Vinyan Page #2

No, I'm not going to take that risk. No.

Look, we'll be about three days at the most.

Look, I'll give you a call

when we get back, all right?

Yeah, I've got to go.

Yeah, don't worry. Bye.

- I didn't hear anything.

- It's fine, it's all fine.

- Bellmer Paul.

- Yeah.

- What's going on?

- Tingtong lady.

Come, we find my contact.

Come on, Jeanne.

Bye, bye. Bye, bye.

Bye, bye, bye, bye.

Mr. And Mrs. Bellmer?

Welcome to Koh Phayam.

I am Thaksin Gao.

Don't worry about him, he deserves it.

Follow me.

Kim?

- How did you know we were here?

- Matty called.

You're very lucky Kim is your friend,

Mr. Bellmer.

- We've got a picture.

- It's about six months old,

but it's the most recent one we've got.

So he'll be a little bigger now.

So, he dressed himself before he left

and he was wearing a...

- Red Manchester United top.

- Yeah, blue swimming...

- Blue shorts.

- Yeah, blue shorts, long ones

because I didn't want him

to get sunburned, and sandals.

Yeah, he's got a scar on his left.

He hurt his left leg quite bad.

He still walks with a little bit of a limp.

- You can keep the photo.

- Yeah.

I have some business in the Mergui Island,

near the village where you saw him.

You will come with me.

Hey, Sonchai.

Tomorrow we'll look for your son.

Sonchai is my best captain.

Sometimes... Sometimes I feel like...

Like he's here in the room with me.

Would you like to join me?

Yeah, all right.

You look like you need a drink.

Well, I wasn't really expecting

to be here, that's all.

Yeah, I guess not. Come on in.

Paul?

Paul?

Wait!

Hey!

- Did you take those?

- Yes.

That...

Video of those kids in the village,

did you do that?

Do you think it's possible it could be him?

I honestly don't know.

When I was in Rwanda, a colleague and I

had to clear a mass grave.

There was this woman there, she was

screaming and yelling and pointing.

We tried to get her to go away,

but she wouldn't budge.

We pulled body after body out of there.

Mothers, fathers, children.

Then finally, at the bottom of the hole,

under this heap of dead meat,

there was a child, baby boy.

He was in a bad way but he was alive.

Her son.

So do you think it's possible

that Josh could have been traded?

People up in the islands are poor.

When things get really rough, they make do

with the only capital they have.

When someone dies a bad death,

the spirit becomes confused.

It does not know where to go or what to do.

The spirit becomes angry,

it becomes vinyan.

What do the fire lamps do?

Light is to help guide the vinyan home,

to the house of the dead

so vinyan can rest.

Each light is for one spirit.

There's so many.

You can light one.

Joshua's not dead.

Not for Joshua. For me.

Light one for me.

- I'd better go.

- Really?

- I left Jeanne alone. I'd better go.

- You did, didn't you?

Jeanne?

Hey, excuse me.

Have you seen a white woman?

Hey, seen a white woman?

Okay.

Good, now no problem for you.

This is where the Salone

and Moken sea gypsies live.

Very close to where we think your son is.

We'll go there first.

The boy is in the village.

You have to pay before you go there.

Pay?

No. We've already paid. We've paid Mr. Gao.

Mr. Khun has worked very hard.

- For f***'s sake!

- All right. Paul, Paul, Paul.

Pay him, please.

Twenty thousand baht.

White boy, good boy.

We hope so, yeah.

Twenty thousand?

Follow that man.

White boy. Good boy.

Mummy.

Mummy.

- Me Joshua.

- It's not him.

- Me Joshua.

- No, no! It's not him, it's not him.

Jeanne!

- Give me my money.

- What's wrong?

That boy was not good?

Yeah, you could say that.

Not f***ing good. No.

You didn't like him?

You f***ing lied to me!

You paid for him,

why didn't you take him?

That? I paid for that thing in there?

- He is a child.

- He's not my child.

- What did he say?

- He said, what's the difference?

There are villages further down the coast.

I have reports of more children.

There are other white children.

It will not cost much. We will find him.

Matty? Can you hear me?

Can you hear... Sh*t!

We're in Burma now.

No reception except with satellite.

What are you doing?

Jeanne, what is this?

Look.

That tape, I watched it.

I can't really see anything

that suggests that it could be Josh.

I'm sorry.

To me it looks like it could be any kid.

It could even be a little f***ing monster

like they just tried to sell us.

He's not a monster, Paul.

They're stealing from us.

They saw us coming

and they are taking us for a ride,

it's as simple as that.

We agreed, Paul.

You said that even if there was

the slightest chance

that Josh was alive,

we would go and we would find him.

I think we have to face facts.

And I don't think there is the slightest

chance that Josh is alive, darling.

The wave took him,

and he drowned six months ago.

Josh is dead.

- No.

- Yes, he is.

No, he's here.

No, he's not here! He's not here!

Can't you see that?

Mr. Gao.

I want you to take us home, please.

- There are two villages to the east.

- No! No! I don't want to go anywhere else!

Just take us home.

To keep searching.

Tell him we're lost.

Tell him anything.

You're making the right choice.

No problem.

Wait there.

- What? Where you going?

- Wait there.

Jeanne! Jeanne.

Jeanne. The money is gone.

The f***ing money's gone.

No. I gave him the money.

What do you mean

you gave him the money?

- I gave it to Gao.

- Why? Why did you that?

But don't worry. It's just because

he's going to search for three more days.

No, darling, we can't. What do you mean

you've given him the money?

Don't worry, it's okay.

We don't know who these people are!

We're in the middle of f***ing nowhere!

You can't just give him the f***ing money!

I want my money back.

It's mine now.

Give me my f***ing money.

Sonchai.

We'll spend the night here. There's shelter.

We're lost, aren't we?

We're lost, aren't we?

Do you play poker?

You knew there were no

white children here.

You knew what those sea gypsies

were doing.

You fixed it, you fixed all of it.

Have some drink.

You think we were just going to buy

some f***ing child?

Any child?

Mr. Bellmer, I did what you

asked me to do.

Your wife thinks your son

is in one of these villages.

So I took you to a place

where they said there was a white child.

Yeah, but that wasn't my son!

I lost my wife of 30 years in the tsunami.

And do you know

what happened to Sonchai?

Four kids and his wife,

all dead in his house.

I didn't know that.

Mr. Bellmer, I can find your child,

I cannot cure your pain.

Your wife paid me to continue the search.

If you can't control your wife,

that is not my concern.

Hey, where you going?

- Out.

- Out?

Go home, Josh.

Go home!

Go home, Josh! Go home!

Go home!

F***! Go home!

Go home!

Sonchai!

Sonchai!

Sonchai!

It's gone.

Oh, my God. My drawings.

Josh's stuff.

What are you doing?

Come back!

- You'll never make it!

- No! No!

Gao!

You bastard! Where are you going?

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