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SHURI: (WHISPERING) Bast...

time is running out.

Please allow me to heal my brother of this illness,

and I will never question your existence again.

His heart rate is dropping fast. Where are we?

We are finishing a sequence now.

SHURI: GRIOT, give me the controls.

GRIOT: As you wish, Princess.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(SYSTEM TRILLING)

What is the confidence rate?

GRIOT: 25%.

We'll have to try another way.

GRIOT: King T'Challa's heart rate

has fallen to 31 beats per minute.

Princess, you should go be by his side.

I have to think. Everyone, get out.

(CHATTER CONTINUES)

Get out!

(PANTING)

What is the confidence rate?

GRIOT: 29.1%.

Print it!

GRIOT: Princess, I am aware of the urgency,

but I must warn you,

this synthetic Heart-Shaped Herb

has a minimal chance of producing the desired effects.

I don't care! Has to work.

(MACHINE WHIRRING)

(MACHINE BEEPS)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

GRIOT.

GRIOT: Yes, Princess?

What's my brother's heart rate?

(BREATH ES SHAKILY)

Your brother

is with the ancestors.

(GASPS SOFTLY)

(CRYING) No.

(SHAMAN SPEAKING XHOSA)

(MOURNERS CHANT)

(SHAMAN SPEAKING)

(MOURNERS CHANT)

(SHAMAN SPEAKING)

ALL: Praise the ancestors.

(MALE SINGER SINGING IN XHOSA)

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS)

DANCERS: (SINGING) T'Challa, T'Challa, T'Challa

T'Challa, T'Challa, T'Challa

T'Challa, T'Challa, T'Challa

T'Challa, T'Challa, T'Challa

T'Challa, T'Challa, T'Challa

(FUNERAL BY BAABA MAAL PLAYING)

T'Challa, T'Challa, T'Challa

T'Challa

(MUSIC AND SINGING TRANSITION TO SLOW MOTION)

(MALE SINGER LAMENT-SINGING)

(SLOWED MUSIC CONTINUES)

(MUSIC FADING)

(ENGINE DRONING)

(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)

(SOBBING)

(IN ENGLISH) I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

(CHORAL REQUIEM PLAYING)

(REQUIEM ENDS)

- (MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYS) - (SNIFFLES)

(MUSIC FADES)

(WIND HOWLING SOFTLY)

(AIRCRAFT ENGINE HUMMING)

CHAIRPERSON: It is an honor for me...

to invite her majesty, Queen Ramonda,

daughter of Lumumba,

sovereign ruler of the kingdom of Wakanda.

US SECRETARY OF STATE: Mr. Chairperson,

I believe I speak for all the member states here

when I say that I am deeply disappointed

in Wakanda's failure

to stand by promises to participate in global efforts

to tackle international challenges,

to share resources,

and full cooperation

concerning vibranium.

(IN FRENCH)

(IN ENGLISH) I now give the floor

to Her Majesty, Queen Ramonda.

It has always been our policy

to never trade vibranium under any circumstance.

Not because of the dangerous potential of vibranium,

but because of the dangerous potential of you.

(COMPUTER TRILLS)

(IN FRENCH)

(POWER SHUTS DOWN)

(EXPLOSION)

(MERC SPEAKING)

(GASPS)

(DOOR CHIMES)

(DOOR HUMMING)

(WOMAN GASPS)

(IN ENGLISH) You perform civility here.

But we know what you whisper

in your halls of leadership

and in your military facilities.

"The King is dead.

"The Black Panther is gone.

(METAL CREAKING)

"They have lost their protector.

(ROUSING MUSIC PLAYING)

RAMONDA: "Now is our time...

"to strike."

(MERC SHOUTS IN FRENCH)

(ALL GRUNTING)

(GROANS)

(GROANS)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(MERCS GRUNTING AND GROANING)

Aneka, where is your spear?

Shuri gave me these to try.

- (ANEKA GRUNTS LOUDLY) - (GROANS)

You know, I like them better.

OKOYE: Our foremothers gave us the spear...

because it is precise, elegant...

and deadly.

(SPEAR CLANGS)

It will not change under my watch.

Yes, General.

I told you not to bring them.

Last night there was another attack

on one of our outreach facilities.

Proof of the involvement of a member state

is being uploaded to your mobile devices as we speak.

(CELL PHONES VIBRATING)

And as for the identity of the attackers...

(ROUSING MUSIC PLAYING)

(IN XHOSA)

(IN FRENCH)

(IN ENGLISH) Let our gracious response to this incursion

be an olive branch.

Further attempts on our resources

will be considered an act of aggression

and met with a much steeper response.

We mourn the loss of our king.

But do not think for a second

that Wakanda has lost her ability

to protect our resources.

We are aware of the ongoing efforts by some

to find vibranium outside of Wakanda,

and wish you the best of luck.

PILOT: (ON RADIO) This is Rotor 625

requesting clearance to land.

DR. GRAHAM: All right. Meet you down there.

Yeah.

Hey!

I thought you retired!

I thought I had too.

They said that machine had a one in a billion chance

of finding vibranium.

Oh, less than that.

(MACHINERY WHIRRING)

(CREW SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

Here we go.

SALAZAR: (ON COMMS) Cabin pressure is stable

at negative one P-S-I.

At 800 feet,

passing through thermocline.

All my life supports in the green.

(BEEPING)

Copy you.

SALAZAR: We've touched down.

DR. GRAHAM: Perfect. So, Salazar,

you are near the site right there.

SALAZAR: Yeah, it's astonishing.

The drill seemed to make contact

with a metallic substance.

JACKSON: Whatever it is, it's solid.

I've never seen a drill bit chewed up like this before.

SMITTY: I'll be.

Vibranium in the ocean.

Let's go ahead and get the detector out of there,

since it's the only one we've got.

SALAZAR: Heading towards the vibranium detector.

(POWER SHUTTING DOWN)

Okay, Salazar, we just went dark.

SALAZAR: Yeah. The rig lost power.

Copy that. I'm gonna fix it up here.

(EERIE VOCAL CALL IN DISTANCE)

JACKSON: What the hell was that?

(VOICE VOCALIZING IN EERIE TONE)

SALAZAR: Jackson,

tell me you're seeing this?

DR. GRAHAM: Hang on. Salazar's heart rate.

Hey, uh, Salazar, can you give me a visual?

SALAZAR: It's a phantom jellyfish.

We never seen one this color.

Emergency dive team, stand by.

Salazar, uh, we just lost Jackson's vitals.

Can you see him?

(AIR HISSING)

No. He's gone. (SHUDDERS)

Can you clarify? What do you mean by, "He's gone"?

(BREATHING SHAKILY)

Salazar, do you copy?

(SALAZAR GASPING AND WHIMPERING)

- Salazar? - (SCREAMS)

(SCREAMING STOPS)

MAN: (ON RADIO) Smitty, we got a situation out here.

(VOICES HARMONIZING EERILY)

What's that sound?

West, you got a visual on what's making that sound?

West, how copy, over?

(ON RADIO) West, you got a visual?

(VOICES HARMONIZING MELODIOUSLY)

SMITTY: It's some kind of sonic attack.

Hey, Smitty, earplugs.

(HIGH-PITCHED PINGING)

(MELODIOUS HARMONIZING CONTINUES)

(RADIO BEEPS)

We are under attack.

You need to send in a strike team immediately.

Copy. Mayday, mayday, this is Rotor 625.

We are requesting assistance immediately.

It's the Wakandans.

(BREATHING SHAKILY)

It has to be.

(VOICES CHANTING HARMONIOUSLY)

Henderson.

Smitty, we gotta go.

Henderson!

Let's go.

(VOCALIZING STOPS)

What's going on?

Get off the edge.

- (GRUNTS) - (SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS)

(GROANS)

(CRYPTIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(GASPS)

(YELLING)

(IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

(PANTING)

(SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING)

(WARRIORS GRUNTING)

(YELLS)

(IN ENGLISH) Go, go, go, go!

(WARRIOR GRUNTS)

(WARRIOR GROANING)

Now! Go!

Spin! Spin them off!

Okay. They're gone!

- Oh, my God! - (PILOT SIGHS)

(CRYPTIC MUSIC PLAYING)

DR. GRAHAM: Just get us out.

PILOT: We're good.

- We're good. - (LINE RINGING)

Where is the strike team?

It wasn't the Wakandans. They... They were blue.

Everyone is dead...

- (BOTH YELP) - (ALARM BLARING)

Shit. What is going on?

PILOT: We're getting pulled backwards.

Oh, my God.

(BOTH SCREAM)

- (SCREAMING) - Oh, God! Hang on!

(WAKANDA BY BAABA MAAL PLAYING)

ANDERSON COOPER: Queen Ramonda of the nation of Wakanda

gave an electrifying speech at the UN yesterday,

while members of her military

escorted captive mercenaries

onto the floor of the UN.

A year has passed since Queen Ramonda

was reinstated as ruler of Wakanda

after King T'Challa's sudden death

from an undisclosed illness last year.

All eyes are on the tiny, powerful nation,

as it finds itself increasingly isolated...

(OKOYE SPEAKING XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) Approaching the river border.

(WAKANDA BY BAABA MAAL CONTINUES)

We are home.

(WHIRRING)

(SPLASHING RHYTHMICALLY)

(MAN YELLS WAR CRY)

(DRAMATIC PERCUSSION MUSIC PLAYING)

GRIOT: Princess.

