The Great Escapists (2021) s01e02 Episode Script

[dramatic music]
[rooster crying]
[joyful bossa nova]
[humming happily]
Sorry, just remembering
how good life was
once we'd sorted
how to get power.
What were you asking?
Oh yeah, what did
we find in the man trap?
All right, here we go!
in 3, 2, 1
Woohoo!
Whoa!
Well I'd only built it
to humour Tory.
And then later that night,
all hell broke loose
[engine revving]
They're here!
They're coming for us!
[Richard] Oh god,
they're coming!
- [Tory] Who's coming?
- I don't know!
And you caught what?
Well, officer, Tory was right.
We were not alone
on that island
[suspenseful music]
and we caught a monster
A monster of a
[cackling]
Hello, viewers.
Behind me, you can see
my first ever chicken coop.
That's the first
I've ever built.
Not as easy as it looks,
but I'm pretty pleased with it.
And say hello to Monster.
This is a big day
for Monster because
she's moving into her new house
that I built specially for her.
I can't arch, mate, can you hold
that for me while I do the door?
No, point it
at me and the chicken.
See, what you think?
That's your new
No point it at her properly!
You're useless at this.
- I built it.
- Zip it.
So what have we learned since
Monster came into our lives?
Well, firstly,
there is a chicken on the island
called Tory Belleci.
Secondly, there is a chicken
on the island and it lays eggs!
We're going to have eggs.
From the chicken.
That is good news, isn't it?
Yeah, we'll have
a real breakfast.
Tell you what this I recon
- What?
- I recon I could serialize
this when I get home.
People make money
out of that stuff, don't they?
You're gonna document
this whole experience?
Well, I'll be like
an influencer.
An "influencer"?
What is an "influencer"?
You know, a young person
who films their entire life
and puts it on the internet.
I don't understand,
how did you film anything?
On my phone.
Sorry,
I'm getting ahead of myself.
Let me rewind to our first few
days on the island
[light music]
[Richard] I was digging
around the shipwreck
and I found my phone
Tory!
- I told you we'd be fine.
- What?
- Your phone!
- Yeah!
That is awesome!
[Richard] Obviously
it was a bit wet
and we had to wait ages
for it to dry out
so as not to short circuit.
[light music]
[intriguing music]
But then, the moment came.
Which was
actually quite exciting.
It felt
like our future depended on it.
I'm not going to lie,
I've pinned
all my hopes on this.
It's completely dead.
That's a waste of space then.
Might as well throw it away.
What if we made batteries?
All you need
are two different types
of metals and some acid.
I mean, there's acid in this.
We could charge
our telephone with our lunch?
If we had enough of these
and two types of metal, yes.
How much is enough?
I dunno yet.
Probably lots.
[Tory] Richard
didn't believe me,
but I knew all we needed
was to get the copper pennies
from the boat,
some wire and nails
from the shipwreck.
The last component was yucca.
Tons of yucca.
[light music]
There you go!
That's a lot of yucca.
- Yep, we're gonna need them.
- What's the plan then?
So the way it's gonna work
is that we're gonna put a nail
in one end of the yucca.
That zinc is going to react with
the acid inside the vegetable, right?
That's gonna
start releasing electrons.
And then, on the other side,
we'll stick something copper.
Copper likes the electrons,
it wants to attract them.
So all you have to do
is just attach a lead
from the nail to the copper.
Now you have a current flow,
we have electricity.
If we just put our phone
into this circuit,
it'll charge the battery,
get us a signal and
maybe we get off this island.
How much power
do we need to make?
Umm We need 5 volts
running at 1 Amp.
That doesn't sound like a lot.
So is that enough?
No! There is no way
this is going to be enough.
What about a big one?
That's probably That's a
15 volter if ever there was one.
Definitely, that is a 15 volter!
- Look at the size of it.
- You're dreaming!
Basically, I'm gonna have
to get a shed load of yucca?
Yeah.
Okay, I'm a farmer now.
