January 31, 2020 • 43 mins
Manel goes to the swamps in search of her father, General Qulan, who had been sent there as a prisoner to work on the great dam. Back in Tumanbay, there’s someone new in charge and the young Sultan Madu comes out of hiding for a secret rendezvous with a long-lost lover. Tumanbay is created by John Scott Dryden and Mike Walker. Visit tumanbay.com to see full credits and download scripts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, the desert wanderers on the hot sands hoping to
find war, my niece Mornal, and the daughter of my friend.
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Where have I sent them to safety? What to death?
I plague? What are they doing? Don't say anything? Where
the guards were just travelers? Where are the guards were? Now?
Didn't you say that the guards you do? What's your
business here? Travelers? We're travelers. We just want to rest
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a while. It's not rest here here? Everyone works. Can't
you see? What are you doing saving the city? Some
say during the canals making the water flow. It's us.
It was built hundreds of years ago. We're just patching
it up. So the general says, what general General Coolan?
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But isn't he wasn't here? I mean slaves and guards?
Weren't there who want guards? Go ahead, look around your
traveler and see them clear enough, all those who didn't
know which way the wind blows? What do you mean
on the poles? The heads on the poles, girl, there
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are the cards. The rest of us are free men. Again,
in general Coolan? Is General Coolan? Now? What was it
you wanted into the tent? Maybe we should wait. It's
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too late for waiting, girl, Go mhm m father, welcome
daughter to my camp and my army. But how why, how,
my dear manal is your father? You know? Why? Is
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a stupid mistake of those in the city that think
chains can imprison an idea? You go now, You were
never so tongue tied as a child. I told you
to speak clearly. Mother. They have mama. They took her
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from her hut, and they will pay. Now you show
the heads as you arrived. There were many heads. Does
that upset you, young woman? I wish you could kill
them all. This is heaven. They killed her father and
stold her baby. I like her attitude. How did you
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escape the city? Uncle Gregor? He helped us. He's part
of the resistance in the city now, so he says, so,
he says, if it's true, it's worth knowing. I think
it's true. They wanted us to go to the mountains.
Who came here instead. People are coming to us every day,
desert dwellers, refugees, they dispossessed. If they can work and fight,
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we take them in. And if not, there are always
more poles for more heads. How did you sleep, my child?
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I had dreams, Papa, I was frightened. Don't be frightened.
Soon all will be well. A great master has seemed
the soul than exploded. He will learn how to make
your soul right again. And then you will run and
play under car It's good blue skies? Is there really true? Papa?
Everyone who knows me knows I never tell a lie.
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You will have to be brave, and it will sometimes
be a hard and long journey. Listen, I will tell
you a story. I was a boy such as you,
and not much older than you are now, when I
was lost in a cold country. My leg was twisted
and broken, and I was in great pain, and I
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feared I was going to die alone. Give me your hands.
I did not die. A great light appeared, and there
was warmth, and the love of God fluttered down, and
I was found by a passing Hudsman who took me
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and made me hold again through God's grace abounding. So
will it be with you, my child, Oh my Papa.
Never ever tells life, never ever, Sweetness of my heart.
Now I have to go to the palace, but I
will return. M two man Bai Series two, episode seven,
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Take my Hand by Mike Walker. The Palace. Another morning,
another meeting. Nothing's changed except someone new in charge, and
the process the slow certain destruction of two man Bay.
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We'll go on marvels which will sent to the market.
Soft I was, I was unavoidably detained mistress matters of
no importance. Sarah Iffendi, Red's widow wants my slave sent
by Maya to continue the work, or perhaps to bring
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about something new. Our watchers tell us there is insurgency
in the swamps. I can't take my eyes off her.
What were you thinking sending a man like Kulan out
there on his own? There are gods, he's in chains,
there are no guards, and he is no longer in chains.
It seems the bar of card I knew would not
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have done this. Maya is not interested in swamps or plagues.
I am guided by God. Be quiet, try and be useful.
We need to stamp out this rebellion. Daniel, you know
cool On. Is it likely that he could prove a problem. Yes,
I served under him. I stayed in his house. I
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know his daughter Manew. Given time he could build his
five hundred slaves into an army, then we must not
allow him that time. What troops are there in the city, Barcard,
the numbers I don't at this moment. I will obtain
them at regulars undred wall guards, roughly seven hundred police.
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Most of the front line troops have been sent to Maya.
Two thousand is all I'll need to mop up these slaves.
I'll take the regulars and make up the numbers with
the wall guards and who will guard the walls. The
walls will be safe, believe me. Then get to it, please, Daniel,
finish these thing so we can complete our work here. Mistress, now,
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I wish to see the Sultan. She asks what she
already knows, and knows very well what she wants. Where
is the Sultan? The rest of us, even Badacat I
suspect not here? Where is he appears to be lost? Mistress,
are in the dark? H m oh h. I came
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to see my father. He said I was to meet
him this morning, and you meet me instead. I did
not expect me. My father has a wife, my mother.
I am not your father's latest wife, nor he my
latest husband. Manan. I'm a traveler, and I've seen and
learned many things in many ways. Oh, minel good your
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own time? How are you fine? Oh? Before we go,
dr Elkin has something she has to do for you.
Lift your sleeves, both of you. Please, It's all right,
we will done it here. When I was in cafe,
there was a plague, and the doctor's there had discovered
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that if you scratched yourself with a needle bearing a
little of the infection, you would not catch the disease.