Just a moment.

I'm in the middle of something.

GRIOT: I understand, Princess, however...

You're disrupting my train of thought.

RAMONDA: Shuri.

Mother.

GRIOT: I was trying to tell you.

The Queen is here.

- Thank you. - That thing unnerves me.

I think that one day

artificial intelligence is going to kill us all.

My AI isn't like the movies, Mother.

It does exactly what I tell it to do.

Yeah, if only children were the same.

Everyone seems to be working diligently.

Yes. Rapid emergency response task.

There could be any number of

unknown threats on the horizon,

and they're creating solutions.

RAMONDA: Oh, What is this?

Exo Suits for our army.

It grants the user super-human strength,

speed, and durability.

But, as always, Okoye had notes.

What were her notes?

She hates them.

Oh.

What about recreating the Heart-Shaped Herb?

Have you made any progress on that?

GRIOT: Excuse me, Princess.

Nakia, daughter of Yaa, is trying to reach you again.

Maybe you should...

Maybe you should continue your calculations

as I instructed.

GRIOT: As you Wish, Princess.

We do not need the Herb, Mother.

We need new technology.

What of the Black Panther?

The mantle has unified our nation for centuries.

The Black Panther is a relic, Mother.

I wasn't trying to save the mantle with the Herb,

I was trying to save my brother.

RAMONDA: Oh, Shuri.

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

Do you know what day it is?

Tuesday.

The date, child.

(SHURI SIGHS)

Brother's passing.

One year ago today.

Have you planned anything?

Yes. It involves you taking your mother for a drive.

- Right now? - Right now.

And you can leave your Kimoyo Beads here.

- Mother. - No, no.

You won't need them where we are going.

Hmm?

And the other two. Yes.

(SHURI SCOFFS)

(DISTANT ANIMAL CALLS)

(SIGHS)

(INSECTS CHIRPING)

You need to sit here with me. And with yourself.

It is the only way you are going to heal

from the wound caused by T'Challa's death.

I'm fine, Mother.

You don't have to worry about me.

He's gone, but I'm moving forward.

T'Challa is dead,

but that doesn't mean he is gone.

When that illness took your brother from us,

I had to lead a wounded nation and a broken world.

But I still took time in the bush.

I wandered until I found water.

And I sat.

Then I did this ritual

that I am about to show you now.

(SPIRITUAL MUSIC PLAYING)

I found your brother in the breeze,

pushing me gently, but firm.

Like his hand on my shoulder.

It took some time,

but he was there.

He wasn't there, Mother.

The presence that you felt

was just a construct of your mind.

(SPIRITUAL MUSIC CONTINUES)

Brought on so you could feel some comfort or joy.

That's all.

Hmm.

What construct does your mind create

when you think of your brother?

Does it offer you comfort?

Or torment?

(SPIRITUAL MUSIC CONTINUES)

(SIGHS)

Come, child.

How did you get this?

What does it matter?

What does this have to do with your ritual?

RAMONDA: Burning of the funeral garments

marks the end of the mourning period

and the beginning of a new relationship

with our loved ones that have passed on...

I'm not doing this, Mother.

If I sit

and think about my brother for too long,

it won't be these clothes I'll burn.

It Will be the world...

and everyone in it.

(SIGHS) Shuri...

Shuri, there's something that I need to tell you

about your brother.

(ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING)

Mother, wait!

- What are you doing? - (FOOTSTEPS RUMBLING)

(RAMONDA PANTING)

(RUMBLING FADES)

(UNEASY MUSIC PLAYING)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

This better not be a part of your ritual.

It isn't.

RAMONDA: Stop! Right there!

Who are you? And how did you get in here?

This place is amazing.

The air is pristine.

And the water...

My mother told stories about a place like this.

A protected land with people that never have to leave.

That never have to change who they were.

What reason do you have

to reveal your secret to the world?

I am not a woman who enjoys repeating herself.

Who are you?

MAN: I have many names.

My people call me K'uk'ulkan...

but my enemies call me Namor.

The American military detected vibranium

under my nation's domain.

I was able to stop them from minin' it,

but we need Wakanda's help

to prevent it from happenin' again.

They use a machine designed by an American scientist.

Vibranium only exists here.

In Wakanda.

Mother, he's covered in it.

Your son exposed the power of vibranium to the world.

In response, other nations have begun

searching the planet for it.

His choice has compromised us.

I think Wakanda could find the scientist

and bring them to me?

It is only fair that Wakanda helps to resolve our dilemma.

You do not sneak into my country

and tell me what is fair.

I have more soldiers than this land has blades of grass.

And they have incomparable strength.

I would hate to come back under different circumstances.

(INHALES SHARPLY)

When you have the scientist, blow into this,

place it in the ocean.

I'll be there shortly afterwards.

For your own sake,

don't mention anything about me

to anyone outside of Wakanda.

Did you see the wings on his ankles?

(RAMON DA BREATHING SHAKILY)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

SHURI: How did he do that?

RAMONDA: We must convene the Council.

OKOYE: Heaven Scrapers had no evidence

of any activity at all.

Oh, the river border has been breached, huh?

If my soldiers were present,

this "fish man"

would be bound before us as we speak.

If your muscle brains were present,

they would still be there

choking on their fuzzy adornments.

You bald-headed demon...

Show some respect, you two.

M'BAKU: Respect?

These men should be ashamed to show their faces!

Watch your tone, Jabari!

(JABARIS HOOTING)

(YELLS)

(SPEARS THUD)

OKOYE: As I was saying,

there was no aerial surveillance footage of him.

And nothing on the radar as well.

So, he swam underwater for 100 kilometers.

RAMONDA: He was not alone.

And claims to command a massive army.

He wants us to deliver one American scientist?

So he can kill them?

Do it.

We never had to face an enemy

with access to vibranium before.

And we have no Black Panther to protect us.

M'BAKU: That is because this wise Council

allowed Killmonger to take the throne

and burn up all of your precious Heart-Shaped Herb.

M'Baku, what would you have us do?

We should find the fish man and kill him.

If we do What he is asking for now,

what is to stop him from coming back

and asking for more?

(SIGHS)

(BELIEVE BY BUSISWA ET AL PLAYING ON SPEAKERS)

RAMONDA: As you were.

Is it just me, or does this keep getting uglier?

It's you.

- So, does it work? - Yes.

This thing can detect

the altered frequency of vibranium

through water, stones, even heavy metals.

Whoever built this is brilliant.

Come, look.

Some are custom parts and others look like

they gathered it from a junkyard.

I am still struggling to believe

that vibranium exists outside of Wakanda.

Perhaps there was more than one meteorite.

Our planet is covered of mostly water,

so it's reasonable

that the other one just landed there.

This changes everything that we know.

The Great Mound. All of the legends and fables.

Those stories are seared in my mind.

That sounds very painful.

So we have to find this scientist after all.

- I do have an idea. - RAMONDA: Mm.

I'm going to need the princess.

Out of the question.

She is in no state to be in the field.

(IN XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) it may do her some good to get out.

It might just be exactly what she needs.

Besides, I can do this American operation

with my eyes closed.

It's not the Americans that I'm worried about.

This Namor,

he snuck past our defenses.

That will never happen again.

He was not alone.

She'll be with me.

SHURI: So,

when are we leavin'

so I can see my favorite colonizer?

(CAN'T STOP BY RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS PLAYING)

(SONG CONTINUES ON HEADPHONES) Can't stop

-Addicted to the shindig -(INSECT BUZZING)

Chop Top, he says I'm gonna win big...

(EXHALES)

Whoa.

Distant cousin to the reservation

Defunkt the pistol that you pay for

This punk, the feeling that you stay for...

(SIGHS)

(SCOFFS) Come on.

Yeah, I got it.

I got it.

Will you slow down?

(BUZZING STOPS)

(TRILLS SOFTLY)

You didn't think to call?

Now, why would I have your number?

- (SHURI SNICKERS) - (CHUCKLES SARCASTICALLY)

We are looking for the scientist

who built the vibranium detector.

So it was you guys in the Atlantic?

Come on. Mining ship.

Lot of casualties.

What happened?

Seriously?

It was a joint operation. Us and the SEALS.

Thirty of their top guys, two of our best officers,

friends of mine.

Gone.

Just like that.

You throw in the fact

that they were tracking vibranium...

I can assure you Wakanda had nothing to do with this.

So who was it?

God, look, the way that this is supposed to work

is that I give you information and you reciprocate.

For our own safety, we cannot tell you.

It's imperative that we get to the scientist

before anything else happens.

You owe me, Ross.

You owe my brother.

Okay, look.

There are agents who have been sentenced to death

for less than I'm about to give you now.

And we got a new director.

She's watching me like a hawk.

We will be very, very careful.

Not just careful, you gotta be fast.

The US needs another machine

and this kid is the only person in the world

who knows how to build one.

So they're comin' for her.

A kid?

- (STUDENTS CHATTERING) - (MUFFLED RAP SONG PLAYING)

- Hey. - You forgot to Venmo me.

Ah, it slipped my mind. It's eight hundred, right?

Eight hundred was yesterday's price.

It's a band today.

That's predatory. I...

I built the whole robotic hand.

You just corrected the grip algorithm.

And what grade did you get?

(CELL PHONE CHIMES)

(SIGHS) Thanks.

