"I was 17 from a fishing family." "A family that was starving." "I've always been a bit wild." "I should've listened to my father." "I should've listened to my mother." "But I didn't." "Hunger, real hunger, it takes you over." "It doesn't leave you room to think." "I was sentenced to death... but dear King George besthoad his compassion." "I'd never been 5 miles out of my village." "Now I was transported to the other side of the world." "I had no idea what that meant." "There were hundreds of us going... packed like animals into eleven ships." "the first fleet to sail to New South Wales." "And as if that wasn't enough..." "I've just realized that I was with a child." "I didn't marry you for this." "Six months down there!" " I won't do it!" " Alicia, darling!" "we are second only to the captain with regard to accommodation." "For you to sink as low as this:" "carting off the nation's rubbish, wretched vile creatures." "They'd better off dead." "Lieutenant Clarke!" "Come on up lads, I told you we'd be looking at paradise!" "Behave yourselves, do as you're told... and these officers will see to it that you are given... a protected and passage." "'His Majesty's officers'!" "'A safe passage!" "'" " Up whose arse?" " Get them below Sergeant!" "What are you staring?" "Back off!" "Come on, lads." "Let the fox see the rabbit." "It pays to work out the pecking order early on." "You're safe here, all well down the line." "The London Times thought a colony on the moon... a better prospect" "We've all seen the moon, unlike New South Wales... which has only ever been by Capitan Cook." "seen by Captain Cook." "We're not just solving the problem of overcrowded prisons... we're expanding empire, and ahead of the French." "Oh, we're honored." "Do you know who they're entertaining up there?" "Lord Muck himself." "Captain Arthur Phillip..." "He's to be Governor of the colony." "A good man?" "Lieutenant Clarke?" "Perhaps you'd like to share your thoughts on our prospects." "Yes, sir, I was just thinking of the question... of the reform of our human cargo." "Good thought." "There should always be hope... always hope." "But with regard to the criminal, classes, experience tells... us there should be very little of it." "But I think turning wretches into work-horses is as much as we can expect." " I do what I can." "I did try reading to the women... excuse me." "But the stench down there." "It's enough to floor and ox." "Pork!" "When was the last time any of us felt some pork... at the back of our throats." "They use to draw it." "And they said we'd never see the sun down here." "But there you are, and the smile... enough to light up the whole ship." "We'll meet on deck." "They'll be sunsets, moonlight, gazing at strange... and wonderful lands together." "And with any luck they'll leave you behind tied... to a tree on one of them." "My name's Will." "So what do you know about this Botany Bay... the dragons and the cannibals?" "Nonsense." "Odd looking natives where we're going though... three, four foot high, covered in hair, noses like beaks." "They must think some of us very good swimmers... keeping us locked up down here." "Still, you can't blame them, I hear we have some... very desperate women on board." "It's even said there's one who dabbled in 'highway robbery'." "Now she'd have to be a real 'pistol'." "Enter ye in at the strait gate." "Just what we needed, this'll fill our stomachs." "For wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth... to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat." "That's mine, you bastard thief!" "Sorry, I didn't catch your name or what you were doing down here." "Murderer and a thief!" "You killed a baboon and stole his face." "Silence back there!" "Let us all pray." "Dead God get us out of this hell hole." "Again, sergeant Ryan, a quicker pace and let's have... it in concert this time." "Yes, sir." "A word with you first please, sir." "Our supply of shot and powder was left sitting..." "On Portsmouth quayside, sir" "One more round and we'll be out of it altogether." "Sergeant Ryan, did you give orders for the men to stand to?" "No, sir." "Get these women out of their rags, and properly dressed..." "I won't have the men distracted." "Unfortunately, sir, 'women's clothing' is also... sitting on Portsmouth quayside along with our ammunition." "But if the women serve to distract the male prisoners... the two oversights might cancel each other out." "Well, I have an idea how we may clothe the women." " Dismiss!" " Excuse me, sir." "Oh, dear." "And these are nothing to the seas... we're going to be traveling through." "Don't worry, you'll soon get your legs." "I've been in fishing boats from before I could walk... nothing wrong with my legs." "Excuse me, sir." "I did wrong just once, sir." "I was starving, I know it was wrong but... and I can't survive on the food we're given... and the foulness of the hold makes me ill... and I'm scared of the men, and their wicked desires." "If there was a way you could use me." "Your clothes washed and cared for... your cabin cleaned, in return for fresh air... and food from your table." "Please, sir." "It's Mary, sir." "I've heard of other officers making such arrangement." "They may well have." "Is this what you mean to dress the whores in, sir?" "Perfect." "Favors from that one?" "You're more likely to get a fart out of dead man." "Did you say you knew your way around a fishing boat." "An east wind..." "From the look sky it'll change for the worse... a storm." "A storm?" "Not a chance." "There's only one cure for that, Thomas." "You need to find a tree to sit under." "A free passage to Botany Bay!" "Every day a high day and holiday... no board and lodging, no taxes!" "Who of us wouldn't have volunteered for this!" "Hey, Tom." "I said it, didn't I?" "Now's your chance, Mary." "If you want to get that baby... you'll offer to sell what you seek." "Don't wait for an officer, any sailor will do." "Take what's on offer, Mary... food, drink and fresh air for your baby." " How did you know?" " I've had two of my own." "Who was he?" "A gaoler, in the prison hulk." "He was share his bed or starve." "And you'll share this wretched world with his child." "My child will not live like this." "As if you can help it." "Here!" "For the ride of your life!" "Mary!" "Did the sky tell you anything about how long... this camp weather would be traveling with us?" "Mary!" "She's drowning." "Down here, sir." "Come on, Mary!" "Somebody help me!" "Come on Mary!" "Come back!" "Here!" "Over here!" "Hey, you there." "Elizabeth." "It there any word?" "There's only one cure for what you've got... you both need to lie under the same tree." "Here... your readings were such a comfort to us." "Could I hear a few words from the good book?" "About turning away from weakness?" "Give them a scratch back." "And she sleeps on the floor?" "What concerns me is the influence of bad company... she knows nothing of