All language subtitles for The.Last.Victims.2019.1080p.WEBRip.x265-RARBG2_English

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: birds chirping]

[crackling]

[pages turning]

I wish we’d testified at the TRC.

If you had testified

we'd all still be in jail

and you would have
never seen Cornell grow up.

And

there would have been
no amnesty for what we did.

We didn’t deserve amnesty,

we deserved to be punished.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

You think this wouldn’t have happened
if you had gone to prison?

I know it.

Call it

God's Judgement, Karma,

whatever you believe in...

but these are the consequences

of the sins we reap for
the violence we sowed.

Martha and Cornell suffered

because of my cowardice.

Elzabet suffered too.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

Elzabeth miscarried because of genetics,

not because of what you and I did.

The people who attacked your home
didn’t know who you are.

They just knew what you are.

A white farmer.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

I'm sorry.

You were there for me when Elzabet passed.

I’ll be here for you.

I need a favour.

Anything.

Please can you get me a current address
for this ID Number...

What is this?

Something that needs to be settled.

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

[cock crowing]

[screaming]

I said 'shut up'!

Shut up!

[breathing]

Listen, kaffir.

I want you to understand

that you don’t have much time.

I need to stitch up your arm

to stop you bleeding to death.

And we’re also running out of time.

There are MK meetings nearby,

where bombings and
attacks are being planned.

Innocent lives are hanging
in the balance...

Wouter is going to ask you some questions.

If you answer,

I’ll make a stitch.

If you don’t... I’ll make another cut.

How does that sound?

[soft crying]

I shouldn’t have cut so deep.

[sigh]

He was just about to tell us something.

I could feel it.

Fuck!

I wouldn’t worry.

Viaan, Jean and Warren will get something,
I'm sure.

I asked Martha to marry me.

And?

And she said...

yes.

That’s great, man!

Will you be my best man?

It would be an honour.

[cock crowing]

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

[message notification]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

[moaning]

[gasping for air]

[laughing]

[coughing]

Suspects are given the same
sensation as drowning.

[laughing]

Hovering on the edge of consciousness.

Yet they won’t actually die.

They’ll just wish they were dead.

What if he has a heart condition?

Hm.

Excellent point, Viaan.

That is why it is vital you try and learn
as much about the suspect’s health

before you ruin it.

[breathing]

[whistle]

[SCORE: energetic dramatic music]

Next time, you won't see me coming.

Why do you think our badges

look like shields?

'Cause we're meant to protect the public,

shield them from danger.

[cleans throat]

Our country,

our culture,

our way of life is under threat.

The Americans, the British...

the whole world tells us that

what we are doing is wrong.

That Apartheid is evil.

They don’t live here.

They don’t see how we're

trying to

keep all our people safe and pure.

Am I right?

Yes, Sir!

Elements from the outside

are doing their best to destabilize us.

They gather in groups,
plotting and scheming

to take down the government.

A disease

infecting the minds of our citizens.

You have two options:

One, either

you

you choose to protect the public or

you know that

it’s too late for protecting...

And there's only one path left.

Welcome to C-1.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

That's it.

[crying]

[sirens]

Hang in, sir.

[inaudible dialogue]

Mr. van Vuuren, you need to calm down, sir.

[moaning]

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: beeping]

Wout...

is that you?

[SCORE: energetic upbeat music]

[kissing]

[cleans throat]

[laughing]

You must be Elzabet.

And what has he been saying?

Only good things.

I thought I was better than good.

[kissing]

[SCORE: energetic upbeat music]

[sigh]

That girl's trouble.

You have no idea.

I didn’t know they made
Afrikaans girls like her.

[SCORE: energetic upbeat music]

Why’d you invite him?

Imagine what he’ll be
like if I didn’t invite him.

True.

Is Christo here?

He was playing hide and seek...
Rozanne!

Have you seen your father?

No.

[glass clinking]

[SCORE: energetic upbeat music]

[children screaming and laughing]

[footsteps]

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

[whistling]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

[whistling]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

You’re a lucky man,

having a place like this.

How did you afford it?

I inherited it.

Sometimes tragedy is rewarded.

[SCORE: dramatic music]

When this is all done,

when we're no longer needed...

I'd like to have a view like this.

Where's your heaven?

Heaven?

Heaven has too many people.

There is this place I used to go
fishing with my dad.

I think they called it Sneeuberg Plaas...

But we called it Hadeda Hills

as they were everywhere.

Standing there with him it felt like
we were the only two people on earth.

It's Eden,

not Heaven...

Found him!

Come on.

[soft whistle]

[chuckling]

Ah!

Oh!

Are you alright?

What asshole threw a stone at me?

Ah!

[chuckling]

Of course!

You!

[chuckling]

I should get back to the braai.

Yes.

I didn’t realise there was going
to be a show as well.

I keep my guests entertained.

I see.

You're an interesting bunch of men.

Elzabet warned me about that.

You’re her friend?

Yes.
Martha.

I hope you don't mind I came along.

Of course.

You’re cheeks are a little red,

you wanna grab a drink and cool them down?

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

Where's Martha?

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

[crying]

Where's

where's Cornell?

Dawid,

you must calm down.

[crying]

Wouter,

where's my family?

[crying]

Wouter!

[crying]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

No!

Thank you.

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: children playing]

I'm sorry, Sipho, you know the rules.

You only get a chocolate
if you help paint.

I'll paint tomorrow. I promise.

Have you ever been naughty, Sipho?

Will you be naughty again?

So should you be punished

for the naughty things that you
might do in the future?

That's right.

We are rewarded

or punished

for what we do,

not what we might do.

[car engine]

I wanted to tell him that he was right.

That no child should be punished
for the sins of their parents.

Why didn't you?

Because it wouldn't have
answered his question.

Did you give him his chocolate?

