Richard sits at the lookout.

From a vantage point, Richard looks down on the lagoon, the beach, the forest, and the clearing.

With the binoculars he can see the details of life in each of these areas.

Through the binoculars, various characters are at work or at rest including Francoise, Etienne, Sal, Bugs, Keaty, etc.

Looking through the trees, the four dope farmers (with their guns) are visible about thirty meters away, relaxing and playing cards.

Richard appears in a tree, hiding from their view, if they cared to look.

He steals forward to another tree. He watches them.

The farmers are oblivious.

Richard advances as far as he dare: a few meters from them.

He peers at them around the edge of the tree.

He notices that the one nearest has left a knife on the ground.

Richard lifts a stone and throws it high in the air beyond the farmers.

As it falls through the trees to the forest floor the farmers are startled. They stand and turn away towards the noise reaching for their guns, cocking them, etc.

The knife is taken by Richard.

The farmers see a bird fly from a tree. Satisfied, they give up and return to their resting place.

Richard steals away from tree to tree.

The farmer cannot understand where his knife has gone.

Richard sits in a hollow under a rough shelter he as made from palm leaves.

He is using the knife to gut a bird of some sort which he then eats raw.

Richard watches the empty beach.

Richard struggles through dense undergrowth, followed by Francoise.

Beneath a tree, a few rotting logs are topped off with palm leaves.

Francoise laughs.

Richard collects a handful from under the shelter.

Francoise does not think this is funny.

He swallows one.

Francoise turns away. She struggles back through the undergrowth.

Richard watches her. He swallows a handful of mushrooms.

Close up: a caterpillar crawls along a green leaf.

Richard, his pupils dilated, is watching, transfixed.

He holds the knife at the end of the leaf.

The caterpillar crawls on to the blade.

Richard sticks his tongue out and swivels the blade around.

The caterpillar crawls on to his tongue.

Richard gently closes his mouth.

He swallows.

Richard, his face disrupted by mud, sneaks towards the rough shelter of wooden planks and palm leaves under which the four farmers are sleeping.

The shelter is several meters long but shallow and is open down the length of one side.

This is the farmers' home on the island.

It contains a collection of tools, arms, crates, bedding, food, cigarettes, and bottles of cheap whiskey.

Spaced out within the shelter, the four farmers are asleep on low pallets or mats on the ground, each with their gun by their side.

Richard enters the shelter and surveys the scene.

He approaches the nearest farmer who lies asleep. He is wearing a bandana which has slipped half off in his sleep.

Very slowly, Richard reaches down and lifts the farmer's gun, a Kalashnikov-type assult rifle.

Richard holds the weapon, becoming comfortable with it.

He lifts the butt to his shoulder and squints down the sight.

He closes in on the farmer, so close that the muzzle is almost tickling the farmer's nose.

In his sleep, the farmer swats at his nose as he might swat at a fly. Richard withdraws the gun a fraction.

His finger strokes the trigger.

He moves very carefully around the shelter, pointing the gun at each sleeping farmer and mouthing "bang" as he goes.

He returns to the first farmer and kneels beside him.

The farmer is on his side, facing away from Richard. He stirs in his sleep and wakes slightly.

He reaches out behind him to feel for his gun. His hand feels the metal. He relaxes and closes his eyes again.

Behind him, Richard smiles and releases his own grip on the gun.

Instead he lifts the bandana away from the farmer's head and puts it on his own.

Now he produces the knife from the back of his shorts.

He kneels beside the farmer and holds the knife firmly.

Abruptly he stabs it into the upright wooden plank behind the farmer's head.

The blade sinks deep into the wood.

Richard screams as he executes an exhibition dive from the top of the waterfall to the pool below.

There is no one on the beach apart from Richard.

He walks to the water and dives in.

He surfaces and faces the sun.

Christo, Sten, and Karl appear walking down the beach with their fishing gear as Richard walks in from the water.

Richard's face is slapped twice by Francoise's hand.

They are standing in a small clearing not far from the longhouse.

Francoise raises her hand to slap him again. He retreats a fraction.

She raises her hand and slaps him again.

Richard does not flinch.

Richard enters the longhouse.

Inside are several people, including Bugs, sitting at the far end.

When they see that it is Richard, all conversation stops.

One by one at first, then en masse, everyone except Bugs leaves the longhouse, hurrying past Richard at the door.

Richard and Bugs stare at each other down the length of the longhouse.

Richard smiles. He repeats the gesture that he made when returning with the rice: he clutches his groin and thrusts towards Bugs.

Bugs starts running towards Richard.

Just as Bugs reaches him he takes evasive action, feinting to one side.

Bugs, cursing, pursues Richard around the longhouse, each of them trampling over possessions and partitions. Bugs is bigger but Richard is too sly and nimble for him, taunting and mocking as he dodges around the narrow upright supports that run down the middle of the building.

Eventually Bugs has Richard cornered.

They face each other, crouched slightly, breathing heavily.

From outside a loud, horrified screaming begins.

It carries on and on.

Bugs pauses for a moment. He glances towards the door for a fraction of a second.

Richard slugs him in the jaw.

Richard emerges from the longhouse, flexing the fingers of his punching hand.

A crowd has gathered as he joins it.

At the center are Karl, on his knees, wailing and shouting in Swedish, and Sten, who has been savaged by a shark and looks dead. Despite his appearance, Keaty and Gregorio are attempting to resuscitate him.

Richard backs away.

Richard walks along the shore and begins to follow a bloodstained furrow in the sand.

Richard is standing over Christo who is lying in agony on the sand.

Richard looks at Christo's right leg: it has been bitten off beneath the knee, leaving only a ragged bloody stump.

Christo clings to him.

A freshly dug grave in sandy soil about 1.5 meters deep.

The corpse (Sten) in a sleeping bag is slung into the grave, its feet protruding from the end.

Immediately, the earth starts to be filled in from either side.

Keaty is addressing the entire community beside the grave while earth is heaped on.

Keaty holds back a tear as he throws a flower in the grave.

Others throw flowers in.

Bugs hammers a wooden cross into the ground behind the grave.

Christo is being nursed by Etienne who is mopping his brow, trying to get him to drink etc.

Several people are sitting around, inactive and silent.

Christo moans. A couple of people get up and leave.

Etienne is backing through the forest. Outraged.

A party of stretcher bearers, including Bugs, Sal, and Keaty, carry Christo through the forest. Sal is carrying a small rolled up tent. Richard walks behind.

They lower Christo to the ground.

Sal drops the tent at Etienne's feet.

The part walks away apart from Richard

Christo, delirious, is being nursed by Etienne in the small tent, now situated in the middle of the forest.

Richard is with him.

Etienne draws back the sheet covering Christo's discolored stump.

Etienne produces a knife from his possessions.

Etienne prepares to proceed, but at the last moment he cannot.

He drops the knife

Richard relaxes.