:04:01
Yes, sir.
:04:02
Before they was driven away.
:04:07
Driven away by what?
:04:12
You never knew?
:04:14
Ah, well.
:04:15
It's neither
here nor there, right?
:04:17
The point is, they made
a new place for theirselves.
:04:19
No, by what?
Driven away by what?
:04:20
Oh, that's old stuff, boy.
:04:23
It's in my blood.
:04:25
You ought to be
able to tell me.
:04:29
Well, they come to Gaze Island
centuries ago, they did.
:04:33
The old Quoyles was rackers.
:04:35
They were, they were pirates,
sort of like.
:04:38
You see them cairns?
:04:41
Fires used to burn
in them
:04:43
to guide
the ships at sea
like lighthouses.
:04:47
Now, the Quoyles
would move the fires
:04:50
to fool the ships.
:04:51
They'd lure them
into the rocks
:04:53
so the Quoyles could grab
their loot.
:04:55
Oh, they was a savage lot,
the old Quoyles.
:04:57
Then they went too far one day,
they... nailed a man to a tree
:05:02
and they cut
off his nose
:05:04
to draw the nippers
and the flies
:05:07
that-that ate him alive.
:05:09
And that's when the Quoyles was
given their walking papers.
:05:14
Jesus.
:05:16
Now, there's still an old Quoyle
:05:17
down in one of these coves
somewhere.
:05:20
They say he slept with his wife
after she was dead.
:05:23
Anything else I should know?
:05:29
That about covers it.
:05:34
(buoy bell ringing)
:05:39
BILLY:
? When the knitting pins,
you is abreast ?
:05:43
? Hold the tiller
to the west... ?
:05:48
? Behind the pins
you must steer... ?
:05:53
? Till the old man's shoe...
does appear. ?
:05:56
(Celtic drums fade up)
:05:58
(woman screaming)