1
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[Alithea] <i>My name is Alithea.</i>

2
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<i>My story is true.</i>

3
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<i>You're more likely to believe me,
however, if I tell it as a fairy tale.</i>

4
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<i>So, once upon a time, when humans
hurtled across the sky on metal wings,</i>

5
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<i>when they wore webbed feet
and walked on the bottom of the sea,</i>

6
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<i>when they held in their hands
glass tiles</i>

7
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<i>that could coax love songs from the air,</i>

8
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[music playing through headphones]

9
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<i>There was a woman,
adequately happy and alone.</i>

10
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<i>Alone by choice.</i>

11
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<i>Happy because she was independent,</i>

12
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<i>living off the exercise
of her scholarly mind.</i>

13
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<i>Her business was story.</i>

14
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<i>She was a narratologist</i>

15
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<i>who sought to find the truths common
to all the stories of humankind.</i>

16
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<i>To this end, once or twice a year,
she ventured to strange lands.</i>

17
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<i>To China, the South Seas,</i>

18
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<i>and the timeless cities of the Levant...</i>

19
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<i>where her kind gathered
to tell stories about stories.</i>

20
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[man 1] This way.

21
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- [Alithea] Excuse me.
- [man 1] This way, lady.

22
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What are you doing?
Can you let go, please?

23
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The mysteries of Istanbul.

24
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[static]

25
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- [man 2] Alithea!
- [man 1 grunts]

26
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Alithea!

27
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Welcome!

28
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- Welcome at last! Aw.
- Günhan!

29
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- [both laugh]
- My dear friend.

30
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- [Alithea] Oh, how wonderful!
- [Günhan] I'm sorry.

31
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- This is Amina.
- Amina.

32
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From the British Council.

33
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That fellow at the airport
manhandling my luggage...

34
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did you see him?

35
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What fellow?

36
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He scuttled off when you arrived.

37
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Small, sheepskin jacket, pink collar.

38
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Interesting.

39
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He was hot to touch.

40
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Musky.

41
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Perhaps he was a djinn.

42
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An illegal taxi driver, more likely.

43
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Wearing too much cologne.

44
00:03:37,385 --> 00:03:40,971
So, Professor,
you saying you believe in djinn?

45
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I believe there are those
who need to believe in them.

46
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Including me?

47
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Djinn, ghosts...

48
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aliens, whatever helps.

49
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[Günhan laughs]

50
00:03:56,445 --> 00:03:59,073
The hotel's arranged
a lovely surprise for you.

51
00:04:04,412 --> 00:04:06,247
It's the Agatha Christie room.

52
00:04:06,414 --> 00:04:10,167
In this room,
she wrote <i>Murder on the Orient Express.</i>

53
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[sighs]

54
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[audience laughing]

55
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[Günhan chuckles]

56
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[Günhan] So, how would you explain
the power of a thunderstorm

57
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if you don't have the means to measure
and model meteorological data?

58
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How can you explain the seasons?

59
00:04:33,274 --> 00:04:35,901
Autumn through winter
to spring and summer,

60
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if you don't know that the Earth
orbits the sun while tilted on an axis?

61
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Everything was mystery.

62
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The seasons, tsunamis,
microbial disease...

63
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What else could we do
but resort to stories?

64
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As Dr. Binnie has encouraged us
to understand,

65
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stories were once the only way to make
our bewildering existence coherent.

66
00:05:00,968 --> 00:05:02,678
That's exactly right.

67
00:05:02,845 --> 00:05:08,476
We gave name to the unknown forces
behind all wonder and catastrophe

68
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by telling each other...

69
00:05:14,273 --> 00:05:16,567
By telling each other stories.

70
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- [Günhan] Let me show you.
- [static]

71
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We told tales of specific,
powerful, relatable gods,

72
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ever present in all cultures,
in all mythologies,

73
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from the Greeks, to the Romans,
to the Norse

74
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and so on, and so on.

75
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The familiar descendant of Zeus,
Poseidon, Athena,

76
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Thor, the whole gang,

77
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find expression even today.

78
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[low electrical humming]

79
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These are their vestiges.

80
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The question remains,
what is their purpose?

81
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[electrical humming continues]

82
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What do we require of them now?

83
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There is mythos, and there is science.

84
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[electrical humming stops]

85
00:06:05,282 --> 00:06:06,700
[softly] Oh, sorry.

86
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Mythology is what we knew back then.

87
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Science is what we know so far.

88
00:06:15,334 --> 00:06:17,419
[low electrical humming resumes]

89
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Sooner or later,

90
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our creation stories are replaced

91
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by the narratives of science.

92
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Painstaking science.

93
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And all gods and monsters

94
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outlive their original purpose

95
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and are reduced to metaphor.

96
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Rubbish! [roars]

97
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[Günhan in muffled voice] Alithea?

98
00:06:45,698 --> 00:06:46,907
[woman] Where is this?

99
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[Günhan] Alithea.

100
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[woman] What happened?

101
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I don't know. She just fell.

102
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- [Günhan] She just fell.
- [Amina grunts]

103
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[Amina] Gosh. [exclaiming]

104
00:07:05,593 --> 00:07:06,802
[Günhan] Are you okay?

105
00:07:07,678 --> 00:07:09,680
[audience clapping]

106
00:07:14,184 --> 00:07:16,186
[rattling]

107
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[Günhan] Shouldn't you see a doctor?

108
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[Alithea] Why? When I feel so well.

109
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[Günhan] Forgive me, Alithea.
Are you sure?

110
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[Alithea] Apart from
the usual aches and pains,

111
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there is nothing untoward.

112
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There's no reason to make a fuss.

113
00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:29,992
[Günhan] So, what happened back there?

114
00:07:34,204 --> 00:07:37,958
Lately, my imagination's
been getting the better of me.

115
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Ambushing me.

116
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- I think it's a warning.
- About what?

117
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Not to be complacent.

118
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To keep on my toes.

119
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It manifests rudely from time to time.

120
00:07:51,889 --> 00:07:53,724
I try not to fight it off.

121
00:07:54,391 --> 00:07:58,062
It takes charge for a moment,
and, and then it steps back.

122
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What steps back?

123
00:07:59,813 --> 00:08:02,816
Oh, Günhan, it's irrational.
Pay it no mind.

124
00:08:05,152 --> 00:08:06,820
[Günhan] You are behaving like a child.

125
00:08:06,987 --> 00:08:09,198
- Do you know that?
- You know, I'm actually a child.

126
00:08:09,281 --> 00:08:10,324
[Günhan laughs]

127
00:08:13,202 --> 00:08:15,996
[Alithea] <i>If there is fate,
can we escape it?</i>

128
00:08:16,997 --> 00:08:18,082
<i>Who can say?</i>

129
00:08:18,957 --> 00:08:20,501
<i>But I tell you this,</i>

130
00:08:21,251 --> 00:08:23,420
<i>in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul</i>

131
00:08:23,587 --> 00:08:27,341
<i>there are 62 streets and 4,000 shops.</i>

132
00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:31,387
<i>And in one of those shops,
there are three rooms.</i>

133
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<i>In the smallest of those rooms,
there was a pile of things unsorted,</i>

134
00:08:37,017 --> 00:08:38,560
<i>old and new.</i>

135
00:08:39,561 --> 00:08:41,563
<i>From the bottom of that pile,</i>

136
00:08:42,606 --> 00:08:44,274
<i>I chose a memento.</i>

137
00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:51,824
Do you know what this is?

138
00:08:51,990 --> 00:08:56,286
I'm not sure, but it could be
Çesm-i Bülbül, a "Nightingale's Eye."

139
00:08:56,453 --> 00:08:59,623
Around 1845, there were
these glassmakers in İncirköy.

140
00:08:59,790 --> 00:09:02,292
They were famous
for this spiral blue-white pattern.

141
00:09:02,459 --> 00:09:04,336
Oh, please. It's a gift from me.

142
00:09:04,503 --> 00:09:06,255
Choose something less forlorn.

143
00:09:09,633 --> 00:09:13,429
And, uh, if this is Çesm-i Bülbül,

144
00:09:13,595 --> 00:09:15,848
er, is there a way of authenticating it?

145
00:09:16,014 --> 00:09:17,558
Well, they say that if it is genuine,

146
00:09:17,725 --> 00:09:21,145
sometimes you can see specks of blood
from the lungs of the glassblowers.

147
00:09:21,311 --> 00:09:24,398
But this is more likely
a recent imitation.

148
00:09:24,565 --> 00:09:27,317
It's been damaged by fire.
Pick something else.

149
00:09:27,943 --> 00:09:29,445
No, thank you, Günhan.

150
00:09:30,362 --> 00:09:31,613
I like it.

151
00:09:31,780 --> 00:09:34,533
Whatever it is,
I'm sure it has an interesting story.

152
00:09:50,591 --> 00:09:52,843
[telephone ringing]

153
00:10:01,143 --> 00:10:01,977
Hello?

154
00:10:02,144 --> 00:10:03,812
- [man] <i>Good morning, Dr. Binnie.</i>
- Good morning.

155
00:10:03,979 --> 00:10:05,147
<i>- This is room service.</i>
- Yes.

156
00:10:05,314 --> 00:10:07,524
<i>- How do you like your eggs?</i>
- Uh, runny, please.

157
00:10:07,775 --> 00:10:10,068
<i>- And with toast?</i>
- Uh, yes, but no crusts.

158
00:10:10,235 --> 00:10:11,653
<i>- Two eggs?</i>
- Just one.

159
00:10:12,362 --> 00:10:13,989
<i>- Okay, thank you.</i>
- Thank you.

160
00:10:38,055 --> 00:10:39,807
[electric toothbrush whirring]

161
00:10:42,518 --> 00:10:43,602
[bottle rattling]

162
00:10:45,062 --> 00:10:46,396
[bottle rattling intensifying]

163
00:10:52,611 --> 00:10:53,445
[gasps]

164
00:10:58,534 --> 00:10:59,535
[toothbrush clatters]

165
00:10:59,618 --> 00:11:03,539
[squelching]

166
00:11:22,307 --> 00:11:23,642
[soft whoosh]

167
00:11:25,727 --> 00:11:28,313
[squelching]

168
00:11:33,193 --> 00:11:34,736
[heavy breathing]

169
00:11:34,820 --> 00:11:36,488
[squeaking]

170
00:11:39,199 --> 00:11:43,161
[breathing heavily]

171
00:11:43,370 --> 00:11:47,416
I'm going to close my eyes
and count to three,

172
00:11:47,958 --> 00:11:50,794
after which I would be grateful
if you would be gone.

173
00:11:54,172 --> 00:11:55,257
One...

174
00:11:55,841 --> 00:11:57,009
Two...

175
00:11:57,926 --> 00:11:59,136
Three.

176
00:11:59,219 --> 00:12:01,221
[slow, heavy breathing]

177
00:12:03,974 --> 00:12:05,100
Four...

178
00:12:05,726 --> 00:12:06,810
Five...

179
00:12:07,895 --> 00:12:09,021
- Six...
- [rumbling]

180
00:12:09,563 --> 00:12:11,440
Seven, eight...

181
00:12:11,607 --> 00:12:13,233
nine, ten.

182
00:12:15,903 --> 00:12:18,196
[breathing heavily]

183
00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:20,908
[low growling]

184
00:12:26,079 --> 00:12:28,081
[creature speaking incoherently]

185
00:12:34,379 --> 00:12:36,632
I don't suppose you speak English?

186
00:12:36,715 --> 00:12:38,300
[creature speaking ancient Greek]

187
00:12:38,383 --> 00:12:39,217
[Alithea speaking German]

188
00:12:40,510 --> 00:12:41,345
[speaking Spanish]

189
00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:43,513
[speaking Greek]

190
00:12:43,764 --> 00:12:44,598
[creature grunts]

191
00:13:38,068 --> 00:13:39,820
[static on laptop]

192
00:13:55,711 --> 00:13:57,754
[static]

193
00:13:57,879 --> 00:13:59,673
[Einstein speaking indistinctly on tv]

194
00:14:14,187 --> 00:14:15,105
Einstein.

195
00:14:15,272 --> 00:14:16,398
Einstein.

196
00:14:25,574 --> 00:14:26,491
Television.

197
00:14:33,498 --> 00:14:34,916
Transmitters.

198
00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:46,845
[speaking English] I am
a djinn of modest power,

199
00:14:47,012 --> 00:14:51,141
but I begin to understand
these transmissions.

200
00:14:51,391 --> 00:14:52,225
Oh.

201
00:14:52,642 --> 00:14:54,561
You've learned to speak my language.

202
00:14:55,062 --> 00:14:57,314
This English is straightforward.

203
00:14:58,065 --> 00:15:00,400
Its rules quickly learn, I find.

204
00:15:00,484 --> 00:15:01,318
[static]

205
00:15:01,860 --> 00:15:03,445
[Einstein gasps]

206
00:15:04,112 --> 00:15:04,946
[gasps]

207
00:15:05,030 --> 00:15:05,989
[Einstein] <i>Nein, nein, nein.</i>

208
00:15:06,073 --> 00:15:08,116
Would you like this little Albert
for yourself?

209
00:15:08,283 --> 00:15:09,284
No, no, no.

210
00:15:09,451 --> 00:15:11,036
No, that can't be good for him.
Put him back.

211
00:15:11,203 --> 00:15:12,329
- I could expand him.
- [Einstein] How?

212
00:15:12,496 --> 00:15:13,413
We could speak with him.

213
00:15:13,580 --> 00:15:15,040
- How is this possible?
- No, put him back.

214
00:15:15,207 --> 00:15:16,875
- This is not possible.
- Is that your wish?

215
00:15:17,042 --> 00:15:18,877
No. It's your obligation.

216
00:15:19,127 --> 00:15:19,961
[Einstein exhales]

217
00:15:20,545 --> 00:15:21,713
[blows]

218
00:15:21,963 --> 00:15:23,006
[Einstein resumes speech in German]

219
00:15:24,174 --> 00:15:25,884
So, what will you wish for?

220
00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:27,594
[floor creaks]

221
00:15:28,011 --> 00:15:30,013
What is your heart's desire?

222
00:15:35,102 --> 00:15:39,481
Now, let's, uh,
not get ahead of ourselves.

223
00:15:40,232 --> 00:15:42,317
I... I need to take this slow.

224
00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:43,235
[Alithea sighs]

225
00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,113
I have all the time in the world.

226
00:15:46,780 --> 00:15:48,198
Tell me about yourself.

227
00:15:48,907 --> 00:15:50,742
My name is, uh, Alithea Binnie.

228
00:15:50,909 --> 00:15:53,120
I am in Turkey for a conference.

