Papi, don't you remember me?
- Clusiot. - Yeah.
What happened to your eyes?
I put some ground-up castor beans in 'em...
so I'd look sick enough to get in here.
Why?
I'm going with you.
What?
Yeah. Listen...
Dega's got you on the x-ray list for tomorrow.
The x-ray doctor, he's a convict...
Some kind of Hindu or something.
He's got somebody on the outside...
who can sell you a boat if the price is right.
When do we run, Papi?
Soon. I'll talk to that doctor tomorrow.
The last boat I obtained was for a sex murderer.
They shot him to pieces...
six miles down the river poor man.
But the boat stood up very well.
You have the heart of an ox.
- What kind of a boat? - Fourteen feet...
complete with compass sails, tools, clothes.
The generation begins. Science takes over!
You know, x-rays are quite worthless.
They always have been.
Lie down, please on the back.
How much would it cost?
Fr 3, 000 in advance, which you pay to me...
and I pay to Pascal who provides everything.
Draw a deep breath, please and hold completely still.
Another Fr 3,000 you must pay to Pascal...
when he delivers the boat.
Exhale, please and turn over.
If I decide to make a deal how do we handle it?
Have no fear. Ways will be found.
Trust me for everything.
The last time I did that...
cost me two years in solitary.
So, you have been cheated, eh?
Happily for you money doesn't tempt me.
I'm after bigger game. Draw a deep breath.
You see...
I killed my whole family.
All of them. My wife and four little ones.
Exhale, if you haven't already.
You double-cross me I'll kill ya.
Of course...
I would consider that a favor.
A very great favor.
One of these nights I might ask you...
to take that Turnkey into the toilet.
Show him a good time. When you come out...
you'll get Fr 1, 000.
Why?
That's my business. Yours is...
to make him happy for ten minutes.
Fr 1, 000.
- He's filthy. - Fr 2, 000...
does it make him any cleaner?
You think I'm a whore don't you?
- Easy. - Well, you're wrong.
Next.
I'll do what you ask on one condition:
You keep your money and take me with you.
I'm the only one who can get you out of here.
- You're... - I know.
I'm a queer, a fairy a pouf, huh?
But there's one thing you forgot.
You may have been framed as you say you were...
but I wasn't.
Between the two of us...
I'm the one who's killed a man, not you.
It's tonight during the concert.
I'll be there. I have to. I'm serving refreshments.
I think you ought to go with us, Louis.
- You ought to. - Thank you.
But my wife is arranging for my release.
The letter from her is overdue.
Listen to me.
If your wife was here and were in Paris...
with all that money...
how much would you pay to get her back?
Everything I have.
And how much would she pay to get you back?
That's why you should run.
Now, Louis, while you've got a chance.
But I have a chance without running.
Me, they can kill...
you, they own.
Goodbye.
Good luck.
Clusiot!
Halt!
Dega, you bastard!
- Guard! - Shut up!
Guard!
Pull! Pull!
Let's go!
Where's Clusiot? A guard got him.
Let's go.
Here! Here!
- Where's the other one? - Right here.
Just a little twist.
Come on, come on.
There's your boat over there.
Fr 3, 000.
You'd better check it out see if everything's okay.
Come on. I'm in a hurry.
Let's go! Let's go!
I wouldn't use those guns if you don't want...
the man hunters down on you.
I put two gallons of rum aboard.
Send me a postcard when you get to Honduras.
Let's have a drink of that rum.
Why, this...
goddamn boat's no good.
Look at it! I'll kill that bastard!
The son of a bitch is made of kindling.
So is my leg.
I didn't twist my ankle I fractured it.
You broke your leg?
Why didn't you say something?
I had the unworthy suspicion you might leave me behind.
You're goddamn right I'd have.
It's broken, all right. We've go to set this.
- I need your help. - I presume it'll be painful.
- You bet it will. - I ask you to remember...
that's my money that's sinking...
and that I'm here out of an act of unnatural heroism...
which prevented a guard from shooting you.
He probably would have missed me anyway.
- Now relax. - What?
- Relax. - You're at the wrong end.
It'll only last a couple minutes.
- Jesus! - Hold him above the knee.
Ready?
- That finishes it. - How'd you do that?
We've all got our sensitive spots.
What happened?
He found a sensitive spot you didn't know you had.
Move and you're dead.
Turn around.
Throw that gun out in front of you.
You know I get Fr 200 for one of these.
I wouldn't want to lose it.
Turn around.
You and two others broke out of Saint Laurent...
- last night didn't you? - That's right.
- The others are at the boat? - That's right.
- The boat's no good. - Not worth a damn.
Been expecting you.
Come on.
Don't shoot. It's okay.
Caught these two man hunters asleep just before sun up.
They've been hanging around for two days waiting on ya.
Each time he sells that boat...
it's in worse shape than the last time.
You like this?
Oh, very much.
I did too, at the time but I was drunk.
Here, take this.
Cut yourself some bamboo from around here...
and lash it together with sailcloth.
I'll be back around sunset.
I'll tow you up river to Pigeon Island.
You can get a boat there if you've got enough money.
If you haven't got enough money...
they'll probably kill ya.
It doesn't matter much to them. They're all lepers.
Noisy son of a bitch.
Do dogs carry leprosy?
Well...
- the hell with it. - You better take this.
I don't want to fight these people.
I just want to try to talk them out of a boat.
Who are you?
Escaped prisoner, Papillon.
Where are the other two?
They're down on the beach.
