless. 596 00:55:24,788 --> 00:55:27,506 My destiny was out of my hands. 597 00:55:33,947 --> 00:55:37,177 That's all for tonight. He'll perform again at daybreak. 598 00:55:38,866 --> 00:55:41,380 I am the Queen's lady-in-waiting. 599 00:55:41,466 --> 00:55:44,424 I don't care, I am off to sleep. 600 00:55:44,945 --> 00:55:48,733 I was wondering if the little gentleman might be for sale? 601 00:55:48,825 --> 00:55:50,941 My little magician? No. 602 00:55:51,025 --> 00:55:53,982 I am authorised to offer you a considerable sum. 603 00:55:54,064 --> 00:55:58,660 No amount of money is going to part the two of us. 604 00:55:58,744 --> 00:56:01,655 I have here 500 pieces of gold. 605 00:56:01,943 --> 00:56:04,741 Do you want to take him tonight? 606 00:56:13,382 --> 00:56:16,659 I begged the farmer not to part me from Glumdalclitch, 607 00:56:16,743 --> 00:56:19,461 the only person who really cared for me. 608 00:56:19,542 --> 00:56:25,014 He agreed, happy to see his daughter brought up in the royal household. 609 00:56:25,182 --> 00:56:29,060 We travelled with the lady for several hours, 610 00:56:29,221 --> 00:56:31,018 until we reached the palace. 611 00:56:38,900 --> 00:56:42,495 Beware ye all, large or small! 612 00:56:42,580 --> 00:56:48,017 Once in a lifetime a man will appear, smaller than all others, 613 00:56:48,099 --> 00:56:52,968 and he will be a lucky charm, a talisman for crops, 614 00:56:53,059 --> 00:56:56,892 bringing strong sunshine and sweet rain for the harvest! 615 00:56:57,138 --> 00:57:00,528 Such a man is - me! 616 00:57:03,897 --> 00:57:07,413 Am I or not the smallest person in the kingdom? 617 00:57:07,498 --> 00:57:09,932 Can any man look up to me? 618 00:57:10,018 --> 00:57:14,169 I'm a shrimp, a worm, an ant, a tadpole, a grub. 619 00:57:14,257 --> 00:57:16,407 Am I short? I'm minuscule. 620 00:57:16,617 --> 00:57:23,294 I'm dinky, dainty, diminutive, I'm titchy, tiny, I'm so small... 621 00:57:25,296 --> 00:57:27,525 Your Majesty. 622 00:58:08,812 --> 00:58:10,529 'Royalty at last! 623 00:58:10,611 --> 00:58:14,684 'No more riding on a donkey cart. Here was the Queen.' 624 00:58:14,771 --> 00:58:19,525 I threw myself at her feet, the only part of her I could reach, 625 00:58:19,610 --> 00:58:24,889 and I kissed her toe and addressed her in the normal manner... 626 00:58:24,970 --> 00:58:30,407 Most Glorious Empress, O Adornment of Nature, the Darling of the World, 627 00:58:30,569 --> 00:58:33,879 Delight of your subjects, the Phoenix of Creation. 628 00:58:33,969 --> 00:58:37,563 And this queen, she was also a giant? 629 00:58:38,328 --> 00:58:42,321 They were all giants! Even the dwarf was a giant! 630 00:58:51,448 --> 00:58:53,722 Well, Grildrig, 631 00:58:53,807 --> 00:58:58,437 it seems you are no longer the smallest man in the kingdom. 632 00:58:58,967 --> 00:59:01,197 Look, Your Majesty... 633 00:59:01,967 --> 00:59:04,196 Yes, yes, later, Grildrig. 634 00:59:06,286 --> 00:59:08,481 We have a new jester! 635 00:59:10,805 --> 00:59:14,195 Her Majesty and I chatted for a while, 636 00:59:14,285 --> 00:59:18,198 and she was impressed with such wit and good sense 637 00:59:18,285 --> 00:59:20,354 in so diminutive a person. 638 00:59:20,444 --> 00:59:24,073 For the first time since arriving in this awful place, 639 00:59:24,164 --> 00:59:26,234 I felt amongst equals, 640 00:59:27,204 --> 00:59:31,276 and knew from now on I would be treated with respect. 641 00:59:32,043 --> 00:59:33,635 He's a monstrosity! 