WEBVTT 00:00:00.335 --> 00:00:20.335 ..:: Presented By ZarFilm Website ::.. ‏.:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:50.360 Mum! 00:02:07.919 --> 00:02:09.387 How does this story begin? 00:02:13.467 --> 00:02:16.346 It begins like so many stories. 00:02:19.181 --> 00:02:20.649 With a boy. 00:02:21.475 --> 00:02:24.024 Too old to be a kid. 00:02:26.146 --> 00:02:28.865 Too young to be a man. 00:02:34.404 --> 00:02:36.406 And a nightmare. 00:03:45.267 --> 00:03:49.272 A MONSTER CALLS 00:05:34.584 --> 00:05:36.757 It's got two fundamental constants. 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:40.220 E, the base of the natural logarithm system, 00:05:40.423 --> 00:05:41.515 it's a number, 00:05:41.675 --> 00:05:44.019 it's a number that emerges from asking: 00:05:44.177 --> 00:05:47.522 What is the mathematical function or thing 00:05:47.681 --> 00:05:51.902 which describes things where the rate at which they change... 00:05:56.106 --> 00:05:58.074 Now, if you do that mathematically, 00:05:58.733 --> 00:06:01.577 it will give you this fundamental constant. 00:06:05.657 --> 00:06:06.658 Conor? 00:06:08.577 --> 00:06:09.954 Are you all right, Conor? 00:06:10.829 --> 00:06:11.830 You look tired. 00:06:12.789 --> 00:06:14.416 Are you getting enough rest? 00:06:15.876 --> 00:06:17.674 Yeah, I'm fine. 00:06:17.836 --> 00:06:20.464 'Cause if you ever wanted to talk... 00:06:20.630 --> 00:06:21.802 I'm fine. 00:06:22.757 --> 00:06:23.758 Okay. 00:06:26.595 --> 00:06:28.689 Everyone, eyes front. 00:06:29.431 --> 00:06:32.901 Pi is the ratio of the circumference, and when you put it... 00:06:34.144 --> 00:06:36.272 Careful there, O'Malley. You might fall. 00:06:36.479 --> 00:06:37.856 Are you drunk or something? 00:06:38.690 --> 00:06:40.943 He'll have to get his slaphead mother to kiss it for him. 00:06:44.863 --> 00:06:47.582 You're always off in your own little dream world. 00:06:48.533 --> 00:06:51.082 What's there so interesting? 00:06:54.956 --> 00:06:56.048 Get off! 00:06:59.544 --> 00:07:01.421 You've been a good boy. 00:07:01.922 --> 00:07:03.765 Remember, O'Malley, 00:07:04.215 --> 00:07:05.967 good boys don't talk. 00:07:32.827 --> 00:07:33.953 Hey, Con! 00:07:34.329 --> 00:07:35.672 Hey, Mum. 00:07:39.084 --> 00:07:40.301 What is that? 00:07:40.502 --> 00:07:41.970 It's a surprise. 00:07:43.254 --> 00:07:44.676 So, this is a VCR? 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:46.967 This is much better than a VCR. 00:07:47.133 --> 00:07:49.682 It's your grandpa's old film projector. 00:07:50.095 --> 00:07:51.095 There we go. 00:07:51.179 --> 00:07:53.523 - I wish you could have known him. - Who? 00:07:54.975 --> 00:07:56.272 Grandpa. 00:07:57.936 --> 00:08:00.234 Even Grandma softened up around him. 00:08:00.397 --> 00:08:02.024 Yeah, right. 00:08:03.316 --> 00:08:04.317 Here we go. 00:08:19.374 --> 00:08:21.342 What a bunch of assholes. 00:08:22.377 --> 00:08:24.846 Why are they trying to kill King Kong? 00:08:26.214 --> 00:08:29.013 People don't like what they don't understand. 00:08:31.553 --> 00:08:32.930 They get scared. 00:08:35.015 --> 00:08:37.564 King Kong could just smash them all. 00:08:38.309 --> 00:08:40.858 Break them into a million pieces. 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:48.361 Yeah. 00:10:33.758 --> 00:10:36.352 Conor. 00:10:43.351 --> 00:10:44.443 Mum? 00:14:10.350 --> 00:14:13.945 I have come to get you, Conor O'Malley. 00:14:22.737 --> 00:14:24.990 Why don't you run, Conor O'Malley? 00:14:25.156 --> 00:14:27.375 Why don't you run for your mother? 00:14:30.703 --> 00:14:33.126 You leave her alone! I'm not afraid of you! 00:14:49.931 --> 00:14:53.435 I will visit you again on further nights, Conor O'Malley. 00:14:53.601 --> 00:14:55.945 And I will shake your walls until you wake. 00:14:56.104 --> 00:14:59.654 And then, I will tell you three stories. 00:15:01.526 --> 00:15:03.403 You're going to tell me stories? 00:15:04.570 --> 00:15:06.117 I am. 00:15:06.280 --> 00:15:08.282 I will tell you three stories, 00:15:08.449 --> 00:15:10.827 and when I have finished my stories, 00:15:11.035 --> 00:15:13.333 you will tell me a fourth. 00:15:13.496 --> 00:15:15.043 I don't know anything about stories! 00:15:15.206 --> 00:15:18.050 You will tell me a fourth, and it will be the truth. 00:15:18.209 --> 00:15:19.836 What are you talking about? 00:15:20.044 --> 00:15:23.765 This truth that you hide. The truth you dream. 00:15:23.965 --> 00:15:26.184 - You will tell me your nightmare. - No. 00:15:26.342 --> 00:15:28.310 Yes. That will be your truth. 00:15:29.262 --> 00:15:30.639 And if I don't? 00:15:58.541 --> 00:16:01.385 Con, I was asleep. 00:16:08.050 --> 00:16:10.724 You should be in your own bed, Con. 00:16:12.346 --> 00:16:14.223 Just five minutes. 00:16:14.390 --> 00:16:16.688 - That's not true. - Yes, it is. 00:16:17.768 --> 00:16:21.489 - Come on, Con. - Just five minutes. I promise. 00:16:26.444 --> 00:16:28.196 Five minutes. 00:16:34.785 --> 00:16:36.207 Night, night. 00:17:53.614 --> 00:17:56.834 I respect that. But the last thing your father would want 00:17:56.993 --> 00:17:59.496 would be for him to be taken off to America 00:17:59.662 --> 00:18:02.381 to live with some strange woman and her strange child. 00:18:02.540 --> 00:18:04.213 We have to discuss this now. 00:18:04.792 --> 00:18:06.009 Hey, Con! 00:18:06.210 --> 00:18:07.632 There's the little man. 00:18:07.795 --> 00:18:09.297 Where did you say you got these? 00:18:09.463 --> 00:18:11.761 From a very nice old people's home. 00:18:11.924 --> 00:18:14.723 They're clearing it out to make flats, and I'll be the agent. 00:18:15.553 --> 00:18:17.180 Your mother needs a cup of tea. 00:18:17.346 --> 00:18:19.940 Green, no sugar. I take mine black. 00:18:20.182 --> 00:18:21.980 What do you think, Con? 00:18:22.351 --> 00:18:23.351 He loves it. 00:18:23.436 --> 00:18:25.313 - Go on. - Okay. 00:18:26.522 --> 00:18:28.524 Go on, try something else. 00:18:34.030 --> 00:18:35.031 Alright. 00:18:35.865 --> 00:18:39.039 You can't just drift, Lizzy. You have to make some decisions. 00:18:39.368 --> 00:18:42.212 I am making all the decisions I can, 00:18:42.371 --> 00:18:44.840 and I will decide when I speak to Conor. 00:18:49.003 --> 00:18:52.633 Go and help Conor with the tea or I'll literally go insane. 00:18:58.721 --> 00:19:00.519 You and I need to have a talk. 00:19:00.681 --> 00:19:02.183 I'm making tea. 00:19:02.433 --> 00:19:03.980 - Conor! - I said, I'm making... 00:19:04.143 --> 00:19:05.736 We have to... 00:19:06.604 --> 00:19:08.857 I'm not the enemy. I'm here to help your mother. 00:19:09.023 --> 00:19:10.070 I know why you're here. 00:19:10.232 --> 00:19:12.075 I'm here because 12-year-old boys 00:19:12.234 --> 00:19:15.283 shouldn't be wiping down counters without being asked to first. 00:19:15.446 --> 00:19:16.446 You wanna do it? 00:19:16.572 --> 00:19:18.290 Less of your cheek. 00:19:19.533 --> 00:19:21.661 She's always sick after the treatments. 00:19:21.827 --> 00:19:24.080 She'll be better tomorrow. And then you can go home. 00:19:24.246 --> 00:19:26.465 She'll seem better tomorrow. 