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RADIO STATIC

VOICES IN STATIC

MAN'S VOICE: ..comply with the Gentlemen's Agreement in 1950,

in which they are telling us that...

STATIC WHINES

INSECTS CHIRP

FLY BUZZES

SNUFFLING BREATHS

MUTED CHATTER

DEEP SNIFFING

WHISPERS: Jack.

Jack, have you seen anything? Sh!

Jack.

If we're not going to find something, we should go back.

Shut up, Maurice!

LOUD BANGING

What was that?

Father says that turbulence is not something to be frightened of.

Oh!

BOYS GASP

It's air. Gaps in the air of some sort.

It means nothing.

PIG GRUNTING

STICK CRACKS, PIG SQUEALS

PIG SCREECHES, BOYS SCREAM

SCREAMING, SCREECHING INTERTWINE

HE SCREAMS

SILENCE

THEY PANT

Yours!

THEY PANT

Next time, keep silent. Yes. Sorry.

I'm thirsty. Let's find the others.

BRASS MUSIC PLAYS THROUGH RADIO STATIC

DISTANT BOOMS

The acorn dropped with a plop on the chicken's head,

and Chicken Licken shouted loud,

"The sky is falling in!"

And he shouted it everywhere he could.

And then the thunder came.

All the other chickens ran away.

And Chicken Licken repeated,

"The sky is falling in!"

BOYS SNIFFLING

But did anyone listen to Chicken Licken?

No.

Should they have?

FAINTLY: Yes!

Maybe.

RALPH: Ah! Are you here to help?

I'm here to swim.

WILL you help?

Shall we see if it has strength?

BOYS LAUGH

You need to bind it better.

Thank you for that insight.

You're not expecting me to help?

I'm a hunter. You have builders.

Call a meeting.

I will. I will. I'll blow the conch

and all will come running because they love meetings.

And everyone will be very solemn and obey the conch.

And then someone will say we ought to build a jet

or a submarine,

or a television. I'd love a television.

And then, when the meeting's over,

everyone will be filled with enthusiasm

and work for at least five minutes

before they wander off or go hunting.

I don't have the hunters I need either.

We're getting closer all the time, though.

If we had a few more people... I didn't know that.

You're getting closer all the time? That is wonderful!

JACK LAUGHS

What do you call that?

It's not something getting closer!

Hang about, we've worked damn hard!

So have we, Ralph.

Bathe with me.

Everything's better when we bathe.

Race you to the water.

Five, four...

..three...

..two! No, that's not fair!

Wait! Hey!

Ha-ha! Ha-ha! Whoo!

BOTH LAUGH

I won! You did no such thing.

Maurice, who won?

I didn't see for certain,

but I'd say you, Jack.

Ha-ha! What? But...

LAUGHTER

HE EXHALES

I need to make a barb for our spears.

We wounded a pig.

We would have made it bleed if it wasn't just wood we were using.

Could you sharpen a stone? It wouldn't work as well.

I will catch something.

I'll keep the signal fire going and I'm going to catch something.

And then everyone will have meat and be happy.

You've noticed, haven't you?

How frightened the littluns are?

Have you been awake at night?

They talk and they dream and they scream as if they...

SIMON: As if it weren't a good island.

You remember. The... The beastie - the snake thing.

I remember the batty children. That's all I remember.

Don't you feel it, Jack?

When you're in the forest?

When you're on your own?

Something...

..behind you?

The best thing we can do is finish the shelters.

The best thing we can do is get rescued. The fire...

Yes, yes. I agree with both of you.

Although I would like to catch a pig first.

RALPH CHUCKLES

I'm serious!

You'd make an amazing member of our team, Ralph.

Could we not swap you for Simon?

As he seems to have completely forgotten his allegiances.

Simon and I are the only ones building the shelter.

He can stay here.

And you can be off with me, finding the pig runts.

The chief needs to be here for the littluns' sake.

PIGGY: Are we having a meeting?

I didn't see that you were here, Jack.

The littluns aren't using the tidal pool for the toilet.

I tell them different, and then they say that they will, but then...

Shall we talk about it all in the next meeting?

I thought this was a meeting -

before the meeting.

Not that we're the leaders, but we are sort of...

..well, the core leaders, aren't we?