the world." "She's no more than an innocent child." "A rather well developed one." "And just remind me, what was her crime?" "The theft of a bonnet... and some money." "If she were isolated from the others, reform... is a very strong possibility." "You mean to keep her in your cabin?" "If we can save just one of them, it must be worth the effort." "Very well, the arrangement has my blessing." "But a ship is a very small village." "You should be prepared for some to think the worst of you." "I remain a faithfully married man and the girl will remain... an innocent under my charge." "You have transformed my cupboard." "It's palace to me, sir." " Is this Botany Bay?" " Yes... according to Cook's account." "Meadows, streams..." "There'll be wild game and fish to feed us... before our own crops begin." " And this is our voyage?" " Yes." "And we're here." "Rio de Janeiro is our next haven... then on to Cape Town, our last port of call." "We should count ourselves blessed to be part of such... an adventure." "Imagine the ingenuity:" "Eleven ships rendezvousing at a pin point... on the far side of the world." "We should continue with your lessons." "Do you love your wife... do you have any children?" "No, we are not blessed in that way." "Why do you ask?" "Lessons." "Only your Lieutenant would dream of torturing us... with dresses like these." "And we're sharing them with God knows what." "Jammed together in that tiny cabin and he still hasn't noticed." " I'll tell him soon." "He'll understand." "He can't be like any man I've ever tripped over." "I can bring him round." "Be careful." "That wife of his might have jumped ship for a very good reason." "It's a real kicker." "Getting stronger everyday." "All the way down!" "The Equator!" "No, no, no, no you can't see it." "It's great imaginary circle... around the earth that I told you about." "I dreamt of this moment as a boy." "And now here you are, as happy as a boy." "And on such a beautiful morning." "Yes, it is." "Very beautiful." "Lieutenant Clarke,a word of you, sir." "Excuse me." "A lag's wife." "It suits you." "I'm nobody's wife." "Nice dress." "Come on, you." "Move along." "You've worn the same dress for weeks." " Silk." "I've never worn silk." " Try it on, now." "My wife didn't want to wear anything but silk." "It was a ridiculous notion." "Alicia in Botany Day, digging her own potatoes." "There's something I've been meaning to tell you." "Let me help you." "Yes, I'm with child." "Ralph." "How's our 'little project' coming along?" "Have you got her reading yet?" "Only give water to those dressed... in the clothes provided for them." "We are dying in those sacks." "You will address me as 'Lieutenant' or 'Sir'." "Well 'Sir' or 'Lieutenant', I wouldn't have thought you'd... be offended by the sight of a little female flesh... you must be very familiar with it by now." "Cover yourself up!" "I will not have whores walking about the ship." "No, you'd rather have them arse up in your cabin." "Sergeant Ryan!" "Twenty five, sir." "Ship's company, dismissed!" "Cut her down." "Come on!" "I don't recognize him." " I warmed him." " I knew." "Hope she doesn't die." "That was meant for me." "I'm sorry." "Mary." "Here's some food." "For the child you're with." "I never did thank you for saving me." "We have a way of saying the wrong things to each other." "I wish it wasn't so." "Come on, Mary." "Come on, darling, let it out." "Come on, push it." "Push it, Mary, come on." "Come on Mary." "You can do it." "That's it." "That's it." "She's coming, Mary." "I can see it." "Push it, Mary, one more." "You can do it, come on." "One more, push." "Come on." "Come on, Mary." "It's ok, Mary it's ok." "Land ahoy!" "Land ahoy!" "Land ahoy!" "on you starboard beam!" "Do you see?" "Lieutenant Clarke, make a search for fresh water." "If you find some." "This is where we'll build our new colony." "Fine harbor, a thousand ships could ride at there..." "With perfect security." "Sir!" "For you." "Lower your muskets." "Lower your muskets." "Right." "You!" "That man there." "Drop your trousers!" "That's an order!" "Come on, man, hurry up!" "Full rigging!" "They may have thought we were women." "Now they know, the same as them." "We should bring the convicts first light and built the foundations." "Then we shall build the foundations of our new nations." "Aren't you the luck one, born into paradise." "Or the biggest God forsaken prison there ever was." "Is ticking hard, isn't it?" "My name is Sam." "Is it true you were a smuggler?" "You've sailed to Spain and back?" "I never had adventures." "Well, I had one too many." "My brother stole a ham, I helped him eat it." "He got away and I got to be here." "There's one fight, come on!" "Come on!" "All right, men." "Back to work now." "Come on, now, back to work." "Come on, guys." "Whores!" "There was a short, mate." "Look that, lads." "It's Christmas." "How do you wanna us, love?" "You can use you ladies." "I hope they all know why they were brought along." "So the place doesn't all go to buggery." "Is it a ride you're looking for son, or your mother?" "How did the numbers work out... one of them to service five of us." "The guys will busy night tonight , wouldn't they?" "Sergeant Ryan... get them back to work." "And make it clear:" "Any man found loitering near a female... tent will receive a dozen lashes." "Any man found inside a tent will get twelve dozen." "Come on, lads, get back to work." "Jesus." "Are you mad?" "I'm gonna get out of here tonight." "You can't stay here." "If we're quick, I can be back before they miss me." "I don't want us to be quick." "I want it too last." " Oh it will." "Oh God it will." " No, no..." "I mean, beyond what we want now." "I have called her Charlotte." "After the ship." "Hello, Charlotte." "She needs a father." "And I need a husband." " You need an awful lot." " I've an awful lot to offer." "Living in there, it'll be different." "It won't be a life any of us have ever known." "Even more reason to have people in certain of..." "Alright, yes." "After a while..." "If we get on... we'll see what's what marriage maybe..." "I heard they were asking couples to be married today." "I won't be jumped." "Mary, I'm a good bet." "Just how good a fisherman are you will?" "What do you mean?" "There's a thousand mouths to feed here." "It could be the making of the man who worked the way... you to do it." "So, if you give me the boats and I can pick my own crew... of twenty, I can supply the whole colony with fish." "Governor, we already have a working party fishing from the shore." " And a miserable catch... they bring in, not one of them knows... what they're doing." "I'm the only fisherman you've got." "I think it very unwise to supply boats to prisoners." "I wouldn't allow fishing outside the cove, governor... the sea would break the boats up in five minutes... they'd be useless for any escape." "Very well." "You can have all the boats and men what you