in the name of the law we bring you another of the thrilling stories in this exciting series taken from actual police case file our story begins on the night of november 27th 1934 in seattle's police headquarters headquarters i want to report a stolen car stolen car i'll connect you to the detective bureau headquarters yes mr richards i just found out that my main store robbery let me take this report what was stolen mr richards in i see you know how the place was entered and what was the value of the stolen property sir around mr richards i'll give this report to captain of detectives immediately sir hey swiney come on slow freight hustle it up what's all the rush what's up edward another phantom gang job ah you're crazy that phantom gang pulled that periodical company job last night tell it to swiney i'm telling it to you come on take this report into captain scrappard oh he ain't in his office oh turn a duck eh well he's in the chief's office here headquarters go ahead fire department that phantom gang's got captain scrapper turn his hair he won't make me a sergeant for bringing in this report lieutenant this is edward sir reserves wanted sir fugitive steamship dock on fire captain i want a full report on this lumber supply robbery first thing in the morning yes sir i can give you a full report now chief no fingerprints no clues nothing just the jimmy marks on the front door the calling card of seattle's phantom gang well we've got to get them we've had a year of pillaging and plundering by a gang that's never yet left their trace chief were overdue on this fantastic ring i know look here's my own record on all those unsolved robberies 16 of them yes and not counting the repeats galbraith lumber company burglarized four times blue street candy company three times and none of the loot has ever been found none of the stuff stolen on these jobs has ever showed up at a pawn shop or a second hand dealer or a fence or a fence leave shadow dozens of them and look at the kind of stuff this phantom gang steals big stuff expensive machinery motors and then then this cough drop canned oysters ham bacon tools book soups christmas tree light man what about lefty connor's have you checked on him lately lefty he'd machine gun you for a song chief but he wouldn't let those dumb mobs as of his father with machinery what about or no co or no co is a number one suspect burglary like this is right up his alley but i can't pin anything on him yet well keep your man on his trail captain this phantom gang has got to be wiped out have you any new ideas on it yeah little butch barrett has a pretty young sister silvia what about her she just got engaged to fill sherman today fill sherman yeah one of our bright young cops marion the sister of the smartest mob leader in seattle a killer too say captain you didn't put sherman up to it did you mean i'd never give a cop an assignment like that it will be signing his death warrant little butch thinks the sun rises on that sister of his how do you think they'll sherman even got close enough to her to say hello that's what i want to find out little butch may be the works on this phantom gang anytime he lets a cop marry into his family it's for no good reason yes oh edwards chief four alarm player sir four alarms now on the fugitive steamship duck player the crowd's all over the docks all reserves requested to get the reserves out all precincts five to fourteen and have all patrolmen and radio cars keep doubly watchful on their beats for burglaries special orders yes chief four alarm doc fire come along you bet chief maybe little butch is in the awesome racket now to cover up a couple of other jobs tonight stick close to me what do you say all right butch afraid of the big bad fire now but it's water from the swimming with cops fix out so that's cheaper police cutlery but a fire ladder the guy next to miss graffit captain to take this oh so that's graffit heard phil speak of him hope i can take phil here yes but graffit sees you with me he'll know i'm not pulling off a job somewhere else in seattle oh why can't you go straight butch i don't want the police to get my brother well the cops have got my sister ain't they makes me look good with the mob all right they think little butch is a new kind of stool pigeon my assistant are clubbing bads well don't you want me to be happy butch sure silver you know i'd give you my right arm but not your promise to get away from that mob i can't i'm in too deep they wouldn't let me go butch let's get away from seattle phil can get a job somewhere else i'd never quit the cops here he's on his way up besides here comes graffit now you look at those fireboats the flames are getting higher yeah it's a great night for the cops all right hello butch wish you'd want me to meet your sister i happen to know her by sight i think i got enough cops on you ought to be nice to me butch i might be able to help your brother-in-law that is if your mob lets him live long enough to marry your sister please please well you're trying to do scraffit tell me butch how many jobs are you pulling off tonight undercover of this fire you can't finish phantom gang business on me who said anything about phantom gang it's in all the papers are you marrying phil shaman because you think he's a policeman in the family will help your brother i'm marrying phil shaman because i love him and if you don't stop hounding us phil and i'll leave seattle and take little butch with you that would look good for an ex cop wouldn't it phil can make good as a cop anywhere he couldn't buy you clothes like those you're wearing on a cop face why don't you let us alone scraffit if you're so fine of your sister butch why don't you help her come clean about the phantom gang wash up this suspicion that's hanging over you and her and this young cop he's gonna marry take your own potatoes on this phantom gang scraffit i'm not gonna help you ever since i was a kid all i got from a cop was the wrong end of a club all right butch if he gets smart and change your mind let me know come on sir phil let's get out of here before this guy makes one crack too many come on i'm coming jenny i'm coming yes captain any orders yeah keep following butch what was he doing today well he played card at joe's place then this afternoon about five he took a ride down this way stopped over on second street near the blue street candy company blue street candy company why didn't you tell me that before well i thought i was going to turn in a full report in the morning the phantom gang has quite cracked the blue street candy company three times it may be cracking up at the fourth time right now jenny you follow a little butch don't let him out of your sight get going yes sir boy i'll watch him all right sergeant sergeant long yes sir sergeant motorcycle fight car yes sir come on i'm detaching you from fire duty go sports party coming out here we are yes sir listen sergeant long and i are going over to the blue street candy place on second street near front get another squad car and six more men face them in behind us and round that block understand right now we got you remember no siren keep us quiet as you can i want this stuff to be a surprise come on that's the blue street factory down the street yes sir there's no light there at all that gang knows its way around in there by this time you follow me done ready yes sir there's a door well it's open it's been jimmied open come on in someone in there who's there who's there speak up or shoot you speak up or we'll shoot or you'll find a place for that flashlight over there where police here he comes why is patrolman jankins oh hello look captain i was passing by sir noticed the front door and been jimmied open so i came in and was just looking around when i heard you i almost let you have it in the dark yeah you almost got it too never mind yeah this place has been robbed all right those shelves cleaned up yeah i noticed it they took that time wherever they were is that phantom gang again hey i thought they hired a watchman after that last burglary yeah that's right they did i wonder where he is let's look around all right hold your flashlight over here sergeant okay it's a door huh looks like it leads to a kind of a sello way captain yeah stand back and cover me sergeant you do jankins right i'm gonna open that door yes sir all right captain but i'll stand back well the saints had mercy watchman at the foot of the stairs he's been murdered you know what i think i think it's suicide now that might be his own gun over there and look look at the powder marks on a temple could he still be alive no he's dead poor fellow look at that red blood on his white hair come on man help me turn him over right and he was kidding that he had a sweet job in that candy factory headquarters and there's a big hole out in the middle of park street park street near where there's seven three yes sir all right thank you car 19 car 19 go to park street near seven park street near seven hole in street arrange warning for automobiles place red lanterns oh good evening captain hello edwards there was a patrolman on that park street beef i was just going to call his precinct we're sure handed on menu no sir any news on that watchman murder last night captain not a clue this depression is breeding crime in more ways than one every department short handed policemen doubling up on their beat excuse me captain headquarters this is the manager of the harvey electric supply company number 11 charles street i will report a robbery harvey electrical supply robbery what another one go on edwards let's have it yes sir go ahead sir i came down to the office late to go over some figures for a new job i found a store ransack the door been jimmied open store ransack door jimmy that's phantom gang again i'll send a squad car right around sir you better this town's going to be a burgers paradise five pretty sore car fifteen car fifteen go to harvey fifteen just a minute edwards isn't that filled sherman squad car yes sir he's with jack miller call sherman in right away send another man out to take his place go ahead i'll get the chief don't care the order i'll be in his office yes sir car fifteen car fifteen officer sherman report the headquarters immediately sherman report the headquarters immediately officer miller proceeds a harvey electrical supply company 11 charles street robbery sherman you're in a bad spot well chief i don't know anything about that harvey electrical robbery and you don't know who killed that poor old watchman last night no captain at harvey burglary tonight was on my beat that's all i know chairman do you take orders from the police department or from little butch barrett or captain don't bring him into this i love his sister sure and i'm gonna marry her well why don't you protect her then what do you mean sherman captains grafford means that you're holding something back on this harvey robbery tonight are you trying to shield somebody your future brother-in-law come clean sherman where will you when the hobby's always burglarized well i was i took time out the time what time was that about 10 30 tonight jack miller and i were driving along charles street in the squad car and jack wanted to know if it wasn't hungry well it wasn't jack said to grab a bite so he dropped me off at the white circle hamburger wagon how long were you there under little butch called him no no i tell you i was there for almost three hours off your beat three hours all right take my bad but don't do anything to jack said he was just calling on his girl it was her birthday or you were calling on your girl no sir i'll tell him about her little butch your sister well yes then she knew you were off your