English - High Ground Quotes

Travis on strategy (2x)

When you have the high ground you control everything.

Gutjuk's father on his future

One day your time will come.

Baywara on himself (2x)

I am the snake.

I strike like lightning.

Baywara on Gutjuk's identity (3x)

Your totem is crocodile.

Gutjuk, means hawk.

Baywara on Gutjuk's development

Your life starts now.

Gulwirri to Gutjuk (2x)

You're a mission boy pretending to be a man.

You think like a white man.

Darrpa on Aboriginal lore

It is the rule of law. It cannot be undone.

Eddy on colonisation

Can't share a country, Claire

Wak Wak on Gutjuk's journey/identity

He needs to learn his place.

Travis on Baywara/identity

I'm not sure anyone gets to choose what kind of man they're going to be

Eddy on the operation (about Travis)

No one shoots but him

Braddock on the massacre

It was supposed to be a peaceful expedition.

Moran on Travis

No sense of duty, no sense of loyalty.

Darrpa on justice

You want us to respect your law? Give us our justice.

Moran on the massacre aftermath

I don't need to tell you what happens if this Baywara gets a voice.

Moran on history

It's a responsibility of those who make history to record it.

Moran on the meeting with Darrpa

I didn't come here to negotiate.

Moran on Travis' capture

That's what a mad dog looks like when he's laid low.

Moran on bribery to Claire

Get that church finished.

Eddy on doubts

"Our doubts are traitors" …And oft make us lose the good we might win by fearing to attempt.

Gutjuk on control

We need to have. Control.

Moran to Claire

It's not really your choice is it?

Claire on Gutjuk

Its their war, not yours. Don't trust them.

Gulwirri on impacts of trauma (2x)

To feel like nothing

Your anger is all you have.

Eddy on his role as WW1 spotter

You don't just find the target, you confirm the kill.

Travis', Gulwirri's instructions

Look away.

Isaiah 5:8-10

What sorrow for you who buy up house after house and field after field, until everyone is evicted and you live alone in the land.

Moran on civilisation

Bad men doing bad things, clearing the way for others to follow.

Baywara on Gulwirri

Too wild that one.

Moran on the "Wild Mob"

They crossed a line. They killed a white woman.

Mission escapees on why they're being pursued

Because we killed a cow.

Darrpa's approach

We need to make peace.

Baywara on revenge

It's our land. We should fight.

Darrpa on Baywara/impacts of vengeance

He could have been our greatest teacher. He lost all that to his anger.

Gulwirri to Darrpa

Cowards who talk when they should fight.

Darrpa to Gutjuk

You can't follow your uncle's path.

Darrpa on British law

You come from across the sea

Eddy on planning (2x)

Reckless and lacking in precision.

Sound military planning

Moran on identity

What made you think you could change who you are

Baywara (foreshadows his anger and desire for retribution)

I strike like lightning.

Baywara (to Gutjuk) (Hawk = highest ground/vantage point - sees all).

Your totem is the crocodile. Your name is Gutjuk. Means hawk.

Travis (to Braddock)

Will you let 'em know we don't want any trouble. All right?

Eddy (pointing to overcroft, where Travis is stationed as sniper)

No one shoots but him, all right?

Darrpa (to the birds)

What are you saying? What are you telling to me?

Police officer (after shooting Wak Wak)

Did I get her?

Braddock (praying as he cradles a body in his arms)

I am the resurrection.

Travis (to Braddock, scornfully, before shooting the speared coloniser to end his suffering)

Look away

Travis (to Eddy, still holding his gun after the massacre).

What are you doing? Put the bloody thing away.

Travis to Claire (Gutjuk)

You take care of him

Claire (about Gutjuk)

Where's his family? What happened?

Eddy (To Travis- about the events of the massacre)

What'll we tell Moran? It's gonna take all three of us.

Travis (about the massacre)

I think we tell him what happened.

Eddy (pinning blame for massacre on someone else)

McGuiness. Been shooting his mouth off all over the territory about killing the blackfellas that burnt him out. Bastard was dying to put a bullet in someone.

Eddy (on the massacre)

Mate, it was chaos.

Travis (about the massacre)

Who fired first?

Eddy (avoiding blame)- misguided loyalty

What does that matter? They're dead. What matters is we act as a unit.

Travis (on the truth)

It matters.

Claire (to Travis)

My brother's a mess. You're supposed to be in charge.

Travis (deflecting responsibility/justice)

You can tell Moran whatever you want. I'm not sticking around for it.

Darrpa (grief after massacre)

My children, my family. Who did this to my family. Wak. Wak! My beautiful daughter. Baywara, my son! Look at me. I will heal you.

Moran (on the wild mob)

It started a few months back. A bunch of black bastards…burning livestock, wreaking havoc.

Moran (on the wild mob)

They're calling them The Wild Mob. They're from all over the place…brought together by one man. Baywara. Bunch of Myalls, fugitives…bastards are everywhere.

Moran (on truth, to Travis)

The truth's a funny thing. Once it's out, it's out. And questions come with it. Like how did two whitefellas end up with your bullets in them.

Moran (corruption)

Fortunately, we've been able to persuade the higher-ups that there's another way to handle this situation…

Eddy (To Travis- hunting the wild mob)

It'll just be you and me to track 'em down, go in quiet and take Baywara and his mob out. Don't tell me it doesn't haunt you and you don't want it off your back.

Travis (on justice)

And shooting him does that, you reckon? See I reckon I'd be better off shootin' the two of you, right now.

Moran (loyalty/controlling the narrative)

Son, we got through the war by sticking together. Now we'll get through this together.

Braddock (on Tommy- separating him from his people)

Tommy's got nothing to do with this mob"

Gutjuk (to Travis, on Baywara)

You're going to kill my uncle.

Gutjuk (to Travis, on working with him to find Baywara)

If I help you find him, what will you do? Will you keep him safe?

Travis (promise made to Gutjuk)

I'd do my best. That's all I got.

Travis (about Gutjuk)

He knows more than what he's letting on.

Eddy (on loyalty)

That's how you see it?… Then why are you dropping me for this kid?

Travis (on learning from mistakes)

I won't make the same mistake twice.

Claire (on plan to find wild mob and Gutjuk's identity) -

It's a ludicrous idea… Tommy's not a tracker.

Moran (bribing Claire and Braddock)

We'd compensate the mission, of course. I'd help you to get that church finally finished.

Tommy (on deceiving the colonisers) - (In language)

They went for it.