need." "Except for my cutter." "Start today." "The sooner we have a regular supply the better." "And I was thinking that there should be a reward for the... undertaking of such an important responsibility." "The reward is knowing that you were fulfilling... the terms of your sentence." "What was it you had in mind?" "A share of the catch, my own to trade as I see fit." "You may keep one basket in twelve." "Thank you, sir." " Is it true, sir... there to be privileges to those marry?" "Oh, yes, you might be granted the right to build a hut." "Good day." "Thank you, sir." "Next!" "Next!" "Come along, come along!" "Do you both enter this union under no obligation... to any other and by your own free will?" "Yes." " Well say it, say it!" " Yes." " Do you... name?" " William Bryant." "William Bryant, take this woman... name?" " Mary Broad." " Mary Broad... to be your lawful wedded wife?" " Oh, come on." " Yes." "Do you, Mary Broad, take William Bryant... to be your lawful wedded husband?" "Yes." "In the presence of Almighty God I pronounce you man and wife." "Next!" "Come along, come along!" "Do you both enter this union under no obligation... to any other and by your own free will?" "I suppose you've known lots of women... a handsome smuggler like you." "I was a hard working fisherman." "Sometimes helping to bring ashore a small quantity... of rum to nourish the sick and the elderly." "Get off!" "Get off!" "What's happening?" "We should go in, sir, and restore order." "With respect, sir, this was going to happen from the day... we took the whores on board." "Double the guard around the food stores." "Shoot without challenge any convict who attempts to approaches." " Yes, sir." "We'll let this run it's course." "When we landed, I decided to give you the benefit of doubt." "I decided against to a regime of harsh discipline." "I wanted you to have a chance." "Your behavior of last night has convinced me that I was wrong." "I am now persuaded that only the most severe punishment... will have any effect on you." "A curfew will be imposed." "Marines will have orders to shoot any man... found entering a female tent after dark." "Where I now stand... there will be a gallows and a punishment triangle." "The remaining transport ships will set sail today... leaving us behind to build the colony." "We will not survive if we do not work together." "No one will be worked beyond their ability... but everyone will contribute their share." "Idleness will not be tolerated." "If you do not work, you will not eat." "The shameful events of last night will never be repeated." "But they will not deflect us from our celebration." "Lieutenant Clarke." "Three cheers for King George's birthday" " Hip-hip!" " Hooray!" " Hip-hip!" " Hooray!" " Hip-hip!" " Hooray!" "We survived another three years." "Governor Phillips plans for grand buildings and wide streets... never came about, but we could build a few buildings... made from bricks and woods." "But nothing grew and draught left the colony facing starvation and disease." "Lieutenant Clarke had his house build overlooking... out over the water towards on fishing hut... and I could feel him keeping a close watch on us... and Will and me." "We had another mouth to feed." "Is that all?" "It's one basket more than yesterday." "It was fished out months ago." "A baby boy, Emanuel." "You go away, fish come back." "I'll have a word with the Governor... and see if we can't all go home." "Sam, divide their share of the catch." "And the hospital tally?" "36 marines and 67 convicts are under medical treatment... a further 72 convicts are unfit for work, sir." "God, 72!" "Sergeant Ryan has returned with the runaways, sir." "All runaways accounted for, sir." "There were seven of them, sir." "We found the remains of the other five." " Martin and Allen." " That's right." "You two are beyond hanging." "What I should do is ship you off to New Zealand." "Do you know what the natives do to you there?" "After you finished screaming, they'd gladly cook and eat you." " Gentlemen." " Yes, sir." "They ate each other, that's the talk." "They'd got themselves five days out... two of them went off to hunt, only one of them make it back." "And the others what he brought back with him." "Kangaroo meat, he said it was." "So we've turned cannibals." "Yes." "Here, eat this." "We've been feeding them for weeks... nobody plants them any more." "Nobody." "But it's madness, if we're to survive..." "If they wanted us to survive they'd have sent out farmers... and laborers, not ships packed with thieves and whores... led by fools with grand plans and no sense." "Nothing we plant grows here, and it never will." "Not a bad treat." "Flour without weevils, or not too many." "The last old port on this side of the world and..." "What's this?" "I changed from Johnny Cakes." "Beneelon was here." "He determined have us living like savages." "They've been down it here for some time... maybe we'll learn a thing or two from them." "Perhaps not how to cook." "Bright." "I'm afraid the Governor has decided to and the practice... of you keeping back part of the catch." "From now on everything will be handed over to the colony." "Given our current circumstances we can't allow the unfair distribution of food." " Unfair?" "How long I fed this colony?" "This is how I'm repaid?" "You are a convict, serving out a sentence." "You'll do as you are told." "He's been hoping this day and come." "He'd rather see you and the children starve." "Have you crawl back to him." "I am dispatching 'The Supply' back to England, Thomas." "It is the only way Lord Sydney will receive news of our situation." " But she's our only ship, sir." "Then we must pray that she is not lost on the voyage." "Take this." "'My dear Lord Sydney... it is with grave distress that I must report... that our crops have now failed for three consecutive years." "Less than a tenth of tilled land has produced any yield... and what little we have managed to produced... must be kept as seed for next year." "Our situation, our very survival, now depends upon... provisions from England." "I beg you to relieve the severity of our position." "Today we are one hundred and forty seven fewer in number... than on arrival.'" "We seek you Father to raise us from the death and sin... by the rightness." "Grant this, oh, merciful God... thru Jesus Christ, our mediator in thee." "I'll not stay here to watch children starve." "We're leaving." "Prison walls fourteen thousand miles thick." " We'll never get out." " If we went by boat..." "We wouldn't last five minutes out of the cove." "Not even in the Governor's cutter?" "And it has a sail." "You've been to Spain and back... you could get us well away from here." "We could hug the coast." "It we can't walk out, nor can they... they couldn't come after us." "We could store up food for a month or so... hide it close to the cutter, load it up on the night." "Sam's right." "When that ship