Episode 3 ‹ Roots

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This programme contains scenes of sexual violence,	0:00:02	0:00:04
some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting	0:00:04	0:00:07
and graphic violent scenes from the start.	0:00:07	0:00:09
You are Kunta Kinte. Behold! The only thing greater than yourself.	0:00:09	0:00:13
The first duty of a Mandinka warrior is to raise a family.	0:00:14	0:00:18
HE LAUGHS	0:00:22	0:00:24
HE WHOOPS	0:00:24	0:00:25
It's time your family paid for all the trouble	0:00:38	0:00:41
they have caused me, Kunta.	0:00:41	0:00:42
Run!	0:00:42	0:00:43
Sell the boy to the British with the other captives.	0:00:51	0:00:54
HE SCREAMS	0:00:58	0:00:59
THUNDER CRASHES	0:01:00	0:01:02
GUNSHOTS, INDISTINCT SHOUTING	0:01:04	0:01:07
-No more running for you, boy. -No! No!	0:01:11	0:01:14
No, please don't!	0:01:14	0:01:15
HE SCREAMS	0:01:15	0:01:17
I'm so relieved you're gonna make it.	0:01:17	0:01:20
My name is Belle.	0:01:20	0:01:22
Let's make it official.	0:01:22	0:01:24
BOTH LAUGH	0:01:24	0:01:26
I never thought I'd be able to have another child.	0:01:29	0:01:31
I'll protect our child.	0:01:31	0:01:34
Kizzy, I think I was selfish	0:01:34	0:01:36
to have you born into a world like this.	0:01:36	0:01:38
Don't worry, Fa. You trained me well.	0:01:38	0:01:41
Kizzy! No! No, Kizzy!	0:01:41	0:01:44
SOBBING	0:01:44	0:01:46
No!	0:01:46	0:01:48
Run!	0:01:48	0:01:49
Kizzy!	0:01:49	0:01:51
Where the hell do you think you're going?	0:01:51	0:01:53
This is my right!	0:01:53	0:01:54
Get off me!	0:01:54	0:01:56
BABY CRIES	0:01:56	0:01:57
I'm gonna name you after my daddy...	0:01:57	0:01:59
George Lea II.	0:01:59	0:02:01
# One day, one day	0:02:03	0:02:06
# One day, one day	0:02:06	0:02:08
# I were walking along	0:02:08	0:02:10
# I were walking along	0:02:10	0:02:12
# And I heard a little voice	0:02:12	0:02:14
# And I heard a little voice	0:02:14	0:02:16
# Didn't see no-one	0:02:16	0:02:18
# Didn't see no-one	0:02:18	0:02:20
# It was old lost John	0:02:20	0:02:22
# It was old lost John	0:02:22	0:02:24
# He said he was long gone	0:02:24	0:02:26
# He said he was long gone	0:02:26	0:02:28
# Like a turkey through the corn	0:02:28	0:02:30
# Like a turkey through the corn	0:02:30	0:02:32
# With his long clothes on	0:02:32	0:02:34
-# With his long clothes on... # -MOANING AND GRUNTING	0:02:34	0:02:37
HE PANTS	0:02:37	0:02:39
HE SIGHS DEEPLY	0:02:44	0:02:47
HE SIGHS	0:03:05	0:03:07
CHICKENS CLUCK	0:03:07	0:03:09
Seems hotter today than yesterday.	0:03:09	0:03:10
Yes, Massa.	0:03:10	0:03:12
Sky just sits on you.	0:03:12	0:03:14
When I was a boy, I'd spend a day like this	0:03:14	0:03:17
just sitting buck naked in the creek.	0:03:17	0:03:20
HE SPITS	0:03:20	0:03:22
ROOSTER CLUCKS	0:04:34	0:04:37
HE WHISTLES	0:04:37	0:04:38
HE GASPS	0:04:47	0:04:48
Why are you here?	0:04:48	0:04:49
He pretty. I wanted to touch him.	0:04:49	0:04:52
He could scratch the prying eyes from your head.	0:04:52	0:04:55
I'm gonna tell Massa Tom to beat the hell out of you.	0:04:55	0:04:57
Make sure you stay away from my chickens.	0:04:57	0:04:59
Now get!	0:04:59	0:05:00
ROOSTER CROWS	0:05:09	0:05:10
Mama.	0:05:13	0:05:14
N-Not in my front of my boy, Massa Tom.	0:05:14	0:05:16
Get up, George.	0:05:16	0:05:18
You need to learn!	0:05:19	0:05:21
George, what'd you do? What... What'd he do, Massa?	0:05:21	0:05:23
Little monkey keeps bothering Mingo,	0:05:23	0:05:25
messing with my birds in the range walk.	0:05:25	0:05:27
Mingo's got too much work to do, boy.	0:05:27	0:05:29
George, them birds will hurt you.	0:05:29	0:05:31
You scared of them birds?	0:05:31	0:05:33
Then I'm gonna put your yellow ass up on the wagon	0:05:33	0:05:35
when Mingo and me go out and fight.	0:05:35	0:05:37
You're gonna help.	0:05:37	0:05:38
Mingo don't like children.	0:05:38	0:05:40
H-He don't like people.	0:05:40	0:05:42
Get your clothes on, boy.	0:05:42	0:05:43
You look pretty in this light, Kizzy.	0:05:53	0:05:55
Please. He watching us.	0:05:55	0:05:57
Can I hold the bird, Massa Tom?	0:05:57	0:05:59
You do what Mingo tells you to do.	0:05:59	0:06:01
And you be on your best behaviour,	0:06:01	0:06:03
or I'll sell you to Cherokee savages.	0:06:03	0:06:05
SHE EXHALES	0:06:11	0:06:14
Oh, Fa.	0:06:14	0:06:16
Papa, he trying to take my boy.	0:06:16	0:06:19
Massa Tom, why you start fighting chickens?	0:06:21	0:06:24
Gamecocks, George, not chickens.	0:06:24	0:06:26
And I fight them cos they're magic.	0:06:26	0:06:28
Carried me from a backwoods shack	0:06:28	0:06:30
with ten brothers and sisters...	0:06:30	0:06:32
Abracadabra.	0:06:32	0:06:33
Bought my own farm.	0:06:33	0:06:35
Bought my first nigger.	0:06:35	0:06:36
His name was George, like yourn.	0:06:36	0:06:38
Tough old boy. Died too fast.	0:06:38	0:06:42
He my daddy?	0:06:42	0:06:43
Your daddy's long gone.	0:06:43	0:06:44
No-account white man passing through.	0:06:44	0:06:47
Gave you that yellow skin.	0:06:47	0:06:48
Second nigger I bought was Mingo.	0:06:48	0:06:51
Best move I ever made.	0:06:51	0:06:52
-MAN: -Wants this clear by sundown.	0:06:52	0:06:56
See that land over there?	0:06:56	0:06:58
Biggest farm in Carolina ain't enough for Mr William Byrd.	0:06:58	0:07:01
That bastard hates me cos I'm Irish	0:07:01	0:07:03
and cos my daddy was backwoods poor.	0:07:03	0:07:06
Thinks he knows who I am.	0:07:06	0:07:08
He don't know a damn thing about Tom Lea.	0:07:08	0:07:11
Thinks he's prince of Caswell County.	0:07:11	0:07:14
Hell, I'm gonna be king of Caswell County.	0:07:14	0:07:16
Pay what you owe, Irish!	0:07:16	0:07:18
I'll pay you in a week!	0:07:18	0:07:19
-CALLER: -Oyez! Oyez!	0:07:19	0:07:21
-MAN: -Whoa! Hit him! Don't tickle him!	0:07:26	0:07:29
Ooh!	0:07:29	0:07:30
Oyez! Oyez!	0:07:30	0:07:33
The main match... a struggle to the death.	0:07:33	0:07:37
-I give you Tom Lea... -Yeah! Whoohoo!	0:07:37	0:07:40
..and Farnie Deets.	0:07:40	0:07:41
-MAN: -Bring that cock to the pen, Mingo.	0:07:41	0:07:43
-You go get him, Mingo! GEORGE: -Let's go, Mingo!	0:07:43	0:07:46
Look at my Red.	0:07:46	0:07:48
-You ever seen anything so beautiful? -Unh-unh.	0:07:48	0:07:50
-Huh? -Yeah.	0:07:50	0:07:51
-Gonna bring me luck, boy? -Yes, Massa.	0:07:51	0:07:54
Go and add 200 to my bet.	0:07:54	0:07:57
Bill your cocks.	0:07:57	0:07:58
ROOSTERS CLUCK	0:07:58	0:08:00
-MAN: -Come on now, Mingo!	0:08:00	0:08:02
-Step back, gentlemen. -Come on, Mingo! -Step back.	0:08:02	0:08:04
-Come on, boy. -Come on, Mingo!	0:08:04	0:08:06
Pit your cocks!	0:08:06	0:08:08
ROOSTERS CLUCK	0:08:08	0:08:10
INDISTINCT SHOUTING	0:08:10	0:08:11
-MAN: -Go, Red!	0:08:14	0:08:16
Come on.	0:08:17	0:08:19
Come on!	0:08:19	0:08:21
-Come on! -Come on!	0:08:21	0:08:23
Come on!	0:08:23	0:08:24
Get him, Red!	0:08:24	0:08:25
Ah, shit!	0:08:28	0:08:30
Mingo, what the hell you doing, boy?	0:08:30	0:08:32
Fight them cocks!	0:08:32	0:08:34
Come on, Red!	0:08:34	0:08:35
-Come on, Red! -Fight the cock, boy!	0:08:36	0:08:38
Red! Come on!	0:08:38	0:08:40
Come on!	0:08:40	0:08:42
Come on, Red!	0:08:42	0:08:44
Come on, Red!	0:08:44	0:08:46
Get him! Come on, boy! Get him!	0:08:46	0:08:48
CROWD MURMURS	0:08:48	0:08:51
And the match goes to Tom Lea!	0:08:51	0:08:53
Ah, yeah!	0:08:53	0:08:54
-Yes! -Yeah!	0:08:54	0:08:56
CHEERING	0:08:56	0:08:57
What a row!	0:08:57	0:08:59
Nobody beats my Red! Nobody beats my Red!	0:08:59	0:09:02
Nobody beats the Red! Nobody!	0:09:02	0:09:04
Yeah!	0:09:04	0:09:06
-What have you got there, Mingo? -Attaboy, Mingo!	0:09:06	0:09:09
-MAN: -Yeah, Mingo! -Come on.	0:09:09	0:09:11
-GEORGE: -Hey! Mingo!	0:09:11	0:09:12
Oh, I love your money, boys!	0:09:12	0:09:14
You can all win it back at the next county fair.	0:09:14	0:09:17
Mingo, big Red all right?	0:09:19	0:09:21
HE SPITS	0:09:24	0:09:25
Piss.	0:09:28	0:09:29
Piss on the damn bird, boy.	0:09:29	0:09:32
You sure this good for the bird?	0:09:32	0:09:34
You think you Massa Tom?	0:09:34	0:09:36
Don't ever question me about these birds.	0:09:36	0:09:38
I tell you to do something, you just do it.	0:09:38	0:09:40
Think you know. Don't know nothing.	0:09:40	0:09:42
Don't know the Lord gave chickens	0:09:42	0:09:45
worst things in the world... pip, distemper, apoplexy,	0:09:45	0:09:48
cholera, lime leg, and canker.	0:09:48	0:09:51
You don't know pee clean like a good turpentine.	0:09:51	0:09:54
Yeah.	0:09:57	0:09:58
All right.	0:09:58	0:10:00
I don't know why we even brought you along, no way.	0:10:00	0:10:02
Cos Massa Tom says I can help.	0:10:02	0:10:03
-How? -I talk to your birds.	0:10:03	0:10:05
Talk nothing but hot air.	0:10:05	0:10:07
Birds use they eyes to talk.	0:10:07	0:10:10
Got to hold your stare.	0:10:10	0:10:12
Turn your head away, show you weak.	0:10:12	0:10:15
HE GRUNTS	0:10:15	0:10:17
Stand up.	0:10:17	0:10:20
Got to be a man when you messing with these birds.	0:10:20	0:10:22
Such a big help you is, Chicken George.	0:10:22	0:10:26
PATRICIA: "The first cut of...	0:10:30	0:10:34
"w-wheat is...	0:10:34	0:10:39
"m-most...most...	0:10:39	0:10:42
"f-fa...fav..."	0:10:42	0:10:46
What's this say, Kizzy?	0:10:46	0:10:47
Favourable.	0:10:50	0:10:52
"..favourable on a cool...	0:10:52	0:10:59
"day."	0:10:59	0:11:01
Yes.	0:11:01	0:11:02
SHE LAUGHS	0:11:02	0:11:04
Never thought nobody could learn farming by reading, Kizzy.	0:11:04	0:11:07
Need to read something to tell me how to act around fancy ladies.	0:11:07	0:11:11
Bit of gossip, weather, fashion.	0:11:11	0:11:14
The more you talk about nothing,	0:11:14	0:11:15
the smarter them ladies think you be.	0:11:15	0:11:17
-Whoa! -HORSE WHINNIES	0:11:19	0:11:22
You won't tell Massa Tom I been teaching you.	0:11:22	0:11:24
Whew!	0:11:24	0:11:26
Why don't you pour me a drink, Kizzy?	0:11:26	0:11:28
Can't you see I'm parched?	0:11:28	0:11:30
George!	0:11:31	0:11:32
Oh, my God.	0:11:35	0:11:37
Whose blood that is?	0:11:37	0:11:39
What Mingo do to you?	0:11:39	0:11:40
I got clawed.	0:11:40	0:11:42
Did they hurt you?	0:11:42	0:11:43
Massa Tom said I held 'em real good,	0:11:43	0:11:44
and they true killers.	0:11:44	0:11:46
Still waiting on that drink, Kizzy.	0:11:46	0:11:47
George, get over here.	0:11:49	0:11:52
I got a question for ya.	0:11:52	0:11:55
You want to keep fighting gamecocks with Mingo and me,	0:11:55	0:11:57
or you want to get sunburned working them fields?	0:11:57	0:11:59
Want to work with Mingo...and you!	0:11:59	0:12:02
