1 00:00:02,002 --> 00:00:06,006 23.976 English part 2 2 00:01:36,805 --> 00:01:42,269 Thank you. It's a relief to see you're the same size as I am. 3 00:01:42,394 --> 00:01:45,564 I'm glad it gives you pleasure. 4 00:01:45,856 --> 00:01:49,818 Forgive my ignorance, but where are we? 5 00:01:50,027 --> 00:01:52,529 On the Flying Island of Laputa. 6 00:02:03,373 --> 00:02:08,420 I was flying. Travelling several hundred feet above the ground. 7 00:02:08,545 --> 00:02:11,965 How big was this flying island? 8 00:02:12,049 --> 00:02:15,928 Huge. At least half a mile across. 9 00:02:16,094 --> 00:02:21,141 But floating in the air as though it were no heavier than a cloud. 10 00:02:21,225 --> 00:02:23,310 And people lived on it? 11 00:02:23,352 --> 00:02:26,647 The greatest minds in the universe! 12 00:02:26,730 --> 00:02:30,776 Conditions were cramped, it was like a warship. 13 00:02:31,235 --> 00:02:36,740 People lived in tiny cabins and came out now and then onto the decks. 14 00:02:41,662 --> 00:02:43,664 Excuse me. 15 00:02:45,832 --> 00:02:47,543 Noble sirs. 16 00:02:47,626 --> 00:02:51,088 These masters are contemplating the universe. 17 00:02:51,171 --> 00:02:56,009 - Do you wish to enter a discourse? - Well, yes. 18 00:02:56,093 --> 00:02:58,136 Permit me, sir. 19 00:03:02,391 --> 00:03:06,144 What's your opinion on the sun's health? 20 00:03:06,728 --> 00:03:09,690 Well, it seemed fine last time I looked. 21 00:03:09,773 --> 00:03:12,484 - What about the spots? - Spots? 22 00:03:12,568 --> 00:03:17,114 Volcanoes on the surface are sending out smoke. 23 00:03:17,197 --> 00:03:20,450 The volcanoes become more violent, the spots decay, and... 24 00:03:20,534 --> 00:03:25,789 Yes. Forgive my ignorance, but where exactly are we? 25 00:03:25,914 --> 00:03:30,878 If we're flying towards the sun, we must be travelling west. 26 00:03:31,670 --> 00:03:36,300 You think so? What a fascinating theory. 27 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:38,427 No, I was... 28 00:03:38,510 --> 00:03:39,970 An interesting man. 29 00:03:40,053 --> 00:03:43,432 You gave them a lot to think about. 30 00:03:43,557 --> 00:03:48,979 Perhaps you wish to rest before the "End of the World" Ball tonight? 31 00:04:02,201 --> 00:04:04,494 Tom. Breakfast. 32 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,374 Tom! Breakfast! 33 00:04:19,092 --> 00:04:22,930 You will not leave the table until you eat something. 34 00:04:22,971 --> 00:04:25,849 Do you see the harm he's done? 35 00:04:27,309 --> 00:04:29,311 Tom. Tom! 36 00:04:29,811 --> 00:04:31,897 I'll see to him. 37 00:04:34,608 --> 00:04:37,402 Stop this behaviour towards Dr Bates! 38 00:04:37,444 --> 00:04:42,449 I will not have this disobedience. Come and eat your breakfast! 39 00:04:42,491 --> 00:04:44,201 I won't tell you again. 40 00:04:46,912 --> 00:04:53,377 Look, I know why you're doing this, but it won't achieve anything. 41 00:04:55,254 --> 00:05:01,510 Nothing your father told you is true. He made it up to amuse you. 42 00:05:03,804 --> 00:05:07,975 He's very ill - that's why he can't come home. 43 00:05:08,934 --> 00:05:12,896 'I can't change that, much as I want to. 44 00:05:12,938 --> 00:05:16,316 'Your silence will not help him.' 45 00:05:23,198 --> 00:05:25,075 What did they eat? 46 00:05:25,075 --> 00:05:28,537 Perhaps they grew mushrooms, in the clouds! 47 00:05:29,788 --> 00:05:32,291 Don't revel in your ignorance. 48 00:05:33,250 --> 00:05:37,421 The intellectuals of Laputa were far too busy having great thoughts 49 00:05:37,588 --> 00:05:40,424 to be burdened with farming. 50 00:05:40,841 --> 00:05:45,762 They would travel, collecting Brain Taxes from their subjects. 51 00:05:45,762 --> 00:05:49,474 The island would descend over a village or estate. 52 00:05:49,516 --> 00:05:55,147 Buckets would be lowered to be filled with food and drink. 53 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:05,657 This is where you'll sleep, sir. 54 00:06:07,034 --> 00:06:13,582 But there appears to be no bed, or table...or anything that... 55 00:06:26,094 --> 00:06:30,599 We must have you measured for your costume, sir. 56 00:06:32,476 --> 00:06:35,812 - Costume? - For the ball. 57 00:06:45,614 --> 00:06:51,036 'Brilliant intellectuals employed techniques unknown to our tailors. 58 00:06:51,078 --> 00:06:56,041 'Painstakingly they measured the circumference of my ears, 59 00:06:56,083 --> 00:06:58,168 'the distance between my toes, 60 00:06:58,210 --> 00:07:01,880 'the length of my eyelashes and even my shadow. 61 00:07:02,923 --> 00:07:06,051 'Hard to understand, then, the result.' 62 00:07:11,139 --> 00:07:13,350 Hello. I hope you're settling in. 63 00:07:13,392 --> 00:07:15,853 I ordered you winched up. 64 00:07:15,894 --> 00:07:17,729 Oh, thank you. 65 00:07:18,772 --> 00:07:20,274 I'm Prince Munodi. 66 00:07:20,315 --> 00:07:22,150 Forgive me, your Highness. 67 00:07:22,192 --> 00:07:25,654 Oh, no, don't bother with that. Nobody else does. 68 00:07:25,696 --> 00:07:28,574 I'm the most stupid person in Laputa. 69 00:07:28,615 --> 00:07:30,617 I'm sure that can't be true. 70 00:07:30,659 --> 00:07:34,580 It is. I'm only tolerated because I'm the Rajah's son. 71 00:07:34,621 --> 00:07:40,544 Could I speak with your father? I'm trying to find my way home. 72 00:07:40,586 --> 00:07:43,130 He's thinking, in the observatory. 73 00:07:43,172 --> 00:07:48,260 He'll see you later. I'm performing tonight. Must dash. 74 00:07:48,886 --> 00:07:51,263 You wouldn't want to see him. 75 00:07:51,305 --> 00:07:55,475 If you try to see him, it will agitate him further. 76 00:07:55,517 --> 00:07:58,020 You say the same thing each day. 77 00:07:58,061 --> 00:08:02,149 He gets worse each day. More disturbed and violent. 78 00:08:03,066 --> 00:08:07,654 I know. You believe I'm trying to keep you away from him. 79 00:08:07,696 --> 00:08:09,323 I don't... 80 00:08:09,323 --> 00:08:15,245 Yes, you do, Mary. I only did what I thought was best for Lemuel. 81 00:08:15,287 --> 00:08:21,126 When I took him away, I felt guilty. Had I acted in haste? Selfishly? 82 00:08:21,418 --> 00:08:23,587 Perhaps I am a coward. 83 00:08:23,629 --> 00:08:28,217 If I'd sailed the world, you might have chosen me. 84 00:08:28,258 --> 00:08:31,220 When I see how broken he is, 85 00:08:31,220 --> 00:08:36,517 I wonder if I am not the wiser man, for all my cowardice. 86 00:08:36,558 --> 00:08:42,189 If I cannot see him, I will write to him. Will you take my letters? 87 00:08:42,481 --> 00:08:44,691 Of course, Mary. Of course. 88 00:08:47,277 --> 00:08:51,365 Answer me this. Do you believe he'll recover? 89 00:08:51,990 --> 00:08:55,869 Yes. Yes, of course. 90 00:08:56,787 --> 00:08:58,205 Don't you? 91 00:08:58,247 --> 00:09:00,541 I wish I could say yes. 92 00:09:11,593 --> 00:09:14,012 The Rajah will see you now. 93 00:09:22,980 --> 00:09:24,314 What? Why? 94 00:09:27,234 --> 00:09:29,903 Ow! Thank you. I can manage. 95 00:09:29,945 --> 00:09:32,364 Thank you, that will not be necessary. 96 00:09:33,073 --> 00:09:35,784 I am a traveller from... 97 00:09:37,035 --> 00:09:39,538 Excuse me. Majesty? 98 00:09:44,251 --> 00:09:46,837 I'm trying to get back to England. 99 00:09:48,005 --> 00:09:49,715 Ing-land? 100 00:09:49,756 --> 00:09:52,176 You know of it? 101 00:09:54,052 --> 00:09:56,305 Do you like it? 102 00:09:56,346 --> 00:09:58,932 England, Majesty? It's my home. 103 00:09:58,974 --> 00:10:01,435 No, the music. 104 00:10:01,852 --> 00:10:03,937 The music of the spheres. 105 00:10:04,479 --> 00:10:07,274 I confess I strain to hear anything. 106 00:10:08,525 --> 00:10:12,696 Then we must adapt your ears to hear more clearly. 107 00:10:12,905 --> 00:10:15,199 I am undeserving of such honour. 108 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:16,992 Indeed. 109 00:10:17,492 --> 00:10:22,164 Forgive yet another interruption, but I need to get home. 110 00:10:22,206 --> 00:10:29,087 Perhaps someone else knows England. It is small but of great importance. 111 00:10:29,129 --> 00:10:30,881 The Academy knows everything. 112 00:10:30,923 --> 00:10:32,591 Everything worth knowing. 113 00:10:32,633 --> 00:10:36,053 - And much more besides. - How will I find it? 114 00:10:36,094 --> 00:10:38,931 Smashed into smithereens. 115 00:10:38,972 --> 00:10:41,767 In a thousand pieces. 116 00:10:41,808 --> 00:10:47,272 For I have compared the figures of the moon and the zodiac 117 00:10:47,314 --> 00:10:52,736 and I can announce that a comet will collide with the sun 118 00:10:52,778 --> 00:10:55,030 at three minutes past three. 119 00:10:55,072 --> 00:10:56,573 Good heavens! 120 00:10:56,615 --> 00:11:01,078 That phenomenon coincides exactly with your arrival. 