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CRICKETS CHIRP

BIRDS TWEET

GOAT BLEATS, CHICKEN CLUCKS

Come now, Beres.

Sissy...

Wha' happen to him?

Some boys down the lane...

..beat him up and take him snow cone...

What is dem name?

Curtis and him friend them.

Curtis?

Hector bad breed, jacket son. Curtis.

THUNDER RUMBLES

RAIN PATTERS ON ROOF

Hector!

Wha' yuh want, Everald?

Yuh son put him hand 'pon mine.

And tief from 'im too.

That... Just mek sure... you discipline him.

Before me haffi discipline you.

You hear dat?

By disrespecting you...

..Beres...

..dat bwoy disrespected your name.

Therefore...

..'im disrespect me.

A man is just 'im name, son.

And without pride inna dat, 'im have nutten.

No future. No legacy.

You understand?

Don't come home with cuts and bruises.

Yuh fi mek people fear you.

Don't shame me out here.

You are my son.

One.

The Champion.

Start acting like one.

PLANE TANNOY PINGS

Ladies and gentlemen, we will shortly be arriving at

Norman Manley International Airport.

I want to thank you all for flying with us today.

If you are here on holiday, I'd like to take this opportunity to

wish you a fantastic trip, and to all our returnees...

..welcome home.

REGGAE-STYLE MUSIC PLAYS

PEOPLE CHATTER EXCITEDLY Hurry up!

Ma'as Beres. Mm.

Every night a big crowd pay them respects to Ma'as Everald enuh?

Papa did popula, man. Yes, man.

Champion name still big 'bout yah.

Champion name still powerful. A dat mi ah seh.

SALSA-STYLE MUSIC PLAYS

VAN HORN HOOTS

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

How unnuh so deady-deady?

CROWD EXCLAIM Welcome, welcome!

LAUGHTER

How gwarn?

Mi deh yah, man.

Yo! Miles. Ah wah yuh a seh?

A my dawta dis enuh, Vita Champion.

Yeah, man!

So a mi foreign family, this?! Uncle Junior!

Good fi see ya, Vita.

Easy!

All right!

Where Bosco then?

All right, Junior.

Whappen, man, how yuh stay?

Good? Yeah, man.

Bosco busy with the music ting.

You know, big tings a gwarn, isn't it?

Yo, Junior, before me forget, mi want to see Papa will.

Yeah, man.

I'll call the lawyer for you.

Yo, band man, rock some music now!

MUSIC STARTS UP

Beres, Beres, Beres! Oh, Auntie Sissy, my God!

How mi figet you?! Wha gwan?

How de hip?

Don't worry about my hip!

Me still ah stand.

And where is young Bosco?

The police dem not let him fly.

Aria.

Suh dem couldn't make him come just fah him granfadda funeral?

No, man. Young girl... you 'member me?

You see, when you was little,

I used to pick out di macka outta yuh foot bottom

when you hide it deh ina yuh knee.

She remembers you, Auntie, she's just tired.

We all are.

So I can see.

Junior! Junior!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Auntie.

Show Vita to her room, please. Yo, Chalky!

Yo!

When yuh dun, go down the Mongoose Bar there

and get ten crate a' Red Stripes, seen?

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

See your room here.

All right.

Mi soon far, yuh hear.

PHONE RINGS

PHONE CONTINUES RINGING

REGGAE MUSIC PLAYS

Why pree, mi English family?

Why are you up so early?

Mi used to it by now.

Used to haffi wake up early for cook Papa breakfast before he wake up.

So why are you still doing it?

Wha 'bout you?

Still running on British time.

Really hard food make you strong like a bull for breakfast, innit.

Smells good.

Bosco would have loved all of this, man. For real.

Would a nice if him there, man.

Mek mi ask yuh sumpn.

Yuh know seh a Jamaica yuh deh.

So what mek you look so miserable?

I don't know, life?

Music?

Everything's confusing right now.

Everything in life is hard the first time, look.

You ever cut breadfruit before?

No. Well, today you a guh learn.

