January 31, 2020 • 43 mins
The final chapter in season one of this epic saga of revenge, betrayal and deception. As the people of Tumanbay await news of the Sultan’s great victory, the brilliant and ruthless spymaster, Gregor discovers he has been deceived. Tumanbay is created by John Scott Dryden and Mike Walker. Visit tumanbay.com to see full credits and download scripts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, hello, and then why isn't General Colan ordering the advance?
Where's the cavalry they were meant to attack from the side. Yes,
your nasty, I'm I'm sure there's a reason. There are
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moments in life when everything you believe is certain evaporates
like mist in the morning sun, in the harsh light
of the desert. The Sultan sees his army shrinking in size,
while Queen Myers is growing, and that his future is well,
that he doesn't have one. Ah, what news. I'm sorry,
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your majesty. He was betrayed. Who General Colan? He has
been captured, His army is with Maya. Now all is lost.
So what do we do? What is the strategy? Mm? Hm,
your majesty? The time has come? What do you mean
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time for what? We can't allow the enemy to capture you.
They will living abuse, your majesty, even in death. Even
in death, you will be used as a symbol of
Maya's triumph. They will hang you from the gates. So
what now? We need to cut off your head and
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bury it. There is no choice, your majesty. No, no,
of course, no choice. We must do it for two
month bay, Yes, I suppose no I'm afraid, so, your majesty,
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bring the happies. Yes, yes, I need my spiritual adviser.
I'll go rest a short, majesty. It will be a
clean cut. We will bury your head well and and
this is over. You will come and retrieve it, and
you will have pride of place in the mausoleum of
the martyrs. He isn't there. Where is he? He's running away.
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He was seen with his people riding back to Tuman Bay.
I'm sorry, your majesty. We need to act quickly. Mm hm.
You need to get down, m hm hm. Try to relax,
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your majesty, your head, are you ready? Just do it
a little, lower your head, just bound. Don't know that
what's worst? What's frost? Just a flock of birds, a
flock of starlings in the heat of the day. Your majesty,
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we need to move on. But the child the Prophecy,
he told me, when the birds together, it will be
the hour that you will lead your armies. Enough, we
can still win. Now I understand understand what, your majesty.
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I will marry her. I have no chief wife. I
will offer her marriage which will legitimize her. We can
rule human Bay together. Tuman by Episode ten Sword of
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Faith by John Dryden. So why isn't it here? There's
been some problem with this. There's a problem. You come
to me. I am the Grand Vizier, the voice of
the Sultan in his absence. It's been five days since
the army marched out of two Monday. What other business
the port the excellency and already Cadali has wasted no
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time in making the palace his except naval vessels if
we don't want any infiltration. Somehow the scrolls don't seem
so important anymore. Well I can think of is the
slave girl Sarah. She's got into my head and I
need to get back on the ground and find her.
Gregor what do you think? What we continue the lockdown
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of the palace until news of the Sultan's victory arrives. Yes, yes, good,
good idea everyone I go. I'm being watched with two
Monday on a war footing. Absence from the palace is
not so easy, excellency, And I think to report, No, Excellency, good,
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are you watching the gates of the Eastern weighing as well? No,
we've got five other guards of that excellency, So who's
watching them? You are, excellency. I suggest you go over
there right now and make sure they haven't fallen asneep.
But my responsibility is here keeping a watch. Oh that's
my responsibility. Come back in in a short while, go
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on the Temple of Solace, gateway to the passages and
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sewers that to the city underneath the city. Oh man,
wake up, wake up? What is it? Remember me from
the ballas indeed, I need to go back down the
winding stairs to the It's not possible, worry. I have
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my offering, thank you, but that is still not possible.
It is closed. You will not find the key. And
why would that be? Human beings at war? The people
down below they wished to they wished to protect themselves.
There's going to be a great victory as above, so below.
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They will destroy this place when they come. These old tempers,
these old beliefs, come again tomorrow morning. Who knows everything
might be different? Then? No, brother be, brother be? Do you
you not know that? Grego? I'll keep up. We met
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at the slave trader's house, the shipwreck, of course, the
champion swimmer. Yes, yes, you were telling me about your
time in the Kingdom of Bunu. Was I you were
the governor there, I believe, yes, forgive me. I have
important business to attack, and now you are a master
of the palace guard. I understand. Good to see you.
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Please excuse me. I have a confession to make. I
said I had never been there, to the kingdom of Bornou,
But I have. I see. Don't you recognize me? There
are many people in Bornoo. I didn't meet everyone there.
Of course you wouldn't, would you. You're the governor, an
important man. You're not going to meet everyone. I'm sorry,
I have to go. But kings, even kings of these places,
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are but insignificant, dirty wretchester be kicked and abused like
stray dogs. Did you meet any kings? I would love
to stay and talk, but I have work to do.
Maybe next time, of course, of course, can I can?
I just I'd rather you did. No, no, no, I
mean I I'd like to touch the feet of the
great Governor of Bonnu, the man who brought civilization to
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our lands, who cared for my people, who converted us
savages to the troop. Get off me, take your hands
off me. You cut me. I am bleeding. Who are you?
I'm the woman who's going to kill where are you?
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Where are you? I'm not finished with you? Wake up? Mhm,
wake up? Why should I You are the Sultan exactly?
I am the Sultan. I can do what I like,
and what I like is to sleep. You need to
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show everyone you are in charge, or you won't be
the sultan for very long. I'm only the temporary sultan.
Lick a Dari deal with things you need to deal with.
Dari needs to be dealt with before he deals with you.