goes they can't come after us." "In that cutter?" "You've no idea how the sea will look out there... when you're sitting in that pea pod" "They'll be twenty, thirty foot high." "It was planked and corked less then two months ago." "And there's a full rig on board." "Listen." "Think what else we'd need besides food:" "Water drums, muskets with powder and shot to keep... the savages away, cork, canvas, sheets for the boat a compass, a quadrant." " You've thought all it." "You're the only man to get us away." "And we've got to get away." "I'll tally up the flour sacks, sir." "Yes, yes." "Savages!" "Up by the timber mill!" "Fifty or more of them!" "Take them from the back." "Sergeant Ryan?" "What are you doing?" " The tally, Lieutenant." " Where's the guard?" "I think there was a problem up by the timber mill." " I heard shouts." " Complete the tally later." " But Lieutenant..." " Out, now!" "Lock the door and come back when the guard is in place." "Come on, Will." "Leave them, leave them!" "So all that happened was:" "I blew a soldier boy's bugle... and you gave them two bags of sand?" "It was my fault, I lost my nerve." " You did right." " Well, it's impossible now." "Clarke's got on his belt." "When the end comes, they'll be the ones with the food." "It was a bold idea, though." "I saw my old village die from hunger." "I've seen what happens... and I won't let my children suffer like that." "Did you not hear Thomas?" "He hasn't got the key to the food store anymore it's with Clarke." " So we go without food... we can fish and hunt along the way." "We wouldn't last a week without supplies." "And how long will our children last if we stay here?" "They hang us." "What happens then, Mary?" "If we do nothing, we're already dead!" "It's for you." "You may have this room." "Thank you." "It was my father's hope that I would one day progress... beyond the rank of lieutenant." "I would have been better suited as a parson... but my brother had already that position." "I came here to progress my career, probably the only way... we are guaranteed a higher rank on our return." "But you came for the adventure too." "A pretence, to fool others... and myself, I suppose." "I thought if I demanded more, pushed myself..." "It would be a means of escaping my own prison." "And have you?" "I have now." "And your father, he's a fisherman?" "And I'm his only son." "He only had daughters." "I used to help him with boat." "The pilchard harvest saw us through the winters." "Then one year they didn't come." "And not the next year either." "What will happen here?" "Governor Phillip has drawn up plans if it falls into anarchy." "If you stay alongside me..." "I will make sure that you and children are protected." "Thank you." " Everything alright?" " Yes, sarge." "Keep this way, then go through." "What's all the sorcery?" "Buggered if I know." "I just nod, smile and keep down wind of him." "Never thought you the careless type." "Losing your wife and children like that." "She's best off with him, children too." "You see, when the end comes... they'll draw a circle around themselves... and what's left of the food will be inside it." "Lieutenant." "I'll count the flour sacks, Mr. Watling." "Sir." "'I didn't want you to be a whore', remember?" "And now I am." "It's a price we both agreed to pay... so don't make me pay for it twice over." "So leave him, we'll find ways of keeping back more... of the catch, there'll be a supply ship, there has to be." "It's finished here." "We're leaving." "But things aren't going faster enough." "The food won't last long in the ground... and we haven't got the equipment we need." "There isn't a good enough thief amongst us." "And on the right it'll take more than the five of us... to get the cutter away." "We need two more." "Who?" "James Martin and William Allen." "James Martin!" "Are you mad?" "Nothing happens without him knowing about it... he'll queer it for us while he's in on it." "And William Allen could steal the Governor's house... away if we wanted it." "I'll not be in a boat with them!" "He already knows." "I'm still copying the charts, but I've made this up." "It won't be a map to travel by, but the proportions... should be about right." "It'll be handy having a forger on board." "When we get to where we're going he'll be able... to paint us up some local money." "We're here, the nearest know civilization is up here." "It's an island called Timor, it's Dutch." "What shall we do then?" "We talk ourselves a passage back to Europe." "How far is this 'Timor'?" "About three and a half thousand miles." "Three and a half thousand miles?" "In an open boat?" "It's been done before, not the exact same journey... but the same distance and they ended up in Timor." "You've heard of Captain Bligh?" "The way I heard it... he had fourteen hard jack tars with him." "We'll be four men, if you include him... and that boy you've got over there." "And two women and two children." "The cutter is the only boat in Sydney Cove that can go... outside the harbor." "And any chase after us won't be able to get beyond the heads." "It'll take them days to go around.." "by which time we'll be well clear." "But if you'd rather stay here..." "Alright." "We better start collecting what we need." "We were making sure the ones at the back were free... of the mould, and well, you better have a look yourselves." "Sand." "Eight sacks were taken." "Eight!" "This is a barbarous act... and a crime against each and every one of us!" "Those who come forward with information will be rewarded... with a month's extra rations." "And lighter duties for a period of six months." "You may come to me in absolute confidence... without fear of reprisal." "As a result of this criminal act... the flour ration will be reduced." "Sit there." "It'll be another futile escape." "They've taken muskets, machetes... a dangerous escalation." "The door to the food store wasn't forced so they had a key." "But I have the only key, and it hasn't left my side... for over three weeks." "It's a puzzle... unless they discovered a way make copy." "Well, everyone's so desperate." "You must know what the talk is." "Living under your roof, you think they'd confide in me?" "So you know nothing?" "With a child and a baby... escaping from here would make me a murdereress." "Is that what you think I am?" "Let me go!" "This is excellent Thomas." "All this detail." "Well done." "I'm happy to have drawn the maps and charts Will... but I'll not go with you." "You're the only one who can get us the glass... the compass, the quadrant..." "I'll get all the instruments you need." "But they'll know it was you that took them." "I stole down to the creek the other day... just the sight of the cutter and my legs went weak." "It was a miracle I survived the passage out here." "I nearly died at least twice." "With Martin and Allen in the boat, I'll need you on my side." "Me against those two?" "Will, I'm the world's worst