Speaker 1: Look at them, come, Gregor. Yes, a great alliance begins today,
Speaker 1: a great alliance. All I see is a mission of war,
Speaker 1: an insidious occupation already in progress. Look at them. They've
Speaker 1: brought horses by ship to the city. Call this what
Speaker 1: it is a show of power. Perhaps now is as
Speaker 1: good a time as any to discuss his requirements. What
Speaker 1: are you talking about? He likes to be addressed as
Speaker 1: the grand Master. Ah, good, so long as he's humble,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't like to be touched. Right. I've waited
Speaker 1: so many times at so many gates, this particular gait
Speaker 1: more than most for people to arrive. Today it's with Cadali,
Speaker 1: that slimy snake, worming his reptile body inch by inch
Speaker 1: back into favor. We're waiting for the embassy of the
Speaker 1: ballarak Oh, and one of them, man, yes, please, let's
Speaker 1: have it. Should I kiss his feet? Do I wait
Speaker 1: upon him with perfumes? He's blind? He's blind quite completely.
Speaker 1: Isn't he supposed to be some sort of great war lord?
Speaker 1: He is a great war lord who can't see his
Speaker 1: own horse. He adapted. You know a bit about adapting,
Speaker 1: don't you, Gregor? To whoever's in charge the Sultan Maya
Speaker 1: and now a sultana, an ever refreshing process of adaptation.
Speaker 1: Not exactly are you accusing me? Ah, Grandmaster? Welcome to
Speaker 1: two men. Bey, who is this? What an honor? And Ali?
Speaker 1: He has a face like granite and gaping holes or
Speaker 1: his eyes used to be. I hope you had a
Speaker 1: good journey. This is a man who has been in wars.
Speaker 1: As he was calm, Perhaps I could advise arrest before
Speaker 1: you see her. Man, I am not here to rest.
Speaker 1: I want to speak to the Sultan, and you will
Speaker 1: imminently loil. Master of the Palace Guard, I asked who
Speaker 1: you are, not what you are. My name is Gregor.
Speaker 1: May I for you my hand, grand Master, But you
Speaker 1: can offer me greg Or, Master of the Palace Guard.
Speaker 1: Is the Sultan. Now, if I hadn't looked right into
Speaker 1: those eyeless sockets, I swear he could see. We in
Speaker 1: Human Bay pride ourselves on possessing one of the largest
Speaker 1: less labyrinthine palaces in the world. But getting anywhere does
Speaker 1: require a favorite of walking. Now, if you turn your
Speaker 1: attention to the right, you will see a sublime view
Speaker 1: of the old sky us a court. No, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: you can't see it wouldn't look if I could all
Speaker 1: ruined by Maya and her followers. I'm sorry to say. Anyway,
Speaker 1: this way and now we are passing through the menagerie,
Speaker 1: which was once famous far and wide, but alas it's
Speaker 1: fortunately you cannot see what twomanbas has come true. Grandmaster
Speaker 1: entering the hall of mirrors and of course no mirrors.
Speaker 1: Now even the saddle wood paneling has gone an indulgence.
Speaker 1: And what's that, Grandmaster? Mirrors? Of course, of course, Grandmaster,
Speaker 1: a frightful extravagance. Please, what is up to? He's being
Speaker 1: even more obsequious than usually. Oh yes, here we are
Speaker 1: the throne room. Well, open the door quite so, Grandmaster.
Speaker 1: But if I may be so bold, there a few
Speaker 1: points of protocol. Protocol when in the presence of the
Speaker 1: Sultana tupin Bay, has a lawn just opened the door? Yes,
Speaker 1: of course, but if I could just advise, no, I
Speaker 1: advise you opened the door now? Of course, of course,
Speaker 1: your majesty, may I present the grand Master mal of
Speaker 1: well which one of you is in charge? Grandmaster, welcome
Speaker 1: to to min Bay. All right, So if you're the Sultana,
Speaker 1: that would make the woman at your shoulder the Vizier alkin.
Speaker 1: It's as if he knows the whole layout of the
Speaker 1: room just from sound and smell. An honor, grand Master too.
Speaker 1: Mun Bay may not want this alliance, but we need it.
Speaker 1: So everyone has been told to attend and create a
Speaker 1: good impression. Grand Master, I hope while you are into
Speaker 1: mun Bay, you will be able to explore our beautiful city.