beat well i chairman i want you to go out on your squad car route again right now oh jeez i mean thank you just a minute if anyone asks you why you were brought in tonight it's just a new routine i'm trying understand yes sir if you talk you're through that'll be all yes sir thank you sir glad you let him off chief i've got an idea the sherman driver car of his own yeah he has a little roadster does he drive it to work yes he's sitting in the pop and garage grafford i have an idea we're going to invest in a little oil stock oil stock yes i want you to get a five gallon can of motor oil and tie it under sherman's car so he can't see it yes then i want you to have a plug made so it can be pulled out of the oil can when sherman drives his car out of the garage we're going to track him understand yes but why well if sherman saw a big pool of oil under his car before he drove out of the garage he'd look under it and see the can right chief you're a fast think we've got to think fast to keep ahead of this phantom gang and remember that poor old night watchman the corner said they tried to make it look like suicide kill him with his own gun i'd like to track down the man who did that we'll track this phantom gang in oil and have a man assigned to see that sherman's oil is renewed every day how about putting a can on little but his car too and you fix it i'd like to see if little butchers and sherman's oil tracks cross i think it can be arranged good be anything sergeant not sure captain the armory across the street there is pitch dark are you sure those oil tracks came here yeah two of them we found two pools of oil in the street there in front of the armory after the cars had gone well a national guard armory is the last place you'd look for crooks and that building's a regular fortress swell view overlooking Puget Sounder who's that coming down the street they're back in the doorway it's a man in uniform national guard uniform sergeant sergeant stripes yes sir he's at the armory door now getting out keys there he goes in well the chief got me a key to that door this afternoon shall we go over and crash now take it easy sergeant maybe we'll get some more efficient our net wait a minute there comes somebody around the corner it's a patrolman beat man probably what are you doing now just waiting there in the shadow of the armory recognize him too dark captain he's expecting someone maybe it's this guy it's a police squad car and jack miller in it by himself wonder where his partner is jack miller right he's chairman partner in the squad carry me here listen there they go in bill bill who how we could tell from his car he said it's parked behind the armory every day yeah but we can tell better by looking him right in the eye we're going in sergeant come on two cops and an army sergeant up the step sergeant and the key back is the inside of your hat take it easy this is the drill floor nobody here I look like a stairway over here come on right with you watch out for these stairs another door I'll just open it a crack careful that room inside there is lighted take it easy nobody here looks like the armory carpenter shop let's look around a lot of big closet yeah carpenter tools electrical grinder two new portable electric saws where let me see here the bottom of this cupboard pull away those rags in that toilet say what is this more saws and lamps and what names do you see on them sergeant look get it richards lumber supply company Harvey electrical and say captain all this paint is in the gallery company the one they knocked off four times and we finally got them cracked in oil wait a minute what's that they're coming get ready sergeant I'm ready turn out the light shoot and turn the light on fire right all right sergeant Captain Slavery put up your hands Jenkins you too Miller ah just a minute all your cops doing in this armory you got my right shooting in here being in my cop in the shop keep them up sergeant oh it's your cop in the shop is this sergeant I thought it belonged to the National Guard well I'm regimental carpenter and can't take your material and how you take care of materials stolen by the phantom gang from lumber companies and electrical stores and that ain't no no Captain that is them sergeant Lee called us in here tonight he thought he heard a bugler Miller you and Jenkins ought to be in the zoo in the snake house yeah that'll be tough on the snakes take their guns and clubs away and strip off their badges oh it's a pleasure hey let's hear my uniform you won't need that police uniform much longer Jenkins where's the rest of the loot bill getting your car parked out behind the armory who else is in this with you oh you want to play shut mouth now hey you can't make us talk captain we know all the tricks yeah maybe I've got one you don't know bring them along sergeant we'll send a van for the care takers material oh captain we got part of the phantom gang but only part and I know chief your investment in oil was a great idea you must admit I used my head when I attached those oil cans through those other cars attract Miller and Jenkins right to the armory the leader of this mob the brains is still loose in Seattle and it looks like a big gang to me oh captain no one knows we arrested those men last night no sir they're being held in Communicado good makes my blood boil to think my own policemen are burglars thieves maybe killers but if we can keep this arrest quiet for one more night excuse me chief uh here's that list you want it sir all right sweetie that'll be all right yes sir captain here's the record of all the patrolmen on whose beat those phantom gang robberies to place oh I see dates of robberies beats patrolmen and the night's off right now take a look at these precinct maps Jenkins he was off his own beat that night of the blue streak murder sure in there covering up probably helped rob that place and then had an alibi just going by and look at this most of these robberies were pulled when the regular patrolman had his night off and somebody else was doubling on his beat exactly we're short-handed on police and somebody had been tipping off the phantom gang on what beats are unguarded and when that's why a lot of these stores are cleaned up the gang had lots of time and they knew it but how can we put our fingers on the tip off man chief this gives me an idea you track this phantom gang in oil suppose I track them another way how here's my plan tonight in about 10 minutes headquarters take the woods just a minute oh yes captain Edwards chief wants to see you right away special assignment all right captain but uh we'll take over the switchboard I'll take it used to be my old job you know come on give me the headphones yes sir there you are I'll see the hello right who feels charming why I don't know I'll see who is this well never mind please just tell him Sylvia little bushes sister eh oh sweetie well this is Edward this is Joe hello Joe one truck say anyone on duty first avenue between no nobody's there tonight swiney swiney hurry up yes captain ready take the board take these headphones yes remember your orders yeah yes sir just shall I pledge everybody now captain Edwards will be in jail any minute now yes give them the works and remember swiney tell those squad guys no sirens within hearing distance gave us lumber company right first avenue between second of Virginia oh chief chief they all sit all cars all cars go to Davis lumber company first avenue we've got them red handed then all posted captain already chief and five of him own policemen five more plots on the Seattle police look out people look out nice work common he'd have plugged the chief if you hadn't got him thanks Sherman all right chief I owe to to you forgive me this chant I want to I'm Joe night watchman I shot him the killer of the night watchman well that's one member of the phantom gang who won't have to stand in trial come on Seattle's finest down to the jail to meet your pal Edwards you're going for a ride in your own wagons


It's a mindset, and whether or not you got that mindset now or later. If you're not going to take us for ice cream after the game, could we go for some lamp jobs instead?  You might not even be on this team next year. We have one game left in the season, and let me tell you, it's very important that we end the season with a bang. We have a good draft position. We have picks number two, number three, number five, number eight, and number ten. Our first five picks are in the top ten of the draft. We have done everything we can to stockpile picks, and as it turns out, we picked right because everybody that we traded with ended up being really bad. We are going to have a crazy draft. This team is in a hard rebuild. I know this season hasn't gone the way we wanted to, but it's important to remember that we can't just phone it in for the rest of the year. Definitely. It's way too early to be thrown in the towel. If we're able to go out and show these guys that we can play with the top teams right now, they'll be even more prepared for it next year. Eyes up here. Eyes up here. Listen, I know we've had a bad season. I know we've had a bad season, but we're not going to kill it over just yet. You know, this is our Super Bowl. Last game of the season.   I've seen it. I've seen y'all listening to your damn AM radio.  I don't. I'm here to coach some championship caliber football.  Coach, why are you in your socks? Because we just got a new carpet in here. I don't get it dirty.  Setting the example and telling the damn city, the city of Dallas, Texas, that we're not going to give up like this, okay? We ain't going to give up. We ain't, okay? Championship caliber football is a mindset.  It ain't no damn record. It ain't no none of that. It's a mindset. And whether or not you got that mindset now or later. Coach, it's Tim Tebow. If you're not going to take us for ice cream after the game, could we go for some lamp jobs?  You might not even be on this team next year.  Go out there. You got one shot.  Let's go. Let's go. Hey, Gilbert, break them out. Hey, Coach. I brought that lipstick you asked me to grab. We finally will look pretty when we get fucked.  Pay attention.  He did a pretty good job. Just follow those guys right there. Nice. Amazing. That's right. Establish the run. I'm going to give this time for the tail back. Sorry to bother you, Coach. But should we be playing like your job is on the line?   Oh my gosh. Runk. What a man. We have to establish the run and then we can pass. Demo. They'll try the right side with Harris. Oh my gosh. No. No, what? I'm freaking trying to tackle Marcia on Lynch. What's going on, dude? A little short with the arm, which is unusual because we saw them in warmup. Got a man. Jets. It's OK. It's opening quarter of play. It's OK. What are you doing? Catch the football, CD Lam. That's the first throw of the game. Literally the first pass of the game. After the interception, here's Wilson. That's the tight end, Hearst with it. No way. Thank you. On first and 10, it's Wilson. Oh, that was a fumble. Come on. Pick right here, Interception. I can feel it. I can feel the Interception's coming. Off in order to try and get this running game going. Ben Malone. It's going to wind up incomplete. However, we do have a flag down. Let's check it with a referee. This is garbage. Hell. George means these more carries, dude. Four of the inches. Let's go. Coach, this is Tom Landry. I paid the refs to make sure we get this number one draft pick. Wait, what? No. What? Are you kidding me? Is it really that loud? Then Garrett Gilbert has been hanging out with Danny Brown. What's going on, dude? How come I can't see the target? OK, we'll take it. Wilson now to throw on third death. It's a short one here. Complete to the tight end. Just shy of the 40. To throw again as Wilson. A final shot before break. Gilbert, he's going to go deep for Beasley. And this is... No way!   