1 00:00:07,147 --> 00:00:12,545 We are a funeral parlor, serving Cairo, Illinois, since 1863, 2 00:00:12,569 --> 00:00:15,747 when it was a flourishing town at the crossing of two rivers. 3 00:00:15,771 --> 00:00:17,484 That was when we became the funeral parlor 4 00:00:17,509 --> 00:00:18,929 for the colored folks hereabouts. 5 00:00:19,246 --> 00:00:20,508 I'm Ruby. 6 00:00:21,770 --> 00:00:23,139 Ruby Goodchild. 7 00:00:23,163 --> 00:00:25,035 It's good to meet you, Ruby. 8 00:00:26,688 --> 00:00:29,711 Ifrit, Grimnir needs you at the Corn Palace. 9 00:00:29,735 --> 00:00:31,626 Ask for Old Iktomi. 10 00:00:31,650 --> 00:00:33,332 - To what end? - Gungnir. 11 00:00:33,356 --> 00:00:34,803 You're getting Fire-eyes and the fairy 12 00:00:34,828 --> 00:00:36,679 to fetch your fucking spear for you? 13 00:00:37,743 --> 00:00:39,982 This is an instrument of death. 14 00:00:40,006 --> 00:00:42,724 That, my very old friend, 15 00:00:42,748 --> 00:00:44,532 is not your motherfucking concern. 16 00:00:48,841 --> 00:00:50,732 If you truly want your life back, 17 00:00:50,756 --> 00:00:52,995 I might have another option for you. 18 00:00:53,019 --> 00:00:54,890 I will literally do anything. 19 00:00:56,544 --> 00:00:57,826 Mark my words. 20 00:00:57,850 --> 00:00:59,678 You're gonna need the Baron, dead wife. 21 00:01:00,853 --> 00:01:02,550 I'll see you in New Orleans. 22 00:02:21,744 --> 00:02:29,761 Synced & corrected by -robtor- www.addic7ed.com 23 00:06:12,773 --> 00:06:14,253 Memento mori. 24 00:07:07,393 --> 00:07:08,762 Grow, Yggdrasil. 25 00:07:09,392 --> 00:07:10,657 Grow. 26 00:07:13,660 --> 00:07:15,769 You know there's a bathroom, right? 27 00:07:16,148 --> 00:07:17,664 Yeah. 28 00:07:19,348 --> 00:07:20,958 You're pissing on a plant. 29 00:07:22,686 --> 00:07:24,165 On the world tree? 30 00:07:26,084 --> 00:07:29,036 Don't be disgusting. How dare you? 31 00:07:35,334 --> 00:07:37,094 So, where're we going today? 32 00:07:37,118 --> 00:07:39,357 Well, I have things to do 33 00:07:39,381 --> 00:07:41,261 and people to see. 34 00:07:41,285 --> 00:07:44,667 But I shall be seeing them and doing them alone. 35 00:07:44,691 --> 00:07:46,126 So you don't need my help? 36 00:07:46,127 --> 00:07:48,280 Oh, like St. Louis, huh? 37 00:07:48,304 --> 00:07:52,414 You know, maybe a day with Ibis can put you back on track. 38 00:07:52,438 --> 00:07:54,902 He can teach you the ways of the dead. I mean, 39 00:07:54,926 --> 00:07:59,066 you're dressed for it and, considering your domestic situation, huh? 40 00:07:59,793 --> 00:08:02,119 Humans are dead longer than they're alive. 41 00:08:02,528 --> 00:08:04,339 And we want them on bended knee 42 00:08:04,363 --> 00:08:07,603 offering up their firstborn and two more kids to be named later. 43 00:08:07,627 --> 00:08:09,063 Do not wait up! 44 00:08:15,026 --> 00:08:18,856 You are comfortable sleeping under the same roof as the dead? 45 00:08:24,696 --> 00:08:26,481 As long as they stay that way. 46 00:08:35,481 --> 00:08:37,313 Ah, look at you. 47 00:08:39,311 --> 00:08:41,835 Stop acting so high and mighty. 48 00:08:43,315 --> 00:08:46,773 I mean, were you fucking drunk the day they handed out the real causes? 49 00:08:49,539 --> 00:08:52,536 Ain't that right, Judie? 50 00:08:56,241 --> 00:08:58,504 You're not better than me, you little fuck! 51 00:09:13,476 --> 00:09:14,564 Whole... 52 00:09:15,478 --> 00:09:17,306 fucking country's a... 53 00:09:18,219 --> 00:09:19,960 ...a lost cause. 54 00:09:20,570 --> 00:09:21,919 Oh! 55 00:09:37,891 --> 00:09:39,284 Jude! 56 00:09:42,548 --> 00:09:43,767 Oh. 57 00:09:45,822 --> 00:09:47,084 Fuck. 58 00:09:48,703 --> 00:09:49,878 It's you. 59 00:09:49,903 --> 00:09:51,252 Yes, it's me. 60 00:09:51,775 --> 00:09:53,840 Do not say, "I told you so." 61 00:09:53,864 --> 00:09:56,103 So Wednesday lied. 62 00:09:56,786 --> 00:09:59,006 See, that's "I told you so." 63 00:10:00,730 --> 00:10:02,022 You look... 64 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,067 less decomposed. 65 00:10:04,091 --> 00:10:05,417 It's temporary. 66 00:10:05,441 --> 00:10:08,237 We need a more permanent fix. You said you know a guy. 67 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,249 You missed quite an adventure gettin' down here. 68 00:10:12,273 --> 00:10:13,816 Oh, I'm sure I did. 69 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:15,581 Stole a party boat with the... 70 00:10:16,539 --> 00:10:18,212 pontoons. 71 00:10:18,236 --> 00:10:20,954 A party boat? That's how you got down here? 72 00:10:20,978 --> 00:10:22,414 No, I hitchhiked. 73 00:10:23,399 --> 00:10:24,704 Boat sank. 74 00:10:27,376 --> 00:10:30,833 The further I get from that coin inside your rotten innards, 75 00:10:30,857 --> 00:10:32,859 the more rotten my luck becomes. 76 00:10:36,994 --> 00:10:38,561 Sure you're up for this? 77 00:10:40,084 --> 00:10:41,215 Yeah. 78 00:10:50,146 --> 00:10:51,756 That's a really nice shirt. 79 00:10:58,755 --> 00:11:00,123 Classy! 