SHURI: Is that an iPhone I see?

OKOYE: Primitive.

(KIMOYO BEADS TRILL)

(IN XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) We have located the scientist.

She is in the American equivalent

of a Wakandan village school.

RAMONDA: A school?

Please tell me it is a professor.

It's a student, Mother.

We can't give her to Namor.

RAMONDA: Bring this student back to Wakanda.

(IN XHOSA)

(KIMOYO BEADS TRILL)

(IN ENGLISH) I've got it from here.

Wait. Maybe I should speak with her.

It will be more discreet.

I can be discreet.

What?

- Nothing. - Is it the makeup?

No.

It's the wrong shade, isn't it?

It's the right shade.

Fenty 440. You look good.

I can blend in as a student.

I can do this.

- You get five minutes. - Yes!

(LIMONCELLO BY OG DAYV PLAYING INSIDE ROOM)

GIRL: Yo!

Riri Williams?

Yo, I don't do drop-bys no more.

You gotta go to the website.

It's an encrypted file.

I wanted to airdrop it.

(GASPS) You the...

Whew.

You're Princess Shuri.

What the hell are you doing here?

Oh, shit, am I getting recruited?

No.

I'm here about the vibranium detector

that you built for the CIA.

I ain't built no detector for no CIA.

I made that for my metallurgy class.

- A school project? - RIRI: Yeah.

My professor said I'd never be able to do it.

To be young, gifted, and Black though, right?

(RIRI CHUCKLES)

Y'all probably don't say that in Wakanda.

How old are you?

Nineteen.

Brilliance at a young age

is not always accepted by the elders.

How long did it take you?

Couple months.

- Couple months? - The hardest part was

finding big enough mylar sheets to cover the...

Wait, did I piss off Wakanda?

Not just us.

This place is no longer safe for you.

Gather your things and come with me. Right now.

I got Differential Equations class in, like, 15 minutes.

Okay.

Okay.

You wait right here.

I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm just gonna...

Ooh!

SHURI: I had it under control.

I said five minutes. I gave you six.

Get out. Get out of my dorm.

Get out!

Hey.

I'm warning you! Do not take another step

- toward me! - Oh!

See how they teach the children

to treat their guests? Mm!

(RIRI GRUNTS)

(GASPS) Oh...

You brought a spear in here?

You brought a spear in here.

I like her.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

- Put it down, put it... - RIRI: Mm-mm. Mm-mm.

You'll hurt yourself. Come on.

OKOYE: It's all right, Princess.

Small, small girl.

I am going to give you two options.

You can come to Wakanda,

conscious or unconscious.

You need to be conscious of the way that you look.

Walking round here, all that ash on your head.

(SHURI LAUGHS)

- Oh, it's funny? - No, it's not.

- Mm-hmm. I told you! - You look good.

Calm down. We'll leave, okay?

And she can deal

with that merman with the winged ankles

who wants to kill her all by herself.

- You got this. - Mm, with your heater.

- (GASPS) - SHURI: Come on. Let's go.

What?

OKOYE: What exactly is this place?

RIRI: I fixed a few trucks for the head of sanitation.

He lets me work out of this garage in exchange.

I just have to grab my work laptop.

Please don't touch anything.

OKOYE: You don't have to worry about that.

RIRI: It may not look like much,

but it's my life's work in here.

OKOYE: Mm-hmm.

So, the design for the machine is on that laptop?

Yeah.

And you just leave it on a desk in a car garage?

I got 2065-byte encryption on that thing.

That's impressive. Ever locked yourself out?

RIRI: Took me the Whole semester to get back in.

Had to build a functional quantum computer

just to crack my own encryption. (CHUCKLES)

What is it you're building here? Is it Stark Tech?

I said don't touch anything.

GRIOT: Princess, American law enforcement

has arrived at your location.

- SHURI: Shit. - Who was that?

My AI.

OKOYE: They are surrounding us.

I thought you said a merman was after me.

That's the feds.

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

Oh, I do not need this shit right now!

I swear to God, I was doing so well!

Goin' to class on time. I must be dumb as hell.

Real dumb thinking that the Princess of Wakanda

is gonna show up at my doorstep

and then shit about to pop off.

I think

that I'm actually gonna take my chances with this merman,

because at least he never brought the FBI to my garage!

Hey. Namor sank an entire ship of CIA operatives...

FBI AGENT: (ON SPEAKER) This is the Federal Bureau

of investigation.

...because of your little machine.

So those popo out there...

FBI AGENT: We have surrounded the premises.

...are the very least of your worries.

Listen, we need to work together to get out of here.

General, they've got us surrounded.

Maybe we should just split up.

(CHUCKLES) Out of the question.

Does this vehicle work?

No.

Everything in this lab works. Including this bike.

Don't even think about it.

Besides, there are three of us.

Two of y'all. I'm takin' this.

SHURI: Whoo!

I knew it.

Don't tell me that you built this in two months.

(SCOFFS) I spent years on this. On and off.

- (DEVICE WHIRRING) - Nice. Have you flown it yet?

That thing can fly?

There's an entire YouTube channel

dedicated to sightings of me. (CHUCKLES)

SHURI: That's awesome.

FBI AGENT: We have a warrant to detain...

- SHURI: Come. - ...the student Riri Williams.

Wireless transmitter,

so we can communicate.

Don't try to scurry off.

FBI AGENT: General Okoye, Princess Shuri,

come out with your hands up.

OKOYE: What a hunk of sunk.

Hey, please be careful.

FBI AGENT: You will not be placed under arrest.

Keys are on the seat.

Once we get to the other side of the bridge,

we can lose them in Boston traffic.

General, we really need to split up.

Listen to me. We are not in your lab.

We are in the field.

Now, get her in the car.

Always shouting at me.

(KIMOYO BEADS TRILL)

GRIOT: The tactical unit will breach the entrance

in three, two,

- one. - (POWERING UP)

FBI: FBI! Don't move!

SWAT: What the hell is that?

Oh, shit! She got an Iron Man suit?

- Fall back! - Stay where you are!

(OFFICERS GROAN)

OKOYE: Guess it can fly.

SHURI: GRIOT! GRIOT: Yes, Princess.

- Now! - Remote piloting activated.

OKOYE: Shuri! No!

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(THEY WANT IT, BUT NO BY TOBE NWIGWE AND FAT PLAYING)

Clip, pole, smoke, fade

They want the drip

(SCREAMS) Let's go!

SHURI: GRIOT.

Give me a visual.

They want the glow They want my soul

They want the wave I keep a clip

I keep a pole

Who want the smoke Who want the fade

OKOYE: GRIOT... GRIOT: Yes, General?

...take me to the princess

or I will drive my spear so deep into your CPU,

you will not be able to process

basic input for a millennia.

GRIOT: Just one moment, General.

SHURI: Okoye, I'm on my way to you.

Bounce, crouch or get slouched

My whole hood devout

(ENGINE REVVING)

My mama taught me not to be a harlot

My granny help me take the wise route

Although I'm itty bitty sitting pretty

GRIOT, give me control of this vehicle right now!

GRIOT: I am clearing you a path.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

She's all yours, General.

Manual drive engaged.

(SIREN BLARING)

Look, I know you on my bumper

I know you want my thunder

Why the laws wanna take us under

We need to find an extraction point.

SHURI: There's one across the river.

I know you want my thunder

Why the laws wanna take us under

Why the hell am I in this jungle

Hey, yo, they cuttin' off the bridge.

(SIRENS WAILING)

GRIOT: Princess, there is a surveillance drone

- locked onto you. - How high?

GRIOT: Thirty-thousand feet.

We don't cry 'bout how they try take us all out

-Look -They want the drip

They want my soul

Hang on.

I got it.

Come on, Riri.

You gotta find these differential equations.

Once the relative velocity evens out...

SHURI: Riri, I'm not sure you can reach that drone

without an oxygen mask.

GRIOT: Oxygen level is now 55%.

RIRI: Twenty-eight thousand feet.

GRIOT: Oxygen level is now 30%.

Maximum acceleration. I just need to adjust

my Euler angles and that should...

that should drop it right on the...

(GRUNTS, GASPS)

GRIOT: Oxygen, 0%.

The drone is no longer tracking you.

Altitude, 500 feet and falling.

SHURI: (ON COMMS) Riri! Are you okay?

- Riri! - Yeah.

(ON COMMS) I'm good.

OFFICER: Incoming! WOMAN: Get out of the way!

(IN XHOSA)

- (IN ENGLISH) Shit! - RIRI: And no worries.

I got a special delivery for y'all in three,

two, one...

SHURI: Nice one, Riri!

We got the glow We got the soul

We got the wave

RIRI: Whoo!

(GASPS, YELPS)

(GROANS)

- SHURI: Riri! - (GASPS)

(DEVICE WHIRS)

(GASPING) What just happened? Shuri!

Shuri!

(OKOYE BREATHING SHAKILY)

(KIMOYO BEADS TRILL)

GRIOT: The Princess's vitals are stable, General.

She should regain consciousness momentarily.

(SUIT SCRAPING)

(GRUNTS)

(ROPE RETRACTING)

(METAL CLAN KS)

(WARRIORS GRUNT)

(GASPS)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(GRUNTS)

Take another step closer

and I Will kill you all.

OFFICER: (ON SPEAKER) Drop your weapons!

(IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

(IN ENGLISH) Hey, is she blue?

- (GRUNTS) - (OFFICER GROANS)

(IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

(IN ENGLISH) Drop your weapon!

(GUNSHOTS)

(ALL GRUNTING)

(WARRIORS GROANING)

(BOTH GRUNTING)

(GROWLS)

(IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

(UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING)

(AX CLANGS)

(PANTING)

(PANTING)

(MALE WARRIOR YELLS)

- (OKOYE YELLS) - (GROANING)

(OKOYE GASPING AND GROANING)

- (GRUNTS) - (KIMOYO BEADS TRILL)

- (CRACKLES) - (GRUNTS)

(GROANS LOUDLY)

(BOTH YELLING)

- (SPEAR VIBRATING) - (GRUNTS)

(NAMORA SPEAKING)

(GRUNTS)

SHURI: (MUFFLED) Okoye!

(IN ENGLISH) Wait!

GRIOT: Activating interpretation.

- I'm Shuri. - (GRIOT TRANSLATING)

Princess of Wakanda.

I demand that you take me to Namor.

Do not bring harm to this girl.

(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)

GRIOT: (TRANSLATING) Do we take them both alive?

- (SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE) - GRIOT: Yes, Attuma.

(AX CLANGS)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(MASK HISSES)

(MASK HISSES)

(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)

GRIOT: Breathe.

(INHALES DEEPLY)

(COUGHING AND GASPING)

Shuri!

(SCREAMING)

- (INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER) - (EXHALES)

Ross, from the Agency. You got any witnesses?

None. But we think it was the Wakandans.

Excuse me?

Our field office got a tip from Langley

that they were coming.

Right. Who made that call?

- She did. - AGENT: Director de Fontaine.

Director de Fontaine.

Really?

Well...

Uh, Agent thinks it was the Wakandans.

Yeah, we've been on every one of them

since they took out our ship.

That's why I wanted you here.

You're lookin' good.

Oh. Well, I try.

DE FONTAINE: You put that home gym in?

ROSS: Yeah. Last year.

Maybe I'll drop by sometime and jump on your Peloton.

Howdy.

- I'm special agent in charge. - Oh, good for you.

You wanna walk me through the evidence here, or what?

- Yeah. Okay. After you. - Yeah. Okay.

- All right. - So, what happened here?

Um, we think it was a car crash,

but we're having trouble finding the cars.

DE FONTAINE: What do you mean?

It was just like this when you found it?

SPECIAL AGENT: Yes. We think someone involved

got rid of the vehicles.

DE FONTAINE: Got rid of them how?

SPECIAL AGENT: They dumped them into the river.

DE FONTAINE: You're kidding me.

It's got an MIT sticker on it.

I want that transferred to the NSA immediately.

Hey, Ross? You got a full tank of gas?

Can you give me a ride back to Langley?

ROSS: (HESITATES) It's an eight-hour drive.

DE FONTAINE: Yeah. We can talk about the case.

Actually, wouldn't mind... (CLEARS THROAT)

Apologizing to you for a couple of things I said

during our marriage.

OKOYE: They were blue.

And they had superhuman strength.

And they came from the water on the backs of whales.

I struck down three of them

with blows that should've killed them,

but they rose again.

I wish to leave immediately to retrieve our princess.

RAMONDA: Okoye,

you will be stripped of your rank

as General of Wakanda's armies

and your status as Dora Milaje.

(IN XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) You may.

(IN XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) I have given everything.

Let me die saving my country and that throne.

(IN XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) Allow me to make this right.

"Make it right"?

(CRIES)

I do not know if my daughter is alive or dead.

Perhaps we are being too hasty.

M'BAKU: Mmm.

She raised a spear against her own husband for Wakanda.

Where is her treacherous husband now

but in a place where she can visit if she wished? Mine...

is with the ancestors.

I am Queen of the most powerful nation in the world,

and my entire family is gone!

Have I not given everything?

On your feet, General.

I stood by you

after Killmonger took the throne,

and you and the elders in this room stood by him

while I ran begging to the Jabari for protection.

And I warned you

about taking my daughter on this mission,

and you lost her.

So, today,

I am done. (BREATH SHUDDERS)

(GRAVE MUSIC PLAYING)

(SIGHS DEEPLY)

(DOOR WHIRS)

Are you here, GRIOT?

GRIOT: Yes, my Queen.

Were you with Shuri when she was abducted?

GRIOT: I was.

Are you able to track her Kimoyo Beads?

DE FONTAINE: Ballistics found slugs all over Cambridge.

Those Wakandans really took a tour of the city.

ROSS: Hmm.

I can't see how they figured out who built it.

That information is highly classified.

(DEVICE CHIMES SOFTLY)

What is that?

- That's a new ringtone? - Oh, shit.

Uh, Director, I'm sorry. I'm gonna have to take this.

It's enough with the titles.

Just take it. I don't care.

Hey, honey sweetheart.

Ooh. (CHUCKLES)

Uh, no, I'm... I'm with my boss. Now.

Actually, she's leaving.

All right.

I'm gonna work from home, and then have a shower.

(CAR STARTS)

(KIMOYO BEADS CHIRP)

Everett Ross.

Queen Ramonda?

What are you doing with Shuri's Kimoyo Beads?

I didn't know they were hers. All right?

I just found them at a pretty ugly crime scene.

Do you have the student?

Shuri was trying to save her when they were both taken.

What? Taken by who?

My agency assumes it was you.

And I'm worried they might be onto the fact

that I pointed Shuri and Okoye in the right direction.

Look, if they're in danger, I wanna help.

But I can't if I don't know What's going on.

I am afraid there is a new world power at play.

A country that's already on our radar?

Or you mean someone else?

RAMONDA: That is all I can say for now.

Please,

alert me if your government decides to act

on their suspicions.

Yeah. Sure.

Uh, look, if there's anything I can do to help, let me know.

I owe Shuri my life.

GRIOT, did Shuri have her earrings with her?

GRIOT: I lost track of them in the North Atlantic,

but the people who took her spoke Yucatec Mayan.

(RAMON DA SPEAKING HAITIAN CREOLE)

- Hmm? - GIRL 1: Oui, Miss Nakia.

(GIRL 1 SPEAKING)

(GIRL 2 SPEAKING)

(IN ENGLISH) Queen Mother.

Everything is a lesson here for the children.

They painted the walls, they feed the fish,

and they grow everything we eat here.

I recognize some of the concepts here.

But you are using different material.

Yes, we use strictly what we can find here in Haiti.

You were missed at T'Challa's funeral.

Oh...

(QUIETLY) Queen Mother.

RAMONDA: It's been six years since you left us.

I thought you would at least come back for the ceremony.

I was afraid

of how final the funeral would be.

Nakia, daughter of Yaa,

wherever you go, you are still Wakandan,

and you know death is not the end.

(IN XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) How is everyone at home?

Shuri has been taken.

What?

You have infiltrated many nations before.

(IN XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) I was a different person then.

I need someone who can find where she is being held,

and rescue her, without being seen.

Who on earth would risk war with Wakanda?

RIRI: Oh, my God. (GASPING)

SHURI: Okay, breathe. Breathe.

Oh, don't tell me to breathe.

Where the hell are we?

We're in a cave. I'm not sure where.

Oh, my God!

(GASPS) What is that?

SHURI: Glow worms. Their larva gives off light.

- (RIRI GASPS HEAVILY) - SHURI: Just calm down.

Okay, is there, like, a new Black Panther

that you can call to come and get us?

No.

Why not?

Because it doesn't work like that anymore.

The Black Panther is gone.

So y'all stopped having Black Panthers

when I get kidnapped?

(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYS)

(IN MAYAN)

(IN ENGLISH) Do you understand her?

Not completely.

Nuh-uh.

That is some supervillain shit right there.

That's in every movie.

Princess Leia.

Belle from Beauty and the Beast.

That white chick from Indiana Jones.

It's fine.

You should see what I have to wear at Warrior Falls.

(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)

(IN MAYAN)

(IN ENGLISH, HESITATES) Wait.

You're not leaving me in here, are you?

I'm coming back.

I'm coming back.

Stay calm.

(IN MAYAN)

(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)

(CRYPTIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(GOATS BLEATING)

(IN SPANISH)

(IN MAYAN)

(CRYPTIC MUSIC CONTINUES)

(IN SPANISH)

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

(IN ENGLISH) Princess.

Welcome.

Please, feel free.

This is beautiful.

That was my mother's.

These are all Mesoamerican artifacts.

Most likely 16th century.

Have you been alive since then?

Your mother was human.

She was.

Then she became something else.

- How? - "How?"

"How" is never as important as "why."

(EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES)

NAMOR: My mother and her village

were driven from their farms

by Spanish conquistadors who brought the smallpox,

a hateful language, and dogma from another world.

Facing starvation,

war, and disease,

my people turned to Chaac...

our god of rain and abundance.

Chaac gave our shaman a vision...

- (GASPS) - ...a way to save his people.

(ARBOLES BAJO EL MAR PLAYING)

NAMOR: Chaac led him to a plant sprouting from a blue rock.

My mother was pregnant with me at the time,

and she did not want to ingest the plant

for fear of what it may do to me.

(IN MAYAN)

(IN ENGLISH) But the Shaman was convincing.

