海洋深处 (In the Heart of the Sea)(EN)Subtitles
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1 00:02:28 "I hope you will reconsider my offer.
2 00:02:42 "How does a man come to knowthe unknowable?
3 00:02:49 We're closed.
4 00:02:51 No boarders after 8:00.
5 00:03:04 You came.
6 00:03:06 (DOOR OPENS)
7 00:03:14 Someone here for you, my love.
8 00:03:17 Tom Nickerson?
9 00:03:21 Herman Melville.
10 00:03:24 We received your letter.
11 00:03:26 You're either a desperate man or a foolto come all the way to Nantucket.
12 00:03:32 Well, my offer still stands.
13 00:03:36 Three months' lodgingsfor a single night's talk.
14 00:03:40 All I have in the world.
15 00:03:42 But I prefer to think of itas an investment.
16 00:03:46 I want you to tell mewhat happened to the Essex.
17 00:03:56 (SIGHS) What do you think happened?
18 00:03:59 There are rumblings.Rumors that the Essex was...
19 00:04:02 What do you want?
20 00:04:04 What story do you expect to hear?
21 00:04:06 That of the whale.
22 00:04:10 The Essex ran aground.There was a full inquiry.
23 00:04:13 I believe the inquirywas less than truthful.
24 00:04:18 Get out.
25 00:04:21 You are the last survivorof the Essex, sir.
26 00:04:24 If you won't talk, who will?
27 00:04:25 Did you not hear me? Leave. Now.
28 00:04:32 (DOOR CLOSES)
29 00:04:34 - No. You mustn't go. Please.- He is in no mind to talk.
30 00:04:36 And I haven't come all this wayto be humiliated and waste my time.
31 00:04:39 Please, Mr. Melville.
32 00:04:42 He won't talk about the Essex to me.
33 00:04:44 To anyone. Never has. Never.
34 00:04:48 There's an agony about him.
35 00:04:51 His soul is in torment,
36 00:04:55 and in need of confession.
37 00:04:59 Please, just let me talk to him.
38 00:05:01 Please.
39 00:05:08 Love.
40 00:05:13 I believe it would do you goodto talk to the man.
41 00:05:18 No.
42 00:05:22 You listen well.
43 00:05:25 Who holds this place togetherwhile you drink yourself to death?
44 00:05:29 You will talk with this man as muchas is necessary to keep the money.
45 00:05:36 You know our circumstances, Thomas.
46 00:05:50 Only as much as is necessary.
47 00:05:57 I'll get whiskey.
48 00:06:04 MELVILLE: I neglected to mention itin my letter, but I was a whaler once.
49 00:06:10 One trip, I mean.
50 00:06:13 Green hand.
51 00:06:14 So, you've seen it all.
52 00:06:19 My wife read your books.
53 00:06:22 She enjoyed them.
54 00:06:24 I'm happy to hear it.
55 00:06:27 I've had good sales.
56 00:06:29 And I think this storycould surpass the success
57 00:06:32 of even my first novel,which did quite well.
58 00:06:35 Another of your seafaring yarns?
59 00:06:42 Have you read Hawthorne, Mr. Melville?
60 00:06:45 Now there's a writer.
61 00:06:48 Great writer.
62 00:06:50 He is.
63 00:06:53 But he is not here. And I am.
64 00:06:57 For my own particular reasons.
65 00:07:09 I will tell you of the Essex.
66 00:07:10 I believe you will be disappointed.
67 00:07:13 But every word I say will be true.
68 00:07:17 Story of the Essexis the story of two men.
69 00:07:23 Captain George Pollard and his first mate,
70 00:07:28 Owen Chase.
71 00:07:30 - Owen. You don't wanna be late.- (HAMMERING)
72 00:07:33 I'll be there.
73 00:07:34 Besides, can't have our daughtersleeping under a leaky roof, can we?
74 00:07:38 What makes you so sure it's a girl?
75 00:07:41 Well, it has to be.
76 00:07:42 So she can remind me why I stilllove you when you're being stubborn.
77 00:07:46 Well, if it's to be a daughter,she'll be a version of you, not me.
78 00:07:48 Blond locks and determinedto conquer the world.
79 00:07:51 I suppose after today, you'll betrading in that tunic for a uniform.
80 00:07:55 That's right.
81 00:07:56 Finally out of this patch of dirt,into a captain's house like you deserve.
82 00:08:00 PEGGY: I don't need one of those housesin town with stuffy neighbors.
83 00:08:03 There's plenty of room herefor the three of us.
84 00:08:05 You know, sometimes your kind heartand good nature is just unbearable.
85 00:08:12 Go get your captaincy.
86 00:08:22 (CROWD TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
87 00:08:44 (BOY LAUGHING)
88 00:08:46 (BOY SHOUTING)
89 00:08:55 (INDISTINCT TALKING)
90 00:08:57 - SHAREHOLDER: What's your bid?- BUYER 1: I'll have $1.90.
91 00:09:00 SHAREHOLDER: I've got 1,000 gallons at $2!
92 00:09:02 BUYER 2: I'll take 40 shares!
93 00:09:05 BUYER 3: Seller! Seller! Over here!
94 00:09:08 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
95 00:09:12 MAN: Criterion's back with a fine haul.
96 00:09:14 1, 600 barrels.
97 00:09:15 SHAREHOLDER: A new record.
98 00:09:17 £50 sterling for head matteron the London market.
99 00:09:22 MAN: Congratulations.
100 00:09:27 (BANGING)
101 00:09:32 - Good morning, Mr. Chase.- Mr. Mason.
102 00:09:34 Come in, please.
103 00:09:36 (CLEARS THROAT)
104 00:09:38 My partner, Benjamin Fuller.
105 00:09:40 CHASE: Good morning, sir.
106 00:09:41 Do sit down.
107 00:09:47 Mr. Chase.
108 00:09:49 I do hope you realize how satisfied we are
109 00:09:51 with the work you've done for usover the years.
110 00:09:53 Thank you, sir.
111 00:09:55 Now, one of our ships, the Essex,
112 00:09:58 has just been refitted at great expenseand is to go to sea.
113 00:10:02 Now, having madesuch an investment in her,
114 00:10:05 we want to be sureshe's in the best possible hands.
115 00:10:08 So, it gives us great pleasureto offer you a position aboard her.
116 00:10:14 As first mate.
117 00:10:19 As first mate?
118 00:10:20 Mmm-hmm.
119 00:10:22 Mr. Mason, you promised mecommand of a ship after my last voyage
120 00:10:25 when I brought you back 1,500 barrels.
121 00:10:28 Do you remember? You gave me your word.
122 00:10:30 That promise must now be deferred.
123 00:10:33 Like everyone else,we've had a lean time recently.
124 00:10:36 No, never on my watch.
125 00:10:38 Nantucket now dominates the world market.
126 00:10:41 That must not change.
127 00:10:43 This is no time for experimentation.
128 00:10:47 The Essex will be captainedby George Pollard,
129 00:10:51 scion of a great whaling family.
130 00:10:54 His father also happens to be ourpatron.
131 00:10:57 MASON: Blood, Mr. Chase.
132 00:10:59 You can have all the voyagesunder your belt you want,
133 00:11:01 but blood will always win out.
134 00:11:03 Yes, well, blood is not gonna filla ship with oil, Mr. Mason.
135 00:11:06 To successfully command,a captain needs respect.
136 00:11:08 Now, what if the men don't respect him?
137 00:11:11 You will make sure that they do.
138 00:11:13 Ah, good day, gentlemen.
139 00:11:15 MASON: I understand your disappointment,
140 00:11:19 so, a one-fifteenth lay.
141 00:11:23 That's more thanI've ever paid any first officer.
142 00:11:27 And if you bring back2,000 barrels of oil,
143 00:11:29 I give you my word,
144 00:11:32 next time, you will have your captaincy.
145 00:11:35 You've given meyour word before, Mr. Mason.
146 00:11:40 No, this time, I'll take it in writing.
147 00:11:47 (DOOR CLOSES)
148 00:11:55 Captain Pollard.
149 00:11:58 We've just had a mostagreeable conversation with Mr. Chase.
150 00:12:01 He'll be honored to serve under you.
151 00:12:05 I'm glad to hear it.
152 00:12:07 Now I'm to babysit a greenhorn.
153 00:12:10 Some chinless Nantucketer bornwith a damn silver spoon in his mouth.
154 00:12:14 You know, I should've thrownthe offer back in their faces.
155 00:12:16 Why? You now havethe offer of command in writing.
156 00:12:19 Yes, well, a liar's word is worthless,even on paper.
157 00:12:33 You know, I'd love you just as muchif you were a merchant captain.
158 00:12:36 And you wouldn't be gone for two years.
159 00:12:38 I won't be gone two years.
160 00:12:40 A Bedford whaler came backlast week who was gone three.
161 00:12:44 She lost two menand still with her hull half empty.
162 00:12:46 Yeah, well, they were from Bedford,and they didn't have me on board.
163 00:12:54 Son of a bitch!
164 00:12:58 I will captain my own ship!
165 00:13:02 A whaling ship.
166 00:13:04 Up to them, all we'd ever haveis this patch of dirt,
167 00:13:07 and that's not gonna happen, Peggy.
168 00:13:08 Those are your father's words, not yours.
169 00:13:10 What's wrong with his words?
170 00:13:13 He wanted thingsfor his family, for himself.
171 00:13:16 He was a dreamer, Owen.
172 00:13:18 Yes, he was.
173 00:13:20 Dreamed of the sea and never gotto sail it because of men like them.
174 00:13:23 At least he got to see his children born.
175 00:13:34 It's all I know.
176 00:13:39 I'm sorry.
177 00:13:43 I married a whaleman.
178 00:13:52 Hey.
179 00:13:55 I'll come back as quickas a summer's night, I swear.
180 00:14:09 Just come back.
