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You I tell you here you're the only one who can get us out of this mess, but she's not dead You know, as well as I do, we stand for Anyway, I must talk to Louise about it If I were in your shoes, I'd make up my own mind like a man

No sir With women, your wiser to act first and explain later Sorry? My wife and I always take your sharp curves together You're making a mountain out of a molehill Oh damn it No, I do realize that I'm at a crossroads in my life That life is important to me The woman and the guys are the same That my wife and I are the only one who can get us out of this mess It's a man who can get us out of this mess and explain later And explain later It's a man Who can get us out of this mess and explain later And the man who can get us out of this mess It's a man Who can get us out of this mess and explain later Come in

Better lock your door, there might be reporters on our table Never mind the reporters and hang your things over there You got it all right? Larry, let me in Larry, is this still here? Went up to his room, I think Say, been waiting long? Five minutes that song just gave me time to read about that separatist incident last night in Quebec City The bomb you mean? Listen, that small deer compared with mine you So you have a bomb, too? Sorry to route you out, Paul, but I find myself in a fantastic situation Oh, you're exaggerating again? You know what I will, Robert? The liberal organizer for Montreal I bought it Paul O'Brien, my wife's brother and my love partner for 24 years You get the connection with your proposition, I mean? Good evening, Robert Good evening I got you two are cooking up some neaterious flaws Not at all, I just want to take him off your hands and make him a big star in politics Stop the sales pitch and phone, the committee, there may be some news I'll do anything you want on condition, you give me a scotch

Water, ice Straight and make it a double if I ever needed to pick me up today is the day Paul, what can I give you? Not the thing I took the liberty of helping myself while I was with him What are you here? Anyone from the hospital? No change, eh? I'm at Gravel's house, let me know the minute there is something new Give them the numbers, it's nothing to book Write this down, eight, four, two, four, six, three, nine It's an enlisted number Larry If you give it to a reporter, I'll skin you alive Larry? He's still in the coma Not for a second Calling me? Come down here a second My youngest son, Larry I rest up, but where are the simulated? Like his uncle Godfather there Glad to know you, Larry I hope you're not one of those young jerks who heckled Pearson at the rally last Thursday I got better things to do That's the stuff, save your steam for Deepen Baker Tuesday Hey, Larry, is your brother up there?

No, but he'll be back anytime he wants to see you Fine, I'll be around Hey Wait a second Your mother has to be picked up At Samak? It's five past seven Without speeding, you can make it back by twenty I know, it's tough on you and a lovely Sunday But keep the car for the rest of the evening if you like Maybe take out the girl Okay, thanks I'll do the same thing for you sometime Oh, say, did you ask your secretary to come over and sign something? My speech, yes, why? She found a little obsessive Thanks Listen, I'd like to know what's up if nobody minds You're in the dark about all this, eh? I spent the afternoon alone in the office drawing up a deal It wasn't until I called home I learned a pair wanted me here Well, tall here's the picture At eleven thirty this morning Our children are so collapsed on the sidewalk in front of his house A brain hemorrhage at Dent Do you also the minister of justice?

The same, lying have dead since noon under an oxygen tent With a general election two weeks from tomorrow I saw him on the leavey, Friday night, he looked fine Sir, I'll go you one better He was at the hockey game last night We left the forum together as usual He said, could you sum for me? And sorry, I'll tomorrow afternoon? I promised Fairly I'd address his meeting but I'm feeling lazy I told him I'd be happy to my dear fellow But I'm leaving right away for Samark with my wife To try and finish up a talk I have to give Monday a deconating club in Toronto Then, just as we reached his car He sure for told him I have some news for you? The radio just announced that the terrorist bomb toppled the new world's monument in Quebec City about an hour ago Well, sir, his face fell on my eye He muttered grimly, well that settles it I have to tackle it tomorrow myself That's not his headache, it's the provinces So I left for Samark, go about five this morning I was still hard at work when the phone rang just before noon It was him, all the hatter

I said, get here as quick as you can, we are in a jam So off I dash, after leaving a look for Louise Was away off somewhere on the mountain walking I get to the Windsor, I find them all running around in circles Just the right for you, man I've been an organizer for 17 years but I want to tell you my friend I've never been in a box like this If you stay alive and pulling there, there's no problem, his wife can get out and compete for you We had a 13,000 majority in 63, it's in the bag But if the party doesn't put up anyone else before two o'clock tomorrow The deadline for a nomination, remember And if he actually dies before election day, then we are really up the creek No, my friend, there is no other way the party has to come up with another candidate before two o'clock tomorrow See what he's leading up to? I begin to deduce the motive of the crime They've been twisting my arms since two this afternoon Look, she didn't know it at the time but your mother brought you into the world for this Anybody can take that writing, you just said it in the bag Besides, you can bet four years etching to jump into the firing line

Sure, but who wants him? Oh, he's nobody's fool Nobody's a softy, a jellyfish And Parliament's full of yes men up to here He isn't always saying it, that what we really need is a strong government Men with cuts who won't go wrong leaking that separate his boots If every man who could stand up to them stays in his warm bed making love to his wife What the hell's going to happen to the country Since I've already heard that I've given three times today I think I'll go and call my wife You know, I really thought we'd seen the last of these terrorists Really, I did, I guess not But the provincial police don't let the grass grow under their feet nowadays This time they won't have to look far The kid gave himself up half an hour after it happened Well, what do you know? Hello, you're really crying Hello Louis Did you find my note? Oh, she's still in a coma

Listen, I'm sorry to call you so late but I got caught up in a terrible tangle Anyway, it's not something we can discuss on the phone I'd rather wait till I see you Larry's on his way to pick you up, your brothers here So we'll have a family council What? Hold it a minute Hey, the Gazette, just from the east Asking her to confirm that I'm going to replace you tomorrow Damn it, Johelle You said you didn't know a thing, I hope Good girl She'll make a wonderful wife for a cabinet minister Well, I'm glad you know more about it than I thought you did Huh? Save your comments till you get here but think about it on the way I have to make up my mind to not Right, it's crazy Well, I'll be waiting for you Hey, let me do it for a second No high pressure, she's my wife, I'll do the first wave Surely I just...

