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Speaker 1 (00:06):
In the city. Life goes on. I suppose it always does,
until things become so unendurable that what life itself becomes
an insult. Well, one of the things I've learned in
my life is that human beings can swallow just about
anything if it means they stay alive. So bread is sold,
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olives are prepared, tea and mamul a son. Can I
get you more tea? Offendi? Maybe some almond cake? No? No, no,
I'm finished here? Good night? Mm hm Is that the last? Yes?
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No more tonight? I should think m It's used to
be busy after dark. It was like another city out there.
I did half my business then now I just do
half my business. Yeah, and pay half too. Are you're
going to find a better job. There's many who wouldn't
think of employing a girl, and there's many jobs that
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wouldn't get done since most of the men are dead
or slaves. True enough, it's not the city I knew,
or you. I dare say, whoever you were. No one
asks that sort of thing now, or we pray we
never get asked. Are you finished? I'll do the washing.
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It's getting lit. You don't want to be caught out
after curfew. I know my way maybe, but you never
know what these damned rebels will do next. Fires here
a body there? Worry too much. I've been alive too
long not to and pay too little. Good night, good night?
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I mm hm oh yeah, my jo I have given
a stand back, girl, how about leave out? Don't think
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that's here. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. There's nothing
I can do. He's still that hind you. No way out,
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leave me alone. I've done nothing wrong. Why were you running?
It was scared there was a fire, and they care
for you that everyone runs, are all scared of the
doesn't sound like nothing. That was the Maiden Temple. I
don't know, I swear it. Then you're lying, girl? How
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long do you think you will last in the cells
under the torture? Please know what? You will tell them everything?
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What do you mean, I'll tell them everything so you
can still think under pressure. I don't know, of course
you don't. How could you you can? Thank god you
haven't been arrested already. A month ago you burned Myers
banner outside the palace gates. Two weeks ago you poured
spoiled oil into the blue Well. Now this temple you couldn't.
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I didn't. We've been watching you. I know exactly what
you've been doing. What I'm interested in finding out is
why you've been doing it. They killed my brother. Why
do you want to know? Who? Are you? What you've
been looking for? We need you, You need us to Monday,
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Series two, Episode two, to Kill by Mike Walker, and
the heavens are on fire, Strange days into Monday and
stranger nights. Stars are falling from the skies. Maybe the
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skies themselves will fall? Then where do they fall? Beyond
the city, beyond the hills, maybe as far as the
Marshes region. They're beautiful in their way and terrifying. What
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if one fell here, right here amongst us? They burn
like a torch, wouldn't you. We stand on the palace
roof thinking what that we're protected, the hendy, red and
Cadali looking up to the fiery skies lit by the fires.
What the fires of creation? I'm sorry, Regent, I didn't
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realize I'd spoken aloud, the worrying thought Gregor, in a
man of secrets, I have no secrets. All men have secrets.
My friend and bad account to watching the falling stars.
He's everywhere of course, the secrets we know of are easy.
The danger lies in those that are hidden, even from ourselves.
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Those are the ones that we must find out bring
into the light of day. I think that we are
well ahead with our Where do they come from? These
fiery messengers? Better ask why they come? Not a flower
blooms in this world, not the shadow of a lizard
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on the sand, but that it is the word from
God to man. I think you'll find that the text
actually says that these things are a reminder to man
of the greatness of God. He scored a point. I'm
sure that the inquisitor of Brick had meant that what
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he meant was saving his skin or trying to his soul.
Of course, was lost a long time ago, along with
everyone who survived so far. You're not saying that these
things simply happen, you know, I am not here we go.
All things come from God, and He is the arbiter
of our days and our ways, as much of our
heads as our hearts. And if we ignore any of
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his great gifts, we fail in our observance. Indeed, as
but with God, everything is for a reason. Please can
spend so much energy makes so great a show as
this for no reason. Shut them up. I believe he's
warning us of the danger within. He that has eyes
let him see. Ah, you have it. The inquisitor has it.
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Do you see? The word is our command? What did
they say, Inquisitor? Picktor heads down? Probably very good, majesty. Ever,
the pragmatist, I didn't notice our young sultan appear to him.
This might be one long hallucination. And yet men have
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been burnt for less. I wish sometimes that might be so.