181 00:14:12 Promise me.
182 00:14:15 I already swore to you.Now you want me to promise, too?
183 00:14:23 I promise.
184 00:14:39 POLLARD SR.: Son, a word with you.
185 00:14:43 To be a captain, you cannot be a friend.
186 00:14:46 You are their superior.
187 00:14:48 Never forget that.Never let them forget that.
188 00:14:51 Thank you, sir.
189 00:14:53 Your great-grandfather and a few otherscreated this industry.
190 00:14:57 Without us, without you,the world plunges into darkness.
191 00:15:02 I hope to bring honor tothe Pollard family name, sir.
192 00:15:11 PRAYER LEADER: "Thou didst, O Lord,create the mighty whale
193 00:15:15 "That wondrous monster of a mighty length
194 00:15:18 "Beyond conception his unmeasured strength
195 00:15:22 "But, everlasting God, thou dost ordain
196 00:15:25 "That we, poor feeble mortalsshould engage
197 00:15:30 "Ourselves, our wivesand children to maintain
198 00:15:34 "This dreadful monsterwith a martial rage"
199 00:15:40 O Father, grant that your glorious lightshine on these men.
200 00:15:46 Ensure them a prosperous voyage,
201 00:15:49 that they may return safelyand with a full ship,
202 00:15:53 so that the white flamesof Nantucket whale oil
203 00:15:57 may continue to keep light in our homes,
204 00:16:00 city streets safe from sin in the night,
205 00:16:04 and to fuel the machines of industry
206 00:16:07 that drive our great nation forward
207 00:16:10 as our noble species evolves.
208 00:16:13 In your name, we pray.
209 00:16:25 - So, what month was this?- Late in the year.
210 00:16:29 We were one of the last ships to go out,
211 00:16:32 which is why my friendBarzillai and I got a berth.
212 00:16:35 You know, I was 14.
213 00:16:39 Fourteen.
214 00:16:41 CHAPPEL: Nickerson, you're standingaround, boy. Move!
215 00:16:44 NICKERSON: First time to sea.Scared, but more scared to show it.
216 00:16:48 Barzillai was 17.
217 00:16:50 Orphans. Grew up on the wharf.
218 00:16:52 Both in a hurry to be called men.
219 00:16:56 (MAN ORDERING INDISTINCTLY)
220 00:16:59 Grubs, what are those pinsthey're wearing?
221 00:17:02 They're whale pins, Thomas.
222 00:17:04 How do I get one of them?
223 00:17:06 Well, you gotta thrust the killing lance
224 00:17:08 into the largest beast thatever breathed on this Earth.
225 00:17:11 (GRUNTING)
226 00:17:12 JOY: Nickerson, get the green stuffto Mr. Bond, there.
227 00:17:16 Make it quick, damn it.
228 00:17:19 I shall have 12 of those one day.
229 00:17:21 PETERSON: Windlass is readyand sails are loose, sir.
230 00:17:24 SAILOR 1:Mr. Joy, this is only half my order!
231 00:17:26 Put them over the ground tier casks.
232 00:17:27 Well, well, you being on boardmeans only one thing.
233 00:17:30 Yeah, at least there's one person on thisship who knows the truth about Owen Chase.
234 00:17:34 No, that all the other shipshave already crewed up.
235 00:17:37 Now, now.
236 00:17:38 I'm a reformed man, Owen.
237 00:17:40 Question is, are you?
238 00:17:41 Don't tell me Matthew Joy'sput down the bottle.
239 00:17:44 - Dry as sand.- (CHUCKLES)
240 00:17:46 Has Owen Chase put down his temper?
241 00:17:48 Ah, serene as the church.
242 00:17:50 I'll believe that when I see it.
243 00:17:52 And given our captain,
244 00:17:54 I'll give your serenity about 48 hours?
245 00:17:59 Good luck.
246 00:18:06 Pollard. George Pollard.
247 00:18:08 Owen Chase.
248 00:18:10 "Chase."That's an off-island name, isn't it?
249 00:18:13 Yes, it is.
250 00:18:15 And very shortly, we will beoff-island for some time,
251 00:18:18 and I'll be very much at home.
252 00:18:20 POLLARD: Must say I was surprised.
253 00:18:22 Normally, a captain getsto choose his first mate.
254 00:18:26 An experienced captain, yes.
255 00:18:28 'Course, you can understandfrom the owners' point of view,
256 00:18:30 they want to feel their investment'sin the hands of men.
257 00:18:33 Indeed.
258 00:18:34 They probably want a littleextra reassurance, that's all.
259 00:18:37 Well, do keep an eye on me and let meknow if I'm doing anything wrong.
260 00:18:41 Oh, I know no other way, Captain.
261 00:18:42 Hmm.
262 00:18:54 Mr. Chase, haul short the anchor.
263 00:18:56 Yank to the wind! There's topmen aloft.
264 00:18:57 - SAILOR: Aye!- Mr. Lawrence, take the helm.
265 00:18:59 - Aye, sir.- Mr. Joy, make sail.
266 00:19:01 JOY: Mr. Cole! Mr. Chappel!Stand by the spanker.
267 00:19:03 Set your fore staysailand your fore and main topsails.
268 00:19:06 CHASE: Come on, look lively, you lads.
269 00:19:08 CHAPPEL:Come on, Nickerson! While we're young!
270 00:19:09 JOY:Let fall clews and bunts and sheet ho!
271 00:19:11 Set topsails and topgallants.
272 00:19:13 - Heave away on the windlass.- Heave away on the windlass.
273 00:19:15 (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
274 00:19:19 Set topgallants.
275 00:19:20 Let go clew lines and sheet ho!
276 00:19:22 RAMSDELL:There's a snarl in the gasket, sir.
277 00:19:24 Mr. Chappel, take the helm.
278 00:19:26 PETERSON: It won't clear, Mr. Chase!
279 00:19:28 Come on! Why aren't those braces laid out?
280 00:19:33 Mr. Ray, where are my headsails?
281 00:19:34 BARZILLAI: Aye, sir!
282 00:19:36 CHASE: Crank away on the windlass!
283 00:19:38 - BOND: Crank away on the windlass, sir!- CHAPPEL: Nickerson, pull!
284 00:19:46 CHASE: Make sail, God damn it!
285 00:19:47 JOY:God and all of Nantucket is watching, men.
286 00:19:55 Anchor's trim!
287 00:19:56 - LAWRENCE: Captain! Head down!- JOY: Mind your head, Captain.
288 00:20:02 - CHASE: What's the matter, Mr. Sheppard?- THOMAS: Gasket's fouled the sheet, sir.
289 00:20:05 GARDNER: It won't clear, Mr. Chase!
290 00:20:08 Topgallant sheet is jammed!
291 00:20:09 - RAMSDELL: The gasket still won't clear!- COLE: We don't have enough sail on yet.
292 00:20:14 CHASE: Still won't clear!
293 00:20:21 Watch your step!
294 00:20:24 JOY: It's the gasket, Owen!
295 00:20:37 Stand clear.
296 00:20:44 SAILOR: Whoa! Bloody hell!
297 00:20:46 - JOY: Let fall your course!- SAILORS: Heave!
298 00:20:51 Make fast!
299 00:20:53 (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
300 00:21:05 SAILOR: Nice piece of work, Mr. Chase.
301 00:21:20 If we make Cape Verdesin the next two weeks,
302 00:21:22 we'll have a decent chanceof reaching the Pacific on schedule.
303 00:21:28 Corn, Mr. Chase?
304 00:21:30 Oh, no, thank you, sir.
305 00:21:31 Never did have much of a taste for it.
306 00:21:34 That's odd.
307 00:21:36 Told your father grew corn on Cape Cod.
308 00:21:38 That's right. He did.
309 00:21:40 As you can imagine, I certainlygrew tired of eating it every day.
310 00:21:43 (CHUCKLES)
311 00:21:46 Corn.
312 00:21:48 - Okra. Beans, I believe?- Mmm-hmm.
313 00:21:50 Before he went to jail.
314 00:21:54 Are you familiar with this story, Mr. Joy?
315 00:21:57 - JOY: Sir?- (CLEARS THROAT)
316 00:21:59 Were you aware that
317 00:22:00 Mr. Chase was effectively orphaneddue to his father's incarceration?
318 00:22:04 Well, we all have our own paths to sea.
319 00:22:08 As a rule, we tendnot to ask too many questions.
320 00:22:11 POLLARD: Hmm.
321 00:22:13 Can't have been easy, though.
322 00:22:14 Yet
323 00:22:16 you had Nantucket's great seafaring familyto adopt you.
324 00:22:20 This is far from the first time I've beencalled a landsman or an off-islander
325 00:22:24 by some Nantucketer, reminding mehow I am not a part of that family.
326 00:22:30 Now, if the Captain will excuse me, thereare whaleboats and watches to assign.
327 00:22:41 No, sir. Not for me.
328 00:22:43 - Not a drop?- No, sir.
329 00:22:46 Like I said, sometimes the fewerquestions one asks, the better.
330 00:22:54 (LIQUID POURING)
331 00:22:55 (SAILORS TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
332 00:22:59 CHAPPEL: Serve that food up.
333 00:23:02 RAMSDELL:Getting this slop on the first day?
334 00:23:05 Cheap bastards. Where's the meat?
335 00:23:07 (BARZILLAI LAUGHS)
336 00:23:10 BARZILLAI:That's a gorgeous girl, Mr. Chappel.
337 00:23:12 A vision of beauty, that.Carved on a varnished whale bone.
338 00:23:14 - Let me have a touch.- Don't touch.
339 00:23:18 I thought you were married, anyway.
340 00:23:20 I am, and there she is.
341 00:23:22 - Well, that's her nose, anyway.- (ALL LAUGHING)
342 00:23:25 CHASE: Congratulations, ladies.
343 00:23:30 That was a fine job trimming sails today.
