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00:00:00 [Music]
00:00:15 [Silence]
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00:00:56 When people ask me how old I am, I say I am older than the oldest person you ever met.
00:01:07 But this story is not about me. I am going to tell you about my father.
00:01:15 [Music]
00:01:25 Scientists say that the average person can take enough air into their lungs to stay underwater without a breath for about two minutes.
00:01:34 But there was nothing average about me.
00:01:38 [Music]
00:01:50 In fact, the Guinness Book of Records say that the longest a man has ever stayed underwater holding his breath was for 24 minutes, 36 seconds.
00:02:01 They were wrong.
00:02:03 Timmy was special. He spoke 16 languages, four of which were extinct.
00:02:09 For fun, he would rewrite holy books in different languages.
00:02:13 [Music]
00:02:16 Timmy didn't just graduate top of his class in Cambridge. He was the highest honored cadet in his entry class of Her Majesty's Navy.
00:02:25 He was also one of the youngest people to ever become a member of clergy in the great Church of England.
00:02:32 [Music]
00:02:38 When the coach asked him if he came up because he finally ran out of air, Timmy simply said he was bored down there.
00:02:46 [Music]
00:02:49 On July the 3rd, 1953, Ayodele Timilene Johnson held his breath underwater for 57 minutes and 18 seconds.
00:03:02 [Music]
00:03:16 Reverend Timmy was now a wealthy man. He was the only child of one of the most successful shipping traders in the Western region.
00:03:26 He never knew his mother.
00:03:28 She died of tuberculosis when he was a baby, and now his father was gone too.
00:03:35 [Music]
00:03:52 By the time Reverend Timmy returned home, he came with his wife Bridget, who he had met at Cambridge, and their beautiful baby girl, Alice.
00:04:01 [Music]
00:04:07 This was his family now, and they meant the world to him.
00:04:12 [Music]
00:04:15 Reverend Timmy got right to what he loved. He got familiar with the town and fixed up the church.
00:04:22 [Music]
00:04:31 Everyone loved them, and the church grew immediately.
00:04:37 In fact, even though he wasn't the highest clergyman in the country, he was asked to pray for Princess Alexandra on the evening of Independence.
00:04:47 [Music]
00:04:51 The Reverend Timmy Johnson now.
00:04:53 [Music]
00:05:00 Shall we pray?
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00:05:08 Heavenly Father, hallowed be thy almighty name. We thank you for indeed your kingdom has come today.
00:05:16 [Music]
00:05:36 You might say that for Reverend Timmy, life was perfect, but you would have spoken too soon.
00:05:45 Different gangs operated in the big cities, but the Baby Fire gang was notorious for terrorizing small towns, and now they were here.
00:05:56 Baby Fire himself was the devil's own child. He loved nothing more than to see things burn.
00:06:04 He would tell his gang that this world was just a bus stop on his way to hell.
00:06:09 [Music]
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00:07:16 We cannot do anything if no one is willing to name the culprit.
00:07:21 But why? Everybody knows it's Baby Fire and his gang.
00:07:25 Look, you quiet. You want to tell the magistrate so that Baby Fire can kill us in the street? Like he killed Ajay Romney?
00:07:33 Why don't you police look for him and kill him? If it was a white man that he killed, he would be hanging by now.
00:07:40 Without any eyewitness, what will I say I'm arresting him for?
00:07:44 Why don't you say that you saw him with your own eyes? After all, it happened in broad daylight.
00:07:48 [Music]
00:07:51 I'll swear it to the magistrate.
00:07:54 I saw him.
00:07:58 I'll swear it in court.
00:08:04 That night, the Reverend and his wife fought like they had never before.
00:08:10 I can't believe that you would do this to the family, Timmy.
00:08:13 She went from anger to begging.
00:08:16 Please, I'm begging. Please, Timmy.
00:08:18 She couldn't understand why he would want to put himself in such danger.
00:08:22 He knew it was dangerous.
00:08:25 But he believed he had a purpose.
00:08:27 And maybe this was it.
00:08:30 [Music]
00:08:38 Order. Order in court.
00:08:41 I have only one question, Reverend.
00:08:44 Do you see the man who killed Mr. Jeremy on November the 14th in this court today?
00:08:52 That's him right there.
00:08:55 [Screaming]
00:08:58 Order. Order. Order.
00:09:01 [Screaming]
00:09:07 What no one knew was that Baby Fire was employed and paid by leftover colonials
00:09:12 who used him to exterminate troublesome elements.
00:09:15 People like a Jeremy who called for all whites to return to their countries.
00:09:20 And so right there, two white men made the most important decision in our story.
00:09:27 It is the decision of Her Majesty's Court that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute this man.
00:09:36 The accused is therefore free to go.
00:09:41 [Screaming]
00:09:54 You'll be a good girl for Mommy, okay? Do everything she says.
00:09:58 Promise?
00:09:59 See you soon.
00:10:05 Come with us.
00:10:08 They'll start all this trouble, then I just leave?
00:10:12 They'll terrorize this town.
00:10:14 You're not a soldier anymore.
00:10:18 And they have machine guns. What are you going to do?
00:10:23 Who needs guns when you've got God?
00:10:26 It's not funny, Timmy.
00:10:28 I'm sorry.
00:10:31 I just need to get a few people out of here.
00:10:33 And I'll be right behind you, I promise.
00:10:36 You'll be safe in Lagos.
00:10:40 I didn't marry Marta.
00:10:44 You'd better come back to me.
00:10:47 Yes, Mrs. Johnson.
00:10:53 Come on.
00:11:06 Thanks for doing this.
00:11:09 [Engine starts]
00:11:18 [♪♪♪]
00:11:47 Mom, what's that?
00:11:50 Mr. Williams, I think you should turn the car around.
00:11:54 Mom?
00:11:55 Turn the car around!
00:11:57 Turn the car around!
00:12:07 Mr. Williams, turn the car around!
00:12:10 [♪♪♪]
00:12:17 [♪♪♪]
00:12:39 [♪♪♪]
00:13:03 Mommy, what are they doing?
00:13:07 It's a game, sweetie.
00:13:09 Look at Mommy.
00:13:10 Breathe.
00:13:12 [♪♪♪]
00:13:20 I'm scared.
00:13:21 Don't be scared.
00:13:23 Don't be scared. It's hide and seek.
00:13:28 Will Daddy find us?
00:13:33 Yes.
00:13:34 [♪♪♪]
00:13:56 No!
00:13:57 No!
00:13:58 [♪♪♪]
00:14:08 [♪♪♪]
00:14:18 [♪♪♪]
00:14:28 [♪♪♪]
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00:14:56 Over the next nine days,
00:14:59 Bevern Timmy just laid there.
00:15:03 Everyone tried to help.
00:15:06 They brought food and flowers.
00:15:10 But the Reverend just laid there.
00:15:13 Come rain or shine, day or night,
00:15:18 he just lay there.
00:15:22 [♪♪♪]
00:15:30 [♪♪♪]
00:15:36 Get up.
00:15:38 [♪♪♪]
00:15:42 And then, one day,
00:15:45 he just got up.
00:15:48 [♪♪♪]
00:15:56 He was going to do what God wouldn't.
00:15:59 After all, who needs God when you have guns?
00:16:06 [♪♪♪]
00:16:14 [♪♪♪]
00:16:24 [♪♪♪]
00:16:34 [♪♪♪]
00:16:44 [♪♪♪]
00:16:47 You are not a killer.
00:16:51 [♪♪♪]
00:17:01 [♪♪♪]
00:17:03 Timmy knew that everyone would just assume
00:17:06 that Babyfire mistakenly lit the house on fire.
00:17:09 So he sent him on his way.
00:17:12 No more bus stops.
00:17:15 [panting]
00:17:18 [grunting]
00:17:21 [panting]
00:17:25 [gunshot]
00:17:31 [panting]
00:17:34 [grunting]
00:17:37 [panting]
00:17:42 [♪♪♪]
00:17:53 Over the next few weeks,
00:17:55 Timmy tried to kill himself in the most ridiculous ways.
00:17:59 [♪♪♪]
00:18:07 [♪♪♪]
00:18:17 [♪♪♪]
00:18:20 Clearly unsure of how much bleach it takes to kill a man who just won't die,
00:18:25 he decided to take no chances.
00:18:28 [♪♪♪]
00:18:36 [♪♪♪]
00:18:46 [♪♪♪]
00:18:51 All Timmy wanted was to be with his family,
00:18:55 and he wanted it right away.
00:18:58 [♪♪♪]
00:19:08 [♪♪♪]
00:19:18 [laughing]
00:19:23 [♪♪♪]
00:19:33 [♪♪♪]
00:19:37 By the time I would come to know Mr. Timmy,
00:19:40 he was an old man.
00:19:42 He had just buried his butler,
00:19:45 the only real family he had left.
00:19:48 And now, he was going to need help around the house.
00:19:53 I had just finished my NYSE,
00:19:57 and couldn't find a job in Lagos or anywhere else.
00:20:01 [♪♪♪]
00:20:14 What I really wanted was to start my own church.
00:20:17 But first, I needed money.
00:20:20 [♪♪♪]
00:20:30 Like many before me,
00:20:32 I had been told there was an opening for a houseboy that paid very well,
00:20:36 if I could handle the job.
