Ronja the Robber's Daughter (2024) s01e03 Episode Script

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I was happy when I saw him.
Did it have to be a little Borka swine?
He might be thinking the same.
"I was so happy when I saw her."
"Why did it have to be
a little Mattis sow?"
And now that snake spawn,
with his heathen dog of a father,
is in the North Fortress!
So I guess you and I will have to learn
to live a little closer.
One man might be able to sneak
past Wolf Narrows,
but an entire band of robbers?
We don't have guards on the north side.
There's only sheer rock wall.
- Welcome home.
- Thanks.
Well, not only, right?
- Where do you find all this?
- Find?
My father was a robbers' chief,
like my grandfather and his father.
I am the mightiest robbers' chief
in all mountains and forests.
And you will be too, one day.
Be like you? Never in my life.
Valdir sent for us. We're here to solve
the problems that you failed to address.
Apparently, she's tough on robber bands.
Come, Ronja.
Come, Ronja.
I don't want to be like you!
You have to.
Ronja…
- Ronja!
- Ronja!
Come, Ronja!
Pelye, please, play a different song.
It's every morning! Every single morning.
Good morning.
There's breakfast.
Are you not eating?
Birk?
You stay away.
I don't want to see you anyway.
BASED ON THE BOOK BY ASTRID LINDGREN
RONJA THE ROBBER'S DAUGHTER
There, sweetheart.
Yes, I know.
Good morning.
I know, Flit. You're hungry.
Uncle will find food today.
There now.
Want to buy vegetables?
No money.
Yes, that's a leek…
You can forget about that one,
give it here.
They're enchanted items and objects,
and not for paupers.
What's going on?
This merchant is charging
more than twice what he did last time.
When there's plenty, prices go down.
When there's scarcity, prices go up.
That's how it is.
- Hey! What are you doing?
- I'm just looking.
You can look from the street.
Get down from there.
I have no money!
I'm not forcing anyone to buy my wares.
If no one in this village is buying,
I'll sell it in the next.
Keep an eye on him.
- Be careful. There's gunpowder in that.
- Yes. We've handled explosives before.
Thief! Food thief!
Food thief!
Put him in the pillory!
Thief!
And there you'll stay!
Shame on you!
Food thief!
- What did he do?
- He's a bloody food thief.
Food thief!
A lowly thief.
Not even a robber.
A thief.
Those robbers you claim to have caught…
Who were they?
Do not touch me.
I had a look at the stores today.
You didn't get very much
from that Borka cave.
That was all that was there.
I see.
Didn't you say they were about a dozen?
I did.
Winter is on its way.
There should have been more
in their stores.
There wasn't.
Is that so?
You will fail here.
We'll see.
We could lure wile-wings here,
get them to attack.
I've never heard of anyone
even trying that.
Even if we could,
Mattis Fortress is way too close
to the Borka Keep.
The North Fortress!
It's called the North Fortress!
Just because I am a curious old man…
What would you have done if you'd managed
to get in all by yourself?
I would have thrown them out. One by one.
All 12 of them?
And Borka and Undis and the child?
You have to be sly as an old fox
to get them out.
You, Mattis, sly as a fox.
Or I can just kill the lot of them
when they leave the fortress.
They only have one way to get in and out.
We'll keep watch outside, day and night.
Get them, one by one.
We also only have one way
to get in and out.
Through Wolf Narrows.
What if they do the same thing?
They won't.
And neither will we.
Us robbers may make trouble
for each other.
We defend ourselves, people may get hurt.
But we don't kill each other.
We never have!
There's a first time for everything.
Then you have to be prepared
to bury your own.
Are you?
We could smoke them out.
We wait until the wind is right.
Really?
How did it go?
I asked for twice as much, and I got it.
Good money.
We can share.
See you again.
It's always a pleasure
doing business with you.
There you are.
What do we do about the lawman?
What can we do?
We can tell Valdir not to trust Halvert.
No.
Take his place, permanently.
Settle down.
Maybe, but not here.
Borka swine to the east.
But…
Wait, Mattis.
Mattis!
Mattis! Mattis!
There you are.
Here I am.
Have you seen how sad they get?
