M yes, you're here for he's please, then you need to show them, my lord, there is no defense, only the unreserved gratitude of the accused, who offers guilty as is pleased. Thank you. And I recounted it at once, and I spent the next three days fasting, Sir, purification number three six six three. Let me see God, Let me see God. Another day of madness in the once great city of to Manbai, whereas every man, woman and child for itself m e former slave the religious court,
an old friend fights for his life. The library was a mere collection on and I can do nothing like a collection of seditious texts of It's worse is that he still has hope. Can we move this forward? Please? There is a witness yet to be heard, hope before the smiling eyes of the inquisitor himself. Baracat stand over there Aisha Hallamad holiness, the maid servant of the accused. As the servant, it's always the ones closest to you. Don't be afraid, my dear your master. The accused he
was an avid reader. Oh yes, he thought about nothing else, Excellency. You saw him reading. It was the love of his life. Your honor. I used to pray for the unborn child. Of course, his daughter is pregnant by some foreigner. Though he's disappeared. Where is this daughter? I wonder you tried to flee the city. God prevented it. Good season, and bless his name, he brought them to justice here guilty. I fear that's teaching them. Hey, my father's property. He's
done nothing wrong. When is he coming home? You can't keep him overnight? Again? That's priority priority, that's ponding day burn the rest of them, those to the warehouse, Miss what are you doing out here? Did you see father? I saw him? She certainly did. They're saying such wicked things, my baby. That's the same ound of self preservation, betrayal and deceit. Have they passed sentence? Come away, miss Aisha? What's happened to him? They twisted my words. I didn't stay,
but they knew you tried to leave, Miss madam. How everywhere there's spies. I sha, someone's incriminated him, someone inside this house. If you want my advice, look to Hassan. He was in the kitchen listening. He's a cook, He's always in the kitchen. You trusted him, You favored him time and again. That's not true. I told you my brother could have done that job. But oh no, your father knew better. I'm the stupid one, that's what he said. No not the history is not the history. They're not.
SI gets back in. Now, come away. He didn't do it. Please please come, sir. So they said they'd let me presents my evidence, sir, gar they assured me away from the door. M h. Best you save it for the right time. God will hear you. They believe what they say or think they do. Fear can turn even the bravest into babbling children. What are you here for? What did you do? All? Goold? We were the hoarse of the vine, sir, the harlots of the vineyard, and here
we are rounded up. Thank God, bless his name. When you say you round it off, I searched the officer of the court. Thank you, sir. I said, I was a teacher. I was teaching children, but turning them from the faith. I am cured now, Praise God. Have they blinded you? Yes? And it is a good darkness. I never thought of pain as joy, darkness as light. This is the real hospital, my friend. Take the medicine for a a week on them. I've asked for one hundred lashes
before they hang me. They said fifty, So I said no, Brother, blame me. God bless his name, your hand. I wear it around my neck. Come for me, God, let me pay. We are ready, Come for my God, let me pay. I'm innocent, he says, he's innocent. I have a family. The authorities here with the rest an innocent man, I'm not possible. I'm innocent. I'm innocent. I'm hencenty. I'm innocent too, would be Series two, episode four, Heating the Sick by
Andy Mulligan. Talk to nobody. You understand, and I'm saying that for your own protection. What's the matter. I'm not going that way? What do you mean? The gates are just that go a different way. You don't have a past to you. I can get through the people who are smuggled out. You'll be smuggled back in and I can't waste time talking about it. Whoever sent you to kill me is not good enough. You should come with me, man ad No, we all need murderers and assassins. We
need listen to me. You can help with the cure and reconstruction. Goodbye, m I have seen it in every place I've been idealistic children. I am not a child, not anymore. I have passed their severed headsmanner, dead eyes don't shine so brightly, not as bright as yours. I have to go read the word about the disease, about what you've seen, and they will assume you're tainted. That is the superstition, and you'll be killed like a rat. You will need me. Yeah, turn her one thing. There's
no shortage off. Now hold the arm. Corpses can break it, man, break it. What strange quest is underway? This is more than anatomy. Oh my, my baracount. Please don't touch. But there is always beauty. I've learned to see beauty inside the body. That is the the ortor the artery needs pushing back. Yes, oh she is not fresh or in I smelt some. I'm afraid. Well, we burn a hot fine dunday. But we can always find more ice for this great work. You will receive every conceivable support. You