No.

SAND RASPING

HE GASPS

Look! Just there.

Can you see the glint?

It's debris from the plane.

Could be useful.

Can you see its edge?

HE BREATHES RAGGEDLY

SOFT CRUMBLING

HE GRUNTS, PANTS

HE BREATHES RAPIDLY

HE BREATHES STEADILY

FAINTLY: He might fall.

He needs to come down.

It's too high for him. It's dangerous.

MUFFLED CHATTER

He's going to fall.

I think it's too far.

I think I should come down.

Would you agree?

Yes! Yes!

HE BREATHES SHAKILY

ROCKS PATTER

BIRD CHATTERS

ROCKS, DUST PATTER

JACK GASPS

Jack.

There's a good foothold here.

And here is a good spot for your left foot.

That's your right.

Just here, Jack.

Just here with your right foot.

And let your left foot drop.

FLY BUZZES

You're doing well.

FLY BUZZES

OK.

Just there, Jack.

Just bring that right foot...

I know!

Now this foot. There. Good.

Well done, Jack. Almost there.

OK, now drop both of your feet down there.

Well done, Jack.

Thank you.

Don't tell anyone about this.

They wouldn't understand.

HE SNIFFS

FIRE CRACKLES

HE EXHALES

HE SIGHS

CRACKLING CONTINUES

There.

There!

PIGS GRUNT, SQUEAL

It's almost flagrant, the dirty beasts.

It's a rest spot, isn't it?

It's clearly a rest spot.

When the sun's too hot, that's where they go.

What is it? The pigs.

They clearly behave as cows do, resting during the heat.

Good idea. We should do the same.

PIGS GRUNT

Mauri, you're good at navigation.

Can you map that?

Could you find that spot on the ground?

I could give it a good go.

Find where they rest.

Disguise our faces.

Disguise our faces? Paint our faces.

Surround the pigs. Box them in.

Midday raid? I like it.

For a good box, we need as many boys as we can manage.

Full choir attack.

HE ROARS

Hoo!

You look like a brick.

Are you supposed to creep about at night?

I like the peace.

You might scare the littluns.

I'm not the one daubing his face like someone in the Special Service.

My father used to be... Is it different, if you're a hunter?

Is it fine to scare the littluns if you're a hunter?

I'm not "painting" my face.

I'm disguising it.

I need to blend in. For the pig hunt.

You're having a jolly nice time, aren't you?

Simon, if you haven't got something nice to say, go away.

That's all I'm saying.

What a jolly good time you're having.

Where did you have that?

It's flint. I made it.

Caveman-style.

Stone against flint.

It's proved very useful cutting the vines.

It's not "a jolly good time".

I'm just taking it seriously.

As am I.

My father always taught the story of how,

when he was 18 years old,

he and a friend hiked across the whole of Scotland,

from John O'Groats to Hadrian's Wall.

They carried nothing with them.

They wanted to live off the land.

It rained for ten days.

But they didn't care.

I'd care. I hate being damp.

He said he learned more on that one trip

than he did throughout the entirety of school.

It's what readied him for university.

It's what readied him for his work.

He said without it, he would never have known

how to be successful.

You think this is a test that will make us stronger?

Of course not.

A test is not positive, however you behave in it.

"Oh, I got a delta minus for my maths."

Oh, wonderful. What you must have learned from that!

A test needs to be passed.

My father and his friend passed their tests.

We need to pass this one.

Before we're saved, that is.

What?

I know my father is currently...

Your father is not coming for you, Jack.

Whatever you say about Scotland,

he's not coming.

You don't know anything about my father.

No, but I know mine.

And I have suspicions that yours is just the same.

But their fathers are better.

And so I agree, you will be saved.

You're going to get off this island, Jack.

We all are.

I know it.

We just have to get by until they come.

This isn't a test.

We don't need to prove anything.

We don't need to be brave.

We don't need to be scared. I'm not scared.

I don't want to be tested. I don't want this to be a test.

I just feel like it is.

And I don't get scared, I get...

..worried.

That's a better word.

Shall I try to do your face?

I might have a better eye for it,

as my eye isn't attached to the face being painted.

JACK SCOFFS

Yes.

Why not?

Worried warrior.

