Original subtitles

[HAUNTING, DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[SCRAPING ECHOES]

The dead -

they sigh to me.

[MEN GRUNT]

They tell me to seek a warrior -

[MAN GRUNTS, FLESH SQUELCHES]

more monster than man,...

[GROWLS]

...and only he can help me save my people.

Father.

- [WHACK! YOUNG WAKA GRUNTS] - I'm not your father.

I just sired you.

[TENSE MUSIC]

KA: You will go to the Great Pa and confront your father.

I am going to cut you out of my lineage...

once and for all.

[GRUNTS]

He is the answer to our problem.

There's a tear in the earth.

This one I made.

But it connects the world of the living

and the world of the dead.

Come, if you dare! [THE DEAD ROAR, GROWL]

[GROWLING, GRUNTING, BLOWS THUD]

So now you can heal the world.

And you...

Perhaps you were sent here for a reason, boy.

You brought me to this place from the start.

It's not luck, is it?

Could be destiny.

This Ka, what's he told you?

He said that the girl is important.

TE KAIPO: I need you to do something for me.

What?

Get three of my people. I need them to repair the world.

I'll do it... alone.

Hako will take you.

- MEHE: You need me. - I don't need you.

Never did.

MOCKINGLY: I don't need you. Never did.

WAKA: Stay away from my father.

[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]

You were drawn here. You've been touched by the gods.

Come with me to the Place of the Spirits.

[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]

You said you'll show me the truth, so show me.

How could the dead returning make things better?

By being an army...

for me.

[ROARS]

[SNARLING, GROANING]

It's time to heal the world. Understand?

How do you think it will be done?

WAKA: I didn't do all of this just to see you die.

KA: Protect her, Waka Nuku Rau,

for she has a gift that not even she knows she possesses.

You are here for a reason.

The gods have willed it.

[TENSE, UNSETTLING MUSIC BUILDS]

MEHE: The dead -

they sigh to me,...

[LOW, EERIE MUSIC]

...and I must heed their calls,

listen to their sighs,

because they are the dead,

and we all meet them in the end.

[BLOOD SQUELCHES]

[LOW, EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES]

[LOW, EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES]

[UNSETTLING MUSIC]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[IHI BREATHES HEAVILY]

- Papa. - [GROANS, PANTS]

- [BREATHES RAGGEDLY] - Listen to me.

Our family, Mehe -

there's something dark and wrong about us.

Your uncle... [GROANS]

Mehe Te Wehiwehi.

Am I dreaming?

If I am, wake me up now.

You are dreaming.

In dreams, the dead are closer to the living.

- You're dead. - [INHALES DEEPLY]

But your father is still very much alive.

You saw it.

You can feel it, can't you?

Feel it in your bones,...

like an aching.

But you could still save him,...

if you do something for me.

Anything.

Would you give your life to the world?

Would you give it freely?

Would you do that?

Then you need to go south.

There's a warrior there who will help you.

What's his name, this toa?

His name?

KA ECHOES: Waka... Nuku... Rau.

- Where are you going? - South, to find Waka Nuku Rau.

You won't help me,... but he might.

RANGI: Mehe. Mehe!

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[INSECTS CHIRP QUIETLY]

[DEAD WARRIORS SNARL]

How am I to earn honour in the world by sacrificing innocents?

- Who are you talking to? - [FLIES BUZZ]

You shouldn't feel bad. I come willingly.

- You say that now. - I say that always,

as a tohunga, for peace.

[EERIE WHISPERING]

You did this? You sealed it in?

- [BIRD TWEETS] - [WAKA SCOFFS SOFTLY]

- [DEAD WARRIOR GROWLS] - Hurry.

[SNARLING]

KAEWA: Who are you?

WAKA: No one.

- You don't look like no one. - Well, looks can't be trusted.

Now, stop talking... and walk faster.

[WAKA GRUNTS]

[ANIMALS CHIRP, CALL]

[DEAD WARRIORS SNARL]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[GUTTURAL GRUNTING]

[WHOOSHING]

[FLUTE WHISTLES SOFTLY]

[BIRD TWEETS, INSECTS CHIRP]

[PLAYS FLUTE] [DIRT WHOOSHES]

[EERIE WHISPERING]

[WHOOSHING]

[LOW, UNSETTLING MUSIC]

What is it?

[WHOOSHING]

- Run. - [GRUNTS]

[POUNDING, INTENSE MUSIC]

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

[EERIE WHOOSHING]

- [LOW GROWLING] - [GASPS]

[ROARING]

[GASPS SOFTLY]

[BREATHES HEAVILY]

[WAKA GROANS, PANTS]

- Where's Kaewa? - [PANTS]

Kaewa is dead.

