Shanty Town (2023) s01e04 Episode Script

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[energetic drumming]
[drumming stops]
[orchestral music building]
- [musical stab]
- [music fades]
[ominous music plays]
[music fades]
[Afrobeat music playing]
[music continues in background]
[music fades]
[theme music playing
[double gunshots]
[Inem clears throat]
[Ene, in Ibibio] Take this, wear it.
Girls, hurry up.
[in Ibibio] Are you sure you can do this?
Because, you're fresh out of prison,
and suddenly ready for Shanty Town?
[in Ibibio] My God.
Please, sister, what have I done?
Isn't this my job? Do I have another?
[in Ibibio] I didn't say so.
All right.
[Ene, in Pidgin]
You guys should come around.
It's time for nose candy.
[Ene] Go on.
[Ene] A dog eats its own shit.
But you don't see it on its body. Go on.
All right.
[in Ibibio] Come on.
Take yours.
[Inem, in Pidgin] I'm not in the
mood today, I just want to do my makeup.
[in Ibibio] What do you mean?
Isn't it the same coke you used to take?
Take it.
[in Pidgin] But you know,
I've not had coke in a long time.
I can't remember when I last took coke.
I don't know how I'll react,
I don't want to get dizzy.
[in Ibibio] So, in prison
when you used to do coke,
you were hearing a different language?
Take this, and that is not a request.
Okay. Fine.
[groans]
- Good girl.
- [groans]
Dress up.
[grunts]
Fuck.
[groans]
[breathing heavily]
Slowly, you invade all of my senses ♪
Shey na juju you use for me ♪
Whatever it is, I like it ♪
Tinga linga lin ga lin ♪
Tinga linga lin ga lin me ♪
Tinga linga lin ga lin ♪
Tinga linga lin ga lin my body ♪
Ginger me
Boy I like when you Ginger me ♪
I'm in love with your energy ♪
You dey Ginger me Ginger me ♪
Too good for me ♪
Ginger me ♪
Boy I like when you Ginger me ♪
I'm in love with your energy ♪
You dey Ginger me, Ginger me ♪
- Too good for me ♪
- Oh oh oh uh oh ♪
[Ene] Three
two
and one.
[music fades]
[mellow music plays]
Now that I have your attention ♪
Let me let out my emotion ♪
Have you run your mind, girl ♪
I could cool your temper ♪
Lose my manners for you ♪
I could do it just for you ♪
Have you run your mind, girl ♪
I could cool your temper ♪
Lose my manners for you ♪
I could do it just it for you ♪
You've got me high ♪
High ♪
You got me high ♪
Ooh, you got me high ♪
High ♪
You got me high ♪
- [music fades]
- [Ene] Thank you for the bid.
Thank you all.
- And
- [crowd clapping]
the lady of the night,
our star tonight is number one.
- [applause]
- No.
[indistinct chatter]
[clapping continues]
[ominous music playing]
[knocking on door]
[indistinct background chatter]
[upbeat background music]
Scar.
[in Pidgin] I was told
you asked to see me.
[woman coughs]
- [Shalewa] Ah, Mommy T, Goo
- Shh
Calm down.
[in Pidgin] Don't say anything.
The reason you are here,
is to listen.
[in Yoruba] Understand?
[in Pidgin]
Would you like to smoke?
[Shalewa] No, sir.
[in Yoruba] Drink?
[in Pidgin] I know you're
still upset about earlier,
about your 15 million naira debt.
[Mama Tornado coughs]
[coughing intensifies]
[Scar] Mama.
[in Yoruba] Mama, what is wrong?
Huh?
We are doing something serious here,
don't mess it up.
[Mama Tornado] Don't be upset. I'm sorry.
[in Pidgin] As I was saying,
[in Yoruba] you're looking at me
like I'm the devil.
Huh?
[in Pidgin] Even the devil looks at me
like I'm the devil, but I'm not the devil.
Look at my head,
can you see any horns?
I'm not the devil.
It was your father who messed up.
But, because I'm a child of God,
I have found you a good way out.
[Shalewa] Way out?
As in?
[Scar] As in
[in Yoruba] I want you
to do something for me.
[in Pidgin] And if you do it for me,
all your debt is cleared.
Just like that?
Just like that.
[gasps]
[in Pidgin] What do you want me to do?
[Scar, in Pidgin]
There's a guy I want you to watch.
You'll keep an eye on him
enough to trust you.
[in Pidgin] Mm hm. After he trusts me,
I'll sleep with him.
- How much is
- Shut up.
[in Pidgin] Just saying that
and you are thinking about sex.
[smacks lips]
I want you to use
Mommy T's touch-and-follow.
[Ene] Four.
Three.
Two.
One.
[soulful music playing]
Got to me like a spider man ♪
I'm singing la la la ♪
Take me to paradise ♪
I did for you like ♪
Blow me like a ♪
Why you like a ♪
Get what I desire ♪
I want to dance with you ♪
I don't fear life for you ♪
Yeah, I want to dance with you ♪
I don't fear life for you ♪
[music continues]
[music fades]
[ominous music playing]
The second angel of the night is
number two.
[crowd clapping]
[ominous music intensifies]
[Mama Tornado clears throat]
Give me your left hand.
[in Yoruba] It'll work for you.
