20:19Do not fear it, David. I have been there when souls have passed.
20:24A great peace descends.
20:28It's a glass.
20:32But the ring is plate.
20:35It won't fetch much, but my sister should have it.
20:39It's a nasty job.
20:41I can't get it off.
20:43I can ask a cook for some grace, or I have an oil of castors.
20:49When you're sure I'm gone, find a way.
20:56And don't search on I was afraid.
21:00You have my word.
21:03There's nothing to be afraid of.
21:13He's been going on like that since the wind died.
21:28Something's got him worked up.
21:29Take your wigs off.
21:45Don't you hear that?
21:46Give me a glass.
22:13Yeah.
22:15Just don't drop it.
22:17Belongs to Lieutenant Eric.
22:18You've got a family.
22:18I can't.
22:30I don't remember.
22:34I can't.
22:37David, David, David.
23:07Wait, Mr. Blanky. Do it now.
23:18Run! Run! He wants us to run!
23:22David, calm down.
23:37Let's go.
24:07Come.
24:19Sorry to disturb you. David Young has passed.
24:24As if that weren't playing.
24:27Cover him and get some rest, Mr. Blanky.
24:29You can do the post-mortem in the morning when the men go up.
24:39Is it necessary?
24:44Sir John has a flea in his ear about scurvy.
24:48He will ask.
24:50Something transpired at the end.
24:56He was seeing something I couldn't see.
25:01Holding its gaze as if it was in the room.
25:03Do I really need to explain what is an hallucination?
25:06He had no fever. He was clear-eyed.
25:08Good night, Mr. Gunson.
25:15Good night.
25:16Look at the snow on those bergy bits
25:34That's not summer break up
25:36That's coming down from the north
25:38It's pack ice
25:39There are leads
25:42But
25:42How was the cold last night?
25:45It dropped
25:4620
25:47Is Erebus aware?
25:54No flags as yet
25:55But no doubt they woke
25:57Signured their propeller
25:58If Sir John doesn't convene a meeting of the officers by 10
26:04I'll do it myself
26:05You're about to surpass us all, son
26:09You're going somewhere no man has ever been
26:11Not even a native
26:12If it is ice wedge behind the propeller
26:15Then you can pry it out
26:16Well
26:17You can grab the ring twice in one morning
26:20Right
26:20Observe my signals
26:35One pull on the tube means half a phantom slack
26:38Two means the tube is kinked
26:40Likely on the gunnel
26:41Three
26:41Pull me up
26:42If water floods the suit
26:48It'll be exponentially harder to lift me
26:50And exponentially more urgent
26:51So all of you be ready on the line
26:53There should be a surgeon here
26:58They're just below, Mr. Collins
27:00Proceed
27:01You're a pilgrim to the deeps
27:10And remember
27:12God lies in all realms
27:14And remember
27:21God lies in all realms
27:26What shall I say provided
27:28From Leni
27:34To Leni
27:35From Leni
27:36Half a long
27:50To Leni
27:50I don't know.
28:20I don't know.
28:50I don't know.
29:20I don't know.
29:50I don't know.
30:20I don't know.
30:50I don't know.
31:20The propeller's bent.
31:22One of the blades.
31:24I pride some ice from behind.
31:27I think she'll spin now, sir.
31:29Is there anything else to report?
31:30No, sir.
31:35Capital job, Mr. Collins.
31:37Graham, let the engineers know, and Signal Terror, have Captain Crozier bring his lieutenants over.
31:43Sir.
31:44We need to confer about the ice that we need to confer about the ice that we need to confer about the ice that's in front of us now.
31:50I envy you, Mr. Collins.
31:53I have long wanted to move below.
31:56What was it like?
31:57What was it like?
31:58Like a dream, sir.
32:03News is in about Erebus.
32:10While she can still make headway under Steen, the flagship's efficiency has been compromised.
32:16How badly compromised.
32:17How badly compromised?
32:18She can still pull two knots, maybe three, with the boiler full up.
32:23Half power, more or less.
32:24Yeah.
32:24As well, we know that the ice ahead is increasing dramatically, both in thickness and amount.
32:31But we must be nearly in sight of King William there.
32:34Then it isn't but another 200 miles before we can pick up the western charts and draw in this final piece of the puzzle once and for all.
32:43Hear, hear.
32:44Our situation is more dire than you may understand.
32:48Tomatic opening shot.
32:50Please.
