"(SEAGULLS CAWING)" "(PEOPLE SHOUTING)" "Help me." "No!" "Hold on." "Let go!" "Help!" "MAN:" "The boy." "Get the boy!" "Father!" "Give us a hand, son." "Hurry." "(SCREAMS)" "Hurry, son." "I can't hold them off much longer." "Father!" "(WHINING)" "(DOOR CLOSING)" "TOM:" "Just leave him at home." "ELIZABETH:" "I can't." "You know that." "I don't believe it." "Every time, every time it happens like this." "What do you want me to do?" "Put him out on the street?" "Can it, Ralph." "Look, he's my nephew." "He doesn't have anybody else." "I don't care." "I just don't want him to ruin our trip to Cancun." "Look, can't you send him off someplace?" "Send him off to..." "Yeah, that's right." "Where?" "You tell me where and I'll do it." "Look, do you think I like being saddled with an 11-year-old kid?" "Oh, why did Bill and Cathy have to die?" "(PLUMMETING)" "(THUDDING)" "(MAN GRUNTING)" "(MAN MUTTERING)" "(RALPH BARKING)" "(GRUNTING)" "(BARKING)" "Smoking bat's breath!" "Could've killed me." "When did they start building them this high?" "This isn't 1492." "Where's Columbus, kid?" "Where am I?" "(SNARLING)" "Ralph!" "He's got my book." "Ralph, let go!" "Keep your lousy fangs off of me." "Ralph, come on." "Ralph, give it up." "Let go!" "(JEFFREY SCREAMING)" "(PLUMMETING)" "(GRUNTS)" "Just once I'd like to land on a haystack." "A nice, soft, sweet-smelling haystack." "Are we alive?" "Alive?" "Oh, no." "Yeah, we're alive." "What year was that?" "I got to get you back." "What year?" "Year." "And don't tell me 1492." "I know for a fact they didn't have buildings like that in 1492." "They do in '82." "(LAUGHS)" "A joker." "Funny." "We'll try that again 'cause you're a nice kid." "What year?" "1982." "And I'd like to know where we are right now." "Son, I'm not a man known for being patient." "This here Omni's only got circuits to 1970." "The only way I can get you to '82 is if the lousy thing... (OMNI BEEPING)" "Bat's breath!" "It's losing it again in the automatic mode." "Bat's breath?" "Do you know how difficult it is to field strip one of these things?" "Where's my Guidebook?" "Got to be around here somewhere." "Well, help me, will you?" "Is it black?" "Yeah." "Now look." "Can't do a lousy thing without it." "About this big?" "Right." "Right." "You got it there?" "No." "Ralph does." "Ralph?" "My dog." "Dog." "You mean the big, furry thing with all the teeth." "Ralph." "In 1982?" "(BOGG MUTTERS)" "Do you know what you've done?" "History's going to change because you couldn't control your shaggy, little mutt." "Empires are going to fall." "Wars are going to rage." "I'm going to lose my job." "Your job?" "Who do you think you are?" "You break into my room." "You knock me out a window." "You bring me here, wherever I am." "You deserve to lose your lousy job!" "Yeah?" "Yeah!" "Smart kids give me a pain." "Hey, where are we going?" "(CHUCKLES) Where am I going?" "I'm going to salvage what's left of my job." "You're going to get lost." "I am lost." "(BABY GURGLING)" "Hey!" "Hey, what?" "Is this what you're looking for?" "JEFFREY:" "Well, is it?" "I don't know." "You don't know?" "If I had my Guidebook, I'd know." "Now, I've just got to guess." "(BEEPING) Check the old Omni." "Nope." "Not it." "Not what?" "Not right." "Well, if you'd tell me what's going on here, I might be able to help." "Who are you?" "What are you?" "What am I?" "I am a voyager." "You ever hear of one?" "Of course not." "No one has." "We're the people that are plucked out of time and trained to travel through the ages to help history along." "You know, give it a shove where it's needed." "Problem is, though, you see, there was this blonde in my class, real nice legs and she got a mole right here," "and this kind of mysterious way of talking." "Kind of distracted me, you know?" "Maybe you don't know." "Anyway, I figured I didn't have to pay attention." "The Guidebook tells you what you gotta do." "But your Guidebook..." "Was your fur coat's dinner." "So, here I am." "In Egypt, 1450 B.C." "And I haven't got the foggiest idea what I'm supposed to do." "(BABY GURGLES)" "You got an idea, kid?" "This is Egypt." "1450 B.C." "Maybe I'm supposed to feed him." "We traveled through time?" "Got some beef jerky here somewheres." "Moses!" "What?" "Hey, be careful with him, will you?" "He's Moses." "Moses?" "Moses was an old man with white whiskers." "Looks like Santa Claus with a part in the middle." "What are you doing?" "Putting him back in the water." "He'll drown." "(SHUSHING)" "Look." "Moses was found by the pharaoh's daughter, in the Nile." "(DINGS)" "That's it." "Green light." "How'd you know?" "My dad was a history professor." "Let me see." "Which one do you press to... (PEOPLE YELLING)" "(PLUMMETING)" "You little toad." "Don't you ever, ever touch this..." "Oh, no." "(EXCLAIMS)" "Hey, easy." "It's okay, kid." "They almost ran over us." "That ought to give you a pretty good idea why you'll never touch this Omni again." "What am I saying?" "Nice to know you, kid." "Sorry for any inconvenience, but I work alone." "Oh, no, you don't." "You got me into this, you're getting me out." "I got school tomorrow." "Can't take you back." "I don't even know where I am." "France, 1918." "The Revolutionary War." "First World War." "What?" "The First World War." "Right." "(HORSE NEIGHING)" "(GUN FIRING)" "Those the good guys?" "Yeah." "(YELLING)" "Hold it right there!" "That thing's dangerous." "Will you put that down before..." "We're the good guys." "Then get us out of here." "Help me with this jacket, will you?" "Where do you think you're going?" "To create a little diversion." "Motor Transportation 1A." "When you want it to go..." "Motor Transportation 1A." "The clutch." "Oh, the clutch." "Bat's breath." "Come on, we'd better get inside." "Think he'll come back?" "He better." "Who is he, anyway?" "My father." "Oh." "Motor Transportation 1A." "Wanna get off." "Jump!" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(OMNI BEEPING)" "So much for motorcycles." "(PEOPLE CHATTERING)" "(EXCLAIMING)" "Bat's breath!" "Will you stop it?" ""Bat's breath"?" "Is that you?" "No, it's General Eisenhower." "Eisenhower?" "Wrong war." "Don't they have light in here?" "Oh, yeah, we found some lamps." "(STAMMERING) Hey, I'm really sorry." "First I try to shoot you, and now this." "We didn't really hurt you or anything, did we?" "Hurt me?" "You two?" "No." "Okay." "Where'd you get the uniform?" "You don't want to know." "How is he?" "He's better." "He's still unconscious but your son here was able to stop the bleeding." "My what?" "It was a clean shoulder wound." "But his fever's coming down." "We were on our way to an entertainers' troupe on the front line when the zeppelins attacked." "There were bombs everywhere." "The corporal here took the only road out, but it put us behind enemy lines." "And here we are." "You know who this is?" "No, son, but I'm sure you'll introduce us." "This is Mary Murphy." "Mary Murphy, the actress?" "And this is my father." "Phineas Bogg." "Phineas?" "Phineas." "Now, it's obvious we've got to get these two back where they belong." "So why don't you stay and watch the corporal for a while, while I go out and look for a truck?" "I'll go with you." "Not in that, you won't." "Well, how about this?" "It's perfect." "So instead of stumping for war bonds at home," "I decided to come here and boost the boys' morale." "You sure boost mine." "I heard about your wife." "Wife?" "Jeffrey told me how she died." "Oh, Jeffrey." "You know, I think it's wonderful the way you're bringing him up on your own." "I really haven't done that much." "You're modest." "I love a modest man." "I'm very modest." "Do you ever think about coming to Hollywood?" "You know, you really remind me of Doug." "Doug?" "Yeah." "Fairbanks." "The swashbuckler." "Doug." "Listen, could we get back to the modesty part?" "Is that what we're looking for?" "Where?" "Over there." "Perfect." "Now if we can only get those two away from there..." "Kiss me." "No problem." "How could you do this to me?" "Do you know what this does to me?" "What are you doing?" "No!" "Don't touch me." "I hate you!" "I hate you!" "(CRYING)" "Eddie Rickenbacker?" "You're the Eddie Rickenbacker?" "Yeah, sure, I guess." "Corporal Eddie Rickenbacker." "Columbus, Ohio." "Well, what are you doing here?" "Kid, I was gonna ask you." "But you're the number one ace." "You should be up in the air dogfighting." "Dogfighting?" "I hate to tell you, but dogs don't fly." "The only thing that's up in the air these days is zeppelins, and the Jerries are taking us to the cleaners with them." "You mean we're losing the war?" "You better like sauerkraut." "But what about airplanes?" "You just go up in the air and shoot the zeppelins down." "Aeroplanes?" "Oh, kid, they can barely get those things off the ground." "That Bleriot guy who invented them keeps landing in the English Channel." "Bleriot?" "But what about the Wright brothers?" "Who?" "Uh-oh!" "Kid!" "Where you going?" "That was my fiancé." "It's so low, what he did to me." "He's terrible, he's awful, he's hideous." "Phineas!" "Bat's breath." "Halt!" "The truck." "Hey!" "(BOGG MUTTERING)" "What the heck?" "How does this thing..." "The clutch." "Clutch." "SOLDIER:" "Stop." "Stop the truck." "Of all the times." "I know what's wrong here." "What's wrong here is you." "Halt." "(GUNS FIRING)" "Did you see where Mary was when you came running around the side?" "Got to go back and get her." "There aren't any airplanes." "What?" "SOLDIER:" "Stop it." "Stop the truck." "Airplanes!" "That's what we have to change." "Without airplanes, the Germans are gonna win the war." "The Germans didn't win the war?" "(TIRES SCREECHING)" "Hang on, kid, look out." "SOLDIER:" "Capture them." "Catch them alive." "Someday, somewhere in time, I'm gonna..." "Look, can you set that Omni thing any place in time?" "You bet, and when I find the guy who invented this contraption..." "Look, forget the truck." "The corporal with Mary is Eddie Rickenbacker." "So?" "So he was the top US flying ace." "Problem is, there aren't any airplanes around to fly in." "He's never even heard of the Wright brothers." "Yeah, that makes two of us." "Wright brothers?" "Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 1903." "Kid, you better be right." "Hang on." "BOGG:" "Well, thanks for your trouble." "That's another one, kid." "Face it." "No one here has even heard of the Wright brothers." "Red light still blinking?" "(OMNI BEEPING)" "Like crazy." "That's because they're not here." "We got to go to Dayton." "Dayton?" "You foul up our escape, make me leave Mary in the middle of the First World War, dragging me halfway around the world to find a couple of guys who's not even here, and you expect me to take you to Dayton?" "That's where their bicycle shop is." "No, kid, this is it." "Time to part our ways." "You're in America, same century." "That may be the best I can do." "So why don't we just..." "Can it." "You're stuck with me until you put me back in my room where you got me." "Besides, you don't know anything about history." "You'll mess the whole thing up." "Yeah?" "And what's this father business, huh?" "I haven't met a girl like that in 300 years and you tell her you're my son?" "You know what that could do to my reputation?" "What about your own father?" "What would he say?" "My father's dead." "Yeah, and if he's anything like me, you probably did him in, too." "Just shut up!" "Hey, Jeff!" "I'm sorry." "Jeffrey!" "Come on, man." "(EXCLAIMS)" "Sorry, man." "No." "No, let me go!" "Let me go!" "Easy, Jeff." "No." "Hey, hey, easy." "No, no, no." "Easy, Jeffrey." "No." "Let me go." "(CRYING) Let me go, let me go." "(CRYING)" "It's gonna be okay, Jeff." "I'm sorry." "We were going camping up north." "I was in the camp reading some comics." "I don't know, Dad must've fallen asleep." "'Cause we ran off the road into some trees." "I was all right." "But Mom and Dad got real smashed up." "I tried to get them out." "But there was this fire." "I went up to the road, to try to get someone to help." "But no one would stop." "I couldn't get anyone to stop." "Don't blame yourself, kid." "Just get some rest." "(SIGHING)" "Dayton." "(HORN HONKING)" "(NEIGHING)" "Will you stop that?" "I can't help it." "They itch, they're hot." "They make me feel stupid." "It wasn't my idea to come to Dayton." "Well, this is it." "It certainly is." "Good afternoon." "Forget it, Bogg." "She's a blonde." "BOGG:" "Nice day." "AGNES:" "It certainly is." "Phineas Bogg." "Agnes Spence." "Come on, Romeo, I found us a job." "It's my nephew." "Oh!" "WILBUR:" "You had no business doing it." "ORVILLE:" "Well, I didn't think I'd have to ask your permission." "Of course not, because you knew what I'd say." "Good morning." "You gents looking for some help?" "Morning." "Just a minute." "She wanted me to ask her out." "You know that she's my girl, Orville." "Well, this hurts to say, Will." "But Agnes doesn't even like you." "Oh, that's news to me." "In fact, she thinks this whole flying idea of yours is crazy and childish." "Gentlemen, excuse me." "Just one minute, wait a second." "Flying is my idea?" "Who spent 10 days flying this box kite, huh?" "Who, huh?" "Huh?" "Who spent four sleepless nights designing these wings?" "Huh?" "Who worked for a solid month building this model?" "And you're calling me childish?" "Childish, childish." "Childish is working six months on a glider that won't fly in a crosswind." "Childish." "Childish is wanting to ride this thing off a big rock cliff." "Mature." "Mature is putting it away before someone gets hurt." "Agnes likes her men mature." "WILBUR:" "Mature." "Agnes likes her men mature, does she?" "Well, Wilbur, that's what she told me." "Well, maybe I've matured, too." "Hey, guys, I think this has gone far enough, really..." "Maybe I don't care too much about younger brothers, flying machines or bicycle shops." "Maybe I matured so much that I've had it with this whole kit and caboodle." "You know, I really don't think Agnes would want you two to be arguing like this." "Oh, you ain't got the maturity of a billy goat, Wilbur." "We're finished, you hear that?" "We're through." "We're through!" "Agnes?" "Well, kid, guess we got the job." "JEFFREY:" "And this whole thing's because of a girl?" "Because of a girl?" "Kid, wars have been fought over women." "Some day you'll understand." "But I really wouldn't blame Agnes." "This is a case of three people being confused about what they really want." "Agnes thinks she wants love, when all she really cares about is romance." "Orville and Wilbur think they want Agnes, when all they really care about is flying." "Think this will work?" "If I read them right." "They see this fly and Agnes is a memory." "How's it look?" "Terrific." "Let's hear the notes to the boys." "JEFFREY..." ""Dearest Wilbur, I have so many things to tell you." ""Orville means nothing to me." "Meet me at Big Rock..."" ""Dearest Orville, I have so many things to tell you." ""Wilbur means nothing to me." ""Meet me at Big Rock Creek, this morning at 10... 00."" "BOGG..." "Dearest Agnes, my heart stopped when I saw you outside the shop." "Forget the Wright brothers." "I'll be at Big Rock Creek this morning at 10... 