80 00:11:00,506 --> 00:11:02,204 You have no idea. 81 00:11:03,150 --> 00:11:05,302 Hell, no. 82 00:11:05,326 --> 00:11:06,826 - Get that bitch outta here! - Calm down, Brigitte. 83 00:11:06,850 --> 00:11:08,260 The girl's gotta eat. 84 00:11:08,284 --> 00:11:10,917 I'll cut your dick off with a tomato knife, serve it up real nice. 85 00:11:10,941 --> 00:11:12,397 We can share it with the world! 86 00:11:12,421 --> 00:11:14,399 Best not try to serve me that. 87 00:11:14,423 --> 00:11:16,792 Oh shit. Mad Sweeney? 88 00:11:16,816 --> 00:11:18,481 I love you, brother, but not that much. 89 00:11:18,505 --> 00:11:21,200 - Sweeney fou, mon frère! - How are you? 90 00:11:21,224 --> 00:11:23,625 Okay, no, if that oversexed goat sent you, 91 00:11:23,649 --> 00:11:25,497 you can just turn right around, 92 00:11:25,521 --> 00:11:28,456 the Ghede Loa will not be joining his fool war! 93 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,528 Don't worry. I'm not here for Wednesday. 94 00:11:31,744 --> 00:11:33,616 - I'd like a parley. - Hi. 95 00:11:35,947 --> 00:11:37,479 She's lookin' good for being dead. 96 00:11:37,504 --> 00:11:38,549 Can you help her? 97 00:11:46,264 --> 00:11:48,266 She can join the chef's table. 98 00:11:49,980 --> 00:11:51,740 After hours. 99 00:11:51,764 --> 00:11:53,200 The chef's table? 100 00:11:54,767 --> 00:11:56,223 Must be a slow fuckin' night. 101 00:11:56,247 --> 00:11:58,965 - Welcome home. - We got work to do. 102 00:11:58,989 --> 00:12:00,967 - More later. - Hey! 103 00:12:00,991 --> 00:12:02,688 Won't say no to a night of drinkin'. 104 00:12:03,428 --> 00:12:05,275 Well, I can't drink. 105 00:12:05,299 --> 00:12:07,930 Am I supposed to sit here and watch you all night? 106 00:12:07,954 --> 00:12:11,902 Ah, I warned you about the price of resurrection, didn't I? 107 00:12:14,478 --> 00:12:17,307 Grimnir is late, as usual. 108 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:23,927 Alhamdu lil-lah. 109 00:12:27,239 --> 00:12:28,850 I find it funny. 110 00:12:29,841 --> 00:12:31,558 You find what funny? 111 00:12:31,583 --> 00:12:33,542 That you still thank him. 112 00:12:34,416 --> 00:12:38,429 I thank him for every meal he provides me. Don't you? 113 00:12:40,247 --> 00:12:41,771 You know... 114 00:12:42,479 --> 00:12:46,534 I was born on Thursday under a scorching desert sun, 115 00:12:46,558 --> 00:12:48,342 long before the first wahy. 116 00:12:50,606 --> 00:12:52,975 Years later, after the Prophet's revelations, 117 00:12:52,999 --> 00:12:55,567 we Jinn, we were given a choice. 118 00:12:56,656 --> 00:13:00,180 Convert to Islam or live our lives as heretic demons. 119 00:13:01,651 --> 00:13:03,183 I chose heretic demon. 120 00:13:04,950 --> 00:13:06,754 After all you've seen, 121 00:13:06,839 --> 00:13:09,851 you still believe your god is the one true God? 122 00:13:09,875 --> 00:13:11,365 Yes, of course I do. 123 00:13:12,041 --> 00:13:15,090 The first pillar of Islam is, "There is no God but God." 124 00:13:15,673 --> 00:13:18,043 Thomas Jefferson said all men are created equal, 125 00:13:18,427 --> 00:13:19,852 but he still owned slaves. 126 00:13:25,423 --> 00:13:28,533 I'm here to pick up two gentlemen from the city of Sodom. 127 00:13:28,930 --> 00:13:29,931 Hey! 128 00:13:30,898 --> 00:13:32,885 That reminds me. 129 00:13:32,909 --> 00:13:35,017 You must have been there, old friend. 130 00:13:35,041 --> 00:13:37,106 Tell me, how was the party, huh? 131 00:13:37,130 --> 00:13:40,414 Huh? I mean, Yahweh can be such a prude. Huh? 132 00:13:40,438 --> 00:13:42,179 You're late. 133 00:13:43,871 --> 00:13:45,485 Keep your audience waiting. 134 00:13:45,510 --> 00:13:47,686 Something I learned from my old burlesque days. 135 00:13:48,984 --> 00:13:50,289 My spear? 136 00:13:50,956 --> 00:13:53,350 Okay, gentlemen, climb aboard. 137 00:13:53,756 --> 00:13:55,429 The King of the Dwarves awaits us! 138 00:13:55,453 --> 00:13:57,300 Uh, what about the motorcycle? 139 00:13:57,324 --> 00:14:01,241 She will be just fine. 140 00:14:02,091 --> 00:14:03,179 Yalla! 141 00:14:08,945 --> 00:14:10,705 So, it's Wednesday you worship, huh? 142 00:14:10,729 --> 00:14:13,229 No, no... I don't worship anyone. 143 00:14:13,253 --> 00:14:16,798 I've been hanging in an amulet around Odin's neck for years. 144 00:14:16,822 --> 00:14:19,216 And when it suited him, that son of a bitch released me. 145 00:14:20,322 --> 00:14:23,225 I'm beholden to him, but he's not my fucking god! 146 00:14:29,313 --> 00:14:31,334 What am I, your fucking chauffeur? 147 00:14:31,358 --> 00:14:34,947 I can't have you two canoodling in Betty's back seat! 148 00:14:34,971 --> 00:14:38,456 I mean, this is America. We'll be pulled over! 149 00:15:39,426 --> 00:15:42,386 You! Don't move! Hands where I can see 'em. 150 00:15:44,214 --> 00:15:46,105 Shit! 151 00:15:57,183 --> 00:15:58,315 Hey! 152 00:16:48,191 --> 00:16:49,975 Jamaar Goodchild. 153 00:16:50,889 --> 00:16:52,456 Opiate overdose. 154 00:16:53,587 --> 00:16:55,740 His grandmother died three days ago. 155 00:16:55,764 --> 00:16:57,417 Lila Goodchild. 