Listen, I want you when you insisted on coming with me I need to think this out with my family So get set to make yourself scarce, huh? For twenty years you've been itching to get active in politics And now you have the chance you haven't that guts to take it But wait a minute! Jura, so is still alive? Come off it, he's as good as dead Have a little faith in your stars They're God of the name I'll tell you this, whether you like it or not The minister of justice is no longer his chair Is yours for the asking The tight spot you promised him on to get out of this mess When I make a promise I keep it, I'm an organizer, I'm not a candidate You can get me elected like that I know I've seen your machine in action But with you, I don't need a machine But choosing a cabinet is the prerogative of the prime minister, not you? It so happens, Pearson and I are on the same wavelength Nine times out of ten And at ten times, he's the one who goes Even if I were tempted to take you at your word

He might in this way slip us away I know him too well, he never says much But his mind works away The moment your backstum, he'll ask for proof He's a good lawyer You won't prove her Okay, you'll have it in no time Would you mind seeing who it is? If you have to prove before you believe Proof you'll get doubting promise You did mean you slow And let myself in, that's all right Perfectly Did you think, Mr. Tabel? You know our Secretary, Mr. Leroux? Of course Sorry to bring you out all eight I don't mind I intended to let you have the speech early in the afternoon But the damnedest things have been happening to me Yes, I think I know You do? Just as I was leaving the house The radio news carried some rumors about you No, come in Congratulations, it sounds exciting Nerv racking might be more like it Incidentally, Mr. Leroux While you're at it, you might dig up his latest biographical stuff No, wait I've got more important things for her to do right now

Now, here's the rest of what I gave you Friday Would you like a draft first? No, not enough time But maybe you should get in between my studies In case there's something you don't understand Fine Then you can type it all out and do me the usual favor Correct any mistakes This is the whole thing? Or still two or three paragraphs to come at the end? I've got that far this morning when the phone rang And the earthquake started But I'll try to think up a grand finale on the plane tomorrow If you want to end with a vine, tell them you're running for parliament Then make headlines Hey, wait a minute This damn talk, you know, presents a serious complication I was there But I can't be in two places at once Flying to Toronto and registering in Montreal I'd have to cancel the talk and that would be disastrous Because the Canadian club in Toronto is no joke Go, man, go, what's the problem? Sign the slip, that's all, and leave the rest to me As I told you, the organizer is much more important than the candidate Just like that, you think I can?

What times of life? Confirm for nine o'clock on the waiting list with 10.30 Nothing to wait, we'll put you on to that second plane If we have to kill someone off At 905, I take you handcuffed to the Windsor for your press conference By 9.20, you're out of there duly for a crack for the papers in TV I rush you to Dorva with a police escort by 10.15 At 12.30, you're in downtown Toronto speech and hand Well, of course From now on, peer my boy, if you have any little problem Don't waste time crying to heaven, call on me I suppose this is what happens when you sell your soldier to devil But worry, everyone knows he pays on the dollar line But you might as well make up your mind to sell You're already hooked anyway Not that badly You know what he reminds me of? An old maid, a crazy for love, who won't get married for fear it's a sin But joking about, the very thought of stepping into Jurassic shoes Is enough to give me cold feet

Never mind the modesty you could go a lot further than he could Oh, that's easy to say Look, if you put Pearson on the rack, he didn't it through his tears He was no, that sold on general soul You think so? I know so You see this guy could get elected upside down or sideways But he's an operator and the worst of it is he gambles even when he's out of chips Hear that? He'll be saying the same thing about me in a couple of years After I've had my hemorrhage Pearson's had his belly full of the scandal boys with a past imperfect Then, along comes you innocent as a newborn babe Innocent, you can say that again Not one half hour's experience in parliament That's the difference, it's not the minister who does the work, it's his civil servants You know that? The best lawyer in Montreal After him? A QC with an Irish wife Irish after a fashion back for generation In this rack at my boy, you put on your best face, that'll mean a lot in Toronto And that's not all, you're a model husband

Don't ever let my wife know A dedicated federalist practicing what you preach, God's truth, isn't it? But listen I'm a federalist all right, but not under any and all conditions That clear? Absolutely I don't believe in separatism In my view, it would be a catastrophe Which could branch the province into everlasting misery Hey, you're preaching to the converted But that doesn't mean French Canada Should let itself be steamrolled by the establishment like so much after If that ever happened, you could count on me, I'd be on your side I have principles too, you know, you're not the only one In the speech of mine tomorrow It's got a few eye-openeres in it I'd better warn you There'll be a few uncomfortable moments for some people In Toronto, London, and all points west Look, I don't Hello

Just a moment, please It's for you Thank you Reverge here What? Are you sure? Right Dioranso All over? Five minutes ago Poor devil Don't worry about him, he's already in heaven Poor fellow Now it all depends on you Then go away and let me think Sure, think all you like, but tell me now you'll take it on, eh? I told you I want to discuss it with my wife, with him

Then make it quick, please I can't keep for neon eyes forever I'll have to mention those reporters will be on my back The minute I step into the window All right, but give me a breathing space, damn it Anyway, I'll call you around 8'30 Now enough, just to ask how your wife is, right? Later than that, she won't be here before 8'20 I'll fetch you three cigars, she'll go along My God, wait, you can out here As quick as you can say, Mr. Minister Yeah Now I will have a drink I need it, I can see why

You? No thanks He didn't exactly give you the food It's not such a bad idea for one of us to observe While the other holds forth, it's a technique we've used to advantage in court Where the more useful partner is often the silent one Which means I'm relying on you to guide me through this fog As far as the office is concerned Let me reassure you right away I'd be stretching it if I said we wouldn't miss you But we'll manage What's more, it's never done illegal for many Ah, to lend one of its big guns to the government Obviously All right then, I have a question, the most important one And I know the answer, as always, without being about the bush Are you really interested in going into this? To tell the whole truth I'm dying too

I was not coming to the front of Robert To see if they were really interested in having me But I'm dying No mistake, you're very French-conédent Politics have fascinated me ever since I was five years old From the day I saw my father Place a little cluster bust of sir Wilfrid Lawyer on the side board Right beside the statue of the sacred house So the adventure intrigues you Ah, you see, for twenty years I've been mixed up in backstage for our plays Twenty years of making decisions for others Now you want to take your place in the front line Well, there comes a boiling point You feel like a fake unit, hiding in a hairline He watches his master fail More often than enough And he thinks, hell, I could do better than that That's hard, did the analogy your sister would draw I get the picture, I'm sure you do I'm back Louise The possibility must often have looked into her

In my courting days, I used to talk as much politics as love to her Besides, we've pretty well always seen things eye to eye It comes from an old habit Started during our honeymoon Or enjoying the same pleasures at the same moment That's how it still is most of the time Except perhaps the odd night, she drags me to the symphony Louise is intelligent Well, red she'd be an asset to you anyway Ah, I've no qualms When parliament opens, she won't need to wear mink to get noticed That's what I often tell the boys Pick a woman like your mother An attractive girl And of such a personal quality That you'll always be proud of her whatever success you might have And the boys The boys, yes Well, let's start with Larry No problem there He's a well-balanced kid Besides, his one consuming passion for the past couple of months

