Adventures in Rainbow Country

Father Bob Coburn:
They were brave men, Billy, those first voyageurs. Just think of it: those men, Brul?, Radisson, Groseilliers, La Verendrye, Champlain himself. They were all here, perhaps standing in this very place. What a rich heritage for a young boy like you growing up here.

Billy Williams:
Yes, sir.

Father Bob Coburn:
This is the last frontier, Billy. Between those smokestacks and land our forefathers left. It's young men like yourself who are going to decide the future of this place.

Billy Williams:
Weren't you scared, about the rapids?

Father Bob Coburn:
Were you scared?

Billy Williams:
Well, sort of. But it's exciting too.

Father Bob Coburn:
It's a sense of challenge. I hope you never lose it. Well, we'd better be getting back. [turns toward campsite]

Billy Williams:
Father?

Father Bob Coburn:
[turns toward Billy] Yes?

Billy Williams:
Are you still trying to decide about shooting the rapids?

Father Bob Coburn:
No Billy, I'm not.

Hannah Wiliams:
[incredulous] Lac du Diable!

Roger Lemieux:
I want to make a photo story on it.

Billy Williams:
And Pete and I can help Roger find it.

Hannah Wiliams:
But all the stories about that place - people losing their minds and mysterious accidents.

Roger Lemieux:
Well there must be a logical explanation about those stories.

Hannah Wiliams:
And you're going to dive there?

Pete Gawa:
Sure. If we can find the lake.

Roger Lemieux:
We have to find Lavall?e first. If somebody can lead us to Devil's Lake, it's Big Joe Lavall?e.

Hannah Wiliams:
Well, it all sounds pretty scary to me.

Billy Williams:
Oh Hannah! Like Roger said, there has to be a simple explanation to those stories.

Pete Gawa:
I think I know what it is. The devil really does live there!

Big Joe Lavallee:
Roger, you tell Big Joe Lavall?e why I find you in the swamp.

Roger Lemieux:
The truth is Joe, we were looking for you.

Big Joe Lavallee:
For me? Why are you looking for me?

Roger Lemieux:
We need your help. We want you to take us someplace that you are the only one to know.

Big Joe Lavallee:
Oh, that's true. I know every place around here for 500 miles around. What's the place?

Roger Lemieux:
Lac du Diable.

Big Joe Lavallee:
Mon Dieu! You're joking!

Roger Lemieux:
No, Joe. I'm very serious. I must find it.

Big Joe Lavallee:
What for you want to go there, that evil place? You know what will happen to you?

Big Joe Lavallee:
We'll go around this swamp and straight south to Lac du Diable.

Billy Williams:
South, Joe?

Billy Williams:
Sure, south.

Roger Lemieux:
Why do you ask that, Billy?

Billy Williams:
Nothing. Just wondering if Joe was sure it's south.

Big Joe Lavallee:
When I say south, she's south.

Roger Lemieux:
Oh easy, Joe. The boy was just asking.

Big Joe Lavallee:
I don't like when people don't trust Big Joe!

John Onoman:
You don't look like a doctor to me.

Dr. Janet Rhodes:
Well I *am* a doctor. And I think I'm a pretty *good* doctor.

Dr. Janet Rhodes:
John?

[John facing away, turns around]

Dr. Janet Rhodes:
Wynona is very sick.

John Onoman:
What's the matter?

Dr. Janet Rhodes:
I'm not sure. She needs hospitalization, right away.

John Onoman:
We'll see.

Dr. Janet Rhodes:
[incredulous] I don't care if you see or not! I'm ordering her into the hospital.

John Onoman:
I said we'll see.

Dr. Janet Rhodes:
John, she needs medicine! Right now!

John Onoman:
Write it down. I'll get it.

[last lines]

Billy Williams:
Why did John change his mind about taking Wynona to the hospital?

Pete Gawa:
She was really sick.

Billy Williams:
Yeah, but he knew that before.

Pete Gawa:
Maybe. John is the head of the family. He had to do it when he was ready, not when a girl doctor ordered him to.

Billy Williams:
Well he sure picked the darndest time; right before the race.

Pete Gawa:
The race didn't matter as much as his sister.

Billy Williams:
Any reason for not telling me all this?

Pete Gawa:
Nothing personal. John asked me to help him. Two of us were enough.

Billy Williams:
He ran a good race. A long, tough one.

Pete Gawa:
He's still running it, Billy.

Dennis McGubgub:
[piloting Cessna Skywagon] I'm going to have to put down and wait out this storm.

Russ Jordan:
[holding gun on Dennis] You just keep flyin'.

Dennis McGubgub:
Look! Kid! The Lacloche Mountains are down there to the right. I can't go over 'em. This stuff is solid up to 5,000 feet. I'm going to have to set 'er down or slam into one of those peaks.

Russ Jordan:
You think I'm pretty stupid, don't you? I know you guys; you fly in any kind of weather. You'll make it.