121 00:11:01,119 --> 00:11:04,540 - What is your name? - Gulliver, Majesty. 122 00:11:05,457 --> 00:11:10,671 We shall name this unspeakable catastrophe "Gulliver's Orb". 123 00:11:11,004 --> 00:11:13,090 Too kind. 124 00:11:18,804 --> 00:11:24,017 'I have failed you. I should never have sent you away. 125 00:11:24,059 --> 00:11:26,937 'Please believe how hard it was. 126 00:11:26,937 --> 00:11:29,773 'I only want you to be well again. 127 00:11:30,190 --> 00:11:34,653 'My deepest wish is that you will return and live with us. 128 00:11:34,987 --> 00:11:39,449 'To have you and lose you again is almost unbearable. 129 00:11:40,075 --> 00:11:45,414 'If you refuse to see me, then at least write. Just a few words. 130 00:11:45,455 --> 00:11:47,916 'I will always love you.' 131 00:11:51,753 --> 00:11:58,635 'To prepare for the end of the world the Rajah commissioned a symphony. 132 00:11:58,677 --> 00:12:03,849 'I confess I found the music too intellectual for my taste.' 133 00:12:03,891 --> 00:12:06,977 I thought you were playing in the concert. 134 00:12:06,977 --> 00:12:11,690 I was asked to leave. My instrument kept playing in tune. 135 00:12:20,657 --> 00:12:24,286 Intellect isn't everything, surely, your Majesty? 136 00:12:24,328 --> 00:12:26,288 It is here. 137 00:12:27,331 --> 00:12:30,375 Well, at least the world is ending tomorrow. 138 00:12:32,252 --> 00:12:34,755 'The world, about to end!' 139 00:12:36,215 --> 00:12:38,050 I couldn't sleep. 140 00:12:38,091 --> 00:12:43,305 I lay tossing and turning, waiting for oblivion, trying to make peace. 141 00:12:43,931 --> 00:12:47,476 Finally, I fell asleep. 142 00:12:48,519 --> 00:12:52,689 I woke the next morning and rushed to my cabin window. 143 00:12:52,981 --> 00:12:57,152 Clouds still scudded. Sun still shone. Birds still flapped. 144 00:12:57,194 --> 00:12:59,029 The world hadn't ended. 145 00:13:02,157 --> 00:13:06,745 I wish I shared your excitement. I rather hoped it would. 146 00:13:09,248 --> 00:13:13,001 'By ingenious movements of a giant magnet, 147 00:13:13,043 --> 00:13:16,755 'the island could be made to rise or fall. 148 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:22,803 'The only disadvantage to this was that when the lodestone was moved, 149 00:13:22,845 --> 00:13:28,767 'the compasses moved as well, so they had no idea where they were.' 150 00:13:28,809 --> 00:13:30,894 Where are we flying now? 151 00:13:30,936 --> 00:13:34,815 The next collecting point is my mother's estate. 152 00:13:34,857 --> 00:13:38,151 When we get there is another matter. 153 00:13:38,193 --> 00:13:40,529 You look apprehensive. 154 00:13:40,863 --> 00:13:45,659 There'll be trouble. Mother and Father always disagree. 155 00:13:46,076 --> 00:13:51,623 She's down-to-earth. Father always has his head in the clouds. 156 00:13:51,665 --> 00:13:57,212 They've been apart for a long time. I had an unhappy childhood. 157 00:14:48,931 --> 00:14:50,891 Excuse me... 158 00:14:50,933 --> 00:14:52,559 Ah, your Highness. What's happening? 159 00:14:52,601 --> 00:14:58,106 My mother is refusing to send up Brain Taxes. Come on! 160 00:15:00,108 --> 00:15:01,527 Father... 161 00:15:01,568 --> 00:15:08,242 If she wants war, she'll get it. I'll apply my intellect to the task. 162 00:15:08,283 --> 00:15:13,121 She doesn't want war. She just doesn't want us to take her food. 163 00:15:13,455 --> 00:15:15,707 Not that I know anything. 164 00:15:15,749 --> 00:15:21,797 We'll stay over her land and deprive them of rain until their crops die. 165 00:15:22,923 --> 00:15:25,008 I am a genius. 166 00:15:25,008 --> 00:15:29,596 Isn't there a river running through the royal estate? 167 00:15:30,347 --> 00:15:32,391 I knew that! 168 00:15:32,432 --> 00:15:35,978 The Rajah and his intellectuals debated the right course of action, 169 00:15:37,020 --> 00:15:41,191 while the island bore down on the Munodi estate. 170 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:49,867 I wonder what my idiot husband will do now. 171 00:15:59,877 --> 00:16:02,254 I have it. We must bomb them. 172 00:16:02,671 --> 00:16:04,256 Bomb Mother? 173 00:16:04,256 --> 00:16:05,674 Bomb your wife? 174 00:16:05,716 --> 00:16:07,050 BOMBS AWAY! 175 00:16:22,900 --> 00:16:28,322 Bombs? Very well. Two can play at that game. 176 00:16:28,363 --> 00:16:31,200 She had built a massive magnet 177 00:16:31,241 --> 00:16:36,163 tall as a house and mounted on a truck drawn by 12 carthorses. 178 00:16:36,163 --> 00:16:41,043 This was cranked up until it was aimed directly at the island. 179 00:16:41,084 --> 00:16:45,214 Then the horses started to drag the magnet away until... 180 00:16:49,384 --> 00:16:54,181 Father! We're descending too fast! And at a very straight angle... 181 00:16:54,223 --> 00:16:56,141 not that I know anything. 182 00:16:56,183 --> 00:16:58,727 Do you want the dunce's cap again? 183 00:16:58,769 --> 00:17:02,523 Shouldn't we just leave, before there's any more trouble? 184 00:17:02,564 --> 00:17:06,276 Right. Go to your cabin and read your navigation books. 185 00:17:09,821 --> 00:17:12,241 I think we should have lunch. 186 00:17:12,282 --> 00:17:13,784 Lunch? 187 00:17:17,037 --> 00:17:19,498 Or perhaps something to nibble. 188 00:17:19,540 --> 00:17:23,710 Your Majesty, the island is falling apart. Do something! 189 00:17:28,507 --> 00:17:32,344 I see no reason to rush into action. 190 00:17:37,683 --> 00:17:40,602 Your Highness, what should we do? 191 00:17:40,644 --> 00:17:43,522 I'm the last one to solve a crisis. 192 00:17:43,564 --> 00:17:45,774 You're not. What should we do? 193 00:17:45,816 --> 00:17:49,778 Well, if I wasn't so stupid, I'd try reversing the lodestone. 194 00:17:49,820 --> 00:17:52,364 Brilliant! You're a genius. 195 00:17:53,323 --> 00:17:55,075 Am I? 196 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:00,622 Reverse the lodestone! 197 00:18:04,668 --> 00:18:06,962 REVERSE THE LODESTONE! 198 00:18:24,688 --> 00:18:28,233 The island juddered to a halt for an instant. 199 00:18:28,233 --> 00:18:32,404 Then the two opposing magnets sent it hurtling back up. 200 00:18:57,554 --> 00:19:03,602 We're rising again. That vindicates my decision not to act in haste. 201 00:19:03,644 --> 00:19:06,813 By waiting, the problem has solved itself! 202 00:19:19,868 --> 00:19:21,453 Interesting. 203 00:19:32,714 --> 00:19:34,550 How are you feeling today? 204 00:19:34,591 --> 00:19:38,637 I'm sorry I missed your lecture. I hear it was spectacular. 205 00:19:40,639 --> 00:19:43,851 How is Mary? When is she coming? 206 00:19:44,393 --> 00:19:47,813 Give her time. It's been disturbing for her. 207 00:19:47,855 --> 00:19:49,982 Will she not even write? 208 00:19:50,023 --> 00:19:56,572 I fear not. In truth, I think she's frightened of what you've become. 209 00:19:57,614 --> 00:20:02,619 I need to see her. I know she'll understand if I can explain. 210 00:20:02,953 --> 00:20:07,958 I think I can change her mind. But you must play your part... 211 00:20:08,458 --> 00:20:12,462 and accept you are not well enough to receive visitors. 212 00:20:12,504 --> 00:20:16,508 Not today, nor the day after, nor the day after that. 213 00:20:17,342 --> 00:20:21,180 Your recovery will take some considerable time. 214 00:20:33,275 --> 00:20:36,486 - Good morning. - Good morning. 215 00:20:36,528 --> 00:20:40,282 Your bag came this morning with a note from my son. 216 00:20:40,324 --> 00:20:42,034 Oh, thank you. 217 00:20:43,827 --> 00:20:45,370 How is he? 218 00:20:46,413 --> 00:20:50,584 I have to report your son has failed all his examinations. 219 00:20:50,709 --> 00:20:53,253 He's considered a complete idiot. 220 00:20:53,295 --> 00:20:55,797 Good. There's hope for him yet. 221 00:21:01,011 --> 00:21:03,639 Are you a man of great intelligence? 222 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,432 I fear not. 223 00:21:05,474 --> 00:21:07,184 Excellent. 224 00:21:07,601 --> 00:21:12,814 Compared to your husband's brain, my intelligence is negligible. 225 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,567 He is an imbecile. 226 00:21:15,609 --> 00:21:18,111 But one of breathtaking intellect. 227 00:21:19,780 --> 00:21:25,118 What use are flowers to intellect? If he had his way, there'd be none. 228 00:21:25,744 --> 00:21:30,207 He'd tear them up to measure their mass, circumference and volume. 229 00:21:38,048 --> 00:21:40,300 Why don't you stay? 230 00:21:40,342 --> 00:21:43,679 I miss the pleasure of unintelligent male company. 231 00:21:45,556 --> 00:21:47,599 If only I could. 232 00:21:47,641 --> 00:21:54,398 But I must try to find the Academy, where I can get directions home. 233 00:21:55,148 --> 00:21:57,734 - The Academy? - You know of it? 234 00:21:58,485 --> 00:22:00,863 I wish it had never been built. 