January 31, 2020 • 44 mins
Tumanbay has been conquered by a brutal religious regime, the followers of Maya. As refugees scramble to escape the city, Gregor, previously the Sultan’s spymaster, has sworn an oath to the new rulers and struggles to survive and even prosper as the regime sets about dismantling the city of everything of value. 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 (00:15):
Where fear reigns. The only place to hide is in
your own thoughts. That's not a good place to be.
Utter them out loud and ah, peace be with you,
Please be with you. Two. Mun bey has changed. I'm
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sorry to disturb so late in the afternoon. Is the
master at home you're sleeping? Oh? Let him be? It
is the child of the house I wish to speak to.
Please don't be alarmed. It is a small matter. Whom
may I say? Bar a cat? You wish to speak
to my son? Why if I may come in? I
will explain if it's convenient. My son is saying his prayers. Good,
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I'll wait if it's convenient. Oh, these are my priests
we have walked from the palace, and the soldiers our escort.
In these times it is a shame, but there are
those who would harm us. Husband. What are you doing?
Why are you making a holy man waiting the street?
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Please let me touch your feet, please, there is no need.
I am merely a servant of God. Welcome to our
humble home. Bring the freshness. You must be hungry, surely, no,
we have need of nothing. Please don't trop it loss.
Just such an honor to receive you holiness come through. Please,
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you have a beautiful home. Thank you, Please treat this
is your whoe. I love babies, may I it's all right,
It's all right. Hello little And they are the blank
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parchment on which God's word can be written. Of course,
this must be your son. Come child, Come Malick, come,
come sit with the Holy Father. H How do you
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like school? Money? Good? You are one of the lucky ones.
I didn't have such a good education. I didn't come
from such a home as this. Tell me about your teacher,
what do you call him? Master? Master? Good? Good? He
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teaches you about the scriptures you tell as you how
a young man should live his life according to God's law. Yes,
but I have heard he teaches other things too. Ah,
you surely do not want to eat. No, but I
said no, wait there. Please stand next to your husband
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and wait there. Tell the servants to go. He basically
Laiaco close the door. Please you look worried, child, don't
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be worried. Do you know what makes us strong? When
I say strong, I mean without fear of what might
happen to us. No, the truth makes us strong. It
is God's gift. I learned that from a very early age.
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The power of truth. That is why I Barakat have
a reputation for never uttering a lie. Never. That is
my strength. That can be your strength. Now do you
understand me? We have brought our son off to always
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tell the truth, haven't we, Manic tell him Manick, yes, good,
you see. It has come to my attention that there
is a heretic in your son's school. I swear we
know nothing of the course. Of course, you are not trained.
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You expect when you send your children to school that
their teachers will show them the true path. Are you
seeing our son's teacher? M hmm? He has visited what
this house? Your house? Several times. Alick was falling behind
with his recitations. We asked his teacher to help. That's commendable.
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I understand if all parents were so diligent, my work
into Monday would be unnecessary. Please, if our child has
done anything wrong, tell us what it is. We will
beat him. Until soldiers came to your school today looking
for your teacher? Where was he? M m hm? Where
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was he? Tell him? Malick? Tell him you where was
he he left? Did someone tell him the soldiers were coming? Good?
Who told him? You know where the master went? Don't you.
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How can he possibly know? The man has fled. You
have a chance to save yourself. Now we know everything already.
He's just the child. Know everything. We know every child,
We know every teacher in every school. Every soul is
important to us. When a soul is lost, especially one
so young as you, you know what happens. You're feeling distressed.
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It is natural you feel distressed. You are trying to
hide from God. But God sees all, and all will
answer to him. You know how to save yourself? Where
is the master? There? He's in there. No, No, he's confused.
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You are confusing him. Tell him, tell him you know nothing.
Open that door. H pas No, oh, damn, damn, Please
taken and take The parents came and the boy leave him.
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You see, God takes care. God takes care of all.
The truth set you free. Come, let us continue God's
walk roun to obey, Series two, Episode one, The Last
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Boat by John Dryden. The Truth is what destroyed us.
The greatest city on Earth, the defeated city. All its
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wealth is being plundered to fund the conqueror's expanding empire.
Myer's ambition, Myer's truth, and the man who determines Myer's truth.
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The man who measures everything. We believe householders in the
area are high aid inheritage bacut Meyer's inquisitor. The man
sent not to preach in one household another will be
alerting the other to enforce Mayer's truth. So what do
you recommend? The burning down of the buildine section of
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the city. In my experience, such measures are necessary. Mm hmm.
Let me pray on it. If ND read the regent
entrusted by Maya to govern to Munday. In any case,
the judges would need to issue a decree. He has
been clever using the existing systems, the judiciary, the institutions,
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the administration, and the old officials. Gregor Regent still here.
I don't think they would agree to that. Do you
to be commanded? I'm sure, excellency, the judges would agree
to reduce, though, from head of the palace guard to
this a messenger boy for the new regime. At least
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I survived because I'm good at that. And of course
our Sultan will have to put his stamp on the
order if he is capable of holding the stamp. He
speaks of our young sultan, and they keep him because
they need a figurehead, someone to convince the people that
the city thrives even as they plunder it. Some lands
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are rich, some are poor. Where do you want them
to bring them inside? Careful? Please? Ours has a surplus now,
a surplus of corpses, so our doctors. You've kept them cold.
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They thrive that denice no expense. Hi, don't just just
in the cold room? Put it down there gently? What
are they for? Dr? Routine? Just one of my duties
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as ahead of the medical institute. Where have they come from?
They say, from the swamps outside the city. Are you sure?