To burn in the fiery light of a star would
be to live for ever in the skies. Perhaps the
Sultan is feeling tired, mistake. The Sultan, the great Sultan
meadow rule of tuman Bay, is feeling as usual whatever
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he is told to feel. What should I feel? If
Andy read barracat your wisdom, It is not you who speak, majesty,
but the demons within you. You should consort less with
infernal realm. Those demons are the only thing that keep
me from cutting my own worthless throat to dally. Why
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don't you escort the sort time to his chambers where
you can rest. I want to watch the stars fall
and weep for them. Come along now, majesty let me
he still finds these opiates somewhere in the city. I'm
afraid the Sultan doesn't appreciate the great favor showing him.
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Why am I in allowing him to rule to Monday? Gregor,
I've gone too far. I never quite know how to
take your words. I h apologies, inquisitor. I am not
a word smith, but I do my job. But why
do you do your job right? Who sweeps a temple
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with God in his heart makes of that a holy task?
Who rules an empire with nothing in his heart makes
of it abomination? If you will excuse me, I shall
leave you to enjoy. Or is it understand the spectacle?
I will retire. I have dispatches to write. Good night,
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good night, good night. There are still heretics in the city.
In this palace, even our work is barely begun. There
are eight hundred heretics in the trade district at least.
How can you be so precise? My clerks have noted
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down the complaints of the people about shot measure and
false accounting. I suggest your time, Gregor would be well
spent in going through those documents, noting names and addresses,
and acting on them. Of course, God, I hate him,
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the arrogance that built the hands on our city. Then
why not do something? Majesty? This is what I do.
Mm hmmm, what can any of us do? You do? Well? Godali,
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if there is ever a time of rewards, then I
shall see that you are amongst the first, because I
supply your midnight flower. These are not good signs, majesty
five from heaven. When is it ever good? Now here
in this city, at the end of everything, Well, don't
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you see we have to do something, get away. There's
no tomorrow here, only death and destruction. We need, need to.
I need my medicine to I'm trying to say, Majesty,
I can't. You see, I can't do this anymore. Everyone
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is full if they're watching all the time, I can't.
It's too dangerous. You have to do it. I won't.
I'm the Sultan, I order you, and I am the visitor.
And look at us both. Even starving dogs would turn
away from what you've become. I can't live without it.
Then you'll have to go yourself. You know where it
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comes from. Go outside the palace. You said it's yourself,
and you said they follow us all the time. Your
need will support your cunning Who will know you're just
going for the blessing? We all need that, God help us.
I can't then, don't and do without because I'm done
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with it. The place, the market where once trade has hackled,
and even dad to cheat you. These loaves you wish
to buy you on it, they look like to me
now the risk of cheating or even an honest mistake.
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See see feel how heavy? Come on, brother? Cheating the
people is a crime to come checking. Nothing is nothing
wrong with you? What are you looking at? What is
your business here? Same as yours? My friend? Seeing the
peace is kept? You're being funny. We have a place
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for those who mocked the authority, my authority. I did
not recognize you at once, so forgive me, harry On,
Thank you. Take them away, useful confusion, it's created just
the distraction. I need to slip away from any spies
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and enter the cafe of the Black Cat. What can
I do for you? Sweet deats, pastries with honey from
the planes, tea sweet mint tea, or coffee darker than
darker than what my friend night, darker than the darkest
of nights. Huh t Only of course, of course I
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go mint tea for his honor. Don't keep our customers waiting. Vanel.
He's alive. Your father, sugar with the tea, not your enemy.
Almond cake offendy. We still have a little left. I
need to see your mother. It's no cake, then, will
that be all? Listen to me. I need to see
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her for your father. Anything else, no after work at
the end of the street, I'll wait my niece Monell.
She hates me and has inherited It seems I'm not interested, Uncle,
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the strength of my brother. You're a traitor to human
bay am I leave us alone. We don't want your help.
Cool her father he's looking right at me out of
her terrifying eyes. Mannell, Please, you're touching me. In times
like this, we need all the help we can get.
And I need to see your mother very well. Since
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you crawl around the palace, you could tell me about
my father. H Well, your father is. He's alive. At
least he still lives in a sense. Perhaps I shouldn't say.
But they continually take him to execution and then bring
it back again. They think it will break his spirit.
Then they are fools. You've changed so much. Everything's changed, Uncle,
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Where hadn't you noticed what are we all supposed to do?
Shut our eyes, count to seven, and we all go
to heaven. That's what he used to say, Uncle, when
you visited us before you gave us sweets this way
and say nothing about father to my mother. Doesn't she
have the right to you? You, Gregor, you don't have
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the right to talk about him. Mother. It's me. I
brought someone, uncle, Gregor. Let's us at least, Yeah, Gregor,
no one knows I'm here or that I wish you
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only well, very well. Come in a grand house, caught
yards and fountains and servants to this he will eat,
I will make We haven't enough. He can afford his
own food. Hash Girl, where are your manners? Your father
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would be ashamed. Craig Or, have your news, and I'll
attend to the water. Colan lives as well as well
as gonna be expected. God be praised for that you
have seen him and talked to him. He asked me
to I can give you some money so that things
will be a bit easier. To keep your money. Uncle.
