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My name is A lit he a.

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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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...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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This way.

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- Excuse me.
- 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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A lit he a!

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A lit he a!

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Welcome!

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- Welcome at last! Aw.
- Gunhan!

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My dear friend.

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- Oh, how wonderful!
- 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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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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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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Let me show you.

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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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These are their vestiges.

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The question remains,
what is their purpose?

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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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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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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!

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A lit he a!

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A lit he a.

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What happened?

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I don't know.
She just fell.

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She just fell.

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Gosh.

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Are you okay?

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Shouldn't you see a doctor?

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Why?
When I feel so well?

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Forgive me, A lit he a.
Are you sure?

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

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You know, I am actually a child.

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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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Hello?

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00:10:01,165 --> 00:10:02,360
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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00:10:06,693 --> 00:10:09,062
- And with toast?
- Yes, but no crusts.

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00:10:09,086 --> 00:10:11,238
- Two eggs?
- Just one.

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- Okay, thank you.
- Thank you.

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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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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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I don't suppose
you speak English?

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Deutsch?

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Espanol?

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Ellinika?

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Einstein.

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Einstein.

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Television.

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Transmitters.

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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.

186
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Its rules quickly learn, I find.

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Nein, nein, nein.

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Would you like this
little Albert for yourself?

189
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No, no, no.

190
00:15:08,342 --> 00:15:09,885
That can't be good for him.
Put him back.

191
00:15:09,909 --> 00:15:11,147
- I could expand him.
- How?

192
00:15:11,171 --> 00:15:12,365
We could speak with him.

193
00:15:12,389 --> 00:15:13,889
- How is this possible?
- No, put him back.

194
00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:15,629
- Is that your wish?
- This is not possible.

195
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No. It's your obligation.

196
00:15:22,922 --> 00:15:25,291
So, what will you wish for?

197
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What is your heart's desire?

198
00:15:34,194 --> 00:15:39,001
Now, let's, uh,
not get ahead of ourselves.

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I need to take this slow.

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I have all the time
in the world.

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Tell me about yourself.

202
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My name is A lit he a Binnie.

203
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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?

206
00:15:58,348 --> 00:16:02,241
Also, I have
a confession to make.

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00:16:02,265 --> 00:16:04,287
Something
I've never told anybody.

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00:16:04,311 --> 00:16:05,616
Excellent.

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00:16:06,966 --> 00:16:09,727
When I was young,
there was a boy.

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00:16:09,751 --> 00:16:11,250
Your first lover?

211
00:16:11,274 --> 00:16:14,166
No, no, no.
He was not of flesh and blood.

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00:16:14,190 --> 00:16:15,428
A djinn?

213
00:16:15,452 --> 00:16:17,561
No.

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00:16:17,585 --> 00:16:21,434
At that time, I found myself
in a school for girls.

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Gaggles of girls.

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I was... Well, I am
a solitary creature by nature.

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00:16:28,204 --> 00:16:31,227
And this boy, Enzo,

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he came to me,
out of an emptiness.

219
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Out of a need to imagine.

220
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He told me stories in a language

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that only we two spoke.

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00:16:44,090 --> 00:16:46,242
And he always disappeared
when I had a headache,

223
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but he was never far away

224
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when I couldn't move for asthma.

225
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He was like this little Albert

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you would not let me give you?

227
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An emanation?

228
00:16:55,231 --> 00:16:58,123
Only an emanation of an absence.

229
00:17:01,150 --> 00:17:04,458
I feared he would leave,
and so I wrote him down.

230
00:17:06,503 --> 00:17:11,117
And I filled this journal,
bulging with facts.

231
00:17:12,509 --> 00:17:16,663
But the more realism
I tried to insert,

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the more I began to doubt,

233
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and, uh, it all began
to feel silly.

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I felt silly.

235
00:17:27,524 --> 00:17:30,155
So, after a time,

236
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I burned it all
in the school furnace.

237
00:17:34,705 --> 00:17:37,534
And after that,
he disappeared altogether.

238
00:17:38,796 --> 00:17:41,408
And yet, I am here.

239
00:17:43,627 --> 00:17:45,673
Contrary to reason, yes.

240
00:17:46,761 --> 00:17:51,046
I am here,
and we have work to do.

241
00:17:53,333 --> 00:17:55,702
Can you come back later, please?

242
00:17:55,726 --> 00:17:57,661
It's room service,
Dr. Binnie.

243
00:17:57,685 --> 00:17:59,706
I have your breakfast.

244
00:17:59,730 --> 00:18:01,297
Just a minute!

245
00:18:02,429 --> 00:18:04,083
Must close door.

246
00:18:18,314 --> 00:18:19,422
Good morning.

247
00:18:19,446 --> 00:18:20,640
Where would you like it,
Dr. Binnie?

248
00:18:20,664 --> 00:18:21,902
Thank you. Oh, I can take it.

249
00:18:21,926 --> 00:18:24,209
- Please, allow me.
- No. No, I can manage it.

250
00:18:24,233 --> 00:18:26,820
Jolly good, Dr. Binnie.
I hope you are well rested.

251
00:18:26,844 --> 00:18:28,561
Oh, that looks delicious.
Yes, I am.

252
00:18:28,585 --> 00:18:30,389
What do you plan to do
on this fine day?

253
00:18:30,413 --> 00:18:33,131
Uh, I'm not sure.
I'm improvising.

254
00:18:33,155 --> 00:18:35,612
Well, I'd like to show you
a beautiful art gallery...

255
00:18:35,636 --> 00:18:36,830
That's so kind. Thank you.

256
00:18:36,854 --> 00:18:38,005
...this afternoon,
when you get a chance.

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00:18:38,029 --> 00:18:39,355
- Maybe another time.
- It will be great.

258
00:18:39,379 --> 00:18:40,399
Thank you.
Have a beautiful day.

259
00:18:40,423 --> 00:18:42,575
Okay. Jolly good. Enjoy.

260
00:18:42,599 --> 00:18:43,818
Thank you!

261
00:19:23,205 --> 00:19:25,792
A more convenient size, I see.

262
00:19:25,816 --> 00:19:27,731
I do what I can to fit in.

263
00:19:28,210 --> 00:19:30,145
Please.

264
00:19:30,169 --> 00:19:32,321
I needn't have
ordered breakfast.

265
00:19:32,345 --> 00:19:35,802
It's nan-e nokhodchi.
Chickpeas, cloves, pistachio.

266
00:19:35,826 --> 00:19:37,611
It will melt in your mouth.

267
00:19:42,746 --> 00:19:44,724
May I ask you something?

268
00:19:44,748 --> 00:19:45,880
Anything.

269
00:19:47,316 --> 00:19:50,189
How come you found your way
into my bottle?

270
00:19:51,407 --> 00:19:52,800
Ah, it's quite a story.

271
00:19:53,714 --> 00:19:55,779
That was my third incarceration.

272
00:19:55,803 --> 00:19:57,868
You've been trapped
in a bottle three times?

273
00:19:57,892 --> 00:20:00,218
I may be a djinn,
but I'm also a fool

274
00:20:00,242 --> 00:20:02,829
with too great a fondness
for the conversation of women.

275
00:20:02,853 --> 00:20:05,223
I need to be more careful
in the future.

276
00:20:05,247 --> 00:20:06,767
How were you caught
in the first place?

277
00:20:07,510 --> 00:20:09,184
By desire.

278
00:20:09,208 --> 00:20:10,861
How else?

279
00:20:13,734 --> 00:20:15,320
Who was she?

280
00:20:15,344 --> 00:20:16,800
Sheba.

281
00:20:16,824 --> 00:20:18,193
The Queen of Sheba?

282
00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:19,716
She was my kin.

283
00:20:19,740 --> 00:20:20,847
She was a djinn?

284
00:20:20,871 --> 00:20:22,371
Her mother was a djinn.

285
00:20:22,395 --> 00:20:23,459
Is that possible?

286
00:20:23,483 --> 00:20:24,677
There are laws that allow

287
00:20:24,701 --> 00:20:26,201
the union of djinn and mortals,

288
00:20:26,225 --> 00:20:27,941
but they cannot produce
an immortal scion

289
00:20:27,965 --> 00:20:29,247
the way a donkey and a horse

290
00:20:29,271 --> 00:20:31,230
can only produce
a seedless mule.

291
00:20:32,883 --> 00:20:35,993
So, what did she look like?

292
00:20:36,017 --> 00:20:40,215
Other than a thick glade
of black hair on her legs,

293
00:20:40,239 --> 00:20:41,607
she looked like
any other human being,

294
00:20:41,631 --> 00:20:43,914
except, of course,
she was Sheba.

295
00:20:43,938 --> 00:20:46,525
By all accounts,
she was very beautiful.

296
00:20:46,549 --> 00:20:49,509
She was not beautiful.
She was beauty itself.

297
00:20:53,034 --> 00:20:55,839
I was in every way free.

298
00:20:55,863 --> 00:20:58,866
I would come in and out
of her sleeping chamber.

299
00:20:59,997 --> 00:21:02,522
Sheba...

300
00:21:06,003 --> 00:21:08,895
I knew as well as any
of her female slaves

301
00:21:08,919 --> 00:21:11,922
the touches that made
her shiver with bliss.

302
00:21:13,054 --> 00:21:15,578
Never have I wanted
a creature so.

303
00:21:16,405 --> 00:21:17,861
And she desired you in return?

304
00:21:17,885 --> 00:21:21,256
I was her plaything.
Her confidante.

305
00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,519
I might have become more,
but for Solomon.

306
00:21:23,543 --> 00:21:24,737
King Solomon?

307
00:21:24,761 --> 00:21:26,739
Blessed be his memory.

308
00:21:26,763 --> 00:21:29,002
He came from across
the deserts to woo her.

309
00:21:29,026 --> 00:21:30,308
Didn't she go to him?

310
00:21:30,332 --> 00:21:31,657
No. Never.

311
00:21:31,681 --> 00:21:33,485
But it's in all the holy books.

312
00:21:33,509 --> 00:21:34,965
All the stories
and the paintings.

313
00:21:34,989 --> 00:21:36,749
And Handel wrote music about it.

314
00:21:36,773 --> 00:21:38,360
Madam, I was there.

315
00:21:38,384 --> 00:21:40,057
Solomon came to her.

316
00:22:07,456 --> 00:22:09,415
He began with music.

317
00:23:41,071 --> 00:23:44,442
I did all that I could
to dissuade her.

318
00:23:44,466 --> 00:23:45,574
But when she used

319
00:23:45,598 --> 00:23:47,445
the scented wax
of the Jabassa Bee

320
00:23:47,469 --> 00:23:49,012
to remove the hair
from her legs,

321
00:23:49,036 --> 00:23:50,709
I knew that I was lost.