Definitely from outside of the city walls. If that's what
it says on the order, that's what they came from,
good cavil. What does it matter? What? This is the
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third first delivery in as many weeks. So aren't there
enough of the dead into Mumbai for you to you
ask too many questions? Elkin? Or not enough? Butler? Is
everything ready? Yes? We have guests, inquisitor, Yes, what is it?
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And look here? Is this a convenient time? Convenient for
one another of the old guard like me, another to
swear his oath to Maya in return for life, some
sort of life. I just wanted to let you know
that I have dispatched a new consignment of treasures from
the palace to Maya. Where is this whole time? Stan,
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I haven't seen him. I hope you are satisfied with
my work. Satisfied. I am merely a servant in God's household.
Of course, we are answered to him and him alone. Yes, anyway,
I just wanted to keep you and let you know
that I'm so glad you're here. Cadali always knew which
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asked to lick and which are to kick? Inquisitive, Come
with me, I so I'm not so different? What do
you think, griggle, Inquisitor? You are experienced in rooting out
spies and traitors, aren't you. What would you do if
you were Fendi Red? I would take the advice of myers,
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celebrated inquisitor, of course, And suppose I wasn't here and
it was your job to find those who would destroy us?
What would you do? I would place spies amongst them?
And how would you know? You could trust your spies
through spies. I would have them, though there are other
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spies watching them. Stay close to me, Gregor, I think
you could be useful. That's why I survive what does
he want from me? The room of mirrors Baracut's administrative section,
now rows of clerks making lists, and every treasure stripped
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in for I should record. That is the key, Inquisitor.
Would you like to inspect every man, woman, child, dog,
every cat, every beggar in tuman Bay. I want to
know everything about them. It's just that the households inquisitive
the others here, and that is how you can help
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me record the Sultan. The Sultan, why wasn't he at
the meeting today? He sent word he was unwell? Unwell,
I believe so, mhm. Someone is supplying him with the
midnight flower. If andy Red doesn't care, he would rather
the young sultan lift this half life. But I am
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curious to know who is supplying m find out of course, Inquisitor.
That's all you can go, now back to your tasks. Actually, no, come,
I want to show you something, A darkened room with
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laid out on tables. If I make an incision, just
here in a straight line, soul, dear god Ah, Inquisitor,
harry on, carry on, you see Gregon the dead can
tell us as much as the living pill the flesh back.
I hadn't taken you as a patron of scientific discovery.
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Perhaps not, But I believe we have a duty to
use everything God has given us to search for God's truth.
Make a cross section the soul, for instance, where does
it reside in the body? Precisely? How long does it
remain after death? If we can find it, Oh, look
at that, just across the tender, perhaps we can cure sin.
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You see, if sin is a disease of the soul,
which it must surely be. Often sin manifests itself in sickness,
the lame, the crippled. Perhaps if we can treat the soul,
we will cure the disease. You see. Yes, of course,
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I definitely see what I see as a madman. How
do you cure madness? To Monday has been sick for
a long time? So what if we compare the bodies
of known sinners, known sinners from to Monday. Our prisons
are full of them, right, we compare them with the
bodies brought from Afar, and therefore we will find where
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the sin resides. Well, that is our hope, isn't it, Doctor, Yes,
it is our hope. Indeed it is. Of course, we
cannot completely be certain of the purity of the body
is brought in from Afar, although I do leave. These
ones came from swamps. I was told our rather doctor
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I can hear, is the traveler from the east, a
great mind. I discovered her in Massirah. She found herself
trapped there just before the city was liberated by Maya.
I might have died there if it wasn't for you,
Inquisitor Braiseby. She's assisting Dr Dorin in his investigations. What's
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that a deliver and that darkness? The soul sickened there?
Do you think the man was a soul? Is drunk?
I imagine? Does that conclude our work for today? Because
with your permission? Weight? What is it? Alesion? Just here
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in the lungs? I have seen this before. Yes, I
noticed that too. But let's not distract ourselves. Elkin, let
me see. Are you saying this is? This is? Get
the other body? Yes? I think that's enough for today, Alkin.
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Why don't you and the let her doctor? Perhaps she
knows things we do not the doctor. The other bodies here,
this is the other one from the swamps. Yes, help
me to pull like this is that song it's spread
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out through the long sea. Yes, wherever these corpses came from.
There is sickness spreading from corpses to ghosts. Have you
got it? Here? Is it, Magina? The very best, majesty,
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Let me try it, the majesty not here. I beg
you please keep it to your rooms. I don't care.
I don't care what they do to me. No, but
I do care what they would do to me, and
then I would no longer be in a position to goodly.
Shouldn't you be yes, yes, the slaves were just dismantling
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the shandeliers. Majesty, I trust you're feeling better. I'm fine,
Thank you for your concern, Gregor. I have some business
to attend to. Majesty. Our young sultan has withdrawn into
a world of his own, a ghost of another era
floating through the palace corridors. A few even notice anymore.
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Set it down and write it down to Monday's vast
collection of treasures, every fitting and fixture, and Cadali has
put himself in charge of their safe dispatch. It's a
complex business, dismantling an empire, saving your skin. What do
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you want, greg Or, the same thing as you? So
we need to be careful. I don't know what you
mean to stop, but it cuts watching you. It won't end. Well,
that's my gift to you. M over here. It's a nightmare.
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They want everything recorded, every last detail. What there is
in the palace, Who does what, how the courts work,
the legislature. I'm sure when I've told them everything, they
would just put yourself together, excellency. Should I pick down
the other one? Ah ye, be careful this time. I'm
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not keeping gregg Or. I don't know what. This is
not the time to fall apart. I know, I know,
but I can't help it. I'm so Look, you need
to make yourself invaluable. Hold something back? Can I ask
you for some advice? Advice? Now I have a collection
of my own paintings, rare miniature portraits of the villain
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arte school, beautiful, perfect, real. Now I've said it. Why
did you tell me? Because you know people, Gregor, I
can't just throw them away? Why not? It would be
safer If I have to run, I will need to
pay people, the people, smugglers, the captain of the ship.
