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Clips from Taboo - Episode #1.1 (S01E01)

"why don't we just... burn it?"
Taboo
"Even if I did,"
Taboo
"And his return was purposely in a public way."
Taboo
"Hardly the action of a savage."
Taboo
"Thank you, Mr. Thoyt, you may leave us."
Taboo
"Mr. Pettifer, I hope the report from the Africa desk is as thorough"
Taboo
"as the one from Mr. Wilton in the records office."
Taboo
"According to charter records,"
Taboo
"he went to Cabinda aboard a ship called Cornwallis,"
Taboo
"It was a slave ship."
Taboo
"and it was assumed Delaney was dead."
Taboo
"Then the rumours began."
Taboo
"There have been rumours about James Keziah Delaney these past ten years"
Taboo
"but in the file I have put only the facts, sir,"
Taboo
"not the rumours."
Taboo
"[he snorts quietly]"
Taboo
"Awful, and unnatural, and, I'm sure, untrue."
Taboo
"What fucking rumours?"
Taboo
"[birdsong, men shout in distance]"
Taboo
"Who's there? This pistol is loaded."
Taboo
"My God."
Taboo
"Perhaps by ship and by carriage. Hm? Come here."
Taboo
"Ah!"
Taboo
"Where's your propriety, Brace? Servant and master? Get off me."
Taboo
"- Begging your pardon, sir. - What, why?"
Taboo
"Begging your pardon, but what the hell are you doing here?"
Taboo
"Oh, no, there will be no pardon for you"
Taboo
"because you are the captain of the mutineers."
Taboo
"And you will hang. For being a pirate, you vagabond!"
Taboo
"I broke my left knee swinging from a tree, being an ape for you."
Taboo
"- You needed a brother. - Still do."
Taboo
"But a broken down, bent, buckled old butler will have to be sufficient."
Taboo
"You look the same."
Taboo
"I'm not."
Taboo
"Not tea, brandy."
Taboo
"Two glasses."
Taboo
"Sir?"
Taboo
"Fetch two glasses."
Taboo
"They should have invited you. To the wake, at least."
Taboo
"Serving stew in the backroom, to hell with that."
Taboo
"In all of this dirty city, there is no-one that I can trust,"
Taboo
"do you understand?"
Taboo
"Apart from you."
Taboo
"Ah!"
Taboo
"[brace coughs]"
Taboo
"You can spare me the old maiden splutter, Brace."
Taboo
"I know that you polish off at least half a bottle"
Taboo
"of Delaney Company Brandy every night."
Taboo
"- [they chuckle] - Hm?"
Taboo
"James..."
Taboo
"You could have written to your father just once."
Taboo
"In the end, he was calling for you."
Taboo
"I know."
Taboo
"I'd say, Come on, come in."
Taboo
"Before the tide gets your shoes."
Taboo
"And he would light these fires on the shore,"
Taboo
"call out your name and talk to you."
Taboo
"Is that grief, James?"
Taboo
"Is what grief?"
Taboo
"And all the while, these gulls hovered around picking at him."
Taboo
"Gulls only come if there is meat."
Taboo
"Oh, aye, meat there was."
Taboo
"Men of affairs, they call themselves."
Taboo
"Don't you want to know what it is they wanted, these gulls?"
Taboo
"I know already."
Taboo
"I doubt that."
Taboo
"A base of land called Nootka Sound."
Taboo
"No. No, no, James."
Taboo
"He bought some land and he bought a wife."
Taboo
"And he bought them both for gunpowder."
Taboo
"He told me never to speak to you of buying her."
Taboo
"And yet he told me everything."
Taboo
"When?"
Taboo
"Nothing you could tell me about that man would surprise me."
Taboo
"He was half human at the end and he would squat right here and"
Taboo
"make deals with ghosts in the flames."
Taboo
"And he would speak in a language that was like..."
Taboo
"It was like ravens fighting."
Taboo
"And he would talk to you, James."
Taboo
"And he would talk to Anna."
Taboo
"Salish."
Taboo
"My mother's name was Salish."
Taboo
"You know things only he and I knew."
Taboo
"Yeah."
Taboo
"And it's best we never talk of her when we've had brandy."
Taboo
"See, when you live alone with a madman, you--"
Taboo
"You become half mad yourself."
Taboo
"But here's the thing, James. This Nootka Sound is a curse."
Taboo
"It will bring the King and Empire down upon your head."
Taboo
"Please don't talk to me of sense, Brace,"
Taboo
"because if it is you, I might believe it."
Taboo
"And I have sworn to do very foolish things."
Taboo
"[door opens]"
Taboo
"[snarling]"
Taboo
"[she cackles]"
Taboo
"If you're looking for money, those accounts are ten years old."
Taboo
"Where are my father's inventories and his shipping logs?"
Taboo
"He burnt them all."
Taboo
"The only reason these accounts survived was because I hid them"
Taboo
"in case the taxman came knocking."
Taboo
"That was delivered at 6 AM this morning"
Taboo
"by a servant of Mr. Robert Thoyt."
Taboo
"Thoyt has been trying to buy the Delaney Shipping Company"
Taboo
"from your father for three years."
Taboo
"Each time, your da would go into the street,"
Taboo
"I imagine the envelope contains a financial offer."
Taboo
"Listen, the accounts told me that we have a leasehold of 50 years"
Taboo
"on the offices in West India docks, 32 years left to run."
Taboo
"Your father hadnae been up there in eight years, sir."
Taboo
"Then I will need the key."
Taboo
"Oi!"
Taboo
"What are you doing with the door?"
Taboo
"You want a bush, you come through me."
Taboo
"That is private property."
Taboo
"Helga, it's so good to see that you're still working--"
Taboo
"even still alive."
Taboo
"You know that I lay with you when I was just a little boy."
Taboo
"Where did you get the key?"
Taboo
"Horace Delaney. Mmm?"
Taboo
"Yes, shit."
Taboo
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