[light music]
[Tory] Keep going!
[Richard grunting]
Oh yeah!
- Ouch!
- No, it didn't!
It's a good start.
Start?
I could start
my car with this lot.
[Tory] You know how
a battery is normally
a compact way
to store energy, right?
Sure.
Well, this one wasn't.
- Tory?
- Yes, sir?
Can I be honest?
[Tory] I'd hope you would be.
All of this
at times,
that was quite boring.
Oh gosh, yeah.
Do you have the phone?
Over to you, mate.
Okay, here we go.
[intriguing music]
God
Give it time.
I know I just want to
make sure we're all wired up.
So, these are all
in series
And then each bank is wired
Would it be good if we saw
like a rectangular shape
with a strip of red
down one side,
like a battery charging?
- [shouts of joy]
That is charging!
That is working!
It's working.
I didn't think it would work!
But that's not the homepage.
We need more power.
Work harder!
Come on, strain!
- It's actually working.
- Strain, my vegetables!
Not my vegetables
but you know what I mean
We need the home screen.
- All right
- Come on!
You, you're not working
hard enough!
You, don't let down your
brothers and sisters around you.
Maybe we need more yucca.
There's the home screen!
That's us!
- Let it get some charge.
- This is it!
This our chance
to find a signal!
Don't take it now,
it's not charged.
Tory, you're being a bit
premature.
No, this might be
our only chance
This might be our only chance!
[upbeat music]
- It's dead.
- That's gone, mate.
- [Tory crying]
- It'll be fine, come on.
I can finish my game
of Sudoku when we get home.
[soft music]
So did you get a signal?
Well, obviously not.
I hardly get a signal
in the English countryside
let alone on a remote island.
I did try telling Tory that.
So I made a ton more batteries,
and I was able to charge
the phone up completely,
and then I went all over
the island looking for a signal.
But I couldn't find anything.
Nada, nothing, zip.
Now we had a charged phone, so
of course, what did Richard do?
Start making stupid videos.
It was about this time I decided
to get serious
about making electricity.
I needed it to power my phone,
to make my influencer videos.
Plus, my electric
toothbrush needed charging.
And that's when I had
a brain wave.
You'll like this one.
The alternator!
It's the bit on a car that makes
electricity when the motor's running.
And what else has an alternator?
A boat.
[light music]
[Richard] So we jerry-rigged
a hand crank to turn it
and wired it up
to the control panel
from the ship's wheelhouse.
So if this works,
we might be able
to light up the entire house.
[Richard] The single moving
part inside that alternator
is about the most important
thing in our world right now.
That will take us out of the
dark ages and into civilisation.
Yeah. Let's just hope
the seawater
hasn't completely destroyed
the magnets or the wires.
You're such a source of misery.
Wait, so why do
we need the car battery?
I thought this would
just give us electricity.
If it were a dynamo, yes.
This is an alternator.
It makes AC
and you need to kick start it.
So I'm using
the last of the batteries,
which has a tiny bit of power
left in that you didn't waste
on your welding.
And that's just enough to induce
an electromagnet
at the centre of this.
And when I spin it
in the alternator
and that's
what generates the current.
It just like kick starts it.
Are you ready to see
if this works?
Why am I cranking?
Because you said
you needed the exercise.
Start it up.
[upbeat music]
[Tory] You need to go faster
than that.
- OK, this isn't bad.
- Keep it consistent.
I can do this. This is easier
than chopping up vegetables.
Are you ready?
- Yes, I'm ready!
- Here we go in three, two, one.
[Richard] Oh, this is
such a moment!
Richard look!
You can't look.
It's working.
The light's pulsing!
We have voltage!
I am making power!
I'm electro man!
This is a game changer.
I can charge my toothbrush.
Oh, God.
Do I have
to just keep doing this?
Yeah.
All right. Let's see
if you can charge the phone.
Tory, my arms ache.
Keep going.
[Richard] I'm gonna be
so buff when I get picked up.
