Verbally Abuse Me
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Camden Town, London. 1969
The Flat.
[A few shafts of sunlight sneak through the curtains and illuminate a
sitting room. There are empty bottles everywhere. 'I', who is smoking a
joint, gets up somewhat precariously and walks into a kitchen which is full
of bottles and dirty washing up. He lights the gas on the stove and puts on
the kettle.]['I' knocks on the door to Withnail's bedroom]
I:
I'm having a cup of tea, do you want one?[He waits for a response.]
I:
Do you want a cup of tea Withnail!?
Withnail:
No.['I' leaves the flat, slamming the front door behind him]
--------------------------------...
The Cafe
['I' is reading a paper at a table in the cafe. The proprietor is cooking
eggs in a frying pan full of grease. She takes one out, inserts it between
two slices of bread and places it in front of an elderly woman who inspects
it doubtfully and bites into the sandwhich. Yolk runs out of the other
edge. 'I' turns his attention to his paper. The story is about a
transexual, the headline 'Love made up my mind, I had to become a woman'.
He looks around at the other customers.]I [mentally]:
Thirteen million Londoners have to cope with this, and bake beans and
allbran and rape, and I'm sitting in this bloody shack and I can't
cope with Withnail. I must be out of my mind. I must go home at once
and discuss his problems in depth.--------------------------------...
The Flat
[I stumbles up the barely lit stairs looking unwell. Withnail emerges from
his room holding a bottle and glass and follows him.]Withnail:
I have some extremely distressing news.
I:
I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear anything. Oh God, it's a
nightmare out there I tell you.
Withnail [pouring some wine]:
We've just run out of wine what are we going to do about it?
I:
I don't know. I don't know. I don't feel good. Look! My thumbs have
gone weird. I'm in the middle of a fucking overdose. My hearts beating
like a fucked clock. I feel dreadful, I feel fucking dreadful.
Withnail:
So do I. So does everyone. Look at my tongue. A grey yellow sock. Sit
down for Christ's sake, what's the matter with you? Eat some sugar.[I goes into the kitchen which is by now full of steam and turns off the
kettle. Withnail follows him around reading from a newspaper.]Withnail:
Listen to this. "Curse of the superman. I took drugs to win medals
said top athlete Geoff Woade."
I:
Where's the coffee?
Withnail [reading from the paper]:
"In a world exclusive interview 33 year old shot putter Geoff Woade
who weight 317 pounds, admitted taking massive doses of anabolic
steroids, drugs banned in sport. It used to get him bad tempered and
act down said his wife. He used to pick on me. But now he's stopped
his much better in our sex life and in our general life."[I pours water from the kettle into a bowl and goes back into the living
room. Withnail follows him.]Withnail:
My God, this huge, thatched head with its earlobes and cannonball is
now considered sane. "Geoff Woade is feeling better and is now
prepared to step back into society and start tossing his orb about."
Look at him. Look at Geoff Woade. His head must weight fifty pounds on
its own.[Withnail stands infront of a mirror and brushes his long, greasy hair with
a comb. I sits on the settee and starts drinking the coffee from the bowl
using a spoon.]Withnail:
Imagine the size of his balls. Imagine getting into a fight with the
fucker!
I:
Please! I don't feel good.
Withnail:
That's what you'd say but that wouldn't wash with Geoff. No! He'd like
a bit of pleading. Add spice to it. In fact, he'd probably tell you
what he was going to do before he did it. "I'm going to pull you head
off". "Oh no, please, don't pull my head off". "I'm going to pull your
head off because I don't like your head!"[he notives I drinking from the bowl.]
Withnail:
Have you got soup? Why didn't I get any soup?
I:
Coffee
Withnail:
Why don't you use a cup like any other human being?
I:
Why don't you wash up occasionally like any other human being?
Withnail:
How dare you!? How dare you!? How dare you call me inhumane!?
I:
I didn't call you inhumane, you merely imagined it. Calm down.
Withnail:
Right you fucker - I'm going to do the washing up![He strides towards the kitchen. I jumps over the arm of the settee and
stops him.]I:
No no you can't. It's impossible I swear it. I've looked into in.
Listen to me listen to me. There are things in there, there's a
tea-bag growing. You haven't slept in sixty hours you're in no state
to tackle it. Wait till the morning we'll go in together.
Withnail:
This is the morning. Stand aside!
I:
You don't understand. I think there may be something alive.