229
00:15:53,286 --> 00:15:55,747
And I return to my homeland
in a day's time.

230
00:15:55,914 --> 00:15:57,165
Also?

231
00:15:57,249 --> 00:15:59,417
[Alithea breathing heavily]

232
00:15:59,501 --> 00:16:03,130
Also, I have a confession to make.

233
00:16:03,296 --> 00:16:05,298
Something I've never told anybody.

234
00:16:05,465 --> 00:16:06,716
[the Djinn] Excellent.

235
00:16:07,926 --> 00:16:10,345
When I was young, there was a boy.

236
00:16:11,054 --> 00:16:12,180
Your first lover?

237
00:16:12,347 --> 00:16:14,850
Oh, no, no, no.
He was not of flesh and blood.

238
00:16:15,392 --> 00:16:16,518
A djinn?

239
00:16:16,685 --> 00:16:17,894
No.

240
00:16:18,770 --> 00:16:21,940
At that time,
I found myself in a school for girls.

241
00:16:22,691 --> 00:16:24,025
<i>Gaggles of girls.</i>

242
00:16:24,693 --> 00:16:28,697
<i>I was, well, I am a...
a solitary creature by nature.</i>

243
00:16:29,364 --> 00:16:32,200
<i>And this boy, Enzo,</i>

244
00:16:32,367 --> 00:16:35,203
<i>he came to me, out of an emptiness.</i>

245
00:16:36,580 --> 00:16:38,415
<i>Out of a need to imagine.</i>

246
00:16:39,624 --> 00:16:43,712
He told me stories in a language
that only we two spoke.

247
00:16:45,172 --> 00:16:47,299
And he always disappeared
when I had a headache,

248
00:16:47,465 --> 00:16:50,635
but he was never far away
when I couldn't move for asthma.

249
00:16:51,052 --> 00:16:52,888
[the Djinn] <i>He was like
this little Albert</i>

250
00:16:52,971 --> 00:16:54,389
<i>you would not let me give you?</i>

251
00:16:54,556 --> 00:16:55,807
<i>An emanation?</i>

252
00:16:56,057 --> 00:16:59,102
[Alithea stutters] <i>Only an emanation
of an absence.</i>

253
00:16:59,186 --> 00:17:00,812
[breathing laboriously]

254
00:17:02,272 --> 00:17:05,525
<i>I feared he would leave,
and so I wrote him down.</i>

255
00:17:07,736 --> 00:17:11,948
<i>And I filled this journal,
bulging with facts.</i>

256
00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:17,329
But the more realism I tried to insert,

257
00:17:17,996 --> 00:17:20,081
the more I began to doubt

258
00:17:20,832 --> 00:17:23,835
and, uh, it all began to feel silly.

259
00:17:25,086 --> 00:17:26,713
I felt silly.

260
00:17:28,673 --> 00:17:30,759
So, after a time,

261
00:17:31,343 --> 00:17:33,678
I burned it all in the school furnace.

262
00:17:36,014 --> 00:17:38,725
And after that,
he, uh, disappeared altogether.

263
00:17:40,018 --> 00:17:42,103
And yet, I am here.

264
00:17:44,773 --> 00:17:46,608
Contrary to reason, yes.

265
00:17:47,901 --> 00:17:51,529
I am here, and we have work to do.

266
00:17:52,113 --> 00:17:52,948
[knocking at door]

267
00:17:54,407 --> 00:17:56,243
Uh, can you come back later, please?

268
00:17:56,952 --> 00:18:00,163
[man] It's room service, Dr. Binnie.
I have your breakfast.

269
00:18:00,872 --> 00:18:02,290
[Alithea] Just a minute!

270
00:18:03,541 --> 00:18:05,043
Must close door.

271
00:18:19,391 --> 00:18:20,225
Good morning.

272
00:18:20,392 --> 00:18:21,768
- Where would you like it, Dr. Binnie?
- Thank you.

273
00:18:21,935 --> 00:18:22,769
Er... Oh, I can take it.

274
00:18:22,936 --> 00:18:24,980
- Oh, please, allow me.
- No. No, I can manage it.

275
00:18:25,146 --> 00:18:27,691
Jolly good, Dr. Binnie.
I hope you are well rested.

276
00:18:27,857 --> 00:18:29,567
Oh, that looks delicious. Yes, I am.

277
00:18:29,734 --> 00:18:31,403
[man] What do you plan
to do on this fine day?

278
00:18:31,569 --> 00:18:33,613
Uh, I'm not sure. I'm improvising.

279
00:18:34,364 --> 00:18:36,574
Well, I'd like to show you
a beautiful art gallery...

280
00:18:36,741 --> 00:18:38,785
- That's so kind. Thank you.
- ...when you get a chance.

281
00:18:38,952 --> 00:18:40,245
- Maybe another time. Thank you.
- It will be great.

282
00:18:40,412 --> 00:18:41,496
- Have a beautiful day.
- Okay.

283
00:18:42,414 --> 00:18:43,540
[man] Jolly good. Enjoy.

284
00:18:43,707 --> 00:18:44,916
Thank you!

285
00:18:49,629 --> 00:18:52,382
[people chattering in distance]

286
00:19:01,766 --> 00:19:03,184
[lock clicks]

287
00:19:24,331 --> 00:19:26,333
A more convenient size, I see.

288
00:19:27,125 --> 00:19:28,960
I do what I can to fit in.

289
00:19:29,377 --> 00:19:30,378
Please.

290
00:19:31,254 --> 00:19:33,423
I needn't have ordered breakfast.

291
00:19:33,590 --> 00:19:37,052
It's nan-e nokhodchi.
Chickpeas, cloves, pistachio.

292
00:19:37,218 --> 00:19:38,887
It will melt in your mouth.

293
00:19:44,017 --> 00:19:45,852
May I ask you something?

294
00:19:46,019 --> 00:19:47,103
Anything.

295
00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,232
How come you found your way
into my bottle?

296
00:19:52,567 --> 00:19:53,985
Ah, it's quite a story.

297
00:19:54,903 --> 00:19:56,905
That was my third incarceration.

298
00:19:57,072 --> 00:19:59,032
You've been trapped in a bottle
three times?

299
00:19:59,199 --> 00:20:01,326
I may be a djinn, but I'm also a fool

300
00:20:01,493 --> 00:20:03,995
with too great a fondness
for the conversation of women.

301
00:20:04,162 --> 00:20:06,206
I need to be more careful in the future.

302
00:20:06,373 --> 00:20:07,791
How were you caught in the first place?

303
00:20:08,708 --> 00:20:11,127
By desire. How else?

304
00:20:15,006 --> 00:20:16,299
Who was she?

305
00:20:16,466 --> 00:20:17,592
Sheba.

306
00:20:18,093 --> 00:20:19,177
The Queen of Sheba?

307
00:20:19,344 --> 00:20:20,428
She was my kin.

308
00:20:21,096 --> 00:20:21,930
She was a djinn?

309
00:20:22,097 --> 00:20:23,390
Her mother was a djinn.

310
00:20:23,556 --> 00:20:24,641
Is that possible?

311
00:20:24,808 --> 00:20:27,227
There are laws that allow the union
of djinn and mortals,

312
00:20:27,394 --> 00:20:29,229
but they cannot produce
an immortal scion

313
00:20:29,396 --> 00:20:32,399
the way a donkey and a horse
can only produce a seedless mule.

314
00:20:34,025 --> 00:20:36,111
So, what did she look like?

315
00:20:37,362 --> 00:20:41,241
Other than a thick glade of black hair
on her legs,

316
00:20:41,408 --> 00:20:42,826
she looked like any other human being,

317
00:20:42,992 --> 00:20:44,869
except, of course, she was Sheba.

318
00:20:45,286 --> 00:20:47,455
By all accounts, she was very beautiful.

319
00:20:47,622 --> 00:20:50,667
She was not beautiful.
She was beauty itself.

320
00:20:54,212 --> 00:20:55,964
I was in every way free.

321
00:20:56,965 --> 00:20:59,968
I would come in and out
of her sleeping chamber.

322
00:21:01,344 --> 00:21:03,680
[whispers] Sheba...

323
00:21:07,308 --> 00:21:10,145
<i>I knew as well
as any of her female slaves</i>

324
00:21:10,311 --> 00:21:13,189
<i>the touches
that made her shiver with bliss.</i>

325
00:21:14,232 --> 00:21:16,443
<i>Never have I wanted a creature so.</i>

326
00:21:17,569 --> 00:21:18,987
And she desired you in return?

327
00:21:19,154 --> 00:21:21,906
I was her plaything. Her confidante.

328
00:21:22,073 --> 00:21:24,492
I might have become more,
but for Solomon.

329
00:21:24,659 --> 00:21:25,827
King Solomon?

330
00:21:25,994 --> 00:21:27,412
Blessed be his memory.

331
00:21:27,912 --> 00:21:30,081
He came from across
the deserts to woo her.

332
00:21:30,248 --> 00:21:32,750
- Didn't she go to him?
- No. Never.

333
00:21:32,917 --> 00:21:34,627
But it's in all the holy books.

334
00:21:34,794 --> 00:21:36,212
All the stories and the paintings.

335
00:21:36,379 --> 00:21:37,797
And Handel wrote music about it.

336
00:21:37,964 --> 00:21:39,382
Madam, I was there.

337
00:21:39,549 --> 00:21:40,800
Solomon came to her.

338
00:21:41,259 --> 00:21:43,219
[people chattering in distance]

339
00:21:43,303 --> 00:21:44,137
[Djinn speaking Arabic]

340
00:22:06,075 --> 00:22:08,077
[strums note]

341
00:22:08,786 --> 00:22:10,413
[Djinn in English] <i>He began with music.</i>

342
00:22:11,331 --> 00:22:13,333
[playing romantic melody]

343
00:22:15,835 --> 00:22:17,003
[music intensifies]

344
00:22:29,641 --> 00:22:32,727
[playing sentimental music]

345
00:22:58,836 --> 00:23:00,880
[sentimental music continues]

346
00:23:39,627 --> 00:23:40,461
[gulps]

347
00:23:42,463 --> 00:23:44,966
I did all that I could to dissuade her.

348
00:23:45,883 --> 00:23:48,678
But when she used the scented wax
of the Jabassa Bee

349
00:23:48,845 --> 00:23:52,056
to remove the hair from her legs,
I knew that I was lost.

350
00:23:52,223 --> 00:23:57,437
<i>But I, like a fool, went on telling her
that her body was rich and lovely,</i>

351
00:23:57,604 --> 00:23:59,689
<i>but her mind was richer and lovelier</i>

352
00:23:59,856 --> 00:24:01,065
<i>and more durable.</i>

353
00:24:01,941 --> 00:24:05,695
<i>And she agreed with all that I said,
and dropped a hot tear.</i>

354
00:24:06,738 --> 00:24:09,699
She began to set him tasks,
which seemed impossible,

355
00:24:09,866 --> 00:24:13,786
to find a particular thread of red silk
in the palace of a thousand rooms,

356
00:24:13,953 --> 00:24:16,623
to guess the secret name
of her mother djinn,

357
00:24:16,706 --> 00:24:19,834
[inhales] to tell her
what women most desire...

358
00:24:20,335 --> 00:24:22,086
That does seem impossible.

359
00:24:22,253 --> 00:24:23,129
Not for him.

360
00:24:23,296 --> 00:24:24,964
He could speak
to the beasts of the Earth,

361
00:24:25,131 --> 00:24:26,966
and to the djinn made of subtle fire.

362
00:24:27,133 --> 00:24:30,470
<i>He found ants to discover
the thread of silk</i>

363
00:24:30,637 --> 00:24:32,722
<i>and an ifrit to whisper
the mother's name.</i>

364
00:24:32,889 --> 00:24:34,974
[ifrit speaks indistinctly]

365
00:24:37,477 --> 00:24:39,312
[the Djinn] <i>Then he looked
into her eyes,</i>

366
00:24:39,395 --> 00:24:42,565
<i>and told her what women most desire.</i>

367
00:24:42,649 --> 00:24:44,609
[King Solomon speaking early Aramaic]

368
00:24:44,692 --> 00:24:46,110
[the Djinn] <i>She was astonished,</i>

369
00:24:47,570 --> 00:24:49,322
<i>and told him he was right.</i>

370
00:24:53,660 --> 00:24:57,246
<i>And so, she granted him
what he most desired,</i>

371
00:24:57,413 --> 00:25:00,166
<i>which was to wed her
and be taken to her bed.</i>

372
00:25:04,587 --> 00:25:05,421
[Sheba gasps]

373
00:25:05,505 --> 00:25:08,091
[intense, distorted screaming]

374
00:25:09,967 --> 00:25:11,969
[emotional string music playing]

375
00:25:13,971 --> 00:25:16,974
[soft whooshing]

376
00:25:18,851 --> 00:25:19,686
[speaks early Aramaic]

377
00:25:20,228 --> 00:25:22,355
- [the Djinn] <i>He was a great magician</i>
- [wheezing]

378
00:25:22,438 --> 00:25:23,272
<i>And imprisoned me</i>

379
00:25:23,439 --> 00:25:26,442
<i>with a word of power
into a brass bottle.</i>

380
00:25:30,446 --> 00:25:32,990
[emotional string music continues]

381
00:25:52,677 --> 00:25:54,762
<i>She made no plea for me.</i>

382
00:25:55,805 --> 00:25:57,306
<i>I was nothing to her.</i>

383
00:25:58,349 --> 00:25:59,976
<i>A breath in a bottle.</i>

384
00:26:15,032 --> 00:26:17,702
<i>And so, I was cast into the Red Sea</i>

385
00:26:17,869 --> 00:26:20,538
<i>and languished
for two-and-a-half thousand years.</i>

386
00:26:26,627 --> 00:26:28,296
Apart from sleep,

387
00:26:28,463 --> 00:26:31,340
what does one do in a bottle
for two-and-a-half thousand years?

388
00:26:32,717 --> 00:26:34,427
Djinn don't sleep.

389
00:26:40,016 --> 00:26:41,642
So, how do you manage then?

390
00:26:42,643 --> 00:26:43,478
[clicks tongue]

391
00:26:45,062 --> 00:26:49,150
Well, for the first 100 years,
I rage against my fate.

392
00:26:49,734 --> 00:26:52,779
I pray to Boschkolo for my release,
and when that does not work,

393
00:26:52,945 --> 00:26:56,240
I pray to any god I know,
and then to any god I may not know.

394
00:26:56,407 --> 00:26:58,951
And when, still, I find no answers,

395
00:26:59,035 --> 00:26:59,952
[inhales]

396
00:27:00,036 --> 00:27:04,916
I spend my time in waking dreams
revisiting all the stories of my life.

