Explosie.
When I found you lying there,
suddenly everything became clear.
I want to stay with you forever...
if you'll have me.
Where shall we run?
Run?
We can cross into Dutch Borneo.
There's no need for that. I love Sarawak.
But they'll stop us.
Oh, for God's sake, the English aren't barbarians.
I'll sort it out. Trust me.
I'll sort everything out, I promise.
I know my own people.
You want to marry her.
We say we've a right to be here because we're a civilizing force.
How can we let our officers sleep with the local women,
and not marry them?
You're not the first, you know.
Let me tell you something.
25 years ago,
I was a young idiot.
She was called Ipoh...
and I loved her.
But I made my decision,
and I never saw her again
until the day she died.
- You don't regret that? - I did what was right!
I did my duty, and so will you!
No. No, I won't.
It's a good thing your father didn't think that at Passchendaele!
Is it?
Maybe then he wouldn't have drowned in a shell hole
so some senile old general could get a knighthood!
God, you self-righteous little prick!
- You'll do what I say! - You let me--
Bit of an administrative crisis.
Yes, I know what's happened.
Everybody does!
I'd like a word with you in private.
Selima...
The English have sent word.
If you won't give him up,
they'll charge him with the murder of the white miners.
- Did you tell them? - No!
They will charge me as well.
That's why my father asks you.
Look, there's a way of doing things,
and if you change it, our little world falls apart.
- You're the one that told me-- - For goodness sake!
Give her up and Henry'll send you home on a year's sick leave.
You can come back as if nothing happened.
Refuse and you'll spend the next 1 0 years rotting in prison.
And then we'll deport you
and you'll never see Sarawak, or her, again.
You can't do that.
You broke the law.
You can't go around murdering white men
just because you think they deserve it.
He could hang you for that.
But you'd ignore it if I do as you want?
You've a choice.
Make your mind up.
- I want to see her. - Send her a letter!
You've taught her to read, haven't you?
Stop him!
Idiot.
Selima?
Selima!
Where is she?
It's all arranged, isn't it?
- Isn't it?! - It's not as I thought.
Th-there's difficulties.
Help me!
I'm ordering you to help me!
You swore it would all work out.
Truscott, I am getting extremely fed up with you.
I'm too old to run through the bloody jungle all night!
Just give her up now.
- This is your last chance. - No!
Say you'll give him up.
You know what'll happen otherwise!
Once I start this, it can't be stopped.
John Truscott, I charge you--
- I'll do it. - No, no.
I'll marry at the Longhouse.
I told you it's not possible.
So?
Do you give her up?
I do.
I now pronounce you man and wife.
You may kiss the bride.
Ready!
We'll remember this song.
Always.
There is something I should say.
I know about your sleeping dictionary.
At least, I presume you had one.
Father thinks we women don't find out about such things.
But anyway, I don't mind.
I know how things are done out there.
And the good thing is...
at least you'll know what to do because I'm damned if I do.
What happened to her?
Oh, she married Belansai.
Your father wrote me a letter.
Was that before you proposed to me, or...
Oh...
No, I think it must have been afterwards.
Here we go, then.
''Dear Henry,
I talked things over with Cecilia again,
and we have decided to return to Sarawak.
She wants to be with you,
and I would be a coward not to finish the work I started.
I think the only way forward is to wipe away
the last couple of years and start life afresh.
I'm determined to make your daughter happy.
Yours sincerely, John Truscott.''
? East of the sun ?
? And west of the moon... ?
I thought I'd organize a welcoming committee.
They're wonderful.
Welcome back to hell.
Shipperly.
Weather forecast for the next...
1 0,000 years is too bloody hot.
Ah.
? ...of the moon. ?
You're looking at the first Iban class,
the first Iban school.
Your dad would be proud.
If he saw the Iban choosing what they were taught, he'd have a fit.
For heaven's sake, he wanted to teach them Latin and Greek.
You know, I actually wasn't going to mention this for a while,
but I wondered if you might like to do some teaching?
Ow!
What in the world?
I thought that's what you wanted.
I thought that's what she would have done.
Neville told me about you and her.
Have you seen her since we got here?
No!
No, not since...
a year ago, or more.
He said she and her husband had a little boy.
Apparently they're very happy.
I want us to be happy.
Then why aren't we?
It's her, isn't it?
Yes.
She's very beautiful.
Isn't she?
In her own way, yes.
- What's that? - It's Famous, blind drunk.
In fact, blind, legless, daft, sick, smelly drunk
by the sounds of things.
You've got to fire him.
Cecil...
he's been with me since I arrived.
He doesn't like me. He preferred her, I can tell.
Hello?
Who's this?
This is your new cook. Henry sent him.
Mrs. Truscott tell Mr. Truscott...
- to give me the boot. - Thank you, Famous.
Thank you.
Did you do that?
Famous, take her into the kitchen and clean her up.
You do not do that.
You treat her with respect.
