Watership Down (1978)

Richard Briers: Fiver

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• Blackberry : Men have always hated us.

  Holly : No. They just destroyed the warren because we were in their way.

  Fiver : They'll never rest until they've spoiled the earth.

• Fiver : Look. Look. That's the place for us. High, lonely hills, where the wind and the sound carry, and the ground's as dry as straw in a barn. That's where we ought to be. That's where we have to get to.

• Bigwig : Hazel? It is Hazel, isn't it?

  Hazel : It is.

  Bigwig : What are you doing here?

  Hazel : [Motioning to Fiver]  We want to see the chief rabbit, Bigwig.

  Bigwig : We? You mean he wants to see him too?

  Hazel : Yes.

  Fiver : I must.

  Bigwig : What on earth for?

  Fiver : Well, I...

  Holly : Bigwig? What do they want?

  Bigwig : They want to see the chief rabbit.

  Holly : What for?

  Fiver : Well, I...

  Holly : Send them away.

  Bigwig : I'll take care of it, Holly.

  [Turns back to Hazel] 

  Hazel : Look, Bigwig, when have I EVER asked to see the chief rabbit?

  Bigwig : [Thinks over, hesitating]  All right, all right. Wait here.

  [Goes into warren, speaks to Chief Rabbit for a moment, comes back up] 

  Bigwig : Come along then. Though I'll probably get my ears chewed off for this...

• Fiver : [long pause after Violet has been carried off by an attacking hawk, then]  Violet's gone.

• Hazel : Where are you going?

  Fiver : Away, to the hills.

  Hazel : By yourself, alone? You'll die!

  Fiver : You're closer to death than I am.

• Fiver : [talking about Cowslip's warren]  You pay for it! The food, the warren... but no one must ever ask where anyone was or speak of the wires! The whole place is snared! Everywhere, every day!

• Fiver : Hazel, look... the field... it's covered with blood!

• Blackberry : [returning after the disasterous raid on Nuthanger Farm]  Fiver, there's been some trouble. Hazel's been shot.

  Fiver : No.

  Blackberry : The Black Rabbit serves Lord Frith, but he does no more than his appointed task.

  Fiver : Hazel's not dead.

• Fiver : There's something very queer about the warren this evening...

  Hazel : Is it dangerous?

  Fiver : It's not exactly danger, it's... oh, I don't know. Something oppressive... like thunder.

• Fiver : [in the grip of a vision]  So cold... so very cold...