Lord of the Flies (2026) s01e02 Episode Script
Jack
1
RADIO STATIC
VOICES IN STATIC
MAN'S VOICE: comply with
the Gentlemen's Agreement in 1950,
in which they are telling us that
STATIC WHINES
INSECTS CHIRP
FLY BUZZES
SNUFFLING BREATHS
MUTED CHATTER
DEEP SNIFFING
WHISPERS: Jack.
Jack, have you seen anything? Sh!
Jack.
If we're not going to find
something, we should go back.
Shut up, Maurice!
LOUD BANGING
What was that?
Father says that turbulence is
not something to be frightened of.
Oh!
BOYS GASP
It's air. Gaps in the air
of some sort.
It means nothing.
PIG GRUNTING
STICK CRACKS,
PIG SQUEALS
PIG SCREECHES,
BOYS SCREAM
SCREAMING, SCREECHING INTERTWINE
HE SCREAMS
SILENCE
THEY PAN
Yours!
THEY PAN
Next time, keep silent. Yes. Sorry.
I'm thirsty. Let's find the others.
BRASS MUSIC PLAYS
THROUGH RADIO STATIC
DISTANT BOOMS
The acorn dropped with a
plop on the chicken's head,
and Chicken Licken shouted loud,
"The sky is falling in!"
And he shouted it
everywhere he could.
And then the thunder came.
All the other chickens ran away.
And Chicken Licken repeated,
"The sky is falling in!"
BOYS SNIFFLING
But did anyone listen
to Chicken Licken?
No.
Should they have?
FAINTLY: Yes!
Maybe.
RALPH: Ah! Are you here to help?
I'm here to swim.
WILL you help?
Shall we see if it has strength?
BOYS LAUGH
You need to bind it better.
Thank you for that insight.
You're not expecting me to help?
I'm a hunter. You have builders.
Call a meeting.
I will. I will. I'll blow the conch
and all will come running
because they love meetings.
And everyone will be very
solemn and obey the conch.
And then someone will say
we ought to build a jet
or a submarine,
or a television.
I'd love a television.
And then, when the meeting's over,
everyone will be
filled with enthusiasm
and work for at least five minutes
before they wander off
or go hunting.
I don't have the hunters
I need either.
We're getting closer
all the time, though.
If we had a few more people
I didn't know that.
You're getting closer all the time?
That is wonderful!
JACK LAUGHS
What do you call that?
It's not something getting closer!
Hang about, we've worked damn hard!
So have we, Ralph.
Bathe with me.
Everything's better when we bathe.
Race you to the water.
Five, four
three
two! No, that's not fair!
Wait! Hey!
Ha-ha! Ha-ha! Whoo!
BOTH LAUGH
I won! You did no such thing.
Maurice, who won?
I didn't see for certain,
but I'd say you, Jack.
Ha-ha! What? But
LAUGHTER
HE EXHALES
I need to make a barb for
our spears.
We wounded a pig.
We would have made it bleed if
it wasn't just wood we were using.
Could you sharpen a stone?
It wouldn't work as well.
I will catch something.
I'll keep the signal fire going
and I'm going to catch something.
And then everyone
will have meat and be happy.
You've noticed, haven't you?
How frightened the littluns are?
Have you been awake at night?
They talk and they dream
and they scream as if they
SIMON: As if it weren't
a good island.
You remember. The
The beastie - the snake thing.
I remember the batty children.
That's all I remember.
Don't you feel it, Jack?
When you're in the forest?
When you're on your own?
Something
behind you?
The best thing we can do
is finish the shelters.
The best thing we can do
is get rescued. The fire
Yes, yes. I agree with both of you.
Although I would like
to catch a pig first.
RALPH CHUCKLES
I'm serious!
You'd make an amazing member
of our team, Ralph.
Could we not swap you for Simon?
As he seems to have completely
forgotten his allegiances.
Simon and I are the only ones
building the shelter.
He can stay here.
And you can be off with me,
finding the pig runts.
The chief needs to be here
for the littluns' sake.
PIGGY: Are we having a meeting?
I didn't see
that you were here, Jack.
The littluns aren't using
the tidal pool for the toilet.
I tell them different, and then
they say that they will, but then
Shall we talk about it all
in the next meeting?
I thought this was a meeting -
before the meeting.
Not that we're the leaders,
but we are sort of
well, the core leaders, aren't we?
No.
SAND RASPING
HE GASPS
Look! Just there.
Can you see the glint?
It's debris from the plane.
Could be useful.
Can you see its edge?
HE BREATHES RAGGEDLY
SOFT CRUMBLING
HE GRUNTS, PANTS
HE BREATHES RAPIDLY
HE BREATHES STEADILY
FAINTLY: He might fall.
He needs to come down.
It's too high for him.
It's dangerous.
MUFFLED CHATTER
He's going to fall.
I think it's too far.
I think I should come down.
Would you agree?
Yes! Yes!
HE BREATHES SHAKILY
ROCKS PATTER
BIRD CHATTERS
ROCKS, DUST PATTER
JACK GASPS
Jack.
There's a good foothold here.
And here is a good spot
for your left foot.
That's your right.
Just here, Jack.
Just here with your right foot.
And let your left foot drop.
FLY BUZZES
You're doing well.
