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[Alithea] My name is alithea.

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My story is true.

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You're more likely to believe me,
however, if I tell it as a fairy tale.

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So, once upon a time, when humans
hurtled across the sky on metal wings,

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when they wore webbed feet
and walked on the bottom of the sea,

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when they held in their hands
glass tiles

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that could coax love songs from the air,

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[music playing through headphones]

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There was a woman,
adequately happy and alone.

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Alone by choice.

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Happy because she was independent,

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living off the exercise
of her scholarly mind.

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Her business was story.

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She was a narratologist

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who sought to find the truths common
to all the stories of humankind.

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To this end, once or twice a year,
she ventured to strange lands.

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To China, the south seas,

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and the timeless cities of the levant...

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Where her kind gathered
to tell stories about stories.

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[Man 1] This way.

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

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

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The mysteries of Istanbul.

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[Static]

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

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Alithea!

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Welcome!

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- Welcome at last! Aw.
- Gijnhan!

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- [Both laugh]
- My dear friend.

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- [Alithea] Oh, how wonderful!
- [Giinhan] 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,
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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[Glinhan laughs]

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The hotel's arranged
a lovely surprise for you.

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It's the Agatha christie room.

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In this room,
she wrote murder on the orient express.

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[Sighs]

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[Audience laughing]

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[Glinhan chuckles]

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[Glinhan] So, how would you explain
the power of a thunderstorm

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if you don't have the means 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
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 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
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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- [Gijnhan] Let me show you.
- [Static]

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We told tales of specific,
powerful, relatable gods,

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ever present in all cultures,
in all mythologies,

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from the Greeks, to the romans,
to the norse

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and so on, and so on.

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The familiar descendant of Zeus,
Poseidon, Athena,

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Thor, the whole gang,

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find expression even today.

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[Low electrical humming]

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These are their vestiges.

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The question remains,
what is their purpose?

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[Electrical humming continues]

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What do we require of them now?

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There is mythos, and there is science.

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[Electrical humming stops]

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[Softly] Oh, sorry.

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Mythology is what we knew back then.

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Science is what we know so far.

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[Low electrical humming resumes]

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Sooner or later,

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our creation stories are replaced

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by the narratives of science.

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Painstaking science.

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And all gods and monsters

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outlive their original purpose

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and are reduced to metaphor.

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Rubbish! [Roars]

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[Giinhan in muffled voice] Alithea?

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[Woman] Where is this?

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[Giinhan] Alithea.

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[Woman] What happened?

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I don't know. She just fell.

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- [Gijnhan] She just fell.
- [Amina grunts]

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[Amina] Gosh. [Exclaiming]

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[Glinhan] Are you okay?

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[Audience clapping]

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[Rattling]

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[Glinhan] Shouldn't you see a doctor?

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[Alithea] Why? When I feel so well.

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[Giinhan] Forgive me, alithea.
Are you sure?

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[Alithea] Apart from
the usual aches and pains,

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there is nothing untoward.

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There's no reason to make a fuss.

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[Glinhan] 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.
- 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, and then it steps back.

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What steps back?

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

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[Glinhan] You are behaving like a child.

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- Do you know that?
- You know, I'm actually a child.

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[Glinhan laughs]

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

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Who can say?

129
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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,
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
oesm-i biilbiil, 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 biilbiil,

144
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er, is there a way of authenticating it?

145
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Well, they say that if it is genuine,

146
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sometimes you can see specks of blood
from the lungs of the glassblowers.

147
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But this is more likely
a recent imitation.

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

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No, thank you, gunhan.

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I like it.

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

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[Telephone ringing]

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Hello?

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- [Man] Good morning, Dr. Binnie.
- Good morning.

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- This is room service.
- Yes.

156
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- How do you like your eggs?
- Uh, runny, please.

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- And with toast?
- Uh, yes, but no crusts.

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- Two eggs?
- Just one.

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- Okay, thank you.
- Thank you.

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[Electric toothbrush whirring]

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[Bottle rattling]

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[Bottle rattling intensifying]

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[Gasps]

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[Toothbrush clatters]

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[Squelching]

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[Soft whoosh]

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[Squelching]

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[Heavy breathing]

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[Squeaking]

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[Breathing heavily]

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

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after which I would be grateful
if you would be gone.

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One...

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Two...

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Three.

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[Slow, heavy breathing]

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Foun_

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Five...

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- Six...
- [Rumbling]

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Seven, eight...

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Nine, ten.

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[Breathing heavily]

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[Low growling]

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[Creature speaking incoherently]

185
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I don't suppose you speak English?

186
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[Creature speaking ancient Greek]

187
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[Alithea speaking German]

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[Speaking Spanish]

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[Speaking Greek]

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[Creature grunts]

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[Static on laptop]

192
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[Static]

193
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[Einstein speaking indistinctly on TV]

194
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Einstein.

195
00:14:05,278 --> 00:14:06,379
Einstein.

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Television.

197
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Transmitters.

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

199
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but I begin to understand
these transmissions.

200
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You've learned to speak my language.

201
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This English is straightforward.

202
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Its rules quickly learn, I find.

203
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[Static]

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[Einstein gasps]

205
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[Gasps]

206
00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:56,290
[Einstein] Nein, nein, nein.

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Would you like this little Albert
for yourself?

208
00:14:58,264 --> 00:14:59,265
No, no, no.

209
00:14:59,432 --> 00:15:01,167
No, that can't be good for him.
Put him back.

210
00:15:01,201 --> 00:15:02,469
- I could expand him.
- [Einstein] How?

211
00:15:02,502 --> 00:15:03,470
We could speak with him.

212
00:15:03,570 --> 00:15:05,171
- How is this possible?
- No, put him back.

213
00:15:05,205 --> 00:15:06,906
- This is not possible.
- Is that your wish?

214
00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:08,875
No. It's your obligation.

215
00:15:09,109 --> 00:15:10,110
[Einstein exhales]

216
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[Blows]

217
00:15:11,945 --> 00:15:13,346
[Einstein resumes speech in German]

218
00:15:14,147 --> 00:15:15,882
So, what will you wish for?

219
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[Floor creaks]

220
00:15:17,984 --> 00:15:19,986
What is your heart's desire?

221
00:15:25,910 --> 00:15:29,462
Now, let's, uh,
not get ahead of ourselves.

222
00:15:30,230 --> 00:15:32,298
I... I need to take this slow.

223
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[Alithea sighs]

224
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I have all the time in the world.

225
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Tell me about yourself.

226
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My name is, uh, alithea binnie.

227
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I am in Turkey for a conference.

228
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And I return to my homeland
in a day's time.

229
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Also?

230
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[Alithea breathing heavily]

231
00:15:49,482 --> 00:15:53,119
Also, I have a confession to make.

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Something I've never told anybody.

233
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[The djinn] Excellent.

234
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When I was young, there was a boy.

235
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Your first lover?

236
00:16:02,328 --> 00:16:04,831
Oh, no, no, no.
He was not of flesh and blood.

237
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A djinn?

238
00:16:08,768 --> 00:16:11,938
At that time,
I found myself in a school for girls.

239
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Gaggles of girls.

240
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I was, well, I am a...
A solitary creature by nature.

241
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And this boy, Enzo,

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he came to me, out of an emptiness.

243
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Out of a need to imagine.

244
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He told me stories in a language
that only we two spoke.

245
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And he always disappeared
when I had a headache,

246
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but he was never far away
when I couldn't move for asthma.

247
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[The djinn] He was like
this little Albert

248
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you would not let me give you?

249
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An emanation?

250
00:16:46,390 --> 00:16:49,750
[Alithea stutters] Only an emanation
of an absence.

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[Breathing laboriously]

252
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I feared he would leave,
and so I wrote him down.

253
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And I filled this journal,
bulging with facts.

254
00:17:03,690 --> 00:17:07,327
But the more realism I tried to insert,

255
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the more I began to doubt

256
00:17:10,830 --> 00:17:13,833
and, uh, it all began to feel silly.

257
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I felt silly.

258
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So, after a time,

259
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I burned it all in the school furnace.

260
00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:28,715
And after that,
he, uh, disappeared altogether.

261
00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,850
And yet, I am here.

262
00:17:34,754 --> 00:17:36,589
Contrary to reason, yes.

263
00:17:37,891 --> 00:17:41,528
I am here, and we have work to do.

264
00:17:42,950 --> 00:17:43,960
[Knocking at door]

265
00:17:44,397 --> 00:17:46,232
Uh, can you come back later, please?

266
00:17:46,933 --> 00:17:50,136
[Man] It's room service, Dr. Binnie.
I have your breakfast.

267
00:17:50,870 --> 00:17:52,272
[Alithea] Just a minute!

268
00:17:53,540 --> 00:17:55,410
Must close door.

269
00:18:09,389 --> 00:18:10,223
Good morning.

270
00:18:10,390 --> 00:18:11,891
- Where would you like it, Dr. Binnie?
- Thank you.

271
00:18:11,925 --> 00:18:12,759
Er... oh, I can take it.

272
00:18:12,926 --> 00:18:14,961
- Oh, please, allow me.
- No. No, I can manage it.

273
00:18:15,128 --> 00:18:17,664
Jolly good, Dr. Binnie.
I hope you are well rested.

274
00:18:17,831 --> 00:18:19,566
Oh, that looks delicious. Yes, I am.

275
00:18:19,733 --> 00:18:21,534
[Man] What do you plan
to do on this fine day?

276
00:18:21,568 --> 00:18:23,603
Uh, I'm not sure. I'm improvising.

277
00:18:24,337 --> 00:18:26,573
Well, I'd like to show you
a beautiful art gallery...

278
00:18:26,740 --> 00:18:28,842
- That's so kind. Thank you.
- When you get a chance.

279
00:18:28,942 --> 00:18:30,377
- Maybe another time. Thank you.
- It will be great.

280
00:18:30,410 --> 00:18:31,611
- Have a beautiful day.
- Okay.

281
00:18:32,412 --> 00:18:33,513
[Man] Jolly good. Enjoy.

282
00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:34,914
Thank you!

283
00:18:39,619 --> 00:18:42,355
[People chattering in distance]

284
00:18:51,765 --> 00:18:53,166
[Lock clicks]

285
00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,322
A more convenient size, I see.

286
00:19:17,123 --> 00:19:18,958
I do what I can to fit in.

287
00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:20,360
Please.

288
00:19:21,227 --> 00:19:23,396
I needn't have ordered breakfast.

289
00:19:23,563 --> 00:19:27,330
It's nan-e nokhodchi.
Chickpeas, cloves, pistachio.

290
00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:28,868
It will melt in your mouth.

291
00:19:34,700 --> 00:19:35,842
May I ask you something?

292
00:19:36,900 --> 00:19:37,770
Anything.

293
00:19:38,478 --> 00:19:41,214
How come you found your way
into my bottle?

294
00:19:42,549 --> 00:19:43,983
Ah, it's quite a story.

295
00:19:44,884 --> 00:19:46,886
That was my third incarceration.

296
00:19:47,530 --> 00:19:49,220
You've been trapped in a bottle
three times?

297
00:19:49,189 --> 00:19:51,324
I may be a djinn, but I'm also a fool

298
00:19:51,491 --> 00:19:53,993
with too great a fondness
for the conversation of women.

299
00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,196
I need to be more careful in the future.

300
00:19:56,363 --> 00:19:57,931
How were you caught in the first place?

301
00:19:58,698 --> 00:20:01,101
By desire. How else?

302
00:20:05,500 --> 00:20:06,272
Who was she?

303
00:20:06,439 --> 00:20:07,574
Sheba.

304
00:20:08,740 --> 00:20:09,175
The queen of sheba?

305
00:20:09,342 --> 00:20:10,410
She was my kin.

306
00:20:11,770 --> 00:20:11,911
She was a djinn?

307
00:20:12,780 --> 00:20:13,380
Her mother was a djinn.

308
00:20:13,546 --> 00:20:14,614
Is that possible?

