All language subtitles for Route66 - S01E02 (A Lance of Straw)

(upbeat music)

- I'm glad I don't have any old

college buddies
with a shrimp boat.

Biloxi, you said.

Didn't you say Biloxi?

- Okay, okay, so I said Biloxi.

When you fish for shrimp,
you go where the shrimp go.

- You know, that sounds like

a motto a man can
really live by.

(man grunting)

(dramatic music)

(man grunting)

- The next run with him,
it will not go so easy.

- [Andre] Jean!

(dramatic music)

(Jean laughing)

- What if he cannot swim, eh?

- All dogs can swim, no?

(laughing)

(speaking in foreign language)

- Do something,
my net is sinking.

- Well it's good,
it's an old one.

It's like this old
barnacle bottom,

this tub of ice,
the Biloxi Queen.

- Don't talk to me.

I don't talk to you, you
don't talk to me, okay?

- You all know Charlotte
Duval is my woman.

And she know it too, huh.

- Oh sure.

- I'm gonna tell you what Jean,

you don't slap
Charlotte today yes.

We have trouble on Grand Isle.

More trouble than be in
that little pale of fish.

I say Jean.

Now we go get a cup of
good cajun cafe huh.

We forget our troubles.

(upbeat music)

- Went to Caracas in
that, the Biloxi Queen?

- That's what he said
Tampico and Panama.

- You know your
dad's barges Tod?

We've swabbed bigger than this.

Picnic weather, Brooklyn
Heights, in our wake.

- Yeah at least this
one's still afloat.

Mark.

Mark, we made it.

- Looks like it's
Mark who made it.

- Well he never was
much of a mechanic.

Maybe he needed her to
get the engine in shape.

We're looking for Mark Chalmers.

- He's gone a long time now.

- Now there's a man who
really follows his shrimp.

- Gone, why?

- It's bad fishing,
the worst I remember.

No shrimp, no clams, even
the browns have left.

So your friend he go to.

And I buy Biloxi Queen,
I am the captain now.

- You?

- Why not me?

I know what he thinks,
just a woman huh?

Just a clown in
makeup, a masquerade,

a something to
dance on the string

at the command of
any passing man.

What does she know
about the sea?

Well I'm telling
you, my grandpere,

that was a piece
of man that was,

a man to cross oceans
and laugh at the wind

while the other men
shook in their boots.

My grandpere taught my father,
and my father he taught me.

Can you yankee boys
learn any gale, huh?

Use a knife like a heathen
in hot country ports?

Your kind I know, turns
himself inside out

the minute he is in deep water.

Over the gun hole from
himself he feed the fish.

You, what do you
know about boats?

- Me, I launched my first
ship when I was five.

49th and eight, after
a heavy rain storm.

That ship sailed
one block before

that sardine can sank
with all hands aboard.

- Get off, get off.

Off my boat, off my boat.

You too off, off.

Imbecile.

(dramatic music)

- No wonder the shrimp
left Grand Isle,

she scared them away.

- Let me see.

- Oh its nothing, the skipper
had us figured for a mackerel.

Well what do we do now?

- First we better get
something on that.

- You gonna be alright, no scar.

- Well thanks,
what do we owe you?

- You keep, we need
our shrimp come home.

- We heard things were bad.

- [Doc] Very bad.

- Wait, better not
take that away.

- Charlotte, she
one woman that one.

- It's bad?

- May never play at
the philharmonic again.

- Don't let him get you, he
can't even play a jukebox.

- You too are good friends, yes?

- We just sort of happened to be

traveling in the same direction.

- You know anything
about the shrimp boat?

- Well we heard the song.

♪ Shrimp boats are coming

- Listen, you want to
crew the Biloxi Queen?

- Well we drove
down from New York

with something
like that in mind.

- Yes, is deal, yes,
okay, for you okay.

(speaking in foreign language)

Okay now you buy the
grocery enough for ten day.

We need 16 tons,
$7.60 a ton, $121.60.

I give you $60 okay.

Hey is the way, the
crew he pay half,

the captain he pay
the other half.

What have we got in the kitty?

- Not less than six
or more than seven,

and that's not counting lunch.

- He means dollars,
six or seven dollars.