FLY BUZZES
OK.
Just there, Jack.
Just bring that right foot
I know!
Now this foot. There. Good.
Well done, Jack. Almost there.
OK, now drop both
of your feet down there.
Well done, Jack.
Thank you.
Don't tell anyone about this.
They wouldn't understand.
HE SNIFFS
FIRE CRACKLES
HE EXHALES
HE SIGHS
CRACKLING CONTINUES
There.
There!
PIGS GRUNT, SQUEAL
It's almost flagrant,
the dirty beasts.
It's a rest spot, isn't it?
It's clearly a rest spot.
When the sun's too hot,
that's where they go.
What is it? The pigs.
They clearly behave as cows do,
resting during the heat.
Good idea. We should do the same.
PIGS GRUN
Mauri, you're good at navigation.
Can you map that?
Could you find that
spot on the ground?
I could give it a good go.
Find where they rest.
Disguise our faces.
Disguise our faces? Paint our faces.
Surround the pigs. Box them in.
Midday raid? I like it.
For a good box, we need
as many boys as we can manage.
Full choir attack.
HE ROARS
Hoo!
You look like a brick.
Are you supposed
to creep about at night?
I like the peace.
You might scare the littluns.
I'm not the one daubing his face
like someone in the Special Service.
My father used to be
Is it different, if you're a hunter?
Is it fine to scare the littluns
if you're a hunter?
I'm not "painting" my face.
I'm disguising it.
I need to blend in.
For the pig hunt.
You're having
a jolly nice time, aren't you?
Simon, if you haven't got
something nice to say, go away.
That's all I'm saying.
What a jolly good time
you're having.
Where did you have that?
It's flint. I made it.
Caveman-style.
Stone against flint.
It's proved very useful
cutting the vines.
It's not "a jolly good time".
I'm just taking it seriously.
As am I.
My father always taught
the story of how,
when he was 18 years old,
he and a friend hiked across
the whole of Scotland,
from John O'Groats
to Hadrian's Wall.
They carried nothing with them.
They wanted to live off the land.
It rained for ten days.
But they didn't care.
I'd care. I hate being damp.
He said he learned more
on that one trip
than he did throughout
the entirety of school.
It's what readied him
for university.
It's what readied him for his work.
He said without it,
he would never have known
how to be successful.
You think this is a test
that will make us stronger?
Of course not.
A test is not positive,
however you behave in it.
"Oh, I got a delta minus
for my maths."
Oh, wonderful. What you must
have learned from that!
A test needs to be passed.
My father and his friend
passed their tests.
We need to pass this one.
Before we're saved, that is.
What?
I know my father is currently
Your father is not
coming for you, Jack.
Whatever you say about Scotland,
he's not coming.
You don't know anything
about my father.
No, but I know mine.
And I have suspicions
that yours is just the same.
But their fathers are better.
And so I agree, you will be saved.
You're going to
get off this island, Jack.
We all are.
I know it.
We just have to get
by until they come.
This isn't a test.
We don't need to prove anything.
We don't need to be brave.
We don't need to be scared.
I'm not scared.
I don't want to be tested.
I don't want this to be a test.
I just feel like it is.
And I don't get scared, I get
worried.
That's a better word.
Shall I try to do your face?
I might have a better eye for it,
as my eye isn't attached
to the face being painted.
JACK SCOFFS
Yes.
Why not?
Worried warrior.
WAVES LAP
BIRDS CRY
STONES SCRAPE
INDISTINCT CHATTER
CHATTER, LAUGHTER
STONES CLACKING
LAUGHTER
CHATTER, CHEERING
First thing we need
to talk about are toilets.
LAUGHTER
We chose those rocks
right along there
on the bathing pool as a lavatory.
That was a sensible decision.
The tide cleans the place up.
You littluns know about that.
LAUGHTER
Now people seem to use anywhere,
even the shelter.
Sorry about that!
LAUGHTER
When you're getting fruit,
if you're taken short
LAUGHTER
It's not funny.
It is a bit funny.
If you're taken short,
you keep away from the fruit.
That's dirty.
Next, water.
We were going to have water
brought up from the streams
and put in those coconuts
under fresh leaves.
What's wrong with drinking
from the river? Yeah!
I got the conch.
There's nothing wrong
with drinking from the river.
Stop that!
But we had another system
to stop people
having to walk to the river.
The lazy people.
This whole camp's for lazy people.
Ralph, can you
please tell them that
Everybody, this is important!
Piggy's holding a shell.
Listen to everything
he importantly says.
LAUGHTER
I-I didn't Listen. Ralph
Listen! I didn't Listen!
We need these assemblies.
Not for fun, not for laughing,
and not for making jokes.
And not for cleverness,
but to put things straight.
Will you stop that?!
We have to do it. We've got
a big expedition this afternoon.
It's necessary.
We're going to catch a pig, Ralph.
Go on, Piggy. What else do
we need to talk about?
Shelters.
ALL: Ugh!
You all sleep in them.
Who built them?
We did. Us!
We all did.
BOYS: We built them!
No, we all built the first one.
I helped you with the second one.
Four of us built the second one.
And me and Simon
built the last one over there.
And failed miserably!
LAUGHTER
No, no, no, no. Sh!