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We don't want ash Manal. It is so hard. Her
brother is and her father is not here. What can
I do? I want you to take this. Now, where
are you going to care for you? Every moment this
man is in the house disorders our father, You're going
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to have to breathe for share. Wait, what can I do?
Clickor what can I do? She had everything at home,
a family, a man she loved, and now this hiding
in a hovel. I will do what I can, but
these are harsh times. If she gets in trouble, it
won't help her father. They'll use her against him. She's
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like him, you know, like Coulan, the same and bending
right and wrong. And I just pray she doesn't end
up like him in a cell. I've come to see
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personal colan. Your authorization, excellency? Do I need it? You
served under me for years in the palace guard Vellan.
You know my face as well as you know your own.
No papers are no entry, excellency. Everything goes into book nowadays.
Good well done, that's what I expect. Good work fillan. Yeah,
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oh wait, you'll need them to get out again, of course?
Thank you. Carry on, A says if you want to,
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if you're standing under standing, because I need the exercise.
I doubt you do. Sit on the cot or the
stool I have all the conveniences here so I can smell.
I'm not the first I've shared a room with a
pile of shite, and I dare say it won't be
the last. What do you want, grither? I'm glad to
see you're alive. They didn't do what they said. There
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was a mistake, but you're still alive. So they didn't
do what they said. Shows weakness. Aren't you at least
the smallest bit pleased about that? Brother? I brought you
this to read. If you could swear to this much,
it's been amended from before. Haven't they given up yet?
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At least read it? Do me that much of a favor.
The guard watches. It's a trick we learned a slave.
Boys pretend to be reading. Did you see my wife? Yes?
They are well, you're strong. She will cope, but she's
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worried at my god daughter. Go on. She faced the
Vanlis taking risks, running wild? Is she? I think? So?
Try and find out. As you can see, there have
been changes. I'm sure you could swear to it now
without compromise weight. Let me finish it, and that's for compromise.
I leave that to you, brother. She's in danger. These
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people don't play games. If she's called doing something, they
will kill her. I would rather she died than serve
these people until wrong dead. She can't do anything. You
have to survive to achieve change that what you were
thinking of changing things. He's looking through me. He always
looked right through me. Yes, you're being a fool, brother,
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throwing away the chance to fight back if that's what
you want. What they say Klan was a great man.
He refused to bend, and so they finally executed him.
And now when we need him, where is he? I
have no new since we were boys together in the mountains,
you me Versey m Posy, you remember you carry that
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boy in the end despite your misgivings. It's all right,
I got you help me. I saw your grief when
we lost him, Truel, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, just I
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couldn't save him. I called him my brother from that
moment because I believed you would do great things, which
we can do. But now what are you? And he's
looking through me again. I'm not sure you know you're
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wasting my time and yours. Gregor, I will not cannot
swear to this. Thus the Great General to the Rats
aspiders in the bucket of peace and shit. This visit
is over. Goodbye, greg Or. Whatever you say, brother, I
don't have a brother. Brother. I will try and do
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my best for you. Courage, common sense. So what do
I do? Throw myself off the city wall and earn
his admiration? Oh, I've done terrible things in the name
of survival, Gregor. You've been to see your brother m
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as you know, since you have him watched, is he
showing any more sense? Or perhaps you don't want to
answer that. I'm happy to answer Barakat. He's himself as
he's always been, inflexible, adamant, arrogant in his own certainty,
qualities that might well be admirable in another man in
another tuation. Don't you think I serve? I try not
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to think you were slaves? Were you not when you
first came to Monday. You must excuse me. I have
work to do. You must excuse me. I have need
of you today. If Andy Reds cleared the matter, walk
with me, Gregor, how well do you know these corridors
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your old domain? I suppose they tell me there are
catacombs below the dungeons deeper. Hell down there you've seen
the plans of the palace I have, and they show nothing.
But they say whole community has lived down there. Are
you speaking of demons in the fiery pits? Perhaps I'm
speaking of rebellion of treachery? No, well, I mean you
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no harm, Gregor. We all serve the same God. Now,
I'm sure we do as slaves. You and your brother
must have worked, yet your hands are smooth, and we
had a good master. He educated us. Everyone began as
a slave into monday. Everyone had a chance to rise
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at their ability with He sees my hands a healer's hands,
hands that are not afraid to get dirty in his service.