Withnail:
What do you mean? a rat?
I:
It's possible, it's possible.
Withnail [brandishing his comb]:
Then the fucker will rue the day![He rushes up the the sink.]
Withnail:
Oh Christ Almighty. Synous nicotine based. Keep back, keep back. The
entire sink's gone rotten. I don't know what's in here.[He picks up the kettle from the stove then throws it suddenly into the
sink.]I:
I told you. you've been bitten!
Withnail:
Burnt, burnt, the fucking kettle's on fire.
I:
There's something floating up.
Withnail [with a fork in his hand]:
Fork it!
I:
No no no, I don't want to touch it.
Withnail:
You must you must. The poop will boil through the glaze. We'll never
be able to use the dinner service again.[He rumages about in a drawer.]
Withnail:
Here, get it with the pliers!
I:
No, no, no, no, no, no. Give me the gloves.
Withnail:
That's right, put on the gloves. Don't attempt anything without the
gloves.[I starts to move things about in the sink rather gingerly.]
Withnail:
What is it? What have you found?
I:
Matter.
Withnail:
Matter? Where's it coming from?
I:
Don't look. Don't look. I'm dealing with it!
Withnail:
I think we've been in here too long. I feel unusual. I think we should
go outside.--------------------------------...
The Park
[Withnail and I walk along a path in the park.]
Withnail:
This is ridiculous, look at me. I'm thirty in a month and I've got a
sole flapping off my shoe.
I:
It'll get better, it has to.
Withnail:
Easy for you to say lovey. You've had an audition. Why can't I have an
audition. It's ridiculous: I've been to drama school. I'm good
looking. I tell you, I've a fuck sight more talent that half the
rubbish that gets of TV. Why can't I get on TV?
I:
Well I don't know. It'll happen.
Withnail:
Will it? That's what you say. The only programme I'm likely to get on
is the fucking news. I tell you, I can't take much more of this. I'm
going to crack.
I:
I'm in the same boat.
Withnail:
Yeah, yeah. I feel as sick as a pike. I'm going to have to sit down.[ They sit at a bench in the park.]
I:
You know what we should do? I say, you know what we should do?
Withnail:
How should I possibly know what we should do? What should we do?
I:
Get out of it for a while. Get into the countryside. Rejuvenate.
Withnail:
Rejuvenate! I'm in a park and I'm practically dead. What good's the
countryside? What time is it?
I:
It's eight.
Withnail:
Fours hours to opening time. God help us. Have we got any embrocation?
I:
What for?
Withnail:
To rub on ourselves you fool. We'll cover ourselves in deep heat and
get up against a radiator. Keep ourselves alive until twelve.[He spits.]
Withnail:
Jesus, look at that. Apart from a raw potato that's the only solid to
have passed my lips in the last sixty hours. I must be ill.--------------------------------...
The Flat
[I is writting in a notebook on the settee while Withnail wonders round
wearing his overcoat and his underpants, smearing himself with deep heat.]I [mentally]:
Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day. And for once
I'm inclined to believe Withnail is right; we are indeed drifting into the
arena of the unwell. Making an enemy of our own future. What we need is
harmony. Fresh air. Stuff like that.
Withnail:
Wasn't much in the tube. there's nothing left for you.
I:
Why don't you ask your father for some money. If we had some money we
could go away.
Withnail [inspecting a bottle for dregs]:
Why don't you ask your father. How can it be so cold in here. It's
like Greenland in here. We've got to get some booze. It's the only solution
to this intense cold. Something's got to be done. We can't go on like this.
I'm a trained actor reduced to the status of a bum. I mean look at us!
Nothing that reasonable members of society demand as their rights! No
fridges, no televisions, no phones. Much more of this and I'm going to
apply for meals on wheels.
I:
What happened to your cigar commercial?
Withnail:
That's what I want to know. what happened to my cigar commercial. What
happened to my agent? Bastard must have died.
I:
September. Bad patch.
Withnail:
Rubbish. Haven't seen Gylgod down the labour exchange. Why doesn't he
retire.[He picks up a paper.]
Withnail:
Look at this little bastard. Boy lands plumb role for top Italian
director. Of course his does. Probably on a tenner a day and i know
what for: Two pound ten a tit and a fiver for his arse.[He points accusingly at I.]
Withnail: Have you been at the controls!?
I:
What are you talking about?
Withnail:
The thermostats. what have you done to them?
I:
I haven't touched them.