- Look, this may sound
a little crazy but

us the crew, what do we make?

- I divide the catch,
one third for the captain

and one third for
each of the crew.

- What do they pay for shrimp?

- $85 a barrel.

- And how many
barrels can we take?

- 20, 30, who knows,
sometimes papa

come in from the
outside with 50 barrel.

- 20 barrels at $85
a barrel is $1700.

- Yes.

- That's almost $600 a piece.

- Sure.

- For ten days work?

- You're forgetting the
shrimp it went two month.

- No shrimp hide from
a Duval, I find him.

- You still own your own boat?

- Why sure?

- Then why aren't you
out with the others?

The man said everybody
else left this morning.

- I tell you what, I get credit

for the grocery and ice okay.

Where you stay in Grand Isle?

- We just got here.

- Go find Andre Cabateau,
everybody know him.

You say Charlotte tell
him to give you a house.

You pay him later okay?

Alright now I go
back to the boat,

fix a little thing
here and there,

and you come when you are
ready, I wait for you.

Marvelous.

- You know I didn't
know your friend Mark,

but I have the feeling that
I wouldn't have felt the same

about him as I do
about his replacement.

- You know she didn't
answer the question.

- What question?

- Why she didn't go
out with the others.

- She was waiting for us.

(suspenseful music)

- Mr. Cabateau

- Yeah.

- Charlotte said to look you
up we need a place to stay.

Well, any kind of a
place will be all right,

we're shoving off
in a day or so.

- On the Biloxi Queen.

- I'm saying man must
be six six in his boot,

he think to go outside the
Biloxi Queen with that woman.

- We didn't see any
quarantine signs.

- I think you gonna try boy.

Well, maybe, who knows.

- Try, why?

- To stand six six in your boot.

- This Charlotte, she
married or something?

I mean, she got a jealous
husband is that it?

- Charlotte, that one married?

(chuckling sardonically)

I tell her, I say Charlotte
you listen to Andre.

Many a good storm I been
through with your papa.

Now, he and your mama is gone.

Now is time for you to marry.

A good woman ought
to get married.

Ought to make 12 kids.

My mama get 12.

But that one, she look
me straight in the eye

and she say, Andre, how many
kids did Joan of Arc get?

I tell you, that
Charlotte she crazy,

but anybody touch her, I
open him up, like catfish.

- Mr. Cabateau right now,

we're not looking for
girls, just for work.

- Hey, you as crazy as she.

Well, okay, we all
working men on Grand Isle.

There is a house, number nine,

it's second row, back
of the wharf, she yours.

- We're a little
short right now.

- No, no pay.

- Oh, well, I didn't mean--

- No, tomorrow, maybe sooner,

you gonna leave
Grand Isle, I think.

Until then, number
nine, she's yours.

(suspenseful music)

- What is it?

- The birds, man of war birds,
he fly west toward mainland.

It's a bad thing.

(suspenseful music)

- You know, I had a
landlord like that once.

All you had to do is
mention man of war

and he'd be off to the bookies.

Maybe they're taking
book on the birds here.

(both laughing)

(metallic grinding)

(suspenseful music)

- Aren't they back too soon?

Just one day?

- When papa was a boy
there was a year like this.

(suspenseful music)

- [Radio] All military
aircraft have been alerted

for take off and
transfer inland.

If the squall
continues to build,

this first hurricane of the
season is to be called Audrey,

but at last report, wind
velocity was still only 67 miles

an hour over Havana with
the storm center moving

approximately 10 miles an hour
in a northwesterly direction.

Barometric pressure remains
above 30, sky and rainfall--

- Take the wheel now, will you

and drop me up onto the pier.

(suspenseful music)

The ship, she don't come.

So why waste your muscle?

- The man of war fly.

The bird she know,
there will be hurricane.

- Is nothing, I
hear on the radio

it's a squall still in Cuba,
could turn south or east.

- Or west.

- Andre, I do not come
here to talk weather.

What is the head of a man Andre?

He's a machine no?

The eyes they see,
the ears they hear,

they pick a problem and she go
round and round in the brain.

I see and I hear, my
friends they are troubled.

Do you know the bank said to him

if he don't pay by next week
they come take the boat.

La Port they come to
take the boat already.

