1 00:00:08,133 --> 00:00:10,427 Back in the first times... 2 00:00:11,303 --> 00:00:13,764 ...In the time of the red light... 3 00:00:14,431 --> 00:00:19,895 ...the desert wind soo-oop-wa was a man like us. 4 00:00:19,978 --> 00:00:23,649 Until by mischance... 5 00:00:23,732 --> 00:00:25,817 ...he grew wings... 6 00:00:27,277 --> 00:00:29,321 ...and flew... 7 00:00:30,781 --> 00:00:33,075 ...like a bird. 8 00:01:37,598 --> 00:01:39,641 He became a hunter... 9 00:01:39,725 --> 00:01:43,687 ...and like a hawk he flew to seek his prey... 10 00:01:43,770 --> 00:01:46,398 ...taking refuge in those far corners of the world... 11 00:01:46,481 --> 00:01:49,359 ...where magic still lingers. 12 00:01:49,443 --> 00:01:51,778 But having once been a man... 13 00:01:51,862 --> 00:01:55,449 ...so does he still suffer the passions of a man. 14 00:01:55,532 --> 00:02:01,622 Flying in rages sometimes, and throwing himself down like a child... 15 00:02:01,705 --> 00:02:04,833 ...to vent his wrath upon the Earth. 16 00:02:05,876 --> 00:02:09,338 The people of the great Namib have another name... 17 00:02:09,421 --> 00:02:13,342 ...for those violent winds that blow from nowhere. 18 00:02:13,425 --> 00:02:17,679 They call them "dust devils."” 19 00:05:26,326 --> 00:05:27,786 You're almost there. 20 00:07:12,307 --> 00:07:16,937 Come to me, Ben. Come to me, Ben. 21 00:07:30,325 --> 00:07:31,534 Hello? 22 00:07:31,618 --> 00:07:34,037 Hello? Robinson house. 23 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:35,830 Hello? 24 00:07:36,957 --> 00:07:38,792 Who is this? 25 00:07:43,546 --> 00:07:45,632 Who was that? 26 00:07:45,715 --> 00:07:47,217 No one. 27 00:07:47,759 --> 00:07:50,679 Just a crossed line. Go back to sleep. 28 00:07:54,599 --> 00:07:57,102 What time did you get in? 29 00:08:30,093 --> 00:08:32,595 Fill the bowl... 30 00:08:34,597 --> 00:08:36,641 Fill the bowl... 31 00:08:37,726 --> 00:08:39,644 Fill the bowl... 32 00:11:14,507 --> 00:11:17,802 Lord, we pray for release from this drought. 33 00:11:17,886 --> 00:11:20,597 Send us the soft rains of your mercy! 34 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:25,268 The earth cries out to you! The cattle die in the fields! 35 00:11:25,351 --> 00:11:28,813 The crops wither in the springtime! 36 00:11:28,897 --> 00:11:32,233 Forgive us, lord, and send us the power to forgive. 37 00:11:33,276 --> 00:11:36,487 Send us peace from these troubled times. 38 00:11:36,571 --> 00:11:41,576 Send us the peace of your rain against our brows. 39 00:11:45,038 --> 00:11:46,581 Watch for the evil... 40 00:11:46,664 --> 00:11:50,251 ...and drive it from our hearts and from our lands. 41 00:11:51,669 --> 00:11:56,633 Take heed of the shadow that comes in the morning. 42 00:12:08,853 --> 00:12:12,815 ...Of the shadow that comes in the morning. 43 00:12:13,399 --> 00:12:17,695 ...fire blasts the cornfield of the farmer... 44 00:12:17,779 --> 00:12:21,449 ...So shall the evil of this shadow smite thee. 45 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,453 Look to the west into the wasteland... 46 00:12:25,536 --> 00:12:28,122 ...for from thence cometh the evil. 47 00:12:28,206 --> 00:12:32,252 His shadow follows across the ways of the righteous... 48 00:12:32,335 --> 00:12:36,297 ...and maketh them as cold dust. 49 00:12:36,381 --> 00:12:39,884 Even the innocent and the babe at arms... 50 00:12:39,968 --> 00:12:43,346 ...the sun has gone out from their pastures... 51 00:12:43,429 --> 00:12:46,683 ...and a shadow has blighted their being... 52 00:12:46,766 --> 00:12:50,270 ...the shadow of that old serpent... 53 00:12:50,353 --> 00:12:55,650 ...who deceliveth the world and lead it into damnation... 54 00:12:55,733 --> 00:13:01,739 and now controls everlasting fire! 55 00:14:01,632 --> 00:14:05,511 I can't live like this anymore. It's sucking the life out of me. 56 00:14:05,595 --> 00:14:07,513 And you think sleeping with another man... 57 00:14:07,597 --> 00:14:10,433 Jeff is a friend! Can't you get that into your head? 58 00:14:10,516 --> 00:14:13,478 You're lying to me, Wendy! Where were you? 59 00:14:13,561 --> 00:14:15,313 Don't you touch me! 60 00:14:19,150 --> 00:14:21,736 I'm not changing my mind, not this time! 61 00:14:21,819 --> 00:14:26,574 - No! Wait! What do you think you're doing? - Mark, I'm leaving you! 62 00:14:26,657 --> 00:14:29,494 You think running to him will fix things? 63 00:14:29,577 --> 00:14:32,914 - Talk to me! - Just let me go. 64 00:14:32,997 --> 00:14:37,502 No. Wait! Wendy, please! I'm sorry! 65 00:14:44,258 --> 00:14:46,677 Wendy, don't do this! 66 00:14:47,845 --> 00:14:50,014 You know you'll be back! 67 00:14:50,098 --> 00:14:52,058 Aw, shit, Wendy... 68 00:15:11,786 --> 00:15:14,205 - Yeah, Mukurob. - Get your breeches on, Ben. 69 00:15:14,288 --> 00:15:17,834 We're going to need you, man. We've got something. 70 00:15:18,501 --> 00:15:22,380 Better be a big show, Kornelius. I haven't had much sleep. 71 00:15:22,463 --> 00:15:24,674 I think it's an arson here, Ben. 72 00:15:24,757 --> 00:15:28,302 One of the farmsteads. It's possibly even homicide. 73 00:15:28,386 --> 00:15:31,389 It's very early for another suicide. 74 00:15:31,472 --> 00:15:33,224 I said "homicide”. 75 00:15:33,307 --> 00:15:35,768 The peace keeping troops turned it up this morning. 76 00:15:35,852 --> 00:15:38,729 Now get to Sonneblom. That's the Haarhoff farm. 77 00:15:38,813 --> 00:15:41,607 Turn offs about 200 km down the Keetmanshoop road. 78 00:15:41,691 --> 00:15:43,526 Now, Ben. 79 00:15:43,609 --> 00:15:46,863 Yeah, I'm on my way. 80 00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:58,166 Where does this dust come from, Watcher? 81 00:16:00,001 --> 00:16:03,379 Take casts of the footprints. Seal off outgoing roads. 82 00:16:03,463 --> 00:16:06,340 Any indication that it's politically motivated? 83 00:16:06,424 --> 00:16:10,428 I'd say it's far too early to even consider it. 84 00:16:10,511 --> 00:16:13,806 We should proceed with the investigation as a local incident... 85 00:16:13,890 --> 00:16:17,518 ...until we see what evidence arises. I've put my best man on this. 86 00:16:17,602 --> 00:16:19,395 - As long as it's not you... - Yes, sir. 87 00:16:19,479 --> 00:16:23,774 - Call me later. - Thank you, sir, I'll get back to you. 88 00:16:25,485 --> 00:16:29,780 - Hell of a way to start the day, huh? - Fucking nightmare. 89 00:16:29,864 --> 00:16:33,534 Whole place has been gutted. House is full of body parts. 90 00:16:33,618 --> 00:16:36,454 Looks like it's been hit by a commando unit. 91 00:16:36,537 --> 00:16:38,664 Ben, I think we're dealing with terrorists here.,. 