00:19:26.624 --> 00:19:28.718 She needs to talk about this with you. 00:19:28.876 --> 00:19:29.968 Talk to me about what? 00:19:32.713 --> 00:19:36.183 - About you coming to live with me. - I'm never coming to live... 00:19:36.342 --> 00:19:39.346 - Listen to me. If your mother... - There's no if! 00:19:39.512 --> 00:19:42.732 She'll be better and then you can go. 00:19:44.850 --> 00:19:45.942 Lizzy? 00:19:46.310 --> 00:19:47.562 Lizzy! 00:19:47.937 --> 00:19:48.937 Oh my God! 00:19:48.979 --> 00:19:51.073 Hold on, hold on. 00:19:51.232 --> 00:19:52.404 Where's the medicine? 00:19:52.566 --> 00:19:53.567 Conor! 00:19:54.276 --> 00:19:55.277 Conor! 00:19:55.861 --> 00:19:58.330 I'm here, darling. Deep breath. 00:19:58.489 --> 00:20:01.038 Conor, please! Please give me the medicine. 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:02.452 Hurry, hurry. 00:20:04.578 --> 00:20:05.704 It's coming. 00:20:06.455 --> 00:20:07.547 It's coming. 00:20:09.083 --> 00:20:10.380 Here we go. 00:20:15.256 --> 00:20:16.678 Deep breath. 00:20:19.552 --> 00:20:21.054 Deep breath. 00:20:21.887 --> 00:20:23.059 Deep breath. 00:20:23.472 --> 00:20:24.894 Deep breath. 00:20:27.476 --> 00:20:28.978 It's okay. 00:20:47.830 --> 00:20:49.582 Just don't touch anything. 00:20:49.749 --> 00:20:53.003 Trust me, I'll be doing my very best not to. 00:20:55.296 --> 00:20:58.300 Our conversation isn't over, young man. 00:21:03.053 --> 00:21:04.680 Oh, yes, it is. 00:21:30.247 --> 00:21:32.170 Mum! 00:22:41.652 --> 00:22:43.780 What took you so long? 00:22:44.154 --> 00:22:46.623 It is time for me to tell you the first tale. 00:22:46.782 --> 00:22:48.250 I don't need a tale. 00:22:48.450 --> 00:22:50.418 I need a bus ticket for my grandma. 00:22:50.578 --> 00:22:52.580 It is time for me to tell you the... 00:22:52.746 --> 00:22:55.841 Where do you think you're going? I will be listened to! 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:57.718 I am as old as this land and... 00:22:57.877 --> 00:22:59.504 What do you know about anything? 00:22:59.670 --> 00:23:02.924 I know everything about you, Conor O'Malley. 00:23:03.090 --> 00:23:04.433 No, you don't! 00:23:04.592 --> 00:23:07.141 If you did, you'd know I don't have time to listen 00:23:07.303 --> 00:23:10.728 to stupid stories from a stupid tree that is just a dream. 00:23:10.890 --> 00:23:12.312 A dream? 00:23:12.474 --> 00:23:14.943 What is a dream, Conor O'Malley? 00:23:15.102 --> 00:23:18.481 And who is to say that it is not everything else that is a dream? 00:23:19.982 --> 00:23:21.484 Never mind. 00:23:23.152 --> 00:23:24.904 I came to see you because I thought... 00:23:25.070 --> 00:23:27.914 You thought I might have come to topple your enemies. 00:23:28.073 --> 00:23:29.666 Slay your dragons. 00:23:29.825 --> 00:23:31.498 Or at least help me with my grandmother. 00:23:31.660 --> 00:23:33.913 But all you want to do is tell me stories. 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:36.582 Stories of how I toppled my enemies. 00:23:37.750 --> 00:23:39.798 Stories of how I slew dragons. 00:23:40.461 --> 00:23:43.214 Let me tell you a tale of when I came walking. 00:23:43.505 --> 00:23:46.634 Let me tell you of the end of a wicked queen 00:23:46.800 --> 00:23:50.930 and how I made sure she was never seen again. 00:23:56.769 --> 00:23:57.770 Go on, then. 00:23:58.479 --> 00:23:59.856 Good. 00:24:31.679 --> 00:24:33.022 What do you see? 00:24:33.180 --> 00:24:35.433 Nothing. There are leaves in the way. 00:24:35.599 --> 00:24:37.977 Use your imagination, Conor O'Malley. 00:24:39.520 --> 00:24:41.067 What do you see? 00:24:44.775 --> 00:24:46.823 - I see a spark. - Yes. 00:24:46.986 --> 00:24:48.158 And? 00:24:48.320 --> 00:24:50.118 No, it's water. 00:24:50.322 --> 00:24:51.494 It's watercolor. 00:24:51.657 --> 00:24:53.204 Keep looking. 00:24:54.868 --> 00:24:55.868 Wow! 00:24:55.953 --> 00:24:57.921 Wow, indeed. 00:24:58.080 --> 00:25:00.299 Long ago, before this was a town, 00:25:00.457 --> 00:25:02.801 with roads and trains and cars, 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:04.553 this was a kingdom. 00:25:04.712 --> 00:25:07.340 Here? We don't even have a Tesco. 00:25:07.965 --> 00:25:09.558 It was a prosperous kingdom 00:25:09.717 --> 00:25:12.846 with a wise king who had won peace for his people, 00:25:13.012 --> 00:25:15.856 but peace had come at a price. 00:25:17.016 --> 00:25:21.988 The king had lost all three of his sons in battle to giants. 00:25:24.148 --> 00:25:25.695 To dragons. 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:30.033 To armies of men led by great wizards. 00:25:30.195 --> 00:25:32.118 This is all sounding pretty fairytale-ish. 00:25:32.281 --> 00:25:36.752 You wouldn't say that if you heard the screams of a man killed by a spear. 00:25:41.749 --> 00:25:45.470 The queen was unable to bear the loss of all their three sons, 00:25:48.213 --> 00:25:50.215 leaving the king alone in despair 00:25:50.382 --> 00:25:53.807 with the company of his only remaining heir, 00:25:53.969 --> 00:25:56.188 his orphaned grandson. 00:26:02.311 --> 00:26:04.439 The child was raised as a prince, 00:26:04.646 --> 00:26:08.617 winning the love of the kingdom with his gallantry and good heart. 00:26:14.990 --> 00:26:17.459 His people loved him. 00:26:18.118 --> 00:26:20.120 Our future king! 00:26:24.166 --> 00:26:28.262 He was nearly a man when his grandfather took a new wife. 00:26:33.217 --> 00:26:34.639 The king felt ill 00:26:34.802 --> 00:26:38.022 and rumour began to spread that she was an evil witch, 00:26:38.180 --> 00:26:41.150 that she was bent on taking the throne for herself 00:26:41.308 --> 00:26:43.527 by poisoning the king. 00:26:47.314 --> 00:26:51.194 A few weeks later, the king died. 00:26:56.907 --> 00:27:00.161 The prince was too young to take the king's place, 00:27:00.327 --> 00:27:05.299 so, by law, the queen would rule for another year. 00:27:10.420 --> 00:27:12.923 The future was uncertain. 00:27:24.893 --> 00:27:28.568 The prince, meanwhile, had given away his heart. 00:27:29.398 --> 00:27:31.492 She was beautiful and smart, 00:27:31.692 --> 00:27:36.163 and though only a farmer's daughter, the kingdom smiled on the match. 00:27:40.617 --> 00:27:44.497 The queen, however, she was rather enjoying being queen. 00:27:44.955 --> 00:27:49.051 And what better way to remain so than to marry the prince herself? 00:27:49.209 --> 00:27:51.177 What? That's disgusting! 00:27:51.336 --> 00:27:53.964 - She was his grandmother! - Step-grandmother. 00:27:54.131 --> 00:27:57.726 And still a young, beautiful woman herself, don't forget. 00:27:57.968 --> 00:28:01.393 The prince, however, didn't like the idea either. 00:28:05.809 --> 00:28:10.030 He took the farmer's daughter and they rode away into the night. 00:28:12.566 --> 00:28:16.366 They stopped to rest under the branches of a yew tree. 00:28:16.528 --> 00:28:17.745 That's you! 00:28:19.072 --> 00:28:21.541 The next morning, the prince awoke. 00:28:22.159 --> 00:28:25.208 'Arise, my beloved', he said. 00:28:25.370 --> 00:28:28.499 But the farmer's daughter did not stir, 00:28:31.001 --> 00:28:33.550 which was when the prince noticed the blood. 00:28:33.754 --> 00:28:34.596 Blood? 00:28:34.755 --> 00:28:37.224 Someone had killed his beloved in the night. 00:28:37.382 --> 00:28:38.383 What? 00:28:39.801 --> 00:28:41.553 'The queen!', he cried. 00:28:41.762 --> 00:28:44.390 'The queen has murdered my bride!' 00:28:45.515 --> 00:28:49.816 The villagers, full of fury and vengeance, rose up at the crime. 