Dennis McGubgub:
You've been watching too many movies. Why don't you sit down and fasten your seatbelt, uh?

Russ Jordan:
[looking over beached seaplane] Huh! That's a bad bang on the float.

Billy Williams:
Think it's serious?

Russ Jordan:
[pensive] Have you got a knife?

Billy Williams:
Yeah, a hunting knife. Why?

Russ Jordan:
Alright, look. Go into the woods and scrape up all the pine pitch you can find. We're gonna fix this thing.

Billy Williams:
Hey! How come you know so much?

Roger Lemieux:
So there was no accident?

Pete Gawa:
No.

Roger Lemieux:
Why didn't you check to see if it was true?

Pete Gawa:
My uncle doesn't have a phone.

Roger Lemieux:
You could have telephoned the chief or the police.

Pete Gawa:
I didn't think of it. They said it was bad, and I had to get there right away.

Roger Lemieux:
The oldest trick in the world, and you fell for it.

Roger Lemieux:
I'm afraid the mural is ruined.

Nancy Williams:
Good! I never liked it anyway. But don't tell Tommy that.

Billy Williams:
But it cost us 400 buck, Mom!

Nancy Williams:
*That* we'll tell them.

[last lines]

Hannah Wiliams:
Mom, would you really have sold the lodge?

Nancy Williams:
Well I might have. Just to get rid of the painting.

Billy Williams:
Come on, Williams, keep a hold of yourself! Gotta find Pete!

Nancy Williams:
Bush panic...

Dennis McGubgub:
It's a strange phenomenon, Nancy. Seasoned trappers, men who have lived all their lives in the bush have gotten it. They can be lost, come out of the bush, cross a highway and then plunge right back into the bush on the other side.

Nancy Williams:
But what causes it?

Dennis McGubgub:
Nobody knows. It's just a kind of panic that attacks different people in different ways - jet pilots, racing car drivers, boxers - but one thing they all have in common: they're all professionals.

Nancy Williams:
Oh, but Billy...

Dennis McGubgub:
Well, Billy's a professional. He's an expert in the bush. If he comes - when he comes out, he'll probably never get bush panic again.

[last lines]

Billy Williams:
Thing is, Pete, I can't remember much of anything. Once I found myself going in circles, it's just a blank.

Pete Gawa:
Bush panic. I had it once.

Billy Williams:
You never told me that.

Pete Gawa:
How many people are you going to tell?

Fred Vincent:
[motioning toward Dougall's tugboat] There he comes. The most ornery skipper in the North Channel.

Duvall:
And maybe the best.

Fred Vincent:
Now don't you ever let him hear you say that.

Duvall:
His license up for renewal?

Fred Vincent:
Yeah, but I don't think I'll give it to him.

Duvall:
Why?

Fred Vincent:
Because he's just too hard to get along with, that's why.

Fred Vincent:
Well, Dougall, that should be about your speed - moving boxes from place to place.

Dougall McGregor:
Hear that, Billy? He's started already. Now listen, Vincent, we up here work for a living. It's you government guys that keep shuffling things around.

Fred Vincent:
How's business? You're still robbing the people blind, eh?

Dougall McGregor:
Oh, sure. I'm making so much money, me and this old boat, that soon I'm going to retire in the South Seas, on my own island.

Fred Vincent:
Well, you've learned what direction south is, Dougall? That's good - very good.

Dougall McGregor:
If you're my deck hand today, then shape up! There's lots to do.

Billy Williams:
[feigning sincerity] Aye aye, sir!

Dougall McGregor:
First stop, Little Current. I've gotta pick up some new parts for the engine.

Billy Williams:
Why? Is something wrong?

Dougall McGregor:
[pats the side of the cabin] She's an old girl, y'know. Can't take too much pressure.

Billy Williams:
I guess you and this tug have been through a lot together.

Dougall McGregor:
Heh! That's certain! I expect we'll be through a lot more before we're done.

Billy Williams:
You've got lots of good time left, you and this tug.

Dougall McGregor:
Well; thank ya, lad.

Billy Williams:
I'd say at least another... five years. [laughs]

Dougall McGregor:
Why you young bilge rat! [chases Billy around the deck] I'll... I'll take a belayin' pin to ya!

Pete Gawa:
I know how to get to Ripple Rock.

Mulholland:
Do I know you, boy!

Pete Gawa:
Gawa, Pete Gawa.

Mulholland:
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. The Gawas know this country. Some of my best guides used to be Gawas. Didn't your father work for me?

Pete Gawa:
You cheated him.

Mulholland:
[Chuckles] Yeah... [chuckles] Get outta here!

Pete Gawa:
Come on, Mr. Saunders. We'll find the cabin.

Billy Williams:
I just can't help it, Mom. I don't like that Mr. Philip Stevenson Hurst.

Nancy Williams:
So try a little harder. He's come a long way for his first muskie and you make sure that he gets a big one.

