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[soft eerie music playing]

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My name is Alithea.

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My story is true.

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You're more likely
to believe me, however,

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if I tell it as a fairy tale.

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So, once upon a time,

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when humans hurtled
across the sky on metal wings,

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when they wore webbed feet

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and walked
on the bottom of the sea,

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when they held
in their hands glass tiles

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that could coax
love songs from the air...

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[music playing
through headphones]

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There was a woman,
adequately happy and alone.

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Alone by choice.

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Happy because
she was independent,

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living off the exercise
of her scholarly mind.

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Her business was story.

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She was a narratologist

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who sought to find the truths

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common to all the stories
of humankind.

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To this end,
once or twice a year,

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she ventured to strange lands.

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To China, the South Seas,

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and the timeless cities
of the Levant...

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where her kind gathered
to tell stories about stories.

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[man 1] This way.

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

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

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The mysteries of Istanbul.

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[static buzzing]

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

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Alithea!

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Welcome!

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- Welcome at last! Aw.
- Gunhan!

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- [both laugh]
- My dear friend.

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

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- This is Amina.
- Amina.

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From the British Council.

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That fellow at the airport
manhandling my luggage,

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did you see him?

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What fellow?

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He scuttled off
when you arrived.

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Small, sheepskin jacket,
pink collar.

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Interesting.

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He was hot to touch.

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Musky.

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Perhaps he was a djinn.

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An illegal taxi driver,
more likely.

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Wearing too much cologne.

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So, Professor,

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you saying you believe in djinn?

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

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Including me?

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Djinn, ghosts,

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aliens, whatever helps.

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[Gunhan laughs]

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The hotel's arranged
a lovely surprise for you.

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It's the Agatha Christie room.

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In this room,

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she wrote
Murder on the Orient Express.

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[sighs]

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[audience laughing]

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[Gunhan chuckles]

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[Gunhan] So,
how would you explain

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the power of a thunderstorm

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if you don't have the means

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to measure and model
meteorological data?

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How can you explain the seasons?

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Autumn through winter
to spring and summer,

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if you don't know that the Earth

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orbits the Sun
while tilted on an axis?

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Everything was mystery.

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The seasons, tsunamis,
microbial disease...

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What else could we do
but resort to stories?

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As Dr. Binnie has
encouraged us to understand,

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stories were once the only way

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to make our bewildering
existence coherent.

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That's exactly right.

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We gave name
to the unknown forces

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behind all wonder
and catastrophe,

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by telling each other...

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By telling each other stories.

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

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We told tales of specific,
powerful, relatable gods

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ever present in all cultures,
in all mythologies,

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

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and so on, and so on.

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The familiar descendant
of Zeus, Poseidon, Athena,

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Thor, the whole gang,

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find expression even today.

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[low electrical humming]

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These are their vestiges.

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The question remains,
what is their purpose?

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[electrical humming continues]

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What do we require of them now?

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There is mythos,
and there is science.

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[electrical humming stops]

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[Alithea softly] Oh. Sorry.

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Mythology is what
we knew back then.

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Science is what we know so far.

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[low electrical humming resumes]

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Sooner or later,

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our creation stories
are replaced

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by the narratives of science.

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Painstaking science.

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And all gods and monsters

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outlive their original purpose

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and are reduced to metaphor.

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Rubbish! [Roars]

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[Gunhan muffled] Alithea!

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[woman speaking indistinctly]

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[Gunhan] Alithea.

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[woman] What happened?

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

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- She just fell.
- [Amina grunts]

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[Amina] Gosh. [Exclaiming]

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[Gunhan] Are you okay?

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[audience clapping]

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[rattling]

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[Gunhan] Shouldn't
you see a doctor?

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[Alithea] Why?
When I feel so well?

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

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[Alithea] Apart from
the usual aches and pains,

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there is nothing untoward.

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There's no reason
to make a fuss.

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[Gunhan] So, what happened
back there?

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

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Ambushing me.

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I think it's a warning.

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About what?

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Not to be complacent.

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To keep on my toes.

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It manifests rudely
from time to time.

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I try not to fight it off.

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

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What steps back?

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

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

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

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[Gunhan laughs]

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[people chattering indistinctly]

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

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Who can say?

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But I tell you this,

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in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul,

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there are 62 streets
and 4,000 shops.

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

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In the smallest of those rooms,

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there was a pile
of things unsorted,

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old and new.

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From the bottom of that pile,

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I chose a memento.

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Do you know what this is?

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

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a "Nightingale's Eye."

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Around 1845, there were
these glassmakers in Incirkoy.

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They were famous for this
spiral blue-white pattern.

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

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Choose something less forlorn.

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

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uh, is there a way
of authenticating it?

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Well, they say
that if it is genuine,

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sometimes you can see
specks of blood

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from the lungs
of the glassblowers.

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But this is more likely
a recent imitation.

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

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No, thank you, Gunhan.

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I like it.

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

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[telephone ringing]

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Hello?

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[man] Good morning, Dr. Binnie.

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- Good morning.
- This is room service.

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- Yes.
- How do you like your eggs?

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Er, runny, please.

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- And with toast?
- Yes, but no crusts.

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- Two eggs?
- Just one.

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- Okay, thank you.
- Thank you.

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[electric toothbrush whirring]

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[bottle rattling]

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[bottle rattling intensifying]

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[gasps]

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[gasps]

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[toothbrush clatters]

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[squelching]

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[rustling]

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[squelching]

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[creature breaths heavily]

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[squeaks]

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[creature breathing heavily]

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

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after which I would be grateful

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if you would be gone.

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One,

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two,

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three.

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[breathing continues]

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Four,

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five,

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six,

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seven, eight,

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nine, ten.

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[creature grunting softly]

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[growling softly]

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[creature speaking indistinctly]

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I don't suppose
you speak English?

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[creature speaking
ancient Greek]

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Deutsch?

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Espanol?

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Ellinika?

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[creature grunts]

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[creature speaking
ancient Greek]

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[in ancient Greek]

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[creature speaking]

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[Alithea speaking]

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[creature speaking]

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[static buzzing on laptop]

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[The Djinn speaking]

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[static buzzing]

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[Einstein speaking
indistinctly on TV]

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Einstein.

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[The Djinn] Einstein.

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[in English]

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[The Djinn] Television.

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[in ancient Greek]

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[in English]

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[The Djinn] Transmitters.

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[in ancient Greek]

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

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but I begin to understand
these transmissions.

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Oh!

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You've learned
to speak my language.

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This English is straightforward.

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Its rules quickly learn, I find.

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[static buzzes]

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[Einstein gasping]

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[gasps]

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[Einstein] Nein, nein, nein.

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Would you like this
little Albert for yourself?

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No, no, no.

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That can't be good for him.
Put him back.

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- I could expand him.
- [Einstein] How?

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We could speak with him.

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

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

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No. It's your obligation.

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[blows]

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[Einstein resumes speech
in German]

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So, what will you wish for?

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[floor creaks]

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What is your heart's desire?

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Now, let's, uh,
not get ahead of ourselves.

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I need to take this slow.
[sighs]

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I have all the time
in the world.

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Tell me about yourself.

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My name is Alithea Binnie.

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I am in Turkey for a conference.

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

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Also?

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[Alithea breathing heavily]

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Also, I have
a confession to make.

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Something
I've never told anybody.

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[The Djinn] Excellent.

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When I was young,
there was a boy.

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Your first lover?

266
00:16:11,289 --> 00:16:14,181
No, no, no.
He was not of flesh and blood.

267
00:16:14,205 --> 00:16:15,443
A djinn?

268
00:16:15,467 --> 00:16:17,576
No.

269
00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:21,449
At that time, I found myself
in a school for girls.

270
00:16:21,473 --> 00:16:23,364
Gaggles of girls.

271
00:16:23,388 --> 00:16:28,195
I was... Well, I am
a solitary creature by nature.

272
00:16:28,219 --> 00:16:31,242
And this boy, Enzo,

273
00:16:31,266 --> 00:16:34,182
he came to me,
out of an emptiness.

274
00:16:35,444 --> 00:16:38,379
Out of a need to imagine.

275
00:16:38,403 --> 00:16:40,294
He told me stories in a language

276
00:16:40,318 --> 00:16:42,581
that only we two spoke.

277
00:16:44,105 --> 00:16:46,257
And he always disappeared
when I had a headache,

278
00:16:46,281 --> 00:16:47,519
but he was never far away

279
00:16:47,543 --> 00:16:50,000
when I couldn't move for asthma.

280
00:16:50,024 --> 00:16:51,697
[The Djinn] He was like
this little Albert

281
00:16:51,721 --> 00:16:53,307
you would not let me give you?

282
00:16:53,331 --> 00:16:55,222
An emanation?

283
00:16:55,246 --> 00:16:58,138
[Alithea] Only an emanation
of an absence.

284
00:16:58,162 --> 00:17:01,141
[breathing laboriously]

285
00:17:01,165 --> 00:17:04,473
I feared he would leave,
and so I wrote him down.

286
00:17:06,518 --> 00:17:11,132
And I filled this journal,
bulging with facts.

287
00:17:12,524 --> 00:17:16,678
But the more realism
I tried to insert,

288
00:17:16,702 --> 00:17:19,681
the more I began to doubt,

289
00:17:19,705 --> 00:17:22,795
and, uh, it all began
to feel silly.

290
00:17:24,145 --> 00:17:25,711
I felt silly.

291
00:17:27,539 --> 00:17:30,170
So, after a time,

292
00:17:30,194 --> 00:17:32,544
I burned it all
in the school furnace.

293
00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,549
And after that,
he disappeared altogether.

294
00:17:38,811 --> 00:17:41,423
And yet, I am here.

295
00:17:43,642 --> 00:17:45,688
Contrary to reason, yes.

296
00:17:46,776 --> 00:17:51,061
I am here,
and we have work to do.

297
00:17:51,085 --> 00:17:52,260
[knocking at door]

298
00:17:53,348 --> 00:17:55,717
Can you come back later, please?

299
00:17:55,741 --> 00:17:57,676
[man] It's room service,
Dr. Binnie.

300
00:17:57,700 --> 00:17:59,721
I have your breakfast.

301
00:17:59,745 --> 00:18:01,312
[Alithea] Just a minute!

302
00:18:02,444 --> 00:18:04,098
Must close door.

303
00:18:18,329 --> 00:18:19,437
Good morning.

304
00:18:19,461 --> 00:18:20,655
Where would you like it,
Dr. Binnie?

305
00:18:20,679 --> 00:18:21,917
Thank you. Oh, I can take it.

306
00:18:21,941 --> 00:18:24,224
- Please, allow me.
- No. No, I can manage it.

307
00:18:24,248 --> 00:18:26,835
Jolly good, Dr. Binnie.
I hope you are well rested.

308
00:18:26,859 --> 00:18:28,576
Oh, that looks delicious.
Yes, I am.

309
00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,404
[man] What do you plan to do
on this fine day?

310
00:18:30,428 --> 00:18:33,146
Uh, I'm not sure.
I'm improvising.

311
00:18:33,170 --> 00:18:35,627
Well, I'd like to show you
a beautiful art gallery...

312
00:18:35,651 --> 00:18:36,845
That's so kind. Thank you.

313
00:18:36,869 --> 00:18:38,020
This afternoon,
when you get a chance.

314
00:18:38,044 --> 00:18:39,370
- Maybe another time.
- It will be great.

315
00:18:39,394 --> 00:18:40,414
Thank you.
Have a beautiful day.

316
00:18:40,438 --> 00:18:42,590
[man] Okay. Jolly good. Enjoy.

317
00:18:42,614 --> 00:18:43,833
Thank you!

318
00:18:48,794 --> 00:18:51,319
[people chattering in distance]

319
00:19:00,632 --> 00:19:02,199
[lock clicks]

320
00:19:23,220 --> 00:19:25,807
A more convenient size, I see.

321
00:19:25,831 --> 00:19:27,746
I do what I can to fit in.

322
00:19:28,225 --> 00:19:30,160
Please.

323
00:19:30,184 --> 00:19:32,336
I needn't have
ordered breakfast.

324
00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:35,817
It's nan-e nokhodchi.
Chickpeas, cloves, pistachio.

325
00:19:35,841 --> 00:19:37,626
It will melt in your mouth.

326
00:19:42,761 --> 00:19:44,739
May I ask you something?

327
00:19:44,763 --> 00:19:45,895
[The Djinn] Anything.

328
00:19:47,331 --> 00:19:50,204
How come you found your way
into my bottle?

329
00:19:51,422 --> 00:19:52,815
Ah, it's quite a story.

330
00:19:53,729 --> 00:19:55,794
That was my third incarceration.

331
00:19:55,818 --> 00:19:57,883
You've been trapped
in a bottle three times?

332
00:19:57,907 --> 00:20:00,233
I may be a djinn,
but I'm also a fool

333
00:20:00,257 --> 00:20:02,844
with too great a fondness
for the conversation of women.

334
00:20:02,868 --> 00:20:05,238
I need to be more careful
in the future.

335
00:20:05,262 --> 00:20:06,782
How were you caught
in the first place?

336
00:20:07,525 --> 00:20:09,199
By desire.

337
00:20:09,223 --> 00:20:10,876
How else?

338
00:20:13,749 --> 00:20:15,335
Who was she?

339
00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:16,815
Sheba.

340
00:20:16,839 --> 00:20:18,208
The Queen of Sheba?

341
00:20:18,232 --> 00:20:19,731
She was my kin.

342
00:20:19,755 --> 00:20:20,862
She was a djinn?

343
00:20:20,886 --> 00:20:22,386
Her mother was a djinn.

344
00:20:22,410 --> 00:20:23,474
Is that possible?

345
00:20:23,498 --> 00:20:24,692
There are laws that allow

346
00:20:24,716 --> 00:20:26,216
the union of djinn and mortals,

347
00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:27,956
but they cannot produce
an immortal scion

348
00:20:27,980 --> 00:20:29,262
the way a donkey and a horse

349
00:20:29,286 --> 00:20:31,245
can only produce
a seedless mule.

350
00:20:32,898 --> 00:20:36,008
So, what did she look like?

