Fiver Hazel, look... the field... the field... it's covered with blood!
Voiced by Richard Briers 
Watership Down (1978) · 58 quotes
Watership Down (1978) · 58 quotes
Tied for 3rd most-quoted character in Watership Down (1978): in 12 of its 58 quotes
Most scenes with: Hazel (6), Bigwig (3), Blackberry (3)
Look. Look. That's the place for us. High, lonely hills, where the wind and the sound carry, and the ground's as dry as straw in a barn. That's where we ought to be. That's where we have to get to.
More lines from Fiver
3 quotes Fiver Fiver They think I'm mad, but you know I'm not, and you still won't listen!
Fiver There's something unnatural and evil and twisted about this place. It feels... it feels like... mist. Like being deceived, and losing our way.
Scenes with Fiver
8 scenes Fiver There's something very **** about the warren this evening...
Is it dangerous?
Fiver It's not exactly danger, it's... oh, I don't know. Something oppressive... like thunder.
Hazel? It is Hazel, isn't it?
It is.
What are you doing here?
We? You mean he wants to see him, too?
Yes.
Fiver I must.
Look, Bigwig, when have I EVER asked to see the chief rabbit before?
[thinks over, hesitating]
Oh, all right. Wait here. [goes into warren, speaks to Chief Rabbit for a moment, comes back up] Come along, then. Though I'll probably get my ears chewed off for this...
Where are you going?
Fiver Away, to the hills.
By yourself, alone? You'll die!
Fiver You're closer to death than I am.
Fiver [they believe Bigwig to be dead]
You pay for it! The food, the warren! But no one must ever ask where anyone was or speak of the wires! The whole placed is snared! Everywhere, every day!
They left Bigwig to die!
Silver's right!
Let's drive them out, take their warren and live there ourselves!
Yes!
Back to the warren!
Yes! Yes! Yes, back to the warren!
Fiver Embleer Frith, you fools! That warren's nothing but a death hole! Yes, let's help ourselves to a roof of bones!
Fiver, there's been some trouble. Hazel's been shot.
Fiver No.
The Black Rabbit serves Lord Frith, but he does no more than his appointed task.
Fiver Hazel's not dead.
[After Fiver has a vision of blood in the fields]
Alright, alright, Fiver. It's getting dark. I think we should get back to the burrow.
Fiver Back to the burrow?! It'll come there! Don't think it won't! It's all around us!
Now, stop it, Fiver.
Fiver We've got to go away from here! All of us!
Go away? The whole warren?
Fiver Yes, before it's too late!
Don't be silly. They won’t come, they'll think you're out of your mind.
Fiver You must listen to me, Hazel! Something very bad is going to happen!
Well, I suppose we'd better try and see the Chief Rabbit. You can tell him about it. But I don't expect he'll like the idea at all.
Chief Rabbit
Now, Walnut. It is Walnut, isn't it?
No, sir. Hazel.
Chief Rabbit
Hazel. I knew your mother well. And your friend?
My brother, sir. Fiver.
Chief Rabbit
Your brother. Now, do tell me how I can help you.
Well, he says there's a bad danger coming to our warren.
Chief Rabbit
A bad danger? How very upsetting. Now, what sort of danger, I wonder?
Fiver I don't know, but it's bad! It's so bad!
Chief Rabbit
Well, now. What ought we to do?
Fiver Go away! All of us! Now!
Chief Rabbit
[flabbergasted]
Now? In May? The mating season? And where would we go to?
He's had these feelings before, and he's been right again and again.
Chief Rabbit
I shall have to consider this very carefully. Perhaps we'll discuss it later, in the summer.
Fiver [rushes out in a panic]
WE CAN'T WAIT, WE CAN'T WAIT!
Chief Rabbit
It's been good of you to come, Walnut.
Chief Rabbit
[Hazel leaves the burrow, Bigwig is about to follow, but the Chief Rabbit calls for him.]
Bigwig! [Bigwig doesn't respond and tries to ignore the Chief Rabbit.] Bigwig!
Sir?
Chief Rabbit
What was that all about?
Well, sir--
Chief Rabbit
Your duty as an officer is to protect this burrow.
Yes, sir.
Chief Rabbit
Those two lunatics have better be watched.
Yes, sir.
[As Hazel and Fiver prepare to leave Sandleford in the night, Blackberry joins them.]
Who's that?
It's me.
Dandelion?
No. Blackberry. Dandelion told me you were leaving the warren tonight. [several other rabbits join them] If it's true, I'd like to come along.
Violet
We'd like to come along too.
I don't much like the look of things.
Fiver We must get everyone.
That Toadflax fellow followed me down the run. It could mean the Owsla has been turned out tonight.
Then the sooner we're off, the better.
