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Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

First, I'd like to thank the Lagos

museum for this magnificent reception.

I would also like to thank

our primary benefactor on this project,

Yves Massarde.

Thank you.

We are NUMA,

the National Underwater

and Marine Agency.

And this, ladies and gentlemen,

is what we do.

King Bateen.

- Where is he?

- He's not at the buffet.

- Damn it.

- Do you want another kebab?

With the help of museums,

with the help of governments,

private organizations like ours

can work in partnership

to make sure that history,

history that has been lost

to the tides of time,

can be returned to its people.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Have a lovely evening.

Do you have a CD burner

on that ship of yours?

Yes, the same one I bought

from you last month.

I have a wonderful piece, straight

from the Iraqi National Museum.

Don't show me things like that,

Oshodi. We're not that friendly.

Okay, okay. Now, here it is.

A very special piece.

The one I spoke to you about.

It breaks my heart

just to show it to you.

Where did you get this?

Cash, please.

We are not that friendly.

This is a great party.

- Thank you for inviting us, admiral.

- The pleasure is mine.

Yves, this is the woman

I was telling you about,

- Dr. Eva Rojas.

- Hi.

I'm delighted to make your

acquaintance. I'm Yves Massarde.

Nice to meet you.

This is Dr. Frank Hopper.

- How do you do?

- How do you do?

Yves does a lot of business

in Africa.

Some even in Mali.

Will you excuse me?

I understand you believe there is some

sort of plague coming out of Mali?

We don't like to say "plague."

- What do you think it is then?

- A plague.

So you do business in Mali?

Do you know anyone there

who could help us

by pressuring the WHO

to send a team?

Well, you see, much of Mali

is controlled by a warlord.

General Kazim. Do you know him?

Yes. He used to be a colonel

in the Malian army,

and gave himself an upgrade

the day he shot the president.

He's the man who put the "war"

back into "warlord."

And he controls the country?

Half of it. And the other half

no one controls,

but I don't know which is worse.

But I have to warn you, it is very

dangerous for foreigners right now.

I would say it's probably

more dangerous for locals.

Yes, but your death would

look very bad in the papers.

So does the word "plague."

All right, I will call some people,

but at the end of the day,

I'm just a businessman,

so be patient.

Oh, yeah, she's good at that.

He's not gonna help us.

This was a waste of time.

Eva, we can't just wander into

the middle of a Malian civil war.

The fighting with the Tuaregs

is too severe. You know that.

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