If he paints tomorrow I'll give him two.

One for doing the work, and

one for keeping his promise.

You are a strange man, my love.

And you're even stranger for marrying me.

[chuckles]

[kiss]

Come here!

[SCORE: energetic piano]

[car engine]

[door opens]

[SCORE: dark energetic piano]

[laughing]

Cornell?

I need to talk to you both.

Are you going to marry her?

I don't want to.

Why not?

I don’t love her.

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

That’s a good reason.

I thought you were gonna force us
to get married.

Your grandparents

were forced to marry because of me.

I’d like to believe that they

loved each other in the end... but...

for whatever reason you've chosen a path.

And by the end of the year

you're going to be a father.

And a father has

responsibilities.

I know...

No

You don’t.

Until you've held

another life in your hands,

you can't know what it means.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

[heavy breathing]

I brought this upon you.

I brought this upon you.

I brought this upon you.

[crying]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

My father was furious.

So was I.

Our last moments together

were spent arguing.

I’m sorry.

Thank you.

I didn’t love Cornell.

I liked him though.

I came here today to tell him
I picked out a name.

Do you want to know?

You are her grandfather.

I shouldn’t be anything to anyone.

If you need anything, send me a bill.

I will take on Cornell’s responsibilities.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

[handbrake]

[door closing]

[footsteps]

[inaudible dialogue]

You need to be careful.

He thinks you're using your leg as
an excuse to not work hard.

Please, I was sick!

I believe you, Pravesh.

[meow]

What was that?

Nothing.

[meow]

[meow]

You will get into trouble
with Tony for that.

He will fire you.

He won’t fire me if he thinks
he can get into my pants.

Is a kitten worth your job, hm?

[meow]

Is a kitten worth your job?

Sometimes you’re just
a sweet quiet old man.

Who reminds me a little too much
of my grandfather.

[meow]

But then you go and say
something like that...

and I wonder if it's just your leg
that’s a little bit twisted.

Tsk.

I saved her life,

so she's my responsibility.

[meow]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

Thank you.

[heartbeat pulsing]

[table sliding]

[glass breaking]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

[door opens]

[doors opening]

[door closes]

[door closes]

I’ve never seen...

Pravesh,

your fear frightened me.

I wouldn’t want to be left alone.

No.

If I woke up and found you in my home,

your unfamiliar presence...

it would terrify me.

[kiss]

You know how to reach me.

[SCORE: dramatic]

[water running]

[glass breaking]

Mother ♪♪♪

[lid opening]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

Do you know what I'm afraid of?

[cock crowing]

Being arrested?

[laughing]

No,

I’m ready for that.

Then

what?

Your mother.

[laughing]

Don't laugh, I'm serious, okay.

The way she looks at-I think she knows.

[cock crowing]

Mothers always know.

Is it because I’m black?

[kiss]

It’s because

you’re a woman

that my mother

did not choose.

[kiss]

I warned you not to visit the shop.

And if you could just control the way
you look at me, it wouldn’t matter.

I'm not good at hiding my feelings.

[kiss]

Well you’re gonna have to be,
if you're gonna be coming to the meetings.

Why?

Well they, they're raiding
them more regularly now.

They seem to think there are some Indians
that are informing the police.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

I would never betray you.

You know that.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

[kiss]

[sigh]

[SCORE: slow dark music]

I’m going to call the police.

If that's what you want.

I’m serious.

So am I.

If you call the police,
I'll stay right here.

I will tell them what you did

to me.

And I won’t deny it.

If they send me to court, I'll plead guilty

and go to jail if I have to.

[SCORE: slow dark music]

Is this

some kind of sick joke, hm?

You ruined me and my life

thirty years ago,

and now you’re back

to do it all over again, hm?

Why?

I’m not here to seek forgiveness.

I know I don’t deserve that.

Atonement,

amends...

I’ll do anything to try and

bring balance back to
the scales of justice that I

tipped so cruelly

against you.

All I want

is to never see your face,

or hear your voice ever again.

[thunder]

[cocking gun]

[thunder]

[breathing]

[SCORE: dramatic music]

I’m staying at the King’s Sea hotel.

I'll wait.

[SCORE: dramatic music]

[door opens]

[door closes]

[SCORE: dramatic music]

[car starts]

[SCORE: dramatic music]

Did you ever wonder what I was doing there

that night?

You were attending a meeting.

No,

I mean, in the street

when you found me?

I never thought about it

Well that’s funny.

Because you kept asking me “why
are you here?”, “why are you here?”.

You asked so many times I thought maybe
you wondered.

I don’t remember.

Well I remember.

I remember every detail.

You branded that night into me.

He can’t stay.

Indians are part of our struggle.

He has a right.

Too many of our meetings are being raided

Too many of our comrades are vanishing.

We're hearing Indian
informants are to blame.

I want to fight.

I wouldn’t betray you.
You can trust me. Please.

Our words are easy.

I can’t rely on words alone.

If you want to stay,

he must leave.

[footsteps]

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

[sigh]

I’m sorry.

Don’t be.

They’re right.

What have I done to prove myself?

You bring me to meetings, I come, I cheer,
I say the right things but...

you’re doing things.

Striking back.

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

I'll wait for you.

We’re going some place else.

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

If You wait here

it’ll look like you’re really spying on us.

[inaudible dialogue]

[SCORE: slow piano]

I’ll see you later?

[SCORE: slow piano]

Yeah.

[SCORE: slow piano]

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

[SCORE: slow piano]

Pravesh!

I love you.

I love you too

[SCORE: slow sad music]

[door opens]

Stop!

[door slams shut]

Don’t you fucking move!

Are you a thief?

No, Sir.

Then what the fuck are you doing
out on the streets?

Indians aren’t allowed in the Free State

after dark.

Sir...

[sigh]

My cousin and I were making deliveries.

