Survivors' support group thing, it's Theo's group.
Theodora from school?
My name is Theo Lee Daniels,
I created this group for survivors to hopefully
encourage one another.
Hey, what are you doing? Stop!
- Miss! - Yes, Terry?
I didn't want to. Ryan, he made me.
- But blood don't lie. - The blood never lies, Marcus.
The shots don't lie.
It's the kind of world where there are places
like this that you can come and talk about it.
You are so fucking great.
I wish I got to know you more in school.
I don't know if it's gonna go with my outfit.
It is, I love it.
- Bells, this is you! - Woo!
- Look at that green one. - I'm gonna buy that right now.
My enemies will be green with envy.
Girls.
- Yo. - Whose birthday is it?
- Uh, it's... Where is she? - Our friend over there.
It's my birthday!
Hey!
Tell you what, I'll throw in an extra item for free, guys.
- Are you serious, mate? - Yeah, mate. No worries.
Chaps and cheese!
# Bella #
# Baby #
You got nuts?
Don't tell me you've sold out...
We don't even need...
We need more cheese.
# Put it on my black card #
# Can find me in the flat #
# Lip gloss matte If the lace wig struggle #
# I put on my hat #
Being a woman is the fucking worst.
That'll be 71.98 please.
Do you wanna try again?
It's declined.
Can I get a selfie please?
Yeah.
Yeah, you're gonna have to remove all your items
off my conveyor belt,
and put them back in the aisles.
"Prior to being raped,
I never took much notice of being a woman;
I was busy being black and poor.
Daring to observe the hazard my gender may pose
to my freedom and survival feels like a betrayal
to the council flat I was born and raised in,
where hardship was no respecter of genitals,
and a little brother was as starved of food
and love as his sister.
When I think about the Met Police Force,
and the chronic racism that cripples it,
the fact that I opened my mouth to tell them someone
did a little rape in there, feels felonious in itself.
The Bible says, 'You cannot serve two masters.'
Am I too late to serve this tribe called women?
Do I actually understand what it is to be
a woman struggling?
A little rape in the mouth is a walk in the park
when other girls are currently being stoned to death
for having mobile phones,
are bleeding to death after genital mutilation,
are looking at a womb irreparably destroyed
by militias systematically raping them
during times of civil conflict and war.
Are these facts a humbling reminder
not to be so loud about my experiences,
or are they a reminder to shout?
Can my shout help their silent screams?
Is it time to serve a new tribe?
I hope one day to know."
I'm thinking more. You know, I'm trying.
It's okay. You know, that was... that was fantastic.
Wow.
The thing is, um, we have a contract,
and we... we have to honor, um, that contract.
Uh, so this is great, but, um...
you, um...
You need to finish the draft.
Where... Where is the money?
With Henny House.
With Henny House, with Susy?
# Street games #
# Baby, street games #
# Street games #
Thank you so much for agreeing to see me.
Of course,
I'm gonna let you through and up,
all the fucking way up.
Love the hair by the way.
Oh, thank you.
Have a pomegranate.
How's it going in the kitchen?
Is it in the oven? Measuring?
Marinating? When are we serving?
Mm. Well, I... I started, um, doing what you said.
- Which was? - Mm.
I'm starting to write about my experiences.
- Rape. - Mm-hmm.
Fantastic.
Huh? Just different, it's different to my usual.
I'd love you to meet some other writers I look after.
Would you like that?
Yes, I would.
Um, I also wondered if, um, an earlier transfer of fees
was something that was possible?
You haven't been paid?
Oh.
Oh, dear, you should've received a quarter upon agreement,
- that's contractual. - Oh, no, no, I got that.
Oh.
Yeah. But that was like a year ago,
and 'cause the content has changed,
it's taking a bit longer to finish a draft,
so I just wondered if I could have...
some of the fees in advance.
You've probably signed a contract. Hmm?
That makes things tricky,
contracts.
They're a little like things we've agreed.
Mate, you don't even need to know what you're saying.
Just read the script and pocket the cash.
All right?
No, no, no.
Mate, you can't have a party without treats.