92 00:16:38,748 --> 00:16:41,626 There are no terrorists these days - cease fire. 93 00:16:41,709 --> 00:16:46,756 - It's a free country. - Ach, man! 94 00:16:46,839 --> 00:16:49,717 - The victim was white? - Probably. 95 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:51,969 Hard to tell from what's left. 96 00:16:52,053 --> 00:16:54,263 The house was owned by the Haarhoff family. 97 00:16:54,347 --> 00:16:56,724 I don't know where the kids are. Grown up and gone away. 98 00:16:56,807 --> 00:16:58,684 Mr. Haarhoff works as a site foreman... 99 00:16:58,768 --> 00:17:01,562 ...for a copper mine across the border in South Africa. 100 00:17:01,646 --> 00:17:05,024 - We're trying to contact him. - Mrs. Haarhoff? 101 00:17:05,107 --> 00:17:08,277 My bet is that's her in the house. 102 00:17:18,579 --> 00:17:20,289 - Sir! - At ease. 103 00:17:25,461 --> 00:17:28,214 This last Israeli is lying in the sand dying. 104 00:17:28,297 --> 00:17:32,677 When just across the desert, comes this P.L.O. guy to shoot them. 105 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,179 He cries out, "What the fuck was that? A bacon tree?" 106 00:17:35,263 --> 00:17:37,682 "No", says the P.L.O. guy, "it was a ham bush." 107 00:17:48,859 --> 00:17:52,488 Out of the flatlands she came... 108 00:17:52,572 --> 00:17:57,159 ...Into the dry lands, the furnace lands... 109 00:17:57,243 --> 00:18:00,079 ...the bomb lands of the Namib. 110 00:18:00,162 --> 00:18:05,001 Blazing like an arrow into the west... 111 00:18:05,084 --> 00:18:07,253 ...towards the sea. 112 00:18:07,753 --> 00:18:10,256 She needed to be cool and clear now... 113 00:18:10,339 --> 00:18:14,260 ...and had some idea about the cold salt wind... 114 00:18:14,343 --> 00:18:16,887 ...blowing the dust from her eyes. 115 00:18:16,971 --> 00:18:23,269 But even then, he must have been calling to her in her sleep... 116 00:18:23,352 --> 00:18:25,730 ...drawing her to Bethany... 117 00:18:25,813 --> 00:18:30,192 ...where an old man, cancerous with guilt... 118 00:18:30,276 --> 00:18:34,405 ...waited, like her, for deliverance. 119 00:18:34,488 --> 00:18:39,327 Grown tired from serving a country that doesn't want him... 120 00:18:39,410 --> 00:18:42,913 ...chasing mirages in the dust. 121 00:18:44,123 --> 00:18:47,877 - Now turn the radio off! - Yeah. 122 00:18:50,713 --> 00:18:54,383 - How long do you think it's been playing? - Don't know for sure. 123 00:18:54,467 --> 00:18:57,595 I guess about 12 hours. Shall I have it checked? 124 00:18:57,678 --> 00:18:59,180 Yeah. 125 00:19:20,409 --> 00:19:21,869 The things I've seen... 126 00:19:21,952 --> 00:19:25,581 The things I've seen, you won't believe. 127 00:19:26,415 --> 00:19:28,376 You been in a war? 128 00:19:32,588 --> 00:19:34,757 How far is this train going? 129 00:19:35,675 --> 00:19:38,386 Goes all the way to the sea. 130 00:19:41,389 --> 00:19:43,265 What's the next stop? 131 00:19:44,350 --> 00:19:47,311 Bethany... some shithole like that. 132 00:19:48,479 --> 00:19:54,235 - Anybody ever get off there? - Nah. Train tanks up with water. 133 00:19:55,152 --> 00:19:58,948 People get on at Bethany. Nobody gets off. 134 00:20:10,793 --> 00:20:12,002 The little town of Bethany... 135 00:20:12,086 --> 00:20:15,464 ...Just inside Namibia's southern border, is doomed. 136 00:20:15,548 --> 00:20:19,176 The record seven-year drought has already devastated cattle herds... 137 00:20:19,260 --> 00:20:21,762 ...and with the closure of the local uranium mine... 138 00:20:21,846 --> 00:20:24,724 ...brought on by the withdrawal of South African investment... 139 00:20:24,807 --> 00:20:29,812 ...Bethany's last source of revenue and fresh water will finally dry up. 140 00:22:39,984 --> 00:22:44,113 He sifts the human storm for souls. 141 00:22:44,196 --> 00:22:47,324 He can smell a town waiting to die... 142 00:22:47,408 --> 00:22:53,455 ...and the manhood festering in a boy from a thousand miles away. 143 00:22:53,539 --> 00:22:57,835 Their smell is sweet to him. 144 00:23:05,342 --> 00:23:06,635 Fire! 145 00:23:08,762 --> 00:23:10,347 Unload! 146 00:23:25,988 --> 00:23:27,531 Load! 147 00:23:30,993 --> 00:23:32,995 Eyes to front! 148 00:23:36,123 --> 00:23:37,625 Fire! 149 00:23:45,966 --> 00:23:49,261 So what's so special about your woman apart from her being white? 150 00:23:49,345 --> 00:23:53,641 - She died near Bethany, doctor. - It didn't do her any favors. 151 00:23:53,724 --> 00:23:56,894 We've just got about everything here: 152 00:23:56,977 --> 00:24:00,272 Evisceration, partial cremation... 153 00:24:00,356 --> 00:24:03,901 ...sexual mutilation, and possibly even cannibalism. 154 00:24:03,984 --> 00:24:05,694 God... 155 00:24:06,445 --> 00:24:10,574 We found the remains of a clock wedged inside her, for god's sake. 156 00:24:10,658 --> 00:24:15,245 What's your theory on actual cause? I mean, just off the record? 157 00:24:15,955 --> 00:24:17,998 She wasn't tied down. 158 00:24:18,082 --> 00:24:21,669 I'd say she may have been strangled first. Her neck's dislocated. 159 00:24:21,752 --> 00:24:26,215 And the spinal cord's severed between the atlas and axial vertebrae. 160 00:24:26,298 --> 00:24:28,592 We know that much. 161 00:24:28,676 --> 00:24:32,054 God knows... Maybe she let him do it to her. 162 00:24:34,556 --> 00:24:37,434 Fly with the sun this summer to a new Namibia. 163 00:24:37,518 --> 00:24:40,312 Book your Carrot Sun Skeleton Coast holiday... 164 00:24:40,396 --> 00:24:46,110 ...with the very best in surf, shopping, sun, sea and safari, 165 00:24:54,785 --> 00:24:58,330 I says: "Fuck that. We're going to see the canyons this year." 166 00:24:58,414 --> 00:24:59,581 The kids are getting education... 167 00:24:59,665 --> 00:25:02,668 ...and it's a damn side cheaper than going to the Wild Coast. 168 00:25:02,751 --> 00:25:05,337 - Can I help? - Do you have a wash room? 169 00:25:05,421 --> 00:25:09,008 - On the left, second door. - Thanks. 170 00:25:09,091 --> 00:25:12,094 There's no great shades or anything. 171 00:25:17,141 --> 00:25:18,559 Hey. 172 00:25:19,393 --> 00:25:23,772 Look at the shape of my hand here. What does that remind you of? 173 00:25:24,481 --> 00:25:27,609 No, look at this shape, man. Come, check here. 174 00:25:27,693 --> 00:25:29,820 Did he sleep with her? 175 00:25:29,903 --> 00:25:32,281 If he did, he didn't come. 176 00:25:32,364 --> 00:25:35,242 The only really interesting stuff we've got so far... 177 00:25:35,325 --> 00:25:37,703 ...is in the scrapings from the mural. 178 00:25:37,786 --> 00:25:43,667 But we'll need specialist help if we are going to get any further with it. 179 00:25:45,044 --> 00:25:46,795 Go ahead. 