Baby Farm (2025) s01e02 Episode Script

1
What if we just give her another chance?
She's not thinking clearly.
It's understandable.
Been too many chances
around this place lately.
Just give her some time with the child.
It doesn't have to be like this.
Do not question my authority at this hour.
[baby fussing]
You told us we could trust you
to play by the rules of the game.
And it's quite clear we cannot.
Please…
Please, let me hold my baby.
That won't be possible,
but you can see her.
[Emem] Please?
[sobs, in Pidgin] My baby.
Don't be scared, okay?
I'm your mother.
I will take you away from here, okay?
[sobs]
I will always love you.
I love you.
[whimpering]
[Evans, in English]
We thank you, Em, for your gifts to us.
We wish you a better life in heaven
than you had on Earth.
[horn blowing]
[horn stops]
[in Pidgin] Where is Em?
Where is her baby?
I don't understand you.
[Chinedu, in English] Makers.
[Chinedu chuckles]
Nurse Chinedu…
Ah.
Adanna.
-[Adanna] Good morning.
-Morning.
[in Pidgin] Please,
do you know where Em is?
Where's is her baby?
-She had the baby?
-Yes.
She had her baby yesterday.
They took the baby, and
-they knocked me out.
-What?
Are you sure
you're not having a bad dream?
I wasn't dreaming.
[sighs] Uh…
Let me ask.
[in English] Let me see if I can find out
about this situation, hmm?
[chuckles]
Ready to meet your daughter?
Yes!
-Wow!
-Please, can I hold her?
Of course.
[baby cooing]
Support her head. That's it.
Okay. Thank you.
And the mother is so glad
that her little angel
is going to a good and loving home.
Please, can we see the mum?
We'd love to thank her.
No. She's asked to remain anonymous.
-She just wants you all to be very happy.
-My God.
Thank you.
[Evans] Let me see you to your car.
I'm sure
you want to get this little one home.
-Thank you.
-[customer] Thank you.
[door opens]
[Akin] Imagine what would happen
if there was even a whisper
of you buying babies.
-The Internet will go nuts. [sighs]
-[knocking]
That's my coffee.
Imagine the headlines.
"Rich African Actress
Comes Home to Buy Babies."
The studio would drop you in a heartbeat.
Hey.
[cup rattles]
[crockery rattling]
-[in Pidgin] How is it going?
-I'm good.
-I hope you have something I can use.
-Yes.
They've been fighting all night.
I heard them through the door.
They kept saying "baby."
Okay, bye. You can go.
[Barbara, in English]
It's standard procedure.
Emem and her baby
were taken to a halfway house,
where they're waiting for the adoption.
We would never separate
mother and child before three months.
But they were very rough.
She was afraid.
I even had to lock the door.
When you've been on the street
for as long as you have,
it's hard to trust anyone.
You see danger everywhere,
and that's natural.
Can I see Em?
She's still very weak from the delivery.
What of her baby?
Can I see her?
-She was born into my hands.
-[chuckles]
That's such
a special experience, isn't it?
But, no.
The halfway house is quite far away.
The good news is, I've asked Helper Dayo
to keep an eye on you.
Oh, you'll love her. She's very,
very experienced with pregnancies.
[chuckles]
Mmm.
-Thank you.
-You're welcome.
[beeping]
[camera shutter clicks]
[Adanna] Barbara…
I've changed my mind.
I don't want to give my baby for adoption.
Adanna, the whole purpose of the institute
is to give babies and their mothers
-a better life.
-I know.
Well, maybe you want to think about
what's best for your baby.
No. I don't want to think about it again.
I've decided that I want to leave.
Your hormones are all over the place.
-No.
-This isn't the time
to be making important decisions.
I just want to say thank you
for allowing me to come inside this place,
but now I want to leave.
Where do you want to go?
[stammers] Back to the streets?
Let's take some time.
Let's talk about this privately.
I don't want to talk about it again.
I just want to go inside,
take my things and go. Can I go?
You said I can leave if I want,
and now I'm telling you I want to leave.