He'd like to deal with me, I'm sure of it. Sut.
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While the armies are away fighting, don't answer. Come back
to bed. It's only the slave I order you. I
am the Sultan. Yes, I'm looking for our young sultan
is here? Your majesty still invite him to join us.
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He can be our toy. I've always wanted. Good morning.
What do you hope I'm not interrupting anything where you are?
Actually well? I'm so sorry. What do you want, cad Ali?
I thought you'd want to be the first to welcome
him back. Welcome who back? Your uncle? The Sultan? What
are you talking about? The army has returned already, Maya defeated. Yes, sorry,
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your reign has been cut so I'll go to the
imperial gates. You follow when you have finished. Come on,
get dressed. We can't let a dally welcome back to
Sultan on his own. Can you see? It's definitely him
riding at the head. He's leading his troops, just as
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the vision foretold. There should have been scouts center ahead.
There's something wrong. He's not moving in his horse. He's
not moving. Look, le Banner is upside down. Shut the gates.
Shut the gate you Why isn't anyone listening? How order
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you to shut the gates? Can you not hear me?
I am the Sultan, and I order you to shut them.
They're not going to do it. What what's going on?
Do you understand they're already inside. They've been here all along.
They're not going to shop the gates they've been waiting for.
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We have to get back to the palace. Why because
because we have to make a welcome. But Daniel Cadali
is right. We don't have enough men here and we
can't trust the ones we have. If there is a siege,
they will massacre everybody. But if we let them in, well,
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m they're here, they're inside the palace grounds. Where is
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everyone made? You go out. You're the regent, the Sultan's
chosen one. You have to show her that we never
wanted this war. You gifts, we are we need gifts
to present to our new queen. And you go to
the kitchens. It's she must be hungry after what? What? Why?
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Why are you all just standing there? What are you
looking at? What is it? They have placed a throne
in the courtyard. They are putting algory on it. Yeah,
is your soul done? The must revered ruler of Wow
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I fire? What have they done to your eyes? On him? Now?
You are not not here? What do we do? You
need to go out there? No right, you decline, mind,
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I'm order the palace guard to throw open the door.
So do no such thing. We need to surrender ourselves
up to my Yes. During my brief absence from the palace,
everything has changed. You stop. What's going on? She's in
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the palace. She has come. Run When panic sets in,
fear numbs the mind. There's nowhere to run. Help us,
the wives and children of the palace, their short lives
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about to expire. We have nowhere to go, and you
need to wait. She will take her her revenge. And wait, y,
I need to keep my head. I need to find
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out what has happened. I need to find where you've been.
You're supposed to be in charge of the palace guard.
Where are they? Why aren't they protecting us? Is that
the Sultan? He's just sitting there staring up at us?
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What have they done to him? They've skinned him and
stuffed him with straw. It stops the body from stinking
in the heat. Mh. They call it the punishment of
the caterpillars. Yours save you? What are what are you doing? Well?
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What do you think I'm doing? I'm preparing, well, I'm preparing.
There's a trail of piss behind you. No one will
do I say, I'm the Grand Busier, and no one will.
This palace is riddled with spies. That's your failure, grog.
At least I'm not pissing myself like a little girl.
You're scared at you and you're not. It's General Coolan,
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and here is your great projector a prison out In
that case, he get up? Help you now, so croogle,
it seems that your brother has failed the empire as
much as you have. Where are your armies, General? What
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are they doing to him? They're pouring oil on him.
You're we still have something? What you think they will
negotiate with you? Nothing will say your brother? Now wait,
you can't. Oh my, if only I'd spent more time
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cultivating my friendship with Maya's envoy. But I don't believe
in If only's so? Where is he who? You're the
prisoner you are supposed to guard? What have you done with?
I moved him to that cell over there. It's a
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ticker door. He kept talking to me. Now I can't
hear him. What's your name? Boy? Your excellency? Right there?
A good job, I'll remember you, remember me? Yes? Now
open it? Yes? Ah, she here already, Yes, she's here.
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Get up. I'll do whatever you like. Come me, h, Maya,
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Queen of the Sali, How are you there? I have here,
your trusted employ He's going to die now in front
of you. If you set fire to General Colan, whould
might care if I live or die? She has many envoys,
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and I'm not afraid of death. Kill me, God, kill me.
I can think of no greater honor than's a die.
Shut up? Oh, I think this is the end we have.
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We have come a long way for I suppose we
got most of what we wanted as boys. Mhm, wait,
offendy red what we talked about? The scrolls? Yes, if
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I had them, if you have them, everything would be different.
I can get them lower your sort. I'm not lowering
it until you give me your word that they will
not like the fire. I am your prisoner. The fate
of the General that's not in my hands. That neither
will the scrolls be ever, not in yours or hers.
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They will be cast into a chasm where they will
be lost forever. Come now you can die alone in
a dungeon where no one will ever. No. Wait, wait,
I'll see. I'll see what I can now. Unchange me,
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unchanged me, huh m hmm. And where is she your queen?
Can you see her? Oh? Yes, she's here where I
can't unlock the chains on my feet. If I do,
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you'll run and you will have a chance to save
your brother. Good. Did I scare you? No? Looks so startled.
I'm a mere man, just like you, not nearly as strong.
I have shown you mercy. Now what do you have
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for me? You have until sunset to bring me the scrolls.
It won't just be the General, the whole city will
be consumed in flames. We will meet again, brother in
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this world. A promise, Graham. You always knew what to do.
I only ever looked after myself. You watched over me,
you stopped me from falling. But I never thought of you,
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not once and never. You are running out of time. Goodbye, brother.