And what do you need me for, inquisitor? We're going
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to see a friend of yours. Ah our carriage come
m hm m hmm. Shall I bring a share a bit? Mistress? No,
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wait until my father gets home. We'll have something then. Yes,
what is it, Aisha? Are you really going away? I
don't know, I don't know anything. But what will happen?
To go open the gate? Go? Oh? If Indy the
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master is not at all, never mind, I will see
the mistress if I may, of course, If Indy, oh,
where has it been, very mistress? He will be back
later if you wish to see him gregor you should come.
You shall wait if you have no objection, Mistress, I
don't know. I it's all right heaven. Then you better
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come in h Will you wait in the house or
by the fountain? I think by the fountain. I love
the sound of waterfalling, the gift of God. Indeed it is.
My name is Barakat. You're the one they call the inquisitor.
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Thank you, Asha. You may bring us tea. They say
you can see things other people cannot. Perhaps I see
what's there in front of me when other people cannot.
Will you bring us te Aisha? Of course, please sit
under the tree. It's it's cooler. Are you thinking of traveling, Mistress? Traveling?
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I see bags packed in the passage there. Yes, no,
my mother's things. She died, and for for the rack pickers,
ah of the plague we were on a ship. I
see a great loss a girl's mother, especially at such
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a time time, not to see her grandchild come into
this world, not to have her help and guidance yourself
when this new life appears a great time and yet
a sad time. Yes, wee I wish she was here too.
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And your husband. Where is your husband? He had to
go back to his country. Yes, I only say because
perhaps mother or husband might have cautioned you about your dress.
It is very light, hardly suitable for mother to be.
I am in my father's house, how I dressed? Children
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are so precious. Yes, they are the blank page waiting
to be written upon with the word of God. We
must all take care of the children. May I feel
this holy life within your body? You are a sacred vessel,
my dear ah. Yes, I can feel the life quicken
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with him. Perhaps we should come back. I bless this
child in the name of the Almighty Maids. Paths through
this life lead into salvation in the next. Yeah, opened
the gate, Gregor? So are you doing it? Mother? This
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is about a cut. What has he to do with me?
Greg Perhaps you should listen to him even by he
is a man of influences. You mean in runs your
old friend jokes. I have no influence at all, hypen Bay.
But I am curious, curious about what sir, your library,
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my library, I have heard it is. Really it is nothing,
very much. What do you say? Even by? We let
your daughter and Commander Gregor enjoy the tea and we
shall enjoy your library. Thank you, I shall thank you
inquisite or shall we go hypen Bay? Yes? This one,
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ah h m hmm. It is a poor thing, not
at all. I have seen few such collections in private hands.
Must have taken you many years, much trouble and money
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to build it up. I have traveled, you see. In
my business, I go to markets. I see many people,
and if they have something to sell them screws too, some,
only a few, some of our ancients decorated as you see,
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decorage in praise, many of them, of of of of God.
They are only screws, and yet you have them in
a cupboard. God has no need of decoration. Surely, No, No,
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these are the work of their of the past. Yeah,
the past, history, you see. I'm interested. But history is
only in the mouths of those who tell it, and
they talking lies. Well not, Yes, I suppose history is
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a lie, even me. Surely you know that. Yes, then
what is the purpose of these books other than to
pervert the minds of men? You have a child, I
hope she has not been exposed to this contagion, and
a grandchild coming. Really, I am just a collector. I
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I never read them myself. I just love to I'd
like to have them a collection, that is all. Would
you collect scorpions in a house with children in it?
No matter? I expect you're thirsty, I am after all
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this dust. Shall we go back to the others? Yes?
Ah m hm, oh it is good. You must tell
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me where you buy it. Good tea is hard to find. Father,
it's all right, seven right, just but we we were
just Your father will be coming with us for further clarification, mistress,
what do you mean, just to clear a few things out?
That's all, so that everything is correct? Shall we go,
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hven bay, No need to back a bag. E Oh,
don't look so concerned, my dear. No m will come
to him, not from me. That is my promise to
you and your unborn child and Barracat never lie. I'll
be back later heaven, Please don't worry. You have to
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help him. I'll do what I can, my virtual present
of myself heaven. Friend. You have to help him. I
have to go help him. Help him? Oh, help her, Greg,
I beg you is he here? I need to see him?
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You'd like to see the huffies? Shall I take? Yes? Yes?