-Massa, he a big help with all my chores. -Mama,	0:12:02	0:12:05
I like them birds, and they like me.	0:12:05	0:12:08
Good boy.	0:12:08	0:12:10
Now, you know you got to sleep with them birds, too.	0:12:10	0:12:12
Down by old Mingo. That ain't no place for no little boy.	0:12:12	0:12:15
Ah, you can visit him every Sunday.	0:12:15	0:12:17
I'm a fair man, Kizzy. You know that.	0:12:17	0:12:21
Be good for the boy.	0:12:21	0:12:22
He gonna be my good luck charm.	0:12:22	0:12:25
-Ain't that right, Tricia? -Well, uh, maybe he could wait a year.	0:12:25	0:12:29
What the hell you know about children?	0:12:29	0:12:31
Since you can't have none.	0:12:31	0:12:32
Boy, why you still standing there?	0:12:37	0:12:39
Go help Mingo with the birds.	0:12:39	0:12:41
Yes, sir.	0:12:41	0:12:42
DOOR CLOSES	0:12:44	0:12:46
Boy's gonna be my good luck charm, Kizzy.	0:12:46	0:12:48
CHICKENS CLUCK	0:12:55	0:12:57
Here, boy.	0:13:01	0:13:03
That's bird food, Mingo.	0:13:05	0:13:07
Barley, milk, corn, rice, and my secret...	0:13:07	0:13:11
my own brewed hops.	0:13:11	0:13:13
Let them niggers on the farm eat flesh.	0:13:13	0:13:16
What's good for birds is good for men.	0:13:16	0:13:18
You can game a bird for ten years.	0:13:18	0:13:21
Take him from the cage, leave him one step in the trees,	0:13:21	0:13:25
he gonna turn back wild just like that.	0:13:25	0:13:27
Cos these birds, they from across the sea.	0:13:27	0:13:30
In they hearts, they always free.	0:13:30	0:13:32
Mingo, can you teach me all about birds?	0:13:32	0:13:35
Teach me to fight them?	0:13:35	0:13:37
What you think we is, friends?	0:13:37	0:13:40
Come on, boy.	0:13:40	0:13:42
I'll teach you how to clean these cages.	0:13:42	0:13:44
Oh, Mama.	0:14:03	0:14:04
You look awful, and you stink.	0:14:04	0:14:07
It's the cocks.	0:14:07	0:14:08
Ain't no cocks in here.	0:14:08	0:14:10
Mama, I let all the birds free, cage by cage!	0:14:10	0:14:14
Big ones, Mama!	0:14:14	0:14:16
And fed them and helped Mingo fix them.	0:14:16	0:14:17
Oh, you should've seen it, Mama.	0:14:17	0:14:19
All these white men saying, "Hey, Mingo,"	0:14:19	0:14:21
patting him on his back.	0:14:21	0:14:22
Can you believe that,	0:14:22	0:14:24
white man respecting an old nigger like Mingo?	0:14:24	0:14:26
And it was fun watching Massa Tom	0:14:26	0:14:28
smiling and strutting around.	0:14:28	0:14:29
Hey, look. He gave me money.	0:14:29	0:14:31
Ain't nothing fun about being with that man,	0:14:31	0:14:34
no matter how they make Mingo feel.	0:14:34	0:14:35
But Mama...	0:14:35	0:14:38
Come here.	0:14:38	0:14:39
Tom Lea ain't no better than no other Toubab.	0:14:41	0:14:45
No matter how much laughing they do,	0:14:45	0:14:47
no matter how much you get to play with them damn birds,	0:14:47	0:14:50
Mingo a slave at the end of it all.	0:14:50	0:14:53
And you one, too.	0:14:53	0:14:55
But Massa Tom likes me, Mama.	0:14:55	0:14:57
He don't know how to like nobody.	0:14:57	0:15:00
And don't nobody love ya like your mama.	0:15:04	0:15:07
Go on, eat.	0:15:12	0:15:14
Wash up. Go to bed.	0:15:14	0:15:16
Massa Tom like me.	0:15:22	0:15:24
BELL TOLLS	0:15:29	0:15:31
INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS	0:15:31	0:15:34
Whoa!	0:15:38	0:15:40
Uh...	0:15:45	0:15:46
Miss Patricia.	0:15:49	0:15:51
Thank you, George.	0:15:51	0:15:54
I'll be at the church in the trees when you want me,	0:15:54	0:15:56
ready to go home.	0:15:56	0:15:57
Since when you a man of faith?	0:15:57	0:15:59
Since you seen that preacher's daughter?	0:15:59	0:16:02
-Go on. -Thank you, sir.	0:16:02	0:16:04
-Excuse me. -Only last week, and I...	0:16:04	0:16:06
Morning.	0:16:06	0:16:08
Keep walking.	0:16:08	0:16:10
Patricia.	0:16:10	0:16:12
Mr Byrd.	0:16:14	0:16:16
Huh.	0:16:16	0:16:17
ORGAN PLAYS	0:16:20	0:16:22
Hmm.	0:16:33	0:16:35
How come I always end up at the back?	0:16:37	0:16:39
See, the Lord say th-that he that keepeth his mouth	0:16:41	0:16:45
keepeth his life.	0:16:45	0:16:46
-MAN: -All right, Reverend. All right. -But he who opens his lips...	0:16:46	0:16:50
-WOMAN: -Yes, sir.	0:16:50	0:16:51
..shall face destruction.	0:16:51	0:16:53
-Uh-huh. -Amen! -Amen! -Amen!	0:16:53	0:16:55
-Hallelujah! -Amen!	0:16:55	0:16:57
You see, wealth gathered by vanity will diminish.	0:16:57	0:17:02
-LAUGHTER IN DISTANCE -And see, my eyes is old,	0:17:02	0:17:04
but I can see what the Lord says.	0:17:04	0:17:06
See, the Lord tells us beware of flattering lips	0:17:06	0:17:11
and men who speak with double hearts.	0:17:11	0:17:15
-Truth is your sustenance. -LAUGHTER IN DISTANCE	0:17:15	0:17:17
And beware that man who talk about money and worship money.	0:17:17	0:17:21
See, that, too, is vanity.	0:17:21	0:17:23
THEY LAUGH	0:17:23	0:17:25
The righteous man eateth to satisfy his soul!	0:17:25	0:17:28
But the belly of the wicked shall want...	0:17:28	0:17:31
-CHICKEN! -LAUGHTER	0:17:31	0:17:33
And taters!	0:17:33	0:17:35
Cos a full belly is a righteous belly!	0:17:35	0:17:37
Whoo!	0:17:37	0:17:38
Chicken! Oh, chicken!	0:17:38	0:17:40
Everybody need chicken!	0:17:40	0:17:41
I told you what I'd do.	0:17:43	0:17:44
You keep it up every Sunday.	0:17:44	0:17:45
So rude and disrespectful to my daddy.	0:17:45	0:17:47
Oh, Lord, help me now. I got a she-wolf on me.	0:17:47	0:17:50
My daddy is a kind man. You just a flim-flam fool	0:17:50	0:17:52
not fit to walk in my daddy's shadow.	0:17:52	0:17:53
Don't you have love in your heart	0:17:53	0:17:56
for anybody but yourself?	0:17:56	0:17:57
-OTHERS: -Oh-h!	0:17:57	0:17:59
Hang on, now. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.	0:17:59	0:18:01
-Hold on. Hold on. -Move away or I'll whop you again.	0:18:01	0:18:03
And I deserve it. Ain't got no right to be mocking your daddy.	0:18:03	0:18:06
He a fine preacher.	0:18:06	0:18:07
Look around.	0:18:07	0:18:09
More folks watching me than listening to him.	0:18:09	0:18:12
Now, if all these folk,	0:18:12	0:18:13
tired from working so hard every day,	0:18:13	0:18:15
will stop to hear the word of the Lord,	0:18:15	0:18:17
does it really matter if it comes	0:18:17	0:18:19
from the mouth of a fool like me?	0:18:19	0:18:22
"Thy lips are as the honeycomb.	0:18:22	0:18:24
"Honey and milk are on thy tongue.	0:18:24	0:18:27
"Thou art all fair, my love."	0:18:27	0:18:29
I heard your daddy preach that from King Solomon's songs.	0:18:30	0:18:32
Save your pretty talk.	0:18:34	0:18:36
You see me giggling and swooning?	0:18:36	0:18:39
Hm. I know one thing.	0:18:39	0:18:41
You ain't never met a girl like me.	0:18:41	0:18:43
Well, maybe not.	0:18:43	0:18:45
I'm not a pious man like your daddy,	0:18:45	0:18:47
but I know you ain't let go of my hand yet.	0:18:47	0:18:49
SHE GASPS	0:18:49	0:18:50
I'm George. Live on the Lea farm.	0:18:50	0:18:52
I know who you is,	0:18:52	0:18:54
and I know all you care about is fighting chickens.	0:18:54	0:18:56
I do. Know about other birds, too...	0:18:56	0:18:58
starling, sparrow,	0:18:58	0:19:00
morning doves sing so sweet and soft,	0:19:00	0:19:03
make you want to open your eyes to a new day.	0:19:03	0:19:05
And I'm gonna see you again, my morning dove.	0:19:05	0:19:08
My daddy decides who courts me.	0:19:09	0:19:12
Well, I ain't afraid of your daddy.	0:19:12	0:19:13
Then why don't you try me out?	0:19:13	0:19:15
Hold this, Til.	0:19:17	0:19:18
You got something to say to me, boy?	0:19:20	0:19:21
Now, I can feel the Holy Spirit right here...	0:19:25	0:19:30
right now!	0:19:30	0:19:33
Mm! Whoo!	0:19:33	0:19:35
Hallelujah! You my one and only.	0:19:35	0:19:37
He gonna put the fear of God in them other handlers.	0:19:43	0:19:46
ROOSTER CLUCKS	0:19:46	0:19:48
What the hell you doing, boy?	0:19:48	0:19:50
Letting him see me eye-to-eye.	0:19:50	0:19:53
I want him to know my hands	0:19:53	0:19:54
till he thinks we the same, me and him.	0:19:54	0:19:57
Just feed him, clean him, and put him away.	0:19:57	0:19:59
Mingo, I got a notion from watching all these fights.	0:20:06	0:20:11
Keep a count.	0:20:11	0:20:12
Times we lose mostly when some other bird	0:20:12	0:20:15
get over Massa's bird, gaff him from the top.	0:20:15	0:20:17
I think we need to give Massa's birds	0:20:17	0:20:18
a whole lot of training for they wings,	0:20:18	0:20:20
make them stronger so they fly higher,	0:20:20	0:20:23
win even more than they do now.	0:20:23	0:20:25
I figured out special exercises.	0:20:25	0:20:26
You good at exercising your mouth,	0:20:26	0:20:28
but you don't know birds.	0:20:28	0:20:31
Killing bred into the bird.	0:20:31	0:20:33
Don't need no wing training.	0:20:33	0:20:36
You don't do nothing till I say so.	0:20:36	0:20:39
Been doing this 'fore you was alive.	0:20:39	0:20:42
ROOSTER CROWS	0:20:46	0:20:48
Get back here!	0:20:55	0:20:56
What you doing to that bird?	0:21:07	0:21:09
What'd I tell you?	0:21:09	0:21:10
You don't listen.	0:21:10	0:21:12
Damn fool.	0:21:12	0:21:13
Look how high I got him to fly.	0:21:13	0:21:15
Told you I could do it.	0:21:15	0:21:16
I know what I see. Damn truth.	0:21:20	0:21:23
MINGO COUGHS	0:21:23	0:21:25
Want my mama to look at that cough?	0:21:36	0:21:38
Don't need no African medicine.	0:21:38	0:21:40
And don't you say nothing about this to Massa Tom.	0:21:40	0:21:45
HE COUGHS	0:21:46	0:21:48
There's a gathering down by the river tonight.	0:21:56	0:21:58
Boys stopping by to play for everybody.	0:21:59	0:22:02
Come with me.	0:22:02	0:22:03
Don't need to see nobody.	0:22:03	0:22:06
Malizy said she ain't never see you come by to visit.	0:22:06	0:22:09
Only see you driving out or coming back here.	0:22:09	0:22:11
Can't stay by yourself all the time.	0:22:11	0:22:14
Leave me be.	0:22:14	0:22:15
You a shadow on a moonless night.	0:22:15	0:22:17
You ain't hardly here, Mingo.	0:22:17	0:22:20
The way I like it.	0:22:20	0:22:21
People say they know who I am.	0:22:23	0:22:26
They don't know me.	0:22:26	0:22:28
Say they care about me.	0:22:28	0:22:30
Had too many people taken away	0:22:30	0:22:33
cos of gossip and tall tale.	0:22:33	0:22:36
Can't trust nobody.	0:22:36	0:22:38
These birds, they can cut my flesh,	0:22:40	0:22:43
not my inside.	0:22:43	0:22:45
Trust my birds, no-one else.	0:22:45	0:22:48
Don't trust you, neither.	0:22:48	0:22:50
MINGO SIGHS	0:22:56	0:22:58
-MAN: -Your bid is clear and ready.	0:23:01	0:23:03
Pit your cock!	0:23:03	0:23:04
Come on!	0:23:04	0:23:06
Come on! Come on!	0:23:06	0:23:08
-Get up! -Get him!	0:23:08	0:23:10
TOM: Come on!	0:23:10	0:23:12
