Lord of the Flies Page #3

It's not his. It belongs to the camp.

Yeah? Well, there's a new camp now,

and he wants it.

Yeah, and Tony wants his shoes,

socks and his junk.

Take Tony's stuff

but you can't have the knife.

- He's a defector. Another damn defector.

- It's because of the monster.

I told you there's no monster.

Tony knows there's no monster.

Tony just wants to be a hunter

and he's too chickenshit to get his stuff.

But what if there is

some kind of big animal?

Yeah.

(Piggy) Oh, great. Two more traitors.

Sorry, Ralph.

(Piggy) Good riddance.

Sh.

(twig snaps)

(hunters shout)

(Jack) Go on! Get the knife! Get the knife!

(Ralph) Bring that back!

You have no right!

Get back here! What the hell

do you think you're doing?

(Piggy whimpers)

(sobs) Oh, God!

They broke my glasses.

Anyone who wants to come up has to ask.

- Where are the others?

- They're hunting.

Where's that cave you found?

- Don't you know?

- Yeah, but I'm not going back.

- I already showed Jack and the others.

- Tell me where it is.

You shouldn't go there.

I just want to look. I've got a glow stick.

It's over there in the forest.

(Jack) Put it here.

Sharpen a stick at both ends.

This is a present for the monster.

(shouting and whooping)

OK, Rambo, you've made your point.

What do you want?

We killed a pig today.

There's going to be a feast.

You can all come eat

with us if you want to.

- (whispers) Go on. Now.

- (all) The chief has spoken.

(Jack) See you tonight, girls.

(Jack) Count.

Cadence delay. Cadence count.

- (hunters) Whoa, one.

- (Jack) Airborne rangers!

- Two.

- Better do your best!

- Three.

- Or you'll find yourself...

- Four.

- In front leaving rest.

- One.

- Hit it.

- Two.

- Hit it.

- Three.

- Hit it.

- Four.

- Hit it.

(hunters) One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

We like it here. We love it here.

We finally found a home.

- (boy) A what?

- (hunters) A home.

- A what?

- A home away from home. Huh!

(thunderclap)

Luke, take them some meat.

I promised I'd get meat.

Didn't l, Ralph?

I want you to tell the little ones that

I made you a promise and I kept it. Say it!

You kept your promise

but not the fire watch.

You think one meal is worth not getting

rescued? We've gotta be one group again.

I agree. You can join my camp

and have all the meat you want.

We don't want your meat.

(Jack) Oh, yeah. Then why'd you come?

(Ralph) We came to try

and talk some sense to you.

You don't have the conch.

The conch is in our camp,

where it belongs.

What's the matter, tits?

Were you afraid to bring it with you?

- The conch doesn't count any more.

- Stop that!

Nobody's interested in you

and your conch.

Take your fat friend and shove off.

You've had all the meat you can eat.

Come on, hunters!

Roger's the pig!

(Roger yells)

Come on, hunters! Billy's the monster!

The monster!

It's the real monster! Kill him!

(thunderclap)

What are we gonna do?

Piggy, that was Simon.

What good are you doing

talking about it? It was dark.

- We were scared.

- I wasn't scared.

You were scared.

Anything could have happened.

It wasn't our fault.

It was. We were there

and we didn't do anything about it.

There was nothing we could do.

There was too many of them.

- That's not the point.

- It was an accident.

That's what it was - a terrible accident.

- Hi.

- Hi.

We came here to see

if you guys have any fire.

Ours is out.

- Everything's out.

- On account of the storm.

We gotta get back.

Hold on a minute.

I wanna talk to you about last night.

Ralph.

We left early.

(both) We were real tired.

- It isn't fair.

- I never touched it.

- He didn't.

- (Roger) Butt out, or you'll get it.

From now on, any more criminals

are gonna be put on that island to starve.

- Give it to him. Whip him.

- Now you're gonna get it.

(all shout) Yeah!

(boy yells in pain)

I'll get fire, I promise you.

Tomorrow we'll hunt again.

But we have to be careful

cos the monster might come any time.

But didn't we... I thought we...

No. It could come again any time,

in any shape.

Just when we're not ready,

it could be there.

(Piggy) Maybe we should

just build a raft and row off.

(Ralph) I will if you will.

- Well?

- We don't really know what's out there.

I bet you out past the reef

lots of boats come by every day,

and one of them could rescue us.

Yeah? Well, suppose it didn't.

Suppose it was Russian.

Then what? We'd be taken prisoner.

The Russians wouldn't take us prisoner.

I don't know. Major Dingledine,

my new dad, told me...

Major Dingledine?

Yeah. He said that if

the Russians invaded the US,

they would take the kids

and separate us from our parents -

and I know it sounds weird -

but they might make us go into

the Olympics or something like that.

- I don't see what's so funny.

- Piggy,

I don't think you have to worry about the

Russians forcing you into the Olympics.

Hey, what's that?

(sings Bach's Minuet in G)

Where do you think it comes from?

A Russian submarine,

full of Olympic athletes.

(rustling)

Ralph, wake up.

- What is it?

- Sh. Just listen.

There's someone out there.

- I don't hear anything.

- Sh. Listen.

(rustling)

(Jack) I hear you there, Piggy.

Come outside, Piggy. I want you, Piggy.

(hunter) Ha, Piggy!

Come on out, Piggy.

(Piggy wails)

Why can't you just leave us alone?

- (hunter) Yagh!

- (Piggy wails)

- Give 'em back!

- I got the glasses!

(hunters cheer)

(crying)

Here.

We did everything just the way

grown-ups would have.

Why didn't it work?

Things'd be much better, Ralph,

if it wasn't for him.

I wish he was dead.

- No, you don't.

- I do.

We could just give up and join his tribe.

Then we'd at least be with the others.

No, Piggy.

Ralph, I can't see.

I know.

- Halt! Who goes there?

- (whistles)

(Ralph) Don't be stupid.

You know who we are.

We brought the conch.

I'm calling an assembly.

- Where's Jack?

- (Jack) What do you want now?

(Ralph) You heard. We brought the conch.

I'm calling an assembly.

Why don't you two f*** off? This is my

end and my tribe. Keep to your own end.

You won't keep to your end, tearing up

our camp and stealing Piggy's glasses.

- You've gotta give 'em back.

- Got to? Who says?

I do.

Piggy can't see. If you wanted to have

a fire all you had to do was ask.

- I don't have to ask!

- Come on! Yeah! Yeah!

(conch)

- (Piggy) I've got the conch. Let me speak.

- Get outta here, Piggy.

(hunters jeer)

Stop that, Roger. Let Piggy speak.

(wolf-whistles)

Please. This is serious.

Get out, fat ass. Get away.

Go back to your own camp.

What I wanna say is,

if we don't get rescued

we might have to live here for a long time.

Maybe the rest of our lives.

If we are stuck here until we get old

then we can't go on acting like kids.

We've gotta be sensible

and make things work.

No!

You're not gonna get away with this.

Yeah? And what are you gonna do? Huh?

What are you gonna do about it?

You're out of it, pal. You're on your own.

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