(silence)
(gentle, lilting orchestral music)
(choir singing in foreign language)
(edgy electronic rock music)
So, have you made a decision as yet?
Yeah, I'm going.
That's great honey, you deserve a break.
Just make sure that you're home in time
to help out with Dad tonight, okay?
Yeah.
If it's anybody that can get your father
to eat these things, it's you.
(kiss smacks)
Love ya, gotta go.
Have fun, bye.
Just gone for the day, Monkey.
Just make sure Dad takes these on the hour.
Dr. Singh's number's by the phone.
And just take Dad outside and make him get some fresh air...
Yeah, don't worry, I got it.
You gonna be okay?
Mm-hm.
- Sure? - Yeah.
It's taken me a long time to come to terms
with my father's cancer.
But since my father's diagnosis, everything,
everyone, seems so distant.
I hardly even write anymore.
The things I had once collected for vanity
quickly lost their appeal,
and now, the only things that still have value
are those that make me feel safe.
At least I have that.
Some people have nothing at all.
(ominous orchestral music)
(security system beeps slowly)
(breathes heavily)
(security system beeping rapidly)
(dog barking)
(alarm sounds)
Top of the news.
Police are urging citizens to be vigilant
as crime continues to be of grave...
Have you not...
(coughs and wheezes)
(breathes heavily)
Did you do your college applications yet?
I can't go, so what's the point?
Hm.
There's one school I could apply to for a scholarship,
but it's really hard to get into.
Yeah.
And what are these?
(chuckles) They're organic.
From outside.
Hm.
Well, you are my daughter, so anything is possible.
Yeah.
You gonna work on the truck today?
You gonna do the applications tonight?
(car horn honks)
Might be good for you to get outside.
You know, get some fresh air.
Joanna!
What are you doing? Let's go, woman!
Hi, Beth.
Hi, Mr. Soloman.
How are you?
I'm good.
- Mm-hm? - I'm good.
Yeah, so I'm gonna wait outside.
Hurry up.
Right.
I'll see you later.
(kiss smacks)
Be good.
- Yeah, you too. - Bye.
Bye.
So I have my girl for the whole weekend?
I can't.
You can't? Why?
Look, I'm trying.
I have to be back home tonight.
Alright.
Your book.
How much writing you think you're actually
gonna get done this weekend, huh?
Go!
Alright, come on, we waiting on you.
("We Just Can't Go On This Way" by Explainer)
It's actually a nice song though.
Thank you!
("Finally Time Riddim" by Supa Dru)
Why must we listen to this club music?
We going to the beach.
You're not even headbanging in time!
Go outside, go outside.
("We Just Can't Go On This Way" by Explainer)
- Joanna's here. - Finally.
Good to see you, bro!
Took forever, you mighta bring your whole family coming.
(speakers talking over each other)
(car horn honks)
(wrappers crinkling)
Good day.
Yes sir?
I told you all, sir is not for you.
- (package drops) - Shit.
You working all day?
Yeah, I am.
I could talk to your boss for yuh, yuh know.
That's okay, you don't need to do that.
It's fine.
It's fine, just take it.
(exhales) Yuh working tomorrow?
Yeah.
(drums counter)
(gate rumbles) (frightened music)
Yuh know how long I looking for you?
Where the bossman money?
Just, just tell Prowler I'll get him his money.
- (lock clicks) - Yuh hiding.
Yuh always hiding, but you can't hide from we!
I not hiding, I swear.
I swear.
I have a message for you.
The bossman say yuh have until the end of the month
to get him his money, or else he go deal with you.
Alright, alright.
(breathes heavily)
I'm always busy. (chortling)
I'm always busy because...
- (mimics car brakes screeching) - This is Luke to home base.
We're coming in hot, clear the runway.
- Clear the runway! - Hey!
- Stop!
It's not funny. It's not funny.
It's a little funny.
Alright alright alright alright, we wasting time.
We need to go up the road.
(groovy acoustic reggae)
♪ Ah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Oh oh ♪
♪ Miss Molly, girl, you rock my world ♪
♪ Miss Molly, don't you know that you're my favorite girl ♪
A cherished distraction.
A break from feeling alone.
Perhaps I need to catch myself?
Perhaps I should let myself go.
A refreshing reminder of who's in control.
Our will is but a suggestion.
We are powerless to the ebb and flow.
♪ And I will always say ♪
No no no no!
(squeals)
- You want a drink? - Put me down!
(surf breaking softly)
So?
You want a drink?
