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It's

winter.

It's hard

to

keep track.

I need to

write this

somehow

to hold on.

When I

had my freedom,

free.

Free.

If you say it over enough,

it begins to sound

mean

nothing.

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Heat up here.

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Oh,

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heat.

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Heat.

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Heat.

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[Applause]

Heat.

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Heat.

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When the dance was done, when I went my

way, when I tried to find rainbows,

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Looks good. You men know what to do.

Yes, sir.

Damn.

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Every seed,

every

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You and me.

All my wild.

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They were you.

They were you.

They were you.

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All right, that's it for now. Let's get

out of here. Back in the truck. We'll

get him next time.

They

were

you.

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I missed you, Matt.

I missed you, too.

Oh, you've been hurt.

Yes.

But you should have told me. You should

have told me. right away.

Here,

sit down.

Maybe I can bind it.

Look, it's beginning to snow.

I know.

Here, take my coat.

No, both.

There's room enough for both.

Love,

you are love

better far than a metaphor can ever ever

be.

Love,

you are love.

Mystery.

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Oh,

look.

Hey, come back. It's a miracle.

Let's take down the wall.

No, leave the wall. Remember, you must

always leave the wall.

Deep in December it's nice

without

the heart is hollow

deep in December. It's nice to remember

the fire of September that made us

mellow.

Deep in December,

our hearts should remember

and follow

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Do you have any idea what you're doing?

Annie,

you don't own me.

No, I don't. But that doesn't mean you

can do anything you want.

It's dangerous.

So you do it as a bear

or is it just to define me?

Yes.

One day

you're going to have to choose.

Did you see it?

How was I?

Did you cry?

Don't be silly.

You did.

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What does this play mean to people? It's

so silly and so sentimental.

Why did the risk arrest to see it?

Who made you cry?

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Heat

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up here.

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Heat.

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Heat.

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Morning, Dad.

Good morning, Althia. And how are you

this morning? Oh, I'm not bad, Dad.

Thanks. And how are you doing? Okay. I

hope you have a real nice day today.

Yeah, you too, Dad.

How you doing, Dad? Something off the

back of the milk barn. Damn squatterers

come right up and rip the damn wood

right off your barn. Want

to get a warrant? Search the trailers.

See who's got our barn sticking out of

their stove.

You think it's okay for the government

to steal the land? You probably think

it's okay for the damn squatterers they

sent to rip the damn house down for

firewood.

You know I don't. I'll look into it.

To leave you up yet? I got to get going.

Ally.

Ally.

Oh, you look terrible.

Justin, where you going?

Draw.

Where you going? Tell him what the hell

for. Hey,

Ally. Come on. We're late.

What the hell is he supposed to do?

Let him go to college. There's no work.

I don't know what he's supposed to do.

Leave you.

See you later, Dad.

And I'll check into that squatter

business.

Dad,

want some more coffee, Dad?

It's always worse in the spring.

Yeah.

He sees a land starting to come alive

and knows you can't do a damn thing

about it. I don't think he'd even mind

him taking the wood off the barn if they

just knew how to handle the land.

Well, they're welcome to it as far as

I'm concerned. Well, that's a hell of an

attitude.

Oh, what the hell you want me to do,

Lord? Be outraged at the last remains of

the great Milford Empire being torn

apart by a bunch of poor exiles who just

tried to keep from freezing to death.

You're a Milford.

Oh, yes. I'm a Milford, right? I forgot.

I'm a Milford.

I'm sorry, Ward. It's just the way he

looks at me sometimes. You know, all of

us really, right? As if we're the ones

who let him down. As if as if

it's not very subtle.

No, really.

Well, I don't see him making any great

heroic stands out of this as his fault.

Just take it easy. You're going to kill

yourself.

That all

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Peter,

what time is that?

Six.

Go back to sleep.

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Morning, Daddy. I made coffee.

What's this? An all nighter?

Western Civilization test.

Which one? There's yours.

I don't understand how you can be the

county administrator and still be so

cynical.

Water's working.

Mature. You should avoid it at all

costs.

I'm glad I'm a dancer. I just don't have

to worry about maturity in politics.

Yeah.

How's that program coming?

It's going good. The area triyouts are

today. You should come.

Well, I'd like to, honey, but if it's a

try out, I wouldn't want it to look like

it was trying to influence anything.

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Look, um, hey,

I love you very much and I'm very proud

of you and your dancing.

I know.

Look, maybe I'll drop by one of the

rehearsal and give you a few pointers.

Good. That's all I need.

I got to run. But good luck. All right.

It's not that you need it.

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Yeah, I know. [ __ ]

Morning,

boys.

You taking all your money? You

got it all. Hey, how about this early

spring, huh? Too damn hot. Too damn

early. Just get an early crop, that's

all.

Yeah. Everything starts to grow, then a

big freeze comes along and kills it all.

Well, you can't blame the Russians for

the weather, huh?

Why not? Don't matter one way or

another. Way the government messes up

the quota.

Hey, did you get that part for that

grater?

Got to be kidding. I'll call somebody.

You'll have to. You got the only one who

works around here.

Heard from my wife's sister. There's a

movement in Idaho. They're living in

caves up in the Rockies. Her husband

would be one of them survivors.

You can't listen to all those rumors.

Yeah, but what if it's true? What's it

got to do with us anyway?

