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♪ ♪

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(insects trilling)

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(Amenza speaking)

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(chatter in local language)

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-(speaks local language)
-(chatter stops)

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(fire crackling)

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(birds screeching)

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(laughter)

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(chatter resumes)

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-(bird calling)
-(chatter stops)

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♪ ♪

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(speaks Fongbe)

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(undulating cry)

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(all shouting)

15
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(grunting and groaning)

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Agojie! Agoj...

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-(squishing thud)
-(screams)

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SOLDIER:
Agojie!

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(grunting and groaning)

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(gasps)

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(grunting and groaning
continue)

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(soldier screams)

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-(soldier groans)
-No!

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(grunting and groaning
continue)

25
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(panting gruffly)

26
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Where are the prisoners?

27
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Where are our people?

28
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We are farmers. We took no one!

29
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Miganon.

30
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(gasps)

31
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(trembling breaths)

32
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(gurgling)

33
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(birds calling)

34
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You will be home soon.

35
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Horses.

36
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That can only mean
Oyo soldiers.

37
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(horseshoe clangs)

38
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(sobbing quietly)

39
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Who is she?

40
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(sobs)

41
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My mother.

42
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We will take you back
to your village.

43
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-Perhaps your father...
-They sold him.

44
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And my brothers.

45
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They sold them all.

46
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(sobbing continues)

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♪ ♪

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Miganon.

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The prisoners are ready
to march.

50
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Bring me stronger warriors.

51
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-(birds chirping)
-(livestock bleating)

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♪ ♪

53
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(lively chatter)

54
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Thank you.

55
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It doesn't matt... Nawi!

56
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-Yeah?
-Tell your mother

57
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to see me for the dress.

58
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What dress?

59
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(scoffs) Your wedding dress.

60
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I will make you beautiful.

61
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Tell her.

62
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They have made you
another match?

63
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I don't know what
she's talking about.

64
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(horn blowing)

65
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They are coming.

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-(excited chatter)
-Let's go.

67
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(undulating cries)

68
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(laughing)

69
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-(excited chatter continues)
-MAN: Come here!

70
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-MAN 2: Daughter! Come!
-WOMAN: My daughter!

71
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MAN 3:
My sister!

72
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WOMAN 2:
My sister!

73
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BOY:
Mother!

74
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MAN 3:
I'm so happy to see you.

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(bells clanking)

76
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(chatter quiets)

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♪ ♪

78
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-But I want to see.
-Shh!

79
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The king does not allow us
to look upon the Agojie.

80
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♪ ♪

81
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(chuckles)

82
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Nanisca.

83
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It is a victory.

84
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They are here for you.

85
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They do not know
an evil is coming.

86
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They know
you will protect them.

87
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I wish to speak to the king.

88
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He's only seeing wives today.

89
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Tell him. I will wait.

90
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NAWI: The Agojie drink
from the skulls

91
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of the men they have killed.
-No.

92
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NAWI:
They cut off their heads

93
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and melt off their skin
in boiling hot cauldrons.

94
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-Sister! Sister!
-Nawi.

95
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-Hmm?
-We have a visitor.

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It's a rich man from Cana.

97
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Come.

98
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(chuckles) Come.

99
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Maybe he is handsome.

100
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I own three fields
of palm trees.

101
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You will work.

102
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You do not talk
to your husband?

103
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In my house,
you will learn to obey.

104
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(grunting)

105
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MORU:
Nawi!

106
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Forgive my daughter.

107
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The whispers were right.

108
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This...

109
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girl is worthless.

110
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Master Abade.

111
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Come!

112
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I wish to give my daughter
to the king.

113
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No husband will have her.

114
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I will not marry an old man
who beats me.

115
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MORU:
Go to war, then.

116
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You will understand
what pain is.

117
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Enter.

118
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In the palace,
you do not have to look away.

119
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(blades clanking)

120
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Come.

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(warriors grunting)

122
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(grunting continues)

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IZOGIE:
Close your mouth.

124
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You look like a fish.

125
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(liquid bubbling)

126
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What's in there?

127
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Indigo dye.

128
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Oh.

129
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What did you think it was?

130
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-Heads.
-(chuckles)

131
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No.

132
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Those are the heads.

133
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Some of the men
who raided our village.

134
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The rest will be sold
in Ouidah.

135
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No men but the eunuchs
are allowed

136
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in the palace after dark.

137
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Beyond this wall,
this is a palace of women.

138
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(laughter and indistinct
chatter)

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Come.

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♪ ♪

141
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(quiet chatter, laughter)

142
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Hey.

143
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Go and bathe yourselves.

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♪ ♪

145
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(horse neighing)

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♪ ♪

147
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Oyo, can you see this?

148
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Your comrades murdered...

149
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by women.

150
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-(murmuring)
-(horse snorting)

151
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The Dahomey grow too bold
under their new king.

152
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GHEZO:
My loves.

153
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My loves.

154
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My love.

155
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My love.

156
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Nanisca, come with me.

157
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(grunts softly)

158
00:15:04,405 --> 00:15:07,007
Why does he always favor her?

159
00:15:07,141 --> 00:15:11,145
She comes here filthy,
shows no respect.

160
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She fought for him
during the coup.

161
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Put him on the throne.

162
00:15:15,683 --> 00:15:17,951
What did you do?

163
00:15:18,085 --> 00:15:20,954
Locked yourself in a cupboard.

164
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The Oyo have entered our land.

165
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They have broken the peace.

166
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When they come for the tribute,

167
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we will not pay it.

168
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-But that would mean war.
-Migan, we have been

169
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under the foot of the Oyo
since my father's time.

170
00:15:44,111 --> 00:15:46,480
Are you not tired? Eh?

171
00:15:46,614 --> 00:15:50,017
Oh, because we...
we fear their might.

172
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Because of fear.

173
00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,891
My king, they are a nation
twice our size,

174
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with horses and more muskets.

175
00:15:58,626 --> 00:16:01,796
We need time to plan
and prepare our armies.

176
00:16:01,930 --> 00:16:03,330
The Agojie are ready.

177
00:16:03,464 --> 00:16:05,999
How many did you lose
in this last battle

178
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against the lowly Mahi?

179
00:16:09,169 --> 00:16:13,173
My king, I hear whispers
of a new general.

180
00:16:13,307 --> 00:16:16,578
This last attack
was sword rattling.

181
00:16:16,711 --> 00:16:17,946
Nothing more.

182
00:16:18,078 --> 00:16:19,279
I agree.

183
00:16:19,413 --> 00:16:20,915
Dahomey has prospered
in the peace.

184
00:16:21,048 --> 00:16:22,382
And the Oyo, too.

185
00:16:22,517 --> 00:16:25,920
The slave trade
is the reason we prosper.

186
00:16:26,086 --> 00:16:27,254
But at what price?

187
00:16:27,387 --> 00:16:30,023
It is a poison
slowly killing us,

188
00:16:30,157 --> 00:16:31,559
and the Europeans know this.

189
00:16:31,693 --> 00:16:34,328
They come to our land
for their human cargo.

190
00:16:34,461 --> 00:16:35,996
They've come to trade.

191
00:16:36,129 --> 00:16:37,498
We sell them what they want.

192
00:16:37,632 --> 00:16:39,901
But why do we sell
our captives?

193
00:16:40,033 --> 00:16:41,703
For weapons?

194
00:16:41,836 --> 00:16:44,271
To capture more people
to sell for more weapons?

195
00:16:44,404 --> 00:16:47,876
It is a dark circle
with no end.

196
00:16:48,008 --> 00:16:49,878
This is not the way.

197
00:16:50,010 --> 00:16:51,813
The spirits have spoken.

198
00:16:51,946 --> 00:16:53,715
Ifá seeks light.

199
00:16:55,182 --> 00:16:57,150
So, what do you suggest,
Nanisca?

200
00:16:57,284 --> 00:16:59,988
We have other things to sell.

201
00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:01,221
Gold. Palm oil.

202
00:17:01,355 --> 00:17:02,824
We can double our harvest.

203
00:17:02,957 --> 00:17:05,025
She wants to make us
a nation of peasants.

204
00:17:05,158 --> 00:17:07,662
I want Dahomey to survive.

205
00:17:10,430 --> 00:17:12,800
The gods have brought us
a new king.

206
00:17:12,934 --> 00:17:15,003
A king to be feared.

207
00:17:15,135 --> 00:17:16,470
No one fears a farmer.

208
00:17:16,604 --> 00:17:21,041
We have already started
to gather the tribute.

209
00:17:21,174 --> 00:17:24,344
Perhaps we pay, to buy us time.

210
00:17:28,148 --> 00:17:30,217
I promise...

211
00:17:30,350 --> 00:17:33,521
this will be our last.

212
00:17:33,655 --> 00:17:38,292
As for the palm oil,
Nanisca, show me.

213
00:17:38,425 --> 00:17:42,296
Show me how much you can
produce, and we will see.

214
00:17:53,373 --> 00:17:55,944
You speak in secret
to the king.

215
00:17:56,076 --> 00:17:57,812
You seek to cut me out.

216
00:17:57,946 --> 00:18:00,080
If the king respects me,

217
00:18:00,213 --> 00:18:02,717
it is because I have earned it.

218
00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:09,089
Gboje.

219
00:18:11,224 --> 00:18:12,560
I am Amenza.

220
00:18:12,694 --> 00:18:15,863
You come to the palace
of Ghezo,

221
00:18:15,997 --> 00:18:18,365
the ninth monarch
of the Dahomey people,

222
00:18:18,498 --> 00:18:22,036
descendants of
the leopard Agasu,

223
00:18:22,169 --> 00:18:27,542
beloved of the twin gods,
Mawu and her brother Lisa.

224
00:18:27,675 --> 00:18:31,579
You are called to join
the King's Guard.

225
00:18:38,185 --> 00:18:40,088
We fight...

226
00:18:40,220 --> 00:18:42,255
or we die.

227
00:18:45,225 --> 00:18:48,863
We fight for Dahomey,

228
00:18:48,997 --> 00:18:50,999
for our sisters,

229
00:18:51,131 --> 00:18:53,166
for our great king.

230
00:18:53,300 --> 00:18:56,169
You will be revered.

231
00:18:57,270 --> 00:19:00,108
You will be paid for your work.

232
00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:01,843
Your opinions will be heard.

233
00:19:01,976 --> 00:19:06,346
No tribe or kingdom
in all of Africa

234
00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,182
shares this privilege.

235
00:19:09,316 --> 00:19:10,652
For this honor,

236
00:19:10,785 --> 00:19:14,889
we live out our lives
in these palace walls.

237
00:19:17,157 --> 00:19:20,028
We take no husband.

238
00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,764
We will bear no children.

239
00:19:22,897 --> 00:19:24,732
Mahi women,

240
00:19:24,866 --> 00:19:27,702
no harm will come to you
for the sins of your men.

241
00:19:27,835 --> 00:19:31,639
I offer you and our people
a choice.

242
00:19:33,007 --> 00:19:36,844
Any woman who does not wish
to stay...

243
00:19:38,245 --> 00:19:39,947
...may leave.

244
00:19:42,282 --> 00:19:44,519
(murmuring)

245
00:19:46,253 --> 00:19:48,556
♪ ♪

246
00:20:04,038 --> 00:20:05,238
(indistinct chatter)

247
00:20:05,372 --> 00:20:06,841
AMENZA:
I can't continue with this one.

248
00:20:06,974 --> 00:20:09,110
You're talking vodun.
You don't want to listen.

249
00:20:09,242 --> 00:20:10,578
No, you want to laugh.

250
00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,050
Do not touch
another warrior's weapon.

251
00:20:16,184 --> 00:20:19,319
Mm. Especially that one.

252
00:20:19,453 --> 00:20:21,288
It is cursed.

253
00:20:21,421 --> 00:20:24,491
Esi couldn't hit an elephant
in a stampede.

254
00:20:24,625 --> 00:20:26,127
Turn your back and see

255
00:20:26,259 --> 00:20:28,863
how true my aim is.
-Ah, me?

256
00:20:30,230 --> 00:20:31,298
Mm.

257
00:20:31,431 --> 00:20:34,001
(both laughing)

258
00:20:38,573 --> 00:20:40,541
Spent all my liberties
walking the river

259
00:20:40,675 --> 00:20:43,211
till I found
the perfect whetstone.

260
00:20:43,343 --> 00:20:46,246
Shaped smooth by the waterfall.

261
00:20:46,379 --> 00:20:48,649
Sharpens to a thorn.

262
00:20:50,484 --> 00:20:53,320
Pop out their eyeballs,
fight is over.

263
00:20:53,453 --> 00:20:54,956
(Izogie chuckles)

264
00:20:55,089 --> 00:20:59,259
They are also useful in keeping
the trainees in line.

265
00:20:59,392 --> 00:21:00,595
Why have you not bathed?

266
00:21:00,728 --> 00:21:02,295
You are going to bring
the buzzards.

267
00:21:02,429 --> 00:21:04,899
-I let the others go before me.
-Ah.

268
00:21:05,032 --> 00:21:08,202
(clicks tongue)
The first rule of training:

269
00:21:08,335 --> 00:21:11,438
always obey Izogie.

270
00:21:14,307 --> 00:21:17,410
I am Izogie.

271
00:21:32,325 --> 00:21:34,862
(water splashes)

272
00:21:42,203 --> 00:21:44,272
I'm sorry.

273
00:21:44,404 --> 00:21:47,575
You may stay.

274
00:21:47,708 --> 00:21:50,410
You are one of
the captives we freed?

275
00:21:50,545 --> 00:21:52,513
No. My father brought me.

276
00:21:52,647 --> 00:21:54,347
As a gift to the king.

277
00:21:54,481 --> 00:21:57,084
Is your father rich?

278
00:21:57,218 --> 00:21:58,686
He must be.

279
00:21:58,820 --> 00:22:01,321
Otherwise, he would have
sold you to a rich husband.

280
00:22:01,454 --> 00:22:03,390
He tried.

281
00:22:03,524 --> 00:22:06,227
I do not want a husband.

282
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:07,695
I want to be a soldier.

283
00:22:07,829 --> 00:22:10,298
-An Agojie.
-How old are you?

284
00:22:10,430 --> 00:22:12,033
I have 19 years.

285
00:22:12,166 --> 00:22:13,400
You look like a child.

286
00:22:13,534 --> 00:22:15,269
I work hard.

287
00:22:15,402 --> 00:22:16,971
Harder than anyone.

288
00:22:17,104 --> 00:22:20,373
Many obstinate daughters
are dumped at the palace.

289
00:22:20,508 --> 00:22:22,944
They usually fail.

290
00:22:24,245 --> 00:22:25,980
All our lives, they...

291
00:22:26,113 --> 00:22:29,016
they tell us stories
about the Agojie.

292
00:22:29,150 --> 00:22:30,618
That you have magic.

293
00:22:30,751 --> 00:22:34,622
You look like
a regular old woman to me.

294
00:22:37,558 --> 00:22:41,662
Fighting is not magic.

295
00:22:42,362 --> 00:22:44,165
It is skill.

296
00:22:44,298 --> 00:22:47,434
We will see if you have any.

297
00:23:00,447 --> 00:23:03,483
I am not a soldier.

298
00:23:03,618 --> 00:23:06,486
Then why did you stay?

299
00:23:06,621 --> 00:23:08,890
I have nowhere else to go.

300
00:23:11,325 --> 00:23:13,294
You are Mahi.

301
00:23:13,426 --> 00:23:14,695
Why did you stay?

302
00:23:14,829 --> 00:23:19,100
Here, I will be the hunter,
not prey.

303
00:23:22,536 --> 00:23:24,672
♪ ♪

304
00:23:38,719 --> 00:23:41,856
Today, you are receiving
your first weapon.

305
00:23:43,557 --> 00:23:45,893
♪ ♪

306
00:23:55,468 --> 00:23:57,437
Not good.

307
00:24:00,473 --> 00:24:01,943
Ah, good.

308
00:24:06,147 --> 00:24:07,181
Again.

309
00:24:08,481 --> 00:24:10,184
A rope is not a weapon.

310
00:24:11,819 --> 00:24:14,555
You wish for
a different weapon?

311
00:24:15,656 --> 00:24:17,692
Stand up.

