(birds chirping)
(fire crackling)
(horse clopping)
(person thuds)
(footsteps tapping)
(door opens)
(uneasy music)
(door closes)
(uneasy music continues)
(man sighs)
- Who are you?
Where are your mothers and fathers?
And what are you doing here?
What happened to you?
- Magic.
It was magic.
(thunder booming)
We almost died in that valley.
- What valley?
- Where the devil witch lives.
Leah saved us.
- Leah?
Who is Leah?
- The Queen of the Forest.
- Look, (sighs) here you are hundreds and hundreds of miles
from your home.
This is French territory.
You should not be here.
And there are no adults.
We found you under very unusual circumstances.
You talk of witches...
Which I do not believe.
Now, I want you to start at the beginning
and tell me the truth.
- We were living in Dalton's Ferry,
it's on the Allegheny River.
My father was away trapping the time that it started.
He was away a lot, my father.
I guess my mother got tired of waiting for him to come home.
So she moved in with Will Smythe and Leah,
and brought me with her.
And everyone in town knew that Will Smythe
was in that cabin with more than one woman.
The trouble started as soon as we moved in.
- They're coming! I tell you they're coming!
- [Eloise] Indeed?
And who is it that'll be coming, Calvin?
- Andrew... Rachel, the whole nasty bunch!
- And what have we done? Not a damn thing!
- I know, Eloise! But they're coming!
- Well, it's none of their bloody business!
Fanny, Fanny, get up!
- I'm UP-
(Will gasps)
- It's all right, Leah, it's all right.
Get dressed. Get dressed, Leah.
Oh no, not this!
Now, Leah...
Help me, Calvin!
Help me! Grab her, Calvin!
Hold her!
- Mama, what are they gonna do?
- [Will] Please! Let her be!
- Let her be? Like that?
I don't know what they'll do, Will!
- Neither do I.
- [Eloise] Will.
- Mama!
(door thuds)
- Clothe that woman.
- You do it!
- Give me that rope!
- [Fanny Voiceover] I knew it was coming.
Mama and the new preacher making longing eyes
and meeting in dark places.
It was a sin we'd all be paying for soon enough,
a thousand times over.
If only my father had been there, and stopped it all.
- We brought you hereto preach!
- As a preacher and a school master,
not as a sinning adulterer!
- Seal the house and burn it!
(rooster crowing)
- Jule!
Jule!
They had a trial! They burned Will's house!
- Jule. - They're going to hang him.
- Let them.
- Margaret, you don't understand! - Stay out of it, Jule!
It's a mistake! Don't get mixed up in his troubles!
Jule! What about the others, Jule?
We have to live here!
What about Marion? Jule!
Jule!
- [Cathleen] Papa, Mama always arguing about Mr. Will,
gave me big worries.
(door opens)
- Move, get it over with.
- [Eloise] What are you bringing us here for?
We've done nothing!
- Don't false mouth me, Eloise.
You know what you've done.
And you, Will Smythe,
are guilty of polygamy and adultery.
- It's not true! He's not married to her!
- He brought her here.
- And my husband left me.
- [Rachel] A lie and you know it.
Marion's in the woods trapping to keep a roof over your head.
- And that one!
A child of the Lord?
God's special gift?
Speaker of the tongue of the Hebrews?
She's bewitched!
- She's a woman of the devil,
and you, you're his lusting brother!
(crowd muttering)
- Will! No!
(gun shoots)
(Leah speaking gibberish)
- Do it!
"No!"
(rope snaps)
(vvm and Leah fall)
(doors open)
- Drop those guns!
- Shot too soon, Andrew.
- Anybody moves, I'll shoot him for certain!
- Keep it on him, Sister.
- [Fanny Voiceover] They say he was blessed.
I never saw anyone so lucky as him.
His guardian angel was always there,
no matter what sort of rude business he got himself into.
No one even looked that surprised when the rope broke.
