[insects chittering]
[thunder rumbling]
[flies buzzing]
[narrator] The official version,
repeated and pounded into the public consciousness
a thousand times over through every means
at the government's disposal, eventually came to be accepted.
There were no deaths.
Later on, historians would consecrate these lies in every school textbook.
[thunder rumbling]
[narrator] José Arcadio Segundo didn't know where he had jumped off,
but he knew that if he walked in the opposite direction of the train,
he would eventually reach Macondo.
-[thunderclap] -[electrical crackling]
[ominous music playing]
[gasps]
[distant shouting]
-[rapid gunfire] -[shouting continues]
-[gunfire continues] -[shouting continues]
[panicked shouting]
[man 1] My family has nothing to do with this.
[man 2] On the ground!
-[man 1] I said, let go of me! -[man 2] Tell us where the others are!
We know there are more!
Who else was with you?
Tell us who else is in the union!
Speak up!
Speak up, you piece of shit.
[man 3] Hey! Who's there?
Who are you, sir? Show yourself!
He's one of them! He's one of them!
[thunder rumbling]
[José Arcadio II panting]
[man 3] Over here! There's another one here!
[panting]
[thunder rumbling]
Help! They're gonna kill me! Help me!
[woman] What's going on?
Sh! Sh!
[man 3] This way! Come on, come on! Come on, come on! Let's go, let's go!
He's getting away!
[man 2] Light. Need the light over here.
[man 3] Go, go, go, go! Hurry up! Hurry up!
[man 2] I don't see him. I don't see him!
[soldiers shouting in distinctly]
[dogs barking]
[José Arcadio II panting]
[soldiers continue shouting]
I'm José Arcadio Segundo Buendía.
I'm José Arcadio Segundo…
[narrator] To convince himself that he was still alive,
he said his full name out loud, over and over.
[woman] What happened to you?
There were 3,000.
We were all there at the train station.
They opened fire on us,
and now they're dumping the bodies in the sea.
The men, women, children. 3,000.
There haven't been any deaths, José Arcadio.
Since the days of your uncle, the colonel, nothing's happened in Macondo.
[woman screams in distance]
[shouting continues]
[thunderclap]
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
[indistinct chattering]
[laughter]
[indistinct chattering continues]
[soldier] Where are you going?
Uh, to the United Fruit Company to see my brother.
[soldier] The banana company's closed.
Right, I know, but there's a family matter we have to take care of.
[soldier] Sir!
Until the rain stops, no one's coming into the office.
I suggest you go home now.
[indistinct chattering continues]
[woman 1] I don't understand. Where is my daughter?
Please, will you just listen to me?
They're all missing.
Something isn't right, please.
[man 1] Let's go.
[woman 1] Nobody will help me. I don't know what to do.
[man 2] They didn't come home.
No one came home last night, and no one's telling us anything.
-[man 2] Ma'am, do you need something? -[man 3] What's going on here?
[man 2] One at a time!
-[woman 1] Captain. -Go ahead, ma'am.
[sobs] It's not normal for my husband to be gone for so long.
I don't know what to tell you, lady.
Look, I'd bet money that your old husband just wanted some time alone
to let loose for the weekend.
[man 4] Don't talk to her like that. Show some respect.
[man 5] Why won't you tell us what's going on?
There was a shooting yesterday, and I haven't heard from my son since.
[captain] A shooting?
Yeah, a shooting. In the afternoon.
[man 1] At the station.
I think you're imagining things. It's Macondo.
Nothing's happened or is happening or will happen here, all right?
[dark music playing]
[captain] This is a happy town.
You, sir.
Do you need anything?
[murmuring]
[captain] Nothing happened here. Nothing to see. Everybody, go home.
Move along, move along!
[knocking at door]
[knocking continues]
[Sofía] Aureliano.
Is my brother here?
I haven't seen him since he left the house.
But he should be back soon,
now that things have calmed down at the banana company.
Is something wrong?
No.
I came because I thought I would find him here.
I also heard on the radio that things settled down.
[baby cries]
If you see him, let me know, okay?
Is that Amaranta Úrsula?
[narrator] Indifferent to the turmoil in town,
Fernanda put the finishing touches on her meticulously crafted plan
to erase every trace of Meme from memory.
[melancholy music playing]
[Fernanda] Dearest son, it fills me with pride
to know that you are about to receive minor orders.
I regret to inform you that your chaste, virtuous, and loving sister, Renata,
passed peacefully into the Lord's embrace as a result of black vomit.
I held her in my arms at the moment of her death,
and her beautiful soul was received into the glory of God.
Your sister was a true saint.
Pray for Meme.