No, don't laugh!
That That shelter might
fall down when the rain comes.
It's pathetic. Whose fault's that?
It's really flimsy!
We need those shelters then.
Look, I I'm chief,
and I want to be a good chief,
but things are breaking up
LITTLEUNS YELLING
and I don't understand why.
We began well.
Is it because you're frightened?
Is Is that it?
They think the beastie
will get them!
LAUGHTER
Roger, Ralph has the conch.
Sometimes I get frightened myself.
Sometimes I hear a sound
that doesn't make any sense.
Only I know it's nonsense.
So I stop the thoughts. See?
We need to be good camp mates,
we need to help each other,
and we need to stop crying.
All right?
Right, anyone want to say anything?
They can. I'm finished.
CHOIRBOYS: Oh, yeah, Jack!
Go on, Jack!
Go on, Jack.
I agree with Ralph.
You littluns -
you're all cry-babies.
SNICKERING
You, you, and especially you!
You don't hunt, build, or help.
You just get worked up
about nothing.
There's no beast
on this island. Only pigs.
And there's no dark,
dangerous animal.
I don't think anyone said
anything about an animal.
I've got the conch!
Yeah, shut up, Ralph!
Am I a hunter or am I not?
CHOIRBOYS: You're a hunter!
I've been all over
this island by myself.
If there was some sort
of beast, I'd have seen it.
There isn't.
And that's the end of that.
Nice one. Nice on, Jack.
APPLAUSE
Yes, Jack! Well said, Jack.
CHOIRBOYS CHEERING
Well said, Jack.
MURMURING,
BOYS GASP
Oh, let him speak. The conch.
MURMURING
INDISTINCT CHATTER
Last night, I was sleeping.
FAINT CHORTLING
So? I was fighting with things.
I was outside the shelter by myself,
fighting with things.
Those twisty things in the trees.
And then I woke up
and I saw something
moving among the trees.
LAUGHTER
And then
JACK: All in your head. Thank you.
CHOIRBOYS LAUGH
Then I was frightened,
and I started to call out for Ralph.
And then I saw something big
and horrid moving among the trees.
LAUGHTER
Perhaps you were asleep?
No, no.
I was asleep when
the twisty things were fighting.
And then I woke up and
I saw something big and horrid
moving among the trees.
WHISPERING
Do you have something
to report, too?
Yeah.
PIGGY: Now is the time to say
if something's frightening you.
WHISPERING
What's your name?
Percival Wemys Madison.
The Vicarage, Harcourt Street,
Buriton, Hants.
Telephone, Buriton 6324.
PERCIVAL SNIFFLES, SOBS
I do love these meetings, Ralph.
They make everyone feel better.
CHOIRBOYS SNICKER
Percival! Stop this
FEROCIOUS LAUGHTER
Look at me now. I say
Whoa!
LAUGHTER
Don't even think about laugh!
Oh, ohh!
LAUGHTER
THEY LAUGH, ROAR
ROARING, LAUGHTER
ROARING, LAUGHTER CONTINUE
Ice cream! Ice cream!
SHOUTING, LAUGHTER
Ralph, we may have a problem.
He says it comes from the sea.
VOICES THROUGH RADIO STATIC
JACK: Hoo!
BOYS: Ha!
Hoo-hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!
Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!
Hoo-hoo-hoo! Hoo-hoo! Hoo-ha!
Ha! Hoo! Ha! Hoo!
Hoo-hoo!
BOY: Ha-ha!
Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!
Hoo! Ha!
Hoo! Ha! Ha! Hoo!
Ha! Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!
Ha! Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!
JACK AND BOY: Hoo! Ha!
Hoo! Ha!
Ha! Hoo! Ha! Hoo!
Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!
Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!
I think I know where to go.
I trust you.
But they might not be
in the same place. Pigs
Maurice, I've seen your report card.
Alpha plus-plus in Geography
and Human Science.
I trust you.
If we don't find them today,
we'll find them tomorrow.
STICK SNAPS
PIGS SQUEAL, GRUN
INSECTS CHIRPING
PIGLETS SQUEAL
PIG SCREECHES
BOYS ROAR, SHOU
PIG SCREECHES
SHOUTING CONTINUES
Yah!
PIG SQUEALS
PIG SCREECHES
Yah!
PIG SCREECHES
PIG GROANS
HE GRUNTS
PAINED SCREECHES
HITS THUD
PIG WHINES, GROANS
LOW BRAYING
KNIFE THUDS
PIG GRUNTS
BODY THUDS
BLOOD PATTERS
RAIN PATTERS
FLIES BUZZ
ROGER: Everyone's going to be
so pleased with you.
Does that mean? Now she's dead
does that mean her children
will die, too?
STRAINING
THEY PAN
If we make the pole longer, then
We need two poles.
Well, we could lash the pig
to longer pole and then more
I agree with Jack.
Two poles in parallel should do it.
INDISTINCT CHATTER
JACK, MAURICE: Everywhere we go
BOYS: Everywhere we go
People always ask us
People always ask us
Who we are Who we are
And where we come from
And where we come from
We're from Picton!
We're from Picton!
Mighty, mighty Picton!
Mighty, mighty Picton!