[FOREBODING MUSIC]

[BREATHES SHAKILY]

[EXHALES SOFTLY]

What do you want?

To warn you.

You didn't defeat those warriors.

What are you talking about now?

It was too easy.

- Too easy? One of them ate- - They let you win.

- I defeated them. - Oh, shut up.

Against one, perhaps, but three?

They let you go.

- Why? - Exactly.

I feel the hand of the dead in this.

I have right from the start.

Believe me when I tell you, my son,

the dead - they sigh, and they scheme.

Beware the dead.

[GASPS, PANTS]

[BREATHING SLOWS]

[BIRDSONG]

You say some strange things in your sleep, e hoa.

You speak to the dead.

The dead lie.

[INTRIGUING MUSIC]

Hurry. [GRUNTS]

Open the gates, you shit-eaters.

[WOOD CREAKS]

I don't like to think what he'll say when he finds out

you got that girl killed.

[BIRDSONG]

[INTRIGUING MUSIC CONTINUES]

[TUHAERE GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS, BREATHES HEAVILY]

[INHALES SHARPLY]. Just two.

- There was- - Excuses?

You always had a world full of excuses.

Can't you just use those two?

You can leave now.

You have no more use...

to anyone!

[GENTLE, MOMENTOUS MUSIC]

Do you know what he's got planned?

He's going to sacrifice them.

Everywhere that man walks, there's blood.

You're no different.

He's squirmed his way into your mind, hasn't he?

He just wants to fix the world. So do we.

Forget the past. We have to help him.

- He only helps himself. - He helped me...

to speak to my ancestors.

You spoke to the dead?

Fool. It's dangerous.

But it's all right for you to do it, is it?

- They lie. - So do you!

Well, makes us a pair.

Fine. Go to the afterlife, talk to the dead,

listen to their lies. All they do is stalk around in the mist

- and hide behind dead trees. - ...trees.

I've been there.

- Where? - The afterlife. Where do think?

I doubt it.

[INTENSE MUSIC]

There-There was a warrior.

Would you give your life to the world?

What's wrong with you?

[HAUNTING MUSIC]

Take me. I'll be the third sacrifice.

[WARRIORS EXCLAIM, GRUNT]

- STERNLY: No, you won't. - Waka, shut up.

Nei te kawau maro. [WARRIORS HISS, PERFORM HAKA]

- Te umanga kapukapu. - [GROWLS]

Waka, this has nothing to do with you.

[WARRIORS EXCLAIM, HISS, GRUNT]

It's not your choice.

[GRUNTS, BREATHES HEAVILY]

E pai ana mariunga ma. Ki te rakau! [ROARS]

- [ROARS, GRUNTS] - [GRUNTS]

[INTENSE, RISING MUSIC]

[MUSIC FADES]

You can't trust him.

I know what he did to you was wrong. He knows.

But that's in the past. Don't let it trap you.

- You're the one who's trapped. - What are you talking about?

Your father.

That's why you're doing this.

You can't make it any better, and it won't take anything away.

You're right. It won't.

But it'll change everything else, you idiot!

[GROWLS, GRUNTS]

[BREATHES HEAVILY]

Promise me you'll fix the world.

I don't want the world as it is. Who would?

[LOW, SOLEMN MUSIC]

[INSECTS CHIRP]

Not dead yet, I see.

You're acting like a child.

I spent my whole life being a slave to that man,

trying to be what I thought he wanted, trying to please him.

I was your age... when he finally asked something of me.

Our tribe was attacked.

I was to sacrifice myself

so that the others could escape into the night.

I went down...

to the blood and death,...

fought until my arms hung useless at my sides.

Then I used my teeth.

But here you are.

They didn't finish it.

They saw my tribe retreat, left me for dead,

followed them and slaughtered as many as they could.

And when I returned,...

drenched in the blood of our enemies,...

my father...

blamed me...

for all of it.

And for the last time, he beat me.

So I left.

I took my pain and my anger, and I carved it into my skin.

Made a bad job of it.

He just wants to make things right.

- Come with me, Mehe. [SNIFFS] - [SIGHS]

Leave these shit-eaters to their schemes.

[BREATHES HEAVILY]

You are still the same selfish man that I first met.

You are never going to sacrifice yourself for anything -

for one life, three - so that the dead can rest.

So that my father can join our ancestors.

- Look, I meant- - You meant what you said!

Tell me one thing.

The warrior you saw in the afterlife -

what did he look like?

[EXHALES HEAVILY]

Ka!

