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If the United States fails

to proliferate its stockpile of nuclear bombs,

the barbaric Soviet Union will wipe out civilized America.

We have entered a new global age.

Ain't shit new about it.

Whitey keep cooking up death for the rest of us to eat.

I don't need your advice when it comes to raising my son.

He might not be yours.

- You shut your fucking mouth. - Uncle George!

Look at these niggers.

I see the flower in your hair.

Preening in the goddamn mirror.

What else you think happened?

- I don't know. - Please. I promise.

Dad, I won't do it again, I promise.

Begging won't save your hide.

I said pick a switch.

Pick a switch!

"Adam named.

Eve fucked.

God brought forth Monsters.

Monsters devoured.

God smites Eve."

The only way for us to defeat the Reds

is to destroy their stockpile.

Take this. Give it to Tic to protect our family.

You might be all Tic has left.

Smells like Tulsa.

What the fuck are you doing here?

Can I come in?

Who helped you evict Hiram?

How the hell did you...

Hmm.

The money.

So you want something in this house, then?

Something that has to do with Atticus?

Don't let the men fool you

into thinking it's always about them.

His blood may have power in it,

but that's only because Titus spelled it that way.

It doesn't make Tic special.

Not really.

Certainly not enough to get away with murder.

Oh, he didn't tell you.

He showed up at the Realtist's office this morning

and tried to shoot me.

If he keeps operating in the way that he is,

he's going to get you killed.

Again.

And I don't want that.

Or this house.

I just want Hiram's orrery.

What the fuck is an orrery?

It's a model of the solar system.

I believe Hiram's ghost kept it locked away somewhere inside.

Listen, you may have paid for this house,

but my name is on the deed,

so you can get the fuck off my porch.

Call me if you find Hiram's orrery.

What galaxy could sustain two suns?

The Virgo Cluster?

They said last year

that any galaxy within 200 billion light-years of it

is confined to a giant supercluster disc.

That could explain

why they're perpetually eclipsing each other.

- Yes, it would. - But.

But, Daddy, what if...

what if they aren't eclipsing?

What if they are really two suns?

Well, that sounds like the new comic you told me Diana's drawing,

AKA out of this universe.

Mama, we're going to Bobo's to read some comics.

Bobo, you tell your mama to call me.

I will, ma'am.

Now, is that my granddaughter I hear?

What's that you're messing with, Hippolyta?

Hold on for a second, Dad.

It is...

a mechanical model of a solar system.

It moves and predicts

the relative position of planets.

At least it's supposed to.

This one's broken.

I can't figure out how to get to the gears.

Well, it's a piece of work, that's for sure.

Yeah.

Well, if there's one thing I do know,

every locked thing has its key.

You'll find it.

You try to kill Christina?

- Answer me. - Shh.

Can you calm down, please?

How the hell am I supposed to do that

when I got a white sorceress bitch

showing up at my house she apparently bought for me?

Which you somehow figured out

but didn't think it was important enough to tell me.

I didn't wanna scare you.

So what happened? Hmm?

You got cold feet?

She can't be killed.

- What? - I had the gun to her head.

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't pull the trigger.

The invulnerability, it's some spell her father cooked up.

So does that mean that he's still alive?

The rest of the Sons of Adam too?

No, he had to remove his invulnerability

to cast the spell that ended up crumbling the lodge.

I'm pretty sure Christina used me

as a Trojan horse to kill him.

Wait. You were leaving.

You were gonna kill her

and then just go back to Florida?

I'm not... I'm not going anywhere.

I'm not going anywhere until I know

you and my family are safe.

That's what I'm doing here, trying to figure out a way

- to stop Christina. - Mm-hmm.

Leti.

All right.

So what's all this got to do with her?

Go on, tell me.

What does this have to do with her?

She told me there's two sets of deciphered pages

from the lost Book of Names still in existence.

Hiram kept his hidden from beyond the grave.

That's why she was asking me about his orrery.

Must be the key to finding his pages.

It's not in the house. I looked.

She also mentioned Titus kept his hidden

in a booby-trapped vault only he could access.

You have his blood.

You think you can access his vault?