No, come on, let's go.
Maybe in a little bit.
I'm gonna stay, lime with the boys and take a drink.
You're not gonna want to go surfing later, you know.
I'll come in a bit.
I'm gonna stay, we now reach.
Whole ocean to yourself.
Alright.
Bye!
Have fun.
Luke.
What's up bro?
I don't know what allyuh drinking,
I drinking hard by myself?
Oh, my boy.
You can't even drink a beer properly.
That's what you should be drinking there.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Such a alcoholic.
Don't feel like you getting away.
I not scared!
I doh have nothing to 'fraid, I have nothing to prove.
Whoo!
Lewwe do this.
(group cheers)
(laughs)
You ain't easy.
("Rough And Tumble" by Nigel Rojas and Blue Emperor)
♪ Rough and tumble ♪
♪ 'Cause you better know your way back ♪
♪ Outta this jungle, yeah ♪
♪ Rough and, rough and tumble ♪
♪ Trinidad come like a ants' nest, yes ♪
♪ Yes ♪
Alright, come nah, man.
Play nah, man.
Play the trump nah, man.
Well give him one and make one!
- Give him one. - Right, man, give him one.
That eh go help you know, take da one.
Something like that.
You want jack dey too?
(card smacks) Eh, look it dey!
Look at that dey. (men laugh)
Eh, trump on dem.
Ah!
(card players talk over each other)
You to deal.
Your money not good here.
You's a ass or what?
Go outta here with dat.
Gimme a rum, dai enough money dey.
Go outta here with all dat, nah.
You old criminal, you old thief.
(sucks teeth)
You getting nothing in here.
Wha kinda small money yuh have in yuh pocket?
Yuh ain't working nowhere or what?
Boy come out from here, nah boy!
(men shouting over each other)
(car horn beeps)
(peaceful steelpan music)
A rip current is a channel of water
that rapidly pulls you outward from the shore.
There's no chance of fighting it, it's too powerful.
Although it's counterintuitive,
if you ever find yourself in one, simply surrender.
Swim along the shore until you have escaped its grasp.
Once free, you can swim safely to land.
(waves crashing)
(group chatters and laughs)
(pleasant acoustic guitar music)
Finally!
I thought you were gonna grow scales!
You were in there for so long!
Yeah, I haven't been surfing in forever.
Yeah, I know.
But it's so good to see you, though.
We never get to lime anymore.
You know, with Dad.
Yeah.
Well, it's good you're getting a break, you know?
Even if it's just for a day.
Yeah.
(kisses teeth) Look who it is.
Better lock up your man.
Look at her, headed straight for the fellas.
If you feel I leaving her alone with Mark, yuh lie.
Come lewwe go.
Hey.
Want a beer?
Yes, please.
How's the water?
- It's good. - Yeah?
It's good to be back.
So I guess I'll see you again in a couple weeks?
You're leaving now, huh?
Why don't you come by and visit?
Dad's been asking about you.
I know, I just...
I can't see him like that.
I know that's...
I'm sorry.
That's OK.
I'm just gonna...
Is there an opener anywhere?
(bottle cap pops)
Ty, you have to show me how you did that.
How, open the bottle?
Yeah.
It's easy.
You just wanna get under the cap like that,
and it just pop up.
Alright, can I try?
- Sure. - Alright, cool.
Maybe you can open it for me.
Hey.
Last ride into town, you coming or what?
Cap like this, and you just...
Nah, I think I'm gonna stay.
Alright, cool.
("Culture" by Jus Now and Coreysan)
(cleaver bangs)
Your rabbit food in the fridge.
Look on the top shelf.
Thank you.
Mm-hmm.
It have any more beers?
Yeah, somewhere in there.
Just look hard.
Honestly, Jo, don't even take it on.
She's clearly drunk.
Or just stupid.
(faucet running)
(beer cap pops)
Hello?
Dad, hey, I'm in...
Hello?
Hello? Honey?
- Hello? - Hello?
(call-dropped signal beeps)
(groans)
She's on her way?
The reception was pretty bad,
so I'm guessing she was still in the bush.
Hmm.
Well, she's with Tyler, so she should be fine.
(sighs)
(haunting, unsettling music)
("Changes" by Incert Coin)
It have a reason why policemen does use guns
and not cutlasses.
You ever see a man take chop from a cutlass, pardner?
You ever see a man get shoot?
The kinda training, precision, breathing...
You seeing this blade, padna?
You seeing this blade?
When you hit a man so, wap!