Withnail:
Then why has my head gone numb. I must have some booze. I demand to
have some booze.[He lunges towards the mantlepiece where there is a bottle of lighter
fluid.]I [standing up]:
I wouldn't drink that if I were you.
Withnail:
Why not?
I:
Because I don't advise it. Even the wankers on the site wouldn't drink
that. That's worse than meths.
Withnail:
Nonsense, this is a far superior drink to meths. The wankers don't
drink it because they can't afford it.[He pours the contents of the bottle into his upturned mouth.]
Withnail:
Ah. Ah. Have you got anymore?[I shakes his head. Withnail presses forwards and I backs off.]
Withnail:
Liar, what's in your toolbox?
I:
No we have nothing. Sit down!
Withnail:
Liar, you've got antifreeze.
I:
You bloody fool. You should never mix your drinks! [Withnail laughs
histerically, collapses to the floor and emits unpleasant vomitting
noises.]
--------------------------------...The Street
[They walk towards a rather rough looking pub: 'The Old Mother
Blackcap'.]Withnail:
All right, this is the plan. We get in there and get wrecked.
Then we'll eat a pork pie. Then we drop a couple of soamser
fifties each; means we'll miss out Monday but come up smilling
Tuesday morning. What's that appalling smell?
I:
Perfume on my boots. I had to scrub the with essence of petunia.
--------------------------------...The Pub
[Withnail moves somewhat precariously to the bar. The pub is a simple
affair with a few men sat round at tables drinking.]Withnail:
Two large gins, two pints of cider. Ice in the cider.
I:
If my father was loaded I'd ask him for some money.
Withnail:
If your father was my father you wouldn't get it.
Barman:
: There you are lads.
Withnail:
Chin chin.
[Withnail chinks his glass against the other, which I has not picked
up yet, and downs the gin in one. I follows suit but gags slightly.]I:
Ugh. What about what-his-name?
Withnail:
What about him?
I:
Why don't you give him a call.
Withnail:
What for?
I:
Ask him about his house.
Withnail:
You want me to call what-his-name and ask him about his house?
I:
Why not?
Withnail:
Alright. what's his number?
I:
I've no idea - I've never met him.
Withnail:
Well neither have I. What the fuck are you talking about?
I:
Your relative with a house in the country.
Withnail:
Monty? Uncle Monty?
I:
That's him. That's the one. Get the Jag fixed up. Spend the
weekend in the country.
Withnail:
Alright. Give us a tenner and I'll give him a bell.
I:
Get a couple more in. I'm going for a slash.
[Next to the door to the gents is a rather large Irish man sat with
his pint and his paper.]Big Irish man:
Ponce
[I ignores him and goes into the gents.]I [to himself]:
I could hardly piss straight with fear. he was a man with 3/4 of
an inch of brain who'd taken a dislike to me. What had I done to
offend him? I don't consciously offend big men like this. And
this one's a decided imbalance of hormone in him. Get any more
masculine than that and you'd have to live up a tree. [he reads
the grafitti] 'I fuck arses', Who fucks arses? [aloud] Maybe he
fucks arses. [to himself again] Maybe he's written this in some
moment of drunken sincerity. I'm in considerable danger in here.
I must get out of here at once.
[He walks back into the bar.]Big Irish man:
Perfumed ponce!
[Withnail is still at the bar. He has made considerable progress with
his cider and is eating some snack.]Withnail:
You'll be pleased to hear Monte's invited us for drinks.
I:
Balls to Monty we're getting out.
Withnail:
Balls to Monty!? I've just spent an hour flattering the bugger.
I:
There's a man over there doesn't like the perfume. The big one.
Don't look, don't look. We're in danger, we've got to get out.
Withnail:
What are you talking about?
I:
I've been called a ponce.
[Withnail turns to address the room in general.]Withnail:
What fucker said that!?[The large Irish gentleman in the corner gets up and walks over to them.
Now he is upright we see he is very large indeed and does not look
friendly.]Big Irish man:
I called him a ponce. And now I'm calling you one. Ponce!
Withnail (smiling):
Would you like a drink?
Big Irish man:
What's your name McFuck!?[As he says this he jerks the scarf from around Withnail's neck.]
Withnail:
I've a heart condition. I've a heart condition. If you hit me it's
murder!
Big Irish man:
I'll murder the pair of y'ers.