[music fades]
[Amaranta Úrsula babbling]
[Fernanda] She was fed already.
How would you know, Fernanda?
You haven't come out all morning.
She's been fed because I fed her.
Wouldn't that be a first, Aureliano?
[Úrsula] Fernanda, enough.
Why don't you take advantage of Aureliano being here
and let him take care of her?
This needs to go to the mailman.
And could you also remind Aureliano he has a son in Rome
who needs money?
-Mm. -[babbling]
It wouldn't hurt you to spend more time with your daughter.
Come back to this house.
It's not just Amaranta Úrsula who needs to have you near, Aureliano.
[narrator] After curfew, the soldiers went from door to door,
smashing them in with the butts of their rifles.
-[soldier] Tell us where he is. Tell us! -[woman 1] Wait, please!
-[woman 1] No! -[woman 2] I don't know!
[narrator] They would drag any suspects out of bed…
[soldier] Search inside! Now!
…and take them on a one-way trip.
[woman 1] No! Please!
-[soldier] Stay still! -[gunshots]
-[woman 1] No! -[soldier] Shut up! Stay still!
[knocking at door]
Oh my God! Son, what happened to you?
Don't open the doors. They're after me, and they want me dead.
-They're gonna kill me. -What?
[tense music playing]
[Aureliano II] José Arcadio! What happened?
[José Arcadio II] They're dumping 'em in the sea.
More than 200 train cars.
[sobs] Men, women, and children! All murdered!
[knocking at door]
They're gonna kill me. No, no.
Don't let 'em in. They're… They're gonna kill me!
[knocking continues]
-They're gonna kill me! -What is going on, Aureliano?
Lock him in a room and padlock the door.
-[knocking continues] -[man] Open the door!
By order of the government.
[knocking continues]
[man] Buendía, open the door!
[thunder rumbling]
Good evening. How can I help you?
Let's go.
Sir?
I want you to search the whole house. Let's go.
Over there. You boys, that way. Come on.
Sir.
Check every corner! Search every room in the house!
What do you need?
[Úrsula] What in God's name is going on?
Mama Úrsula, stay in your room.
Up the stairs to the second floor! Let's go! Move!
[Aureliano II] If you tell me what you're looking for,
maybe I can help you.
You know what we're looking for.
No, sir, I don't.
Your brother.
It's been over three weeks since we heard from him.
He hasn't been here.
[indistinct shouting]
But you can search as much as you want.
That's the storeroom, and the barn is over there.
If you'd like to look, please, go right ahead.
[soldier] What's in there?
No one's gone in there in a century.
Open it.
[Sofía] I have to look for the key.
Hurry up, then.
[keys jingling]
[lock rattling]
[narrator] The soldier's gaze lingered on the place where, to his family,
José Arcadio Segundo could be seen, standing in full view.
José Arcadio Segundo then realized
that the soldier was looking at him without seeing him.
It's true. No one's been in here for centuries.
Hm. There must be snakes in there.
[door closes]
[soldier] And what's in here?
[Aureliano II] That's the workshop.
Open up.
[tense music playing]
May I keep this?
Colonel Aureliano Buendía was one of our best men in those days.
[Aureliano II] It's yours.
Let's move out!
-He's not here, come on, move out! -[soldier 2] Yes, Captain.
-Let's go! Let's go! -[captain] Let's go!
[soldier 2] Clear out! There's no one here!
[soldier 1] Let's go! Move, move!
[narrator] It rained for months on end.
The military had left…
and the events that would deliver the killing blow to Macondo
were beginning to take shape.
[woman] We need to hurry. They said that a train is leaving now.
-[man] Where is it headed? -[woman] Fundación.
We're gonna miss it if we don't hurry up.
Come in.
[door closes]
Why didn't you reply to any of our letters?
Which ones?
We haven't received any mail in months.
[baby crying]
A convent is no place for a child.
Renata was never able to put him to her breast.
Renata hasn't had any children.
What happened to that girl, Fernanda?
I remember her being so joyful when she studied with us.
What do you want exactly?
A little bit of money? I don't have time for this. You should go.
I thought you would take him in.
But I can speak with your husband, if you would prefer.
Leave him there.
[baby continues crying]
I'll say I found this floating in the river.
If they believed the story in the Holy Scripture,
then why shouldn't they believe me?
[crying]
[bell ringing]
[baby groans]
[baby crying]
[tense ethereal music playing]
[music intensifies]
[thunder rumbling]
[narrator] In Melquiades' chamber,
protected by supernatural light,
by the sound of the rain,
and by the feeling of being invisible,
José Arcadio Segundo found the peace he had never known in his former life.
