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Episode 3: The First Companion



********(Conan drifted at sea on his raft for days, food and water supply exhausted)********
********(He's lying on the raft using his toe as fish-bait...)********

Conan

		Rain!  Fresh water!
		An island!  Yippee!  An island, an island!  I did it!

********(Conan lands on the beach of the island)********

		Hey!  Anybody here?
		Well, anyway, I'd better look for water.

********(He comes across an abandoned town)********

		A town!
		Fresh water!

********(Conan is aware of someone watching him)********

		Who--?  Someone there?
		Fruit!

********(Conan sees the person watching him and chases after him)********

		Wait!
		Hmmph!  Scaredy-cat!  Just a little more and I'd have. . .

********(Conan chases the person to the beach where he finds that his raft has been taken apart)********

		What an awful thing to do!  Who in the world would. . .
		All right!

********(Jimsy, wearing the sail from Conan's raft, stops and confronts Conan)********

Jimsy

		Runt!

Conan

		You're the runt!
		That's my boat's sail!  Give it back!

Jimsy

		You drank my water!  Give it back!

Conan

		You wrecked my boat!  Put it back like it was!

Jimsy

		You ate my fruit!  Put it back like it was!
		Beanpole!

Conan

		Scaredy-cat!

Jimsy

		I'll break your arms!

Conan

		I'll break your legs!

Jimsy

		Don't imitate me!

Conan

		Don't imitate me!

Both

		Wanna fight?

Jimsy

		What's with that spear?  You couldn't kill even a baby lizard with that!

Conan

		What's with that bow?  You couldn't kill a shark with that!

********(Everybody is over-exaggerating here...)********

Jimsy

		I once caught a lizard thi-i-is big!

Conan

		Well, the shark I caught was thi-i-i-i-is big!

Jimsy

		Well, I've killed 1,990 thousand and 90, 9,090 thousand and 90, 9,990 thousand rats thi-i-i-i-i-is big!!

Conan

		I've fought a whale bigger than this whole island!

Jimsy

		Liar!

Conan

		Liar!

Both

		Liar!  Liar!  Liar!  Liar!  Liar!  Liar!  Liar!  LIAR!  LI-I-I-A-A-AR!!

********(Acrobatic show and the marathon race begins...)********

Jimsy

		Watch this!
		Watch this!
		How 'bout that?
		D-don't imitate me!

Conan

		D-don't imitate me!

Jimsy

		Stop!

Conan

		You stop!

********(They stopped running and tried to catch a big lizard, but only manages to get the tail)********

Jimsy

		Aw, hell!

Conan

		H-hey, what is this?!  It's s-still moving!

Jimsy

		Aw, heck!  And it looked so tasty, too!

Conan

		Can you eat those?

Jimsy

		You don't know anything, do you?
		That's the best food on this island!  A real taste treat!  But even just this part will do, okay?

Conan

		First time I've seen one that big!

Jimsy

		There aren't many of 'em.
		You're pretty strong.

Conan

		You too.

Jimsy

		Wanna call it a draw?

Conan

		Yeah, let's.

Jimsy

		I'm Jimsy.

Conan

		I'm Conan.

Jimsy

		C'mon!

********(Jimsy leads Conan to a straw hut)********

Conan

		Is this your house?

Jimsy

		Yeah, c'mon in!

Conan

		You live here alone?

********(Jimsy hands Conan a dead frog)********

Jimsy

		Uh-huh.  Here, eat.

Conan

		Is this island High Harbor?

Jimsy

		Nope, it's My Island.

Conan

		My Island?  There're no other people here?

Jimsy

		Sure there are.

Conan

		Where?

Jimsy

		On the other side of the island.

Conan

		And you don't live with them?

Jimsy

		I can't stand 'em!  They're after my frogs and potatoes!  I'm better off alone.

Conan

		Do you know about Lana?

Jimsy

		Lana?  Can you eat it?

Conan

		No!  She's a human -- a girl.

Jimsy

		A girl?
		A girl!
		You're looking for a girl?!
		A girl!

Conan

		Don't laugh!

Jimsy

		I hate girls!  They're cry-babies and sissies and eat all the food!

Conan

		Lana's no cry-baby or sissy and she doesn't eat all the food!  And she can talk with birds, too!

Jimsy

		There's a girl like that?
		Then she can grab and eat as many birds as she wants!

Lana

		Conan!

Conan

		Lana . . .

Jimsy

		The ship!

Conan

		What's up?

Jimsy

		The ship's here.