Withnail:
My wife's having a baby. Listen, I don't know what my f.. [he starts
to say friend but decides on a better course of action] acquaintance
did to upset you but it's nothing to do with me. I suggest you both go
outside and discuss it sensibly, in the street.[They push past the man and rush to the door.]
Withnail:
Ahhhh, out of my way.--------------------------------...
The Bathroom
[I is in the bath shaving.]
I:
Speed is like a dozen transatlantic flights without ever getting off
the plane. Timechange. You lose, you gain. Makes no difference so long
as you keep taking the pills. But sooner or later you've got to get
out because it's crashing then all at once the frozen hours melt out
through the nervous system and seep out the pores.[Withnail enters with their lunch from the chippy]
Withnail:
The bastards. Justice suck. It's a miserable cheap cigar and the
bastards won't see me.
I:
Why are we having lunch in here?
Withnail:
It's dinner and Danny's here.
I:
Danny!? How did he get in?
Withnail:
I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clogs. He's come in
because of the perpetual cold. I hope the buggers sales plummet.
I:
I've got your savaloy. Here. I don't want it.
Withnail:
Then stick it in the soap tray and save it for later.[He scrunches up the paper that was holding his chips and puts it in the
toilet]I:
Don't vent spleen on me. I'm in the same boat.
Withnail:
Stop saying that. You're not in the same boat. The only thing you're
in that I've been in is this fucking bath.
I:
Danny's here. Head hunter to his friends. Head hunter to everybody. He
doesn't have any friends. The only people he converses with are his
clients and occasionally the police. The purveyor of rare herbs and
prescribed chemicals is back. Will we never be set free?
--------------------------------...The Flat
[I comes out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel.]
I:
Danny.
Danny:
You're looking very beautiful man. Have you been away? St. Peter
preached the epistles to the apostles looking like that. Have you
got any food.
I:
Mmm, As a matter of fact, got a savaloy.
Danny:
How much is it?
I:
You can have it for nothing.
[Danny sniffs the sausage. Withnail enters from the kitchen gluing the
sole back on his shoe. He is wearing a rather expensive looking suit.]Danny:
I see you're wearing a suit.
Withnail:
What's it got to do with you?
Danny:
No need to get uptight man. I was merely making an observation. I
happened to be looking for a suit for the coal man two weeks ago. For
reasons I can't really discuss with you the coal man had to go to
Jamaica. Got busted coming back through Heathrow, had the weight under
his fez. We wored out that it would be handycarma for him to get hold
of a suit but he's a very low temperature spade the coal man, went
into court wearing a kaftan and a bell. This doesn't go down at all
well. They can handle the kaftan but they can't handle the bell. So
there's this judge sitting there sitting in a cape like fucking batman
with this really rather far out looking hat
Withnail:
A wig.
Danny:
No man, this was more like a long white hat. So he looks at the
coalman and says 'what's all this. This is a court man. This ain't
fancy dress' and the coal man looks at him and says 'you think you
look normal, your honour?'. Cunt give him two years.[I laughs a little. Withnail looks on unamuzed.]
Danny:
I'm afraid I can't offer you gentlemen anything.
I:
That's alright Danny. We'd decided to lay off for a bit.
Danny:
That's what I thought. Except for personal use I concur with you. as a
matter of fact i was thinking of retiring and going into business
Withnail [Scoffing]:
Doing what?
Danny:
The toy industry.[There is a stange looking contraption on the table involving a bottle.]
Withnail:
Thought you were in the bottle industry.
Danny:
No man, that's a side line. You can have that. Instructions are
included. Yeah. My partner's got a really good idea for making dolls.
His name's 'Presuming Ed'. His sister give him the idea. She got a
doll on Christmas what pisses itself.
Withnail:
Really.
Danny:
Then you've got to change its draws for it. Horrible really but
they're like that the little girls. So we're going to make one that
shits itself too.
Withnail:
Shits itself!?
Danny:
He's an expert. He's building the prototype now. [To I] Why's he
behaving so uptightly.
Withnail:
Because a gang of cheroot vendors consider a hair cut beyond the limit
of my abilities
Danny:
I don't advise a hair cut man. All hairdressers are in the employment
of the government. Hair are your aerials. They pick up signals from
the cosmos and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the
reason bold-headed men are uptight.
Withnail:
What absolute twaddle.
Danny:
Has he just been busted?
I:
No.
Danny:
Then why's he wearing that old suit?
Withnail:
Old suit? This suit was cut by Hawke's of Saville row. Just because
the best tailoring you've ever seen is above you fucking appendix
doesn't mean anything.