Speaker 1: I know the shrine of Bakara is of significance to
Speaker 1: the ballaraq my Lord. When the sultan arises, protocol requires
Speaker 1: you must need my Lord, I will stand. I will stand.
Speaker 1: It's all right. Leave him be, your majesty. Two man
Speaker 1: Bay is an ancient city. There are many customs, but
Speaker 1: we are amongst friends. An alliance between two mun Bay
Speaker 1: and the Ballara could benefit all of us. It would
Speaker 1: bring peace throughout the region, allowing traders to conduct commerce
Speaker 1: across borders without fear. MMBO weak, not so weak, grand Master,
Speaker 1: as one might think. An alliance between alliance and alliance.
Speaker 1: I'll speak plainly, and I'll ask that you listen carefully,
Speaker 1: because I'm not a man who likes to repeat myself.
Speaker 1: Two Manbai is on its knees. We are willing to
Speaker 1: offer our hand in friendship. We have a common enemy, Maya.
Speaker 1: She's building up her strength in the north. She will
Speaker 1: come again. Her ambitions are limitless. We Ballaraq are placed
Speaker 1: between Maya's territories to the north and two Manbay to
Speaker 1: the south. You need us. We are what stands between
Speaker 1: you and a second occupation in as many years, and
Speaker 1: we are prepared to help. What sort of help we
Speaker 1: are prepared to take two Manbay under our protection. We
Speaker 1: will send our advisers and officials and install a garrison
Speaker 1: to defend your walls. Our walls are already defending yes,
Speaker 1: with the palace guard of a hudred men under your command, Gregor,
Speaker 1: So you propose to replace them with your men sounds
Speaker 1: like a takeover to me, General Cooln. I have studied
Speaker 1: your battles. You are once one of the greatest commanders
Speaker 1: in the field. I hope I still have a few
Speaker 1: battles left in me, but unfortunately in no army to
Speaker 1: fight them with. Grand Master, with respect, we would prefer
Speaker 1: not to have your advisers or officials within our city walls.
Speaker 1: We have a great number of you. If you decline
Speaker 1: our offer of friendship, then you must pay for our forces.
Speaker 1: Why should our soldiers die defending two Mambay If two
Speaker 1: Membai does not want us, if you choose to treat
Speaker 1: us as mercenaries, you will need to pay us as mercenaries. Majesty,
Speaker 1: I swear I had no idea, and the Sultana's ear
Speaker 1: already affecting damage control. Don't react, majesty, that keeps mine?
Speaker 1: Does your woman have something to Smiles and nods have
Speaker 1: very little effect on me. Then let us work with
Speaker 1: words instead, Say we do pay you? How much are
Speaker 1: you asking? Two million pieces of gold? Surely for the
Speaker 1: most powerful, most wealthy city on earth. This is about
Speaker 1: a pittance. It has been a pittance, and soon it
Speaker 1: will be again. But in the brief unusual present, Grandmaster
Speaker 1: to mid Bay has been freshly ransacked by Maya. We
Speaker 1: are in an ongoing process of rebuilding, and you'll know
Speaker 1: what you must do. If you can't pay, you have
Speaker 1: to let us in. Well, simply wait for the inevitable,
Speaker 1: with nothing but Gregor and his hundred men between you
Speaker 1: and Maya. And if we decline your very kind offer,
Speaker 1: then God help you. If there's anything you want less
Speaker 1: than the return of Maya, it's me as your enemy
Speaker 1: Tuman Big Series three, episode three, The Blind Man by
Speaker 1: mac Rogers have others this way through through here. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not here. If the sector is for amateurs, I
Speaker 1: know I'm more exclusive part of the bunt. My god,
Speaker 1: why did I see you last? I told you I
Speaker 1: would return, didn't you did defend this young lady. I
Speaker 1: am heaven. I'm the one who will be making the purchase.
Speaker 1: You'll be talking to me, I see. And this is
Speaker 1: the captain of my ship. He'll be ensuring the safe
Speaker 1: transport of the merchandise back to to Monday. M hm.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's good. It's hard to move good slaves
Speaker 1: these days, or any slaves for that man. Everything's falling apart.
Speaker 1: The suppliers can't get the product across from the east anymore.
Speaker 1: There's no control of the seas or the borders. And
Speaker 1: the spice for of them told us rife with bandits.