00:20:39 Let's just say they weren't caught out for it.
00:20:44 [fire crackling]
00:20:49 [birds chirping]
00:20:52 [birds chirping]
00:21:06 [footsteps]
00:21:20 Are you a thief?
00:21:23 Spook boy!
00:21:25 Are you deaf?
00:21:27 [clicks tongue]
00:21:30 Dumb.
00:21:32 [coughs]
00:21:35 No, sir.
00:21:37 So? Are you a thief?
00:21:40 No, I am not.
00:21:42 So why would you come into a house uninvited?
00:21:47 Ah, good day, sir.
00:21:50 My-- I'm-- I'm-- I'm here for the job of a houseboy.
00:21:55 Houseboy?
00:21:57 Yes, sir. Actually, more of a house manager.
00:22:01 My name is Elijah.
00:22:04 Elijah Odudu Abasi Okon.
00:22:08 [clears throat]
00:22:10 Okay. I, um--
00:22:12 I printed out my CV to show you that I'm very qualified, sir.
00:22:19 [clears throat]
00:22:26 No, sir.
00:22:28 Please, I'll do everything. I'll cook, clean, run all your errands,
00:22:33 do anything to bring this great house of God back to its glory.
00:22:37 If you ever say that name in this house again,
00:22:51 it will be the last name that you speak.
00:22:55 Are we clear?
00:22:58 Yes, sir.
00:23:01 Um...
00:23:03 Sir, um...
00:23:06 My...
00:23:09 My ebibio name means God's power.
00:23:16 Do I have to go outside to say that?
00:23:19 [clears throat]
00:23:28 I have breakfast at 8 a.m. sharp.
00:23:32 Three eggs and a coffee.
00:23:35 You can move your things into that room at the end of the hall.
00:23:38 Sir, does that mean I have the job?
00:23:40 For a house manager, you're not very smart, are you?
00:23:42 No, sir. I mean, yes, sir.
00:23:45 Um, thank you so much, sir.
00:23:48 Thank you, sir.
00:23:50 [laughing]
00:23:52 ♪ I don't know when my day will come ♪
00:23:57 ♪ But I'll keep swinging like the pendulum ♪
00:24:02 ♪ Friends will come, friends will go ♪
00:24:08 ♪ Through the tunnel I walk alone ♪
00:24:13 ♪ And hope that change will come ♪
00:24:18 ♪ And the world will sing my song ♪
00:24:24 ♪ I see the rising sun ♪
00:24:29 ♪ Oh, the light will shine on me ♪
00:24:36 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
00:24:39 ♪ Oh, the light ♪
00:24:41 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
00:24:45 ♪ It got me over ♪
00:24:48 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
00:24:51 Morning, sir.
00:24:53 [clears throat]
00:24:55 [playing "Sweet Child O' Mine"]
00:25:21 [playing "Sweet Child O' Mine"]
00:25:24 Pfft! This is too much salt!
00:25:35 Are you trying to kill me?
00:25:37 What are you waiting for?
00:25:45 Three eggs and a coffee!
00:25:49 [playing "Sweet Child O' Mine"]
00:25:52 Pfft! No taste!
00:26:06 Are you daft?
00:26:08 [grunting]
00:26:12 [sniffles]
00:26:14 It took me 16 tries and 3 hours
00:26:36 to learn how to make omelettes for Mr. Timmy.
00:26:39 [sighs]
00:26:42 [playing "Sweet Child O' Mine"]
00:26:45 ♪ I'm just a man filled with grace ♪
00:26:48 ♪ Living my life in my lane ♪
00:26:51 ♪ Cheche, oluwa, oluwa, pelumi ♪
00:26:54 ♪ In Shakbara ♪
00:26:56 ♪ It's not by power, it's not by might ♪
00:26:59 ♪ But by the Spirit, says the Lord ♪
00:27:02 ♪ Ola, oluwa, nimumje ♪
00:27:05 ♪ Laie miu ♪
00:27:07 ♪ I've gone through pains, I've gone through strife ♪
00:27:10 ♪ I've gone through struggles and no good life ♪
00:27:13 ♪ O' Julio ♪
00:27:16 ♪ O' Julio ♪
00:27:18 [footsteps]
00:27:20 [music playing]
00:27:26 I don't know why I sat down that night
00:27:34 or if it meant anything to Mr. Timmy.
00:27:37 I never knew his family,
00:27:40 but I didn't think you needed to know someone's pain to share it.
00:27:44 So every night when I closed up the house,
00:27:48 we would just sit...
00:27:51 him inside, me outside,
00:27:55 and just cry for a while.
00:27:58 [snoring]
00:28:07 [snoring]
00:28:10 [snoring]
00:28:20 [snoring]
00:28:31 [snoring]
00:28:34 - Good afternoon, sir. - Hello.
00:28:39 - You must be Elijah. - Yes, sir.
00:28:42 We have not been properly introduced.
00:28:45 Yes, sir, you were in a hurry when you first came.
00:28:49 Oh, quite so, quite so.
00:28:52 He does not like any tardiness at all, yes,
00:28:55 as you would have found out yourself.
00:28:58 Breakfast has to be ready at 8 a.m. or there's going to be trouble.
00:29:01 Ah. [laughs]
00:29:03 Yes, I was a soldier, I guess.
00:29:06 Well, I'm Mr. Koka, Mr. Johnson's lawyer.
00:29:10 - Oh. - Yeah. I handle his estate.
00:29:13 - Yes. - Which means I'll be paying you your salary
00:29:16 and any other funds that you might need to run the household from now on.
00:29:20 Thank you, thank you, thank you, sir.
00:29:22 I have been losing the little money I have all this while.
00:29:26 It takes people to take the initiative, yes.
00:29:29 Don't be afraid of him. He doesn't bite.
00:29:32 I don't know.
00:29:34 Maybe there's something I'm not doing right,
00:29:37 but Reverend Timmy seems to get upset all the time.
00:29:40 Well, then just call him.
00:29:42 Who told you to call him that?
00:29:45 Whatever you do, do not talk about family.
00:29:50 Do not, definitely do not talk about God.
00:29:55 The fact that you're still here means that he likes you.
00:29:59 - Okay, sir. - Okay.
00:30:01 - All right, thank you very much, sir. - Bye-bye.
00:30:03 All right, have a nice day, sir.
00:30:06 [door opens]
00:30:08 In my free time, I would sneak off to the old church and begin to fix it up, too.
00:30:33 I knew Mr. Timmy wouldn't like it,
00:30:35 especially since I used part of the money for the house.
00:30:38 I had it all planned out.
00:30:41 I would have one hour Bible study once a week when Mr. Timmy was taking his siesta.
00:30:47 He didn't talk to anyone in the town, so he didn't have to know.
00:30:57 [music]
00:31:03 [music]
00:31:31 That weekend, I went to the local clinic to get a new inhaler,
00:31:35 and that's when I saw the most beautiful thing.
00:31:40 Her name was Anna.
00:31:42 She was a volunteer and a more God-finished work for this one.
00:31:48 - I hope you like the food. - I think it's too sweet.
00:31:58 - Thank you. - It's not that sweet, yeah?
00:32:01 - Thank you. - Thank God.
00:32:04 Pastor, you really try for us, so God bless you.
00:32:07 - Amen. - Amen. Thank God.
00:32:09 Are you sure there is nothing you want us to do for you?
00:32:24 Actually...
00:32:26 - Nurse Anna, right? - Oh, just Anna. I'm just a volunteer.
00:32:32 Hey, hey. I knew you were a good person.
00:32:35 By the way, have you been to the Bible study at the town church?
00:32:39 - Bible study? No, I haven't. - Yes. Ah! You must go.
00:32:44 My spies said you must go. This is a Bible study flyer.
00:32:48 - Thank you. - You're welcome.
00:32:52 (music)
00:32:54 I can't believe how much poop on his hand.
00:33:02 - Wash me off. - Girls, have you heard anything about a Bible study in church?
00:33:07 - No. - Then how come every patient is asking me to go?
00:33:12 - Hi. - Hi.
00:33:20 - Good afternoon, Ma. - Bible study has finished.
00:33:23 Oh, I know. I was late, so I didn't want to interrupt.
00:33:27 I'm literally sure she's late to the life.
00:33:30 (speaks in foreign language)
00:33:32 - You want to see my baby? - Yes.
00:33:34 - Thank you, Ma. - Dear God, I don't ask for much.
00:33:38 Please don't let this asthma fall by hand.
00:33:40 Hello. I'm Anna. But I think you knew that already.
00:33:44 Shit, shit, shit. I mean, not shit. I mean, Christ.
00:33:48 I mean, shit. I mean, crap.
00:33:50 Oh, fuck it.
00:33:53 Hi. I am Elijah.
00:34:02 Well, Elijah, I got your message. All 37 of them.
00:34:08 Oh, I didn't know all of them would give you...
00:34:12 I hope that's still charming and not creepy.
00:34:15 I don't know yet. You're quite odd.
00:34:18 Um, yeah. No, no, um...
00:34:22 It's... (clears throat)
00:34:24 My asthma, it flares up whenever I am around.