[flies buzzing]
[melancholy music playing]
[coughs]
[retches]
Brother.
There were 3,000, Aureliano.
That's what I said before,
but now I'm certain there were more than 3,000 that day.
Bernardino was there. I was with Bernardino.
[narrator] The only fear that had stayed with him…
[Sofía coughs]
…since that dawn when he witnessed Moncada's execution
was the fear of being buried alive.
Tell me again.
Swear to me you won't bury me alive.
Thank you, Mama.
Gavilán was also there with Bernardino.
We were all there.
Men, women, and children.
[sobs]
They fired at all of us.
They were shooting at us from above.
So many people kept falling on top of me.
[Sofía coughs]
I'm telling you the truth.
I was there that day.
Bernardino was also there.
Their bodies were dumped in the sea.
[music fades]
[Úrsula] Oh, Aureliano.
Your brother is not the first to lose his mind.
It is the fate of the Buendías.
It's because of me and
your great-grandfather.
[thunder rumbling]
Please give this to the mailman.
José Arcadio needs money.
[Úrsula] The mailman hasn't been here in a year, Fernanda.
They told us the freight cars had derailed in the rain.
Did you forget?
No, of course not.
[breathes deeply]
[loud clatter]
-[water dripping rapidly] -[sighs]
[Úrsula] Go talk to her, son.
It's time you put your affairs in order.
[door opens]
[footsteps approaching]
[Aureliano II] Are you all right?
How could I be, living the way we're living?
I was raised to be a queen, Aureliano.
[Aureliano II] What queen?
You are not a queen, and you will never be a queen.
Why do you keep writing letters when you know there's been no mail service
in over a year?
Do you remember when I went to your house?
And you and your family were eating shit!
And that wretch you called a father--
My father was a saint, unlike you!
You are a lazy, godless womanizer!
Meanwhile, I have worked myself to the bone to keep this house afloat,
where there's always something to be done from the moment God wakes
until he goes to bed!
I go to bed with glass dust in my eyes, and no one even bothers saying,
"Oh, good morning, Fernanda."
-"How did you sleep, Fernanda"? -[thunderclap]
Of course.
How could I ever expect that from a family that has always thought of me as a burden?
Like an old potholder.
Like some rag doll hanging from the goddamn wall!
Calling me sanctimonious, hypocritical, self-serving!
Even Amaranta, may she rest in peace, once said aloud
that I couldn't tell my own ass from a mudhole in the ground!
As God is my witness,
I have endured everything with resignation for Holy Father's intentions,
even when they claimed this family's greatest misfortune
was opening its doors to a spoiled city girl!
Of course, referring to me of all people.
To me! The goddaughter of the Duke of Alba.
The only mortal in this town full of bastards
who isn't utterly bewildered by 16 pieces of silver!
A lady of such lineage,
I have the legal right to sign my name with 11 Spanish surnames, Aureliano!
Eleven!
And the only one on the entire coast who could take pride in relieving herself
solely in golden chamber pots, only for Colonel Aureliano Buendía,
with his Masonic bile,
to have the audacity to ask if lilies, instead of shit, came out my asshole!
Don't you have anything to say?
You coward.
The only mistake I've made in my life
was bringing you to live here in my house.
Run off to your lover.
I said get out!
[somber music playing]
[narrator] For more than five years,
it was as though the heavens had opened up.
The air was so damp
that fish could have swam in through the doors
and out through the windows,
navigating the air inside the rooms.
[water sloshing]
Turn around. Let me see.
[Úrsula] At this pace, we'll end up being devoured by beasts.
[Úrsula coughs]
But you wait and see.
The day this storm ends
is the day they find me dead.
[humming sad melody]
[suspenseful music playing]
[music intensifies]
[music subsides]
[footsteps approaching]
[whispers] You should hide.
[Fernanda] Why is the door open, bastard?
What were you doing?
[music fades]
All right, bedtime. Do you want me to tell you a story?
Hey, I tell really good stories.
Are you sure?
All right, fine.
No stories tonight.
In bed we go.
Mm, that's my girl.
-Good night. -[kisses]
I love you.
-Papa. -Hmm?
Who is "bastard"?
Bastard?
[somber music playing]
[coughs]
[Aureliano II coughs]
Hello.
What's your name?
How did you get in here?
Don't worry. No one is going to hurt you.
[tense music playing]
All I did was take care of him.
Renata sent him with a nun a while ago.
He's your grandson. I didn't want to bother anyone.
No one needs to find out that… that worker abused our daughter.
If you give him your last name,
no one will ask any questions.
You are demented.
You are forbidden to go near those children.
Understood?