Speaker 1: I had a consignment due last week, paid my supplier
Speaker 1: in full on my ad Well, gold is the only
Speaker 1: currency they trust now. Promises were made, and what choice
Speaker 1: do we have other than to trust. I remember my
Speaker 1: father once told me in business, it's not if everyone
Speaker 1: will betray you, but when wise words, wise wise words?
Speaker 1: When when my consignment finally arrived? What did I get?
Speaker 1: A few old men and a couple of children. All
Speaker 1: the other slaves have been taken by bandits. It's a mess.
Speaker 1: What can you do on the matter of our merchant? Now?
Speaker 1: Your merchant dies is prime quality. I've kept it especially
Speaker 1: for you, my friend. I knew you'd be coming, but
Speaker 1: as the weeks have gone on, I had to cut
Speaker 1: their rations a bit. You understand how it is. But
Speaker 1: I knew you would come and they will quickly put
Speaker 1: on way. There will be a small extra charge, of course.
Speaker 1: Of course, of course I understand people. I'd like to
Speaker 1: see them first before we get to carry away with
Speaker 1: egs es. Of course, this pen over here this way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's in there. M quiet didn't there, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 1: If you look through the slats you can see them. Yes,
Speaker 1: of course, yes, I see them. Marvelous. They looked thin, sick? Maybe, no, no,
Speaker 1: not at all. A sea voyde will be perfect By
Speaker 1: the time you get to to Mumbai. There will be
Speaker 1: perfect rhyme quality. Do you understand if I don't just
Speaker 1: accept your word for it? Yes, you you're there. Bring
Speaker 1: that one over the the woman bring her over by. Hi,
Speaker 1: I'll gall dough, I'll gat you do look up, No,
Speaker 1: I don't do I go do mouth open ah ah,
Speaker 1: lift your arms, Guy Meller, Guy Mello, thank you. You
Speaker 1: may go to These slaves are malnourished. Look, I have
Speaker 1: to make a profit to how much did you pay
Speaker 1: for them? Then? Well he hasn't paying for them, not yet.
Speaker 1: They're fat and fine the sea air. That's just what
Speaker 1: they need to be honest. The business being in the States,
Speaker 1: and you're not going to get a better deal than this.
Speaker 1: Perhaps perhaps you would haven't paid for them, Evan, just
Speaker 1: ask your question. I think we need to go somewhere
Speaker 1: in chat. Well, look, don't be too long. I've been
Speaker 1: holding them for you. There have been many inquiries and
Speaker 1: I've turned them down for you, but I won't hold
Speaker 1: them forever. I could sell them just like that. I've
Speaker 1: already kept them here for you for a month. And
Speaker 1: by the way, there is going to be extra charge
Speaker 1: for the food. Don't forget see you soon, and don't
Speaker 1: be long. All right, It took longer than I thought
Speaker 1: to get here. And yes there was a misunderstandings. Misunderstandings
Speaker 1: is an interesting way to say kidnapping and rubbery. That
Speaker 1: wasn't me. It was my associates. They betrayed me as
Speaker 1: much as you. Even if I believe that you're the
Speaker 1: one who hired them, why not just let me stab him.
Speaker 1: The point is, I have delivered these slaves. Captain, Please,
Speaker 1: it's okay. Sit down. Slaves are hard to get. I
Speaker 1: put a deposit down, a third down payment, a whole third.
Speaker 1: You said they were fully paid for, Yes, paid for,
Speaker 1: meaning reserved. You Try finding five hundred slaves elsewhere at
Speaker 1: the time like this not easy. Look, our deal was, yes,
Speaker 1: you have the ships, I have the slaves. You don't
Speaker 1: have the slaves, though you have a third of the slaves.
Speaker 1: But if you really think about it, we're arguing over nothing.
Speaker 1: We're arguing over a great age. When we get the
Speaker 1: slaves to two man day, they will be snapped up.
Speaker 1: I'll be able to pay my debtors. Your debtors. How
Speaker 1: do you think I made the down payment? I borrowed.
Speaker 1: I borrowed everywhere. I could even promise my daughter's hand
Speaker 1: and manage to one of my backers. Look, you can
Speaker 1: see I'm holding nothing back. I know I made a
Speaker 1: mistake on the ship a mistake. We're calling it, but
Speaker 1: I want to make it up to you. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a great shortage of labor into Man Bay. These
Speaker 1: slaves are better than gold. Captain, you're a man of
Speaker 1: the world. Tell her I'm right. When did I become
Speaker 1: your ally in this conversation? Is he right? Captain? I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm a sailor. Sailor goes for gold. Gold never dies.
