Don Bluth’s Watership Down (Transcript)

(As the opening credits roll, we see a long watercolor painting of field of rabbits. At the end, where a light-brown rabbit is hiding in the brambles, the scene transitions to that of a cartoon, as the rabbit slowly comes out from the brambles.)

Rabbit - (Quietly) Hazel, I see it. (a rabbit comes out of the brambles) A cowslip. You can have it.

Hazel - Thanks, Fiver. But, you should have it. (Fiver looks at the cowslip.) go on. But, eat it fast before the Owsla arrive. (Fiver hesitantly approaches the cowslip, and eats it. Partway through, Fiver plucks off the cowslip and gives it to Hazel) Oh, Are you sure? (Fiver nods) Ok, Fiver. (eats the cowslip. The scene changes to Hazel and Fiver travrsing the fields as the sun was going down, Fiver stops, and a few seconds later, Hazel notices, and comes back to see Fiver grasping his heart.) What’s wrong, Fiver? (He looks at the construction equipment and vehicles.)

Fiver - I see it... (He sees the equipment turning black, and the fields around it turn into a red color) whatever those things are, they’re black as night, as the fields around them are covered in blood.

Hazel - Blood? We should head back. (He and Fiver run on, running past a sign, saying, “This land, composed of Six Acres is to be developed with high quality residences, by Sutch and Martin Ltd. of Newbury, Berkshire, England.)