Come on up! Come on! Get him!	0:23:12	0:23:14
Come on, you son of a bitch!	0:23:14	0:23:16
Fight him!	0:23:16	0:23:18
-That's it! -Come on!	0:23:19	0:23:22
Fight him, Mingo!	0:23:22	0:23:23
Get him!	0:23:23	0:23:24
Get him!	0:23:26	0:23:27
-Aw! -Come on!	0:23:27	0:23:29
Come on! Come on, now!	0:23:29	0:23:31
Come on!	0:23:31	0:23:32
Get him! Get him!	0:23:32	0:23:35
-Fight him, Mingo! -Get him!	0:23:35	0:23:38
Come on! Rise up!	0:23:38	0:23:40
Show him who we are!	0:23:42	0:23:43
INDISTINCT SHOUTING	0:23:43	0:23:45
Mingo!	0:23:47	0:23:48
It's over. It's done.	0:23:48	0:23:49
-MAN: -He's done.	0:23:49	0:23:51
-MAN: -Tom Lea resigns. Match to Francis Dunnery.	0:23:51	0:23:54
Shit.	0:23:54	0:23:56
Get your bets in, gentlemen.	0:23:56	0:23:58
Goddamn me!	0:23:58	0:23:59
I'll take a French pox and a screw 'fore I lose this goddamn bet.	0:23:59	0:24:02
Massa, I got a scheme.	0:24:02	0:24:04
Mingo said his bird was sure to win.	0:24:04	0:24:05
I'm tired of working land.	0:24:05	0:24:07
I ain't gonna wait till I'm old to rise up where I should be.	0:24:07	0:24:10
We need these goddamn birds to win!	0:24:10	0:24:12
I'll fetch the white.	0:24:12	0:24:13
You can bet him hard. Can't lose.	0:24:13	0:24:14
Nuh-uh. Use the Red for the next fight.	0:24:14	0:24:16
Red?	0:24:16	0:24:17
No. No, he ain't trained.	0:24:17	0:24:19
I trained him...myself.	0:24:19	0:24:21
You sneaking round 'hind my back?	0:24:21	0:24:23
Massa, all these birds attack head on,	0:24:23	0:24:24
maybe with a little jump.	0:24:24	0:24:26
Now, I trained my Red out in the woods.	0:24:26	0:24:27
I dropped from a chestnut tree high as a hawk,	0:24:27	0:24:29
so he got wings stronger than nothing else.	0:24:29	0:24:31
Ain't no bird gonna get above him.	0:24:31	0:24:33
Ain't no bird gonna beat him.	0:24:33	0:24:35
You think you can throw me out like some used-up old bird	0:24:35	0:24:39
just cos you kissing Massa's ass?	0:24:39	0:24:41
I raised these birds since they was chicks.	0:24:41	0:24:45
But I trained them right.	0:24:45	0:24:47
I trained them better.	0:24:47	0:24:48
Massa.	0:24:48	0:24:50
I can still make you money.	0:24:50	0:24:53
Whole lot.	0:24:53	0:24:54
George, next fight's yours.	0:24:58	0:25:02
Let's see if your scheme works.	0:25:02	0:25:04
But, George, if you lose this fight,	0:25:04	0:25:07
you can forget about me buying that Matilda gal.	0:25:07	0:25:10
Son of a bitch.	0:25:12	0:25:14
Tom Lea ain't never gonna forgive poor old Mingo	0:25:24	0:25:26
for losing his money.	0:25:26	0:25:28
Tom Lea dreams of every penny slipped through.	0:25:28	0:25:32
I'm gonna win back all them pennies and more.	0:25:32	0:25:35
I hope not.	0:25:35	0:25:37
You and me hack fighting next.	0:25:37	0:25:39
Then, your massa gonna be terribly disappointed.	0:25:39	0:25:42
I fight for myself.	0:25:42	0:25:44
Bought my papers three years ago.	0:25:44	0:25:46
Now these my birds, my money.	0:25:46	0:25:49
You a free man?	0:25:51	0:25:52
Whole lot more than just me.	0:25:52	0:25:54
Durham, Fayetteville. You'll find us.	0:25:54	0:25:57
But, yeah, I'm free.	0:25:57	0:26:01
Till some sheriff wakes up in a bad mood,	0:26:01	0:26:04
has a sore tooth.	0:26:04	0:26:05
Being free takes a watchful eye,	0:26:05	0:26:08
but I prefer it to the alternative.	0:26:08	0:26:10
But how'd you get the money?	0:26:10	0:26:12
Kept my hand in my own pocket, coin by coin.	0:26:12	0:26:15
Went without a lot of things.	0:26:15	0:26:17
Kept looking ahead,	0:26:17	0:26:18
not regretting what got left behind.	0:26:18	0:26:19
Way you carry yourself, I thought for a minute you was free, too.	0:26:19	0:26:23
-I got a good Massa. -Good enough to let you buy yourself?	0:26:23	0:26:27
He is giving you a fine cut of his winnings?	0:26:27	0:26:30
Think I'll take your good Massa's money today.	0:26:33	0:26:36
'Course, nobody knows you.	0:26:38	0:26:40
Might be a skinny purse.	0:26:40	0:26:42
These boys might need a push to risk their money.	0:26:42	0:26:45
Gentlemen, a hack fight!	0:26:49	0:26:51
Birds... 4lb 6.	0:26:51	0:26:54
Last wagers!	0:26:54	0:26:56
Whoo!	0:26:56	0:26:58
The ear of man has not heard nor head has felt	0:26:58	0:27:02
nor eye has seen a bird such as this.	0:27:02	0:27:06
CROWD MURMURS	0:27:06	0:27:08
Wait. Hang on now.	0:27:08	0:27:10
I mislead you boys.	0:27:10	0:27:12
This ain't no bird at all.	0:27:12	0:27:14
This is a creature you ain't never seen...	0:27:14	0:27:17
half bird, half man,	0:27:17	0:27:18
half of the forest, half of my own soul.	0:27:18	0:27:20
-Now, what do y'all think of that? -CHEERING	0:27:20	0:27:23
I'll take 500, sir.	0:27:23	0:27:26
-And I'll give it. -All right, all right, all right, all right.	0:27:26	0:27:29
Now, you are all men of refinement and discretion,	0:27:29	0:27:31
but why'd y'all come here today?	0:27:31	0:27:33
For a simple gambling diversion?	0:27:33	0:27:35
To take a chance against a fine man like my Massa Tom Lea?	0:27:35	0:27:39
No.	0:27:39	0:27:40
You crave wonderment, jubilation, revelation!	0:27:40	0:27:43
Ooh, glory! That's what you came to see!	0:27:43	0:27:46
This bird, this uncommon, fearsome campaigner leaves	0:27:46	0:27:49
the barn in victory, you will cry tears	0:27:49	0:27:52
that you've seen the last of him,	0:27:52	0:27:53
and you will yearn for more!	0:27:53	0:27:55
I yearn to win my money back, Chicken George.	0:27:55	0:27:58
-LAUGHTER -All right.	0:27:58	0:28:01
CROWD CHANT: Chicken George! Chicken George!	0:28:01	0:28:03
I like it. Yes, sir!	0:28:03	0:28:05
CHANTING CONTINUES	0:28:05	0:28:08
Come on! Put your money on me, boys!	0:28:08	0:28:11
Bet 1,000?	0:28:11	0:28:13
If you have faith in your Chicken George.	0:28:13	0:28:16
Always happy to take your money, Jewett.	0:28:16	0:28:19
What you got, boy? What you got?	0:28:19	0:28:23
-MAN: -Place your birds.	0:28:23	0:28:26
You put on a good show for your Massa, didn't you?	0:28:26	0:28:29
Come on now, George.	0:28:29	0:28:31
Step out.	0:28:35	0:28:37
Pit your cocks!	0:28:47	0:28:48
ROOSTER SQUAWKS, CRACKING	0:28:54	0:28:57
INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS	0:28:57	0:29:00
No hard feelings, right?	0:29:00	0:29:01
None at all.	0:29:01	0:29:03
Just make sure some of that pot is yours.	0:29:03	0:29:04
You staying around these parts?	0:29:04	0:29:06
For a while, long as it's safe.	0:29:06	0:29:09
Come by the Easter picnic.	0:29:09	0:29:10
I want to hear more about what it takes	0:29:10	0:29:12
to get that paper make you free.	0:29:12	0:29:14
Now, if you'll excuse me...	0:29:14	0:29:16
go ask Massa for my cut.	0:29:16	0:29:17
-MAN: -Pay the man his money.	0:29:17	0:29:20
Thank you.	0:29:20	0:29:21
Your Chicken George has skill.	0:29:21	0:29:24
I had more skill to see it.	0:29:24	0:29:26
MAN CHUCKLES	0:29:26	0:29:27
Mr Lea, as one gentlemen to another,	0:29:27	0:29:29
I'd like to buy the boy from you.	0:29:29	0:29:32
Buy my George?	0:29:32	0:29:34
I inquire merely because I understand	0:29:34	0:29:36
you've acquired debt on your farm	0:29:36	0:29:37
for equipment, seed, and stock.	0:29:37	0:29:39
What happened to your nigger?	0:29:39	0:29:41
I heard he was a good man with the birds.	0:29:41	0:29:43
Boy forgot his pass	0:29:43	0:29:44
while travelling to buy gamecocks for me.	0:29:44	0:29:47
Patrol scared him.	0:29:47	0:29:48
He ran, and they shot him.	0:29:48	0:29:50
Sorry for your inconvenience.	0:29:50	0:29:53
Name your price, but I'd have this boy.	0:29:53	0:29:56
No.	0:29:56	0:29:58
Not now. Not never.	0:29:58	0:30:00
Never is a long time.	0:30:02	0:30:04
And never to you, sir.	0:30:06	0:30:07
May I invite you and your lovely wife	0:30:11	0:30:13
to dine at our table at the Easter picnic?	0:30:13	0:30:16
You can expect it.	0:30:18	0:30:19
I look forward to it.	0:30:19	0:30:21
-Mr Jewett. -Mr Lea.	0:30:21	0:30:23
Gentlemen.	0:30:23	0:30:24
-MAN: -Got lucky this time.	0:30:27	0:30:29
HE LAUGHS	0:30:30	0:30:32
Here we come, George, just like I said.	0:30:32	0:30:34
Here we come.	0:30:34	0:30:35
Look, Massa, some folks saying it's a custom	0:30:35	0:30:37
to give me a bigger piece of the pot when I win big.	0:30:37	0:30:40
Did Mingo tell you that?	0:30:40	0:30:42
Son of a bitch.	0:30:42	0:30:44
HE SIGHS	0:30:44	0:30:46
You won me lots of money, sir.	0:30:50	0:30:51
Thanks, George. You won me plenty today.	0:30:51	0:30:53
Thank you. Thank you. All right.	0:30:53	0:30:56
I think I'm gonna save up my money, just like you, Massa.	0:30:56	0:30:59
You earned it.	0:30:59	0:31:01
-Thank you. -Mm-hm.	0:31:01	0:31:03
Thank you, Massa. Thank you.	0:31:03	0:31:04
Ah, we're winning, George.	0:31:04	0:31:08
Boy, come on. You ain't got no money.	0:31:08	0:31:10
Shit.	0:31:11	0:31:13
I'm gonna do something for you, George.	0:31:22	0:31:24
I need younger field hands.	0:31:24	0:31:26
Old Pompey and Malizy gonna be used up sooner than later.	0:31:26	0:31:30
Old Sarah don't work so hard right now.	0:31:30	0:31:32
So if that gal's fool enough to jump the broom	0:31:32	0:31:34
with someone who loves running tail as much as you,	0:31:34	0:31:37
I'll ride over and talk to MacGregor.	0:31:37	0:31:39
If he's got as many hands as you say,	0:31:39	0:31:41
he ought not to miss a field gal.	0:31:41	0:31:43
Thank you, Massa.	0:31:43	0:31:44
That's if we come to a decent price.	0:31:44	0:31:47
Then you can move that gal...	0:31:47	0:31:49
What's her name?	0:31:49	0:31:51
Matilda.	0:31:51	0:31:52
You can build Matilda a cabin at my place.	0:31:52	0:31:54
Long as you understand your first place is with my birds.	0:31:54	0:31:58
The way it should be.	0:31:58	0:31:59
And I expect you to keep her belly full.	0:31:59	0:32:01
Keep them babies sliding out, increase my stock.	0:32:01	0:32:05
I'll make my money back, and more.	0:32:05	0:32:08
Kizzy like this gal?	0:32:10	0:32:11
I wouldn't want to get on her bad side, if I were you.	0:32:11	0:32:13
KIZZY CHUCKLES	0:32:18	0:32:20
All this spinning is making me dizzy.	0:32:20	0:32:22
One, two, three.	0:32:22	0:32:23
That's how they do it.	0:32:23	0:32:25
BOTH LAUGH	0:32:25	0:32:26
Where you get all this finery?	0:32:26	0:32:28
Oh, I bought these.	0:32:28	0:32:29
Massa pays us a little when our birds win.	0:32:29	0:32:32
Money ain't nothing but a butterfly to you...	0:32:32	0:32:36
come pretty and go fast.	0:32:36	0:32:37
You don't need no fancy clothes.	0:32:37	0:32:40
Mama, you need to meet somebody.	0:32:42	0:32:45
What you need me to come for?	0:32:45	0:32:47