- No, but this is from... - Yeah, I know.
Every time I bring someone in here,
I get a referral fee, so I'm all right for a while.
Just give it back to me when I need it.
Hello, this is Happy Animals,
- we're a vegan grocery delivery service. - You got a minute?
- Yeah! - Um, yeah, your details were on our database...
Yeah, come on over. Hey, I'm Dan, CEO.
Oh, wicked, yeah, nice to meet you,
thanks for, yeah, bringing...
Do you know, uh, much about Happy Animals or...
- No, no. - Right.
Let me just fill you in. It's a bit dull but, uh...
I basically spent three years in uni,
uh, just going deep into the existential threat
of climate change.
So, you know, animal agriculture and eating meat
are the biggest threat to global warming,
so I created, uh, Happy Animals.
Yeah, so people who want to buy vegan products
and know what's out there, know what they can buy.
Wow. So it's kinda like Amazon?
Uh, yeah. But kind of ethical.
Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, I wondered if you would be interested
in, uh, influencing instead.
- Oh, like, uh, Instagram? - Mm-hmm. Yeah.
- Um... - Double pay,
I mean, I pay cash up front as well.
- Sure, yeah sure. - Great.
No, yeah. That sounds great.
Fantastic. Emily, can we, um, get...
So, yeah. I thought maybe we could start
with a photo of you in the Happy Animals
t-shirt and bag?
Would that be good?
Yeah, yeah. Can I... Can I see what it looks like?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Perfect. Okay.
Yeah. That is lush.
Um, would you mind if we do, like, a quick ten-second video?
Yes. Yup, definitely.
- Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Just the phone script.
Hi, this is Arabella from Happy Animals.
The climate crisis is real, we're here to make a change.
- Great. - Cool.
And would you mind doing, like, a few more?
- Yeah. - Yeah? Great. Okay.
The thing I'll miss most after the complete
ecological collapse are crops.
Because crops bring us yummy vegetables!
A bit more playful. I love it.
Indonesia has to move their capital city
because the current one is literally sinking.
- Twenty percent off! Click the link. - Get your products now.
You know where to go.
Maybe a live-stream tomorrow?
- Great! Uh, cash? - Yeah.
- Yeah, when you clock out we'll sort that out. - Great.
She's stopped by the way.
Smoking. Cigarettes and weed.
That's good.
I bought her a vape, it helped.
Less toxins in her system.
- Not sure about that. - What?
New research, innit?
Vapes looking more toxic than they thought.
It's better than smoking.
It smells better for non-smokers. Yeah.
What are you up to today then?
Well, as you can see, I'm at work right now, T.
On my break.
Did I see you this morning?
What?
In the supermarket?
No.
It's my birthday.
- I know. - Thanks.
Arabella is hosting a party for me tonight.
I'm sure you saw the event circulating on Facebook.
So you wanted to check
that I wasn't gonna turn up with the champs?
It's just self-care guidelines say...
It's better for her that I stay away.
I'm not gonna forget, Terry.
You don't have to keep turning up at my workplace,
hounding me down to check.
Sorry.
"Self-care."
Yup.
Self-care is important in the first two stages.
The only thing more important is...
to avoid friends...
who don't affirm or comfort.
Right.
This, um, self-care,
who's it for?
Arabella.
And the guideline says to avoid me?
Yes.
Because I left her.
Ultimately, yes.
So, it doesn't matter that I got your approval to leave her?
"Yo, Terry, Arabella's twisted,
and I really need to go and bang my mistress, what do I do?"
I can't verify those are my words;
I was under the influence of tequila and class A drugs.
You put me in a difficult position.
I wasn't there, I didn't know what to say.
So instead of just saying, "I don't know,"
you say, "Just leave her,
- this is what she does." - That is not how I said it.
That's exactly what you said,
and you were sober when you said it.
And then, you forced me to lie to her the next day.
What does the past have to do with Arabella's
- current recovery... - I'm just trying to assess...
- ...I'm trying to do, now? - ...which one of us
- she should be avoiding. - I'm taking her to yoga,
dance class, meditation, painting, steam room,
I listen to her talk, I make her feel good.