If I can get my hands on those pages,

I can learn the Language of Adam

and start casting some spells of my own to protect us.

Okay.

So where's this vault?

I don't... I don't... I don't know.

I've been reading everything I can on Titus to...

to try to find a clue.

I might have to go back to Ardham.

And what?

See if you can excavate something out of the rubble?

They teaching colored boys paleontology in the army now?

You need to talk to your father.

No.

He probably did all this research and more

once he got wind of your mama's connection.

I don't want him involved,

or you either, for that matter.

Go home.

- Shit. - Shh!

They in the back.

Where in the hell did I go wrong with you, boy?

Every time I tell you to do something,

you do the exact opposite.

I told you to stay away from this grand wizardry shit.

You wanna run chest first into some magical treasure hunt

like a goddamn fool.

No wonder y'all two sweet on each other.

Foolish and crazy go well together.

- "Pioneering." - You gonna help us or not?

What do you think happens when you find Titus's pages?

What happens if we don't?

Christina was at my house.

We need to be able to defend ourselves.

Either one of y'all been listening to the news?

- We're the Reds in this fight. - Oh, hell.

That means outnumbered, outgunned,

fumbling to catch up.

We already got one lodge gunning for us.

You want the other 34?

How you know there's 34 lodges?

I don't!

That's the whole goddamn point.

Now, none of us knows nothing

except what this cracker bitch done told us.

So the answer is no.

I ain't gonna help you kill yourself.

Even if you too dumb and pigheaded to realize,

you can't win this game

that she's setting up for you to play, boy.

I told you this was a waste of time.

You really gonna let him chase his tail

looking for answers you already have?

Now I see where your son gets it.

You're a real asshole.

You got family in Boston?

I think I know where to find the damn vault.

Ninety-five, 100.

Ready or not, here I come.

- Safe. - Safe.

I got you!

What are you doing?

You're supposed to run to home base.

Ain't you ever play Hide and Go Seek before?

No, it's my first time.

- Hurry. - I'm safe!

Whoo! Safe!

Captain Lancaster?

What the fuck are you doing in my city unannounced?

Went by the Winthrop house.

Wanted to have a chat with Hiram.

Convince him to give me the orrery.

That is the key to unlocking his time machine, isn't it?

I was surprised to find Negroes had moved in.

How'd you let that happen in your city?

You come here and try and take my lodge's rightful property,

and you have the fucking nerve to say it to my face?

Forgive me.

Did I miss your official initiation into the Order?

I know I didn't miss yours.

No cunts allowed.

Not even if you think you can find the stolen pages.

Let go.

Told me to let go.

Unlike you, I listen.

If I'd have listened to you,

we wouldn't have a lead on Titus's vault.

Hey, hey.

This is not my fault.

Tic.

Catch.

You're gonna love this museum, Dee.

You won't find a better astronomy exhibit

outside of NACA.

- You got this, young lady? - Mm-hmm.

Why the hell would you invite them?

This isn't a family road trip.

You think I don't know that?

It's her damn car.

I had to tell her where the hell we were going.

Did you tell her we were planning on breaking in to the museum?

Hoping to find a hidden vault too? You tell her that?

We can call this whole thing off right now if you'd like.

I can't believe I have to spend the next 15 hours

with you two in a car.

Everything okay?

- Mm-hmm. - Yes, ma'am.

Get in the car.

God damn it.

Man, what the hell you doing?

I got a filly in Philly.

Thought I'd catch a ride with y'all to Boston.

Save myself part of the bus fare.

I didn't invite him.

What?

Get in.

George always said big ol' Woody could fit

the South Side of Chicago if it had to.

Excuse me, ma'am?

Can I help you with something?

I'm just browsing.

Let me know if you need anything.

Did you just start working here?

Yes.

Yesterday, in fact.

Do you shop here often?

No, I...

I didn't realize this store was hiring colored girls.

I know.

I applied on a whim.

Can't believe I actually got it.

Welcome to the museum.

Five.

Oh, the Light of the Universe exhibit is this way, Mama.

- Be back here in two hours. - Three.

Yes, ma'am.

Hey.

That's the guy right there.