Like they knew it was impossible to defeat him.
They just stared at him,
waiting to see what he would do.
- Friends.
My friends, I'd be lying if I said you weren't good people.
I knew that the moment I stepped off the ferry.
Everyone helping with Leah.
Rachel, you brought us all our meals that first week.
Dalton's Ferry is a good town.
I even thought it might be the promised land.
The sad truth is that all,
all you good people won't be coming with me.
With us, with us to a real promised land!
I wish you could all come with me, with us...
And I'm sorry, so sorry that we are forced to appropriate...
Uh, take your generous town's providings.
But the Lord giveth and He taketh away.
I'm sure you've heard it said before, because it's true.
The deity moves in mysterious ways.
And a man does as he is forced to do.
- Come on, Fanny, hurry!
Jewell!
- [Fanny Voiceover] Mama and the others locked everybody
in town in the smokehouse, and took anything they wanted
and loaded it on the town's ferry boat.
We stole that, too.
- [Man] It's not a problem of the haves!
It's a problem of you wanting to bring too much!
We don't have the room!
- [Woman] Why in heavens name
are we bringing all these ducks?
(gentle music)
- [Fanny Voiceover] Mr. Will said we'd start
our own settlement in the promised land.
He said if we just floated down the river, it would find us.
Mama said it was true.
And Mr. Jewell and Mr. Calvin believed him.
I guess, 'cause Mr. Will was nice to them,
passing out the compliments and such as that.
But they didn't know where we were going
or what would happen to us.
We passed through the mountains and into New France,
Shawnee Indian territory.
That didn't bother anyone either.
Mr. Calvin brought Sister, that was his wife's name,
and Meg, that was their granddaughter.
Calvin just set in his rocker all day.
He was the first to die.
It was Margaret and Jewell that brought Cathleen.
She was their daughter.
(Cathleen giggles)
My mother was a different person,
spending all of her time lusting with Mr. Will.
It was like she was the child now and I was the mother.
And my father, I kept wondering if he would come after me.
(thunder booming)
But I didn't even know that he was yet alive.
And no one knew where we were.
- Where's the ferry?
- [Rachel] It's gone!
They stole it!
- [Marion] Who stole it?
- The new preacher and your wife!
(Marion sighs)
(water splashing)
- Yes, your wife went with him and they took your daughter!
Smythe will get his without anyone's help.
I know that much.
So, what are you going to do, Marion?
- Eat this squirrel.
- But then what are you going to do?
- Go to sleep.
(crickets chirping)
- Brandish the sword, praise the Lord.
Brave flock, solid as a rock,
reaching out, spreading the gospel,
spreading the bonny Laws of Moses.
Thou shalt not...
No other Gods.
(Eloise gasping) (Leah chuckling)
- She's crazier than a rat in a brandy keg.
- God...
- Take not the Lord in vain, sit on the Sabbath...
Honor the mamas and the papas.
No killing, stop that stealing.
- [Will] If you knew what happened to her.
- What?
- It's a miracle she can even mumble.
- What happened to her?
- When she was just a wee thing, they came to her house...
Sound familiar?
And brought her mother out into the street and...
burned her.
And little Leah watched it all.
- [Eloise] How do you know all this?
- I saved her.
I tried to save her mother too, but
it was too late.
(tense music)
(arrow hits)
(Calvin laughing)
(arrow hits)
(gun shoots)
(people yelling)
(guns shooting)
(people yelling in native language)
(guns shooting)
- [Will] Don't worry, we're safe.
No French or Shawnee saw us land.
This is an old trick.
And the reason it's an old trick is because it works.
They'll keep following the ferry and Calvin.
In heaven we'll meet again, dear Calvin.
In heaven, we'll meet again.
- Do you really think it'll fool them?
- Of course, it will. History, Eloise.
Now take your lessons from history!
- Come on, then.