351
00:20:36,032 --> 00:20:40,230
Other than a thick glade
of black hair on her legs,

352
00:20:40,254 --> 00:20:41,622
she looked like
any other human being,

353
00:20:41,646 --> 00:20:43,929
except, of course,
she was Sheba.

354
00:20:43,953 --> 00:20:46,540
By all accounts,
she was very beautiful.

355
00:20:46,564 --> 00:20:49,524
She was not beautiful.
She was beauty itself.

356
00:20:53,049 --> 00:20:55,854
I was in every way free.

357
00:20:55,878 --> 00:20:58,881
I would come in and out
of her sleeping chamber.

358
00:21:00,012 --> 00:21:02,537
[whispers] Sheba...

359
00:21:04,278 --> 00:21:05,994
[blows]

360
00:21:06,018 --> 00:21:08,910
I knew as well as any
of her female slaves

361
00:21:08,934 --> 00:21:11,937
the touches that made
her shiver with bliss.

362
00:21:13,069 --> 00:21:15,593
Never have I wanted
a creature so.

363
00:21:16,420 --> 00:21:17,876
And she desired you in return?

364
00:21:17,900 --> 00:21:21,271
I was her plaything.
Her confidante.

365
00:21:21,295 --> 00:21:23,534
I might have become more,
but for Solomon.

366
00:21:23,558 --> 00:21:24,752
King Solomon?

367
00:21:24,776 --> 00:21:26,754
Blessed be his memory.

368
00:21:26,778 --> 00:21:29,017
He came from across
the deserts to woo her.

369
00:21:29,041 --> 00:21:30,323
Didn't she go to him?

370
00:21:30,347 --> 00:21:31,672
No. Never.

371
00:21:31,696 --> 00:21:33,500
But it's in all the holy books.

372
00:21:33,524 --> 00:21:34,980
All the stories
and the paintings.

373
00:21:35,004 --> 00:21:36,764
And Handel wrote music about it.

374
00:21:36,788 --> 00:21:38,375
Madam, I was there.

375
00:21:38,399 --> 00:21:40,072
Solomon came to her.

376
00:21:40,096 --> 00:21:42,814
[people chattering in distance]

377
00:21:42,838 --> 00:21:45,710
[The Djinn speaking
early Aramaic]

378
00:22:04,642 --> 00:22:07,447
[strums note]

379
00:22:07,471 --> 00:22:09,430
[The Djinn in English]
he began with music.

380
00:22:10,431 --> 00:22:12,520
[playing romantic melody]

381
00:22:14,348 --> 00:22:15,977
[music intensifying]

382
00:22:16,001 --> 00:22:17,438
[music stops abruptly]

383
00:22:28,449 --> 00:22:31,539
[playing sentimental music]

384
00:23:01,525 --> 00:23:04,093
[sentimental music continues]

385
00:23:30,467 --> 00:23:32,164
[music ends in flourish]

386
00:23:38,127 --> 00:23:39,127
[gulps]

387
00:23:41,086 --> 00:23:44,457
I did all that I could
to dissuade her.

388
00:23:44,481 --> 00:23:45,589
But when she used

389
00:23:45,613 --> 00:23:47,460
the scented wax
of the Jabassa Bee

390
00:23:47,484 --> 00:23:49,027
to remove the hair
from her legs,

391
00:23:49,051 --> 00:23:50,724
I knew that I was lost.

392
00:23:50,748 --> 00:23:53,074
But I, like a fool,
went on telling her

393
00:23:53,098 --> 00:23:56,077
that her body
was rich and lovely,

394
00:23:56,101 --> 00:23:58,732
but her mind
was richer and lovelier,

395
00:23:58,756 --> 00:24:00,517
and more durable.

396
00:24:00,541 --> 00:24:02,606
And she agreed
with all that I said,

397
00:24:02,630 --> 00:24:04,240
and dropped a hot tear.

398
00:24:05,633 --> 00:24:08,612
She began to set him tasks,
which seemed impossible,

399
00:24:08,636 --> 00:24:10,744
to find a particular thread
of red silk

400
00:24:10,768 --> 00:24:12,746
in the palace
of a thousand rooms,

401
00:24:12,770 --> 00:24:15,619
to guess the secret name
of her mother djinn,

402
00:24:15,643 --> 00:24:18,926
[inhales] to tell her
what women most desire.

403
00:24:18,950 --> 00:24:20,798
That does seem impossible.

404
00:24:20,822 --> 00:24:22,060
Not for him.

405
00:24:22,084 --> 00:24:23,583
He could speak
to the beasts of the earth,

406
00:24:23,607 --> 00:24:26,020
and to the djinn
made of subtle fire.

407
00:24:26,044 --> 00:24:29,110
He found ants to discover
the thread of silk,

408
00:24:29,134 --> 00:24:31,199
and an ifrit to whisper
the mother's name.

409
00:24:31,223 --> 00:24:33,661
[ifrit speaking indistinctly]

410
00:24:36,533 --> 00:24:38,032
[The Djinn] Then he looked
into her eyes

411
00:24:38,056 --> 00:24:41,122
and told her
what women most desire.

412
00:24:41,146 --> 00:24:43,211
[King Solomon speaking
early Aramaic]

413
00:24:43,235 --> 00:24:44,846
[The Djinn] She was astonished,

414
00:24:46,195 --> 00:24:48,023
and told him he was right.

415
00:24:52,549 --> 00:24:56,050
And so she granted him
what he most desired,

416
00:24:56,074 --> 00:24:58,947
which was to wed her
and be taken to her bed.

417
00:25:02,907 --> 00:25:04,102
[Sheba gasps]

418
00:25:04,126 --> 00:25:06,694
[distorted screaming]

419
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,699
[emotional string music playing]

420
00:25:12,526 --> 00:25:14,615
[whooshing softly]

421
00:25:17,574 --> 00:25:19,030
[speaks early Aramaic]

422
00:25:19,054 --> 00:25:20,814
[The Djinn]
He was a great magician...

423
00:25:20,838 --> 00:25:22,294
- [wheezing]
- and imprisoned me

424
00:25:22,318 --> 00:25:25,539
with a word of power
into a brass bottle.

425
00:25:29,630 --> 00:25:32,589
[emotional string
music continues]

426
00:25:51,695 --> 00:25:53,828
She made no plea for me.

427
00:25:54,829 --> 00:25:57,198
I was nothing to her.

428
00:25:57,222 --> 00:25:59,137
A breath in a bottle.

429
00:26:13,891 --> 00:26:16,653
And so, I was cast
into the Red Sea

430
00:26:16,677 --> 00:26:20,289
and languished for 2,500 years.

431
00:26:25,642 --> 00:26:27,228
Apart from sleep,

432
00:26:27,252 --> 00:26:30,212
what does one do in a bottle
for 2,500 years?

433
00:26:31,735 --> 00:26:33,258
Djinn don't sleep.

434
00:26:38,916 --> 00:26:40,614
So, how do you manage then?

435
00:26:41,266 --> 00:26:42,354
[clicks tongue]

436
00:26:43,921 --> 00:26:48,641
Well, for the first 100 years,
I rage against my fate.

437
00:26:48,665 --> 00:26:50,382
I pray to Boschkolo
for my release,

438
00:26:50,406 --> 00:26:51,818
and when that does not work,

439
00:26:51,842 --> 00:26:53,298
I pray to any god I know,

440
00:26:53,322 --> 00:26:55,256
and then to any god
I may not know.

441
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,955
And when, still,
I find no answers,

442
00:26:57,979 --> 00:26:59,043
[inhales]

443
00:26:59,067 --> 00:27:01,132
I spend my time in waking dreams

444
00:27:01,156 --> 00:27:03,917
revisiting all the stories
of my life.

445
00:27:03,941 --> 00:27:06,877
And when I have exhausted this
many, many times,

446
00:27:06,901 --> 00:27:09,923
I return to my prayer
and my rage.

447
00:27:09,947 --> 00:27:12,907
And then, finally,

448
00:27:14,256 --> 00:27:16,388
I play a trick on myself.

449
00:27:17,825 --> 00:27:19,280
I pray to remain in the bottle.

450
00:27:19,304 --> 00:27:23,110
I beseech Boschkolo to keep me
always in the bottle.

451
00:27:23,134 --> 00:27:24,677
And does that work?

452
00:27:24,701 --> 00:27:26,157
To yearn for nothing?

453
00:27:26,181 --> 00:27:28,028
To pretend to want nothing more

454
00:27:28,052 --> 00:27:29,769
than to be contained
in a bottle?

455
00:27:29,793 --> 00:27:31,249
No.

456
00:27:31,273 --> 00:27:34,015
For a djinn, it is the closest
we ever come to death.

457
00:27:35,190 --> 00:27:36,863
[sighs]

458
00:27:36,887 --> 00:27:38,648
Do you know the answer
to her question?

459
00:27:38,672 --> 00:27:39,823
What women most desire?

460
00:27:39,847 --> 00:27:40,954
Yeah.

461
00:27:40,978 --> 00:27:42,695
Do you not know?

462
00:27:42,719 --> 00:27:44,218
If you do not know,
I cannot tell you.

463
00:27:44,242 --> 00:27:46,394
Well, surely, we don't
all want the same thing.

464
00:27:46,418 --> 00:27:50,007
Madam, your yearnings
are not at all clear to me.

465
00:27:50,031 --> 00:27:53,314
I... I'm at a point in my life
where I have all I need.

466
00:27:53,338 --> 00:27:55,882
I daresay I'm content,
and gratefully so.

467
00:27:55,906 --> 00:27:57,014
Tell me.

468
00:27:57,038 --> 00:27:59,407
Are you a wife? A widow?

469
00:27:59,431 --> 00:28:01,671
- Um...
- A mother, perhaps?

470
00:28:01,695 --> 00:28:04,219
I have no children,
no siblings, no parents.

471
00:28:06,003 --> 00:28:07,285
I did once have a husband.

472
00:28:07,309 --> 00:28:08,547
[The Djinn] Ah.

473
00:28:08,571 --> 00:28:10,704
And what was the complexion
of this husband?

474
00:28:11,226 --> 00:28:12,682
His complexion?

475
00:28:12,706 --> 00:28:15,859
In the beginning,
it was glowing.

476
00:28:15,883 --> 00:28:17,687
And in the ending?

477
00:28:17,711 --> 00:28:19,210
It's not much of a story.

478
00:28:19,234 --> 00:28:22,126
But it is a story.
It is your story,

479
00:28:22,150 --> 00:28:23,780
and it is always wise

480
00:28:23,804 --> 00:28:25,738
to understand those
who have a hold on you.

481
00:28:25,762 --> 00:28:26,826
Please.

482
00:28:26,850 --> 00:28:27,938
[inhales deeply]

483
00:28:29,026 --> 00:28:31,246
[grunts] Well, okay, um...

484
00:28:32,334 --> 00:28:33,703
[smacks lips]

485
00:28:33,727 --> 00:28:36,183
We'd known each other
since our youth.

486
00:28:36,207 --> 00:28:38,055
We, uh, married early.

487
00:28:38,079 --> 00:28:40,013
In the beginning,
we took pleasure

488
00:28:40,037 --> 00:28:41,841
in each other's minds
and bodies.

489
00:28:41,865 --> 00:28:43,190
Um...

490
00:28:43,214 --> 00:28:45,018
We passed the years comfortably,

491
00:28:45,042 --> 00:28:47,436
and then as it happens,

492
00:28:48,176 --> 00:28:50,197
it all evaporated,

493
00:28:50,221 --> 00:28:52,267
and, uh... and we became

494
00:28:53,398 --> 00:28:54,419
less.

495
00:28:54,443 --> 00:28:55,443
And where is he?

496
00:28:57,141 --> 00:29:00,077
He's in Hackney,
with Emmeline Porter.

497
00:29:00,101 --> 00:29:01,276
[The Djinn] Mmm.

498
00:29:04,061 --> 00:29:05,323
[Alithea sighs]

499
00:29:07,456 --> 00:29:09,390
[Alithea] He told me I...

500
00:29:09,414 --> 00:29:11,871
I was incapable
of reading feelings.

501
00:29:11,895 --> 00:29:13,046
[car brakes]

502
00:29:13,070 --> 00:29:14,463
[car horn beeps]

503
00:29:16,030 --> 00:29:18,356
I was incapable
of reading his feelings.

504
00:29:18,380 --> 00:29:20,271
[Emmeline] ...gonna have
a resolution.

505
00:29:20,295 --> 00:29:21,446
[Jack] This is exciting!

506
00:29:21,470 --> 00:29:23,013
- It is exciting!
- [Emmeline] No, it's not.

507
00:29:23,037 --> 00:29:24,449
Let me guess.
No one dies in it.

508
00:29:24,473 --> 00:29:26,190
[Emmeline laughing] No!

509
00:29:26,214 --> 00:29:30,020
[Alithea] The way my brain
is wired is... is the...

510
00:29:30,044 --> 00:29:33,023
the source both of my power

511
00:29:33,047 --> 00:29:35,789
and, uh, and my solitude.

512
00:29:36,790 --> 00:29:38,966
I suspect that's why
I like stories.

513
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,510
I find feelings through stories.

514
00:29:42,534 --> 00:29:44,885
[The Djinn sighs]

515
00:29:46,103 --> 00:29:49,039
Perhaps you could
wish for him back.

516
00:29:49,063 --> 00:29:51,195
Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no.

517
00:29:51,369 --> 00:29:52,457
No.

518
00:29:53,545 --> 00:29:56,200
I... I thought, um,

519
00:29:57,288 --> 00:30:01,118
I might grieve
a loss and betrayal, but, uh,

520
00:30:02,424 --> 00:30:04,121
no, in fact, I was free.

521
00:30:05,514 --> 00:30:07,840
I was like a prisoner

522
00:30:07,864 --> 00:30:11,452
emerging from a dungeon
into the sunlight.

523
00:30:11,476 --> 00:30:14,281
I expanded into the space
of my own life.

524
00:30:14,305 --> 00:30:18,459
No, I could not wish for more.

525
00:30:18,483 --> 00:30:21,462
You are a wise
and cautious woman, Alithea.