And you pull him out so, check.
- Wah! - Wha you doing, boy?
Fighting the ghost back. (laughs)
Yo, that's bad luck; just put down my blade please.
Bad luck for you!
But yeah, man.
I still find cutlass is the best thing...
What are you all doing?
Telling ghost stories.
(mimics creepy voice)
Yeah, like the video, right?
The man is a ex-Marine or something like that.
So he's taking the gun and he's showing you how to do...
You alright?
Me? Yeah.
Why?
You're drunk.
Mm-hmm.
And avoiding me.
Jo, I'm just having fun.
Isn't that why we came here this weekend?
Just relax.
Like Kelly?
Like Kelly.
So that's my fault now, huh?
That she came and sat on my lap?
(Joanna chuckles softly)
I'm just wasting my time.
Jo, I'm sorry.
OK, I shouldn't have said that.
I mean...
I'm sorry, alright?
OK? That was stupid.
Look at me, Jo.
You're my girl, OK?
You're my girl.
OK?
You have nothing and nobody to worry about.
Alright?
Why do you have to be such a jerk?
(Tyler chuckles softly)
Dinner!
("Vitamin G" by Orange Sky)
(hand smacks) Hey!
Mm-mm.
Doh eat all the food, hear?
I'll run upstairs real quick.
(Beth chuckles)
I see you get your man! (chuckles)
(girls giggle)
Thanks a lot.
Oh, that looks so good.
Did you make that yourself?
Hell yes.
Let's make some room, let's make some room.
(mysterious ambient music)
Doh try my baking skills.
- Not yet. - Hello.
Y'all took forever.
(chair grates on floor)
(women shriek)
Shut!
Shut up!
(girl sobbing)
Everybody.
On the floor. Now!
Whoa whoa whoa, bredda...
I said on the floor.
Alright, alright.
Easy.
Now don't make me say this twice.
Nobody play the ass with me.
Pardners and dem on the lookout,
so if anyone ah allyuh fellas decide to try anything...
(chuckles)
(cutlass smacks) (Beth whimpers)
Get up.
(Beth sniffles)
Go upstairs, bring back money, jewelry, wallets, watches.
Move. (Beth sobs)
Whoa-ah-uh!
Come.
And doh try to call nobody eh, darlin'.
Hm?
(sobs)
Now remember,
do as I say, and everybody will be alright.
(breathing sharply)
(shrieks)
Hurry up, woman!
(breathing nervously)
(moves into tense orchestral music)
Seven wallets.
(sniffles)
(shrieks)
Somebody missing!
I not playing!
(Beth gurgles)
You hear what I saying?
Yuh hearing me?
I will shoot one ah dem, you know.
This is yuh last warning.
Come down now!
I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming down.
I'm coming; please, please, I'm almost there, I'm coming.
(whimpering)
You didn't do anything stupid?
No, sir.
I didn't do anything, serious.
Where you going?
(breathing deeply)
Go out!
Get down.
Now if anybody try anything like that again,
is thunder, you understand?
Yuh understand?
Just, just follow instructions,
and everything will be alright!
(breathing heavily)
("Vitamin G" by Orange Sky)
♪ Like a zandolee in a mango tree, now ♪
♪ Bone to the stone, yes, and stone to the bone ♪
Turn that shit off!
Aye.
Wha is this?
(tense orchestral music)
Get up.
(girl whimpering)
(sniffs)
(Kelly whimpers)
Yo, breds.
You already have everybody stuff.
What more you want?
Get down.
Alright.
Alright, alright.
Get up.
(tense, uncertain ambient music)
Go in all dem pockets and take out de cellphones.
You, wha you doin' dey?
Go over so.
Where you from?
Glencoe.
Which part?
By the shop area...
Anybody talking to you?
Whose truck is da outside?
My truck.
Where the keys?
Whoa, pal!
Whoa.
You, stay down.
Gimme dat.
Go and put dem phones in the sink.
Here.
Fill that up.
Go and turn on da pipe.
(faucet running)
(sobs)
Nobody move!
Allyuh hearing mih?
[Group] Yes.
Eh?
[Group] Yes!
He gone?
Think so.
Everyone alright?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
(switches clicking)
My phone!
Jo? Jo?
Joanna?
Jo up here?
Joanna!
It's just you...
Shh!
Keep quiet, and I'll let you go.
Joanna!
Shh! Listen.
Keep quiet.
(Joanna gasping)
(gun clacks)
(bushes rustle)
- (chuckles) - Joanna?
