The Hawaiians Page #3

You savvy Punti yesterday.

A little bit, one word.

Maybe.

You learn savvy Punti!

Too old!

Not smart.

Soon my sons will begin

to think they're not Chinese.

In one year, we'll go back

to China. One year.

Where will we live

in China?

I'll take my sons, and live

with my wife in Low Village.

Where am i going to live?

You'll live in your village.

No!

I want to buy a field here.

Not buy a field.

Asia! Africa!

This you'll honour all your life.

Your mother.

Your true mother, in China.

Remember?

She's my wife.

She looks pretty, no?

Wu Chow's Auntie...

I can't wait any longer on this.

Les see what we've got.

A little prayer

to Confucius wouldn't hurt.

You brought off a miracle.

You grew a good pineapple.

Wait. Now, you've got

something coming.

Shall we go look

at that littee bittee land?

What land?

Small land up the road.

The man says is 100 dollars.

Captain says, i pay 20

and maybe he'll lend 80.

80, hell, this is on me.

Make up your mind,

do you want it?

I got to get to French Guiana

before I go broke in that sugar cane.

Yes, i want it.

Jesus shall reign...

wherever the sun...

does his successive...

journeys run.

His kingdom stretched...

from shore to shore...

till moons shall wax...

and wane no more.

People and realms...

of every tongue...

dwell on his love...

What brings you here for

the first time in your life?

Business.

Business?

You know, we don't

discuss business here.

Why not? You've all

got rich in the name of the Lord.

I want the Carthaginian

for a year.

That impossible.

You're as penniless

as we said you'd be.

Look...

The will states I can sail the

Carthaginian with an option to buy.

I'll give up the option

for the use of her.

Well, brother Micah...

what saith the Lord?

Amen.

10.07 and twelve seconds,

Mr Stein.

42 degrees, 8 minutes

and 22 seconds.

Right, sir.

Too many dishes.

Ah! You burnt!

No, no.

I look this hand.

It no hurt?

Do you have medicine

for Mai Pake?

Did you get the medicine?

But, no like Chinese doctor.

I like to see Dr Whipple.

No, he'll send me to Molokai.

Never, you savvy?

I hear about lots of bad Chinese men.

They tell police about Mai Pake.

Police pay money.

I think Chinese doctor

and bad men are the same.

What will we do

when the money runs out?

Kee Mun Ki.

You know, i no like

go back to China...

but maybe is better.

My Chinese wife see me

as a leper? Never, never.

In China ill be the same.

Wu Chow's Auntie...

you're a good woman.

You're a good woman.

Why don't we get the mosquitoes

to carry the pineapples?

Quiet, there may be

patrol boats along here.

Got him.

Damn your eyes, Conroy.

I said no shooting!

Morris pick him up.

Glendar take his place.

Stand by to give way together.

Oars out.

All right. Work as fast

as you can, but quiet.

Any man comes out of there

without a full sack gets left behind.

Good morning. Now, is time

for my preparation number 41.

How much this time?

Very special formula.

15 dollars.

15 dollars!

I don't have 15 dollars.

You have a vegetable patch.

You could sell.

No! I've got five sons.

Patch for sons.

Then, i'm afraid your friend

can't be cured.

No cure anyway. Medicine no good.

Better i go see Dr Whipple.

A white doctor?

He'll sell your friend to the police.

Pig! Liar! You sell

to the police already.

Go after her.

- You know where he's staying?

- No, they go, didn't say where.

- Where are the kids?

- Not home from school yet.

- Where's Mrs Hoxworth?

- She's gone.

Listen...

if those two Pakes come back,

you tell us.

Sure!

Better sleep now.

No, you sleep.

I'm not sleepy.

Funny thing. I'm sick,

but I don't feel sick.

Everybody's afraid of me...

but, i feel the same

as the day we came here.

Maybe, you should

be afraid too.

No.

Better we go.

No chance unloading tonight.

Don't worry about that.

We'll unload the cargo ourselves.

Purity!

Captain, you're home.

Where's Missy?

Gone. I don't think

she'll come back.

Captain, little Pakes are in bad

trouble. Come and help, please.

What do we do?

Help me get him

in the buggy.

Poor little Pakes.

Kee Mun Ki.

Aloha, Mun Ki.

Aloha, little Pake.

All kokuas aboard!

All kokuas aboard!

What are Kokuas?

They've not got Mai Pake.

Husband takes care of wife,

wife takes care of husband.

They stay there

and don't come back.

I'm a kokua. I go.

I'll help Mun Ki.

You got babies, Pake wahine.

You take care of these babies.

I take care of Mun Ki.

Wu Chow's Auntie,

you can't go there.

Last call for kokuas!

I go, i help Mun Ki.

I go, please.

Ready to make sail.

Stand by to cast off.

Kee Mun Ki.

You take me with you?

One more time?

This time...

I'll learn Punti.

All right. Everybody out.

Come on, lively now.

Over you go.

Look, i came here

to see you.

Purity, i want you

to come home with me.

But this is my home.

I belong here.

You belong with me.

If you really mean that,

stay here.

By God, if i thought...

Look...

whatever has been wrong

between us...

is it over?

Purity...

do you want me?

I don't know.

By God, there's one way

to find out.

Whip, please put me down.

Please, put me down.

Please, put me down!

Put me down!

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

You're trying to trick me!

All right.

But, i'm taking Noel

back with me.

Noel belongs here

with his people.

These aren't his people.

He's my son.

Whip!

Here, you take him.

Captain Hoxworth!

Captain Hoxworth,

you got Mai Pake?

No...

No, by God.

If i did they'd have to kill me

to get me out here.

What about you?

She doesn't have Mai Pake

yet, she's a strong woman.

Mun Ki.

I got your message.

Captain...

Better you take baby,

go quick.

Sorry, the baby's a girl.

There's a place for girls

in the world too.

Is she weened?

She has no name.

You ask Foo Sen

for a good name, please.

Sure.

Well...

I'd better go.

Good luck.

Noel.

Dad...

Is it true you killed a man when you

got the pineapples? In cold blood?

Where did you hear that?

School. Is it true?

Yes, is true.

What else do they

teach you at that school?

Did they tell you I found water here

so they could raise the pineapples?

No. They're saying the pineapples

have blood on them.

You don't know whether your old man

is a son of a b*tch, or not.

Still want to go to sea?

Yes, sir.

All right.

You'll go to sea.

See what you learn there.

Maybe you can figure out whether

those pineapples are worth the

blood.

It has been long since

we heard anything from them.

And your sister, did you name her

Mei Li as i instructed?

Yes, will you tell our mother?

Also tell her we're going to build

a house by the vegetable patch.

A house?

You are ambitious.

A pity your Punti is so poor.

Go, go.

Those aren't Chinese.

Japanese.

They're a lot tamer

than the Chinese.

Work cheaper too.

Is time for you

to get along.

Do you need anything?

I don't know, Dad.

If you get in trouble just...

you just get yourself out.

Bye, father.

What the hell's going on here?

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