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00:08:24Good afternoon.
00:08:26Like your rabbit.
00:08:28Those are hairs.
00:08:29Silly old rabbits.
00:08:31Lovely 하�iress.
00:08:33Can I help you?
00:08:35Mrs. Morrison, Mrs. May Morrison.
00:08:37Yes?
00:08:38Sergeant Howie, West Highland Police.
00:08:40Oh, my.
00:08:42Did you come over in that aeroplane that I saw flying round?
00:08:45Aye, that's right.
00:08:46Why, just to see me?
00:08:48Well, no, no, not exactly.
00:08:50Um, making inquiries about your daughter, we understand that she's missing.
00:08:56Missing? My daughter?
00:08:59Ah, you do have a daughter.
00:09:01Yes.
00:09:02And that's her?
00:09:04Oh, never.
00:09:08I tell you, no.
00:09:13I think you'd better come with me.
00:09:17This is her, Myrtle.
00:09:19She was nine last birthday.
00:09:21She's not a bit late, the girl in your photograph.
00:09:24Well, she must be at least 13 or 14, surely.
00:09:27Myrtle, say hello.
00:09:29This is Sergeant...
00:09:31Oh.
00:09:31Howie.
00:09:33Hello, Myrtle.
00:09:34How do you do?
00:09:36Look, Mummy, I'm drawing her hair.
00:09:37Oh.
00:09:41Excuse me, Sergeant.
00:09:54Uh-oh.
00:09:58Here you are.
00:09:59You could fill the ears in grey.
00:10:01Oh, sorry.
00:10:04Thank you, Myrtle.
00:10:11Myrtle, do you, um...
00:10:14Do you know Rowan?
00:10:15Of course I do.
00:10:19You do?
00:10:20Of course I do, silly.
00:10:26Uh, do you know where she is now?
00:10:28In the fields.
00:10:29She runs and plays there all day.
00:10:31Is she?
00:10:32Do you think she'll be coming back for tea?
00:10:34Tea?
00:10:35Hears don't have tea, silly.
00:10:39Hears?
00:10:41She's a hair.
00:10:42Rowan's a hair.
00:10:44She has a lovely time.
00:10:47Well, tell me...
00:10:48Well, now, Sergeant,
00:10:49you will stay and have a cup of tea, won't you?
00:10:52Oh, yes, yes, please.
00:10:54Good.
00:10:54Very kind of you.
00:10:55Not at all.
00:10:56It must be thirsty work asking all those questions, eh?
00:10:59Aye, aye.
00:11:03Good morning, sir.
00:11:16Hello.
00:11:17Evening.
00:11:18Good morning.
00:11:19Hello.
00:11:19Good morning.
00:11:20Good morning.
00:11:22Hello again.
00:11:24Are you the one-lone here?
00:11:25Aye, I'm Alder McGregor.
00:11:28And you must be the policeman from the mainland.
00:11:30Aye, that's right.
00:11:31Sergeant Howie, West Highland Constabulary.
00:11:34Now, I'm quite obviously not going to get back to the mainland tonight.
00:11:36So I wondered if you had a room and a bite of supper I could have.
00:11:39I mean, could you manage that?
00:11:40Aye, I think that can be arranged.
00:11:42My daughter Willow will show you to your room.
00:11:45Willow?
00:11:46Father?
00:11:49This is Sergeant Howie,
00:11:51a policeman from the mainland
00:11:52who will be spending the night with us.
00:11:55This is my daughter Willow.
00:11:57Good evening.
00:11:59Show the sergeant to his little.
00:12:01Willow, willow, willow, willow.
00:12:02Much has been said of the trumpets of yore
00:12:06Of when she sent baldy house queens by the score
00:12:09But I sing of the baggage that we all adore
00:12:13The landlord's daughter
00:12:17You'll never love another
00:12:20Although she's not the kind of girl
00:12:25To take home to your mother
00:12:32Her ailet is lively and strong to the taste
00:12:36It is brewed with discretion, never with haste
00:12:40You can have all you like if you swear not to waste
00:12:44The landlord's daughter
00:12:47And when her name is mentioned
00:12:51The parts of every gentleman do stand up at attention
00:13:02Oh, nothing can delight so
00:13:06As does the part that lies between
00:13:10Her left toe
00:13:12And her right toe
00:13:32I'd like my supper now, please
00:13:34It won't be long, sergeant
00:13:36Huck, you don't want to let them worry you
00:13:39Why don't you have a wee drink?
00:13:42No, thank you. Not just now
00:13:43I think you all ought to know
00:13:54That I am here on official business
00:13:58I am here to investigate the disappearance
00:14:01Of a young girl
00:14:04As doubtless the harbour master has already told you by now
00:14:07There's the girl
00:14:09Her name is Rowan Morrison
00:14:11Would you pass that among your customers, please?