We're not all in love with our sleeping dictionaries, you know.
Tipong!
What did you say to her?
Oh, I told Tipong that if you hit her again,
she should wait till you're asleep,
then cut off your testicles with a kitchen knife.
They're very good at that kind of thing, the Iban.
Probably wouldn't even wake you. Now--
Henry sent me.
We've got to unbugger up your last month's work.
Cecil--
you know, I would have made her happy.
I told him we'd remember this song.
Don't be so pathetic.
You should forget all about this love business.
Marriages work far better without it.
You should concentrate on the school.
You like that.
He just needs a little time.
When was the last time he slept with you?
When was the last time he even touched you?
That's how you judge men.
Hello, darling.
Good evening, Mrs. Bullard.
You will excuse us, won't you?
You kissed me just to get one over on my mother, didn't you?
No. No, of course not.
Take one more reading before we go leave.
Right.
- Is the baby mine? - Oh, yes.
And are you open to bribery?
Oh, very much so.
So you'll arrange for us to meet?
I am one step ahead. I already make inquiries,
and she will not see you.
So you tell her Tipong has been beaten again
and needs her help.
Shipperly?
Shipperly I will send on a vital mission somewhere.
Somewhere famed for the size and quantity of its tiger leeches.
Please.
I want to see my son.
I don't understand ''son.''
My child.
Child?
You understand perfectly. He was born nine months ago.
I don't understand English anymore.
My son. You have my son. His name is Mandar.
I left him on the veranda. I was frightened of Neville.
I'll get him!
You can have one minute,
but they'll kill me if they see us together.
Selima, stay!
For how long? Forever?
I didn't know they were going to treat us like that, I'm sorry.
I don't know what to say.
He's Belansai's son now.
He marry me even though he knew I was pregnant.
''Deep, deep beneath the sea...
where the water is clear as the purest glass,
there lies the palace of the Sea King.
And there, behind the walls of coral,
and beneath its roof of cockleshells
lived the little mermaid.''
So, Truscott.
Is there some good news you're not telling us?
I presume you've impregnated my daughter.
Oh... no.
Not yet.
It's just in case.
Let me tell you why I stayed here with Henry,
and let Cecil grow up alone.
I told you it was duty.
I told myself it was duty,
but it wasn't duty.
I never dared leave Henry alone...
for fear he'd go back to his native girl.
So be warned.
I won't let that...
wreck another generation.
- John! - Ah!
They've cornered him--
at the Longhouse loft at Baritsai.
The damn fool!
I hoped he'd run over the mountains to Dutch Borneo.
You caused all this!
Now we're going to have to execute him.
One of the best men I know.
Well, you can damn well be his judge.
He had no choice.
I know that!
I know that.
But he tried to kill a colonial official
and that has to mean death.
Even though the colonial official in question
deserved having his throat cut for sneaking around with his wife!
It wasn't her I was seeing, it was my son!
My son, who you never told me about!
Am I supposed to pretend he doesn't exist?
Yes, you are!
For the rest of your life.
Yes.
Have you--?
Another daughter?
Yes.
The daughters of sleeping dictionaries
become sleeping dictionaries.
I thought you were kind,
that you'd treat her well.
Not quite as well as you ended up treating her, of course.
And she doesn't know?
No.
I told her mother to tell her
that I was back in England.
It's normal.
This way is best.
Aggie--
it wouldn't be fair on her.
I did my duty.
At least I didn't kill anyone!
Belansai,
was it your intention to kill me,
or just to wound me?
To kill you.
But did you come to kill me?
Or did a sudden madness seize you?
I came to kill you.
Belansai...
tell the court why you had to try to kill me.
The court will adjourn and pass sentence tomorrow.
- What are you doing? - He saved my life.
Yes, and what a shame that was.
Don't think you're going to sentence him to anything except death.
You do that, and I'll just step in and overrule you.
You understand me? You'll have achieved nothing!
Leave her alone!
Go on, get back! Move! Move!
Be upstanding.
This court is now in session.
This court is in session.
Belansai Ringan,
this court finds you guilty of attempted murder.
Due to the lack of mitigating circumstances,
I have no alternative but to sentence you to death.
Tomorrow morning you'll be taken from the jail,
and hung from your neck until you are dead.
May God have mercy on your soul.
Do they have to make such a bloody noise
building a scaffold?
And it's all because of that damn fool Truscott.
It'll do him good.
Now he's seen the consequences, it'll settle him down.
But Cecilia said she saw them talking.
- Surely we ought to-- - Do as little as possible.
He did what you asked him to, today, didn't he?
- Hmmm. - He's like you, Henry,
when it comes to what really matters, he always gives in.
Now have another drink and go to bed.
Hmmm.
You've no reason not to take it.
Well, we're going to have to run away together now.
Steamer leaves tomorrow at dawn.
I'll leave at dusk, I'll be there by 3:00 a.m. at the latest.