She Matilda.	0:32:47	0:32:48
She hard-headed, but I like her.	0:32:48	0:32:50
Come on.	0:32:50	0:32:51
I thought you said tonight was our night.	0:32:51	0:32:53
You and that girl connived this whole coming together.	0:32:53	0:32:56
-Matilda. -I'm Matilda, ma'am.	0:32:58	0:33:01
This my father, Reverend Lyon.	0:33:01	0:33:04
Your son say you a woman of, uh, faith.	0:33:04	0:33:06
I am.	0:33:07	0:33:09
But it ain't your faith.	0:33:09	0:33:11
I ain't interested in the white man's God.	0:33:11	0:33:13
My daddy say the only reason our folk is	0:33:13	0:33:15
is cos it got beat into us.	0:33:15	0:33:17
-The Lord say that... -Mama, why don't we get our guests something to eat?	0:33:17	0:33:20
Uh, I ain't offended.	0:33:20	0:33:21
I know my God's real.	0:33:21	0:33:23
He love me, and he love you, too.	0:33:23	0:33:25
Amen. Let's dance, Mama.	0:33:25	0:33:27
You ever preach from the book of Exodus?	0:33:27	0:33:28
-Well, yeah. -White preacher don't let no slave preacher man	0:33:28	0:33:32
talk about the Israelites or Pharaoh, do they?	0:33:32	0:33:34
No slaves marching across the sea to be free.	0:33:34	0:33:37
Bet them pages cut right out your Bible.	0:33:37	0:33:40
Start preaching about Exodus,	0:33:40	0:33:42
find yourself swinging from a low limb.	0:33:42	0:33:44
Mama, folks say make the best of a hard situation.	0:33:44	0:33:47
Maybe that's all folks who believe in God trying to do.	0:33:47	0:33:50
Have his God make slavery go away,	0:33:50	0:33:52
I'll meet you in church every Sunday.	0:33:52	0:33:54
LAUGHTER AND MUSIC	0:34:05	0:34:07
My daddy like to beat you	0:34:23	0:34:25
if he hear you playing like that.	0:34:25	0:34:27
Mama, I make Massa money.	0:34:27	0:34:30
Truth is, I know the white gamblers	0:34:30	0:34:33
bet more just to see me.	0:34:33	0:34:35
All that stuff matter more to him than you.	0:34:35	0:34:38
It ain't our way.	0:34:38	0:34:40
I heard about some slaves buying their freedom nowadays.	0:34:40	0:34:43
More famous I get, more I get a chance to buy my freedom.	0:34:43	0:34:46
You think you gonna buy your freedom?	0:34:46	0:34:48
Mine, yours.	0:34:48	0:34:50
Mama, I want to marry Matilda.	0:34:50	0:34:53
I can look after all of us.	0:34:53	0:34:55
Do you love her?	0:34:55	0:34:57
She a good woman, Mama.	0:34:57	0:34:58
Different than everybody else.	0:34:58	0:35:00
She's smart, stubborn, like you.	0:35:00	0:35:02
She's so pretty.	0:35:04	0:35:05
Not as pretty as me, but she pretty.	0:35:05	0:35:07
You can't make no plans depend on Massa.	0:35:07	0:35:09
You mean so much to me.	0:35:11	0:35:15
Let me teach you how to read, so you can be your own man.	0:35:15	0:35:18
I'll always be my own man.	0:35:18	0:35:20
Only knew one other somebody live his life	0:35:21	0:35:24
trying to be his own man...	0:35:24	0:35:26
your grandpapa, Kunta Kinte.	0:35:26	0:35:30
With them roosters, I can do anything.	0:35:30	0:35:33
That's how I'm getting free.	0:35:33	0:35:36
That's how we're all getting free.	0:35:36	0:35:38
Come on, Mama. They ain't gonna play all night.	0:35:38	0:35:40
You go.	0:35:40	0:35:41
I'm gonna stay here,	0:35:41	0:35:43
spend some time talking with my daddy.	0:35:43	0:35:45
Mama, you can't...	0:35:45	0:35:47
You go.	0:35:47	0:35:49
INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS	0:36:10	0:36:12
Mrs Shubal, breakfast looks delightful, does it not?	0:36:12	0:36:15
-MAN: -It's a beautiful day, isn't it?	0:36:15	0:36:18
My favourite holiday.	0:36:18	0:36:19
Mr Lea, Miss Patricia.	0:36:19	0:36:21
Morning, Reverend.	0:36:21	0:36:23
Your hat, sir?	0:36:23	0:36:25
George, what are you doing?	0:36:35	0:36:37
Well, there's Tom Lea and his lovely wife, Patricia.	0:36:37	0:36:41
Good morning, Mr Lea.	0:36:41	0:36:43
Good morning, Mr Jewett.	0:36:43	0:36:44
-Mrs Lea. -Morning.	0:36:44	0:36:47
-WOMAN: -Good morning, Mrs Lea.	0:36:47	0:36:49
Morning, Mrs Jewett.	0:36:49	0:36:50
SHE CHUCKLES	0:36:53	0:36:55
Please, allow me.	0:36:55	0:36:56
Oh, thank you, Mr Jewett.	0:36:56	0:36:59
There you are.	0:36:59	0:37:01
Now, our table is complete.	0:37:01	0:37:04
Mama, this is Marcellus, free man I told you about.	0:37:08	0:37:13
I'm not sure which one of y'all is the bad influence.	0:37:13	0:37:16
I'm not sure anyone has much sway over your boy.	0:37:16	0:37:20
Seems like his spark can dazzle anyone.	0:37:20	0:37:23
Now it's obvious he gets that from you,	0:37:25	0:37:28
which makes his daddy a lucky man.	0:37:28	0:37:29
My mama lives alone.	0:37:29	0:37:31
Just like I like it.	0:37:31	0:37:32
I'd never have some man bossing me around,	0:37:32	0:37:34
acting like he my second massa.	0:37:34	0:37:36
Ma'am, there are two things I'll never understand.	0:37:36	0:37:41
A man who mistreats a woman who loves him.	0:37:41	0:37:44
That's one.	0:37:44	0:37:46
Oh, the other would be a man who can't appreciate	0:37:46	0:37:49
a woman who knows her own mind.	0:37:49	0:37:52
I thought you were a free man.	0:38:00	0:38:02
Who's freely deciding to carry this tray	0:38:02	0:38:05
for a beautiful woman.	0:38:05	0:38:06
Anyone can see that Jackson is too boorish to be president.	0:38:09	0:38:13
He's a warmonger and an adulterer.	0:38:13	0:38:16
Only ignorant men without land or education would back him.	0:38:16	0:38:21
Tom.	0:38:21	0:38:23
I say Old Hickory's gonna be a damn good president.	0:38:23	0:38:26
He'll protect cotton investors clearing out woods	0:38:26	0:38:28
in Mississippi and Alabama.	0:38:28	0:38:30
Yeah, I'll vote Jackson.	0:38:30	0:38:32
My point proven.	0:38:32	0:38:34
This country will sink into a cesspool	0:38:34	0:38:36
if we keep giving lowborn men a vote.	0:38:36	0:38:38
-WOMAN: -We're going by train to New York to visit my cousin.	0:38:38	0:38:41
Her husband has a position with new clothiers...	0:38:41	0:38:44
Mr Lord and Mr Taylor.	0:38:44	0:38:45
But she warned us that the streets are foul	0:38:45	0:38:48
with horse droppings and Irish.	0:38:48	0:38:50
HE CHUCKLES	0:38:50	0:38:53
What have I ever done to you, sir?	0:38:54	0:38:56
I pay no attention to you at all...sir.	0:38:57	0:39:01
I offer conversation and good cheer on a fine holiday.	0:39:01	0:39:04
And yet you poke, poke, poke me like a damn hog.	0:39:04	0:39:07
HE LAUGHS	0:39:07	0:39:10
I demand you tell me why.	0:39:12	0:39:14
Take your hands off me.	0:39:14	0:39:15
Let's go. Can't stop these men once they start.	0:39:15	0:39:17
I have no idea if they're clean.	0:39:17	0:39:19
Goddamn me.	0:39:19	0:39:21
On Easter Sunday,	0:39:21	0:39:22
in front of my wife and these good people.	0:39:22	0:39:25
SLAMS TABLE Look at me, Byrd!	0:39:27	0:39:29
I see you clearly, sir,	0:39:29	0:39:32
exactly as they all see you.	0:39:32	0:39:34
You bungle your farm till it's near in ruin,	0:39:34	0:39:37
waste your money on drink and gambling.	0:39:37	0:39:39
Earn a penny, spend a dollar...	0:39:39	0:39:40
Oh, that's the Irish. I know them.	0:39:40	0:39:42
Scrub all you will, sir.	0:39:42	0:39:44
The dirt is not under your nails, sir.	0:39:44	0:39:47
It's in your soul.	0:39:47	0:39:49
And I'd dine with niggers before I'd dine with you.	0:39:49	0:39:51
GASPS	0:39:52	0:39:54
Get off of me! Get off me!	0:39:54	0:39:56
Get your hands off me, you son of a bitch!	0:39:56	0:39:59
I'll geld you, you bastard.	0:39:59	0:40:01
You need to come home, Massa!	0:40:01	0:40:04
I'm worth ten like you.	0:40:04	0:40:06
You never did a hard day's work in your life.	0:40:06	0:40:08
Soft hands, like a woman.	0:40:08	0:40:10
You think your money makes you a man?	0:40:10	0:40:12
I'm the only real man in this goddamn county.	0:40:12	0:40:14
Son of a bitch!	0:40:14	0:40:16
I do not settle my battles with fisticuffs	0:40:16	0:40:18
like some drunken bog-trotter!	0:40:18	0:40:20
You settle this however the hell you will.	0:40:20	0:40:23
For once, act like a gentleman.	0:40:23	0:40:25
Allow me satisfaction in the field...a duel.	0:40:25	0:40:28
Face-to-face.	0:40:28	0:40:29
Whenever and wherever you say.	0:40:29	0:40:32
HE SPITS	0:40:32	0:40:33
You bucket of piss!	0:40:33	0:40:36
You'll stand by me, George. Attend my weapons, be my second.	0:40:36	0:40:39
You ain't fired a gun in a while, Massa.	0:40:39	0:40:41
-Let it be. We got... -George, I need you to do this for me.	0:40:41	0:40:45
I depend on you.	0:40:45	0:40:47
Yes, Massa.	0:40:47	0:40:49
Patricia.	0:40:49	0:40:51
Can't no slave be 'round no white men	0:40:51	0:40:52
when they get like this.	0:40:52	0:40:54
Massa Byrd can kill you without thinking.	0:40:54	0:40:57
And ain't no sheriff gonna do nothing 'bout it.	0:40:57	0:40:59
Kizzy, he can't say no.	0:40:59	0:41:01
Yes, he can.	0:41:01	0:41:02
But he too caught up and concerned	0:41:02	0:41:04
about that no-count cracker and his birds.	0:41:04	0:41:06
What you think gonna happen if Massa Tom get killed?	0:41:06	0:41:09
Think Miss Patricia gonna sell us all together?	0:41:09	0:41:11
She gonna run off to the woods she came from,	0:41:11	0:41:13
and we gonna end up on paddle-wheelers	0:41:13	0:41:14
-for cotton Mississippi. -Why can't you understand?	0:41:14	0:41:17
You can't risk your life for that man.	0:41:17	0:41:20
Not for him...for us.	0:41:20	0:41:22
I need to keep Tom Lea alive for us.	0:41:22	0:41:24
George.	0:41:26	0:41:28
Not by chance, not any of this.	0:41:28	0:41:32
There's the man wants your massa dead.	0:41:34	0:41:36
Massa Jewett?	0:41:40	0:41:42
If Tom Lea is killed, he's gonna buy your son.	0:41:42	0:41:44
Tom Lea made a mistake refusing his offer for George.	0:41:44	0:41:47
And the thing about rich white men,	0:41:47	0:41:50
they'll take ten steps at a tilt	0:41:50	0:41:52
just to take one step straight to what they want.	0:41:52	0:41:54
THUNDER RUMBLES	0:42:03	0:42:04
HORSE WHINNIES	0:42:06	0:42:08
-MINGO: -Whoa.	0:42:08	0:42:10
You think you doing this for your family.	0:42:18	0:42:21
But I known you since you was a little boy.	0:42:21	0:42:23
I know the love you got inside you for Massa.	0:42:23	0:42:26
You thinking maybe one tiny piece of him inside the same.	0:42:26	0:42:29
Make you as stupid as he is.	0:42:29	0:42:31
He ain't never gonna see you for what you truly is	0:42:31	0:42:34
no matter what you think.	0:42:34	0:42:35
Pardon me if I don't wish him luck.	0:42:35	0:42:38
HORSE WHINNIES	0:42:41	0:42:42
I'll look after him.	0:43:05	0:43:07
Less likely to string the two of us up,	0:43:16	0:43:18
but I've been wrong before.	0:43:18	0:43:20