344 00:23:33 A sorrier pack of deck wallopersI don't think I've ever seen.
345 00:23:37 Mr. Chappel.
346 00:23:39 - Sir!- You're Captain's harpooner.
347 00:23:42 Mr. Lawrence, you'll be mine.
348 00:23:44 Aye, sir.
349 00:23:45 And Mr. Peterson.
350 00:23:48 Second mate's harpooner.
351 00:23:50 Aye, sir.
352 00:23:51 There'll be six men to a boat.
353 00:23:53 First drills are tomorrow.Six bells sharp.
354 00:23:55 We're not even east of Halifax, sir.
355 00:23:58 What's your name?
356 00:24:00 Coffin. Henry Coffin.
357 00:24:03 CHAPPEL: He's the Captain's cousin, sir.
358 00:24:06 Well, well, Mr. Coffin.
359 00:24:08 You think a whale knowsif it's east of Halifax?
360 00:24:10 (ALL LAUGHING)
361 00:24:14 I don't know who all of you areor how you got here.
362 00:24:18 Some of you probably have felonies to hideand you're on the run.
363 00:24:21 That's fine. I don't give a damn.
364 00:24:24 But in return, you exist for one thingand one thing only.
365 00:24:29 And that is whale oil.
366 00:24:31 I intend to fill our 2,000 barrelsand be home as quickly as possible.
367 00:24:35 And even when the weather is fineand there are no whales, Mr. Coffin,
368 00:24:39 we will lower the boatsand practice all maneuvers
369 00:24:41 necessary in the capture of a whale.
370 00:24:43 And any man who is idlewill find himself swimming home.
371 00:24:46 Is that understood?
372 00:24:47 Aye, sir.
373 00:24:48 Sir.
374 00:24:53 Greenhorn.
375 00:24:55 On deck.
376 00:24:59 CHAPPEL: On you go.
377 00:25:04 Aye, aye, landsman.
378 00:25:06 - CHASE: Thomas Nickerson, right?- NICKERSON: Aye, sir.
379 00:25:09 CHASE: You know, some feel sick at first.
380 00:25:11 - (GRUNTING)- (YELPING)
381 00:25:14 - (LAUGHING)- Please, pull me back up!
382 00:25:16 Best way to square itwith King Neptune, boy!
383 00:25:18 Please bring me up!
384 00:25:24 Better now?
385 00:25:26 (COUGHING)
386 00:25:28 Ah, shit.
387 00:25:31 Sir, I am so sorry.
388 00:25:34 Well, now you got somethingto write home to your mother about.
389 00:25:42 My mother's buried up in Smith's Hill.
390 00:25:44 There's a stone for my father, too.
391 00:25:47 He was lost at sea before I was born.
392 00:25:51 CHASE: Here, give me that.
393 00:25:55 Well, this is your family now, boy.
394 00:25:57 For better or for worse.
395 00:26:01 Worse, mostly.
396 00:26:05 Swab the deck, kid.
397 00:26:23 CHASE: Dogwatch! You're gonna learnwhat it takes to be whalers today, mates.
398 00:26:27 SAILORS: Aye, sir!
399 00:26:28 - JOY: You led that line wrong, Nickerson.- NICKERSON: Aye, sir.
400 00:26:31 JOY: We'll stay at thistill sundown if we have to.
401 00:26:33 BARZILLAI: Aye, Mr. Joy, sir!
402 00:26:34 Main topsail leech lines!
403 00:26:36 Harpooner, make ready to boat!
404 00:26:37 - PETERSON: Aye, sir!- RAMSDELL: Aye, Mr. Joy!
405 00:26:39 CHASE: Go main topsail leech lines.
406 00:26:41 Too slow, you damn coofs!
407 00:26:43 JOY: The bailing piggins.
408 00:26:44 CHASE:You will learn every inch of this ship
409 00:26:46 - before you return to your bunks.- SAILOR: Aye, sir!
410 00:26:51 COFFIN: Sweat that line, Barz.
411 00:26:53 - CHASE: You need to move quicker, Mr. Ray.- BARZILLAI: Aye, Mr. Chase.
412 00:26:55 PETERSON:Ain't no greenhorns no more, Mr. Chase.
413 00:26:57 (SAILORS LAUGHING)
414 00:26:59 CHAPPEL: You're a sailor now!
415 00:27:01 (MEN CHEERING)
416 00:27:04 CHASE: Not bad, Mr. Ray. Well done.
417 00:27:06 - Forecourse bunts!- ALL: Aye, sir.
418 00:27:08 JOY: Get used to it, lads.You're gonna work like horses.
419 00:27:11 Mr. Chase?
420 00:27:12 Sir.
421 00:27:14 POLLARD: Set stunsails.
422 00:27:17 Is that wise, sir?We're nearing the Gulf Stream.
423 00:27:19 Best keep it five knotstill we can see the weather.
424 00:27:21 We are two days behind.
425 00:27:23 We need to make up the timeif we're to catch the easterlies.
426 00:27:27 Set stunsails.
427 00:27:34 - Set stunsails.- NICKERSON: Aye, Mr. Chase!
428 00:27:35 - CHASE: Come on, move.- Belay that! Set stunsails!
429 00:27:39 Get aloft, Mr. Coffin.
430 00:27:41 - The captain wants speed.- Aye, sir.
431 00:27:43 CHASE: Look for braces, lads.
432 00:27:44 - Trim for speed.- Aye, sir.
433 00:27:46 JOY: Set fore the main topsailand topgallant stunsails, men. Move it.
434 00:27:52 Make fast your stunsail halyard.
435 00:27:54 PETERSON: Make fast stunsail halyard, sir.
436 00:27:57 COFFIN: Stunsail boom ready, sir!
437 00:27:58 PETERSON: Bracing fore topsail, sir.
438 00:28:02 - (ALL CHEERING)- Hey!
439 00:28:08 (LAUGHING)
440 00:28:16 (CHEERING)
441 00:28:20 - CHAPPEL: The captain's got us moving now!- RAMSDELL: We're finally getting somewhere!
442 00:28:25 CHAPPEL: She may be old,but she can still roll, boys!
443 00:28:28 (CHEERING CONTINUES)
444 00:28:38 CHASE: Sir, a squall on the starboard bow.
445 00:28:39 We must shorten sail immediately.
446 00:28:42 Not just yet, Mr. Chase.
447 00:28:44 Sir, we are headed into a squallat more than 8 knots,
448 00:28:46 and it's moving faster than that.
449 00:28:48 Let it come.The men are soft from months on land.
450 00:28:50 They need a good baptism.
451 00:28:51 Let them know our work has begun.
452 00:28:56 If we don't shorten sail and bear off,it'll catch us on the beam.
453 00:28:59 Mr. Chase, we will stand on.
454 00:29:03 Mr. Lawrence?
455 00:29:04 Hold our course.
456 00:29:05 Holding course, sir.
457 00:29:07 POLLARD: We'll lose half a day runninglike that. We'll skirt the edge of it.
458 00:29:10 If the men can't handle a gust like this,then God help us all.
459 00:29:16 (WIND WHOOSHING)
460 00:29:24 JOY: Best secure for heavy weather.
461 00:29:26 PETERSON: Rough weather coming up, boys.
462 00:29:28 Get this deck secure.
463 00:29:30 (THUNDER RUMBLING)
464 00:29:36 JOY: Double gripes on the boats!
465 00:29:45 Best prepare for weather, Mr. Bond.
466 00:29:47 We're headed into a squall.
467 00:29:49 - CHASE: Secure the main hatch!- SAILOR: She's moving fast!
468 00:30:07 We must fall off and run with it.
469 00:30:09 We will stand on, Mr. Chase.
470 00:30:11 Mr. Lawrence!
471 00:30:13 - Hold your course.- Holding course, sir.
472 00:30:24 (CLATTERING)
473 00:30:28 CHASE: Sea's coming aboard!
474 00:30:30 PETERSON: Hold on!
475 00:30:32 Shorten sail, Mr. Chase!
476 00:30:34 - Climb to weather and grab the shrouds!- SAILOR: Climb to weather!
477 00:30:37 CHASE: Get to windward and hold on!
478 00:30:39 - We need to get those sails down!- CHAPPEL: Go lee!
479 00:30:44 BARZILLAI: Nickerson, hold fast!
480 00:30:48 CHASE: Hold steady lines!
481 00:30:55 (SAILORS YELLING)
482 00:30:58 LAWRENCE: Hold fast!
483 00:30:59 POLLARD: Turn the ship!
484 00:31:01 Turn to leeward!
485 00:31:02 CHASE: No! The damage is done!
486 00:31:04 - Strike topgallants. Let fly sheets!- No, turn the ship!
487 00:31:07 Veer off, Mr. Lawrence.
488 00:31:09 It's too late! It's too goddamn late!
489 00:31:11 - We'll be broadsided!- POLLARD: Turn this ship!
490 00:31:21 - CHASE: Hold on!- POLLARD: Turn!
491 00:31:23 CHASE: Strike those damn topgallants!
492 00:31:32 Hold on!
493 00:32:03 CHASE: Look out!
494 00:32:09 (YELLING)
495 00:32:11 (SCREAMING)
496 00:32:18 (SCREAMING)
497 00:32:26 Mr. Joy!
498 00:32:28 - We have to cut away the topgallants!- JOY: Topgallants away!
499 00:32:31 CHASE: We have to get her upright!
500 00:32:38 (GRUNTS)
501 00:32:57 (PANTING)
502 00:33:22 (KNOCKING ON DOOR)
503 00:33:26 CHASE: You wish to see me, sir?
504 00:33:30 At six bells tomorrow,
505 00:33:32 you will assemble the crew.
506 00:33:35 Inform them that we will be returningto Nantucket for repairs.