know that you're learning from this one. Every investigation yields its results. Were moving forward. Ah, you speak with the wisdom and patience I have come to admire. Open it. Yes, dry your hands and hold under the arm and hold the bone. M hm. And you cut with the skill that rarely seemed during But this one died when she's nine years old. So sickened? Is that the color or excellency. I will write my report and we will cross reference. We will cross reference. I am the impatient one, and
I defer to your judgment. I must leave you. I have business. Have you enough specimens? We're not short of sick children do and that sense God smiles upon us. I will await your report. Are redund and of course we're not done. Click out the lungs and pack their head. I'll do the heart tomorrow. You're you're tired, sir. Like more lamps. Get the shutters opened, just just a fraction, get some air, yes, askin. That was Baracat. Yes, he
was consulting me. Close the door, my friend. Dismiss your assistant for a moment, and I and I take it. The child won't speak, blah blah. You may go. Yes, yes, sir, your backs are soon. Thank god, we have urgent business. Doctor. What we found was plague a day and a half from here. Virulent plague, I would say, arising from the filthy water. Though I will defer to you on that when you've had a chance to investigate. But listen to this. They're lucky. There is a defense that is both practical
and if we can harness the resources. A village not far from Perez. Did you travel alone? What were you alone? I had a guide. There was a girl too, lost on the road. We let her accompany us. Are you wanting verification? What's the matter with you? I know plague when I see it, and we must work together or the city won't last the winter. Look at this? What is that? This is the Anti River, and this is where I had the privilege of inspecting some of Emperor
Moe's irrigation schemes. Look you see that flowing water is our first defense. The swamps are stagnant. They need to be flushed through, and the only way to do that is to repair the great dam. That is what Barracat offended read. Everyone must hear the plague must be met with immediate force. So you and I must now work together. Putting aside this, what is this? You know what it is? It's the section. I can see it's the section. But that is crude. What exactly are you looking for? Where's
the slave girl. Now what the slave girl you traveled with? Did I call her a slave? Yes? I'm not sure what she was? So where did you go? Why do you care? Look, she's not infected. If that's what you're worried about. What's the matter, Just that I'm relieved to see you. I need to go to the palace. Okay, h M, Peace be with you, all three still in leaf h Pleas be with you, Peace be with you. Peace be with you. Peace be with you. Pleas to be with all of us storing you hate to see
his Majesty, This will don she's back? Who's back? The girl? A meddling mad woman, that babbling succubus, the regimes pet expert. She knows too much and she can't shut up. We'll all have our throats cut if we can't stop her tongue wagging. Her throat was cut, surely, I've just been conversing with her, and she did pretty well if her throat was cut. So what the hell happened to? What? What's her name? Because Minnell, we said, are so called
most reliable of untried assassins. She was brief and primed. She was ready for this, so she claimed, well, nothing happened, except she seems to have had a long conversation with the very person she was supposed to have killed. I will look into this immediately. When we move on her target, we do not miss the knife strikes. The knife is out, and the knife strikes to find the girl. If she's turned, that's not possible. What does she know about our network? Nothing?
She knows nothing? Does she know about me? Does she know? I'm out of this incompetent bunch of clarent Oh God, just have to be patient. And if this doctor, she voices any suspicion, you deny everything. You're perfectly placed, your barracats man. Doctor. Nobody's closer. So why do you expose me like this? Because we're at war, Risks need to be taken. I thrust mammile with my life, and it looks like you've trusted her with mine, which I won't forgive you for stop this. We have work to do
and we need we need a full investigation. Now, how patient, doctor Doren? While you're here? Is he down here still? He needs fresh air? I told you that we couldn't bring him up. His screams were audible above ground. Doctor. We've had to restrain him. You keep him awake, and you talk to him. We are doing that. Let me see this way here? Whoa I've got? You got blood on your shoes? Is that blood? I came straight here? It's my work is rather different to yours at the moment.
