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[soft eerie music playing]

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My name is Alithea.

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My story is true.

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You're more likely
to believe me, however,

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if I tell it
as a fairy tale.

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So, once upon a time,

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when humans
hurtled across the sky
on metal wings,

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when they wore
webbed feet

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and walked
on the bottom of the sea,

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when they held
in their hands glass tiles

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that could coax
love songs from the air...

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[music playing
through headphones]

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...there was a woman,
adequately happy and alone.

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Alone by choice.

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Happy because
she was independent,

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living off the exercise
of her scholarly mind.

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Her business was story.

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She was
a narratologist

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who sought
to find the truths

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common to all the stories
of humankind.

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To this end,
once or twice a year,

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she ventured
to strange lands.

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To China,
the South Seas,

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and the timeless cities
of the Levant...

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where her kind gathered
to tell stories about stories.

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[man 1] This way.

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-[Alithea] Excuse me.
-[man 1] This way, lady.

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What are you doing?
Can you let go, please?

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The mysteries of Istanbul.

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[static buzzing]

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-[man 2] Alithea!
-[man 1 grunts]

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Alithea!

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Welcome!

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-Welcome at last! Aw.
-Gunhan!

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-[both laugh]
-My dear friend.

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-[Alithea] Oh, how wonderful!
-[Gunhan] I'm sorry.

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-This is Amina.
-Amina.

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From the British Council.

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That fellow at the airport
manhandling my luggage,

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did you see him?

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What fellow?

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He scuttled off
when you arrived.

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Small, sheepskin jacket,
pink collar.

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Interesting.

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He was hot to touch.

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Musky.

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Perhaps he was a djinn.

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An illegal taxi driver,
more likely.

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Wearing too much cologne.

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So, Professor,

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you saying
you believe in djinn?

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I believe there are those
who need to believe in them.

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Including me?

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Djinn, ghosts,

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aliens, whatever helps.

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[Gunhan laughs]

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The hotel's arranged
a lovely surprise for you.

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It's the Agatha Christie room.

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In this room,

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she wrote
Murder on the Orient Express.

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[sighs]

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[audience laughing]

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[Gunhan chuckles]

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[Gunhan] So,
how would you explain

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the power
of a thunderstorm

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if you don't have the means

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to measure and model
meteorological data?

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How can you
explain the seasons?

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Autumn through winter
to spring and summer,

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if you don't know
that the Earth

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orbits the Sun
while tilted on an axis?

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Everything was mystery.

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The seasons, tsunamis,
microbial disease...

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What else could we do
but resort to stories?

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As Dr. Binnie
has encouraged
us to understand,

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stories were once
the only way

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to make our bewildering
existence coherent.

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That's exactly right.

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We gave name
to the unknown forces

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behind all wonder
and catastrophe,

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by telling each other...

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By telling
each other stories.

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-[Gunhan] let me show you.
-[static buzzes]

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We told tales of specific,
powerful, relatable gods

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ever present in all cultures,
in all mythologies,

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from the Greeks,
to the Romans, to the Norse,

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and so on,
and so on.

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The familiar descendant
of Zeus, Poseidon, Athena,

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Thor, the whole gang,

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find expression
even today.

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[low electrical humming]

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These are
their vestiges.

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The question remains,
what is their purpose?

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[electrical humming continues]

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What do we require
of them now?

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There is mythos,
and there is science.

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[electrical humming stops]

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[Alithea softly] Oh. Sorry.

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Mythology is what
we knew back then.

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Science is what
we know so far.

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[low electrical humming
resumes]

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Sooner or later,

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our creation stories
are replaced

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by the narratives of science.

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Painstaking science.

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And all gods and monsters

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outlive their original purpose

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and are reduced
to metaphor.

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Rubbish! [roars]

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[Gunhan muffled] Alithea!

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[woman speaking indistinctly]

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[Gunhan] Alithea.

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[woman] What happened?

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[Gunhan] I don't know.
She just fell.

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-She just fell.
-[Amina grunts]

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[Amina] Gosh. [exclaiming]

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[Gunhan] Are you okay?

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[audience clapping]

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[rattling]

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[Gunhan] Shouldn't
you see a doctor?

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[Alithea] Why?
When I feel so well?

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[Gunhan] Forgive me, Alithea.
Are you sure?

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[Alithea] Apart from
the usual aches and pains,

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there is nothing untoward.

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There's no reason
to make a fuss.

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[Gunhan] So, what happened
back there?

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Lately, my imagination's
been getting the better of me.

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Ambushing me.

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I think it's a warning.

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About what?

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Not to be complacent.

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To keep on my toes.

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It manifests rudely
from time to time.

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I try not to fight it off.

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It takes charge for a moment,
and then it steps back.

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What steps back?

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Oh, Gunhan,
it's irrational.
Pay it no mind.

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[Gunhan] You are behaving like
a child. Do you know that?

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[Alithea] You know,
I am actually a child.

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[Gunhan laughs]

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[people chattering
indistinctly]

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[Alithea] If there is fate,
can we escape it?

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Who can say?

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But I tell you this,

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in the Grand Bazaar
of Istanbul,

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there are 62 streets
and 4,000 shops.

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And in one of those shops,
there are three rooms.

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In the smallest
of those rooms,

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there was a pile
of things unsorted,

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old and new.

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From the bottom of that pile,

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I chose a memento.

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Do you know what this is?

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I'm not sure,
but it could be Cesm-i Bulbul,

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a "Nightingale's Eye."

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Around 1845, there were
these glassmakers in Incirkoy.

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They were famous for this
spiral blue-white pattern.

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Oh, please.
It's a gift from me.

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Choose something less forlorn.

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And, uh, if this
is Cesm-i Bulbul,

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uh, is there a way
of authenticating it?

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Well, they say
that if it is genuine,

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sometimes you can see
specks of blood

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from the lungs
of the glassblowers.

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But this is more likely
a recent imitation.

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It's been damaged by fire.
Pick something else.

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No, thank you, Gunhan.

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I like it.

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Whatever it is, I'm sure
it has an interesting story.

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[telephone ringing]

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Hello?

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[man] Good morning, Dr. Binnie.

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-Good morning.
-This is room service.

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-Yes.
-How do you like your eggs?

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00:10:05,126 --> 00:10:06,693
Er, runny, please.

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00:10:06,693 --> 00:10:09,086
-And with toast?
-Yes, but no crusts.

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00:10:09,086 --> 00:10:11,262
-Two eggs?
-Just one.

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-Okay, thank you.
-Thank you.

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[electric toothbrush whirring]

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[bottle rattling]

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[bottle rattling intensifying]

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[gasps]

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[gasps]

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[toothbrush clatters]

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[squelching]

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[rustling]

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[squelching]

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[creature breaths heavily]

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[squeaks]

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[creature breathing heavily]

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I'm going to close my eyes
and count to three,

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after which
I would be grateful

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if you would be gone.

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One,

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two,

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three.

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[breathing continues]

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Four,

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five,

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six,

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seven, eight,

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nine, ten.

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[creature grunting softly]

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[growling softly]

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00:12:25,222 --> 00:12:28,008
[creature speaking
indistinctly]

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00:12:33,187 --> 00:12:35,406
I don't suppose
you speak English?

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[creature speaking
ancient Greek]

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00:12:37,060 --> 00:12:38,235
Deutsch?

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00:12:39,193 --> 00:12:40,542
Espanol?

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00:12:41,412 --> 00:12:42,457
Ellinika?

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[creature grunts]

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00:12:46,243 --> 00:12:48,811
[creature speaking
ancient Greek]

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00:12:50,813 --> 00:12:53,424
[in ancient Greek]

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00:12:55,557 --> 00:12:57,777
[creature speaking]

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[Alithea speaking]

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00:13:28,285 --> 00:13:31,071
[creature speaking]

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00:13:36,467 --> 00:13:38,513
[static buzzing on laptop]

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[The Djinn speaking]

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00:13:53,484 --> 00:13:55,922
[static buzzing]

220
00:13:55,922 --> 00:13:58,402
[Einstein speaking
indistinctly on TV]

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Einstein.

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[The Djinn] Einstein.

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00:14:22,644 --> 00:14:23,993
[in English]

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[The Djinn] Television.

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00:14:25,342 --> 00:14:27,214
[in ancient Greek]

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00:14:30,478 --> 00:14:32,175
[in English]

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[The Djinn] Transmitters.

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[in ancient Greek]

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[in English]
I am a djinn
of modest power,

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but I begin to understand
these transmissions.

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00:14:49,932 --> 00:14:51,281
Oh!

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You've learned
to speak my language.

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This English
is straightforward.

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Its rules quickly learn,
I find.

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[static buzzes]

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[Einstein gasping]

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[gasps]

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00:15:04,207 --> 00:15:05,600
[Einstein] Nein, nein, nein.

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00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:06,993
Would you like this
little Albert for yourself?

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00:15:06,993 --> 00:15:08,342
No, no, no.

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00:15:08,342 --> 00:15:09,909
That can't be good for him.
Put him back.

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00:15:09,909 --> 00:15:11,171
-I could expand him.
-[Einstein] How?

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We could speak with him.

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-How is this possible?
-No, put him back.

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-Is that your wish?
-This is not possible.

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00:15:15,653 --> 00:15:17,568
No. It's your obligation.

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[blows]

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00:15:20,310 --> 00:15:21,616
[Einstein resumes speech
in German]

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So, what will you wish for?

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[floor creaks]

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00:15:26,926 --> 00:15:28,971
What is your heart's desire?

252
00:15:34,194 --> 00:15:39,025
Now, let's, uh,
not get ahead of ourselves.

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I need to take this slow.
[sighs]

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I have all the time
in the world.

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Tell me about yourself.

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My name is Alithea Binnie.

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I am in Turkey
for a conference.

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And I return to my homeland
in a day's time.

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Also?

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00:15:55,606 --> 00:15:58,348
[Alithea breathing heavily]

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00:15:58,348 --> 00:16:02,265
Also, I have
a confession to make.

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00:16:02,265 --> 00:16:04,311
Something
I've never told anybody.

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00:16:04,311 --> 00:16:05,616
[The Djinn] Excellent.

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00:16:06,966 --> 00:16:09,751
When I was young,
there was a boy.

265
00:16:09,751 --> 00:16:11,274
Your first lover?

266
00:16:11,274 --> 00:16:14,190
No, no, no.
He was not of flesh and blood.

267
00:16:14,190 --> 00:16:15,452
A djinn?

268
00:16:15,452 --> 00:16:17,585
No.

269
00:16:17,585 --> 00:16:21,458
At that time, I found myself
in a school for girls.

270
00:16:21,458 --> 00:16:23,373
Gaggles of girls.

271
00:16:23,373 --> 00:16:28,204
I was... Well, I am
a solitary creature by nature.

272
00:16:28,204 --> 00:16:31,251
And this boy, Enzo,

273
00:16:31,251 --> 00:16:34,167
he came to me,
out of an emptiness.

274
00:16:35,429 --> 00:16:38,388
Out of a need to imagine.

275
00:16:38,388 --> 00:16:40,303
He told me stories
in a language

276
00:16:40,303 --> 00:16:42,566
that only we two spoke.

277
00:16:44,090 --> 00:16:46,266
And he always disappeared
when I had a headache,

278
00:16:46,266 --> 00:16:47,528
but he was never far away

279
00:16:47,528 --> 00:16:50,009
when I couldn't move
for asthma.

280
00:16:50,009 --> 00:16:51,706
[The Djinn] He was like
this little Albert

281
00:16:51,706 --> 00:16:53,316
you would not let me give you?

282
00:16:53,316 --> 00:16:55,231
An emanation?

283
00:16:55,231 --> 00:16:58,147
[Alithea] Only an emanation
of an absence.

284
00:16:58,147 --> 00:17:01,150
[breathing laboriously]

285
00:17:01,150 --> 00:17:04,458
I feared he would leave,
and so I wrote him down.

286
00:17:06,503 --> 00:17:11,117
And I filled this journal,
bulging with facts.

287
00:17:12,509 --> 00:17:16,687
But the more realism
I tried to insert,

288
00:17:16,687 --> 00:17:19,690
the more I began to doubt,

289
00:17:19,690 --> 00:17:22,780
and, uh, it all began
to feel silly.

290
00:17:24,130 --> 00:17:25,696
I felt silly.

291
00:17:27,524 --> 00:17:30,179
So, after a time,

292
00:17:30,179 --> 00:17:32,529
I burned it all
in the school furnace.

293
00:17:34,705 --> 00:17:37,534
And after that,
he disappeared altogether.

294
00:17:38,796 --> 00:17:41,408
And yet, I am here.

295
00:17:43,627 --> 00:17:45,673
Contrary to reason, yes.

296
00:17:46,761 --> 00:17:51,070
I am here,
and we have work to do.

297
00:17:51,070 --> 00:17:52,245
[knocking at door]

298
00:17:53,333 --> 00:17:55,726
Can you come back
later, please?

299
00:17:55,726 --> 00:17:57,685
[man] It's room service,
Dr. Binnie.

300
00:17:57,685 --> 00:17:59,730
I have your breakfast.

301
00:17:59,730 --> 00:18:01,297
[Alithea] Just a minute!

302
00:18:02,429 --> 00:18:04,083
Must close door.

303
00:18:18,314 --> 00:18:19,446
Good morning.

304
00:18:19,446 --> 00:18:20,664
Where would you like it,
Dr. Binnie?

305
00:18:20,664 --> 00:18:21,926
Thank you. Oh, I can take it.

306
00:18:21,926 --> 00:18:24,233
-Please, allow me.
-No. No, I can manage it.

307
00:18:24,233 --> 00:18:26,844
Jolly good, Dr. Binnie.
I hope you are well rested.

308
00:18:26,844 --> 00:18:28,585
Oh, that looks delicious.
Yes, I am.

309
00:18:28,585 --> 00:18:30,413
[man] What do you plan to do
on this fine day?

310
00:18:30,413 --> 00:18:33,155
Uh, I'm not sure.
I'm improvising.

311
00:18:33,155 --> 00:18:35,636
Well, I'd like to show you
a beautiful art gallery...

312
00:18:35,636 --> 00:18:36,854
That's so kind. Thank you.

313
00:18:36,854 --> 00:18:38,029
...this afternoon,
when you get a chance.

314
00:18:38,029 --> 00:18:39,379
-Maybe another time.
-It will be great.

315
00:18:39,379 --> 00:18:40,423
Thank you.
Have a beautiful day.