Hold dis, English.

Right. Make sure you get it right, not make a mess.

Yeah, man, ya do it, man. It's getting stuck.

THEY CHAT JOVIALLY

You wah mi squeeze yuh? Listen!

Jus tie me shoes dem nuh, man.

Grand risin', Empress! What happen, you sleep good?

Where are you guys going?

We have a funeral to plan, you know.

I got to sort out the headstone.

Funeral programmes.

Go see some family and friends cross di bush deh.

The both of you?

Yeah. Problem?

Mum, I was hoping that we could...

..talk.

Suh whappen yuh cyaa talk lata? You ready?

Yeah. Then come now.

Mum? Later.

Yes! PHONE BUZZES

Oi, Miss!

Come and help me prepare the food, mek yourself useful.

It's not a hotel.

Come, come and help me, nuh.

Put them young hands to work. All right.

Have you got an apron that I can use?

Apron?! SHE LAUGHS

Auntie... Hmm?

..when you first met my mum...

..what was she like?

Hmm!

She looked just like you do now.

Same face, same smile.

Your father some of that fufu gal,

not once did he tell me a name.

So I was shock...

..when him brought your mother round 'ere.

But when I talk to her...

..I could see why him loved her.

She was just like his mother, God rest her soul.

Grandma Paulette. Mm-hm.

Fiery, strong.

It's a shame you never get to meet her.

But Aria was never afraid of anyting.

Around the house here, there was...

..cockroach and scorpion - but she never blink twice.

She just say, "Where is the machete?"

There must be a picture of her in there.

Is this you? Mm!

Oh, my days.

They used to be so happy.

But your father... Hmph.

Leopard can't change him spots.

Is this Junior's mum?

Hello, hello, hello, hello! Junior! You blasted jumbi!

You want me have heart attack? You want two funeral instead of one?

Just cool now, Auntie. A Vita me come for.

Me need her help with something. Come, Vita, man. Come.

Junior! Junior, pull up your pants!

Wait, what are we doing?

A jailbreak, this, man. Come. You need fe worry less and live more.

Yeah, but then where we going?

You ah guh fin' out, man.

Walk & Talk by Rytikal

MUSIC WINDS DOWN

ANNOUNCER SHOUTS

ENGINES ROAR

We reach. Reach?

Where?

The Butchers. The what?

Them say if you can survive The Butchers,

you can survive anything.

ENGINES REV

Nah Let Go by Vybz Kartel

MUSIC DISTORTS

Unnuh, unnuh, unnuh!

A di Butchers, dis.

Show we!

Ching, ching, ching, ching, ching.

You all ready for therapy now, no?

CHEERING We ready?

CHEERING

? Yo

? You feel no aggression

? It's easy, down to business already

? Yo, but no sound leader

? After all, you not know my black passion

? We're ready, UFO minds

? Give us a way out, never get a smile

? Away I run, UFO minds

? Me see them on the run, I lay awake the signs yo

? We're in the valley of faith, we're in the valley of faith

? We're in the valley of faith, we're in the valley of faith... ?

Mi nah know what happen in England,

but a Jamaica you deh now.

These are your roots.

And which best place fe water them.

? We step a role like four-track player

? Party I keep... ? MUSIC WINDS DOWN

People!

CHEERING

I could never do this. Why not?

I sing, yeah, but... I can't do that.

Ah di same ting what Bosco do. And who give him di words?

? Pow! Cannot step on things I like

? No, stand up in that gap, you're cinching it right

? Who's knocking at discovery this time?

? You can't discover, man, trust me, all right?

? Me think that one... ? Wow, wow.

? You wan' be condemned, dutty little man, man

? Fire bang, you are no mandem

? Blap-blap, can I get noticed?

? Think on this, think on this, think on this

? Can you see how loose I am in that dress?

? Ropey boy, ropey boy

? Come chatting in your face, me spread out

? But can I step up in the light?

? Step up and I can't face if shit get right

? Who's not in the disco, finna decide

? I can't miss them, trust me, all right? ?

