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InCo, Season 3 Episode 4: Voice
00:11
ATRELI
It’s been a long time, Vierai.
00:14
VIERAI
Much too long, Atreli. I wish it didn’t take a missing child to get you back in my chambers.
00:21
ATRELI
(laughs)
That’s not all I do.
00:24
VIERAI
So you claim, love of my life.
00:25
ATRELI
(background)
Well, you look lovely
00:26
HATOV
Does every sentence have to feel so practiced?
00:29
ATRELI
What was that Hatov?
00:31
VIERAI
Apologies (pointedly) he’s in a mood.
00:35
ATRELI
Well, jumping can cause some malaise. Maybe I should come some other time.
00:40
HATOV
Actually
00:41
VIERAI
No, no, no, he’s doing fine. He’s just—
00:43
HATOV
Mama, I can, I can, I can speak for myself.
Long pause
00:51
ATRELI
(curious)
So he can.
00:54
HATOV
I-, I didn’t mean to ruin the mood. It’s just—
00:57
VIERAI
Then stop this behavior and sit
01:00
HATOV
Mama, please, can you just stop speaking over me? For once.
01:05
VIERAI
(pause, then with forced cheer)
Atreli, maybe you were right, some other time then.
01:09
ATRELI
(long pause)
I see (kisses Vierai) well, I hope to see you when you feel well enough to start your lessons again.
01:16
VIERAI
He’ll be there (forced laugh) nothing but eyes and ears, like always.
01:27
Everyone, out.
Sound of servants leaving.
Quiet murmuring.
01:35
Hatov, what was that?
01:41
HATOV
I was just (beat) I was tired of you speaking for me. I can speak for myself, Mama.
01:48
VIERAI
Apparently not, you’ve forgotten your place.
01:51
HATOV
Beneath you?
01:52
VIERAI
Hatov.
01:53
HATOV
Vierai.
01:54
VIERAI
Vier— ? no matter how you think things have changed, you will show me respect, Hatov.
Pause
02:00
HATOV
Yes, Mama but.
02:01
VIERAI
Sits heavily in chair
Why are you being so difficult? You weren’t like this when you left.
02:06
HATOV
You mean when I obediently snuck onto a ship because nobody would listen to me and was off (beat) gone for almost a year?
02:14
VIERAI
Was it Wilm’s leaving that started all this?
02:16
HATOV
(petulantly)
Not the way you want it to be.
02:20
VIERAI
The boy made up fairy stories, was obsessed with the workings of space and other planets. Did he start putting those ideas in your head too? I have no idea what your father saw in him. I should have never—
02:31
HATOV
You didn’t.
02:32
VIERAI
(beat)
What?
02:36
HATOV
You didn’t let him meet me. You didn’t let me go out to meet him either.
02:39
VIERAI
So, I should have stopped it as soon as it started.
02:42
HATOV
Mama, that’s unreasonable.
02:43
VIERAI
No, it’s not. The hope of our entire people rests on your shoulders, starlight. I will do anything to make sure you are the man you’re supposed to be.
02:53
HATOV
Which is what exactly?
02:55
VIERAI
Someone able to stand on his own. You need to be a leader, Hatov.
02:58
HATOV
(laughs)
Really?
02:59
VIERAI
This is not a joke.
03:01
HATOV
It is a joke. Mama, what do you mean, stand on my own? When I left, I didn’t even know how to decide what I was meant to eat.
03:04
VIERAI
Because such a thing is to be decided by the chefs.
03:08
HATOV
(surprised)
You, you don’t see it, do you?
03:13
VIERAI
(more to herself than anything)
Maybe you really do need to go rest.
03:21
HATOV
Mama, have you, have you ever actually listened to a single word I’ve said before?
03:27
VIERAI
If you ever said something worth hearing I would have done so.
03:33
HATOV
And what exactly makes something worth hearing?
03:37
VIERAI
Hatov, are you trying to hurt me?
03:39
HATOV
(flagging/tired)
Of course not, Mama, that's—
03:42
VIERAI
You are. You know that I love you, so why are acting as if it’s suddenly been called into question?
03:47
HATOV
That’s not what I was-
03:49
VIERAI
I treat you as I do because I’m trying to make you into the person you need to be to survive. My greatest gift is my protection of you, if you’re calling that into question, how am I not supposed to see it as you questioning my affections?
04:01
HATOV
But that’s not what I—
04:03
VIERAI
Then what is it?
04:06
HATOV
(pause)
It’s (beat) it’s a lot of things. It's...I’m not sure how to (beat) It’s (beat) you said that dinner was going to be my favorite food. Did you know that I haven’t liked ontine since I was ten?
04:20
VIERAI
Of course, you like it. You used to eat it all the time.
04:22
HATOV
When I was a child.
04:24
VIERAI
You’re still a child.
04:27
HATOV
Hatov stands up
I prefer ran.
04:29
VIERAI
Where are you going?
04:31
HATOV
To my rooms.
04:33
VIERAI
(sighs)
Well, I guess that’s fine enough. Maybe you’ll start feeling more yourself in the morning. Would you like the servants to deliver anything?
04:41
HATOV
(pause)
My favorite food.
04:43
VIERAI
The ontine’s right here, Hatov.
04:45
HATOV
(Sighs)
It’s ran.
04:48
VIERAI
You’ve always liked ontine, maybe the last time it was just over done.
Hatov sighs and leaves the room.
Sounds of him going down a hallway and finally entering a room
He crosses the room and collapses onto his bed
04:59
HATOV
Goddess, I forgot how much I hate it here.
05:01
ANDROID
Hello prince Hatov.
05:04
HATOV
(screams)
Oh, I…I forgot about you. It’s (beat) it’s been some time.
05:12
ANDROID
Yes it has been. How was your day?
05:17
HATOV
(beat)
It was very hard.
05:21
ANDROID
I’m sorry you feel that way.
05:23
HATOV
No you’re not.
05:25
ANDROID
Of course, I’m sorry when you’re sad Hatov. I’m your friend.
05:29
HATOV
(muffled)
No, you’re not.