156 00:16:58,176 --> 00:16:59,874 Her funeral is tomorrow. 157 00:17:01,552 --> 00:17:03,206 Opiate overdose? 158 00:17:04,642 --> 00:17:06,402 His wounds are posthumous, 159 00:17:06,426 --> 00:17:08,709 which happens quite a bit here in Cairo. 160 00:17:09,700 --> 00:17:12,539 Has been happening around here for the last century, 161 00:17:12,911 --> 00:17:14,391 to young men of color. 162 00:17:15,584 --> 00:17:16,672 Um... 163 00:17:20,397 --> 00:17:21,239 This morning, 164 00:17:21,264 --> 00:17:24,420 there was a man in my bathroom mirror with the same wounds. 165 00:17:24,444 --> 00:17:26,074 I had 'em too. 166 00:17:26,098 --> 00:17:28,207 Ah, Froggy James. 167 00:17:28,231 --> 00:17:31,016 He provides plenty of dream fuel under this old roof. 168 00:17:34,155 --> 00:17:35,547 What is he? 169 00:17:36,113 --> 00:17:37,593 Is he a ghost? 170 00:17:39,624 --> 00:17:40,756 Demon? 171 00:17:42,114 --> 00:17:44,440 Will James was an affable man 172 00:17:44,464 --> 00:17:47,816 whose tragic end brought a simmering dynamic... 173 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:51,428 ...to a catastrophic boil. 174 00:18:09,663 --> 00:18:13,339 An eyewitness confirmed that Will was seen crossing paths 175 00:18:13,363 --> 00:18:15,844 with a white woman in broad daylight. 176 00:18:23,808 --> 00:18:25,679 When the young lady turned up dead, 177 00:18:26,463 --> 00:18:29,640 the math was done. 178 00:18:32,034 --> 00:18:35,317 Surprisingly, the sheriff in Cairo was an honest man who staved off the inevitable, 179 00:18:35,341 --> 00:18:38,103 until a mob caught up to him 180 00:18:38,127 --> 00:18:40,303 and took William James. 181 00:18:42,871 --> 00:18:44,263 Froggy was lynched, 182 00:18:45,090 --> 00:18:47,310 shot, beheaded, 183 00:18:48,228 --> 00:18:52,576 dragged through the streets and burned for an audience of 10,000 people 184 00:18:53,337 --> 00:18:56,181 who were having the time of their lives. 185 00:18:57,500 --> 00:19:00,561 Cairo's dignity reduced to a pool... 186 00:19:01,933 --> 00:19:03,195 of blood. 187 00:19:10,986 --> 00:19:13,379 Do you know why he was in the mirror lookin' at me? 188 00:19:20,473 --> 00:19:22,171 Memento mori. 189 00:19:22,911 --> 00:19:24,738 Remember that you have to die. 190 00:19:34,052 --> 00:19:35,551 So, what're we doing after this? 191 00:19:35,575 --> 00:19:37,684 What do you wanna do? 192 00:19:37,708 --> 00:19:40,034 Oh, I don't know. Something fun. 193 00:19:40,058 --> 00:19:42,843 While you got your glass out, do you want me to fill it for you? Cheers. 194 00:20:01,906 --> 00:20:04,430 Do I detect a little trouble in paradise here? 195 00:20:06,258 --> 00:20:09,368 The All-father knows all about the vagaries of romance. 196 00:20:09,392 --> 00:20:12,240 Love who you love. 197 00:20:12,264 --> 00:20:13,962 Ask and you shall be Embla'd. 198 00:20:15,876 --> 00:20:18,401 I believe in the violence I saw in that diner. 199 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,187 The pain and death suffered by those immortals. 200 00:20:23,101 --> 00:20:25,123 May Zorya's star shine on all of us. 201 00:20:25,147 --> 00:20:27,647 But that does not mean I have faith in them. 202 00:20:27,671 --> 00:20:30,824 I do not have the same relationship with them that I have with my god. 203 00:20:30,848 --> 00:20:34,262 What Allah and I have is something I can never get from another being. 204 00:20:34,286 --> 00:20:36,525 Look, there are many gods, Salim, 205 00:20:36,549 --> 00:20:39,659 and they're all as selfish as that one is with his women. 206 00:20:39,683 --> 00:20:43,228 Don't admonish him for having faith in a god. We need more like him. 207 00:20:43,252 --> 00:20:45,706 The only thing is, Salim, monotheists like you, 208 00:20:45,730 --> 00:20:48,313 you've got too big a piece of the pie. 209 00:20:48,337 --> 00:20:52,019 But if you do ever think of expanding who you worship and who you follow, 210 00:20:52,043 --> 00:20:54,674 let me present myself as a fun-loving, 211 00:20:54,698 --> 00:20:57,503 yet serious addition to your personal pantheon. 212 00:20:57,527 --> 00:21:01,507 Wednesday's the name; good time's the game. 213 00:21:03,533 --> 00:21:05,013 Hm? What? 214 00:21:11,715 --> 00:21:13,432 You've been through a lot. 215 00:21:13,456 --> 00:21:15,695 - Can we at least agree to that? - Yes. 216 00:21:15,719 --> 00:21:17,197 And... 217 00:21:17,781 --> 00:21:20,629 Well, you're mourning. You're grieving. 218 00:21:20,767 --> 00:21:23,268 This is no time to make big decisions. 219 00:21:23,292 --> 00:21:25,270 He's right. 220 00:21:25,294 --> 00:21:27,557 You should not leave Cairo with me. 221 00:21:28,678 --> 00:21:31,004 I should not factor into that decision. 222 00:21:31,169 --> 00:21:33,452 We will both stay here for now. 223 00:21:33,476 --> 00:21:35,173 There's nothing left. 224 00:21:35,808 --> 00:21:38,152 When word gets out that Grandma and Jamarr are gone, 225 00:21:38,176 --> 00:21:39,632 the streets ain't leaving me alone. 