- Am I supposed to just act like
I didn't see the two of you having sex?
- RUTH: Previously on "Ruthless".
- Cynthia, I ain't playing with you.
- What you gonna do Malcolm, you gonna hit me again?
- DIKAHN: He says he can smell her on me.
I did nothing with her.
- [screams]
- I treated him like the enemy.
- Dikahn loves you, and he will forgive you.
- It's Lacey, all right?
- Oliver, you need to let that go.
- I'm so sorry. I never should've doubted you.
- I need you, and you need me.
- Where are they taking the kids?
- I don't know.
- Cyn, I ain't playing with you.
Cyn, get your hands off me! Come on!
- ♪
- Baby, wake up. Cyn, are you okay?
- Get away from me, Malcolm. - Babe, I'm sorry--
- Get away from me, Malcolm.
- It's all right. Cyn, relax, all right?
- Help! - Cyn, I'm sorry!
- Help me! - I said I was sorry!
- Cyn, Cyn-- - No, you tried to kill me!
Get away from me. - Cyn, look, it was an accident.
- Nuh-uh, you did it on purpose.
- No, I--I didn't do it on purpose.
- Yes, you did! - Cyn--
- Give me my phone. - You're not calling the police.
- Malcolm, give me my phone! - You're not calling the police.
I'm not doing this. - I am.
- Okay. - Malcolm.
Malcolm, give me my phone. I'm not playing.
- Cyn, I told you it was an accident.
- Malcolm, was it a accident the last time you hit me?
- I'm sorry. - You're not.
You're not sorry.
You love this!
You love making me feel like shit!
- Whoa, whoa, what are you talking about?
- Yes, you do, Malcolm! - That's not true.
- Yes, it is. Give me my phone!
- Cynthia, I'm not doing that.
- Give me my fucking phone, Malcolm!
- Calm down! I'm not doing that.
- No, I'm calling the police!
- Cynthia, you're not calling the police.
- [screaming] Help! - Hey, hey, stop--
stop screaming!
- [screaming] Help!
- Cyn, Cyn, stop screaming! Shh!
- ♪ When the sun go down, we run the city ♪
♪ Feel the angels, but that demon's with me ♪
♪ When the sun go down, best believe me ♪
♪ It's nothin' new, the streets is undefeated ♪
♪ When the sun go down, ooh
♪ It get wild, baby, wild, baby, wild, baby, wild ♪
- ♪ Don't you ever, ever, ever try to move me ♪
♪ You best salute me
♪ It's in the bloodstream
♪ We're feeling Rakudushi
♪ The compound, the lessons
♪ The lies, the deception
♪ The FBI's weapons
♪ The punishment, detention
♪ And I just wanna free you from this slave shit ♪
♪ So murder is the case that we're faced with ♪
- ♪ When the sun go down ♪
- [thudding, clanking]
- [muffled screaming]
- Cyn, Cyn, Cyn, I need you to calm down.
Cyn, I'm not playing. Cyn, I'm not playing.
Shh, shh, shh.
Cyn, Cyn, calm down.
- [muffled scream] - Shh!
Just breathe with me. Just breathe with me.
I'm not letting you go until you're calm.
Okay?
- [whimpers]
- You promise me you're not gonna scream?
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay. I'm gonna let you go.
You told me you're not gonna scream.
- Mm-hmm.
- ♪
- [sighs]
- ♪
- [pants] - I'm sorry.
- Malcolm.
Malcolm, look.
- MALCOLM: You already told me.
- Malcolm, if you believe this--
tell me what I did wrong, Malcolm.
Please tell me.
- [sobs]
- Don't do this, don't do this. Don't do this to us, please.
- No, no, I need to go. I need to go.
- Malcolm! - I need to go.
- Malcolm! - Look...you're right.
- Malcolm...
- I--I need to pack my things, baby.
- Please. Malcolm! - I need to go.
- Malcolm!
- ♪
- Brother.
- Yes, brother?
- What was that?
- What are you talking about?
- The Elder Mother.
- Say what you're saying, brother.
- You're hitting that too? - Man, come on!
- No, no, no, no, no, no. You can tell me.
- No, brother.
- [laughs] Don't just say it.
