War Sailor (2023) s01e02 Episode Script

1
[theme music playing]
[thunder crashes]
WAR SAILOR
[men chattering]
The man they brought onboard,
the runaway, where was he hiding?
[sighs] It doesn't matter anyway.
He made it two years.
In two years, the war is over.
[officers chattering, muffled]
MPs are everywhere.
This won't fucking work.
- It will.
- No, it won't work.
- Calm down, it's all right. It'll work.
- Swear to God. I'm gonna go insane.
Ah, they got me working nights
for three weeks.
[Sigbjørn] Shh!
- [officer] Did you get that chow today?
- [officer 2] Yeah.
[dog barking]
[officer 2] Could hardly stomach that.
- [chattering]
- [laughing]
- [Sigbjørn] Come on. Come on.
- [officer] Saturdays are always a little
[Sigbjørn sighs]
[Freddy] No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
[car accelerates]
[sighs]
- [Hanna, Aksel] Thank you.
- [officer] Yep.
- [Hanna] Come on, Aksel.
- [Aksel] I'm coming.
- [Hanna] Come on.
- [Aksel] Stop nagging me.
[Hanna] You should have done
as you were told.
- [Aksel] Freddy needs me.
- [Hanna] Freddy's gonna kill you.
[Aksel] What am I supposed to do here?
I doubt they'll let me cook for them.
[Hanna] Come on.
[Freddy sighs]
[Sigbjørn] Hey.
- There's nothing we can do, Alfred.
- [shudders]
Mons.
Come on.
No, I'll be here.
Along with them.
So you can go and start a family.
[grunts]
Come on then.
[sighs]
[exhales]
Fine.
[metal creaking]
[Sigbjørn] You should worry about
your own children.
You trying to say
I don't worry about my children?
- I don't know. Do you?
- Easy for you to say.
You don't need to worry about anyone.
At least I'm trying
to get you home to everyone.
How dare you. How dare you!
This is not about me.
I'm doing it for them.
Go fuck yourself, Freddy.
Hanna.
What are you doing here?
Death is no worse for me
than it is for you, you know.
You were supposed to help Aksel.
[Hanna] I'm not his mother.
[loud bang]
[tapping]
[officer] And little Susie, she is
[officer 2] We should have more guys
for this, you know.
[Freddy] Dear Cecilia and my children.
I never thought that the war would claim
so many years of our lives.
All this time that just passes and grows
to become something so unthinkable
and terrifyingly vast.
I could have fled from that fear.
But I couldn't go through with it.
I couldn't just leave it to someone else.
Even though I probably should have.
- Now, we are headed North.
- [men shouting]
[Freddy] Closer to you,
to all that is mine.
It's for you.
- [Maggie] Thank you.
- Leave it.
- [Maggie] Mm.
- [William] Don't thank them.
Why shouldn't I?
You know why they're here, don't you?
What the submarines are for.
No.
What for?
[Freddy] I hope that you can sense
that I am out there.
- [thunder rumbling]
- And that I love you.
Love always. Your father.
OCTOBER 4TH
"The final guests."
"The final guests"
"were followed"
[men shouting]
Maggie.
"The remains of a farewell"
"the night winds"
"took away."
What are you doing here?
I'm here to say
I'm sorry for running away.
Don't you have a deck to swab?
What was he doing here?
He was apologizing for trying to get off.
The onions.
[Sigbjørn] You be finished soon?
We're hungry.
They haven't given us a break yet.
[Hanna] Can you take the rubbish?
Yeah.
- Don't forget to clean it.
- [Aksel] Mm-hmm.
It's really hard work up here. [chuckles]
How's the reading coming along?
I think it's going well.
Soon you'll be ready to come down
to the engine room with me
and learn something useful.
- Yeah.
- [Sigbjørn] It'll be good.
- It'll be good.
- [Sigbjørn] It'll be good.
[Aksel] Great.
Can we have some soup downstairs
when it's ready?
[panting]
[gasps]
[air raid siren wailing]
[gasps]
Aksel.
Aksel!
What the bloody hell is he doing?
Aksel!
Why aren't you working?
Alarm!
Hanna, get out! Out!
Get out! Out!
- Torpedo!
- [panting]
[panting]
[panting]
[grunting]
[panting]
[Sigbjørn] Come on!
[crew shouting]
- [Freddy] Down! Down!
- [gunfire]
[crew shouting]
Hey, come on!
[panting]
[crew shouting]
- [gunfire]
- [aeroplane engine drones]
[Hanna] Aksel! Aksel! Oh!
[Cecilia gasping]
- [men and women shouting]
- [Cecilia] Maggie! William!
[man] Over here!
[panting]
[woman shouts]
[man 2 shouts]
William! Oh!
- [panting]
- [man 2] This way!
- [gasps] Where's Maggie?