I won't let you down this time. Brother, Unlike the
courtiers and palace officials, I run back through the palace,
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back through the traitor's gate. I command you to open it.
No one commands me to do anything. Now where are dead?
And I'm out onto the streets. Look this wet friend,
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there is trouble. Go back. I knew it all along.
The slave girl is the key to everything. She has
the scrolls. She can save Kolan, she can save me.
I'm back. Come on. What happened? They're accute along Madow
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Highway right through the city. People are desperate to get out. Sit, sit,
people cards, all their belongings, fighting, pushing. What happens to
your arm? You're pleading a small cut? I'm fine. How
a scuffle in the street. Nothing serious. It's best we
do as we have been told. We locked the door,
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we stay inside, and we wait. You found him didn't
you the one who was here? You killed him? What
are you talking about? Kill who? It's better if you
don't know father, you mean Gregular. He is alive. I'll
give you my word. What do you want with him?
He took something from me? What when he came here
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to the house a long time ago? The wife? The
family is better if you don't know father. I'm my
country too, Daniel, what's happening? Everything? The city has fallen?
Where are the sevants? They all run away? Who would
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want to be associated with the commander of the army
at this time? Is there any news of my father?
What is it? Is your mother here? Of course? Come?
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Where's my husband? Please? Sit, all of you. Do you
have news of my father? From what we know, he
was betrayed by one of his trusted commanders and taken
captive by Maya. Yes, by Maya. Oh so my father
is dead. I swear I will have vention. I will
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never stop until I've killed. No, he is not dead yet,
and there is hope. There is always hope. He has
many friends who are loyal and who are working to
save You know that it is stupid. They will kill him,
They will cut his head off. Everyone knows what they do.
Let's say that's good. Let's say that's what I've come
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to tell you. I will return when I have more news.
Trust me, man Nell, you are in my thoughts. You
know I care about you very much. I feel like
a traitor. What do you mean, because even now with
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my father in their hands, I can't stop thinking about you.
Of us held me. I must go to fulfill my duties,
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to be with the Sultan's nephew. Yes, your father wanted
me to stay close to him. These are uncertain times,
of course. Of course, close the door behind me, don't
let anyone else in. Keep it locked. Yeah, open up,
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open up. We know you are inside. If you do
not open up, we will smash in the door and
take what we desire. What do you want from us?
We have no one from the palace here. We are
a respectable house. I know what you are. You have
nothing to fear. I am commander Wolf. Come on the wolf.
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But the army was defeated. There was no defeat because
there was no battle. We are the servants of Queen
Maya and two men bay. He's free at last. Do
you want here? Why are you threatening to destroy my door?
I am looking for SHAMPSI is she here? She may
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be good? And my men here need the comfort of
your other. Fine ladies. We have gold. If gold is
what you desire, wait my treat mm hmm. Were you
always on my side? M yes, we were, even before
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we heard of her. Palaces and riches mean nothing to us.
We carry everything we possess on our horses. Gold weighs
us down. We have been waiting to hear from her
for centuries. How can that be? We are people who
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live between the earth and the sky. When one of
us departs this world, we are offered to the sky.
We don't cling to the world like the people of
Tuman Bay. But don't you feel something for the General?
He trusted you, Yes, and you betrayed him. Sometimes betrayal
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is necessary. You made him trust you. Yes. I feel
something for General Kulan. I feel in another life he
would have believed too. He was an honest man and
he will die for it. What about me? Have you
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come to kill me? I'm a whore. I represent the
corruption of human Bay. I'm everything mine Her followers despise. No,
you are light, so light you can ride on my
horse without me even noticing. Will you come with me.
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How can I trust you? I have remained true to
my beliefs, to my brothers, to my God, and we'll
do until my death. Yes, I will, Yes, Yes, come
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in quickly. What's happened. They've been destroying the Sultan's great garden.
His art works just passed. The sculpture gallery will smash
con We've got to get out of here. My mother's
billy in the hills. There's still time. I've been informed
at the gay so open along the traitor's wall. Listen, madam,
You've got to keep your head right now, and you
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will lose it for sure. There is nothing against you.
I am the Sultan, just just a matter of time. No,
you're not. Maya is not stupid. Al Guri was a tyrant.
He murdered your father and stole your mother. Maya has
avenged you. But I was complicit. What I hated my father.
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I I knew of the plan to kill him. I
had a chance to tell him, but I didn't do
You remember in the army when you stood up and
spoke to General Coolan and you were fearless. You have
to do that again. I can't do it. I can't
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hold me. Yeah, you can do it. Kiss me. This
may be the last time. Is this the end? Just
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leave each moment, Matta, it's we truly ever have m Yes, okay,
you next, just think h m hm m hmmm. Something's wrong.
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Why are they taking so long? There are lots of
people you're holdings. Say it is normal in times of war.
They are looking for us. Oh oh, no one suspects anything.
Just keep your head covered, your hoss. There's no reason
for them to suspect anything. They will just wave us through.
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All is lost, All is lost. What have you been drinking? Things?
Say to choose this That is garlic and fume, the
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Sultan's own creations. Once we get past this, we should
make good speed and be in Mazur by sunset. I
have some friends there. They will take care of us.
What are you doing? No? No, all is lost, draw
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attention loss. I can't do it. I can't do it again.