507 00:33:39 You will then apologize to themfor interfering with a captain's order,
508 00:33:42 which nearly cost the livesof every man on this ship today.
509 00:33:45 What?
510 00:33:46 I'll accept your resignationupon our return to port.
511 00:33:49 That will be all.
512 00:33:51 - It was your order to set stunsails, sir.- That decision was sound.
513 00:33:54 The men needed testing.
514 00:33:55 So you send them into a storm?
515 00:33:57 That was unlucky.
516 00:33:59 No, it was bad seamanship.
517 00:34:01 And blaming misfortuneis just plain weakness.
518 00:34:03 Damn your impertinence!
519 00:34:05 Do you know who you're speaking to?
520 00:34:08 My name is Captain George Pollard.
521 00:34:10 Pollard!
522 00:34:15 And you, Mr. Chase,no matter how many whale pins
523 00:34:17 you may have on your lapel,are nothing more than the son of a farmer
524 00:34:21 who's managed to bully his wayinto an officer's tunic.
525 00:34:26 Now get out.
526 00:34:31 To return to port without a singlebarrel of oil would be a mistake, sir.
527 00:34:36 And not behoove a manwhose name is Pollard.
528 00:34:38 Or Chase, for that matter.
529 00:34:41 And the best thing for both of uswould be to work all hours God sends us,
530 00:34:45 fill this ship with oiland be home inside a year
531 00:34:48 and rid of one anotheras quickly as possible.
532 00:34:54 Trust me, I am every bitas desirous of that as you.
533 00:35:00 Of course, that is a captain's decision.
534 00:35:14 NICKERSON:They were like an ill-married couple.
535 00:35:18 An ill-married couplewill tolerate each other, Mr. Melville.
536 00:35:21 But an ill-married couplecan also bring down a ship.
537 00:35:24 Are you married, Mr. Melville?
538 00:35:27 - I am.- God have mercy on you.
539 00:35:30 First child on the way, too.
540 00:35:32 So, does your good wifeknow that you've brought
541 00:35:34 all you have in the world here tonight
542 00:35:36 and given it to a stranger?
543 00:35:39 No, sir.
544 00:35:40 You're full of surprises, aren't you?
545 00:35:43 So,
546 00:35:45 the Essex did not return to port.
547 00:35:49 She did not.
548 00:35:51 - She continued out to sea.- Yes, she did.
549 00:35:54 And before long, we heard that call
550 00:35:57 that all whalemen pray for.
551 00:36:00 "Blows."
552 00:36:03 Blows!
553 00:36:05 RAMSDELL: To windward!
554 00:36:07 There she blows!
555 00:36:09 POLLARD: Right or sperm, Mr. Ramsdell?
556 00:36:12 CHASE: Sperm whales they are!
557 00:36:13 CHAPPEL: There go the flukes!
558 00:36:15 POLLARD: Mr. Chase!
559 00:36:16 Hoist and swing boats.
560 00:36:18 All hands! All hands on deck!
561 00:36:20 - All hands on deck!- (SAILORS WHOOPING)
562 00:36:26 CHASE: Away the boats.
563 00:36:28 JOY: Lower away!
564 00:36:57 CHASE: Straight! Crack them backbones.
565 00:36:59 RAMSDELL: Aye, sir!
566 00:37:01 CHASE: Give way all.
567 00:37:02 Spring those oars till your arms fall off.
568 00:37:08 POLLARD: There they breach!
569 00:37:10 Thataway, boys! Full pressure!
570 00:37:13 CHAPPEL: Aye, sir!
571 00:37:14 Come on! Put your back into it.
572 00:37:20 Pull!
573 00:37:21 Pull like a vengeance!
574 00:37:22 RAMSDELL: There she blows!
575 00:37:27 - That's a calf.- SAILOR: Whoo-hoo!
576 00:37:29 (SAILOR LAUGHING)
577 00:37:32 That's the calf?
578 00:37:33 That's the cow.
579 00:37:40 (WHOOPING)
580 00:37:45 LAWRENCE:And that's our boy! That's the money.
581 00:37:49 - Nickerson, push!- Sorry, sir.
582 00:37:51 Forty-barreler?
583 00:37:52 Fifty.
584 00:37:54 - (GRUNTING)- CHASE: Oh, he's a buster!
585 00:37:57 Bite the oars, lads.
586 00:37:59 Blister your goddamn lungs!
587 00:38:01 Full pressure!
588 00:38:03 Smartly, lads! Smartly!
589 00:38:05 Mind your oars!
590 00:38:08 - CHASE: Mr. Ramsdell, prepare the line.- RAMSDELL: Aye, sir.
591 00:38:14 CHASE: Mr. Lawrence, the first one's mine.
592 00:38:18 Take me to the pretty spot.
593 00:38:20 - LAWRENCE: Pull!- CHASE: Come on. Stay on him.
594 00:38:28 (SAILORS WHOOPING)
595 00:38:42 You're on your firstNantucket sleigh ride, boy.
596 00:38:45 NICKERSON: Oh, my God!
597 00:38:47 Whoo!
598 00:38:58 Look at him!
599 00:38:59 The most fearsome creatureever to live on this Earth.
600 00:39:08 (ALL WHOOPING)
601 00:39:12 LAWRENCE: He sounds.
602 00:39:16 My hands!
603 00:39:21 (WHALE SPUTTERING)
604 00:39:25 LAWRENCE:We need to wet the line, Nickerson.
605 00:39:33 JOY: Give way, lads. Give way.
606 00:39:40 RAMSDELL:Got 140 fathoms of line left, Mr. Chase.
607 00:39:52 Eighty fathoms of line left, sir!
608 00:39:59 He's gonna pull us under!
609 00:40:03 Matthew, I need your line!
610 00:40:05 Keep going!
611 00:40:06 - Peterson, give me the line.- Aye, sir.
612 00:40:09 JOY: Give me that line, Mr. Peterson.
613 00:40:11 RAMSDELL:We're down to 60 fathoms of line left, sir!
614 00:40:15 - Twenty fathoms, Mr. Chase.- Tie it off!
615 00:40:21 - JOY: Safe!- Go!
616 00:40:36 - Peterson, lay out.- Aye, sir.
617 00:40:39 How many fathoms can he go?
618 00:40:42 PETERSON: 70 fathoms left, sir.
619 00:40:47 No, no, no, wait.
620 00:40:52 - Owen!- No, no! Not yet!
621 00:40:55 Don't touch that line!
622 00:40:57 PETERSON: Down to 50 fathoms, sir.
623 00:41:01 Owen, God damn it!
624 00:41:02 I said don't touch it!
625 00:41:04 PETERSON: 30 fathoms left, Mr. Joy.
626 00:41:10 Ten fathoms left, sir!
627 00:41:32 (MEN CHEERING)
628 00:41:42 (GRUNTS)
629 00:41:48 Backwater!
630 00:41:53 Push!
631 00:41:58 Chimney's afire!
632 00:42:00 Chimney's afire!
633 00:42:02 LAWRENCE: Afire!
634 00:42:35 CHASE: Hurry it along, lads.
635 00:42:37 LAWRENCE: God! Get out, you bastards.
636 00:42:56 BOND: Blubber in the oil.
637 00:42:57 Smell that, boys! That's us making money!
638 00:43:00 LAWRENCE:Get out of there, you sons of bitches.
639 00:43:03 (SAWING)
640 00:43:05 - RAMSDELL: There, you got it?- BARZILLAI: There's not a chance.
641 00:43:10 (GRUNTS)
642 00:43:12 - PETERSON: How's it looking?- It's not good.
643 00:43:16 RAMSDELL: That's it.
644 00:43:21 - Mr. Chase, sir.- Yeah?
645 00:43:24 That's all of it, sir.We can't get any more out.
646 00:43:26 That's the gold in there, boys.Come on, keep digging.
647 00:43:29 We're too big to wriggle down there.
648 00:43:31 Then find someone who can.
649 00:43:38 Nickerson! Come here, boy.
650 00:43:41 (WHISTLES)
651 00:43:42 Hey! I said come here.
652 00:43:48 Climb on into him.
653 00:43:50 RAMSDELL: Come on, Thomas.
654 00:43:52 What's in there is worth a hell of a lotmore than what they're boiling down.
655 00:43:58 (COUGHING)
656 00:44:00 Sir!
657 00:44:02 I can't, I'm...
658 00:44:04 I'm sorry. I can't.
659 00:44:06 You get down there,or I'll have you sleep down there.
660 00:44:11 You best put that between your teeth, boy.
661 00:44:14 Stinks worse thanthe devil's asshole down there.
662 00:44:21 Thanks.
663 00:44:27 Sorry.
664 00:44:28 CHAPPEL:Here, Nickerson, take my pillow with you.
665 00:44:31 (MEN LAUGHING)
666 00:44:33 Down you go.
667 00:44:36 (GRUNTS)
668 00:44:45 (RETCHING)
669 00:44:51 A man gets to know himself down there.
670 00:44:53 (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
671 00:44:56 - They ever send you into a whale's head?- MELVILLE: No.
672 00:44:59 I was spared.
673 00:45:01 Well, that's where the treasure is.
674 00:45:06 I'll never forget that first bull.
675 00:45:10 Forty-seven barrels.
676 00:45:12 'Course, the happiness was short-lived.
677 00:45:15 The waters there had all been fished out?
678 00:45:17 That they had.
679 00:45:20 So, we headed further out.
680 00:45:25 Yeah.
681 00:45:26 Took us a month to round the Horn.
682 00:45:30 Left the South Atlantic behindwith a sliver of hope
683 00:45:34 that things could change for the better.
684 00:45:38 But making the Pacificdidn't improve our lot.
685 00:45:43 Whale sightings were too damn scarce.
686 00:45:48 After nearly a year at sea,
687 00:45:51 the temperaments of our captainand first mate grew more strained.