235 00:22:02,656 --> 00:22:07,703 My husband installed the most brilliant minds in the world there. 236 00:22:07,744 --> 00:22:12,749 - Where's the harm in that? - They've brought ruin on this land. 237 00:22:12,791 --> 00:22:16,420 Everything outside my estate is devastated. 238 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:18,463 Why? 239 00:22:18,505 --> 00:22:23,302 Because the Academy decided that the new world cannot be built, 240 00:22:23,343 --> 00:22:26,221 until the old one is exterminated. 241 00:22:45,407 --> 00:22:47,659 'I set off for the Academy. 242 00:22:47,701 --> 00:22:54,499 'There was no grand entrance, just a slit of a doorway, cut into stone. 243 00:22:55,751 --> 00:22:59,796 'I entered the residence of the professors of speculative learning. 244 00:23:02,841 --> 00:23:07,304 'The first place I came across was the School of Language.' 245 00:23:13,143 --> 00:23:15,646 Oh, come in. Sit down. 246 00:23:21,068 --> 00:23:25,239 Now, speaking is a corrosion of the lungs and to be avoided. 247 00:23:25,989 --> 00:23:27,908 I've devised a method 248 00:23:27,950 --> 00:23:32,538 whereby one carries the objects one needs to converse 249 00:23:32,579 --> 00:23:34,957 and points at them. Simple. 250 00:23:35,582 --> 00:23:39,419 These two farmers are making a transaction over a lamb. 251 00:23:39,962 --> 00:23:42,965 No, it's about the weather. 252 00:23:43,298 --> 00:23:48,095 Er, about whether one can walk his sheep over the other's land. 253 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,723 It seems this farmer is furious. 254 00:23:52,140 --> 00:23:54,768 No, he's proposing marriage! 255 00:23:54,810 --> 00:23:56,395 I think. 256 00:23:56,436 --> 00:24:01,108 Excuse me. I'm trying to find out how to get to England. 257 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,279 Go to the Room of Answers. 258 00:24:05,821 --> 00:24:11,535 'I passed the School of Politics, full of informers and accusers.' 259 00:24:12,703 --> 00:24:17,165 Look. A seemingly innocent note from a boy to his grandfather. 260 00:24:17,207 --> 00:24:21,670 "Our brother Tom has just got the piles." What does that mean? 261 00:24:21,962 --> 00:24:27,092 Rearrange the letters. "Resist! A plot is brought home. The tour." 262 00:24:27,134 --> 00:24:30,804 'They were mad, all mad. 263 00:24:30,846 --> 00:24:35,517 'So obsessed with their own worlds, they had forgotten reality.' 264 00:24:38,854 --> 00:24:42,357 Excuse me, is this the Room of Answers? 265 00:24:42,399 --> 00:24:48,655 Ah, you've arrived at last. Put some of these in there. 266 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,869 I...I need to find... 267 00:24:59,291 --> 00:25:01,084 You see, I need... 268 00:25:05,672 --> 00:25:07,841 Excuse me. What are you doing? 269 00:25:07,883 --> 00:25:10,135 What does it look like? 270 00:25:13,055 --> 00:25:15,891 I'm extracting sunlight from cucumbers. 271 00:25:17,768 --> 00:25:21,939 Just another eight years and I'll have the problem solved. 272 00:25:23,065 --> 00:25:28,070 Stay and help. Do stay and help. It'll be so much more exciting. 273 00:25:34,535 --> 00:25:40,457 'People tried to build houses from the roof downwards, like spiders. 274 00:25:40,499 --> 00:25:46,338 'In one room, hogs were trained to plough fields by digging up acorns. 275 00:25:46,380 --> 00:25:50,509 'Hundreds of professors tackling every problem known to man. 276 00:25:50,634 --> 00:25:52,761 'But no ideas were finished, 277 00:25:52,803 --> 00:25:56,056 'and meanwhile, the country lay in ruins.' 278 00:26:15,117 --> 00:26:17,619 Is this the Room of Answers? 279 00:26:20,539 --> 00:26:23,584 Please, I have to know the way home. 280 00:26:23,876 --> 00:26:28,046 You'll never find it, because, in your heart, you don't want to. 281 00:26:28,380 --> 00:26:30,340 NO! 282 00:26:31,175 --> 00:26:33,260 That's not true! 283 00:26:35,888 --> 00:26:37,973 Subdue him! 284 00:26:43,687 --> 00:26:48,192 It's all right. I'm sure he didn't realise what he was doing. 285 00:26:51,612 --> 00:26:53,697 Down you go. 286 00:27:03,415 --> 00:27:09,046 'This was the most desolate place to which my travels had brought me.' 287 00:27:10,380 --> 00:27:12,466 You're insane. 288 00:27:13,926 --> 00:27:15,928 Yes, I know. 289 00:27:17,387 --> 00:27:22,684 I mean you're insane to be outside the Academy, unarmed and on foot. 290 00:27:23,310 --> 00:27:26,772 If the Struldbruggs had found you, you'd be dead. 291 00:27:27,898 --> 00:27:29,983 Who are they? 292 00:27:33,862 --> 00:27:36,532 They live beneath the volcano. 293 00:27:36,573 --> 00:27:40,744 They're everywhere, under our feet. 294 00:27:42,621 --> 00:27:45,332 They torture and kill for sport. 295 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,588 You'd do better to cut your throat than let them take you alive. 296 00:27:54,091 --> 00:27:56,051 Thank you. I'll remember that. 297 00:27:57,845 --> 00:28:00,222 I am the Lord of Glubbdubdrib. 298 00:28:02,432 --> 00:28:04,685 My name is Lemuel Gulliver. 299 00:28:04,726 --> 00:28:08,355 I'm trying to find my way home to England. 300 00:28:09,606 --> 00:28:12,234 I don't suppose you've heard of it. 301 00:28:14,319 --> 00:28:19,408 Of course I have. I've just come from the port of Maldonada 302 00:28:19,449 --> 00:28:21,994 on the other side of the volcano. 303 00:28:22,035 --> 00:28:27,875 A Dutch vessel there is bound for Portsmouth. It sails in a few days. 304 00:28:28,584 --> 00:28:30,377 For Portsmouth? 305 00:28:31,003 --> 00:28:33,589 - Home... - I shall take you there. 306 00:28:33,922 --> 00:28:35,465 Thank you. 307 00:28:35,465 --> 00:28:38,719 But tonight you must be my guest. 308 00:28:39,845 --> 00:28:41,305 Oh... 309 00:28:43,515 --> 00:28:46,435 Yes. Thank you. 310 00:28:47,686 --> 00:28:52,691 You are so lucky I saw you before the Struldbruggs. 311 00:28:55,194 --> 00:29:00,824 I bought you some candles. I do not approve of this treatment of you. 312 00:29:01,325 --> 00:29:04,328 But other doctors have superiority. 313 00:29:04,369 --> 00:29:08,540 They have determined that you spend a week away from human society. 314 00:29:08,665 --> 00:29:12,461 No, I can't stay a week in here. 315 00:29:12,503 --> 00:29:15,589 I'm doing everything I can to get you out. 316 00:29:15,631 --> 00:29:19,176 - You have to help me get better. - Of course... 317 00:29:19,218 --> 00:29:21,803 and you have to trust me. 318 00:29:21,803 --> 00:29:23,722 Now, take this. 319 00:29:23,764 --> 00:29:29,311 It will calm you and let you sleep. Have some whenever you want. 320 00:29:29,311 --> 00:29:34,024 Please bring me paper and ink. I'll write down everything. 321 00:29:34,024 --> 00:29:38,695 A splendid idea. Alas, you are to be forbidden these things. 322 00:29:38,987 --> 00:29:44,326 I'll bring you chalk to mark off the days. Now, take the medicine. 323 00:29:50,457 --> 00:29:52,334 Your health. 324 00:29:59,216 --> 00:30:00,968 Do you live alone? 325 00:30:01,009 --> 00:30:09,017 Quite alone. I am an historian. I need the utmost peace to study. 326 00:30:10,185 --> 00:30:16,525 An historian! I believe the study of history to be the key to wisdom. 327 00:30:16,942 --> 00:30:20,070 I'd love to browse in your library. 328 00:30:20,112 --> 00:30:22,364 Library? 329 00:30:23,824 --> 00:30:26,243 I've no interest in books. 330 00:30:26,535 --> 00:30:29,454 I study history purely from the source. 331 00:30:32,499 --> 00:30:35,419 How is such a thing possible? 332 00:30:36,253 --> 00:30:39,882 My dear friend, you look very tired. 333 00:30:42,301 --> 00:30:44,803 Quite exhausted, in fact. 334 00:30:46,763 --> 00:30:50,017 Do have another glass of wine. 335 00:30:59,484 --> 00:31:03,447 Forgive my rudeness, but I'm suddenly very tired. 336 00:31:07,117 --> 00:31:09,870 Might I retire for the night? 337 00:31:09,912 --> 00:31:13,248 Of course. Take your wine with you. 338 00:31:13,290 --> 00:31:15,834 It might help you to sleep. 339 00:31:15,876 --> 00:31:19,505 I think there's going to be a storm. 340 00:31:39,316 --> 00:31:41,985 You slept through the storm, sir? 341 00:31:42,027 --> 00:31:44,655 I must have. Where's your master? 342 00:31:44,947 --> 00:31:47,991 He is resting. He studies at night. 343 00:31:48,283 --> 00:31:51,828 - He will join you for dinner. - Thank you. 344 00:31:59,461 --> 00:32:05,259 You mentioned taking me to the port today. 345 00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:11,014 Did I? Oh, yes. Sadly, it's not possible. 346 00:32:12,266 --> 00:32:17,271 In the storm, a fence was broken and my horses escaped. 