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Washington Black Season 1 Episode 4
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00:01Previously on Washington Black
00:03Father's dead
00:06But it's safe here, teach
00:08Do not trust them
00:09Pay no mind to their words and their kind-seeming gestures
00:14Why do you have to go with me?
00:15He's the one, teach me to swim
00:19Choose the right one to teach you
00:23You're carrying molasses from what I see?
00:26I know where we might go
00:28We go to America, Virginia to be precise
00:31Your marriage to McGee is vital to our survival
00:35Halifax was supposed to be a fresh start
00:37I won't live a lie anymore
00:39What are you saying?
00:40That I will make another choice
00:47Somebody gotta watch that door
00:49Make sure the wolf don't sneak in the back
00:51But what if he already here?
00:58I'll make the introductions to Mr. Farrow
00:59He'll give you a fair price for your molasses
01:00Yeah, speaking of
01:01I'll make the introductions to Mr. Farrow
01:03He'll give you a fair price for your molasses
01:04Yeah, speaking of
01:05We can't turn up looking like this
01:06Might you advance us a small sum so we blend in with the locals
01:09We might
01:10We might
01:11We might
01:42George Washington Black.
01:46I am sorry about Barrington.
01:49No, you're not.
01:54I like your spirit, little pirate.
02:03Wash.
02:07Your friend, Barrington,
02:09was perhaps not as lunatic as I once supposed.
02:15And I declare that where I have failed you,
02:18I shall be better.
02:22Wash.
02:23What I'm trying to say is that you can trust me.
02:27Today, evermore.
02:39Captain.
02:45So, what do you say?
02:50You ready for a brand new adventure?
02:52Behold us.
03:11Our new finely tailored outfits befitting two explorers.
03:15The air in Virginia is different.
03:18Yes, it's thinner here.
03:19It smells of bitter tobacco and cotton.
03:22One of that sweet Barbados cane.
03:24So, Mr. Farrow was a great friend and associate of my father.
03:30Have I already told you?
03:32Yes.
03:33He was a scientist like your father.
03:34Yes, and like us.
03:36And an abolitionist.
03:38Like you.
03:39Ah, here we are.
03:41Capital.
03:42Why didn't you say capital?
03:44You do this.
03:45Is that so?
03:46Am I an object of your study now, Wash?
03:49Is that all right?
03:50Ah, yes.
03:51Observations, the proper province of the scientist.
03:58How do you square it all, Mr. Farrow?
04:01Profiting from the sugar trade, being a scientist,
04:04and your work as an abolitionist?
04:07Revolutions and science require funding, dear boy.
04:10She drives a hard bargain, your lady pirate.
04:14But I'm all in.
04:16I won't inquire too deeply as to the circumstances that placed Christopher Wilde with pirates.
04:22But I will say that a man needs to know what he's running to,
04:26as much as what he's running from.
04:29You remain as ever the teacher, Mr. Farrow, and I your student.
04:33I'm interested to learn more about this cloud-cutter craft you built,
04:38and this budding young scientist you've arrived with.
04:42The Royal Science League.
04:45I'm a 22-year member of the RSL,
04:48and a recipient of the Excellence Award for my dissection techniques.
04:55Like your father, Titch?
04:56Mr. Farrow, my father is deceased a year now.
05:07I hate to deliver the news to such a dear friend.
05:14These are from your father, posted within the last few months.
05:20We have been corresponding during his polar expedition.
05:23I dare say you are mistaken.
05:27It can't be possible.
05:53I dare say it.
05:58I dare say it.
06:17I dare say it.
06:19Wash what I was worried about.
06:42What happened?
06:51He betrayed us.
07:04What will you say happened?
07:08Another face for the wall.
07:37My dear, you look absolutely beautiful.
07:42Thank you for agreeing to cordials, Father.
07:45You wanting to see Mr. McGee's music to my ears.
07:48Father, can I ask you something?
07:51Yes, of course.
07:53You and Mother, I know your relationship was frowned upon, but how did it feel when you
08:00were together?
08:07Well, um, it felt like fire upon summer grass.
08:17Fire upon summer grass.
08:22Father, can I ask?
08:35Did you know about me?
08:39Not for years.
08:42She knew that if she'd told me, then I never would have left.
08:46I think I know that I loved her more than she loved me.
08:57You told me no good comes from love.
08:59Yes, well, I meant my own broken heart.
09:07In the end, your mother and I could never have been together, but you, daughter, you will
09:13write a different legacy for yourself.