-Can I leave?
-Peace and quiet
-is very important for expectant mothers.
-Leave me alone!
-I need you to calm down, all right?
-Leave me.
I can't have the community disrupted.
Not again.
Leave me! Leave me alone. Leave me!
-Bring her. Gently.
-Leave me alone.
-I just want to leave! Leave me alone!
-Everything's fine, ladies.
[Adanna] Leave me alone!
I just want to leave! [groans]
[sobbing] Leave me alone.
Please, calm down.
We don't want to use the restraint.
-No, no, no, no, no, no!
-[door closes]
Please!
No, please open this door!
Please! Please open the door! Please!
Please open the door! Please!
No, no, no, no, no! [sobbing]
No, no, please! Open this door!
[humming]
[crew chattering]
[Akin chuckles]
[person] So we're super excited
for Cherise to come to LA.
So are we.
We're pumped.
Only a few more weeks
between the film shoot here
and some personal family affairs
that needed attention.
But Cherise is ready, yeah?
We heard she was having
some problems recently.
Oh. The miscarriage.
All that is behind her.
[Cherise]
This baby's all I can think about.
It's all that matters to me.
How the fuck
am I supposed to be on camera today?
[sighs]
[person] You are more important
than your career, Cherise.
Don't forget that.
[door opens, closes]
Hey, babe. They're ready for you.
Okay. I'll be out in a minute.
Right.
[moaning]
[moaning continues]
[in Pidgin] I am not going to eat.
[Ebun] Don't be like that.
You have to eat.
Adanna, please.
Give this place a chance, please.
Hmm?
Come.
Let's get out of this room.
I'll look after you.
I'll be your big sister.
I'll bring you food
and go to your pregnancy classes.
You lied to me, Ebun.
I am a prisoner here.
You are not a prisoner.
They just want you to calm down.
[scoffs]
Okay.
I'm calm now,
and I want to leave.
Why?
Look at you.
You are heavily pregnant,
so you need tender, loving care.
There's nothing for you or me out there.
Hmm?
This is our home.
Home?
This is not a home.
This prison is what you call home?
Sister Barb and Dr. Evans
are the only people
that have ever cared for me.
[scoffs]
[shudders]
[Evans] Now, you assured me
that this new girl wouldn't be a problem.
These rural girls are high-spirited.
Look at Ebun when she first came to us
and look at her now.
Yes. Broken-in and compliant.
The girls aren't horses, Oliver.
Sentiment doesn't suit you, darling.
It's time to get her pregnant again.
No, no, no. It is way too soon.
We're a business.
-It's never too soon.
-[horse blusters]
Thank you, Detective, for saving my baby.
[sighs]
[director] Cut.
[baby fussing]
No.
You don't cry in this scene.
-Yeah, um, I'm sorry.
-Let's take five, guys.
Sorry, everyone.
[journalist] Cherise.
Cherise, how are you feeling?
-Who are you?
-Joy, from JoyToTheWorld.com.
Is it true you are trying to adopt a baby?
-Get the fuck away from me.
-Ow! Cher…
-Please, I just want to know. Cherise…
-[Akin] Hey!
-Cherise, what the-- Don't touch me.
-Security!
-Get this woman out of here.
-What's the big secret?
-Get out of here.
-Don't touch me.
You again? Vultures, all of you.
Please leave, ma'am.
Fucking huge mistake coming to Nigeria.
Getting involved with this film.
Baby…
Just-- You're stressed right now, okay?
Just calm down.
Why don't we just take a breather,
you know, just take five,
-and then we'll go back out there.
-No.
How can I pretend everything is fine
when I'm in this much pain?
Living a fucking lie?
If I can't have a baby,
I'm not gonna work anymore.
Why don't we call Dr. Evans
and see what he can sort out for us?
You mean that?
Yeah, I mean it.
[stammers] You said it now.
It's just cutting corners.
There's nothing wrong.
-No, there's nothing wrong.
-Yeah.
-Thanks, babe.
-Yeah.
[in Pidgin] Change. Let's go outside.