00:34:28 When you're around?
00:34:31 Proverbs 13.1.3.
00:34:36 "Give not thy strength unto women,
00:34:39 "or thy ways to them that destroyeth kings."
00:34:43 (clears throat) So I have the power to destroy kings?
00:34:47 I am sure you do.
00:34:49 Well, I didn't really do the Bible thing.
00:34:53 I just wanted to say hi.
00:34:56 Well, this king destroyer needs to get back home.
00:35:01 Well, I see... Um, will we see you again?
00:35:05 Will you like to see me again?
00:35:09 Very much. Um...
00:35:12 I mean... Yeah, sure.
00:35:15 It's the house of God, and in its presence,
00:35:18 there's... (clears throat)
00:35:20 liberty and joy forevermore.
00:35:24 Well, maybe you should walk me home.
00:35:28 (horse whinnies)
00:35:36 (horse whinnies)
00:35:38 (sighs)
00:35:44 So when you're not volunteering at the hospital,
00:35:54 what do you do?
00:35:56 I don't know yet.
00:35:59 Well, I just got back from school,
00:36:01 so I guess I'm just figuring it out.
00:36:06 So, Church, is that all you do?
00:36:10 Mm...
00:36:13 Okay, I think I should let you know
00:36:16 that I work at Mrs. Timmy's house as the houseboy.
00:36:21 Well, from what I've heard, you're more like the house manager.
00:36:26 Nothing gets done in that place without you.
00:36:29 How did you know?
00:36:31 The whole town.
00:36:33 What? You don't think I did my research?
00:36:36 How many young people are in this town,
00:36:38 and you dare think I'm going to ask about
00:36:40 the handsome guy running the church?
00:36:42 Oh, you think I'm handsome?
00:36:44 You better relax before you meet your hailer again.
00:36:47 (laughs)
00:36:49 Thanks.
00:36:55 You're welcome.
00:36:57 Actually, I think everyone's rather impressed
00:37:02 that you got the job, even my dad.
00:37:04 Although he would never admit it, but...
00:37:07 He's intrigued by you guys and what happens in that house.
00:37:10 It's just the two of you, right?
00:37:15 My dad said he went crazy when he lost his family.
00:37:21 Doesn't go anywhere, doesn't talk to anyone.
00:37:24 He's not crazy.
00:37:27 He's actually funny and could be really friendly.
00:37:30 (laughs)
00:37:32 He just misses his family and...
00:37:35 sometimes cries whenever he thinks about them.
00:37:38 Oh!
00:37:40 I think that's beautiful.
00:37:42 Hey, um...
00:37:48 We need to stop here. My house is just right there.
00:37:51 Um, okay.
00:37:53 But do you want to meet me at the river tomorrow?
00:37:59 Say, 4pm?
00:38:01 Maybe.
00:38:05 Maybe is not no, so...
00:38:09 Good night, Elijah.
00:38:12 Good night.
00:38:14 I don't think I slept a wink that night.
00:38:25 I must have ironed my trousers like four times.
00:38:29 Is this for me?
00:38:31 Why are you dressed like that?
00:38:38 Is she mad?
00:38:40 This is my best shirt, though.
00:38:42 Dressed like what?
00:38:44 Like you're going to church when you're coming to swim.
00:38:47 Um, swim?
00:38:50 I... I didn't say swim.
00:38:52 Well, I thought you wanted to meet at the river.
00:38:57 (snoring)
00:38:59 You want to swim?
00:39:10 I didn't know whether it was her bathing suit or her confidence,
00:39:19 but I knew right there...
00:39:21 I was going to marry her.
00:39:23 (music)
00:39:25 Are you coming?
00:39:32 It took two months before I could put my head underwater.
00:39:41 And another three months before I could swim properly.
00:39:52 I had seen her almost every day for the last six months.
00:39:56 I think it was safe to say she was my girlfriend.
00:40:00 She even made it to a few Bible studies.
00:40:10 Although I'm not sure if the word penetrated much.
00:40:17 (music)
00:40:19 Her father could have bought her a brand new BMW,
00:40:33 but she bought a bicycle instead, just to ride with me.
00:40:37 (music)
00:40:42 (music)
00:41:10 So let's go back to Psalm 55.
00:41:13 No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house.
00:41:20 No one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.
00:41:25 Psalm 101?
00:41:27 Yes, Psalm 101.
00:41:29 For such people do not serve the Lord Christ,
00:41:33 but instead they follow their own appetites.
00:41:36 With smooth talk and flattery,
00:41:38 they deceive the minds of naive people.
00:41:42 Ah, well, that is in the book of Romans.
00:41:46 Even me, I know that one.
00:41:48 Mama, you're...
00:41:50 Sir, I thought you would still be asleep till 4 p.m., sir.
00:41:58 I have done everything I was...
00:42:00 Colossians!
00:42:01 See to it that you are not taken captive
00:42:04 through deceptive and hollow philosophy,
00:42:07 which depends on human traditions
00:42:09 and the elemental spiritual forces of this world.
00:42:12 Rather than Christ.
00:42:14 You said you didn't want to hear anything about God.
00:42:20 Ah, so I couldn't tell you, sir.
00:42:22 I don't have a day off, sir.
00:42:25 So I do everything else of mine,
00:42:28 only when you take your siesta.
00:42:30 If you don't like the job, then get the hell out!
00:42:35 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy,
00:42:39 whether he be one of your countrymen or an alien
00:42:44 who is on your land, in your town.
00:42:47 You shall give him his wages in his time before sunset,
00:42:51 because he is poor and sets his heart on it,
00:42:55 so that he will not pray to the Lord against you,
00:42:58 and it be his sin in you.
00:43:01 Fine.
00:43:03 You think you've been sent by the Lord, hm?
00:43:06 To teach these people?
00:43:08 Minister to his flock?
00:43:11 Oh, you think you are worthy of his message?
00:43:14 Give careful thought to your ways.
00:43:17 You have planted much, but harvest little.
00:43:21 You eat, but never have enough.
00:43:25 You drink, but never have your fill.
00:43:28 You put on clothes, but you are not warm.
00:43:31 You earn wages only to put them in a purse with holes in it.
00:43:35 If by breakfast tomorrow morning you can tell me what verse that is,
00:43:39 then once a week I will let you pretend that you are not just a houseboy.
00:43:44 Hey, Pongal.
00:43:46 Sorry.
00:43:56 It took all night, but I found that damn Bible verse.
00:44:01 Good morning, sir.
00:44:08 Good morning.
00:44:09 [Sighs]
00:44:11 [Sighs]
00:44:15 [Sighs]
00:44:31 [Glass shatters]
00:44:36 [Thunder]
00:44:39 [Thunder]
00:44:43 [Music]
00:44:47 [Music]
00:44:50 [Music]
00:44:53 [Rain]
00:45:18 [Rain]
00:45:21 [Kiss]
00:45:34 [Laughter]
00:45:37 [Laughter]
00:45:40 [Music]
00:45:43 [Laughter]
00:45:52 [Music]
00:45:56 [Music]
00:45:59 [Sighs]
00:46:15 [Sighs]
00:46:18 [Music]
00:46:39 [Music]
00:46:42 ♪ Only joy singing in the house ♪
00:46:44 ♪ My son, no ♪
00:46:46 I've been shouting your name.
00:46:47 Good morning, sir.
00:46:48 What the hell is going on here?
00:46:50 So sorry, sir, I didn't hear you call me.
00:46:53 Rain fell on your newspapers,
00:46:55 so I thought I ironed them for breakfast, sir.
00:46:58 Well, I broke my glasses last night,
00:47:00 so I can't read it anyway.
00:47:02 I can revi --
00:47:03 (clears throat)
00:47:06 I can read them for you, sir.
00:47:11 Not if you can't breathe, you can't.
00:47:13 I can't, sir.
00:47:14 Well, fine.
00:47:15 What is that?
00:47:19 Asthma?
00:47:19 Now, where's your inhaler?
00:47:23 Only one of us is allowed to die in this house,
00:47:29 and that's me.
00:47:29 I'll kill you if you die before me.
00:47:32 Yeah, it's after seven.
00:47:36 Hurry up!
00:47:37 Yes, sir.
00:47:40 For the decentralization of health policy.
00:47:43 He's an idiot.
00:47:46 Didn't they say at the last ECOWAS meeting
00:47:48 that Nigeria has to devolve centralized power?
00:47:51 This was the best thing that had happened to me
00:47:54 in the nine months working with Mr. Timi.
00:47:57 It was the first time I was sitting down
00:47:59 when he was in the room,
00:48:00 and even better, I could hear him think.
00:48:03 From that day on, I read to him every day at breakfast,
00:48:07 and I learned so much.
00:48:09 So I started ordering more papers.
00:48:12 He didn't mind as long as there was enough coffee.
00:48:15 He would sit there till lunchtime
00:48:17 and talk more about Nigeria.
00:48:19 Then I added magazines,
00:48:23 time magazines, business magazines, even the gossip ones.
00:48:28 He just wanted to talk, and I wanted to learn.
00:48:31 Soon, he was telling stories
00:48:34 about other countries he had been to,
00:48:36 and things he had seen when he was younger.
