There's a dog loose in the woods!
Silver Well, that does it!
Played by Terence Rigby 
Watership Down (1978) · 58 quotes
Watership Down (1978) · 58 quotes
8th most-quoted character in Watership Down (1978): in 6 of its 58 quotes
Most scenes with: Bigwig (4), Blackberry (4), Pipkin (4)
Scenes with Silver
6 scenes Silver 
[while all are digging in the rain]
What's happening back home, I wonder? Think, when we lived in our own burrows? Dry, soft, warm bodies...
Silver It keeps getting worse and worse wherever we go. Where ARE we going?
It won't be much longer, then we can all rest.
Silver How MUCH longer?
We never should have left.
Suppose Fiver's all wrong?
We want to go back and find out.
Go back? After all we've been through?
And probably get killed for wounding Captain Holly? An Owsla officer? Talk sense, for Frith's sake!
[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!
Silver They left Bigwig to die!
Silver's right!
Silver Let's drive them out, take their warren and live there ourselves!
Yes!
Back to the warren!
Yes! Yes! Yes, back to the warren!
Embleer Frith, you fools! That warren's nothing but a death hole! Yes, let's help ourselves to a roof of bones!
Holly
[to Fiver]
I remember you. You're the one that saw it coming.
But what happened?
Holly
Our warren, destroyed!
Silver Destroyed? How?
Holly
Men came. Filled in the burrows. Couldn't get out. There was a strange sound. Hissing. The air turned bad. Runs blocked with dead bodies. I couldn't get out. Everything turned mad. Warren, herbs, roots, grass, all pushed into the earth.
Men have always hated us.
Holly
No. They just destroyed the warren because we were in their way.
[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.
We must get everyone.
Silver 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.
There's a dog loose in the wood!
Silver Well, that does it!
A dog?
Come on. What do you think will happen when he picks up our scent? Those that can swim, swim. The others will have to make out the best they can.
That's not good enough. We all got into this together, we'll all get out of it together.
