Australia Page #10

- You can't go in there, mate!

- [Whinnying]

- Drover!

- Callahan?

Is she in there? Sarah Ashley.

- It's too late.

- She's in there!

Hold it, mate!

Let me in there! Sarah! Sarah!

Let me in there!

I'll handle this. You get your man

out of here right now!

- She's a part of dreaming now.

- Get out of my way!

- Go on! Hit me!

- Get out of my-

Go on! Hit me!

It's not gonna bring her back.

She's in there! Sarah!

Clear the corridor! Come on!

Nobody past this point unless they're

at death's door or already through it.

You got a name?

Ashley. Sarah Ashley.

What did he say?

[Screams]

[Chanting]

[Sarah's Voice]

But right now it's raining.

It's different now.

We've got Nullah.

Here you are.

[Old Man]

She deserves a drink like any man.

[Crowd Cheering]

- [Drover] Too bloody right.

- [Sarah] Crikey!

[Drover Laughing]

Hey, no boongs in here.

You didn't say that, did you?

That's how it is.

Just because it is...

doesn't-

doesn't mean it should be.

Serve him a f***in' drink!

Ah, what does it matter?

I'm a total bloody ruin.

I'm evacuating south,

like everybody else.

You're short one glass.

One... more... glass.

I leave this place

for the looters and the Japs.

Why not the boongs?

## [Piano]

[Ivan]

I saw her this morning...

before she went to the work.

She was so happy.

She was gonna get that...

little boy and go south.

What about the children

on Mission Island?

The creamies?

They are left out there.

- They left them out there?

- Safe in the hands of God.

They left them-

They say the island was hit first.

They say no one would have survived.

They say a lot of things.

There's been some mistake.

That's Cath Fletcher.

Oh, God. Cath.

[Gasps]

- Oh, God!

- Sort her out.

- Sarah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

- Oh, God!

Nullah. I've got to get to Nullah.

- Sarah, the Japs hit the mission first.

- No!

- No! I don't believe you! I don't believe it!

- Sarah, look at me.

No one can get out there.

No one.

I need help to get to the island.

- Half the Jap navy's out there, you stupid bastard.

- I have the Lord on my side.

I don't give a damn who's on your side!

God works in mysterious ways, Brother.

Go, go, go!

Magarri, secure the boat.

- Thank you, Lord. Thank you.

- Thank you, Bull.

Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name.

[Dutton]

Sarah, we leave at first light.

Ivan.

- Check the second dormitory.

- Okay.

Nullah.

Oh.

[Leaves Crunching]

Come on. It's all right.

- Shh.

- Where are the other-Are there other boys?

- I don't know.

- Are there any other boys?

- I don't know.

- Okay.

Drover?

- Nullah.

- Drover!

Drover!

I knew you'd come.

I sing you to me.

Oh.

- Magarri!

- Hey, little fella.

Mrs. Boss come too?

Where's Mrs. Boss?

We, uh-

We can't say her name anymore,

little mate.

All right?

Hey. Now you listen to me.

I need your help.

I'm gonna get these fellas

off the island.

You're gonna have to be strong.

Can you do that?

- Mm-hmm.

- Good boy.

All right. Go and get

your little mates down there.

- Come over here. Let's go.

- Come with me. It's okay.

- Come on.

- We're gonna get you all off this island, all right?

All right.

Boys, we're gonna have to swim.

We have to be quiet, like a turtle.

Okay?

Now, I'm gonna take you home on a ship.

It's over there. You see it?

[Man Shouting In Japanese]

Let's go, boys! Let's go!

Quick, quick, quick!

Ivan.

- Ivan. Swim the big boys down to the sloop.

- Right.

Use the current and drift it

down to the end of the wharf. Go.

[Ivan]

Come on, boys. Quick.

Run! Run!

Quick, quick!

Let's go.

[Gunshot]

- [Man Speaks Japanese]

- Ah, crikey.

[Japanese]

[Gunshot]

- Hey.

- [Aboriginal Language]

- I take this mob walkabout.

- You'll never make it.

Well, you gotta make it!

You got family now.

You gotta drove this mob home, Drover.

Good luck, brother.

- Go, go.

- That's it. Good boy.

[Japanese]

[Gunshot]

[Japanese]

[Shouts In Japanese]

Magarri.

Up the ladder, boys. Quick. Hurry now.

Come on.

[Shouting In Japanese]

[Screams]

[Japanese]

[Aboriginal Language]

Drove 'em home, Drover.

[Gunshot]

Sergeant, get the men on the trucks.

We're evacuating within 15 minutes.

We rendezvous with the main convoy

at 0800 hours at Adelaide.

Start the truck, Sergeant Lapin.

If anyone is lagging,

use whatever force is necessary.

Every single man, Lapin.

And don't take no for an answer.

- You won't have to wait for us, Captain.

- Move! Come on! Move!

[Callahan]

Thanks for coming down, Mr. Fletcher.

It's my awful duty to inform you...

that your wife, Catherine-

My wife is dead?

It's a funny old world, isn't it?

Generous to a fault.

Did you know that Lady Ashley insisted...

that my wife work her shift...

so that she could see

some... half-caste kid on the mission?

Now my wife's dead.

Now I've lost everything.

We have to go, Sarah.

Come on! Come on, boys!

They'll be flying in here

and blowing us up any minute!

Get on the bloody trucks!

[Dutton]

Sarah, please. We have to go now.

[Nullah Narrating]

My magic not good.

All the smoke.

- But then he speak to me.

- ## [Singing Quietly]

- Grandfather.

- [Chanting]

[King George Chanting, Echoes]

[Aboriginal Language]

## [Two Notes]

Come on, love. Don't muck about.

## ["Over The Rainbow"]

Can you hear that?

Music. Can you hear it?

Come on, boys.

## [Continues]

Sing.

## [Children Singing Hymn]

- Sarah, please.

- Can't you hear it?

## [Singing Continues]

It's children singing.

## [Singing Grows Louder]

[Chanting]

- Sarah! What's going on?

- Just give her another minute.

## [Singing Harmonizes

With Harmonica]

[Gasps]

Mrs. Boss! Mrs. Boss!

Mrs. Boss!

Mrs. Boss! Mrs. Boss!

Mrs. Boss! Mrs. Boss!

Nullah!

- Mrs. Boss!

- Ah!

- I can say your name!

- Oh!

Mrs. Boss. I sing you to me

like the first night I see you.

Them Japs nearly got us.

We had to swim'em.

Some of them little fellas

from the desert can't swim'em.

But the Drover take 'em

on his back like a turtle.

What did you say? What?

Drover.

You're alive! Oh, God!

[Horn Honking]

Sarah, what's going on?

I can't hold the sergeant any longer!

- [Excited Chattering]

- Come on, boys!

Oh, my God.

It's the children from the mission.

The last convoy leaves Darwin

in a matter of minutes.

Come on!

- In the truck!

- Come on, boys!

- To the truck. Follow Brother Frank.

- Truck's waiting. Let's go.

Follow Brother Frank.

Follow Brother Frank.

- That's it. That's it.

- Come on, boys. Come on, boys.

- Let's go.

- Come on, boys.

[Dutton] Quick as you can to the end of

the wharf, and then straight on the truck.

- Sarah.

- [Gasps] Ivan!

Thank you!

Thank you.

I shall prepare your bill.

[Children Chattering]

Where'd you come from?

The good Lord has delivered us,

but we could do with a ride, Sergeant.

I'm not Jesus Christ,

but I'll give it my best shot.

Come on, kids.

Come on. On the trucks.

I want a third in the front,

a third at the back.

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