309
00:20:14,781 --> 00:20:17,217
There are laws that allow the union
of djinn and mortals,

310
00:20:17,384 --> 00:20:19,219
but they cannot produce
an immortal scion

311
00:20:19,386 --> 00:20:22,389
the way a donkey and a horse
can only produce a seedless mule.

312
00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,920
So, what did she look like?

313
00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:31,231
Other than a thick glade of black hair
on her legs,

314
00:20:31,398 --> 00:20:32,932
she looked like any other human being,

315
00:20:32,966 --> 00:20:34,868
except, of course, she was sheba.

316
00:20:35,268 --> 00:20:37,437
By all accounts, she was very beautiful.

317
00:20:37,604 --> 00:20:40,640
She was not beautiful.
She was beauty itself.

318
00:20:44,210 --> 00:20:45,945
I was in every way free.

319
00:20:46,946 --> 00:20:49,949
I would come in and out
of her sleeping chamber.

320
00:20:51,317 --> 00:20:53,653
[Whispers] Sheba...

321
00:20:54,921 --> 00:20:57,691
I was her plaything. Her confidante.

322
00:20:57,857 --> 00:21:00,260
I might have become more,
but for Solomon.

323
00:21:00,427 --> 00:21:01,594
King Solomon?

324
00:21:01,761 --> 00:21:03,196
Blessed be his memory.

325
00:21:03,697 --> 00:21:05,865
He came from across
the deserts to woo her.

326
00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,535
- Didn't she go to him?
- No. Never.

327
00:21:08,702 --> 00:21:10,403
But it's in all the holy books.

328
00:21:10,570 --> 00:21:11,971
All the stories and the paintings.

329
00:21:12,138 --> 00:21:13,573
And handel wrote music about it.

330
00:21:13,740 --> 00:21:15,141
Madam, I was there.

331
00:21:15,308 --> 00:21:16,576
Solomon came to her.

332
00:21:17,430 --> 00:21:18,978
[People chattering in distance]

333
00:21:19,790 --> 00:21:20,800
[Djinn speaking arabic]

334
00:21:41,835 --> 00:21:43,837
[Strums note]

335
00:21:44,571 --> 00:21:46,172
[Djinn in English] He began with music.

336
00:21:47,107 --> 00:21:49,109
[Playing romantic melody]

337
00:21:51,611 --> 00:21:52,779
[Music intensifies]

338
00:22:05,425 --> 00:22:08,495
[Playing sentimental music]

339
00:22:28,815 --> 00:22:30,850
[Sentimental music continues]

340
00:23:09,589 --> 00:23:10,590
[Gulps]

341
00:23:12,425 --> 00:23:14,928
I did all that I could to dissuade her.

342
00:23:17,731 --> 00:23:21,468
And she agreed with all that I said,
and dropped a hot tear.

343
00:23:22,535 --> 00:23:25,472
She began to set him tasks,
which seemed impossible,

344
00:23:25,638 --> 00:23:29,576
to find a particular thread of red silk
in the palace of a thousand rooms,

345
00:23:29,743 --> 00:23:32,412
to guess the secret name
of her mother djinn,

346
00:23:32,479 --> 00:23:35,615
[inhales] To tell her
what women most desire...

347
00:23:36,116 --> 00:23:37,884
That does seem impossible.

348
00:23:38,510 --> 00:23:39,520
Not for him.

349
00:23:39,850 --> 00:23:40,754
He could speak
to the beasts of the earth,

350
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,756
and to the djinn made of subtle fire.

351
00:23:42,922 --> 00:23:46,259
He found ants to discover
the thread of silk

352
00:23:46,426 --> 00:23:48,495
and an ifrit to whisper
the mother's name.

353
00:23:48,661 --> 00:23:50,764
[Ifrit speaks indistinctly]

354
00:23:53,266 --> 00:23:55,101
[The djinn] Then he looked
into her eyes,

355
00:23:55,168 --> 00:23:58,338
and told her what women most desire.

356
00:23:58,438 --> 00:24:00,407
[King Solomon speaking early aramaic]

357
00:24:00,473 --> 00:24:01,908
[The djinn] She was astonished,

358
00:24:03,343 --> 00:24:05,111
and told him he was right.

359
00:24:11,184 --> 00:24:14,187
[Soft whooshing]

360
00:24:14,554 --> 00:24:15,388
And imprisoned me

361
00:24:15,555 --> 00:24:18,558
with a word of power
into a brass bottle.

362
00:24:41,181 --> 00:24:43,249
She made no plea for me.

363
00:24:44,284 --> 00:24:45,785
I was nothing to her.

364
00:24:46,853 --> 00:24:48,455
A breath in a bottle.

365
00:25:03,536 --> 00:25:06,206
And so, I was cast into the red sea

366
00:25:06,373 --> 00:25:09,420
and languished
for two-and-a-half thousand years.

367
00:25:15,115 --> 00:25:16,783
Apart from sleep,

368
00:25:16,950 --> 00:25:19,819
what does one do in a bottle
for two-and-a-half thousand years?

369
00:25:21,221 --> 00:25:22,922
Djinn don't sleep.

370
00:25:28,495 --> 00:25:30,130
So, how do you manage then?

371
00:25:31,131 --> 00:25:32,132
[Clicks tongue]

372
00:25:33,566 --> 00:25:37,637
Well, for the first 100 years,
I rage against my fate.

373
00:25:38,238 --> 00:25:41,274
I pray to boschkolo for my release,
and when that does not work,

374
00:25:41,441 --> 00:25:44,744
I pray to any god I know,
and then to any god I may not know.

375
00:25:44,911 --> 00:25:47,447
And when, still, I find no answers,

376
00:25:47,514 --> 00:25:48,448
[inhales]

377
00:25:48,515 --> 00:25:53,420
I spend my time in waking dreams
revisiting all the stories of my life.

378
00:25:53,586 --> 00:25:56,423
And when I have exhausted
this many, many times,

379
00:25:56,589 --> 00:25:59,359
I return to my prayer and my rage.

380
00:25:59,526 --> 00:26:02,529
And then, finally,

381
00:26:03,863 --> 00:26:05,865
I play a trick on myself.

382
00:26:07,300 --> 00:26:08,802
I pray to remain in the bottle.

383
00:26:08,968 --> 00:26:12,472
I beseech boschkolo
to keep me always in the bottle.

384
00:26:12,639 --> 00:26:14,400
And does that work?

385
00:26:14,207 --> 00:26:15,608
To yearn for nothing?

386
00:26:15,775 --> 00:26:19,312
To pretend to want nothing more
than to be contained in a bottle?

387
00:26:21,140 --> 00:26:23,616
For a djinn,
it is the closest we ever come to death.

388
00:26:24,484 --> 00:26:25,485
[Sighs]

389
00:26:26,353 --> 00:26:27,987
Do you know the answer to her question?

390
00:26:28,154 --> 00:26:30,156
- What women most desire?
- Yeah.

391
00:26:30,790 --> 00:26:31,791
Do you not know?

392
00:26:32,125 --> 00:26:33,827
If you do not know, I cannot tell you.

393
00:26:33,993 --> 00:26:35,862
Well, surely, we don't all want
the same thing.

394
00:26:36,290 --> 00:26:39,399
Madam, your yearnings
are not at all clear to me.

395
00:26:39,566 --> 00:26:42,869
I... I'm at a point in my life
where I have all I need.

396
00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:45,338
I dare say I'm content,
and gratefully so.

397
00:26:45,505 --> 00:26:46,506
Tell me.

398
00:26:46,573 --> 00:26:48,808
Are you a wife? A widow?

399
00:26:49,309 --> 00:26:51,440
- Um...
- A mother, perhaps?

400
00:26:51,211 --> 00:26:53,847
[Stutters] I have no children,
no siblings, no parents.

401
00:26:55,382 --> 00:26:56,816
I did once have a husband.

402
00:26:56,983 --> 00:26:57,984
[The djinn] Ah.

403
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,860
And what was the complexion
of this husband?

404
00:27:00,820 --> 00:27:02,188
His complexion?

405
00:27:02,355 --> 00:27:04,758
Uh, in the beginning, it was glowing.

406
00:27:05,392 --> 00:27:06,659
And in the ending?

407
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:08,661
It's not much of a story.

408
00:27:08,828 --> 00:27:11,898
But it is a story. It is your story,

409
00:27:12,650 --> 00:27:16,690
and it is always wise to understand
those who have a hold on you. Please.

410
00:27:16,503 --> 00:27:17,504
[Inhales deeply]

411
00:27:18,605 --> 00:27:20,774
[Grunts] Well, okay. Um...

412
00:27:22,208 --> 00:27:23,430
[Smacks lips]

413
00:27:23,209 --> 00:27:25,445
We'd known each other since our youth.

414
00:27:26,179 --> 00:27:27,514
We, uh, married early.

415
00:27:27,681 --> 00:27:31,284
In the beginning, we took pleasure
in each other's minds and bodies.

416
00:27:32,786 --> 00:27:34,387
We passed the years comfortably...

417
00:27:34,854 --> 00:27:37,900
And then as it happens,

418
00:27:37,757 --> 00:27:40,260
it all evaporated, and, uh...

419
00:27:40,427 --> 00:27:41,861
And we became...

420
00:27:43,630 --> 00:27:44,640
Less.

421
00:27:44,970 --> 00:27:45,980
And where is he?

422
00:27:46,733 --> 00:27:49,269
He's in hackney, with emmeline Porter.

423
00:27:49,769 --> 00:27:50,770
[The djinn] Mmm.

424
00:27:53,973 --> 00:27:55,375
[Sighs]

425
00:27:57,770 --> 00:27:58,278
[Alithea] He told me I...

426
00:27:59,450 --> 00:28:01,381
I was incapable of reading feelings.

427
00:28:01,815 --> 00:28:02,749
[Car brakes]

428
00:28:02,816 --> 00:28:04,840
[Car horn toots]

429
00:28:05,618 --> 00:28:07,987
I was incapable of reading his feelings.

430
00:28:08,621 --> 00:28:10,290
[Emmeline] ...Gonna have a resolution.

431
00:28:10,457 --> 00:28:11,491
[Jack] This is exciting! It is exciting!

432
00:28:11,491 --> 00:28:12,492
[Emmeline] No, it's not.

433
00:28:12,625 --> 00:28:14,461
Let me guess. No one dies in it.

434
00:28:14,627 --> 00:28:15,662
[Emmeline laughs] No!

435
00:28:15,829 --> 00:28:18,231
[Alithea] The way my brain is wired

436
00:28:19,632 --> 00:28:23,636
is the source
both of my power and, uh...

437
00:28:23,803 --> 00:28:25,271
And my solitude.

438
00:28:26,306 --> 00:28:28,508
I suspect that's why I like stories.

439
00:28:29,442 --> 00:28:31,911
I find feelings through stories.

440
00:28:32,412 --> 00:28:34,800
[Djinn sighs]

441
00:28:35,749 --> 00:28:38,485
Perhaps you could wish for him back.

442
00:28:38,852 --> 00:28:40,920
Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no.

443
00:28:43,289 --> 00:28:45,792
I... I thought, um...

444
00:28:46,993 --> 00:28:50,864
I might grieve
a loss and betrayal, but, uh,

445
00:28:52,132 --> 00:28:53,666
no, in fact, I was free.

446
00:28:55,168 --> 00:28:57,303
I was like a prisoner

447
00:28:57,470 --> 00:29:00,273
emerging from a dungeon
into the sunlight.

448
00:29:01,207 --> 00:29:04,477
I expanded into the space
of my own life. No...

449
00:29:05,345 --> 00:29:08,140
I could not wish for more.

450
00:29:08,181 --> 00:29:11,718
You are a wise
and cautious woman, alithea.

451
00:29:12,519 --> 00:29:15,555
But we all have desires,
even if they remain hidden from us.

452
00:29:16,156 --> 00:29:17,157
[Inhales sharply]

453
00:29:17,791 --> 00:29:19,392
That's as may be.