322
00:23:50,733 --> 00:23:53,059
But I, like a fool,
went on telling her

323
00:23:53,083 --> 00:23:56,062
that her body
was rich and lovely,

324
00:23:56,086 --> 00:23:58,717
but her mind
was richer and lovelier,

325
00:23:58,741 --> 00:24:00,502
and more durable.

326
00:24:00,526 --> 00:24:02,591
And she agreed
with all that I said,

327
00:24:02,615 --> 00:24:04,225
and dropped a hot tear.

328
00:24:05,618 --> 00:24:08,597
She began to set him tasks,
which seemed impossible,

329
00:24:08,621 --> 00:24:10,729
to find a particular thread
of red silk

330
00:24:10,753 --> 00:24:12,731
in the palace
of a thousand rooms,

331
00:24:12,755 --> 00:24:15,604
to guess the secret name
of her mother djinn,

332
00:24:15,628 --> 00:24:18,911
to tell her
what women most desire.

333
00:24:18,935 --> 00:24:20,783
That does seem impossible.

334
00:24:20,807 --> 00:24:22,045
Not for him.

335
00:24:22,069 --> 00:24:23,568
He could speak
to the beasts of the earth,

336
00:24:23,592 --> 00:24:26,005
and to the djinn
made of subtle fire.

337
00:24:26,029 --> 00:24:29,095
He found ants to discover
the thread of silk,

338
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,184
and an ifrit to whisper
the mother's name.

339
00:24:36,518 --> 00:24:38,017
Then he looked into her eyes

340
00:24:38,041 --> 00:24:41,107
and told her
what women most desire.

341
00:24:43,220 --> 00:24:44,831
She was astonished,

342
00:24:46,180 --> 00:24:48,008
and told him he was right.

343
00:24:52,534 --> 00:24:56,035
And so she granted him
what he most desired,

344
00:24:56,059 --> 00:24:58,932
which was to wed her
and be taken to her bed.

345
00:25:19,039 --> 00:25:20,799
He was a great magician...

346
00:25:20,823 --> 00:25:22,279
...and imprisoned me

347
00:25:22,303 --> 00:25:25,524
with a word of power
into a brass bottle.

348
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,813
She made no plea for me.

349
00:25:54,814 --> 00:25:57,183
I was nothing to her.

350
00:25:57,207 --> 00:25:59,122
A breath in a bottle.

351
00:26:13,876 --> 00:26:16,638
And so, I was cast
into the Red Sea

352
00:26:16,662 --> 00:26:20,274
and languished for 2,500 years.

353
00:26:25,627 --> 00:26:27,213
Apart from sleep,

354
00:26:27,237 --> 00:26:30,197
what does one do in a bottle
for 2,500 years?

355
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,243
Djinn don't sleep.

356
00:26:38,901 --> 00:26:40,599
So, how do you manage then?

357
00:26:43,906 --> 00:26:48,626
Well, for the first 100 years,
I rage against my fate.

358
00:26:48,650 --> 00:26:50,367
I pray to Boschkolo
for my release,

359
00:26:50,391 --> 00:26:51,803
and when that does not work,

360
00:26:51,827 --> 00:26:53,283
I pray to any god I know,

361
00:26:53,307 --> 00:26:55,241
and then to any god
I may not know.

362
00:26:55,265 --> 00:26:57,940
And when, still,
I find no answers,

363
00:26:59,052 --> 00:27:01,117
I spend my time in waking dreams

364
00:27:01,141 --> 00:27:03,902
revisiting all the stories
of my life.

365
00:27:03,926 --> 00:27:06,862
And when I have exhausted this
many, many times,

366
00:27:06,886 --> 00:27:09,908
I return to my prayer
and my rage.

367
00:27:09,932 --> 00:27:12,892
And then, finally,

368
00:27:14,241 --> 00:27:16,373
I play a trick on myself.

369
00:27:17,810 --> 00:27:19,265
I pray to remain in the bottle.

370
00:27:19,289 --> 00:27:23,095
I beseech Boschkolo to keep me
always in the bottle.

371
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:24,662
And does that work?

372
00:27:24,686 --> 00:27:26,142
To yearn for nothing?

373
00:27:26,166 --> 00:27:28,013
To pretend to want nothing more

374
00:27:28,037 --> 00:27:29,754
than to be contained
in a bottle?

375
00:27:29,778 --> 00:27:31,234
No.

376
00:27:31,258 --> 00:27:34,000
For a djinn, it is the closest
we ever come to death.

377
00:27:36,872 --> 00:27:38,633
Do you know the answer
to her question?

378
00:27:38,657 --> 00:27:39,808
What women most desire?

379
00:27:39,832 --> 00:27:40,939
Yeah.

380
00:27:40,963 --> 00:27:42,680
Do you not know?

381
00:27:42,704 --> 00:27:44,203
If you do not know,
I cannot tell you.

382
00:27:44,227 --> 00:27:46,379
Well, surely, we don't
all want the same thing.

383
00:27:46,403 --> 00:27:49,992
Madam, your yearnings
are not at all clear to me.

384
00:27:50,016 --> 00:27:53,299
I... I'm at a point in my life
where I have all I need.

385
00:27:53,323 --> 00:27:55,867
I daresay I'm content,
and gratefully so.

386
00:27:55,891 --> 00:27:56,999
Tell me.

387
00:27:57,023 --> 00:27:59,392
Are you a wife? A widow?

388
00:27:59,416 --> 00:28:01,656
- Um...
- A mother, perhaps?

389
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,204
I have no children,
no siblings, no parents.

390
00:28:05,988 --> 00:28:07,270
I did once have a husband.

391
00:28:07,294 --> 00:28:08,532
Ah.

392
00:28:08,556 --> 00:28:10,689
And what was the complexion
of this husband?

393
00:28:11,211 --> 00:28:12,667
His complexion?

394
00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:15,844
In the beginning,
it was glowing.

395
00:28:15,868 --> 00:28:17,672
And in the ending?

396
00:28:17,696 --> 00:28:19,195
It's not much of a story.

397
00:28:19,219 --> 00:28:22,111
But it is a story.
It is your story,

398
00:28:22,135 --> 00:28:23,765
and it is always wise

399
00:28:23,789 --> 00:28:25,723
to understand those
who have a hold on you.

400
00:28:25,747 --> 00:28:26,811
Please.

401
00:28:29,011 --> 00:28:31,231
Well, okay, um...

402
00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:36,168
We'd known each other
since our youth.

403
00:28:36,192 --> 00:28:38,040
We, uh, married early.

404
00:28:38,064 --> 00:28:39,998
In the beginning,
we took pleasure

405
00:28:40,022 --> 00:28:41,826
in each other's minds
and bodies.

406
00:28:41,850 --> 00:28:43,175
Um...

407
00:28:43,199 --> 00:28:45,003
We passed the years comfortably,

408
00:28:45,027 --> 00:28:47,421
and then as it happens,

409
00:28:48,161 --> 00:28:50,182
it all evaporated,

410
00:28:50,206 --> 00:28:52,252
and, uh... and we became

411
00:28:53,383 --> 00:28:54,404
less.

412
00:28:54,428 --> 00:28:55,428
And where is he?

413
00:28:57,126 --> 00:29:00,062
He's in Hackney,
with Emmeline Porter.

414
00:29:00,086 --> 00:29:01,261
Mmm.

415
00:29:07,441 --> 00:29:09,375
He told me I...

416
00:29:09,399 --> 00:29:11,856
I was incapable
of reading feelings.

417
00:29:16,015 --> 00:29:18,341
I was incapable
of reading his feelings.

418
00:29:18,365 --> 00:29:20,256
...gonna have
a resolution.

419
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:21,431
This is exciting!

420
00:29:21,455 --> 00:29:22,998
- It is exciting!
- No, it's not.

421
00:29:23,022 --> 00:29:24,434
Let me guess.
No one dies in it.

422
00:29:24,458 --> 00:29:26,175
No!

423
00:29:26,199 --> 00:29:30,005
The way my brain
is wired is... is the...

424
00:29:30,029 --> 00:29:33,008
the source both of my power

425
00:29:33,032 --> 00:29:35,774
and, uh, and my solitude.

426
00:29:36,775 --> 00:29:38,951
I suspect that's why
I like stories.

427
00:29:39,865 --> 00:29:42,495
I find feelings through stories.

428
00:29:46,088 --> 00:29:49,024
Perhaps you could
wish for him back.

429
00:29:49,048 --> 00:29:51,180
Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no.

430
00:29:51,354 --> 00:29:52,442
No.

431
00:29:53,530 --> 00:29:56,185
I... I thought, um,

432
00:29:57,273 --> 00:30:01,103
I might grieve
a loss and betrayal, but, uh,

433
00:30:02,409 --> 00:30:04,106
no, in fact, I was free.

434
00:30:05,499 --> 00:30:07,825
I was like a prisoner

435
00:30:07,849 --> 00:30:11,437
emerging from a dungeon
into the sunlight.

436
00:30:11,461 --> 00:30:14,266
I expanded into the space
of my own life.

437
00:30:14,290 --> 00:30:18,444
No, I could not wish for more.

438
00:30:18,468 --> 00:30:21,447
You are a wise
and cautious woman, A lit he a.

439
00:30:21,471 --> 00:30:24,102
But we all have desires,

440
00:30:24,126 --> 00:30:25,998
even if they remain
hidden from us.

441
00:30:28,130 --> 00:30:29,934
That's as maybe.

442
00:30:29,958 --> 00:30:34,852
But I am also a narratologist,

443
00:30:34,876 --> 00:30:37,333
and that is going
to be a problem.

444
00:30:37,357 --> 00:30:39,596
It's going to be
a very big problem.

445
00:30:39,620 --> 00:30:41,816
See, I know
all the stories there are

446
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,165
about trickster djinn,

447
00:30:43,189 --> 00:30:44,470
and the ways in which
they manipulate wishing

448
00:30:44,494 --> 00:30:45,558
to their own ends.

449
00:30:45,582 --> 00:30:46,864
I am not one of them.

450
00:30:46,888 --> 00:30:48,823
I am god-fearing and honorable,

451
00:30:48,847 --> 00:30:51,086
and only here
to grant your heart's desire.

452
00:30:51,110 --> 00:30:53,175
Well, even if that's true,

453
00:30:53,199 --> 00:30:56,376
how can you rely on those
called upon to wish?

454
00:30:58,421 --> 00:31:01,207
How do you know
you can rely on me?

455
00:31:02,338 --> 00:31:04,360
Well, I hope so.

456
00:31:04,384 --> 00:31:07,189
With you, I certainly hope so.