Come out, you shit-eater. [BREATHES HEAVILY]

You got what you wanted.

You sent her to me.

Admit it!

This is all your doing.

Ka!

Ka!

KA: Greetings, Waka Nuku Rau.

[TENSE FLUTE MUSIC]

You've lied to me from the beginning. Say it.

No.

I have told you only the truth - always the truth.

I told you to protect her,

that she had a gift even she didn't know she possessed.

I told you that she was important to your father,

didn't I? So how have I lied to you?

She's going to die. Now help me change her mind.

[SCOFFS]

[BREATHES DEEPLY]

She's going to die.

Now, will you help me or not?

[ROARS]

- [GROWLS] - [LAUGHS WRYLY]

I...

am trying to fix the world.

I'm trying to make it as it should be.

And you...

have served your purpose.

You can stay here, out of harm's way.

[DISTANT ROARING]

[GRUNTS] Ka!

- [ROARS] - [GRUNTS]

[BLOWS THUD, FLESH SQUELCHES]

[ROARS]

Don't you realise? I'm not trapped here with you.

[GRUNTS]

- [BREATHES HEAVILY] - You're trapped here with me.

- [GRUNTS REPEATEDLY] - [BLOWS LAND, BLOOD SQUELCHES]

[GRUNTS]

Ka!

Ka, send me back!

Ka, you shit-eater!

Ka!

[INSECTS CHIRP]

Waka,

I won't let it be like this at the end.

Waka?

Waka?

I'm sorry.

If you can hear me,

I have to do this for our people.

[POIGNANT MUSIC]

I don't want to.

I want to live so much it makes my hands shake.

But that's the point of a sacrifice, isn't it?

Giving up something you really want.

[POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES]

I've learned s-so much from you, Waka Nuku Rau.

But you have learned nothing from me.

[FLIES BUZZ]

[DARK MUSIC]

Shit-eaters.

[GRUNTS] Shit-eaters!

Finally, you turn up when you're needed. Send me back!

Keep your voice down. Why are you here?

You talked to this Ka after what I told you?

Send me back.

Why? For this girl?

She betrayed you, and not for the first time.

I deserved it - every time.

She's right.

I'm selfish.

Aue.

It's a strange thing, the human heart.

Maybe you have one after all.

It's not like that.

Well, what, then?

Aroha.

Love?

Compassion?

You?

All I know is that I don't want her to die.

You'd leave the world broken,...

throw away our glory for her?!

You know my father won't fix anything.

You know it in your bones!

Or have you become the fool?

How does it profit me to save her?

What if she's the key to all of this?

What are you talking about?

She's been touched by the gods. Even my father believes that.

If I help you, you must promise me that you will fix the world,

even if it means her death in the end.

Swear.

If it really will?

Yes.

And you can have my life too, Mother.

Is that enough blood for you?

Well, you'd better hurry.

[GASPS, PANTS]

E ta ko nga tohu he karere no mua i.

CROWD: Ae.

Whakaoho wairua te mihi ake ai i.

CROWD: Ae.

He kawenga korero no whakapata i.

CROWD: Ae.

Me rongo te aroha o Hine kino i.

- Ae. - CROWD: Ae.

It's time.

[HAUNTING, DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[HAUNTING, DRAMATIC MUSIC]

SENTRY: Wait!

[BREATHES HEAVILY]

SENTRY: Wait!

[WAKA GRUNTS, GROWLS]

[WARRIORS GRUNT, GROWL, HISS]

[WARRIORS UTTER WAR CRIES]

[TENSE MUSIC]

I challenge you...

- for leadership of this tribe. - [WARRIORS GRUNT]

It is my right, as your bastard.

- Stop it. - Make me! [BREATHES HEAVILY]

And none of your cowardly fucking tricks this time.

I don't need them.

You are not as good as you think you are.

You never were.

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[BOTH ROAR]

[WEAPON THUDS, WAKA GRUNTS]

[BREATHES HEAVILY]

[INTRIGUING, HAUNTING MUSIC]

Leave him alone, or I won't do it.

Are you going to risk everything for him?

Even the suffering of your ancestors,...

your family?

He is my family now.

His life for mine - that's the price.

Go.

You need to be cleansed and made tapu again because of him.

- TE KAIPO: You. - Ooh.

[INSECTS CHIRP]

[LOW, SINISTER MUSIC]

[HUFFS]

Yes.

Out here.

Where an army of the dead waits.

[BREATHES RAGGEDLY] Hako, [GRUNTS] set me free.

If you do, [PANTS] I'll kill my father.

I'll take over this tribe, and you can be my war general.