(Sister crying)
- [Fanny Voiceover] We'd gotten away from the river
as fast as we could, but you could hear us for miles,
such as we were, slipping and thrashing along,
and Sister bellowing over Calvin.
Mr. Will was certain we weren't being followed,
but he was a poor tool
for to be guiding us through the woods.
(tense music)
(birds chirping)
(chicken clucking)
(tense music continues)
(man shouting in foreign language)
- [Will] You heard those shouts. They found us!
- [Girl] I saw an Indian!
' [Will] Where?
(women crying)
- [Eloise] It's all right.
- She didn't see anything!
- I did too!
- They're here!
- There!
- Come on, children! Come on!
Hurry up! Run!
(dramatic music)
- [Will] How many of them there be?
- [Jewell] I don't know.
- [Will] Oh Lord, there's more over there!
- [Eloise] Fie. It's a search.
Quit your yanking about and don't miss.
(man muttering)
- Marion!
(man muttering)
(Indians laughing)
(Marion chuckling)
(people talking in native language)
(people laughing)
(Marion talking in native language)
- [Marion] Waga. (chuckling)
(guns shooting)
Not the Indians!
Don't shoot the Indians!
"Da!"
(Fanny laughing)
- Don't cry.
- I don't cry.
(Jewell laughing)
- [Jewell] Marion, thank God! No better place nor time, eh!
- Are you all right, darling?
- Yes, I'm all right, I'm all right now.
- [Jewell] What were you laughing about?
What kind of funny joking were you passing about out there?
- There's nothing to wag on about.
- [Jewell] Come on, Marion. What was you saying to 'em?
- Well, I asked him how his wife was.
- [Jewell] But what was it to make him laugh, eh?
- He asked me how my wife was.
So I told him.
- I'm no longer your wife.
(dreamy music)
- The Shawnee will be back.
Of that, you can be certain.
- Look, surely we can-
(vvm and Leah fall)
- No! Don't!
- Where'd you get those?
Aye, it's good luck, honey.
Some sort of taboo.
The feathers are a clear sign. Keep away.
If you don't, the trail will disappear behind you.
The Indians are pernickety.
They won't follow us into this valley.
- If the Indians won't be going there,
then maybe we shouldn't be either.
- There's not likely to be anyone down there.
Up here, we've got Shawnee.
This is their land. We're intruders.
(birds chirping)
(people talking faintly)
- Shawnee? - Yes.
Stay close to Jewell.
Get into that valley as fast as you can.
I'll see what they're up to.
(dramatic anxious music)
- What in the world? Okay, Leah, follow me.
(birds chirping)
(uneasy music)
(distant rhythmic music)
(birds chirping)
- Look!
Cabins!
(eerie music)
(Leah yells and pants)
- Please, calm.
Leave you, did they?
Come on.
Calm down.
You're all right. Come on.
Come on.
(eerie music)
- [Jewell] Trappers' camp?
- [Man] Trappers don't clear fields.
- [Jewell] The Indians?
- [Man] Mm-hmm.
- Will they be following us?
Well, what sort of business was they up to then?
- They was laughing.
- [Will] Jewell, are they coming?
- No.
- We thank you, Oh Lord, for delivering us
from the savage infidels.
And again, we pray.
- [Fanny] That tree, those feathers...
The trail disappears behind you?
- [Marion] It's a devil tree.
Some Indians believe that the devil isn't some dark angel,
who lives some place else, like down below.
They look on it as a natural thing,
as natural as a brook, or a tree.
Their devil is born of earth,
part of nature,
thriving on the evil half of life.
Every thing that's good has an evil side to it.
To live and breed, the mantis has to kill the fly.
The hawk has to kill the sparrow.
I killed this rabbit and I'm going to eat it.
I'm happy-
But the rabbit's dead.
Some believe that every time innocent blood is spilled,
it sinks into the earth and joins in particular spots
with the blood of other victims that died before it,
until, finally, the souls of the slaughtered creatures
gather together into one breathing spirit, a devil,
that captures the living and commands their shadows.