And if they can't hear us
And if they can't hear us
We sing a little louder
We sing a little louder
Everywhere we go
Everywhere we go ♪
SPLASHING
Yeah!
Woohoo!
LAUGHTER
JACK HOWLS
BOYS ROAR
LAUGHTER
MAURICE: Whoa. Look what I found!
JACK: Is it one of ours?
What is it?
No, I don't think so.
Open it, open it!
What's this?
It's a recorder.
RECORDER TOOTS
Toothpaste.
It's nice.
There's a diary.
Oh, it is one of ours!
Aha! It's Simon's. It has his name.
Let me see it. It'll be funny.
It will be - it's Simon.
"Today I dreamt
about a big grey cloud."
"There were apples growing
in the middle of it."
"I ate one and turned into a thumb."
Don't! Don't read it!
Another!
CHEERING
I hope there's chocolate.
Oh, yes.
Is there any food?
A dress. Ooh, fancy!
"Who wants a piece of eel pie?"
BOYS LAUGH
I'm blind. I'm blind!
I can see again!
Could be useful.
Perhaps we could make
a bag out of it.
Or a mask.
This is great!
INDISTINCT CHATTER
It's so refreshing!
BOYS LAUGH
It's soft.
Mmm!
RECORDER TOOTS
HE INHALES
Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
ALL: Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood!
Kill the beast!
Cut its throat!
Spill its blood!
Kill the beast!
Cut its throat!
Spill its blood!
CHANTING FADES OU
Spill its blood. Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
Kill the beast! Cut its throat!
Spill its blood!
CONCH BLARES
Kill the beast.
Cut its throat. Spill its blood.
Kill the beast.
CONCH BLARES
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
SCREAMS: Help!
BOYS: Help!
Help!
Help! Help!
Make sure the pig gets back to camp.
PANICKED SHOUTING
Help us!
What's happening? There's a ship.
Has it seen us?
I don't We don't know.
The signal fire's out.
SHOUTING CONTINUES
THEY COUGH
THEY COUGH
Piggy's glasses.
We can do it!
Piggy!
SIMON: There's no need.
It's gone.
No! No, with binoculars,
these ships can see for miles.
COUGHING
It's turned away.
THEY COUGH
We stacked it. We did.
We left enough wood
for it to burn for three days.
You weren't supposed to leave it!
We had to.
We needed the full choir.
Ralph, we did it! We caught the pig.
A full, fat pig.
What on earth are you wearing?
There will be other ships.
You burnt the island to pieces,
and now you can't even
keep a fire lit!
HE SCOFFS
Come on now, that's not fair.
If you cared so much
about the fire,
you should have done it yourself!
You volunteered!
Along with the shelters
AND looking after the littluns.
AND organising meetings.
I am a hunter.
You're the chief. You're a failure!
You failed!
A ship's passed and it didn't
see us. That's failure!
You're right, Ralph,
we should have thought.
We shouldn't have left the fire.
We're We're really sorry.
Who are you, anyway?
Sitting there,
telling people what to do.
You can't hunt. You can't sing.
We had a rule.
We keep the fire going.
Bollocks to the rules!
We're strong, we hunt, we find meat.
We even found you clean clothes
and gnasher paste.
Piggy wants rules
but you're better than Piggy.
But you're the best, Jack.
Why aren't you leader?
You'd be fantastic.
We'd hunt all day
until we died here.
Shut up, fatty!
We needed meat and we got meat.
I am sad the fire went out,
but hopefully we deserve
some thanks for finding meat.
Thank you.
Thank you for keeping me
prisoner on your island.
There will be other ships!
And what if there isn't, you idiot?!
What if that was
our chance to be saved?
BOYS: No! No! Jack! Jack!
PIGGY WHEEZES
Why do you always
have to keep talking?!
Talking, talking, talking!
You don't have your conch here!
No-one has to listen to you.
Do not hit him again!
PIGGY WHEEZES
My specs.
HE WHEEZES
Now I've only got one eye.
Just you wait.
MOCKING: "Just you wait."
This is boring!
Playing it nice? It's boring.
An adventure island.
What do we do on it?
Nothing but boring things!
Toilets. Water.
Hut building. Boring!
Well, I don't want this!
I never wanted this.
I'm forming a new camp.
A fun camp.
One that hunts and sings,
and dances.
Who's coming with me?
Who's coming with me?!
Then I'll do it on my own.
Just you see.
ROCKS, DUST PATTERS
HE SOBS
PIGGY: I wish my auntie was here.
RALPH: I wish my father was.
Grown-ups just know things.
They'd meet and have
tea, and discuss
then things would be all right.
They wouldn't quarrel.
Or break my specs.
Or talk about a beast.
They'd build a ship.
Yes. We don't know
how to build a ship.
Ralph. You will go on
being chief, won't you?
I'm not sure
there is a chief any more.
You need to.
I know people like Jack.
He can't hurt you.
But if you stand out of the way,
he'd happily hurt the next thing.
And the next thing is me.
I won't let him hurt you.
HE GASPS
Hello.
Hello.
I thought this was
supposed to be the fun camp.
Aaaaaah!
Whoo!
LAUGHTER
It is too hot! It is too hot!
