Original subtitles

The dead, they sigh to me.

They tell me to seek a warrior...

more monster than man...

and only he can help me save my people.

There is a boy held captive by three sisters.

You see, he knows the name of the one who broke the world.

- What is your tribe? - Maiki! We are Maiki.

The Maiki are creatures who serve Whiro.

So it's not just the dead we fight, but a god too.

Who broke the world?

It was my father, Te Kaiporangi Turoa.

Did you know that it was my father who broke the world?

It's your destiny to heal the world

and cut that man's throat and offer his blood to the gods.

You will go to the Great Pa and confront your father.

Be careful, Waka Nuku Rau.

You stand on the edge of a precipice -

not only you, but the girl.

Why is Mehe so important to you?

Not important to me,

but she'll be very important to your father.

Father.

I'm not your father;

I just sired you, boy.

The moment I see him, I'm going to kill him.

Be the man that you want to be,

not the man that you used to be.

Be that man now.

- So, he won't recognise you. - What if he does?

Kill him.

I'll help.

Do I know you?

Not very likely.

There he is -

the great Waka Nuku Rau.

Whoa.

I am going to cut you out of my lineage...

once and for all.

Do it, and I'll kill you.

He is the answer to our problem.

How can this thing help us?

He can go into the spirit place.

Clear it.

There's a tear in the earth, a gathering place for the spirits.

This one I made, but it connects the world of the living

and the world of the dead.

Come if you dare!

So now you can heal the world.

And you...

Perhaps you were sent here for a reason, boy.

You brought me to this place from the start.

It's not luck, is it?

Could be destiny.

So you're saying I was dead,

that I died,...

and you resurrected me because of the girl,...

because of Mehe?

Died?

Father, I'm frightened.

I'll protect you, I promise.

Wait. My husband.

We must get the chosen ones away from here.

Take all three of them. Take them to our sacred places.

Keep them separate. Don't wait for us.

Go!

Run!

Ra!

Not my son! No!

No! No!

Father, you promised!

No!

No!

You've improved...

a little.

Are we friends?

Trust.

Truth.

That's friendship, not lies.

You can tell a good lie when you want to.

- I know you're one of them. - One what?

The dead.

Admit it.

You died, and they sent you back.

I didn't have any choice in it.

Liar.

The dead do what they do. Don't ask me why.

How can I trust anything you say?

Don't.

Rely on yourself.

Don't depend too much on others.

You'll just get disappointed.

- What do you want? - Oh, not me.

He wants you.

He wants you.

My son.

I'm not your son; you just sired me.

Or have you forgotten the words you used all my life?

I was wrong to say that.

Do you know what it meant to be a boy, just a boy?

Shit on your words!

My husband.

Eh.

He's right to say it.

I was a bad father,

full of my own importance, my own self,...

no thought for you or your mother.

Help me be a better leader.

Let's hear it.

You trust him, but you don't trust me.

No.

I need you to do something for me.

What?

Get three of my people.

I need them to repair the world.

Who are they?

Three shaman.

Young, like you.

They helped me make the place of the spirits.

Without them,...

- I can't heal the world. - Get them yourself.

We tried. No one returns.

Lose a lot of warriors, do you?

Do this for me,...

my son.

Help me make this right.

I'll do it.

Alone.

Hako will take you,...

show you the way to our sacred places.

But I...

I'm ready.

- Idiot. - Shrew.

- You can't do this on your own. - Nothing I do is good enough.

If I don't do it, I must; if I do do it, I'm an idiot.

At what point did I ever say that I wanted you

to tell me what to do?

- You need me! - How?

To think for you. Great fighter, but...

I don't need you.

Never did.

'I don't need you. Never did.'

There he is - the fool as always.

Can't I just sleep in peace?

Walk straight into your death, then. Do it.

You don't want my help.

What are you going on about now?

Why didn't you kill your father like you said you would?

Because I'm going to help him.

He's changed.

I've changed.

You can't trust that man.

- Do you hear me? - I'm not a fool.

You're about to face great terrors.

- What terrors? - I'll tell you.

I'll help you.

- Well? - When you tell me.

Tell you what?

I gave you protection against the priestesses of Te Waonui.

Those weren't protections.

I know.

You lied to me.

Yes, but who told you?

You distracted me with talk of gods and other things before,

but now I need to know.

Who told you?