180 00:25:48,422 --> 00:25:50,841 What am I meant to be looking at? 181 00:25:50,924 --> 00:25:56,513 He had to mix other materials with her blood to bring out those colors. 182 00:25:57,097 --> 00:26:00,184 We found traces of iron oxide and hematite. 183 00:26:00,267 --> 00:26:02,561 The whites and lighter shades were achieved... 184 00:26:02,644 --> 00:26:06,440 ...by mixing the victim's fat with kaolin and... sea gull guano. 185 00:26:06,523 --> 00:26:08,984 The man's an artist, all right. He didn't leave us a print. 186 00:26:09,068 --> 00:26:12,237 This stuff's closely related to witchcraft. 187 00:26:12,321 --> 00:26:14,823 Are you serious? 188 00:26:14,907 --> 00:26:16,492 Perfectly. 189 00:26:16,575 --> 00:26:20,412 Human body parts all have their uses in ritual magic. 190 00:26:20,496 --> 00:26:23,624 A witch or sangoma could tell from the missing pieces... 191 00:26:23,707 --> 00:26:25,459 ...what our man was after. 192 00:26:25,542 --> 00:26:30,255 You must have a local sangoma, Seargeant. Why don't you ask him about it? 193 00:26:30,339 --> 00:26:35,969 There's a projectionist, Joe Niemand, out at the Star of Bethany. 194 00:26:36,053 --> 00:26:40,599 I've busted him for some pretty weird stuff before now, but this is crazy. 195 00:26:40,682 --> 00:26:43,769 This is the 20th century! You can't possibly believe in that. 196 00:26:43,852 --> 00:26:46,355 It depends how you mean it. 197 00:26:46,438 --> 00:26:48,232 I believe in witchcraft. 198 00:26:48,315 --> 00:26:51,527 Every town has its own local witch. It's big business out here. 199 00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:53,695 But do you believe in magic? 200 00:26:55,197 --> 00:26:59,118 You mean magic as in classic terminology? 201 00:26:59,201 --> 00:27:02,538 Shape shifting, raising the dead, all that? 202 00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:05,374 I don't think such things are possible, Sergeant. Do you? 203 00:27:14,591 --> 00:27:16,051 Hello, operator. 204 00:27:16,135 --> 00:27:18,262 I'd like to make a collect call. 205 00:27:18,345 --> 00:27:22,057 Yes. Pretoria 885-82. 206 00:27:22,141 --> 00:27:24,393 Please hold the line. 207 00:27:29,231 --> 00:27:31,066 Wendy and Mark are out right now. 208 00:27:31,150 --> 00:27:34,653 If you want to leave a message, speak after the tone. 209 00:27:34,736 --> 00:27:38,532 Hello. This is the Bethany operator calling South Africa from Namibia. 210 00:27:38,615 --> 00:27:40,826 Will you accept the charges? 211 00:27:43,579 --> 00:27:45,914 Hello? Bethany operator. 212 00:27:45,998 --> 00:27:47,791 Hello? 213 00:27:48,625 --> 00:27:52,796 - I'm sorry. There's no one answering. - Thank you. It's all right. 214 00:28:43,513 --> 00:28:45,307 Dear Mark. 215 00:28:45,390 --> 00:28:50,354 I'm going on a long holiday and don't want to see you again until I get my head straight. 216 00:28:50,437 --> 00:28:52,940 I know 1 still need you. But I know also... 217 00:28:53,023 --> 00:28:56,318 ...that I can never be the wife you want, 218 00:28:58,862 --> 00:29:00,864 Go on, give me a kiss! 219 00:29:02,324 --> 00:29:03,951 Stop. 220 00:29:13,335 --> 00:29:17,005 Hello. This is the Bethany operator calling South Africa from Namibia. 221 00:29:17,089 --> 00:29:19,508 Will you accept the charges? 222 00:29:23,095 --> 00:29:27,266 Hello? Bethany operator. Hello? 223 00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:33,146 - I'm sorry. There's no one answering. - Thank you. It's all right. 224 00:30:52,768 --> 00:30:57,773 That night, Ben Mukurob had a familiar dream. 225 00:30:57,856 --> 00:31:03,236 A dream of a lost wife, gone 15 years... 226 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:07,616 ...and a dead son, dead because of him. 227 00:31:07,699 --> 00:31:10,577 In a forgotten white men's war. 228 00:31:13,038 --> 00:31:15,457 Sorry, it's been a power cut. 229 00:31:15,540 --> 00:31:18,710 - It's all right. - This is embarrassing for everyone. 230 00:31:18,794 --> 00:31:22,506 - We were trying to find you all day. - I'm, sorry. 231 00:31:43,402 --> 00:31:48,532 I's because of you it's come to this. You and your stupid pride. 232 00:32:04,881 --> 00:32:09,302 If you take this rock, you can put it right. 233 00:34:47,085 --> 00:34:48,545 Hello? 234 00:34:50,380 --> 00:34:52,799 Hello? Is anyone there? 235 00:34:57,512 --> 00:34:59,806 Hello? Anyone awake? 236 00:34:59,889 --> 00:35:01,141 Hello? 237 00:35:03,476 --> 00:35:05,478 - God... - Are you the driver? 238 00:35:05,562 --> 00:35:07,606 Do you drive? 239 00:35:07,689 --> 00:35:10,150 No... No... I don't drive. 240 00:35:10,233 --> 00:35:13,903 Uh, not this. My car is over there. 241 00:35:13,987 --> 00:35:17,657 I think I'm stuck in the sand. Could you help? 242 00:36:31,523 --> 00:36:33,775 Where you heading for? 243 00:36:35,151 --> 00:36:37,404 - Nowhere. - I just came from there. 244 00:36:37,487 --> 00:36:41,908 Anyplace else I'm good for, climb aboard. 245 00:36:55,463 --> 00:36:57,590 I saw you at the roadhouse yesterday. 246 00:36:57,674 --> 00:37:01,386 Figured we were on the same road. 1 could see you needed a ride. 247 00:37:01,469 --> 00:37:04,681 - The name's Wendy. - Pleased to meet you. 248 00:37:06,808 --> 00:37:08,893 Are you a serviceman? 249 00:37:08,977 --> 00:37:10,979 I'm a tourist. 250 00:37:11,062 --> 00:37:14,399 Are you from the states? Texas, maybe? 251 00:37:16,025 --> 00:37:19,654 I travel a lot. Grew up on the road. 252 00:37:19,738 --> 00:37:22,073 It's the only place I feel at home. 253 00:37:26,161 --> 00:37:28,163 Where was it you were heading to? 254 00:37:29,164 --> 00:37:34,544 - Why? How far are you going? - Straight through all the way to the sea. 255 00:37:35,503 --> 00:37:38,256 You're not running from something, are you? 256 00:37:38,339 --> 00:37:40,049 What do you mean? 257 00:37:40,133 --> 00:37:42,260 I don't know. 258 00:37:42,343 --> 00:37:46,139 You just look like you might be running from something. That's all. 259 00:37:46,222 --> 00:37:50,226 Like maybe you committed a murder, and the police were after you. 260 00:37:52,061 --> 00:37:54,731 No. I wish... 261 00:37:55,356 --> 00:37:57,442 You wanna talk about it? 262 00:37:58,067 --> 00:37:59,569 No. 263 00:38:01,946 --> 00:38:04,032 That's okay. 264 00:38:04,115 --> 00:38:06,701 We've got nothing but time. 265 00:38:22,634 --> 00:38:26,346 Hey, Johann... Go call Ben on the radio. 266 00:38:27,096 --> 00:38:30,016 Tell him we found something here, man. 267 00:38:43,905 --> 00:38:47,200 I remember the day Ben Mukurob came to call on me. 268 00:38:47,283 --> 00:38:51,704 I was still working as the projectionist at the Star of Bethany drive-in. 269 00:38:51,788 --> 00:38:54,624 We were showing The Bird with the Crystal Plumage... 