Treasure Island (2026) s01e02 Episode Script

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[LIVESEY] A foreign
ship has been spotted
by our local fishermen.
[BESS HAWKINS] I think he's a smuggler
from the shipwreck
in the storm last night.
Perhaps he'll recompense us.
You really are a pirate.
[BILLY BONES] We
agreed to bury the treasure
on an uncharted place.
Skeleton Island.
You remember.
Jim Hawkins.
I remember everything.
[BILLY BONES] Long John Silver.
He wants the map.
I will take what rightfully mine.
13 north 61 west.
Aaron Graham. Yes, I have a spare berth.
The ship's cook I'll introduce you.
Long John Silver.
- [SQUAWKING]
- At your service, ma'am.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SCRATCHING]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
[JIM] What does all this mean?
Yeah. Where's the treasure?
The X to mark the spot.
[JIM] There isn't one.
There are words written here.
"Seis Majri A Chrysos."
The language of The Albatross.
Billy told me they spoke a secret tongue
aboard The Albatross.
We're still in sight of England.
We can request Captain Smollett
to set us ashore on a jolly boat.
No. Long John Silver's no threat to us.
I'll check him.
[LOCK RATTLING]
Sir, what is the meaning of this?
Something burning.
I enjoy the pipe, sir.
Maybe you might
enjoy your fatherless boy
being taught to shave by a man who knows
how this wooden world ebbs and flows.
Please, sir.
We're just a poor widow and a son
bound for Jamaica.
Where there is no cousin,
no children to govern,
and no coin to further your ends.
Your ends being, as I reckon,
the treasure of Captain Flint.
The map was burned, as you saw.
But not before you made a copy.
Why else is you on this cruise?
It's here, ain't it?
I'm close to it.
Please, sir.
Even if your beliefs on treasure
and maps were true
to kill the boy would
see you arrested.
Would it not be better to release my son
and kindly stay away from
us for the rest of the voyage?
So here we be, on this
boundless, bottomless sea.
No harbor for shelter,
no floor for anchorage.
And I is an hombre
that ekes his time wisely,
so I will have what rightfully mine
before Jamaica.
[DOOR CLOSES]
Please, Jim, listen.
Speak to no one of our association
with Long John Silver.
It will only make
- I will check him.
- How?
I don't know.
But I will.
I will.
[EXCITING MUSIC]
Rule, Britannia! ♪
Britannia rules the waves ♪
Britons never, ever, ever ♪
Shall be slaves ♪
Rule, Britannia! ♪
Britannia rules the waves ♪
Friend or foe?
It's impossible to tell.
She flies no flag.
But British merchant vessels
have been much harassed
by Spanish privateers in these waters.
That's your fourth cup.
Oh, I didn't know you were counting.
Jim Hawkins, I remember everything.
It says here, "should a ship's master
fail to disembark his passengers
at the agreed destination,
he will be held liable."
Captain Smollett is
legally bound to protect us.
I don't think Long John Silver
pays much attention to the law.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Who is there? Please.
[AARON] Mr. Graham.
Oh. One moment, sir.
Oh, Mr. Graham, how delightful.
Mrs. Hawkins, um,
we wondered, is all quite
well with you and your son?
- Hmm?
- Well, four days,
and we haven't seen you on deck.
The captain is concerned
for your want of fresh air.
Oh, fresh air would be
much a boon to our spirits, sir.
But such ruffards as I
have observed above,
I fear the sight of a lady
might inflame their minds
with unspeakable desires.
Mother, I think I might vomit.
My son is a sickly little wretch.
He wasn't built for the sea.
Well then, I would urge
you both all the more
to take the air above.
At-At your convenience, of course.
- Mm.
- I can have my marines
escort you if we are a trading ship,
and they are much in want of duties.
Oh, well, Mr. Graham, thank you.
That's such kindness.
Your wife is a very fortunate lady.
[SIGHS] Yes.
My dearest Anne sadly
passed but six weeks ago now.
Consumption. Oh.
We were childhood sweethearts, actually.
Oh.
I am gravely sorry, sir.