Hey, that right there, not giving up, not giving up to the damn whistle blow. We've seen fat kids tackle diabetes better than that first half. I know it. We just plan to turn it around on defense. What? Why is the reporter in here? What do you mean?  That was dog shit-ass tackling. That's what that was. We have got defensively. Hey, coach. Even though the pass at the end of the first half was pure luck, do you think your players truly want to play for you? Why is the damn media in here?  Hey, hey! Security! Hell of a first half. Why?   Hey, coach, tell Lamb to do his job or he can make himself useful and give us all lamb jobs. No, that's my job, okay? That is my job. Didn't mean it like that. Listen, I'm the one coaching the players, okay?  It's my job to coach the players, okay?    Defensively, we have got to learn to tackle. It's a dad-gum embarrassment is what that is. Listen, it's 17-14 against the 9-7 football team. You want to let them have 10 wins? No, let's go out there and let's earn it. We are capable of championship caliber football. That's what we're capable of.   Offensively, I cannot stress enough. Effort. Effort to the last whistle blows. I cannot stress enough how good that was. Cole Beasley, break them out.  Now Wilson. Nice. Coral. Gordon Coral, our first-round pick. The challenge there does not go their way. This will indeed remain a completed pass. And they'll let the quarterback keep it here on first-time. What? Dude, in your face. Tebow is carrying. Dude, Murray is just getting shut out, man. Okay, come on, Tebow. Okay. Okay, that was my fault. Hold on to the ball. No, no. Okay, good stop, good stop. Oh, dude, I thought he missed. Nice, Gronk. Nice, Gronk. Okay, we go, Chad. Is it Tebow time? Wait, wait, it's telling me to go for it. Ben Malone. Ben. Hell of a game. Hell of a game. Listen, I want to go ahead and start off and talk about... Who, Coach? Since we are in New York... Getting interrupted. Can you buy the team some pizza? Listen, we ain't buying no pizza. I mean, we got team dinner, okay? We got a special nutrition plan for the players. Okay, so that ain't my job. That's our nutritionist job. It is a loser's mentality to want to go out last game of the season and lose to clinch the first-over-all draft pick. Okay, and we ain't doing that, okay? Which, when we're coaching championship caliber football, we ain't going to do that. It is far more important for me to be able to go out there and win the last game of the season and make a damn statement. In addition to that, you know, there's some of you folks I've seen already talking about, okay, well, what if we lose the first-round pick?  Okay. That is odd because you're a member of the media. I don't know why you were hanging out with the offensive line during the game. I'm supportive of our football team because I do think a family atmosphere is important. I would like to go ahead and add that I'm not worried about getting the first pick, second, third, fourth. We have five first-round picks projected to be in the top 10. But, Coach, that same mentality is why the Jets are starting Zach Wilson instead of Trevor Lawrence. Okay, well, listen, that ain't something I'm concerned about. I trust our scouting department to get the best and the best and the best. I think this is a very, very deep draft. It's a deep quarterback class, and I think there's a hell of a lot of good quarterback. Okay, well, listen, let me tell you about some damn sources, okay? The only sources I know is my ex-wife, okay? My ex-wife was a damn sorceress, okay?    I'm a football coach.  It has been, but we're going to be better for it coming out in the back end. And, uh... No, there's no damn ice cream that will be given to my football team. They have not earned it yet.  We're going to have a new football team this next year.  I'm very, very excited for the future, and today really proved to me... I would like to teach my receivers how to catch, and I'd like to teach my quarterbacks how to not be terrible and throw the damn football. I'll see y'all next season. Listen, there's different methods. There's different methods, son, to how different teams handle their business. Okay? And some people say it's a copycat league. The only copycat is the people who aren't me, because they're going to be copying me once they see how good my matches are. I'm with Pizza Hut, and I had 50 pizzas here that were ordered to the cowboys. No, that's not... No, I did not order that. Okay? Hey, y'all have a nice day. We'll see y'all next season. You know, leave one of them... leave two of them pizzas here. I'll see y'all next season.


Hello and welcome to Newsplik. Today we have with us Ulfa Lamloom from Tunisia, who is a researcher and has been studying various movements in the region. Ulfa, good to have you with us. Thank you. Elections in Tunisia have brought in a result which have surprised some people. The fact that Nihada, which is an Islamist organization, has come out on top, seems to have won the majority of the seats. Is that a threat to the democracy in Tunisia or do you think that this is really something which is not going to be posed long-term threat and it's something which is the Tunisian politics can well absorb. I want to say that first of all it wasn't a surprise for Tunisian people. Nihada is a historical Islamist party. It exists since 1981. It was a big party and in 1989 they had a big score for the first democratic, first democratic election under Ben Ali. After that they were repressed and the leaders were put in jail. For us, for Tunisian, it's the only party with a social base and they had and they continued to have structures and historical leadership. They were the biggest victim of oppression in Tunisia. They didn't participate like others in the revolution, but they were prepared to this sort of election. It's a real actor with militants, with structures, with history and with how we say, with a real social base. What you're saying is though they were not the leadership in the overthrow of the Ben Ali regime, but they were the only organized force on the ground and therefore it is not surprising that they have really merged on top. But the point is that there were a lot of other forces which were in the part of the democratic upsurge who led it and who seemed therefore well placed also to take advantage of it. In that sense, don't you think that the Islamist forces in that sense have been able to gain ground, though they did not really cause the democratic upheaval? I think that the vote in favor of NAHDA wasn't a vote in favor of Islamism or Islamist state. People vote in favor of NAHDA because NAHDA represent a break up with the regime, the Ben Ali regime. We had in this election more than 100 parties. The majority of those parties are new for people, are new for me also. So voting was a manifestation of people want to participate. People want to express their, to get right of former regime, of Ben Ali, of corruption. Basically, it gets rid of the former regime. That was the main task of this election for the people. Exactly, this election. It's an election for one year. It's an assembly constituent. The main task of this election, of this parliament is to write new constitution. And people vote for this, not for Islamism or not for polygamy or not for Islamism low, you know. The sharia. It's an interesting point you are making. The main meaning of this vote is that people want to break from the Ben Ali regime. It's an interesting point you are making that in fact the Libyan overthrew has produced the sharia. But an Islamist party which is one in Tunisia is saying clearly that we don't want to have sharia's law. Yeah, exactly. It's a very special Islamism. It's a light Islamism if you want. For example, the reference of NAHDA is the Islamist party in Turkey. They say in their election campaign that they will not apply sharia. They will not apply the polygamy. They are in favor of democracy, et cetera, et cetera. And I think that the balance of power now in Tunisia in this revolution process can take and arrive to the Islamist regime, you know. People are very, very mobilized actually now. What you are saying is they will be able to control the Islamist party as well. Exactly. Exactly. Because they are mobilized and they are already organized in some sense. Yeah, and very, very politicized, et cetera. So even NAHDA know that, even NAHDA know that the march of manoeuvres, I don't know how to say it, they can't do what they want, you know. They had to deal with this revolution. They have to deal with the others party, the alliances. They enabled the regime in Algeria. And they know that the regime is not in favor of revolution and spring Arab, et cetera. They have to deal with France. They have to deal with United States. They have to deal with the population in Tunisia, et cetera. So it's a very, very special context now. And Islam know that they haven't free legs to do everything. They want to be elected in one year. So they have to consider it all this context. Coming to the non-Nahada, you know, NAHDA other parties, which are the major actors? We have three parties which are either left of center or left liberal. You have the PDP and CPR. How do you look at these formations? It's very hard to have a response to your question. Your question is very interesting. But we are in a transitional context and period, you know. So everything is very fluid. And in movement, we can't say, I think in this election, people vote for break up, you say? Break with the past. No Ben Ali, no parties compromised with Ben Ali. They vote for NAHDA because NAHDA was the biggest victim of Ben Ali. They vote for CPR because most of Marzoukhi was a figure of opposition to Ben Ali. They vote for Takatol because Takatol wasn't in the landscape before the revolution, you know. And when we see the results, we see that all the parties existed before and were implicated in the regime. Even little bit. People didn't vote for them, you know. So what's the force of the other? I think that the future, maybe future can bring some response to our question. So in the movement, it's difficult to estimate or difficult to understand where they would be going. But basically what distinguishes them is really that they were anti-Ben Ali. They were not compromised. While a lot of the older political forces were compromised with the association with Ben Ali. That's what is really the result of this election. There is also certain sections of the left which have got some seats. But they seem to be quite small. So do you think the left has a possibility of being able to come together and build a kind of left alternative poll in the future? I think that there is another actor which be out of this election. The other actor is the trade unionist in Tunisia. There is a big tradition of trade unionism in Tunisia. The UGTT, Union Generale de Travailleur Tunisienne, the General Union of Workers in Tunisia was since the independence of Tunisia a real actor, political and social. And this, in this time, in this election, this trade union choose to be outside. And I think that in the future we have to see this actor because the only possibility to build a third alternative is left alternative. Social alternative, anti-liberal alternative is around this trade union. It's interesting because this trade union movement is the one which also spearheaded the agitation against Ben Ali. And it was instrumental in fact bringing out the whole support, particularly in smaller towns and other places against Ben Ali. And it was not just the students and youth who were personally important. And that dimension of this Tunisian revolution has manifested politically as yet. Exactly. And even in the, for example, in the city where this trade unionist is very strong, not the leadership, but the structure... The second level leadership. Exactly. Play a real role in the, in the political pricing during December and January, you know. And in the end of this year, in December, this trade union will have their congress. And I think that it will be a very interesting event even in terms of future of the movement of the process and of the fight against Tunisia. Yeah. So what you're saying is that a lot will depend on how the trade union over there. And this is really a very powerful trade union which has existed with the whole history of resistance and left, left intonation and so on. How it really... Yeah, because even until now, the bureaucracy had the control of the trade unions. And everything changed around even Ben Ali. It's not now in Saudi Arabia, but the same bureaucracy is continue to control, you know. And I think that the next congress will be... A new leadership. Yeah, a new leadership and a new possibility and opportunity to involve it in the movement and in the social movement, etc. So what you're saying is the other poll in the Tunisian politics, the left poll, if you will, will really have to come out of this trade union movement. Exactly. Around which you can have other... Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. One year, Constituent Assembly, do you think that in this sense democratization will only deepen in Tunisia? Or do you think that it has reached a position where actually it can be rolled back? I think... I'm Tunisian and I spent 10 years without the possibility to go to Tunisia. As an exile. Yeah, an exile in France. The situation really changed now, you know. People are very enthusiastic. There are many, many free, real practice of free speech, free organization, et cetera. So we have many rights now in reality, you know, in this context. And I think that it's a big victory to throw... We can't throw... It's Shau Ben Ali and his regime, et cetera. But the main actor of the dictator is still here, he still exists. The Minister of Interior and... The Minister of Interior. Interior is still in Tunisia and it's still active and is still decide, you know. So this year will be very important in the... Democratic transformation in Tunisia. Democratic transformation in Tunisia. But I'm optimistic because we, how we say, we succeed to have free speech, free speech, free speech, to have new rights and new opportunity, real opportunity. And people are very, very, very careful, you know. And they know that their... The only guarantee is that their mobilization, you know. So their vigilance and mobilization for... Yeah, and their vigilance, et cetera. The freedoms that they have won, you think will protect the democracy in Tunisia and only dip it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Thank you very much. So... Well, this has been a great discussion. Hope to see you back.


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So I don't know even know where to start this conversation from because honestly speaking first of all I am I am really tired of Nigeria. Like so Nigeria has so much but it is like for every time I see what Nigeria can be and I see what it is it just gives me mental mental mental health issues and let me both put it like that. You know because you know why I say this. I remember as a young undergraduate I think it was in 2012. So my grandfather lived in Benin right so we we made it a point of duty when whilst he was alive every year would go to Benin city every December will go spend Christmas with my grandfather. So when I was going to go to the university because we had done school all our lives in the north he insisted that never we can't school it because I was supposed to go to ABU's area. He said never we have to find a school in our like down south at least let's have a feel of our own people because we don't know anything we were northerners we just only come on holiday Christmas and we go back. So that was how he insisted we come to Benin. Every time was rainy season literally I put my hat in my mouth first of all I'm very irritated when I saw those millipede centipede and all those things. So first of all I already have a phobia when it comes to rain in Nigeria then in Benin in particular you will see houses like the the rain has gotten to the roof or maybe the window level of whatever this thing has been on for years for decades do you understand so I don't understand what what exactly is the role of government do you understand why can you not provide adequate infrastructure if you do not know how to handle the situation they are experts our kind of flood in Nigeria is not the type that is that it cannot be controlled do you understand because if you have the right infrastructure like the right planning and all of those things it can be channeled to a what's it called a whatever a river or something you can channel that water so every time I see this flood situation it thing just I cringe because I don't even know how to explain it and when we complain as citizens you expect us not to say anything we're attacking we're not attacking the government Nigeria's are not asking for too much give us light give us good roads network do you understand just give us proper infrastructure and light and we will blossom we don't need we don't need anything extra and that's why people are even clamoring that this palliative that they're talking about as regards fuel scarcity can we channel that palliative to infrastructure so that we solve all the problem once and for all don't give us any handouts so really I actually thought I was going to be calm today but honestly speaking what in the video again is it's really upsetting because these things are they are actually avoidable but let me hear your thoughts Jennifer honestly the same way you're tired is the same way I'm tired I remember when my friend used to live in Agungi and that place gets really flooded right so once it rains you really cannot leave your house and if you do it means that you would have to walk because if you use your car you would most likely stop in the middle of the road because the water was really this high and I remember we were coming back we went out when the rain started so by the time we were coming back we were using the boat by the time the boat driver saw the water he said he couldn't go anymore I guess we were worried even close to the house so we bought we had to beg the guy and beg and said we add extra money he said the extra money we want to give him is not going to fix his car if he goes into the water so I think the only reason why he was even able to enter that water that day was because he saw another car that was not as high as his yeah so he saw another car moving and he just following the path same path that the guy took and while we were doing that we found that there were some other cars in front that actually stopped and they were removing so we're actually very lucky that day because we didn't want to walk inside that water Agungi is dirty do you know what will enter your body what's the what's the name of that thing that goes with water is it itanus no no it's not even there's something that because it has happened to my sister before you have to cut the leg to to bring out the in the stuff I've had something like that I remember as a child inside the flooded water and then the next day I woke up with like soles and rashes all over my leg and my grandma then had to use some for you have traditional to actually treat it so since that time I've been very scared about about flooding and by the time we got to our house locally for my friend she stays on the second floor and not ground floor the people that were living on the ground floor I felt so bad for them because their house was basically just swimming their beds were swimming on the water it was a very it was a very sad thing it's very sad thing to see so when I started looking for when both of them looking for another apartment to move into we were actually thinking about okay we need a place that doesn't flood as much right so I mean even moving to a place that wasn't flooding as a goongi currently floods is way more expensive but we had to take that risk like you know what we would rather spend that money and move to this place than for us to move back but imagine people who actually cannot even afford it what do you think people who cannot afford I remember I think it was last year yeah was it last year or two years ago I wasn't legos at the time when it rained for like two days or it was even a day or something and because at Lagos island my friend was actually one of the cars that I had to call her are you okay she says she's not okay I'm like oh my god she said that it was so flooded that when the water actually came down and she finally took her car because they then they were advising people don't even drive the car like if you want to fix that car tell your mechanic to come there to fix it and for her she made a mistake of actually starting the car and trying to drive she was able to drive that car back home but she spent a lot of money because he knocked and then that was it so that was like extra extra extra expensive and planned expenses is like I mean it was even the same last year that we're talking about flooding in other states where people couldn't move people couldn't go anywhere and their their farmlands were flooded they couldn't harvest their crops they couldn't do anything so flooding leads to a lot of things and we've always been complaining I mean I've been hearing about bad drainage systems since I was a child and up until now it's still the same issue it's like nobody's listening let me quickly um open our phone lines right because I don't even think we need to go on this break please if you want to join the conversation call us on 0700 2500 77749 there's no need to go on it because it's a serious matter and that's the number to call remember turn off all the volume of your television tell us what the flooding situation is like in your area if you if you want to share and tell us if you think there's a solution that the government needs to hear what you feel the solution would be right and we're still discussing flooding let me come to you with it and I'll come back to you Mary with it what are your thoughts on this when you saw the video there is nothing new for starters we've been dealing like like Jennifer said we've been dealing with flooding issues um from time immemorial it's not a new thing the only difference I can say is that it continues to deteriorate it has done that year on year which is why we find ourselves where we are now and I I largely agree with everything that has been said so far but I I think that beyond the government as well we all have um we all have our responsibility the matter we have responsibilities because um we've seen so many stories of houses being built you know beyond their permissions we've seen land being appropriated that is you know in the pathway of where water should flow so that uti uti uti who hold your thought because all what you just said now is links to government but let me take paul i think for migbeta then i'll come back to you please don't  preparations owego ussia  göst Charit  satell  Revelation  nder  Woman ers  إ fantasy the natural water ways Like in Lagos here the area where I am living you discover that the natural water ways have been built upon and government gives certificate