Has been writing songs, imagine Words and music So this was why he was hinting about the guitar for his barely But Andre Yes, he's a tougher proposition Ah, he's a dark horse that born You'll never saddle him without the dazzle You remember his reaction? When I offered him a job with the firm last June After he'd passed his bar exam Thank you very much, that's very kind of you When I'm ready, I'll let you know He's a great man, right? Ah, you said it I get the impression this won't exactly go down like a gnaissance Well, if it does, you'll have a few buffs after Or I'll tell you, the spark we had last week He found out I was giving a speech in Toronto and hid the roof Wanted me to cancel out Said I could use the campaign as an extra wire Apparently, it embarrasses him with his separatist friends

His father Going to talk about federalism In the other language On the other side of the quipic board Well, finally I got mad I told him mind your own business Do you think I'd enjoy it If my friends knew you were demonstrating against a queen On her quipic visit I'd not object when you stick to your convictions According to your lights, allow me the same courtesy You can bury me when I'm dead, not before But there's our view He came up to me and said I want you to know That if I'm ever a complication in your life It won't be intentional And I'll be unhappy about it than you He's no crybaby But you're almost empty as in his eyes To make up we played a game of chess I was watching every move Thinking he let himself be beaten So he can be forgiven But I was wrong

In no time I was checkmate That's the reassuring thing about Andre His political ideas are still a little mixed up But he had Mars and no respect his father Any serious objection his mother has I'd have to take him to account But I'm not going to wait for the approval of a 23-year-old son Who already does as he pleases With or without my blessing He's bright enough to see the force of logic Especially after that little lesson you gave him He doesn't buy it just too bad And yet... Yet I admit it with both of me Because... Because you try to show it as little as possible But you've got a soft spot for that boy Oh, I'm afraid you're right For the heck He impresses me the little son of a gun And more than I'd stand in awe of him If you want my opinion, it's beautiful Apart from the minor detail of politics We get along pretty well Especially when we go off alone

Just him and me on the lake in the sailboat There Paul, we're not two beings we're one We tack and glove like a dream It would take a typhoon to upset us What's he up to these days? Oh, we haven't seen much of him this fall He's been tooting around on his coup From one end of the province to the other I think he's just trying to find himself He will someday He was admitted to the bar before he was 23 That's exception With a 91% average it is They tell me no one's hit that in 12 years I can still afford to idle away a few months without breaking his career Besides, marriage will bring him back to earth Marriage? Yes, because I gather he's been in love for the last six months A bright little thing tempting as a French pastry And she seems to have fallen for him head over heels He just lets himself be alone after

But his mother claims he's far gone Excuse me, Mr. Gravelle Yes, I've read through it Is it tough enough for you? If you ask me, you're really going to talk That's exactly what I want to do But there is one passage you might clear up for me Let's see Here, I can't make out this word Kazum Of course Listen to this Get this straight gentleman Unless we, and that includes you too Unless we bridge the Kazum of Quebec's unhappiness With the present state of Confederation Canada will fall apart You can be dead sure And you gentlemen, not the separatists from Quebec Will be mainly responsible for that calamity That's calling a spade of Spain And here's another juicy pit If I'm right, in affirming That those who are perpetually unsatisfied Are the motors of society Where do you think that your present attitude A perpetual satisfaction with yourself Will lead this country Indian The rest, you can read someday in our Canadian history books You're really letting them have it, aren't you?

Well, if their backs are properly up I'll ask for police protection to get back to their fort That was all Do you mind if I work back at the office? Good idea I'll bring everything back around line Would that be soon enough? Open to It sounds for all the world like a separatist to speak Just about The f- Oh, oh, miss, miss, little girl Would you mind seeing who it is? And if it looks like a reporter, I'm not here All right Now, the first person I want to get it across to is Andre He must understand the valiant defenders of our threatened country Can be found outside the fort as well as inside It might help him accept your candidacy Fundamentally it's a question of words The separatists get stirred up By telling themselves the bottles have empty We try to unster them by telling them it's half full Both of you are really after the same thing Oh, no, there's a difference of opinion about the means Oh, miss, you got it? Oh, and hello to you, Nicole Very well, you know, this is the first time I've ever been frightened by a pretty girl

Well, you've met Andre's girlfriend, indeed I have Mr. Ryan You probably think I'm absolutely shameless But I'm just a poor little girl running after your son Imagine Some guys have all the luck We're supposed to spend the day together But he called me around to say he had to go to Cranby Something your genty said But he called me as soon as he got back Is that so? I saw his school here by the garage So I figured he must be here Sorry, but if he is, we haven't seen him Seriously? Yes, ma'am, but he can't be far away Pick up your coat and we'll look for him Okay, excuse me But I was crossing the park on my way here and I saw Andre there On a bench he was sort of meditating You know, his head and his hands That's odd It's his meditation time He does it every Sunday Meanwhile, you can keep your future uncle company While I go up and change

You know, this world this morning I didn't have a chance before I left the company Don't dress up for me, huh? No, you worry I hope I'm not depressing you I feel a little... You'll go very used to night It doesn't show at all That's just it With this face of mine, it never does I could be dying or broken heart right under your nose And you'd swear I was on my wig with picnic It's hell You've got a really problem there Wonder what's got into him Sitting in a park bench with his head and his hands Something is bugging him He may be figuring out how to propose to you Oh, that's it, there's no need to bid his brains out I'll say yes like that With both my arms round his neck But he won't get round to that subject

Not for ages In his own good time, he will Meanwhile, it's a drag I was so happy to spend this Sunday with him Especially because he told me last week I'd better get used to the idea of not seeing him for a few months Oh? Said he was going on a long trip Really? And when he came back Maybe we'd talk about serious things If I went along with his reasons for going there He didn't give you any details? No, he was as close as a clam It would be a term of study abroad Personally, I think he plans to go and work for UNICEF In Africa or somewhere He's always talking about principles Sacrificing personal comfort for the good of underdeveloped nations It's a fine sentiment You know what I do I'll follow him through the ends of the earth From hell to high water

A single man can get along more easily than a couple When the going is rough Baby And I gather milk is hard to get for babies in those countries You see, there's no rush about getting married Just as long as I know I'll be married to him As far as your concern, the matter is said Oh, yes From the first moment I saw him A year ago this month It was at a student election meeting at college When I walked in He was in the middle of his campaign speech He was irresistible A genuine leader and Mr. O'Brien After the speech I went up to him and solemnly declared You are the man we meet I used the plural I said we If I'd been less of a hypocrite, I'd have used a singular It looked deep into my eyes Touched my cheek