00 waiting to prove my soaring love." "Yours forever, Phineas Bogg." "It's a long way down." "Uh-huh." "Think they'll come?" "They'll come." "Think it'll fly?" "As long as there isn't a crosswind." "Whoa." "(CLICKING TONGUE)" "Whoa." "Phineas!" "Phineas?" "(WIND HOWLING)" "JEFFREY:" "Too windy, Bogg." "Forget it, you can't fly in this." "BOGG:" "Can you see them?" "They're almost up to her." "Get that left side down." "Hold it down." "I can't, there's too much wind." "Where are they now?" "For you, darling." "Sorry my brother had to be so immature as to follow me." "Follow you?" "I think it's time we ended this once and for all." "Tell him, Agnes." "Tell him what?" "Tell him about the note you wrote me." "What note, Orville?" ""Meet me at Big Rock at 10:00." ""So that I can whisper the secrets of..."" ""...my love in your precious ear." ""All my love,"" "BOTH: "Agnes."" "Cat's out of the bag." "Got to go now." "You can't, Bogg." "Not in a crosswind." "Out of the way, boy." "It's suicide." "I'm a voyager, kid." "Sometimes you've gotta bite the bullet." "No!" "Bogg, don't!" "No!" "Come on, move it, horse." "Let's go!" "(PROMPTING HORSES)" "I don't know what to say, Wilbur, Orville." "This is not my handwriting." "Well, then who in tarnation..." "Phineas!" ""Waiting to prove my soaring love."" "Our glider!" "Will, it's our glider!" "And it's flying." "AGNES:" "Phineas!" "(ALL LAUGHING)" "It's flying." "Look, look." "Straighten out." "Be careful." "(LAUGHING)" "WILBUR:" "Keep your weight down." "AGNES:" "Be careful, Phineas." "Weight back." "Who the heck is it?" "Some darn fool." "Weight back, weight back." "Doesn't this thing ever come down?" "Phineas!" "I had to ask." "Bogg!" "He's going down!" "Bat's breath!" "JEFFREY:" "Bogg!" "Bogg!" "No, no, Bogg, you can't die." "(GRUNTS)" "Bogg?" "Easy, kid, will you?" "Do you always treat your friends like that?" "But I saw you crash!" "I thought..." "Yeah, I know." "I know." "I'm glad to see you, too." "Do you mind?" "Oh, sorry." "Phineas!" "Phineas!" "Oh, Phineas!" "Your soaring love, it was wonderful." "Oh, look at you." "Are you all right?" "A little worse for wear, darling." "But now I know more than ever that I want to marry you." "Marry me?" "Yes." "Ever since the first day I saw you, I knew we'd grow old together." "You and me and our 10 children." "Ten children?" "Why don't you wait for me in the buggy?" "I'll be right there." "Wilbur, Orville." "Doggone, that was beautiful." "Wilbur and Orville Wright." "Jeffrey Jones, Phineas Bogg." "Howdy." "You know, the problem you had up there was lift." "I was thinking, maybe if we made the elevators a little bit bigger." "Mount the first forward, see?" "We need to put a man inside, not hanging." "And then we can double up the rudders and stack the wings for more lift." "We'll need a long run, steady wind." "You know, Will, there's this place in North Carolina," "Kitty Hawk." "Kitty Hawk, yeah." "(DINGS) Green light, kid." "But we can't leave now, not yet." "Got to." "But they're going to invent the airplane." "We can be there, we could help." "We've helped enough already." "Look, I know it's hard." "I've been there, too." "But whenever you feel this way, you got to think of all the interesting people in front of you, who really need your help." "Heck, we're voyagers, kid." "We got responsibilities." "Besides, don't you wanna see what all this has done?" "Yeah." "Phineas." "You know, I've really been thinking." "It's about those 10 children." "I really think that I'm just too young to have 10 children." "Phineas?" "(PLUMMETING)" "A haystack!" "Green light?" "(BEEPING)" "Still red." "Now where are your planes, kid?" "We put Orville and Wilbur back on the right track." "They got to be around here somewhere." "I suppose red could mean that something else is wrong." "Oh, we'll find out soon enough." "Run, kid!" "Right behind you." "Terrific, wonderful." "We get airplanes into the war so they can blow us to bits." "Who was that guy?" "It was red." "Richthofen." "Richthofen?" "The guy with Mary?" "Rickenbacker." "Richthofen is the Red Baron." "Hey, is that Eddie?" "Mary." "We got to get them out of there." "Eddie, Mary!" "Who are you?" "Jeffrey Jones." "That was another war, kid." "I'm Phineas Bogg." "This is Jeff, my son." "We're here to help you." "You okay?" "That arm looks pretty bad." "EDDIE:" "I'm alive." "Which is more than I can say for the guys in the escort plane." "MARY:" "We were on our way to an entertainment troupe on the front lines when the Baron shot us down." "Hit the deck!" "Why didn't he fire?" "He wants me." "Top German meets top American." "But you can't go up in one of those." "Not in the two-seater." "He'll cream you." "It's all right, kid." "He's not going to." "Take off your jacket and scarf." "At this distance, he'll never know the difference." "Forget about it, pal." "You're in no shape to take him on." "Not in one of those." "Fly Mary out of here." "We'll take care of the Baron." "It's worth a shot." "You know how to fly one of these things?" "Did Marie Antoinette have great legs?" "If you go first, will he wait for me?" "Yeah, Baron doesn't shoot an unarmed plane." "His code of honor." "He'll never attack." "Good luck, pal." "Well, I don't know who you guys are, but thanks a million." "You know, I get the strangest feeling that we've met somewhere before." "Maybe in another war." "Listen, If you're ever in Hollywood..." "What about Doug?" "Who's Doug?" "Good luck." "Hey, why'd you lie to him?" "You can't fly one of these things." "I didn't lie." "I never lie." "Marie Antoinette had terrible legs." "Climb down, kid." "I'm doing this solo." "Oh, no, you don't." "You go down, I go down." "Forget it." "Who's gonna shoot the gun?" "No discussion." "That's it." "Get down." "Hey, where is the clutch?" "The thing doesn't have a clutch." "Smart kids give me a pain." "JEFFREY:" "Hold on, here we go." "Remember the Maine." "Remember the what?" "The stick." "The stick?" "What about the trees?" "The stick!" "Pull up on the stick." "Oh, that stick." "We're flying!" "(GUN FIRING)" "He's right behind you." "Get him off your tail." "Pull up." "JEFFREY:" "That's it, we lost him." "We lost him." "JEFFREY:" "Put the nose down." "We're gonna stall." "We're gonna what?" "Pull up!" "Pull up!" "I can't." "JEFFREY:" "Then push down." "Where is he now?" "He's right on our tail." "Shoot him." "Shoot him." "I am." "Try to hit him." "JEFFREY:" "He's coming right at us!" "I got him." "I got him!" "We got him!" "That's it." "Green light, kid." "We did it." "We did it." "(ENGINE SPUTTERING)" "We're going to go down, kid." "Hold on, kid." "Hold on." "This will hopefully help me now." "(EXPLOSION)" "We're alive." "Yeah, we made it." "And Eddie and Mary?" "BOGG:" "Green light, kid." "All the way." "You liked her, didn't you?" "Me?" "No." "What makes you say that?" "I don't know." "It's just the way you looked at her." "Sort of mushy." "Not like Agnes." "Yeah, well, forget the way I looked at her." "We're voyagers, kid." "We have no time for romance." "Right, voyagers." "No romance." "Time is our oyster." "Oyster, right." "Quarter to no man." "No man." "And we can do anything, change anything, be anything." "Voyagers." "Voyagers." "(CANNON BOOMING)" "You hear that?" "Sounded like a cannon." "Where are we?" "England. 1066, Pearl Harbor." "That's it." "That's what's wrong." "They didn't have cannons in 1066." "Battle of Hastings." "Battle of what?" "BOGG:" "Oh, no." "Bat's breath." "Not again." "JEFFREY..." "If you want to learn more about the Wright brothers," "Eddie Rickenbacker and the early days of flying, take a voyage to your nearest public library." "It's all in books!" "JEFFREY:" "We got to jump, Harriet." "I'd jump in a fire if I had to." "Stop!" "(BARKING)" "What's going on here?" "This here is my slave." "I own her." "Harriet Tubman." "(ROARS)" "I'd like to see them fight as a pair." "(GRUNTING)" "Kill me, Spartacus." "Give the Romans what they want." "(YELLING)" "BOGG..." "We travel through time to help history along, give it a push where it's needed." "Bogg!" "BOGG..." "When the Omni's red, it means history's wrong." "Our job's to get everything back on track." "(OMNI DINGS)" "Green light, kid!" "We did it!" "(MEN GRUNTING)" "What's he doing with a net?" "Spartacus will use the net to trip his opponent." "You were right, Bitiatus, he is the best gladiator in Capua." "(PLUMMETING)" "Noble fight, my friend." "(GRUNTING)" "I gotta be doing something wrong." "Bogg." "I know." "I know." "It's gonna be another one of those days." "(PEOPLE APPLAUDING) CICERO:" "Bravo!" "Wonderful, Bitiatus." "Simply marvelous." "Yes, it is indeed." "I'm glad Your Excellency is pleased." "Pleased?" "I'm amazed." "It's the first time I've ever seen men fly through the air like that." "It's the first time for me, too." "I think they mean us." "Where are we, Bogg?" "(BEEPING)" "How does the south of Italy, 73 B.C. Grab you?" "That explains the gladiators." "You got any idea what's wrong?" "It's flashing red." "I don't know." "I'm not too great with this part of history." "CICERO:" "They came out of nowhere." "How did you pull off such a feat?" "Well, surely, Your Greatness," "I would not pretend to be more clever than you." "I'm sure you see right through my little trick." "A large catapult?" "Oh, Cicero, if only more members of the Senate shared your brilliance." "And your inventiveness." "It's no wonder you are the greatest gladiator trainer in the Republic." "Now, who are these human projectiles?" "What are their names?" "They're new, Your Grace." "In fact, they just arrived." "Names, slaves!" "I'm Bogg." "This is Jeffrey." "Hi." "Jeffrey and Bogg are strange names for slaves." "Not to mention their attire." "Strange names for anyone, sire." "They must have been captured from one of the outer provinces." "The small one is cute, isn't he, Aunt Octavia?" "OCTAVIA:" "Yes, he is." "Very cute." "I'd like to see them fight as a pair." "Against that gladiator we saw this morning." "Tomeris." "Yes." "And I'd like to see them fight to the death." "To the death?" "Think, kid." "I'd kind of like to know what we're supposed to be doing here before I get myself killed." "I'm thinking, I'm thinking." "Come on." "No talking, slaves." "All right." "Take it easy, guys." "Cicero, Your Magnificence, Your Eminence," "I love a bloody fight to the end as much as anyone, but we're but a humble school whose purpose is for the training of gladiators for sale." "And if I may be so bold as to say, a dead gladiator is not worth the ground he's buried in." "Unless you want to buy the loser." "I don't buy losers." "All right, not to the death, and I will buy the winner." "A most wise decision, My Lord." "And of course, I want to buy Spartacus." "Bogg, it's Spartacus." "What?" "Spartacus led the first slave revolt in history." "He led it from Capua in 73 B.C." "I knew you'd come through." "I want him shipped out to Rome immediately." "You will be the finest gladiator in my stable." "I'm no animal for your stable." "Seize him." "Well, he has a most rebellious spirit." "Well, I'll break him of that, or else he'll become meat for my lions." "Bogg, once a gladiator goes to Rome, he never comes back." "And the revolt was led from here." "So, we go to Rome and make sure he comes back." "That means we have to win this fight." "Don't worry, kid." "It's in the bag." "Here are your weapons." "You expect us to fight with these?" "(LAUGHING)" "At least give us some shields." "The Romans had a great sense of humor." "(ROARING)" "Bogg, this is it." "Don't try anything heroic." "That can't be human." "(ROARING)" "David beat Goliath." "I was there, kid, it was a lucky shot." "Stay away from him, let me handle this." "Come on, Bogg." "Look at him." "You can't beat him by yourself." "You know, kid, you might be right." "Easy, big fellow." "Come on, easy now." "Watch it, Bogg!" "JEFFREY:" "Look out!" "JEFFREY:" "Bogg, duck!" "Stay away from him." "The guy's an animal." "Bogg, look!" "Bogg, over here!" "Now, Bogg!" "Now!" "We did it." "I told you we would." "(LAUGHING)" "The bigger they are, the harder they fall." "Yeah." "The big ape." "Now, it's off to Rome..." "See, I'm afraid of heights." "You big ape!" "I think you get down." "(ALL APPLAUDING) Bogg, are you hurt?" "Nothing a week with Florence Nightingale wouldn't cure." "Wonderful fight." "Have Tomeris sent to me in Rome immediately." "Certainly." "Well, we tried." "Yeah, but now we don't go to Rome." "Please, Father, will you buy the boy?" "You promised me that you would buy me my very own slave for my birthday." "But that's not for six months, dear." "Go ahead, buy him." "And buy his friend, too." "I have a feeling his good looks will attract the women of Rome to the arena." "Oh, please, Father." "It would be fun to see the three of them fight again." "All right, I'll buy them all." "Thank you, Father." "BITIATUS:" "Guards, have all three of them sent to Rome." "I'm going to love having him feed me grapes." "Yes, and I'm sure his friend might prove useful also." "It seems as though your sister has taken a fancy to your new slave." "Yes, this has happened before." "Funny, they always seem to be among the first to die in the arena." "See, I told you it would be much more fun having me as your friend instead of your slave." "Until now, I've never had a friend, only slaves." "Well, now you have a friend, and I'll do things for you because I want to make you happy, not because I have to." "That makes it nicer." "Okay, what'll it be?" "Your wish is my command." "I want to be able to do something for you." "To make you happy." "Really?" "Well, there is one thing that would really help me out." "But it's a pretty big favor to ask." "You're my friend." "No favor is too big." "(WATER DRIPPING)" "SPARTACUS:" "I've got to go back to Capua." "BOGG:" "I know." "You know?" "Sure, I mean, Capua was a whole lot better than this place." "Capua is a terrible place." "Men and women trained to be animals." "And all for the pleasure of the Romans." "It made me sick." "Slavery has gone on a long time." "Maybe it's time somebody did something about it." "I did do something." "I was beginning to unite the other gladiators." "I thought maybe we could form an army." "Attempt a revolt." "At Capua, the gladiators outnumber the guards." "We would have had a good chance." "You still have a chance." "Not in Rome." "Here we are outnumbered." "For me it's just a dream." "Maybe someday someone else can lead it." "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)" "Hey, kid, where'd you get the fancy clothes?" "Never mind that." "We're getting out of here." "Who's this?" "Don't worry, he's one of us." "Where'd you get the key?" "Calpurnia's gonna show us a way out of the house." "What about the guards?" "Don't worry about the others." "We slipped them mickeys." "What's a mickey?" "Come on." "Thanks a lot." "I hope this won't get you into a lot of trouble." "Don't worry, I can handle my father." "(WHISTLE BLOWING)" "Come on." "I'll come back someday." "I promise." "GUARD:" "The gladiators have escaped!" "Get them!" "(WHISTLE BLOWING)" "What's the trouble?" "Spartacus and the other two new slaves have escaped." "I want Spartacus back alive." "The others, I don't care." "Yes, my Lord." "(WHISTLE BLOWING)" "I have a feeling this isn't going to be easy." "I think you're right." "I have orders to spare your life, Spartacus." "You die another day in the arena." "I'd like to take you with me." "What about us?" "You?" "You and your friend aren't so lucky." "Take them both out and make an example out of them." "BOGG:" "Come on, kid." "I'm right behind you." "They're running toward the market." "BOGG:" "Get that torch, kid." "Throw it in the oil." "JEFFREY:" "What is that stuff?" "Olive oil burns great, huh?" "That should stop them." "Yeah." "There they are!" "There's no way out, kid." "So hit it, Bogg." "Hit the Omni." "(BEEPING)" "(PLUMMETING)" "(BEEPING)" "Missouri, 1847." "America." "It's nice to be home." "All countries are the same to me." "All have excitement." "All