All language subtitles for The Instrument of War

Friday the 18th.

A few cable lengths from Prisoners Island off the Carolina coast.

Navigating in the dark by lead and lookout.

We are to pick up an unknown cargo.

Had dealings with the men of this penal colony before and the risks are great.

But we're hungry for a cargo.

Prisoners Island.

Load away the long boat.

Take it easy mates.

We've been on half rations so long I don't want to lose a crack at so rich a cargo.

We do not even know what that cargo is.

Same as last time I reckon.

The way our luck is...

Shh.

It will probably be barrels full of bilge water.

More likely to be barrels of tar and pitch.

If that isn't a rich cargo I don't know what is.

I will wait and see.

Forgive me Dan Tempest.

There's no time this night for civil greetings.

There's trouble.

What trouble?

There's all this trouble here.

They've increased the guards?

Worse.

Your cargo's not here.

I do not know what's keeping it.

Where is it?

We can get it?

It's not tar and pitch you've come for this time Captain.

It's a live cargo you'll be hauling to Port Royal.

Live?

Aye.

David McGregor.

The old Highland Chief's son.

Do you mean to say we've risked our necks coming here to save one single passenger?

Is this your rich cargo Dan?

Get your hands up or I fire.

Our luck is still running Taneito but in the wrong direction.

Well lads we could fight maybe one or two of them but not half a dozen look.

Finn look after the longboat.

Aye sir.

I do not know what to tell you Captain.

The hour was fixed.

David McGregor should have been here by now.

You ask my advice and I tell you we should shove our front up.

If you do that we're done for.

Your ship's our last hope.

In what way your last hope?

All of us here finished our sentences more than a year ago but Marsh and his cutthroats

refused to let any of us leave.

Who is this Marsh?

The overseer.

So we stay on in this wilderness month after month praying that we can get word to someone

to help.

Well I don't know Mr. Dougal.

We've had hard times on board the Sultana.

Men are tired.

I don't know I want to make a trip for just one passenger.

I realize it's asking a great deal Captain but there's a new commissioner at Port Royal.

I'm sure he'd be able to help us if only young David could talk to him.

Where's McGregor now?

I don't know.

Something's gone wrong.

Well.

All right.

Take me to his cabin.

Aye.

Wait for me here.

Well amigos.

I do not need a compass to tell me which way our luck is running.

Out of the depths have I tried to thee O Lord.

Lord hear my voice.

What's happened?

Marchers men.

I nearly ran into a patrol of them.

I thought I'd best come back here until things quiet down.

Are you all right boy?

Yes father.

Who's there?

It's me.

John Dougal.

Mr. Dougal.

David.

This is Dan Jempers.

We regret to delay Captain.

My son is ready.

Hello Mr. McGregor.

I've heard of your trouble.

Do you think this is the best way to solve your problem?

I'm afraid so.

I'm afraid so.

I'm afraid so.

I'm afraid so.

I'm afraid so.

I'm afraid so.

I'm afraid so.

I'm afraid so.

I'm afraid so.

I'm afraid so.

I'm afraid so.

I'm afraid so.

I'm afraid so.

I'm afraid so.

You think this is the best way to solve your problem?

I do.

It's the legal way.

And the others are not.

Ordinarily I don't counsel force.

But in this case.

Wouldn't be better to transfer all the people due to go home on board the Sultana and let

March stop us if he can.

I'm afraid you don't understand Captain.

Let me explain.

We were transported from the Highlands for resisting the enclosure of our lands back

in Scotland.

Now, maybe that makes us criminals in the eyes of some people.

But we believe we were in the right.

The King of England sent us out here as a punishment.

And it's the King's duty to send us home again now that we have served our sentences.

It seems a reasonable enough demand.

Aye, but if we take the law into our own hands, we may forfeit the right to return home at all.

No, no. The legal way is the only way.

And that means getting David to Port Royal so that he can make a personal appeal to the new Commissioner.

The first thing is to get David aboard my ship.

The Captain's right. There is no time to be wasted.

Watch out for Marsh. He's bound to be on the alert since that musket went off.

He'll have the beach covered by guards for sure.

I'll go on ahead.

Don't worry, Mr. McGregor. We'll get to the Sultana somehow.

Goodbye, Father.

Wait. I have a way of dealing with Mr. Marsh and his men.

I know what you intend to do, Father, but you mustn't.