09:15Have you finalized the guest list?
09:28For?
09:29The wedding.
09:30I assume that's the reason for this sudden invitation.
09:34Well, there's a different reason we're here today.
09:42It's important to know who you're marrying.
09:45You see, Mr. McGee, this is less about you than it is about me and my chance to create
09:52my own legacy.
09:55There is something we must discuss.
09:57A secret.
09:58I'm intrigued.
10:00My mother was born in the Solomon Islands, a native, as was I.
10:15Tana, that's enough.
10:16That's enough.
10:17To be clear, I've only been passing as a white woman.
10:23Is that it?
10:37Certainly enough to give you misgivings about our wedding.
10:45To live in a skin other than one's own.
10:56My poor dear.
11:01Mr. McGee.
11:02Up until now, I considered you a lady of entitlement.
11:08Shame on me.
11:09If I may be blunt, I know the circumstances surrounding our marriage may offend your modern
11:14sensibilities, but I think that given the correct amount of time, you may be able to
11:18appreciate me in the way that I now appreciate you.
11:21I don't understand.
11:24Perhaps I, too, am more complex than meets the eye.
11:29Our contract is binding.
11:31Of course.
11:32Of course.
12:02Tana, how do things go with Mr. McGee?
12:16I'm afraid I failed.
12:19And you? Any news of the hunters?
12:23None. Until Willow's body turns up, it's best I lay low.
12:27I'm just glad you weren't hurt.
12:28At least staying at Miss Angie's is a sight better than that cellar.
12:36Come in.
12:58This book has been in your possession for some time.
13:18Since I was a boy. So I came to draw sea creatures.
13:25You dog-eared page 112?
13:28Yes, the watercolour of the mollusk that sheds its shell.
13:30After the larval stage. Page 68.
13:34The illustration of the decorator crab hiding in the seaweed bed.
13:40In the seaweed bed.
13:42How do you know it as well as I?
13:45This is my father's book.
13:48Who's Titch?
13:59My teacher.
14:01My, uh...
14:03My mentor.
14:06He was the man who took me from my home.
14:10Oh.
14:10Uh, Turtle.
14:15Is that you?
14:17And Turtle Dove was my mother.
14:20My father wrote this book about his discoveries in the Solomon Islands.
14:25Where you were born.
14:27What are the chances that you would have this book?
14:31I know it so intimately.
14:33It's more uncommon than you could have imagined.
14:35What does it matter if...
14:43If you can't find a way to be together?
14:46No, you can't despair. No, I won't allow it.
14:49I'll find another way to end my engagement.
14:53But in the meantime,
14:54we need a way to be together in public, safely.
14:58The solution...
15:00My father.
15:00What better way to shield oneself from the viciousness of one white man
15:06than to the ego of another?
15:09You already struck his scientific curiosity when you came to our house.
15:13He said that?
15:14Father's ego is the key.
15:17So we play to it.
15:18He'll consider you one of his scientific discoveries.
15:21And there is some measure of safety in that.
15:24You do know your father kills his discoveries to study them?
15:28It won't work.
15:29I'm not McGee.
15:30I'm not the sort of man your father wants for you.
15:32You need some guidance.
15:34More than you'd openly admit.
15:41You need only spend more time together
15:44for him to see how brilliant you are.
15:47If you were to become
15:50Jack Rawford,
15:52respected scientist and esteemed colleague of GM Goff,
15:57you would not be vulnerable to attack in the way that you are now.
16:05All right.
16:07All right.
16:08All right.
16:08Tell me the plan.
16:17My father and I are going on a dive in the morning
16:21to research his new book.
16:25You'll come with us.
16:32But you...
16:33I'd try anything.
16:36I have to go.
16:48Before my father knows I'm gone.
16:53Mm-hmm.
16:56Be careful.
16:57Hello there.
17:23Good day for the sea.
17:27Tanner, look.
17:28I found my intelligent delivery boy.
17:30What a coincidence.
17:32Hello.
17:33Mr...
17:34Jack.
17:35Jack Crawford.
17:36And how are you this early morning, Mr. Crawford?
17:39I was just out for a stroll on my day off, sir.
17:42Well, I'd have been asleep if
17:43Tanner hadn't discovered that the slack tide was running in our favor today.
17:46That was your good fortune, then, sir.
17:49You know, on a morning like this,
17:50the marine life will be plentiful.
17:52Perhaps you'll make another extraordinary discovery.
17:56Oh, maybe.
18:03We're done.
18:05Would you care to join us?