I

Took a nap, and

[sigh]

it looks like maybe he

left me behind.

I’m very sorry, Officers.

Please,

if you let me go

I'll run straight home.

What do you think?

[sniffs]

Smells like bullshit to me

Uh!

[screaming]

Kak! You lying fuck!

[screaming]

No, Sir!
No!

[crying]

Rumor has it there’s an MK meeting
somewhere close by.

You didn’t happen to
come from there did you?

[screaming]

I can't hear you?

Where’s the meeting?

[crying]

[spits]

[heavy breathing]

You fucking spitting animal!

[screaming]

Get the rope.

[screaming]

Ah.

Where's my daughter?

Lwazi told me to leave early.

People thought I was-

They thought you were a spy.

I know you are.

How can you say that?

This...

this is a white hospital.

I had to sneak in as a cleaner.

Why are you being treated here?

I...

I was beaten by a policeman!

I thought I was going to die.

If a policeman wanted you dead, you'd have
been eaten by rats on the side of the road.

But you are here.

Alive.

And my daughter is missing.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

What can I do

to prove my innocence?

Nothing...

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

My daughter loved you.

And for that

I offer you this -

leave!

The town.

The province.

And don’t ever come back.

I spent the next few years living

as though I was looking at life through
the wrong end of a

of a telescope.

The bodies of Lwazi and the other
activists were never found.

Their families never got
to bury their loved ones.

Never got to properly say goodbye.

You tell me...

You tell me where those bodies are buried.

I don’t know.

Of course.

The bodies of our past
must always stay buried, hm?

It isn’t that.

I wasn’t there.

I was reassigned

by the time your friends were questioned.

Tortured.

I can take you there.

But the policy was never to dig graves

anywhere nearby.

So you can’t help me.

My former squad members

almost long retired by now.

Except Wouter, but

he wouldn’t know he was also
reassigned the same time as me.

And the rest of them...

They won’t want to talk.

I knew this

was a waste of time.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

Why did you come looking for me?

They attacked my home.

They murdered my wife

and my son.

[screaming]

Uh!

[gunshots]

Well...

At least you had a family.

They didn’t deserve what happened to them.

Just as you didn’t deserve
what happened to you.

How do I know you won’t

drive off,

and go and drink
brandy with your friends...

and when the guilt runs out,

you'll simply

give up and forget, huh?

You can come with me.

Witness everything.

If you feel that I’m
not trying hard enough,

not pushing my former colleagues
hard enough for answers then...

you can call the police on me.

Do whatever you want.

I can barely stand to look at you.

And you expect me to jump into a car
with you and drive off to god knows where?

No no no it's...

It's not what you think!

I swear to you,

on the love I have for my wife

and my son, and the honour of their memory.

I swear

I'll find your friends.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

[door closes]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

[footsteps]

All of this wealth

and still these people choose
to live inside a prison.

The lights are on...

[dog barking]

[dog barking]

[dog barking]

[dog barking]

[footsteps]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

[fridge door opens]

[click]

What are you doing?

I'm gathering evidence.

Of what?

Don’t know yet.

[blowing]

[paper tearing]

[sigh]

What do you think happened?

I don’t know.

I thought you'd be more concerned.

About your friend.

Jean not my friend.

But I am concerned.

When I worked at the police I learned
that when investigating a case,

more mysteries would

spring up.

They're always a distraction.

So I just

make notes of them and

stay focused on the

main case.

So that’s what I am

to you?

A case?

It was just a figure of speech...

I’m sorry if I offended you.

You offend me by breathing.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

Who lives here?

Viaan.

He was our captain.

Hm.

See how it pays to be evil.

[car doors open]

[knocking on door]

Suzy is that you?

Surely it’s not Wednesday yet!

[door opens]

Suzy?

Good evening.

Sorry to startle you...

We were looking for Viaan.

Oh Viaan.

Please come in!

[footsteps]

[door closes]

Now how do you know Viaan?

We're old friends.

Oh that’s wonderful.

None of his friends ever came to visit.

Even since he's been back.

Please sit.

[grandfather clock chimes]

You’re very quiet.

Sore throat.

Oh you should see a doctor,
it makes you sound like a coolie.

Is Viaan here?

I don’t think so.

I haven’t heard him since my afternoon nap.

Any idea when he'll be back?

Shouldn’t be long.

I should be attending to dinner.
You’re both staying I assume?

Of course.

Please feel free to explore.

Viaan’s very proud of this place.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

[opens book]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

Did you find anything?

No but

Every room I went into

had this feeling of... you know...

Not being lived in.

Exactly.

I found unopened letters on an office desk.

Lots of them.

I could be wrong, but I think the only place
Viaan exists here, is in his mother’s mind...

Steak is Viaan’s favourite.

I make it nearly every night for him.

Sometimes he eats fish or

chicken soup.

Just for variety.

Thank you.

It was delicious.

I’m sorry Viaan couldn’t join us.

It’s very rare for him not to sit with me.

You’re both just like him.

So quiet and polite.

[laughs]

Letting me do all the talking.

[laughs]

Well...

we'll do the dishes.

No you don’t have to.

Suzy comes in on Wednesday.

She does the cleaning

and buys the groceries.

Why doesn’t Viaan do the shopping?

Oh.

You really need lemon and ginger tea.
Your voice sounds awful.

So why doesn’t

Viaan do the shopping?

He doesn’t like the way people look at him

ever since he's come back.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

[pulling locked door]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

What are these symbols?

I saw a book on

ancient Egyptian religions upstairs.

[SCORE: dark music]

They're interesting.

And terrifying.

The older ones are different.

The figures are gathering.

Do you recognise these mountains?

[SCORE: dark music]

Uh.

That’s what happens to damaged limbs
in the cold.

Does it ever get better?

After all these years,

it still hurts

worse

in winter.