of occupancy to the owners of these buildings they inspect it before it is being built so that is the cost once you block that natural water when there is rain fall everywhere the floor dead And then when they are constructing roads, they don't construct goddess villages. If they do, they do just a very shallow one that a little thing we just cover it up. So I think it's the failure of government to execute the policies that will enhance that when there is rainfall, it will no result to this flooding and destruction of a purchase. Uti, let me come back to you. So yeah, like I said, Paul has touched on some of the things I was going to say. But the fact is, so I hear you in blaming government, I hear you that there's town planning, I hear all of these aspects and there's definitely failures there. I'm not saying there aren't failures there. But the fact is, I'll take a place like Agungi that Jennifer mentioned. These are places where you have a lot of reclaimed land, you have a lot of water on either side. I mean, the island is literally a strip of land in between two bodies of water. Let me put it that way. Water in front, water at the back. And if anywhere shouldn't have drainage problems, it is the island. But the failure of town planning as they say, people buy land, people build and nobody is looking at the impact. Is the government approving? Yes, I'm not saying that's not the government. Listen to what I'm saying. The government is approving. I'm going somewhere, right? So there is the impact. Now, the first problem is all these new areas that are being built. So for example, the island, right? Land is literally being developed in isolation. So you literally, the Agungi problem was caused by the development of a certain part of that area where waterways were blocked and, you know, waters are basically just stagnating on the road. Now, that is an existing problem, right? But let's talk about why the problem continues to proliferate. You come into an area and you are going to build. There is a level of greed that we must apportion to not just the government, but to the people. Because you come in as a developer, you want to build, you could choose to do what is right. It may cost you a bit more. It may cost you more, right? To then ensure that you put in proper drainage. I live in an estate that drainage was factored in to the body of water where the water was going to drain out. So when the surrounding area floods, my estate does not flood. Yes, there is groundwater because, again, like we said, reclaimed land. Water will come out from groundwater, will come up. But as soon as the rain falls and dry, it stops falling. The water very quickly settles. Now, that was done even in the face of government what, what, what happened. That was a developer that did that. So when we all say that every blame lays at the feet of government, I'll give another example. Another road very close to that same Agungi area. The first developer who built there did the road in front of their property with paving stones, right? Interlocking blocks as we call it. Next to the property was empty land, right? And then another property. Now that, in fact, that property came first. Let me, let me give the right trajectory. The first property was on the left-hand side of the road. They built and they did the road, let's say, from the junction up to where their property ended. Then there was empty land. The person who then built second, built on the far side of the empty land, right? So there was now empty land in the middle, right? Both of them on either side did paving stones. The one that built second built these paving stones almost close to where the first developer stopped. But there was still empty land in the middle. Two things happened. A big name brand petrol station came into that empty space and built the petrol station. Another developer built two houses next to that petrol station. Now in the course of those buildings, those two sets of people that were building, they are trucks completely wrecked. Hold on now, I'm going somewhere. Completely wrecked the paving stones on that road. So this was a perfectly smooth road where the first two developers had taken into consideration the work that they did. Completely wrecked the paving stones. Created almost like a deep gully in front of the petrol station. Now the developer that built the two houses in between the first build and the petrol station did what? Powered up the sand, raised it so high that the difference between the road he met and the road that he connected to, right? It was almost like building maybe one and a half foot speed bump in the middle of the road. Hold on now, I'm going to make the point this but I hear you. I'm trying to get you to understand that it is not enough to keep saying government government. That's what I'm saying for you. You see the problem I have, right? Everybody has a bit of madness in them. It is something that controls that madness. So if the government is not ready to stick to the laws, they have this laws, why are they not enforcing the law? owned పివిలు మానికాని నిమానిసికితాని ఆపిమాసిని హికఒలికి. కదటాయకకికికి. దానికనిసితి. విక౨౿కికికికి. గసతికాఒకి. ,పకమాయకికానిక.  otle తిబసితారంచినోిసిమారంచి పానినధారసిసీని. మంవిమాదఈత౿డికాటానࠤంచిసానిినినాచఅదా. మాటన౿హాటకనిసి. మానికానాటనిన౾సి. ǀi Ṛال, Ṛᵘċāeksgments Ṛ Ṛṝ Ṛ�ancy script షానోనిలా పారటుఽనం అల్ల్లా పాతానాన్ల్చాారంల్నిండార్క్క్ండిస్ండి గ్తాన్లానిలికూడాపానేతికంన్లు, నానిక్నాన్నిక్కమినిగా And I totally understand what Uti is saying in terms of we need to take responsibility as opposed to waiting for the government and government every time. So I've experienced flooding first hand or my mum has experienced it and within the past two or three months the landlord has raised the foundation of the house. So I mean it looks funny now because my mum is on the ground floor and it feels like you are descending to enter your house. But now that there's rain, you know, just put the cement and everything. So the water flows out and it's not coming in. So I think that's an individual taking responsibility of what we are the situation that we find ourselves in because we have to help ourselves if we keep waiting for government and government. I'm coming back to you. Don't worry. Or laugh at me, Laurie. Or laugh at me, Laurie. This matter, I don't know. You're alive. Go ahead, please. I said turn off the volume of whatever you're watching. Hello. Go ahead. How are you? Good evening. Please, you need to turn off the volume of whatever device it is that you're watching us from. So we don't get the feedback. It's difficult to hear. Okay. I don't know how to say this. Let me keep quiet. Jennifer. Let me keep quiet. Sorry, Jennifer. Before you just answer it, who are you? Yes, Uti. Who are you? The reason why I say you have to say it that way is so that we all know that. See, if we don't behave ourselves, we're all doing it ourselves. It's not enough to keep saying somebody else, somebody else, somebody else, somebody else. Do you get what I mean? Uti.  Everybody selfish, right? Let me tell you something.  As a government, I will check you, I will check with you. That's my point. We don't, in this country, can you go in the UK now and you just drink this and throw it on the road like that? Or your dog, you wait now. There are fines. There are fines, right?  If somebody sends him a bill or there's a fine, you will not try it next time. When there are consequences for your action, that's my point. So I get what you are saying, right? I mean, you've seen sometimes where you've seen buildings where the fence is almost to the road, right? It's like you're taking up space where you're not supposed to take up space. And then you see that the government has actually put a mark sign there, like X, which means that you need to take this down and move it back, right? And then there are some places where you've also seen where people are trading on the road, right? So you've reduced the space. And the government has to come to enforce the laws. And yes, I get that even as citizens, we actually have to do our part because I remember when they were talking about flooding. I think it was, this is 2023, so I think it was 2021. When it showed in Surulere, there was serious flood and everything we saw was just waste. Thank you. And it was full. Let me take Ola, I think he's back from Ilaria, I believe.  Hello, Ola. Hello, good evening. Please go ahead quickly, you're live. How are you? We're good, go ahead. Armstrong? Hello. Go ahead. I'm watching your program now. This is my first time to tell you today. Thank you for calling. Thank you. Go ahead please. What I'm trying to say about the flood you're talking about. Are you here with me? We're here, we're here, we can hear you. Okay, God bless you. When you're talking about flooding Nigeria, you're always blaming government. When I was driving, coming from my office to my house, you can see what people are doing. Parking vehicles on the road, not only they don't say no. If you see what people are doing, when government are doing something, people are trying to explore everything. We are the one, who is going to face all these problems by ourselves. Thank you. We are the ones who are supposed to, this is the problem. Thank you Ola, sorry. Unfortunately we were running out of time. I want to say this, when rain falls, you see people carry their bin, right? They do it, they should do it. They carry their bin and they go and throw it in the, they believe the rainwater will take the bin away. So let me tell you something, I don't have any problem. I 100% agree with you Oti. We are the problem, we are the biggest problem when it comes to this flooding issue. But I'm saying, if we start to pay, right? If we start to pay for our actions, everybody will check themselves. You don't need anybody to tell you that if I catch you, do what is not right.  Like there was a time you could not try certain things in this country. When you drink water and you throw it, you throw the padbots out the window. Loma from Abia State, let me hear your call quickly in one minute. Good evening. Good evening Loma. Yeah. See, I buy your idea, Ola. I buy your idea, Ola. You don't pay, don't pay. Whenever, before. When you drop anything on the ground, you pay final three thousand. This is the equipment, because we have so much in total. The writing to do, we allow people to don't know that we citizens are one of the factors behind what is happening in this. The equipment is not doing their work. When you turn on your feed and start doing the writing, people will do the writing. Thank you so much. Quickly, do we have messages? సారారోలాతీనిందల్తెబారి ప్న్మెమేసౘందార్ార్స్ maritime లాస్తీటేస్సింది విఘ preparedness�భఎత్ Mr, Storage is costs by Blockage of Drainage with products like plastic bottles, polyteen bags and etc.. Let me give you 1 minute opinions, Mr, let me give you 1 minute investment సినాసిఁపతెరో.  