OK. Here we go.
The moment of truth.
- Almost there
- Oh, come on.
Richard
It's working. Look, the battery
screen's up. Woohoo!
- I can't keep this up.
- This is great news.
You getting tired?
You want me to take over?
Yeah.
Oh mate
I don't see
what the big deal is.
Yeah, give it 20 minutes,
see how you feel.
I don't think on a diet
of small fish and dog food,
we can do that enough.
How long do you think it'll take
till we get a 100%?
It's gonna be a while.
[soft music]
[clearing his throat]
Captain's log.
I have no idea what day it is.
We're trying to power our camp
using the alternator
off the boat
and it works, it's making
power but not enough.
I haven't got enough in this phone
to record my captain's log.
How am I supposed to dictate
my memoirs without power?
We have
to find a way of mechanizing
the process of power
generation of
Hold on.
Hang on a second
Tory?
Tory, brilliant idea time.
I mean, amazing.
It was silly, really.
I mean, we'd been drinking
water from the river for months.
All we needed to do
was build a water wheel
If the Romans
could do it 2,000 years ago
I was sure we could do it
with modern scrap from the boat.
[upbeat music]
I made an axle
with wood and metal piping
then stitched together some
washed up tarps to catch the water.
But the arms were key.
The longer they were,
the more turning force
or torque they'd give us.
And that's what we needed to get
our alternator spinning fast enough.
It looks great!
[Richard] Nearly there!
Oh, I hope it fits.
Yeah.
Then all we had to do was
hook up a gearing system
to turn the alternator.
[Tory] All right. So I've
connected the water wheel
to our alternator.
The wheel will spin,
it's got a direct drive.
It will spin that shaft which is
going to spin this giant pulley.
And the big pulley
is connected by a belt
to our small pulley
on top of our alternator.
Now remember, the alternator
wants high RPM, it likes it,
because the faster it goes,
the more electricity it give us.
So we've got big gearing.
Yeah, big gear,
little gear, fast.
- You like fast.
- I love fast.
Can I just commend you
on your tensioning device.
It's pretty crude, huh?
Yeah but I like that, that works. It is
simple but that is tensioning that belt.
It's a simple solution
Now all we need to do
is get the water wheel
to move.
Yes, that is not a small job
but let's do it.
[Tory] Building the wheel
was just half the job.
Getting it connected to
enough water to get it moving,
that was a whole other battle.
Luckily,
we had nature's guttering
Kind of thought
you were going to jump in there.
Bamboo.
It's bamboo.
Nature's own guttering.
Anyway
We found the source of
the river near the highest point
on the island, then
all we had to do was tap it.
- You ready, Richard?
- Yeah, I am.
- Turn it on.
- This is it. The moment of truth.
[light music]
It's working!
We are primitive plumbers!
This is brilliant.
We have running water.
I know.
It's like the longer we stay
here, the more civilised I feel.
[Richard] Right. I reckon
the drop from here
back down to the water wheel,
that'll give it some real power.
If we can tap an extra
little bit or two along the way,
we can join it, thread them
together and this will be,
by the time it gets to the water
wheel, a raging torrent.
[Tory] Absolutely!
I'm just going
to pull the leeches off now.
[Richard] Are they edible?
That was it, really.
Half a mile
of bamboo guttering
dropping to sea level
and we had water power.
[Tory] All we had to do was connect
the last run of guttering
to direct
the water to the wheel.
I stupidly let
Richard take care of that one.
Tory! Tory, it's com
Ouch!
It's coming!
[light music]
Tory, Tory! The water's coming.
The water's coming!
Oh, no kidding.
You could've warned me
you turned the water on.
It's good though.
I delivered water to our waterwheel!
Come on.
It's brilliant.
But we're missing the wheel!
[Tory] The position
of the water was way off.
The wheel was
just about spinning.
But nowhere near the speed
we needed to get
that alternator working.
Yeah. It needs to land
into the bucket so it's gravity
doing the work, isn't it?