00:14:14Now, if any of you can give me any idea as to her whereabouts
00:14:18I'd be most grateful if you'd let me know
00:14:19That's a real look at the photograph
00:14:21I ain't see it
00:14:24No, how about you?
00:14:26Have you tried the main line?
00:14:27No, I have not seen it
00:14:28No, you might have better luck with this
00:14:30I have not seen it at all
00:14:33No, I'm afraid nobody's seen her, sergeant
00:14:44Thank you
00:14:45These harbour's festival photographs
00:14:47Aye, we have one taken at the end of every summer
00:14:50I haven't had last years
00:14:51It got thrown
00:14:54Your supper's ready, sergeant
00:14:56Willow, show the sergeant to the dining room
00:15:00Thank you
00:15:05That was disgusting
00:15:10What's the matter?
00:15:11Aren't you hungry?
00:15:12It's just that most of the food I've had
00:15:14The farmhouse soup
00:15:15The potatoes
00:15:16Broad beans
00:15:17All come out of a can
00:15:19Broad beans in their natural state
00:15:21Aren't usually turquoise, are they?
00:15:24Some things in their natural state
00:15:26Have the most vivid colours
00:15:32I just wanted to know why, that's all
00:15:34Now, I wonder what you'd be wanting for Astus
00:15:36Oh, I'll have an apple
00:15:38No apples
00:15:41No apples?
00:15:43On an island famous for its fruit and vegetables
00:15:45I expect they've all been exported
00:15:48You can have the peaches and cream if you like
00:15:50Aye, it's from a can, I suppose
00:15:54All right
00:15:57Cheer up
00:15:58Food isn't everything in life, you know
00:16:02Fun
00:16:03Asp
00:16:04Closed
00:16:04Aye
00:16:19Aye
00:16:21Aye
00:16:21Aye
00:16:23Aye
00:16:24Aye
00:17:31Well, you'll find it at the top of the stair on your rights.
00:17:48And that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread and said,
00:17:54Take, eat, this is my body, which is broken for you.
00:18:04This do in remembrance of me.
00:18:08And after the same manner, he also took the cup when he had eaten, saying,
00:18:14This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
00:18:16Lord, this do you as oft as you drink it in remembrance of me.
00:18:22For as often as you eat this bread and drink this wine,
00:18:27you do show the Lord's death till he comes again.
00:18:36Sergeant.
00:22:59Wake up, Sergeant Sleuth.
00:23:05What time is it?
00:23:07It's past nine.
00:23:12I thought you were gonna come and see me last night.
00:23:17I invited you.
00:23:20I'm engaged to be married.
00:23:22Does that stop you?
00:23:28Aye, aye.
00:23:29I must say, you are a gallant fellow, Sergeant.
00:23:33It's nothing personal.
00:23:36Just that I don't believe in it.
00:23:39Before marriage.
00:23:41Suit yourself.
00:23:43I expect you'll be going back today.
00:23:46You wouldn't want to be around here on May Day.
00:23:49Not the way you feel.
00:24:11She was here.
00:24:14And on the tree
00:24:15there was a limb.
00:24:16And on that limb there was a branch.
00:24:18And on that branch there was,
00:24:19an egg.
00:24:22And in that hag, there was a bird.
00:24:24And from that bird a feather came.
00:24:26And of that feather was...
00:24:39And on that bed there was a girl, and on that girl there was a man, and from that man
00:24:44there was a seed, and from that seed there was a boy, and from that boy there was a man,
00:24:49and for that man there was a grave, and from that grave there grew a tree.
00:25:03And on that bed there was a girl
00:25:06And on that girl there was a man
00:25:08From that band there was a seat
00:25:10And from that seat there was a boy
00:25:11From that boy there was a man
00:25:13And on that man there was a grave
00:25:15And around that grave there grew
00:25:19A tree
00:25:50I'll try to pay attention to me.
00:25:54Now, Daisy, will you tell us what it is, please, that the maple represents?
00:26:07Really, Daisy, you've been turned off on an hour.
00:26:10I know, I know, I know, I know.
00:26:12All right, then, anybody?
00:26:14Phallic simple.
00:26:15The phallic simple.
00:26:17That is correct.
00:26:19It is the image of the penis, which is venerated in religions such as ours, as symbolizing the generative force
00:26:27in nature.
00:26:30Oh, can I help you?
00:26:34Could I have a word with you, please, Miss?
00:26:37Certainly.
00:26:38Yes.
00:26:38Open your desk and take out your exercise books.
00:26:45Miss, you can be quite sure that I shall report this to the proper authorities.
00:26:49Everywhere I go on this island, it seems to me I find degeneracy, and there is brawling in bars, there
00:26:53is indecency in public places, and there is corruption of the young.
00:26:57And now I see it all stems from here.