00:48:38 (gentle music)
00:48:41 Anna wanted to meet Mr. Timi
00:48:48 and was getting impatient with my excuses.
00:48:51 She kept saying one day she would just knock on that door.
00:48:54 First problem was that she did knock.
00:49:03 (knocking)
00:49:07 Bigger problem was that she knocked
00:49:10 when I went to buy Mr. Timi some eggs.
00:49:12 (knocking)
00:49:14 Third problem.
00:49:15 - Good morning, sir.
00:49:17 I'm Anna Amakuri.
00:49:18 - I don't care.
00:49:19 (gentle music)
00:49:24 (knocking)
00:49:28 (door opening)
00:49:34 (door closing)
00:49:37 (heavy breathing)
00:49:40 (heavy breathing)
00:49:47 - Hi.
00:50:02 (heavy breathing)
00:50:05 A few days later, she convinced me
00:50:11 that since he had already met Mr. Timi,
00:50:13 he wouldn't mind her coming around.
00:50:15 (gentle music)
00:50:18 - Excuse me.
00:50:28 (heavy breathing)
00:50:30 - She was right.
00:50:34 (laughing)
00:50:38 She would help me with everything
00:50:42 so I could get done quicker.
00:50:44 I could spend more time together.
00:50:46 It had been many months, and I knew she wanted more.
00:50:50 I did too, but she respected my faith,
00:50:54 which only made me love her more and then want her more.
00:50:57 I was going quite mad.
00:50:58 (gentle music)
00:51:01 (door opening)
00:51:07 (car engine starting)
00:51:20 (sobbing)
00:51:22 - How dare you?
00:51:25 Put your hand back, come on.
00:51:28 (gentle music)
00:51:30 (sobbing)
00:51:40 - Fuck.
00:51:43 (gentle music)
00:51:45 (car engine rumbling)
00:51:49 - I want to watch all this.
00:52:15 - Can we set it up?
00:52:16 - Sir, you can't watch it like this.
00:52:24 We have to take it to Lagos to be put on a film projector,
00:52:27 and that might take almost a month.
00:52:29 - A month?
00:52:30 No, no, no, no, no.
00:52:32 There must be something we can do.
00:52:34 - Maybe we can get a different projector.
00:52:38 - Then that's what we will do.
00:52:40 - Today?
00:52:41 - Now.
00:52:42 - Me and you?
00:52:43 - Yes, you and I, you can drive us there.
00:52:45 - What?
00:52:46 What's wrong?
00:52:53 - I can't drive, sir.
00:52:55 - You can't drive?
00:52:57 - Yes, sir.
00:52:59 - You can't drive?
00:53:02 Let me outside now.
00:53:07 - Okay, sir.
00:53:08 - Can't drive.
00:53:09 (laughing)
00:53:11 - Right.
00:53:15 - What's this?
00:53:18 (car engine rumbling)
00:53:22 - Ah, ah, ah, ah.
00:53:24 You have to ensure you know everything about a car
00:53:28 before you start using it.
00:53:31 Just like a woman, you have to be delicate.
00:53:34 - It started off great.
00:53:38 - Mm-hmm.
00:53:39 Right, now, now.
00:53:41 Put it in first gear, clutch down, put it in first gear.
00:53:44 - It was all downhill from there.
00:53:47 - First gear.
00:53:49 Look, are you daft?
00:53:53 Put it in first gear, even an imbecile can do that.
00:53:56 - I'm trying, Mr. T-
00:53:57 - Clutch down and put it into first gear.
00:53:59 - Dwight.
00:54:00 - Will you just do it?
00:54:01 (car engine rumbling)
00:54:02 Oh, what the bloody hell?
00:54:04 Do you want to spoil the car, is that it?
00:54:05 - No, no, no, no.
00:54:07 No, sir.
00:54:08 It's just that-
00:54:09 - What?
00:54:10 - Mr. Timmy was the worst teacher ever.
00:54:12 - Again, again.
00:54:13 - After the shouting came the hitting.
00:54:15 - Look, just get it right.
00:54:16 Are you an idiot?
00:54:17 Put it in first gear, now.
00:54:19 - No, that's not it, look, get away.
00:54:22 - Clutch down, clutch down.
00:54:23 Useless, useless.
00:54:26 (speaking in foreign language)
00:54:32 (speaking in foreign language)
00:54:36 Damn it.
00:54:41 Listen, drive.
00:54:42 Drive this car or I will kill you
00:54:44 if you don't drive this car.
00:54:46 Drive it.
00:54:47 - I'm trying, sir.
00:54:48 - Clutch down and put it in first gear.
00:54:49 Are you stupid?
00:54:50 Drive it.
00:54:52 Oh, God.
00:54:53 Drive.
00:54:56 Clutch down and drive it.
00:55:01 (dramatic music)
00:55:03 - Drive. - It's moving.
00:55:04 It's moving.
00:55:05 Don't do this, boy.
00:55:06 You're moving it.
00:55:07 - It's moving, sir.
00:55:08 - You're not, you're not, you're not,
00:55:08 you're not, you're not, you're not, you're not.
00:55:09 (laughing)
00:55:10 - Should I stop?
00:55:11 - No, no, you're crazy.
00:55:12 Don't stop.
00:55:13 Clutch down and put it into gear, too.
00:55:15 Yes.
00:55:18 Don't do it, boy.
00:55:19 (laughing)
00:55:20 - It's moving, sir.
00:55:21 - Yes, it's moving.
00:55:22 (laughing)
00:55:23 - It's moving, sir.
00:55:24 - Yes.
00:55:25 Yes.
00:55:26 (laughing)
00:55:27 (dramatic music)
00:55:30 (engine revving)
00:55:33 - Go on.
00:55:44 So, you and Anna,
00:55:55 how does your friend up there feel about that?
00:55:59 - Oh, we haven't done anything.
00:56:01 - You've been together for a year,
00:56:03 and you haven't.
00:56:04 - Mr. Timmy.
00:56:07 (laughing)
00:56:09 - Oh, dear. - It's not funny, sir.
00:56:11 (laughing)
00:56:13 - Okay, okay, okay.
00:56:16 You love her?
00:56:20 - Very much.
00:56:22 I want to marry her.
00:56:24 - Then?
00:56:28 - I can't.
00:56:30 - Now, why don't you want to do more?
00:56:31 Is it because the Bible says it's bad?
00:56:34 - Well, the Bible does say it's--
00:56:36 - Will you shut up about that?
00:56:39 If you love her,
00:56:40 you want to spend the rest of your life with her,
00:56:42 who cares what some 3,000-year-old book says?
00:56:45 Bridget was the only woman I was ever with.
00:56:57 You know, we waited until we got married.
00:56:59 That night was
00:57:02 magical.
00:57:05 But we decided together,
00:57:09 talk to Anna, tell her how you feel.
00:57:13 - I want to.
00:57:17 I mean, it's all I think about,
00:57:21 but I know it's wrong.
00:57:23 - Oh, for God's sakes, man.
00:57:25 I'm not talking about what you think God wants from you.
00:57:28 I'm talking about how you feel in here.
00:57:31 - What?
00:57:34 - What's the matter with you?
00:57:38 You called his name.
00:57:39 - What?
00:57:41 - Twice.
00:57:42 - God.
00:57:43 - Did I?
00:57:44 - Yes, yes, you called God two times, Mr. Tui.
00:57:46 (laughing)
00:57:48 You called God two times.
00:57:50 (laughing)
00:57:54 He called God.
00:57:55 - All right.
00:57:56 - Twice, twice.
00:57:56 - All right.
00:57:57 - You called.
00:57:58 ♪ We know ♪
00:58:02 ♪ We know ♪
00:58:03 - Okay.
00:58:04 ♪ We know ♪
00:58:04 - We're not at church now in the middle of nowhere.
00:58:06 You said God twice.
00:58:10 You did.
00:58:11 - See you at home.
00:58:12 - Wait, wait.
00:58:13 - You win, I win.
00:58:20 (laughing)
00:58:21 - Lagos had sent the protector to us.
00:58:24 And Mr. Tui's evening ritual changed.
00:58:26 He didn't sit in a room and cry anymore.
00:58:29 Instead, he watched videos of his wife and daughter
00:58:34 and he would tell us stories of that time.
00:58:37 It typically made Anna cry.
00:58:39 But at least now, he was happy
00:58:42 when he thought of his family.
00:58:44 - Anna, your eggs are much better than his, by the way.
00:58:54 - Thank you, Mr. Johnson.
00:58:55 - So, Elijah.
00:58:59 What's the matter?
00:59:03 - It was the first time he didn't call me boy
00:59:05 after over a year of living with Mr. Timi.
00:59:08 - Nothing, sir.
00:59:10 - He called my name.
00:59:11 - Don't know how to drive.
00:59:13 How were you getting into town every day?
00:59:15 I could show you, sir.
00:59:18 - No.
00:59:19 No.
00:59:23 I insist.
00:59:24 - Maybe it was because he knew he couldn't die.
00:59:28 Or maybe for the first time in years, he just felt free.
00:59:33 Mr. Timi was finding a reason to live again.
00:59:36 - Four eggs.
00:59:42 What do you want?
00:59:46 Well, come on, come on, come on, out with it.