Also Benoit, also Gedree.

- Well, the bank he
tried to understand.

The bank has given me
money on the factory,

on the houses, right now,
the bank can give no more

and I have give our
friends all I have.

- Andre, I want
you to go to bank

and ask them to give
money against my boat,

because my boat
is free and clear.

It's mine, it's all mine.

I work hard and got
smile, so I take the money

and give to La Rue, La
Port, Benoit and Gedree.

- And Duval?

- Charlotte.

- The bank take her boat
too if she no can pay.

Oh Jean, you a good man,

but I think you keep
one eye covered.

You keep covered too
long, you go blind.

- She's a woman.

(Andre speaking in
foreign language)

And she know how I feel.

- Let me tell you
something Jean.

I understand woman,
she is not like a fish.

You do not catch her
with a net or a hook.

No, a woman she don't
like to love all fists

and muscle in her
man, she like to see

the little boy underneath
the man's skin.

She like to have
something to protect.

- I am not boy, I'm a man.

- Ah, okay, then I
go talk to the bank,

I have them give you the money,

you give them
paper for the boat,

then you help your friends
La Port and all the others,

but not Duval

Jean, you put up one damn
good fight yesterday.

You ready for more?

- Did the beau come back?

- Nah, these not like
that dog yesterday.

These two boys from the north,

I give them house number nine.

They planning to help Charlotte
take Biloxi Queen outside.

(dramatic music)

(upbeat music)

- It's like we were a couple
Pied Pipers or something,

the way they hung around
the dock and watched us.

Look at 'em, they
just won't leave.

That makes you feel kinda good.

- Look like a pack
of buzzards to me,

just hanging around,
waiting for something.

- They sure picked a
couple of live ones

when they picked us.

Do you think we oughta
offer 'em something?

- Yeah.

- Yeah?

- Yeah, why don't you give
'em a 10 dollar bill each.

(upbeat music)

- We're going out on the
Biloxi Queen in the morning.

When we get back, how'd you
like to take a spin in that?

- We go now yes?

- Well, it's been
kind of a long day.

We're shoving off pretty
early in the morning.

It'll keep okay.

- Then we'll never get to go.

Jean, he comes soon
and throw you in bayou.

- Oh, why should
Jean want to do that.

- He throw everybody
in the water,

everybody who try to
work for Charlotte Duval.

- Well, uh, doesn't anybody
ever throw Jean in the water?

- Nobody can do that.

- [Jean] Hey you!

- Thanks for the flash kid.

- I never like to hit a
man until I know first.

- Know whether he's
gonna hit you back?

- Is it true you sign
on the Biloxi Queen?

- Whoa, whoa, wait a
minute, let me talk to him.

- Ask him if we should change
into our bathing suits,

we don't like to go swimming
in our good clothes.

- Oh and if it is true,
you leave now, you go, yes?

- Look, fella, who
elected you mayor?

- Why this.

- Let's impeach the mayor.

- We made a deal with a
lady, where do you fit in?

- Well, no men work for her.

- Why?

- Because I say so.

- He said so.

- Tell him to think
of a better reason.

- Listen you, if you
wanna talk to Jean,

you talk to Jean,
not to this one, huh?

- Tell him I don't talk to Jean.

Tell him I said goodnight.

(punches landing)
(Jean shouting)

(dramatic music)

Sometimes I ask myself
who it hurts more,

the guy with the jaw or
the guy with the knuckle.

(groaning)

- Hey, hey, still
wanna take that ride?

(slow jazz music)

(knocking)

- A lucky punch.

- You remember Jean, I tell you

a woman like to see a
weakness in her man?

Well, now there is a
weakness, your jaw.

(chuckling)

- I have a jaw
like a hammerhead.

But I'm telling you Andre,
it was a lucky punch.

That's all, one lucky punch.

- I have heard it said
you pass on the word

that nobody should tell
Charlotte what happened.

Now, Jean, this is
the time for her

to see the little boy in you.

You let it be told her
what happened to you,

and she will love you.

- Love me, she will throw
fish again in my face.

(Andre scoffing)

Anyway, I do not want a mother.

I want a woman and I do not
want my woman to be a captain.

- And Charlotte believes that
she was born to be a captain

like her papa and his papa.