226 00:21:39,656 --> 00:21:41,808 They coming to take what they want. 227 00:21:41,832 --> 00:21:44,064 I'm not gonna let anything happen to you. 228 00:21:44,088 --> 00:21:46,247 You said that same shit about Jamarr! 229 00:21:46,271 --> 00:21:49,468 Everything you said about things getting better was a lie! 230 00:21:49,492 --> 00:21:51,165 You said to pray, that it would help! 231 00:21:51,189 --> 00:21:52,601 It didn't! 232 00:21:52,625 --> 00:21:54,342 Look, let's... 233 00:21:54,366 --> 00:21:57,432 let's place Lila and Jamarr to rest, 234 00:21:57,456 --> 00:22:00,024 and then we can discuss this later, all right? 235 00:22:00,851 --> 00:22:02,263 It's not all on you, Reverend. 236 00:22:02,287 --> 00:22:03,941 It's this place. 237 00:22:04,779 --> 00:22:06,650 Cairo ain't home to me. 238 00:22:07,571 --> 00:22:08,877 It's hell. 239 00:22:09,686 --> 00:22:11,272 If these walls could talk, 240 00:22:11,296 --> 00:22:13,100 they'd tell you about the Freedom Movement. 241 00:22:13,124 --> 00:22:14,754 They'd tell you about James Bevel. 242 00:22:14,778 --> 00:22:18,497 They'd tell you about, uh... Al Raby, Dr. King. 243 00:22:18,521 --> 00:22:21,692 People didn't always come to funerals just to grieve. 244 00:22:21,716 --> 00:22:23,346 They-they came... 245 00:22:24,649 --> 00:22:25,737 Well, they... 246 00:22:26,746 --> 00:22:29,478 They came to organize. They came to fight back. 247 00:22:29,706 --> 00:22:31,403 It sustained us! 248 00:22:32,170 --> 00:22:34,232 I am sustained by the tranquility of love. 249 00:22:36,727 --> 00:22:37,728 God's love. 250 00:22:39,019 --> 00:22:40,543 Something like that. 251 00:22:45,635 --> 00:22:47,743 So, follow my lead. 252 00:22:47,767 --> 00:22:51,138 And if Alviss does address you, 253 00:22:51,162 --> 00:22:53,643 compliment him. Or goad him. 254 00:22:54,078 --> 00:22:55,645 Dwarves can be tricky. 255 00:22:56,341 --> 00:22:58,561 Which is it? Compliment or goad? 256 00:23:05,905 --> 00:23:08,473 Alviss, son of Vindalf. 257 00:23:08,832 --> 00:23:10,616 My answer is no. 258 00:23:12,009 --> 00:23:13,769 Don't you at least wanna know why I'm here? 259 00:23:14,412 --> 00:23:15,762 It's no. 260 00:23:16,927 --> 00:23:18,755 It's still no. 261 00:23:19,712 --> 00:23:21,279 I know this Ifrit. 262 00:23:22,405 --> 00:23:23,823 But him? 263 00:23:24,366 --> 00:23:26,782 Manat? Hubal? 264 00:23:26,806 --> 00:23:30,221 No. I am Salim. I am a mortal man. 265 00:23:31,039 --> 00:23:34,268 And you are very tall for a dwarf. 266 00:23:34,292 --> 00:23:37,010 The tallest dwarf in America! 267 00:23:37,034 --> 00:23:40,100 And that stature makes Alviss the King of the Dwarves 268 00:23:40,124 --> 00:23:42,972 in this godforsaken continent! 269 00:23:42,996 --> 00:23:45,366 I like what you've done with the place, Alviss. 270 00:23:45,390 --> 00:23:47,000 Time was when I managed hundreds. 271 00:23:48,252 --> 00:23:50,602 Welders, mechanics, even the cleaning staff. 272 00:23:51,570 --> 00:23:53,287 We were busy from dawn till dusk. 273 00:23:53,311 --> 00:23:55,618 Now, I manage only myself. 274 00:23:59,752 --> 00:24:01,189 The swaying one. 275 00:24:06,890 --> 00:24:08,065 No. 276 00:24:08,718 --> 00:24:10,415 No, no, no. 277 00:24:11,967 --> 00:24:13,838 Your war is none of my affair. 278 00:24:14,724 --> 00:24:17,398 I've never been a warrior. I'm a builder. 279 00:24:17,422 --> 00:24:20,836 Oh, I know, and I realize the important work you do in this busy place. 280 00:24:20,860 --> 00:24:24,647 But as we were passing through, I thought it only fair that... 281 00:24:25,529 --> 00:24:28,888 I should swing by and show one of the greatest craftsmen 282 00:24:28,912 --> 00:24:30,577 of the Asgardian era 283 00:24:30,601 --> 00:24:33,525 - the wondrous Gungnir. - Oh! 284 00:24:35,135 --> 00:24:37,897 She's seen better days. Glorious days. 285 00:24:37,921 --> 00:24:40,445 She is indeed in need of restoration, 286 00:24:41,349 --> 00:24:45,624 but only by one whose crafting is worthy of Ivaldi's kin. 287 00:24:46,368 --> 00:24:49,390 I'm not one of the greatest craftsmen. 288 00:24:49,454 --> 00:24:51,998 I bested my own kin, Sindri... 289 00:24:52,787 --> 00:24:54,783 ...better known as Spark-sprayer, 290 00:24:54,807 --> 00:24:58,202 to forge the hammer Mjölnir and the ring Draupnir. 291 00:24:59,364 --> 00:25:02,605 If there's forging to be done, I'm the one you seek. 292 00:25:03,642 --> 00:25:04,904 But... 293 00:25:06,341 --> 00:25:09,866 it's the runes that require attention, All-father. 294 00:25:11,389 --> 00:25:14,000 The runes that power your 18 charms. 295 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,290 The runes that anoint the tip of your spear. 296 00:25:18,309 --> 00:25:20,964 Like all things, runes fade. 297 00:25:21,663 --> 00:25:24,653 Rubbed clean by the friction of time, the fading of memory. 298 00:25:25,751 --> 00:25:28,904 And rune carving is Dvalin's domain. 299 00:25:31,627 --> 00:25:34,107 Have you seen that little bastard lately? 300 00:25:40,636 --> 00:25:43,136 How... how did our motorcycle get here? 301 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,182 This is not just a motorcycle. 