(Fanny gasps)
And it's not just the Indians, you know.
A lot of people believe that sort of thing.
People carry on about ghosts, banshees, leprechauns.
That tree says that this valley
is where the lost blood gathers.
It's the home of the devil.
If you believe it.
(gentle music) (birds chirping)
(ghostly people muttering)
(Leah shrieks)
(gun shoots)
- [Sister] What is it? What is it?
What is it? What is it?
- [Eloise] And no Indians, Marion?
- [Fanny Voiceover] We thought that no one would be
in the valley.
Now we knew we weren't alone.
Will Smythe said that since no one was hurt,
the visitors must have been friendly,
and Da was wrong to chase them off.
Mr. Will said that now it was our turn to reach out to them.
So he and Mr. Jewell hung gifts
where they'd be sure to find them.
- And forgive us our trespasses...
Yes, yes, it's true, they're savages.
But they're also a noble people.
And, with a little help, they could become Christians.
But how can the Indians learn if there's no one to teach?
Now, as long as we're trapped here anyway-
- If they're Indians,
they're certainly different than any I've ever seen.
This valley shouldn't be lived in, but it is.
And by some very strange ones at that.
And these cabins here...
It's a melancholy fancy that they left it all.
- Yes, well I'll handle the Indians.
- The Shawnee won't come into this little valley.
That means they're afraid of the ones that are down here.
There's got to be a reason.
- Now his is a way of violence.
I have a better way. Away of giving.
- The Shawnee are still up there.
They want to make sure that nobody comes out.
When they leave, we leave.
- We can't leave Mama.
- You don't have a choice.
(Eloise laughing distantly)
I can't undo the queerness of it, Fanny.
He's got such a hold on them. Why?
- Talk to her, Da.
Talk to her sweet.
(Marion sighs)
- Last time out I decided that when I got back,
I'd perhaps be calling in my traps
for a different way of doing things-
- Marion, don't be telling me this.
Not now.
- Eloise, how can you be casting about with a man like that?
- Don't think I haven't put thoughts on it.
You. You were all rocky and rough and unpromising.
I was your anchor, stuck on the bottom
and not to be going nowhere,
while you floated around on the surface.
But for him, I'm on top. I'm the sail.
- Just a cheery warning, Eloise.
You stay here with that English slyfoot,
and your whole kith and kins
gonna be on the underside of the earth.
(ghostly man speaks in foreign language)
- [Girl] We found it hiding in the weeds. It's a present.
- Yes, children, it is a present.
Why, it's a gift from the Indians.
They have given up this precious girl to the Lord's kingdom.
We must baptize her at once!
What do you think, Leah?
(tense music)
- [Fanny Voiceover] Will Smythe knew
the valley was where he wanted to be
when he first saw the cabins.
We were safe from the Shawnee,
and the hard work had already been done by somebody else.
Finding the little Indian girl was all the excuse he needed.
He and Mama and Mr. Jewell set about fixing up the cabins
and making the valley theirs.
Our garden is our backbone. Our livelihood.
So, plant with care.
Think fertility.
Caress each seed. Love it.
Remember that every seed has a spirit in it.
(Sfiary music)
(Sister screaming)
- It was right there!
It was right there!
It took my bonnet!
- Sister, we were all here.
Nothing happened, do you understand?
- It was there!
- You're scaring the children!
- It was there!
(uneasy music)
(water murmuring)
- It's in French.
"We are two men and five women,
here to the east of the King's wide river,
where as God knows we have buried those
whose heads are covered with blood, as they...
Ave Maria, save us from evil.
The devil lives in the trees.
Jesus rest the departed souls
of Rene and Maria Arceneux.
The rest is just names...
- It happened right here.
In these cabins. The people must have-
- It might have happened here.
It doesn't concern us.
- [Eloise] Aye, but it's os-
- It doesn't concern us.
We don't know where it happened or if it happened.
