January 31, 2020 • 43 mins
Following a series of murders, the Inquisitor Barakat’s hold over Tumanbay is complete. Rebel fighter Manel seeks refuge with co-conspirator Doctor Dorin. But can Dorin be trusted and what is “the great project” he is working on with Barakat? 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 (00:05):
At night time, the streets are alive, young fine mischief
the old drink coffee outside the cafes and discuss all
that is wrong with the world. But not anymore. The
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curfew has put an end to all that. Only the
rubbish pickers venture out, sifting and sifting, evaluating, turning what
is discarded into something that has use, before disappearing back
into the walls. But who's this hurrying out through the fog.
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Why isn't he at home with his family? You? What
is your business? Official? Business? Papers? Working lip doctor? That's right,
we'll travel safe. There are criminals about that has something
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happened here? Murder at the orphanage? I get sealed off,
yester morn. Excuse me, I oversee the welfare of the children.
Is there anything I can do? Dr Dorin, not the
light doctor. I understand there's been a murder. The director
of the orphanage killed in his bed. I'm so sorry. Terrorists,
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We'll find them. I'm sure. I'm sure what took you
so long? I was in the middle of an operation
when your message came. What is it? What has happened?
I waiting for you in there? Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
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We had nowhere else to go? How many times if
I told you, don't involve us a house, keep it
away from the home. Look, I don't know what you
expected me, but it comes from the orphanage, all right,
So why didn't you do what was asked of you?
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You weren't supposed to kill him. You were supposed to
leave the dagger on his bellow. I know, but then
I saw it my fault. Who's this? We met at
the orphanage? They took my baby. Listen, something's going on there.
They are taking the children away, doing something to them.
I don't know who. There was a child, a child?
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She said. They come with knives and take children away.
And did you stop to talk to anyone else while
you were there? Oh, dear god, what have you done?
You don't have a clue. Do you what you were seen?
They know who you are, and you come to my house.
I'm sorry, but I thought it was so you didn't
think we have nowhere else to go. Come with me
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down here, don't make a sound, give me trust him.
I don't know. Ah, he's between im on. We are
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a gud bring some refrocons betray Just listen. Why are
you not at the institute? I was looking for you.
I had to come home to get something. To get
what a piece of equipment? Ah a Monday, Holiness, Your holiness,
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why don't you sit? How home is your I don't
have time to sit. Dr No do you? The great
work away? But the children they're sleeping them, Wait them up.
The work will not wait two, Series two, Episode six,
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Holy Father by John Dryden. Need I need? And here
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the work will not wait another day? And the slaves prepare.
It takes a lot to keep all those officials fed
and clean. So many holy Men overslept again. They locked
us in our quarters. They wouldn't tell us why. They
say something has happened in the palace. What who knows?
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Who cares? Something big? Just do your job like the torches.
They'll be down for the baths. It's so warm. I'd
like to be like them, having someone prepare my bad,
cook my food, wipe my bad. Do you think they're
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going through fifty hands in their bath? You do it.
I've seen you when you think no one is looking.
What are you talking about? Behaving like you're His Holiness
the inquisitor himself? Who is this? I bless you with
this water? No? Wait, wait, what have I I never
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deny nice stopping. The children are the blank parchment on
which God's world can leave it, and they will be
down at any moment. Do you want to get us
both killed? Here now? Like the torches? H? What's wrong
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with you? What's that something floating in there? Give me
the torch? Is it? Yes? Fat bugger? No, nobody's swollen.
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It must have been here all night. Watch out, he
might explode. It's the vizier, Oh, the grand Vizier. Cadi. Wait,
what are you doing? We need to go and tell someone.
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They might think it was us. Do nothing. Leave him here,
but let some other bastards find him, and they leave
Cadali to his watery dreams. I used to wonder if
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I was the only one plagued by them. Now I
know everyone drowns in memories. Memories. Hold you down, sir,
he manew is plagued by nightmares of our own. Let's
only with the women. Come on, leave them before now,
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bury your brother, then take your mother and leave by morning.
Let die. You let him die? You let him? Are
you both awake? Yes? Come come on? Not you heaven
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is it? You? Stay here with the monty. We have
business to attend. To Where are we coming somewhere safe?
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You'll be fine? Can I ask you something? What that
man who came to the house last night? It was
the inquisitor? The girl I was with, she told me
it was him. Perhaps she was mistaken. Better not to know.
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What are you doing together? He is everything we're fighting against.
Why don't you just kill him? You think it is
that easy? He always has his guards with him. But
why is he coming to your house? Don't you understand anything?
You are so caught up in your own child's world.
There is more at stake here than you could possibly know.
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I am the head of the medical institute. That is
why he needs to see me. But you can just
you think I can just not do my job? Have
you any idea of the strain of keeping all these
these blast balls in the air? You drop one and
it smashes. That's why it's important you do what you're tone.
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You can't run a evolution with disobedience. Everyone has to
play their part. Where exactly are we going? This? This
is the way? There you go again, constantly questioning you
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shouldn't have come to my house last night? Where are we?
You can stay here for now? You work for you
keep you understand, Yes, but you can rest today. I
can see you need rest. When would they return? Oh
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my friend, your husband said they would only beeve. How
long have you known her? I don't really know her.
We just met at the orphanage. Good o. Why just
remember you are lucky you are here. Nothing is going
to stop me getting my baby back, finding my husband,
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and killing the man who killed my father. Who is
that man? His name is Gregor. He works under the
inquisitor And you might be of use to us. You
should be careful what you say. Girl. Take your height,
keep it within you, let it grow inside you, let
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it fill you, and when your time comes, you will
know what to do. M mhm h Peace be with you.