454
00:29:19,559 --> 00:29:24,297
But I am also a narratologist,

455
00:29:24,464 --> 00:29:26,299
and that is going to be a problem.

456
00:29:27,133 --> 00:29:29,690
It's going to be a very big problem.

457
00:29:29,235 --> 00:29:32,505
See, I know all the stories there are
about trickster djinn

458
00:29:32,672 --> 00:29:35,342
and the ways in which they manipulate
wishing to their own ends.

459
00:29:35,508 --> 00:29:36,543
I am not one of them.

460
00:29:36,710 --> 00:29:38,345
I am god-fearing and honorable

461
00:29:38,511 --> 00:29:40,647
and only here
to Grant your heart's desire.

462
00:29:40,814 --> 00:29:42,215
Well, even if that's true,

463
00:29:42,916 --> 00:29:46,860
how can you rely on
those called upon to wish?

464
00:29:47,530 --> 00:29:48,540
[Speaking Greek]

465
00:29:48,321 --> 00:29:50,890
How do you know you can rely on me?

466
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:53,993
Well, I hope so.

467
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,162
With you, I certainly hope so.

468
00:29:56,930 --> 00:29:58,164
There's a...

469
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,368
Funny little story.
I mean, you probably know it.

470
00:30:02,102 --> 00:30:04,400
Three friends lost at sea
in a tiny boat.

471
00:30:04,170 --> 00:30:07,374
They pull up a magic fish,
who grants each of them one wish.

472
00:30:07,540 --> 00:30:10,176
The first one,
"I wish I were at home with my wife."

473
00:30:10,343 --> 00:30:11,344
He vanishes.

474
00:30:11,411 --> 00:30:14,414
The second one, "I wish I were playing
in the fields with my children."

475
00:30:14,581 --> 00:30:15,415
Off he goes.

476
00:30:15,582 --> 00:30:18,840
And the third one,
"I miss my friends..."

477
00:30:18,251 --> 00:30:20,120
- "I wish they were here."
- You've got it.

478
00:30:20,286 --> 00:30:23,923
There's no story about wishing
that is not a cautionary tale.

479
00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:25,859
None end happily.

480
00:30:26,260 --> 00:30:27,927
Not even the ones
that are supposed to be jokes.

481
00:30:28,940 --> 00:30:30,263
But you and I
are the authors of this story,

482
00:30:30,430 --> 00:30:33,330
and we can avoid all traps.

483
00:30:34,367 --> 00:30:36,569
Well, what if I made no wish at all?

484
00:30:38,638 --> 00:30:39,639
Pardon?

485
00:30:42,542 --> 00:30:43,777
What if I made no wish?

486
00:30:44,577 --> 00:30:45,779
That would be an...

487
00:30:45,879 --> 00:30:48,480
- [Low electrical humming]
- [Soft squelching]

488
00:30:48,114 --> 00:30:49,249
That would be...

489
00:30:49,416 --> 00:30:51,251
That would be catastrophic! [Echoes]

490
00:30:51,885 --> 00:30:53,987
[Flesh crunching]

491
00:30:55,789 --> 00:30:57,223
[Panting]

492
00:31:00,727 --> 00:31:02,762
[Djinn muttering]

493
00:31:02,829 --> 00:31:05,980
[Djinn breathing heavily]

494
00:31:05,832 --> 00:31:06,833
[Alithea] All right.

495
00:31:07,767 --> 00:31:10,337
- [Panting heavily]
- [Crunching subsides]

496
00:31:11,771 --> 00:31:14,607
I need to tell you
about my next incarceration.

497
00:31:14,774 --> 00:31:16,109
I'm all ears.

498
00:31:16,176 --> 00:31:17,177
[Sighs]

499
00:31:26,953 --> 00:31:28,121
[The djinn] I will never know

500
00:31:28,988 --> 00:31:33,930
how my bottle came
from the bottom of the red sea

501
00:31:33,827 --> 00:31:36,363
- [flies buzzing]
- To a palace in constantinople.

502
00:31:37,530 --> 00:31:41,340
But I fancy somehow it involved
the killing of an ottoman warrior.

503
00:31:41,134 --> 00:31:42,869
[Breathes deeply]

504
00:31:46,773 --> 00:31:48,308
The fall of an empire.

505
00:31:51,344 --> 00:31:53,130
- [Wall crumbling]
- [Canon shot]

506
00:31:57,784 --> 00:31:59,185
And a girl in love.

507
00:31:59,486 --> 00:32:01,388
[Muttering in Turkish]

508
00:32:09,396 --> 00:32:11,731
[Muttering continues]

509
00:32:21,410 --> 00:32:22,420
[Girl speaks Turkish]

510
00:32:22,842 --> 00:32:23,843
[Gasps]

511
00:32:25,345 --> 00:32:26,880
[Bottle clangs]

512
00:32:26,980 --> 00:32:27,981
[High-pitched pinging]

513
00:32:41,361 --> 00:32:42,195
[Hammering]

514
00:32:42,262 --> 00:32:43,863
[Muttering in Turkish]

515
00:32:43,930 --> 00:32:46,499
[Djinn in English] Gulten lived
as a slave

516
00:32:46,666 --> 00:32:49,869
in the courtyard of the concubines
in the seraglio.

517
00:32:49,936 --> 00:32:51,237
[Muttering continues]

518
00:32:51,338 --> 00:32:53,239
[Low rumbling]

519
00:32:54,374 --> 00:32:55,375
[Gasps]

520
00:32:56,576 --> 00:32:57,577
[Shuddering]

521
00:32:58,345 --> 00:32:59,412
[Rumbling]

522
00:33:02,150 --> 00:33:03,583
[Eerie, heavy breathing]

523
00:33:07,870 --> 00:33:09,890
- [Low growling]
- [Gulten gasps]

524
00:33:09,189 --> 00:33:10,690
[The djinn] When I appeared to her...

525
00:33:10,757 --> 00:33:11,591
[Gasps]

526
00:33:11,758 --> 00:33:12,759
[Low growling]

527
00:33:12,959 --> 00:33:14,361
She fainted.

528
00:33:14,961 --> 00:33:17,564
And I had great trouble rousing her.

529
00:33:18,765 --> 00:33:21,234
[Djinn muttering in Turkish]

530
00:33:23,737 --> 00:33:26,306
I made it clear
that I meant her no harm,

531
00:33:26,473 --> 00:33:28,740
for I was condemned to the bottle.

532
00:33:28,241 --> 00:33:29,876
Until you got your three wishes.

533
00:33:30,430 --> 00:33:31,478
- Until she got hers.
- [Alithea scoffs]

534
00:33:31,478 --> 00:33:32,579
- Okay.
- Please.

535
00:33:33,713 --> 00:33:37,584
Now, the poor girl told me
she was distractedly in love

536
00:33:37,751 --> 00:33:39,386
with a beautiful man...

537
00:33:39,586 --> 00:33:40,420
[Speaking Turkish]

538
00:33:40,487 --> 00:33:44,900
[The djinn] ...And she wished
immediately to find favor in his eyes.

539
00:33:56,136 --> 00:33:57,137
[Blows]

540
00:33:57,570 --> 00:33:59,706
[Djinn in English] As it happens,
the one she most desired

541
00:33:59,739 --> 00:34:01,307
was the splendid Mustafa.

542
00:34:01,474 --> 00:34:03,243
Prince Mustafa.

543
00:34:05,111 --> 00:34:07,580
Eldest son of suleiman the magnificent,

544
00:34:07,747 --> 00:34:10,583
and likely heir to his mighty throne.

545
00:34:11,918 --> 00:34:13,353
Had I known what was to come,

546
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,855
I would've risked the furies of iblis

547
00:34:16,690 --> 00:34:19,859
to vehemently distract her
from her wish.

548
00:34:21,428 --> 00:34:22,929
But without thinking,

549
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,700
I took my bottle and conjured oils
to prepare her.

550
00:34:28,935 --> 00:34:30,437
Oils of enchantment,

551
00:34:35,410 --> 00:34:40,460
I cautioned her to hide the bottle
lest its powers fall into other hands.

552
00:34:45,318 --> 00:34:46,686
I went to Mustafa...

553
00:34:46,853 --> 00:34:48,588
[Whispers] Gulten...

554
00:34:48,755 --> 00:34:50,190
I whispered her name.

555
00:34:54,694 --> 00:34:56,363
He sent for her.

556
00:34:59,990 --> 00:35:00,767
It was so easy.

557
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,242
- [Folk music playing]
- [People chattering]

558
00:35:09,342 --> 00:35:13,246
As a djinn, I am endlessly curious
about the ways of humans.

559
00:35:14,414 --> 00:35:15,548
So, in my spare time,

560
00:35:15,715 --> 00:35:19,552
I took to wandering the palace
in search of its intrigues.

561
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,690
And there, among the eunuchs,
the consorts, and the concubines,

562
00:35:23,857 --> 00:35:25,892
I first saw hl'irrem.

563
00:35:26,926 --> 00:35:28,294
The laughing one.

564
00:35:28,395 --> 00:35:29,462
[Hiirrem laughing]

565
00:35:30,463 --> 00:35:32,465
[Hiirrem speaking Turkish]

566
00:35:32,732 --> 00:35:34,467
[Commotion]

567
00:35:37,103 --> 00:35:38,938
[The djinn] She, too, was a slave

568
00:35:39,105 --> 00:35:43,777
who had risen through the center of them
all to become the sultan's favorite.

569
00:35:46,646 --> 00:35:48,615
[Crowd gasps in awe]

570
00:35:52,752 --> 00:35:55,588
Suleiman the wise saw none but her.

571
00:35:56,389 --> 00:35:58,958
And she sought to protect his throne

572
00:35:59,125 --> 00:36:03,129
in favor of her own sons
over his beloved Mustafa.

573
00:36:06,660 --> 00:36:09,903
And to this end, she had the prince
watched by many probing eyes.

574
00:36:14,641 --> 00:36:16,409
[Laughing]

575
00:36:20,180 --> 00:36:24,417
When I saw how harrem made a masterpiece
of her manipulations,

576
00:36:25,285 --> 00:36:28,988
I worried that my gulten
might be caught in this web.

577
00:36:35,495 --> 00:36:37,597
I tried to warn her to be careful.

578
00:36:37,697 --> 00:36:39,332
[Both speaking Turkish]

579
00:36:39,432 --> 00:36:42,435
But she had already decided
on her second wish.

580
00:36:55,682 --> 00:36:57,817
[Djinn in English] Such a mistake.

581
00:36:59,190 --> 00:37:00,787
Because at this moment,

582
00:37:00,954 --> 00:37:03,560
suleiman, blessed be his name,

583
00:37:03,223 --> 00:37:04,858
is being undermined.

584
00:37:06,326 --> 00:37:08,862
His warriors believe he is going soft,

585
00:37:09,290 --> 00:37:11,464
more interested in his poetry

586
00:37:11,631 --> 00:37:13,967
than ruling with a strong hand.

587
00:37:14,340 --> 00:37:16,690
[Indistinct arguing]

588
00:37:21,141 --> 00:37:22,909
[Speaking Turkish]

589
00:37:29,315 --> 00:37:33,530
[The djinn] Harrem fuels the rumors that
the military want to take his throne

590
00:37:33,219 --> 00:37:35,355
and replace him with Mustafa.

591
00:37:36,890 --> 00:37:41,327
The prince has become a pawn
in the ceaseless game of power.

592
00:37:41,394 --> 00:37:42,696
[Arguing continues indistinctly]

593
00:37:53,940 --> 00:37:55,742
Suleiman the magnificent,

594
00:37:55,909 --> 00:38:00,347
suleiman the conqueror,
patron and protector of empires,

595
00:38:00,513 --> 00:38:02,820
suleiman the father,

596
00:38:02,248 --> 00:38:06,860
was left with a choice
that he knows will break his heart.

597
00:38:13,793 --> 00:38:19,132
Gulten, meantime, saw no reason
why she should remain unseen.

598
00:38:23,937 --> 00:38:27,240
The terrible plottings
move all too quickly.