270 00:38:54,707 --> 00:38:58,586 ...and Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires that night. 271 00:38:58,670 --> 00:39:02,590 It was a good double. I remember it well, 272 00:39:22,569 --> 00:39:24,445 Hi, Joe. 273 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:29,284 Remember me? 274 00:39:30,785 --> 00:39:34,914 Used to come way back. And the Empire was still running. 275 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,420 - That was a good cinema. - It's all sanded in now. 276 00:39:40,503 --> 00:39:44,591 Got jackals coming in the auditorium and all sorts. 277 00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:47,886 Not just jackals, huh? 278 00:39:48,803 --> 00:39:51,681 Wasn't a jackal took my job away. 279 00:39:57,645 --> 00:40:00,023 I've been talking to him, Ben. 280 00:40:01,858 --> 00:40:07,071 He said, it's gonna end the world real quick now. 281 00:40:07,155 --> 00:40:10,783 The Earth gonna dry up, crack. 282 00:40:10,867 --> 00:40:13,328 I don't wanna hear that, Joe. 283 00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:16,080 I want to know who did this. 284 00:40:33,431 --> 00:40:36,809 - I see the problem. - One last night. 285 00:40:36,893 --> 00:40:39,270 One the night before. 286 00:40:39,354 --> 00:40:42,190 - You know anything about it? - This... 287 00:40:44,150 --> 00:40:48,863 I would say, this is a clue for Officer Mukurob. 288 00:40:51,324 --> 00:40:54,661 It's a shame he doesn't believe in this bullshit, huh? 289 00:40:54,744 --> 00:40:57,830 Doesn't matter whether I believe in it. 290 00:40:57,914 --> 00:41:01,709 - I need to know what it means. - My, friend, this stuff... 291 00:41:01,793 --> 00:41:04,545 To know it, you have to believe it. 292 00:41:05,296 --> 00:41:07,465 Gonna be difficult for a man in your position... 293 00:41:07,548 --> 00:41:09,801 ...Who's taken the choices you have... 294 00:41:09,884 --> 00:41:13,179 ...To understand this... num. 295 00:41:13,262 --> 00:41:15,181 What's this num? 296 00:41:17,141 --> 00:41:20,228 My friend, let me tell you, the num... 297 00:41:21,020 --> 00:41:25,525 ...is a power... when people sing... 298 00:41:25,608 --> 00:41:28,319 ...when man dances... 299 00:41:28,403 --> 00:41:30,613 That is the way of this num. 300 00:41:30,697 --> 00:41:33,866 He took her fingers. Why did he do that? 301 00:41:37,328 --> 00:41:41,165 There's a whole lot of power in fingers. 302 00:41:41,249 --> 00:41:44,043 Knots and knuckles and such. 303 00:41:44,127 --> 00:41:47,005 If you want to win a war... 304 00:41:47,088 --> 00:41:50,299 ...you need a fistful of knuckles. 305 00:41:51,551 --> 00:41:52,969 You... 306 00:41:53,678 --> 00:41:55,304 ...you smoke too much. 307 00:41:58,474 --> 00:42:01,644 Maybe you should help me lay some rocks. 308 00:42:01,728 --> 00:42:05,565 It might be easier for you to understand. 309 00:42:05,648 --> 00:42:08,109 You gotta keep your eyes wide open... 310 00:42:08,192 --> 00:42:10,403 ...when you deal with magic. 311 00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:12,488 Yeah, Joe. 312 00:42:12,572 --> 00:42:13,948 There's... 313 00:42:14,490 --> 00:42:18,369 - ...magic all around us. - Yeah, you bet. 314 00:42:19,954 --> 00:42:22,373 All around you, friend. 315 00:42:58,618 --> 00:43:01,204 You must believe in something. 316 00:43:01,287 --> 00:43:04,916 God. The devil... 317 00:43:04,999 --> 00:43:08,544 - The soul, at least. - Don't be silly. 318 00:43:08,628 --> 00:43:14,467 I don't believe in that any more than 1 believe in magic or Peter Pan. 319 00:43:14,550 --> 00:43:17,804 Surely you'd have to admit some superior force guides your hand. 320 00:43:17,887 --> 00:43:20,473 Fuck superior forces. 321 00:43:21,516 --> 00:43:24,310 When you're dead, you're dead. That's it. 322 00:43:30,316 --> 00:43:34,237 Keep your eye on the road. You don't want to fall asleep. 323 00:43:36,614 --> 00:43:39,450 - Hey, that looks... - Don't stop. Drive on. 324 00:43:39,534 --> 00:43:41,911 What the hell was that? 325 00:43:43,579 --> 00:43:45,123 Oh, God... 326 00:43:47,750 --> 00:43:49,502 Jesus Christ... 327 00:43:58,386 --> 00:44:00,221 Hey, Texas! 328 00:44:05,017 --> 00:44:06,602 Texas! 329 00:44:25,788 --> 00:44:27,915 What are you doing? 330 00:44:32,420 --> 00:44:33,713 Fuck it, man! 331 00:44:34,881 --> 00:44:37,967 - What'd you do that for? - For Christ's sake, what have you done? 332 00:44:38,050 --> 00:44:40,094 Nothing worse than what the boys did to Saartjie Haarhoff... 333 00:44:40,178 --> 00:44:43,806 ...and the others the other day. Nothing worse than what he would do to us... 334 00:44:43,890 --> 00:44:47,059 - ...if he had half the chance. - Us? What do you mean us? 335 00:44:47,143 --> 00:44:50,062 I'm not one of you! He would've talked to me! 336 00:44:50,146 --> 00:44:53,858 So we got heavy with him. So what? 337 00:44:53,941 --> 00:44:56,986 At least we've got something to go on now. 338 00:45:00,072 --> 00:45:01,824 She's a white girl... 339 00:45:01,908 --> 00:45:04,535 ...in her late 20s or early 30s. 340 00:45:04,619 --> 00:45:07,413 She was right there at the scene of the crime. 341 00:45:08,039 --> 00:45:11,375 He says he helped her push-start her car. 342 00:45:11,459 --> 00:45:14,128 A red Volksy with city plates. 343 00:45:14,212 --> 00:45:17,256 - Should be piss-easy to pull in, man. - That's a break, man. 344 00:45:17,340 --> 00:45:20,593 The first real break we've had. 345 00:45:21,636 --> 00:45:23,512 Release this man. 346 00:45:25,473 --> 00:45:29,352 - He's a material witness. - 1 don't care! Release him! 347 00:45:29,435 --> 00:45:31,395 Let him go, Constable. 348 00:45:31,479 --> 00:45:34,815 Sergeant Mukurob is still your superior. 349 00:45:36,067 --> 00:45:37,693 Yes, sir. 350 00:45:38,945 --> 00:45:44,200 1 want you and Woodys in my office tomorrow morning with a full report. 351 00:45:44,283 --> 00:45:48,162 What you have done here, has cost us this man's testimony! 352 00:45:48,246 --> 00:45:50,373 Do you understand that? 353 00:45:51,165 --> 00:45:52,792 Yes, sir. 354 00:45:54,710 --> 00:45:56,963 Ben, I want a word. 355 00:45:58,714 --> 00:46:01,175 Come one, I'll buy you a drink. 356 00:46:08,724 --> 00:46:11,269 You must watch that. You could get an infection. 357 00:46:11,352 --> 00:46:13,437 Lose a finger or something. 358 00:46:13,521 --> 00:46:17,066 You know some whales make for life, Kornelius? 359 00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:19,777 Oh, yeah, yeah... I've never heard that, Ben. 360 00:46:19,860 --> 00:46:23,447 Yeah? I heard sharks never sleep. 361 00:46:23,531 --> 00:46:27,535 - They stop moving, the suffocate. - No, that's not true. 362 00:46:27,618 --> 00:46:29,620 They just sleep in strong currents. 