Billy Williams:
Oh, I'll take him to the places. But I'm cheering for the fish.

Nancy Williams:
Young man, you be on your best behaviour! [Philip Hurst on the dock coaching his son] Oh, and keep him away from bees.

Billy Williams:
Bees?

Nancy Williams:
Yeah, he's allergic to tehm. A few bee stings are worse than a rattler bite.

Billy Williams:
Okay, Mom. I'll keep it in mind.

Philip Jr:
[climbing out of the water] Well? How'd I do, Dad?

Philip Hurst:
Twenty seconds slower than your average for the distance. What's your excuse this time?

Philip Hurst:
Kids these days, they don't seem to care. They don't want to put out the effort. And if you want to be the best, you've got to work at it. I guess I shouldn't bother you with this.

Nancy Williams:
Oh that's all right, Mr. Hurst. I'm a good listener.

Philip Hurst:
Then perhaps you can tell me: what's wrong with wanting to be the best?

[first lines]

Billy Williams:
You saw Eli Rocque? Heading for Whitefish Falls?

Pete Gawa:
Looked that way. Maybe we ought to tell your Mom.

Billy Williams:
Aw, I don't know. I gotta figure this thing out.

Pete Gawa:
Why? She has to know.

Billy Williams:
Look, Pete. Eli Rocque disappeared with my father on that plane into the bush. That was almost two years ago. Now you tell me you just saw Eli. You know what that means? If he's still alive, well maybe my father is. Pete, are you sure it was him?

Pete Gawa:
I'm sure, Billy. If it wasn't Eli, it has to be his ghost.

Medicine Woman:
[doing an incantation before an entranced Eli] You come here for Eli?

Pete Gawa:
We wanna talk to him. We thought he was dead.

Medicine Woman:
Eli *is* dead. Go on, talk to him... [cackles]

Dennis McGubgub:
I'm still trying to figure out how Eli got back here.

Billy Williams:
Well could the medicine woman have brought him back, Dennis?

Dennis McGubgub:
Could be. Stranger things than that have happened in this area.

Pete Gawa:
I think Eli Rocque spent the last two years trying to come home.

Billy Williams:
That's weird, Pete. How come?

Pete Gawa:
He came back to die among his own people. He should have died two years ago in the bush.

Hannah Wiliams:
It was so strange being up there in that tower. And that view is so magnificent that you've just got to see it to believe it.

Nancy Williams:
I imagine it is.

Hannah Wiliams:
And then when I went to come down, I just froze.

Nancy Williams:
But that could happen to anyone.

Hannah Wiliams:
Yeah, I guess so. And when I saw the boys doing it, it just looked so easy I thought I could do it too. But the funny thing is, I think that if I was up there again I could come down without any trouble. Does that make any sense to you?

Nancy Williams:
Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. You had your moment of fear and you beat it.

Hannah Wiliams:
With Pete's help.

Billy Williams:
It's a pretty spot.

Roger Lemieux:
That's why I can't understand. No need for the town to die because of the mine shutdown. All this could be developed.

Billy Williams:
They could start a big tourist industry. Why not?

Roger Lemieux:
Yes... Why not?

Roger Lemieux:
Where is he?

Constable:
In jail.

Roger Lemieux:
What charge?

Constable:
Oooh um... trespass... breaking and entering... um... theft... resisting arrest... [points to black eye] assault - how about that?

Roger Lemieux:
Can I talk to him?

Constable:
Oh I guess so. But don't kid yourself - I'm gonna make this stick.

Joe Bourke:
[upon learining of Billy's arrest] Stupid! All of ya! Plain stupid!

Constable:
Hey Joe, take it easy.

Joe Bourke:
All you had to do was play ball with them. They'd have made their movie and gone without any trouble.

Constable:
But Joe, that kid was snoopin' around the mine. I fixed it.

Joe Bourke:
Lemieux's so steamed up he's about to make a noise that's gonna be heard from here to Moosonee. That's what you fixed.

Colonel St-Denis:
Excellent coffee, Mrs. Williams.

Nancy Williams:
[peeved intonation] Thank you, Colonel, most of my guests seem to enjoy it.

Colonel St-Denis:
I'm pleased you can think of me as a guest, under the circumstances.

Nancy Williams:
[still peeved] Once you have cleared up this situation, Colonel, uh - I might consider you a guest - I might even make you a meal.

Colonel St-Denis:
I shall look forward to that.

Colonel St-Denis:
It's the flight recorder from the experimental plane. What we learn from it could be vital to our nation's security. And to the peace of the world.

Nancy Williams:
Colonel! I think I might make you that meal now.

Colonel St-Denis:
[chuckles]

Billy Williams:
We almost lost it again.

Colonel St-Denis:
Well, you found it before it was irretrievably lost or fell into the wrong hands.

Pete Gawa:
It's lucky I found it.

Colonel St-Denis:
Why is that, Pete?

Pete Gawa:
My people have a peace treaty with you.