Is it true? Is it magic? It is what it is.
The learned doctors of Kathoy could tell you more, but
they are not here. You will feel a little strange
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later today, as if you were in a dream. But awake.
Don't worry, it is nothing manew Your father is waiting. Oh,
they broke in and smashed everything. Pasha, Pasha took up
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your sword and he fought. He was a boy against men, Father,
but he would not give up. Daniel was there. It
could have saved him, He could have stopped it. All
that he admitting, and Pasha died. But he died as
you would have wished. Father. I thank you, my Now
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I failed you by not being there, But I know
too that you have taken up that same sword, and
now you live and make me proud. Gregor has helped
us father and himself. Why do they work still that
they are not slaves anymore. The canals, the locks need
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to be mended. We're going to clear the swamps and
eradicate disease. Besides, it is good training, will get them
used to hard work and small rations. It will make
them better fighters. Fighters. But you don't think they will
leave us alone out here. They will be sending an army.
That's how were five face an army? They would crush you.
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Maybe maybe not a diz he yes, yes, little go
and lie down in my tent. Does the magic doctor
Algin gave you? Father? It is not my place, but
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dr Alkin, you are right, my daughter, it is not
your place. Go rest, be strong for what is coming. Mhm.
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You sent for me. Yes, my husband died here in
this room. How did he die? Do you know how? Strangulation? Who?
Your husband was ill? But even so, I doubt Cadari
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had the strength of the guts to do it. And
the confession was just too neat. So everything points elsewhere?
Why that points elsewhere too? Yeah? For now leave it be.
May I ask you a question? Yes, why you when
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you came to Tuman Bay as a slave, Why did
I choose you? Trust you above all other possibilities? Where
I come from, really come from. There is a tree
that grows in the high mountain, passes too high you
would think for insects to find it, But it exudes
as sap that certain insects can sense over vast distances,
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And in spring they fly up and up. They are
driven mad and millions die, but a few, only the
most perfectly suited for their task, get through. And the
tree doesn't care. All it needs is to spread its seed.
You thought you were free, Gregor, but maybe you weren't.
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We chose you. My understands these things. Isn't it a
coincidence that the wife of offending read happened to survive
red and many wives and the child she served Maya,
as do we all? And what now we must prepare? For? What?
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For Maya? She's coming to too, Munday, she's already here
amongst us, you, of course not. Do you think she
would risk coming announced to a city at war with itself?
She has a purpose, as always, but first she must
be anointed by the Hoffies. It is written and must
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be so. When the holy oil touches her, she will
be transformed, brought into direct contact with the divine, forever changed,
as the city will be city. What do you mean
it will be raised? There will be nothing left, no
towers reaching for the stars, snow walls excluding God, no
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great palaces mocking God. Life will be very simple, just
the servants of God and the slaves of men and me.
That's the Gregor I recognize. Perhaps you'll burn with the city.
Why are you telling me this? Because you have a
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chance to save yourself. Perhaps I owe you something. Now
I have something to act on. A ceremony, a state
event with Maya and all the top officials. President, this
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is what we've been waiting for. H please be with you,
all three. You know who I am. I require the
response still in leaf. That's the council present. Enough of us,
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what news do you bring up? Something hopeful? At last,
the Sultan speaks, well, we have been starved of hope.
Then today we can begin to prepare the feast. What
do you mean? A grand ceremony and the great temper,
with every bastard in the regime present, whilst Maya is
anointed by the Hafez, All of them present, Maya, Barakat, Sarah, Daniel, Daniel,
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he's here, majesty. It's good to see you looking so well.
How are you feeling much better? Thank you? You mentioned Daniel.
Oh God, look at his eyes. Has he come to
Tuman Bay? He arrived three days ago. Why wasn't I told?
Because your love for him will put everyone at risk?
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Isn't that obvious? But how can we get close to Maya?
It's my job to escort the devotees of the temple
to the Herfees's palace, where they will prepare we kill
the monks, seven of them, and substitute our own people.
But won't we be certainly? Yes, indeed, but you will
have no weapons, nothing to be found. And now were
we killed. The assassins will have poison under their fingernails, invisible, unscented,
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but deadly once it reaches the blood. One scratch, kill
them all well, of course, majesty darn Will. Where is he?
Is he here? He's working in the hospital. Are you
sure you can trust him as much as we can
trust you? Wait? Yes, he needs to ask me something.
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I need to ask you something. Did you see Daniel?
Are you sure it was him? It was him? You
knew about us, of course you did. You knew about everything.
He was my servant all the time. My life is
full of betrayals. I want him left off the kill list, rerecord.
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He's part of it, is what I want. I'll see
what I can do. Stay away from him. You know
you can't trust him, Yes, yes, I understand that. Just
see that he lives. Yes, she was right. The insect
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can't resist the sap of the tree of death. Last
than we met, you were going to kill me, and
I didn't know. You said you were a girl, a
straight You didn't tell me you were the daughter of
two Monday's greatest general. I was no one then, or
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perhaps I was astray. I don't know. I have my mother,
you know, into Mumbai. They arrested her. She will be
all right. How can you say that I know these people,
these kind of people. She is a counter in a
great game to be played, not thrown away. Perhaps you
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were one of them. I love my father, and yet
you are your father. Willy take you as a wife?