beginners  strate presa  saga ifa  Visa owego  Ashe that whilst I may not be able to control what anybody else can do, I can control what I can do, so in that sense, I stand on the fact that I make better decisions for myself, and I own up to my own shortcomings when I make mistakes so that even if somebody else doesn't, I cannot speak for myself, and I think that yes, if we all did that, I mean the nation would be better, forget this more, the politicians and the leaders are the 1% of the 1%, like there are 200 million Indians, how many people are in that house of senate, house of rep and all joined together, how many, so I think we can do better. so I completely agree with Utti, and I think as citizens we need to start doing better, and I mean the other day we talked about accountability, we need to start holding ourselves accountable and start doing the right thing, right? and stop waiting for governments to do some certain things, but I also urge the government to start putting fines so that when people are going against these things, then we need to find you for it, you have to pay somehow, people put in check. absolutely aunty. I think we can do better for ourselves by looking, moving towards sustainability, and the plastic has caused a lot of damage, both climate change, damage and drainage and everything, so I think we should start looking for, you know, yes, an alternative which is absolutely, the biodegradable, you know, substance, we can start to implement this, so that you know, my own government, let me beg you people, look at me very well, eyeball to eyeball, just give me the power, tell me that I have become your police on the road, we can all take responsibility, like empower citizens to be able to in report other citizens, you go see say change will happen, because it's simple, right? if I know that somebody is watching me, if I do something, I will be fine, definitely, a lot of things because this flooding that happens in Nigeria, I don't know about any other part of the world, it is human problem, it is us that is causing the flooding ourselves, so we can only do that when we start to take responsibility, like I agree with you, but I also believe that we need a tougher hand for us to be able to like, you know, do the right thing, on that note, thank you so much ladies, I'm apologizing in case I shouted too much, the matter is just about to end thank you thank you Jennifer, thank you Mary, now before we go and show you, follow us across all our social media handles that waste your Africa, you can interact with us further, drop a comment and more importantly follow all our engagements on social media, like share and invite your families and friends to watch and follow now if you missed our quote for today here it is again, we cannot prevent hurricane or earthquakes, floods or volcanic eruption but we can ensure that both people and communities are better prepared and more resilient, this is for climates where they have problem, we can control it, just act responsible as a citizen, see you guys tomorrow at 8pm so bring another great conversation to your screen


Eight people are feared dead after a helicopter carrying 16 people, most of them tourists, crashed into a lake on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's far east. Staff at a nature reserve described arriving at the site in two speedboats minutes after the crash to find eight survivors who had swam up from a depth of eight or nine meters. They said two of the survivors were badly hurt and the water temperature was no more than 56 degrees Celsius so they would not have survived long. The passengers were able to escape the sinking helicopter through luggage doors that opened at the rear the regional governor said on state television.


What's up and welcome to one take I'm gill and today we're doing a full Recap and review of HBO's watchmen episode two This is going to be full of spoilers So if you haven't watched the episode yet, you're gonna want to go and do that before you check out this video So that's your spoiler warning and with that let's jump into it You'll recall that episode one opened with a flashback to the Tulsa riots also referred to as the Tulsa massacre We see a small child who survives that tragedy and is left with a note by his mother Which said watch over this boy? Episode two actually opens with a flashback, which tells us the origins of the piece of paper Upon which that note was written. It turns out it was written on the back of some German propaganda that was dropped over Battalions or small armies of African-American soldiers From America during World War one the flyers tried to appeal to Their sense of injustice. How can you fight for a country? Which doesn't respect your human rights simply due to the color of your skin? You should stop fighting for America and you should fight for the Germans or at least stop fighting for a country that doesn't support you and Just like episode one this flashback is showing us something that actually happened Something which a lot of us probably didn't learn enough about back in school Actually, if you look at the statistics, I don't remember the actual number But the number of people searching for Tulsa massacre or Tulsa riots skyrocketed after episode one aired So I think that was very educational for a lot of people in the previous episode We learned that this child grows up to become The man bound to a wheelchair the man who called Angela to show her her boss Judd hanging dead from a tree back in the present day We see Angela bring this man named will to her hideout in this scene Angela essentially interrogates the man asking him Who are you and repeatedly he responds by saying? I'm the one who strung your chief of police up And I have to say kudos to the actor here Louie gosette junior Because I could see another actor repeating that line over and over and it just feeling cheesy and repetitive But he did such a great job Throughout this scene, but in particular his delivery of that line as Angela interrogates him She essentially says there's no way that you could have been the one to hang Judd up from that tree You're 95 years old and he corrects her and says I'm a hundred and five years old He then goes on to claim that he was able to do it because he has Telekinesis the ability to move things with his mind He claims to be dr. Manhattan Which leads into a discussion of dr. Manhattan's powers what he can do what he can't do by the end of the Conversation if there was any doubt it becomes very clear that this man does not have powers And this man is certainly not dr. Manhattan But it's clear that even if he's not the one who hung Judd from that tree with his bare hands Clearly he was involved perhaps he was even the one who arranged for it to happen and when Angela asks him why he did it He says Referring to her boss Judd he had skeletons in his closet There's a vast and insidious conspiracy at play here in Tulsa a few things I have to say about this scene first before Angela began the interrogation She left the room and had this emotional outburst where she screamed right in front of the camera And I thought Regina King did a great job in that scene. I think she's been doing a great job Overall, but that moment didn't really work for me And I think it's because when I'm watching a character on screen Portray some big emotion like the one Angela was showing here if I'm not feeling Some degree of what they're feeling I start to have this disconnect and the scene just doesn't work that well for me I felt a little bit of that here, and I think it's because I didn't get to know the character of Judd That well, I mean I came to like him to some degree in episode one mainly because Don Johnson did such a great job of just playing this fun character who you want to get to know But I didn't know him that well I didn't really come to care for him that much over the course of just one episode and in addition to that I don't think the show did a whole lot to establish a Strong relationship between Angela and Judd I mean there was a little bit of it but not enough that I cared all that much when he died in episode one So when I saw Angela have that outburst, I certainly understand it But it just created that disconnect for me between what she's feeling and what I'm feeling So I kind of wish the show did a little bit of a better job in that regard on the flip side one thing I'll say that this scene did really well is The organic world building the show has been doing throughout these last couple of episodes For people who didn't read the graphic novel they're not going to be familiar with what Dr. Manhattan can do and In this scene without making it feel like overt exposition The two characters got into a discussion of Dr. Manhattan's powers pointing out that he doesn't have the ability to look like us Pointing out that he can it be in multiple places at once So there are many examples of that in this episode and that was a great one right there I will also say that before this conversation part of me wondered if maybe this man in the wheelchair will Actually did have some kind of powers Especially in episode one when he asks Angela think I can lift 200 pounds and then when you see him sitting next to Judd hanging from that tree. I mean there actually is precedent for psychic powers in the Watchmen universe in the original graphic novel in the grand finale when Vite or Osmandias Releases that giant squid part of his plan was using the psychic brain of a dead Supervillain he cloned that brain made it bigger and somehow that worked into his whole plan So we do know psychic powers exist So I'm not that crazy for thinking it but of course this scene like I said established that will At least to our knowledge at this point does not have psychic powers And then of course this scene opens up a question. What is the grand conspiracy in Tulsa? I do have a couple of thoughts on that But I'll get to them later during this recap during the interrogation scene between Angela and will She receives a call the cops have found Judd's body so she goes to the crime scene and When she's there she's sitting in the car with looking glass that guy who wears the awesome reflective mask and In their conversation he essentially implies that he doesn't think she's being totally truthful He asks her some questions Mentioning that he's aware that Angela and Judd had dinner together He asks her if he was acting strangely and just you get the feeling He thinks that she's holding some information back throughout this whole thing. He's super cool super collected and Very much gives Rorschach vibes We also see in this scene a couple of people referred to as moths Basically guys with artificial wings and cameras trying to sneak in to get footage of the crime scene I thought the moths were a pretty nice touch one thing that hasn't really been overtly explored in these two episodes is That you'll notice no one has smartphones No one has access to the internet. So you wonder what will that world look like and I think this is just one example Instead of at a crime scene people whipping out cell phones or smartphones to take footage of it You have people with artificial wings trying to fly in and get a glimpse of what's happening So just another kind of cool example of the world building in this alternate reality I'll also say I love the looking glass character. He's just a pleasure to watch like I said He reminds me of Rorschach, which is a character who is sorely missed in this show especially when you see that his image has been Appropriated by all these horrible people the white supremacists known as the seventh cavalry from there We cut to another flashback where we see a glimpse of something We'd heard about back in episode one and that's the white knight the night where the cavalry attacked a bunch of cops Including Angela you'll remember her telling a classroom full of children about how she got shot How she was one of the cops who were attacked that night We see Angela with her husband Calvin get attacked by two gunmen One of them it manages to shoot Angela knocking her to the ground then another of the gunmen walks over Holds a gun to Angela's face and then we cut to Angela in the hospital Staring at Judd Judd basically explains to her everything that happened But there's a couple of strange things with this flashback number one. What happened to Calvin? He sort of seemed to have disappeared in the midst of all the action And how did Angela survive? We see a man holding a shotgun or a rifle to her face Cut to she's in the hospital. So all of that's very Unclear another thing I'll point out about this scene is there is some action in that flashback There's sort of a gunfight and I thought the action in that scene was handled really well one thing I complained about in my review of episode one is that during the action sequences this felt Like a TV show and TV typically doesn't handle action very well in the world of watch men It sticks out like a sore thumb because 80% of the time this show feels so Cinematic it feels big budget. It feels expensive So when something feels cheap or rushed it kind of sticks out this scene is not an example of that I thought the action worked well, but I'll talk about one where it didn't work quite as well in another scene Later in the recap from there. We're back in the present back at the crime scene where Judd was hung from that tree and Basically the cops there decide they want to go and bust some skulls.  