What do you mean I'm dealing with corpses? You seem unable to kill. I'll leave you here, doctor, and I will find out what happened. H sit him up, and here he is the hope of two man Bay undergoing purification. We moved from one madness to another. Every sick soul seems to be craving something full doctor, quiet moments and then I thought he did has done off. He won't do that. Give him some of this in his water. It's a combination of salts and it will stabilize him
so much longer, sir. Two days he's coming through. But look at him. Can't you even wash the man? He tried the bite? Sir? Why he needs to know someone is tending him, not torturing down. Why do you understand me? Why have you worked out? When he's talking to his father, Sir, I doubt that it might be the offis they were close. Talk to him and get those shackles off. We have proper restraints. Don't leave me. This is a future leader
to be restored and revered. Now do your job, man, h But when you have loved, come on, just se don't make it worse. When you have loved you see, and as a child, that's what they could not do. I would not have to allow. Oh no, no weakness only, So don't love, don't show affection or touch Daniel? Is he here now? Is he coming? I don't know, I said to him. Up in the mountains, that's where we can live, I said, Daniel, Lord the strong one, Why take it all? Huh, you can take your little maddo.
He's the weak one. I said to him. I've never been held. You're not as a child, Nobody would hold me or love me. And that's why I well, wait, sir, let's go. Sir. You have the same beard as he, but you you're not so beautiful? Are you not stopping? Because I can't? Is it the same for all of us? Some dreams will not let you go. We are three years He's there again, little Vassie, wandering into my sleep when I least need reminding you is better than two per go, I can help you, but you can't. Friend,
and do you know you can't do? Will die together? But with three always someone away can't come? What are you doing? Come on? Can't come? What? Please, your excellency, I'm under arrest, excellency, No, of course not. Your presence is requested and emergency counsel has been called. Your experience
is deemed essential. Very well, wait, I would urge that no decision is made until further expedition with experienced personnelity is our esteemed visitor not experienced of course, Gregor, you arrive at just the right time as usual, offend, don't
bother with all that. We have something of a crisis, something to consider, you know, our friend, visitor, advisor and possibly our savior, Excellency Dr Alkin, she has discovered plague where in the outlying villages near the Great Term there is some evidence of a disease like those with experience describe it. Of course, m hmmm, Sit down, let's everyone's sitting back down. You get our regent water. You can
see he's suffering. You must calm yourself, Excellency. We went as far as the village of Darcela, as far as we could ascertain all the inhabitants were dead. I have seen similar I know the signs. I only say we must always be cautious. Just as sin differs, so does its natural punishment, its plague, And we need to act. The meteor stones landed in the vicinity, did they not? Yes? So what signs must be heeded? Perhaps you want to cut one open, look for a message, built them into
an altar, and sacrifice a few children. I do not, but the instinctive trust in human intervention must be challenged. No, we need to act or the disease will spread. Elkin Gregor will make things happen. Show him the map, m M. The marshes are here, some distance from the village. I've been there, then you will know the site. The dam is in poor repair, but with a few hundred workers it can be put back to use. Holding back the water.
We can then sluice the fresh water through the whole area, drowning the valley, which will also flush the marshes, exactly, expelling the foul water and with it the disease. Excellency, you need to rest. I'm perfectly all right. I counseled ten days of prayer and fast. I counseled the immediate dispatch of our best engineers, who will be supported by what kind of number hands slaves? Five hundred slaves that
are designated for Maya. She must wait it we don't drain the marshes, She'll be in receipt of corpses and it won't be five hundred BC, it will be five hundred thousand. Leave us please, you are responsible for the spiritual health of the city. My priority is fighting disease. Regent Gregor, dangerous work, Gregor, I need you to put vendy. I haven't the skills for a project like this. I'll assist, of course, I wear Anyone who goes is exposing themselves
to infection. I'm not afraid of that. But we need a man used to leading men. Yes, your brother, I don't think his holiness Baracout will consent to that. It's my consent that matters. But my loyalty is to you. It's never wavered. Mm hm, doctorr brother. His role will be circumscribed and he will be answerable to me. Of course, what else am I about to be foolish? We can all show weakness, and that's what I'm about to do.