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

Ah.

Pravesh.

Pravesh!

What is it?

I was too tired last
night to think of it...

but I noticed this morning that the

pathway outside is

overgrown.

No one's been coming or going.

What does it mean?

We’ll find no answers here.

So where to next?

Christo is the closest...

[SCORE: guitar driven music]

Who hurt you?

I don’t know their names.

You should give them names.

I never knew your name and
for a long time the image of you was

like some nameless nightmare. Leeching
into everything in my life that had a name.

And then I gave you one,

and was able to take
back at least a part of me.

What did you name me?

Pishacha.

A demon.

[SCORE: dark music]

[knocking on gate]

[cell phone tone]

We wait.

How do you know somebody's at home?

Someone drove through dogshit.

Direction suggests

into the garage.

Not out of it.

Perhaps it's better if we knock again?

[dog barking]

[footsteps]

Excuse me?

Is someone there?

[dog barking]

Luzane?

Have we met?

Yes.

But you were probably
too young to remember.

I'm Dawid.

An old work friend of your father's.

Hide and seek!

My Dad got lost

up in one of your trees.

Yes! That’s right.

How is Christo?

Still lost.

[gate beeping]

Do you live here?

My mother did.

But she passed away.

I’m sorry.

Don’t be.

She was never really here.

I think she only lived to keep Dad company.

But when he disappeared...

She

faded away.

How long has he been gone?

About three years.

Or forever.

It’s hard to know these days.

[footsteps]

Do you remember anything unusual

around the time he disappeared?

No.

I’ve recounted those days

a thousand times over

to the police.

To friends.

To my ex-husband.

But the short version is it

could have been

any other week.

Except he never came home.

You know I've

I've thought about selling this place.

There's a chill that never really left.

But it’s the only thing I have left of Dad.

And what if he comes home

and there’s no one to find him?

Let me give you my number.

Just in case.

[SCORE: dramatic music]

What’s bothering you?

Where was Viaan?

Pardon?

His mother made it
sound like he’d been away.

He had.

He was in prison.

Why?

Thank you for your
testimony, Mister Viljoen.

I wish...

I wish I could take it all back.

I wish you could too, Mister Viljoen.

But you can still help.

How?

Give us the names

of your fellow squad members,

and reveal the location of the graves

where you buried our comrades

whom you murdered.

I’m afraid I can’t do that.

Mister Viljoen,

the TRC exists

so that the crimes of the past

can be confessed.

It is a sacred place

where forgiveness can be found.

Even a man like you,

who did what you did,

can still get a degree of amnesty.

But

there are conditions.

You give us those names.

And the location

of the graves.

Or else

you

will go to jail.

I can’t reveal any names.

But why not Mister Viljoen?

Because it is not my place.

Those men, my colleagues they

they didn’t choose to sit here with me.

So I won't force this on them,

as we forced so much on others.

Then

for the sake of your victims’ families,

won’t you

reveal the whereabouts

of the graves?

The bodies can be used

to trace my colleagues
and their involvement.

We weren’t too careful about evidence
because we didn’t think it mattered.

Viaan never gave us up.

Or the location of any of the graves.

They found some...

How long was he in prison?

I thought he still was.

At least twenty years.

Maybe more.

You should have joined him.

I know.

[phone ringing]

Go away.

Let me in, Gert.

Look into the camera.

Dawid.

What’s a poes like you
doing on my doorstep?

I’m not going to explain out here.

What does this Gert
have against crocodiles?

Nothing.

He loves them.

So why kill them by the hundred?

It was his code-name.

"Krokodil".

We all had one in C-1.

Jean was "Skerpion", Christo was "Slang".

What was yours?

"Jakkals".

Makes sense.

Eater of the dead.

[door opens]

[door opens]

You...

come inside.

He stays.

I’m not trying to get anyone into trouble.

Give me the location and I’ll swear blind
it was me who buried them there.

Their families deserve-

Did they rape your wife?

Did the men who attacked your farm...

Did they rape your wife?

No.

I reckon they thought she was dead already.

Doesn’t always stop them.

Why would you ask me that?

I’m trying to figure out
why you are so stupid.

Digging up those graves will get you
shut in prison and me too.

I would never mention your name.

[laughing]

You

are weak.

You've always been weak.

Viaan had his weaknesses yes but...

after the squad explained to him that we are
the ones that will look after his mother...

he strengthed up

and took our secrets with
him all the way to prison.

[SCORE: dramatic music]

Look at this.

What is that?

Don’t lie to me.

I haven’t had to make another man
scream in decades...

but I still know how to spot a lie
on someone’s face.

This is the inside of Viaan’s mind.

He’s disappeared.

Jean too.

And I can’t find any trace of Warren.

And you sit here surrounded by
eyes looking out into the world.

What are you so afraid of?

Someone is coming after us.

Picking us off one by one.

Who?

We didn't care about their names, did we?

One of them.

One of the few we didn’t kill.

A family member bent on revenge.

Hunting us.

The ones that are left.

Just give me the location.

Maybe finding those bodies
will put an end to all of this.

There's only one end to this.

And that is in death.

Go.

[loads gun]

And don’t come back

[SCORE: dark music]

[door opens]

What?

Don’t you dare keep secrets from me, hm?

Did he tell you where
the bodies are buried?

At least he knows where they are, right?

I tried.

Why is that people feel they can absolve
themselves by using two simple words?

Either “I tried”

or “I’m sorry.”

I really did try.

Adding two more words does not
make it any better.

Tsk.

So that’s it then?
We’re done here?

There’s still Francois...

Oh! The one with dementia?

Ha.

Well maybe in a situation as crazy as this,

the mad are the only ones
who have the answers.

[door opens]

[door closes]

[car engine]

[SCORE: dramatic music]

[footsteps]

At best he has small
moments of lucidity but

mostly

well,

you’ll see for yourselves.