Will I take him as a husband? Does that shock
you that I should say such a thing. Drink more?
You need the liquid. I don't know anymore. So many
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things have happened, and sometimes I think I wish it
was all as it was, And then you don't. I
don't it's not so easy being free. Ah, regret is
part of freedom. Do you regret much? Doctor? I? Many
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years ago I was traveling at the very far edge
of the civilized world, near the lands of the pale barbarians.
I was living in a city there, studying under a
great doctor, and I fell in love with a young fellow. Oh,
I was hardly more than a girl myself then, And
as will happen, a child was born, a daughter. And
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then a new khan came to rule over the city,
and I and my kind were not wanted. I had
to escape, and I left our baby with a father,
for he had a wife of his own and loved
the child. And I was no more than a traveler,
and give her nothing. What's happened many years later, shortly
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before I came to Munday, I was again in that
far country and in that city, and I wondered about
my child. And I went to the street and the house,
and I inquired about the man I had loved. I
was told he was dead and his daughter, I said,
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a black haired almond I child, And they told me
she too, had died at the age of eighteen of
the plague. My daughter had lived a whole life, and
I had known none of it, not one moment. Perhaps
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you should find her friend. She has nobody's daughter and
maybe lost and confused. She's not really my friend. It
all went wrong because of her. But then I wouldn't
be here if it wasn't for her. Things are so confusing.
She lost the baby too. Watch where you going on?
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We're working here. You could get her to go back
to the pie. I was looking. What's up? I was lost.
We don't know where to go. I was lost. Come on, girl,
you have to heaven. Heaven. It isn't I thought. I.
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I knew I would not give up. I knew. I
hope I would find you if you had at the
end of the earth. Whoa, the magic makes you feel strange.
It's all right, Heaven. I am here, my hand hold it.
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Don't let me go. I lost her baby. They took
our baby. He keep him to another family. Our child
is lost to us. A keeper lost it s no,
we will find him. I swear it as I found you,
so we will find see your boy. Are you sure?
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I don't know. I don't know. Together together you got
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my message, I did. Are you going to let me in? Then? Mental?
Everyone is looking for you since you vanished from the palace.
You can't imagine, Maybe I can. It was a blow
to the regime to Maya can't vanish. I was just
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a puppet. You were there, a puppet. They didn't like it.
But I always knew you were a fighter, Madam. Did
you you know that? All I know is what happened
at the end when the city fell. I acted in
the only way I could to save your life. They
made you the Sultan, didn't they You know what that
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was worth nothing. I signed decrees, I put my seal
on terrible things, awful things that were done in my name,
and you just disappeared. Daniel, Do you have any idea
of how it was for me? I was a soldier too,
I had orders, and you don't disobey Maya. Don't you understand.
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I've been in hell, Mada who ever? Since I was away.
I was worried almost to death about you, about what
was happening, And I could say ask nothing that would
show how much I care. We could have escaped together
before all that. I could have gone to the mountains.
Do you know that could never have happened. They would
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have found us. It was a dream we would have been.
I missed you, Daniel so much. I missed you too, Madam,
my darling man, so much. Oh God, DANIELA, my beautiful Daniel.
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Don't ever leave me again. Never, never, I swear it,
my sweet never. Night and silence in the shadows. A
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child looking at me. Go back to bed. Maybe she's
asleep even as she turns and walks away. No shortage here,
orphans are plenty. What are you doing here? Gregor? I
could ask you the same question. I am physician to
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the orphanage. Why would I not be here at this
time of night? Or is it morning by now? I
was at the institute at your home. No one seems
to know where you are. I'm busy. What are you doing? Darling?
You and Barracat, are you betraying us? Why would I
betray my friends? Why? Indeed? I want nothing more than
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the total destruction of these animals, this fifth that has
infected our city. I wanted to stop. I want an
end to it. What are you doing to this child?
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The child is dead. It was nothing I did? And
why what? It's Baracat? He believes that if we can
find the soul and mend it, then we can mend
the child, and what child? Mend his child? I was right,
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you're up already, there's work. I'm no longer a free man.
I have an army on the march. What do you mean?
There are some ragtag rebels out at the swamps. Sarah
is sending me to shut them down. That's all rebels, swamps.
It's nothing, okay. When can I see you again? Ah?
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I don't know. It depends depends on what. All right.
You can come in now, Daniel, take him to the
palace and come with us, den Hook. Don't let him
out of your sight, Daniel. He'll tell you all you need.
He knows where the rats are hiding and what they
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want to do. Not all, Commander Good and the army
set off a first light sort. Thank you here, come
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on the were what any where you were? As you see,
and the troops in good order, ready for the fie Good.
We need to finish this and get back to the
main past. Exactly when do you estimate our arrival tomorrow?
The seventh hour, I would say, sir. They'll know where
coming from the dust, and like the dust, they will
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be scattered. Carry on, guest, Commander up, majesty, welcome back.
I had hoped to meet you when I arrived, but
it seemed you were going away. I have nothing to
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say to you. Come. Look, they want to know that
Sultan is safe and looking over them the people. An
empire without a sultan is an empire in danger of anarchy.
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When you disappeared, Maya was concerned. I was sent to
find you to make sure you were safe. We feared
you had fallen into the rebel's hands. Where did you go? Hi?
I just wondered, that's all I needed to be alone? Ah?
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Who gave you shelter? Who fetch you alone? I was alone?