18:06Given your interest in marine life,
18:08I'm sure Tanner wouldn't mind, would you?
18:10Well, I suppose not.
18:14Well, very good.
18:14Come aboard, Mr. Crawford.
18:22There we are.
18:28Our adventure awaits.
18:44Mr. Goff,
18:48I hadn't realized upon our first meeting that
18:51you were the author of the splendence of nudibranchia.
18:55Perhaps you and I could discuss it?
18:57I do know every page by heart.
19:00Every page?
19:01It's impossible.
19:02Your book, as a boy,
19:04would have meant to me.
19:05And now it means even more.
19:10Your watercolors are mesmerizing.
19:12Well...
19:12It's true, sir.
19:13It's how I learned paint.
19:15Oh, my arm.
19:16Are you all right?
19:17I'm afraid I can't dive, Father.
19:24I'll do it.
19:28Can you even swim?
19:30I can, sir.
19:36Great.
19:36Let's get you into this diving suit, shall we?
19:44The, uh...
19:45The terrain below, it's an alien landscape.
19:50And to stand upon it is to feel like an explorer of the unknown.
19:54You'll see the world differently when you come back up.
19:59I feel part of me will always be down there.
20:04I understand, sir.
20:05I'm 2,000 feet above.
20:07Even an island looks like a pebble you can hold in your hand.
20:13You consistently say the most interesting things.
20:16You'll find my specimen catcher just below.
20:18She'll be teeming with creatures.
20:19We'll stuff and study them.
20:22Now, worry not, Mr. Crawford.
20:23They're the lucky ones, made immortal by science and my good name.
20:27Now,
20:29the main thing
20:32is to try not to die.
20:42This valve is most important.
20:45You must release oxygen into your breathing helmet
20:47to replenish what's been used.
20:49And you must check it constantly while underwater
20:51to ensure a steady flow.
20:52And that is how you breathe,
20:54without gills.
21:13Now, are you ready for me to throw you overboard?
21:15Don't you...
21:15Don't you?
21:15Don't you?
21:25Dior.
21:28Don't you?
21:32Don't you?
21:36Don't you?
21:37I don't know.
22:07I don't know.
22:37I don't know.
23:07I don't know.
23:08I don't know.
23:09I don't know.
23:10I don't know.
23:11I don't know.
23:12I don't know.
23:13I don't know.
23:14I don't know.
23:15I don't know.
23:16I don't know.
23:17I don't know.
23:18I don't know.
23:19I don't know.
23:20I don't know.
23:21I don't know.
23:22I don't know.
23:23I didn't catch her.
23:24She swam into my arms.
23:26She saw that I was struggling and became forced to help me.
23:31I'm certain of it.
23:32Look at the way that she shapeshifts her colors.
23:36I've never seen one like it.
23:38I find apprentice perhaps farther.
23:41Well, he might just be.
23:43We shall spend the rest of the day stuffing her.
23:47Excuse me, sir.
23:49What if there was a way to hold onto the creature's beauty before it disappeared?
23:53What if that moment of life didn't have to turn into death?
23:58Do you think it could do that?
24:00Find a way to keep it alive?
24:02She'll give me a day.
24:04Perhaps two.
24:05Imagine the RSL's reaction to such a discovery.
24:08A gold medal might be in my future just yet.
24:11So can you design a home, Bert?
24:23Maybe.
24:24But let's start at the beginning.
24:27Well, marine animals absorb oxygen.
24:32So she'll need that to survive.
24:34And the plants and the water give off oxygen and also absorb carbonic acid.
24:38Which marine creatures exhale.
24:40So perhaps then the way to make them thrive in captivity...
24:43Is to house them together.
24:50There will have to be light if the vegetation is to get what it needs for synthesis.
24:57So...
25:00This girl won't work.
25:03It will have to be a clear glass tank.
25:06That could work, yes.
25:07Your fiancé left a note in our absence requesting the honour of your company tomorrow.
25:13He, er...
25:14He mentions an outing of unprecedented splendour.
25:17And given his resources, I can only imagine.
25:20I'll be on my way.
25:24No, Mr. Crawford.
25:29Mr. Crawford, your thoughts are intriguing.
25:34Come to me in a week's time with an update on your progress.
25:37There's no point in bothering Tana.
25:39She's going to be busy planning the wedding.
25:43Yes, sir.
25:50Tana, my dear.
25:51Whatever you think is going on between you and Mr. Crawford, it's not practical.
25:56I don't know what you're talking about. There is nothing going on, but...