sailor... and I'll not set foot in another boat ever." " So we escape, and you hang." " I'll get you the instruments." "Well, you get me the instruments." "I won't let you down." "Where's our supplies?" "They must have been blown a lot by the storm." "They were, I've just been going around picking it up." "Two men in a boat with five men... you'll be like knives between us." "How you thought it thru?" "How long do you think the children will last out there?" "Longer than they will staying here." "You haven't got any choice." "You can't leave without Will and he won't leave without us." "We leave tonight." "And now, we'll come for you when the cutter is loaded... and you'd better be ready to pick up those children... of yours and run." "Wait till curfew." "And you make sure... your lieutenant is too busy to be walking about... and then he needs to sleep like the dead." "I'm sure you know how to do that." "Now go!" "Elizabeth!" "Don't touch me, don't touch anything." "Scrub yourself raw when you go." "It's tonight." "Then it'll just be you, the only woman jammed together... in a boat with a pack of fools." "God help you, Mary." "Sergeant!" "I have to feed the baby." "Get Mary." "Get Mary." "Marines!" "I couldn't get near Mary." "They're a minute behind me!" "Go!" "Go!" " Not without Mary!" " I don't care." "Come on!" "Go!" "We go or we hang!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "You!" "With me now!" " Go then!" "But not with me!" " You're useless to her dead." "They won't know her part in it, but they know yours." "Now come on!" " Go!" "Go!" " No, no Will!" "You coming too!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come..." "Come on!" " Will!" " Mary!" "Mary!" "Wait!" "Will!" "Too scared to have a 'knife' in the boat are you?" "I couldn't get through." "I tried!" "Get down!" "Get down!" "Reload!" "Come on." "Don't be frightened." "I'm with you." "Cox!" "What the hell are you doing here?" "I'm holding the boat." "I can help you." "Get off me!" " Help me!" " Get up!" " Get off me!" " Let go!" "Throw him overboard!" "Roar!" "Roar!" "Roar!" "The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant Part 2 We'll take her in." "You did it!" "You got us away." "Well done, son." "Well done." "We'll cork her up... then she'll be fit to take us through hell and back." "'Hell and back'?" "Where are we going?" "Timor." "Just north of here." "Three and a half thousand miles." "And how many miles today, Will?" "Four, maybe five." "Unless you plan to march across the water, sir... we've lost them." "We'll have to find another crossing, sergeant." "Look at you!" "Running free for the first time in your life!" "We're not convicts." "We're on our way back to Europe." "So you'd better start reciting who you are." "We could be ship's crew." "You'd give yourself away in a minute." "What were you before you turned thief?" "I've never been anything else." "I've always fancied a parson's life." "Well, I'm 'Elizabeth Mary Parker'." "One of the Parkers from Bath." "I followed my husband, Mr. John Parker... a well respected merchant seaman." "We planned to seek our fortune in these foreign waters... only to have our hopes dashed when our ship went down." "One wash in the sea water and they both turned respectable." "However... we were fortunate enough to share a boat with five... gentlemen of outstanding courage... whose kindness to myself and our children... has carried us through the ordeal." "I'm Robert Townsend, from Bristol..." "Trading in exotic plants and spices, birds and animals too." "Sam?" " I don't know." " Joseph Taylor... apprentice and companion to Lord Stanley Chadwick... the great explorer and botanist." "Sadly lost when the ship went down." " But I tried to rescue him." " I saw you, brave lad." "Do one for me, Mary." "Someone small, Henry Small, ship's rat!" "Still thinking of your Lieutenant?" "There is... and always has been... only one man for me." "Sir." "Sir." "See what you can scare up for breakfast." "Don't waste a shot, and don't come back with anything... too strange looking." "Go on." "Alright, come on!" "Get a fire on." "Come on, lift your feet." "They're a breath away from turning on you." "I'll not die chasing after a whore and nor should you, sir." "The Governor's cutter is the only sound... reliable boat we have... and we have a duty to retrieve it." "We will carry out that duty, sergeant." "They're always saying you do this, you do that..." "Marines!" "Marines!" "Come on!" "Go!" "Go!" "Come on!" "Hurry!" "Where's Sam?" " Where's he?" " I don't know!" "Halt!" "We shall return to the colony." "We are going back!" "Come on!" "Stay down!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Down!" "Down!" "Roar!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Load, load!" "Hurry!" "They're going!" "There he is!" "Can you see Clarke?" "There's no sign of them." "Why don't you say it?" "They could still be there, waiting for us." "We can't risk going back to get him." "They can see there was only six of us in the boat!" "They know we left one behind." "No, no, they'll be all gone by now." "We don't know that." "We don't know where they are, they can see us for sure." " We can't leave him!" " Martin, shot one of them!" "I can't see Clarke giving up on us." "And I can't see him giving up on you, Mary." "It's a trap!" "Leave him or we're all dead!" "You!" "You!" "You were not even supposed to be here!" "We can't leave him!" "That boy would die for anyone of us!" " We're in range." "Will?" " What?" "What?" "What are you doing?" "You're steering at the sea!" "No!" "Don't leave me!" "Don't leave me!" "Don't leave me!" "Come on, lad!" "Come on!" "I couldn't leave that boy behind." "No more than I could sleep with Ralph Clarke." "But we've got this far because you could." "They all know it, but none of them can say it." "We've got this far because you sailed us here." "Wait till you see this." "Look!" "Look!" "Don't you see?" "You've gone native?" "Coal!" "Tonnes and tonnes of the stuff." "On the beach around the bay, just waiting to be picked up." "Come on!" "We need water!" "A hundred pounds in weight of rice." "And Flour!" "Salted pork!" "And Rum!" "Fishing nets!" "Tools!" "Muskets!" "Shot!" "Powder!" "Our one decent boat, and with our only fisherman." "All gone!" "And you took her in." "Come in." "I can't get a word out of the boy, sir." "Perhaps it is possible they had no plan beyond escape." "Or perhaps find a passing ship that wouldn't bring them straight back here." "But everything else was well planned, sir." "Even so the nearest civilization..." "Timor." "Three, four thousand miles away." "They'd have to negotiate reefs... twelve hundred miles of open sea... and with the burden of carrying a woman and children." "And even if they survive the sea.." "they'll never survive each other." "Now there's a roaring a fire for you, Mary." "This is good wind." "We better catch it." "Come on, we need to take our chances when we can." "It's good to be free, isn't it." "No one lording it over us." "Why don't we call this a day of rest?" "It's gone!" "A slab of salt pork!" "Enough feed for all of us!" "Yes, we're free." "We're not in the colony, but if we steal from each other." "Take care who you're looking at?" "How do we know it wasn't you?" "It wasn't me!" "Whoever it was." "And I don't care who the bastard is." "I'll find him out." "And there'll be one less mouth to feed." "For the love of God, take us in." "We're been out 10 days now." "Not on that shore, she'd break up on the reef." "Perhaps he's not starving like the rest of us." "Have we found our thief?" " Will's no thief." " We're all thieves." "Did someone give this boat?" "We have to use our muskets!" "No" "You think you know hunger." "Wait until you can't run." "Can't walk anymore." "Can't even think then we'll use our last shots to get meat." "Savages!" " I scared them off!" " They might have helped us." "Back, back in the boat!" "Get back in the boat!