All language subtitles for King.of.the.Coral.Sea.1954

Come on, lively now, come on.

Sake, stand by and kip.

Sake, lay low.

Hands on the main sheet.

Come on, you two.

You'll never take me at this side of the
island.

- [Man] Over this way, Mr. King.

Motorboat.

Not yet.

Steady as she goes.

Turn him over, let's have a look at him.

- Yeah, he's a bit of a mess.

Do you know him, Yusep?

- Any of you other fella, you know this
fella?

- [Sagigi] This man don't come from
Thursday Island.

He must have fall off some boat coming
through the strait.

- Cover him over, I don't like the way
he looks at me.

Never could stand the glassy stare.

- Funny thing to find, Mr. King.

A fella just floating around like that.

- Yeah, city dress too.

Alright, Bandos, Sagi, stand by

your ship, we're coming about.

Sabe, Guji, run up a dead man's flag.

Tell the other boats to fall in line
astern, Yusep.

- Come on, you fellas, get into line
astern

behind the H.B., we've got a dead man
aboard.

- Laylo, come here.

Come on, come on.

Get forward.

- Miss Rusty, there's a couple of boats
coming in.

They've lost a diver.

- Janiero, Janiero, we've lost a diver.

- What's this, what's this?

- It's Mr. King's boat, he must have
lost a diver.

- It couldn't be.

No.

- Get hold the end of this, gully.

- You can look after the shell, Yusep.

See it's all in the shed before dark.

- I make 'em work.

Come on, you men, bring the dinghy back
here.

Quick and lively, now.

- There's a man dead.

- No, we found one.

Two or three mile out the other side of
Weekend Island.

- I don't know, just found him

in the sea floating on his face.

What's left of him.

- Yeah, must have fallen off a steamer,
Charlie.

Hardly been in the water couple of days,
what's left of him.

- Hey Ted, just a minute.

Where are you off to?

- Yeah, I know, red tape.

You coppers always wanna know something
about something.

I'll drop into the station when I get
the shell organized.

- Right, but don't make it too long,
mate.

You're not up in an hour, I'll send a
couple

of strong arm in there to get you.

- Oh gee, it's good to see you.

Who was it, dad?

- I'll get out of this.

- Welcome home, Ted.

Nice to see you back.

- G'day, Jack.

How's Uncle Sam's wandering boy?

- Oh, fine, just fine.

Well I haven't had a meal all day

so what's say you get off home

and organize something to eat, I'm
hungry.

- Alright, but don't you be too long.

- I won't. - Oh, dad.

- Funny business here, Janiero.

Found a man out there floating on his
face,

city dressed, too, collar, tie, city
shoes, the whole works.

Been in the water about two days.

- Oh, I haven't a clue.

- Yeah, about the only way he coulda got
there.

But it's a funny business, who's this
from?

- Merriman, what's he coming up here
for?

- There was a letter from him a couple
of days back,

looks like he wants to take over.

- Oh he does, does he?

Let's have a look at this letter.

- Sorry to hear about your--

- Save it, Grundy, save it.

We never lost anybody.

Well, it does look as though he intends

to come up here and run things.

Must have closed up all the nightclubs
down south.

A big time playboy.

I looked him up in Who's Who.

Peter Benedict Merriman,

born 1925 with a mouth full of silver
spoons.

Spent the first 15 years of his life

being protected from society

and the next 30 being inflicted on it.

But you got to admit there,

Mr. Merriman's got a very nice taste in
dames.

- Shell's in.

- Okay Yank, let's go.

Everything in off your boat, Yusep?

- That's the lot, Mr. King, everything's
here.

Jack. - [Jack] Huh?

You look after the rest of this weigh
in, will ya?

dragging all the way up there.

Nothing I can tell 'em they don't
already know.

- Well, you won't go finding things.

You want this stuff cased tonight?

- You know I want it, guys hardly all
sit down.

- Nice large shell, your hand?