As it comes down.
So what we need
to do is cut off a foot,
so that way it's landing
right in the bucket.
If we go too far,
it would be on top of the wheel,
it will just fill the buckets up
and this thing won't move.
[Richard] Right.
So we need to cut that back.
If you go and move the chutes,
I'll do the sawing.
- You can dry out on the way.
- Funny!
[light music]
You know, it would be easy
to think that he was
doing all this on purpose.
But you have to remember,
he's just not that smart.
Tory, release the water!
[dramatic music]
[Tory] Here it comes!
[Richard] Oh, yeah.
- Look at that.
- Oh, that's way better!
That's bang on the sweet spot.
Way better.
[Richard] That is working.
Is it making power?
[Tory] It's working.
- We are making electricity.
- Yes! We're making power.
Power, we have power!
Oh yeah.
Oh my babies, you're all alive.
Look at you.
Oh
And now the big one.
Oh yeah!
Oh, to be cool.
Oh
This is almost too
What?
Oh, come on.
[intriguing music]
What's happening?
- It stopped.
- What did you do?
I just switched stuff on.
That's what it's for.
- How much?
- Essential lifesaving equipment.
Whatever you've
turned on it's too much.
You've induced
an electromagnetic field
basically
seizing up our alternator.
[in Spanish] What happened?
I don't understand?
Look the way alternators work
is through electromagnetism.
So as our waterwheel
was spinning,
it was spinning our magnet.
Now the magnet
is inside wire coils.
As that magnet is spinning
inside the coils,
it's creating electricity.
But then Richard's
"essential equipment"
drew too much electricity
and that created
a magnetic field
inside the coils.
That magnetic field
was strong enough to actually
stop the spinning magnet
in our waterwheel and
therefore our waterwheel seized.
I didn't know
you could even do that!
I know.
But it doesn't work.
We're going to have to build
a bigger wheel
to overcome that.
We need more torque.
That's such
an American solution. Bigger.
You want power in the tree?
- Yeah.
- We're going to need a bigger wheel.
Oh, God.
Go big or go home, right?
I'd like to go home.
[Tory] Richard was in charge
of building the bigger wheel,
so it took a while.
Which was annoying because
I wanted to get going on the lighthouse.
[in Spanish] A lighthouse?
This nonsense is getting worse!
[peaceful music]
You're wasting your time,
Captain Ahab,
Moby Dick isn't out there.
[Tory] Yeah, but did you know
I could see twice as far as you
up here than you can
down there at sea level?
You can only see three miles
or five kilometers for you Europeans,
or whatever you are these days.
I can see eight miles
or eleven kilometers.
You could see 80 miles,
there's nothing to see,
because there's nothing coming.
Stretch your leg out more.
Oh, I can see dolphins.
What if they come by night,
though?
I mean, if a ship
sails at night,
we won't see them.
You know what we need to do?
We need to build a lighthouse.
Oh, yeah, a lighthouse.
I'd like a TV.
Stretch more.
Your back leg needs to be straighter.
You're ruining my yogic vibe.
I mean,
it wasn't a terrible idea.
And quite honestly,
if he was doing that,
it would mean
he wasn't bothering me.
We just need a light,
just need a light.
All we need is a light.
That'll work perfectly
[intriguing music]
No, that's not bright enough.
That won't work.
Maybe we can put these together.
Do you know where
that spotlight from the boat is?
Whatever light you use you're
gonna need a massive lens for it
to be seen over any distance.
Ha!
A lens?
We don't have a lens.
Wait a minute.
We could make a lens.
There's sand everywhere.
All we have to do is melt it.
Great idea.
Right. I give up.
I would have I thought
I could find peace here.
Now I'm sure you know
glass is made of silica
or silica dioxide,
to give it its full name.
Well, that's the primary
component of sand.
And I knew if I got the sand
hot enough, I'd have glass.
And if I had glass,
I could make a lens!
All I needed now was a kiln.