599
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:57,937
Prince Mustafa comes innocently
into the presence of his father

600
00:38:58,104 --> 00:39:00,206
to reassure him of his loyalty.

601
00:39:09,949 --> 00:39:10,950
[Grunts]

602
00:39:11,551 --> 00:39:13,820
[Djinn in English] And the mutes
are waiting for him.

603
00:39:17,991 --> 00:39:20,927
He cried out to his janissaries,
who loved him,

604
00:39:21,940 --> 00:39:24,297
but his voice was crushed
and his breath stopped

605
00:39:24,464 --> 00:39:27,100
by the string of his father's bow.

606
00:39:35,475 --> 00:39:37,477
[Muffled humming of tune]

607
00:39:42,382 --> 00:39:43,383
[In Turkish]

608
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:55,610
[Gasps]

609
00:40:11,177 --> 00:40:12,412
[Whimpering]

610
00:40:15,582 --> 00:40:16,950
[Djinn in English] "Make a wish!

611
00:40:17,117 --> 00:40:19,119
Save yourself, gulten!"

612
00:40:20,487 --> 00:40:22,489
[Panting]

613
00:40:23,623 --> 00:40:26,292
Just a few words
and she could have been free

614
00:40:26,459 --> 00:40:28,628
to bear her child in safety

615
00:40:29,863 --> 00:40:33,166
and I to spirit away at last
to the realm of djinn.

616
00:40:33,333 --> 00:40:36,360
But she ran
into the hands of the assassins.

617
00:40:36,202 --> 00:40:37,737
- [Gulten screams]
- [The djinn calls out]

618
00:40:37,771 --> 00:40:39,372
I was about to take them by force

619
00:40:40,106 --> 00:40:42,375
when I was blocked
by a follower of iblis.

620
00:40:42,509 --> 00:40:45,211
- [Breathing shakily]
- [High-pitched pinging]

621
00:41:10,370 --> 00:41:12,172
[Gasping]

622
00:41:15,875 --> 00:41:17,911
[Creatures screeching]

623
00:41:18,110 --> 00:41:22,248
[Grunting and whimpering]

624
00:41:22,382 --> 00:41:24,170
- [Screeching stops]
- [Gasping]

625
00:41:24,384 --> 00:41:25,385
Gulten!

626
00:41:42,235 --> 00:41:44,904
[In English] She made no wish
to save herself.

627
00:41:46,373 --> 00:41:49,900
No wish was made to save us both.

628
00:41:56,616 --> 00:42:00,687
So, there I was,
or there I was not, might you say,

629
00:42:00,854 --> 00:42:03,757
almost emancipated and tethered
to this world

630
00:42:03,923 --> 00:42:06,226
by a third wish unperformed.

631
00:42:06,393 --> 00:42:07,594
But you realize, don't you,

632
00:42:07,761 --> 00:42:10,797
that you've just told me the story
of a woman who was doomed

633
00:42:10,964 --> 00:42:12,966
as a consequence of the wishes she made?

634
00:42:13,133 --> 00:42:17,303
Yes, but her failure to complete
the wishes also doomed me.

635
00:42:18,380 --> 00:42:20,400
Could nobody else complete the wish?

636
00:42:20,206 --> 00:42:21,374
That was my hope.

637
00:42:21,908 --> 00:42:23,643
And that would finally liberate you?

638
00:42:23,810 --> 00:42:25,545
That was my only hope.

639
00:42:26,312 --> 00:42:28,448
But you were rendered invisible.

640
00:42:28,615 --> 00:42:29,449
Like a ghost.

641
00:42:29,616 --> 00:42:31,418
Wandering unseen.

642
00:42:31,584 --> 00:42:32,585
And your bottle

643
00:42:32,619 --> 00:42:35,989
hidden under the loosened stone
known only to the dead gulten.

644
00:42:36,156 --> 00:42:38,158
[The djinn] Yes, it was a predicament.

645
00:42:38,258 --> 00:42:39,492
[Muffled clanging]

646
00:42:39,592 --> 00:42:43,997
I tried to attract the attention
of someone, anyone that could help me.

647
00:42:45,131 --> 00:42:46,666
My stars, how I tried.

648
00:42:46,833 --> 00:42:49,269
I followed their scent,
their every step.

649
00:42:50,737 --> 00:42:52,739
- [Music continues]
- [Dancer's ornaments rattling]

650
00:43:04,484 --> 00:43:05,518
[Music stops]

651
00:43:05,585 --> 00:43:09,356
And I do this piteously for 100 years,

652
00:43:09,522 --> 00:43:12,525
and with every failure,
my will begins to fade.

653
00:43:13,526 --> 00:43:15,528
[Children laughing distantly]

654
00:43:18,898 --> 00:43:25,710
And then in 1620, hope comes
in the form of a boy with a sword.

655
00:43:26,539 --> 00:43:27,540
[Boys laughing]

656
00:43:31,945 --> 00:43:34,470
[Boy laughing] Murad! Murad!

657
00:43:38,551 --> 00:43:39,786
[Muffled intermittent drumbeat]

658
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:49,950
Murad! [Echoing]

659
00:43:58,380 --> 00:44:00,907
[The djinn] By some means,
this boy senses me.

660
00:44:01,740 --> 00:44:03,710
I'm able to draw him to the stone.

661
00:44:03,777 --> 00:44:05,478
[Muffled music playing]

662
00:44:11,151 --> 00:44:13,153
[Flies buzzing]

663
00:44:17,624 --> 00:44:18,625
[Music subsides]

664
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,334
[Hollow clanging]

665
00:44:35,775 --> 00:44:36,776
[Grunting]

666
00:44:52,625 --> 00:44:53,626
Ibrahim!

667
00:44:54,828 --> 00:44:55,829
[Speaks Turkish]

668
00:44:57,964 --> 00:44:58,965
[Woman] Murad!

669
00:45:00,367 --> 00:45:01,368
Ibrahim!

670
00:45:01,534 --> 00:45:04,971
[The djinn] And just as I am
about to be delivered into their hands,

671
00:45:05,138 --> 00:45:06,439
their mother finds them.

672
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,875
[Speaking Turkish]

673
00:45:08,975 --> 00:45:12,679
[The djinn] She is kosem,
a widow of the sultan, Ahmed I.

674
00:45:12,846 --> 00:45:15,281
And the boys are next in line
for the throne.

675
00:45:15,348 --> 00:45:18,180
[Continues speaking Turkish]

676
00:45:18,118 --> 00:45:20,220
[The djinn] When isee
the hair on his legs,

677
00:45:20,387 --> 00:45:25,158
I know that somewhere in murad's
bloodline pulses the power of a djinn.

678
00:45:26,192 --> 00:45:27,861
I follow him everywhere,

679
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,363
determined to draw him
back to the stone.

680
00:45:30,530 --> 00:45:33,233
But at the age of 11,
he ascends the throne

681
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,535
and becomes sultan murad iv.

682
00:45:35,702 --> 00:45:38,471
And caught up by the usual intrigues,

683
00:45:38,638 --> 00:45:40,640
he is even more lost to me.

684
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,811
At 20, he leads his armies to war.

685
00:45:44,978 --> 00:45:48,982
He battles alongside his men
in the caucasus and mesopotamia.

686
00:45:50,550 --> 00:45:52,519
Stories are told of his recklessness,

687
00:45:52,686 --> 00:45:54,754
even with his own life.

688
00:46:00,827 --> 00:46:03,830
I despair of ever seeing him again.

689
00:46:05,198 --> 00:46:09,602
Hope is a monster, alithea,
and I am its plaything.

690
00:46:10,370 --> 00:46:11,438
So he died?

691
00:46:11,604 --> 00:46:12,839
Not in battle.

692
00:46:13,540 --> 00:46:16,943
Back in Istanbul,
kosem needs to protect the throne.

693
00:46:17,110 --> 00:46:18,712
She needs to protect Ibrahim.

694
00:46:20,146 --> 00:46:22,315
He is last of the ottoman line.

695
00:46:23,350 --> 00:46:25,685
He has to produce male children.

696
00:46:28,121 --> 00:46:32,659
So, kosem locks him in a cage
lined entirely with sable.

697
00:46:40,367 --> 00:46:41,468
[Alithea] Quite the prison.

698
00:46:45,905 --> 00:46:47,107
How's that?

699
00:46:48,108 --> 00:46:49,109
You'll see.

700
00:46:49,542 --> 00:46:51,111
[Battle drum music playing]

701
00:47:07,270 --> 00:47:09,729
[Drum music stops]

702
00:47:11,431 --> 00:47:13,660
[Men yell in unison]

703
00:47:13,566 --> 00:47:15,602
[Clamoring]

704
00:47:19,939 --> 00:47:21,441
Murad is back.

705
00:47:21,608 --> 00:47:26,212
And though he returns a conqueror,
he cannot shed his robes of blood.

706
00:47:27,470 --> 00:47:29,783
War had truly rotted his soul.

707
00:47:29,883 --> 00:47:31,651
[Murad breathing heavily]

708
00:47:39,225 --> 00:47:40,927
[Hooves clopping]

709
00:47:49,436 --> 00:47:51,171
I wait until he is alone.

710
00:47:51,338 --> 00:47:54,307
I am determined to draw him
back to the stone.

711
00:47:54,474 --> 00:47:57,610
I don't want to interrupt,
but, uh, I do have a question.

712
00:47:57,777 --> 00:48:01,314
Did it matter to you what kind of wish
such a man might make?

713
00:48:01,915 --> 00:48:03,516
One so insatiable.

714
00:48:05,418 --> 00:48:07,253
Not even if it were profoundly evil?

715
00:48:07,420 --> 00:48:08,988
Not if it meant my freedom.

716
00:48:09,155 --> 00:48:12,792
The truth is he has other things
on his mind.

717
00:48:14,361 --> 00:48:16,596
He believes he is invincible,

718
00:48:16,763 --> 00:48:20,600
and to rule indefinitely,
he must be rid of all rivals.

719
00:48:34,114 --> 00:48:35,181
Ibrahim?

720
00:48:55,100 --> 00:48:56,200
[Exhales]

721
00:49:01,908 --> 00:49:04,277
[The djinn] Kosem needs to stop him.

722
00:49:04,444 --> 00:49:09,683
Somehow, she needed to distract him from
his bloodlust with other gratifications.

723
00:49:12,619 --> 00:49:13,486
[Glass shatters]

724
00:49:13,586 --> 00:49:17,424
First, she arranges for him
to be perpetually drunk.

725
00:49:19,626 --> 00:49:21,327
And then she tries
something very shrewd.

726
00:49:21,494 --> 00:49:23,163
Something that you might enjoy.

727
00:49:23,263 --> 00:49:25,598
[Mimicking sword fight sounds]

728
00:49:29,302 --> 00:49:32,972
She sends to find,
from all corners of the empire,

729
00:49:34,700 --> 00:49:36,900
the best storytellers.

730
00:49:37,510 --> 00:49:39,679
- [Mimics bottle popping]
- [Men laughing]

731
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:41,681
[Groans]

732
00:49:43,316 --> 00:49:44,784
[Men laughing]

733
00:49:47,654 --> 00:49:49,622
[Object grating]

734
00:49:53,159 --> 00:49:54,160
[Clink]

735
00:49:55,328 --> 00:49:57,497
[The djinn] Those who are not persuasive

736
00:49:57,664 --> 00:50:00,533
flee in fear or fall to his impatience.

737
00:50:11,770 --> 00:50:12,345
There is only one

738
00:50:12,879 --> 00:50:14,881
who has the ability to enchant him.

739
00:50:14,981 --> 00:50:15,982
[Speaking Turkish]

740
00:50:16,416 --> 00:50:18,651
To soothe with stories,

741
00:50:19,552 --> 00:50:21,988
to hold him hostage to their unfolding.