- I don't know.
Take him, Freya, to the church!
[man 2] Where is he?
Help, help, it's heavy!
[woman] Ole!
[man 2] He's down here. Come on!
[woman shouts] Please, somebody help!
[sobbing]
[shouts] Ole!
[men and women clamouring]
Maggie.
[woman] Ole!
- [shouting and clamouring continue]
- [man 4] Look down here!
[whimpering]
- [girl crying]
- [men and women continue shouting]
- [shouting and clamouring continue]
- [panting]
[woman 2 sobbing]
[man 3] Come here this way.
- [Cecilia] Maggie!
- [woman 2 shouts]
[man 4] Down here somewhere. Help!
[woman shrieks] Ole!
Hey! Come here.
[woman shouting]
[woman 3 sobbing]
Maggie? Maggie. Maggie!
[whimpering]
Maggie!
Maggie!
Maggie!
[sobbing] Maggie!
[both sobbing]
[panting]
- [man 5] Bloody help! Help!
- [man 6] Help me!
- [man 7] Can anyone hear me?
- [woman 4] Over here!
[woman 5 sobbing] No! No! Malvin!
Malvin! [sobbing]
Malvin! Oh!
- [panting]
- [woman 5 continues sobbing]
[water gurgling]
[grunting]
[panting, gasping]
[groaning, panting]
[gasps]
[panting]
[gasps]
[coughing]
Freddy!
[panting]
[grunting]
[groaning]
[panting]
What is it? What?
[Sigbjørn groans]
- [metal creaking]
- [loud rumbling]
[Aksel] Help!
- Help!
- [gasps]
[grunting]
Please help!
[panting]
[Aksel] Help me!
Help! Help! [coughs]
[gasping]
[groaning]
- Come on!
- [Freddy] I'm okay.
- [grunting]
- [panting]
[grunting]
[panting]
I'm all right.
I'm all right.
Come on, need your belt here.
Give it to me. Give it to me!
- Hold him! Hold him down!
- [Aksel panting]
You're gonna be fine.
- That's it. Hold him! [grunts]
- [screaming]
[panting]
- [screams]
- [Freddy grunting]
Keep him still.
- [sailor speaks indistinctly]
- [loud bang]
[Aksel groans]
- [whimpering]
- [panting]
[sailor] There are
some survivors over there.
That's close enough.
Throw them a rope.
[Aksel sobbing]
[whimpering]
[Sigbjørn sniffles]
[loud bang]
[Aksel continues whimpering]
[Freddy shushing]
[shushing continues]
[grunting]
- Speak English? Are you English?
- [crewman] Yes, sir. Norwegian, sir.
[commander] Is the captain amongst you?
I think the captain is dead, sir.
- Name of ship?
- [crewman] Falkanger, sir.
[commander] Thank you.
Johan, bring water and supplies.
- [sailor shouting]
- [commander] There are a few casualties.
[Aksel continues whimpering]
[sailors chattering]
[medic grunts, spits]
[whimpering]
[Commander] Werner.
[sobbing] Why's he shaking his head for?
What does that mean?
How much morphine do we have?
Twenty.
How many does the child need?
[in German] Six.
[in English] Give it to them.
Here.
[in German] That is enough. No pain.
Do you understand?
[commander in English] Hurry up, Werner!
I cannot take any of you onboard.
Do you understand?
Please!
- Please!
- It's all right. Come on, it's all right.
- There, there.
- [crewman] Please!
[Aksel continues whimpering]
- [commander] Draw up the rope.
- Please!
- [Aksel] No! No! No!
- Shh!
[Aksel whimpering]
[panting]
It hurts so much!
[screams]
[sobbing]
Calm down.
It'll be it'll be all right.
It's all right.
It'll be all right.
[continues whimpering]
[Sigbjørn exhales]
It's all right.
We'll help you. Alfred will help you.
[sighs] Aksel, I'll help you, Aksel.
I'll help you, all right? I'll help.
Come on, help me with that.
[Aksel grunts, sobbing]
This is going to help you.
- It'll be better. It's all right.
- [spits]
There, there. Just yeah.
[Aksel groaning]
[sobbing]
Give me it.
[spits]
Aksel, it will be better soon.
Alfred will help you now.
There we are. There we are.
Now, it'll be better.
It'll be better soon.
[Freddy] Next one!
- [Aksel screams]
- Can you fucking see what's going on?
Come on!
- [Freddy] One more!
- [Sigbjørn] Come on.
[Aksel sobbing]
Don't do it.
Help me, please. I'm begging you.
- Aksel. Aksel, you'll be all right.
- [Aksel wailing] No!
Help me. Stop.
Stop it, stop, stop.
[gasping]
I'm dying.
- It's all right. Give them to me!
- [Aksel sobbing] I'm dying.
Fucking listen, give him all of them!