[footsteps]

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: birds chirping]

The weavers shouldn’t be here.
It was winter yesterday. Not spring.

Francois...

Do you remember me?

Familiar...

Do you live here?

No.

[exhale]

[exhale]

We knew each other

when we were young men.

I’m Dawid.

This house is full of ghosts.
They visit me.

One moment they're sitting there
on the windowsill. The next minute...

gone.

[SCORE: dramatic music]

Do ghosts age?

I thought time stopped when you were dead.

I’m not a ghost.

Oh...

They all say that.

The spectres of the day say it the most.
The ones in the night they-

they stare at me.

Covered in mud made from sand and blood.
Eyes filled with

worms,

maggots crawling out of their mouths and

I can’t give them what they want!

What do they want?

They want to go home.

[exhale]

Where do the

ghosts live

during the day?
Where do they sleep?

Dawid? Is that you?

When did you get so old?

[laughs]

Am I...

Have I been uhm...

It's a... disguise.

For tonight’s raid at the factory?

The factory?

What's this coolie doing here?

Is this the informant?

There was an informant?

Pravesh.

Not now.

What’s more important?

Finding them.

Yes,

the raid

tonight.

Where must we take the suspects?

The farm of course.

Of course.

And afterwards?

[SCORE: dark music]

Who was the informant?

Who was the informant?

Who was the informant?

Get out of my room!

Gosh!

[SCORE: dark music]

Ah.

Do you know where we’re going?

If we keep driving we
can be there before dawn.

Well I’m not tired.

[bakkie driving off]

[SCORE: dramatic music]

Hey! Hey! Hey!

Wake up.

Thank you.

[sigh]

It isn’t fair.

What isn’t fair?

You mentioned you had a farm.

Jean

Christo and Viaan are all well off.

Even Francois lives is in a
very expensive frail care.

I inherited the farm.

And what about the others?

Viaan came from a good background and
the others were just normal guys.

Where did they get all their money, hm?

What? You think it’s connected
to the disappearances?

They all had something in common.

They were all there that night,

and now they are all well off.

Just saying.

[water spashing]

[door opens]

[car starts]

[SCORE: dramatic music]

[chains clanking]

[SCORE: dramatic music]

[waterfall rippling]

[footsteps]

[SCORE: dramatic music]

Uh.

Uh.

[watter dripping]

[coughs]

[sniffs]

[watter dripping]

Look familiar?

Ah.

Where’d you get this rope?

It’s lasting a lot longer
than the last one.

[screaming]

My cousin.

He opened up a farm supply store.

[screaming]

What's wrong?

Is it Martha?

[screaming]

Man, the closer the day gets,
the more nervous I get.

[screaming]

I wake up in the middle of the night,

and I just lay my hand on Martha’s belly.

Feeling our child dream.

And I wonder...

[screaming]

what kind of Dad will I be?

What kind of country
will my child be born into?

[screaming]

[SCORE: dramatic music]

[cell phone keypad]

They were here.

Where are they

now?

Four of my former squad
members are missing.

And the bodies aren't
where they’re supposed to be.

Gert believe’s we’re being hunted.

I think he’s right.

Whoever's taken the
bodies has taken the guys.

But

why?

You’re asking me?

We’re in this together,

I can’t think of everything.

Revenge.

Taking the guys fits,

but moving the bodies...?

What?

Might be nothing.

[SCORE: dramatic music]

[gunshots]

[gunshots]

[gunshots]

[honking]

[gunshots]

[gunshots]

Pull over!

[honking]

[honking]

[loads gun]

[three knocks]

[door opens]

[door opens]

[SCORE: tense music]

[door opens]

[SCORE: tense music]

[door closes]

[SCORE: tense music]

Why?

I wondered if you’d recognise me.

You can put down your hands.

Let’s talk.

[footsteps]

[bottle opening]

[click]

You’ve done well for yourself.

Anybody can make

money if they can keep
a level head in chaos.

There was a lot of chaos in ‘94.

I thought you disappeared.

I had.

I left C-1 in 1991.

The writing was on the wall.

It took time, but I got a new identity.

A clean start in a new country.

So

You paid off everyone to
keep your identity quiet, huh?

I

Couldn’t risk losing what I had because

people suddenly developed
a guilty conscience.

Everyone was happy with being paid.

Except Viaan.

Viaan wouldn’t take money for himself.

But he

promised to keep my name out of everything if
I made sure that his mother was looked after.

So...

why you never paid off Dawid?

Well I knew that he never
had the balls to testify.

To put his life and family on the line.

It's the same reason
Wouter never got paid either.

I bet you two were shitting bricks
when Viaan testified.

Waiting to hear whether he would crack and

spill your names.

The real question

is why, after all these years,

you try dig up the past?

I want the bodies of my friends
returned to their families.

The cave's empty.

So they aren't there?

How long has this been going on?

Christo has been gone
almost three years now.

It's hard to tell with Viaan and Jean.

I thought you would have known.

All I cared about was
that they were silent.

Well,

you certainly got your money's worth.

I think I know who
might be behind all this.

Who?

The less you know the better.

[footsteps]

[door opens]

[window slides open]

Oh and uh...

the two of you are gonna stop searching

today.

We can't do that.

You always were a stubborn shit.

It's gonna take me at least a day
to find who I'm looking for.

The pair of you have that
long to decide how much

quitting this search is worth.

And

don't say there isn't a price.

'Cause one way or another
I'll make sure that you

don't disturb the past

any further.

[door closes]

[car engine]

[puts glass on table]

How many more of those are you going to
need before you come to an answer, huh?

I already know the answer.

You’re never gonna give up,

and I vowed to keep searching with you.

So Warren's gonna come after us and

we'll

disappear too.

What?

Warren and Gert

both called you weak.