32:51Go ahead, Francis.
32:52That is not just ice ahead.
32:56It is the pack, and you are proposing that we cross it in September.
33:01Even with Leeds, it could take us weeks of picking our way through it.
33:06We may not have weeks.
33:08But weeks at most.
33:10You've seen the sun dogs, Graham.
33:12How many have there been now?
33:15Three.
33:16It's already a colder year than last.
33:18I've been to the Arctic, Francis.
33:20On foot.
33:22And you're nearly starved.
33:23Not all of your men returned.
33:25I say this with all due honour.
33:26For God's sake, Francis.
33:28A captain is due his candour.
33:31So what would you propose instead?
33:33Wait out winter here?
33:35No.
33:36The exact shape of King William land is unknown.
33:39As we discovered with Cornwallis land, it could be King William Island, with a chance to sail around its eastern shore.
33:46Yes, but Eastwood admires.
33:47We might not be out this year after all.
33:49But only because Erebus is lame.
33:52If we consolidate all our coal on the less damaged ship, we'd have enough to go for broke and get east of King William land, possibly around it, before winter.
34:01It's our best and probably only chance.
34:05Yes.
34:06We should go for broke.
34:08Abandon Erebus.
34:09Is that what you're saying?
34:10If it is a dead end, we can overwinter in complete safety out of the pack in some sheltered harbour.
34:18We retrace our steps come spring, tired of one another, no doubt, but alive.
34:30That is an interesting speculation.
34:35But of course, we will not be abandoning Erebus, nor Terror, should she suffer some minor misfortunes.
34:45We are almost there.
34:47Hear me, John.
34:48It won't matter if we're 200 or 2,000 miles from safe water.
34:53If the leads close up and we are out there in it, we will have no idea where the current will move the pack of which we will be apart.
35:02We could be forced onto the shallows on the weather side of King William and crushed to atoms, if we're even upright by then.
35:10As a trusted friend once put it, this place wants us dead.
35:17Who is this friend?
35:20Does he also write melodrama?
35:22Sir John, myself, Mr. Blankey, and Mr. Reed.
35:29Only four of us at this table are Arctic veterans.
35:33There'll be no melodramas here.
35:37Just live men or dead men.
35:40Certainly good to see color in your cheeks again, Francis.
35:49But we are two weeks from finding the grail.
35:53And it is my belief that God and winter will find us in safe waters by the end of the year.
36:00The Sandwich Islands.
36:02Or even further.
36:03If you're wrong, we are about to commit an act of hubris.
36:07We may not survive.
36:10You know what men are like when they are desperate.
36:15We both do.
36:16I shall continue to command from Erebus, but due to her injuries, I'm putting Terror in lead position.
36:29She may not be the better icebreaker, but she is the more powerful ship now.
36:35Bury your boy, young, and we'll be on our way west around King Williamland as planned.
36:42Bury.
36:42Bury.
36:43Yes.
36:44A mercy.
36:46It was a long night.
36:50Long ago in Westminster, there lived a rat catcher's daughter.
36:57All this one could have just dropped him overboard and been done with it.
37:01Say John's a spiritual man.
37:04I'd say an impractical man.
37:06Careful there.
37:07What, is that some kind of trees inside?
37:12Should have run more nails through that lid.
37:22Pull up the ropes and fill it in, Mr. Hickey.
37:25Me?
37:26Mr. Hornby tells me you have the most duty, Owen.
37:28Didn't tell me why.
37:31Grousing, probably.
37:36I was just going to leave it like that.
37:38Unless you want to climb in there and fix it.
37:40Yes, we are.
37:41Up to it, Mr. Hickey.
37:42Mr. Hickey.
38:10It's not important.
38:17It's not important.
38:17It's not important.
38:44So I didn't tell, as I said, it's not important.
38:59Well, it would be to this boy's father, wouldn't it?
39:02Hmm?
39:06Help him, mate, up.
39:08And Jesus said unto Thomas,
39:10Yes, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed.
39:14But blessed are they that have not yet seen, but still believe.
39:24And just as David Young is at the gates, so too are we.
39:31And now is our moment to stride through them to our glory and to our destiny.
39:36I have set a course south, southwest.
39:42We will see the North American mainland within a fortnight, gentlemen.
39:46We must now begin our last and best efforts to reach her
39:50as we become the greatest argonauts of our age.
39:55We shall earn our loved ones' tears and embraces at our return.
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