363 00:46:29,704 --> 00:46:33,165 And that way, the water flows down their gills and they keep breathing. 364 00:46:33,249 --> 00:46:34,917 There are photographs of this. 365 00:46:35,001 --> 00:46:38,462 Yeah, you always like the sea, didn't you, Ben? 366 00:46:38,546 --> 00:46:41,507 What's that crazy tape you're always listening to? 367 00:46:41,590 --> 00:46:44,260 - The whale song. - Whale crap. 368 00:46:44,343 --> 00:46:47,179 Katie left it by mistake. 369 00:46:47,263 --> 00:46:50,850 Now, 1 don't know anything about the sea. 370 00:46:50,933 --> 00:46:54,812 I grew up in the desert. Katie was the one who liked the sea. 371 00:46:54,895 --> 00:46:57,648 Yeah, that's for sure. Hey! 372 00:46:57,732 --> 00:46:59,692 Where are you taking my favorite football table? 373 00:46:59,775 --> 00:47:02,111 To the beer hall across the street. 374 00:47:02,194 --> 00:47:06,073 Hey, don't tell the old lady about it. She'll get mad. 375 00:47:07,491 --> 00:47:11,037 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, requisitioned by the state. 376 00:47:11,746 --> 00:47:15,708 Ben, I've got to tell you... 377 00:47:17,793 --> 00:47:20,463 ...I have to take you off the case. 378 00:47:21,756 --> 00:47:23,341 I don't understand. 379 00:47:23,424 --> 00:47:27,595 1 have to handle the whole body business over to the UN. 380 00:47:27,678 --> 00:47:30,806 And they'll probably let the bastard go on amnesty. 381 00:47:30,890 --> 00:47:34,602 I'm close to him, Kornelius. You can't just take me off like that. 382 00:47:34,685 --> 00:47:36,437 I just need facts. 383 00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:40,816 Anything we got on any similar cases from up-country or across the border. 384 00:47:40,900 --> 00:47:45,321 I mean, he's done it someplace. He's experienced. 385 00:47:45,404 --> 00:47:47,823 I can put in a request to Pretoria... 386 00:47:47,907 --> 00:47:50,034 ...and get you anything we have on file here. 387 00:47:50,117 --> 00:47:53,287 But after that, you're on our own, man. 388 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,540 It's over for me here. 389 00:47:56,624 --> 00:47:59,585 This town's finished with me. 390 00:47:59,668 --> 00:48:01,712 Yeah, I heard. 391 00:48:01,796 --> 00:48:05,466 They offered me two year's pay. What could 1 do? 392 00:48:05,549 --> 00:48:07,176 You did the right thing. 393 00:48:07,259 --> 00:48:10,763 You've got Pam and the kids to worry about. 394 00:48:12,223 --> 00:48:14,433 What about you, Ben? 395 00:48:14,517 --> 00:48:17,103 What's keeping you here? 396 00:48:17,186 --> 00:48:21,232 What will I do? Maybe I'll go away. 397 00:48:24,276 --> 00:48:26,237 Where would you go? 398 00:48:28,197 --> 00:48:30,783 Where everyone else is going. 399 00:51:19,660 --> 00:51:21,704 The Namibian tourist board announced today... 400 00:51:21,787 --> 00:51:25,874 ...that the Finger of God has fallen. The landmark rock formation... 401 00:51:25,958 --> 00:51:28,294 ...one of the area's largest tourist attractions... 402 00:51:28,377 --> 00:51:31,171 ...collapsed last night during a high wind. 403 00:51:31,255 --> 00:51:34,925 Dated by geologists as being at least four million years old... 404 00:51:35,009 --> 00:51:37,970 ...the formation was given its name by bushmen hunters... 405 00:51:38,053 --> 00:51:42,808 ...who felt it resembled a massive finger pointing towards the earth. 406 00:51:42,891 --> 00:51:44,518 Meanwhile... 407 00:51:46,186 --> 00:51:48,731 I'm sorry. I didn't mean to frighten you. 408 00:51:48,814 --> 00:51:50,983 Who the hell are you? 409 00:51:51,066 --> 00:51:54,069 And how did you get into my car? 410 00:51:55,279 --> 00:51:58,449 How did you get out of it last night? 411 00:51:58,532 --> 00:52:00,826 You fell asleep. 412 00:52:03,537 --> 00:52:06,123 I thought 1 was going crazy. I. 413 00:52:06,206 --> 00:52:08,751 We should be going. 414 00:52:08,834 --> 00:52:11,503 You're still going to the sea, aren't you? 415 00:52:11,587 --> 00:52:15,966 What makes you so sure I still want to give you a ride? 416 00:52:16,050 --> 00:52:18,218 Well, it's your call. 417 00:52:20,846 --> 00:52:24,350 I won't hold it against you if you tell me to take a hike. 418 00:53:21,407 --> 00:53:23,575 Put the top on. Give it a twist. 419 00:53:23,659 --> 00:53:25,953 Kornelius, your man is here. 420 00:53:26,912 --> 00:53:29,540 Ben... At last. 421 00:53:29,623 --> 00:53:32,876 Glad you made it. I'd almost given up on you. 422 00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,504 I was at a funeral. 423 00:53:36,130 --> 00:53:38,507 Come on. We'd better go in the house. 424 00:53:38,590 --> 00:53:43,721 - Kornelius, you said you were ready. - Wait in the car. I'll just be a moment. 425 00:53:49,935 --> 00:53:54,398 - I brought everything 1 could find. - I didn't expect this many. 426 00:53:54,481 --> 00:53:57,526 Yeah. Here, Ben, look at the date. 427 00:53:58,318 --> 00:54:00,904 Christ, this is from 1952. 428 00:54:00,988 --> 00:54:05,826 They go all the way back to the war. 1 even found one from 1908. 429 00:54:05,909 --> 00:54:09,455 Some hooker got herself stabbed in Klein Karib Station. 430 00:54:09,538 --> 00:54:11,874 They found a pocket watch up her puss. 431 00:54:11,957 --> 00:54:15,669 That couldn't have been him, my man. That was before he was born. 432 00:54:15,753 --> 00:54:19,173 Do you ever ask yourself how many murderers... 433 00:54:19,256 --> 00:54:23,719 ...are struck by lightning every year, die in car accidents... 434 00:54:23,802 --> 00:54:27,890 ...or other acts of God? A great many, probably. 435 00:54:27,973 --> 00:54:29,683 - It would make an interesting statistic. - Kornelius! 436 00:54:29,767 --> 00:54:31,977 Don't you think? Good God! 437 00:54:32,060 --> 00:54:33,145 Hurry up! 438 00:54:34,646 --> 00:54:36,774 I'd better not keep her waiting. 439 00:54:36,857 --> 00:54:39,443 No, I suppose not. 440 00:54:39,526 --> 00:54:42,988 - This is all 1 can do. - Come on, kids. 441 00:54:43,071 --> 00:54:46,658 You have to look after yourself now, Ben. 442 00:54:46,742 --> 00:54:50,245 I saw Mr. Haarhoff's eyes at the funeral. 443 00:54:50,329 --> 00:54:53,415 He didn't love her. Nobody loved her. 444 00:54:53,499 --> 00:54:56,126 Nobody cared about her. 445 00:54:56,710 --> 00:54:58,378 Yeah, Ben. 446 00:55:00,047 --> 00:55:02,674 Remember to lock up. 447 00:55:06,762 --> 00:55:10,641 We're driving in circles. I'm sure of it. 448 00:55:23,028 --> 00:55:24,404 You've done it. 449 00:55:24,488 --> 00:55:27,324 Made it all the way to the edge of the world. 450 00:55:33,831 --> 00:55:37,668 Oh, my God! This is amazing. 