00:26:59It stems from the filth taught here in this very schoolroom.
00:27:01I was unaware that the police had any authority in matters of education.
00:27:06Ah, ah, well, we'll see about that.
00:27:11Girls, could I have your attention, please?
00:27:15Well, as you can see, I have come here from the mainland to investigate the disappearance of a young girl.
00:27:27I have a photograph here, excuse me, which I would like you to pass around amongst yourselves.
00:27:35Meanwhile, I'll write her name over there on the blackboard.
00:27:54Rowan Morrison.
00:27:57That's her name.
00:28:01Now, do any of you recognize either the name or the photograph?
00:28:05No.
00:28:06There's your answer, Sergeant.
00:28:07If she existed, we would know of her.
00:28:11Whose desk is that?
00:28:13No one's.
00:28:28The little old beetle goes round and round,
00:28:31always the same way, you see,
00:28:33until it ends up right uptight to the nail.
00:28:36Poor old thing.
00:28:41And why in God's name do you do it, girl?
00:28:47I'd like to see the school register, please.
00:28:49I'm afraid you'll have to have Lord Summerall's authority.
00:28:52This is a police matter.
00:28:54I'm afraid you'll have to have a search warrant
00:28:55or permission from Lord Summerall, sir.
00:28:58I'm afraid you'll just have to bear with me, won't you?
00:29:20You're liars.
00:29:22You are despicable little liars.
00:29:25Rowan Morrison is a schoolmate of yours, isn't she?
00:29:30And that is her desk, isn't it?
00:29:33Well, isn't it?
00:29:34I think you ought to know.
00:29:35And you are the biggest liar of all.
00:29:39I warn you, one more lie out of you.
00:29:43And I will charge you with obstruction.
00:29:45And believe me, Miss Rose, that is a promise.
00:29:53Now, for the last time, where is Rowan Morrison?
00:29:58I would like to speak to you outside, Sergeant.
00:30:01Girls, get on with your reading.
00:30:03It's the rites and rituals of May Day, Chapter 5.
00:30:06I won't be long.
00:30:14You don't understand, Sergeant.
00:30:16Nobody was lying.
00:30:18I told you plainly,
00:30:19if Rowan Morrison existed,
00:30:21we would know of her.
00:30:23You mean she doesn't exist?
00:30:25She's dead?
00:30:28You would say, sir.
00:30:29Oh, come on, come on.
00:30:30She's either dead or she's not dead.
00:30:33Here,
00:30:34we do not use the word
00:30:39We believe
00:30:41that when the human life is over,
00:30:44the soul returns to trees,
00:30:46to air,
00:30:47to fire,
00:30:49to water,
00:30:50to animals.
00:30:52So that Rowan Morrison
00:30:54has simply returned
00:30:55to the life forces in another form.
00:30:58You mean to say that you'd
00:30:59teach the children this stuff?
00:31:02Yes, I told you.
00:31:04It is what we believe.
00:31:07I've never learned anything
00:31:09of Christianity.
00:31:10Only as a comparative religion.
00:31:13The children find it far easier
00:31:15to picture
00:31:16reincarnation
00:31:17than resurrection.
00:31:20Those rotting bodies
00:31:22are a great stumbling block
00:31:23for the childish imagination.
00:31:26Why, of course.
00:31:28And may I ask,
00:31:30where is the rotting body
00:31:31of Rowan Morrison?
00:31:33Right where you'd expect it to be
00:31:35in the earth.
00:31:37You mean in the churchyard?
00:31:40In a manner of speaking.
00:31:41No, in plain speaking.
00:31:45The building attached
00:31:46to the ground
00:31:47in which the body lies
00:31:48is no longer used
00:31:50for Christian worship.
00:31:52So whether it is still
00:31:53a churchyard
00:31:54is debatable.
00:31:57But forgive me,
00:31:58I must get back
00:31:59to my girls.
00:32:00Good morning to you.
00:32:22Here lieth
00:32:24Beech Buchanan
00:32:25protected by
00:32:27the ejaculation
00:32:28of serpents.
00:32:29And I'll see you next time.
00:33:04Let's go.
00:33:37Let's go.
00:33:39Morning.
00:33:40I see you plant trees on most of the graves here.
00:33:44Aye, that's right.
00:33:46What tree is that?
00:33:47That's a ruin.
00:33:49Who lies there?
00:33:50Ruin Madison.
00:33:56How long has she been dead?
00:33:58Oh, six or seven months.
00:34:00They're just a wee bit late with the head strewn.
00:34:04I don't know, that looks like a piece of skin.
00:34:06Why, so it is.
00:34:08What is it?
00:34:10The poor wee lass's navel string, of course.
00:34:14Where else should it be but hung on her own little tree?
00:34:19Where does your minister live?
00:34:22Minister?