642 00:59:33,723 --> 00:59:37,237 No, he is a midget, albeit a uniquely small one. 643 00:59:37,322 --> 00:59:40,838 You're both wrong - he's a clockwork toy. 644 00:59:41,003 --> 00:59:46,679 I've no doubt we can find the hole in his back if we look carefully enough. 645 00:59:48,002 --> 00:59:49,913 Take your hands off me! 646 00:59:50,002 --> 00:59:54,074 There's been some terrible mistake. There's nothing wrong with me. 647 00:59:54,161 --> 00:59:55,594 Let me leave, please. 648 00:59:55,681 --> 01:00:00,630 His eyes are constantly moving and he sweats extremely. 649 01:00:00,721 --> 01:00:02,836 Why don't you like being touched? 650 01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:05,912 I just don't. I don't need a reason. 651 01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:09,151 He's very restless, his mood changes all the time 652 01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:12,072 and his speech is eccentric - full of fantasy. 653 01:00:12,159 --> 01:00:15,788 From the teeth, I'd say he's a carnivore. 654 01:00:16,159 --> 01:00:20,390 Even tiny animals like fieldmice could overpower him. 655 01:00:20,558 --> 01:00:23,516 He lacks the claws for climbing and digging. 656 01:00:23,598 --> 01:00:26,874 Perhaps we should try mating him with a small animal. 657 01:00:26,958 --> 01:00:29,915 Perhaps we should not! This is outrageous! 658 01:00:29,997 --> 01:00:31,749 Gentlemen, please listen to me. 659 01:00:31,957 --> 01:00:34,347 I come from a civilised country 660 01:00:34,438 --> 01:00:38,555 which abounds with several million people of my own stature, 661 01:00:38,757 --> 01:00:42,067 where the houses and trees are in proportion. 662 01:00:42,317 --> 01:00:46,594 I have no trouble feeding myself or protecting myself. 663 01:00:46,756 --> 01:00:49,554 I am a man, just like you. 664 01:00:54,795 --> 01:00:58,026 That farmer taught him to say all this! 665 01:00:58,395 --> 01:01:02,546 You can't keep me here! Where's my wife and son? 666 01:01:02,634 --> 01:01:08,664 You may shout as much as you wish in here. It is something we expect. 667 01:01:08,754 --> 01:01:12,109 But that, I'm afraid, is where your rights end. 668 01:01:16,633 --> 01:01:21,308 Put her to bed for a day or two if the symptoms persist. 669 01:01:23,913 --> 01:01:28,827 I have no more patients today, Mary. We can leave, if you're ready. 670 01:01:28,992 --> 01:01:31,028 I won't be gone long. 671 01:01:31,192 --> 01:01:32,625 Why can't I come? 672 01:01:32,712 --> 01:01:37,341 You can come next time. Clear all this away before I get home. 673 01:01:37,431 --> 01:01:40,946 I wish I could dissuade you from visiting him yet. 674 01:01:41,031 --> 01:01:43,340 Please don't expect any dramatic improvements. 675 01:03:07,743 --> 01:03:11,257 In our country we also have very high taxes. 676 01:03:11,342 --> 01:03:13,412 It keeps people in their place. 677 01:03:13,502 --> 01:03:15,732 We have no taxes. 678 01:03:15,862 --> 01:03:19,491 But everyone is bringing you the fruits of their labour. 679 01:03:19,661 --> 01:03:22,698 They are shared between the whole kingdom fairly. 680 01:03:22,781 --> 01:03:25,898 Amongst the higher classes, you mean? 681 01:03:26,061 --> 01:03:30,690 No, we have enough food to feed everybody. 682 01:03:31,340 --> 01:03:35,731 A farmer brings his crop, and takes home some of his neighbour's. 683 01:03:35,820 --> 01:03:39,334 Each takes his share, and no one goes hungry. 684 01:03:39,579 --> 01:03:42,412 But, unless some people are starving, 685 01:03:42,499 --> 01:03:45,332 how can there be structure to society? 686 01:03:45,418 --> 01:03:47,773 What do your Ministers say about this? 687 01:03:47,858 --> 01:03:49,132 Ministers? 