In Search of the Castaways

people have been turning up with notes

they've found in bottles...

- How many is this, John?

- Twenty-two, father.

If I had my way,

every last one of the culprits

would be hanged

from the yardarm.

Exploiting human misery, it is.

Nothing more vicious,

more treacherous.

But it is from my father.

I can tell.

Monsieur Paganel,

show them the note you found.

[Speaks French]

Well... Oh, I'm sorry.

- Wrong bottle.

- [Laughter]

This is the one.

First question:

Where'd you find the bottle?

You see, I went fishing

with some students.

You cut open a fish

and found the bottle.

Oui, oui, milord,

a 220-pound shark.

Throw this man off the ship

before I turn him over to the police.

- No, your lordship.

- But it is the truth, what I tell you.

Why should a shark

swallow a bottle?

Oh, what was in his mind,

I don't know.

I tell you only

what was in his stomach.

You make a career of this,

do you, exploiting children?

I am Jacques Eliacin

Francois Paganel.

Professor of geography,

University of Paris.

My credentials, milord. Oh!

[Mumbling]

Forged, I imagine,

like the note in the bottle.

- All right, steward.

- Come along.

[Paganel speaking French]

- Oh, no, you can't.

- Just a minute, children.

I have something to say to you.

If we could be alone for a moment.

Take your hands off me,

monsieur.

Never have I been thrown

from any place in my life.

Let's not set a precedent.

[Speaks French]

Children, don't you think

I'd be the first to respond

if I thought there was a chance

of finding your father or his crew?

I'd go to the ends of the earth.

And that's no idle boast.

The Glenarvan motto:

"Persevero."

Been the family creed

for 800 years.

But it's not a hoax.

I saw the note myself,

and I know my father wrote it.

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