347 00:32:17,271 --> 00:32:22,192 My servants are out looking for them. They won't have got far. 348 00:32:22,734 --> 00:32:26,363 We'll ride to the port tomorrow. Don't worry. 349 00:32:34,621 --> 00:32:39,835 I was writing to your father. I thought you might add a few words. 350 00:32:39,835 --> 00:32:43,672 Perhaps you will touch his heart where I can't. 351 00:32:44,214 --> 00:32:46,967 Tell him of your silent protest. 352 00:32:47,009 --> 00:32:51,430 I'm sure he'll recognise his own stubbornness in yours. 353 00:32:51,471 --> 00:32:55,893 You can even say how unfair I'm being, if you like. 354 00:32:57,561 --> 00:33:00,063 Write what you want. 355 00:33:01,523 --> 00:33:04,026 I want him to come home. 356 00:33:11,533 --> 00:33:13,160 I wonder, sir... 357 00:33:13,202 --> 00:33:17,039 Don't think me ungrateful for your hospitality, but... 358 00:33:21,335 --> 00:33:24,254 When might we go to the port? 359 00:33:24,546 --> 00:33:29,134 My servants are looking for the horses. Don't worry. 360 00:33:29,885 --> 00:33:31,845 We'll ride there tomorrow. 361 00:33:47,611 --> 00:33:49,696 Tell me, 362 00:33:52,407 --> 00:33:54,910 when might we go to the port? 363 00:33:55,536 --> 00:34:01,166 My servants are out looking for the horses. Don't worry. 364 00:34:02,084 --> 00:34:03,877 We'll ride there tomorrow. 365 00:34:08,257 --> 00:34:11,176 Did I ask this yesterday? 366 00:34:11,218 --> 00:34:14,096 You only arrived yesterday. 367 00:34:20,769 --> 00:34:23,438 It always seems to be dinnertime. 368 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:29,736 I always seem to sit down and then ask, "When might we go to the port?" 369 00:34:30,237 --> 00:34:33,490 My servants are looking for the horses. 370 00:34:33,532 --> 00:34:36,702 Don't worry. We'll ride there tomorrow. 371 00:34:44,626 --> 00:34:48,797 'The wine was drugged. That's why I remembered nothing. 372 00:34:48,922 --> 00:34:53,719 'I drank none that night, and waited to see what happened.' 373 00:35:02,477 --> 00:35:08,108 Are you sleeping now? Good. Arise and come with me. 374 00:35:18,827 --> 00:35:22,789 I stand at the gates of life and death. 375 00:35:29,796 --> 00:35:34,593 Come forward. Come forward, spirits! 376 00:35:39,056 --> 00:35:41,141 Here is life. 377 00:35:42,392 --> 00:35:47,940 Alexander the Great! Great warrior. Leader of men. 378 00:35:51,068 --> 00:35:55,572 Smell blood. Smell life. 379 00:35:56,490 --> 00:35:58,492 I summon you! 380 00:36:25,811 --> 00:36:30,482 Who called me and why? I'm in the middle of fighting Darius. 381 00:36:34,027 --> 00:36:38,198 - Who summoned me? - I summoned you, great leader. 382 00:36:38,323 --> 00:36:41,285 I wish to confirm, in all humility, 383 00:36:41,326 --> 00:36:45,038 some small details of your long and illustrious history. 384 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:53,005 Our scholars record that you met a terrible death by poisoning. 385 00:36:53,046 --> 00:36:57,176 No, I died of a fever brought on by excessive drinking. 386 00:36:57,217 --> 00:36:59,678 Where do you keep the wine? 387 00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:01,555 Wait! 388 00:37:02,306 --> 00:37:08,145 'Alexander the Great! I listened as he boasted of his military genius, 389 00:37:08,187 --> 00:37:10,189 'his strength and cunning, 390 00:37:10,230 --> 00:37:13,859 'until he got so drunk, he fell over. 391 00:37:17,196 --> 00:37:22,618 'I bore witness to the resurrection of the greatest heroes of history. 392 00:37:23,035 --> 00:37:26,747 'But I was astounded to see how many villains 393 00:37:26,788 --> 00:37:30,959 'had been raised to the highest positions of trust, power and dignity 394 00:37:31,293 --> 00:37:36,173 'and how many revolutions were due to contemptible accidents.' 395 00:37:38,467 --> 00:37:42,638 Observing how easily these men of history were summoned, 396 00:37:42,763 --> 00:37:46,600 I began to see a way to gain my liberty. 397 00:38:02,991 --> 00:38:05,369 Come forward, spirits. 398 00:38:05,410 --> 00:38:08,288 Come forward. 399 00:38:08,830 --> 00:38:11,959 Here is life. Life! 400 00:38:14,545 --> 00:38:19,466 Michelangelo! Mark Antony! Leonardo! I summon you. 401 00:38:27,266 --> 00:38:29,142 EUREKA! 402 00:38:30,519 --> 00:38:36,567 That's it. I've solved it! I've solved it! Ha ha! 403 00:38:37,609 --> 00:38:41,780 - How did they all get here? - I have no idea, sir. 404 00:38:41,822 --> 00:38:45,909 Outrageous. It is so difficult to make them go back. 405 00:38:45,951 --> 00:38:50,414 Socrates, if souls exist after death, why not also before birth..? 406 00:38:51,456 --> 00:38:54,501 Mark Antony, I order you to return! 407 00:38:56,253 --> 00:39:00,424 Cleopatra, you must go back. I beg you. 408 00:39:00,549 --> 00:39:02,342 AH! 409 00:39:06,722 --> 00:39:08,140 Who's that? 410 00:39:08,182 --> 00:39:13,604 A Caesar, I think. I'm only trying to alleviate my boredom. 411 00:39:19,318 --> 00:39:23,822 I declare this territory to be under my direct rule. 412 00:39:23,822 --> 00:39:27,576 I sent you back. Stay dead this time! 413 00:39:27,576 --> 00:39:28,785 ADVANCE! 414 00:39:28,827 --> 00:39:32,247 Is there no end? What now? 415 00:39:32,289 --> 00:39:34,041 Open the doors! 416 00:39:35,584 --> 00:39:38,212 I hardly dare say, sir. 417 00:39:38,629 --> 00:39:40,172 Whom have you summoned? 418 00:39:41,423 --> 00:39:47,179 I wished to ask Commander Hannibal about his adventures in the Alps. 419 00:39:55,395 --> 00:39:58,857 All right. Get out of here. Leave me alone. 420 00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:01,568 The door is locked. 421 00:40:24,591 --> 00:40:30,764 'I ran until my lungs were bursting and I thought I would drop dead. 422 00:40:30,806 --> 00:40:33,642 'How long had I been delayed?' 423 00:40:33,684 --> 00:40:38,272 'Could I reach the port in time? Did it even exist? 424 00:40:38,313 --> 00:40:40,983 'Or was it another fantasy?' 425 00:40:57,666 --> 00:40:59,126 Yes? 426 00:40:59,751 --> 00:41:02,129 Sorry for my bad behaviour. 427 00:41:08,302 --> 00:41:12,347 Mother says to give this letter to my father. 428 00:41:38,123 --> 00:41:43,629 Good news! I've persuaded the doctors to return you to your cell, 429 00:41:43,670 --> 00:41:47,799 provided that I become more involved in treating you. 430 00:41:47,841 --> 00:41:50,010 I have reconstructed my journal. 431 00:41:50,052 --> 00:41:51,428 But that's wonderful. 432 00:41:51,470 --> 00:41:54,181 It explains all that has happened... 433 00:41:56,141 --> 00:41:59,061 and why I feel the way I do. 434 00:41:59,478 --> 00:42:03,649 You've finished your medicine. We must get you some more... 435 00:42:03,982 --> 00:42:06,485 You must show this to the doctors. 436 00:42:06,527 --> 00:42:08,362 Of course. 437 00:42:12,741 --> 00:42:15,869 Clean all this nonsense off the walls immediately. 438 00:42:15,911 --> 00:42:17,746 Yes, sir. 439 00:42:34,847 --> 00:42:37,349 Tom! What are you doing? 440 00:42:37,683 --> 00:42:40,394 He's hiding them. He's hiding them! 441 00:42:40,394 --> 00:42:42,271 Hiding what? 442 00:42:43,397 --> 00:42:45,274 Your letters. 443 00:43:20,934 --> 00:43:23,854 You dare to trespass on our land? 444 00:43:24,188 --> 00:43:28,025 Enjoy the view. This is the last daylight you'll see. 445 00:43:28,066 --> 00:43:31,028 You are the guest of the immortal Struldbruggs. 446 00:43:31,069 --> 00:43:36,909 No, please. I must get to the port. It's my last chance to get home. 447 00:43:37,201 --> 00:43:41,997 Wait! There's been a mistake! I was just trying to catch a boat. 448 00:43:44,917 --> 00:43:48,795 I was not trespassing! Please let me leave. 449 00:43:58,263 --> 00:44:01,183 Crawl forth, seekers of immortality. 450 00:44:04,937 --> 00:44:07,648 No, no. I don't seek it! 451 00:44:15,364 --> 00:44:18,492 Grovel before the Immortal Gatekeeper. 452 00:44:20,994 --> 00:44:24,665 What gift have you brought me? I can't quite see. 453 00:44:24,706 --> 00:44:28,001 I'm afraid I haven't...brought one. 454 00:44:33,924 --> 00:44:40,305 It will take me years to devise the manner of your death. Take him away. 455 00:44:40,347 --> 00:44:43,100 Wait! I do have something! 456 00:44:46,353 --> 00:44:48,522 A giant wasp sting! 457 00:44:48,564 --> 00:44:50,315 A wasp sting? 458 00:45:07,082 --> 00:45:09,585 'A giant wasp sting.' 459 00:45:10,627 --> 00:45:14,298 In a thousand years, I've never seen such a thing. 460 00:45:57,174 --> 00:46:00,677 Mary, I didn't expect to see you here. 461 00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:04,890 You should've warned me. This is not a suitable time. 462 00:46:07,184 --> 00:46:09,978 How is he today? 463 00:46:10,020 --> 00:46:12,814 Well, much the same. 464 00:46:13,649 --> 00:46:16,443 You gave him my last letter? 