(SHAMAN SPEAKING MAYAN)

(ARBOLES BAJO EL MAR CONTINUES)

NAMOR: (IN ENGLISH) They all fell sick.

(BODY THUDS)

And their lives,

their existence there,

ended.

(ALL GASPING FOR BREATH)

The plant took away their ability to breathe air

but enabled them to draw oxygen from the sea.

They settled in the ocean,

away from war and diseases.

(SHAMAN SPEAKING MAYAN)

(SHAMAN GRUNTS)

(EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES)

(WOMAN WHISPERING BLESSING IN SPANISH)

(RITUALISTIC RHYTHMIC BLOWING)

(IN ENGLISH) My mother gave birth to me there

and I became the firstborn son of Talokan.

The plant gave me wings on my ankles

and ears that pointed to the clouds.

I was a mutant.

I could swim in the sky and age slower.

Breathe the air our ancestors breathed.

As she grew older,

my mother mourned the life on land that she once knew...

and died with a broken heart.

She made me promise

to bury her in the soil of her homeland.

Nothing could prepare me for what I found there.

- (MEN SHOUTING) - (WHIPS LASHING)

(SLAVES GROANING)

- (MAN SHOUTS IN SPANISH) - (WOMAN GROANS)

(IN SPANISH)

Huh?

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

(MUSIC SOURS)

(MEN SHOUTING)

(PANICKED SCREAMING)

(FRIAR SPEAKING)

(IN ENGLISH) A Spanish man of faith cursed me.

As he died by my hand,

he called me...

(IN SPANISH)

(CHUCKLES)

(IN ENGLISH) The child without love.

And I took my name from there.

"Namor."

Because I have no love for the surface world.

Why are you telling me all of this?

So that you can understand why I have to kill the scientist.

What if we took her to Wakanda?

Let us go.

I give you my word.

She will remain in my country.

I cannot risk that, Princess.

Then keep me instead.

I'd love to see your nation.

Well, you can't go down there in that.

Hypothermia will grip you almost instantaneously.

Your blood will become toxic

and the pressure of the ocean

will break every bone in your body.

(IN LIGHT TONE) Or you can wear a suit.

We have some of them. Come on.

Stay close.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(YELPS)

SHURI: Hey! Namor, wait!

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(WHALE SINGING)

(SOFT MUSIC INTRO PLAYING)

SHURI: Whoa!

(CON LA BRISA BY FOUDEQUSH PLAYING)

(GASPING IN AWE)

(CON LA BRISA BY FOUDEQUSH CONTINUES)

Hello.

(CON LA BRISA BY FOUDEQUSH CONTINUES)

It's beautiful.

It's made of vibranium.

NAMOR: Yes.

In the depths of the ocean,

I brought the sun to my people.

I know you wished me

to spare the life of the scientist.

But now you see what I have to protect.

(CON LA BRISA BY FOUDEQUSH CONTINUES)

(KIMOYO BEADS CHIRP)

GRIOT: (ON COMMS) Nakia, your hunch was correct.

I have picked up a location on Shuri's Kimoyo earrings.

(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(ENGINE HUMMING)

GRIOT: The signal is coming from an underwater cavern

approximately 140 meters below the surface.

Queen Mother, I've found her signal.

It's coming from an underwater cave.

If she's down there,

I'm sure I'll encounter resistance.

How would you like me to proceed?

Retrieve the princess by any means necessary.

I will attempt to draw Namor out.

(BREATH ES DEEPLY)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

You are the first person from the surface

to come to Talokan.

Please take this as a token of our gratitude.

It was made with the plant that saved Talokan.

You are young, Princess.

When you age as I do, you realize

we all lose everyone we love.

But when I lost my brother,

it just felt different.

He suffered in silence.

When he finally asked me to help him, I couldn't.

How does that make sense

that the ancestors would give me gifts and skills

to help me save my brother, and I couldn't?

Why?

I don't have an answer for that question.

My ancestors would often say,

"Only the most broken people can be great leaders."

I admire what you have built here.

And how you've protected your people.

But as princess of Wakanda,

I will not stand for you killing that young woman.

My nation will not rest until I'm returned.

I'm not leaving without her.

We need to find a peaceful way to resolve this.

It is no longer about the scientist.

For centuries, the surface nations

have conquered and enslaved people like us.

Over resources.

Since the day I buried my mother,

I have prepared my people

for the time they will come for us.

And that machine is the sign that the time is now.

I need to know if Wakanda is an ally or an enemy.

There is no in-between.

So you plan to wage war on the entire world,

and you want Wakanda to help you?

That's madness.

There isn't a nation that wouldn't plunder Wakanda

if given a chance.

If we make an alliance,

we can protect each other by striking them first.

Then, when the threat of these nations has been eliminated,

the scientist will be returned to Wakanda.

And if Wakanda does not accept, what then?

The scientist will die.

And Wakanda will be the first nation to fall.

An attack on my people?

Yes.

And I want you to listen to me.

Wakanda cannot win a war with Talokan.

(WATER SLOSHES)

(IN MAYAN)

(IN ENGLISH) I heard you that night,

with your mother at the river.

You said you wanted to burn the world.

Let us burn it together.

(WATER SLOSHING)

US SECRETARY OF STATE: Queen Ramonda

won't sell us any vibranium.

And now they abducted a young woman

who built the machine.

Yeah, with all due respect,

Riri Williams is a child prodigy

who was running circles around all of her professors.

The Wakandans were recruiting her

as part of their outreach program.

Nothing more. And then,

you guys send in a SWAT team under cover of night

to arrest the Crown Princess

of an international superpower.

The President wants to take offensive action

against Wakanda.

(CRYPTIC MUSIC PLAYS)

What type of offensive action?

Destabilization.

Well, Special Officer Ross is our expert.

So, Ross, what do you think?

My sources are telling me

that there's someone else out there.

- Another nation? - ROSS: Could be. I don't know.

You've gotta give me enough time

to investigate this properly,

otherwise we're gonna find ourselves at war

with a country whose military capacity

we can't even comprehend.

Director?

I think he's the expert.

I think it would be a mistake to attack Wakanda.

(KIMOYO BEADS TRILL SOFTLY)

RAMONDA: (ON PHONE) Yes?

We have a problem.

Is my daughter alive?

The princess is alive and well.

She requested to be taken to Talokan.

She will remain there for the time being.

What can I offer you in exchange?

Nothing.

I beg to differ.

The Americans are preparing to blame Wakanda

for your attack on their mining ship.

Return my daughter and the scientist

or I will inform them of your existence.

If you tell the Americans about us,

if you try to find us,

or if I discover a single Wakandan ship in the ocean,

I will kill the princess.

I will come to Wakanda

and I Will kill you.

So, what happened?

He wants to go to war with the surface world,

and asked me to help him.

I need to think.

We ain't never gettin' out of here.

(FAINT FOOTSTEPS)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

Ey!

- (GUN CHARGING) - (TENSE MUSIC PLAYS)

(IN MAYA)

(GUN CHARGING)

(BREATHING SHAKILY)

Shuri...

(IN XHOSA)

(GUARD GRUNTS)

(TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES)

(GROANING)

(IN ENGLISH) Are you okay?

Are you okay?

- Give me your Beads! - Let's go.

Give me your Beads. I can save her.

We have to go.

Shuri, I don't know who this lady is,

but we need to listen to her.

Listen, I hit her with a sonic round.

It is lethal from this distance. There is no chance.

You don't understand. This will mean war.

- We have to go. - Wait!

(GASPING)

(TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES)

(ENGINE HUMMING)

(RAMON DA GASPING EMOTIONALLY)

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Did they hurt you?

No. No.

Thank you.

(IN XHOSA)

- GRIOT. - GRIOT: (IN ENGLISH) Yes, my Queen.

Return us to Wakanda at once.

(IN MAYAN)

(EXHALES)

(NAMOR SIGHS)

(SORROWFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(MUSIC BUILDING UP)

(FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING)

(RUMBLING)

(TALOKANIL REPEATING)

(TALOKANIL REPEATING)

(ECHOING)

(TALOKANIL REPEATING CHANT)

(REPEATS CHANT)

MAN: (IN ENGLISH) Princess, it is good to have you back.

The city has been on edge since you left.

Go.

Fortify the sonic barriers for all waterways.

Princess?

Neka.

Thank the ancestors. Hmm?

I just wanted to return these.

No. Keep them.

Might need them soon.

Did you get that from down there?

Is it true you saw an underwater empire?

- Yes. - ANEKA: Hmm.

It is beautiful.

But these people are dangerous, Aneka.

ANEKA: Mm.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

RAMONDA: So, Miss Riri Williams,

what do you think of Wakanda?

The stories just don't do this place justice.

(RAMONDA CHUCKLES)

It's great.

But I really would like to go home.

You will need to be patient.

Can I at least call my mom?

(INHALES SHARPLY)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

SOLDIER: The Princess has been brought home

by the War Dog Nakia.

Glory to Hanuman.

SOLDIERS: Glory to Hanuman.

Mm. The spy saves Wakanda once again.

The Queen will reward her

with lifetime banishment. I'm sure of it.

(ALL LAUGHING)

Okoye.

(IN XHOSA)

OKOYE: (IN ENGLISH) After Thanos' attack,

when you left without saying a word,

it hurt.

I regret not being there with all of you.

It was not easy.

He was...

King and Black Panther to everyone.