I am do all. That is our fate, that we
travel from one lamp to the next. That is the
journey we were destined to follow. No work, No, No,
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I am happy. No, I am not happy. I am
that messenger on go take me, but do what you
will to me. He's crazy. I look at him, drunkard,
the sun paid no attention. Officers, you will with me? Hello, Hello,
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we are here, on excellency, we are always here. But
what brings you back to the underworld? The slave girl Sarah?
I need to find h She's gone? What gone? Hello, Gregor,
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you have come back to us, but it's too late.
What happened to her? She's gone to where she came from? What?
But she is alive in your heart? You mean she is? No? No, no,
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and now you must live what is left of your
life full of regret. Please, Oh, you may find her
and her child in the city above what she's there,
She's not here? Where exactly where she is safe? Where
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she's safe? Yeah, your eminence offended? Red. I have them here,
the record of all palace officials, all the names who's
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in charge of the palace, guard, security, the courts, specific administration,
A list of all senior public officials. You appear to
be a useful fellow, Dari. Yes, your evidence. I've been
waiting all my life for this opportunity to serve my queen.
And what are you doing? My jewelry I offer up
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to Maya. I understand so well that riches me nothing.
I have no worldly goods of my own. I am
a believer. I was a victim of my circumstances. See
this is Madou acting sultan, the corrupt scion of the
old school. Did you know Mile wishes that he stay
on the throne. It that he remains Sultan of tuman
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Bay and he can learn under my supervision the true
per You come forward? What the soldier is one of
my finest. He's young, but he shows a lot of promise.
If encouraged in the right way, he would make a
great leader one day. His father is a courtier in
Maya's court. His mother has worked hard all her life
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in the service of Maya lovely family. Oh yes, kill yourself.
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H m hmmm mh. If Maya has chosen you to
serve her, then you will serve her whatever her wishes.
You understand what I've shown you here? Yes? Yes, yes.
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When you serve, you serve life and death. They are one,
do you, mother, Sultan of duman Bay? Do you understand?
I understand? Ah, your holiness, how are you he he's
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holding this is a little one. Well your aden? Sit here?
How was your journey? That's right? Sit sit here? She
wants to see you. Clearly you had to rush off
from the heat of battle. I understand important business. It
was your dness, your must an. They have responsibility stretched
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far and wide. He has no political allegiancy? Is he
is not of this world? Yes? Enough, m hm m hm.
I wishes to know something, Yes, anything. I'm going to
ask you a question. It's a simple question. Which I
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need a simple yes or a no? Yes? What is
the question? Is she the sword of the faith under
your spiritual guidance? What did you say, your holiness? He says, yes, yes, yes.
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Where is she the slave girl? She's here? Is she?
But she was here? What's my wife? But excellency, m hm,
you boy, where is the mother of that child? I
don't know. Look, she came here to leave the child,
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but she's not here any longer. She said she needed
to go to the police. I tried to stop, you're lying.
I want the truth, No, this truth. This is your
last moment on earth if I'm not here to promise.
I tried to warn new excellency, I'm sorry, truly sorry.
I'll be yours too, And played you feel against your
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thighs poison one cat and you're a dead man. What
do I care? It makes no difference to me as
long as you are dead. Keep I have no future,
no desire to live beyond this moment. I have nothing
except my desire for revenge. You do have something I
keep on. I am carrying your child. What it is true?
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It's right here growing inside me? Each day? Would you
have this child born fatherless? Because of this? You have
a future. We have a future. I have a suggestion
we can be friends. I will count to three and
you will drop the minds at the same time. Agreed. Huh, one, two, three?
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Please drop its excellency, Why should I no one nick
and want future? Then? Please don't? Please don't kill him?
Please don't. You can't you can't. We have a future.
We have a future, Thank your excellency. M hm. Why
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did I let him live? What's happening to me? Of
all the many I have killed? Why him? Why? Huh?
What do you want to go? What do you want?
I come to see the envoy. Many people want to
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see the envoy. I have something he wants. He will
want to see me. Wait here, Sarah, Sarah, what are
you doing? This is too dangerous? These people. You don't
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know what the scrolls. Oh, thank god, thank god quickly.
We don't have time. I need to give them to
my envil way. But first I have to get you
out of here. It's not safe. Come with me. I'll
look after you. I swear I was wrong, wrong about
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everything I care. I care about you. I know that now. Yeah, yeah,
I have the scrolls. If Andy read good, put them
there on the table. So so this is it. This
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is what has caused so much anguish. This is what
you asked for. Now, release my brother. It's been a
long time. My wife, yes, and our child. Our child
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is safe. Husband. What's going on, Sarah? The city is ours.
The city is ours as it is written, so it
shall be. There are moments in life I call endings
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where everything you have come to expect changes. You never
see them coming until it's too late, and then there's
nothing you can do about it. Observer, a man who
has discovered love for his brother, for a woman he
will never have for a hope denied. Observer, a man
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observe a fool. Episode ten of Tuman Bay Sort of Faith,
featuring Rufus Wright, Asha Heart, Matthew Marsh and Olivia Popka,
was written and directed by me John Scott Dryden, with
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music by Sasha Putnam and editing and sound designed by
Steve Bond. Touman Bay is created by me and Mike
Walker and produced by Emma Hern and Nadia Khan. For
more details, including a castle list, visit Tumanbay dot com
Ah, hello, and then why isn't General Colan ordering the advance?
Where's the cavalry they were meant to attack from the side. Yes,
your nasty, I'm I'm sure there's a reason. There are
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moments in life when everything you believe is certain evaporates
like mist in the morning sun, in the harsh light
of the desert. The Sultan sees his army shrinking in size,
while Queen Myers is growing, and that his future is well,
that he doesn't have one. Ah, what news. I'm sorry,
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your majesty. He was betrayed. Who General Colan? He has
been captured, His army is with Maya. Now all is lost.