No one else is doing these things. I'm helping.
Well, you get back to that,
and I'm gonna resume my break.
Oh, wait.
You finished that again.
Ooh.
Hey, it's the birthday bitch!
- Hi. - There she is.
Hey!
- Happy birthday, my dear. - Pastor Samson.
Hmm. You are looking spicy.
Thank you. Thank you.
What are you saying, Kwarms?
What you saying, bro?
- That's my boy Jamal still. - Hi, Jamal.
Yo, I didn't catch your name, bro.
- My name? - Hmm.
It's Kwame.
Yeah, this one is Kwame.
And I'm a friend of the birthday girl.
- And this one here is my yard. - Hmm.
Yours? Okay. Well, thank you for letting us gatecrash.
Oh, you're very welcome.
Anyway, I'm Jamal.
- Hmm. - Jamal.
Jamal.
This, uh, name, this look, it's really intense.
- Are you Egyptian? - Half.
Oh! Mmm. And also...?
- Ecuador. - Ecuador!
Yeah, I know, right?
Wow!
- Egyptuadorian. - Come on!
All right.
Maybe I'll catch you next door later on, yeah?
Yeah, maybe.
Hmm. So, um...
Isn't he, uh, hmm,
- your type? - Okay, okay. It's okay.
Oh, yeah. Go and serve.
I do have a thing for Egyptians still.
Why?
See, my firsts were Greek and Egyptian.
Firsts, plural? How's that then?
I lost my virginity to two guys at the same time.
Yeah. When I was walking home from school,
and these two guys pulled up in a car.
So I went in the car.
And, yo, I was really nervous
'cause there was barely a word spoken.
And I didn't catch their names, they didn't ask for mine,
but one said they were Greek
and the other said Egyptian.
Wow, babe.
Yeah. It's kind of dark.
I'm on a break now, innit.
Hmm.
Shut up.
# Happy birthday to you #
# Happy birthday dear Terry #
Queen bish!
# Happy birthday to you #
Speech, speech, speech, speech.
All right, all right, guys.
If you're familiar with the term "O'kinch," say "O'kinch."
O'kinch.
Sometimes you gotta look at life and say what?
O'kinch.
It's my birthday, I'm cute.
And I never thought I'd make it through.
I've had four auditions in five months.
I have crumbled and chickened out
of going into the room every single time,
but when you look in that mirror and every day you're buff...
- Yeah. - ...what can you say but...
O'kinch.
It was a close shave today, the finances tried to test us.
But God came through.
- Yes. - He did!
Anyway, Bella...
- thank you for the yard. - Of course.
You do so much,
- I'm so proud of you. - What are you talking about?
T, you're my best friend.
I'll give you my fucking organs, G.
- I love you. - I love you too.
I love you more.
I love you more than anything in this world.
I love you more than I love myself.
T, come on. You know your death
- is my death. - Is my death.
- Your birth is my birth. - Your birth
is my fucking birth, G. It's your birthday.
It's your birthday. I love you!
# Swallow my pride #
# Wash it down with a kiss #
Yo, say cheese.
- Cheese. - Cheese.
Okay.
Did you just hide your chicken?
- What? - I cannot.
- It's off brand. - Whose brand?
How long are you doing this?
I'm back there tomorrow.
Where are you working?
Oh, Arabella is the face of Happy Animals.
- Oh. Happy Animals? - T!
Vegan tings, climate tings.
"The ice caps are melting."
Wow, you have now become a climateer?
Pastor, for the money.
- All right? - Let's watch this, take a look.
- Oh, no. - Here we go.
The surface of the ice sheets
are getting darker and less reflective of the sun
which places the icecaps in the grip
of what's called a feedback loop,
which is contributing to the acceleration
of the melting icecaps and fueling sea level rises.
Wow. Wonderful!
Don't knock the hustle.
- Only yesterday... - What?
...a climateer came knocking on my door,
saying now is the time to change my car
to an electric something, something, something.
I just bought a new Mercedes, I worked hard to get it,
and you're standing at my door, telling me to what?