WHOOPING, CHEERING
WAVES LAPPING
RADIO STATIC
VOICES IN RADIO STATIC
RADIO STATIC
VOICES IN STATIC
MAN'S VOICE: comply with
the Gentlemen's Agreement in 1950,
in which they are telling us that
STATIC WHINES
INSECTS CHIRP
FLY BUZZES
SNUFFLING BREATHS
MUTED CHATTER
DEEP SNIFFING
WHISPERS: Jack.
Jack, have you seen anything? Sh!
Jack.
If we're not going to find
something, we should go back.
Shut up, Maurice!
LOUD BANGING
What was that?
Father says that turbulence is
not something to be frightened of.
Oh!
BOYS GASP
It's air. Gaps in the air
of some sort.
It means nothing.
PIG GRUNTING
STICK CRACKS,
PIG SQUEALS
PIG SCREECHES,
BOYS SCREAM
SCREAMING, SCREECHING INTERTWINE
HE SCREAMS
SILENCE
THEY PAN
Yours!
THEY PAN
Next time, keep silent. Yes. Sorry.
I'm thirsty. Let's find the others.
BRASS MUSIC PLAYS
THROUGH RADIO STATIC
DISTANT BOOMS
The acorn dropped with a
plop on the chicken's head,
and Chicken Licken shouted loud,
"The sky is falling in!"
And he shouted it
everywhere he could.
And then the thunder came.
All the other chickens ran away.
And Chicken Licken repeated,
"The sky is falling in!"
BOYS SNIFFLING
But did anyone listen
to Chicken Licken?
No.
Should they have?
FAINTLY: Yes!
Maybe.
RALPH: Ah! Are you here to help?
I'm here to swim.
WILL you help?
Shall we see if it has strength?
BOYS LAUGH
You need to bind it better.
Thank you for that insight.
You're not expecting me to help?
I'm a hunter. You have builders.
Call a meeting.
I will. I will. I'll blow the conch
and all will come running
because they love meetings.
And everyone will be very
solemn and obey the conch.
And then someone will say
we ought to build a jet
or a submarine,
or a television.
I'd love a television.
And then, when the meeting's over,
everyone will be
filled with enthusiasm
and work for at least five minutes
before they wander off
or go hunting.
I don't have the hunters
I need either.
We're getting closer
all the time, though.
If we had a few more people
I didn't know that.
You're getting closer all the time?
That is wonderful!
JACK LAUGHS
What do you call that?
It's not something getting closer!
Hang about, we've worked damn hard!
So have we, Ralph.
Bathe with me.
Everything's better when we bathe.
Race you to the water.
Five, four
three
two! No, that's not fair!
Wait! Hey!
Ha-ha! Ha-ha! Whoo!
BOTH LAUGH
I won! You did no such thing.
Maurice, who won?
I didn't see for certain,
but I'd say you, Jack.
Ha-ha! What? But
LAUGHTER
HE EXHALES
I need to make a barb for
our spears.
We wounded a pig.
We would have made it bleed if
it wasn't just wood we were using.
Could you sharpen a stone?
It wouldn't work as well.
I will catch something.
I'll keep the signal fire going
and I'm going to catch something.
And then everyone
will have meat and be happy.
You've noticed, haven't you?
How frightened the littluns are?
Have you been awake at night?
They talk and they dream
and they scream as if they
SIMON: As if it weren't
a good island.
You remember. The
The beastie - the snake thing.
I remember the batty children.
That's all I remember.
Don't you feel it, Jack?
When you're in the forest?
When you're on your own?
Something
behind you?
The best thing we can do
is finish the shelters.
The best thing we can do
is get rescued. The fire
Yes, yes. I agree with both of you.
Although I would like
to catch a pig first.
RALPH CHUCKLES
I'm serious!
You'd make an amazing member
of our team, Ralph.
Could we not swap you for Simon?
As he seems to have completely
forgotten his allegiances.
Simon and I are the only ones
building the shelter.
He can stay here.
And you can be off with me,
finding the pig runts.
The chief needs to be here
for the littluns' sake.
PIGGY: Are we having a meeting?
I didn't see
that you were here, Jack.
The littluns aren't using
the tidal pool for the toilet.
I tell them different, and then
they say that they will, but then
Shall we talk about it all
in the next meeting?
I thought this was a meeting -
before the meeting.
Not that we're the leaders,
but we are sort of
well, the core leaders, aren't we?
No.
SAND RASPING
HE GASPS
Look! Just there.
Can you see the glint?
It's debris from the plane.
Could be useful.
Can you see its edge?
HE BREATHES RAGGEDLY
SOFT CRUMBLING
HE GRUNTS, PANTS
HE BREATHES RAPIDLY
HE BREATHES STEADILY
FAINTLY: He might fall.
He needs to come down.
It's too high for him.
It's dangerous.
MUFFLED CHATTER
He's going to fall.
I think it's too far.
I think I should come down.
Would you agree?
Yes! Yes!
HE BREATHES SHAKILY
ROCKS PATTER
BIRD CHATTERS
ROCKS, DUST PATTER
JACK GASPS
Jack.
There's a good foothold here.
And here is a good spot
for your left foot.
That's your right.
Just here, Jack.
Just here with your right foot.
And let your left foot drop.
FLY BUZZES
You're doing well.
FLY BUZZES
OK.
Just there, Jack.
