Shanty Town (2023) s01e02 Episode Script

1
[energetic drumming]
[drumming stops]
[screams]
[indistinct]
- [explosion]
- [gunshot]
[screaming]
[theme music playing]
[double gunshots]
[Afrobeat music playing]
[music continues]
[music fades]
[hailing] Inelistic Inesco.
[cheering]
- [in Pidgin] Inesco, is this really you?
- [cheering ceases]
[in Pidgin] It is me!
[cheering resumes]
[in Pidgin]
I'm back and better exposed now!
It's plenty.
It's plenty.
[Ene, in Pidgin] Enough.
Did she win an award?
[in Ibibio] Let's go.
[shouting excitedly]
[Jagun] Come here!
[in Pidgin] Jagun, are you crazy?
- [in Pidgin] Get your ass here!
- Jagun.
What's wrong with you?
You trying to hit me?
Jagun! Jagun!
Jagun!
Ah!
[groans]
[in Pidgin] Are you crazy?!
[grunts]
[dramatic music playing]
[in Pidgin] Blood! In this hood?
[Jagun] You'll die here today.
Blood!
- You will die today.
- [Ene] Jagun.
Mama, leave before
something happens to you.
She has no idea
you've been promoted, please.
- I don't care about the promotion.
- Whose side are you on?!
[in Ibibio] Shut your mouth.
[in Pidgin] Please.
- [in Pidgin] Let me see your nose.
- Scar will hear of this.
[in Pidgin] Me, bleed in my hood?
- Let me see.
- Scar will hear of this.
- [in Ibibio] Let's go.
- After Scar, I am second in command.
- [in Ibibio] I don't know why you're here.
- [in Pidgin] In this hood!
[Ene] Let's go.
[in Ibibio] I don't understand
why you're picking fights.
Do you know how Shanty Town is?
I haven't had a fight all this while.
[in Ibibio] Sister, don't be upset.
I don't know what came over me.
- I wasn't supposed to react like that.
- [Ene mimics Inem] Let's go.
- [Jackie, in Pidgin] Calm down.
- [Ene] What is going on here?
Mama!
[gasps]
[in Pidgin] Mama, is this you?!
Mama, I thought I'd never see you again.
[in Pidgin] It is me.
[in Pidgin] Mama, I am free
from Shanty Town.
[in Pidgin] I wanted to surprise you.
After all your hustle
in Shanty Town, you're now your own boss.
- [in Pidgin] You're free now?
- [in Pidgin] But it wasn't easy.
There were times when I wanted to give up,
but I remembered
all the things you told me.
I kept going and now I'm free.
[in Pidgin] Now that you're free,
everything you've learned in Shanty Town,
take it with you and live your life.
[Inem] Don't ever look back.
Do you hear me?
And don't regret
anything that you did here.
Because everything
that has happened to you here
is an experience
necessary for your new life.
- [in Pidgin] Do you understand?
- Thank you, Mama.
Thank you.
[Ene] Shalewa!
Attention!
[in Pidgin] This girl here,
her father gave her
to Scar to pay his debt.
What's wrong with you?
Why are you crying?
[in Pidgin] She tried paying
for her freedom.
[in Pidgin] Jackie lent me money
to pay off my father's debt to Scar,
so I'd be free.
Only for Scar to tell me
I owe him 15,000,000 naira.
- [Ene] What?!
- Where will I find that?
Where will I get men
I would sleep with to make 15,000,000?
Where?!
[in Pidgin] Why would you
make such a plan without involving me?
Why won't Scar get
a calculator to calculate her debt?
Are you crazy, Jackie?!
[in Pidgin] Don't raise your voice at me.
What do you mean?
Don't act like you brought me here. I'm
not your child, yet you treat me like one.
I am free now.
[in Pidgin]
That's why you are talking like a slave.
[Inem, in Pidgin] That's enough.
You all should take this energy
to fight Scar.
Fighting each other
now doesn't make sense.
You all should calm down, please.
[Jackie, in Pidgin] Shalewa, I'm leaving.
- Don't leave me.
- Forget about the money I lent you.
[in Pidgin] Forget about it.
- I don't want to hit somebody here.
- Get out!
- Don't let me fight you.
- Fight yourself and get out of here.
