THE BLUE LAGOON

WRITTEN BY DOUGLAS DAY STEWART

BASED ON THE NOVEL BY H.D. STACPOOLE

TRANSCRIBED BY KENDRA STEINER

Columbia Pictures

The Blue Lagoon, in Pictures, Part 31, 1980

[[[Waves crash onto the shore. Richard stands at the hut, his arms above his head, and watches. Then he looks down.]]]

[[[Evening. Richard and Emmeline sit on a large rock watching the sunset.]]]

RICHARD: Tell me again, where’s your mother and father?

EMMELINE: In heaven.

RICHARD: But where’s heaven?

EMMELINE: You know, up there. Your father might be there too.

RICHARD: Oh, no. He’s coming on a ship someday to take us home.

[[[The sun touches the water. They remember what Paddy told them about the water hissing.]]]

RICHARD: Do you hear it?

EMMELINE: No. Do you ever hear it?

RICHARD: Sometimes I think I do.

EMMELINE: I think Paddy was a liar. He told us there was a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow, and that was a lie. He told us if we dug far enough we’d reach China.

RICHARD: And Santa Claus never came. Em, do you ever think about... him? I do. Em, I know you don’t like to talk about it, but don’t you ever wonder what- what really happened?

EMMELINE: I don’t want to know what happened!

RICHARD: I do.

[[[They sit by a fire roasting fish.]]]

RICHARD: There’s so many things I don’t understand, like why do the fish stop swimming and lie on top of the tide pools after a heavy rain? Why do you hear the waves in side the big shells? Why are all these funny hairs growing on me? I wish a big book with all the answers to every question in the world would drop out of the sky right now and land in my hands. I’d read it till I knew everything.

EMMELINE: Oh Richard, you can’t know everything. Only God knows everything.

RICHARD: God. He can’t find us any better than Santa Claus.

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