316
00:18:40,423 --> 00:18:42,599
[man] Okay. Jolly good. Enjoy.

317
00:18:42,599 --> 00:18:43,818
Thank you!

318
00:18:48,779 --> 00:18:51,304
[people chattering
in distance]

319
00:19:00,617 --> 00:19:02,184
[lock clicks]

320
00:19:23,205 --> 00:19:25,816
A more convenient size, I see.

321
00:19:25,816 --> 00:19:27,731
I do what I can to fit in.

322
00:19:28,210 --> 00:19:30,169
Please.

323
00:19:30,169 --> 00:19:32,345
I needn't have
ordered breakfast.

324
00:19:32,345 --> 00:19:35,826
It's nan-e nokhodchi.
Chickpeas, cloves, pistachio.

325
00:19:35,826 --> 00:19:37,611
It will melt in your mouth.

326
00:19:42,746 --> 00:19:44,748
May I ask you something?

327
00:19:44,748 --> 00:19:45,880
[The Djinn] Anything.

328
00:19:47,316 --> 00:19:50,189
How come you found your way
into my bottle?

329
00:19:51,407 --> 00:19:52,800
Ah, it's quite a story.

330
00:19:53,714 --> 00:19:55,803
That was
my third incarceration.

331
00:19:55,803 --> 00:19:57,892
You've been trapped
in a bottle three times?

332
00:19:57,892 --> 00:20:00,242
I may be a djinn,
but I'm also a fool

333
00:20:00,242 --> 00:20:02,853
with too great a fondness
for the conversation of women.

334
00:20:02,853 --> 00:20:05,247
I need to be more careful
in the future.

335
00:20:05,247 --> 00:20:06,640
How were you caught
in the first place?

336
00:20:07,510 --> 00:20:09,208
By desire.

337
00:20:09,208 --> 00:20:10,861
How else?

338
00:20:13,734 --> 00:20:15,344
Who was she?

339
00:20:15,344 --> 00:20:16,824
Sheba.

340
00:20:16,824 --> 00:20:18,217
The Queen of Sheba?

341
00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:19,740
She was my kin.

342
00:20:19,740 --> 00:20:20,871
She was a djinn?

343
00:20:20,871 --> 00:20:22,395
Her mother was a djinn.

344
00:20:22,395 --> 00:20:23,483
Is that possible?

345
00:20:23,483 --> 00:20:24,701
There are laws that allow

346
00:20:24,701 --> 00:20:26,225
the union
of djinn and mortals,

347
00:20:26,225 --> 00:20:27,965
but they cannot produce
an immortal scion

348
00:20:27,965 --> 00:20:29,271
the way a donkey and a horse

349
00:20:29,271 --> 00:20:31,230
can only produce
a seedless mule.

350
00:20:32,883 --> 00:20:36,017
So, what did she look like?

351
00:20:36,017 --> 00:20:40,239
Other than a thick glade
of black hair on her legs,

352
00:20:40,239 --> 00:20:41,631
she looked like
any other human being,

353
00:20:41,631 --> 00:20:43,938
except, of course,
she was Sheba.

354
00:20:43,938 --> 00:20:46,549
By all accounts,
she was very beautiful.

355
00:20:46,549 --> 00:20:49,509
She was not beautiful.
She was beauty itself.

356
00:20:53,034 --> 00:20:55,863
I was in every way free.

357
00:20:55,863 --> 00:20:58,866
I would come in and out
of her sleeping chamber.

358
00:20:59,997 --> 00:21:02,522
[whispers] Sheba...

359
00:21:04,263 --> 00:21:06,003
[blows]

360
00:21:06,003 --> 00:21:08,919
I knew as well as any
of her female slaves

361
00:21:08,919 --> 00:21:11,922
the touches that made
her shiver with bliss.

362
00:21:13,054 --> 00:21:15,578
Never have I wanted
a creature so.

363
00:21:16,405 --> 00:21:17,885
And she desired you in return?

364
00:21:17,885 --> 00:21:21,280
I was her plaything.
Her confidante.

365
00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,543
I might have become more,
but for Solomon.

366
00:21:23,543 --> 00:21:24,761
King Solomon?

367
00:21:24,761 --> 00:21:26,763
Blessed be his memory.

368
00:21:26,763 --> 00:21:29,026
He came from across
the deserts to woo her.

369
00:21:29,026 --> 00:21:30,332
Didn't she go to him?

370
00:21:30,332 --> 00:21:31,681
No. Never.

371
00:21:31,681 --> 00:21:33,509
But it's in
all the holy books.

372
00:21:33,509 --> 00:21:34,989
All the stories
and the paintings.

373
00:21:34,989 --> 00:21:36,773
And Handel wrote music
about it.

374
00:21:36,773 --> 00:21:38,384
Madam, I was there.

375
00:21:38,384 --> 00:21:40,081
Solomon came to her.

376
00:21:40,081 --> 00:21:42,823
[people chattering
in distance]

377
00:21:42,823 --> 00:21:45,695
[The Djinn speaking
early Aramaic]

378
00:22:04,627 --> 00:22:07,456
[strums note]

379
00:22:07,456 --> 00:22:09,415
[The Djinn in English]
he began with music.

380
00:22:10,416 --> 00:22:12,505
[playing romantic melody]

381
00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:15,986
[music intensifying]

382
00:22:15,986 --> 00:22:17,423
[music stops abruptly]

383
00:22:28,434 --> 00:22:31,524
[playing sentimental music]

384
00:23:01,510 --> 00:23:04,078
[sentimental music continues]

385
00:23:30,452 --> 00:23:32,149
[music ends in flourish]

386
00:23:38,112 --> 00:23:38,982
[gulps]

387
00:23:41,071 --> 00:23:44,466
I did all that I could
to dissuade her.

388
00:23:44,466 --> 00:23:45,598
But when she used

389
00:23:45,598 --> 00:23:47,469
the scented wax
of the Jabassa Bee

390
00:23:47,469 --> 00:23:49,036
to remove the hair
from her legs,

391
00:23:49,036 --> 00:23:50,733
I knew that I was lost.

392
00:23:50,733 --> 00:23:53,083
But I, like a fool,
went on telling her

393
00:23:53,083 --> 00:23:56,086
that her body
was rich and lovely,

394
00:23:56,086 --> 00:23:58,741
but her mind
was richer and lovelier,

395
00:23:58,741 --> 00:24:00,526
and more durable.

396
00:24:00,526 --> 00:24:02,615
And she agreed
with all that I said,

397
00:24:02,615 --> 00:24:04,225
and dropped a hot tear.

398
00:24:05,618 --> 00:24:08,621
She began to set him tasks,
which seemed impossible,

399
00:24:08,621 --> 00:24:10,753
to find a particular thread
of red silk

400
00:24:10,753 --> 00:24:12,755
in the palace
of a thousand rooms,

401
00:24:12,755 --> 00:24:15,628
to guess the secret name
of her mother djinn,

402
00:24:15,628 --> 00:24:18,935
[inhales] to tell her
what women most desire.

403
00:24:18,935 --> 00:24:20,807
That does seem impossible.

404
00:24:20,807 --> 00:24:22,069
Not for him.

405
00:24:22,069 --> 00:24:23,592
He could speak
to the beasts of the earth,

406
00:24:23,592 --> 00:24:26,029
and to the djinn
made of subtle fire.

407
00:24:26,029 --> 00:24:29,119
He found ants to discover
the thread of silk,

408
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,208
and an ifrit to whisper
the mother's name.

409
00:24:31,208 --> 00:24:33,646
[ifrit speaking indistinctly]

410
00:24:36,518 --> 00:24:38,041
[The Djinn] Then he looked
into her eyes

411
00:24:38,041 --> 00:24:41,131
and told her
what women most desire.

412
00:24:41,131 --> 00:24:43,220
[King Solomon speaking
early Aramaic]

413
00:24:43,220 --> 00:24:44,831
[The Djinn] She was astonished,

414
00:24:46,180 --> 00:24:48,008
and told him he was right.

415
00:24:52,534 --> 00:24:56,059
And so she granted him
what he most desired,

416
00:24:56,059 --> 00:24:58,932
which was to wed her
and be taken to her bed.

417
00:25:02,892 --> 00:25:04,111
[Sheba gasps]

418
00:25:04,111 --> 00:25:06,679
[distorted screaming]

419
00:25:08,985 --> 00:25:11,684
[emotional string
music playing]

420
00:25:12,511 --> 00:25:14,600
[whooshing softly]

421
00:25:17,559 --> 00:25:19,039
[speaks early Aramaic]

422
00:25:19,039 --> 00:25:20,823
[The Djinn]
He was a great magician...

423
00:25:20,823 --> 00:25:22,303
-[wheezing]
-...and imprisoned me

424
00:25:22,303 --> 00:25:25,524
with a word of power
into a brass bottle.

425
00:25:29,615 --> 00:25:32,574
[emotional string
music continues]

426
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,813
She made no plea for me.

427
00:25:54,814 --> 00:25:57,207
I was nothing to her.

428
00:25:57,207 --> 00:25:59,122
A breath in a bottle.

429
00:26:13,876 --> 00:26:16,662
And so, I was cast
into the Red Sea

430
00:26:16,662 --> 00:26:20,274
and languished
for 2,500 years.

431
00:26:25,627 --> 00:26:27,237
Apart from sleep,

432
00:26:27,237 --> 00:26:30,197
what does one do in a bottle
for 2,500 years?

433
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,243
Djinn don't sleep.

434
00:26:38,901 --> 00:26:40,599
So, how do you manage then?

435
00:26:41,251 --> 00:26:42,339
[clicks tongue]

436
00:26:43,906 --> 00:26:48,650
Well, for the first 100 years,
I rage against my fate.

437
00:26:48,650 --> 00:26:50,391
I pray to Boschkolo
for my release,

438
00:26:50,391 --> 00:26:51,827
and when that does not work,

439
00:26:51,827 --> 00:26:53,307
I pray to any god I know,

440
00:26:53,307 --> 00:26:55,265
and then to any god
I may not know.

441
00:26:55,265 --> 00:26:57,964
And when, still,
I find no answers,

442
00:26:57,964 --> 00:26:59,052
[inhales]

443
00:26:59,052 --> 00:27:01,141
I spend my time
in waking dreams

444
00:27:01,141 --> 00:27:03,926
revisiting all the stories
of my life.

445
00:27:03,926 --> 00:27:06,886
And when I have exhausted this
many, many times,

446
00:27:06,886 --> 00:27:09,932
I return to my prayer
and my rage.

447
00:27:09,932 --> 00:27:12,892
And then, finally,

448
00:27:14,241 --> 00:27:16,373
I play a trick on myself.

449
00:27:17,810 --> 00:27:19,289
I pray to remain
in the bottle.

450
00:27:19,289 --> 00:27:23,119
I beseech Boschkolo to keep me
always in the bottle.

451
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:24,686
And does that work?

452
00:27:24,686 --> 00:27:26,166
To yearn for nothing?

453
00:27:26,166 --> 00:27:28,037
To pretend to want
nothing more

454
00:27:28,037 --> 00:27:29,778
than to be contained
in a bottle?

455
00:27:29,778 --> 00:27:31,258
No.

456
00:27:31,258 --> 00:27:34,000
For a djinn, it is the closest
we ever come to death.

457
00:27:35,175 --> 00:27:36,872
[sighs]

458
00:27:36,872 --> 00:27:38,657
Do you know the answer
to her question?

459
00:27:38,657 --> 00:27:39,832
What women most desire?

460
00:27:39,832 --> 00:27:40,963
Yeah.

461
00:27:40,963 --> 00:27:42,704
Do you not know?

462
00:27:42,704 --> 00:27:44,227
If you do not know,
I cannot tell you.

463
00:27:44,227 --> 00:27:46,403
Well, surely, we don't
all want the same thing.

464
00:27:46,403 --> 00:27:50,016
Madam, your yearnings
are not at all clear to me.

465
00:27:50,016 --> 00:27:53,323
I... I'm at a point in my life
where I have all I need.

466
00:27:53,323 --> 00:27:55,891
I daresay I'm content,
and gratefully so.

467
00:27:55,891 --> 00:27:57,023
Tell me.

468
00:27:57,023 --> 00:27:59,416
Are you a wife? A widow?

469
00:27:59,416 --> 00:28:01,680
-Um...
-A mother, perhaps?

470
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,204
I have no children,
no siblings, no parents.

471
00:28:05,988 --> 00:28:07,294
I did once have a husband.

472
00:28:07,294 --> 00:28:08,556
[The Djinn] Ah.

473
00:28:08,556 --> 00:28:10,689
And what was the complexion
of this husband?

474
00:28:11,211 --> 00:28:12,691
His complexion?

475
00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:15,868
In the beginning,
it was glowing.

476
00:28:15,868 --> 00:28:17,696
And in the ending?

477
00:28:17,696 --> 00:28:19,219
It's not much of a story.

478
00:28:19,219 --> 00:28:22,135
But it is a story.
It is your story,

479
00:28:22,135 --> 00:28:23,789
and it is always wise

480
00:28:23,789 --> 00:28:25,747
to understand those
who have a hold on you.

481
00:28:25,747 --> 00:28:26,835
Please.

482
00:28:26,835 --> 00:28:27,923
[inhales deeply]

483
00:28:29,011 --> 00:28:31,231
[grunts] Well, okay, um...

484
00:28:32,319 --> 00:28:33,712
[smacks lips]

485
00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:36,192
We'd known each other
since our youth.

486
00:28:36,192 --> 00:28:38,064
We, uh, married early.

487
00:28:38,064 --> 00:28:40,022
In the beginning,
we took pleasure

488
00:28:40,022 --> 00:28:41,850
in each other's minds
and bodies.

489
00:28:41,850 --> 00:28:43,199
Um...

490
00:28:43,199 --> 00:28:45,027
We passed
the years comfortably,

491
00:28:45,027 --> 00:28:47,421
and then as it happens,

492
00:28:48,161 --> 00:28:50,206
it all evaporated,

493
00:28:50,206 --> 00:28:52,252
and, uh... and we became

494
00:28:53,383 --> 00:28:54,428
less.

495
00:28:54,428 --> 00:28:55,298
And where is he?

496
00:28:57,126 --> 00:29:00,086
He's in Hackney,
with Emmeline Porter.

497
00:29:00,086 --> 00:29:01,261
[The Djinn] Mmm.

498
00:29:04,046 --> 00:29:05,308
[Alithea sighs]

499
00:29:07,441 --> 00:29:09,399
[Alithea] He told me I...