397
00:27:05,082 --> 00:27:07,919
And when I have exhausted
this many, many times,

398
00:27:08,085 --> 00:27:10,880
I return to my prayer and my rage.

399
00:27:11,047 --> 00:27:14,050
And then, finally,

400
00:27:15,384 --> 00:27:17,386
I play a trick on myself.

401
00:27:18,805 --> 00:27:20,306
I pray to remain in the bottle.

402
00:27:20,473 --> 00:27:23,976
I beseech Boschkolo
to keep me always in the bottle.

403
00:27:24,143 --> 00:27:25,561
And does that work?

404
00:27:25,728 --> 00:27:27,104
To yearn for nothing?

405
00:27:27,271 --> 00:27:30,817
To pretend to want nothing more
than to be contained in a bottle?

406
00:27:30,983 --> 00:27:31,943
No.

407
00:27:32,527 --> 00:27:35,112
For a djinn,
it is the closest we ever come to death.

408
00:27:35,988 --> 00:27:36,823
[sighs]

409
00:27:37,865 --> 00:27:39,492
Do you know the answer to her question?

410
00:27:39,659 --> 00:27:41,661
- What women most desire?
- Yeah.

411
00:27:42,286 --> 00:27:43,204
Do you not know?

412
00:27:43,621 --> 00:27:45,331
If you do not know, I cannot tell you.

413
00:27:45,498 --> 00:27:47,375
Well, surely, we don't all want
the same thing.

414
00:27:47,542 --> 00:27:50,920
Madam, your yearnings
are not at all clear to me.

415
00:27:51,087 --> 00:27:54,382
I... I'm at a point in my life
where I have all I need.

416
00:27:54,549 --> 00:27:56,843
I dare say I'm content,
and gratefully so.

417
00:27:57,009 --> 00:27:57,927
Tell me.

418
00:27:58,094 --> 00:28:00,304
Are you a wife? A widow?

419
00:28:00,805 --> 00:28:02,557
- Um...
- A mother, perhaps?

420
00:28:02,723 --> 00:28:05,351
[stutters] I have no children,
no siblings, no parents.

421
00:28:06,894 --> 00:28:08,312
I did once have a husband.

422
00:28:08,479 --> 00:28:09,313
[the Djinn] Ah.

423
00:28:09,605 --> 00:28:11,607
And what was the complexion
of this husband?

424
00:28:12,316 --> 00:28:13,693
His complexion?

425
00:28:13,860 --> 00:28:16,279
Uh, in the beginning, it was glowing.

426
00:28:16,904 --> 00:28:18,155
And in the ending?

427
00:28:18,656 --> 00:28:20,157
It's not much of a story.

428
00:28:20,324 --> 00:28:23,411
But it is a story. It is your story,

429
00:28:23,578 --> 00:28:27,582
and it is always wise to understand
those who have a hold on you. Please.

430
00:28:27,999 --> 00:28:28,833
[inhales deeply]

431
00:28:30,126 --> 00:28:32,295
[grunts] Well, okay. Um...

432
00:28:33,713 --> 00:28:34,547
[smacks lips]

433
00:28:34,714 --> 00:28:36,966
We'd known each other since our youth.

434
00:28:37,675 --> 00:28:39,010
<i>We, uh, married early.</i>

435
00:28:39,176 --> 00:28:42,805
<i>In the beginning, we took pleasure
in each other's minds and bodies.</i>

436
00:28:43,014 --> 00:28:43,848
<i>Um...</i>

437
00:28:44,307 --> 00:28:45,892
<i>We passed the years comfortably...</i>

438
00:28:46,350 --> 00:28:48,603
<i>...and then as it happens,</i>

439
00:28:49,270 --> 00:28:51,772
<i>it all evaporated, and, uh...</i>

440
00:28:51,939 --> 00:28:53,357
<i>and we became...</i>

441
00:28:54,567 --> 00:28:55,443
less.

442
00:28:55,610 --> 00:28:56,611
And where is he?

443
00:28:58,237 --> 00:29:00,781
He's in Hackney, with Emmeline Porter.

444
00:29:01,282 --> 00:29:02,116
[the Djinn] Mmm.

445
00:29:05,494 --> 00:29:06,871
[sighs]

446
00:29:08,581 --> 00:29:09,790
[Alithea] <i>He told me I...</i>

447
00:29:10,541 --> 00:29:12,877
<i>I was incapable of reading feelings.</i>

448
00:29:13,336 --> 00:29:14,253
[car brakes]

449
00:29:14,337 --> 00:29:15,588
[car horn toots]

450
00:29:17,131 --> 00:29:19,508
<i>I was incapable of reading his feelings.</i>

451
00:29:20,134 --> 00:29:21,802
[Emmeline] ...gonna have a resolution.

452
00:29:21,969 --> 00:29:22,929
[Jack] This is exciting! It is exciting!

453
00:29:23,012 --> 00:29:23,971
[Emmeline] No, it's not.

454
00:29:24,138 --> 00:29:25,973
Let me guess. No one dies in it.

455
00:29:26,140 --> 00:29:27,183
[Emmeline laughs] No!

456
00:29:27,350 --> 00:29:29,727
[Alithea] <i>The way my brain is wired</i>

457
00:29:29,810 --> 00:29:30,645
<i>is...</i>

458
00:29:31,145 --> 00:29:35,149
is the source
both of my power and, uh...

459
00:29:35,316 --> 00:29:36,776
And my solitude.

460
00:29:37,818 --> 00:29:40,029
I suspect that's why I like stories.

461
00:29:40,947 --> 00:29:43,407
I find feelings through stories.

462
00:29:43,908 --> 00:29:45,576
[Djinn sighs]

463
00:29:47,244 --> 00:29:49,997
Perhaps you could wish for him back.

464
00:29:50,373 --> 00:29:52,416
Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no.

465
00:29:52,583 --> 00:29:53,584
No.

466
00:29:54,794 --> 00:29:57,296
I... I thought, um...

467
00:29:58,506 --> 00:30:02,385
I might grieve
a loss and betrayal, but, uh,

468
00:30:03,636 --> 00:30:05,179
no, in fact, I was free.

469
00:30:06,681 --> 00:30:08,808
I was like a prisoner

470
00:30:08,975 --> 00:30:11,769
emerging from a dungeon
into the sunlight.

471
00:30:12,728 --> 00:30:15,982
I expanded into the space
of my own life. No...

472
00:30:16,857 --> 00:30:19,527
I could not wish for more.

473
00:30:19,694 --> 00:30:23,239
You are a wise
and cautious woman, Alithea.

474
00:30:24,031 --> 00:30:27,076
But we all have desires,
even if they remain hidden from us.

475
00:30:27,660 --> 00:30:28,494
[inhales sharply]

476
00:30:29,286 --> 00:30:30,913
That's as may be.

477
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:35,793
But I am also a narratologist,

478
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,795
and that is going to be a problem.

479
00:30:38,629 --> 00:30:40,589
It's going to be a very big problem.

480
00:30:40,756 --> 00:30:44,010
See, I know all the stories there are
about trickster djinn

481
00:30:44,176 --> 00:30:46,846
and the ways in which they manipulate
wishing to their own ends.

482
00:30:47,013 --> 00:30:48,055
I am not one of them.

483
00:30:48,222 --> 00:30:49,849
I am god-fearing and honorable

484
00:30:50,016 --> 00:30:52,143
and only here
to grant your heart's desire.

485
00:30:52,309 --> 00:30:53,728
Well, even if that's true,

486
00:30:54,437 --> 00:30:57,606
how can you rely on
those called upon to wish?

487
00:30:58,566 --> 00:30:59,567
[speaking Greek]

488
00:30:59,817 --> 00:31:02,403
How do you know you can rely on me?

489
00:31:03,612 --> 00:31:05,489
Well, I hope so.

490
00:31:05,656 --> 00:31:07,658
With you, I certainly hope so.

491
00:31:08,451 --> 00:31:09,660
There's a...

492
00:31:10,536 --> 00:31:12,872
funny little story.
I mean, you probably know it.

493
00:31:13,622 --> 00:31:15,499
Three friends lost at sea
in a tiny boat.

494
00:31:15,666 --> 00:31:18,878
They pull up a magic fish,
who grants each of them one wish.

495
00:31:19,045 --> 00:31:21,672
The first one,
"I wish I were at home with my wife."

496
00:31:21,839 --> 00:31:22,757
He vanishes.

497
00:31:22,923 --> 00:31:25,926
The second one, "I wish I were playing
in the fields with my children."

498
00:31:26,093 --> 00:31:26,927
Off he goes.

499
00:31:27,094 --> 00:31:29,597
And the third one,
"I miss my friends..."

500
00:31:29,764 --> 00:31:31,640
- "I wish they were here."
- You've got it.

501
00:31:31,807 --> 00:31:35,436
There's no story about wishing
that is not a cautionary tale.

502
00:31:35,603 --> 00:31:37,354
None end happily.

503
00:31:37,521 --> 00:31:39,440
Not even the ones
that are supposed to be jokes.

504
00:31:39,607 --> 00:31:41,776
But you and I
are the authors of this story,

505
00:31:41,942 --> 00:31:44,528
and we can avoid all traps.

506
00:31:45,863 --> 00:31:48,074
Well, what if I made no wish at all?

507
00:31:50,159 --> 00:31:51,160
Pardon?

508
00:31:54,038 --> 00:31:55,289
What if I made no wish?

509
00:31:56,082 --> 00:31:57,291
That would be an...

510
00:31:57,374 --> 00:31:59,543
- [low electrical humming]
- [soft squelching]

511
00:31:59,627 --> 00:32:00,753
That would be...

512
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,755
That would be catastrophic! [echoes]

513
00:32:03,380 --> 00:32:05,508
[flesh crunching]

514
00:32:07,301 --> 00:32:08,719
[panting]

515
00:32:12,223 --> 00:32:14,266
[Djinn muttering]

516
00:32:14,350 --> 00:32:16,602
[Djinn breathing heavily]

517
00:32:17,353 --> 00:32:18,354
[Alithea] All right.

518
00:32:19,271 --> 00:32:21,857
- [panting heavily]
- [crunching subsides]

519
00:32:23,275 --> 00:32:26,112
I need to tell you
about my next incarceration.

520
00:32:26,278 --> 00:32:27,613
I'm all ears.

521
00:32:27,696 --> 00:32:28,531
[sighs]

522
00:32:38,457 --> 00:32:39,458
[the Djinn] <i>I will never know</i>

523
00:32:40,501 --> 00:32:44,588
<i>how my bottle came
from the bottom of the Red Sea</i>

524
00:32:45,339 --> 00:32:47,883
- [flies buzzing]
<i>- to a palace in Constantinople.</i>

525
00:32:49,051 --> 00:32:52,555
<i>But I fancy somehow it involved
the killing of an Ottoman warrior.</i>

526
00:32:52,638 --> 00:32:54,390
[breathes deeply]

527
00:32:58,269 --> 00:32:59,812
<i>The fall of an empire.</i>

528
00:33:02,857 --> 00:33:04,525
- [wall crumbling]
- [canon shot]

529
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:10,698
<i>And a girl in love.</i>

530
00:33:10,990 --> 00:33:12,908
[muttering in Turkish]

531
00:33:20,916 --> 00:33:23,252
[muttering continues]

532
00:33:32,553 --> 00:33:33,554
[girl speaks Turkish]

533
00:33:34,346 --> 00:33:35,181
[gasps]

534
00:33:36,849 --> 00:33:38,392
[bottle clangs]

535
00:33:38,475 --> 00:33:39,310
[high-pitched pinging]

536
00:33:52,865 --> 00:33:53,699
[hammering]

537
00:33:53,782 --> 00:33:55,367
[muttering in Turkish]

538
00:33:55,451 --> 00:33:57,995
[Djinn in English] <i>Gulten lived
as a slave</i>

539
00:33:58,162 --> 00:34:01,373
<i>in the courtyard of the concubines
in the seraglio.</i>

540
00:34:01,457 --> 00:34:02,750
[muttering continues]

541
00:34:02,833 --> 00:34:04,752
[low rumbling]

542
00:34:05,878 --> 00:34:06,712
[gasps]

543
00:34:08,088 --> 00:34:08,923
[shuddering]

544
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:10,925
[rumbling]

545
00:34:13,510 --> 00:34:15,095
[eerie, heavy breathing]

546
00:34:18,599 --> 00:34:20,601
- [low growling]
- [Gulten gasps]

547
00:34:20,684 --> 00:34:22,186
[the Djinn] <i>When I appeared to her...</i>

548
00:34:22,269 --> 00:34:23,103
[gasps]

549
00:34:23,270 --> 00:34:24,188
[low growling]

550
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:25,856
<i>...she fainted.</i>

551
00:34:26,482 --> 00:34:29,068
<i>And I had great trouble rousing her.</i>

552
00:34:30,277 --> 00:34:32,738
[Djinn muttering in Turkish]

553
00:34:35,241 --> 00:34:37,826
I made it clear
that I meant her no harm,

554
00:34:37,993 --> 00:34:39,578
for I was condemned to the bottle.

555
00:34:39,745 --> 00:34:41,372
Until you got your three wishes.

556
00:34:41,538 --> 00:34:42,831
- Until she got hers.
- [Alithea scoffs]

557
00:34:42,998 --> 00:34:44,083
- Okay.
- Please.

558
00:34:45,209 --> 00:34:49,088
Now, the poor girl told me
she was distractedly in love

559
00:34:49,255 --> 00:34:50,881
<i>with a beautiful man...</i>

560
00:34:51,090 --> 00:34:51,924
[speaking Turkish]

561
00:34:52,007 --> 00:34:55,594
[the Djinn] <i>...and she wished
immediately to find favor in his eyes.</i>

562
00:35:07,648 --> 00:35:08,482
[blows]

563
00:35:09,066 --> 00:35:11,151
[Djinn in English] <i>As it happens,
the one she most desired</i>

564
00:35:11,235 --> 00:35:12,820
<i>was the splendid Mustafa.</i>

565
00:35:12,987 --> 00:35:14,738
<i>Prince Mustafa.</i>

566
00:35:16,615 --> 00:35:19,076
<i>Eldest son of Suleiman the Magnificent,</i>

567
00:35:19,243 --> 00:35:22,079
<i>and likely heir to his mighty throne.</i>

568
00:35:23,414 --> 00:35:24,873
<i>Had I known what was to come,</i>

569
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,376
I would've risked the furies of Iblīs

570
00:35:28,210 --> 00:35:31,380
to vehemently distract her
from her wish.