Well, I bid you good day, madam.
Good day.
Billy Bones died less
than a week in your
Billy Bones was a good soul
and I mourned him dearly.
But this is the world, Jim.
Mourning advances us nothing,
but Mr. Graham, with
his marines and his ship.
Under his protection, we'd be safer here
from Long John Silver than
we ever would be in England.
And sailing to freedom.
[LONG JOHN SILVER]
From the road to Nineveh
to the wilds of Roaring Water Bay,
I've lolled in places hot as pitch.
The blessed sea are
heaving with earthquakes.
But nothing warms my lonely heart
more than the company
of true and able seamen.
Mr. Baker. Mr. Kahn.
Mr. Arra.
[CHUCKLES] Messmates before crewmates.
Crewmates before strangers.
Strangers before dogs.
Messmates.
[CAT MEOWS]
Ah, here be our truest mate.
Ain't this lovely rat catcher a beauty.
[SQUAWKS]
Don't you be acting up, sir.
All one company here.
Man and beast.
[MEN] Man and beast.
[FAINT JOYFUL MUSIC]
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
[MUSIC SOFTENS, ECHOES]
[JIM, ECHOING] One two
three, four
five, six
three, four,
five
six
[MUSIC STOPS]
[SILVER] Where'd you learn that jig?
Billy Bones.
I did not mean to kill him, Jim.
Seis Majri A Chrysos.
Seis Majri A Chrysos?
Tis the name of that jig.
As taught to Billy and all us lads
of The Albatross by
Captain Flint himself.
What does it mean, Mr. Silver?
[CHUCKLING]
I might tell you.
If you tell me what I need to know.
Sorry. My mother will be expecting me.
Think on it, Jim.
You went above deck alone, without me?!
I told you not to speak to
anyone, especially not him.
The words on the map,
Mother. Seis Majri A Chrysos.
It's the name of the
dance Billy taught me.
- The jig.
- What?
Wait, wait, wait. Did he
tell you what it means?
No, but if I were to
go back to him and
No, no, no, no.
You keep away from Long John Silver.
You understand me? Trust me.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Gentlemen, it is not inclement weather
nor the damn French
or Spanish privateers
that threaten the voyage.
No.
It is the scourge of disease.
So, inspections below will
be frequent and unannounced.
And any man found harboring head lice
will be punished with a dozen lashes.
Dismissed.
Turn the glass.
Strike eight bells.
- [BELL RINGING]
- Make it twelve.
Mrs. Hawkins.
Oh, Captain Smollett. Good morning.
Madam, I trust the sea
agrees with you and your boy?
Son of a Royal Navy officer, I'm told.
Oh, indeed, Captain. Yes,
my poor young husband
was tragically slain in
the Siege of Gibraltar.
Well, if the lad is
truly his father's son
No, he's his mother's son.
His father's son, too, but
well, he should follow that gentleman
and stand before the mast.
Would you agree, Mr. Graham?
See, I'm all aflutter
with my son's prospects.
Maybe your son is
better fitted for the commercial sphere.
- Really?
- Perhaps, if it's agreeable
I might induct your son
into the rather wondrous
arts and practices of
trade and commerce.
Oh, that would be very
generous of you, Mr. Graham.
I mean, my son often tends
towards fecklessness when idle,
but he's greatly
enthused by the prospect.
I shall endeavor to make time, madam.
Thank you.
She's a widow.
A widow onboard be a devilish omen.
They bring the curse
of scurvy and storms.
[IN HINDI]
I know, Mr. Khan, we sail
under fair wind and sky,
but there be foul weather ahead.
Weather most foul.
[SQUAWKING]
Mr. Silver
I heard you above with the boy.
You spoke of The Albatross
as if you sailed her.
We need to talk, Mr. Silver.
In private.
Not for the ears of all, lads,
but it's true.
I were a lowly hand
pressed to service
on yon diabolical vessel.
[IN HINDI]
Ah, Mr. Khan,
smart as paint, you is.
Tis true.
Yon cursed treasure.
Seven hundred thousand
pounds in Piezo de Ocho.