Amen.
[Scar, in Pidgin] You'll use this
touch-and-follow to control him,
to bring me something.
[Shalewa] Is that all?
[in Pidgin] That's it.
[in Pidgin] And my debt?
[in Yoruba] It'll become past tense.
[in Pidgin]
All your debts will be cleared.
- Just like that?
- Just like that.
[gasps]
[gasping]
[in Pidgin] Are you sure
you don't want me to seduce him a little?
I was joking, don't be mad.
[in Pidgin] If you succeed
I'll miss you.
[shrieks]
[in Pidgin] I'll succeed.
It's a little thing.
Isn't he a man? I'll seduce him.
Please, what's his name?
[Scar groans]
[in Pidgin] His name is Femi Fernandez.
[menacing music plays]
Can you do it or not?
[in Pidgin] I don't care if his name is
Femi Fernandez or Femi Otedola,
I'll do it.
I'll do it.
[in Pidgin] Good girl.
To freedom.
To freedom.
Yes.
[sighs]
- [man] Thirsty?
- [gasps]
Perhaps, a little light will help.
[Chief Fernandez]
I've never seen you here before.
[clears throat]
Yes.
Yes, sir.
Do you know who I am?
Well,
everyone in Lagos knows who you are.
[laughs]
They do, don't they?
[chuckles]
Take off your clothes.
Excuse
[shouts] Your clothes, take them off!
Okay.
[menacing music plays]
So
what about,
you and I,
you know, go in to the bathroom
and take, like, a
[grunts]
[groans, screams]
[screaming]
[groaning, choking]
[chokes, groans]
[muffled groaning]
[whimpering]
[Chief Fernandez]
Look at you, haggard whore. Huh?
A different bra and different pants.
Didn't they tell you
that I only do to-match?
- [whip cracks]
- [screams]
- [whip cracking]
- [screaming]
[gasping, groaning in pain]
- [grunting]
- [screaming]
[grunting]
[both screaming]
[Inem gasps]
[Inam moans]
[whimpering]
[sobbing]
[man] I trust the night
has been eventful, sir?
[Chief Fernandez] Yeah.
Clean up this mess.
The others are ready for the meeting.
Hm.
Ene, come in.
Good girl, clean the mess.
Inem.
[Inem whimpering]
[in Ibibio] Isn't death better than this?
[Inem groaning]
[gasps]
[in Ibibio] Have you seen?
You wanted to move with big people,
now see the result.
This is the result.
[gasps]
- I'll take you to Scar, get up.
- Scar.
I warned you about this.
- [in Ibibio] Get up.
- Scar.
- I'll take you to Scar.
- Scar! Scar!
- Scar!
- I'll take you to Scar, get up.
Sit down, please, thank you.
Sit down and wear your dress.
Ene, Scar!
[Ene, in Ibibio] I warned you not
to do this, you still wanted to do it.
[Colorado] Scar.
- Who is that?
- [Colorado] There's trouble.
[Scar] What happened?
[Scar] Huh?
[Inem groaning]
[in Pidgin] What is this?
- [screams, groaning]
- [Scar] Eh?
[in Pidgin] Who had the audacity
to do this to you?
[Ene, in Pidgin] Chief chose her.
Chief?
[groaning]
[grunts]
But
[in Pidgin] why would Chief
do this to you?
Is she the first person Chief touched?
Isn't that his rodeo?
[in Pidgin] What have you
ever done about it?
[Colorado, in Pidgin]
Chief is the culprit.
[in Pidgin] If everybody handles the girls
like this, will there be any more girls?
Take her to my room.
- Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
- [groaning]
- Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
- [Scar groaning]
Sorry.
[Colorado] Sorry.
Oh, my God.
[Ene, in Pidgin] What are you doing?
[in Pidgin] I want to call that Chief.
[in Pidgin] What do you want to tell him?
What do you want to tell him?
[in Pidgin] Why did you bring her here?
[in Pidgin] She's been looking for you
since she got back.
She's been saying
she wants to talk to you.
Here she is, she's your problem. Solve it.
I'm leaving.
[in Ibibio] Get up.
Take this.
Does your hand hurt?
Didn't I tell you?
Didn't I tell you this would happen?
What exactly were you thinking?
[in Pidgin] What are you trying to prove?
[in Pidgin] I'm not trying
to prove anything to anybody.
[in Ibibio] How did you leave Shanty Town
and still come back?
What were you thinking?
[in Pidgin] I know Scar owes me.
I can't just give my life
to being a hooker for him,
after being a hooker
for him all this time,
[in Ibibio] he said he'd take care of me.
He doesn't take care of me.
I'm not going anywhere,
until I am paid all he owes me.
This Shanty is where we'll all die
until he pays me all he owes me.
My life,
I've given him all my life.
There's nothing left for me.
I'll die here.
[in Ibibio]
Come, let me undress you and see
[in Ibibio] Leave me alone.
[Inem groans]
[in Ibibio] Take these sleeping pills.
Don't take it yet, hold it.
Take this,
to swallow it.
Take this to swallow it.
Take this.
[groans]
I'll go get you clothes.
[dramatic music playing]
Oh, shit.
[camera shutter clicks]
[groans]
[breathing heavily]
[birds chirping]
[theme music playing]