Throw away my car! Huh?
And what next? Exchange my cow for a carrot.
Why must the white man chop at the neck
when the Africans only now beginning to swallow, huh?
They say because there's dairy inside.
I am tired of white people.
Yeah, me too.
Oh, shit. Theo, mate!
- Yes! - What you saying?
Are you all right?
Someone needs to tell her that black women don't do coke.
And apart from Arabella, we don't get raped,
so she's not gonna find no business here.
- Who? - Uh, Theodora?
Because what else would she be doing at a party,
apart from selling class-A and trying to find
new rape victims to put some dollar
into her little donation pot?
Uh, she could be celebrating.
Celebrating what?
Her life is about as celebratory
as a true-crime documentary on Netflix.
I... I... I'm gonna go toilet, yeah?
Oh, shit.
Come on, Egyptuador! Love that... Hey!
Yes, mate! Hey!
You having a good night?
- Huh? - You having a good night?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
You?
Yeah, man, can't complain.
# Girl you're kinda cute You know #
Ahh!
# Deep on the low #
# Girl you gotta loosen up #
# 'Cause your body Wanna move you know #
# Uptight, just loosen up #
Oh, it's boiling in there.
Bells, Bells. Sorry, um...
Can I go in your bedroom for a bit?
- Yeah. Sure. - Got a headache.
- Are you having a good time? - Yeah. Yeah.
What's wrong?
- What a party. - Hello, mate.
- I'm gonna smoke if... - We're not smokers.
- V for Vape. - Oh, yeah, course.
Yeah, well, I'll be, uh, outside.
- Shall I tell her to go? - No, no, no.
I'm happy for her to be here, as long as you trust her.
- Do you trust her? - Why wouldn't I trust her?
Because of things that happened in the past?
Like framing a black man for something he never did?
Oh.
That... That was, um,
- that was a long time ago. - And in between that time,
has anything been resolved, has she even said anything?
Uh, no, no.
Exactly, then why is she all up in our yard
dancing with our friends, consuming the vibes,
consuming the food?
Well, she paid for the food. Now that...
Yeah, even that though, why is she being nice
and supportive? What is she hiding?
Um...
# Breaking my baby's heart #
T, we need to resolve our problems on the dance floor.
- Yeah. Okay. - Yeah...
- Just be careful. - Careful...
- Yo. - Yo.
That's mad, I was just thinking about you.
Yeah, I've been wanting to say
sorry for disappearing after, you know...
Yeah.
And I wanted to say thank you.
Thank you?
Yeah, for being so cool, you know?
Yo, I met someone, and I don't care, you know,
I don't give a fuck.
I'm doing me, and I'm not listening
to anything anyone has to say, do you know what I mean?
Oh, Egyptuador, you having fun?
- Yeah. Having a good time. - More wine?
- Nah. I'm good, you know. - Oops!
I'm actually trying to find your toilet?
Uh, yeah. It's the first door on the left.
- This one? - Yeah.
Oh, sorry, man, I thought this was the toilet.
I prefer your anti-man videos.
Aah, Samson, it's not exactly a bad cause
because crops are, you know...
- dying and shit, so... - I don't have garden,
I don't see crops.
Samson, it's a thing, you know, planet-wise, we are fucked.
Is this what they pay you to say?
Theo, back me up?
I can't, I'm eating.
Look. All I'm saying is, if you deep it...
Sis, deep history, I beg.
Let me tell you something about the vegan,
- and the climateer. - Yes, Pastor Samson.
Oh, they love looking into the future.
But they don't care about the past.
Because they don't look too noble back there.
It's our duty to remind them.
- May we never forget. - We will count every sin.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
How's that got anything to do with...
It is the same manipulative
and sociopathic mind
that helped them invade, exploit, and rape,
all but 22 countries in the world
that they're channeling to invade Hackney,
to talk about cows and carrots.
It doesn't matter what it looks like.
Jesus, the English language,
sports, climate change,
the only real agenda is power and worship.
- And money. - The same way they used
the missionaries to spread their "goodness..."