[PANTS]

Many wives - as many as you want.

I'd want a great many.

Yours - all of it!

[GRUNTS, PANTS]

Leave.

WAKA: Hako. Hako!

[WINGS FLAP]

When you were a boy, I admired you -

the way you kept trying against your betters,

the fight in you.

And the more I pushed you away, the stronger you became.

But I never loved you.

Some things are hard to love.

I should have killed you the first moment I saw you, Father.

I told you -

I just sired you.

[ROARS, BREATHES HEAVILY]

[GRUNTS, GROWLS]

HINENGANA: E ta ko nga tohu he karere no mua i.

E ta ko nga tohu he karere no mua i.

Whakaoho wairua te mihi ake ai i.

TUHAERE: Ae.

Whakaoho wairua te mihi ake ai i.

He kawenga korero no whakapata i.

TUHAERE: Ae.

He kawenga korero no whakapata i.

TUHAERE: Ae.

Me rongo te aroha o Hine kino i.

TUHAERE: Ae.

Whakaheke i waho,

whakaheke i tua,

whakaheke i roto,

ki tenei pononga nau.

Whakaheke i waho, whakaheke i tua, whakaheke i roto,

ki tenei pononga nau.

E ara,

e ara koutou.

Whakamaua kia tina.

ALL: Tina.

Haumi e...

hui e...

taiki e.

What are you doing?

- [FLESH SQUELCHES] - [GASPS, GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

My husband...

[BREATHES SHAKILY]

[BLOOD SQUELCHES]

[BREATHES HEAVILY] Do you trust me?

You lied.

I told you I would make it right.

I'll do more than that.

I'll bring peace to our people.

My enemies will be my army, but the rest -

your father, my son -

will go to the afterlife.

I can fix this.

Madness.

It's madness!

We'll see.

[FOREBODING MUSIC]

- Whakaheke i waho,... - [CRIES OUT IN PAIN]

- ...whakaheke i tua,.. - [GROANS]

...whakaheke i roto,...

- [GROANS PAINFULLY] - ...ki tenei pononga nau.

Whakaheke i waho, whakaheke i tua,...

- [GROANS] - ...whakaheke i roto,

ki tenei pononga nau.

- E ara,... - [GRUNTS]

- [YELLS IN PAIN] - ...e ara koutou.

[WIND WHOOSHES]

It worked?

[BREATHES HEAVILY]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

- Ka po mai... - [GROANS]

...te ra ki tua.

Ka tu mai,

- ka tu mai te ao roa ki tua. - [TUHAERE CRIES OUT]

- Whakamaua kia tina. - [COUGHS]

Haumi e,

hui e,

taiki e!

[WHOOSHING]

[TE KAIPO GROWLS, GROANS]

[TE KAIPO CONTINUES GROWLING]

[EERIE WHISPERING]

[GROWLS SOFTLY]

[SINISTER MUSIC]

[EERIE WHISPERING CONTINUES]

Run. Go!

DISTORTED: This place...

is ours now.

[EERIE MUSIC]

[SINISTER MUSIC]

[THUNDER RUMBLES DISTANTLY]

[DISTANT THUNDERCLAP]

[SINISTER MUSIC CONTINUES]

Aue.

DISTORTED: Thank you, Mehe Te Wehiwehi.

[BREATHES HEAVILY] You, and you alone, opened the way for us.

[BREATHES RAGGEDLY]

You were dedicated to us.

Remember?

[BOTH GRUNT]

Te tohu onamata. He tohi.

[BABY CRIES]

TE KAIPO: Your people were always close to us.

Our family,...

[BREATHES SHAKILY]

...there's something dark and wrong with us, Mehe.

[GRUNTS, BREATHES HEAVILY]

You fear me.

Uri said you fear me.

[GASPS] As we fear Whiro, the disrupter.

Just like you,

Mehe Te Wehiwehi.

[SINISTER MUSIC]

[DISTANT GROWLING]

[GASPS, PANTS]

[DEAD WARRIORS ROAR, GROWL]

[STRAINS]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

[EXCLAIMS, GRUNTS]

[INTENSE ACTION MUSIC]

Wives - [BREATHES HEAVILY] as many as you want.

You're going to have to work harder than that to get at me,

- all you shit-eaters. [GROANS] - [DEAD WARRIORS ROAR, GRUNT]

[FLESH SQUELCHES]

[INTENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]

[THE DEAD ROAR]

[GRUNTS] Fuck!

