Speaker 1: M a drink poured, a knife carefully placed on a table.
Speaker 1: Preparation is all. If you're prepared, you can improvise. H yeah,
Speaker 1: boy coming, master, give this armor off me. Let me
Speaker 1: help you after the table. Careful, careful? And how is
Speaker 1: the how is the jousting? Master taught that little ship
Speaker 1: the less and his family watching from the stands, smiling
Speaker 1: smugly till I wiped their son's complacent ass. Maybe they'll
Speaker 1: show me a little respect. Now are you hurt? Master?
Speaker 1: Just a flesh wound lucky idiot managed to nick my
Speaker 1: care forcus. I'm sorry, Master, you're thirsty, damn right, I am.
Speaker 1: Get this talmet off me, trickness master? Wait a minute, Master,
Speaker 1: who are you? Where's my boy? He had to go
Speaker 1: go away? I mean he had to go I know
Speaker 1: you don't im We met at the temple quil right
Speaker 1: or a quel? Are you? You're looking for employment? Which
Speaker 1: I found? Where is my boy? Now? You should sit?
Speaker 1: It would be better better less painful than less painful
Speaker 1: than sorry? Did that hurt? I'm so sorry. I just
Speaker 1: need to open up your wound a touch more, and
Speaker 1: don't thank you. You did very well. Relax now, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think that's best dying. You are, yeah, but not
Speaker 1: to worry. Let me take a moment or two. Actually
Speaker 1: it works out very well things considered. Everyone will assume
Speaker 1: it was the wound. It came back to your quarters,
Speaker 1: took off your armor, and well, oh, it was a drink.
Speaker 1: If you're wondering why your tongue has swollen to the
Speaker 1: point where you cannot speak, just try to relax. There's
Speaker 1: nothing you can do now, and it won't take long.
Speaker 1: I'll wait with you. Did you know that in the
Speaker 1: desert of Thar there's a wind samoon wind, I think
Speaker 1: the sky. Let's call it simoon moveen hm. It's from
Speaker 1: one of the ancient tongues. It blows up from time
Speaker 1: to time, and those whom it overtakes it not only kills. Indeed,
Speaker 1: I was told that when a man is killed by
Speaker 1: that wind, and his friends wished to wash him for burial,
Speaker 1: all his limbs fall apart. A strange world we're doing,
Speaker 1: And who knows what's up there in the air, in
Speaker 1: the sky above our heads. Look up there, how far
Speaker 1: can you really see? We all should do that, We
Speaker 1: all should take a moment away from the hurly burley
Speaker 1: of the street and our preoccupations and squabbles, and just
Speaker 1: observed the sky. What's not there? Where does it go?
Speaker 1: How far? Forgive me? I didn't quite why. Why it's
Speaker 1: my job? I'm oh. By the way, it's not Aquila
Speaker 1: with my name now. People often get it wrong. It's okay,
Speaker 1: hard edged like kiln a killer. H People find that funny.
Speaker 1: You know it's because of what I do well, they
Speaker 1: initially find it funny. Really end my acquaintance with anyone
Speaker 1: on humorous terms any rate. I've been summoned to to Monday,
Speaker 1: so I'll have to take my leave. Congratulations again or
Speaker 1: jousting to Monday? Season four, episode three, pronounced a killer
Speaker 1: by mac Rogers. What day, my friend? Can I help you?
Speaker 1: What's this? One? Bull? Bull from the Upper Mountains? Cans?
Speaker 1: But they sing a pretty song. It depends if you
Speaker 1: take good care of them. I've heard enough of this.
Speaker 1: Move on. You've been standing here too long. But you
Speaker 1: think I'm a fool. You think I don't know you're
Speaker 1: one of those crazy sky rats. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you're up to, but I know you're not interested in
Speaker 1: buying my birds. I know you moved stuff around the city,
Speaker 1: stuff that shouldn't be moved. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: And the linings of bird cages? What do you want?
Speaker 1: Your help getting a bird out of the cage? Shure?
Speaker 1: They say it would be easy for a skyra. Are
Speaker 1: you joking? They say it drops right down into the yard. Frog.