[Aksel whimpering]
Stop.
[Sigbjørn] It'll be all right.
There, there.
- It's all right. It'll be over soon.
- [Freddy spits]
[Sigbjørn] Everything will be all right.
[groaning]
[Sigbjørn shushing]
[crewman] No, no.
[Sigbjørn] That's it. Good boy.
That's better. It'll be all right.
[Aksel coughs]
[whimpers, grunts] No.
No.
No.
[Sigbjørn panting] There, there.
[grunts] No.
- No.
- [Sigbjørn] Come on, come on.
[Aksel] No.
- [Sigbjørn] There, there.
- No.
[crewman coughs]
[Aksel] No, no.
[ragged breathing] No.
[faintly] No
No.
No.
No.
- [wind whistling]
- [Aksel mumbling]
[Cecilia grunts]
[siren wailing]
[Maggie exhales]
[William gasps]
- [sniffles]
- [Cecilia] Huh?
[splutters, sniffles]
[panting]
[bucket clatters]
[exhales] You can go, Asbjørn.
There are others
who need you more than us.
Yes, you're right.
[Cecilia panting]
- [sniffles]
- [Cecilia] Hmm.
[exhales]
[William sniffles]
They didn't mean
to bomb the school, did they?
Would you like to come
and sleep in my bed tonight?
Yes.
Go on then.
Go ahead and I'll soon be there.
[exhales]
[sniffles]
- It was wrong, wrong.
- [Freddy] Thank you.
[Sigbjørn coughing]
[crewman muttering]
That was the devil's work.
The devil's work. That's wrong.
- [exhales]
- [coughing]
[crewman mutters]
[Sigbjørn exhales]
[crewman] It is our Lord who decides
who lives and who dies.
[chuckles] And
He saw it.
That we turned our back on Him.
He saw evil in us.
[inhales]
And now,
He has abandoned us.
[whispers] He's abandoned us.
[knock on door]
[Cecilia] Come in.
- Asbjørn. Hello.
- Hello.
[exhales] You look exhausted.
Was it Anton Olais' funeral yesterday?
Yes.
- [Cecilia] The last one, wasn't it?
- [sighs]
[Cecilia] I should have been there,
but it's just
Those families are mourning
their children. It didn't seem fair.
I didn't have the right to sit there
and mourn with them,
with my three children still alive.
But next week I will go
and tend to their graves.
Cecilia, can we go through,
so we can sit down?
Why would we do that?
[Asbjørn] Please, can we sit down?
I'm fine. I'd rather we stay here.
[exhales]
This morning, the dean of Bergen
gave me a telegram
he'd received
from MS Falkanger's shipping company.
[Cecilia] Mm-hmm.
[Asbjørn] It states it was sunk
on the 4th of October.
"Despite rescue operations in the area,
there are no signs of survivors."
"It is therefore regretfully assumed
that the whole crew
have lost their lives."
Names on the crew roster included
that of your husband.
Named here as Alfred Garnes.
- [sobs] No.
- [Asbjørn] I'm so sorry.
He swore to us he'd come home.
He swore to the children he would do it.
And Sigbjørn swore he would as well. Huh?
Sigbjørn Kvalvåg, is he on the list?
[sniffles]
Yes. Mm-hmm.
[sobbing]
[gasps]
[groans]
[continues sobbing]
Ah! What should I say
to the children, then?
[sobbing] What am I supposed
to tell the children?
What the hell am I supposed
to tell my children?
- You have to tell me that!
- [air raid siren wailing]
- [continues sobbing]
- [sighs]
[sobbing]
- Maggie!
- [shouting]
Olav!
- William! William!
- [aeroplane engine droning]
Here, go downstairs.
Let the children get in.
[panting]
[grunts] Come on, keep going.
All the way in!
Could you let the children through?
- [air raid siren continues wailing]
- [shuddering]
- [siren stops]
- [aeroplane engine droning]
[air raid siren wailing]
[murmuring]
Come on.
[gasps]
[water running]
[coughs]
What is it?
Um
Uh [sniffles]
Uh [sighs]
[groans] Your father
[gasping]
won't be returning home to us.
[sobbing]
I've already said it.
- Maggie mm-hmm.
- [Maggie] I said he wouldn't!
[sobbing]
I said that!
- It's all right.
- [Maggie] I knew he wouldn't!
- It's all right. It's all right.
- [Maggie] No, I said so!
- Maggie.
- [sobbing] No!
Maggie.
- [kisses] It's all right.
- [sobbing]
[Cecilia] Oh, my girl.
- [Maggie] I told you!
- Come on, that's enough.
- [Maggie gasps] No!
- [gasps]
Maggie [exhales]
[aeroplane engines droning]
OCTOBER 29TH
- [gunfire]
- [air raid siren wailing]
[aeroplane engines droning]
[explosions]
[glass shatters]
We can't wait any longer.