312
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,930
Go. Attack the soldier.
Take his head.

313
00:24:27,702 --> 00:24:30,538
-I apologize.
-Do not apologize. Do it.

314
00:24:42,516 --> 00:24:44,251
(grunts)

315
00:24:44,385 --> 00:24:46,053
(light laughter)

316
00:25:00,634 --> 00:25:03,537
I'd work on that rope.

317
00:25:09,377 --> 00:25:11,712
Hey. Tsetse.

318
00:25:12,713 --> 00:25:14,315
Who's Tsetse?

319
00:25:14,448 --> 00:25:15,783
You, little fly.

320
00:25:15,916 --> 00:25:18,886
Buzzing around full speed.

321
00:25:19,020 --> 00:25:21,389
But you don't know
where you are going.

322
00:25:21,522 --> 00:25:23,524
We need smart warriors.

323
00:25:23,657 --> 00:25:24,525
The dumb ones die quickly.

324
00:25:24,658 --> 00:25:26,360
I'm not dumb.

325
00:25:26,494 --> 00:25:27,561
-Then show me.

326
00:25:27,695 --> 00:25:29,497
You have to train different.

327
00:25:29,630 --> 00:25:31,932
The drills are a game.

328
00:25:32,066 --> 00:25:34,702
It is play,
like when you were a child.

329
00:25:34,835 --> 00:25:37,506
I was not allowed to play.

330
00:25:37,638 --> 00:25:39,173
I was made to work.

331
00:25:39,306 --> 00:25:41,475
Such a sad tale.

332
00:25:41,609 --> 00:25:43,210
You don't know anything.

333
00:25:47,648 --> 00:25:48,849
(sighs)

334
00:25:48,983 --> 00:25:53,921
You know, when I had 14 years,

335
00:25:54,055 --> 00:25:57,691
my mother put a sign out
to sell my virginity.

336
00:25:58,659 --> 00:26:00,294
The first man came,

337
00:26:00,428 --> 00:26:03,764
and I cried for my mother,
but she didn't come.

338
00:26:03,898 --> 00:26:07,536
The second man came
and complained of my tears,

339
00:26:07,668 --> 00:26:09,136
so she beat me.

340
00:26:09,270 --> 00:26:13,908
The third man came,
and I burned him with an ember.

341
00:26:17,078 --> 00:26:19,747
(scoffs) Your family was cruel,

342
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,750
as was my mother.

343
00:26:22,883 --> 00:26:25,886
It is enough to make you cry.

344
00:26:26,821 --> 00:26:29,924
But it is better to laugh. Yes?

345
00:26:31,659 --> 00:26:34,295
You have a new family now.

346
00:26:39,934 --> 00:26:41,469
IZOGIE:
Trainees, we will prepare you

347
00:26:41,602 --> 00:26:43,070
for the final test.

348
00:26:43,204 --> 00:26:46,307
You will perform your
battle skills before the king.

349
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:47,675
♪ ♪

350
00:26:47,808 --> 00:26:50,311
(voice-over)
Those who pass the test

351
00:26:50,444 --> 00:26:51,846
will become Agojie.

352
00:26:51,979 --> 00:26:55,517
And those who fail
will leave the palace,

353
00:26:55,649 --> 00:26:56,750
never to return.

354
00:26:56,884 --> 00:26:59,386
(heavy, pained breathing)

355
00:27:00,988 --> 00:27:04,091
Hey, look at you.
The Oyo will catch you,

356
00:27:04,225 --> 00:27:06,760
hang you by your feet
and cut your throat.

357
00:27:07,761 --> 00:27:09,864
Use your feet and walk!

358
00:27:10,698 --> 00:27:13,400
♪ ♪

359
00:27:19,707 --> 00:27:21,809
(Nawi groans softly)

360
00:27:22,743 --> 00:27:25,246
(grunting)

361
00:27:27,715 --> 00:27:28,849
-(trainees exclaim)
-(groans)

362
00:27:28,983 --> 00:27:31,785
Get up.
You are just waiting to die.

363
00:27:32,853 --> 00:27:35,590
(grunting)

364
00:27:35,723 --> 00:27:37,791
Are we training to cook?

365
00:27:37,925 --> 00:27:41,563
You are cutting a body,
not a yam.

366
00:27:41,695 --> 00:27:44,131
Swing with purpose.

367
00:27:51,805 --> 00:27:55,109
MAN:
Ready. Fire!

368
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,183
-(grunting and groaning)
-IZOGIE: Good, Ode.

369
00:28:02,316 --> 00:28:04,885
-TRAINEE: Get out!
-Nawi, you move like a sloth.

370
00:28:05,019 --> 00:28:07,589
(trainees shouting
encouragement)

371
00:28:07,755 --> 00:28:09,924
(cheering, clapping)

372
00:28:10,858 --> 00:28:12,193
TRAINEE:
That's right.

373
00:28:13,928 --> 00:28:17,364
-WARRIOR (chanting): Dahomey!
-(warriors chanting in Fongbe)

374
00:28:19,568 --> 00:28:22,703
-AGOJIE (chanting): Izogie!
-(warriors chanting in Fongbe)

375
00:28:31,879 --> 00:28:35,482
(chant intensifies,
increasing in tempo)

376
00:28:50,764 --> 00:28:52,499
(yells)

377
00:28:52,634 --> 00:28:54,268
(cheering)

378
00:28:54,401 --> 00:28:58,739
-(chanting): Agojie!
-(chanting in Fongbe)

379
00:29:02,843 --> 00:29:04,579
(fast-tempo chant continues)

380
00:29:04,713 --> 00:29:07,047
(chant fades)

381
00:29:07,982 --> 00:29:09,083
NAWI:
Fumbe.

382
00:29:09,216 --> 00:29:11,752
Show me how to tie the rope.

383
00:29:11,885 --> 00:29:14,054
(laughs) Never.

384
00:29:14,188 --> 00:29:16,725
It is the only thing
I can do better than you.

385
00:29:16,857 --> 00:29:19,728
(scoffs) Ode, this one.

386
00:29:19,860 --> 00:29:21,962
(laughter)

387
00:29:22,863 --> 00:29:24,733
But did you see Izogie?

388
00:29:24,865 --> 00:29:26,867
-(sighs)
-With the dagger here.

389
00:29:27,001 --> 00:29:29,738
She's standing there,
not moving, not in pain.

390
00:29:29,870 --> 00:29:31,805
-Wow.
-(chuckles) I love it.

391
00:29:31,939 --> 00:29:33,774
I'm going to be like her.

392
00:29:33,907 --> 00:29:34,875
Yes, my friend.

393
00:29:35,009 --> 00:29:36,310
-As strong as her.
-Mm-hmm.

394
00:29:36,443 --> 00:29:38,546
You try to stab me,
I'll stab you back.

395
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,814
-Yeah.
-(laughter)

396
00:29:40,948 --> 00:29:42,517
IZOGIE:
Backswing.

397
00:29:44,952 --> 00:29:46,721
(explosive pop)

398
00:29:46,854 --> 00:29:49,089
(quiet laughter)

399
00:29:50,924 --> 00:29:53,460
(snickering)

400
00:29:56,830 --> 00:30:00,535
Which of you designed
this trick?

401
00:30:03,605 --> 00:30:04,972
NANISCA:
Hmm?

402
00:30:05,105 --> 00:30:07,642
-Then you will all be punished.
-I did it.

403
00:30:07,776 --> 00:30:10,077
-We all did it.
-No.

404
00:30:10,944 --> 00:30:12,647
It was me.

405
00:30:12,781 --> 00:30:13,847
I apologize.

406
00:30:13,981 --> 00:30:16,483
Once again.

407
00:30:17,918 --> 00:30:19,953
Go back to the barracks.

408
00:30:24,992 --> 00:30:28,429
How do you make this explosion?

409
00:30:29,631 --> 00:30:32,833
You do not need guns
to use gunpowder.

410
00:30:32,966 --> 00:30:34,968
We just need a spark.

411
00:30:35,903 --> 00:30:38,472
You like the guns?

412
00:30:38,606 --> 00:30:41,041
Do you enjoy practicing
with the men in the infantry?

413
00:30:41,175 --> 00:30:44,178
I see you flirting.

414
00:30:44,311 --> 00:30:46,514
-This is not allowed?
-You know it is not.

415
00:30:46,648 --> 00:30:48,015
Why not?

416
00:30:48,148 --> 00:30:50,851
The men who are soldiers
have wives and children,

417
00:30:50,984 --> 00:30:52,721
but the Agojie cannot.

418
00:30:52,853 --> 00:30:54,288
How is that fair?

419
00:30:54,421 --> 00:30:56,156
Were you this arrogant
with your family?

420
00:30:56,290 --> 00:30:57,925
No wonder they gave you away.

421
00:30:58,058 --> 00:31:00,595
It is you who is arrogant.

422
00:31:01,929 --> 00:31:03,798
I am a general.

423
00:31:03,931 --> 00:31:04,998
I have earned it.

424
00:31:05,132 --> 00:31:06,835
You have earned nothing.

425
00:31:06,967 --> 00:31:08,102
I should put you out.

426
00:31:08,235 --> 00:31:09,870
-No.
-I have watched soldiers die

427
00:31:10,003 --> 00:31:12,106
because they did not
have discipline.

428
00:31:12,239 --> 00:31:13,842
Their easy life
did not prepare them for

429
00:31:13,974 --> 00:31:17,945
-this life here as an Agojie.
-I did not have an easy life.

430
00:31:19,913 --> 00:31:22,684
(crying)
I did not have an easy life.

431
00:31:22,817 --> 00:31:24,017
Please.

432
00:31:24,151 --> 00:31:25,953
I-I want to be here
with the others.

433
00:31:26,086 --> 00:31:28,188
I want to fight for my king.

434
00:31:30,457 --> 00:31:31,959
Please.

435
00:31:32,092 --> 00:31:36,463
Your tears mean nothing.

436
00:31:38,132 --> 00:31:41,402
To be a warrior,
you must kill your tears.

437
00:31:44,104 --> 00:31:46,373
(sniffles)

438
00:31:48,976 --> 00:31:50,512
Go.

439
00:31:51,813 --> 00:31:53,147
Ah.

440
00:32:01,488 --> 00:32:03,457
Go.

441
00:32:09,997 --> 00:32:11,566
Hey.

442
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:13,967
You are a Mahi prisoner.

443
00:32:14,101 --> 00:32:15,904
That is all you will ever be.

444
00:32:16,036 --> 00:32:18,338
What did you say?

445
00:32:18,472 --> 00:32:20,875
-She killed our people.
-You killed mine.

446
00:32:21,008 --> 00:32:24,011
Me, I also came here a captive.

447
00:32:24,144 --> 00:32:26,881
Do you think yourself
better than me?

448
00:32:27,014 --> 00:32:28,115
No, Ajahi.

449
00:32:28,248 --> 00:32:30,585
If you make it
through the final test,

450
00:32:30,718 --> 00:32:33,020
you are one of us.

451
00:32:33,153 --> 00:32:36,056
No matter where you come from.

452
00:32:40,060 --> 00:32:42,062
Hmm. (sniffs)

453
00:32:46,901 --> 00:32:48,837
Hey, Tsetse.

454
00:32:48,969 --> 00:32:49,970
Eat up.

455
00:32:50,103 --> 00:32:53,240
Nanisca favors the strong.

456
00:32:53,373 --> 00:32:56,343
What is the first rule
of training?

457
00:32:59,948 --> 00:33:01,081
(sighs)

458
00:33:01,215 --> 00:33:03,651
Always obey Izogie.

459
00:33:08,055 --> 00:33:09,990
Come with me.

460
00:33:10,123 --> 00:33:12,459
(insects trilling)

461
00:33:13,595 --> 00:33:15,630
Drink.

462
00:33:15,763 --> 00:33:17,164
What is it?

463
00:33:17,297 --> 00:33:20,067
The only thing the white men
bring worth having.

464
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,871
They call it whiskey.

465
00:33:23,003 --> 00:33:24,271
(chuckles)

466
00:33:24,404 --> 00:33:28,375
There. We finally found
a way to quiet Tse.

467
00:33:28,510 --> 00:33:30,043
You know your tongue
will get you

468
00:33:30,177 --> 00:33:32,045
kicked back to your village.

469
00:33:32,179 --> 00:33:34,348
Why do you challenge
the miganon?

470
00:33:34,481 --> 00:33:36,518
NAWI:
If I'm quiet, she won't see me.

471
00:33:36,651 --> 00:33:39,219
(scoffs) Do you think she
has time to think about you?

472
00:33:39,353 --> 00:33:43,123
(scoffs) She is thinking
about the world.

473
00:33:43,257 --> 00:33:46,026
You know she may one day
be the kpojito.

474
00:33:46,159 --> 00:33:48,095
-The woman king?
-Mm-hmm.

475
00:33:48,228 --> 00:33:51,064
But we have not had one
in so many years.

476
00:33:51,198 --> 00:33:53,166
His brother did not honor it,

477
00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:57,037
but King Ghezo believes
in tradition.

478
00:33:57,170 --> 00:34:01,009
In the twin gods,
Mawu and Lisa.

479
00:34:01,141 --> 00:34:03,043
Woman and man.

480
00:34:03,176 --> 00:34:04,913
Equal.

481
00:34:05,045 --> 00:34:07,080
Ghezo will name a woman king.

482
00:34:07,214 --> 00:34:09,984
For the gods and the people.

483
00:34:10,117 --> 00:34:13,021
But is that what
the miganon wants?

484
00:34:13,153 --> 00:34:15,023
I cannot say.

485
00:34:15,188 --> 00:34:18,325
But in the palace,
she is a legend.

486
00:34:18,458 --> 00:34:21,061
Captured as a young soldier.

487
00:34:21,194 --> 00:34:23,063
Given up for dead.

488
00:34:23,196 --> 00:34:25,265
But she returned,

489
00:34:25,399 --> 00:34:30,038
with the Oyo bastards' kofes
hanging by her belt.

490
00:34:30,170 --> 00:34:32,439
(laughing)

491
00:34:35,944 --> 00:34:37,277
(grunts, gasping)

492
00:34:38,278 --> 00:34:41,516
(breathing heavily)

493
00:34:54,929 --> 00:34:57,031
NANISCA:
You know I hate that drink.

494
00:34:57,164 --> 00:35:00,034
The king drinks
anything I give him.

495
00:35:00,167 --> 00:35:01,401
The king is young.

496
00:35:01,536 --> 00:35:04,137
He brings that silly wife
to the council.

497
00:35:04,271 --> 00:35:06,406
(chuckles) Shante.

498
00:35:06,541 --> 00:35:11,345
-Ah, she is ambitious, hmm?
-(Nanisca scoffs)

499
00:35:15,182 --> 00:35:17,986
(Amenza takes deep breath)

500
00:35:18,118 --> 00:35:20,187
(Nanisca grunts)

501
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,155
Tell me the dream, Nani.

502
00:35:22,289 --> 00:35:24,592
(Nanisca clicks tongue, groans)

503
00:35:24,726 --> 00:35:29,797
It dispels its magic
if you say the words.

504
00:35:33,133 --> 00:35:35,069
I am in the jungle.

505
00:35:35,202 --> 00:35:37,270
AMENZA:
Mm-hmm.

506
00:35:38,506 --> 00:35:43,210
Something is out there,
in the darkness.

507
00:35:45,178 --> 00:35:46,047
A beast.

508
00:35:46,179 --> 00:35:48,415
Angry.

509
00:35:51,184 --> 00:35:53,153
(Nanisca sighs)

510
00:35:53,286 --> 00:35:55,556
I can smell its sweat,
its fear.

511
00:35:55,690 --> 00:35:58,693
What does the beast look like?

512
00:35:59,861 --> 00:36:01,395
I don't know.

513
00:36:01,529 --> 00:36:04,297
That is when I wake.

514
00:36:06,166 --> 00:36:07,935
The dream is a warning, no?

515
00:36:09,269 --> 00:36:11,204
We must ask Legba.

516
00:36:11,338 --> 00:36:13,340
Oh, no. Not the nuts.

517
00:36:13,473 --> 00:36:16,110
(scoffs) Do not call them nuts.