688 00:45:57 Captain Pollard spent mostdays and nights in his cabin,
689 00:46:01 afraid to look his crew in the eye.
690 00:46:08 Our hold was almost empty.
691 00:46:11 And to gaze upon our paltry efforts
692 00:46:14 only served as a reminder
693 00:46:17 that we were a long way from going home.
694 00:46:37 (CHILDREN TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
695 00:46:41 (TRADER SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE)
696 00:46:43 BOND: No, no. I don't talk that talk.
697 00:46:45 - Speak English.- Offer me more.
698 00:46:49 - Here, sir.- This, Nantucket whale oil.
699 00:46:52 (INTERPRETER TRANSLATING)
700 00:46:53 - Ain't no skinny hog worth more than that.- More!
701 00:47:11 (FIRST MATE SPEAKING SPANISH)
702 00:47:14 - (SPEAKING SPANISH)- (CAPTAIN SPEAKING)
703 00:47:33 (FIRST MATE SPEAKING)
704 00:47:36 (CAPTAIN SPEAKING)
705 00:47:41 (FIRST MATE SPEAKING)
706 00:47:49 Capitán. Excuse me.
707 00:47:51 The locals told me your voyagewas waylaid, sir.
708 00:47:54 Captain George Pollard. The Essex.
709 00:47:57 Capitán Clemente Pelaez, the Santa Maria.
710 00:48:00 Would you buy a colleague a drink?
711 00:48:04 (MEN SPEAKING SPANISH)
712 00:48:09 No, no.
713 00:48:12 Bad luck? How far out?
714 00:48:16 Far enough for only a fool to go.
715 00:48:19 How far would that be?
716 00:48:21 A thousand leagues along the equator.
717 00:48:25 The Offshore Grounds.
718 00:48:27 Were there whales there?
719 00:48:30 More than you've ever dreamed.
720 00:48:32 Hundreds.
721 00:48:34 Fields of flukes far as the eye can see.
722 00:48:37 Could have filled up 3,000 barrelsin the space of a day.
723 00:48:40 What do you mean, "could have"?
724 00:48:46 If it weren't for that demon.
725 00:48:50 A whale.
726 00:48:53 White as alabaster.
727 00:48:55 Hundred feet long.
728 00:48:58 Sent six of my crew to their graves.
729 00:49:09 And the rest of us,something to remember him by.
730 00:49:14 Now, this white whale, did he dancea jig and pick your pocket as well?
731 00:49:18 Hmm?
732 00:49:23 Gracias.
733 00:49:28 You believe that?
734 00:49:32 If we set sail now,catch the south easterlies
735 00:49:36 at their best time and fill our belly,we could be home in six months.
736 00:49:41 What say you, Mr. Chase?
737 00:49:43 No need to endure our predicamentfor a moment longer than necessary.
738 00:49:46 Amen to that.
739 00:49:48 Amen.
740 00:49:51 NICKERSON: Greed took holdof our captain and first mate.
741 00:49:55 So we headed out.
742 00:49:57 A thousand leagues along the equator.
743 00:50:00 Where knowledge ended, speculation began.
744 00:50:05 That's where the whales had gone to hide.
745 00:50:08 As far from man as they could possibly go.
746 00:50:11 But we hunted them down.
747 00:50:14 Centuries before, sailors fearedsailing off the edge of the Earth.
748 00:50:20 But we were headed for the edge of sanity.
749 00:50:27 Trust gave way to doubt.
750 00:50:30 Hope to blind superstition.
751 00:50:33 Captain, the men are talking.
752 00:50:36 That's what men do.
753 00:50:38 They aren't happy with your decisionto sail out this far.
754 00:50:42 Well, did you correct them?
755 00:50:44 Did you remind them of our purposeto fill this ship with whale oil,
756 00:50:47 and if the whales are 1,000 leagues out,that that is where we will go?
757 00:50:50 Cousin, please.
758 00:50:55 This is madness.
759 00:50:57 You have let yourselfbe influenced by that man.
760 00:51:01 You must turn this ship back.
761 00:51:03 I suggest you go back down,
762 00:51:06 reassure the men, be a leader
763 00:51:10 and don't ever, ever abusethe privilege of family with me again.
764 00:51:16 Mr. Coffin.
765 00:51:41 (CREAKING)
766 00:51:48 What is it?
767 00:51:49 Listen.
768 00:51:50 Mr. Chase? I see some white water.
769 00:51:53 - CHASE: Where?- BARZILLAI: Portside!
770 00:51:54 - LAWRENCE: We're away!- JOY: Portside, Captain!
771 00:51:56 - CHAPPEL: Where are they?- PETERSON: You see anything?
772 00:52:05 Lower away!
773 00:52:07 - Lower away! Lower away!- (ALL EXCLAIMING EXCITEDLY)
774 00:52:11 The devil take the Mexican grounds!
775 00:52:30 (EXCLAIMS)
776 00:52:47 (EXCLAIMS)
777 00:52:53 POLLARD: Peak oars!
778 00:52:55 Give it to him, Mr. Chappel!
779 00:52:58 Stick him, man! Stick him!
780 00:53:00 (YELLS)
781 00:53:05 JOY: Dead ahead, Peterson!
782 00:53:08 (GRUNTS)
783 00:53:15 - (THUD)- (MEN GRUNTING)
784 00:53:18 Don't let him chew your oars, boys.Back to it.
785 00:53:24 - (THUD)- (MEN EXCLAIMING)
786 00:53:29 (GASPING)
787 00:53:45 - The whale?- Yes.
788 00:53:48 - So it's true?- Yes.
789 00:53:52 Too much is true.
790 00:53:54 BARZILLAI: Get it up!
791 00:54:11 Full pressure!
792 00:54:26 (CHASE WHISTLES)
793 00:54:28 CHASE: Mr. Bond!
794 00:54:29 Back the foreyard, lower the tackle!
795 00:54:31 Aye, sir!
796 00:54:33 JOY: Here she comes, Peterson. Now, now!
797 00:54:38 (GROANING)
798 00:54:39 (GRUNTS)
799 00:54:49 Mr. Lawrence, take us leeward,head us straight for the school.
800 00:54:52 LAWRENCE: Aye, sir.
801 00:54:53 - BOND: Hot tar, sir.- We'll find him.
802 00:55:01 POLLARD: We're boat to black skin.
803 00:55:03 Beach us on her!
804 00:55:13 (CHEERING)
805 00:55:14 She's ours, men!
806 00:55:26 (WHALE BELLOWING)
807 00:55:32 (BANGING CONTINUES)
808 00:55:36 (BREATHING HEAVILY)
809 00:55:38 (THUD)
810 00:55:48 What was that, Mr. Lawrence?
811 00:55:51 (RUMBLING)
812 00:55:54 BOND: Mr. Chase!
813 00:56:03 God damn it.
814 00:56:05 Find Mr...
815 00:56:11 (GRUNTS)
816 00:56:31 NICKERSON: Mr. Easton!
817 00:56:49 CHASE: Get Mr. Lawrence to man the pumps!
818 00:56:53 Where is he?
819 00:56:54 Port bow!
820 00:57:07 Get me the biggest irons we have.
821 00:57:13 He wants a fight?
822 00:57:25 Never seen a whale do that.
823 00:57:26 CHASE: Mr. Lawrence, take the wheel.
824 00:57:28 Mr. Ramsdell,secure the other end of the line
825 00:57:30 - to the foremast.- RAMSDELL: Aye, sir.
826 00:57:32 As I live and breathe, he's mine.
827 00:57:55 - (GRUNTS)- (GROANS)
828 00:57:58 Ah!
829 00:58:04 (EXCLAIMS)
830 00:58:20 - Cut the line!- RAMSDELL: Look out!
831 00:58:27 (GRUNTS)
832 00:58:37 (CRACKING)
833 00:58:39 (CREAKING)
834 00:58:41 (SCREAMING)
835 00:58:52 (SCREAMING)
836 00:59:09 (GASPS)
837 00:59:16 - Captain!- What?
838 00:59:18 The Essex! She's listing.
839 00:59:32 Turn this boat around!
840 01:00:09 - NICKERSON: Help me!- Nickerson!
841 01:00:11 - Mr. Joy!- Here!
842 01:00:12 - Give me your hand!- Help!
843 01:00:13 Nickerson!
844 01:00:51 Mr. Chase!
845 01:00:54 A whale, sir.
846 01:00:56 It stove the ship.
847 01:00:58 What?
848 01:00:59 We lost Easton and Sanborn.
849 01:01:05 The pumps are useless, sir.
850 01:01:14 Prepare to abandon ship.
851 01:01:16 We can't row our way home.
852 01:01:18 We'll have to strip her of her sails
853 01:01:19 - and jimmy-rig something.- Aye, sir.
854 01:01:21 JOY: Gather as much foodand water as you can carry.
855 01:01:24 We're gonna needall the fresh water you can find.
856 01:01:26 RAMSDELL:Nickerson, you grab as much as you can.
857 01:01:28 Barz, come with me.
858 01:01:34 Sweet Lord!
859 01:01:35 JOY:First, the sails, then the provisions.
860 01:01:40 SAILOR:Get as much food as you can carry, lad.
861 01:01:44 JOY: Make haste, boys!
862 01:01:46 Nickerson, there aremore casks in steerage.
863 01:01:49 - Got it?- Hardtack is dry.
864 01:01:51 Move sprightly, gentlemen.
865 01:01:53 Lower away!
866 01:01:54 - Take those tack lines.- COLE: Up aloft!
867 01:01:56 - LAWRENCE: Lower away! Bring it down!- JOY: Mr. Cole, get that yard down.
868 01:01:59 LAWRENCE: Bring it down. Keep it coming!
869 01:02:01 Hold off!
870 01:02:09 (GRUNTS)
871 01:02:11 - Come on, Nickerson!- LAWRENCE: Get those sails!
872 01:02:14 NICKERSON: There you go.
