1 00:00:43,313 --> 00:00:46,481 2 00:00:46,483 --> 00:00:47,715 (girl) Thomasina! 3 00:00:48,835 --> 00:00:52,203 4 00:00:52,205 --> 00:00:56,574 5 00:00:56,576 --> 00:00:59,276 6 00:00:59,278 --> 00:01:03,547 7 00:01:03,549 --> 00:01:06,851 8 00:01:06,853 --> 00:01:10,354 9 00:01:10,356 --> 00:01:12,191 10 00:01:12,193 --> 00:01:14,059 11 00:01:14,061 --> 00:01:17,480 12 00:01:17,482 --> 00:01:19,715 13 00:01:19,717 --> 00:01:23,452 14 00:01:23,454 --> 00:01:26,171 15 00:01:26,173 --> 00:01:30,493 16 00:01:30,495 --> 00:01:34,396 in the garden 17 00:01:34,398 --> 00:01:37,799 your pardon 18 00:01:37,801 --> 00:01:40,869 19 00:01:40,871 --> 00:01:44,173 20 00:01:44,175 --> 00:01:46,642 21 00:01:46,644 --> 00:01:51,247 22 00:02:44,303 --> 00:02:46,686 23 00:02:46,688 --> 00:02:49,088 24 00:02:49,090 --> 00:02:50,690 25 00:02:50,692 --> 00:02:53,828 26 00:02:53,830 --> 00:02:56,029 27 00:02:56,031 --> 00:02:57,431 28 00:02:57,433 --> 00:03:00,668 a lark or dove, you 29 00:03:00,670 --> 00:03:04,404 fly away above you 30 00:03:04,406 --> 00:03:07,808 love you 31 00:03:07,810 --> 00:03:10,678 32 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,046 33 00:03:13,048 --> 00:03:18,436 34 00:03:44,131 --> 00:03:47,181 35 00:03:47,183 --> 00:03:50,769 36 00:03:50,771 --> 00:03:54,273 37 00:03:54,275 --> 00:03:57,609 Yes, I am Thomasina. 38 00:03:57,611 --> 00:04:00,445 This story's all about me. 39 00:04:00,447 --> 00:04:02,881 I'm a self-made cat, 40 00:04:02,883 --> 00:04:05,284 and here's the house I live in 41 00:04:05,286 --> 00:04:07,519 with the MacDhui family, 42 00:04:07,521 --> 00:04:10,422 whom I'd adopted when they first came here. 43 00:04:11,992 --> 00:04:14,826 They started off by calling me Thomas, 44 00:04:14,828 --> 00:04:18,363 but when they, well, got to know me better, 45 00:04:18,365 --> 00:04:20,899 they changed that to Thomasina. 46 00:04:20,901 --> 00:04:23,335 Humans are funny that way. 47 00:04:23,337 --> 00:04:25,837 That the MacDhuis are a happy family 48 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,106 is entirely due to me. 49 00:04:28,108 --> 00:04:30,875 I made them what they are today... 50 00:04:30,877 --> 00:04:33,780 although I had to be murdered first. 51 00:04:33,782 --> 00:04:37,249 Here's the scene of the crime - 52 00:04:37,251 --> 00:04:40,553 Inveranoch, in Scotland, 53 00:04:40,555 --> 00:04:43,823 in 1912. 54 00:04:49,230 --> 00:04:52,231 And this is Mr. Andrew MacDhui. 55 00:04:52,233 --> 00:04:55,568 From a cat's point of view, even before my murder, 56 00:04:55,570 --> 00:04:58,270 he was a most difficult man, 57 00:04:58,272 --> 00:05:00,306 believe me. 58 00:05:02,376 --> 00:05:05,845 His wife had died sometime before he came here, 59 00:05:05,847 --> 00:05:07,747 so there was just himself 60 00:05:07,749 --> 00:05:10,599 and Mrs. MacKenzie, his housekeeper, 61 00:05:10,601 --> 00:05:12,401 and Mary, his daughter. 62 00:05:12,403 --> 00:05:15,404 I'd moved in on them a few days after they'd arrived, 63 00:05:15,406 --> 00:05:18,407 and on the whole, I got on with them very well, 64 00:05:18,409 --> 00:05:21,543 though mostly because of Mary MacDhui. 65 00:05:21,545 --> 00:05:25,015 She appreciated my rather special qualities 66 00:05:25,017 --> 00:05:26,984 from the start. 67 00:05:26,986 --> 00:05:29,970 Thomasina, there you are. 68 00:05:31,874 --> 00:05:34,374 Of course I had this sort of thing 69 00:05:34,376 --> 00:05:35,876 to put up with every day - 70 00:05:35,878 --> 00:05:38,445 fussed over, treated like a doll, 71 00:05:38,447 --> 00:05:40,547 being dressed up... 72 00:05:40,549 --> 00:05:43,183 and over a fur coat, too! 73 00:05:46,989 --> 00:05:48,288 (meows) 74 00:05:48,290 --> 00:05:50,657 Everything that happened to me from here on 75 00:05:50,659 --> 00:05:52,492 was due, in a way, 76 00:05:52,494 --> 00:05:55,195 to a blind man and his dog. 77 00:05:55,197 --> 00:05:59,266 Here they are now - Tammas and Bruce. 78 00:05:59,268 --> 00:06:00,634 Good morning, Tammas. 79 00:06:00,636 --> 00:06:02,002 Good morning, Mary. 80 00:06:02,004 --> 00:06:04,805 Say good morning to Tammas and Bruce, Thomasina. 81 00:06:04,807 --> 00:06:08,091 Good morning, Thomasina. 82 00:06:08,093 --> 00:06:10,661 She's not in a very talkative mood today. 83 00:06:10,663 --> 00:06:13,448 I have the same trouble with Bruce here. 84 00:06:13,450 --> 00:06:15,983 He can be very reserved at times. 85 00:06:15,985 --> 00:06:18,787 Isn't that right, laddie? 86 00:06:18,789 --> 00:06:21,673 But what would we do without them, you and me? 87 00:06:21,675 --> 00:06:23,157 Where are you going? 88 00:06:23,159 --> 00:06:26,711 Oh, just to get some tobacco for my pipe. 89 00:06:26,713 --> 00:06:28,463 Mind how you go, Tammas. 90 00:06:28,465 --> 00:06:30,998 Och, Bruce is my eyes, lassie. 91 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,685 Come on, say goodbye to Thomasina. 92 00:06:33,687 --> 00:06:34,687 (whines, barks) 93 00:06:36,306 --> 00:06:38,239 Be good now, Mary. 94 00:06:40,376 --> 00:06:42,009 Thomasina, it's rude not to answer 95 00:06:42,011 --> 00:06:43,578 when you're spoken to. 96 00:06:47,434 --> 00:06:48,766 Aah! 97 00:06:52,638 --> 00:06:54,956 Hello, Geordie. 98 00:06:54,958 --> 00:06:57,459 Oh, what have you got there? 99 00:06:57,461 --> 00:06:59,461 I found him down by the loch. 100 00:06:59,463 --> 00:07:01,395 I think his leg's broken. 101 00:07:01,397 --> 00:07:03,532 He can't hop or swim or anything. 102 00:07:03,534 --> 00:07:06,836 Oh, he looks fair sick. 103 00:07:06,838 --> 00:07:08,871 Doesn't he, Thomasina? 104 00:07:08,873 --> 00:07:09,872 (meows) 105 00:07:09,874 --> 00:07:12,374 Ah! Don't touch. 106 00:07:14,445 --> 00:07:17,713 Why don't you go and ask my daddy to cure him? 107 00:07:17,715 --> 00:07:21,734 Och, I don't know. Do you think he would? 108 00:07:21,736 --> 00:07:23,485 My daddy can cure anything - 109 00:07:23,487 --> 00:07:26,922 dogs and cows and cats and lions and pigs and... 110 00:07:26,924 --> 00:07:28,607 Aye, but frogs? 111 00:07:28,609 --> 00:07:29,959 And frogs. 112 00:07:29,961 --> 00:07:31,560 Everything. 113 00:07:31,562 --> 00:07:33,562 You take him in, then. 114 00:07:33,564 --> 00:07:36,482 Och, I'm not allowed in the surgery. 115 00:07:36,484 --> 00:07:38,183 You go, Geordie. 116 00:07:38,185 --> 00:07:40,569 Well, if you say so. 117 00:07:44,509 --> 00:07:48,777 I'm only saying I'm here against my better judgment, minister, that's all. 118 00:07:48,779 --> 00:07:51,446 You'll be glad you listened to me, Dobbie. 119 00:07:51,448 --> 00:07:53,517 Mr. MacDhui's a clever man. 120 00:07:53,519 --> 00:07:55,385 Maybe so, but up till now, 121 00:07:55,387 --> 00:07:57,888 I've never found much wrong with dosing Jock here 122 00:07:57,890 --> 00:07:59,655 with Watson's patent powders. 123 00:07:59,657 --> 00:08:02,458 Ah, you must move with the times, man. 124 00:08:02,460 --> 00:08:04,043 MacDhui's a man of science. 125 00:08:04,045 --> 00:08:06,546 Aye. I haven't heard tell much good of that. 126 00:08:06,548 --> 00:08:08,181 Ha! Book learnin'. 127 00:08:08,183 --> 00:08:09,282 (door opens) 128 00:08:11,937 --> 00:08:14,938 Up at Kinkairale's farm, they're grateful enough to him. 129 00:08:14,940 --> 00:08:17,407 Two hundred sheep cured of the foot rot 130 00:08:17,409 --> 00:08:18,691 and not one lost. 131 00:08:18,693 --> 00:08:21,194 Aye, you're a good persuader, Mr. Peddie, 132 00:08:21,196 --> 00:08:23,196 but farm beasts are one thing. 133 00:08:23,198 --> 00:08:25,331 A man's pet is another. 134 00:08:25,333 --> 00:08:27,284 You wait and see. 135 00:08:27,286 --> 00:08:29,269 Och, I'll give him a try. 136 00:08:29,271 --> 00:08:32,488 No one can say I'm not a fair man, 137 00:08:32,490 --> 00:08:35,175 but it's for him to convince me. 138 00:08:35,177 --> 00:08:37,961 (whines) 139 00:08:37,963 --> 00:08:39,963 How old is this dog, Mrs. Laggan? 140 00:08:39,965 --> 00:08:41,631 Fifteen years and a bit. 141 00:08:41,633 --> 00:08:43,801 I've had him since he was a puppy, 142 00:08:43,803 --> 00:08:45,469 the year my husband died. 143 00:08:45,471 --> 00:08:47,972 He's been ailing a wee bit this past year 144 00:08:47,974 --> 00:08:50,107 but not so sick as this. 145 00:08:50,109 --> 00:08:51,475 Well, he's very old. 146 00:08:51,477 --> 00:08:54,511 The kindest thing would be to have him put to sleep. 147 00:08:54,513 --> 00:08:57,114 Oh, no. You see how bad he is with the asthma. 148 00:08:57,116 --> 00:08:58,916 The poor dog can hardly breathe. 149 00:08:58,918 --> 00:09:00,618 He's in pain, Mrs. Laggan. 150 00:09:00,620 --> 00:09:03,854 But you can't put Rabbie to sleep, Mr. MacDhui, 151 00:09:03,856 --> 00:09:05,957 or I wouldn't have come. 152 00:09:05,959 --> 00:09:08,259 He's all I have in the world. 153 00:09:08,261 --> 00:09:10,962 Couldn't you give him a wee bit of medicine 154 00:09:10,964 --> 00:09:13,297 to tide him over till he's well again? 155 00:09:13,299 --> 00:09:15,632 There is no medicine that can make him well. 156 00:09:15,634 --> 00:09:17,634 He's very old, he's in great pain, 157 00:09:17,636 --> 00:09:20,471 and his life is a misery to him, can't you see? 158 00:09:20,473 --> 00:09:22,439 But I can't lose him. 159 00:09:22,441 --> 00:09:25,175 What would I do without him? 160 00:09:25,177 --> 00:09:28,145 Poor Rabbie. ( whines ) 161 00:09:28,147 --> 00:09:31,265 Be fair now. It's yourself you're pitying, not the dog. 162 00:09:31,267 --> 00:09:32,716 Oh, dear. 163 00:09:32,718 --> 00:09:35,520 I don't know what to do. 164 00:09:35,522 --> 00:09:37,939 I've told you what I think is for the best. 165 00:09:37,941 --> 00:09:40,308 Now I've told you it's up to you 166 00:09:40,310 --> 00:09:41,877 to make up your mind. 167 00:09:43,513 --> 00:09:45,380 Very well. 168 00:09:45,382 --> 00:09:50,085 I suppose if he is suffering... 169 00:09:50,087 --> 00:09:52,387 You'll be gentle with him? 170 00:09:52,389 --> 00:09:55,974 He won't feel a thing. He'll just go to sleep. 171 00:09:55,976 --> 00:09:57,142 Willie? 172 00:09:57,144 --> 00:10:00,112 Fifteen years. 173 00:10:00,114 --> 00:10:03,548 Poor Rabbie. Poor Rabbie. 174 00:10:03,550 --> 00:10:06,051 You're doing the right thing. It's for his sake. 175 00:10:06,053 --> 00:10:08,219 Oh, no, there'll be no charge. 176 00:10:08,221 --> 00:10:10,341 Just leave him here with me. 177 00:10:23,571 --> 00:10:25,672 You're leaving Rabbie to be cured, then, Annie? 178 00:10:25,674 --> 00:10:28,340 Mr. MacDhui says there's no cure. 179 00:10:28,342 --> 00:10:30,376 He's to be put away. 180 00:10:30,378 --> 00:10:32,478 (Peddie) Now, Mrs. Laggan, that's a shame. 181 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:34,280 No cure for him? 182 00:10:34,282 --> 00:10:37,016 If it was my dog, I'd want a second opinion, I'm thinkin'. 183 00:10:37,018 --> 00:10:38,685 I'll go with you, Annie. 184 00:10:38,687 --> 00:10:40,687 Good day to you, Mr. MacDhui. 185 00:10:40,689 --> 00:10:43,122 Good day, sir. 186 00:10:43,124 --> 00:10:44,256 Good day. 187 00:10:44,258 --> 00:10:46,492 Who's next, please? 188 00:10:46,494 --> 00:10:48,494 Please, sir, Mr. MacDhui? 189 00:10:48,496 --> 00:10:50,262 Uh-oh. Who are you? 190 00:10:50,264 --> 00:10:52,114 Geordie MacNab, please, sir. 191 00:10:52,116 --> 00:10:54,450 I'm a bit of a friend of Mary's. 192 00:10:54,452 --> 00:10:57,153 I found him down by the loch. 193 00:10:57,155 --> 00:10:58,821 He's hurt his leg. 194 00:10:58,823 --> 00:11:01,123 Can you make him better, please, sir? 195 00:11:01,125 --> 00:11:03,426 No one can cure a hurt frog, Geordie. 196 00:11:03,428 --> 00:11:05,694 You put him back where you found him. 197 00:11:05,696 --> 00:11:07,396 But he might die. 198 00:11:07,398 --> 00:11:09,966 Could you not mend his leg, please, sir? 199 00:11:09,968 --> 00:11:12,401 No, nature's the only doctor can do that, laddie. 200 00:11:12,403 --> 00:11:14,604 Come on, now. Come on, off you go. 201 00:11:14,606 --> 00:11:15,738 I'm busy. 202 00:11:17,476 --> 00:11:19,443 You've lost another customer, Andrew. 203 00:11:19,445 --> 00:11:21,445 Is there really nothing you can do 204 00:11:21,447 --> 00:11:22,946 about old Mrs. Laggan's dog? 205 00:11:22,948 --> 00:11:25,548 No, not a thing, just put it out of its misery. 206 00:11:25,550 --> 00:11:29,386 Well, whoever's next, will you come in, please? 207 00:11:29,388 --> 00:11:31,955 Oh, it's all right, Mrs. Campbell. 208 00:11:31,957 --> 00:11:35,092 You go in ahead of me. I'm in no hurry. 209 00:11:36,996 --> 00:11:39,346 (boy) Hey, there's Geordie. 210 00:11:39,348 --> 00:11:43,400 What have you been doing in there? 211 00:11:43,402 --> 00:11:45,685 I took my sick frog to Mr. MacDhui. 212 00:11:45,687 --> 00:11:47,537 Oh, aye. What did he say, then? 213 00:11:47,539 --> 00:11:49,156 He wouldn't even look at him, 214 00:11:49,158 --> 00:11:51,691 and he's going to kill Mrs. Laggan's Rabbie. 215 00:11:51,693 --> 00:11:53,443 Kill him? Rabbie? 216 00:11:53,445 --> 00:11:55,629 Aye, I heard him say so. 217 00:11:55,631 --> 00:11:57,765 It's just like Grandfather says about him - 218 00:11:57,767 --> 00:11:59,767 he's only good with farm beasts. 219 00:11:59,769 --> 00:12:02,002 He's not interested in people's pets. 220 00:12:02,004 --> 00:12:05,006 A frog will die if he can't hop or swim. 221 00:12:05,008 --> 00:12:07,091 I'm not going to let him die. 222 00:12:07,093 --> 00:12:08,777 What are you gonna do, then, 223 00:12:08,779 --> 00:12:10,711 cure him by magic or something? 224 00:12:10,713 --> 00:12:12,046 Come on, Jamie. 225 00:12:12,048 --> 00:12:13,782 Why don't you take your frog 226 00:12:13,784 --> 00:12:15,784 to the witch woman livin' in the glen? 227 00:12:15,786 --> 00:12:17,285 She's supposed to do magic. 228 00:12:17,287 --> 00:12:19,353 Well, why don't you? 229 00:12:19,355 --> 00:12:21,355 Our mother says the witch woman's crazy 230 00:12:21,357 --> 00:12:23,391 and we're not to go up there. 231 00:12:23,393 --> 00:12:25,393 Och, you're just afraid, the pair of you. 232 00:12:25,395 --> 00:12:27,962 I'm not afraid of anything, and neither is Geordie. 233 00:12:27,964 --> 00:12:29,898 Are you, Geordie? 