- Petri, go get some cases and pack this
stuff up.

- Mr. Janiero, Mr. Janiero.

Janiero, come quick.

- Hey hey, hold it.

Shoulda hit him with a railroad track.

Okay, let's take him into the office.

- And you haven't any idea who hit you?

- And they didn't take anything?

- No, not a thing.

- It's crazy, Sergeant.

They turned out his pockets

and walk off and leave the dough.

- Whatever it was they were looking for
I didn't have it on,

get my coat for me, will you Jack?

- [Charlie] That was a pretty vicious
sort of attack there.

They coulda killed you.

- Yeah, you can say that again.

This might have something to do with it.

It was on the body.

- What about coming up to the station,
Ted?

- Okay okay, I got things to do.

See you in the morning, boss.

- Righto, Jack.

- You've got no idea how important this
can be.

- There's a bit of smuggling going on,
Ted.

There's always a fair bit of that sort
of thing

but we've got a special brand of our own
up here.

- This'll give you an idea what I mean.

Further to report FBS, SS, Han Sing,
Hong Kong, Sydney.

Hong Kong operative advises this vessel

on last three voyages transported

five prohibited European nationals.

None of these men possess passport entry
phases

to this country and none was listed

on passenger or crew declarations.

European nationals not on board Han Sing

on arrival first to stay in the port of
entry.

Where'd they get to?

- Well, the theory is they dropped off
in the Torres Straits

and taken to the mainland in a pearling
lugger.

- [Ted] Could be, too.

- It's not a haphazard business, Ted.

It's a very carefully prepared plan.

And somehow or another, this body ties
up with it.

Now, what I'd like you to do, Ted,

is to come in with us on this thing

and help us find out what's going on.

- Yeah, he'll be in in about an hour,
Serena.

Everything okay up at the house?

Well don't make it too nice for him,

he might decide to stay.

But of course.

What's that?

Oh yeah, he's a big time playboy

from the big wicked city, don't you
know?

Yeah, he's probably got all the old
ladies

on the old sand for their dinner.

What?

Yeah, Mr. King will be bringing him up,

he'll make sure he doesn't frighten you.

Yeah, yeah okay.

What are you doing here?

- I'm waiting to see Mr. King

to get a position with the company.

- You always make like you're praying
for rain

when you're waiting to see somebody?

- [Grundy] Well, you see, Mr. Janiero.

- Listen, Grundy, if I ever catch you

in here again, I'll cut off your both
ears

and feed 'em to that animal, now beat
it.

What was that all about?

- Ah, you've gotta watch him.

He'd take the eyes out of your head.

The old Elsandra, dead on time.

- Yeah, better get down there and meet
Mr. Merriman.

- Yeah, few things I wanna talk over
with ya, though.

Wait til I get my new bonnet.

Thanks, Jack.

How's that?

- Eh, fine.

Salapata.

Okay, boy, let's go.

- Well, hello Grundy, you think

you get free drinks from me too, eh?

- I had a good look around, the wallet's
not there.

- You couldn't look so good.

Give a look.

G'day, Mr. King. - G'day, Yusep.

Down to see the grog I murdered?

- That's right.

Looks like that King's out of a job
today, eh?

We got a new boss of the Coral Sea.

- I'm getting a bit involved with the
coppers, Jack.

Top secret stuff.

But according to old Charlie Wright,

there's a mob smuggling illegal
immigrants through here.

There's supposed to be one planted
somewhere

in the straits now, they want us to help
track him down.

- Well, all ties up with that body, I
guess.

- Yeah, now look here's what I want you
to do.

As soon as we get through with Merriman,

pop down to the Pilot's Association and
get

the course of the last ship to come
through the straits.

When you've got that, go down to the
slipway,

break out the northern channel charts

for me, the graph, and all the HB.

I'll meet you down there just as soon

as I've got rid of the little gentleman.

- Yeah, fancy suit, eh?