451 00:55:49,805 --> 00:55:54,726 This is the home of the great snake father, Kouteign Kouroo. 452 00:55:55,769 --> 00:55:58,981 In the dawn of things, he made this place from the lashing of his coils. 453 00:55:59,064 --> 00:56:00,566 Don't talk. 454 00:56:00,649 --> 00:56:02,609 Don't spoil it. 455 00:56:05,279 --> 00:56:07,364 But you don't understand... 456 00:56:55,829 --> 00:56:57,706 - Morning, sir. - Good morning, sir. 457 00:56:57,789 --> 00:57:00,626 It's just a routine roadblock. Do you have any identification for us? 458 00:57:00,709 --> 00:57:05,714 Yes, 1 have it here. Let me give it to you. 459 00:57:05,797 --> 00:57:08,133 It looks in order. Do you have any firearms? 460 00:57:08,216 --> 00:57:09,551 Yeah. 461 00:57:12,095 --> 00:57:15,182 - Must I give you the license too? - Yes, please. 462 00:57:17,059 --> 00:57:21,313 I've been driving all night, from Johannesburg. 463 00:57:21,980 --> 00:57:23,857 - Where are you heading for? - Bethany. 464 00:57:23,941 --> 00:57:26,360 Bethany? What are you going to do there? 465 00:57:26,443 --> 00:57:28,320 - Visit my in-laws. - In-laws? 466 00:57:28,403 --> 00:57:30,572 Okay. Drive safely, sir. 467 00:57:30,656 --> 00:57:33,325 - Thank you. Can I drive straight through? - Yes, you can. 468 00:57:33,408 --> 00:57:36,578 - Okay, goodbye. - Have a nice day. 469 00:58:45,522 --> 00:58:47,232 What's that? 470 00:58:56,074 --> 00:58:59,411 Probably just some bored soldier messing around. 471 00:59:32,027 --> 00:59:33,904 Care to dance? 472 01:00:45,183 --> 01:00:47,769 She's been waiting for you, Sir. 473 01:00:48,854 --> 01:00:52,274 I'm afraid, you'll have to explain to her. 474 01:01:07,998 --> 01:01:09,624 Saartjie... 475 01:01:12,878 --> 01:01:15,005 I'm so sorry. 476 01:01:15,088 --> 01:01:17,757 I'm doing everything I can. 477 01:01:48,914 --> 01:01:51,666 I... I was dreaming.l. 478 01:01:53,251 --> 01:01:55,337 That was no dream. 479 01:02:14,898 --> 01:02:17,692 You're in a lot of trouble, pal. 480 01:02:19,069 --> 01:02:21,363 You're going to have to come with me. 481 01:02:21,446 --> 01:02:23,448 Am I... 482 01:02:23,990 --> 01:02:29,496 - ...awake? - No, no, my friend. Now you're dreaming. 483 01:02:57,148 --> 01:02:59,234 Hello. Excuse me. 1 wonder if you can help me. 484 01:02:59,317 --> 01:03:02,070 - I'm looking for someone. - Sorry? 485 01:03:02,153 --> 01:03:03,947 A white lady. 486 01:03:04,030 --> 01:03:08,201 Her name's Wendy. Wendy Robinson. I've got a photograph. 487 01:03:09,828 --> 01:03:12,247 Sorry. 1 didn't know her. 488 01:03:13,832 --> 01:03:16,293 She came in here about two days ago and used the telephone. 489 01:03:16,376 --> 01:03:19,129 She was in here. Just pass it around. 490 01:03:19,212 --> 01:03:22,340 - You must've come through the wrong door. - I beg your pardon? 491 01:03:22,424 --> 01:03:25,468 You must go to the other side. The white bar. 492 01:03:25,552 --> 01:03:29,848 Just because she's white doesn't mean you couldn't see her. 493 01:03:29,931 --> 01:03:32,559 No one here has seen such a person. 494 01:03:32,642 --> 01:03:35,812 Please, man. I'm looking for my wife. 495 01:03:41,192 --> 01:03:44,988 Hey, you. Hey, you recognize her, don't you? 496 01:03:45,071 --> 01:03:48,408 No one has seen anything here. There's nothing for you here. 497 01:03:48,491 --> 01:03:51,286 Listen. Stop playing bloody games with me, okay? 498 01:03:51,369 --> 01:03:54,122 That's the same pinball machine I heard when she called me! 499 01:03:54,205 --> 01:03:56,708 - Who are you? - My name is Mark Robinson. 500 01:03:56,791 --> 01:03:59,627 I'm her husband. We're married! 501 01:03:59,711 --> 01:04:02,630 - You're a policeman, 1 think. - What? 502 01:04:02,714 --> 01:04:04,924 Look, man, I run a sports shop, okay? 503 01:04:05,008 --> 01:04:07,260 What for you wearing a uniform? 504 01:04:07,344 --> 01:04:10,138 I was in the army, man! Compulsory military training! 505 01:04:10,221 --> 01:04:12,640 - South Africa! - Give me back my passport. 506 01:04:12,724 --> 01:04:15,852 - Do you believe in God, South Africa? - Of course 1 dot! 507 01:04:15,935 --> 01:04:18,688 Then I hope God can help you! 508 01:04:19,773 --> 01:04:21,107 Fuck! Get the fuck... 509 01:04:21,191 --> 01:04:23,568 You're no one's husband now, South Africa. 510 01:04:37,123 --> 01:04:38,625 I want my wife back. 511 01:05:33,263 --> 01:05:35,765 But you don't understand. 512 01:05:37,142 --> 01:05:40,311 What happened? What did they do to you? 513 01:05:44,190 --> 01:05:46,192 Don't let go. 514 01:05:51,448 --> 01:05:56,411 Sometimes it's like this wind... 515 01:05:56,494 --> 01:05:58,872 ...is inside my head. 516 01:06:01,332 --> 01:06:06,004 Like my skull just could blow apart to let it out. 517 01:06:08,756 --> 01:06:12,886 I'd give my life for a quiet corner of the Earth. 518 01:06:13,761 --> 01:06:15,847 But this wind... 519 01:06:16,681 --> 01:06:20,935 It keeps blowing me on... and on. 520 01:06:24,731 --> 01:06:29,444 To the edge of eternity... and beyond. 521 01:06:33,948 --> 01:06:36,534 It's silent out there, Wendy. 522 01:06:39,496 --> 01:06:41,372 And bright... 523 01:06:42,457 --> 01:06:44,167 So birght. 524 01:06:48,796 --> 01:06:50,757 It's okay. 525 01:06:54,511 --> 01:06:57,055 But you don't know who I am. 526 01:07:02,852 --> 01:07:06,231 This is the work of a 'nachtloper'. 527 01:07:06,981 --> 01:07:09,067 Black magician. 528 01:07:09,734 --> 01:07:11,778 A shape shifter. 529 01:07:11,861 --> 01:07:19,077 He seeks power over the material world through the ritual of murder. 530 01:07:29,462 --> 01:07:32,215 The power of vision. 531 01:07:32,298 --> 01:07:34,759 Of ecstasy. 532 01:07:34,842 --> 01:07:40,848 The power to shield himself from detection and death... 533 01:07:41,891 --> 01:07:47,272 ...to travel, to transform. 534 01:07:47,355 --> 01:07:51,943 He feed's off our light. He preys upon the damned. 535 01:07:56,155 --> 01:07:58,533 Cuff him, Botes. Cuff him! 536 01:08:01,327 --> 01:08:05,498 One wrong move and I'll skin your fat, white neck. 537 01:08:05,582 --> 01:08:12,589 The weak, the faithless, he draws them to him. 538 01:08:12,672 --> 01:08:14,924 And he sucks them... 539 01:08:15,633 --> 01:08:17,760 ...dry. 540 01:08:38,573 --> 01:08:41,242 You've been watching too many drive-in movies. 541 01:08:41,326 --> 01:08:46,414 My friend, you... you got to stop thinking like a white man... 542 01:08:46,497 --> 01:08:48,833 Start thinking like a man instead. 543 01:08:48,916 --> 01:08:51,127 Otherwise, you're going to be in big trouble with this. 544 01:08:51,210 --> 01:08:55,256 He's flesh and blood like us. He must be. 545 01:08:55,340 --> 01:08:59,969 You can't hunt a 'nachtloper' like an ordinary criminal. 