457
00:31:07,213 --> 00:31:09,408
There's a...

458
00:31:09,432 --> 00:31:12,324
funny little story.
I mean, you probably know it.

459
00:31:12,348 --> 00:31:14,283
Three friends lost at sea
in a tiny boat.

460
00:31:14,307 --> 00:31:16,024
They pull up a magic fish,

461
00:31:16,048 --> 00:31:17,590
who grants each of them
one wish.

462
00:31:17,614 --> 00:31:18,722
The first one,

463
00:31:18,746 --> 00:31:20,506
"I wish I were at home
with my wife."

464
00:31:20,530 --> 00:31:21,681
He vanishes.

465
00:31:21,705 --> 00:31:23,292
The second one,
"I wish I were playing"

466
00:31:23,316 --> 00:31:24,597
"in the fields
with my children."

467
00:31:24,621 --> 00:31:25,816
Off he goes.

468
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,340
And the third one,
"I miss my friends..."

469
00:31:28,364 --> 00:31:29,385
"I wish they were here."

470
00:31:29,409 --> 00:31:31,039
You've got it.

471
00:31:31,063 --> 00:31:34,303
There's no story about wishing
that is not a cautionary tale.

472
00:31:34,327 --> 00:31:36,218
None end happily.

473
00:31:36,242 --> 00:31:38,133
Not even the ones
that are supposed to be jokes.

474
00:31:38,157 --> 00:31:40,439
But you and I
are the authors of this story,

475
00:31:40,463 --> 00:31:42,988
and we can avoid all traps.

476
00:31:44,685 --> 00:31:47,079
Well, what if
I made no wish at all?

477
00:31:49,037 --> 00:31:50,082
Pardon?

478
00:31:52,693 --> 00:31:54,584
What if I made no wish?

479
00:31:54,608 --> 00:31:55,977
That would be an...

480
00:31:58,307 --> 00:31:59,545
That would be

481
00:31:59,569 --> 00:32:01,983
catastrophic!

482
00:32:16,021 --> 00:32:17,563
All right.

483
00:32:22,244 --> 00:32:25,223
I need to tell you
about my next incarceration.

484
00:32:25,247 --> 00:32:26,335
I'm all ears.

485
00:32:37,433 --> 00:32:39,150
I will never know

486
00:32:39,174 --> 00:32:43,067
how my bottle came from the
bottom of the Red Sea...

487
00:32:44,353 --> 00:32:46,486
...to a palace
in Constantinople.

488
00:32:47,617 --> 00:32:49,552
But I fancy somehow it involved

489
00:32:49,576 --> 00:32:51,162
the killing of
an Ottoman warrior.

490
00:32:57,149 --> 00:32:58,672
The fall of an empire.

491
00:33:08,116 --> 00:33:09,311
And a girl in love.

492
00:33:31,052 --> 00:33:32,358
Merhaba.

493
00:33:54,119 --> 00:33:56,619
Gulten lived as a slave

494
00:33:56,643 --> 00:33:58,490
in the courtyard
of the concubines

495
00:33:58,514 --> 00:34:00,014
in the seraglio.

496
00:34:19,187 --> 00:34:20,338
When I appeared to her...

497
00:34:23,191 --> 00:34:25,343
...she fainted.

498
00:34:25,367 --> 00:34:28,085
And I had great trouble
rousing her.

499
00:34:34,202 --> 00:34:36,702
I made it clear
that I meant her no harm,

500
00:34:36,726 --> 00:34:38,530
for I was condemned
to the bottle.

501
00:34:38,554 --> 00:34:40,097
Until you got your three wishes.

502
00:34:40,121 --> 00:34:42,099
Until she got hers.

503
00:34:42,123 --> 00:34:44,232
- Please.
- Okay.

504
00:34:44,256 --> 00:34:45,711
Now, the poor girl told me

505
00:34:45,735 --> 00:34:49,672
she was distractedly in love
with a beautiful man...

506
00:34:51,176 --> 00:34:52,631
...and she wished immediately

507
00:34:52,655 --> 00:34:55,069
to find favor in his eyes.

508
00:35:07,975 --> 00:35:09,648
As it happens,

509
00:35:09,672 --> 00:35:11,824
the one she most desired
was the splendid Mustafa.

510
00:35:11,848 --> 00:35:13,633
Prince Mustafa.

511
00:35:15,591 --> 00:35:18,266
Eldest son of
Suleiman the Magnificent,

512
00:35:18,290 --> 00:35:21,336
and likely heir
to his mighty throne.

513
00:35:22,424 --> 00:35:23,836
Had I known what was to come,

514
00:35:23,860 --> 00:35:27,144
I would've risked
the furies of Iblis

515
00:35:27,168 --> 00:35:30,302
to vehemently distract her
from her wish.

516
00:35:31,738 --> 00:35:33,368
But without thinking,

517
00:35:33,392 --> 00:35:36,153
I took my bottle
and conjured oils

518
00:35:36,177 --> 00:35:37,613
to prepare her.

519
00:35:39,354 --> 00:35:40,897
Oils of enchantment

520
00:35:40,921 --> 00:35:44,142
once used only by Sheba.

521
00:35:48,755 --> 00:35:50,863
I cautioned her
to hide the bottle

522
00:35:50,887 --> 00:35:53,760
lest its powers
fall into other hands.

523
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:00,612
I went to Mustafa.

524
00:36:00,636 --> 00:36:02,527
Gulten.

525
00:36:02,551 --> 00:36:03,857
I whispered her name.

526
00:36:08,514 --> 00:36:10,255
He sent for her.

527
00:36:12,648 --> 00:36:14,476
It was so easy.

528
00:36:23,224 --> 00:36:25,420
As a djinn,
I am endlessly curious

529
00:36:25,444 --> 00:36:27,228
about the ways of humans.

530
00:36:28,229 --> 00:36:29,902
So, in my spare time,

531
00:36:29,926 --> 00:36:33,408
I took to wandering the palace
in search of its intrigues.

532
00:36:34,322 --> 00:36:35,821
And there, among the eunuchs,

533
00:36:35,845 --> 00:36:37,562
the consorts,
and the concubines,

534
00:36:37,586 --> 00:36:39,719
I first saw Hurrem.

535
00:36:40,676 --> 00:36:42,219
The Laughing One.

536
00:36:50,773 --> 00:36:52,751
She, too, was a slave

537
00:36:52,775 --> 00:36:55,493
who had risen
through the center of them all

538
00:36:55,517 --> 00:36:57,780
to become the Sultan's favorite.

539
00:37:06,398 --> 00:37:09,986
Suleiman the Wise
saw none but her.

540
00:37:10,010 --> 00:37:12,684
And she sought
to protect his throne

541
00:37:12,708 --> 00:37:16,843
in favor of her own sons
over his beloved Mustafa.

542
00:37:19,715 --> 00:37:21,911
And to this end,
she had the prince watched

543
00:37:21,935 --> 00:37:23,719
by many probing eyes.

544
00:37:33,816 --> 00:37:35,359
When I saw how Hurrem

545
00:37:35,383 --> 00:37:39,363
made a masterpiece
of her manipulations,

546
00:37:39,387 --> 00:37:43,261
I worried that my Gulten
might be caught in this web.

547
00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:51,375
I tried to warn her
to be careful.

548
00:37:53,314 --> 00:37:56,685
But she had already
decided on her second wish.

549
00:38:09,461 --> 00:38:11,550
Such a mistake.

550
00:38:12,551 --> 00:38:14,659
Because at this moment,

551
00:38:14,683 --> 00:38:16,922
Suleiman, blessed be his name,

552
00:38:16,946 --> 00:38:18,687
is being undermined.

553
00:38:19,906 --> 00:38:22,580
His warriors believe
he is going soft,

554
00:38:22,604 --> 00:38:25,322
more interested in his poetry

555
00:38:25,346 --> 00:38:27,759
than ruling with a strong hand.

556
00:38:43,103 --> 00:38:45,037
Hurrem fuels the rumors

557
00:38:45,061 --> 00:38:47,039
that the military
want to take his throne

558
00:38:47,063 --> 00:38:49,501
and replace him with Mustafa.

559
00:38:50,763 --> 00:38:52,393
The prince has become a pawn

560
00:38:52,417 --> 00:38:55,396
in the ceaseless game of power.

561
00:39:07,649 --> 00:39:09,714
Suleiman the Magnificent,

562
00:39:09,738 --> 00:39:11,455
Suleiman the Conqueror,

563
00:39:11,479 --> 00:39:14,328
patron and protector of empires,

564
00:39:14,352 --> 00:39:15,851
Suleiman the Father,

565
00:39:15,875 --> 00:39:17,374
was left with a choice

566
00:39:17,398 --> 00:39:20,445
that he knows
will break his heart.

567
00:39:27,495 --> 00:39:30,431
Gulten, meantime, saw no reason

568
00:39:30,455 --> 00:39:32,868
why she should remain unseen.

569
00:39:36,548 --> 00:39:40,552
Given she was carrying the son
of the next Sultan.

570
00:39:46,558 --> 00:39:48,666
Despite all my warnings,

571
00:39:48,690 --> 00:39:52,714
she parades her newly swollen
breasts and belly.

572
00:39:52,738 --> 00:39:56,413
And the whispers soon spread
throughout the seraglio.

573
00:40:02,574 --> 00:40:05,925
The terrible plottings
move all too quickly.

574
00:40:31,994 --> 00:40:34,451
Prince Mustafa comes innocently

575
00:40:34,475 --> 00:40:36,671
into the presence of his father,

576
00:40:36,695 --> 00:40:39,456
to reassure him of his loyalty.

577
00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:52,688
And
the mutes are waiting for him.

578
00:40:56,671 --> 00:40:58,606
He cried out to his Janissaries,

579
00:40:58,630 --> 00:41:00,216
who loved him,

580
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:02,958
but his voice was crushed
and his breath stopped

581
00:41:02,982 --> 00:41:05,680
by the string
of his father's bow.

582
00:41:26,005 --> 00:41:27,876
Gulten!

583
00:42:00,996 --> 00:42:02,539
"Make a wish!"

584
00:42:02,563 --> 00:42:04,739
"Save yourself, Gulten!"

585
00:42:09,135 --> 00:42:11,853
Just a few words
and she could have been free

586
00:42:11,877 --> 00:42:15,552
to bear her child in safety,

587
00:42:15,576 --> 00:42:19,121
and I to spirit away at last
to the Realm of Djinn.

588
00:42:19,145 --> 00:42:21,515
But she ran into the hands
of the assassins.

589
00:42:23,236 --> 00:42:25,562
I was about
to take them by force,

590
00:42:25,586 --> 00:42:27,956
when I was blocked
by a follower of Iblis.