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I want to sell them. But all the traders, all
the artisans, the artists, they have fled the city or
been killed. So you want my advice. Do you know
anyone who might be prepared to buy them at a
good price? Of course you're an idiot, Kadali. You do
better to burn them quickly before I can't. Yes, they no,
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just carry on, Yes, I can't let my insurance. Everyone
needs to prepare for a time when they might have
to run. You are inquisitors. It's been approved. Sorry, what
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has you asked permission to visit prisoner Cooline in the cells?
Didn't you? It's been approved? I see, thank you. What
were you talking about? I'm sorry, just now, the two
of you nothing you were talking, Kadali? How could it
be of nothing? We're all together now. You don't need
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to be nervous. Of course, So we were talking about
the lists, the details of them. Give me your hands,
my hands, Why are they shaking? I don't know what
were you talking about. You can tell me. If you
want it to remain just between us, it shall. That
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is my promise. Everyone knows that I but a cat
never lie. If you want it to remain just between ourselves,
it shall. Now what were you talking about? I have
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a confession. Yes, Cinally is feeling the pressure of the situation.
We all find ourselves in of course, I understand. Yes,
I'm sorry. I want to serve. I want to serve
Maya to the best of my ability. That's all that
matters to me. Now, prayer and fasting. That is my advice.
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M h m. If you hold your nerve, Cadali, you
are safe. You know everything about two mac Bay. They
need you. No one is safe. We don't know the
language of these people. We don't know what they want.
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I must have my way out when things get bad.
There's a slave trader in the city. He used to
collect rare books and paintings too. I'm not saying he
will help you, but his name is Ibben hip and Bay.
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Thank you, Thank you, greg Or. You know you will
always help my undying loyalty. I don't doubt I've got
to go. That was weak. Now I've given Cadali something
to use against me, and what should I do? Betray
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him to elevate myself. Deception is exhausting. Yes, oh, sorry
to interrupt. I'm looking for the shipping clerk. Who are you?
I am even by slave merchants. I have imported many
slaves through this very important during the the old times.
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What do you want? I'm looking for the shipping clock.
I am the shipping clock. What do you want? I
am even Aren't you expecting me? I am looking for
the Ablis. Come with me. Are you trying to get
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me killed? What? No? Who told you about the Ibliss?
A friend, another traitor. I paid him the money he
said you would be expecting me. Yeah, yes, Wait a minute.
Are you you are the Abliss? Aren't you party of three? Yes?
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My daughter she's expecting a baby. I need to get
her out. I was told to come here and ask
for the Abliss. I paid the money. You were supposed
to come tonight. I know. That's why I'm here. I
need to delay your departure. You see, my daughter's husband
has gone missing. If you don't leave tonight, there's no
guarantee there will be another boat. The city is falling apart.
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I know, I know, my advice friend, get your daughter
out of Twoman. Pay for the sake of her and
your unborn grandchild. The husband has probably been rounded up
by one of the patrols. If he gets out, there
are smugglers who can help him through the desert. But
for a pregnant woman, it's up to you. This is
the last boat. Oh, markt hello speak he h A
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body interested? She's still got her cheeth. No, no, no, no,
thank you, And I'm not interested. It's even bay, isn't it. Yes, yes,
but I'm not interested in That's all right. I'm not
a trader. I've come to see you. I'm sorry, have
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we I thought i'd find you here? May I walk
with you? Yes? I used to love coming here to
see all the slaves, big, small, dark, pale. There was
such a variety, so much to choose from that. Now
it's just a few toothless old crones, useful to no one,
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but very little profit in slaves these days. So true,
so true. So a man must turn to other commodities,
I suppose so. Yes, for instance, books, paintings, artwork. That
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would be forbidden, It would, it would, But I understand
you have some experience in these items. I have something
of value, something I need to I'm sorry. I don't
know who you are, and I don't know what you're
talking about. Please excuse me. H, what's happened? Did you
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manage to delay? The boat is tonight? Then you can
go alone. Look heaven, Acipa can take care of himself.
You need to think about the child. Let's be realistic.
It's been a whole day. He went out and he
didn't come back. Either that means he's been rounded up
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or he's stuck somewhere. In either case, you can't help
him by staying here. You need to think about the child.
A keeper is a survivor. He's probably hold up somewhere,
biding his time. We can leave a message with the maid.
If when a keeper turns up, he can follow. They're
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always out across the desert. Did you ask if they
could postpone our departure? I did? And what's the rush?
Why can't we just stay here and wait it out? O?
Someone approached me? What do you mean? Who? Someone from
the palace? I think I can't be sure, but what
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do they want? I think I think I might be
hon a list. I think I might be being investigated. No, please, no,
we need to go. We need to go to nights.
Is everything all right? Master? Do you need refreshments? No? No?
Thank you? Do you think we should tell her? We
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should tell her? Yes? I shall, Master, come here sits
master said, it's okay. You've been with us a long time.
I shall I hope I have served you well? My
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you have you have You have been a good and
loyal servant. This is why there is something we need
to tell you. M Palla, go to the bath house
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and tell them to prepare for me. Allah h did
you hear what I said? So? Has it been a
stressful day? Cad Ali? I've been looking for you? Oh? Yes,
m I went to the Hall of Mirrors and I
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didn't find you there. I thought, well, perhaps he's in
the gold room taking care of the latest dispatch, recording
every last item. What a dilly and loyal fellow. But
you weren't there either, So I thought I'd wait for
you here in your private rooms. I have the keys,
after all. Mhm. These are fine works, so lifelike. How
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do these artists capture such likeness in miniature? I think
they use lenses, lenses to magnify. Ah. Now what's going
through my head is this? Why aren't these on the
register of treasures from the palace? These were? These were yours,
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your personal possession. I mean, they were in my care.