- Just cut it out, okay? - All right.
- Be quiet. - All right, all right.
- And--and--and stop-- - I wasn't even laughing--
- I said stop laughing! - It's kind of funny--
- MARVA: You think that's funny, boy?
- No, Elder Mother. - No, you think it's funny!
- No, Elder Mother, I don't. - Come here!
Come! - Yes, Elder Mother.
- ♪
♪
- Come here.
So...
you find me old and unattractive, eh?
- No, Elder Mother.
- Don't lie. That is not the Raku way.
- I'm sorry.
- So, that is what you think of me?
- No, Elder Mother.
I think you are wise and beautiful.
- Sit.
- The Highest will be looking for me.
- You still lie.
- I'm sorry.
- Sit.
- I'd rather stand.
- I see.
So that's what you talking when you tell him to hit me.
What does that mean?
- It means that he can kiss you.
- Hm.
You think I'm a fool, boy?
- No, Elder Mother.
- So you will allow him to have sex with me.
Isn't that what you mean when you say
tap...that...ass?
Isn't that what you say?
- No, Elder Mother.
- So...
when you say you want him to hit me, that means...
he's hitting someone else and you had to stop them?
- [sighs] Elder Mother, that's not what I meant.
- Then explain, boy.
- [sighs] Dikahn will be looking for me, Elder Mother.
- Well, who is it?
Is it Dikahn or--or is it the Highest?
- It's both, Elder Mother.
- Let me explain something to you, boy.
- [sighs] Yes, Elder Mother.
- I can have your tongue removed.
- Yes, I know.
- And your maker stick.
- Yes, I know.
- If you ever say anything like that again,
I will tell the Highest.
- Yes, Elder Mother. I am so sorry.
- I will show you what old is.
Disrobe!
- Elder Mother!
- MARVA: Do you want me to tell the Highest?
- No, Elder Mother.
- Then disrobe...
and get on your knees.
Make it snappy.
- This is not the Raku way.
- Yes, but it is my way!
- ♪
♪
- Drop them.
- Elder Mother...
- Drop them!
- [sighs]
- ♪
- Ah.
So that's what you've been hiding.
Get on your knees.
- [sighs]
- Do it!
- ♪
- Such a sweet, sweet boy.
- [door opens]
- Hi.
- I need your help.
- What is it?
- Will you cover for me?
- Where are you going?
- They're making Paula work.
And I know she's having a hard time.
- That's not your problem.
- Please.
- I already gave her something for the pain.
- No, but she needs help.
They're gonna make her work until she dies.
- Ruth-- - She's already weak.
- Ruth...
- Go on.
If somebody stops you,
you tell them I told you to go make some soup.
- Yes. - If you get caught,
I will tell them that you went on your own.
- Thank you.
- ♪
- [door opens and shuts]
- ♪
- Is anybody in here?
- ♪
- No.
- It's River.
- What about him?
- He told the Highest that...
- What?
- [sighs] What is--what is that smell?
- [gasps] I was about to tell you--
- What did you do?
- I took the sparkplugs off of the truck...
and I dumped them in the outhouse.
- [coughs]
That won't stop them from taking the kids.
- I know.
I was just trying to buy us some time.
- I know, but that's not the way.
- Yancy found out, and he made me give them back.
- Well, did you?
- Elder Mother was around.
- Tally, why don't you go give 'em back?
You're stinking up the place.
- Okay, I'm gonna do it now.
- Jeez.
- What did he say?
- Just that, um...he wants me to talk to the Highest.
- TALLY: About what?
- Tally, just--can you take 'em out of here, please?
It--it just stinks. - Okay.
- ♪
♪
- ♪
- Hey. - Hey.
- What are you doing in here?
- I'm not supposed to be here.
I'm trying to help Paula.
- Where is she? - She went to the bathroom.
But she's on her way back.
- OLIVER: Okay.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm just worried about Lacey.
- I know. I am too.
- Have you heard anything?
- No. - Damn.
- She'll be okay.
You know she's tough.
- Yeah, I know.
- Oliver, you better get out of here.
I don't want the Elder Mother to see you.
- Okay, I'mma go. - Yeah.
- Thank you.
- ♪
- [door shuts]
- ♪
- You're not supposed to be here.
