Mr. Pip Page #4

the first thing he had to do was to

clear a space for the voice oi Pip.

And that is what my friend Matilda

has done.

She's started to write the story of Pip.

She has given us a special task,

a sacred task-

we have to retrieve the story

of Great Expectations.

So, who's with me?

Yes. Christopher.

Pip wanted to be a gentleman.

Yes, he did.

Can anyone be a gentleman?

Yes, they can.

Even a poor person?

Absolutely a poor person

can be a gentleman.

A gentleman... a gentleman is someone

who never forgets their manners,

no matter what the situation is,

no matter how terrible, how awful.

Money and social standing

have got nothing to do with it.

A gentleman always tries to do

the right thing.

Where have you been?

School, of course.

What, with the dumb bugger, Pop-Eye?

Mum, I know you talked Mr Watts

into coming back.

This will remove Pip

from the protective comfort of home

to the unknown metropolis.

Metropolis. Uh... Alright.

Let's say that this here

is our little village.

In Pip's time, greater London

would be this immense metropolis.

We've got a new roof on our place.

Tag! Can't catch me!

Pip'

Sorry, would you excuse us, Herbert?

What's wrong?

It's nothing.

I'm just... I'm running late for

a meeting with Miss Havisham.

I'll walk with you.

No, it's the young Miss Havisham,

Estella.

Anyways, it was very nice to see- you.

Who was that, Handel?

Nobody.

His name is Pip.

Or have you abandoned that too,

along with Joe and everyone else?

And you're so much better?

I'm sorry, Matilda, but you have no idea

what is expected of a gentleman.

I do. I just don't see one here.

Do you not have your own shadow

to play with?

Sh*t. Matilda. What are you doing

creeping around here'?

What Estella says to Pip - do you not

have your own shadow to play with?

Yes. Very good.

Do you want to write this down?

Did Mrs Watts read Great Expectations?

Grace?

Sadly, no.

She fried.

Till finally she said

that she would reach the end

if I would do the same with the Bible,

and that was that.

The thing is, you can't really pretend

to read a book.

Your eyes will always give you away.

Your eyes and your breathing.

The house could be on fire

and a reader deep in a book

wouldn't even notice

until the wallpaper was in ames.

And for me,

Great Expectations was such a book.

It gave me permission to...

change my life.

Reinvent myself.

Matilda.

There's a boat leaving

the night after the full moon.

Gilbert's father could take us out

to meet it.

A few hours on the open sea

and you'd be in the Solomon Islands.

And Australia?

Well, in the Solomons,

it'd be up to you.

Your mum too, Matilda.

But it's very important that

you don't tell anyone about this,

not even Dolores,

until I give the word.

Understand?

Hurry up! Go!

You. Move, move, move, move.

Hey!

Move!

Move out, move out.

We need medicines.

What medicines we had, you burned.

Last time we were here, you were

concealing a man named Pip.

Have you decided to hand him to me yet'?

I thought not.

Move

Move

I will ask you again for your name.

My fathers family name being Pirrip,

and my Christian name Philip,

my infant tongue

could make of both names

nothing longer or more explicit

than Pip.

So I called myself Pip

and came lo be called...

Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!

Hey, shut up!

I'm finished with being lied to.

Move, move!

Look up!

Who saw this?

No, Daniel.

I saw it, sir,

Sir, he doesn't know what he's saying.

He doesn't know what he's saying, sir.

Come.

No, he...

No!

Please, he doesn't know

what he's saying!

Would you like to go with him?

Yes, sir.

Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up!

Get up! Get up!

Now, once more I will ask you...

...who saw the white man die?

Who saw?

I did.

Sir, I saw your men chop up

the white man and feed him to the pigs.

He was a good man.

I'm here as God's witness.

I am God's witness.

Sir, I will be God's witness.

Take her.

No!

Stay.

You. Are you related to this woman?

She's my mother.

OK, girl. Move, move. Move.

Move it. Move it.

Does anyone else have anything to say?

Move, move.

No

'No! No'

No!

Matilda, my darling,

Oh, Matilda, my darting. Yeah.

No! Lei her go! Please!

Stop it!

Stand up

Stand up.

Please...

Please, sir, I beg you, have mercy.

She's just a little girl.

Now you beg me, and for what?

What will you give me

to save your daughter?

Take me instead.

My men have had you already.

You have nothing left for me.

Take my life,

Did you hear that?

Your mother has offered her life

for you.

What do you say?

Matilda, don't say anything.

No, I wanna hear.

What do you say to your mother?

Very well.

Move Move. Move'

No. You stay here.

Hold onto me.

Hold on!

I saw something. ll is. It's her,

Wait!

We have 10 go, Matilda.

Keep going. Slowly, slowly.

- Keep going up.

- Right.

Say 'ahhh'.

Ahhh.

Matilda - that's a nice name.

Where did you get that name?

Oh!

Here we are.

You've got some eating to catch up on.

I bought you birthday cakes

for every one I've missed.

Guess you were still a little girl

in my head.

It's nice.

Alright.

Well, I'll let you settle in.

You alright?

I love you.

We've got a new student today.

Welcome, Matilda.

Matilda is from...

I came here from Honiara

in the Solomon Islands.

Oh, right. It says on your form.

My mum couldn't come, so I came

hereto help look after my dad.

OK. Right.

So if everyone can open

their maths books to page 348,

we're just gonna pick up

where we left off yesterday,

So yesterday we were having a look at

making up equations with algebra.

Today we're just gonna carry on with

using equations to solve problems.

So that first example there

at the top of page 348.

If I think of a number

and then multiply it by seven...

...I get the same result as if I had

multiplied the number by four...

and then added 15

So if we're writing an equation

for this information...

It couldn't wait till after school?

The man traveled from Sydney

to see you. Some kind of lawyer.

So whats this about exactly'?

Uh, you're aware of the situation

in Bougainville

since the blockade was lifted?

You've been there?

How long since you were there?

It's been ten years.

I assume you remember Mr Thomas Watts?

He was my teacher... in Bougainville.

Well, Mr Watts passed away

during the conflict.

Did you know that?

I'm sorry.

But it seems he left a will which

bequeaths much of his property to you.

Mind you, we've had a devil of a time

trying to find you.

It's primarily his house - half a house.

It's a flat, really.

The other half reverts to his wife.

His wife's dead.

No. No, loan assure you June Walls

is still very much alive.

And where's the at?

In Gravesend, in London.

Platform four...

Mrs Watts?

I thought you were from Australia.

I am.

Go ahead. H's yours.

I'll put the kettle on.

Don't get many visitors.

Went out and got the strawberry creams

especially.

Thank you. It was lovely of you

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