And I'm asking myself why would a believer keep such items?
It is for God that God alone to create in
his form. Why would a believer hold what the books
condemned as idolatry. Why is this purpose to pervert the
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thoughts of other men? Or is he weak? Where does
his soul reside? I think carefully before you explain. I
understand frailty, I understand greed, but heresy, Wow, it was greed.
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It was frailty. I thought I could solve them. I
am weak. I am weak. Hm hm. Everyone makes mistakes.
H even I Barracat make mistakes. I can help you,
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and I am a man who never lies. Yes, we
can help each other. Would you like that? Yes? Good? Please,
Now let's start. Why don't you tell me who have
you just been to see in the market? Mm hmm.
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It better be the truth because we know the answer
already m And he probably does. He's probably watching me now,
spying on the spies. I've set a spy on whoever
we're investigating, even down here. And this is my old haunt,
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the dungeons, deep beneath the palace, excellency, this this was
my office now in Europe. Give me a torture m hm. Cola,
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Oh it's you, my brother Coolan, once commander of the
armies of Tumun Bay, now confined to a stinking cell
you brother, never better, and you are your new masters
taking good care of you. You're looking well fed. Are
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you pleased with yourself? Brother? You can save yourself if
only you don't so. Or news of my family. I
haven't yet been able to. There's very little opportunity. My
informants saying they've taken lodgings near the Madame. There are
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so many refugees no one suspects that they are. Passia
is a good boy. He might not be a fighter,
but he'll make sure no harm comes to his mother
and sister that I am confident of. It might be
just what he needs. He added, too easy for two?
What Passia, it's not in this world. What when the
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soldiers came to your house to arrest them, Pasha barricade
at the door. He was trying to delay them so
your wife and daughter could escape. They killed him? Oh oh?
Or was it quick? He died fighting with a sword
in his hand. I had such hopes for him. Mannell
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and the mother are alive. I will find them and
bring you news. Why are you so dubn colan. All
you need to do is what I did. It's better
to be alive and without honor than general what's going on.
I've been sent to bring the general. Bring him where greg, Gregor,
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you need to open your eyes. They are taking me
to the place of execution. They told me that they
didn't tell you you were You were spared before. Why
would you fool greg Do you think they wanted to
kill me in front of my own troops? Do you
think they wanted to make a martyr of me? No,
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they will slip my throat in the darkness and dump
my body with all the other poor bastards no one
knows about. Come on, let let go of me. I
will walk to my own death. I beg you cool line.
You can end all this now just about then kiss
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the Ring Square religions, as we all did, those of
us who wanted to live. Even your brother here, tell him, Gregor,
it means nothing. Do even what we say. You know,
I will be lost. Brother. Listen, Yes, what is it? Gregor?
You remember when we were boys in the mountains, we
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came to this city and I told you then Tuman
Bay is our destiny. I thought you understood, understood what
the Tuman Bay is. Where it ends. We were born
with nothing and became slaves with everything. We were the
slave rulers, both of us players in the game, in
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the greatest empire on earth. And this that my brother
walking to his execution. But is this the last of it?
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In here? But where's the boat? It's coming? You need
to wait in here. It's all right, girl, it's better
to wait in me. This way great, But this is
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not what we agreed. Who have to travel alone? Just wait?
But who all these people? I haven't sorry to Let
me handle this. Listen, we almost refugees like these people.
Father has paid you. I lon't believe it's all right, relaxed,
But my boater is expecting a baby. This is hardly
There isn't even anywhere for her to say. Let me
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apologize for the service. Perhaps your daughter was expecting a
garage and perhaps some refreshments. Let me see what I
can do for you. It's going to be fine, I promise.
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This is the difficult bit, but it will be worth it.
Once we get to Serena and our back on shore,
we will travel in comfort, I promise. Before you know it,
we will be by coming in Shariba, Shariba. I wish
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we had never left. I know, I know, I'm sorry.
I am so sorry. Child. One day when this is
all over and my grandchild is sitting on my All right,
the ship's waiting to come, all of you, yes, God
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down here? Wait? Is this the boat? What does it
look like? But it is too small? There are too
many people for one boat. Do you want to go
or not listen? I'm a slave trader. I wouldn't even
trust the consignments of slaves to a boat like this.
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Don't worry, You'll be transferring to a bigger boat once
you are out of the harbor, a bigger boat. We
can't bring it in here. It will be seen. Get
your man, are you coming or staying? Come? All will
be well, I promise, And as soon as we get
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to scream, we'll send word back to the house for Akiba.
I should will pass the message to him and he
will find us. Of that, I am certain it's the
last boat, your last chance. We're coming. Excuse me, excuse me, please,
excuse me. Make some room. My daughter she's pregnant. Thank you, sir,
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thank you. Here a seat especially for you. Understand and
move back. We need this. See it's not bad at all,
actually quite an adventure. But now, what's are you doing? Down?
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He's don't get down. I'm sorry, father, I cannot leave
without My husband needs bad. She's wrong. Oh, my doctor's
in the water. You haven't come. All this kind called
you put my daughter. You can't go, don't no, I can't.
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I never alright, I'm all right. I'm alright, father, right,
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We'll find another way. Every think will be honest at
Season two, episode one of Tu Munbai, The Last Boat,
featuring Rufus Wright here In abiss Aka, Matthew Marsh and
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Nathalie Ahmen, was written and directed by Me John Scott Dryden,
with music by Sasha Putnam and editing and sound design
by Steve Bond. To Mumbai is created by Me and
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Where fear reigns. The only place to hide is in
your own thoughts. That's not a good place to be.