Of course, I know how hard you've struggled. Remember I
knew your mother too. M Hm. Sharjah was a powerful woman.
She demanded so much of you. Is it any wonder
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that sometimes you're a bowed under the load, that sometimes
you stumbled on the way. You knew my mother, Yes,
and you killed her. She was very beautiful as she
died murder. I strangled her in the bath with her
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own gold chain. How often did you dream of doing that?
Choking the life out of that beautiful cruel mother of
your Stop it? Are you angry with me? Or are
you jealous? Why do you just kill me now and
the last of the old regime. Then it will be
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finished and done with the rebels? Where are they? I
can't m take my hand here. You have suffered grievously,
you have been betrayed and used, but all of those
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things can be forgotten. Let everything go. I can't save yourself.
Madu in Maya, live in Maya. Here, Come close, and
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not a whisper escape in my hair? Come close, close, close,
m I can't. I can't do this anyway. Stop, wait
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for what my city to worship? Vessel time. Yeah, my people,
see your sultan the mighty Madden starts see him fly
to heaven. You have failed behind the side he was.
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Can you see the body? Yes, it is broken, Highness,
then leave it for the dogs. What is your name? Said?
Do you want to have children one day? So you'd
a family? Highness? I do jump, Highness, you heard you jump.
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Your failures are no use to Maya. What Mr Sarah,
you dare to disobey me? No m h nor wake up,
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wake up? It's real. I thought this night was it
was a dream. Yeah, eat drink you need to get
your strength up now m hm. Are we going back
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to the city. Not yet. First we have to do something.
We have to get through today. You will need to
go to the hills there beyond the canal with a
woman and children. Is he here? He's on the workings
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with his people. He was there early waiting. They'll come.
Our lookout tells us they're on the way. You'll see
the dust soon. You should go to the rear. Are
you going? I wouldn't miss the chance of seeing a
battle like this. Is there a sword in there I
can use? Can you use a sort? Yes, I'll fetch it.
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Then you should go to your father. I think he'd
like to have you beside him today. Good day father.
As long as we acquit ourselves, we don't know it
will be so there I see them then there for
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a while, they watching their dust. There's a lot of them.
They seem to cover the horizon, more to kill enough
for our thoughts. Surely too many? Daughter, We can all
see them. Is that a white flague? Yes, Gordon knows
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what they think. We have to talk about. How is
to reply? Let them come? Oh my heart? Do they
think will surrender? Can't be that stupid? Maybe for the
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women and children? Doesn't sound like maya to me, we'll
see it's him for Daniel. That at least makes sense.
He knows his business. That one let him through. General
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Daniel Maya is not vindictive. She will accept your total surrender,
your return to slavery. Anyone who lays down his arms
and comes with me now we'll live. I'm afraid you've
wasted your time, Daniel. There will be no surrender. Hello Daniel, Hello,
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I didn't expect to see you here. I dare say
you didn't. General, is it your right to condemn all
these today? If you're asking half of them to fight
with shovel and mattox, you have a handful, I have
an army. It's absurd, General Krulan, it's over. Indeed it is.
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You can go now. You'll all die. Then we'll be dead,
and your daughter manew. I don't want to see you
what armed hurt again. You don't have to die. Come
with me now. All you have to do is take
my hand. Take it now, and you will be safe.
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I trusted you when you said we had a future together,
when you said you loved me. My father opened his
home to you, my mother offered your hospitality, and you
betrayed us. My brother was killed by your people, and
you just looked on. I did what I had to
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do to save your life. We are all under orders men,
al as your father says. We are soldiers, but you
are not. Yes, I am general. You know that your
wife Hadda is our prisoner. If you don't surrender them,
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they will execute her. So be it very well, sir,
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prepared to advance. They turned the offer down. Obviously. There
are women and children amongst them. They may not all
be rebels, some may still be loyal. Kill them all, commander,
Let God decide who to save. The army will advance
through the valley. There's no other way to get to them.
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The army will advance, Yes, Commactor, let's buyer. H Old steady,
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all old steady, Oh day ready, sergeant, ready, sir, on
your command, Dr Elkin, Not yet, wait. They must be closer,
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closer at the mark we made cooler. I thought you
were going to the back. They never could resist the battle.
And besides, the idea was my in the first place.
What idea? They can't pretty closer? Wide old um now
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now old now zagy? What is the way there? I
thought it would be five hundred against two thousand. It's dead.
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It's two thousands, said, where are they? What's happening? M
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are the running? What's that? What have they done? Removed? Good? Good.
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I thought somehow that you would survive, Daniel of the Lord,
that it would be you. Yes, of course, take my hand.
H I love to you. You have to believe, of
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course I do. I looked into your eyes. I could
see the truth. I want to help you, Daniel, look
into my eyes. You can see the truth. All you
have to do is take is my hand. Yeah h
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goodbye Daniel Yah. Season two, episode seven of To Mumbai,
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Take My Hand, featuring Rufus Wright, Asha Hart, and Christopher Fulford,
was written by Mike Walker, with music by Sasha Putnam
and editing and sound design by Steve Bond. To Mumbai
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, visit
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to Mumbai dot com.
Yeah, the desert wanderers on the hot sands hoping to
find war, my niece Mornal, and the daughter of my friend.
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Where have I sent them to safety? What to death?
I plague? What are they doing? Don't say anything? Where
the guards were just travelers? Where are the guards were? Now?
