That we can hope a dream of better times. There's what makes us human, and no more so than when we are young. So a boy at the window of a house and two munveay frock. I told you I would come back, didn't I? And a girl who never thought he would come didn't I? Quick? Come in, quick, my pothers here. I told you what happened. Why did you leave me? I thought we cared about each other. I left you because I did care about you. It doesn't make any sense at all, frog to save you
from the blind man. But I had a fishing that the blind man would do you great harm, that he would come back to umin me to find you. And I saw you saw my death, didn't you. I thought I could change it if I could kill the blind man before he came back. And did you yes, in the bath of his castle. Mh, wow, there's someone with osen. It's you, boy, isn't he? You're scared? Why are you here? What could it be that brings you fear and all to this place? Ah? Of course you've come to kill me,
haven't you. Oh? Now you got him who helped you? Why there was so much blood? Then I ran, I knew I had to get away. I client, It's what we do, isn't it? Sky Rats? I did it, Matilla, I did it and I got away. You changed fate. You said it wouldn't work, couldn't work, that something would always happen. Love can make it happen. No, too late, father is selling me to a man he owes money to. No, that can't be. It's going to happen unless unless my
mother's jewelry. You made me wear it when we went to see him, and now it's part of the contract. Only the sapphire set in lapis. It's for my hair and it has a steel pin. I could. No, you can't. You have to live, don't you see? I can't. Who are you? What are you doing in my daughter's room? Good evening, sir. I just came to stop. Let go of him, shout your plot? Are you bad? What's wrong with you? I'm doing this for you and that boy in your room. Do you have no understanding of what
an opportunity this is for you? No, father, I have no understanding of what an opportunity this is for me. Look, harsh words were spoken, mostly by me, and I'm sorry for they came from worry deeper worry as a father about what would happen to us. We've lost everything. We could be out on the street, you me, nurseh and your little brother. How would he cope? He'd die out there, you know he would my dinner. I'm not a good man, I know that. I know I'm not. I'm not a
good father. But I do love you both as I did your mother, and I've always tried to do the best for you. You You know that. And sometimes the best isn't the best. It's just what you can get in this world. Two men, Bey is a cruel and unforgiving city. I know it's not what you want. This isn't what I want, but it's what we've got in this world, and we have to make it work or we're finished.
Remember when you were young and I made that pool for you, when Emma was still able to walk and run and laugh, and we sailed the little ships, and you said one day we'd sail away together. Yes, I know you better than you know yourself. You're like me, even if you don't want to be, always thinking, oh my god, that boy you didn't know, father, Thank God for that. You see, Mattia, here's the plan. You are a lively, beautiful girl, and ciscopy lad is an elderly
and not entirely healthy looking man. How long do you think he laughs with a young bride like you. Your job would be to run his household, not what he wants before he does. Hold all the keys, both of iron and of knowledge. You're the lordly last month or two. Surely then you'll have the power for Emma, for nurse, for me, for your mother. Will you do it? The past has a way, a spiteful way of overturning all our hopes. My father uses the love and care he
never gave. A boy cherishes a dream of hope in his heart, but a dream. That was all it was. Someone for the laster could master, my Lord? What is it? What's in the name of my lord? We must hold it out. But I'm not used to asking for things. Twice pull it out out of a way I given poisoned to enough hit the blade, Grandmaster, white Heart, I wonder no mistakes, Grandmaster. Perhaps a dressing on the wound.
You're bleeding a fire wheel, Lady, lay on, Sergeant, burn the weakness out, then out very well, Grandmaster, There we're gone. We will go on should I send orders to delay the depart to Tom and Bear? Did they You need to rest now? We leave now? Two Monday, Series three, Episode seven, Hostage of Fortune by Mike Walker. Tuman Bay, a city recovering from an ill fated coup. The architect of that coup. Couldn't you've got a camel fleeing across the desert like the desperate thief he is with the
sun he never wanted. Can you ride a camel? Sure, it's no using it? Well, God, is too heavy? What do you mean it's a donkey? Isn't it came on ure? You pushed it too hard. I'll get up you chip. It's no good. I needs the water now, m hmm, that's all we have, all right, Yes, we need to lessen the weight. Yeah, we'll bury some of the gold here. Yes, we can come back for it later. But father, we're in the middle of a desert. There's nothing here. How
will we find it again? Have you got a better idea? Ah? He said, don't leave the city? Who did the master what he said? Not to leave? It was bad luck? Nothing good would come of it, and we would. Why aren't you digging? There's someone coming? Can you make them out too much haze is it? Then? Is it the bell Iraq? Don't I think maybe this is the best thing that could happen. Sergeant, Sergeant s Gad, you're here. As you can see, we're having some trouble with the donkey.