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Give me the powder!" "Go!" "Go!" "One shot, that's all we've got lift!" "God knows how I'd like use it." "Who are you being loyal to?" "Mary Bryant?" "She left you on that beach to die." "Do you think she'd die for you?" "She'd never even think of it." " I wouldn't want her to." " Where are they heading for?" "Tell me something, anything and I can plead clemency." "The Governor will listen." "No one has the appetite for another senseless killing." "That poor boy." "God, look at him." "We do beseach you blessed Father... to raise us from the death and sin." "Into a life of righteousness." "Grant us this thru Jesus Christ, our mediator in thee." "Amen." "By the powers invested in me by His Majesty King George..." "I have sentenced Sam Liley to be hung." "This brings me no satisfaction." "But every thief will face the same end." "No, let them come, let them see." "Proceed." "No, no." "Alright, son. 1200 miles of open sea." "Next stop Timor." "See!" "Now why didn't he tell us?" "They stay in the boat now..." "'for the safety of the children.'" "Soon we'll turn around and find them gone." "No, they can't get the boat in the water without us." "Every time the wind blows hard we have to run for land." "What chance do we have hundreds of miles out to sea?" "We haven't seen savages for a month or more." "We know all the good spots:" "Fresh water, fish, fuel." "We can survive." "We don't need him." "Going out there, it's just Bryant's vanity." "Between's we know enough to get the boat up... and down the coast for what we need." "I don't know that I can get us across." "Of course you don't." "It's a risk." "You've gone from Cornwall across to Spain... the same distance, you said it yourself." "And you'll be the one to get us to Timor." "I didn't exactly do that." "'Sail across to Spain'." "We didn't exactly do that." "I can read a chart better than a book." "I can hug a coastline, feel a boat around rocks." "But I've never taken a boat out of sight of land in my life." "And I don't intend to now." "Listen to it." "It's our last stroke of luck and it's telling us to stay here." " Then why did you say..." " Don't you know me by now?" "The others are also scared, too." "Mary." "They can steal the boat away from us, if they want it." "The fire needs feeding." "If we go against Bryant... once it starts there's no telling how it will end." "What was it you stole?" "Twelve yards of lace and a pair of stockings?" "I don't see him following it through." "I'm not going out there to die in that boat." "Now, We've got one shot left." "If I take the boat over and we leave them here... we gonna need you, the whole mosketers." "If killing Bryant saves our lives..." "then that's what has to be done." "She won't stand by if it comes to a fight." "Can you kill her then?" "We had a plan plan for a man who'd been sick of being treated like animals." "We've come all this way, and nothing has stopped us." "But if we stay here, we're finished." "Now you made no secret of not wanting me along." "One woman in a boat of men, it's a daft idea." "But if you leave me and Will and our children here... you'll come across a wind you can't read... a beach you can't land at a rock you can see." "You won't last a week." "This man, Will, is the one who got us here... and Will is the one who guessed Timor." "He's sailed from England to Spain and back again in boats... no bigger than ours and in storms far worst... than you saw last night." "Going out there in that boat is madness." "Yes, it is madness." "A wonderful madness." "The kind that strong men grab with both hands." "Not the kind that eats away at weak, frightened men." "Now, there's a strong wind, we should take it." "Let's go." "No, Charlotte, Charlotte." "No, Charlotte." "No, Charlotte!" "He's still with us." "It takes more than a boat trip out with you bastards..." "to finish me off." "To 'Spain and back, in a boat smaller than this... '" "Will got us this far." "He can't be blamed for the wind giving up on us." "I'd rather die like this." " At least it's our own doing." " Yours more than anyone's." "You didn't need to hold a musket over us." "One smile, and you'd have us swimming across." "Come on." " Martin, stop." " Bastards!" "We commend to God..." "No." "Since He's not out here." "We commend to the sea the body of William Allen... who was a thief like the rest of us." "Some judged to be bad, but to us who knew him Will..." "Leave it." "We'd be fighting for what's already lost." "Beby." "Baby!" "Soldiers!" "You turned us around and sailed us back." "Dutch!" "Dutch!" "Mary Bryant!" "You saved our miserable bloody lives!" "So, we may thank God for the supply has returned safely." "Lord Sydney writes another change of policy." "It seems Parliament has declared us a success." "By what criteria?" "More resources are to be allocated other supply ships... are on the way, and more convicts are to be transported as well." "Fifty thousand more." "Cheese!" "Barrels of it!" "The odour!" "I am to be re-called to England." "A new Governor has already been appointed." "Your prayers have been answered!" "Just as we were becoming 'a success'." "Officers are to be given the choice of staying... with the benefit of land and convict labour." "Or they may choose to return to England." " England." " England." "And of course all bills and any notes of debt signed by myself as a merchant seaman will be honored by the British government." "I give you a warn, given our circumstances..." "I don't see any other way to proceed." "When our ship went down it took not only our fortunes... but all papers concerning our legal identity too." " Mister..." " Parker." "John and Elizabeth Parker." "Mr. John Parker your ship was lost where exactly?" "A reef, amongst hundreds of them." "Such a distance, in such a small boat?" "Incredible." "And no other survivors?" "We saw others scramble into