But I needed clay to make that.
And then surprisingly,
Richard had a good idea
[laughing]
So tell me again, why ants
use clay for their nests?
Because it's structurally good,
for building all the little
structures within their homes.
Oh, that makes sense.
- So it doesn't collapse on them.
- Exactly.
How do you know that?
Well, I've done quite
a lot of natural history shows.
I thought you were
just like car shows.
No. I'm kind of a big noise
in the natural history world as well.
For instance look,
in there,
is a
- [Tory] Trapdoor spider?
Yeah, probably.
You have no idea
what you're talking about.
It could just be snot.
Right we're looking for
an ants nest.
If we find an ants nest, they
will have done the work for us.
- And look. There it is.
- My God, it's the mother lode!
[Tory] Look how much fun
those ants are having.
The point is,
they've done all the work.
They found that clay for us,
that seam of clay.
They've even dug it up.
We just stick it in the bucket,
and that's your clay.
We'll be able
to build a giant kiln.
Yeah!
Can you tell
if these are fire ants or not?
Well, they're not labeled,
are they? They're ants.
You're like
the nature expert.
Ants are ants. Dig!
Oh, my gosh,
there is tons of the stuff.
Aye! Oh shit.
[screaming]
[Tory screaming]
They're fire ants.
They're fire ants.
[Richard] It's like a million
tiny crocodiles in my pants!
[Tory] He's got my balls.
He's got my balls.
Honestly, it was just hundreds
of tiny, agonizing ant bites.
I don't know
why he got so angry.
Look, he wasn't
the one bitten on the
On the what?
Whatever.
[light music]
[Tory] Finally, we did get some clay
and I was able to build the kiln.
And you know what? I was actually
pretty pleased the way it turned out.
Is it working?
[Tory] It's hot.
I dunno if it's gonna be hot
enough to melt sand into glass.
We need it to get
3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
That's like 1,700 degrees
in proper money.
That's really hot.
[Tory] Really hot.
Let me show you
what we're going to be doing.
Now lighthouses have been
around for thousands of years.
But in 1822, the French
made the Fresnel lens.
Is this turning into a lecture?
- Yeah.
- Wait a minute.
[whimsical music]
So this is how
a regular lens works.
If you have a light source,
it's spread out.
But the lens itself will
actually change the directions
of that light into a beam,
which is what we need
because we need to get light
as far out as possible
out to the horizon,
where the ships are,
so they can see us.
We could make a giant lens,
but that would be way too heavy.
We don't have the material.
And you and I probably wouldn't be able
to get it up to the tower.
So I devised this.
This is a Fresnel lens.
The way it works is: it's made
up of a bunch of prisms
and all those prisms
will do the same thing.
It'll take that light
that's spreading out,
change the direction
into one giant beam.
All we need to do
is make 48 prisms
and then put it
into this configuration
- [Tory's voice muffled]
- [light music]
- You paying attention?
- Yep!
48 prisoners
make a flannel lens.
[sighing]
All right. Now.
We're gonna make some prisms.
- Now we've gotta do stuff?
- Yeah.
Right School's out.
Okay.
So I made a pattern out of wood.
Covered this with clay,
and you make a mould.
And then we take this,
fill it with sand
and we make our prisms.
What chance is there
of this working?
Err It's the first time
I've ever done it.
So I have no idea.
Where do we get the sand from?
[light music]
I'm actually quite excited. I have
to say, I mean This is just sand.
It's kind of hot. Maybe we should
get some safety protection.
Oh yeah, good point.
Wait
- What's that for? Cover your head?
- Safety.
[Tory] Okay.
It is hot.
Oh, that's hot!
- Is it really hot?
- Yeah, it's really hot.
All right, so I guess we just
keep an eye on it
till it melts.
[light music]
I get impatient
with things like this.
Does something go
ping when it's cooked?
No.
All right. Let's check it.
- So hot.
- Well, yeah.
It's glowing red.