Danny:
Don't get uptight with me man. Because if you do I'll have to give you
a dose of medicine and if I spike you you'll know you've been spoken
to.
Withnail:
You wouldn't spike me you're too mean. Besides, there's nothing
invented I couldn't take.
Danny:
If I medicined you you'd think a brain tumour was a birthday present.
Withnail:
I could take double anything you could.
Danny [removing his sunglasses]:
Very, very foolish words man.
I:
He's right Withnail. Look at him . His mechanisms gone. He's had more
drugs than you've had hot dinners.
Withnail:
I'm not having this shag-sack insulting me. Let him get his drugs out.[Danny gets a doll out of a bag.]
Danny:
This doll is extremely dangerous. It has voodoo qualities.[Withnail snorts. Danny takes the head off the doll and extracts a handful
of pills.]Danny:
Trade: Phenodihydrochloride benzelex. Street: The embalmer.
Withnail:
Balls. I'll swallow it and run a mile.
Danny:
Cool your boots man. This pill's valued at two quid.
Withnail:
Two quid! You're out of your mind.
I:
That's sense Withnail.
Withnail:
You can stuff it up your arse for nothing and fuck off while you're
doing it.
Danny:
No need to insult me man. I was leaving anyway. Have either of you got
shoes?--------------------------------...
Monte's house
[A battered Jag pulls up outside Monte's house and Withnail and I get out.
There is a rather flash looking open-topped Rolls parked outside. The sound
of a Schubert piano sonata comes from the house.]Withnail:
Monte's car.[Withnail knocks on the door. Monte, a rather fat, effeminate, middle-aged
gentleman, opens the door. He is holding a very large fluffy cat and a
watering can.]Monty:
Oh hello. Come in.[They enter and go into the lounge.]
Monty:
Sit down do. Would you like a drink?[They sit together on a sette.]
Withnail:
Sherry!
Monty:
[To withnail] Sherry. [To I] Sherry?
I:
Sherry.
Monty:
Sherry.[Monty moves to the sideboard and pours the drinks. Withnail lights up yet
another cigarette.]Monty:
Do you like vegetables? I've always been fond of root crops but I only
started to grow last summer. I happen to think the cauliflower more
beautiful than the rose.
Withnail:
Chin chin.[He drinks the sherry.]
Monty:
Do you grow?
Withnail:
Geraniums.
Monty:
Oh you little traitors. I think the carrot infinitely more fascinating
than the geranium. The carrot has mystery. Flowers are essentially
tarts. Prostitutes for the bees. There is you'll agree a certain je ne
ses quoi oh so very special about a firm young carrot. Excuse me. Do
help yourselves to another drink.[Withnail turns and reaches a bottle over from the sideboard. He takes a
long swig. ]I:
What's all this. The man's mad.
Withnail:
Eccentric.
I:
Eccentric? He's insane. Not only that he's a raving homosexual.[There is a yowl from the cat. Monte storms back into the room preceded by
the cat.]Monty:
You beastly little parasite. How dare you? You little thug. How dare
you? Ooohhhh. Beastly ungrateful little swine.[He deposits his considerable bulk on the other settee, facing the first.]
Withnail:
Shall I get you a drink Monte?
Monty:
Yes. Yes please dear boy. You can prepare me a small rhesus negative
Bloody Mary. And you must tell me all the news. I haven't seen you
since you finished your last film.[I smiles wriley to himself. Withnail downs the drink he has prepared for
himself, pours another and starts making the Bloody Mary for Monty.]Withnail:
Rather busy uncle. TV and stuff. My agent's trying to edge me towards
the Royal Shakespeare again.
Monty:
Oh splendid.
Withnail:
He's just had an audition for rep.
Monty:
Oh splendid. So you're a thespian too?[Withnail delivers Monte's drink and sits beside him.]
Withnail:
Monte used to act.
Monty:
I'd hardly say that. It's true I crept the boards in my youth but I
never had it in my blood and that's what so essential isn't it?
Theatrical zeal in the veins. Alas, I have little more that vintage
wine and memories.[He stands and looks at a photograph on the mantlepiece.]
Monty:
It is the most shattering experience of a young man's life when he
awakes and quite reasonable says to himself: [He puts his hand on his
heart] I will never play The Dane. When that moment comes, ones
ambition ceases. Don't you agree?
Withnail:
A part I intend to play, Uncle.