234 00:12:31,401 --> 00:12:34,218 Right. Let's take the frog to her, all three of us. 235 00:12:34,220 --> 00:12:35,553 I dare you. 236 00:12:35,555 --> 00:12:38,456 Very well. 237 00:12:38,458 --> 00:12:40,575 Geordie, we'll all go. 238 00:12:40,577 --> 00:12:44,679 You want to get your frog cured, don't you? 239 00:12:44,681 --> 00:12:46,714 We don't have to tell Mother we went. 240 00:12:46,716 --> 00:12:48,349 I was only joking. 241 00:12:48,351 --> 00:12:51,752 No, you weren't. You dared us. 242 00:12:51,754 --> 00:12:54,223 I think you're afraid to go. 243 00:12:54,225 --> 00:12:55,958 Me, afraid? 244 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:57,492 Let's go now. 245 00:13:05,369 --> 00:13:07,336 Come on. Keep up with us. 246 00:13:09,974 --> 00:13:12,641 (squirrel chattering) 247 00:13:22,169 --> 00:13:24,570 (crow cawing) 248 00:13:28,259 --> 00:13:30,809 (growling) 249 00:13:35,048 --> 00:13:36,948 (branches snap) 250 00:13:38,452 --> 00:13:41,052 You'd think they were all telling on us. 251 00:13:41,054 --> 00:13:44,524 Aye. Are you afraid to go on, then? 252 00:13:44,526 --> 00:13:45,742 No. 253 00:13:45,744 --> 00:13:47,227 Well, come on. 254 00:13:54,402 --> 00:13:56,969 (woman singing in Gaelic) 255 00:13:56,971 --> 00:13:59,606 (rhythmic banging) 256 00:14:04,779 --> 00:14:07,413 Whisht! Listen. 257 00:14:07,415 --> 00:14:09,883 It's the witch singing and banging a drum. 258 00:14:11,052 --> 00:14:13,285 She is crazy. 259 00:14:13,287 --> 00:14:15,722 I want to go home. 260 00:14:15,724 --> 00:14:18,525 When you've got this far? What about your frog? 261 00:14:18,527 --> 00:14:21,611 Put your box under the tree and ring the bell. 262 00:14:21,613 --> 00:14:23,613 Aye, go on, Geordie. We'll wait for you here. 263 00:14:23,615 --> 00:14:25,548 No, no! Go on, Geordie. Go on. 264 00:14:30,672 --> 00:14:33,523 (bell clanging) 265 00:14:37,180 --> 00:14:38,945 Come on, Geordie. 266 00:14:49,158 --> 00:14:52,259 (barking) 267 00:14:52,261 --> 00:14:54,728 Go away. Go away. 268 00:14:54,730 --> 00:14:56,630 Go away. Go away. 269 00:14:56,632 --> 00:14:58,666 (barking) 270 00:14:58,668 --> 00:15:00,301 Larry, come back here. 271 00:15:06,892 --> 00:15:10,461 Oh, your leg is broken. 272 00:15:10,463 --> 00:15:13,146 You poor wee thing. 273 00:15:15,100 --> 00:15:17,601 Has somebody brought you up here to be cured 274 00:15:17,603 --> 00:15:19,670 by the mad witch in the glen? 275 00:15:21,190 --> 00:15:24,926 Eye of newt and hair of dog, 276 00:15:24,928 --> 00:15:27,712 give me the power to cure the frog. 277 00:15:27,714 --> 00:15:30,632 (whispers) Listen. Magic. 278 00:15:30,634 --> 00:15:32,534 Off to my cauldron. 279 00:15:32,536 --> 00:15:35,002 Where is my broom? 280 00:15:40,877 --> 00:15:44,045 (chanting in Gaelic) 281 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:53,338 (laughs) 282 00:15:59,980 --> 00:16:02,647 Och, you poor wee thing. 283 00:16:04,918 --> 00:16:07,185 (crunching) 284 00:16:07,187 --> 00:16:09,187 I don't know why I bother 285 00:16:09,189 --> 00:16:11,189 to dose that dog of yours. 286 00:16:11,191 --> 00:16:13,392 The worst thing that's wrong with him is his owner. 287 00:16:13,394 --> 00:16:14,894 Don't give him sugar. 288 00:16:14,896 --> 00:16:17,230 Aw, but he has a sweet tooth, Andrew. 289 00:16:17,232 --> 00:16:19,532 Poor old Finn. Look how pleased he is. 290 00:16:19,534 --> 00:16:22,368 You think more of his affection and gratitude for you 291 00:16:22,370 --> 00:16:24,203 than you do of his health. 292 00:16:24,205 --> 00:16:26,205 All you people with pets are the same. 293 00:16:26,207 --> 00:16:28,207 That's why he's too fat, poor brute. 294 00:16:28,209 --> 00:16:29,942 "Brute," he calls you, Finn. 295 00:16:29,944 --> 00:16:31,944 Oh! That's part of the reason 296 00:16:31,946 --> 00:16:34,447 why folks here are slow to accept your doctoring. 297 00:16:34,449 --> 00:16:37,450 You show no feeling for the sick animals you treat, 298 00:16:37,452 --> 00:16:39,152 the animals they love. 299 00:16:39,154 --> 00:16:41,971 Are sentimental about, you mean, to the point of not knowing 300 00:16:41,973 --> 00:16:45,174 what's best for them, like you and Mrs. Laggan who was here just now. 301 00:16:45,176 --> 00:16:46,659 Poor old Annie. 302 00:16:46,661 --> 00:16:48,477 Poor old Annie. 303 00:16:48,479 --> 00:16:50,646 Poor old brute of a dog, you should say. 304 00:16:50,648 --> 00:16:53,482 You thought I was hard on her just now, didn't you? 305 00:16:53,484 --> 00:16:56,318 My job is to relieve suffering in animals. 306 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,254 The tribulations of the soul I leave to you. 307 00:16:59,256 --> 00:17:00,806 She'll get over it, Angus. 308 00:17:00,808 --> 00:17:03,142 Aye, but when someone you love dies, 309 00:17:03,144 --> 00:17:04,611 something of yourself dies, too. 310 00:17:04,613 --> 00:17:07,647 You think you have to tell me that? 311 00:17:07,649 --> 00:17:11,084 Oh, I'm sorry, Andrew. 312 00:17:11,086 --> 00:17:12,953 Forgive me. 313 00:17:12,955 --> 00:17:16,256 That dog of hers was all old Annie Laggan had left to love. 314 00:17:16,258 --> 00:17:18,291 At least you're not alone. 315 00:17:18,293 --> 00:17:19,726 No. 316 00:17:21,296 --> 00:17:23,497 Look at her now. 317 00:17:27,753 --> 00:17:32,222 Thomasina, where are you? 318 00:17:36,962 --> 00:17:38,962 Thomasina? 319 00:17:40,199 --> 00:17:41,865 Be careful. 320 00:17:43,568 --> 00:17:44,935 It's the jungle. 321 00:17:44,937 --> 00:17:49,189 It's a million miles thick. 322 00:17:49,191 --> 00:17:51,558 It's full of lions and tigers. 323 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:52,726 (Thomasina meows) 324 00:17:55,448 --> 00:17:58,449 Thomasina! Thomasina, come back! 325 00:17:58,451 --> 00:17:59,717 Have you lost something, Mary? 326 00:17:59,719 --> 00:18:04,822 Shh! We're hunting lions. 327 00:18:04,824 --> 00:18:07,425 Lions? Here? 328 00:18:07,427 --> 00:18:09,961 Geordie, where's your frog? Did Daddy cure him? 329 00:18:09,963 --> 00:18:11,562 No, he wouldn't try. 330 00:18:11,564 --> 00:18:13,681 We took it to the witch in the glen. 331 00:18:13,683 --> 00:18:16,184 You didn't. I did. We all did. 332 00:18:16,186 --> 00:18:19,521 You saw her? Is she a real witch? 333 00:18:19,523 --> 00:18:21,322 Aye, we saw her chant magic over the frog 334 00:18:21,324 --> 00:18:23,691 and take it into her house. 335 00:18:23,693 --> 00:18:25,342 Did you speak to her? 336 00:18:25,344 --> 00:18:27,094 Och, no. She's queer in the head. 337 00:18:27,096 --> 00:18:29,096 She's got a big drum in the house. 338 00:18:29,098 --> 00:18:31,265 She bangs on it and sings awful weird. 339 00:18:31,267 --> 00:18:32,834 There's all kinds of animals there. 340 00:18:32,836 --> 00:18:35,236 Did she fly on a broomstick? 341 00:18:35,238 --> 00:18:38,072 Well, not exactly fly. 342 00:18:38,074 --> 00:18:39,607 But she had one, though. 343 00:18:39,609 --> 00:18:41,409 Weren't you afraid? 344 00:18:41,411 --> 00:18:45,464 Well, I wouldn't recommend just anybody goin' up there. 345 00:18:45,466 --> 00:18:46,415 You were afraid. 346 00:18:46,417 --> 00:18:49,084 You made Geordie take the frog to the tree. 347 00:18:49,086 --> 00:18:51,286 That was you. I wasn't afraid. 348 00:18:51,288 --> 00:18:54,089 You must be awful brave. 349 00:18:54,091 --> 00:18:57,876 I am... a bit. 350 00:19:04,485 --> 00:19:06,351 Uh... remember, Angus, 351 00:19:06,353 --> 00:19:08,353 just keep him off the sugar. 352 00:19:08,355 --> 00:19:11,690 Well, I can try. Hello, Mary. 353 00:19:11,692 --> 00:19:13,859 Geordie MacNab took his frog you wouldn't cure 354 00:19:13,861 --> 00:19:16,361 to a witch who does magic and flies on a broomstick. 355 00:19:16,363 --> 00:19:18,530 She could have turned him into a frog, 356 00:19:18,532 --> 00:19:20,899 and it would have been all your fault. 357 00:19:20,901 --> 00:19:23,252 Mary, Mr. Andrew, I'm waiting for you. 358 00:19:23,254 --> 00:19:26,305 Come on, now, inside. Wash your hands. 359 00:19:26,307 --> 00:19:28,540 Thomasina! Never mind Thomasina. 360 00:19:28,542 --> 00:19:32,410 Dinnertime! 361 00:19:32,412 --> 00:19:34,296 Come on, now, inside. Wash your hands. 362 00:19:34,298 --> 00:19:35,798 There's a good girl. 363 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,300 That's enough about witches. 364 00:19:37,302 --> 00:19:39,569 Mrs. MacKenzie will tell you the same as me - 365 00:19:39,571 --> 00:19:41,571 there aren't any outside of storybooks. 366 00:19:41,573 --> 00:19:42,872 Oh, yes, there are. 367 00:19:42,874 --> 00:19:45,108 She been making up more of her fairy tales? 368 00:19:45,110 --> 00:19:48,177 I didn't make it up. There is a witch in the glen. 369 00:19:48,179 --> 00:19:49,178 Och, the glen. 370 00:19:49,180 --> 00:19:51,781 She bangs a big drum in her house. 371 00:19:51,783 --> 00:19:55,017 And lives with wild animals and rides a broomstick. 372 00:19:55,019 --> 00:19:56,353 Jamie MacNab told me. 373 00:19:56,355 --> 00:19:58,921 He and Hughie and Geordie saw her. 374 00:19:58,923 --> 00:20:00,923 They're filling your head with nonsense. 375 00:20:00,925 --> 00:20:03,560 And for the hundredth time, will you not feed that cat at the table? 376 00:20:03,562 --> 00:20:04,561 Especially with meat. 377 00:20:04,563 --> 00:20:07,830 She likes meat, and there is a witch. 378 00:20:07,832 --> 00:20:08,915 Now, Mary... 379 00:20:08,917 --> 00:20:12,552 It's a poor wee soul called Lori MacGregor 380 00:20:12,554 --> 00:20:15,354 that's rented a croft in the glen from Mr. Peddie. 381 00:20:15,356 --> 00:20:18,725 She spends most of her time weaving on a handloom. 382 00:20:18,727 --> 00:20:20,960 That's the "drums" your friends heard. 383 00:20:20,962 --> 00:20:22,762 Now what do you say? 384 00:20:22,764 --> 00:20:25,165 She's a witch. 385 00:20:27,570 --> 00:20:30,304 She's a wee bit weird, that's true enough. 386 00:20:30,306 --> 00:20:32,306 It seems she's a lassie 387 00:20:32,308 --> 00:20:34,341 that doesn't mix with other folk, 388 00:20:34,343 --> 00:20:36,877 but, mind, she's not been there long. 389 00:20:36,879 --> 00:20:39,213 Some of the shepherds in the glen say 390 00:20:39,215 --> 00:20:42,049 she has a rare way with beasts and birds and that. 391 00:20:42,051 --> 00:20:44,418 Now, mind Thomasina doesn't spill her cream. 392 00:20:44,420 --> 00:20:46,554 Cream? 393 00:20:46,556 --> 00:20:49,023 Oh, just a wee drop, Mr. Andrew. 394 00:20:49,025 --> 00:20:51,692 It helps her to see in the dark. 395 00:20:51,694 --> 00:20:55,362 She told me so. Didn't you, Thomasina? 396 00:20:55,364 --> 00:20:57,164 There, you hear? 397 00:20:57,166 --> 00:21:00,634 Ask her if she'd like me to go out and get my rod and catch her a salmon. 398 00:21:00,636 --> 00:21:02,903 (whispering) Thomasina... 399 00:21:04,406 --> 00:21:05,439 (meows) 400 00:21:05,441 --> 00:21:06,674 She says, no, 401 00:21:06,676 --> 00:21:09,009 she'd rather go to the store on market day 402 00:21:09,011 --> 00:21:11,011 and choose her own fish. 403 00:21:11,013 --> 00:21:13,380 Aye. 404 00:21:19,222 --> 00:21:22,257 Come on, now, no more talk about witches or magic. 405 00:21:22,259 --> 00:21:25,093 Just say your prayers, get into bed. 406 00:21:25,095 --> 00:21:28,296 And look after Mummy in heaven and us down here, 407 00:21:28,298 --> 00:21:30,349 especially Daddy and Mrs. MacKenzie 408 00:21:30,351 --> 00:21:34,386 and Willie and Geordie and Jamie and Hughie and Tammas and Bruce 409 00:21:34,388 --> 00:21:36,504 and Geordie's frog and Thomasina and me. 410 00:21:36,506 --> 00:21:40,225 That's all till tomorrow. Yours truly, Mary. Amen. 411 00:21:41,395 --> 00:21:43,595 Good night, yours truly Mary. 412 00:21:43,597 --> 00:21:45,330 Slippers? 413 00:21:45,332 --> 00:21:47,031 Up. In you get. 414 00:21:48,802 --> 00:21:51,202 There we are. 415 00:21:51,204 --> 00:21:52,704 Good night. 416 00:21:52,706 --> 00:21:54,172 Good night, Daddy. 417 00:22:00,447 --> 00:22:02,113 (whispers) Thomasina. 418 00:22:03,617 --> 00:22:05,785 I've told you about that before, my bonny. 419 00:22:05,787 --> 00:22:08,888 You mustn't keep that cat on the bed at night. 420 00:22:08,890 --> 00:22:09,922 There. 421 00:22:09,924 --> 00:22:11,591 Oh, please let me have her. 422 00:22:11,593 --> 00:22:13,959 No, you can have your doll if you like. 423 00:22:13,961 --> 00:22:15,811 I don't want my doll. Please. 424 00:22:15,813 --> 00:22:18,314 She must go out and you must go to sleep. 425 00:22:18,316 --> 00:22:20,316 Go on, lie down. There's a good girl. 426 00:22:20,318 --> 00:22:21,384 Good night. Good night. 427 00:22:21,386 --> 00:22:22,918 Good night, Thomasina. 428 00:22:25,089 --> 00:22:26,656 You know. 429 00:22:28,009 --> 00:22:30,559 Yes, I knew, 430 00:22:30,561 --> 00:22:32,428 and MacDhui didn't. 431 00:22:32,430 --> 00:22:34,463 This being put out for the night 432 00:22:34,465 --> 00:22:37,299 was just nonsense. 433 00:22:37,301 --> 00:22:40,869 I could get in again anytime I wanted to. 434 00:22:40,871 --> 00:22:43,506 Mary and I had it all worked out. 435 00:22:44,742 --> 00:22:46,675 It was as easy as that. 436 00:22:48,462 --> 00:22:50,529 Thomasina. 437 00:22:50,531 --> 00:22:53,982 Thomasina, come on up. 438 00:22:53,984 --> 00:22:56,619 But not tonight. 439 00:22:56,621 --> 00:22:58,888 I'd remembered it was Wednesday, 440 00:22:58,890 --> 00:23:01,158 the night before market day. 441 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,593 They set up the stalls at dawn, 442 00:23:03,595 --> 00:23:06,163 so Wednesday's always my night out. 443 00:23:09,802 --> 00:23:12,803 And just when I was beginning to feel like breakfast, 444 00:23:12,805 --> 00:23:15,739 the market was getting ready to provide it. 445 00:23:29,054 --> 00:23:32,789 Fish, fresh fish, 446 00:23:32,791 --> 00:23:34,842 and the best sauce for it - 447 00:23:34,844 --> 00:23:37,577 the danger of helping myself... 448 00:23:42,484 --> 00:23:47,021 which needed cunning and caution, 449 00:23:47,023 --> 00:23:50,859 a lot of caution... 450 00:23:50,861 --> 00:23:52,560 and speed! 451 00:23:52,562 --> 00:23:55,179 (barking) 452 00:23:56,582 --> 00:23:59,617 (Thomasina yowls) 453 00:23:59,619 --> 00:24:03,321 You, get out of the way! Get out! 454 00:24:03,323 --> 00:24:04,655 Mary? 455 00:24:06,592 --> 00:24:09,593 Mary, come and have your breakfast. 456 00:24:09,595 --> 00:24:11,429 What's the child doing? 457 00:24:11,431 --> 00:24:12,630 Mary! 458 00:24:14,367 --> 00:24:17,435 I can't find Thomasina. I've looked everywhere. 