546 01:09:00,053 --> 01:09:02,555 He's of the spirit. 547 01:09:02,639 --> 01:09:06,976 We were put here just for his use. We're nothing to him. 548 01:09:07,060 --> 01:09:09,729 We're dust in the wind. 549 01:09:09,812 --> 01:09:15,777 His world is older than ours. He has been here since the first times. 550 01:09:15,860 --> 01:09:21,699 He and his kin, walking in our shadows. 551 01:09:22,825 --> 01:09:27,830 Leeches, growing fat on the world's pain. 552 01:09:36,589 --> 01:09:39,967 He smelled Bethany dying. 553 01:09:40,051 --> 01:09:43,721 And he came for souls to build his power... 554 01:09:43,805 --> 01:09:47,350 ...and return to he realm of the spirit. 555 01:09:47,934 --> 01:09:52,230 Until this ritual is completed, he is trapped... 556 01:09:52,772 --> 01:09:59,112 ...like us in the material world, bound by the flesh. 557 01:10:05,493 --> 01:10:08,329 He must work through human form... 558 01:10:08,413 --> 01:10:10,832 ...while he's in this world. 559 01:10:12,083 --> 01:10:15,211 So he's vulnerable to human failings. 560 01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:17,880 Only through ritual... 561 01:10:18,589 --> 01:10:21,968 ...through gaining power over the flesh... 562 01:10:23,761 --> 01:10:27,098 ...can spirit awake to fuller consciousness. 563 01:10:28,474 --> 01:10:33,396 To work the ritual, he must keep moving. 564 01:10:34,105 --> 01:10:35,898 Moving. 565 01:10:37,608 --> 01:10:40,111 But if he can be tricked... 566 01:10:41,070 --> 01:10:43,489 ...to step across this kierie... 567 01:10:45,116 --> 01:10:49,495 ...he can be rooted to the spot and stripped of his power. 568 01:10:49,579 --> 01:10:52,707 - I don't know about this, Joe. - You... 569 01:10:53,458 --> 01:10:56,627 You must bind him with the stick. 570 01:10:56,711 --> 01:10:59,464 Strike a blow. It's the only way. 571 01:10:59,547 --> 01:11:01,674 Bind him with the stick... 572 01:11:03,134 --> 01:11:06,637 ...and burn the root. Drive away his shadow. 573 01:11:06,721 --> 01:11:11,225 Otherwise, he may take you, his murderer to be his new host. 574 01:11:12,226 --> 01:11:14,687 Look at the little hunter 'mannetjie'... 575 01:11:14,771 --> 01:11:20,651 ...how patiently he sits and waits for his prey to step across the kierie. 576 01:11:21,819 --> 01:11:25,490 So patient, so 'slim'. 577 01:11:28,242 --> 01:11:30,203 Take it. 578 01:11:31,704 --> 01:11:33,581 Take the stick. 579 01:11:43,925 --> 01:11:47,220 You must go now, Ben Mukurob. 580 01:11:47,303 --> 01:11:49,680 But go careful. 581 01:11:56,896 --> 01:12:01,067 Death hunts you just as you hunt... 582 01:12:01,150 --> 01:12:03,319 ...the dust devil. 583 01:13:26,861 --> 01:13:29,113 Don't touch that! 584 01:13:30,281 --> 01:13:31,782 Why? 585 01:13:32,325 --> 01:13:34,368 Why, for god's sake? 586 01:13:34,452 --> 01:13:38,122 I swear to God, Wendy, I never had any choice. 587 01:13:38,205 --> 01:13:41,709 They wanted to die. I just put them out of their misery. 588 01:13:41,792 --> 01:13:45,171 Jesus, you're out of your fucking mind. Don't you see that? 589 01:13:45,254 --> 01:13:49,675 No. You're the one who doesn't understand. 590 01:13:53,554 --> 01:13:55,932 It was their choice. 591 01:13:56,724 --> 01:13:58,267 They came to me. 592 01:14:00,436 --> 01:14:03,731 I can tell when someone's time is up. 593 01:14:03,814 --> 01:14:05,983 Who the hell are you? 594 01:14:06,067 --> 01:14:08,569 You know who I am. 595 01:14:09,862 --> 01:14:12,406 God, you're not from Texas. 596 01:14:15,368 --> 01:14:18,621 I'm from the other side of the mirror. 597 01:14:18,704 --> 01:14:20,748 I come from you. 598 01:14:23,542 --> 01:14:27,088 - Why? Why? Why? - Because you need help. 599 01:14:28,255 --> 01:14:30,424 Anybody can see that. 600 01:14:31,717 --> 01:14:34,053 You're right on the edge... 601 01:14:35,596 --> 01:14:37,890 ...like the desert sky... 602 01:14:38,891 --> 01:14:42,395 ...at night, just after sunset... 603 01:14:43,187 --> 01:14:46,440 ...or maybe just before the dawn. 604 01:14:47,566 --> 01:14:50,361 You have a choice to make. 605 01:14:50,444 --> 01:14:53,030 Day or night? 606 01:15:02,957 --> 01:15:05,710 You have a spark of light inside of you. 607 01:15:05,793 --> 01:15:08,546 I'm just a midwife. 608 01:15:09,296 --> 01:15:12,883 All I have to do, is make a small incision... 609 01:15:14,051 --> 01:15:16,178 ...and let it out. 610 01:15:18,723 --> 01:15:22,059 Relax. It's all right now. 611 01:15:22,143 --> 01:15:23,853 Everything's all right. 612 01:15:23,936 --> 01:15:25,980 I'm right here. 613 01:15:26,856 --> 01:15:30,401 I should've done this days ago, but I get lonely sometimes. 614 01:15:30,484 --> 01:15:34,030 Forgive me. I won't keep you waiting any longer. 615 01:15:35,573 --> 01:15:37,992 There's no good or evil. 616 01:15:39,493 --> 01:15:42,329 Only spirit and matter. 617 01:15:43,748 --> 01:15:46,375 Only movement toward the light... 618 01:15:47,585 --> 01:15:49,754 ...and away from it. 619 01:15:56,427 --> 01:15:59,930 It's all light. All there. 620 01:16:36,175 --> 01:16:37,718 No... please... 621 01:16:48,020 --> 01:16:51,273 You picked the wrong girl, you son of a bitch! 622 01:17:43,242 --> 01:17:46,954 Every time we go that way, we get lost. 623 01:18:11,604 --> 01:18:14,481 I'm dying, you bloody fool! 624 01:18:51,518 --> 01:18:54,355 Andre, quick, come away. 625 01:19:06,283 --> 01:19:08,577 Run, children! Run! 626 01:20:15,227 --> 01:20:16,854 Is this your wife? 627 01:21:45,526 --> 01:21:47,361 It's for you. 628 01:22:06,171 --> 01:22:09,633 You are a good man, and I don't want to hurt you. 629 01:22:09,716 --> 01:22:12,010 Nor do I want to see you hurt yourself... 630 01:22:12,094 --> 01:22:15,013 ...but I must leave you and South Africa for good. 631 01:22:17,474 --> 01:22:20,144 Don't blame yourself, and don't look for me... 632 01:22:20,227 --> 01:22:22,688 ...or try to follow me. 633 01:22:23,188 --> 01:22:27,818 You must be strong now and try to be kind to yourself. 634 01:22:29,153 --> 01:22:31,280 Love Wendy. 635 01:23:41,642 --> 01:23:45,229 I met Wendy at a protest when we were both still at varsity. 636 01:23:45,312 --> 01:23:46,813 It was back in 1978... 637 01:23:46,897 --> 01:23:49,024 ...when South Africa was stirring up all the frontline states... 638 01:23:49,107 --> 01:23:52,736 ...and causing all kinds of grief up there. You know what it was like. 639 01:23:52,819 --> 01:23:55,113 We both caught a dose of tear gas. 640 01:23:55,197 --> 01:23:57,658 Afterwards, 1 gave her a ride home on my bike. 641 01:23:57,741 --> 01:23:59,451 And that was it. 642 01:23:59,993 --> 01:24:02,621 She had a look in her eyes that day, you know, defiant... 