Said in a voice that thrilled me to the core And canvas for me, it's your duty And I bet you were a great canvasser Ah, you should have seen me Only I was out of breath for about six months Trying to keep bumping into him accidentally In every corridor in the place Before we finally got around to cornering me And the elevator to floor this He was playing hard to get The way his father did with my sister Someday he'll end up loving me back After all I have most of the required qualifications In the first place I'm rather intelligent And I'm not ugly Or maybe you don't think so But my authority's under himself Then it must be true But the main point is I love him like a fool No, not like a fool, that would mean nothing It's more like an extreme, nuclear-thinking woman

Who knows a real man when she meets one And you don't meet them every day, believe you me Don't you worry, young lady That they will come when he'll fall into your tender trap Do you think so? Yes, his mother, who can get more out of him than I can Was telling me what Andre said about two few days ago That I am a cute little thing Yeah, he told her and I quote as faithfully as memory serves With Nicole, I'm waiting to propose Until circumstances let her know me for what I am Then if she still wants me They'll never be another woman in my life I can't do for that! Well then, this is my lucky day Today I get to embrace not only a pretty girl But a new Korean, they realize that I'm so grateful Hey, listen to me I'm giving you the scoop of the week try to enjoy it a little All right, but make it quick

So I can get back when drawing what else you told me All right, then I'll come straight to the point I'm being offered a cabinet post in Ottawa No? It doesn't impress you any more than that Do you want a truthful answer or a polite one? Shall we opt for truth, pal? Always Well, the way things are in Quebec I think it's a shame to send intelligent men like you Thank you But the man with no time to lose considering you Considering he's on the verge of all day? Exactly Go sit around in Ottawa That's all I'll do there, you think Being picked actor with English Canada I grant you consideration is sick, but we must try to save him Before you go read up an artificial respiration You'll need it Now if you want to talk about something else, go right ahead That's all I have to say on that subject Well, young lady If other children are as frank and cute as you were I know one grandfather

who'll get a great bang out of them Talking about Andre What on earth could he meet by saying I'll propose when she knows me for what I am I know him inside out already One moment, please A long distance from Ottawa Ottawa? May I ask who's calling? The Prime Minister's residence Hello? Speaking? Oh, I read Good old Robert He kept his word There's this famous proof How do you do this to Pearson? Well, it's very good of you to take the trouble to call It's a damn shame He was an excellent man indeed Well, as you can easily guess, I'm swept off my feet Personally, I consider the proposal an honor and a duty I can hardly refuse, but as a matter of principle

I want to get a seal of approval for my wife One of our sons is driving her from our country place So we'll have a little cocused together and take a vote I'm liberal-minded not only in politics but also within the family Oh, I'm quite confident she'll be here Oh, I do understand I saw your scooter at the door, so I keep it You know, thank you very much There's no time for you for sure I wanted to see you alone, but not since you were here It's very good at you to tell me so The past, the past, the past, the past The past, the past, the past, the past If you know what, for... Oh, I'm quite certain the rubbish will get an official word of acceptance within an hour or so And again, thank you for calling, Pearson Goodbye You know what he said to me? Pierre, we have big plans for you That's reassuring It's stupid, it does Well, please

Eh... Evening, Audrey Well, you... You'll never guess what's happened I know You do? Then I hope you're going to congratulate me? Huh? You can't accept it Huh? You have to refuse, you've no choice You're not going to revive the little scene we had about the speech, are you? No, this time it's a lot more serious You're aware of what happened in Quebec last night? About the bomb? Well, I know what the paper report is I came to tell you this is no isolated incident It's the first step in an organized campaign What? The first of many each night in a different city until election day How do you know? Three weeks ago it was decided Montreal would get it next Saturday Huh?

With an account of what you've just been offered That'd be too late The plan has to be changed You understand? What have you got to do with all this? Well, the one who was to do the job six days from now will have to do it tonight So that you'd be for one right away and not make the disastrous mistake of accepting So you're the one? Because anyway your party would drop a candidate whose son was in prison and voting day After he turned himself in for so-called criminal activities Oh, no This is absurd! We tried to force everything Except what happened to you today Oh, Dre, oh Dre, you can't do this to me Forgive me, Dad Only I know Wonder what they would have done Oh, it's too late How late? Couldn't you have told me? No, I couldn't

Now you know, I must go How do I think? You're not going to ruin your father's career for a senseless thing like that The only senseless thing is this situation happening as suddenly as it has The rest is still worth what? At least explain yourself You must, I didn't come here to debate I came to warn you that's all You think I'm just going to let you go? But it's out of my hands, don't you see? I ought to hurt you for the first time in my life So that wouldn't get you very far? Are you innocent? That won't settle anything either Ah, Dre, listen to me for a moment If you find have nothing worthwhile to say, you can leave in 30 seconds Go ahead Bomb throwers are of two kinds, the weak who destroy only to attract attention Forced to justify themselves, they run away And the others The strong do battle

Show up their cause Now, where do you stand? What's the use? I could be right ten times over and still you refuse to admit it Forget about us This is your last chance to prove to yourself That your cause is worthy, exorbitant, press your eager to be free That won't change a thing, as I've said On the contrary If your conscience is clear still, you'll go out of here a stronger man Otherwise I am going anyway Otherwise it's your tragedy Yes, your father's fate is being besided tonight But first and foremost, it's your fate Which hangs in the balance now yours And perhaps hers too If we are beyond salvage, she certainly isn't Like us, she knows both too much And too little to judge you Unless you don't care about her grief

And the way she feels about you For my sake Please, aren't we? Please All right I accept the challenge For you Thank you But the battle will be bloody I warn you I am sure it will The stakes are too high to pull the punches And one word of advice Don't yield to the temptation to give me any longer than it takes In hopes you can prevent the scandal It's eight o'clock I am not where I ought to be by 9.20 It's been set up for someone else to take my place I am still the one who's going to turn himself in

The leader of the movement could never back out like a coward The leader, you heard me? Now fire ahead Your last word was embecile Or go on, that's the classic opening for a dialogue with a separatist Yes and embecile Or at least a crackpot If you're as intelligent as you think You ought to realize that this blessed violence of yours Which you call patriotism Has already been tried And found one thing pathetic Yes, a good tool can be misused Those very people you're trying to inover to your cause Andre Don't you understand That the surest way of losing them Is to explode bombs That might kill their children in the streets For the sake of a fiasco like that You're ready to rot in jail As other lunatics are doing right now We'll see we make as much noise as they did But without sacrificing life For hell is spaked with good intentions Go into the prisons and ask the deflated little heroes

