The Power (2023) s01e01 Episode Script

1
[MARGOT] We never dared to imagine it.
A world that was built for us.
[REPORTERS CHATTERING]
Where we made the rules.
[CAMERAS CLICKING]
Where we could take what we wanted.
A world where God looked like us.
[MUFFLED SIRENS]
Where we were not afraid.
Where we were the ones to be feared.
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
- [GASPING]
But that world was at our fingertips.
All we had to do was burn
down the world that was.
- [EXPLOSION]
- [MAN SCREAMS]
- [WOMAN SCREAMS]
- [GRUNTS]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
[GASPS]
[SCREAMING]
[SIGHS]
Every revolution begins with a spark.
[WOMAN VOCALIZING]
[MRS. MONTGOMERY] Lord knows
what she's been through.
We were told her mama gave
her up when she was three.
She's been bounced around from
one foster home to another.
But all that's behind us
now, isn't it, sweetie?
Doctors say there's nothing
wrong with her, physically.
But, um, she just won't talk.
She hasn't said a word in six months.
In speech therapy we call
this selective mutism.
It's a psychological condition.
It happens most frequently in
children who've experienced trauma.
Now, no offense, but is it
possible that all this therapy,
it's just making a
mountain out of a molehill?
Maybe Allie is just the quiet type.
Nothing wrong with that.
Lord knows, the Missus does
enough talking for the both of 'em.
Clyde! Always messin'!
[LAUGHTER]
But we have been
blessed in so many ways.
Just never with a child of our own.
We've had foster children before,
plenty of 'em, but, um
But Allie's different.
I was hoping, with a little
structure and stability,
lots of love and prayer
that we could get her speaking again.
[THERAPIST] She will. When she's
ready. When she feels stronger.
And that's something
we can work on together.
If that's okay with you, Allie?
[OLD CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
Just a closer walk with Thee ♪
I am weak ♪
But Thou art strong ♪
[MRS. MONTGOMERY] Allie, can
you find me the yellow hairtie?
Allison.
Thank you.
As I walk ♪
Let me walk close to Thee ♪
[PREACHER] Brothers
and sisters in Christ.
I have a disease.
The doc says the symptoms
are failure to mow
the lawn once a week
[FAINT LAUGHTER]
eyeballing my neighbour's new truck,
spending too much on shoes.
and looking just a little too long
at that picture of Scarlett
Johansson in her superhero outfit.
[CHUCKLING]
Yes, the doc says that I
have a raging case of
sinful human nature, y'all,
and it's hereditary.
Sin
passed down from my
great-great-great-great-grandmama Eve.
- Original sin
- [VOICE] Bullshit.
- [PREACHER] That we are bathed in, and
- [VOICE] Blame Eve.
"Always blame Eve."
That's what you're
thinking, isn't it, Allie?
[PREACHER] I am forbidding from my lust.
[VOICE] It's time to use that voice.
I know you got one.
[PREACHER] To live right
[WHISPERS] I'll go after her.
- [PREACHER] with faith and worship
- [WHISPERS] Stay.
[VOICE] No point in running,
girl. I'm in your head.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Call me your guardian angel,
the devil, your mama
I'm here to keep you safe.
You don't got to be afraid.
You don't ever have to be afraid again.
You can feel it, can't you?
Right there in your chest.
The power.
A better future is in your hands.
I was never taught
'bout what shame is ♪
Never did dun that, that's basic ♪
Other bitches chasin' status ♪
Soon I learnt that's
what this game is ♪
Everybody wanna clap back ♪
With the backchat ♪
I'ma back that ♪
Never backtrack, just on it ♪
[GURGLING, SPITS]
Who just go chit
chat on the playground ♪
Then chat shit to their fake crowd ♪
[CHRISTINA] Roxy? The
wedding starts in an hour!
Fuck.
- [CHRISTINA] Roxy!
- Fuck.
Are you crying?
No.
You belong there as much
as any of them, darling.
Mum, it's not that deep.
I poked myself in the
eye with a fucking pencil.
[SNIFFS]
Hmm.
So is this what you're wearing, yeah?
Mum, stop stressing me!
Sorry. You look gorgeous.
When I was your age, I
had a dress like that.
I had a lot more
cleavage on show, though.
[CHRISTINA GIGGLES]
[ROXY] Slut.