have women." "All have problems." "(DOGS BARKING)" "Bogg, look!" "Let's do something before they catch up to her and tear her apart." "It's okay!" "Come on down!" "Really, we have the dogs." "Don't worry." "They won't hurt you." "Harriet, you come down here, right now." "Andrew, Junior, get her down from there." "Get away from her." "What do you think you're doing, boy?" "What's going on here?" "Now, what's it look like?" "She's a runaway." "BOGG:" "A runaway what?" "Slave." "Slave?" "But I thought this was America." "It is." "Where it's legal to own slaves." "Leastwise in this state." "Now this here is my slave." "I own her." "I won her in a poker game." "Harriet Tubman." "Bogg, she was never in Missouri." "Well, she is now." "You." "Better let go of her if you know what's good for you." "Stealing a slave is a hanging offense." "Bogg, we can't let them take her." "Well, there's not much we can do." "I'm sorry." "Those two must be abolitionists." "You see the clothes that young feller's wearing?" "You talk about strange." "Yeah." "You ain't kidding." "Bogg, we have to help her." "Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave who worked on the Underground Railroads." "She helped to free hundreds of other slaves." "All right." "All right, but we have to do it fast." "We've got to get back to Spartacus." "Okay." "Let's find out where they're keeping her and break her out." "No, forget it." "I got a better idea." "This is the dumbest idea you've ever had." "There's nothing dumb about winning enough money to get Harriet's freedom back." "There is when you don't know the first thing about playing cards." "Hey, you know, I was a voyager long before I met you." "I was playing cards when they were still made out of rocks." "Must've been tough to shuffle." "Come on, Bogg, I still say we break her out tonight and I can't do it alone." "It's no use." "Look what happened when we tried to break Spartacus out." "We're out numbered." "My way is fast, easy, and painless." "Okay." "Go ahead." "Chicken out." "Are you calling me chicken?" "If the feathers fit." "Okay, that's it." "I'm going on that boat, and I'm gonna win Harriet's freedom back." "If you don't like it, you're on your own." "Bogg." "Smart grownups give me a pain." "BOY:" "Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten..." "JEFFREY:" "What are you doing?" "Counting the herd." "Herd of what?" "Herd of frogs." "I had sixteen head yesterday." "I think one escaped in the night." "What do you do with them?" "Jump them." "See which one can jump the furthest." "I've won six straight contests." "My name's Jeffrey." "Mine's Sam." "You come on in on the riverboat with your folks?" "No." "I don't have any parents." "(FROG CROAKING)" "Oh, yeah." "I lost a pap a while back." "You're not alone, are you?" "Oh, no." "I'm here with a friend." "At least I was." "Boy, grownups can really be jerks." "Yeah." "I don't have much use for them myself." "You and your friend get in a fight?" "Yeah." "We saw a runaway slave get captured this morning." "I want to go back and help her escape again." "But my friend won't help me." "He says it's a bad idea." "Well, I have to go along with your friend there." "Ain't right to help a slave escape." "Well, you think slavery is right?" "Well, preachers don't say it's wrong, teachers don't neither." "Even the government says it's all right." "Well, you wouldn't want to be a slave, would you?" "Well, heck, no!" "Well, then why do you think it's right for anyone else to be one?" "I don't know." "It's just..." "I've seen colored folk as slaves all my life." "I just kind of got used to it." "It just seems natural." "Well, it's not natural, it's wrong." "One day everyone's gonna see that, and it's gonna be illegal in every state." "Well, I still don't know if slavery's right or wrong." "But like my ma always says," "I'm not one to put down a chance to get into trouble." "So if you're gonna break that slave out tonight, well, I'll help you." "How much have I made so far?" "Fifteen thousand on this trip." "Oh, yeah, and the slave." "What can I do for you?" "Well, sir, I'm here to play cards." "Well, I'm expecting a few more players in a while." "You're welcome to join us." "I don't want any others." "I want you." "Well, what's your stake?" "What is it, Sandy?" "Looks like a Spanish doubloon." "But it can't be." "It would be 300 years old." "It's real." "What do you do, polish this thing every day?" "It looks brand new." "How much is it worth?" "About..." "Two hundred, I guess." "Well, I'm sorry, sir, you see, two hundred ain't much of a stake." "I play for a $5,000 minimum." "Two hundred will barely last you for the first deal." "That's if I lose." "I'm not going to lose." "Well, I do like a man with confidence." "Change it, Sandy." "All right." "Five card draw." "Jacks to open." "Five card what?" "Draw." "Phineas Frog?" "Phineas Bogg." "SAM:" "Well, do you think he has a chance?" "What are you gonna do?" "Two no trump." "Does that answer your question?" "(KNOCKING ON WINDOW)" "Could you excuse me for a minute?" "Oh, yeah, sure, but your cards, they stay." "Of course." "Yeah." "What do you want?" "I'm busy." "You're not supposed to be playing bridge." "You're supposed to be playing poker." "Poker?" "What's that?" "I thought you said you were a card expert." "Yeah, cards, not poker." "But poker is cards." "You know, three of a kind, straight flush, full house." "Snibbitz!" "Snibbitz." "I played that game in Hungary, learned it from the Gypsies." "Bogg, give it up." "Harriet's on board ship, we can break her out." "Are you kidding?" "Now that I know what game we're playing, it's a cinch." "Last time I played Snibbitz I won 12 goats." "See you later." "Bogg, wait!" "I know it doesn't look like it, but he usually knows what he's doing." "You're right." "It doesn't look like it." "I just guess we're gonna have to do this ourselves." "Come on." "That must be Harriet's cabin." "We gotta get that guy away from the door." "Come on, I have an idea." "What a jumper!" "Here, froggy." "Come here, froggy." "Here... (CRASHING)" "(CROAKING)" "I knew he couldn't resist Algebra." "He's the best jumper in the state." "Come on." "Let's go get the keys to the cabin." "JEFFREY:" "Harriet." "What are you..." "There's no time to explain." "We're going to help you escape." "But you boys are going to get into a lot of trouble." "Let us handle that." "Come on." "Hey!" "You hold it right there." "Hold it!" "Stop!" "Hey!" "JEFFREY:" "We got to jump, Harriet." "I'd jump in a fire if I had to." "You boys best bring her back here." "JEFFREY:" "Quick, grab a pole." "Let's get out of here." "MAN:" "You don't bring her back here, you boys are in big trouble." "Come on." "Pole, pole!" "I'm poling, I'm poling." "Well, now, don't look so down, Mr. Bogg, you did win a few hands." "It's been a very pleasant evening." "I'm going to make a comeback." "You have to keep playing." "Oh, no, I don't." "Excuse me, Mr. Bastaine." "Yes?" "Sir, your slave has escaped." "Oh, not again." "There's a posse chasing her down right now." "She won't get far." "That slave is more trouble than she's worth." "I wish I'd won me a horse." "Yes, sir." "Well, I ain't gonna lose any sleep over no good-for-nothing slave girl." "You tell that sheriff he's got my permission to hang her." "Wait a minute." "You can't do that!" "Oh, sure I can." "I own her." "Okay, if you feel that way, why not play me a game of cards for her?" "Listen, I won that woman from her former master when he used her to cover my $500 raise and I figure that's what she's worth to me." "And it looks like you got what, less than $20 there." "$20 and this." "What in the world is this?" "BOGG:" "A very rare pocket watch." "I guarantee you'll never see another like it." "What's that red light?" "Aren't those Swiss watchmakers amazing?" "I don't know, Mr. Bastaine, but there's no telling what this thing is worth." "I mean, it's one of a kind." "Well, I figure it's worth about as much as that pain in the neck slave girl that I'm just gonna hang anyway." "So I tell you what, Mr. Bogg." "One hand of showdown, your watch against my slave girl now." "Five cards face up," "(BEEPING)" "Best hand wins." "I still don't see why we didn't stay on the raft." "The only way that raft can go is downriver." "And downriver is south." "And that gets us deeper in slave territory." "I got a place up the road that we can stay for the night." "We can't stop now." "We got to keep going." "She's right." "The only way we can get Harriet to freedom is on foot." "But I ain't going deeper in those woods at night." "Crazy Indian out there, who picks up people and eats them alive." "There's worse things than man-eating Indians." "The Indian is only half of it." "There're snakes and quicksand." "It's dangerous enough by daylight." "Nighttime is suicide." "I should've known." "Queens have always given me trouble." "(WOLF HOWLING)" "What's that?" "Could be Indians." "Maybe even pirates." "You have some imagination." "(WOLF HOWLING)" "I hope." "(SHUSHING)" "When you're on the run, every sound makes your skin crawl." "How many times you been on the run?" "Lots." "I'm trying to get back to Maryland." "Join a thing called the Underground Railroad to help slaves like me get to the North." "Heck, you don't need no railroad." "We'll get you your freedom." "I'm not going to the railroad to be free." "I'm going to work to help other slaves win their freedom." "Slavery..." "It's the worst thing one human being can put on another." "I won't rest until there's no such thing as slaves." "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)" "I hear footsteps." "It's Indian Joe!" "No, son, it's the law." "Bat's breath!" "Well, not shaping up too well for you, Mr. Bogg." "Yeah, well, I still have another card coming, so why don't you just deal it?" "SAM:" "My ma was right, I'm headed for an early grave." "HARRIET:" "I'm sorry, boys, I really am." "I never thought that anybody but me would have to sacrifice for my freedom." "If I had to, Harriet, I'd do it all over again." "Yeah, me, too." "Well, heck, there's something extravagant about being hung at the age of 12." "Well, good work, Sheriff." "Well, what do you want to do with them, Mr. Bastaine?" "Hang them?" "BOGG:" "Nobody's going to be hung." "Bogg!" "You're friends with these two boys, aren't you?" "That's right." "So maybe you had something to do with this little escape." "Most definitely." "Okay." "Take him, too, boys." "Except for one thing." "She's not a slave." "JEFFREY:" "What?" "What are you talking about?" "She's a free woman." "He's right, Sheriff." "He won her from me a couple of hours ago in a game." "That fool woke up the Justice of the Peace just to sign her freedom papers." "Let them go, all of them." "But, Sheriff..." "Let them go." "The law's the law." "You can't hold a free person if they haven't broken the law." "Bogg, you did it!" "Yeah." "Pulled a full house of three ladies." "Praise the Lord." "Bogg, I'm really sorry I doubted you." "I should have known all along you could do it." "Jeffrey, you are as stubborn as a mule." "You had to go out there and do it your own way, no matter what anybody says or how it might turn out, just because you thought it was right." "I like that." "You act like a real voyager." "(SHIP HORN BLOWING)" "HARRIET:" "Well, I want to thank you for my boat ticket and my new dress." "But I feel bad you spent all your money on it." "That's okay, we don't need money where we're going." "So, how does it feel to finally be free?" "I've always felt free in my heart, and I always will, but I'm still a slave." "No, you're not, I won you fair and square." "Now, you all have been wonderful to me, and I appreciate everything you've done, but that gambler wasn't my master or the man before him." "I ran away from my real master in Maryland, and he still owns me." "So you're still a runaway." "And these are useless." "No, no." "Not to me they're not." "With these at least people will think I'm free." "And I can get back to Maryland and help people gain their true freedom." "(SHIP HORN BLOWING)" "Boat's leaving." "Bye, everybody." "I'll never forget what you done." "Bye!" "You're gonna make it, Harriet, I know you will." "She's gonna be a great woman." "She already is." "WOMAN:" "Sam?" "Sam Clemens?" "It's my mother." "She's gonna kill me." "You better get back this minute!" "I haven't been home since yesterday." "And I left a catfish in the washtub." "See you later, fellows." "Sam Clemens!" "Somebody special?" "Only my favorite writer in the whole world, Mark Twain." "You know, Huckleberry Finn?" "Huckleberry who?" "You know, Huck and Tom Sawyer." "They take this runaway slave down the river on a raft and..." "Hey, wait a minute." "Green light." "Time to get back to Rome." "Spartacus needs us." "But, Bogg, that's just what we did..." "Say goodbye to Hannibal." "Goodbye." "(PLUMMETING)" "Bogg?" "(EXCLAIMS)" "I hope I didn't wake you." "You big hunk of slave." "How did you know I was dreaming about you?" "Bogg!" "Not now, kid." "Now, Bogg!" "So the runaway has returned to entertain my sister." "And in another strange costume." "I can explain, really." "Take him!" "You, I will spare." "Because I do not wish to break my little girl's heart." "For some unknown reason she has an attachment for you." "But for your friend," "I'm giving him the opportunity to entertain all of Rome." "In the arena?" "Of course." "A fight to the death with our greatest gladiator." "I can't make up my mind who I'd rather see die." "You or Spartacus." "CICERO:" "Your slave did attract the people of Rome to the arena." "SPARTACUS:" "When I heard you two had escaped, I was filled with hope." "I thought for certain I'd hear that a slave revolt had taken place in Capua." "BOGG:" "It's still gonna happen, and you're gonna lead it." "My friend, you don't understand." "We fight each other today in the arena." "It's a fight to the death." "One of us must die." "It won't come to that." "I promise." "If the Romans suspect we're not fighting with all our strength, they'll have us crucified." "Believe me." "It's easier to die by the sword." "No, Jeffrey, absolutely not!" "But I told you, Calpurnia, you're our only chance." "I helped you escape once, and if guards had caught you, I would have lost you forever." "But I told you I'd come back, and I did." "Besides, we're talking about the lives of two people." "We can't let them die in the arena." "If I help your friends escape, do you promise to stay here with me?" "I can't promise you that." "Besides, a good friend doesn't do favors with strings attached." "It's hard being a good friend." "It's even harder leaving one." "(CROWD CHEERING)" "When are the gladiators coming out?" "CICERO:" "Bring them." "(CROWD CHEERING)" "This is unbelievable." "What a turnout!" "The Romans enjoy their spectacles." "Today they want to see blood." "We who are about to die, salute you." "Let it begin." "It's time to do battle." "Just make it look good for a while." "I'm gonna get you out of this." "Fight!" "Fight!" "Fight!" "Get up, you must fight." "Fight!" "Fight!" "Your gladiator, Bogg, doesn't seem to be fighting." "Oh, he will." "He will." "CICERO:" "How about a small wager?" "OCTAVIA:" "As you wish." "Get up!" "Fight!" "See?" "I told you he would fight." "But that doesn't mean he will win." "Just take it easy, will you?" "The Romans want a real fight." "If they don't get it, they'll kill us both." "Come on, kid, where are you?" "JEFFREY:" "Be careful, I don't want you getting hurt because of me." "Don't worry about me." "Oh, Jeffrey, I'm going to miss you." "Hey, I'm going to miss