302 00:25:46,206 --> 00:25:50,056 This is Hildisvini, Freyja's Battle Boar 303 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,363 and sometime lover, eh? 304 00:25:52,387 --> 00:25:55,279 So, do you believe me? Do I have your faith? 305 00:25:55,303 --> 00:25:56,671 You are not my God. 306 00:25:58,654 --> 00:26:00,980 He still believes in what he was told. 307 00:26:01,004 --> 00:26:02,721 Not what he sees or has experienced. 308 00:26:02,745 --> 00:26:04,331 The good little Arab boy, 309 00:26:04,355 --> 00:26:06,202 still doing what his parents told him to do. 310 00:26:06,226 --> 00:26:07,793 What does it matter to you what I believe? 311 00:26:08,490 --> 00:26:10,642 Here I am. Worship away! 312 00:26:10,666 --> 00:26:12,948 Because your truth, it is not my truth. 313 00:26:12,972 --> 00:26:16,343 No, no. You're entitled to your own truth, Salim, but not your own facts. 314 00:26:16,367 --> 00:26:18,998 Fact is, I have to get back to Cairo. 315 00:26:19,022 --> 00:26:20,937 You did good, Ifrit. 316 00:26:21,677 --> 00:26:25,570 - Grimnir, do you need me there? - Yeah. 317 00:26:25,594 --> 00:26:29,259 Yeah, I do. You should come too, Salim. 318 00:26:30,642 --> 00:26:33,263 You misguided monotheist. Heh. 319 00:26:35,168 --> 00:26:39,888 You know, there's still time to join the party train to Valhalla. 320 00:26:39,912 --> 00:26:42,828 We shall play where the moon cannot see us. 321 00:26:43,742 --> 00:26:44,874 I have faith in you. 322 00:26:48,965 --> 00:26:52,988 Men only see what they want to see and you are just like them, Salim: 323 00:26:53,012 --> 00:26:56,870 Blind and stubborn to the truth in front of your very own eyes. 324 00:27:06,243 --> 00:27:07,810 You still want to come with me? 325 00:27:15,034 --> 00:27:16,427 - Thank you, my darlin'. - Yeah. 326 00:27:18,908 --> 00:27:20,973 You're in for a treat tonight. 327 00:27:20,997 --> 00:27:24,000 - Best chef in the bayou. - Glad you like. 328 00:27:25,001 --> 00:27:25,958 Thanks. 329 00:27:27,525 --> 00:27:29,397 I missed your cooking, my friend. 330 00:27:35,910 --> 00:27:38,203 You smell a little rank, baby. 331 00:27:39,904 --> 00:27:41,231 It's the heat. Here, drink this 332 00:27:41,256 --> 00:27:42,648 Thank you. 333 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:48,938 Mmm. Shh. 334 00:27:56,511 --> 00:27:58,140 Oh that feels better. Thank you. 335 00:27:58,164 --> 00:27:59,905 - Not bad. - Hey. 336 00:28:07,326 --> 00:28:08,414 Oh, my God. 337 00:28:10,176 --> 00:28:11,458 I can taste this. 338 00:28:11,482 --> 00:28:14,030 They miss the taste the most. 339 00:28:15,228 --> 00:28:17,535 Nah, they miss touch the most. 340 00:28:47,866 --> 00:28:49,433 You like that, baby? 341 00:28:50,913 --> 00:28:52,412 Uh-huh. 342 00:28:52,436 --> 00:28:55,241 Yeah. Uh-huh. 343 00:28:55,265 --> 00:28:57,746 Oh, knock it off. 344 00:29:03,273 --> 00:29:04,927 I need to turn this one's clock back... 345 00:29:06,798 --> 00:29:08,776 ...so I can retrieve my property 346 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,715 and send her back to her husband. 347 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,757 She's a cheater. Like you. 348 00:29:28,254 --> 00:29:29,734 Better and better. 349 00:29:30,045 --> 00:29:33,564 And death is her true love, but she betrays him also. 350 00:29:34,609 --> 00:29:36,761 Chasing after what she cannot have. 351 00:29:36,785 --> 00:29:38,351 The favor is to me, Baron. 352 00:29:39,358 --> 00:29:40,838 It's not for her. 353 00:29:43,275 --> 00:29:44,712 Do we have a compact? 354 00:29:45,968 --> 00:29:47,752 I think we can make a trade. 355 00:29:49,066 --> 00:29:50,285 What kinda trade? 356 00:29:52,659 --> 00:29:54,269 I trade in truth. 357 00:29:55,548 --> 00:29:57,390 You give me truth, 358 00:29:57,414 --> 00:29:59,764 - and I give you what you want. - Hm... 359 00:30:01,157 --> 00:30:02,637 Do we have a compact? 360 00:30:06,771 --> 00:30:07,816 Good. 361 00:30:10,732 --> 00:30:13,386 Time for business and pleasure. Hm. 362 00:30:14,997 --> 00:30:17,654 Sweeney, mon amour? Comin'? 363 00:30:24,572 --> 00:30:28,073 Resurrection is Samedi's business. 364 00:30:28,097 --> 00:30:29,881 Yeah, we're not needed here tonight. 365 00:30:46,332 --> 00:30:49,509 What's missing from someone's soul that they can do that to another? 366 00:30:50,554 --> 00:30:52,338 Why would he curse his own people? 367 00:30:55,951 --> 00:31:00,279 Race is no simple equation where one thing equals another. 368 00:31:00,303 --> 00:31:03,587 No one hates the children of Israel more than the children of Israel. 369 00:31:03,611 --> 00:31:04,829 What you say... 370 00:31:06,744 --> 00:31:09,767 ...also happens to be true for a dozen other ethnicities. 371 00:31:09,791 --> 00:31:11,053 But... 372 00:31:12,445 --> 00:31:14,902 when you are continually reminded 373 00:31:14,926 --> 00:31:17,165 that you have little to no value, 374 00:31:17,189 --> 00:31:20,560 it's easy to be convinced that all the rules are stacked against you. 375 00:31:20,584 --> 00:31:24,632 Your worst fears are not possible; they are probable. 