[coughing]
[door closes]
[narrator] For Fernanda, it was a relief.
She had long since measured the extent of her pridefulness,
but couldn't find a way to correct it.
Because the more solutions she found,
the less rational they seemed to her.
[melancholy music playing]
[narrator] Úrsula instinctively recognized the high cheekbones,
the look of wonder, and the solitary air of the Aurelianos.
Aureliano.
For better or for worse, my child,
you too are an Aureliano.
[narrator] The years went by, and it hadn't stopped raining.
[Aureliano Babilonia] Come on, let's go!
[Amaranta Úrsula] Give them to me!
Give them to me!
[Aureliano Babilonia] Hurry up! Let's go!
[Aureliano II] For many, many years,
the pirate Francis Drake navigated the oceans.
[imitating boat sounds]
And after a very long time…
-[making playful sounds] -[Amaranta Úrsula laughs]
[playful sounds continue]
[Aureliano II] Legend has it,
someone found the pirate ship
stranded in a swamp on the other side of the world.
Inside the pirate ship… [imitates a bell]
…a treasure
now hidden inside this very house.
And to this day,
Mama Úrsula refuses to tell anyone where.
Do you know who made that wondrous discovery?
Your great-grandfather, José Arcadio Buendía,
on one of his first expeditions after founding Macondo.
-And you know what else he discovered? -What?
-Francis Drake's full set of battle armor… -Francis Drake.
…thanks to a giant magnet that he bought from his good friend, Melquiades.
Will you take us someday?
Of course I will.
It's the first thing we're gonna do when it stops raining.
Is Macondo kinda like Brussels, Papa?
Even more beautiful.
In the main square of town,
there is a giant tree, bigger and taller than any building.
What's a building?
Oh, and the parties go on until the sun comes up
and lasts for several days.
You'll see what I mean one day.
[coughs]
[melancholy music playing]
-[Aureliano Babilonia] Run! -Hurry up!
-Come on! -Hurry up, slowpoke!
-[Aureliano Babilonia] Amaranta! Come on! -[Amaranta Úrsula] Hurry up! Let's go!
Come on, little cannibal!
[Aureliano Babilonia] I'm gonna get you! I'm gonna get you!
[José Arcadio II] There were 3,000. Men, women, and children.
There were 3,000. All there at the train station.
Men, women, and children. 3,000.
[children laughing]
Wish you could see yourself, Mama Úrsula.
'Cause you are looking… so beautiful.
Don't you think so?
Yes, very beautiful.
Children.
There's something that you need to know.
The Buendías cannot marry one another.
I have watched both of you.
Listen to me carefully.
Amaranta,
Aureliano,
listen to me.
You must not wed each other ever
because your children would…
They would have a pig's tail.
[thunder rumbling]
[children laughing]
[Aureliano II] What are you doing?
Look what you did to Mama Úrsula.
Get out of here.
Go on.
Out.
[Sofía] Aureliano! Amaranta Úrsula! Come eat your dinner!
Look what they did to you, Mama Úrsula.
-Do I look beautiful? -Ah! [chuckles]
Always.
You have always been so beautiful.
Always.
[pensive music playing]
[narrator] And then… at two in the afternoon,
the world brightened beneath a timid sun,
reddish and rough, like brick dust, and almost as cool as water.
It didn't rain again for ten years.
[pensive music continues]
[birds chirping]
[poignant string music playing]
I didn't think you were gonna get up, my love.
[chuckles]
I had the strangest dream.
It wouldn't stop raining.
[both laugh]
[music fades]
[birds chirping]
[breathing shakily]
[whimpers]
Mama Úrsula.
[whimpers]
[somber music playing]
[somber music continues]
[people praying]
[music fades]
[flies buzzing]
[animal grunts]
[accordion note plays]
[Petra] Aureliano.
Leave that, and help me get this animal out.
[Petra grunts]
Forgive me, Petra.
[melancholy accordion music playing]
[narrator] Aureliano Segundo had watched with a dull sense of helplessness
as the flood mercilessly exterminated a fortune,
once thought the largest and most solid in Macondo,
of which nothing remained but the stench.
[music fades]
[kisses]
[insects chittering]
Try and get some rest.
The times for such things are long gone.
What do you think the Turks will pay us for this?
[Fernanda] Excuse me?
Nobody uses this thing.
What's the use in keeping it?
Besides, Amaranta Úrsula has to leave, and I'm broke because of the rain.
[coughs]
Where would she go, Aureliano?
I looked into it,
and there's a great school for young ladies in Brussels.
[Fernanda] When would she leave?
[Aureliano II] As soon as I can get the money together.
Is Aureliano coming with me?