you, too." "But be realistic." "The lives of two little people don't add up to a hill of beans in this crazy republic." "I'll never forget you, Jeffrey." "Never." "(CROWD CHEERING)" "Oh, fight, Bogg." "Fight!" "Your slave fights well." "Good day." "Good day." "My slave would like to stand in my father's chariot." "GUARD:" "Sorry." "No one's allowed on the Senator's chariot." "But my father said I can and I..." "Hey, get away from there." "JEFFREY:" "Here's looking at you, kid." "(YELLING)" "CICERO:" "They seem to be tiring." "It won't be long now." "Kill me, my friend." "End a slave's pain." "No." "Do it now." "I'll make it look like you won valiantly." "No!" "Kill me, Spartacus." "Give the Romans what they want." "Always be their slave." "(CROWD BOOING)" "Sorry, Romans." "You'll see no one die in the arena today." "Take them!" "And hang them both from the same cross!" "(YELLING)" "JEFFREY:" "Grab on!" "Grab on!" "BOGG:" "It's about time, kid." "What took you so long?" "Are you kidding?" "Do you know how hard these things are to drive?" "JEFFREY:" "Goodbye, Calpurnia." "Goodbye, Jeffrey." "I don't understand why you two can't come along." "You could help me lead the revolt." "Slaves only need one leader, Spartacus." "Someone they'll trust and follow." "That's you." "I'll do my best." "Goodbye, my friend." "How does it turn out, kid?" "Is the slave revolt a success?" "Not exactly." "Spartacus and his followers fought bravely, but the Roman army was just too strong for them and they were defeated." "The toughest part of the job." "Every story in history doesn't have a happy ending." "I guess we went to a lot of trouble for nothing." "Nothing?" "Spartacus didn't die for nothing, Bogg." "He inspired slaves everywhere to try to be free." "Slaves like Harriet Tubman." "Spartacus would have liked that." "Yeah." "You know, we deserve a vacation." "Let's go to a time zone where we know that there's nothing wrong." "All right!" "Where to?" "The Orient?" "Tahiti?" "(DINGS) Hannibal!" "Hannibal?" "What for?" "Snibbitz." "I gotta win my lucky coin back." "You don't even have a stake to get back into the game." "We'll sell our clothes." "Look, I'll win us enough to take a first-class vacation, anywhere you want." "It's a cinch, kid." "Yeah, it's a cinch." "I'm not going to let you do it." "BOGG:" "Hey!" "Jeffrey, come back here!" "Smart kids give me a pain." "JEFFREY..." "If you would like to learn more about Spartacus, Harriet Tubman or Mark Twain, alias Sam Clemens, take a voyage down to your public library." "It's all in books!" "Soon our fight for independence will be over." "What about Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders?" "I'm afraid you've got your facts mixed up, son." "He was the 22nd victim of Billy the Kid." "What?" "BILLY:" "Throw that shotgun down." "How dare you terrorize innocent people." "You haven't heard the last from me." "(WHISPERS) Looks like we found him." "Please don't do this, Mr. Roosevelt." "We will draw our guns and the best man will be left standing." "The way I see it, he's no man at all." "Bogg, look out!" "BOGG..." "We travel through time to help history along, give it a push where it's needed." "Bogg!" "BOGG..." "When the Omni's red, it means history's wrong." "Our job's to get everything back on track." "(OMNI DINGS)" "Green light, kid!" "We did it!" "MANUEL:" "We must hurry." "We have to reach the jungle before the Spanish soldiers come." "RITA:" "What about the Americans?" "The Spanish will capture them." "Forget the Americans." "Worry about your own people." "You didn't talk like that when the Americans first arrived." "Then, they were your brothers." "Then, they weren't defeated." "Besides, those two you want to go back for aren't even soldiers." "They are newsmen, here to report the spilled blood of the Cubans." "The war has turned you cold, Manuel." "If you won't go back with me, then I'll go alone." "Rita!" "Let her go." "She has made her choice." "(PLUMMETING)" "Where are we, Bogg?" "Someplace with bombs." "Let's find cover." "(CHICKENS CLUCKING)" "Oh!" "That was a close one." "You can say that again." "(BEEPING)" "Red light?" "What else?" "Cuba, 1898." "Cuban Revolution against the Spanish." "Hey, this is where Teddy Roosevelt led his charge up San Juan Hill." "(RITA SCREAMING)" "(MUMBLING INCOHERENTLY)" "She's gonna get hit." "I'm going after her." "You stay put." "Okay." "BOGG:" "Over here!" "No, no." "(STAMMERING)" "Look, I'd like to talk, but I think we better get out of here." "Come on." "Are you two okay?" "I'll let you know when my ears stop ringing." "Those bombs can really do a number on your eardrums." "You are very brave." "It's all in a day's work." "My name is Rita." "Cuban?" "Yes." "You two Americans?" "I am." "Bogg here's sort of international." "The bombs are Spanish?" "Advance artillery." "The soldiers will come next." "I take it the Spanish are winning." "Yes, soon our fight for independence will be over." "My people have suffered long enough." "They cannot go on much longer." "What about Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders?" "Who?" "Teddy Roosevelt?" "I do not know him." "Oh, no." "(WHISPERS) Didn't he work for the government?" "Not yet, he was in Cuba before he became president." "Are there any American soldiers here?" "No, they have all retreated." "(TRUMPETS PLAYING) Shh." "The bombs have stopped." "Great." "It's terrible." "The trumpets mean the soldiers will come next." "We better get moving..." "No, first, you must help me." "There are two Americans in town who will be captured if we don't get them out of here." "I thought you said they all retreated." "These are newsmen." "They stayed behind." "Newsmen?" "Bogg, if anybody knows about Roosevelt, they will." "Do you know where they are?" "Yes, I was going to them right before the bombs started." "Let's go now, just in case they come back." "REMINGTON:" "Where are my sketches?" "Is that all you artists care about?" "We're in major trouble here." "Can you move your legs?" "No." "I don't know if I can move this stuff by myself." "(CHUCKLES) My luck." "I'm in mortal danger and the only one here to help me is a writer." "Great, make jokes." "The next one better be in Spanish." "Rita!" "Thank God!" "What happened?" "A bomb hit, the roof collapsed right on top of him." "All right." "Come on, everyone, we'll have to lift together." "(GRUNTING) It's no use." "I once knew an old man who said he could move the world if he had a large enough lever." "Archimedes!" "That's the guy." "Find me a fulcrum." "(REMINGTON GROANS)" "Don't worry, we'll get you out." "When I lift it up, slide him out." "Right." "JEFFREY:" "Easy." "Easy." "You got it!" "Yeah." "RITA:" "That's good." "Lift him gently." "Come on." "My sketches!" "You have to understand my friend, he's an artist." "He can't appreciate it when someone saves his life." "But I'd like to thank you." "My name is Davis, this is Remington." "No time for thanks right now." "We'd better get moving before the Spanish soldiers get here." "I know of a safe place." "A barn outside of town." "Come on." "Those are pictures of our defeat at San Juan Hill." "RITA:" "If you are not a soldier then why are you in Cuba?" "Me and the kid are just sort of travelers." "We go all over the place." "Is he your son?" "I wish he was." "I just sort of watch after him." "You know, like a guardian." "Are you married?" "(CHUCKLES) No." "I've thought about it, a lot." "But in my line of work I never stay anyplace long enough to really get to know anyone." "Sounds lonely." "It is sometimes." "But I have the kid and he's a good friend." "Friendship is nice, but it doesn't compare to the love of a woman." "No kidding." "Maybe a special woman could convince you to settle down." "Well, I'm willing to have her try." "JEFFREY:" "This is all wrong." "Just what I need, another critic." "No, I mean the scenes." "This isn't the way it's supposed to happen." "Yeah." "Well, that's what Hearst keeps saying, but I draw the truth." "What happened to the Rough Riders?" "The Rough Riders?" "Yeah, I think they were the first volunteer cavalry group from somewhere out west." "Yeah." "Texas and Oklahoma." "But that bunch got left in Tampa." "Teddy Roosevelt, too?" "Teddy Roosevelt?" "(SCOFFS) That rich kid from New York?" "He's not a kid." "He's the colonel in charge of the Rough Riders." "I'm afraid you've got your facts mixed up, son." "Yeah, Roosevelt went west in the summer of 1880." "After he graduated college?" "And got himself shot." "What?" "Yeah, he was the 21st or 22nd victim of Billy the Kid." "I did the drawing for the pulps." "And that was one of my best sellers." "In fact," "I think I have a copy of it in here somewhere." "Yeah, here it is." ""An Easterner Meets Western Justice."" "Your people have been fighting for a long time, haven't they?" "Yes." "Since I was a young girl." "Now, I think it's finally over." "War is very strange." "It seems to tear people apart and bring others close together." "Yeah." "When I see all the pain around me," "I just want to reach out to someone for warmth" "and tenderness." "I know just what you mean." "Bogg." "Bogg!" "Bogg, this is real important." "Don't move, I'll be right back." "When you get older, you're gonna discover what's really important." "I found Teddy Roosevelt." "What's this?" "Shot 18 years ago by Billy the Kid." "Who's Billy the Kid?" "Are you kidding?" "He's only the most famous outlaw of the Old West." "I dressed up like him three Halloweens in a row." "Wait a minute." "Maybe I have heard of him." "Didn't he shoot a lot of people?" "Twenty-one." "Now come on, we gotta get there." "What about Rita?" "You know the voyager code." "No romance while the Omni's red." "There's no code like that." "(BEEPING) Well, there should be one." "At least let me say goodbye to her." "Come on." "Come on." "Up, up." "Let's get on up." "Up, up." "Oh, dear." "Up, up." "Oh, dear." "(PLUMMETING)" "You could have at least let me say goodbye." "Are you kidding?" "I've seen your goodbyes." "We didn't have all year." "This doesn't look like the Old West." "And that guy can't be Billy the Kid." "(BEEPING)" "Pennsylvania, 1752." "That's not what I set the Omni for." "Sometimes it gets stuck in the automatic mode." "Well, if this is Pennsylvania, 1752..." "Who's the guy with the kite?" "Ben Franklin!" "Come on." "Mr. Franklin?" "Oh, no." "Don't tell me you two have been witnessing this folly." "Yeah, it looks like you're having a little trouble." "I'm having a confounded time getting it off the ground." "You've got a good wind." "Yes." "There is a storm brewing." "That is, if my barometer was accurate this morning." "I'm conducting this experiment to prove that lightning is charged with two kinds of electricity." "Well, don't worry, Mr. Franklin, your experiment will be a success." "You're a great inventor." "Well, I don't know about being a great inventor, but I..." "I'm not a very good kite flyer." "This is hopeless." "Well, I know why the kite won't fly." "Why?" "It's too heavy." "This key is weighing it down." "Well, the key acts as a conductor." "Yeah, Bogg, he's gotta have that key." "Well, we'll just have to shorten the tail a little bit to make up for the extra weight." "There you are." "Yeah, that ought to do it." "Hold this for me." "Oh, I'll handle this." "I'm the expert." "Okay." "Ready?" "Uh-huh." "Run, Jeffrey!" "Good." "FRANKLIN:" "Now up, up, up." "That's it." "That's it." "That's it." "He's got it." "He's got it." "He did it." "He did it." "You're doing it, kid." "(THUNDER RUMBLING)" "Just in time, too." "Here you are, Mr. Franklin." "Thank you very much, young man." "I'm very grateful." "Now all I need is a bolt of lightning." "Green light." "Let's try Billy the Kid again." "Okay." "(PLUMMMETING)" "(EXCLAIMS)" "Jeffrey!" "Bogg, help!" "Hold on, Jeff." "I'm coming." "Bogg, I'm sinking." "It's quicksand." "I know." "I'm stuck, too." "BILLY:" "What are you doing down there?" "Looks like you guys got yourselves in quite a mess." "Well, don't just sit there, do something." "Bogg!" "Don't move, Jeffrey." "It makes you sink faster." "Hey, come on, mister, give us a hand." "The kid's gonna sink." "Come on, will you?" "Bogg." "Hold on, Jeff." "Hold on." "JEFFREY:" "Bogg." "Back." "Back, boy." "That's it." "That's it." "Keep going, boy." "(PANTING)" "That was great." "How'd you rope us like that?" "Easier than roping a running stallion." "I'm Jeffrey." "This is Phineas Bogg." "William Bonney." "It's Billy the Kid!" "You dressed like him for Halloween?" "It was an easy costume." "Just be glad he had some extra clothes with him." "We better hang around with him a while." "He might lead us to Roosevelt." "How did you fall into that sand, anyway?" "It's a long story." "Where are your horses?" "They ran off." "Must have got wind of some wild mustang filly." "Happens out here all the time." "You must know all about horses and roping and stuff." "Them that don't, don't live long." "I've read about you, Mr. Bonney." "You're famous." "Call me Billy." "And don't believe everything you read in those magazines." "I ain't killed half as many men as they think." "They just make up stories about you because you're a legend." "You're laying it on a little thick, don't you think?" "I'm a legend, am I?" "Yeah." "I'll tell you what." "Since you two ain't got horses and I do, you want to ride with me?" "All right!" "Mount up." "Good job, kid." "I didn't know what you were going for at first, but you really conned him into taking us with him." "Who was conning?" "You mean you really think this guy is a legend?" "Bogg, he's Billy the Kid." "Right, the murderer." "You heard him." "He hasn't shot half the people they say he has." "One is too many." "Okay, okay." "But maybe he shot them in self defense." "Maybe they were murderers." "Maybe they weren't." "We're gonna stop here for a spell." "Why?" "I'm waiting for my men." "(SNAKE RATTLING)" "Look out!" "Wow!" "That was fast!" "I wish I could do that." "You mean you haven't learned to shoot yet?" "I've never even picked up a gun before." "Well, not a real one at least." "Then I'm gonna show you how." "I got some tins of beans in my saddle bags." "Make good targets." "Wait a minute." "I don't think that's a good idea." "He's gotta learn sometime." "He can't survive out here without knowing how to use a gun." "Come on, Bogg." "Would you excuse us a minute?" "Bogg, how many kids get the chance to learn how to shoot from Billy the Kid?" "None, I hope." "We're just gonna be shooting tin cans." "No way." "Please, Bogg, it'll be a good experience." "I said no!" "That's final." "Here you go." "Try your hand at it, kid." "I can't." "Why not?" "Bogg won't let me." "Hey, I don't want to get between a boy and his father." "He's not my father." "But he tells you what to do?" "Look, I take care of him, I just don't want him to shoot a gun." "Hey, that's okay by me." "Except when I was Jeffrey's age, I was on my own." "I learned how to shoot." "And after that no one told me what to do." "We heard some shooting." "Figured it might be trouble." "No, no trouble, Charley." "Just showing off a little." "Ned, Coley." "This is Jeffrey and that's Bogg." "Hi." "They'll be riding with us." "Did you forget we've a stagecoach coming through in an hour?" "No one said anything about extra splits on the divvy." "Now they stay behind." "Are you taking over, Charley?" "What, you guys been planning something behind my back?" "No, Billy, I swear, we ain't planned nothing." "He's telling the truth, Billy." "A man have to be crazy to cross you." "Now that's the smartest thing you ever said, Charley." "And it just saved your life." "Okay, everybody mount up." "We've got a stagecoach to rob." "Billy's got himself a mean temper." "Yeah, well, I've seen you lose yours before." "Not like that." "Hey, wait a minute." "We can't go along on a stagecoach robbery." "You want to find Teddy, don't you?" "We've gotta stay with Billy." "All right, but we have to stay out of it." "We can't get involved in a hold-up." "Will you stop treating me like a kid?" "I know what I'm doing." "That kid's asking for it." "(YELLS)" "Whoa!" "BILLY:" "Hold it right there!" "Take it easy." "And you throw that shotgun down." "Here, you keep an eye on it." "Take the gun, Jeffrey." "I need you to keep an eye on the passengers." "You touch that gun and you'll find yourself in an orphanage in another time zone." "Suit yourself, kid." "Ned, get the money bag." "Oh, my!" "Oh, my!" "First Indians, now outlaws." "This is an awful place." "There, there, Maggie." "Everything is going to be just fine." "Oh, Mr. Roosevelt." "(WHISPERS) Looks like we found him." "Yeah." "Who's in charge here?" "Who's the leader of this gang?" "I guess you could say I am." "You're gonna die, mister." "How dare you terrorize innocent people." "You don't understand me." "You are gonna die, right here, right now, in front of all these people." "Nobody hits Billy the Kid and lives to brag about it." "So, you're Billy the Kid, are you?" "You're even less impressive in person." "Kind of puny, if you ask me." "You're asking to die." "Charley, give him your gun." "Take it." "The unwritten code of the West, huh?" "Okay to shoot a man with a gun in his hand?" "I have nothing but disgust for you and all outlaws like you." "Put it in his hand, Charley." "It's very kind of you, Charley, but no thanks." "If Billy wants to shoot me, he'll have to do it in cold blood." "No!" "Okay, if that's the way you want it." "(GUN FIRING)" "My finger slipped." "I guess I got kind of tense." "It's been one of those days." "Let's get out of here, Billy." "This guy's not worth it." "You're a legend." "Legends don't shoot unarmed men." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Yeah, okay, kid." "Today, I'll be a legend." "Okay, boys, load them up." "Watch your step, Maggie." "This is your lucky day." "You haven't heard the last from me, William Bonney." "Please, Mr. Roosevelt." "You don't want to die." "Just get in the stagecoach." "Please." "Okay, son." "But you should be more careful about the friends you choose." "MAGGIE:" "Mr. Roosevelt, let's go back to New York where we belong." "Hey, move them out." "Go back into town and see if that yellow-bellied Sheriff's got a posse out after us." "You came through, kid." "I knew when it came down to it, you would." "Now do you think Billy is such a big hero?" "I knew he wouldn't shoot him." "I told you he's not as bad as you think he is." "After what you just saw?" "Look, I don't care now." "We saved Roosevelt and now we can get out of here." "(BEEPING)" "It still can't be red." "I guess we just gotta stick around a little bit longer." "Mr. Roosevelt?" "Yes, Maggie." "I've been your housekeeper now for five years." "And in all that time I've tried to keep my nose where it belongs." "Yes, Maggie, you are a wonderful woman." "Please, Mr. Roosevelt, let's get out of this town and go back east." "Right now, right away." "We've just arrived." "I know, and already we have been attacked by Indians, and you have almost been shot by a dangerous outlaw." "That's exactly why we can't leave." "I don't understand." "You can't expect me to leave when an outlaw like that roams free." "You know my stand on law and order, Maggie." "I won't rest till that man is behind bars." "But you don't even live here." "We are all citizens of the world, Maggie." "Every person has an obligation, no matter where he is, to keep the peace." "Mr. Roosevelt, you can't fight this outlaw by yourself." "He's a killer." "This town has a sheriff, doesn't it?" "And good, upstanding citizens." "I won't be alone, Maggie." "No, I will unite this town into one large peace-keeping force." "Mark my words." "Billy the Kid is finished." "That man is gonna get himself killed." "SHERIFF:" "I can't believe that the Kid didn't shoot you." "Well, he shot others for a lot less." "I have a young boy to thank for that." "He talked Billy out of it, and I must say he convinced me not to be so bullheaded." "What you did wasn't bullheaded." "It took real courage." "Sheriff, I'm a man who believes in law and order." "I'd rather die than see outlaws like that take over." "I felt the same way, but when I was younger." "But now, I wouldn't stand a chance against someone like Billy." "You don't have to stand alone, Sheriff." "Not when you have good citizens that cherish peace and justice." "If you give me the authority," "I'll round up a posse and go after that outlaw." "I'll end his terrorizing once and for all." "Oh, I'll give you the authority, but I don't know how easy it will be to round up a posse." "People around here like peace, but when it comes to justice, they'd rather someone else take care of it." "You underestimate them, Sheriff." "Good citizens of this community, can I have your attention please?" "(ALL CHATTERING)" "Good citizens of this community, you have, no doubt, all heard by now about my confrontation with Billy the Kid." "The sheriff has authorized me to organize a posse to go after this cowardly vermin and put an end to his murderous reign, once and for all." "I call for volunteers." "(ALL CHATTERING)" "Looks like I'll have to handle this by myself." "I don't know if I should've let that fellow get away with what he done." "You did the right thing, Billy." "You gotta understand something." "I stay alive because people are too scared to mess with me." "It ain't good people knowing I got hit and didn't do nothing about it." "It wouldn't have proved anything by shooting an unarmed man." "Yeah, maybe not." "But it sure would have been a lot easier if you had taken that gun." "I gotta check the horses." "You still like that guy after what he did yesterday?" "Roosevelt hit him." "In front of all those people." "Oh, that's good reason to shoot somebody." "He didn't shoot anybody." "He stopped because I talked him out of it." "Yeah, well, who says you're gonna be able to stop him next time?" "I'm starting to worry about you." "I thought you were smart." "I am smart." "So why don't you just lay off the lectures, okay, Bogg?" "Probably found himself another stagecoach to rob." "I'm gonna go check it out." "It's a good thing you sent me into town." "That Sheriff ain't doing nothing but that Roosevelt fellow sure is stirring up trouble." "What kind of trouble?" "He's been in town all morning trying to get up a posse." "And, last night in the saloon, he called you a coward." "I knew I should've taken care of him." "What's going on, Billy?" "I gotta go into town to get some supplies." "You wanna come?" "I gotta ask Bogg." "Yeah, if you do, what will he say?" "No." "But if I don't, he'll clobber me." "Look, if you have to ask just to go for a little ride, then maybe I should go by myself." "But..." "Do you have to ask that guy if you can blow your nose?" "Come on, kid, cut the strings." "It's time to grow up." "We'll be back before he finishes his coffee." "I guess it'll be all right." "Just me and the kid." "I don't want his guardian angel following us." "Make sure he doesn't." "Come on." "Let's go." "Jeffrey, come back here." "Where are they going?" "Into town." "A little unfinished business." "Yeah, Roosevelt's been alive too long." "JEFFREY:" "Hey, slow down, Billy." "You're going faster and faster." "You're just gonna have to keep up with me, kid." "BOGG:" "How long do we have to sit here?" "CHARLEY:" "Till Billy gets back." "A man could go a little crazy hanging around like this." "Got anything to liven things up a bit?" "Like what?" "Whisky?" "I bought a new bottle back in town." "Wouldn't be a bad time to open it." "It's in my pack right there." "Great." "Come to think of it, I don't even drink." "Well, bon voyage." "Why that dirty..." "Get him." "Get him!" "Stop him!" "Gotta stop here a minute." "What for?" "What are we gonna do, Billy?" "I gotta see someone." "(COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING)" "Where's Roosevelt?" "Where's Roosevelt?" "I said, where's Roosevelt?" "He hasn't been in today, Mr. Bonney." "Honest." "Anybody in here thinking of joining up with that posse he's starting?" "Nobody here." "Nobody in the whole town." "So that's what we came to town for." "To get Roosevelt." "I'm gonna do what I should've done yesterday." "You can't!" "First he hit me, then he called me a coward." "I can't let that pass." "You see the way those people acted when I walked in?" "That's respect." "I ain't gonna lose that." "That's not respect, that's fear." "Yeah, well, that's close enough." "Is that what you really want?" "People to be afraid of you?" "Kid, that's what keeps me alive." "And every so often you gotta make an example so everybody remembers." "If you shoot Roosevelt, it will be murder." "Yeah, well, I'll give him a fair chance." "Fair?" "You're 10 times faster than he is and you know it." "Kid, out here, that's called survival." "Survival of the fastest." "You're not a legend." "You're just a killer!" "You going soft on me, kid?" "I guess I am." "You know, I used to pretend I was you." "Even dress up like you." "That was all made-up junk and it's not fun anymore." "That's too bad." "I brought you with me so you could see firsthand a small dose of Western justice." "If you ain't got the stomach for it, maybe you better run along, little boy." "Sheriff, Sheriff." "Sheriff, you gotta come quick." "Billy the Kid is gonna gun down Teddy Roosevelt." "Oh, I know." "You know?" "Well, aren't you gonna do something?" "No." "Why not?" "It's Roosevelt's problem." "He got himself into this mess." "But he's gonna be killed." "Well, he should've known better." "What kind of sheriff are you?" "An old one." "And I've lived this long because I know when to step into something and when to stay out of it." "But you have a job." "You get paid to keep law and order in this town." "When I was young, maybe." "But not anymore." "I'm only a year away from retiring and I'm not about to risk my neck." "This town chooses to look the other way when it comes to Billy the Kid, and I choose to do the same." "You're a coward." "Son, you have to understand." "I'm no match for Billy." "He'd shoot me down in the wink of an eye." "Then two people would die." "Me and Roosevelt." "Billy'd just step over my body and go after him anyway." "But someone has to stand up to him." "Well, someday, somebody will." "Hey, Roosevelt." "Hey, Roosevelt, I know you're up there." "Show your face." "I hear you've been looking for me." "You heard right." "Also heard you called me a coward." "Right again." "You just don't know when somebody cut you some slack." "I want no favors from you, Mr. Bonney." "Then come down here and we'll settle this once and for all." "I'll be right down." "Billy, you can't do this." "You can't." "Oh, yeah?" "Just watch me." "Get away from me, kid." "I ain't got no use for you anymore." "Where are you, Bogg?" "I need you." "Come on." "Everybody off the streets." "JEFFREY:" "Bogg!" "Hold it." "Stop!" "What do you think you're doing?" "Putting a stop to this." "What, are you crazy?" "How do you expect to stop me without a gun?" "I don't need a gun." "Yeah, you're crazy, all right." "Now get out of the street before you get shot!" "You better heed Mr. Bonney." "We will draw our guns and the best man will be left standing." "If that's true then I could tell you right now that Billy is the best man, because if you draw your gun, he's gonna be the one left standing." "And the way I see it, he's no man at all." "Bogg, look out!" "JEFFREY:" "No, Billy, don't do it." "Please." "You stay put." "He was gonna shoot you in the back." "Yeah, Billy is not one for playing fair." "I think that was six." "I hope that was six." "(CLICKING)" "Mr. Roosevelt, Billy would've killed you." "I don't back down, son." "I know that." "I also know your country needs you." "I can't tell you how I know, but I do." "You're going to mean a lot to this country's history." "Now, please, go back east where you belong." "All right, son, I'll leave." "Maybe I can redeem myself by knowing when to walk away." "I'd like to thank you." "And I hope to meet you both again someday." "Goodbye." "(BILLY GRUNTING)" "Don't even try to move." "You're gonna die." "You're forgetting something." "I got the gun." "Come to think of it, I don't need this." "Give me a gun." "Somebody give me a gun." "I'm Billy the Kid." "Billy's not much without his gun, is he?" "Come back here." "I mean it!" "Not much with it, either." "(CRYING) I'm sorry, Bogg." "I was stupid." "I could've ruined everything." "I could've got Roosevelt killed." "All I care about is you're okay." "You learned a good lesson." "So did I." "What's that?" "That even though you act grown up, you're still a kid." "(DINGS)" "A pretty good kid." "We're on our way to Cuba." "Where'd they go?" "(SOLDIER SHOUTING)" "Where are your men, Colonel?" "You are captured, yet only this little rebel girl comes to your aid?" "This little rebel girl will have your life if she ever gets free." "I hope you exhibit such bravery when you stand in front of the firing squad." "My men will come soon, you can be sure of that." "They'll give you a taste of your own medicine." "(WIND WHISTLING)" "(GRUNTS)" "Excuse me." "Bully!" "I knew someone would come." "I've seen you two before." "I don't think so." "Rita?" "How do you know my name?" "The rebels sent us." "I knew my people would send someone for me." "Good people, these Cubans." "Take care of their own." "Roosevelt ever captured?" "I don't think so." "Yep." "Red light." "Mr. Roosevelt, where are your troops?" "We were headed to San Juan Hill when I was cut off from them." "That's when I was captured." "We have to get him back there, Bogg." "The streets are filled with Spanish soldiers." "We wouldn't get 10 feet." "I need a diversion." "What are you gonna do, Bogg?" "Stir things up outside." "When you hear the first explosion, you and Rita get Roosevelt out of town." "Bogg, be careful." "It's a matter of routine, kid." "I'll be at San Juan Hill with you before Teddy can yell "charge."" "I think it's time to wake this town up a little." "Bombs away." "(PEOPLE CLAMORING)" "It's all clear." "Let's go." "RITA:" "War is a strange thing." "BOGG:" "Yeah." "Tears people apart, brings others closer together." "So true." "Like us." "No." "Like my people." "This war has united us like never before." "With the help of Americans like you and Mr. Roosevelt, we will gain our independence." "Oh, yeah, well, that, too." "Thank you, Mr. Bogg." "I will never forget what you have done." "Now I must join the rebels." "There is much more that needs to be done." "Goodbye." "Yeah, goodbye." "I liked her in the other time zone better." "Bogg!" "Bogg, Mr. Roosevelt let me review the troops." "And a bully job he did, too!" "That's great, kid." "This could be a very decisive battle." "We must take that hill." "You will, Mr. Roosevelt." "I know it." "Thank you both." "Nothing more to say then." "Charge!" "On to San Juan Hill." "(DINGS)" "It's green." "I think we're finally off the hook." "How did things turn out with Rita?" "Oh, fine." "Fine." "But, you know, she has this war and all that so..." "Got dumped, huh?" "Yeah." "JEFFREY..." "If you wanna learn more about Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt or the Spanish-American war take a voyage down to your public