If any you have to try. If any there is another matter I have to bring to your attention, a private matter. I will leave you to your private matters, gentlemen, Regent, thank you. M hmm. This may be inappropriate and presumptuous even but the religious court has convicted a man and no great Hibban Bay, a trader who's only crime is to have accumulated book. No, it's not my business, and you know that. Don't pull me into more conflict with Burga. I'm on your side. You think there are sides, We're
all on the same side, or supposed to be. And the service I've just done you, I've just offered your brother a chance of life. No more favors. Speak to him now, Richard h h h who like the torch? Oh you again, right now, little brother, betrayal of this tower small or large. I'm here with a proposal. Mhm. And now you said you'd protected your daughters alive still and playing with fools and fire rather cooln two Monday needs you and I have a warrant here if your
immediate release and Jane him. Can you stand straighter than you and there's work to be done. It's dangerous. I don't want to disguise that. Oh no, Gregor, you mean I might have to risk my life. Yes, that's the real difference between us is you're afraid to die, Gregor, I've been rather looking forward. He's right again. Why throw one's life away for nothing? I will cling to life even if I've forgotten. Why get me clean water? Yes, your I need to wash my hand. I'll leave you
to it. What did he say? God? And here he is again? Bara, Cat waits for me like a spider. I think even the flies report back to you. Don't pay barracat, even the rats. He's keen to be of service. I trust he's ready to serve. On whose side I wonder there are no sides. Then you have done well, excellency. You've united us again. What do you mean now? I have something special to show you this morning, now that the sun's come up, follow me? Please? Can I get
you anything else? Madam? No? Thank you, Asha, That is all. I saw my friend in the market this morning. Yes, she knows someone in the palace. She heard they were taking men rounded up by the patrols to the old army barracks. Someone escaped. Keep always with them. Oh no, she didn't have any details, But I thought he's so strong. He's a king after all. Don't give up hope, Miss, Thank you, Asha and your father will be free soon. I know it. You have been a good servant to us.
I don't know what I would do without you. Miss. Perhaps I could take the afternoon off. Why maybe I can discover more if I who is it soldiers? By the look of it, have they brought him back? Father? Is that you open it? Open it? Haven't? Daughter of eben Bay, I've been instructed on the authority of the palace. Who under the rest? Why? Why are you don't touch me? Don't get your hands off. Here's a special appointment. People waiting there? You go up the card? Where are we
going to the university? We work well together, you and I. You don't trust me, though, that's not true with respect. I wonder if you even trusted your own mother. He probably had her under surveillance when she was suckling you. My mother died in childbirth. I had to grow up fast. You are the lucky ones you and Coolan were. What do you know of me and my brother? Are you brothers by blood or by association? Go left? Sorry? You want our life stories? No? No? But I value both
of you. You see you have an extraordinary bond, and yet such different temperaments. Can we trust him? He is my brother. I would trust him with my life, and such is the bond of brother I ought to be. It's different for me, Gregor. What if you were in my position? But then you have the ear of our regent to fendi Red, whose wisdom I respect? What is he strong? Strong? In what sense? You're clear headed and sharp eyed? But strength has to be measured in different ways.
For example, look at me, a broken reed with a twisted leg. I can't march, I can't bear arms, and you can usually hear me limping along behind you, dragging my foot. But I can control a city. Don't forget that. These people, these are God's foot soldiers. When you seek the favor of our regions, I serve him. Remember be sure to let go when you need to let go. When a rock rose downhill, don't stand under Red. You think I defied you? No, No, If the plague is
that close to the city, we have a duty to act. Oh, Gregor was right, plague is all around us. I need no convincing of that. And if men believe the great dam will flush it away, So b it? What if our dear Sultan that's more important? Are there still no leads? I'm doing my best, as you always do, for yourself, and for cool on too, and for two Monday. I get so tired of that refrain. Do you believe in magic? By the way, m If I see a magician, I
see a heretic. Yes, your credentials are impeccable. But I do believe in the magic of transformation, and that's what you're about to witness. Now we're on our way to the square. You said, the university. That's what it has become for it's where people learn. Let me feel your hand. I always judge strength of character by holding a man's hand, and yours is hot. Perhaps I'm sick. Please God, don't say that, not even in Just let go of me. No, no, no,
You've done well, is what I'm saying. The capture of the foreign spy. I appreciated your ruling. That my duty. Only now I mean to repay you. I will show you true love and redemption. Yeah, oh, these roots. Everyone comes to the hangings. You see, it is a festival, not a blood bath. You speak the old language, but you are a willing pupil that I know the light is in you. In Kolan too, whose wife and daughter
I here have fled are missing? If they allude even you, the former head of the Palace guard, then they must be lost. Indeed, but excuse me. Paperwork is fundamental, and we have, thank god, a full confession of one. Oh he signed it last night, but he will deny it today. Who is this Barker? You can't read the name. I think his fingers were broken when he signed. But you can't read that. Even bay Trader, you were fond of him. This is what I like. You get involved with people.