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All three still in leave? Wait? Yea okay? First time?
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What down here? Yes? They must really trust you or not?
Where am I? This is where we meet. It's safest
for us. It's still a part of the city they
haven't been able to destroy. They will in time if
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we let them. Mhm mm hmm. And now you can
come now see you on your realt or not. The
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traitor Cadi was found dead in the bathhouse with his
wrists cut. This is the letter found in his room,
his confession, may I, inquisitor, go on, I Kadi confessed
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to the murder of iffend Red. So that's it, then, Kadi, Well, well,
who would have thought? Does he say more? Yes, Inquisitor,
I'm afraid he does. We need to hear it then,
to see what we can learn. Go on, Griffin. Maya
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and her followers have ruined the city. They killed Sultan Algori,
who I loved and served, and I swore in my
heart revenge on the enemy of two man Bay. It's beautiful,
I waited Banncats not just a zalad. He's not just
a butcher. My life is worth nothing. He's a poet too.
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I have served a writer of poetic fiction. Is here
should My reward will be in paradise. You see enemies
in every place you think you know people. But what
of the slaves marching towards the swamps? Inquisitive one moment, father,
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because I want them brought back. But Inquisitive, the work
of the great dands deemed essential, essential to who m hm.
They should never have been sent if they're still alive,
if they haven't died of plagues. Sent them to Maya,
of course, because mm hmm. You're sure it was him, Gregor, inquisitive,
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You're sure it was him. It seems so he had access.
We have his confession. It's definitely his writing. You're sure. Yes, Oh,
so you know his hand? Do you know it very well?
You can compare it? No? No, please, I trust you
know your job, Gregor. That is why I have promoted
you to investigator, isn't it? Isn't that why, inquisitor, why
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I promoted you? Yes today, because I trust you. I'm
humbled to be worthy of your trust. It's just could
anyone else have been involved? Was he connected to the rebels?
Everything points to him having acted alone. That's it. That's
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your conclusion. You asked me to report my findings within
the hour. The investigation will of course continue. Good because
I was worried that was your conclusion, and I thought
you had a more suspicious mind. The thing about suspicions,
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No one is above suspicion, are they? I even suspect
myself sometimes? Do you suspect yourself? Gregor? No? What about
the murder at the orphanage? Murder the director of the orphanage?
What is happening to me? Throw cut in his sleep?
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You don't know. No, why not? Why don't you know?
Are they connected? How? That's your job, isn't it, Gregor?
You tell me now what other business we see the
problem is? He's right. I used to have eyes on
every street corner. There's nothing moved into Monday without me
knowing about it first. And I promise Coolan, I would
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take care of her yourself. But I don't even know
what I'm doing, let alone where she is more important things?
Do you want me to investigate? Investigate the director of
the orphanage? See if there is some link? Yes, why
don't you do that? Why is he playing with me?
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He pulls me into his confidence and then pushes me away.
There was a struggle, clearly. Did anyone see anything here? Anything? No,
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there was nothing unusual. They climbed out of the window.
They there were two of them. See here, two sets
of footprints in the dust. You're not the ghost, the
ghost the ghost I saw last night? Go back inside?
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What are you doing? Wait, Hannah? Is it? Tell me
about the ghost? There are two ghosts girls. One of
them had a knife. I thought she'd come for me
like they gave the others other children. Yes, they are
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required for the great work, which is the great work. Excellency.
The director was well known for having friends visit at night.
Clearly he made a mistake a fight. Yes, she was right.
What do you mean she said, when you're scared, close
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your eyes and cant seven, you'll go to heaven. She
was right. Yes, I used to say that once to
a little girl called maw. Didn't tow us with my
mama and cut down this way. What's the matter mann, this?
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This is the sultan. Yes, he lives with us. Now,
I am your servants. My father served your uncle, the
old Sultan. My brother he died fighting. Please, there is
no need stand. We need to talk. Yes, let's get
on with it. I need to get back to work. Yes,
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minnew the doctor here is concerned. Please we agreed. Not
that she already knows who you are. Yes, but just
as a matter of principle, we don't talk about our
lives about out. We need to have discipline. That's why
we're interesting. We are concerned a manel, Yes, that you
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are not quite who you claim to be. I am
the daughter of General Kulan, commander of the armies of
two men Bay, and like him, I will fight for
two man Bay to my death if required. Not quite what.
I have it on good authority that General Coolan swore
an oath to Maya before being sent to the dishwary swamps.
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What why why did you kill the director of the orphanage?
It was an accident, he woke up, he saw Was
it to prevent him from talking to us? We needed
him to talk to us, not to be dead. I'm sorry,
who are you working for? I I don't understand. I'm
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trying to think. We have given her enough chances. She
has failed every test. Thank god, we haven't trusted over
our network. The damage can be contained. I think this
is where we ended. I swear I'm not a traitor.
We can't take that chance. So than I'm not comfortable
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with this. I knew her father. We can't take the risk.
She has already undermined the plan. There is too much
at stake. Yes, but I don't know. I don't know, majesty.
We cannot let her know. Please, majesty, she has seen you? Yes,
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all right? Yes, no coming now, high and high hopes
for you. I'm sorry it has ended this way. Wait,
who are you? Who is this matter? Let her go
and I'll come to my side. So you've betrayed us already. No,
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I haven't. We've been followed. Come here, ma l Come
here knows you, and I know him only too well.