00:59:49 I wanna get to my papers.
00:59:51 (sighs)
00:59:53 - Um, I wanted to ask for a necktie.
01:00:02 - What do you want a necktie for?
01:00:04 You have another job that you're going to.
01:00:06 - Oh, no, sir.
01:00:07 Anna has invited me to her house for lunch
01:00:11 to meet her parents.
01:00:13 And I'd like to make a good impression, sir.
01:00:15 - Anyway, I'll think about it.
01:00:17 - Thank you, sir.
01:00:20 - The news is not gonna read itself.
01:00:22 - Oh.
01:00:22 (glass clinking)
01:00:25 - Sir, do you need anything, sir?
01:00:31 Now this.
01:00:48 This says you can achieve anything that you put your mind to.
01:00:51 This, this says you belong here.
01:00:57 So, what do you want to say?
01:01:04 (gentle music)
01:01:07 - Psst, I love your tie.
01:01:22 Nice touch.
01:01:23 - Thank you.
01:01:25 - Deema.
01:01:33 (footsteps tapping)
01:01:36 - He'll soon be here, Elijah.
01:01:39 Sorry for the wait.
01:01:41 - Oh, no, it's a luxury to be able to wait
01:01:44 in your beautiful home, Ma.
01:01:45 - So, you both have been spending a lot of time together.
01:01:51 - Not that much time, Mom.
01:01:52 - Every day is not so much?
01:01:54 - Anna is very special, Ma.
01:01:58 And I thank God that he finds me fit
01:02:01 to be able to walk this journey
01:02:02 with someone who I learned from.
01:02:04 And I pray that she finds value in this journey as well.
01:02:07 - Oh, Ma.
01:02:10 What a response.
01:02:12 - I told you he was great.
01:02:14 - Oh, Dad's here.
01:02:19 Breathe, he's going to love you.
01:02:22 - She's her daddy's girl.
01:02:24 I'm sure you'll get along.
01:02:26 So, what work do you do?
01:02:29 - I manage the home for the Johnson's estate.
01:02:33 - Hmm, what Johnson?
01:02:34 - Mr. Timmy Johnson.
01:02:37 - Timmy Johnson.
01:02:39 What home?
01:02:42 The one here in town?
01:02:43 - Yes, Ma.
01:02:45 I'm the house manager.
01:02:47 - Are you the young man trying to start a local church?
01:02:52 - Oh, yes, Ma.
01:02:53 Actually, it's just Bible study for now.
01:02:56 We hope to expand to full-blown service soon.
01:03:00 - Dear God.
01:03:01 - I will.
01:03:04 - Daddy, meet Elijah.
01:03:11 He is the house manager for Timmy Johnson.
01:03:16 - Good day, sir.
01:03:26 - I didn't know you were Anna's father.
01:03:28 I sent you a letter, sir.
01:03:30 - Now, look here, boy.
01:03:31 I think you better start going right now.
01:03:36 Get out.
01:03:37 - Thank you very much, Ma,
01:03:43 for having me in your beautiful home.
01:03:45 I have to take my leave now.
01:03:46 It was a pleasure, sir.
01:03:49 - What?
01:03:51 - I'm so sorry, Anna.
01:03:54 Something or two just came in and turned it.
01:03:56 - Elijah, Elijah!
01:03:57 - I'm ready!
01:03:58 - Come back here.
01:03:59 I need to talk to you right now.
01:04:04 Sit down.
01:04:04 Eerie.
01:04:12 This is what you have been encouraging her to do.
01:04:18 Bring a house boy into my house.
01:04:22 - Daddy's a house manager.
01:04:23 - Will you shut up?
01:04:25 That is the little rat
01:04:27 that is trying to stop the hotel project.
01:04:30 Now, listen.
01:04:30 He must never set foot into this house again.
01:04:35 And Gregory may worry about his son.
01:04:39 Jenny, Jenny.
01:04:40 You must not see him again.
01:04:44 - You're the one trying to destroy the church.
01:04:46 - You will not see that house boy again.
01:04:49 - Dad, I'm 23 years old.
01:04:52 You can't tell me who I can
01:04:53 and I cannot see.
01:04:54 - Don't test me, Anna.
01:04:56 - My church and my girl.
01:04:59 The two things I care about the most
01:05:03 in the hands of one man,
01:05:05 a man who didn't respect God,
01:05:07 much less a house boy,
01:05:09 no matter what necktie he wears.
01:05:11 - Anna, Anna.
01:05:15 - Elijah!
01:05:16 (dramatic music)
01:05:19 (gun firing)
01:05:33 - What are you people doing here?
01:05:45 Do you realize this is private property?
01:05:47 - Good day, sir.
01:05:51 Sorry, sir.
01:05:53 I mean no trouble.
01:05:55 - So why are you here?
01:05:56 This is private property.
01:05:57 - Actually, sir, it belongs to the state.
01:06:01 By proxy, the community.
01:06:02 And I have written a letter to the state house
01:06:04 to give us permission to use it
01:06:06 as venue for church services and Bible study.
01:06:10 Honestly, sir, I mean no disrespect whatsoever.
01:06:13 That is why I also wrote you a letter
01:06:15 to please reconsider your plans of demolition.
01:06:18 And I attached the state response with it.
01:06:20 - Of course, I received your senseless and stupid letter.
01:06:31 What the state did not tell you
01:06:35 is that there is an unpaid land use charge
01:06:40 on this land, which is older than you,
01:06:44 or even any one of you seated here.
01:06:47 It has accrued interest to the tune of 49 million naira,
01:06:53 which I have paid.
01:06:56 In essence, this land belongs to me.
01:07:03 And by proxy, the building.
01:07:06 - Yeah.
01:07:09 (woman screaming)
01:07:14 (man grunting)
01:07:16 - Except you can pay me in 90 days.
01:07:23 You will quit this foolishness that you are doing here.
01:07:28 - Do you not fear God, sir?
01:07:32 - Yes, my God has money.
01:07:40 - Our God have money too.
01:07:42 - Not 49 million.
01:07:44 (dramatic music)
01:07:47 - 90 days, boy.
01:07:50 90 days.
01:07:52 (man grunting)
01:07:58 (dramatic music)
01:08:02 (dramatic music)
01:08:05 - I didn't know.
01:08:18 I didn't know.
01:08:23 - I know.
01:08:25 - I'm sorry I couldn't make it here last week.
01:08:26 My dad has been watching me like a hawk.
01:08:28 - I wasn't sure you would come.
01:08:31 - I can't believe my dad is trying to destroy the church.
01:08:34 We have to stop him.
01:08:36 - But how?
01:08:38 - I don't know.
01:08:41 He won't even listen to me.
01:08:43 - Well, I'm sure he won't.
01:08:46 Not after he has invested 49 million naira into it.
01:08:48 - What?
01:08:51 - He came to Bible study yesterday.
01:08:52 - To threaten you.
01:08:53 - Actually, he made an offer.
01:08:59 If I can come up with his 49 million naira in 90 days,
01:09:01 he will let the building go.
01:09:03 But he knows that we can't, so.
01:09:05 - Says who?
01:09:06 What if we raise it?
01:09:09 People do it all the time.
01:09:12 - Anna, look around you.
01:09:13 Not any place like this.
01:09:14 - Well, every copper counts, so we have to try.
01:09:16 - What?
01:09:27 - There's one person.
01:09:28 - No.
01:09:33 - Elijah, please.
01:09:34 - Anna, no!
01:09:35 - Okay.
01:09:42 My dad is a businessman, right?
01:09:53 What if we show him a businessman for the church?
01:09:58 You know, tithes, offerings, merchandise, camps.
01:10:03 Show him that the church can really be profitable
01:10:05 with your partners.
01:10:06 - Anna, stop!
01:10:07 What are you talking?
01:10:09 This is not some business venture for me.
01:10:10 This is what I'm supposed to do with my life.
01:10:12 - I know, my love.
01:10:14 I'm just trying to suggest something.
01:10:17 You can't give up.
01:10:19 - Did you just call me your love?
01:10:24 - Just an expression.
01:10:27 (Anna sighs)
01:10:29 But this isn't.
01:10:31 Anna Makri.
01:10:36 I love you.
01:10:39 (upbeat music)
01:10:52 (door creaking)
01:10:54 (door creaking)
01:10:57 (door creaking)
01:11:27 - Hello.
01:11:27 Coker, how are you?
01:11:30 Listen, I want all the legal books
01:11:35 that you can find on colonial real estate.
01:11:39 Mm-hmm.
01:11:42 Yeah.
01:11:44 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, by morning.
01:11:46 Okay, thank you.
01:11:48 (gentle music)
01:11:55 (Anna sighs)
01:11:58 (Anna chuckles)
01:12:08 Yeah.
01:12:10 - Thank you, Elijah, thank you.
01:12:11 Well, son,
01:12:17 I'm really very sorry.
01:12:20 But I almost got sucked in there
01:12:23 for bringing it up at all.
01:12:25 - How can he say no?
01:12:26 We only have two weeks left.
01:12:30 - Well, it's not all bad news.
01:12:32 He's agreed to let you have one year's salary in advance.
01:12:36 - That's barely half a million.
01:12:38 - Plus whatever harm that I is giving.