That's a good sign.
I can feel
the heat coming out of that.
- Well, doesn't look melty.
- It looks like sand.
Maybe at the bottom.
Tory, you've made hot sand!
- It's not hot enough, is it?
- No, it's not.
I just made hot sand.
What temperature
does glass melt at
once it's been turned
into glass from sand?
I think 2,200 degrees
Fahrenheit.
That's 1,200 Celsius.
- Yeah.
- It's quite a lot cooler, isn't it?
Yeah.
I'm not an expert right, but
what if we got glass bottles?
There's loads of them out there.
Like the ones we keep
finding washing up on the shore?
If we break those up into
there It's glass.
Yeah. I get where
you're going with it.
That's actually
a really good idea.
I just wanted to be a purist.
I wanted to see if we could
make glass melting sand.
I admire your ambition.
But it's rubbish.
God, I hate when
he's right about stuff.
Even with crushed bottles,
it took me a ton of attempts
to get something
even remotely usable.
But finally, after a long time,
I had something good enough
to show Richard.
So here is the first full prism.
[Richard] Well, it's melted.
Yeah, you know,
I'm learning a lot about
melting glass.
You have to leave it in there
and let the kiln
cool down with it in there
otherwise it cools off
too quick and it just shatters.
How do you get
it out of the mould now?
Because
obviously it's breakable
So I'm just going to break
the clay mould
from the glass.
That should be okay.
No pressure.
I'd help, but I'm worried I might
mess it up and you'd be cross.
[soft music]
- There it is!
- Look at that.
[Richard] That is glass.
It's not pretty,
but it's in one piece.
- Can I hold it?
- Yes, sure. Be careful.
How are you going to get rid of
the sort of lumpy, bumpy bits?
I think what I'll probably
end up doing is
smash up the glass
to finer bits,
and maybe cook it slower
so we can get rid
of those air bubbles.
Right. I should probably go
collect more bottles.
- [Richard] Here you go
- No not that one.
I can't tell
you how long it took me.
I must have tried
a hundred times,
maybe a thousand
[soft music]
refining my technique
Ah shit
Polishing
and sanding the glass,
until finally I had
48 perfectly clear prisms.
All right, you ready
to install this?
- I only just got here.
- Okay, here it is.
- Woohoo!
- Yeah!
We're gonna rest this edge
right here on these screws.
[intriguing music]
[Richard grunting]
[glass cracking]
[Tory] Careful.
I hear it cracking.
I can see it now.
Because each of these faces
with the profile on them,
they are replicating the shape
of the sort of face of a lens.
As it goes round. But without
all the stuff behind it.
Exactly.
- I am duly impressed.
- Are you?
Yeah. Yeah.
And it's nice to have you back.
You were a bit boring.
Sometimes I just get
a little too focused.
I missed you a bit.
- Obsessive.
- It's nice to see you.
It feels good to be done,
that took a long time.
[Richard] It's pretty.
Wait a minute
- What?
- I just had a thought, Richard.
What?
A static beam
isn't going to attract
as much attention
as a rotating beam.
We need this thing
to be spinning
to better our chances of getting
seen. It needs to rotate.
- You want it rotate?
- Yeah.
You finish this.
Now you want it to rotate?
We need to make
a real lighthouse.
I'll do that.
You will?
I was very keen to make
this lighthouse rotation system.
Oh yes?
Why?
Because I'm a nice guy
And because I didn't want him
powering it with our precious
electricity I needed for my fans.
So I came up
with an environmentally friendly
and ingenious solution.
[intriguing music]
- What's up with the hammocks?
- Tory, my friend.
- Come hither.
- Okay.
- And savour the flavour of my genius.
- All right.
You wanted a lighthouse.
It rotates.
Hey! Look at that.
Well done. So what do we do?
We just rock it back and forth
across the horizon?
Wait, wait. You poured
a huge amount of effort
into making these,
frankly, beautiful lenses.
I sure did.