He's an innocent man. I collect books, excellency, but I do not read them. What editions? Ah, look at the crowds staporn, picnic stabren scenes and oh you five pieces five ripe ones, not those that I know the price, my faend push through. Use your whip, sir, we will walk from here. I think this is hopeless. You feel safe walking? I'm surrounded, Gregor, My protectors are all around us. Mhm. Come excuse me, inquisite, pleased to be upon your officer, Please to be upon you? How is your matter not
so good? Sir? Thanks for asking, yeah, day this to thank you, sir? What is the time exactly? I told them to wait for me. Come grego a look of excellency. He will be he look you me? Oh you see that fellow there. I spent ten minutes with him, just as the sun set. He sold his daughter into prostitution because he's poor. Now he is rich. His fresh, clean soul is a priceless jewel, and God bless his holy name, will wear it in his diaett. You are ready, my friend,
you are ready. I'm prescell Please are pready? This boy here, it was a drunk, excellent heart. Please should us back the soul? He is strong and get started. So he is too small to hang. Make the rope longer and drop him twice. So there you go. H your friend's waiting for us. See him up the steps careful. I have known hban bay for Gregor. It is a small step, even I can make it. The platforms are well constructed. You will not fall there go lost. You're afraid again again?
When did he see me frightened? When was I so weak as to show him my fear? Take his blind father off? Please? How am I about to show it again? Oh? God, he's with you, God, thank you, Oh my free tell them please, I will man. Do you know that I collected books? I I have some water? Please? Where is his daughter? Or she arrested? She should be here? Canna got even read me? He trusted me, even fluid good business. She's here becomes a crime. Move father, Heaven you you
wrote heaven. When she's close to her time? God, don't your face crying. Let him go. He's done nothing. She didn't call the child to be careful. That is what we are all thinking about. Children are the only innocence here, and check is not pleasing. Yes, baragat, he said you would not harm him, and you have a reputation. You don't lie head back since he lifts the chin, let him go good behind the ear promised, he said you would help all right. You don't mend your knees, but
made straight straight. You promise no harm would come to him, That my hand would not strike. I promised that, and I will not hurt you. Whatever you want to prove, this isn't the way. How is your little one, my dear? Is he dancing before God? Is he kicking? Oh? Yoga? A soldier for Maya, no doubt he will be loyal like my father. Loyalty is ever in flux, My dear loyalties like the moon. Let them go in the name of God. Take the loose horse and lost behind clouds.
Do you want? I want the daughter to pull the lever. She must pledge her allegiance by killing her father. That will show love and he will be redeemed. No, do what he says, if that's what it takes, stand here, now hold the lever. No drop him sweet Heaven, kill me Heaven if it's what he wants, killed me. He's insane. I love you, he sees God. Stand back, get back, forgive me that not your ghost taught me. Dad, It
go and peace. No, excellency, she needs hope, that the baby get away, get her down, Come to the hospital. You helping? You want me to do the rest of them. I'm a soldier at this is soldier's work, is it not. It's not hard to kill a man. You don't always kill them, though, Gregor, sometimes they come back. Season two,
episode four of two. Mun Bay Healing the Sick featuring Rufus Wright, Aran abiss Akra and Nabil Eloa Harby, was written by Andy Mulligan with music by Sasha Partner and editing and sound design by Steve bond To Muan Bay is directed by Me, John Scott Dryden and created by Me and Mike Walk and produced by Emma Hern and Nadia Khan. For more details, including a cast list, visit tuman Bay dot com