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

INAUDIBLE

MUSIC WINDS DOWN

Junior, touch the mic, nuh?

No, no, no, no, Selecta. Ah nuh my night.

Come, Vita. Come show dem.

You're a Champion. All right. All right.

OK.

? Yo, yo, yo

? Yo, what you feel like?

? British gal, me no know 'bout seaside

? Bad gal come, born from VI

? Mandem want me honey Then me take you for your DI

? My mother tell me, "Man, you're nothing, realise"

? Princess, the kind of girl you have to treat right

? And when I switch my accent, I know I got it

? And say me can't believe you're born there for it

? Me love the popping till I stack it and me packing them away

? But the positive, we want to be copied

? The mandem stop people with notice Like I'm rocking

? See, this ain't even funny when we stepping up at this

? They call me Vita or the sexy senorita

? Man, they wan' go o'er Vita Now the galdem wanna feature

? So let me teach you how to deal with dirty creature

? A fe black and then believe that they've been wanting who fe eee...

? Yeah, yo, yo

? Me look good any time you take a photo

? Me wan' money more than photo

? Might have to get the Roley in that there rose gold

? Violate the family, that is a no-go

? Why you think the bredder get harassed by the Popo

? Step with Chanel instead I'm coming cold

? Tell me want it up for a minute in a pro bono

? Row-row

? I protect my peace, I protect my peace

? From London town to the West Indies

? Yes, I am blessed indeed Yeah... ?

Yes, indeed! Yes, indeed! Yes, indeed! Yes, indeed!

What them call you, girl?

Vita! Vita Champion!

Vita Champion, big up yourself!

CHEERING

Gyal, yuh bad! Oh, thank you.

Oi, can you believe it? That was so sick! I did tell you.

Did you see me up there? I can't believe it, man.

Yo, Shiny, give me a light.

Felt like a different person up there.

Wish Bosco could have seen it, though.

Don't worry about Bosco, Vita, man. Tonight a fe yuh night, innit?

How come you never left here like Dad did?

I always feel like...

..mi did born to live for people, you know?

Well, now Papa gone...

..mi can live more free.

Start fe build, plan.

Sun never shine pon me like your father.

CHATTER

Mum?

Vita.

How was your day?

Um... good.

Still lots to prepare.

Yours? Mm.

Junior took me to someplace, The Butchers.

Mum, I rapped.

I didn't even know I could do that.

Man...

Are you all right, Mum?

What do you want me to say, Vita?

I thought you came in here to apologise.

You didn't think to ask me about singing my own song?

I did it for you. I wanted it to be a surprise.

You never once thought to yourself what that song actually meant to me.

What happened back then.

Why I was there back then, and why I'm not there now.

Come. Sit by me.

I know people always say this, but...

..I really was going to be something, you know?

It was all planned out.

But just before I got to release the song...

..I found out I was pregnant with your brother.

Your dad...

..told me that it would be impossible.

I believed him.

As soon as the baby was born,

I thought he was going to get me started again.

But one day, he took me up Lee High Road...

..and showed me Aria's Restaurant.

Family-run West Indian takeaway.

I stepped one foot in that place 24 years ago...

..and I've never left.

Mum, I'm s...

It's fine. It's fine, Vita. I don't need your sympathy.

I just need you to understand what I gave up.

I hope it works out for you, but, um...

..chances are, you'll end up in my position.

And you should know what that costs.

DOOR CLOSES

Wha' happen?

You all right?

Why didn't you let Mum do what she wanted to do back then?

Listen, no badda wid all dat now, man. Yuh mudda...

Don't mek her put her failures pon you.

You and her are different.

Like me and my fadda.

I was neva like 'im.

But me mek the mistake of trying to be the man he was.

Don't do wha me do.

Always be you.

That's why you need fi tek risks.

Strike out like what me do, and tek wha you want from life.

Nuh mek nobody hole yuh back.

Hey, Auntie.

Tell me something, Beres.

At what point...

..does a father's responsibility end?

Do you think Everald would be proud of you?