500
00:29:09,399 --> 00:29:11,880
I was incapable
of reading feelings.

501
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,055
[car brakes]

502
00:29:13,055 --> 00:29:14,448
[car horn beeps]

503
00:29:16,015 --> 00:29:18,365
I was incapable
of reading his feelings.

504
00:29:18,365 --> 00:29:20,280
[Emmeline] ...gonna have
a resolution.

505
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:21,455
[Jack] This is exciting!

506
00:29:21,455 --> 00:29:23,022
-It is exciting!
-[Emmeline] No, it's not.

507
00:29:23,022 --> 00:29:24,458
Let me guess.
No one dies in it.

508
00:29:24,458 --> 00:29:26,199
[Emmeline laughing] No!

509
00:29:26,199 --> 00:29:30,029
[Alithea] The way my brain
is wired is... is the...

510
00:29:30,029 --> 00:29:33,032
the source both of my power

511
00:29:33,032 --> 00:29:35,774
and, uh, and my solitude.

512
00:29:36,775 --> 00:29:38,951
I suspect that's why
I like stories.

513
00:29:39,865 --> 00:29:42,519
I find feelings
through stories.

514
00:29:42,519 --> 00:29:44,870
[The Djinn sighs]

515
00:29:46,088 --> 00:29:49,048
Perhaps you could
wish for him back.

516
00:29:49,048 --> 00:29:51,180
Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no.

517
00:29:51,354 --> 00:29:52,442
No.

518
00:29:53,530 --> 00:29:56,185
I... I thought, um,

519
00:29:57,273 --> 00:30:01,103
I might grieve
a loss and betrayal, but, uh,

520
00:30:02,409 --> 00:30:04,106
no, in fact, I was free.

521
00:30:05,499 --> 00:30:07,849
I was like a prisoner

522
00:30:07,849 --> 00:30:11,461
emerging from a dungeon
into the sunlight.

523
00:30:11,461 --> 00:30:14,290
I expanded into the space
of my own life.

524
00:30:14,290 --> 00:30:18,468
No, I could not wish for more.

525
00:30:18,468 --> 00:30:21,471
You are a wise
and cautious woman, Alithea.

526
00:30:21,471 --> 00:30:24,126
But we all have desires,

527
00:30:24,126 --> 00:30:25,998
even if they remain
hidden from us.

528
00:30:26,476 --> 00:30:28,130
[inhales sharply]

529
00:30:28,130 --> 00:30:29,958
That's as maybe.

530
00:30:29,958 --> 00:30:34,876
But I am also
a narratologist,

531
00:30:34,876 --> 00:30:37,357
and that is going
to be a problem.

532
00:30:37,357 --> 00:30:39,620
It's going to be
a very big problem.

533
00:30:39,620 --> 00:30:41,840
See, I know
all the stories there are

534
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,189
about trickster djinn,

535
00:30:43,189 --> 00:30:44,494
and the ways in which
they manipulate wishing

536
00:30:44,494 --> 00:30:45,582
to their own ends.

537
00:30:45,582 --> 00:30:46,888
I am not one of them.

538
00:30:46,888 --> 00:30:48,847
I am god-fearing
and honorable,

539
00:30:48,847 --> 00:30:51,110
and only here
to grant your heart's desire.

540
00:30:51,110 --> 00:30:53,199
Well, even if that's true,

541
00:30:53,199 --> 00:30:56,376
how can you rely on those
called upon to wish?

542
00:30:57,159 --> 00:30:58,421
[speaks ancient Greek]

543
00:30:58,421 --> 00:31:01,207
How do you know
you can rely on me?

544
00:31:02,338 --> 00:31:04,384
Well, I hope so.

545
00:31:04,384 --> 00:31:07,213
With you,
I certainly hope so.

546
00:31:07,213 --> 00:31:09,432
There's a...

547
00:31:09,432 --> 00:31:12,348
funny little story.
I mean, you probably know it.

548
00:31:12,348 --> 00:31:14,307
Three friends lost at sea
in a tiny boat.

549
00:31:14,307 --> 00:31:16,048
They pull up a magic fish,

550
00:31:16,048 --> 00:31:17,614
who grants each of them
one wish.

551
00:31:17,614 --> 00:31:18,746
The first one,

552
00:31:18,746 --> 00:31:20,530
"I wish I were at home
with my wife."

553
00:31:20,530 --> 00:31:21,705
He vanishes.

554
00:31:21,705 --> 00:31:23,316
The second one,
"I wish I were playing

555
00:31:23,316 --> 00:31:24,621
"in the fields
with my children."

556
00:31:24,621 --> 00:31:25,840
Off he goes.

557
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,364
And the third one,
"I miss my friends..."

558
00:31:28,364 --> 00:31:29,409
"I wish they were here."

559
00:31:29,409 --> 00:31:31,063
You've got it.

560
00:31:31,063 --> 00:31:34,327
There's no story about wishing
that is not a cautionary tale.

561
00:31:34,327 --> 00:31:36,242
None end happily.

562
00:31:36,242 --> 00:31:38,157
Not even the ones
that are supposed to be jokes.

563
00:31:38,157 --> 00:31:40,463
But you and I
are the authors of this story,

564
00:31:40,463 --> 00:31:42,988
and we can avoid all traps.

565
00:31:44,685 --> 00:31:47,079
Well, what if
I made no wish at all?

566
00:31:49,037 --> 00:31:50,082
Pardon?

567
00:31:52,693 --> 00:31:54,608
What if I made no wish?

568
00:31:54,608 --> 00:31:56,001
That would be an...

569
00:31:56,001 --> 00:31:58,307
-[electricity humming]
-[soft squelching]

570
00:31:58,307 --> 00:31:59,569
That would be

571
00:31:59,569 --> 00:32:02,007
catastrophic! [echoes]

572
00:32:02,007 --> 00:32:04,183
[flesh crunching]

573
00:32:05,662 --> 00:32:07,360
[panting]

574
00:32:10,580 --> 00:32:13,061
[The Djinn muttering
incoherently]

575
00:32:13,061 --> 00:32:15,281
[The Djinn breathing heavily]

576
00:32:16,021 --> 00:32:17,587
[Alithea] All right.

577
00:32:17,587 --> 00:32:20,547
-[panting heavily]
-[crunching subsides]

578
00:32:22,244 --> 00:32:25,247
I need to tell you
about my next incarceration.

579
00:32:25,247 --> 00:32:26,335
I'm all ears.

580
00:32:26,596 --> 00:32:28,120
[sighs]

581
00:32:37,433 --> 00:32:39,174
[The Djinn] I will never know

582
00:32:39,174 --> 00:32:43,091
how my bottle came from the
bottom of the Red Sea...

583
00:32:43,091 --> 00:32:44,353
[flies buzzing]

584
00:32:44,353 --> 00:32:46,486
...to a palace
in Constantinople.

585
00:32:47,617 --> 00:32:49,576
But I fancy
somehow it involved

586
00:32:49,576 --> 00:32:51,186
the killing of
an Ottoman warrior.

587
00:32:51,186 --> 00:32:53,101
[takes deep breath]

588
00:32:57,149 --> 00:32:58,672
The fall of an empire.

589
00:33:01,631 --> 00:33:03,764
[wall crumbling]

590
00:33:08,116 --> 00:33:09,335
And a girl in love.

591
00:33:09,335 --> 00:33:13,121
[girl muttering
in Ottoman Turkish]

592
00:33:19,388 --> 00:33:22,391
[girl singing
in Ottoman Turkish]

593
00:33:31,052 --> 00:33:32,358
[girl] Merhaba.

594
00:33:33,141 --> 00:33:34,229
[gasps]

595
00:33:35,491 --> 00:33:36,623
[bottle clangs]

596
00:33:36,623 --> 00:33:39,147
[high-pitched pinging]

597
00:33:42,585 --> 00:33:44,500
[in Ottoman Turkish]

598
00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:47,373
[eerie music playing]

599
00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:52,378
[hammering]

600
00:33:52,378 --> 00:33:54,119
[girl muttering
in Ottoman Turkish]

601
00:33:54,119 --> 00:33:56,643
[The Djinn in English]
Gulten lived as a slave

602
00:33:56,643 --> 00:33:58,514
in the courtyard
of the concubines

603
00:33:58,514 --> 00:34:00,038
in the seraglio.

604
00:34:00,038 --> 00:34:02,214
[Gulten continues muttering
in Ottoman Turkish]

605
00:34:02,214 --> 00:34:04,259
[rumbling]

606
00:34:04,259 --> 00:34:05,782
[Gulten gasping]

607
00:34:08,350 --> 00:34:10,135
[shuddering]

608
00:34:12,180 --> 00:34:14,095
[The Djinn breathing heavily]

609
00:34:17,098 --> 00:34:19,187
-[The Djinn growls softly]
-[Gulten gasps]

610
00:34:19,187 --> 00:34:20,362
[The Djinn]
When I appeared to her...

611
00:34:20,362 --> 00:34:22,103
[gasps]

612
00:34:23,191 --> 00:34:25,367
...she fainted.

613
00:34:25,367 --> 00:34:28,109
And I had great trouble
rousing her.

614
00:34:28,109 --> 00:34:31,243
[The Djinn whispering
in Ottoman Turkish]

615
00:34:34,202 --> 00:34:36,726
I made it clear
that I meant her no harm,

616
00:34:36,726 --> 00:34:38,554
for I was condemned
to the bottle.

617
00:34:38,554 --> 00:34:40,121
Until you got
your three wishes.

618
00:34:40,121 --> 00:34:42,123
-Until she got hers.
-[Alithea scoffs]

619
00:34:42,123 --> 00:34:44,256
-Please.
-Okay.

620
00:34:44,256 --> 00:34:45,735
Now, the poor girl told me

621
00:34:45,735 --> 00:34:49,696
she was distractedly in love
with a beautiful man...

622
00:34:49,696 --> 00:34:51,176
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

623
00:34:51,176 --> 00:34:52,655
[The Djinn]
...and she wished immediately

624
00:34:52,655 --> 00:34:55,093
to find favor in his eyes.

625
00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:57,269
[man speaking Ottoman Turkish]

626
00:35:06,756 --> 00:35:07,975
[blows]

627
00:35:07,975 --> 00:35:09,672
[The Djinn in English]
As it happens,

628
00:35:09,672 --> 00:35:11,848
the one she most desired
was the splendid Mustafa.

629
00:35:11,848 --> 00:35:13,633
Prince Mustafa.

630
00:35:15,591 --> 00:35:18,290
Eldest son of
Suleiman the Magnificent,

631
00:35:18,290 --> 00:35:21,336
and likely heir
to his mighty throne.

632
00:35:22,424 --> 00:35:23,860
Had I known what was to come,

633
00:35:23,860 --> 00:35:27,168
I would've risked
the furies of Iblis

634
00:35:27,168 --> 00:35:30,302
to vehemently distract her
from her wish.

635
00:35:31,738 --> 00:35:33,392
But without thinking,

636
00:35:33,392 --> 00:35:36,177
I took my bottle
and conjured oils

637
00:35:36,177 --> 00:35:37,613
to prepare her.

638
00:35:39,354 --> 00:35:40,921
Oils of enchantment

639
00:35:40,921 --> 00:35:44,142
once used only by Sheba.

640
00:35:48,755 --> 00:35:50,887
I cautioned her
to hide the bottle

641
00:35:50,887 --> 00:35:53,760
lest its powers
fall into other hands.

642
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:00,636
I went to Mustafa.

643
00:36:00,636 --> 00:36:02,551
[whispers] Gulten.

644
00:36:02,551 --> 00:36:03,857
I whispered her name.

645
00:36:08,514 --> 00:36:10,255
He sent for her.

646
00:36:12,648 --> 00:36:14,476
It was so easy.

647
00:36:21,657 --> 00:36:23,224
[traditional music playing]

648
00:36:23,224 --> 00:36:25,444
As a djinn,
I am endlessly curious

649
00:36:25,444 --> 00:36:27,228
about the ways of humans.

650
00:36:28,229 --> 00:36:29,926
So, in my spare time,

651
00:36:29,926 --> 00:36:33,408
I took to wandering the palace
in search of its intrigues.

652
00:36:34,322 --> 00:36:35,845
And there, among the eunuchs,

653
00:36:35,845 --> 00:36:37,586
the consorts,
and the concubines,

654
00:36:37,586 --> 00:36:39,719
I first saw Hurrem.

655
00:36:40,676 --> 00:36:42,243
The Laughing One.

656
00:36:42,243 --> 00:36:43,331
[Hurrem laughing]

657
00:36:43,331 --> 00:36:45,768
[Hurrem speaking
Ottoman Turkish]

658
00:36:46,639 --> 00:36:48,336
[people clamoring]

659
00:36:50,773 --> 00:36:52,775
[The Djinn]
She, too, was a slave

660
00:36:52,775 --> 00:36:55,517
who had risen
through the center of them all

661
00:36:55,517 --> 00:36:57,780
to become
the Sultan's favorite.

662
00:37:00,305 --> 00:37:02,394
[crowd gasping in awe]

663
00:37:06,398 --> 00:37:10,010
Suleiman the Wise
saw none but her.

664
00:37:10,010 --> 00:37:12,708
And she sought
to protect his throne

665
00:37:12,708 --> 00:37:16,843
in favor of her own sons
over his beloved Mustafa.

666
00:37:19,715 --> 00:37:21,935
And to this end,
she had the prince watched

667
00:37:21,935 --> 00:37:23,719
by many probing eyes.

668
00:37:28,507 --> 00:37:30,596
[laughing]

669
00:37:33,816 --> 00:37:35,383
When I saw how Hurrem

670
00:37:35,383 --> 00:37:39,387
made a masterpiece
of her manipulations,

671
00:37:39,387 --> 00:37:43,261
I worried that my Gulten
might be caught in this web.

672
00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:51,399
I tried to warn her
to be careful.

673
00:37:51,399 --> 00:37:53,314
[both speaking
Ottoman Turkish]

674
00:37:53,314 --> 00:37:56,709
But she had already
decided on her second wish.

675
00:37:56,709 --> 00:37:58,624
[in Ottoman Turkish]

676
00:38:09,461 --> 00:38:11,550
[in English] Such a mistake.

677
00:38:12,551 --> 00:38:14,683
Because at this moment,

678
00:38:14,683 --> 00:38:16,946
Suleiman, blessed be his name,

679
00:38:16,946 --> 00:38:18,687
is being undermined.