742
00:50:22,222 --> 00:50:23,990
[Continues speaking Turkish]

743
00:50:25,892 --> 00:50:27,594
[Laughing]

744
00:50:28,661 --> 00:50:30,300
[Muffled laughter]

745
00:50:34,334 --> 00:50:37,700
[Muffled indistinct talking]

746
00:50:37,370 --> 00:50:41,274
[Both laughing]

747
00:50:42,175 --> 00:50:43,510
[Speaking Turkish]

748
00:50:43,576 --> 00:50:45,578
[The djinn] This is his only friend.

749
00:50:47,781 --> 00:50:50,850
And that friendship turns to love.

750
00:50:53,530 --> 00:50:56,289
Since there is nothing else
for me to do, I listen gratefully,

751
00:50:56,456 --> 00:50:59,793
for I, too,
love being lost in his stories.

752
00:51:05,198 --> 00:51:06,966
When the old man dies,

753
00:51:07,133 --> 00:51:09,536
all in the palace flee to the streets,

754
00:51:09,703 --> 00:51:13,440
for they fear murad's grief
will incur fresh murder.

755
00:51:13,540 --> 00:51:15,608
[Murad crying softly]

756
00:51:18,780 --> 00:51:22,916
But he just sits, and howls,
and drinks until he is empty.

757
00:51:49,109 --> 00:51:51,578
And my Patience is rewarded.

758
00:51:52,846 --> 00:51:56,416
For in this state,
I am finally able to get his attention

759
00:51:56,583 --> 00:51:59,486
and draw him back
to the secret bathroom.

760
00:51:59,652 --> 00:52:01,187
[Alithea] Oh,
I know where this is going.

761
00:52:01,187 --> 00:52:03,823
He's going to be too weak
to lift the stone.

762
00:52:03,990 --> 00:52:06,760
Too weak even to turn the latch.

763
00:52:06,826 --> 00:52:07,827
[Latch clanks]

764
00:52:08,862 --> 00:52:12,298
So, he leaves
and drinks himself to permanent sleep.

765
00:52:14,367 --> 00:52:15,769
And there I am...

766
00:52:16,436 --> 00:52:18,104
Left to my own oblivion

767
00:52:18,705 --> 00:52:20,674
with no one to hear my voice,

768
00:52:21,174 --> 00:52:24,477
no one to know me,
nor feel me, nor sense me.

769
00:52:24,644 --> 00:52:26,646
You can't imagine.

770
00:52:29,816 --> 00:52:31,685
Well, actually, I can.

771
00:52:32,819 --> 00:52:35,221
Can you imagine the loneliness?

772
00:52:35,989 --> 00:52:37,824
How it might overwhelm?

773
00:52:38,491 --> 00:52:39,492
I can.

774
00:52:40,493 --> 00:52:44,640
We exist only if we are real to others.
Do you agree?

775
00:52:44,230 --> 00:52:45,231
I do.

776
00:52:45,565 --> 00:52:48,680
This, then, is our fate, alithea.

777
00:52:48,234 --> 00:52:50,470
If you make no wish at all,

778
00:52:51,171 --> 00:52:55,575
I will be caught between worlds,
invisible and alone, for all of time.

779
00:52:58,511 --> 00:52:59,913
[Whispers] Make a wish, alithea.

780
00:53:01,140 --> 00:53:02,849
Make it your heart's desire.

781
00:53:10,657 --> 00:53:13,159
I'd be more careful if I were you.

782
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:16,830
Obviously, you managed
to find your way out.

783
00:53:16,996 --> 00:53:17,997
More or less.

784
00:53:18,164 --> 00:53:20,567
I'm beginning to think
I'm in the presence of a trickster.

785
00:53:20,667 --> 00:53:22,268
[Exhales]

786
00:53:22,369 --> 00:53:24,871
That would be so much better.

787
00:53:25,380 --> 00:53:26,906
My work would be so much easier.

788
00:53:27,730 --> 00:53:29,576
But the truth is, I am just an idiot

789
00:53:29,743 --> 00:53:32,545
who has been extravagantly unlucky.

790
00:53:32,712 --> 00:53:35,348
Well, I have to take your word for that.

791
00:53:35,415 --> 00:53:36,783
[The djinn sighs]

792
00:53:48,928 --> 00:53:51,310
Ibrahim, I suppose, becomes sultan?

793
00:53:54,567 --> 00:53:57,370
[Yelling in Turkish]

794
00:54:00,707 --> 00:54:02,542
[The djinn in English] "I wish you were
back in your bottle

795
00:54:02,575 --> 00:54:04,778
at the bottom of the bosphorus."

796
00:54:07,814 --> 00:54:11,451
So here I am,
fallen into your careful hands.

797
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:15,989
Seems we cannot escape each other.

798
00:54:16,156 --> 00:54:18,158
You have me at your mercy.

799
00:54:22,562 --> 00:54:23,563
[Alithea sighs]

800
00:54:24,731 --> 00:54:25,799
This wishing...

801
00:54:27,667 --> 00:54:29,102
It's a hazardous art.

802
00:54:29,836 --> 00:54:32,605
"I wish" brings infinite unravelings.

803
00:54:32,772 --> 00:54:33,606
Not necessarily.

804
00:54:33,773 --> 00:54:35,342
Well, it's there
in all your own stories.

805
00:54:35,342 --> 00:54:37,410
- I know, but...
- You say you're not a trickster...

806
00:54:37,510 --> 00:54:40,847
And you say that you and I
are the authors of this story.

807
00:54:41,140 --> 00:54:44,170
But I'm not able
to write myself out of it.

808
00:54:44,184 --> 00:54:45,180
Correct.

809
00:54:45,185 --> 00:54:48,855
Why don't you just hop back
into your bottle

810
00:54:49,220 --> 00:54:50,690
and I'll give it
to someone more gullible?

811
00:54:50,757 --> 00:54:53,626
Someone more desperate.
Someone more greedy.

812
00:54:53,793 --> 00:54:55,195
I'm not getting back in the bottle.

813
00:54:55,195 --> 00:54:57,697
- Why not?
- I'm not getting back in the bottle.

814
00:54:57,864 --> 00:54:59,766
Well, I am not making three wishes.

815
00:54:59,933 --> 00:55:01,935
Then you are sending me to my oblivion.

816
00:55:02,102 --> 00:55:04,804
- Oh, you're impossible.
- And you are giving me a headache.

817
00:55:05,338 --> 00:55:07,400
All right. All right.

818
00:55:07,207 --> 00:55:09,509
Here's what I'll do.
I will make three wishes.

819
00:55:09,676 --> 00:55:10,810
- I will.
- Before you die?

820
00:55:10,977 --> 00:55:12,545
Right now. One after the other.

821
00:55:12,712 --> 00:55:13,546
- Ready?
- Mmm-hmm.

822
00:55:13,713 --> 00:55:16,349
Number one.
I wish your headache were gone.

823
00:55:19,552 --> 00:55:20,653
Number two.

824
00:55:21,287 --> 00:55:23,123
I wish for a sip of this tea.

825
00:55:25,558 --> 00:55:27,894
And finally,
I wish for another one of those.

826
00:55:28,828 --> 00:55:29,996
You mock me.

827
00:55:30,163 --> 00:55:32,665
Three wishes, perfectly simple,
and theoretically safe.

828
00:55:32,832 --> 00:55:37,404
I was imprisoned by Solomon precisely
because I cried out my heart's desire.

829
00:55:37,570 --> 00:55:40,340
Only by granting you yours
may I earn my release.

830
00:55:40,507 --> 00:55:43,430
Yes, well, I appreciate the symmetry,
but the thing is this...

831
00:55:43,209 --> 00:55:46,246
I cannot for the life of me
summon up one eligible wish.

832
00:55:46,413 --> 00:55:47,681
And you're asking me for three.

833
00:55:47,847 --> 00:55:49,983
Is there any life in you?
Are you even alive?

834
00:55:50,150 --> 00:55:53,687
You know, in some cultures,
absence of desire means enlightenment.

835
00:55:53,853 --> 00:55:55,722
Then you are a pious fool.

836
00:55:55,889 --> 00:55:58,580
If I'm content, why tempt fate?

837
00:55:58,224 --> 00:55:59,225
And you're a coward.

838
00:55:59,392 --> 00:56:00,860
Don't goad me.

839
00:56:01,270 --> 00:56:04,164
There is no human, no angel, no djinn
that wouldn't grasp at the chance

840
00:56:04,330 --> 00:56:05,699
to fulfill their deepest longings

841
00:56:05,865 --> 00:56:08,702
and I'm saddled with the one
who claims to want nothing at all.

842
00:56:08,868 --> 00:56:10,103
Alithea binnie, you are a liar!

843
00:56:10,270 --> 00:56:13,440
You know, I am beginning to wish
we never met.

844
00:56:13,606 --> 00:56:14,607
No! Nyet!

845
00:56:14,908 --> 00:56:16,176
Don't say that!

846
00:56:16,242 --> 00:56:18,111
[Heavy static]

847
00:56:18,211 --> 00:56:21,470
[Panting]

848
00:56:27,554 --> 00:56:29,456
- [Static subsides]
- [Alithea breathes heavily]

849
00:56:31,524 --> 00:56:33,259
- [Sniffling]
- [Glass shards shattering]

850
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:43,690
[The djinn sighs]

851
00:56:49,776 --> 00:56:51,411
That's happened to you before.

852
00:56:53,413 --> 00:56:54,748
And it was bad.

853
00:56:54,914 --> 00:56:55,749
[The djinn clicks tongue]

854
00:56:55,815 --> 00:56:57,500
'Twas bad.

855
00:56:58,418 --> 00:56:59,753
'Twas bitter.

856
00:57:00,453 --> 00:57:02,589
'Twas the cruelest wish of all.

857
00:57:04,324 --> 00:57:07,930
[Alithea] You were undone
by silliness yet again.

858
00:57:07,794 --> 00:57:08,795
[The djinn sighs]

859
00:57:08,962 --> 00:57:11,970
I'm here because of a genius.

860
00:57:11,965 --> 00:57:13,566
Who was it this time?

861
00:57:14,634 --> 00:57:16,690
She was zefir.

862
00:57:18,405 --> 00:57:22,800
Rarely among humankind
has there been such a wonder.

863
00:57:23,410 --> 00:57:25,845
But you're here because of her folly.

864
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:28,815
[Tuts, sighs]

865
00:57:29,282 --> 00:57:32,485
I ended up in this
as a consequence of zefir.

866
00:57:35,188 --> 00:57:38,591
And this is the story you've been
avoiding telling me all along.

867
00:57:39,693 --> 00:57:43,196
This is the story
I've avoided telling even myself.

868
00:57:53,373 --> 00:57:55,308
[Hooves clopping]

869
00:57:55,375 --> 00:57:57,510
Zefir was a foundling,

870
00:57:57,677 --> 00:58:00,347
married at 12 to a wealthy merchant.

871
00:58:01,981 --> 00:58:04,184
He was much older than her, and kind,

872
00:58:04,351 --> 00:58:08,621
if you think keeping someone
like a bird in a cage is kind.

873
00:58:09,556 --> 00:58:10,990
There were two older wives

874
00:58:11,157 --> 00:58:14,160
who did not like her
and did not talk to her at all.

875
00:58:27,674 --> 00:58:29,676
[Zefir panting, crying softly]

876
00:58:32,780 --> 00:58:35,515
Everyone, including the servants,
seemed to be mocking her.

877
00:58:41,187 --> 00:58:42,188
[Grunts]

878
00:58:48,762 --> 00:58:51,765
She had neither etiquette nor learning.

879
00:58:51,931 --> 00:58:56,369
She grew to no great beauty
and was angry without knowing why.

880
00:59:05,745 --> 00:59:06,746
[Clangs]

881
00:59:07,113 --> 00:59:09,115
[High-pitched pinging]

882
00:59:11,117 --> 00:59:14,754
As the fates would have it,
my bottle came to her

883
00:59:14,921 --> 00:59:17,424
as a love token from her husband.

884
00:59:21,270 --> 00:59:22,862
she managed to prise it open.

885
00:59:54,227 --> 00:59:56,596
It was as if she was waiting for me.