And so the setting
for your jewel
deserved an equal amount
of work and mind input.
And I've given it that.
- Should I be worried?
- No. It's brilliant.
I've done a calculation based on
the circumference of the lens.
Which means
if you're on a ship out there,
you will be exposed to a brief
flash of brilliant white light
for three tenths of a second,
which is the universally
recognized interval
of light flash
from a lighthouse.
I could get this certified
as an official lighthouse.
If we were sharing the island
with an official lighthouse certifier.
But wait a minute.
If you've made this like
to the specs
of an actual lighthouse,
won't people just avoid us?
No, because
all lighthouses are on charts.
And so a ship out there
will see,
"that's a lighthouse, look it up,
oh it's not supposed to be there."
Come investigate
and rescue me
and probably you as well.
You really think that's
what's going to happen?
Yeah.
Okay, if you say so.
Don't get
too caught up on details.
Do you want to see
the system below?
Can we change this later?
- [Richard] No! I've worked it out.
- Isn't there an SOS?
[Richard] That's a lighthouse.
Come see how it works.
It's quality.
You're gonna be impressed.
So the way it works has
something to do
with these hammocks?
[Richard] Well, it's a whole system.
Let me talk you through it.
Headline is,
this is a fully ecologically
sound green system
based on the most renewable
resource on the planet.
Gravity.
So what do we do? Just put
weight inside this hammock
and then it pulls the rope down, turns
the cogs and that turns the lighthouse?
Yeah but mate
I was gonna explain that to you.
Sorry. Go ahead.
No, you've worked it out.
I'm not going to waste your time
if you can just see it that quickly.
What else are we going to talk about
on an island, just the two of us?
That would have been
a good topic of conversation
for a while.
I'm sensing that you want
to tell me how this works.
Well, there are some things
you haven't guessed.
Like what?
The weight has to be just right.
Remember, we need
that specific pulse of light.
Three tenths of a second.
That's very important.
There's sufficient drag
in the gearing that
with the right weight inside,
it'll take 20 minutes
to make a full descent.
Meanwhile, the other hammock
will be coming up
and the lighthouse
will be rotating.
All right. So how much
weight are we talking about?
Well, that's the funny thing,
it's exactly what you weigh.
It's you.
You want me to be
the weight for this contraption?
How special do you feel
right now?
This whole system
is based around you.
You are the centre of it.
Working on my ego will not work.
I think we've reached a point
where a demonstration is called for.
Clarkson isn't
exactly the right weight,
you are, but he's close enough.
So I'm gonna put him
in the hammock
and he will show you
how this works.
Oh, his arms come off.
Clarkson!
Yeah, that's comforting.
That is exactly why I'm not
going to get into that hammock.
That doesn't have to happen.
Clarkson messed it up.
You're better than him.
No. That is a terrible idea.
I mean, it's like Could
you make it more dangerous?
Maybe like a pit
of crocodiles at the bottom.
It's not dangerous. It was
just an unfortunate accident.
Pretend you didn't see it.
[Tory] Lets add some spikes
down there.
[Richard] There you go.
And he's off
- [Tory] That's pretty cool.
- It does work. It's brilliant.
I'm impressed!
It's pretty cool!
It's turning the wheel
and the light's turning!
So let me ask you this:
once that happens,
then what?
Well, then you're at the bottom,
the other hammock is
coming up as this one goes down.
[Tory] So I have
to climb in that hammock?
[Richard] So you run up
the stairs, get in the hammock,
and then 20 minutes later you
run back upstairs get in the other one.
So it's infinite. It's infinite.
It goes on and on and on.
So what do you do about sleep?
I mean, I only have 20 minutes.
Couldn't you've made it
like eight hours?
We sleep, what, from dusk
to dawn, that's 12 hours here.
So that's 12, that's 36
twenty minute power naps.
You will be Iron Man
by the morning,
you will be absolutely flying.
- I feel like you're trying to kill me.
- No!
The lighthouse plan
was coming together perfectly.