Well, yeah,
they don't get paid when I post.
Chale, if you're going to fight exploitation of any kind,
you yourself better know when you're being exploited.
Every like you get
gives them exposure.
Exposure gives them more followers.
Followers gives them power.
And power gives them money.
And you...
help them get our attention.
Do you want me to open the window?
Get some air in here?
Um...
Maybe they're right about the icecaps.
I gotta tell you something.
Yeah. You were quiet in there.
I was quiet in there, yeah.
You know I don't do, like, that
corny fucking Facetime, Insta stuff for Happy Animals.
I scout Bells, do you know what I mean?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
No, sorry, what do you mean?
So, like bringing you in.
Uh, me bringing you in,
uh, does have benefits.
Yeah, the referral fee.
Uh, so if I bring in people of color,
I get a better referral fee.
So he... he was right.
- But they do want... - Yeah.
Sorry.
Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I'm...
I probably should have told you,
um, obviously then you wouldn't have...
And I really need the cash.
And you said you really needed the cash.
Theo.
You know, um...
- school days? - Yeah.
It was me that went to the teacher,
um, what's it, Mr...
- Mr. McHale. - Yeah.
Wow. I always wondered how I got caught.
Yeah.
I was a bit shit.
No, you weren't.
Anyway. I don't think I'm gonna go in tomorrow
because I don't think I wanna do that job anymore.
- Oh, tomorrow? - Mm-hmm.
Hmm. Would have been nice.
Smile, say some catchphrases, pose, double pay.
Too good to be true, right?
- Oh, yo. - Hi. Where's Kwame?
I gave him some private time with Jamal in my bedroom.
He's on a break?
I'm sure he was swiping on Grindr in the market.
He's on a break.
Yup.
I had to find the key.
For fuck's sake.
- See ya, bro. - What happened?
- I'm gonna fucking kill her. - No, no, no.
Where is she?
Come on.
Oh, um, we can still get the money from Happy Animals.
- How? - I'll let it percolate.
- Okay. - Night, Ben.
Night, Ben.
Who did you talk to?
No one, really, I just reported it and... boy.
- Oh. - Yeah.
That was enough to put me off
ever mentioning it to anyone ever again.
- Fuck. - Yeah.
I... I think I just wanted to forget about it.
You have to tell Bella.
Yeah. I'll tell her, but these times,
it's kind of hard to get an in with her.
Do you know what I mean? I feel like I've got to tweet
or Instagram her before she even knows I exist.
Kwarms.
Oh, I'll tell her,
I'll tell her tomorrow.
She'll be good to talk to, strengthening.
We should probably help her tidy up.
# It's better When your Coca Cola eyes #
- # Are outta my face # - Yeah.
# I checked your phone #
# And no surprises #
Oh, happy birthday.
No, it's not mine, it's hers, remember?
- Shit! - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oi, oi, happy birthday.
- Oh, uh, tomorrow... - Yeah?
Will be tomorrow.
Tomorrow is tomorrow.
# I loved #
# You to death #
# And now I don't really care #
# 'Cause you're runnin' round Over there #
# Yeah, you're runnin' round Over there #
Your birth is my birth, guys.
# And now I don't really care #
# 'Cause you're runnin' round Over there #
The climate crisis is real.
My hair is not.
And I love chicken.
Fried chickens.
What the f...
# When I'm sleeping at night #
# I have visions of you #
# I make believe We're running away #
# To a world of fantasy #
# Pretty images of you #
# Are reflected on the clouds In the sky #
# You appear as an angel From heaven #
# Bringing love and ecstasy #
God found the line that separated him
from everything else.
And we will show him exactly what we mean
by violation.
Do you by any chance wanna... go out tonight?
Sex with men is not safe for me right now.
And I would like to have sex with a female.
# You look so stunned right now #
Honestly, you need a plane ticket to Italy!
What is it about Italy?
- Well you know what it is... - He's a hypocrite.
He's controlling!
# You took her rule #
# But I'm a ruler I'm a ruler, yeah #
- Bella? - Fuck!
Ciao.