library." "It's all in books!" "Speak to us." "Spirits of darkness." "(PLUMMETING)" "What?" "Do something, get me out of here!" "I'm Harry Houdini." "You are from the other side." "(GIRLS SCREAMING)" "Behold the power of God, Satan." "I really think this is just a misunderstanding." "Today we stand trial and tomorrow we shall meet our maker." "What have we done?" "JUDGE:" "You are found guilty of the charge of practicing witch craft." "BOGG..." "We travel through time to help history along, give it a push where it's needed." "Bogg!" "BOGG..." "When the Omni's red, it means history's wrong." "Our job's to get everything back on track." "(OMNI DINGS)" "Green light, kid!" "We did it!" "MAN 1:" "Do not let her escape!" "(SCREAMING)" "Catch the devil witch!" "(BARKING)" "MAN 2:" "Let the dogs lead, follow the dogs." "There is no running from the lord, Abiah Folger." "Over there!" "The witch runs toward the rocks!" "There she is." "Get her!" "(SCREAMS)" "GIRL:" "The witch." "She chokes me." "She possesses my soul." "(GIRLS SCREAMING)" "You see what the witch does?" "She is an instrument of Satan!" "Be these accusations true, Abiah Folger?" "I'm as innocent as an unborn child." "You are a witch!" "I am a victim." "I am a victim of thy daughter's imagination, Reverend Parris." "The witch stabs me with her eyes." "Seize her!" "No, I'm innocent." "Please." "Please, I'm innocent." "Oh, good Lord, help me." "(PLUMMETING)" "(GROANS)" "Bat's breath!" "It's bad enough we landed in the dark, but I got to introduce my rear end to this rock that looks like the Matterhorn." "Bogg." "Look at that, will you?" "Forget it, Bogg." "Look at that." "Oh, no." "Behold the power of God, Satan!" "You are impotent in the face of our Lord." "Look, I really think this is just a misunderstanding." "Please help me!" "They'll kill me!" "Take them!" "Come on, kid!" "Run!" "The devils head for the rocks!" "After them." "JEFFREY:" "Where're we going, Bogg?" "BOGG:" "Up." "BOGG:" "Hurry, around the back." "This cave leads somewhere?" "I'm not sure." "Bogg?" "So she's not sure." "You got a better idea?" "Burn, devils!" "Burn!" "JEFFREY:" "Be careful, Bogg." "Not bad." "I'll give him a 5.7." "Will you can the diving jokes?" "Let's get out of here." "Hey, it looks like a passageway around the..." "Surrender to the Lord, Satan." "JEFFREY:" "This is perfect." "Just perfect." "BOGG:" "Look, I said I was sorry." "Yeah, but I can't believe this." "What an entrance." "Right in the middle of a Salem witch hunt." "Can't you control that thing?" "Doesn't come with a steering wheel." "What's the date?" "(BEEPING)" "November 13th, 1692." "Friday?" "It is." "Figures." "November?" "Bogg, we studied this last year in school." "The last Salem witches were hung in September 1692." "That was the end of it." "ABIAH:" "The end?" "I do not know what school you attend, but believe me, this is just the beginning." "Today we stand trial and tomorrow we shall meet our maker." "That is the pattern." "What have we done?" "I cannot speak for you." "But in my case, I did publicly denounce these trials and those wicked little girls who started them." "You mean, those screaming kids from last night?" "Yes." "My teacher said it was like rock and roll." "A way the kids rebelled against their parents and the strict way the Puritans lived." "Only this version's a lot deadlier." "(ABIAH SOBBING)" "I cannot believe this is happening." "Abby, we'll help you." "How can you?" "Unless it's true." "What's true?" "Before you came from the sky," "I asked for help from heaven." "Your clothing, your speech, your objects." "Art thou from heaven?" "Or are you from hell?" "NOYES:" "And from whence did these two beings come?" "From the darkness you say." "I say, from hell." "CROWD:" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "These agents of Satan came." "Dropped from the sky by the witch, Folger beckoned." "The witch hurt me!" "(ALL SCREAMING)" "You know it's not true." "You know it!" "The witch hurt me!" "Do you really believe we came from hell?" "This is ridiculous." "Are you denying that you fell from the sky?" "It seems to me that angels fall from the sky." "And do angels wear such immodest clothing?" "Oh, you got to be kidding!" "NOYES:" "And they speak with such strange tongues?" "CROWD:" "No!" "Give me a break." "If this is not the work of Satan, then God is not in his heaven above." "(BEEPING)" "Agents of Satan!" "Agents of Satan!" "And they should be punished as such!" "(SCREAMING)" "(GAVEL POUNDING)" "That guy's a regular Clarence Darrow." "What're they gonna do to us, Bogg?" "Nothing, if we can get that Omni back." "(GAVEL POUNDING)" "The accused will step down and approach the bench for sentencing." "Aren't we allowed a defense?" "CROWD:" "No!" "No!" "There is no defense for crimes against the Lord." "Step down!" "(CROWD MURMURING)" "Abiah Folger, you are found guilty of the charge of practicing witchcraft in the town of Salem." "And you are hereby sentenced to hang by the neck until dead, at noon on the morrow." "JEFFREY:" "You can't do this to us." "(CROWD CHATTERING)" "(GAVEL POUNDING)" "As to your two agents..." "I'll confess to anything." "Just spare the woman and the boy." "CROWD:" "No!" "No!" "The devil comes in many shapes and sizes." "The witch summoned both of you and you both shall pay the price." "He's just a kid." "(CROWD YELLING)" "This court is not without mercy." "The boy is hereby ordered to Duxbury Prison, where he is sentenced to spend the remainder of his days on earth." "No!" "He is additionally sentenced, as is the witch, to watch your death, agent of Satan, and that death is to be without precedent in these colonies." "(CROWD CLAMORING)" "I hereby decree that at the stroke of midnight this night, you shall be burned to death at the stake." "Fire shall fight fire!" "(THUNDER RUMBLING)" "JEFFREY:" "Will I just die, Bogg?" "I mean, really?" "BOGG:" "We're regular flesh and blood, kid." "Only thing that makes us special is that Omni." "ABIAH:" "Do you mean your device could save us?" "If I could get my hands on it." "But I'm not holding my breath." "I think I'll never see Josiah again." "Josiah?" "Josiah Franklin, my betrothed." "He's a candle maker from Boston." "Franklin?" "I wonder when he'll hear of this." "Benjamin Franklin, Bogg." "Josiah." "Josiah Franklin was a candle maker in Boston." "He and his wife Abiah had a son." "Benjamin." "Benjamin Franklin?" "You mean the guy with the granny glasses and the long, wavy hair?" "I do not understand." "Benjamin?" "Signed the Declaration of Independence, was ambassador to France." "That's where I met him." "You know, for being a dumpy kind of guy, he sure had a way with the women." "Yeah, well, you're looking at his mother." "Mother?" "Are you saying I have a child?" "You would've if we could've gotten you out of here." "And right now that seems like the most unlikely thing in the world." "JEFFREY:" "Bogg." "They can't do it, Bogg." "I don't think we can stop them." "But we didn't do anything." "That's right, kid." "Just like all the other witches." "Bring him forward." "(SOBBING)" "Bring the devil to his end now!" "Bogg!" "We'll see each other sometime." "Bogg, you can't." "You can't." "Don't let them do it." "Just know you're the best thing that ever happened to me, kid." "Out of all the people in time, the best." "Take care of him for me, will you?" "At least, as long as you can." "Tie him!" "No!" "JEFFREY:" "No, don't!" "Don't!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "Stop it!" "Any final words?" "How can you people be so blind?" "Blind?" "Murdering innocent people in the name of God." "This is not murder, devil!" "We are merely returning you from whence you came." "Light the fire!" "No!" "Don't!" "Stop!" "ABIAH:" "You can't be doing this." "You can't burn people like this!" "You can't!" "It's not right!" "We're not witches." "No!" "Stop it!" "Will Satan help you, devil?" "Or do you need this talisman to set you free?" "(LAUGHING)" "Burn, devil." "Burn!" "ALL:" "Burn, devil, burn!" "Burn, devil, burn!" "(GIRLS SCREAMING)" "He vanished!" "MAN:" "The devils have vanished." "Such is the power of Satan!" "We are seeking contact with the other side." "Come to us." "Speak to us." "Speak through me to these people." "Who are you?" "I am Harry Houdini." "And I don't believe any of this." "Then what do you want of me?" "I want you to give me a sign." "Something to prove you are from the other side." "Give me a sign, or I'm going to get up and leave." "A sign!" "(PLUMMETING)" "(SCREAMING)" "WOMAN:" "He's not from here!" "Where the heck are we?" "Out, get me out!" "Do something, get me out of here!" "Where did they come from?" "Please!" "Get me out of here!" "I lost the Omni!" "Boston, 1924." "Green light." "Let's get out of here." "I'm Harry Houdini." "You are from the other side." "You are the sign." "(BEEPING) BOGG:" "Jeffrey, get over here with that." "Let's go." "Come on." "Come on, kid." "(PLUMMETING)" "(GRUNTING)" "(SIGHS) Nice." "Kid, you were wonderful back there." "The way you jumped into the fire like that." "I'm really proud." "Yeah, well, I think we got a problem, Bogg." "No, we don't." "Believe me." "To smell like a rotten halibut's a lot better than to smell like a charbroiled t-bone." "(BEEPING) 1814, Baltimore." "Just fine with me." "Red light and all." "Yeah, well, take a good long look and kiss it goodbye." "That was Harry Houdini back there." "Who?" "Harry Houdini." "The greatest escape artist who ever lived." "We got to go back." "Go back?" "To that dark room with all those screaming maniacs?" "You think I'm crazy?" "It was a séance." "Whatever it was, it was a waste of time." "We got to go back to Salem and Abby." "After we fix Houdini." "I don't think I'm getting through to you." "Look, the Omni had a green light when we landed." "So we landed in a green zone." "We sure didn't have time to set it in the fire." "It turned red before we left." "It did?" "That's what I'm trying to tell you." "When Houdini saw us, he thought we were ghosts." "I'm not following this, kid." "Look, when he wasn't performing, Houdini used to go around the country exposing phony séances." "What we did when we dropped in was make him believe the séance was real." "So what?" "We made one guy believe in ghosts." "Don't you see?" "It could change his whole life." "What if he gives up magic?" "What if he makes millions of people believe that the phony séances are real?" "I'm sorry, kid." "I just don't think it's that big a deal." "What is it?" "Just a poem." ""Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed..."" "At the twilight's last gleaming." "How'd you know?" "Mr. Key!" "Mr. Key!" "Good morning, my enthusiastic young man." "Good morning, sir." "You dropped this." "(EXCLAIMS) I wrote this when the British were rowing me ashore this morning." "It was a proud sight, son." "Those stars and stripes still flying over McHenry." "I wrote this to help me remember." "To help us all remember." "Pardon me?" "Have a nice day, sir." "I will." "And thank you." "What was that all about?" "Oh, that poem you were going to throw away?" "Yeah?" "Those were the lyrics to our national anthem." "That was Francis Scott Key." "Oh." "It's no big deal, Bogg." "Right." "Well, I..." "I guess we'd better crack this little Houdini problem, huh?" "Yeah." "(PLUMMETING)" "Bat's breath!" "Ow!" "Can't you get that thing to come up with a better place to land?" "You're lucky it wasn't the roof." "This the same room?" "Gives me the creeps." "See if you can go find some lights." "Why me?" "I'm just a kid." "Come on." "We'll do it together." "Stay where you are." "Who are you?" "Jeffrey Jones and Phineas Bogg." "What do you want?" "We want to see Harry Houdini." "Stay where you are." "I don't think that's necessary." "Look, a secret passageway." "And the ghost was a reflection on the glass." "I've shown you my secret." "Now you show me yours." "(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING ON PHONOGRAPH)" "I love your costumes." "So realistic." "Houdini's absolutely convinced." "He's holding a press conference here tomorrow morning to announce to the world that he is giving up magic." "Houdini's giving up magic?" "And his escape tricks and his illusions." "The fool actually believes that I can conjure up ghosts." "He says his magic is nothing next to the reality of what I can do." "What we can do." "I don't drink." "Then neither will I." "There's going to be a rebirth of mentalism because of this." "And I'm going to be the richest and most famous one of all." "To think that just a few hours ago I was on the brink of destruction." "Houdini would have ruined me if it hadn't been for you." "Thank you." "(CLEARING THROAT) Excuse me." "Where is he?" "Houdini?" "He's at his hotel back in town." "But we can't let him see either one of you now, can we?" "Wouldn't think of it." "Good." "We'll discuss your price after the press conference." "In the meantime, I'm leaving a couple of my men outside your door." "I wouldn't want you to disappear." "Oh, I don't know what this is, but I'll hold onto it for a while until I find out." "Great kisser." "(CHUCKLES)" "(DOOR CLOSES)" "Great kisser." "You're really having a tough time hanging onto that thing, aren't you?" "Will you knock it off?" "How was I supposed to know she was a pickpocket?" "What happens if she presses the button?" "It's set to this time and place." "She won't go anywhere as long as she doesn't touch the dials." "Monkey suit still out there?" "(SIGHING) Yep!" "(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)" "Hey, I think that's him." "Houdini?" "Where?" "All he'd have to do is just see one of us and he'd know we weren't really ghosts." "You know something?" "What?" "We've been locked up in here a pretty long time." "All right." "One at a time." "Kid first." "Okay, kid." "Bogg!" "The kid!" "Get the kid!" "My cake!" "Reality." "You've completely altered my understanding of the word." "Next to last night's experience, this rose, life." "Simply nothing." "(CHUCKLING)" "I hope you don't mind if I'm telling the press that I'll be studying with you." "I mean, if you'll accept me, that is." "I am truly awed by your achievement." "And I am truly flattered, Mr. Houdini." "Please." "Harry." "Harry." "JEFFREY:" "Mr. Houdini!" "Mr. Houdini!" "Mr. Houdini!" "Mr. Houdini!" "It's the boy." "It's me." "The kid from last night." "I'm not a ghost." "So you aren't, and I'm certainly a fool." "How fortunate that you're holding a press conference." "By this time tomorrow the whole country will know you for the fraud that you are." "I seriously doubt that, Harry." "By this time tomorrow, you and your little ghost here will be gone." "You really think the press is gonna buy this?" "Oh, come on, Harry." "They'll love it." "It's already on the front page of the evening edition." ""Houdini's Mysterious Disappearance."" "A trip to the netherworld." "We're holding a séance for you as soon as we get back." "Ready, Margaret." "Gentlemen." "It is customary for magicians to pass on their tricks before they die." "Now, do you want to tell me about this?" "I pushed the button and nothing happens." "I thought you were more sophisticated than that." "It's just a prop." "Just part of the illusion." "I'll keep it as a souvenir." "Phineas." "(CLICKING TONGUE)" "You really are a great kisser." "Oh, Harry." "This is to help you appreciate the drama." "You were always big on drama." "When the flame goes out, so do you." "(OWL HOOTING)" "Think of it as a challenge, gentlemen." "Let's see you get out of this one." "(HAMMERING)" "Double-jointed." "I can get out of any shackle made." "Can you get us