And yet

here you are,

prepared to die...

I could see the disgust in their eyes
when they looked at you. Why?

So what was it like,
seeing your son being born?

It was...

kind of disgusting at first.

But then the most amazing
thing I’ve ever seen.

They hand you this

bloody

[baby crying]

little screaming lump...

and the moment it’s in your hands...

I promise you, Wouter.

You don’t know what love really is...

Well...

I might know sooner than you think.

Is Elzabet-

It’s-

it's too early to tell, but

we’re hopeful.

So what are you gonna name your son?

Cornell...

Hey,

check this cheeky fucker out.

[SCORE: tense music]

No no no!

[screaming]

[out of breath]

[baby crying]

He’s beautiful.

[baby crying softly]

He’s lucky to have you as a father.

In my time in C-1 I
killed thirty four people.

At first I believed what I was doing was

the only way to save
the country that I loved.

Then I had doubts.

Those doubts grew as my

son grew inside my wife's belly...

I couldn’t take a man’s last breath

the same night my son breathed his first.

My son didn’t even know his own name yet,

but he saved your life that night.

[SCORE: tense music]

What kind of a fucking idea is that?

We’re supposed to take him
back to the Farm.

[cocks gun]

[SCORE: tense music]

What?

You're gonna shoot me now?

Over this traitor?

You’re the brother I never had.

But not this life.

Not this night.

[SCORE: tense music]

He needs a doctor!

Wouter!

I can’t treat him here.

He’s a police informant.

I’m ordering you to treat him.

Look, you don’t order me-

You know who I am?

You know who I work for?

Alright.

Take him through to the emergency room.

[SCORE: tense music]

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

[footsteps]

He’s been stabilized.

But in a critical condition.

Be honest with me.

Is he really one of your informants?

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

Did you do this?

[SCORE: tense music]

[footsteps]

[SCORE: tense music]

[exhale]

Wanna see my son?

Yes.

[inhale]

[exhale]

[SCORE: tense music]

By week's end

we’d resign from C-1.

Our former friends cut us off.

They saw us both as

too weak

for the necessary work’.

Why you never told me this?

I didn’t want you to feel,
in some cruel way, that

you owed me anything for

saving your life.

No.

You didn’t save my life.

You spared it.

There is a big difference.

The real kindness

would have been to let me die.

[SCORE: sombre music]

I had an idea on how we
could force Warren to help us.

I wrote down everything that
has happened to us so far.

All the details that I could remember.

Now all we have to do

is post this letter to
someone who’ll open it

if something should happen to us.

I was thinking Alice.

Yeah, I work with her,

and she'll do the right thing.

Why are you up?

I uh...

had the same idea.

Just with

one alteration...

Oh.

Okay, I think your idea is better.

Now all we have to do is

find Warren...

Excuse me.

Gentlemen, how may I be of assistance?

Yeah, could you please tell us where
we might find the most exclusive

private accommodation in the area?

[SCORE: dramatic music]

[gate slides open]

[car engine]

[handbrake]

[unbuckle]

[door opens]

[SCORE: tense music]

[dogs howling/barking]

[SCORE: tense music]

[talking over walkie talkie]

[SCORE: tense music]

[water stream]

[bakkie speeding by]

Thanks.

So...

Why did they take Warren?

I mean, they killed his bodyguards,
why they didn't kill him?

“They”?

What? You think one person
could do all that?

With the right training and will power...

one person can be more effective
than a whole squad.

Ah.

The only reason someone
would kidnap Warren,

is killing him would be

too quick.

[SCORE: dark music]

[wipers]

[dog barking]

[car idling]

I told you not to come back.

Warren’s been taken.

[bakkie pulling away]

[seat belt unclips]

[door opens]

[door closes]

[door closes]

Come inside.

He stays.

He goes with me.

Gert, don’t be an asshole.

Let him inside the house.

He watches the front door

and shoots everything that moves,

or he gets the fuck off my property.

I’m not waiting to be taken.

We can spend the night here, but tomorrow
we’re gonna go look for that fucker.

Maybe we could come along,

an extra set of eyes is

always useful.

You could be useful. But that currymuncher
will crack after the first shot.

Besides...

it's revealing a secret
location to traitors.

For fuck’s sake, Gert.

After all this time you can’t
still think of me as a traitor?

Anyone who lets his country
slip into black hands is a traitor.

Get loading.

[loads gun]

[dog barking]

[dog barking]

[laughs]

Look’s like your pet is leaving.

[SCORE: tense music]

Do you really have no regrets?

Just one.

C-1 shouldn’t have been a secret.

It should have been the way of life.

I regret that, because of people like you,

we couldn’t finish what we started.

[music swells]

Point it outside.

How do I know

that when they come,

you're not gonna stab me in the back?

[SCORE: tense music]

Why would I do that?

They are hunting me

because of the past.

My beliefs.

A past

you regret,

and beliefs you don’t share.

An enemy of my enemy.

Your paranoia has reached new levels.

When you betray your country, you

end up in the earth,

turning into worm shit.

[gunshot]

[gunshots]

[gunshots]

[gunshots]
[glass breaking]

Ah.

[reloads]

[gunshots]

[glass breaking]

[reloads gun]

[gunshots]

[gunshots]

Flip!

[moaning]

Ah.

Uh.

[picks gun up]

[out of breath]

Dawid.

Dawid.

Hey!

Dawid.

Wake up!

Wake up.

Come.

Ah.

Ah.

Uh.

[out of breath]

[purges]

[coughs]

I was aware.

I never saw them coming.

Uh.

Why did they leave you?

I don’t know.

I was part of the squad.
They should have taken me.

They should have taken Wouter too.

[water running]

Pardon?

Your friend
Wouter.

He's safe?

Yes.

So

The only three people they haven’t taken

is you,

Francois

and Wouter.