688 01:03:49,218 --> 01:03:51,095 Each village sends a farmer 689 01:03:51,178 --> 01:03:55,090 and we decide what is best for the common good. 690 01:03:55,177 --> 01:03:56,895 The common good? 691 01:03:56,977 --> 01:03:58,934 Yes. 692 01:03:59,218 --> 01:04:03,733 Grildrig's new job is to feed the rotten produce to the pigs. 693 01:04:03,817 --> 01:04:07,696 Oh, dear, I hope he doesn't bear me any malice. 694 01:04:08,457 --> 01:04:10,095 Grildrig! 695 01:04:10,177 --> 01:04:13,088 You're not jealous of our new jester, are you? 696 01:04:14,056 --> 01:04:17,935 Oh, My Lady, nothing could be further from the truth. 697 01:04:18,016 --> 01:04:22,770 Like yourself, I've taken a special shine to the little chap. 698 01:04:44,533 --> 01:04:49,606 I want to see whoever is in charge. I demand to be let out! 699 01:05:33,008 --> 01:05:34,566 Enter! 700 01:05:36,488 --> 01:05:38,842 I've got a surprise for you. 701 01:05:40,327 --> 01:05:43,843 - Shall I open it? - Thank you. 702 01:05:44,008 --> 01:05:47,795 'Dear little Glumdalclitch, she clearly adored me. 703 01:05:47,967 --> 01:05:51,801 'She enjoyed dressing me and undressing me, like a doll, 704 01:05:51,967 --> 01:05:55,845 'even though I could manage for myself.' 705 01:05:56,166 --> 01:05:57,918 Oh, Glum! It's beautiful. 706 01:05:58,486 --> 01:06:01,523 - Does this feel like your home now? - Not really. 707 01:06:01,606 --> 01:06:05,564 - My house isn't quite this big. - Will you take me there? 708 01:06:05,645 --> 01:06:10,799 - So I can meet your queen? - I will. We'll go to the theatre. 709 01:06:10,885 --> 01:06:15,355 And what will we do before we go? Tell me everything we'll do. 710 01:06:15,644 --> 01:06:20,159 Well, first, we'll walk through the park 711 01:06:20,243 --> 01:06:22,837 and bow to the ladies and gentlemen. 712 01:06:22,923 --> 01:06:24,959 Dressed in our finest clothes. 713 01:06:25,043 --> 01:06:26,840 The very finest. 714 01:06:27,003 --> 01:06:30,995 And then we will sit and we'll take tea. 715 01:06:31,082 --> 01:06:33,358 Chocolate - can I have chocolate? 716 01:06:33,443 --> 01:06:37,321 Ah, chocolate, certainly. A very fashionable choice, Milady. 717 01:06:37,402 --> 01:06:40,599 And I'll buy you presents. Lots of presents. 718 01:06:41,722 --> 01:06:45,112 A doll's house even bigger than this one. 719 01:06:45,242 --> 01:06:46,993 The children will love it! 720 01:06:49,841 --> 01:06:52,799 If we're married, we'll have children, won't we? 721 01:06:53,521 --> 01:06:56,398 Glum, how old are you? 722 01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:01,990 Eleven, but I'm growing very fast. 723 01:07:03,759 --> 01:07:06,273 I already have a wife, Glum. 724 01:07:07,039 --> 01:07:08,757 Oh. 725 01:07:11,079 --> 01:07:12,431 In... 726 01:07:12,518 --> 01:07:14,873 In England. 727 01:07:17,798 --> 01:07:21,676 You said it was a hospital - this is more like a prison. 728 01:07:21,757 --> 01:07:24,716 I don't like it any more than you do. 729 01:07:24,798 --> 01:07:28,586 But some of the patients become...disturbed. 730 01:07:28,757 --> 01:07:31,715 It's necessary to keep them securely. 731 01:07:38,556 --> 01:07:43,311 Mary? Thank God you're here. I've got to get out of this place. 732 01:07:43,476 --> 01:07:46,035 You have come to take me home? 733 01:07:46,115 --> 01:07:51,428 Well, we... We thought it best you had a chance to recover first. 734 01:07:51,595 --> 01:07:53,870 Have the doctors seen you yet? 735 01:07:53,955 --> 01:07:56,309 Yes, but they don't understand. 