25:58I saw the way that you looked at him and he at you.
26:01And I thought I'd made myself quite clear when I took you into my confidence.
26:05You will not transgress. You will marry Mr. Magee.
26:10I know you believe it's what's best, and I've tried to follow your rules.
26:22I will not let you make my choices for me, whether it be who I marry or what skin I inhabit.
26:29My issue is with the larger world.
26:32What kind of life do you think that you can have with that young man?
26:35I am certain I could survive the indignities the world would heap upon me.
26:39I've been practicing since the day I arrived in London.
26:42It's more than dirty looks or hostile comments or social exile.
26:46Your life could be in jeopardy.
26:58So you're afraid?
27:03I'm prepared to walk through fire for love.
27:06A path I believe in my heart you wish you'd taken.
27:10Do you remember that feeling, Father? Don't you?
27:15I know you do.
27:19Do you honestly believe that one lovely day on the water is going to change our circumstances?
27:24Nobility marries strategically. We're no different.
27:28But you've already recognized his genius.
27:31If Mr. Crawford is able to solve the problem before him, then there is no limit to our success.
27:37You said it yourself.
27:38You know that without your marriage to Mr. McGee, our family faces ruin.
27:50This is what's best.
27:51This is what's best.
27:52Well, it's a pleasure to see you too.
28:16You'll have to excuse me, Mr. McGee. My father's waiting for me to head back out onto the water.
28:26Tanner, please. Might we at least have a conversation like proper people?
28:31You took me by surprise when last we met.
28:38To little avail, apparently.
28:40No, I was being quite sincere.
28:42You showed me a lens into who you really are, and I quite simply wished to show you the same.
28:47Oh, well, I already know who you are.
28:52Men like you who use people, conquer lands, name things, and tell yourself that they belong to you.
28:58Men like me.
29:03Don't you mean men like your father?
29:06I've got to go.
29:08Forgive me.
29:10I do not mean to insult you or my future father-in-law.
29:14Then why are you really here, Mr. McGee?
29:17I look at you, and I see someone brilliant.
29:22Someone beautiful.
29:23Someone who refuses to let the world tell her who she should be.
29:30And I know what you think you see when you look at me, but there's more.
29:35All my life, I have sought that fleeting chance, that possibility, and I have taken it.
29:44I am here now because just like you, I knew I deserved more.
29:51We're the same.
29:55It's not simply about deserving more.
29:59One has to be more.
30:01Be more?
30:03Be better, be more than what the world expects.
30:07More than even you expect.
30:08Can you be all of that?
30:16Will you let me try?
30:21I'm late.
30:23And since this is your house, you can amuse yourself or show yourself out.
30:27I will show you.
30:28No, I will show you.
30:29No, I know.
30:30You're back in the room.
30:31Yes.
30:33Yes.
30:34Yes.
30:36Yes.
30:37Yes.
30:39Yes.
30:42Yes.
30:43And your house, you're Matthew.
30:44Yes.
30:46Yes.
30:47And the pictures have been THIS EXPELLED.
30:51It is a-
30:52Yes.
30:53Yes.
30:54Yes.
30:55Yes.
31:26Excuse me.
31:32Yes?
31:35Are you the one called Farrell?
31:37You are?
31:38The man who needs you to smuggle this boy north.
31:40His name's Harrison.
31:42Your son?
31:43No. I freed him from his master.
31:46Freed him? By what means?
31:48I'll be happy to show you if you don't let me finish my business.
31:51Please, please, don't mind him.
31:54Will you cede to the boy?
31:55I asked you a question.
31:57You already know who I am.
32:09I... I'll contact my agent.
32:11Come on, Harrison.
32:24We'd be well advised to wait in the basement with them until this blows over.
32:27Who is this man coming for us?
32:29That is the man who has loosed the dog's fear.
32:33Nat Turner.
32:35Head down, and I'll contact my agent.
32:37My agent will be here presently.
32:55Once the boy's safe passage is certain, I'll need you to leave immediately.
33:00What's your name, boy?
33:09Y'all don't bite.
33:11At least not our people.
33:12Man give respect, he get respect.
33:20My sentiments exactly.
33:23Now I must know your name.
33:26George Washington Black.
33:30British accent.
33:32American name.
33:33Two countries at war.
33:34Do you know of heaven, Washington Black?
33:46I-I don't know.
33:54I know that everything that dies lives again in Dahomey.
33:58Where I come from, folks might call that heaven.
34:02But you and I are different.
34:04No.
34:05No, boy.