591
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:11,327
Gulten!

592
00:43:27,648 --> 00:43:30,608
She made
no wish to save herself.

593
00:43:31,957 --> 00:43:34,786
No wish was made
to save us both.

594
00:43:42,141 --> 00:43:44,162
So, there I was,

595
00:43:44,186 --> 00:43:46,251
or there I was not,
might you say,

596
00:43:46,275 --> 00:43:49,341
almost emancipated
and tethered to this world

597
00:43:49,365 --> 00:43:51,909
by a third wish unperformed.

598
00:43:51,933 --> 00:43:53,563
But you realize, don't you,

599
00:43:53,587 --> 00:43:56,392
that you've just told me the
story of a woman who was doomed

600
00:43:56,416 --> 00:43:58,655
as a consequence
of the wishes she made?

601
00:43:58,679 --> 00:44:01,310
Yes, but her failure
to complete the wishes

602
00:44:01,334 --> 00:44:03,617
also doomed me.

603
00:44:03,641 --> 00:44:05,749
Could nobody else
complete the wish?

604
00:44:05,773 --> 00:44:07,316
That was my hope.

605
00:44:07,340 --> 00:44:09,187
And that would
finally liberate you?

606
00:44:09,211 --> 00:44:11,842
That was my only hope.

607
00:44:11,866 --> 00:44:14,018
But you were rendered invisible.

608
00:44:14,042 --> 00:44:15,106
Like a ghost.

609
00:44:15,130 --> 00:44:16,934
Wandering unseen.

610
00:44:16,958 --> 00:44:18,196
And your bottle,

611
00:44:18,220 --> 00:44:20,155
hidden under the loosened stone

612
00:44:20,179 --> 00:44:21,722
known only to the dead Gulten.

613
00:44:21,746 --> 00:44:23,637
Yes, it was a predicament.

614
00:44:25,227 --> 00:44:27,684
I tried to attract
the attention of someone,

615
00:44:27,708 --> 00:44:29,318
anyone that could help me.

616
00:44:30,711 --> 00:44:32,341
My stars, how I tried.

617
00:44:32,365 --> 00:44:34,909
I followed their scent,
their every step.

618
00:44:34,933 --> 00:44:37,128
Willing, pleading, screaming.

619
00:44:37,152 --> 00:44:39,000
Anything to draw them to me.

620
00:45:08,140 --> 00:45:11,815
And I do this piteously
for 100 years,

621
00:45:11,839 --> 00:45:15,079
and with every failure,
my will begins to fade.

622
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:23,827
And then in 1620,

623
00:45:23,851 --> 00:45:27,463
hope comes in the form
of a boy with a sword.

624
00:45:34,340 --> 00:45:36,472
Murad! Murad!

625
00:45:50,399 --> 00:45:52,053
Murad!

626
00:46:00,409 --> 00:46:03,258
By some means,
this boy senses me.

627
00:46:03,282 --> 00:46:06,174
I'm able to draw him
to the stone.

628
00:46:55,290 --> 00:46:56,335
Ibrahim!

629
00:46:56,988 --> 00:46:58,250
Gel.

630
00:47:00,295 --> 00:47:01,340
Murad!

631
00:47:02,863 --> 00:47:04,493
Ibrahim!

632
00:47:04,517 --> 00:47:06,103
And just as
I am about to be delivered

633
00:47:06,127 --> 00:47:07,409
into their hands,

634
00:47:07,433 --> 00:47:08,889
their mother finds them.

635
00:47:11,306 --> 00:47:12,936
She is Kosem,

636
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,156
a widow of the Sultan,
Ahmed the First.

637
00:47:15,180 --> 00:47:17,506
And the boys are next in line
for the throne.

638
00:47:20,402 --> 00:47:22,816
When I see the hair on his legs,

639
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,557
I know that somewhere
in Murad's bloodline

640
00:47:25,581 --> 00:47:27,540
pulses the power of a djinn.

641
00:47:28,497 --> 00:47:30,258
I follow him everywhere,

642
00:47:30,282 --> 00:47:32,826
determined to draw him back
to the stone.

643
00:47:32,850 --> 00:47:35,872
But at the age of 11,
he ascends the throne

644
00:47:35,896 --> 00:47:37,961
and becomes
Sultan Murad the Fourth.

645
00:47:37,985 --> 00:47:40,964
And caught up
by the usual intrigues,

646
00:47:40,988 --> 00:47:44,272
he is even more lost to me.

647
00:47:44,296 --> 00:47:47,231
At 20, he leads
his armies to war.

648
00:47:47,255 --> 00:47:48,972
He battles alongside his men

649
00:47:48,996 --> 00:47:51,346
in the Caucasus and Mesopotamia.

650
00:47:52,521 --> 00:47:54,935
Stories are told
of his recklessness,

651
00:47:54,959 --> 00:47:57,154
even with his own life.

652
00:48:03,358 --> 00:48:06,231
I despair of
ever seeing him again.

653
00:48:07,623 --> 00:48:12,150
Hope is a monster, A lit he a,
and I am its plaything.

654
00:48:12,585 --> 00:48:13,954
So he died?

655
00:48:13,978 --> 00:48:15,327
Not in battle.

656
00:48:15,936 --> 00:48:17,174
Back in Istanbul,

657
00:48:17,198 --> 00:48:19,307
Kosem needs
to protect the throne.

658
00:48:19,331 --> 00:48:21,135
She needs to protect Ibrahim.

659
00:48:21,159 --> 00:48:23,006
- The little brother?
- Yes.

660
00:48:26,555 --> 00:48:28,949
He is last of the Ottoman line.

661
00:48:29,950 --> 00:48:32,257
He has to produce male children.

662
00:48:34,912 --> 00:48:39,438
So, Kosem locks him in a cage
lined entirely with sable.

663
00:48:46,967 --> 00:48:48,553
Quite the prison.

664
00:48:48,577 --> 00:48:51,058
And one
he will never want to leave.

665
00:49:06,508 --> 00:49:08,922
It debauches him royally.

666
00:49:08,946 --> 00:49:11,576
He believes the greater
the expanse of flesh,

667
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,274
the more intense the pleasure.

668
00:49:13,298 --> 00:49:17,234
So, Kosem seeks out beauties
voluptuous and immense,

669
00:49:17,258 --> 00:49:20,455
and brings them to his couch.

670
00:49:20,479 --> 00:49:24,459
My fate turns specifically
on this fetish.

671
00:49:24,483 --> 00:49:25,745
How's that?

672
00:49:26,615 --> 00:49:28,028
You'll see.

673
00:49:58,473 --> 00:50:00,277
Murad is back.

674
00:50:00,301 --> 00:50:02,149
And though
he returns a conqueror,

675
00:50:02,173 --> 00:50:04,784
he cannot shed
his robes of blood.

676
00:50:05,785 --> 00:50:08,459
War had truly rotted his soul.

677
00:50:28,373 --> 00:50:30,220
I wait until he is alone.

678
00:50:30,244 --> 00:50:33,397
I am determined to draw him
back to the stone.

679
00:50:33,421 --> 00:50:36,574
I don't want to interrupt,
but I do have a question.

680
00:50:36,598 --> 00:50:38,620
Did it matter to you
what kind of wish

681
00:50:38,644 --> 00:50:40,211
such a man might make?

682
00:50:40,646 --> 00:50:42,493
One so insatiable.

683
00:50:42,517 --> 00:50:44,321
No.

684
00:50:44,345 --> 00:50:46,280
Not even if
it were profoundly evil?

685
00:50:46,304 --> 00:50:47,803
Not if it meant my freedom.

686
00:50:47,827 --> 00:50:51,700
The truth is he has
other things on his mind.

687
00:50:53,354 --> 00:50:55,637
He believes he is invincible,

688
00:50:55,661 --> 00:51:00,057
and to rule indefinitely,
he must be rid of all rivals.

689
00:51:13,113 --> 00:51:14,201
Ibrahim.

690
00:51:17,509 --> 00:51:18,727
Ibrahim.

691
00:52:20,615 --> 00:52:22,898
Kosem needs to stop him.

692
00:52:22,922 --> 00:52:25,161
Somehow, she needed
to distract him

693
00:52:25,185 --> 00:52:27,840
from his bloodlust
with other gratifications.

694
00:52:32,932 --> 00:52:36,196
First, she arranges for him
to be perpetually drunk.

695
00:52:38,285 --> 00:52:40,176
And then she tries
something very shrewd.

696
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:41,656
Something that you might enjoy.

697
00:52:47,816 --> 00:52:49,272
She sends to find,

698
00:52:49,296 --> 00:52:51,646
from all corners of the empire,

699
00:52:52,473 --> 00:52:54,649
the best storytellers.

700
00:53:13,842 --> 00:53:15,951
Those who are not persuasive

701
00:53:15,975 --> 00:53:19,326
flee in fear
or fall to his impatience.

702
00:53:29,554 --> 00:53:31,314
There is only one

703
00:53:31,338 --> 00:53:33,447
who has the ability
to enchant him.

704
00:53:35,255 --> 00:53:37,581
To soothe with stories,

705
00:53:37,605 --> 00:53:40,521
to hold him hostage
to their unfolding.

706
00:54:02,021 --> 00:54:04,023
This is his only friend.

707
00:54:06,547 --> 00:54:09,594
And that friendship
turns to love.

708
00:54:11,552 --> 00:54:13,661
Since there is nothing else
for me to do,

709
00:54:13,685 --> 00:54:15,184
I listen gratefully,

710
00:54:15,208 --> 00:54:18,385
for I, too, love being lost
in his stories.

711
00:54:23,695 --> 00:54:25,629
When the old man dies,

712
00:54:25,653 --> 00:54:27,979
all in the palace
flee to the streets,

713
00:54:28,003 --> 00:54:32,027
for they fear Murad's grief
will incur fresh murder.

714
00:54:36,577 --> 00:54:41,495
But he just sits, and howls,
and drinks until he is empty.

715
00:55:07,782 --> 00:55:10,437
And my patience is rewarded.

716
00:55:11,569 --> 00:55:12,981
For in this state,

717
00:55:13,005 --> 00:55:15,331
I am finally able
to get his attention

718
00:55:15,355 --> 00:55:18,291
and draw him
back to the secret bathroom.

719
00:55:18,315 --> 00:55:19,857
Oh, I know where this is going.

720
00:55:19,881 --> 00:55:22,469
He's going to be too weak
to lift the stone.

721
00:55:22,493 --> 00:55:25,080
Too weak even to turn the latch.

722
00:55:27,715 --> 00:55:31,023
So, he leaves and drinks
himself to permanent sleep.

723
00:55:31,632 --> 00:55:32,914
Oh!