WAVES LAP

BIRDS CRY

STONES SCRAPE

INDISTINCT CHATTER

CHATTER, LAUGHTER

STONES CLACKING

LAUGHTER

CHATTER, CHEERING

First thing we need to talk about are toilets.

LAUGHTER

We chose those rocks right along there

on the bathing pool as a lavatory.

That was a sensible decision.

The tide cleans the place up.

You littluns know about that.

LAUGHTER

Now people seem to use anywhere, even the shelter.

Sorry about that!

LAUGHTER

When you're getting fruit, if you're...taken short...

LAUGHTER

It's not funny.

It is a bit funny.

If you're taken short,

you keep away from the fruit.

That's dirty.

Next, water.

We were going to have water brought up from the streams

and put in those coconuts under fresh leaves.

What's wrong with drinking from the river? Yeah!

I got the conch.

There's nothing wrong with drinking from the river.

Stop that!

But we had another system

to stop people having to walk to the river.

The lazy people.

This whole camp's for lazy people.

Ralph, can you please tell them that...

Everybody, this is important!

Piggy's holding a shell.

Listen to everything he importantly says.

LAUGHTER

I-I didn't... Listen. Ralph...

Listen! I didn't... Listen!

We need these assemblies.

Not for fun, not for laughing,

and not for making jokes.

And not for cleverness,

but to put things straight.

Will you stop that?!

We have to do it. We've got a big expedition this afternoon.

It's necessary.

We're going to catch a pig, Ralph.

Go on, Piggy. What else do we need to talk about?

Shelters.

ALL: Ugh!

You all sleep in them. Who built them?

We did. Us!

We all did. BOYS: We built them!

No, we all built the first one.

I helped you with the second one. Four of us built the second one.

And me and Simon built the last one over there.

And failed miserably!

LAUGHTER

No, no, no, no. Sh!

No, don't laugh!

That... That shelter might fall down when the rain comes.

It's pathetic. Whose fault's that?

It's really flimsy! We need those shelters then.

Look, I...I'm chief, and I want to be a good chief,

but things are breaking up... LITTLEUNS YELLING

..and I don't understand why.

We began well.

Is it because you're frightened? Is... Is that it?

They think the beastie will get them!

LAUGHTER

Roger, Ralph has the conch.

Sometimes I get frightened myself.

Sometimes I hear a sound that doesn't make any sense.

Only I know it's nonsense.

So I stop the thoughts. See?

We need to be good campmates,

we need to help each other, and we need to stop crying.

All right?

Right, anyone want to say anything?

They can. I'm finished.

CHOIRBOYS: Oh, yeah, Jack! Go on, Jack!

Go on, Jack.

I agree with Ralph.

You littluns - you're all cry-babies.

SNICKERING

You, you, and especially you!

You don't hunt, build, or help.

You just get worked up about nothing.

There's no beast on this island. Only pigs.

And there's no dark, dangerous animal.

I don't think anyone said anything about an animal.

I've got the conch!

Yeah, shut up, Ralph!

Am I a hunter or am I not?

CHOIRBOYS: You're a hunter!

I've been all over this island by myself.

If there was some sort of beast, I'd have seen it.

There isn't.

And that's the end of that.

Nice one. Nice on, Jack.

APPLAUSE

Yes, Jack! Well said, Jack.

CHOIRBOYS CHEERING

Well said, Jack.

MURMURING, BOYS GASP

Oh, let him speak. The conch.

MURMURING

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Last night, I was sleeping.

FAINT CHORTLING

So? I was fighting with things.

I was outside the shelter by myself,

fighting with things.

Those twisty things in the trees.

And then I woke up...

..and I saw something moving among the trees.

LAUGHTER

And then...

JACK: All in your head. Thank you.

CHOIRBOYS LAUGH

Then I was frightened,

and I started to call out for Ralph.

And then I saw something big and horrid moving among the trees.

LAUGHTER

Perhaps you were asleep?

No, no.

I was asleep when the twisty things were fighting.

And then I woke up and I saw something big and horrid

moving among the trees.

WHISPERING

Do you have something to report, too?

Yeah.

PIGGY: Now is the time to say if something's frightening you.

WHISPERING

What's your name?

Percival Wemys Madison.