The people that we take things from?
Sometimes
you have to do things to survive.
That doesn't make it right.
When hunger gnaws at you,
you don't think about right and wrong.
But we have enough.
Mattis takes care of us
the best way he knows how.
He makes sure we have food, a home.
And he would die for every one of us.
He's not without his flaws.
Far from it.
But that's why I love him.
Lovis! You have to come, it's Chorm!
The Borka swine did it.
Hot water.
Hurry, don't make him wait.
Clean rags and my herbs and decoctions.
Come on!
He will be fine, right?
Come on.
He will be fine, won't he, Lovis?
Where have you been?
The forest. I've been hunting.
Where's the kill?
I didn't kill anything.
You've been away all day.
Yes, but I didn't get anything.
Then maybe you shouldn't be eating.
Get out of my sight.
I know Mattis.
He won't give in.
We finally have walls, doors, floors.
I've always wanted a fortress.
Or a castle.
But a fortress will do, I'm not moving.
Oh wolf, oh wolf
Keep away from here
Never shall you take my baby
Can you sleep now?
I saw the quarrymen
loading black powder in the village.
What do I need black powder for?
I'm just letting you know it's there.
What else is going on down there?
There was a food thief in the pillory.
A skinny young wretch.
He'll be exiled when they let him go.
Might be something for us.
I've got other things to think about.
We'll see.
Were they cruel to him? The villagers.
Yes.
I'll talk to him.
You could be doing other things.
Winter is getting close.
I don't want to go robbing.
If you won't set them to work, I will.
Do as you wish.
We need a clear-out.
And give the paddocks and chicken coop
an autumn clean.
The sheep pen, the goat stables…
They won't be happy about it.
No.
Maybe you shouldn't try
to throw Borka out.
Are you mad?
They have to go.
It's making me sick, having him so close.
But instead of throwing them out…
maybe you should shut them in.
Like I said, winter is getting close.
You're sure the black powder is here?
Yes, they loaded it
into the large warehouse.
Give a coin, please. Give a coin.
Go away!
Where are you from?
We've got enough beggars here.
We're just passing through.
You better be.
Grab him.
Leave him here.
What's your name?
Chegge.
What now, Chegge?
I have to be gone before sunset.
Or else…
Or else what?
Or they'll hang me.
I have a proposal.
This is Chegge. Give him bread.
Why did you steal, Chegge?
Because I was hungry.
Do you have a family?
Anyone waiting for you?
Do you want to be one of us?
I am the mightiest robber's chief
in all the mountains and forests.
You're Mattis.
He knows who I am.
So, what do you say?
Yes.
Eat. Drink.
Listen up!
We have a newcomer.
This is Chegge.
Chegge, that's Sturkas.
Skully-Per. Jutis, Joen.
Fyosok. Chorm.
Knotas.
Little Cliff, Pelye.
Turre. And Labbas.
And the most important ones.
Lovis, my wife.
And Ronja, my whole world and my sunshine.
Welcome.
Drink this.
Take it easy
if you haven't eaten for a while.
Thank you.
That Cappa, what do you know about her?
Nothing. I'd never seen her
before she caught me.
- Do you know where she's from?
- No.
Valdir sent for her, to catch you.
Is that right?
That's enough for today.
There will be time for questions.
Yes.
Come.
You can have this one.
Go to bed.
You can't have gotten much sleep
in the pillory.
Thank you.
He knew who I was.
Did I tell you that?
I like him.
He cried when he was given food and a bed.
I hate that pillory.
The way everyone can say
whatever they want.
Throw whatever they want.
No one will ever do that to you again.
Not to him either.
Thanks to you.
Did you beat up
those who were tormenting him too?
I couldn't very well start a brawl.
It was bad enough
I had to go into the village.
I know.
I'm only teasing.
Come here.
That one as well?
Hi, Chegge.
- Hi.
- What are you doing?
If you bind a rag and dip it in fish oil,
then shoot the arrow,
it will burn for longer and better.
I don't like things that destroy.
There are too many of them in the world.
Yes. You're probably right.
But sometimes you have to defend yourself.
I do it as thanks to Mattis
for saving my life.
You don't need to thank him.