Idiot!
[in Pidgin] Take it easy with them,
they are kids.
[in Pidgin] Are you referring to
these ones who fuck anything, as kids?
- They fuck more than me.
- Relax.
- I'm out of here, you all should rest.
- That's okay.
- Shalewa.
- [Ene muttering]
[in Pidgin] That's okay.
Don't worry.
You are a strong girl,
everything will be fine.
Don't worry, okay?
You live alone inside
Nobody but you where you die
Yeah, I
Yeah, man
Jealousy
You live alone inside
Nobody but you where you die
Yeah, I
Listen up
Yeah, yeah
No fear in my body's system
Gunshot wounds if we ever see them
- Pilot.
- Yes? [chuckles]
[engine starts]
[stammers] Jackinator!
I'm going to town, can you take me?
[in Pidgin] Yes. [stammering]
- [stammers] Where are you going?
- I'm going to Epe.
[stammering] Epe?
The same, the same
the same Ep Epe?
[in Pidgin] Not at all.
[in Pidgin] It is far. [stammering]
[in Pidgin] What are you saying?
Even Dangote still works for money,
or don't you want money?
[stammering] I will go.
[in Pidgin] It's okay, I'll go.
[Shalewa] Jackie
[driver mumbles]
Hey, Shalewa.
[Jackie] My Barbie.
[in Pidgin] You're heading to town, right?
Yes, I'm heading to town.
[in Pidgin] I want to go to town too.
I just want to go somewhere
for a drink. You know what happened.
If I can raise
some money tonight, I can start saving.
Don't be upset, okay? You'll be fine.
I understand, it's not your fault.
This is how this place is.
Don't worry, okay?
[in Igbo] Everything will be fine.
- [in Pidgin] I know you're a strong babe.
- [in Pidgin] You know this.
Take care, send me a message
on Whatsapp when you arrive.
- Of course!
- All right.
Mr. Touch and Follow, please drive safely.
[stammering] Okay.
- [in Pidgin] Are you going or not?
- Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
[stammering]
Congratulations on your freedom.
[in Pidgin] You are always
interferring in people's businesses.
Congrats.
JACKIE IS GOING TO EPE
- [Jackie] Mr. Man!
- Yes.
[in Pidgin] Come and take me out of here!
[in Pidgin] I'm coming. [stammering]
[mimics driver] You're coming.
Sorry.
- Sorry for yourself.
- Sorry.
[in Pidgin]
You are always in people's business.
Sorry.
[Jackie, in Pidgin] Just take me
out of here, you are wasting so much time.
JACKIE IS GOING TO EPE. I WILL SEND
THE WHATSAPP LOCATION WHEN WE GET THERE
[in Yoruba] Ah! Father!
The Warlord!
The overseer of wealth!
Number one.
The leader of all Yoruba land.
My father, I prostrate before you, sir.
- [Chief Fernandez] Aboderin.
- Father!
I hope I didn't disturb your thoughts.
Huh?
[Scar, in Yoruba] One's blessings
must not pass one by.
You are the one helping us.
[Chief Fernandez, in Yoruba] Get up.
Shake my hand.
[Scar, in Yoruba] Warrior.
A philanthropist.
I worship you, Father.
Aboderin.
[Scar, in Yoruba] Father.
[in Yoruba] A patient dog
eats the fattest bone.
[Scar, in Yoruba] That's right.
[Chief Fernandez] That is what
my father's fathers told their sons.
They were hunters, you see.
Hunters
and fishermen.
Aboderin.
Do you know what it means to wait
for something that you really want?
My forefathers could wait.
It was their lifestyle.
They would pick a position
and wait.
Pick a moment
and wait.
They would pick a target
and wait.
It was only after all the waiting
has been done,
that they strike.
Aboderin.
Do you know what happens
when they strike?
They kill.
At the time, my forefathers,
they lived at Ile Ife.
They were the first migrants
that found Eko.
[Chief Fernandez] Hmm?
Later named
Lagos State.
But they lost their ways.
They forgot who they were.
They became politicians.
Politicians are foolish.
[in Yoruba] They do not think.
Aboderin
Politicians want it now.
Do you know the Guttenberg Galaxy?
Hmm?
[in Yoruba] No, sir.