00:28:50.312 --> 00:28:53.441 It was then that I came walking. 00:29:17.047 --> 00:29:20.176 The queen was never seen again. 00:29:23.595 --> 00:29:25.689 Good! She deserved it! 00:29:26.974 --> 00:29:29.898 Now, I don't suppose you can help me with my grandma. 00:29:30.310 --> 00:29:31.937 The story is not yet finished. 00:29:33.063 --> 00:29:36.033 I took the queen and carried her far enough away 00:29:36.191 --> 00:29:39.411 so the town's people would never find her. 00:29:39.569 --> 00:29:43.449 To a village by the sea, where she began a new life. 00:29:43.991 --> 00:29:45.834 But she killed the farmer's daughter! 00:29:46.034 --> 00:29:48.378 How can you save a murderer? 00:29:49.037 --> 00:29:50.209 You really are a monster. 00:29:50.372 --> 00:29:53.046 I never said she killed the farmer's daughter. 00:29:53.208 --> 00:29:56.553 I only said that the prince said it was so. 00:29:57.462 --> 00:30:00.557 The prince never fell asleep that night, 00:30:01.133 --> 00:30:05.138 but waited for the farmer's daughter to be lost in her dreams, 00:30:05.304 --> 00:30:08.228 and then began his real plan. 00:30:09.433 --> 00:30:10.525 What? 00:30:11.685 --> 00:30:17.067 He knew her death would start a fire that would consume the queen entire. 00:30:21.903 --> 00:30:23.951 That's a terrible story! And a cheat! 00:30:24.364 --> 00:30:26.116 It's a true story. 00:30:26.283 --> 00:30:29.162 Many things that are true feel like a cheat. 00:30:29.328 --> 00:30:31.422 Kingdoms get the princes they deserve. 00:30:31.580 --> 00:30:34.003 Farmers' daughters die for no reason. 00:30:34.166 --> 00:30:37.090 And sometimes witches merit saving. 00:30:38.003 --> 00:30:40.973 Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised. 00:30:43.050 --> 00:30:45.724 So, the good prince was a murderer 00:30:45.927 --> 00:30:47.975 and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all? 00:30:48.138 --> 00:30:51.642 No, the queen most certainly was a witch 00:30:52.184 --> 00:30:55.438 and could well have been on her way to great evil. 00:30:55.604 --> 00:30:56.730 Who can say? 00:30:56.938 --> 00:30:58.565 Then Why'd you save her then? 00:30:58.732 --> 00:31:02.828 Because what she was not, was a murderer. 00:31:04.529 --> 00:31:06.782 She hadn't poisoned the king. 00:31:07.115 --> 00:31:09.664 He had merely grown old. 00:31:11.328 --> 00:31:14.047 - Did the prince ever get caught? - No. 00:31:14.206 --> 00:31:16.459 He became a much beloved king 00:31:16.625 --> 00:31:20.380 who ruled happily until the end of his long days. 00:31:20.545 --> 00:31:21.922 Oh, yes! 00:31:23.215 --> 00:31:24.307 I don't get it. 00:31:24.716 --> 00:31:25.968 Who's the good guy here? 00:31:26.134 --> 00:31:28.853 There is not always a good guy, Conor O'Malley. 00:31:29.054 --> 00:31:31.182 Nor is there always a bad one. 00:31:31.348 --> 00:31:33.476 Most people are somewhere in between. 00:31:35.268 --> 00:31:38.442 So how is all this meant to save me from Grandma? 00:31:39.940 --> 00:31:43.410 It is not her you need saving from. 00:32:03.547 --> 00:32:05.424 There are always two sides to a story. 00:32:05.590 --> 00:32:07.558 How many of you know the saying: 00:32:07.717 --> 00:32:10.186 'Sticks and stones may break your bones, 00:32:10.345 --> 00:32:13.224 but words can never hurt you'? 00:32:13.390 --> 00:32:16.894 Next time, when someone says something to you... 00:32:41.835 --> 00:32:43.803 Good, you're home. 00:32:44.588 --> 00:32:46.886 Your mum's upstairs. She wants to talk to you. 00:32:47.090 --> 00:32:47.932 What? 00:32:48.091 --> 00:32:50.719 Your father's flying in on Sunday. 00:32:50.886 --> 00:32:52.763 Dad's coming? From America? 00:32:54.055 --> 00:32:56.478 Go on. She is waiting. 00:32:57.601 --> 00:32:58.898 And pack a bag. 00:32:59.102 --> 00:33:01.730 You're coming to stay with me for a few days. 00:33:02.689 --> 00:33:03.815 Go on! 00:33:17.746 --> 00:33:19.089 That tree is amazing. 00:33:21.291 --> 00:33:23.965 It's been here for thousands of years. 00:33:26.421 --> 00:33:27.798 What do you think? 00:33:28.840 --> 00:33:31.844 I think Grandma is trying to turn me into Tina Turner. 00:33:33.094 --> 00:33:34.186 She must be a fan. 00:33:39.643 --> 00:33:41.691 Why am I going to stay with Grandma? 00:33:45.482 --> 00:33:47.484 Are you going back to hospital? 00:33:49.361 --> 00:33:50.954 Come here, Con. 00:33:56.117 --> 00:33:59.621 This latest treatment's not doing what it's supposed to. 00:34:01.164 --> 00:34:04.794 So they're going to adjust it, try something else. 00:34:07.629 --> 00:34:09.427 - That's all? - That's all. 00:34:11.007 --> 00:34:12.475 Are you sure? 00:34:15.345 --> 00:34:16.597 I'm sure. 00:34:18.265 --> 00:34:19.892 Because... 00:34:20.725 --> 00:34:22.819 You could tell me, you know? 00:34:42.163 --> 00:34:43.255 There. 00:34:44.457 --> 00:34:46.585 Everything will be fine, Conor. 00:34:48.503 --> 00:34:49.800 You'll see. 00:35:19.951 --> 00:35:21.953 ...and bang, right into his side. 00:35:36.384 --> 00:35:38.307 Where are you going? 00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:43.392 - Don't touch him. - With such a punchable face? 00:35:43.558 --> 00:35:44.935 I said don't touch him. 00:35:47.520 --> 00:35:50.114 O'Malley and I have an understanding. 00:35:50.690 --> 00:35:53.193 I am the only one who touches him. 00:35:53.735 --> 00:35:54.907 Isn't that right? 00:35:56.071 --> 00:35:57.448 Now tell me, 00:35:58.865 --> 00:36:03.211 why is it every time that I turn around, you're there looking at me? 00:36:03.745 --> 00:36:06.749 Getting a bit odd, don't you think? 00:36:10.502 --> 00:36:11.754 Sorry, that was a bit harsh. 00:36:11.920 --> 00:36:14.298 Life's not really going your way today, is it? 00:36:34.275 --> 00:36:35.993 I have a house to show. 00:36:36.152 --> 00:36:39.531 I'm trusting you here alone until your father shows up. 00:36:39.698 --> 00:36:41.041 I'm not five years old. 00:36:43.034 --> 00:36:45.128 This is the correct time. 00:36:45.328 --> 00:36:46.921 Not the one on your phone, 00:36:47.080 --> 00:36:50.129 or on the computer, not even on the news. 00:36:50.417 --> 00:36:53.671 It was my mother's, your great-grandmother's. 00:36:53.837 --> 00:36:56.841 Perfect time keeping for over a hundred years. 00:36:57.090 --> 00:36:59.468 Conor, pick up your rucksack! 00:37:01.302 --> 00:37:05.273 I don't want your father to think I'm keeping you in a pigsty. 00:37:05.432 --> 00:37:06.684 Not much chance of that. 00:37:06.850 --> 00:37:09.774 Now, when you go to the hospital, 00:37:10.186 --> 00:37:13.190 your father may not notice how tired your mum is getting. 00:37:13.398 --> 00:37:16.447 So we have to make sure that he doesn't overstay his welcome. 00:37:16.776 --> 00:37:19.620 Not that that's historically been a problem. 00:37:19.779 --> 00:37:22.908 No eggs. You've already had eggs twice this week. 00:37:23.074 --> 00:37:26.999 If you get hungry, there's spinach in the fridge which you can steam. 00:37:27.162 --> 00:37:28.505 Yes, sure. 00:37:29.456 --> 00:37:31.083 Don't touch anything. 00:37:33.668 --> 00:37:35.762 I'll do my very best not to. 00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:12.086 Get in! 00:39:45.675 --> 00:39:46.676 Dad. 00:40:25.673 --> 00:40:27.300 How you doing? You look tired. 