518
00:36:16,243 --> 00:36:18,112
(Nanisca chuckling)

519
00:36:18,245 --> 00:36:20,180
They are sacred.

520
00:36:28,288 --> 00:36:31,159
You have enemies gathering.

521
00:36:31,291 --> 00:36:32,894
You must do better than that.

522
00:36:36,396 --> 00:36:38,599
I see fire.

523
00:36:38,733 --> 00:36:44,172
Something or someone
from your past.

524
00:36:44,304 --> 00:36:47,075
(sighs) This is nonsense.

525
00:36:47,207 --> 00:36:48,543
And your medicine, too.

526
00:36:48,676 --> 00:36:52,212
-I am not even tired.
-Go to the altar.

527
00:36:52,345 --> 00:36:55,449
Leave gifts for the dead.

528
00:36:57,284 --> 00:36:59,887
Do it.

529
00:37:00,021 --> 00:37:04,726
If you do not respect Ifá,
respect your own dream.

530
00:37:06,259 --> 00:37:07,695
(insects trilling)

531
00:37:07,829 --> 00:37:11,833
-(wood stick clacking)
-(grunting nearby)

532
00:37:21,209 --> 00:37:23,544
♪ ♪

533
00:37:26,279 --> 00:37:28,281
(grunting continues)

534
00:37:37,290 --> 00:37:39,627
(panting)

535
00:37:41,229 --> 00:37:43,731
♪ ♪

536
00:37:45,233 --> 00:37:46,299
(guns fire)

537
00:37:46,433 --> 00:37:48,970
(drums playing rhythmically)

538
00:37:53,273 --> 00:37:56,611
(warriors singing in Fongbe)

539
00:38:10,191 --> 00:38:12,059
(singing continues)

540
00:38:24,539 --> 00:38:26,841
-(horses neighing)
-(singing stops)

541
00:38:32,345 --> 00:38:34,481
♪ ♪

542
00:38:52,365 --> 00:38:54,501
♪ ♪

543
00:39:12,419 --> 00:39:14,722
♪ ♪

544
00:39:28,636 --> 00:39:31,438
I am General Oba Ade.

545
00:39:31,572 --> 00:39:34,542
-(woman grunting)
-(ropes creaking)

546
00:39:35,509 --> 00:39:37,011
(Oyo soldier laughing)

547
00:39:37,144 --> 00:39:41,716
...the esteemed regard
of the king of Oyo.

548
00:39:41,849 --> 00:39:46,621
Gifts for the Oyo Kingdom,
as is tradition.

549
00:39:47,454 --> 00:39:49,523
Nanisca.

550
00:39:57,430 --> 00:39:58,431
This is less than ever before.

551
00:39:58,566 --> 00:40:00,601
Did you think we would not see?

552
00:40:00,735 --> 00:40:02,370
Did you think we would
not see your hand

553
00:40:02,503 --> 00:40:04,572
in the raid of our village?

554
00:40:06,406 --> 00:40:08,643
To make up for
your shortcomings,

555
00:40:08,776 --> 00:40:11,411
I will accept an addition
to the tribute.

556
00:40:11,545 --> 00:40:13,180
40 Agojie.

557
00:40:13,314 --> 00:40:15,082
(shocked murmuring)

558
00:40:15,216 --> 00:40:17,785
Not too old.

559
00:40:19,620 --> 00:40:21,822
-And if I refuse?
-Then you may no longer

560
00:40:21,956 --> 00:40:23,423
use the port in Ouidah
for your trade.

561
00:40:23,557 --> 00:40:25,326
The port belongs to Dahomey.

562
00:40:25,458 --> 00:40:27,460
We have taken control.

563
00:40:27,595 --> 00:40:29,196
It belongs to us now.

564
00:40:33,401 --> 00:40:36,370
I'm so surprised you brought
your horses here to plateau.

565
00:40:36,504 --> 00:40:38,539
If they are bitten
by the flies,

566
00:40:38,673 --> 00:40:42,143
they may get
the sleeping sickness.

567
00:40:42,276 --> 00:40:46,446
Sometimes a mouse
can take down an elephant.

568
00:40:46,580 --> 00:40:48,616
Do you threaten the Oyo,
usurper?

569
00:40:48,749 --> 00:40:50,751
You will respect the king.

570
00:40:52,653 --> 00:40:54,487
GHEZO:
Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm. Migan.

571
00:40:54,622 --> 00:40:56,557
This new general seeks
to bait us.

572
00:40:56,691 --> 00:40:59,226
We won't jump
at his foolishness.

573
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,494
Let us talk.

574
00:41:15,943 --> 00:41:20,181
20 Agojie of our choosing.

575
00:41:20,314 --> 00:41:23,651
We will march them to Ouidah
and surrender them.

576
00:41:23,784 --> 00:41:26,087
And the port remains open
for our trade.

577
00:41:27,421 --> 00:41:28,756
I will leave Boma

578
00:41:28,889 --> 00:41:30,758
to enjoy the feast
that you have prepared.

579
00:41:30,891 --> 00:41:35,029
In Ouidah, I will be waiting.

580
00:41:36,097 --> 00:41:37,231
Oba.

581
00:41:42,269 --> 00:41:45,039
(horse whinnies)

582
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,809
(quiet chatter)

583
00:41:59,587 --> 00:42:02,556
♪ ♪

584
00:42:20,107 --> 00:42:22,243
♪ ♪

585
00:42:32,186 --> 00:42:34,321
♪ ♪

586
00:42:42,897 --> 00:42:46,634
(heavy, shuddering breaths)

587
00:43:03,417 --> 00:43:04,885
Nanisca.

588
00:43:07,621 --> 00:43:08,789
What happened?

589
00:43:08,923 --> 00:43:12,226
Your nuts were finally right.

590
00:43:22,504 --> 00:43:24,472
(indistinct chattering)

591
00:43:24,605 --> 00:43:27,374
♪ ♪

592
00:43:43,924 --> 00:43:45,659
(speaking Portuguese)

593
00:43:48,629 --> 00:43:50,064
(Santo speaking Portuguese)

594
00:44:21,662 --> 00:44:23,964
(lively chatter)

595
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,736
(horses neighing)

596
00:44:30,671 --> 00:44:33,007
(goats bleating)

597
00:44:42,750 --> 00:44:44,619
(man grunts)

598
00:44:44,752 --> 00:44:47,821
(man coughing)

599
00:44:52,493 --> 00:44:56,130
(coughing continues)

600
00:44:57,698 --> 00:45:00,234
♪ ♪

601
00:45:04,872 --> 00:45:06,040
WOMAN:
Agojie.

602
00:45:06,173 --> 00:45:08,842
WOMAN 2:
Agojie's here.

603
00:45:13,180 --> 00:45:15,584
MAN:
Hey, a deal's a deal!

604
00:45:15,716 --> 00:45:18,719
♪ ♪

605
00:45:24,258 --> 00:45:26,760
(both speaking Portuguese)

606
00:45:34,569 --> 00:45:37,137
♪ ♪

607
00:45:42,810 --> 00:45:46,113
We bring tribute
from King Ghezo.

608
00:45:46,247 --> 00:45:49,651
Dahomey has no soldiers
man enough.

609
00:45:49,783 --> 00:45:52,753
They have to use their women.

610
00:45:53,787 --> 00:45:55,356
It is against the gods.

611
00:45:56,991 --> 00:45:59,661
My men will find plenty
of use for them.

612
00:45:59,793 --> 00:46:01,929
You're mistaken.

613
00:46:02,062 --> 00:46:04,798
These soldiers
are not your tribute.

614
00:46:04,932 --> 00:46:07,234
This is your tribute.

615
00:46:08,068 --> 00:46:10,505
Let it be known to all

616
00:46:10,639 --> 00:46:15,109
The great and mighty King Ghezo
fears no one.

617
00:46:20,114 --> 00:46:21,650
(shouts in Fongbe)

618
00:46:21,782 --> 00:46:23,917
(undulating cries)

619
00:46:25,986 --> 00:46:29,490
-Oyo!
-Oyo!

620
00:46:30,824 --> 00:46:33,127
(Agojie laughing)

621
00:46:38,899 --> 00:46:41,135
(Oyo soldiers shouting)

622
00:46:42,870 --> 00:46:45,172
(grunting)

623
00:46:50,779 --> 00:46:54,048
(both yelling, grunting)

624
00:46:59,987 --> 00:47:01,589
(groans)

625
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:08,829
OYO SOLDIER:
Li-Lift the gate!

626
00:47:08,962 --> 00:47:10,699
(Oyo soldiers shouting)

627
00:47:10,831 --> 00:47:12,866
(yelling and grunting continue)

628
00:47:15,102 --> 00:47:18,138
-(yelling, grunting)
-(gate creaking)

629
00:47:18,272 --> 00:47:21,208
(yelling and grunting continue)

630
00:47:22,943 --> 00:47:25,446
-Miganon!
-(shouting continues)

631
00:47:25,580 --> 00:47:26,781
NANISCA:
Go!

632
00:47:26,914 --> 00:47:29,383
♪ ♪

633
00:47:29,517 --> 00:47:30,984
(shouting)

634
00:47:32,654 --> 00:47:34,589
OBA:
Go! Go!

635
00:47:50,938 --> 00:47:52,807
♪ ♪

636
00:47:52,940 --> 00:47:55,008
(gasping)

637
00:47:56,143 --> 00:47:57,945
(Nawi gasping)

638
00:47:58,078 --> 00:48:00,247
(gun blasting)

639
00:48:04,952 --> 00:48:06,554
(gunfire continues)

640
00:48:06,688 --> 00:48:08,389
(grunting)

641
00:48:08,523 --> 00:48:11,258
-(gunfire continues)
-(bullets splashing)

642
00:48:16,798 --> 00:48:17,766
(groans)

643
00:48:17,898 --> 00:48:20,134
Push off.

644
00:48:21,969 --> 00:48:24,506
♪ ♪

645
00:48:27,842 --> 00:48:29,878
(relieved laughter)

646
00:48:30,010 --> 00:48:32,012
Why did you not
follow the plan?

647
00:48:32,146 --> 00:48:33,748
You were to go to the boats.

648
00:48:33,882 --> 00:48:35,048
The soldiers were coming.

649
00:48:35,182 --> 00:48:36,885
If I did not come back
as I did...

650
00:48:37,017 --> 00:48:38,385
So you are the hero?

651
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,455
You can act on your own,
ignoring orders?

652
00:48:41,589 --> 00:48:44,692
-You would not have escaped.
-Nawi.

653
00:48:48,429 --> 00:48:51,699
It is you who faced capture
by disobeying my orders.

654
00:48:56,838 --> 00:48:58,807
We are Agojie.

655
00:48:58,939 --> 00:49:00,307
We do not act alone.

656
00:49:00,441 --> 00:49:02,610
We move together
with one purpose.

657
00:49:02,744 --> 00:49:04,244
Alone, you are weak.

658
00:49:04,378 --> 00:49:07,147
Alone, you are killed or worse.

659
00:49:08,182 --> 00:49:10,984
Now you have seen
the barracoons.

660
00:49:11,118 --> 00:49:14,087
A captured Agojie is a slave.

661
00:49:15,022 --> 00:49:16,791
Used by men.

662
00:49:16,925 --> 00:49:19,159
Left to rot.

663
00:49:20,862 --> 00:49:23,865
It is better to die.

664
00:49:23,997 --> 00:49:25,999
Cut your own throat.

665
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,510
I will never question you
in front of the others,

666
00:49:35,643 --> 00:49:38,045
but it is you who did not
follow the plan.

667
00:49:38,178 --> 00:49:41,148
I only ever had one plan,
Amenza.

668
00:49:41,281 --> 00:49:42,884
To take his head.

669
00:49:43,016 --> 00:49:45,319
Nanisca, I...

670
00:49:54,061 --> 00:49:57,130
(indistinct chatter, laughter)

671
00:50:10,043 --> 00:50:11,713
Nanisca.

672
00:50:11,846 --> 00:50:13,213
Come in.

673
00:50:18,352 --> 00:50:20,755
I hear you have had a victory.

674
00:50:22,289 --> 00:50:23,625
(chuckles softly)

675
00:50:23,758 --> 00:50:27,361
Nanisca, I think we have
started on a wrong foot.

676
00:50:27,494 --> 00:50:29,597
I wish to be your friend.

677
00:50:29,731 --> 00:50:32,266
I can help you.
I have the king's ear.

678
00:50:32,399 --> 00:50:34,234
We should work together
to serve our king.

679
00:50:34,368 --> 00:50:36,403
To ensure he grows
only more powerful.

680
00:50:36,538 --> 00:50:39,439
It is you who wants
to be powerful.

681
00:50:39,574 --> 00:50:44,111
To stay safe and rich
in your fine palace.

682
00:50:45,647 --> 00:50:48,282
Too much change
can be dangerous.

683
00:50:48,415 --> 00:50:50,818
I have said this much
to my husband.

684
00:50:50,952 --> 00:50:55,489
Then we will soon understand
who truly has his ear.

685
00:51:01,061 --> 00:51:03,565
♪ ♪

686
00:51:11,606 --> 00:51:14,509
NANISCA:
This field alone produces

687
00:51:14,642 --> 00:51:17,110
thousands of barrels
of palm oil.

688
00:51:17,244 --> 00:51:19,647
If we harvest many fields
each year,

689
00:51:19,781 --> 00:51:22,850
we will have a continuous
supply to trade.

690
00:51:22,984 --> 00:51:24,084
GHEZO:
Hmm.

691
00:51:24,217 --> 00:51:27,354
I never saw a path before,
Nanisca.

692
00:51:28,388 --> 00:51:30,024
But look at this.

693
00:51:30,190 --> 00:51:31,626
Now I do.

694
00:51:31,759 --> 00:51:35,228
NANISCA: Vision is seeing
what others do not.

695
00:51:35,362 --> 00:51:37,264
But now we have declared war.

696
00:51:37,397 --> 00:51:40,001
We will conquer the Oyo,

697
00:51:40,133 --> 00:51:42,704
and we will expand our land.

698
00:51:42,837 --> 00:51:45,773
Nanisca, we will be
the greatest empire in Africa.

699
00:51:45,907 --> 00:51:49,142
Yes, my king,
but let us not be an empire

700
00:51:49,276 --> 00:51:51,445
who sells its people.

701
00:51:51,579 --> 00:51:54,147
Let us be an empire
who loves its people.

702
00:51:54,281 --> 00:51:57,184
My brother sold our own.

703
00:51:57,317 --> 00:51:58,920
I will never do that.

704
00:51:59,053 --> 00:52:03,958
Even if they are not Dahomey,
they are still our people.

705
00:52:04,092 --> 00:52:06,828
The white man has brought
immorality here.

706
00:52:06,961 --> 00:52:09,229
They will not stop
until the whole of Africa

707
00:52:09,363 --> 00:52:11,532
is theirs to enslave.

708
00:52:12,232 --> 00:52:14,035
Go.

709
00:52:14,167 --> 00:52:16,604
(indistinct chatter)

710
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:22,043
The English navy
now patrols the waters,

711
00:52:22,175 --> 00:52:23,945
attacks and removes our cargo.

712
00:52:24,078 --> 00:52:26,814
Your tribal warfare
is none of my concern.

713
00:52:26,948 --> 00:52:29,249
And yours with Dahomey
is none of ours.

714
00:52:29,383 --> 00:52:32,553
It will be over soon enough.

715
00:52:32,687 --> 00:52:35,657
The Mahi, the Igbo,
they are with us.

716
00:52:35,790 --> 00:52:39,027
By the full moon,
we will march on their city,

717
00:52:39,159 --> 00:52:40,494
and we will take it.

718
00:52:40,628 --> 00:52:43,397
Ouidah is open for business.

719
00:52:43,531 --> 00:52:45,465
You will have your cargo.

720
00:52:58,579 --> 00:53:01,281
(speaking Portuguese)

721
00:53:08,022 --> 00:53:09,657
(elephant trumpeting)

722
00:53:10,424 --> 00:53:12,927
(guttural grunting)

723
00:53:15,295 --> 00:53:17,230
♪ ♪

724
00:53:17,364 --> 00:53:20,333
(birds chirping)

725
00:53:39,252 --> 00:53:41,789
♪ ♪

726
00:54:09,150 --> 00:54:11,485
♪ ♪

727
00:54:18,458 --> 00:54:20,995
(splashing)

728
00:54:35,977 --> 00:54:40,548
(speaking Portuguese)

729
00:54:50,258 --> 00:54:52,260
Go back to Ouidah, slaver.