You remember me. It's Cadi the Vizier, your friend, I hoped, your master. I've been looking for you. Yes, yes, we've brought you more gold from Tumunday. They wanted to hide it, but yeah, the Grandmaster, he will want to see me. It's Cadali obviously, Sergeant and the savior of to Munday. Lady get guard. Here the hapless prince Herod now glued and stitched together like a restored marble statue. I think you will be pleased with the results. I will think
for myself. His grieving mother Fatima payment for she exact from too Munday for her dead son. H He looks sad, much improved, I think you would agree. Improved indeed to the state of a great prince said to be a king one, i'd say, a great sultan fated to be neither. Should we leave you, my little tool, Yes, of course. Well, Herold, my dear child, you look younger the years have fled
with life. How strange you look as you did when you came into my room when you were ten and you had killed a rat and brought it to me as a present, And I cried out, and you said, it's all right, Mama, it's dead, and we buried it together, and diday I bury you. Well. At least you won't mess this up. Is everything as you would wish, My lady, you are true artists. I salute your both. Thank you. Do you have a family, Yes, I shall ensure they receive in full all you are owed and more. Yes,
they deserve more. After all, you have created such a wonderful change. Well, I can hardly allow anyone else to receive such perfection, can I? My lady? Gods take them, drown them in the ditch outside. Thank you both so much. I am forever in your debt and will rest in the mausoleum of the martyrs. Yes, you have earned your place there alongside the heroes of Tumana. We found them, Grandmaster,
about a league to the west. Grandmaster, it's so good to see you again, you know, I was telling your man here, I've brought some more gold from Tuman babe, as you can see well enough. But he's silent. Yes, of course, because silence truly as golden m You know, I once had an uncle who worked in the port of Tuman Bay, and his job was to stand at the end of the jetty and call out with a bound to the ship's departing, and they would shout back with a Smyrnov or amber or mh sue with about
to man by. I'm not sure that's a cruises ah, my son, Sillim selim, Yes, grandmaster, you helped your father as a good son should Yes, Grandmaster, I can see yes that you have a simple heart. Sillim, Thank you, Grandmaster. I am going to do you a kindness. Your father has a long and hard road before him. But as for you, I will release you. Thank ye. Here you
have reached your chain his end, Sergeant Scot what I father? Yes, very wise, Grandmaster, he was the cause of all of this very astute of view, maybe so bold put him in chains. No, no, no, I'm don't. I've always promoted your interests. Then we're not. It's been nailed shot. We can't open it. What's happening? I have no choice? Frog. My father is right. I have to do this for Hima, for all of them. It's all down to me. Now, what about us, Matilla? I'm sorry, Frog, there is no us.
I don't believe it. There must be in us in this world, or there's no point. What we want, what our heart's desire doesn't matter. It won't make any difference to the world. It'll make a difference to me and you. The world isn't kind. It's a a bad dog that will bite you. We have to get by as best we can, and that's all we can hope for. If I believe that, I would never have been a sky rot, don't you see, Matilla, to fly is to have faith. Like Spider, he had faith, He flew, and he died.