Utter them out loud and ah, peace be with you,
Please be with you. Two. Mun bey has changed. I'm
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sorry to disturb so late in the afternoon. Is the
master at home you're sleeping? Oh? Let him be? It
is the child of the house I wish to speak to.
Please don't be alarmed. It is a small matter. Whom
may I say? Bar a cat? You wish to speak
to my son? Why if I may come in? I
will explain if it's convenient. My son is saying his prayers. Good,
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I'll wait if it's convenient. Oh, these are my priests
we have walked from the palace, and the soldiers our escort.
In these times it is a shame, but there are
those who would harm us. Husband. What are you doing?
Why are you making a holy man waiting the street?
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Please let me touch your feet, please, there is no need.
I am merely a servant of God. Welcome to our
humble home. Bring the freshness. You must be hungry, surely, no,
we have need of nothing. Please don't trop it loss.
Just such an honor to receive you holiness come through. Please,
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you have a beautiful home. Thank you, Please treat this
is your whoe. I love babies, may I it's all right,
It's all right. Hello little And they are the blank
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parchment on which God's word can be written. Of course,
this must be your son. Come child, Come Malick, come,
come sit with the Holy Father. H How do you
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like school? Money? Good? You are one of the lucky ones.
I didn't have such a good education. I didn't come
from such a home as this. Tell me about your teacher,
what do you call him? Master? Master? Good? Good? He
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teaches you about the scriptures you tell as you how
a young man should live his life according to God's law. Yes,
but I have heard he teaches other things too. Ah,
you surely do not want to eat. No, but I
said no, wait there. Please stand next to your husband
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and wait there. Tell the servants to go. He basically
Laiaco close the door. Please you look worried, child, don't
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be worried. Do you know what makes us strong? When
I say strong, I mean without fear of what might
happen to us. No, the truth makes us strong. It
is God's gift. I learned that from a very early age.
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The power of truth. That is why I Barakat have
a reputation for never uttering a lie. Never. That is
my strength. That can be your strength. Now do you
understand me? We have brought our son off to always
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tell the truth, haven't we, Manic tell him Manick, yes, good,
you see. It has come to my attention that there
is a heretic in your son's school. I swear we
know nothing of the course. Of course, you are not trained.
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You expect when you send your children to school that
their teachers will show them the true path. Are you
seeing our son's teacher? M hmm? He has visited what
this house? Your house? Several times. Alick was falling behind
with his recitations. We asked his teacher to help. That's commendable.
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I understand if all parents were so diligent, my work
into Monday would be unnecessary. Please, if our child has
done anything wrong, tell us what it is. We will
beat him. Until soldiers came to your school today looking
for your teacher? Where was he? M m hm? Where
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was he? Tell him? Malick? Tell him you where was
he he left? Did someone tell him the soldiers were coming? Good?
Who told him? You know where the master went? Don't you.
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How can he possibly know? The man has fled. You
have a chance to save yourself. Now we know everything already.
He's just the child. Know everything. We know every child,
We know every teacher in every school. Every soul is
important to us. When a soul is lost, especially one
so young as you, you know what happens. You're feeling distressed.
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It is natural you feel distressed. You are trying to
hide from God. But God sees all, and all will
answer to him. You know how to save yourself? Where
is the master? There? He's in there. No, No, he's confused.
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You are confusing him. Tell him, tell him you know nothing.
Open that door. H pas No, oh, damn, damn, Please
taken and take The parents came and the boy leave him.
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You see, God takes care. God takes care of all.
The truth set you free. Come, let us continue God's
walk roun to obey, Series two, Episode one, The Last
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Boat by John Dryden. The Truth is what destroyed us.
The greatest city on Earth, the defeated city. All its
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wealth is being plundered to fund the conqueror's expanding empire.
Myer's ambition, Myer's truth, and the man who determines Myer's truth.
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The man who measures everything. We believe householders in the
area are high aid inheritage bacut Meyer's inquisitor. The man
sent not to preach in one household another will be
alerting the other to enforce Mayer's truth. So what do
you recommend? The burning down of the buildine section of
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the city. In my experience, such measures are necessary. Mm hmm.
Let me pray on it. If ND read the regent
entrusted by Maya to govern to Munday. In any case,
the judges would need to issue a decree. He has
been clever using the existing systems, the judiciary, the institutions,
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the administration, and the old officials. Gregor Regent still here.
I don't think they would agree to that. Do you
to be commanded? I'm sure, excellency, the judges would agree
to reduce, though, from head of the palace guard to
this a messenger boy for the new regime. At least
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I survived because I'm good at that. And of course
our Sultan will have to put his stamp on the
order if he is capable of holding the stamp. He
speaks of our young sultan, and they keep him because
they need a figurehead, someone to convince the people that
the city thrives even as they plunder it. Some lands
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are rich, some are poor. Where do you want them
to bring them inside? Careful? Please? Ours has a surplus now,
a surplus of corpses, so our doctors. You've kept them cold.
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They thrive that denice no expense. Hi, don't just just
in the cold room? Put it down there gently? What
are they for? Dr? Routine? Just one of my duties
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as ahead of the medical institute. Where have they come from?
They say, from the swamps outside the city. Are you sure?
Definitely from outside of the city walls. If that's what
it says on the order, that's what they came from,
good cavil. What does it matter? What? This is the
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third first delivery in as many weeks. So aren't there
enough of the dead into Mumbai for you to you
ask too many questions? Elkin? Or not enough? Butler? Is
everything ready? Yes? We have guests, inquisitor, Yes, what is it?