Yuh smart.
- Come on, move. - What?
Move!
(tense ambient music)
Move.
(thunder crackling)
(rainfall pouring)
You should get some rest.
I can't.
(moves into frightened, tremulous orchestral music)
(breathing deeply)
I can't walk on these stones.
(whimpering)
You didn't have on shoes? Hm?
(grunts)
You could rest here.
(gasping)
I won't tell anybody.
I swear.
(inhales deeply)
(exhales heavily)
Doh worry.
You'll be seeing plenty of me now.
(coat flaps)
Where are we going?
You said you'd let me go.
I didn't say that.
I said if yuh keep your mouth shut, I wouldn't kill yuh.
Hoo!
You still in school?
No.
College?
One day.
Ah.
Yuh hadda be rich to go to college.
Plenty money, ent?
We don't have a lot of money.
Wha you know about not having money?
You know wha it is like
when you cah even afford one schoolbook?
Sir, we're not rich.
Doh call me sir.
(low, menacing music)
Do you even know what is like
to eat bread and condensed milk for breakfast,
lunch, dinner, everyday?
Hm?
I sure you doh even know what is like
to live without electricity.
Yuh will know now.
(coat flaps)
Move!
(water splashing softly)
A man is in control of his life.
A man is always in control of his life.
Control of his life.
Of course.
Kiss-me-ass dread.
I watching you, yuh know.
Ah!
Figure it out yourself, boy.
Stupid-ass Georgie.
But dais him, you know.
I going and make... (cellphone ringing)
(gasps)
(tense, high-strung music)
(car engine rumbles)
Shit!
(muffled shouting)
(yelps)
(sobs)
Shh.
(breathing anxiously)
Get up.
(uncertain ambient music)
(police siren wails)
(police radio crackles)
Jake, take it easy on him, please.
How could you now know they were taking her?
Jake, the guy shut the breakers off.
You're a grown-ass man.
Tyler, I think you should just go.
No, I wanna stay.
I'm gonna stay.
Any news?
No, I'm afraid not.
Well then shouldn't you be out there looking for her?
Well, we're doing all in our power.
I mean, as we speak, a helicopter is surveying the area,
I have 50 men on the ground, and if indeed she is in Toco,
we will find her.
Yeah.
You wanna be of any use?
Help me pack the truck.
- OK. - What?
Honey!
You're in no shape to go.
That is absolutely unnecessary.
I can assure you that the police is quite equipped
to handle the situation.
Oh, so then you can also assure me
of another unsolved case?
Hey hey hey, listen, listen.
I didn't always wear a badge, you know.
I know these people, I know how they think.
This situation is too dangerous.
- Sir. - Hello.
There's been a landslide.
No access in our out.
(depressed, emotional classical music)
You'll just have me excused, everybody just stay put.
Tyler, pack.
A landslide?
(moves into frustrated ambient music)
(birds chirping)
Doh move.
I coming back now.
(breathing anxiously)
(mysterious, menacing music)
(gasping)
(twig snaps)
(woman screams)
(panting heavily)
Well, this here is the vicinity we believe him to be in,
and this here is the area that we've covered already.
The main road is no longer accessible.
No.
We need to get our men here.
Yeah.
May I?
Please, yes.
(coughs mutedly)
I used to hike this area before I got sick.
We take half the amount of time if we use the running trail
that cuts through this hill.
If we can then get your men up on this plateau,
you'd be able to see all of Toco;
it has the best vantage point
and it isn't hard to get down from.
I have another map I can show you.
I will get back your daughter.
One of us will.
(pained, mournful classical music)
Come over in here and then it's here,
and then down in here and then this is the trail.
Yeah.
There's a trail right here that we can drive on.
OK.
You got it, sir.
Everything you need is in here.
Please be careful.
Call my cell if you hear anything.
(truck engine rumbles)
(birds squawking)
(underbrush crackling)
Alright, you could rest here.
(Joanna whimpers)
So which one was your man?
The one who say yuh living by the shop, ent?
Oh, you feel I eh know?
I know people, girl.
(tree knocks)
(shell cracks)
Yuh know, dais not a real man, yuh know.
A real man woulda do something.
How would you know?
(chuckles)
What happen, you doh have no broughtupsy?
Thanks.
(spits seed)
Allyuh does fight, ent?
I doh blame yuh.
I have a woman, you know.
She does work in the village.
Sweet too bad! (chuckles)
Doh worry, girl.
Where we going, it have dry clothes,
and yuh could rest.