730
00:54:52,392 --> 00:54:55,229
Naked like the people you sell.

731
00:54:55,362 --> 00:54:56,463
I am not a slaver.

732
00:54:56,597 --> 00:54:58,365
You understand me?

733
00:54:58,498 --> 00:55:01,501
My mother was Dahomey.

734
00:55:02,502 --> 00:55:04,437
You do not look like Dahomey.

735
00:55:04,572 --> 00:55:08,209
My father is white.

736
00:55:08,341 --> 00:55:11,646
So you are Dahomey but not.

737
00:55:12,345 --> 00:55:13,981
And white...

738
00:55:14,115 --> 00:55:16,617
(chuckles) but not.

739
00:55:18,786 --> 00:55:22,089
You think I could
have my pants now?

740
00:55:27,427 --> 00:55:30,330
I saw you in Ouidah.

741
00:55:30,463 --> 00:55:32,365
Why are you here in the jungle?

742
00:55:32,499 --> 00:55:35,303
I am going to Dahomey.

743
00:55:35,435 --> 00:55:38,940
The place my mother told me
so much about.

744
00:55:39,073 --> 00:55:42,375
Perhaps I will
see you there, too.

745
00:55:42,510 --> 00:55:45,345
If you are allowed
into the palace.

746
00:56:10,504 --> 00:56:12,573
I am Malik.

747
00:56:13,473 --> 00:56:15,408
SANTO:
Malik!

748
00:56:18,713 --> 00:56:20,447
(Santo speaks Portuguese)

749
00:56:28,388 --> 00:56:30,358
(speaks Portuguese)

750
00:56:30,524 --> 00:56:33,895
(indistinct chatter, laughter)

751
00:56:34,028 --> 00:56:37,231
I do not like
this young captain.

752
00:56:37,365 --> 00:56:39,333
Puffed up like a banty rooster.

753
00:56:39,466 --> 00:56:40,601
Finally, we agree.

754
00:56:40,735 --> 00:56:42,069
(speaking Portuguese)

755
00:56:48,709 --> 00:56:51,444
(speaking Portuguese)

756
00:56:53,047 --> 00:56:55,482
GHEZO:
So you are now a captain, eh?

757
00:56:55,616 --> 00:56:56,684
<i>-Si.</i>
-Very good.

758
00:56:56,817 --> 00:56:58,653
(speaking Portuguese)

759
00:57:01,789 --> 00:57:03,791
GHEZO:
Well done.

760
00:57:10,430 --> 00:57:13,034
You have my thanks.

761
00:57:23,511 --> 00:57:26,347
My mother was also taken.

762
00:57:26,479 --> 00:57:28,749
Sold by my brother.

763
00:57:28,883 --> 00:57:31,319
I have many men in your country
searching for her,

764
00:57:31,451 --> 00:57:33,387
and they will bring her back.

765
00:57:33,521 --> 00:57:35,122
It is a must. (chuckles)

766
00:57:35,256 --> 00:57:38,359
And, uh, if they find
your mother,

767
00:57:38,491 --> 00:57:40,394
they will bring her back, too.

768
00:57:40,528 --> 00:57:42,196
I have just buried her.

769
00:57:42,330 --> 00:57:45,633
It was her dying wish
that I come to her home.

770
00:57:45,766 --> 00:57:47,969
The only place
she was ever free.

771
00:57:49,270 --> 00:57:51,272
This is your home.

772
00:57:51,405 --> 00:57:53,407
It is yours, eh?

773
00:57:53,541 --> 00:57:56,210
And you came on the right day.

774
00:57:56,344 --> 00:57:57,645
Our magnificent Agojie,

775
00:57:57,778 --> 00:57:59,479
they are doing
their final test.

776
00:57:59,613 --> 00:58:01,515
So please sit, eh?

777
00:58:01,649 --> 00:58:03,483
Go. Go on, sit. Go.

778
00:58:03,617 --> 00:58:06,020
Prepare the seats for them.

779
00:58:09,190 --> 00:58:10,891
Very good.

780
00:58:11,592 --> 00:58:13,027
Let us begin.

781
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:16,530
-(rhythmic drumming)
-(faint singing)

782
00:58:17,565 --> 00:58:19,100
Go.

783
00:58:32,913 --> 00:58:35,883
-(drumming stops)
-(clears throat)

784
00:58:38,352 --> 00:58:40,087
Fear not.

785
00:58:40,221 --> 00:58:41,655
Face it head-on.

786
00:58:41,789 --> 00:58:44,592
Relentlessly, we will fight.

787
00:58:50,197 --> 00:58:53,200
-(cheering)
-(drumming resumes)

788
00:58:54,702 --> 00:58:58,039
(pained groaning)

789
00:59:08,716 --> 00:59:11,819
(whimpering, panting)

790
00:59:17,258 --> 00:59:18,459
Fumbe.

791
00:59:18,592 --> 00:59:20,428
(panting)

792
00:59:20,561 --> 00:59:22,531
(grunts, yells)

793
00:59:22,663 --> 00:59:26,133
-No, no, no, no, no, no.
-Come! (grunts)

794
00:59:28,936 --> 00:59:31,439
-Come. Come. Come.
-(groaning, whimpering)

795
00:59:31,572 --> 00:59:33,274
Come.

796
00:59:33,407 --> 00:59:35,309
Come. Come.

797
00:59:35,443 --> 00:59:36,545
Come.

798
00:59:36,677 --> 00:59:40,247
(groaning and whimpering
continue)

799
00:59:51,459 --> 00:59:53,127
(gasps)

800
00:59:53,260 --> 00:59:55,863
(grunting)

801
01:00:05,773 --> 01:00:07,308
(panting)

802
01:00:07,441 --> 01:00:10,077
(gasping, grunting)

803
01:00:11,645 --> 01:00:13,614
(yelps, grunts)

804
01:00:13,747 --> 01:00:15,749
(gasping, oohing)

805
01:00:15,883 --> 01:00:18,219
SPECTATOR:
Yeah!

806
01:00:19,787 --> 01:00:21,523
(pained grunt)

807
01:00:21,655 --> 01:00:24,024
(panting)

808
01:00:30,664 --> 01:00:33,300
(grunting)

809
01:00:38,339 --> 01:00:41,008
(cheering)

810
01:00:41,142 --> 01:00:42,710
-(grunts)
-(man groans)

811
01:00:42,843 --> 01:00:44,513
(panting)

812
01:00:44,645 --> 01:00:46,747
(grunting)

813
01:00:48,617 --> 01:00:50,951
(fierce grunting)

814
01:00:52,086 --> 01:00:55,624
-SPECTATOR: Yeah!
-(cheering)

815
01:00:55,756 --> 01:00:58,359
(yelling)

816
01:00:58,492 --> 01:01:00,427
(laughs, whoops)

817
01:01:01,596 --> 01:01:04,098
(undulating cries)

818
01:01:04,231 --> 01:01:06,700
GHEZO: Come.
Come, come, come, come, come.

819
01:01:06,834 --> 01:01:08,769
Come, my dear.
Come, come, come.

820
01:01:09,837 --> 01:01:12,873
(Nawi grunting, panting)

821
01:01:13,707 --> 01:01:14,775
What is your name?

822
01:01:14,909 --> 01:01:16,343
I am Nawi, my king.

823
01:01:16,477 --> 01:01:17,678
Nawi.

824
01:01:17,811 --> 01:01:20,147
You are beautiful
as you are fierce.

825
01:01:20,281 --> 01:01:21,348
(chuckles)

826
01:01:21,482 --> 01:01:23,217
If she was not so skilled,
I would have

827
01:01:23,350 --> 01:01:25,953
-made her a wife, now.
-(laughter)

828
01:01:29,823 --> 01:01:31,392
To the victor!

829
01:01:31,526 --> 01:01:33,227
(cheering)

830
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:35,396
♪ ♪

831
01:01:35,530 --> 01:01:39,166
The gods will bless you.
The gods will keep you safe.

832
01:01:44,805 --> 01:01:46,907
Well done to all of you.

833
01:01:47,041 --> 01:01:50,579
You are the strongest
warriors in Africa.

834
01:01:50,711 --> 01:01:52,614
Welcome to the King's Guard.

835
01:01:52,746 --> 01:01:54,583
(cheering, undulating cries)

836
01:01:54,715 --> 01:01:57,384
♪ ♪

837
01:02:05,859 --> 01:02:06,994
IZOGIE:
Agojie!

838
01:02:07,127 --> 01:02:08,697
-AGOJIE: Wu Suu!
-Agojie!

839
01:02:08,829 --> 01:02:10,599
-Wu Suu!
-Agojie!

840
01:02:10,731 --> 01:02:12,634
Wu Suu!

841
01:02:12,766 --> 01:02:15,469
(undulating cries)

842
01:02:17,004 --> 01:02:20,107
-(grunts)
-Hey, be still.

843
01:02:21,308 --> 01:02:23,811
-Thank you.
-(Izogie groans)

844
01:02:23,944 --> 01:02:26,548
Why did you return
to help Fumbe?

845
01:02:26,681 --> 01:02:27,748
You could have lost.

846
01:02:27,881 --> 01:02:29,551
Fumbe is my friend.

847
01:02:29,684 --> 01:02:30,751
I want her to stay.

848
01:02:30,884 --> 01:02:32,753
To stay, she must pass the test.

849
01:02:32,886 --> 01:02:36,223
To be useful,
she must stand on her own.

850
01:02:38,125 --> 01:02:40,227
You would not help
your friend, Miganon?

851
01:02:40,361 --> 01:02:41,395
Amenza?

852
01:02:41,529 --> 01:02:45,032
I would step on her head
to win a footrace.

853
01:02:48,902 --> 01:02:50,639
Ah, your first scars.

854
01:02:50,771 --> 01:02:52,906
The mark of a warrior.

855
01:02:53,841 --> 01:02:55,710
You see?

856
01:02:55,843 --> 01:02:57,778
Hmm?

857
01:02:57,911 --> 01:03:00,347
You will have many more.

858
01:03:03,317 --> 01:03:04,451
Hmm?

859
01:03:05,587 --> 01:03:07,288
Hmm?

860
01:03:10,725 --> 01:03:12,793
Make sure...

861
01:03:12,926 --> 01:03:14,596
all the thorns come out.

862
01:03:14,729 --> 01:03:15,796
Here, here.

863
01:03:15,929 --> 01:03:17,464
-Mm-hmm.
-Here.

864
01:03:17,599 --> 01:03:18,700
IZOGIE:
Mm-hmm.

865
01:03:18,832 --> 01:03:20,602
NANISCA:
Here.

866
01:03:20,735 --> 01:03:23,137
What is this?

867
01:03:23,270 --> 01:03:27,374
Uh, my father used to call it
the devil's mark.

868
01:03:27,509 --> 01:03:31,078
It was there when he chose me
from the orphanage.

869
01:03:31,945 --> 01:03:34,014
You are an orphan?

870
01:03:35,883 --> 01:03:37,752
But your father...

871
01:03:37,885 --> 01:03:39,453
He took me in.

872
01:03:39,587 --> 01:03:42,823
I guess I didn't turn out
to be the daughter he wanted.

873
01:03:42,956 --> 01:03:45,059
(chuckling)

874
01:03:45,959 --> 01:03:47,995
(Nawi chuckles)

875
01:04:05,913 --> 01:04:07,582
Nani?

876
01:04:08,683 --> 01:04:10,618
(panting)

877
01:04:13,153 --> 01:04:16,357
-What did you do with it?
-With what?

878
01:04:22,896 --> 01:04:24,131
You told me never to tell you.

879
01:04:24,264 --> 01:04:26,867
-I'm asking.
-You said you would ask,

880
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:28,936
-and you made me swear.
-Amenza!

881
01:04:30,871 --> 01:04:34,576
I am not your servant, Nanisca.

882
01:04:45,919 --> 01:04:47,321
I gave her to the missionaries.

883
01:04:47,454 --> 01:04:49,423
-What missionaries?
-The ones we passed on the road

884
01:04:49,557 --> 01:04:51,325
when we were marching.
-Where did they take her?

885
01:04:51,458 --> 01:04:53,828
-I have no way to know that.
-What direction did they go?

886
01:04:53,961 --> 01:04:56,798
I followed your order--

887
01:04:56,930 --> 01:04:59,768
to free you of the burden--

888
01:04:59,900 --> 01:05:01,902
and I chose to give her away.

889
01:05:02,035 --> 01:05:03,705
-And that is all you know?
-Yes!

890
01:05:03,838 --> 01:05:05,472
I do not lie to you.

891
01:05:07,474 --> 01:05:11,646
Why do you ask these questions
after all this time?

892
01:05:13,981 --> 01:05:17,685
Because Nawi is an orphan?

893
01:05:19,621 --> 01:05:23,591
You couldn't possibly think
that sh-she...

894
01:05:26,795 --> 01:05:28,596
Of course not.

895
01:05:29,764 --> 01:05:31,465
No.

896
01:05:42,009 --> 01:05:45,647
The gods are not that cruel.

897
01:05:51,952 --> 01:05:53,555
(Santo speaking Portuguese)

898
01:05:53,688 --> 01:05:57,057
Speak my language
when you are in my palace.

899
01:05:59,092 --> 01:06:00,394
Your wife Shante,

900
01:06:00,528 --> 01:06:03,464
she said you seek
an end to the trade.

901
01:06:04,998 --> 01:06:06,734
She does not speak for me.

902
01:06:06,868 --> 01:06:09,970
And she will be punished
for thinking she does.

903
01:06:11,405 --> 01:06:13,808
She says this is
your general's wish

904
01:06:13,942 --> 01:06:14,975
and perhaps not yours.

905
01:06:15,108 --> 01:06:17,311
My generals obey my wishes.

906
01:06:17,444 --> 01:06:21,014
So you wish to sell...
palm oil.

907
01:06:21,148 --> 01:06:23,885
I wish for my people
to prosper,

908
01:06:24,017 --> 01:06:25,352
as those of your land do.

909
01:06:25,486 --> 01:06:29,189
Ghezo, the people in my lands
prosper

910
01:06:29,323 --> 01:06:32,392
because of the slave trade.

911
01:06:32,527 --> 01:06:35,229
And this very same trade
has made you rich.

912
01:06:35,362 --> 01:06:39,233
As rich as the king of England.

913
01:06:39,366 --> 01:06:43,972
You stop the trade,
you will be nothing.

914
01:06:44,104 --> 01:06:46,608
King, maybe, but...

915
01:06:46,741 --> 01:06:48,242
king of mud.

916
01:06:48,375 --> 01:06:52,112
All of these captains will take
their business elsewhere.

917
01:06:52,246 --> 01:06:55,449
The business
of selling Africans?

918
01:06:56,818 --> 01:06:59,319
You will be unprotected.

919
01:07:00,053 --> 01:07:02,790
Unprotected?

920
01:07:02,924 --> 01:07:03,992
(scoffs softly)

921
01:07:04,124 --> 01:07:06,928
Ooh.

922
01:07:07,060 --> 01:07:08,730
You know,
I am under no illusion

923
01:07:08,863 --> 01:07:13,701
that you see us
as anything but a commodity.

924
01:07:16,103 --> 01:07:19,139
But I am a king.

925
01:07:19,273 --> 01:07:22,744
With or without your respect.

926
01:07:22,877 --> 01:07:27,949
And if you are no longer
a necessity to me,

927
01:07:28,081 --> 01:07:32,085
you, too, are unprotected.

928
01:07:34,221 --> 01:07:37,025
(whooping, laughing)

929
01:07:37,157 --> 01:07:38,826
Yeah!

930
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:41,094
(chanting)

931
01:07:48,435 --> 01:07:50,939
(drumming and chanting
continue in distance)

932
01:07:51,071 --> 01:07:52,540
Malik.

933
01:07:56,044 --> 01:07:57,979
Nawi.

934
01:07:58,111 --> 01:08:00,280
-May I come in?
-No.