He's expecting me.

We'll need to find the entrance to Titus's vault.

I read the annual reports last night.

A few renovations happened while Titus was on the board.

You listening to me?

The vault could be in any one of those galleries.

Why don't we just start here?

Hey, they got dinosaurs?

We're not heading in that direction.

That's all right.

I'm sure we'll get around to it in the next three hours.

Hey, you know why they call me Tree, right?

Most men got two legs.

I got tree.

Shouldn't I already know that,

since we fucked in high school, Seymour?

Dee.

See right there?

That's a comet.

It's called Hera's Chariot.

Hera's Chariot?

That's a cool name.

Yes.

It was mine.

You never told me you named a comet.

Not officially, I didn't.

That credit goes to Nancy Studebaker.

Who's that?

She's the niece of an astronomer in Sweden.

The astronomical society who held a naming contest

didn't want a little colored girl to be the face of their competition.

That's...

You should've fought that, Mama.

We know the truth.

That's all that matters.

Y'all see that comet?

My mama named it!

My mama named Hera's Chariot.

Now they know the truth too.

If everyone's ready, let's proceed to the next room.

This way.

In this,

one of our museum's oldest sections,

we see the many artifacts

the famed explorer Titus Braithwhite was given

in exchange for teaching the savage tribes

the ways of civilized man.

Excuse me.

His last expedition to the Caribbean...

So you told Letitia what I said about her, huh?

I mean, you can have her, man.

Ain't no call trying to backstab me.

Yeah, okay.

Any more questions?

I know what this about.

Yeah, this 'cause I sent you out back

when Sammy was with that man.

I just thought you might wanna know.

If everyone's ready, let's move on to the next room.

That's Sammy's business.

You sure it's not yours?

I'm not a sissy.

Never said you was.

Just, uh, noticing how close

Montrose and Sammy become since you've been gone.

Oh, what time?

Okay. Thank you.

Okay, so I spoke to the security guard.

He gonna let us in through the back tonight.

How you know him again?

What? Friend at the bar.

What? You can trust him.

Now, look, we only got two hours before the next security shift,

so I hope you found this damn vault.

- What is he doing? - Shit.

He sees us.

Gentlemen.

Tell your captain

Ms. Braithwhite doesn't like to be followed.

Now, if you'll excuse me, gentlemen,

I have a date.

This is definitely a door.

Spread out.

See if you can find a way to open it.

Turn off your flashlights.

Huh?

I said turn 'em off, damn it!

Mm.

This is some Journey to the Center of the Earth type shit.

You see Titus's pages?

I see three tunnels.

"Beware, all ye who tread the path.

Ever the tides shall rise."

We're gonna need the map of Titus's voyages.

Now, wait a minute.

I promised the security guard

we wouldn't mess with none of their artifacts.

I'm coming down!

Wait, Le... Leti!

Leti, wait.

Shit, let me see what we're dealing with first.

Fuck.

Oh, shit. Oh, God damn it.

God damn it. Oh, shit.

Oh, shit!

I got it. Damn it.

Give me that.

The compass and the ledger match up.

If we follow the logic of adventure novels,

these three tunnels...

should relate to Titus's expeditions,

which means all we have to do is figure out which one,

and the buried treasure should be at the end.

Tour guide said his voyage to the Caribbean was his last.

Titus raided Guyana for all it's worth,

which means the tunnel would've been westbound.

How you know he raided Guyana?

Same way I know anything. I read a damn book.

Well, I read the damn brochure,

and it said

the first renovations were done to the museum

after he returned from the Caribbean.

What year was that?

1810.

He established the Sons of Adam three years later.

You might be right.

North tunnel it is.

Whoa, wait!

Let's think about this for a minute.

We could always double back, boy.

We only got two hours. Let's go.

Come on!

Y'all hold up!

It was early this morning

That I had

My trial

Ninety days

On the county road

And the judge didn't even smile

Well, fuck you too.

No, I can't afford another.

Nah, blue eyes at the end of the bar has your tab tonight.

May I join you?

Keep my glass full and you can do whatever you want.

You didn't come over here hoping I was modest, did you?