459 00:24:17,437 --> 00:24:20,271 She can't be far away. Come on, now, sit down. 460 00:24:20,273 --> 00:24:21,839 She didn't come home last night. 461 00:24:21,841 --> 00:24:23,841 For what we're about to receive, 462 00:24:23,843 --> 00:24:25,243 may the Lord make us truly thankful. 463 00:24:25,245 --> 00:24:27,778 Amen. I'm not hungry. 464 00:24:27,780 --> 00:24:30,381 Daddy, she must be lost. 465 00:24:30,383 --> 00:24:31,782 Of course not. 466 00:24:31,784 --> 00:24:34,585 Cats don't get lost once they've decided to move in on people. 467 00:24:34,587 --> 00:24:37,423 She's just had a night out and hasn't come back yet, that's all. 468 00:24:37,425 --> 00:24:39,425 She's been out all night before, 469 00:24:39,427 --> 00:24:41,293 but she's always come back. 470 00:24:41,295 --> 00:24:44,630 She climbs up the tree and gets in my window. 471 00:24:44,632 --> 00:24:46,298 What? She always has. 472 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:47,966 It's our secret. 473 00:24:47,968 --> 00:24:51,370 Aye, it certainly is. 474 00:24:51,372 --> 00:24:53,372 Well, I'm off to the surgery now. 475 00:24:53,374 --> 00:24:55,507 Be a good girl. Eat your breakfast. 476 00:24:55,509 --> 00:24:58,844 Don't worry about the pussy, child. 477 00:24:58,846 --> 00:25:00,763 But she's lost. 478 00:25:00,765 --> 00:25:03,132 Thomasina's too clever to get lost. 479 00:25:03,134 --> 00:25:06,602 You do like her, don't you? 480 00:25:06,604 --> 00:25:08,670 Aye, of course. 481 00:25:08,672 --> 00:25:12,791 Would you do anything for her if I asked you to? 482 00:25:12,793 --> 00:25:14,860 Promise? 483 00:25:14,862 --> 00:25:16,479 Aye. 484 00:25:16,481 --> 00:25:19,915 Well, let me go and look for her now, please. 485 00:25:19,917 --> 00:25:21,717 You promised. 486 00:25:21,719 --> 00:25:25,555 You're even craftier than Thomasina, you wee monkey. 487 00:25:33,832 --> 00:25:36,533 We'll split up. Mary, you come with me. 488 00:25:44,793 --> 00:25:46,926 Hey, what are you lookin' for, son? 489 00:25:46,928 --> 00:25:49,396 A lost cat. Have you seen one? 490 00:25:49,398 --> 00:25:52,282 Not at my stall. Away you go. Go on. I'm busy. 491 00:25:52,284 --> 00:25:55,051 She's a big... Mrs. MacFarland, what would you like? 492 00:25:55,053 --> 00:25:57,187 Nice cabbage. 493 00:25:57,189 --> 00:26:00,791 Have you seen a lost cat? 494 00:26:00,793 --> 00:26:03,860 (speaking Gaelic) 495 00:26:07,932 --> 00:26:09,699 Thank you very much. 496 00:26:10,836 --> 00:26:11,935 (cat screeches) 497 00:26:11,937 --> 00:26:13,303 Drat the cat! 498 00:26:18,661 --> 00:26:19,993 Och, it's not Thomasina. 499 00:26:19,995 --> 00:26:22,363 But never mind. We'll find her. 500 00:26:22,365 --> 00:26:25,066 Hughie, Mary, I've found her! 501 00:26:25,068 --> 00:26:27,501 She's here, Mary! 502 00:26:29,572 --> 00:26:31,822 Oh, Thomasina. Give her to me. 503 00:26:31,824 --> 00:26:33,924 I don't think anything's broken, 504 00:26:33,926 --> 00:26:37,545 but she's terribly stiff. 505 00:26:37,547 --> 00:26:40,481 Oh, poor Thomasina. 506 00:26:42,618 --> 00:26:45,086 I couldn't help it, constable. 507 00:26:45,088 --> 00:26:47,521 He walked right in front of me. 508 00:26:50,159 --> 00:26:52,159 (woman) It looks like Bruce. 509 00:26:52,161 --> 00:26:55,028 Bruce? My Bruce? 510 00:26:57,166 --> 00:26:58,365 What's all this about? 511 00:26:58,367 --> 00:27:00,067 Och, Mr. MacDhui. 512 00:27:00,069 --> 00:27:01,335 You're just here in time. 513 00:27:01,337 --> 00:27:02,903 It's Tammas' Bruce. 514 00:27:02,905 --> 00:27:03,904 Where is he? 515 00:27:03,906 --> 00:27:05,672 Steady now, Tammas. Steady. 516 00:27:05,674 --> 00:27:07,960 He's fair crushed, sir. 517 00:27:07,962 --> 00:27:10,512 I couldn't help it, Mr. MacDhui. 518 00:27:10,514 --> 00:27:12,514 Better get him back to the surgery - quick. 519 00:27:12,516 --> 00:27:15,016 Bruce is my eyes, Mr. MacDhui. 520 00:27:15,018 --> 00:27:18,286 Can you save him? I'll do what I can. Stay with him, Angus. 521 00:27:18,288 --> 00:27:21,790 He's in good hands now, Tammas. Now, come on, you come with me. 522 00:27:21,792 --> 00:27:24,292 This is going to take a long time. 523 00:27:24,294 --> 00:27:26,294 I hope his heart will stand it. 524 00:27:26,296 --> 00:27:28,229 Are you ready? 525 00:27:41,795 --> 00:27:43,695 The Spencer Wells, Willie. 526 00:27:53,173 --> 00:27:56,910 How is he, Willie? 527 00:27:56,912 --> 00:27:59,612 He's doin' fine. 528 00:28:09,140 --> 00:28:10,806 What are you children doing? 529 00:28:10,808 --> 00:28:14,143 Mary, go away from here. 530 00:28:14,145 --> 00:28:16,712 Daddy, it's Thomasina. She's hurt. 531 00:28:16,714 --> 00:28:17,863 Go away, child. 532 00:28:17,865 --> 00:28:19,933 Please look at her. She's awful sick. 533 00:28:19,935 --> 00:28:21,834 Here, Willie, take this cat. 534 00:28:21,836 --> 00:28:24,870 Daddy, Daddy, please look at her. Please make her well. 535 00:28:24,872 --> 00:28:26,422 Mary, you mustn't stay here. 536 00:28:26,424 --> 00:28:28,224 Now, listen to me. 537 00:28:28,226 --> 00:28:30,977 I've got Blind Tammas' dog here. He's badly hurt. 538 00:28:30,979 --> 00:28:33,295 Well, so is Thomasina. If you only look at her! 539 00:28:33,297 --> 00:28:36,098 All right, I'll look at her, but go away, all of you. 540 00:28:36,100 --> 00:28:38,051 You'll make her well? You promise? 541 00:28:38,053 --> 00:28:39,685 Yes, I promise, but go on out. 542 00:28:39,687 --> 00:28:41,927 Come on. Out, all of you. 543 00:28:43,458 --> 00:28:45,458 I think you better look at her, sir. 544 00:28:45,460 --> 00:28:47,461 Not now, man. We got work to do. 545 00:28:47,463 --> 00:28:49,330 Mr. MacDhui, sir, look. 546 00:28:54,687 --> 00:28:57,987 Quick, get her out of here, and that cloth she's laying on. 547 00:28:57,989 --> 00:29:00,557 That cat has tetanus. Get her out of here. 548 00:29:00,559 --> 00:29:03,159 Deal with her, disinfect your hands and hurry back. 549 00:29:03,161 --> 00:29:06,697 But, sir... Mr. MacDhui, you promised the child. 550 00:29:06,699 --> 00:29:10,300 The cat is beyond help. Will you do as I tell you? 551 00:29:10,302 --> 00:29:12,736 Hurry up, man. We've the dog to seal. 552 00:29:12,738 --> 00:29:16,005 Aye, I will. 553 00:29:16,007 --> 00:29:17,708 I will. 554 00:29:25,183 --> 00:29:27,751 Nearly an hour already. 555 00:29:27,753 --> 00:29:30,220 How much longer can it be? 556 00:29:30,222 --> 00:29:32,356 Aye, the waiting is hard. 557 00:29:32,358 --> 00:29:34,324 (door opens) 558 00:29:34,326 --> 00:29:36,360 Well, Bruce will live, Tammas. 559 00:29:36,362 --> 00:29:37,695 He'll even walk again. 560 00:29:37,697 --> 00:29:40,431 Thank God. 561 00:29:40,433 --> 00:29:41,666 Take me to him. 562 00:29:41,668 --> 00:29:43,051 Not now. He's still unconscious. 563 00:29:43,053 --> 00:29:45,553 But I'll send Willie round to fetch you this evening. 564 00:29:45,555 --> 00:29:47,088 Bruce will know you then. 565 00:29:47,090 --> 00:29:48,556 And he'll get better? 566 00:29:48,558 --> 00:29:49,891 Aye, be as good as new. 567 00:29:49,893 --> 00:29:52,394 It's a great skill you have, Mr. MacDhui, 568 00:29:52,396 --> 00:29:54,228 and no one can deny it. 569 00:29:54,230 --> 00:29:55,963 There now, what did I tell you? 570 00:29:55,965 --> 00:29:58,500 Come on, Tammas, I'll take you home. 571 00:29:58,502 --> 00:30:01,403 God bless you, Mr. MacDhui. 572 00:30:01,405 --> 00:30:03,237 God bless you. 573 00:30:07,611 --> 00:30:10,111 His pulse rate's fine. 574 00:30:10,113 --> 00:30:12,914 I'll stay with him till he wakes. 575 00:30:12,916 --> 00:30:15,349 Aye, he'll do. 576 00:30:17,186 --> 00:30:21,456 I never thought to see such a surgery as that. 577 00:30:21,458 --> 00:30:23,792 Aye, and what you have to do now 578 00:30:23,794 --> 00:30:25,794 will be just as hard, I'm thinking. 579 00:30:25,796 --> 00:30:28,096 You have to tell the child about her cat. 580 00:30:33,187 --> 00:30:35,271 "The shoeblack tries his bread to earn 581 00:30:35,273 --> 00:30:38,340 "and would an honest penny turn. 582 00:30:38,342 --> 00:30:41,243 "When mud upon our boots leave stains, 583 00:30:41,245 --> 00:30:44,146 "his ready help good payment gains. 584 00:30:44,148 --> 00:30:47,166 The beefeater we see today..." 585 00:30:47,168 --> 00:30:50,485 Daddy, Thomasina - is she better? 586 00:30:50,487 --> 00:30:52,604 She's out of pain, Mary. 587 00:30:52,606 --> 00:30:55,040 What was wrong with her? 588 00:30:55,042 --> 00:30:57,209 Let me go to her. 589 00:30:57,211 --> 00:30:59,711 She is better, isn't she? 590 00:31:01,399 --> 00:31:03,865 Mary, uh, now, will you listen? 591 00:31:03,867 --> 00:31:05,867 Listen to me just a minute. 592 00:31:05,869 --> 00:31:07,869 You see, there are some things 593 00:31:07,871 --> 00:31:10,939 that you have to learn to face, 594 00:31:10,941 --> 00:31:13,409 even if at first they seem a bit unfair. 595 00:31:13,411 --> 00:31:14,843 Where is she? 596 00:31:14,845 --> 00:31:17,797 Thomasina's wound was poisoned, 597 00:31:17,799 --> 00:31:20,667 and she might have made other people's pets ill, even die. 598 00:31:20,669 --> 00:31:22,535 But you did save her? 599 00:31:24,673 --> 00:31:27,440 I-I couldn't, Mary. I couldn't. 600 00:31:27,442 --> 00:31:30,710 See, there are some things your daddy can do and some things he can't. 601 00:31:30,712 --> 00:31:33,580 What did you do to her? 602 00:31:33,582 --> 00:31:37,550 I, uh, had her put to sleep. 603 00:31:37,552 --> 00:31:40,253 There was nothing else I could do. 604 00:31:40,255 --> 00:31:42,555 Now, try to understand, Mary. 605 00:31:42,557 --> 00:31:45,592 No! No! You said you'd make her better. 606 00:31:45,594 --> 00:31:48,261 You promised! You promised! Come on, Mary... 607 00:31:48,263 --> 00:31:51,231 I'll never speak to you again! Mary, please... 608 00:31:51,233 --> 00:31:53,933 He promised, and he's killed Thomasina! 609 00:31:53,935 --> 00:31:56,001 She's dead! 610 00:31:57,305 --> 00:31:59,272 I'll go up to her. 611 00:32:00,808 --> 00:32:02,408 Aye. 612 00:32:02,410 --> 00:32:05,445 And take everything she was wearing when she found the cat. 613 00:32:05,447 --> 00:32:07,448 Everything, do you hear? 614 00:32:07,450 --> 00:32:09,450 And burn what you can't boil. 615 00:32:09,452 --> 00:32:12,253 I didn't realize she was going to take it so hard. 616 00:32:12,255 --> 00:32:15,106 Could you not have saved the cat? 617 00:32:15,108 --> 00:32:17,091 It was wounded, infected with tetanus. 618 00:32:17,093 --> 00:32:19,893 I did what was right. 619 00:32:19,895 --> 00:32:22,162 I'll get her another cat. 620 00:32:22,164 --> 00:32:24,698 Can't I? 621 00:32:24,700 --> 00:32:27,101 Well? Can't I? 622 00:32:28,837 --> 00:32:31,672 Well, I'll buy her anything she wants. 623 00:32:33,575 --> 00:32:36,176 Why did she take it so hard? 624 00:32:36,178 --> 00:32:37,461 For a clever man, 625 00:32:37,463 --> 00:32:39,764 you've an awful lot to learn. 626 00:32:45,855 --> 00:32:49,256 Don't be so sad. You'll do yourself harm. 627 00:32:49,258 --> 00:32:51,424 Look, I tell you what we'll do. 628 00:32:51,426 --> 00:32:54,695 We'll give Thomasina the best funeral any cat ever had, won't we? 629 00:32:54,697 --> 00:32:56,981 Aye, with a full service and everything. 630 00:32:56,983 --> 00:32:58,733 My mother's got just the right box 631 00:32:58,735 --> 00:33:00,568 that'd do fine for a casket. 632 00:33:00,570 --> 00:33:03,004 We could pick some flowers and have a procession, 633 00:33:03,006 --> 00:33:05,006 like when old Dougal was buried. 634 00:33:05,008 --> 00:33:07,008 Everyone in the village would see us. 635 00:33:07,010 --> 00:33:08,843 Aye, you'll wear widow's mournings 636 00:33:08,845 --> 00:33:10,712 and walk behind the casket, weeping. 637 00:33:10,714 --> 00:33:13,381 And Annie here, she can be chief mourner. 638 00:33:13,383 --> 00:33:15,416 I can cry awful loud, Mary. 639 00:33:15,418 --> 00:33:17,058 (imitates sobbing) Not now. 640 00:33:19,106 --> 00:33:21,056 Will I wear a hat and a black coat? 641 00:33:21,058 --> 00:33:22,724 Mrs. MacKenzie has one. 642 00:33:22,726 --> 00:33:25,560 Aye, we'll all dress up and get everyone to come. 643 00:33:25,562 --> 00:33:27,562 I know! Jamie's just learning the pipes. 644 00:33:27,564 --> 00:33:29,898 He's not very good... I can play Macktintosh's Lament! 645 00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:32,801 I'll wear my dress kilt with my skean dhu and sporran, 646 00:33:32,803 --> 00:33:36,070 and everyone in the street will say, "There goes the poor widow MacDhui", 647 00:33:36,072 --> 00:33:38,373 "a-burying of her dear Thomasina, 648 00:33:38,375 --> 00:33:40,842 foully done to death, God rest her soul." 649 00:33:40,844 --> 00:33:43,578 Will they? Really? 650 00:33:43,580 --> 00:33:45,580 Aye. It'll be a great, great procession. 651 00:33:45,582 --> 00:33:47,350 You'll see. 652 00:33:47,352 --> 00:33:48,968 We'll go and get Thomasina now! 653 00:33:48,970 --> 00:33:50,603 Aye, come on. 654 00:33:52,540 --> 00:33:55,407 I opened my eyes, 655 00:33:55,409 --> 00:33:57,977 and where was I? 656 00:33:57,979 --> 00:33:59,979 They say that to die 657 00:33:59,981 --> 00:34:02,781 is a journey from light into darkness, 658 00:34:02,783 --> 00:34:05,118 but here was light again. 659 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:10,356 This was no quiet endless sleep. 660 00:34:10,358 --> 00:34:12,842 I was flying, 661 00:34:12,844 --> 00:34:15,043 flying wildly, 662 00:34:15,045 --> 00:34:17,530 without weight or effort, 663 00:34:17,532 --> 00:34:20,332 diving, spinning, 664 00:34:20,334 --> 00:34:23,386 falling backward and downward 665 00:34:23,388 --> 00:34:25,872 into the mists of time, 666 00:34:25,874 --> 00:34:27,974 where my ancestors were worshipped 667 00:34:27,976 --> 00:34:30,793 in the temples to Bast 668 00:34:30,795 --> 00:34:33,763 thousands of years ago. 669 00:35:06,732 --> 00:35:08,865 (meowing) 670 00:35:31,524 --> 00:35:34,592 Bast, the cat goddess, 671 00:35:34,594 --> 00:35:38,395 the goddess with the golden eyes 672 00:35:38,397 --> 00:35:41,966 staring and staring, 673 00:35:41,968 --> 00:35:45,236 drawing me upward and upward 674 00:35:45,238 --> 00:35:49,640 and upward and upward. 