Now it's the best way, boy.

You and the Captain will wait in the woods until you hear the scurrl of the pipes.

This will bring Marsh on the run.

Then while he's bothering with us, you can slip out to the boat.

I don't follow you exactly. What's Marsh got against the pipes?

Well, for centuries, Captain, the pipes have rallied the Scots together to defend the right as they saw it.

When we were sent here, they were declared to be an instrument of war and no one is permitted to have them.

Where'd you get these?

I made them with my own hands for the day when they would be needed.

That day has come.

No, Father. The penalty for having the pipes at all is death.

We'll put these away. We'll manage without them.

Bag flaps. Come on!

Father! Stop!

You shouldn't have done it. You can be hanged.

David, what are you doing here? Now they're coming and you can get away.

So you've incriminated yourself at last, McGregor.

Owning and hiding an instrument of war.

Well, the penalty for that is death. For both of you.

You won't hang us, Marsh. The Scots will see to that.

No doubt they'll try, but they'll have to find you first.

When your friends have found out where I'm taking you, it'll be too late to do anything.

Maybe bury you. All right, take him away.

Young McGregor's been caught by Marsh and his guards.

You mean we can't ship our cargo even if we want to?

That's right. But where is he? I don't know.

How can we liberate him if we don't know where he's locked up?

I've just spoke with Lady Luck, amigos.

And what did she say? She said goodbye.

What about her, Dan? Let's shove off. Yes, before those guards start snooping around here again.

Now look here, lads. I know this trip hasn't been a very profitable one for us.

But you know, these Scots have had a pretty raw deal.

First they're sentenced as criminals because they fight for their own land.

And now they're in danger of being stuck here for the rest of their lives unless somebody helps them.

Sure, Danny, but why us?

Well, maybe because we've been shoved around a little ourselves, we should understand.

If we don't, nobody will. Now, are we going to retrieve our cargo or not?

Well, come on. If we're going to get him out, we might as well get on with it.

Aye, that's right. Good, lads. Here it is.

You two, Gaff and Taffy, get back to the Sultana.

Take her out around the headland. Come back in the longboat.

Wait on the beach to see what's happening. Aye, I do, then.

Here.

Oh, but, Danito, it is better than I'm aboard the Sultana. I'm not lucky for you tonight.

I don't know. I'm going to give you a chance to change that luck you keep talking about.

Dougal, come on.

The first thing we've got to find out is where the McGregors are. Aye.

Only Marsh and his men know that.

Well, then we've got to get Marsh's men to lead us to them.

You could do that easy, Danito. Just get yourself arrested.

You know, that's a very good idea. That's exactly what I will do. I'll get myself arrested.

What? But they'll throw you in the common jail, then.

And they're far too clever to be keeping the McGregors there.

That's right.

But supposing some of the guards thought I was David McGregor and I'd escape.

They'd take me back to Marsh, wouldn't they?

Aye, I suppose so.

Then that's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to try and get myself arrested as David McGregor.

You follow me. You see where they take me.

And you skip back to the beach and you get the men. Got it?

Aye, got it. I follow.

Good.

Now, then, where would David McGregor make for if he really did escape?

Well, to his cabin, I suppose.

No, to his lass, Susheela.

Well, you show me where she lives.

Then you get me some clothes and you make me look like David McGregor. Come on.

Aye.

Oh, no.

I've got to escape.

You, come here.

Or was that you were telling the others?

I was only telling them it's time that we're going home.

Dougal, this isn't your night for lying.

I want a trip or I'll cut it out of you.

I was only telling them...

Come on.

Young David McGregor's made his escape.

You lying scum.

You think I'd lie without a knife held against me?

We'd better tell Marsh.

No, we're bringing him in ourselves.

You know where he is?

I can guess.

It's probably at his sweetheart, Sheila McClellan.

She'll try to hide him.

If you try to leave this place, you'll regret it.

Come on, bro.

Who are you?

Look, Sheila, you don't know me.

But I know you.

I'm a friend of David's.

I'm trying to help him.

Now, believe me, trust me.

Put your arms around me and call me David, quick.

You'll be the dafter of another of Marsh's mad schemers

and you'll get shot from me.

You really meant that, didn't you?

David McGregor is my true love

and no man will put a hand to me and live to tell the tale.

Now, listen.

There's a Marsh's man outside.

I'm Captain Tempest.