Are we having any problems? No.
So what if someone died here?
Have the Indians hurt us? No.
Instead, they gave us a little girl.
(crickets chirping)
(uneasy music)
(wind whooshing)
(ghostly man speaks in foreign language)
(electricity hissing)
(ghostly man speaks in foreign language)
(uneasy music)
(vision swooshes)
(Leah speaking gibberish)
- Come away then.
Chances are your wife and daughter will end up dead.
- I ain't a linsey-woolsey pigrunner no more, Marion.
I'm Mr. Jewell Buchanan.
- Jewell...
Fanny. We go at dawn.
Fanny?
(Marion kicks) (Will, Eloise gasp)
Where is she?
- [Eloise] What?
- Fanny, damn it.
- [Eloise] She was with you.
- Where is she?
- We don't have her, Dalton.
That's the truth.
(eerie music)
(women sobbing)
(sinister music)
- [Marion] Fanny!
- [Eloise] But what happened?
- [Marion] I don't know.
- But what was she doing in the woods?
- I don't know!
- What did the Indians want with her?
- I already told you.
- And they just disappeared.
- That's right.
They just disappeared. They vanished.
- [Cathleen] Fanny was just laying there
for a long, long time.
And Mr. Dalton was trying to ponder it through.
(water splashing)
(Leah laughing)
(birds chirping)
Leah was getting stranger and stranger.
And she was trying to figure things too,
and I think she was getting a lot further along with it
than Mr. Dalton.
(uneasy music)
- What's gotten into you?
You used to be God's angel.
Do you forget that you'd have burned if it wasn't for me?
(Sfiary music)
(rain tapping)
(gentle string music)
- [Cathleen] Leah was a magic lady.
She said the people who built the cabins
were now captives of the devil-witch.
She said the devil-watch wanted to make captives of us too.
Leah said she was going to have to get strong,
find the witch, and kill her.
(Leah and girls laughing)
Leah smelt like bushes now, but she was good to us.
Leah was our friend, and I loved her.
(wind swooshing)
(door slams)
(eerie music)
- Stop!
Damn them!
- [Cathleen] Mr. Will got angry when the witch's captive
stole his box of books.
That's when he and Papa built the Stockade
to keep them out.
He said that the Indians stealing his books was inexcusable.
(cow mooing)
The cow still gave milk.
Papa said she was long since freshening.
Mr. Will said this was God's proof.
He didn't know nothing.
The cow was a friend of Leah's.
Fanny stayed asleep.
The cabin began to smell too, like something old and wet.
And I knew: Fanny was slipping away from us.
- Have you forgotten about the rest of us?
Jewell and I built the walls alone.
(cabin shaking)
The cabin began to shake all the time
because something was trying to get to Fanny.
But Leah wouldn't let it in,
and I think Mr. Dalton knew that.
She was a fairy, Leah was.
An Irish fairy.
She could make the flowers laugh. Laugh out loud.
And that's why she told Mr. Dalton
that the secret was sleeping in the trees.
(uneasy music)
(Marion yells)
(Fanny screams)
- Get out! Get out of here!
(Fanny gasps)
I don't care what happened to her
when she was a little girl!
You keep her out of here!
(Fanny screaming and crying)
- I was lying in the cabin.
I heard a kind of racket outside.
- [Fanny Voiceover] The Indian girl was covered
with some sort of sticky paste,
and Leah was trying to catch her.
(eerie music)
' [Fanny] Help! Help me!
Da!
(eerie dreamy music)
- [Fanny Voiceover] And then I saw Leah.
And then I was you.
- Nightshade?
- That would be simple, wouldn't it?
- She was sick. Now she's well.
Let's not create phantoms.
(gentle pensive music)
(birds chirping)
(pages rustling)
Goddamn barbarians.
(goat bleats)
(Will kicks and groans)
- How did they get in?
- Goddamn good question.
You people just let them walk right in?
