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1
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Rachel’s naivety and weakness

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Wake up Sleeping Beauty

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Hornbeck mocks Brady

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A cathedral for a cloak and a church spire for a hat

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Hornbeck’s arrogance

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E.K Hornbeck’s brilliant little symphony of words

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Hornbeck tempting Rachel

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Have a bite? Don’t worry, I’m not the serpent, little Eva. This isn’t from the tree of knowledge

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Hornbeck mocks Elijah

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Why, I had no idea you were still around. I’ve read some of your stuff

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Hornbeck mocking spirituality

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Which is hungrier- my stomach or my soul?

My stomach

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Hornbeck mocking Hilsborough

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I had a nice place to stay, Madame, and I left it to come here

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Hornbeck on Brady’s “success”

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A balding orphan, an aging adolescent […]Show me a shouter and I’ll show you and Also-Ran. A might have been. An almost-was

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9
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Brady’s collapse from Hornbeck

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Mount Brady will erupt again by nightfall, spouting lukewarm and irrelevant ashes

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Hornbeck’s use of rhetoric

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Batman bunkum Bible-beating bastard!

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Rachel scared of dad

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I was always more frightened of him than I was of falling

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Rachel wants Bert to change his mind

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Why can’t you be on the right side of things

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Rachel nervous on the stand

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I did answer, didn’t I? What was the question?

She opens her mouth to speak, but nothing comes out. Her lips move wordlessly

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Rachel on her fear of thoughts

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I was afraid of what I might think - so it seemed safer not to think it at all

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Rachel on Darwin

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Maybe what Mr Darwin wrote is bad. I don’t know. Bad or good, the ideas have to come out - like children. Some of em healthy as a bean plant, some sickly

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Rachel’s wishes of Bert

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You make it sound as if Bert is a hero. I’d like to think that, but I can’t

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17
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Brown cursing Cates

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We call down hellfire in the man who has sinned against the world

Let his soul writhe in anguish damnation

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Brown on Drummon

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Drummond is a vicious godless man

Agent of darkness

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Brown curses his own daughter

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We call down the same curse on those who ask for this sinner, though they be flesh of my flesh and blood of my blood

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Bert on the complexities of the situation

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It isn’t as simple as that. Good or bad, black or white, might or day

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21
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The towns view of Bert

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People I thought were my friends look at me now as if I had horns growing out of my head

They’ll crucify me!

22
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Bert’s determination

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(Quietly, with determination) No, sir. I’m not gonna quit

23
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Bert on the problems of Browns teachings

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Tell em what your father really said! That Tommy’s soul was damned, writhing in hellfire!

24
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Bert on the purpose of religion

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Religion’s supposed to comfort people, isn’t it? Not frighten them to death

25
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Berts kindness

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Don’t plague her. Let her go

26
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Drummond on the importance of a free-thinking jury

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Conform! What do you want to do - run the jury through a meat grinder so they all com out the same?

27
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Drummond in fundamentalists

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All I want is to prevent the clock-stoppers from dumping a load of medieval nonsense

28
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Drummond to Cates on religions history

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You murder a wife, it isn’t nearly as bad as murdering an old wive’s tale

29
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Drummond to Brady on his increasing irrelevance

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Perhaps it is you who have moved away- by standing still

30
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Drummond on the significance of the trail

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A thinking man! And he is threatened with a fine and imprisonment because he chooses to speak what he thinks

31
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Drummond on the importance of free will

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In a child’s power to master the multiplication table there is more sanctity than all your shouted “Amens!” “Holy holies!” […] An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral

32
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Drummond the advance of knowledge

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Darwin moved us forward to a hilltop, where we could look back and see the way we came. But for this view, this insight, this knowledge, we must abandon faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis

33
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Drummond on the importance of truth

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Golden Dancer: whenever you see something bright, shiny, perfect seeming […] look behind the paint. And if it’s a lie, show it up for what it really is!

34
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Drummond on Brady’s departure

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With a skull full of undelivered inauguration speeches

35
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Brady’s past awe and the true nature of God

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A giant once lived in that body [..] he was looking for God too high up and too far away

36
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The ending image

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(Holds both […] as if his hands were scales, and they teeter with equal weight)

37
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Brady’s nature

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(Seems to carry with him a built in spotlight)

38
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Brady’s flattery

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Friends - and I can see that most of you are friends by the way you have decked out your beautiful city

39
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Brady’s pride

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(Savouring it) “Colonel Brady” I like the sound of that.

40
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Mrs Brady and Hubbie

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I have to build up my strength, mother, for the battle ahead

Mother. They’re laughing at me mother.

41
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Brady appealing to town on the importance of a tough opponent

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If St George had slain a dragonFLY, who would remember him?

42
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Brady’s superfluous language

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I do not feel that the dignity of this court will suffer if we remove a few superfluous outer garments

43
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Brady warning Brown

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He that troubleth his own house… shall inherit the wind. The bible tells us also that God forgives his children

44
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Brady’s mocking of evolution

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This talk of bugs and “Evil-ution” of slime and ooze

Zoo-ological hogwash slobbered around the schoolrooms!

45
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Drummond warning Brady’s confidence

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The gall to whoop up this holy war against something you don’t know

46
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Drummlnds breakdown of Brady

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(Drummond is still probing for a weakness in Goliath’s armour)

(The sound of it strikes Brady as if he had been slapped in the face)

We must NOT abandon faith!

47
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Brady’s loss of crowd

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(The crown seems to be slipping away from Brady and aligning itself more and more with Drummond)

48
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Brady loosing control

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Your client is wrong! He is deluded! He has lost his way! (Fidgeting, floundering, wriggling)

49
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Brady’s incompetence of modern things

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Can one speak into either side of the machine?

50
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Brady’s grandiloquent and religious speeches

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From the hallowed hills of sacred Sinai

51
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Brady’s inauguration speech

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As your new President, is like to say what I have said all my life…

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