One's got a broken ankle.
Come in.
- You have two rifles. - That's right.
And you want a boat.
- That's right. - But you're short of money.
That's right, too.
Why don't you have the courtesy...
to look at me when you speak?
We do a lot of smuggling here.
We raid the mainland we steal boats.
When an outsider comes in...
we generally kill him as a security measure.
That makes sense.
Well...
a man of Christian understanding.
Do you like cigars?
When I can get' em.
Try this one.
How did you know I have dry leprosy...
that it isn't contagious?
I didn't.
In normal weather you should sight Honduras...
in three and a half maybe four weeks.
When you get there you'll need some money.
We passed the hat.
Take it, it's disinfected.
If you'll catch leprosy...
it's better to catch it from money than from people.
Take it.
All we use it for is gambling...
bringing in women lepers from Albina.
We've always got enough for that.
Hurry up. Get on board you'll miss the tide.
Goodbye.
Honduras.
My leg! Get it off my leg!
It's on my leg! Goddamn it!
All right, come on. Come on, on more.
I'm already so drunk I cant' think.
That's what I want.
I want you to put this between your teeth.
It's going to hurt you, Louis.
- If you want to yell, yell. - I certainly will.
- I fooled you. - What?
I fooled you, didn't I?
One moment, please. What do you want, Sergeant?
Identification. Who are you?
We're fishermen. Our friend here...
Goddamn it, we...
we made it!
Amigo.
Por favor.
Those bastards trussed me up like a pig.
Trackers!
Show your papers, please.
Por favor.
Senor...
dinero, por favor.
What was your crime?
Murder.
I wasn't guilty...
I've never killed anybody in my life.
If you did regain your freedom...
what would you do with it?
I haven't had much time to think about that.
If you are a thief or a murderer by morning...
you might have stolen everything we have.
Those are mine. They were a gift.
You keep 'em, until I leave.
Are you awake?
Yes, ma'am.
If you are sinful, you have made amends...
by feeding half the poor in Santa Marta.
If you are truly not sinful you have nothing to fear.
God will watch over you.
Your five years in solitary confinement are at an end.
You've paid part of your debt to France.
Papi.
I'm free.
That's the only way off Devil's Island.
We try take things easy here.
The sharks and the tide do the real guard work...
so it's live and let live...
unless you make trouble.
That one's empty. You might as well take it.
But watch yourself around the other huts.
Someone might take you for a poacher and kill you.
How dare you sit there!
This bench belongs to Captain Dreyfus!
Who are you to sit on that bench?
Nobody.
That's right. Nobody.
Do you know who I am?
Dega?
Dega!
Dega.
Dega!
Louis.
I wish you hadn't come here.
Are you fond of crayfish?
Good.
You really think so?
Best I've had in years.
Did you hear about my wife?
She married my attorney or he else married her...
although actually it doesn't really matter.
I mean, it works out to the same thing don't you think?
Well, I have not heard from her in about...
It is nice here, isn't it?
You've made it nice, Louis.
Really nice.
It's funny...
you and me ending up here.
We're the only ones left.
- Do you ever wonder about it? - No.
I do.
Get away!
Get away! Get away!
That's enough!
They come in, steal from my garden.
Who does?
- Maybe I'd better go. - Yes.
I know your house. There's no ghost in it.
My thoughts are with you.
Jesus!
Louis!
Come look. Remember those seeds...
that Sergeant Santini gave me last month?
They've come up. We'll have carrots.
It said six weeks on the packet but it's only taken four.
If I could find a way to get off this island...
would you like to come with me?
Oh, yes, of course. Get away!
Freddie, you know better than that.
I've got no money. They took it all.
Forget about that.
- You can't buy your way out. - Then how?
I don't know yet.
Then, then we don't have to discuss it...
tell me, do you like tomatoes?
I have some extra seeds.
You might like to start your own garden.
You see, it's a horseshoe.
When the waves break they have no place else to go...
except go back out again.
Well, you can't launch a boat from here.
In fact, there's no place on the entire island...
where you can launch a boat.
Bags of coconuts tied together...
just throw 'em over...
float out on a wave.
Then what happens?
The mainland's only 24 miles.
You just drift with the current.
Only two days.
- You're certain? - Yeah.
It seems so, so desperate.
Yeah.
You think it will work?
Does it matter?
Get! Now, that's not yours. Now, you get away.
I'm not going to tell you again. Here you are, Freddie.
Freddie's not feeling well today and...
you should appreciate that fact.
Here we are.
Okay little one. All right.
Freddie!
Freddie, that's not for you, that's Adam's.
Come here, Adam.
- Let's take a walk. - Certainly.
Isn't that a little small?
- It's just to try it with. - Certainly.
You know, I've been thinking of building a porch.
There's not a home on the entire island with a porch.
Not even Sergeant Santini has a porch.
- What do you think, huh? - Come on.
It was the wrong wave.
Oh, yeah.
They come in a series of seven.
And the seventh wave is big enough...
to take us both out beyond the point of return.
Are you certain?
Yeah.
Excellent.
Oh, if we're going I'd better pick those carrots.
Fourth wave.
Ready?
I must tell you something.
Louis, you don't have to say anything.
I meant to.
I'm sorry.
I know.
You'll be killed.
You know that?
Maybe.
Please, don't do it.
Hey, you bastards I'm still here!
Papillon made it to freedom.
And for the remaining years of his life...
he lived as a free man.
This, the infamous penal system in French Guiana...
did not survive him.