Bullion, guineas,
doubloons, and louis d'or,
be safe and secret buried.
Buried? Where?
In a fearsome, uncharted place
with yella jack,
sand as black as a devil's waistcoat,
shipworms as big as snakes,
snakes as big as rivers.
Where?
Skeleton Island.
Not 20 leagues from Jamaica.
Now, lads, I tell you
what I tell you for your own knowing.
And do what you will
with what I tell you.
But Long John Silver has
forsworn the ways of Lucifer.
And even if I were still under
his diabolical command
I don't have the damn map.
There's a map?
- A map?
- Where? Where is this map?
Ha.
Close than you think, lads.
Mr. Graham wishes to induct you
into the ways of trade and commerce.
Three bells, at his cabin.
I'm not interested in trade or
commerce or Mr. Graham
You are fascinated by
trade and commerce.
So scrub your face and your hands.
Speak well of me.
And hint that there might be some space
in my poor, old heart
for his affection.
As for the words on the
map, we'll decipher them.
- Somehow.
- Somehow.
Somehow.
Luxury, Master Hawkins,
is the way of the future.
Now, as you can see, we have freighted
Venetian looking glass,
Turkish carpets, Japanese screens,
China vases,
Parisian attire for both men and women,
all of which I shall sell in
our West Indian territories,
starting with Jamaica.
Ah, now, the profit I generate shall be
reinvested into the acquisition
of a different order of luxuries,
tea, coffee, tobacco, sugar,
to stimulate the minds
and bodies of our nation,
which I will then sell
for a rather handsome
profit back in England.
It is a virtuous circle, young Jim.
Let me show you the goods
we freight down in the hold.
Sir.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[BESS] Silver tells his messmates
he sailed with Flint why?
To get the treasure back to England,
he needs a ship and a crew.
As do we.
I know, but how?
I'll find a way.
Somehow?
Somehow.
[STIRRING MUSIC]
Well, I'm fully satisfied
the unknown ship is gone.
If she was pursuing
us, we've outrun her.
Good news, eh, Captain?
Keep the luff and hold
the wind, gentlemen!
Double the watch! Remain vigilant!
[RINGING]
[CREWMAN] One-two-three!
[TENSE MUSIC]
[CREWMAN HOLLERING DISTANTLY]
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
Keep that moving,
Mr. Carr. Lower it down!
That yar down!
- Whoa!
- Tie those lines off!
Tie those lines off!
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[THUNDER CRASHING]
[MUSIC FADES]
[VOMITING]
Seems you're not born
for the brine, widow.
I ask politely for you
to stay away from us.
I be loathe to inform Captain Smollett
of your assault on my son.
And I be loathe to defend myself
by blabbing the reasons
behind our dispute
bein' Captain Flint's map.
It seem we both sworn
to secrecy in this business.
So fasten your claws to
your grommets, widow,
and cede me what's mine.
Or your precious boy
might never see Jamaica
or anywhere else.
Jim is part of this now.
That be your doing, not mine.
You make me glad I
never knew my own mother.
[BESS SCREAMING]
[SILVER SCREAMING]
Help me! Aah!
Help me!
- Man overboard!
- Man overboard!
- Man overboard!
- Throw him a line!
At starboard!
- [OVERLAPPING SHOUTS]
- Tow the line!
Off that starboard, now!
[MEN YELLING INDISTINCTLY]
Haul him up now!
[CREWMAN] You've got him, boys, pull!
[SILVER GASPING]
[MEN YELLING INDISTINCTLY]
Pull!
- Pull him up now.
- Pull!
Heave!
I'll help.
- Heave!
- Pull!
Pull!
Heave.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Heave. Heave.
[GROWLING]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[GROANS]
What happened, Long John?
Achmen a vedova.
The widow's curse.
What tongue is that you speak?
The tongue of The Albatross.
Mr. Silver.
16 voyages as a ship's master,
I've never lost a man overboard.
I will know how this happened.
Well, Captain, sir
I fears a storm more
than the devil himself, so
I got elevated in my cups,
and it were all my own fault.
As yon gracious widow is my witness.