675 00:35:49,642 --> 00:35:52,710 Then there were flowers, 676 00:35:52,712 --> 00:35:55,412 flowers everywhere, 677 00:35:55,414 --> 00:35:59,083 all around me, touching me, 678 00:35:59,085 --> 00:36:01,652 and the sound of music 679 00:36:01,654 --> 00:36:04,672 wild enough to wake the dead. 680 00:36:04,674 --> 00:36:07,642 ( "Mackintosh's Lament") 681 00:36:59,079 --> 00:37:00,345 Lord sakes, 682 00:37:00,347 --> 00:37:02,881 what are the children a-burying today? 683 00:37:02,883 --> 00:37:05,417 Mary McDhee's cat Thomasina. 684 00:37:05,419 --> 00:37:07,520 My grandson Hughie told me 685 00:37:07,522 --> 00:37:10,589 her father couldna be bothered to cure its sickness. 686 00:37:10,591 --> 00:37:12,292 His own daughter's pet. 687 00:37:12,294 --> 00:37:14,961 Ah, well, maybe he was busy at the time, 688 00:37:14,963 --> 00:37:17,363 you know, what wi' Tammas' dog, 689 00:37:17,365 --> 00:37:20,266 and after all, it's a blind man's eyes. 690 00:37:20,268 --> 00:37:22,936 His own daughter's pet. 691 00:37:22,938 --> 00:37:25,438 It's hard to understand. 692 00:37:59,859 --> 00:38:02,660 Right. This is far enough. 693 00:38:02,662 --> 00:38:04,595 Put it here. 694 00:38:04,597 --> 00:38:08,157 Now get some stones and build a cairn for the grave. 695 00:38:11,487 --> 00:38:12,737 Now get the coffin off 696 00:38:12,739 --> 00:38:15,206 and put it down just there, you two. 697 00:38:15,208 --> 00:38:16,408 Come on, hurry. 698 00:38:21,046 --> 00:38:23,447 Now get some stones. 699 00:38:23,449 --> 00:38:25,529 Come on, get some stones. 700 00:38:28,737 --> 00:38:30,604 That'll do fine. 701 00:38:32,875 --> 00:38:34,975 Now, let's get on with the service. 702 00:38:37,079 --> 00:38:38,829 I'm going to take the service. 703 00:38:38,831 --> 00:38:40,831 It was my idea. No, you're not. 704 00:38:40,833 --> 00:38:42,966 I'm the oldest, and I've come prepared. 705 00:38:42,968 --> 00:38:45,202 Brethren, friends, and fellow mourners... 706 00:38:45,204 --> 00:38:46,837 (Jamie) Och! Go on, then. 707 00:38:46,839 --> 00:38:48,840 We have come here today 708 00:38:48,842 --> 00:38:50,842 to bury Thomasina and to praise her. 709 00:38:50,844 --> 00:38:53,879 She was the friend of Mary MacDhui here, who you all know. 710 00:38:53,881 --> 00:38:56,648 Uh, eh, well, anyway, there she is. 711 00:38:56,650 --> 00:38:58,099 (sobbing) 712 00:38:58,101 --> 00:39:00,669 Shh! Not yet. Hold your noise. 713 00:39:00,671 --> 00:39:03,321 Thomasina was one of the best cats in all Argyllshire, 714 00:39:03,323 --> 00:39:05,424 and we all feel for her best friend and owner. 715 00:39:05,426 --> 00:39:07,859 Whisht! Not yet, not yet. 716 00:39:07,861 --> 00:39:10,478 There is no doubt that Thomasina was a terrific mouser, too. 717 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,580 She had a few faults, aye, 718 00:39:12,582 --> 00:39:15,500 but I won't mention them here. 719 00:39:15,502 --> 00:39:18,452 Uh, and her mortal remains will now be laid to rest. 720 00:39:19,589 --> 00:39:20,721 Now! 721 00:39:20,723 --> 00:39:23,124 (sobbing) 722 00:39:23,126 --> 00:39:28,096 ( O' Loch Lomond") 723 00:39:28,098 --> 00:39:33,068 and by yon bonny braes 724 00:39:33,070 --> 00:39:38,640 on Loch Lomond 725 00:39:38,642 --> 00:39:43,629 will never meet again 726 00:39:43,631 --> 00:39:49,202 of Loch Lomond 727 00:39:49,204 --> 00:39:53,572 and I'll tak' the... 728 00:39:53,574 --> 00:39:54,841 It's Mad Lori. 729 00:39:54,843 --> 00:39:57,676 in Scotland afore... 730 00:39:57,678 --> 00:39:59,378 It's the witch! 731 00:39:59,380 --> 00:40:01,296 She's coming for us. Run for it! 732 00:40:01,298 --> 00:40:02,164 Run quickly! 733 00:40:02,166 --> 00:40:03,165 She's a witch! 734 00:40:03,167 --> 00:40:04,166 Run for it! 735 00:40:04,168 --> 00:40:06,728 The witch! The witch! 736 00:40:31,196 --> 00:40:33,780 What were they doing? 737 00:40:33,782 --> 00:40:36,416 Your heart's still beating. 738 00:40:36,418 --> 00:40:39,953 Oh, poor thing. 739 00:40:41,090 --> 00:40:43,056 Didn't they know? 740 00:40:43,058 --> 00:40:45,058 You come with me. 741 00:40:47,930 --> 00:40:50,730 Mary, come on in and get your supper. 742 00:40:52,834 --> 00:40:54,401 Hello, Mary. 743 00:40:57,572 --> 00:41:00,274 What have you been doing all afternoon? 744 00:41:00,276 --> 00:41:02,542 Mary, your father's speaking to you. 745 00:41:02,544 --> 00:41:04,378 Mrs. MacKenzie, I've seen the witch 746 00:41:04,380 --> 00:41:06,213 that lives up in the glen. 747 00:41:06,215 --> 00:41:07,381 What? 748 00:41:07,383 --> 00:41:09,383 We all ran away from her... 749 00:41:09,385 --> 00:41:12,152 Hughie and Geordie and Jamie and Jock and Annie. 750 00:41:12,154 --> 00:41:13,720 What's this nonsense now? 751 00:41:13,722 --> 00:41:16,423 And what were you doing in the glen? 752 00:41:16,425 --> 00:41:18,292 And she is a witch. 753 00:41:18,294 --> 00:41:20,995 I've seen her. So there. 754 00:41:20,997 --> 00:41:24,999 Mary, the... the kittens that Mr. Peddie's cat Amanda had 755 00:41:25,001 --> 00:41:27,001 are now ready to leave their mother. 756 00:41:27,003 --> 00:41:29,837 Would you like to come and choose one for yourself? 757 00:41:29,839 --> 00:41:31,138 Mary! 758 00:41:31,140 --> 00:41:32,589 Would you like to come 759 00:41:32,591 --> 00:41:34,358 to Mr. Peddie's with me tomorrow 760 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:35,960 and choose a kitten? 761 00:41:35,962 --> 00:41:38,963 Jamie MacNab can play "Mackintosh's Lament" on the pipes 762 00:41:38,965 --> 00:41:42,166 with only nine mistakes. 763 00:41:42,168 --> 00:41:44,802 Answer me, Mary. 764 00:41:44,804 --> 00:41:46,770 Answer your father, child. 765 00:41:46,772 --> 00:41:49,340 But he's not very good at "Loch Lomond." 766 00:41:49,342 --> 00:41:50,574 This is ridiculous. 767 00:41:50,576 --> 00:41:53,077 If this is her way of sulking just because... 768 00:41:53,079 --> 00:41:54,611 Don't you want your supper? 769 00:41:54,613 --> 00:41:56,613 No, I do not. Now who's sulking? 770 00:41:56,615 --> 00:41:59,851 Tell Miss MacDhui if she does want a kitten, she'll have to come and ask me. 771 00:41:59,853 --> 00:42:03,371 Everybody was real scared when they saw the witch, except me. 772 00:42:03,373 --> 00:42:04,839 I wasn't. 773 00:42:04,841 --> 00:42:08,543 I just looked at her and said, "I'm not afraid of you." 774 00:42:08,545 --> 00:42:10,980 Oh, give me strength. 775 00:42:10,982 --> 00:42:13,682 Oh, you and your stories. 776 00:42:13,684 --> 00:42:15,217 Eat your supper. 777 00:42:15,219 --> 00:42:17,219 Now you've made your father angry. 778 00:42:17,221 --> 00:42:20,672 No, I haven't. My father's dead. 779 00:42:24,111 --> 00:42:28,313 780 00:42:28,315 --> 00:42:34,286 781 00:42:34,288 --> 00:42:38,357 782 00:42:38,359 --> 00:42:43,695 783 00:42:43,697 --> 00:42:45,864 (sobbing) 784 00:42:54,958 --> 00:42:58,027 Don't cry, child. 785 00:42:58,029 --> 00:43:02,332 I haven't seen you cry for a long, long time. 786 00:43:02,334 --> 00:43:05,235 Look, Mary, I'm sorry about Thomasina. 787 00:43:05,237 --> 00:43:07,137 I've told you. 788 00:43:07,139 --> 00:43:09,139 I'll get you another cat, 789 00:43:09,141 --> 00:43:12,042 or maybe a wee dog to be all your very own. 790 00:43:12,044 --> 00:43:14,044 Wouldn't you like that? 791 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,548 Now, look, child, I can't bring Thomasina back to life. 792 00:43:18,550 --> 00:43:20,517 What's done is done! 793 00:43:23,788 --> 00:43:26,322 Oh, very well. 794 00:43:26,324 --> 00:43:28,791 Good night, then. 795 00:43:34,716 --> 00:43:37,316 Oh, Granddad, don't keep on about it so. 796 00:43:37,318 --> 00:43:40,153 That cat's funeral was nothing but a children's game. 797 00:43:40,155 --> 00:43:42,572 Not to some of us. I'm tellin' you... 798 00:43:42,574 --> 00:43:45,274 I've said it before and I'm saying it now - 799 00:43:45,276 --> 00:43:48,546 that Mr. MacDhui is doing no good here. 800 00:43:48,548 --> 00:43:51,515 Now, don't interrupt me, woman. 801 00:43:51,517 --> 00:43:54,018 He's a townsman, not a highlander. 802 00:43:54,020 --> 00:43:55,986 He has no feeling for animals at all. 803 00:43:55,988 --> 00:43:58,956 Oh, come now, Granddad. Some of the farmers round... 804 00:43:58,958 --> 00:44:00,157 The farmers? 805 00:44:00,159 --> 00:44:02,492 Did you not hear that he made an order 806 00:44:02,494 --> 00:44:05,495 to destroy the whole herd of Ian MacClennen's cattle 807 00:44:05,497 --> 00:44:08,465 because one cow was sick? 808 00:44:08,467 --> 00:44:11,602 That's the law. They had foot-and-mouth disease. 809 00:44:11,604 --> 00:44:13,220 It wasna the law in my day, 810 00:44:13,222 --> 00:44:16,190 and it was only MacDhui's opinion that they had it. 811 00:44:16,192 --> 00:44:18,408 (sighs) And look at his record. 812 00:44:18,410 --> 00:44:19,977 Never mind the cattle. 813 00:44:19,979 --> 00:44:23,346 Annie Laggan's old dog Rabbie - he had him killed. 814 00:44:23,348 --> 00:44:25,549 He saved Blind Tammas' Bruce, though. 815 00:44:25,551 --> 00:44:29,086 Oh, aye, that was because everybody was there watching. 816 00:44:29,088 --> 00:44:31,655 That was just showin' off. 817 00:44:31,657 --> 00:44:34,208 Now, Granddad, you shouldn't say that. 818 00:44:34,210 --> 00:44:36,376 Well, the man that did what he did... 819 00:44:36,378 --> 00:44:38,714 and he wouldna even take the trouble 820 00:44:38,716 --> 00:44:41,099 to treat his own daughter's cat when it was sick... 821 00:44:41,101 --> 00:44:43,101 is no better than a murderer. 822 00:44:43,103 --> 00:44:45,436 It'd be a good thing if he went away. 823 00:44:45,438 --> 00:44:47,606 I'd make it too hot for him here, 824 00:44:47,608 --> 00:44:49,608 I'm telling you, if I was younger. 825 00:44:49,610 --> 00:44:51,109 So would others. 826 00:44:51,111 --> 00:44:54,112 Him and his newfangled science. 827 00:44:59,652 --> 00:45:02,320 Mary! 828 00:45:02,322 --> 00:45:04,422 Mary MacDhui! 829 00:45:04,424 --> 00:45:06,791 Are you coming out to play? 830 00:45:06,793 --> 00:45:08,393 Mary! 831 00:45:08,395 --> 00:45:10,795 She won't be comin' out today. She's in mourning. 832 00:45:10,797 --> 00:45:13,064 And anyway, we've got work to do. 833 00:45:13,066 --> 00:45:15,533 What work? 834 00:45:15,535 --> 00:45:17,285 Forming an Anti-MacDhui Society 835 00:45:17,287 --> 00:45:19,287 to drive him out of Inveranoch. 836 00:45:19,289 --> 00:45:20,622 Och, listen to him. 837 00:45:20,624 --> 00:45:23,291 My grandpa said he's no better than a murderer. 838 00:45:23,293 --> 00:45:24,826 Your grandpa? 839 00:45:24,828 --> 00:45:26,394 And he told me Mr. MacDhui 840 00:45:26,396 --> 00:45:28,765 had two whole herds of cows slaughtered 841 00:45:28,767 --> 00:45:30,466 because he thought one beast was sick. 842 00:45:30,468 --> 00:45:33,386 People are saying he ought to go, and I think we ought to join them. 843 00:45:33,388 --> 00:45:35,371 And what does Blind Tammas say about him? 844 00:45:35,373 --> 00:45:37,339 Och, he's only one. 845 00:45:37,341 --> 00:45:39,008 Now, here's what we'll do. 846 00:45:39,010 --> 00:45:41,176 Me and you, Geordie... 847 00:45:41,178 --> 00:45:42,645 Morning, Mrs. MacLeod. 848 00:45:42,647 --> 00:45:44,146 Morning. 849 00:45:44,148 --> 00:45:47,266 You're not thinking of taking your cat to Mr. MacDhui, are you? 850 00:45:47,268 --> 00:45:49,568 Why not? Och, he won't bother with it. 851 00:45:49,570 --> 00:45:52,038 He doesn't care for anybody's pets. 852 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:52,955 What? 853 00:45:52,957 --> 00:45:54,957 He'll just say, "Can't be cured," 854 00:45:54,959 --> 00:45:56,959 and then kill it. Get away wi' you. 855 00:45:56,961 --> 00:45:59,762 It's true. He even did it to his own daughter's cat. 856 00:45:59,764 --> 00:46:02,564 And Mrs. Laggan's dog. He killed them. 857 00:46:02,566 --> 00:46:05,467 I did hear about Rabbie, but he was awful old. 858 00:46:05,469 --> 00:46:08,304 That cat of yours is younger than Mary's Thomasina. 859 00:46:08,306 --> 00:46:10,072 You take him in there, 860 00:46:10,074 --> 00:46:12,909 and he'll just get his bottle of chloroform and... 861 00:46:12,911 --> 00:46:14,911 Just a minute, Harry. Listen. 862 00:46:14,913 --> 00:46:17,697 We were just telling Mrs. MacLeod, Mr. Wallis, about Mr. MacDhui. 863 00:46:17,699 --> 00:46:21,020 You'd be well advised not to take your dog in there. 864 00:46:22,237 --> 00:46:24,738 I'm thinkin' of rebuilding my pigsties. 865 00:46:24,740 --> 00:46:28,709 You know, I've had two outbreaks of swine fever up to now. 866 00:46:28,711 --> 00:46:31,277 Have you spoken to this new vet here... uh, MacDhui? 867 00:46:31,279 --> 00:46:33,279 Not yet. Is he any good? 868 00:46:33,281 --> 00:46:36,216 One of Mr. MacClennen's cows had foot-and-mouth disease, 869 00:46:36,218 --> 00:46:39,019 and Mr. MacDhui had two whole herds killed. 870 00:46:42,657 --> 00:46:44,324 That young Annie of mine 871 00:46:44,326 --> 00:46:47,060 took my best black shawl from my closet yesterday 872 00:46:47,062 --> 00:46:49,830 and tore it into ribbons in some game. 873 00:46:49,832 --> 00:46:53,700 Aye, I saw them playing at funerals, 874 00:46:53,702 --> 00:46:56,536 burying young Mary MacDhui's cat. 875 00:46:56,538 --> 00:46:58,538 (Geordie) Mr. MacDhui killed it. 876 00:46:58,540 --> 00:46:59,806 Killed it? 877 00:46:59,808 --> 00:47:02,776 Aye, the same as he did Mrs. Laggan's dog. 878 00:47:02,778 --> 00:47:04,811 He kills things. 879 00:47:04,813 --> 00:47:06,897 He saved Tammas' Bruce, laddie. 880 00:47:06,899 --> 00:47:09,283 Aye, because everybody was there watching. 881 00:47:09,285 --> 00:47:11,018 That was showin' off. 882 00:47:11,020 --> 00:47:13,121 He's an animal murderer. 883 00:47:13,123 --> 00:47:15,573 You tell me he killed his daughter's cat? 884 00:47:15,575 --> 00:47:16,774 He didn't like it, 885 00:47:16,776 --> 00:47:18,776 so he took his gun and killed it. 886 00:47:18,778 --> 00:47:21,212 His gun? Well! 887 00:47:21,214 --> 00:47:24,215 Och! Isn't that awful? 888 00:47:34,961 --> 00:47:37,962 Well, now, Andrew. 889 00:47:37,964 --> 00:47:39,297 Glad I saw you. 890 00:47:39,299 --> 00:47:41,299 I wanted a word with you about Mary. 891 00:47:41,301 --> 00:47:43,301 I did what you said, asked her to come round 892 00:47:43,303 --> 00:47:44,835 and choose one of your kittens, 893 00:47:44,837 --> 00:47:46,971 but she'd have none of it, or me, either. 