So what do we do? What is the strategy? Mm? Hm,
your majesty? The time has come? What do you mean
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time for what? We can't allow the enemy to capture you.
They will living abuse, your majesty, even in death. Even
in death, you will be used as a symbol of
Maya's triumph. They will hang you from the gates. So
what now? We need to cut off your head and
(01:27):
bury it. There is no choice, your majesty. No, no,
of course, no choice. We must do it for two
month bay, Yes, I suppose no I'm afraid, so, your majesty,
(01:47):
bring the happies. Yes, yes, I need my spiritual adviser.
I'll go rest a short, majesty. It will be a
clean cut. We will bury your head well and and
this is over. You will come and retrieve it, and
you will have pride of place in the mausoleum of
the martyrs. He isn't there. Where is he? He's running away.
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He was seen with his people riding back to Tuman Bay.
I'm sorry, your majesty. We need to act quickly. Mm hm.
You need to get down, m hm hm. Try to relax,
(02:34):
your majesty, your head, are you ready? Just do it
a little, lower your head, just bound. Don't know that
what's worst? What's frost? Just a flock of birds, a
flock of starlings in the heat of the day. Your majesty,
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we need to move on. But the child the Prophecy,
he told me, when the birds together, it will be
the hour that you will lead your armies. Enough, we
can still win. Now I understand understand what, your majesty.
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I will marry her. I have no chief wife. I
will offer her marriage which will legitimize her. We can
rule human Bay together. Tuman by Episode ten Sword of
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Faith by John Dryden. So why isn't it here? There's
been some problem with this. There's a problem. You come
to me. I am the Grand Vizier, the voice of
the Sultan in his absence. It's been five days since
the army marched out of two Monday. What other business
the port the excellency and already Cadali has wasted no
(04:07):
time in making the palace his except naval vessels if
we don't want any infiltration. Somehow the scrolls don't seem
so important anymore. Well I can think of is the
slave girl Sarah. She's got into my head and I
need to get back on the ground and find her.
Gregor what do you think? What we continue the lockdown
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of the palace until news of the Sultan's victory arrives. Yes, yes, good,
good idea everyone I go. I'm being watched with two
Monday on a war footing. Absence from the palace is
not so easy, excellency, And I think to report, No, Excellency, good,
(04:50):
are you watching the gates of the Eastern weighing as well? No,
we've got five other guards of that excellency, So who's
watching them? You are, excellency. I suggest you go over
there right now and make sure they haven't fallen asneep.
But my responsibility is here keeping a watch. Oh that's
my responsibility. Come back in in a short while, go
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on the Temple of Solace, gateway to the passages and
(05:38):
sewers that to the city underneath the city. Oh man,
wake up, wake up? What is it? Remember me from
the ballas indeed, I need to go back down the
winding stairs to the It's not possible, worry. I have
(06:03):
my offering, thank you, but that is still not possible.
It is closed. You will not find the key. And
why would that be? Human beings at war? The people
down below they wished to they wished to protect themselves.
There's going to be a great victory as above, so below.
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They will destroy this place when they come. These old tempers,
these old beliefs, come again tomorrow morning. Who knows everything
might be different? Then? No, brother be, brother be? Do you
you not know that? Grego? I'll keep up. We met
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at the slave trader's house, the shipwreck, of course, the
champion swimmer. Yes, yes, you were telling me about your
time in the Kingdom of Bunu. Was I you were
the governor there, I believe, yes, forgive me. I have
important business to attack, and now you are a master
of the palace guard. I understand. Good to see you.
(07:18):
Please excuse me. I have a confession to make. I
said I had never been there, to the kingdom of Bornou,
But I have. I see. Don't you recognize me? There
are many people in Bornoo. I didn't meet everyone there.
Of course you wouldn't, would you. You're the governor, an
important man. You're not going to meet everyone. I'm sorry,
I have to go. But kings, even kings of these places,
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are but insignificant, dirty wretchester be kicked and abused like
stray dogs. Did you meet any kings? I would love
to stay and talk, but I have work to do.
Maybe next time, of course, of course, can I can?
I just I'd rather you did. No, no, no, I
mean I I'd like to touch the feet of the
great Governor of Bonnu, the man who brought civilization to
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our lands, who cared for my people, who converted us
savages to the troop. Get off me, take your hands
off me. You cut me. I am bleeding. Who are you?
I'm the woman who's going to kill where are you?
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Where are you? I'm not finished with you? Wake up? Mhm,
wake up? Why should I You are the Sultan exactly?
I am the Sultan. I can do what I like,
and what I like is to sleep. You need to
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show everyone you are in charge, or you won't be
the sultan for very long. I'm only the temporary sultan.
Lick a Dari deal with things you need to deal with.
Dari needs to be dealt with before he deals with you.
He'd like to deal with me, I'm sure of it. Sut.
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While the armies are away fighting, don't answer. Come back
to bed. It's only the slave I order you. I
am the Sultan. Yes, I'm looking for our young sultan
is here? Your majesty still invite him to join us.
(09:30):
He can be our toy. I've always wanted. Good morning.
What do you hope I'm not interrupting anything where you are?
Actually well? I'm so sorry. What do you want, cad Ali?