[CHRISTINA GASPS, SLAPS ROXY]
Hey! Aah!
[BOTH LAUGH]
I'm gonna ask Dad for a proper job.
[CHRISTINA] Oh, not today,
Rox. I'm warning you.
There's a lot hanging on this
wedding. He's wound up enough as it is.
- Did you speak to him?
- [CHRISTINA] Yeah.
I had a pint with him last week.
You know
he doesn't see you that way, darling.
[CHRISTINA] I always thought
I'd have a big wedding.
No one's good enough for you, Mum.
You're beautiful, you know that.
[BOTH LAUGH]
You'll bring us back
a piece of cake, yeah?
- [MAN 1] Good morning, sir.
- [MAN 2] Mr. Monke.
[ELEGANT MUSIC PLAYING]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [DISHES CLANKING]
[PASTRY CHEF] Good morning, Mr. Monke.
What's that?
That is what you ordered.
Do I look like an Irishman?
No, I just followed the
instructions your wife gave me.
Are you saying my wife is
a lying fucking Irish cunt?
Mr. Monke. Everything okay?
[MR. MONKE] That's
not the cake I ordered.
It's green.
Make me a new one.
I-I'm sorry. That's
impossible, sir. Um
We cut the cake in a matter of hours.
Um
[MANAGER] M-Mr. Monke,
I'm sure we can
[CLATTERING]
[MANAGER] Um
Make me a new one.
["BRUTAL" BY OLIVIA RODRIGO PLAYING]
I'm so insecure,
I think that I'll ♪
I'm gonna be right back.
I'm gonna do the other
eye off-camera, and then
Of who likes me, and who hates you ♪
And I'm so tired that I might ♪
Quit my job, start a new life ♪
And they'd all be so disappointed ♪
'Cause who am I, if not exploited? ♪
And I'm so sick of 17 ♪
I'm over this teenage dream ♪
If someone tells me one more time ♪
"Enjoy your youth," I'm gonna cry ♪
And I don't stick up for myself ♪
I'm anxious and nothing can help ♪
And I wish I'd done this before ♪
And I wish people liked me more ♪
All I did was try my best ♪
This the kind of thanks I get? ♪
Unrelentlessly upset ♪
They say these are the golden years ♪
But I wish I could disappear ♪
Ego crush is so severe ♪
God, it's brutal out here ♪
I feel like no one wants me ♪
And I hate the way I'm perceived ♪
I only have two real friends ♪
And lately, I'm a nervous wreck ♪
'Cause I love people I don't like ♪
And I hate every song I write
And I'm not cool and I'm not smart ♪
And I can't even parallel park ♪
All I did was try my best ♪
This the kind of thanks I get? ♪
[ALL EXCEPT JOS] Merry Christmas!
Mom, stop. I told you I
didn't want to wear this.
[MARGOT] Aw, you look cute, honey.
No fucking way.
Mom, don't post this!
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
- [JOS GROANS IN PAIN]
[MARGOT] Jos, hurry up!
You're gonna miss the bus!
[TRADITIONAL MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
[SPEAKING YORUBA]
[SPEAKING YORUBA]
[CAR HORN HONKS]
[NDUDI] Hey, Tunde!
[TUNDE] Hey, Ndudi!
Are you crazy, going
through the market like that?
Ah, you know me. Nothing touches me.
[IN YORUBA] I'm from the hood.
Ah.
Ndudi, is it okay if
we take a rain check?
[KISSES TEETH]
It's my first week and Popsy's
not gonna want me out late.
Let me just tell you about it, eh?
It's going to break the Internet.
- I'm telling you.
- Oh, come on, Ndudi!
Let me just give you a ride home.
[SIGHS] Okay. You can
just drop me at the gates.
- Hold this.
- [CAR HORN HONKS]
[SCOFFS]
[SIGHS]
You are still struggling
with nine-to-five, eh?
Ah, please.
I'm gonna be a journalist,
no matter what my dad wants.
[SIGHS]
Come on.
All right, we do one small post.
- That's it, okay? Are you ready?
- Okay. I'm ready.
Okay, welcome back to
Tunde Ojo's Guide to Lagos!
[GREETS IN OTHER LANGUAGE]
very, very special guest, okay?
Listen, listen well.
Well, she's Lagos' number
one lady journalist.