High card will decide who fires first.	0:43:31	0:43:34
You will then separate and face each other.	0:43:34	0:43:36
On my command, you will each	0:43:36	0:43:37
discharge your pistols in succession.	0:43:37	0:43:39
If you both remain alive,	0:43:39	0:43:42
you will proceed with swords until one of you is dead.	0:43:42	0:43:45
-Five diamonds. -HE CHUCKLES	0:43:51	0:43:53
Three clubs.	0:43:57	0:43:59
Mr Lea will shoot first.	0:43:59	0:44:01
And may God have mercy on your souls.	0:44:01	0:44:04
HORSE NEIGHS	0:44:06	0:44:08
This your day.	0:44:15	0:44:17
Take your time.	0:44:18	0:44:20
Got to wait till your eyes see clear,	0:44:20	0:44:22
breathing even.	0:44:22	0:44:24
You hear me?	0:44:24	0:44:25
Take your time.	0:44:25	0:44:27
I know, George.	0:44:27	0:44:29
I intend to kill him with my first shot.	0:44:29	0:44:31
HE EXHALES	0:44:33	0:44:35
You're my only true friend.	0:44:49	0:44:52
Do this friend a favour.	0:44:52	0:44:54
Kill that son of a bitch.	0:44:54	0:44:55
Your first shot, Mr Lea.	0:44:58	0:45:00
Still shaking, didn't even take aim.	0:45:11	0:45:13
Mr Byrd.	0:45:13	0:45:14
-First shot. -PISTOL COCKS	0:45:14	0:45:16
Goddamn. This can't be.	0:45:21	0:45:24
Aah! HE GRUNTS	0:45:25	0:45:27
You do this next shot right, now.	0:45:33	0:45:36
Take your time. Nice and steady.	0:45:36	0:45:39
If you niggers interfere, we'll kill you!	0:45:41	0:45:43
Be sure of that!	0:45:43	0:45:45
-MAN: -Second shot, Mr Lea.	0:45:45	0:45:48
PISTOL COCKS	0:45:50	0:45:52
HE SCREAMS	0:46:06	0:46:08
Mr Byrd, second shot.	0:46:12	0:46:14
Aah!	0:46:33	0:46:35
-MAN: -Gentleman.	0:46:35	0:46:36
HE SCREAMS	0:46:36	0:46:38
Gentlemen, do either of you yield?	0:46:38	0:46:41
No.	0:46:43	0:46:44
No!	0:46:44	0:46:45
Mr Lea does not yield!	0:46:45	0:46:48
Gentlemen, swords.	0:46:48	0:46:50
Sword.	0:46:52	0:46:54
-MAN: -Damn it, Byrd, yield.	0:46:54	0:46:55
He's bleeding hard. Can't let him find his legs.	0:46:55	0:46:58
Get right at him.	0:46:58	0:46:59
No! Get away.	0:46:59	0:47:00
I can't feel my hand, George.	0:47:00	0:47:02
You take this sword.	0:47:02	0:47:03
You got to fight hard if you want to stay alive.	0:47:03	0:47:05
Now get on your damn feet! Get up!	0:47:05	0:47:07
HE GRUNTS	0:47:07	0:47:09
Get up!	0:47:09	0:47:10
Sword! Put it in my hand.	0:47:10	0:47:12
-Come on! -Got it.	0:47:12	0:47:15
-Get up! -HE GRUNTS	0:47:15	0:47:17
Aargh!	0:47:23	0:47:25
No, no.	0:47:51	0:47:53
HE GROANS	0:47:53	0:47:54
Massa, you stay down, you gonna die.	0:47:55	0:47:57
That what you want?	0:47:57	0:47:59
-That what you came here for today? -HE GROANS	0:47:59	0:48:01
Him on his feet, looking down on you?	0:48:03	0:48:05
The way everybody look down on you?	0:48:05	0:48:07
He say you dirt.	0:48:07	0:48:09
That's how we'll bury you if you want,	0:48:09	0:48:11
deep in the damn dirt!	0:48:11	0:48:13
Mr Lea, do you yield?	0:48:13	0:48:16
George, it hurts so bad.	0:48:16	0:48:18
Oh, you in the pit now, Massa.	0:48:18	0:48:20
Want to let him jeer you,	0:48:20	0:48:22
throw you carcass in a dung hole?	0:48:22	0:48:23
Step back, boy!	0:48:23	0:48:25
-Rise up high. You the gamecock now. -Get up, George.	0:48:25	0:48:27
Rise up! Come down on this son of a bitch! Rise up, Tom Lea, come on!	0:48:27	0:48:31
Come on, show them all!	0:48:31	0:48:32
Show him, Tom!	0:48:33	0:48:35
HE SCREAMS	0:48:40	0:48:42
Aah!	0:48:49	0:48:51
-No, Massa! -I yield! I yield!	0:48:51	0:48:53
-I yield. -He yields. Let him be.	0:48:53	0:48:55
I'm a better man than you.	0:48:59	0:49:00
He yielded. It's time for mercy.	0:49:02	0:49:05
All right. I got you, I got you.	0:49:10	0:49:12
-I got you. -Mr Byrd! Mr Byrd!	0:49:12	0:49:15
Folks are gonna talk about what you did today.	0:49:15	0:49:17
All across Carolina, they'll say,	0:49:17	0:49:18
"Tom Lea is a gentleman."	0:49:18	0:49:20
HE GASPS	0:49:20	0:49:22
I was a fine gentleman.	0:49:22	0:49:25
They're gonna say my name, ain't they? Tom Lea.	0:49:25	0:49:28
For sure.	0:49:28	0:49:30
Take me home, George.	0:49:32	0:49:34
Take me home.	0:49:35	0:49:37
ROOSTER CROWS	0:49:45	0:49:47
You over there?	0:50:13	0:50:14
HE COUGHS	0:50:16	0:50:18
HE COUGHS	0:50:26	0:50:28
I'd have bled my soul out on that field.	0:50:32	0:50:34
You pushed me hard.	0:50:36	0:50:37
Kept me strong.	0:50:38	0:50:40
You don't win, what happen to all of us?	0:50:40	0:50:43
Damn right.	0:50:43	0:50:45
I want to tell you something.	0:50:47	0:50:48
I was 11 years old when I hit the road,	0:50:52	0:50:56
asking for a job.	0:50:56	0:50:59
I ate scraps.	0:50:59	0:51:01
Nights I'd chew bark.	0:51:02	0:51:03
Dry leaves my only blanket.	0:51:04	0:51:07
Froze my ass.	0:51:07	0:51:09
HE COUGHS	0:51:09	0:51:11
The whole lot of you has it a damn lot easier.	0:51:11	0:51:14
Oh, any man with eyes can see that.	0:51:14	0:51:17
HE CHUCKLES	0:51:19	0:51:20
Oh, hell, George.	0:51:20	0:51:22
I ain't as bad as some.	0:51:22	0:51:24
What do I always say?	0:51:26	0:51:28
Make me rich.	0:51:28	0:51:30
Raise yourself up.	0:51:31	0:51:32
That's how money works.	0:51:35	0:51:36
Then I'd like some of that money to start working to get me papers...	0:51:39	0:51:43
to be free.	0:51:43	0:51:45
HE GRUNTS	0:51:47	0:51:48
I intend to work hard.	0:51:50	0:51:52
Win every cock fight, make you real rich.	0:51:52	0:51:54
I got to know a time gonna come when I can buy me free.	0:51:56	0:52:00
I don't see why not, George.	0:52:04	0:52:06
It's all dollars and cents.	0:52:07	0:52:09
When the number's right,	0:52:15	0:52:17
I promise	0:52:17	0:52:20
I'm gonna write those papers for you.	0:52:20	0:52:23
Then I'm gonna make you so damn dirty rich,	0:52:26	0:52:29
gonna need to buy a new wagon just to load the moneybags.	0:52:29	0:52:33
HE LAUGHS	0:52:33	0:52:36
Oh, you and me think the same way, George.	0:52:36	0:52:39
I brought you up right.	0:52:39	0:52:42
She ought to thank me.	0:52:42	0:52:44
-ALL: -One, two, three.	0:52:54	0:52:58
Oh!	0:52:58	0:53:00
Thank y'all. Thank y'all.	0:53:02	0:53:05
-MAN: -Congratulations. Bless you.	0:53:05	0:53:08
Oh.	0:53:09	0:53:11
LAUGHTER	0:53:14	0:53:16
I promise to stay by your side for ever.	0:53:18	0:53:20
I never had a daddy,	0:53:20	0:53:22
but my baby's gonna have me all the time.	0:53:22	0:53:25
Nothing ever gonna pull me away from you.	0:53:25	0:53:28
That's all I want, George.	0:53:28	0:53:29
May the Lord keep and bless this holy union.	0:53:32	0:53:34
Hallelujah!	0:53:34	0:53:36
-ALL: -Hallelujah!	0:53:36	0:53:37
All right.	0:53:37	0:53:38
-WOMAN: -Yes, sir.	0:53:42	0:53:44
It was so nice of Mama Kizzy	0:53:44	0:53:46
-to lend me her dress for the wedding. -So beautiful.	0:53:46	0:53:48
THEY LAUGH	0:53:48	0:53:50
What you know about that?	0:53:55	0:53:57
You ain't the only one know about African tradition.	0:53:57	0:54:00
You declaring your intention?	0:54:00	0:54:02
Expect so.	0:54:02	0:54:04
SHE LAUGHS	0:54:05	0:54:06
That make you dizzy?	0:54:06	0:54:08
No, dance didn't make me dizzy.	0:54:08	0:54:10
Just feel like I fit right in your arms.	0:54:10	0:54:13
My arms can go wide.	0:54:13	0:54:15
They can come tight.	0:54:15	0:54:16
SHE LAUGHS	0:54:16	0:54:18
But I do what I can to make the fit work.	0:54:18	0:54:20
George.	0:54:24	0:54:26
Why is that man always showing off your boy?	0:54:33	0:54:36
For better or worse, they got a bond.	0:54:36	0:54:38
What WE got is a bond.	0:54:38	0:54:41
What they got, something completely different.	0:54:41	0:54:44
Glad to see you're feeling better, Massa.	0:54:47	0:54:51
We can get back on the road, make some money.	0:54:51	0:54:54
Of course, it's gonna take your first year's salary,	0:54:54	0:54:57
pay me back for buying that Matilda gal from MacGregor.	0:54:57	0:55:00
She worth every penny.	0:55:00	0:55:03
You get to making babies, increase my stock.	0:55:03	0:55:06
And when a boy comes,	0:55:08	0:55:10
Tom would be a fine name for a boy.	0:55:10	0:55:12
Ain't that right, Sarah?	0:55:12	0:55:14
Strong name, Massa.	0:55:14	0:55:17
Tom it'll be, Massa.	0:55:17	0:55:19
If it's a boy.	0:55:20	0:55:21
-PATRICIA: -George.	0:55:21	0:55:23
I think you mama's sweet on that boy.	0:55:23	0:55:26
I ain't never seen mama in a mood like this.	0:55:26	0:55:29
Wakes up happy.	0:55:29	0:55:30
She always prettier when she smiles.	0:55:30	0:55:33
Mm-hm.	0:55:33	0:55:35
DRUMMING	0:55:35	0:55:36
You know what they call a free nigger in North Carolina?	0:55:39	0:55:42
Nigger.	0:55:45	0:55:46
HE CLEARS THROAT	0:55:57	0:55:59
Folks sure did miss you at the wedding.	0:55:59	0:56:02
Smoothest liar I ever met.	0:56:02	0:56:04
Thank you.	0:56:04	0:56:06
CHICKENS CLUCK	0:56:06	0:56:08
ROOSTER CROWS	0:56:08	0:56:10
Bet your mama gonna be after you	0:56:10	0:56:12
to hatch some chickens of your own.	0:56:12	0:56:14
Not if he gonna name the first one Tom.	0:56:14	0:56:17
Miss Kizzy.	0:56:17	0:56:18
Congratulations on your happy day.	0:56:18	0:56:20
It was happy, till I heard my boy	0:56:20	0:56:22
promised his first-born son gonna carry Massa's name.	0:56:22	0:56:26
Me and Matilda gonna have lots of babies.	0:56:26	0:56:28
Plenty of names to go around.	0:56:28	0:56:30
Maybe even Mingo.	0:56:30	0:56:32
You can't name no-one in this family after that man.	0:56:32	0:56:34
Gonna go gather up some wood for my fire.	0:56:37	0:56:38
I know how to handle Tom Lea, Mama.	0:56:40	0:56:42
Ain't no handling no massa,	0:56:42	0:56:44
especially not one like Tom Lea.	0:56:44	0:56:47
It's just a name, Mama.	0:56:47	0:56:49
A name is who you is.	0:56:49	0:56:51
My daddy took whippings night and day	0:56:51	0:56:54
to protect his name.	0:56:54	0:56:55
What is it you want from me?	0:56:55	0:56:57
Wouldn't make no sense to say	0:56:57	0:56:58
cos I ain't never gonna get it.	0:56:58	0:57:00
I shouldn't be surprised you act the way you do.	0:57:00	0:57:03
But don't you ever get no shame, George.	0:57:03	0:57:06
I'm famous up and down this county.	0:57:06	0:57:08
I know who I am, and you should, too.	0:57:08	0:57:10
Only time I knew who you was	0:57:10	0:57:11
was when I took your yellow ass	0:57:11	0:57:13
out to the spot where I stood and named you.	0:57:13	0:57:15
Well, I ain't trying to be	0:57:15	0:57:17
no beat-down African with half a foot!	0:57:17	0:57:19
You ain't nowhere near the man my daddy was.	0:57:21	0:57:24
Some time I look at you, and I see Tom Lea.	0:57:24	0:57:28
I can't even tell you 'part!	0:57:28	0:57:31
And it break my heart.	0:57:31	0:57:33
GOAT BLEATS	0:57:46	0:57:49