Speaker 1: There is nothing you could say that would make me. Oh,
Speaker 1: can I help you? Offendi? I'm looking for lodgings and
Speaker 1: your establishment comes highly recommended, Ma, Ma, man almost know
Speaker 1: if we have a vacancy, Yes, sir, how many nights?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure yet. The first time in Tay, I'm
Speaker 1: here for a funeral my uncle. Let me show you
Speaker 1: what's wrongs. We have very kind. Look, it's no problem
Speaker 1: breaking into the prison. It's getting out that's difficult. We're
Speaker 1: both skyrats. We can climb. We know how to get
Speaker 1: into places. Wronger, I don't know. I have responsibilities now
Speaker 1: I'm here, Ma, I'm still with a friend. Don't you
Speaker 1: want to get up on the kites again? Remember how
Speaker 1: it used to be when we were free? No one
Speaker 1: could stop us. Don't you want that again? Coming? Ma?
Speaker 1: There's got to be more exciting than this macnificent, isn't it.
Speaker 1: I feel as though I can't see half of two
Speaker 1: Monday from here, but that's exactly the point, because it's
Speaker 1: so very small from here, whereas I, being so much
Speaker 1: closer to you, I am so very large. Indeed, Madam,
Speaker 1: that is what we call perspective. So why don't you
Speaker 1: make a few preliminary sketches while I speak with Madame Fatt.
Speaker 1: Please don't interrupt me whilst I'm talking to the great artist.
Speaker 1: Forgive me, madam mhmm. You'll paint me here, the highest
Speaker 1: position on the walls. This is how history will remember me, Fatima,
Speaker 1: mother of the Empire, and she will sit at my feet,
Speaker 1: of course, my hand resting on her shoulder, Mother, and
Speaker 1: gazing out into the distance. The fires in the school wonderful, wonderful,
Speaker 1: And the grandmaster, the Balara I only wish to clarify.
Speaker 1: He will be there, of course, standing somewhere below. Make
Speaker 1: sure his head is no higher than my feet while
Speaker 1: I'm here. Of course, of course I think all the time.
Speaker 1: You need, and you're anything you need, You need only
Speaker 1: to ask, Madam. It's important that we discuss well. Usually,
Speaker 1: under normal circumstances, a great artist like Signor Piero wouldn't
Speaker 1: start work before the down the head steward, yes, well
Speaker 1: I have, and he said I should speak to the bookkeeper,
Speaker 1: and the bookkeeper said I should speak to the head eunuch,
Speaker 1: and I finally managed to find him, and he said
Speaker 1: he had no record of any payments due and that
Speaker 1: I needed to speak to the head steward. I went
Speaker 1: back to the head steward and he said nothing could
Speaker 1: be authorized without you signing an order, which, well, it
Speaker 1: will be done, madam. It is the custom, and it
Speaker 1: always has been, that there should be a payment before
Speaker 1: work begins. Signor Piero is the greatest artist in the world.
Speaker 1: There is constant demand for his work, and he has
Speaker 1: turned down many lucrative commissions to be here into Mambay. Madam,
Speaker 1: it's possible there's something wrong with my hearing, Signor is
Speaker 1: that it? Is there something wrong with my hearing? I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what you mean, because it sounds very much
Speaker 1: like you are questioning my word, Madam. As Signor Piero's assistant,
Speaker 1: it's my obligation. Do you take me for some sort
Speaker 1: of provincial am I caked in cheap face paint, draped
Speaker 1: in a gaudy shift that's coming apart of the scene
Speaker 1: not at all, Madam. Then I can't imagine where you
Speaker 1: get the idea that I don't know how to comport
Speaker 1: myself with men of culture. I can't imagine. I never
Speaker 1: said I certainly didn't mean to offend. It's a lovely
Speaker 1: view from these walls, don't you agree, Mistress Suspective? The
Speaker 1: great artist said yes, because we're so very high up.
Speaker 1: I suppose so, meaning that it's also quite a long
Speaker 1: way down. It's not just her, something's not right about
Speaker 1: this whole place. Smahan blue or green? Mahadi? What her eyes?
Speaker 1: I'm testing colors? Are you really going to paint exactly
Speaker 1: what she tells you to? I can paint exactly what
Speaker 1: she wants and still make her look like a vulgar
Speaker 1: fool at the center of it, and she won't even notice.
Speaker 1: This could be my masterpiece. Yes, but we need to
Speaker 1: be paid. Then see to it. I will, I am.