Oh, you know Jean,
sometimes I think

you two will never get together.

- (Chuckling) By next week.

When the bank, she come
to take back her boat,

then she come to me, on
her knees she come, no?

- Well, now I don't know
Jean, she is a Duval.

If she go out in the morning,

she make all you
fellas look like fools.

She is a witch with the shrimp.

- Andre, the shrimp
is not to be found.

Not within a month's time.

And she will not
go in the morning.

- Oh?

- Oh, they humbled me once,

but they will not
take Charlotte Duval

to sea with them
tomorrow, this I promise!

(dramatic music)

(quiet knocking)

- Charlotte, Charlotte.

- Andre?

- Ah, Charlotte, how many
times I tell you girl,

to try to be like
the others, huh?

- Andre, don't.

- Oh, well, don't tell me.

All right, I give
up asking, okay,

you gotta be captain,
then you gotta be.

I say no more.

Maybe I say too much already.

Now, who knows, maybe
you can find the shrimp.

We need them, but I
don't know Charlotte

if even your papa
would go outside now,

not when the man of
war, he fly to the west.

- Andre, you know papa would go.

- Yes, I know, but I
say to you Charlotte,

if you go to try for the shrimp,

you better get those two fella

and go now, right
away, right now.

Not in the morning, but now.

You do not have
more than one day

outside, maybe even less.

So it take as long to
get back from there

as it take to go out.

You do not go out to far ay?

- Andre don't worry.

(dramatic music)

Hey, wake up, wake up.

We must go to the dock,
fast as you can, get up.

Idiot.

- Tod, he gets eight hours,

me I get what I can, when I can.

- Listen, wake him up please.

Come to the dock as fast
as you can, we must go.

- Hey, go where?

- To find the shrimp.

(dramatic music)

(birds calling)

(suspenseful music)

- We are leaving.

Someday, someday you
know how it feels.

(suspenseful music)

(upbeat music)

- You, you can
hold a course, yes?

- Bearing two 55?

- Okay, hold it.

- Where's the radio?

- Who needs?

- No navigation aids,
no piezometer, no radar?

- I choose god, not radar.

- No maps or navigational
charts either.

- In here, every
rift, every bayou,

every island, every
shore all right in here

and all the dips
between yes huh?

- And recipes?

- Recipes?

- Yeah, when do you
start cooking dinner?

- Me?

I am captain, not cook.

(upbeat music)

- What island did
she say this was?

- I don't know she's
not even speaking to me.

(dramatic music)

(bells tolling)

- Quick, now there
is little time,

I hear the bell
off Father Duboix.

You don't hear it?

That bell rings only
when there is danger.

- Who rings it?

- We say the finger
of god tapped the bell

to warn the men at see.

(speaking in foreign language)

(dramatic music)

Think I'm like a loon, huh?

When I go ashore, I
look across the water

to the mainland,
there is a delta,

but only here is the way you
find the way the eddy go.

You understand?

Like the year she
goes under the water,

this way and that, she
makes a natural churning,

a trail to the west, that
way is where you find

the schooling of the shrimp.

You take huh?

Ah, is so easy you know,

but how can I be romantic
when Jean is such a

(speaking in foreign language)

So I must prove to
them, it's the only way.

Papa, he tell me where
I find the shrimp.

I see him there on that island,

beyond the clouds,
pass the sunset.

- How come he's way out here,

why not back at Grand Isle?

- He's not here either,

but this place, I
feel close to him.

This is where he died.

When I am 13, he
bring me here once

to meet Father Duboix, oh what
a man that Father Duboix was.

He built that church
with his own hands,

so the fisherman, they
don't have to leave the sea

to go to mass, huh and
my father say to me once,

listen Charlotte, so I listen,

and I hear that bell and
I see the fleet come,

over the water like
angels they come,

with their nets
sprayed out like wings.

That is when I am
13, but when I am 19,

there is a big wind from the
south, a hurricane, you know?

All the fishermen
they run their boats

far up the bayou, far
inland, but not papa.

He come to sea, come to
carry Father Duboix home,

but papa, Father Dubouix,
we never find them.

This place is like
this after that storm.

Only the wind, the
waves and I come back.