Oh, it was there
that Marshall McLuhan
first suggested
that the world
is a global village
and the skills
to rule the village,
is that of a hunter,
or a fisherman.
[laughing]
Aboderin.
[in Yoruba] Father.
Can I trust you?
[in Yoruba] Father,
with all of my life.
Your enemy is my enemy.
I will be the next governor
of Lagos state,
at the end of the next election.
[in Yoruba] So shall it be, father!
It is done.
That's how God wants it, father, I swear!
It will be exactly
as you have said it will be.
I swear.
Whatever you want
will be done just as you say.
I swear, it is done.
[Scar] Ah.
I already own one tenth of Lagos.
But that is just property.
I need people, Aboderin.
[in Pidgin] They need somebody like you.
[in Yoruba] I swear.
I hope you know
that you're like a son to me.
It was I who anointed you
to take over Fat Comrade's place,
after I slaughtered him,
right here.
And I took you in
as a father would a son.
[in Yoruba] You are right, father.
You are our helper.
You feed us.
When you become the governor,
everything becomes better.
Our factories
will be scattered all around Lagos.
- Aboderin.
- Father.
I need you
to shut down the Ice age.
Only the ice cream factory
and the girls
with a helping hand, will remain.
[menacing music playing]
I suspect that
they will cast a dark spotlight
on my aspiration.
[in Yoruba] Father, but you can't do that.
Aboderin
Don't you ever
in your life again,
question me.
Get the girls ready in four hours.
[in Yoruba] Father.
[in Yoruba] You are showing off, right?
[Jackie] Where's the money
you saved to open your bar?
[Jackie] Won't you use it
to buy your freedom first?
[Jackie] You have to be alive
to become a mixologist.
[Scar] Your rent here in Shanty Town
is 500,000 multiplied by three years.
Insurance for five abortions, protection
You walk all over Shanty Town,
you think it's free?
So all the money you owe me now
is 15,000,000 naira.
[bartender] Welcome, sir.
African zombie, please.
- [bartender] Okay, sir.
- Thank you.
[bartender] Here you go.
- Thanks, Mike.
- [Mike] Enjoy your drink.
Thank you.
Excuse me.
Can I help you?
[sighs]
Unless what you wanted is
a cheap Mai Tai with just rum on top.
[in Pidgin]
That drink you have in your hand
is definitely not African Zombie.
Well, I kind of know my cocktails.
And this right here
is my favorite.
I respect it.
If you're sure. I mean
Who am I?
[in Pidgin] I just don't want to believe
that you really think
this is African Zombie.
Okay, cocktail whisperer.
So, tell me.
What's the difference
between this and African zombie?
[in Pidgin] For me to show you,
you have to pay me.
You mean money?
I mean
I can make you the best
[in Pidgin] African Zombie
that you have ever tasted in your life.
Is this some kind of game?
Or did any of my friends
put you up to this?
- Do you know who I am?
- [in Pidgin] Who are you?
Oh please, stop that! Who knows you?
So how much are we talking about?
Well
Not too much like that.
Just, like
Anything from, like,
10,000 and above.
You know.
Unless you are
also famous for being a stingy guy.
Mike.
- [Mike] Sir.
- Do me a favor.
Let her fix me
some African Zombie, by herself.
- [Mike] Okay, sir.
- Thank you.
[Shalewa] Okay!
So first things first,
there are different types of Zombie.
[in Pidgin] But since the one you want
is the African Zombie, I've got you.
The first thing we need is a shaker.
Please, is your shaker there with you?
I'll also get you a very fancy cup.
- [in Pidgin] Do you have that skull cup?
- Yes, Ma.
Please give me one, perfect!
We'll use this cup for you.
It's called a skull cup
and that's what
I'll be pouring your drink in.
Five cl.
One teaspoon of grenadine.
Bacardi.
Five cl.
151 Rum.
Another two cl.
[in Pidgin] You seem stressed, right?
I can tell from your suit.
We're going to give you
some ice to just cool your body.
Now, one of my favorite parts
Our strainer
And then we pour that beauty.
Now, go ahead.
[hip hop music playing]
Thank you.
Hey.
Femi.
Femi Fernandez, and you are?
Uh-uh.
We'll see.