Speaker 1: But under the circumstances, with the way things are in
Speaker 1: Tuman Bay, the point is, if we do this, we
Speaker 1: won't be arguing over gold, because we'll all be enough.
Speaker 1: But I'm just listening to you is exhausting. Here is
Speaker 1: the new agreement. You've paid a third of the price,
Speaker 1: so you'll get a third of the profit when we
Speaker 1: get back. But heaven surely, and that's me being generous.
Speaker 1: You want to hear my second best offer. It removes
Speaker 1: the captain and his dagger. But take it or leave it.
Speaker 1: I don't see that we have a choice. There's always
Speaker 1: a choice, not a good one, and I am sultana.
Speaker 1: My job is to find the least bad one, the
Speaker 1: business that can't be put aside raising of the gold.
Speaker 1: If you pay them once they'll keep coming back and
Speaker 1: then tell me the better idea, General, do we open
Speaker 1: the gates and just let them in? I'm not a politician,
Speaker 1: I'm a soldier. You are the sultana. I see you're
Speaker 1: overflowing with advice until the moment I actually ask for it.
Speaker 1: All right, I see no other path. We have to
Speaker 1: pay the ballarat and as always alkin watching with those
Speaker 1: impenetrable eyes of hers, people are rebuilding their lives. They
Speaker 1: don't have gold to spare general a word, Now use me. Look,
Speaker 1: I've already told you, father, you are not the sultan. No,
Speaker 1: I am not. You had the chance to be sultian father,
Speaker 1: you refused, and now the role has fallen to me,
Speaker 1: a role I cannot effectively fulfill if you keep undermining me.
Speaker 1: I am merely your generals, Yes, a general with no army,
Speaker 1: which makes you what exactly? Do not disrespect me again?
Speaker 1: So gold, how do we raise it? Either give me
Speaker 1: a credible option or keep your mouth shut. Perhaps we
Speaker 1: can borrow it something to add cadali and eye browed
Speaker 1: to the prospect of putting ourselves further into debt. Majesty
Speaker 1: in debt is better than defenseless Majesty, Gregor, majesty, do
Speaker 1: you have anything to offer? And that's the damnation of
Speaker 1: it all. I don't, majesty. If I might humbly suggest
Speaker 1: an alternative solution, speak some of you here, perhaps only
Speaker 1: the elder among you. Perhaps I am showing my age.
Speaker 1: I will remember the story of the wise mouse, Mother mouse, mother,
Speaker 1: whose family lived high on all the cheese in the
Speaker 1: larder until the owner of the house purchased a cat,
Speaker 1: whereupon their fortunes began to change. Suddenly cheese becomes a
Speaker 1: dearer commodity, harder to come by. Except it turns out
Speaker 1: the mother mouse thinks ahead, is you're a point to
Speaker 1: Its just another moment's indulgence. You see, the mother mouse
Speaker 1: is wise, even under the reign of the cat, Even
Speaker 1: at the very height of her fear, she thought of
Speaker 1: her family first. She moved the cheese somewhere the cat
Speaker 1: would never find. Cadali, you would do well to consider
Speaker 1: the outer limits of my patients for stories about cats
Speaker 1: and mice and cheese. What if the cheese were gold,
Speaker 1: specifically the gold reserves of Tuman Bay. But Maya took
Speaker 1: all of the one I was visier under Maya Majesty,
Speaker 1: I found myself in a position not unlike that wise
Speaker 1: mouse mother. My former task, even at the height of
Speaker 1: the terror, was to protect the city's gold reserves as
Speaker 1: best they could. After all, surely that is the duty
Speaker 1: of any vizier to look after the essentials. Wouldn't you agree?
Speaker 1: I would? And what is more essential than gold? Thing?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I assumed you all knew that I would
Speaker 1: protect now safe, your majesty, And you know why it's safe,
Speaker 1: because only one person knows where it is, someone who
Speaker 1: can be trusted, like the mouse mother h this week
Speaker 1: a useful contingency, Majesty. It connects the Sultan's palace with
Speaker 1: the her Thesis palace. There are many such hidden passageways
Speaker 1: in tuman Bay, as I had assumed you knew, Gregor,
Speaker 1: I think we will need the torches at the front,
Speaker 1: if at all possible, tortures at the front, and you
Speaker 1: to its side, perhaps someone guarding the entrance. You, as
Speaker 1: I was just about to say, you man guard the entrance.