Speaker 1: But the more I see, the more I worry. What
Speaker 1: about the Sultana? What about her? Well? You do seem
Speaker 1: to get on. Ask her what's happening here? Perhaps she
Speaker 1: likes you? What do you mean who sees into the
Speaker 1: souls of others more clearly than I just be careful
Speaker 1: this mother daughter relationship. I don't think the Sultana says
Speaker 1: it's in quite the same way as Madame Fatima. Maybe
Speaker 1: you can find out whatever there is between Fatima and
Speaker 1: mannell business. I beg to disagree. It is a business
Speaker 1: of a great artist to know everything about his subjects.
Speaker 1: I'll contrive a meeting. Do it's too small? Paton on
Speaker 1: his shoulders, Mistress. Bring the meal closer. Boys, it's just
Speaker 1: fit me. Don't get any on slash. There's a good time,
Speaker 1: not now, I'm hosting lunch for the merchants of the city.
Speaker 1: Supers filth. Throw it out and tell the cook to
Speaker 1: start again. The full council and all the guilt heads
Speaker 1: will be eating this. Yess apologies, mistress, but it's not unrelated.
Speaker 1: If Indy Pillar, the banker we met, if you recall,
Speaker 1: is he coming to No, I'm afraid it, Stress. He
Speaker 1: sent word that he feels unable to assist us to
Speaker 1: the full extent of our request. Yes, this sash, but
Speaker 1: not the gown. Bring me something else. What are you
Speaker 1: telling me? He sends his best regards and deep regrets,
Speaker 1: but he's not able. I'm not interested in his best
Speaker 1: regards or his deep regrets. Why do you think I
Speaker 1: pardoned you? Godali? Why did I spare your life? You
Speaker 1: are supposed to have the contacts, and I have, mistress,
Speaker 1: and we have seen them, but I can't force. We
Speaker 1: need gold, Cadi tuman Bay needs gold. Surely there are others.
Speaker 1: There are, mistress, Yes, of course there are, and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to arrange. But there are concerns, concerns, concerns about
Speaker 1: what speak you're spending, mistress, my spending. Yes, we are
Speaker 1: talking about the rebuilding of the city, restoring confidence in
Speaker 1: in the dignity of the throne. You're right, of course ourselves.
Speaker 1: We to wear sack cloth and live like rats, scurrying
Speaker 1: around and that. Yes, this one, mistress, But let me
Speaker 1: see give it to me. You're changing. Perhaps I should
Speaker 1: return after you. You think I care what you see?
Speaker 1: Good Ali, when did you last have a thought of
Speaker 1: the flesh one's interests to moderate over the years? Suddenly,
Speaker 1: but her mistress is not. I'm sorry. How dare he
Speaker 1: turned me down? Impudent banker? Arrest him, put him in chains,
Speaker 1: let him faster in a dark cell. See how he
Speaker 1: likes that? I'm sure if d p La would not
Speaker 1: like that one. I am the mother of the empire.
Speaker 1: No one treats me like some peasant with their feet
Speaker 1: in the mud. No one tells me what to do.
Speaker 1: I tell them, of course, Mistress, without question, only if
Speaker 1: I may advise it may be unwise to arrest or
Speaker 1: threaten the bankers. All the money in Tuman Bay would
Speaker 1: dry up. Everything would dry up, All our trade would cease.
Speaker 1: You're saying that I may not in my own city,
Speaker 1: compel not from this city. His gold is not within
Speaker 1: our walls. If we threaten him the other bankers, they
Speaker 1: will simply disappear. We'll have nothing. Send him to me,
Speaker 1: Are you hard of hearing kad Ali? Send him to me, Yes, Mistress,
Speaker 1: Bring another gown and tell those fools in the kitchens.
Speaker 1: I need to taste the lamb of majesty. Oh senor Angel,
Speaker 1: isn't it I saw you walking out here? I hope
Speaker 1: you don't mind me, Please comm So these are the
Speaker 1: storied gardens of the Tumambai Palace you've greatly diminished. I'm
Speaker 1: afraid it's still beautiful, are they well? I can remember
Speaker 1: is what they were? So much color, so full of life.
Speaker 1: There used to be a thousand gardeners tending to every plant.
Speaker 1: There were fountains and streams. It's like a living painting
Speaker 1: the aqueduct right, I'm sorry. The lifeblood of the cis he.