Hey
What's a little money one
can spend for some quality time
with a woman like you?
Well, for starters
He has to be a man
[in Pidgin] who knows exactly
what he wants out of life.
Hmm?
[in Pidgin] I mean, there are a lot
of things in life that we can't control.
Like your drink,
and your free time.
[in Pidgin] You shouldn't have
brought them here.
Okay?
Just one dance.
One dance.
How many minutes now?
[in Pidgin] I knew that your car
was useless the moment I saw it.
Sorry.
You're telling me sorry instead of
calling a mechanic. Or are you now one?
[stammering] I'm trying to
I told you to call a mechanic,
you're saying you're trying to.
Call a mechanic!
Look at how lonely this place is.
Or do you have another plan?
- [muttering]
- [phone ringing]
MAMA ENE
[Jackie muttering] Eh?
[in Pidgin] Come get me out of here.
Call a mechanic, do something.
[in Pidgin] I'll take you
You've been saying you'll
get me out of here since we got here.
Sorry.
- You'll take me?
- [phone ringing]
Yeah, hello.
Moji, why are you calling me?
I'm free now.
I've paid my dues.
I'm no longer in Shanty,
why are you calling me?
Please, I'm warning you,
don't call this line again.
[R&B music playing]
[in Pidgin] This girl is very bold,
she's threatening me.
She has the guts
to tell me to run from this town.
You caused this.
It's because you kept me here.
[in Igbo] It's the plug.
Babe?
JACKIE
[in Pidgin] I don't know why
she isn't picking up my calls.
- Where is she?
- [busy tone]
If you like, don't call a mechanic.
Act as both mechanic and driver.
[stammering] Sorry.
[in Pidgin] Mr. Scar, good evening.
Please, can you give me a lift?
Mr. Touch and Follow just ruined my night.
[in Pidgin] You want me
to gIve you a lift?
You want
one last ride for the road, right?
Carry your bag.
[Jackie whimpering]
[in Pidgin] Please don't be angry.
I'll order an Uber.
[in Pidgin] Don't be angry.
I will find my way.
[in Igbo] You have someone like me,
a whole Scar,
and you chose Mike.
Huh?
[in Igbo] But Scar, I'm now free.
[in Pidgin] am free.
You said it yourself,
I was free to go.
[in Igbo] You are free?
[in Pidgin] You disappoint me.
[in Igbo] I'm done serving you, I'm free.
[in Igbo] Are you trying
to explain to me, Scar,
king of birds,
that what we do in Ashanti, is senseless?
[in Pidgin] Family is forever,
don't you know?
[in Igbo]
I will cut off your head and put in it,
for it to make sense.
[Jackie whimpering]
- [panting]
- [groaning]
[phone vibrating]
[screaming, whimpering]
[in Pidgin] The only thing
that can separate family is death.
[panting]
[in igbo] Safe journey.
[both breathing heavily]
[ominous music playing]
[in Yoruba] Useless motherfucker!
[in Pidgin]
You should have cut her better.
How do I find her eyes now?
[in Pidgin] If I slap you!
[in Pidgin] You must be crazy.
Do I pay you to come here
and ask silly questions?
Huh?
You are crazy.
That means you want to
lose your protection in Shanty.
[Ene] Scar
Inem,
she's returned.
[in Pidgin] You said what?
[in Pidgin]
She has been released from prison.
I've told you that you're crazy.
I tell you something
and you get upset.
What are you saying?
She's back
[choking]
[in Pidgin] Scar, please take
your hand off my neck.
[in Pidgin] She called me.
She called you?
[in Pidgin] Who are you
that she's calling you?
[whispering] I don't know.
Why is she calling you?
I don't know.
Please, let go of my neck.
You don't know?
Where is she?
Shanty.
Shanty Town.
[in Pidgin] In my own Shanty?
[in Pidgin] Please.
If you're lying to me,
what I did to Jackie
would be child's play
compared to what I'll do to you.
Just lie to me.
[indistinct chatter among gang]
- I believe you.
- [in Pidgin] It shows on your face.
[brakes screech]
[ominous music playing]
[gunshot]
[gunshot]
[gunshot]
[gunshot]
[gunshot]
[menacing music playing]
[music fades]
[theme music playing]