465 00:46:16,485 --> 00:46:19,238 Of course. I saw him read it. 466 00:46:19,279 --> 00:46:24,201 Your letters mean a great deal to him. He reads them many times. 467 00:46:24,243 --> 00:46:28,747 I understand how hard it is for you to stay at home and wait. 468 00:46:28,789 --> 00:46:33,252 But if he is to recover fully, we must trust the doctors. 469 00:46:33,293 --> 00:46:34,795 You're a liar. 470 00:46:38,257 --> 00:46:39,883 It's for the best. 471 00:46:39,925 --> 00:46:42,845 - I understand your anger. - You do not. 472 00:46:42,886 --> 00:46:45,639 Your letters would have upset him. 473 00:46:45,681 --> 00:46:47,850 I'm taking him home. 474 00:46:51,061 --> 00:46:53,689 Would that it were so simple. 475 00:46:54,189 --> 00:46:58,360 But he cannot leave without a formal hearing. 476 00:46:58,402 --> 00:47:01,029 Then I insist a hearing takes place. 477 00:47:01,071 --> 00:47:05,742 Of course. I do not wish to keep a sane man confined. 478 00:47:05,784 --> 00:47:10,998 I'll speak to the doctors. We'll do it tomorrow. Come and see. 479 00:47:15,669 --> 00:47:19,798 I don't anticipate any problem settling the matter. 480 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:23,927 In my grasp. Man's greatest desire - to cheat death. 481 00:47:29,975 --> 00:47:34,021 Ordinary people must seem like flowers, 482 00:47:34,062 --> 00:47:36,940 blooming and dying in a few days. 483 00:47:37,357 --> 00:47:39,234 Immortality! 484 00:47:48,410 --> 00:47:51,955 Welcome to the immortal world. 485 00:48:01,256 --> 00:48:04,801 This is the source of the life everlasting. 486 00:48:05,219 --> 00:48:11,350 Drink from this water and you will never fear death. Never. 487 00:48:11,391 --> 00:48:15,521 But I have to get home. There's a ship in the port. 488 00:48:15,854 --> 00:48:18,357 I only have minutes before it sails. 489 00:48:18,398 --> 00:48:22,194 Minutes? What are minutes? 490 00:48:22,528 --> 00:48:26,365 You have no need for such petty considerations. 491 00:48:27,115 --> 00:48:31,286 I was offered immortality. Man's dream. 492 00:48:31,912 --> 00:48:36,917 Without the fear of death, I could learn the truths of existence. 493 00:48:36,959 --> 00:48:41,505 I could get riches and wisdom, read every book written, 494 00:48:41,547 --> 00:48:44,174 study the planets and stars. 495 00:48:44,216 --> 00:48:48,262 I'd watch the rise and fall of republics and kings 496 00:48:48,262 --> 00:48:53,809 and with my knowledge, offer advice to all. I could do anything! 497 00:48:53,851 --> 00:48:58,939 It's true. I have been there. And seen what you describe. 498 00:48:59,439 --> 00:49:01,483 The Struldbruggs. 499 00:49:01,525 --> 00:49:03,569 Yes? Then I am not mad. 500 00:49:03,610 --> 00:49:10,909 No. And as I drank, I saw the King riding a walrus, high up in the sky. 501 00:49:31,555 --> 00:49:34,266 What have you been taking? 502 00:49:34,308 --> 00:49:36,977 I don't know. It's medicine. 503 00:49:37,394 --> 00:49:43,025 You're a doctor. Why are you taking something you don't know about? 504 00:49:43,066 --> 00:49:45,319 I know what it is. 505 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,196 Laudanum. 506 00:49:48,030 --> 00:49:51,700 Drink! Taste immortality. 507 00:49:53,994 --> 00:49:56,371 Why is your hand shaking so badly? 508 00:49:57,539 --> 00:50:00,042 What's wrong with her? 509 00:50:00,083 --> 00:50:01,585 Nothing. 510 00:50:02,127 --> 00:50:04,087 What's wrong with everyone? 511 00:50:04,129 --> 00:50:06,340 Drink the water! 512 00:50:06,381 --> 00:50:12,429 You'll defy nature. You'll outlive the stars. You'll be like a God. 513 00:50:13,263 --> 00:50:15,849 You can't see me, can you? 514 00:50:15,891 --> 00:50:20,771 I'm alive. The water keeps us alive. 515 00:50:22,856 --> 00:50:27,194 You're blind. You're all blind! 516 00:50:27,236 --> 00:50:31,490 No, some of us can make out shapes. 517 00:50:31,532 --> 00:50:35,702 We'll never die. That's what matters. We never die. 518 00:50:35,994 --> 00:50:38,497 Never die. 519 00:50:43,085 --> 00:50:46,964 That's all that matters, cheating death. 520 00:50:47,589 --> 00:50:49,883 No! NO! 521 00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:15,409 'I ran like the wind. The port was surely not far. 522 00:51:15,450 --> 00:51:19,079 'When I reached the jetty, I leapt, leapt!' 523 00:51:21,373 --> 00:51:26,837 I made it! I was going home, finally. England! 524 00:51:26,879 --> 00:51:31,884 Surely now, after all the misfortunes I'd suffered, 525 00:51:31,925 --> 00:51:33,927 nothing could go wrong. 526 00:51:33,969 --> 00:51:37,306 That night, I couldn't eat anything. 527 00:51:37,347 --> 00:51:40,642 Mary, I need some of my medicine. 528 00:51:40,684 --> 00:51:42,227 No. No. 529 00:51:42,936 --> 00:51:45,230 I feel very sick. 530 00:51:45,230 --> 00:51:50,652 My mouth is red and swollen and I can't lift my arms. 531 00:51:50,694 --> 00:51:54,615 Everyone complains of the same condition. 532 00:51:55,032 --> 00:51:58,160 Perhaps I brought the fever on board. 533 00:51:58,202 --> 00:52:01,288 In a week it spread through the ship. 534 00:52:02,456 --> 00:52:07,252 I got sicker and sicker, but I refused to die. 535 00:52:07,294 --> 00:52:09,880 Not after everything I'd come through. 536 00:52:14,968 --> 00:52:19,056 Too warm and then too cold in the same instant. 537 00:52:20,599 --> 00:52:24,478 Of the officers, only two others survived. 538 00:52:24,895 --> 00:52:27,022 Bodies were rolled overboard 539 00:52:27,064 --> 00:52:31,235 by people too weak to perform a decent ceremony. 540 00:52:31,777 --> 00:52:34,112 Everyone stopped working. 541 00:52:34,154 --> 00:52:38,325 The ship just drifted, sails down, and I... 542 00:52:38,534 --> 00:52:41,662 Mary, I must have some of my medicine. 543 00:52:41,703 --> 00:52:43,956 You're doing so well. 544 00:52:44,915 --> 00:52:48,293 We lost three-quarters of our men. 545 00:52:48,335 --> 00:52:54,091 We were forced to find a port and take on fresh crew. Some real rogues. 546 00:52:54,091 --> 00:52:56,760 They quickly took over the ship 547 00:52:56,802 --> 00:53:00,848 and imprisoned me and the other two officers. 548 00:53:00,889 --> 00:53:03,308 They would have killed us. 549 00:53:03,350 --> 00:53:08,272 That night, I escaped and jumped overboard, and began to swim. 550 00:53:13,694 --> 00:53:18,699 'I swam as long as I could until, at the point of exhaustion, 551 00:53:18,740 --> 00:53:22,035 'I was cast up on a deserted shore.' 552 00:53:51,940 --> 00:53:54,318 How do you feel this morning? 553 00:53:54,359 --> 00:53:57,988 I am still here, if that's what you mean. 554 00:54:01,950 --> 00:54:07,164 Lemuel, you must be honest with me. We are different now. 555 00:54:07,206 --> 00:54:09,750 If you...no longer care for me, 556 00:54:09,791 --> 00:54:15,005 you must simply tell me, and I will try to understand. 557 00:54:35,651 --> 00:54:37,945 It's a start. 558 00:54:46,495 --> 00:54:49,623 We must get you ready for the doctors. 559 00:55:12,020 --> 00:55:14,189 Don't be afraid. Speak the truth. 560 00:55:14,231 --> 00:55:20,279 Admit the fantasies, say they're over and...they'll send you home. 561 00:55:21,196 --> 00:55:23,198 Are you listening to me? 562 00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:29,872 AH! 563 00:55:40,924 --> 00:55:46,138 The work we do here at Bedlam is humane and yet disciplined. 564 00:55:47,389 --> 00:55:49,266 Ah! 565 00:55:55,105 --> 00:55:56,982 Please come in. 566 00:55:59,276 --> 00:56:00,861 Yahoos! 567 00:56:04,489 --> 00:56:10,120 Ladies and gentlemen, before you today is a most exceptional patient. 568 00:56:10,162 --> 00:56:12,372 Why are these people here? 569 00:56:12,414 --> 00:56:16,585 Why not? They are governors of the hospital, medical students. 570 00:56:16,793 --> 00:56:20,714 You did not say it would be public. 571 00:56:20,756 --> 00:56:25,886 Mary, I cannot reorganise the hospital for your convenience. 572 00:56:27,137 --> 00:56:31,934 I want to go back to my cell. This place is full of Yahoos. 573 00:57:45,340 --> 00:57:47,092 What is your name? 574 00:57:47,134 --> 00:57:48,719 What? 575 00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:51,054 State your full name. 576 00:57:53,974 --> 00:57:56,393 Lemuel Gulliver. 577 00:57:56,894 --> 00:57:58,312 Stand up, please. 578 00:57:58,353 --> 00:58:03,775 Then perhaps Dr Bates will inform us about your condition. 579 00:58:03,817 --> 00:58:05,652 May I say something first? 580 00:58:14,119 --> 00:58:15,871 Yes. 581 00:58:16,413 --> 00:58:19,124 My husband shouldn't be here. 582 00:58:19,416 --> 00:58:25,047 He's an intelligent man, a doctor and a ship's surgeon. 583 00:58:25,088 --> 00:58:30,677 Eight years ago, he was the only survivor of a shipwreck. 