| “ | Why don' you do somethin' sensible," He said, "stead o' bidin' there‘ollerin’ and carryin' on like you was skirmish? You wants go'n get some cloze on, then you c'n go 'n put 'im in that old cage what's in the shed. One what you 'ad for they budgies.'
―Mr. Cane agrees to helping Hazel in the novel.
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Mr. Cane is a farmer at Nuthanger Farm. He is the husband to Mrs. Cane and the father to Lucy. His first name is John in the book and film, though it is changed to Tom in the miniseries.
Biography[]
Book and film[]
Mr. Cane appears with someone else after Hazel frees the Nuthanger Farm hutch rabbits. Mr. Cane points the escaped rabbits out, recaptures Laurel, and shoots Hazel. In the film, he also recaptures Clover and the other escaped hutch rabbits, and none of them make it to Watership Down. In the book, Clover, Haystack, and Boxwood successfully escape.
Near the end of the book, when Hazel sets Bob loose but is ambushed by the cat and subsequently saved by Lucy, Mr. Cane tells Lucy that she can't keep a wild rabbit. When Mr. Cane says that she should have just let the cat kill Hazel, Lucy begins to cry and says she only wanted to show the rabbit to Doctor Adams, and Mr. Cane relents. He then leaves to go to Newbury for the morning.
TV series[]
In the episode "The Raid" he is seen shooting Hazel from a distance after Hazel raids the farm,
In the episode "The Market" of the TV series, it revealed that Mr. Cane and his dog Duster work at a marketplace to sell the crops from Nuthanger Farm for a living.
Miniseries[]
His personality changes in the miniseries, being crueller and more antagonistic than the other adaptations. He is also renamed Tom.
In the episode "The Raid," Tom's voice can be heard talking to Mrs. Cane. Later on after Hazel escapes with the does, he seems to not care about shooting Clover after she escaped with the other hutch rabbits. His silhouette is seen with a flashlight trying to find Hazel. When Mrs. Cane tells him he better not have shot any of Lucy's but he replied saying the one he shot was a wild one.
When he sees blood, he says he told her that he shot it and returns to the farm with the only two does that were caught.
Graphic novel[]
Coming soon!
Gallery[]
Film[]
TV series[]
Miniseries[]
Coming soon.
Graphic Novel[]
Trivia[]
- His voice actor is never credited in any of the adaptations he was in.
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