Maybe I shoulda worn me new hat.

I'm Ted King.

- How do you do, Mr. King?

- This is Jack Janiero, my second in
charge.

- How do you do, Mr. Janiero?

- Yeah, nothing much happens around this
part of the world.

- No, I suppose not.

- That's for you, Mr. Merriman,

it's a sort of a welcome.

The Merriman name used to stand pretty
high in this area.

- I shouldn't think it'd be off for now,
sir.

- Well, Janiero, look after that.

- Oh, I'll get Yusep to bring the carry
down, Captain King.

I've gotta go down the slips and get the
HP moving.

- Righto, Jack.

- I'll see you around, Mr. Merriman.

Not much chance of doing anything

else in a tiny place like this.

- No, that's right.

I'll see you down the slipway, Jack.

- I'd like to look at the office setup.

After I've seen the house, of course.

You'll find that time passes pretty
slowly

around this part of the world.

- Yusep, get Merriman's bags as soon as
they

come off the boat and take 'em up to the
house, will ya?

- Okay, Janiero, I fix that.

- Another thing, don't go hanging around
the place

when you deliver 'em, keep away from
Serena

while she's working at Merriman's house.

- She's my woman.

- Nobody's gonna argue with you, Yusep,

but like I said, don't go hanging around
the house.

I was at sea when your telegram came,

didn't have a chance to get the fence
fixed.

Inside's alright, though.

- This is Serena, Mr. Merriman.

She's going to look after you while
you're here.

- How do you do, Miss Serena?

- Well Serena, haven't you got a drink
for Mr. Merriman?

He might as well learn the local
customs.

- Morning, Harry.

- How are ya, Jack?

- Who wants a shot at the $64 question?

- I'll take a nibble at it.

brought through the straits?

- That'd be the Han Sing from Hong Kong
four days ago.

- That's right.

- [Jack] The Han Sing, huh?

You keep a record of the course she
took?

- Yes, do you want to see it?

- Mm, it'd be a help.

- Come on in, we'll dig it up.

No, he's right here beside me, just a
minute.

It's for you, the police.

Righto, Sergeant Wright, I'll come down
straight away.

When you've settled in, you might like

to drop down to the office, I'll show
you

how we've been operating your company.

- Yes, I'd like to start looking into
things straight away.

How'd you go?

- I'd have been down earlier but I had
to

go up the police station, what'd you
find?

- Well, the last ship through here

was the Han Sing from Hong Kong.

The nearest she got to land to drop

anybody off was east of Weekend Island.

- Yeah, Weekend Island.

10 degrees, 35 minutes south, 143
degrees, 11 minutes east.

- Well, didn't think your memory was
that good.

- It's not, I got that information from
the police.

You can wrap the chart up now,

Jack, we won't be needing it.

- Federal agent, huh?

- Yeah, one of the top boys from
Canberra.

There was a lot of interesting
information in his wallet

including the position for Weekend
Island.

The police reckon he was following

some important cloak and dagger bloke
from Hong Kong.

They musta woken to him.

- So they sent him for a swim, huh?

Thought the sharks would get him.

- We'll take a look at Weekend Island,
Jack.

The police seem to think it might be

a dumping ground for this mob.

There's a 30 fathom shell bed out there

that I've been meaning to survey for
some time now.

A survey trip's a good excuse to get out
to the island

without drawing too much attention to
ourselves.

We'll leave day after tomorrow.

- Yeah, see she's ready to leave on the
top of the tide.

Well, there you are, Mr. Merriman, the
Torres Straits,

all the way from the Arafura to the
Coral Sea.

Dead ahead of us here is Wednesday
Island.

There's a chain of islands stretched
north of that

right up to the coast of New Guinea.

You can paddle a surfboard from here

up to New Guinea if you wanted to.

That's Tuesday Island out there

and beyond it in the distance, 20, 25
mile away

you can see Cape York Peninsula.

It's where all our winds come from, the
southeast trades.