He died doing what he loved. Does that make him any less dead? What are you saying? Go away? Frog, Please find someone else. Don't waste your time on me. My faith is decided. You know that in your heart you knew it all along. So go please till Tiller. Wait, wait, I can't. I have to go and get married. I won't leave you, Emma, Emma, mm hmmm mm hmm, Emma. I know everything hasn't been good lately, and since father
came home, you might have heard things. But I don't want you to worry, because everything is going to be all right now. Sometimes things seem darker than they are, but the darkest times are just before the dawn. I'm going to have to go away for a while in the morning. Don't worry, though. It will all be for the best. And I'll still come to see you all
the time, I promise, and things will be better. You'll see, really, I promise, And we will fly, you and me, and we'll fly together above the city and see all the way to the far mountains, like in the Prince and the Sword, the Blue Mountains, the only heroes could climb. Careful, fool, too much heat will singe the hair, and if that happens, I promise you will burn too. And did not the sultana ask for more water? Don't you understand plain speech? More water for the sultana? How many times do we
have to ask? It's all right. There's one slave doing the work. The rest are just sitting around. Look at them, what are they all doing? Sorry, my lady, is there anything? Just be attentive. It's not too much to ask. You don't train your slaves properly, Dear, let them get away with too much. It's no good allowing them to be lazy. Well, I wasn't onto this? Who was? Isn't that the whole point of to Munby? Shall I tell you something between
the two of us, Yes, please. It's not the getting of power, that's easy enough for anyone with a mind. It is the holding of power, the use of power, that's something Herod, bless him, never understood. Let the hair rest for a while, No, I said, leave it. Don't you know anything? I want you to know more. Now, I don't blame you. I know it's not your fault what happened to my son. No, we are both widows. Now,
you and I we must help each other. I thought your husband was no, not that one I was talking of the first one, Herod's father, Poor Herod. He was a good boy, a very dutiful and loving son. But like his father, he was easily distracted. You know what I mean. Men are predictable, I suppose, and and that is their weakness, a weakness that you and I must make use of. The Ballarak may pose a threat to to Monday. But they are only men. But they are
not as other men. Wow, time will tell we have to deal with them, and I think, my dear, we will work best together, Ah, to be with an intelligent young woman, to instruct her, to help her on her way to be a mother to a daughter. That's how I think of us, Manel, you think that together we would be stronger. Comment your majesty, Yes, what is it? Is it? General? Cool? And request your presence in the
council chamber. Yes, come on, majesty. A scouting party has picked up a messenger from the Ballarak from the Grand Master and Malick. What does he say, ma'am? Will only deliver his message to you in person? What are your orders? This seems to have been a surprise to you. General. We have had watchers on the headland looking out for their ships, but we did not expect them by land. Shouldn't the wise man expect the unexpected? Isn't that how one wins battles? Yes, of course we were. Those speaks
to Muanbay's greatest commander. Had we best not see this fellow? Yes? Bring him in. Something has happened between Mannell and Fatima. Something said, a seed planted. I don't know what, and I don't like it. You have a message for me. The Grand Master wishes you to know that we have in our custody the traitor gold Dally, and my master would like to present this man to you as a
gift in gratitude. And to what do we owe this gratitude, sir receiving our delegation of advisers, and what advice does your grand Master think we need to Muanbay has been through troubled times. He is sure you will be looking forward towards a period of stability. And what stability and should by the presence of Ballarak advisers. I see you can tell the Grand Master that we do not require Yes, bring him back. I want you to bring the traitor Cadali back here. I want him standing in front of
me and the advisers. They are most welcome. The Grandmaster is right, twomen. They needs the help of the Ballaraq. Tell him we welcome him and his advisers with open arms. And this is the command of the Sultana. Yes you heard, go shall be done. What is Minel doing? She seems to have fallen under Fatima's spell. I fear for human Bay. That was unwise. They are going to come anyway better on our terms. Than there's very well. I shall go
and collect the traitor myself. Thank you generally, gregor me, what does she want with me? You shall accompany the messenger back and in short Cardli is delivered, alive and ready to suffer. Is this the wish of the Sultana? I'm getting a little tired of this. From now on, the Sultana and I speak with one voice. Isn't that right, my dear? Yes, take my order as being the Sultan's order. Does everyone understand good? If business is over come? Majesty brother?
We need her army. We have none of our own. So what shall we do do is shoe commands? But say nothing aspires everywhere. You should know better than most. Come with you to the stable. Ulan has been wounded more deeply than he knows by the death of Alkin. I think in his way he loved her deeply. Let us hope the wound is not fatal. There's only one
course of action, what exactly do you make? Battles are all about waiting for the moment, the right moment, keeping your nerve and holding back until it's time to strike. Swat the fly and save me now from whatever witchcraft. Fatima is practicing on her, but not until her army has finished the Ballarak. And if she doesn't, and she'll be the least of our problems. We have to play this very carefully, brother, and you have always been a master at playing the careful game. Can we do it? Brother?
