Part 1: (Pip lying in bed, he is very worried that the convict or the young man might come and hurt or kill him. He hears the convict’s voice in his head:)

Convict’s voice: "A boy may be warm in bed. He may pull the covers over his head, but that young man will softly creep his way to him and tear him open!"

Pip: "No!" (Pip gets up very early in the morning. He creeps to the kitchen. He can hear voices:)

Voices: "Wake up Mrs Joe… Wake up… Mrs Joe, Wake up…. You’re a thief Pip."

(Pip gets some food from the kitchen and a file from the blacksmith’s shop. Pip leaves the house and walks across the moors. He hears the voices following him:)

Voices: "You are a wicked thief Pip. You will be sent to the prison ships." (In the fields, the cows begin to talk to Pip:)

Cow 1: "A boy with somebody else’s brandy!"

Cow 2: "With somebody else’s file."

Cow 3: "With somebody else’s pork pie!"

Cow 4: "Hello, young thief."

Pip: "I could not help it, sir."

Part 2: (Pip finds the convict standing beside a tree and waving his arms because he is very cold:)

Pip: "Sir?"

Convict: "You brought no-one with you?"

Pip: "No, sir."

Convict: "Nor told anyone to follow you?"

Pip: "No, sir."

Convict: "Uhuh, what’s in the bottle boy?"

Pip: "Brandy."

Convict: "Agh... good." (The convict takes the bottle, because he is very cold his hands shake very badly:)

Pip: "I think you have got a fever sir."

Convict: "I agree with you boy."

Pip: "I am glad that you enjoy the food."

Convict: "Mmmm… What did you say?"

Pip: "I said, I am glad that you enjoy it sir."

Convict: "Thank you boy, I do."

Pip: "Are you not going to keep any food and drink for him?"

Convict: "Him? Who?"

Pip: "The young man that you spoke of yesterday."

Convict: "Oh, him… Hugh, no, he doesn’t want any food."

Pip: "He looked as though he did want food."

Convict: "Looked? Did he? When? When did you see him?"

Pip: "Just now."

Convict: "Where? Where did you see him?"

Pip: "Over there." (Pip points to where he saw the man.)

Convict: "Did you see anything strange about him?"

Pip: "Yes, he had a big scar on his face."

Convict: "Not… not here?" (The Convict draws a line on his face with his finger.)

Pip: "Yes, there."

Convict: "Give me that file boy."

Pip: "If you don’t want me sir, we will have some people to our house for dinner today, and my sister will be up early."

Convict: "Thank you boy, thank you."

Part 3: (Pip is at home, and there are some people sitting at the dinner table and they are eating:)

Uncle Pumblechook: "This boy should be very grateful to you for the very excellent dinner that you have given him!"

Mrs Joe: "Do you hear what Uncle Pumblechook says to you Pip? Be grateful."

Mrs Hubble: "Why is it that the young are never grateful?"

Mr Hubble: "They are naturally bad, the young are naturally very bad."

Mrs Joe, Mrs Hubble, Uncle Pumblechook, and Mr Wopple: "True, true, true."

Mrs Hubble: "Now, to finish with, I want you all to taste a delicious and delightful gift from Uncle Pumblechook. It is a pie, a savoury pork pie!"

Mrs Hubble, Mr Hubble, and Mr Wopple: "A savoury pork pie!’

Uncle Pumblechook: "Let us have a piece of this pie, Mrs Joe and we will try to enjoy its high quality."

Mrs Joe: (Speaking to Joe:) "Bring clean plates, cold clean plates!"

Mrs Hubble: "I always say a savoury pork pie is a good finish to any good dinner."

(Pip looks very unhappy. He thinks Mrs Joe will learn that he stole the pie and will now give him a beating:)

Uncle Pumblechook: "What is the matter boy?"

Pip: "Nothing, sir."

Uncle Pumblechook: "I should say not! You are enjoying yourself with your elders and betters! You are improving yourself by listening to our fine conversation."

Part 4: (Pip gets up and runs to the door. When he opens the door he runs into a soldier:)

Soldier: "Now then son, where do you think you are going to? Oh, emm, please excuse me ladies and gentleman, but I am chasing some convicts in the name of the King. I want to speak to the blacksmith."

Mrs Joe: "What do you want with the blacksmith, sir?"

Soldier: "Speaking for myself, I would say the honour and pleasure of his very good wife’s company. Speaking for the King, I must answer that I want a little job done. You see blacksmith, we have had a little problem with these handcuffs and as they are needed for use, would you repair them?"

Mr Hubble "Convicts, sergeant?"

Soldier: "Yes, two. Have you seen them at all?"

Mrs Hubble "Heavens save us no! We are happy to say that we have not seen any convicts."

Mr Hubble, Uncle Pumblechook, and Joe: "No, no, we have seen nothing!"

Soldier: "Well, we will find them and catch them!"

Part 5: (The soldiers leave to catch the convicts. Pip and Joe go with the soldiers. Mrs Joe thinks this is dangerous:)

Mrs Joe: "If that boy comes back here with his head blown apart by a gun, don’t ask me to put it together again."

Pip: "I hope they do not find them, Joe."

Joe: "I would give a shilling if the convicts have escaped."

A voice from far away: "Help, convicts escaping, help!"

Soldier: "Come on!"

Voice: "Help, this way! Help!"

Voice: "Help, help, convicts escaping. Help!"

Voice: "Help, help, this way, this way."

(They see the two convicts, Convict 1 is chasing Convict 2, he catches Convict 2 and they begin to fight. The soldiers separate the convicts:)

Convict 1: "Don’t forget, I caught him. I gave him to you. Don’t you forget that."

Convict 2: "He tried… He tried to murder me."

Convict 1: "I tried to murder him? Hugh, I stopped him from escaping. I could have easily escaped, then I discovered that he was here. Let him go free, let him make a fool of me again, aggggh. I only wanted to stop him from escaping."

(The soldiers put handcuffs on the convicts:)

Soldier: "Hands."

(The convict gives his hand to the soldier, and looks at Pip. Pip shakes his head to say no, that he did not tell anyone. A gun fires:)

Soldier: "They are waiting for you on board the prison ship. Light those torches. Come on."

Soldier: "Get aboard you!"

Convict 1: "Before I go, I wish to say something about this escape. It may stop some person being wrongly punished."

Soldier: "What is it?"

Convict 1: "I took some food and drink from the blacksmith’s house near the village. From over there, I took some brandy and a pie."

Soldier: "Have you lost such a thing as a pie, blacksmith?"

Joe: "Well, my wife did the very moment you came in!"

Convict 1: "Oh, so you are the blacksmith, are you? Then I am sorry to say I… I have eaten your pie and drunk your brandy."

Joe: "Oh you are welcome to it. If it were my pie, I would give it to you. We do not know what bad thing you have done, but we would not have you starve to death for it, poor sad fellow creature. Would we Pip?"

Soldier: "Get going you."