873 01:02:19 CHASE: Get that yard down!
874 01:02:22 We need the sails. Not enough water.
875 01:02:30 CHAPPEL: Get the barrels, now!
876 01:02:33 CHASE: Strip that rigging!
877 01:02:34 BOND: More fresh water!More hardtack! Come on!
878 01:02:36 RAMSDELL:I can see more casks in the steerage!
879 01:02:38 (GRUNTS)
880 01:02:40 NICKERSON: Benjamin! Quick! Come on!
881 01:02:41 - BARZILLAI: Give me your hand!- CHASE: Get him up.
882 01:02:43 BARZILLAI: I got you.
883 01:02:44 Hardtack!
884 01:02:46 JOY: Come on! Move it!
885 01:02:48 Step lively, Mr. Nickerson!
886 01:02:56 Gotta get away from the oil!
887 01:02:57 - CHAPPEL: She's going down! She's listing!- JOY: Where's Owen?
888 01:03:00 Nickerson, where is Mr. Chase?
889 01:03:02 NICKERSON: He was just here, sir.
890 01:03:03 - COLE: Come on, hurry up!- JOY: Owen!
891 01:03:06 - NICKERSON: Mr. Chase!- JOY: We gotta shove off!
892 01:03:08 Come on, now, boys!
893 01:03:09 COLE: Oil on deck!
894 01:03:12 - Captain!- NICKERSON: Mr. Chase!
895 01:03:15 (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
896 01:03:29 (CHASE GRUNTS)
897 01:03:34 Mr. Chase, sir!
898 01:03:36 JOY: Owen!
899 01:03:38 Where is the first mate?
900 01:03:39 - Owen!- NICKERSON: Mr. Chase, sir!
901 01:03:48 (GRUNTS)
902 01:03:50 - JOY: Owen!- RAMSDELL: She's gonna blow!
903 01:03:51 - Owen!- COLE: We gotta move!
904 01:03:53 No, wait! Wait!
905 01:03:55 Mr. Chase, sir!
906 01:03:58 Mr. Chase!
907 01:04:05 (GRUNTS)
908 01:04:44 There he is! There he is! There he is!
909 01:04:49 - BOND: Over here!- NICKERSON: Mr. Chase!
910 01:04:53 Move that!
911 01:04:55 Mr. Chase, sir.
912 01:04:57 - Here!- BOND: Get ahold, now.
913 01:04:59 We got you.
914 01:05:01 - Sir.- BOND: You're all right now, Mr. Chase.
915 01:05:07 Going fishing, are we?
916 01:05:09 Clean and load it, Mr. Joy.
917 01:05:14 (GASPING)
918 01:05:23 Back away,or she'll take us down with her.
919 01:06:56 (BLOWS)
920 01:07:10 Captain.
921 01:07:12 What about our provisions?
922 01:07:20 Two ounces of hardtack a day per man.
923 01:07:23 And half a cup of water.
924 01:07:28 Hey, man, we can't live on that.
925 01:07:30 RAMSDELL: Not for more than a few days.
926 01:07:36 (WHALE BELLOWING DISTANTLY)
927 01:07:49 It's he.
928 01:07:53 (BELLOWING CONTINUES)
929 01:07:55 Yeah, it's him, all right.
930 01:08:00 You don't fool me, Mr. Chase.
931 01:08:03 POLLARD: Mr. Coffin?
932 01:08:04 - That right?- You put us here.
933 01:08:07 You know you put us here.
934 01:08:10 - Hey! Put it down!- Mr. Coffin, put the pistol down.
935 01:08:12 - Say you're scared!- CHAPPEL: What are you doing?
936 01:08:14 POLLARD: Mr. Coffin, put the pistol down.
937 01:08:16 You know what happenswhen the food and water runs out?
938 01:08:18 Do as the captain says, Coffin!
939 01:08:20 I just wanna see the landsman scared.
940 01:08:21 Mr. Coffin, put the pistol down.That's an order!
941 01:08:23 - Do as the captain says! Now!- Say it!
942 01:08:26 - POLLARD: Henry.- Say it!
943 01:08:28 Say it!
944 01:08:29 POLLARD: Henry!
945 01:08:31 Put the pistol down.
946 01:08:37 Henry!
947 01:08:39 Put it down.
948 01:08:41 (EXHALES DEEPLY)
949 01:09:17 So east it was.
950 01:09:19 Back in the direction we'd come.
951 01:09:22 Though only the sunand compass told us so.
952 01:09:26 All directions looked the same.
953 01:09:29 Our hope was to catchthe Westerlies to Easter Island.
954 01:09:34 A journey of 3,000 miles.
955 01:09:37 In 12 days, we have drifted south.
956 01:09:39 Six degrees latitude.
957 01:09:42 We're not one mile closerto Easter Island.
958 01:09:46 RAMSDELL: We stayed in the same place.
959 01:09:48 (COUGHS)
960 01:09:50 PETERSON: We are cursed.
961 01:09:52 We'll make up for itwhen we catch the variables.
962 01:09:58 We'll catch them.
963 01:10:15 (THUNDER RUMBLING)
964 01:10:22 (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
965 01:10:29 Chappel!
966 01:10:31 COLE: Chappel!
967 01:10:33 Chappel!
968 01:10:35 You've got him, Captain!
969 01:10:41 PETERSON: Mr. Joy, the halyard's jammed!
970 01:10:47 Mr. Joy! You all right, Mr. Joy?
971 01:10:51 (GROANS)
972 01:10:54 JOY: Grab the tiller!
973 01:10:57 - Grab it!- CHASE: Matthew!
974 01:11:00 Get that sail down!
975 01:11:02 (WHALE BELLOWING)
976 01:11:32 Matthew. Hey, what happened?
977 01:11:35 What happened?
978 01:11:36 Owen. What are you doing here?
979 01:11:39 - Let me take a look.- No, no, no.
980 01:11:40 - Lay still. Let me look.- Owen, I'm fine.
981 01:11:42 All right. Just relax. Relax.Let me take a look.
982 01:11:43 - I'm fine!- I know. I know.
983 01:11:44 I just wanna take a look.
984 01:11:50 I banged my head.Just a scratch, all right?
985 01:11:53 - Just a scratch.- Give him some water.
986 01:11:55 - I don't need any water!- Give him some goddamn water!
987 01:11:58 No, no, no. I don't need water. I'm fine.
988 01:12:07 - Yeah.- CHASE: Take that. Take it.
989 01:12:09 (GROANING)
990 01:12:10 Hey. I got you, I got you.
991 01:12:13 You're all right. You're all right.
992 01:12:20 Hey! What're you all looking at? I'm fine.
993 01:12:23 Captain Pollard. Fit as a fiddle.
994 01:12:26 Fit as a goddamned fiddle. You hear me?
995 01:12:29 - Owen.- Yeah.
996 01:12:30 I'm fine.
997 01:12:31 All right? I'm fine!
998 01:12:34 - You're a tough son of a bitch.- Thank you. I'm fine. Get out of here.
999 01:12:38 CHASE: He's good.
1000 01:12:41 Let's go.
1001 01:12:43 COFFIN: Why waste water on a dead man?
1002 01:12:46 Them two men have known each other,sailed together since childhood.
1003 01:12:52 Now, tell me, could you sit thereand watch your own brother die?
1004 01:12:56 Simply a matter of numbers, Mr. Chappel.
1005 01:13:00 There's not enough for all of us.
1006 01:13:14 (MUTTERING) Why waste water on a dead man?
1007 01:13:18 Why waste water on...
1008 01:13:20 Why waste water? Why waste?
1009 01:13:23 Why waste water on a dead man?
1010 01:13:26 Mr. Nickerson?
1011 01:13:29 - Why waste water...- You all right, sir?
1012 01:13:32 - I cannot.- Cannot what?
1013 01:13:34 (SIGHS) No, you...
1014 01:13:36 You have enough. More than enough.
1015 01:13:38 But, sir, we've come so far.
1016 01:13:40 We have come to an end.
1017 01:13:41 We have an agreement, sir.
1018 01:13:43 Take the money and leave!
1019 01:13:45 The devil's bargain.
1020 01:13:46 No, sir.
1021 01:13:48 The devil loves unspoken secrets.
1022 01:13:54 Especially those thatfester in a man's soul.
1023 01:13:58 What's yours?
1024 01:14:19 I am not a great writer.
1025 01:14:24 I am not Hawthorne.
1026 01:14:27 But from my first hearing of it,
1027 01:14:30 this tale has haunted me.
1028 01:14:33 It consumes me.
1029 01:14:36 I fear if I do not write it,
1030 01:14:40 then I should never write again.
1031 01:14:43 What else?
1032 01:14:47 I fear if I do write it,
1033 01:14:50 that it will not beas good as it should be.
1034 01:15:03 Continue the story, sir.
1035 01:15:06 For the both of us.
1036 01:15:24 Pass that down.
1037 01:15:31 BOND: Thank you, sir.
1038 01:15:38 We thank you, Lord, for this is our food.
1039 01:15:41 I'm sorry.
1040 01:15:42 For life and health,
1041 01:15:45 and every good.
1042 01:15:46 - Let all manner to...- Land.
1043 01:15:49 Land!
1044 01:15:51 - NICKERSON: Land! Land!- BARZILLAI: Land!
1045 01:15:54 - Land!- NICKERSON: Land!
1046 01:15:57 Oars! Give way! Give way!
1047 01:16:01 Oars! Now! Give way! Row!
1048 01:16:05 (MEN LAUGHING)
1049 01:16:11 - BARZILLAI: I saw it, Mr. Chase.- CHASE: That you did, boy.
1050 01:16:24 Hold fast. Hold fast! Hold fast!
1051 01:16:28 - LAWRENCE: Mr. Chase, sir. What is it?- Mr. Chase!
1052 01:16:31 What the devil is it?Why have you stopped?