643 01:24:02,704 --> 01:24:07,459 ...like a wild horse staring into the barrel of the future without blinking. 644 01:24:08,335 --> 01:24:10,546 The same way she looked when she walked out on me. 645 01:24:10,629 --> 01:24:14,800 Her tracks lead straight on to open desert. 646 01:24:14,883 --> 01:24:16,843 Vulture City. 647 01:24:16,927 --> 01:24:19,179 I wouldn't rate anyone's chances in it on foot. 648 01:24:19,263 --> 01:24:21,515 Well, can't you call in air support or something? 649 01:24:21,598 --> 01:24:24,851 I mean, get a couple of helicopters to comb the area. 650 01:24:25,686 --> 01:24:30,440 - No choppers. Not here. - Listen, we're not going to find her like this. 651 01:24:30,524 --> 01:24:34,194 At least get on the radio call some extra cops to help us. 652 01:24:34,278 --> 01:24:36,613 What kind of fucked-up third world country is this anyway? 653 01:24:36,697 --> 01:24:39,616 There are no more police, just you and me... 654 01:24:39,700 --> 01:24:43,537 ...No countries, just this. Just the hunting ground. 655 01:24:43,620 --> 01:24:46,331 Do you think 1 fucking care what happens to you and your wife? 656 01:24:46,415 --> 01:24:48,584 That's fucking open desert out there! 657 01:24:48,667 --> 01:24:51,753 Listen, Rambo, if it was your wife out there, you'd feel exactly the same. 658 01:24:51,837 --> 01:24:55,507 My wife left me 15 years ago when our son got killed on the border. 659 01:24:55,591 --> 01:24:57,884 So don't tell me this shit! You talk about grief? 660 01:24:57,968 --> 01:24:59,886 What do you know about grief? Let's get out of here! 661 01:24:59,970 --> 01:25:01,680 Well, at least I still stand a chance with mine. 662 01:25:01,763 --> 01:25:04,308 Let's get the fuck out of here! 663 01:27:19,693 --> 01:27:21,778 Keep the windows closed! 664 01:27:21,862 --> 01:27:24,656 I can't bloody well breathe in here, man! 665 01:27:25,574 --> 01:27:29,202 - What are you burning this thing for? - To keep it out. 666 01:27:32,164 --> 01:27:33,790 No! 667 01:28:21,129 --> 01:28:23,715 - What the fuck is going on? - Get out of the way! 668 01:28:23,799 --> 01:28:25,258 God! 669 01:28:28,345 --> 01:28:30,305 Stop shooting! 670 01:28:30,388 --> 01:28:32,724 There's nothing out there! 671 01:28:35,435 --> 01:28:38,313 Listen! Put down your gun! 672 01:28:38,396 --> 01:28:42,275 Or I swear to God I'll blow your fucking head off! 673 01:28:43,443 --> 01:28:45,362 I mean it! 674 01:28:47,531 --> 01:28:50,450 I took out the bullets! 675 01:28:51,827 --> 01:28:53,453 After 15 years... 676 01:28:53,537 --> 01:28:57,457 ...do you think I'd let someone like you fuck it up for me? 677 01:29:01,419 --> 01:29:02,796 Put them on! 678 01:29:06,508 --> 01:29:09,511 One on the wrist and one on the bumper! 679 01:29:10,637 --> 01:29:12,973 Don't leave me like this! 680 01:29:13,056 --> 01:29:16,351 Yeah, there you still have a chance! 681 01:29:17,143 --> 01:29:20,856 He only takes those who've got nothing! 682 01:29:23,441 --> 01:29:25,277 Come back here! 683 01:29:27,320 --> 01:29:29,322 Please, man! 684 01:29:44,671 --> 01:29:50,677 The serpent lures its prey, entranced, eyes wide open... 685 01:29:50,760 --> 01:29:56,057 ...through the mirror to the land of the dead. 686 01:29:57,684 --> 01:29:59,686 70 the house of the dust... 687 01:29:59,769 --> 01:30:04,566 ...Where the air is thick and hard to breathe. 688 01:30:10,071 --> 01:30:11,698 Wendy... 689 01:30:12,908 --> 01:30:14,659 Wendy... 690 01:30:22,459 --> 01:30:25,420 You're almost there. You're almost there. 691 01:31:32,278 --> 01:31:35,573 Oh, God... no... 692 01:31:36,408 --> 01:31:39,077 No, please, no... 693 01:32:02,434 --> 01:32:05,603 There must be somebody here! 694 01:32:25,123 --> 01:32:26,833 Wendy? 695 01:32:32,172 --> 01:32:33,923 Who are you? 696 01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:44,809 Do you hear it? 697 01:32:47,729 --> 01:32:49,981 Take this. 698 01:32:53,818 --> 01:32:56,279 Keep your eyes open. 699 01:33:26,142 --> 01:33:28,603 Stay here until I call you. 700 01:33:59,175 --> 01:34:00,218 Yeah? 701 01:34:01,136 --> 01:34:02,595 Mukurob. 702 01:34:02,679 --> 01:34:08,226 Come to me, come to me... Ben! 703 01:34:08,309 --> 01:34:14,190 Ben, come to me, come to me, Ben! 704 01:34:14,274 --> 01:34:16,442 Come to me, Ben! 705 01:34:22,031 --> 01:34:24,325 I'm not going with you. 706 01:34:24,409 --> 01:34:27,245 That's okay, wait here. 707 01:34:27,328 --> 01:34:29,789 I know what I'm doing. 708 01:34:31,624 --> 01:34:33,626 I'm a cop. 709 01:34:35,336 --> 01:34:39,382 - That won't help. - I know. 710 01:36:02,632 --> 01:36:03,883 Joe? 711 01:36:04,676 --> 01:36:06,135 Who's there? 712 01:36:08,513 --> 01:36:10,223 Who's that? 713 01:36:14,602 --> 01:36:15,979 Katie. 714 01:36:17,605 --> 01:36:22,193 Our world is just an interruption of the being. 715 01:36:22,277 --> 01:36:28,741 A projected image caught for an instant on an upraised hand. 716 01:36:59,689 --> 01:37:04,694 It's because of you it's come to this. You and your stupid pride. 717 01:38:32,657 --> 01:38:35,118 Can't fix this. 718 01:38:39,330 --> 01:38:41,499 It's on safety. 719 01:38:43,334 --> 01:38:45,837 It's the little lever next to the breech. 720 01:38:47,130 --> 01:38:50,049 Back off! Hands in the air! 721 01:38:50,550 --> 01:38:52,135 I mean it! 722 01:38:58,683 --> 01:39:03,020 - What are you going to do, shoot me? - Fuck yes! 723 01:39:07,650 --> 01:39:10,027 There's a storm coming. 724 01:39:11,028 --> 01:39:13,990 I think it's going to rain. 725 01:39:19,620 --> 01:39:21,706 Look at my hand. 726 01:39:22,373 --> 01:39:25,293 All five beams will stay with you. 727 01:39:25,376 --> 01:39:28,421 You have to trust me, Wendy. 728 01:39:35,470 --> 01:39:37,680 I thought you Were gonna shoot me. 729 01:39:51,235 --> 01:39:54,322 I love you, Wendy... 730 01:41:14,277 --> 01:41:16,320 Wendy? Wendy! 731 01:41:24,161 --> 01:41:27,248 I've come to take you home. 732 01:41:33,713 --> 01:41:35,965 Please... Please... 733 01:41:42,388 --> 01:41:44,307 Wait for me! 734 01:41:45,891 --> 01:41:47,184 Wendy! 735 01:42:00,072 --> 01:42:01,699 Wendy! 736 01:42:03,951 --> 01:42:06,662 Wendy... Wendy...! 737 01:43:50,891 --> 01:43:54,437 The desert knows her name now. 738 01:43:59,024 --> 01:44:02,486 He has stolen both her eyes. 739 01:44:04,405 --> 01:44:08,701 When she looks into a mirror, she will see his spirit... 740 01:44:08,784 --> 01:44:13,914 ...like a shawl blowing tatters around her shoulders in a haze... 741 01:44:14,915 --> 01:44:20,087 ...and beyond the dim horizon, a tapestry unfolding... 742 01:44:20,171 --> 01:44:22,840 ...Of the avenues of evil... 743 01:44:22,923 --> 01:44:26,719 ...and all of history set ablaze.