At once? Perhaps you perhaps you remember me. We met
before all this. My name is Bella. Who do I
care about your name? I need the Happies. The medicine
I need the Dolly usually comes from me. The Happies
has medicine for the soul. I, on the other hand,
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the symptoms Majesty life. I can't bear being alive. I'll
get used to that. We all do in the end, Holiness,
would you like to try my medicine? No, you're drunk.
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Have you seen yourself, the last of the great sultans
of tuman Bay, your father, the great warrior, your uncle,
the builder of tempers, the creator of the fumes, and
now you? Yes, I'm an old drunk who has done
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much in his life. I've earned the right to be
what I am. What have you earned? Give me what
I need? Ask Bellow easier to help, personal Majesty, I
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need it. Give it to me. I have gold. What's
my name? What? What is my name? H? Yeah? Oh yeah,
hi yeah, I can't remember. To tell me, I'll have
what is my name? I can't remember? I just need please,
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I must have to bless My name is Bellow, see it?
See it? Please, Bellow? Can I have my blessing? I
have money, Oh money, here's no use here. This is
the house of God. We are here to help. Bellow
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is here to help. Oh, yes, thank you, thank you,
thank you. Hello. M hm m hm m hm. Damn
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you Cadally, got greg Or. I've locked that door. I
always locked my door. Keys to all the old doors,
not the new ones. I am going to What are
you doing? I'm throwing you out of the window, Cadally,
in case you aren't. You can rub it, mad please
stop dragon, prease, stop it baking. M hm, Well have
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I done? What is it? A slave dealer? I mentioned
him to you because of your damned miniatures, and now
he's been arrested. You betrayed him? No, I swear it.
What good is your word? You've snake on my life?
I swear it, Craig, I saw the man, but he
couldn't help me, so he'd run off like a frightened anteloe.
Why would I betray it? Because it's what you are.
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But I have seen some of the papers in the
case I'm waiting, Cadani. Mm hmm. It'll just be one
more accident. He's lean out of the window, slip and fall,
break your neck, and your neck is so very valuable
to you, isn't it. The maid is a spy. Don't
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you know that? All the servants in the city. I
should think why now they work for Barricat. The report
back on everything, everything she's been reporting on the family,
of course she has. Why should she be loyal? She's
a slave? What else do you know about it? That's it?
No more just papers. I saw they write it all
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down everything. How can they know everything? They can't look Gregor.
I'm on your side. On what side would that be?
You know as well as I do. We have to
cooperate to survive. It's not good if when the time
comes to act, we're dead in the sand. Right, there's
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something funny, nothing go on. There's someone you have to see?
What about resistance? And you expect me to trust you
on my neck in the Sultan's menagerie at noon tomorrow.
We both want the same thing, don't we. You have
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no idea what I want? No, But I know what
you don't want. You don't want to be running around
behind Barracat on a lead like his dog. I could
have you killed for saying that once you could, but
not anymore, you damned fool. I was going to throw
you out of the window. But you didn't grow or
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shall I tell you something else? Mm hmm. Once your
threats mattered, Now somehow they don't. I can feel the
stone of the city walls, smell the stink of the streets,
see the minarets, and hear the quarter prayers, and yet
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I feel as insubstantial as a ghost. It's cool, I'm right.
Have I become as nothing the shadow of a bird
in the dusky Good morning? If and how may we
serve you? Minty and mamu, if you have any left?
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We have a few almond or rose water. When I
I'll leave my sculp, run after me with it rose water,
and please hurry. You forgot this? Thank you? Come. Do
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you truly want to join us, be part of our struggle? Yes,
yes I do. There is a doctor traveling out of
the city, going via Darcella one guide. You will join
their party. Say you are a slave, you are separated
from your master when your party was attacked by bandits.
They will accept you and then travel with them. Kill
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the doctor and the guide, bury the bodies in the sand.
But why what have they It is not for you
to know me. Now, we all of us obey orders.
If we are taken, we can betray nothing because we
know nothing. Do you have money? You will need money
to pay the smugglers to get through the city walls
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for transport. I have a little from the cafe, and
my mother has some savings, only small than take her savings.
You can keep whatever you find on the travelers after
the kill, Season two, episode two of tuman Bay. The Kill,
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featuring Rufus Wright, Aisha hart here In abass Akra, and
nobil Eloa Harby, was written by Mike Walker, with music
by Sasha Partner and editing and sound design by Steve Bond.
Tuman Bay is directed by Me John Scott Dryden and
created by Me and Mike Walker, and produced by Emma
Hern and Nadia Khan. For more details, including a cast list,
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