I guess somebody they really look up to they threaten to tear down that statue unless the cavalry and the folks at that Trailer park step forward and come with them for questioning Immediately the cops are attacked and basically all hell breaks loose and this is the scene I was talking about moments ago as soon as watchmen goes into fist fighting It looks awful It does all the things wrong that TV shows do with the quick cuts where the geography of the fight gets jumbled They're probably using stunt doubles and you can tell So I'll show a clip or two here where you can see exactly what I'm talking about It's kind of a minor complaint because this show isn't really about the action But like I said before it just sticks out like a sore thumb when everything else in this show looks so great Overall not a whole lot to say about this scene except that I think this show wants us to feel conflicted about how Militant and authoritarian these cops can be sometimes Like the fact that they're going to this trailer park to bust a bunch of skulls without going through any kind of a process the problem is that every time the cops have really shown muscle in this show so far it's been towards people who Unambiguously deserve it. These are evil people. They're racists. They're white supremacists So I really don't feel bad for them and although I feel conflicted to some degree about the cops not following any kind of a protocol Emotionally you're kind of right there with them So I'm wondering if in the next few episodes we'll start to see some shades of gray or some darker sides to this Where maybe they'll start to use muscle against people where maybe The sides good versus bad aren't as clear as they are here from there Angela goes to a place called the Greenwood Center for cultural heritage Earlier in the episode when she was talking to will or interrogating will she had given him some coffee She took that mug with her to this building and it turns out this is where African-Americans go to receive what people refer to as Redforations which we assume to be a sort of slang or negative way to refer to reparations put in place by President Robert Redford here Angela is greeted by a machine where we learn that these Redforations are given to anyone who survived the Tulsa massacre or Descended from someone who survived the Tulsa massacre So in order to be eligible for this you have to do a DNA test So Angela pulls out that mug uses a cotton swab and submits wills DNA So a couple things about this scene number one we get more organic world building We heard about Redforations here We learn exactly what they are and we even learn how they're administered, but again It's not done in some inorganic exposition This is a logical and pretty clever next step in the plot Angela wants to figure out who this will guy is and she found a clever way to do it Which also peels back the curtain a little bit for us to learn more about this alternate history It also shows us a little bit about how these reparations were able to be passed in this world Because reparations are something that have been talked about in the real world But there's always so much backlash against it that even in this alternate history of watchmen You wonder how they're going to make it something palatable to the public here We learned that it applies to a very specific segment of the population specifically people who were directly affected by the Tulsa riots or the Tulsa massacre and I thought that made a lot of Sense and was just another cool little piece of world building Angela returns home and sees a man sitting outside her door We quickly realize this is her ex-husband who she had her children with that she's currently raising with Calvin He's there because it's his turn to see the kids She writes him a check to get him to leave So it kind of seems like he doesn't really care about the kids all that much He's really there for the paycheck. Hey, I want to see the kids or if you want me to just f off You can give me some money when she goes inside the kids are playing a game One of them is dressed up as a pirate one is dressed as an owl And I'm assuming both of those are meant to be nods to the original graphic novel One of the cool elements of world building back in the original graphic novel is that we exist in a world where superheroes are real So in this world would superheroes have taken on the same place in pop culture as they have in our world and In this reality the answer was no instead pirates were actually pretty popular and people read comic books about Pirates the biggest example of that was the black freighter a comic book Which we saw pages of throughout the watchman graphic novel and then the owl You've got to think is a nod to night owl one of the original Superheroes in the watchman world Angela goes upstairs to tell her son that his uncle is Dead and in a fit of rage he hits the very cool building He was putting together the very cool model building He was putting together which looked like it involved some kind of magnet technology allowing it to levitate in the middle of the room So this scene where Angela tells her son that his uncle is dead I found that the emotions of this scene Resonated a lot more with me than the earlier scene where I complained about Angela's outburst This was probably the first time in the episode where I really felt Judd's death. I think that's for two reasons One is that we got a little more of a taste of Judd and Angela's relationship when we see her wake up in the hospital and Judd Comforts her that really made Judd a more sympathetic character than he was before That scene's fresh in mind then we come to this scene where they're talking about his death So it hit me a little bit harder I think there's also just the added weight of a mother Having to tell her child that someone he was close with has passed away So this scene worked really well for me Then we get to see a little bit of the show within a show American hero story it looks like this is a series that basically dramatizes retellings of Real superhero stories in the world of Watchmen before the show starts We hear an announcer talk about all the violence and horrible things that viewers will see if they watch the show Essentially as a trigger warning and I think this is meant to paint a little bit more of the tapestry in which this show takes place Again, just some more of that world-building one of the things Damon Lindelof wanted to explore in this show is And I'll quote him directly from an interview leading up to the release of Watchmen He says that in the world of Watchmen, they've abolished term limits Robert Redford has been president since 1992 And what Damon Lindelof said is they've abolished term limits and added that the show analyzes What happens if a well-intentioned white man is president for far too long? So I think we're going to see more glimpses of well-intentioned policies That probably go a little bit too far like what we see here This is straddling that fine line between trying to warn viewers about potentially offensive content and Veering into censorship territory Anyway, in this episode of American Hero Story, we see a few armed robbers go into a convenience store But before they can cause any trouble hooded justice shows up and very violently Dispatches those armed robbers a couple of things I'll say about the action in this scene One, I actually thought the action here in terms of close hand-to-hand combat was handled better than some of the other Action we've seen in Watchmen So I just thought it was kind of funny that the show within the show which is meant to be fake Although the action looked over-the-top and ridiculous I thought it was a better action scene than what we'd seen at the Trailer Park for example earlier in the episode the other thing I'd say is that the action here also felt sort of Zack Snyder-esque it kind of reminded me of the Watchmen movie So it almost feels like this show has this fake show within it that Tells the story of these superheroes and that fake show is Zack Snyder's Watchmen anyway at the end of that scene the store clerk asks hooded justice Who are you and then hooded justice gives a very comic bookie Monologue about who he is and I love this monologue because it's sort of a way For this show to have its cake and eat it too It wants to be this grounded very serious show which makes it difficult to have Some of the narration that you would typically see in a comic book It makes it difficult to have voiceover that you have in your head when you read Rorschach's scene in Watchmen where it's this very Detective noir-esque narration But here they found a way to do it because they have a character within this fake TV show Giving that monologue and while he's giving the monologue we cut to Angela And it sort of feels like what he's saying could apply to Angela So we get to have a taste of that cheesy over-the-top Jaw-clenching comic bookie narration Specifically what hooded justice says is who am I when I was little every time I looked in the mirror I saw a stranger staring back at me, and he was very very angry What could I do with all this anger hot? Vibrating electricity with no place to ground it if he couldn't release his rage Maybe I could help him hide it. I never felt comfortable in my own skin So I made a new one and when I slipped it on he and I became one His anger became mine as did his thirst for justice So who am I if I knew the answer to that I wouldn't be wearing a fucking mask So it's a pretty cool narration Definitely on the nose, but it does feel somewhat applicable to Angela's character And I'm glad they found a way to get that in there Without taking away from the grounded and realistic feeling of this show from there Angela goes to Judd's Wake in moments after she walks in she fakes fainting passing out So Judd's widow brings her upstairs and leaves her alone to rest Once Angela is left alone like I said we immediately find out that she faked passing out she's totally fine and so she starts snooping around and She seems to have taken will's statement that Judd had Skeletons in his closet because Angela goes and looks in his closet where she finds a KKK outfit, so this was a frustrating development because I so enjoyed Judd's character in episode one I started to like him even more in this episode when he was so tender to Angela in the hospital And now we find out that he may have been a secretly horrible person This also lends credence to will's claim that there's a conspiracy happening here in Tulsa So immediately this caused so many things into question If I go back to the flashback from earlier in the episode where the gunman had a gun to Angela's face