736 01:07:56,394 --> 01:08:00,433 They know nothing about England so they've no idea of my intelligence. 737 01:08:00,514 --> 01:08:02,744 They don't know about England? 738 01:08:02,834 --> 01:08:06,064 Well, why should they? They've never been there. 739 01:08:06,793 --> 01:08:10,752 That's what I have to do! Bates, call the doctors. 740 01:08:10,833 --> 01:08:13,027 I have to tell them everything. 741 01:08:13,112 --> 01:08:16,071 Then they'll stop treating me like a child. Call them back! 742 01:08:20,952 --> 01:08:23,261 'I began a massive lecture 743 01:08:23,352 --> 01:08:27,311 'to explain the difference between their simple farming life 744 01:08:27,392 --> 01:08:30,622 'and our complex, sophisticated society. 745 01:08:30,711 --> 01:08:35,023 'I extolled the virtues of our great government, education and arts, 746 01:08:35,111 --> 01:08:37,624 'our courts and their great wisdom. 747 01:08:37,710 --> 01:08:42,261 'I mentioned the valour of our army and navy, 748 01:08:42,350 --> 01:08:44,910 'and our great colonies and conquests.' 749 01:08:44,990 --> 01:08:48,538 My remarkable lecture lasted five audiences with the Queen - 750 01:08:48,629 --> 01:08:50,904 each one lasting several hours. 751 01:08:50,989 --> 01:08:55,106 She was most attentive and requested a sixth audience, 752 01:08:55,188 --> 01:08:59,067 no doubt to praise my eloquence and to beg my forgiveness. 753 01:08:59,948 --> 01:09:04,418 - I have some questions. - Questions, Your Majesty? 754 01:09:04,987 --> 01:09:06,340 Questions. 755 01:09:06,427 --> 01:09:11,741 These Ministers who run your country, how do they get to be Ministers? 756 01:09:11,907 --> 01:09:15,024 Usually a sum of money decides the issue. 757 01:09:15,107 --> 01:09:18,383 How do they gain knowledge of their people? 758 01:09:18,467 --> 01:09:21,060 They don't need much knowledge - 759 01:09:21,146 --> 01:09:23,899 they spend their time drinking and gambling. 760 01:09:23,986 --> 01:09:26,295 You've mentioned gambling. 761 01:09:26,386 --> 01:09:29,183 At what age is this entertainment taken up? 762 01:09:30,785 --> 01:09:32,696 Sixteen or seventeen. 763 01:09:32,825 --> 01:09:38,456 - And at what age is it put down? - Sixty or, or...seventy. 764 01:09:39,504 --> 01:09:41,142 In your courts, 765 01:09:41,224 --> 01:09:45,183 how much time is spent in determining between right and wrong? 766 01:09:45,264 --> 01:09:49,700 Trials last weeks or months, at great cost to those involved. 767 01:09:49,783 --> 01:09:53,901 Doesn't that mean the poor have no recourse to the law? 768 01:09:53,983 --> 01:09:58,260 Well, the poor are too busy working to need justice. 769 01:09:58,342 --> 01:10:02,336 Do your lawyers ever plead cases which they know to be wrong? 770 01:10:02,423 --> 01:10:05,494 Of course! That's their job! 771 01:10:06,022 --> 01:10:08,980 It amuses you to mock our institutions? 772 01:10:09,062 --> 01:10:12,053 No, I was trying to defend them. 773 01:10:12,141 --> 01:10:15,895 Your taxes raised more than five or six million, 774 01:10:15,981 --> 01:10:18,370 yet the state spends double that! 775 01:10:18,461 --> 01:10:22,533 How can a kingdom spend more than it receives in taxes? 776 01:10:22,620 --> 01:10:27,489 Well, that's simple. We just borrow more from ourselves. 777 01:10:27,580 --> 01:10:31,049 Don't try to make fools of us. 778 01:10:31,139 --> 01:10:33,289 But it's the truth! 779 01:10:33,379 --> 01:10:35,495 - And your wars... - Our wars? 780 01:10:35,619 --> 01:10:38,371 Why are you always attacking people? 781 01:10:38,538 --> 01:10:42,008 Why leave your shores, unless to trade? 