01:12:41 Yes?
01:12:44 And of course, I'm happy to throw in a million of my own.
01:12:47 - That's really kind of you, sir.
01:12:49 I appreciate it.
01:12:50 - Right.
01:12:51 - That would get us to five million,
01:12:54 and we still need to get up to 49 million.
01:12:58 (Anna sighs)
01:13:02 - Son,
01:13:05 on this one,
01:13:08 Elijah, you have to ask.
01:13:12 Hmm?
01:13:14 - Thank you very much, sir, for even trying.
01:13:19 - Mm-hmm.
01:13:21 (Anna groans)
01:13:23 - It's just me?
01:13:35 - Elijah's far too kind to ask you directly.
01:13:39 - You know what?
01:13:43 I can't believe you won't give him the money.
01:13:45 What kind of a man are you?
01:13:49 - This doesn't concern you, young lady.
01:13:51 - Elijah has dedicated his life to you.
01:13:53 He does everything for you.
01:13:56 Let's not mention how his salary in a year
01:13:57 is barely enough to replace his bicycle, but that's...
01:14:00 Elijah.
01:14:03 He doesn't want more money for a fancy car
01:14:07 or a house of his own.
01:14:08 He wants money to save a church!
01:14:11 A church that, by the way, you built and pastored!
01:14:14 From what I've heard,
01:14:17 50 million naira is a drop in the bucket for you.
01:14:20 By the looks of things, you're not using your money.
01:14:26 So what do you want?
01:14:28 What do you want from him?
01:14:31 Why would you help him?
01:14:32 How can someone be so cruel?
01:14:45 You say you love your family.
01:14:47 (gun fires)
01:14:49 And that you miss them.
01:14:50 But I don't think so.
01:14:54 Because I don't know how somebody so heartless
01:15:01 could have loved anybody! - Anna!
01:15:04 I am so sorry, sir.
01:15:11 (dramatic music)
01:15:14 - Anna!
01:15:25 What did I worry you?
01:15:26 - Boy, you were clearly never going to say anything.
01:15:28 - Then you thought that you should?
01:15:30 How do you feel if I came by your house
01:15:32 and started insulting your father?
01:15:33 - Babe, he's not your father.
01:15:38 Isn't this proof of that?
01:15:40 - You don't know him.
01:15:42 You don't know what that man has been through.
01:15:43 - Oh, please, that was half a century ago.
01:15:45 It's not an excuse to lock yourself away in Allah.
01:15:47 You're not a human being.
01:15:48 - Anna, please.
01:15:52 Just stay out of this.
01:15:54 You think you're helping,
01:15:55 but you're only making things worse.
01:15:57 - I'm making things worse?
01:15:59 Me?
01:16:00 I'm the only one doing anything.
01:16:02 Babe, my dad is going to demolish the church in two weeks.
01:16:10 How much money have you raised?
01:16:11 - Money, money, money, money, money.
01:16:19 That's all people with money ever think about.
01:16:21 - You think I care about money?
01:16:24 If I cared about money,
01:16:25 what the hell would I be doing with someone?
01:16:27 - What would you be doing with someone like me?
01:16:39 (Anna crying)
01:16:41 - It's true what they say,
01:16:45 the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
01:16:47 Your father does love money.
01:16:50 Willing to sell the church for 49 million.
01:16:53 I wonder how much he'd sell his own daughter.
01:16:55 (Anna spits)
01:16:56 (Anna crying)
01:16:59 (somber music)
01:17:01 (boat engine roaring)
01:17:04 (somber music)
01:17:07 (birds chirping)
01:17:27 (somber music)
01:17:30 ♪ Say my name ♪
01:17:43 ♪ Hold my hand ♪
01:17:45 ♪ It's me and you ♪
01:17:47 ♪ In twinkled stars ♪
01:17:49 ♪ Everything just feels all right ♪
01:17:54 (somber music)
01:17:56 ♪ Fill my soul with hope and grace ♪
01:18:01 ♪ Heal the scars and make me whole ♪
01:18:05 ♪ Just one kiss, I'll be all right ♪
01:18:10 ♪ Oh, down in Santa Ana ♪
01:18:15 ♪ 'Til the morning comes ♪
01:18:22 ♪ Listen to my heart, it says ♪
01:18:27 ♪ I love you ♪
01:18:30 ♪ Y pues yo amor ♪
01:18:33 ♪ I want you as more than just a friend ♪
01:18:37 ♪ I'm ready to give you all I have ♪
01:18:42 ♪ Oh, voy a darte el amor ♪
01:18:45 ♪ I love you ♪
01:18:46 ♪ Y pues yo amor ♪
01:18:49 ♪ I want you as more than just a friend ♪
01:18:53 ♪ I'm ready to give you all I have ♪
01:18:58 ♪ Y pues yo amor ♪
01:19:01 (somber music)
01:19:04 (man vocalizing)
01:19:06 - Sir.
01:19:29 - Hmm?
01:19:30 - We have organized a protest
01:19:33 against the church demolition tomorrow.
01:19:36 I would make sure your breakfast is ready.
01:19:38 I would love to attend if that is okay.
01:19:40 - Sure, sure.
01:19:43 You know,
01:19:45 in the late '20s,
01:19:49 when the Aba women used to protest,
01:19:52 they burnt down all the colonial structures in their town,
01:19:58 including the Berkeley's Bank, Post Office,
01:20:02 and even the Magistrates' Court.
01:20:05 But they left the church.
01:20:07 - Why would anyone want to burn down a church?
01:20:12 - Well,
01:20:13 they would have.
01:20:15 But they didn't know that it belonged to the British.
01:20:20 They gave it to the locals, the Europeans,
01:20:25 and of course they didn't use it,
01:20:27 unlike the bank, post office, court, et cetera.
01:20:30 But the land and the building always and still
01:20:35 belongs to Her Majesty's government.
01:20:37 It seems the British government did the same
01:20:41 in small towns across the South,
01:20:43 including this one.
01:20:46 I wonder what a good lawyer like Coker will make of that.
01:20:56 Probably tell his friend in the British High Commission.
01:20:59 Maybe I'll give him a call.
01:21:02 I'll take my coffee in the study.
01:21:14 Nice eggs today.
01:21:20 - Thank you, sir.
01:21:21 (sobbing)
01:21:23 - Mummy!
01:21:38 Mummy!
01:21:43 Mummy, open this door!
01:21:48 Open this door!
01:21:50 Let me out!
01:21:52 Let me out!
01:21:52 Open this door!
01:21:55 Open this door!
01:21:57 Open this door!
01:21:58 Open this door!
01:22:00 Open this door!
01:22:01 Open this door!
01:22:02 (sobbing)
01:22:04 Let me out!
01:22:12 (siren blaring)
01:22:13 - Go, go.
01:22:14 Come, come, come.
01:22:15 No who has power now.
01:22:21 Officer.
01:22:22 - Just go, just go.
01:22:27 - Yes, just let them out from here.
01:22:29 - Go, go, go.
01:22:30 - About 10 seconds, you get away from there, boys.
01:22:45 Hey!
01:22:46 Hey!
01:22:50 What?
01:22:51 10.
01:22:53 Seven.
01:22:56 Six.
01:23:00 Five.
01:23:03 Four.
01:23:06 Three.
01:23:09 Two.
01:23:13 - Go on, let's drink!
01:23:15 - Four.
01:23:16 (dramatic music)
01:23:19 - Stop, stop.
01:23:23 Stop.
01:23:25 - Who is this?
01:23:29 - I'm from the British High Commission.
01:23:32 I have a stay document from Lagos High Court,
01:23:37 the federal government of Nigeria,
01:23:40 and Her Majesty's government,
01:23:42 that this building is not to be destroyed.
01:23:45 - No, you cannot do that.
01:23:46 You cannot do that!
01:23:48 I paid the levies for this building.
01:23:50 It is now private property.
01:23:52 You can't, you can't do that.
01:23:54 - Oh yes, we can.
01:23:55 This was your building temporarily,
01:23:59 but it is now a national monument.
01:24:01 A museum to be enjoyed by the people as they see fit,
01:24:08 even as a church.
01:24:11 (somber music)
01:24:13 - All right, boys, let's retreat.
01:24:19 Move out.
01:24:20 - Chief Imakri, I have a little private message
01:24:23 from Mr. Timmy Johnson.
01:24:25 He says...
01:24:29 not to fool with his boy.
01:24:33 (somber music)
01:24:36 - Mr. Timmy, Mr. Timmy, Mr. Timmy, it worked!
01:24:47 It worked, it worked!
01:24:49 They stopped the demolition.
01:24:51 (laughing)
01:24:52 - Okay, okay.
01:24:53 Well, I can see that you're happy.
01:24:56 - Yes.
01:24:57 I hope this doesn't affect your work, though.
01:25:01 - Actually, sir, about that...
01:25:04 - Come on, come on, out with it.
01:25:11 I'm not going to kill you.
01:25:13 - When...
01:25:20 When everyone had left,
01:25:23 I was in the church alone,
01:25:26 and God spoke to me.
01:25:31 - He has asked me to start the church properly.
01:25:34 - I already give you two days off a week
01:25:37 to go do your Bible thing.