This is Horn Island here, used to be

a big Air Force base during the war.

And that's Prince of Wales.

It's run as a cattle lease by an old
fella

named Frank Joyce, he hasn't got too
many

cattle there now but he's got quite a
few head of deer.

You keep in well with old Frank

and you'll probably get yourself a
haunch of venison.

Out here to the west is Friday Island

and beyond that, the Arafura Sea.

And down there, the world's number one
pearling port,

the township of Thursday Island.

You can see our office on the
waterfront, past the jetty,

the big white place next to it's the
shell shed.

- Come on, come on, what do you think
this is?

Push week?

- Well, here we are, Mr. Merriman.

This is your office and there's your
chair.

- Now just a minute, Mr. King.

You've been running this organization

quite satisfactorily for 27 years.

As long as the Coral Sea Company
operates

and you want to stay with it, you sit in
that chair.

Well, Mr. King, I'm here to get a
firsthand

idea of how the company operates.

If there's room for improvement,

I'll see that improvements are made.

I have a couple ideas already.

- If you're not satisfied,

- I didn't say I wasn't satisfied.

Shall we say I'm simply taking

a more active interest in my company.

- Incidentally, that phone call from the
police.

Was that anything to do with the
company?

Oh, and one other thing, the girl at the
house.

- [Ted] Serena?

- Yes, Serena.

- She's your housekeeper, Mr. Merriman.

She does your housework.

- In that case, as she'll probably be
spending

a lot of time at the house, I'd
appreciate it very much

if you'd ask her to keep her boyfriends
out of sight.

- Very well, I'll speak to her about it
tonight.

She'll be at the dance.

- [Peter] Dance?

- Yeah, it's a native dance, ceremonial
stuff.

It's another welcome for you.

- Hello, dad.

- Mr. Merriman, this is my daughter
Rosalind.

- How do you do, Miss King?

- Oh, Rusty. - Rusty.

Most spectacular.

I hope they dance again.

- [Ted] Yeah, oh look there's Yusep over
there.

He's our head diver, the big fella

in the colored shirt with Serena.

- [Ted] Yeah, yeah I'll speak to them
about it.

- She's pretty, isn't she?

- [Peter] Yes, she is rather for a
native.

- She's not a native, she's a Malay.

There's a lot of Malays on the island.

I'll know where to come when I'm looking
for a guide.

- I'll show you around the island some
time, if you like.

By Jove, yes I might.

- I shouldn't have crept up on you like
that.

- Oh, that's alright.

You were there to be my guide, remember?

Tell me about these old guns of yours.

- Oh, they were brought up here before
the last war.

A lot of people will tell you they've
been here

for over a century, but that isn't true.

You must spend most of your time up
here.

- No, I spend most of my time down
there,

catch crayfish over that reef.

- You catch 'em yourself?

- I get them for dad, he'd eat them

three times a day if he could.

- Mm, so would I.

You must show me how to catch 'em
sometime.

- There's nothing to it, you swim out
across the reef

until you see one, stand up, sight it
with your spear,

and crayfish.

- Look over there, turtle.

- That's alright, do it again.

- Watch out he doesn't bite you.

- Isn't he a beauty?

- Isn't he?

What are you gonna do with him now
you've caught him?

- [Pete] Oh, let him go.

There he goes.

- Come on, hustle up you guys.

You're supposed to leave tomorrow, not
next week.

Now, you guys all through?

Well what do you think you're doing

parking stuff all over the place

like it was a jump shark, now get it
outta here.

What!

What is this box and why is it on the
trolley?

- Mr. Janiero, Mr. Merriman told us to
put this box here.

- You got that box alright, Janiero?

- Uh box, box, which box would that be,
Mr. Merriman?

It's to go on the boat with the other
gear.

- Thinking about going out with us
tomorrow, Mr. Merriman?

Rusty said she was going so I see no
reason why I shouldn't.

- No, that's alright.