Speaker 1: I heard the aqueduct was damaged during the occupation. It
Speaker 1: must have been a difficult time for you. Yes, it was,
Speaker 1: and I understand you helped repel the invaders. Yes, how
Speaker 1: can I help you? Signor angel? Oh, we have a
Speaker 1: small problem. Certain promises were made by Mistress Fatima Gold
Speaker 1: for the services of my master, but so far nothing
Speaker 1: has been forthcoming. He doesn't want to consider leaving. But
Speaker 1: under the circumstances you don't understand. Do you understand what?
Speaker 1: You are? Prisoners here? Even if you don't know it yet. Hm,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry even I am a prisoner here. Ah, this
Speaker 1: is it? What is this? He wanted to see the
Speaker 1: laboratory where the old Sultan made his perfumes. He said
Speaker 1: when we last met, that you'd like to see it.
Speaker 1: You remember that, of course? In here? Oh, I doubt
Speaker 1: anyone who has been in here for some time extraordinary.
Speaker 1: I'm confused, though you seem close close, you and hu mhm.
Speaker 1: Closeness comes in many different sense doesn't it now? For example,
Speaker 1: I had one sort of closeness with my husband, Herod,
Speaker 1: your husband sort of negotiated closeness. If you could bottle
Speaker 1: strategic alliar, it's as a scent, That's what it would
Speaker 1: smell like. Mm hmm. Where is he now? Killed in
Speaker 1: one of those palace coups we seem to have as
Speaker 1: regularly as summers, along with my vizier. What was his name?
Speaker 1: Her name was Alkin? If I may, majesty, there's quite
Speaker 1: a different sense coming off that name. Have I offended, Majesty? No,
Speaker 1: not at all. I'm just looking for a particular bottle
Speaker 1: here it is. Try this one. Mm hm hm. You're
Speaker 1: at the last for words? Do you load it? No?
Speaker 1: I think I might love it more than any scent
Speaker 1: I've ever experienced. Only but it doesn't smell like anything
Speaker 1: else I've ever liked. Mhm. That was her favorite scent.
Speaker 1: I'm so very sorry you lost her. I didn't lose her.
Speaker 1: She was taken from me, hanged like a common pickpocket
Speaker 1: by that man CADALIDI doesn't he serve Fatima? Now? Does he?
Speaker 1: Is that the same Cadali? I'm a stranger to Tom Bay,
Speaker 1: so of course, I wouldn't understand all of your customs.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I do. What is Fatima's role here exactly?
Speaker 1: You're the Sultana. I understand what the Sultana is. I
Speaker 1: don't understand what she is. Why she's the mother of
Speaker 1: the empires in your angel and I adore her as
Speaker 1: if she were my own. Yes, I can see that.
Speaker 1: Once again, I approached the gates of my beloved, awful
Speaker 1: Tuman Bay, the only place I really belonged, the only
Speaker 1: home I've ever really had. Only this time it's with
Speaker 1: a phalanx of Ballarak at my back, and I have
Speaker 1: no idea what's waiting for me inside the welcome back?
Speaker 1: Is it a welcome or is it something else? Bittle
Speaker 1: and escort you've got there, you know me, always making friends.
Speaker 1: We keep the city gates closed. Now, new orders the
Speaker 1: balak are tightening everything up and up. Talking. The Grandmaster
Speaker 1: said you ought to go to him straight away. Let
Speaker 1: them draw right on to the palace. The Grandmaster doesn't
Speaker 1: stay there. He prefers not to be tainted by the
Speaker 1: Sultana's court. We're going to the army quarter. Something has
Speaker 1: changed into Monday. What people there are stop? What they're
Speaker 1: doing and stare at us as we passed by. Open brother, brother,
Speaker 1: you can just spank Commander com with me in Comanda,
Speaker 1: Gregor a marble tent. Well, you should know your late
Speaker 1: brother general cool and had it made his headquarters. I
Speaker 1: believe I never ventured into the army quarter. My brother
Speaker 1: and I were close, but we were careful not to
Speaker 1: get in each other's way. You sent for me, I did.
Speaker 1: Will you have refreshments? Heaven? Are you know each other?
Speaker 1: I believe she the Grandmaster's prisoner. She has a different
Speaker 1: life now, or his confidant. She has found the righteous path.
Speaker 1: She could be useful again. And I thought the Balarak
Speaker 1: were an all male order, and so we are. But
Speaker 1: Heaven is special. She can read the ancient texts. She
Speaker 1: has earned her place among us. She is my eyes.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you require? Grandmaster? No? Leave us eat, Commander,
Speaker 1: you'll need your strength. I have a task for you.