It no matter.

Me build something with him name.

Him woulda proud of dat.

ICE CLINKS IN BOWL

Me do enough.

That is what you call..."enough"?

SHE CHUCKLES

PHONE BUZZES

Vita! How's Jamaica?

I'm ready to do this properly.

For real this time.

OK, cool. Well, let's see.

I've pulled some strings and I've got a little trial run for you.

I've got you a spot at JA Fest tomorrow night.

If you can pull this off, consider me your manager.

Tomorrow?

Well, how much do you really want this?

Loads. I do, I just...

I do. I do.

All right, get some rest. I'll chat to you tomorrow.

OK, thank you so... LINE DISCONNECTS

Bos, I know you're mad me right now,

but so many amazing things are happening out here

and I want to tell you about them.

I'm sorry about the whole Memet thing. I should have told you.

But that's done now, I promise.

Just call me back, please.

Uncle Junior?

Delivery is Thursday. Lennox knows that.

Can you get him to call me when he gets back, please?

Yeah, I know. I know.

Thanks, Mina.

Aria. Come here nuh. Come see how da man yah ah mek it easy fi me.

A gwe box da man face. Gwan seet deh.

You lot letting him take food out of your mouths again?

You still cyaa guh nowhere with that. Seet deh. Give me this.

The first time me beat my father at dominoes, you know,

was when me first bring Aria up fe come meet him.

Right in our yard here, so.

She's always been my lucky charm for dominoes, nuh, true.

Where's Vita?

She gone a rehearsals with Junior.

Hmm. "Hmm"?

What you mean "hmm"?

Are you still vexed about the song?

Ancient history, that, baby. To you.

Look, look to the future, man.

When she do this performance at JA Fest...

..she will carry on the Champion legacy.

So whatever you and her have, just put that to one side now...

..and come wi' me, come watch her perform.

Be proud of the legacy you helped build, baby.

All right, come on, come on. Gwan. Yeah, man. We will.

Rack them up, man. Can I get two high there?

Two hit? Just put 2,000 in.

Ah, shit, you bastard...

? Show no weakness

? Me, I no slave, so no try come beat me

? Me believe in myself completely

? Like the weed when me playing with grabber

? I'm on fire, rich like Lee-Chin

? Fi dem hate for some unknown reasons

? Dem ah get out ah mighty Jah Jah... ?

Thank you, everyone!

Big up yourselves! Yo, we love you!

CHEERING

Yo, yo, you know, JA Fest, it's myself, Junior!

Big up yourself, Vita Champion. Come tell them something now!

Yo, forward!

? Your lips, your touch is just too much

? It gives me everything

? Can't get enough, you got me locked

? Oh, boy, I'm losing it

? Every night I dream that I can slow dance in your arms

? Dirty dancing, romancing

? Kiss under the stars

? I don't want anyone I don't want anyone

? I want what I'm missing

? Love the way that you love and the way that you touch me

? So no need for you to be... ?

Remind me of you when you was her age.

? My heart, you got me deep, ooh

? Hey, hey! ?

Me should have never make you stop.

? You know you got it all

? Ain't no-one else like you

? Shout it to the world

? Baby, you have my love

? Gyal, anywhere you enter

? You are running things front and centre

? But I'm gonna run you down like Sprinter

? Pretty girls can't compete your ginger

? Body's here roll like a fender

? Man ah ride in a charge like Tesla

? But if you wonder you think I'm a pretender

? Not any of them with them different agenda

? I wanna take you home

? Put you inna my zone

? We can watch a movie, do whatever you want

? Gyal can look your iPhone

? Let's do something type bold In a minute we'll be winding slow

? One ting that I know when our bodies are close

? Time stands still and everything is slow-mo

? I don't mean to impose but what is your info?

? Cos your body hotter than a pot upon the stove

? Gyal got what I want... ?

Yeah.

De Champion roun', a dem legacy gwe carry on my fada legacy.

All right, Beres. Enough shop talk.

Watch the pickney 'pon the stage, nuh.

Look how she shine!