Give you a chance to see how we operate.

- Alright, you've got plenty of air.

- I got the idea, it's very interesting.

And how many divers do you work from
each lugger?

- Three usually, but this is only a
survey trip.

I'm going down on my own.

- This boat's in pretty poor shape,
isn't it?

- Yeah, she is in poor shape but she's
been worked hard.

She's the top earner of your fleet this
season,

Mr. Merriman, 18 ton of shell.

You see her in about three weeks' time

when she comes off the slipway.

If you know anything at all about boats.

- Pretty well over the darkly bed now,
Ted.

- I'm going right on, Jack.

Work the drift back.

- [Jack] Right.

- There's about 30 fathom of water under
us here.

- What's the name of this place?

- Weekend Island, the Japs used to work
here before the war.

Nobody's had a look at it

for some time, now it's too deep.

- There's a Japanese fleet operating the
Arafura now,

they tell me they're getting a lot of
shell.

- Yeah, with 25 boats working,

they'll probably take 1,000 tons this
year.

- It'll force the price down.

- Hm, nothing surer.

- There's only one answer to competition
like that,

drop your production costs.

other pearling company in Australia.

For a start, simplify your diving
methods.

We proved that in the past.

- In the past, yes, but--

- And Thursday Island's the only area

where the helmet and corset's used

and we still take the most shells.

But your output per man is still low.

I did a bit of underwater work for the
British Navy

during the war, we used the Aqua Lung
gear

they developed for the frogmen.

- That fancy stuff might be alright for
Navy frogmen,

but they're not in the pearling
business, Mr. Merriman.

Alright, Jack, get ready for the drift.

- [Jack] Check.

- Sagigi. - [Sagigi] What?

- Take over, we're coming about.

Right, Jack.

- Okay, Ted, don't go frightening any
sharks.

12 fathoms.

- 12 fathoms, check.

- Keep plenty of pipeline to him, Laylo.

14 fathoms.

- 14 fathoms, check.

- Okay Jack, I'll pull young guy.

- Three divers, six tenders, nine men to
get the shell.

Too much gear and too many people.

- [Jack] 26 fathoms.

- [Sagigi] 26 fathoms, check.

- Dad shouldn't go to that depth.

- Diver's on the bottom.

Stand by to hold the depth, Sagigi.

- No, not yet, not til he calls to slack
line.

Taking up shell.

He's gotta keep straight up and down in
this gear,

otherwise the water will shoot up inside
the helmet.

- It's the safest and fastest method

of shell diving there is, Mr. Merriman.

The diver gets in trouble,

he can slip out of the helmet and swim
up.

- From 30 fathoms?

- No, not 30 fathoms, it's 180 feet.

We don't usually work that depth.

In deep water, you've gotta be very very
careful.

How much slack pipe you got out there,
Laylo?

- Half pipe's down.

- Pipe is fouled, keep the pressure up
to him,

he's not getting into the helmet.

- Pressure's rising.

- What's the drill now, Janiero?

- He's fouled on coral, I have to go
down.

Rusty, you can tender for me.

- Well, I've never tendered anyone at 30
fathoms.

- [Jack] Now's the time to learn, kid.

Engineer, get me another helmet and
corset

and get it coupled up quick and lively.

- But Janiero, if you go down, who'll
tender dad?

Hey Merriman, what do you think you're
doing?

- I'm going down.

- [Jack] In that fancy dress?

- There's nothing fancy about an Aqua
Lung.

This is no time to be the big hero.

- Get back on that line, Janiero, you're
wasting time.

- Listen, Merriman, Ted King may be
drowning down there.

- That's the point, exactly,

now do what you're told and stay on that
line.

- You're drifting, Sagigi.

- You're drifting off shore all the
time,

Sagigi, now hold us steady.

I know what the tide's doing, hold her
steady.

Now try dropping the anchor but hold her
steady.

- What happened, is he alright?

- Yeah, he's alright, his air pipe's
jammed in some coral.

