01x03 - Kole

[bunniefuu]

[people chattering]

[employee] Wetin you want?

Okay, you want take receipt?

[grunts]

Hah! [chuckles]

Mama, now. You said today is all for me.

[scoffs, chuckles]

So you won't share with your mother, eh?

[both chuckle]

Ah.

Ehen. Kole, when you become
a successful doctor,

what is the first thing you go buy?

Because I have been eyeing
these gold slippers

that would look so, so nice on me.

I go buy them for you

and a house and a new PC for me.

Ah. You are smart.

-Uh?
-[laughs]

[Happiness] Oga will see you now.

Kole, wait for me here.

He wants the boy, too.

-[crowd cheering on TV]
-[punches landing]

-[Bode grunts]
-[commentator speaking indistinctly]

-[crowd cheers]
-[chuckles]

-[knocking on door]
-[door opens]

[snores]

[Happiness grunts]

Mama Kole. [chuckles]

Se daadaa ni o wa.

[chuckles] Mo wa daaddaa, oshe.

[Bode] Ah.

So this is the famous Bankole.

[laughs]

-[commentator speaking indistinctly]
-[punches landing]

[Bode] You like boxing?

Ah. But you have such tiny chicken hand,
oh, eh? [chuckles]

I can box.

One! Two! [gasps, chuckles]

You have power, oh. [chuckles]

Come, come. Sit down. Sit down.

Eh, it's Zobo. My favorite. Hmm.

Take.

Ah.

Ah. You are excited by this money, eh.

See, you are like me.

You know what you deserve. [chuckles]
That's good.

This boy is smart.

Ori omo yii pe, ori e pe. [chuckles]

I see why you want to send him
to school to be a doctor,

but he could be more than that.

Let him come and work for me.

Hmm. Thank you, sa.

But he is smart,

and having a job will not allow him
to focus on his studies.

Eh, but studying will not allow him
to provide for you.

[chuckles] I work hard enough
to provide for us. I have a good job.

There won't be trouble
paying back the loan.

I'm a fair man, and, uh,
you two are my people. Hmm?

So, just as I dey chop, uh,
you two go dey chop.

E je ki n je. [chuckling]

I know that, uh, when the time comes,

you will help me, too.

[stammers] Eshe, sa.

[thunderclaps]

[thunder rumbling]

[slurps]

You were given stew and you added water.

You must be wiser than the cook.

[inhales deeply]

The cook, she taught me well well.

[chuckles, coughs] Shh, shh, shh.

I think we should, uh... [coughs]
...take another loan.

Ah! Mama, no.

Nah my turn to take care of us.

-I go get you those gold slippers.
-[inhales deeply, coughing]

[inhales deeply]

[phone buzzing]

Oya. Make I go.

[Mama Kole] Mmm.

[gasps, coughing]

Be careful. Hmm? Oko mi.

Don't worry. Nobody dey mess with me.

[chuckles]

[coughs, inhales deeply]

[panting]

[panting]

[sighs]

-[device buzzes, beeps]
-[grunts]

[door creaks]

[gasps, breathing shakily]

[gasps]

This way.

[punches landing]

[grunts]

[lackey grunts]

[both exhale deeply]

You know, Kole,

when you hide from me,

it makes me think
you have something to hide from me.

No, sa. I don't. It's just...

You said that we had till the end
of the month for the payment,

and the money is slow,
but-but it's coming.

And my mama needed more medicine,
and... and the bills, there are so many.

But if we... if we have to
make a payment now,

please sa, this is what I have.

And this. Your favorite.

Put your money away.
Am I not a man of my word?

[sighs]

[grunts]

[Bode] I said the end of the month.
You have until then.

Then, why did you want to see me, sa?

[phone chimes]

[Bode] Bring her to me.

Uh! Why? For what?

[Bode] Kole. You're a smart boy.

I c... I can't. I w... I won't.

Is it me you are saying no to?
[shouts] Ṣe ori ẹ gbalẹ ni?

So you don't want to repay the kindness
I showed you. Hmm?

-Tola is a good person.
-[scoffs]

Tani?

She's a rich, privileged islander.

She's not like that.

-She doesn't deserve to be...
-What?

To be given perspective
on what life is really like?

This will be good for her.

Think of your sick mother.

Are you willing to choose this friend
over her?

Sa, w... wetin you mean?

One call,

and she gets all
the medical attention she needs.

Paid for.

Or you can continue to let her suffer.
The choice is yours.

It's not fair.

Life is not... [echoing] ...fair.

-[door opens]
-[vehicle beeping]

[gasps, laughs]

Tola, are you sure
oga said you fit go mainland?

Of course. He didn't not, not say it.

Eh?

Hmm. And he said Kole can come, too?

Kole. Oga say you too fit go?