Who planted bombs in letter boxes and galleries If it was their intention to kill one man And name another one for life As I said apart from what's happened to you today My plan took everything into account Your plan? Yes, I'll take full responsibility Andre, what you tell me what it is I'm afraid for you If it's any consolation to you All right And tomorrow morning's mail The news media will get a copy of this manifesto Will you read it aloud please? We are 17 companions We represent a cross section of society Laboring, professional, farming, student And each of us lives in a different city of the state of Quebec When they're all identified They'll be recognized as men with reputations Spotless until then for integrity, ability and stability Every night until voting day

One of us, each in his own area Will destroy a symbol of British imperialism Unconnected with private, commercial or industrial property It's in fact a work of art As meaning loser as wolf's monument In every case the target would be an unhabitable structure So isolated that the destruction will present no risk to neighboring buildings Or the occupants Moreover, an expert from among the members of the movement Would have determined with the greatest possible precision The quantitative dynamite in each bomb So that the explosion itself affects nothing but the symbol In addition Listen to this In addition, the bomb will be of a type never before used Made to explode within 45 seconds of being positioned A safety catch making it until then as an offensive as a grenade This short-lived bomb will reduce the danger to potential passers-by

Between priming and detonation A matter of seconds later You get the point? During this brief interval The companion will retire no further than essential to ensure his own safety So he may be in a position to divert by signs or words Any unforeseen traffic had that in the direction of the target In short every detail of the affair will show clearly that we did everything possible To protect human life And the last paragraph Once his mission is accomplished And if he has not already been arrested on the spot The companion will add to the protest value of his action That of passive resistance by turning himself in of his own accord And this way the people of Quebec will realize at once that the sabotage Is not the work of a dangerous young punk as malicious legend would have been But a young compatriot

In every other way respectful of the established order And not afraid to face the immediate consequences of his act A strictly political one arising from deep convictions Long live free Quebec Can you rely on your companions? As on myself, I spend the summer choosing them Probably more carefully than they'd pick a mountain out of wall Stay with one of them thought only one Your whole infallible skin would collapse No one will talk This spirit is willing But police sticks out very convincing I know that If they manage to frighten one of my men, there's only one name he could reveal mine The others he doesn't know I am the sole person who knows the whole network And of course there's no question of you giving him Well I'm no braver than the average That's why I insisted every one of them shows his unreplacement Whose name I do not know and who'd take his place In case something inevitable came up to prevent him accomplishing his mission At the appointed time and place

So even if I worry enough of a coward to name every one of them The plan would still be executed All right, you've taken precaution Every conceivable precaution But still you're using expose Of course You know a better way of knocking over a pile of stones? Suppose that despite all your precautions there was an accident Then leave your car on the ground Because you never know when you run over a friend no matter how good your intentions are That's idiotic And by the way you're remembering to forget the fine point Which you as a lawyer can't honestly ignore I was waiting to hear your objection to your colleague Claiming others won't make a trip for you to commit an act to law Formally labels of crime Well I'm aware of that law It's the law of the mightiest The mightiest so worried about his own skin He won't grant the political suspect the special rights given him in any really civilized country It's in a moment of law but it's clear It stipulates that if you're right to deliver your own people rightly or wrongly from the grading served them Your process of law is practiced by her gracious majesty's government

Tosses you in jail along with common murderers, prostitutes and pyromaniacs But of course it's entirely permissible to spread the benefits of American imperialism By slaughtering thousands of Vietnamese civilians With the blessing of that very same government So can we, all you like, the fact remains that the law, good or bad, will condemn you when you can't escape Who's talking about escape? Me? The one who's going to turn himself in tonight? I'll get this I know what's in store for me Sweetheart How many eternities will you be away from me? Do you know? The others will probably get between six months and a year But if they find out you're the leader and they doubtless will I won't hide it Then you won't get away with less than two years in prison That's what I figured

Two years Two years Two years of liberty lost may be more The rest of his young men would ruin it All together apart from the anxiety, the harm and the shame He'll heap on those who love him And all that to achieve illegally What he could more easily achieve by legitimate means If you follow that trail I warn you you'll fall right into a better act I'll clear what's this masochism Which makes you plan very long into violence When our democratic system allows anyone to foster the wildest political theory Absolutely legally If your separatist ideas are so terrific If they have the magic cure for all that ails us Leave them honestly before the waters Who's stopping you? If the people go along with you then we'll have to face up to it Oh yes, it would be so simple Oh come more, you sympathetic fools The political auction is open Come with your pennies Put them down the right here beside our fat election kitty

And try to match our stakes Come on, fall into our trap and join the game of democracy Are we joking? We've got all the trumps right here in our hand Police? Yeah I may? Newspapers, radio, television, liquor, patronage, intimidation, libel, blackmail And last but not least, the real crusher, beautiful, soul-powerful cash How can you turn off such a nigger of prejudice? You cut because you know damn well that elections in your style democracy aren't one with prayers You don't party, you don't fight over a hundred years Where would it be without its lousy treasure chest? New parties are a prized church march and you know that too If by some miracle they could ever collect a million bucks to prove their cause The party in power would come up with ten, twenty, fifteen They only need to tell their backers Cuff up a little or lose the lot And they'd cuff up every cent needed And we'd be washed out like so much dirt And you'd tell us no violence and what else do we have to fight with? If you think terrorism is the way to educate this province politically I warn you

You're heading for catastrophe Excuse me, a nice distinction if you don't mind Terrorism by definition breeds terror But the young garage mechanic call alone in the plane's paper hand Who rid the province of an antiquated bird target assuming you're getting for us As wolf monument And then presented himself at police HQ and politely told the constable on duty Would you be so kind as to arrest me? I'm the guy who'd just pulled the job on the planes Do you for one second imagine he terrorized the grand old city of Champlain? Oh yeah, this very minute I've a Quebecer who still has a nuns of national pride Or to be laughing up his sleeve Oh great, if you're honest as you claim to be You'll admit that everything you've said so far shows only that you're ingenious And that we knew already Just as we know that you're motives Confronted to the tubious moral code you've coined for yourself But you've said nothing yet that might prove your cause a good one

Oh what's the point? That my god that's the whole question Any fool can pray down to your tea and go smash his head against windmill Are you in that rain and they'll drag out every cliché? Not a time like this when communications are drawing the five continents closer together Than they've ever been swept history Number one, what can you possibly find sensible and inspiring About isolating the province like a medieval ghetto Why can't find your ambitions to Quebec when you can make your presence felt From one end of this rich country of ours to the other The grand illusion sure Make your presence felt from Halifax to Victoria when we can't even take over Montreal The second greatest French city in the world so they say We're an English population of 10% Hello Is Lord and Master of 85% of the economy Start the Anglicizing Westbound before you send me out to Frenchify a senior boy We're still waiting for her Where are you?