894 00:47:46,973 --> 00:47:48,856 It's like speaking with a blank wall. 895 00:47:48,858 --> 00:47:51,525 To a child of her age, feeling is stronger than reason. 896 00:47:51,527 --> 00:47:53,060 You know that, Andrew. 897 00:47:53,062 --> 00:47:55,396 Aye, and grief is usually forgotten quickly, too, 898 00:47:55,398 --> 00:47:58,399 but the death of this cat, it's like an obsession with her. 899 00:47:58,401 --> 00:48:00,920 Well, she's something of a loner child. 900 00:48:00,922 --> 00:48:02,521 Forgive me. 901 00:48:02,523 --> 00:48:05,457 She has no mother, and she needs someone to love. 902 00:48:05,459 --> 00:48:07,543 She has me. I'd do anything for her. 903 00:48:07,545 --> 00:48:09,911 No child's ever been loved so much. Unselfishly? 904 00:48:09,913 --> 00:48:12,681 What do you mean? 905 00:48:12,683 --> 00:48:14,316 Tell me the truth, Andrew. 906 00:48:14,318 --> 00:48:16,952 Were you maybe a wee bit jealous 907 00:48:16,954 --> 00:48:18,954 of that cat of hers? 908 00:48:18,956 --> 00:48:20,488 The truth, now. 909 00:48:20,490 --> 00:48:22,490 The animal had to be destroyed. 910 00:48:22,492 --> 00:48:25,160 It would have died anyway. You can take my word for that. 911 00:48:25,162 --> 00:48:28,330 Angus, would you do me a favor? Do you think you could have a talk with her? 912 00:48:28,332 --> 00:48:30,265 You might be able to reason with her. 913 00:48:30,267 --> 00:48:32,767 Well, I can try. 914 00:48:32,769 --> 00:48:34,153 I wish you would. 915 00:48:34,155 --> 00:48:36,155 She's at home now. 916 00:48:40,661 --> 00:48:43,162 You ought to be out playing in the sunshine 917 00:48:43,164 --> 00:48:45,530 and not moping here indoors. 918 00:48:45,532 --> 00:48:48,083 Geordie MacNab and Hughie came asking for you. 919 00:48:48,085 --> 00:48:50,419 Why don't you go and look for them? 920 00:48:50,421 --> 00:48:52,505 (knock on door) 921 00:48:54,242 --> 00:48:56,576 Oh, Mr. Peddie, Mr. Andrew's not in. 922 00:48:56,578 --> 00:48:59,679 I was just passing by, Mrs. MacKenzie, 923 00:48:59,681 --> 00:49:02,983 and I thought I'd pay a call on Mary. 924 00:49:02,985 --> 00:49:06,185 Would she be at home, do you think? 925 00:49:06,187 --> 00:49:08,688 I'm here, Mr. Peddie. 926 00:49:08,690 --> 00:49:13,309 Well, now, there you are. 927 00:49:13,311 --> 00:49:16,662 You were so quiet, I didn't see you. 928 00:49:16,664 --> 00:49:18,731 It's fair warm outdoors. 929 00:49:18,733 --> 00:49:20,733 You're wise to stay inside. 930 00:49:22,737 --> 00:49:25,838 Would you mind if I sit down and rest a while? 931 00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:26,939 Here? 932 00:49:26,941 --> 00:49:29,959 Ooh, I think the stairs are a grand place 933 00:49:29,961 --> 00:49:32,262 when you want to have a good think. 934 00:49:32,264 --> 00:49:36,399 You know, I was thinking just now about your Thomasina. 935 00:49:36,401 --> 00:49:38,067 What with my own cats, 936 00:49:38,069 --> 00:49:40,437 I get all mixed up remembering what yours was like. 937 00:49:40,439 --> 00:49:42,506 Thomasina, now, he was about... 938 00:49:42,508 --> 00:49:44,174 She. 939 00:49:44,176 --> 00:49:47,411 Oh, aye, she, yes. Thomasina. 940 00:49:47,413 --> 00:49:50,047 She was about, what... 941 00:49:50,049 --> 00:49:52,482 so long? 942 00:49:52,484 --> 00:49:56,987 And did she not have a wee square blaze on her chest? 943 00:49:56,989 --> 00:49:58,755 No, it was round. 944 00:49:58,757 --> 00:50:00,757 Round? Aye! Now you remind me. 945 00:50:00,759 --> 00:50:02,426 It was round, aye. 946 00:50:02,428 --> 00:50:05,296 But she did have three little white feet, didn't she? 947 00:50:05,298 --> 00:50:08,899 No white feet at all. No? Oh. 948 00:50:08,901 --> 00:50:10,901 But she had a pink nose 949 00:50:10,903 --> 00:50:12,369 with two black specks on it. 950 00:50:12,371 --> 00:50:13,804 I remember that well. 951 00:50:13,806 --> 00:50:15,372 No specks. 952 00:50:15,374 --> 00:50:18,175 No specks? 953 00:50:18,177 --> 00:50:20,210 Do you remember 954 00:50:20,212 --> 00:50:21,978 how she'd sit and look at you sometimes 955 00:50:21,980 --> 00:50:25,048 with just the tip of her tongue showing? 956 00:50:25,050 --> 00:50:27,234 When she was waiting to be fed. 957 00:50:27,236 --> 00:50:29,837 Yes, when she was waiting to be fed. 958 00:50:29,839 --> 00:50:32,674 You see, Mary, Thomasina isn't dead at all, 959 00:50:32,676 --> 00:50:34,342 not really dead, 960 00:50:34,344 --> 00:50:36,445 not when we can remember her together like this, 961 00:50:36,447 --> 00:50:39,147 because she's alive in our minds. No! 962 00:50:39,149 --> 00:50:43,368 And as long as you can remember her like this, she'll never die. 963 00:50:43,370 --> 00:50:45,003 Just call her to your mind, and she'll come, 964 00:50:45,005 --> 00:50:48,390 even if you were to have another wee cat to love. 965 00:50:48,392 --> 00:50:51,393 You know, I was saying to your daddy just this morning... 966 00:50:51,395 --> 00:50:53,161 My daddy's dead. 967 00:50:53,163 --> 00:50:54,963 I killed him. 968 00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,100 Did you, Mary? 969 01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:23,000 ══ Converted by dw817 ══ 970 00:50:59,669 --> 00:51:00,802 I killed him. 971 00:51:00,804 --> 00:51:04,873 I put him in a box with flowers in it. 972 00:51:04,875 --> 00:51:09,244 We all took him out into the glen and had a funeral, 973 00:51:09,246 --> 00:51:11,780 and now I haven't anybody at all. 974 00:51:11,782 --> 00:51:12,680 Mary... 975 00:51:12,682 --> 00:51:15,584 No! I like being alone! 976 00:51:35,890 --> 00:51:38,891 Good day to you, Birnie. I'm here to look at the bull. 977 00:51:38,893 --> 00:51:41,260 I've let him out. He's in the paddock. 978 00:51:41,262 --> 00:51:43,279 Oh, right. I'll find him. 979 00:51:43,281 --> 00:51:45,281 No need to, Mr. MacDhui. 980 00:51:45,283 --> 00:51:47,283 He'll do very well. 981 00:51:47,285 --> 00:51:49,601 Just tell me how much your fees are. 982 00:51:49,603 --> 00:51:52,104 What's all this about? 983 00:51:52,106 --> 00:51:53,856 I'll be no more needing a veterinary. 984 00:51:53,858 --> 00:51:55,858 If there's anything wrong with my beasts, 985 00:51:55,860 --> 00:51:58,027 I'll take them to the woman in the glen. 986 00:51:58,029 --> 00:52:00,830 She's a rare way with them and charges nothing, I'm told. 987 00:52:00,832 --> 00:52:02,865 Is that where you're takin' the cow? 988 00:52:02,867 --> 00:52:04,567 Aye, my man is. 989 00:52:04,569 --> 00:52:06,702 What's wrong with her? 990 00:52:06,704 --> 00:52:08,020 She's dried. 991 00:52:08,022 --> 00:52:10,040 You have as much chance of getting pints of beer as milk 992 00:52:10,042 --> 00:52:11,375 listening to that rubbish. 993 00:52:11,377 --> 00:52:13,743 I thought you were becoming enlightened, Birnie. 994 00:52:13,745 --> 00:52:16,814 What I do with my beasts is no concern of yourself, Mr. MacDhui. 995 00:52:16,816 --> 00:52:20,050 This cow has no disease reportable under the acts of the county. 996 00:52:20,052 --> 00:52:21,885 Your bull didn't, either. 997 00:52:21,887 --> 00:52:25,488 Aye, I didn't know then what sort of a vet you were - 998 00:52:25,490 --> 00:52:27,958 putting beasts to death whenever it suits you. 999 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:29,426 What? 1000 00:52:29,428 --> 00:52:32,762 Aye, my stockman heard it from his son at school in Inveranoch - 1001 00:52:32,764 --> 00:52:34,764 the dogs and cats you've no use for, 1002 00:52:34,766 --> 00:52:36,666 even your own child's pet. 1003 00:52:36,668 --> 00:52:38,936 I see. So you believe that, 1004 00:52:38,938 --> 00:52:41,939 and you're going back to the witchcraft and the superstition. 1005 00:52:41,941 --> 00:52:44,708 You said times change. 1006 00:52:44,710 --> 00:52:48,812 Well, maybe they're changing back again, Mr. MacDhui. 1007 00:52:48,814 --> 00:52:51,982 The old remedies are as good as book learning, sir. 1008 00:52:51,984 --> 00:52:53,951 Good day to you. 1009 00:53:00,493 --> 00:53:02,827 Apart from Mary, I've another headache now. 1010 00:53:02,829 --> 00:53:05,830 The whole village seems to be boycotting me and spreading tales 1011 00:53:05,832 --> 00:53:08,166 about what a heartless monster I am. 1012 00:53:08,168 --> 00:53:09,667 Och, a few children. 1013 00:53:09,669 --> 00:53:11,169 It's having its effect. 1014 00:53:11,171 --> 00:53:13,171 In a few days, the people have forgotten 1015 00:53:13,173 --> 00:53:15,173 that the blind man's dog is alive because of me, 1016 00:53:15,175 --> 00:53:18,409 but they remember the few creatures that I had to have destroyed. 1017 00:53:18,411 --> 00:53:20,661 Be patient with them, Andrew. Patient? 1018 00:53:20,663 --> 00:53:21,996 Tell me something. 1019 00:53:21,998 --> 00:53:25,533 What do you know about a half-witted woman named, uh... 1020 00:53:30,173 --> 00:53:33,674 named Lori who pretends to be a witch? 1021 00:53:33,676 --> 00:53:36,294 Well, I rented her the croft she's living in. 1022 00:53:36,296 --> 00:53:38,996 I know that. That's why I'm asking you. 1023 00:53:38,998 --> 00:53:42,233 And she's not half-witted, nor does she pretend to be a witch. 1024 00:53:42,235 --> 00:53:45,236 She's been labeled that, just as you say you've been labeled a monster, 1025 00:53:45,238 --> 00:53:48,239 only she doesn't mind, because she wants to be left alone. 1026 00:53:48,241 --> 00:53:49,807 Well, she's not succeeding. 1027 00:53:49,809 --> 00:53:53,011 At least two farmers that I'd won round to scientific treatment 1028 00:53:53,013 --> 00:53:55,030 are taking their beasts to her. 1029 00:53:55,032 --> 00:53:57,533 Aye, I hear she has a remarkable skill with animals. 1030 00:53:57,535 --> 00:53:58,583 What skill? 1031 00:53:58,585 --> 00:54:00,752 Without real knowledge, you can do great harm. 1032 00:54:00,754 --> 00:54:03,188 Would you take a sick child to a quack doctor? 1033 00:54:03,190 --> 00:54:05,724 Some people have natural gifts, Andrew, 1034 00:54:05,726 --> 00:54:09,028 and Lori MacGregor has the rare quality of mercy. 1035 00:54:09,030 --> 00:54:11,163 Since you know her so well, perhaps you'd tell her 1036 00:54:11,165 --> 00:54:14,433 to stop undermining the progress that I'm trying to bring to these people here. 1037 00:54:14,435 --> 00:54:16,685 Why don't you tell her, Andrew, 1038 00:54:16,687 --> 00:54:20,255 and tell me afterwards what you make of her. 1039 00:54:20,257 --> 00:54:22,123 Aye. Aye, I will, one day, 1040 00:54:22,125 --> 00:54:24,993 and put a stop to her interference with my work. 1041 00:54:27,164 --> 00:54:28,997 Time passed, 1042 00:54:28,999 --> 00:54:32,167 and I began to see and feel again. 1043 00:54:32,169 --> 00:54:35,871 I couldn't remember any part of my first life, 1044 00:54:35,873 --> 00:54:39,441 although something told me I'd lived before, 1045 00:54:39,443 --> 00:54:42,111 that I was still me. 1046 00:54:42,113 --> 00:54:44,814 I'd heard that a cat has nine lives. 1047 00:54:44,816 --> 00:54:48,117 I accepted the fact, so... 1048 00:54:48,119 --> 00:54:50,437 this was my second life, 1049 00:54:50,439 --> 00:54:53,473 my life with a girl named Lori. 1050 00:54:59,348 --> 00:55:04,333 She was gentle and kind, I'll give her that, 1051 00:55:04,335 --> 00:55:06,769 but she didn't seem to realize - 1052 00:55:06,771 --> 00:55:10,607 and neither did the other creatures around me - how important I was. 1053 00:55:10,609 --> 00:55:11,941 There we are. 1054 00:55:11,943 --> 00:55:13,275 All of you - 1055 00:55:13,277 --> 00:55:15,444 Dorcas, Mack, 1056 00:55:15,446 --> 00:55:17,480 Molly, 1057 00:55:17,482 --> 00:55:20,300 Whisker - be nice to Thomasina now. 1058 00:55:24,339 --> 00:55:25,905 "Be nice," she said, 1059 00:55:25,907 --> 00:55:29,942 but none of the others paid any attention to me at all. 1060 00:55:29,944 --> 00:55:33,013 They weren't really my kind anyway. 1061 00:55:33,015 --> 00:55:34,815 Thomasina, dear, 1062 00:55:34,817 --> 00:55:37,485 go and walk in the sun now you're able. 1063 00:55:37,487 --> 00:55:39,920 There are others here who are not. 1064 00:55:42,392 --> 00:55:44,608 I wasn't important anymore, 1065 00:55:44,610 --> 00:55:46,910 treated just like everybody else. 1066 00:55:50,199 --> 00:55:53,300 Now I knew how a king feels in exile. 1067 00:55:58,341 --> 00:56:00,357 Hughie, Jamie, quick! 1068 00:56:00,359 --> 00:56:02,893 (Jamie) What is it? Come and see quick. 1069 00:56:06,916 --> 00:56:08,516 A badger. 1070 00:56:08,518 --> 00:56:11,018 He's been in the trap a long time, 1071 00:56:11,020 --> 00:56:12,686 and he's badly hurt. 1072 00:56:12,688 --> 00:56:15,523 What'll we do with him? 1073 00:56:15,525 --> 00:56:18,526 If we try and take the trap off, he'll only bite. 1074 00:56:18,528 --> 00:56:21,196 We could wrap him up in a sack, trap and all, 1075 00:56:21,198 --> 00:56:23,432 and take him to the village, to the vet. 1076 00:56:23,434 --> 00:56:25,434 To Mr. MacDhui? We can't do that. 1077 00:56:25,436 --> 00:56:27,436 We're trying to get rid of him. 1078 00:56:27,438 --> 00:56:28,703 What else, then? 1079 00:56:28,705 --> 00:56:31,373 Couldn't we take the badger to the witch? 1080 00:56:31,375 --> 00:56:33,108 She's nearer. 1081 00:56:33,110 --> 00:56:34,192 Aye, that's true. 1082 00:56:34,194 --> 00:56:37,195 She couldn't cure a mess like that with magic. 1083 00:56:37,197 --> 00:56:38,763 I bet she could. 1084 00:56:38,765 --> 00:56:40,999 Mr. MacDhui would only kill it, 1085 00:56:41,001 --> 00:56:43,702 so let's wrap him up and take him to the witch. 1086 00:56:43,704 --> 00:56:45,970 Jamie, get the things. I'll get the sack. 1087 00:56:59,503 --> 00:57:00,719 Careful now. 1088 00:57:00,721 --> 00:57:03,554 (badger growling) 1089 00:57:05,358 --> 00:57:07,558 You've got him? Aye, got him. 1090 00:57:08,845 --> 00:57:12,648 Seeing and hearing these boys gave me that 1091 00:57:12,650 --> 00:57:15,250 "I've been here before" feeling. 1092 00:57:15,252 --> 00:57:17,319 You know what I mean? 1093 00:57:17,321 --> 00:57:21,224 I knew them, and yet I didn't. 1094 00:57:21,226 --> 00:57:26,245 They made me feel uneasy somehow, 1095 00:57:26,247 --> 00:57:28,564 so I kept an eye on them. 1096 00:57:40,895 --> 00:57:42,311 Well, who's gonna take him to her, then? 1097 00:57:42,313 --> 00:57:45,581 You. You're the eldest, you're always telling us. 1098 00:57:45,583 --> 00:57:48,551 Aye, but - but it was Geordie's idea. 1099 00:57:48,553 --> 00:57:51,187 He's too big for Geordie to carry, 1100 00:57:51,189 --> 00:57:53,055 but if you're afraid... 