In a Savage Land

[first lines]

Evelyn Spence:
I once met a man, not my husband, another man. He looked back on a life. What would you carry into the darkness? For me, I'll take the smell of a pearl shell, freshly opened, one day on a beach.

Douglas Stevens:
Here you're a god, anywhere else and you're just a mug.

Mick Carpenter:
What's a coastwatcher?

Douglas Stevens:
Someone who watches the coast.

Dr. Phillip Spence:
So you're the product of a mind.

Evelyn Spence:
I'm the product of a sexual impulse.

Douglas Stevens:
Three things wrong with her, she's white, she's married, and she's intelligent.

[last lines]

Evelyn Spence:
The thing I'll remember on the day I die is the smell of a pearl shell, freshly opened. Yes, that's what I'll take with me.