Didn't you say that the guards you do? What's your
business here? Travelers? We're travelers. We just want to rest
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a while. It's not rest here here? Everyone works. Can't
you see? What are you doing saving the city? Some
say during the canals making the water flow. It's us.
It was built hundreds of years ago. We're just patching
it up. So the general says, what general General Coolan?
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But isn't he wasn't here? I mean slaves and guards?
Weren't there who want guards? Go ahead, look around your
traveler and see them clear enough, all those who didn't
know which way the wind blows? What do you mean
on the poles? The heads on the poles, girl, there
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are the cards. The rest of us are free men. Again,
in general Coolan? Is General Coolan? Now? What was it
you wanted into the tent? Maybe we should wait. It's
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too late for waiting, girl, Go mhm m father, welcome
daughter to my camp and my army. But how why, how,
my dear manal is your father? You know? Why? Is
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a stupid mistake of those in the city that think
chains can imprison an idea? You go now, You were
never so tongue tied as a child. I told you
to speak clearly. Mother. They have mama. They took her
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from her hut, and they will pay. Now you show
the heads as you arrived. There were many heads. Does
that upset you, young woman? I wish you could kill
them all. This is heaven. They killed her father and
stold her baby. I like her attitude. How did you
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escape the city? Uncle Gregor? He helped us. He's part
of the resistance in the city now, so he says, so,
he says, if it's true, it's worth knowing. I think
it's true. They wanted us to go to the mountains.
Who came here instead. People are coming to us every day,
desert dwellers, refugees, they dispossessed. If they can work and fight,
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we take them in. And if not, there are always
more poles for more heads. How did you sleep, my child?
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I had dreams, Papa, I was frightened. Don't be frightened.
Soon all will be well. A great master has seemed
the soul than exploded. He will learn how to make
your soul right again. And then you will run and
play under car It's good blue skies? Is there really true? Papa?
Everyone who knows me knows I never tell a lie.
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You will have to be brave, and it will sometimes
be a hard and long journey. Listen, I will tell
you a story. I was a boy such as you,
and not much older than you are now, when I
was lost in a cold country. My leg was twisted
and broken, and I was in great pain, and I
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feared I was going to die alone. Give me your hands.
I did not die. A great light appeared, and there
was warmth, and the love of God fluttered down, and
I was found by a passing Hudsman who took me
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and made me hold again through God's grace abounding. So
will it be with you, my child, Oh my Papa.
Never ever tells life, never ever, Sweetness of my heart.
Now I have to go to the palace, but I
will return. M two man Bai Series two, episode seven,
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Take my Hand by Mike Walker. The Palace. Another morning,
another meeting. Nothing's changed except someone new in charge, and
the process the slow certain destruction of two man Bay.
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We'll go on marvels which will sent to the market.
Soft I was, I was unavoidably detained mistress matters of
no importance. Sarah Iffendi, Red's widow wants my slave sent
by Maya to continue the work, or perhaps to bring
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about something new. Our watchers tell us there is insurgency
in the swamps. I can't take my eyes off her.
What were you thinking sending a man like Kulan out
there on his own? There are gods, he's in chains,
there are no guards, and he is no longer in chains.
It seems the bar of card I knew would not
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have done this. Maya is not interested in swamps or plagues.
I am guided by God. Be quiet, try and be useful.
We need to stamp out this rebellion. Daniel, you know
cool On. Is it likely that he could prove a problem. Yes,
I served under him. I stayed in his house. I
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know his daughter Manew. Given time he could build his
five hundred slaves into an army, then we must not
allow him that time. What troops are there in the city, Barcard,
the numbers I don't at this moment. I will obtain
them at regulars undred wall guards, roughly seven hundred police.
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Most of the front line troops have been sent to Maya.
Two thousand is all I'll need to mop up these slaves.
I'll take the regulars and make up the numbers with
the wall guards and who will guard the walls. The
walls will be safe, believe me. Then get to it, please, Daniel,
finish these thing so we can complete our work here. Mistress, now,
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I wish to see the Sultan. She asks what she
already knows, and knows very well what she wants. Where
is the Sultan? The rest of us, even Badacat I
suspect not here? Where is he appears to be lost? Mistress,
are in the dark? H m oh h. I came
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to see my father. He said I was to meet
him this morning, and you meet me instead. I did
not expect me. My father has a wife, my mother.
I am not your father's latest wife, nor he my
latest husband. Manan. I'm a traveler, and I've seen and
learned many things in many ways. Oh, minel good your
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own time? How are you fine? Oh? Before we go,
dr Elkin has something she has to do for you.
Lift your sleeves, both of you. Please, It's all right,
we will done it here. When I was in cafe,
there was a plague, and the doctor's there had discovered
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that if you scratched yourself with a needle bearing a
little of the infection, you would not catch the disease.
Is it true? Is it magic? It is what it is.
The learned doctors of Kathoy could tell you more, but
they are not here. You will feel a little strange
(09:07):
later today, as if you were in a dream. But awake.