Alright.
Walk and eat.
(grunts)
(questioning, apprehensive orchestral music)
Here I am, miles and miles deep into the hills,
and I find myself walking closer and closer to this man.
(water splashing softly)
That's enough.
(sighs)
(cigarette lighter clicks)
He's the only hope I have for finding my way out.
At first, I hoped we would encounter someone, anyone.
But now I'm not so sure. (flies buzzing)
Anyone we run into this far in isn't here for a good reason.
(Joanna dry heaves and sputters)
(raindrops tapping on leaves)
(moves into cautious, gloomy music)
(Joanna breathes anxiously)
(exhales heavily)
(sniffs)
Take dem clothes off.
Way.
How you freezing so?
Why you doh take dem clothes off?
You will get sick.
I don't want to.
(chuckles)
It had this one time I went to the river
wit' mih brodda and he friend.
(match lights)
They chase meh, push meh down.
It was just,
they just was wicked, you know.
And they laugh, you know.
They always used to laugh.
So Georgie tell meh, doh tell Ma,
or he go beat me. (sniffs)
So I gone home now, and Ma say,
"Take dem clothes off or you will get sick."
And I say, "I doh want to."
(chuckles) But she make me do it anyway,
and she see it.
Well boy, she beat Georgie, and then she beat me
(laughs)
for going in the river.
Ma, yes.
(exhales)
And wha you think happen the next day?
(voice echoes) Hm?
Is more licks I get from Georgie.
I never forget that. (voice echoing)
But I didn't get sick.
You should take
those wet clothes off.
I can't.
Hm.
(exhales heavily)
(breathes nervously)
Can I lie down?
Yeah, do whatever, man.
(exhales)
(Joanna sobs)
(sighs)
So what do we do now?
We wait for them to make the call.
(grunting)
Yuh ready to talk?
Address.
Eight, Jonas Road, Glencoe.
Ah yeah, Glencoe.
Hollywood, big house on the hill, swimming pool...
No, we don't have a lot of money.
Wha de f, wha yuh mean?
You trying to tell me your mother and father doh have money?
My father's dying.
What?
He's dying.
So?
When are you letting me go?
(exhales)
Go and sleep.
(sings melody)
(birds shrieking)
(monkeys screeching)
(gasping)
(fly buzzes)
(birds chirping)
But where you think you going?
I had to pee.
Nobody ever tell yuh da is bad luck?
Needed it, in case I had to cut...
Yuh doh interfere with a man cutlass.
I'm sorry, I woke up, and you weren't there,
so I thought...
I'm sorry.
Ask me next time.
Eh?
Can I go?
(chuckles)
Woman!
I'm coming.
Hurry up!
(metal rattles)
Can we just call my family and let them know I'm alive?
Since when you running this show, eh?
Eh?
I will call them when I ready.
No one even knows what's going on, and my dad is...
My dad.
Your father home dying, and you on the beach liming, eh?
Huh.
(Joanna mumbles)
Ah, yuh feeling guilty?
I know why.
I know, I know.
Don't you?
What?
Feel guilty?
For what?
Anything?
Everything?
Hm.
The slow conversation from wrongness to rightness
is a personal process one goes through
when the mind processes things of the past,
which have made us the people who we are today.
Justice for oneself.
Bullshit.
Hey.
Watch your tone.
Fine, fine.
I'll let you talk to them.
When?
When I ready.
But we have to go out there.
(haunting, melancholy steelpan music)
On the left-hand side, there's a road.
We go take that road and go up to the dam.
(Jake groaning)
It's not too far again.
(birds squawking)
What time is it?
About 10 minutes since the last time you ask.
Good time, good time.
OK. Let's go.
(grunts)
What?
Here.
Put these on.
Alright.
When yuh call, ask to talk to yuh fadda.
Tell him yuh want to come home now.
If he ask yuh where yuh is, tell him yuh don't know.
Tell him, for you to come home,
the kidnappers want $500,000.
What?
Once we get there, I'll dial and you'll talk.
I want a million.
You just said you wanted 500,000...
Wha, you don't think you worth a million dollars?
No, but you...
You doh think your family will pay that for you?
We don't have that kinda money.
(laughs)
$500,000, girl.
Let's go.
(solemn classical music)
I can't walk in these shoes anymore.
They're too heavy.
Well we here anyway.
Alright.
- You know what to do. - Yes.
(cellphone beeps)
(cellphone rings)
Go on, answer it.
Hello?
