1 00:00:13,530 --> 00:00:15,750 MR. WEDNESDAY: Keep an eye out for her dearly beloved. 2 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:18,010 Little bird told me Shadow's on his way. 3 00:00:19,410 --> 00:00:20,710 SHADOW: I just need to get to Cairo. 4 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:21,970 It's Cay-row. 5 00:00:22,060 --> 00:00:23,500 It's Cay-row? Cay-row? 6 00:00:24,850 --> 00:00:29,550 I was old in the desert before they sacrificed the first horse to you. 7 00:00:29,630 --> 00:00:31,640 I will be heard. 8 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:35,290 MR. WORLD: I wonder, if you don't choose a side, 9 00:00:35,380 --> 00:00:37,730 will you be trampled by both? 10 00:00:40,470 --> 00:00:44,040 MR. WEDNESDAY: Mrs. Moon and I have a date with my old friend Argus. 11 00:00:44,130 --> 00:00:46,950 The man with all the eyes - Argus Penoptes. 12 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:48,130 I need you to kill him. 13 00:00:48,220 --> 00:00:49,830 He's been playing both sides 14 00:00:49,910 --> 00:00:51,870 and I need to get him off the field. 15 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,050 He dies, your coin recharges. 16 00:00:54,140 --> 00:00:59,140 Live to see the future with Shadow that you've put so much unearned faith in. 17 00:00:59,230 --> 00:01:02,450 TECHNICAL BOY: I told Argus to upgrade this hub eons ago! 18 00:01:02,540 --> 00:01:05,410 Get your man in line! 19 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:07,540 TECHNICAL BOY: Um, guys? 20 00:01:09,060 --> 00:01:10,330 Never mind. 21 00:04:27,830 --> 00:04:30,610 ♪ ...baby. Rock! Let's rock, yeah. ♪ 22 00:04:32,530 --> 00:04:36,180 ♪ ...we care a lot about the dangers and the pressures and the- ♪ 23 00:04:36,270 --> 00:04:39,450 ♪ ...we care a lot about the smack and crack and whack that is the- ♪ 24 00:04:47,190 --> 00:04:48,280 Listen. 25 00:05:04,170 --> 00:05:05,430 I know Bach. 26 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:06,610 Listen. 27 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,350 He'd only just returned from a trip to find that his wife had died. 28 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,270 Bach had already lost three children. 29 00:05:19,310 --> 00:05:20,750 He would lose seven more. 30 00:05:23,930 --> 00:05:25,410 This is grief. 31 00:05:26,540 --> 00:05:27,630 And yet... 32 00:05:29,670 --> 00:05:31,370 The rising notes of joy... 33 00:05:33,110 --> 00:05:35,030 ...shattering his own rules. 34 00:05:36,940 --> 00:05:38,330 Can you hear it? 35 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:44,950 This is how men like me pray. 36 00:05:53,170 --> 00:05:58,000 ♪ Why go out. Why go home. Why go out ♪ 37 00:06:34,170 --> 00:06:35,650 Play it again. 38 00:07:24,790 --> 00:07:25,960 This is... 39 00:07:28,180 --> 00:07:30,750 It's beautiful, like Bach. 40 00:07:32,530 --> 00:07:33,580 You composed this? 41 00:07:34,930 --> 00:07:37,930 Well, I-I created the engine that did. 42 00:07:38,020 --> 00:07:41,370 I translated all of Bach's cantatas into a database 43 00:07:41,460 --> 00:07:43,150 then wrote a program that segmented the notes 44 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:44,890 into digital objects 45 00:07:44,980 --> 00:07:48,940 the way that Bach statistically intended to. Um... 46 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:56,780 But everything it created was mechanical, artificial. 47 00:07:56,860 --> 00:07:59,170 The real insight was in programming 48 00:07:59,260 --> 00:08:02,220 violations to the predictable variations. 49 00:08:04,350 --> 00:08:06,660 I gave it permission to shatter the rules. 50 00:08:08,870 --> 00:08:10,620 The computer composed this? 51 00:08:11,620 --> 00:08:12,620 Yeah. 52 00:08:21,020 --> 00:08:22,850 It's writing more now. 53 00:10:28,270 --> 00:10:29,620 I'm glad you came. 54 00:10:46,950 --> 00:10:48,290 No, no, no, no. 55 00:10:49,690 --> 00:10:52,520 My wife, she'll kill you. 56 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:18,670 Not me. 57 00:12:11,380 --> 00:12:13,250 Let it happen. 58 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:53,640 Now rest. 59 00:13:05,430 --> 00:13:06,430 Let it go. 60 00:14:19,330 --> 00:14:20,330 Good morning. 61 00:14:21,990 --> 00:14:23,640 Did you sleep well? 62 00:14:26,210 --> 00:14:27,210 Huh? 63 00:14:28,780 --> 00:14:30,430 Did you sleep well? 64 00:14:34,130 --> 00:14:35,300 Well, there was... 65 00:14:35,390 --> 00:14:36,350 Well... 66 00:14:39,130 --> 00:14:42,400 Yeah. Yeah, it was good. 67 00:14:42,490 --> 00:14:43,530 Good. 68 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:57,630 So, this is a coroner's office? 69 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,550 Coroners are a political appointment around here. 70 00:15:01,630 --> 00:15:04,200 His job is to kick the corpse. 71 00:15:04,290 --> 00:15:07,290 If it doesn't kick him back, he signs the death certificate. 72 00:15:07,380 --> 00:15:10,120 I'm what they call a prosector. 73 00:15:10,210 --> 00:15:12,040 I work for the county medical examiner. 74 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:13,650 I do autopsies and save 75 00:15:13,730 --> 00:15:16,000 tissue samples for analysis. 76 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,390 In addition, we are a funeral parlor, 77 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,740 serving Cairo, Illinois, since 1863 78 00:15:21,830 --> 00:15:25,220 when it was a flourishing town at the crossing of two rivers. 