- Piggy: I've got the conch!
- [the boys jeer and taunt him from above the cliff]
- Piggy: [shouts] What is it better to be, a pack of painted savages like you are, or sensible like Ralph is? Which is better, to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?
- [Roger goes angry and pushes a huge boulder, which heads right to Piggy]
- Piggy: AAH!
- Ralph: Piggy!
- [the boys go silently still and look sympathetic at Piggy's corpse washing away in the sea, except Roger who grins at what he's done]
- Ralph: [after the night of Simon's murder] Piggy, are you the only one left?
- Piggy: There are some littluns
- Ralph: They don't count. No biguns?
- Piggy: Oh, Samneric, they're collecting wood
- Ralph: Nobody else?
- Piggy: Not that I know of
- Ralph: [Sits down next to Piggy] Piggy? Piggy?
- Piggy: [Zoned out] Huh?
- Ralph: That was murder.
- Piggy: You stop it! What good are you doing talking like that? It was dark. There was that bloody dance. There was thunder and lightning and rain. We were scared. It wasn't... what you said.
- Ralph: [sobs] Oh, Piggy!
- Piggy: [comforts Ralph] It was an accident. He was batty. He asked for it. It was an accident.
- Ralph: Oh, God, I want to go home!
- Ralph: Piggy will look after them.
- Jack: [interrupts, sarcastically] That's right, keep Piggy out of danger.
- Ralph: Haven't you got any sense? How can Piggy help with only one eye?
- Ralph: Jack, is there anywhere on this island where we haven't been?
- Jack: There's only- of course! The tail-end part, where the rocks pile up!
- [Cut to Piggy hearing another boy crying]
- Jack: I agree with Ralph! We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English! And the English are best at everything!
- Piggy: [as the boys are talking about the beast] I don't believe in no ghosts, ever.
- Jack: Who cares what YOU believe, Fatty!
- [the boys laugh]
- Simon: [looking disturbed] Maybe if there is a beast...
- [the boys laugh again]
- Ralph: Hear him! He's got the conch.
- Simon: What I mean is... maybe, it's only us.
- Piggy: Nuts!
- Ralph: Samneric! Hey, Samneric! It's me, Ralph!
- [Sam and Eric, now painted warriors, approach him]
- Ralph: When they find me, what are they going to do?
- Sam: Roger sharpened a stick at both ends. They're going to hurt you tomorrow.
- Eric: We've got to give signals, like this:
- [ululates]
- Sam: Only louder, of course. You've got to go now, Ralph!
- Ralph: Won't you come with me? 3 of us would have a better chance
- [Sam and Eric hear someone else ululate]
- Sam: Go, Ralph!
- Ralph: I'll be in that thicket there, they won't think to look so close!
- Sam: Who is it? Who's there?
- Eric: Attention!
- Sam: Eric, it's Roger
- Sam: [Gives Ralph meat] Here, take this
- Roger: [Offscreen] Attention!
- [Ralph leaves the way he came, and eats the meat under a tree]
- Roger: [Offscreen] Scouts' report?
- [ululates again]
- [Piggy is supervising the littluns]
- Piggy: Now, this story is about the place where I live called "Camberley". Now, Camberley is quite an old place, but it hasn't been called "Camberley" all the time. It used to be called "Cambridge Town", and they used to get mixed up with the letters between "Cambridge" or "Cambridge Town". So, letters that were to a person in Cambridge Town used to go to a person in Cambridge. So, they got a bit mixed up so they thought they'd change the name of the post office, because it was the post office that had all the trouble of sorting the letters. And they thought they'd leave the "Cam" from "Cambridge Town", and "Bur" is a river, and there are a lot of rivers round there: "Cam-ber...". And then "Ley" because a lot of towns near there ended with "Ley", their names end with... ended with "Ley". So, they called it "Cam-ber-ley", "Camberley", and that's the true story of Camberley.
- Piggy: You and your blood, Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might've gone home!
- Jack: We needed meat.
- Piggy: You didn't ought to have let the fire go out!
- [Jack slaps Piggy across the face making Piggy's glasses fall off]
- Piggy: My specs!
- Simon: [picks them up] Here. Here they are
- [Piggy puts them on but realizes one of the lenses have cracked and missing pieces]
- Piggy: [vengefully] JUST YOU WAIT!
- Ralph: [to Jack] That was a dirty trick
- Jack: Alright, alright, I'm sorry. About the fire, I mean. There, I apologized
- Ralph: [Annoyed] Light the fire then!
- Piggy: I didn't vote for no ghosts, remember that all of you
- Jack: You shut up, you fat slug!
- Piggy: [as Jack tries to wrestle the conch out of his hands] I've got the conch!
- Ralph: Oh, Jack, let him speak! He's got the conch
- Jack: [to Ralph] And YOU shut up! Who are you, anyway, just sitting there telling people what to do? You can't hunt! You can't sing!
- Ralph: I'm chief, I was chosen!
- Jack: Why should choosing make any difference? Telling people what to do...
- Ralph: Piggy's got the conch!
- Jack: That's right, favour Piggy as you always do!
- Ralph: Jack!
- Jack: [Mocking Ralph] Jack! Jack!
- Ralph: The rules, you're breaking the rules!
- Jack: Who cares?
- Ralph: Because the rules are the only thing we've got!
- Jack: Bollocks to the rules! We're strong, we hunt. If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down, and beat, and beat!
- [All the boys except Ralph, Piggy, and Simon scream and run further down the beach]
- Jack: First, you know now we've seen the beast. We crawled up, we were only a few feet away. The beast stopped and looked at us
- Ralph: I don't think we could fight a thing that size, honestly you know. We're tall, but we couldn't fight a tiger. We'd hide, even Jack would hide
- Jack: What about my hunters?
- Ralph: [Unconvinced] Boys armed with sticks?
- Jack: Alright then!
- [to all the other boys]
- Jack: He's not a hunter! He'd never have got us meat! He just gives orders and expects people to obey for nothing. He's like Piggy! He says things like Piggy! He's not a proper chief, he's a coward! On top when Roger and me went on; he stayed back!
- Ralph: I went too!
- Jack: After
- Ralph: I went on too, then I ran away, so did you!
- Jack: Call me a coward then, oh let's talk
- Ralph: Oh, let's talk, talk, talk!
- Jack: Right!
- [to all the other boys]
- Jack: I'm not gonna be part of Ralph's lot! I'm going off by myself to the rocks to hunt and have feasts and have fun. Anyone who wants can come too!
- [Walks away by himself]
- Ralph: Jack!
- Piggy: [to all the choir boys] And what are all of your names?
- [the choir boys one by one answer with their respective name: Henry, Maurice, Robert, Rupert, Harold, Bill, Roger, Simon]
- Jack: I'm Jack
- Piggy: Yeah that boy there, he...
- Jack: You're talking too much! Shut up, fatty!
- Ralph: His name's not "Fatty", his real name's "Piggy"
- Jack: Piggy!
- [All the boys laugh at Piggy]
- Boys: [repeated line, chants] Kill the pig! Slit her throat! Bash her in!
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