4.02 - Glass Souls

Published Oct 16, 2020, 7:01 AM

The world's greatest artist Piero has arrived from across the seas with his assistant Angel. He has been commissioned by the Empire’s self-style “Queen Mother” Fatima (Kirsty Bushell), to create a great work glorifying her rule. But Tumanbay is no longer the gleaming city it was after a period of brutal occupation and tensions and suspicions abound. The blind Grand Master Amalric (Anton Lesser), leader of a fearsome religious order of knights, has his own plans for the city, plans that involve the religious figurehead, the Hafiz. But the Hafiz has gone missing. The only person who can find him is spymaster Gregor (Rufus Wright) who is languishing in the Palace of the Blind, a madhouse in the desert where unwanted officials and rulers are exiled. Tumanbay is created by John Scott Dryden and Mike Walker. Visit www.tumanbay.com to see full credits and download scripts.

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Another time, another place, a peasant village, open doors onto empty huts, mud, desolation, and the child a girl. The plague has been here, and the cart bodies piled high, the girl's whole family amongst them. The way girl, there's nothing for you here. She stands, pitifully thin, her bare feet in the mud. It's cruelly cold, and her feet are beginning to freeze. She begs for food. No food here, nothing nothing for you. You want to claim him with the dead, little girl? Huh? Get away, or we'll throw you in with the rest of them. She has nowhere to go, no one to go to. If she had any tears, she would weep, but she has none left. She turns and stumbles away and pauses in the mud. Something glints. She kneels to pick it up, A corpse gift fallen from a dead hand, a tiny gold coin. She picks it up, wipes it clean. She has no pockets, so she puts it in her mouth and walks away. Rat A rat, Yes, there are always rats on chips. I'm afraid an artist too, I sincerely hope, captain. That is why you have been paid a great deal to deliver to bring him to our city. Yes, Signor Piero is celebrated throughout the world. What being late? Where is he? He will appear when he appears, not when I'm paying the bills. He won't go and get him go. The Mrs Fatima is not used to waiting. Yes, let him? Is this a mistake? Anger? A mistake? Master? Close the window. Can smell the damn port tar and bad spices, and I think you should get up, Master. They will be waiting to receive you. I hate this place already, Pull me some wine. You always like this at the beginning of a great project. You're a great artist. No, but it's too hard. Think about it. The mysterious empire of too mom Bay. Who else of your contemporaries has been here? There is mystery and beauty to be found. And the rewards are great, really, from what I hear, they're not exactly overflowing with gold. Let's think what it will mean for your reputation. You're right, Angel, You're always right. Ah, I need a coup. I need to do something extraordinary, great panorama, full of drama. That's more like it. One in the eye for that bastard than his bloody seiler. Ver are you ready? How do I look like the god of art and here we go, signor Piero, What a pleasure? Thank you for light. What are you talking about? They told me your queen mother. Surely they lie unless the Sultana is a mere child. I kneel before you. I am your humble devoteem, since your reputation precedes you. Your name stands above all others, the greatest of the great, and your reputation precedes you, Madam the Savior of tu mon Bay, great ruler, indeed perhaps the greatest. Once the world sees your portrait, Angel, help me up. I see you ah in purple. I hate purple or green, like nature herself, the queen of nature m hm or gold or gold gold my favorite color. Yes, you are indeed and master to Monday, Season four, episode two, Glass Souls by Mike Walker. She's awful, isn't she. She does have a certain style, master like a viper. She's not actually Queen Mother either, just some governor's wife who happened to have an army and a hunger for power. How do you know these things? Angel? That's what you pay me for. When you pay me, Are you receiving an education? And it's better than prison. I would have been out back. Now. I don't think it's powers. She wants not that alone at least and seed in her eyes. I've noticed it in a lot of my subjects, hunger for something, fear of something. What's that temple? More of a ruin. But somehow mhm magnificent. They've been under occupation for m hm hm. What happened? Wait? Inside, Master, I'll think that I have to go. What is it? Driver? You just ran out in front? So are you hurt? You have to go, please, sah. I have to see him. I have to go. What is it? I have to see the Grandmaster. I have to see him. Make away, make away, Thank you to the grand You're right, it seems to be odd fellow, some kind of monk. I think he's running after those soldiers, the first and bal Iraq. The armor, all that I will steal. It'll look fine, with the silk and the flesh, the hard adge, soft curve, you know, engine. I'm beginning to see possibilities in this place. After all odds? What do you want? Fop? Can't have to see