1053 01:16:34 He's been following us!
1054 01:16:35 LAWRENCE: What is he talking about?
1055 01:16:38 BOND:There's nothing out there, Mr. Chase!
1056 01:16:40 - There ain't nothing out there, sir!- Sir, what are you doing?
1057 01:16:55 - Brace! Brace! Brace!- (ALL SCREAMING)
1058 01:17:00 No!
1059 01:17:04 (GRUNTS)
1060 01:17:25 Where is he?
1061 01:17:27 (ALL SCREAMING)
1062 01:17:30 (GRUNTS)
1063 01:17:43 (GRUNTS)
1064 01:17:44 (MEN COUGHING)
1065 01:17:46 (ALL GASPING)
1066 01:18:54 (BIRD SQUAWKING)
1067 01:19:10 (GRUNTS)
1068 01:19:28 POLLARD: This could be Ducie Island.
1069 01:19:31 Without a map, compass or quadrant,there's no way to be certain.
1070 01:19:34 We will keep fires going night and day.
1071 01:19:37 Hope a passing shipcatches sight of our smoke.
1072 01:19:49 (HAMMERING)
1073 01:20:37 CHASE: This is what I wanted you to see.
1074 01:20:47 They've been here a long time, no doubt.
1075 01:20:50 Waiting for a ship.
1076 01:20:53 But no ship came.
1077 01:20:57 No ship is going to come.
1078 01:21:00 If we stay, we die.
1079 01:21:02 How long do you thinkit'll take the tropic birds
1080 01:21:05 to stop coming here oncethey see their eggs eaten?
1081 01:21:11 (METAL CLANGING)
1082 01:21:26 It's a privilege to knowthe moment of one's death in advance,
1083 01:21:30 be able to prepare for it.
1084 01:21:33 Curse to be so far from home
1085 01:21:37 without a chance to say goodbyes,without a chance to make peace,
1086 01:21:42 without a chance to settle the scores.
1087 01:21:48 Then let us at least settlethose between us, Captain.
1088 01:21:54 Captain of what?
1089 01:21:56 The Essex was lostthrough no fault of yours.
1090 01:21:59 I was as much to blame for...
1091 01:22:00 You are not the captain.
1092 01:22:07 But you were born to do this job.
1093 01:22:10 I was just born into it.
1094 01:22:25 What do we do, do you think, George?
1095 01:22:29 And what offense did we give Godto upset him so?
1096 01:22:33 The only creature to haveoffended God here is the whale.
1097 01:22:37 Not us?
1098 01:22:40 In our arrogance, our greed,look where we find ourselves.
1099 01:22:43 We are supreme creaturesmade in God's own likeness.
1100 01:22:47 Earthly kings whose business it is
1101 01:22:50 to circumnavigatethe planet bestowed to us.
1102 01:22:54 To bend nature to our will.
1103 01:22:56 You really feel like an earthly kingafter everything that we've been through?
1104 01:23:01 We're nothing. We're...
1105 01:23:03 We're specks. And dust.
1106 01:23:06 We sail into the sun at dawn.
1107 01:23:10 If we are to die,then with God's grace, let us die as men.
1108 01:23:19 (CLANGING)
1109 01:23:23 (HAMMERING)
1110 01:23:28 POLLARD: Are we ready, Mr. Weeks?
1111 01:23:29 WEEKS: Aye, sir.
1112 01:23:38 Mr. Chappel?
1113 01:23:40 Mr. Wright?
1114 01:23:41 I can't do it, sir.
1115 01:23:44 Me, Wrights and Weeks,
1116 01:23:46 we're staying.
1117 01:23:52 (BREATHING WITH DIFFICULTY)
1118 01:23:56 CHASE: You ready to go, Matthew?
1119 01:24:09 I'll give you a hand.Here, you gotta get up.
1120 01:24:11 No, there's no point. You hear me?
1121 01:24:12 No, we're going home. We're going home.
1122 01:24:14 There's no point.
1123 01:24:16 - Just go.- (SIGHS)
1124 01:24:22 God damn it, Matthew.
1125 01:24:26 It's all right.
1126 01:24:29 Well, I'll send a boat for youthe minute we get back.
1127 01:24:32 Then we'll play cardsback in Nantucket, all right?
1128 01:24:34 Yeah.
1129 01:24:35 - It's a deal.- Good.
1130 01:24:44 You want me to open that for you?
1131 01:24:47 JOY: Ah...
1132 01:24:50 I think I'll manage.
1133 01:24:53 If it comes to that.
1134 01:24:58 God be with you, brother.
1135 01:25:01 Yeah, and you.
1136 01:25:22 MR. BOND: Brother Peterson?
1137 01:25:25 Y'all coming with us?
1138 01:25:27 Mr. Peterson.
1139 01:25:29 Why don't you come in our boatwith Mr. Bond here?
1140 01:26:04 Where... Where is he?
1141 01:26:08 Pollard?
1142 01:26:10 Mr. Lawrence. Mr. Lawrence, wake up.
1143 01:26:14 Where's the other boat gone?
1144 01:26:17 - Pollard!- NICKERSON: Captain Pollard!
1145 01:26:19 - Captain Pollard!- Captain Pollard, sir!
1146 01:26:22 - MR. CHASE: Pollard.- NICKERSON: Captain!
1147 01:26:24 Captain Pollard!
1148 01:26:29 MR. CHASE: Pollard!
1149 01:26:31 (GASPS)
1150 01:26:35 What's the matter?
1151 01:26:45 (CRYING)
1152 01:26:52 Benjamin. What are you doing?
1153 01:26:54 He's dead.
1154 01:26:56 Putting him overboard, sir.
1155 01:26:58 (FABRIC RIPPING)
1156 01:27:00 Look at me.
1157 01:27:02 Look at me, Benjamin.
1158 01:27:08 No right-minded sailor discardswhat might yet save him.
1159 01:27:23 Listen to me, boy. Listen to me.
1160 01:27:29 He can help us.
1161 01:27:32 MR. BOND: My God. My heavenly king.
1162 01:27:34 Sweetness is the power of his grace.
1163 01:27:37 With longing eyes, thy creaturesawait on thee for daily food.
1164 01:27:43 NICKERSON: (SOFTLY) My soul is dead.
1165 01:28:00 So it was decided.
1166 01:28:09 We prepared the body.
1167 01:28:13 We removed the organs.
1168 01:28:18 Separated his limbs from his body
1169 01:28:22 and cut all the flesh from the bones.
1170 01:28:30 After which,
1171 01:28:32 we closed the body
1172 01:28:35 and we sewed it up
1173 01:28:37 as decently as we could
1174 01:28:40 and committed it to the sea.
1175 01:28:44 We ate the heart first.
1176 01:28:49 (SIGHS)
1177 01:28:55 You judge me.
1178 01:28:58 No.
1179 01:29:03 (SIGHS)
1180 01:29:06 There.
1181 01:29:08 There.
1182 01:29:10 It is done.
1183 01:29:14 It is out.
1184 01:29:17 And you've never told anyone?
1185 01:29:21 No.
1186 01:29:24 Not even your wife?
1187 01:29:27 Do you think she could ever love me
1188 01:29:29 if she knew the abominationsI had committed?
1189 01:29:32 MRS. NICKERSON: Yes. She would.
1190 01:29:36 And if you had told methe story when we met,
1191 01:29:40 I would still wear your ring today.
1192 01:29:45 The strength of that boy
1193 01:29:47 still lives in you.
1194 01:29:51 I see that.
1195 01:29:53 Even if you don't.
1196 01:30:16 You can finish your story now, my love.
1197 01:30:25 (GASPING)
1198 01:30:30 (COUGHS)
1199 01:30:35 Hey, sit up.
1200 01:30:40 Listen,
1201 01:30:42 put your head back.
1202 01:30:44 (COUGHING)
1203 01:30:46 Look, we still gota few drops of water left.
1204 01:30:49 Don't you quit on me. We're going home.
1205 01:30:57 Do you have a family back home, Mr. Chase?
1206 01:31:02 Yeah, I have a wife.
1207 01:31:07 Yes, and a son or a daughter.
1208 01:31:51 (SIGHS)
1209 01:31:54 Very well.
1210 01:31:58 - Captain.- We will draw again.
1211 01:32:00 We will do no such thing.
1212 01:32:03 We'll draw again.
1213 01:32:05 POLLARD: Mr. Ramsdell,
1214 01:32:07 you will assume command of this vessel.
1215 01:32:11 Cousin, will you?
1216 01:32:14 You're our...
1217 01:32:16 You're our captain. The men need you.
1218 01:32:20 The men will be fine.
1219 01:32:22 Please.
1220 01:32:24 Please. Please.
1221 01:32:26 - Henry.- (CRYING) Let us draw again.
1222 01:32:29 It is an order.
1223 01:32:32 If you cannot do it,pass the pistol to another man.
1224 01:32:49 (GUN COCKING)
1225 01:33:04 Henry, no, no, no!
1226 01:33:15 MR. COLE: You gotta help me, kid.You gotta help me.
1227 01:33:21 NICKERSON: We were weeks in the doldrums.
1228 01:33:24 That part of the Pacificis more desert than ocean.
1229 01:33:27 The sun beating down.
1230 01:33:30 My fear.
1231 01:33:33 All I could think about
1232 01:33:36 was that everyone would die,and I'd be the last left alive.
1233 01:33:41 And as best Mr. Chase could tell,we were still 800 miles from land.
1234 01:33:48 (THUDDING)
1235 01:33:51 POLLARD: Mr. Chase.
1236 01:33:59 Ah.
1237 01:34:01 Captain Pollard.
1238 01:34:05 I am happy to see you.
1239 01:34:07 Been very little happinessin our survival.
1240 01:34:12 Or in ours, sir.
1241 01:34:15 POLLARD: Barzillai?