571
00:35:32,923 --> 00:35:34,425
<i>But without thinking,</i>

572
00:35:34,591 --> 00:35:38,220
<i>I took my bottle and conjured oils
to prepare her.</i>

573
00:35:40,431 --> 00:35:41,932
<i>Oils of enchantment,</i>

574
00:35:42,099 --> 00:35:44,435
<i>once used only by Sheba.</i>

575
00:35:49,857 --> 00:35:54,862
<i>I cautioned her to hide the bottle
lest its powers fall into other hands.</i>

576
00:36:00,117 --> 00:36:01,493
<i>I went to Mustafa...</i>

577
00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:03,412
[whispers] Gulten...

578
00:36:03,579 --> 00:36:04,997
<i>I whispered her name.</i>

579
00:36:09,501 --> 00:36:11,170
<i>He sent for her.</i>

580
00:36:13,922 --> 00:36:15,591
<i>It was so easy.</i>

581
00:36:22,264 --> 00:36:24,058
- [folk music playing]
- [people chattering]

582
00:36:24,141 --> 00:36:28,062
<i>As a djinn, I am endlessly curious
about the ways of humans.</i>

583
00:36:29,229 --> 00:36:30,356
<i>So, in my spare time,</i>

584
00:36:30,522 --> 00:36:34,360
<i>I took to wandering the palace
in search of its intrigues.</i>

585
00:36:35,319 --> 00:36:38,489
<i>And there, among the eunuchs,
the consorts, and the concubines,</i>

586
00:36:38,655 --> 00:36:40,699
<i>I first saw Hürrem.</i>

587
00:36:41,742 --> 00:36:43,118
<i>The Laughing One.</i>

588
00:36:43,202 --> 00:36:44,286
[Hürrem laughing]

589
00:36:45,287 --> 00:36:47,289
[Hürrem speaking Turkish]

590
00:36:47,539 --> 00:36:49,291
[commotion]

591
00:36:51,919 --> 00:36:53,754
[the Djinn] <i>She, too, was a slave</i>

592
00:36:53,921 --> 00:36:58,592
<i>who had risen through the center of them
all to become the Sultan's favorite.</i>

593
00:37:01,470 --> 00:37:03,430
[crowd gasps in awe]

594
00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:10,396
<i>Suleiman the Wise saw none but her.</i>

595
00:37:11,188 --> 00:37:13,774
<i>And she sought to protect his throne</i>

596
00:37:13,941 --> 00:37:17,945
<i>in favor of her own sons
over his beloved Mustafa.</i>

597
00:37:20,864 --> 00:37:24,701
<i>And to this end, she had the prince
watched by many probing eyes.</i>

598
00:37:29,456 --> 00:37:31,208
[laughing]

599
00:37:35,003 --> 00:37:39,216
<i>When I saw how Hürrem made a masterpiece
of her manipulations,</i>

600
00:37:40,092 --> 00:37:43,804
<i>I worried that my Gulten
might be caught in this web.</i>

601
00:37:50,310 --> 00:37:52,396
<i>I tried to warn her to be careful.</i>

602
00:37:52,521 --> 00:37:54,148
[both speaking Turkish]

603
00:37:54,231 --> 00:37:57,234
<i>But she had already decided
on her second wish.</i>

604
00:38:10,497 --> 00:38:12,624
[Djinn in English] <i>Such a mistake.</i>

605
00:38:13,834 --> 00:38:15,586
<i>Because at this moment,</i>

606
00:38:15,752 --> 00:38:17,880
<i>Suleiman, blessed be his name,</i>

607
00:38:18,046 --> 00:38:19,673
<i>is being undermined.</i>

608
00:38:21,133 --> 00:38:23,677
<i>His warriors believe he is going soft,</i>

609
00:38:23,844 --> 00:38:26,263
<i>more interested in his poetry</i>

610
00:38:26,430 --> 00:38:28,765
<i>than ruling with a strong hand.</i>

611
00:38:28,849 --> 00:38:30,893
[indistinct arguing]

612
00:38:35,939 --> 00:38:37,733
[speaking Turkish]

613
00:38:44,114 --> 00:38:47,868
[the Djinn] <i>Hürrem fuels the rumors that
the military want to take his throne</i>

614
00:38:48,035 --> 00:38:50,162
<i>and replace him with Mustafa.</i>

615
00:38:51,705 --> 00:38:56,126
<i>The prince has become a pawn
in the ceaseless game of power.</i>

616
00:38:56,210 --> 00:38:57,419
[arguing continues indistinctly]

617
00:39:08,764 --> 00:39:10,557
<i>Suleiman the Magnificent,</i>

618
00:39:10,724 --> 00:39:15,145
<i>Suleiman the Conqueror,
patron and protector of empires,</i>

619
00:39:15,312 --> 00:39:16,897
<i>Suleiman the Father,</i>

620
00:39:17,064 --> 00:39:20,901
<i>was left with a choice
that he knows will break his heart.</i>

621
00:39:28,617 --> 00:39:33,956
<i>Gulten, meantime, saw no reason
why she should remain unseen.</i>

622
00:39:34,122 --> 00:39:36,833
[Gulten laughs loudly]

623
00:39:37,834 --> 00:39:41,672
<i>Given she was carrying the son
of the next Sultan.</i>

624
00:39:47,511 --> 00:39:49,429
<i>Despite all my warnings,</i>

625
00:39:49,596 --> 00:39:52,766
<i>she parades her newly swollen breasts
and belly.</i>

626
00:39:53,976 --> 00:39:57,396
<i>And the whispers soon spread
throughout the seraglio.</i>

627
00:40:03,652 --> 00:40:06,947
<i>The terrible plottings
move all too quickly.</i>

628
00:40:33,098 --> 00:40:37,644
<i>Prince Mustafa comes innocently
into the presence of his father</i>

629
00:40:37,811 --> 00:40:39,896
<i>to reassure him of his loyalty.</i>

630
00:40:49,656 --> 00:40:50,490
[grunts]

631
00:40:51,241 --> 00:40:53,535
[Djinn in English] <i>And the mutes
are waiting for him.</i>

632
00:40:57,706 --> 00:41:00,626
<i>He cried out to his Janissaries,
who loved him,</i>

633
00:41:00,792 --> 00:41:04,004
<i>but his voice was crushed
and his breath stopped</i>

634
00:41:04,171 --> 00:41:06,798
<i>by the string of his father's bow.</i>

635
00:41:15,182 --> 00:41:17,184
[muffled humming of tune]

636
00:41:21,897 --> 00:41:23,190
[continues humming]

637
00:41:26,902 --> 00:41:28,111
- [door opens]
- [the Djinn] Gulten!

638
00:41:28,945 --> 00:41:29,780
[in Turkish]

639
00:41:40,624 --> 00:41:41,458
[gasps]

640
00:41:57,766 --> 00:41:58,975
[whimpering]

641
00:42:02,145 --> 00:42:03,522
[Djinn in English] <i>"Make a wish!</i>

642
00:42:03,689 --> 00:42:05,691
Save yourself, Gulten!"

643
00:42:07,067 --> 00:42:09,069
[panting]

644
00:42:10,195 --> 00:42:12,864
Just a few words
and she could have been free

645
00:42:13,031 --> 00:42:15,200
<i>to bear her child in safety</i>

646
00:42:16,451 --> 00:42:19,746
<i>and I to spirit away at last
to the Realm of Djinn.</i>

647
00:42:19,913 --> 00:42:22,624
<i>But she ran
into the hands of the assassins.</i>

648
00:42:22,791 --> 00:42:24,251
- [Gulten screams]
- [the Djinn calls out]

649
00:42:24,334 --> 00:42:25,961
<i>I was about to take them by force</i>

650
00:42:26,670 --> 00:42:28,964
<i>when I was blocked
by a follower of Iblis.</i>

651
00:42:29,089 --> 00:42:31,800
- [breathing shakily]
- [high-pitched pinging]

652
00:42:56,950 --> 00:42:58,744
[gasping]

653
00:43:02,456 --> 00:43:04,499
[creatures screeching]

654
00:43:04,583 --> 00:43:08,837
[grunting and whimpering]

655
00:43:08,962 --> 00:43:10,589
- [screeching stops]
- [gasping]

656
00:43:10,964 --> 00:43:11,840
Gulten!

657
00:43:28,815 --> 00:43:31,485
[in English] <i>She made no wish
to save herself.</i>

658
00:43:32,944 --> 00:43:35,572
<i>No wish was made to save us both.</i>

659
00:43:43,205 --> 00:43:47,250
So, there I was,
or there I was not, might you say,

660
00:43:47,417 --> 00:43:50,337
almost emancipated and tethered
to this world

661
00:43:50,504 --> 00:43:52,798
by a third wish unperformed.

662
00:43:52,964 --> 00:43:54,174
But you realize, don't you,

663
00:43:54,341 --> 00:43:57,385
that you've just told me the story
of a woman who was doomed

664
00:43:57,552 --> 00:43:59,554
as a consequence of the wishes she made?

665
00:43:59,721 --> 00:44:03,892
Yes, but her failure to complete
the wishes also doomed me.

666
00:44:04,601 --> 00:44:06,603
Could nobody else complete the wish?

667
00:44:06,770 --> 00:44:07,938
That was my hope.

668
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,232
And that would finally liberate you?

669
00:44:10,398 --> 00:44:12,108
That was my only hope.

670
00:44:12,901 --> 00:44:15,028
But you were rendered invisible.

671
00:44:15,195 --> 00:44:16,029
Like a ghost.

672
00:44:16,196 --> 00:44:17,989
Wandering unseen.

673
00:44:18,156 --> 00:44:19,032
And your bottle

674
00:44:19,199 --> 00:44:22,577
<i>hidden under the loosened stone
known only to the dead Gulten.</i>

675
00:44:22,744 --> 00:44:24,746
[the Djinn] <i>Yes, it was a predicament.</i>

676
00:44:24,830 --> 00:44:26,081
[muffled clanging]

677
00:44:26,164 --> 00:44:30,585
<i>I tried to attract the attention
of someone, anyone that could help me.</i>

678
00:44:31,711 --> 00:44:33,255
<i>My stars, how I tried.</i>

679
00:44:33,421 --> 00:44:35,841
<i>I followed their scent,
their every step.</i>

680
00:44:36,007 --> 00:44:38,134
<i>Willing, pleading, screaming.</i>

681
00:44:38,301 --> 00:44:40,053
<i>Anything to draw them to me.</i>

682
00:44:40,136 --> 00:44:42,597
[muffled upbeat music playing]

683
00:44:54,276 --> 00:44:56,278
- [music continues]
- [dancer's ornaments rattling]

684
00:45:07,998 --> 00:45:09,040
[music stops]

685
00:45:09,124 --> 00:45:12,878
And I do this piteously for 100 years,

686
00:45:13,044 --> 00:45:16,047
<i>and with every failure,
my will begins to fade.</i>

687
00:45:17,048 --> 00:45:19,050
[children laughing distantly]

688
00:45:22,429 --> 00:45:28,602
<i>And then in 1620, hope comes
in the form of a boy with a sword.</i>

689
00:45:30,061 --> 00:45:30,896
[boys laughing]

690
00:45:35,483 --> 00:45:37,569
[boy laughing] Murad! Murad!

691
00:45:42,073 --> 00:45:43,283
[muffled intermittent drumbeat]

692
00:45:51,541 --> 00:45:52,626
Murad! [echoing]

693
00:46:01,551 --> 00:46:04,429
[the Djinn] <i>By some means,
this boy senses me.</i>

694
00:46:04,596 --> 00:46:07,223
<i>I'm able to draw him to the stone.</i>

695
00:46:07,307 --> 00:46:09,017
[muffled music playing]

696
00:46:14,689 --> 00:46:16,691
[flies buzzing]

697
00:46:21,154 --> 00:46:21,988
[music subsides]

698
00:46:30,330 --> 00:46:31,873
[hollow clanging]

699
00:46:39,297 --> 00:46:40,298
[grunting]

700
00:46:56,147 --> 00:46:57,148
Ibrahim!

701
00:46:58,358 --> 00:46:59,192
[speaks Turkish]

702
00:47:01,486 --> 00:47:02,487
[woman] Murad!

703
00:47:03,905 --> 00:47:04,906
Ibrahim!

704
00:47:05,073 --> 00:47:08,493
[the Djinn] <i>And just as I am
about to be delivered into their hands,</i>

705
00:47:08,660 --> 00:47:09,953
<i>their mother finds them.</i>

706
00:47:10,370 --> 00:47:12,414
[speaking Turkish]

707
00:47:12,497 --> 00:47:16,209
[the Djinn] <i>She is Kösem,
a widow of the Sultan, Ahmed I.</i>

708
00:47:16,376 --> 00:47:18,795
<i>And the boys are next in line
for the throne.</i>

709
00:47:18,878 --> 00:47:21,548
[continues speaking Turkish]

710
00:47:21,631 --> 00:47:23,758
[the Djinn] <i>When I see
the hair on his legs,</i>

711
00:47:23,925 --> 00:47:28,680
<i>I know that somewhere in Murad's
bloodline pulses the power of a djinn.</i>

712
00:47:29,723 --> 00:47:31,391
<i>I follow him everywhere,</i>

713
00:47:31,558 --> 00:47:33,893
<i>determined to draw him
back to the stone.</i>

714
00:47:34,060 --> 00:47:36,771
<i>But at the age of 11,
he ascends the throne</i>

715
00:47:36,938 --> 00:47:39,065
<i>and becomes Sultan Murad IV.</i>

716
00:47:39,232 --> 00:47:41,985
<i>And caught up by the usual intrigues,</i>

717
00:47:42,152 --> 00:47:44,154
<i>he is even more lost to me.</i>

718
00:47:45,530 --> 00:47:48,324
<i>At 20, he leads his armies to war.</i>

719
00:47:48,491 --> 00:47:52,495
<i>He battles alongside his men
in the Caucasus and Mesopotamia.</i>

720
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,041
<i>Stories are told of his recklessness,</i>

721
00:47:56,207 --> 00:47:58,293
<i>even with his own life.</i>

722
00:48:04,340 --> 00:48:07,343
<i>I despair of ever seeing him again.</i>

723
00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:13,141
Hope is a monster, Alithea,
and I am its plaything.

724
00:48:13,892 --> 00:48:14,976
So he died?

725
00:48:15,143 --> 00:48:16,352
Not in battle.

726
00:48:17,062 --> 00:48:20,482
Back in Istanbul,
Kösem needs to protect the throne.

727
00:48:20,648 --> 00:48:22,233
She needs to protect Ibrahim.