Wait for me and mean why don't do a thing you might regretting Robert I'm going to the Windsor to stall for time Rest assured I am no stupid You see the coup would still take place as I've explained And anyway you turn yourself in I got the point I believe in separatism with all my heart If I wouldn't convince it would mean economic suicide That's what you think After enjoying one of the highest tenders of living in the world Quebec would plunge right into the muck for generations to come With all the foul of Britain by the withdrawal of foreign capital Inflation there or rotten mess You're dead certain of that? Absolutely certain Well a reasonable man like you doesn't arrive at absolute certainty just casually Now on great issues like that No You have figures

Surveys, statistics to support your views Or were you to buy any chance to to demigodgy Making statements which suit your purpose But no one has proven to date But look, any economist will tell you that with a population of only six million Quebec could never survive But if the danger is so almighty or full Why not prove it loud and clear? To prove If you're most resounding objection The only valid one on the whole will go right ahead The problem's been kicking around forever century But I don't know You'd never attack it artificially You'd funk facing the conclusion that a freak Quebec could get along every bit as well as Sweden But, but Sweden Sweden is in a completely different context than Quebec Politically it might as well be on another planet No listen Father Father, mother's here Mother Oh yes Your poor mother Who could never come within a mile of guessing what she's walking into Oh Louise, Louise you

You thought you were coming here to share one of the happy moments of my life But I know I told her It's insane And I raised driving me to the Windsor before he puts the car away What can we possibly have done to this child For him to take revenge By loading us with a cross like this Oh dear why? Why my dear? I think I'd see you here, mother I think so So all you could think of was your own precious conspiracy Which consists of one thing the happiness of your countrymen so badly You start by ruining your own family God knows we never wanted to but what did we do to hurt you only? Nothing mother No son was ever loved more And this seems to you the logical way of thanking us It was what it would do to you I thought of first That's why I wrote you a few days ago

Things I couldn't put into words now Read it You might help you understand Mother, you remember that summer in the country? I was ten Every morning I went swimming and you would patiently follow me in the robot Encouraging me to meet my distance other day before And for your birthday I made you a present of crossing the lake in one go And I got to the other side I said proudly Stay with me always and someday I'll cross the ocean You kissed me and said yes My boy will cross it one day the ocean of his life But first he'll have to learn to grow away from me And half crying I replied that you loved me too much for me to hurt you ever by leaving you And you held me in your arms

And made me understand that when the time came for me to go you would be sad not surely But not so sad as you would be If you had to keep into and over groomed little boy Who lacked the courage to break the apron strings Of her they went by too fast the days of my happy childhood Now the time has come for me too Now the time has come for me to explore the ocean of my distance And make me sorrow and dull If it is strewn with perils beyond your expectation Forgive me any anguish I bring you I want you to know I shall love you more and more as time goes by That's rhetoric, spence of here

Yes you're right Your mother did everything she could to put her head on your shoulders And it's no fault of hers if you're acting now like a dementia delinquent Oh my darlings I was right then to worry about the pair of you Each of you has told me things and confidence which when me feel sure a storm was bending up between you though I I never imagined it would strike with such a thunder cloud Scandal, that's all he wanted For months he's been lying in wait for it like a hunter stalking game Pierre Gravel's son the bum thrower kills two birds with one stone By breaking his featherless father's back at the same time That's a hell of a need stunt to brag about

No doubt about you you're not damn cipher Oh yeah this is no time for insults more than ever it's a time for love Let me have a word with him Darling You were fortunate enough your brother and you to grow up in the atmosphere of what you used to call my serenity But you all that mainly not to me but to your father From the first day of our life together he's made me the happiest woman in the life So it was easy for me to love you with all my heart yes but as our sons To compete with your father in my affection you had to make your manhood in the image of this That's how you become a man and now you turn against him and want to cover him with shame Nobody's more unhappy about it than I He's an honest man none more honest When I have no complaints about him except this thing that's spitting us against each other

Well because your father such a reputable harm your reasons must be extremely serious If not or you will be guilty of an act I can find no name for I mean what about my integrity do you doubt that? Of course not you're just like him I told you that That's why I loved you so much you too But supposing he makes me give in and so does me a greater harm than I could ever do him That's not possible if I couldn't give in without destroying myself What should I do according to you? You the one who's always impressed on me that a man should follow his star Whatever the cost Destroying yourself but that's exactly the monstrous error I want you to stop you falling into it your eyes closed How can you question your father's concern for you? You know it's doing anything in the world made you happy Larry and you Mother answer me between a belated career and politics for him

And something that's the whole meaning of life for me Which would you sacrifice? I don't know It's one thing to toss out grandiose principles like that but another one to pack them up Well the issue dividing the two of us mother has to do with the future not the past It has to do with building what's going to be our world Don't you understand? The world where Nicole and I in the rest of our generation will have to live Long after his generation which is determined to run everything to decide everything without us Has gone with the wind if we're deferred too bad I won't bow down before him I haven't the right When the workers rebelled a hundred years ago against being exploited like slaves Like after the slaughter crats we acted just like you Oh yes they cried nonsense And when 50 years ago the women decided to be something more than dire per changing machines The males have to indignation oh yes

Well it happened all the same so brace yourself The next offensive will be launched by the young against the old I take it It's all over that reporting little game where the bets of war and politics I never made by the young suckers who sleep in the night It's worth seeing the square neck in the garden of yours This garden of Eden in the middle of St. Catherine's street Bananas of the trees in January and all the expansions when you get out of college To hear I walk like that from your own son When you've some mounted handicaps that she and the other young cheeks of his age will never know I jumped into life right in the middle of the depression Instead of hanging around with my pockets full of my father's money Waiting for the right moment to slap him down I had to work nights washing dishes At the North Eastern London to pay my school fees As you very well know Louise Just the hoiding starvation was considered a lucky break The man can be judged by the triodes he's taken in strife Then you'll know much for us my smart young friends