34:06We all come from the same place.
34:08We've been scattered across this white man's world for so long, surviving on the scraps he gives.
34:14Some of us don't even remember anything else.
34:17Did the white man give you heaven?
34:19Only insofar as he believed it was his to give.
34:23The folk like you and I are in Washington.
34:25Black folk.
34:27We know that when our eyes closed, they will open again to see a better place.
34:31You sound like a kid, my friend.
34:36See?
34:37Not so different after all.
34:44That boy's name's Harrison.
34:46Why don't you go keep him company?
34:55Hello.
34:56I'm Wash.
35:00Englishman.
35:01Englishman.
35:05I'm addressing you.
35:08Is this boy your slave?
35:12He's my friend.
35:14And he's free.
35:15I helped him escape.
35:17Escape?
35:18To a place he can be taken and killed for no reason.
35:21I am an abolitionist.
35:22My intentions are to...
35:23You are a charlatan!
35:25Seeking the comforting pricks of guilty conscience.
35:27Charlatan, you say.
35:29Yet you stand there preaching to the boy about heaven and providence, all whilst your hands drip with blood.
35:36Tinch!
35:36I know who you are, Nat Turner.
35:39I've read about you and your methods.
35:41Is that so?
35:42Shall I tell you why this boy is mute?
35:47Tell you how he saw his father being made a meal of by dogs?
35:52His mother being sold his breeding stock?
35:55And your answer is slaughter.
35:57Violence cannot be the tool to freedom.
36:00Reason, logic and the appeal to man's better nature will...
36:03No, no, no, no, no, no!
36:04Can't!
36:05I see you have been marked.
36:11Okay.
36:11Tell me, Englishmen, this violence that kissed your face...
36:15Was it before or after you appealed to their better nature?
36:19Please don't hurt him!
36:21He's all I have.
36:22You can't see the change, little brother.
36:28You may try to sound like them.
36:33But you will never be him.
36:34Tinch, are you all right?
37:04Is your father really still alive?
37:13His last letter was from the Arctic.
37:17I'm sorry, Tinch.
37:20What I wouldn't give to tell him of the suffering that he's caused.
37:26If I knew where my parents were,
37:29I would go to the ends of the earth.
37:32We should go find him.
37:38To the Arctic.
37:41After everything I've pulled you into and away from,
37:45are you sure you'd still be willing?
37:51I trust you, Tinch.
38:02Oh, thank God.
38:19That's his signal.
38:23Slave catcher's en route.
38:25Steps behind me, I fear.
38:28Turner, you must leave immediately.
38:30No, they're not looking for Turner.
38:33They're looking for a black boy and his British companion.
38:37Washington Black and a Christopher Wilde.
38:39The
38:59Come on.
39:01Come on.
39:02Come on.
39:03Come on.
39:03Come on! Come on!
39:15Come on! Get down!
39:33Come on!
40:03Come on!
40:13Come on!
40:31I'm afraid I haven't had the pleasure.
40:33Willard.
40:35McGee.
40:37I know who you are.
40:39How mysterious.
40:41And how might I help you, Mr. Willard?
40:45I thought maybe I could help you.
40:47Even more mysterious.
40:49We have a common problem.
40:51I'm not aware of any problem.
40:53There's one who's close to home.
40:55Perhaps you overlooked it.
40:59Enlighten me.
41:01You familiar with a black fellow?
41:03Named...
41:05What is he calling himself these days?
41:07Oh, yeah.
41:11Jack Crawford.
41:13I can't say that I am.
41:15Really?
41:17You do know that Miss Tana Gough is, shall we say,
41:23quite familiar with her.
41:31And what are you insinuating?
41:33The insinuating is best left to you, English.
41:37I speak plain.
41:39We can help each other.
41:41This black fellow that Yurtana is entangled with.
41:47He is a piece of property to be corralled.
41:51A threat to be contained.
41:53And I find myself short on manpower and resources.
41:59So he's too much for you then, is he?
42:05This Jack Crawford.
42:09Do your fancy friends know what you do in your spare time, McGee?
42:15What a gentleman chooses to do in his spare time is his business.
42:25But what's behind this peacock costume of yours is no gentleman.
42:31It's a man who will help me remove this threat to us both.
42:37No.
42:39Excuse me.
42:43I don't care who you think I am, Mr. Willard.
42:49I don't care what you think you know.
42:53I reject it.
42:57And I reject you.
43:01There will be consequences, McGee.
43:19There always are.
43:31There will be consequences.
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