79 00:15:26,310 --> 00:15:28,970 We could go back much longer than that, of course, 80 00:15:29,050 --> 00:15:32,710 but it wasn't until the War Between the States that we found our niche. 81 00:15:33,710 --> 00:15:36,930 That was when we became thefuneral parlor for the colored folks hereabouts. 82 00:15:43,890 --> 00:15:47,850 Before that, no one thought of us as colored... 83 00:15:49,070 --> 00:15:54,250 Foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored. 84 00:15:54,340 --> 00:15:58,000 And it's strange, when they talk about African Americans. 85 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,040 My colleagues and I never thought of ourselves as African. 86 00:16:01,130 --> 00:16:03,350 We were the people of the Nile. 87 00:16:06,090 --> 00:16:09,880 And then you settle in a town called Cairo? 88 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:11,100 Seems appropriate. 89 00:16:11,180 --> 00:16:13,620 Mm. Chicken. Egg. 90 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:25,850 Was there, uh... 91 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:28,550 Was there anyone else around? 92 00:16:30,900 --> 00:16:34,030 She's not here. Your wife. 93 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:38,820 You know where she is? 94 00:16:44,430 --> 00:16:45,480 No. 95 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:48,570 Mr. Ibis, please. 96 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:52,790 They're different when they come back. 97 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,450 Like any formative life experience, 98 00:16:56,530 --> 00:16:58,880 death changes you. 99 00:17:01,890 --> 00:17:03,630 I'm sure your wife is lovely, 100 00:17:03,710 --> 00:17:06,540 but she's not the same person she was. 101 00:17:11,630 --> 00:17:12,850 MR. WEDNESDAY: Good. You're up! 102 00:17:14,940 --> 00:17:18,080 So, should we seize the day by the ass before she finds a new dance partner? 103 00:17:19,120 --> 00:17:21,040 And then, where would we be, huh? 104 00:17:21,910 --> 00:17:25,000 Like floral patterns on a wall. 105 00:17:27,950 --> 00:17:30,910 Oh. What a beautiful day for a drive, Shadow. 106 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,140 Did you get a good night's sleep, huh? 107 00:17:35,220 --> 00:17:38,360 Time to heal your wounds? Someone to lick your wounds? Mm? 108 00:17:40,010 --> 00:17:42,270 I need to find Laura. 109 00:17:42,360 --> 00:17:44,880 She's around here somewhere. I don't know why, it's weird, but I feel it. 110 00:17:44,970 --> 00:17:48,540 Only humans could've come up with monogamy, an unnatural concept. 111 00:17:48,630 --> 00:17:50,460 Enjoy your life, my boy. 112 00:17:50,540 --> 00:17:53,070 Fuck it, embrace it, exercise neither temperance nor restraint, 113 00:17:53,150 --> 00:17:54,890 and leave the past where it belongs: 114 00:17:54,980 --> 00:17:58,070 in the past. Now, forward to St. Louis. 115 00:17:59,380 --> 00:18:01,250 What's in St. Louis? 116 00:18:01,340 --> 00:18:04,340 Big city, big money. 117 00:18:04,430 --> 00:18:07,170 Betty here doesn't run on butterflies and wishes. 118 00:18:07,260 --> 00:18:10,390 Money is the most influential god in America. 119 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,830 Untouchable asshole, but his stock never falls. 120 00:18:53,950 --> 00:18:55,690 How you know Gramma? 121 00:18:56,870 --> 00:18:58,740 You friends with Ida? 122 00:18:58,830 --> 00:18:59,920 Who's Ida? 123 00:19:00,870 --> 00:19:01,920 My mother. 124 00:19:05,180 --> 00:19:09,530 You look city, so I thought maybe you came here with her. 125 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:11,880 No. 126 00:19:13,970 --> 00:19:15,410 No. Figures. 127 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:18,150 She's not coming down here. 128 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:24,510 So, what, you just here touristing? 129 00:19:24,590 --> 00:19:26,640 I came for a man named Shadow. 130 00:19:29,510 --> 00:19:30,510 Oh. 131 00:19:32,430 --> 00:19:34,260 I'm sorry for your loss. 132 00:19:43,130 --> 00:19:44,870 This casket is empty. 133 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,710 They've got her in the back. 134 00:19:49,790 --> 00:19:52,140 The service is in a day or two. 135 00:19:52,230 --> 00:19:53,670 Then who do you pray to? 136 00:19:55,410 --> 00:19:59,630 Reverend Hutchins says that all things are a matter of ideas. 137 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,290 And God is just one idea. 138 00:20:05,810 --> 00:20:08,030 The good reverend enjoys the theatre. 139 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:11,470 He's quoting Beneatha. 140 00:20:12,420 --> 00:20:13,900 Who? 141 00:20:13,990 --> 00:20:15,770 Beneatha grew tired of God 142 00:20:15,860 --> 00:20:19,040 getting credit for all the things the human race achieves 143 00:20:19,130 --> 00:20:20,690 through stubborn effort. 144 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:26,260 Beneatha is the daughter and nonbeliever from A Raisin in the Sun. 145 00:20:29,220 --> 00:20:32,660 A woman's heart should never be so hidden in God 146 00:20:32,750 --> 00:20:34,530 that she cannot hear her own truth. 147 00:20:39,020 --> 00:20:40,800 According to Maya Angelou, 148 00:20:40,890 --> 00:20:42,240 a woman's heart 149 00:20:43,150 --> 00:20:44,980 should be hidden in God 150 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:50,290 so that a man has to seek Him 151 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,160 just to find her. 152 00:20:54,250 --> 00:20:57,080 My faith is of a different kind. 153 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:01,340 Must be, the way your ass is crisscrossing back and forth, across the battlefield. 