She was sicking over
the side when I went over.
Mrs. Hawkins, is this true?
Yes, Captain.
This fellow, Mister
Silver.
Long John Silver.
Silver.
Was much enguzzled upon the
delights of his private bottle
that he lost his mind and his footing
and went over.
Don't let it happen again, Silver.
Sir.
Mr. Arra, yon drapes, if you please.
Oh, Mrs. Hawkins.
Oh, Mr. Graham, forgive
me. I'm in much need of rest.
I'm sorry. I
I saw you and Mr. Silver above,
locked in some sort of heated exchange.
Forgive me, but I think
you might have pushed him.
I, uh
I was alone, and he
threatened my honor.
And so I lashed out,
as any lady would have done. Come, Jim.
Now it might not have been better
if you had told Captain
Smollett the truth of the situation?
Please understand, Mr. Graham.
Prevailed upon by
our Christian ordination
to forgiveness, I simply wish
to save the poor wretch,
already much broken
on the wheel of fortune,
from further privation.
Commendable.
Very commendable, Mrs. Hawkins.
Such clemency reminds
me of my late wife, Ann.
Then please, um,
in honor of such a gentle lady
let this remain between us,
the confidence of which
we will not speak of again.
Of course, of course, no.
And in the event Mr. Silver
seeks revenge in any way
I shall have my marines
keep a watchful eye upon him.
The boy is upset.
Understandably so.
Mr. Graham, thank you.
- No.
- Thank you.
[DOOR CLOSES]
- You pushed him.
- Yeah.
What are you thinking? He'll kill us.
No, he won't. We have the map.
What if Graham tells Smollett?
He'll keep my confidence.
Yeah, he'll protect us
from Long John Silver.
Because he
he wishes my favor.
Oh! [SIGHING]
Mondo cosi cosi, Jimmy boy.
We see fit to offer you a commission.
One that would provide
you with rich reward
and much personal satisfaction.
Tell me more, Your Lordship.
A letter,
from a minor relation of his lordship.
One Squire Livesey of
the parish of Crackington.
You want me to acquire the
map of this Bess Hawkins,
retrieve Flint's treasure,
and then?
[LOCK THUDDING]
[STIRRING MUSIC]
Same ship. She's back.
So close to us, at least nine leagues,
whilst ten days ago, she
was a full 15 leagues astern.
Her captain is demonstrating
the speed at his command.
- Why?
- To tell us
there's no escaping
should he choose to attack.
Captain, this voyage
is a mission of trade.
We have not the
means nor the appetite
We may not have a choice, sir.
We sail under the same
wind, so we cannot outrun her.
Continue to reckon her
movements, Mr. Cameron,
meantime we proceed as normal
and prepare for the worst.
[BELL RINGING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[BIRD SQUAWKS]
Mr. Silver.
Mr. Graham.
Curious creature.
Does it speak?
Sometimes.
Well, sometimes I hear things.
Like lies and deceptions.
From widows and the like.
By which I assume you
refer to Mrs. Hawkins.
Only for your own benefit.
An honest man like you
might be easily hazed.
[SCOFFS]
The lady is under my protection.
If anything were to
happen to her or her son,
I shall hold you responsible.
[MEOWING]
[MEOWING]
[SILVER GRUNTING]
[ROPE SCRATCHING]
Jim.
- Jim!
- Oh
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[SMOLLETT] Gentlemen.
As you know, a foreign
ship has been shadowing us.
For how long, I cannot say.
But my best guess
is a Spanish privateer.
And in the midst of
such privation, this
deposited
in the cabin of Mrs. Hawkins.
This animal's duty
was to control the rats
that threaten our ever-meager rations.
Therefore I regard this as
an act of willful sabotage.
So, I will know who is responsible.
Now, Mr. Silver
I've observed
you harbor ill will
towards Mrs. Hawkins.
Oh, no, Mr. Graham, I, I
No. I act in your interest, madam.
Please.
Captain.
Previously, Mrs. Hawkins,
because he tried to
force himself upon her,
was compelled to lash
out against Mr. Silver
and propel him overboard.