He is my uncle and barter cats police dog. You
don't want to kill me, You want to kill him. Yes,
that's exactly who I am. Do you think I would
have come alone? And if I am alone, why I've
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been watching you for months, you kid. I could have
arrested you on the way home from the school where
you teach Abrajan. Do you think I don't know that
you're the bookkeeper in the palace scriptorium. You all have
real lives above. I know who you are, and you're
here for one reason only because I've let you survive.
Without me, you wouldn't even be able to kill a goat,
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and you mad Sultan of two mon Bay. Everyone has
been looking for you. I could have brought you back
to the inquisitor at any time, but I didn't. You
say there's something at the orphanage that she has prevented
you from finding. But the doctor here knows it already,
don't you know. No, I've been watching you a late
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night at the medical Institute. Inquisitive visits you there regularly,
of course, of course I'm the headad of the institute. Yes,
was his interest. You're closer to him than I. Why
don't you ask him? What do you talk about? Nothing?
Nobody talks about nothing. He often spends the night there.
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What are you up to? Look, you can't trust him.
He's Barracat spy. Take him, Take him. They want the
answer to the soul. Everyone knows Baracat is obsessed with
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finding the soul. Why I don't, Oh, I don't know.
He thinks the soul can be discovered, that it can
be physically repaired. He talks to me about that, we
carry out post mortems. It's all nonsense. But I have
to humor him. I have to show him that I'm
taking his theory seriously. I have to maintain his trust
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so that when the time comes, we can strike satisfied.
At the moment, why have you come here? Because I
need to protect my niece. She's in grave danger. I
don't want your protection, though, but you will get it. Nonetheless,
she's not only a danger to you but to me.
I want to send her out of the city, get
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her away from here. And why should we let you live?
So he can finish our work. Of course, our work.
You need me on your side. Do you think I
wouldn't have had you all rounded up by now if
I wasn't on your side. Release her. You need to
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get away from two Monday. I need to stay and fight.
There is nothing you can do here now. They're looking
for you. They have taken your mother. I know we
went to the house. That's another reason I need to stay.
And it will take you to get in. Get in. No,
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there's someone I need to help first. What are you
talking about? They will be looking for her too. I'm
not leaving the city without her. Who is she? A
young mother? They took her baby, executed her father for
possessing some books. Books, yes, books. He was a merchant,
a slave merchant. How did you know his daughter is
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called Heaven? Yes? Heaven? Are you all right? Uncle? She
wants her child and Manel wants her freedom. I want
I'm losing your sense of what I want, uncle, and
I don't know what else I can do. Yes, how
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can I help you? My husband? I don't need your husband, madam.
I'm looking for the young lady. What young lady? Let's
not play games. Two women came to your house last night,
this one here, but no, put the knife down. I've
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come to help you. I want you to think of
my father's face as you killed him, when I want
you to look into my eyes as I kill you.
I did what I did because he was my friend,
because you could not. It was the last favor I
could do for him, to save his daughter from having
to kill him. Could you have lived with yourself if
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you'd killed your father? Put the knife down. Heaven he
can help you find your child. Please, m you're in
grave danger. They're searching for you both. You cannot stay
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in the city we were seeing. I'm not going without
my baby. That can come later. I'm not leaving without
my I will find your baby when you come back.
You need to move fast. It's true. It's true. Heaven
through here. Where are we going? There was a man
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I know for Ibliss. He'll take you through the walls
and then what the mountains. There are some people I
trust there. You'll be safe there until and so what uncle?
This is it? Excellency? Come in down there? Everything is
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all rage. Go with him? Two girls, you said one two.
Now it's not so simple. The pannels of the gatekeepers
there are dangerous. Take this, and why aren't you coming
with us? Uncle? Uncle? I'm not you Monell. There is
nothing for me outside to Monday. This is where I
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was made, this is where I will die. I'll go
with him, and now heaven we will meet again, and
I will help you. I promise you swear. I swear
on anything that's left sacred. Now come, that's right. People
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always have their reasons to escape the city. My philosophy
never ask Some are wanted for something or another. Hey, hey,
keep your head covered. We're not safe yet. You want
to draw attention to yourself. Some find it too hard
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in the city, what with all the new laws. Others
where they think they can find a better life somewhere else. Me.
I don't ask that. Sometimes I don't even take money
from him. Desperate families without a gold coin between them.
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So you're an unusual pair. What you're on the run
or something? I thought you said? You don't, Hey, I
just we need to keep moving. There are patrols everywhere.
Are you all right? I'm fine. It's just every hurts.
Young girl like you. You should be a league ahead
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of an old man like me. What's wrong with your girl?
She's just given birth to a child. You you that
I'm all right now, let's go. The sun will come
up soon. We need to get to the foothills so
we'll have no shelter. Look, take good care of her.
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If you don't, I will come for you. You understand
what this is? Where we part company? Where are you
going to the swamps to my father? You will be
safe in the mountains. Good luck. I hope you find
your child one day. You won't die out head, that's disease.
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Then I will die. I am going to find my father.
He'll be did you don't know my father? Wait? Who?
I'm coming with you? I don't like him? All right?
Just don't slow me down. Fine, you're not You're fools.
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Will die now? How could you be so blind? M hm?
Can't you see what's right in front of you? Wake
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up and open your eyes? Wake up? Wake up? Wake up?
Wa come? No, no, no? Wake up? What where where
are I? We were having a bad dream? Are you
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all right? Yes? Bad times? Yes? How did someone like
you become a someone like me? Well? I know who
you are, your family, your father, to invase great commander,
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to grow up with that privilege, I suppose it would
seem like that that I was constrained by my life,
by my parents. And then I met someone. His name
was Daniel. He was an officer under my father's command.