More of a journalist
than you'll ever be.
- Ndudi Okafor!
- Ay!
Who has a story that's
going to change the world.
- And it's about
- Juju.
- Really?
- Yes, yes, really.
- Magic sheets?
- It's about Juju.
- [SIGHS]
- Come back to me.
[LAUGHS]
So the cousin of a girl I know
invited her to a juju
meeting, just for women,
- to awaken their powers.
- [TUNDE] Wow,
- their powers.
- I know, right?
It's got to be a scam.
- So I'm thinking I go in
- Uh-huh.
- you do hidden filming.
- Yeah.
- I put it in my thesis.
- Yeah.
You put the video on your channel,
and we destroy some criminals.
Eh?
- Come on, Tunde!
- Yeah?
- I know you can't resist a scoop.
- Uh, Ndudi, come on, I can't, uh
What? Who are you texting?
Is it Tinder? You are
Tindering, aren't you?
[GATES OPENING]
Oh.
You already have plans.
Um
[DOOR SLAMS]
Call me when you get back?
Maybe.
I'll probably be tired.
Mr. Journalist.
You are early.
[ADUNOLA] You are late.
[POP MUSIC PLAYING]
You know, Ndudi still likes you.
That was just a one-time thing.
Mm.
One-time thing, he says.
You are such a heartbreaker, Tunde.
Okay.
Prove it.
[EXHALES]
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
[ADUNOLA PANTING]
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
- [TUNDE YELPS]
[EXHALING]
[TUNDE] I-I'll be back in a minute.
[SIGHS]
What the fuck was that?
Shit.
[WATER RUNNING]
[CELL PHONE CHIMES]
Adunola!
Adunola!
[LAUGHTER, INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[TERRY] Hey, Rox!
Okay, cool.
Excuse me. Where's table 20?
- At the back.
- Where?
By the toilet.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Sorry, mate.
[WEDDING GUEST] Excuse me? Would
you mind taking our picture?
[WOMAN] Thanks.
- [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
- [WOMAN] Oh, thank you.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
- [ROXY] You're beautiful.
- Thank you.
Roxy. Roxy. Don't go barging in.
Piss off, Terry.
[INAUDIBLE]
Why is Ricky sweating like a rapist?
I dropped a couple of laxatives
in his coffee this morning.
[SOFTLY] Shut up.
[IN HEBREW] Blessed are you
our Lord, King of the Universe,
- who makes the fruit of the vine.
- [ROXY CHUCKLES]
- [RABBI] Amen.
- [TERRY] Amen.
Amen.
[BUSINESSMAN 2, IN HEBREW]
Blessed are you our Lord,
King of the Universe, for whose
glory everything is created.
- [ROXY BANGS ON TABLE]
- Oh.
- [IN HEBREW] Blessed are you our Lord
- [BOTH LAUGH]
- What the fuck are you wearing?
- King of the Universe, who made
mankind in His image,
according to His likeness,
You look like a bag of dicks, Darrell.
and who fashioned with
mankind an enduring creation.
[APPLAUSE]
Rox in a dress. Where'd you nick that?
Your wardrobe.
Sick dance floor, Dad.
- Hello, petal.
- Oh, you look nice, Babs.
I couldn't see you without
my binoculars from my table.
Well, it's nice to
see you took your seat.
Don't want the £200
dinner to go to waste.
Mm, yeah, de-lish.
All right, darling, come on, okay?
Why don't you and me go
and have a little toast?
Yeah, I could do with a drink.
["SWAY" BY MICHAEL BUBLÉ PLAYS]
What?
When marimba rhythms start to play ♪
[ROXY] Hey, what's with
the fairy-tale Chuppah?
Seriously, are we 12?
[BERNIE] Barbara's idea, not mine.
Well, you have got her accustomed
to the Disney princess life.
Only yourself to blame.
[BERNIE] So, what we're gonna
do about this big birthday, eh?
We gotta do something
special for your 18th.
Are you gonna hire me
the ballroom, Daddy?
That's enough, Rox.
There is one thing that I want.
What's that, darlin'?
I wanna work for you.
Let me come work for you.
You know I run rings around Terry.
Well, I'm tougher than Darrell.
Darrell
keeps a cool head.
You snap, Rox.
That's not okay.
You are too emotional.