935
01:08:00,414 --> 01:08:03,283
No man may cross the palm line.

936
01:08:03,417 --> 01:08:06,253
In Brazil, foreign men may look
on the king's women?

937
01:08:06,386 --> 01:08:09,924
In Brazil,
women cover their bodies

938
01:08:10,058 --> 01:08:12,326
with long sleeves, long skirts.

939
01:08:12,459 --> 01:08:14,729
Then how do they run?

940
01:08:14,862 --> 01:08:16,396
(laughs)

941
01:08:18,066 --> 01:08:20,133
Yes? Make sure that...

942
01:08:20,267 --> 01:08:22,870
We make camp
outside the walls tonight.

943
01:08:23,004 --> 01:08:24,005
Come to see me.

944
01:08:24,137 --> 01:08:26,674
Tonight, we take
our blood oath.

945
01:08:26,808 --> 01:08:28,676
Afterward.

946
01:08:28,810 --> 01:08:31,311
If you wish for a girl
to come to your tent,

947
01:08:31,445 --> 01:08:33,014
there are girls
you can pay in the market.

948
01:08:33,146 --> 01:08:37,250
No, no, I-I just want
to talk to you.

949
01:08:37,384 --> 01:08:40,153
SANTO: Malik!
(shouts in Portuguese)

950
01:08:43,290 --> 01:08:45,793
Will you come to see me?

951
01:08:51,065 --> 01:08:53,400
♪ ♪

952
01:09:00,975 --> 01:09:03,745
(Agojie humming a tune)

953
01:09:27,068 --> 01:09:29,269
(humming continues)

954
01:09:35,175 --> 01:09:36,944
AMENZA:
Agojie!

955
01:09:37,078 --> 01:09:38,112
(Amenza speaks Fongbe)

956
01:09:38,245 --> 01:09:40,048
Blood of our sisters.

957
01:09:40,180 --> 01:09:43,117
(singing in Fongbe)

958
01:09:43,250 --> 01:09:44,217
♪ Make us invincible ♪

959
01:09:44,351 --> 01:09:46,988
(singing in Fongbe)

960
01:09:47,121 --> 01:09:48,089
♪ You live for me ♪

961
01:09:48,221 --> 01:09:49,389
(singing in Fongbe)

962
01:09:49,524 --> 01:09:51,191
♪ And I for you ♪

963
01:09:51,324 --> 01:09:52,927
(singing in Fongbe)

964
01:09:53,061 --> 01:09:54,896
♪ Blood of our sisters ♪

965
01:09:55,029 --> 01:09:56,097
(singing in Fongbe)

966
01:09:56,229 --> 01:09:57,999
♪ Make us invincible ♪

967
01:09:58,132 --> 01:10:00,300
(singing in Fongbe)

968
01:10:03,336 --> 01:10:05,106
♪ You live for me
and I for you ♪

969
01:10:05,238 --> 01:10:06,641
(singing in Fongbe)

970
01:10:06,774 --> 01:10:08,341
♪ You live for me
and I for you ♪

971
01:10:08,475 --> 01:10:11,012
-(singing in Fongbe)
-♪ Agojie ♪

972
01:10:11,145 --> 01:10:13,648
(singing in Fongbe)

973
01:10:16,184 --> 01:10:18,251
You are now my sister.

974
01:10:18,385 --> 01:10:20,922
I will be proud
to fight with you.

975
01:10:21,055 --> 01:10:22,557
I want you to teach me.

976
01:10:22,690 --> 01:10:24,759
Like the miganon teaches you.

977
01:10:24,892 --> 01:10:28,196
-(chuckles)
-I also want to be great.

978
01:10:28,328 --> 01:10:31,632
To be great, you must focus.

979
01:10:31,766 --> 01:10:34,102
There can be no distractions.

980
01:10:34,234 --> 01:10:35,570
I will.

981
01:10:37,171 --> 01:10:42,476
At the test, I saw the man
from Brazil wave to you.

982
01:10:43,343 --> 01:10:45,312
You know this man?

983
01:10:45,445 --> 01:10:49,217
I... I came across him
in the jungle.

984
01:10:49,349 --> 01:10:51,886
(mocking)
"In the jungle."

985
01:10:52,019 --> 01:10:53,420
(chuckles)

986
01:10:53,554 --> 01:10:55,757
So, what,
you have feelings for him?

987
01:10:55,890 --> 01:10:59,660
I have no way to know
how I feel about him.

988
01:11:01,328 --> 01:11:03,430
You want me to teach you.

989
01:11:07,467 --> 01:11:09,503
You are powerful.

990
01:11:09,637 --> 01:11:12,140
More than you even know.

991
01:11:12,272 --> 01:11:15,042
Do not give your power away.

992
01:11:15,176 --> 01:11:16,811
Hmm?

993
01:11:18,613 --> 01:11:20,214
You mean to love?

994
01:11:20,347 --> 01:11:23,050
Love makes you weak.

995
01:11:23,184 --> 01:11:25,052
You really believe that?

996
01:11:25,186 --> 01:11:26,654
(clicks tongue, stammers)

997
01:11:27,555 --> 01:11:29,857
You have never loved?

998
01:11:31,358 --> 01:11:34,327
I will be miganon one day.

999
01:11:36,197 --> 01:11:38,498
You cannot have both.

1000
01:11:38,633 --> 01:11:40,367
Will that be enough?

1001
01:11:40,500 --> 01:11:43,538
This is the life
we have chosen.

1002
01:11:43,671 --> 01:11:46,207
We each survive in our own way.

1003
01:11:46,339 --> 01:11:48,676
You will find yours.

1004
01:11:50,377 --> 01:11:52,513
(quiet chatter)

1005
01:12:01,255 --> 01:12:02,355
(insects trilling)

1006
01:12:02,489 --> 01:12:04,424
MALIK:
My mother was a slave.

1007
01:12:04,559 --> 01:12:07,195
That is all I ever knew
of African people.

1008
01:12:07,327 --> 01:12:11,065
I never dreamed that we were...

1009
01:12:11,199 --> 01:12:15,069
...kings and warriors.

1010
01:12:17,337 --> 01:12:20,107
But now...

1011
01:12:20,241 --> 01:12:22,543
I see the majesty.

1012
01:12:23,644 --> 01:12:25,546
I see the beauty.

1013
01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:28,683
NAWI:
I think you are a good man.

1014
01:12:28,816 --> 01:12:32,220
You must not ally yourself
with slavers.

1015
01:12:32,352 --> 01:12:33,988
We grew up together.

1016
01:12:34,121 --> 01:12:37,390
But does he see our beauty
as you do?

1017
01:12:43,030 --> 01:12:44,364
(clicks tongue)

1018
01:12:45,432 --> 01:12:47,201
(Nawi sighs)

1019
01:12:47,335 --> 01:12:49,402
Nawi, the Oyo are coming.

1020
01:12:49,537 --> 01:12:50,638
We are ready.

1021
01:12:50,771 --> 01:12:53,174
No, not just the Oyo.

1022
01:12:53,307 --> 01:12:55,343
Other tribes, too.

1023
01:12:55,475 --> 01:12:58,346
I heard the general plotting.

1024
01:12:58,478 --> 01:13:00,948
We must tell the miganon.

1025
01:13:01,082 --> 01:13:02,250
I must get back.

1026
01:13:02,382 --> 01:13:03,885
Nawi, wait.

1027
01:13:04,018 --> 01:13:07,121
Tomorrow,
we are going to leave.

1028
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:22,637
This is Ogou.

1029
01:13:22,770 --> 01:13:24,639
He is courage and strength.

1030
01:13:24,772 --> 01:13:27,808
Perhaps he will bring you
back to us.

1031
01:13:30,645 --> 01:13:33,614
I have nothing to give to you.

1032
01:13:37,484 --> 01:13:39,820
♪ ♪

1033
01:13:53,433 --> 01:13:56,537
I will take you back.

1034
01:14:07,480 --> 01:14:09,750
(footsteps approaching)

1035
01:14:14,588 --> 01:14:16,590
Miganon.

1036
01:14:19,492 --> 01:14:21,062
I have heard something.

1037
01:14:21,195 --> 01:14:23,397
One of the men that came
to the palace,

1038
01:14:23,531 --> 01:14:24,932
Malik, he says the Oyo general

1039
01:14:25,066 --> 01:14:27,401
is growing his army
with other tribes.

1040
01:14:27,535 --> 01:14:29,370
They will march on Dahomey.

1041
01:14:29,502 --> 01:14:32,606
The Oyo have given them
courage.

1042
01:14:34,408 --> 01:14:39,479
Where were you speaking
with this man, Malik?

1043
01:14:39,613 --> 01:14:41,182
He spoke to me
through the palm line.

1044
01:14:41,315 --> 01:14:43,651
On the night you swear loyalty
to your sisters,

1045
01:14:43,784 --> 01:14:46,486
you speak in secret
with a slaver?

1046
01:14:46,620 --> 01:14:47,487
He's not a slaver.

1047
01:14:47,621 --> 01:14:49,457
His mother was Dahomey.

1048
01:14:49,590 --> 01:14:52,360
You defend him?

1049
01:14:52,526 --> 01:14:55,096
Is that knife a gift?

1050
01:14:56,664 --> 01:14:59,000
Where have you been?

1051
01:14:59,133 --> 01:15:01,936
-I have been nowhere.
-Come here.

1052
01:15:04,138 --> 01:15:05,539
Here.

1053
01:15:18,686 --> 01:15:21,022
You are an Agojie.

1054
01:15:21,856 --> 01:15:23,891
You cannot be with a man.

1055
01:15:24,025 --> 01:15:27,628
Do you think you are so special
that I will not put you out?

1056
01:15:27,762 --> 01:15:28,829
Because I will.

1057
01:15:28,963 --> 01:15:30,564
I do not think I am special.

1058
01:15:30,698 --> 01:15:32,299
Do not bow your head.

1059
01:15:32,433 --> 01:15:34,568
Do not.

1060
01:15:35,503 --> 01:15:37,071
I know your arrogance.

1061
01:15:37,204 --> 01:15:39,206
You continue to do
as you please.

1062
01:15:39,340 --> 01:15:40,408
You disregard the rules.

1063
01:15:40,541 --> 01:15:42,676
What do you want from me?

1064
01:15:43,611 --> 01:15:45,346
I proved myself today.

1065
01:15:45,479 --> 01:15:46,480
I am the best.

1066
01:15:46,614 --> 01:15:49,450
It is not enough
to be the best.

1067
01:15:49,583 --> 01:15:52,586
Your arrogance and your
stupidity will get you caught.

1068
01:15:52,720 --> 01:15:54,588
I am not you.

1069
01:15:54,722 --> 01:15:56,457
Izogie told me
that you were captured.

1070
01:15:56,590 --> 01:15:57,992
That will never be me!

1071
01:15:58,125 --> 01:16:00,961
I was raped many times
each night.

1072
01:16:04,031 --> 01:16:08,302
When they would come,
I wished only to die.

1073
01:16:10,404 --> 01:16:12,406
They took it all away.

1074
01:16:12,541 --> 01:16:15,176
Everything I knew.

1075
01:16:15,309 --> 01:16:19,313
And when I finally escaped,
I was with child.

1076
01:16:19,447 --> 01:16:22,750
A child of those men.

1077
01:16:22,883 --> 01:16:25,786
I would have to leave
my sisters forever,

1078
01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:28,255
so I had to hide.

1079
01:16:29,457 --> 01:16:31,225
I bathed alone.

1080
01:16:31,358 --> 01:16:33,327
And my belly grew.

1081
01:16:33,461 --> 01:16:36,097
(birds screeching)

1082
01:16:41,469 --> 01:16:43,871
(pained yelling)

1083
01:16:48,242 --> 01:16:49,777
NANISCA (voice-over):
It was a girl.

1084
01:16:49,910 --> 01:16:53,447
I told Amenza, "Take it away."

1085
01:16:53,582 --> 01:16:58,385
But the blood, it kept coming,
and Amenza ran away

1086
01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:01,789
to find medicine,
and she left me with her.

1087
01:17:04,559 --> 01:17:06,827
So I did something.

1088
01:17:11,665 --> 01:17:14,435
(baby cooing)

1089
01:17:14,569 --> 01:17:16,704
(trembling breaths)

1090
01:17:34,255 --> 01:17:35,222
(baby crying)

1091
01:17:35,356 --> 01:17:36,591
NANISCA (voice-over):
I made a cut

1092
01:17:36,724 --> 01:17:38,993
on the back of the left arm,

1093
01:17:39,126 --> 01:17:42,496
and I pressed a tooth into it.

1094
01:17:42,631 --> 01:17:44,765
A shark's tooth.

1095
01:17:51,672 --> 01:17:53,807
It isn't me.

1096
01:18:07,721 --> 01:18:09,658
(whimpers softly)

1097
01:18:09,790 --> 01:18:11,892
♪ ♪

1098
01:18:35,716 --> 01:18:37,818
♪ ♪

1099
01:18:46,827 --> 01:18:48,862
(whimpers, gasps)

1100
01:18:56,737 --> 01:18:59,073
♪ ♪

1101
01:19:09,651 --> 01:19:11,785
(footsteps receding)

1102
01:19:37,746 --> 01:19:39,880
(soft, gasping breaths)

1103
01:19:49,758 --> 01:19:52,092
♪ ♪

1104
01:20:03,370 --> 01:20:04,639
(birds chirping)

1105
01:20:04,773 --> 01:20:07,875
NANISCA: They are a day's
journey from our plateau.

1106
01:20:08,008 --> 01:20:10,811
They will set up camp there.

1107
01:20:11,979 --> 01:20:13,682
They expect us
to defend ourselves

1108
01:20:13,814 --> 01:20:15,617
from behind our walls.

1109
01:20:15,750 --> 01:20:17,184
We are greatly outnumbered.

1110
01:20:17,318 --> 01:20:21,422
Their size makes them
arrogant and slow,

1111
01:20:21,556 --> 01:20:23,324
like their guns.

1112
01:20:23,457 --> 01:20:25,392
♪ ♪

1113
01:20:38,172 --> 01:20:41,942
But you don't need a gun
to use gunpowder.

1114
01:20:43,043 --> 01:20:46,681
(voice-over)
You just need a spark.

1115
01:20:46,815 --> 01:20:52,186
Sometimes a termite
can take down an elephant.

1116
01:20:53,153 --> 01:20:56,725
We will bring the war to them.

1117
01:20:56,857 --> 01:20:59,360
♪ ♪

1118
01:21:01,563 --> 01:21:02,731
Agojie!

1119
01:21:02,863 --> 01:21:05,933
(singing in Fongbe)

1120
01:21:13,775 --> 01:21:16,377
(singing continues)

1121
01:21:23,917 --> 01:21:25,620
(singing stops)

1122
01:21:25,754 --> 01:21:28,155
(undulating cries)

1123
01:21:39,801 --> 01:21:41,969
(singing resumes)

1124
01:21:42,102 --> 01:21:44,938
-(shouting fiercely)
-(singing continues)

1125
01:21:53,180 --> 01:21:54,448
(Agojie continue shouting)

1126
01:21:54,582 --> 01:21:57,117
NANISCA (voice-over):
For 90 years,

1127
01:21:57,251 --> 01:22:00,789
Dahomey has lived
under the thumb of the Oyo!

1128
01:22:00,921 --> 01:22:02,055
(all shout)

1129
01:22:02,189 --> 01:22:03,725
NANISCA (voice-over):
When it rains,

1130
01:22:03,858 --> 01:22:07,562
our ancestors weep
for the pain we have felt

1131
01:22:07,695 --> 01:22:12,634
in the dark hulls of ships
bound for distant shores!

1132
01:22:12,767 --> 01:22:14,968
(singing continues)

1133
01:22:15,102 --> 01:22:17,438
NANISCA (voice-over):
When the wind blows,

1134
01:22:17,572 --> 01:22:20,941
our ancestors push us
to march into battle

1135
01:22:21,074 --> 01:22:23,110
against those who enslave us!

1136
01:22:23,243 --> 01:22:25,713
-(Agojie shout)
-When it thunders,

1137
01:22:25,847 --> 01:22:30,984
our ancestors demand
we rip the shackles of doubt

1138
01:22:31,118 --> 01:22:33,287
from our minds
and fight with courage!