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He promised me many things that he was deceiving me.
How he was in the service of Maya all along,
an infiltrator. He betrayed us. I blame him for everything.
They killed my brother when they came to our house
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and they but maybe in some ways I should thank him,
thank him. I'm no longer scared of what might happen.
What about you put the fare out? Quickly, quickly put
it out? What is it? Writers? Who are they? The
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moon's reflecting off the armor? Mm hmm? How many? M?
Ten twenty? They're heading to do in beIN quiet down?
Why they don't sell the smoke from our fire? M
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I think they've got Dally's rooms. He didn't kill offendly Red.
However treacherous he might have been, he was never a fool.
What secreence did he keep? There? You are better? I've
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been looking for you, Yes, Earliness, Do you need something?
What are you doing? My job finding out if Cadally
was part of a wider conspiracy? And have you found anything?
Not yet? But the work continues. I admire you, Greco.
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I'm sorry, so Faro, I mean everything you do and
loyal Thank you? Are you loyal? I hope I have
demonstrated to you that I am. To me personally, yes,
and to Maya she has shown me the true path.
Mm hm. So you have changed from what you were.
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Of course I have changed beyond all measures because some
say never mind. I admire loyalty, Grecor. I want to
reward you for what you have done. There's really mean
there is. I want to reward you for what you
have done, and remember Baracut never lies. Thank you. I
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feel sometimes that I have known you record for a
long time, but of course I've been here onlier. Now
you need to saddle up and meet our guests. Guests
the delegation from our leader. They have been cited. I
want you to ride out with the palace guard and
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welcome them. They will be bringing confirmation of my position
as regent of two many. Send word when you have
arrived back at the palace, of course, But where should
I send word? To medical institute? I have some urgent
business there battle cats. Urgent business? Am I his business?
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Is this a slow execution? Even as he talks to
me like his childhood friend. What is your show him
the orders? If I told this man of truth, did
I no longer know? Let us pass, please, excellency of
of course, open the deaths, keep watch for our return.
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Of course. It's the medical institute, always, the medical institute
with the doctor who looks more sick than the bodies
on the slabs and souls. He's searching for souls. Sire,
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What I said, what are our instructions? Instructions for? What
the delegation they are waiting there? Oh? Good, well bring
them over? Yeah, whatever madness it is. He seems to
have lost his grip since the death of Offendi Red Cooler.
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And I need a plan. You always knew what to do.
We need to plan because I don't want to die
for two Monday. Is this the welcome? My envoy receives
a tired looking policeman and a handful of scruffy horsemith Sarah,
we had no idea, Hello, greglor remember me, Oh god,
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my brother's blue eyed boy. I'm Daniel. I served under
your brother, General Coolan, served or betrayed him. It is
fitting Daniel and I first came here as slaves trusted
and we believed. We had faith that the empire of
Mammon was an empire of sand, and now we have
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come to finish it. Finish it. Take us through the
palace and find Baracut. I look into Sarah's eyes, and
she looks through me. I'm invisible to her. I'm disappearing.
I could be that fly whisked away by the horse's tail.
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M yeah, yeah, why are you stopping? Keep going? What's wrong? Doctor?
The child has passed into the next world. There are more, well,
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just take another and start again. The child was dying anyway,
wasn't he doctor? Then it is God's will continue on
the corpse. What do you want me to do? We
need to continue before the soul is returned to God.
We have until sunrise, when the soul will join its maker.
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Come on, you are close, aren't you. Doctor? You told me, yes, yes,
so close. You see the lightness here. In fact, I
don't need to operate anymore. So you have found it anyway.
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I don't think we need any more children. So you
have found Yes, yes, I found it. I think it
is this area here, as you suspected all along. You
come in here, just take the body bury it with
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all prayers. You understand, of course. The wait? Wait, are
you sure you're finished? I'm sure I've discovered so much, Holiness.
Why don't I write up my discoveries. So much knowledge
has been added to this body? Yes do, I don't mind.
Tomorrow the great work will be done, the great work.
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I have come pleaded, the great work. I've done what
you've asked of me. Oh no, this is under the start,
the start of what. Never mind, Doctor stay here tonight, pray,
prepare yourself for a great task ahead. You have the
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secret of the soul. You have it all. M m m, Holiness,
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are you yes? Out of my way to lead me through?
Is he ready? He was calling for you? Was he good? Good?
Is he as always? Holiness? All right? Gold leave us,
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I'm here. We are close. Now we will mend your
soul and your body will heal too. Trust me. I
love you, Papa, I love you too, Vassie. Season two,
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episode six of Tuman Bay Holy Father featuring Rufus Right,
Aisha Heart Here, An abiss Akra and Vincent Abraham was
written by me John Scott Dryden and directed by Jeremy Mortimer.
Music was by Sasha Putnam and editing and sound designed
by Steve Bond. To Mumbai is created by me and
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Mike Walker and produced by Emma Herne and Nadia Khan.
For more details, including a cast list, visit to Mumbai
dot com.
At night time, the streets are alive, young fine mischief
the old drink coffee outside the cafes and discuss all
that is wrong with the world. But not anymore. The
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curfew has put an end to all that. Only the
rubbish pickers venture out, sifting and sifting, evaluating, turning what
is discarded into something that has use, before disappearing back
into the walls. But who's this hurrying out through the fog.
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Why isn't he at home with his family? You? What
is your business? Official? Business? Papers? Working lip doctor? That's right,
we'll travel safe. There are criminals about that has something
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happened here? Murder at the orphanage? I get sealed off,
yester morn. Excuse me, I oversee the welfare of the children.