Speaker 1: I see well I'm at your command, Grandmaster. I have
Speaker 1: no doubt I just saved you from a house of
Speaker 1: the mad, more than your niece the Sultana did. Yes,
Speaker 1: as you say, Grandma or her adoptive, How does that
Speaker 1: make you feel? Greg Or? This woman fat him and
Speaker 1: murdering your brother and calling her of mother to your
Speaker 1: niece the sultan. How does that make you feel? I
Speaker 1: try never to feel anything until I know the facts.
Speaker 1: Emotion is really a reliable guide. They's sent you away
Speaker 1: because you're behaving like a madman, burbling tales of a
Speaker 1: dead woman walking. Remember have you heard your men digging
Speaker 1: in the cellars, destroying walls, looking for doors where they
Speaker 1: were none, sending your guard out into the streets questioning people.
Speaker 1: Have you seen this woman neglecting your job? No? Used
Speaker 1: to anyone, not even yourself. Perhaps your niece was right
Speaker 1: to send you to that place. I'm sure she was,
Speaker 1: But I'm a different man now. That is all in
Speaker 1: the past. I've changed. Ah, Then I suppose you won't
Speaker 1: be interested in the sightings? What sightings this woman alkin?
Speaker 1: That wouldn't concern you anymore? I yes, that little catch
Speaker 1: in your throat? What could your face possibly reveal in
Speaker 1: this moment that your voice hasn't already given away? How
Speaker 1: can I serve you? Grandmaster? Who is Alcin greg Or?
Speaker 1: Is she Maya Maya's forces were destroying? Or perhaps perhaps not?
Speaker 1: Does Maya have a hidden army into men by, she
Speaker 1: said she would return. Is there a soldier within every
Speaker 1: washerwoman and brick carrier waiting for a signal, a whisper
Speaker 1: from mouth to ear to take up ums to reconquer?
Speaker 1: Is my an invasive wasp who has injected a progeny
Speaker 1: into the very body of two men a seditious eggs,
Speaker 1: acts that will hatch and burst out of their hosts
Speaker 1: and bring about Maya's final triumph, the queen of this world?
Speaker 1: What do you want from me? Then you're going to
Speaker 1: investigate these sightings of this alcin. I need to know
Speaker 1: if this is some impostor pretending to be a dead woman,
Speaker 1: or if there is more to it than that. Is
Speaker 1: she involved in the disappearance of the halfees? What he
Speaker 1: has vanished? No one knows where. Wasn't it guarded up
Speaker 1: to a point? But remember Gregor we Ballereca principally here
Speaker 1: to help and advise, not to God, where's the half
Speaker 1: He's important to you? He's an old drunk. That's not
Speaker 1: the man. It's what he represents in his person, his position,
Speaker 1: the line of succession from the teacher until now. He
Speaker 1: is the one who opens the door that we shall
Speaker 1: pass through his presence. It's crucial now. He can't have
Speaker 1: gone far, so draw on whatever context you still have
Speaker 1: and bring him back when me. We'll not use your
Speaker 1: own people. You know this city like no other, every alley,
Speaker 1: every cellar, every secret. So I am free to go.
Speaker 1: The city is yours Heaven, Grandmaster, Heaven will give you
Speaker 1: what you need this way, Commander the Seal and the
Speaker 1: Grandmaster the sigil of the Ballarach stamped in wax on
Speaker 1: fine parchment. It will allow you free movement throughout him
Speaker 1: and me, and hopefully this will loosen enough tongus very adequate.
Speaker 1: Thank you, And I need you to do something else
Speaker 1: for me. What would that be? The Grandmaster has brought
Speaker 1: me back to find half fees? Is that really what
Speaker 1: he wants? Was there some other purpose? I need you
Speaker 1: to find out what the grand Master really I'm sorry
Speaker 1: for what I'm not doing anything for you that is
Speaker 1: in the expressed order of the Grandmaster. But heaven't we
Speaker 1: what we have an understanding? Do we? Not? No more
Speaker 1: murmured requests, Gregor. I'm not your tool anymore. I protected
Speaker 1: your husband and child. I have no husband or child
Speaker 1: the Ballarack or my family you have nothing to hold
Speaker 1: over me anymore. Be grateful you've been given any sort
Speaker 1: of second chance at all. Come back when you have
Speaker 1: Alkin or the Huffy's or both open Robert open, you
Speaker 1: may bask com thank you Alkin the Haffees. I need
Speaker 1: to go somewhere safe. Where do I know that's safe?