(dropped-call tone beeps)
Fuckin' piece ah shit!
Try again.
(cellphone rings)
Answer it.
Hello?
Joanna?
No police, it's just you and Dad.
Your dad is out there looking for you, it's just me here.
What?
How, what's he doing in the bush?
It's 500,000.
They want US and TT dollars.
No police, just you and Daddy.
Mom, listen, listen.
Wait for the call, six p.m. sharp tomorrow.
And if anything happen to me in the exchange,
the kidnappers will know and they will kill you.
And don't let anything happen to the kidnappers
or they'll know, and they'll kill me.
When this happens, where will you be?
Where will we find you?
Just get me home!
No games, Mom.
The person collecting the money
is not gonna know where I am.
And the kidnapper, he'll know, and he'll,
they'll, they'll kill me.
(breathing heavily)
Joanna! (disconnect tone beeps)
A smart girl.
We don't have that kind of money.
You don't worry about that, we'll get the cash.
No.
Your men can't be involved.
What?
We just can't take that chance.
I don't want anything to happen to her.
Trust us.
OK?
Trust us.
(gloomy steelpan music)
(bird squawks)
Joanna!
[Searchers] Joanna!
Joanna!
Help!
(muffled shouts)
Joanna! (tracking device beeps)
Turn that off.
Joanna!
(muffled screams)
(grunting)
Joanna!
Scream again, nah.
Scream again!
Keep it off.
Joanna!
(panicked breathing)
Yeah.
(both panting)
Keep cool, eh.
Keep cool.
Jake.
It's getting late, we should start going back.
I'm not ready yet.
But if we get lost, we're not gonna be able...
I'm not ready yet!
(cellphone rings)
Hello?
They called.
They want ransom.
She's safe?
I don't know.
Please come home, Jake.
Come home, Jake! (Jake wheezes)
(coughs)
"My kidnapper."
You think yuh smart, eh?
Sorry, I forgot.
If you pull anything like that again, woman.
My name is Joanna.
What?
Just doh try me again.
(water splashes)
You know, it must be rel nice.
Your father is a rel good man, yuh know.
Dying, and in the bush looking for you.
Hm.
You know, I never had one.
My brother used to teach me things.
Yuh could say he was like mih fadda.
Doh worry, girl.
When yuh get outta here,
yuh could write a book about this whole thing.
(chuckles)
And then both ah we could be rich.
(laughing)
Rich?
(water splashes)
Writers write 'cause they have something to say.
Well, you will have plenty to say now.
Something seriously wrong with you.
You're fucking up my whole life, my family...
I don't give a fuck.
Really, I could really care less.
A man have to look out for himself, first and foremost.
If is one thing Georgie teach me,
(chuckles) he right.
A man is always in control.
What about women?
Women?
Woman should never be in control.
So who you gonna share all your money with?
Mihself.
And mih girl, if da is what yuh getting at.
(chuckles)
Yeah, girl who you treat so well, I'm sure.
Shh.
(restrained ambient music)
I don't think she respects a man who degrades women,
she's probably afraid of you.
That's not a real relationship.
You ever had a real relationship?
And I think you do care.
You do give a fuck!
Hush yuh mouth or I'll hush it for yuh!
A, a, a!
Look who it is.
Turn around, boy.
Turn around, boy!
What now, Prowler?
Dis mine?
I seeing this girl all over de fucking news.
You graduate from petty thief to big-time kidnapper!
(laughs)
Once I get the ransom, I split it with you, 50-50.
Serious?
Wha 'bout if I just take she right now?
Look, Prowler, dais...
Let me handle this mess.
Lemme deal with it.
I mean...
I'll have your money in two days.
Two days.
I swear.
(Prowler chuckles)
Lil' Albert, boy.
This outta your league, dread.
Yuh go end up fuckin' dead.
Dead!
Right now, dis forest crawling with fucking uniforms.
And it fucking with my business, boy!
I have merchandise to fucking move
and wha you out here doing?
Wha de fuck it is you out here doing?
- Yuh playin' yuh big? - No...
Yuh playin' yuh big?
No, Prowl.
Yuh feeling yuh running shit now, eh?
Dai how yuh feeling, eh?
Two days, boy.
Yuh hear me?
I want my money.
Sweet too bad.
Aye, aye, aye, aye.
Fuck happen, boy?
Cool yuhself nah man.
(Al grunts)
You rel lucky I owe you, yuh know.
Two days.
I want my money.
And doh forget who running things nah.