boats, but..." " Is it true?" " My wife, Marleen." " Mr. And Mrs. Parker." " Look at them!" "Exhausted, starving, and with children." "And of course you stand them to attention and interrogate them." "Well, how was I to know who they were?" "Enough!" " Hello!" " Bebe Emanuel..." "Here he comes." "That's our boy." "Welcome!" "And look at you, Mr. John Parker." "I went and married the perfect gentleman." "And I went and married a real pistol." "We did it!" "We did it!" "Oh, sorry, 'Mr. Small', it's just..." "You look like a pop stuck cock." "I never settled on the name 'Henry Small'." "It's a fine name, none of us will forget it... and it does sort of suit you." "Darling, you come with me." "Mr. Parker?" "It is 'Mr. Parker', isn't it?" "Oh, yes, yes." "Excuse me, Mrs. Parker." "I have been considering your predicament, Mr. Parker." "You will be our guests..." "until we find you a ship bound for Europe." "We're very grateful, sir." "I will introduce you to those that matter in this town and... reassure that they may supply and loan to you confidence." "But first I need your name on a document..." " ...you know the truth about her." "She's extraordinary, I promise you." "Promise you." "It seems that you did not given an entirely full account of yourself." "It seems that you are the real hero of this incredible journey." "It was you who persuaded everyone that it was possible to get to Timor." "and when all the men had given up hope it was you who found the strength and courage to go on." "It was John's skill with the boat that guided us here." "we all played a part." "But without your determination and your perseverance. it would have been for nothing." "If Mr. Small is to be believed it was you who delivered the souls in that boat to safety, and you alone." "You know it." "You must be so proud of her." "My God, if she asked for it they'd sign over the whole bloody country to her." "He knows we're not right." "You keep walking around in circles like an anxious dog." "and he might try to find out." "Oh, John, I need you to sign these." "Silk?" "It's being made up into shirts." "There's enough here to rig out a ship." "A man of my position has to keep up with appearances." "We've everything we need and there's you finding." "fault with our nice fat goose." "I'll be happy when I'm looking at English water." "And where I won't stick out in a crowd." " Where's your mamma?" " In heaven." "In you." "And in the roar of the sea." "In the stars you look up at." "in the stories she used to tell me." "My father, you'll see him when we get to England." "A big bear of a man." "He'll want to know all about your adventures." "And he'll be so proud of you." "because you can keep a secret, deep, deep down inside you." "The bad man in the red coat." "It's just a dream." "We're safe now." "God, I can't get used to it." "Not seeing myself in a mirror for four years." "You've been through a lot, it's taken its toll." " what?" " You best get ready." " Not tonight." " We cannot go." "And I can't spend another night talking about a life." "I've never led, trying not to trip myself up with every word." "We don't have a choice." "Well if we don't, and we can't be who we are... then this is just another prison." "You'd rather go back to the one we came from?" "Reckon you could get us back there, single handed?" "Don't blame me for the way people talk about... what happened in that damn boat." "I never exaggerated my part in it, or played down yours." "And how is my young scholar, today?" "Excellent progress." "Your father was very remiss, educating his sons." "and neglecting his daughters." "I have the idea of education frightened right out of me." "which is why I have so much to learn." "Well, your father is in for a shock when you return to England." "We have everything we need here, it's just the heat." "It's incredible, some days are so..." "Captain Bligh is a real hero." "Captain Bligh!" "No, no, no." "he traveled further than you did to get here." "You have to give him credit for that." "The resolution in France..." "Your journey was thru much calm waters." "Straight waters..." "Captain Bligh traveled all the way thru here." "Captain Bligh." "I did better than Bligh." "Timor." " Where Bligh started from..." " Excuse me." "Botany Bay, where I started from." "John!" "John!" "Governor Wanjon, do you really think it possible that we could." "have traveled from where would this" " this 'Botany Bay' be about there?" " Even further south than that." "We traveled all that way to here?" "In that boat?" "With children?" "Govern Wanjon, we cannot prove who we are." "you can only judge us by what you see." "And if you can see no good in me then my only hope... is that you can see it in these fine gentlemen." "with whom it has been my good fortune to travel with." "If you chose to see us as criminals." "then that is our unfortunate fate." "No, no, we see nothing of the kind." "I can only apologize for my husband's fondness for drink." "and his strange sense of humor." " If I just knew why." " Because I was drunk!" "Look at you!" "Do you really think you Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Parker." "Yes, because I have to." "And if we ever get back to England." "you'll still be wearing that dress?" "No." "But Elizabeth Parker will be able to read and write." "not much, but enough to teach our children." "so they don't have to stink of fish their whole lives." "You'd be better off here." "Marry a Dutchman." "God knows you've got enough of them lying at your feet." "No witnesses, no paper." "We were blessed by a fool on a beach." "It wasn't legal outside of the colony." "You're free." "I've never thought of myself as being anything other than free." "ever!" "And so we were trapped in paradise." "and it was the most went by excepting our unlucky fate." "Now where can she be?" "Hello, my angel." "Charlotte?" "We are going home." " English?" " Yes." "Yes, four men, a woman and two children." "And in the end it was the young woman who got them across." "And.. what is her name?" "Elizabeth Parker." "An amazing young woman." "Elizabeth Parker." "They're gone." "There is no way out of Kupang, except by water." "My God, they've led you a merry dance." "Come on, Nani." "Go, go!" "Go, go!" " Come on!" "Come on!" " What?" "Ralph Clarke!" "He came after us." "Take him!" "You!" "If things went wrong, we were to make for a fishing." "village west of here, a mile up the coast." "Alright." "Let's go!" "Go!" "Go!" " Will!" " Where is she?" " Clarke!" " Come here!" " No..." " Stop!