KIZZY HUMS	0:57:49	0:57:51
It's pretty.	0:57:54	0:57:56
Came up from Durham way?	0:57:56	0:57:58
SHE CHUCKLES	0:57:58	0:58:00
Came from my papa.	0:58:00	0:58:02
Came from Juffure, from Africa.	0:58:02	0:58:05
What don't come from Africa, according to you?	0:58:05	0:58:08
Hey.	0:58:08	0:58:09
SHE CHUCKLES	0:58:09	0:58:11
I spent my life in a cabin like this.	0:58:14	0:58:17
And now that I'm free,	0:58:17	0:58:20
I'd rather sleep under the stars.	0:58:20	0:58:22
Kizzy.	0:58:24	0:58:26
I'm always passing through places,	0:58:26	0:58:29
so I find it best to speak my mind.	0:58:29	0:58:31
I want you to come with me.	0:58:32	0:58:35
What would we do?	0:58:35	0:58:37
Go north...	0:58:37	0:58:38
Pennsylvania, Vermont.	0:58:38	0:58:42
I'm tired of pulling out my papers	0:58:42	0:58:44
every time some sheriff gets in a mood	0:58:44	0:58:46
or some cracker don't like my look.	0:58:46	0:58:49
I like your look.	0:58:49	0:58:51
Getting free was all my daddy ever wanted.	0:58:59	0:59:01
But I'd be so far from George.	0:59:01	0:59:03
Far is free.	0:59:03	0:59:06
Your boy has his own life now.	0:59:08	0:59:11
It's time you loved yours.	0:59:11	0:59:13
FOOTSTEPS APPROACH	0:59:15	0:59:17
That's Massa Lea.	0:59:17	0:59:18
Didn't know you were entertaining, Kizzy.	0:59:26	0:59:28
Now you see, so you can go on home.	0:59:28	0:59:32
This is my property, boy.	0:59:32	0:59:34
I own it and everything on it.	0:59:34	0:59:37
Then turn a profit on what you own.	0:59:37	0:59:39
I want to buy Kizzy.	0:59:39	0:59:40
Is that right?	0:59:42	0:59:43
Mm-hmm.	0:59:43	0:59:45
I'd have to reckon it.	0:59:45	0:59:46
Name your price...any number.	0:59:46	0:59:49
I can pay it.	0:59:49	0:59:51
Ain't you a businessman?	0:59:51	0:59:53
HE CHUCKLES	0:59:53	0:59:55
Well, she's almost past having babies.	0:59:55	0:59:58
That's in your favour.	0:59:58	1:00:00
But she's strong as a woman half her age.	1:00:00	1:00:02
That's in my favour.	1:00:02	1:00:04
Reads, too, by my good graces.	1:00:04	1:00:06
Other masters wouldn't have it.	1:00:06	1:00:09
Cooks, sews, handles the house.	1:00:09	1:00:11
Understands a man's needs.	1:00:12	1:00:14
2,000.	1:00:15	1:00:17
-You can't. -HE LAUGHS	1:00:17	1:00:19
You don't have half it.	1:00:19	1:00:21
It's everything, but I have it.	1:00:21	1:00:24
Make her free to leave with me tomorrow,	1:00:24	1:00:27
and I'll give it to you.	1:00:27	1:00:28
I think we can come to some kind of agreement.	1:00:33	1:00:36
SHE HUMS	1:00:51	1:00:53
HUMMING STOPS	1:01:03	1:01:05
Something you need, Massa?	1:01:05	1:01:07
Miss Patricia need something?	1:01:11	1:01:13
She's sleeping.	1:01:13	1:01:15
Not that that matters.	1:01:15	1:01:17
SHE SIGHS	1:01:18	1:01:20
I'm making sweet rolls for tomorrow.	1:01:20	1:01:22
Ah. Tomorrow.	1:01:22	1:01:24
Way of saying goodbye?	1:01:29	1:01:31
Tell me you want to go.	1:01:34	1:01:36
He gonna pay you well.	1:01:36	1:01:38
You expect me to sell you	1:01:38	1:01:40
to that nigger bastard who looks down on me?!	1:01:40	1:01:42
Pick that nigger over me?!	1:01:42	1:01:44
Over George?!	1:01:44	1:01:45
GLASS SHATTERS	1:01:45	1:01:47
You have a place here with people who love you,	1:01:47	1:01:49
and you just want to go somewheres else.	1:01:49	1:01:51
Please!	1:01:51	1:01:53
Please, Massa! Don't.	1:01:53	1:01:55
You ain't never been beat. I don't overwork you.	1:01:55	1:01:59
I have more right than that free nigger!	1:01:59	1:02:03
You've been bragging to George	1:02:03	1:02:05
about how you gonna be leaving me.	1:02:05	1:02:06
I ain't been bragging.	1:02:06	1:02:08
You just expect me to let you go?	1:02:08	1:02:10
I can't go.	1:02:11	1:02:14
Ungrateful.	1:02:14	1:02:15
You think I'm just gonna let you go?	1:02:15	1:02:18
I can't go.	1:02:18	1:02:19
Ungrateful.	1:02:19	1:02:21
I ain't leaving! I ain't leaving!	1:02:21	1:02:23
You think I'd leave my family here with you?	1:02:23	1:02:25
And the time they start having babies,	1:02:25	1:02:28
I'd be a thousand miles gone.	1:02:28	1:02:31
And I see you still they massa,	1:02:31	1:02:35
I'd die every day.	1:02:35	1:02:38
But when George and Matilda have children,	1:02:38	1:02:42
if you ever touch just one,	1:02:42	1:02:45
I'll kill you.	1:02:45	1:02:47
And I'll hang for it gladly.	1:02:47	1:02:49
Now, now, Kizzy.	1:02:54	1:02:55
They're gonna be my grandchildren, too.	1:02:56	1:02:59
Now be quick about it.	1:03:07	1:03:10
If you won't come with me, take this.	1:04:10	1:04:14
Day might come when you're able to buy yourself free.	1:04:14	1:04:17
I can't.	1:04:18	1:04:21
You start a new life.	1:04:21	1:04:23
Keep travelling north and find some...	1:04:23	1:04:26
..find somebody else.	1:04:30	1:04:32
My daddy would have liked you.	1:05:01	1:05:03
Get up, now.	1:05:18	1:05:19
HE CLICKS TONGUE	1:05:19	1:05:20
HOOVES CLOP	1:05:20	1:05:22
SHE SOBS	1:05:50	1:05:52
-GEORGE: -Give me that.	1:05:57	1:05:59
Don't need no help.	1:05:59	1:06:00
You sure Massa say I should come?	1:06:01	1:06:05
Long ride, lots to do.	1:06:05	1:06:08
Greensville County in Virginia.	1:06:08	1:06:11
A thousand men come for this match.	1:06:11	1:06:12
Six tents. We taking 20 birds.	1:06:12	1:06:14
20?	1:06:14	1:06:16
Told Massa he want that many, he can't do it without Mingo.	1:06:16	1:06:19
Clear as day to those got eyes.	1:06:19	1:06:21
To watch the cages.	1:06:22	1:06:24
Tend the birds.	1:06:24	1:06:26
Oh.	1:06:28	1:06:29
You got my feed?	1:06:30	1:06:32
Just like I told you, boy.	1:06:40	1:06:41
Birds leave they marks on a man.	1:06:41	1:06:43
But still so pretty, women cry when I pass by.	1:06:43	1:06:47
-CHUCKLES -You still a slave, too.	1:06:47	1:06:49
That may be.	1:06:49	1:06:51
I've been saving up. Got me a scheme.	1:06:51	1:06:53
Scheme? Uh-huh.	1:06:53	1:06:54
Mm-hm.	1:06:54	1:06:56
I'm gonna buy Matilda, then all my babies free.	1:06:56	1:06:59
Man saving up money got to pinch every penny.	1:06:59	1:07:02
Damn hard scheme for the likes of you.	1:07:02	1:07:05
You toss away money like you feeding it to the hens.	1:07:05	1:07:08
ROOSTER CLUCKS	1:07:08	1:07:10
All your bragging and carrying on,	1:07:10	1:07:12
I know how much time you spend with my birds.	1:07:12	1:07:15
Folks say birds are stupid.	1:07:15	1:07:17
Birds know who they can trust, know who love them.	1:07:17	1:07:21
Folks is mostly fools when it come to knowing that.	1:07:21	1:07:24
Birds know a man by his touch, by the sweat.	1:07:26	1:07:30
You a better bird man than me.	1:07:37	1:07:39
Only cos I had the best damn teacher in Carolina.	1:07:42	1:07:45
You damn right you did.	1:07:46	1:07:48
GUNSHOT	1:07:54	1:07:57
Hyah! Hyah!	1:07:57	1:07:58
GUNSHOT	1:07:58	1:08:00
-MAN: -The Prophet's coming! The Prophet's coming!	1:08:00	1:08:03
He's on his way!	1:08:03	1:08:05
River of blood is what's speeding him on his way!	1:08:05	1:08:07
Whoa, you! Hup!	1:08:07	1:08:08
-MAN: -Got plenty of ammunition?	1:08:08	1:08:11
DOGS BARK	1:08:11	1:08:13
Everybody carrying guns.	1:08:13	1:08:14
TOM: Damn. What the hell is this?	1:08:14	1:08:16
Where's everybody going?	1:08:16	1:08:17
Never heard of cancelling no match, rain or shine, Massa.	1:08:17	1:08:19
GUNSHOT IN DISTANCE	1:08:19	1:08:21
HORSE NEIGHS	1:08:21	1:08:22
I don't think we should stay, Massa.	1:08:22	1:08:24
We just drove four days to Virginia.	1:08:24	1:08:25
Pretty penny out of pocket, too.	1:08:25	1:08:27
I need an explanation, or someone's gonna pay me for my trouble.	1:08:27	1:08:30
Savages! That's all they are, is savages!	1:08:30	1:08:32
What's going on here?	1:08:32	1:08:33
Nigger from Sam Turner's farm named Nat	1:08:33	1:08:35
running loose with hundreds of other niggers.	1:08:35	1:08:37
I hear thousands.	1:08:37	1:08:39
Killing men, women, children, any white folks they come upon.	1:08:39	1:08:42
Whole families dead.	1:08:42	1:08:43
Babies in their beds, using axes, swords, clubs.	1:08:43	1:08:47
They beat Margaret Whitehead to death with a fence post.	1:08:47	1:08:51
Reading the Bible over their bloody bodies,	1:08:51	1:08:53
calling himself the Prophet.	1:08:53	1:08:55
He ain't just killing. He's a cannibal.	1:08:55	1:08:57
Burning up little babies, serving them to his gang to eat.	1:08:57	1:09:01
Why ain't nobody find him yet?	1:09:01	1:09:02
Other slaves hiding these killers on farms,	1:09:02	1:09:05
in barns, cabins... right under our noses.	1:09:05	1:09:07
I'm warning you boys, murder's spreading everywhere!	1:09:07	1:09:10
I'm six days from home, and I got five little ones.	1:09:10	1:09:14
God!	1:09:14	1:09:15
I'll kill any nigger that gets in my way!	1:09:15	1:09:18
ROOSTER CLUCKS	1:09:18	1:09:20
Hey! What y'all doing?	1:09:20	1:09:22
Don't hurt my birds. Don't hurt my birds.	1:09:22	1:09:24
You got any guns and knives in this wagon?	1:09:24	1:09:26
Get away from Massa Lea's birds.	1:09:28	1:09:29
Mingo! Mingo!	1:09:29	1:09:32
Hey, boy!	1:09:32	1:09:33
No, please! Please, Massa!	1:09:33	1:09:34
Please!	1:09:34	1:09:36
He a good ol' boy. Good ol' boy, no problem.	1:09:36	1:09:38
-We with Massa Tom... -Hey!	1:09:38	1:09:40
These yours?	1:09:43	1:09:45
Yeah.	1:09:45	1:09:47
You vouch for them?	1:09:47	1:09:49
Came with me to fight birds.	1:09:50	1:09:52
Can't find that devil's prophet.	1:09:53	1:09:56
-Niggers. -HE SPITS	1:09:56	1:09:58
Hiding guns and knives any place they can.	1:09:58	1:10:01
I don't care how long you owned them sons of bitches.	1:10:01	1:10:04
I wouldn't trust no-one.	1:10:04	1:10:06
We need a doctor for Mingo, Massa.	1:10:11	1:10:14
We need to go home now. Patricia's by herself.	1:10:19	1:10:21
Mama there for Miss Patricia. She be fine.	1:10:21	1:10:23
You take us home. Now!	1:10:23	1:10:25
Yes, Massa.	1:10:25	1:10:26
Yes, Massa.	1:10:26	1:10:28
Now, come on. I got you.	1:10:28	1:10:29
You strong. You fine, you hear me?	1:10:29	1:10:32
-GRUNTS -You fine!	1:10:32	1:10:34
Hurry up, George!	1:10:34	1:10:35
-Yes, Massa. -HE GRUNTS	1:10:35	1:10:37
Come on, let's go!	1:10:37	1:10:39
That nigger Turner's the devil on earth.	1:10:39	1:10:42
Mingo's hurt real bad, Massa.	1:10:42	1:10:43
We've been riding like this for three days.	1:10:43	1:10:45
You'd never think of rising up with no slaves	1:10:45	1:10:47
against me and Tricia, would you, George?	1:10:47	1:10:49
No, Massa. You know me.	1:10:49	1:10:51
We got to find a doctor somewhere.	1:10:51	1:10:54
Cos if you did, George, I'd blow your goddamn head off.	1:10:54	1:10:57
HORSE NEIGHS	1:10:57	1:10:59