00:40:27.508 --> 00:40:28.760 I'm fine. 00:40:29.385 --> 00:40:31.638 Mum's on this new medicine. It'll make her better. 00:40:32.388 --> 00:40:34.732 She goes into hospital once every two weeks 00:40:34.891 --> 00:40:39.738 and they pump the medicine into her bloodstream. 00:40:40.229 --> 00:40:43.824 She is sick for the next few days, but she is better again. 00:40:50.907 --> 00:40:53.911 Your sister's doing better. 00:40:54.077 --> 00:40:55.499 Half-sister. 00:40:56.245 --> 00:40:57.337 Yeah. 00:40:57.789 --> 00:40:59.382 I'd still love you to meet her. 00:41:01.167 --> 00:41:04.011 I've been talking with your grandma about bringing you out to LA. 00:41:05.129 --> 00:41:06.631 You want me to come to LA? 00:41:06.798 --> 00:41:08.141 Yeah, absolutely! 00:41:08.299 --> 00:41:10.597 - You would you like that, wouldn't you? - Yeah. 00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:14.515 We were thinking over Christmas. You can be back here in time for school. 00:41:15.640 --> 00:41:17.392 So you mean just for a visit, then? 00:41:17.600 --> 00:41:19.568 Yeah, but it would be great. 00:41:20.228 --> 00:41:22.526 I don't want to live with Grandma. 00:41:22.689 --> 00:41:24.942 It's an old lady's house, with old lady's things. 00:41:25.108 --> 00:41:27.236 You can't touch anything or sit anywhere. 00:41:27.402 --> 00:41:29.279 You can't leave a mess for two seconds. 00:41:29.445 --> 00:41:30.537 Conor... 00:41:30.697 --> 00:41:33.541 I want to have my own room in my own house and my own things. 00:41:33.700 --> 00:41:35.928 You wouldn't have that in America. There's barely enough room for us. 00:41:35.952 --> 00:41:37.795 - I don't care! - Conor, listen. 00:41:37.954 --> 00:41:40.349 - She is so strict. - Your family, your life, your friends... 00:41:40.373 --> 00:41:44.173 - Her house is like a museum! - All of it is here. 00:41:44.335 --> 00:41:47.088 - It'd be unfair to take you out of it. - Unfair to who? 00:41:47.255 --> 00:41:48.347 Conor. 00:41:59.892 --> 00:42:02.236 Doesn't look like your grandma's home yet. 00:42:03.229 --> 00:42:06.824 She sometimes goes back to the hospital after I go to bed. 00:42:07.108 --> 00:42:09.281 The nurses let her sleep in a chair. 00:42:09.777 --> 00:42:13.281 Just because she doesn't like me, doesn't make her a bad person. 00:42:13.448 --> 00:42:16.201 She says you're all start and no finish. 00:42:17.994 --> 00:42:20.838 Well, she is entitled to her own opinion. 00:42:22.915 --> 00:42:24.633 How long are you here for? 00:42:24.792 --> 00:42:26.294 As long as I can be. 00:42:27.503 --> 00:42:29.221 What does that mean? 00:42:29.922 --> 00:42:33.643 We don't have a lot of money. And Americans don't get a lot of holidays. 00:42:33.801 --> 00:42:36.680 - You're not American. - But I live there now. 00:42:38.473 --> 00:42:40.191 I'll come back whenever I need to. 00:42:40.349 --> 00:42:42.029 And you are gonna come to LA for Christmas. 00:42:42.101 --> 00:42:44.445 In your cramped house, where there's no room for me. 00:42:44.645 --> 00:42:45.646 Conor! 00:42:48.733 --> 00:42:50.360 Why did you come? 00:42:56.824 --> 00:42:58.451 Conor, wait! 00:43:02.955 --> 00:43:05.003 Conor, I'll see you tomorrow, yeah? 00:43:05.917 --> 00:43:07.760 There's still loads of time! 00:44:56.152 --> 00:45:00.077 As destruction goes, that was remarkably pitiful. 00:45:01.032 --> 00:45:03.581 Now, I have come to tell you the second tale. 00:45:03.743 --> 00:45:05.165 Is this as bad as the last one? 00:45:06.454 --> 00:45:10.175 It ends with proper destruction, if that's what you mean. 00:45:10.333 --> 00:45:12.802 It's about a man who thought only of himself, 00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:15.304 who wasn't as generous as he should have been. 00:45:15.463 --> 00:45:18.808 A man who gets punished very badly indeed. 00:45:19.133 --> 00:45:22.012 Stories aren't real, though. They don't help anything. 00:45:22.178 --> 00:45:25.352 Stories are wild creatures, Conor O'Malley. 00:45:25.514 --> 00:45:28.688 When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak? 00:45:28.851 --> 00:45:29.852 Oh, yes! 00:45:32.688 --> 00:45:33.689 Okay. 00:45:34.690 --> 00:45:36.067 Go on, then. 00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:38.703 Good. 00:46:16.899 --> 00:46:21.154 150 years ago, the future came. 00:46:22.446 --> 00:46:25.416 Factories grew in the landscape like weeds. 00:46:26.826 --> 00:46:28.920 Trees fell, rivers blackened 00:46:29.078 --> 00:46:32.082 and the sky choked on smoke and ash. 00:46:34.250 --> 00:46:37.800 But there was still green if you knew where to look. 00:46:38.796 --> 00:46:41.390 On the edge of this town lived a stubborn man 00:46:41.549 --> 00:46:43.643 Who refused to change. 00:46:47.054 --> 00:46:49.773 He dealt in the old ways of medicine, 00:46:49.932 --> 00:46:54.358 herbs and barks and concoctions brewed from berries and leaves. 00:46:54.520 --> 00:46:57.694 Villagers only ever called him the apothecary. 00:46:57.857 --> 00:46:58.608 The what? 00:46:58.774 --> 00:47:02.278 The apothecary. An old fashion name for pharmacist. 00:47:03.237 --> 00:47:04.910 Why didn't you just say? 00:47:10.119 --> 00:47:12.713 There was also a young parson in this village, 00:47:12.872 --> 00:47:15.045 an enlightened man and a kind one 00:47:15.207 --> 00:47:18.962 who just wanted the very best for his congregation. 00:47:19.837 --> 00:47:23.182 He preached against the apothecary's use of the old ways, 00:47:23.341 --> 00:47:25.844 and the apothecary's foul temper and greed 00:47:26.010 --> 00:47:30.356 made certain some of these sermons fell on eager ears. 00:47:36.020 --> 00:47:38.944 Much as he tried to keep on helping the community, 00:47:39.106 --> 00:47:40.824 his business sank, 00:47:41.525 --> 00:47:44.028 which only made him grow bitter. 00:47:47.656 --> 00:47:51.160 On the parsonage grounds there also lived a yew tree. 00:47:52.703 --> 00:47:54.046 That's the hill where you live. 00:47:54.205 --> 00:47:57.425 The yew tree is the most important of all the healing trees. 00:47:57.583 --> 00:47:59.711 - Why? - Its berries, its bark, 00:47:59.877 --> 00:48:02.926 they thrum and burn and twist with life. 00:48:03.089 --> 00:48:05.842 It can cure almost any ailment. 00:48:06.008 --> 00:48:07.225 Really? Anything? 00:48:07.385 --> 00:48:11.606 Anything that can be cured, if mixed by the right apothecary. 00:48:20.606 --> 00:48:23.280 The apothecary wanted the yew tree very badly. 00:48:23.442 --> 00:48:27.197 But in order to harvest these things, he would have to cut it down. 00:48:27.363 --> 00:48:30.742 And this, the parson would not allow. 00:48:37.748 --> 00:48:41.093 The parson had two daughters who were the light of his life. 00:48:41.252 --> 00:48:43.220 He was a caring, loving father 00:48:43.379 --> 00:48:45.723 who'd have done anything for their sake. 00:48:45.881 --> 00:48:50.478 But one day, both little girls were struck by a terrible sickness, 00:48:51.470 --> 00:48:53.973 and nothing the parson did helped. 00:48:54.140 --> 00:48:58.646 No cure from the more modern doctors, no prayer, nothing. 00:49:06.861 --> 00:49:10.832 There was no choice but to approach the apothecary. 00:49:13.075 --> 00:49:16.420 'Will you not help my daughters?', the person begged. 00:49:16.579 --> 00:49:19.833 'Will you not save two innocent girls?' 00:49:20.791 --> 00:49:23.920 'Why should I?', said the apothecary. 