Speaker 1: No one follows us in no one. Do the two
Speaker 1: of you want to stop vying for position long enough
Speaker 1: to show me this promised goal. Please follow me, majesty,
Speaker 1: assuming promised. Gold really is in there? Why would I
Speaker 1: forget it anywhere? I've hidden a lifeline, spoken like a
Speaker 1: man who has more than one just through here? M
Speaker 1: hm hm. Another headn't room If your men with the
Speaker 1: torches would like to illuminate matters for the sort of tournament,
Speaker 1: do it? I had the slaves who carried it here despatch.
Speaker 1: It was important to be sure no one could lead
Speaker 1: the enemy here. Beautiful, isn't it, Majesty? And not only beautiful,
Speaker 1: it gives you power. This is good, Cadali. This is
Speaker 1: well done, your majesty. I merely try to do as
Speaker 1: I have always done my duty to two men. Bay,
Speaker 1: isn't that so? Gregor? And he grins like the mouse
Speaker 1: with the cheese, And I slink away like a cat
Speaker 1: at the end of a long fruitless hunt, going home
Speaker 1: with nothing good. You didn't join us to see the gold, brother,
Speaker 1: I'm not interested in the goal. My concern is also
Speaker 1: worth You feel it too, then, But she's still here,
Speaker 1: still in the city somehow. What are you talking about, Maya?
Speaker 1: Of course you need to move on, Gregor too. Mumbai
Speaker 1: has more current dangers to confront. Remember Sarah, she said,
Speaker 1: Maya and her followers disappear into the walls when they
Speaker 1: no longer wish to be known. She said, you'll never
Speaker 1: know who they are, and you'll never see them again
Speaker 1: until the time is right. Her friendly Red's widow. That's
Speaker 1: whose word you're basing all this paranoia on. What if
Speaker 1: she was right? What if the time is soon? Then
Speaker 1: we'll deal with that when it happens. If it happens, Listen, brother,
Speaker 1: you're too close to see it. That's the problem. Too close, monnel,
Speaker 1: too too close to what Alkin your own lover just barely.
Speaker 1: She doesn't come to my bed much anymore, but you're
Speaker 1: still close. Yes, does she ask your questions? Does she
Speaker 1: still see your correspondence? She is the visier, She sees
Speaker 1: many things. What if Alkins more than just the visier?
Speaker 1: What if she's something else as well? I hope I'm
Speaker 1: not in treading. Okay, how much did she hear? It's
Speaker 1: just when you overhear your own name, the curiosity is
Speaker 1: hard to ignore. All you're intruding on is my brother's decline.
Speaker 1: These aren't legitimate questions, brother, greg Or, Gregor, Look, this
Speaker 1: much is true. Giving them gold is a bad idea.
Speaker 1: Twoman By needs an army. You know it, So what
Speaker 1: are you going to do about it? Get one boy?
Speaker 1: You have this horse saddled and ready at dusk? Of course,
Speaker 1: very well, where are you going? Brother? As you said,
Speaker 1: I have ghosts to chase? He Gregor. I'm sorry, my love.
Speaker 1: It wasn't my intention to talk about you in your absence.
Speaker 1: People talk means nothing to me. I'm much more interested
Speaker 1: in why you need that horse. I need to see
Speaker 1: my guard. Why don't I follow you? That way I
Speaker 1: can coax the truth from you. Dropped by excruciating, dropt,
Speaker 1: be entertaining. I'm going to my villa in the hills now.
Speaker 1: My council is clearly not wanted here. Two Mumbai will
Speaker 1: always need it's best general it disciplines. There's no discipline here.
Speaker 1: People are living for pleasure, like there's no future. Look
Speaker 1: at my own daughter's husband. Prince Herod is in a
Speaker 1: different position. He has no role, and he should make
Speaker 1: his own role, preferably one that doesn't involve oring and gambling.
Speaker 1: Maybe the rest of two Munday would follow his August example.