Accidentally, of course.
I have no bodily designs on her.
And now he exacts his revenge on this
gracious Christian lady,
who, rather than inform you
of his terrible transgression
she chose to forgive,
rather than condemn him.
Madam is this true?
It is, Captain.
You are duty bound to protect
our passengers, Captain.
Mr. Silver, once we reach Kingston,
you will receive a fair hearing.
Until then, you'll be
confined to the brig.
I did not kill no cat.
[IN HINDI]
Because I want the map from her.
The map of Captain Flint.
[CREWMAN] Oi! Let's go.
Get moving.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
[LOCK CLICKING]
Wind. Wind.
We have wind.
Hoist the sails! Now! At once!
[STIRRING MUSIC]
Mrs. Hawkins.
Mr. Graham, I am very tired.
I I
I have undertaken to
protect you and your son
and deliver you safely.
I have to know,
what are you to Lord John Silver?
What is he to you?
Go down below, Jim.
I will have conference with Mr. Graham.
Sir, it seems I have deluded myself
as to the delicacy of your feelings.
You have betrayed my confidence.
I thank you for your kindness,
and I wish you well in
all your future affairs,
both business and of the heart.
No. No, no, no, please.
No more of these
these obfuscations, please.
If I am to protect you, I
need to know the truth.
- I
- [BOOMING]
[CREWMAN] We're being fired upon!
[BOOMING]
Battle stations! All hands on deck!
Battle stations! Man those guns!
Battle stations! Man those
- [BOOMING]
- [SCREAMING]
[DISTANT CANNON FIRE]
[SOFT SQUAWKING]
- [CREW SCREAMING]
- [WOOD SPLINTERING]
[CREWMAN] We're being boarded!
[MEN YELLING IN DISTANCE]
[LOUD BLAST]
No popery!
- [YELLING]
- [MAN SCREAMING]
No popery on this ship!
[SCREAMING]
Hah!
[MAN SCREAMING]
- Hah!
- [SWORDS CLANKING]
[HIGH-PITCHED TONE]
[MUFFLED SCREAMS, SHOUTS]
[PIRATE MUTTERING]
[GROANING]
[SQUAWKING]
Jim!
I'll help you if you help me.
Set me free, boy.
Those Spaniards what took my leg,
and I will have them back for that.
I knows their vessel
like the back of my hand.
Let me out or your mother dies.
Worse, if she's captured.
The axe, Jim! Let me out!
I can save this ship.
[CANNONS BOOMING]
Aah!
[SILVER] Jim! Follow me!
Mr. Baker! Mr. Arra!
[MEN YELLING]
Jim!
[GENTLE WOODWINDS]
[SCREAMING]
[MUSIC CRESCENDO]
[SCREAMING, YELLING]
[STRAINING]
[GURGLING]
[GUN FIRES]
[SILVER] Mr. Arra! Fuse!
[TENSE MUSIC]
[MUFFLED SOUND]
Jim!
Jim!
Lantern!
Come on, lads!
[GUNSHOT]
[YELLING]
Help me! Help me! Aah!
[SCREAMING]
Come on, lads! Back to the ship!
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
[SILVER GRUNTING]
[LOUD EXPLOSION]
[SOFT MUSIC]
[GROANING]
On your knees, you Spanish filth!
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTING]
We done it, lads!
[CREW CHEERING]
We're saved!
[CREW CHEERING]
[SILVER] Mr. Baker!
[CHEERING]
Mr. Arra!
Yeah!
Jim Hawkins!
[CREW CHEERING]
Lads!
We are the men
what pull the ropes
and weigh the anchors
and toil in the night
and sweat at the helm
and are ready for every degradation.
We are more than men!
We are the people,
and we live forever!
- [YELLING]
- Forever!
[TRIUMPHANT MUSIC]
Rule, Britannia!
Britannia rule the waves ♪
Britons never, Never, ever ♪
Shall be slaves ♪
This ship will be mine, Jim.
And I'll be having that map.
Britons never, Never, ever ♪
Shall be slaves ♪
Rule, Britannia ♪