I do have a position that needs filling.
It's a spa.
In the Cotswolds.
Cotswolds as in not London?
Yeah.
Six months, a year, in the most
beautiful part of this sodden country.
- A year?
- Prove yourself.
Come back richer, better lungs.
And maybe even bag yourself
a funny-sounding boyfriend.
Or a girlfriend. Whatever.
[APPLAUSE]
Yeah. Thanks, Dad.
Time for the speeches.
Now you come and listen your
old man make a tit of himself.
Yeah, in a minute.
We'll pick up this chat later.
Don't you go nowhere.
[SIGHS]
[GUESTS APPLAUDING]
[BERNIE] As Shem said to Abram,
"Go to the lands, I will show you,
and I will give you as many descendants
as there are stars in the sky.
And I will give them all these lands,
and the people of the world will
be blessed with your descendants."
I am blessed with three beautiful sons.
And now
Now
Now, in Liat, I have a
daughter to call my own.
- [WOMAN 1] Aw.
- [WOMAN 2] So sweet.
[MUSIC PLAYS]
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
I'm Bernie Monke's daughter.
["WIZARD" BY DORA JAR PLAYING]
I'm not a shy little
girl, I'm a wizard ♪
With a pearl in my hand ♪
With a heavy dose of adrenaline ♪
Call me a chemical man ♪
I'm not a shy girl, I'm a wizard ♪
Do I have to say it again?
I'm like a mystic stuck on a gum ball ♪
Hey, Jos.
[DISTORTED SPEECH]
What happened to your glasses?
I sat on them.
[GUARD] All right. Move ahead, please.
Move.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
[GUARD] Are you kiddin'
me? It just went down again.
[DETECTOR BEEPS]
One second, miss.
Clear.
[GUARD] Next.
[ALL CHATTERING]
- [GROANS]
- You okay?
Yeah?
Yeah.
Do you ever just have
one of those days where
you feel weird and in your own skin?
Uh, yeah.
Yeah, like, every day.
[CHUCKLES]
- [GASPS]
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
- Whoa!
- [OTHERS GASP AND GROAN]
Did you feel that? That was like
the biggest static shock ever.
[NERVOUSLY] Yeah, I felt it.
Crazy. Um, I'll see you around, okay?
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[CAT] I know what that is.
What?
What're you doing later?
Nothing.
[MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
[MR. MONTGOMERY] Allie, get
your head out of the clouds.
[LAUGHS] You got the ice cream
all dripping down your leg.
Here you go.
Space Cadet.
[MR. MONTGOMERY LAUGHS]
Boom, boom, boom, boom ♪
Jump, jump, hey, slide, slide ♪
A cup of coffee and feeling great ♪
[CONTINUES SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
[VOICE] It comes when you need it
You'll see.
Hello.
[VOICE] Not yet, baby.
When the time is right, you'll know.
A better future is in your hands.
[MR. MONTGOMERY] Coming through.
[CHUCKLES]
Later, gators!
[MACHINE WHIRRING]
[VOICE] Open your mouth and say it.
Say it, Allie.
There you go.
No, thank you.
I don't like meat.
But you always eat it.
You never asked.
[MR. MONTGOMERY] Well, look who's
chatty Cathy all of a sudden.
[CHUCKLES]
I never understood taking
pleasure from something's death.
Well Alison,
don't talk to your mother that way.
She's not my mother.
And you're not my father.
Please, dear, just eat the meat.
Know your place.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
This has never been my place.
[SOFTLY] This has never been my place.
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
[VOICE] Don't be scared.
You know what to do.
You've got this.
[EXHALES]
I'll go talk to her.
I'll put your food back in the oven.
No.
I'll be in a minute.
[VOICE] How many little
girls have there been?
How many pigtails?
[DOOR OPENS]
Never again.
Never fucking again.
[BELT UNBUCKLES]
[GRIPPING MUSIC PLAYING]
It ends now.
I know what kind of
girl you are, Alison.
[DISTANT BANGING]
[MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
- Aah!
[MR. MONTGOMERY GRUNTING]
[MUSIC TURNS LOUDER]
[VOICE] Finish him, Allie.
[MR. MONTGOMERY GROANS] Please.
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
- [GRUNTING]
[MUFFLED SCREAMING]
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [MUFFLED SCREAMING]
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
- [SCREAMING STOPS]
- [GASPS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[VOICE] It's time to go, Allie. Run.