Is there anything I can do? Dr Dorin, not the
light doctor. I understand there's been a murder. The director
of the orphanage killed in his bed. I'm so sorry. Terrorists,
(01:39):
We'll find them. I'm sure. I'm sure what took you
so long? I was in the middle of an operation
when your message came. What is it? What has happened?
I waiting for you in there? Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
(02:06):
We had nowhere else to go? How many times if
I told you, don't involve us a house, keep it
away from the home. Look, I don't know what you
expected me, but it comes from the orphanage, all right,
So why didn't you do what was asked of you?
(02:26):
You weren't supposed to kill him. You were supposed to
leave the dagger on his bellow. I know, but then
I saw it my fault. Who's this? We met at
the orphanage? They took my baby. Listen, something's going on there.
They are taking the children away, doing something to them.
I don't know who. There was a child, a child?
(02:51):
She said. They come with knives and take children away.
And did you stop to talk to anyone else while
you were there? Oh, dear god, what have you done?
You don't have a clue. Do you what you were seen?
They know who you are, and you come to my house.
I'm sorry, but I thought it was so you didn't
think we have nowhere else to go. Come with me
(03:26):
down here, don't make a sound, give me trust him.
I don't know. Ah, he's between im on. We are
(03:55):
a gud bring some refrocons betray Just listen. Why are
you not at the institute? I was looking for you.
I had to come home to get something. To get
what a piece of equipment? Ah a Monday, Holiness, Your holiness,
(04:18):
why don't you sit? How home is your I don't
have time to sit. Dr No do you? The great
work away? But the children they're sleeping them, Wait them up.
The work will not wait two, Series two, Episode six,
(04:39):
Holy Father by John Dryden. Need I need? And here
(05:05):
the work will not wait another day? And the slaves prepare.
It takes a lot to keep all those officials fed
and clean. So many holy Men overslept again. They locked
us in our quarters. They wouldn't tell us why. They
say something has happened in the palace. What who knows?
(05:26):
Who cares? Something big? Just do your job like the torches.
They'll be down for the baths. It's so warm. I'd
like to be like them, having someone prepare my bad,
cook my food, wipe my bad. Do you think they're
(05:50):
going through fifty hands in their bath? You do it.
I've seen you when you think no one is looking.
What are you talking about? Behaving like you're His Holiness
the inquisitor himself? Who is this? I bless you with
this water? No? Wait, wait, what have I I never
(06:17):
deny nice stopping. The children are the blank parchment on
which God's world can leave it, and they will be
down at any moment. Do you want to get us
both killed? Here now? Like the torches? H? What's wrong
(06:38):
with you? What's that something floating in there? Give me
the torch? Is it? Yes? Fat bugger? No, nobody's swollen.
(07:04):
It must have been here all night. Watch out, he
might explode. It's the vizier, Oh, the grand Vizier. Cadi. Wait,
what are you doing? We need to go and tell someone.
(07:26):
They might think it was us. Do nothing. Leave him here,
but let some other bastards find him, and they leave
Cadali to his watery dreams. I used to wonder if
(07:48):
I was the only one plagued by them. Now I
know everyone drowns in memories. Memories. Hold you down, sir,
he manew is plagued by nightmares of our own. Let's
only with the women. Come on, leave them before now,
(08:09):
bury your brother, then take your mother and leave by morning.
Let die. You let him die? You let him? Are
you both awake? Yes? Come come on? Not you heaven
(08:32):
is it? You? Stay here with the monty. We have
business to attend. To Where are we coming somewhere safe?
(08:56):
You'll be fine? Can I ask you something? What that
man who came to the house last night? It was
the inquisitor? The girl I was with, she told me
it was him. Perhaps she was mistaken. Better not to know.
(09:17):
What are you doing together? He is everything we're fighting against.
Why don't you just kill him? You think it is
that easy? He always has his guards with him. But
why is he coming to your house? Don't you understand anything?
You are so caught up in your own child's world.
There is more at stake here than you could possibly know.
(09:38):
I am the head of the medical institute. That is
why he needs to see me. But you can just
you think I can just not do my job? Have
you any idea of the strain of keeping all these
these blast balls in the air? You drop one and
it smashes. That's why it's important you do what you're tone.
(09:59):
You can't run a evolution with disobedience. Everyone has to
play their part. Where exactly are we going? This? This
is the way? There you go again, constantly questioning you
(10:24):
shouldn't have come to my house last night? Where are we?
You can stay here for now? You work for you
keep you understand, Yes, but you can rest today. I
can see you need rest. When would they return? Oh
(10:48):
my friend, your husband said they would only beeve. How
long have you known her? I don't really know her.
We just met at the orphanage. Good o. Why just
remember you are lucky you are here. Nothing is going
to stop me getting my baby back, finding my husband,
(11:11):
and killing the man who killed my father. Who is
that man? His name is Gregor. He works under the
inquisitor And you might be of use to us. You
should be careful what you say. Girl. Take your height,
keep it within you, let it grow inside you, let
(11:35):
it fill you, and when your time comes, you will
know what to do. M mhm h Peace be with you.
(12:07):
All three still in leave? Wait? Yea okay? First time?
(12:29):
What down here? Yes? They must really trust you or not?