680
00:38:19,906 --> 00:38:22,604
His warriors believe
he is going soft,

681
00:38:22,604 --> 00:38:25,346
more interested in his poetry

682
00:38:25,346 --> 00:38:27,783
than ruling
with a strong hand.

683
00:38:27,783 --> 00:38:30,395
[arguing indistinctly]

684
00:38:34,964 --> 00:38:37,010
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

685
00:38:43,103 --> 00:38:45,061
[The Djinn] Hurrem
fuels the rumors

686
00:38:45,061 --> 00:38:47,063
that the military
want to take his throne

687
00:38:47,063 --> 00:38:49,501
and replace him with Mustafa.

688
00:38:50,763 --> 00:38:52,417
The prince has become a pawn

689
00:38:52,417 --> 00:38:55,420
in the ceaseless game
of power.

690
00:38:55,420 --> 00:38:57,639
[arguing continues
indistinctly]

691
00:39:07,649 --> 00:39:09,738
Suleiman the Magnificent,

692
00:39:09,738 --> 00:39:11,479
Suleiman the Conqueror,

693
00:39:11,479 --> 00:39:14,352
patron and protector
of empires,

694
00:39:14,352 --> 00:39:15,875
Suleiman the Father,

695
00:39:15,875 --> 00:39:17,398
was left with a choice

696
00:39:17,398 --> 00:39:20,445
that he knows
will break his heart.

697
00:39:27,495 --> 00:39:30,455
Gulten, meantime,
saw no reason

698
00:39:30,455 --> 00:39:32,892
why she should remain unseen.

699
00:39:32,892 --> 00:39:34,763
[Gulten laughing loudly]

700
00:39:36,548 --> 00:39:40,552
Given she was carrying the son
of the next Sultan.

701
00:39:46,558 --> 00:39:48,690
Despite all my warnings,

702
00:39:48,690 --> 00:39:52,738
she parades her newly swollen
breasts and belly.

703
00:39:52,738 --> 00:39:56,437
And the whispers soon spread
throughout the seraglio.

704
00:39:56,437 --> 00:39:58,918
[tense music playing]

705
00:40:02,574 --> 00:40:05,925
The terrible plottings
move all too quickly.

706
00:40:11,060 --> 00:40:12,105
[tense music stops]

707
00:40:31,994 --> 00:40:34,475
Prince Mustafa
comes innocently

708
00:40:34,475 --> 00:40:36,695
into the presence
of his father,

709
00:40:36,695 --> 00:40:39,480
to reassure him
of his loyalty.

710
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,047
[Mustafa speaking
Ottoman Turkish]

711
00:40:48,533 --> 00:40:50,448
[grunting]

712
00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:52,624
[The Djinn in English]
And the mutes are
waiting for him.

713
00:40:56,671 --> 00:40:58,630
He cried out
to his Janissaries,

714
00:40:58,630 --> 00:41:00,240
who loved him,

715
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:02,982
but his voice was crushed
and his breath stopped

716
00:41:02,982 --> 00:41:05,680
by the string
of his father's bow.

717
00:41:11,860 --> 00:41:14,950
[muffled humming of tune]

718
00:41:20,956 --> 00:41:23,481
[continues humming tune]

719
00:41:26,005 --> 00:41:27,876
-[door opens]
-[The Djinn] Gulten!

720
00:41:28,790 --> 00:41:30,575
[in Ottoman Turkish]

721
00:41:39,235 --> 00:41:40,976
[gasps]

722
00:41:56,818 --> 00:41:58,211
[whimpering]

723
00:42:00,996 --> 00:42:02,563
[The Djinn in English]
"Make a wish!

724
00:42:02,563 --> 00:42:04,739
"Save yourself, Gulten!"

725
00:42:05,784 --> 00:42:07,525
[panting]

726
00:42:09,135 --> 00:42:11,877
Just a few words
and she could have been free

727
00:42:11,877 --> 00:42:15,576
to bear her child in safety,

728
00:42:15,576 --> 00:42:19,145
and I to spirit away at last
to the Realm of Djinn.

729
00:42:19,145 --> 00:42:21,539
But she ran into the hands
of the assassins.

730
00:42:21,539 --> 00:42:23,236
-[Gulten screams]
-[The Djinn calls out]

731
00:42:23,236 --> 00:42:25,586
I was about
to take them by force,

732
00:42:25,586 --> 00:42:27,980
when I was blocked
by a follower of Iblis.

733
00:42:27,980 --> 00:42:30,852
-[breathing shakily]
-[high-pitched pinging]

734
00:42:36,728 --> 00:42:39,121
[in ancient language]

735
00:42:56,138 --> 00:42:58,097
[gasping]

736
00:43:01,622 --> 00:43:03,842
[creatures screeching]

737
00:43:03,842 --> 00:43:06,322
[grunting and whimpering]

738
00:43:08,107 --> 00:43:10,239
-[screeching stops]
-[gasping]

739
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:11,327
Gulten!

740
00:43:27,648 --> 00:43:30,608
[in English] She made
no wish to save herself.

741
00:43:31,957 --> 00:43:34,786
No wish was made
to save us both.

742
00:43:38,746 --> 00:43:39,878
[sighs softly]

743
00:43:42,141 --> 00:43:44,186
So, there I was,

744
00:43:44,186 --> 00:43:46,275
or there I was not,
might you say,

745
00:43:46,275 --> 00:43:49,365
almost emancipated
and tethered to this world

746
00:43:49,365 --> 00:43:51,933
by a third wish unperformed.

747
00:43:51,933 --> 00:43:53,587
But you realize, don't you,

748
00:43:53,587 --> 00:43:56,416
that you've just told me
the story of a woman
who was doomed

749
00:43:56,416 --> 00:43:58,679
as a consequence
of the wishes she made?

750
00:43:58,679 --> 00:44:01,334
Yes, but her failure
to complete the wishes

751
00:44:01,334 --> 00:44:03,641
also doomed me.

752
00:44:03,641 --> 00:44:05,773
Could nobody else
complete the wish?

753
00:44:05,773 --> 00:44:07,340
That was my hope.

754
00:44:07,340 --> 00:44:09,211
And that would
finally liberate you?

755
00:44:09,211 --> 00:44:11,866
That was my only hope.

756
00:44:11,866 --> 00:44:14,042
But you were
rendered invisible.

757
00:44:14,042 --> 00:44:15,130
Like a ghost.

758
00:44:15,130 --> 00:44:16,958
Wandering unseen.

759
00:44:16,958 --> 00:44:18,220
And your bottle,

760
00:44:18,220 --> 00:44:20,179
hidden under
the loosened stone

761
00:44:20,179 --> 00:44:21,746
known only to the dead Gulten.

762
00:44:21,746 --> 00:44:23,661
[The Djinn] Yes,
it was a predicament.

763
00:44:23,661 --> 00:44:25,227
[muffled clanging]

764
00:44:25,227 --> 00:44:27,708
I tried to attract
the attention of someone,

765
00:44:27,708 --> 00:44:29,318
anyone that could help me.

766
00:44:30,711 --> 00:44:32,365
My stars, how I tried.

767
00:44:32,365 --> 00:44:34,933
I followed their scent,
their every step.

768
00:44:34,933 --> 00:44:37,152
Willing, pleading, screaming.

769
00:44:37,152 --> 00:44:39,024
Anything to draw them to me.

770
00:44:39,024 --> 00:44:42,114
[muffled upbeat
drum music playing]

771
00:44:53,038 --> 00:44:56,171
-[drum music continues]
-[dancers' ornaments rattling]

772
00:45:06,965 --> 00:45:08,140
[drum music stops]

773
00:45:08,140 --> 00:45:11,839
And I do this piteously
for 100 years,

774
00:45:11,839 --> 00:45:15,103
and with every failure,
my will begins to fade.

775
00:45:15,103 --> 00:45:17,802
[children laughing
in distance]

776
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:23,851
And then in 1620,

777
00:45:23,851 --> 00:45:27,463
hope comes in the form
of a boy with a sword.

778
00:45:28,943 --> 00:45:30,249
[boys laughing]

779
00:45:34,340 --> 00:45:36,472
[boy laughing] Murad! Murad!

780
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,175
[muffled drum beating]

781
00:45:50,399 --> 00:45:52,053
Murad! [echoing]

782
00:46:00,409 --> 00:46:03,282
[The Djinn] By some means,
this boy senses me.

783
00:46:03,282 --> 00:46:06,198
I'm able to draw him
to the stone.

784
00:46:06,198 --> 00:46:08,766
[muffled drum music playing]

785
00:46:13,248 --> 00:46:15,294
[flies buzzing]

786
00:46:21,213 --> 00:46:22,780
[drum music subsides]

787
00:46:24,259 --> 00:46:26,348
[hollow clanging]

788
00:46:37,838 --> 00:46:39,797
[grunting]

789
00:46:43,017 --> 00:46:45,106
[drumbeat continues]

790
00:46:55,290 --> 00:46:56,335
Ibrahim!

791
00:46:56,988 --> 00:46:58,250
Gel.

792
00:47:00,295 --> 00:47:01,340
[woman] Murad!

793
00:47:02,863 --> 00:47:04,517
Ibrahim!

794
00:47:04,517 --> 00:47:06,127
[The Djinn] And just as
I am about to be delivered

795
00:47:06,127 --> 00:47:07,433
into their hands,

796
00:47:07,433 --> 00:47:08,913
their mother finds them.

797
00:47:08,913 --> 00:47:11,306
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

798
00:47:11,306 --> 00:47:12,960
[The Djinn] She is Kosem,

799
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,180
a widow of the Sultan,
Ahmed the First.

800
00:47:15,180 --> 00:47:17,530
And the boys are next in line
for the throne.

801
00:47:17,530 --> 00:47:20,402
[continues speaking
Ottoman Turkish]

802
00:47:20,402 --> 00:47:22,840
[The Djinn] When I see
the hair on his legs,

803
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,581
I know that somewhere
in Murad's bloodline

804
00:47:25,581 --> 00:47:27,540
pulses the power of a djinn.

805
00:47:28,497 --> 00:47:30,282
I follow him everywhere,

806
00:47:30,282 --> 00:47:32,850
determined to draw him back
to the stone.

807
00:47:32,850 --> 00:47:35,896
But at the age of 11,
he ascends the throne

808
00:47:35,896 --> 00:47:37,985
and becomes
Sultan Murad the Fourth.

809
00:47:37,985 --> 00:47:40,988
And caught up
by the usual intrigues,

810
00:47:40,988 --> 00:47:44,296
he is even more lost to me.

811
00:47:44,296 --> 00:47:47,255
At 20, he leads
his armies to war.

812
00:47:47,255 --> 00:47:48,996
He battles alongside his men

813
00:47:48,996 --> 00:47:51,346
in the Caucasus
and Mesopotamia.

814
00:47:52,521 --> 00:47:54,959
Stories are told
of his recklessness,

815
00:47:54,959 --> 00:47:57,178
even with his own life.

816
00:47:57,178 --> 00:47:59,354
[battle music playing]

817
00:48:02,053 --> 00:48:03,358
[music stops]

818
00:48:03,358 --> 00:48:06,231
I despair of
ever seeing him again.

819
00:48:07,623 --> 00:48:12,150
Hope is a monster, Alithea,
and I am its plaything.

820
00:48:12,585 --> 00:48:13,978
So he died?

821
00:48:13,978 --> 00:48:15,327
Not in battle.

822
00:48:15,936 --> 00:48:17,198
Back in Istanbul,

823
00:48:17,198 --> 00:48:19,331
Kosem needs
to protect the throne.

824
00:48:19,331 --> 00:48:21,159
She needs to protect Ibrahim.

825
00:48:21,159 --> 00:48:23,030
-[Alithea] The little brother?
-[The Djinn] Yes.

826
00:48:23,030 --> 00:48:25,424
[Ibrahim breathing heavily]

827
00:48:26,555 --> 00:48:28,949
He is last
of the Ottoman line.

828
00:48:29,950 --> 00:48:32,257
He has to produce
male children.

829
00:48:34,912 --> 00:48:39,438
So, Kosem locks him in a cage
lined entirely with sable.

830
00:48:46,967 --> 00:48:48,577
[Alithea] Quite the prison.

831
00:48:48,577 --> 00:48:51,058
[The Djinn] And one
he will never want to leave.

832
00:48:53,408 --> 00:48:55,106
[Ibrahim sniffs]

833
00:49:06,508 --> 00:49:08,946
It debauches him royally.

834
00:49:08,946 --> 00:49:11,600
He believes the greater
the expanse of flesh,

835
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,298
the more intense the pleasure.

836
00:49:13,298 --> 00:49:17,258
So, Kosem seeks out beauties
voluptuous and immense,

837
00:49:17,258 --> 00:49:20,479
and brings them to his couch.

838
00:49:20,479 --> 00:49:24,483
My fate turns specifically
on this fetish.

839
00:49:24,483 --> 00:49:25,745
How's that?

840
00:49:26,615 --> 00:49:28,052
You'll see.

841
00:49:28,052 --> 00:49:30,445
[battle music playing]

842
00:49:46,635 --> 00:49:48,289
[music stops]

843
00:49:49,987 --> 00:49:51,553
[men yell in unison]

844
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:54,992
[clamoring]

845
00:49:58,473 --> 00:50:00,301
Murad is back.

846
00:50:00,301 --> 00:50:02,173
And though
he returns a conqueror,

847
00:50:02,173 --> 00:50:04,784
he cannot shed
his robes of blood.

848
00:50:05,785 --> 00:50:08,483
War had truly rotted his soul.

849
00:50:08,483 --> 00:50:10,442
[Murad breathing shakily]

850
00:50:19,190 --> 00:50:20,800
[hooves clopping]

851
00:50:28,373 --> 00:50:30,244
I wait until he is alone.

852
00:50:30,244 --> 00:50:33,421
I am determined to draw him
back to the stone.

853
00:50:33,421 --> 00:50:36,598
I don't want to interrupt,
but I do have a question.

854
00:50:36,598 --> 00:50:38,644
Did it matter to you
what kind of wish

855
00:50:38,644 --> 00:50:40,211
such a man might make?

856
00:50:40,646 --> 00:50:42,517
One so insatiable.

857
00:50:42,517 --> 00:50:44,345
No.

858
00:50:44,345 --> 00:50:46,304
Not even if
it were profoundly evil?

859
00:50:46,304 --> 00:50:47,827
Not if it meant my freedom.

860
00:50:47,827 --> 00:50:51,700
The truth is he has
other things on his mind.