But to me... (BREATH SHUDDERS)

(SIGHS)

He was everything.

My T'Challa.

When he was taken away from me, just like that, I...

I had to step away

and let myself break.

I couldn't just...

keep going as if nothing had happened, you know.

OKOYE: Mm-hmm. (SIGHS)

(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

We are under attack.

- (EXPLOSION) - (PEOPLE SCREAMING)

(EXPLOSION)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

Here.

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

(IN XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) Are you okay? Are you all right?

GRIOT, activate the Sun bird.

Shuri, where are you?

Making my way to the city right now.

Stand down! That is an order!

Mother, I'm with Aneka. We can provide air support.

RAMONDA: (ON COMMS) Aneka, do not let her leave the lab.

Mother, you're... you're breaking up.

- We can't hear you. - RAMONDA: Shuri!

Love you. Bye!

- (CALL DISCONNECTS) - (RAMONDA GASPS)

You just hung up on the Queen.

I just hung up on my mom.

There's a difference. Come. Let's go!

(MAN GRUNTS)

(BOTH PANTING)

(HIGH-PITCHED WHISTLE)

(TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES)

(ORCA CLICKING)

(TALOKANIL WOMEN HARMONIZING MELODIOUSLY)

(LOUDLY) Invaders!

- (PANICKED CHATTER) - Mama! Mama!

(SCREAMS)

(IN XHOSA)

(MELODIOUS HARMONIZING CONTINUES)

GRIOT: (IN ENGLISH) EMTs are suffering

a form of sonic hypnosis.

(PANICKED SHOUTING)

(IN XHOSA)

RAMONDA: (IN ENGLISH) General, plug your ears.

Yes, my Queen.

(AYO YELLS)

(GRUNTS)

(ALL SCREAMING)

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

(BOTH GRUNTING)

(ALL SCREAMING)

(YELLS)

(WARRIOR SCREAMS)

(GRUNTS)

- Can I help? - Come, quickly.

(ATTUMA SPEAKING MAYAN)

(AX CLANGS)

(IN ENGLISH) Cross your arms...

(IN XHOSA)

(BOY WHIMPERS)

Nakia.

(IN XHOSA)

(SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING)

(IN ENGLISH) The fish man.

(IN MAYAN)

(M'BAKU GRUNTS)

(ARMOR CRACKS)

(GRUNTS)

(GASPING FOR BREATH)

(ROUSING MUSIC PLAYING)

AYO: Phambili!

(WARRIORS GRUNTING)

(GRUNTING)

(YELLS)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(ALARM BEEPING)

(NAMOR GROANS)

(NAMOR GRUNTS)

- (NAMOR GRUNTS) - (SOLDIERS WHIMPER)

(YELLS)

(BOTH YELPING)

(GRUNTING)

(IN XHOSA)

(FIRING)

(IN ENGLISH) Shit, he's too fast.

He's even faster in the water.

(BOTH YELL)

(ENGINE WHINES)

- Activating system override. - SHURI: No.

- Wait! I'll fix it. - (ALARMS BEEPING)

- Can't leave you here, Shuri! - (GRUNTS ANGRILY)

(YELLS, GROWLS)

OKOYE: Do you see her?

Yes. Right there.

(BREATH SHUDDERING)

(UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING)

(PANTING)

- Go, child. - (BREATHING SHAKILY)

Wait, what? And leave you here?

Run!

(SHOUTS IN MAYAN)

(SCREAMS)

(RIRI SCREAMS)

(SCREAM ECHOING)

(GRUNTS)

Okoye, move now!

(WATER GURGLING)

(BOTH PANTING)

(IN XHOSA)

(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

(IN ENGLISH) She did this.

In one week's time,

I will return with my entire army

and you will join us against the surface world,

or I will wash Wakanda from the face of the Earth.

(OKOYE SPEAKING XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) Mother.

- Keep her back! - Mother!

- Mama! Mama! - Bury your dead.

Mourn your losses.

(CRYING)

You are queen now.

Mother!

No!

Get off of me! Mother!

Mama!

(KIMOYO BEADS ZAPPING)

(GAGS, COUGHS)

Mama! (CONTINUES CRYING)

Mama!

Mother!

(IN XHOSA)

(SOBBING)

(NAKIA SPEAKING)

(IN ENGLISH) Help me!

Mama!

(CONTINUES SOBBING)

(IN XHOSA)

- SHURI: (IN ENGLISH) Mama! - (OKOYE SOBBING)

(SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES)

(SHURI CONTINUES SOBBING)

(MOURNFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

Jabari land offers you their comfort for your loss.

You must mourn her

in accordance to the rituals of your ancestors.

Do not bury yourself in your technology.

Why are you here?

I promised your brother

that I would provide you with counsel

and protection.

But I am in need of your advice today.

Your tribal elders have approached me

with a proposition.

They wish to evacuate the city and set up camp

in Jabari land.

So, now you are keen to hear from a child

who scoffs at tradition?

M'BAKU: Mm.

The world...

The world has taken too much from you

for you to still be considered a child.

It is in my people's interest to know

which way your mind is leaning.

The elders are desperate.

The city is vulnerable.

If you are to provide for them,

they will be in great debt to you.

And what of your heart?

Hmm?

Which way is your heart leaning?

I just buried the last person who truly knew me.

My heart was buried with her.

(SIGHS)

(BOTTLE LID TURNING)

DE FONTAINE: (SNIFFS) Oh, man.

Yeah, your olive oil's about to go bad.

What... What are you doing here?

I'm hungry. And...

Tragedy strikes the international community.

Sources can now confirm

that Queen Ramonda, daughter of Lumumba, has died.

Western allies say that civil conflict

was the likely cause of the Queen's...

- (TV SHUTS) - (SETS DOWN REMOTE)

So...

You have any comment?

(UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING)

I wonder what else your friends are keeping from you.

(HESITATES) What are you talking about?

I have no unsanctioned contact with the kingdom of Wakanda.

(CHUCKLES)

What about the Beads?

(SCOFFS) What?

The Beads.

I had them bugged

before you ever even got there.

I've been privy to every conversation you've had,

including that treasonous call with the Queen.

May she rest in peace.

But it's good.

Well, for us.

All right. You know what? The Wakandans saved my life.

- They're a good people. - Mm-hmm.

You ever thought for a second

what they could be doing?

Ever thought what we would be doing

if the US was the only country in the world with vibranium?

Oh, I actually dream about that.

Val. Val, please.

It's Director de Fontaine.

Your mother protected me like I was one of her own.

The least that I could do is try to return the favor.

We need to find a way to weaken Namor.

Even weakened, he's still gonna be a problem.

The Black Panther has never failed to protect Wakanda.

I thought the Black Panther was gone.

My brother is dead.

But it doesn't mean the Black Panther is gone.

(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)

GRIOT?

Let's start by running a comparative analysis

between our attempts at creating

a synthetic Heart-Shaped Herb...

and the fibers from this bracelet.

GRIOT: Yes, Princess.

Since this was grown from vibranium-rich soil,

they may share some base-level similarities

that we can exploit.

GRIOT: As you Wish, Princess.

(ALONE BY BURNA BOY PLAYING)

Please upload my brother's DNA also.

GRIOT: Uploading now.

Who do I turn to

When I need saving

'Cause you move mountain

I can't do the same

And did you think about

When you left us

Why doesn't he look like them?

His physiology is completely different.

None of them fly or have pointed ears like him.

The women that were guarding us,

they had water over their mouths

and on their necks.

He didn't have that.

Several organisms don't need gills

to extract oxygen from the water, so...

It's like a jellyfish.

He just absorbs the oxygen from his skin.

It's a process called

- diffusion. - Diffusion.

(SHURI CHUCKLES)

Memories, oh, carry me go

Carry me go, oh, nowhere

Sick and tired of it all Take me far-away

Mr Dj Gbemi trabaye

Now I no fit trust anybody

Na e make I no fit shout

My body don dey tire eh

Every day that passes without selecting the ruler

is a day wasted.

We must deal with Namor

before he brings his warriors back here.

And how are we to deal with a man with that much power?

In that attack, before he took out your plane,

he jumped back into the water.

What if that's what makes him strong?

He's breathing air and getting oxygen

from the water on his skin.

If we could find a way to dry his ass out,

he won't be as strong.

Yo, that's it.

GRIOT. We need to convert the Royal Talon Fighter

into a pervaporation chamber.

Is that even possible?

Yes.

You're going to help us trap him.

Please show Miss Williams Where she's working.

WOMAN: Right this way.

(ALONE BY BURNA BOY CONTINUES)

SHURI: How old were you

when you built your first machine?

RIRI: Three.

My stepdad was a car mechanic. He wanted to build airplanes.

He gave me these tools and let me just work it out.

So who taught you how to do all that you do?

SHURI: My big brother.

OKOYE: I was the tip of the spear of Wakanda's army.

This is not me.

Besides, I'm a civilian now.

I turned in my weapon.

I built you a new spear as well.

A new one?

Yes.

What is this contraption's name anyway?

SHURI: The Midnight Angel.

Midnight Angel?

(IN XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) This will even the odds against them.

Sister, I need you to be ready when I call you.

Please.

My body don dey tire eh

Make me Mara eh

Shuri.

Yes.

How many of these did you make?

OKOYE: I looked for you at the Jabari outpost.

I won't be forced out of my home.