1101 00:57:53,057 --> 00:57:54,590 I'm not afraid of anything. 1102 00:57:54,592 --> 00:57:56,592 Well, go on, then. 1103 00:57:56,594 --> 00:57:59,162 Put him by the tree and ring that bell. 1104 00:58:02,234 --> 00:58:04,851 (Lori singing in Gaelic) 1105 00:58:12,261 --> 00:58:13,593 (clangs) 1106 00:58:13,595 --> 00:58:15,628 (singing stops) 1107 00:58:30,012 --> 00:58:33,646 Oh, poor thing. 1108 00:58:33,648 --> 00:58:35,481 Poor thing. 1109 00:58:40,272 --> 00:58:43,040 Oh, God, please, God, help me. 1110 00:58:43,042 --> 00:58:44,322 (twig snaps) 1111 00:58:45,794 --> 00:58:48,378 Wait! 1112 00:58:52,535 --> 00:58:53,718 Don't touch it. 1113 00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:56,120 But it's hurt, from that. 1114 00:59:01,511 --> 00:59:02,844 Cursed gin traps. 1115 00:59:02,846 --> 00:59:05,346 Look what it's done to... Mind yourself. 1116 00:59:07,517 --> 00:59:09,383 Drop it. It'll tear your throat out. 1117 00:59:09,385 --> 00:59:12,386 It'll not harm me. No creature harms me. They're not afraid. 1118 00:59:12,388 --> 00:59:15,456 Put it down. You're mad. Aye, so I hear. 1119 00:59:24,150 --> 00:59:26,150 Get away from it. Let me go. Let me go! 1120 00:59:26,152 --> 00:59:28,820 I'm sorry, but a wounded badger could half kill you. 1121 00:59:28,822 --> 00:59:30,989 No creature ever harms me. Don't touch him! 1122 00:59:30,991 --> 00:59:32,389 Leave him to me. 1123 00:59:32,391 --> 00:59:33,925 To you? 1124 00:59:33,927 --> 00:59:35,493 Why, who are you? 1125 00:59:35,495 --> 00:59:38,129 My name is MacDhui. I'm the veterinary from Inveranoch. 1126 00:59:38,131 --> 00:59:39,697 You are? 1127 00:59:39,699 --> 00:59:41,250 Now I see. 1128 00:59:41,252 --> 00:59:43,402 What do you mean? 1129 00:59:43,404 --> 00:59:45,404 You have the skill that I haven't, 1130 00:59:45,406 --> 00:59:49,341 the skill that I prayed for when I found the badger. 1131 00:59:49,343 --> 00:59:52,444 Don't you see? You're meant to help him, and you must. 1132 00:59:56,784 --> 00:59:59,285 It's no use, I tell you. It's too late. 1133 00:59:59,287 --> 01:00:01,587 Be kinder to put him out of his pain. 1134 01:00:01,589 --> 01:00:04,456 And wonderful to give him his life. 1135 01:00:04,458 --> 01:00:06,858 You have the skill for it. 1136 01:00:06,860 --> 01:00:09,094 Please, for pity's sake. 1137 01:00:09,096 --> 01:00:10,929 Don't go! 1138 01:00:10,931 --> 01:00:14,065 I've got to get my instruments. They're in my car. 1139 01:00:16,037 --> 01:00:17,803 God, you sent him. 1140 01:00:17,805 --> 01:00:19,938 Please make him hurry back. 1141 01:00:27,148 --> 01:00:28,647 Well, that's it. 1142 01:00:28,649 --> 01:00:30,683 We'll have to see how it takes. 1143 01:00:30,685 --> 01:00:33,687 Still, they're hardy creatures with great vitality. 1144 01:00:33,689 --> 01:00:35,188 He has a chance. 1145 01:00:35,190 --> 01:00:37,523 Bless you and thank you for giving it the chance. 1146 01:00:37,525 --> 01:00:39,859 He'll have to stay quiet until the wounds heal. 1147 01:00:39,861 --> 01:00:42,095 Have you got a place where you can keep him? 1148 01:00:42,097 --> 01:00:44,030 Yes. All right. 1149 01:00:55,977 --> 01:00:58,277 Are all these wild things in your care? 1150 01:00:58,279 --> 01:01:00,279 Yes, they come here to me. 1151 01:01:00,281 --> 01:01:02,949 Some instinct or guardian angel brings them. 1152 01:01:02,951 --> 01:01:05,952 And what kind of treatment do you give them? 1153 01:01:05,954 --> 01:01:09,456 Food, warmth, comfort and love. 1154 01:01:09,458 --> 01:01:11,758 And let nature take its course, 1155 01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:13,493 and that mends them. 1156 01:01:13,495 --> 01:01:16,596 And what about the other beasts that are brought to you? 1157 01:01:16,598 --> 01:01:18,598 Farmer Birnie's cow, for instance. 1158 01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:20,834 I know all about that. What did you do for her? 1159 01:01:20,836 --> 01:01:23,971 I sent her back to him with a message for him to be kinder to her. 1160 01:01:23,973 --> 01:01:26,774 Ha. Like to seen his face. 1161 01:01:26,776 --> 01:01:28,275 And this? 1162 01:01:28,277 --> 01:01:31,278 I found him one morning by the tree outside in a box. 1163 01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:33,447 He had a broken leg, but he's better now. 1164 01:01:33,449 --> 01:01:35,949 Well, I can describe his guardian angel to you. 1165 01:01:35,951 --> 01:01:39,754 He's about six years old, red hair, and his name is Geordie MacNab. 1166 01:01:48,865 --> 01:01:51,365 Well, keep your eye on the badger, Miss MacGregor, 1167 01:01:51,367 --> 01:01:53,868 and see that he doesn't tear off the dressing. 1168 01:01:53,870 --> 01:01:55,369 Aye, I'll watch him. 1169 01:01:55,371 --> 01:01:58,038 You know, um, in Inveranoch, 1170 01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:00,841 they, uh, they call you "witch," 1171 01:02:00,843 --> 01:02:04,378 and if you can get all these creatures here to live together in peace, 1172 01:02:04,380 --> 01:02:05,579 perhaps there's some truth in it. 1173 01:02:05,581 --> 01:02:08,315 The truth is that they have security 1174 01:02:08,317 --> 01:02:10,317 because they've no fear. 1175 01:02:10,319 --> 01:02:12,454 Animals are not like people. 1176 01:02:12,456 --> 01:02:16,224 They only fight and kill when they're hungry or afraid, 1177 01:02:16,226 --> 01:02:19,628 not for gain or to prove how strong they are. 1178 01:02:19,630 --> 01:02:22,914 You don't have to be a witch to understand that. 1179 01:02:24,918 --> 01:02:27,452 What made you come here, Mr. MacDhui? 1180 01:02:27,454 --> 01:02:30,555 Well, I-I thought that, uh... It's no matter now. 1181 01:02:30,557 --> 01:02:32,557 I must go. I've work to do. 1182 01:02:32,559 --> 01:02:34,992 Wait. I must pay you for the work you've done. 1183 01:02:34,994 --> 01:02:37,295 Um, there's no need. 1184 01:02:37,297 --> 01:02:39,881 Will you take this, then, from me? 1185 01:02:39,883 --> 01:02:41,883 I made it here. 1186 01:02:41,885 --> 01:02:43,518 Then I'm glad to have it. 1187 01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:45,286 Thank you. 1188 01:02:50,610 --> 01:02:54,579 I knew the man... and yet I didn't know him. 1189 01:02:54,581 --> 01:02:57,699 He reminded me of someone, 1190 01:02:57,701 --> 01:03:01,470 something that was missing in my present life. 1191 01:03:01,472 --> 01:03:03,806 What do you think he's done? 1192 01:03:03,808 --> 01:03:05,475 Killed it. 1193 01:03:05,477 --> 01:03:07,126 But the witch wouldn't let him. 1194 01:03:07,128 --> 01:03:09,828 He wouldn't be likely to help her with magic, now, would he? 1195 01:03:09,830 --> 01:03:12,531 Suppose we had a look through the window. 1196 01:03:14,268 --> 01:03:17,103 It's our badger. We're responsible for him. 1197 01:03:17,105 --> 01:03:21,039 Aye. Maybe if we were careful... 1198 01:03:27,081 --> 01:03:28,514 Come on, Geordie. 1199 01:03:29,717 --> 01:03:31,383 If she catches us, 1200 01:03:31,385 --> 01:03:33,885 you can say you came to see how your frog was getting on. 1201 01:03:33,887 --> 01:03:35,721 You want to know, don't you? 1202 01:03:37,125 --> 01:03:38,624 Come on, then. 1203 01:03:40,694 --> 01:03:43,445 (Lori singing in Gaelic, loom banging) 1204 01:03:51,639 --> 01:03:52,672 Psst! 1205 01:03:56,428 --> 01:03:59,429 (softly) The badger's in here. I think he's dead. 1206 01:03:59,431 --> 01:04:01,531 I told you Mr. MacDhui would kill him. 1207 01:04:01,533 --> 01:04:03,533 Here, Geordie, you're the smallest. 1208 01:04:03,535 --> 01:04:05,502 Climb up and have a look. 1209 01:04:13,546 --> 01:04:17,180 He's not dead. I can see him breathing. 1210 01:04:17,182 --> 01:04:19,115 (Hughie) Are you sure? 1211 01:04:21,620 --> 01:04:23,086 (barking) 1212 01:04:23,088 --> 01:04:24,087 Look out! 1213 01:04:24,089 --> 01:04:25,188 (grunting) 1214 01:04:29,494 --> 01:04:31,562 (Geordie) Ow! 1215 01:04:31,564 --> 01:04:32,479 (barking) 1216 01:04:32,481 --> 01:04:35,048 (bell clangs) 1217 01:04:35,050 --> 01:04:36,416 Let me go! 1218 01:04:36,418 --> 01:04:38,001 Let me go! 1219 01:04:38,003 --> 01:04:39,519 Och! It's all right. 1220 01:04:39,521 --> 01:04:42,323 What's the matter? 1221 01:04:42,325 --> 01:04:43,908 What are you afraid of? 1222 01:04:43,910 --> 01:04:45,176 Let me go! 1223 01:04:47,330 --> 01:04:49,864 You're the one who brought the frog to me. 1224 01:04:51,367 --> 01:04:53,767 He's better now. His leg has mended. 1225 01:04:53,769 --> 01:04:55,569 Do you want him back? 1226 01:04:57,273 --> 01:04:58,939 Then come and see him. 1227 01:04:58,941 --> 01:05:00,974 He's not very strong at hopping yet, 1228 01:05:00,976 --> 01:05:03,336 but he can swim all right. 1229 01:05:10,419 --> 01:05:12,519 He's going in with her. 1230 01:05:12,521 --> 01:05:15,389 She must have put a spell on him. 1231 01:05:22,415 --> 01:05:24,415 Here's your wee frog. 1232 01:05:24,417 --> 01:05:25,984 Look. 1233 01:05:25,986 --> 01:05:28,285 Oh, he's better. 1234 01:05:28,287 --> 01:05:30,688 Did you do it with magic? 1235 01:05:30,690 --> 01:05:32,407 With a powerful magic, Geordie. 1236 01:05:32,409 --> 01:05:34,309 You know my name. 1237 01:05:34,311 --> 01:05:35,810 Cor! 1238 01:05:35,812 --> 01:05:38,780 Was it you who brought the wounded badger, too? 1239 01:05:41,418 --> 01:05:43,585 Is he going to be all right, please? 1240 01:05:43,587 --> 01:05:45,621 Did you do magic with him? 1241 01:05:45,623 --> 01:05:49,391 No, that was Mr. MacDhui. What he did was magic. 1242 01:05:49,393 --> 01:05:51,793 Mr. MacDhui - does he do magic? 1243 01:05:51,795 --> 01:05:54,529 He has a wonderful skill that's almost magic. 1244 01:05:54,531 --> 01:05:56,698 He saved the badger's life. 1245 01:05:56,700 --> 01:05:58,400 Can I go now? 1246 01:05:58,402 --> 01:06:00,335 Don't you want to take your frog? 1247 01:06:04,208 --> 01:06:06,408 Thank you for curing my frog. 1248 01:06:06,410 --> 01:06:09,244 I'm not afraid anymore. 1249 01:06:09,246 --> 01:06:11,313 Well, not much, that is, 1250 01:06:11,315 --> 01:06:13,282 but I have to go now. 1251 01:06:23,945 --> 01:06:25,611 (Jamie) Are you all right? 1252 01:06:25,613 --> 01:06:27,446 Yes. Look, she cured the frog. 1253 01:06:27,448 --> 01:06:30,216 But what about the badger? She cured him, too. 1254 01:06:30,218 --> 01:06:33,836 She put a spell on Mr. MacDhui and made him help her. 1255 01:06:33,838 --> 01:06:36,339 She's an awful good witch. 1256 01:06:38,276 --> 01:06:39,909 (knocks) 1257 01:06:47,635 --> 01:06:48,968 Hello, Mary. 1258 01:06:56,477 --> 01:06:59,012 Do you know what I did today? 1259 01:06:59,014 --> 01:07:02,281 Went up to the glen to see your witch. 1260 01:07:02,283 --> 01:07:04,851 You know, she's not a witch at all. 1261 01:07:04,853 --> 01:07:10,590 She, uh... isn't even what Mrs. Mack calls, uh, "something weird." 1262 01:07:10,592 --> 01:07:12,626 She's a bit like yourself - 1263 01:07:12,628 --> 01:07:14,762 wants to be left alone. 1264 01:07:14,764 --> 01:07:16,430 Except that she's, uh, 1265 01:07:16,432 --> 01:07:18,932 she's got all kinds of creatures up there with her - 1266 01:07:18,934 --> 01:07:23,337 squirrels and rabbits, stray dogs, cats, 1267 01:07:23,339 --> 01:07:26,273 uh, wild birds 1268 01:07:26,275 --> 01:07:28,175 and a - 1269 01:07:28,177 --> 01:07:30,377 and a badger. 1270 01:07:30,379 --> 01:07:32,379 If I go up there again, 1271 01:07:32,381 --> 01:07:35,182 would you like to come with me and see him? 1272 01:07:38,354 --> 01:07:42,156 Look, Mary, I brought you a present. 1273 01:07:42,158 --> 01:07:44,325 (whines) Look. 1274 01:07:44,327 --> 01:07:47,794 Something of your very own. 1275 01:07:47,796 --> 01:07:50,797 (sobbing) 1276 01:08:03,580 --> 01:08:05,580 Och, I couldn't get nowhere with her. 1277 01:08:05,582 --> 01:08:09,651 She shows no signs of wearying of this game she's playing, that I'm not there. 1278 01:08:09,653 --> 01:08:11,653 And how do you play it, Andrew? 1279 01:08:11,655 --> 01:08:14,555 Talk to her, behave as if everything was normal between us, 1280 01:08:14,557 --> 01:08:16,925 read stories to her, but she pays no heed. 1281 01:08:16,927 --> 01:08:18,927 And that wee dog you got for her? 1282 01:08:18,929 --> 01:08:21,946 She'd have none of it. I had to take it away again. 1283 01:08:21,948 --> 01:08:24,282 No, she won't forgive me, because I failed her. 1284 01:08:24,284 --> 01:08:26,284 At least, that's the way she sees it. 1285 01:08:26,286 --> 01:08:29,470 I think the trouble lies deeper than that. 1286 01:08:29,472 --> 01:08:32,274 You were the only human focus for her love. 1287 01:08:32,276 --> 01:08:35,643 That's why her shock of disappointment in you was so great. 1288 01:08:37,181 --> 01:08:40,548 Andrew, have you ever thought of getting married again? 1289 01:08:40,550 --> 01:08:42,217 No. 1290 01:08:42,219 --> 01:08:44,619 You need another focus for your love 1291 01:08:44,621 --> 01:08:47,388 besides the child, and Mary needs a mother. 1292 01:08:47,390 --> 01:08:50,075 It's too late for me to fall in love again. 1293 01:08:50,077 --> 01:08:53,896 Oh... so you've seen Lori MacGregor. 1294 01:08:53,898 --> 01:08:57,399 Aye, I've seen her. 1295 01:08:57,401 --> 01:08:59,702 What do you make of her? 1296 01:08:59,704 --> 01:09:00,853 Don't know. 1297 01:09:00,855 --> 01:09:03,889 She, uh, she has a-a strange way with her, 1298 01:09:03,891 --> 01:09:06,892 a strange skill that's instinctive. 1299 01:09:06,894 --> 01:09:10,095 I don't understand how she lives out there, cut off, alone, 1300 01:09:10,097 --> 01:09:12,865 and yet doesn't seem to be alone. 1301 01:09:12,867 --> 01:09:14,900 You should see her again, Andrew. 1302 01:09:14,902 --> 01:09:17,670 Maybe she could teach you that rare virtue. 1303 01:09:17,672 --> 01:09:20,773 You're in need of it, my friend, great need of it. 1304 01:09:22,877 --> 01:09:24,710 Good night, Angus. 1305 01:09:36,241 --> 01:09:37,456 Hello, Miss MacGregor. 