00:34:30Minister.
00:34:36Oh, what a silly girl you are to make all this fuss.
00:34:39It's just a little frog.
00:34:41It'll do that poor sore throat good.
00:34:44Now, anyone would think you didn't want to get better.
00:34:46Now, in he goes.
00:34:53And out he comes.
00:34:55There.
00:34:56Now, that didn't hurt much, did it?
00:34:58It tasted horrid.
00:34:59Never mind, darling.
00:35:00It's all over now.
00:35:01Here's your sweet for being a brave girl.
00:35:03Come on, which one would you like?
00:35:05There.
00:35:06He's got your horrid old sore throat now, hasn't he, poor creature?
00:35:11Can't you hear him croaking?
00:35:13Can I do anything for you, Sergeant?
00:35:16Oh, I doubt it.
00:35:18Seeing you're all raving mad.
00:35:39I'd like you to see your index of death, please.
00:35:42Do you have authority?
00:35:48No, I meant from his lordship.
00:35:50I don't need it.
00:35:52I'm afraid you have to get permission from Lord Sam Isle.
00:35:58Miss, if you don't cooperate with me here and now,
00:36:02you may well find yourself inside a police cell on the mainland tonight.
00:36:06Have I made myself quite clear?
00:36:10Please.
00:36:22M, M, M, M, M.
00:36:26Benjamin and Rachel Morrison.
00:36:30Rachel and Benjamin.
00:36:33Names from the Bible.
00:36:34Yes.
00:36:35They were very old.
00:36:38But,
00:36:40there's no record of Rowan Morrison's death,
00:36:42which means, of course, that there is no death certificate.
00:36:48Did you know her?
00:36:50Yes, of course.
00:36:55Is that her?
00:36:57Yes, that's her.
00:36:59How did she die?
00:37:04I don't know.
00:37:05I don't know anything about her.
00:37:08Nothing.
00:37:24Are you Mr. Lennox, the photographer?
00:37:26Oh, I'm firstly a chemist.
00:37:29Secondly, a photographer.
00:37:31I understand that you take the Harvest Festival photographs every year.
00:37:33The ones I saw on the Green Man.
00:37:35Yes.
00:37:36It's rather humdrum work, I'm afraid.
00:37:39Do you know what happened to last year's photograph?
00:37:41Isn't it there with the others?
00:37:43No, no, it's not.
00:37:44No, apparently it's been broken or damaged in some way.
00:37:47Oh, what a pity.
00:37:50Well, do you have a copy of it?
00:37:51Oh, no, I don't keep copies.
00:37:54Mr. Lennox, you were among the people to whom I showed the photograph in the Green Man.
00:38:01Is that the girl?
00:38:03It's difficult to say.
00:38:05Oh, come on, man.
00:38:06It was only eight months ago.
00:38:07Surely you'll remember if it was that girl or not.
00:40:03His lordship is expecting you, sir.
00:40:05Expecting me?
00:40:06That's what his lordship told me, sir.
00:40:07Will you please come this way?
00:40:11In there, sir.
00:40:56Good afternoon, Sergeant Howie.
00:40:59I trust the sight of the young people refreshes you?
00:41:02No, sir.
00:41:04It does not refresh me.
00:41:06Oh, I'm sorry.
00:41:08One should always be open to the regenerative influences.
00:41:12I understand you're looking for a missing girl.
00:41:15I found her.
00:41:17Splendid.
00:41:17In her grave.
00:41:19Your lordship is the justice of the peace.
00:41:21I need your permission to exhume her body, have it transported to the mainland for a pathologist's report.
00:41:25You suspect foul play?
00:41:28I suspect murder and conspiracy to murder.
00:41:31In that case, you must go ahead.
00:41:34Your lordship seems strangely unconcerned.
00:41:38I'm confident your suspicions are wrong, Sergeant.
00:41:41We don't commit murder up here.
00:41:43We're a deeply religious people.
00:41:46Religious.
00:41:47With ruined churches.
00:41:49No ministers, no priests.
00:41:51And children dancing naked.
00:42:00They do love their divinity lessons.
00:42:03But they are naked.
00:42:07Naturally.
00:42:08It's much too dangerous to jump through the fire with your clothes on.
00:42:12What religion can they possibly be learning?
00:42:16Jumping over bonfires?
00:42:19Parthenogenesis.
00:42:21What?
00:42:24Literally, as Miss Rose would doubtly say in her assiduous way, reproduction without sexual union.
00:42:32Oh, what is all this?
00:42:34I mean, you've got fake, fake, fake biology, fake religion.
00:42:39Sir, have these children never heard of Jesus?
00:42:43Himself the son of a virgin, impregnated, I believe, by a ghost.
00:42:51Do sit down, Sergeant.
00:42:53Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent.
00:42:57Please.
