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We must inform... Massasoit.

They desecrated our graves

and stole our corn.

What should I do?

Attack them this night.

Trap them on that beach.

Burn their small boat,

slaughter them.

Then the others will leave.

They have women and children. If they don't leave?

We've started a war.

More may come for revenge.

What would you advise?

Attack them now.

While we can.

Drive them away before other ships come with more settlers.

Discourage them.

Send them elsewhere.

Wematin!

Wematin?

Wematin! Why are you here? It has been only five days.

Your time with the land is not yet complete.

Yes, father. But I saw something.

Learn to confront your fear, boy.

This is your time to strengthen.

Let him speak, Hobbamock.

There are many. The white men from the ocean.

I marked them as they moved.

Women, children and beasts.

They come to stay.

Misery and pain follows them.

We must drive them into the sea.

Perhaps they come to dwell. Not to fight.

Perhaps they come to do both.

Canonicus of Narragansett,

we are honored that you traveled so far to join this gathering.

Canacum of Manomet,

Aspinet of Nauset,

Wituwamut of the Massachusett.

Let us discuss the strangers in our midst.

In your midst.

We should all share concern.

They very day they arrived, they raided our corn stores.

It is possible they were hungry.

They are thieves.

When the English came, my people suffered greatly.

Many were taken and enslaved.

They don't just take.

They bring angry gods,

gods who spread sickness among our people.

It's no mystery that the sickness preys upon the weak.

Now, your diminished numbers have left you weaker still.

Especially you, Massasoit.

Perhaps, but resolved and defiant.

Defiant? Alone? Surely you need protection.

Is that not why you've invited me here today?

I would protect you all against the English.

In return, the Narragansett will require

allegiance from all of you.

You mean tribute.

We already do.

Now you may pay more.

We trade in food, we trade in tools.

Today, we trade in protection.

I offer assurances that if the English wage war on any of your tribes,

the Narragansett will come to your aid.

There will be no additional tribute.

The other Sachems are concerned.

We haven't the numbers to risk going it alone.

He wants us to cower before him.

He seeks power over us, not the English.

Yet now we have no ally!

The English are too hungry to attack now.

We wait for winter to thin them out. Then we can act accordingly.

What if they bring sickness to us first?

You saw how it ravaged Patuxet. Everyone gone.

Not all gone.

No... No, Massasoit...

Squanto is in our midst. He speaks their language and understands their ways.

He speaks their language and understands their ways.

I caution this. Squanto is a lifelong slave

to the white man. He is not to be trusted.

It is my decision!

Why do you sneak about?

I've no need to sneak.

Berries don't startle easily.

You lost my kill.

That rabbit?

Tell me, boy, why train your arrow on such a hard target...

...when there lies an easy one

at your feet?

Steady and true...

Wematin!

Go.

Massasoit would see you, Squanto.

You've lived here for months, Squanto.

Our people--

Your people.

Is it true, Squanto, your land is Patuxet,

but now we have

a common stranger.

Will they attack?

Englishmen need not attack your people to hurt them.

The sickness.

So we must strike hard and fast.

Even an unkillable warrior as yourself,

Hobbamock, must yield to their plague.

They have it in large barrels.

Hidden within their homes.

Then they do not come in peace.

They come to live, Massasoit.

To build a new England.

They bring their weapon as we bring our bows wherever we may go.

In your years across the ocean, did you not learn their ways?

What do they want?

I could speak to them, and know their purpose.

Would you tell it true?

As it is spoken.

What is spoken and what is heard are often not the same.

I would interpret their motives.

And who, Squanto, will interpret yours?

No, we will wait.

The English? No.

Canonicus!! It need not come to this.

This is the outcome you chose.

We live in peace, Canonicus.

For what reason do we have war now?

If this were war, you should not be standing.

This is tribute. Tribute which I am rightly owed.

We already pay you tribute.

We don't want protection, nor will we fear you.

Look around.

You already fear me.

And the English will too.

You will need me.

I'd rather die fighting against the English.

It sounds like you'll get your wish.

I should have foreseen this.

It is telling.

How they feared the sounds.

What are you thinking then?

We could consider another path.

No. Don't ally to the English.

The great noises we heard may not have been for us.

It is worth some discussion.

Only Squanto speaks their tongue. He cannot be trusted.

What of the people of Monhegan?

The English fish there.

Samoset calls some friends.

Then let me fetch him that he may be our emissary.

Go.

Their dwellings are large, yet simple.

They fed me. Yet the people look hungry and sickly.

Did you mark many warriors?

Few, but their warriors had muskets.

Do they come in peace?

They smiled at me as friends.

But there are hostiles among them.

Some with angry eyes.

If Massasoit would attack, the time is now.

The weather is warming.

We strike in two days.

Will you not fight?

Attacking the English will solve nothing.

Do not provoke them.

We can not wait.

They are hungry, Massasoit.

We could teach them to firm.

Give them strength that we might harness it against the Narragansett.

I can not risk the extinction of my people.

I truly know the plague.

It haunts me always.

Yet I have no fear of helping them.

You do not fear the plague?

That killed my people? That killed your people?

Then it is you who shall lead the charge and give the signal.

They welcome you on behalf of their king.

How do they welcome us to a place that is already our own?

A gift of knives representing strength and trust.

Why amid the ceremony do they have weapons?

We shed ours yet they hold theirs tightly

in one hand and extend the other.

They fear you, Massasoit.

Too much to put their weapons aside.

They would arrange an agreement with you. A promise.

This is an arrangement not only with the English...

but with you.

You've done well, Squanto.

We may have peace with the English after all.

Stay with them in their Plymouth.

Show them how to live and strengthen our alliance.

I believe this is wise, Massasoit.

It shall be done.

Squanto will watch the English.

And who will watch him?

You, Hobbamock.