He does things like that sometimes.
Do you want an apple?
Take it.
What's wrong?
Last time I saw a girl your age,
she threw horse shit at me.
Why did she do that?
Because everyone else was doing it.
She just followed their lead.
I'm never going to that village.
Everything is much better in my forest.
The forest isn't
completely harmless either.
Be careful out there.
One eye to the sky.
Bye!
See you in spring!
That was the clumsiest thing
I've ever seen.
You'll never catch a horse.
And how many have you caught?
I've never tried.
But when I do,
I won't try to catch it
with my bare hands.
Maybe you could show me how to make one?
I suppose I could.
- But I won't.
- Why not?
I won't do anything
with a dirty Borka robber.
Then why won't you leave me alone?
Because I promised Mattis
to watch out for Borka robbers.
I can't do that if I don't see any.
Do you know why he tells you to watch out?
Because when you meet one of us,
you see how incompetent you are.
There isn't one thing
you can do better than I can.
Isn't there?
Not a single thing.
I am the mightiest robber's chief
in all the mountains and forests.
No, I am the mightiest robber's chief
in all the mountains and forests!
- Come on! Come on, snail!
- Go!
- Come on, snail! Come on!
- Faster!
Why are you doing this?
Bye then, robber's daughter.
Bye, Borkason.
You're on fire!
You're on fire!
You're on fire, Fröbjörn!
To the river! Run!
How did you know
there was another entrance here?
I just knew.
But why didn't I know?
You and me, Mattis.
Brothers forever.
Let's go.
- Get that thing away from me!
- Yes.
Run!
What was that?
Is it bad?
The entrance has collapsed.
We won't get in or out.
Show me.
And he ran like a torch!
And the other one ran after him, yelling,
"You're on fire!"
And he pulled him down to the river,
which is when we went in.
And in there…
In there…
Boom!
Cheers to Mattis!
Cheers!
To Mattis!
What was it? What happened?
It's Mattis. He blew up the entrance.
How will we get in and out?
We can't.
Not that way.
We'll have to make a rope ladder.
We didn't see them.
Must've come over the crest.
The whole entrance was on fire,
I don't know what…
Useless. The lot of you.
That would've been hard to find.
A hole in the fortress wall,
leading to the old tunnel.
Who could've guessed…
I mean, it makes you wonder
who made it, long ago.
And why? Doesn't it?
Shouldn't you go to bed soon, old man?
No, now I'm going to dance.
- Turre!
- Yeah!
May I have this dance?
Are you happy here?
You know that you're the light of my life.
But if you want to make
a robber's heart really happy,
you'll come with-
- No.
- You don't know what I was saying.
Yes, I do.
The light will have to be enough.
I will never be a robber.
Life is long.
Let's celebrate
that I taught Borka a lesson.
Once and for all.
And it'll hold?
Yes, it should.
No. I'll go first.
If it holds for me, it'll hold for you.
I made this.
It's ruined.
Yes, it is.
I'll make you a new one.
I'm too old to play with wooden horses.
I'll make you a new one anyway.
Let's see if we can mend this sack,
and bring it back.
Why did you bring me?
You think I'm too hard on you.
One day you will take over all of this.
And take responsibility.
And then you can't have just
played your whole life.
Do you understand?
But that robber's daughter,
won't she take over one day too?
What's your concern with that hell spawn?
Nothing.
I see her in the forest sometimes.
She just plays all day.
That's because her father
has the brains of a shrew.
Stay away from her.
I just see her around now and then.
Keep away from her.
Time to move, Borka.
The way he yelled and swore…
It was a real pleasure.
I'd like to see them carry
anything bigger up that ladder
than some berries and mushrooms.
It'll be a long winter in the Borka Keep.
The North Fortress!
How many times do I have to say it
for it to stick?
A fair few more times,
it's Chorm we're talking about.
Hey, Mattis,
no one thought it would happen,
but you were sly as an old fox.
I was indeed.
Will they all leave now?
Every last lousy one.
Where will they go?
Who cares?
As long as it's far away.
So we'll never see them again?
Never again.
No, let's dance now!
Tell me.
What's going on in Mattis Fortress?