Nah, that's not what you white boys come over

to the dark side for.

But I can buy my own drinks,

so you're gonna have to do a bit more to impress me.

What if I told you that I could change your life forever?

Then I would say that you're not the first white boy

to offer to make me a kept woman.

Oh, I would never dare insult you like that.

Fine.

Then I would say that you're not the first white boy

to promise me the world trying to lay with me.

It's a promise that I can keep.

How long we been walking?

Twenty minutes.

Hope y'all picked the right tunnel.

Oh, shit.

Don't die on me now.

Son of a bitch.

Let's find another tunnel.

No.

No time.

- We walk the plank. - No, no.

This thing probably been down here rotting for years, Tic.

Is it even sturdy enough to walk on?

You about to find out.

Oh, hell.

Oh.

Will this hold if I plunge to my death?

- Yes. - Are you sure?

It's a special knot, so yeah.

Oh, they teach you this in the army?

He learnt it from me.

I learnt it from my father.

He learnt it from his father,

who was an enslaved man charged with tying down the horses.

Now, if one of those horses got away,

my great-ancestor would've got beat,

but on Juneteenth, he walked off that plantation a free man,

not one whoop mark on him.

So you can best believe

this special fucking knot that was passed down

from generations to generations is gonna hold.

You hear me?

That's good. That's good.

You're doing good.

- Leti! - Leti. Leti.

- Don't look down. - Shut up.

Shit.

The Freemans were never slaves.

She out there, ain't she?

Leti!

Leti, hey, hold on!

I'm coming!

What's wrong?

There's something... something flying around.

Tic!

We're okay! It's a booby trap!

I'm coming out!

Oh, shit. Wait, damn it!

It's o...

you're gonna have to time it

and jump through it.

All right?

The blade's not that fast, so it's not a big deal.

You just untied the safety knot,

so it's a pretty big fucking deal.

Get ready.

Go!

Tic!

The plank is disappearing!

Okay, I'm coming.

I can't do it, Tic.

You're gonna have to jump, Pop.

Come on! Throw me the bag.

You better catch me, boy!

I got you. Come on.

I got you.

- Oh, shit! - Okay.

Okay. Okay.

What the fuck is happening over there?

Oh, fuck.

Oh, shit! What the...

Come on!

Go!

Run!

Oh! These move!

We gotta figure out the combination.

It's the Garden of Eden.

Adam, Eve, God... shit, Monsters?

Shit.

Adam. Adam.

- What? - Adam named.

- What? - Eve fucked.

God brought Monsters.

- Monsters. - Monsters devoured.

- Eve. - God smites Eve.

Eve.

- Shit. - Whoo!

Hot damn, boy, you see my jump?

Jesse Owens ain't got shit on me!

Wait, wait, wait. You're bleeding.

- Leti, I know. - Let me see.

Leti, I know. Shit.

Let's keep moving.

Hey, is this water rising?

Moonset occurred right before we came down here.

What?

"Ever the tides shall rise."

High tide is three hours after moonset,

which means...

We got less than an hour to find the vault and get them pages.

Oh, shit.

Before we drown.

She got there first.

Would've been me. Should've been me.

But I let Leti distract me.

Who's Leti?

My sister. Half sister.

Lying-ass...

Why not just apply anyway?

You never know.

I fucking know a lot.

I know there are 103 employees at that damn department store,

and two of them are never gonna be colored.

I know that because for us,

it's a rat race to the finish line.

And it's "winner takes it all."

And I damn for sure know that if I was in your skin,

I wouldn't even have to run.

What I don't know...

Is what to do about it.

You better stop looking at me like that.

It ain't happening, white boy.

Can you slow down?

I can't see.

Is that what they taught you in the imperialistic army?

Leave soldiers behind?

No.

No, I've never left a man behind, you hear me?

Ever.

Out in the trenches, I can trust those standing next to me.

Hell's that supposed to mean?

How you know so much about the Sons of Adam?

Hmm?

How many lodges there are?

Whatever it was that helped you with that... that combination back there.

How you know that?

George gave me the Order of the Ancient Dawn bylaws...

The night he died.

When were you gonna tell me that?