584 00:58:30,719 --> 00:58:33,680 Washed up on a strange shore, 585 00:58:33,722 --> 00:58:39,853 near starving, forced to drink seawater, he suffered delusions. 586 00:58:40,479 --> 00:58:43,815 He invented people to talk to. 587 00:58:43,815 --> 00:58:49,363 We might do the same, faced with the terror of being totally alone. 588 00:58:51,114 --> 00:58:55,953 He's been very sick, but he's a sane man, 589 00:58:57,079 --> 00:59:02,709 a good man. And he belongs at home with his family. 590 00:59:27,651 --> 00:59:30,571 Look, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend you. 591 00:59:31,613 --> 00:59:36,743 If you're a magician and you've changed yourself into a horse, 592 00:59:36,785 --> 00:59:41,874 I want you to know I'm just a poor Englishman, lost and alone. 593 00:59:41,915 --> 00:59:46,920 I would like to ride on your back to the nearest village or town. 594 00:59:49,006 --> 00:59:51,091 No, wait! 595 00:59:58,515 --> 01:00:00,601 Please wait! 596 01:00:37,804 --> 01:00:41,975 You see before you one of the most unusual cases 597 01:00:42,100 --> 01:00:45,646 it has been my sad privilege to examine. 598 01:00:45,687 --> 01:00:49,191 I have my own observations about it. 599 01:00:49,608 --> 01:00:54,696 But I would prefer that the patient himself explain a little. 600 01:00:54,738 --> 01:00:59,701 I'm sure you'll find what he has to say...instructive. 601 01:01:04,831 --> 01:01:10,671 Come. This hearing is at your request. Everyone is waiting. 602 01:01:12,965 --> 01:01:17,135 What is it to be today? More giants? Flying islands? 603 01:01:22,558 --> 01:01:26,728 - I don't want to say anything. - Really? 604 01:01:26,812 --> 01:01:33,277 Surely you've had some more fine talks with Plato or Aristotle. 605 01:01:33,610 --> 01:01:36,113 Don't disappoint us. 606 01:01:37,781 --> 01:01:40,075 Nothing to say? 607 01:01:40,492 --> 01:01:44,037 Very well, escort him back to his cell. 608 01:01:44,079 --> 01:01:45,789 I...I... 609 01:01:50,085 --> 01:01:52,838 I...don't...eat...hay. 610 01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,591 I beg your pardon? 611 01:01:56,550 --> 01:01:58,719 I don't eat hay. 612 01:02:19,072 --> 01:02:20,657 No, thank you. 613 01:02:29,291 --> 01:02:31,793 Do you have any milk? 614 01:02:33,378 --> 01:02:35,881 You know, from cows. 615 01:02:46,725 --> 01:02:49,186 Is this where I must sleep? 616 01:02:49,228 --> 01:02:53,190 At least it isn't with those horrible savages. 617 01:03:00,906 --> 01:03:06,537 I can't sleep here! See how they tried to attack me! And the smell! 618 01:03:06,578 --> 01:03:10,582 What if they set on me in the night, those...? 619 01:03:11,124 --> 01:03:13,627 Yahoo. 620 01:03:15,379 --> 01:03:17,172 Ya-hoos? 621 01:03:17,214 --> 01:03:18,924 YAHOO! 622 01:03:22,052 --> 01:03:24,137 Yahoos? 623 01:03:28,642 --> 01:03:32,062 Man. 624 01:03:32,604 --> 01:03:34,690 I'm a m... 625 01:03:39,695 --> 01:03:41,864 MAN. 626 01:03:46,368 --> 01:03:49,162 Yes, yes. Man. 627 01:03:51,164 --> 01:03:53,208 You can talk. 628 01:03:53,250 --> 01:03:57,713 What sort of being are you? Are you a horse? 629 01:03:58,338 --> 01:04:01,049 Houyhnhnm. 630 01:04:01,466 --> 01:04:03,677 Hou... Hou... Houyhnhnm? 631 01:04:03,969 --> 01:04:05,429 Houyhnhnm. 632 01:04:08,056 --> 01:04:10,225 Houyhnhnm! 633 01:04:11,810 --> 01:04:14,521 That's quite enough of that. 634 01:04:14,563 --> 01:04:16,440 Horses that talked? 635 01:04:16,481 --> 01:04:21,403 That built houses? That milked cows? Kept pets? 636 01:04:24,114 --> 01:04:29,328 Silence! This is a medical examination. 637 01:04:31,705 --> 01:04:36,502 I know that any man would laugh at such a story. 638 01:04:38,587 --> 01:04:41,840 But listen before you pass judgement. 639 01:04:43,926 --> 01:04:49,556 In the name of reason, which is surely the purpose of this assembly, 640 01:04:49,598 --> 01:04:51,642 I ask for your attention. 641 01:04:52,351 --> 01:04:57,356 In the name of reason, then, tell us these horses didn't talk. 642 01:05:00,192 --> 01:05:01,944 They talked. 643 01:05:07,991 --> 01:05:13,413 'I struggled to learn the language of the Houyhnhnms. 644 01:05:13,455 --> 01:05:15,791 'I was a poor student. 645 01:05:15,832 --> 01:05:18,210 'Mistress, the mare who found me, 646 01:05:18,210 --> 01:05:21,964 'learned my speech faster than I hers.' 647 01:05:22,589 --> 01:05:27,928 They are the most extraordinary creatures any man ever met. 648 01:05:27,970 --> 01:05:32,474 They have no vices, conflicts or disagreements. 649 01:05:32,516 --> 01:05:38,772 Everything is resolved by the exercise of reason. Simple reason. 650 01:05:38,814 --> 01:05:42,818 The name Houyhnhnm means "perfection of nature". 651 01:05:42,860 --> 01:05:48,574 You're not here to lecture us but to be examined. Sit down. 652 01:05:48,615 --> 01:05:52,202 They have a strange custom, 653 01:05:52,244 --> 01:05:57,749 that when two of them meet, there is silence before they speak. 654 01:06:01,211 --> 01:06:06,008 This made me consider what I had to say much more carefully. 655 01:06:06,633 --> 01:06:10,804 I tried to give Mistress an explanation of our society - 656 01:06:10,888 --> 01:06:14,516 how I was a doctor who heals the sick. 657 01:06:14,558 --> 01:06:18,729 But she could not understand the concept of disease, 658 01:06:18,729 --> 01:06:21,106 something absent from their society. 659 01:06:21,732 --> 01:06:26,862 I can't begin to describe all the human sicknesses possible. 660 01:06:26,904 --> 01:06:30,699 We feed on many things which work against each other. 661 01:06:31,533 --> 01:06:36,330 We eat when we are not hungry and drink strong liquor without thirst. 662 01:06:36,872 --> 01:06:43,045 'Often Mistress seemed uneasy, finding it hard to believe my words.' 663 01:06:43,086 --> 01:06:49,218 When I tried to explain what I meant by "lying" she was shocked. 664 01:06:49,259 --> 01:06:55,432 She told me speech was to make us understand, to receive information. 665 01:06:55,474 --> 01:07:00,437 And if anyone said the thing which is not - a lie - 666 01:07:00,479 --> 01:07:02,689 then that purpose was defeated. 667 01:07:02,731 --> 01:07:06,235 - Sir, what is your implication? - None, sir. 668 01:07:06,276 --> 01:07:12,115 I merely point out that she could conceive of no purpose to lying, 669 01:07:12,157 --> 01:07:17,955 which is so perfectly understood and universally practised by humans. 670 01:07:18,997 --> 01:07:22,292 'She found it hard to understand 671 01:07:22,334 --> 01:07:25,420 'what I meant by power, government and war. 672 01:07:25,462 --> 01:07:31,093 'For law, punishment and a thousand things their language had no word.' 673 01:07:31,134 --> 01:07:36,098 Horses in my country are like Yahoos in yours, beasts of burden. 674 01:07:36,598 --> 01:07:40,769 We put iron on their feet so they can walk our stony roads, 675 01:07:40,978 --> 01:07:43,772 and saddles so they can be ridden. 676 01:07:43,772 --> 01:07:46,942 - By Yahoos? - They had no choice! 677 01:07:46,984 --> 01:07:50,028 Horses are broken when they're young. 678 01:07:50,070 --> 01:07:56,952 Males are castrated at two, to take down their spirits. 679 01:07:58,203 --> 01:08:04,251 If they show disobedience, they are whipped, or kicked with spurs. 680 01:08:04,293 --> 01:08:08,422 They pull our loads and plough our fields. 681 01:08:08,839 --> 01:08:15,095 Rich ladies ride them in parks, and we race them for our entertainment. 682 01:08:15,137 --> 01:08:20,309 And when they get too old to work or to be ridden for fun, 683 01:08:20,350 --> 01:08:25,397 they are butchered, skinned and sold for dog meat. 684 01:08:25,397 --> 01:08:30,194 And what's wrong with that? What is your argument, sir? 685 01:08:30,194 --> 01:08:36,033 The proposition is that this society of horses is superior to our own. 686 01:08:36,074 --> 01:08:37,701 Is that so, sir? 687 01:08:37,701 --> 01:08:40,412 I'm not suggesting it, I'm insisting! 688 01:08:43,123 --> 01:08:49,379 The Yahoos, on the other hand, seemed to have no virtues whatsoever. 689 01:08:53,884 --> 01:08:57,221 'The Houyhnhnm language has no word for evil, 690 01:08:57,554 --> 01:09:01,725 'but everything that is bad has "Yahoo" added to it. 691 01:09:01,808 --> 01:09:04,686 'There are a lot of such words.' 692 01:09:04,728 --> 01:09:10,067 'Fortunately, the Houyhnhnms saw no resemblance between my appearance 693 01:09:10,067 --> 01:09:12,444 'and that of the brutish Yahoos. 694 01:09:12,486 --> 01:09:14,655 'Until one morning.' 695 01:09:14,655 --> 01:09:16,406 Yahoo! 696 01:09:19,451 --> 01:09:21,119 Yahoo! 697 01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:26,208 No, no. No, I'm not a Yahoo! 