526
00:30:21,486 --> 00:30:24,117
But we all have desires,

527
00:30:24,141 --> 00:30:26,013
even if they remain
hidden from us.

528
00:30:26,491 --> 00:30:28,121
[inhales sharply]

529
00:30:28,145 --> 00:30:29,949
That's as maybe.

530
00:30:29,973 --> 00:30:34,867
But I am also a narratologist,

531
00:30:34,891 --> 00:30:37,348
and that is going
to be a problem.

532
00:30:37,372 --> 00:30:39,611
It's going to be
a very big problem.

533
00:30:39,635 --> 00:30:41,831
See, I know
all the stories there are

534
00:30:41,855 --> 00:30:43,180
about trickster djinn,

535
00:30:43,204 --> 00:30:44,485
and the ways in which
they manipulate wishing

536
00:30:44,509 --> 00:30:45,573
to their own ends.

537
00:30:45,597 --> 00:30:46,879
I am not one of them.

538
00:30:46,903 --> 00:30:48,838
I am god-fearing and honorable,

539
00:30:48,862 --> 00:30:51,101
and only here
to grant your heart's desire.

540
00:30:51,125 --> 00:30:53,190
Well, even if that's true,

541
00:30:53,214 --> 00:30:56,391
how can you rely on those
called upon to wish?

542
00:30:57,174 --> 00:30:58,412
[speaks ancient Greek]

543
00:30:58,436 --> 00:31:01,222
How do you know
you can rely on me?

544
00:31:02,353 --> 00:31:04,375
Well, I hope so.

545
00:31:04,399 --> 00:31:07,204
With you, I certainly hope so.

546
00:31:07,228 --> 00:31:09,423
There's a...

547
00:31:09,447 --> 00:31:12,339
funny little story.
I mean, you probably know it.

548
00:31:12,363 --> 00:31:14,298
Three friends lost at sea
in a tiny boat.

549
00:31:14,322 --> 00:31:16,039
They pull up a magic fish,

550
00:31:16,063 --> 00:31:17,605
who grants each of them
one wish.

551
00:31:17,629 --> 00:31:18,737
The first one,

552
00:31:18,761 --> 00:31:20,521
"I wish I were at home
with my wife."

553
00:31:20,545 --> 00:31:21,696
He vanishes.

554
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,307
The second one,
"I wish I were playing"

555
00:31:23,331 --> 00:31:24,612
"in the fields
with my children."

556
00:31:24,636 --> 00:31:25,831
Off he goes.

557
00:31:25,855 --> 00:31:28,355
And the third one,
"I miss my friends..."

558
00:31:28,379 --> 00:31:29,400
"I wish they were here."

559
00:31:29,424 --> 00:31:31,054
You've got it.

560
00:31:31,078 --> 00:31:34,318
There's no story about wishing
that is not a cautionary tale.

561
00:31:34,342 --> 00:31:36,233
None end happily.

562
00:31:36,257 --> 00:31:38,148
Not even the ones
that are supposed to be jokes.

563
00:31:38,172 --> 00:31:40,454
But you and I
are the authors of this story,

564
00:31:40,478 --> 00:31:43,003
and we can avoid all traps.

565
00:31:44,700 --> 00:31:47,094
Well, what if
I made no wish at all?

566
00:31:49,052 --> 00:31:50,097
Pardon?

567
00:31:52,708 --> 00:31:54,599
What if I made no wish?

568
00:31:54,623 --> 00:31:55,992
That would be an...

569
00:31:56,016 --> 00:31:58,298
- [electricity humming]
- [soft squelching]

570
00:31:58,322 --> 00:31:59,560
That would be

571
00:31:59,584 --> 00:32:01,998
catastrophic! [Echoes]

572
00:32:02,022 --> 00:32:04,198
[flesh crunching]

573
00:32:05,677 --> 00:32:07,375
[panting]

574
00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:13,052
[The Djinn muttering
incoherently]

575
00:32:13,076 --> 00:32:15,296
[The Djinn breathing heavily]

576
00:32:16,036 --> 00:32:17,578
[Alithea] All right.

577
00:32:17,602 --> 00:32:20,562
- [panting heavily]
- [crunching subsides]

578
00:32:22,259 --> 00:32:25,238
I need to tell you
about my next incarceration.

579
00:32:25,262 --> 00:32:26,350
I'm all ears.

580
00:32:26,611 --> 00:32:28,135
[sighs]

581
00:32:37,448 --> 00:32:39,165
[The Djinn] I will never know

582
00:32:39,189 --> 00:32:43,082
how my bottle came from the
bottom of the Red Sea...

583
00:32:43,106 --> 00:32:44,344
[flies buzzing]

584
00:32:44,368 --> 00:32:46,501
To a palace in Constantinople.

585
00:32:47,632 --> 00:32:49,567
But I fancy somehow it involved

586
00:32:49,591 --> 00:32:51,177
the killing of
an Ottoman warrior.

587
00:32:51,201 --> 00:32:53,116
[takes deep breath]

588
00:32:57,164 --> 00:32:58,687
The fall of an empire.

589
00:33:01,646 --> 00:33:03,779
[wall crumbling]

590
00:33:08,131 --> 00:33:09,326
And a girl in love.

591
00:33:09,350 --> 00:33:13,136
[girl muttering
in Ottoman Turkish]

592
00:33:19,403 --> 00:33:22,406
[girl singing
in Ottoman Turkish]

593
00:33:31,067 --> 00:33:32,373
[girl] Merhaba.

594
00:33:33,156 --> 00:33:34,244
[gasps]

595
00:33:35,506 --> 00:33:36,614
[bottle clangs]

596
00:33:36,638 --> 00:33:39,162
[high-pitched pinging]

597
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,491
[in Ottoman Turkish]

598
00:33:44,515 --> 00:33:47,388
[eerie music playing]

599
00:33:49,042 --> 00:33:52,369
[hammering]

600
00:33:52,393 --> 00:33:54,110
[girl muttering
in Ottoman Turkish]

601
00:33:54,134 --> 00:33:56,634
[The Djinn in English]
Gulten lived as a slave

602
00:33:56,658 --> 00:33:58,505
in the courtyard
of the concubines

603
00:33:58,529 --> 00:34:00,029
in the seraglio.

604
00:34:00,053 --> 00:34:02,205
[Gulten continues muttering
in Ottoman Turkish]

605
00:34:02,229 --> 00:34:04,250
[rumbling]

606
00:34:04,274 --> 00:34:05,797
[Gulten gasping]

607
00:34:08,365 --> 00:34:10,150
[shuddering]

608
00:34:12,195 --> 00:34:14,110
[The Djinn breathing heavily]

609
00:34:17,113 --> 00:34:19,178
- [The Djinn growls softly]
- [Gulten gasps]

610
00:34:19,202 --> 00:34:20,353
[The Djinn]
When I appeared to her...

611
00:34:20,377 --> 00:34:22,118
[gasps]

612
00:34:23,206 --> 00:34:25,358
She fainted.

613
00:34:25,382 --> 00:34:28,100
And I had great trouble
rousing her.

614
00:34:28,124 --> 00:34:31,258
[The Djinn whispering
in Ottoman Turkish]

615
00:34:34,217 --> 00:34:36,717
I made it clear
that I meant her no harm,

616
00:34:36,741 --> 00:34:38,545
for I was condemned
to the bottle.

617
00:34:38,569 --> 00:34:40,112
Until you got your three wishes.

618
00:34:40,136 --> 00:34:42,114
- Until she got hers.
- [Alithea scoffs]

619
00:34:42,138 --> 00:34:44,247
- Please.
- Okay.

620
00:34:44,271 --> 00:34:45,726
Now, the poor girl told me

621
00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:49,687
she was distractedly in love
with a beautiful man...

622
00:34:49,711 --> 00:34:51,167
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

623
00:34:51,191 --> 00:34:52,646
[The Djinn]
and she wished immediately

624
00:34:52,670 --> 00:34:55,084
to find favor in his eyes.

625
00:34:55,108 --> 00:34:57,284
[man speaking Ottoman Turkish]

626
00:35:06,771 --> 00:35:07,966
[blows]

627
00:35:07,990 --> 00:35:09,663
[The Djinn in English]
As it happens,

628
00:35:09,687 --> 00:35:11,839
the one she most desired
was the splendid Mustafa.

629
00:35:11,863 --> 00:35:13,648
Prince Mustafa.

630
00:35:15,606 --> 00:35:18,281
Eldest son of
Suleiman the Magnificent,

631
00:35:18,305 --> 00:35:21,351
and likely heir
to his mighty throne.

632
00:35:22,439 --> 00:35:23,851
Had I known what was to come,

633
00:35:23,875 --> 00:35:27,159
I would've risked
the furies of Iblis

634
00:35:27,183 --> 00:35:30,317
to vehemently distract her
from her wish.

635
00:35:31,753 --> 00:35:33,383
But without thinking,

636
00:35:33,407 --> 00:35:36,168
I took my bottle
and conjured oils

637
00:35:36,192 --> 00:35:37,628
to prepare her.

638
00:35:39,369 --> 00:35:40,912
Oils of enchantment

639
00:35:40,936 --> 00:35:44,157
once used only by Sheba.

640
00:35:48,770 --> 00:35:50,878
I cautioned her
to hide the bottle

641
00:35:50,902 --> 00:35:53,775
lest its powers
fall into other hands.

642
00:35:59,215 --> 00:36:00,627
I went to Mustafa.

643
00:36:00,651 --> 00:36:02,542
[whispers] Gulten.

644
00:36:02,566 --> 00:36:03,872
I whispered her name.

645
00:36:08,529 --> 00:36:10,270
He sent for her.

646
00:36:12,663 --> 00:36:14,491
It was so easy.

647
00:36:21,672 --> 00:36:23,215
[traditional music playing]

648
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,435
As a djinn,
I am endlessly curious

649
00:36:25,459 --> 00:36:27,243
about the ways of humans.

650
00:36:28,244 --> 00:36:29,917
So, in my spare time,

651
00:36:29,941 --> 00:36:33,423
I took to wandering the palace
in search of its intrigues.

652
00:36:34,337 --> 00:36:35,836
And there, among the eunuchs,

653
00:36:35,860 --> 00:36:37,577
the consorts,
and the concubines,

654
00:36:37,601 --> 00:36:39,734
I first saw Hurrem.

655
00:36:40,691 --> 00:36:42,234
The Laughing One.

656
00:36:42,258 --> 00:36:43,322
[Hurrem laughing]

657
00:36:43,346 --> 00:36:45,783
[Hurrem speaking
Ottoman Turkish]

658
00:36:46,654 --> 00:36:48,351
[people clamoring]

659
00:36:50,788 --> 00:36:52,766
[The Djinn]
She, too, was a slave

660
00:36:52,790 --> 00:36:55,508
who had risen
through the center of them all

661
00:36:55,532 --> 00:36:57,795
to become the Sultan's favorite.

662
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,409
[crowd gasping in awe]

663
00:37:06,413 --> 00:37:10,001
Suleiman the Wise
saw none but her.

664
00:37:10,025 --> 00:37:12,699
And she sought
to protect his throne

665
00:37:12,723 --> 00:37:16,858
in favor of her own sons
over his beloved Mustafa.

666
00:37:19,730 --> 00:37:21,926
And to this end,
she had the prince watched

667
00:37:21,950 --> 00:37:23,734
by many probing eyes.

668
00:37:28,522 --> 00:37:30,611
[laughing]

669
00:37:33,831 --> 00:37:35,374
When I saw how Hurrem

670
00:37:35,398 --> 00:37:39,378
made a masterpiece
of her manipulations,

671
00:37:39,402 --> 00:37:43,276
I worried that my Gulten
might be caught in this web.

672
00:37:49,282 --> 00:37:51,390
I tried to warn her
to be careful.

673
00:37:51,414 --> 00:37:53,305
[both speaking Ottoman Turkish]

674
00:37:53,329 --> 00:37:56,700
But she had already
decided on her second wish.

675
00:37:56,724 --> 00:37:58,639
[in Ottoman Turkish]

676
00:38:09,476 --> 00:38:11,565
[in English] Such a mistake.

677
00:38:12,566 --> 00:38:14,674
Because at this moment,

678
00:38:14,698 --> 00:38:16,937
Suleiman, blessed be his name,

679
00:38:16,961 --> 00:38:18,702
is being undermined.

680
00:38:19,921 --> 00:38:22,595
His warriors believe
he is going soft,

681
00:38:22,619 --> 00:38:25,337
more interested in his poetry

682
00:38:25,361 --> 00:38:27,774
than ruling with a strong hand.

683
00:38:27,798 --> 00:38:30,410
[arguing indistinctly]

684
00:38:34,979 --> 00:38:37,025
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

685
00:38:43,118 --> 00:38:45,052
[The Djinn] Hurrem
fuels the rumors

686
00:38:45,076 --> 00:38:47,054
that the military
want to take his throne

687
00:38:47,078 --> 00:38:49,516
and replace him with Mustafa.

688
00:38:50,778 --> 00:38:52,408
The prince has become a pawn

689
00:38:52,432 --> 00:38:55,411
in the ceaseless game of power.

690
00:38:55,435 --> 00:38:57,654
[arguing continues indistinctly]

691
00:39:07,664 --> 00:39:09,729
Suleiman the Magnificent,

692
00:39:09,753 --> 00:39:11,470
Suleiman the Conqueror,

693
00:39:11,494 --> 00:39:14,343
patron and protector of empires,

694
00:39:14,367 --> 00:39:15,866
Suleiman the Father,

695
00:39:15,890 --> 00:39:17,389
was left with a choice

696
00:39:17,413 --> 00:39:20,460
that he knows
will break his heart.

697
00:39:27,510 --> 00:39:30,446
Gulten, meantime, saw no reason

698
00:39:30,470 --> 00:39:32,883
why she should remain unseen.

699
00:39:32,907 --> 00:39:34,778
[Gulten laughing loudly]

700
00:39:36,563 --> 00:39:40,567
Given she was carrying the son
of the next Sultan.

701
00:39:46,573 --> 00:39:48,681
Despite all my warnings,

702
00:39:48,705 --> 00:39:52,729
she parades her newly swollen
breasts and belly.