? Baby, you have my love. ?

Vita Champion, everybody, remember the name!

And Junior too!

Champion! Champion! Champion! Champion!

Champion! Champion! Champion!

Champion! Champion! Champion! Champion!

Champion! Champion! Champion!

Champion! Champion! Champion! Champion!

I can come?

Mm-hm.

You ready for tomorrow?

Ya never really get ready to bury a parent.

I always loved the feel of your skin.

HE CHUCKLES

Smell good, too.

Tell me you miss me, Aria.

You should go.

We can't...

You know...

Papa would teach me how fi do this.

You get the will?

Cos if you ramp with me, you know... Don't worry 'bout that.

I'll go get it this evening.

Mi ah do the reading at the funeral.

Wha' yuh talk 'bout?

Ah mi fi do that.

It prin inna programme already.

That gonna look funny if it change, nuh true?

Dad, you ready?

Yeah, I'm ready.

How did a man named Everald get the nickname Jack?

You know, it was so long ago, I don't remember why

dem did call him Jack.

I think it had to do with some cow that did deh a yawd he was young.

Now, Brother Love, I know why him get him that deh name deh.

And it neva have anyting to do wid de church. Dat I know.

We now have a reading from Everald's eldest son, Beres.

Good to see nuff people come fi give Papa a good sen off.

Him would appreciate the attention, you know.

Everald Ballentine Champion...

..was more than a father to me.

He was my inspiration.

He wasn't a man to take nonsense from anybody.

RHYTHMIC CLAPPING AND SINGING

He'd have respect for you

and you'd have respect for him...

RHYTHMIC CLAPPING AND SINGING

? Meet me by the river someday

? Meet me by the river someday

? Meet me by the river, not far away

? When my Lord has called me home

? Happy, happy home beyond the sky

? Meet me by the river someday

? Meet me by the river someday

? Meet me by the river, not far away... ?

BELL TOLLS, SINGING CONTINUES

Here you go. God bless you, my son. Yeah, Auntie.

Junior, you have the ting?

Where is the will, bwoy?

Junior...

Yeah, man.

Mi have it.

But mi nah feel like you're going to like what you see pon dat.

Yuh not see your name pon it?

What the fuck you do?

Me nuh do nuttin.

Papa own words, dem.

Him say you wouldn't need anyting left behind.

Him say me would have need it more.

True my father left me.

Shut your mouth.

Men and their foolishness.

Dad...

..who is Junior?

My son.

So this whole time...

..you've been pretending he's our uncle...

..and then, what, forced him to lie to us?

Ari...

..me sorry.

Me so sorry.

Mum?

I'm so stupid.

So, so stupid.

Where are you going, Mum?

I've been so stupid my whole fucking life, Vita.

I'm going home. All right, well, I'm coming with you.

You make one little bun run you away?

Aria.

No rock the boat over one outside pickney.

Sissy!

Man a man,

and man will do man tings.

But, Aria, in the long run,

Beres not choose you?

Vita, go and tell Chalky we're leaving.

Sissy, I know me and you are from different times...

..and I've always respected you as my elder,

so pardon me when I say the reason why Beres and his dad

felt they could treat women any way they please...

..is because women like you taught them it was OK.

Pot.

Kettle.

That's why yuh hip so bad.

Cos you're wicked from the inside out, Sissy.

Wretch.

SHE SOBS

Look how much years mi give yuh fi tell dem.

Look how much years me sit and I wait for you. Shut your raas mout'!

Yuh nuh tell me what fi do.

Only man who can tell me what fi do buried this morning.

Don't worry yourself, man.

Cos me know now.

You's a liar.

You's a cheat.

You's a bumbaclart coward.

What you want from me, boy?

Mi don't want nuttin from you. You never give me nuttin in my life.

Mi nuh expect nuttin to change now.

Me get everyting of Papa will.

Me get all of the estate.

House.

Me set.

This is the last time you step foot in dis house, you understand?

All of this is mine now.

Papa was ashamed of you.

Lennox?

LINE RINGS

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