and then she just wakes up in the hospital with Judd Now I look at that and when I rewatched that scene where Judd's being so Nice to Angela telling her it's okay to cry I don't know if I'm just being biased because now I know that Judd has this secret He was hiding, but I watched that scene and Judd almost comes off as Disingenuous to me like he's faking his way through that whole scene And that makes me wonder if maybe Judd orchestrated or was involved in orchestrating the white night Maybe the white night was not what it seemed Maybe the cops are working with the cavalry or at least some contingent within the government or the police force are Working with the cavalry now. Why would they do that? Well, one thing we know is that cops started wearing masks after the white night Because they realized how dangerous it was for people to know their cops so they can find out where they live And they can attack them at their home. They can attack their families We also know that the cops have more power in this world in some ways, right? We saw them enact that Policy last episode where without a warrant they were able to go take some pretty violent action So I wonder if maybe Somebody in the police force orchestrated the white night so they could justify Enacting some of those new policies so they can get more power that feels a little bit simplistic So I suspect there's more to it than that But I wonder if that's an element of it and I'm also assuming that if Judd knew this was happening He planned for Angela to survive again Maybe he did that because for some reason it was beneficial to him To be closer to her maybe he knows about will maybe he thought that by getting closer to Angela He would be able to have some advantage over will I think there's a lot We don't know here We've just been given little bits and pieces of the overall puzzle one other thing I'd say here is that the seventh cavalry to me Feel like villains that are too simplistic for the world of watchmen I alluded to this earlier what I mean by that is there's no sympathizing with them right they're very Obviously Horrible people so I wonder if maybe there's a bigger villain that's yet to reveal itself And I wonder if the seventh cavalry are just pawns in this whole thing. I have a feeling We're going to find out that Racial tensions in this world or at least within Tulsa are Purposefully being stoked by some bigger organization in the seventh cavalry's existence is no accident To what end into our purpose I don't know and this is really all a suspicion predicated on the fact that I think Damon Lindelof will want to give us a more complex Villain that exists in some kind of gray area where you aren't sure if they're totally Evil or if any part of what they're doing is actually right Speaking of bigger mysteries and bigger things going on in the next scene We're back at the castle where a character played by Jeremy Irons is hanging out and the reason I say a character Generically is because I think we're meant to assume this character is Adrienne Also known as as Amanda's the person who was ultimately pulling the strings in the original Watchmen graphic novel in this scene We find out that the two Servants for Vite Phillips and crooks shanks are Apparently not quite what they seem meaning they seem to be playing some kind of a role In fact shortly into this segment of the episode they very literally play a role where they put on a play For Vite the play which he mentioned he was writing in the last episode It turns out this play is a retelling of Dr. Manhattan's origin stories but this play quickly becomes horrifying when Phillips goes into a little contraption and once he's in there Vite pumps a device which incinerates Phillips Which is meant to signify the experiment that went wrong ultimately creating Dr. Manhattan right after Phillips has incinerated a Blue character or a character painted blue lowers from the ceiling to signify the rebirth of this character as Dr. Manhattan as soon as I saw that blue character lower. I thought for a second. Oh, okay Maybe he didn't actually light the other guy on fire But then the jaw-dropping moment that character removes his mask and we see it's also Phillips And then a bunch of the other characters remove their masks and we see many Phillips and Many crook shanks and it seems that Vite has created an army of clones of some kind So this scene gives us the impression that this play has been put on Many times before and there are a pile of Phillips corpses in the basement So I have mixed feelings about this scene on the one hand it's super intriguing and Super interesting Whenever we see Vite in action here just to figure out what the heck is going on here And not only what the heck is going on here But how is this going to connect back to the rest of the ongoing story? But on the other hand it kind of represents one of my least favorite types of mysteries in Storytelling the kind of mystery that I like in storytelling is when you are following a character Into the mystery and the things you're dealing with are as much a mystery to that character as they are to you Because that feels more fair for example if there's a murder like Judd's and we're following Angela We don't know what's going on, but she also doesn't know what's going on So it's kind of fair that there's a mystery, but in the case here with Vite Really the only reason this is mysterious is because we only saw part of the scene the camera left Before we could see what the heck is really going on here. So it's kind of two types of mysteries There's the organic mystery of there's just some information that we're watching characters try and get at then There's the other mystery Where the writers of the show have simply decided not to give us all the information?  So I'm not necessarily opposed to that Always but maybe I'm just a little gun shy because of how much they did that in the show lost How frustrating that got over time and the fact that Damon Lindelof from lost is the one Managing this show anyway putting that aside as much as I have mixed feelings about this I am extremely curious to see where this is going and Jeremy Irons is playing this character in a way that makes him fascinating It's going to be very disappointing if the next episode we don't get another glimpse at him because now I'm used to whenever an episode starts I'm enjoying it, but part of me is waiting to say I got to get to that next Osamandes section now just like with the conspiracy in Tulsa I don't think we've been given enough information here to know what the heck Adrienne Vite is actually up to but just for fun I'm going to try and take some guesses and do some wild speculation here one simple explanation It would be that Adrienne Vite has just completely lost his mind He's gone so off the deep end that he's doing something as crazy as cloning someone and Burning and killing them over and over. I think that might be an element of what's happening here I don't think there's any way you can do what he's doing without being at least a little bit insane But I have to imagine there is some method behind the madness and my theory is that somehow Adrienne Vite is trying to get Dr. Manhattan's attention Dr. Manhattan is basically omniscient He can see everything that's going on So Adrienne knows that whatever he's doing Dr. Manhattan is seeing and you've got to think that Retelling Dr. Manhattan's story over and over in such a brutal fashion is going to get his attention eventually I think there's more to it than that but I wouldn't be surprised if That's an element of what we eventually find out to be the answer to this mystery One thing I'm wondering about this is Phillips and Crookshank. Are they important characters in any way? Or are they just two generic people that Adrienne used as templates for his clones? Are they even clones or are they something else entirely? It's hard not to draw a connection between the fact that we're seeing multiple copies of people in this scene And earlier in the episode this show went out of its way to remind us that Dr. Manhattan can make copies of himself So is Dr. Manhattan already present in some way? Is he somehow involved in what's happening? With Viteer it's hard to say again. I think they purposely haven't given us enough pieces to figure out exactly what's happening But I think I'm on to something we'll find out Then we get to the final scene in the episode where Angela is back in her hideout with Will And she asks Will if he Planted that KKK outfit in Judd's closet because she points out it was so easy to find I think it's pretty clear that The outfit was not planted. Will was not framing Judd. I think this was more Angela grasping at straws not wanting to accept that her friend Had this dark secret during this scene Angela gets a phone call with the results of her DNA test She finds out from the results that Will is her grandfather When she asks Will why he came back he says Because he wanted to meet her and he wanted to show her where she's from In the midst of all this Angela becomes frustrated With his mysterious and non straightforward answers She goes to arrest him as she takes him in his wheelchair She puts him in her car to take him to the police station But before she can get into the car herself A giant aircraft appears in the sky lowers a magnet picks up the car and takes it away So who is saving Will here? My suspicion is that it's a person or a group of people that we haven't seen yet I get the feeling that there are forces behind the scenes that are pulling the strings And orchestrating a lot of the events we're seeing on screen And we just haven't been exposed to them yet. I suspect that adrian is involved somehow And dr. Manhattan, I'm not sure if we're going to find out that he's been involved in a lot of the events here Or if it's going to be more of a something major happens Which draws his attention and brings him in at the last minute. We'll have to wait and see Anyway, I think that about wraps it up for today Clearly I'm really loving this show. I find every character Super intriguing and I can't wait to learn more about each of them I'll also say the show is more mysterious than I expected I know that the original graphic novel had a mystery at its center But when I think back on it the mystery is only one piece of what made that book so great There also was this underlying tension throughout Where you have the doomsday clock and it felt like the world was hurtling towards destruction So i'm kind of waiting for things in this show to escalate So far it feels pretty small scale. There are clearly a lot of tensions But they feel pretty localized to tulsa So i'm wondering if something's going to happen over the next couple of episodes That escalates this to a potentially global threat or global issue If it doesn't that's not a knock against the show for me, but right now It's just sort of an observation and something i'm expecting to see Anyway, let me know what you thought of the episode and what you're thinking about the show overall in the comments I'd especially love to hear from someone who hasn't read the original graphic novel Are you enjoying the episodes as much as we are? Do you understand what's going on? Do you know who dr. Manhattan is and I would love to hear some fan theories What is adrian vite up to how is dr. Manhattan going to play into all of this and what is the conspiracy happening In tulsa and if you liked this video make sure to hit the like button Subscribe to this channel and hit the little bell icon to make sure you get notifications Whenever we release more videos like this one. Thanks for watching


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