Speaker 1: Rooms available today? Is that so? Where is the lady
Speaker 1: at the house? Why? Because I'd like to see her. Ma,
Speaker 1: there's a man here? Well, wow, there's money. I need
Speaker 1: a room, of course, Commander just if Endy Gregor will do.
Speaker 1: I'm not a commander anymore. I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 1: If I had known you were coming out the reserved
Speaker 1: our finest room, but that has been taken by Acquila. Hello,
Speaker 1: this is my new guest, Acquila. Are you saying a
Speaker 1: killer is pronounced? A killer? Please to me? And this
Speaker 1: is Commander Gregor. Just greg Can I go, please go
Speaker 1: where you're supposed to be cleaning your skyret friend promised
Speaker 1: him what young today? My room and he will do. Well.
Speaker 1: I need is a couch. Let me see wonderful city.
Speaker 1: I want to see as many of the sights of
Speaker 1: this great city as I can while i'm here. I'm
Speaker 1: it they're not what they once were. Well, I once
Speaker 1: went deep in the desert in search of the ancient
Speaker 1: city of Cause you heard of it. Let's say, if
Speaker 1: you have the opportunity to travel only once in your life,
Speaker 1: Cause is the place you should visit. That's what the
Speaker 1: books say. And so, after many days of arduous travel,
Speaker 1: what did I see about? A collection of mud hearts?
Speaker 1: Moster them without these? Forgive me? I found the room good?
Speaker 1: Can you put my bags? And they were impressed? For time?
Speaker 1: Of course, perhaps we can continue this fascinating conversation later. Yes,
Speaker 1: of course. Now I do tend to go on. What
Speaker 1: are you doing here, commander? I'm not I really do
Speaker 1: have to of course. Of course you're a busy man.
Speaker 1: I can see that. What did they say, the old
Speaker 1: saying a busy man? Is? I have to go until
Speaker 1: next time, Commander the Bank of moldi Pla and his son.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I thought we were here to see the Sultana.
Speaker 1: You're here to see me sit Affendi, Pila and son.
Speaker 1: I'm not from here, you know. I'm from the Eastern province,
Speaker 1: well Amber province originally. You're from Vinca. I believe that's right,
Speaker 1: m yes, where are you from? Cadali? I came as
Speaker 1: a slave, like so many others. I have no idea
Speaker 1: where from, for I was a mere child when I arrived.
Speaker 1: Everyone in tuman Bay is from somewhere else. It seems
Speaker 1: this great city is at the center, always drawing in
Speaker 1: from every corner. Do you know what I've always loved
Speaker 1: best about human bayar offendi Pila? Why I am so
Speaker 1: honored to be Mother of the Empire? No, no, I don't.
Speaker 1: It is that tuman Bay is a city of laws.
Speaker 1: For example, laws that give justice to you and your
Speaker 1: family for the tragic murder of your father. Tuman Base
Speaker 1: thrives because of the laws that make trade fair to
Speaker 1: one and all. A man seeking to trade or run
Speaker 1: a business here knows that he is protected by those laws.
Speaker 1: Not even a saultan or the Mother of the Empire
Speaker 1: can cheat him. It is why we all love Tumana.
Speaker 1: Do you love tuman Bay? Of course? Then why don't
Speaker 1: you do your duty to it? My duty? The loan,
Speaker 1: Madam Fatima, We have to assess the worst. Now you
Speaker 1: are saying tuman Bay has no worth, not at all, Madam.
Speaker 1: Merely that we see that so much of Tuman based
Speaker 1: resources are being spent in ways that are unlikely to
Speaker 1: bring a return. If you're referring to the paintings, the art,
Speaker 1: the very modest amount of clothing and jewels, the sutana,
Speaker 1: and I need to uphold the dignity of Human Bay
Speaker 1: with respect, Madam. I'm thinking more specifically of the siphoning
Speaker 1: of funds to refurbish your palace in the Eastern Province,
Speaker 1: a marble summer palace in the garden, requiring a thousand
Speaker 1: skilled stone basons, for example. I see. Do you know
Speaker 1: what I think? If nd PLA. For years now, the
Speaker 1: great and glorious Human Bay has been greedily sucking money
Speaker 1: out of all the provinces, not just mine. If we
Speaker 1: push just a little back to build up the provinces again,
Speaker 1: the whole structure of trade will start running once more.