00:43:02Now, those children out there, they're jumping through the flames in the hope that the god of the fire will
00:43:09make them fruitful.
00:43:10Really, you can hardly blame them.
00:43:12After all, what girl would not prefer the child of a god to that of some acne-scarred artisan?
00:43:18And you encourage them in this?
00:43:20Actively.
00:43:21It's most important that each new generation born on summer, I'll be made aware that here the old gods aren't
00:43:26dead.
00:43:28And what of the true god?
00:43:29To whose glory churches and monasteries have been built on these islands for generations past.
00:43:34Now, sir, what of him?
00:43:36He's dead.
00:43:38He can't complain.
00:43:39He had his chance, and in modern parlance, blew it.
00:43:49What?
00:43:50It's very simple.
00:43:52Let me show you.
00:43:54In the last century, the islanders were stung.
00:43:57Like our neighbors today, they were scratching a bare subsistence from sheep and sea.
00:44:04Then, in 1868, my grandfather bought this barren island and began to change things.
00:44:11A distinguished Victorian scientist, agronomist, freethinker.
00:44:17How formidably benevolent he seems.
00:44:20Essentially, the face of a man incredulous of all human good.
00:44:25You're very cynical, my lord.
00:44:28What attracted my grandfather to the island, apart from the profuse source of wiry labor that it promised,
00:44:34was the unique combination of volcanic soil and the warm gulf stream that surrounded it.
00:44:40You see, his experiments had led him to believe that it was possible to induce here the successful growth of
00:44:45certain new strains of fruit to be developed.
00:44:48So, with typical mid-Victorian zeal, he set to work.
00:44:52The best way of accomplishing this, so it seemed to him, was to rouse the people from their apathy by
00:44:58giving them back their joyous old gods.
00:45:01And that, as a result of this worship, the barren island would burgeon and bring forth fruit in great abundance.
00:45:07What he did, of course, was to develop new cultivars of hardy fruit suited to local conditions.
00:45:13Well, of course, to begin with they worked for him, because he fed them and clothed them.
00:45:16But then later, when the trees started fruiting, it became a very little matter.
00:45:20And the ministers fled the island, never to return.
00:45:23What my grandfather had started out of expediency, my father continued out of love.
00:45:28Love.
00:45:30He brought me up the same way, to reverence the music and the drama and the rituals of the old
00:45:36gods.
00:45:38To love nature, and to fear it, and to rely on it, and to appease it where necessary.
00:45:46He brought me up. He brought you up to be a pagan.
00:45:51A heathen, conceivably, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one.
00:45:57Lord Summerisle, I am interested in one thing, the law.
00:46:02But I must remind you, sir, that despite everything you've said, you are the subject of a Christian country.
00:46:11Now, sir, if I may have your permission to exhume the body of Rowan Morrison.
00:46:17I was under the impression I'd already given it to you.
00:46:20Ah, there's your transport.
00:46:23It's been a great pleasure meeting a Christian copper.
00:47:04It's been a great pleasure meeting a Christiane.
00:47:06It's been a great pleasure meeting a Christiane.
00:47:06This is me, sir.
00:47:06A Christiane Kenner.
00:47:08What a Christiane Kenner Blast.
00:47:12A Christiane Kenner.
00:47:16If you will pass my way
00:47:18She took the tinker by the hand
00:47:22And led him to her door
00:47:26So she my kettle, I will show
00:47:29And you can clout it sure
00:47:32For catching and clogging is his delight
00:47:41I found that
00:47:44In Rowan Morrison's grave
00:47:50Little Rowan loved the marches
00:47:57A sacrilege
00:47:58Only if the ground is consecrated to the Christian belief
00:48:03Personally I think it makes a very lovely transmutation
00:48:08I'm sure Rowan is most happy with it
00:48:11Do you not think so Lord Summerisle?
00:48:13Miss I hope you don't think that I can be made a fool of indefinitely
00:48:18Where is Rowan Morrison?
00:48:22Why here she is
00:48:24What remains of her physically
00:48:27Her soul of course may even know
00:48:29Lord Summerisle
00:48:31Where is Rowan Morrison?
00:48:35Sergeant Howie
00:48:37I think that you are supposed to be the detective here
00:48:49A child
00:48:51Is reported missing on your island
00:48:56First I'm told there is no such child
00:49:00I then find that there is in fact
00:49:02But she has been killed
00:49:04I subsequently discovered
00:49:06That there is no death certificate
00:49:09And now I find that there is a grave
00:49:13There is no body
00:49:18Very perplexing for you
00:49:23What do you think can have happened?
