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Clips from Taboo - Episode #1.1 (S01E01)

"Such a shallow grave they dug for my father."
Taboo
"Last years, he disgraced me."
Taboo
"Hm."
Taboo
"[woman laughs flirtatiously]"
Taboo
"Were those Negro words he said over the grave?"
Taboo
"Madness comes out through the umbilical cord."
Taboo
"The pox in Africa goes directly to the brain via these-- these worms."
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"They-- they crawl through your veins."
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"- Where is he? - He went to piss."
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"Any business with him will be conducted in my presence."
Taboo
"See, I have the advantage, I have read the will."
Taboo
"Meaning what?"
Taboo
"Meaning I need to piss and need no-one to hold my cock."
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"[horse neighs in distance]"
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"How came you to know that your father was dead?"
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"I heard he was sick and I boarded a ship."
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"Yes, he was sick from madness."
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"Hear that?"
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"Not a single tear from anyone at the graveside."
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"I didn't hear any piss at the leather."
Taboo
"Perhaps you had no need, or perhaps you came out here with--"
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"With a purpose?"
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"CHUCKLING: James..."
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"- Who are you? - I'm Thoyt, your father's lawyer."
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"Smallpox butchered me down to the bone"
Taboo
"and, yes, I have other business than pissing."
Taboo
"only your father believed you were still alive."
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"It was a symptom of his madness."
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"But he would talk to you, stand on the north bank of the river"
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"Yes, I know, I heard him calling."
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"I'll speak plainly."
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"Your father drew up a will of which I am executor."
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"But, James, if you came home expecting fortune, there is none."
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"The only legacy is a poisoned chalice."
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"Talk to me of poison."
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"directly on the other side of the world,"
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"which your father held by treaty with the Nootka tribe."
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"it is right at the pig's arse."
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"Just rocks and Indians."
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"The land in your father's will is not only useless,"
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"it is dangerous to any who owns it."
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"They're my rocks now."
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"James..."
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"I can arrange the immediate transfer of this particular asset."
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"[gunshot, horse neighs]"
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"I'll send you a formal proposition in writing."
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"[laughter and chatter]"
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"[they sing mournfully]"
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"Good day, sir."
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"These girls arriving are all whores."
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"They attend the funeral of a widower"
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"'cause they know there'll be lots of old men."
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"And that animal from Africa"
Taboo
"is here to pick at an old man's bones, too."
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"Perhaps we should let Thoyt deal with the matter."
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"Let's call our carriage."
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"[he puts down glass]"
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"One thing Africa did not cure..."
Taboo
"is that I still love you."
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"And if you are ever short of two shillings,"
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"please do not hesitate to ask,"
Taboo
"as Africa also served me incredibly well."
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"Well, then you will have no need for legacies now, will you?"
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"We were just leaving."
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"Hm."
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"[women laugh flirtatiously]"
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"[laughter and chatter distorts]"
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"A clerk will record every word that's said,"
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"except when a fellow raises his hand."
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"Words from a raised hand will not..."
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"enter the record."
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"Now, the issue today is old man Delaney."
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"- May he rot in hell. - [men chuckle]"
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"The death of that mad old bastard was welcome"
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"and, as we thought at the time,"
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"beneficial for the honourable East India."
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"But things have changed."
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"Mr. Thoyt, welcome."
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"As the late Mr. Delaney's lawyer, I attended the funeral,"
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"and a ghost appeared--"
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"a son we all thought dead in Africa."
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"Mr. Wilton, I asked you to do some digging."
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"Which I have done, sir, and most entertaining it has been."
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"She was committed as a resident of Bedlam."
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"Just stick to what we know about the boy."
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"his exhausted father and new bride put his son in"
Taboo
"as a cadet at the East India Company military seminary in Woolwich,"
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"Delaney's son was a... company boy?"
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"And, Sir Stuart, odd to relate,"
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"the records show he was once in your own regiment."
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"Well... [he chuckles]"
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"I commanded so many of the little bastards, I forget."
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"There is a copy of his attendance record and the year-end report."
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"Yeah, year end record too."
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"My God!"
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"Corporal James Keziah Delaney."
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"Exceptional. Exceptional. Exceptional."
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"But, sir, then along came the year of our Lord 1800."
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"Exceptional in different ways."
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"and mother's madness to emerge."
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"The necks he broke always belonged to officers."
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"And then there is the setting ablaze"
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"of a Navy boat in an experiment with oil"
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"- and mashed potatoes while drunk. - [laughter]"
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"And a fight with a bear in Chancery Lane,"
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"a rebellion against the cooks for bad custard, started by him,"
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"and he raved about fortunes and hidden treasures."
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"He tried to recruit other boys to go down the river to India,"
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"to trade with Red Indians, to take gold from the Aztecs."
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"And more necks, more whores and more custard. And finally..."
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"I am almost exhausted in the telling of it."
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"Finally, in the year of our Lord 1802,"
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"Well, now he is returned."
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"And Delaney's will leaves him everything."
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"Including Nootka."
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"Do we have a copy of the Nootka Sound treaty yet?"
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"Where perhaps our lawyers could pick it apart?"
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"I believe only the original exists."
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"So, our lengthy negotiations with the daughter were in vain."
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"If the will has not been read and Nootka is so strategic to us,"
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