Or I swear I won't help you.

Some shit-eater named Ka.

Think you can play games with the dead?

You promised you'd speak only to me.

He's persistent.

You've risked everything I've worked for.

You've worked for?

This Ka, what's he told you?

Speaks in riddles, worse than you.

He said that the girl is important.

You didn't know that, now, did you?

Promise it,

now, once and for all,

that you will never speak to him again.

Promise it

or we are done.

So,...

these terrors I'm to face - what are they?

How would I know?

Fool.

Waka.

Waka!

- What's wrong with you? - Oh, uh, I don't like dying.

- What's wrong with you? - Oh, uh, I don't like dying.

Waka!

Where were you?

- Watching your father. - Stay away from my father.

The man is like an eel.

Swear it.

Swear.

All right.

Yes.

Don't die, Waka Nuku Rau.

Don't die, Waka Nuku Rau.

Let's go south. As good a direction as any.

- What? - Who are they to you and I, eh?

High-borns.

They only care about themselves and their class, not you and I.

- Never did. - What are you talking about?

Let's run away, leave them to their games.

We're going to find these three shit-eaters,

and you're going to show me the way. Now move!

All right.

Sorry, Waka.

E ao, e ao.

E ao mai ko te po.

E ao, e ao.

E ao mai ko te po.

Aue!

Aue!

Aargh!

Spying on me?

You don't have to.

You're welcome.

I'll teach you.

I've seen it before.

I've seen it before.

The dead are drawn here.

Many of them.

In the day, they hide from the sun, Tama-Nui-Te-Ra,

but at night, they gather here and try to cross.

It's a strain to keep them out.

You think well of my son, don't you?

He'll betray you, you know.

You don't know that.

He betrayed us.

Did he tell you that?

The tribe that gave him everything he is.

You whipped him every day.

You whip a dog so it knows its place.

He's not a dog.

I want to fix this world, make it right.

What are you really doing here?

Why are you here?

Why did you come here, to this place,...

to see me,...

if you didn't want to know?

You were drawn here, towards the dead.

You feel it, don't you?

I see in you something I've not seen or felt before.

You've been touched by the gods.

Come with me to the place of the spirits.

I'll show you the truth.

You.

You think I don't know one direction from another.

You're leading me the wrong way.

Oh, uh, all right.

For your own good. Think about that for one moment.

For your own good.

Oh, fine.

It's your death. Why should I care? Hmm?

But if it looks like you're going to die, I'll abandon you.

- Don't think I won't. - Oh, I believe you.

- Don't think I won't. - Oh, I believe you.

There,

the first of the sacred places.

The first of the sacred places.

There's no one here. Let's go.

You shouldn't have come.

It won't let you take me.

Oh.

That's not good.

Whitiwhitia te ora.

Whitiwhitia te mate.

- Do you know who he is? - Matua.

One of the greatest warriors of our tribe.

Anana.

Whitiwhitia ko koe!

If you get a chance,...

help.

If you wanna get yourself killed,

that's no affair of mine, but I won't anger that fucking thing.

It's a good day to die.

Thanks for the help

I've come to take you back.

You'll find the others are the same.

The warriors protecting us, they won't let us go.

They're possessed by the Maiki,

servants of the god Whiro.

And they wait.

For what?

They want what we have.

They want our world.

Papa.

Matua.

Close to the spirits.

Come to us.

What are you doing?

He killed the warrior.

But that thing that was in him, it hides in the day,

but it always comes out at night.

The circle will protect us.

Kei tuwhera mai te porowhita,

kei hua te wehi mutungakore.

Araia te kino.

Araia te mana o tua.

Whiria te rongo.

Whiria te rongo.

He aro tawhito.

He aro tipua.

He aro ki tua ke.

He aro ki tua ke.

No tenei pononga nau.

Ko Tumatakaka.

Ko Tumatauenga.

Ko Tumatakore.

Ko to Tu.

Homai...

ma tenei pononga nau.

It's safe.

My son has trained you to be wary.

Good. You should be.

Trust nobody, not in this world.

Not family, not whanau.

Family is everything.

You said you'll show me the truth, so show me.

You said you'll show me the truth, so show me.

For centuries,

our people served Tu, the god of war.

Killed, fought and fallen in love with war.

A cycle, endless,...

but I tried to stop it,...

bring peace.