Don't worry, it is nothing manew Your father is waiting. Oh,
they broke in and smashed everything. Pasha, Pasha took up
(09:28):
your sword and he fought. He was a boy against men, Father,
but he would not give up. Daniel was there. It
could have saved him, He could have stopped it. All
that he admitting, and Pasha died. But he died as
you would have wished. Father. I thank you, my Now
(09:54):
I failed you by not being there, But I know
too that you have taken up that same sword, and
now you live and make me proud. Gregor has helped
us father and himself. Why do they work still that
they are not slaves anymore. The canals, the locks need
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to be mended. We're going to clear the swamps and
eradicate disease. Besides, it is good training, will get them
used to hard work and small rations. It will make
them better fighters. Fighters. But you don't think they will
leave us alone out here. They will be sending an army.
That's how were five face an army? They would crush you.
(10:36):
Maybe maybe not a diz he yes, yes, little go
and lie down in my tent. Does the magic doctor
Algin gave you? Father? It is not my place, but
(10:57):
dr Alkin, you are right, my daughter, it is not
your place. Go rest, be strong for what is coming. Mhm.
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You sent for me. Yes, my husband died here in
this room. How did he die? Do you know how? Strangulation? Who?
Your husband was ill? But even so, I doubt Cadari
(11:47):
had the strength of the guts to do it. And
the confession was just too neat. So everything points elsewhere?
Why that points elsewhere too? Yeah? For now leave it be.
May I ask you a question? Yes, why you when
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you came to Tuman Bay as a slave, Why did
I choose you? Trust you above all other possibilities? Where
I come from, really come from. There is a tree
that grows in the high mountain, passes too high you
would think for insects to find it, But it exudes
as sap that certain insects can sense over vast distances,
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And in spring they fly up and up. They are
driven mad and millions die, but a few, only the
most perfectly suited for their task, get through. And the
tree doesn't care. All it needs is to spread its seed.
You thought you were free, Gregor, but maybe you weren't.
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We chose you. My understands these things. Isn't it a
coincidence that the wife of offending read happened to survive
red and many wives and the child she served Maya,
as do we all? And what now we must prepare? For? What?
(13:16):
For Maya? She's coming to too, Munday, she's already here
amongst us, you, of course not. Do you think she
would risk coming announced to a city at war with itself?
She has a purpose, as always, but first she must
be anointed by the Hoffies. It is written and must
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be so. When the holy oil touches her, she will
be transformed, brought into direct contact with the divine, forever changed,
as the city will be city. What do you mean
it will be raised? There will be nothing left, no
towers reaching for the stars, snow walls excluding God, no
(14:03):
great palaces mocking God. Life will be very simple, just
the servants of God and the slaves of men and me.
That's the Gregor I recognize. Perhaps you'll burn with the city.
Why are you telling me this? Because you have a
(14:26):
chance to save yourself. Perhaps I owe you something. Now
I have something to act on. A ceremony, a state
event with Maya and all the top officials. President, this
(14:47):
is what we've been waiting for. H please be with you,
all three. You know who I am. I require the
response still in leaf. That's the council present. Enough of us,
(15:17):
what news do you bring up? Something hopeful? At last,
the Sultan speaks, well, we have been starved of hope.
Then today we can begin to prepare the feast. What
do you mean? A grand ceremony and the great temper,
with every bastard in the regime present, whilst Maya is
anointed by the Hafez, All of them present, Maya, Barakat, Sarah, Daniel, Daniel,
(15:42):
he's here, majesty. It's good to see you looking so well.
How are you feeling much better? Thank you? You mentioned Daniel.
Oh God, look at his eyes. Has he come to
Tuman Bay? He arrived three days ago. Why wasn't I told?
Because your love for him will put everyone at risk?
(16:03):
Isn't that obvious? But how can we get close to Maya?
It's my job to escort the devotees of the temple
to the Herfees's palace, where they will prepare we kill
the monks, seven of them, and substitute our own people.
But won't we be certainly? Yes, indeed, but you will
have no weapons, nothing to be found. And now were
we killed. The assassins will have poison under their fingernails, invisible, unscented,
(16:26):
but deadly once it reaches the blood. One scratch, kill
them all well, of course, majesty darn Will. Where is he?
Is he here? He's working in the hospital. Are you
sure you can trust him as much as we can
trust you? Wait? Yes, he needs to ask me something.
(16:56):
I need to ask you something. Did you see Daniel?
Are you sure it was him? It was him? You
knew about us, of course you did. You knew about everything.
He was my servant all the time. My life is
full of betrayals. I want him left off the kill list, rerecord.
(17:20):
He's part of it, is what I want. I'll see
what I can do. Stay away from him. You know
you can't trust him, Yes, yes, I understand that. Just
see that he lives. Yes, she was right. The insect
(17:46):
can't resist the sap of the tree of death. Last
than we met, you were going to kill me, and
I didn't know. You said you were a girl, a
straight You didn't tell me you were the daughter of
two Monday's greatest general. I was no one then, or
(18:08):
perhaps I was astray. I don't know. I have my mother,
you know, into Mumbai. They arrested her. She will be
all right. How can you say that I know these people,
these kind of people. She is a counter in a
great game to be played, not thrown away. Perhaps you
(18:28):
were one of them. I love my father, and yet
you are your father. Willy take you as a wife?
Will I take him as a husband? Does that shock
you that I should say such a thing. Drink more?
You need the liquid. I don't know anymore. So many
(18:55):
things have happened, and sometimes I think I wish it
was all as it was, And then you don't. I
don't it's not so easy being free. Ah, regret is
part of freedom. Do you regret much? Doctor? I? Many
(19:17):
years ago I was traveling at the very far edge
of the civilized world, near the lands of the pale barbarians.