Now, put your arms around me and kiss me.

He'll come for you, David.

I won't let him take you.

That's him.

What have you done to him?

Bring him out to the cops.

I'm reporting the capture of a prisoner, sir.

What are you talking about?

A man posing as David McGregor.

He didn't get far.

We caught him at Sheila McClellan's place.

Oh, you did, did you?

Well, bring him in.

Let's have a look at him.

Brown, bring him in.

Well, Captain Dan Tempest, unless I'm mistaken.

However, he says he's David McGregor

and he's wearing the right tartan,

so we'd better take his word for it, hadn't we?

And since David McGregor is sentenced to hang at dawn,

I'd better hang both of them.

Then I can be sure I'm hanging the right one, can't I?

Put him in with the other one.

Captain Dan, what's happened?

Why are you wearing the tartan?

I've come to get my cargo.

Are the others with you?

Armando followed me.

He'll have gone back to fetch the crew, so all's well.

You've got plenty of time before dawn.

I'll send someone over to set up a gallows.

We'll hang the lot of them at daybreak.

All right, you stay here. I'll take a look outside.

Come on.

I wish there was some way of letting my father know that help's on the way.

Well, they're separated, as in I don't know where he is.

It didn't take us long to get here.

Where exactly are we, do you know?

Yeah, the old tart kiln.

This is the first one we built.

This was a storehouse.

Then, when all the trees were sapped, we moved on, and now it's abandoned.

I suppose that's why Marsh said the others wouldn't find us here.

That's just like Marsh.

To give us a front seat while they build the scaffold.

I must say I don't like it. It's two hours since they took me. Something's gone wrong.

Marsh's men must have caught Armando.

Well, there's one thing. It's just as well I couldn't raise my father's hopes.

I've seen that wine skin.

What about it?

Do you think it could be used for a bagpipe?

Used for a bagpipe?

Aye.

I suppose so. Why not?

Many a shepherd has made his own in that way.

But what do we use for pipes?

Aye, pipes.

Hey, Devin, get off the bed. Look, I saw some bamboo here.

Only one pipe's got to be pierced right through, hasn't it?

That's just like the chanter.

The others are the drums. They need to only be hollow.

Those are the knives.

Ah, get to work on the other sections.

There are three hours till dawn.

Three hours to get that bagpipe.

I'll use this string and I'll lasso it.

And then I'll have such a blast as I'll shake the walls of Jericho.

The scars will be in the woods by daybreak.

Daybreak it's got to be.

Right. Right.

Aye. Aye. Aye.

Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

Keep quiet, girl. Go to sleep.

David! The hanging platform's done. There's a clone east.

How do you fix these things?

Well, these go here. Look, let me do it.

That's all ready, Mr. Marsh.

All right. String the ropes up.

Yes, sir.

Morning, Mr. Marsh. All quiet. Never said a word all night.

You've reached the end of the voyage, Captain.

No voyage is ever over till the last breath of wind's out of the sails, Mr. Marsh.

That'll be soon, Captain.

Play, David. Play, boy. Play!

Keep your sexy. We'll have every Scot in Andrewsville on our necks.

Get right to it, old boy. Go on. Go on.

Get up!

Come on, David. Keep on playing. Play!

It's too late, Mr. Marsh. The Scots are all about us.

We've got muskets and ammunition. They haven't got a chance.

Get to the beach.

Come on, David. Now we can get away.

I'm not going to leave the fighting, Father.

We can hold Marsh stronger for you to get away with no longer.

Come on, David. We'll never be free again.

Gaff, get aboard quick. Get some sail on her.

Taffy, hoist the longboat.

Bob, take a course for Port Royal.

Aye, aye, sir.

We've got a cargo.

I hope your friends are going to be all right after that little set, too.

Marsh won't dare take action against so many.

They'll be all right.

And they'll soon be free.

Capitán, please.

What happened to you, mate?

It's very important, Capitán.

I see. I run. I drink.

Look, I am nonsensical for hours.

I am also very sorry.

Well, better luck next time.

Luck.

Of course. You have taken the very words right out of my mouth.

Let's go a-roving, a-roving across the ocean.

Oh, let's go a-roving and join the Buccaneer.

He's the bravest man we know.

Say his name and you'll be walking the plank, sir.

Let's go a-roving, a-roving across the ocean.

Let's go a-roving and join the Buccaneer.