Headmaster Rocastle and Son of Mine in “The Family of Blood”

You speak with someone else's voice, Baines. Who might that be?

We are the Family of Blood.

Mr. Smith said there had been deaths.

Yes, sir. And they were good, sir.

Well, I warn you, the school is armed.

All your little tin soldiers. But tell me, sir - will they thank you?

I don't understand.

What do you know of history, sir? What do you know of next year?

You're not making sense, Baines--

1914, sir. Because the Family has traveled far and wide looking for Mr. Smith and, oh, the things we have seen! War is coming. In foreign fields, war of the whole wide world, with all your boys falling down in the mud. Do you think they will thank the man who taught them it was glorious?

Don't you forget, boy. I've been a soldier. I was in South Africa. I used my dead mates for sandbags. I fought with the butt of my rifle when the bullets ran out, and I would go back there tomorrow for King and Country--

Et cetera, et cetera. [casually vaporizes Mr. Phillips] Run along, Headmaster, run back to school. And send us Mr. Smith!