703
00:39:52,753 --> 00:39:56,428
And the whispers soon spread
throughout the seraglio.

704
00:39:56,452 --> 00:39:58,933
[tense music playing]

705
00:40:02,589 --> 00:40:05,940
The terrible plottings
move all too quickly.

706
00:40:11,075 --> 00:40:12,120
[tense music stops]

707
00:40:32,009 --> 00:40:34,466
Prince Mustafa comes innocently

708
00:40:34,490 --> 00:40:36,686
into the presence of his father,

709
00:40:36,710 --> 00:40:39,471
to reassure him of his loyalty.

710
00:40:39,495 --> 00:40:41,062
[Mustafa speaking
Ottoman Turkish]

711
00:40:48,548 --> 00:40:50,439
[grunting]

712
00:40:50,463 --> 00:40:52,703
[The Djinn in English] And
the mutes are waiting for him.

713
00:40:56,686 --> 00:40:58,621
He cried out to his Janissaries,

714
00:40:58,645 --> 00:41:00,231
who loved him,

715
00:41:00,255 --> 00:41:02,973
but his voice was crushed
and his breath stopped

716
00:41:02,997 --> 00:41:05,695
by the string
of his father's bow.

717
00:41:11,875 --> 00:41:14,965
[muffled humming of tune]

718
00:41:20,971 --> 00:41:23,496
[continues humming tune]

719
00:41:26,020 --> 00:41:27,891
- [door opens]
- [The Djinn] Gulten!

720
00:41:28,805 --> 00:41:30,590
[in Ottoman Turkish]

721
00:41:39,250 --> 00:41:40,991
[gasps]

722
00:41:56,833 --> 00:41:58,226
[whimpering]

723
00:42:01,011 --> 00:42:02,554
[The Djinn in English]
"Make a wish!"

724
00:42:02,578 --> 00:42:04,754
"Save yourself, Gulten!"

725
00:42:05,799 --> 00:42:07,540
[panting]

726
00:42:09,150 --> 00:42:11,868
Just a few words
and she could have been free

727
00:42:11,892 --> 00:42:15,567
to bear her child in safety,

728
00:42:15,591 --> 00:42:19,136
and I to spirit away at last
to the Realm of Djinn.

729
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,530
But she ran into the hands
of the assassins.

730
00:42:21,554 --> 00:42:23,227
- [Gulten screams]
- [The Djinn calls out]

731
00:42:23,251 --> 00:42:25,577
I was about
to take them by force,

732
00:42:25,601 --> 00:42:27,971
when I was blocked
by a follower of Iblis.

733
00:42:27,995 --> 00:42:30,867
- [breathing shakily]
- [high-pitched pinging]

734
00:42:36,743 --> 00:42:39,136
[in ancient language]

735
00:42:56,153 --> 00:42:58,112
[gasping]

736
00:43:01,637 --> 00:43:03,833
[creatures screeching]

737
00:43:03,857 --> 00:43:06,337
[grunting and whimpering]

738
00:43:08,122 --> 00:43:10,230
- [screeching stops]
- [gasping]

739
00:43:10,254 --> 00:43:11,342
Gulten!

740
00:43:27,663 --> 00:43:30,623
[in English] She made
no wish to save herself.

741
00:43:31,972 --> 00:43:34,801
No wish was made
to save us both.

742
00:43:38,761 --> 00:43:39,893
[sighs softly]

743
00:43:42,156 --> 00:43:44,177
So, there I was,

744
00:43:44,201 --> 00:43:46,266
or there I was not,
might you say,

745
00:43:46,290 --> 00:43:49,356
almost emancipated
and tethered to this world

746
00:43:49,380 --> 00:43:51,924
by a third wish unperformed.

747
00:43:51,948 --> 00:43:53,578
But you realize, don't you,

748
00:43:53,602 --> 00:43:56,407
that you've just told me the
story of a woman who was doomed

749
00:43:56,431 --> 00:43:58,670
as a consequence
of the wishes she made?

750
00:43:58,694 --> 00:44:01,325
Yes, but her failure
to complete the wishes

751
00:44:01,349 --> 00:44:03,632
also doomed me.

752
00:44:03,656 --> 00:44:05,764
Could nobody else
complete the wish?

753
00:44:05,788 --> 00:44:07,331
That was my hope.

754
00:44:07,355 --> 00:44:09,202
And that would
finally liberate you?

755
00:44:09,226 --> 00:44:11,857
That was my only hope.

756
00:44:11,881 --> 00:44:14,033
But you were rendered invisible.

757
00:44:14,057 --> 00:44:15,121
Like a ghost.

758
00:44:15,145 --> 00:44:16,949
Wandering unseen.

759
00:44:16,973 --> 00:44:18,211
And your bottle,

760
00:44:18,235 --> 00:44:20,170
hidden under the loosened stone

761
00:44:20,194 --> 00:44:21,737
known only to the dead Gulten.

762
00:44:21,761 --> 00:44:23,652
[The Djinn] Yes,
it was a predicament.

763
00:44:23,676 --> 00:44:25,218
[muffled clanging]

764
00:44:25,242 --> 00:44:27,699
I tried to attract
the attention of someone,

765
00:44:27,723 --> 00:44:29,333
anyone that could help me.

766
00:44:30,726 --> 00:44:32,356
My stars, how I tried.

767
00:44:32,380 --> 00:44:34,924
I followed their scent,
their every step.

768
00:44:34,948 --> 00:44:37,143
Willing, pleading, screaming.

769
00:44:37,167 --> 00:44:39,015
Anything to draw them to me.

770
00:44:39,039 --> 00:44:42,129
[muffled upbeat
drum music playing]

771
00:44:53,053 --> 00:44:56,186
- [drum music continues]
- [dancers' ornaments rattling]

772
00:45:06,980 --> 00:45:08,131
[drum music stops]

773
00:45:08,155 --> 00:45:11,830
And I do this piteously
for 100 years,

774
00:45:11,854 --> 00:45:15,094
and with every failure,
my will begins to fade.

775
00:45:15,118 --> 00:45:17,817
[children laughing in distance]

776
00:45:21,734 --> 00:45:23,842
And then in 1620,

777
00:45:23,866 --> 00:45:27,478
hope comes in the form
of a boy with a sword.

778
00:45:28,958 --> 00:45:30,264
[boys laughing]

779
00:45:34,355 --> 00:45:36,487
[boy laughing] Murad! Murad!

780
00:45:40,535 --> 00:45:43,190
[muffled drum beating]

781
00:45:50,414 --> 00:45:52,068
Murad! [Echoing]

782
00:46:00,424 --> 00:46:03,273
[The Djinn] By some means,
this boy senses me.

783
00:46:03,297 --> 00:46:06,189
I'm able to draw him
to the stone.

784
00:46:06,213 --> 00:46:08,781
[muffled drum music playing]

785
00:46:13,263 --> 00:46:15,309
[flies buzzing]

786
00:46:21,228 --> 00:46:22,795
[drum music subsides]

787
00:46:24,274 --> 00:46:26,363
[hollow clanging]

788
00:46:37,853 --> 00:46:39,812
[grunting]

789
00:46:43,032 --> 00:46:45,121
[drumbeat continues]

790
00:46:55,305 --> 00:46:56,350
Ibrahim!

791
00:46:57,003 --> 00:46:58,265
Gel.

792
00:47:00,310 --> 00:47:01,355
[woman] Murad!

793
00:47:02,878 --> 00:47:04,508
Ibrahim!

794
00:47:04,532 --> 00:47:06,118
[The Djinn] And just as
I am about to be delivered

795
00:47:06,142 --> 00:47:07,424
into their hands,

796
00:47:07,448 --> 00:47:08,904
their mother finds them.

797
00:47:08,928 --> 00:47:11,297
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

798
00:47:11,321 --> 00:47:12,951
[The Djinn] She is Kosem,

799
00:47:12,975 --> 00:47:15,171
a widow of the Sultan,
Ahmed the First.

800
00:47:15,195 --> 00:47:17,521
And the boys are next in line
for the throne.

801
00:47:17,545 --> 00:47:20,393
[continues speaking
Ottoman Turkish]

802
00:47:20,417 --> 00:47:22,831
[The Djinn] When I see
the hair on his legs,

803
00:47:22,855 --> 00:47:25,572
I know that somewhere
in Murad's bloodline

804
00:47:25,596 --> 00:47:27,555
pulses the power of a djinn.

805
00:47:28,512 --> 00:47:30,273
I follow him everywhere,

806
00:47:30,297 --> 00:47:32,841
determined to draw him back
to the stone.

807
00:47:32,865 --> 00:47:35,887
But at the age of 11,
he ascends the throne

808
00:47:35,911 --> 00:47:37,976
and becomes
Sultan Murad the Fourth.

809
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,979
And caught up
by the usual intrigues,

810
00:47:41,003 --> 00:47:44,287
he is even more lost to me.

811
00:47:44,311 --> 00:47:47,246
At 20, he leads
his armies to war.

812
00:47:47,270 --> 00:47:48,987
He battles alongside his men

813
00:47:49,011 --> 00:47:51,361
in the Caucasus and Mesopotamia.

814
00:47:52,536 --> 00:47:54,950
Stories are told
of his recklessness,

815
00:47:54,974 --> 00:47:57,169
even with his own life.

816
00:47:57,193 --> 00:47:59,369
[battle music playing]

817
00:48:02,068 --> 00:48:03,349
[music stops]

818
00:48:03,373 --> 00:48:06,246
I despair of
ever seeing him again.

819
00:48:07,638 --> 00:48:12,165
Hope is a monster, Alithea,
and I am its plaything.

820
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:13,969
So he died?

821
00:48:13,993 --> 00:48:15,342
Not in battle.

822
00:48:15,951 --> 00:48:17,189
Back in Istanbul,

823
00:48:17,213 --> 00:48:19,322
Kosem needs
to protect the throne.

824
00:48:19,346 --> 00:48:21,150
She needs to protect Ibrahim.

825
00:48:21,174 --> 00:48:23,021
- [Alithea] The little brother?
- [The Djinn] Yes.

826
00:48:23,045 --> 00:48:25,439
[Ibrahim breathing heavily]

827
00:48:26,570 --> 00:48:28,964
He is last of the Ottoman line.

828
00:48:29,965 --> 00:48:32,272
He has to produce male children.

829
00:48:34,927 --> 00:48:39,453
So, Kosem locks him in a cage
lined entirely with sable.

830
00:48:46,982 --> 00:48:48,568
[Alithea] Quite the prison.

831
00:48:48,592 --> 00:48:51,073
[The Djinn] And one
he will never want to leave.

832
00:48:53,423 --> 00:48:55,121
[Ibrahim sniffs]

833
00:49:06,523 --> 00:49:08,937
It debauches him royally.

834
00:49:08,961 --> 00:49:11,591
He believes the greater
the expanse of flesh,

835
00:49:11,615 --> 00:49:13,289
the more intense the pleasure.

836
00:49:13,313 --> 00:49:17,249
So, Kosem seeks out beauties
voluptuous and immense,

837
00:49:17,273 --> 00:49:20,470
and brings them to his couch.

838
00:49:20,494 --> 00:49:24,474
My fate turns specifically
on this fetish.

839
00:49:24,498 --> 00:49:25,760
How's that?

840
00:49:26,630 --> 00:49:28,043
You'll see.

841
00:49:28,067 --> 00:49:30,460
[battle music playing]

842
00:49:46,650 --> 00:49:48,304
[music stops]

843
00:49:50,002 --> 00:49:51,568
[men yell in unison]

844
00:49:53,135 --> 00:49:55,007
[clamoring]

845
00:49:58,488 --> 00:50:00,292
Murad is back.

846
00:50:00,316 --> 00:50:02,164
And though
he returns a conqueror,

847
00:50:02,188 --> 00:50:04,799
he cannot shed
his robes of blood.

848
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,474
War had truly rotted his soul.

849
00:50:08,498 --> 00:50:10,457
[Murad breathing shakily]

850
00:50:19,205 --> 00:50:20,815
[hooves clopping]

851
00:50:28,388 --> 00:50:30,235
I wait until he is alone.

852
00:50:30,259 --> 00:50:33,412
I am determined to draw him
back to the stone.

853
00:50:33,436 --> 00:50:36,589
I don't want to interrupt,
but I do have a question.

854
00:50:36,613 --> 00:50:38,635
Did it matter to you
what kind of wish

855
00:50:38,659 --> 00:50:40,226
such a man might make?

856
00:50:40,661 --> 00:50:42,508
One so insatiable.

857
00:50:42,532 --> 00:50:44,336
No.

858
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,295
Not even if
it were profoundly evil?

859
00:50:46,319 --> 00:50:47,818
Not if it meant my freedom.

860
00:50:47,842 --> 00:50:51,715
The truth is he has
other things on his mind.

861
00:50:53,369 --> 00:50:55,652
He believes he is invincible,

862
00:50:55,676 --> 00:51:00,072
and to rule indefinitely,
he must be rid of all rivals.

863
00:51:05,425 --> 00:51:08,428
[in Ottoman Turkish]

864
00:51:13,128 --> 00:51:14,216
Ibrahim.

865
00:51:17,524 --> 00:51:18,742
Ibrahim.

866
00:51:37,761 --> 00:51:39,807
[breathing heavily]

867
00:51:50,122 --> 00:51:51,688
[squelching]

868
00:52:05,702 --> 00:52:07,139
[sighs in relief]

869
00:52:20,630 --> 00:52:22,913
[The Djinn in English]
Kosem needs to stop him.

870
00:52:22,937 --> 00:52:25,176
Somehow, she needed
to distract him

871
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,855
from his bloodlust
with other gratifications.

872
00:52:31,206 --> 00:52:32,923
[glass smashes]

873
00:52:32,947 --> 00:52:36,211
First, she arranges for him
to be perpetually drunk.

874
00:52:38,300 --> 00:52:40,191
And then she tries
something very shrewd.

875
00:52:40,215 --> 00:52:41,671
Something that you might enjoy.