I was living in a city there, studying under a
great doctor, and I fell in love with a young fellow. Oh,
I was hardly more than a girl myself then, And
as will happen, a child was born, a daughter. And
(19:43):
then a new khan came to rule over the city,
and I and my kind were not wanted. I had
to escape, and I left our baby with a father,
for he had a wife of his own and loved
the child. And I was no more than a traveler,
and give her nothing. What's happened many years later, shortly
(20:10):
before I came to Munday, I was again in that
far country and in that city, and I wondered about
my child. And I went to the street and the house,
and I inquired about the man I had loved. I
was told he was dead and his daughter, I said,
(20:34):
a black haired almond I child, And they told me
she too, had died at the age of eighteen of
the plague. My daughter had lived a whole life, and
I had known none of it, not one moment. Perhaps
(20:59):
you should find her friend. She has nobody's daughter and
maybe lost and confused. She's not really my friend. It
all went wrong because of her. But then I wouldn't
be here if it wasn't for her. Things are so confusing.
She lost the baby too. Watch where you going on?
(21:24):
We're working here. You could get her to go back
to the pie. I was looking. What's up? I was lost.
We don't know where to go. I was lost. Come on, girl,
you have to heaven. Heaven. It isn't I thought. I.
(21:54):
I knew I would not give up. I knew. I
hope I would find you if you had at the
end of the earth. Whoa, the magic makes you feel strange.
It's all right, Heaven. I am here, my hand hold it.
(22:19):
Don't let me go. I lost her baby. They took
our baby. He keep him to another family. Our child
is lost to us. A keeper lost it s no,
we will find him. I swear it as I found you,
so we will find see your boy. Are you sure?
(22:39):
I don't know. I don't know. Together together you got
(23:01):
my message, I did. Are you going to let me in? Then? Mental?
Everyone is looking for you since you vanished from the palace.
You can't imagine, Maybe I can. It was a blow
to the regime to Maya can't vanish. I was just
(23:24):
a puppet. You were there, a puppet. They didn't like it.
But I always knew you were a fighter, Madam. Did
you you know that? All I know is what happened
at the end when the city fell. I acted in
the only way I could to save your life. They
made you the Sultan, didn't they You know what that
(23:45):
was worth nothing. I signed decrees, I put my seal
on terrible things, awful things that were done in my name,
and you just disappeared. Daniel, Do you have any idea
of how it was for me? I was a soldier too,
I had orders, and you don't disobey Maya. Don't you understand.
(24:09):
I've been in hell, Mada who ever? Since I was away.
I was worried almost to death about you, about what
was happening, And I could say ask nothing that would
show how much I care. We could have escaped together
before all that. I could have gone to the mountains.
Do you know that could never have happened. They would
(24:30):
have found us. It was a dream we would have been.
I missed you, Daniel so much. I missed you too, Madam,
my darling man, so much. Oh God, DANIELA, my beautiful Daniel.
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Don't ever leave me again. Never, never, I swear it,
my sweet never. Night and silence in the shadows. A
(25:22):
child looking at me. Go back to bed. Maybe she's
asleep even as she turns and walks away. No shortage here,
orphans are plenty. What are you doing here? Gregor? I
could ask you the same question. I am physician to
(25:44):
the orphanage. Why would I not be here at this
time of night? Or is it morning by now? I
was at the institute at your home. No one seems
to know where you are. I'm busy. What are you doing? Darling?
You and Barracat, are you betraying us? Why would I
betray my friends? Why? Indeed? I want nothing more than
(26:08):
the total destruction of these animals, this fifth that has
infected our city. I wanted to stop. I want an
end to it. What are you doing to this child?
(26:28):
The child is dead. It was nothing I did? And
why what? It's Baracat? He believes that if we can
find the soul and mend it, then we can mend
the child, and what child? Mend his child? I was right,
(26:57):
you're up already, there's work. I'm no longer a free man.
I have an army on the march. What do you mean?
There are some ragtag rebels out at the swamps. Sarah
is sending me to shut them down. That's all rebels, swamps.
It's nothing, okay. When can I see you again? Ah?
(27:25):
I don't know. It depends depends on what. All right.
You can come in now, Daniel, take him to the
palace and come with us, den Hook. Don't let him
out of your sight, Daniel. He'll tell you all you need.
He knows where the rats are hiding and what they
(27:47):
want to do. Not all, Commander Good and the army
set off a first light sort. Thank you here, come
(28:16):
on the were what any where you were? As you see,
and the troops in good order, ready for the fie Good.
We need to finish this and get back to the
main past. Exactly when do you estimate our arrival tomorrow?
The seventh hour, I would say, sir. They'll know where
coming from the dust, and like the dust, they will
(28:39):
be scattered. Carry on, guest, Commander up, majesty, welcome back.
I had hoped to meet you when I arrived, but
it seemed you were going away. I have nothing to
(29:00):
say to you. Come. Look, they want to know that
Sultan is safe and looking over them the people. An
empire without a sultan is an empire in danger of anarchy.
(29:22):
When you disappeared, Maya was concerned. I was sent to
find you to make sure you were safe. We feared
you had fallen into the rebel's hands. Where did you go? Hi?
I just wondered, that's all I needed to be alone? Ah?
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Who gave you shelter? Who fetch you alone? I was alone?
Of course, I know how hard you've struggled. Remember I
knew your mother too. M Hm. Sharjah was a powerful woman.