376 00:31:27,199 --> 00:31:29,724 In the case of Will James, I imagine... 377 00:31:31,813 --> 00:31:34,642 ...as women pulled the rope, he rose, 378 00:31:36,948 --> 00:31:40,058 looked out on a sea of people, 379 00:31:40,082 --> 00:31:44,540 but only focused on those 380 00:31:44,564 --> 00:31:46,673 who looked like him, 381 00:31:46,697 --> 00:31:49,744 and felt abandoned by his people. 382 00:31:50,788 --> 00:31:53,593 Who taught the black man to hate himself? 383 00:31:53,617 --> 00:31:56,683 Who has corrupted the entire world in the name 384 00:31:56,707 --> 00:31:58,293 of gaining power? 385 00:31:58,317 --> 00:31:59,928 I'll give you a hint. 386 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,218 He does not look like anyone in our immediate vicinity. 387 00:32:07,762 --> 00:32:10,721 Well, praise Jesus and four more white zombies. 388 00:32:11,548 --> 00:32:14,266 If it isn't Shadow Moon 389 00:32:14,290 --> 00:32:17,704 still hanging around asking all the wrong fucking questions. 390 00:32:17,728 --> 00:32:19,077 And there it is. 391 00:32:24,561 --> 00:32:26,626 Why are you always trying to piss me off? 392 00:32:26,650 --> 00:32:29,609 Better pissed off than pissed on. 393 00:32:30,342 --> 00:32:34,179 Either way, all I'd need to do is have Wednesday tell you it's raining. 394 00:32:44,581 --> 00:32:47,081 Now, why'd you have him do that? 395 00:32:47,105 --> 00:32:49,542 Fuck him! Pussy! 396 00:32:50,994 --> 00:32:52,300 Speaking of... 397 00:32:53,459 --> 00:32:55,331 ...I seen your cat. 398 00:33:04,086 --> 00:33:05,478 Now, where's the dog? 399 00:33:06,385 --> 00:33:08,363 Mm, business has been soft, 400 00:33:08,387 --> 00:33:10,409 so Jacquel took some time. 401 00:33:13,218 --> 00:33:15,327 Thrice the great magician. 402 00:33:15,351 --> 00:33:19,244 You, a conjurer of spells. 403 00:33:19,268 --> 00:33:24,205 You sit at the table between good and evil, 404 00:33:24,229 --> 00:33:26,512 but you and Mr. Jacquel 405 00:33:26,536 --> 00:33:28,993 bear no responsibility 406 00:33:29,017 --> 00:33:31,430 for Will fucking James! 407 00:33:31,454 --> 00:33:35,086 Ah, you believe we haunt this town? 408 00:33:35,110 --> 00:33:37,958 If I was in the dead body business, 409 00:33:37,982 --> 00:33:42,639 war would be music to my ears, unless... 410 00:33:43,509 --> 00:33:44,597 Unless what? 411 00:33:47,775 --> 00:33:50,666 Please, continue. 412 00:33:50,690 --> 00:33:55,280 Unless I already had a way to keep fresh bodies 413 00:33:55,304 --> 00:33:57,610 coming through the back fucking door. 414 00:34:01,832 --> 00:34:03,791 I do not answer to you, Anansi. 415 00:34:07,430 --> 00:34:12,054 If you are taking brown bodies from this world, 416 00:34:13,104 --> 00:34:16,020 you are killing my worshippers. 417 00:34:17,195 --> 00:34:18,782 This cannot be. 418 00:34:18,806 --> 00:34:19,807 Hm? 419 00:34:29,251 --> 00:34:33,646 This... cannot... be. 420 00:35:47,111 --> 00:35:48,504 Will James? 421 00:35:49,418 --> 00:35:50,898 I am no one. 422 00:35:52,595 --> 00:35:54,989 That which I was has been taken from me. 423 00:35:56,294 --> 00:35:57,513 So, you... 424 00:35:59,428 --> 00:36:02,015 ...take other people's lives instead? 425 00:36:02,039 --> 00:36:05,651 I release those who have no hope to a life of peace. 426 00:36:09,351 --> 00:36:10,874 There's always hope. 427 00:36:12,310 --> 00:36:14,922 The way of the dead is to know nothing of the living. 428 00:36:16,662 --> 00:36:17,925 Ecclesiastes. 429 00:36:20,584 --> 00:36:22,020 I know the verse. 430 00:36:26,063 --> 00:36:28,152 You worship Dante's Inferno? 431 00:36:29,501 --> 00:36:31,155 I worship death. 432 00:36:34,158 --> 00:36:35,333 Why? 433 00:36:36,117 --> 00:36:38,293 We wear the same skin. 434 00:36:39,567 --> 00:36:42,663 But you do not know the nature of the land in which you dwell. 435 00:36:43,733 --> 00:36:45,561 Understand my anger. 436 00:36:48,899 --> 00:36:52,214 Killing me was the sweet release they yearned for. 437 00:36:55,092 --> 00:36:57,747 We are victims chained to their charity. 438 00:37:01,707 --> 00:37:03,476 They are deeply sorry 439 00:37:04,754 --> 00:37:07,409 for the primal disdain they carry for us. 440 00:37:12,153 --> 00:37:13,763 You are not unlucky. 441 00:37:15,112 --> 00:37:16,592 You are unloved. 442 00:37:20,422 --> 00:37:21,989 Walk with my burden. 443 00:37:23,991 --> 00:37:25,688 When you share it with the world, 444 00:37:26,602 --> 00:37:28,082 I will release you. 445 00:37:30,510 --> 00:37:32,120 Now go. 446 00:37:41,921 --> 00:37:44,725 My husband used to look at me like... 447 00:37:45,534 --> 00:37:47,144 like I was the sun and the moon. 448 00:37:48,972 --> 00:37:51,565 - And then you married him? - Ha. 449 00:37:52,932 --> 00:37:54,649 And then I fucked it up. 450 00:37:54,673 --> 00:37:58,823 'Ey... You lived your truth. That's no betrayal. 451 00:38:00,201 --> 00:38:01,245 Yeah. 452 00:38:03,682 --> 00:38:08,666 I have a long history of, um, really shitty impulse control. 