876
00:52:41,695 --> 00:52:44,350
[mimicking sword fight sounds]

877
00:52:47,831 --> 00:52:49,287
She sends to find,

878
00:52:49,311 --> 00:52:51,661
from all corners of the empire,

879
00:52:52,488 --> 00:52:54,664
the best storytellers.

880
00:52:55,883 --> 00:52:58,818
- [mimics bottle cap's pop]
- [men laughing]

881
00:52:58,842 --> 00:53:00,540
[groans]

882
00:53:01,802 --> 00:53:03,369
[men laughing]

883
00:53:06,763 --> 00:53:09,940
[object grating]

884
00:53:11,986 --> 00:53:13,205
[clinks]

885
00:53:13,857 --> 00:53:15,966
Those who are not persuasive

886
00:53:15,990 --> 00:53:19,341
flee in fear
or fall to his impatience.

887
00:53:19,950 --> 00:53:21,648
[drums beating softly]

888
00:53:29,569 --> 00:53:31,329
There is only one

889
00:53:31,353 --> 00:53:33,462
who has the ability
to enchant him.

890
00:53:33,486 --> 00:53:35,246
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

891
00:53:35,270 --> 00:53:37,596
[The Djinn]
To soothe with stories,

892
00:53:37,620 --> 00:53:40,536
to hold him hostage
to their unfolding.

893
00:53:43,931 --> 00:53:46,518
[laughing]

894
00:53:46,542 --> 00:53:48,979
[muffled laughing]

895
00:53:53,636 --> 00:53:55,701
[speaking indistinctly
from other room]

896
00:53:55,725 --> 00:53:58,598
[both laughing]

897
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:02,012
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

898
00:54:02,036 --> 00:54:04,038
[The Djinn]
This is his only friend.

899
00:54:06,562 --> 00:54:09,609
And that friendship
turns to love.

900
00:54:11,567 --> 00:54:13,676
Since there is nothing else
for me to do,

901
00:54:13,700 --> 00:54:15,199
I listen gratefully,

902
00:54:15,223 --> 00:54:18,400
for I, too, love being lost
in his stories.

903
00:54:23,710 --> 00:54:25,644
When the old man dies,

904
00:54:25,668 --> 00:54:27,994
all in the palace
flee to the streets,

905
00:54:28,018 --> 00:54:32,042
for they fear Murad's grief
will incur fresh murder.

906
00:54:32,066 --> 00:54:34,895
[Murad crying softly]

907
00:54:36,592 --> 00:54:41,510
But he just sits, and howls,
and drinks until he is empty.

908
00:55:07,797 --> 00:55:10,452
And my patience is rewarded.

909
00:55:11,584 --> 00:55:12,996
For in this state,

910
00:55:13,020 --> 00:55:15,346
I am finally able
to get his attention

911
00:55:15,370 --> 00:55:18,306
and draw him
back to the secret bathroom.

912
00:55:18,330 --> 00:55:19,872
[Alithea] Oh, I know
where this is going.

913
00:55:19,896 --> 00:55:22,484
He's going to be too weak
to lift the stone.

914
00:55:22,508 --> 00:55:25,095
Too weak even to turn the latch.

915
00:55:25,119 --> 00:55:26,338
[latch clanks]

916
00:55:27,730 --> 00:55:31,038
So, he leaves and drinks
himself to permanent sleep.

917
00:55:31,647 --> 00:55:32,929
Oh!

918
00:55:32,953 --> 00:55:34,713
And there I am,

919
00:55:34,737 --> 00:55:37,063
left to my own oblivion,

920
00:55:37,087 --> 00:55:39,588
with no one to hear my voice,

921
00:55:39,612 --> 00:55:42,939
no one to know me,
nor feel me, nor sense me.

922
00:55:42,963 --> 00:55:45,357
You can't imagine.

923
00:55:48,403 --> 00:55:50,362
Well, actually, I can.

924
00:55:51,363 --> 00:55:53,756
Can you imagine the loneliness?

925
00:55:54,583 --> 00:55:56,629
How it might overwhelm?

926
00:55:56,846 --> 00:55:58,824
I can.

927
00:55:58,848 --> 00:56:01,479
We exist only
if we are real to others.

928
00:56:01,503 --> 00:56:02,654
Do you agree?

929
00:56:02,678 --> 00:56:03,916
I do.

930
00:56:03,940 --> 00:56:06,571
This, then,
is our fate, Alithea.

931
00:56:06,595 --> 00:56:09,705
If you make no wish at all,

932
00:56:09,729 --> 00:56:11,446
I will be caught between worlds,

933
00:56:11,470 --> 00:56:14,560
invisible and alone,
for all of time.

934
00:56:16,866 --> 00:56:18,433
[whispering]
Make a wish, Alithea.

935
00:56:19,478 --> 00:56:21,393
Make it your heart's desire.

936
00:56:29,183 --> 00:56:33,163
I'd be more careful
if I were you.

937
00:56:33,187 --> 00:56:35,426
Obviously, you managed
to find your way out.

938
00:56:35,450 --> 00:56:36,688
More or less.

939
00:56:36,712 --> 00:56:38,037
I'm beginning to think
I'm in the presence

940
00:56:38,061 --> 00:56:39,149
of a trickster.

941
00:56:41,064 --> 00:56:43,695
That would be so much better.

942
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:45,567
My work would be so much easier.

943
00:56:45,591 --> 00:56:48,439
But the truth is,
I am just an idiot

944
00:56:48,463 --> 00:56:51,050
who has been
extravagantly unlucky.

945
00:56:51,074 --> 00:56:53,966
Well, I have to take
your word for that.

946
00:56:53,990 --> 00:56:55,601
[The Djinn sighs]

947
00:57:03,739 --> 00:57:04,739
So?

948
00:57:07,700 --> 00:57:11,070
Ibrahim, I suppose,
becomes Sultan?

949
00:57:11,094 --> 00:57:15,640
[The Djinn] Ibrahim has
to be dragged to the throne.

950
00:57:15,664 --> 00:57:16,970
[in Ottoman Turkish]

951
00:57:22,976 --> 00:57:25,457
[somber music playing]

952
00:57:32,725 --> 00:57:34,746
[The Djinn in English] He
appoints one of his concubines

953
00:57:34,770 --> 00:57:36,487
Governor of Damascus.

954
00:57:36,511 --> 00:57:39,011
Her name is Sugar Lump.

955
00:57:39,035 --> 00:57:41,168
By every measure, his favorite.

956
00:57:43,126 --> 00:57:45,017
Had she not been free to roam,

957
00:57:45,041 --> 00:57:47,933
she would not have found
the secret bathroom.

958
00:57:47,957 --> 00:57:50,153
Had she not decided
to take a bath,

959
00:57:50,177 --> 00:57:52,634
it would not have overfilled.

960
00:57:52,658 --> 00:57:53,939
Had she not been clumsy

961
00:57:53,963 --> 00:57:55,550
as she walked across the floor,

962
00:57:55,574 --> 00:57:57,837
she would not have slipped,
smashed the stone,

963
00:57:58,838 --> 00:58:01,188
- and found my bottle.
- Ah, yeah.

964
00:58:03,625 --> 00:58:06,019
[groans]

965
00:58:08,761 --> 00:58:10,850
[whooshing eerily]

966
00:58:15,550 --> 00:58:18,703
[The Djinn breathing heavily]

967
00:58:18,727 --> 00:58:21,967
To be honest, I should
have been more dignified.

968
00:58:21,991 --> 00:58:24,709
But I began to beg, shamelessly.

969
00:58:24,733 --> 00:58:27,214
[in Ottoman Turkish]

970
00:58:45,754 --> 00:58:48,670
[yelling in Ottoman Turkish]

971
00:58:51,586 --> 00:58:53,042
[The Djinn in English]
"I wish you were back"

972
00:58:53,066 --> 00:58:56,069
"in your bottle at the bottom
of the Bosphorus."

973
00:58:59,028 --> 00:59:00,310
So here I am,

974
00:59:00,334 --> 00:59:02,902
fallen into your careful hands.

975
00:59:05,295 --> 00:59:07,230
Seems we cannot
escape each other.

976
00:59:07,254 --> 00:59:09,561
You have me at your mercy.

977
00:59:13,565 --> 00:59:14,914
[Alithea sighs]

978
00:59:15,958 --> 00:59:17,090
[Alithea] This wishing...

979
00:59:18,918 --> 00:59:21,026
It's a hazardous art.

980
00:59:21,050 --> 00:59:23,855
"I wish" brings
infinite unravelings.

981
00:59:23,879 --> 00:59:24,987
Not necessarily.

982
00:59:25,011 --> 00:59:26,031
Well, it's there
in all your own stories.

983
00:59:26,055 --> 00:59:27,119
I know, but...

984
00:59:27,143 --> 00:59:28,730
You say you're not a trickster,

985
00:59:28,754 --> 00:59:32,124
and you say that you and I
are the authors of this story.

986
00:59:32,148 --> 00:59:35,171
But I'm not able
to write myself out of it.

987
00:59:35,195 --> 00:59:36,433
Correct.

988
00:59:36,457 --> 00:59:40,176
Why don't you just hop back
into your bottle

989
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:41,917
and I'll give it
to someone more gullible?

990
00:59:41,941 --> 00:59:44,876
Someone more desperate.
Someone more greedy.

991
00:59:44,900 --> 00:59:46,051
I'm not getting back
in the bottle.

992
00:59:46,075 --> 00:59:47,139
Why not?

993
00:59:47,163 --> 00:59:48,967
I'm not getting back
in the bottle.

994
00:59:48,991 --> 00:59:50,969
Well, I am not
making three wishes.

995
00:59:50,993 --> 00:59:53,145
Then you are sending me
to my oblivion.

996
00:59:53,169 --> 00:59:54,625
Oh, you're impossible.

997
00:59:54,649 --> 00:59:56,627
And you are giving me
a headache.

998
00:59:56,651 --> 00:59:58,324
All right. All right.

999
00:59:58,348 --> 01:00:00,892
Here's what I'll do.
I will make three wishes.

1000
01:00:00,916 --> 01:00:02,024
- I will.
- Before you die?

1001
01:00:02,048 --> 01:00:03,808
Right now.
One after the other.

1002
01:00:03,832 --> 01:00:05,027
- Ready?
- Mmm-hmm.

1003
01:00:05,051 --> 01:00:07,749
Number one. I wish
your headache were gone.

1004
01:00:10,752 --> 01:00:12,338
Number two.

1005
01:00:12,362 --> 01:00:14,321
I wish for a sip of this tea.

1006
01:00:16,758 --> 01:00:19,781
And finally, I wish
for another one of those.

1007
01:00:19,805 --> 01:00:21,130
You mock me.

1008
01:00:21,154 --> 01:00:22,827
Three wishes, perfectly simple,

1009
01:00:22,851 --> 01:00:23,959
and theoretically safe.

1010
01:00:23,983 --> 01:00:26,048
I was imprisoned
by Solomon precisely

1011
01:00:26,072 --> 01:00:28,703
because I cried out
my heart's desire.

1012
01:00:28,727 --> 01:00:31,619
Only by granting you yours
may I earn my release.

1013
01:00:31,643 --> 01:00:33,055
Yes, well,
I appreciate the symmetry,

1014
01:00:33,079 --> 01:00:34,622
but the thing is this,

1015
01:00:34,646 --> 01:00:37,407
I cannot for the life of me
summon up one eligible wish.

1016
01:00:37,431 --> 01:00:38,887
And you're asking me for three.

1017
01:00:38,911 --> 01:00:41,150
Is there any life in you?
Are you even alive?

1018
01:00:41,174 --> 01:00:42,978
You know, in some cultures,

1019
01:00:43,002 --> 01:00:44,719
absence of desire
means enlightenment.

1020
01:00:44,743 --> 01:00:46,938
Then you are a pious fool.

1021
01:00:46,962 --> 01:00:49,201
If I'm content, why tempt fate?

1022
01:00:49,225 --> 01:00:50,638
And you're a coward.

1023
01:00:50,662 --> 01:00:51,987
Don't goad me.

1024
01:00:52,011 --> 01:00:53,945
There is no human,
no angel, nor djinn

1025
01:00:53,969 --> 01:00:55,207
that wouldn't grasp
at the chance

1026
01:00:55,231 --> 01:00:56,861
to fulfill
their deepest longings,

1027
01:00:56,885 --> 01:00:58,341
and I am saddled with the one

1028
01:00:58,365 --> 01:00:59,864
who claims to want
nothing at all.

1029
01:00:59,888 --> 01:01:01,387
Alithea Binnie, you are a liar!

1030
01:01:01,411 --> 01:01:04,695
You know, I am beginning
to wish we never met.

1031
01:01:04,719 --> 01:01:06,001
No! Nyet!

1032
01:01:06,025 --> 01:01:07,176
Don't say that!

1033
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:09,134
[heavy static buzzing]

1034
01:01:09,158 --> 01:01:11,857
[The Djinn panting]

1035
01:01:15,251 --> 01:01:17,863
- [static subsides]
- [Alithea breathing heavily]

1036
01:01:22,345 --> 01:01:23,409
[sniffling]

1037
01:01:23,433 --> 01:01:25,784
[glass shards clattering]

1038
01:01:33,008 --> 01:01:34,836
[The Djinn sighs]

1039
01:01:38,274 --> 01:01:39,362
So...

1040
01:01:40,886 --> 01:01:43,018
that's happened to you before.

1041
01:01:44,367 --> 01:01:46,215
And it was bad.

1042
01:01:46,239 --> 01:01:48,197
[clicks tongue] 'Twas bad.

1043
01:01:49,416 --> 01:01:51,437
'Twas bitter.

1044
01:01:51,461 --> 01:01:53,812
'Twas the cruelest wish of all.

1045
01:01:55,814 --> 01:01:58,706
[Alithea] You were undone
by silliness yet again.

1046
01:01:58,730 --> 01:02:00,142
[The Djinn sighs]

1047
01:02:00,166 --> 01:02:02,429
I'm here because of a genius.

1048
01:02:03,169 --> 01:02:04,823
Who was it this time?

1049
01:02:05,998 --> 01:02:07,434
She was Zefir.