1139
01:22:34,988 --> 01:22:39,026
We fight not just for today
but for the future!

1140
01:22:39,928 --> 01:22:44,264
We are the spear of victory!

1141
01:22:44,398 --> 01:22:47,067
We are the blade of freedom!

1142
01:22:47,968 --> 01:22:51,004
We are Dahomey!

1143
01:22:51,138 --> 01:22:52,005
Agojie!

1144
01:22:52,139 --> 01:22:53,608
-Wu Suu!
-Agojie!

1145
01:22:53,741 --> 01:22:54,809
Wu Suu!

1146
01:22:54,943 --> 01:22:56,544
-Agojie!
-Wu Suu!

1147
01:22:56,678 --> 01:22:57,745
Agojie!

1148
01:22:57,879 --> 01:22:59,413
-Wu Suu!
-Agojie!

1149
01:22:59,547 --> 01:23:00,615
Wu Suu!

1150
01:23:00,748 --> 01:23:03,283
(undulating cries)

1151
01:23:09,022 --> 01:23:11,191
♪ ♪

1152
01:23:14,995 --> 01:23:18,131
(birds chirping)

1153
01:23:18,265 --> 01:23:21,001
(horses neighing in distance)

1154
01:23:25,005 --> 01:23:27,542
♪ ♪

1155
01:23:47,862 --> 01:23:50,197
♪ ♪

1156
01:24:05,112 --> 01:24:07,047
(multiple explosions)

1157
01:24:07,180 --> 01:24:09,116
(soldiers yelling, screaming)

1158
01:24:09,249 --> 01:24:12,085
(horses neighing)

1159
01:24:13,086 --> 01:24:14,989
(screaming continues)

1160
01:24:15,122 --> 01:24:18,191
We are under attack! Attack!

1161
01:24:21,829 --> 01:24:24,566
(explosions and screaming
continue in distance)

1162
01:24:26,834 --> 01:24:28,736
Grab your weapons!

1163
01:24:28,870 --> 01:24:30,838
We are Oyo!

1164
01:24:31,973 --> 01:24:33,073
Oyo!

1165
01:24:33,206 --> 01:24:36,044
(soldiers yelling)

1166
01:24:36,176 --> 01:24:37,946
(undulating cry)

1167
01:24:38,078 --> 01:24:40,582
(others join in cry)

1168
01:24:45,019 --> 01:24:48,455
(yelling continues)

1169
01:24:48,590 --> 01:24:51,759
(undulating cries continue)

1170
01:24:56,931 --> 01:24:58,900
(yelling)

1171
01:24:59,033 --> 01:25:01,501
(grunting and groaning)

1172
01:25:05,138 --> 01:25:07,474
(all yelling)

1173
01:25:10,344 --> 01:25:13,213
(grunting and groaning
continue)

1174
01:25:28,963 --> 01:25:30,665
(panting)

1175
01:25:30,798 --> 01:25:33,433
(grunting and groaning
continue)

1176
01:25:48,348 --> 01:25:50,317
(squishing thud)

1177
01:25:52,185 --> 01:25:54,822
(grunting and groaning
continue)

1178
01:26:14,307 --> 01:26:17,578
(grunting and groaning
continue)

1179
01:26:36,229 --> 01:26:38,365
(squishing thud)

1180
01:26:38,498 --> 01:26:40,968
(yelling, grunting)

1181
01:26:45,439 --> 01:26:48,042
-(loud thump)
-(soldier grunts)

1182
01:26:48,176 --> 01:26:49,610
(Agojie yelling)

1183
01:26:51,713 --> 01:26:54,882
(grunting and groaning
continue)

1184
01:26:57,350 --> 01:26:59,754
(gasping, choking)

1185
01:26:59,887 --> 01:27:01,455
(scoffs)

1186
01:27:02,757 --> 01:27:05,392
(grunting and groaning
continue)

1187
01:27:10,363 --> 01:27:12,365
(screams)

1188
01:27:15,903 --> 01:27:18,438
♪ ♪

1189
01:27:20,273 --> 01:27:22,143
-(soldier yells)
-(Fumbe yelping)

1190
01:27:22,275 --> 01:27:24,779
-(screams)
-(yells in pain)

1191
01:27:24,912 --> 01:27:26,480
(panting)

1192
01:27:27,380 --> 01:27:29,483
(soldier groans, gasps)

1193
01:27:30,250 --> 01:27:32,587
♪ ♪

1194
01:27:36,824 --> 01:27:39,927
(grunting and groaning
continue)

1195
01:27:42,930 --> 01:27:46,000
-(neck snaps)
-(soldier groans)

1196
01:27:47,400 --> 01:27:49,302
-(grunts)
-(yells)

1197
01:27:51,506 --> 01:27:54,142
-(squishing thud)
-(soldier groans)

1198
01:27:54,274 --> 01:27:57,044
(yelling)

1199
01:27:58,112 --> 01:28:00,681
(whimpers, groans)

1200
01:28:06,554 --> 01:28:08,321
(bullet clangs on blade)

1201
01:28:10,625 --> 01:28:12,794
(grunting and groaning
continue)

1202
01:28:18,498 --> 01:28:20,668
(panting)

1203
01:28:21,334 --> 01:28:23,070
Where is Oba?

1204
01:28:25,573 --> 01:28:27,208
Where is Oba?!

1205
01:28:27,340 --> 01:28:28,843
(yells)

1206
01:28:28,976 --> 01:28:31,411
(grunting)

1207
01:28:32,479 --> 01:28:34,849
(grunting and groaning
continue)

1208
01:28:41,055 --> 01:28:43,090
Fall back!

1209
01:28:43,224 --> 01:28:45,358
Fall back! Oyo, fall back!

1210
01:28:45,492 --> 01:28:47,662
(frantic chatter)

1211
01:28:47,795 --> 01:28:50,430
(grunting and groaning
continue)

1212
01:28:58,539 --> 01:29:00,407
(soldiers yell)

1213
01:29:00,541 --> 01:29:03,044
(panting)

1214
01:29:03,177 --> 01:29:04,679
(yells)

1215
01:29:14,454 --> 01:29:16,224
(groans)

1216
01:29:16,356 --> 01:29:18,693
♪ ♪

1217
01:29:18,826 --> 01:29:20,528
OYO SOLDIER:
Grab the Agojie.

1218
01:29:20,661 --> 01:29:23,331
OBA:
Oyo, move!

1219
01:29:23,463 --> 01:29:25,299
Oba wants the Agojie.

1220
01:29:25,432 --> 01:29:27,702
Move, move, move!

1221
01:29:30,503 --> 01:29:32,372
(soldier grunts)

1222
01:29:32,506 --> 01:29:34,508
(frantic chatter)

1223
01:29:34,642 --> 01:29:37,111
(grunting and groaning
continue)

1224
01:29:37,245 --> 01:29:39,379
♪ ♪

1225
01:29:42,449 --> 01:29:43,784
They are retreating!

1226
01:29:43,918 --> 01:29:46,587
OBA:
Move, move, move!

1227
01:29:54,562 --> 01:29:56,364
(migan yells)

1228
01:29:56,496 --> 01:29:58,833
(others yelling)

1229
01:30:00,400 --> 01:30:02,536
♪ ♪

1230
01:30:10,511 --> 01:30:14,749
You fought well,
my young sister.

1231
01:30:18,586 --> 01:30:20,988
(voice shaking)
Now you must rest.

1232
01:30:26,794 --> 01:30:30,097
(warriors chanting)
Ghezo! Wu Suu!

1233
01:30:33,367 --> 01:30:35,369
She is not here.

1234
01:30:35,502 --> 01:30:38,039
No one has seen her.

1235
01:31:00,628 --> 01:31:02,964
(groans)

1236
01:31:14,442 --> 01:31:16,777
(trembling breaths)

1237
01:31:21,649 --> 01:31:23,184
Fumbe.

1238
01:31:24,352 --> 01:31:25,419
I failed.

1239
01:31:25,553 --> 01:31:26,520
No.

1240
01:31:26,654 --> 01:31:28,723
You stayed alive.

1241
01:31:31,926 --> 01:31:34,061
You are not tied to anyone.

1242
01:31:34,195 --> 01:31:35,396
Mm-mm.

1243
01:31:35,529 --> 01:31:37,031
Go over.

1244
01:31:37,164 --> 01:31:38,566
(gasps)

1245
01:31:38,699 --> 01:31:41,202
Do you want to live?

1246
01:31:44,305 --> 01:31:46,140
Now.

1247
01:31:57,118 --> 01:32:00,788
-(keys jingling)
-(indistinct chatter)

1248
01:32:06,894 --> 01:32:09,430
We need to buy passage.

1249
01:32:09,563 --> 01:32:10,631
We are not going home?

1250
01:32:10,765 --> 01:32:12,299
We have lost.

1251
01:32:12,433 --> 01:32:15,569
At home, we are dead men.

1252
01:32:17,605 --> 01:32:19,473
Put this one on display.

1253
01:32:19,607 --> 01:32:23,010
The bids will be higher
for soldiers.

1254
01:32:27,681 --> 01:32:29,483
Move.

1255
01:32:29,617 --> 01:32:31,152
I said move.

1256
01:32:34,688 --> 01:32:37,024
(lock clicks)

1257
01:32:43,631 --> 01:32:45,766
(chains jingling)

1258
01:32:50,604 --> 01:32:53,574
-(lock clicking)
-(gate creaking)

1259
01:32:53,707 --> 01:32:55,544
GUARD:
Move back!

1260
01:32:55,676 --> 01:32:58,879
GUARD 2:
Make space for one more.

1261
01:33:00,581 --> 01:33:01,449
(dog barks)

1262
01:33:01,582 --> 01:33:04,819
(gate creaks shut)

1263
01:33:13,994 --> 01:33:17,031
Izogie. (shuddering breaths)

1264
01:33:18,799 --> 01:33:21,202
Come. Sit.

1265
01:33:21,335 --> 01:33:23,170
Sit.

1266
01:33:26,974 --> 01:33:29,009
(Izogie grunts softly)

1267
01:33:35,716 --> 01:33:36,917
Eat.

1268
01:33:37,051 --> 01:33:40,020
We will need our strength
to escape.

1269
01:33:43,757 --> 01:33:45,527
My arm is broken.

1270
01:33:45,659 --> 01:33:48,262
I know what I must do.

1271
01:33:49,797 --> 01:33:52,032
What the miganon said.

1272
01:33:54,034 --> 01:33:56,737
We will slit our throats.

1273
01:33:58,305 --> 01:34:00,307
We will not.

1274
01:34:02,511 --> 01:34:03,512
"Fear not.

1275
01:34:03,644 --> 01:34:06,113
"Face it head-on.

1276
01:34:08,182 --> 01:34:11,719
Relentlessly, we will fight."

1277
01:34:13,622 --> 01:34:14,755
Hey.

1278
01:34:14,889 --> 01:34:17,592
You are Izogie.

1279
01:34:17,725 --> 01:34:19,660
You said it.

1280
01:34:19,793 --> 01:34:22,830
"Relentlessly, we will fight."

1281
01:34:23,797 --> 01:34:25,166
Come on!

1282
01:34:29,770 --> 01:34:31,906
(breathing deeply)

1283
01:34:35,843 --> 01:34:37,646
(Izogie grunts softly)

1284
01:34:37,778 --> 01:34:40,314
(breathes deeply)

1285
01:34:45,719 --> 01:34:47,922
Push it back together.

1286
01:34:55,262 --> 01:34:57,698
-(bone cracks)
-(pained grunt)

1287
01:34:57,831 --> 01:35:00,067
(muffled grunt)

1288
01:35:05,773 --> 01:35:08,309
(Izogie breathing shakily)

1289
01:35:13,914 --> 01:35:16,951
You are strong
for a little fly.

1290
01:35:18,587 --> 01:35:20,287
(grunts)

1291
01:35:22,756 --> 01:35:25,259
(sighs)

1292
01:35:27,629 --> 01:35:29,430
Now what?

1293
01:35:41,275 --> 01:35:43,911
-(man whistling)
-(cattle mooing)

1294
01:35:47,948 --> 01:35:49,817
(stops whistling)

1295
01:35:51,885 --> 01:35:53,821
(Fumbe panting)

1296
01:35:53,954 --> 01:35:55,557
(whimpers)

1297
01:35:55,690 --> 01:35:57,258
(panting heavily)

1298
01:35:57,391 --> 01:35:59,594
FUMBE (voice-over): They were
taking us to the barracoons.

1299
01:35:59,728 --> 01:36:01,795
How many others?

1300
01:36:01,929 --> 01:36:03,565
Uh, three, I think.

1301
01:36:03,698 --> 01:36:05,933
-Izogie?
-Uh...

1302
01:36:06,066 --> 01:36:07,801
I did not see her.

1303
01:36:09,203 --> 01:36:11,606
Nawi said to throw myself
off the wagon.

1304
01:36:11,740 --> 01:36:13,907
Nawi?

1305
01:36:18,912 --> 01:36:21,048
Miganon, Ajahi.

1306
01:36:21,181 --> 01:36:23,350
The king requests you.

1307
01:36:23,484 --> 01:36:27,187
I have brought you here
because I have chosen kpojito.

1308
01:36:27,321 --> 01:36:30,257
Kpojito is beloved
of the people.

1309
01:36:30,391 --> 01:36:34,261
She must be deserving of their
admiration and their trust.

1310
01:36:34,395 --> 01:36:38,767
We must share the same vision
for our future.

1311
01:36:38,899 --> 01:36:40,067
A bold future.

1312
01:36:40,200 --> 01:36:44,805
For that reason,
I have chosen Nanisca.

1313
01:36:48,942 --> 01:36:50,377
She is a common soldier.

1314
01:36:50,512 --> 01:36:52,012
-Will you sit down.
-Ruined by the enemy.

1315
01:36:52,146 --> 01:36:54,815
-Sit down and be quiet!
-Shante.

1316
01:36:57,418 --> 01:37:01,889
Kelu, Efe, go and talk to her.
Go, go, go.

1317
01:37:03,123 --> 01:37:05,192
We will celebrate.

1318
01:37:05,326 --> 01:37:07,194
We will bring the city
to the palace,

1319
01:37:07,328 --> 01:37:08,896
and we will have a big feast.

1320
01:37:09,029 --> 01:37:10,931
Go and prepare.

1321
01:37:17,004 --> 01:37:19,039
INIYA:
Well done.

1322
01:37:32,019 --> 01:37:34,988
My king, it is a great honor.

1323
01:37:35,122 --> 01:37:37,257
But perhaps it is too soon,

1324
01:37:37,391 --> 01:37:39,126
when we have lost
so many soldiers

1325
01:37:39,259 --> 01:37:40,861
and the people are grieving.

1326
01:37:40,994 --> 01:37:42,863
Grieving?

1327
01:37:42,996 --> 01:37:43,864
No one is grieving.

1328
01:37:43,997 --> 01:37:45,132
We have won.

1329
01:37:45,265 --> 01:37:46,900
We have thrown off the yoke.

1330
01:37:47,034 --> 01:37:48,902
My king, I wish to seek
our lost Agojie.

1331
01:37:49,036 --> 01:37:50,137
Some were taken captive.

1332
01:37:50,270 --> 01:37:51,505
They will be sold,
used by the men.

1333
01:37:51,639 --> 01:37:54,542
Nanisca, the moment
you seek is here.

1334
01:37:54,676 --> 01:37:56,578
The few have been sacrificed
for the many.

1335
01:37:56,711 --> 01:37:59,581
-Now we must move forward.
-I can go alone. Let me try.

1336
01:37:59,714 --> 01:38:02,584
-The Oyo...
-You disobey me, Nanisca.

1337
01:38:02,717 --> 01:38:06,353
Are you confusing
my admiration for weakness?

1338
01:38:07,020 --> 01:38:09,323
I am your king.

1339
01:38:09,456 --> 01:38:13,894
Let me tell you, you will not
seek out those captives.

1340
01:38:14,027 --> 01:38:15,996
You must stay by my side

1341
01:38:16,130 --> 01:38:18,899
and take the honor
I bestow you.

1342
01:38:19,900 --> 01:38:22,236
Do not force my anger.