When it comes to the survival of the Fixest You're your respectable yes You were born in winter deep in the national woods the deepest The simple fact you've come out alive is a triumphant itself Start putting your tenthen girls to work for you And yet your idle brain get busy Before you cry crap and fluff us down the brain Then you might have a life to claim our generation It's blocking the glorious destiny of a next stop bunch of spoil threats Unhypally for you and for us The challenge you had to face makes it impossible for you No matter how willing to understand the challenge we have to face Spring has sprung the air is warm life is easy Fade away old man we don't need your mechs and snow shoes anymore It's not your fault But you grew up in a colonial world We're submission to the English and licking their boots We're taught you as national virtues You said blissfully on your ear ends at the side of the road Watching the English parade by minting money and swelling with power And you smiled approval

Like dear little frayers under a vow of eternal poverty And now you'd like to apply your system to our national heritage Yes but today all that's being changed Here what you've got You've got the complex of the dog on the leash We'll never go further than his lousy dog house Even if the leash is removed and he's whipped But how can you lead us to freedom? It's got your scale as the prey You complain that today's youth is quitting on you But where do we find a blind faith that could draw us after And you're inspiring footsteps among your compromisers Your healers of a dying confederation Your political boxers with a hand tied by party strings Stop piling it up I get the drift According to him One must be the Sodom and Gomorrah of Canadian politics Not the single honest men Or traitors thieves and imbiciles Who do you think you're fooling with such fables? Oh dear, you exaggerate With all the passion and intolerance of your age

The right, the truth are never wholly on one side You know that? I've never doubted it Whatever you may think there are men there Of integrity and ability as dedicated as you are to our people Granted, French Canada has a whole litany of grievances I've admitted that in my speech for tomorrow As bluntly and bitterly as you might But what God, if we must defend our rights Let's stop hiding ourselves in cellars And draw swords where the battle races No government or not to walk and rank way back Half its demands without automatically demolishing itself What did you know about it? By your own party It's up to its neck in the dilemma Either bow to Belkébec and lose the nine Aglésa stars on the deal Or get up with her to please the rest of the country And so lose power, Kébec and all If you want to accept evidence as clear as that And you're the visionary, the spinner of... Oh dear, no matter what you've said And I've been a great deal from it Well, I still think your father's right

When he says that by different means He'd achieve there the same as you're after here No mother, no, no It would be the waste of Analystman's good life Trying to work out to compromise with English Canada Oh, he'd let loose with an occasional outburst in French Just to scare them But followed by a curtailing list For them there are no hard feelings And he'd burst with pride at every third session Or so, I'd getting through some made a bit reform That would keep Kébec from screaming too loud But wouldn't upset the liberals in Ontario In Newfoundland, in Alberta And other beauty spots in the land of our fathers You don't know what you're saying A bit reformed you'd get? Naturally Along with a slap in the back and brought smiles by the dozen Sure, Peter, but what does Kébec really want after all? Now be a good boy and state it over again, will you? No, we don't get you Why don't you try spelling it backwards for a change? But don't worry, Peter

Believe it or not, we have big plans for you Because the time is coming down fast when we'll be ready to get you right in the ass Another 30 years or so What with immigration and the pill Sociologists still have the body end of the century The damn piece who perns want to present more than 17% of the population Fence shums can yell your heads off, we won't care who's In back of the backwards, that's where you'll find the French identity Can stay a little doomsday How can you answer rubbish like that? You have a go at him I'm fed to the tea Audrey The odds are not fair You dreaded this confrontation So you've been stealing yourself for it for a long time But it's hit us like a thunder clap and we're... We're stunned So it's easy for you to outman over us Now I can't find anything to say to you either But I know that all the words I wish I could think of now to hold you back

Words I can't find in my poor empty head We'll come back to plague me weeks and months later when it's too late Can I spend my nights picturing you on your coat? You, a wild bird, cage, stifled, paralyzed behind bars Ah yes, Nicole, my dear We're bewitched by the pride men have but it's hard to live with Oh my darling I don't know any more of which of you is the least unreasonable Only one thing I'm sure of The winner of this trial, whoever he is, will come out of it as pitiful as the loser Perhaps more

Oh, you are the only one who could still call a heart You headed straight for calamity with your fists clenched Are you sure you're considered how ugly it can be? Yes, I know the real thing will be worse than the worst I'd imagined Yes, my boy, you're above fee You don't care about prison, you don't give a damn for your father or anyone But in all charity I want you You're going to find playing a revolution an expensive hobby No, I'm under no illusions believe me You're better than me Another one thing, your boy You're going to throw yourselves into the arms of the police one and night for 15 days Hoping to gain public sympathy by ridiculing the forces of law and order but just wait You have no idea yet what a humiliated cop is like He wants for a gift you for making a fool of him After two or three days when they've got the picture They'll use any means that they're disposal to make someone squeal and bring the fast to an end I have foreseen that too, you're the leader

And the only one according to you to know the whole game So be prepared, poor devil To scream out before you pass out here, no! Well, do you think I enjoy talking like that to my own son? But good God, this is no time for sugarcoating the pill Don't try to frighten me that For days I've been scared out of my wits It's not that I don't give a damn about prison in all the anguish and store for me I am afraid all right And I do care about the loss of your friendship Or the harm I'm doing you Or the suffering I caused Mother Nicole's heartache The way from all of you will be so miserably unhappy I'll be tempted often to curse what drove me back So much suffering for such a dubious purpose, such a debatable one

It makes no sense, my child, it makes no sense If I were a soldier, if they put a gun in my hands It made me risk my skin in some absurd war Started as always by comfortable old men Not just to vindicate their mistakes and hold on to their loot Even if you were sad to see me go Would you try to hold me back? If you're own, let you all Which no one else is forcing you to start In your heart of hearts, you're certain sure it's super legitimate and sacrosanct No? No, I'm not absolutely certain, I'm not making a mistake You're in doubt about it, you have to make it And yet, this mind is irrevocably made up all the same To carry us all down together into his own disaster Oh, Drey, if you're not completely convinced How can you take on such a frightening responsibility? Need a priest prove to himself he's absolutely right To believe in God before he commits his life to him

He may reason it out for years, but they'll come at time when he's got to rely on faith And faith can't ever exclude doubt It's a matter of faith, in the spirit of the sins I argue no more You're a thaithing the issue Because you've run out of your festering arguments Oh no, I'm not evading anything The biggest risk I'm taking hasn't got through to you yet And you a lawyer But if fascination where your own wound had let you be more objective You'd have realized by now that the sentence I'll get Will cut me off for life on the practice of law Code of the bar chapter 2, article 48 The independence of Quebec Will give me the only chance I'll ever get to return someday to my chosen profession Luis, it's autonomous And you see, I'm not trying to cheat I'm jumping with that event I miss the trapeze I've had it Nico, nothing