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And look here? Is this a convenient time? Convenient for
one another of the old guard like me, another to
swear his oath to Maya in return for life, some
sort of life. I just wanted to let you know
that I have dispatched a new consignment of treasures from
the palace to Maya. Where is this whole time? Stan,
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I haven't seen him. I hope you are satisfied with
my work. Satisfied. I am merely a servant in God's household.
Of course, we are answered to him and him alone. Yes, anyway,
I just wanted to keep you and let you know
that I'm so glad you're here. Cadali always knew which
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asked to lick and which are to kick? Inquisitive, Come
with me, I so I'm not so different? What do
you think, griggle, Inquisitor? You are experienced in rooting out
spies and traitors, aren't you. What would you do if
you were Fendi Red? I would take the advice of myers,
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celebrated inquisitor, of course, And suppose I wasn't here and
it was your job to find those who would destroy us?
What would you do? I would place spies amongst them?
And how would you know? You could trust your spies
through spies. I would have them, though there are other
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spies watching them. Stay close to me, Gregor, I think
you could be useful. That's why I survive what does
he want from me? The room of mirrors Baracut's administrative section,
now rows of clerks making lists, and every treasure stripped
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in for I should record. That is the key, Inquisitor.
Would you like to inspect every man, woman, child, dog,
every cat, every beggar in tuman Bay. I want to
know everything about them. It's just that the households inquisitive
the others here, and that is how you can help
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me record the Sultan. The Sultan, why wasn't he at
the meeting today? He sent word he was unwell? Unwell,
I believe so, mhm. Someone is supplying him with the
midnight flower. If andy Red doesn't care, he would rather
the young sultan lift this half life. But I am
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curious to know who is supplying m find out of course, Inquisitor.
That's all you can go, now back to your tasks. Actually, no, come,
I want to show you something, A darkened room with
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laid out on tables. If I make an incision, just
here in a straight line, soul, dear god Ah, Inquisitor,
harry on, carry on, you see Gregon the dead can
tell us as much as the living pill the flesh back.
I hadn't taken you as a patron of scientific discovery.
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Perhaps not, But I believe we have a duty to
use everything God has given us to search for God's truth.
Make a cross section the soul, for instance, where does
it reside in the body? Precisely? How long does it
remain after death? If we can find it, Oh, look
at that, just across the tender, perhaps we can cure sin.
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You see, if sin is a disease of the soul,
which it must surely be. Often sin manifests itself in sickness,
the lame, the crippled. Perhaps if we can treat the soul,
we will cure the disease. You see. Yes, of course,
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I definitely see what I see as a madman. How
do you cure madness? To Monday has been sick for
a long time? So what if we compare the bodies
of known sinners, known sinners from to Monday. Our prisons
are full of them, right, we compare them with the
bodies brought from Afar, and therefore we will find where
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the sin resides. Well, that is our hope, isn't it, Doctor, Yes,
it is our hope. Indeed it is. Of course, we
cannot completely be certain of the purity of the body
is brought in from Afar, although I do leave. These
ones came from swamps. I was told our rather doctor
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I can hear, is the traveler from the east, a
great mind. I discovered her in Massirah. She found herself
trapped there just before the city was liberated by Maya.
I might have died there if it wasn't for you,
Inquisitor Braiseby. She's assisting Dr Dorin in his investigations. What's
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that a deliver and that darkness? The soul sickened there?
Do you think the man was a soul? Is drunk?
I imagine? Does that conclude our work for today? Because
with your permission? Weight? What is it? Alesion? Just here
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in the lungs? I have seen this before. Yes, I
noticed that too. But let's not distract ourselves. Elkin, let
me see. Are you saying this is? This is? Get
the other body? Yes? I think that's enough for today, Alkin.
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Why don't you and the let her doctor? Perhaps she
knows things we do not the doctor. The other bodies here,
this is the other one from the swamps. Yes, help
me to pull like this is that song it's spread
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out through the long sea. Yes, wherever these corpses came from.
There is sickness spreading from corpses to ghosts. Have you
got it? Here? Is it, Magina? The very best, majesty,
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Let me try it, the majesty not here. I beg
you please keep it to your rooms. I don't care.
I don't care what they do to me. No, but
I do care what they would do to me, and
then I would no longer be in a position to goodly.
Shouldn't you be yes, yes, the slaves were just dismantling
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the shandeliers. Majesty, I trust you're feeling better. I'm fine,
Thank you for your concern, Gregor. I have some business
to attend to. Majesty. Our young sultan has withdrawn into
a world of his own, a ghost of another era
floating through the palace corridors. A few even notice anymore.
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Set it down and write it down to Monday's vast
collection of treasures, every fitting and fixture, and Cadali has
put himself in charge of their safe dispatch. It's a
complex business, dismantling an empire, saving your skin. What do
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you want, greg Or, the same thing as you? So
we need to be careful. I don't know what you
mean to stop, but it cuts watching you. It won't end. Well,
that's my gift to you. M over here. It's a nightmare.
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They want everything recorded, every last detail. What there is
in the palace, Who does what, how the courts work,
the legislature. I'm sure when I've told them everything, they
would just put yourself together, excellency. Should I pick down
the other one? Ah ye, be careful this time. I'm
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not keeping gregg Or. I don't know what. This is
not the time to fall apart. I know, I know,
but I can't help it. I'm so Look, you need
to make yourself invaluable. Hold something back? Can I ask
you for some advice? Advice? Now I have a collection
of my own paintings, rare miniature portraits of the villain
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arte school, beautiful, perfect, real. Now I've said it. Why
did you tell me? Because you know people, Gregor, I
can't just throw them away? Why not? It would be
safer If I have to run, I will need to
pay people, the people, smugglers, the captain of the ship.