Speaker 1: When I was in my foodster, it wasn't that different
Speaker 1: from two Mumbai. Right now, they had just finished defeating
Speaker 1: another type of enemy. No less mysterious than Maya, no
Speaker 1: less deadly either. By the time the invasion was repelled,
Speaker 1: half the population was dead. I've never heard of an
Speaker 1: invasion of Muffu's dawn. I know every battle. That's because
Speaker 1: the invader was the plague, and they don't teach generals
Speaker 1: about that. The point is, in the wake of so
Speaker 1: much death, there's a kind of natural rejoicing in simply
Speaker 1: being alive. That's what they were celebrating. That's what to
Speaker 1: Mumbai is celebrating. Now, you should allow them a little
Speaker 1: more leeway. If they are to gain strength, they need
Speaker 1: time to recover. It is no time. The Ballarak are
Speaker 1: here now. And what are we doing appeasing them? We're
Speaker 1: paying for a service, and the next time they offer
Speaker 1: a service we can't refuse. And the time after that,
Speaker 1: then why are you leaving? Surely too, Mumbai has never
Speaker 1: needed your help more. When the Sultana is prepared to listen,
Speaker 1: she can send me a message. She knows where to find.
Speaker 1: What will the Ballarak think when Tu, Mumbai's greatest leader
Speaker 1: just leave the city behind. They won't see me. I'll
Speaker 1: travel in darkness with only my most trusted escorts and
Speaker 1: the sultana. Does she know? Maybe you can tell it
Speaker 1: for me. What are you doing? What are you doing?
Speaker 1: That's not what you used to ask me when I
Speaker 1: pulled you into dark corners. Maybe I'm out of practice.
Speaker 1: We've come a long way you went. I the differences
Speaker 1: I know in my own long way started. Where did
Speaker 1: your long way begin? Okay? I don't like that question.
Speaker 1: Then I'll give you this much, shall I? The world
Speaker 1: is not at all what you think it is, my
Speaker 1: dear lover. Well now I'm more mystified than I was before. Well,
Speaker 1: perhaps you'll understand this. I like you, okay, but I
Speaker 1: don't trust you, not at all. Perhaps you are wise
Speaker 1: see that you take care of my daughter. Will good
Speaker 1: fortune to you, my love. I will see you on
Speaker 1: your return. M hmmm, ready, So what have you to
Speaker 1: come from? We've been around someone? Uh hey, you get
Speaker 1: me a candle. I want the closer look at this.
Speaker 1: I just told you. Let's have a look. I don't
Speaker 1: trust them. Maybe the spies from the palace. From the palace, yes,
Speaker 1: but not spies. But John who budly budly come over
Speaker 1: here cooking? You are at his possession? Is it? Is it?
Speaker 1: Is the prince. Just what are you doing here? I
Speaker 1: look like I'm doing and him, my friend s him
Speaker 1: a master of arrangements. Really well, I didn't just say
Speaker 1: I didn't gone too? Is it all right? Of course
Speaker 1: I've already revealed myself drinks and Prince heron h Are
Speaker 1: you really depris? Mm hmmm? You'n me love like a prince?
Speaker 1: Who dares I'm in the middle of receiving a compliment.
Speaker 1: It's sell him. There are people at the front door.
Speaker 1: What people they see that from the palace time? It's
Speaker 1: you can just tell them to go, can't you? Wow?
Speaker 1: Can't you? M hm ah? My Lady Sultana, did you
Speaker 1: sleep well? I was hoping to speak to you alone.
Speaker 1: I hardly think my little monkey friend here will inhibit
Speaker 1: our conversation. Do you perhaps you could put him back
Speaker 1: in his cage? Really? I don't think so. I think
Speaker 1: it's a sad thing to cage any creature. We all
Speaker 1: want to come out and play sometimes, don't we, Your majesty,
Speaker 1: This al turner is concerned about your behavior in the city.
Speaker 1: I wasn't aware she was concerned about me at all.
Speaker 1: It's not acceptable. These are desperate times. Husband, We are
Speaker 1: under attack. The Balaq have their spies here reporting back
Speaker 1: to that grand master of Theirs, telling him how we're
Speaker 1: falling apart and you are out gambling and whoring every night.
Speaker 1: What is she doing? She? She is my vizier and
Speaker 1: I trust her. What is that animal still doing here?
Speaker 1: He's my friend, I trust him, and you don't trust me.
Speaker 1: Is it any wonder with your behavior? I behave like
Speaker 1: that because you don't trust you. At least try to
Speaker 1: be discreet like you are with her, like your father
Speaker 1: is with her, sort of a family affair. Isn't it
Speaker 1: hard to see where I even fits in at all?