Just bring that right foot
I know!
Now this foot. There. Good.
Well done, Jack. Almost there.
OK, now drop both
of your feet down there.
Well done, Jack.
Thank you.
Don't tell anyone about this.
They wouldn't understand.
HE SNIFFS
FIRE CRACKLES
HE EXHALES
HE SIGHS
CRACKLING CONTINUES
There.
There!
PIGS GRUNT, SQUEAL
It's almost flagrant,
the dirty beasts.
It's a rest spot, isn't it?
It's clearly a rest spot.
When the sun's too hot,
that's where they go.
What is it? The pigs.
They clearly behave as cows do,
resting during the heat.
Good idea. We should do the same.
PIGS GRUN
Mauri, you're good at navigation.
Can you map that?
Could you find that
spot on the ground?
I could give it a good go.
Find where they rest.
Disguise our faces.
Disguise our faces? Paint our faces.
Surround the pigs. Box them in.
Midday raid? I like it.
For a good box, we need
as many boys as we can manage.
Full choir attack.
HE ROARS
Hoo!
You look like a brick.
Are you supposed
to creep about at night?
I like the peace.
You might scare the littluns.
I'm not the one daubing his face
like someone in the Special Service.
My father used to be
Is it different, if you're a hunter?
Is it fine to scare the littluns
if you're a hunter?
I'm not "painting" my face.
I'm disguising it.
I need to blend in.
For the pig hunt.
You're having
a jolly nice time, aren't you?
Simon, if you haven't got
something nice to say, go away.
That's all I'm saying.
What a jolly good time
you're having.
Where did you have that?
It's flint. I made it.
Caveman-style.
Stone against flint.
It's proved very useful
cutting the vines.
It's not "a jolly good time".
I'm just taking it seriously.
As am I.
My father always taught
the story of how,
when he was 18 years old,
he and a friend hiked across
the whole of Scotland,
from John O'Groats
to Hadrian's Wall.
They carried nothing with them.
They wanted to live off the land.
It rained for ten days.
But they didn't care.
I'd care. I hate being damp.
He said he learned more
on that one trip
than he did throughout
the entirety of school.
It's what readied him
for university.
It's what readied him for his work.
He said without it,
he would never have known
how to be successful.
You think this is a test
that will make us stronger?
Of course not.
A test is not positive,
however you behave in it.
"Oh, I got a delta minus
for my maths."
Oh, wonderful. What you must
have learned from that!
A test needs to be passed.
My father and his friend
passed their tests.
We need to pass this one.
Before we're saved, that is.
What?
I know my father is currently
Your father is not
coming for you, Jack.
Whatever you say about Scotland,
he's not coming.
You don't know anything
about my father.
No, but I know mine.
And I have suspicions
that yours is just the same.
But their fathers are better.
And so I agree, you will be saved.
You're going to
get off this island, Jack.
We all are.
I know it.
We just have to get
by until they come.
This isn't a test.
We don't need to prove anything.
We don't need to be brave.
We don't need to be scared.
I'm not scared.
I don't want to be tested.
I don't want this to be a test.
I just feel like it is.
And I don't get scared, I get
worried.
That's a better word.
Shall I try to do your face?
I might have a better eye for it,
as my eye isn't attached
to the face being painted.
JACK SCOFFS
Yes.
Why not?
Worried warrior.
WAVES LAP
BIRDS CRY
STONES SCRAPE
INDISTINCT CHATTER
CHATTER, LAUGHTER
STONES CLACKING
LAUGHTER
CHATTER, CHEERING
First thing we need
to talk about are toilets.
LAUGHTER
We chose those rocks
right along there
on the bathing pool as a lavatory.
That was a sensible decision.
The tide cleans the place up.
You littluns know about that.
LAUGHTER
Now people seem to use anywhere,
even the shelter.
Sorry about that!
LAUGHTER
When you're getting fruit,
if you're taken short
LAUGHTER
It's not funny.
It is a bit funny.
If you're taken short,
you keep away from the fruit.
That's dirty.
Next, water.
We were going to have water
brought up from the streams
and put in those coconuts
under fresh leaves.
What's wrong with drinking
from the river? Yeah!
I got the conch.
There's nothing wrong
with drinking from the river.
Stop that!
But we had another system
to stop people
having to walk to the river.
The lazy people.
This whole camp's for lazy people.
Ralph, can you
please tell them that
Everybody, this is important!
Piggy's holding a shell.
Listen to everything
he importantly says.
LAUGHTER
I-I didn't Listen. Ralph
Listen! I didn't Listen!
We need these assemblies.
Not for fun, not for laughing,
and not for making jokes.
And not for cleverness,
but to put things straight.
Will you stop that?!
We have to do it. We've got
a big expedition this afternoon.
It's necessary.
We're going to catch a pig, Ralph.
Go on, Piggy. What else do
we need to talk about?
Shelters.
ALL: Ugh!
You all sleep in them.
Who built them?
We did. Us!
We all did.
BOYS: We built them!
No, we all built the first one.
I helped you with the second one.
Four of us built the second one.
And me and Simon
built the last one over there.
And failed miserably!
LAUGHTER
No, no, no, no. Sh!
No, don't laugh!
That That shelter might
fall down when the rain comes.