You have such a rebellious spirit.

Why did you join the Dora?

Why do you care?

As far as I can see Na the memories

Wey Dey carry me From reality

E no require visa

I still have a lot of fight left in me.

Tell me, Aneka, daughter of Kyana,

do you still have some fight left in you?

What do you have in mind?

My body don dey tire eh

(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

(SPRAY HISSING)

My body don dey tire eh

Make me Mara eh

When my whole world is set on fire

Don't leave me alone

GRIOT,

what's the confidence rate?

GRIOT: 98.7%, Princess.

Would you like me to print the Heart-Shaped Herb?

(IN XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) Thought you'd be back in Haiti by now.

I'm still Wakandan, you know.

So...

this is What you've been up to.

Yes.

What you have here, now,

is a chance to restore Wakanda's protector.

(SCOFFS IN DISBELIEF) It would be the greatest gift

since Bashenga's discovery.

We'll soon find out. Come.

- GRIOT? - GRIOT: Yes, Princess.

SHURI: Print it.

NAKIA: How will we know if it works?

SHURI: If it glows.

(BOTH GASP)

(IN XHOSA)

(NAKIA LAUGHS)

(IN ENGLISH) I mean, shouldn't we be

burning incense or something?

Only Bast knows

how the ancestors will make it to this lab.

Are you sure you don't want me to bury you?

No.

Need you to have access to my chest,

just in case I go through cardiac arrest.

"Cardiac arrest"?

She's joking,

right?

- (KIMOYO BEADS TRILL) - Right?

(SIGHS DEEPLY)

Allow this Heart-Shaped Herb

to give you the strength of the Black Panther

and take you to the Ancestral Plane.

(IN XHOSA)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC BUILDING)

(MUSIC STOPS)

(NAKIA CHANTS IN XHOSA)

(NAKIA AND RIRI CHANTING IN XHOSA)

(HEART BEATING)

(HEARTBEAT STOPS)

(PANTING)

(LOW EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

(IN ENGLISH) Mother?

N'Jadaka.

Lil' cousin.

How?

How is never as important as why, right?

You chose me.

Impossible. I would never choose you.

Why did you take the Herb?

- To see my family. - No, that's bullshit.

You didn't believe the Ancestral Plane was real,

did you?

No.

So, Why did you take it, then?

You don't have to lie to me.

So I can be strong.

Strong to do what?

See?

We're more alike than you think.

I took it to avenge my ancestors too.

I'm nothing like you.

You took it for yourself,

then destroyed the rest.

Unworthy king,

afraid of being replaced.

Just a coward.

No.

I had the courage to do

what was necessary to change Wakanda.

How many people like your scientist

did Wakanda protect before I took the throne?

Cowards.

That was the Panthers that came before me,

and before T'Challa.

Don't mention my brother.

You're the reason why he's dead.

You burnt the Herb, left us with no protector.

Then Namor struck and killed my mother.

Their blood is on your hands.

That ain't on me.

And don't you dare

take that away from your mother.

She sacrificed her life to protect

a young girl from the lost tribe.

Your father, he was a hypocrite.

He would've killed that girl.

Shit, he killed his own brother.

T'Challa was too noble.

He let the man who murdered your father live.

And here you stand.

Are you gonna be noble like your brother

or take care of business...

like me?

(YELPS)

NAKIA: Are you okay?

(GASPING)

(IN XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) Who did you see?

No one.

(IN XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) I failed.

- It didn't work. - Hey, Shuri.

- They abandoned me. - They would never do that.

I did everything I was supposed to do.

- I re-created the Herb. - Okay.

I just did your stupid ritual, and for what?

- Relax. - Why didn't they come for me?

Just relax.

(GRUNTS IN FRUSTRATION)

BOTH: Shit.

Can I get some of that too?

I think...

you're going to need a suit.

(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)

(SLOW SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING)

TRIBE ELDER 1: There are more people coming from the city.

M'BAKU: They need more space.

So what?

You are visitors.

It is a wonder how anything gets done with you people.

(FALTERS)

(ENGINE HUMMING)

(SLOW SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING)

- (ALL EXCLAIM) - TRIBE ELDER 2: The princess!

(M'BAKU CLEARS THROAT)

(JABARIS HOOTING)

(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)

(HOOTING CONTINUES)

(HOOTING SUBSIDES)

M'BAKU: She has done it!

- The Black Panther lives! - (JABARIS ULULATING)

- (JABARIS CHANTING) - (ZAWAVARI SINGING IN XHOSA)

(JABARIS CONTINUE CHANTING)

Namor believes Wakanda is on her knees.

Our Queen murdered.

Our capital destroyed.

He believes we have no protector.

But now...

now is our time to strike.

ELDER: How, when we don't even know how to find him?

We'll bring Namor to us.

- Here, again? - SHURI: No.

A distant location at sea.

M'BAKU: All right.

Let's say this does work.

Hmm. Assuming we can kill this man

who can fly and is potentially as strong as the Hulk...

is murdering him the right solution?

TRIBE ELDER 2: You were calling for his head

when his only crime was intimidation.

What has changed, Lord M'Baku?

His soldiers

did not call him General or King.

They called him K'uk'ulkan.

What is that?

The feather serpent god.

What?

Do you think because we are living in the mountains,

we do not have access to books?

- (CHUCKLES) - SHURI: Elders,

with your permission,

I would like to talk with Lord M'Baku alone.

(ELDERS SPEAKING XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) Namor's not finished.

He promised to destroy the surface world.

Now is our opportunity to take him.

- What are you afraid of? - M'BAKU: War.

If Namor is indeed a god to his people,

killing him will risk eternal war.

SHURI: And so what?

Was my mother's life not worth eternal war?

M'BAKU: Of course it was.

Of course she was.

But it is not what she would have wanted for you.

Hmm?

And it is not what I want...

for my people.

(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

You speak of my mother as if she's still here.

Of what she would've wanted for me.

Her hopes and her dreams.

But she's dead.

She's gone!

Namor drowned her, right in front of me!

So, her dreams,

her goals, her hopes for me...

it doesn't exist.

It doesn't matter anymore.

What matters is what I want,

and what I want is Namor dead!

And you're going to help me get it.

(IN XHOSA)

(GRUNTS)

(IN ENGLISH) We leave in the morning.

(TENSE PERCUSSION MUSIC PLAYING)

NAKIA: Hi.

Good morning.

If we survive this,

I want you to know you have a home with me in Haiti.

Here. Take my hands.

(SHURI EXHALES)

(IN XHOSA)

(BREATH ES DEEPLY)

(IN ENGLISH) Shuri, I want you to be honest with me.

Who did you see when you took the Herb?

If you go to war for vengeance,

it will not fill the hole left from her loss.

It will only grow larger,

and it will consume you.

It already has.

(IN MAYAN)

(SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING)

(WHALE CALLING)

(UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING)

(HIGH-PITCHED SOUND WAVES BLASTING)

(WARRIORS GROANING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)

(ALL CHANTING IN XHOSA)

(NAMOR GRUNTS)

(YELLS)

(GROWLING)

(GUN CHARGING)

(IN ENGLISH) For the Queen.

(GRUNTING)

(NAMOR YELLING)

(WAKANDANS SCREAMING)

(SOUND WAVES PULSING)

(GRUNTING IN EXERTION)

(YELLS)

- (SHOUTS) - (WARRIORS GRUNT)

(ROUSING MUSIC PLAYING)

Phambili!

(ALL HOOTING)

(ALL YELLING)

(SHURI YELLS)

(HEROIC MUSIC PLAYS)

(WARRIORS GRUNTING)

(SHURI GRUNTS)

(ALL SCREAMING AND GRUNTING)

(CLAW SLICES)

(SHURI GRUNTING)

SHURI: (ON COMMS) Riri, how's it going up there?

RIRI: (ON COMMS) Hey, Mr. GRIOT.

I could really use that backup right now.

GRIOT: I thought you'd never ask.

(BOTH GRUNT)

RIRI: Shit.

(GRUNTS)

Shit, he's fast.

But I'm faster.

(SUIT BEEPS)

Whoo!

I got you.

(NAMOR GRUNTS)

It's on you now, Shuri.

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

- Princess. - SHURI: No.

I am the Black Panther, and I'm here for retribution!

GRIOT: Pervaporation cells activated.

(MACHINE THRUMMING)

SHURI: What's wrong?

You need a glass of water?

- Yo, we got him. - Good!

Namor has been captured.

(IN XHOSA)

(HOOTS)

(IN ENGLISH) Back to Wakanda!

(JABARI SOLDIERS GRUNT, YELL)

Move out!

(ENGINE HUMMING)

(GRUNTS)

(SOUND WAVES PULSING)

(BLASTING)

- What is going on? - (KIMOYO BEADS TRILL)

The sonic emitter has been destroyed.

- (WHALES SINGING) - (SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS)

That can't be good.

(ALL GRUNTING, YELPING)

(ALL SCREAMING)

(ALL GRUNTING AND GROANING)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

GRIOT: Panther, the Sea Leopard has lost power,

and they are experiencing significant casualties.

Okoye.

OKOYE: Panther.

(IN XHOSA) Phambili!

Aneka.

(SHOUTS IN XHOSA)

Okoye!

(IN ENGLISH) It is time.

OKOYE: (ON COMMS) (IN XHOSA) Phambili!