- Anybody game for my
turtle sauce picante?

- It's the only
thing he can make.

- Wouldn't bet on that.

- Whatever you make I like.

(dramatic music)

(suspenseful music)

- Jean!

Jean I don't see how
we can go much further.

We're headed straight into it.

- I'm still the captain, yes?

(suspenseful music)

- I'll take over
now, you go eat.

Go on, we can handle it.

- Okay.

(whistling contentedly)

- Creole jambalaya, it's
got everything in it,

but the shrimp.

- We'll have him by dawn.

- Or he'll have us.

- You do this?

- Well, I'll tell you.

I signed on this hail
boat with this captain

who was some kind of a nut.

(giggling)

You know, someday you're gonna

have to do something about that.

- About what?

- The fact that
you're not a man,

no matter how much
you might wanna be.

- I would rather be a barracuda
than a man like most men.

You are good at cooking.

- But not minding
my own business.

- That's right. (giggling)

- Like the library
in the bunkhouse.

- What is wrong to read?

- Oh no, some of
our best people do,

but not all on the same subject.

The rights of women,
biographies on Joan of Arc,

Queen Bess, Florence
Nightingale,

Susan B. Anthony,
this is not a war.

- Scrub woman, scrub,
bear the child,

wait for me to come home,
don't tell me there's no war.

Even mama was such
a good one as papa.

What does she do all
her life, she wait.

You know, she could
not see her hand

this close in front of her face,

but she could see a
gull in the sun, why?

Because for 20 years
her eyes are glued

on the horizon
watching for papa.

When she know papa is lost
and she never see him again,

she sit in her
house and she rock

and she stay in that
house and she die.

Not Charlotte Duval, never.

I will share the
sea with my husband.

No weeping at home for me,

the waves will rock me to sleep,

not a chair with a squeak.

- I don't believe you, that's
not what you really want.

That's only what
you think you want.

No woman can be independent,
not, not really.

You just can't be.

The only way a woman
can win the battle

you're fighting Charlotte,
is to let herself lose it.

- First I die.

(dramatic music)

(wind howling)

- Try 'em on 2738.

- This is the Grand Isle
Coast Guard Marine Operator

calling troller Conquistador,
come in Conquistador.

- Andre, what is
Jean's output power?

- Uh, he have battery 12
volt, that give him 41.

- Well, that's good for
over a hundred miles.

He should be able to call in.

- Unless he go out more
than hundred miles, yes.

- With Audrey heading this way?

- If you love one
girl, Lieutenant,

named Charlotte, what is
another girl named Audrey,

even if she is hurricane?

- This is the Grand Isle
Coast Guard Marine Operator

calling troller Conquistador,
come in Conquistador.

(wind howling)

- The antenna's off, she is
broke clean off from the wind.

(bells tolling)

- The bell!

The bell of Father Duboix.

(dramatic music)

- Here, we try, yes?

- Looks the same to me.

- No, no, from here you
can see the tide line.

The little fish, they are
like birds, they migrate.

Only they do not have a nest,
they have a coastal shelf.

You remember all
I teach you, huh?

- First we use the
try troll right?

- Right and we keep the
fingers crossed huh.

I take over.

- Skipper says
this is the place.

- I looked outside, all
I saw was red, red sky

and you know what they say.

- I'll bite, what do they say?

- It's the calm
before the storm jazz,

you know, red sky in the
morning, sailor take warning.

- Shakespeare?

- Red sky in the
morning, oh yeah.

I was reading
Taming of the Shrew.

I thought there might
be a couple of hints

on how to handle the skipper.

- Were there?

- And now I see her
lances are but straw,

her strength as weak, her
weaknesses past compare.

- Come on, come on.

(dramatic music)

- How long do we do this?

- 10 minutes she said,
to see if it's worth

using a double troll.

- How long do we do them?

- Two hours at least.

- I hope her sense
of timing is good.

That mess out there, it's
not as far off as it looks.

(suspenseful music)

- Bring it in.

(suspenseful music)

Charlotte!

(dramatic music)

- Oh, look at them.

It's the big one we
call lobster shrimp,

he brings the most
money at the dock.

Hey, (speaking in
foreign language)

why you try to hide
from Charlotte huh?