Stop the wagon.	1:10:59	1:11:01
Ho! Ho!	1:11:01	1:11:02
Hold up now. Hold up.	1:11:02	1:11:04
Where y'all coming from?	1:11:04	1:11:05
Southampton.	1:11:05	1:11:07
Trying to get home before the Prophet reaches my farm.	1:11:07	1:11:09
-We got every man with a gun out looking for him. -Uh-huh.	1:11:09	1:11:12
This your boy?	1:11:14	1:11:15
Yes, sir.	1:11:17	1:11:19
Well, you a damn fool if you ain't got him tied up good.	1:11:19	1:11:21
That Nat Turner's a fever.	1:11:21	1:11:23
You never know which nigger's gonna catch it.	1:11:23	1:11:26
Massa, what you doing?	1:11:34	1:11:36
Chain yourself to the wagon, George.	1:11:39	1:11:41
Massa, it's me.	1:11:43	1:11:45
It's George. You trust me.	1:11:45	1:11:46
Do it, George, or I will shoot you.	1:11:46	1:11:49
Go on!	1:11:49	1:11:50
-MAN: -Let 'em through.	1:12:13	1:12:15
You've known me since I was a child.	1:12:18	1:12:20
I can trust a child.	1:12:20	1:12:22
It's when y'all get growed is when you get ideas.	1:12:22	1:12:24
God help you if anything's happened to Tricia. Hyah!	1:12:24	1:12:27
HORSE WHINNIES	1:12:27	1:12:30
Hyah!	1:12:30	1:12:31
Hyah!	1:12:34	1:12:36
Hyah!	1:12:38	1:12:40
Ho!	1:12:40	1:12:41
What have you niggers done to my farm?	1:12:45	1:12:47
GUNSHOT	1:12:47	1:12:49
Tricia! BARKING	1:12:49	1:12:52
Don't you move, boy. Stay in that wagon.	1:12:52	1:12:55
Tricia!	1:12:55	1:12:56
Tom! Tom!	1:12:56	1:12:57
I come to make sure Miss Patricia's all right.	1:12:57	1:13:00
SHE SOBS	1:13:00	1:13:03
Dirty nigger. Dirty bastards!	1:13:03	1:13:06
Get inside, Tricia.	1:13:07	1:13:09
Now! Go on!	1:13:09	1:13:10
-MAN: -Five militiamen came over here looking for slaves.	1:13:10	1:13:13
They set the cabins on fire.	1:13:13	1:13:15
Thank God you're back. I was so scared.	1:13:15	1:13:17
Reverend Lyon, what the hell you doing here?	1:13:21	1:13:23
This ain't no place to be right now.	1:13:23	1:13:25
Heard some riders was heading for the Lea farm,	1:13:25	1:13:27
so I come over to check on Matilda and the family.	1:13:27	1:13:30
But them white boys came up on... on the cabins so fast.	1:13:30	1:13:32
I had to hide.	1:13:32	1:13:34
They burned down everything they could.	1:13:34	1:13:37
HE CRIES I don't know where Kizzy and Tilda are.	1:13:39	1:13:42
Guess I talk a lot, but I can't help nobody.	1:13:42	1:13:45
Look at me, look at me.	1:13:45	1:13:47
Give me that axe. Give me that axe.	1:13:47	1:13:49
Hit the wood.	1:13:53	1:13:55
Gonna find Mama and Matilda.	1:14:01	1:14:03
I need to find my children, but I'll be back.	1:14:03	1:14:05
You can watch Mingo till I can find help, all right?	1:14:05	1:14:07
-I'll stay with him. -All right.	1:14:07	1:14:09
Promise me you'll hold on, all right?	1:14:11	1:14:14
You strong like nobody else.	1:14:14	1:14:16
Watch out for Massa Tom.	1:14:16	1:14:19
He ain't never gonna see you for who you truly is.	1:14:19	1:14:22
Hold on.	1:14:22	1:14:24
I'll be back.	1:14:24	1:14:26
Take my secret feed.	1:14:29	1:14:31
I got something for you.	1:14:31	1:14:34
For your scheme.	1:14:34	1:14:36
All right.	1:14:38	1:14:39
All right.	1:14:39	1:14:41
-PATRICIA: -I see you, George!	1:14:50	1:14:52
You ain't gonna slit my throat while I sleep!	1:14:52	1:14:54
I see you!	1:14:54	1:14:56
Tilda!	1:14:56	1:14:58
Tilda!	1:15:01	1:15:03
Matilda, it's me!	1:15:03	1:15:04
Matilda, it's me!	1:15:09	1:15:11
Tilda!	1:15:17	1:15:19
Mama?	1:15:21	1:15:22
Matilda!	1:15:22	1:15:23
Mama!	1:15:25	1:15:27
Matilda, it's me, George!	1:15:27	1:15:29
Oh, George.	1:15:44	1:15:46
SHE SIGHS	1:15:46	1:15:48
I thought you was dead.	1:15:48	1:15:51
Come see the babies.	1:15:58	1:16:00
BABY CRIES	1:16:04	1:16:07
Matilda was scared to death	1:16:07	1:16:08
she was never gonna see you again.	1:16:08	1:16:10
Sister Sarah.	1:16:10	1:16:11
George! Oh, child!	1:16:11	1:16:13
-MAN: Thank God. -Oh, God.	1:16:13	1:16:15
-Glad to see you. -Thank God!	1:16:15	1:16:18
Tilda, come on out.	1:16:18	1:16:19
Come on.	1:16:21	1:16:22
WHIMPERING: George.	1:16:25	1:16:26
-George! George! -Tilda!	1:16:26	1:16:28
SHE CRIES	1:16:28	1:16:29
George.	1:16:29	1:16:31
Oh, George.	1:16:31	1:16:32
Your mama the only reason we're alive.	1:16:35	1:16:38
She brought us out here, been catching food for us, too.	1:16:38	1:16:40
Cabins was on fire.	1:16:40	1:16:42
I didn't know what happened to you.	1:16:42	1:16:44
We heard them coming in the night.	1:16:44	1:16:45
Me and Mama Kizzy went to Miss Patricia with babies,	1:16:45	1:16:48
but she had locked everything up,	1:16:48	1:16:49
and we couldn't get in.	1:16:49	1:16:51
Then the militiamen showed up,	1:16:51	1:16:54
set fire everywhere.	1:16:54	1:16:56
Screaming about some man named Turner and an uprising.	1:16:56	1:17:00
They was hunting us, George.	1:17:00	1:17:02
We barely made it out here to the woods.	1:17:02	1:17:05
It's all right now. It's all right now.	1:17:05	1:17:07
Where my babies?	1:17:07	1:17:08
BABY CRIES	1:17:08	1:17:12
It's all right. It's all right.	1:17:12	1:17:13
I'm home now.	1:17:13	1:17:15
He's gone.	1:17:30	1:17:32
Never did talk about hisself.	1:17:35	1:17:38
Just talked about them birds.	1:17:38	1:17:40
I don't even know where he was born.	1:17:41	1:17:43
I don't know if he had one damn person cry for him!	1:17:43	1:17:46
He had you.	1:17:46	1:17:47
He had you.	1:17:47	1:17:50
He had you.	1:17:50	1:17:51
Let me go.	1:17:51	1:17:53
You need to be with Matilda now.	1:17:57	1:17:58
Son of a bitch!	1:17:58	1:18:00
Too goddamn good to come down here.	1:18:00	1:18:02
Mingo worked his life away for him.	1:18:02	1:18:04
That's what that bastard want for all of them...	1:18:04	1:18:06
-just work till we dead. -George, no.	1:18:06	1:18:09
You gonna kill Massa Tom?	1:18:09	1:18:10
That gonna make anything better for us?	1:18:10	1:18:12
You think I've been ignorant about that man my whole life? Look at me!	1:18:12	1:18:16
You think I don't know I'm his son?	1:18:16	1:18:19
I've been drowning that truth in my head	1:18:19	1:18:21
cos I want so bad for us to be away from here.	1:18:21	1:18:24
And I ain't never gonna be that.	1:18:24	1:18:27
We're all gonna be like Mingo.	1:18:27	1:18:29
And I've been waiting for the right moment	1:18:29	1:18:31
to give him everything he gave us, and right now I'm gonna kill him.	1:18:31	1:18:34
No, you can't kill him.	1:18:34	1:18:36
Cos then they gonna kill you, and that would rip me apart.	1:18:36	1:18:39
All I know is how to make all this liveable.	1:18:39	1:18:42
And can't do that no more.	1:18:42	1:18:44
I almost took my life when you was born.	1:18:46	1:18:49
And yours, too.	1:18:49	1:18:51
For a while, I didn't know how to feel nothing.	1:18:52	1:18:55
Nothing but shame and sorrow.	1:18:55	1:18:58
And so far away from my mama and daddy,	1:18:59	1:19:02
but it would have been a terrible sin	1:19:02	1:19:04
against everything my daddy taught me.	1:19:04	1:19:06
It seemed like I could hear his voice right here	1:19:06	1:19:10
stopping me.	1:19:10	1:19:12
He came to me, and I decided to live.	1:19:13	1:19:18
You a fine man, George.	1:19:18	1:19:22
And I ain't told you enough.	1:19:22	1:19:24
Maybe I was scared you got too much of Massa's blood.	1:19:24	1:19:29
But you have honoured my father.	1:19:29	1:19:33
You here to keep this family going, to survive.	1:19:33	1:19:37
He always said we fight when we need,	1:19:37	1:19:41
but first, we got to survive.	1:19:41	1:19:45
Tom Lea whole life gonna be a waste,	1:19:45	1:19:50
but not yours.	1:19:50	1:19:52
What keeps me living.	1:19:52	1:19:55
I love you.	1:19:55	1:19:56
I love you too much.	1:19:56	1:19:59
Stay with me.	1:19:59	1:20:02
Please.	1:20:02	1:20:03
Live.	1:20:04	1:20:06
CHICKENS CLUCK	1:20:24	1:20:27
ROOSTER CROWS	1:20:32	1:20:33
Oh, uh, Mingo wanted you to have this bucket	1:20:33	1:20:35
with his secret feed in it.	1:20:35	1:20:37
Hey, that's too heavy for you.	1:20:37	1:20:38
Oh, shit.	1:20:38	1:20:40
SLAVES SINGING	1:21:16	1:21:20
BABY CRIES	1:21:23	1:21:25
George, you and Matilda got two girls and two boys,	1:21:33	1:21:35
and ain't none of them named Tom yet.	1:21:35	1:21:37
I ain't giving them that man's name. Mama, you said...	1:21:37	1:21:39
I know what I said,	1:21:39	1:21:41
and I knew what he'd do if you don't name that boy Tom.	1:21:41	1:21:44
He'll ride him the rest of his living days.	1:21:44	1:21:46
Do it, George.	1:21:46	1:21:48
Name him Tom.	1:21:50	1:21:52
Tilda.	1:21:52	1:21:53
Morning Dove, you need to rest.	1:21:53	1:21:55
And I want you to name him	1:21:55	1:21:57
the way Mama Kizzy says her daddy taught her.	1:21:57	1:22:00
The way Kunta Kinte would do it.	1:22:00	1:22:02
I know I didn't pay it no mind with all our other babies.	1:22:04	1:22:07
It ain't the way my daddy taught me.	1:22:07	1:22:11
But I heard Mama Kizzy telling the stories	1:22:11	1:22:13
to the boys one night.	1:22:13	1:22:15
Something passed through me, George.	1:22:15	1:22:18
I don't see how both ways...	1:22:19	1:22:21
mine and Mama Kizzy's... can't be true.	1:22:21	1:22:25
And I believe it will protect this baby and all of us.	1:22:25	1:22:29
I don't know how.	1:22:33	1:22:34
Moving too fast for me, Mama.	1:22:40	1:22:42
I ain't hardly trying, George.	1:22:42	1:22:44
Like I say, them birds a soft kind of work.	1:22:44	1:22:48
Here.	1:22:53	1:22:54
How you know it's the right spot?	1:23:00	1:23:02
I know.	1:23:02	1:23:03
Look up, little one.	1:23:13	1:23:14
That's the only thing greater than yourself.	1:23:17	1:23:19
Gonna be more money at that Charleston jamboree	1:23:34	1:23:37
than we ever seen,	1:23:37	1:23:38
and I am gonna win it.	1:23:38	1:23:40
And turn it to ash in a bonfire of foolishness...	1:23:40	1:23:43
the way you always do.	1:23:43	1:23:44
Matilda, after George leaves,	1:23:45	1:23:48
get the children weaving new grain baskets.	1:23:48	1:23:50
Ashford and George Jr can start clearing out	1:23:50	1:23:52
-that stand of walnut trees. -Yes, ma'am.	1:23:52	1:23:55
How we looking, George?	1:23:55	1:23:57
We got ten strong killers,	1:23:57	1:23:59
five young stags hungry for blood.	1:23:59	1:24:01
I say we be fine,	1:24:01	1:24:02
long as you listen to me.	1:24:02	1:24:04
Can't ever talk to me like that, George.	1:24:04	1:24:07
Goddamn.	1:24:07	1:24:08
I swear I'll sell your ass in New Orleans.	1:24:08	1:24:10
And fight your own birds.	1:24:10	1:24:12
Look, George,	1:24:13	1:24:15
there's more money to be won in that Charleston jamboree	1:24:15	1:24:18