Grab that, you're going to need it.
[MUSIC CONTINUES ON RADIO]
[DISHES CLANKING]
[DOOR CLICKS OPEN]
[EXHALES]
[NDUDI] Tunde, I can't talk right now.
Ndudi. Are you still
at that juju meeting?
- Where is it?
- You didn't want to come.
- This is my story.
- No
[CLAMOURING]
- [HORNS HONKING]
- [WOMAN] Fresh banana.
Move!
Dami! Do you know anything
about these juju meetings?
[DAMI] Bad news, Tunde.
Witchcraft. Crazy shit.
I heard about one in the
abandoned houses off Ibese
Oh, okay, okay. Thank you.
Don't say I did not warn you.
[SPEAKING IN YORUBA] No! I
will not give you directions
to anywhere here.
Go home right now.
You have followed trouble to this place.
Go home now! Go home!
- Thanks, Ma.
- Goodbye!
You're gonna make yourself sick.
Nah. Us Monkes have got guts of steel.
You really said the Monkes?
I'm Bernie Monke's daughter.
I didn't know Bernie
Monke had a daughter.
Yeah, no one does
especially after that
speech he just made.
- So then, Ricky
- My brother.
- Oh.
- Well, half-brother anyway.
He's the heir to the throne.
Thinks the sun shines out his ass.
He's a stuck-up prick.
All of 'em are pricks.
Terry's always on at me to
get drugs for his prick mates.
Darrell's a posh prick. Don't
like getting his soft hands dirty.
Dad knocked my mum up when
Babs was pregnant with him.
That's why we're the same age,
and why Babs don't want me here,
don't want me around the fuckin' family.
She's the biggest
fuckin' prick of 'em all.
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
- Aah!
[GASPS]
Oh, shit.
How did you do that?
I dunno.
I should go.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
Hey.
- [CAT] You didn't tell your mom, right?
- [JOS] Hell, no.
So, how long has this
been happenin' to you?
Like, today.
You?
Two weeks.
Shit.
I feel better.
Stronger.
I can set a fire with it.
What is it?
I don't know.
I mean, who cares? It's ours.
[JOS] So does it just, like,
happen or can you control it?
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
It doesn't work when I try.
[CAT] You're overthinking it.
Just feel it.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
[BOTH LAUGH]
[DOG BARKING IN THE DISTANCE]
- [CHRISTINA] Is that you, Rox?
- No.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV]
It's your husband, George Clooney.
[CHRISTINA] You're home early.
So, how was it?
All right.
[CHATTERING AND CHEERING ON TV]
Oh, it's like a work of art.
It's not got dairy in it, has it?
- Kosher, innit.
- Oh, cheers.
Well, tell me everything then.
What was her dress like?
How did he look? Who was there?
White.
Stupid.
Idiots.
[CHRISTINA] And what about the ballroom?
And the bathrooms?
Come on. Give me something.
It was beautiful, Mum.
And what about lady muck?
Did she degrade herself
enough to say hello?
She told me my dinner cost her 200 quid.
Revealing price tags? How common.
I'm sure she spared that
detail from the real guests.
[CHRISTINA] What's the matter?
I hope you didn't bother your
dad, Rox. 'Cause I did tell ya.
He offered me a job.
Oh?
At the Cotswolds spa.
Oh, that's brilliant, Rox.
I thought you didn't
want me to work for him.
No, but this is different.
Oh, that's such a good opportunity
for you to get out of London.
Why is everyone trying
to get me out of London?
Am I in your way?
No, of course not.
I hope you weren't rude to him.
You know, Bernie's looking out for us.
- Yeah. Don't piss him off.
- You go and work in the Cotswolds then.
I want to work for one
of Dad's other businesses.
Why, you'll end up in prison.
Be less boring than a bloody spa!
I earned good, honest money
working as a beautician.
Yeah, then you got
knocked up by a gangster
and now you're living off
the fruit of your loins.
You are an ungrateful little bitch.
- [BANGING]
- [GASPS]
What was that?
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR SLAMS]
- [DAVE] The girl's not meant to be here.
- Get out of my house.
- What the fuck?
- Do you know who you're fucking with?
Shut up.
- This is Bernie Monke's daughter!