Monty:
And you'll be marvelous. [He starts quoting from Hamlet] We do it
wrong, being so majestical. To offer it the show of violence......[As Monte rambles in the background I steps over to Withnail and whispers.]
I:
He's a madman. Any moment now he's going to rush out and get into his
tights.
Withnail:
Ok ok. Give me a minute.
I:
The house or out.[Withnail stands and moves over to Monte.]
Withnail:
Could I have a word with you Monte?
Monty:
Oh forgive me dear boy, forgive me. I was allowing memories to have
the better of me.
Withnail:
Shall I get you a top up? [He moves to the sideboard again. Monte sits
down and reminisces.]
Monty:
Indeed I remember my first agent. Raymond Duck. Dreadful little
Israelite. Four floors up at the charring cross and never a job at the
top of them. I'm told you're a writer too. Do you write poems?
I:
No, I wish I could. It's just thoughts really.
Monty:
Have you published?
I:
No no.
Monty:
Where did you school?
Withnail:
He went to the other place Monte.
Monty:
Oh you went to Eton?
[The cat reappears on I's chair.]Monty:
Get that damned little swine out of here. It's trying to get itself in
with you. It's trying for even more advantage. It's obsessed with its
gut - its like a rugby ball now. It will die, it will die!
[He storms around ineffectually.]Withnail:
Monte, Monte.
Monty:
No dear boy you must leave, you must leave. Once again that oaf has
destroyed my day.
Withnail:
Listen Monte. Can I just have a quick word in private.
Monty:
Oh, very well.[Later they are leaving the house. Monty shows them to the door.]
Monty:
Good night my dears.
Withnail:
Good night Monty.[Monty closes the inner door to the porch behind them.]
I:
What's all this going off in private business? Why did you tell him I
went to Eton?
Withnail:
Because it wouldn't have helped if I hadn't.
I:
What do you mean by that?
Withnail [Showing him the key to the cottage.]:
Free to those that can afford it. Very expensive to those that can't.
--------------------------------...The car
[They leave Camden in I's battered old Jag. Withnail, still in his
suit, has a bottle and is clearly drunk. They pass some schoolgirls.]Withnail:
Scrubbers!
Scrubber:
Up yours grandad!
Withnail:
Scrubbers! scrubbers!
I:
Shut up.
Withnail:
Little tarts they love it.
I:
Listen, I'm trying to drive this thing as quietly as possible. If
you don't shut up we'll get stopped by the police.
[The pass a notice anouncing an accident blackspot.]Withnail:
Look at that, look at that. Accident black spot. These aren't
accidents. They're throwing themselves into the road gladly.
Throwing themselves into the road to escape all this hideousness.
[To a pedestrian] Throw yourselves into the road darling, you
haven't got a chance.
[Somewhat later they join the motorway.]Withnail:
At some point or another I want to stop and get hold of a child.
I:
What do you want a child for?
Withnail:
To tutor it in the ways of righteousness and procure some
uncontaminated urine.
[He takes out the bottle and instructions provided by Danny.]Withnail:
This is a device enabling the drunken driver to operate in
absolute safety. You fill this with piss, take this pipe down the
trouser and sellotape this valve to the end of the old chap. Then
you get horrible drunk and they can't fucking touch you.
According to these instructions, you refuse everything except a
urine sample. You undo your valve, give them a dose of
unadulterated child's piss and they have to give you your keys
back. Danny's a genius. I'm going to have a doze.
[They drive on. Later, with the light fading, they leave the
motorway. It becomes clear that the car has only one functioning
headlight. Still later it is totally dark and raining heavily. I
stops and attempts to transfer the single wiper from Withnail's
side of the car to his own but it refuses to come off. He gets
back in the car and in shutting the door wakes Withnail, who
looks considerably the worse for wear.]Withnail:
Are we there?
I:
No, we're not we're here and we're in the middle of a fucking
gale. Now you'll have to keep a look out your side. If you see
anything tell me. Get hold of that map.
Withnail:
Where's the whisky?
I:
What for?
Withnail:
I've got a bastard behind the eyes. I can't take aspirins without
a drink. Where's the aspirin?
I:
Probably in the bathroom.
Withnail:
You mean we've come out here in the middle of fucking nowhere
without aspirins?
I:
Where are we?
Withnail:
How should i know where we are. I feel like a pig shat in my
head.
I:
Now get hold of that map and look for a place called Crow Crag.