Thank you papa,
Charlotte she thank you.

All of Grand Isle thank
you, they say you are still

the best man on the fleet.

(giggling)

- They might even say
that about you skipper.

- You know what we
do with these shrimp?

We take him in the left hand,

the right hand, she
break off the neck

and peel him half
way down to the tail.

The left hand she
break off the tail,

the right hand she throw
the meat in the basket so.

Okay, now we take
out the twin nets

and we drag all along
the bottom here.

We bring in many barrel,
but the storm is nearing,

so we only have two hour

and then we must
run for Grand Isle,

but don't worry, papa show
me how to cross many times.

- Except, once, just
once, he didn't.

(suspenseful music)

- I guess you had
to say that huh?

- Yeah, I had to.

(dramatic music)

(thunder crashing)

(wind howling)

(thunder crashing)

(wind howling)

- Let me take it.

- I'm all right, go help Buz.

(waves crashing)

- [Tod] Okay down there?

- Okay!

(storm roaring)

(waves crashing)

- There's a light off
the starboard bow.

- [Jean] Help!

Help!

(thunder crashing)

- Tell her to slow down.

- Just off the starboard,
20 or 30 yards.

- Okay.

(thunder crashing)

(waves crashing)

(thunder crashing)

(storm roaring)

(waves crashing)

(storm roaring)

- Henri, Poussin, they're
still in the water!

(suspenseful music)

(dramatic music)

- Oh, goodbye Audrey.

- Like always, she
come from the east,

she finish by the west.

- Chin off the floor Andre,

those shrimp
trollers are rugged.

- [Radio] Navy
NC4232 to Grand Isle

Coast Guard Marine Operator.

Shrimp troller bearing one
eight one from Weeks Island

on a heading due
north for Grand Isle.

(sentimental music)

- How does it feel?

You bought the whole enchilada,

you found the shrimp, you
proved you were a better man

than the best they had to offer.

Today is kingdom come day.

- You are the most cruel
man in the whole world.

- Oh, no, skipper,
I'm just the guy

you let your hair down with.

I'm the guy you finally
were a woman with.

I've never even held your hand.

- Hold ours.

- You're almost home skipper.

(dramatic music)

(upbeat music)

(crowd shouting)

(speaking in foreign language)

(crowd exclaiming)

- How many barrels
would you say that is?

(Andre speaking in
foreign language)

(exclaiming)

(speaking in foreign language)

(crowd applauding)

(dramatic music)

- A Duval, a true Duval.

- Did you send Jean after me?

- Oh, not in many years
have I seen such shrimp.

You sure you can
find the bed again?

- Did you send Jean after me?

- No one send Jean Poussin
where he does not choose to go.

- Because of me he
lost the Conquistador.

- Oh, he will try
again, he is young.

When I am his age, I am
losing six ships already.

He will try again.

- All right, now we have the
shrimp, we have enough money,

the bank she cannot
take my boat from me,

I want you to right a paper
that gives my boat to Jean.

Then when he earns enough money,

I take my boat back
and I go to sea again.

(sentimental music)

- Andre, you're
right, I'm a pig.

I'm a (speaking in
foreign language)

I choke with my pride,
but all the time,

it's not the pride,
it's the heart.

It's a heart so full with
love for you Charlotte

that it stopped me from
saying what I say right now.

I cannot take your
boat, I cannot take you.

I was not good
enough man for you.

I didn't even go to
the storm to save you,

I just went because I
wanted to drag you back.

That's how I started,
but instead I...

(dramatic music)

- Oh Jean.

- Can a boat not
have to captains?

A boat can have two captains.

(sentimental music)

- At least we're rich, almost.

Say, aren't you the
fella that once said,

speaking about girls,
they're all nice kids.

- Yeah, I'm the
fella, that's me.

Look.

- [Tod] Books?

- House cleaning day
on the Biloxi Queen.

Goodbye to Queen Bess

and Florence Nightingale,
Susan B. Anthony.

- And Charlotte Duval?

- And Charlotte Duval.

(dramatic music)

(upbeat music)

- [Announcer] This
has been a Screen Gems

Film Presentation from
Columbia Pictures.

Herbert B. Leonard,
Executive Producer.