00:49:24.086 --> 00:49:27.010 'You have driven away my business with your preachings 00:49:27.173 --> 00:49:31.474 and you have refused me the yew tree, my best source of healing.' 00:49:32.303 --> 00:49:34.977 'You may have the yew tree', said the parson. 00:49:35.139 --> 00:49:37.141 'I will preach sermons in your favor.' 00:49:37.308 --> 00:49:40.812 'I will do anything if you would only save my daughters.' 00:49:41.812 --> 00:49:45.988 'You would give up everything you believed in?', said the apothecary. 00:49:46.150 --> 00:49:49.495 'If it would save them, I would give up everything.' 00:49:50.821 --> 00:49:54.371 'Then there is nothing I can do to help you.' 00:50:17.473 --> 00:50:20.818 The very next day, both of the parson's daughters died. 00:50:20.976 --> 00:50:22.068 What? 00:50:22.228 --> 00:50:25.107 That night, I came walking. 00:50:25.397 --> 00:50:28.571 Good! He deserves all the punishment he gets! 00:50:28.817 --> 00:50:30.114 Indeed. 00:50:30.277 --> 00:50:33.247 It was shortly after midnight that I tore the parson's home 00:50:33.405 --> 00:50:34.907 from its very foundations. 00:50:35.115 --> 00:50:37.789 The parson? What are you talking about? 00:50:37.952 --> 00:50:39.704 The apothecary's the evil one. 00:50:39.870 --> 00:50:43.625 He was greedy and rude, but he was still a healer. 00:50:43.999 --> 00:50:46.127 The parson? What was he? 00:50:48.921 --> 00:50:51.219 A man of faith without faith. 00:50:59.348 --> 00:51:00.941 Belief is half of all healing. 00:51:01.141 --> 00:51:04.771 Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. 00:51:05.479 --> 00:51:07.527 Your belief is valuable, 00:51:07.690 --> 00:51:10.660 so you must be careful where you put it, 00:51:10.818 --> 00:51:12.912 and in whom. 00:51:15.155 --> 00:51:17.874 Tell me, Conor O'Malley. What shall I destroy next? 00:51:18.033 --> 00:51:18.784 What? 00:51:18.951 --> 00:51:21.124 It is most satisfying, I can assure you. 00:51:21.287 --> 00:51:24.507 Come on! Tell me! What should I destroy? 00:51:26.750 --> 00:51:28.423 Snap the chimney? 00:51:28.586 --> 00:51:29.929 The chimney! 00:51:31.547 --> 00:51:32.639 Next! 00:51:33.465 --> 00:51:34.557 Throw away their beds! 00:51:39.972 --> 00:51:41.224 Smash the furniture! 00:51:50.649 --> 00:51:51.650 Break the windows! 00:51:52.318 --> 00:51:53.695 Windows. 00:51:55.112 --> 00:51:57.285 Break them yourself. 00:52:00.326 --> 00:52:01.373 C'mon! 00:52:12.755 --> 00:52:14.723 Harder, Conor O'Malley! Come on! 00:52:14.882 --> 00:52:15.882 Harder! 00:52:16.008 --> 00:52:17.601 That's it, that's it! 00:52:18.427 --> 00:52:19.428 Yes! 00:52:22.389 --> 00:52:23.732 Feels good, doesn't it? 00:52:23.891 --> 00:52:25.063 Yes! 00:54:14.710 --> 00:54:15.882 Grandma. 00:54:16.670 --> 00:54:17.796 Grandma. 00:54:18.922 --> 00:54:19.923 Grandma. 00:54:21.759 --> 00:54:23.477 Grandma, please... 00:55:02.800 --> 00:55:04.052 Grandma. 00:56:05.153 --> 00:56:06.951 How do you like them sunny side up? 00:56:07.781 --> 00:56:09.158 What are you doing here? 00:56:09.616 --> 00:56:11.084 What do you think? 00:56:15.163 --> 00:56:17.336 Grandma called very early this morning. 00:56:20.043 --> 00:56:22.045 She's gone to the hospital to see your mum. 00:56:22.212 --> 00:56:24.306 She has had a bad turn. 00:56:27.217 --> 00:56:28.560 I need to see her. 00:56:28.719 --> 00:56:30.346 We'll see what happens today 00:56:30.554 --> 00:56:33.808 and maybe you can visit for a little while this afternoon. 00:56:39.605 --> 00:56:41.607 I can see how upset you are. 00:56:44.610 --> 00:56:46.453 I didn't mean to. 00:56:46.653 --> 00:56:49.702 - I don't know what happened. - Worse things happen at sea. 00:56:50.532 --> 00:56:51.749 What does that mean? 00:56:52.868 --> 00:56:54.211 Aren't you going to punish me? 00:56:54.369 --> 00:56:56.542 What could possibly be the point in that? 00:57:04.671 --> 00:57:08.016 I gotta say, champ, this is really just amazingly thorough. 00:57:15.390 --> 00:57:16.391 Buried treasure! 00:57:17.726 --> 00:57:19.319 These must be those... 00:57:19.811 --> 00:57:22.610 The home movies your mum used to send to me when I moved away. 00:57:22.773 --> 00:57:23.774 Why did you move away? 00:57:28.487 --> 00:57:29.784 We were young. 00:57:30.238 --> 00:57:32.240 Too young. We had big dreams, and... 00:57:32.699 --> 00:57:33.746 What kind of dreams? 00:57:33.909 --> 00:57:36.628 Well, your mum wanted to go to Art college. 00:57:39.915 --> 00:57:41.337 - Really? - Yeah. 00:57:41.541 --> 00:57:44.135 - She didn't go, but she wanted to. - What happened? 00:57:47.047 --> 00:57:49.675 - Because Mum got pregnant with me. - Hey. 00:57:49.841 --> 00:57:53.311 Mum never regretted having you. You were only ever good news. 00:57:53.637 --> 00:57:54.809 And I know that for a fact, 00:57:54.972 --> 00:57:57.191 because the one thing she regretted was marrying me. 00:57:57.349 --> 00:57:59.022 Why did she marry you, then? 00:57:59.685 --> 00:58:01.153 Because I'm handsome. 00:58:06.608 --> 00:58:09.236 Your mum was amazing, and she still is. 00:58:09.403 --> 00:58:10.905 And we were in love. 00:58:11.905 --> 00:58:14.909 I mean, I still love her. But, you see, the... 00:58:18.120 --> 00:58:19.918 Love isn't enough. 00:58:20.122 --> 00:58:21.715 It doesn't carry you through. 00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:25.378 So, you didn't get happily ever after. 00:58:25.585 --> 00:58:28.304 No, but that's life, you know? 00:58:29.631 --> 00:58:31.554 Most of us just get messily ever after. 00:58:33.260 --> 00:58:34.352 That's alright. 00:58:39.182 --> 00:58:41.901 But I'm happy you turned out like her. 00:59:32.027 --> 00:59:33.495 Mrs Chandler. 00:59:38.658 --> 00:59:41.411 Education is really important! 00:59:41.620 --> 00:59:43.723 You're telling me what to do. I'm pulled in every direction. 00:59:43.747 --> 00:59:46.091 Are you going to take him out of school then? 00:59:52.631 --> 00:59:53.723 Thank you. 00:59:57.552 --> 00:59:59.655 I'm gonna go and find something to eat. You want anything, kid? 00:59:59.679 --> 01:00:01.898 I want you to stop calling me kid. 01:00:02.474 --> 01:00:03.646 Fair enough. 01:00:08.730 --> 01:00:10.232 I'm sorry, Lizzy. 01:00:16.988 --> 01:00:18.410 Who was that man in the suit? 01:00:20.158 --> 01:00:21.250 Just... 01:00:22.452 --> 01:00:23.453 Nothing. 01:00:23.703 --> 01:00:25.000 What happened this morning? 01:00:25.163 --> 01:00:26.255 Nothing. 01:00:28.083 --> 01:00:29.335 It's fine. 01:00:34.381 --> 01:00:36.975 I just had a bit of a bad reaction. 01:00:42.514 --> 01:00:44.516 But there's one more thing they're going to try, 01:00:44.724 --> 01:00:46.897 it's a medicine that's had some really good results. 01:00:47.060 --> 01:00:49.188 Why didn't they try it in the first place? 01:00:49.354 --> 01:00:51.027 Because this is something you take 01:00:51.189 --> 01:00:54.033 when the other stuff hasn't worked the way they want it to. 01:00:56.570 --> 01:00:57.913 Does that mean it's too late? 01:00:58.071 --> 01:01:00.199 No, of course it doesn't mean it's too late. 01:01:00.699 --> 01:01:02.167 Are you sure? 01:01:03.827 --> 01:01:06.125 I believe every word I say. 01:01:09.708 --> 01:01:12.211 Belief is half of all healing. 01:01:15.046 --> 01:01:16.798 Belief in the cure, 01:01:17.007 --> 01:01:19.101 belief in the future that awaits. 