Conan

		Ship?
		Jimsy!
		What a big ship!  And it's full of people!

Dyce

		How about these?  Aren't they wonderful?
		We'll give as many as are wanted -- to those who work hard, of course.
		How about it?  You want them?  Do you?
		And hey, this time we've brought a full load of cigarettes!
		We've got wine, too!
		Okay, whoever wants this stuff will fill our ship full of plastic!  Understand?
		Well, enough talk; we've begun.  C'mon, let's see some action!
		Dongoroth, is everything ready?

Dongoroth

		Yes, sir, Captain!

Dyce

		Come, come, no dawdling!  We've started!
		Earn your keep!
		Oh, so you've come.

Jimsy

		Y'got cigarettes?

Dyce

		What have you brought today?
		Any rats?
		Kind of small and scrawny.

Jimsy

		He's not scrawny!  I fattened him up with potato bugs!

Dyce

		All right!  Gutch, trade him some cigarettes!

Gutch

		Yessir.
		Let's see. . .

Jimsy

		Is that it?
		Forget it!  That's less than last time!

Gutch

		Wait, wait!  Boy, you're greedy, y' little jerk.
		My last offer!

Jimsy

		Thanks a lot!

Gutch

		Y' little brat!  Come back here!

Jimsy

		Huh?  Conan?  Where'd he go?

Dyce

		That's it, that's it!  Be sure to put it in the wheelbarrows!
		Here, dig up things like this, and quickly!
		No, no!
		Even if we recycle these things, there's no demand for them!
		Don't you understand yet?
		Now, listen:  what we need is plastic -- plas-tic!
		Listen up, everyone!  Good things come only to those who work hard!  Got that?

Dongoroth

		Quit starin' at me 'n' go away!
		Maybe he's retarded.
		Captain.
		Captain!  Look what I've found!

Dyce

		Bring it here!
		Stop!  Stop it!

Conan

		Out of the way!  Out of the way!

Dyce

		Why, you--!

Crew

		Captain!

Dongoroth

		Captain, are you all right?

Dyce

		"Are you all right"!  Idiot!  Catch him!

Dongoroth

		Y-yessir!

Jimsy

		This is great!  A laugh riot!

Dongoroth

		Hey, hey--wait!  Wait!

Conan

		Mister, tell me how to stop it!

Dongoroth

		Hit the switch!  The switch!

Conan

		Switch?  Which one?

Dongoroth

		To the right of there!  Not that one or the third one -- that switch!

Conan

		This one?

Dongoroth

		Wrong switch!

Dyce

		What are you doing, Dongoroth?  Take out the kid!
		You little pest!
		Ow!  Ow!  Ow!

Jimsy

		Conan!  C'mon, quick!

Conan

		Jimsy!

Jimsy

		This way!
		You were great!  Weren't you scared doing that?

Conan

		That was pretty bad.  Maybe if I go and apologize. . .

Jimsy

		Do that 'n' they'll catch and kill ya for sure!
		Never mind them!  They're always stuck-up anyway!
		That'll show 'em!

Conan

		So anyone taken on that ship doesn't come back?

Jimsy

		Uh-huh.  They only take along the ones with any life left in 'em; all the old folks they leave here.

Conan

		Jimsy, do you plan to stay on this island all alone?

Jimsy

		Alone?

Conan

		My grandpa said, "You musn't live alone.  You must look for friends to live with."

Jimsy

		So that's why you came to this island, huh?  Well, looks t'me like we've hit it off, so I guess we're friends!

Conan

		Yeah, I guess we are!

Jimsy

		All right!  Here, take a puff!
		Just suck in as hard as you can!
		We're friends!

Conan

		M-my first. . . friend. . .

Jimsy

		Industria can go to hell!  Hurray for My Island!

Conan

		Hey!  What'd you say just now?

Jimsy

		I say something wrong?

Conan

		You said, "Go to hell. . ."

Jimsy

		Yeah, "Industria can go to hell. . ."

Conan

		That's it!  You know about Industria?

Jimsy

		Yeah, it's the island that ship, the Barracuda, comes from.
		What's wrong?

Conan

		So. . . so that's what it is!
		Hurray!  I found it!  I found it!  I found Industria!
		I did it!  I did it!  I did it!

Jimsy

		You're really gonna go?

Conan

		Uh-huh.  I've got to go to Industria no matter what and get Lana back.

Jimsy

		Lana, huh?
		Okay, I'll go too.  I've always wanted to get at least one peek inside that ship anyway.


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