:20:01
They've no work permits,
no social security.
:20:04
If they complain, they're deported.
:20:07
They work a 16-hour day, 7 days a week,
for literally pennies.
:20:11
This, Mr. Shaft, is slavery
in the 20th century.
:20:16
Then just arrest the cats who are hustling
the people and that's the end of that.
:20:22
We want the men at the top.
:20:24
We need a trained investigator.
Somebody they don't know.
:20:28
To infiltrate their organization.
:20:31
To do this,
he has to let himself be recruited in Africa.
:20:37
So, get an African investigator.
:20:39
They know all our men.
:20:41
-Get someone who's not an investigator.
-We did.
:20:47
My son let himself be recruited
in East Africa.
:20:51
His body was found last week in Paris.
:20:54
In a ditch.
:21:03
An uptown dude like me.
They'd spot me a mile away.
:21:07
Not if you're briefed in tribal ways.
:21:09
And learn the Manta dialect.
:21:13
I was 21 before I found out that "isn't"
is another way of saying "ain't."
:21:24
Aleme, come in.
:21:36
This is my daughter, Aleme.
:21:39
Aleme has come to instruct you, Mr. Shaft.
:21:48
They vanished as mysteriously
as they appeared.
:21:51
But they left behind our spoken culture...
:21:54
...their drums, their copper spears,
their beaded crowns.