- I'm gonna help you.
- You're gonna be punished.
- I'm gonna help you.
- They tried to tell us that this is paradise.
[coughs]
- They told me the same thing.
- As bad as it was at home... it wasn't this bad.
- Hey, we got each other.
- I know. [coughs]
I'm glad we do.
- Come on. I better hurry.
If the Elder Mother comes...
I will be punished.
- Okay, so, I can do it.
- No, I got it.
- [water trickling]
- Thank you...for coming to help me.
- [water trickling]
- Hey, listen to me.
I am here with you.
- I love you.
- I love you too.
- [knocking on door]
- It's me.
The hell wrong with you?
- Nothing. - You sure?
[sighs] Oh god.
- What you doin'?
- Brian.
Brian called my parents.
- Why did he call your parents?
- Because...I'm using.
Shut up and don't judge me.
[sighs]
You know, I just...
I can't tell him about what happened at the--
- At the what?
- It was...[sighs] It was so amazing.
You know? And I just--
I want-- - You just what?
- [sighs] Cynthia--
- You just wanted to use.
- I don't know what I want. Okay?
And I really don't know what's going on with me.
- Well, I...
Man, I...
I got--I can't do this today. - You know, you look like hell.
- Well, Lynn...
it's what happens when you find out
your husband is sleeping with your friend.
- What?
- He's sleeping with Sarah.
- [scoffs] The woman you wanted me to meet?
- Yeah. - Fuck.
You know, you are...
a bad judge of character.
- Is this from chick who's sitting next to me,
thinking about her next fix?
- Okay, I see what this is. - What is it?
- I see what this is. No, no, no.
This is take it out on Lynn day.
- CYNTHIA: See? - Clearly. No!
- See? - That's exactly what it is!
- There you go, proving my point.
- And what's that? Hm?
- That you are the victim in every damn thing, Lynn!
- You know what?
This was a bad idea.
- So what you still sitting here for?
- ♪
- Exactly. - Lynn, I'm sorry.
Lynn, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Lynn, wait, wait. Just wait.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, Lynn.
I'm just in a really bad place right now.
- I can see that.
- I'm sorry.
- [sighs] Oh god.
Cyn...
- I know you need me right now, too.
- ♪
- I came over here because I wanted to use.
But...[sighs] I figured we'd hang out,
I would feel a lot better about myself.
All I do is I feel worse.
- I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.
- No, no, no. I'm sorry.
- I shouldn't have said what I said.
[sighs] We both goin' through it here.
[laughs]
- But I...I did this to myself.
Lynn...
- No, it's true. - You got a good life.
You got a good husband.
And it's gonna be what you make it, baby girl.
- [inhales deeply]
- And you know I'mma always tell you the truth.
- [sighs, laughs]
- And that's what you love about me.
Isn't it?
You love that about me, don't you?
[chuckles] - Sometimes.
- Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Come on. Come on.
Come on!
- Where are we going? - All right.
You don't get to use today
and I don't get to drink today--any more.
We're gonna go in here, we're gonna get this ice cream
and we're gonna get these cookies
and we're gonna have a good day.
- Great.
Now I'mma gain weight with all my troubles?
- Girl, don't knock it. - Look--
- Come on, let's go get fat.
- No, you stay here.
I'll get it.
- ♪
- [clanking]
- Here.
You look a little frustrated.
- I am.
Fuckin' piece of shit. Hmph.
- You're not supposed to use that kind of language.
- You ain't supposed to steal fucking sparkplugs either.
- I tried to clean them for you. - Put 'em over there.
- ♪
- I'm sorry.
- Don't let it happen again.
- It won't.
- Go.
- ♪
- Tally.
Come here.
- ♪
- There is a way to get some information about her.
- ♪
- How's that?
- Barter.
- ♪
- Barter? - Yes.
- I don't have anything.
- Is that what you think?
- What are you suggesting?
- Depends on what you gonna do with the info.
- I just wanna see my daughter.
- Your daughter is a child of the Raku now.
- ♪
- Hello, sister.
- How are you doin', sister?
- Yancy...
you have kids here, right?
- Yes.
- Don't you miss them?
- They are well taken care of.