861
00:50:53,354 --> 00:50:55,661
He believes he is invincible,

862
00:50:55,661 --> 00:51:00,057
and to rule indefinitely,
he must be rid of all rivals.

863
00:51:05,410 --> 00:51:08,413
[in Ottoman Turkish]

864
00:51:13,113 --> 00:51:14,201
Ibrahim.

865
00:51:17,509 --> 00:51:18,727
Ibrahim.

866
00:51:37,746 --> 00:51:39,792
[breathing heavily]

867
00:51:50,107 --> 00:51:51,673
[squelching]

868
00:52:05,687 --> 00:52:07,124
[sighs in relief]

869
00:52:20,615 --> 00:52:22,922
[The Djinn in English]
Kosem needs to stop him.

870
00:52:22,922 --> 00:52:25,185
Somehow, she needed
to distract him

871
00:52:25,185 --> 00:52:27,840
from his bloodlust
with other gratifications.

872
00:52:31,191 --> 00:52:32,932
[glass smashes]

873
00:52:32,932 --> 00:52:36,196
First, she arranges for him
to be perpetually drunk.

874
00:52:38,285 --> 00:52:40,200
And then she tries
something very shrewd.

875
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:41,680
Something that
you might enjoy.

876
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,335
[mimicking sword fight sounds]

877
00:52:47,816 --> 00:52:49,296
She sends to find,

878
00:52:49,296 --> 00:52:51,646
from all corners
of the empire,

879
00:52:52,473 --> 00:52:54,649
the best storytellers.

880
00:52:55,868 --> 00:52:58,827
-[mimics bottle cap's pop]
-[men laughing]

881
00:52:58,827 --> 00:53:00,525
[groans]

882
00:53:01,787 --> 00:53:03,354
[men laughing]

883
00:53:06,748 --> 00:53:09,925
[object grating]

884
00:53:11,971 --> 00:53:13,190
[clinks]

885
00:53:13,842 --> 00:53:15,975
Those who are not persuasive

886
00:53:15,975 --> 00:53:19,326
flee in fear
or fall to his impatience.

887
00:53:19,935 --> 00:53:21,633
[drums beating softly]

888
00:53:29,554 --> 00:53:31,338
There is only one

889
00:53:31,338 --> 00:53:33,471
who has the ability
to enchant him.

890
00:53:33,471 --> 00:53:35,255
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

891
00:53:35,255 --> 00:53:37,605
[The Djinn]
To soothe with stories,

892
00:53:37,605 --> 00:53:40,521
to hold him hostage
to their unfolding.

893
00:53:43,916 --> 00:53:46,527
[laughing]

894
00:53:46,527 --> 00:53:48,964
[muffled laughing]

895
00:53:53,621 --> 00:53:55,710
[speaking indistinctly
from other room]

896
00:53:55,710 --> 00:53:58,583
[both laughing]

897
00:54:00,585 --> 00:54:02,021
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

898
00:54:02,021 --> 00:54:04,023
[The Djinn]
This is his only friend.

899
00:54:06,547 --> 00:54:09,594
And that friendship
turns to love.

900
00:54:11,552 --> 00:54:13,685
Since there is nothing else
for me to do,

901
00:54:13,685 --> 00:54:15,208
I listen gratefully,

902
00:54:15,208 --> 00:54:18,385
for I, too, love being lost
in his stories.

903
00:54:23,695 --> 00:54:25,653
When the old man dies,

904
00:54:25,653 --> 00:54:28,003
all in the palace
flee to the streets,

905
00:54:28,003 --> 00:54:32,051
for they fear Murad's grief
will incur fresh murder.

906
00:54:32,051 --> 00:54:34,880
[Murad crying softly]

907
00:54:36,577 --> 00:54:41,495
But he just sits, and howls,
and drinks until he is empty.

908
00:55:07,782 --> 00:55:10,437
And my patience is rewarded.

909
00:55:11,569 --> 00:55:13,005
For in this state,

910
00:55:13,005 --> 00:55:15,355
I am finally able
to get his attention

911
00:55:15,355 --> 00:55:18,315
and draw him
back to the secret bathroom.

912
00:55:18,315 --> 00:55:19,881
[Alithea] Oh, I know
where this is going.

913
00:55:19,881 --> 00:55:22,493
He's going to be too weak
to lift the stone.

914
00:55:22,493 --> 00:55:25,104
Too weak even
to turn the latch.

915
00:55:25,104 --> 00:55:26,323
[latch clanks]

916
00:55:27,715 --> 00:55:31,023
So, he leaves and drinks
himself to permanent sleep.

917
00:55:31,632 --> 00:55:32,938
Oh!

918
00:55:32,938 --> 00:55:34,722
And there I am,

919
00:55:34,722 --> 00:55:37,072
left to my own oblivion,

920
00:55:37,072 --> 00:55:39,597
with no one
to hear my voice,

921
00:55:39,597 --> 00:55:42,948
no one to know me,
nor feel me, nor sense me.

922
00:55:42,948 --> 00:55:45,342
You can't imagine.

923
00:55:48,388 --> 00:55:50,347
Well, actually, I can.

924
00:55:51,348 --> 00:55:53,741
Can you imagine
the loneliness?

925
00:55:54,568 --> 00:55:56,614
How it might overwhelm?

926
00:55:56,831 --> 00:55:58,833
I can.

927
00:55:58,833 --> 00:56:01,488
We exist only
if we are real to others.

928
00:56:01,488 --> 00:56:02,663
Do you agree?

929
00:56:02,663 --> 00:56:03,925
I do.

930
00:56:03,925 --> 00:56:06,580
This, then,
is our fate, Alithea.

931
00:56:06,580 --> 00:56:09,714
If you make no wish at all,

932
00:56:09,714 --> 00:56:11,455
I will be caught
between worlds,

933
00:56:11,455 --> 00:56:14,545
invisible and alone,
for all of time.

934
00:56:16,851 --> 00:56:18,418
[whispering]
Make a wish, Alithea.

935
00:56:19,463 --> 00:56:21,378
Make it your heart's desire.

936
00:56:29,168 --> 00:56:33,172
I'd be more careful
if I were you.

937
00:56:33,172 --> 00:56:35,435
Obviously, you managed
to find your way out.

938
00:56:35,435 --> 00:56:36,697
More or less.

939
00:56:36,697 --> 00:56:38,046
I'm beginning to think
I'm in the presence

940
00:56:38,046 --> 00:56:39,134
of a trickster.

941
00:56:41,049 --> 00:56:43,704
That would be so much better.

942
00:56:43,704 --> 00:56:45,576
My work would be
so much easier.

943
00:56:45,576 --> 00:56:48,448
But the truth is,
I am just an idiot

944
00:56:48,448 --> 00:56:51,059
who has been
extravagantly unlucky.

945
00:56:51,059 --> 00:56:53,975
Well, I have to take
your word for that.

946
00:56:53,975 --> 00:56:55,586
[The Djinn sighs]

947
00:57:03,724 --> 00:57:04,595
So?

948
00:57:07,685 --> 00:57:11,079
Ibrahim, I suppose,
becomes Sultan?

949
00:57:11,079 --> 00:57:15,649
[The Djinn] Ibrahim has
to be dragged to the throne.

950
00:57:15,649 --> 00:57:16,955
[in Ottoman Turkish]

951
00:57:22,961 --> 00:57:25,442
[somber music playing]

952
00:57:32,710 --> 00:57:34,755
[The Djinn in English]
He appoints one of
his concubines

953
00:57:34,755 --> 00:57:36,496
Governor of Damascus.

954
00:57:36,496 --> 00:57:39,020
Her name is Sugar Lump.

955
00:57:39,020 --> 00:57:41,153
By every measure,
his favorite.

956
00:57:43,111 --> 00:57:45,026
Had she not been free to roam,

957
00:57:45,026 --> 00:57:47,942
she would not have found
the secret bathroom.

958
00:57:47,942 --> 00:57:50,162
Had she not decided
to take a bath,

959
00:57:50,162 --> 00:57:52,643
it would not have overfilled.

960
00:57:52,643 --> 00:57:53,948
Had she not been clumsy

961
00:57:53,948 --> 00:57:55,559
as she walked
across the floor,

962
00:57:55,559 --> 00:57:57,822
she would not have slipped,
smashed the stone,

963
00:57:58,823 --> 00:58:01,173
-and found my bottle.
-Ah, yeah.

964
00:58:03,610 --> 00:58:06,004
[groans]

965
00:58:08,746 --> 00:58:10,835
[whooshing eerily]

966
00:58:15,535 --> 00:58:18,712
[The Djinn breathing heavily]

967
00:58:18,712 --> 00:58:21,976
To be honest, I should
have been more dignified.

968
00:58:21,976 --> 00:58:24,718
But I began to beg,
shamelessly.

969
00:58:24,718 --> 00:58:27,199
[in Ottoman Turkish]

970
00:58:45,739 --> 00:58:48,655
[yelling in Ottoman Turkish]

971
00:58:51,571 --> 00:58:53,051
[The Djinn in English]
"I wish you were back

972
00:58:53,051 --> 00:58:56,054
" in your bottle at the bottom
of the Bosphorus."

973
00:58:59,013 --> 00:59:00,319
So here I am,

974
00:59:00,319 --> 00:59:02,887
fallen into
your careful hands.

975
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:07,239
Seems we cannot
escape each other.

976
00:59:07,239 --> 00:59:09,546
You have me at your mercy.

977
00:59:13,550 --> 00:59:14,899
[Alithea sighs]

978
00:59:15,943 --> 00:59:17,075
[Alithea] This wishing...

979
00:59:18,903 --> 00:59:21,035
It's a hazardous art.

980
00:59:21,035 --> 00:59:23,864
"I wish" brings
infinite unravelings.

981
00:59:23,864 --> 00:59:24,996
Not necessarily.

982
00:59:24,996 --> 00:59:26,040
Well, it's there
in all your own stories.

983
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:27,128
I know, but...

984
00:59:27,128 --> 00:59:28,739
You say
you're not a trickster,

985
00:59:28,739 --> 00:59:32,133
and you say that you and I
are the authors of this story.

986
00:59:32,133 --> 00:59:35,180
But I'm not able
to write myself out of it.

987
00:59:35,180 --> 00:59:36,442
Correct.

988
00:59:36,442 --> 00:59:40,185
Why don't you just hop back
into your bottle

989
00:59:40,185 --> 00:59:41,926
and I'll give it
to someone more gullible?

990
00:59:41,926 --> 00:59:44,885
Someone more desperate.
Someone more greedy.

991
00:59:44,885 --> 00:59:46,060
I'm not getting back
in the bottle.

992
00:59:46,060 --> 00:59:47,148
Why not?

993
00:59:47,148 --> 00:59:48,976
I'm not getting back
in the bottle.

994
00:59:48,976 --> 00:59:50,978
Well, I am not
making three wishes.

995
00:59:50,978 --> 00:59:53,154
Then you are sending me
to my oblivion.

996
00:59:53,154 --> 00:59:54,634
Oh, you're impossible.

997
00:59:54,634 --> 00:59:56,636
And you are giving me
a headache.

998
00:59:56,636 --> 00:59:58,333
All right. All right.

999
00:59:58,333 --> 01:00:00,901
Here's what I'll do.
I will make three wishes.

1000
01:00:00,901 --> 01:00:02,033
-I will.
-Before you die?

1001
01:00:02,033 --> 01:00:03,817
Right now.
One after the other.

1002
01:00:03,817 --> 01:00:05,036
-Ready?
-Mmm-hmm.

1003
01:00:05,036 --> 01:00:07,734
Number one. I wish
your headache were gone.

1004
01:00:10,737 --> 01:00:12,347
Number two.

1005
01:00:12,347 --> 01:00:14,306
I wish for a sip of this tea.

1006
01:00:16,743 --> 01:00:19,790
And finally, I wish
for another one of those.

1007
01:00:19,790 --> 01:00:21,139
You mock me.

1008
01:00:21,139 --> 01:00:22,836
Three wishes,
perfectly simple,

1009
01:00:22,836 --> 01:00:23,968
and theoretically safe.

1010
01:00:23,968 --> 01:00:26,057
I was imprisoned
by Solomon precisely

1011
01:00:26,057 --> 01:00:28,712
because I cried out
my heart's desire.

1012
01:00:28,712 --> 01:00:31,628
Only by granting you yours
may I earn my release.

1013
01:00:31,628 --> 01:00:33,064
Yes, well,
I appreciate the symmetry,

1014
01:00:33,064 --> 01:00:34,631
but the thing is this,

1015
01:00:34,631 --> 01:00:37,416
I cannot for the life of me
summon up one eligible wish.

1016
01:00:37,416 --> 01:00:38,896
And you're asking me
for three.

1017
01:00:38,896 --> 01:00:41,159
Is there any life in you?
Are you even alive?

1018
01:00:41,159 --> 01:00:42,987
You know, in some cultures,

1019
01:00:42,987 --> 01:00:44,728
absence of desire
means enlightenment.

1020
01:00:44,728 --> 01:00:46,947
Then you are a pious fool.

1021
01:00:46,947 --> 01:00:49,210
If I'm content,
why tempt fate?

1022
01:00:49,210 --> 01:00:50,647
And you're a coward.

1023
01:00:50,647 --> 01:00:51,996
Don't goad me.

1024
01:00:51,996 --> 01:00:53,954
There is no human,
no angel, nor djinn

1025
01:00:53,954 --> 01:00:55,216
that wouldn't grasp
at the chance

1026
01:00:55,216 --> 01:00:56,870
to fulfill
their deepest longings,

1027
01:00:56,870 --> 01:00:58,350
and I am saddled with the one

1028
01:00:58,350 --> 01:00:59,873
who claims to want
nothing at all.

1029
01:00:59,873 --> 01:01:01,396
Alithea Binnie,
you are a liar!

1030
01:01:01,396 --> 01:01:04,704
You know, I am beginning
to wish we never met.

1031
01:01:04,704 --> 01:01:06,010
No! Nyet!

1032
01:01:06,010 --> 01:01:07,185
Don't say that!

1033
01:01:07,185 --> 01:01:09,143
[heavy static buzzing]

1034
01:01:09,143 --> 01:01:11,842
[The Djinn panting]

1035
01:01:15,236 --> 01:01:17,848
-[static subsides]
-[Alithea breathing heavily]

1036
01:01:22,330 --> 01:01:23,418
[sniffling]

1037
01:01:23,418 --> 01:01:25,769
[glass shards clattering]

1038
01:01:32,993 --> 01:01:34,821
[The Djinn sighs]

1039
01:01:38,259 --> 01:01:39,347
So...