728
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,152
- [Alithea] <i>The little brother?</i>
- [the Djinn] <i>Yes.</i>

729
00:48:24,235 --> 00:48:26,029
[Ibrahim breathing heavily]

730
00:48:27,906 --> 00:48:30,075
<i>He is last of the Ottoman line.</i>

731
00:48:31,117 --> 00:48:33,453
<i>He has to produce male children.</i>

732
00:48:35,872 --> 00:48:40,418
<i>So, Kösem locks him in a cage
lined entirely with sable.</i>

733
00:48:48,134 --> 00:48:49,219
[Alithea] <i>Quite the prison.</i>

734
00:48:49,385 --> 00:48:51,805
[the Djinn] <i>And one
he will never want to leave.</i>

735
00:48:54,766 --> 00:48:56,392
[Ibrahim sniffs]

736
00:49:07,862 --> 00:49:09,989
<i>It debauches him royally.</i>

737
00:49:10,156 --> 00:49:14,369
<i>He believes the greater the expanse
of flesh, the more intense the pleasure.</i>

738
00:49:14,536 --> 00:49:18,373
<i>So, Kösem seeks out beauties
voluptuous and immense,</i>

739
00:49:18,540 --> 00:49:20,708
<i>and brings them to his couch.</i>

740
00:49:21,501 --> 00:49:25,130
My fate turns specifically
on this fetish.

741
00:49:25,839 --> 00:49:27,048
How's that?

742
00:49:28,049 --> 00:49:28,967
You'll see.

743
00:49:29,467 --> 00:49:31,052
[battle drum music playing]

744
00:49:46,943 --> 00:49:49,654
[drum music stops]

745
00:49:51,364 --> 00:49:52,991
[men yell in unison]

746
00:49:53,491 --> 00:49:55,535
[clamoring]

747
00:49:59,873 --> 00:50:01,374
<i>Murad is back.</i>

748
00:50:01,541 --> 00:50:06,129
<i>And though he returns a conqueror,
he cannot shed his robes of blood.</i>

749
00:50:06,963 --> 00:50:09,716
<i>War had truly rotted his soul.</i>

750
00:50:09,799 --> 00:50:11,593
[Murad breathing heavily]

751
00:50:19,142 --> 00:50:20,852
[hooves clopping]

752
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,112
<i>I wait until he is alone.</i>

753
00:50:31,279 --> 00:50:34,240
<i>I am determined to draw him
back to the stone.</i>

754
00:50:34,407 --> 00:50:37,535
I don't want to interrupt,
but, uh, I do have a question.

755
00:50:37,702 --> 00:50:41,247
Did it matter to you what kind of wish
such a man might make?

756
00:50:41,831 --> 00:50:43,458
One so insatiable.

757
00:50:43,625 --> 00:50:44,626
No.

758
00:50:45,335 --> 00:50:47,170
Not even if it were profoundly evil?

759
00:50:47,337 --> 00:50:48,922
Not if it meant my freedom.

760
00:50:49,088 --> 00:50:52,717
The truth is he has other things
on his mind.

761
00:50:54,302 --> 00:50:56,512
<i>He believes he is invincible,</i>

762
00:50:56,679 --> 00:51:00,516
<i>and to rule indefinitely,
he must be rid of all rivals.</i>

763
00:51:14,030 --> 00:51:15,114
Ibrahim?

764
00:51:18,534 --> 00:51:19,744
Ibrahim?

765
00:51:39,138 --> 00:51:40,974
[heavy breathing]

766
00:51:51,192 --> 00:51:52,026
[squelching]

767
00:52:14,716 --> 00:52:15,550
[exhales]

768
00:52:21,597 --> 00:52:23,975
[the Djinn] Kösem needs to stop him.

769
00:52:24,142 --> 00:52:29,397
Somehow, she needed to distract him from
his bloodlust with other gratifications.

770
00:52:32,317 --> 00:52:33,192
[glass shatters]

771
00:52:33,276 --> 00:52:37,113
<i>First, she arranges for him
to be perpetually drunk.</i>

772
00:52:39,324 --> 00:52:41,034
And then she tries
something very shrewd.

773
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:42,869
Something that you might enjoy.

774
00:52:42,952 --> 00:52:45,288
[mimicking sword fight sounds]

775
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:52,670
<i>She sends to find,
from all corners of the empire,</i>

776
00:52:53,713 --> 00:52:55,715
<i>the best storytellers.</i>

777
00:52:57,216 --> 00:52:59,385
- [mimics bottle popping]
- [men laughing]

778
00:53:00,386 --> 00:53:01,220
[groans]

779
00:53:03,014 --> 00:53:04,474
[men laughing]

780
00:53:07,352 --> 00:53:09,312
[object grating]

781
00:53:12,857 --> 00:53:13,691
[clink]

782
00:53:15,026 --> 00:53:17,195
[the Djinn] <i>Those who are not persuasive</i>

783
00:53:17,362 --> 00:53:20,239
<i>flee in fear or fall to his impatience.</i>

784
00:53:30,792 --> 00:53:32,043
<i>There is only one</i>

785
00:53:32,585 --> 00:53:34,587
<i>who has the ability to enchant him.</i>

786
00:53:34,670 --> 00:53:35,505
[speaking Turkish]

787
00:53:36,130 --> 00:53:38,341
<i>To soothe with stories,</i>

788
00:53:39,258 --> 00:53:41,677
<i>to hold him hostage to their unfolding.</i>

789
00:53:41,928 --> 00:53:43,679
[continues speaking Turkish]

790
00:53:45,598 --> 00:53:47,308
[laughing]

791
00:53:48,351 --> 00:53:49,727
[muffled laughter]

792
00:53:54,023 --> 00:53:56,776
[muffled indistinct talking]

793
00:53:57,068 --> 00:54:00,988
[both laughing]

794
00:54:01,864 --> 00:54:03,199
[speaking Turkish]

795
00:54:03,282 --> 00:54:05,284
[the Djinn] <i>This is his only friend.</i>

796
00:54:07,495 --> 00:54:10,540
<i>And that friendship turns to love.</i>

797
00:54:12,750 --> 00:54:16,003
<i>Since there is nothing else
for me to do, I listen gratefully,</i>

798
00:54:16,170 --> 00:54:19,507
<i>for I, too,
love being lost in his stories.</i>

799
00:54:24,887 --> 00:54:26,681
<i>When the old man dies,</i>

800
00:54:26,848 --> 00:54:29,225
<i>all in the palace flee to the streets,</i>

801
00:54:29,392 --> 00:54:33,146
<i>for they fear Murad's grief
will incur fresh murder.</i>

802
00:54:33,229 --> 00:54:35,314
[Murad crying softly]

803
00:54:37,775 --> 00:54:42,613
<i>But he just sits, and howls,
and drinks until he is empty.</i>

804
00:55:08,806 --> 00:55:11,267
<i>And my patience is rewarded.</i>

805
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:16,105
<i>For in this state,
I am finally able to get his attention</i>

806
00:55:16,272 --> 00:55:19,192
<i>and draw him back
to the secret bathroom.</i>

807
00:55:19,358 --> 00:55:20,735
[Alithea] <i>Oh,
I know where this is going.</i>

808
00:55:20,902 --> 00:55:23,529
<i>He's going to be too weak
to lift the stone.</i>

809
00:55:23,696 --> 00:55:26,449
Too weak even to turn the latch.

810
00:55:26,532 --> 00:55:27,408
[latch clanks]

811
00:55:28,576 --> 00:55:31,996
So, he leaves
and drinks himself to permanent sleep.

812
00:55:32,955 --> 00:55:33,789
Oh.

813
00:55:34,081 --> 00:55:35,458
And there I am...

814
00:55:36,125 --> 00:55:37,793
left to my own oblivion

815
00:55:38,419 --> 00:55:40,379
with no one to hear my voice,

816
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:44,175
no one to know me,
nor feel me, nor sense me.

817
00:55:44,342 --> 00:55:46,344
You can't imagine.

818
00:55:49,514 --> 00:55:51,390
Well, actually, I can.

819
00:55:52,517 --> 00:55:54,936
Can you imagine the loneliness?

820
00:55:55,686 --> 00:55:57,522
How it might overwhelm?

821
00:55:58,189 --> 00:55:59,023
I can.

822
00:56:00,191 --> 00:56:03,778
We exist only if we are real to others.
Do you agree?

823
00:56:03,945 --> 00:56:04,820
I do.

824
00:56:05,279 --> 00:56:07,782
This, then, is our fate, Alithea.

825
00:56:07,949 --> 00:56:10,159
If you make no wish at all,

826
00:56:10,868 --> 00:56:15,289
I will be caught between worlds,
invisible and alone, for all of time.

827
00:56:18,209 --> 00:56:19,627
[whispers] Make a wish, Alithea.

828
00:56:20,711 --> 00:56:22,547
Make it your heart's desire.

829
00:56:30,346 --> 00:56:32,848
I'd be more careful if I were you.

830
00:56:34,725 --> 00:56:36,519
Obviously, you managed
to find your way out.

831
00:56:36,686 --> 00:56:37,687
More or less.

832
00:56:37,853 --> 00:56:40,273
I'm beginning to think
I'm in the presence of a trickster.

833
00:56:40,356 --> 00:56:41,983
[exhales]

834
00:56:42,066 --> 00:56:44,569
That would be so much better.

835
00:56:44,735 --> 00:56:46,612
My work would be so much easier.

836
00:56:46,779 --> 00:56:49,282
But the truth is, I am just an idiot

837
00:56:49,448 --> 00:56:52,243
who has been extravagantly unlucky.

838
00:56:52,410 --> 00:56:55,037
Well, I have to take your word for that.

839
00:56:55,121 --> 00:56:56,497
[the Djinn sighs]

840
00:57:04,755 --> 00:57:05,756
So?

841
00:57:08,634 --> 00:57:10,720
Ibrahim, I suppose, becomes Sultan?

842
00:57:12,054 --> 00:57:16,225
[the Djinn] <i>Ibrahim has to be
dragged to the throne.</i>

843
00:57:33,659 --> 00:57:37,246
[the Djinn in English] <i>He appoints one
of his concubines Governor of Damascus.</i>

844
00:57:37,413 --> 00:57:39,123
<i>Her name is Sugar Lump.</i>

845
00:57:39,999 --> 00:57:42,001
<i>By every measure, his favorite.</i>

846
00:57:44,170 --> 00:57:46,213
<i>Had she not been free to roam,</i>

847
00:57:46,380 --> 00:57:48,799
<i>she would not have found
the secret bathroom.</i>

848
00:57:48,966 --> 00:57:53,429
<i>Had she not decided to take a bath,
it would not have overfilled.</i>

849
00:57:53,596 --> 00:57:56,265
<i>Had she not been clumsy
as she walked across the floor,</i>

850
00:57:56,432 --> 00:57:59,060
<i>she would not have slipped,
smashed the stone</i>

851
00:57:59,935 --> 00:58:02,271
- and found my bottle.
- Ah, yeah.

852
00:58:04,690 --> 00:58:06,400
[groans]

853
00:58:16,369 --> 00:58:18,037
[the Djinn breathing heavily]

854
00:58:19,705 --> 00:58:22,833
<i>To be honest,
I should have been more dignified.</i>

855
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:25,544
<i>But I began to beg, shamelessly.</i>

856
00:58:46,857 --> 00:58:49,652
[yelling in Turkish]

857
00:58:52,988 --> 00:58:54,782
[the Djinn in English] <i>"I wish you were
back in your bottle</i>

858
00:58:54,865 --> 00:58:57,076
<i>at the bottom of the Bosphorus."</i>

859
00:59:00,121 --> 00:59:03,749
So here I am,
fallen into your careful hands.

860
00:59:06,419 --> 00:59:08,295
Seems we cannot escape each other.

861
00:59:08,462 --> 00:59:10,464
You have me at your mercy.

862
00:59:14,844 --> 00:59:15,678
[Alithea sighs]

863
00:59:17,012 --> 00:59:18,097
This wishing...

864
00:59:19,974 --> 00:59:21,392
it's a hazardous art.

865
00:59:22,143 --> 00:59:24,895
"I wish" brings infinite unravelings.

866
00:59:25,062 --> 00:59:25,896
Not necessarily.

867
00:59:26,063 --> 00:59:27,481
Well, it's there
in all your own stories.

868
00:59:27,648 --> 00:59:29,650
- I know, but...
- You say you're not a trickster...

869
00:59:29,817 --> 00:59:33,154
and you say that you and I
are the authors of this story.

870
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:36,323
But I'm not able
to write myself out of it.

871
00:59:36,490 --> 00:59:37,324
Correct.

872
00:59:37,491 --> 00:59:41,162
Why don't you just hop back
into your bottle

873
00:59:41,328 --> 00:59:42,872
and I'll give it
to someone more gullible?

874
00:59:43,038 --> 00:59:45,916
Someone more desperate.
Someone more greedy.

875
00:59:46,083 --> 00:59:47,334
I'm not getting back in the bottle.

876
00:59:47,501 --> 00:59:50,004
- Why not?
- I'm not getting back in the bottle.

877
00:59:50,171 --> 00:59:52,047
Well, I am not making three wishes.

878
00:59:52,214 --> 00:59:54,216
Then you are sending me to my oblivion.

879
00:59:54,383 --> 00:59:57,094
- Oh, you're impossible.
- And you are giving me a headache.

880
00:59:57,636 --> 00:59:59,346
All right. All right.

881
00:59:59,513 --> 01:00:01,807
Here's what I'll do.
I will make three wishes.

882
01:00:01,974 --> 01:00:03,100
- I will.
- Before you die?

883
01:00:03,267 --> 01:00:04,852
Right now. One after the other.

884
01:00:05,019 --> 01:00:05,853
- Ready?
- Mmm-hmm.

885
01:00:06,020 --> 01:00:08,647
Number one.
I wish your headache were gone.

886
01:00:11,859 --> 01:00:12,943
Number two.

887
01:00:13,569 --> 01:00:15,404
I wish for a sip of this tea.

888
01:00:17,865 --> 01:00:20,201
And finally,
I wish for another one of those.

889
01:00:21,118 --> 01:00:22,286
You mock me.

890
01:00:22,453 --> 01:00:24,955
Three wishes, perfectly simple,
and theoretically safe.

891
01:00:25,122 --> 01:00:29,710
I was imprisoned by Solomon precisely
because I cried out my heart's desire.

892
01:00:29,877 --> 01:00:32,630
Only by granting you yours
may I earn my release.

893
01:00:32,797 --> 01:00:35,341
Yes, well, I appreciate the symmetry,
but the thing is this...

894
01:00:35,508 --> 01:00:38,552
I cannot for the life of me
summon up one eligible wish.

895
01:00:38,719 --> 01:00:39,970
And you're asking me for three.