Speaker 1: It's all a matter of confidence. If I may interject, Mistress,
Speaker 1: I very much agree, Lizia. We don't require you any further.
Speaker 1: You may go, But Mistress, should I not be part
Speaker 1: of this? You may go, of course, take is it,
Speaker 1: ah father and close the door. I was so sorry
Speaker 1: to hear of your father's death of d p LA.
Speaker 1: Thank you, madam. It was a respected banker. He loved
Speaker 1: the city. Indeed, I understand you chose death for the
Speaker 1: young woman in the court as is your right, as
Speaker 1: our laws allow. It was more of a duty than
Speaker 1: a choice. I quite agree with you. You are a
Speaker 1: wise man. You can't have wives going around killing their husbands.
Speaker 1: But rivals in business, well, rivals offending mc groub. Didn't
Speaker 1: he recently cheat you on some business in Serene? They
Speaker 1: are rebuilding the port there and you were hoping to
Speaker 1: secure the contract. You are well informed, mistress. Of course
Speaker 1: that must have hurt. You're busy fighting for your Emily's honor,
Speaker 1: ensuring your poor murdered father gets the justice he deserved,
Speaker 1: whilst that little weaselm group goes behind your back, and
Speaker 1: I hear he did very well out of it. Indeed,
Speaker 1: I can deal with him. What do you mean I
Speaker 1: think offend Pela with respect? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: My group is closely guarded. Any attempt it would come
Speaker 1: back on me, not the way I would have it done.
Speaker 1: Why would you do this for me? Because you're going
Speaker 1: to guarantee the full amount of the loan I want
Speaker 1: for Tuman Bay. Then within six moods, you will have
Speaker 1: made more gold back then you could possibly imagine. Several
Speaker 1: Ballarak officers stand guard outside the Hafez's palace, just one
Speaker 1: more signed that this is no longer the Tuman day.
Speaker 1: I once knew, what is your business here? This seal
Speaker 1: means I don't have to tell you my business. Were
Speaker 1: you on the door when her feast disappeared? Only today? Brother?
Speaker 1: Before that, there was an hourly patrol of the Ballast,
Speaker 1: just the perimeter. They didn't go inside. Well, they didn't
Speaker 1: want to disturb the Huffees, and how would they know
Speaker 1: if all was well? They checked the doors were shut
Speaker 1: and locked, that's all. And his man Bellow, They spoke
Speaker 1: to him two or three times a day. This was
Speaker 1: not of our doing. And yet all the same, it
Speaker 1: seems the bird has flown the Ballaraca here only as
Speaker 1: as advisors. Yes, I think I've heard that before. Is
Speaker 1: this man Bellow inside now? Yes? Well done? Open the
Speaker 1: gates open, the gates come under control, bellow. The Harfees
Speaker 1: is acolyte. Once upon a time in my pay come
Speaker 1: and just about the only lead I have. I thought
Speaker 1: you were yes, you were away, you were not here less?
Speaker 1: When did he disappear. I've already told them everything, and
Speaker 1: now you're going to tell me. When did he disappear?
Speaker 1: Between noon and the third hour three days ago? He
Speaker 1: normally rests in the afternoon. I brought him his lunch,
Speaker 1: and when I came to wake him after he was
Speaker 1: no longer there. I don't see how he needed me
Speaker 1: for everything. So you think he was taken? Were there
Speaker 1: any signs of a struggle? Not a trace, which I'm
Speaker 1: sure is what you told the ballarak. That's all there
Speaker 1: is to tell, and I can see why the Ballara
Speaker 1: believed him. He's convincing. I swear Gregor, only I remember
Speaker 1: things they don't. His years of unctuous service to his
Speaker 1: master's addictions. I don't think they have faces so much
Speaker 1: turned over in his sleep. Without this man knowing, I'll
Speaker 1: have to gamble. Then, how do you explain the woman?
Speaker 1: The woman, the mysterious woman seeing near our feast before
Speaker 1: he disappeared? How did you know about that? I didn't,
Speaker 1: But now I do A question you would do well
Speaker 1: to consider before you liked me again. Now tell me
Speaker 1: everything about the woman. Next time, it won't be me
Speaker 1: asking shut the door, pull the curtain. Now talk three
Speaker 1: days before he went, there was a visitor, a woman.