You won't come.
They'll find out. They'll say you must be an Englishman.
And I'll tell them that I'd rather have you
than a country, or a language,
or a history.
I can't prove it, but I know what you've done.
And I'm going to treat you as if you had done it!
Have you anything to say?
You're a bloody disgrace!
If it wasn't for Cecil, I'd put you in there!
Get out to the dam and do something useful!
Go on.
You won't get any sense out of her.
Listen, you're not welcome at the Longhouse,
and you're certainly not welcome here.
So Shipperly-- Neville--
has very kindly agreed to take you on as a sleeping dictionary.
I presume you'd prefer that to a spell in prison.
Off we go, then.
It was wonderful at the school today.
I tried teaching in Iban.
And I thought I said cooking yams-- ''patanta''
but actually I said ''matanta--'' cooking your lover.
They laughed and laughed.
And... now I'm going to have to tell you.
I'm pregnant.
Doctor Smith came from Miri today and...
there's no doubt about it.
Your face.
You look so happy.
Well, of course I'm happy.
I know I shouldn't really say this...
but I nearly gave up on us.
But I didn't. And I'm so glad.
Shall we open that bottle of champagne?
''Leeches.'' Hmmm?
''Jungle.''
''Fucking jungle.''
''Fucking jungle...
full of prick-teasing, little brown savages.''
There she is, swearing like a trooper
blood everywhere, the cook-turned-midwife screaming,
- ''Push, lady, push!'' - Henry completely useless.
Shouting to nobody in particular:
''Why didn't we get her downriver before the monsoon?''
And then in walks this clouded leopard.
It was attracted by the blood, you see.
However, not really dangerous.
He starts shooting anyway.
Bullets flying everywhere, except anywhere near the leopard.
- In the middle of all this uproar-- - Out I pop.
Yes, bright pink.
And even then, she was the loudest thing in the room.
She was wonderful, wasn't she?
It was wonderful for us, the first five years
before we had to-- you know, send you home.
Yes. She was wonderful, wasn't she?
How many glasses of champagne have you had, Daddy?
Oh, come on, if a man can't celebrate...
Listen, I prayed that this would happen for both of you.
It'll make all the difference.
Look at him.
He's still in shock.
Get baby and go! I catch you up!
It is for me, isn't it?
Why haven't you finished it?
Because nothing I could think of seemed...
enough.
Tonight I've been watching you,
trying to make myself believe you were happy.
Because I was so determined that this would finally do the trick...
that this would make us be in love.
I did love seeing you so happy.
I saw that, but...
it's not enough, is it?
You know...
I think you probably know my mother and father better than I do.
You've spent more time with them.
Five. I was...
five when I was shipped off back to school in England.
Some mothers came with their children, but not mine.
She never even came home for Christmas.
She wouldn't let Daddy out of her sight.
So when you asked me to marry you, I thought,
''Here's someone who's chosen me.
Not someone who's lumbered with me and has to pretend to love me,
but someone who really wants me.''
But all the time you loved someone else.
If it hadn't been for her,
we could've been happy enough, couldn't we?
No, it's all right. You don't have to lie.
And anyway, I'm not prepared to settle for ''happy enough.''
Not anymore.
I want--
I want what you and her have.
Now go.
I want you to go.
Anyway, you've left something of yours behind.
I won't say anything to Mother and Father till the morning.
It's better this way.
Psst. Psst!
She think you not coming.
She not catch boat. She making a run for Dutch Borneo.
Head for old mine.
You do realize I can't let you go.
You might need this.
My second present.
You know?
I guess eventually.
Seems I only ever get to say goodbye.
Come on.
I do hope you're not incorruptible.
They're both headed over the mountains.
I have a party ready to follow them.
Have you?
There's no whiskey trees in the jungle, you know.
Henry, she tried to kill Shipperly.
- That's a hanging offense. - I can't spare the men.
Do you care nothing for your daughter?
I care a great deal...
for them both.
Cecil, tell him.
I don't want John hurt.
Or my sister.
He said go after them.
Come along, idiot. What are you waiting for?
Stay here.
Selima!
Afternoon.
I thought you'd turn up eventually.
Handcuff yourselves to the pole.
Come on! We don't want to wake the baby up, now do we?!
Do it properly, Truscott.
I've thought a lot about the order of this.
But I reckon...
rape Selima,
kill baby,
kill Selima...
kill you.
Jam, did it?
Eeny...
meeny...
minie...
mo.
''The witch said to the little mermaid,
'Why do you want to take human form and walk upon the land?'
'Because I love him.
He is always in my thoughts
and I would place my happiness in his hands,'
replied the little mermaid.''
They sing because they move on tomorrow.
Make a new village a day's journey from here.
They want us to come with them.
Then we must go.
If we go, you will have nothing.
I'll have this.
I'll have you.
So shall I tell them we'll come?
Tell them. (Subtitle Revised by HchC)