the Grandmaster to gather your breath, pil Grim, I'm bellow, he told me, to come to see him if anything happened, I have to see him, all right, all right, wait here or oh, Grandmaster, what is it? I'm sorry to disturb you at your devotions. It is the monk mellow. He says he must speak to you. Send him in. Shall I leave you? No? Stay? Hello? Speak? I'm so sorry, grandmsself. I don't know how it happened. You told me to keep you informed. I came at once. I don't know what to say. It was a shop, what a breeze. He's gone, the huffies gone. I went to his room this morning to waken, and he was no more. He's no longer of this world you mean? I mean he's amished, gone away. But where I could ask you that? Did he show any signs? The night before? He went to bed as usual, drunken, elevated in the spirit, Grandmaster, you'll notice nothing out of the ordinary. Are you sure certain? It's completely out of character? He never leaves his residence unless he has to four official duties. Go back to the Hefesus palace. See if he has returned. Send word. My men will be with you shortly. Go now right, yes, of course, I simply what do you intend to do, Grandmaster, and he is necessary for our purpose. I have an army. They will find him. This city has been growing and changing for five thou years, Grandmaster, There's a whole other city underground. Does your army even know about that? Nevertheless, we must have him. It is written in the scrolls. The successor of the teacher must be present. You know I am true to your Grandma. Yes I do. An army will do you no good. To catch a rabbit in a warrant, you need a ferret. There is such a man I know who could find the huffies. Oh. He knows every street, every alley, every cellar in every attic, and he knows the underworld too. Shortly after dawn a bell rings. It's early, but early and late have no meaning here. We leave our rooms. We shuffle along the corridors of our home, as we have done for a thousand days, and more, as we will do. There's no time in this place, no future. Only I'm not pushy. Wait your turn. It's the same as yesterday. There before is the scene that you're not to complaine. Thank you, colong, Come on, keep moving? What is this? This is slap for slaves? I demand better food fit for us some time. Glego, Hello, friend, you don't need to be that stuff. Commander Gregor. I brought you something from the guardroom, something more fitting, and you keep your hands off it, your bustard, and you stop. I've got my eyes on you. Thank you left my pleasure. We're in the same business, really, you and me. You've got to stick together. Anything you want apart from walking out the door, which none of us can do. Then you've only got to ask. Thank you, simply ask. You can rely on me, and I hope I can rely on you. Thank you. Olaf. Yes, I need to take any kindness I can get. I'm a prisoner. I often wondered what it was like. Now I know I have to stop fighting, accept things as they are, get through, stay alive. Because he could let souls what he steals souls. I'll show you, shy and that old man. You wouldn't believe me if I told you you must see it with your own eyes. Who will? She? Is that what I've become another lunatic babbling on about souls. M Come on. Once I was master of the cellars of the Palace of tuman Bay, and now on following a blind man into the cellars of a madhouse. I don't like this. Do I even know what I'm doing? Trust me? M h We are in Olive's room. What's that smell? You know it, don't you? Gregor Death? Mm hmm. Olive must have been at his games recently in Look, what do you see? Nothing? It's pitch black. Wait, there's a window, and the moons will be in line. Soon light will come through. M Oh, my god, now you see go go look closer, Oh, little figures of glass, so beautiful, so many. He's created a theater of death. He burns them in the furnace and uses their ashes in the glass, their souls trapped in glass forever. There's no such thing as a soul. Look and see as I cannot. So everyone is mad here, including the gods. I'm in the house of the dead and will die here unless I can find my way out of this labyrinth. There was a wrestler, a fine man, this one here he once defeated the Sultan's champion. And a princess, the Princess Gormala. This one she used to read to me, Such a kind young woman, a princess in the hurry um before Sultan hal Guri. I think the first wife was jealous and had her sent here. What are you doing? You mustn't touch it, my friend, Please Commander olive with It's all right. If he even knew we were down here, he would relax. Gormala, you say, isn't she exquisite? This world is not as you know it. If you are to save tom, they must understand that. What did you say, I said nothing. We must go, as you can see, offended. Time has not been kind to the palace or the city cadefended, which is why we're calling on the greatest banker in tuman Bay. The Sultana awaits with impatience. You are the only man and to you my group, my friend, I didn't know you're going to be here. You are seeing the Sultana, but alone to the empire too. We should be getting on if you will excuse us, come well, good to see my group, and you you do will to stay