Have you seen our people hiding in caves,...

being hunted by the dead?

You haven't brought peace. You have brought war.

How could the dead returning make things better?

By being an army...

for me.

One army to unite our people.

Wars will disappear forever.

We'd be freed. Don't you see?

Do you want to know what I see?

Because of you, our land is poisoned.

Because of you, our people are scattered and broken.

And because of you, our children are hunting their parents.

And because of you, my father is gone.

And this peace you wanted has brought nothing but war

to the living and the dead.

To the living and the dead.

May luck be your brother.

The guardian is called Te Ripiripi, The Butcher.

The guardian is called Te Ripiripi, The Butcher.

'Taurekareka.

'Slave.

'Aue!

'Ka kata te po i a koe.'

'Ka kata te po i a koe.'

I'm not coming with you. Go away.

Come here.

- Get off me! - Come here!

Coward.

What did you say?

I didn't say anything, dung-eater.

I'm trying to save you, you stupid girl.

Such a coward.

Are you going to kill me?

Kill?

No.

First I eats.

Aargh!

Mother,...

where are you when I need you?

Think for yourself.

Think.

I can speak to the dead, you know.

They told me about you,...

said you'd sneak up,...

said you were afraid to fight me...

because I'm Waka Nuku Rau,...

and I've killed many of you shit-eaters.

And now,

in the afterlife,...

everyone knows...

you're the coward.

Now we fight.

- Anyone skilled with healing? - I am.

I am too.

Get on with it, then.

Why are you doing this?

Because you want to please her?

Mehe.

Yeah, you're thinking with your cock.

No.

Then what?

She believes in something.

- Dying miserably? - Honour.

And I want to believe it too,...

want to believe that it's true, even though I know it's not,

that there's honour in the world.

A lot of fools have died saying things like that, you know.

Maybe I'm a fool.

But if I succeed, what does it make me?

A famed and great warrior?

And every toa needs good men to look after his interests,

don't they?

To share in the glory.

This one I'm to face,...

what can you tell me about him that can help?

Tumaro? Ooh.

He's huge.

He's a brute, believe me.

But he's slow.

Whue.

Whue.

Waka.

Waka.

Can you show me how to protect myself

against these things at night?

Oh, they're powerful at night. You know that.

I won't get any stronger if I wait.

Mehe,...

kill me.

Please.

Do it!

They sigh to us,...

the dead.

You know it.

You hear them too,...

don't you?

You blame me for your father's death.

I blame myself.

And your mother, grandmother, all your ancestors from before?

What about them?

Would you like to speak to them...

tonight?

Come.

Go away.

The dead call you.

You should hear their calls, listen to their sighs,...

because they want to speak to you

just as much as you want to speak to them.

Just as much as you want to speak to them.

E eke ki tona mau.

Haumi e,

hui e...

Taike e.

You sure you'll remember that?

You don't think I can remember a few simple words

and how to draw a circle?

If I don't return, take them back and tell stories of me.

The circle, leave it unclosed...

or it won't enter.

So after you've killed it, seal it in.

Do you understand?

Kei hua te wehi mutunga kore,

araia te kino,

araia te mana no tua.

Whiria te here pai.

Whiria te rongo.

Kia eke ki tona mau.

Kia eke ki tona mau.

Haumi e,

hui e, tai-

te wehi mutunga kore,

araia te kino,

araia te mana...

no tua.

Whiria te here pai.

Whiria...

Whiria te rongo.

Kia eke ki tona mau. Kia eke ki tona mau.

Haumi e, hui e,...

taiki e.

Come out!

Puta mai, Pokokohua!

Come out.

Oh, you're big.

And you're ugly.

Your mother must have wept bitter tears

when she squatted you into the world.

Kei tuwhera te porowhita...

I've come to take you back.

It's time to heal the world. Understand?

How do you think it will be done?

What do you mean?

With blood and sacrifice.

I didn't do all of this just to see you die.

I didn't do all of this just to see you die.

Po noa nei

ka aumihi au.

Huihuia

mai

a Matariki.

You think I don't know what I've done.

I know.

My ancestors are weeping,...

my people are barred from the afterlife

because of me,...

mistakes I made.

You are here for a reason.

The gods have willed it.

O nga tapu ara,...

kei te mihi au.

Huihuia mai...

a Matariki.

A Matariki.

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