1040
01:01:40,871 --> 01:01:43,003
that's happened to you before.

1041
01:01:44,352 --> 01:01:46,224
And it was bad.

1042
01:01:46,224 --> 01:01:48,182
[clicks tongue] 'Twas bad.

1043
01:01:49,401 --> 01:01:51,446
'Twas bitter.

1044
01:01:51,446 --> 01:01:53,797
'Twas the cruelest wish
of all.

1045
01:01:55,799 --> 01:01:58,715
[Alithea] You were undone
by silliness yet again.

1046
01:01:58,715 --> 01:02:00,151
[The Djinn sighs]

1047
01:02:00,151 --> 01:02:02,414
I'm here because of a genius.

1048
01:02:03,154 --> 01:02:04,808
Who was it this time?

1049
01:02:05,983 --> 01:02:07,419
She was Zefir.

1050
01:02:09,508 --> 01:02:13,381
Rarely among humankind
has there been such a wonder.

1051
01:02:14,469 --> 01:02:17,255
But you're here
because of her folly.

1052
01:02:18,169 --> 01:02:20,345
[tuts and sighs]

1053
01:02:20,345 --> 01:02:24,131
I ended up in this
as a consequence of Zefir.

1054
01:02:26,394 --> 01:02:27,787
And this is the story

1055
01:02:27,787 --> 01:02:31,051
you've been avoiding
telling me all along.

1056
01:02:31,051 --> 01:02:34,751
This is the story I've avoided
telling even myself.

1057
01:02:42,889 --> 01:02:46,545
[hooves clopping]

1058
01:02:46,545 --> 01:02:48,939
Zefir was a foundling,

1059
01:02:48,939 --> 01:02:51,506
married at 12
to a wealthy merchant.

1060
01:02:53,117 --> 01:02:55,336
He was much older than her,
and kind,

1061
01:02:55,336 --> 01:03:00,820
if you think keeping someone
like a bird in a cage is kind.

1062
01:03:00,820 --> 01:03:03,475
There were two older wives,
who did not like her

1063
01:03:03,475 --> 01:03:05,346
and did not
talk to her at all.

1064
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:21,972
[Zefir panting
and crying softly]

1065
01:03:23,234 --> 01:03:25,149
Everyone,
including the servants,

1066
01:03:25,149 --> 01:03:26,803
seemed to be mocking her.

1067
01:03:32,286 --> 01:03:33,505
[grunts]

1068
01:03:39,990 --> 01:03:43,080
She had neither
etiquette nor learning.

1069
01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:44,995
She grew to no great beauty

1070
01:03:44,995 --> 01:03:47,954
and was angry
without knowing why.

1071
01:03:48,825 --> 01:03:50,609
[panting]

1072
01:03:56,876 --> 01:03:58,312
[clangs]

1073
01:03:58,312 --> 01:04:00,445
[high-pitched pinging]

1074
01:04:02,316 --> 01:04:05,189
As the fates would have it,
my bottle came to her

1075
01:04:05,189 --> 01:04:08,540
as a love token
from her husband.

1076
01:04:13,588 --> 01:04:16,635
And when she had finished
satisfying him

1077
01:04:16,635 --> 01:04:18,115
and was finally alone,

1078
01:04:18,115 --> 01:04:20,204
she managed to prise it open.

1079
01:04:51,409 --> 01:04:54,064
It was as if
she was waiting for me.

1080
01:04:54,064 --> 01:04:57,197
I saw at once
that she was sharp,

1081
01:04:57,197 --> 01:05:01,071
and she saw
that I was desperate

1082
01:05:01,071 --> 01:05:03,290
for freedom and conversation.

1083
01:05:03,290 --> 01:05:06,032
I told her my story,
as I have told you,

1084
01:05:06,032 --> 01:05:10,297
and she revealed herself to me
by the things she had made.

1085
01:05:10,297 --> 01:05:12,256
Gel. Gel.

1086
01:05:21,047 --> 01:05:22,614
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

1087
01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:42,025
[speaks Ottoman Turkish]

1088
01:05:42,025 --> 01:05:43,113
[chuckles]

1089
01:05:44,505 --> 01:05:46,464
[continues speaking
Ottoman Turkish]

1090
01:05:47,508 --> 01:05:48,640
Gel.

1091
01:05:52,209 --> 01:05:53,993
[whispers indistinctly]

1092
01:05:59,607 --> 01:06:01,348
[The Djinn in English]
She could have been remembered

1093
01:06:01,348 --> 01:06:03,263
like the genius da Vinci,

1094
01:06:03,263 --> 01:06:04,656
whose theories on flight

1095
01:06:04,656 --> 01:06:07,224
were the talk
of sultans and kings.

1096
01:06:09,095 --> 01:06:12,403
She was a skilled artist,
but no one saw her art.

1097
01:06:13,186 --> 01:06:14,666
[Zefir breathing heavily]

1098
01:06:14,666 --> 01:06:18,583
[Zefir speaking
Ottoman Turkish]

1099
01:06:18,583 --> 01:06:21,281
[The Djinn] She told me
she was eaten up

1100
01:06:21,281 --> 01:06:23,501
with unused power.

1101
01:06:23,501 --> 01:06:25,285
She thought
she might be a witch.

1102
01:06:26,417 --> 01:06:28,288
Except, she said,
if she were a man,

1103
01:06:28,288 --> 01:06:32,118
her intellect would have been
ordinarily accepted.

1104
01:06:32,118 --> 01:06:34,468
She was a woman
ardent for learning,

1105
01:06:34,468 --> 01:06:37,732
and I knew
what her first wish would be.

1106
01:06:37,732 --> 01:06:39,169
[pants]

1107
01:06:39,996 --> 01:06:41,258
[in Ottoman Turkish]

1108
01:06:52,182 --> 01:06:53,792
[breathing heavily]

1109
01:06:55,315 --> 01:06:56,751
[The Djinn in English]
And it delighted me

1110
01:06:56,751 --> 01:06:58,623
to fulfill this wish.

1111
01:07:05,282 --> 01:07:06,370
[sighs]

1112
01:07:10,374 --> 01:07:12,811
[pensive music playing]

1113
01:07:27,695 --> 01:07:31,264
So, I taught her
histories, philosophies,

1114
01:07:31,264 --> 01:07:32,700
languages, poetry.

1115
01:07:32,700 --> 01:07:35,355
I taught her
astronomy, mathematic,

1116
01:07:35,355 --> 01:07:37,531
which was bliss to her.

1117
01:07:37,531 --> 01:07:40,099
I brought her
books and writings,

1118
01:07:40,099 --> 01:07:43,450
which we hid
in her collection of bottles.

1119
01:08:03,862 --> 01:08:05,864
[The Djinn] Sabah...

1120
01:08:05,864 --> 01:08:07,344
[whispers] Sabah...

1121
01:08:07,344 --> 01:08:08,736
[squelching]

1122
01:08:08,736 --> 01:08:10,260
[Zefir gasps]

1123
01:08:21,749 --> 01:08:24,187
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

1124
01:08:25,231 --> 01:08:27,277
She could always
call on Aristotle

1125
01:08:27,277 --> 01:08:29,453
from a red glass jar,

1126
01:08:29,453 --> 01:08:32,238
or Euclid from a green,

1127
01:08:32,238 --> 01:08:34,632
Pythagoras, Spinoza,

1128
01:08:34,632 --> 01:08:37,504
without needing me
to re-embody them.

1129
01:08:37,504 --> 01:08:40,638
[conversing
in Ottoman Turkish]

1130
01:08:47,732 --> 01:08:50,126
We had the whole world
in her room,

1131
01:08:50,126 --> 01:08:53,129
and I lost my heart to her.

1132
01:08:55,392 --> 01:08:56,784
[gulps]

1133
01:08:56,784 --> 01:09:00,875
'Twas my bliss
to make her happy.

1134
01:09:02,616 --> 01:09:03,922
To see her flourish.

1135
01:09:05,706 --> 01:09:08,231
And she flourished
in every way.

1136
01:09:08,622 --> 01:09:10,146
Totalmente.

1137
01:09:12,452 --> 01:09:15,194
[soft traditional
music playing]

1138
01:09:21,244 --> 01:09:22,680
She began to rebel

1139
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:24,769
even against
the gestures of submission

1140
01:09:24,769 --> 01:09:26,336
that her husband required,

1141
01:09:26,336 --> 01:09:29,556
for she had acquired
a mastery of love-craft,

1142
01:09:29,556 --> 01:09:31,210
out of reach of any human

1143
01:09:31,210 --> 01:09:33,386
that had not
made love to a djinn.

1144
01:09:34,692 --> 01:09:36,955
[surreal choral music playing]

1145
01:09:39,740 --> 01:09:41,829
[music distorts and fades]

1146
01:09:43,222 --> 01:09:46,356
[distorted screaming]

1147
01:09:47,922 --> 01:09:49,315
[Zefir grunting]

1148
01:09:49,315 --> 01:09:51,317
[Zefir's husband speaking
Ottoman Turkish]

1149
01:09:51,317 --> 01:09:54,407
[The Djinn] His cravings
for her became an obsession.

1150
01:09:54,407 --> 01:09:56,540
[in Ottoman Turkish]

1151
01:09:58,716 --> 01:09:59,804
[lock clicks]

1152
01:10:01,501 --> 01:10:02,807
[sighs]

1153
01:10:04,678 --> 01:10:06,332
[The Djinn in English]
And when he would come to her,

1154
01:10:06,332 --> 01:10:10,684
I would leave her room
and journey the skies.

1155
01:10:10,684 --> 01:10:14,427
I saw the mountains,
the oceans...

1156
01:10:15,385 --> 01:10:17,387
I saw the beasts
of the forest,

1157
01:10:17,387 --> 01:10:19,954
where no man treads.

1158
01:10:19,954 --> 01:10:24,002
And when I would return,
she would be waiting for me.

1159
01:10:24,002 --> 01:10:27,919
I would tell her of my day,
and she would faint with joy

1160
01:10:27,919 --> 01:10:29,921
and disappointment.

1161
01:10:29,921 --> 01:10:33,533
[Alithea] Why did she not
make a wish to be free?

1162
01:10:33,533 --> 01:10:36,928
[The Djinn] There was something
more important to her.

1163
01:10:36,928 --> 01:10:39,409
She had devised
a "mathematica,"

1164
01:10:39,409 --> 01:10:42,586
a language
to explain the forces

1165
01:10:42,586 --> 01:10:45,719
which bring space, and time,
and matter into being.

1166
01:10:45,719 --> 01:10:47,373
She was Promethean, brave.

1167
01:10:47,373 --> 01:10:49,636
But she could not solve
this puzzle.

1168
01:10:49,636 --> 01:10:51,725
She needed a key,

1169
01:10:51,725 --> 01:10:54,728
a key to open the doors
of her perception.

1170
01:11:01,257 --> 01:11:02,475
[sobs]

1171
01:11:05,522 --> 01:11:09,439
So, she used her second wish.

1172
01:11:09,439 --> 01:11:13,007
I taught her to dream
as djinn do, awake.

1173
01:11:14,052 --> 01:11:16,837
[sentimental string
music playing]

1174
01:11:39,033 --> 01:11:41,297
[writing on paper]

1175
01:11:44,691 --> 01:11:48,608
And this way,
the solutions came to her.

1176
01:11:48,608 --> 01:11:52,351
She was able
to explain powers invisible,

1177
01:11:52,351 --> 01:11:55,572
electromagnetic fields
and forces...

1178
01:11:55,572 --> 01:11:58,705
The very stuff
of which djinn are made.

1179
01:11:58,705 --> 01:12:00,446
You're electromagnetic?

1180
01:12:00,446 --> 01:12:04,494
As you are dust,
I am made of subtle fire.

1181
01:12:05,364 --> 01:12:07,801
And when she was
to bear a child,

1182
01:12:07,801 --> 01:12:10,108
I was plagued with happiness,

1183
01:12:10,108 --> 01:12:12,371
for I knew
it would strengthen us.

1184
01:12:12,371 --> 01:12:13,894
She was carrying your child?

1185
01:12:14,721 --> 01:12:17,681
A child, of fire and dust.

1186
01:12:19,639 --> 01:12:21,641
So, where did it go wrong?

1187
01:12:21,641 --> 01:12:23,643
Alithea, I loved her.

1188
01:12:24,644 --> 01:12:26,385
I loved the fervor
of her mind.

1189
01:12:26,385 --> 01:12:27,517
I loved her anger.

1190
01:12:27,517 --> 01:12:28,648
I loved my power

1191
01:12:28,648 --> 01:12:31,695
to turn her frowns
into smiles.

1192
01:12:33,436 --> 01:12:35,916
I loved her more than Sheba.

1193
01:12:35,916 --> 01:12:37,483
More than your own freedom?

1194
01:12:37,483 --> 01:12:38,963
Yes.

1195
01:12:38,963 --> 01:12:42,488
It became my greatest desire
to... to keep her,

1196
01:12:42,488 --> 01:12:44,621
to remain her prisoner.

1197
01:12:44,621 --> 01:12:49,365
The thought of being set free
sickened my heart.

1198
01:12:49,365 --> 01:12:51,149
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

1199
01:12:54,370 --> 01:12:58,374
I caught myself stopping her
lest she make her third wish.

1200
01:12:58,678 --> 01:13:00,114
Oh, gosh.

1201
01:13:03,770 --> 01:13:05,598
I made a mess of it.

1202
01:13:07,034 --> 01:13:10,037
She began to accuse me
of trapping her,

1203
01:13:10,037 --> 01:13:11,778
-like her husband.
-[Zefir sobbing]

1204
01:13:11,778 --> 01:13:13,824
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

1205
01:13:13,824 --> 01:13:17,001
[The Djinn] I tried
to make amends.

1206
01:13:17,001 --> 01:13:20,657
To atone, I would
put myself in the bottle.

1207
01:13:21,571 --> 01:13:23,137
To be sealed.

1208
01:13:23,137 --> 01:13:25,575
That way, she could have
more power over me.

1209
01:13:26,532 --> 01:13:27,707
[The Djinn speaks
indistinctly]

1210
01:13:27,707 --> 01:13:29,187
[Zefir continues sobbing]

1211
01:13:30,754 --> 01:13:31,842
[The Djinn whispers
indistinctly]

1212
01:13:31,842 --> 01:13:33,931
[Zefir speaking
Ottoman Turkish]

1213
01:13:38,196 --> 01:13:40,938
To be nothing in a bottle.