The bloody cretins.
The best minds of Europe. Goddamn!
Goddamn! Goddamn it!
(eerie music)
- [Ghostly Voice] Meg.
Meg.
(birds chirping)
Meg.
(tense eerie music)
(energy swooshing)
- But little Meg is gone now, Marion.
You can't be leaving now.
- After this, you're on your own.
- [Fanny] We should all be looking for her,
Da can't do it all by himself!
- [vvm] The Lord can.
(tense music)
- Meg!
(Marion chopping)
(Meg gasps)
(Sister wailing)
Meg's dead!
- She's right here, Sister.
- [Sister] Don't get it near me!
- [Eloise] Sister, be careful what you're saying!
- [Sister] Keep her away from me!
Meg's dead!
- [Will] The Indians must have found her.
(eerie music)
(wind swooshing)
(sinister music)
- [Sister] Meg's dead!
- [Will] Take your little girl, you goddamned monkey,
and stop shrieking!
- [Jewell] Sister.
- [Marion] Wait there.
- It's all right.
It's just little Meg. It all right.
- Sister.
I saw it.
And I've never been so afraid in my life.
I don't suppose I ever believed in magic.
But call it what you will,
if you've got any sense at all,
I'm begging you, come with me.
- What is this?
Who'd be putting that dress on her?
- I did.
- You mean you went into my house, rummaged through my things,
and stole my daughter's dress?
- Don't you have any regard for a young child's feelings?
- I don't want her wearing Cathleen's dresses!
You stay out of my life!
- [Will] You're a witch!
- [Margaret] And you're the devil!
- [Wm] What?
(Creepy music)
(gate slams)
(thunder booming)
(rain tapping)
(Cathleen gasps)
(ghost slurping)
(Sfiary music)
(Cathleen shrieks)
(rain tapping gently)
- She made me go in the woods!
- Now you hush!
- She did, Mom, she did!
- I heard you from outside talking about me.
- Be quiet!
- Oh, no. The devil's not out there.
It's in here.
Devils!
(uneasy music)
- Judas.
- [Jewell] But what determined us to settle here?
- Jewell!
You're getting close to sacrilege.
- [Jewell] But if you yourself had heard him talking-
- Dalton's trying to destroy you!
That's what they all want.
You've got to be careful.
Don't let your guard down again.
You're a Christian soldier.
(uneasy music)
(Will screams)
(gun shoots)
Witch.
Leah.
They're everywhere.
God has left us.
You know about devils, don't you?
Well, you see, when we were burning Leah's mother,
(Leah's mother screaming)
I had to keep lighting the fire,
because it kept going out.
Leah put it out.
(wind swooshing)
Leah is a witch!
- Now you're weak.
No one can help you.
(tense music)
- Listen!
(ghostly people muttering)
(gun shoots)
(knife pierces) (Jewell screams)
(Margaret screams)
(bones falling)
(eerie music)
(lighting bolt strikes)
- Sister!
- They'll kill me in there.
- Sister, no!
(ghostly people grunting)
(explosion booms)
(eerie music)
- [Cathleen] Leah!
- Oh mighty Lord God, hear your children
in this moment of peril.
"Da!"
(girl hissing)
- Christian soldiers whose only purpose
is to spread Your gospel.
Smite thine enemies and ours.
Oh Lord, to whom we pray in this, our darkest hour.
(gun shoots)
(explosions booming)
(birds chirping)
- Keep the pot boiling.
- You, who's just murdered a child!
- [Fanny Voiceover] Mama wanted to come,
but she knew she couldn't desert Mr. Jewell.
And he couldn't go nowhere.
We took little Meg with us,
but Cathleen had to stay with her folks.
Da promised he'd be back for them when Meg and I were safe.
- [Fanny] What was it back there, Da?
- [Marion] Cold eyes in a hot fire.
' [Fanny] What?
- [Marion] Cold eyes in a hot fire.