01:01:21.344 --> 01:01:22.391 Yeah. 01:01:26.266 --> 01:01:28.815 You know that tree that I'm always going on about? 01:01:28.977 --> 01:01:29.977 Yeah. 01:01:30.103 --> 01:01:34.108 Well, this drug is made from trees like that. 01:01:34.274 --> 01:01:35.867 - It is? - Yeah! 01:01:36.026 --> 01:01:36.777 Seriously? 01:01:36.943 --> 01:01:41.039 All this time, we could have gone out there and just chopped it down. 01:01:42.157 --> 01:01:43.909 But not that one. 01:01:48.330 --> 01:01:50.424 That one's our friend. 01:02:28.453 --> 01:02:29.830 Where are you? 01:02:31.289 --> 01:02:32.586 I'm here. 01:02:34.918 --> 01:02:37.296 So can you do it? Can you make my mum better? 01:02:37.462 --> 01:02:40.466 If your mother can be healed, the yew tree will do it. 01:02:43.885 --> 01:02:44.886 So that's a yes? 01:02:45.387 --> 01:02:47.685 You still don't know why you called me. 01:02:47.889 --> 01:02:48.981 I didn't call you. 01:02:49.140 --> 01:02:51.438 And even if I did, it was obviously for my mum. 01:02:51.601 --> 01:02:52.978 - Was it? - Why else? 01:02:53.144 --> 01:02:55.397 To listen to idiotic stories that make no sense? 01:02:55.563 --> 01:02:59.568 It is not yet time for the third tale. But soon. 01:02:59.818 --> 01:03:03.197 And after that, you will tell me your story, Conor O'Malley. 01:03:04.322 --> 01:03:05.323 No! 01:03:06.199 --> 01:03:07.621 No, not this! 01:03:07.909 --> 01:03:09.582 That's just a nightmare! 01:03:09.995 --> 01:03:11.292 No, please! 01:03:15.834 --> 01:03:18.508 That's not my truth! That's just a nightmare! 01:03:18.670 --> 01:03:21.890 Nevertheless, this is what will happen after the third tale. 01:03:22.048 --> 01:03:24.676 I want to know what's going to happen with my mum. 01:03:25.552 --> 01:03:28.351 You waste the precious time that is given to you. 01:03:28.513 --> 01:03:30.686 Wait! Where are you going? 01:03:31.349 --> 01:03:33.317 You're a tree of healing. I need you to heal! 01:03:36.021 --> 01:03:38.023 And so I shall. 01:04:08.595 --> 01:04:11.223 Conor, I'll come back. I promise. 01:04:11.514 --> 01:04:13.357 And you'll come to LA for Christmas. 01:04:13.516 --> 01:04:16.235 I don't want to leave Mum on her own for Christmas. 01:04:17.062 --> 01:04:19.165 - This medicine your mum's taking... - it's going to make her well. 01:04:19.189 --> 01:04:21.237 No, Conor. It probably isn't. 01:04:21.399 --> 01:04:23.652 - Yes, it is. - No, it's a last ditch effort. 01:04:23.818 --> 01:04:25.991 It'll heal her, okay? I know it. 01:04:27.405 --> 01:04:30.705 - It's the reason it came, it has to be. - Reason what came? 01:04:31.284 --> 01:04:32.035 The monster. 01:04:32.202 --> 01:04:34.671 - Conor, what? - It comes at 12.07. 01:04:34.829 --> 01:04:36.797 At first I thought it was a dream, but... 01:04:36.998 --> 01:04:38.625 Conor, stop it. It's a dream. 01:04:38.792 --> 01:04:41.090 I'm sorry you have to face this, 01:04:41.252 --> 01:04:43.380 but you have to be brave. 01:04:44.297 --> 01:04:45.765 Do you understand? 01:04:48.385 --> 01:04:49.477 C'mon. 01:04:50.845 --> 01:04:51.846 C'mon. 01:05:02.482 --> 01:05:03.859 I'll be back as soon as I can. 01:05:05.402 --> 01:05:07.404 What if it's not fast enough? 01:05:13.618 --> 01:05:15.495 - Conor, listen... - it's okay. 01:05:15.787 --> 01:05:17.255 What's okay? 01:05:17.664 --> 01:05:18.961 Just... 01:05:19.332 --> 01:05:20.504 You don't have to. 01:06:30.278 --> 01:06:32.952 Look. Can you see? Can you see? 01:06:33.156 --> 01:06:34.373 Can you wave? 01:06:34.532 --> 01:06:36.125 Can you see him? 01:06:38.286 --> 01:06:40.414 Look, then we wave to Grandma. 01:06:45.668 --> 01:06:47.136 Hello, Grandma! 01:06:47.295 --> 01:06:49.593 Con, can you say hello to Grandma and Mum? 01:06:49.756 --> 01:06:52.054 Hello, Grandma! 01:06:52.425 --> 01:06:53.426 There we go. 01:06:54.135 --> 01:06:56.388 Mummy's heard this one a lot. 01:06:57.222 --> 01:06:58.724 Okay, you ready? 01:06:59.349 --> 01:07:01.522 Con, look, sit, come sit here. 01:07:01.768 --> 01:07:03.566 Con, look. 01:07:04.938 --> 01:07:08.317 - Hello, Grandma. - Mummy and... 01:07:10.193 --> 01:07:11.194 There we go. 01:07:11.819 --> 01:07:14.117 We're doing you a picture, Grandma. 01:07:15.532 --> 01:07:17.159 And then mix it together. 01:07:17.325 --> 01:07:18.872 What colour is that? 01:07:19.702 --> 01:07:21.875 - Brown. - Yeah! 01:07:23.331 --> 01:07:25.425 It's a nice sludgy brown. 01:07:25.583 --> 01:07:28.302 - But we have brown here. - That's true. 01:07:29.462 --> 01:07:31.556 What can you see? 01:07:31.798 --> 01:07:33.846 What's that? What are those? 01:07:35.760 --> 01:07:37.353 What are these? 01:07:37.512 --> 01:07:40.436 - The eyes. - The eyes, that's it. 01:07:40.682 --> 01:07:42.901 Life is always in the eyes. 01:07:44.185 --> 01:07:48.110 If you get that, you'll be a proper artist. 01:07:49.691 --> 01:07:50.692 Yeah. 01:07:51.693 --> 01:07:52.785 Look. 01:07:54.195 --> 01:07:56.414 This is how we draw the eyes in. 01:07:56.573 --> 01:08:00.294 This is where the eyes catch the reflection. 01:08:01.661 --> 01:08:04.915 Then we see the life in the eyes, see that? 01:08:05.915 --> 01:08:07.337 Do it again. 01:08:08.710 --> 01:08:10.132 It's life. 01:08:13.631 --> 01:08:15.850 Maybe if we take a pencil, 01:08:17.135 --> 01:08:19.979 and you can draw on there... 01:08:20.888 --> 01:08:22.640 Do you want to try it? 01:08:23.308 --> 01:08:25.151 Show me how you do it. 01:08:37.822 --> 01:08:38.948 Look, Con. 01:08:41.618 --> 01:08:43.416 That's his hair. 01:08:43.620 --> 01:08:45.873 And this is his eyebrow. 01:08:48.041 --> 01:08:49.964 There's the eyes. 01:08:51.002 --> 01:08:53.471 Oh, look, there's his mouth. 01:08:53.921 --> 01:08:57.346 There's his mouth, he's very angry. 01:08:57.634 --> 01:08:59.181 Can you see? 01:09:00.011 --> 01:09:01.388 Look at that! 01:09:03.556 --> 01:09:06.730 And then we start to make a face. 01:09:07.435 --> 01:09:08.857 And then... 01:09:09.562 --> 01:09:11.405 There's our monster. 01:09:11.648 --> 01:09:13.491 There's the monster. 01:09:13.733 --> 01:09:15.326 Look at the monster. 01:09:50.311 --> 01:09:51.312 Very slowly. 01:09:53.773 --> 01:09:54.865 That's it. 01:10:13.042 --> 01:10:15.545 It's a thirty-minute exam this morning, 01:10:15.712 --> 01:10:19.387 and this is all the stuff we've been doing for the last two weeks. 01:10:19.549 --> 01:10:23.770 So, if you've done your revision, there won't be any surprises. 01:10:29.016 --> 01:10:32.316 In a moment I'm going to ask you to turn your pages over 01:10:32.478 --> 01:10:35.357 and there will be no talking for the next thirty minutes. 01:10:35.523 --> 01:10:37.776 I want total silence in here, 01:10:37.942 --> 01:10:41.697 because you're going to be using your brains, not your mouths. 01:10:43.030 --> 01:10:46.125 So, thirty minutes, starting now. 01:10:46.284 --> 01:10:47.376 Good luck. 01:11:14.979 --> 01:11:17.448 I think I've finally figured you out. 01:11:17.940 --> 01:11:19.692 After all this time. 01:11:21.444 --> 01:11:24.789 All that you are looking for is someone to kick your head in. 01:11:25.698 --> 01:11:28.827 But you know what? I'm not that guy anymore. 01:11:36.417 --> 01:11:37.839 Goodbye, O'Malley. 01:11:38.336 --> 01:11:40.179 I no longer see you. 01:11:41.714 --> 01:11:43.967 Now you are invisible to me too. 01:11:45.593 --> 01:11:47.140 I hope your mum gets better. 