clear of this business. Come in with me. I'd take care of my friends and your enemies what enemies? And i'd see Elly alive? Do you take care? Come? I'm not happy to see that man here. Frankly, his reputation is not good said very much the same thing about you me. I am your friend Pula. The Sultana insisted we see him as well, since he was here. But all my support is behind you, you know. I have a feeling that's what you say to all the bankers. Shall we go in? But let me ask you this sometimes am I? Now? If I may, how are you going to pay this back? What surety are you offering? The city has been plundered under occupation, first by Maya, then by the Ballad. The Ballara are not occupying the city, offending. They are here at the invitation of the Sultana as advisers and are soon to depart. Is that not correct, majesty? With respect, majesty, I am a practical man, ideal in coin hard facts. I would not be here discussing these matters if I did not know your visier. Please offended. There's no need, no no. This man is a shrewd man. He has a reputation, thank you, and he will tell you. Man, Will you please look at me when you talk to her us that's only a fool lens gold without surety. Ah, And if I may, majesty, that's not true. We can easily Vizier. Please say what you have to say, a defendi. You see, we don't need your goal. What what are you saying? We have to rebuild this entire time, mistress. Time is not luxury you possess, Cadi. Remember that your time is in my gift. Go on. What we need pular offended is a credit line, a backer. You lend us the gold, but keep it in your vaults, and we use it to secure secondary learns gold. We need gold. People trust gold, they can taste gold. We can thus rebuild the city and its institutions. And above all, we will raise confidence. And upon confidence we can grow the economy with what I proposing. Your gold is protected. We use this gold to raise more gold. The city grows, taxes flow, trade agreements are arranged, and the ball Iraq will be on the way. We may be able to do something we feel a loyalty to too man Bay, it has been our home. Give me some time, how much time? Not long? Madam? You must remember, though the greater the risk to us, the greater the cost to you. Cost is nothing. We will create a great event. Visitors will come from across the empire. It will resound to our glory. Together we will make human Bay great once again. Thank you? Is there anything else? We thank you for your time and attention. If Endy anything we can do, please call on us. There is one thing I noticed our friend the bank on the group as we arrived. Right, you have the right to, as we say, shop around, not that I would well the group. The man's methods are questionable, his practice as close to criminal. As I say, no more, we understand. Let me see you out. If Endy, wow, what do you think? Cost is nothing? Cost is everything? We have no gold now, even though you seem happy to spend it on entertainers and parties and the expensive perfumes. So young and so inexperience, my sweet, the people of Tuman Bay need to be amused. If they have time to think, then what will they think about? Why should they be obedient to an authority that shows neither power, nor wealth, nor confidence nor style. That's what they want, a ruler who makes them feel they are the greatest people in the world. And the ballaraq the greatest nights in the world are grass in the wind. They will be taken care of. Trust your mother, m hm. I look forward to receiving your proposal. P life, and when might we expect that she is a problem. I'm sorry the woman fat him and the so called queen mother. She spends too much. Rebuilding a city is an expensive endeavor. I'm not talking about that. It's fine to borrow to make more, to build, to grow. But I hear through my people, well, let's just say your mistress has expensive taste. We will never see our goal back if we lend it to her. I don't want to be divisive, but there is another offer. Mac group again, think about it. Make your decision now. Is there anything else I can arrange for your project? No, thank you. We're going to the Great Court. That's what it used to be. Now it's the grand Master's Court. I believe it would appear he has a great concern for justice and for taking things over its inters. I was deeply sorry to hear about your father's sister, Pila. It was a brutal crime to be murdered by his own wife in the bridal bed, of all places, and on their wedding night. She was his tenth life. You know he had reached the limit allowed by the match too such a loss. He wasn't old man. This girl should have served his needs until the world is sometimes a terrible place. Indeed, but she will face justice now. She will bend Pila until the next time. I've brought food from prison. Nine you again, what you got for me? Bout down the passage? No, no, no, they moved her going to court today, she's in the holy side. Everybody, I Matilla, Matilla, it's today. I bought you an apple, some bread. You need to eat. You have to be strong. Did you hear what I said? It's today? I know, I know it's going to be all right. No, it's not. I'm going to be hanked Frog. No, I'm