Where am I? This is where we meet. It's safest
for us. It's still a part of the city they
haven't been able to destroy. They will in time if
(12:52):
we let them. Mhm mm hmm. And now you can
come now see you on your realt or not. The
(13:14):
traitor Cadi was found dead in the bathhouse with his
wrists cut. This is the letter found in his room,
his confession, may I, inquisitor, go on, I Kadi confessed
(13:36):
to the murder of iffend Red. So that's it, then, Kadi, Well, well,
who would have thought? Does he say more? Yes, Inquisitor,
I'm afraid he does. We need to hear it then,
to see what we can learn. Go on, Griffin. Maya
(13:59):
and her followers have ruined the city. They killed Sultan Algori,
who I loved and served, and I swore in my
heart revenge on the enemy of two man Bay. It's beautiful,
I waited Banncats not just a zalad. He's not just
a butcher. My life is worth nothing. He's a poet too.
(14:21):
I have served a writer of poetic fiction. Is here
should My reward will be in paradise. You see enemies
in every place you think you know people. But what
of the slaves marching towards the swamps? Inquisitive one moment, father,
(14:45):
because I want them brought back. But Inquisitive, the work
of the great dands deemed essential, essential to who m hm.
They should never have been sent if they're still alive,
if they haven't died of plagues. Sent them to Maya,
of course, because mm hmm. You're sure it was him, Gregor, inquisitive,
(15:07):
You're sure it was him. It seems so he had access.
We have his confession. It's definitely his writing. You're sure. Yes, Oh,
so you know his hand? Do you know it very well?
You can compare it? No? No, please, I trust you
know your job, Gregor. That is why I have promoted
you to investigator, isn't it? Isn't that why, inquisitor, why
(15:32):
I promoted you? Yes today, because I trust you. I'm
humbled to be worthy of your trust. It's just could
anyone else have been involved? Was he connected to the rebels?
Everything points to him having acted alone. That's it. That's
(15:52):
your conclusion. You asked me to report my findings within
the hour. The investigation will of course continue. Good because
I was worried that was your conclusion, and I thought
you had a more suspicious mind. The thing about suspicions,
(16:12):
No one is above suspicion, are they? I even suspect
myself sometimes? Do you suspect yourself? Gregor? No? What about
the murder at the orphanage? Murder the director of the orphanage?
What is happening to me? Throw cut in his sleep?
(16:34):
You don't know. No, why not? Why don't you know?
Are they connected? How? That's your job, isn't it, Gregor?
You tell me now what other business we see the
problem is? He's right. I used to have eyes on
every street corner. There's nothing moved into Monday without me
knowing about it first. And I promise Coolan, I would
(16:58):
take care of her yourself. But I don't even know
what I'm doing, let alone where she is more important things?
Do you want me to investigate? Investigate the director of
the orphanage? See if there is some link? Yes, why
don't you do that? Why is he playing with me?
(17:20):
He pulls me into his confidence and then pushes me away.
There was a struggle, clearly. Did anyone see anything here? Anything? No,
(17:47):
there was nothing unusual. They climbed out of the window.
They there were two of them. See here, two sets
of footprints in the dust. You're not the ghost, the
ghost the ghost I saw last night? Go back inside?
(18:09):
What are you doing? Wait, Hannah? Is it? Tell me
about the ghost? There are two ghosts girls. One of
them had a knife. I thought she'd come for me
like they gave the others other children. Yes, they are
(18:30):
required for the great work, which is the great work. Excellency.
The director was well known for having friends visit at night.
Clearly he made a mistake a fight. Yes, she was right.
What do you mean she said, when you're scared, close
(18:52):
your eyes and cant seven, you'll go to heaven. She
was right. Yes, I used to say that once to
a little girl called maw. Didn't tow us with my
mama and cut down this way. What's the matter mann, this?
(19:23):
This is the sultan. Yes, he lives with us. Now,
I am your servants. My father served your uncle, the
old Sultan. My brother he died fighting. Please, there is
no need stand. We need to talk. Yes, let's get
on with it. I need to get back to work. Yes,
(19:47):
minnew the doctor here is concerned. Please we agreed. Not
that she already knows who you are. Yes, but just
as a matter of principle, we don't talk about our
lives about out. We need to have discipline. That's why
we're interesting. We are concerned a manel, Yes, that you
(20:10):
are not quite who you claim to be. I am
the daughter of General Kulan, commander of the armies of
two men Bay, and like him, I will fight for
two man Bay to my death if required. Not quite what.
I have it on good authority that General Coolan swore
an oath to Maya before being sent to the dishwary swamps.
(20:35):
What why why did you kill the director of the orphanage?
It was an accident, he woke up, he saw Was
it to prevent him from talking to us? We needed
him to talk to us, not to be dead. I'm sorry,
who are you working for? I I don't understand. I'm
(20:56):
trying to think. We have given her enough chances. She
has failed every test. Thank god, we haven't trusted over
our network. The damage can be contained. I think this
is where we ended. I swear I'm not a traitor.
We can't take that chance. So than I'm not comfortable
(21:19):
with this. I knew her father. We can't take the risk.
She has already undermined the plan. There is too much
at stake. Yes, but I don't know. I don't know, majesty.
We cannot let her know. Please, majesty, she has seen you? Yes,
(21:42):
all right? Yes, no coming now, high and high hopes
for you. I'm sorry it has ended this way. Wait,
who are you? Who is this matter? Let her go
and I'll come to my side. So you've betrayed us already. No,
(22:05):
I haven't. We've been followed. Come here, ma l Come
here knows you, and I know him only too well.
He is my uncle and barter cats police dog. You
don't want to kill me, You want to kill him. Yes,
that's exactly who I am. Do you think I would
have come alone? And if I am alone, why I've
(22:26):
been watching you for months, you kid. I could have
arrested you on the way home from the school where
you teach Abrajan. Do you think I don't know that
you're the bookkeeper in the palace scriptorium. You all have
real lives above. I know who you are, and you're
here for one reason only because I've let you survive.