We need a crowbar or something.

We're drifting away from him all the
time.

There's only 40 or 50 feet of air pipe
left.

How much air is he getting down there?

- Rusty, get something to put on this,
will ya?

Blood will bring the sharks.

He's not getting any air down there.

- Can't send him any more,

it gets forced back into the tanks.

- Uh, pipeline breaks away from the
compressor coupling

or cuts away where it's cord down there.

- What's the score?

What's our next move?

- Listen, - Rusty, just get

a rubber glove and some sticking
plastic.

- With the pressure dropping,

it's only a matter of time before the
water

shoots inside the helmet and drowns him

so there's only one thing we can do.

There's no guarantee that'll work.

- Take out that other helmet,

tell him we're gonna have to change
while we're down there.

- [Jack] It's been done before.

- Good, nice and tight.

That's it, right, let's get this halter
down to him.

- Good boy, give him a hand Laylo.

You too, Rusty.

- [Laylo] Here, Mr. Merriman.

Easy on the helmet.

- He's signaled to come up.

- I'll take it, kid.

Okay, Laylo, lay that old pipe and help
with this new one.

Let me know when pressure's

right to be staged from 12 fathoms.

- 12 fathom check.

- He'll be alright, Mr. Merriman?

- Yeah, he's alright.

He's taking it easy, nice and cool down
there.

- [Jack] We'll have to stage him,

he's been down there for quite a while.

- Yeah, 15 minutes at 70 feet.

25 at 60, 30 at 50, et cetera, et
cetera.

All accounts

bring diver to surface fully - Bring
diver to surface fully

over the last 10 feet. - 10 feet.

Out of air.

- I think he's wonderful.

- I guess he's alright.

- Ah, thanks Rusty.

Tastes a lot better than that salt water
down there.

- [Pete] You must have drunk quite a bit
of it

when you changed over those helmets,
Ted.

- [Pete] Anyway, what do you

think of the Aqua Lung gear now?

- Aw, it's not a bad sort of a
contraption.

Handy if you couldn't swim.

- [Pete] I'll never convince you.

- I don't know, Pete.

Might come in handy if a trucker

shoaled or something like that.

- Where goin', Jack?

- The shore, Ted.

Gotta get some water, they forgot

to fill the tanks before we came out.

- That's a bad blue.

- Yeah, I'll pull 'em out when we get
back.

- Well hang on, I'll come with you.

Stretch me legs a bit.

- Oh, you'd better stay there, Pete.

Somebody's gotta watch the boat, y'know?

- You want me to come, dad?

- No, Rusty, you stop with Pete, I'll be
right.

- Give us a push off, Ted.

That coulda been nasty this morning,
Ted,

after taking all the trouble

to get out here just to look at the
island.

- Yeah, nearly messed up the real
purpose of our being here.

- He's like a fish down there, Jack,
like a fish.

- Now, what's the pitch?

- Well, we just wander about

like two blokes looking for water,
that's all.

But watch your step.

There's the pool, right across the other
side.

It's the only one on the island.

- Well, what's the plan?

Watch your step.

I could feel him watching me.

There's a little camp.

Want us to go back in?

- No, we'll keep out of it for a while,
yeah?

I've got an idea how this thing's gonna
develop.

Who is it fishes this area on his own,
Janiero?

Who's been down here four times in the
last six months,

hasn't got enough shell to fill your
hat,

then gone straight down south and fished
the mainland beds?

- Why, that dirty.

- Yeah, it tallies with what the coppers
think, too.

I think our man will be back here again
very soon.

- You want to get rid of him, and quick.

- That's right.

If I had a good excuse to fire him,

might drag him out into the open.

Yeah he might, at that.

He's just the boy who might.

When I'm not with the lugger,

I'm diving all day and getting lots of
pearl shells.

- Thanks for lending the dinghy, Yusep.

- That's right.

- Well, good luck, you divers can always
use it.