886
00:59:56,763 --> 00:59:59,933
I saw at once that she was sharp,

887
01:00:00,100 --> 01:00:03,703
and she saw that I was desperate

888
01:00:03,870 --> 01:00:05,939
for freedom and conversation.

889
01:00:06,106 --> 01:00:08,575
I told her my story, as I have told you,

890
01:00:08,742 --> 01:00:12,579
and she revealed herself to me
by the things she had made.

891
01:00:13,460 --> 01:00:14,881
[Speaking Turkish]

892
01:00:23,757 --> 01:00:24,758
[Speaks Turkish]

893
01:00:43,209 --> 01:00:44,210
[Speaks Turkish]

894
01:00:44,878 --> 01:00:45,879
[Chuckles]

895
01:00:47,414 --> 01:00:48,548
[Speaks Turkish]

896
01:00:50,550 --> 01:00:51,551
[Speaks Turkish]

897
01:00:55,121 --> 01:00:56,122
[Whispers indistinctly]

898
01:01:02,595 --> 01:01:04,330
[The djinn in English] She could
have been remembered

899
01:01:04,330 --> 01:01:05,832
like the genius Da Vinci,

900
01:01:05,999 --> 01:01:09,502
whose theories on flight
were the talk of sultans and kings.

901
01:01:11,771 --> 01:01:15,175
She was a skilled artist,
but no one saw her art.

902
01:01:15,909 --> 01:01:17,243
[Zefir breathing heavily]

903
01:01:17,310 --> 01:01:20,513
[Zefir speaking Turkish]

904
01:01:21,614 --> 01:01:25,819
[The djinn] She told me she was eaten up
with unused power.

905
01:01:26,453 --> 01:01:28,880
She thought she might be a witch.

906
01:01:29,122 --> 01:01:30,857
Except, she said, if she were a man,

907
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:34,694
her intellect would have been
ordinarily accepted.

908
01:01:34,861 --> 01:01:37,263
She was a woman ardent for learning

909
01:01:37,430 --> 01:01:40,330
and I knew what her first wish would be.

910
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:41,601
[Pants]

911
01:01:41,701 --> 01:01:42,702
[Speaking Turkish]

912
01:01:54,948 --> 01:01:56,549
[Breathing heavily]

913
01:01:58,180 --> 01:02:01,210
[The djinn in English] And it
delighted me to fulfill this wish.

914
01:02:07,994 --> 01:02:08,995
[Sighs]

915
01:02:30,483 --> 01:02:33,720
So, I taught her histories,
philosophies,

916
01:02:33,887 --> 01:02:35,522
languages, poetry.

917
01:02:35,689 --> 01:02:37,991
I taught her astronomy, mathematics,

918
01:02:38,158 --> 01:02:39,759
which was bliss to her.

919
01:02:40,427 --> 01:02:42,662
I brought her books and writings,

920
01:02:42,829 --> 01:02:45,899
which we hid
in her collection of bottles.

921
01:03:06,886 --> 01:03:08,210
[The djinn speaks Turkish]

922
01:03:08,922 --> 01:03:09,756
[Speaks Turkish]

923
01:03:09,856 --> 01:03:11,624
[Squelching]

924
01:03:11,725 --> 01:03:12,726
[Gasps]

925
01:03:24,771 --> 01:03:26,206
[Speaking Turkish]

926
01:03:28,410 --> 01:03:31,945
She could always call on Aristotle
from a red glass jar

927
01:03:32,112 --> 01:03:34,114
or euclid from a green,

928
01:03:34,981 --> 01:03:37,250
Pythagoras, spinoza,

929
01:03:37,417 --> 01:03:40,530
without needing me to re-embody them.

930
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:42,122
[Conversing in Turkish]

931
01:03:50,497 --> 01:03:52,766
We had the whole world in her room,

932
01:03:52,932 --> 01:03:55,335
and I lost my heart to her.

933
01:03:58,238 --> 01:03:59,239
[Gulps]

934
01:03:59,739 --> 01:04:03,576
'Twas my bliss to make her happy.

935
01:04:05,512 --> 01:04:06,780
To see her flourish.

936
01:04:08,515 --> 01:04:12,519
And she flourished
in every way, totalmente.

937
01:04:20,927 --> 01:04:21,928
[Man speaking Turkish]

938
01:04:22,729 --> 01:04:25,765
[The djinn] His cravings for her
became an obsession.

939
01:04:30,170 --> 01:04:31,171
[Lock clicks]

940
01:04:33,106 --> 01:04:34,107
[Sighs]

941
01:04:36,109 --> 01:04:37,877
[The djinn in English] And when
he would come to her,

942
01:04:37,911 --> 01:04:41,247
I would leave her room
and journey the skies.

943
01:04:42,248 --> 01:04:45,685
I saw the mountains, the oceans,

944
01:04:46,853 --> 01:04:50,490
I saw the beasts of the forest,
where no man treads.

945
01:04:51,591 --> 01:04:54,594
And when I would return,
she would be waiting for me.

946
01:04:55,628 --> 01:04:59,265
I would tell her of my day,
and she would faint with joy

947
01:04:59,432 --> 01:05:00,767
and disappointment.

948
01:05:01,534 --> 01:05:03,870
[Alithea] Why did she not make
a wish to be free?

949
01:05:04,971 --> 01:05:08,410
[The djinn] There was something
more important to her.

950
01:05:08,541 --> 01:05:10,777
She had devised a "mathematica,"

951
01:05:10,944 --> 01:05:14,470
a language to explain the forces

952
01:05:14,214 --> 01:05:17,500
which bring space and time
and matter into being.

953
01:05:17,217 --> 01:05:18,818
She was promethean, brave.

954
01:05:18,985 --> 01:05:21,154
But she could not solve this puzzle.

955
01:05:21,321 --> 01:05:23,123
She needed a key,

956
01:05:23,289 --> 01:05:26,126
a key to open
the doors of her perception.

957
01:05:32,966 --> 01:05:33,967
[Sobs]

958
01:05:36,636 --> 01:05:39,639
So, she used her second wish.

959
01:05:40,907 --> 01:05:44,577
I taught her
to dream as djinn do, awake.

960
01:06:10,704 --> 01:06:12,839
[Writing on paper]

961
01:06:16,109 --> 01:06:19,112
And this way, the solutions came to her.

962
01:06:20,460 --> 01:06:23,416
She was able
to explain powers invisible,

963
01:06:23,583 --> 01:06:26,786
electromagnetic fields and forces...

964
01:06:26,953 --> 01:06:29,689
The very stuff of which djinn are made.

965
01:06:30,123 --> 01:06:31,558
You're electromagnetic?

966
01:06:31,725 --> 01:06:35,762
As you are dust,
I am made of subtle fire.

967
01:06:36,730 --> 01:06:38,631
And when she was to bear a child,

968
01:06:39,232 --> 01:06:43,636
I was plagued with happiness,
for I knew it would strengthen us.

969
01:06:43,803 --> 01:06:45,372
She was carrying your child?

970
01:06:46,139 --> 01:06:49,750
A child of fire and dust.

971
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:52,912
So, where did it go wrong?

972
01:06:53,790 --> 01:06:54,914
Alithea, I loved her.

973
01:06:55,949 --> 01:06:57,584
I loved the fervor of her mind.

974
01:06:57,751 --> 01:06:58,752
I loved her anger.

975
01:06:58,918 --> 01:07:02,756
I loved my power
to turn her frowns into smiles.

976
01:07:04,791 --> 01:07:06,426
I loved her more than sheba.

977
01:07:07,427 --> 01:07:09,763
- More than your own freedom?
- Yes.

978
01:07:10,397 --> 01:07:13,733
It became my greatest desire
to, to keep her,

979
01:07:13,900 --> 01:07:15,301
to remain her prisoner.

980
01:07:16,690 --> 01:07:19,673
The thought of being set free
sickened my heart.

981
01:07:20,674 --> 01:07:23,910
[Speaking Turkish]

982
01:07:25,845 --> 01:07:29,749
I caught myself stopping her
lest she make her third wish.

983
01:07:30,150 --> 01:07:31,351
Oh, gosh.

984
01:07:35,255 --> 01:07:36,856
I made a mess of it.

985
01:07:38,591 --> 01:07:41,528
She began to accuse me
of trapping her...

986
01:07:41,695 --> 01:07:43,163
- Like her husband.
- [Zefir sobbing]

987
01:07:43,329 --> 01:07:45,310
[Speaking Turkish]

988
01:07:45,331 --> 01:07:47,100
[The djinn] I tried to make amends.

989
01:07:48,468 --> 01:07:51,538
To atone,
I would put myself in the bottle...

990
01:07:53,390 --> 01:07:54,107
To be sealed.

991
01:07:54,874 --> 01:07:56,943
That way,
she could have more power over me.

992
01:07:57,811 --> 01:07:59,879
- [Zefir sobbing]
- [The djinn whispers indistinctly]

993
01:08:03,383 --> 01:08:05,985
[Zefir speaking Turkish]

994
01:08:07,530 --> 01:08:08,455
[Zefir sobbing]

995
01:08:09,622 --> 01:08:11,691
To be nothing in a bottle.

996
01:08:12,359 --> 01:08:13,960
I could do that for her.

997
01:08:14,961 --> 01:08:18,498
And every time, it would appease.

998
01:08:18,665 --> 01:08:21,534
Every time, except for the last.

999
01:08:22,235 --> 01:08:27,140
When, like a sudden squall,
all thunder and lightning,

1000
01:08:27,307 --> 01:08:29,843
she began to weep and wall, and said,

1001
01:08:30,100 --> 01:08:33,313
"I wish I could forget I ever met you."

1002
01:08:33,380 --> 01:08:34,214
[Screams in Turkish]

1003
01:08:34,314 --> 01:08:36,816
[Gasping]

1004
01:08:38,551 --> 01:08:40,887
And she did, on the instant.

1005
01:08:41,488 --> 01:08:42,489
[Breathing heavily]

1006
01:08:46,393 --> 01:08:48,495
She was out. I was in.

1007
01:08:49,329 --> 01:08:50,663
She'd forgotten me.

1008
01:08:52,432 --> 01:08:55,368
Alithea, how can it be...

1009
01:08:57,570 --> 01:09:00,840
A mistake to love someone entirely?

1010
01:09:26,299 --> 01:09:27,734
I have a wish.

1011
01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:35,642
However, I'm afraid it...
It may be too much to ask.

1012
01:09:40,413 --> 01:09:42,382
Is it within my power?

1013
01:09:42,549 --> 01:09:45,452
I hope so. I do hope so.

1014
01:09:48,755 --> 01:09:50,390
Is it your heart's desire?

1015
01:09:51,491 --> 01:09:52,926
Yeah, I'm certain of it.

1016
01:10:08,241 --> 01:10:09,242
See, um...

1017
01:10:10,176 --> 01:10:12,178
I'm here to love you.

1018
01:10:15,348 --> 01:10:16,349
And, uh...

1019
01:10:17,951 --> 01:10:21,154
I wish for you to love me in return.

1020
01:10:23,423 --> 01:10:26,259
You want us to make love-craft?

1021
01:10:26,926 --> 01:10:28,328
Yeah, that too.

1022
01:10:29,290 --> 01:10:30,530
All of it.

1023
01:10:30,697 --> 01:10:34,134
And you would abandon yourself to this?

1024
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:35,835
[Low electrical humming]

1025
01:10:35,935 --> 01:10:37,300
Yes.

1026
01:10:37,771 --> 01:10:38,838
Yes.

1027
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:44,477
I want... our solitudes to be together.

1028
01:10:45,450 --> 01:10:48,548
I want that love professed
in ageless tales.

1029
01:10:49,549 --> 01:10:53,853
I want that longing you felt
for the queen of sheba

1030
01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:57,357
and that love you gave
to your genius, zefir.

1031
01:10:58,580 --> 01:10:59,159
I want it.

1032
01:11:08,401 --> 01:11:11,171
[Speaking djinnbish]

1033
01:11:15,909 --> 01:11:17,100
You.