154 00:21:01,430 --> 00:21:04,740 Hither, tither, and yon 155 00:21:04,820 --> 00:21:06,740 in the middle of a war. 156 00:21:06,830 --> 00:21:09,520 Like you ain't got a care in the world. 157 00:21:09,610 --> 00:21:11,180 You need not fear me. 158 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,050 World would've had an easier time convincing me to join him if he had not killed Zorya. 159 00:21:18,230 --> 00:21:20,270 Make sure Wednesday understands. 160 00:21:23,230 --> 00:21:27,020 So, you crisscrossing and stepping in the name of love? 161 00:21:27,110 --> 00:21:31,290 Would you prefer I hide in a foxhole and wait until things are more to your liking? 162 00:21:32,290 --> 00:21:34,160 I'd need to carefully consider 163 00:21:35,070 --> 00:21:37,030 all the pros and the cons 164 00:21:37,860 --> 00:21:40,160 before I could honestly answer that question. 165 00:21:41,470 --> 00:21:44,120 So, uh, you two know each other? 166 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:46,210 Yes. 167 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:48,910 Biblically. 168 00:21:57,660 --> 00:21:59,180 You're nervous. 169 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,400 The fuck I am. 170 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,150 I need you. 171 00:22:06,930 --> 00:22:09,710 You need me. 172 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,600 Were you there when Media died? 173 00:22:26,690 --> 00:22:29,520 Oh, don't be so aggressively dense. 174 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,130 She didn't die. 175 00:22:31,210 --> 00:22:33,910 She changed into you. 176 00:22:35,390 --> 00:22:38,400 I still feel her inside me. 177 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,360 I wonder if the next version of me will feel me inside of her? 178 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,790 And then the next version will feel all of us? 179 00:22:51,630 --> 00:22:53,410 Don't you wonder about this stuff? 180 00:22:54,460 --> 00:22:55,500 Do you... 181 00:22:57,980 --> 00:23:01,290 You know the difference between people and animals? 182 00:23:02,330 --> 00:23:03,380 Hmm? 183 00:23:05,770 --> 00:23:10,650 People are aware they're going to die someday. 184 00:23:11,780 --> 00:23:14,910 And pray to the Old Gods to stop it. 185 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,090 But an animal is ignorant. 186 00:23:20,870 --> 00:23:22,400 I don't get your point. 187 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:27,710 My point is Media is not a person or an animal. 188 00:23:27,790 --> 00:23:32,100 She, unlike you, understood she's a fucking God. 189 00:24:01,260 --> 00:24:04,090 I trust you know why I summoned you. 190 00:24:07,050 --> 00:24:10,180 Argus. It's a setback, for sure. 191 00:24:10,270 --> 00:24:11,270 : No! 192 00:24:13,660 --> 00:24:16,670 No, no. 193 00:24:16,750 --> 00:24:19,930 No more excuses. 194 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,330 War is won... 195 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:26,980 ...with what? 196 00:24:27,070 --> 00:24:30,070 - Information. - Information. 197 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:37,430 Do you know what this is? 198 00:24:37,510 --> 00:24:38,600 Blindness. 199 00:24:38,690 --> 00:24:42,820 This is blindness. 200 00:24:42,910 --> 00:24:45,260 Can you please... 201 00:24:46,870 --> 00:24:50,880 ...restore my sight? 202 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,970 Oh! I've... ah! I've got a plan, brand new network. 203 00:24:54,050 --> 00:24:56,050 Oh... I've got a plan! 204 00:24:56,140 --> 00:24:58,580 I've got a brand new network that'll be faster than Argus. 205 00:24:58,670 --> 00:25:00,800 I've got a guy in Silicon Valley who fucking owes me. 206 00:25:01,890 --> 00:25:04,760 It'll be a fucking upgrade. Trust me! 207 00:25:33,270 --> 00:25:34,220 Hmm... 208 00:25:43,670 --> 00:25:46,800 ♪ I've loved girls from Maine to California ♪ 209 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,460 ♪ I've held them tight and promised I'd be back ♪ 210 00:25:52,550 --> 00:25:56,110 ♪ But when I leave I climb aboard my semi ♪ 211 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,550 ♪ Then I start makin' one way tracks ♪ 212 00:26:01,950 --> 00:26:03,210 ♪ One way tracks ♪ 213 00:26:04,780 --> 00:26:07,560 ♪ Eighteen wheels at a time ♪ 214 00:26:08,780 --> 00:26:10,090 ♪ One way tracks ♪ 215 00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:14,570 ♪ Sixteen clutch and gears to drive ♪ 216 00:26:14,660 --> 00:26:16,610 I wouldn't recommend trying to pay with that. 217 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:19,880 Yeah, you got me thinking. 218 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,050 Ah. 219 00:26:22,140 --> 00:26:25,060 In 1933, Roosevelt took the United States off the Gold Standard, right? 220 00:26:25,140 --> 00:26:27,190 Yeah, so? 221 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,370 So, you can't just go into a bank and redeem money for gold or silver. 222 00:26:30,980 --> 00:26:33,590 You said money is the most powerful god in America. 223 00:26:33,670 --> 00:26:35,460 But money isn't actually worth anything. 224 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,330 I have a piece of paper, hm? 225 00:26:42,380 --> 00:26:44,990 But I want this salt shaker. 