- Yusep does not need luck, Grundy.

If the shell is there, he will get it.

For me, there is always good fishing on
Weekend Island.

I fish there two or three days

then I move on to the mainland beds.

- No, she working for that Merriman now.

She got to stop ashore.

Here comes Janiero, you better scram.

Alright, you men, come on, get into it.

- Don't get so liberal with the company
gear, Yusep,

or you'll find yourself in trouble.

I don't wanna see you talking to that
deadbeat around here.

- I don't talk to him, he talks to me.

- So tell him to stay away,

we don't want him hanging around the
joint.

- You tell him, Janiero, it's no use
telling me.

- Now don't get smart, Yusep.

And another thing, that girl

shouldn't be hanging around here.

Serena, I told you to stay up at the
house

and keep away from this guy, I told ya a
dozen times.

- Stay where you are, Serena.

- Go on up to the house, now beat it.

Okay Yusep, you asked for it.

Cut it out, you two, cut it out I tell
ya.

What's this all about?

- He started it, I chipped him about
lending Grundy

our gear and he just hauled off and hit
me.

- You're fired, Yusep,

I've had enough of you and your brawls.

Pick up your money at the office.

Well, it came off.

Thanks Jack, the company won't forget
it.

- If I knew he coulda hit that hard,

I would worn a baseball mask.

- He's without a boat now and that's the
main thing.

He can't leave that European bloke on
the island forever.

- He might but he wouldn't get it
crewed,

and if he did we'd know about it.

He's playing right into our hands.

- Hello dad, how is Janiero,

whatever's happened to your face?

- Oh, Janiero.

Hm, you look very sweet and lovely
today, my dear.

- Do you like the dress, dad?

Don't you, Jack?

- Um, exquisite.

- How'd you like to do something for me,
Rusty?

- Well, pop down to Merriman's place

and ask him to meet me at the Grand at 4
o'clock

and to bring his compressor attachment
with him.

- Compressor attachment, 4 o'clock, okay
dad.

I hope your face is alright, Janiero.

- By golly, Jack, if you ever get
married,

you see you only have boy babies.

Police station, these girls,

y'know, can be a bit of a problem.

Hello Charlie, yeah.

I thought you might like to know we just
sacked Yusep.

He hasn't got a boat anymore.

Here comes the girl.

Go up the house and tell Serena what
she's gotta do.

- She's not going to like this.

- You just tell her what she's

gotta say to the girl, that's all.

Hello, Miss Rusty.

Ooh, a new dress eh?

It looks nice. - Thanks, Grundy.

be going in a nice dress like that?

- Oh, I'm going up to Mr. Merriman's
place for dad.

- Oh now, isn't that a pity.

I just seed he'd gone swimming with his
costume

and them things whatever he puts on his
feet.

- Oh, oh well I'll go up anyway.

He mightn't be long.

- Hey hey, did you see them two fellas
fighting

down on the beach this morning?

- Yeah, Janiero and Yusep.

They were fighting in the water.

Oh, he come up, he can fight, that Mr.
Janiero.

- Fell over a dinghy, an oyster bit him.

- Yeah, and your father just come down

stopped it when it was getting
interesting, too.

- Thanks, Serena.

- Hello, Serena.

- Good morning, Miss Rusty.

- Oh, no, he's gone to catch crayfish.

He said if you came, he's down at the
reef.

- Why don't you have a drink?

Wonder what's keeping Merriman.

Hello, is that you Pete?

- [Pete] Yeah.

- What's the holdup?

- [Pete] What do you mean?

- You're supposed to meet me

up here at the Grand at 4 o'clock.

- First I've heard of it.

- [Ted] Didn't Rusty tell you?

- Rusty, no, was she supposed to?

- Yeah, I sent her up to your place with
a message.

- [Pete] That's funny.

- Didn't you see her?

- I saw her talking to Serena but I
didn't get any message.

I'm sorry, Ted, if I.

