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Black Hat Brigade: Episode 36
Establishing shot: Overhead shot an expansive stone maze. The maze borders the sea at one side and a village of ruins beside it. Two sides expand to wilderness. Camera moves to the entrance. The entrance is framed by the legs of a giant statue of Poseidon.
The camera takes a slow look at the statue of Poseidon, the God King of the Seas.
A stream of urine hits the statue's feet.
Banzai rolls eyes: Humans always making things look like them.
Ed laughs: Just makes more of their likeness into bathrooms.
Ed, Banzai, and Shenzi have pulled, by ropes that they held in their teeth, a sled carrying a large sack.
Shenzi sits and speaks aloud.: If anybody in there doesn't want us coming in, tell us. However you tell us, we'll respect it.
Banzai: We've heard enough about what you do to people who come in there who you don't like, believe us, we'll respect it.
Ed laughs: Blood! Blood and bone and Jackson Pollock paintings!
Banzai: Yeah, that.
For a moment, only the echoes of Ed's laughter responds.
Shenzi leans down to take up the rope and start walking. Banzai and Ed both follow suit soon after.
Banzai: If it helps, we do know part of what you're go through. The only food you're allowed is the food that comes to you, to your place. It's not like it's your fault that you are what you are. That's no cause to starve, though.
Ed unusually dour: And the fear, the fear, like it's your only friend.
Shenzi pauses a moment to look over at Ed.
Ed: People fear you. That protects you. Nobody else does.
Shenzi and Banzai look at Ed, then share a look between themselves.
Ed:... What?
Banzai walks up, pressing her side against Ed's in what, among mammalian quadrupeds, is a gesture of support.
Shenzi: We can't really understand everything you've been through. But, we can understand some things, because we've been through them ourselves.
Banzai: And, we brought you some food that you might actually like, different from what you've gotten before.
Ed starts laughing again: Half human and half bull, which part of that is supposed to make you want to eat humans?
Banzai: Yeah, you'd think you'd want things that both humans and bovines like, like apples and carrots and... I don't know, are leaves a human thing?
The sound of heavy hoof beats interrupts the conversation. Not so much loud as heavy, with a base that carries.
Ed's higher pitched laughter counterpoints to the thuds of the hoof beats.
Banzai and Shenzi pull the large sack from the sled then rip it wide open. As a shadow comes over them, the each retreat from the offering of apples, tomatoes, grapes, cabbage, and a watermelon.
The mighty Minotaur stomps up to the offering. It is a large beast, standing as a man, with the head and hooves of a bull, yet fanged and clawed like neither man nor bull.
The Minotaur, the Bull of Minos, gives the three hyenas a look that is hard to read in a bull. The bull leans over, lifting up the various fruits and the cabbage, smelling them, looking at them.
Banzai: They're food. You eat them.
The Minotaur lifts up the watermelon, looks it over. Eventually, the Minotaur takes a large bite, through the rind.
Shenzi: That's not how I've seen the humans do it.
Ed: They're humans. They do everything wrong.
Shenzi and Benzai give a shrug of agreement to that.
The Minotaur ravenously eats his way through the entire watermelon.
Banzai: Considering your diet's been humans to date, this might lead to your most comfortable bowl movement, ever.
Shenzi: By the way, do you, you know, talk?
The Minotaur gives them another unreadable look. Bulls are not known for their expressive faces.
Ed gets up and trots over to the Minotaur.
Shenzi and Banzai both get up and run over to block Ed from what the Minotaur will do. Both get backhanded, at the same time, by the Minotaur, who stops and looks at Ed.
Ed: It's never fair, you know. It was never going to be fair.
The Minotaur continues to look at Ed.
Ed: It was never going to be fair. In humans, the hunter-gatherer societies had everybody pretty much equal. Leadership wasn't about strength or forcing people into place or rightful anything. It was about knowing where to go when the seasons changed. If other people in the group wanted to somewhere else, they did and everybody hoped for the best for everybody.
Ed: Then, people started staying in one place. They got wealthier on farming and ranching and when there's enough food to go around so that you're not starving and you don't have to see when others do, you want to keep the food for yourself.
Ed: Human sacrifice, like sending people in here to be your only food, was a way to split society between the powerful who made the choices and the followers who got sacrificed.
Ed: You were going to be the monster they feared, and made the Kings legitimate, or the one that was killed to make the Kings legitimate.
Ed: It was never going to be fair. You never had a chance. Some King doesn't kill the right bull and a god curses his wife, because she's his property so why not? She's cursed to fall in love with a bull, which is something right there, and I'm not even getting into that whole contraption business. Your part in all this, the part that gets you put here? You were born.
Ed: No way to make things fair for you unless you break it all.
Shenzi and Banzai get up and walk slowly back over, while the Minotaur remains quiet and seems to listen to Ed.
Banzai: Do you want to get out of here?