1242 01:34:19 The third boat?
1243 01:34:22 MR. CHASE: They've, uh...
1244 01:34:24 They've been gone for days.
1245 01:34:27 I'm afraid they're lost, sir.
1246 01:34:30 (RUMBLING)
1247 01:34:58 POLLARD:Mr. Chase, you have the best position.
1248 01:35:17 It's just a whale.
1249 01:35:23 He's there! Throw the lance!
1250 01:35:25 Throw it!
1251 01:35:31 - Throw it! Throw the lance!- Come on.
1252 01:35:45 Throw it!
1253 01:35:47 Come on.
1254 01:35:50 (WHALE CLICKING)
1255 01:35:57 POLLARD: Kill it! He's there!
1256 01:35:59 Throw the lance!
1257 01:36:19 Why didn't you kill it?
1258 01:36:47 You're a damn fool.
1259 01:37:13 NICKERSON: Currents drew us apart
1260 01:37:16 and that was the last we would seeof Captain Pollard's whale boat.
1261 01:37:23 SAILOR: A boat!
1262 01:37:25 Broad on the port bow!
1263 01:37:53 May God have mercy.
1264 01:38:37 (WEAKLY) Mr. Chase.
1265 01:38:41 (WEAKLY) Father!
1266 01:38:44 (WHIMPERING) Don't leave me, Father!
1267 01:38:51 (SEAGULL SQUAWKING)
1268 01:39:38 Mr. Chase.
1269 01:39:40 Mr. Chase.
1270 01:39:42 Sir, look. Look, sir.
1271 01:39:48 Mr. Chase, look.
1272 01:39:52 Wake up, Mr. Chase!
1273 01:39:55 Here, wake up!
1274 01:39:58 Please wake up, sir, there's land.
1275 01:40:01 Mr. Chase, look.
1276 01:40:23 NICKERSON: We were rescued there,off the island of Más Afuera, Chile,
1277 01:40:29 90 days after the sinking of the Essex.
1278 01:40:33 They gave us some old clothes.
1279 01:40:35 Fed us, too.
1280 01:40:38 It was hard to eat at first.
1281 01:40:40 Strange.
1282 01:40:43 They looked after us as best they could
1283 01:40:45 till we found a shipthat would carry us home.
1284 01:40:49 That voyage took another three months.
1285 01:41:00 It looked like the whole islandturned out to see us return.
1286 01:41:05 But there were no cheers.
1287 01:41:08 Only silence.
1288 01:41:11 They looked at us likewe were apparitions,
1289 01:41:15 phantoms.
1290 01:41:17 We'd said nothing of the detailsof our survival to anyone,
1291 01:41:22 but I wondered if they somehowknew of our privations.
1292 01:41:27 Maybe they were just curious.
1293 01:42:08 Oh, my God!
1294 01:42:14 (SOBBING)
1295 01:42:17 I promised, didn't I?
1296 01:42:26 Oh, God.
1297 01:42:29 Hi.
1298 01:42:32 Hey, sweetie. Who's this?
1299 01:42:35 Phoebe Ann.
1300 01:42:36 (PEGGY LAUGHING)
1301 01:42:40 Phoebe Ann Chase, huh?
1302 01:42:43 This is Daddy.
1303 01:42:47 Hey, sweetie.
1304 01:42:53 PEGGY: It's your daddy.
1305 01:43:03 Oh, my God.
1306 01:43:12 NICKERSON:Of course, they couldn't leave him alone.
1307 01:43:15 Mr. Chase and his wife hadscarcely walked a block towards home
1308 01:43:18 when he was stopped andmade to return to the Maritime office.
1309 01:43:23 There were business mattersstill in question.
1310 01:43:39 So, to the matter.
1311 01:43:45 Due to the significant loss of lifeand property on our voyage,
1312 01:43:50 it seems there will be an inquiry.
1313 01:43:52 And as captain and first mate,we will be expected to give an account
1314 01:43:56 of what happened.
1315 01:43:57 Yes, of course.
1316 01:43:59 And having discussed thiswith the ship owners and my father,
1317 01:44:04 it is clear that full disclosurewill have ramifications.
1318 01:44:09 Terrible ramificationsfor the whole industry.
1319 01:44:12 That a whale brought down the Essex.
1320 01:44:16 But it's the truth.
1321 01:44:25 If the insurance houses and investors
1322 01:44:28 were to start worryingabout sea monsters sinking ships,
1323 01:44:33 sailors drawing lots to survive...
1324 01:44:37 We are in the oil business.
1325 01:44:39 All of us.
1326 01:44:41 And as in any business,
1327 01:44:42 the probability of success mustalways be greater than the risk incurred.
1328 01:44:48 So, what are you suggesting, George?
1329 01:44:51 That you say the ship ran aground.
1330 01:44:54 That's a lie.
1331 01:44:55 - And that the men that died, drowned.- And that's another lie.
1332 01:44:58 Think on it. They will make you captain.
1333 01:45:00 Well, that pledge I already havein writing.
1334 01:45:02 Only on the conditionyou bring home a ship full of oil.
1335 01:45:08 This way, it's guaranteed.
1336 01:45:09 FULLER: You would be a wealthy man.
1337 01:45:12 The name Chase needno longer be a landsman's name,
1338 01:45:15 but an established name
1339 01:45:16 that belongs among the great familiesof Nantucket.
1340 01:45:20 You want me to whitewashwhat happened for profit?
1341 01:45:23 We are asking you to be pragmatic.
1342 01:45:42 The Essex was stove by a white whale.
1343 01:45:46 And those of us that survivedin ill-equipped whaleboats
1344 01:45:49 had to commit abominationsin order to survive.
1345 01:45:53 And, on our return,we're expected to spread barefaced lies
1346 01:45:58 so that you, the ship owners of Nantucket,
1347 01:46:01 might line your pocketsand sleep well at night?
1348 01:46:05 Well, I will not embroider the truth.
1349 01:46:08 Nor should you, George.
1350 01:46:29 NICKERSON: That last time I saw him...
1351 01:46:32 Mr. Chase, sir!
1352 01:46:34 I couldn't find the right wordsto say what I wanted to.
1353 01:46:38 Thomas.
1354 01:46:40 NICKERSON: Perhaps there are no words.
1355 01:46:42 Um...
1356 01:46:44 I'm gonna be on my way to Falmouth and...
1357 01:46:51 It's...
1358 01:46:53 It's been an honor, sir, to sail with you.
1359 01:47:01 The honor's been mine, Mr. Nickerson.
1360 01:47:20 Here.
1361 01:47:27 Good luck out there, Thomas.
1362 01:47:30 And you, sir.
1363 01:48:00 Next day, George Pollard was calledbefore the inquiry.
1364 01:48:04 (CROWD MURMURING)
1365 01:48:08 MASON: Gentlemen, Captain George Pollard.
1366 01:48:11 NICKERSON: And all the important menin Nantucket were there.
1367 01:48:14 It was a formality.
1368 01:48:18 Good day to you, Captain. Please sit down.
1369 01:48:25 For the record, then...
1370 01:48:29 The Essex was stove by a white whale1,200 leagues west of Ecuador.
1371 01:48:35 It was as if Owen Chase himselfhad spoken.
1372 01:48:39 Told them the truth.
1373 01:48:45 Captain Pollard's conscience was clear.
1374 01:48:49 But the inquiry was a sham.
1375 01:48:53 Pollard went out again,
1376 01:48:57 looking for the white whale.
1377 01:48:59 He never found it.
1378 01:49:02 He ran a second ship aground off Hawaii.
1379 01:49:06 Twice cursed.
1380 01:49:09 Never sailed again.
1381 01:49:11 And Owen Chase?
1382 01:49:14 He was a man of his word.
1383 01:49:16 First, he sent a boat backto Ducie Island.
1384 01:49:20 Mr. Joy had passed.
1385 01:49:22 But the other three were,incredibly, still alive.
1386 01:49:28 And then?
1387 01:49:31 And then he packed up his familyand moved to New Bedford.
1388 01:49:36 Started over.
1389 01:49:38 Became a merchant captain,
1390 01:49:41 sailing on his own terms.
1391 01:49:52 Well, you certainly got yourmoney's worth, Mr. Melville.
1392 01:49:56 These February nightsare the longest of the year.
1393 01:49:58 Well, you can both rest now.
1394 01:50:01 Believe me,
1395 01:50:02 I shall not be resting for some time.
1396 01:50:05 NICKERSON: Why?
1397 01:50:07 You got your story.
1398 01:50:09 You know, your plot. It's all there.
1399 01:50:12 Maybe it wasn't a plot I was after.
1400 01:50:16 No. What, then?
1401 01:50:19 - Something else you've given me tonight.- And what's that?
1402 01:50:23 The courage to go whereone does not want to go.
1403 01:50:29 Mr. Melville,
1404 01:50:32 what you've heard, what I've told you,
1405 01:50:37 will it all be of service to your book?
1406 01:50:43 It will be a work of fiction,Mr. Nickerson,
1407 01:50:47 inspired by truth.
1408 01:50:51 But I don't believeI'll feel the need to use all of it.
1409 01:51:03 - Thank you.- Here.
1410 01:51:05 - Take that with you.- No. The money is for you. I insist.
1411 01:51:09 I insist you keep it.
1412 01:51:11 And I insist one personin this conversation is sober.
1413 01:51:26 - So it's back to, uh...- Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
1414 01:51:30 Well, good luck.
1415 01:51:33 Thank you.
1416 01:51:38 You know,
1417 01:51:40 I heard a man from Pennsylvaniadrilled a hole in the ground recently
1418 01:51:44 and found oil.
1419 01:51:46 That can't be true.
1420 01:51:48 I heard it, too.
1421 01:51:52 Oil from the ground.
1422 01:51:56 Fancy that.
1423 02:01:40 (ENGLISH - SDH)