- Okay, Pete, don't worry.

I'll dig her up.

Serena.

Serena.

Lindy, where's Serena?

- She went this way, to the church.

- I, you.

- Well I gotta go now, Ted.

- Okay, John.

Luck.

- If I see Rusty around, I'll send her
on home.

- Yeah, I'll be pleased if you would.

So long, John.

- [Jack] Hm, nice guy huh?

- Yeah, good fella, good sailor too.

- Mr. King, I'd like to see you.

- Not now, Grundy, I'm busy.

- I've got her, King.

I'm willing to trade her back to you for
a little time.

You've got yourself mixed up in
something

that ordinary little people should keep
right out of.

You've become a nuisance, King, so I've
taken

your daughter to keep you quiet for the
next 48 hours.

- Why, you. - Take it easy, Jack.

What do you want me to do, Grundy?

In 48 hours, I'll be gone from here and
provided

you have kept out of my way in the
meantime,

you get your daughter back.

But keep on interfering, King,

you'll never see her alive again.

- Get after him, Jack, don't let him

out of your sight for a minute.

- Where's Ted?

- The lad's bar.

- Serena's just told me something
fantastic.

Yusep's got Rusty, he's taken her away
on Grundy's boat.

- Yeah, I know,

sit down. - Sit down nothing,

there's something crazy going on.

- Yeah, I know all about it.

What about Rusty?

- Now take it easy, son,

I got an interest in Rusty too, y'know.

- Sorry, Ted.

What's this all about?

- They've taken Rusty to keep me quiet.

Probably taken her out to Weekend
Island.

- According to Serena, that's

where she is so let's get out there.

- We can't.

If she is there, she'd be dead

as soon as we put a foot near the place.

Can't tail 'em by boat, either.

We can see them, they can see us.

- You think they'll be taking a boat out
there?

- Nothing surer, Yusep's out on Grundy's
boat now

and as soon as he gets back, they'll be
off again.

- Then let's go with them.

- The Aqua Lung gear, got a couple of
strong screw clamps?

- Thousands of 'em.

- Come on, then, I'll show you how we
we'll go with 'em.

- I thought you'd never get here.

You ready to move?

- Yes, I'm all set.

- How's the girl?

- Mm, I don't know whether

to take her with us or leave her here.

It was a good idea to snatch her to keep
King quiet,

but she's gonna be a bit of a problem
from now on.

- Well leave her here, that's the
easiest.

- [Grundy] Yes, it might be too.

- There's Rusty.

- Get around behind them, I'll cover you
from here.

- Eh, she's the last of our worries
anyway.

- Why, we moving to other island.

- No, we're taking you straight through
to the mainland.

- But I wasn't supposed to be moved for
another week.

- Yeah I know that, but--

The boat.

- Come on, darling, quick.

Back this way.

- I won't miss this time.

- You've had it, Grundy.

- [Charlie] We're all around you,

you haven't got a chance, Grundy.

- That's the police boat you can hear.

- On your feet, Grundy.

Come on.

- Which way, Janiero?

- I got him, Charlie, there's no need
for any hurry.

- Everything alright, Ted?

- Yeah, here and there's two more

of 'em back there in the bush.

Yusep and your character from Hong Kong.

But you can take your time about getting
'em out.

- Frank, you'd better go and have a look
at 'em.

Come on, Grundy.

- Come on, kid, let's get cleaned up and
get out of here.

- [Jack] Come on, all aboard that's
going aboard.

Let's get out of this place, huh?

- You go on, Jack, I'll meet you at the
boat.

I'm a bit interested in this gear,

you never know it might come in handy
for pearl shelling.

- Well, Merriman finally talked you into
it, huh?

- Right here, move your big feet.

- Okay, Peter Benedict, let's get out of
here.

Sure you're ready now?

- Come on, come on, we got things to do.

- And then so it was you, right?

- You know how it is, just can't help

being the right place at the right time.