Mm-mmm.
Where's it? I left it right there.
-What are you talking about?
-[gasps]
Someone has taken my photos.
They wouldn't have taken it. Check again.
They're my family pictures! What is this?
Are they trying to punish me?
-[Ebun] Don't worry. We will find it.
-[Adanna mutters]
I don't believe this.
[clicks tongue]
[groaning]
Sorry, Adanna.
[clicks tongue] Leave me.
Adanna, please give it back to me.
It's not yours.
Ebun, it's Em on this flyer.
-Where is she?
-[shushes]
-Where is she?
-[shushes] Don't shout!
If you don't shut up, I will shut you up.
Please give it to me.
[Barbara, in English] It is a pity
that we had to get rid of Em.
She was out of control.
A threat to the business
that had to be removed.
We're not a two-bit operation.
There's a lot more at stake.
[Barbara] Do you ever think…
-[Evans] Think what?
-That maybe we've gone too far?
[Evans]
What the fuck are you trying to say?
Well, Oliver, that we're moving too fast,
pushing too hard.
Things were so much simpler,
cleaner, in the beginning,
when we were just trying to help.
-Fuck off, darling.
-[chuckles]
No.
I mean, seriously, I mean,
have you forgotten how poor you once were?
Hmm?
Florence fucking Nightingale.
[chuckles]
That ring on your finger,
diamonds in your ears.
Here, we are fucking royalty.
[chuckles]
[Ebun] Ada…
[in Pidgin] I know you don't like it here,
but this is my home,
the only home I have ever known.
Ebun, I've told you this place
is no one's home.
Look at this place.
I blame myself.
I wish I hadn't run away from home.
You still think about your family, right?
I miss them.
So why did you leave?
I followed a boy.
He said he loved me.
I came to Lagos to look for him…
but I couldn't find him.
I don't know.
Maybe one day I will find him.
That is what brought all of us here.
Does the boy know?
My greatest regret is that I didn't
even tell my parents I was leaving.
I didn't even leave a note.
Now I'm wondering
if my parents could even find me.
Ah!
I was so stupid.
[Ebun] You are not stupid.
[Adanna] You wouldn't understand.
I brought shame to them.
It was my fault.
What about you?
I dropped out of school.
I wasn't clever.
I couldn't even read or write.
Sister Barb has taught me
everything I know.
Hmm.
Where are you from?
I grew up on the streets.
I didn't know my father.
And my mother had many boyfriends…
and they would…
I told my mother,
and she gave me a serious beating.
So, I ran away. [sniffles]
I am sorry that this happened to you.
Hmm?
-Sorry. Don't cry, okay?
-[sniffling]
What are you looking at?
[gate closes]
[door closes]
Welcome to the Evans Foundation.
[Cherise] Thank you.
Shall we go through to my office
for a little privacy?
-Sure.
-I hope no one saw us coming in.
Well, so what? It's a…
There's nothing disreputable
about the foundation.
[Cherise] Sorry, Doctor.
We're just a little bit nervous.
Oh, don't worry about it.
Please, follow me.
I completely understand your apprehension.
This is a rather large decision
and shouldn't be entered into lightly.
Allow me to put your minds at ease.
Please, sit down.
Thank you.
Now, I've helped many people
in similar situations.
Some of them quite famous.
You'd be surprised
if you knew their names.
-Like who?
-[Evans chuckles] I'm sorry.
Absolute confidentiality to all
my clients, even from other clients.
But rest assured, I have friends
in very high places who agree--
There's no crime
in sidestepping bureaucracy
in order to help people.
Let me be clear:
There are no victims here.
Everybody wins.
So, how, specifically, can I help?
I'm a twin, and so is Cherise.
Twins can be tricky.
But your wife said you could find twins.
Oh, she did, did she?
[chuckles]
Oh, bless her.
Doctor, whatever it takes,
however much money it costs…
Please…
help us.
[Adanna, in Pidgin] Ebun, I am
going to escape, and I need your help.
Please don't do it.
Just stay and have the baby.
