My name is 40: Power of Persuasion

Previously on My Name is

AISHA

Why are you crying? You are safe now. That man will never hurt again. I will never let anybody hurt you again. I promise you that

EPISODE 40

EXT. AISHA’S GAZEBO- EVENING

Aisha watches Alice draw henna on Toba’s hands, suddenly her hands shakes and the art work smudges. Alice looks at Aisha with a frown on her face while Aisha smiles softly

AISHA

Don’t worry, you will be perfect one day

Alice talks to Aisha while Kuami translates to her

KUAMI

She said your art work is so good

AISHA

Tell her that her art work is better than mine when I first started learning henna. Tell her that she will be good with time

Kuami translates to Alice, suddenly Aisha sees her servants bow. She stands up to see what is happening and sees the Khan in her courtyard, then she bows herself

KHAN

Walk with me

AISHA

Yes my Khan

Aisha turns to Kuami

AISHA

Tell her to pick her brush and start again

KUAMI

Yes My Lady

Aisha walks hurriedly out of her gazebo to catch up to the Khan. The Khan and Aisha walks out of her court with the servant walking ten steps behind them. Aisha suddenly stops, the Khan looks at her smiling as she breathes in the fresh air. She looks at the Khan with a bright smile on her face

AISHA

I think I will have to keep having walks with you, it is so refreshing

KHAN

That is a lie

Aisha looks at the Khan with confusion

AISHA

What?

KHAN

You are lying, you hate me

AISHA

My Kha…

He raises his hands up to stop her from talking

KHAN

And what you said about Amira’s training helping you adapt is a big lie too. If you really adapted, why will you want to escape with Amira?

Fears engulfs Aisha

AISHA

w…what a…a…re you say… saying?

KHAN

Calm down, I am not going to kill you

AISHA

If you knew that I tried to escape with Amira, why didn’t you kill me?

KHAN

Because you were the one

AISHA

The one?

KHAN

The one that broke the cycle of me having daughters. You gave me a son once, you can give me again

Aisha looks regretful

AISHA

So they were right… if I had told the truth, Amira will be alive today

KHAN

Yes she will be but you two will wish you were died

AISHA

I am sorry

KHAN

From the look of it, I see that you are trying to adapt which is why I am giving you the permission to train the foreign women

Aisha smiles

AISHA

You are letting me train them?

KHAN

I am letting you train them not for sakes of the women because my belief that you women are our property and that we get to use the way we want has not changed but I am letting you train this women because it will make you adapt fully well to this village and when you adapt, whatever ideas you have about escaping again will be gone, that way you get to live to give me another son, that way you get to live to see your son become the next Khan of Muyanku

AISHA

I understand my Khan, thank you

KHAN

Don’t thank me yet because the foreign women in this village presently will not be participating without their husband’s permission

AISHA

But all you have to do is….

KHAN

Give the order and make them join?

AISHA

Yes My Khan

KHAN

I know that I can do that but I am not going to…. I will not force my decision concerning his woman on any man. If they want to join, their husband will have to let them

AISHA

What if they won’t allow them?

KHAN

Then you will have to wait for the new set of foreign ladies, we will receive new ones in two months, wait for them

AISHA

Okay

KHAN

And there is something called the power of persuasion

AISHA

Persuasion?

KHAN

If you make me agree to insane mission, you can get them to agree to send their wives to you if you play your game right

Aisha smiles

AISHA

Thank you Khan

KHAN

Be careful, Halima will be in your business

AISHA

I know that, I am ready for her

KHAN

And don’t ever bring me into the affairs of you women again

AISHA

I won’t

The Khan leaves, Aisha jumps up in excitement. She jubilates her success but the smile on her face fades when she see Emily’s sad face

EMILY

The Khan gave you the permission?

AISHA

Yes he did

Emily sighs in disappointment

EMILY

Then I guess the raping continues

Aisha speaks with anger

AISHA

Yes the raping continues until I find a way out of this place

Emily looks up at her in confusion

EMILY

A way out of this place?

AISHA

You think I like the fact that I am prepping the women to be raped but they have to keep getting raped until I can get them out this place

Emily moves closer to Aisha looking curious

EMILY

Get them out of this place, what are you saying?

AISHA

I am going to finish what Amira started and get every women out of this place

EMILY

Get them out of this place? What are you saying My Lady? The Khan is building a huge wall like the Great Wall of China to demarcate us from the rail lines. There is no way out of this place

AISHA

Abdul is our way out

EMILY

What? Abdul?

AISHA

Abdul likes me

EMILY

Abdul likes you?

AISHA

On the day Amira died, he told me to choose myself

EMILY

Because it is the human thing to do

AISHA

He acknowledges me before Halima when it comes to status

EMILY

That is because you have higher status than Halima

AISHA

He supported me in the front of Khan about Alice, why will he do that if he is not in love with me?

EMILY

Maybe he believes in your insane mission, you can’t say he likes you because of that

AISHA

Believe me he does, I just have to make him fall in love with me completely

EMILY

How are you going to so that?

AISHA

With everything have got, even if it means using my body, I will do it

Emily looks shocked at what she is hearing

EMILY

Oh my God

AISHA

See, it is not just the women that are making sacrifices

EMILY

You shiver at a man’s touch, how can you take two men touches together?

AISHA

I guess that is where Amira’s tea comes in

EMILY

You are crazy, you are going to kill yourself and for what? Women that you don’t know

AISHA

I am not just doing it for the women, I am doing it for my son also. I cannot allow my son to grow up in this miserable place, so are you in or not?

EMILY

This is insane

AISHA

I know

EMILY

This is dangerous

AISHA

I know

EMILY

You could die

AISHA

I fucking know that…. I don’t need you to do this but with you by my side, I can move mountains, so are you in or not?

EMILY

Of course I am fucking in

AISHA

Good, first order of business, I need those mistresses on my side, you know them better than I do which is why I am giving you the responsibility to bring them to my side

EMILY

You don’t need them

AISHA

Oh I do, when it comes to teaching all kind of artwork, they are best. They taught me what I know today and I don’t just need them for the training. Halima will be grumpy because the Khan gave me her job, with the mistresses on my side, I will have the inner court in my hand. That way Halima can’t mess with me

EMILY

I will work on the mistresses

Emily moves to leave but stops when Aisha starts to talk again

AISHA

I need you to send information about the training round Muyanku, the Khan is not going to help me with that

EMILY

Am on it

Emily leaves

FLASHBACK

EXT. OLDER AISHA’ MANSION- AFTERNOON

Still at the dining room, Rose and Aisha talk

ROSE