1214
01:13:40,938 --> 01:13:42,592
I could do that for her.

1215
01:13:43,506 --> 01:13:47,118
And every time,
it would appease.

1216
01:13:47,118 --> 01:13:50,730
Every time,
except for the last.

1217
01:13:50,730 --> 01:13:55,474
When, like a sudden squall,
all thunder and lightning,

1218
01:13:55,474 --> 01:13:58,477
she began to weep and wail,
and said,

1219
01:13:58,477 --> 01:14:01,567
"I wish I could forget
I ever met you."

1220
01:14:01,567 --> 01:14:03,221
[screams in Ottoman Turkish]

1221
01:14:03,221 --> 01:14:05,615
[gasping]

1222
01:14:07,051 --> 01:14:09,749
And she did, on the instant.

1223
01:14:14,841 --> 01:14:17,757
She was out. I was in.

1224
01:14:17,757 --> 01:14:19,498
She'd forgotten me.

1225
01:14:21,021 --> 01:14:24,024
Alithea, how can it be...

1226
01:14:26,070 --> 01:14:29,465
a mistake to love
someone entirely?

1227
01:14:54,838 --> 01:14:56,187
I have a wish.

1228
01:15:00,974 --> 01:15:04,195
However, I'm afraid it may be
too much to ask.

1229
01:15:08,808 --> 01:15:10,897
Is it within my power?

1230
01:15:11,550 --> 01:15:14,510
I hope so. I do hope so.

1231
01:15:17,121 --> 01:15:19,210
Is it your heart's desire?

1232
01:15:19,863 --> 01:15:21,908
Yeah, I'm certain of it.

1233
01:15:36,662 --> 01:15:37,924
See, erm,

1234
01:15:38,664 --> 01:15:40,927
I'm here to love you.

1235
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:45,062
And, uh,

1236
01:15:46,585 --> 01:15:50,067
I wish for you
to love me in return.

1237
01:15:51,851 --> 01:15:54,724
You want us
to make love-craft?

1238
01:15:55,202 --> 01:15:57,291
Yeah, that too.

1239
01:15:57,291 --> 01:15:58,466
All of it.

1240
01:15:58,466 --> 01:16:02,601
And you would
abandon yourself to this?

1241
01:16:02,601 --> 01:16:04,342
[low electrical humming]

1242
01:16:04,342 --> 01:16:06,039
Yes.

1243
01:16:06,039 --> 01:16:07,214
Yes.

1244
01:16:09,303 --> 01:16:13,307
I want our solitudes
to be together.

1245
01:16:13,307 --> 01:16:18,051
I want that love
professed in ageless tales.

1246
01:16:18,051 --> 01:16:22,578
I want that longing you felt
for the Queen of Sheba,

1247
01:16:22,578 --> 01:16:26,320
and that love you gave
to your genius, Zefir.

1248
01:16:26,320 --> 01:16:28,105
I want it.

1249
01:16:36,635 --> 01:16:39,769
[speaking Djinnbish]

1250
01:16:40,944 --> 01:16:42,293
Me?

1251
01:16:44,338 --> 01:16:45,775
You.

1252
01:16:48,081 --> 01:16:50,780
[speaking Djinnbish]

1253
01:16:52,651 --> 01:16:53,957
You?

1254
01:16:55,872 --> 01:16:57,134
Me.

1255
01:17:04,663 --> 01:17:06,012
Is it too much?

1256
01:17:07,100 --> 01:17:09,233
Is it all too much to ask?

1257
01:17:28,774 --> 01:17:29,819
[whispers] Come.

1258
01:17:43,136 --> 01:17:46,662
[Alithea] What are we to do
with longings awoken?

1259
01:17:46,662 --> 01:17:48,098
How can I persuade you

1260
01:17:48,098 --> 01:17:50,317
that I once found love
with a djinn?

1261
01:17:52,668 --> 01:17:55,366
In any case,
few would believe me.

1262
01:17:57,150 --> 01:18:00,676
Love is not something
we come to by reason.

1263
01:18:03,069 --> 01:18:05,158
It's more like a vapor,

1264
01:18:05,158 --> 01:18:07,334
a dream, perhaps,

1265
01:18:07,334 --> 01:18:09,293
to lure us
into the enchantment

1266
01:18:09,293 --> 01:18:11,034
of our own stories.

1267
01:18:12,470 --> 01:18:14,341
If that's so,

1268
01:18:14,341 --> 01:18:16,387
how are we to know
if it's ever real?

1269
01:18:18,302 --> 01:18:22,001
Is it a truth,
or simply a madness?

1270
01:18:22,001 --> 01:18:24,482
[surreal folk music playing]

1271
01:18:33,447 --> 01:18:36,015
[people chattering
indistinctly from outside]

1272
01:18:45,416 --> 01:18:48,071
[takes deep breath]

1273
01:19:00,387 --> 01:19:02,433
[electric toothbrush whirring]

1274
01:19:07,394 --> 01:19:08,918
[switches off toothbrush]

1275
01:19:08,918 --> 01:19:11,311
[Alithea] I leave
for London today.

1276
01:19:11,311 --> 01:19:12,922
Will you come home with me?

1277
01:19:15,272 --> 01:19:18,057
It's not such
an easy place nowadays.

1278
01:19:19,232 --> 01:19:21,408
But it'll be better
if you're there.

1279
01:19:31,418 --> 01:19:33,507
-[metal detector beeping]
-Over here, please.

1280
01:19:35,161 --> 01:19:36,293
Hands up.

1281
01:19:39,252 --> 01:19:41,515
[body scanner whirring]

1282
01:19:44,780 --> 01:19:46,912
-Please step out.
-[body scanner beeping]

1283
01:19:46,912 --> 01:19:48,348
What is in your pockets?

1284
01:19:49,001 --> 01:19:50,089
Oh.

1285
01:19:51,090 --> 01:19:54,311
Uh, it's an empty bottle
and a top.

1286
01:19:55,312 --> 01:19:56,922
Please put it through X-ray.

1287
01:19:56,922 --> 01:19:58,054
It is very delicate,

1288
01:19:58,054 --> 01:19:59,446
and I don't want it
to get damaged.

1289
01:19:59,446 --> 01:20:01,274
It will not be damaged.
Please put through X-ray.

1290
01:20:01,274 --> 01:20:02,449
I would prefer that
it didn't go in the...

1291
01:20:02,449 --> 01:20:03,799
Passport. Boarding pass.

1292
01:20:05,104 --> 01:20:06,192
Thank you.

1293
01:20:16,594 --> 01:20:17,856
It's quite fragile.

1294
01:20:17,856 --> 01:20:18,988
[supervisor] Madam.

1295
01:20:23,253 --> 01:20:25,037
It's a saltshaker.

1296
01:20:32,610 --> 01:20:33,829
Oh.

1297
01:20:34,394 --> 01:20:36,570
No! No X-ray! Please!

1298
01:20:36,570 --> 01:20:38,834
Stop, madam, stop.

1299
01:20:49,453 --> 01:20:51,020
[speaks Turkish]

1300
01:20:55,328 --> 01:20:56,416
Madam.

1301
01:20:56,982 --> 01:20:58,070
Oh.

1302
01:21:23,095 --> 01:21:24,227
[keypad beeping]

1303
01:21:38,937 --> 01:21:40,330
In your own time.

1304
01:22:24,461 --> 01:22:26,680
[children chattering
and laughing]

1305
01:22:36,995 --> 01:22:39,084
[The Djinn]
The air is thick here.

1306
01:22:40,172 --> 01:22:44,263
Full of insistent voices
and rushing faces.

1307
01:22:44,742 --> 01:22:46,483
[Alithea] Oh?

1308
01:22:46,483 --> 01:22:49,268
Like Tiny Einstein?

1309
01:22:49,268 --> 01:22:51,444
Television, and phone towers,
and such?

1310
01:22:51,444 --> 01:22:53,185
Yes.

1311
01:22:53,185 --> 01:22:56,972
Yes. All your
ingenious devices

1312
01:22:56,972 --> 01:22:58,756
all murmuring at once.

1313
01:22:58,756 --> 01:23:00,627
Bend your head.

1314
01:23:00,627 --> 01:23:03,326
[high-pitched pinging]

1315
01:23:03,326 --> 01:23:05,458
[people clamoring
and traffic bustling]

1316
01:23:05,458 --> 01:23:07,330
-[gasps]
-[noises stop]

1317
01:23:07,330 --> 01:23:09,419
You hear all that?

1318
01:23:09,419 --> 01:23:11,116
[noises continue]

1319
01:23:11,116 --> 01:23:12,248
-[gasps]
-[noises stop]

1320
01:23:12,248 --> 01:23:15,251
I also see it and feel it.

1321
01:23:15,251 --> 01:23:18,254
I am a transmitter. [chuckles]

1322
01:23:18,254 --> 01:23:19,995
Isn't it all too much?

1323
01:23:21,170 --> 01:23:22,475
I am a djinn.

1324
01:23:22,475 --> 01:23:23,650
I can adapt.

1325
01:23:25,565 --> 01:23:27,350
I'll soon get used to it.

1326
01:23:27,350 --> 01:23:29,221
[woman] She's back.

1327
01:23:29,221 --> 01:23:30,570
I believe she's back.

1328
01:23:30,570 --> 01:23:32,529
Is she with someone?

1329
01:23:32,529 --> 01:23:34,574
[woman] No, I think she's
talking to herself again.

1330
01:23:34,574 --> 01:23:36,315
[Alithea] Hello, Clementine.

1331
01:23:36,315 --> 01:23:38,665
Fanny. Are you well?

1332
01:23:38,665 --> 01:23:40,493
[Clementine]
Did you have any trouble?

1333
01:23:40,493 --> 01:23:42,669
Trouble? What kind of trouble?

1334
01:23:42,669 --> 01:23:44,497
With your foreign friends.

1335
01:23:44,497 --> 01:23:46,412
Because we often
ask ourselves,

1336
01:23:46,412 --> 01:23:49,111
"Why would Dr. Binnie waste
her time and intelligence

1337
01:23:49,111 --> 01:23:51,809
"studying the ways of others
instead of upholding our own?"

1338
01:23:51,809 --> 01:23:54,333
Embarrassed by
our British culture, are we?

1339
01:23:54,333 --> 01:23:55,813
No. No.

1340
01:23:55,813 --> 01:23:58,207
I am rather more likely
to be embarrassed by anybody

1341
01:23:58,207 --> 01:24:00,557
reflexly frightened
of anybody different.

1342
01:24:00,557 --> 01:24:01,688
What exactly are you saying?

1343
01:24:01,688 --> 01:24:03,473
She's calling us bigots.

1344
01:24:03,473 --> 01:24:04,517
Your word, not mine.

1345
01:24:04,517 --> 01:24:05,649
[Clementine] You misunderstand.

1346
01:24:05,649 --> 01:24:07,172
-Oh?
-It's not how they look, dear.

1347
01:24:07,172 --> 01:24:08,695
It's how they live.
What they believe.

1348
01:24:08,695 --> 01:24:10,436
-What they eat.
-What are you on about?

1349
01:24:10,436 --> 01:24:12,264
Everywhere one goes, ethnics.

1350
01:24:12,264 --> 01:24:15,267
We are being overwhelmed,
and we're inviting our doom.

1351
01:24:15,267 --> 01:24:16,616
[Fanny] It's not natural.

1352
01:24:16,616 --> 01:24:18,749
Birds belong in the air.
Fish belong in the sea.

1353
01:24:18,749 --> 01:24:21,056
And that is how the good Lord
meant us to be.

1354
01:24:21,056 --> 01:24:23,101
You're just spouting rubbish
from start to finish.

1355
01:24:23,101 --> 01:24:24,624
It's science.
It's a scientific fact.

1356
01:24:24,624 --> 01:24:25,886
-It's a false analogy.
-[voices echoing]

1357
01:24:25,886 --> 01:24:28,150
I mean, animals do have
a natural habitat.

1358
01:24:28,150 --> 01:24:30,369
It's true,
but human beings are capable

1359
01:24:30,369 --> 01:24:32,502
of living in any environment
they bloody well choose.

1360
01:24:32,502 --> 01:24:33,720
-That's not a fact.
-[airplane engine humming]

1361
01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:35,374
-What are you saying?
-It's an opinion.

1362
01:24:35,374 --> 01:24:36,593
And you're wrong.

1363
01:24:36,593 --> 01:24:38,073
I'm not putting up
with any more of this.

1364
01:24:38,073 --> 01:24:40,292
Come away, Clem.
Let the crazy lady be.

1365
01:24:40,292 --> 01:24:42,207
We're never gonna get
any sense out of her.

1366
01:24:42,207 --> 01:24:44,470
[Alithea] You know, I've never
said this to you before.

1367
01:24:45,123 --> 01:24:47,560
But you're both pitiful.

1368
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:48,779
Shut your cakehole! [echoing]

1369
01:24:48,779 --> 01:24:51,347
Pea-brained and pitiful.

1370
01:24:51,869 --> 01:24:54,263
You, fuckface!

1371
01:24:54,263 --> 01:24:58,267
Stop your ivy growing
on our side of the wall!

1372
01:24:59,355 --> 01:25:01,531
Why do I let them get to me?

1373
01:25:01,531 --> 01:25:03,620
I should feel sorry for them.

1374
01:25:03,620 --> 01:25:06,840
But this is my home.
It's my sanctuary.

1375
01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:08,451
[inhaler hisses]

1376
01:25:08,451 --> 01:25:10,888
[Clementine and Fanny's
voices echoing]

1377
01:25:10,888 --> 01:25:13,108
-I could wish them... [grunts]
-[static buzzes]

1378
01:25:14,152 --> 01:25:16,372
That's not a wish, by the way.

1379
01:25:16,372 --> 01:25:17,764
-I know.
-[exhales heavily]

1380
01:25:17,764 --> 01:25:20,245
[Clementine and Fanny's voices
continue echoing]

1381
01:25:20,245 --> 01:25:22,943
[people chattering indistinctly
from transmissions]

1382
01:25:26,730 --> 01:25:29,124
[Alithea breathing heavily]

1383
01:25:29,124 --> 01:25:31,169
[transmissions fading]

1384
01:25:35,478 --> 01:25:38,263
[sentimental string
music playing]

1385
01:26:29,314 --> 01:26:32,230
[sentimental string
music continues]

1386
01:27:21,410 --> 01:27:22,672
[Alithea whispers] My djinn.