782 01:10:42,098 --> 01:10:46,807 Often we must defend ourselves by attacking before we're attacked, 783 01:10:46,897 --> 01:10:49,331 thus gaining the element of surprise. 784 01:10:49,417 --> 01:10:53,730 And this 'standing army' of yours - why is it standing? 785 01:10:53,818 --> 01:10:56,012 In the midst of peace, 786 01:10:56,097 --> 01:11:00,454 why do you need such a massive force of weapons and men? 787 01:11:00,977 --> 01:11:02,376 I... I... I don't... 788 01:11:02,457 --> 01:11:08,167 I began to crumble, to lose my way. I stuttered and hesitated... 789 01:11:08,376 --> 01:11:10,367 Really, I have heard enough. 790 01:11:10,456 --> 01:11:14,050 But I haven't finished yet. The whole purpose of... 791 01:11:14,135 --> 01:11:16,091 I said I've heard enough! 792 01:11:18,095 --> 01:11:20,892 The history of your country seems to consist 793 01:11:20,974 --> 01:11:24,523 of nothing more than a squalid string of conspiracies, 794 01:11:24,614 --> 01:11:27,890 rebellions, revolutions murders and massacres. 795 01:11:27,974 --> 01:11:32,171 Every judgement seems to be motivated by greed, by malice, 796 01:11:32,253 --> 01:11:36,166 hypocrisy, hatred, envy, lust and madness. 797 01:11:36,613 --> 01:11:38,603 Perhaps I explained badly. 798 01:11:38,692 --> 01:11:43,164 We shall examine you again next month. In the meantime... 799 01:11:43,253 --> 01:11:46,245 Next month?! What are you talking about? 800 01:11:46,333 --> 01:11:48,687 Haven't you heard a word I've said? 801 01:11:49,172 --> 01:11:52,369 You have proved that ignorance, idleness and vice 802 01:11:52,452 --> 01:11:54,886 are the only qualifications for public office, 803 01:11:54,971 --> 01:11:59,806 and that your laws are made by those who pervert them. 804 01:12:00,411 --> 01:12:05,120 I can only conclude that your people are the most pernicious race 805 01:12:05,210 --> 01:12:07,087 of odious little vermin 806 01:12:07,170 --> 01:12:11,925 that ever nature suffered to crawl upon the face of the Earth. 807 01:12:15,409 --> 01:12:16,922 Your Majesty. 808 01:12:22,328 --> 01:12:23,761 Stay with him, Mary. 809 01:12:23,848 --> 01:12:27,807 Let me talk to the doctors and plead for his release. 810 01:12:31,927 --> 01:12:33,919 Don't despair, Lemuel. 811 01:12:34,288 --> 01:12:35,767 A month! 812 01:12:35,848 --> 01:12:37,679 Don't lose hope! 813 01:12:38,007 --> 01:12:41,317 - Let me talk to you. - I don't belong here. 814 01:12:41,407 --> 01:12:43,921 I'm the laughing stock of the entire country. 815 01:12:44,007 --> 01:12:45,918 I think you're very clever. 816 01:12:49,446 --> 01:12:53,724 We could think of something that would impress the Queen. 817 01:12:53,806 --> 01:12:57,241 Perhaps if I juggle bananas with my feet, 818 01:12:57,325 --> 01:12:59,839 that would raise my social standing. 819 01:12:59,925 --> 01:13:02,598 You must know something they don't. 820 01:13:02,685 --> 01:13:05,039 I know hundreds of things they don't! 821 01:13:05,124 --> 01:13:10,039 They know nothing of music, of politics, of culture, or... 822 01:13:11,324 --> 01:13:13,075 Gunpowder? 823 01:13:19,243 --> 01:13:20,642 What is 'gunpowder'? 824 01:13:20,723 --> 01:13:23,680 Never mind that. Take this list of ingredients. 825 01:13:26,403 --> 01:13:29,951 Now - mix them in the quantities that I have described there. 826 01:13:32,562 --> 01:13:37,875 The harvest festival was the perfect chance to make a good impression. 827 01:13:38,002 --> 01:13:41,357 People from all over the kingdom would be coming. 