724
00:55:32,938 --> 00:55:34,698
And there I am,

725
00:55:34,722 --> 00:55:37,048
left to my own oblivion,

726
00:55:37,072 --> 00:55:39,573
with no one to hear my voice,

727
00:55:39,597 --> 00:55:42,924
no one to know me,
nor feel me, nor sense me.

728
00:55:42,948 --> 00:55:45,342
You can't imagine.

729
00:55:48,388 --> 00:55:50,347
Well, actually, I can.

730
00:55:51,348 --> 00:55:53,741
Can you imagine the loneliness?

731
00:55:54,568 --> 00:55:56,614
How it might overwhelm?

732
00:55:56,831 --> 00:55:58,809
I can.

733
00:55:58,833 --> 00:56:01,464
We exist only
if we are real to others.

734
00:56:01,488 --> 00:56:02,639
Do you agree?

735
00:56:02,663 --> 00:56:03,901
I do.

736
00:56:03,925 --> 00:56:06,556
This, then,
is our fate, A lit he a.

737
00:56:06,580 --> 00:56:09,690
If you make no wish at all,

738
00:56:09,714 --> 00:56:11,431
I will be caught between worlds,

739
00:56:11,455 --> 00:56:14,545
invisible and alone,
for all of time.

740
00:56:16,851 --> 00:56:18,418
Make a wish, A lit he a.

741
00:56:19,463 --> 00:56:21,378
Make it your heart's desire.

742
00:56:29,168 --> 00:56:33,148
I'd be more careful
if I were you.

743
00:56:33,172 --> 00:56:35,411
Obviously, you managed
to find your way out.

744
00:56:35,435 --> 00:56:36,673
More or less.

745
00:56:36,697 --> 00:56:38,022
I'm beginning to think
I'm in the presence

746
00:56:38,046 --> 00:56:39,134
of a trickster.

747
00:56:41,049 --> 00:56:43,680
That would be so much better.

748
00:56:43,704 --> 00:56:45,552
My work would be so much easier.

749
00:56:45,576 --> 00:56:48,424
But the truth is,
I am just an idiot

750
00:56:48,448 --> 00:56:51,035
who has been
extravagantly unlucky.

751
00:56:51,059 --> 00:56:53,951
Well, I have to take
your word for that.

752
00:57:03,724 --> 00:57:04,724
So?

753
00:57:07,685 --> 00:57:11,055
Ibrahim, I suppose,
becomes Sultan?

754
00:57:11,079 --> 00:57:15,625
Ibrahim has
to be dragged to the throne.

755
00:57:32,710 --> 00:57:34,731
He
Appoints one of his concubines

756
00:57:34,755 --> 00:57:36,472
Governor of Damascus.

757
00:57:36,496 --> 00:57:38,996
Her name is Sugar Lump.

758
00:57:39,020 --> 00:57:41,153
By every measure, his favorite.

759
00:57:43,111 --> 00:57:45,002
Had she not been free to roam,

760
00:57:45,026 --> 00:57:47,918
she would not have found
the secret bathroom.

761
00:57:47,942 --> 00:57:50,138
Had she not decided
to take a bath,

762
00:57:50,162 --> 00:57:52,619
it would not have overfilled.

763
00:57:52,643 --> 00:57:53,924
Had she not been clumsy

764
00:57:53,948 --> 00:57:55,535
as she walked across the floor,

765
00:57:55,559 --> 00:57:57,822
she would not have slipped,
smashed the stone,

766
00:57:58,823 --> 00:58:01,173
- and found my bottle.
- Ah, yeah.

767
00:58:18,712 --> 00:58:21,952
To be honest, I should
have been more dignified.

768
00:58:21,976 --> 00:58:24,694
But I began to beg, shamelessly.

769
00:58:51,571 --> 00:58:53,027
"I wish you were back"

770
00:58:53,051 --> 00:58:56,054
"in your bottle at the bottom
of the Bosphorus."

771
00:58:59,013 --> 00:59:00,295
So here I am,

772
00:59:00,319 --> 00:59:02,887
fallen into your careful hands.

773
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:07,215
Seems we cannot
escape each other.

774
00:59:07,239 --> 00:59:09,546
You have me at your mercy.

775
00:59:15,943 --> 00:59:17,075
This wishing...

776
00:59:18,903 --> 00:59:21,011
It's a hazardous art.

777
00:59:21,035 --> 00:59:23,840
"I wish" brings
infinite unravelings.

778
00:59:23,864 --> 00:59:24,972
Not necessarily.

779
00:59:24,996 --> 00:59:26,016
Well, it's there
in all your own stories.

780
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:27,104
I know, but...

781
00:59:27,128 --> 00:59:28,715
You say you're not a trickster,

782
00:59:28,739 --> 00:59:32,109
and you say that you and I
are the authors of this story.

783
00:59:32,133 --> 00:59:35,156
But I'm not able
to write myself out of it.

784
00:59:35,180 --> 00:59:36,418
Correct.

785
00:59:36,442 --> 00:59:40,161
Why don't you just hop back
into your bottle

786
00:59:40,185 --> 00:59:41,902
and I'll give it
to someone more gullible?

787
00:59:41,926 --> 00:59:44,861
Someone more desperate.
Someone more greedy.

788
00:59:44,885 --> 00:59:46,036
I'm not getting back
in the bottle.

789
00:59:46,060 --> 00:59:47,124
Why not?

790
00:59:47,148 --> 00:59:48,952
I'm not getting back
in the bottle.

791
00:59:48,976 --> 00:59:50,954
Well, I am not
making three wishes.

792
00:59:50,978 --> 00:59:53,130
Then you are sending me
to my oblivion.

793
00:59:53,154 --> 00:59:54,610
Oh, you're impossible.

794
00:59:54,634 --> 00:59:56,612
And you are giving me
a headache.

795
00:59:56,636 --> 00:59:58,309
All right. All right.

796
00:59:58,333 --> 01:00:00,877
Here's what I'll do.
I will make three wishes.

797
01:00:00,901 --> 01:00:02,009
- I will.
- Before you die?

798
01:00:02,033 --> 01:00:03,793
Right now.
One after the other.

799
01:00:03,817 --> 01:00:05,012
- Ready?
- Mmm-hmm.

800
01:00:05,036 --> 01:00:07,734
Number one. I wish
your headache were gone.

801
01:00:10,737 --> 01:00:12,323
Number two.

802
01:00:12,347 --> 01:00:14,306
I wish for a sip of this tea.

803
01:00:16,743 --> 01:00:19,766
And finally, I wish
for another one of those.

804
01:00:19,790 --> 01:00:21,115
You mock me.

805
01:00:21,139 --> 01:00:22,812
Three wishes, perfectly simple,

806
01:00:22,836 --> 01:00:23,944
and theoretically safe.

807
01:00:23,968 --> 01:00:26,033
I was imprisoned
by Solomon precisely

808
01:00:26,057 --> 01:00:28,688
because I cried out
my heart's desire.

809
01:00:28,712 --> 01:00:31,604
Only by granting you yours
may I earn my release.

810
01:00:31,628 --> 01:00:33,040
Yes, well,
I appreciate the symmetry,

811
01:00:33,064 --> 01:00:34,607
but the thing is this,

812
01:00:34,631 --> 01:00:37,392
I cannot for the life of me
summon up one eligible wish.

813
01:00:37,416 --> 01:00:38,872
And you're asking me for three.

814
01:00:38,896 --> 01:00:41,135
Is there any life in you?
Are you even alive?

815
01:00:41,159 --> 01:00:42,963
You know, in some cultures,

816
01:00:42,987 --> 01:00:44,704
absence of desire
means enlightenment.

817
01:00:44,728 --> 01:00:46,923
Then you are a pious fool.

818
01:00:46,947 --> 01:00:49,186
If I'm content, why tempt fate?

819
01:00:49,210 --> 01:00:50,623
And you're a coward.

820
01:00:50,647 --> 01:00:51,972
Don't goad me.

821
01:00:51,996 --> 01:00:53,930
There is no human,
no angel, nor djinn

822
01:00:53,954 --> 01:00:55,192
that wouldn't grasp
at the chance

823
01:00:55,216 --> 01:00:56,846
to fulfill
their deepest longings,

824
01:00:56,870 --> 01:00:58,326
and I am saddled with the one

825
01:00:58,350 --> 01:00:59,849
who claims to want
nothing at all.

826
01:00:59,873 --> 01:01:01,372
A lit he a Binnie,
you are a liar!

827
01:01:01,396 --> 01:01:04,680
You know, I am beginning
to wish we never met.

828
01:01:04,704 --> 01:01:05,986
No! Nyet!

829
01:01:06,010 --> 01:01:07,161
Don't say that!

830
01:01:38,259 --> 01:01:39,347
So...

831
01:01:40,871 --> 01:01:43,003
that's happened to you before.

832
01:01:44,352 --> 01:01:46,200
And it was bad.

833
01:01:46,224 --> 01:01:48,182
'Twas bad.

834
01:01:49,401 --> 01:01:51,422
'Twas bitter.

835
01:01:51,446 --> 01:01:53,797
'Twas the cruelest wish of all.

836
01:01:55,799 --> 01:01:58,691
You were undone
by silliness yet again.

837
01:02:00,151 --> 01:02:02,414
I'm here because of a genius.

838
01:02:03,154 --> 01:02:04,808
Who was it this time?

839
01:02:05,983 --> 01:02:07,419
She was Zefir.

840
01:02:09,508 --> 01:02:13,381
Rarely among humankind
has there been such a wonder.

841
01:02:14,469 --> 01:02:17,255
But you're here
because of her folly.

842
01:02:20,345 --> 01:02:24,131
I ended up in this
as a consequence of Zefir.

843
01:02:26,394 --> 01:02:27,763
And this is the story

844
01:02:27,787 --> 01:02:31,027
you've been avoiding
telling me all along.

845
01:02:31,051 --> 01:02:34,751
This is the story I've avoided
telling even myself.

846
01:02:46,545 --> 01:02:48,915
Zefir was a foundling,

847
01:02:48,939 --> 01:02:51,506
married at 12
to a wealthy merchant.

848
01:02:53,117 --> 01:02:55,312
He was much older than her,
and kind,

849
01:02:55,336 --> 01:03:00,796
if you think keeping someone
like a bird in a cage is kind.

850
01:03:00,820 --> 01:03:03,451
There were two older wives,
who did not like her

851
01:03:03,475 --> 01:03:05,346
and did not talk to her at all.

852
01:03:23,234 --> 01:03:25,125
Everyone,
including the servants,

853
01:03:25,149 --> 01:03:26,803
seemed to be mocking her.