than we ever seen,	1:24:18	1:24:19
and we got to win big.	1:24:20	1:24:22
That's what we'll do.	1:24:22	1:24:24
George, you and me used to be best friends.	1:24:24	1:24:28
Ever since Mingo died,	1:24:28	1:24:31
I can barely get a word out of you.	1:24:31	1:24:33
It's a long road to Charleston, Massa Tom.	1:24:35	1:24:37
I'm gonna go help our boys in the field.	1:24:40	1:24:43
I'll bring back gifts for everybody,	1:24:43	1:24:45
my morning dove.	1:24:45	1:24:46
Just bring yourself home safe.	1:24:46	1:24:50
Hey, hey, hey.	1:24:57	1:24:59
You ain't never been gone this long before, George.	1:24:59	1:25:03
Well, got you to watch over everybody.	1:25:03	1:25:06
Ain't got no worries.	1:25:06	1:25:08
And my daddy gonna watch over you.	1:25:10	1:25:13
Charleston's a long ways away.	1:25:13	1:25:15
Yes, Mama.	1:25:20	1:25:22
Hyah!	1:25:33	1:25:34
INDISTINCT CONVERSATION	1:25:46	1:25:49
BAND PLAYS	1:25:49	1:25:51
George, there's more money here than I ever thought could be.	1:25:57	1:26:01
Where we going, Massa?	1:26:01	1:26:03
TOM CLEARS THROAT	1:26:03	1:26:05
Here he is, Jewett.	1:26:05	1:26:07
Oh, Chicken George.	1:26:07	1:26:09
Meet my cousin from Hampshire, Sir C Eric Russell.	1:26:09	1:26:15
Jewett tells me you're a sovereign of avifauna.	1:26:15	1:26:16
I look forward to testing your prowess against my birds.	1:26:16	1:26:19
Thank you, sir.	1:26:19	1:26:21
Tom Lea and I have wanted to settle once and for all	1:26:21	1:26:24
who's best in our noble sport.	1:26:24	1:26:26
But it's gonna cost you to find out.	1:26:26	1:26:28
Mr Lea, while I understand your confidence	1:26:28	1:26:31
about a bird or two,	1:26:31	1:26:32
I did not get wealthy by betting small.	1:26:32	1:26:35
A man who bets a mere thousand here or there	1:26:35	1:26:38
is a man who won't risk enough to take what he wants.	1:26:38	1:26:41
Or perhaps Chicken George is only a small-time fighter.	1:26:41	1:26:44
Oh, you ain't never seen a fighter like me before...	1:26:44	1:26:46
sir.	1:26:46	1:26:47
10,000.	1:26:47	1:26:49
MEN CHUCKLE	1:26:49	1:26:50
Plus side bets.	1:26:50	1:26:51
Accepted.	1:26:57	1:26:58
CHEERING	1:26:58	1:26:59
10,000 it is.	1:26:59	1:27:02
And, boys, I'll be open to all offers.	1:27:02	1:27:05
HE SPITS	1:27:05	1:27:07
Gentlemen.	1:27:11	1:27:12
-Feel good about the birds? -Best I ever felt.	1:27:17	1:27:19
Today's the day, George.	1:27:19	1:27:21
I'm gonna rise up above every man who ever looked down on me.	1:27:21	1:27:23
10,000? Massa, you ain't got that much.	1:27:23	1:27:25
Don't matter how much I got if we win, do it, George?	1:27:25	1:27:28
Besides, my farm's worth half that much.	1:27:28	1:27:30
No.	1:27:30	1:27:32
Can't bet our home.	1:27:32	1:27:34
Not where my family live.	1:27:34	1:27:36
You win this for me,	1:27:42	1:27:44
and I'll set you free.	1:27:44	1:27:46
I swear.	1:27:46	1:27:47
Write it.	1:27:49	1:27:51
Write that paper, right here.	1:27:51	1:27:54
Be waiting for you when you're done.	1:27:54	1:27:56
This ain't no dream, George.	1:27:59	1:28:01
Wide awake as I ever been.	1:28:01	1:28:02
We're gonna be rich, just like I said.	1:28:03	1:28:07
Who that Englishman think he is?	1:28:15	1:28:17
How dare he fight us.	1:28:17	1:28:19
We faster, smarter, stronger, prettier.	1:28:19	1:28:24
Insult to be in the same pit with you and me.	1:28:24	1:28:26
Come on now, you little bastard.	1:28:26	1:28:29
I gave you blood and sweat.	1:28:29	1:28:31
Make George a free man today.	1:28:31	1:28:34
INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS	1:28:34	1:28:37
George.	1:28:39	1:28:41
-MAN: -Oyez! Oyez!	1:28:47	1:28:49
Our final pair of the Charleston Main!	1:28:49	1:28:52
A heavy match of birds.	1:28:52	1:28:54
6lb 4,	1:28:54	1:28:56
Sir C Eric Russell of Hampshire, England.	1:28:56	1:29:00
And Tom Lea of Caswell County, North Carolina.	1:29:00	1:29:04
CHEERS AND APPLAUSE	1:29:04	1:29:06
Gentlemen, face your birds!	1:29:06	1:29:11
Come on now, George!	1:29:11	1:29:13
ROOSTERS SQUAWK	1:29:15	1:29:18
Rile 'em up.	1:29:20	1:29:21
Step out.	1:29:23	1:29:25
Ready!	1:29:29	1:29:31
TOM: Come on now, George.	1:29:31	1:29:33
Pit your cocks!	1:29:35	1:29:36
-MAN: -Kill him! -Fight him!	1:29:41	1:29:43
Come on now!	1:29:45	1:29:47
Come down on him!	1:29:47	1:29:49
Come on, George.	1:29:50	1:29:52
Come on! Get him, boy!	1:29:58	1:30:00
Come on now, Red! Come on, Red!	1:30:08	1:30:10
-MAN: -The match goes to Tom Lea!	1:30:17	1:30:19
-Yes! -Yeah!	1:30:19	1:30:21
Whoo!	1:30:21	1:30:23
Yeah, boys!	1:30:23	1:30:26
CHEERING	1:30:26	1:30:28
Thanks, boys.	1:30:38	1:30:40
I'm free.	1:31:10	1:31:12
HE LAUGHS	1:31:14	1:31:17
I'm free!	1:31:17	1:31:19
-I'm free! -HE LAUGHS LOUDLY	1:31:21	1:31:24
Now you get the cock out.	1:31:30	1:31:32
TOM LAUGHS	1:31:39	1:31:40
Come on. Get in it.	1:31:40	1:31:42
Get in, boys.	1:31:42	1:31:43
Glad y'all made money.	1:31:43	1:31:45
I know you can read it, George.	1:31:47	1:31:49
Know Kizzy been teaching you.	1:31:49	1:31:52
It looks fine.	1:31:52	1:31:54
It look real fine.	1:31:54	1:31:56
-SIR ERIC: -Your man has a rare skill.	1:31:56	1:31:58
Plain to see.	1:32:00	1:32:01
And yet why do I feel like a marionette,	1:32:01	1:32:03
my strings pulled by a clever manipulator?	1:32:03	1:32:07
Did you set me up, Mr Lea?	1:32:07	1:32:08
GEORGE CHUCKLES	1:32:08	1:32:09
You challenged me.	1:32:09	1:32:11
I had the courage to take it, and I had the man to win it.	1:32:11	1:32:15
Then I assume your courage will permit me	1:32:15	1:32:18
an opportunity to recoup my losses,	1:32:18	1:32:19
penny for penny.	1:32:19	1:32:21
Well, even an Irishman understands fair play.	1:32:21	1:32:23
Sir Eric is willing to wager another 10,000.	1:32:23	1:32:26
CROWD MURMURS	1:32:26	1:32:27
Can your damn English cousin handle 20,000?	1:32:30	1:32:33
CROWD MURMURS	1:32:33	1:32:34
I relish the opportunity.	1:32:37	1:32:39
Done.	1:32:39	1:32:40
CHEERING	1:32:40	1:32:42
Come with me, cousin.	1:32:45	1:32:47
I have something I want to show you.	1:32:47	1:32:48
Here you are, sir.	1:32:50	1:32:52
His line has fought for kings.	1:32:54	1:32:56
He'll have no trouble with an Irishman and a nigger.	1:32:56	1:32:58
ROOSTER SQUAWKS	1:32:58	1:33:01
My money's on you.	1:33:09	1:33:10
My money's on you. You can do it.	1:33:10	1:33:11
Do it, George.	1:33:11	1:33:12
Come on, clear the ring!	1:33:12	1:33:14
-MAN: -Look at the size of that.	1:33:25	1:33:28
Look at the bird. He's looking well.	1:33:31	1:33:34
Oyez! Oyez!	1:33:36	1:33:38
A private hack between Tom Lea	1:33:38	1:33:40
of Caswell County, North Carolina...	1:33:40	1:33:43
APPLAUSE	1:33:43	1:33:44
..and Sir C Eric Russell of Hampshire, England.	1:33:44	1:33:48
APPLAUSE	1:33:48	1:33:50
Gentlemen, face your birds!	1:33:50	1:33:52
CHEERING	1:33:52	1:33:55
ROOSTERS SQUAWK	1:33:55	1:33:58
That's it, George.	1:33:58	1:33:59
Step out!	1:33:59	1:34:01
-MAN: -Oh, he smells blood, Chicken George! I know it!	1:34:01	1:34:04
-MAN: -Let's go, Chicken George!	1:34:04	1:34:07
Gentlemen...	1:34:07	1:34:08
..pit your cocks!	1:34:11	1:34:12
Come on! Come on, now!	1:34:12	1:34:15
Damn it!	1:34:24	1:34:26
-MAN: -That's it! That's it!	1:34:28	1:34:30
-Just like that! -Come on, boy!	1:34:30	1:34:33
Down! Down! Down! Come down hard on him!	1:34:33	1:34:36
ROOSTER CROWS	1:34:37	1:34:40
ROOSTER SQUAWKS	1:34:41	1:34:44
Come on, George!	1:34:44	1:34:45
Come on!	1:34:45	1:34:47
Come on.	1:34:48	1:34:50
Shit!	1:34:53	1:34:54
Finish him!	1:34:59	1:35:00
-MAN: -Match to Sir C Eric Russell.	1:35:08	1:35:10
SOUND FADES OUT	1:35:22	1:35:25
George.	1:35:49	1:35:50
I don't know what happened. We need to set up another fight.	1:35:52	1:35:54
They gamed us, George, like fish at the end of a line.	1:35:54	1:35:59
I lost everything...	1:35:59	1:36:01
..every penny.	1:36:02	1:36:03
Look, George, the farm ain't gonna cover my bets.	1:36:06	1:36:10
Ain't even gonna cover what I borrowed against it.	1:36:10	1:36:12
I'm ruined,	1:36:13	1:36:15
but that English bastard's offering me a way out.	1:36:15	1:36:18
SIGHS	1:36:19	1:36:20
Said he never saw a man with a touch for the birds like you.	1:36:20	1:36:23
Said you was a magician. Used that very word.	1:36:23	1:36:27
What you saying?	1:36:27	1:36:29
HE SIGHS	1:36:29	1:36:30
Not to drag it out,	1:36:30	1:36:32
that Englishman will call me even if I give you to him...	1:36:32	1:36:35
take back to England.	1:36:35	1:36:37
-England?! -Mm-hm.	1:36:37	1:36:38
Now you ain't making no sense.	1:36:38	1:36:40
Train his birds and his handlers.	1:36:40	1:36:43
I don't understand what the hell you saying to me.	1:36:43	1:36:46
I'm free! That's what we agreed.	1:36:46	1:36:48
Money was in my hand, George.	1:36:48	1:36:50
What's worse than being rich for one day?	1:36:50	1:36:52
You can't tell me to leave my family!	1:36:52	1:36:54
I ain't going nowhere for you, you understand me?!	1:36:54	1:36:56
I'm sorry, George.	1:36:56	1:36:58
I ain't got no other way to survive.	1:36:58	1:37:00
The time will pass like a summer squall.	1:37:00	1:37:01
No, you bastard. I am a free man.	1:37:01	1:37:04
You ain't free, George.	1:37:04	1:37:07
Not unless I register them papers with the county.	1:37:07	1:37:10
Now I will tell you something.	1:37:10	1:37:12
When you come back, I'll have papers	1:37:12	1:37:15
-for your whole family waiting in a lockbox. -I'm not going!	1:37:15	1:37:18
I'm tired of explaining it to you!	1:37:18	1:37:20
I don't have to give no damn explanation to no damn slave!	1:37:20	1:37:23
Sir Eric's carriage is leaving. Do not resist. Do not waste his time.	1:37:23	1:37:27
You can't do this! You hear me?!	1:37:27	1:37:29
I earned it! I'm free!	1:37:29	1:37:30
You low bastard, Tom Lea!	1:37:30	1:37:33
You ain't a man!	1:37:33	1:37:34
You don't love nothing but money and a whisky jug!	1:37:34	1:37:37
That's all you love!	1:37:37	1:37:39
-Get this nigger off of me! -Stop him!	1:37:39	1:37:41
You really are the trash everybody says you is!	1:37:43	1:37:45
Ain't got no honour and ain't got no pride!	1:37:45	1:37:49
Not even say goodbye to my family?!	1:37:49	1:37:51
Matilda?! My children and my mama?!	1:37:51	1:37:53
You a lying dog, Tom Lea!	1:37:53	1:37:56
Who gonna watch 'em, Tom?!	1:37:56	1:37:57
Who gonna watch my family?!	1:37:57	1:37:59
-Tom Lea! -HE GRUNTS	1:37:59	1:38:01
HE COUGHS	1:38:10	1:38:12
HORSE NEIGHS	1:38:20	1:38:21
HE ROARS	1:38:51	1:38:53

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