going to talk to someone. Don't you see if they call it the Grandmaster's court because he's blind and justice is blind. Your train was right. The blind men will kill me. It shouldn't be you. I put the cord around that bastard's throat. I killed him. I should be here, not you. I should tell them I can do this if I know you'll live. But if we both die, then there's nothing. No one took it to Serene and find my little brother and no Is. I managed to get some money. We could get a lawyer. Four Frog, I killed my husband, a rich man there's only one way this can end. You have to do something. What can I do? You can hold my head, Just hold my head. Drawing board on the table, drawing board chokes easels. I know what I'm doing. Don't go in here, don't get the other things. We're going to need to stretch the campus. This is going to be on the grand skime. No one has actually talked about payment yet. We need to get that sorted before you do any work. Master. They've promised a lot, but so far nothing. I'm an artist, not some tradesman. Even so, we'll need to eat, and there are other expenses. Wine may not be so easy to get here. You must be the artists. Who are you the apprentice? I don't need any apprentices, but I wish to study. Be off with you, girl. Mr Piero has no need of another helper. I would be polite and humble, and I am not. You do seem signor little. I will loudly box your ears if you don't leave at once. But this is my palace. I am minell the Sultana. I do hope your needs have been seen too. Ah, I'll forgive me, majesty. I had no idea you you don't take after your mother. I didn't recognize. Don't don't move, sorry, please, don't move, Majesty. The life is perfect. She's not my mother. She was the mother of my late husband, Prince Herod. Wonderful, such a fine face. Look at me for a moment, Majesty, and history will gaze on you forever. M he's sketching you. The light is very good here, big windows. So does this mean you're not going to box my ears? Your Majesty's ears are quite safe. M And I hope, I hope. I am forgiven. I should consider the matter. Thank you, Mhm. I have heard that the old Sultan al Ghuri was also a great artist in his way. Even in our country. He's renowned for his perfumes. Does anything remain of his laboratory? I don't know. I could ask the physician. They used to spend hours together, Theros and Aguri. They were almost friends, except well, the Sultan can have no friends. I hope that's not true. UM. Yes, I will see if the laboratory. Perhaps we could if I decided not to cut off your head. I hope not. I'm very attached to it. I must go. You will sit for me again. I will make a great work. Goodbye, your majesty. I your name, I don't know your name. My name is Angel. Thank you Angel? What what what was all that about? H? Well, come up, h the time, amore? Not your normal scruff. This is a man of statcher. This is your chance to save yourself. Girl, Go in, Go in, m sit down. This is my son varouk pillar. You deprived him of his grandfather. Let me look at you. Lift your head, look into my eyes. You're very young. So what do you have to say for yourself? All right, I'm sorry for your father's death. I wish it hadn't happened that night. Your father was going to kill me. You were disobedient, You were not a proper wife. He killed his other wives. He told me what he did to them. Well, they were disobedient too. It's true he did have a weakness my father, and I understand that for a young girl this would have been a difficult experience. Yes, so we find ourselves in this situation something no one would envy. Father. If I may say, no, fathero, you may not my father the merchant Bervand did you not have him killed by your father's men? Isn't that a life for a life. That is a very interesting thought. In another life, perhaps you should have been a banker like me. It may offer us a way forward because we have a choice here in what happens to you in the end. I'm sure my father was fond of you, you see, my sincere young woman. And what is the use of carrying hatred? We must web the facts of the case with compassion. Thank you, Cindy, Thank you for seeing us come from Thank you for coming to Cindy. Commander. We have been looking for you everywhere. Sergeant, here he is. I found him for you, Commander Gregor. We have been ordered to escort you back to two Mumbai. What why those are our orders? We will leave once the moons are up. You will accompany us. Whose order is this? Tell me what is going to happen to me? The Grandmaster wishes to see you. That is all you need to know. Be ready. I have some refreshments in my private rooms, Commander, to prepare you for the journey. I would be honored if you would. Ah, the inmates are going wild. Nothing like this has ever happened before. I fear it's given them hope mm hmm, as if they didn't have enough delusions already, little quiet and done when they don't get any supper. Come my friend Greg. Wait wait? True? Is what true? If you go, he'll kills me like the others. I think I am next on his Listen. I can't help you. Remember if I'm going, I'm going. Actually, I'm glad to have caught you before you go, because well, you may have seen