Speaker 1: M I never should have married him. I should have
Speaker 1: trusted my instinct. Mm hmmm, mm hmm. It was necessary.
Speaker 1: You need his father's loyalty and support more than ever. Actually,
Speaker 1: with the Ballarak sniffing around outside our gates and all
Speaker 1: the calamity they bring with them, you speak as if
Speaker 1: you can see the future. I'm your vizier. It's my
Speaker 1: job to plan for the future, and it's your job
Speaker 1: to rule and then get my father. I want to
Speaker 1: speak with him. Well, he he has gone, Your majesty
Speaker 1: gone gone. Where to the province is to seek help,
Speaker 1: help with what to build an army? I never dave.
Speaker 1: Why is everyone doing things behind my back? I quite agree, majesty.
Speaker 1: How long have you been skulking back there? Merely making
Speaker 1: myself available for any matters of policy that may arise naturally?
Speaker 1: And if I may be so bold, Majesty, you need
Speaker 1: a good advisor, someone you can trust, someone who is
Speaker 1: not your relative, your lover or your pet. Someone who
Speaker 1: can think clearly without emotion, someone who is disinterested. Are
Speaker 1: you trying to describe yourself, Cadali, because you're hardly disinterested.
Speaker 1: You're enormously interested in yourself. I don't deny it. I
Speaker 1: consider it a virtue. What is good for me is
Speaker 1: good for two men pain, And like you, I don't
Speaker 1: have any other motives. Be careful, you're far the Majesty
Speaker 1: general cool on. It's the oddest thing. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: him around? Why is that odd? Perhaps I have sent
Speaker 1: him somewhere where, if I may be so bold, you
Speaker 1: may not. Of course, of course, Majesty, you know me.
Speaker 1: I merely wish to serve. Yes, thank you, majesty. What
Speaker 1: do you want, Selim? I just wanted to let you
Speaker 1: know how things are going with the Prince. We're friends,
Speaker 1: so just if you need help, if you ever need
Speaker 1: to use him. Look, I want to help you father.
Speaker 1: In that case, I noticed my carpet is rather dusty.
Speaker 1: Perhaps you can summon one of your cleanness to take
Speaker 1: care of it, or, failing that, do it yourself. Rather,
Speaker 1: I did what you asked. I helped to get you
Speaker 1: back in the palace. And now you want what a reward,
Speaker 1: A prize for being a good boy, a longer night,
Speaker 1: fatherly embrace. Ah, yes, go on cry, your tears are
Speaker 1: wasted on me. What I respect is ambition, and you've
Speaker 1: never had a drop cleaning manager. You can't be as serious,
Speaker 1: and only because of my influence you have no idea
Speaker 1: what it is to work your way up from the bottom,
Speaker 1: to define yourself from nothing. I started life as a slave,
Speaker 1: and I was Chancellor of the empire by the time
Speaker 1: I was your age. And what are you the spitting
Speaker 1: image of your mother? An insignificant cleaning wench. So go
Speaker 1: on and cry. I owe you nothing, Sultana. You do
Speaker 1: me too much honor with this return visit to Grandmaster.
Speaker 1: Where is General Coulan? Why isn't he here? How does
Speaker 1: he always know my father is unwell. I'll give you
Speaker 1: some advice. Sultana. While you may be able to compose
Speaker 1: your face, you cannot compose your voice. I can hear
Speaker 1: the truth. Perhaps you overestimate your discernments. No, my men
Speaker 1: saw him leave the city last night. Then why ask
Speaker 1: if you already knew, maybe to hear what you would say, Grandmaster,
Speaker 1: you need to have a care for how you speak
Speaker 1: to them. You're ready to receive my embassy of advisors
Speaker 1: and officials or not. I'm waiting for an answer, Sultan.
Speaker 1: We are grateful for your kind offer, but I believe
Speaker 1: I can rule to Manbay without the help of the bellar.