226 00:26:45,820 --> 00:26:49,600 You have the salt shaker, but you're willing to take my piece of paper 227 00:26:49,690 --> 00:26:50,870 for your salt shaker. 228 00:26:51,820 --> 00:26:53,560 Now, why would you do that? 229 00:26:53,650 --> 00:26:55,350 Because... 230 00:26:55,430 --> 00:26:57,440 this isn't actually a piece of paper; it's a story. 231 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:01,530 And the story that you've heard over and over and over again. 232 00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:04,180 And it's been drummed into you that this is worth something. 233 00:27:04,270 --> 00:27:05,880 This is of value. 234 00:27:05,970 --> 00:27:08,750 No matter what country, culture, or religion. 235 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,450 The whole world loves... money. 236 00:27:13,630 --> 00:27:15,890 The greatest story ever told. 237 00:27:15,980 --> 00:27:17,630 So, Money. 238 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,850 We get him on our side, Mr. World won't mean shit. 239 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,460 - WEDNESDAY: Oh. - MAMA-JI: Grimnir. What do you want? 240 00:27:23,550 --> 00:27:25,030 MR. WEDNESDAY: Well, a cup of coffee would be nice. 241 00:27:27,470 --> 00:27:29,120 Don't you work in Wisconsin? 242 00:27:29,210 --> 00:27:31,340 I am at every Motel America. 243 00:27:31,430 --> 00:27:34,390 Entrepreneurship is not some picnic. 244 00:27:34,470 --> 00:27:37,740 Mama-ji and her followers own more than half the motels in America. 245 00:27:37,830 --> 00:27:42,530 And we don't achieve this by sitting on our asses or grifting about like this one. 246 00:27:42,610 --> 00:27:45,270 You think America was eager to hand over her money bags 247 00:27:45,350 --> 00:27:48,230 to the hungry, the tired, and the poor? 248 00:27:48,310 --> 00:27:50,360 We battle for every goddamn scrap. 249 00:27:50,450 --> 00:27:52,320 You love it. 250 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,580 Victory is sweet on the tongue, 251 00:27:54,670 --> 00:27:58,190 and profit is sweet on the pocket. 252 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,540 But you miss the real battles, don't you Kali, eh? 253 00:28:01,630 --> 00:28:03,720 The screams and the cries. 254 00:28:03,810 --> 00:28:06,850 I recall the day you slew Raktabija. 255 00:28:06,940 --> 00:28:09,680 The only sound that day was the whisper of the wind 256 00:28:09,770 --> 00:28:12,640 whistling through the blood-soaked grass. 257 00:28:13,770 --> 00:28:16,250 - We had a good time, huh? - Mm. 258 00:28:32,310 --> 00:28:34,060 He will be the death of you. 259 00:28:34,140 --> 00:28:35,970 You know that, right? 260 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,100 What'd she say? 261 00:28:46,070 --> 00:28:47,940 AUTOMATED VOICE: Welcome. Please scan finger. 262 00:29:05,260 --> 00:29:07,650 Eat a giant bag of dicks. 263 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:23,370 Uh-huh... 264 00:29:30,150 --> 00:29:31,290 I... 265 00:29:32,810 --> 00:29:35,940 ...hate you so much. 266 00:29:59,230 --> 00:30:00,230 Hello, friend. 267 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:03,060 Hello, friend. 268 00:30:05,060 --> 00:30:07,060 I always thought I might see you again. 269 00:30:10,110 --> 00:30:11,810 Are you here to show me something new? 270 00:30:16,030 --> 00:30:18,200 It's time to get back in the game. 271 00:30:19,380 --> 00:30:22,730 One-point-one-zero-two pounds. 272 00:30:24,470 --> 00:30:26,170 Splenomegaly. 273 00:30:33,570 --> 00:30:36,130 Majesty. 274 00:30:36,220 --> 00:30:38,180 Greetings, Thoth. 275 00:30:38,270 --> 00:30:42,270 You are as lovely as ever. 276 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,360 Liar. 277 00:30:44,450 --> 00:30:47,360 This country has not been kind to my face. 278 00:30:47,450 --> 00:30:51,280 You are as perfect and vibrant as the Euphrates. 279 00:30:53,850 --> 00:30:55,200 Your sister. 280 00:30:56,110 --> 00:30:57,500 It has been too long. 281 00:30:58,460 --> 00:31:00,240 Y'all done yet? 282 00:31:00,330 --> 00:31:03,160 'Cuz I'm gettin' bored watchin' this bullshit. 283 00:31:03,250 --> 00:31:05,210 Why do we fight, Anansi? 284 00:31:05,290 --> 00:31:07,030 We have known each other since infancy. 285 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,560 We should be on the same side. 286 00:31:09,650 --> 00:31:11,300 I thought we were. 287 00:31:11,390 --> 00:31:12,600 Are we not? 288 00:31:12,690 --> 00:31:14,130 MR. IBIS: Now, Anansi. 289 00:31:14,220 --> 00:31:16,390 She is one of us. 290 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:17,570 A survivor. 291 00:31:17,650 --> 00:31:19,390 You old as dirt, bird-beak. 292 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,440 Why the fuck you didn't ride the carousel? 293 00:31:22,350 --> 00:31:24,310 I choose peace. 294 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,190 Egyptians told tales of the sacred Book of Thoth, 295 00:31:30,270 --> 00:31:33,410 which contains the secrets of the Gods 296 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:36,980 and brings misery, pain, and suffering 297 00:31:37,060 --> 00:31:39,110 to anyone who reads it. 298 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,850 And grants a bird's-eye view to he... 299 00:31:44,030 --> 00:31:45,330 Who writes it. 300 00:31:46,730 --> 00:31:50,730 I am old as dirt, and I have seen things as you have. 301 00:31:50,820 --> 00:31:53,250 Why do you bring this... 302 00:31:53,340 --> 00:31:56,740 ...rage to my doorstep? 