01x02 - Bode

[bunniefuu]

[owner] A thief is a thief.

You people are no longer welcome
in my home.

Ah, ejo, ma. Please, he's only a child.

Mama, it's only 5K.

-Na small money to her.
-Bode.

You see? He is a thief.

Yeah. Thief.

-Please, ma.
-Mama.

-Ejo, I need this job.
-[exclaims]

-[grunts]
-[gasps]

-[Young Bode gasps]
-[owner] Tell that to your child.

-[gasps]
-Ole jatijati.

[Mama Bode] Abeg, abeg.
Wait, wait, now. Please wait.

[sighs]

Olabode, why did you take that money?

-Why?
-[grunts]

[gasps]

[Mama Bode gasps]

So you stole money to buy this thing?

-It's only small thing...
-Bode,

you are going to return that thing
and pay Madame her money back.

Why? Not be like say
she go give you your job back.

-At least make I keep am.
-What do you need this kind of thing for?

Hmm?

Kilo fe fi se?

[sucks teeth]
Look at the clothes you and I dey wear.

Then compare am to the designer clothes
her and her pikin dey wear.

We too... We deserve respect.

[sighs] Bode, we need her.

We need her.

Without her money, we are finished.

That woman get plenty money,
yet she dey pay us chicken change.

It's not fair.

Life is not fair.

-[mechanical whirring]
-[electrical buzzing]

[lackey 1 breathing rhythmically]

-[lackey 2] Hmm? [grunts]
-Ah.

[rhythmic breathing continues]

Ah.

Sa, we have collected the money.

[bag thuds]

[laughs]

[sniffs, sighs]

Oya, who wan chop?

-[cheering]
-[Bode laughs]

See, the islanders are so predictable.

There is no problem
they won't throw money at.

-But, uh, good for us...
-[chuckles]

...we know how to catch.

-[laughs]
-[lackey 2 laughs]

Five million paid.

I... [stammers] I mean,
I could have asked for ten, but, uh,

I have no need to take
what doesn't belong to me.

[laughs]

Ah, Yinka,
them done sack your husband, abi?

-So it's good that you have this, eh?
-Mm-hmm.

[Bode laughs]

And, uh, Hamsa, look at you.

No more cheap clothes and shoes, eh?

[Hamsa] Oh.

[exclaims] You try sha. You try.

[all laugh]

The islanders are not like us.

They use their money to take away
the dignity of those around them.

But what do I tell you?

[all] You will never let us struggle.

That's right!

You deserve to do your own orishirishi.

So just keep working. Hmm?

And I will continue to give you my respect
and loyalty.

-[all cheer]
-[Happiness clears throat] Sa, the boy.

[gasps, panting]

What a shame.

To your parents, you are just
another problem to throw money at.

[lackeys laugh]

[scoffs]

Return the boy.

And then...

find Kole.

[mechanical whirring]

-[powering down]
-[sighs]

[Kole] Oh.

[robot chimes]

[beeps, mechanical whirring]

-[Tunde] Good fix.
-Oh! [grunting]

[Kole sighs]

Tha... Thank you, sa.

Mmm. And, uh, the next time you decide
to put my daughter to work for you...

-don't.
-Yes, sa. S... Sorry, sa.

-[car door opens, closes]
-[engine starts]

-Chai!
-[phone vibrates]

[gasps]

-[Otin slurps]
-[Tola] Don't lick me.

Ugh.

[retches] Can't your arms go longer?

Chai, look at me, oh.
Making my daddy proud.

Almost bearable.

-[mechanical whirring]
-Actually, kind of cute.

[slurps]

I take that back. Still vile.

-Hmm.
-[dance music playing]

[dance music continues]

-Ah!
-Don't stop now. Let's dance.

Mm-mmm. No.

-Come on.
-[grunts] Ah.

-Abeg, abeg, abeg, just stop.
-[chuckles]

-Oya, do what I do.
-[gasps]

Not bad.

But you need to loosen your shoulder.

-[Tola laughs]
-Ehen, na so, na so.

-That's it.
-[laughs]

[audio feedback, music stops]

What happened to your phone?

Can't fix that, oh.

My mama say you fit fix anything if
you look well well and see wetin break am.

-[dance music plays]
-Eh? You tried, oh.

[chirps]

Tola, nah lizard be that?

My birthday present.

Let's not go there.

Will you show me another move?

[phone vibrating]

-[gasps]
-[vibrating continues]

[Tola] Are you okay?

Who's Ms. Happiness?

I'm fine.
Uh, I just need to get back to work.

But everything looks clean.

Oku o mo iye aa ra ago.

-Hmm?
-It means the privileged only see beauty,

but they don't see the price
that must be paid to make it happen.