Absolutely nothing forces you to take that jump with me If you decide I'm not the one you thought you left Better cry for a while than make us both miserable By not facing up to it honestly It's an easy way to play the matter Taking for granted that next month's revolution will be announced with a trumpet blast Oh no And a delirious crowd will sweep in, break your chains And sweat your crime sheet to a national hero's diploma But you're fooling yourself, boy I know the battle will be long It won't live to sit yet Long and better enough for a long to cry The people will never go alone But someday they'll have to come and come to an end Who cares about independence when he's happy the way they live If you wait till the year 10,000 And your order or race in salary will always be clouded and printed So whatever you want let them prove you have a right But that's the way if you have a right to it don't let them tell you you can have it Any of that Because justice always wins in here Because there are things which are possible and things which are not The question of patience that's all

Don't say what you like and do as you please You can't live without compromise And not to give up Oh not to give up Don't waste your life crying out in the dead Give up and you never find pure nothing but a bunch of people Get yourself as long as you live Even those who are with you now will trump you one night one And tell you it's better to live in the real world If you were all alone it wouldn't change a thing You thought about Sweden a moment ago But the United States would never let us set up a soil there There's no point discussing it any further With ten provinces we've all the trouble in the world Seeing that don't take over in a moment confiding How do you expect we're back to go it alone Lost in an ocean of 200 millions speaking in them Yes no choice can't you see Sure it'd be easier for him to give in and live happily ever after But he can't It's not his fault he can't do it Everyone can't be born me, can be mild and careful Listen He's daring and a little crazy good for him It's a change in 1759 I mean if we had it up to here with courage, weaklings and sissy Nicole this is something for us Listen yourself

You've been touching your wheel on you enough, now it's my turn If you don't want to hear what I have to say cover your ears What make it a difference because you don't understand anything anyway It's not surprising you two don't get along You don't speak the same language Where he calls independence and open window on the world Freedom to support Quebec's interests over Ontario's You, the other alumni of the faculty of British sciences Called narrow separatism Going back into a shell collective suicide Chinese wall around Quebec and a medieval ghetto Catch his fever if you want You'll soon get over the tools Have you any idea what the colonial you are Given in your own home And however I go on the phone you were talking to your big boss The prime minister what you're querveringly called my beloved country Had you felt the temptation Perfectly legitimate for free man To make him answer back in your mother tongue Can you imagine I'll be willed her The poor dear great man would have been And yet three out of ten of his people speak French Confederation is our guest surprise It's been run for a century

What's more a Nobel Prize winner isn't usually a dance So you can't speak our language Or you won't speak it Either way you can kiss everything Go vote as hands if you want to but personally I say nothing Forgive me Mrs. Gravelle but it's not to come out Don't be too worried about Henry Father was telling me before you came in that The most intelligent thing is said all night But before you propose I wanted to make sure I knew him through and through Now that I do know everything I wish I could kind of read even more loving To say I love him I'll never be ashamed of him anything but Others can hang their head at the mention of his name Now I'll lift mine up proudly Tell everyone who wants to know I am the fiancé of Andre Gravelle The political prisoner When he comes out It still wants me Body and soul and everything else I'll be waiting for him at the door

In my suitcase My poor dear you don't know what's in store for you Keep your pity you'll need it And don't worry about me I won't be pitiful When I'm 40 I won't have to beg as I can't rest To give me a reason for living I'll have one The voice of women in my day will be heard outside the delivery room I'm not referring to you Mrs. Gravelle Because I admire you and I love you enough will not Giving me a man like the one you've raised Not really and physically If my children are up to yours that's all I ask And I don't hold any of the things you said earlier against you You're enough of a woman to know your place is that your husband's side Even if among his numerous qualities There's as old-fashioned and one track-minded as a pre-war trolley car Oh, I'm beat Now love It breaks my heart to have to tell you But when I looked at the clock five minutes ago It was then to nine

Oh yes Oh yes that's true I Must go Today you are the stronger don't take advantage of it I'll be grateful as long as I live No, it's too late if I've run you in any way I humbly ask your forgiveness No, it's great I'm not asking for myself give this up And I'll never touch politics if I'm not with the ten foot pole I swear out of my hands now You said didn't you that someone else would take your place? No, no, it would make any difference You'll explain to them what happened they'll understand But if I let my replacement do it, it won't make any difference can't you see? You can't do this to me My favorite son, my partner But it wouldn't even this candle Oh, the apple of my hand But don't you get it, my replacement? Larry, it's Larry What?

It's him I tell you it's Larry In the cabinet, I just heard that the monument with where the 17 wool slip park went on three minutes ago Larry, where is he? He left me at the Windsor, I thought he'd be here Oh my god, it is him Who? Your replacement Yes Where are you, Larry? Just a minute, he wants to speak to you Where is he? At my place But why so early? It wasn't time yet It's now 9.30 Before I left, a while ago I put back the clock Okay, Larry, I didn't know

Nobody saw you? But don't move from there, you hear? As agreed, I go to the police No, don't argue that's an order Larry Thanks Oh, okay, why did you choose him? He insisted on doing his share I thought I'd found a good way of keeping him at arm's length Thanks to you, I failed May I go with you? No, look after Larry right away Keep him from doing anything foolish, that's all I ask I'll get my things ready Lewis Yes, dear

Lewis, what's happening to us? Yesterday they were children dancing in the house Today they've become men ready to fight in the street Against us? Against their fate? They had everything to make them happy Others perhaps? Nothing Lewis, Lewis, what's to be done now? Refused? What isn't yours to accept anymore? But give that talk of yours tomorrow Oh no, I wouldn't have the strength You've got to find it To make their way your sons have pushed you into the ditch But you can't stay there They're right to assert themselves as men Doesn't rob you of the right to continue on your way If your convictions haven't changed

You raise their solution is not the right one that I know Well then you have no choice either Your duty is clear And don't be afraid Those who hear you tomorrow would not despise you Courage always comes out suspect And you can tell them truths Which more than ever they'll have An obligation to understand Good evening, Mrs. Gavin Good evening Well, it's all done Thank you Except the ending, if you've got it I could take it down now What's you? Of course By the way, your reservation has been confirmed for the 1030 plane tomorrow

Gentlemen Gentlemen by now You all know that my own house is divided Over the problem that together we have faced today I know that you share my distress And Yeah I think your son would like to shake hands with you I know that you share my distress And that of my wife

Let's go For my divided house Will not go down Without shaking yours to its very foundations Thank you You You

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