In the first sign that the Minotaur has any understanding, he looks out at the entrance, the light, and takes a step back away from it.
Shenzi: Don't worry. You're with us.
The camera takes a slow look at the statue of Poseidon, the God King of the Seas.
A stream of urine hits the statue's feet.
Banzai rolls eyes: Humans always making things look like them.
Ed laughs: Just makes more of their likeness into bathrooms.
Ed, Banzai, and Shenzi have pulled, by ropes that they held in their teeth, a sled carrying a large sack.
Shenzi sits and speaks aloud.: If anybody in there doesn't want us coming in, tell us. However you tell us, we'll respect it.
Banzai: We've heard enough about what you do to people who come in there who you don't like, believe us, we'll respect it.
Ed laughs: Blood! Blood and bone and Jackson Pollock paintings!
Banzai: Yeah, that.
For a moment, only the echoes of Ed's laughter responds.
Shenzi leans down to take up the rope and start walking. Banzai and Ed both follow suit soon after.
Banzai: If it helps, we do know part of what you're go through. The only food you're allowed is the food that comes to you, to your place. It's not like it's your fault that you are what you are. That's no cause to starve, though.
Ed unusually dour: And the fear, the fear, like it's your only friend.
Shenzi pauses a moment to look over at Ed.
Ed: People fear you. That protects you. Nobody else does.
Shenzi and Banzai look at Ed, then share a look between themselves.
Ed:... What?
Banzai walks up, pressing her side against Ed's in what, among mammalian quadrupeds, is a gesture of support.
Shenzi: We can't really understand everything you've been through. But, we can understand some things, because we've been through them ourselves.
Banzai: And, we brought you some food that you might actually like, different from what you've gotten before.
Ed starts laughing again: Half human and half bull, which part of that is supposed to make you want to eat humans?
Banzai: Yeah, you'd think you'd want things that both humans and bovines like, like apples and carrots and... I don't know, are leaves a human thing?
The sound of heavy hoof beats interrupts the conversation. Not so much loud as heavy, with a base that carries.
Ed's higher pitched laughter counterpoints to the thuds of the hoof beats.
Banzai and Shenzi pull the large sack from the sled then rip it wide open. As a shadow comes over them, the each retreat from the offering of apples, tomatoes, grapes, cabbage, and a watermelon.
The mighty Minotaur stomps up to the offering. It is a large beast, standing as a man, with the head and hooves of a bull, yet fanged and clawed like neither man nor bull.
The Minotaur, the Bull of Minos, gives the three hyenas a look that is hard to read in a bull. The bull leans over, lifting up the various fruits and the cabbage, smelling them, looking at them.
Banzai: They're food. You eat them.
The Minotaur lifts up the watermelon, looks it over. Eventually, the Minotaur takes a large bite, through the rind.
Shenzi: That's not how I've seen the humans do it.
Ed: They're humans. They do everything wrong.
Shenzi and Benzai give a shrug of agreement to that.
The Minotaur ravenously eats his way through the entire watermelon.
Banzai: Considering your diet's been humans to date, this might lead to your most comfortable bowl movement, ever.
Shenzi: By the way, do you, you know, talk?
The Minotaur gives them another unreadable look. Bulls are not known for their expressive faces.
Ed gets up and trots over to the Minotaur.
Shenzi and Banzai both get up and run over to block Ed from what the Minotaur will do. Both get backhanded, at the same time, by the Minotaur, who stops and looks at Ed.
Ed: It's never fair, you know. It was never going to be fair.
The Minotaur continues to look at Ed.
Ed: It was never going to be fair. In humans, the hunter-gatherer societies had everybody pretty much equal. Leadership wasn't about strength or forcing people into place or rightful anything. It was about knowing where to go when the seasons changed. If other people in the group wanted to somewhere else, they did and everybody hoped for the best for everybody.
Ed: Then, people started staying in one place. They got wealthier on farming and ranching and when there's enough food to go around so that you're not starving and you don't have to see when others do, you want to keep the food for yourself.
Ed: Human sacrifice, like sending people in here to be your only food, was a way to split society between the powerful who made the choices and the followers who got sacrificed.
Ed: You were going to be the monster they feared, and made the Kings legitimate, or the one that was killed to make the Kings legitimate.
Ed: It was never going to be fair. You never had a chance. Some King doesn't kill the right bull and a god curses his wife, because she's his property so why not? She's cursed to fall in love with a bull, which is something right there, and I'm not even getting into that whole contraption business. Your part in all this, the part that gets you put here? You were born.
Ed: No way to make things fair for you unless you break it all.
Shenzi and Banzai get up and walk slowly back over, while the Minotaur remains quiet and seems to listen to Ed.
Banzai: Do you want to get out of here?
In the first sign that the Minotaur has any understanding, he looks out at the entrance, the light, and takes a step back away from it.
Shenzi: Don't worry. You're with us.