698 01:09:26,834 --> 01:09:30,379 These are my clothes, they cover my body. 699 01:09:31,129 --> 01:09:34,675 Everyone in my country wears clothes. 700 01:09:35,384 --> 01:09:40,347 - Why? - Well, because of modesty. 701 01:09:40,389 --> 01:09:44,977 Imagine if men and women went around naked! 702 01:09:45,018 --> 01:09:48,730 We'd... We'd be preoccupied with sex. 703 01:09:48,772 --> 01:09:50,190 Yahoo! 704 01:09:50,607 --> 01:09:53,068 No, we're civilised. 705 01:09:53,110 --> 01:09:58,448 We wear clothes to... Well, clothes tell you how important someone is. 706 01:09:58,490 --> 01:10:02,077 If you're wealthy you wear clothes of flimsy material, 707 01:10:02,119 --> 01:10:05,956 silk or lace, that need to be cleaned constantly. 708 01:10:05,998 --> 01:10:09,126 You buy new clothes all the time. 709 01:10:09,168 --> 01:10:13,755 Obviously, it's unpardonable for a lady to wear a dress more than once. 710 01:10:13,797 --> 01:10:17,593 I don't have any dresses, because... 711 01:10:17,634 --> 01:10:21,013 I'm a man and men don't wear dresses. 712 01:10:21,054 --> 01:10:24,391 Oh, dear. Can we change the subject? 713 01:10:24,725 --> 01:10:30,856 You mean your horse friend didn't understand the need for clothes? 714 01:10:30,898 --> 01:10:32,941 Precisely. 715 01:10:34,401 --> 01:10:37,613 - Do you? - What do you mean? 716 01:10:37,654 --> 01:10:40,407 Why not be seen as God made us? 717 01:10:40,449 --> 01:10:44,494 Every Christian knows it would be immodest. 718 01:10:44,536 --> 01:10:48,290 Would these ladies and gentlemen be incapable of modesty 719 01:10:48,332 --> 01:10:50,626 if they were not wearing clothes? 720 01:10:50,667 --> 01:10:56,423 They would be Yahoos? Some of the Houyhnhnms agreed with you, sir. 721 01:10:56,465 --> 01:10:59,635 'They were concerned that I was a Yahoo, 722 01:10:59,676 --> 01:11:02,095 'and should be treated as one. 723 01:11:02,137 --> 01:11:06,475 'I told Mistress that if together we could study these creatures, 724 01:11:06,517 --> 01:11:10,812 'it would become apparent that I had nothing in common with them. 725 01:11:10,854 --> 01:11:14,566 'and we could clear up this confusion once and for all. 726 01:11:21,114 --> 01:11:23,617 'Day One - Leadership. 727 01:11:23,617 --> 01:11:26,703 'Each herd had a ruling Yahoo. 728 01:11:26,745 --> 01:11:32,376 'I wondered how the Yahoos picked their leader. 729 01:11:32,376 --> 01:11:37,089 'In our country we seek to elect the most intelligent amongst us. 730 01:11:37,130 --> 01:11:40,926 'The Yahoos picked the most mischievous.' 731 01:11:41,343 --> 01:11:44,263 This leader would choose a favourite 732 01:11:44,263 --> 01:11:49,476 whose job was to lick his master's feet and posterior 733 01:11:49,518 --> 01:11:53,647 and drive the female Yahoos to his kennel. 734 01:11:53,772 --> 01:11:55,399 What are you implying? 735 01:11:55,440 --> 01:12:01,363 He would continue in office until an even worse candidate could be found. 736 01:12:01,697 --> 01:12:08,370 Then the Yahoos in the district would come and discharge excrement on him. 737 01:12:08,412 --> 01:12:10,038 I am warning you! 738 01:12:10,873 --> 01:12:13,667 Day Two - Aggression. 739 01:12:13,667 --> 01:12:17,087 'The bestial Yahoos fight for no reason at all. 740 01:12:17,129 --> 01:12:22,551 'Whereas, as I explained to Mistress, we only fight for a good reason. 741 01:12:22,593 --> 01:12:26,722 'Such as, because our enemies are much weaker than us, 742 01:12:26,930 --> 01:12:29,224 'or we desire all their land.' 743 01:12:29,641 --> 01:12:32,644 Day Three - Mating. 744 01:12:32,686 --> 01:12:38,192 I fear I may shock you with my experience of their practices, 745 01:12:38,734 --> 01:12:43,530 but I believe it's vital that you share my deep revulsion 746 01:12:43,530 --> 01:12:46,867 at the antics of our neighbours. 747 01:12:47,784 --> 01:12:52,706 The red-haired males and females of the species 748 01:12:52,706 --> 01:12:55,501 were more highly sexed than the rest, 749 01:12:58,003 --> 01:13:00,839 so I should have been on my guard. 750 01:13:01,256 --> 01:13:06,261 'It was a hot day, and I thought the Yahoo herd had moved on, 751 01:13:06,261 --> 01:13:09,806 'so I decided to take advantage of the cool water.' 752 01:14:13,912 --> 01:14:18,083 'What frightened me, beyond the violence, 753 01:14:18,208 --> 01:14:23,505 'was that I could be mistaken by a female on heat for another Yahoo.' 754 01:14:24,256 --> 01:14:30,304 'Could I deny my true nature? Was this the real man, a brute?' 755 01:14:30,345 --> 01:14:36,351 When I saw myself in the lake, I wanted to turn away in disgust. 756 01:14:37,394 --> 01:14:38,604 Enough of this nonsense! 757 01:14:38,645 --> 01:14:40,898 We know enough to make our... 758 01:14:40,939 --> 01:14:45,110 Then there came a terrible temptation. 759 01:14:46,778 --> 01:14:50,949 'Mistress took me to a cliff I'd not visited before, 760 01:14:51,366 --> 01:14:56,997 'where the Yahoos were digging stones out of the clay.' 761 01:14:57,831 --> 01:15:02,419 'She explained how the Yahoos coveted these strange rocks 762 01:15:02,461 --> 01:15:04,505 'and asked me why.' 763 01:15:39,039 --> 01:15:42,459 In my country, they're called diamonds. 764 01:15:43,085 --> 01:15:44,503 What are they for? 765 01:15:44,545 --> 01:15:48,006 I have no idea. Primitive people like shiny things. 766 01:15:48,006 --> 01:15:51,218 They have no value? 767 01:15:51,844 --> 01:15:53,929 None whatsoever. 768 01:15:57,599 --> 01:16:00,686 Liar! What a liar I was. 769 01:16:00,727 --> 01:16:04,064 That night I made a pick from a flint head. 770 01:16:04,356 --> 01:16:07,442 I crept back to the quarry. 771 01:16:07,484 --> 01:16:12,281 All night long I hacked away to get at the diamonds. 772 01:16:13,448 --> 01:16:19,079 Do you know why I left my wife to go to sea? Do you? 773 01:16:19,079 --> 01:16:22,583 I couldn't earn enough as a doctor at home, 774 01:16:22,624 --> 01:16:27,671 so I took a surgeon's wages from a shipping company. 775 01:16:27,713 --> 01:16:32,718 Here I was, in this strange country, holding a fortune in my hands. 776 01:16:32,759 --> 01:16:35,637 I'd never have to work again. 777 01:16:41,685 --> 01:16:44,146 I'm rich! Rich. 778 01:16:44,188 --> 01:16:46,899 I can have anything I want. 779 01:16:47,524 --> 01:16:49,985 'But what did I want? 780 01:16:50,027 --> 01:16:54,198 I thought of only one thing - home, 781 01:16:54,740 --> 01:17:01,205 of waking in my own bed with my wife and the things that I knew around me. 782 01:17:01,246 --> 01:17:04,541 Now I was rich enough to give Mary everything. 783 01:17:05,250 --> 01:17:08,754 Except I couldn't leave. 784 01:17:08,795 --> 01:17:15,260 Now that I could have what I wanted, all I wanted was to stay here. 785 01:17:15,594 --> 01:17:20,891 I would rather live with these Houyhnhnms than with my own wife. 786 01:17:22,976 --> 01:17:26,313 Without other people, I'd lost all my vices. 787 01:17:26,855 --> 01:17:33,070 There was no one to envy or steal from or flatter or brag or lie to. 788 01:17:33,070 --> 01:17:39,243 And if I left this place what could happen except my corruption? 789 01:17:42,579 --> 01:17:46,250 That's my grand country house! 790 01:17:49,670 --> 01:17:53,131 That's my fine clothes! 791 01:17:53,757 --> 01:17:57,052 And the servants to dress me! 792 01:17:57,094 --> 01:18:02,724 And my hunting and my fishing and my vintage wines! 793 01:18:03,225 --> 01:18:06,019 Because I'm never going back! 794 01:18:06,019 --> 01:18:08,772 I'm going to become a Houyhnhnm! 795 01:18:13,151 --> 01:18:17,739 That night I slept with a peace I hadn't experienced for years. 796 01:18:17,781 --> 01:18:23,036 I didn't hear the Yahoos creep up and steal my clothes. 797 01:18:23,078 --> 01:18:26,790 Yahoos on the rampage. 798 01:18:26,790 --> 01:18:32,212 They had found a trough of fermenting apples and drunk the lot. 799 01:18:32,254 --> 01:18:35,257 They smashed everything in their path. 800 01:18:52,232 --> 01:18:54,651 My coat! Give me... 801 01:19:10,209 --> 01:19:17,090 'The Houyhnhnm Council reached its judgement. I must leave them forever. 802 01:19:17,090 --> 01:19:21,261 'Until I left, I must remain with my own kind.' 803 01:19:52,125 --> 01:19:54,461 How long do I have? 804 01:19:54,503 --> 01:19:56,797 Until the full moon. 805 01:19:59,216 --> 01:20:01,093 Mistress! 806 01:20:01,802 --> 01:20:04,388 Is that it, then? 807 01:20:04,429 --> 01:20:10,769 Am I really just another Yahoo in the end? Am I?! 808 01:20:30,372 --> 01:20:32,958 'I worked long days. 809 01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:37,171 'I had resolved to leave, the sooner the better.' 810 01:20:37,588 --> 01:20:40,674 'I built a boat of skins. 811 01:20:40,716 --> 01:20:46,972 'I loaded it up with vegetables, rabbits and other provisions.' 