303 00:31:57,870 --> 00:32:02,650 You ever notice how traveling makes your mind roll thunder, 304 00:32:02,740 --> 00:32:05,400 like a train moving down the track? 305 00:32:06,530 --> 00:32:09,970 Except you don't know where the fuck that mind train is headed. 306 00:32:10,050 --> 00:32:12,930 And then, all of a sudden, plop... 307 00:32:13,010 --> 00:32:15,320 an idea shits in your head. 308 00:32:15,410 --> 00:32:19,580 And you think that shit smells good. 309 00:32:19,670 --> 00:32:24,070 Peace is a beautiful but shitty idea. 310 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,330 Only a Goddess can adorn the sarcophagus of a God. 311 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,340 So, help me understand what these New Gods giveth 312 00:32:33,820 --> 00:32:36,080 and what they taketh away. 313 00:32:36,170 --> 00:32:40,080 Your thirst does not inspire our confidence, only our curiosity. 314 00:32:44,910 --> 00:32:46,350 I am not a God 315 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,920 in the sense that I can tolerate exploitation, oppression, and repression. 316 00:32:51,010 --> 00:32:55,270 My worshippers know freedom ain't free. 317 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,890 They know the most potent weapon of control for the oppressor 318 00:32:59,970 --> 00:33:02,020 is the mind of the oppressed. 319 00:33:02,110 --> 00:33:04,670 They know slavery is not a condition. 320 00:33:05,980 --> 00:33:08,680 Slavery is a cult. 321 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,030 Human trafficking is a cult. 322 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:16,820 Slavery got a rebrand like muthafuckin' the Alt Right. 323 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:19,470 And... snatched. 324 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:22,560 Another one gone. 325 00:33:24,650 --> 00:33:26,350 Every 30 seconds, 326 00:33:26,430 --> 00:33:29,570 another chocolate-brown, caramel, yellow, high-yellow, 327 00:33:29,650 --> 00:33:30,960 red bone, refugee girl 328 00:33:31,050 --> 00:33:35,100 with melanin in her skin gets snatched. 329 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,880 Every... thirty... seconds. 330 00:33:42,970 --> 00:33:44,760 And to make matters worse, 331 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,150 these dazzling new plantation owners built a pipeline 332 00:33:49,070 --> 00:33:52,200 to take our children from school to prison 333 00:33:52,290 --> 00:33:54,290 quicker than a cut can bleed. 334 00:33:55,460 --> 00:33:59,080 And the lucky ones go from school to the NFL, 335 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,300 where they don't even let them niggahs take a knee. 336 00:34:02,730 --> 00:34:04,780 They've been programmed from birth 337 00:34:04,860 --> 00:34:06,780 with shitty food options, 338 00:34:06,870 --> 00:34:10,220 contaminated drinking water, gun violence, police brutality, 339 00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:13,440 and trauma after trauma after trauma. 340 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,350 PTSD? No therapy. 341 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,100 Missing? No Amber Alert. 342 00:34:19,180 --> 00:34:20,140 Alone? 343 00:34:22,270 --> 00:34:23,490 Vulnerable. 344 00:34:26,620 --> 00:34:28,190 Snatched. 345 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:31,980 Another one gone. 346 00:34:33,020 --> 00:34:34,200 I hear you, Brother. 347 00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,240 And I hear them. 348 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:40,600 I hear each voice, 349 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,290 and I write each name. 350 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,690 We have lived long enough to know these troubles are timeless. 351 00:34:49,690 --> 00:34:52,170 Suffering is not sacred. 352 00:34:52,260 --> 00:34:55,390 And moral law is final. 353 00:34:55,480 --> 00:35:00,010 Sooner or later they all lay before me. 354 00:35:03,270 --> 00:35:05,100 War need not be the answer. 355 00:35:10,020 --> 00:35:11,630 ANANSI: 356 00:35:15,590 --> 00:35:16,630 My Queen. 357 00:35:18,370 --> 00:35:21,510 The world assumes white people are naturally good. 358 00:35:22,990 --> 00:35:24,810 So when something bad happens, 359 00:35:24,900 --> 00:35:29,030 it's a good person doing a bad thing. 360 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,210 They assume black people... 361 00:35:32,430 --> 00:35:34,130 are naturally bad, 362 00:35:34,210 --> 00:35:36,480 so when something good happens, 363 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,650 it's only a matter of time before that animal's true nature 364 00:35:39,740 --> 00:35:43,050 rears its ugly head. 365 00:35:43,140 --> 00:35:45,880 How much longer can we afford to wait? 366 00:35:47,490 --> 00:35:52,280 You keep track of days, numbering the years for scribes that record human history. 367 00:35:53,410 --> 00:35:54,970 Do you see progress? 368 00:35:56,580 --> 00:36:01,330 I count 1, 2, 3 African Gods in this room, 369 00:36:01,420 --> 00:36:04,160 and two of them want to exercise restraint, 370 00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:09,680 and let the donkey-work continue while you live your best life! 371 00:36:10,820 --> 00:36:13,730 War is upon us! 372 00:36:13,820 --> 00:36:16,600 An old white lady is dead. 373 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,960 Wednesday avenges Zorya Vechernyaya, 374 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,180 but if it was a dead black lady, 375 00:36:25,130 --> 00:36:27,010 like this sweet old soul, 376 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,790 Czernobog's hammer... 