- Well...
Yancy...
- How do you wanna see her?
- Uh... - I can make that happen.
- [clanking]
- How?
- I'm the mechanic and the locksmith.
I've got keys to everything in that trailer.
- You could do that?
- Yes.
What you gonna do for me?
- What do you want?
- I'm sure you'll figure it out.
- ♪
- I got work to do.
- ♪
- Yancy, what do you want?
- You're asking too many questions.
Look, I will be out here working every day
until the sun goes down.
If you wanna see her, you know where to find me.
- Are you suggesting-- - I'm not suggesting anything.
I'm giving you an opportunity to see your daughter.
- Well-- - You are thinking too much
and you are talking too much.
I got shit to do.
- ♪
♪
- [grunts, sighs] Hey.
[sighs]
- ♪
- I need some air.
- DIKAHN: Are you sure you want to...
go out like that?
- Yes. Why?
- Your eyes.
- Give me my glasses.
- Yes, Your Highest.
- ♪
- [sniffs]
- ♪
- Let's go.
- ♪
- What's the matter?
You can't get it goin'?
Do it!
Do it now!
- Elder Mother...I'm...
- You're useless.
- ♪
- What happened?
- I gave it back to him.
- Is he gonna tell the Highest?
- No.
- Are you sure?
- Look, I don't know.
- What?
- He wants me to have sex with him.
- What? - Yeah.
- Did he say that?
- He said he could help me to see Tavia.
But he basically told me-- - Tally--
- --to have sex with him.
I know. Ruth...
where the hell is Andrew?
- I don't know.
- I mean-- - Don't freak out.
- No, what I'm saying is that you're working Dikahn.
But he's a locksmith.
He has a master key.
- You think you can get it?
- I'd have to sleep with him.
- No, you wouldn't.
- What do you mean?
- All those times they thought we were giving them head,
and we were just using our hands and spitting?
Do that to him.
- Ruth, he's gonna know. - No, he won't.
Men are stupid, and these men are.
- You think he won't notice?
- Just make it dark.
And then, uh...
make it--make it real wet, right?
And then let your hair down-- - TALLY: Fuck.
- He won't even know the difference.
I'm a pro at it. - I know.
- I can go to the kitchen
and get him something so he can be high.
- Ruth, what about Andrew?
- What about him?
- What if he finds out?
- Are you asking me what if the man
who lets the Highest fuck him finds out?
- ♪
- You're right. You're right, you're right.
- We are trying to get out of here.
Short of stealing the guns from the armory and leaving,
I don't know what else to do.
- Ruth.
We're not gonna do that.
You saw what happened to Niecy. - I know.
- All she did was talk to the sheriff.
- I know. Do not remind me.
- I'm just saying,
I've never heard from anyone who's left here.
- How could we?
- You'd think that they would've called the police or sent help.
Nothing.
- Exactly.
Which is why you need to go do what you need to go do.
- Okay. Okay. - When?
- He said he's gonna be there every night, so I don't know.
- Oh shit. - What?
- He has car keys.
- [inhales deeply]
- Mm-hmm. - Yeah.
- We should get car keys.
- Yes, yes. Okay. - Okay.
- ♪
♪
- I was just in...
the seventh dimension of Rakumas meditation.
And I have a word for us all.
The children--
- Go, get out! Get out!
- --they are our armor.
I have seen...
the white man's government come in
and try to take them from parents who love them.
And we will not let that happen.
The birth mother, she let them take me.
- Ruth-- - Shh.
- THE HIGHEST: The things they did to me.
So I will not let the people that we love
go through that heartache.
That pain.
Our precious, precious children...
they are so pure...
that we are the armor that we seek.
- Hurry! Hurry!
Get out of here! Get out of here!
- The word of Raku and all that we believe in says
that before we let anyone harm our children...
the Raku said we must elevate them first
and then lay our lives down.
- Ruth, I'm not letting him do that.
- Neither of us are gonna let him do that.
- THE HIGHEST: We will have to do what we must.
The Raku chose us to carry on the population
after the evil white man has destroyed it.
And the only way that we can do that
is we must lay our lives down.
We will rise again in three days.
And this will be our new heaven...
and our new Earth.