We always had big good journey. Say all the grief, the bitter, alloes, the pain, the misery, and the harm yet known and felt in this age of woe were raised together in a great fire, they would be as nothing in the dark night against the death of this lost king, good hope and hopeless in the hopeless the picture broken, and sorrow spills from the heavens. The snake drinks, the shadow of the lizard passes. Enough, now I will sleep, Grandmaster.
You'll have a question, what is in heaven in the skies? Why? And we go and see? You can take me outside and tell me as you please, Grandmaster? What do you see? Stars? Whole drifts of stars like spilled milk, so many of them? Does anything move up there? No? I wait a fire falling. I saw it once before, but there were more than What are they? These stars? You see souls? Surely everyone who has ever lived on this earth, now resides in paradise.
Is that what you believe? Isn't that what everyone believes? There are many faiths, many believes. I haven't wonder what it would be like to conquer the star us? Mhm. Wouldn't that be impossible even for the Balarak? Not if the task was given to us by God? Has God given you a mission? Two man? May? What about it? You're a newcomer there. What did you think of it when you first arrived? I had never seen a city before.
It was it was like a thousand cities. It was too big, too much, you see clearly, people from every airport into it, and those great halls, whole population sucked towards that center and used and tainted. And not alone those drawn like moths to the flame and consumed. But although still on the outside in the provinces, their life
blood drained too. In its arrogance, two Manvay assumes it is paramount, the master of the known world, that what it wants, all what that, how it lives, so all should live, That its virtues are a gift to all men. But they are not, two man. Days are pestilence upon the lad a plague upon by a million rats. And what do you do two infected rats? You you kill them? Ah, but you can't, not a whole city like Twoman, being not all of them. So you ask me if we
have a mission from God? There is your answer. Now I shall sleep. Behold the bride. Very good, my seal past. And before I signed the final paper the down payment, we agreed. If it's not too inconvenient, bring the chess. Want to check it? Do you? No? Of course not? Of course that h son in law. M Come daughter, Here is your husband and master. Be obedient as you would to your father. Cisco pillar attendee. I you may go, now all of you on t I shall rest. Prepare
my wife for the evening. Yes, master h my lord wife, how may I please you? My lord? Dance for me, my lord, dance like a young bride. Yes, m hm. Now pour water over my hands. Do you know why I never fall ill? Because I washed three times a day. You have been bathed, the women have cleaned you properly. Yes, yes, good. You may remove your garments. Now, first the jewelry. M. I will lock it away. It was my mother's and now it is mine, as are you. The jewelry and
then remove your clothes. Mm hmm, you've pleased me. Wait bring the incidents I loved. Everything is arranged as you can. May go carry on slowly. M hmm. I've had nine wives, the same as the teacher, blessing you are the tents. What happened to your other wives? In much two? We are only allowed one wife at the time, so they have too much. Two does not permit a man, so
more wives than the teachers. But I saw you at your father's house, and I desired to you then, and I wait, I was patient, and you came to me. I am weak, I am contemptible, insect my husbands. You're troubled? What can I do? Should I dance again? Don't touch me? I'm sorry? Are do you the gin? Have you cast a spell over me? I meant nothing? Only are you the dark angel? Leading me to the seven hells? Lie on the bed on your face. I don't want your
eyes catching. Put your wrists through the hoops. There, pain will cleanse you. I can't see those jars. Do you see them? Put your hand in this that one? Now? What do you feel? Dust? Ashes? You ask? What happened to my wives? In my stool. Disobedient wives are burnt alive on a pile of sandal wood. Are you going to be disobedient? But your risks through the loops, and I will help you to be obedient. There is no learning with that pain. Do you know which wife is
in which jar? What are you talking about? Obey or burn? Do they have a name? Put that down? Who were they? Oh? Why you're a bed and you will burn? Look at me, child, look into my eyes, your eyes, Look at this. I can't see. I'm blind. Curse your shoulder? Where are you? I have you? Now? You're mind? Now you will die with this. I shouldn't know what. M oh that it? M h frog. I told you I wouldn't let you go? Ya how I followed you? It wasn't hard over the