453 00:38:12,822 --> 00:38:15,477 You betrayed him long before your marriage vows. 454 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:19,708 Excuse me? 455 00:38:20,097 --> 00:38:22,962 You betrayed him when you told him you loved him in the first place. 456 00:38:26,122 --> 00:38:28,385 Poor, poor Laura Moon... 457 00:38:29,534 --> 00:38:32,276 So many lies, she can not sleep. 458 00:38:33,277 --> 00:38:36,300 So many vows she can not keep. 459 00:38:36,324 --> 00:38:37,736 Ha. 460 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,544 Because you and Brigitte are... 461 00:38:40,429 --> 00:38:43,046 what, some fucking model of a healthy relationship? 462 00:38:43,070 --> 00:38:44,897 Oh, Brigitte knows... 463 00:38:45,942 --> 00:38:47,615 that with every breath, 464 00:38:48,172 --> 00:38:49,347 every cell... 465 00:38:50,033 --> 00:38:51,687 ...I worship only her. 466 00:38:53,384 --> 00:38:56,929 The most beautiful, interesting, 467 00:38:56,953 --> 00:39:01,000 sexy, and powerful woman I have ever come across. 468 00:39:02,524 --> 00:39:04,263 And when she's not around, 469 00:39:04,874 --> 00:39:06,702 I fuck a lot of other women. 470 00:39:09,770 --> 00:39:10,858 Hm. 471 00:39:23,980 --> 00:39:25,547 One ingredient's still missing. 472 00:39:27,070 --> 00:39:28,724 I can't help you with that one. 473 00:39:29,812 --> 00:39:32,007 What? What, what is it? 474 00:39:32,031 --> 00:39:34,749 Le vrai sang de l'amour. 475 00:39:34,773 --> 00:39:37,385 It's blood infused with love. 476 00:39:38,460 --> 00:39:39,635 Two drops. 477 00:39:40,588 --> 00:39:42,914 But I-I have to... I have to find that? 478 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,308 Right. 'Cause why would this be easy? 479 00:39:48,265 --> 00:39:49,571 Look at you. 480 00:39:50,528 --> 00:39:52,269 Belly all shiny... 481 00:39:53,575 --> 00:39:55,098 ...sweat on your skin... 482 00:39:56,534 --> 00:39:59,296 You're about as close to being alive as you can be 483 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:00,799 while still being dead. 484 00:40:04,020 --> 00:40:05,587 Tell me something, Laura Moon. 485 00:40:08,024 --> 00:40:11,767 If I give you this bottle, then what? 486 00:40:13,725 --> 00:40:16,772 What will you do when your skin warms for another? 487 00:40:18,121 --> 00:40:19,577 For me. 488 00:40:19,601 --> 00:40:22,169 This is a second chance. 489 00:40:25,259 --> 00:40:27,783 What will you do with it, dead girl? 490 00:40:29,350 --> 00:40:31,850 Hmm? For payment, 491 00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,075 I ask only for truth. 492 00:41:50,866 --> 00:41:52,583 We honor the dead 493 00:41:53,265 --> 00:41:55,740 with flesh and sweat, maybe a little blood, no? 494 00:41:56,175 --> 00:41:58,806 Give back for what we take? 495 00:41:58,830 --> 00:42:01,374 I see you and the Baron still eating on the side, huh? 496 00:42:01,398 --> 00:42:04,485 We eat what we want. 497 00:42:07,317 --> 00:42:08,773 And I want you. 498 00:42:08,797 --> 00:42:10,015 Again. 499 00:42:24,639 --> 00:42:26,486 Oh, I see. 500 00:42:26,510 --> 00:42:28,338 Somethin's changed. 501 00:42:29,118 --> 00:42:31,839 You're too gone on the dead girl to do your part. 502 00:42:31,863 --> 00:42:32,927 The fuck I am. 503 00:42:32,951 --> 00:42:34,668 Oh, yeah. 504 00:42:34,692 --> 00:42:36,259 I can taste it. 505 00:42:36,868 --> 00:42:38,629 Salty. 506 00:42:38,653 --> 00:42:41,525 You trying to pick a fight with me, is that it? 507 00:44:50,393 --> 00:44:51,438 The good book says, 508 00:44:53,091 --> 00:44:56,051 "Walk by faith, not by sight." 509 00:44:57,226 --> 00:44:59,837 But try as I may, I... 510 00:45:00,873 --> 00:45:03,885 ...can no longer walk through this life with my eyes closed. 511 00:45:09,020 --> 00:45:10,694 Ruby, 512 00:45:10,718 --> 00:45:13,068 you were right when you said I lied to you. 513 00:45:14,983 --> 00:45:16,811 I've lied not only to you, but... 514 00:45:17,986 --> 00:45:20,858 I've lied to the entire town of Cairo. 515 00:45:21,380 --> 00:45:23,141 Oh, yes. 516 00:45:23,165 --> 00:45:25,360 Every time I told you 517 00:45:25,384 --> 00:45:26,647 it was gonna be okay... 518 00:45:28,257 --> 00:45:29,606 ...I was lying. 519 00:45:34,524 --> 00:45:37,658 The gift of faith 520 00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:41,009 in the face of torment 521 00:45:41,810 --> 00:45:44,379 was given to us when we landed on these shores. 522 00:45:44,403 --> 00:45:48,834 It was there we learned 523 00:45:49,050 --> 00:45:53,824 to look away from the cruelty inflicted upon us. 524 00:45:53,848 --> 00:45:56,938 Well, I can look away no longer! 525 00:46:00,463 --> 00:46:02,659 I see a world in which 526 00:46:02,683 --> 00:46:06,837 little or nothing makes any sense anymore. 527 00:46:07,341 --> 00:46:08,603 Amen. 528 00:46:19,482 --> 00:46:20,962 Leave here. 529 00:46:22,398 --> 00:46:24,356 And if you find somewhere... 530 00:46:26,576 --> 00:46:28,796 ...our people aren't catching hell... 531 00:46:31,494 --> 00:46:33,365 ...you let me know where it is. 532 00:46:36,146 --> 00:46:37,713 I'll come running. 