Speaker 1: We would, however, like to accept or even kinder offer
Speaker 1: to retreat from our city, go back to your fortresses
Speaker 1: and stand as a line of defense between two men
Speaker 1: Bay and Maya. You know that would require that we
Speaker 1: meet your demand for payment. Yes, and we are prepared
Speaker 1: to do so. You have the goal, we do. Where
Speaker 1: is it, my men? I at this very moment waiting
Speaker 1: to transport the gold bars to your ships, your men,
Speaker 1: his men, officers of the Palace guard. Yes. Now, if
Speaker 1: that concludes our business, grand Master, I'd like for you
Speaker 1: to pack up your camp load, your soldiers and your
Speaker 1: horses back onto the ships, sail back to your fortresses,
Speaker 1: and get started on the work we are paying you
Speaker 1: to do very well. Sultan, Shall I escort? Have you
Speaker 1: ever had that nightmare where everyone you're a secret except
Speaker 1: for you? Who's the ranking man? I am so. But
Speaker 1: we're moving the gold to the port this evening, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: what the full contingent of men escorting it? Every man
Speaker 1: who can be spared, of course, But only it has
Speaker 1: been done. What has transport of the gold studied? It's
Speaker 1: been arranged by whom? Greg welcome from my office? Your office?
Speaker 1: Are you out of your mind? On the contrary, I'm
Speaker 1: very much in my mind, and it seems in my
Speaker 1: appropriate position as master of the palace guard. And just
Speaker 1: like that, every piece of the puzzle suddenly falls into place.
Speaker 1: On whose authority I was hoping for a bit of outrage,
Speaker 1: some gnashing of teeth, on whose authority? Working out for yourself, Gregor,
Speaker 1: it's an awfully short list. You should consider it a kindness. Really,
Speaker 1: you haven't been yourself lately. That's understandable. We've all been
Speaker 1: through so much these past months. Maybe it's time to
Speaker 1: take your brother's advice my brothers to take a nice
Speaker 1: long rest. I mean, as he's urged you to do
Speaker 1: so many times. You've been spying on us, merely remaining
Speaker 1: open to the many currents of information passing through Tuman
Speaker 1: Bay every day. This isn't over. I'll take good care
Speaker 1: of your men, Gregor. I don't think they'll miss looking
Speaker 1: for my eye in every shadow. But your majesty, Gregor,
Speaker 1: I gave the order myself. You're siding with Cadari and
Speaker 1: Alkin and your own brother. You're at your wits end,
Speaker 1: Gregor Or. Anyone can see it still work to do, Majesty,
Speaker 1: maas A. Agents are still here, Maya. Gregor, Still you
Speaker 1: don't understand. I understand. You're in the grip of an
Speaker 1: obsession that's taking every ounce of attention you should be
Speaker 1: devoting to the crisis our city is facing right now. Honestly,
Speaker 1: you haven't been yourself since we reclaimed the city. That's
Speaker 1: just what I'm saying. I don't think we have reclaimed it.
Speaker 1: Have you been taking something, taking something to cool? It
Speaker 1: would be understandable. This is you, isn't it busy? You've
Speaker 1: been plotting against me from the very start. No, Gregor.
Speaker 1: This is entirely you. I can do my job. I
Speaker 1: don't think you can, Uncle, or you would be already.
Speaker 1: And if you're being honest with yourself, you don't think
Speaker 1: you can do it either. If I'm being honest with myself,
Speaker 1: why start now from yelling? You can't catch me, don't
Speaker 1: hear us? Let them? Frog? Frog? We need to land there?
Speaker 1: Why the port? Why? But not too close? Who are
Speaker 1: we prepared? Sergeant? Yes, Grandma Frog? And we should say
Speaker 1: say why did we come down? Gear Frog? Who were
Speaker 1: those men? They're called the ball Iraq? They're frightening. He
Speaker 1: said that the fascest of all fighters Matilla, their fortresses
Speaker 1: all along the coast. The leader, that one there, he's
Speaker 1: called the grand Master. It's the most frightening of all.
Speaker 1: They say, he's blin. What's the matter? I recognize him
Speaker 1: from where? From my dreams? Do you really think it's
Speaker 1: possible to change the future? Change the future you foresaw
Speaker 1: in your dream? Yes? What do you want to change? Frog?
Speaker 1: You're scaring me. That look in your eyes it's more
Speaker 1: frightening than a hundred balls? Where are you going? What
Speaker 1: are you trying to change? You said it was impossible. Wait,
Speaker 1: you're going too fast. I'm amazing you from season three,
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Speaker 1: Rufus Wright, Anton Lesser, Matthew Marsh and Olivia Popka, was
Speaker 1: written by Mack Rogers, with music by Sasha Putnam and
Speaker 1: editing and sound design by Eloise Whitmore. Toumanbay is directed
Speaker 1: by Me, John Scott Dryden, created by Me and Mike Walker,
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