I thought you'd want to be the first to welcome
him back. Welcome who back? Your uncle? The Sultan? What
are you talking about? The army has returned already, Maya defeated. Yes, sorry,
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your reign has been cut so I'll go to the
imperial gates. You follow when you have finished. Come on,
get dressed. We can't let a dally welcome back to
Sultan on his own. Can you see? It's definitely him
riding at the head. He's leading his troops, just as
(10:19):
the vision foretold. There should have been scouts center ahead.
There's something wrong. He's not moving in his horse. He's
not moving. Look, le Banner is upside down. Shut the gates.
Shut the gate you Why isn't anyone listening? How order
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you to shut the gates? Can you not hear me?
I am the Sultan, and I order you to shut them.
They're not going to do it. What what's going on?
Do you understand they're already inside. They've been here all along.
They're not going to shop the gates they've been waiting for.
(11:05):
We have to get back to the palace. Why because
because we have to make a welcome. But Daniel Cadali
is right. We don't have enough men here and we
can't trust the ones we have. If there is a siege,
they will massacre everybody. But if we let them in, well,
(11:27):
m they're here, they're inside the palace grounds. Where is
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everyone made? You go out. You're the regent, the Sultan's
chosen one. You have to show her that we never
wanted this war. You gifts, we are we need gifts
to present to our new queen. And you go to
the kitchens. It's she must be hungry after what? What? Why?
(12:13):
Why are you all just standing there? What are you
looking at? What is it? They have placed a throne
in the courtyard. They are putting algory on it. Yeah,
is your soul done? The must revered ruler of Wow
(12:37):
I fire? What have they done to your eyes? On him? Now?
You are not not here? What do we do? You
need to go out there? No right, you decline, mind,
(12:59):
I'm order the palace guard to throw open the door.
So do no such thing. We need to surrender ourselves
up to my Yes. During my brief absence from the palace,
everything has changed. You stop. What's going on? She's in
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the palace. She has come. Run When panic sets in,
fear numbs the mind. There's nowhere to run. Help us,
the wives and children of the palace, their short lives
(13:44):
about to expire. We have nowhere to go, and you
need to wait. She will take her her revenge. And wait, y,
I need to keep my head. I need to find
(14:05):
out what has happened. I need to find where you've been.
You're supposed to be in charge of the palace guard.
Where are they? Why aren't they protecting us? Is that
the Sultan? He's just sitting there staring up at us?
(14:27):
What have they done to him? They've skinned him and
stuffed him with straw. It stops the body from stinking
in the heat. Mh. They call it the punishment of
the caterpillars. Yours save you? What are what are you doing? Well?
(14:52):
What do you think I'm doing? I'm preparing, well, I'm preparing.
There's a trail of piss behind you. No one will
do I say, I'm the Grand Busier, and no one will.
This palace is riddled with spies. That's your failure, grog.
At least I'm not pissing myself like a little girl.
You're scared at you and you're not. It's General Coolan,
(15:15):
and here is your great projector a prison out In
that case, he get up? Help you now, so croogle,
it seems that your brother has failed the empire as
much as you have. Where are your armies, General? What
(15:37):
are they doing to him? They're pouring oil on him.
You're we still have something? What you think they will
negotiate with you? Nothing will say your brother? Now wait,
you can't. Oh my, if only I'd spent more time
(16:06):
cultivating my friendship with Maya's envoy. But I don't believe
in If only's so? Where is he who? You're the
prisoner you are supposed to guard? What have you done with?
I moved him to that cell over there. It's a
(16:27):
ticker door. He kept talking to me. Now I can't
hear him. What's your name? Boy? Your excellency? Right there?
A good job, I'll remember you, remember me? Yes? Now
open it? Yes? Ah, she here already, Yes, she's here.
(16:54):
Get up. I'll do whatever you like. Come me, h, Maya,
(17:15):
Queen of the Sali, How are you there? I have here,
your trusted employ He's going to die now in front
of you. If you set fire to General Colan, whould
might care if I live or die? She has many envoys,
(17:35):
and I'm not afraid of death. Kill me, God, kill me.
I can think of no greater honor than's a die.
Shut up? Oh, I think this is the end we have.
(17:58):
We have come a long way for I suppose we
got most of what we wanted as boys. Mhm, wait,
offendy red what we talked about? The scrolls? Yes, if
(18:20):
I had them, if you have them, everything would be different.
I can get them lower your sort. I'm not lowering
it until you give me your word that they will
not like the fire. I am your prisoner. The fate
of the General that's not in my hands. That neither
will the scrolls be ever, not in yours or hers.
(18:44):
They will be cast into a chasm where they will
be lost forever. Come now you can die alone in
a dungeon where no one will ever. No. Wait, wait,
I'll see. I'll see what I can now. Unchange me,
(19:06):
unchanged me, huh m hmm. And where is she your queen?
Can you see her? Oh? Yes, she's here where I
can't unlock the chains on my feet. If I do,
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you'll run and you will have a chance to save
your brother. Good. Did I scare you? No? Looks so startled.
I'm a mere man, just like you, not nearly as strong.
I have shown you mercy. Now what do you have
(19:49):
for me? You have until sunset to bring me the scrolls.
It won't just be the General, the whole city will
be consumed in flames. We will meet again, brother in
(20:14):
this world. A promise, Graham. You always knew what to do.
I only ever looked after myself. You watched over me,
you stopped me from falling. But I never thought of you,
(20:35):
not once and never. You are running out of time. Goodbye, brother.
I won't let you down this time. Brother, Unlike the
courtiers and palace officials, I run back through the palace,
(21:02):
back through the traitor's gate. I command you to open it.
No one commands me to do anything. Now where are dead?