Gone from here before I change mih fucking mind, nah.
Shit.
(water splashing)
(fire crackles)
Why did he say he owes you?
I help him once.
Georgie push him down in the same river,
and he nearly drown.
You saved his life.
Yeah, yuh know.
(kisses teeth) Small ting.
But I get back Georgie, doh.
(spits)
Yuh ask me if I know what a real relationship is.
This girl, Keke.
Boy, I just used to rel like she.
But of course, yuh know, Georgie say
he go talk to she for me.
Two days pass, then I hear is more than talk going on.
(sighs)
So I pass by the window, to see.
He and Keke on the couch, yes.
(scoffs)
Boy.
I get so vex.
I find dis cutlass here,
and I chop him up!
(mortified piano music)
Just so.
He deserve that.
He had that coming for years.
I eh do she nutten.
Well, she didn't know.
Wha yuh go say.
I eh kill him, but...
(chuckles)
(sighs)
Dais the last time I talk to anybody.
Been alone ever since.
(tender orchestral music)
If yuh ain't,
if yuh ain't drinking, just go from here nah!
Gone and sleep or some kinda ting.
Where are you, babe?
(truck engine rumbling)
(wheezes) Tyler, stop the car.
Go back.
You should go home.
They made contact, let the police handle it.
Boy, do not make me repeat myself.
Go back!
(coughs)
(fire crackles)
(slap smacks)
What are you doing?
(gasps) Al, no, please.
Shh shh shh.
No, don't do this, please don't!
(whimpers)
Don't, please!
No!
Don't do this! No!
(hands slapping)
Please!
Please don't!
Shut! Shut!
Shut the fuck up!
(Joanna yelps)
(Al breathing heavily)
(Joanna sobbing)
(Joanna gasping)
No!
(Joanna shrieks)
(muffled sobbing and shrieking)
(cutlass chopping wood)
(breathes heavily)
Fuck you, Georgie.
A man is always in control.
(exhales heavily)
Here.
Yuh like to read?
(books flap)
Yuh go like da one.
Da book taught me about life.
It never teach you about respect.
You hadda prove yourself to get respect.
The world is how the world is.
(rope snaps) (pig squealing)
Food.
(pig squealing) (cage rattling)
Fucking trap, it eh working.
Joanna!
Hey!
Wey yuh gone?
Woman!
Yuh cyah run from me, gyal.
(laughs)
(breathing nervously)
Where do you think you're going?
Eh?
I will give yuh a head start.
(laughs) (Joanna yelps)
Is this necessary?
Trust?
Trust and love is an illusion.
A myth.
Life taught me that.
The only real thing is power.
You can't just take power.
Eh-heh?
Who say so, you?
Who have none right now?
(chuckles)
They just a bunch ah cowards.
They doh have the smarts to get away with what I doing.
You feel this is smart?
Both of us might end up dead.
And even if not, what're you gonna do, run forever?
From the police?
From the man by the river?
(subtle, emotional string music)
From Georgie?
You're the coward.
Hm.
(exhales heavily)
(gun clacks)
(tense music swells)
(Joanna breathes nervously)
(Al exhales heavily)
Who is the coward now, eh?
(chuckles)
(laughs softly)
Sit down.
(blade scraping on stone)
You're right.
I could never survive out here alone.
But you can.
Yeah, doh worry.
I'll take care of you.
(troubled, uncertain orchestral music)
Your plan's gonna work.
When you get the money, you can start a new life.
Yeah.
You outsmarted everyone.
Just a bunch ah cowards.
(chuckles)
Cowards.
(sniffles)
Al.
Please.
(sighs)
No more foolishness?
(buckle rattles)
I will never forget what that emptiness
in his eyes showed me.
For him, hope was an illusion.
Dis wha I could plan.
But for me,
it's all I have.
Doh forget to tell dem come alone eh.
With a cellphone.
And, no police.
I practiced it a million times.
A million and one is better.
(phone rings)
Drive to Toco and stop by the telephone substation.
(sniffs)
Once there, call for further directions.
Make sure you're alone, the windows are down,
and the lights are on inside.
The kidnapper said if there's any sign
of police involvement, the deal is off and they'll kill me.
Follow instructions, my release is guaranteed.
OK?
No police!
(disconnect tone beeps)
(cellphone rings)
Hello?
We got the call, meet us in the village.
What about the exchange?
I don't know.
We have to wait for further instructions.
We are on our way now, the police say they have a plan.
Okay.
What's happening?
I don't know yet.