Speaker 1: What did you look like? I don't know. How do
Speaker 1: you know that's they? I didn't see anyone coming. I
Speaker 1: went to the Highfist's room in the morning to bring
Speaker 1: him his refreshments, and as I put the tray down,
Speaker 1: I noticed a shadow. I saw her eyes. She was there,
Speaker 1: and half he said, go leave us. I was embarrassed.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what was happening. So I waited outside
Speaker 1: for her to leave, but she never came out. Then,
Speaker 1: after quite some time I passed the huffie rang the
Speaker 1: bell to call me inside, and when I went in,
Speaker 1: she was gone. Did you ask him who she was?
Speaker 1: How she came in and out? He just said the watchers,
Speaker 1: the watchers, the watchers have come. And then he he
Speaker 1: laughed strangely for for a long time. Then three days
Speaker 1: later he was gone. And why didn't you tell the Barratis?
Speaker 1: It would have been man wise. The trouble is with
Speaker 1: these people. One you'll give them a convoluted story. Then
Speaker 1: they question you more, and your answers aren't quite right,
Speaker 1: and then they put the thumb screws on and watches. Bellow,
Speaker 1: what does it mean? I don't know you. Forget that,
Speaker 1: I know you, Bellow. You're insatiably curious and you have
Speaker 1: one of the biggest libraries in Tuman Bay. Are you
Speaker 1: telling me you didn't open a single book or unroller scroll?
Speaker 1: It's all speculation. Then speculate and there are stories in
Speaker 1: one of the old scrolls of visitors from somewhere else.
Speaker 1: They just come to watch. But that's not all they do.
Speaker 1: They've taken the Harfees. Yes, yes, something has changed with
Speaker 1: the Harfeest too. He stopped drinking in the three days
Speaker 1: between the woman and whatever happened? Bellow, did the Huffees
Speaker 1: ever get a visit from Mistress Fatima? Um m hmmm,
Speaker 1: h Just one more roof then we'll be right above
Speaker 1: the prison God, I miss this. Careful, don't be not there, No,
Speaker 1: I can make it. There's a pipe. Watch this, don't
Speaker 1: be help me. The pipe is coming away. Wait there?
Speaker 1: What else could I do? Wait? Look up, I'm just
Speaker 1: above you. Take my hand. H m hmm, thank you rock.
Speaker 1: He really should be maintaining their pipes. What to make
Speaker 1: life easier for thieves like us? Come? Look a prison yard.
Speaker 1: They let the prisoners out there once a day, just
Speaker 1: before sunset. They don't change them. Why would they? Who's
Speaker 1: expecting sky rats? Here they come? Now? The women prisoners
Speaker 1: are in that line. There's so many of them. Can
Speaker 1: you see her? She needs to look up? Look up, matella.
Speaker 1: What if I do the sky at can? She knows
Speaker 1: what it means? Good a deer do it? She's seen us.
Speaker 1: Let's go. How will she know? She knows where to wait?
Speaker 1: I've told her to be ready? Frock. Wait, I think
Speaker 1: someone looked up. Did they see us? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: All right, come on the shafts just over there. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is definitely the one that gang has told you
Speaker 1: about it. It's right where they said it would be. No, No,
Speaker 1: what what is it? It's been blocked up. There's no
Speaker 1: way through. I'm sorry frog, alright, No, I'm not all right.
Speaker 1: On the night of the fires, they're going to hang
Speaker 1: a thousand people. They're going to need a lot of gloves.
Speaker 1: Shut shut up. Do you think this is a joke. No,
Speaker 1: someone's going to have to build them. They're recruiting carpenters.
Speaker 1: My uncle is in the business. We can get a job. Job,
Speaker 1: That's how we save Mattila. We can do this. Say it,
Speaker 1: say we can do this. We can do this. See
Speaker 1: if they could believe it. We can do this. We
Speaker 1: can do this. We can do this. We can do this.
Speaker 1: We can do this. M Season four, episode three of
Speaker 1: tuman Bay Pronounced a Killer featuring Anton Lesser, Rob Jarvis,
Speaker 1: Aisha hart, Enzo Chilenti, and Kirsty Bushell, was written by
Speaker 1: Matt Rogers, with music by Sasha Putner and editing and
Speaker 1: sound designed by Eloise whitmer h toman Bay is created
Speaker 1: by me and Mike Walker and produced by Emma Hern
Speaker 1: and Nadir Khan. For more details, including scripts and a
Speaker 1: full cast list, visit to mun Bay dot com