All we needed now was
electricity to power the light.
So I jumped on with Richard,
we finished the bigger
water wheel and we were all set.
Finally, we were ready for
our great leap forward.
A moment of modernity,
enlightenment, civilisation,
inspiration, reason
[theatrical music]
Here it comes!
Plus it meant I could charge
my electric toothbrush.
- Richard?
- Yes?
- Water's coming?
- Yep.
- Is it gonna work?
- I dunno.
I hope so.
I mean, look
at the size of this wheel.
I really hope it does work.
I've done a lot of wiring.
Here it comes.
Here it comes.
It's not moving
It is moving!
[shouts of joy]
Look at it go!
You can see
the power in that.
[Tory] Yes. And by doubling the length
of the arm, we've actually doubled
the turning power of the wheel.
Well, it's going to need
to be powerful.
I've wired up every light
I could salvage
from the boat in there.
If we can get that alternator
spinning at full capacity,
we could draw
45 amps from it,
which is easily
enough to light this place up.
If it's working.
You ready to turn it on?
I want to go over there.
I want to stand back
and see it from a distance.
- Wait, I want to see it all!
- Are you ready?
- Yeah, I'm ready.
- Here we go. In 3, 2, 1
[magical music]
[shouts of joy]
Look at it!
It's like a fairy tale castle!
Oh, my word.
- It's like an oil rig!
- Oh my god!
It's beautiful!
We're civilised human beings
again.
[Tory] We are living now.
[Richard] Talk about
civilised behaviour
Can I interest sir in some
music? 'Cos this now has power.
- But of course!
- Music
[upbeat music]
Listen to that.
I've forgotten
human beings could even do this.
It's like somebody
is pouring honey into my ears.
Best day ever!
I'm gonna more than survive!
Shall we go for a skinny dip?
Don't be dirty.
Yeah, that was a good evening.
And that was before Tory had tried out
his lighthouse for real.
[soft music]
This is the most ridiculous
[Tory grunting]
You're only getting into bed,
chap.
I mean, I do want to
get rescued, but I mean,
I also want to be alive
when we get rescued.
Well, have a nice sleep. You'll
feel better after a nice kip.
Could you have made this
anymore flimsy?
It's lovely. You'll get used
to it, you'll get better at it.
Here you go,
look, have your little friend.
- Bit of company.
- Wow.
What a gentleman.
[Richard] Night-night, chap.
- Have a lovely night's sleep.
- You suck.
Go to sleep.
[soft music]
Oh, yes.
[sighing contentedly]
Just a little drop.
Just a little
Bliss.
[intriguing music]
Tory?
Are you awake?
Tory?
Ah, better.
You know, life on
the island was pretty good.
Until Tory started being weird.
[light music]
Having trouble?
My mind is all foggy.
I'm not getting
any sleep at night.
That hammock lighthouse
is keeping me up.
All right
I might just go take a nap.
So good luck fishing.
What the hell?
[intriguing music]
What the hell?
I knew it.
I knew it.
I knew it. I knew it.
[whispering] Richard!
It's the sail.
[whispering] Richard! Richard!
Look!
Come here. It's the sail.
- What?
- Shush!
- What?
- Shush!
Be quiet, whisper.
Why are we shout whispering?
Because they could be near.
They could be anywhere.
They could
be watching us right now.
- Who?
- Whoever took the sail!
I told you, somebody is
here on the island with us.
It's a sail.
This is our sail.
It's a sail,
and it's washed up there
from the sea.
Just happens all the time.
Look at all the flotsam
and jetsam here.
Are you crazy?
This is the sail
that went missing.
You need to get a grip.
It's just us on the island.
That's all that's been
here from the start.
[screaming]
What was that?
What? Sorry I couldn't hear you
for the bloodcurdling scream.
You were saying?
[suspenseful music]
Now, I'm really scared.
Let's go back to the house.
Don't leave me.
[suspenseful music]
[intriguing music]
[light music]