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I want to sell them. But all the traders, all
the artisans, the artists, they have fled the city or
been killed. So you want my advice. Do you know
anyone who might be prepared to buy them at a
good price? Of course you're an idiot, Kadali. You do
better to burn them quickly before I can't. Yes, they no,
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just carry on, Yes, I can't let my insurance. Everyone
needs to prepare for a time when they might have
to run. You are inquisitors. It's been approved. Sorry, what
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has you asked permission to visit prisoner Cooline in the cells?
Didn't you? It's been approved? I see, thank you. What
were you talking about? I'm sorry, just now, the two
of you nothing you were talking, Kadali? How could it
be of nothing? We're all together now. You don't need
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to be nervous. Of course, So we were talking about
the lists, the details of them. Give me your hands,
my hands, Why are they shaking? I don't know what
were you talking about. You can tell me. If you
want it to remain just between us, it shall. That
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is my promise. Everyone knows that I but a cat
never lie. If you want it to remain just between ourselves,
it shall. Now what were you talking about? I have
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a confession. Yes, Cinally is feeling the pressure of the situation.
We all find ourselves in of course, I understand. Yes,
I'm sorry. I want to serve. I want to serve
Maya to the best of my ability. That's all that
matters to me. Now, prayer and fasting. That is my advice.
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M h m. If you hold your nerve, Cadali, you
are safe. You know everything about two mac Bay. They
need you. No one is safe. We don't know the
language of these people. We don't know what they want.
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I must have my way out when things get bad.
There's a slave trader in the city. He used to
collect rare books and paintings too. I'm not saying he
will help you, but his name is Ibben hip and Bay.
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Thank you, Thank you, greg Or. You know you will
always help my undying loyalty. I don't doubt I've got
to go. That was weak. Now I've given Cadali something
to use against me, and what should I do? Betray
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him to elevate myself. Deception is exhausting. Yes, oh, sorry
to interrupt. I'm looking for the shipping clerk. Who are you?
I am even by slave merchants. I have imported many
slaves through this very important during the the old times.
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What do you want? I'm looking for the shipping clock.
I am the shipping clock. What do you want? I
am even Aren't you expecting me? I am looking for
the Ablis. Come with me. Are you trying to get
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me killed? What? No? Who told you about the Ibliss?
A friend, another traitor. I paid him the money he
said you would be expecting me. Yeah, yes, Wait a minute.
Are you you are the Abliss? Aren't you party of three? Yes?
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My daughter she's expecting a baby. I need to get
her out. I was told to come here and ask
for the Abliss. I paid the money. You were supposed
to come tonight. I know. That's why I'm here. I
need to delay your departure. You see, my daughter's husband
has gone missing. If you don't leave tonight, there's no
guarantee there will be another boat. The city is falling apart.
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I know, I know, my advice friend, get your daughter
out of Twoman. Pay for the sake of her and
your unborn grandchild. The husband has probably been rounded up
by one of the patrols. If he gets out, there
are smugglers who can help him through the desert. But
for a pregnant woman, it's up to you. This is
the last boat. Oh, markt hello speak he h A
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body interested? She's still got her cheeth. No, no, no, no,
thank you, And I'm not interested. It's even bay, isn't it. Yes, yes,
but I'm not interested in That's all right. I'm not
a trader. I've come to see you. I'm sorry, have
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we I thought i'd find you here? May I walk
with you? Yes? I used to love coming here to
see all the slaves, big, small, dark, pale. There was
such a variety, so much to choose from that. Now
it's just a few toothless old crones, useful to no one,
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but very little profit in slaves these days. So true,
so true. So a man must turn to other commodities,
I suppose so. Yes, for instance, books, paintings, artwork. That
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would be forbidden, It would, it would, But I understand
you have some experience in these items. I have something
of value, something I need to I'm sorry. I don't
know who you are, and I don't know what you're
talking about. Please excuse me. H, what's happened? Did you
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manage to delay? The boat is tonight? Then you can
go alone. Look heaven, Acipa can take care of himself.
You need to think about the child. Let's be realistic.
It's been a whole day. He went out and he
didn't come back. Either that means he's been rounded up
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or he's stuck somewhere. In either case, you can't help
him by staying here. You need to think about the child.
A keeper is a survivor. He's probably hold up somewhere,
biding his time. We can leave a message with the maid.
If when a keeper turns up, he can follow. They're
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always out across the desert. Did you ask if they
could postpone our departure? I did? And what's the rush?
Why can't we just stay here and wait it out? O?
Someone approached me? What do you mean? Who? Someone from
the palace? I think I can't be sure, but what
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do they want? I think I think I might be
hon a list. I think I might be being investigated. No, please, no,
we need to go. We need to go to nights.
Is everything all right? Master? Do you need refreshments? No? No?
Thank you? Do you think we should tell her? We
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should tell her? Yes? I shall, Master, come here sits
master said, it's okay. You've been with us a long time.
I shall I hope I have served you well? My
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you have you have You have been a good and
loyal servant. This is why there is something we need
to tell you. M Palla, go to the bath house
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and tell them to prepare for me. Allah h did
you hear what I said? So? Has it been a
stressful day? Cad Ali? I've been looking for you? Oh? Yes,
m I went to the Hall of Mirrors and I
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didn't find you there. I thought, well, perhaps he's in
the gold room taking care of the latest dispatch, recording
every last item. What a dilly and loyal fellow. But
you weren't there either, So I thought I'd wait for
you here in your private rooms. I have the keys,
after all. Mhm. These are fine works, so lifelike. How
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do these artists capture such likeness in miniature? I think
they use lenses, lenses to magnify. Ah. Now what's going
through my head is this? Why aren't these on the
register of treasures from the palace? These were? These were yours,
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your personal possession. I mean, they were in my care.