1050
01:02:09,523 --> 01:02:13,396
Rarely among humankind
has there been such a wonder.

1051
01:02:14,484 --> 01:02:17,270
But you're here
because of her folly.

1052
01:02:18,184 --> 01:02:20,336
[tuts and sighs]

1053
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:24,146
I ended up in this
as a consequence of Zefir.

1054
01:02:26,409 --> 01:02:27,778
And this is the story

1055
01:02:27,802 --> 01:02:31,042
you've been avoiding
telling me all along.

1056
01:02:31,066 --> 01:02:34,766
This is the story I've avoided
telling even myself.

1057
01:02:42,904 --> 01:02:46,536
[hooves clopping]

1058
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:48,930
Zefir was a foundling,

1059
01:02:48,954 --> 01:02:51,521
married at 12
to a wealthy merchant.

1060
01:02:53,132 --> 01:02:55,327
He was much older than her,
and kind,

1061
01:02:55,351 --> 01:03:00,811
if you think keeping someone
like a bird in a cage is kind.

1062
01:03:00,835 --> 01:03:03,466
There were two older wives,
who did not like her

1063
01:03:03,490 --> 01:03:05,361
and did not talk to her at all.

1064
01:03:19,375 --> 01:03:21,987
[Zefir panting
and crying softly]

1065
01:03:23,249 --> 01:03:25,140
Everyone,
including the servants,

1066
01:03:25,164 --> 01:03:26,818
seemed to be mocking her.

1067
01:03:32,301 --> 01:03:33,520
[grunts]

1068
01:03:40,005 --> 01:03:43,071
She had neither
etiquette nor learning.

1069
01:03:43,095 --> 01:03:44,986
She grew to no great beauty

1070
01:03:45,010 --> 01:03:47,969
and was angry
without knowing why.

1071
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:50,624
[panting]

1072
01:03:56,891 --> 01:03:58,303
[clangs]

1073
01:03:58,327 --> 01:04:00,460
[high-pitched pinging]

1074
01:04:02,331 --> 01:04:05,180
As the fates would have it,
my bottle came to her

1075
01:04:05,204 --> 01:04:08,555
as a love token
from her husband.

1076
01:04:13,603 --> 01:04:16,626
And when she had finished
satisfying him

1077
01:04:16,650 --> 01:04:18,106
and was finally alone,

1078
01:04:18,130 --> 01:04:20,219
she managed to prise it open.

1079
01:04:51,424 --> 01:04:54,055
It was as if
she was waiting for me.

1080
01:04:54,079 --> 01:04:57,188
I saw at once
that she was sharp,

1081
01:04:57,212 --> 01:05:01,062
and she saw that I was desperate

1082
01:05:01,086 --> 01:05:03,281
for freedom and conversation.

1083
01:05:03,305 --> 01:05:06,023
I told her my story,
as I have told you,

1084
01:05:06,047 --> 01:05:10,288
and she revealed herself to me
by the things she had made.

1085
01:05:10,312 --> 01:05:12,271
Gel. Gel.

1086
01:05:21,062 --> 01:05:22,629
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

1087
01:05:40,255 --> 01:05:42,016
[speaks Ottoman Turkish]

1088
01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:43,128
[chuckles]

1089
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:46,479
[continues speaking
Ottoman Turkish]

1090
01:05:47,523 --> 01:05:48,655
Gel.

1091
01:05:52,224 --> 01:05:54,008
[whispers indistinctly]

1092
01:05:59,622 --> 01:06:01,339
[The Djinn in English]
She could have been remembered

1093
01:06:01,363 --> 01:06:03,254
like the genius da Vinci,

1094
01:06:03,278 --> 01:06:04,647
whose theories on flight

1095
01:06:04,671 --> 01:06:07,239
were the talk
of sultans and kings.

1096
01:06:09,110 --> 01:06:12,418
She was a skilled artist,
but no one saw her art.

1097
01:06:13,201 --> 01:06:14,657
[Zefir breathing heavily]

1098
01:06:14,681 --> 01:06:18,574
[Zefir speaking Ottoman Turkish]

1099
01:06:18,598 --> 01:06:21,272
[The Djinn] She told me
she was eaten up

1100
01:06:21,296 --> 01:06:23,492
with unused power.

1101
01:06:23,516 --> 01:06:25,300
She thought
she might be a witch.

1102
01:06:26,432 --> 01:06:28,279
Except, she said,
if she were a man,

1103
01:06:28,303 --> 01:06:32,109
her intellect would have been
ordinarily accepted.

1104
01:06:32,133 --> 01:06:34,459
She was a woman
ardent for learning,

1105
01:06:34,483 --> 01:06:37,723
and I knew
what her first wish would be.

1106
01:06:37,747 --> 01:06:39,184
[pants]

1107
01:06:40,011 --> 01:06:41,273
[in Ottoman Turkish]

1108
01:06:52,197 --> 01:06:53,807
[breathing heavily]

1109
01:06:55,330 --> 01:06:56,742
[The Djinn in English]
And it delighted me

1110
01:06:56,766 --> 01:06:58,638
to fulfill this wish.

1111
01:07:05,297 --> 01:07:06,385
[sighs]

1112
01:07:10,389 --> 01:07:12,826
[pensive music playing]

1113
01:07:27,710 --> 01:07:31,255
So, I taught her
histories, philosophies,

1114
01:07:31,279 --> 01:07:32,691
languages, poetry.

1115
01:07:32,715 --> 01:07:35,346
I taught her
astronomy, mathematic,

1116
01:07:35,370 --> 01:07:37,522
which was bliss to her.

1117
01:07:37,546 --> 01:07:40,090
I brought her
books and writings,

1118
01:07:40,114 --> 01:07:43,465
which we hid
in her collection of bottles.

1119
01:08:03,877 --> 01:08:05,855
[The Djinn] Sabah...

1120
01:08:05,879 --> 01:08:07,335
[whispers] Sabah...

1121
01:08:07,359 --> 01:08:08,727
[squelching]

1122
01:08:08,751 --> 01:08:10,275
[Zefir gasps]

1123
01:08:21,764 --> 01:08:24,202
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

1124
01:08:25,246 --> 01:08:27,268
She could always
call on Aristotle

1125
01:08:27,292 --> 01:08:29,444
from a red glass jar,

1126
01:08:29,468 --> 01:08:32,229
or Euclid from a green,

1127
01:08:32,253 --> 01:08:34,623
Pythagoras, Spinoza,

1128
01:08:34,647 --> 01:08:37,495
without needing me
to re-embody them.

1129
01:08:37,519 --> 01:08:40,653
[conversing in Ottoman Turkish]

1130
01:08:47,747 --> 01:08:50,117
We had the whole world
in her room,

1131
01:08:50,141 --> 01:08:53,144
and I lost my heart to her.

1132
01:08:55,407 --> 01:08:56,775
[gulps]

1133
01:08:56,799 --> 01:09:00,890
'Twas my bliss
to make her happy.

1134
01:09:02,631 --> 01:09:03,937
To see her flourish.

1135
01:09:05,721 --> 01:09:08,246
And she flourished in every way.

1136
01:09:08,637 --> 01:09:10,161
Totalmente.

1137
01:09:12,467 --> 01:09:15,209
[soft traditional music playing]

1138
01:09:21,259 --> 01:09:22,671
She began to rebel

1139
01:09:22,695 --> 01:09:24,760
even against
the gestures of submission

1140
01:09:24,784 --> 01:09:26,327
that her husband required,

1141
01:09:26,351 --> 01:09:29,547
for she had acquired
a mastery of love-craft,

1142
01:09:29,571 --> 01:09:31,201
out of reach of any human

1143
01:09:31,225 --> 01:09:33,401
that had not
made love to a djinn.

1144
01:09:34,707 --> 01:09:36,970
[surreal choral music playing]

1145
01:09:39,755 --> 01:09:41,844
[music distorts and fades]

1146
01:09:43,237 --> 01:09:46,371
[distorted screaming]

1147
01:09:47,937 --> 01:09:49,306
[Zefir grunting]

1148
01:09:49,330 --> 01:09:51,308
[Zefir's husband speaking
Ottoman Turkish]

1149
01:09:51,332 --> 01:09:54,398
[The Djinn] His cravings
for her became an obsession.

1150
01:09:54,422 --> 01:09:56,555
[in Ottoman Turkish]

1151
01:09:58,731 --> 01:09:59,819
[lock clicks]

1152
01:10:01,516 --> 01:10:02,822
[sighs]

1153
01:10:04,693 --> 01:10:06,323
[The Djinn in English]
And when he would come to her,

1154
01:10:06,347 --> 01:10:10,675
I would leave her room
and journey the skies.

1155
01:10:10,699 --> 01:10:14,442
I saw the mountains,
the oceans...

1156
01:10:15,400 --> 01:10:17,378
I saw the beasts of the forest,

1157
01:10:17,402 --> 01:10:19,945
where no man treads.

1158
01:10:19,969 --> 01:10:23,993
And when I would return,
she would be waiting for me.

1159
01:10:24,017 --> 01:10:27,910
I would tell her of my day,
and she would faint with joy

1160
01:10:27,934 --> 01:10:29,912
and disappointment.

1161
01:10:29,936 --> 01:10:33,524
[Alithea] Why did she not
make a wish to be free?

1162
01:10:33,548 --> 01:10:36,919
[The Djinn] There was something
more important to her.

1163
01:10:36,943 --> 01:10:39,400
She had devised a "mathematica,"

1164
01:10:39,424 --> 01:10:42,577
a language to explain the forces

1165
01:10:42,601 --> 01:10:45,710
which bring space, and time,
and matter into being.

1166
01:10:45,734 --> 01:10:47,364
She was Promethean, brave.

1167
01:10:47,388 --> 01:10:49,627
But she could not solve
this puzzle.

1168
01:10:49,651 --> 01:10:51,716
She needed a key,

1169
01:10:51,740 --> 01:10:54,743
a key to open the doors
of her perception.

1170
01:11:01,272 --> 01:11:02,490
[sobs]

1171
01:11:05,537 --> 01:11:09,430
So, she used her second wish.

1172
01:11:09,454 --> 01:11:13,022
I taught her to dream
as djinn do, awake.

1173
01:11:14,067 --> 01:11:16,852
[sentimental string
music playing]

1174
01:11:39,048 --> 01:11:41,312
[writing on paper]

1175
01:11:44,706 --> 01:11:48,599
And this way,
the solutions came to her.

1176
01:11:48,623 --> 01:11:52,342
She was able
to explain powers invisible,

1177
01:11:52,366 --> 01:11:55,563
electromagnetic fields
and forces...

1178
01:11:55,587 --> 01:11:58,696
The very stuff
of which djinn are made.

1179
01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:00,437
You're electromagnetic?

1180
01:12:00,461 --> 01:12:04,509
As you are dust,
I am made of subtle fire.

1181
01:12:05,379 --> 01:12:07,792
And when she was
to bear a child,

1182
01:12:07,816 --> 01:12:10,099
I was plagued with happiness,

1183
01:12:10,123 --> 01:12:12,362
for I knew
it would strengthen us.

1184
01:12:12,386 --> 01:12:13,909
She was carrying your child?

1185
01:12:14,736 --> 01:12:17,696
A child, of fire and dust.

1186
01:12:19,654 --> 01:12:21,632
So, where did it go wrong?

1187
01:12:21,656 --> 01:12:23,658
Alithea, I loved her.

1188
01:12:24,659 --> 01:12:26,376
I loved the fervor of her mind.

1189
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:27,508
I loved her anger.

1190
01:12:27,532 --> 01:12:28,639
I loved my power

1191
01:12:28,663 --> 01:12:31,710
to turn her frowns into smiles.

1192
01:12:33,451 --> 01:12:35,907
I loved her more than Sheba.

1193
01:12:35,931 --> 01:12:37,474
More than your own freedom?

1194
01:12:37,498 --> 01:12:38,954
Yes.

1195
01:12:38,978 --> 01:12:42,479
It became my greatest desire
to... to keep her,

1196
01:12:42,503 --> 01:12:44,612
to remain her prisoner.

1197
01:12:44,636 --> 01:12:49,356
The thought of being set free
sickened my heart.

1198
01:12:49,380 --> 01:12:51,164
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

1199
01:12:54,385 --> 01:12:58,389
I caught myself stopping her
lest she make her third wish.

1200
01:12:58,693 --> 01:13:00,129
Oh, gosh.

1201
01:13:03,785 --> 01:13:05,613
I made a mess of it.

1202
01:13:07,049 --> 01:13:10,028
She began to accuse me
of trapping her,

1203
01:13:10,052 --> 01:13:11,769
- like her husband.
- [Zefir sobbing]

1204
01:13:11,793 --> 01:13:13,815
[speaking Ottoman Turkish]

1205
01:13:13,839 --> 01:13:16,992
[The Djinn] I tried
to make amends.

1206
01:13:17,016 --> 01:13:20,672
To atone, I would
put myself in the bottle.

1207
01:13:21,586 --> 01:13:23,128
To be sealed.

1208
01:13:23,152 --> 01:13:25,590
That way, she could have
more power over me.

1209
01:13:26,547 --> 01:13:27,698
[The Djinn speaks indistinctly]

1210
01:13:27,722 --> 01:13:29,202
[Zefir continues sobbing]

1211
01:13:30,769 --> 01:13:31,833
[The Djinn whispers
indistinctly]

1212
01:13:31,857 --> 01:13:33,946
[Zefir speaking Ottoman Turkish]

1213
01:13:38,211 --> 01:13:40,929
To be nothing in a bottle.

1214
01:13:40,953 --> 01:13:42,607
I could do that for her.

1215
01:13:43,521 --> 01:13:47,109
And every time,
it would appease.

1216
01:13:47,133 --> 01:13:50,721
Every time, except for the last.

1217
01:13:50,745 --> 01:13:55,465
When, like a sudden squall,
all thunder and lightning,

1218
01:13:55,489 --> 01:13:58,468
she began to weep and wail,
and said,

1219
01:13:58,492 --> 01:14:01,558
"I wish I could forget
I ever met you."