Now, I don't know when and I don't know where,
but I will tell you that we will not do a thing.
They will startle us.
I see it coming.
I see the evil sheriff coming in here to start this one.
We will finish it.
- You better get back.
- No.
- I got it.
Go.
- THE HIGHEST: But we will not let any man take our lives.
We will lay it down.
We will lay it down with pleasure and gratitude
to the Raku.
- ♪
- Now, I don't know when,
but I need you to look at the soldier beside you
and ask them if they are ready.
If you are ready, let me hear you!
- If you are with me, let me hear you.
- No man knows the hour and the day,
but I am the man who knows we will be prepared!
I am the Highest!
- I am the Raku.
- [microphone feedback]
- Shall I come with you, sir?
- No.
- [cheers and applause]
- [clears throat]
- ♪
- So, how did it go?
- Don't you worry about that.
- You know, Dikahn, a thank you would be in order.
- I don't owe you anything.
- Ah, so we're back to that.
- Did we ever leave that?
- I guess we haven't. I'll go see him.
- He needs his rest.
- I'll be the judge of that.
- River...
I am not an enemy you want to make.
Boy.
- No.
I would never want that.
- Hm. - Brother.
- You better know it.
- To the Raku.
- [no audible speech]
- ♪
- TALLY: Ruth, he's getting worse.
- ♪
- We have to hurry.
- But that doesn't make sense.
- Nothing he says makes sense.
- No.
Think about it.
Why would he be getting the bus ready to take the kids
if he was going?
- ♪
- Unless he...
- He's taking them somewhere to kill them.
- [pants] Ruth...
Okay, I'm gonna go see Yancy as soon as I think that it's safe.
Ruth, you have to go and see Dikahn.
You--we have to get the keys. - I will try.
- No, Ruth, try harder. - I am!
- Speaking of trying harder...
[pants] Ruth, go!
Go.
- ♪
♪
- Nothing happened, Oliver.
Nothing.
- No, something happened, all right?
Now, you came out of there fixing your clothes.
- She tried me. - What did she do?
- She--she felt me up.
- [chortles] She did the same thing to me.
- What?
- But--but-- I--I couldn't.
- I couldn't either.
- Look, I get it. [laughs]
- Stop laughing. Don't laugh.
- All right, I'm not laughing.
- Ah, you want to, though.
- I told you, you need to be very careful
when you're around her. - Man, I thought I was.
- And she can hear really well.
- Why the hell are we standing over here,
talking in front of her trailer?
Apparently that's what they say about bats.
- [laughter]
- Hey, hey, no, no, no.
Clark, listen.
In--in all seriousness...
when the girls go on their assignments,
how long are they away?
- I don't know. I don't know.
- Do they ever come back?
- Look, man, you need to let that go, all right?
You need to let it go.
- I--I know. - What's the deal?
You in love with her or something?
- Maybe. - Oh, shit.
- Maybe we can go to the Highest--
- Shh!
Oliver, you do not want to do that.
- --and ask him to marry us.
- No. No! - Why not?
- Because--because...
he feels betrayed by things like that, all right?
Things like that, okay?
He feels like he should've said it,
like he should've known it, you know?
Like he should've said it in a prophecy.
So let it go, okay?
- But she's a human being. - That does not belong to you!
Oliver, okay?
Look, look, look.
If you get really lonely, you can always just come in
and take this first left, and just--
- Stop, stop, okay? Stop.
- All right.
But seriously, you need to let it go, man.
- All right, keep talking.
I'm gonna have Elder Mother come just for you.
Just for you. - She's gonna come for you.
- Yeah, whatever.
- ♪
- What did you do?
- What do you mean?
- Did you tell anyone about us?
- No, Dikahn.
- ♪
- I should bash your head in with this rock.
- I'm sorry.
- Why did you do this?
- What did I do? - You...touched me.
You made me...feel something for you.
- Do you?
- I hate you.
- I'm sorry.
- I've been thinking about you all the time.
And I don't like it.
- I'm sorry. I just wanna please you.
- You can't talk to me anymore.
- Then you may as well kill me.
- If he finds us together, he will kill you.
- Well, that is a chance I'm willing to take.
- Are you--are you crazy?
- I'm just in love with you.
