The Cay (1974 TV Movie)

James Earl Jones: Timothy

Quotes 

• Timothy : [while teaching Phillip to make sleeping mats while he's blind]  Over and under. Over and under.

  Phillip : [pushes the mat away]  I won't do it!

  Timothy : We must all work, young bahss.

  Phillip : That's your kind of work, you stupid black trash! You can't even spe...

  [Timothy slaps Phillip across the face] 

  Timothy : Be getting back to work my own self.

• Timothy : ...this outrageous humbug island.

• Phillip : Timothy? I want to be your friend.

  Timothy : Oh, young bahss, you have always been my friend.

  Phillip : Then can you call me Phillip instead of young boss?

  Timothy : [pauses then smiles humbly]  Phi-leep.

  [Phillip and Timothy laugh] 

• Phillip : [while he becomes blind]  Timothy?

  Timothy : Young bahss.

  Phillip : Is it night?

  Timothy : 'Tis day.

  Phillip : [in shock]  Timothy!

  [Timothy turns in a stunned look] 

  Phillip : I can't see!

  Timothy : WHAT?

  Phillip : I'm blind! I'm blind! I'm blind!

  Timothy : Young bahss, you cannot be blind!

  [Timothy picks up Phillip and turns him to the sun] 

  Timothy : Look at the sun!

  Phillip : I'm blind...

  Timothy : [puts him down]  Now, please. You must lie down and rest. What has happened will go away. 'Tis most natural temporary

• Timothy : [after his malaria goes away, notices he's by the ocean shore]  How did I get down here?

  Phillip : [laughed]  You jumped up and ran.

  Timothy : That fever, some devil.

  Phillip : Right into the water.

  Timothy : That be true. My head burn like fire. I put it out.

• [after the shipwreck, Phillip sees Timothy next to him on the raft] 

  Timothy : Young bahss, you with me now. It has been lonesome these very hours.

  Phillip : My head!

  Timothy : You had a most outrageous crack on the head, young bahss, before I harl you board this raft.

  Phillip : What happened?

  Timothy : That most treacherous torpedo split the very hull. Two minute at the most, the ship gone.

  Phillip : My mother!

  Timothy : That lady, ah, they put her in the lifeboat. And that be true, young bahss.

• [Phillip groans and sits right up] 

  Timothy : Put your head back down, young bahss, and rest a little while longer.

  [Phillip gets seasick and crawls to the side of the raft to vomit] 

  Timothy : [holds him]  Dis be good, dis be good. 'Tis most natural for you to do this. 'Tis d'shock of having all this most terrible thing happen.