377 00:36:33,190 --> 00:36:34,670 ...would not swing. 378 00:36:39,370 --> 00:36:41,590 Your words move me, Anansi. 379 00:36:44,110 --> 00:36:45,200 You see me. 380 00:36:46,590 --> 00:36:48,590 You and Ibis see the Goddess, 381 00:36:50,030 --> 00:36:51,070 the Queen. 382 00:36:52,470 --> 00:36:54,990 These men today look right through me. 383 00:37:12,620 --> 00:37:14,840 This country has done things to us. 384 00:37:16,230 --> 00:37:20,230 We have done things to us. 385 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,060 So, what do you propose? 386 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,630 MR. IBIS: I propose we have a drink. 387 00:37:36,290 --> 00:37:38,640 ANANSI: A King needs a Queen. 388 00:37:40,430 --> 00:37:42,910 The death of Argus left an opening. 389 00:37:42,990 --> 00:37:44,690 Argus was a relic, 390 00:37:44,780 --> 00:37:47,480 a desiccating, necrotising, 391 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,740 geriatric, organic sack of redundancies. 392 00:37:54,310 --> 00:37:55,490 CCTV? 393 00:37:56,790 --> 00:37:58,580 Fuck that noise! 394 00:37:59,530 --> 00:38:02,620 I fart out a coltan-encased microchip 395 00:38:02,710 --> 00:38:05,150 in cherry pink and they line up for miles. 396 00:38:06,370 --> 00:38:07,540 Miles! 397 00:38:08,410 --> 00:38:12,290 To carry trackers, give up their locations, 398 00:38:12,370 --> 00:38:13,760 bank numbers, 399 00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:17,380 fucking facial IDs! 400 00:38:17,460 --> 00:38:20,290 An endless catalogue of every fuck, 401 00:38:20,380 --> 00:38:25,250 every bite, every disgusting nose hair. 402 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:31,260 Every dirty little secret. 403 00:38:31,350 --> 00:38:34,220 Every whisper they thought no one could hear. 404 00:38:36,610 --> 00:38:38,960 But I digress. 405 00:38:39,050 --> 00:38:42,360 What I'm here to discuss... 406 00:38:42,450 --> 00:38:43,660 is this. 407 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:52,240 Argus had a lotta fucking eyes. 408 00:38:52,330 --> 00:38:53,410 But... 409 00:38:57,460 --> 00:39:01,900 I have given of my flesh to my disciples 410 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:05,600 and they have returned 411 00:39:05,690 --> 00:39:08,520 the favor one-thousand fold. 412 00:39:10,170 --> 00:39:11,300 And now? 413 00:39:17,870 --> 00:39:20,140 Eyes are ... 414 00:39:27,620 --> 00:39:28,710 You get? 415 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,360 You ken? 416 00:39:33,450 --> 00:39:34,890 You comprende? 417 00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:46,070 About time. 418 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:47,510 Now what're you doing? 419 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,030 What we came to do. 420 00:39:52,730 --> 00:39:54,210 GIRL SCOUTS: Candy? 421 00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:56,650 Oh, yes. I want a gold bar and some nuggets. 422 00:39:56,740 --> 00:39:58,220 Credit or debit? 423 00:39:58,300 --> 00:40:00,700 - Oh, credit. - Name? 424 00:40:00,780 --> 00:40:03,870 Odin. The Alfather. Never failed to pay for my candy. 425 00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:05,440 Your name? 426 00:40:05,530 --> 00:40:07,400 Oh, he's just my assistant. 427 00:40:07,490 --> 00:40:08,620 Shadow Moon. 428 00:40:14,540 --> 00:40:17,190 GIRL SCOUTS: There is no account under the name Shadow Moon. 429 00:40:18,110 --> 00:40:20,500 That's not the name on his birth certificate. 430 00:40:21,590 --> 00:40:24,030 There is no account under the name Shadow Moon. 431 00:40:24,110 --> 00:40:26,550 No debit, no credit. 432 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,250 Oh, so, no debit, no credit. Not even a fucking car loan? 433 00:40:31,340 --> 00:40:33,120 What are you, some off-the-grid freak? 434 00:40:33,210 --> 00:40:35,340 I never had any need for it. Laura did it all. 435 00:40:35,430 --> 00:40:38,910 Do you know how much Money hates that? 436 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,000 Access denied. 437 00:40:41,090 --> 00:40:43,610 No, this man is not relevant. He's not looking for an audience. 438 00:40:43,700 --> 00:40:45,310 He's just the hired help. 439 00:40:45,390 --> 00:40:47,350 Access denied. 440 00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:51,440 WOMAN: I am the resurrection and the life. 441 00:40:51,530 --> 00:40:53,660 Those who believe in me will live, even though they die. 442 00:40:54,710 --> 00:40:56,320 I am the resurrection and the life. 443 00:40:56,410 --> 00:40:58,230 Those who believe in me will live, even though they die. 444 00:40:58,320 --> 00:40:59,450 BILQUIS: What does He give you? 445 00:41:01,240 --> 00:41:02,460 Jesus? 446 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,550 It's either I pray or I run five miles. 447 00:41:09,850 --> 00:41:14,210 And I can't run no more, jacked up my leg in Division One, so... 448 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,120 I guess he gives me comfort. 449 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,470 A God should provide more than comfort. 450 00:41:25,170 --> 00:41:26,220 He does. 451 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:30,660 Community. 