Scenes with Richard Lestrange
12 scenes
We appreciate your hospitality and hope that you'll offer us the opportunity to repay you.
Richard Lestrange You can. You can take us with you back to civilization.
SH Sylvia Hilliard
I should think it must be ever so boring here.
Richard Lestrange What is the meaning of boring?
SH Sylvia Hilliard
Well boring's when... You have nothing whatever to do. So you're bored, like you must be here.
Richard Lestrange [suggestively]
No. We're never bored!
[Richard and Lilli grin at each other]
Mother died six years ago.
How do you follow the years?
Richard Lestrange She taught us. We count the moons, we know that twelve full moons are one year.
We have Christmas and Thanksgiving, and Easter, although we're not exactly sure we celebrate them on the right days.
It's utterly amazing, the two of you all these years on this remote, Godforsaken place.
[seriously]
Not Godforsaken, Captain Hilliard. Not Godforsaken at all.
Richard Lestrange Lilli, hurry! The signal fire!
Richard, what if they're heathens? I'm frightened!
Richard Lestrange Well maybe we shouldn't light the signal fire! Let's see who they are first! There's eight people. The one in the light covering may be a woman.
[excitedly]
There's a woman?
Keep them in your sights. They may not be civilized.
Richard Lestrange Civilized. C-I-V-I-L-I-Z-I-D.
Remember what mother said about a good, firm handshake.
Richard Lestrange My name is Richard. We've been waiting for you for a long time.
I'm Lilli, and I'm ready for you to take us back to civilization.
CJ Captain Jacob Hillard
[confused]
I'm Captain Jacob Hilliard, master of the Tradewind, and... Is this your land?
Richard Lestrange Yes, my house is there.
CJ Captain Jacob Hillard
Well, we're in need of fresh water. Our casks are fouled. [slowly] Will you grant us permission to come ashore?
Richard Lestrange [slowly]
Yes, you are welcome here.
SH Sylvia Hilliard
It's no time to be thinking about Lilli!
Richard Lestrange I told her I'd never hurt her.
SH Sylvia Hilliard
Don't feel sorry for her, Richard. She's had you all to herself. But she doesn't own you. You're not married.
Richard Lestrange We are married!
SH Sylvia Hilliard
But not really. A lot of made up words in the middle of the jungle doesn't count.
Richard Lestrange It does to me.
SH Sylvia Hilliard
Why don't you just... Follow your heart?
Richard Lestrange [seriously]
Lilli is my heart.
[Sylvia glares at Richard and slaps him]
I'm gonna keep this forever.
Richard Lestrange What's that?
My prize. The white bead. I think... It looks nice in my hair. Do you?
Richard Lestrange I don't care what you do with it, or how you wear it. You can hang it from you nose for all I care.
Richard Lestrange The first time, he almost got me. But I was too fast for him. This time, he was lying in wait, so I dive in! And I can see down his mouth, there's about five hundred teeth with stripy little fish all around his gills, and he comes at me! He misses me, stupid sea slug!
Richard Lestrange Silly?! It's not silly, it's dangerous.
Exactly, that's why it's silly. I don't understand why you have to do it.
Richard Lestrange I like the way it makes me feel.
Richard Lestrange [point to his stomach]
Inside here. It feels all alive, when I'm know I'm the master of the reef!
The master of the reef. The master of the reef!
Richard Lestrange Hey, don't you ever make fun of me!
Richard Lestrange I feel like crying.
Richard Lestrange I want us to be husband and wife.
Yes. Always.
[They kiss passionately]
Richard Lestrange With this ring, I thee wed, Lilli.
With this ring, I thee wed, Richard.
[They exchange rings]
And now we're...
Richard Lestrange One. Forever.
[They kiss passionately]
Richard Lestrange When did I lie to you?
You promised me, that you'd never hurt me.
Richard Lestrange [concerned]
And when did I hurt you?
Everytime you look at her, you hurt me.
Richard Lestrange Well, I'm sorry. It's just that she's so different.
Richard Lestrange Well, look at her. The way she's all covered up.
[harshly]
But you said you found all those clothes stupid and unnecessary!
Richard Lestrange I do. It's just that... I wonder what she looks like underneath all of them.
You mean, you want to look at her, because you can't see her?
Richard Lestrange Yes. You remember when I wanted to go to the north side of the island, just because I couldn't?
[glaring at him]
Yes I do. [harshly] And I also remember what almost happened to you when you did go!
I always weather a storm well. I get that from mother.
Richard Lestrange Yes, you do. Captain Hilliard says he wants to set sail at dawn.
I guess that means Captain Hilliard's daughter wants to set sail at dawn.
Richard Lestrange I don't care what she wants. I don't care about her at all, I know that now, Lilli. Do you understand? You're the most important thing in the whole world to me.
Well you can set sail at dawn... But we're not going.
There's a baby growing inside me.
Richard Lestrange Lilli!... How do you know?
A woman knows these things, that's how.
[Richard smiles excitedly at her]
I won't let it be born in civilization. I want it to be born right here. Where there's no evil, and no lies, and no guns.
Richard Lestrange You're right. We'll stay here. Just the three of us. I love you, Lilli.
[Lilli smiles breezily at him]
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