The eyes of animals around a campfire.
At night, when they shine.
(uneasy music)
(sinister music)
' [Fanny] That tree!
I was here.
(sinister music)
(crickets chirping)
(witch grunting)
(tense uneasy music)
(birds chirping)
(water bubbling)
(box dFOPS)
(tense uneasy music)
- Fanny, it's all right.
(tense music)
(witch hissing)
(Fanny gasping)
- Fanny?
- Oh, darling.
- [Fanny Voiceover] He was gone.
And there was no place else we could go.
It got hot after he died, and still,
like the valley was holding it's breath,
waiting to see what would happen.
We waited too, for Mr. Jewell, to get better or die.
No one knew where Leah had gone,
and without her Smythe was nothing.
Mama wept for Da.
She blamed herself. And Smythe.
She told him be must not have had God
in his pocket after all.
And that set him to brooding and vaporing sadly.
- Leah.
(flies buzzing)
(ground rustling)
(wind swooshing)
- Don't worry, my child.
It'll be all right.
(uneasy dreamy music)
(Cathleen shrieks)
- Oh! Hush!
- Smythe there says I ain't gonna be dying.
How's he know that?
How do you know that, Smythe?
I wish I knew what was gonna happen to me.
- Da said it was like cold eyes in a hot fire,
the eyes of animals around a campfire in the night.
Animals might know what a fire was,
but they wouldn't know how it was made,
and a smart creature would be satisfied knowing
that if he got close he got warm,
and if he got too close he hot burnt.
But some can't leave the fire alone.
They get to thinking they're bigger than it is,
and before long they're dancing in the middle of it
'til there's nothing left but those cold eyes
melting in the hot flame.
(flies buzzing)
"No!"
- It's not my fault.
(Margaret sobbing)
- Jewell!
Where's Leah?
You're not leaving.
That would be ridiculous.
I know you better than that.
I rid the valley of them once.
We don't even know where Leah is.
This is our home. Where we live.
I can do it again. I have to.
I did it before.
No.
No, no I'm afraid I can't let you do it.
You might get hurt.
We can't run away from our problems.
- [Leah] Marion?
(sinister music)
Where are you?
(water puffs)
Marion?
Wake up, they're getting away.
- I led them here.
I led them right to...
Those, they left me.
- I can see again.
(wind swooshing) (thunder booming)
(tense sinister music)
(crickets chirping)
Alone.
Abandoned.
Far away.
J' The cross on the stygian fairy J'
(gun shot booms)
- [Eloise] Do you see anything?
- [Margaret] No!
(sinister music)
- Marion, pull her out of the tree.
Don't let her change herself.
If you let her go, she's got you.
That's what she's waiting for.
Pull her out.
Pull her out so I can help you!
She wants the children.
Pull her out!
- It's them.
- They're here.
- Pull her out before it's too late!
(explosion booms)
Snap her neck.
- Fanny! Get in!
- No! I want to-
- Get in!
(tense sinister music)
- Give the power to me!
(witch hissing)
- [Woman] En fin libre.
(birds chirping) (water murmuring)
(water sloshing)
(tense music)
(gentle music)
(light music)
- I don't know how long we were in there.
We couldn't get out.
We couldn't tell if it was day or night.
It was about a week before you found us.
- What are we going to do with you?
This story-
- It's true.
- All right, it's true. Fine.
Show us this valley. We'll go there ourselves,
have a look. Where is it?
- I don't know.
- She doesn't know.
But it's there.
- That's right.
- [Frenchman] Up river.
- Yes.
- [Frenchman] A little valley.
' Yes!
- [Frenchman] You must stop telling me fairy tales.
If English or Irish settlers are on French soil,
I want to know where.
Where and how many.
- [Leah] Don't worry, my child. It'll be all right.
- [Frenchman] I must know if you are truly alone.
- We're not alone.
- You, take them away.
(sinister music)
(gentle dreamy music)
(light Irish music)