Well Wouter and I are only two that didn’t

torture and kill your colleagues...
So they wouldn’t know about us.

[water running]

What?
Do you think it was one of your friends.

Maybe the one who was the informant?

Then why didn’t they take Francois?

Because

he can’t remember.

But how would they know that...?

He took forever to calm
down after your last visit.

Why should I let him see you again?

Please
believe me.

We don’t wish to cause him any harm.

But this

is a matter of life and death.

[footsteps]

Who are you?

I know about your ghosts.

You see them too?

[SCORE: tense music]

I need to know which
ones have been visiting you.

Ah.

They all do.

[SCORE: dramatic music]

Except him.

I never see him.

Who do you see more often?

She screamed so loudly.

Where do you see her?

She screams at me when I sleep.

Dawid...

Dawid!

Ask him who sits on the windowsill?

Francois...

Francois!

Who sits on the windowsill?

[SCORE: sombre music]

An older man.

Who is he?

I don’t know.

Why do you call him a ghost?

[cries]

Because he’s so pale.

So quiet.

[SCORE: sombre, mysterious music]

Were any of your group white?

No.

Well then he’s C-1.

There’s only one member of C-1 left.

Can’t be.

Everyone else

is gone.

There's only Francois,

you

and-

Wouter.

[hits cupboard]

Ah.

[door opens]

Do you still have Gert’s gun?

Good.

[birds chirping]

[bakkie pulling up]

[SCORE: tense music]

[door closes]

[loads gun]

[SCORE: tense music]

How’re we supposed to get inside?

We keep a spare for each other.

[unlocks door]

[door opens]

[door squeaks]

[SCORE: tense music]

No!

No! No! No! No!

Basement.

Stay here.

Cover me.

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

[opens door]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]

No!

[footsteps]

Ah.

[floor squeaks]

Ah!

[hit]

Ah!

Ah!

[music swells]

Tell me why!

Uh!

Uh!

Wouter?

Dawid!

[SCORE: dramatic music]

It's them.

Who are they?

These are the scum that

murdered Martha and Cornell.

Why are they here?

I found them.

Yes but

why are they here?

[crying]

They murdered the people we loved.

[SCORE: sombre music]

[crying]

[SCORE: sombre music]

[laughs]

[crying]

[crying]

[SCORE: sombre music]

This isn’t right.

I saved them for you.

[crying]

We’re not those people anymore, Wouter.

We were though.

We can be today.

Eye for an eye.

Yes.

The courts will never be enough justice.

And the prison...

Prison will be the best life these
animals ever had.

Let them go.

Dawid? What the fuck?

You can’t arrest them.

Not now.

[footsteps]

They’ve seen my face.

Who would they dare complain to?

They could come after me.

You’ll be ready.

This

has to stop now.

They beat us up,

left us to die.

Do the same for them.

Hey...

[SCORE: sombre music]

How do you know I won’t kill them?

I’ll see it in your eyes.

[SCORE: sombre music]

[door opens]

[SCORE: sombre music]

[cash register opens and closes]

Hey!
Dawid!

[door opens]

I’m sorry, I’m-

Do you remember you said that uh...

the members of your squad
they all had codenames.

What were they?

Uhm...

Mine was

"Jakkals",

Gert was "Krokodil",

Jean was "Skerpion" and uhm,

Christo was "Slang"-

Why?

Look.

Jackal,

crocodile,

scorpion-

After a while the scorpion disappears.

And then the snake.

Francois’s codename

was Lion, right?

"Leeu."

Yes,

but how do you know that?

Look.

[SCORE: soft tense music]

It’s Viaan.

This...

this is a list of all the
symbols in the paintings.

If you eliminate the familiar one by one

Then what's left is where he's taken them.

There's only three left.

Heart. Feather.

Ibis. What’s an Ibis?

A bird.

Black and white,

long neck, long beak.

Just like one hadeda.

I know how to find him.

[door closes]

[bakkie pulling away]

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

[bakkie pulling up]

[SCORE: dark music]

[fire crackling]

[draws sword]

[bang]

[SCORE: tense music]

Do you see?

Huh?

His confession brought him

an honorable death.

Maybe you'll confess tomorrow.

Huh?

Viaan!

Stop.

Dawid...

It’s good to see you.

Let Warren go.

He must confess.

Drop the machete.

[laughs]

I don’t think so.

[gunshot]

[screams]

[moaning]

Don't move.

[gunshot]
[screaming]

Where are the bodies, huh?

Where are the bodies?
Pravesh!

Get back!

Ah.

[out of breath]

Answer him.

Let me give Warren peace.

[SCORE: tense music]

How can you call this peace?

Well I - I - I-
I thought I would find peace

when I confessed to the TRC but.

I was wrong.

[screaming]

[crying]

The doctors did what they could.

But the-

the nightmares wouldn’t end...

And then five years ago,
during a medical check up,

my nightmares just

[coughing]

came back.

[coughs]

I was given a year to live,
they released me from prison.

Jean told me about Warren

paying everyone to keep quiet.

[laughs]

He said that

he wanted to make things right.

Give me 'my fair share'.

I showed him what I thought was fair.

The ancient Egyptians

they believed

that after we've died, our hearts
would be weighed against a feather.

If the scales balanced,

or the feather was heavier...

we'd move into the afterlife.

But if our hearts were heavier.

Weighed down by sins.

Our souls would be consumed by nothingness.

Ah.

After I buried Jean

I went to visit the doctor again
and my cancer had slowed.

And it was perfectly clear.

I was being given time
to balance the scales.

Christo was the first to die here.
Warren disappeared and

Gert hid in his fortress.
Oh yes and I must thank both of you

for drawing them out.

Why didn’t you target
Francois, Wouter or me?

Francois and Wouter both paid.

Francois with his mind,
Wouter with his unborn children.