854
01:03:39,990 --> 01:03:43,056
She had neither
etiquette nor learning.

855
01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:44,971
She grew to no great beauty

856
01:03:44,995 --> 01:03:47,954
and was angry
without knowing why.

857
01:04:02,316 --> 01:04:05,165
As the fates would have it,
my bottle came to her

858
01:04:05,189 --> 01:04:08,540
as a love token
from her husband.

859
01:04:13,588 --> 01:04:16,611
And when she had finished
satisfying him

860
01:04:16,635 --> 01:04:18,091
and was finally alone,

861
01:04:18,115 --> 01:04:20,204
she managed to prise it open.

862
01:04:51,409 --> 01:04:54,040
It was as if
she was waiting for me.

863
01:04:54,064 --> 01:04:57,173
I saw at once
that she was sharp,

864
01:04:57,197 --> 01:05:01,047
and she saw that I was desperate

865
01:05:01,071 --> 01:05:03,266
for freedom and conversation.

866
01:05:03,290 --> 01:05:06,008
I told her my story,
as I have told you,

867
01:05:06,032 --> 01:05:10,273
and she revealed herself to me
by the things she had made.

868
01:05:10,297 --> 01:05:12,256
Gel. Gel.

869
01:05:47,508 --> 01:05:48,640
Gel.

870
01:05:59,607 --> 01:06:01,324
She could have been remembered

871
01:06:01,348 --> 01:06:03,239
like the genius da Vinci,

872
01:06:03,263 --> 01:06:04,632
whose theories on flight

873
01:06:04,656 --> 01:06:07,224
were the talk
of sultans and kings.

874
01:06:09,095 --> 01:06:12,403
She was a skilled artist,
but no one saw her art.

875
01:06:18,583 --> 01:06:21,257
She told me she was eaten up

876
01:06:21,281 --> 01:06:23,477
with unused power.

877
01:06:23,501 --> 01:06:25,285
She thought
she might be a witch.

878
01:06:26,417 --> 01:06:28,264
Except, she said,
if she were a man,

879
01:06:28,288 --> 01:06:32,094
her intellect would have been
ordinarily accepted.

880
01:06:32,118 --> 01:06:34,444
She was a woman
ardent for learning,

881
01:06:34,468 --> 01:06:37,708
and I knew
what her first wish would be.

882
01:06:55,315 --> 01:06:56,727
And it delighted me

883
01:06:56,751 --> 01:06:58,623
to fulfill this wish.

884
01:07:27,695 --> 01:07:31,240
So, I taught her
histories, philosophies,

885
01:07:31,264 --> 01:07:32,676
languages, poetry.

886
01:07:32,700 --> 01:07:35,331
I taught her
astronomy, mathematic,

887
01:07:35,355 --> 01:07:37,507
which was bliss to her.

888
01:07:37,531 --> 01:07:40,075
I brought her
books and writings,

889
01:07:40,099 --> 01:07:43,450
which we hid
in her collection of bottles.

890
01:08:03,862 --> 01:08:05,840
Sabah...

891
01:08:05,864 --> 01:08:07,320
Sabah...

892
01:08:25,231 --> 01:08:27,253
She could always
call on Aristotle

893
01:08:27,277 --> 01:08:29,429
from a red glass jar,

894
01:08:29,453 --> 01:08:32,214
or Euclid from a green,

895
01:08:32,238 --> 01:08:34,608
Pythagoras, Spinoza,

896
01:08:34,632 --> 01:08:37,480
without needing me
to re-embody them.

897
01:08:47,732 --> 01:08:50,102
We had the whole world
in her room,

898
01:08:50,126 --> 01:08:53,129
and I lost my heart to her.

899
01:08:56,784 --> 01:09:00,875
'Twas my bliss
to make her happy.

900
01:09:02,616 --> 01:09:03,922
To see her flourish.

901
01:09:05,706 --> 01:09:08,231
And she flourished in every way.

902
01:09:08,622 --> 01:09:10,146
Totalmente.

903
01:09:21,244 --> 01:09:22,656
She began to rebel

904
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:24,745
even against
the gestures of submission

905
01:09:24,769 --> 01:09:26,312
that her husband required,

906
01:09:26,336 --> 01:09:29,532
for she had acquired
a mastery of love-craft,

907
01:09:29,556 --> 01:09:31,186
out of reach of any human

908
01:09:31,210 --> 01:09:33,386
that had not
made love to a djinn.

909
01:09:51,317 --> 01:09:54,383
His cravings
for her became an obsession.

910
01:10:04,678 --> 01:10:06,308
And when he would come to her,

911
01:10:06,332 --> 01:10:10,660
I would leave her room
and journey the skies.

912
01:10:10,684 --> 01:10:14,427
I saw the mountains,
the oceans...

913
01:10:15,385 --> 01:10:17,363
I saw the beasts of the forest,

914
01:10:17,387 --> 01:10:19,930
where no man treads.

915
01:10:19,954 --> 01:10:23,978
And when I would return,
she would be waiting for me.

916
01:10:24,002 --> 01:10:27,895
I would tell her of my day,
and she would faint with joy

917
01:10:27,919 --> 01:10:29,897
and disappointment.

918
01:10:29,921 --> 01:10:33,509
Why did she not
make a wish to be free?

919
01:10:33,533 --> 01:10:36,904
There was something
more important to her.

920
01:10:36,928 --> 01:10:39,385
She had devised a "mathematica,"

921
01:10:39,409 --> 01:10:42,562
a language to explain the forces

922
01:10:42,586 --> 01:10:45,695
which bring space, and time,
and matter into being.

923
01:10:45,719 --> 01:10:47,349
She was Promethean, brave.

924
01:10:47,373 --> 01:10:49,612
But she could not solve
this puzzle.

925
01:10:49,636 --> 01:10:51,701
She needed a key,

926
01:10:51,725 --> 01:10:54,728
a key to open the doors
of her perception.

927
01:11:05,522 --> 01:11:09,415
So, she used her second wish.

928
01:11:09,439 --> 01:11:13,007
I taught her to dream
as djinn do, awake.

929
01:11:44,691 --> 01:11:48,584
And this way,
the solutions came to her.

930
01:11:48,608 --> 01:11:52,327
She was able
to explain powers invisible,

931
01:11:52,351 --> 01:11:55,548
electromagnetic fields
and forces...

932
01:11:55,572 --> 01:11:58,681
The very stuff
of which djinn are made.

933
01:11:58,705 --> 01:12:00,422
You're electromagnetic?

934
01:12:00,446 --> 01:12:04,494
As you are dust,
I am made of subtle fire.

935
01:12:05,364 --> 01:12:07,777
And when she was
to bear a child,

936
01:12:07,801 --> 01:12:10,084
I was plagued with happiness,

937
01:12:10,108 --> 01:12:12,347
for I knew
it would strengthen us.

938
01:12:12,371 --> 01:12:13,894
She was carrying your child?

939
01:12:14,721 --> 01:12:17,681
A child, of fire and dust.

940
01:12:19,639 --> 01:12:21,617
So, where did it go wrong?

941
01:12:21,641 --> 01:12:23,643
A lit he a, I loved her.

942
01:12:24,644 --> 01:12:26,361
I loved the fervor of her mind.

943
01:12:26,385 --> 01:12:27,493
I loved her anger.

944
01:12:27,517 --> 01:12:28,624
I loved my power

945
01:12:28,648 --> 01:12:31,695
to turn her frowns into smiles.

946
01:12:33,436 --> 01:12:35,892
I loved her more than Sheba.

947
01:12:35,916 --> 01:12:37,459
More than your own freedom?

948
01:12:37,483 --> 01:12:38,939
Yes.

949
01:12:38,963 --> 01:12:42,464
It became my greatest desire
to... to keep her,

950
01:12:42,488 --> 01:12:44,597
to remain her prisoner.

951
01:12:44,621 --> 01:12:49,341
The thought of being set free
sickened my heart.

952
01:12:54,370 --> 01:12:58,374
I caught myself stopping her
lest she make her third wish.

953
01:12:58,678 --> 01:13:00,114
Oh, gosh.

954
01:13:03,770 --> 01:13:05,598
I made a mess of it.

955
01:13:07,034 --> 01:13:10,013
She began to accuse me
of trapping her,

956
01:13:10,037 --> 01:13:11,754
like her husband.

957
01:13:13,824 --> 01:13:16,977
I tried to make amends.

958
01:13:17,001 --> 01:13:20,657
To atone, I would
put myself in the bottle.

959
01:13:21,571 --> 01:13:23,113
To be sealed.

960
01:13:23,137 --> 01:13:25,575
That way, she could have
more power over me.

961
01:13:38,196 --> 01:13:40,914
To be nothing in a bottle.

962
01:13:40,938 --> 01:13:42,592
I could do that for her.

963
01:13:43,506 --> 01:13:47,094
And every time,
it would appease.

964
01:13:47,118 --> 01:13:50,706
Every time, except for the last.

965
01:13:50,730 --> 01:13:55,450
When, like a sudden squall,
all thunder and lightning,

966
01:13:55,474 --> 01:13:58,453
she began to weep and wail,
and said,

967
01:13:58,477 --> 01:14:01,543
"I wish I could forget
I ever met you."

968
01:14:07,051 --> 01:14:09,749
And she did, on the instant.

969
01:14:14,841 --> 01:14:17,733
She was out. I was in.

970
01:14:17,757 --> 01:14:19,498
She'd forgotten me.

971
01:14:21,021 --> 01:14:24,024
A lit he a, how can it be...

972
01:14:26,070 --> 01:14:29,465
a mistake to love
someone entirely?

973
01:14:54,838 --> 01:14:56,187
I have a wish.

974
01:15:00,974 --> 01:15:04,195
However, I'm afraid it may be
too much to ask.

975
01:15:08,808 --> 01:15:10,897
Is it within my power?

976
01:15:11,550 --> 01:15:14,510
I hope so. I do hope so.

977
01:15:17,121 --> 01:15:19,210
Is it your heart's desire?

978
01:15:19,863 --> 01:15:21,908
Yeah, I'm certain of it.

979
01:15:36,662 --> 01:15:37,924
See, erm,

980
01:15:38,664 --> 01:15:40,927
I'm here to love you.

981
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:45,062
And, uh,

982
01:15:46,585 --> 01:15:50,067
I wish for you
to love me in return.

983
01:15:51,851 --> 01:15:54,724
You want us to make love-craft?

984
01:15:55,202 --> 01:15:57,267
Yeah, that too.

985
01:15:57,291 --> 01:15:58,442
All of it.

986
01:15:58,466 --> 01:16:02,577
And you would
abandon yourself to this?

987
01:16:04,342 --> 01:16:06,015
Yes.