I know you're talking about me.

I'm 10. I get subtext now.

Ugh.

-[groans, gasps]
-[Otin cries]

[groans]

[gasps]

Have dinner in the house with me tonight.

Tola, no.

Why? You have to eat, right?

I get too much work.

Always work. You're just like my dad.

[clicks tongue] Exactly, oga e go vex.

I have it on good authority
he's working late.

[laughs] You should be a lawyer
when you grow up, oh.

Daddy would actually love that.

Anyway, see you at dinner, friend.

Ugh.

[guidance system beeps]

[sighs]

[device chimes]

Aha. I got you now.

[laughs]

Sa, your warning worked.

The boy no say anything.

The police thought Happiness
was just a Good Samaritan.

-She suppose enter Nollywood, oh.
-[laughs]

Happiness,
you have been reading Shakespeare, abi?

Actually, I prefer Wole Soyinka.

[laughs]

I found him.

Who, sa?

-"Tunde Martins, CTO..."
-"Tunde Martins, CTO of the..."

[scoffs]

"...of the only security company in Nigeria

using blockchain and AI technologies
to eradicate crime within the country."

We have been given a gift.

Wetin?

Think about the information
stored in his company's database.

The endless list of millionaires.

-More money?
-Access. [laughs]

Ehen! Ope, oh. We don't get am. [chuckles]

Huh? Are you not happy with this?

In large rivers, one finds big fish.
But one may also be drowned.

Uh-uh. Oga na big man.

O mo ohun ti o n se.

So am I done chasing Kole?

[laughs]

-[monster laughing]
-[Tola laughs]

-Turn around. Turn around. Turn around.
-[Kole] What was that? Ooh.

-I don't know what's in the outside, oh.
-[laughs]

-It's the monster. You have to run.
-[gasping]

I'm not ready. Please, please, don't.

-Stop, stop, stop. Ah! What's that one?
-[monsters shrieking]

-[powering down]
-[laughs]

And you call me an aje butter.

-[laughs]
-My turn.

-Watch me become a master tennis player.
-[powering on]

-[tennis ball hits racket]
-[Tola laughing]

[gasps]

-[Tola munching]
-[sighs]

-[Tola] Trade?
-[chuckles]

Why? An aje butter like you
wan wack like me?

-Yes.
-Okay, oh.

[laughs]

Mmm.

-Wetin you dey do with that lizard?
-Trying to relate.

But that reminds me,

what would you say if I asked you
to go to Ajegunle with me and my dad?

No. You dey craze?

I no fit go where I dey stay,
and with my oga. Lie lie.

But, Kole, you live there.
You never talk about it.

My dad grew up there.
He doesn't talk about it.

Nobody's talking about
this unbelievable place.

We have to go there
so I can learn for myself.

Why you think say he go even let you go?

Because look at her. I did what he asked.

He has to honor his word.

[Otin pants]

Look at what you have here.

Be grateful for that.

Don't try to get more.

You're trying to get more.

Isn't that why you go to work
instead of going to school?

[sighs]

Make I go. My mama dey wait.

[sighs] Okay.

Thank you for having dinner with me.

[sighs]

You wan know why I no dey go school?

-Uh, yes.
-Why are you sitting at my table, huh?

And with my daughter?

Good evening, sa.

How dare you show me
such a lack of appreciation and respect?

You know, I would never have made such
a mistake when I was in your position.

Daddy, it's my fault.

He's my friend, and I wanted him to...

This boy is taking advantage of
your kindness.

But aren't I old enough
to make my own decisions?

[sighs]

-Go and clear the gutters.
-Bu... But his mom is waiting.

Mm-mmm.

Yes, sa.

[door opens, closes]

Do you like living in this house,
eating this food and wearing nice clothes?

Hmm?

Omotola Martins, I am speaking to you.

-Good.
-[metallic rattling]

[Tunde] Because mediocrity
is not an option.

And what of Otin?

Hmm?

-You play with her like she's a toy.
-Uh-uh.

You said she's my pet.

And this is how you treat your pets?

Maybe I made a mistake.

[sighs] It is late.

Go to bed.

[clears throat]
Aren't you forgetting something?

And you can forget about
going to the mainland.

[gasps]

[sighs]

[thunder rumbling]

[thunderclap]

[brakes hiss]

[groans] Uh-uh.

Huh? [sucks teeth]

How much you want?

Two thousand naira to squeeze myself
inside this yeye motor?

[scoffs] Abeg, give me my money, jor.
I go find my own way.

Ole. [sucks teeth]

-[phone rings]
-[sucks teeth]

Hello?

[Bode] Bankole Adesola...

-[gasps]
-[Bode] I have been looking for you.

[gasps, hyperventilates]