452 00:41:32,310 --> 00:41:33,750 Feeling like there's a point. 453 00:41:35,230 --> 00:41:37,930 I mean, I'm still mad about my leg, 454 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,020 but if I hadn't messed it up, 455 00:41:42,150 --> 00:41:45,150 I would probably be in college, 456 00:41:47,060 --> 00:41:50,500 and instead I was here with Gramma while she was sick, so... 457 00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:54,420 maybe it was meant to be. 458 00:41:57,250 --> 00:41:59,690 And maybe I don't gotta be mad about it, you know? 459 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:02,820 Gramma prayed for patience: 460 00:42:05,340 --> 00:42:06,820 "Lord, like Job, 461 00:42:07,820 --> 00:42:09,350 let me be patient." 462 00:42:10,700 --> 00:42:12,920 Job was wealthy. 463 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:14,530 Did her Lord give her wealth? 464 00:42:17,270 --> 00:42:18,490 This is Cairo! 465 00:42:19,660 --> 00:42:21,840 I don't think money's got our address. 466 00:42:23,710 --> 00:42:27,410 Last week, I was reading this blog, 467 00:42:27,500 --> 00:42:32,240 says how in America the black woman makes 60 cents for every dollar a white man makes, 468 00:42:32,330 --> 00:42:35,770 and Gramma's all: "Well, here in Cairo, honey, 469 00:42:35,850 --> 00:42:38,200 a black woman's lucky if she's got 2 cents to rub together, 470 00:42:38,290 --> 00:42:40,600 and even if she's got a pocket full of nickels, 471 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,990 that don't mean that that money's gonna make her suck a bedsheet up her ass 472 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,210 and fall asleep on a cloud." 473 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,350 And then she laughed real hard. 474 00:42:54,090 --> 00:42:57,440 She was pretty sick, but she laughed all the time. 475 00:42:59,350 --> 00:43:02,580 She never let anger or jealousy guide her. 476 00:43:05,190 --> 00:43:07,100 Had her church, had her community. 477 00:43:07,190 --> 00:43:11,580 She took care of me and Jamarr when didn't nobody else want us. 478 00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:13,930 She was content. 479 00:43:15,810 --> 00:43:17,500 He was not content. 480 00:43:20,030 --> 00:43:23,550 He was a rebel, a troublemaker. 481 00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,210 They say he died for your sins, but that is not the truth. 482 00:43:30,860 --> 00:43:33,430 He died because he angered the men in power. 483 00:43:35,170 --> 00:43:37,480 He refused to be cowed... 484 00:43:39,130 --> 00:43:40,260 controlled. 485 00:43:42,530 --> 00:43:44,920 And now look at the power he wields, 486 00:43:46,620 --> 00:43:49,490 the worship he commands. 487 00:43:52,540 --> 00:43:54,410 He was onto something. 488 00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:00,240 I'm Ruby. 489 00:44:01,940 --> 00:44:03,240 Ruby Goodchild. 490 00:44:06,550 --> 00:44:08,380 It's good to meet you, Ruby. 491 00:44:12,430 --> 00:44:15,950 Shadow, will you just buy some fucking candy? Huh? 492 00:44:16,870 --> 00:44:18,300 Do you see me trying? 493 00:44:19,130 --> 00:44:20,870 I mean, look at this. Huh? 494 00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:22,790 They're not gonna sell me any fucking candy! 495 00:44:22,870 --> 00:44:25,880 Well, Mama-ji just might kill you. She already wants to kill me. 496 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,440 You know what? Fuck this. 497 00:44:28,530 --> 00:44:30,050 Why me? Huh? 498 00:44:30,140 --> 00:44:31,620 Oh, not that again. 499 00:44:31,710 --> 00:44:33,010 Yeah, this again. Will you just tell me? 500 00:44:33,100 --> 00:44:34,620 Whimsy. 501 00:44:34,710 --> 00:44:36,580 Why don't you just give me a fucking answer? 502 00:44:36,670 --> 00:44:38,020 Come on. 503 00:44:38,110 --> 00:44:39,930 - You really want to know? - Yeah. 504 00:44:41,460 --> 00:44:42,980 You really want to know why I picked you? 505 00:44:43,070 --> 00:44:44,550 Just tell me. 506 00:44:46,370 --> 00:44:49,420 Well, I picked you because I needed someone with nothing to live for. 507 00:44:49,510 --> 00:44:52,160 With nothing to go home for. With no one to miss him or love him 508 00:44:52,250 --> 00:44:54,510 or give a shit if he lives or dies. 509 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:58,690 That's why I picked you, because you literally mean nothing to any living person. 510 00:44:58,780 --> 00:45:00,870 Or any dead one either as far as I know. 511 00:45:00,950 --> 00:45:05,260 You have no value, no worth in this world or the next. 512 00:45:05,350 --> 00:45:06,440 Happy? 513 00:45:09,220 --> 00:45:10,310 Damn. 514 00:45:11,230 --> 00:45:12,270 Good. 515 00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:19,230 See, I've been here trying to make it all add up. 516 00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:20,500 Oh. 517 00:45:20,580 --> 00:45:22,060 Everything since we met. 518 00:45:24,190 --> 00:45:26,630 Oh, really? How's that going for you? That little hamster in the wheel in your brain 519 00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:28,160 make it out yet? 520 00:45:30,510 --> 00:45:31,770 Well, the... 521 00:45:33,330 --> 00:45:35,900 the only thing that makes any sense, 522 00:45:35,990 --> 00:45:40,120 the only explanation that fits all the facts, is that... 523 00:45:42,340 --> 00:45:43,650 I do have value to you. 524 00:45:45,910 --> 00:45:47,260 See, I don't know why. 525 00:45:48,830 --> 00:45:50,740 You don't want me to know why but... 526 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,220 You need me. 527 00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:57,450 Don't you? 528 00:46:01,620 --> 00:46:05,800 I am handing you the future on a motherfucking platter. 