roofs let myself in quickly. We have to go. Come give me your hand. You wish to see me, Grandmaster, I have been sent by my Sultana your message. She thanks to you and accepts your gracious gift and looks forward to welcoming your delegation to too manage. He is wise, your mistress, and and there is an end hiding itself in your words, Commander I hear it distinctly, and she requests that our accompany the traitor Cadli and not let him out of my sight. If that is what your
mistress wishes, so shall it be. I look forward to presenting the traitor to her myself. I am sure that she will be most gratified by your concern, Grandmaster. But we must negotiate how and where the prisoner will be handed over, surely at the palace command, perhaps outside the palace so the people can see. We will lend the traitor over in the palace grounds. That would be appropriate. I think now you will wish to refresh yourself up to your right Sergeant. First, I must have proof that
the traitor is still alive. I would be failing in my duty if I did not. I'm sure you can understand, Grandmaster, follow me, your excellensive. I'll leave you with him, sir, thank you, oh bruss all the gods a friendly face. If I'm your friend, Dally, you truly are in each other. Some water, please, greg Or, I've had no water, and return for what the surprise packages you left for me in the Well of sorrows. Messy job, I like you.
Perhaps you're losing your touch please h oh. It's the little things that matter in the end, Hollo, God of warm water mm hm ah. As for the other thing, well, I just can't get the help. Nowadays Sun appears to be missing from the city. Would that be the help. He's here in the sand somewhere. It's of no matter. He was a mistake. Like the overthrow of the legal government, on the attempted murder the Sultana and myself, and the murder of the Grand Vizier Alkin, I would have run
the empire. Well, you must admit it. I would have been good. Now you're in a cage, and I am not think about it. You were always a practical man, of course you were. Look at Tuman Bay, look at the state it's in. Even before my untimely departure, that madwoman Fatima ah I thought, did open. You do not like her very much at all. Good, So she rampages with her army. There is a helpless Sultana grieving for her lost lover. Your brother Coolan appears emasculated, grieving for
the same woman. The city needs us, and ask Gill more than ever. You keep yourself very well informed. I'm impressed, But your time is heaven. Now, don't walk away. You know it's true, not good, not honorable, but true. I'm right, not mine. I know these people in their excellency, water, I'm wine some food. If you care for heaven, here is water. Profess yourself, my lord. We will be listening to speak with care. Thank you. I'm hot and thirsty. It will be welcome. What are you doing here? There
is food too, and wine? Should you care for it? I was captured, and the Grandmaster's reader to me what has happened. Our food is plain. But as a soldier, you will not mind that. My child, my husband, that was a cue. Your husband helped to restore the sultana. Now I'm happy to be a soldier's food, madam, the child as well. They're both well. Otherwise things are in the balance, and they this way, the next, that way. What do they want? These people? Do unt mean what
they say? Do not trust them. I think we have to measure of them. They want to kill everyone like play crats. They see there's their sacred mission from God to kill and burn everything everything, excellency, arrangements have been made. I'm still eating. I am not asking if you are ready, come now, the grand Master acquires it. They'll never find us up here. People don't look up like pigs. They can't look up. Never was he the stars, never see this guy. I wish we could stay here for ever.
It's going to be so much trouble. Cisco was a rich man. He had many friends. I don't think he ever had friends. I bet they're all glad, he said, file old monster h he was blind. You blinded him and we killed him, and I killed the Grandmaster. You're safe now, I'm Attilla. We're safe. Season three, episode seven
of two. Mun Bay Hostage to Fortune, featuring Tara Fitzgerald, Asia Heart, rufus Wright and Anton Lesser, was written by Mike Walker, with music by Sasha Putnam and editing and sound design by Eloise Whitmore to Mumbai is directed by Me, John Scott Dryden, created by Me and Mike Walker, and produced by Emma Herne and Nadia Khan. For more details, including scripts and the cast list, visit to Mumbai dot com