896
01:00:40,137 --> 01:00:42,264
Is there any life in you?
Are you even alive?

897
01:00:42,431 --> 01:00:45,976
You know, in some cultures,
absence of desire means enlightenment.

898
01:00:46,143 --> 01:00:48,020
Then you are a pious fool.

899
01:00:48,187 --> 01:00:50,356
If I'm content, why tempt fate?

900
01:00:50,523 --> 01:00:51,524
And you're a coward.

901
01:00:51,690 --> 01:00:53,150
Don't goad me.

902
01:00:53,317 --> 01:00:56,445
There is no human, no angel, no djinn
that wouldn't grasp at the chance

903
01:00:56,612 --> 01:00:57,988
to fulfill their deepest longings

904
01:00:58,155 --> 01:01:00,991
and I'm saddled with the one
who claims to want nothing at all.

905
01:01:01,158 --> 01:01:02,409
Alithea Binnie, you are a liar!

906
01:01:02,576 --> 01:01:05,746
You know, I am beginning to wish
we never met.

907
01:01:05,913 --> 01:01:06,747
No! <i>Nyet!</i>

908
01:01:07,206 --> 01:01:08,457
Don't say that!

909
01:01:08,541 --> 01:01:10,417
[heavy static]

910
01:01:10,501 --> 01:01:13,337
[panting]

911
01:01:19,844 --> 01:01:21,762
- [static subsides]
- [Alithea breathes heavily]

912
01:01:23,806 --> 01:01:25,558
- [sniffling]
- [glass shards shattering]

913
01:01:34,358 --> 01:01:35,192
[the Djinn sighs]

914
01:01:39,530 --> 01:01:40,531
So...

915
01:01:42,074 --> 01:01:43,701
that's happened to you before.

916
01:01:45,703 --> 01:01:47,037
And it was bad.

917
01:01:47,204 --> 01:01:48,038
[the Djinn clicks tongue]

918
01:01:48,122 --> 01:01:49,331
'Twas bad.

919
01:01:50,708 --> 01:01:52,042
'Twas bitter.

920
01:01:52,751 --> 01:01:54,879
'Twas the cruelest wish of all.

921
01:01:56,630 --> 01:01:59,383
[Alithea] You were undone
by silliness yet again.

922
01:02:00,092 --> 01:02:00,926
[the Djinn sighs]

923
01:02:01,260 --> 01:02:03,387
I'm here because of a genius.

924
01:02:04,263 --> 01:02:05,848
Who was it this time?

925
01:02:06,932 --> 01:02:08,350
She was Zefir.

926
01:02:10,686 --> 01:02:14,315
Rarely among humankind
has there been such a wonder.

927
01:02:15,691 --> 01:02:18,152
But you're here because of her folly.

928
01:02:19,570 --> 01:02:21,113
[tuts, sighs]

929
01:02:21,572 --> 01:02:24,783
I ended up in this
as a consequence of Zefir.

930
01:02:27,494 --> 01:02:30,873
And this is the story you've been
avoiding telling me all along.

931
01:02:31,999 --> 01:02:35,502
This is the story
I've avoided telling even myself.

932
01:02:45,679 --> 01:02:47,598
[hooves clopping]

933
01:02:47,681 --> 01:02:49,808
<i>Zefir was a foundling,</i>

934
01:02:49,975 --> 01:02:52,645
<i>married at 12 to a wealthy merchant.</i>

935
01:02:54,271 --> 01:02:56,482
<i>He was much older than her, and kind,</i>

936
01:02:56,649 --> 01:03:00,903
<i>if you think keeping someone
like a bird in a cage is kind.</i>

937
01:03:01,862 --> 01:03:03,280
<i>There were two older wives</i>

938
01:03:03,447 --> 01:03:06,450
<i>who did not like her
and did not talk to her at all.</i>

939
01:03:19,964 --> 01:03:21,966
[Zefir panting, crying softly]

940
01:03:24,385 --> 01:03:27,805
<i>Everyone, including the servants,
seemed to be mocking her.</i>

941
01:03:33,477 --> 01:03:34,311
[grunts]

942
01:03:41,068 --> 01:03:44,071
<i>She had neither etiquette nor learning.</i>

943
01:03:44,238 --> 01:03:48,659
<i>She grew to no great beauty
and was angry without knowing why.</i>

944
01:03:58,043 --> 01:03:58,877
[clangs]

945
01:03:59,420 --> 01:04:01,422
[high-pitched pinging]

946
01:04:03,424 --> 01:04:07,052
<i>As the fates would have it,
my bottle came to her</i>

947
01:04:07,219 --> 01:04:09,722
<i>as a love token from her husband.</i>

948
01:04:14,727 --> 01:04:19,231
<i>And when she had finished satisfying him
and was finally alone,</i>

949
01:04:19,398 --> 01:04:21,233
<i>she managed to prise it open.</i>

950
01:04:52,598 --> 01:04:54,975
<i>It was as if she was waiting for me.</i>

951
01:04:55,142 --> 01:04:58,312
<i>I saw at once that she was sharp,</i>

952
01:04:58,479 --> 01:05:02,066
<i>and she saw that I was desperate</i>

953
01:05:02,232 --> 01:05:04,318
<i>for freedom and conversation.</i>

954
01:05:04,485 --> 01:05:06,945
<i>I told her my story, as I have told you,</i>

955
01:05:07,112 --> 01:05:10,949
<i>and she revealed herself to me
by the things she had made.</i>

956
01:05:11,408 --> 01:05:13,243
[speaking Turkish]

957
01:05:22,127 --> 01:05:22,961
[speaks Turkish]

958
01:05:41,563 --> 01:05:42,397
[speaks Turkish]

959
01:05:43,232 --> 01:05:44,066
[chuckles]

960
01:05:45,776 --> 01:05:46,902
[speaks Turkish]

961
01:05:48,904 --> 01:05:49,738
[speaks Turkish]

962
01:05:53,492 --> 01:05:54,326
[whispers indistinctly]

963
01:06:00,958 --> 01:06:02,626
[the Djinn in English] <i>She could
have been remembered</i>

964
01:06:02,709 --> 01:06:04,211
<i>like the genius Da Vinci,</i>

965
01:06:04,378 --> 01:06:07,881
<i>whose theories on flight
were the talk of sultans and kings.</i>

966
01:06:10,134 --> 01:06:13,554
<i>She was a skilled artist,
but no one saw her art.</i>

967
01:06:14,263 --> 01:06:15,597
[Zefir breathing heavily]

968
01:06:15,681 --> 01:06:18,892
[Zefir speaking Turkish]

969
01:06:19,977 --> 01:06:24,189
[the Djinn] <i>She told me she was eaten up
with unused power.</i>

970
01:06:24,815 --> 01:06:26,441
<i>She thought she might be a witch.</i>

971
01:06:27,484 --> 01:06:29,236
<i>Except, she said, if she were a man,</i>

972
01:06:29,403 --> 01:06:33,073
<i>her intellect would have been
ordinarily accepted.</i>

973
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:35,617
<i>She was a woman ardent for learning</i>

974
01:06:35,784 --> 01:06:38,412
<i>and I knew what her first wish would be.</i>

975
01:06:38,954 --> 01:06:39,788
[pants]

976
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:40,914
[speaking Turkish]

977
01:06:53,302 --> 01:06:54,928
[breathing heavily]

978
01:06:56,388 --> 01:06:59,391
[the Djinn in English] <i>And it
delighted me to fulfill this wish.</i>

979
01:07:06,356 --> 01:07:07,191
[sighs]

980
01:07:28,837 --> 01:07:32,090
<i>So, I taught her histories,
philosophies,</i>

981
01:07:32,257 --> 01:07:33,884
<i>languages, poetry.</i>

982
01:07:34,051 --> 01:07:36,345
<i>I taught her astronomy, mathematics,</i>

983
01:07:36,511 --> 01:07:38,138
<i>which was bliss to her.</i>

984
01:07:38,805 --> 01:07:41,016
<i>I brought her books and writings,</i>

985
01:07:41,183 --> 01:07:44,269
<i>which we hid
in her collection of bottles.</i>

986
01:08:05,249 --> 01:08:06,375
[the Djinn speaks Turkish]

987
01:08:07,292 --> 01:08:08,126
[speaks Turkish]

988
01:08:08,210 --> 01:08:10,003
[squelching]

989
01:08:10,087 --> 01:08:10,921
[gasps]

990
01:08:23,141 --> 01:08:24,559
[speaking Turkish]

991
01:08:26,395 --> 01:08:30,315
<i>She could always call on Aristotle
from a red glass jar</i>

992
01:08:30,482 --> 01:08:32,484
<i>or Euclid from a green,</i>

993
01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:35,612
<i>Pythagoras, Spinoza,</i>

994
01:08:35,779 --> 01:08:38,407
<i>without needing me to re-embody them.</i>

995
01:08:38,490 --> 01:08:40,492
[conversing in Turkish]

996
01:08:48,875 --> 01:08:51,128
We had the whole world in her room,

997
01:08:51,295 --> 01:08:53,714
and I lost my heart to her.

998
01:08:56,591 --> 01:08:57,426
[gulps]

999
01:08:58,093 --> 01:09:01,930
'Twas my bliss to make her happy.

1000
01:09:03,890 --> 01:09:05,142
To see her flourish.

1001
01:09:06,893 --> 01:09:10,897
And she flourished
in every way, <i>totalmente.</i>

1002
01:09:22,409 --> 01:09:25,912
<i>She began to rebel
even against the gestures of submission</i>

1003
01:09:26,079 --> 01:09:27,372
<i>that her husband required</i>

1004
01:09:27,539 --> 01:09:30,584
<i>for she had acquired
a mastery of love-craft</i>

1005
01:09:30,751 --> 01:09:34,504
<i>out of reach of any human
that had not made love to a djinn.</i>

1006
01:09:34,588 --> 01:09:36,590
[surreal choral music playing]

1007
01:09:39,593 --> 01:09:41,595
[music distorts and fades]

1008
01:09:43,138 --> 01:09:48,393
[intense, distorted screaming]

1009
01:09:49,519 --> 01:09:50,354
[Zefir grunts]

1010
01:09:50,687 --> 01:09:51,688
[man speaking Turkish]

1011
01:09:52,481 --> 01:09:55,525
[the Djinn] <i>His cravings for her
became an obsession.</i>

1012
01:09:59,946 --> 01:10:00,781
[lock clicks]

1013
01:10:02,866 --> 01:10:03,700
[sighs]

1014
01:10:05,869 --> 01:10:07,496
[the Djinn in English] <i>And when
he would come to her,</i>

1015
01:10:07,662 --> 01:10:10,999
<i>I would leave her room
and journey the skies.</i>

1016
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:15,462
<i>I saw the mountains, the oceans,</i>

1017
01:10:16,630 --> 01:10:20,258
<i>I saw the beasts of the forest,
where no man treads.</i>

1018
01:10:21,343 --> 01:10:24,346
<i>And when I would return,
she would be waiting for me.</i>

1019
01:10:25,389 --> 01:10:29,017
<i>I would tell her of my day,
and she would faint with joy</i>

1020
01:10:29,184 --> 01:10:30,519
<i>and disappointment.</i>

1021
01:10:31,311 --> 01:10:33,647
[Alithea] <i>Why did she not make
a wish to be free?</i>

1022
01:10:34,731 --> 01:10:37,818
[the Djinn] <i>There was something
more important to her.</i>

1023
01:10:38,318 --> 01:10:40,529
<i>She had devised a "mathematica,"</i>

1024
01:10:40,695 --> 01:10:43,824
<i>a language to explain the forces</i>

1025
01:10:43,990 --> 01:10:46,827
<i>which bring space and time
and matter into being.</i>

1026
01:10:46,993 --> 01:10:48,578
<i>She was Promethean, brave.</i>

1027
01:10:48,745 --> 01:10:50,914
<i>But she could not solve this puzzle.</i>

1028
01:10:51,081 --> 01:10:52,874
<i>She needed a key,</i>

1029
01:10:53,041 --> 01:10:55,877
<i>a key to open
the doors of her perception.</i>

1030
01:11:02,717 --> 01:11:03,552
[sobs]

1031
01:11:06,388 --> 01:11:09,391
So, she used her second wish.

1032
01:11:10,684 --> 01:11:14,354
I taught her
to dream as djinn do, awake.

1033
01:11:40,464 --> 01:11:42,591
[writing on paper]

1034
01:11:45,886 --> 01:11:48,889
<i>And this way, the solutions came to her.</i>

1035
01:11:49,806 --> 01:11:53,185
<i>She was able
to explain powers invisible,</i>

1036
01:11:53,351 --> 01:11:56,563
electromagnetic fields and forces...

1037
01:11:56,730 --> 01:11:59,441
The very stuff of which djinn are made.

1038
01:11:59,900 --> 01:12:01,318
You're electromagnetic?

1039
01:12:01,485 --> 01:12:05,530
As you are dust,
I am made of subtle fire.

1040
01:12:06,490 --> 01:12:08,408
And when she was to bear a child,

1041
01:12:08,992 --> 01:12:13,413
I was plagued with happiness,
for I knew it would strengthen us.

1042
01:12:13,580 --> 01:12:15,123
She was carrying your child?

1043
01:12:15,916 --> 01:12:18,835
A child of fire and dust.

1044
01:12:20,795 --> 01:12:22,672
So, where did it go wrong?

1045
01:12:22,839 --> 01:12:24,674
Alithea, I loved her.

1046
01:12:25,717 --> 01:12:27,344
I loved the fervor of her mind.

1047
01:12:27,511 --> 01:12:28,512
I loved her anger.

1048
01:12:28,678 --> 01:12:32,516
I loved my power
to turn her frowns into smiles.

1049
01:12:34,559 --> 01:12:36,186
I loved her more than Sheba.

1050
01:12:37,187 --> 01:12:39,523
- More than your own freedom?
- Yes.

1051
01:12:40,148 --> 01:12:43,485
It became my greatest desire
to, to keep her,

1052
01:12:43,652 --> 01:12:45,070
to remain her prisoner.

1053
01:12:45,820 --> 01:12:49,449
The thought of being set free
sickened my heart.

1054
01:12:50,450 --> 01:12:53,662
[speaking Turkish]

1055
01:12:55,622 --> 01:12:59,501
I caught myself stopping her
lest she make her third wish.

1056
01:12:59,918 --> 01:13:01,127
Oh, gosh.

1057
01:13:05,006 --> 01:13:06,633
I made a mess of it.