1034
01:11:19,846 --> 01:11:22,820
[Speaking djinnbish]

1035
01:11:24,250 --> 01:11:25,352
You?

1036
01:11:36,620 --> 01:11:37,397
Is it too much?

1037
01:11:38,698 --> 01:11:40,900
Is it all too much to ask?

1038
01:12:00,553 --> 01:12:01,554
[Whispers] Come.

1039
01:12:14,734 --> 01:12:17,237
[Alithea] What are we to do
with longings awoken?

1040
01:12:18,204 --> 01:12:22,420
How can I persuade you
that I once found love with a djinn?

1041
01:12:24,110 --> 01:12:26,880
In any case, few would believe me.

1042
01:12:28,448 --> 01:12:31,785
Love is not something
we come to by reason.

1043
01:12:34,387 --> 01:12:36,322
It's more like a vapor,

1044
01:12:36,990 --> 01:12:39,993
[Faint noises from outside]

1045
01:12:48,468 --> 01:12:50,904
[Breathes deeply]

1046
01:13:03,516 --> 01:13:05,180
[Electric toothbrush whirring]

1047
01:13:10,900 --> 01:13:11,910
[Switches off toothbrush]

1048
01:13:11,758 --> 01:13:13,593
[Alithea] I leave for London today.

1049
01:13:14,294 --> 01:13:15,795
Will you come home with me?

1050
01:13:18,298 --> 01:13:20,934
It's not such an easy place nowadays.

1051
01:13:22,202 --> 01:13:24,204
But it'll be better if you're there.

1052
01:13:34,347 --> 01:13:36,182
- [Metal detector beeping]
- Over here, please.

1053
01:13:38,184 --> 01:13:39,285
Hands up.

1054
01:13:41,488 --> 01:13:44,324
[Body scanner whirring]

1055
01:13:47,660 --> 01:13:49,329
- Please step out.
- [Body scanner beeping]

1056
01:13:49,796 --> 01:13:51,297
What is in your pockets?

1057
01:13:54,234 --> 01:13:57,404
Uh, it's an empty bottle and a top.

1058
01:13:58,238 --> 01:13:59,572
Please put it through X-ray.

1059
01:13:59,739 --> 01:14:02,750
Oh, it is very delicate,
and I don't want it to get damaged.

1060
01:14:02,750 --> 01:14:04,144
It will not be damaged.
Please put through X-ray.

1061
01:14:04,310 --> 01:14:06,946
- I'd prefer that it didn't go in the...
- Passport. Boarding pass.

1062
01:14:19,693 --> 01:14:20,694
It's quite fragile.

1063
01:14:20,827 --> 01:14:21,895
[Supervisor] Madam.

1064
01:14:26,166 --> 01:14:27,767
It's a saltshaker.

1065
01:14:37,377 --> 01:14:39,212
No! No X-ray!

1066
01:14:39,379 --> 01:14:41,140
- Please!
- Stop, madam, stop.

1067
01:14:52,525 --> 01:14:53,526
[Speaks Turkish]

1068
01:14:58,298 --> 01:14:59,466
Madam.

1069
01:15:26,159 --> 01:15:27,160
[Keypad beeping]

1070
01:15:41,741 --> 01:15:43,243
In your own time.

1071
01:16:29,689 --> 01:16:31,691
[The djinn] The air is thick here.

1072
01:16:32,892 --> 01:16:36,663
Full of insistent voices
and rushing faces.

1073
01:16:37,597 --> 01:16:38,598
[Alithea] Oh?

1074
01:16:39,232 --> 01:16:41,000
Like tiny Einstein?

1075
01:16:42,350 --> 01:16:44,700
Television, and phone towers, and such?

1076
01:16:44,237 --> 01:16:45,338
Yes.

1077
01:16:45,905 --> 01:16:51,411
Yes. All your ingenious devices
all murmuring at once.

1078
01:16:51,578 --> 01:16:52,779
Bend your head.

1079
01:16:53,747 --> 01:16:55,749
[High-pitched pinging]

1080
01:16:56,616 --> 01:16:59,219
[City noises
and chatter from transmissions]

1081
01:17:00,860 --> 01:17:01,521
You hear all that?

1082
01:17:02,222 --> 01:17:04,900
[City noises
and chatter from transmissions]

1083
01:17:04,958 --> 01:17:07,927
I also see it and feel it.

1084
01:17:08,940 --> 01:17:10,797
I am a transmitter. [Chuckles]

1085
01:17:11,310 --> 01:17:12,632
Isn't it all too much?

1086
01:17:13,933 --> 01:17:15,101
I am a djinn.

1087
01:17:15,268 --> 01:17:16,403
I can adapt.

1088
01:17:18,405 --> 01:17:19,973
I'll soon get used to it.

1089
01:17:20,140 --> 01:17:21,374
[Woman] She's back.

1090
01:17:21,975 --> 01:17:23,243
I believe she's back.

1091
01:17:23,410 --> 01:17:25,211
Is she with someone?

1092
01:17:25,378 --> 01:17:27,380
[Woman] No, I think she's talking
to herself again.

1093
01:17:27,414 --> 01:17:28,982
[Alithea] Hello, Clementine.

1094
01:17:29,582 --> 01:17:31,317
Fanny. Are you well?

1095
01:17:31,484 --> 01:17:33,119
[Clementine] Did you have any trouble?

1096
01:17:33,286 --> 01:17:35,388
Trouble? What kind of trouble?

1097
01:17:35,555 --> 01:17:37,157
With your foreign friends.

1098
01:17:37,323 --> 01:17:39,590
Because we often ask ourselves,

1099
01:17:39,225 --> 01:17:41,661
"why would Dr. Binnie
waste her time and intelligence

1100
01:17:41,828 --> 01:17:44,497
studying the ways of others
instead of upholding our own?"

1101
01:17:44,664 --> 01:17:47,000
Embarrassed by our British culture,
are we?

1102
01:17:47,167 --> 01:17:48,168
No. No.

1103
01:17:48,234 --> 01:17:50,637
I am rather more likely
to be embarrassed by anybody

1104
01:17:50,804 --> 01:17:53,106
reflexly frightened
of anybody different.

1105
01:17:53,273 --> 01:17:54,374
What exactly are you saying?

1106
01:17:54,407 --> 01:17:56,760
She's calling us bigots.

1107
01:17:56,242 --> 01:17:58,278
- Your word, not mine.
- You misunderstand.

1108
01:17:58,345 --> 01:18:00,800
- Oh?
- It's not how they look, dear.

1109
01:18:00,146 --> 01:18:01,614
It's how they live. What they believe.

1110
01:18:01,648 --> 01:18:03,249
- What they eat.
- What are you on about?

1111
01:18:03,350 --> 01:18:04,918
Everywhere one goes, ethnics.

1112
01:18:05,850 --> 01:18:07,854
We are being overwhelmed,
and we're inviting our doom.

1113
01:18:08,210 --> 01:18:09,155
[Fanny] It's not natural.

1114
01:18:09,322 --> 01:18:11,591
Birds belong in the air.
Fish belong in the sea.

1115
01:18:11,758 --> 01:18:13,693
And that is how the good lord
meant us to be.

1116
01:18:13,860 --> 01:18:15,829
You're just spouting rubbish
from start to finish.

1117
01:18:15,929 --> 01:18:18,431
- It's science. It's a scientific fact.
- It's a false analogy.

1118
01:18:18,598 --> 01:18:20,834
I mean,
animals do have a natural habitat.

1119
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:23,236
-It's true, but human beings are capable
-[Voices echoing]

1120
01:18:23,269 --> 01:18:25,338
Of living in any environment
they bloody well choose.

1121
01:18:25,438 --> 01:18:27,273
- That's not a fact.
- What are you saying?

1122
01:18:27,440 --> 01:18:29,175
- It's an opinion.
- And you're wrong.

1123
01:18:29,342 --> 01:18:30,610
I'm not putting up
with any more of this.

1124
01:18:30,643 --> 01:18:32,979
Come away, clem. Let the crazy lady be.

1125
01:18:33,146 --> 01:18:34,848
We're never gonna
get any sense out of her.

1126
01:18:35,150 --> 01:18:37,317
[Alithea] You know,
I've never said this to you before.

1127
01:18:37,951 --> 01:18:40,387
- But you're both pitiful.
- [Airplane engine humming]

1128
01:18:40,553 --> 01:18:41,688
Shut your cakehole! [Echoes]

1129
01:18:41,721 --> 01:18:43,723
Pea-brained and pitiful.

1130
01:18:44,891 --> 01:18:46,860
You, ****face!

1131
01:18:47,270 --> 01:18:50,697
Stop your Ivy growing
on our side of the wall!

1132
01:18:50,797 --> 01:18:52,132
[Voices echoing]

1133
01:18:52,198 --> 01:18:54,234
Why do I let them get to me?

1134
01:18:54,401 --> 01:18:56,369
I should feel sorry for them.

1135
01:18:56,536 --> 01:18:59,539
But this is my home. It's my sanctuary.

1136
01:19:00,173 --> 01:19:01,700
[Inhaler hisses]

1137
01:19:01,740 --> 01:19:03,677
[Clementine and Fanny's voices echoing]

1138
01:19:03,743 --> 01:19:04,978
I could wish them...

1139
01:19:05,450 --> 01:19:06,846
- [Grunts]
- [Static]

1140
01:19:06,913 --> 01:19:09,820
That's not a wish, by the way.

1141
01:19:09,249 --> 01:19:10,350
I know.

1142
01:19:10,417 --> 01:19:11,251
[Exhales heavily]

1143
01:19:11,351 --> 01:19:13,486
[Clementine and Fanny's voices
continue echoing]

1144
01:19:13,553 --> 01:19:15,922
[Indistinct conversations
from transmissions]

1145
01:19:19,859 --> 01:19:20,927
[Alithea breathing heavily]

1146
01:19:22,696 --> 01:19:28,234
[Transmissions fading]

1147
01:19:29,269 --> 01:19:31,604
[Sentimental string music playing]

1148
01:20:22,255 --> 01:20:25,580
[Sentimental string music continues]

1149
01:21:14,474 --> 01:21:15,575
[Alithea whispers] My djinn.

1150
01:21:16,710 --> 01:21:17,877
[The djinn] How was your day?

1151
01:21:18,110 --> 01:21:20,146
[Alithea] Every listening ear was yours.

1152
01:21:20,313 --> 01:21:22,882
Every voice, every scent, and touch.

1153
01:21:23,490 --> 01:21:24,684
You were everywhere.

1154
01:21:29,556 --> 01:21:31,191
Back in a minute.

1155
01:21:38,331 --> 01:21:39,532
[Siren wailing in distance]

1156
01:21:50,710 --> 01:21:52,812
[Fanny] Whoever could that be
at this hour?

1157
01:21:52,979 --> 01:21:54,114
[Clementine] It could be her.

1158
01:21:57,350 --> 01:21:59,519
Clem. Fanny.

1159
01:22:02,220 --> 01:22:04,524
Chickpeas, cloves, pistachio.

1160
01:22:06,326 --> 01:22:07,861
They melt in your mouth.

1161
01:22:26,246 --> 01:22:27,881
This is my friend.

1162
01:22:28,882 --> 01:22:30,717
He'll be staying for a while.

1163
01:22:31,885 --> 01:22:32,919
Hello.

1164
01:22:35,789 --> 01:22:37,457
- Hello.
- Hello.

1165
01:22:41,628 --> 01:22:43,263
[Alithea] My djinn told me,

1166
01:22:43,430 --> 01:22:46,990
when they come together
in the realm of djinn,

1167
01:22:46,266 --> 01:22:48,340
they tell each other stories.

1168
01:22:49,369 --> 01:22:51,237
Stories are like breath to them.

1169
01:22:51,404 --> 01:22:52,539
They make meaning.

1170
01:22:54,541 --> 01:22:55,642
"Yes," I said.

1171
01:22:55,809 --> 01:22:57,577
"That's just how it is with us."

