Breaker Morant Page #5

Sir, I'm trying to establish the credibility...

-I'm sorry, lack of all credibility...

-Objection!

You are incriminating the witness, Major!

All right.

Just one more question.

Did you discontinue the practice

of placing prisoners in open carriages?

No.

No, I didn't.

Why not, if you objected to it?

Could it have been that the practice,

though irregular,

was effective in controlling Boer attacks?

Yes.

That will be all, Mr. Robertson.

You may stand down, Mr. Robertson.

Good on you, mate.

I will proceed now, sir,

with the extraordinary events

following the death of Captain Hunt

-and the subsequent murder of the Boer...

-Objection.

This has not yet been proved.

Objection allowed.

The subsequent death

of the Boer prisoner, Visser.

Sergeant Major Drummond,

following your patrol's return

to Fort Edward,

Lieutenant Morant ordered the force

to return immediately

to Phil Jurne's farmhouse.

Yes, sir. He didn't even let us have a feed.

George, check the house!

Five men, with me!

Is it Hunt?

What's left of him.

We'll rest the horses,

then we'll go after them.

They got nearly two days' start,

and we don't have the direction.

They'll have gone to the Waterberg.

Where else can they go?

Christ!

We rode another couple of days,

up on to the high veldt.

Hardly ever stopped.

Morant was right

about where they'd gone.

We'll get them now.

-We ought to wait an hour, it'll be dark then.

-We'll get them now!

We got a few of them,

but most of them got away.

Get on back.

Horseback! Hurry it up.

Get that body off the tent.

Come on, you blokes, get some of this

Boer coffee in you while you can.

-We've got to follow.

-Bugger the Boers.

What do you think you're doing?

Come on, get out of there.

Get out of there.

You're in trouble, mate.

Get up.

He's wearing Hunt's uniform.

Get up there.

Your name?

-Ask him his name.

-What is your name?

Teunis Visser.

You were at the farmhouse.

You killed Captain Hunt, the British officer.

-He says no. He didn't kill him.

-What do you mean you didn't kill him?

You're wearing his bloody jacket, blast you!

What do you mean you didn't kill him?

This man killed Captain Hunt!

He will be executed immediately!

I want an eight-man firing squad.

I reckon we ought to

take him back to Fort Edward.

I want to be on the firing party, Lieutenant.

He killed Captain Hunt.

If he did not, he would not have his uniform.

Please, Lieutenant.

Most of the blokes aren't too keen on this.

Why don't you have a yarn with him?

He might take some notice of you.

You killed him!

You're wearing his bloody jacket, man!

-Harry.

-He will be executed, George.

Captain Hunt had bullet wounds

only in the shoulder and the leg.

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