It's pathetic. Whose fault's that?
It's really flimsy!
We need those shelters then.
Look, I I'm chief,
and I want to be a good chief,
but things are breaking up
LITTLEUNS YELLING
and I don't understand why.
We began well.
Is it because you're frightened?
Is Is that it?
They think the beastie
will get them!
LAUGHTER
Roger, Ralph has the conch.
Sometimes I get frightened myself.
Sometimes I hear a sound
that doesn't make any sense.
Only I know it's nonsense.
So I stop the thoughts. See?
We need to be good camp mates,
we need to help each other,
and we need to stop crying.
All right?
Right, anyone want to say anything?
They can. I'm finished.
CHOIRBOYS: Oh, yeah, Jack!
Go on, Jack!
Go on, Jack.
I agree with Ralph.
You littluns -
you're all cry-babies.
SNICKERING
You, you, and especially you!
You don't hunt, build, or help.
You just get worked up
about nothing.
There's no beast
on this island. Only pigs.
And there's no dark,
dangerous animal.
I don't think anyone said
anything about an animal.
I've got the conch!
Yeah, shut up, Ralph!
Am I a hunter or am I not?
CHOIRBOYS: You're a hunter!
I've been all over
this island by myself.
If there was some sort
of beast, I'd have seen it.
There isn't.
And that's the end of that.
Nice one. Nice on, Jack.
APPLAUSE
Yes, Jack! Well said, Jack.
CHOIRBOYS CHEERING
Well said, Jack.
MURMURING,
BOYS GASP
Oh, let him speak. The conch.
MURMURING
INDISTINCT CHATTER
Last night, I was sleeping.
FAINT CHORTLING
So? I was fighting with things.
I was outside the shelter by myself,
fighting with things.
Those twisty things in the trees.
And then I woke up
and I saw something
moving among the trees.
LAUGHTER
And then
JACK: All in your head. Thank you.
CHOIRBOYS LAUGH
Then I was frightened,
and I started to call out for Ralph.
And then I saw something big
and horrid moving among the trees.
LAUGHTER
Perhaps you were asleep?
No, no.
I was asleep when
the twisty things were fighting.
And then I woke up and
I saw something big and horrid
moving among the trees.
WHISPERING
Do you have something
to report, too?
Yeah.
PIGGY: Now is the time to say
if something's frightening you.
WHISPERING
What's your name?
Percival Wemys Madison.
The Vicarage, Harcourt Street,
Buriton, Hants.
Telephone, Buriton 6324.
PERCIVAL SNIFFLES, SOBS
I do love these meetings, Ralph.
They make everyone feel better.
CHOIRBOYS SNICKER
Percival! Stop this
FEROCIOUS LAUGHTER
Look at me now. I say
Whoa!
LAUGHTER
Don't even think about laugh!
Oh, ohh!
LAUGHTER
THEY LAUGH, ROAR
ROARING, LAUGHTER
ROARING, LAUGHTER CONTINUE
Ice cream! Ice cream!
SHOUTING, LAUGHTER
Ralph, we may have a problem.
He says it comes from the sea.
VOICES THROUGH RADIO STATIC
JACK: Hoo!
BOYS: Ha!
Hoo-hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!
Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!
Hoo-hoo-hoo! Hoo-hoo! Hoo-ha!
Ha! Hoo! Ha! Hoo!
Hoo-hoo!
BOY: Ha-ha!
Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!
Hoo! Ha!
Hoo! Ha! Ha! Hoo!
Ha! Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!
Ha! Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!
JACK AND BOY: Hoo! Ha!
Hoo! Ha!
Ha! Hoo! Ha! Hoo!
Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!
Hoo-hoo! Ha-ha!
I think I know where to go.
I trust you.
But they might not be
in the same place. Pigs
Maurice, I've seen your report card.
Alpha plus-plus in Geography
and Human Science.
I trust you.
If we don't find them today,
we'll find them tomorrow.
STICK SNAPS
PIGS SQUEAL, GRUN
INSECTS CHIRPING
PIGLETS SQUEAL
PIG SCREECHES
BOYS ROAR, SHOU
PIG SCREECHES
SHOUTING CONTINUES
Yah!
PIG SQUEALS
PIG SCREECHES
Yah!
PIG SCREECHES
PIG GROANS
HE GRUNTS
PAINED SCREECHES
HITS THUD
PIG WHINES, GROANS
LOW BRAYING
KNIFE THUDS
PIG GRUNTS
BODY THUDS
BLOOD PATTERS
RAIN PATTERS
FLIES BUZZ
ROGER: Everyone's going to be
so pleased with you.
Does that mean? Now she's dead
does that mean her children
will die, too?
STRAINING
THEY PAN
If we make the pole longer, then
We need two poles.
Well, we could lash the pig
to longer pole and then more
I agree with Jack.
Two poles in parallel should do it.
INDISTINCT CHATTER
JACK, MAURICE: Everywhere we go
BOYS: Everywhere we go
People always ask us
People always ask us
Who we are Who we are
And where we come from
And where we come from
We're from Picton!
We're from Picton!
Mighty, mighty Picton!
Mighty, mighty Picton!
And if they can't hear us
And if they can't hear us
We sing a little louder
We sing a little louder
Everywhere we go
Everywhere we go ♪
SPLASHING
Yeah!