828 01:13:41,481 --> 01:13:46,077 A normal explosion would hardly be noticed by these giants, 829 01:13:46,161 --> 01:13:50,472 so I multiplied the quantities of gunpowder tenfold. 830 01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:55,754 If we only make this amount, I doubt we shall even see it. 831 01:13:55,839 --> 01:13:58,034 We should increase these figures fivefold. 832 01:13:58,119 --> 01:14:00,314 Tenfold, at least. 833 01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:03,715 And then perhaps we'll have a proper demonstration. 834 01:14:25,837 --> 01:14:26,986 Baaa-aaaa! 835 01:14:32,196 --> 01:14:35,154 It's a quite extraordinary story. 836 01:14:35,316 --> 01:14:39,593 He insists he was a prisoner in a land of giants. 837 01:14:39,755 --> 01:14:44,510 Really? When he told me the story, he was the giant. 838 01:14:44,675 --> 01:14:48,747 And you just found him wandering about the streets? 839 01:14:48,834 --> 01:14:52,190 The lady brought him to my surgery. 840 01:14:52,354 --> 01:14:54,151 What is the patient's name? 841 01:14:54,234 --> 01:14:56,793 Just put 'Patient of Doctor Bates'. 842 01:14:56,873 --> 01:15:00,309 Don't you want to see the harvest parade? 843 01:15:00,393 --> 01:15:03,430 The noise will give me a headache. 844 01:15:03,593 --> 01:15:05,469 Pour for me, will you? 845 01:15:08,953 --> 01:15:12,991 - I wish you wouldn't drink so much. - Thank you for your concern. 846 01:15:14,072 --> 01:15:18,111 And I wish I didn't have to live in this monstrous place! 847 01:15:18,672 --> 01:15:21,390 Are you nervous about the bunpowder demonstration? 848 01:15:22,231 --> 01:15:24,461 Gunpowder, not bunpowder! 849 01:15:24,631 --> 01:15:27,270 And no, I'm not nervous, I'm fine. 850 01:15:27,431 --> 01:15:30,069 Please, Glum, leave me alone. 851 01:15:31,830 --> 01:15:34,424 'Why was I so horrible to her?' 852 01:15:34,510 --> 01:15:38,388 She had shown me only kindness and love. 853 01:15:38,469 --> 01:15:41,905 I was angry that no one would take me seriously. 854 01:15:41,989 --> 01:15:44,901 Still, things would be very different after the demonstration. 855 01:15:51,188 --> 01:15:53,497 Try this. 856 01:16:03,948 --> 01:16:05,744 Hello, shorty. 857 01:16:07,307 --> 01:16:08,979 Grildrig! 858 01:16:09,147 --> 01:16:12,661 With all the noise, no one could hear me shout. 859 01:16:12,746 --> 01:16:15,419 I ran to the centre of the table. 860 01:16:16,386 --> 01:16:18,536 That won't do you any good. 861 01:16:21,825 --> 01:16:25,135 I've been waiting a long time for this. 862 01:16:35,224 --> 01:16:38,977 As I lay there, bruised, I heard this sound 863 01:16:39,143 --> 01:16:43,739 and I looked up and saw Grildrig raise this... 864 01:17:00,782 --> 01:17:03,091 Where are you? 865 01:17:18,180 --> 01:17:20,057 No more, please... 866 01:17:20,140 --> 01:17:21,891 No more? 867 01:17:22,059 --> 01:17:23,890 No more? 868 01:17:24,059 --> 01:17:26,892 But the best is yet to come! 869 01:17:29,219 --> 01:17:31,652 - He... He... He... - What? What?! 870 01:17:31,738 --> 01:17:33,456 He pulled out this tin. 871 01:17:38,498 --> 01:17:43,174 Do you know what your head'll look like when a wasp stings you? 872 01:17:43,258 --> 01:17:49,253 It'll swell up, bloated with pus, until it's so big it'll just pop! 873 01:17:50,777 --> 01:17:53,450 Happy harvest day, squirt! 874 01:18:05,335 --> 01:18:08,327 They were all around me, one over there, 875 01:18:08,735 --> 01:18:11,568 two hovering around the food down there. 876 01:18:11,655 --> 01:18:14,043 Lemuel, there's nothing in here! 877 01:18:36,213 --> 01:18:38,965 Two left! Where are they? Where are they? 878 01:18:39,052 --> 01:18:41,407 Please! I'm frightened you'll hurt yourself. 