- Why?
- I don't know.
Do you know how you feel about me and why?
- No. I don't.
- I mean, I carrying your child and I just--
- How did you learn to do that? - Do what?
- That thing with your tongue?
And your...
- Do you not like it?
- ♪
- I don't like the thought of you doing that
with any other guy.
- I won't do it with anyone else again but you.
- Damn it.
- ♪
- I can see you want it now.
- We can't.
- So what do we do?
- We can't be seen together.
But I'll let you know what to do.
- I am so sorry, Dikahn.
- Stay here.
- Okay. - And then come out after a bit.
- ♪
- I knew you couldn't resist.
- I'm gonna tell Dikahn that you're following him.
- I wasn't following him.
- Then why are you following me?
- I wasn't following you either.
- Then what the hell are you doing?
- We met over there. - What?
- We meet to discuss how we're leaving.
- Who is "we"?
- You know. - I'm not doing this.
- Listen, I just heard everything
between you and Dikahn.
And you better be glad that the others weren't here as well.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- You need to be careful.
- I could say the same for you.
- He can't help you.
- Don't be so sure.
- You're a stupid girl. - What?
- Why are you sleeping with the help?
- You know, you are really out of--
- Listen, I know you've got a plan, right?
So why are you starting so low
when I'm trying to put you in the bed with the Highest?
With all the power beside him?
- What's your story? Hm?
What are you up to?
- Did you not hear him today?
He's unraveling, okay? He's losing it.
And it would take you to hold him to sanity.
- He doesn't want me.
- He doesn't know what he wants.
- Are you sure?
'Cause he does seem to know what he wants.
- Men don't know what they want...
until they are shown it.
- What is wrong with you?
- You better get back now.
- Oh, I knew I liked you.
- Oh, you got mommy issues, do you?
- Don't we all?
You're gonna help me with them?
- You need to get your ass back in the camp.
- And you need to get yourself into bed with the Highest.
- ♪
- [engine chugging]
- Damn! Damn!
- Oliver, I got it, all right?
- Yeah, you get it.
- Stop!
- [engine chugging]
- Why don't this dude get a fucking break?
- And what can I do for you?
- What's up, partner? I gotta see the man.
- [chuckles] The Highest is resting.
- Man, I'll drive right through his fucking gate.
You don't even have the authority.
- You don't want to do that. - Why are they not
telling you who I am when I come here, huh?
Man, I come any time I damn well please!
Let me tell you one thing.
If you don't let me in there to see him and open up this gate,
it's gonna be both your Black asses.
- Let him in, Clark.
- You heard him. Cut the crap.
- [engine chugging]
- Lilo.
- Dick-ahn.
Had to bring this bitch back.
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- [tires screeching]
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- Was that--was that Lacey?
- Was that her?
- Clark-- - Oliver, Oliver, Oliver.
I'm sorry. Relax.
Breathe, breathe, breathe.
- Clark...
- Let me handle it, all right?
Just...breathe, breathe.
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- I had to bring this bitch back.
Ain't gonna work.
- What happened to her?
- You're not really trying to ask me that, are you?
- DIKAHN: Elder Mother? - Yes, Dikahn?
- Take the girl.
- Where is she? - She's in the car.
Passenger side. - Yes, Dikahn.
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- I--I can help.
I--I--I--I can help.
- Get away, boy! This is woman's work!
- No, just let me-- - No!
You should go.
Go do your duty.
You go! - I just--
- What is wrong with you, boy?
- Nothing, Elder Mother.
He's fine.
- She'll be okay.
She'll be fine. All right? She--
- OLIVER: Look at what they did to her.
- CLARK: I understand that, you see.
You want Dikahn to see this?
You better be fucking glad he walked away.
Do you understand?
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Oliver, look at me, all right?
Calm down. I need--I need you to calm down.
I'll do what I can. I need you to do what you can.
And what you can do right now is chill.
Relax. - I'm all right.
But why...did they do what they did to her, man?
That's crazy. - Look, Oliver, I get it.
I get it. - That's not of the Raku!
That is not Raku!
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- [car starts]
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- Your Highest?
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- Your Highest?
- ♪
- Tally--
- No.
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♪
- Kneel.
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