01:12:12.578 --> 01:12:14.330 What took you so long? 01:12:14.497 --> 01:12:17.171 It is time for the third tale. 01:12:20.795 --> 01:12:23.548 There was once an invisible man, 01:12:23.714 --> 01:12:27.139 who had grown tired of being unseen. 01:12:27.593 --> 01:12:30.722 It was not that he was actually invisible. 01:12:32.139 --> 01:12:36.315 It was just that people had become used to not seeing him. 01:12:36.894 --> 01:12:41.400 One day, the invisible man couldn't stand it anymore. 01:12:42.024 --> 01:12:44.152 He kept wondering: 01:12:44.318 --> 01:12:46.912 if no one sees you, 01:12:47.071 --> 01:12:49.494 are you really there at all? 01:12:50.700 --> 01:12:53.044 What did the invisible man do? 01:12:53.744 --> 01:12:57.669 He called for a monster. 01:13:15.600 --> 01:13:18.979 I don't even know what to say to you, O'Malley. 01:13:20.730 --> 01:13:22.903 You sent him to hospital! 01:13:24.233 --> 01:13:26.702 His parents are threatening to sue. 01:13:27.278 --> 01:13:28.279 It wasn't me. 01:13:28.654 --> 01:13:29.655 What was that? 01:13:30.406 --> 01:13:31.623 It wasn't me. 01:13:36.454 --> 01:13:38.832 I'm not invisible! I'm not invisible! 01:13:38.998 --> 01:13:41.467 If you want to be seen, this is not the best way. 01:13:41.626 --> 01:13:42.752 I'm not invisible! 01:13:42.919 --> 01:13:45.968 Did you hear me? I'm not invisible! 01:13:46.547 --> 01:13:50.552 School rules dictate immediate exclusion. 01:13:52.845 --> 01:13:54.597 But how could I do that 01:13:55.097 --> 01:13:57.691 and consider myself any kind of teacher? 01:13:59.143 --> 01:14:00.816 Go back to class. 01:14:01.145 --> 01:14:04.524 We will talk about this one day, but not today. 01:14:05.983 --> 01:14:07.985 You're not punishing me? 01:14:09.904 --> 01:14:12.327 What could possibly be the point? 01:14:24.919 --> 01:14:27.923 Let me give you an example of emotional wellness. 01:14:28.172 --> 01:14:31.517 You know how difficult it is sometimes to say no, right? 01:14:31.676 --> 01:14:35.021 How good it feels when you finally find the courage to say it. 01:14:35.972 --> 01:14:37.224 Why is that? 01:15:22.727 --> 01:15:24.149 Aren't you coming? 01:15:25.855 --> 01:15:27.277 I'll be right here. 01:16:00.890 --> 01:16:03.268 What did you do to your hands? 01:16:10.024 --> 01:16:12.072 This is the talk, isn't it? 01:16:12.651 --> 01:16:15.154 Everybody wants to have a talk lately. 01:16:20.159 --> 01:16:21.160 Con. 01:16:22.912 --> 01:16:24.334 Look at me. 01:16:28.793 --> 01:16:31.421 I spoke to the doctor this morning. 01:16:37.468 --> 01:16:40.267 The new treatment, it's not working. 01:16:41.931 --> 01:16:43.899 The one from the yew tree? 01:16:47.436 --> 01:16:48.437 Yeah. 01:16:50.356 --> 01:16:51.699 How can it not be working? 01:16:51.857 --> 01:16:54.485 Things have just moved really fast. 01:16:55.194 --> 01:16:56.411 Faster than they thought. 01:16:56.570 --> 01:16:59.995 - But how can it not be working? - I don't know. 01:17:00.157 --> 01:17:01.704 It has to. 01:17:07.748 --> 01:17:09.546 So what happens now? 01:17:09.917 --> 01:17:12.340 What's gonna be the next treatment? 01:17:17.800 --> 01:17:19.302 I'm so sorry. 01:17:21.053 --> 01:17:23.306 I've never been more sorry 01:17:23.472 --> 01:17:26.646 about anything in my life. 01:17:36.861 --> 01:17:39.205 It's okay that you're angry, Con. 01:17:40.865 --> 01:17:42.367 It really is. 01:17:44.243 --> 01:17:47.463 I'm pretty angry too, to tell you the truth. 01:17:49.874 --> 01:17:51.342 But, Con... 01:17:56.422 --> 01:17:57.969 Con, are you listening? 01:18:02.178 --> 01:18:03.680 One day, 01:18:05.431 --> 01:18:07.604 if you look back and you feel bad 01:18:07.808 --> 01:18:12.029 for being so angry you couldn't even speak to me, 01:18:12.563 --> 01:18:14.691 you have to know that that was okay, 01:18:21.989 --> 01:18:23.582 that I knew. 01:18:26.952 --> 01:18:30.047 Because I know everything you need to tell me 01:18:30.206 --> 01:18:33.176 without you having to say it out loud. 01:18:38.422 --> 01:18:41.050 And if you need to break things, 01:18:43.010 --> 01:18:45.183 by God, you break them. 01:18:46.889 --> 01:18:48.983 Break them, good and hard. 01:18:49.141 --> 01:18:51.394 And I'll be right there, Con. 01:19:04.198 --> 01:19:06.621 I wish I had a hundred years. 01:19:12.248 --> 01:19:15.092 A hundred years I could give to you. 01:19:44.029 --> 01:19:45.201 Wake up! 01:19:47.658 --> 01:19:48.659 Wake up! 01:19:50.744 --> 01:19:51.961 Wake up! 01:19:52.162 --> 01:19:53.379 Wake up! 01:19:53.789 --> 01:19:54.915 Wake up! 01:19:55.291 --> 01:19:56.713 I don't care what time it is! 01:19:57.376 --> 01:19:59.299 You lied! Wake up! 01:20:01.380 --> 01:20:02.472 Wake up! 01:20:03.048 --> 01:20:04.049 Wake up! 01:20:05.884 --> 01:20:07.181 I need you now! 01:20:21.108 --> 01:20:22.669 You will do yourself harm if you keep that up. 01:20:22.693 --> 01:20:23.535 It didn't work! 01:20:23.694 --> 01:20:26.538 You said the yew tree would make her better, but it didn't! 01:20:26.697 --> 01:20:27.823 Fix her! Make her better! 01:20:28.824 --> 01:20:29.825 Conor! 01:20:30.951 --> 01:20:32.999 You were the one who called me, Conor O'Malley. 01:20:33.162 --> 01:20:35.256 If I called you, it was to save her! 01:20:35.414 --> 01:20:36.461 It was to heal her! 01:20:36.623 --> 01:20:38.466 I did not come to heal her. 01:20:38.625 --> 01:20:39.672 Yes, you did! 01:20:39.835 --> 01:20:42.213 - I came to heal you. - Me? 01:20:42.546 --> 01:20:44.674 I'm not the one who needs healing! 01:20:45.215 --> 01:20:48.185 How many times do I have to tell you? 01:20:48.844 --> 01:20:50.687 My mum's the one who. 01:21:04.485 --> 01:21:05.657 Help me. 01:21:13.077 --> 01:21:15.079 It is time for the fourth tale. 01:21:18.707 --> 01:21:19.707 No! 01:21:19.750 --> 01:21:21.423 No, please! Get me out of here! 01:21:21.585 --> 01:21:23.087 It is time for your nightmare. 01:21:23.253 --> 01:21:24.880 I need to get back to my mum! 01:21:25.297 --> 01:21:27.299 She is already here. 01:21:32.846 --> 01:21:33.597 No! 01:21:33.764 --> 01:21:35.186 Mum, get out of here! 01:21:35.349 --> 01:21:36.726 I'm fine! 01:21:36.892 --> 01:21:39.111 It's all right. There's nothing to worry about. 01:21:39.269 --> 01:21:41.021 Mum, run! Please, run! 01:21:43.440 --> 01:21:44.441 Mum! 01:21:52.616 --> 01:21:53.617 Mum! 01:21:58.372 --> 01:21:59.715 Conor! 01:22:00.332 --> 01:22:01.379 Mum! 01:22:07.464 --> 01:22:08.465 Mum! 01:22:09.258 --> 01:22:10.258 Mum! 01:22:10.342 --> 01:22:11.093 Conor! 01:22:11.260 --> 01:22:12.261 Mum! 01:22:12.428 --> 01:22:14.271 - Don't let me go! - I won't! 01:22:17.015 --> 01:22:18.483 - Conor! - Mum! 01:22:18.642 --> 01:22:19.689 Conor! 01:22:19.852 --> 01:22:21.104 Mum! 01:22:45.878 --> 01:22:46.720 Conor! 01:22:46.879 --> 01:22:49.302 - Here is the fourth tale. - Help! 01:22:49.465 --> 01:22:51.433 Here is the truth of Conor O'Malley. 01:22:54.970 --> 01:22:56.438 Here is your nightmare. 01:23:08.942 --> 01:23:10.068 Mum! 01:23:10.402 --> 01:23:11.403 Mum! 01:23:13.405 --> 01:23:14.531 Mum! 01:23:20.162 --> 01:23:21.163 Mum! 01:23:45.854 --> 01:23:48.027 This is when I wake up. 01:23:49.608 --> 01:23:51.610 This is when I always wake up. 01:23:52.819 --> 01:23:54.537 The tale is not yet told. 01:23:54.696 --> 01:23:56.664 Get me out of here! I need to see my mum! 01:23:56.823 --> 01:23:58.917 She is no longer here, Conor. 