out of this?" "Do you know how many times I've been buried alive?" "How many death-defying situations I've put myself in?" "(KNOCKING) I know, I've read about them all." "This is a piece of cake, right?" "With a steam shovel and a crowbar it's a piece of cake." "See, all of my buried alive acts, they were illusions, son." "This is real." "I'm sorry." "(LAUGHING)" "What's so funny?" "Now we'll never get back to Abby." "The man said we're gonna check out." "This is it." "(LAUGHING)" "He's crazy." "No, he's not." "What he is, is a great kisser." "Yeah, I guess." "We seek Harry Houdini." "Oh, spirits of darkness is he with you?" "Speak to us." "Speak to us!" "Where is Houdini?" "(PLUMMETING)" "(MONKEY SCREECHING)" "(PEOPLE CLAMORING)" "The blindfold stays on!" "Stay down." "BOGG:" "These natives sure are restless." "What was that?" "What's happening?" "(BEEPING) You don't want to know." "Can't you set that thing any faster?" "I'm trying." "You want us to miss again?" "Come to us, spirit of darkness." "Speak to us." "Speak to us!" "MAN:" "What do you want of me?" "MARGARET:" "We are trying to find someone." "Are you able to help us?" "Who are you seeking?" "Give me a name." "(PLUMMETING)" "Houdini." "Where is Harry Houdini?" "WOMAN:" "Not again!" "Houdini." "How?" "There was yelling." "It was bright." "An illusion?" "It was an illusion." "Yes." "A brilliant illusion." "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Harry Houdini." "(ALL CLAPPING)" "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you, thank you." "Nothing gives me greater pleasure than exposing a fraud." "But tonight, I have the added distinction of exposing both a fraud and a criminal." "This very evening this woman attempted to bury me and my companions alive." "Oh, you wretched woman." "HARRY:" "My friends were ghosts, she held them against their will." "Despite the fact that they wanted to reveal this..." "We're not gonna go now are we?" "Green light, kid." "I don't want Houdini asking any embarrassing questions." "But..." "No buts." "You and I are needed back in Salem." "But how did you do it?" "How did you get out, Harry?" "My dear friend," "a good magician never reveals his secrets." "Did we not see what Satan did when faced with justice from our Lord?" "CROWD:" "Yes!" "Have we anything to fear?" "CROWD:" "No!" "Then I think we should eliminate that which brought Satan to Salem." "Hang this woman." "Hang this witch now." "At once." "No, no!" "ALL:" "Hang her!" "Hang her!" "Where are your devils now, witch?" "Why aren't they here to save you?" "(ALL LAUGHING)" "(PLUMMETING)" "They're here!" "Come on, kid!" "The devils head for the rocks!" "After them!" "Get them!" "Some of you men come with me." "ABIAH:" "I cannot understand how you can be in the fire one moment and gone from sight the next." "(SCREAMS)" "Don't leave me." "I don't think we've time to talk about it right now." "Why are we going up here anyway?" "Didn't this get us caught before?" "You got a better idea and I'll stop to listen." "In the meantime, climb." "They're making for the cave!" "Go around the other side." "In there!" "Come on, we got to do it before they get around the rock." "Do what?" "It'll take us forever..." "Oh, no." "One, two..." "Surely you aren't going to..." "Geronimo!" "They can't get away." "MAN:" "Where'd they go?" "Where..." "Where did they go?" "Do you have them?" "It appears the devils are gone." "Okay, come on up." "Are they gone?" "For the time being." "That was a good trick, kid." "Thanks." "I saw it once in a movie." "What's a movie?" "Yeah, see, these guys, they're escaping from prison." "It's really great..." "Jeff." "Oh, right." "Sorry." "I don't think you'd understand." "I don't understand anything that has transpired." "(BEEPING)" "Green?" "Still red." "Now I don't understand." "We may have saved Ben Franklin's mother, but we haven't stopped the witch trials." "There's no telling how many innocent people are gonna die if this goes on." "Too bad you could not bring back those who have already died." "You know something, Abby, maybe we can." "(BELL RINGING)" "Hear ye!" "Hear ye!" "Hear ye!" "Hear ye!" "The Honorable Justice Samuel Sewell hath declared that on this day, the 14 of November in the year of our Lord, 1692 a search of all homes and property shall take place." "The object being to find the witch, Abiah Folger, and her agents of Satan." "The good and right Reverends Noyes and Parris shall lead such search and conduct a meeting of the town upon its completion." "Said meeting shall commence at 8:00 by the clock this evening." "And end in good time." "Hear ye!" "Hear ye!" "Hear ye!" "Hear ye!" "MAN:" "The Honorable Justice Samuel Sewell hath declared that on this day, the 14 of November in the year of our Lord, 1692 a search of all homes and property shall take place." "The object being to find the witch..." "Okay." "...and her agents of Satan." "Are you certain we're safe here?" "Believe me." "This is the last place on earth they'd look." "Where do you want these, Bogg?" "Up by the altar." "Relax." "It's all going to be over soon." "That is not what bothers me." "It is the glass." "The glass?" "Thou shalt not steal." "Mr. Owen was planning to install these panes this very week." "We're only borrowing them." "Trust me." "Mr. Owens's gonna have these back before he knows they're missing." "Where do you want them?" "Line them up in the alcoves." "We should be able to hide in there." "BOGG:" "That's it, kid." "Right there." "And these will create the illusion?" "With enough candles and the right costumes." "That's the easy part." "What then is difficult?" "The performance." "Getting Parris and Noyes and all those little girls to give up the witch hunts all depends on how well we play our parts." "My very daughter says the devils were aided by yet another witch in this town." "And that be the reason for not finding them." "Be that true, young Betty?" "And the witch, be it in this room now?" "Where, Betty?" "Name the witch!" "Who desecrates this House of the Lord?" "You, Reverend Noyes!" "You are the one who desecrates this House of the Lord." "That child knows no witches." "Only in her imagination." "Who are you, vision?" "Goody Esty." "The vision is Mary Esty killed this June past." "I recognize her cloak." "No." "You be not Goody Esty." "You be the devil, vision!" "Would the devil make himself present in the House of the Lord, Reverend Parris?" "This vision is the work of Abiah Folger and her devils." "The witch has infected the very church." "(ALL SCREAMING)" "BOGG:" "Silence children!" "It is the imaginations of these children that have infected the church, Parris." "Giles Cory." "The farmer Cory." "How much longer will you listen to their screaming voices instead of the voice of reason?" "How many more innocent people will you allow to be murdered?" "Innocent?" "Cory, you gave no evidence." "Was I given a chance, Reverend Noyes?" "Or I?" "What chance does an old woman stand against a pew of young girls?" "Your ears were deaf to all but their screams." "WOMAN:" "There are no witches in Salem." "There never were." "Suzanne Martin?" "Tell them, Betty." "Abigail." "Did you have any real evidence against me?" "On your souls, answer me." "Betty?" "Answer." "On your souls." "No." "No!" "(CRYING)" "NOYES:" "For all those we have hurt, all those we have killed, dear Lord, forgive us." "Well, that about does it kid." "Terrific." "I gotta tell you, all this ghost and séance stuff is really giving me the creeps." "You aren't alone." "All I want to do is get those back to Mr. Owen and move on." "I think you should change your costume first." "Bogg, remember Josiah in Boston." "Right." "Can't forget little Ben." "I think you're wonderful, Phineas." "Must you go?" "I'm afraid so." "And you'll never tell me the secrets of your disappearance?" "Or who you are?" "It's a sworn secret." "Abby, there's something I'd like to know." "Yes?" "How'd you do that lady ghost over there in the corner?" "I thought you were in the alcove with me." "I was in the alcove with you." "JEFFREY..." "If you wanna know more about the Salem witch trials or the great Houdini take a voyage down to your public library." "It's all in books!" "(MAN YELLING)" "Lawrence of Arabia?" "(SCREAMS)" "Save yourself, kid." "Bogg!" "You've got to calm down." "The Omni!" "Where is it?" "This is Thomas Edison." "He probably invented the thing." "You've wrecked it!" "Now I'll never get back to Bogg!" "Make room for our two new guests." "And in the morning, you both die." "BOGG..." "We travel through time to help history along, give it a push where it's needed." "Bogg!" "BOGG..." "When the Omni's red, it means history's wrong." "Our job's to get everything back on track." "(OMNI DINGS)" "Green light, kid!" "We did it!" "Warm it in your hands." "What makes you think my hands are warm?" "This is great." "Just terrific." "Stupid Omni brings us to the middle of Siberia," "(DINGS) Green light all the way, and the stupid thing won't take us out." "What do you expect?" "That thing's at least 20,000 years overdue for servicing." "So service it." "If I had my guidebook, I would." "But my guidebook is back..." "With my mangy mutt in 1982." "Thank you." "Now keep moving or you're gonna freeze to death." "Freeze to death?" "Ten more minutes of this and I'm gonna be a popsicle." "Move!" "(GROANS)" "You know, they found frozen mastodons here in Siberia." "Yeah?" "Those big hairy elephant things?" "Yeah." "They were perfectly preserved after 10,000 years." "So?" "So maybe we should let ourselves freeze." "Thousands of years from now, somebody'll find us, thaw us out... (LAUGHS) Good idea." "Did the mastodons come back to life?" "On the other hand..." "I think I got it." "Hold on." "(DINGS)" "Think warm thoughts." "I'm thinking." "(BEEPING)" "Bat's breath!" "Come on, Omni, give us a little warm... (SNEEZES)" "(WIND WHISTLING)" "(EXPLOSION)" "There, it worked." "(EXPLOSION)" "Come on, kid." "Under the wagon." "Where are we?" "I don't know, kid." "But you wanted it warm." "You got it warm." "Thanks." "(BEEPING) 1917." "You got any idea what's going on here?" "JEFFREY:" "A major hassle." "BOGG:" "Yeah, I figured that." "Can you be a little more specific?" "Those guys are Arabs, I think." "What do you mean, you think?" "Well, they're dressed like Arabs." "BOGG:" "What about the others?" "JEFFREY:" "Well, they're dressed like soldiers." "This isn't a fashion show." "I need names, places." "Well, ask that broken-down, Mickey Mouse watch of yours." "I'll deal with that smart mouth of yours later." "At least we're safe for now, under this wagon." "(EXPLOSION)" "Let's get out of here!" "Come on!" "Lawrence?" "Lawrence!" "It is Lawrence!" "It is Lawrence!" "Lawrence of Arabia?" "Yes." "Come on." "We gotta help him." "You stay where you are." "But, Bogg, I wanna meet him." "I'll introduce you later." "Bogg!" "Bogg!" "Help!" "Bogg!" "Help!" "Jeff, get out of here!" "JEFFREY:" "Bogg!" "(COUGHING)" "Save yourself, kid." "Bogg!" "I can't leave you!" "Forget about me!" "Hit it!" "Hit it!" "Get out of here!" "Go on." "Come on, Omni, work!" "(CHURCH BELLS RINGING)" "Mary!" "Lunchtime!" "Come on, children." "And don't dawdle, Marion." "Your father's coming home for lunch." "Any luck this morning?" "Huh?" "I said, did you have any luck this morning?" "Confounded glass won't hold a vacuum." "What's for lunch?" "Well, I made sandwiches out of last night's... (WIND WHISTLING)" "Do you hear something?" "Last night's what?" "Not that awful meatloaf again?" "JEFFREY:" "Bogg!" "That's a voice!" "Where you going?" "Thomas, it's a boy!" "Oh!" "Oh, boy." "Oh, dear." "Where did he come from?" "He smells like a bonfire." "(COUGHING)" "Maybe he's inhaled too much smoke." "The only thing smoking around here is this cigar." "Poor thing." "Let's put him up on the porch." "He looks just awful." "Probably ate some of your meatloaf." "I wonder who he belongs to?" "I don't know." "I'll ask the boys at the shop." "Maybe they'll know." "Well, we'll just keep him here until we find out." "Poor dear." "I wonder what could be so important." "Thomas, what do you make of this?" "(BEEPING)" "I'll take it to the shop." "Thomas, it's the boy's property." "I won't hurt a thing." "You bring that back here right now!" "What?" "Thomas Alva Edison, you are an impossible man!" "Can't hear you." "MAN:" "This is the day of celebration." "Yesterday, your Arab tribesmen made a feeble attempt to take this city of Aqaba." "The attempt was not only a defeat for them, but a more personal misfortune for your leader." "So prisoners, you have a new companion." "(CROWD CHEERING)" "Here he is." "Here is your blue-eyed hero of your Arab army." "This is the Englishman who says that you desert tribesmen can defeat the Turks." "We must talk to him." "There is no time for talk." "We must help him." "We cannot." "Not yet." "Welcome, Lawrence." "To the prison at Aqaba." "You may have failed your friends, but you have rewarded your enemies." "The commandant became a rich man today." "There was a tidy price on Lawrence's head." "Lawrence, I will leave you here among your people, so they may pay homage to their hero." "Regrettably, not long." "The Englishman has a long-standing appointment with a Turkish firing squad." "Tomorrow morning, the eighth hour," "you die." "(CHURCH BELL RINGING)" "Well, hello, there, young man." "How do you feel?" "Where..." "What happened?" "(CHUCKLING) That's what I'd like to know." "We found you out on the front yard." "Bogg!" "Really, you've got to rest." "You've got to calm down." "No." "I've gotta get back to him." "Is Bogg your father?" "The Omni!" "Where is it?" "Have you seen a metal thing?" "It's just about this big?" "Looks like a watch?" "Yes, ma'am." "Where is it?" "I've gotta get back to Bogg." "Well, my husband has it right now." "Do you know where he is?" "Yes, he's across the street at the shop." "Thanks!" "I really don't think you should..." "Edison." "MAN:" "Hey, does anybody know what gauge wire he wants?" "It's not in the specs." "Sixteen-gauge copper." "And he wants the solders perfect." "Is there any other way?" "MAN:" "Pull this off the burner, will you?" "Excuse me." "Kruesi, I blow eight in two hours." "Tell him if he does not find a vacuum in these, I quit." "You tell him." "Are you crazy?" "That way I could lose my job." "(BOTH LAUGHING)" "You're the kid that owns that watch device." "How did you know?" "Mrs. E. Just called up from the house." "Come on." "John Kruesi." "Jeffrey Jones." "Yeah, the old man seemed real interested in that thing." "Where did you get it?" "A friend." "Hope he was a good one." "What do you want?" "JEFFREY:" "The Omni." "Well, kid, welcome to Menlo Park." "You've wrecked it!" "It's totaled!" "Now I'll never get back to him!" "What?" "You stupid idiot!" "Now I'll never get back to Bogg!" "Hey, kid, easy." "It's all right, Kruesi." "Let him yell." "Don't touch those parts!" "Move one out of place and I'll never be able to put it back together again." "You can get it back?" "Kid, this is Thomas Edison." "He probably invented the thing." "Not quite, Kruesi." "Darn thing's got me stumped." "You know what it had?" "A light." "This thing had a red light." "And it blinked on and off." "It's got a green one, too." "How?" "A good electric light hasn't even been invented yet, and this thing has got one in miniature." "This fellow, Bogg..." "He an inventor?" "No, not really." "Not really, huh?" "I can't find a power source." "I can't find a lamp." "I can't find any good reason why this watch can produce light." "And yet it does." "Has he had it patented yet?" "I don't think so." "Good." "Good." "Boss." "What is it, Upton?" "Mr. Lowrey is here." "He's got the big fellow with him." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "Don't touch those parts." "Don't worry, kid." "He'll put it back." "Just right now he's got bigger things on his mind." "How close is it?" "If they dig all day, maybe we can break through by sundown." "They're going to kill Lawrence in the morning." "Yes." "Must be tonight." "Lawrence, are you hurt?" "Stuck here in this humiliating pose, my ego is rather bruised." "But apart from that, no other injuries." "Thank you, sir." "Thank you for your valiant effort to save me." "What happened?" "You were supposed to win here at Aqaba." "The attack is still 48 hours away." "Ours was only an advance troop sent to find any weak spots in the Turks' defense." "And?" "And we were found out in the marketplace when one of my Arab comrades was thrown from his horse." "His temper got the best of him, and he started shouting at the beast, in Arabic." "Can't the army be pulled back together somehow?" "Well, I pray so." "For as long as the Turks control Aqaba, they can take good aim at any ship in the Suez Canal and that makes them very good allies for the Germans." "I could reunite them again, but not from inside this prison." "And not from inside the grave that the Turks have sworn to bury me in." "Quiet." "I think he's a friend to Lawrence." "Or perhaps a friend to the commandant." "We can't trust anyone, Oman." "Even Lawrence will have to wait." "Now go." "You're not going to end up in any grave." "Your friend, Jeffrey." "Has he gotten away, then?" "I hope so." "I hope so." "Wait, please." "What do you want?" "I've watched you." "You and your friend have been dropping dirt down the well." "You're mistaken." "Are you working on a way out of here?" "No." "I'm not going to tell anybody." "If I had three wishes, she'd be one of them." "(GRUNTING)" "Bucketful of mud." "Give it a few minutes to settle." "Has the well gone bad?" "No." "Good well." "It's running fresh water for many years." "Where's the dirt coming from?" "The tunnels." "Escape tunnels?" "Yes." "Then there is a tunnel." "I knew it." "I saw some prisoners dropping dirt in the well." "(CHUCKLES)" "Over the years I've seen tons of dirt being dropped into that well." "I've dumped my share in over the years." "You're digging a tunnel?" "Everybody's digging a tunnel." "Everybody?" "Yes." "The commandant has to find out sooner or later." "He knows." "He knows?" "Yes." "And he allows the digging to go on?" "Prisoners are kept busy." "The water table is high." "The commandant knows he needn't worry about escapes out of this place." "Then there's no way out." "For you?" "For Lawrence." "Ah." "There is one way." "(LAUGHING)" "Oh, yes." "When the commandant and his firing squad are finished," "Lawrence will be free." "Great." "(MUEZZIN CALLING)" "EDISON:" "Now, the last lamp you saw had a platinum filament." "And, as I recall, it burned for less than a minute." "Yes, but we're using lampblack now." "Pure rolled carbon." "Lampblack." "That's an interesting approach." "Doesn't look like they're having much success with that either." "All right." "Close up the shades." "The man without the moustache is Grosvenor Lowrey, one of the biggest backers of the Edison Light Company." "Who's the other guy?" "The biggest backer." "J.P. Morgan." "Right." "Upton, are you ready?" "We're ready, boss." "Okay." "Fire it up." "Just a little bit at a time." "You know, I don't think this is the way it happened." "What?" "Forget it." "Okay, a little more." "More!" "Okay!" "EDISON:" "Good!" "Now, I know it doesn't look like much, but I think we're on the right track." "If you could just give us..." "One week, one month, one year?" "I think you could have all the time in the world, Mr. Edison, and you still couldn't come up with a light that works." "No, thank you." "I'm pulling me and my bank out of this mess." "Good day." "J. P!" "Well, so much for the electric light." "There goes our backing." "But they can't back out now." "Edison's gonna make it work." "Not without Morgan's money." "Lowrey, talk to him." "I can't talk to Morgan when he's got his mind made up." "I'm sorry, Tom." "MORGAN:" "Coming, Lowrey?" "LOWREY:" "Right there, J.P." "Mr. Morgan!" "Yes, son?" "I haven't got much time." "You haven't got much sense, either." "What?" "Please, son." "Thomas Edison is the greatest inventor alive." "The phonograph, the repeating telegraph." "He even made the telephone work better." "That is not what's at issue." "Look, you wanna make some money, right?" "That's the general idea, yes." "Well, then what other inventor would you rather invest your money in?" "Thomas Edison's got a track record that just won't quit." "Track record." "Interesting expression." "You miss out on the electric light, and you're gonna miss out on an invention that's going to change the face of this world." "It's a gold mine here." "You're looking at a fortune." "All right, all right." "I give in." "Thank God!" "On two conditions." "The first is that you, young man, come to see me when you're an adult." "I could use a man with your persuasion." "Second is that I see some positive results in 48 hours." "Otherwise, Tom, we're back where we started." "Good day." "Forty-eight hours." "Is he crazy?" "Well, kid, it was a nice try." "Forty-eight hours." "Heck," "I invented the phonograph in less than a day." "Let's go to work!" "All right!" "Is this the last of it?" "The tunnel is finished." "Then we will be ready in time." "We can free Lawrence tonight." "Good luck to us all." "Fire!" "Fire!" "MAN 1:" "Get buckets!" "(PEOPLE CHATTERING)" "MAN 2:" "Get the buckets!" "Get the buckets!" "I need men over here!" "Bring water from the well!" "MAN:" "Come on!" "Come on!" "What's going on?" "I'm getting you out of here." "Well, then, you're responsible for all this excitement." "You got it!" "Are you sure you're not British?" "This way." "Fools." "I need more men!" "BOGG:" "Hurry." "The horses are down here." "Lawrence has escaped!" "MAN:" "Call the commandant!" "Lawrence has escaped!" "Hurry!" "Lawrence." "Did you really think it was going to be so easy?" "(LAUGHING) Clear a cell block." "Make room for our two new guests." "You'll be less trouble if you're locked up overnight." "And in the morning, you both die." "How's it going, Kruesi?" "This batch is ready to roll." "Huh?" "This batch is ready to roll!" "Good!" "Are you sure this is right?" "I don't even know what I'm doing." "What you're doing is scraping pure carbon from these lamps into little piles." "Exactly." "What has that got to do with the electric light?" "What I'm doing is rolling the carbon into their filaments, which go into the lamps." "Which light up when you put electricity through them." "Got it." "Problem is, it hasn't been working." "It'd work, all right, if you could roll the darn things thinner!" "Look at that filament, Kruesi." "It's a disaster." "EDISON:" "Let the kid do it." "He's got smaller hands." "Boehm?" "Where's Boehm?" "Has he got those light bulbs ready yet?" "We've only got 36 hours!" "Well, kid." "The future of the Edison light is in your hands." "(MUEZZIN CALLING)" "Well, it's dawn." "I've gotta get you out of here." "Down here, locked up, unarmed?" "I have a cache of weapons stored just outside the gate, but they might just as well be in Buckingham Palace for all the good they'll do us." "So, we don't have weapons." "And we're locked up down here." "Outnumbered." "We'll think of something." "Your optimism is appreciated, but I'm afraid this is the end for me." "I think I shall miss the desert more than anything else." "Nearly all Europeans think of the desert as nothing, as an arid void." "But I," "I know it as a thing of rapture and beauty." "It's taken over my senses." "Just as its people have taken over my heart." "EDISON:" "That's it!" "Forget it!" "You did your best, kid." "We'll make another one." "One that's better!" "It's a waste of time, son." "Let's just call it a day." "No, you can't." "We still have four hours." "Look, you could roll lampblack for four more years and it wouldn't make a difference." "It's the wrong material, son." "Back to square one." "No." "You got to invent the light." "You got to." "I will!" "I will!" "Just not today." "What is it, the 20th?" "The 21st?" "(SIGHING)" "On this day, October 21, 1879," "I am gonna take a good long nap, put the electric lamp away for a rest," "and tell J.P. Morgan what he can do with his money." "(LAUGHING)" "What do you think of that, son?" "No!" "Don't you see?" "You're gonna mess everything up!" "You still upset about this watch?" "I can put it together in no time." "No!" "Get out there!" "Make the light!" "Do it!" "(CRYING)" "If Bogg was here..." "I messed up everything." "Everything!" "It's been a long haul, son." "Maybe I have pushed too hard." "(SNIFFLING)" "Come on over here." "I'll sew that sleeve up for you." "I think I've got a needle and thread here somewhere." "Come on." "Come on over here." "Mr. Edison?" "Mr. Edison?" "You put it in a kiln until it's carbon." "What?" "The thread." "It's a perfect filament!" "Upton!" "Kruesi!" "Quick!" "Fire up the kiln!" "I got it!" "I got it!" "EDISON:" "All right, Upton." "Let's give it a try." "Yeah." "More." "More." "An inch more." "That's it." "That's it!" "(ALL CHEERING)" "That's it!" "Hey." "Come on, you little teary-eyed monster." "There's nothing to cry about." "We did it!" "We did it!" "I hope it works okay." "You're lucky if it works at all." "This thing had the dirtiest movement I've ever seen." "What did you do to get it that way?" "I don't think you'd believe me." "(GRUNTS)" "I think that's it." "(OMNI DINGS) No leftover pieces." "A green light now." "Beautiful." "I still can't understand how it works or why it's so tiny." "It's some kind of toy." "What's it supposed to be?" "A time-travel machine." "Time-travel?" "(LAUGHS)" "Now that'd be an invention." "It's a beautiful day for an execution." "Plenty of light." "No excuses for any of you to miss your mark." "(KEYS RATTLING)" "Here's your breakfast." "I watched you escape last night." "Congratulations." "Would your escape have been any more successful?" "We must be desperate." "She's a kitchen maid." "She's much more." "She's been secretly dumping freshly dug soil into the well out there." "Is that true?" "Yes." "Then you do have a way out of here." "I did." "What do you mean?" "The commandant has cleared the entire cell block for your security." "So?" "For months, friends of mine had been kept in the next cell." "Well, then your friends should be grateful for whatever freedom our capture has afforded them." "Your capture has cheated them of their freedom." "LAWRENCE:" "How is that?" "The tunnel." "It's down here." "In the next cell." "Girl, why didn't you tell us this before?" "Because I was going to show you." "My friends and I were about to free you when he decided to rescue you." "It wouldn't have happened if you'd been more honest with me." "I couldn't trust you with that knowledge." "Then why should we trust you now?" "Because she could be on her way out of here right now." "I am not a martyr." "All we'd have to do is wait until you have both been executed and things return to normal." "Right in the next cell." "Might as well be in Buckingham Palace." "Where's the tunnel lead?" "Into catacombs that run beneath the prison and out into the city." "We must get to that tunnel." "You cannot go alone." "It is like a maze down there." "You would get lost." "Gentlemen." "I hope you enjoyed breakfast." "It was your last meal." "It's time." "Your firing squad waits." "Gentlemen." "Even though we didn't get out, it was a bloody good effort, Phineas." "BOGG:" "Yeah, "A" for effort." "Don't blame yourself." "The fire was a good diversion." "Not good enough." "No escape attempt would be good enough, gentlemen." "There is no way in or out of this prison that I don't know about." "(WIND WHISTLING)" "COMMANDANT:" "Get them!" "Stop them!" "Great entrance, kid." "What's going on?" "MEDINA:" "Follow me." "This way." "Get them!" "Get him!" "Up, you fool!" "The catacombs are just beneath this tunnel." "Up!" "Up, idiots!" "Get up!" "Never mind about me." "Get after them." "Go!" "MEDINA:" "Around this corner." "(RATS SQUEAKING)" "BOGG:" "I was wondering when you'd get back here." "JEFFREY:" "I came just as soon as I could." "You'd never guess what happened." "Later." "Awful dark down here." "There's nothing to be afraid of." "(SCREAMS)" "This is where we used to bury our dead." "This way." "LAWRENCE:" "Dark down here." "I hear them behind us!" "BOGG:" "All ahead." "I got an idea." "Thanks." "Oh, wow!" "Good work, old boy." "Is it much further?" "No." "The exit is this way." "Down here!" "Somebody!" "Help, somebody!" "Quickly!" "Come!" "There." "BOGG:" "Oh, no." "We'll dig it out." "Hurry!" "They made it through to the catacombs." "After them!" "Go!" "Come on, everybody, start digging." "COMMANDANT:" "Wait." "Wait." "Wait." "(SHUSHING)" "This way." "COMMANDANT:" "There's no way out of here." "They can't escape." "JEFFREY:" "Bogg!" "I know, kid." "I hear it, too." "Keep digging." "COMMANDANT:" "Up here." "To the right." "Bogg, Medina's gone." "MEDINA:" "Lawrence, hurry!" "Bogg, they found us!" "COMMANDANT:" "After her!" "This way!" "Get her!" "We got to help her." "No!" "She knew there was only one way out." "She's a courageous woman." "Bogg, the Omni's still red." "(BEEPING) We gotta get Lawrence out." "Where are they?" "The others?" "Gone." "Stupid little sewer rat." "You'll sacrifice yourself?" "Who helped to dig that tunnel?" "Show me the way out of the catacombs." "How did Lawrence escape?" "Lawrence has escaped." "Lawrence has escaped!" "(CROWD CHATTERING)" "Lawrence!" "Lawrence!" "PRISONERS: (CHANTING) Lawrence!" "Lawrence!" "Lawrence!" "Lawrence!" "Lawrence!" "Listen." "(PRISONERS CHANTING)" "We can't leave Medina behind." "We can't take on the commandant and all his men." "Phineas is rather like me." "He doesn't give much thought to odds." "You said there were weapons stashed out here." "Yes, guns, ammunition and some explosives." "Come on." "PRISONERS:" "Lawrence!" "Lawrence!" "Make them stop." "Tell them to stop!" "I could not even if I tried." "Keep your secrets." "Take them with you to the grave!" "Lawrence!" "Lawrence!" "Never mind the girl." "Get him!" "Go!" "You're not going to escape." "Medina!" "Get me out!" "JEFFREY:" "Bogg!" "Bogg!" "Bogg!" "Hey, don't worry, kid." "I'm not going anywhere without you." "I promise." "MAN:" "Lawrence!" "Thank you, Phineas, my friend." "My dear friends." "Thank you." "PRISONERS: (CHANTING) Lawrence!" "Lawrence!" "(DINGS)" "I hope he makes it." "He will." "Thanks to you." "BOGG:" "Menlo Park, December 31st, 1879." "It may be Menlo Park, but it feels like Siberia." "Quit complaining, will you?" "It was your idea to come here." "(OMNI DINGS)" "I can't believe this." "This thing is working like brand new." "All right, folks!" "It's ready!" "There's the guy who gave it the overhaul." "Has anybody seen Mr. Dooley?" "He's lit this street for the last 40 years." "He's going to light it tonight." "Where you going?" "Inside with Edison." "I want to thank him in person." "I already did." "Beside, you don't want to be inside now." "Why not?" "We'll miss the whole thing!" "What whole thing?" "(CROWD CHEERING)" "(CROWD APPLAUDING)" "This the first time?" "The very first." "Isn't it beautiful?" "Yeah, kid." "It's beautiful." "JEFFREY..." "If you want to know more about Thomas Edison or Lawrence of Arabia, take a voyage down to your public library." "It's all in books!" "Done by (c) dcd / January 2008"