[gasps]

Yes.

I mean, yes, Uncle. He said it.

Ah. Okay, oh.

[Kole exclaims]

[Godspower humming]

[phone buzzes]

[beeps]

Ooh. Is that Ms. Happiness?

[scoffs] What? No.

Mm-hmm.

[sighs]

I know say you dey do wayo for Uncle G.

What did oga say?

[whimpers]

Tola.

The man felt bad and said I could...
We could go.

-Tola.
-Fine.

He didn't even say I could go.

-Tola!
-[Godspower mutters]

[both chuckling]

Shh! He can't keep telling me to grow up
and then not give me the chance to do it.

-But oga...
-I know, I know, "he go vex."

I have it all under control. Trust me.

So you dey rebel? With the lizard?

I'll rebel at my own pace,
thank you very much.

[chuckles]

Tola. We're here.

-Let's go.
-[gasps]

Remember! Shine your eye oh!

Wait, wait, wait.

Where are you going?

-The restaurants are the other way.
-Those are for tourists.

-I am not a tourist.
-[sighs] You are, oh.

[horns honking]

This is why I'm here.

[stammers] No. No, no, no, no.

[exhales deeply]

-So you want to see the real Lagos?
-Yes.

No wahala.
But you have to do what I say, oh.

Deal.

[both laughing]

[driver grunts]

Oya.

[driver grunts]

[chuckles]

[Tola] Aah!

Wow. This is amazing.

Yes.

-Oya.
-[driver grunts]

Ah! Tola!

-Oya. Sorry. Sa, it's enough. Thank you.
-[vendor 1 speaks indistinctly]

-[Kole] Ah.
-Ehen. You want my fine cap?

-[Tola] Whoa.
-See fine necklace for you. Ah! Sa? Wait.

[vendor 2 speaks indistinctly]

[pig snorts]

-[Tola] Oya.
-[Kole laughs]

[gasps]

[vendor 3 grunting] Huh?

[vendor 4 speaking indistinctly]

Mmm.

[blows, exhales deeply]

[coughs]

[Kole speaks indistinctly]

Trade?

[Tola grunts]

Eh.

[Tola sighs]

[screams]

And if your elder dey talk to you,
no do lawyer for them, oh.

Your only choice is to do what they say.

It's nice,

but I really don't understand
why you were so insistent on me buying it.

Uh, it's... it's hot right now,
but you don't know how tonight will be.

It's Lagos. It will always be hot.

Just be happy you have it, eh.

[Otin beeps, chirps]

[person 1] Oh, Nepa!
What kind of rubbish be this, nah?

[person 2] Ah! Comot from here!

[people chattering]

[sighs]

Are you okay? Di food burn?

I'm happy.

-Today was the best day ever.
-Oh.

I learned how to price well,
I rode a keke,

and... [chewing]

...I'm eating with my hands.

My hands, Kole.

-[chuckling]
-I'm a mature Ajegunle girl now.

My dad is going to be so impressed.

Mmm. God don buttered my bread.

[chuckles] Abeg.
Make you no speak Pidgin again.

[laughs]

Thank you for this. You really are cool.

Or, should I say, a good friend.

Like, a best friend.

Tola, no.

Don't call me that.
I... I don't deserve it.

Being friends isn't about deserving.
It's about choice, and I choose you.

Some people no get choice, oh.

That doesn't seem very fair.

Na so life be, oh.

[inhales deeply]

Well, my first act
as your "non-best friend" friend is this.

[gasps]

Your phone is broken,

and it just seems like
you need one less thing to worry about.

Plus, now you can call Ms. Happiness
in style.

Eh? Why you talk that one now?

Chai! What time is it?

Make we go. Make we go. Let's go home.

But there's so much more to see.

I changed my mind. We gots go. Now.

Okay. Okay. Calm down.

Oya, oya, Tola. Make we go. Make we go.

[gasps]

I hope this helps you.

[grunts]

Why are we going so fast?

Just come now. I need to get you home.

-[Kole gasps]
-Ogbeni.

This is not where we agreed to meet, nah.

-Leave him alone. Stop it.
-Ow. [grunting]

-[Kole grunts]
-Leave him alone. Stop.

[powers down]

[computer beeping]

-[lackey shouts]
-Tola! Run! Now!

-I can't leave you.
-Don't worry about me. Go!

[grunts]

-[Kole groans]
-[Tola whimpers]

-[grunts, groans]
-Run, Tola! Sare kia kia!

[panting]

-[grunts]
-So you wan fall Oga hand. You dey mad?

-[grunts]
-Argh!

[Kole grunts, panting]

[panting] Oh!

[whimpers]

Miss. Can you please help me?

A... A man took my friend and... and, um...
Please help.

[Happiness] Of course.