And you were next...

until the scales were balanced.

Enough!

I don’t care

why you did what you did.

All I want to know is,

where are my friends?

The answer is a bullet away.

[SCORE: tense music]

I can’t take a life.

Ha.

Well, no death,

no answers.

I swear it.

And you know I won’t buckle
under any torture. So don’t even try.

[SCORE: tense music]

He really won’t just give you the answers.

If you want to know where your friends are,

we’re gonna have to kill Warren.

You won’t have to do it.

His blood will be on my hands.

Mine too...

No.

I know how close we are.

But that

is not the kind of justice we want.

You can not excuse the deeds of today

by blaming the past.

We live in the here and the now.

Are you sure?

[SCORE: tense music]

Roll over!

Roll

over!

Put your hands behind your back.

[SCORE: tense music]

[music swells]

Ah.

Ah.

Ah.

I’m sorry.

You’d paid enough.

But I must-

Haaaa!

[screams]

[SCORE: soft dark music]

[cock crowing]

The people that we killed were criminals,

enemies of the state.

We were a state that needed enemies.

Deserved them.

Don’t be all holier than thou.

You saved my life tonight,
and I’m grateful for that but you're as

covered in blood as what I am.

What makes you any different from me?

I chose to stop.

I chose to walk away, make amends.

What did you do,

besides

cower behind your wealth?

I...

saved someone.

One of the activists.

A young

black girl.

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: walkie talkie]

I took her deep into the bush.

I was going to rape her,

strangle her

and bury her.

She took off her clothes...

she was pregnant.

She deserved every inch of suffering
we inflicted upon her but I...

I couldn’t harm a baby.

The child had done nothing.

So I...

I hid her.

I arranged for her to leave the province.

I gave her money for a new life

for the child.

What was her name?

Lwazi.

That's who I was looking for.
I thought maybe that she

might be behind all of this...

[sombre music]

Do you recognize these mountains?

[sombre music]

[footsteps]

I imagined

I would feel something in the air.

Some form of horror or peace.

But if it wasn’t for these two graves here,

I would feel absolutely nothing.

But admiration

for the beauty of nature.

Maybe this is where peace lies,

in knowing that

given time

our actions would mean absolutely nothing.

I wonder where Lwazi sleeps.

Lwazi's alive.

[SCORE: sombre music]

Is this your cruelest torture?

I can take you to her.

[SCORE: sombre music]

Do you need a moment?

[vehicle idling]

I've always dreamed

of being a father.

Of teaching my son, or my daughter,

how to play cricket.

And to raise them to be good

and kind...

But then I learned that kindness

is simply food for the wicked.

[rain]

There's still time.

And hasn’t everything that has happened

given you hope that some good
can still come from all of this?

Why did Lwazi never try to find me?

Why would Lwazi even accept the money?

I mean,

why has she kept quiet

after all those years?

Why, when apartheid fell,

she never came forward and told the truth?

Hm?

Maybe she was scared of Warren?

No rich white man

could frighten the Lwazi I knew.

Perhaps she was ashamed of the

path that she took.

And the secrets she kept.

Afraid of what they would do to
her family if they ever came out.

I was her family too.

She must have known I was still alive,

but she never tried to find me.

Okay.

[unbuckles]

Maybe it's better

you stay here.

[door opens]

[door closes]

[rain]

[knocks on door]

[door opens]

Yes?

It’s me, Lwazi.

It’s Pravesh.

[rain]

Oh.

[rain]

Oh...

Ah...

[rain]

[door closes]

Oh...

[cleans throat]

No one has called me “Lwazi” for years.

[teacups clinking]

I

Almost forgot it...

What do you use now?

Thandi.

You don’t look like a Thandi.

Everyone tells me that.

Even my-

[cup clinks]

What’s his name?

Javin.

[cup clinks]

[thunder roaring]

You have a grandchild...

We

Have a grandchild.

You were afraid.

When you heard my name.

You were afraid before you were happy.

No

I wasn't.

We’re old now and

just for a moment there I had to
remember who you are.

I want to believe you.

I want to get rid of this-

this crushing burden that has been on my
shoulders and in my heart for most of my life.

I just want to be rid of it all and-

and lie in your arms

once more.

[SCORE: soft piano]

You were the informant.

Their deaths

is on your hands.

I believe

that the names of those people

are seared deeply into your soul.

And every night

you pray

that the ghosts of your comrades,

don't come and find you.

Here.

Write them down.

[SCORE: sombre music]

Pravesh,

I am so-

Don't.

Don't.

[SCORE: sombre music]

I won’t mention your name.

Not for you.

But because

that is the only gift I can give my son.

His family

does not deserve to share your treachery.

[thunder]

[thunder roaring]

[SCORE: sombre music]

I love you.

[fire crackling]

[SCORE: sombre music]

I love you too.

[SCORE: sombre music]

[door closes]

I’m sorry about Lwazi.

It isn’t fair.

After everything that
you've been through...

you deserve more.

[BACKGROUND SOUNDS: crickets]

All I asked for was the truth.

And you gave me that.

So what will you do now?

Well, first

I will inform the families of where they
can find the bodies of their loved ones.

And then maybe I'll uh...

maybe I’ll ask Alice out

for dinner.

Or maybe I won’t.

But either way...

I won’t be looking over
my shoulder anymore.

[SCORE: sombre music]

[turns bottle lid]

[SCORE: sombre music]

[bakkie pulling up]

[children talking/playing]

[children talking/playing]

I resigned from the police.

You should have retired years ago.

[children talking/playing]

So...

You’re almost done.

There’s always more to do.

[children talking/playing]

[brush strokes]

[SCORE: sombre music]

She’s beautiful.

[baby crying]

I named her Martha.

[SCORE: slow piano]

[baby crying]

[baby crying]

[SCORE: slow dramatic music]