And I'm out onto the streets. Look this wet friend,
(21:29):
there is trouble. Go back. I knew it all along.
The slave girl is the key to everything. She has
the scrolls. She can save Kolan, she can save me.
I'm back. Come on. What happened? They're accute along Madow
(21:54):
Highway right through the city. People are desperate to get out. Sit, sit,
people cards, all their belongings, fighting, pushing. What happens to
your arm? You're pleading a small cut? I'm fine. How
a scuffle in the street. Nothing serious. It's best we
do as we have been told. We locked the door,
(22:17):
we stay inside, and we wait. You found him didn't
you the one who was here? You killed him? What
are you talking about? Kill who? It's better if you
don't know father, you mean Gregular. He is alive. I'll
give you my word. What do you want with him?
He took something from me? What when he came here
(22:38):
to the house a long time ago? The wife? The
family is better if you don't know father. I'm my
country too, Daniel, what's happening? Everything? The city has fallen?
Where are the sevants? They all run away? Who would
(22:59):
want to be associated with the commander of the army
at this time? Is there any news of my father?
What is it? Is your mother here? Of course? Come?
(23:19):
Where's my husband? Please? Sit, all of you. Do you
have news of my father? From what we know, he
was betrayed by one of his trusted commanders and taken
captive by Maya. Yes, by Maya. Oh so my father
is dead. I swear I will have vention. I will
(23:40):
never stop until I've killed. No, he is not dead yet,
and there is hope. There is always hope. He has
many friends who are loyal and who are working to
save You know that it is stupid. They will kill him,
They will cut his head off. Everyone knows what they do.
Let's say that's good. Let's say that's what I've come
(24:04):
to tell you. I will return when I have more news.
Trust me, man Nell, you are in my thoughts. You
know I care about you very much. I feel like
a traitor. What do you mean, because even now with
(24:28):
my father in their hands, I can't stop thinking about you.
Of us held me. I must go to fulfill my duties,
(24:49):
to be with the Sultan's nephew. Yes, your father wanted
me to stay close to him. These are uncertain times,
of course. Of course, close the door behind me, don't
let anyone else in. Keep it locked. Yeah, open up,
(25:27):
open up. We know you are inside. If you do
not open up, we will smash in the door and
take what we desire. What do you want from us?
We have no one from the palace here. We are
a respectable house. I know what you are. You have
nothing to fear. I am commander Wolf. Come on the wolf.
(25:48):
But the army was defeated. There was no defeat because
there was no battle. We are the servants of Queen
Maya and two men bay. He's free at last. Do
you want here? Why are you threatening to destroy my door?
I am looking for SHAMPSI is she here? She may
(26:08):
be good? And my men here need the comfort of
your other. Fine ladies. We have gold. If gold is
what you desire, wait my treat mm hmm. Were you
always on my side? M yes, we were, even before
(26:34):
we heard of her. Palaces and riches mean nothing to us.
We carry everything we possess on our horses. Gold weighs
us down. We have been waiting to hear from her
for centuries. How can that be? We are people who
(26:55):
live between the earth and the sky. When one of
us departs this world, we are offered to the sky.
We don't cling to the world like the people of
Tuman Bay. But don't you feel something for the General?
He trusted you, Yes, and you betrayed him. Sometimes betrayal
(27:18):
is necessary. You made him trust you. Yes. I feel
something for General Kulan. I feel in another life he
would have believed too. He was an honest man and
he will die for it. What about me? Have you
(27:41):
come to kill me? I'm a whore. I represent the
corruption of human Bay. I'm everything mine Her followers despise. No,
you are light, so light you can ride on my
horse without me even noticing. Will you come with me.
(28:05):
How can I trust you? I have remained true to
my beliefs, to my brothers, to my God, and we'll
do until my death. Yes, I will, Yes, Yes, come
(28:46):
in quickly. What's happened. They've been destroying the Sultan's great garden.
His art works just passed. The sculpture gallery will smash
con We've got to get out of here. My mother's
billy in the hills. There's still time. I've been informed
at the gay so open along the traitor's wall. Listen, madam,
You've got to keep your head right now, and you
(29:07):
will lose it for sure. There is nothing against you.
I am the Sultan, just just a matter of time. No,
you're not. Maya is not stupid. Al Guri was a tyrant.
He murdered your father and stole your mother. Maya has
avenged you. But I was complicit. What I hated my father.
(29:31):
I I knew of the plan to kill him. I
had a chance to tell him, but I didn't do
You remember in the army when you stood up and
spoke to General Coolan and you were fearless. You have
to do that again. I can't do it. I can't
(29:53):
hold me. Yeah, you can do it. Kiss me. This
may be the last time. Is this the end? Just
(30:16):
leave each moment, Matta, it's we truly ever have m Yes, okay,
you next, just think h m hm m hmmm. Something's wrong.
(30:50):
Why are they taking so long? There are lots of
people you're holdings. Say it is normal in times of war.
They are looking for us. Oh oh, no one suspects anything.
Just keep your head covered, your hoss. There's no reason
for them to suspect anything. They will just wave us through.
(31:10):
All is lost, All is lost. What have you been drinking? Things?
Say to choose this That is garlic and fume, the
(31:31):
Sultan's own creations. Once we get past this, we should
make good speed and be in Mazur by sunset. I
have some friends there. They will take care of us.
What are you doing? No? No, all is lost, draw
(31:54):
attention loss. I can't do it. I can't do it again.