She demanded so much of you. Is it any wonder
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that sometimes you're a bowed under the load, that sometimes
you stumbled on the way. You knew my mother, Yes,
and you killed her. She was very beautiful as she
died murder. I strangled her in the bath with her
(30:31):
own gold chain. How often did you dream of doing that?
Choking the life out of that beautiful cruel mother of
your Stop it? Are you angry with me? Or are
you jealous? Why do you just kill me now and
the last of the old regime. Then it will be
(30:53):
finished and done with the rebels? Where are they? I
can't m take my hand here. You have suffered grievously,
you have been betrayed and used, but all of those
(31:16):
things can be forgotten. Let everything go. I can't save yourself.
Madu in Maya, live in Maya. Here, Come close, and
(31:37):
not a whisper escape in my hair? Come close, close, close,
m I can't. I can't do this anyway. Stop, wait
(32:03):
for what my city to worship? Vessel time. Yeah, my people,
see your sultan the mighty Madden starts see him fly
to heaven. You have failed behind the side he was.
(32:29):
Can you see the body? Yes, it is broken, Highness,
then leave it for the dogs. What is your name? Said?
Do you want to have children one day? So you'd
a family? Highness? I do jump, Highness, you heard you jump.
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Your failures are no use to Maya. What Mr Sarah,
you dare to disobey me? No m h nor wake up,
(33:33):
wake up? It's real. I thought this night was it
was a dream. Yeah, eat drink you need to get
your strength up now m hm. Are we going back
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to the city. Not yet. First we have to do something.
We have to get through today. You will need to
go to the hills there beyond the canal with a
woman and children. Is he here? He's on the workings
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with his people. He was there early waiting. They'll come.
Our lookout tells us they're on the way. You'll see
the dust soon. You should go to the rear. Are
you going? I wouldn't miss the chance of seeing a
battle like this. Is there a sword in there I
can use? Can you use a sort? Yes, I'll fetch it.
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Then you should go to your father. I think he'd
like to have you beside him today. Good day father.
As long as we acquit ourselves, we don't know it
will be so there I see them then there for
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a while, they watching their dust. There's a lot of them.
They seem to cover the horizon, more to kill enough
for our thoughts. Surely too many? Daughter, We can all
see them. Is that a white flague? Yes, Gordon knows
(35:31):
what they think. We have to talk about. How is
to reply? Let them come? Oh my heart? Do they
think will surrender? Can't be that stupid? Maybe for the
(35:52):
women and children? Doesn't sound like maya to me, we'll
see it's him for Daniel. That at least makes sense.
He knows his business. That one let him through. General
(36:26):
Daniel Maya is not vindictive. She will accept your total surrender,
your return to slavery. Anyone who lays down his arms
and comes with me now we'll live. I'm afraid you've
wasted your time, Daniel. There will be no surrender. Hello Daniel, Hello,
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I didn't expect to see you here. I dare say
you didn't. General, is it your right to condemn all
these today? If you're asking half of them to fight
with shovel and mattox, you have a handful, I have
an army. It's absurd, General Krulan, it's over. Indeed it is.
(37:13):
You can go now. You'll all die. Then we'll be dead,
and your daughter manew. I don't want to see you
what armed hurt again. You don't have to die. Come
with me now. All you have to do is take
my hand. Take it now, and you will be safe.
(37:40):
I trusted you when you said we had a future together,
when you said you loved me. My father opened his
home to you, my mother offered your hospitality, and you
betrayed us. My brother was killed by your people, and
you just looked on. I did what I had to
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do to save your life. We are all under orders men,
al as your father says. We are soldiers, but you
are not. Yes, I am general. You know that your
wife Hadda is our prisoner. If you don't surrender them,
(38:22):
they will execute her. So be it very well, sir,
(38:43):
prepared to advance. They turned the offer down. Obviously. There
are women and children amongst them. They may not all
be rebels, some may still be loyal. Kill them all, commander,
Let God decide who to save. The army will advance
through the valley. There's no other way to get to them.
(39:06):
The army will advance, Yes, Commactor, let's buyer. H Old steady,
(39:31):
all old steady, Oh day ready, sergeant, ready, sir, on
your command, Dr Elkin, Not yet, wait. They must be closer,
(39:51):
closer at the mark we made cooler. I thought you
were going to the back. They never could resist the battle.
And besides, the idea was my in the first place.
What idea? They can't pretty closer? Wide old um now
(40:14):
now old now zagy? What is the way there? I
thought it would be five hundred against two thousand. It's dead.
(40:34):
It's two thousands, said, where are they? What's happening? M
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are the running? What's that? What have they done? Removed? Good? Good.
(41:47):
I thought somehow that you would survive, Daniel of the Lord,
that it would be you. Yes, of course, take my hand.
H I love to you. You have to believe, of
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course I do. I looked into your eyes. I could
see the truth. I want to help you, Daniel, look
into my eyes. You can see the truth. All you
have to do is take is my hand. Yeah h
(42:42):
goodbye Daniel Yah. Season two, episode seven of To Mumbai,
(43:03):
Take My Hand, featuring Rufus Wright, Asha Hart, and Christopher Fulford,
was written by Mike Walker, with music by Sasha Putnam
and editing and sound design by Steve Bond. To Mumbai
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, visit
(43:27):
to Mumbai dot com.
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