01:23:59.117 --> 01:24:00.915 I couldn't hold on to her any more. 01:24:02.037 --> 01:24:03.038 Conor! 01:24:03.580 --> 01:24:05.548 - Speak the truth! - No! 01:24:06.416 --> 01:24:08.965 Speak the truth or you will never leave this place. 01:24:09.169 --> 01:24:11.422 What truth? I don't know what you mean! 01:24:11.588 --> 01:24:14.216 You must tell me the fourth tale, Conor O'Malley. 01:24:14.383 --> 01:24:17.557 You must tell me your nightmare before it is too late. 01:24:17.719 --> 01:24:20.472 Yes! Tell me, Conor! Tell me the truth! 01:24:20.639 --> 01:24:23.813 - It'll kill me if I do! - It will kill you if you do not! 01:24:24.977 --> 01:24:26.399 - Speak the truth! - No! 01:24:26.562 --> 01:24:29.406 The truth, Conor O'Malley! Tell me the truth, boy! 01:24:29.565 --> 01:24:30.316 No! 01:24:30.482 --> 01:24:35.659 - Speak the truth! - No! 01:24:35.821 --> 01:24:39.701 - Speak the truth, boy! - I want it to be over! 01:24:51.545 --> 01:24:54.389 I can't stand knowing that she'll go. 01:24:56.091 --> 01:24:58.059 I want it to be finished. 01:24:58.260 --> 01:24:59.887 I let her fall. 01:25:00.095 --> 01:25:01.472 I let her die. 01:25:26.204 --> 01:25:28.081 That was brave, Conor. 01:25:29.708 --> 01:25:31.710 You finally said it. 01:25:34.254 --> 01:25:36.052 Why didn't it kill me? 01:25:37.007 --> 01:25:38.759 I deserve punishment. 01:25:39.885 --> 01:25:41.683 I deserve the worst. 01:25:42.763 --> 01:25:44.106 Do you? 01:25:46.808 --> 01:25:50.028 I've known forever that she wasn't going to make it. 01:25:50.646 --> 01:25:53.775 She'd keep telling me she was getting better all the time 01:25:55.233 --> 01:25:57.486 because that's what I wanted to hear. 01:25:58.487 --> 01:26:00.410 And I believed her. 01:26:02.282 --> 01:26:04.080 Except I didn't. 01:26:08.163 --> 01:26:12.088 And I started to think how much I wanted it to be over. 01:26:14.795 --> 01:26:18.265 I couldn't stand how alone it would make me feel. 01:26:19.383 --> 01:26:23.763 A part of you wished it would end, even if it meant losing her. 01:26:27.140 --> 01:26:28.608 I let her go. 01:26:29.434 --> 01:26:31.983 I could have held on for longer, 01:26:33.146 --> 01:26:35.023 but I always let her go. 01:26:35.482 --> 01:26:39.487 And that is your truth, Conor O'Malley. 01:26:43.782 --> 01:26:45.910 I don't want it to be, though. 01:26:46.493 --> 01:26:47.870 Now it's for real. 01:26:48.662 --> 01:26:51.336 Now she's going to die and it's my fault. 01:26:51.498 --> 01:26:54.547 And that is not the truth at all. 01:26:54.710 --> 01:26:58.431 You were merely wishing for an end of pain. Your own pain. 01:26:58.588 --> 01:27:02.138 - It is the most human wish there is. - I didn't mean it, though. 01:27:02.342 --> 01:27:05.562 You did, but you also did not. 01:27:09.141 --> 01:27:10.358 How can both be true? 01:27:10.517 --> 01:27:14.567 How can a prince be a murderer and be loved by his people? 01:27:14.730 --> 01:27:18.655 How can an apothecary be evil-tempered but right-thinking? 01:27:18.817 --> 01:27:22.572 How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen? 01:27:22.738 --> 01:27:23.738 I don't know. 01:27:23.780 --> 01:27:26.329 Your stories never made any sense to me. 01:27:26.491 --> 01:27:28.994 Because humans are complicated beasts. 01:27:29.161 --> 01:27:30.708 You believe comforting lies 01:27:30.871 --> 01:27:35.172 while knowing full well the painful truth that makes those lies necessary. 01:27:35.375 --> 01:27:39.255 In the end, Conor, it is not important what you think. 01:27:40.422 --> 01:27:43.392 It is only important what you do. 01:27:43.717 --> 01:27:45.219 So what do I do? 01:27:45.594 --> 01:27:48.768 What you did just now. You speak the truth. 01:27:49.181 --> 01:27:49.977 That's all? 01:27:50.140 --> 01:27:51.733 You think it's easy? 01:27:51.892 --> 01:27:54.896 You were willing to die rather than speak it. 01:27:57.230 --> 01:28:00.609 I'm so tired. So tired of all of this. 01:28:01.067 --> 01:28:02.444 Then sleep. 01:28:02.986 --> 01:28:03.987 There's time. 01:28:04.571 --> 01:28:06.824 Are you sure? I need to see my mum. 01:28:06.990 --> 01:28:09.243 We will both see her tonight. 01:28:09.451 --> 01:28:10.919 Will you be there? 01:28:11.077 --> 01:28:12.294 Yes. 01:28:12.746 --> 01:28:16.216 It will be the final steps of my walking. 01:28:19.503 --> 01:28:21.847 How does the fourth story end? 01:28:23.840 --> 01:28:25.433 Sleep. 01:28:26.510 --> 01:28:27.978 Sleep. 01:28:28.386 --> 01:28:30.263 Sleep. 01:29:04.589 --> 01:29:05.841 Thank God! 01:29:06.007 --> 01:29:07.008 Conor! 01:29:07.342 --> 01:29:08.343 Conor! 01:29:10.679 --> 01:29:13.478 I've been out of my mind trying to find you. 01:29:13.640 --> 01:29:16.564 - There was something I had to. - No time. We have to go now. 01:29:39.916 --> 01:29:41.213 Damn it! 01:29:46.882 --> 01:29:48.099 Grandma. 01:29:49.676 --> 01:29:51.303 I'm sorry. 01:29:51.720 --> 01:29:53.722 About the sitting room and... 01:29:54.139 --> 01:29:55.607 and everything. 01:29:58.101 --> 01:29:59.978 It doesn't matter. 01:30:01.062 --> 01:30:02.564 It doesn't matter. 01:30:17.370 --> 01:30:18.917 You know, Conor? 01:30:19.080 --> 01:30:20.753 You and me... 01:30:21.124 --> 01:30:24.094 We are not the most natural fit, are we? 01:30:26.129 --> 01:30:28.177 No. I guess not. 01:30:28.840 --> 01:30:30.934 I guess not either. 01:30:32.719 --> 01:30:35.063 But we're going to have to learn. 01:30:37.140 --> 01:30:38.141 I know. 01:30:38.308 --> 01:30:40.026 You do know, don't you? 01:30:40.602 --> 01:30:42.104 Of course you do. 01:30:47.776 --> 01:30:50.529 But there is one thing we have in common. 01:30:52.197 --> 01:30:53.323 Your mum. 01:30:58.870 --> 01:31:00.964 That's what we have in common. 01:32:17.365 --> 01:32:18.366 It's okay. 01:32:19.034 --> 01:32:20.502 I see you found him. 01:32:22.203 --> 01:32:23.500 Thank you. 01:32:30.545 --> 01:32:32.172 Hello, my darling. 01:32:33.089 --> 01:32:35.091 - Ma? - Yes, I'm here. 01:32:35.842 --> 01:32:37.970 I'm here. Can you feel my hand? 01:32:40.138 --> 01:32:42.812 - And Conor's here, too. - Is he? 01:33:27.602 --> 01:33:30.151 Here is the end of the tale. 01:33:32.565 --> 01:33:34.158 I'm afraid. 01:33:34.818 --> 01:33:36.286 Of course you are afraid. 01:33:38.071 --> 01:33:39.448 It will be hard. 01:33:39.614 --> 01:33:41.992 It will be more than hard. 01:33:42.992 --> 01:33:46.462 But you will make it through, Conor O'Malley. 01:33:47.580 --> 01:33:49.002 You'll stay? 01:33:50.166 --> 01:33:52.464 I will be right here. 01:34:00.802 --> 01:34:02.054 What do I do? 01:34:03.221 --> 01:34:08.523 Now all that is left is for you to speak the simplest truth of all. 01:34:30.415 --> 01:34:32.509 I don't want you to go. 01:34:32.667 --> 01:34:34.886 I know, my love. 01:34:41.551 --> 01:34:43.019 I don't want you to go. 01:35:49.661 --> 01:35:51.914 How does the fourth story end? 01:35:52.080 --> 01:35:55.835 It ends with the boy holding on tight to his mother. 01:35:56.000 --> 01:36:01.222 And by doing so, he can finally let her go. 01:36:44.048 --> 01:36:45.140 Conor. 01:36:53.391 --> 01:36:55.393 This is your room now. 01:36:55.768 --> 01:36:58.021 I've been making it ready. 01:37:02.817 --> 01:37:03.909 Thank you. 01:37:03.933 --> 01:37:23.933 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::.