things here that I mean. I'm sure you understand. We are responsible for keeping the palace safe, and we are only doing what is necessary our jobs. Please sit if you wish, Thank you. Spirits are obviously forbidden to the inmates, but well, a bowl of arc I have a friend amongst those who supplies m hm m. I needed that. This place can get you down. You need a hobby, something to take your mind away from all this. No, Commander, I have been thinking, Yes, you and I are really colleagues, now, aren't we in the same way of business? Security and safety. I hope you won't forget me when you return to the city. How could I perhaps if you need an assistant. I have heard about you, asked a few people. You are quite something, spymaster the sultan allegory. You are something once and well maybe if you when you need someone who will be loyal. Nothing I wouldn't do, commander, to get out of this stump, I could help you. What is it? The last figure in on the shelf? Oh that I see you? What amount of taste? Commander record? Let me show you. I make these glass figurine It's my hobby. Here, my escape. If you will, may I well? If you all right? But to be careful. They are so very exquisite, isn't it. Perhaps I will make one of you one day, perhaps, but unlikely. Careful. It's come here. I want to show you something like Yes, but perhaps you should put that back first. It's so very now eat you? What have you? I am sorry, I didn't mean to sound it's just closer. What very dirt? Sup? What in the name of seven guys thought you might need some help? Commander? I'm here to help. Good to come in? Oh what have you done? Learly? What everyone in this building wanted to do? Help me lift him? And we need a room with a window. Yes, yes, yes, I know just the place. Ye come on next case number clock and seven hundred and forty three, but bring it in seven hundred and forty three. The court must be silent, so the accused maybe heard. Matella, wife of Cisco Pillar, you are accused of murder. It's no, I mean he wasn't murder. I see the accused her supplied the confession. Yes, I never did that. I have it here. She said, I neglected my duties as a wife. I was disobedient and planned to murder. You don't understand, silence. You designed to murder your husband and master, and carried out your plan without mercy. These are the facts. You have confessed to kill her. He's a monster, he was a devil, pregner. You shouldn't be here. The court has heard your words. Now be silent. Be silent. It's not be silent. He deserved it. Arest that boy God him. Silence, silence. I will empty this court. It seems he got away offended. Judge very well. I will now proceedute sentencing. The court finds you, Mattila, daughter of Melissa Fair mc bullsher Massi Baband, guilty of the murder of your husband, Cisco Pilar, a merchant of the city and a man of the highest standing. There can be no mitigating circumstances when her wife murders her husband and master in the bed that she shared with him is a member of the Pillar family. President. I am offended, Judge and his son Maldive ah iffendy, this is my son. Absolutely pleasure. Young man, you have been cruelly deprived of the head of your family, loving father and grandfather. According to the law of human baby, choice rests with you. You may forgive the prisoner. You may ask for compensation or demand the life for a life. Have you come to a decision? We have fact and what is your choice? Praz prez pe We choose death. Crying will not help you. Now, my dear, you should have thought about your crimes before you committed them. Take her away. Come on, seven hundred and seventy three, next makes my Yeah, I got him, yeah, yeah, ah yeah. It's the highest tower in the palace that I can believe. Get him over to the window. He's going to tip him out. It'll seem like he fell and broke his neck. Rak. I think he was drinking in secret, and blame will beyond him. Get him up, Come on, come on, wait. Oh now, his keys they're missing. He never went anywhere without them, clipped them to his belt. I know where they are. Wait here, m ah mm hmm. What then, mh I'm sorry. It's been so wrong to help us fresh body. I couldn't. I mean, what do we do now? It's all right, really, it's not all right. I can deal with the body. No one will ever know he just vanished. They'll think he went back to the city. It's good end badly for you. So no, this is what I am going to God all right, I'll leave you to your ways. If you do two things for me, anything, look after the old man and break every one of those damned glass statues. You can trust me. Goodbye, sob goodbye, Commander. Are you ready, Commander? I'm ready? Take me to to Monday. Yeah. Season four, Episode two of tuman Bay Glass Souls, featuring Rufus Wright, Asha Heart, Anton Lesser, and Kirsty Bushell, was written by Mike Walker, with music by Sasha Putnam and editing and sound designed by Eloise Whitmore. H m hm. Tuman Bay is directed by Me John Scott Dryden and created by Me and Mike Walker, and produced by Emma Hern and Nadir Khan. For more details, including scripts and a full cast list, visit to Munbay dot com.

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