1306 01:09:37,458 --> 01:09:39,458 So he came to see Lori, 1307 01:09:39,460 --> 01:09:42,128 but putting a stop to what she was doing 1308 01:09:42,130 --> 01:09:44,431 soon went out of his mind, 1309 01:09:44,433 --> 01:09:47,066 and he kept on coming to see her. 1310 01:10:24,706 --> 01:10:27,707 I've learned a great deal watching you. 1311 01:10:27,709 --> 01:10:29,709 If only I had the skill you have. 1312 01:10:29,711 --> 01:10:32,712 But you've a way of taking the fear out of these wild creatures, 1313 01:10:32,714 --> 01:10:35,249 making them trust you, that I wish I had. 1314 01:10:35,251 --> 01:10:37,084 But I'm a witch, remember? 1315 01:10:37,086 --> 01:10:38,586 Aye, you must be. 1316 01:10:38,588 --> 01:10:41,088 You cast some kind of a spell on them. 1317 01:10:41,090 --> 01:10:42,757 I love them all. 1318 01:10:42,759 --> 01:10:45,259 When they're lost or strayed or alone in pain, 1319 01:10:45,261 --> 01:10:47,127 that's what they need. 1320 01:10:47,129 --> 01:10:49,314 I feel for them. 1321 01:10:49,316 --> 01:10:51,849 And you, with all your skill - do you? 1322 01:10:51,851 --> 01:10:55,853 I give them what I have, my knowledge of what to do. 1323 01:10:55,855 --> 01:10:56,921 I do my job. 1324 01:10:56,923 --> 01:10:59,623 Is that all it is to you? 1325 01:10:59,625 --> 01:11:02,460 You must have chosen to become a veterinary. 1326 01:11:02,462 --> 01:11:04,579 No, my-my father was one himself. 1327 01:11:04,581 --> 01:11:06,413 He chose it for me, 1328 01:11:06,415 --> 01:11:09,083 and he was a man that you didn't cross. 1329 01:11:09,085 --> 01:11:12,119 No, all my life, I wanted to be a doctor, 1330 01:11:12,121 --> 01:11:14,481 dreamed of it and worked for it. 1331 01:11:17,811 --> 01:11:20,812 You must have put a spell on me to make me tell you that. 1332 01:11:20,814 --> 01:11:23,349 Except for my wife, I've never told another soul. 1333 01:11:23,351 --> 01:11:24,916 Only she knew. 1334 01:11:24,918 --> 01:11:26,268 "Knew"? 1335 01:11:26,270 --> 01:11:29,137 Aye, she's dead now, about five years ago. 1336 01:11:31,575 --> 01:11:34,576 You say you believe in providence and in God's mercy, 1337 01:11:34,578 --> 01:11:36,578 and you wonder why I don't? 1338 01:11:36,580 --> 01:11:38,079 How can you not? 1339 01:11:38,081 --> 01:11:41,082 I loved my wife. She did nothing but good. 1340 01:11:41,084 --> 01:11:44,085 She went out nursing the sick in an epidemic, 1341 01:11:44,087 --> 01:11:46,622 caught the sickness herself, and died. 1342 01:11:46,624 --> 01:11:49,625 "The will of God is inscrutable," they told me. 1343 01:11:49,627 --> 01:11:51,660 "God is love," they told me. 1344 01:11:51,662 --> 01:11:53,662 Which is true. That's what she believed, 1345 01:11:53,664 --> 01:11:56,498 yet the God who's supposed to be love allowed her to die. 1346 01:11:56,500 --> 01:11:58,500 And therefore you reject him? 1347 01:11:58,502 --> 01:12:01,303 Because your love died, his love has no truth? 1348 01:12:01,305 --> 01:12:03,171 Is that what you mean? 1349 01:12:03,173 --> 01:12:06,742 Ask yourself that when you've known pain. 1350 01:12:06,744 --> 01:12:10,312 I saw both my parents drown, Andrew, in a storm at sea, 1351 01:12:10,314 --> 01:12:12,648 but my faith didn't die with them, 1352 01:12:12,650 --> 01:12:15,318 and they wouldn't have wished it. I know that. 1353 01:12:21,610 --> 01:12:23,910 I'm sorry. Forgive me. 1354 01:12:23,912 --> 01:12:25,695 Forgive? 1355 01:12:25,697 --> 01:12:28,164 I'm glad you told me of yourself 1356 01:12:28,166 --> 01:12:30,316 and I told you. 1357 01:12:32,620 --> 01:12:34,570 Aye. 1358 01:12:34,572 --> 01:12:36,839 I'm glad, too. 1359 01:12:36,841 --> 01:12:38,675 I must go now. 1360 01:12:38,677 --> 01:12:41,894 The man's coming back gave me that feeling once again 1361 01:12:41,896 --> 01:12:45,131 of there having been some other time, 1362 01:12:45,133 --> 01:12:47,967 some other place... 1363 01:12:47,969 --> 01:12:50,803 and one night it came to a head. 1364 01:12:50,805 --> 01:12:53,640 It was as if something was pulling me, 1365 01:12:53,642 --> 01:12:55,809 drawing me on 1366 01:12:55,811 --> 01:12:58,745 and on and on. 1367 01:13:00,982 --> 01:13:02,982 I knew the way somehow, 1368 01:13:02,984 --> 01:13:06,654 although I didn't know why or where I was going. 1369 01:13:50,783 --> 01:13:51,966 (Thomasina meows) 1370 01:13:59,143 --> 01:14:00,542 (whispers) Thomasina. 1371 01:14:00,544 --> 01:14:02,410 Thomasina! 1372 01:14:06,183 --> 01:14:09,000 Thomasina! Thomasina! 1373 01:14:09,002 --> 01:14:10,519 Come back! 1374 01:14:13,957 --> 01:14:16,024 Thomasina! 1375 01:14:19,846 --> 01:14:21,312 Thomasina! 1376 01:14:21,314 --> 01:14:23,848 Thomasina! 1377 01:14:39,283 --> 01:14:42,016 Thomasina! 1378 01:14:50,027 --> 01:14:51,761 Mary! 1379 01:14:53,598 --> 01:14:55,230 Mary! 1380 01:15:05,043 --> 01:15:08,377 (sobbing) Thomasina! 1381 01:15:08,379 --> 01:15:11,747 Thomasina. 1382 01:15:11,749 --> 01:15:15,184 Thomasina. 1383 01:15:15,186 --> 01:15:16,652 No, no! 1384 01:15:16,654 --> 01:15:17,903 Let me go! I saw her! 1385 01:15:17,905 --> 01:15:20,706 I saw her! Let me go! 1386 01:15:20,708 --> 01:15:22,625 You were right to call me. 1387 01:15:22,627 --> 01:15:26,161 She's in bad shock. Could turn to pneumonia. 1388 01:15:26,163 --> 01:15:28,231 I see signs of it now. 1389 01:15:28,233 --> 01:15:29,949 I've done all I can for the moment. 1390 01:15:29,951 --> 01:15:32,417 I'll be around first thing in the morning. 1391 01:15:32,419 --> 01:15:34,020 Thank you, Strathsay. 1392 01:15:34,022 --> 01:15:35,689 What should I do? 1393 01:15:35,691 --> 01:15:37,757 Keep taking her temperature every hour or so. 1394 01:15:37,759 --> 01:15:39,526 It's just over 100 now. 1395 01:15:39,528 --> 01:15:42,195 If it gets any higher, let me know at once. 1396 01:15:42,197 --> 01:15:44,698 I won't leave her. Show the doctor out, Mrs. Mack. 1397 01:15:44,700 --> 01:15:47,660 You better get out of those wet things. You'll catch cold. 1398 01:15:50,405 --> 01:15:52,973 I heard the shouting, saw the doctor arrive. 1399 01:15:52,975 --> 01:15:55,475 Glad you came, Angus. I'm worried sick. 1400 01:15:55,477 --> 01:15:57,477 If she should catch pneumonia... 1401 01:15:57,479 --> 01:15:59,479 Aye, that's a great battle 1402 01:15:59,481 --> 01:16:01,648 for a wee bairn to fight alone. 1403 01:16:01,650 --> 01:16:03,650 Pray for her, Andrew. 1404 01:16:03,652 --> 01:16:06,586 Pray for God's help and mercy. 1405 01:16:06,588 --> 01:16:08,688 Pray. 1406 01:16:08,690 --> 01:16:11,958 Yes, pray, because if ever there was a man 1407 01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:14,627 in need of mercy, it is you. 1408 01:16:14,629 --> 01:16:17,047 You know I'm not a one for praying, 1409 01:16:17,049 --> 01:16:19,182 for goin' down on my knees. 1410 01:16:19,184 --> 01:16:21,200 Well, pray on your feet, man. 1411 01:16:21,202 --> 01:16:23,971 It's what's in your heart and mind that matters, 1412 01:16:23,973 --> 01:16:25,973 not whether you kneel or not, 1413 01:16:25,975 --> 01:16:28,308 though that would be good for your soul. 1414 01:16:28,310 --> 01:16:30,310 It's this stubborn pride of yours 1415 01:16:30,312 --> 01:16:33,814 that has made you live inside yourself so long. 1416 01:16:33,816 --> 01:16:36,183 I've forgotten how to pray. 1417 01:16:36,185 --> 01:16:38,118 I can't do it. 1418 01:16:38,120 --> 01:16:40,988 I can't feel the need for it. 1419 01:16:40,990 --> 01:16:43,658 Humble yourself, Andrew. 1420 01:16:43,660 --> 01:16:46,460 Humble yourself. 1421 01:16:46,462 --> 01:16:49,063 If you love the child, 1422 01:16:49,065 --> 01:16:51,032 pray for her. 1423 01:17:42,369 --> 01:17:45,237 (Thomasina meowing) 1424 01:17:56,851 --> 01:18:00,418 Oh, Thomasina, where have you been? 1425 01:18:07,695 --> 01:18:09,863 I didn't know. 1426 01:18:09,865 --> 01:18:12,698 From the present back into the past, 1427 01:18:12,700 --> 01:18:15,001 to the present again, 1428 01:18:15,003 --> 01:18:17,137 where I was safe, 1429 01:18:17,139 --> 01:18:19,305 protected, 1430 01:18:19,307 --> 01:18:21,241 and loved. 1431 01:18:35,289 --> 01:18:37,289 Where are you boys going? 1432 01:18:37,291 --> 01:18:39,792 Further up the glen, Granny. Well, you're not to. 1433 01:18:39,794 --> 01:18:42,795 They say in the village there's a witch up here. 1434 01:18:42,797 --> 01:18:44,957 She'll put the evil eye on you. 1435 01:18:49,704 --> 01:18:50,953 (rider) Make way! 1436 01:18:50,955 --> 01:18:53,656 (woman) Yah! Hah! Hah! 1437 01:18:53,658 --> 01:18:55,826 (rider shouting) 1438 01:19:20,619 --> 01:19:21,619 (gasps) 1439 01:19:22,588 --> 01:19:25,089 Right, you devil. You'll pay for this. 1440 01:19:25,091 --> 01:19:27,058 Come on! 1441 01:19:27,060 --> 01:19:29,393 What's he gonna do to the horse? 1442 01:19:29,395 --> 01:19:32,596 Let's go and see. Aye. 1443 01:19:32,598 --> 01:19:34,932 Darvas, put the bear to his paces 1444 01:19:34,934 --> 01:19:37,768 and wake him up. 1445 01:19:40,356 --> 01:19:43,156 (Darvas) Come on, get out. Get out. Go on. Go! 1446 01:19:43,158 --> 01:19:46,227 (man) All right, get him out. Get him out! 1447 01:19:46,229 --> 01:19:47,446 Down you come. Down! 1448 01:19:47,448 --> 01:19:49,314 Come on. Now this way. Up. 1449 01:19:49,316 --> 01:19:51,316 Up now. Come on, up and dance. 1450 01:19:51,318 --> 01:19:53,435 Come on, up! Up! Up and dance. 1451 01:19:53,437 --> 01:19:56,805 Come on, you blackguard. Get up and dance now! 1452 01:19:56,807 --> 01:19:58,807 This one's worse than the other. 1453 01:19:58,809 --> 01:20:02,377 The bear can hardly walk, let alone dance. 1454 01:20:02,379 --> 01:20:04,696 What are you doing under there? Get 'em! 1455 01:20:04,698 --> 01:20:06,981 Come on, boys, get 'em! 1456 01:20:08,502 --> 01:20:11,002 (gypsy boys shouting) 1457 01:20:14,257 --> 01:20:16,791 One gettin' away. The other one's... 1458 01:20:18,395 --> 01:20:19,828 Got him down. 1459 01:20:19,830 --> 01:20:22,597 All right! Let him go! 1460 01:20:22,599 --> 01:20:26,634 Come back here, you. Get back to work! 1461 01:20:26,636 --> 01:20:29,471 Mr. MacQuarrie, sir, there's some gypsies in the glen, 1462 01:20:29,473 --> 01:20:31,806 and you've got to do something about them. 1463 01:20:31,808 --> 01:20:34,141 They're beating horses, and there's half-starved dogs 1464 01:20:34,143 --> 01:20:36,479 and a poor bear with a sore foot. It's true! 1465 01:20:36,481 --> 01:20:38,498 Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. 1466 01:20:38,500 --> 01:20:40,500 One at a time. Now. 1467 01:20:40,502 --> 01:20:43,035 We were up there watching them. They're beating their animals. 1468 01:20:43,037 --> 01:20:44,703 Oh, they're awful people, sir. 1469 01:20:44,705 --> 01:20:46,739 You've got to arrest them, Mr. MacQuarrie. 1470 01:20:46,741 --> 01:20:49,859 I've already told them to leave the district and move on. 1471 01:20:49,861 --> 01:20:53,328 I gave them until tomorrow while they rest their horses. 1472 01:20:53,330 --> 01:20:55,798 (Hughie) Rest them? You should see what they're doing. 1473 01:20:55,800 --> 01:20:58,967 You bring me a complaint from the proper person, and I'll act on it. 1474 01:20:58,969 --> 01:21:00,969 I don't take orders from a lot of children. 1475 01:21:00,971 --> 01:21:02,471 What proper person? 1476 01:21:02,473 --> 01:21:04,306 The county officer concerned 1477 01:21:04,308 --> 01:21:07,476 with cruelty to beasts - Mr. MacDhui. 1478 01:21:09,046 --> 01:21:10,979 Mr. MacDhui? 1479 01:21:15,853 --> 01:21:17,352 Uh-oh, what's this? 1480 01:21:17,354 --> 01:21:20,523 How's Mary, please, sir? We're sorry that she's sick. 1481 01:21:20,525 --> 01:21:22,391 Aye, she's very sick. 1482 01:21:22,393 --> 01:21:24,393 We hope she'll get better soon. 1483 01:21:24,395 --> 01:21:27,047 We haven't seen much of her sin... 1484 01:21:27,049 --> 01:21:28,916 Since the funeral of Thomasina. 1485 01:21:28,918 --> 01:21:32,001 But we really came to see you about another matter, sir. 1486 01:21:32,003 --> 01:21:33,570 (Mr. MacDhui) What's that? 1487 01:21:33,572 --> 01:21:35,572 To report cruelty to animals. 1488 01:21:35,574 --> 01:21:37,574 There's some gypsies up in the glen 1489 01:21:37,576 --> 01:21:39,075 with performing animals. 1490 01:21:39,077 --> 01:21:40,977 They're awful cruel. 1491 01:21:40,979 --> 01:21:42,596 They've got a bear with a sore foot, 1492 01:21:42,598 --> 01:21:44,565 and they make him dance! 1493 01:21:44,567 --> 01:21:46,700 Constable MacQuarrie said that if you were to examine them 1494 01:21:46,702 --> 01:21:49,769 and report them to him, he could put a stop to it, sir. 1495 01:21:49,771 --> 01:21:52,639 But I thought that my opinion as an animal doctor 1496 01:21:52,641 --> 01:21:54,407 was no good. 1497 01:21:54,409 --> 01:21:57,711 Somebody called Hughie Stirling has been saying so. 1498 01:21:57,713 --> 01:22:00,146 Would he be a friend of yours? 1499 01:22:01,784 --> 01:22:04,317 He's no friend of mine, sir. 1500 01:22:04,319 --> 01:22:07,137 Hughie Stirling's a bit of a fool, sir. 1501 01:22:07,139 --> 01:22:09,206 Everybody knows that. 1502 01:22:09,208 --> 01:22:10,406 (laughs) 1503 01:22:10,408 --> 01:22:11,942 (clears throat) 1504 01:22:11,944 --> 01:22:14,979 (Jamie) Would you do something about the circus animals? 1505 01:22:14,981 --> 01:22:18,015 Aye, I, uh, I will when I can. 1506 01:22:18,017 --> 01:22:20,751 Well, uh, run along now, all of you. 1507 01:22:23,523 --> 01:22:27,174 He won't do anything. He wasn't even listening. 1508 01:22:27,176 --> 01:22:28,526 Yes, he was. 1509 01:22:28,528 --> 01:22:30,111 He said he'd go when he can. 1510 01:22:30,113 --> 01:22:32,280 He doesn't care about those animals. 1511 01:22:32,282 --> 01:22:34,232 Well, we can't do any more, can we? 1512 01:22:34,234 --> 01:22:37,001 Yes, we can. We've got to. Hey, Geordie. 1513 01:22:37,003 --> 01:22:39,337 We could tell the witch about it - Lori. 1514 01:22:39,339 --> 01:22:41,438 The witch? Aye, why not? 1515 01:22:41,440 --> 01:22:43,507 You say you're not afraid of her. 1516 01:22:43,509 --> 01:22:46,344 You could tell her. Me? 1517 01:22:46,346 --> 01:22:48,346 She'd maybe put a spell on those gypsies, 1518 01:22:48,348 --> 01:22:51,482 turn that big one into a horse or a bear and learn for himself 1519 01:22:51,484 --> 01:22:53,885 what it's like to be badly treated. 1520 01:22:53,887 --> 01:22:55,920 I bet she'd do it. 1521 01:22:55,922 --> 01:22:57,889 Go and tell her, Geordie. 1522 01:22:57,891 --> 01:23:00,808 Go on. I dare you. 1523 01:23:08,686 --> 01:23:11,286 (singing in Gaelic) 1524 01:23:13,924 --> 01:23:15,991 (knock on door) 1525 01:23:21,965 --> 01:23:24,500 Why, Geordie, hello there. 