00:49:28I think
00:49:29Rowan Morrison was murdered
00:49:33Under circumstances of pagan barbarity
00:49:37Which I can scarcely bring myself to believe
00:49:39As taking place in the 20th century
00:49:44Now it is my intention to monitor return to the mainland
00:49:47And report my suspicions to the chief constable
00:49:50Of the West Highland Constabulary
00:49:52And I will demand a full inquiry
00:49:55Takes place into the affairs of this heathen island
00:50:01You must of course do as you see fit, sergeant
00:50:06Perhaps it's just as well that you won't be here tomorrow
00:50:09To be offended by the sight of our May Day celebrations here
00:50:18Broome, would you kindly show the sergeant out?
00:50:21This way, sir
00:50:23Goodbye
00:50:25Famate, says here, your kettle's cracked
00:50:27The cause is plainly told
00:50:30There hath so many nails been drove
00:50:34Mine own could not take hold
00:51:17The cause is plainly told
00:51:22The cause is out of theitu
00:51:45There's hardly any produce.
00:51:49Well, that's it. The crop's failed.
00:51:53And it's Rowan. Rowan and the crop's failed.
00:51:59Sacrifice.
00:52:01Perhaps it's just as well that you won't be here to be offended by the sight of our May Day
00:52:06celebrations tomorrow.
00:52:12Out of the village, we carry death. Out of the village, we carry death.
00:52:20Out of the village, we carry death. Out of the village, we carry death.
00:52:28May Day festivals.
00:52:31Primitive man lived and died by his harvest.
00:52:34The purpose of his spring ceremonies was to ensure a plentiful autumn.
00:52:39Relics of these fertility dramas are to be found all over Europe.
00:52:43In Great Britain, for example, one can still see harmless versions of them danced in obscure villages on May Day.
00:52:48Their cast includes many alarming characters.
00:52:52A man, animal, or hobby horse, who canters at the head of the procession, charging at the girls.
00:52:58A man, woman, the sinister teaser, played by the community leader or priest.
00:53:02And a man, fool, punch, most complex of all the symbolic figures.
00:53:09The privileged simpleton and king for a day.
00:53:13Six swordsmen follow these figures and at the climax of the ceremony lock their swords together in a clear symbol
00:53:19of the sun.
00:53:19In pagan times, however, these dancers were not simply picturesque jigs.
00:53:24They were frenzied rites, ending in a sacrifice by which the dancers hoped desperately to win over the goddess of
00:53:30the fields.
00:53:31In good times, they offered produce to the gods and slaughtered animals.
00:53:34But in bad years, when the harvest had been poor, the sacrifice was a human being.
00:53:46Rowan's not dead.
00:53:49Sometimes the victim would be drowned in the sea or burnt to death in a huge sacrificial bonfire.
00:53:55Sometimes the six swordsmen ritually beheaded the virgin.
00:54:00Dear God in heaven, even these people can't be that mad.
00:54:06The chief priests then skinned the child, and wearing the still warm skin like a mantle, led the rejoicing crowd
00:54:14through the streets.
00:54:16The priest thus represented, the goddess reborn, and guaranteed another successful harvest next year.
00:54:33Good morning, Sergeant.
00:54:36I need to get to my plane.
00:54:39On May Day, I'd better take care of myself.
00:54:55I shall be back shortly with some more police officers.
00:55:02I shall be back.
00:55:05I shall be back.
00:55:30Have a good sleep, then.
00:55:48I shall be back.
00:55:49Hey, you come back here.
00:55:53How should I do it?
00:55:54I shall be back.
00:55:55I shall be back.
00:56:02I shall be back.
00:56:05what's the matter won't she go no has anyone been here not to my knowledge sergeant if any of the
00:56:14children had been interfering with her i'm sure i would have seen them i warn you you're obstructing
00:56:20a police officer i am not obstructing you sergeant you could maybe get old sam there
00:56:26to row you to the mainland you'd be back in a week
00:56:34well i'll just have to find rowan morrison myself
00:57:02so
00:57:08so
00:57:14so
00:57:18so
00:57:25so
00:57:49everything under control
00:57:57oh
00:57:58mr mcgregor i trust me aren't going to have to let out your costume again this year
00:58:02i think i'll manage my lord but uh it does seem to shrink a little each year
00:58:10so
00:58:11so
00:58:15so
00:58:20so
00:58:27so
00:58:44so
00:58:54so
00:59:05so
00:59:05so
00:59:05so
00:59:05so
00:59:09so
00:59:19so
00:59:20so
00:59:20so
00:59:24so
00:59:30so
00:59:32so
00:59:34so
00:59:34so
00:59:37so
00:59:44so
00:59:45in my way
00:59:45in my way they'll be arrested as accomplices to murder
00:59:49you'll simply never understand the true nature of sacrifice
00:59:53so
00:59:55heathens
00:59:55heathens
00:59:57bloody heathens
00:59:59what
01:00:00take those masks off
01:00:03no
01:00:04take them off
01:00:08what
01:00:09what do you think you're doing
01:00:10searching every house
01:00:11for a missing child
01:00:12and
01:00:22if
01:00:23heathens
01:00:41Baba, black sheep, have you any wool?
