Possum

00:31:35,542 --> 00:31:36,876 Made me. 124 00:31:38,792 --> 00:31:40,834 They grabbed my head, 125 00:31:40,917 --> 00:31:43,876 pushed my face inside where it was rotten. 126 00:31:51,001 --> 00:31:52,876 I started to cry. 127 00:31:54,792 --> 00:31:56,084 They laughed. 128 00:31:57,001 --> 00:31:58,667 Ran off and left me. 129 00:32:03,292 --> 00:32:04,876 And then after a while... 130 00:32:08,209 --> 00:32:09,501 the fox... 131 00:32:10,751 --> 00:32:13,292 opened its eyes and stared at me. 132 00:32:16,251 --> 00:32:18,292 Stood up and walked away. 133 00:32:28,959 --> 00:32:29,959 There. 134 00:32:31,876 --> 00:32:33,459 <i>(chuckles)</i> 135 00:32:33,542 --> 00:32:36,084 <i>(laughs)</i> 136 00:32:37,626 --> 00:32:39,542 <i>(coughs)</i> 137 00:32:40,959 --> 00:32:42,501 Sly bugger. 138 00:32:43,417 --> 00:32:44,876 Playin' with ya. 139 00:32:52,292 --> 00:32:54,667 Yours, I believe. 140 00:32:59,001 --> 00:33:00,626 Like this house, Maurice. 141 00:33:13,001 --> 00:33:15,459 They're demolishing the old barracks. 142 00:33:17,584 --> 00:33:19,292 About bloody time. 143 00:33:20,584 --> 00:33:22,667 Black as sin, it is. 144 00:33:49,292 --> 00:33:51,001 Going in? 145 00:34:04,084 --> 00:34:05,667 <i>(door opens)</i> 146 00:39:29,126 --> 00:39:31,667 <i>(breathes heavily)</i> 147 00:39:31,751 --> 00:39:33,709 <i>(gasps)</i> 148 00:41:20,709 --> 00:41:21,709 Maurice? 149 00:42:13,334 --> 00:42:19,501 <i>(Maurice in the distance)</i> "Possum. How he came into the world. 1978." 150 00:42:20,376 --> 00:42:22,417 "By Philip Connell." 151 00:42:27,084 --> 00:42:30,126 <i>(Maurice in the distance)</i> "After the fire. Possum." 152 00:42:31,626 --> 00:42:35,501 "Was it he who blackened the very sun above our town?" 153 00:42:37,376 --> 00:42:42,501 "Possum. Does his stare not seem like the face of waking death?" 154 00:42:44,376 --> 00:42:47,917 "Behold how he came into the world." 155 00:42:50,792 --> 00:42:57,417 "Mother, Father, what's afoot? Only Possum, black as soot." 156 00:42:59,126 --> 00:43:02,126 <i>(Maurice's voice grows louder)</i> "Mother, Father, where to tread?" 157 00:43:03,542 --> 00:43:06,292 "Far from Possum and his head." 158 00:43:09,292 --> 00:43:15,501 "Wait awhile, my little child, for what is playing dead." 159 00:43:15,584 --> 00:43:18,501 <i>(Maurice's voice grows louder)</i> "Possum, with his black balloons, 160 00:43:18,584 --> 00:43:21,292 will eat you up in bed." 161 00:43:23,126 --> 00:43:25,917 "Look at Possum, there he lies." 162 00:43:27,667 --> 00:43:31,126 "Children, meet his lifeless eyes." 163 00:43:33,126 --> 00:43:39,917 "See his nasty legs and tongue. When he wakens, watch him run." 164 00:43:41,709 --> 00:43:44,917 "Here's a bag, now what's inside?" 165 00:43:46,292 --> 00:43:49,292 "Does he seek, or does he hide?" 166 00:43:50,334 --> 00:43:53,501 "Can you spy him, deep within?" 167 00:43:53,584 --> 00:43:56,917 "Little Possum, black as sin." 168 00:44:00,292 --> 00:44:02,417 "Bag is open, growing wider." 169 00:44:03,709 --> 00:44:05,001 "What's inside it, 170 00:44:05,751 --> 00:44:08,126 man or spider?" 171 00:44:09,376 --> 00:44:12,251 "Little boy, don't lose your way." 172 00:44:12,334 --> 00:44:15,501 "Possum wants to come and play." 173 00:44:23,709 --> 00:44:27,959 - Where'd you get that? - Fell. From there. 174 00:44:28,042 --> 00:44:29,792 Liar. 175 00:44:47,542 --> 00:44:49,709 <i>(chuckles)</i> 176 00:44:51,459 --> 00:44:52,709 <i>(laughs)</i> 177 00:44:58,917 --> 00:45:01,917 <i>(laughs loudly)</i> 178 00:45:10,792 --> 00:45:13,334 Didn't know you could draw as well. 179 00:45:14,376 --> 00:45:15,709 Private. 180 00:45:16,792 --> 00:45:18,959 Is it dead yet? 181 00:45:21,042 --> 00:45:23,167 Mind your own business. 182 00:45:23,251 --> 00:45:25,292 <i>(Maurice)</i> Perhaps it's still playin'. 183 00:45:29,792 --> 00:45:33,917 - You won't see me again, Maurice. - Won't I? 184 00:45:34,042 --> 00:45:36,126 Train line's down. 185 00:45:36,209 --> 00:45:38,501 Home for the holidays, you are. 186 00:45:39,459 --> 00:45:42,376 But I'd watch where you're treadin', lad. 187 00:45:42,459 --> 00:45:46,042 - People are talkin'. - Talkin' about what? 188 00:45:46,126 --> 00:45:48,667 Don't you read the papers? 189 00:45:59,292 --> 00:46:01,584 Why didn't you burn, Maurice, eh? 190 00:46:03,126 --> 00:46:04,292 Hmm? 191 00:46:06,126 --> 00:46:08,376 Why wasn't it you? 192 00:46:08,459 --> 00:46:10,292 <i>(chuckles)</i> 193 00:46:11,292 --> 00:46:12,834 <i>(laughs)</i> 194 00:46:14,542 --> 00:46:16,834 <i>(continues laughing)</i> 195 00:46:23,542 --> 00:46:25,917 <i>(coughs)</i> 196 00:51:15,084 --> 00:51:16,459 Maurice? 197 00:51:33,417 --> 00:51:34,834 Maurice? 198 00:51:40,126 --> 00:51:42,459 <i>(runs upstairs)</i> 199 00:52:09,084 --> 00:52:15,251 <i>(Philip) Happy valley, painted black, all the children in a sack.</i> 200 00:52:15,334 --> 00:52:18,792 <i>Wave goodbye to sun and moon.</i> 201 00:52:18,876 --> 00:52:21,251 <i>Say hello to black ballo