The Vicarage, Harcourt Street, Buriton, Hants.

Telephone, Buriton 6324.

PERCIVAL SNIFFLES, SOBS

I do love these meetings, Ralph.

They make everyone feel better.

CHOIRBOYS SNICKER

Percival! Stop this...

FEROCIOUS LAUGHTER

Look at me now. I say...

Whoa!

LAUGHTER

Don't even think about laugh...! Oh, ohh!

LAUGHTER

THEY LAUGH, ROAR

ROARING, LAUGHTER

ROARING, LAUGHTER CONTINUE

Ice cream! Ice cream!

SHOUTING, LAUGHTER

Ralph, we may have a problem.

He says it comes from the sea.

VOICES THROUGH RADIO STATIC

JACK: Hoo! BOYS: Ha!

Hoo-hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!

Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha! Hoo-hoo-hoo! Hoo-hoo! Hoo-ha!

Ha! Hoo! Ha! Hoo!

Hoo-hoo! BOY: Ha-ha!

Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!

Hoo! Ha!

Hoo! Ha! Ha! Hoo!

Ha! Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!

Ha! Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!

JACK AND BOY: Hoo! Ha! Hoo! Ha!

Ha! Hoo! Ha! Hoo!

Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!

Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!

I think I know where to go.

I trust you.

But they might not be in the same place. Pigs...

Maurice, I've seen your report card.

Alpha plus-plus in Geography and Human Science.

I trust you.

If we don't find them today, we'll find them tomorrow.

STICK SNAPS

PIGS SQUEAL, GRUNT

INSECTS CHIRPING

PIGLETS SQUEAL

PIG SCREECHES

BOYS ROAR, SHOUT

PIG SCREECHES

SHOUTING CONTINUES

Yah!

PIG SQUEALS

PIG SCREECHES

Yah!

PIG SCREECHES

PIG GROANS

HE GRUNTS

PAINED SCREECHES

HITS THUD

PIG WHINES, GROANS

LOW BRAYING

KNIFE THUDS

PIG GRUNTS

BODY THUDS

BLOOD PATTERS

RAIN PATTERS

FLIES BUZZ

ROGER: Everyone's going to be so pleased with you.

Does that mean...? Now she's dead...

..does that mean her children will die, too?

STRAINING

THEY PANT

If we make the pole longer, then...

We need two poles.

Well, we could lash the pig to longer pole and then more...

I agree with Jack. Two poles in parallel should do it.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

JACK, MAURICE: # Everywhere we go

BOYS: # Everywhere we go

# People always ask us People always ask us

# Who we are Who we are

# And where we come from And where we come from

# We're from Picton! We're from Picton!

# Mighty, mighty Picton! Mighty, mighty Picton!

# And if they can't hear us And if they can't hear us

# We sing a little louder We sing a little louder

# Everywhere we go # Everywhere we go... #

SPLASHING

Yeah!

Woohoo!

LAUGHTER

JACK HOWLS

BOYS ROAR

LAUGHTER

MAURICE: Whoa. Look what I found!

JACK: Is it one of ours? What is it?

No, I don't think so.

Open it, open it!

What's this?

It's a recorder.

RECORDER TOOTS

Toothpaste.

It's nice.

There's a diary. Oh, it is one of ours!

Aha! It's Simon's. It has his name.

Let me see it. It'll be funny.

It will be - it's Simon.

"Today I dreamt about a big grey cloud.

"There were apples growing in the middle of it.

"I ate one and turned into a thumb."

Don't! Don't read it!

Another!

CHEERING

I hope there's chocolate.

Oh, yes.

Is there any food?

A dress. Ooh, fancy!

"Who wants a piece of eel pie?"

BOYS LAUGH

I'm blind. I'm blind!

I can see again!

Could be useful.

Perhaps we could make a bag out of it.

Or a mask.

This is great!

INDISTINCT CHATTER

It's so refreshing!

BOYS LAUGH

It's soft.

Mmm!

RECORDER TOOTS

HE INHALES

Kill the beast.

Cut its throat.

Spill its blood.

ALL: Kill the beast.

Cut its throat.

Spill its blood.

Kill the beast.

Cut its throat.

Spill its blood.

Kill the beast.

Cut its throat.

Spill its blood.