529 00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,200 I'm gonna need you to cut that edge pronto, 530 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,550 and put some fucking garnish on it. 531 00:46:13,940 --> 00:46:14,940 Show me. 532 00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:27,040 MR. WORLD: I never did see a God 533 00:46:27,130 --> 00:46:31,260 more effectively argue his own obsolescence. 534 00:46:32,650 --> 00:46:35,270 What the fuck are you doing here? 535 00:46:35,350 --> 00:46:37,050 Well, go on then. 536 00:46:39,180 --> 00:46:40,750 He's waiting. 537 00:46:42,660 --> 00:46:44,140 Show him. 538 00:46:52,330 --> 00:46:53,370 No? 539 00:46:57,590 --> 00:46:59,120 Then allow me. 540 00:47:19,310 --> 00:47:20,660 Hello, friend. 541 00:47:24,490 --> 00:47:26,100 Hello, friend. 542 00:47:31,930 --> 00:47:33,410 I was literally... 543 00:47:34,410 --> 00:47:36,720 your only friend. 544 00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:42,590 You lonely fuck. 545 00:47:49,210 --> 00:47:53,340 I brought you into the presence of God. 546 00:47:59,220 --> 00:48:01,480 It looks like he's forgotten about you. 547 00:48:17,930 --> 00:48:19,150 Mistake. 548 00:49:02,240 --> 00:49:03,280 Fuck! 549 00:49:29,090 --> 00:49:32,620 Wanna buy some candy? Candy? 550 00:49:32,700 --> 00:49:34,530 MR. WORLD: There isn't a need to purchase candy. 551 00:49:37,620 --> 00:49:41,060 I retired a God today. 552 00:49:41,150 --> 00:49:42,760 GIRL SCOUTS: Access granted. 553 00:49:49,020 --> 00:49:51,110 You killed Argus. 554 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,860 And you killed Zorya. 555 00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:58,950 I am sorry about Zorya. 556 00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:04,870 But when you strike with lightning, you should expect consequences. 557 00:50:04,950 --> 00:50:09,130 Mess with my people, expect disproportionate consequences. 558 00:50:09,220 --> 00:50:10,740 You got your man back. 559 00:50:10,830 --> 00:50:12,960 It's the principle. 560 00:50:13,050 --> 00:50:14,960 - MAN: Hello? 561 00:50:15,050 --> 00:50:17,440 - Hello? 562 00:50:17,530 --> 00:50:19,880 I'd like to pay. 563 00:50:19,970 --> 00:50:21,360 I'd like to pay. 564 00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,760 Have you seen what's happened to the world? 565 00:50:26,410 --> 00:50:29,410 It isn't 5s, 10s, or 20s anymore. It isn't cash or gold. 566 00:50:32,290 --> 00:50:36,990 It's zeros and ones, digitized and encrypted, 567 00:50:37,810 --> 00:50:41,250 sent down fiber-optic cables at the speed of light 568 00:50:42,250 --> 00:50:46,730 to accounts at banks with no physical location. 569 00:50:49,390 --> 00:50:51,520 Money loves profit. 570 00:50:58,570 --> 00:51:01,970 And war is always profitable. 571 00:51:02,050 --> 00:51:05,320 It also moves people more than anything else. 572 00:51:05,410 --> 00:51:09,710 It inflames their passions, something you would know nothing about. 573 00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,240 And the more passionate they get, the more they spend, spend, spend. 574 00:51:13,330 --> 00:51:14,590 You know that, Money. 575 00:51:16,020 --> 00:51:20,590 You sit at the crossing of two rivers, 576 00:51:21,420 --> 00:51:25,470 waiting for a steamship that will never come. 577 00:51:26,770 --> 00:51:30,130 Your kind aren't dying; they're dead. 578 00:51:30,210 --> 00:51:31,690 Okay, enough. 579 00:51:33,690 --> 00:51:37,310 I'm honored to have the big dogs in the God game begging at my table. 580 00:51:37,390 --> 00:51:40,090 But money doesn't make emotional investments 581 00:51:40,180 --> 00:51:42,010 or invest in emotional entities. 582 00:51:42,090 --> 00:51:45,270 Too much risk in such ventures. 583 00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:48,060 Not enough opportunity. 584 00:51:48,140 --> 00:51:50,100 You could always hedge your bets. 585 00:51:51,100 --> 00:51:53,280 There's no deal here for you today, gentlemen. 586 00:51:53,370 --> 00:51:55,760 - Money stays in the bank. 587 00:51:55,850 --> 00:51:57,850 This is agreeable. 588 00:51:57,940 --> 00:52:00,200 What a sad waste of capital. 589 00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,340 I'm gonna win this one. People like me more than they like you. 590 00:52:12,430 --> 00:52:14,740 I prefer to be feared. 591 00:52:21,660 --> 00:52:23,400 I'm not your enemy. 592 00:52:55,690 --> 00:52:58,430 ♪ Your love give me such a thrill ♪ 593 00:52:59,610 --> 00:53:01,830 ♪ But your loving don't pay my bills♪ 594 00:53:01,910 --> 00:53:04,000 ♪ I want money ♪ 595 00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:07,440 ♪ That's what I want ♪ 596 00:53:09,620 --> 00:53:12,660 ♪ That's what I want ♪ 597 00:53:13,750 --> 00:53:14,970 ♪ Oh Lord ♪ 598 00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,840 ♪ It don't get everything it's true ♪ 599 00:53:22,110 --> 00:53:24,940 ♪ What it don't get I can't use ♪ 600 00:53:25,020 --> 00:53:26,150 ♪ I want money ♪ 601 00:53:28,420 --> 00:53:29,850 ♪ That's what I want ♪ 602 00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,820 ♪ That's what I want ♪ 603 00:53:36,030 --> 00:53:37,950 ♪ Oh Lord ♪ 604 00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,040 ♪ Let me have a little bit now♪