- Shut the fuck up!
- Piss off. We're not here for you.
- Rox, go!
[GRUNTING AND SCREAMING]
Leave her alone! She's just a kid!
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
I love you to death. I love you so much.
You'll be okay.
[BOTH CRYING]
Get up!
[GRUNTING]
Fucking get up!
- Oi!
- Get off me!
Mum! Get off me!
Mum!
- Please, no!
- Get out!
[SCREAMS] Mum!
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
- What the fuck?
[SCREAMING]
I'm gonna fucking kill you.
[CHRISTINA] Roxy!
Leave me.
Please somebody
Come here. Get up!
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
[GRUNTING]
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
- [GRUNTS]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[GRUNTS]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
- Hello.
- [KNOCKS ON DOOR]
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING IN THE DISTANCE]
[CAMERA BEEPS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Shit.
[WOMEN CHATTERING]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
[MUSIC GETS LOUDER]
[WOMEN LAUGHING AND CHATTERING]
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
[GASPS, SIGHS]
Tunde, what are you doing here?
Weren't you busy with Adunola?
Ndudi, what is going on?
Ah, this is my story!
[WOMAN SHRIEKS]
- There's a man here!
- Whoa, whoa, whoa. Please.
Listen, I I'm not an intruder.
It's okay, he's with me.
And he's spying on us!
- [BULB SHATTERS]
- [ALL GASP]
- [GRUNTS]
- Aah!
Stop it! He's my friend.
[SCREAMING]
[GRUNTING]
- Oh, shit, shit.
- [NDUDI WHEEZING IN PAIN]
Oh, shit. Wait, wait, wait!
Wait. Somebody help us!
Help!
[CHATTER ON TV]
Mum?
Mum!
[CRYING]
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
[EXHALES]
[VOICE] I know you're tired, baby.
But there's a place you belong.
I promise we'll be there soon.
You'll see the signs.
[ENCHANTING MUSIC PLAYING]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
[SOUND FADES]
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[EXHALES]
Help, Ricky!
Roxy! Roxy!
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Move! Move!
[INAUDIBLE]
[INAUDIBLE]
[MUSIC FADES]
[CHATTERING AND LAUGHTER]
[VOICE] Told you there'd be signs.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
[AQUARIST] The electric eel
has three separate organs
that all work together to generate
powerful shocks that stun their prey.
[VOICE] This power exists in nature.
It was around before you.
It's the most natural
thing in the world.
[AQUARIST] What's even more fascinating
is that eels can use
these electrical pulses
to control their prey's nervous system.
Literally hijacking their
brains and making fish swim
right into their mouths.
Scientists initially believed
that eels were solitary hunters,
but as it turns out, the
most powerful hunt in packs
[VOICE] That's right, baby.
You are going to do big, big things.
Who are you to ask
for anything else? ♪
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
The thing you should be asking is ♪
For help ♪
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
[TUNDE] For women all over the
world, it is the dawn of a new day.
Which has a law of nature
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
- that for every action,
there is a reaction.
[GASPING]
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
- [BOTH GASP]
This is not a hoax.
The world as we know it
may never be the same.
The minute you stepped
out in front of this thing,
you became the face of it.
[MARGOT] This power is evolution.
We got it because we need it.
[WOMAN] I feel something different
about her. Something special.
She could lead.
[BERNIE] That's enough,
Rox. Don't push me.
- Don't fuckin' push me!
- [SHOUTS] Or what!
[TUNDE] This power is spreading.
It's gonna change things
all over the world.
It's a good story. You want
to finish what you started?
People want my power ♪
[SCREAMS]
[JOS] Like, I didn't even realise
that I was living in constant fear.
I just feel like a
hundred pounds lighter.
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
- [SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
And a hundred times stronger.
[MARGOT] What the hell
are the feds doing here?
[MAN] Stop!
You're gonna treat our
kids like fucking criminals?
I might have the lead on something.
They're testing for EOD. They're
saying everyone has to do it.
[MAN] I'm gonna dust
what's left of your career.
[WOMAN] Go tell everybody.
Big change is coming.
Pick a side.
[SCREAMING]
[GASPS]
Oh, my God.
You don't get to tell
us what to do anymore.
People want my power ♪
And they want my station ♪
[TRANCE MUSIC PLAYING]