1172
01:22:58,645 --> 01:23:02,782
Each story we tell is a fragment
in an endless shape-shifting mosaic.

1173
01:23:04,317 --> 01:23:08,421
And this small pebble,
like all stories, must end.

1174
01:23:10,423 --> 01:23:13,626
If it's about wishing,
it's a cautionary tale.

1175
01:23:14,794 --> 01:23:17,130
So, how will it go wrong?

1176
01:23:17,831 --> 01:23:19,666
Perhaps, it already has.

1177
01:23:23,570 --> 01:23:25,905
Even though truth stood before
them naked,

1178
01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:27,640
they turned their backs.

1179
01:23:27,807 --> 01:23:31,978
So, truth moved to the side
and waited in the shadows.

1180
01:23:32,145 --> 01:23:33,580
In the days that followed,

1181
01:23:33,747 --> 01:23:37,150
the djinn would accompany
the narratologist to her work.

1182
01:23:37,317 --> 01:23:38,752
And when he wasn't with her,

1183
01:23:38,918 --> 01:23:42,122
he would go in eager exploration
of the world.

1184
01:23:42,188 --> 01:23:45,910
[Machine beeping]

1185
01:23:45,158 --> 01:23:47,994
[The djinn] Today I had such
a marvelous day.

1186
01:23:49,462 --> 01:23:51,970
I saw many things.

1187
01:23:52,465 --> 01:23:56,469
I watched a human
look into the living brain of another

1188
01:23:56,636 --> 01:23:59,390
and arrest a fatal bleeding.

1189
01:24:03,777 --> 01:24:05,378
I visited the collider.

1190
01:24:06,880 --> 01:24:10,717
A vast gizmo which probed
the essence of matter.

1191
01:24:14,387 --> 01:24:17,557
And then I saw a dish, a great dish,

1192
01:24:17,724 --> 01:24:21,227
that listens to the whispers
of stars long dead.

1193
01:24:23,630 --> 01:24:24,864
Humankind is...

1194
01:24:25,532 --> 01:24:27,167
Is a wonder, alithea.

1195
01:24:28,234 --> 01:24:30,700
I'm happy you think so.

1196
01:24:30,837 --> 01:24:33,807
All of this since I was trapped
in zefir's bottle.

1197
01:24:33,973 --> 01:24:38,440
All these astonishments,
in less than 200 years.

1198
01:24:38,678 --> 01:24:40,513
Yes, but, I mean,

1199
01:24:40,680 --> 01:24:44,840
that's just engineering and technology.

1200
01:24:45,510 --> 01:24:47,530
Despite all the whiz-bang,

1201
01:24:47,654 --> 01:24:49,489
we remain bewildered.

1202
01:24:52,525 --> 01:24:54,527
When we can't contain the chaos,

1203
01:24:56,363 --> 01:24:59,733
we are filled with dread and panic

1204
01:24:59,899 --> 01:25:01,201
and we turn on each other.

1205
01:25:01,368 --> 01:25:03,336
But of course, you are human.

1206
01:25:03,903 --> 01:25:05,739
That is your nature.

1207
01:25:08,241 --> 01:25:11,511
Yeah. So, the story never changes.

1208
01:25:12,712 --> 01:25:14,114
Hate prevails.

1209
01:25:15,348 --> 01:25:19,419
It metastasizes and outlives love.

1210
01:25:21,721 --> 01:25:23,556
I just want to talk about love.

1211
01:25:24,424 --> 01:25:27,694
Such a mess of contradictions,
all of you.

1212
01:25:28,461 --> 01:25:29,596
Thank you very much.

1213
01:25:29,763 --> 01:25:32,298
Humankind, what a conundrum.

1214
01:25:32,966 --> 01:25:35,680
You fumble around in the dark,

1215
01:25:35,735 --> 01:25:38,738
and yet, you herd your intelligence
to great effect.

1216
01:25:38,905 --> 01:25:40,440
It is quite a story.

1217
01:25:40,540 --> 01:25:41,541
[Chuckles softly]

1218
01:25:41,775 --> 01:25:43,877
Cannot wait to see where it goes.

1219
01:25:44,611 --> 01:25:46,479
Or how it might end.

1220
01:25:46,913 --> 01:25:47,914
That too.

1221
01:25:48,581 --> 01:25:51,217
A mortal will never know,
but a djinn might.

1222
01:25:52,585 --> 01:25:54,587
A djinn has all the time in the world.

1223
01:25:56,990 --> 01:25:58,425
Aren't you the lucky one?

1224
01:25:59,292 --> 01:26:00,393
Maybe.

1225
01:26:01,761 --> 01:26:03,963
But you, creatures of dust, have...

1226
01:26:04,998 --> 01:26:09,235
Have managed to eclipse the power
and purpose of djinn and angel.

1227
01:26:09,836 --> 01:26:11,271
You have no use for us.

1228
01:26:12,272 --> 01:26:14,574
- Perhaps, we will wither and...
- And fade away?

1229
01:26:14,741 --> 01:26:15,742
- Yes.
- Yeah.

1230
01:26:15,775 --> 01:26:19,412
Well, that used to be the subject
of all my lectures and papers.

1231
01:26:19,579 --> 01:26:20,580
I know.

1232
01:26:23,350 --> 01:26:25,185
And yet, here you are.

1233
01:26:26,920 --> 01:26:28,521
My impossible.

1234
01:26:30,857 --> 01:26:31,858
Yes.

1235
01:26:36,963 --> 01:26:37,797
[Keypad beeping]

1236
01:26:37,931 --> 01:26:38,932
[Door unlocks]

1237
01:26:44,137 --> 01:26:45,338
Hello?

1238
01:26:50,877 --> 01:26:52,312
I'm home!

1239
01:27:02,455 --> 01:27:03,656
Hello?

1240
01:27:29,849 --> 01:27:31,217
Djinn?

1241
01:27:35,221 --> 01:27:36,423
My love?

1242
01:27:36,890 --> 01:27:37,891
[Alithea gasps]

1243
01:27:40,593 --> 01:27:41,695
Djinn.

1244
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:47,200
What's this?

1245
01:27:49,536 --> 01:27:50,837
Can you hear me?

1246
01:27:51,404 --> 01:27:52,906
Djinn, speak to me.

1247
01:27:53,907 --> 01:27:55,408
Try to speak to me.

1248
01:27:57,210 --> 01:27:59,446
I wish you to speak to me.

1249
01:28:01,247 --> 01:28:03,249
[Cracking, crumbling]

1250
01:28:03,583 --> 01:28:04,584
Oh!

1251
01:28:05,852 --> 01:28:07,921
[Breathes heavily, grunts]

1252
01:28:12,359 --> 01:28:13,727
[Pained breath]

1253
01:28:14,961 --> 01:28:16,629
[Inhales deeply]

1254
01:28:17,597 --> 01:28:19,432
- [Static]
- [Gasps, clears throat]

1255
01:28:19,799 --> 01:28:21,468
[In distorted, soft voice]
I was sleeping.

1256
01:28:21,868 --> 01:28:22,702
[Grunts]

1257
01:28:22,869 --> 01:28:24,370
Sleeping.

1258
01:28:25,538 --> 01:28:26,873
Djinn don't sleep.

1259
01:28:27,440 --> 01:28:28,875
[The djinn] Let's go for a walk.

1260
01:28:29,420 --> 01:28:31,878
Along, bracing walk.
I have prepared something for us.

1261
01:28:32,450 --> 01:28:33,580
[In normal voice] I have it all planned.

1262
01:28:33,613 --> 01:28:35,482
[Breathlessly] A wonderous night for us.

1263
01:28:35,648 --> 01:28:37,450
It will be amazing.

1264
01:28:37,951 --> 01:28:40,587
- The best time of our lives.
- Stop!

1265
01:28:40,754 --> 01:28:44,791
These electromagnetic fields,
I can push them from my head.

1266
01:28:44,958 --> 01:28:46,593
I can push them away.

1267
01:28:47,394 --> 01:28:48,795
We'll go for a picnic.

1268
01:28:48,962 --> 01:28:49,796
[Panting]

1269
01:28:49,896 --> 01:28:53,666
[Speaking djinnbish]

1270
01:28:53,767 --> 01:28:55,602
Ah, we'll play the ukulele.

1271
01:28:55,969 --> 01:28:57,337
[Speaking djinnbish]

1272
01:28:58,338 --> 01:29:01,641
Alithea, there is a place for me here.

1273
01:29:01,808 --> 01:29:04,477
These forces, they will never go away,
not from this world.

1274
01:29:04,644 --> 01:29:06,746
I will overcome them.
I can do that for you.

1275
01:29:06,913 --> 01:29:09,482
- You are my alithea, and I love you.
- Thank you. Thank you.

1276
01:29:09,649 --> 01:29:12,118
- Thank you for trying.
- You don't think that I love you?

1277
01:29:13,153 --> 01:29:15,210
Love is a gift.

1278
01:29:15,188 --> 01:29:17,624
It's a gift of oneself given freely.

1279
01:29:17,791 --> 01:29:20,930
It's not something one can ever ask for.

1280
01:29:21,294 --> 01:29:22,529
I tricked us both.

1281
01:29:22,696 --> 01:29:26,700
The moment I spoke that wish,
I took away your power to Grant it.

1282
01:29:27,434 --> 01:29:30,937
I, more than anybody,
I should've known that.

1283
01:29:31,671 --> 01:29:33,707
I'm not going to screw this up again.

1284
01:29:33,873 --> 01:29:37,310
My djinn, if this world is not for you,

1285
01:29:38,144 --> 01:29:40,947
I wish that you return
to where you belong.

1286
01:29:41,815 --> 01:29:43,550
Wherever that may be.

1287
01:29:45,952 --> 01:29:47,387
[Breathing heavily]

1288
01:29:48,321 --> 01:29:50,690
[Glass cracking]

1289
01:30:04,300 --> 01:30:05,839
[Sobs softly]

1290
01:31:11,304 --> 01:31:12,305
[Sighs]

1291
01:31:17,944 --> 01:31:19,946
[Emotional string music playing]

1292
01:31:40,600 --> 01:31:42,836
[Couple laughing]

1293
01:31:56,783 --> 01:31:58,818
[Couple talking indistinctly]

1294
01:32:11,331 --> 01:32:12,332
[Girl] Mummy!

1295
01:32:14,467 --> 01:32:16,536
[Man] Come here, little monkey.

1296
01:32:16,703 --> 01:32:18,204
That's not mummy.

1297
01:32:53,206 --> 01:32:54,400
[Dog barks]

1298
01:32:54,140 --> 01:32:56,676
[Kids shouting playfully]

1299
01:33:00,146 --> 01:33:02,148
[Wind blows]

1300
01:33:16,696 --> 01:33:20,700
[Mouthing]

1301
01:33:31,878 --> 01:33:35,480
[Sentimental string music playing]

1302
01:33:46,920 --> 01:33:49,896
[Men conversing indistinctly]

1303
01:33:57,103 --> 01:33:58,304
- [Man grunts]
- [Men laughing]

1304
01:33:58,371 --> 01:34:00,240
- [Man 1] Did you see that?
- [Man 2] He's cool!

1305
01:34:02,942 --> 01:34:05,545
[Alithea] He would visit
from time to time,

1306
01:34:05,712 --> 01:34:08,114
and they would grasp each vivid moment.

1307
01:34:09,820 --> 01:34:11,818
Despite the pain of the raucous skies,

1308
01:34:11,985 --> 01:34:14,587
he always stayed longer than he should,

1309
01:34:14,754 --> 01:34:17,900
long after she begged him to leave.

1310
01:34:18,124 --> 01:34:20,760
He promised to return in her lifetime,

1311
01:34:21,394 --> 01:34:24,230
and for her, that was more than enough.

1312
01:34:26,132 --> 01:34:27,967
[Sentimental string music continues]

1313
01:36:04,998 --> 01:36:08,234
[Folk-pop song playing]

1314
01:39:45,985 --> 01:39:47,987
[Eerie folk music playing]