[grunting]
Our Father,
who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
[hesitates]
Give us this day our daily bread.
Forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those
who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Deliver us.
Deliver us.
[whispers] Deliver us.
He is the devil.
[gasps]
You are the devil. [shouts]
[groans]
[grunting]
- [slashes]
- [yells]
[shouting]
- [grunting]
- [yelling]
[grunting]
[yells]
- [grunts]
- [groans]
- [panting]
- [gagging]
- [groaning]
- [gagging]
[gasping]
[panting]
[crewman exhales]
[Freddy panting]
[ragged breathing]
- [panting]
- [ragged breathing]
- [Freddy exhales]
- [ragged breathing]
[gasping]
[exhaling]
[ragged breathing continues]
[gasps]
- [ragged breathing continues]
- [sighs]
[Freddy grunts]
[grunts]
[panting]
[snoring]
[Sigbjørn groaning]
[coughing]
[panting, coughing] Hey.
- [Freddy whispering] Stay with me.
- [groans]
- [Freddy] Come here.
- [coughs, gasps]
- [Freddy] Stay with me.
- I am ready to give up.
- [clears throat]
- You stay with me.
- That's it.
- I'm ready. It's all right.
- [Freddy] That's it. Stay with me.
- [coughs, gasps]
[ragged breathing]
[Freddy] Stay with me.
- [Sigbjørn gasps]
- Stay with me.
[horn blowing]
[horn blows]
680 NORWEGIAN MERCHANT SHIPS
HAVE BEEN LOS
[men shouting, muffled]
- [indistinct chattering]
- [man sobbing] Please, help me.
Don't hurt me.
Don't hurt me. Don't hurt me.
[sobbing]
Help me, help me, help me.
Sorry, sorry, sir. [gasps]
[exhales sharply]
What the fuck are you looking at?
Huh?
[Sigbjørn] No one's looking at you.
[man] "Poor bastard.
No future, no job, no family." Huh?
"What a pathetic man."
"A cripple."
[exhales]
- You're glad it's not you.
- Huh?
[man] Bet you're glad it's not you.
Eat and be grateful
to be one of the living.
[man scoffs] What the fuck is there
to be grateful for? This is no life.
I'd rather be dead.
[grunting]
I'll kill you!
[grunts] I'll kill you!
I'll kill you!
Stop it! No!
No!
[panting]
- [keys jangle]
- [door opens]
[orderly] Have you calmed down now, sir?
[exhales]
So, what's going to happen?
Have they got the firing squad ready?
It was Aksel's choice to remain onboard.
He made that decision.
Please don't, Sigbjørn.
[Sigbjørn] There was nothing you could do.
Nothing at all.
And what had to happen,
out there,
everything you did was all for him.
- [Freddy exhales]
- [Sigbjørn] You must know that.
And soon, this shit is going to be over.
All right?
Just think about your children
and your wife back there.
You'll soon be home with them.
I'll be doing whatever I fancy.
I'll come over every now and then
to eat your shitty, thin soup.
[coughs]
[continues coughing]
[exhales]
Our new friend you just made in
the wheelchair sends his regards to you.
He's getting better.
Just a little
in the face, that's all.
Perhaps you shouldn't hit people
in the face with those dinner trays.
[exhales] It's not great sharing a meal
with them afterwards.
I can hear you smiling.
[panting]
Wait there. [panting]
I'm almost there. Do you agree?
[panting]
[chuckles]
You can't do that.
The horse is mine.
I ride it however. Come on.
- He's a free spirit. Let it go. Let it go.
- [chuckles]
- [nurse] Mr. Garnes?
- Yeah.
Dr. Douglas needs to see you.
[Douglas] Have a seat, Mr. Garnes.
[lighter clicking]
[door closes]
The names of your wife and children, uh,
Cecilia, William, Magdeli and Olav Garnes.
Are they correct, Mr. Garnes?
- The names?
- Mm-hmm.
I regret to have to tell you this,
but your family were all killed
during the bombing of Bergen.
I am sorry.
It appears they
found their peace in their home.
According to this, no remains were found.
I'm very sorry for your loss, sir.
Must be a terrible shock.
[clears throat]
[rattling]
These will help you sleep.
[men laughing]
[man] Hi.
[chattering]
- [chattering]
- [laughing]
- [door rattles]
- [huffs]
[door rattles]
[panting]
[lock clicks]
[whimpering, sobbing]
[sobbing continues]
[shudders]
Dear Sigbjørn.
I should have told you this before I left,
but I couldn't bring myself to do it.
By the time you wake up, I shall be gone.
And I'm not coming back.
Please, do not come looking for me.
There is no point.
[chattering]
[Freddy] You've always
been my best friend.
I hope you live a good life.
Alfred.
[theme music playing]