Kill the beast.

Cut its throat.

Spill its blood!

Kill the beast!

Cut its throat!

Spill its blood!

Kill the beast!

Cut its throat!

Spill its blood!

CHANTING FADES OUT

Spill its blood. Kill the beast.

Cut its throat.

Spill its blood.

Kill the beast.

Cut its throat.

Spill its blood.

Kill the beast.

Cut its throat.

Spill its blood.

Kill the beast! Cut its throat!

Spill its blood!

CONCH BLARES

Kill the beast.

Cut its throat. Spill its blood.

Kill the beast.

CONCH BLARES

Cut its throat.

Spill its blood.

SCREAMS: Help!

BOYS: Help!

Help!

Help! Help!

Make sure the pig gets back to camp.

PANICKED SHOUTING

Help us!

What's happening? There's a ship.

Has it seen us?

I don't... We don't know.

The signal fire's out.

SHOUTING CONTINUES

THEY COUGH

THEY COUGH

Piggy's glasses.

We can do it!

Piggy!

SIMON: There's no need.

It's gone.

No! No, with binoculars, these ships can see for miles.

COUGHING

It's turned away.

THEY COUGH

We stacked it. We did.

We left enough wood for it to burn for three days.

You weren't supposed to leave it!

We had to.

We needed the full choir.

Ralph, we did it! We caught the pig.

A full, fat pig. What on earth are you wearing?

There will be other ships.

You burnt the island to pieces,

and now you can't even keep a fire lit!

HE SCOFFS

Come on now, that's not fair.

If you cared so much about the fire,

you should have done it yourself! You volunteered!

Along with the shelters AND looking after the littluns

AND organising meetings. I am a hunter.

You're the chief. You're a failure!

You failed!

A ship's passed and it didn't see us. That's failure!

You're right, Ralph, we should have thought.

We shouldn't have left the fire. We're... We're really sorry.

Who are you, anyway?

Sitting there, telling people what to do.

You can't hunt. You can't sing.

We had a rule. We keep the fire going.

Bollocks to the rules!

We're strong, we hunt, we find meat.

We even found you clean clothes and gnasher paste.

Piggy wants rules...

..but you're better than Piggy.

But you're the best, Jack.

Why aren't you leader?

You'd be fantastic.

We'd hunt all day until we died here.

Shut up, fatty!

We needed meat and we got meat.

I am sad the fire went out,

but hopefully we deserve some thanks for finding meat.

Thank you.

Thank you for keeping me prisoner on your island.

There will be other ships!

And what if there isn't, you idiot?!

What if that was our chance to be saved?

BOYS: No! No! Jack! Jack!

PIGGY WHEEZES

Why do you always have to keep talking?!

Talking, talking, talking!

You don't have your conch here!

No-one has to listen to you. Do not hit him again!

PIGGY WHEEZES

My specs.

HE WHEEZES

Now I've only got one eye.

Just you wait.

MOCKING: "Just you wait."

This is boring!

Playing it nice? It's boring.

An adventure island. What do we do on it?

Nothing but boring things!

Toilets. Water.

Hut building. Boring!

Well, I don't want this!

I never wanted this.

I'm forming a new camp.

A fun camp.

One that hunts and sings, and dances.

Who's coming with me?

Who's coming with me?!

Then I'll do it on my own.

Just you see.

ROCKS, DUST PATTERS

HE SOBS

PIGGY: I wish my auntie was here.

RALPH: I wish my father was.

Grown-ups just...know things.

They'd meet and have tea, and discuss...

..then things would be all right.

They wouldn't quarrel.

Or break my specs.

Or talk about a beast.

They'd build a ship.

Yes. We don't know how to build a ship.

Ralph. You will go on being chief, won't you?

I'm not sure there is a chief any more.

You need to.

I know people like Jack.

He can't hurt you.

But if you stand out of the way,

he'd happily hurt the next thing.

And the next thing is me.

I won't let him hurt you.

HE GASPS

Hello.

Hello.

I thought this was supposed to be the fun camp.

Aaaaaah!

Whoo!

LAUGHTER

It is too hot! It is too hot!

WHOOPING, CHEERING

WAVES LAPPING

RADIO STATIC

VOICES IN RADIO STATIC