Without me, you wouldn't even be able to kill a goat,
(22:49):
and you mad Sultan of two mon Bay. Everyone has
been looking for you. I could have brought you back
to the inquisitor at any time, but I didn't. You
say there's something at the orphanage that she has prevented
you from finding. But the doctor here knows it already,
don't you know. No, I've been watching you a late
(23:12):
night at the medical Institute. Inquisitive visits you there regularly,
of course, of course I'm the headad of the institute. Yes,
was his interest. You're closer to him than I. Why
don't you ask him? What do you talk about? Nothing?
Nobody talks about nothing. He often spends the night there.
(23:34):
What are you up to? Look, you can't trust him.
He's Barracat spy. Take him, Take him. They want the
answer to the soul. Everyone knows Baracat is obsessed with
(23:57):
finding the soul. Why I don't, Oh, I don't know.
He thinks the soul can be discovered, that it can
be physically repaired. He talks to me about that, we
carry out post mortems. It's all nonsense. But I have
to humor him. I have to show him that I'm
taking his theory seriously. I have to maintain his trust
(24:19):
so that when the time comes, we can strike satisfied.
At the moment, why have you come here? Because I
need to protect my niece. She's in grave danger. I
don't want your protection, though, but you will get it. Nonetheless,
she's not only a danger to you but to me.
I want to send her out of the city, get
(24:40):
her away from here. And why should we let you live?
So he can finish our work. Of course, our work.
You need me on your side. Do you think I
wouldn't have had you all rounded up by now if
I wasn't on your side. Release her. You need to
(25:13):
get away from two Monday. I need to stay and fight.
There is nothing you can do here now. They're looking
for you. They have taken your mother. I know we
went to the house. That's another reason I need to stay.
And it will take you to get in. Get in. No,
(25:37):
there's someone I need to help first. What are you
talking about? They will be looking for her too. I'm
not leaving the city without her. Who is she? A
young mother? They took her baby, executed her father for
possessing some books. Books, yes, books. He was a merchant,
a slave merchant. How did you know his daughter is
(25:59):
called Heaven? Yes? Heaven? Are you all right? Uncle? She
wants her child and Manel wants her freedom. I want
I'm losing your sense of what I want, uncle, and
I don't know what else I can do. Yes, how
(26:22):
can I help you? My husband? I don't need your husband, madam.
I'm looking for the young lady. What young lady? Let's
not play games. Two women came to your house last night,
this one here, but no, put the knife down. I've
(26:42):
come to help you. I want you to think of
my father's face as you killed him, when I want
you to look into my eyes as I kill you.
I did what I did because he was my friend,
because you could not. It was the last favor I
could do for him, to save his daughter from having
to kill him. Could you have lived with yourself if
(27:05):
you'd killed your father? Put the knife down. Heaven he
can help you find your child. Please, m you're in
grave danger. They're searching for you both. You cannot stay
(27:26):
in the city we were seeing. I'm not going without
my baby. That can come later. I'm not leaving without
my I will find your baby when you come back.
You need to move fast. It's true. It's true. Heaven
through here. Where are we going? There was a man
(27:50):
I know for Ibliss. He'll take you through the walls
and then what the mountains. There are some people I
trust there. You'll be safe there until and so what uncle?
This is it? Excellency? Come in down there? Everything is
(28:16):
all rage. Go with him? Two girls, you said one two.
Now it's not so simple. The pannels of the gatekeepers
there are dangerous. Take this, and why aren't you coming
with us? Uncle? Uncle? I'm not you Monell. There is
nothing for me outside to Monday. This is where I
(28:38):
was made, this is where I will die. I'll go
with him, and now heaven we will meet again, and
I will help you. I promise you swear. I swear
on anything that's left sacred. Now come, that's right. People
(29:06):
always have their reasons to escape the city. My philosophy
never ask Some are wanted for something or another. Hey, hey,
keep your head covered. We're not safe yet. You want
to draw attention to yourself. Some find it too hard
(29:30):
in the city, what with all the new laws. Others
where they think they can find a better life somewhere else. Me.
I don't ask that. Sometimes I don't even take money
from him. Desperate families without a gold coin between them.
(29:53):
So you're an unusual pair. What you're on the run
or something? I thought you said? You don't, Hey, I
just we need to keep moving. There are patrols everywhere.
Are you all right? I'm fine. It's just every hurts.
Young girl like you. You should be a league ahead
(30:15):
of an old man like me. What's wrong with your girl?
She's just given birth to a child. You you that
I'm all right now, let's go. The sun will come
up soon. We need to get to the foothills so
we'll have no shelter. Look, take good care of her.
(30:39):
If you don't, I will come for you. You understand
what this is? Where we part company? Where are you
going to the swamps to my father? You will be
safe in the mountains. Good luck. I hope you find
your child one day. You won't die out head, that's disease.
(31:04):
Then I will die. I am going to find my father.
He'll be did you don't know my father? Wait? Who?
I'm coming with you? I don't like him? All right?
Just don't slow me down. Fine, you're not You're fools.
(31:32):
Will die now? How could you be so blind? M hm?
Can't you see what's right in front of you? Wake
(31:53):
up and open your eyes? Wake up? Wake up? Wake up?