Where's the book now?

I read it and I burnt it.

- What? - You heard me.

Why would you do that?

Answer me! Why would you do that?

Because my brother told me to protect our family!

That was his dying wish.

And I did it the night I burnt that damn book,

closing Pandora's box once and for good!

Then why you here helping us anyway?

Because your stupid ass won't stop, Tic!

And I wasn't about to sit in Chicago

while you charged headfirst into the lion's den

with no backup!

Don't yell at her.

- Get out of my way, boy! - No.

You gonna tell me what else was in the bylaws.

- Tic! - Leti?

What is... what is it?

Aw, shit.

I'm pretty sure that's... that's one of my neighbors

who went missing.

Hiram Epstein was part of the Order.

He must've been chasing Titus's pages too.

That's probably how he got killed.

It's getting too dangerous. Y'all get in.

Take the elevator up.

- No! - Pa, get in!

It ain't just get dangerous.

He was kidnapped!

I died!

Can you stop acting like this is only happening to you?

You're not the center of the fucking universe.

Hey, Tic?

You have to apologize to your girl.

I don't think it's gonna be that simple.

Yeah, your mama was complicated too.

Mom was complicated?

She navigated you all right.

Yeah, you got a point there.

But she was crazy like the rest of 'em, though.

Hey, you know what your grandpa told me?

Said, "Always have a love song for your woman.

This way, when they get to fussin'...

You just sing that song to yourself.

When you're through, she'll be done

and you can get back to what you want,

the lovin'.

Cause that's all that fussing is anyway.

Whole lotta lovin'."

This might be the vault!

Oh.

Is that an arm?

Looks like a lock.

With the wrong key.

Wait, wait, wait!

Up there!

Shit!

Titus has been dead for over a century.

You understood her?

What?

No. I mean... shit, yes. Yes.

Blood...

but not... not family.

What are you?

Who are you?

Yahima.

Maraokoti.

Yahima Maraokoti.

Woman. Man.

Two spirit.

How did you get here?

How did you get here?

"I come from a land of many waters."

Titus came on his ship

searching for ones who could read his book.

I knew the symbols from the cave of Alomun Kundi.

I had no reason

to distrust him.

I'd never encountered people with so much hunger.

Always hungry.

When I saw Titus for what he was,

I refused to decipher another word.

He promised to reunite me with my people.

And he kept that promise...

By killing them

and imprisoning me here."

He was a monster.

I'm... I'm sorry

for what he did to you.

But I need your help to stop others like him

from hurting my people.

What'd she say?

She said...

I am not guilty of my forefathers' sins...

But she doesn't know my spirit.

She will not help.

Let's get the damn pages and get the hell outta here.

Come on, boy!

We gotta get out of here!

Come on!

Go!

You okay?

What was that?

How'd they get back to Chicago without Woody?

I don't know, Diana.

Everything's been weird since Pop died.

Is that your dad's atlas?

Where'd you get that?

Where'd you get it?

I found it in the glove compartment.

What's wrong?

Mama, where are we going?

To get answers.

She thinks you're right.

Titus turned her into a siren

so she couldn't speak if she escaped his vault.

Does she think she can break the spell?

She doesn't.

But I got Titus's pages now.

I'll figure it out.

Meantime, we should teach her English.

Might be easier for her to write down the Language of Adam

than for us to decipher it.

You were brave as hell out there today, boy.

You grew to be a good man

in spite of me.

Your mama would've been proud.

Night, Pop.

I'm sorry.

Oh, Sinnerman

Where you gonna run to?

Sinnerman

Where you gonna run to?

Sinnerman

Where you gonna run to?

All on that day

Well, I run to the rock

Please hide me

I run to the rock

Please hide me

I run to the rock

Please hide me

All on that day

But the rock cried out

"I can't hide you"

The rock cried out

"I can't hide you"

The rock cried out

"I ain't gonna hide you"

All on that day

I said, "Rock

"What's the matter with you, Rock?

Can't you see I need you, Rock?"

Devil was waiting

All on that day

Power

Power

I cried, "Power"

I cried, "Power"

I cried, "Power"

I cried, "Power"