1220
01:14:01,582 --> 01:14:03,212
[screams in Ottoman Turkish]

1221
01:14:03,236 --> 01:14:05,630
[gasping]

1222
01:14:07,066 --> 01:14:09,764
And she did, on the instant.

1223
01:14:14,856 --> 01:14:17,748
She was out. I was in.

1224
01:14:17,772 --> 01:14:19,513
She'd forgotten me.

1225
01:14:21,036 --> 01:14:24,039
Alithea, how can it be...

1226
01:14:26,085 --> 01:14:29,480
a mistake to love
someone entirely?

1227
01:14:54,853 --> 01:14:56,202
I have a wish.

1228
01:15:00,989 --> 01:15:04,210
However, I'm afraid it may be
too much to ask.

1229
01:15:08,823 --> 01:15:10,912
Is it within my power?

1230
01:15:11,565 --> 01:15:14,525
I hope so. I do hope so.

1231
01:15:17,136 --> 01:15:19,225
Is it your heart's desire?

1232
01:15:19,878 --> 01:15:21,923
Yeah, I'm certain of it.

1233
01:15:36,677 --> 01:15:37,939
See, erm,

1234
01:15:38,679 --> 01:15:40,942
I'm here to love you.

1235
01:15:43,815 --> 01:15:45,077
And, uh,

1236
01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:50,082
I wish for you
to love me in return.

1237
01:15:51,866 --> 01:15:54,739
You want us to make love-craft?

1238
01:15:55,217 --> 01:15:57,282
Yeah, that too.

1239
01:15:57,306 --> 01:15:58,457
All of it.

1240
01:15:58,481 --> 01:16:02,592
And you would
abandon yourself to this?

1241
01:16:02,616 --> 01:16:04,333
[low electrical humming]

1242
01:16:04,357 --> 01:16:06,030
Yes.

1243
01:16:06,054 --> 01:16:07,229
Yes.

1244
01:16:09,318 --> 01:16:13,298
I want our solitudes
to be together.

1245
01:16:13,322 --> 01:16:18,042
I want that love
professed in ageless tales.

1246
01:16:18,066 --> 01:16:22,569
I want that longing you felt
for the Queen of Sheba,

1247
01:16:22,593 --> 01:16:26,311
and that love you gave
to your genius, Zefir.

1248
01:16:26,335 --> 01:16:28,120
I want it.

1249
01:16:36,650 --> 01:16:39,784
[speaking Djinnbish]

1250
01:16:40,959 --> 01:16:42,308
Me?

1251
01:16:44,353 --> 01:16:45,790
You.

1252
01:16:48,096 --> 01:16:50,795
[speaking Djinnbish]

1253
01:16:52,666 --> 01:16:53,972
You?

1254
01:16:55,887 --> 01:16:57,149
Me.

1255
01:17:04,678 --> 01:17:06,027
Is it too much?

1256
01:17:07,115 --> 01:17:09,248
Is it all too much to ask?

1257
01:17:28,789 --> 01:17:29,834
[whispers] Come.

1258
01:17:43,151 --> 01:17:46,653
[Alithea] What are we to do
with longings awoken?

1259
01:17:46,677 --> 01:17:48,089
How can I persuade you

1260
01:17:48,113 --> 01:17:50,332
that I once found love
with a djinn?

1261
01:17:52,683 --> 01:17:55,381
In any case,
few would believe me.

1262
01:17:57,165 --> 01:18:00,691
Love is not something
we come to by reason.

1263
01:18:03,084 --> 01:18:05,149
It's more like a vapor,

1264
01:18:05,173 --> 01:18:07,325
a dream, perhaps,

1265
01:18:07,349 --> 01:18:09,284
to lure us into the enchantment

1266
01:18:09,308 --> 01:18:11,049
of our own stories.

1267
01:18:12,485 --> 01:18:14,332
If that's so,

1268
01:18:14,356 --> 01:18:16,402
how are we to know
if it's ever real?

1269
01:18:18,317 --> 01:18:21,992
Is it a truth,
or simply a madness?

1270
01:18:22,016 --> 01:18:24,497
[surreal folk music playing]

1271
01:18:33,462 --> 01:18:36,030
[people chattering
indistinctly from outside]

1272
01:18:45,431 --> 01:18:48,086
[takes deep breath]

1273
01:19:00,402 --> 01:19:02,448
[electric toothbrush whirring]

1274
01:19:07,409 --> 01:19:08,909
[switches off toothbrush]

1275
01:19:08,933 --> 01:19:11,302
[Alithea] I leave
for London today.

1276
01:19:11,326 --> 01:19:12,937
Will you come home with me?

1277
01:19:15,287 --> 01:19:18,072
It's not such
an easy place nowadays.

1278
01:19:19,247 --> 01:19:21,423
But it'll be better
if you're there.

1279
01:19:31,433 --> 01:19:33,522
- [metal detector beeping]
- Over here, please.

1280
01:19:35,176 --> 01:19:36,308
Hands up.

1281
01:19:39,267 --> 01:19:41,530
[body scanner whirring]

1282
01:19:44,795 --> 01:19:46,903
- Please step out.
- [body scanner beeping]

1283
01:19:46,927 --> 01:19:48,363
What is in your pockets?

1284
01:19:49,016 --> 01:19:50,104
Oh.

1285
01:19:51,105 --> 01:19:54,326
Uh, it's an empty bottle
and a top.

1286
01:19:55,327 --> 01:19:56,913
Please put it through X-ray.

1287
01:19:56,937 --> 01:19:58,045
It is very delicate,

1288
01:19:58,069 --> 01:19:59,437
and I don't want it
to get damaged.

1289
01:19:59,461 --> 01:20:01,265
It will not be damaged.
Please put through X-ray.

1290
01:20:01,289 --> 01:20:02,440
I would prefer that
it didn't go in the...

1291
01:20:02,464 --> 01:20:03,814
Passport. Boarding pass.

1292
01:20:05,119 --> 01:20:06,207
Thank you.

1293
01:20:16,609 --> 01:20:17,847
It's quite fragile.

1294
01:20:17,871 --> 01:20:19,003
[supervisor] Madam.

1295
01:20:23,268 --> 01:20:25,052
It's a saltshaker.

1296
01:20:32,625 --> 01:20:33,844
Oh.

1297
01:20:34,409 --> 01:20:36,561
No! No X-ray! Please!

1298
01:20:36,585 --> 01:20:38,849
Stop, madam, stop.

1299
01:20:49,468 --> 01:20:51,035
[speaks Turkish]

1300
01:20:55,343 --> 01:20:56,431
Madam.

1301
01:20:56,997 --> 01:20:58,085
Oh.

1302
01:21:23,110 --> 01:21:24,242
[keypad beeping]

1303
01:21:38,952 --> 01:21:40,345
In your own time.

1304
01:22:24,476 --> 01:22:26,695
[children chattering
and laughing]

1305
01:22:37,010 --> 01:22:39,099
[The Djinn]
The air is thick here.

1306
01:22:40,187 --> 01:22:44,278
Full of insistent voices
and rushing faces.

1307
01:22:44,757 --> 01:22:46,474
[Alithea] Oh?

1308
01:22:46,498 --> 01:22:49,259
Like Tiny Einstein?

1309
01:22:49,283 --> 01:22:51,435
Television, and phone towers,
and such?

1310
01:22:51,459 --> 01:22:53,176
Yes.

1311
01:22:53,200 --> 01:22:56,963
Yes. All your
ingenious devices

1312
01:22:56,987 --> 01:22:58,747
all murmuring at once.

1313
01:22:58,771 --> 01:23:00,618
Bend your head.

1314
01:23:00,642 --> 01:23:03,317
[high-pitched pinging]

1315
01:23:03,341 --> 01:23:05,449
[people clamoring
and traffic bustling]

1316
01:23:05,473 --> 01:23:07,321
- [gasps]
- [noises stop]

1317
01:23:07,345 --> 01:23:09,410
You hear all that?

1318
01:23:09,434 --> 01:23:11,107
[noises continue]

1319
01:23:11,131 --> 01:23:12,239
- [gasps]
- [noises stop]

1320
01:23:12,263 --> 01:23:15,242
I also see it and feel it.

1321
01:23:15,266 --> 01:23:18,245
I am a transmitter. [Chuckles]

1322
01:23:18,269 --> 01:23:20,010
Isn't it all too much?

1323
01:23:21,185 --> 01:23:22,466
I am a djinn.

1324
01:23:22,490 --> 01:23:23,665
I can adapt.

1325
01:23:25,580 --> 01:23:27,341
I'll soon get used to it.

1326
01:23:27,365 --> 01:23:29,212
[woman] She's back.

1327
01:23:29,236 --> 01:23:30,561
I believe she's back.

1328
01:23:30,585 --> 01:23:32,520
Is she with someone?

1329
01:23:32,544 --> 01:23:34,565
[woman] No, I think she's
talking to herself again.

1330
01:23:34,589 --> 01:23:36,306
[Alithea] Hello, Clementine.

1331
01:23:36,330 --> 01:23:38,656
Fanny. Are you well?

1332
01:23:38,680 --> 01:23:40,484
[Clementine]
Did you have any trouble?

1333
01:23:40,508 --> 01:23:42,660
Trouble? What kind of trouble?

1334
01:23:42,684 --> 01:23:44,488
With your foreign friends.

1335
01:23:44,512 --> 01:23:46,403
Because we often ask ourselves,

1336
01:23:46,427 --> 01:23:49,102
"Why would Dr. Binnie waste
her time and intelligence"

1337
01:23:49,126 --> 01:23:51,800
"studying the ways of others
instead of upholding our own?"

1338
01:23:51,824 --> 01:23:54,324
Embarrassed by
our British culture, are we?

1339
01:23:54,348 --> 01:23:55,804
No. No.

1340
01:23:55,828 --> 01:23:58,198
I am rather more likely
to be embarrassed by anybody

1341
01:23:58,222 --> 01:24:00,548
reflexly frightened
of anybody different.

1342
01:24:00,572 --> 01:24:01,679
What exactly are you saying?

1343
01:24:01,703 --> 01:24:03,464
She's calling us bigots.

1344
01:24:03,488 --> 01:24:04,508
Your word, not mine.

1345
01:24:04,532 --> 01:24:05,640
[Clementine] You misunderstand.

1346
01:24:05,664 --> 01:24:07,163
- Oh?
- It's not how they look, dear.

1347
01:24:07,187 --> 01:24:08,686
It's how they live.
What they believe.

1348
01:24:08,710 --> 01:24:10,427
- What they eat.
- What are you on about?

1349
01:24:10,451 --> 01:24:12,255
Everywhere one goes, ethnics.

1350
01:24:12,279 --> 01:24:15,258
We are being overwhelmed,
and we're inviting our doom.

1351
01:24:15,282 --> 01:24:16,607
[Fanny] It's not natural.

1352
01:24:16,631 --> 01:24:18,740
Birds belong in the air.
Fish belong in the sea.

1353
01:24:18,764 --> 01:24:21,047
And that is how the good Lord
meant us to be.

1354
01:24:21,071 --> 01:24:23,092
You're just spouting rubbish
from start to finish.

1355
01:24:23,116 --> 01:24:24,615
It's science.
It's a scientific fact.

1356
01:24:24,639 --> 01:24:25,877
- It's a false analogy.
- [voices echoing]

1357
01:24:25,901 --> 01:24:28,141
I mean, animals do have
a natural habitat.

1358
01:24:28,165 --> 01:24:30,360
It's true,
but human beings are capable

1359
01:24:30,384 --> 01:24:32,493
of living in any environment
they bloody well choose.

1360
01:24:32,517 --> 01:24:33,711
- That's not a fact.
- [airplane engine humming]

1361
01:24:33,735 --> 01:24:35,365
- What are you saying?
- It's an opinion.

1362
01:24:35,389 --> 01:24:36,584
And you're wrong.

1363
01:24:36,608 --> 01:24:38,064
I'm not putting up
with any more of this.

1364
01:24:38,088 --> 01:24:40,283
Come away, Clem.
Let the crazy lady be.

1365
01:24:40,307 --> 01:24:42,198
We're never gonna get
any sense out of her.

1366
01:24:42,222 --> 01:24:44,503
[Alithea] You know, I've never
said this to you before.

1367
01:24:45,138 --> 01:24:47,551
But you're both pitiful.

1368
01:24:47,575 --> 01:24:48,770
Shut your cake hole! [Echoing]

1369
01:24:48,794 --> 01:24:51,362
Pea-brained and pitiful.

1370
01:24:51,884 --> 01:24:54,254
You, fuck face!

1371
01:24:54,278 --> 01:24:58,282
Stop your ivy growing
on our side of the wall!

1372
01:24:59,370 --> 01:25:01,522
Why do I let them get to me?

1373
01:25:01,546 --> 01:25:03,611
I should feel sorry for them.

1374
01:25:03,635 --> 01:25:06,831
But this is my home.
It's my sanctuary.

1375
01:25:06,855 --> 01:25:08,442
[inhaler hisses]

1376
01:25:08,466 --> 01:25:10,879
[Clementine and Fanny's
voices echoing]

1377
01:25:10,903 --> 01:25:13,123
- I could wish them... [grunts]
- [static buzzes]

1378
01:25:14,167 --> 01:25:16,363
That's not a wish, by the way.

1379
01:25:16,387 --> 01:25:17,755
- I know.
- [exhales heavily]

1380
01:25:17,779 --> 01:25:20,236
[Clementine and Fanny's voices
continue echoing]

1381
01:25:20,260 --> 01:25:22,958
[people chattering indistinctly
from transmissions]

1382
01:25:26,745 --> 01:25:29,115
[Alithea breathing heavily]

1383
01:25:29,139 --> 01:25:31,184
[transmissions fading]

1384
01:25:35,493 --> 01:25:38,278
[sentimental string
music playing]

1385
01:26:29,329 --> 01:26:32,245
[sentimental string
music continues]

1386
01:27:21,425 --> 01:27:22,687
[Alithea whispers] My djinn.

1387
01:27:23,731 --> 01:27:24,926
[The Djinn] How was your day?

1388
01:27:24,950 --> 01:27:27,320
[Alithea] Every listening ear
was yours.

1389
01:27:27,344 --> 01:27:29,931
Every voice, every scent,
and touch.