(helicopter rotors whirring)
Dem police rel incompetent, yuh know.
You know how long dem trying to catch me?
You've done something like this before?
Plenty ah dem worse than me, yuh know.
Corrupt.
They does lie.
Smile in yuh face and spit in yuh back.
At least I real.
(moves into tension-building orchestral music)
Call.
Fuckers better not try anything, yuh know.
(cellphone rings)
Hello?
Yeah.
Park in de middle ah de road
and walk a mile to the clearing.
Wha'ever!
Just no police!
Boots.
What?
Boots!
I thought you tell me yuh fadder dying.
He good enough to take yuh mudda place.
Just stay here.
As a matter of fact,
I can't leave yuh just so, darling.
(chuckles)
Hoo!
(panting softly)
Where's Joanna?
She's not here, but she's safe.
I've given you everything that you've asked for,
now where's my daughter?
Open it.
Slowly.
No.
No, you don't get that until you give me my daughter.
I said she's safe.
What did you do?
I...
No, what did you do?
Listen.
I have rel respect for yuh, man.
You're a good father, but let go!
Let go!
Where is my daughter?
- I said she's safe. - No. No!
Where is my daughter?
Give me back my daughter!
Let...
(yells)
(panting)
(gunshot bangs) (Joanna yelps)
(eerie ambient music)
(water splashing)
(groans)
Where is Joanna?
Where is she?
She wasn't with him.
- Oh my God! - She wasn't with him.
Honey!
What happened?
(panting)
What was that?
I got the money.
Go home now.
I heard a gunshot.
It's nothing.
It just went off.
Nobody got hurt.
You're lying!
(blade slicing)
(Al yells)
(groaning)
(panting)
(Al groans)
(eerie ambient music)
(police sirens wailing)
It's killing me.
I can't believe I let him get away.
Oh Jake, there's nothing you could have done.
Honey, you have to have faith.
She's gonna come home.
God, I hope so.
(sobs)
(heavy, despondent orchestral music)
(dog barking)
Help!
(sobbing)
Help!
Please!
(metal bangs) Please!
Help!
(sobbing)
(gasps)
(body thuds) (dog whining)
(dog barks)
(gasping)
(sobbing)
It's okay. It's okay.
You're hurt.
No, don't worry about me, let it go.
Don't worry about me.
I'm just glad you're safe.
(hopeful, elegant classical music)
I love you so much.
Look who's here.
Hi.
I promise I didn't read it.
(chuckles)
(groans loudly)
(water splashing)
(groans loudly)
Drop your weapon, this over.
Not over!
The spore of despair spreads deep
in the decay of self-worth.
There, beneath the canopy of cruelty,
where the light of love and trust are seldom shone.
But there is freedom for none who secretly savor the pain
and let it be their keeper.
I not afraid ah you.
Drop the weapon.
Take him down!
(shotgun blasts)
(birds' wings fluttering)
(birds screeching)
(hopeful, elegant classical music)
Let justice be the real casualty.
Dad, you fought a brave battle.
Now, you're free.
I need no illusions of reprise, or other emotional fiction,
for I have my faith in God, and my faith in myself,
to be my lasting conviction.
Subtitles by explosiveskull
("Child Of The Universe" by Richard Solis)
♪ The stars are my ancient ancestors ♪
♪ Shining light out to guide and direct us ♪
♪ In the dark of the night, they connect us ♪
♪ To the soul of the universe ♪
♪ They creep silently through the nighttime sky, and ♪
♪ Make their way everyday, every night ♪
♪ Before your birth and the Earth, they shone the light ♪
♪ Ancient in the truth of our eyes ♪
♪ And in the light that they shine ♪
♪ The holy scriptures in the sky ♪
♪ With these words to remind ♪
♪ Sons and daughters of the universe ♪
♪ The world rejoiced at the moment of your birth ♪
♪ We celebrate when you realize your worth ♪
♪ Child of the universe ♪
♪ Sons and daughters of this creation ♪
♪ Family to the Earth and the Sun ♪
♪ You bless the ground that you walk upon ♪
♪ And your soul is the foundation ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ So when the light of your life just don't show ♪
♪ And when it feels like your heart just can't grow ♪
♪ When the heights of your mind only feel low ♪
♪ You find your soul and you find your way, oh ♪
♪ When it feels like your life is a hard road ♪
♪ When it feels like you're holding a heavy load ♪
♪ When you feel you wanna leave but you can't go ♪
♪ You find your soul and you find your way, oh ♪♪