533 00:46:49,884 --> 00:46:53,774 If there is anyone who'd like to share, come on up. 534 00:47:26,331 --> 00:47:28,812 In the Middle Ages, they worshipped death. 535 00:47:30,553 --> 00:47:33,600 They knew its power over life was suffocating. 536 00:47:36,385 --> 00:47:38,039 I learnt that from... 537 00:47:39,710 --> 00:47:41,147 ...my wife. 538 00:47:46,525 --> 00:47:49,920 Now I look into the soul of death and I welcome it. 539 00:47:56,361 --> 00:47:58,233 Memento mori. 540 00:48:01,802 --> 00:48:03,064 Amen. 541 00:48:13,727 --> 00:48:16,053 You know, we're gonna try this once more. 542 00:48:17,390 --> 00:48:21,536 So, the 12 saffron-robed monks chanted as one... 543 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:26,150 # Have a little melancholy baby! # 544 00:48:26,174 --> 00:48:27,871 No? 545 00:48:33,289 --> 00:48:36,813 America is the only country in the world 546 00:48:36,837 --> 00:48:38,466 that measures its food 547 00:48:38,879 --> 00:48:40,120 in feet! 548 00:48:40,464 --> 00:48:41,600 Wow. 549 00:48:45,410 --> 00:48:47,606 Thanks for fucking up my evening! 550 00:48:50,111 --> 00:48:52,591 Shadow Moon! 551 00:48:53,397 --> 00:48:56,465 Don't you look like pretty shit on a toddler's shoe. 552 00:48:56,944 --> 00:49:00,967 Wednesday left you in the capable hands of death 553 00:49:01,183 --> 00:49:03,055 and you lived to tell about it. 554 00:49:03,646 --> 00:49:05,232 Tiger balls to you, Nancy. 555 00:49:05,256 --> 00:49:06,780 All-father. 556 00:49:08,700 --> 00:49:09,997 Any of you selfish fuckers 557 00:49:10,022 --> 00:49:12,109 gonna elaborate on what happened to me tonight? 558 00:49:12,372 --> 00:49:15,549 Magic is not real, Shadow. 559 00:49:16,093 --> 00:49:17,418 It's a trick. 560 00:49:19,508 --> 00:49:21,857 Stop playing checkers with your life, boy. 561 00:49:21,882 --> 00:49:24,145 Mmh. Stop avoiding the questions. 562 00:49:25,494 --> 00:49:27,583 What did Will James want? 563 00:49:28,683 --> 00:49:31,923 Maybe Froggy keeps his memory alive to share the pain, 564 00:49:32,414 --> 00:49:36,331 the self-hatred, and absence of simple solutions for our people. 565 00:49:38,072 --> 00:49:40,732 Or maybe he wants what we all want. 566 00:49:41,771 --> 00:49:44,948 A tall glass of hops fermented... 567 00:49:47,298 --> 00:49:50,713 ...by yours truly in the cold-brewed 568 00:49:50,737 --> 00:49:53,977 contaminated drinking water of Cairo, Illinois. 569 00:49:54,001 --> 00:49:56,039 I will drink to that. 570 00:50:06,102 --> 00:50:07,234 Fuck you. 571 00:50:13,513 --> 00:50:14,601 Well. 572 00:50:16,073 --> 00:50:17,696 Cat got his tongue. 573 00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:20,612 Got more than his tongue. 574 00:50:20,636 --> 00:50:23,876 Sensitivity is such an unattractive quality. 575 00:50:30,907 --> 00:50:32,604 The shit you be up to. 576 00:51:22,874 --> 00:51:23,875 Hey. 577 00:51:31,272 --> 00:51:32,664 By yourself? 578 00:51:35,232 --> 00:51:37,428 I don't know why you came back here. I'm leaving. 579 00:51:37,452 --> 00:51:38,888 Where're you off to? 580 00:51:39,628 --> 00:51:42,259 - Away from you. - What? No, wait! 581 00:51:42,283 --> 00:51:43,893 Don't make me hurt you. 582 00:51:44,807 --> 00:51:46,608 Might I remind you that we had a deal. 583 00:51:47,201 --> 00:51:49,222 You get your life back, I get my coin. 584 00:51:49,246 --> 00:51:51,311 Well, I didn't get my life back, did I? 585 00:51:51,335 --> 00:51:53,705 So, fuck you, deal's off, I'm keeping your fucking coin. 586 00:51:53,729 --> 00:51:55,992 Like fuck you are! 587 00:51:56,488 --> 00:51:59,232 What happened, huh? It didn't work? 588 00:51:59,256 --> 00:52:00,625 Oh, please. 589 00:52:00,649 --> 00:52:02,192 Bullshit. 590 00:52:02,216 --> 00:52:04,455 - What? - Bullshit! Fucking bullshit! 591 00:52:04,479 --> 00:52:06,631 This is all Wednesday. 592 00:52:06,655 --> 00:52:08,807 All of this! All the way back to the casino, 593 00:52:08,831 --> 00:52:11,592 he sends you to fuck my plan and then he sends you to fuck me? 594 00:52:11,616 --> 00:52:13,594 I mean I knew you were his bitch; 595 00:52:13,618 --> 00:52:15,649 I didn't realize you were his whore as well. 596 00:52:15,673 --> 00:52:19,641 What happened last night is not part of some grand plan, you stupid cunt! 597 00:52:20,172 --> 00:52:21,627 They're death Loa! 598 00:52:21,652 --> 00:52:23,785 They fucked us! 599 00:52:24,415 --> 00:52:26,999 And I don't do Wednesday's errands because I like him! 600 00:52:27,023 --> 00:52:29,896 I do 'em because I fucking owe him! 601 00:52:32,088 --> 00:52:35,740 I hate that one-eyed cunt more than you will ever know. 602 00:52:39,949 --> 00:52:42,038 You do Wednesday's errands because... 603 00:52:42,759 --> 00:52:45,500 ...no matter how much you claim you want a war to die in, 604 00:52:46,658 --> 00:52:48,795 you're too much of a fucking coward to find your own. 605 00:52:58,489 --> 00:53:01,433 _ 606 00:53:01,962 --> 00:53:03,962 _