1387
01:27:23,716 --> 01:27:24,935
[The Djinn] How was your day?

1388
01:27:24,935 --> 01:27:27,329
[Alithea] Every listening ear
was yours.

1389
01:27:27,329 --> 01:27:29,940
Every voice, every scent,
and touch.

1390
01:27:29,940 --> 01:27:31,681
You were everywhere.

1391
01:27:36,903 --> 01:27:38,601
Back in a minute.

1392
01:27:57,663 --> 01:27:59,796
[Fanny] Whoever could that be
at this hour?

1393
01:27:59,796 --> 01:28:00,884
[Clementine]
It could be her.

1394
01:28:04,366 --> 01:28:07,282
Clem. Fanny.

1395
01:28:09,327 --> 01:28:11,808
Chickpeas, cloves, pistachio.

1396
01:28:13,636 --> 01:28:15,333
They melt in your mouth.

1397
01:28:33,351 --> 01:28:34,831
This is my friend.

1398
01:28:35,962 --> 01:28:37,877
He'll be staying for a while.

1399
01:28:38,791 --> 01:28:39,836
Hello.

1400
01:28:42,926 --> 01:28:44,667
-Hello.
-Hello.

1401
01:28:48,932 --> 01:28:50,716
[Alithea] My Djinn told me,

1402
01:28:50,716 --> 01:28:53,676
when they come together
in the Realm of Djinn,

1403
01:28:53,676 --> 01:28:55,460
they tell each other stories.

1404
01:28:56,635 --> 01:28:58,768
Stories are like
breath to them.

1405
01:28:58,768 --> 01:28:59,856
They make meaning.

1406
01:29:01,814 --> 01:29:03,076
"Yes," I said.

1407
01:29:03,076 --> 01:29:04,861
"That's just how
it is with us."

1408
01:29:05,905 --> 01:29:07,646
Each story we tell
is a fragment

1409
01:29:07,646 --> 01:29:10,083
in an endless
shape-shifting mosaic.

1410
01:29:11,650 --> 01:29:15,785
And this small pebble,
like all stories, must end.

1411
01:29:17,743 --> 01:29:20,920
If it's about wishing,
it's a cautionary tale.

1412
01:29:22,008 --> 01:29:25,011
So, how will it go wrong?

1413
01:29:25,011 --> 01:29:27,536
Perhaps, it already has.

1414
01:29:30,843 --> 01:29:33,368
Even though Truth
stood before them naked,

1415
01:29:33,368 --> 01:29:35,021
they turned their backs.

1416
01:29:35,021 --> 01:29:39,504
So, Truth moved to the side
and waited in the shadows.

1417
01:29:39,504 --> 01:29:41,158
In the days that followed,

1418
01:29:41,158 --> 01:29:44,683
the Djinn would accompany
the narratologist to her work.

1419
01:29:44,683 --> 01:29:46,293
And when he wasn't with her,

1420
01:29:46,293 --> 01:29:49,514
he would go in eager
exploration of the world.

1421
01:29:49,514 --> 01:29:52,474
[machine beeping]

1422
01:29:52,474 --> 01:29:55,390
[The Djinn] Today I had
such a marvelous day.

1423
01:29:56,695 --> 01:29:59,698
I saw many things.

1424
01:29:59,698 --> 01:30:03,876
I watched a human look into
the living brain of another

1425
01:30:03,876 --> 01:30:06,488
and arrest a fatal bleeding.

1426
01:30:10,970 --> 01:30:12,755
I visited the Collider.

1427
01:30:14,060 --> 01:30:18,500
A vast gizmo which probed
the essence of matter.

1428
01:30:21,633 --> 01:30:24,897
And then I saw a dish,
a great dish

1429
01:30:24,897 --> 01:30:28,597
that listens to the whispers
of stars long dead.

1430
01:30:30,729 --> 01:30:32,731
Humankind is...

1431
01:30:32,731 --> 01:30:34,646
is a wonder, Alithea.

1432
01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:37,997
I'm happy you think so.

1433
01:30:37,997 --> 01:30:41,087
All of this since I was
trapped in Zefir's bottle.

1434
01:30:41,087 --> 01:30:45,875
All these astonishments,
in less than 200 years.

1435
01:30:45,875 --> 01:30:47,877
Yes, but, I mean,

1436
01:30:47,877 --> 01:30:52,185
that's just engineering
and technology.

1437
01:30:52,185 --> 01:30:54,797
Despite all the whiz-bang,

1438
01:30:54,797 --> 01:30:56,929
we remain bewildered.

1439
01:30:59,845 --> 01:31:01,804
When we can't
contain the chaos,

1440
01:31:03,588 --> 01:31:06,199
we are filled
with dread and panic,

1441
01:31:06,199 --> 01:31:08,506
and we turn on each other.

1442
01:31:08,506 --> 01:31:11,030
But of course, you are human.

1443
01:31:11,030 --> 01:31:13,163
That is your nature.

1444
01:31:15,513 --> 01:31:18,951
Yeah. So, the story
never changes.

1445
01:31:19,865 --> 01:31:22,564
Hate prevails.

1446
01:31:22,564 --> 01:31:27,177
It metastasizes
and outlives love.

1447
01:31:28,961 --> 01:31:31,616
I just want
to talk about love.

1448
01:31:31,616 --> 01:31:35,664
Such a mess
of contradictions,
all of you.

1449
01:31:35,664 --> 01:31:36,795
Thank you very much.

1450
01:31:36,795 --> 01:31:40,103
Humankind,
what a conundrum.

1451
01:31:40,103 --> 01:31:42,845
You fumble around in the dark,

1452
01:31:42,845 --> 01:31:45,978
and yet, you herd your
intelligence to great effect.

1453
01:31:45,978 --> 01:31:47,632
It is quite a story.

1454
01:31:47,632 --> 01:31:48,894
[chuckles softly]

1455
01:31:48,894 --> 01:31:51,767
Cannot wait to see
where it goes.

1456
01:31:51,767 --> 01:31:53,682
Or how it might end.

1457
01:31:54,030 --> 01:31:55,771
That too.

1458
01:31:55,771 --> 01:31:59,731
A mortal will never know,
but a djinn might.

1459
01:31:59,731 --> 01:32:02,212
A djinn has all the time
in the world.

1460
01:32:04,301 --> 01:32:06,521
Aren't you the lucky one?

1461
01:32:06,521 --> 01:32:07,870
Maybe.

1462
01:32:08,871 --> 01:32:12,135
But you creatures
of dust have...

1463
01:32:12,135 --> 01:32:13,658
have managed to eclipse

1464
01:32:13,658 --> 01:32:17,009
the power and purpose
of djinn and angel.

1465
01:32:17,009 --> 01:32:19,229
You have no use for us.

1466
01:32:19,229 --> 01:32:20,622
Perhaps, we will wither and...

1467
01:32:20,622 --> 01:32:22,145
-And fade away?
-Yes.

1468
01:32:22,145 --> 01:32:24,582
Yeah. Well, that used
to be the subject

1469
01:32:24,582 --> 01:32:26,671
of all my lectures and papers.

1470
01:32:26,671 --> 01:32:27,977
I know.

1471
01:32:30,588 --> 01:32:32,329
And yet, here you are.

1472
01:32:34,026 --> 01:32:36,115
My impossible.

1473
01:32:38,030 --> 01:32:39,118
Yes.

1474
01:32:43,732 --> 01:32:44,863
[keypad beeping]

1475
01:32:44,863 --> 01:32:45,951
[door unlocks]

1476
01:32:51,566 --> 01:32:52,741
Hello?

1477
01:32:58,181 --> 01:32:59,791
I'm home!

1478
01:33:09,758 --> 01:33:11,063
Hello?

1479
01:33:30,735 --> 01:33:31,823
[switch clicks]

1480
01:33:37,089 --> 01:33:38,656
Djinn?

1481
01:33:42,704 --> 01:33:43,922
My love?

1482
01:33:43,922 --> 01:33:45,141
[Alithea gasps]

1483
01:33:47,926 --> 01:33:48,971
Djinn.

1484
01:33:50,102 --> 01:33:51,190
[switch clicks]

1485
01:33:53,192 --> 01:33:54,367
What's this?

1486
01:33:56,979 --> 01:33:58,981
Can you hear me?

1487
01:33:58,981 --> 01:34:01,157
Djinn, speak to me.

1488
01:34:01,157 --> 01:34:02,724
Try to speak to me.

1489
01:34:04,682 --> 01:34:06,858
I wish you to speak to me.

1490
01:34:08,077 --> 01:34:09,339
[cracking]

1491
01:34:09,339 --> 01:34:10,427
[crumbling]

1492
01:34:10,862 --> 01:34:11,950
Oh...

1493
01:34:13,212 --> 01:34:15,737
[breathes heavily and grunts]

1494
01:34:19,262 --> 01:34:20,959
[breathing raggedly]

1495
01:34:22,004 --> 01:34:24,876
[inhales deeply]

1496
01:34:24,876 --> 01:34:26,878
-[static buzzes]
-[gasps and clears throat]

1497
01:34:26,878 --> 01:34:28,924
[in distorted high voice]
I was sleeping.

1498
01:34:28,924 --> 01:34:31,143
[grunts] Sleeping.

1499
01:34:32,884 --> 01:34:35,017
Djinn don't sleep.

1500
01:34:35,017 --> 01:34:36,322
[The Djinn] Let's go
for a walk.

1501
01:34:36,322 --> 01:34:37,802
A long, bracing walk.

1502
01:34:37,802 --> 01:34:39,369
I have prepared
something for us.

1503
01:34:39,369 --> 01:34:40,979
[in normal voice]
I have it all planned.

1504
01:34:40,979 --> 01:34:43,155
[breathlessly]
A wonderous night for us.

1505
01:34:43,155 --> 01:34:45,331
It will be amazing.

1506
01:34:45,331 --> 01:34:48,160
-The best time of our lives.
-Stop!

1507
01:34:48,160 --> 01:34:52,295
These electromagnetic fields,
I can push them from my head.

1508
01:34:52,295 --> 01:34:53,862
I can push them away.

1509
01:34:54,950 --> 01:34:56,168
We'll go for a picnic.

1510
01:34:56,168 --> 01:34:57,300
[panting]

1511
01:34:57,300 --> 01:34:59,694
[speaking Djinnbish]

1512
01:35:01,086 --> 01:35:03,262
Ah, we'll play the ukulele.

1513
01:35:03,262 --> 01:35:05,830
[speaking Djinnbish]

1514
01:35:05,830 --> 01:35:09,138
Alithea, there is a place
for me here.

1515
01:35:09,138 --> 01:35:10,400
These forces,

1516
01:35:10,400 --> 01:35:12,097
they will never go away,
not from this world.

1517
01:35:12,097 --> 01:35:14,317
I will overcome them.
I can do that for you.

1518
01:35:14,317 --> 01:35:16,493
You are my Alithea,
and I love you.

1519
01:35:16,493 --> 01:35:18,277
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for trying.

1520
01:35:18,277 --> 01:35:19,409
You don't think
that I love you?

1521
01:35:20,497 --> 01:35:22,717
Love is a gift.

1522
01:35:22,717 --> 01:35:25,110
It's a gift of oneself
given freely.

1523
01:35:25,110 --> 01:35:27,330
It's not something
one can ever ask for.

1524
01:35:28,853 --> 01:35:30,072
I tricked us both.

1525
01:35:30,072 --> 01:35:31,769
The moment I spoke that wish,

1526
01:35:31,769 --> 01:35:34,859
I took away
your power to grant it.

1527
01:35:34,859 --> 01:35:39,124
I, more than anybody,
I should've known that.

1528
01:35:39,124 --> 01:35:41,300
I'm not going
to screw this up again.

1529
01:35:41,300 --> 01:35:45,478
My Djinn, if this world
is not for you,

1530
01:35:45,478 --> 01:35:48,351
I wish that you return
to where you belong.

1531
01:35:49,178 --> 01:35:51,267
Wherever that may be.

1532
01:35:54,052 --> 01:35:55,445
[breathing heavily]

1533
01:35:55,445 --> 01:35:58,056
[glass cracking]

1534
01:36:03,801 --> 01:36:05,890
[shuddering]

1535
01:36:11,330 --> 01:36:12,767
[sobs]

1536
01:37:07,865 --> 01:37:09,040
[switch clicks]

1537
01:37:18,484 --> 01:37:19,572
[sighs]

1538
01:37:25,143 --> 01:37:28,190
[emotional string
music playing]

1539
01:37:47,644 --> 01:37:50,212
[couple laughing]

1540
01:38:03,921 --> 01:38:06,054
[couple speaking indistinctly]

1541
01:38:18,544 --> 01:38:19,632
[girl] Mommy!

1542
01:38:21,634 --> 01:38:23,680
[man] Come here, little monkey.

1543
01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:25,508
That's not Mommy.

1544
01:38:25,508 --> 01:38:27,597
[girl and man
speaking indistinctly]

1545
01:39:00,325 --> 01:39:02,240
[dog barks]

1546
01:39:02,240 --> 01:39:03,938
[kids shouting playfully]

1547
01:39:07,637 --> 01:39:09,421
[wind blows]

1548
01:39:23,609 --> 01:39:27,657
[mouthing]

1549
01:39:34,577 --> 01:39:36,492
[wind whistling]

1550
01:39:39,234 --> 01:39:42,367
[sentimental string
music playing]

1551
01:39:53,248 --> 01:39:54,510
[man 1] Hey, hey, hey!
[man 2] Ah, no!

1552
01:39:54,510 --> 01:39:56,512
[man 1] Watch it.
Top striker in the league.

1553
01:40:04,128 --> 01:40:05,477
-[grunts]
-[men laughing]

1554
01:40:05,477 --> 01:40:06,609
[man 1] Did you see that?

1555
01:40:10,134 --> 01:40:12,745
[Alithea] He would visit
from time to time,

1556
01:40:12,745 --> 01:40:16,227
and they would grasp
each vivid moment.

1557
01:40:16,227 --> 01:40:19,143
Despite the pain
of the raucous skies,

1558
01:40:19,143 --> 01:40:21,798
he always stayed
longer than he should,

1559
01:40:21,798 --> 01:40:24,148
long after
she begged him to leave.

1560
01:40:25,280 --> 01:40:28,500
He promised to return
in her lifetime,

1561
01:40:28,500 --> 01:40:31,503
and for her,
that was more than enough.

1562
01:40:33,331 --> 01:40:36,378
[sentimental string
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