1343
01:38:33,748 --> 01:38:35,650
(seabirds crying)

1344
01:38:35,784 --> 01:38:37,184
(door opens)

1345
01:38:37,317 --> 01:38:39,119
IZOGIE (voice-over):
In the morning, they will come.

1346
01:38:39,253 --> 01:38:41,155
-Back up! Move it! Move it!
-Get back! Back!

1347
01:38:41,288 --> 01:38:43,390
-Move back!
-Back! Move it!

1348
01:38:43,525 --> 01:38:44,425
Move!

1349
01:38:44,559 --> 01:38:47,161
-Stay back!
-(chains clanking)

1350
01:38:49,296 --> 01:38:51,265
(Izogie grunts quietly)

1351
01:38:55,703 --> 01:38:57,204
Move!

1352
01:38:57,337 --> 01:39:00,608
IZOGIE (voice-over): They will
take the Agojie first.

1353
01:39:00,742 --> 01:39:03,076
(chains clanking)

1354
01:39:22,229 --> 01:39:26,233
-On your feet.
-(grunts, groans)

1355
01:39:26,366 --> 01:39:27,869
-(guard shouts)
-(grunts)

1356
01:39:28,001 --> 01:39:29,336
(groans)

1357
01:39:33,307 --> 01:39:36,276
IZOGIE (voice-over):
We must have patience.

1358
01:39:42,015 --> 01:39:44,084
When we are brought
to the block,

1359
01:39:44,218 --> 01:39:46,688
we will be unshackled.

1360
01:39:46,821 --> 01:39:49,156
We will have our legs.

1361
01:39:59,132 --> 01:40:02,570
We must not let them see
my arm is broken.

1362
01:40:19,286 --> 01:40:23,023
When we are sold,
that will be the moment.

1363
01:40:23,156 --> 01:40:24,993
You will make a distraction.

1364
01:40:25,125 --> 01:40:26,895
I give you 90 for this one.

1365
01:40:27,027 --> 01:40:28,563
120.

1366
01:40:30,163 --> 01:40:32,499
Oba, you said you would
be good to me here.

1367
01:40:32,634 --> 01:40:34,802
Mm-mm. It will go
to the highest bidder.

1368
01:40:34,936 --> 01:40:38,006
IZOGIE (voice-over): We will
each disarm a guard and run.

1369
01:40:38,138 --> 01:40:41,108
Do not stop
until you reach the water.

1370
01:40:41,241 --> 01:40:43,343
150 reais.

1371
01:40:49,416 --> 01:40:51,251
MALIK:
Nawi!

1372
01:40:51,385 --> 01:40:53,053
(speaking Portuguese)

1373
01:40:53,186 --> 01:40:55,355
(Santo speaking Portuguese)

1374
01:40:55,489 --> 01:40:57,357
MALIK:

1375
01:41:05,033 --> 01:41:06,534
(clamoring)

1376
01:41:07,769 --> 01:41:10,504
-(grunting)
-(people screaming)

1377
01:41:11,204 --> 01:41:14,074
(clamoring)

1378
01:41:16,911 --> 01:41:19,079
(man yells, grunts)

1379
01:41:27,822 --> 01:41:29,524
(gun fires)

1380
01:41:31,025 --> 01:41:32,660
(grunts)

1381
01:41:34,194 --> 01:41:36,531
(grunting)

1382
01:41:43,972 --> 01:41:45,305
No.

1383
01:41:46,340 --> 01:41:48,108
(gun fires)

1384
01:41:48,241 --> 01:41:50,845
-No.
-(gun fires)

1385
01:41:53,380 --> 01:41:54,849
NAWI:
No.

1386
01:41:54,983 --> 01:41:56,718
(Nawi grunting)

1387
01:42:01,221 --> 01:42:02,824
Izogie.

1388
01:42:02,957 --> 01:42:07,028
-Come on. Come on. Come on.
-(grunting, jagged breathing)

1389
01:42:07,160 --> 01:42:08,796
Get up.

1390
01:42:08,930 --> 01:42:09,998
No!

1391
01:42:10,130 --> 01:42:13,367
(panting)
Izogie, get up.

1392
01:42:14,267 --> 01:42:16,804
(gasping, jagged breathing)

1393
01:42:19,306 --> 01:42:22,142
(sobbing)
No, no, no, no.

1394
01:42:22,275 --> 01:42:23,845
I'm sorry.

1395
01:42:23,978 --> 01:42:25,278
N-Nawi.

1396
01:42:25,412 --> 01:42:27,314
(stammering, jagged breathing)

1397
01:42:27,447 --> 01:42:29,483
You move like a sloth.

1398
01:42:29,617 --> 01:42:32,020
(whimpering)
I'm sorry.

1399
01:42:32,152 --> 01:42:33,286
I'm sorry.

1400
01:42:33,420 --> 01:42:35,155
I'm sorry. Let's-let's go.

1401
01:42:35,288 --> 01:42:37,357
Let's go.

1402
01:42:41,228 --> 01:42:43,097
Izogie?

1403
01:42:43,263 --> 01:42:45,533
Izogie. Izogie.

1404
01:42:49,302 --> 01:42:51,204
You get away from her!

1405
01:42:51,338 --> 01:42:54,108
Get away!

1406
01:42:54,241 --> 01:42:56,209
(whimpering)

1407
01:42:56,343 --> 01:42:58,613
(sobbing)

1408
01:42:58,746 --> 01:43:00,882
♪ ♪

1409
01:43:11,224 --> 01:43:15,195
If you want this one,
100 reais.

1410
01:43:15,328 --> 01:43:17,865
(sobbing continues)

1411
01:43:27,207 --> 01:43:28,943
(sniffles)

1412
01:43:34,849 --> 01:43:36,416
-What are you doing?
-Move aside.

1413
01:43:36,551 --> 01:43:38,753
You know what the king
will do to you if you defy him.

1414
01:43:38,886 --> 01:43:40,387
You want to be expelled
or worse?

1415
01:43:40,521 --> 01:43:42,289
-No, no, no, no. Nanisca.
-Amenza. Amenza.

1416
01:43:42,422 --> 01:43:45,059
-I cannot stand by.
-I know what it is.

1417
01:43:45,193 --> 01:43:47,628
In the dream.

1418
01:43:47,762 --> 01:43:50,932
The beast I am
so frightened of.

1419
01:43:56,403 --> 01:43:58,706
It is me.

1420
01:44:02,577 --> 01:44:05,479
It is that girl
who was silenced

1421
01:44:05,613 --> 01:44:09,517
in those shackles by those men.

1422
01:44:12,319 --> 01:44:14,488
I've hidden her away.

1423
01:44:14,622 --> 01:44:17,558
I have denied her pain.

1424
01:44:21,361 --> 01:44:24,832
But I'm going to hear her now.

1425
01:44:25,933 --> 01:44:27,168
(sniffles) Hmm?

1426
01:44:27,300 --> 01:44:29,737
I have to try to save her.

1427
01:44:29,871 --> 01:44:31,005
No.

1428
01:44:32,439 --> 01:44:34,474
Please.

1429
01:44:42,382 --> 01:44:44,252
(insects trilling)

1430
01:44:44,384 --> 01:44:46,921
♪ ♪

1431
01:45:06,174 --> 01:45:08,509
♪ ♪

1432
01:45:16,316 --> 01:45:18,820
(thunder rumbling)

1433
01:45:18,953 --> 01:45:21,321
♪ ♪

1434
01:45:47,081 --> 01:45:49,416
♪ ♪

1435
01:45:51,519 --> 01:45:53,453
(distant chatter)

1436
01:45:54,387 --> 01:45:56,456
(door opens)

1437
01:45:59,560 --> 01:46:01,929
It is not safe for us.
I brought you clothes.

1438
01:46:02,063 --> 01:46:04,532
I will sneak you out
at nightfall.

1439
01:46:04,665 --> 01:46:06,334
Do you own me now?

1440
01:46:06,466 --> 01:46:07,935
-Of course not.
-Get out!

1441
01:46:08,069 --> 01:46:09,937
-I am trying to protect you.
-By locking me in?

1442
01:46:10,071 --> 01:46:12,273
Do you know what
they would do to you?

1443
01:46:12,405 --> 01:46:14,609
A white man was killed.

1444
01:46:18,512 --> 01:46:21,515
You have the key now.

1445
01:46:21,649 --> 01:46:24,785
You can choose
when the lock is turned.

1446
01:46:37,131 --> 01:46:38,966
(water pouring)

1447
01:46:59,419 --> 01:47:01,856
(water splashes gently)

1448
01:47:28,082 --> 01:47:32,520
My mother guided me here
to find myself.

1449
01:47:33,453 --> 01:47:34,922
And I found you.

1450
01:47:35,056 --> 01:47:39,527
I have booked passage on
a cargo ship bound for England.

1451
01:47:40,728 --> 01:47:42,196
I want to keep you safe.

1452
01:47:45,599 --> 01:47:47,435
(sniffs sharply)

1453
01:47:47,568 --> 01:47:51,906
My heart has many scars.

1454
01:47:58,579 --> 01:48:01,716
(takes deep breath, sniffs)

1455
01:48:04,552 --> 01:48:06,887
♪ ♪

1456
01:48:08,289 --> 01:48:11,491
SHANTE: Husband, please accept
my deepest apologies

1457
01:48:11,625 --> 01:48:14,628
for questioning your will.
-GHEZO: Mm.

1458
01:48:14,762 --> 01:48:16,464
What do you want?

1459
01:48:16,630 --> 01:48:17,598
Move, my friend.

1460
01:48:17,732 --> 01:48:19,633
The wives are whispering.

1461
01:48:19,767 --> 01:48:21,669
I told Tanonu
what they say, and...

1462
01:48:21,802 --> 01:48:23,204
Have I not told you
not to discuss

1463
01:48:23,337 --> 01:48:25,373
my business with the wives?
Have I not told you?

1464
01:48:25,505 --> 01:48:27,608
My king, please forgive me.

1465
01:48:27,742 --> 01:48:29,210
Nanisca's gone to Ouidah

1466
01:48:29,343 --> 01:48:31,612
with the migan
and a number of her soldiers.

1467
01:48:31,746 --> 01:48:33,581
-Eh?
-We must postpone the feast.

1468
01:48:33,714 --> 01:48:35,316
No, no. The-the people gossip.

1469
01:48:35,449 --> 01:48:39,086
You cannot postpone it now,
not without looking weak.

1470
01:48:53,367 --> 01:48:56,237
(lively chatter)

1471
01:48:58,439 --> 01:49:01,108
(raucous laughter)

1472
01:49:03,110 --> 01:49:05,980
♪ ♪

1473
01:49:09,550 --> 01:49:10,618
(gasps)

1474
01:49:10,751 --> 01:49:12,686
(man groans)

1475
01:49:19,593 --> 01:49:22,730
Where are the others?

1476
01:49:22,863 --> 01:49:26,200
Izogie was killed, Miganon.

1477
01:49:26,333 --> 01:49:28,669
Nawi is gone.

1478
01:49:34,141 --> 01:49:36,277
♪ ♪

1479
01:49:45,686 --> 01:49:47,556
There will be no prisoners.

1480
01:49:47,688 --> 01:49:51,258
Burn their whole trade
to the ground.

1481
01:49:52,827 --> 01:49:55,162
(keys jingling)

1482
01:50:03,704 --> 01:50:06,040
♪ ♪

1483
01:50:16,750 --> 01:50:17,852
(gun fires)

1484
01:50:17,985 --> 01:50:21,255
-Sound the alarm!
-(alarm ringing)

1485
01:50:23,257 --> 01:50:25,359
(grunting)

1486
01:50:25,493 --> 01:50:26,961
(fire crackling)

1487
01:50:27,094 --> 01:50:29,930
-(gunfire)
-(alarm continues)

1488
01:50:33,868 --> 01:50:37,037
(grunting and groaning)

1489
01:50:38,540 --> 01:50:40,774
(knocking)

1490
01:50:40,908 --> 01:50:42,810
MALIK:
Nawi. Nawi.

1491
01:50:42,943 --> 01:50:44,945
I need to come in.

1492
01:50:46,814 --> 01:50:47,882
We must go.

1493
01:50:48,015 --> 01:50:49,884
My sisters have come.

1494
01:50:50,017 --> 01:50:51,620
I have to help them.

1495
01:50:51,752 --> 01:50:53,654
Then I will help you.

1496
01:50:53,787 --> 01:50:56,790
No. Malik.

1497
01:50:57,691 --> 01:50:59,960
You must go.

1498
01:51:04,965 --> 01:51:07,301
MALIK:
Your clothes are bloody.

1499
01:51:10,539 --> 01:51:12,773
You can wear these.

1500
01:51:12,907 --> 01:51:15,409
(gunshots continue in distance)

1501
01:51:17,912 --> 01:51:19,713
-(knocking)
-(Santo shouts in Portuguese)

1502
01:51:19,847 --> 01:51:22,449
I will take care of him.

1503
01:51:23,652 --> 01:51:25,920
I will be on the beach.

1504
01:51:26,053 --> 01:51:28,122
-(Malik speaks Portuguese)
-(door closes)

1505
01:51:28,255 --> 01:51:31,593
(Santo and Malik arguing
in Portuguese)

1506
01:51:31,725 --> 01:51:33,928
(grunting and groaning)

1507
01:51:37,898 --> 01:51:39,400
(grunts fiercely)

1508
01:51:40,467 --> 01:51:42,036
(screams)

1509
01:51:47,741 --> 01:51:50,277
(grunting and groaning
continue)

1510
01:51:53,380 --> 01:51:55,316
♪ ♪

1511
01:52:02,890 --> 01:52:04,925
I want Oba.

1512
01:52:16,036 --> 01:52:18,739
(grunting fiercely)

1513
01:52:21,576 --> 01:52:24,778
Hurry up, this way,
this way! Come on!

1514
01:52:24,912 --> 01:52:26,780
Move, damn it!

1515
01:52:26,914 --> 01:52:29,450
(clamoring)

1516
01:52:32,086 --> 01:52:34,388
(shouts in Portuguese)

1517
01:52:34,522 --> 01:52:36,524
No! No! No!

1518
01:52:36,658 --> 01:52:38,492
Malik!

1519
01:52:42,830 --> 01:52:45,866
Malik! Malik, in!

1520
01:52:49,837 --> 01:52:51,772
♪ ♪

1521
01:52:51,905 --> 01:52:55,042
(sailor speaking Portuguese)

1522
01:52:55,175 --> 01:52:58,078
(Santo shouting in Portuguese)

1523
01:52:59,113 --> 01:53:01,215
(in Portuguese):
Malik, no! No! No!

1524
01:53:01,348 --> 01:53:02,950
MAN:
Loose me! Loose me!

1525
01:53:03,083 --> 01:53:05,754
<i>Não! Não! Não!</i>

1526
01:53:05,886 --> 01:53:08,556
Malik! Malik, <i>não!</i>

1527
01:53:08,690 --> 01:53:11,425
(screams) <i>Não!</i>

1528
01:53:13,093 --> 01:53:16,531
-(punches landing)
-(Santo screaming)

1529
01:53:24,805 --> 01:53:28,042
♪ ♪

1530
01:53:38,986 --> 01:53:41,221
(clamoring)

1531
01:53:41,922 --> 01:53:44,058
(horse neighing)

1532
01:53:52,900 --> 01:53:55,336
-(horse sputtering)
-Hyah!

1533
01:53:56,403 --> 01:53:58,005
(neighs)

1534
01:54:03,243 --> 01:54:06,581
-(grunts)
-(horse squeals)

1535
01:54:11,985 --> 01:54:13,954
(horse whinnies)

1536
01:54:14,088 --> 01:54:16,558
(pained grunting)

1537
01:54:20,928 --> 01:54:22,429
(yells)

1538
01:54:22,564 --> 01:54:24,498
(grunting)

1539
01:54:45,520 --> 01:54:46,688
(yells)

1540
01:54:46,821 --> 01:54:48,590
(grunting and groaning)

1541
01:54:58,031 --> 01:55:01,969
-(Oba yells)
-(Nanisca groans)

1542
01:55:03,036 --> 01:55:06,006
(gasping, jagged breaths)

1543
01:55:09,042 --> 01:55:12,312
(both straining)

1544
01:55:12,446 --> 01:55:15,315
(Oba taking deep,
gruff breaths)

1545
01:55:17,652 --> 01:55:19,019
(straining)

1546
01:55:19,153 --> 01:55:21,021
(both grunt)

1547
01:55:21,155 --> 01:55:24,491
(Oba gasping)

1548
01:55:28,863 --> 01:55:31,498
You do not remember me.