And I'm asking myself why would a believer keep such items?
It is for God that God alone to create in
his form. Why would a believer hold what the books
condemned as idolatry. Why is this purpose to pervert the
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thoughts of other men? Or is he weak? Where does
his soul reside? I think carefully before you explain. I
understand frailty, I understand greed, but heresy, Wow, it was greed.
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It was frailty. I thought I could solve them. I
am weak. I am weak. Hm hm. Everyone makes mistakes.
H even I Barracat make mistakes. I can help you,
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and I am a man who never lies. Yes, we
can help each other. Would you like that? Yes? Good? Please,
Now let's start. Why don't you tell me who have
you just been to see in the market? Mm hmm.
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It better be the truth because we know the answer
already m And he probably does. He's probably watching me now,
spying on the spies. I've set a spy on whoever
we're investigating, even down here. And this is my old haunt,
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the dungeons, deep beneath the palace, excellency, this this was
my office now in Europe. Give me a torture m hm. Cola,
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Oh it's you, my brother Coolan, once commander of the
armies of Tumun Bay, now confined to a stinking cell
you brother, never better, and you are your new masters
taking good care of you. You're looking well fed. Are
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you pleased with yourself? Brother? You can save yourself if
only you don't so. Or news of my family. I
haven't yet been able to. There's very little opportunity. My
informants saying they've taken lodgings near the Madame. There are
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so many refugees no one suspects that they are. Passia
is a good boy. He might not be a fighter,
but he'll make sure no harm comes to his mother
and sister that I am confident of. It might be
just what he needs. He added, too easy for two?
What Passia, it's not in this world. What when the
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soldiers came to your house to arrest them, Pasha barricade
at the door. He was trying to delay them so
your wife and daughter could escape. They killed him? Oh oh?
Or was it quick? He died fighting with a sword
in his hand. I had such hopes for him. Mannell
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and the mother are alive. I will find them and
bring you news. Why are you so dubn colan. All
you need to do is what I did. It's better
to be alive and without honor than general what's going on.
I've been sent to bring the general. Bring him where greg, Gregor,
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you need to open your eyes. They are taking me
to the place of execution. They told me that they
didn't tell you you were You were spared before. Why
would you fool greg Do you think they wanted to
kill me in front of my own troops? Do you
think they wanted to make a martyr of me? No,
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they will slip my throat in the darkness and dump
my body with all the other poor bastards no one
knows about. Come on, let let go of me. I
will walk to my own death. I beg you cool line.
You can end all this now just about then kiss
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the Ring Square religions, as we all did, those of
us who wanted to live. Even your brother here, tell him, Gregor,
it means nothing. Do even what we say. You know,
I will be lost. Brother. Listen, Yes, what is it? Gregor?
You remember when we were boys in the mountains, we
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came to this city and I told you then Tuman
Bay is our destiny. I thought you understood, understood what
the Tuman Bay is. Where it ends. We were born
with nothing and became slaves with everything. We were the
slave rulers, both of us players in the game, in
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the greatest empire on earth. And this that my brother
walking to his execution. But is this the last of it?
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In here? But where's the boat? It's coming? You need
to wait in here. It's all right, girl, it's better
to wait in me. This way great, But this is
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not what we agreed. Who have to travel alone? Just wait?
But who all these people? I haven't sorry to Let
me handle this. Listen, we almost refugees like these people.
Father has paid you. I lon't believe it's all right, relaxed,
But my boater is expecting a baby. This is hardly
There isn't even anywhere for her to say. Let me
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apologize for the service. Perhaps your daughter was expecting a
garage and perhaps some refreshments. Let me see what I
can do for you. It's going to be fine, I promise.
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This is the difficult bit, but it will be worth it.
Once we get to Serena and our back on shore,
we will travel in comfort, I promise. Before you know it,
we will be by coming in Shariba, Shariba. I wish
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we had never left. I know, I know, I'm sorry.
I am so sorry. Child. One day when this is
all over and my grandchild is sitting on my All right,
the ship's waiting to come, all of you, yes, God
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down here? Wait? Is this the boat? What does it
look like? But it is too small? There are too
many people for one boat. Do you want to go
or not listen? I'm a slave trader. I wouldn't even
trust the consignments of slaves to a boat like this.
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Don't worry, You'll be transferring to a bigger boat once
you are out of the harbor, a bigger boat. We
can't bring it in here. It will be seen. Get
your man, are you coming or staying? Come? All will
be well, I promise, And as soon as we get
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to scream, we'll send word back to the house for Akiba.
I should will pass the message to him and he
will find us. Of that, I am certain it's the
last boat, your last chance. We're coming. Excuse me, excuse me, please,
excuse me. Make some room. My daughter she's pregnant. Thank you, sir,
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thank you. Here a seat especially for you. Understand and
move back. We need this. See it's not bad at all,
actually quite an adventure. But now, what's are you doing? Down?
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He's don't get down. I'm sorry, father, I cannot leave
without My husband needs bad. She's wrong. Oh, my doctor's
in the water. You haven't come. All this kind called
you put my daughter. You can't go, don't no, I can't.
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I never alright, I'm all right. I'm alright, father, right,
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We'll find another way. Every think will be honest at
Season two, episode one of Tu Munbai, The Last Boat,
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Nathalie Ahmen, was written and directed by Me John Scott Dryden,
with music by Sasha Putnam and editing and sound design
by Steve Bond. To Mumbai is created by Me and
Mike Walker and produced by Emmahern and Nadia Khan. For
more details, including a cast list, visit to munbay dot com.
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