01:00:46Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full.
01:00:56I'm sorry.
01:01:27I'm sorry.
01:01:28I'm sorry.
01:01:29I'm sorry.
01:01:29I'm sorry.
01:01:49I'm sorry.
01:01:57What's that?
01:01:59The life of the fields.
01:02:01John Barleycorn.
01:02:02What's in here?
01:02:06What's that?
01:02:07That's my costume, the salmon of knowledge.
01:02:54Hello.
01:02:55You're back, Erlie.
01:02:57Where are the other coppers?
01:02:59There aren't any.
01:03:01The plane wouldn't start.
01:03:07Give me a glass of whiskey, please.
01:03:09So he spent his time instead turning the whole village upside down.
01:03:13Just give me a glass of whiskey.
01:03:15No wonder he's worn out.
01:03:18Did he find the girl?
01:03:21No, well, I can't say I'm very surprised.
01:03:25I'm going to rest in my bed for half an hour.
01:03:28I do not wish to be disturbed.
01:03:30I'd stay there until tonight if I was you.
01:03:33We don't much relish strangers around today.
01:03:44He's asleep.
01:03:47I don't like to use it on it really.
01:03:49The lad said we're to take no chances, didn't he?
01:03:52I know, but with a hand of glory, there's no telling when you wake.
01:03:56He might sleep for days.
01:03:58All the better.
01:03:59Shh.
01:04:00We don't want him butting in.
01:04:02Go on, light it up.
01:04:26That'll make you sleep, my pretty sergeant.
01:04:35I'm a way to change.
01:04:37We can't do without punch.
01:04:41You best get on the head.
01:04:42They've given you girls five minutes dark, haven't they?
01:04:45Goodbye.
01:05:08To be continued.
01:05:10Oh.
01:05:20Oh.
01:05:30That's sad.
01:05:32Yeah, that's sad.
01:05:35Aw, the other Travis.
01:05:35Oh, my God.
01:06:05What's the matter with you, McGregor? Do you call that dancing?
01:06:09Cut some capers, man.
01:06:11Use your platter.
01:06:13Play the fool. That's what you're here for.
01:06:17I suppose you've been getting drunk at your own bar.
01:06:37Oh, my God.
01:06:45Let's go.
01:07:18Let's go.
01:07:19Let's go.
01:07:20Let's go.
01:07:21Let's go.
01:07:23Let's go.
01:07:24Let's go.
01:07:26Let's go.
01:07:27Let's go.
01:07:28Let's go.
01:07:30Let's go.
01:07:45Let's go.
01:07:56Let's go.
01:08:25Let's go.
01:08:26Let's go.
01:08:27Let's go.
01:08:29Let's go.
01:08:46Let's go.
01:08:47Let's go.
01:08:48Let's go.
01:08:48Let's go.
01:09:00Let's go.
01:09:03Let's go.
01:09:09Let's go.
01:09:15Let's go.
01:09:23Let's go.
01:09:36Let's go.
01:09:38Let's go.
01:09:40Let's go.
01:09:42Let's go.
01:09:45Let's go.
01:09:55Let's go.
01:09:57Let's go.
01:10:03Let's go.
01:10:06Let's go.
01:10:17Let's go.
01:10:24And now, my friends, to the beach.
01:10:46O God of the sea, I offer you this ale as a libation that you may bestow upon us in
01:10:54the year to come
01:10:55the rich and diverse fruits of your kingdom.
01:11:06Hail, O God of the sea!
01:11:08And now, for our more dreadful sacrifice,
01:11:23to those who command the fruits of the earth.
01:11:35It's Rowan.
01:11:45What's the matter, Mr. McGregor?
01:11:47Now, don't be frightened. I'm a police officer. I've got to try and get you away.
01:11:51Hurry, Mr. Police! I don't like it here! They're coming! Do you know what they're going to do?
01:11:56I don't know what they're going to do. Come on, hurry, hurry!
01:12:03Hey, come on, stay! Come on, stay! Come on, stay!
01:12:05Hey, come on!
01:12:09Hey!
01:12:14Hey!
01:12:16Hey!
01:12:25That's the wheel up there.
01:12:37Come on, it's really big, doesn't it?
01:12:55I seem to have lost our torch-bearing friends.
01:12:57I'm sorry. It was worse than I remembered it.
01:13:14Did I do it right?
01:13:15You did it beautifully.
01:13:17Dear little Rowan.
01:13:28Rowan, darling.
01:13:31Come on now.
01:13:40Rowan, darling.
01:13:41Rowan, darling.
01:13:57Welcome, fool.
01:13:59You have come of your own free will to the appointed place.