1526 01:23:25,803 --> 01:23:28,470 I came to ask you something, please. 1527 01:23:28,472 --> 01:23:30,472 Will you come in, then? 1528 01:23:30,474 --> 01:23:32,508 It's better if I do. 1529 01:23:37,448 --> 01:23:39,815 I brought you a present if you'd like it. 1530 01:23:39,817 --> 01:23:41,817 It's because you cured my frog. 1531 01:23:41,819 --> 01:23:45,253 Oh, Geordie, you didn't have to do that. 1532 01:23:45,255 --> 01:23:46,888 How is your frog? 1533 01:23:46,890 --> 01:23:48,691 Och, he's fine. 1534 01:23:52,296 --> 01:23:54,296 This is my present. 1535 01:23:54,298 --> 01:23:56,733 I made it myself. 1536 01:23:56,735 --> 01:23:59,703 What a beautiful pipe rack. 1537 01:23:59,705 --> 01:24:01,137 Thank you, Geordie. 1538 01:24:01,139 --> 01:24:02,872 It's just what I need. 1539 01:24:02,874 --> 01:24:04,974 I thought you might. 1540 01:24:06,545 --> 01:24:08,378 I was - we were wondering 1541 01:24:08,380 --> 01:24:10,447 if you'd do something else with magic. 1542 01:24:10,449 --> 01:24:11,848 Another frog? 1543 01:24:11,850 --> 01:24:13,265 Och, no. 1544 01:24:13,267 --> 01:24:15,602 There's a gypsy circus down in the glen 1545 01:24:15,604 --> 01:24:17,937 with all kinds of animals and a bear, 1546 01:24:17,939 --> 01:24:20,272 and the people are awful cruel to them, 1547 01:24:20,274 --> 01:24:22,609 beating them and that, and they're half starved. 1548 01:24:22,611 --> 01:24:24,644 Have you told the police? 1549 01:24:24,646 --> 01:24:26,245 Aye, and Mr. MacDhui, 1550 01:24:26,247 --> 01:24:28,581 but they won't do anything about it. 1551 01:24:28,583 --> 01:24:30,617 Mr. MacDhui won't? 1552 01:24:30,619 --> 01:24:33,252 No, we asked him, and he said so. 1553 01:24:33,254 --> 01:24:35,755 We thought maybe you could put some magic 1554 01:24:35,757 --> 01:24:38,157 on the gypsies to stop them. 1555 01:24:38,159 --> 01:24:39,109 Would you, please? 1556 01:24:39,111 --> 01:24:41,111 The bear's got an awful sore foot. 1557 01:24:41,113 --> 01:24:44,748 I'll go and see what I can do, anyway, I promise you that. 1558 01:24:44,750 --> 01:24:47,451 I knew you would. 1559 01:24:47,453 --> 01:24:50,588 Oh, thank you. I have to go now. 1560 01:24:55,461 --> 01:24:56,643 She's going to do it! 1561 01:24:56,645 --> 01:24:59,813 She's going to put a spell on the gypsies! 1562 01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:06,786 You cannot stay in here all day and night 1563 01:25:06,788 --> 01:25:08,455 torturing yourself, man. 1564 01:25:08,457 --> 01:25:11,225 You've had no rest, no food. 1565 01:25:11,227 --> 01:25:13,527 Rest? What rest can I have? 1566 01:25:13,529 --> 01:25:15,829 Strathsay says she's no longer fighting. 1567 01:25:15,831 --> 01:25:19,333 It's as if she's lost the will to live. 1568 01:25:19,335 --> 01:25:20,901 Where is Strathsay? 1569 01:25:20,903 --> 01:25:23,904 He said he'd be back by now. 1570 01:25:23,906 --> 01:25:26,873 He said the fever must run its course. 1571 01:25:26,875 --> 01:25:29,643 There's no crisis yet. 1572 01:25:29,645 --> 01:25:32,479 He's done what he can for Mary. 1573 01:25:32,481 --> 01:25:34,748 We're all of us praying for her. 1574 01:25:34,750 --> 01:25:36,151 Praying? 1575 01:25:36,153 --> 01:25:38,420 I humbled myself and prayed, too. 1576 01:25:38,422 --> 01:25:42,090 I'd crawl on my hands and knees if begging for her life would save it. 1577 01:25:42,092 --> 01:25:45,927 She's lost and hurt, Angus. 1578 01:25:45,929 --> 01:25:48,496 I can make no contact with her. 1579 01:25:56,606 --> 01:25:58,907 I wonder... 1580 01:25:58,909 --> 01:26:01,142 Perhaps someone who has the gift 1581 01:26:01,144 --> 01:26:03,878 for hurt and lost creatures 1582 01:26:03,880 --> 01:26:06,047 could unlock the child's mind. 1583 01:26:06,049 --> 01:26:07,949 You mean Lori MacGregor? 1584 01:26:07,951 --> 01:26:08,983 I do. 1585 01:26:08,985 --> 01:26:11,152 Then ask her. Bring her here. 1586 01:26:11,154 --> 01:26:13,822 She's unlocked your mind enough to make you realize 1587 01:26:13,824 --> 01:26:15,356 you're not sufficient yourself. 1588 01:26:15,358 --> 01:26:17,325 Stay here with the child, Angus. 1589 01:26:32,676 --> 01:26:34,143 Lori? 1590 01:26:35,846 --> 01:26:37,813 Lori! 1591 01:26:37,815 --> 01:26:40,849 So one night the man came again... 1592 01:26:42,653 --> 01:26:43,933 (clangs) 1593 01:26:47,158 --> 01:26:48,257 Lori! 1594 01:26:56,100 --> 01:26:58,267 But this time he looked helpless 1595 01:26:58,269 --> 01:27:00,736 and lost 1596 01:27:00,738 --> 01:27:02,704 and frightened. 1597 01:27:05,576 --> 01:27:09,845 (voices shouting) 1598 01:27:09,847 --> 01:27:11,713 ( 1599 01:27:11,715 --> 01:27:14,950 (man shouting) 1600 01:27:16,772 --> 01:27:19,172 (dogs whining) 1601 01:27:53,725 --> 01:27:55,725 Now let's get the bear out. 1602 01:27:55,727 --> 01:27:58,027 We'll have him on next. 1603 01:27:58,029 --> 01:27:59,462 Wait a minute. 1604 01:28:06,706 --> 01:28:08,739 What are you doing in there? 1605 01:28:08,741 --> 01:28:10,741 She's the witch the women speak of. 1606 01:28:10,743 --> 01:28:13,328 Come on out, you! 1607 01:28:16,732 --> 01:28:20,501 If you're in charge here, you should be ashamed. 1608 01:28:20,503 --> 01:28:23,754 Your dogs are sick, these horses past work. 1609 01:28:23,756 --> 01:28:25,739 The bear is... You're breaking my heart. 1610 01:28:25,741 --> 01:28:29,277 All right, then, you dance, witch. 1611 01:28:29,279 --> 01:28:32,646 (laughs) You do the bear's act for him. 1612 01:28:32,648 --> 01:28:35,483 Come on. (gypsy women laughing) 1613 01:28:37,720 --> 01:28:39,036 (softly) It's the witch. 1614 01:28:39,038 --> 01:28:41,372 (Lori) No! Aah! Let - 1615 01:28:41,374 --> 01:28:43,173 Let me go! 1616 01:28:43,175 --> 01:28:45,276 Let me go! 1617 01:28:45,278 --> 01:28:46,995 Andrew! 1618 01:28:46,997 --> 01:28:48,863 (man) You dance for the bear. 1619 01:28:48,865 --> 01:28:50,698 (laughs) 1620 01:28:50,700 --> 01:28:53,001 Look at him! Look at Mr. MacDhui! 1621 01:28:53,003 --> 01:28:55,336 Who's in charge here? I am. King Targu. 1622 01:28:55,338 --> 01:28:57,873 What right have you to knock about my people? 1623 01:28:57,875 --> 01:28:59,674 What exactly were you doing? 1624 01:28:59,676 --> 01:29:02,511 Driving out the witch who set the evil eye upon us. 1625 01:29:02,513 --> 01:29:06,681 Evil eye? I've heard about the evil you do with these wretched beasts. 1626 01:29:06,683 --> 01:29:08,384 What do you want here? 1627 01:29:08,386 --> 01:29:11,053 I have the power to close down your show for cruelty to animals. 1628 01:29:11,055 --> 01:29:12,754 That's what I'm going to do. 1629 01:29:12,756 --> 01:29:14,839 You'll pay for this. Get him, and the witch! 1630 01:29:25,602 --> 01:29:27,536 Behind your back, Mr. MacDhui! 1631 01:29:29,373 --> 01:29:32,074 I'm not standing for this. Come on! 1632 01:29:32,076 --> 01:29:35,610 Get the boys out of here. Keep clear of this. 1633 01:29:37,748 --> 01:29:39,748 (shouting) 1634 01:29:43,587 --> 01:29:45,487 (blow lands) Ooh. 1635 01:29:58,670 --> 01:30:00,603 Form a water chain! Quick! 1636 01:30:11,783 --> 01:30:14,867 Lori, get those children out of here. Quick! 1637 01:30:14,869 --> 01:30:16,970 MacQuarrie, take that man in charge for cruelty to animals. 1638 01:30:16,972 --> 01:30:18,904 Here, give a hand here! 1639 01:30:24,245 --> 01:30:25,828 Try to hold still. 1640 01:30:25,830 --> 01:30:28,932 The bleeding has stopped, but it's an awful deep cut you have there. 1641 01:30:28,934 --> 01:30:30,666 Lori, will you listen to me? 1642 01:30:30,668 --> 01:30:33,469 I've told you I'll not till I finish dressing this wound. 1643 01:30:33,471 --> 01:30:36,690 You should have gone down to Inveranoch with the others, 1644 01:30:36,692 --> 01:30:38,325 to a doctor, and not come up here to me. 1645 01:30:38,327 --> 01:30:39,610 Stop! Listen to me, M... 1646 01:30:39,612 --> 01:30:44,147 I am listening, Andrew. 1647 01:30:44,149 --> 01:30:47,484 I'm a wee bit scared not to when you're so fierce. 1648 01:30:47,486 --> 01:30:50,487 I was afraid of you down there in the fightin', 1649 01:30:50,489 --> 01:30:52,456 and afraid for you. 1650 01:30:52,458 --> 01:30:54,091 I came up here looking for you, 1651 01:30:54,093 --> 01:30:57,260 just like the other strays and the lost that come to you. 1652 01:30:57,262 --> 01:30:58,295 Why? 1653 01:30:58,297 --> 01:31:00,297 My daughter is sick with pneumonia, 1654 01:31:00,299 --> 01:31:02,633 and I need your help. 1655 01:31:02,635 --> 01:31:04,635 I want you to come to her with me. 1656 01:31:04,637 --> 01:31:07,805 To your house? Please come. 1657 01:31:07,807 --> 01:31:09,206 Why me? 1658 01:31:09,208 --> 01:31:12,526 Well, you have a-a kind of a magic for the hurt and the sick. 1659 01:31:12,528 --> 01:31:15,762 I've hurt the child so much that her sickness is the worse for it. 1660 01:31:15,764 --> 01:31:18,315 You have? How? 1661 01:31:18,317 --> 01:31:21,318 Well, she had a pet that she loved more than anything. 1662 01:31:21,320 --> 01:31:23,153 I had to have it destroyed. 1663 01:31:23,155 --> 01:31:25,823 I didn't realize how much it meant to the child, 1664 01:31:25,825 --> 01:31:27,826 but in-in doing what I did, I... 1665 01:31:27,828 --> 01:31:29,828 I betrayed her trust in me. 1666 01:31:29,830 --> 01:31:31,763 I killed something in her. 1667 01:31:31,765 --> 01:31:33,765 Lori, you prayed yourself once, didn't you? 1668 01:31:33,767 --> 01:31:35,767 And you said that my coming here 1669 01:31:35,769 --> 01:31:38,269 could be the answer to the prayer. Aye, it was. 1670 01:31:38,271 --> 01:31:42,340 Well, I prayed, too, and your coming with me now could be the answer to that... 1671 01:31:42,342 --> 01:31:46,111 for me, for Mary. 1672 01:31:48,965 --> 01:31:50,931 Will you come, please? 1673 01:32:02,195 --> 01:32:04,295 So... he brought you. 1674 01:32:06,082 --> 01:32:08,082 What have you been doing, man, 1675 01:32:08,084 --> 01:32:10,418 to get in that state - brawling somewhere? 1676 01:32:10,420 --> 01:32:13,121 How is she? The same. 1677 01:32:13,123 --> 01:32:15,290 What is this? 1678 01:32:15,292 --> 01:32:17,426 Mary? 1679 01:32:17,428 --> 01:32:19,412 Mary MacDhui. 1680 01:32:22,216 --> 01:32:23,949 Do you hear me? 1681 01:32:27,922 --> 01:32:29,955 Andrew, may I take her? 1682 01:32:29,957 --> 01:32:31,457 Do what you will. 1683 01:32:31,459 --> 01:32:34,393 What does this woman think she's doing? Let her be. 1684 01:32:39,783 --> 01:32:42,717 Andrew, there's so little of her left. 1685 01:32:46,890 --> 01:32:50,559 When the man took Lori away and they left me alone, 1686 01:32:50,561 --> 01:32:51,793 I was frightened. 1687 01:32:51,795 --> 01:32:55,197 I had to be with somebody. 1688 01:32:55,199 --> 01:32:57,032 The feeling grew stronger 1689 01:32:57,034 --> 01:33:00,402 and stronger. 1690 01:33:00,404 --> 01:33:03,805 Suddenly, like the lightning flash that split the tree, 1691 01:33:03,807 --> 01:33:05,874 everything - 1692 01:33:05,876 --> 01:33:09,129 my other lost life - came back to me. 1693 01:33:09,131 --> 01:33:12,132 I knew where I belonged. 1694 01:33:12,134 --> 01:33:14,334 I had to go home. 1695 01:33:14,336 --> 01:33:16,486 Home. 1696 01:33:16,488 --> 01:33:18,388 Home. 1697 01:33:18,390 --> 01:33:19,989 Home! 1698 01:33:26,398 --> 01:33:29,983 (Thomasina meows) Thomasina! 1699 01:33:29,985 --> 01:33:31,351 (meows) 1700 01:33:31,353 --> 01:33:33,102 Can't be. 1701 01:33:38,794 --> 01:33:40,761 It's my Thomasina. 1702 01:33:40,763 --> 01:33:43,329 Yours? 1703 01:33:43,331 --> 01:33:45,215 I found her sick and nursed her. 1704 01:33:47,519 --> 01:33:49,386 Is she hers? 1705 01:33:49,388 --> 01:33:51,554 Is that the pet? 1706 01:33:57,280 --> 01:33:59,713 Thomasina! Thomasina! 1707 01:33:59,715 --> 01:34:01,849 Lori, call her! Make her come in. 1708 01:34:01,851 --> 01:34:03,684 No, you must. She must come to you. 1709 01:34:03,686 --> 01:34:05,719 Thomasina. 1710 01:34:05,721 --> 01:34:07,471 Don't you see that if Thomasina 1711 01:34:07,473 --> 01:34:09,473 is the love your child has lost, 1712 01:34:09,475 --> 01:34:12,226 only you can give it back to her. 1713 01:34:12,228 --> 01:34:14,728 Call her. Make her come. 1714 01:34:24,957 --> 01:34:27,008 (whispers) Thomasina. 1715 01:34:28,344 --> 01:34:30,444 Come to me. 1716 01:34:30,446 --> 01:34:32,246 For the love of God, come to me. 1717 01:34:32,248 --> 01:34:34,715 I knew him now... 1718 01:34:34,717 --> 01:34:38,186 MacDhui, my murderer... 1719 01:34:38,188 --> 01:34:40,988 and he needed me. 1720 01:34:40,990 --> 01:34:44,225 Without me, he was lost. 1721 01:34:44,227 --> 01:34:47,162 So this was my chance, 1722 01:34:47,164 --> 01:34:50,532 the moment of truth for both of us. 1723 01:34:50,534 --> 01:34:53,368 Thomasina. 1724 01:34:53,370 --> 01:34:56,205 Come to me. 1725 01:35:00,494 --> 01:35:03,928 Yet, because of my second life with Lori... 1726 01:35:03,930 --> 01:35:05,630 Thomasina... 1727 01:35:05,632 --> 01:35:07,382 because of what I'd learned from her, 1728 01:35:07,384 --> 01:35:09,568 I didn't want revenge. 1729 01:35:09,570 --> 01:35:12,704 I wanted to come home. 1730 01:35:27,187 --> 01:35:28,520 Mary. 1731 01:35:30,357 --> 01:35:32,491 Mary... 1732 01:35:32,493 --> 01:35:34,526 I brought Thomasina to you. 1733 01:35:34,528 --> 01:35:37,563 She's come back to life again. 1734 01:35:39,534 --> 01:35:41,717 No, it's not a ghost, 1735 01:35:41,719 --> 01:35:43,586 not a dream. 1736 01:35:45,223 --> 01:35:47,523 It's Thomasina. 1737 01:35:47,525 --> 01:35:49,092 She's come back. 1738 01:35:49,094 --> 01:35:51,895 It's Thomasina. 1739 01:35:51,897 --> 01:35:53,897 She's alive again. 1740 01:35:53,899 --> 01:35:54,998 Aye. 1741 01:35:55,000 --> 01:35:57,033 She's alive again. 1742 01:35:58,486 --> 01:36:01,120 And you're alive again, too. 1743 01:36:03,141 --> 01:36:05,174 I'm alive again, too. 1744 01:36:16,220 --> 01:36:18,854 (crowd cheering) 1745 01:36:25,363 --> 01:36:29,800 So, my third life began, 1746 01:36:29,802 --> 01:36:33,804 with all of us together. 1747 01:36:33,806 --> 01:36:35,289 (sobbing) 1748 01:36:35,291 --> 01:36:36,657 Not now. 1749 01:36:36,659 --> 01:36:39,693 (woman) Goodbye! 1750 01:36:48,487 --> 01:36:52,122 And, to coin a phrase, 1751 01:36:52,124 --> 01:36:55,426 we all lived happily ever after.