I am do all. That is our fate, that we
travel from one lamp to the next. That is the
journey we were destined to follow. No work, No, No,
(32:14):
I am happy. No, I am not happy. I am
that messenger on go take me, but do what you
will to me. He's crazy. I look at him, drunkard,
the sun paid no attention. Officers, you will with me? Hello, Hello,
(32:47):
we are here, on excellency, we are always here. But
what brings you back to the underworld? The slave girl Sarah?
I need to find h She's gone? What gone? Hello, Gregor,
(33:08):
you have come back to us, but it's too late.
What happened to her? She's gone to where she came from? What?
But she is alive in your heart? You mean she is? No? No, no,
(33:28):
and now you must live what is left of your
life full of regret. Please, Oh, you may find her
and her child in the city above what she's there,
She's not here? Where exactly where she is safe? Where
(33:52):
she's safe? Yeah, your eminence offended? Red. I have them here,
the record of all palace officials, all the names who's
(34:15):
in charge of the palace, guard, security, the courts, specific administration,
A list of all senior public officials. You appear to
be a useful fellow, Dari. Yes, your evidence. I've been
waiting all my life for this opportunity to serve my queen.
And what are you doing? My jewelry I offer up
(34:40):
to Maya. I understand so well that riches me nothing.
I have no worldly goods of my own. I am
a believer. I was a victim of my circumstances. See
this is Madou acting sultan, the corrupt scion of the
old school. Did you know Mile wishes that he stay
on the throne. It that he remains Sultan of tuman
(35:02):
Bay and he can learn under my supervision the true
per You come forward? What the soldier is one of
my finest. He's young, but he shows a lot of promise.
If encouraged in the right way, he would make a
great leader one day. His father is a courtier in
Maya's court. His mother has worked hard all her life
(35:25):
in the service of Maya lovely family. Oh yes, kill yourself.
(35:47):
H m hmmm mh. If Maya has chosen you to
serve her, then you will serve her whatever her wishes.
You understand what I've shown you here? Yes? Yes, yes.
(36:10):
When you serve, you serve life and death. They are one,
do you, mother, Sultan of duman Bay? Do you understand?
I understand? Ah, your holiness, how are you he he's
(36:35):
holding this is a little one. Well your aden? Sit here?
How was your journey? That's right? Sit sit here? She
wants to see you. Clearly you had to rush off
from the heat of battle. I understand important business. It
was your dness, your must an. They have responsibility stretched
(36:57):
far and wide. He has no political allegiancy? Is he
is not of this world? Yes? Enough, m hm m hm.
I wishes to know something, Yes, anything. I'm going to
ask you a question. It's a simple question. Which I
(37:19):
need a simple yes or a no? Yes? What is
the question? Is she the sword of the faith under
your spiritual guidance? What did you say, your holiness? He says, yes, yes, yes.
(37:51):
Where is she the slave girl? She's here? Is she?
But she was here? What's my wife? But excellency, m hm,
you boy, where is the mother of that child? I
don't know. Look, she came here to leave the child,
(38:14):
but she's not here any longer. She said she needed
to go to the police. I tried to stop, you're lying.
I want the truth, No, this truth. This is your
last moment on earth if I'm not here to promise.
I tried to warn new excellency, I'm sorry, truly sorry.
I'll be yours too, And played you feel against your
(38:34):
thighs poison one cat and you're a dead man. What
do I care? It makes no difference to me as
long as you are dead. Keep I have no future,
no desire to live beyond this moment. I have nothing
except my desire for revenge. You do have something I
keep on. I am carrying your child. What it is true?
(39:00):
It's right here growing inside me? Each day? Would you
have this child born fatherless? Because of this? You have
a future. We have a future. I have a suggestion
we can be friends. I will count to three and
you will drop the minds at the same time. Agreed. Huh, one, two, three?
(39:37):
Please drop its excellency, Why should I no one nick
and want future? Then? Please don't? Please don't kill him?
Please don't. You can't you can't. We have a future.
We have a future, Thank your excellency. M hm. Why
(40:03):
did I let him live? What's happening to me? Of
all the many I have killed? Why him? Why? Huh?
What do you want to go? What do you want?
I come to see the envoy. Many people want to
(40:25):
see the envoy. I have something he wants. He will
want to see me. Wait here, Sarah, Sarah, what are
you doing? This is too dangerous? These people. You don't
(40:47):
know what the scrolls. Oh, thank god, thank god quickly.
We don't have time. I need to give them to
my envil way. But first I have to get you
out of here. It's not safe. Come with me. I'll
look after you. I swear I was wrong, wrong about
(41:08):
everything I care. I care about you. I know that now. Yeah, yeah,
I have the scrolls. If Andy read good, put them
there on the table. So so this is it. This
(41:28):
is what has caused so much anguish. This is what
you asked for. Now, release my brother. It's been a
long time. My wife, yes, and our child. Our child
(41:50):
is safe. Husband. What's going on, Sarah? The city is ours.
The city is ours as it is written, so it
shall be. There are moments in life I call endings
(42:15):
where everything you have come to expect changes. You never
see them coming until it's too late, and then there's
nothing you can do about it. Observer, a man who
has discovered love for his brother, for a woman he
will never have for a hope denied. Observer, a man
(42:40):
observe a fool. Episode ten of Tuman Bay Sort of Faith,
featuring Rufus Wright, Asha Heart, Matthew Marsh and Olivia Popka,
was written and directed by me John Scott Dryden, with
(43:01):
music by Sasha Putnam and editing and sound designed by
Steve Bond. Touman Bay is created by me and Mike
Walker and produced by Emma Hern and Nadia Khan. For
more details, including a castle list, visit Tumanbay dot com
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