Look at you. You're too far along.
-You can leave afterwards.
-Without my baby? No way.
You see that big laundry bag?
That's how I can escape. Hmm?
-There's a place the camera can't see.
-[shushes]
Quiet. Be careful of what you're saying.
Okay.
They usually leave the cart there when
they fetch the bedsheets from the ward.
Ada, I don't want to hear this!
How do you intend getting into the basket?
I need you to be on the lookout for me.
I won't do it, Ada!
Ebun, I'm here because I trusted you.
Okay.
I will ask someone else to help me.
Don't tell anyone
you're planning to escape.
Don't trust anyone! You hear me?
[toilet flushes]
[faucet running]
[in English] If this goes well,
Cherise will send us
all her high-profile celebrity friends.
-Think of it: New York, LA.
-[chuckles]
Beyoncé, Rihanna. The list goes on.
Why would big Hollywood stars
come to us to buy babies?
Darling, we're in the business
of pleasing narcissists and exhibitionists
who are too vain to wreck their bodies,
yet want the babies
and the attention that come with them.
And what's wrong with that?
I mean, Cherise is a perfect example.
-[Barbara chuckling]
-[knocking]
Yes. Come in.
Doctor,
there is something you have to see.
Coming?
Yes.
Thank you.
[computer beeps]
There.
That is the footage
from when your guests arrived.
Someone was taking pictures.
Zoom in, please.
[Barbara scoffs]
Isn't that that awful blogger
from our event?
What the fuck? Now bloggers are paparazzi?
She must've followed Cherise and Akin.
And who the fuck is that?
If you see either of them again,
send out the boys.
Solve the problem.
[groans]
[in Pidgin] How are you?
Thank you.
You saw what happened last night?
[scoffs]
I always mind my own business here.
But you,
you are stubborn and different.
If something's not right,
then it's not right.
So, what are you going to do about it?
[sighs]
Has anyone ever escaped from here?
Adanna, are you going to try?
-[phone beeps]
-[gasps]
You know phones are not allowed in here.
[sighs]
-So now you are just going to ignore me?
-I am not going to talk about escaping.
But I can't do it alone.
Then don't do it.
[switch clicks]
Oliver, I told you, it's too soon.
And why that brute again?
[Evans] He's a stud.
This is a breeding program.
Darling, I know you don't like to watch…
so why don't you keep yourself
otherwise occupied?
[beeping]
[shutter clicks]
[beeps]
[beeps]
[typing]
[in Pidgin] I know you took
the pictures from Adanna's bed.
So what if I did?
Just give them back.
She hasn't done anything to you.
[resident] Why do you care so much?
Is she your girlfriend?
Just give them back.
[scoffs] Ebun, you've grown wings, right?
You open your mouth and talk to me anyhow?
No problem! One of these days,
you'll get what's coming to you.
Please. Please, please, please.
Right. How can I help you?
Hi. I'm Joy,
-from JoyToTheWorld.com.
-Mmm.
Okay.
Mmm. [clears throat] I wanna do a profile
of the power couple of the moment.
We're only interested
in mainstream publication.
I thought an NGO would be happy
for any kind of publicity.
[chuckles] But we're not just any NGO.
Discretion is why we have succeeded.
Your lack of it is why you have failed.
What exactly is the connection
between you and Cherise Uko?
She was merely a guest
at one of our many events.
But you know that.
You were there, insulting her.
What exactly is this? Hmm?
[chuckles]
When? Now? How do you know?
I'm sorry.
That's all the time we have right now.
It's a no on the profile.
And please, next time,
refrain from photographing our guests.
-Or we'll need to…
-[snaps fingers]
Check the woman's phone before she leaves.
Thank you.
-Do not touch my phone.
-Come this way, ma'am.
[grunts] It's heavy today.
[engine starts]
-Stop the truck!
-No, stop the truck!
[Barbara] Open up the back.
Adanna, come out.
I know you're in there.
Come out, you ungrateful girl!
Get her out!
Quickly!
You're all fired.
Go home. You're fired.