1058
01:13:08,343 --> 01:13:11,304
<i>She began to accuse me
of trapping her...</i>

1059
01:13:11,471 --> 01:13:12,889
<i>- like her husband.</i>
- [Zefir sobbing]

1060
01:13:13,098 --> 01:13:14,808
[speaking Turkish]

1061
01:13:15,100 --> 01:13:16,851
[the Djinn] <i>I tried to make amends.</i>

1062
01:13:18,228 --> 01:13:21,314
<i>To atone,
I would put myself in the bottle...</i>

1063
01:13:22,816 --> 01:13:23,858
<i>to be sealed.</i>

1064
01:13:24,651 --> 01:13:26,695
<i>That way,
she could have more power over me.</i>

1065
01:13:27,571 --> 01:13:29,197
- [Zefir sobbing]
- [the Djinn whispers indistinctly]

1066
01:13:33,159 --> 01:13:35,745
[Zefir speaking Turkish]

1067
01:13:36,830 --> 01:13:38,206
[Zefir sobbing]

1068
01:13:39,374 --> 01:13:41,459
To be nothing in a bottle.

1069
01:13:42,127 --> 01:13:43,712
I could do that for her.

1070
01:13:44,713 --> 01:13:48,258
And every time, it would appease.

1071
01:13:48,425 --> 01:13:51,303
Every time, except for the last.

1072
01:13:52,012 --> 01:13:56,891
<i>When, like a sudden squall,
all thunder and lightning,</i>

1073
01:13:57,058 --> 01:13:59,603
<i>she began to weep and wail, and said,</i>

1074
01:13:59,769 --> 01:14:03,064
<i>"I wish I could forget I ever met you."</i>

1075
01:14:03,148 --> 01:14:03,982
[screams in Turkish]

1076
01:14:04,065 --> 01:14:06,568
[gasping]

1077
01:14:08,320 --> 01:14:10,655
<i>And she did, on the instant.</i>

1078
01:14:11,239 --> 01:14:12,073
[breathing heavily]

1079
01:14:16,161 --> 01:14:18,246
<i>She was out. I was in.</i>

1080
01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:20,415
<i>She'd forgotten me.</i>

1081
01:14:22,208 --> 01:14:25,128
<i>Alithea, how can it be...</i>

1082
01:14:27,339 --> 01:14:30,592
a mistake to love someone entirely?

1083
01:14:56,076 --> 01:14:57,494
I have a wish.

1084
01:15:02,207 --> 01:15:05,418
However, I'm afraid it...
It may be too much to ask.

1085
01:15:10,173 --> 01:15:12,133
Is it within my power?

1086
01:15:12,300 --> 01:15:15,220
I hope so. I do hope so.

1087
01:15:18,515 --> 01:15:20,141
Is it your heart's desire?

1088
01:15:21,267 --> 01:15:22,686
Yeah, I'm certain of it.

1089
01:15:37,992 --> 01:15:38,993
See, um...

1090
01:15:39,953 --> 01:15:41,955
I'm here to love you.

1091
01:15:45,125 --> 01:15:46,084
And, uh...

1092
01:15:47,711 --> 01:15:50,922
I wish for you to love me in return.

1093
01:15:53,174 --> 01:15:56,010
You want us to make love-craft?

1094
01:15:56,678 --> 01:15:58,096
Yeah, that too.

1095
01:15:58,805 --> 01:16:00,306
All of it.

1096
01:16:00,473 --> 01:16:03,893
And you would abandon yourself to this?

1097
01:16:03,977 --> 01:16:05,603
[low electrical humming]

1098
01:16:05,687 --> 01:16:06,771
Yes.

1099
01:16:07,522 --> 01:16:08,606
Yes.

1100
01:16:10,608 --> 01:16:14,237
I want... our solitudes to be together.

1101
01:16:14,821 --> 01:16:18,324
I want that love professed
in ageless tales.

1102
01:16:19,325 --> 01:16:23,621
I want that longing you felt
for the Queen of Sheba

1103
01:16:23,788 --> 01:16:27,125
and that love you gave
to your genius, Zefir.

1104
01:16:27,834 --> 01:16:28,918
I want it.

1105
01:16:38,178 --> 01:16:40,930
[speaking Djinnbish]

1106
01:16:42,348 --> 01:16:43,433
Me?

1107
01:16:45,685 --> 01:16:46,770
You.

1108
01:16:49,606 --> 01:16:51,858
[speaking Djinnbish]

1109
01:16:54,027 --> 01:16:55,111
You?

1110
01:16:57,322 --> 01:16:58,406
Me.

1111
01:17:05,830 --> 01:17:07,165
Is it too much?

1112
01:17:08,458 --> 01:17:10,668
Is it all too much to ask?

1113
01:17:30,313 --> 01:17:31,231
[whispers] Come.

1114
01:17:44,494 --> 01:17:46,996
[Alithea] <i>What are we to do
with longings awoken?</i>

1115
01:17:47,956 --> 01:17:51,793
<i>How can I persuade you
that I once found love with a djinn?</i>

1116
01:17:53,878 --> 01:17:56,631
<i>In any case, few would believe me.</i>

1117
01:17:58,216 --> 01:18:01,553
<i>Love is not something
we come to by reason.</i>

1118
01:18:04,138 --> 01:18:06,099
<i>It's more like a vapor,</i>

1119
01:18:06,266 --> 01:18:07,892
<i>a dream, perhaps,</i>

1120
01:18:08,518 --> 01:18:11,729
<i>to lure us into the enchantment
of our own stories.</i>

1121
01:18:13,523 --> 01:18:17,360
<i>If that's so, how are we to know
if it's ever real?</i>

1122
01:18:19,404 --> 01:18:22,991
<i>Is it a truth, or simply a madness?</i>

1123
01:18:23,616 --> 01:18:25,618
[surreal folk music playing]

1124
01:18:35,128 --> 01:18:38,131
[faint noises from outside]

1125
01:18:46,598 --> 01:18:49,017
[breathes deeply]

1126
01:19:01,654 --> 01:19:03,156
[electric toothbrush whirring]

1127
01:19:08,202 --> 01:19:09,203
[switches off toothbrush]

1128
01:19:09,871 --> 01:19:11,706
[Alithea] I leave for London today.

1129
01:19:12,415 --> 01:19:13,917
Will you come home with me?

1130
01:19:16,419 --> 01:19:19,047
It's not such an easy place nowadays.

1131
01:19:20,340 --> 01:19:22,342
But it'll be better if you're there.

1132
01:19:32,477 --> 01:19:33,811
- [metal detector beeping]
- Over here, please.

1133
01:19:36,314 --> 01:19:37,398
Hands up.

1134
01:19:39,609 --> 01:19:42,445
[body scanner whirring]

1135
01:19:45,782 --> 01:19:46,950
- Please step out.
- [body scanner beeping]

1136
01:19:47,909 --> 01:19:49,410
What is in your pockets?

1137
01:19:50,119 --> 01:19:50,954
Oh.

1138
01:19:52,372 --> 01:19:55,541
Uh, it's an empty bottle and a top.

1139
01:19:56,376 --> 01:19:57,710
Please put it through X-ray.

1140
01:19:57,877 --> 01:20:00,046
Oh, it is very delicate,
and I don't want it to get damaged.

1141
01:20:00,213 --> 01:20:02,256
It will not be damaged.
Please put through X-ray.

1142
01:20:02,423 --> 01:20:04,759
- I'd prefer that it didn't go in the...
- Passport. Boarding pass.

1143
01:20:17,814 --> 01:20:18,773
It's quite fragile.

1144
01:20:18,940 --> 01:20:20,024
[supervisor] Madam.

1145
01:20:24,278 --> 01:20:25,905
It's a saltshaker.

1146
01:20:33,579 --> 01:20:34,414
Oh.

1147
01:20:35,498 --> 01:20:37,333
No! No X-ray!

1148
01:20:37,500 --> 01:20:39,127
- Please!
- Stop, madam, stop.

1149
01:20:50,638 --> 01:20:51,472
[speaks Turkish]

1150
01:20:56,436 --> 01:20:57,603
Madam.

1151
01:20:58,229 --> 01:20:59,063
Oh.

1152
01:21:24,297 --> 01:21:25,214
[keypad beeping]

1153
01:21:39,854 --> 01:21:41,355
In your own time.

1154
01:22:25,608 --> 01:22:27,610
[children chattering, laughing]

1155
01:22:38,121 --> 01:22:40,123
[the Djinn] The air is thick here.

1156
01:22:41,332 --> 01:22:45,086
Full of insistent voices
and rushing faces.

1157
01:22:46,045 --> 01:22:46,879
[Alithea] Oh?

1158
01:22:47,672 --> 01:22:49,423
Like Tiny Einstein?

1159
01:22:50,466 --> 01:22:52,510
Television, and phone towers, and such?

1160
01:22:52,677 --> 01:22:53,761
Yes.

1161
01:22:54,345 --> 01:22:59,851
Yes. All your ingenious devices
all murmuring at once.

1162
01:23:00,017 --> 01:23:01,227
Bend your head.

1163
01:23:02,186 --> 01:23:04,188
[high-pitched pinging]

1164
01:23:05,064 --> 01:23:07,650
[city noises
and chatter from transmissions]

1165
01:23:08,526 --> 01:23:09,944
You hear all that?

1166
01:23:10,653 --> 01:23:12,530
[city noises
and chatter from transmissions]

1167
01:23:13,406 --> 01:23:16,367
I also see it and feel it.

1168
01:23:16,534 --> 01:23:19,245
I am a transmitter. [chuckles]

1169
01:23:19,453 --> 01:23:21,080
Isn't it all too much?

1170
01:23:22,373 --> 01:23:23,541
I am a djinn.

1171
01:23:23,708 --> 01:23:24,834
I can adapt.

1172
01:23:26,836 --> 01:23:28,421
I'll soon get used to it.

1173
01:23:28,588 --> 01:23:29,797
[woman] She's back.

1174
01:23:30,423 --> 01:23:31,674
I believe she's back.

1175
01:23:31,841 --> 01:23:33,634
Is she with someone?

1176
01:23:33,801 --> 01:23:35,678
[woman] No, I think she's talking
to herself again.

1177
01:23:35,845 --> 01:23:37,430
[Alithea] Hello, Clementine.

1178
01:23:38,014 --> 01:23:39,765
Fanny. Are you well?

1179
01:23:39,932 --> 01:23:41,559
[Clementine] Did you have any trouble?

1180
01:23:41,726 --> 01:23:43,811
Trouble? What kind of trouble?

1181
01:23:43,978 --> 01:23:45,605
With your foreign friends.

1182
01:23:45,771 --> 01:23:47,481
Because we often ask ourselves,

1183
01:23:47,648 --> 01:23:50,109
"Why would Dr. Binnie
waste her time and intelligence

1184
01:23:50,276 --> 01:23:52,945
studying the ways of others
instead of upholding our own?"

1185
01:23:53,112 --> 01:23:55,448
Embarrassed by our British culture,
are we?

1186
01:23:55,615 --> 01:23:56,490
No. No.

1187
01:23:56,657 --> 01:23:59,076
I am rather more likely
to be embarrassed by anybody

1188
01:23:59,243 --> 01:24:01,537
reflexly frightened
of anybody different.

1189
01:24:01,704 --> 01:24:02,663
What exactly are you saying?

1190
01:24:02,830 --> 01:24:04,498
She's calling us bigots.

1191
01:24:04,665 --> 01:24:06,709
- Your word, not mine.
- You misunderstand.

1192
01:24:06,792 --> 01:24:08,502
- Oh?
- It's not how they look, dear.

1193
01:24:08,586 --> 01:24:09,921
It's how they live. What they believe.

1194
01:24:10,087 --> 01:24:11,631
- What they eat.
- What are you on about?

1195
01:24:11,797 --> 01:24:13,341
Everywhere one goes, ethnics.

1196
01:24:13,507 --> 01:24:16,302
We are being overwhelmed,
and we're inviting our doom.

1197
01:24:16,469 --> 01:24:17,595
[Fanny] It's not natural.

1198
01:24:17,762 --> 01:24:20,014
Birds belong in the air.
Fish belong in the sea.

1199
01:24:20,181 --> 01:24:22,141
And that is how the good Lord
meant us to be.

1200
01:24:22,308 --> 01:24:24,185
You're just spouting rubbish
from start to finish.

1201
01:24:24,352 --> 01:24:26,854
- It's science. It's a scientific fact.
- It's a false analogy.

1202
01:24:27,021 --> 01:24:29,273
I mean,
animals do have a natural habitat.

1203
01:24:29,440 --> 01:24:31,525
- It's true, but human beings are capable
- [voices echoing]

1204
01:24:31,692 --> 01:24:33,694
of living in any environment
they bloody well choose.

1205
01:24:33,861 --> 01:24:35,696
- That's not a fact.
- What are you saying?

1206
01:24:35,863 --> 01:24:37,615
- It's an opinion.
- And you're wrong.

1207
01:24:37,782 --> 01:24:38,908
I'm not putting up
with any more of this.

1208
01:24:39,075 --> 01:24:41,410
Come away, Clem. Let the crazy lady be.

1209
01:24:41,577 --> 01:24:43,287
We're never gonna
get any sense out of her.

1210
01:24:43,454 --> 01:24:45,748
[Alithea] You know,
I've never said this to you before.

1211
01:24:46,374 --> 01:24:48,834
- But you're both pitiful.
- [airplane engine humming]

1212
01:24:49,001 --> 01:24:50,002
Shut your cakehole! [echoes]

1213
01:24:50,169 --> 01:24:52,171
Pea-brained and pitiful.

1214
01:24:53,339 --> 01:24:55,299
You, fuckface!

1215
01:24:55,466 --> 01:24:59,136
Stop your ivy growing
on our side of the wall!

1216
01:24:59,220 --> 01:25:00,554
[voices echoing]

1217
01:25:00,638 --> 01:25:02,682
Why do I let them get to me?

1218
01:25:02,848 --> 01:25:04,809
I should feel sorry for them.

1219
01:25:04,976 --> 01:25:07,979
But this is my home. It's my sanctuary.

1220
01:25:08,604 --> 01:25:09,438
[inhaler hisses]

1221
01:25:09,522 --> 01:25:12,108
[Clementine and Fanny's voices echoing]

1222
01:25:12,191 --> 01:25:13,401
I could wish them...

1223
01:25:13,484 --> 01:25:15,278
- [grunts]
- [static]

1224
01:25:15,361 --> 01:25:17,530
That's not a wish, by the way.

1225
01:25:17,697 --> 01:25:18,781
I know.