879 01:18:49,891 --> 01:18:52,644 Fighting for my life. Sword against sting. 880 01:18:52,731 --> 01:18:54,722 Parry, thrust, parry, thrust. 881 01:18:56,770 --> 01:18:58,567 Can someone help? 882 01:18:58,650 --> 01:19:02,438 I was beaten back, right to the edge of the table! 883 01:19:21,168 --> 01:19:25,763 Oh, Mary! It was extraordinary. You have no idea how I felt. 884 01:19:25,888 --> 01:19:27,606 I was exhausted, but... 885 01:19:37,127 --> 01:19:38,719 Help us! 886 01:19:58,404 --> 01:20:00,998 I killed them! I killed them! 887 01:20:01,084 --> 01:20:03,439 Mary, please. He's having a fit. 888 01:20:03,524 --> 01:20:05,241 Don't let them hurt him. 889 01:20:05,323 --> 01:20:08,076 Why won't anyone believe me? 890 01:20:08,163 --> 01:20:11,121 I can prove I'm not making it up! 891 01:20:11,203 --> 01:20:13,762 Go back and find my medical bag... 892 01:20:13,842 --> 01:20:15,639 He doesn't know what he's saying. 893 01:20:15,722 --> 01:20:19,318 Bring me the bag! I can prove that everything happened. 894 01:20:19,403 --> 01:20:21,473 Mary, it's the truth! 895 01:20:21,563 --> 01:20:24,952 I'm afraid it's much worse than we thought. 896 01:20:25,042 --> 01:20:26,873 I know this is hard, 897 01:20:26,962 --> 01:20:30,749 but I think your very presence is making his condition worse. 898 01:20:30,841 --> 01:20:36,632 But I have to see him, I can't have got him back only to lose him again. 899 01:20:36,721 --> 01:20:37,995 It's the best thing. 900 01:20:38,081 --> 01:20:41,868 Stop it! You can't keep me here! 901 01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:45,350 I'm not mad! I can prove I'm not mad! 902 01:21:01,638 --> 01:21:06,757 - Are you sure you're all right? - Yes, of course. I'm fine. 903 01:21:10,998 --> 01:21:13,875 Proceed with the demonstration! 904 01:21:14,037 --> 01:21:18,030 Now witness the exciting power of this substance, 905 01:21:18,117 --> 01:21:22,507 created, I might add, by my 'odious' race 906 01:21:22,596 --> 01:21:26,145 and seemingly unknown to even your greatest minds! 907 01:21:26,396 --> 01:21:31,150 No need to cover your ears, it's just a small flash of light 908 01:21:31,235 --> 01:21:35,513 and an explosion the size of a log cracking on the fire. 909 01:22:20,111 --> 01:22:22,066 I know what you're thinking. 910 01:22:26,030 --> 01:22:28,544 Back in the cage. Hurry up, please. 911 01:22:29,630 --> 01:22:31,585 What are you doing in here? 912 01:22:33,669 --> 01:22:35,625 Nothing. 913 01:22:35,949 --> 01:22:39,179 You know you're not allowed in here! 914 01:22:39,668 --> 01:22:43,900 It's all right, Mary, let me talk to him. You're upset. 915 01:22:45,228 --> 01:22:48,742 - What were you doing in my study? - I wasn't doing anything. 916 01:22:48,827 --> 01:22:53,856 I have never taken my strap to you, but don't lie to me, or I will. 917 01:22:54,028 --> 01:22:57,178 You're not my father. You can't beat me. 918 01:22:57,587 --> 01:22:59,976 Thomas, I don't want to beat you. 919 01:23:00,107 --> 01:23:03,816 I know you were glad to see your father again. 920 01:23:03,907 --> 01:23:07,785 But he's a sick man. A violent and disturbed man. 921 01:23:07,866 --> 01:23:12,337 - Do you know how you can help him? - No. 922 01:23:12,426 --> 01:23:15,735 By forgetting everything he has told you. 923 01:23:15,905 --> 01:23:19,341 All those silly stories. All this nonsense. 924 01:23:19,425 --> 01:23:23,815 He came back for a day and now he's gone away again. 