No, my darling.
It's a school for young ladies.
But Aureliano and I will be looking forward
to all the letters you'll write to us
about all the wonderful things you'll do over there.
And if you behave, we'll visit you on the holidays.
[Aureliano Babilonia sobbing]
[door opens]
[José Arcadio II] Hey, kid.
Come here.
Come here. I wanna show you something.
[Aureliano Babilonia] What is it?
I don't know.
[melancholy music playing]
Nobody knows what language it was written in.
But maybe by the time Amaranta Úrsula comes back,
you'll have already deciphered it.
See, so far,
I have identified 30 letters that repeat themselves.
Characters. They're characters. They're not letters.
They're characters.
There are 30 characters.
Is that why you've been locked in this room?
That's why I've been locked in this room.
And because I've also been thinking about something
that I can't afford to forget.
What can't you forget?
The day the army arrived
and massacred 3,000 workers
who were cornered inside the train station.
This is not some lie. I'm telling the truth. This happened.
And why did they do that?
I have so much I need to tell you.
So much.
[eerie music playing]
[choking scream]
[gasps, coughs]
[Petra] Easy, my love.
Aureliano. Breathe.
You're all right. Sh.
[narrator] Aureliano Segundo woke up
feeling as if he was being strangled from within by a pair of crab claws.
[Petra] Are you all right?
[Aureliano II coughs]
This cost me quite a bit of money,
but if Divine Providence smiles upon you,
you might win a beautiful clavichord all the way from Europe
for just a few cents.
[narrator] Tormented by the fear of dying
before sending Amaranta Úrsula to Brussels,
Aureliano Segundo worked harder than he ever had.
What is it that's always in front of you but you can never see?
The future.
Listen, buy this number.
It's the number of Divine Providence, and it only comes out every hundred years.
How many do you want? Two?
Great. And three for you?
[narrator] Even at midnight,
he would be trying to console the lonely women,
weeping beside their phonographs, with predictions of good fortune.
And you look like you like nice things.
-[coughs] -[music fades]
[Aureliano II] Are you still mad at me?
[sighs]
So how are you and I gonna live together, then?
I told you I would never leave you.
Petra is looking for a new bed to put in our house for you.
So if you want, we can go there tomorrow.
Come on. At least say something.
Yes? No?
-Yeah. -Hmm? Yeah?
-What's this? Oh! -[chuckles]
Now pack your things. I'll come for you in the morning.
[Aureliano II] Thank you.
[narrator] Amaranta Úrsula and little Aureliano
would always remember their childhood as a happy time.
[Aureliano II] All right now, let's go.
[melancholy accordion music playing]
Aureliano. Come on.
-[sobs] -Aureliano.
All right, all right, all right. Come on, come on.
Come on. It's okay.
-Mm-hmm. -[Aureliano Babilonia sobs]
She'll be back.
[melancholy music continues]
[wheezing, coughing]
[music stops]
[coughing continues]
[labored breathing]
[groans]
[wheezing, coughs]
[labored breathing]
You're dying, my love.
[wheezing continues]
I have to fulfill my promise to Fernanda.
[Petra] Mm-hmm.
When the time comes, I'll go get your grandson.
You don't owe me anything.
Let your soul find rest.
All right?
You can rest now.
[Aureliano II sobs]
[José Arcadio II] Come in.
[Aureliano Babilonia] Don't you ever sleep?
[José Arcadio II] Have you come to say goodbye to the crazy old man?
Promise me you'll never forget what I told you.
[Fernanda] Somebody help!
[somber music playing]
[Fernanda] Help! Help for God's sake!
What do I do?
He's dying! Go!
[Sofía sobs]
[narrator] On the 9th of August, they died at the same time,
becoming identical once again in death…
as they had been in adolescence.
[Sofía kisses, sobs]
[narrator] With great sorrow, she fulfilled her promise.
[blood squelches]
[music fades]
[breathing shakily]
[melancholy music playing]
[Sofía] Do not fear death, Aureliano.
There's no suffering in death. Only in life.
[narrator] Santa Sofía de la Piedad was never heard of again.
That great woman who had sown Remedios the Beauty's angelic seed
into the family,
who had devoted her entire life to raising those who could barely remember
that they were her children and grandchildren…
and who had taken care of Aureliano Babilonia
as if he had sprung from her own womb…
Forgive me.
…without ever knowing she was his great-grandmother.
Find your own way.
[tense dramatic music playing]
[Fernanda] No one will ever know you exist.
Bastard.
[music intensifies]
[somber music playing]
[music fades]
[dark melancholy music playing]
[dark percussive music playing]
[dark somber music playing]
[music fades]