988
01:16:06,039 --> 01:16:07,214
Yes.

989
01:16:09,303 --> 01:16:13,283
I want our solitudes
to be together.

990
01:16:13,307 --> 01:16:18,027
I want that love
professed in ageless tales.

991
01:16:18,051 --> 01:16:22,554
I want that longing you felt
for the Queen of Sheba,

992
01:16:22,578 --> 01:16:26,296
and that love you gave
to your genius, Zefir.

993
01:16:26,320 --> 01:16:28,105
I want it.

994
01:16:40,944 --> 01:16:42,293
Me?

995
01:16:44,338 --> 01:16:45,775
You.

996
01:16:52,651 --> 01:16:53,957
You?

997
01:16:55,872 --> 01:16:57,134
Me.

998
01:17:04,663 --> 01:17:06,012
Is it too much?

999
01:17:07,100 --> 01:17:09,233
Is it all too much to ask?

1000
01:17:28,774 --> 01:17:29,819
Come.

1001
01:17:43,136 --> 01:17:46,638
What are we to do
with longings awoken?

1002
01:17:46,662 --> 01:17:48,074
How can I persuade you

1003
01:17:48,098 --> 01:17:50,317
that I once found love
with a djinn?

1004
01:17:52,668 --> 01:17:55,366
In any case,
few would believe me.

1005
01:17:57,150 --> 01:18:00,676
Love is not something
we come to by reason.

1006
01:18:03,069 --> 01:18:05,134
It's more like a vapor,

1007
01:18:05,158 --> 01:18:07,310
a dream, perhaps,

1008
01:18:07,334 --> 01:18:09,269
to lure us into the enchantment

1009
01:18:09,293 --> 01:18:11,034
of our own stories.

1010
01:18:12,470 --> 01:18:14,317
If that's so,

1011
01:18:14,341 --> 01:18:16,387
how are we to know
if it's ever real?

1012
01:18:18,302 --> 01:18:21,977
Is it a truth,
or simply a madness?

1013
01:19:08,918 --> 01:19:11,287
I leave for London today.

1014
01:19:11,311 --> 01:19:12,922
Will you come home with me?

1015
01:19:15,272 --> 01:19:18,057
It's not such
an easy place nowadays.

1016
01:19:19,232 --> 01:19:21,408
But it'll be better
if you're there.

1017
01:19:31,418 --> 01:19:33,507
Over here, please.

1018
01:19:35,161 --> 01:19:36,293
Hands up.

1019
01:19:44,780 --> 01:19:46,888
Please step out.

1020
01:19:46,912 --> 01:19:48,348
What is in your pockets?

1021
01:19:49,001 --> 01:19:50,089
Oh.

1022
01:19:51,090 --> 01:19:54,311
Uh, it's an empty bottle
and a top.

1023
01:19:55,312 --> 01:19:56,898
Please put it through X-ray.

1024
01:19:56,922 --> 01:19:58,030
It is very delicate,

1025
01:19:58,054 --> 01:19:59,422
and I don't want it
to get damaged.

1026
01:19:59,446 --> 01:20:01,250
It will not be damaged.
Please put through X-ray.

1027
01:20:01,274 --> 01:20:02,425
I would prefer that
it didn't go in the...

1028
01:20:02,449 --> 01:20:03,799
Passport. Boarding pass.

1029
01:20:05,104 --> 01:20:06,192
Thank you.

1030
01:20:16,594 --> 01:20:17,832
It's quite fragile.

1031
01:20:17,856 --> 01:20:18,988
Madam.

1032
01:20:23,253 --> 01:20:25,037
It's a saltshaker.

1033
01:20:32,610 --> 01:20:33,829
Oh.

1034
01:20:34,394 --> 01:20:36,546
No! No X-ray! Please!

1035
01:20:36,570 --> 01:20:38,834
Stop, madam, stop.

1036
01:20:55,328 --> 01:20:56,416
Madam.

1037
01:20:56,982 --> 01:20:58,070
Oh.

1038
01:21:38,937 --> 01:21:40,330
In your own time.

1039
01:22:36,995 --> 01:22:39,084
The air is thick here.

1040
01:22:40,172 --> 01:22:44,263
Full of insistent voices
and rushing faces.

1041
01:22:44,742 --> 01:22:46,459
Oh?

1042
01:22:46,483 --> 01:22:49,244
Like Tiny Einstein?

1043
01:22:49,268 --> 01:22:51,420
Television, and phone towers,
and such?

1044
01:22:51,444 --> 01:22:53,161
Yes.

1045
01:22:53,185 --> 01:22:56,948
Yes. All your
ingenious devices

1046
01:22:56,972 --> 01:22:58,732
all murmuring at once.

1047
01:22:58,756 --> 01:23:00,603
Bend your head.

1048
01:23:07,330 --> 01:23:09,395
You hear all that?

1049
01:23:12,248 --> 01:23:15,227
I also see it and feel it.

1050
01:23:15,251 --> 01:23:18,230
I am a transmitter.

1051
01:23:18,254 --> 01:23:19,995
Isn't it all too much?

1052
01:23:21,170 --> 01:23:22,451
I am a djinn.

1053
01:23:22,475 --> 01:23:23,650
I can adapt.

1054
01:23:25,565 --> 01:23:27,326
I'll soon get used to it.

1055
01:23:27,350 --> 01:23:29,197
She's back.

1056
01:23:29,221 --> 01:23:30,546
I believe she's back.

1057
01:23:30,570 --> 01:23:32,505
Is she with someone?

1058
01:23:32,529 --> 01:23:34,550
No, I think she's
talking to herself again.

1059
01:23:34,574 --> 01:23:36,291
Hello, Clementine.

1060
01:23:36,315 --> 01:23:38,641
Fanny. Are you well?

1061
01:23:38,665 --> 01:23:40,469
Did you have any trouble?

1062
01:23:40,493 --> 01:23:42,645
Trouble? What kind of trouble?

1063
01:23:42,669 --> 01:23:44,473
With your foreign friends.

1064
01:23:44,497 --> 01:23:46,388
Because we often ask ourselves,

1065
01:23:46,412 --> 01:23:49,087
"Why would Dr. Binnie waste
her time and intelligence"

1066
01:23:49,111 --> 01:23:51,785
"studying the ways of others
instead of upholding our own?"

1067
01:23:51,809 --> 01:23:54,309
Embarrassed by
our British culture, are we?

1068
01:23:54,333 --> 01:23:55,789
No. No.

1069
01:23:55,813 --> 01:23:58,183
I am rather more likely
to be embarrassed by anybody

1070
01:23:58,207 --> 01:24:00,533
reflexly frightened
of anybody different.

1071
01:24:00,557 --> 01:24:01,664
What exactly are you saying?

1072
01:24:01,688 --> 01:24:03,449
She's calling us bigots.

1073
01:24:03,473 --> 01:24:04,493
Your word, not mine.

1074
01:24:04,517 --> 01:24:05,625
You misunderstand.

1075
01:24:05,649 --> 01:24:07,148
- Oh?
- It's not how they look, dear.

1076
01:24:07,172 --> 01:24:08,671
It's how they live.
What they believe.

1077
01:24:08,695 --> 01:24:10,412
- What they eat.
- What are you on about?

1078
01:24:10,436 --> 01:24:12,240
Everywhere one goes, ethnics.

1079
01:24:12,264 --> 01:24:15,243
We are being overwhelmed,
and we're inviting our doom.

1080
01:24:15,267 --> 01:24:16,592
It's not natural.

1081
01:24:16,616 --> 01:24:18,725
Birds belong in the air.
Fish belong in the sea.

1082
01:24:18,749 --> 01:24:21,032
And that is how the good Lord
meant us to be.

1083
01:24:21,056 --> 01:24:23,077
You're just spouting rubbish
from start to finish.

1084
01:24:23,101 --> 01:24:24,600
It's science.
It's a scientific fact.

1085
01:24:24,624 --> 01:24:25,862
It's a false analogy.

1086
01:24:25,886 --> 01:24:28,126
I mean, animals do have
a natural habitat.

1087
01:24:28,150 --> 01:24:30,345
It's true,
but human beings are capable

1088
01:24:30,369 --> 01:24:32,478
of living in any environment
they bloody well choose.

1089
01:24:32,502 --> 01:24:33,696
That's not a fact.

1090
01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:35,350
- What are you saying?
- It's an opinion.

1091
01:24:35,374 --> 01:24:36,569
And you're wrong.

1092
01:24:36,593 --> 01:24:38,049
I'm not putting up
with any more of this.

1093
01:24:38,073 --> 01:24:40,268
Come away, Clem.
Let the crazy lady be.

1094
01:24:40,292 --> 01:24:42,183
We're never gonna get
any sense out of her.

1095
01:24:42,207 --> 01:24:44,488
You know, I've never
said this to you before.

1096
01:24:45,123 --> 01:24:47,536
But you're both pitiful.

1097
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:48,755
Shut your cake hole!

1098
01:24:48,779 --> 01:24:51,347
Pea-brained and pitiful.

1099
01:24:51,869 --> 01:24:54,239
You, fuck face!

1100
01:24:54,263 --> 01:24:58,267
Stop your ivy growing
on our side of the wall!

1101
01:24:59,355 --> 01:25:01,507
Why do I let them get to me?

1102
01:25:01,531 --> 01:25:03,596
I should feel sorry for them.

1103
01:25:03,620 --> 01:25:06,816
But this is my home.
It's my sanctuary.

1104
01:25:10,888 --> 01:25:13,108
I could wish them...

1105
01:25:14,152 --> 01:25:16,348
That's not a wish, by the way.

1106
01:25:16,372 --> 01:25:17,740
I know.

1107
01:27:21,410 --> 01:27:22,672
My djinn.

1108
01:27:23,716 --> 01:27:24,911
How was your day?

1109
01:27:24,935 --> 01:27:27,305
Every listening ear was yours.

1110
01:27:27,329 --> 01:27:29,916
Every voice, every scent,
and touch.

1111
01:27:29,940 --> 01:27:31,681
You were everywhere.

1112
01:27:36,903 --> 01:27:38,601
Back in a minute.

1113
01:27:57,663 --> 01:27:59,772
Whoever could that be
at this hour?

1114
01:27:59,796 --> 01:28:00,916
It could be her.

1115
01:28:04,366 --> 01:28:07,282
Clem. Fanny.

1116
01:28:09,327 --> 01:28:11,808
Chickpeas, cloves, pistachio.

1117
01:28:13,636 --> 01:28:15,333
They melt in your mouth.

1118
01:28:33,351 --> 01:28:34,831
This is my friend.

1119
01:28:35,962 --> 01:28:37,877
He'll be staying for a while.