[BLOWS LAND, BLOOD SPLATTERS]

[YELLS]

[DEAD WARRIORS GROWL]

[POUNDING, INTENSE MUSIC]

[DEAD WARRIORS SCREAM, ROAR]

[GRUNTS] The protection doesn't work any more!

Ah!

- What's happened? - My husband is dead.

- [GASPS] - We're all dead.

[DEAD WARRIORS GROWL, HINENGANA GRUNTS]

WAKA: The cave! Run!

[PANTS]

[DEAD WARRIORS SNARL]

No! No!

SCREAMS: No! Stop!

- [GROWLS] - [SCREAMS]

[GRUNTING]

DISTORTED: You will be rewarded... beyond your dreams.

[GRUNTING, SCREAMING]

HAKO: Aue!

I have to find Mehe.

- Wives, many wives. - Many wives. [WHIMPERS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[GRUNTING, STRAINING]

[WHOOSHING, THUD!]

[ROARS]

[YELLS, GRUNTS]

[POUNDING, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

[GASPS]

[PANTS]

[DISTANT ROARING, HISSING]

WAKA: Run!

[GRUNTS]

[GROANS, PANTS]

- WAKA: Hako, open up! - [WHIMPERS]

[STRAINS]

[PANTS]

[GRUNTS]

[BOTH STRAIN]

[ROARS]

[THUD!]

[TENSE, HAUNTING MUSIC]

Kua tae mai te iwi o mate.

- [BREATHES HEAVILY] - Are you giving up?

There's not that many.

- Hardly any. - It'll be easy - too easy.

- I wish it was harder. - Eh?

[MEHE BREATHES HEAVILY]

We'll make for the gate.

- We won't make it. - You got a better idea?

We make for the rear palisade,

then down into the valley.

- Stay close. - You stay close.

I'll look after you, old man.

Kia tu.

Kia oho.

Kia mataara.

[BREATHES RAGGEDLY]

[GRUNTS]

[SOFT, EERIE MUSIC]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

- [STICK SNAPS] - [DEAD WARRIORS ROAR]

[WAKA GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

[INTENSE MUSIC]

[GRUNTS]

[TENSE MUSIC]

Hako!

[HAKO SCREAMS]

[WAKA AND MEHE GRUNT]

[INTENSE MUSIC]

[GRUNTS]

- [GRUNTS] - [ROARS]

[YELLS]

[GRUNTS, BLOWS THUD]

[WAKA GRUNTS, HEAD THUDS]

[BLOWS SMACK REPEATEDLY, WAKA GRUNTS]

[FLESH SQUELCHES]

[BLOWS THUD]

[INTENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]

[BOTH GRUNT]

Waka! Waka!

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[DEAD WARRIORS ROAR]

[WAKA GROWLS, MEHE SCREAMS]

[BLOWS LAND REPEATEDLY, MEHE WHIMPERS]

[WAKA GRUNTS, MEHE CRIES OUT]

[SCREAMS] Waka!

No!

Waka! Waka!

SCREAMS: No! No!

Waka!

[LOW, SOLEMN MUSIC]

[POIGNANT MUSIC]

[BREATHES SHAKILY]

[ROARS]

[GRUNTS]

[POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES]

[POIGNANT MUSIC CONTINUES]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[SINISTER MUSIC]

Why Mehe?

It's not personal, Waka Nuku Rau.

The innocent have always been used by the strong.

You people throw them into battle to die

so you can gain more land,

more wives,

more glory.

You know this.

You've always known this.

You said 'you people'.

You knew too much.

You know too much about everything.

[BREATHES HEAVILY] It could only be...

if you are the god Whiro himself!

Whiro could stop a soul on its way to the afterlife

and send it back.

- Send you back. - [GROWLS SOFTLY]

Very good, Waka Nuku Rau.

Perhaps you learned something from the girl after all.

[ROARS, GRUNTS]

[YELLS]

[LOW, UNSETTLING MUSIC]

TURIKA: The dead, they lie.

And so do the gods, it seems.

We all lie.

Time for you to go.

Unless you want to join the dead.

It was good to see you, Mother.

I prefer you dead.

[CHUCKLES]

[BIRDS CHIRP]

[SOLEMN, EERIE MUSIC]

[BREATHES HEAVILY]

[EXHALES]

Mehe.

WAKA: The dead - they call to us,

and we must listen to them and heed their sighs.

But know this about the dead -

they lie, even more than the living,...

because the dead want what we have -

life.

And we will fight them for it

until the very end.

E hiahia nei te hunga mate i te ora.

A, ka whawhai tonu matou,

ake ake.

[INTRIGUING MUSIC]

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[INTENSE, INTRIGUING MUSIC]

[GRUNTS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]

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