01:25:40 If you want to convert those days into service,
01:25:42 how does that concern me?
01:25:43 - God has asked me to stop domestic service
01:25:47 and follow his ministry more permanently.
01:25:50 - This is about that girl, isn't it?
01:25:59 - No, no, no, no, it's not.
01:26:02 It was God.
01:26:03 I mean, why else would he save the church?
01:26:05 - You think God saved your church?
01:26:07 I saved your church!
01:26:09 Me!
01:26:10 - I believe you were the instrument, sir.
01:26:13 - So, God spoke to you, did he?
01:26:20 And what did he say exactly?
01:26:23 That he thinks you're now too big to be a house manager?
01:26:28 Or he needs your help in getting the little money
01:26:30 these people around here struggle to make?
01:26:33 So you can do what?
01:26:35 Buy yourself a new car and impress your girlfriend?
01:26:37 Or better still, her father?
01:26:39 Let me tell you something.
01:26:41 No matter what you do,
01:26:45 no matter how much money you make,
01:26:47 once a houseboy, always a houseboy.
01:26:49 You know, I'm curious.
01:26:58 I'm curious.
01:26:59 Did this God tell you what will happen to me
01:27:04 once you go off playing Jesus, baptizing people?
01:27:08 Is he gonna find me another houseboy, or does he not care?
01:27:12 - I won't leave, sir, till we find someone.
01:27:14 - We?
01:27:15 There is no we!
01:27:16 You're walking out on we!
01:27:18 (yells)
01:27:20 I have to find someone else.
01:27:22 Invite them into my home, my life!
01:27:26 Teach them how to make fucking eggs, again!
01:27:29 After all that I have done for you,
01:27:36 after everything that I have given you,
01:27:39 I treated you like you were...
01:27:41 You know what?
01:27:46 Leave.
01:27:47 Go on.
01:27:48 Don't come back.
01:27:51 I want you out of this house by tomorrow morning.
01:27:53 Fucking ingrate.
01:27:55 (gun cocks)
01:27:58 You think you know God?
01:28:03 You think he loves you?
01:28:06 Well, I've got news for you, boy.
01:28:10 It will disappoint you.
01:28:12 He will take everything you love,
01:28:17 and he will destroy it.
01:28:18 (somber music)
01:28:21 (door opens)
01:28:23 - You locked me in.
01:28:49 Your father did what he thought was best.
01:28:52 - I hate him.
01:28:53 - Ah, no.
01:28:54 Don't say that about your father.
01:28:56 - I hate him.
01:28:58 - Well, if it's any consolation,
01:29:03 the church was not demolished.
01:29:04 - I'm going to marry Elijah,
01:29:12 and leave this godforsaken house.
01:29:15 (somber music)
01:29:18 (dog barks)
01:29:20 (somber music)
01:29:23 (phone vibrates)
01:29:48 (somber music)
01:29:51 - Anna?
01:30:15 What are you doing?
01:30:18 How did you?
01:30:19 You can't be here at this time.
01:30:22 Your father, Mr. Tinney?
01:30:27 Are you okay?
01:30:31 Wait.
01:30:39 Please, not like this.
01:30:43 - I have to.
01:30:44 He's the only way.
01:30:46 (Anna sighs)
01:30:48 - What's wrong?
01:30:49 - Baby, we have to do this.
01:30:53 Trust me, please.
01:30:55 - Anna, stop.
01:30:57 - It's the only way.
01:30:59 - This is wrong.
01:31:01 - Elijah, do you love me?
01:31:05 - Yes, but--
01:31:06 - Just answer, please.
01:31:08 Do you love me enough to marry me
01:31:13 and want to spend the rest of your life with me?
01:31:16 - You know I do.
01:31:17 - Then baby, please.
01:31:20 This is the only way.
01:31:24 ♪ Can we get it all done ♪
01:31:32 ♪ Yeah, I promise ♪
01:31:33 ♪ I'll keep burning inside of me ♪
01:31:38 ♪ Like stories on toys ♪
01:31:43 ♪ Give me the reader in the pages ♪
01:31:46 ♪ I'm gonna escape ♪
01:31:51 ♪ 'Cause I wanna give my all to it ♪
01:31:55 ♪ Do you see ♪
01:31:57 - Baby, relax.
01:31:58 Please.
01:32:00 You're a healer.
01:32:05 Where is it?
01:32:08 Where is it?
01:32:09 Where is it?
01:32:10 ♪ I'm done with you ♪
01:32:13 ♪ You're sure the dark finds its way ♪
01:32:16 ♪ Would you take me away ♪
01:32:21 ♪ Into your life ♪
01:32:27 ♪ And would you hold me through the day ♪
01:32:33 ♪ And through the night ♪
01:32:38 - It's not working.
01:32:39 ♪ And when my days ♪
01:32:41 - Please, please.
01:32:42 ♪ Are wasted ♪
01:32:44 - Help, help, help.
01:32:46 ♪ When it feels like all I have is gone to pieces ♪
01:32:51 ♪ Oh, would you take me away ♪
01:32:57 ♪ Into your life ♪
01:33:03 ♪ You know I gotta get up ♪
01:33:08 ♪ I'm arising in my fall is at your feet ♪
01:33:12 ♪ Without you there's no me ♪
01:33:16 ♪ I know I'm in the way ♪
01:33:18 - I'm afraid he has chronic lung failure.
01:33:20 He seems to have had it for quite a while
01:33:23 and could have been treated with drugs.
01:33:25 Unfortunately, he wasn't diagnosed early enough.
01:33:28 - We thought he had asthma.
01:33:30 - Maybe he was wrongly diagnosed as asthma.
01:33:33 - So what do we do?
01:33:34 What do we do, doctor?
01:33:35 - There isn't much we can do.
01:33:37 I mean, he would need a lung transplant
01:33:39 and we do not have donors for that here.
01:33:42 At least there isn't any active registry that I'm aware of.
01:33:46 And you can't fly him abroad
01:33:48 because there's a long list of patients
01:33:50 waiting to receive from donors
01:33:52 and no one will put him ahead of their citizens.
01:33:55 It's both lungs, which means it has to be cadaveric.
01:33:59 And you're going to have a hard time
01:34:00 convincing a parent or a next of kin
01:34:02 to give you the lungs of their recently deceased loved ones
01:34:06 within the space of 48 hours.
01:34:08 Like I said, there isn't much we can do.
01:34:13 We can only continue to put him on the ventilator
01:34:16 so that you all can say your goodbyes.
01:34:19 I really am sorry.
01:34:21 - Leave him on the ventilator.
01:34:25 I'd like a second opinion.
01:34:28 - We'll do just that.
01:34:34 - The echoes of diversifying the Nigerian economy
01:34:37 to salvage it from the scourge of depression and recession
01:34:41 have been resounding since the woes of the economy
01:34:44 have come to constitute strong forces
01:34:48 blowing stumps of disturbance in the country.
01:34:50 As attention has been drawn to agriculture,
01:34:56 some proposals which are considered as--
01:34:59 - They came from far and wide,
01:35:01 the best pulmonary specialists in the world.
01:35:04 But my dad didn't give up.
01:35:06 He instructed Mr. Koka to pay off
01:35:12 as many emergency room doctors
01:35:14 as he could find around the country.
01:35:16 They were supposed to convince people
01:35:20 who had just lost their loved ones
01:35:22 to donate their lungs for a transplant.
01:35:25 All the doctors tried to explain
01:35:27 how the death need not to be in vain
01:35:29 if it can help save another life,
01:35:31 but it just wasn't working.
01:35:33 Pretty soon, my father got impatient
01:35:39 and took matters into his own hands.
01:35:41 That didn't work out too well.
01:35:46 - You can't do this.
01:35:50 - This will be a bereavement.
01:35:51 - The way I'm-- - You're gonna be adoption.
01:35:53 - Okay, we found a place.
01:35:55 But Jimmy, are you sure?
01:35:57 - No, do not ask me that again.
01:35:59 (liquid pouring)
01:36:04 (sobbing)
01:36:18 (sobbing)
01:36:21 - Sorry, boy.
01:36:31 I'm so sorry.
01:36:34 I'm so sorry.
01:36:37 (somber music)
01:36:40 (footsteps tapping)
01:36:43 (footsteps tapping)
01:36:46 (footsteps tapping)
01:36:49 (footsteps tapping)
01:36:55 (footsteps tapping)
01:37:01 (somber music)
01:37:07 (sighing)
01:37:12 (door closing)
01:37:14 - You know,
01:37:29 first time I met him
01:37:33 and he had his long thing,
01:37:36 scared me.
01:37:40 His nose made that funny sound.
01:37:42 (imitating snoring)
01:37:45 Then I thought he was making fun of me.
01:37:47 - First time we spoke,
01:37:55 I had to do most of the talking
01:37:57 because he was just...
01:38:00 (imitating snoring)
01:38:02 (laughing)
01:38:04 (somber music)
01:38:09 (sobbing)
01:38:11 - Mr. Timmy, he can't die.
01:38:13 Promise me he won't die.
01:38:18 - He's not going to die.
01:38:28 I told him that a long time ago.
01:38:33 He's not allowed to die before me.