1120
01:28:38,791 --> 01:28:39,836
Hello.

1121
01:28:42,926 --> 01:28:44,667
- Hello.
- Hello.

1122
01:28:48,932 --> 01:28:50,692
My Djinn told me,

1123
01:28:50,716 --> 01:28:53,652
when they come together
in the Realm of Djinn,

1124
01:28:53,676 --> 01:28:55,460
they tell each other stories.

1125
01:28:56,635 --> 01:28:58,744
Stories are like breath to them.

1126
01:28:58,768 --> 01:28:59,856
They make meaning.

1127
01:29:01,814 --> 01:29:03,052
"Yes," I said.

1128
01:29:03,076 --> 01:29:04,861
"That's just how
it is with us."

1129
01:29:05,905 --> 01:29:07,622
Each story we tell is a fragment

1130
01:29:07,646 --> 01:29:10,083
in an endless
shape-shifting mosaic.

1131
01:29:11,650 --> 01:29:15,785
And this small pebble,
like all stories, must end.

1132
01:29:17,743 --> 01:29:20,920
If it's about wishing,
it's a cautionary tale.

1133
01:29:22,008 --> 01:29:24,987
So, how will it go wrong?

1134
01:29:25,011 --> 01:29:27,536
Perhaps, it already has.

1135
01:29:30,843 --> 01:29:33,344
Even though Truth
stood before them naked,

1136
01:29:33,368 --> 01:29:34,997
they turned their backs.

1137
01:29:35,021 --> 01:29:39,480
So, Truth moved to the side
and waited in the shadows.

1138
01:29:39,504 --> 01:29:41,134
In the days that followed,

1139
01:29:41,158 --> 01:29:44,659
the Djinn would accompany
the narratologist to her work.

1140
01:29:44,683 --> 01:29:46,269
And when he wasn't with her,

1141
01:29:46,293 --> 01:29:49,490
he would go in eager
exploration of the world.

1142
01:29:52,474 --> 01:29:55,390
Today I had
such a marvelous day.

1143
01:29:56,695 --> 01:29:59,674
I saw many things.

1144
01:29:59,698 --> 01:30:03,852
I watched a human look into
the living brain of another

1145
01:30:03,876 --> 01:30:06,488
and arrest a fatal bleeding.

1146
01:30:10,970 --> 01:30:12,755
I visited the Collider.

1147
01:30:14,060 --> 01:30:18,500
A vast gizmo which probed
the essence of matter.

1148
01:30:21,633 --> 01:30:24,873
And then I saw a dish,
a great dish

1149
01:30:24,897 --> 01:30:28,597
that listens to the whispers
of stars long dead.

1150
01:30:30,729 --> 01:30:32,707
Humankind is...

1151
01:30:32,731 --> 01:30:34,646
is a wonder, A lit he a.

1152
01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:37,973
I'm happy you think so.

1153
01:30:37,997 --> 01:30:41,063
All of this since I was
trapped in Zefir's bottle.

1154
01:30:41,087 --> 01:30:45,851
All these astonishments,
in less than 200 years.

1155
01:30:45,875 --> 01:30:47,853
Yes, but, I mean,

1156
01:30:47,877 --> 01:30:52,161
that's just engineering
and technology.

1157
01:30:52,185 --> 01:30:54,773
Despite all the whiz-bang,

1158
01:30:54,797 --> 01:30:56,929
we remain bewildered.

1159
01:30:59,845 --> 01:31:01,804
When we can't contain the chaos,

1160
01:31:03,588 --> 01:31:06,175
we are filled
with dread and panic,

1161
01:31:06,199 --> 01:31:08,482
and we turn on each other.

1162
01:31:08,506 --> 01:31:11,006
But of course, you are human.

1163
01:31:11,030 --> 01:31:13,163
That is your nature.

1164
01:31:15,513 --> 01:31:18,951
Yeah. So, the story
never changes.

1165
01:31:19,865 --> 01:31:22,540
Hate prevails.

1166
01:31:22,564 --> 01:31:27,177
It metastasizes
and outlives love.

1167
01:31:28,961 --> 01:31:31,592
I just want to talk about love.

1168
01:31:31,616 --> 01:31:35,640
Such a mess of
contradictions, all of you.

1169
01:31:35,664 --> 01:31:36,771
Thank you very much.

1170
01:31:36,795 --> 01:31:40,079
Humankind, what a conundrum.

1171
01:31:40,103 --> 01:31:42,821
You fumble around in the dark,

1172
01:31:42,845 --> 01:31:45,954
and yet, you herd your
intelligence to great effect.

1173
01:31:45,978 --> 01:31:47,608
It is quite a story.

1174
01:31:48,894 --> 01:31:51,743
Cannot wait to see
where it goes.

1175
01:31:51,767 --> 01:31:53,682
Or how it might end.

1176
01:31:54,030 --> 01:31:55,747
That too.

1177
01:31:55,771 --> 01:31:59,707
A mortal will never know,
but a djinn might.

1178
01:31:59,731 --> 01:32:02,212
A djinn has all the time
in the world.

1179
01:32:04,301 --> 01:32:06,497
Aren't you the lucky one?

1180
01:32:06,521 --> 01:32:07,870
Maybe.

1181
01:32:08,871 --> 01:32:12,111
But you creatures
of dust have...

1182
01:32:12,135 --> 01:32:13,634
have managed to eclipse

1183
01:32:13,658 --> 01:32:16,985
the power and purpose
of djinn and angel.

1184
01:32:17,009 --> 01:32:19,205
You have no use for us.

1185
01:32:19,229 --> 01:32:20,598
Perhaps, we will wither and...

1186
01:32:20,622 --> 01:32:22,121
- And fade away?
- Yes.

1187
01:32:22,145 --> 01:32:24,558
Yeah. Well, that used
to be the subject

1188
01:32:24,582 --> 01:32:26,647
of all my lectures and papers.

1189
01:32:26,671 --> 01:32:27,977
I know.

1190
01:32:30,588 --> 01:32:32,329
And yet, here you are.

1191
01:32:34,026 --> 01:32:36,115
My impossible.

1192
01:32:38,030 --> 01:32:39,118
Yes.

1193
01:32:51,566 --> 01:32:52,741
Hello?

1194
01:32:58,181 --> 01:32:59,791
I'm home!

1195
01:33:09,758 --> 01:33:11,063
Hello?

1196
01:33:37,089 --> 01:33:38,656
Djinn?

1197
01:33:42,704 --> 01:33:43,898
My love?

1198
01:33:47,926 --> 01:33:48,971
Djinn.

1199
01:33:53,192 --> 01:33:54,367
What's this?

1200
01:33:56,979 --> 01:33:58,957
Can you hear me?

1201
01:33:58,981 --> 01:34:01,133
Djinn, speak to me.

1202
01:34:01,157 --> 01:34:02,724
Try to speak to me.

1203
01:34:04,682 --> 01:34:06,858
I wish you to speak to me.

1204
01:34:10,862 --> 01:34:11,950
Oh...

1205
01:34:26,878 --> 01:34:28,900
I was sleeping.

1206
01:34:28,924 --> 01:34:31,143
Sleeping.

1207
01:34:32,884 --> 01:34:34,993
Djinn don't sleep.

1208
01:34:35,017 --> 01:34:36,298
Let's go for a walk.

1209
01:34:36,322 --> 01:34:37,778
A long, bracing walk.

1210
01:34:37,802 --> 01:34:39,345
I have prepared
something for us.

1211
01:34:39,369 --> 01:34:40,955
I have it all planned.

1212
01:34:40,979 --> 01:34:43,131
A wonderous night for us.

1213
01:34:43,155 --> 01:34:45,307
It will be amazing.

1214
01:34:45,331 --> 01:34:48,136
- The best time of our lives.
- Stop!

1215
01:34:48,160 --> 01:34:52,271
These electromagnetic fields,
I can push them from my head.

1216
01:34:52,295 --> 01:34:53,862
I can push them away.

1217
01:34:54,950 --> 01:34:56,144
We'll go for a picnic.

1218
01:35:01,086 --> 01:35:03,238
Ah, we'll play the ukulele.

1219
01:35:05,830 --> 01:35:09,114
A lit he a, there is a place
for me here.

1220
01:35:09,138 --> 01:35:10,376
These forces,

1221
01:35:10,400 --> 01:35:12,073
they will never go away,
not from this world.

1222
01:35:12,097 --> 01:35:14,293
I will overcome them.
I can do that for you.

1223
01:35:14,317 --> 01:35:16,469
You are my A lit he a,
and I love you.

1224
01:35:16,493 --> 01:35:18,253
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for trying.

1225
01:35:18,277 --> 01:35:19,557
You don't think that I love you?

1226
01:35:20,497 --> 01:35:22,693
Love is a gift.

1227
01:35:22,717 --> 01:35:25,086
It's a gift of oneself
given freely.

1228
01:35:25,110 --> 01:35:27,330
It's not something
one can ever ask for.

1229
01:35:28,853 --> 01:35:30,048
I tricked us both.

1230
01:35:30,072 --> 01:35:31,745
The moment I spoke that wish,

1231
01:35:31,769 --> 01:35:34,835
I took away
your power to grant it.

1232
01:35:34,859 --> 01:35:39,100
I, more than anybody,
I should've known that.

1233
01:35:39,124 --> 01:35:41,276
I'm not going
to screw this up again.

1234
01:35:41,300 --> 01:35:45,454
My Djinn, if this world
is not for you,

1235
01:35:45,478 --> 01:35:48,351
I wish that you return
to where you belong.

1236
01:35:49,178 --> 01:35:51,267
Wherever that may be.

1237
01:38:18,544 --> 01:38:19,632
Mommy!

1238
01:38:21,634 --> 01:38:23,656
Come here, little monkey.

1239
01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:25,484
That's not Mommy.

1240
01:39:53,248 --> 01:39:54,486
- Hey, hey, hey!
- Ah, no!

1241
01:39:54,510 --> 01:39:56,512
Watch it.
Top striker in the league.

1242
01:40:05,477 --> 01:40:06,609
Did you see that?

1243
01:40:10,134 --> 01:40:12,721
He would visit
from time to time,

1244
01:40:12,745 --> 01:40:16,203
and they would grasp
each vivid moment.

1245
01:40:16,227 --> 01:40:19,119
Despite the pain
of the raucous skies,

1246
01:40:19,143 --> 01:40:21,774
he always stayed
longer than he should,

1247
01:40:21,798 --> 01:40:24,148
long after
she begged him to leave.

1248
01:40:25,280 --> 01:40:28,476
He promised to return
in her lifetime,

1249
01:40:28,500 --> 01:40:31,503
and for her,
that was more than enough.