Woohoo!
LAUGHTER
JACK HOWLS
BOYS ROAR
LAUGHTER
MAURICE: Whoa. Look what I found!
JACK: Is it one of ours?
What is it?
No, I don't think so.
Open it, open it!
What's this?
It's a recorder.
RECORDER TOOTS
Toothpaste.
It's nice.
There's a diary.
Oh, it is one of ours!
Aha! It's Simon's. It has his name.
Let me see it. It'll be funny.
It will be - it's Simon.
"Today I dreamt
about a big grey cloud."
"There were apples growing
in the middle of it."
"I ate one and turned into a thumb."
Don't! Don't read it!
Another!
CHEERING
I hope there's chocolate.
Oh, yes.
Is there any food?
A dress. Ooh, fancy!
"Who wants a piece of eel pie?"
BOYS LAUGH
I'm blind. I'm blind!
I can see again!
Could be useful.
Perhaps we could make
a bag out of it.
Or a mask.
This is great!
INDISTINCT CHATTER
It's so refreshing!
BOYS LAUGH
It's soft.
Mmm!
RECORDER TOOTS
HE INHALES
Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
ALL: Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood!
Kill the beast!
Cut its throat!
Spill its blood!
Kill the beast!
Cut its throat!
Spill its blood!
CHANTING FADES OU
Spill its blood. Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
Kill the beast.
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
Kill the beast! Cut its throat!
Spill its blood!
CONCH BLARES
Kill the beast.
Cut its throat. Spill its blood.
Kill the beast.
CONCH BLARES
Cut its throat.
Spill its blood.
SCREAMS: Help!
BOYS: Help!
Help!
Help! Help!
Make sure the pig gets back to camp.
PANICKED SHOUTING
Help us!
What's happening? There's a ship.
Has it seen us?
I don't We don't know.
The signal fire's out.
SHOUTING CONTINUES
THEY COUGH
THEY COUGH
Piggy's glasses.
We can do it!
Piggy!
SIMON: There's no need.
It's gone.
No! No, with binoculars,
these ships can see for miles.
COUGHING
It's turned away.
THEY COUGH
We stacked it. We did.
We left enough wood
for it to burn for three days.
You weren't supposed to leave it!
We had to.
We needed the full choir.
Ralph, we did it! We caught the pig.
A full, fat pig.
What on earth are you wearing?
There will be other ships.
You burnt the island to pieces,
and now you can't even
keep a fire lit!
HE SCOFFS
Come on now, that's not fair.
If you cared so much
about the fire,
you should have done it yourself!
You volunteered!
Along with the shelters
AND looking after the littluns.
AND organising meetings.
I am a hunter.
You're the chief. You're a failure!
You failed!
A ship's passed and it didn't
see us. That's failure!
You're right, Ralph,
we should have thought.
We shouldn't have left the fire.
We're We're really sorry.
Who are you, anyway?
Sitting there,
telling people what to do.
You can't hunt. You can't sing.
We had a rule.
We keep the fire going.
Bollocks to the rules!
We're strong, we hunt, we find meat.
We even found you clean clothes
and gnasher paste.
Piggy wants rules
but you're better than Piggy.
But you're the best, Jack.
Why aren't you leader?
You'd be fantastic.
We'd hunt all day
until we died here.
Shut up, fatty!
We needed meat and we got meat.
I am sad the fire went out,
but hopefully we deserve
some thanks for finding meat.
Thank you.
Thank you for keeping me
prisoner on your island.
There will be other ships!
And what if there isn't, you idiot?!
What if that was
our chance to be saved?
BOYS: No! No! Jack! Jack!
PIGGY WHEEZES
Why do you always
have to keep talking?!
Talking, talking, talking!
You don't have your conch here!
No-one has to listen to you.
Do not hit him again!
PIGGY WHEEZES
My specs.
HE WHEEZES
Now I've only got one eye.
Just you wait.
MOCKING: "Just you wait."
This is boring!
Playing it nice? It's boring.
An adventure island.
What do we do on it?
Nothing but boring things!
Toilets. Water.
Hut building. Boring!
Well, I don't want this!
I never wanted this.
I'm forming a new camp.
A fun camp.
One that hunts and sings,
and dances.
Who's coming with me?
Who's coming with me?!
Then I'll do it on my own.
Just you see.
ROCKS, DUST PATTERS
HE SOBS
PIGGY: I wish my auntie was here.
RALPH: I wish my father was.
Grown-ups just know things.
They'd meet and have
tea, and discuss
then things would be all right.
They wouldn't quarrel.
Or break my specs.
Or talk about a beast.
They'd build a ship.
Yes. We don't know
how to build a ship.
Ralph. You will go on
being chief, won't you?
I'm not sure
there is a chief any more.
You need to.
I know people like Jack.
He can't hurt you.
But if you stand out of the way,
he'd happily hurt the next thing.
And the next thing is me.
I won't let him hurt you.
HE GASPS
Hello.
Hello.
I thought this was
supposed to be the fun camp.
Aaaaaah!
Whoo!
LAUGHTER
It is too hot! It is too hot!
WHOOPING, CHEERING
WAVES LAPPING
RADIO STATIC
VOICES IN RADIO STATIC