01:38:39 (sobbing)
01:38:41 - So,
01:38:42 what's an Aja Bata girl like you doing
01:38:45 falling for Elijah?
01:38:47 (laughing)
01:38:49 - I think the first thing I noticed was his heart.
01:38:56 He's kind.
01:39:02 (laughing)
01:39:08 (somber music)
01:39:11 ♪ Father, my father ♪
01:39:22 ♪ I've got many questions ♪
01:39:24 ♪ Although you've been reading my mind ♪
01:39:29 ♪ Now you be my comfort ♪
01:39:32 ♪ When I'm out of breath and ♪
01:39:34 ♪ I've cried all the tears that I cried ♪
01:39:39 ♪ I'm done being foolish ♪
01:39:41 ♪ My riches can't hold me ♪
01:39:44 ♪ What matters now is how you see me ♪
01:39:48 ♪ I'm older and wiser ♪
01:39:51 ♪ But I still be muggle ♪
01:39:53 ♪ When all of your wisdom hits home ♪
01:39:58 ♪ When I raise shoulder ♪
01:40:00 ♪ And life go on it kills me ♪
01:40:03 ♪ The one thing that matters now ♪
01:40:05 ♪ Love, love, love ♪
01:40:10 ♪ Love, love, love ♪
01:40:15 ♪ There's so many reasons ♪
01:40:20 ♪ Through all of the seasons ♪
01:40:22 ♪ To take the law in my hands ♪
01:40:24 ♪ And run wild ♪
01:40:27 ♪ I've seen many feelings ♪
01:40:29 - Are you not coming?
01:40:31 - Later.
01:40:33 I have a few things I need to get sorted.
01:40:35 - Take care of it, Adrian.
01:40:41 ♪ The ones that we love first ♪
01:40:43 ♪ Before we ever learn to ♪
01:40:46 ♪ Care for our neighbor ♪
01:40:48 ♪ And love our sister ♪
01:40:51 ♪ Our children and brothers ♪
01:40:53 ♪ They all need this loving love ♪
01:40:59 ♪ Love, love, love ♪
01:41:04 ♪ Love, love, love ♪
01:41:09 - My father tracked down my old orphanage,
01:41:12 not to get further medical history,
01:41:14 but so that he could officially adopt me.
01:41:17 ♪ Love, love, love ♪
01:41:20 ♪ Before we ever learn to ♪
01:41:24 ♪ Care for our neighbor ♪
01:41:26 ♪ And love our sister ♪
01:41:29 - We could have brought all this to you in the house,
01:41:38 you know, Timmy.
01:41:40 - No.
01:41:40 I haven't seen Legos since...
01:41:43 Anyway.
01:41:45 I don't think I'll get a chance to see it.
01:41:49 (sighing)
01:41:52 - They're scaring me, you know, Timmy.
01:42:06 Are you sure this is what you want?
01:42:09 All of it?
01:42:13 Look, Timmy,
01:42:14 with all due respect,
01:42:17 I know how much you love this young man and all,
01:42:21 but...
01:42:22 Giving all your wealth
01:42:28 to someone who may die and tested in one week?
01:42:32 - My son will live.
01:42:33 (sighing)
01:42:35 (sighing)
01:42:37 (sighing)
01:42:40 - All of it.
01:42:55 Thanks for everything,
01:43:02 for all these years.
01:43:03 I mean it.
01:43:07 Timmy.
01:43:08 There'll be very many more years.
01:43:15 Many more.
01:43:17 Hey.
01:43:19 (somber music)
01:43:21 - Father.
01:43:49 Father.
01:43:50 Why have you forsaken me?
01:43:55 I know now what must be done,
01:44:00 but I cannot do it without you.
01:44:03 My son needs your help.
01:44:08 He needs my lungs.
01:44:17 To heal my son.
01:44:18 Hasn't worked in 40 years,
01:44:22 but I know now why you gave me these lungs.
01:44:27 They were never meant for me.
01:44:30 I was just holding them for him.
01:44:35 I know now why you gave me this mind,
01:44:40 was to prepare his mind.
01:44:44 And of course,
01:44:48 I know now why you gave me this wealth,
01:44:51 was to open doors
01:44:54 that would have been closed to him.
01:44:59 It is his time now.
01:45:07 I...
01:45:10 I want to see my family again.
01:45:16 (sobs)
01:45:17 I want to come home.
01:45:23 I want to come home.
01:45:26 (sobs)
01:45:28 I want to come home.
01:45:32 Please, Father.
01:45:34 Do not turn away from me again.
01:45:44 (sobs)
01:45:46 (dramatic music)
01:45:50 (guns cocking)
01:45:52 (explosion)
01:45:55 (dramatic music)
01:45:57 (dramatic music)
01:46:00 (dramatic music)
01:46:03 (dramatic music)
01:46:06 (dramatic music)
01:46:09 (dramatic music)
01:46:11 (dramatic music)
01:46:14 (dramatic music)
01:46:17 (dramatic music)
01:46:34 (dramatic music)
01:46:36 (dramatic music)
01:46:53 (dramatic music)
01:46:56 (dramatic music)
01:47:06 (dramatic music)
01:47:19 (dramatic music)
01:47:22 (speaking in foreign language)
01:47:32 (coughing)
01:47:35 (dramatic music)
01:47:37 - Where's Mr. Timmy?
01:47:46 (dramatic music)
01:47:49 - Where is my father?
01:47:52 (dramatic music)
01:47:55 - Oh, no.
01:48:05 (sobs)
01:48:15 (dramatic music)
01:48:17 (sobs)
01:48:19 (sobs)
01:48:25 (dramatic music)
01:48:32 - My dear boy, to see your face one more time,
01:48:46 especially healthy and happy,
01:48:49 is a treat I will give the world for you.
01:48:53 Alas, even I cannot deny that God has the final say
01:48:57 on these matters.
01:48:58 And while I am here in thought,
01:49:01 Anna will always be by your side.
01:49:05 She's an amazing woman who will make you very happy.
01:49:10 (dramatic music)
01:49:12 (dramatic music)
01:49:15 And do not worry about her father.
01:49:19 Once he knows how much money you have now,
01:49:22 he will definitely let you marry Anna.
01:49:24 (dramatic music)
01:49:27 (car engine rumbling)
01:49:32 (dramatic music)
01:49:36 (dramatic music)
01:49:39 - I don't want you to be angry or sad
01:49:55 or feel guilty for being alive.
01:50:00 - Welcome to Cambridge, Mr. Johnson.
01:50:02 (dramatic music)
01:50:05 - I've lived my life.
01:50:20 It is time to live yours.
01:50:22 And I will always be with you.
01:50:24 And what a beautiful new life it will be,
01:50:29 full of possibilities to do whatever,
01:50:33 to be whoever.
01:50:34 My father was a very special man
01:50:39 who lived his entire life for the purpose
01:50:42 of giving me life.
01:50:44 Who else can say that?
01:50:47 ♪ Everything I have you gave me ♪
01:50:53 ♪ Everything I know you showed me ♪
01:50:56 ♪ More than what I ever could ♪
01:51:00 ♪ Have dreamed of the air in my lungs ♪
01:51:04 ♪ I'm breathing the love in my heart ♪
01:51:08 ♪ I'm feeling everything because of you ♪
01:51:13 ♪ I'm different ♪
01:51:16 ♪ My life is so much better than before ♪
01:51:22 ♪ So hard to believe ♪
01:51:26 ♪ It's a brand new me ♪
01:51:31 ♪ What I lose I gain ♪
01:51:37 ♪ Joy comes after rain ♪
01:51:41 ♪ The sun will shine again ♪
01:51:50 ♪ What I lose I gain ♪
01:51:54 ♪ Nothing stays the same ♪
01:51:59 ♪ Everything must change ♪
01:52:04 ♪ Nothing that I own can compare ♪
01:52:12 ♪ Silver, even gold is worthless ♪
01:52:15 ♪ What you have done, no one ever could ♪
01:52:20 ♪ Everyone, my life is better than before ♪
01:52:26 ♪ So hard to believe ♪
01:52:32 ♪ It's a brand new me ♪
01:52:37 ♪ What I lose I gain ♪
01:52:43 ♪ Joy comes after rain ♪
01:52:47 ♪ The sun will shine again ♪
01:52:52 ♪ What I lose I gain ♪
01:53:00 ♪ Nothing stays the same ♪
01:53:04 ♪ Everything must change ♪
01:53:10 ♪ Everything is clearer now ♪
01:53:15 ♪ My life has meaning 'cause of how ♪
01:53:19 ♪ You've opened up your world to me ♪
01:53:23 ♪ It's not make believe ♪
01:53:25 ♪ It's my destiny ♪
01:53:29 ♪ What I lose I gain ♪
01:53:33 ♪ Joy comes after rain ♪
01:53:37 ♪ The sun will shine again ♪
01:53:42 ♪ What I lose I gain ♪
01:53:51 ♪ Nothing stays the same ♪
01:53:56 ♪ Everything, everything will change ♪
01:54:04 ♪ What I lose I gain ♪
01:54:09 ♪ Nothing stays the same ♪
01:54:13 ♪ Everything must change ♪
01:54:17 ♪ Everything ♪
01:54:19 (music fades)
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