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Lieutenant Clarke, thank God you're here!" "They forced me onto that damn boat, put a pistol on my head." "I was never part of it, never!" "He's over there!" "The village is two hours away from here ask them to take you to 'New Island'." "I will let Will know where you are." "You must think very different of me now." "If I were governor, you would have protection from 'English Justice'." "I'd grown very fond of Elizabeth Parker." "I would have liked to have known Mary Bryant." "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Come on, Charlotte, come on." "Come on!" "Walk, damn you." "Oh, Charlotte!" "No, Charlotte." "It will make you sick." "I have a choice of two ships to bring me home." "I chose this passage because I had to know." "I've thought of nothing but you." "I'd never been so happy when you came to me with the children and asked my help." "That short time we had together." "You.." "You were so... so good to us." "And now you help us again." "I hated deceiving you." "'Wilfulness' is the root of all sin." "Each of us has a daily battle to rein ourselves in." "You were the test I failed." "Twice." "Where's Will?" "Where's my husband?" "You felt nothing for me." " Please..." " You have no idea who I am." "All of these?" "An army couldn't have eaten and drunk this much." "They had very...'healthy' appetites." "And these!" "You gave me notes of credit from a brothel!" "From our limited knowledge of English ways... admittedly mainly gossip about your royal family... and members of parliament we understood that the brothel... was very much a part of the daily round." "These were thieves, convicts!" "They said otherwise, how were we to tell?" "And since William Bryant was not a merchant seaman... his signature has no authority." "Until those bills are paid in full... the convicts will not be allowed to leave." "Then as an officer of the King, I will personally honor them... until I am recompensed on my return." "So how much exactly is owing?" "If you take her back, they will hang her." "And if I leave them behind I become the criminal." "Where's Will?" "Where is he?" "The nine months sea passage back to England... was in far worse conditions than those I had traveled out." "And my children carried a tropical sickness with them." "Again, again." "you.." "will run under a blue sky... along tall proud cliffs..." "with the sea crashing into them." "And you'll be with strong, proud people." "And no matter what happens to you... you'll never give up," "it's in your blood." "Almighty God, we commit the bodies of these infants..." "Charlotte and Emmanuel Bryant... to the deep." "In the knowledge that they were innocent children... we pray that they may rest in peace with you in heaven." "Amen." "Damn you!" "My baby!" "My baby!" "My baby!" "Mary..." "Let her go." "Let her go." "There are mobs, chanting her name on every street." "She's in every newspaper:" "'The Girl from Botany Bay'." "Mindless accounts, turning her into a hero." "'Mary Bryant's escape was perhaps the most hazardous, the most hazardous, the most wonderful effort... made by a person to regain their liberty'." "She'll be a three week wonder." "There's only one sentence..." "the court can hand down, and after a well attended execution the world will soon forget about 'The Girl from Botany Bay'." "'Compared with the dreadful sufferings that they endured... on their voyage, the three convicts consider Newgate prison to be a paradise'." "The same writer tells of the overwhelming public support." "we have an eminent lawyer, Mr. Boswell." "has been arguing that the law should be seen to be... dispensing forbearance and tolerance in such turbulent times." "All presents from your admirers." "Please, no more gifts." "And no more gawping visitors." "Mary!" "if you were to speak out, we might stand a chance." "You were an inspiration to us in that boat." "now you're an inspiration to thousands of others." "I cannot see why the events of my life should be of any interest to anyone." "You know the truth." "You lived it." "And yet you read these stories over and over and hang onto them as if they were true." "'Courage' killed the one man I loved." "And it took my children." "And now it will finish us off." "If we had accepted our fate none of this would have happened." "Now, these letters of credit for which you've been seeking recompense." "His majesty's government cannot be seen to be honoring... the brothel bills of escaped convicts." "Or the massive amounts of liquor and luxury items... they consumed silk, shorts,silk dresses." "I acted out of a sense of duty." "Yes, but..." "The perception is that you acted rather rashly." "But it was the only way to get them off the island." "Had I not acted, they would still be at large in Timor." "Given their current popularity, there are many in government who wish that they still were." "The court has heard in the testament of Lieutenant Ralph Clarke that the three prisoners along with others." "who did steal a boat and equipment valued" "at over fifty pounds." "also three muskets, shot and powder and several articles of significant worth." "The prisoners by their own admission have broken their transportation orders." "They are therefore found" " guilty as charged." " No!" "No!" "No!" " No!" "No!" " This must stop!" "Let them speak!" "Let them speak!" "They have a right!" "There's nothing to be said!" "Order!" "Order!" " I'm no hero." " There is nothing to be said!" "And I've no ambition to be made into one." "There are some in this court today who have tried to make me something that I am not." "I'm guilty as charged, as are the two men standing beside me." "Not many of us transported can claim to be innocent." "Some are wicked and and deserved to be feared... but most are not." "Most are men and women... who wish their lives to feed themselves and their families." "Guilty we may be, but worthless we are not." "There are many like us in this country." "And to transport us away, is another country's gain... and this country's loss." "Those that survive the harshness of the colonies are the true heroes." "I tried to build a life amongst them and would have been content to be their companion." "But I stole away for the sake of my children." "I could not see them starve." "I have lost everything I hold dear to me:" "My husband... my children." "So you can take my life." "But these men... the courage they have should not be choked out of them." "All rise!" "James Martin, Thomas Watling and Mary Bryant... you have been found guilty by this court on various counts of theft and that you did willfully break your transportation orders." "However..." "However, some favorable circumstances have been humbly represented to us inducing the court to extend our grace and mercy to you... and grant free pardon for the said crimes." "What did he say?" "She get off..." "You are free." "Within a week, James Martin had got himself a passage... back to New South Wales." "His thinking was that out there..." "in a bold land a free man... with his given 25 acres could make of himself what he chose." "Without the prejudice of who he once was." "Thomas Watling set off to find his sister... happy in the knowledge that she lived." "miles from any sea or boats." "What would I find?" "Back with my family, in Cornwall?"