1226
01:25:18,864 --> 01:25:19,699
[exhales heavily]

1227
01:25:19,782 --> 01:25:21,909
[Clementine and Fanny's voices
continue echoing]

1228
01:25:21,993 --> 01:25:24,370
[indistinct conversations
from transmissions]

1229
01:25:28,291 --> 01:25:29,292
[Alithea breathing heavily]

1230
01:25:31,127 --> 01:25:36,674
[transmissions fading]

1231
01:25:37,717 --> 01:25:40,052
[sentimental string music playing]

1232
01:26:30,686 --> 01:26:33,481
[sentimental string music continues]

1233
01:27:22,905 --> 01:27:23,989
[Alithea whispers] My Djinn.

1234
01:27:25,157 --> 01:27:26,283
[the Djinn] How was your day?

1235
01:27:26,450 --> 01:27:28,577
[Alithea] Every listening ear was yours.

1236
01:27:28,744 --> 01:27:31,330
Every voice, every scent, and touch.

1237
01:27:31,497 --> 01:27:33,124
You were everywhere.

1238
01:27:38,003 --> 01:27:39,630
Back in a minute.

1239
01:27:46,762 --> 01:27:47,972
[siren wailing in distance]

1240
01:27:59,150 --> 01:28:01,235
[Fanny] Whoever could that be
at this hour?

1241
01:28:01,402 --> 01:28:02,361
[Clementine] It could be her.

1242
01:28:05,781 --> 01:28:07,950
Clem. Fanny.

1243
01:28:10,453 --> 01:28:12,955
Chickpeas, cloves, pistachio.

1244
01:28:14,748 --> 01:28:16,292
They melt in your mouth.

1245
01:28:34,685 --> 01:28:36,312
This is my friend.

1246
01:28:37,313 --> 01:28:39,148
He'll be staying for a while.

1247
01:28:40,316 --> 01:28:41,358
Hello.

1248
01:28:44,236 --> 01:28:45,905
- Hello.
- Hello.

1249
01:28:50,075 --> 01:28:51,702
[Alithea] <i>My Djinn told me,</i>

1250
01:28:51,869 --> 01:28:54,538
<i>when they come together
in the Realm of Djinn,</i>

1251
01:28:54,705 --> 01:28:56,457
<i>they tell each other stories.</i>

1252
01:28:57,791 --> 01:28:59,668
<i>Stories are like breath to them.</i>

1253
01:28:59,835 --> 01:29:00,961
<i>They make meaning.</i>

1254
01:29:02,963 --> 01:29:04,089
<i>"Yes," I said.</i>

1255
01:29:04,256 --> 01:29:06,008
<i>"That's just how it is with us."</i>

1256
01:29:07,092 --> 01:29:11,222
<i>Each story we tell is a fragment
in an endless shape-shifting mosaic.</i>

1257
01:29:12,765 --> 01:29:16,852
<i>And this small pebble,
like all stories, must end.</i>

1258
01:29:18,854 --> 01:29:22,066
<i>If it's about wishing,
it's a cautionary tale.</i>

1259
01:29:23,234 --> 01:29:25,569
<i>So, how will it go wrong?</i>

1260
01:29:26,278 --> 01:29:28,113
<i>Perhaps, it already has.</i>

1261
01:29:31,992 --> 01:29:34,328
Even though Truth stood before
them naked,

1262
01:29:34,495 --> 01:29:36,080
they turned their backs.

1263
01:29:36,247 --> 01:29:40,417
So, Truth moved to the side
and waited in the shadows.

1264
01:29:40,584 --> 01:29:42,002
<i>In the days that followed,</i>

1265
01:29:42,169 --> 01:29:45,589
<i>the Djinn would accompany
the narratologist to her work.</i>

1266
01:29:45,756 --> 01:29:47,174
<i>And when he wasn't with her,</i>

1267
01:29:47,341 --> 01:29:50,553
<i>he would go in eager exploration
of the world.</i>

1268
01:29:50,636 --> 01:29:53,514
[machine beeping]

1269
01:29:53,597 --> 01:29:56,433
[the Djinn] <i>Today I had such
a marvelous day.</i>

1270
01:29:57,893 --> 01:29:59,520
<i>I saw many things.</i>

1271
01:30:00,896 --> 01:30:04,900
<i>I watched a human
look into the living brain of another</i>

1272
01:30:05,067 --> 01:30:07,486
<i>and arrest a fatal bleeding.</i>

1273
01:30:12,199 --> 01:30:13,826
<i>I visited the Collider.</i>

1274
01:30:15,327 --> 01:30:19,164
<i>A vast gizmo which probed
the essence of matter.</i>

1275
01:30:22,835 --> 01:30:26,005
<i>And then I saw a dish, a great dish,</i>

1276
01:30:26,171 --> 01:30:29,675
<i>that listens to the whispers
of stars long dead.</i>

1277
01:30:32,052 --> 01:30:33,304
Humankind is...

1278
01:30:33,971 --> 01:30:35,598
Is a wonder, Alithea.

1279
01:30:36,682 --> 01:30:38,517
I'm happy you think so.

1280
01:30:39,268 --> 01:30:42,229
All of this since I was trapped
in Zefir's bottle.

1281
01:30:42,396 --> 01:30:46,483
All these astonishments,
in less than 200 years.

1282
01:30:47,109 --> 01:30:48,944
Yes, but, I mean,

1283
01:30:49,111 --> 01:30:52,531
that's just engineering and technology.

1284
01:30:53,490 --> 01:30:55,492
Despite all the whiz-bang,

1285
01:30:56,076 --> 01:30:57,911
we remain bewildered.

1286
01:31:00,956 --> 01:31:02,958
When we can't contain the chaos,

1287
01:31:04,793 --> 01:31:08,172
we are filled with dread and panic

1288
01:31:08,339 --> 01:31:09,632
and we turn on each other.

1289
01:31:09,798 --> 01:31:11,759
But of course, you are human.

1290
01:31:12,343 --> 01:31:14,178
That is your nature.

1291
01:31:16,680 --> 01:31:19,933
Yeah. So, the story never changes.

1292
01:31:21,143 --> 01:31:22,561
Hate prevails.

1293
01:31:23,771 --> 01:31:27,858
It metastasizes and outlives love.

1294
01:31:30,152 --> 01:31:31,987
I just want to talk about love.

1295
01:31:32,863 --> 01:31:36,116
Such a mess of contradictions,
all of you.

1296
01:31:36,909 --> 01:31:38,035
Thank you very much.

1297
01:31:38,202 --> 01:31:40,746
Humankind, what a conundrum.

1298
01:31:41,413 --> 01:31:43,499
You fumble around in the dark,

1299
01:31:44,166 --> 01:31:47,169
and yet, you herd your intelligence
to great effect.

1300
01:31:47,336 --> 01:31:48,879
It is quite a story.

1301
01:31:48,962 --> 01:31:49,797
[chuckles softly]

1302
01:31:50,214 --> 01:31:52,299
Cannot wait to see where it goes.

1303
01:31:53,050 --> 01:31:54,927
Or how it might end.

1304
01:31:55,344 --> 01:31:56,345
That too.

1305
01:31:57,012 --> 01:31:59,640
A mortal will never know,
but a djinn might.

1306
01:32:01,016 --> 01:32:03,018
A djinn has all the time in the world.

1307
01:32:05,437 --> 01:32:06,855
Aren't you the lucky one?

1308
01:32:07,731 --> 01:32:08,816
Maybe.

1309
01:32:10,192 --> 01:32:12,403
But you, creatures of dust, have...

1310
01:32:13,445 --> 01:32:17,658
Have managed to eclipse the power
and purpose of djinn and angel.

1311
01:32:18,283 --> 01:32:19,702
You have no use for us.

1312
01:32:20,703 --> 01:32:22,996
- Perhaps, we will wither and...
- And fade away?

1313
01:32:23,163 --> 01:32:24,039
- Yes.
- Yeah.

1314
01:32:24,206 --> 01:32:27,835
Well, that used to be the subject
of all my lectures and papers.

1315
01:32:28,001 --> 01:32:29,002
I know.

1316
01:32:31,797 --> 01:32:33,632
And yet, here you are.

1317
01:32:35,342 --> 01:32:36,969
My impossible.

1318
01:32:39,304 --> 01:32:40,305
Yes.

1319
01:32:45,394 --> 01:32:46,228
[keypad beeping]

1320
01:32:46,353 --> 01:32:47,271
[door unlocks]

1321
01:32:52,568 --> 01:32:53,777
Hello?

1322
01:32:59,324 --> 01:33:00,743
I'm home!

1323
01:33:10,878 --> 01:33:12,087
Hello?

1324
01:33:38,280 --> 01:33:39,656
Djinn?

1325
01:33:43,660 --> 01:33:44,870
My love?

1326
01:33:45,329 --> 01:33:46,330
[Alithea gasps]

1327
01:33:49,041 --> 01:33:50,125
Djinn.

1328
01:33:54,463 --> 01:33:55,631
What's this?

1329
01:33:57,966 --> 01:33:59,259
Can you hear me?

1330
01:33:59,843 --> 01:34:01,345
Djinn, speak to me.

1331
01:34:02,346 --> 01:34:03,847
Try to speak to me.

1332
01:34:05,641 --> 01:34:07,893
I wish you to speak to me.

1333
01:34:09,686 --> 01:34:11,688
[cracking, crumbling]

1334
01:34:12,022 --> 01:34:12,856
Oh!

1335
01:34:14,274 --> 01:34:16,360
[breathes heavily, grunts]

1336
01:34:20,781 --> 01:34:22,157
[pained breath]

1337
01:34:23,408 --> 01:34:25,077
[inhales deeply]

1338
01:34:26,036 --> 01:34:27,871
- [static]
- [gasps, clears throat]

1339
01:34:28,247 --> 01:34:29,873
[in distorted, soft voice]
I was sleeping.

1340
01:34:30,290 --> 01:34:31,124
[grunts]

1341
01:34:31,291 --> 01:34:32,459
Sleeping.

1342
01:34:33,961 --> 01:34:35,295
Djinn don't sleep.

1343
01:34:35,879 --> 01:34:37,297
[the Djinn] Let's go for a walk.

1344
01:34:37,464 --> 01:34:40,300
A long, bracing walk.
I have prepared something for us.

1345
01:34:40,467 --> 01:34:41,885
[in normal voice] I have it all planned.

1346
01:34:42,052 --> 01:34:43,929
[breathlessly] A wonderous night for us.

1347
01:34:44,096 --> 01:34:45,889
It will be amazing.

1348
01:34:46,390 --> 01:34:49,017
- The best time of our lives.
- Stop!

1349
01:34:49,184 --> 01:34:53,230
These electromagnetic fields,
I can push them from my head.

1350
01:34:53,397 --> 01:34:55,023
I can push them away.

1351
01:34:55,816 --> 01:34:57,234
We'll go for a picnic.

1352
01:34:57,401 --> 01:34:58,235
[panting]

1353
01:34:58,318 --> 01:35:02,114
[speaking Djinnbish]

1354
01:35:02,197 --> 01:35:04,032
Ah, we'll play the ukulele.

1355
01:35:04,408 --> 01:35:05,784
[speaking Djinnbish]

1356
01:35:06,785 --> 01:35:10,080
Alithea, there is a place for me here.

1357
01:35:10,247 --> 01:35:12,916
These forces, they will never go away,
not from this world.

1358
01:35:13,083 --> 01:35:15,168
I will overcome them.
I can do that for you.

1359
01:35:15,335 --> 01:35:17,921
- You are my Alithea, and I love you.
- Thank you. Thank you.

1360
01:35:18,088 --> 01:35:20,549
- Thank you for trying.
- You don't think that I love you?

1361
01:35:21,592 --> 01:35:23,468
Love is a gift.

1362
01:35:23,635 --> 01:35:26,054
It's a gift of oneself given freely.

1363
01:35:26,221 --> 01:35:28,515
It's not something one can ever ask for.

1364
01:35:29,725 --> 01:35:30,976
I tricked us both.

1365
01:35:31,143 --> 01:35:35,147
The moment I spoke that wish,
I took away your power to grant it.

1366
01:35:35,856 --> 01:35:39,359
I, more than anybody,
I should've known that.

1367
01:35:40,110 --> 01:35:42,154
I'm not going to screw this up again.

1368
01:35:42,321 --> 01:35:45,741
My Djinn, if this world is not for you,

1369
01:35:46,575 --> 01:35:49,369
I wish that you return
to where you belong.

1370
01:35:50,245 --> 01:35:51,997
Wherever that may be.

1371
01:35:54,374 --> 01:35:55,834
[breathing heavily]

1372
01:35:56,752 --> 01:35:59,129
[glass cracking]

1373
01:36:12,434 --> 01:36:14,269
[sobs softly]

1374
01:37:19,751 --> 01:37:20,585
[sighs]

1375
01:37:26,383 --> 01:37:28,385
[emotional string music playing]

1376
01:37:49,031 --> 01:37:51,283
[couple laughing]

1377
01:38:05,213 --> 01:38:07,257
[couple talking indistinctly]

1378
01:38:19,770 --> 01:38:20,771
[girl] Mummy!

1379
01:38:22,898 --> 01:38:24,983
[man] Come here, little monkey.

1380
01:38:25,150 --> 01:38:26,651
That's not Mummy.

1381
01:39:01,645 --> 01:39:02,479
[dog barks]

1382
01:39:02,562 --> 01:39:05,107
[kids shouting playfully]

1383
01:39:08,568 --> 01:39:10,570
[wind blows]

1384
01:39:25,127 --> 01:39:29,131
[mouthing]

1385
01:39:40,308 --> 01:39:43,478
[sentimental string music playing]

1386
01:39:54,531 --> 01:39:58,326
[men conversing indistinctly]

1387
01:40:05,542 --> 01:40:06,710
- [man grunts]
- [men laughing]

1388
01:40:06,793 --> 01:40:08,211
- [man 1] Did you see that?
- [man 2] He's cool!

1389
01:40:11,381 --> 01:40:13,967
[Alithea] <i>He would visit
from time to time,</i>

1390
01:40:14,134 --> 01:40:16,553
<i>and they would grasp each vivid moment.</i>

1391
01:40:17,512 --> 01:40:20,265
<i>Despite the pain of the raucous skies,</i>

1392
01:40:20,432 --> 01:40:23,018
<i>he always stayed longer than he should,</i>

1393
01:40:23,185 --> 01:40:25,520
<i>long after she begged him to leave.</i>

1394
01:40:26,563 --> 01:40:29,191
<i>He promised to return in her lifetime,</i>

1395
01:40:29,816 --> 01:40:32,652
<i>and for her, that was more than enough.</i>

1396
01:40:34,571 --> 01:40:36,406
[sentimental string music continues]

1397
01:42:13,420 --> 01:42:16,673
[folk-pop song playing]

1398
01:45:54,432 --> 01:45:56,434
[eerie folk music playing]