Posted by
Cynewulf on Monday, September 11, 2006 12:09:31 AM
Douglas: Look whit the wee cat’s drug in.
Alistair (sitting in chair): Aye, quite the set o’ scallywags ye hae there, Douglas.
Douglas: Welcome to the hame o’ the Black Watch.
(Douglas tells Alistair about how he found the lads)
Joe: Yeah, I thought I was the one who had scared them off.
Birhtwold: About that, Joe. Next time you claim you’re a Texan, you might want to lose the Canadian accent.
Joe: Um, yeah.
Kells: And throw in a "varmint" or two and "this town ain’t big enough for the two of us."
Douglas: What brings ye lads tae Gehenna anyway?
Joe: We’re looking for Wallace of Perth. We have something for him from Stuart.
(Silence, bowed heads)
Joe: Uh, everything alright?
Douglas: Wallace took the low road. He’ll be in Scootland afore us.
Alistair: Aye, he and his true love’ll never meet again.
Joe: What?
Kells: Wallace isn’t among the living anymore. (Turns to Douglas).
Birhtwold: I need to sit down.
Skald:
"O ye'll tak' the high road and I'll tak the low road,
An' I'll be in Scotland afore ye;
But me and my true love will never meet again
On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomon'."
Alistair: That’s the one.
Kells: We didn’t know. What happened?
Douglas: Ambush. Wallace never saw it coming.
Joe: What happened then?
Douglas (smiles a grim smile): No one attacks us with impunity.
(Brief silence)
Kells: Well, Stuart did say that if we couldn’t find him, we could pass it along to any Scotsman we found.
(Kells opens box)
Alistair: A case o Irn Bru!
Douglas: And crisps! I claim the Gammon and Pineapple ones!
Alistair: And a stuffed wee Nessie! Put ‘er on the shelf there looking at the door.
(The squaddies dig into the box)
Douglas: Well, thanks for all that!
Joe: Don’t thank us. It was from Stuart.
Douglas: Aye. I’ll hae tae write ‘im a wee note. Let ‘im ken that I’m in ‘is debt.
Kells: I don’t think he’d see it that way. It’s a shame about Wallace. The news of his passing will devastate Stuart and his gang.
Douglas: We sorely miss ‘im. There was nane better. And wi’ things gaun the way they’re gaun, a hit like that one, takes it oot o’ you. We cad use such encouragement as Stuart gae oos.
Birhtwold: "Purpose shall be the firmer, heart the keener, courage shall be the more, as our might lessens."
Alistair: Aye, nice that. I’ll hae to remember that bit.
Douglas: Fits nicely, wi’ oos being downsized from regiment tae battalion. Where’d it come fram?
Birhtwold: I don’t know. Skald’s the one that usually comes up with this stuff.
Douglas: Well, who’s for some crisps and Irn Bru?
(Everyone grabs a can and a bag)
Douglas (holding up his can): Tae Wallace!
Everyone: Tae Wallace!
Notes:
1. Skald's quote taken from "Loch Lomond"
2. Birhtwold's quote taken from "The Battle of Maldon"