01:14:05the game is over game what game the game of the hunted leading the hunter you came here to find
01:14:15rowan morrison but it is we who have found you and brought you here and controlled your every
01:14:22thought and action since you arrived principally we persuaded you to think that rowan morrison
01:14:29was being held as a sacrifice because our crops failed last year i know your crops failed i saw
01:14:35the harvest photograph oh yes they failed all right disaster say so for the first time since
01:14:42my grandfather came here the blossom came but the fruit withered and died on the bough that must not
01:14:50happen again this year it is our most earnest belief that the best way of preventing this is to offer
01:14:57to
01:14:58our god of the sun and to the goddess of our orchards the most acceptable sacrifice that
01:15:03lies in our power animals are fine but their acceptability is limited a little child is even
01:15:11better not nearly as effective as the right kind of adult what do you mean right kind of adult
01:15:26you sergeant are the right kind of adult as our painstaking researches have revealed you uniquely
01:15:36were the one we needed a man who would come here of his own free will a man who has
01:15:41come here with
01:15:42the power of a king by representing the law a man who would come here as a function a man
01:15:48who has come
01:15:49here as a fool get out of my way
01:16:22you were the fool mr harry
01:16:24punch punch one of the great fool victims of history for you have accepted the role of king
01:16:34for a day and who but a fool would do that
01:16:39but you will be revered and anointed as a king
01:16:51you will undergo death and rebirth resurrection if you like
01:16:58the rebirth sadly will not be yours but that of our crops i am a christian
01:17:07and as a christian i hope for resurrection
01:17:11and even if you kill me now it is i who will live again
01:17:17not your damned apples
01:17:44not your damned apples
01:17:55you are today but i am not your good
01:17:58am i you is
01:18:16Mm, mm, mm, see close and fast.
01:18:35No matter what you do, you can't change the fact
01:18:41that I believe in the life eternal as promised to us by our Lord Jesus Christ.
01:18:48I believe in the life eternal as promised to us by our Lord Jesus Christ.
01:18:55That is good, for believing what you do,
01:19:00we confer upon you a rare gift these days, a martyr's death.
01:19:06Then, you will not only have life eternal,
01:19:10but you will sit with the saints among the elect.
01:19:15Come.
01:19:18It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man.
01:19:23Now, wait!
01:19:26Now, all of you, just wait!
01:19:27And listen to me, and you can wrap it up any way you like!
01:19:31You are about to commit murder.
01:19:34Can you not see?
01:19:35There is...
01:19:36There is no sun god.
01:19:38There is no...
01:19:40goddess of the fields.
01:19:46Your...
01:19:47Your crops failed because your strains failed.
01:19:51Fruit is not meant to be grown on these islands.
01:19:53It's against nature.
01:19:55Well, don't you see that killing me is not going to bring back your apples?
01:20:00Summer Isle, you know, it won't.
01:20:03Well, you old man, tell them.
01:20:04Tell them it won't.
01:20:06I know it will.
01:20:09Well, don't you understand that if your crops fail this year,
01:20:13next year you're going to have to have another blood sacrifice.
01:20:17And next year, no one less than the king of Summer Isle himself will do.
01:20:21So if the crops fail, Summer Isle,
01:20:24next year your people will kill you on May Day.
01:20:28They will not fail.
01:20:31The sacrifice of the willing king-like virgin pool will be accepted.
01:20:38Well, don't you see I'll be missed?
01:20:39They'll come looking for me!
01:20:41There will be no traces.
01:20:43Bring him up, Oak.
01:20:44God, no!
01:20:46Think!
01:20:47Just think what you're doing!
01:20:49Think what you're doing!
01:20:51Think!
01:20:52Think!
01:20:53In the name of God, think what you're doing!
01:21:16God!
01:21:18Oh, God! Oh, Jesus Christ!
01:21:24Christ!
01:21:25Oh, my God!
01:21:27Christ!
01:21:29No, no, dear God! No, Christ!
01:21:52Oh, my God!
01:22:24Oh, my God!
01:22:30No! No!
01:22:41Mighty God of the sun,
01:22:44bountiful goddess of our orchards,
01:22:46accept our sacrifice
01:22:49and make our blossoms fruit.
01:22:52Mighty God of the sun,
01:22:55bountiful goddess of our orchards,
01:22:57hear ye the words of the Lord,
01:22:59and make our blossoms fruit.
01:23:01Awake, ye heathens,
01:23:03and howl!
01:23:06It is the Lord who hathn laid waste your orchards.
01:23:10It is He who hathn laid the bear,
01:23:13because the truth is withered away
01:23:16from the sons of men.
01:23:21Desire shall fail,
01:23:24and ye shall all die accursed!
01:23:31aya who hathn
01:23:51and ye that my
01:24:00sweetерт!
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