812 01:20:48,307 --> 01:20:51,518 We love words, we humans. 813 01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:57,399 We use so many, so easily, until they've lost all their meaning. 814 01:20:57,441 --> 01:21:01,570 But when I say, as the last day dawned, 815 01:21:01,612 --> 01:21:03,864 that my heart was breaking... 816 01:21:05,532 --> 01:21:09,286 I have never known such awful pain and loneliness. 817 01:21:17,503 --> 01:21:20,130 You are more Houyhnhnm than Yahoo. 818 01:22:08,303 --> 01:22:14,434 'As I sailed off, the Houyhnhnms cried out to me from the beach. 819 01:22:14,476 --> 01:22:16,520 'I didn't turn to look. 820 01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:22,484 'It is a sound that will stay with me for the rest of my life.' 821 01:22:28,866 --> 01:22:35,372 'When I could no longer see land I threw all my food overboard. 822 01:22:35,414 --> 01:22:41,461 'I had decided not to return home. I couldn't live with humans again. 823 01:22:42,713 --> 01:22:46,884 'After many hours a shadow came across my boat. 824 01:22:47,009 --> 01:22:50,345 'I realised that Death had come to claim me.' 825 01:22:58,687 --> 01:23:00,230 No. 826 01:23:00,772 --> 01:23:03,483 Go away! Go! 827 01:23:10,449 --> 01:23:13,577 Ah, no! No! 828 01:23:17,122 --> 01:23:21,919 I stayed in my cabin the entire voyage, talking to no one. 829 01:23:22,961 --> 01:23:27,132 I ate the foul Yahoo food only to survive. 830 01:23:27,257 --> 01:23:33,180 I washed myself whenever I touched anything, until I reached England. 831 01:23:34,139 --> 01:23:37,100 This is the most extraordinary story. 832 01:23:37,142 --> 01:23:43,190 Coupled with Doctor Bates's notes, I've never heard a story like it. 833 01:23:51,114 --> 01:23:55,285 When my husband came here he was very disturbed. 834 01:23:55,410 --> 01:24:01,542 And I think he's been encouraged to believe his fantasies really existed. 835 01:24:01,959 --> 01:24:05,420 But that's over now, he's purged himself. 836 01:24:07,923 --> 01:24:11,343 Lemuel is not insane. 837 01:24:11,677 --> 01:24:16,765 I want him to come home, and I know that is his wish also. 838 01:24:16,807 --> 01:24:18,851 You say your husband is not insane. 839 01:24:20,727 --> 01:24:23,647 Then do you believe his fantastical stories? 840 01:24:23,689 --> 01:24:27,568 I believe he has suffered greatly. 841 01:24:27,609 --> 01:24:31,697 But do you believe him? It is a simple question. 842 01:24:32,197 --> 01:24:35,284 I believe he has much to teach us... 843 01:24:35,325 --> 01:24:39,496 I ask you again! Do you believe him or not? 844 01:24:39,705 --> 01:24:44,501 Who in this room has been harmed by him? 845 01:24:48,255 --> 01:24:54,219 You ask me if I believe him, and my answer is this. 846 01:24:57,222 --> 01:25:00,058 I believe in him. 847 01:25:00,976 --> 01:25:07,024 I believe Lemuel is a truly good man. I believe he is an honest man. 848 01:25:07,065 --> 01:25:11,612 And I believe his journey has made him a better man. 849 01:25:13,197 --> 01:25:19,453 Tell me the crime he has committed that merits this terrible punishment. 850 01:25:19,953 --> 01:25:25,292 What if his stories are true or not? What does it matter? 851 01:25:25,584 --> 01:25:30,881 He had a thirst, a raging, unquenchable thirst 852 01:25:30,923 --> 01:25:36,136 to see the world and drink everything in it. 853 01:25:36,470 --> 01:25:39,765 And now that thirst is quenched. 854 01:25:39,806 --> 01:25:44,394 Perhaps he has drunk more than any man could swallow, 855 01:25:44,394 --> 01:25:48,190 but who are we to judge him? 856 01:25:48,232 --> 01:25:54,821 Who are we to doubt his word and compel him to remain here? 857 01:25:57,324 --> 01:26:02,538 You have asked your questions, and now I ask mine. 858 01:26:02,538 --> 01:26:07,543 Who in this room has been harmed by him? 859 01:26:07,543 --> 01:26:09,586 He is harming himself. 860 01:26:09,628 --> 01:26:13,841 It is our Christian duty to keep him here until we cure him. 861 01:26:13,882 --> 01:26:18,053 Your motives for keeping him here are anything but Christian. 862 01:26:18,095 --> 01:26:22,224 How dare you question me! 863 01:26:22,558 --> 01:26:25,561 He's insane, he must be locked up. 864 01:26:25,978 --> 01:26:29,940 He is a lunatic, gibbering against Mankind, 865 01:26:29,982 --> 01:26:33,902 tearing down all shreds of decency and modesty, 866 01:26:34,111 --> 01:26:36,363 filthy in word and thought! 867 01:26:36,405 --> 01:26:39,408 He has a hatred against the human race 868 01:26:39,449 --> 01:26:43,370 and a mind fuelled with images from the dunghill! 869 01:26:43,412 --> 01:26:47,249 Are we to stand by and hear our nature libelled and besmirched? 870 01:26:49,459 --> 01:26:53,088 I have tried to speak the truth as I saw it. 871 01:26:53,130 --> 01:26:55,048 What arrogance! What presumption! 872 01:26:55,090 --> 01:26:58,594 To show men what they are and teach them! 873 01:26:58,635 --> 01:27:02,472 You are either a liar or a lunatic. Which is it? 874 01:27:02,514 --> 01:27:04,266 GENTLEMEN! 875 01:27:04,892 --> 01:27:08,854 This is a hospital, not a prison. 876 01:27:09,354 --> 01:27:13,525 Our ambition is not to confine people, but to cure them. 877 01:27:14,276 --> 01:27:19,781 Lemuel Gulliver, you are clearly suffering from a disease of the mind. 878 01:27:19,823 --> 01:27:23,702 This journey happened only in your head. 879 01:27:23,744 --> 01:27:27,623 All we ask is that you acknowledge this. 880 01:27:27,915 --> 01:27:34,505 When you have done that, then you may leave. What do you say? 881 01:27:34,922 --> 01:27:37,007 Then I may leave? 882 01:27:37,049 --> 01:27:39,384 Of course. 883 01:27:47,935 --> 01:27:54,525 Every single thing I have told you is the truth and happened to me. 884 01:27:54,566 --> 01:27:56,485 Why do you persist?! 885 01:27:57,027 --> 01:28:03,075 You say you saw all these things that no one else has ever seen. 886 01:28:03,116 --> 01:28:04,910 Have you one shred of proof? 887 01:28:04,952 --> 01:28:08,664 - I did have... - No! He has no proof! 888 01:28:08,705 --> 01:28:12,709 - Isn't it enough that I say so? - No, it is not enough. 889 01:28:12,751 --> 01:28:16,713 We shall review your case next year at the same time. 890 01:28:16,755 --> 01:28:19,383 Keepers, take him back to his cell. 891 01:28:19,424 --> 01:28:24,555 Listen, I'm telling the truth! Why won't anyone believe me? 892 01:28:25,681 --> 01:28:27,683 Who is this child? 893 01:28:31,311 --> 01:28:34,565 Thomas, what are you doing here? 894 01:28:47,494 --> 01:28:50,831 Go back to your mother, boy. 895 01:29:02,092 --> 01:29:07,723 I thought he'd gone, but he was in the garden eating grass. 896 01:29:08,056 --> 01:29:10,225 I found him again this morning. 897 01:30:15,082 --> 01:30:18,168 'We never saw Bates again. 898 01:30:18,210 --> 01:30:22,381 'I heard he had gone abroad, but I don't know if it's true. 899 01:30:23,632 --> 01:30:28,762 'The house is still in his name, but he never returned to claim it. 900 01:30:32,808 --> 01:30:36,478 'The first money I laid out when I returned 901 01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:39,022 'was to buy two young horses' 902 01:30:39,064 --> 01:30:44,695 'They understand me tolerably well, and I converse with them every day. 903 01:30:49,283 --> 01:30:55,539 'It was many months before I could look in a mirror without disgust. 904 01:30:56,373 --> 01:31:02,129 'But my family let me walk at my own pace and showed me a kindness 905 01:31:02,171 --> 01:31:04,840 'that is perhaps greater than reason might allow. 906 01:31:08,468 --> 01:31:14,850 'Until, at last, I was able to play with my son, Tom, like a true father 907 01:31:14,892 --> 01:31:19,021 'and be again a husband to my wife, Mary, 908 01:31:19,313 --> 01:31:22,858 'to whom I owe my life and freedom. 909 01:31:27,154 --> 01:31:32,367 'All the Yahoo vices I can begin to accustom myself to once more. 910 01:31:32,409 --> 01:31:37,247 'Except for pride, and that I cannot tolerate. 911 01:31:37,289 --> 01:31:40,709 'I see myself for what I truly am. 912 01:31:41,001 --> 01:31:44,546 'I lost eight years of my life 913 01:31:44,546 --> 01:31:51,011 'and yet the moments I have had, the marvels I have witnessed, 914 01:31:51,345 --> 01:31:55,807 'the wonderful truths I have seen! 915 01:31:56,141 --> 01:32:02,272 'You see, when night falls and you close your eyes to sleep and dream, 916 01:32:02,314 --> 01:32:06,985 'I have seen the things you can only dream about. 917 01:32:07,027 --> 01:32:09,655 'I have been there. 918 01:32:09,696 --> 01:32:13,033 'I was lost at sea for a long time. 919 01:32:13,534 --> 01:32:16,703 'But I have been there. Oh, yes. 920 01:32:17,829 --> 01:32:22,000 'All the way, and back.'