Wa come? No, no, no? Wake up? What where where
are I? We were having a bad dream? Are you
(32:14):
all right? Yes? Bad times? Yes? How did someone like
you become a someone like me? Well? I know who
you are, your family, your father, to invase great commander,
(32:39):
to grow up with that privilege, I suppose it would
seem like that that I was constrained by my life,
by my parents. And then I met someone. His name
was Daniel. He was an officer under my father's command.
(33:01):
He promised me many things that he was deceiving me.
How he was in the service of Maya all along,
an infiltrator. He betrayed us. I blame him for everything.
They killed my brother when they came to our house
(33:23):
and they but maybe in some ways I should thank him,
thank him. I'm no longer scared of what might happen.
What about you put the fare out? Quickly, quickly put
it out? What is it? Writers? Who are they? The
(33:54):
moon's reflecting off the armor? Mm hmm? How many? M?
Ten twenty? They're heading to do in beIN quiet down?
Why they don't sell the smoke from our fire? M
(34:20):
I think they've got Dally's rooms. He didn't kill offendly Red.
However treacherous he might have been, he was never a fool.
What secreence did he keep? There? You are better? I've
(34:44):
been looking for you, Yes, Earliness, Do you need something?
What are you doing? My job finding out if Cadally
was part of a wider conspiracy? And have you found anything?
Not yet? But the work continues. I admire you, Greco.
(35:06):
I'm sorry, so Faro, I mean everything you do and
loyal Thank you? Are you loyal? I hope I have
demonstrated to you that I am. To me personally, yes,
and to Maya she has shown me the true path.
Mm hm. So you have changed from what you were.
(35:30):
Of course I have changed beyond all measures because some
say never mind. I admire loyalty, Grecor. I want to
reward you for what you have done. There's really mean
there is. I want to reward you for what you
have done, and remember Baracut never lies. Thank you. I
(35:59):
feel sometimes that I have known you record for a
long time, but of course I've been here onlier. Now
you need to saddle up and meet our guests. Guests
the delegation from our leader. They have been cited. I
want you to ride out with the palace guard and
(36:20):
welcome them. They will be bringing confirmation of my position
as regent of two many. Send word when you have
arrived back at the palace, of course, But where should
I send word? To medical institute? I have some urgent
business there battle cats. Urgent business? Am I his business?
(36:42):
Is this a slow execution? Even as he talks to
me like his childhood friend. What is your show him
the orders? If I told this man of truth, did
I no longer know? Let us pass, please, excellency of
of course, open the deaths, keep watch for our return.
(37:05):
Of course. It's the medical institute, always, the medical institute
with the doctor who looks more sick than the bodies
on the slabs and souls. He's searching for souls. Sire,
(37:26):
What I said, what are our instructions? Instructions for? What
the delegation they are waiting there? Oh? Good, well bring
them over? Yeah, whatever madness it is. He seems to
have lost his grip since the death of Offendi Red Cooler.
(37:48):
And I need a plan. You always knew what to do.
We need to plan because I don't want to die
for two Monday. Is this the welcome? My envoy receives
a tired looking policeman and a handful of scruffy horsemith Sarah,
we had no idea, Hello, greglor remember me, Oh god,
(38:12):
my brother's blue eyed boy. I'm Daniel. I served under
your brother, General Coolan, served or betrayed him. It is
fitting Daniel and I first came here as slaves trusted
and we believed. We had faith that the empire of
Mammon was an empire of sand, and now we have
(38:33):
come to finish it. Finish it. Take us through the
palace and find Baracut. I look into Sarah's eyes, and
she looks through me. I'm invisible to her. I'm disappearing.
I could be that fly whisked away by the horse's tail.
(39:00):
M yeah, yeah, why are you stopping? Keep going? What's wrong? Doctor?
The child has passed into the next world. There are more, well,
(39:24):
just take another and start again. The child was dying anyway,
wasn't he doctor? Then it is God's will continue on
the corpse. What do you want me to do? We
need to continue before the soul is returned to God.
We have until sunrise, when the soul will join its maker.
(39:46):
Come on, you are close, aren't you. Doctor? You told me, yes, yes,
so close. You see the lightness here. In fact, I
don't need to operate anymore. So you have found it anyway.
(40:11):
I don't think we need any more children. So you
have found Yes, yes, I found it. I think it
is this area here, as you suspected all along. You
come in here, just take the body bury it with
(40:34):
all prayers. You understand, of course. The wait? Wait, are
you sure you're finished? I'm sure I've discovered so much, Holiness.
Why don't I write up my discoveries. So much knowledge
has been added to this body? Yes do, I don't mind.
Tomorrow the great work will be done, the great work.
(40:59):
I have come pleaded, the great work. I've done what
you've asked of me. Oh no, this is under the start,
the start of what. Never mind, Doctor stay here tonight, pray,
prepare yourself for a great task ahead. You have the
(41:19):
secret of the soul. You have it all. M m m, Holiness,
(41:45):
are you yes? Out of my way to lead me through?
Is he ready? He was calling for you? Was he good? Good?
Is he as always? Holiness? All right? Gold leave us,
(42:20):
I'm here. We are close. Now we will mend your
soul and your body will heal too. Trust me. I
love you, Papa, I love you too, Vassie. Season two,
(42:49):
episode six of Tuman Bay Holy Father featuring Rufus Right,
Aisha Heart Here, An abiss Akra and Vincent Abraham was
written by me John Scott Dryden and directed by Jeremy Mortimer.
Music was by Sasha Putnam and editing and sound designed
by Steve Bond. To Mumbai is created by me and
(43:10):
Mike Walker and produced by Emma Herne and Nadia Khan.
For more details, including a cast list, visit to Mumbai
dot com.
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