1549
01:55:34,903 --> 01:55:38,138
Now you will never forget.

1550
01:55:38,272 --> 01:55:41,408
-(grunts)
-(Oba groans)

1551
01:55:44,978 --> 01:55:47,314
(panting)

1552
01:55:51,285 --> 01:55:53,621
(gasping breaths)

1553
01:55:56,990 --> 01:55:58,325
(gun fires)

1554
01:56:00,762 --> 01:56:02,697
♪ ♪

1555
01:56:17,010 --> 01:56:19,246
MAN:
No, no, no, no!

1556
01:56:21,850 --> 01:56:24,586
(grunting)

1557
01:56:33,060 --> 01:56:35,262
(panting)

1558
01:56:36,129 --> 01:56:38,031
(soldier groaning)

1559
01:56:41,368 --> 01:56:43,270
(soldier chokes, grunts)

1560
01:56:45,138 --> 01:56:47,207
(groans)

1561
01:56:49,644 --> 01:56:51,513
(panting)

1562
01:56:51,646 --> 01:56:53,781
♪ ♪

1563
01:57:16,671 --> 01:57:17,939
Agojie!

1564
01:57:18,071 --> 01:57:19,139
AGOJIE:
Wu Suu!

1565
01:57:19,273 --> 01:57:21,809
-Agojie!
-AGOJIE: Wu Suu!

1566
01:57:21,943 --> 01:57:23,210
NANISCA:
Agojie!

1567
01:57:23,343 --> 01:57:24,846
AGOJIE:
Wu Suu!

1568
01:57:24,979 --> 01:57:26,848
-Agojie!
-Wu Suu!

1569
01:57:26,981 --> 01:57:28,583
Agojie!

1570
01:57:28,716 --> 01:57:29,784
Wu Suu!

1571
01:57:29,918 --> 01:57:31,586
Agojie!

1572
01:57:31,719 --> 01:57:33,153
Wu Suu!

1573
01:57:35,188 --> 01:57:36,056
Come. We cannot stay here.

1574
01:57:36,189 --> 01:57:37,725
Get in the boat!

1575
01:57:38,826 --> 01:57:41,161
♪ ♪

1576
01:58:03,150 --> 01:58:06,054
♪ ♪

1577
01:58:06,186 --> 01:58:08,756
(sighs)

1578
01:58:12,326 --> 01:58:15,563
(rhythmic drumbeat playing)

1579
01:58:25,172 --> 01:58:27,174
Shante, well done.

1580
01:58:27,307 --> 01:58:29,077
You deserve it. (chuckles)

1581
01:58:29,209 --> 01:58:32,179
(cheering, undulating cries)

1582
01:58:36,316 --> 01:58:38,653
(rhythmic drumbeat continues)

1583
01:58:41,488 --> 01:58:44,224
(undulating cries continue)

1584
01:58:45,727 --> 01:58:47,929
CROWD (chanting):
Nanisca! Nanisca!

1585
01:58:48,062 --> 01:58:51,298
Nanisca! Nanisca! Nanisca!

1586
01:58:51,431 --> 01:58:54,334
Nanisca! Nanisca!

1587
01:58:54,468 --> 01:58:58,205
Nanisca! Nanisca! Nanisca!

1588
01:58:58,338 --> 01:59:01,075
Nanisca! Nanisca!

1589
01:59:01,208 --> 01:59:04,812
Nanisca! Nanisca! Nanisca!

1590
01:59:04,946 --> 01:59:07,180
Nanisca! Nanisca!

1591
01:59:07,314 --> 01:59:09,917
(chant fading)
Nanisca! Nanisca!

1592
01:59:10,051 --> 01:59:12,386
(drumming stops)

1593
01:59:30,605 --> 01:59:35,342
You disobey your king, Nanisca.

1594
01:59:36,611 --> 01:59:39,614
I will resign my command.

1595
01:59:50,490 --> 01:59:52,392
People of Dahomey...

1596
01:59:54,494 --> 01:59:56,731
...we have ended the reign
of the Oyo Empire.

1597
01:59:56,864 --> 02:00:00,467
-(cheering, undulating cries)
-(rapid drumming)

1598
02:00:03,104 --> 02:00:04,304
(drumming stops)

1599
02:00:04,438 --> 02:00:06,140
Look upon the faces
of the warriors.

1600
02:00:06,273 --> 02:00:08,375
Look at them.

1601
02:00:09,342 --> 02:00:11,612
Many never thought it possible.

1602
02:00:12,312 --> 02:00:14,247
But we believed.

1603
02:00:15,382 --> 02:00:17,618
That is what makes
a great leader.

1604
02:00:18,519 --> 02:00:20,588
Seeing what others do not.

1605
02:00:20,722 --> 02:00:24,525
The Europeans
and the Americans have seen

1606
02:00:24,659 --> 02:00:28,228
if you want to hold
a people in chains,

1607
02:00:28,361 --> 02:00:29,764
one must first convince them

1608
02:00:29,897 --> 02:00:33,366
that they are meant
to be bound.

1609
02:00:33,500 --> 02:00:37,105
We joined them in becoming
our own oppressor.

1610
02:00:37,237 --> 02:00:39,439
But no more.

1611
02:00:40,942 --> 02:00:42,844
No more.

1612
02:00:44,311 --> 02:00:46,748
We are a warrior people!

1613
02:00:46,881 --> 02:00:50,450
And there is power
in our mind...

1614
02:00:50,585 --> 02:00:54,856
...in our unity,
in our culture.

1615
02:00:54,989 --> 02:00:58,626
If we understand that power,
we will be limitless.

1616
02:01:00,128 --> 02:01:02,196
My people,

1617
02:01:02,329 --> 02:01:04,899
this is a vision I will lead.

1618
02:01:05,833 --> 02:01:08,770
It is a vision that is shared.

1619
02:01:13,508 --> 02:01:16,544
Heroes of Dahomey,

1620
02:01:16,677 --> 02:01:20,380
behold the bravest
of the brave,

1621
02:01:20,515 --> 02:01:22,415
appointed by King Ghezo,

1622
02:01:22,550 --> 02:01:26,286
elevated to the sacred title
of kpojito,

1623
02:01:26,419 --> 02:01:29,190
Nanisca, the woman king.

1624
02:01:29,322 --> 02:01:31,659
(cheering, undulating cries)

1625
02:01:32,927 --> 02:01:35,730
♪ ♪

1626
02:01:52,379 --> 02:01:54,916
♪ ♪

1627
02:02:12,133 --> 02:02:14,467
♪ ♪

1628
02:02:23,511 --> 02:02:26,681
An offering for Izogie.

1629
02:02:26,814 --> 02:02:30,051
She does not want that water.

1630
02:02:31,152 --> 02:02:32,954
She wants this.

1631
02:02:48,970 --> 02:02:51,839
In my blood is the blood
of a killer.

1632
02:02:56,510 --> 02:02:59,714
A man who gave you
so much pain.

1633
02:03:04,518 --> 02:03:06,787
I am sorry.

1634
02:03:16,097 --> 02:03:18,132
You are Agojie.

1635
02:03:29,644 --> 02:03:32,412
I am sorry.

1636
02:03:33,480 --> 02:03:35,750
I left you.

1637
02:03:39,553 --> 02:03:42,156
I was not brave enough.

1638
02:03:45,126 --> 02:03:49,830
But you survived because
you are meant to be here.

1639
02:03:57,805 --> 02:04:01,474
It is not your fault
what happened to me.

1640
02:04:04,512 --> 02:04:06,714
You...

1641
02:04:06,847 --> 02:04:10,117
are not the thing that hurt me.

1642
02:04:14,555 --> 02:04:16,891
You are Nawi.

1643
02:04:20,594 --> 02:04:22,997
You are my daughter.

1644
02:04:25,166 --> 02:04:26,901
I am sorry.

1645
02:04:38,646 --> 02:04:40,781
♪ ♪

1646
02:04:50,391 --> 02:04:52,593
(sniffles quietly)

1647
02:04:54,562 --> 02:04:56,697
(sobs softly)

1648
02:05:01,302 --> 02:05:02,670
(inhales sharply)

1649
02:05:02,803 --> 02:05:04,005
(shuddering exhale)

1650
02:05:04,138 --> 02:05:06,741
(lively, percussive music
playing)

1651
02:05:06,874 --> 02:05:10,111
(rhythmic, enthusiastic
chanting)

1652
02:05:21,455 --> 02:05:24,125
♪ ♪

1653
02:05:34,268 --> 02:05:36,604
♪ ♪

1654
02:05:44,912 --> 02:05:47,181
(chanting slowly fades)

1655
02:05:47,314 --> 02:05:49,650
♪ ♪

1656
02:05:56,824 --> 02:05:59,160
Mother, will you dance?

1657
02:06:11,672 --> 02:06:14,008
♪ ♪

1658
02:06:32,726 --> 02:06:35,262
♪ ♪

1659
02:06:43,971 --> 02:06:46,707
(chanting fades back in)

1660
02:06:59,787 --> 02:07:03,924
(choir vocalizing)

1661
02:07:04,058 --> 02:07:07,661
(man singing in native
language)

1662
02:07:34,523 --> 02:07:36,824
(singing continues)

1663
02:07:41,530 --> 02:07:43,864
♪ ♪

1664
02:08:13,694 --> 02:08:16,030
♪ ♪

1665
02:08:45,326 --> 02:08:47,261
♪ ♪

1666
02:09:16,390 --> 02:09:18,325
♪ ♪

1667
02:09:34,609 --> 02:09:36,944
(song ends)

1668
02:09:38,045 --> 02:09:40,080
AMENZA:
Sisters in blood.

1669
02:09:40,214 --> 02:09:45,886
You fall and now you rise.

1670
02:09:47,955 --> 02:09:49,490
Dance with us.

1671
02:09:49,624 --> 02:09:52,761
-(Agojie singing in Fongbe)
-Be with us.

1672
02:09:52,893 --> 02:09:55,095
You live for me...

1673
02:09:55,963 --> 02:09:58,065
and I for you.

1674
02:09:58,198 --> 02:10:01,101
(Agojie continue singing
in Fongbe)

1675
02:10:02,436 --> 02:10:04,138
Izogie.

1676
02:10:04,905 --> 02:10:07,241
Ode.

1677
02:10:08,543 --> 02:10:09,910
Esi.

1678
02:10:10,811 --> 02:10:12,614
Yoshe.

1679
02:10:12,747 --> 02:10:14,481
Alekko.

1680
02:10:14,616 --> 02:10:16,483
Kesia.

1681
02:10:16,618 --> 02:10:18,152
Breonna.

1682
02:10:18,285 --> 02:10:21,021
("Keep Rising (The Woman King)"
by Jessy Wilson playing)

1683
02:10:26,894 --> 02:10:29,096
<i>♪ Got to understand ♪</i>

1684
02:10:29,229 --> 02:10:32,399
<i>♪ What happens from here</i>
<i>Is in our hands ♪</i>

1685
02:10:32,534 --> 02:10:36,337
<i>♪ From mighty kingdoms</i>
<i>Of a distant land ♪</i>

1686
02:10:36,470 --> 02:10:40,207
<i>♪ Turn the world upside down</i>
<i>Yes, we can ♪</i>

1687
02:10:40,341 --> 02:10:41,842
<i>♪ We just gotta ♪</i>

1688
02:10:41,975 --> 02:10:45,580
<i>♪ Rise up, rise up ♪</i>

1689
02:10:45,714 --> 02:10:49,249
<i>♪ Rise up, rise up ♪</i>

1690
02:10:49,383 --> 02:10:53,287
<i>♪ Rise up, rise up ♪</i>

1691
02:10:53,420 --> 02:10:57,257
<i>♪ Rise up, rise up ♪</i>

1692
02:10:58,025 --> 02:10:59,761
<i>♪ No, no, yeah ♪</i>

1693
02:10:59,893 --> 02:11:01,563
<i>♪ No ♪</i>

1694
02:11:01,696 --> 02:11:03,631
<i>♪ No, no, yeah ♪</i>

1695
02:11:03,765 --> 02:11:05,232
<i>♪ No ♪</i>

1696
02:11:05,366 --> 02:11:07,468
<i>♪ No, no, yeah ♪</i>

1697
02:11:07,602 --> 02:11:09,503
<i>♪ No ♪</i>

1698
02:11:09,637 --> 02:11:11,505
<i>♪ No, no, yeah ♪</i>

1699
02:11:11,639 --> 02:11:12,873
<i>♪ No ♪</i>

1700
02:11:21,014 --> 02:11:23,217
<i>♪ Been marching so long ♪</i>

1701
02:11:23,350 --> 02:11:26,588
<i>♪ How far is it to get</i>
<i>To where we're going? ♪</i>

1702
02:11:26,721 --> 02:11:30,491
<i>♪ Don't you know</i>
<i>Together we are strong? ♪</i>

1703
02:11:30,625 --> 02:11:34,629
<i>♪ We're gonna fight the madness</i>
<i>Till it's gone ♪</i>

1704
02:11:34,763 --> 02:11:36,096
<i>♪ We just gotta ♪</i>

1705
02:11:36,230 --> 02:11:39,933
<i>♪ Rise up, rise up ♪</i>

1706
02:11:40,067 --> 02:11:43,772
<i>♪ Rise up, rise up ♪</i>

1707
02:11:43,904 --> 02:11:47,642
<i>♪ Rise up, rise up ♪</i>

1708
02:11:47,776 --> 02:11:54,682
<i>♪ Rise up, rise up ♪</i>

1709
02:11:55,949 --> 02:11:57,819
<i>♪ No, no, yeah ♪</i>

1710
02:11:57,951 --> 02:11:59,721
<i>♪ No ♪</i>

1711
02:11:59,854 --> 02:12:01,689
<i>♪ No, no, yeah ♪</i>

1712
02:12:01,823 --> 02:12:03,223
<i>♪ No ♪</i>

1713
02:12:03,357 --> 02:12:07,094
<i>♪ Oh... ♪</i>

1714
02:12:10,799 --> 02:12:14,134
<i>(woman singing</i>
<i>in foreign language)</i>

1715
02:12:30,317 --> 02:12:34,087
<i>♪ Rise up, rise up ♪</i>

1716
02:12:34,221 --> 02:12:38,091
<i>♪ Rise up, rise up ♪</i>

1717
02:12:38,225 --> 02:12:41,896
<i>♪ Rise up, rise up ♪</i>

1718
02:12:42,029 --> 02:12:45,499
<i>♪ Rise up, rise up ♪</i>

1719
02:12:45,633 --> 02:12:48,402
<i>(woman vocalizing)</i>
<i>♪ No, no, yeah ♪</i>

1720
02:12:48,536 --> 02:12:49,838
<i>♪ No ♪</i>

1721
02:12:49,970 --> 02:12:51,906
<i>♪ No, no, yeah ♪</i>

1722
02:12:52,039 --> 02:12:54,107
<i>♪ No ♪</i>

1723
02:12:54,241 --> 02:12:56,043
<i>♪ No, no, yeah ♪</i>

1724
02:12:56,176 --> 02:12:57,812
<i>♪ No ♪</i>

1725
02:12:57,946 --> 02:12:59,848
<i>♪ No, no, yeah ♪</i>

1726
02:12:59,980 --> 02:13:01,181
<i>♪ No ♪</i>

1727
02:13:01,315 --> 02:13:04,184
<i>(vocalizing continues)</i>

1728
02:13:04,318 --> 02:13:07,454
<i>(woman singing</i>
<i>in foreign language)</i>

1729
02:13:28,242 --> 02:13:30,512
(song ends)

1730
02:13:30,645 --> 02:13:32,780
♪ ♪

1731
02:13:58,706 --> 02:14:01,041
♪ ♪

1732
02:14:45,887 --> 02:14:48,221
(music ends)