925 01:23:23,904 --> 01:23:28,978 We've got to know each other well and like each other, haven't we? 926 01:23:30,304 --> 01:23:32,214 Yes, we have. 927 01:23:32,303 --> 01:23:34,737 And soon I will be your father. 928 01:23:34,823 --> 01:23:37,291 And, unlike Lemuel, I will care for you properly. 929 01:23:37,383 --> 01:23:39,532 My father cares for me. 930 01:23:39,622 --> 01:23:44,743 If he cared so much for you, why didn't he come home all this time? 931 01:23:44,823 --> 01:23:49,452 Why did he leave your mother and you alone in poverty? 932 01:23:57,501 --> 01:24:01,414 'I asked Glumdalclitch to take me to the seaside, 933 01:24:01,501 --> 01:24:04,698 'where I would stare at the ocean for hours 934 01:24:04,781 --> 01:24:08,011 'and think of my home and everything I had lost. 935 01:24:08,100 --> 01:24:12,059 'I prayed for help, but no boat ever came past. 936 01:24:12,220 --> 01:24:14,779 'Never one.' 937 01:24:15,419 --> 01:24:19,537 You wouldn't leave without saying goodbye to me, would you? 938 01:24:19,619 --> 01:24:21,291 How can I leave? 939 01:24:21,379 --> 01:24:25,212 What will I do, flap my arms and fly away? 940 01:24:26,458 --> 01:24:29,655 I know you're very homesick. 941 01:24:29,738 --> 01:24:33,366 Oh, Glum, some day you'll meet someone your own size 942 01:24:33,457 --> 01:24:35,528 and you'll forget all about me. 943 01:24:35,618 --> 01:24:39,576 I won't. I'll never forget you. 944 01:24:42,377 --> 01:24:44,254 Don't cry. 945 01:24:44,937 --> 01:24:46,768 I'm not. 946 01:24:57,295 --> 01:25:01,493 What were you doing in Doctor Bates' surgery? 947 01:25:01,575 --> 01:25:02,769 I found the sheep. 948 01:25:02,855 --> 01:25:06,563 - What are you talking about? - The little sheep from Lilliput... 949 01:25:06,654 --> 01:25:11,409 There are no tiny things or giant things. They're just stories! 950 01:25:11,494 --> 01:25:12,813 But I saw it...! 951 01:25:12,894 --> 01:25:15,043 Go upstairs to your room! 952 01:25:16,013 --> 01:25:20,803 I'm...I'm cold. Put me back in my box, please. 953 01:25:44,491 --> 01:25:45,844 Glum? 954 01:25:48,090 --> 01:25:49,808 Be careful! 955 01:25:49,970 --> 01:25:52,768 Glum! You're hurting me! 956 01:26:06,848 --> 01:26:09,237 Mama! Mama! 957 01:26:12,328 --> 01:26:15,444 I told you to go to your room! 958 01:26:15,527 --> 01:26:17,722 But, Mama, look - look! 959 01:26:18,368 --> 01:26:20,563 Go to your room! 960 01:26:21,168 --> 01:26:26,764 Now! Not another word! And stay there till I tell you to come down. 961 01:26:26,887 --> 01:26:31,323 'I lost all sense of time as the bird flew on and on. 962 01:26:31,406 --> 01:26:35,365 'In my last moments I thought of my dear Glumdalclitch, 963 01:26:35,526 --> 01:26:38,279 'who would be blamed for my disappearance 964 01:26:38,366 --> 01:26:41,163 'and would lose her place at Court. 965 01:26:41,245 --> 01:26:44,840 'I felt myself falling with such incredible swiftness 966 01:26:44,925 --> 01:26:47,234 'that I almost lost my breath.' 967 01:26:48,165 --> 01:26:51,520 Did you look in his medical bag like he said? 968 01:26:51,604 --> 01:26:53,037 Completely empty. 969 01:26:53,124 --> 01:26:55,160 I don't know what to do. 970 01:26:55,244 --> 01:26:59,998 Leave everything to me, Mary. I'll take care of it all. 971 01:27:22,601 --> 01:27:26,799 'So this was it, then. My end, finally. 972 01:27:26,881 --> 01:27:30,669 'I tried to keep my spirits high, but I realised I would surely die. 973 01:27:30,761 --> 01:27:35,356 'I had no food or water, my box was sinking. No boats would pass. 974 01:27:35,440 --> 01:27:38,159 'I resigned myself to my...'