1390
01:27:29,955 --> 01:27:31,696
You were everywhere.

1391
01:27:36,918 --> 01:27:38,616
Back in a minute.

1392
01:27:57,678 --> 01:27:59,787
[Fanny] Whoever could that be
at this hour?

1393
01:27:59,811 --> 01:28:00,931
[Clementine]
It could be her.

1394
01:28:04,381 --> 01:28:07,297
Clem. Fanny.

1395
01:28:09,342 --> 01:28:11,823
Chickpeas, cloves, pistachio.

1396
01:28:13,651 --> 01:28:15,348
They melt in your mouth.

1397
01:28:33,366 --> 01:28:34,846
This is my friend.

1398
01:28:35,977 --> 01:28:37,892
He'll be staying for a while.

1399
01:28:38,806 --> 01:28:39,851
Hello.

1400
01:28:42,941 --> 01:28:44,682
- Hello.
- Hello.

1401
01:28:48,947 --> 01:28:50,707
[Alithea] My Djinn told me,

1402
01:28:50,731 --> 01:28:53,667
when they come together
in the Realm of Djinn,

1403
01:28:53,691 --> 01:28:55,475
they tell each other stories.

1404
01:28:56,650 --> 01:28:58,759
Stories are like breath to them.

1405
01:28:58,783 --> 01:28:59,871
They make meaning.

1406
01:29:01,829 --> 01:29:03,067
"Yes," I said.

1407
01:29:03,091 --> 01:29:04,876
"That's just how
it is with us."

1408
01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:07,637
Each story we tell is a fragment

1409
01:29:07,661 --> 01:29:10,098
in an endless
shape-shifting mosaic.

1410
01:29:11,665 --> 01:29:15,800
And this small pebble,
like all stories, must end.

1411
01:29:17,758 --> 01:29:20,935
If it's about wishing,
it's a cautionary tale.

1412
01:29:22,023 --> 01:29:25,002
So, how will it go wrong?

1413
01:29:25,026 --> 01:29:27,551
Perhaps, it already has.

1414
01:29:30,858 --> 01:29:33,359
Even though Truth
stood before them naked,

1415
01:29:33,383 --> 01:29:35,012
they turned their backs.

1416
01:29:35,036 --> 01:29:39,495
So, Truth moved to the side
and waited in the shadows.

1417
01:29:39,519 --> 01:29:41,149
In the days that followed,

1418
01:29:41,173 --> 01:29:44,674
the Djinn would accompany
the narratologist to her work.

1419
01:29:44,698 --> 01:29:46,284
And when he wasn't with her,

1420
01:29:46,308 --> 01:29:49,505
he would go in eager
exploration of the world.

1421
01:29:49,529 --> 01:29:52,465
[machine beeping]

1422
01:29:52,489 --> 01:29:55,405
[The Djinn] Today I had
such a marvelous day.

1423
01:29:56,710 --> 01:29:59,689
I saw many things.

1424
01:29:59,713 --> 01:30:03,867
I watched a human look into
the living brain of another

1425
01:30:03,891 --> 01:30:06,503
and arrest a fatal bleeding.

1426
01:30:10,985 --> 01:30:12,770
I visited the Collider.

1427
01:30:14,075 --> 01:30:18,515
A vast gizmo which probed
the essence of matter.

1428
01:30:21,648 --> 01:30:24,888
And then I saw a dish,
a great dish

1429
01:30:24,912 --> 01:30:28,612
that listens to the whispers
of stars long dead.

1430
01:30:30,744 --> 01:30:32,722
Humankind is...

1431
01:30:32,746 --> 01:30:34,661
is a wonder, Alithea.

1432
01:30:35,575 --> 01:30:37,988
I'm happy you think so.

1433
01:30:38,012 --> 01:30:41,078
All of this since I was
trapped in Zefir's bottle.

1434
01:30:41,102 --> 01:30:45,866
All these astonishments,
in less than 200 years.

1435
01:30:45,890 --> 01:30:47,868
Yes, but, I mean,

1436
01:30:47,892 --> 01:30:52,176
that's just engineering
and technology.

1437
01:30:52,200 --> 01:30:54,788
Despite all the whiz-bang,

1438
01:30:54,812 --> 01:30:56,944
we remain bewildered.

1439
01:30:59,860 --> 01:31:01,819
When we can't contain the chaos,

1440
01:31:03,603 --> 01:31:06,190
we are filled
with dread and panic,

1441
01:31:06,214 --> 01:31:08,497
and we turn on each other.

1442
01:31:08,521 --> 01:31:11,021
But of course, you are human.

1443
01:31:11,045 --> 01:31:13,178
That is your nature.

1444
01:31:15,528 --> 01:31:18,966
Yeah. So, the story
never changes.

1445
01:31:19,880 --> 01:31:22,555
Hate prevails.

1446
01:31:22,579 --> 01:31:27,192
It metastasizes
and outlives love.

1447
01:31:28,976 --> 01:31:31,607
I just want to talk about love.

1448
01:31:31,631 --> 01:31:35,655
Such a mess of
contradictions, all of you.

1449
01:31:35,679 --> 01:31:36,786
Thank you very much.

1450
01:31:36,810 --> 01:31:40,094
Humankind, what a conundrum.

1451
01:31:40,118 --> 01:31:42,836
You fumble around in the dark,

1452
01:31:42,860 --> 01:31:45,969
and yet, you herd your
intelligence to great effect.

1453
01:31:45,993 --> 01:31:47,623
It is quite a story.

1454
01:31:47,647 --> 01:31:48,885
[chuckles softly]

1455
01:31:48,909 --> 01:31:51,758
Cannot wait to see
where it goes.

1456
01:31:51,782 --> 01:31:53,697
Or how it might end.

1457
01:31:54,045 --> 01:31:55,762
That too.

1458
01:31:55,786 --> 01:31:59,722
A mortal will never know,
but a djinn might.

1459
01:31:59,746 --> 01:32:02,227
A djinn has all the time
in the world.

1460
01:32:04,316 --> 01:32:06,512
Aren't you the lucky one?

1461
01:32:06,536 --> 01:32:07,885
Maybe.

1462
01:32:08,886 --> 01:32:12,126
But you creatures
of dust have...

1463
01:32:12,150 --> 01:32:13,649
have managed to eclipse

1464
01:32:13,673 --> 01:32:17,000
the power and purpose
of djinn and angel.

1465
01:32:17,024 --> 01:32:19,220
You have no use for us.

1466
01:32:19,244 --> 01:32:20,613
Perhaps, we will wither and...

1467
01:32:20,637 --> 01:32:22,136
- And fade away?
- Yes.

1468
01:32:22,160 --> 01:32:24,573
Yeah. Well, that used
to be the subject

1469
01:32:24,597 --> 01:32:26,662
of all my lectures and papers.

1470
01:32:26,686 --> 01:32:27,992
I know.

1471
01:32:30,603 --> 01:32:32,344
And yet, here you are.

1472
01:32:34,041 --> 01:32:36,130
My impossible.

1473
01:32:38,045 --> 01:32:39,133
Yes.

1474
01:32:43,747 --> 01:32:44,854
[keypad beeping]

1475
01:32:44,878 --> 01:32:45,966
[door unlocks]

1476
01:32:51,581 --> 01:32:52,756
Hello?

1477
01:32:58,196 --> 01:32:59,806
I'm home!

1478
01:33:09,773 --> 01:33:11,078
Hello?

1479
01:33:30,750 --> 01:33:31,838
[switch clicks]

1480
01:33:37,104 --> 01:33:38,671
Djinn?

1481
01:33:42,719 --> 01:33:43,913
My love?

1482
01:33:43,937 --> 01:33:45,156
[Alithea gasps]

1483
01:33:47,941 --> 01:33:48,986
Djinn.

1484
01:33:50,117 --> 01:33:51,205
[switch clicks]

1485
01:33:53,207 --> 01:33:54,382
What's this?

1486
01:33:56,994 --> 01:33:58,972
Can you hear me?

1487
01:33:58,996 --> 01:34:01,148
Djinn, speak to me.

1488
01:34:01,172 --> 01:34:02,739
Try to speak to me.

1489
01:34:04,697 --> 01:34:06,873
I wish you to speak to me.

1490
01:34:08,092 --> 01:34:09,330
[cracking]

1491
01:34:09,354 --> 01:34:10,442
[crumbling]

1492
01:34:10,877 --> 01:34:11,965
Oh...

1493
01:34:13,227 --> 01:34:15,752
[breathes heavily and grunts]

1494
01:34:19,277 --> 01:34:20,974
[breathing raggedly]

1495
01:34:22,019 --> 01:34:24,867
[inhales deeply]

1496
01:34:24,891 --> 01:34:26,869
- [static buzzes]
- [gasps and clears throat]

1497
01:34:26,893 --> 01:34:28,915
[in distorted high voice]
I was sleeping.

1498
01:34:28,939 --> 01:34:31,158
[grunts] Sleeping.

1499
01:34:32,899 --> 01:34:35,008
Djinn don't sleep.

1500
01:34:35,032 --> 01:34:36,313
[The Djinn] Let's go for a walk.

1501
01:34:36,337 --> 01:34:37,793
A long, bracing walk.

1502
01:34:37,817 --> 01:34:39,360
I have prepared
something for us.

1503
01:34:39,384 --> 01:34:40,970
[in normal voice]
I have it all planned.

1504
01:34:40,994 --> 01:34:43,146
[breathlessly]
A wonderous night for us.

1505
01:34:43,170 --> 01:34:45,322
It will be amazing.

1506
01:34:45,346 --> 01:34:48,151
- The best time of our lives.
- Stop!

1507
01:34:48,175 --> 01:34:52,286
These electromagnetic fields,
I can push them from my head.

1508
01:34:52,310 --> 01:34:53,877
I can push them away.

1509
01:34:54,965 --> 01:34:56,159
We'll go for a picnic.

1510
01:34:56,183 --> 01:34:57,291
[panting]

1511
01:34:57,315 --> 01:34:59,709
[speaking Djinnbish]

1512
01:35:01,101 --> 01:35:03,253
Ah, we'll play the ukulele.

1513
01:35:03,277 --> 01:35:05,821
[speaking Djinnbish]

1514
01:35:05,845 --> 01:35:09,129
Alithea, there is a place
for me here.

1515
01:35:09,153 --> 01:35:10,391
These forces,

1516
01:35:10,415 --> 01:35:12,088
they will never go away,
not from this world.

1517
01:35:12,112 --> 01:35:14,308
I will overcome them.
I can do that for you.

1518
01:35:14,332 --> 01:35:16,484
You are my Alithea,
and I love you.

1519
01:35:16,508 --> 01:35:18,268
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for trying.

1520
01:35:18,292 --> 01:35:19,572
You don't think that I love you?

1521
01:35:20,512 --> 01:35:22,708
Love is a gift.

1522
01:35:22,732 --> 01:35:25,101
It's a gift of oneself
given freely.

1523
01:35:25,125 --> 01:35:27,345
It's not something
one can ever ask for.

1524
01:35:28,868 --> 01:35:30,063
I tricked us both.

1525
01:35:30,087 --> 01:35:31,760
The moment I spoke that wish,

1526
01:35:31,784 --> 01:35:34,850
I took away
your power to grant it.

1527
01:35:34,874 --> 01:35:39,115
I, more than anybody,
I should've known that.

1528
01:35:39,139 --> 01:35:41,291
I'm not going
to screw this up again.

1529
01:35:41,315 --> 01:35:45,469
My Djinn, if this world
is not for you,

1530
01:35:45,493 --> 01:35:48,366
I wish that you return
to where you belong.

1531
01:35:49,193 --> 01:35:51,282
Wherever that may be.

1532
01:35:54,067 --> 01:35:55,436
[breathing heavily]

1533
01:35:55,460 --> 01:35:58,071
[glass cracking]

1534
01:36:03,816 --> 01:36:05,905
[shuddering]

1535
01:36:11,345 --> 01:36:12,782
[sobs]

1536
01:37:07,880 --> 01:37:09,055
[switch clicks]

1537
01:37:18,499 --> 01:37:19,587
[sighs]

1538
01:37:25,158 --> 01:37:28,205
[emotional string music playing]

1539
01:37:47,659 --> 01:37:50,227
[couple laughing]

1540
01:38:03,936 --> 01:38:06,069
[couple speaking indistinctly]

1541
01:38:18,559 --> 01:38:19,647
[girl] Mommy!

1542
01:38:21,649 --> 01:38:23,671
[man] Come here, little monkey.

1543
01:38:23,695 --> 01:38:25,499
That's not Mommy.

1544
01:38:25,523 --> 01:38:27,612
[girl and man
speaking indistinctly]

1545
01:39:00,340 --> 01:39:02,231
[dog barks]

1546
01:39:02,255 --> 01:39:03,953
[kids shouting playfully]

1547
01:39:07,652 --> 01:39:09,436
[wind blows]

1548
01:39:23,624 --> 01:39:27,672
[mouthing]

1549
01:39:34,592 --> 01:39:36,507
[wind whistling]

1550
01:39:39,249 --> 01:39:42,382
[sentimental string
music playing]

1551
01:39:53,263 --> 01:39:54,501
[man 1] Hey, hey, hey!
[man 2] Ah, no!

1552
01:39:54,525 --> 01:39:56,527
[man 1] Watch it.
Top striker in the league.

1553
01:40:04,143 --> 01:40:05,468
- [grunts]
- [men laughing]

1554
01:40:05,492 --> 01:40:06,624
[man 1] Did you see that?

1555
01:40:10,149 --> 01:40:12,736
[Alithea] He would visit
from time to time,

1556
01:40:12,760 --> 01:40:16,218
and they would grasp
each vivid moment.

1557
01:40:16,242 --> 01:40:19,134
Despite the pain
of the raucous skies,

1558
01:40:19,158 --> 01:40:21,789
he always stayed
longer than he should,

1559
01:40:21,813 --> 01:40:24,163
long after
she begged him to leave.

1560
01:40:25,295 --> 01:40:28,491
He promised to return
in her lifetime,

1561
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and for her,
that was more than enough.

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