Sinbad

I've been in the marketplace, trading.

You're both terrible liars.

- We are best heading north. - We double back on ourselves,

pick up the trade winds and head off to Shanti,

a place where everyone has a past and nobody asks questions.

Sounds a delight.

Sinbad: We've been hit!

- Anwar: We must have hit coral. - There is no coral in these waters.

Rocks then.

What are you doing? Are you insane?

Never get off the boat, not at sea.

We need to know what state she's in.

What was that?

I saw something!

- Get him up. Get him up! - Gunnar: Pull! Pull!

I don't see him!

He's not there.

Sinbad!

- You can thank me later. - What for?

Oh, I don't know. Saving your life?

Come on.

You weren't hard to spot.

It was the screaming that really did it.

Make yourself comfortable. I'm making something for your wounds.

I'm Sinbad, by the way.

Hello, Sinbad.

Okay.

Sorry.

- Coral can really sting. - Coral?

- That was a shark. - A shark?

Yeah. Some kind of sea beast or something.

- A sea beast? - Yeah? What?

In these waters? Well, at least your humour survived.

Let's see.

I'd love to stay, really, really I would,

but I have a ship and a crew waiting for me.

Whoa!

Welcome to the island of Roisin Moor.

- You? - Mm-hm.

Doesn't that get lonely?

I entertain myself.

Gunnar, we're wasting our time. We need to be searching the water.

The current dragged us here. Perhaps it dragged Sinbad here, too.

We're not dealing with currents or tides.

I know what I saw down there!

A great tail, scales.

It severed the rope.

Then pray we find him first.

Ah!

We thought we'd lost you.

Oh! You found me.

You think we'd leave you?

How did you make it here?

The gods were looking out for you.

Ah, I just have an instinct for survival.

And let me just say straight off,

I don't blame any of you for what happened.

I took the risk, I know. It's just that sometimes,

being the hero's a tough place to be.

Aha, I see.

Perhaps you could define hero.

- So, you're here alone? - With the odd guest.

Not alone. I'm free.

Here there's no one to tell me what to do or when to do it.

You look tired, Sinbad.

We should get you back.

Yes, and no more swimming,

not until you've practiced.

Sinbad: I think I had it under control.

Think you didn't.

Your hospitality is kind, but we have a long journey ahead of us.

Well, may your journey be full of adventure and excitement

that leaves you breathless for more.

- I need to eat. - Good.

Cook will make you something.

Here.

Roisin: Of course.

May I?

I don't know what you think you're doing in there, but it ends now, okay?

Have you forgotten who we're running from?

Nala, she saved my life.

And we risk ours every moment we waste.

I can't keep living like this.

I mean, we're not even living at all. We're running.

Every day we're running, scared of dying.

Do you think Akbari is chatting over wine, debating the meaning of life?

He will find us.

Then go without me.

If that's how you feel, just go,

get on with your lives and let me get on with mine.

I'm cursed, Nala. Me.

It's me who has to live with it,

not you. I'm staying.

For a desert island, you sure have a lot of trinkets.

Yeah. You'd be amazed what washes up here.

Nala: Gunnar?

We've gone to hell for you.

One night, one night where I don't feel like me.

- You understand that, Gunnar, right? - Yeah.

And I want to write poetry, but life's a bitch and you're cursed.

Thank you.

Be on the ship by first light,

or believe me, hero, we'll go without you.

Look, the last thing I want to do is cause trouble with your friends.

- If you want to go, then go. - No, no, no, really.

But I will have to leave soon.

As long as I'm back by dawn.

I mean, not that I want to rush anything.

I should hope not.

Not on your last night of freedom.

I want to know the life I saved. Tell me everything.

Could be some kind of bone.

Pressure of the water must have forced it through.

I've never seen any creature that would belong to.

Save your concern, Rina. Sinbad's alive and well.

So, I have a problem with Nala.

You're not alone in that.

Anyway, I don't want to talk about Nala.

Well, indulge me.

I am dying for some conversation.

Okay.

It was Basra, so crowded, you couldn't move,

so hot, you couldn't breathe.

I was with my...

Nala... was the only person who did not weaken by the heat.

The dust. She was like an angel.

Tell me about Gunnar.

I am starting to think that you only want me for my mind.

He had these scratches on his chest, four, I think.

- Other than that, he was... - Stay away from the water tonight.

I don't like how it feels.

The thing that drove us here, it's still down there.

He knows how to lift the spirits, doesn't he?

Sinbad. Wake up. It's nearly dawn.

Your friends are waiting.

Gunnar and Nala, remember?

I've never heard those names.

We go to sleep now.

Okay.

Help me, please.

- What's happening? - The curse.

The curse?

I have to get off the island!

Who did this to you?

My grandmother.

She cursed me because I betrayed her.

A curse in the moment of anger, that's not hatred.

That's her pain.

- Your grandmother loves you. - Hate, definitely hates me.

Think back, Sinbad, to the time before the curse,

a time when you knew you were loved.

Think. I can help you, Sinbad.

Tell me a happy memory and the curse will go.

Every night,

she used to tell me the stories of Arabia, of the legends.

She told me, above all those in the stories, that I was her hero.

And then I broke her heart.

What have you done?

No, good memories only!

Not bad memories.

Stories of Arabia, tell me one now,

the ones your grandmother told you.

My grandmother?

I never knew her.

I never knew her.

I bring news, my lord.

Sinbad is no ordinary man.

He's surrounded by magic.

You insult the memory of my son.

Sinbad is nothing, least of all magic.

A curse from an ancestor, his grandmother.

It binds to him like a river weed.

We need only find the source and, inch by inch, we will draw him in.

We've already tried.

Every guard in Basra has been searching for her.

Your ways. I have others.

- Go easy with the paprika. - So easy with the advice.

Please don't tell me how to make gulyasleves. I grew up with this.

For a while, anyway.

Rina, it's past sunrise.

Sinbad may not be coming back.

- Nala: Rina, he's not coming. - Then I'll bring him back.

On this ship at dawn. He knew that.

And he knows what will happen if Akbari finds us.

- He has a curse! - He's made a choice.

So we just let him die?

He knows his own mind, Rina.

As you do yours.

So go, try and bring him back.

Anwar, if the curse has taken hold, he will need you. Hurry.

Waiting puts us all in danger.

Ah. I've never felt so alive!

That's good. Because we are going on a big walk,

an adventure. I'm going to take you to a very special place.

It's so beautiful and happy

that nothing bad on Earth could ever touch it.

Okay, let's go. Let's go.

Don't touch me. Get your hands off me.

Get your hands off me!

Fish bladder, delicious.