(IN ENGLISH) For Wakanda!

ANEKA: Wakanda!

- (YELLS) - (ENGINE WHINING)

- (NAMOR GRUNTING) - (GASPING)

GRIOT, what's the damage?

GRIOT: Catastrophic.

His spear is made of raw vibranium.

The ship could explode at any second.

Get us to the desert.

(ACCELERATING)

(SHURI YELLING)

(GRUNTS)

- (CLAW SLICES) - (NAMOR GROANS)

(BOTH GRUNT)

- SHURI: No! - (GRUNTS)

(WHALES CALLING)

(ATTUMA YELLING)

(ALL GRUNTING)

(STIRRING MUSIC PLAYING)

(IN MAYAN)

(YELLS)

(ALL GRUNTING)

(RIRI GRUNTS)

RIRI: (IN ENGLISH) I got you, sis.

Hold on.

(SHURI COUGHS, PANTING)

- (GASPING) - (SUIT TRILLING)

(CLAWS RING)

(GASPS)

(SHURI GRUNTS)

(PANTING)

(NAMOR YELLS)

(BOTH GRUNTING)

- (SLICES) - (SCREAMING)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(PANTING)

(GRUNTS)

(IN MAYAN)

(ATTUMA YELLS)

(SLOW DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(BOTH GRUNTING)

- (CLAW SLICES) - (NAMOR GROANS)

(SHURI YELLS)

RIRI: (IN ENGLISH) Get off me!

(BOTH GRUNT)

(OKOYE YELLS)

RIRI: All right, come here.

(IN MAYA)

(NAMORA GRUNTS, GASPS)

(WEAPON CHARGING)

(NAMORA SCREAMS)

(SLOW DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES)

(NAMOR GROANING)

M'BAKU: (IN ENGLISH) May the ancestors save us

if the princess does not hurry.

We may be going to join them.

If so, hey,

let us take as many of them with us as we can.

(GROANING)

(BOTH YELL)

- (HEART BEATING) - (NAMOR GRUNTS)

(SHURI GROANS)

(FLESH SQUELCHING)

- (SHURI WHIMPERING) - (GROWLING)

- (PANTING) - (HEARTBEAT FADES)

It could've been different.

(CHOKING)

(IN MAYAN)

(NAMOR PANTING WEAKLY)

(WHIMPERING)

KILLMONGER: (IN ENGLISH) Are you gonna be noble

like your brother

or take care of business

like me?

I'm not my brother.

Namor will beg me for mercy

as I stand and watch as he dies.

(GASPING LABORIOUSLY)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTING)

(PANTING WEAKLY)

(SHURI GRUNTS)

(IN MAYAN)

- (SUIT POWERS UP) - (IN ENGLISH) Wakanda forever!

(SCREAMS)

(NAMOR WHEEZING)

(NAMOR GRUNTS)

(CHOKING WEAKLY)

(EXHALES)

(PANTING)

(SCOFFS)

(CHOKING WEAKLY)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(WISTFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(WISTFUL MUSIC CONTINUES)

RAMONDA: Shuri.

SHURI: (TEARFULLY) Mama.

Show him

who you are.

Yield,

and Wakanda will protect your oceans.

We will protect your secrets.

Yield,

and your people will live.

Vengeance has consumed us.

We cannot let it consume our people.

(IN MAYAN)

(WARRIORS GRUNTING AND SHOUTING)

(TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING)

(TRIUMPHANT MUSIC CONTINUES)

(SIGHS IN RELIEF)

(IN ENGLISH) Wakanda forever!

WAKANDANS: Wakanda forever!

(TRIUMPHANT MUSIC CONTINUES)

(COMING BACK FOR YOU BY FIREBOY DML PLAYING)

Oou le le oou le le oou le le

-Oou le le -(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Oou le le oou le le oou le le

Oou oou le le oou le le oou le oou le

Well, I pray that the universe

Thank you, my love.

Gives you way more than you deserve

When the tears fall like shooting stars

Remember who you are

Just look up to the sky You'll see

Well, I pray that the universe

Gives you way more than you deserve

SHURI: Yo.

(RIRI CHUCKLES)

- (BOTH SNAP FINGERS) - All set to head home?

As long as you're sure the police

won't be waiting for me at the airport.

Don't worry. Took care of that.

But you might want to slow down

on your homework-for-hire business.

Get caught slipping, I can't help you with that.

They said you wanted to talk to me about something?

Yes.

Your suit. It's a great design,

but can't let you leave with it.

It's all good.

Figured the least I could do

is help Wakanda clean up my mess.

I have one more thing to show you.

Come.

(RIRI GASPS)

Took me a while to find all the parts from the river,

but it was worth it.

RIRI: How did you...

It's my dad's car.

We used to work on it before...

Oou le le oou le le oou le le

I'm coming back for you

- You sure this is her? - Every part.

Have it shipped to Boston.

Be there before you arrive.

Bring it in, man.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

GRIOT: Panther, Miss Williams' transport has arrived.

Look after yourself.

Sure you're not trying to slide to Chicago?

Catch a Bulls game?

Sounds fun,

but I have something I need to take care of.

(FESTIVE MUSIC PLAYING)

(WAKANDANS CHEERING AND ULULATING)

(FESTIVE MUSIC CONTINUES)

(MUSIC AND CHEERING STOP)

And now I present to you

Princess Shuri,

the Black Panther!

- (WAKANDANS CHEERING) - (DRUMS BEATING)

(CHEERS AND LAUGHS)

(CHEERING STOPS)

The Black Panther sends her regards,

but she will not be joining us today.

I, M'Baku,

leader of the Jabari Tribe,

son of Wakanda,

wish to challenge

for the throne.

(IN MAYAN)

AGENT 1: (IN ENGLISH) What the hell is this?

- AGENT 2: Can we turn around? - (AGENT 1 SIGHS)

AGENT 1: I don't know, man. We'll lose an hour.

Why don't you go check it out?

AGENT 2: Okay.

AGENT 1: Yeah, this is Shauver.

Yeah, looks like we got a tree blocking our way.

How do you want us to proceed?

- (AGENT 2 GRUNTS) - What the...

- (BLAST) - (GROANS)

- (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) - (MUTTERS)

(GASPING)

(WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)

Ah! (SIGHS)

A colonizer in chains.

Now I have seen everything.

Funny.

(IN XHOSA)

(SPEAKING HAITIAN CREOLE)

SHURI: Merci.

(IN HAITIAN CREOLE)

(NAKIA SPEAKS XHOSA)

SHURI: (IN ENGLISH) Hey.

(IN XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) It's good to see you.

Everything is ready.

Just give me one moment, eh?

Actually,

I think I should do it on my own.

Of course.

(FIRE CRACKLING)

(STIFLES SOB)

(WIND HOWLING SOFTLY)

(WISTFUL MUSIC INTRO PLAYING)

(CRYING)

(LIFT ME UP BY RIHANNA PLAYING)

Lift me up

Hold me down

Keep me close

Safe and sound

Burning in a hopeless dream

Hold me when you go to sleep

Keep me in the warmth of your love

When you depart keep me safe

Safe and sound

Lift me up

Hold me down

Keep me close

Safe and sound

Drowning in an endless sea

Take some time and stay with me

Keep me in the strength of your arms

Keep me safe

Safe and sound

Lift me up

Hold me down

Keep me safe

Safe and sound

Burning in a hopeless dream

Hold me when you go to sleep

Keep me safe

We need light We need love

-Lift me up -Lift me up

in your arms

-Hold me down -I need love, I need love

I need love

-Keep me safe -Hold me

We need light We need love

(SNIFFLES, EXHALES)

NAKIA: Shuri,

can we join you now?

This is my son, To us saint.

To us saint,

this is your aunty, Shuri.

Hi.

(BOTH LAUGH)

We agreed it was better for him to grow up here.

Away from the pressure of the throne.

Your father,

your baba,

prepared us for his death, didn't he?

But he didn't want us to go to the funeral

because he felt the time was not yet right.

So we had our own ceremony for him here.

Did my mother meet him?

NAKIA: She did.

It's nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

To us saint is a beautiful name.

It holds a great history.

Thanks. Yours is cool, too, I guess.

(BOTH LAUGH)

My mom says you are good at keeping secrets.

Is that true?

Yes, I can keep a good secret.

To us saint is my Haitian name.

(IN XHOSA)

(IN ENGLISH) My name is Prince T'Challa,

son of King T'Challa.

(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)

(SHURI SNIFFLES)

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

(GENTLE MUSIC CONTINUES)

(HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(BORN AGAIN BY RIHANNA PLAYING)

I give my heart to this place

I give my soul or whatever it takes

Never run away

I've got enough angels to storm the gates

I'm not afraid

Behold the brave

And I'll have it, no other way

I missed the emergence and these moments of you

The mere reflection of me

That mirror can't change its View

So until those rivers run out

it runs through me wherever you are

I'll be there

We carry on

Born again

I give my heart to this place

I give my heart to this place

I give my whole soul and whatever it takes

Never run away

And I'd relive this

Just to see your face again

I know that you'll do the same

Born again

Just tell me what I need to do

I'd die and come back just to love you

Just tell me I'm begging you

Just tell me what I need to do

Oh

(VOCALIZING AND CHANTING)

(LÀA YLI' KUXA'ANO'ONE BY ADN MAYA PLAYING)