Mary Bryant (2005–2007)

Alex O'Loughlin: William 'Will' Bryant

Quotes 

• Will : I don't know that I can get us across.

  Mary Bryant : Of course you don't, it's a risk, but you've gone from Cornwall across to Spain - the same distance, you said it yourself, and you'll be the one to get us to Timor.

  Will : I didn't exactly do that - sail across to Spain, I didn't exactly do that. I can read a chart better than a book, I can hug a coastline, feel a boat around rocks, but I've never taken a boat outside of land in my life, and I don't intend to now. Listen to it, it's our last stroke of luck and its telling us to stay here.

  Mary Bryant : Then why did you say...?

  Will : Don't you know me by now?

• Will : They said we'd never see the sun down here, but there you are.

• Will : Still thinking of your lieutenant?

  Mary Bryant : There is, and always has been, only one man for me.

• Will : I could never leave that boy behind, no more than I can sleep with Ralph Clarke, but we've got this far because you could. They all know it, but none of them can say it.

  Mary Bryant : We got this far because you sailed us here.

• Will : I won't be jumped!

• Mary Bryant : Well, look at you, Mr. John Parker - I went and married the perfect gentlemen.

  Will : And I went and married a real pistol!

• Mary Bryant : God, I can't get used to it, not seen myself in a mirror for four years.

  Will : You've been through a lot, it's taken its toll.

• Will : You'd be better off here. Marry a Dutchman, God knows you've got enough of them lying around at you're feet. No witnesses, no paper... we were blessed by a fool on a beach, wasn't legal outside the colony... you're free.

  Mary Bryant : I've never thought of myself as being anything other than free, ever.