Morning, Peter.

Morning, Betty.

You want something to eat?

Yeah. Man pancakes, real maple syrup,

and tiny pork link sausages. But I've

got soybean cakes and I've got molasses

and that's bitter for you anyway.

Now you say,

"Well, listen. If you want something

better, you go down to the barracks and

get it. I saw them take a load in there

yesterday. Eggs, pork chops, steaks.

Maybe they got antibiot.

What do you want? You can go down there

in your official car. You tell them

you're the county administrator and

they're in the county."

Yeah. Well, that sounds like a plan.

Well, you're going to have to eat with

them, too. You want some coffee? out of

the soybe.

Thanks, buddy.

Little crabby this morning.

He's having supply problems.

Well, it's hard living in the middle of

the most productive farmland in the

world and you can't get anything but soy

bers.

Yeah, it's better for you anyway.

Knocking hell out of cholesterol

problem.

Yeah, caffeine problem, too.

What kind of night we have here?

It's pretty quiet, but pretty crappy

scorecard.

Number one, a drunk was listed as

alcohol poison.

Yeah,

there's a railroad bun just passing

through.

He was drinking lighter fluid in his

toes.

This tastes about like Betty's coffee.

Well, emergency wouldn't pump his

stomach.

What the hell does that mean?

They say they've got this new policy.

I can't.

Yeah, for

you they look great.

Yeah, thanks. Wait till you taste that

molasses.

I have a fork, please. You still have

those?

Just a minute. I'll wipe a couple up.

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Thank you.

I'm still

Look, from now on, everybody goes to the

hospital.

Okay. Not going to do any good. At least

there'll be a record of it.

You think that matters?

Yeah, it matters. Matters to me. It

matters to you.

Well, what really matters to me is my

great-grandfather helped build this damn

country.

Hell, count is named after us. What do

we got? We're down to 50 damn acres.

Not a damn deputy.

There isn't even a sheriff. You're

supposed to be concerned that some

gutless brat can't resist smack or some

bum is lacing his toqu with lighter

fluid. This is really awful.

Now that's what makes you really want to

give up. Can't even get a good

breakfast.

What do you put in there?

When you get

What exactly goes into these things?

It is not yours. Mom got it from me. She

made it 2 years.

She made it for me.

Good morning.

Morning.

Thought I was going to make breakfast.

Jack made it.

What's up?

Man, where'd you get him? Snuck it off

the training table. We should do that.

Oh god, it's good.

Tony, you have rehearsal today? Area try

out water?

Want oral support?

Okay, if you don't say anything.

Strange kid doesn't want to be

criticized by her mom.

Bye.

be good.

Yeah. Don't get pregnant,

jerk.

Yes. Goodbye, Scott. Thanks for the

chat. Nice kiss. Wonderful seeing you.

Scott.

Hey, Scott. Here. I don't need it. Hey,

wait up, guys.

Hello.

Come on. Come on.

No way. No. Don't. Don't run. Come on,

Deardra.

Hi, honey.

What's your name?

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Where's your mom? Is that your mom?

It's okay. I'm not going to hurt you.

Don't be scared.

Dad's a girl. Would you like to go in

the house? It's warm in the house.

Hey, how about some hot milk?

Yeah, I bet you would.

Come on, let's go. No, I'm sorry. Come

on. You're It's okay. Excuse me. I'm

sorry. I made a mistake. Wait. I'm

sorry. Come on, kid.

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Heat. Heat.

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Heat up here.

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What he's doing?

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Really?

Dr. Drummond,

he's with patients.

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This is a surprise. We talk.

In the early 1930s, the opening was on

its way to California, finding its way

to find acceptance.

Those

gains are never made easily, but by

determination and perseverance, they

were able to overcome tremendous

obstacles and hardships to attack. The

staff just followed or

a man died.

Not a hell of a man, but a man.

How does that stack up against your

hypocratic oath?

Don't talk to me about my hypocratic

oath.

It's in the new National Advisory

Committee guidelines. You want to fight

the guidelines? Great. Put it in

writing.

You know I can't do that. I just want to

hold a line wherever we can. Otherwise,

what the hell good are we?

Peter, why the hell do you think I was

exiled? Most of us. I wasn't a serious

political person. I did something I

thought was pretty ordinary and decent.

And I did it without thinking. Now I

don't do anything without thinking. How

it looked to the committees.

Well, I got informers on my staff at the

hospital, nurses, doctors, even one of

the janitors for God's sake. And next

time I step out of line, I'll really get

sent down.

Look, I had to give up a damn good

Philadelphia practice. I even lost my

condo in Vale. What greater a sacrifice

do you want?

Guess I just want to hold the tide back

a little.

Well, my advice is

pick your shots. I didn't. And now I'm

one of your constituents.

Doctor,

the doctor too long.

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Hey, Puncher.

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How long you been out?

10 minutes they broke out of the back of

the barracks as a tactical unit.

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Let's see.

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Heat. Heat.

tickets.

Scary. They really are.

minutes. Didn't have anybody shooting

back. Damn right.

Get back in here.

Come with me.

We can make love in the car.

You're a pervert.

There are many women who would love such

an offer.

Oh, well, maybe you can find one on your

way to the office. And

are you all right?

I'm very sad this morning.

Yeah, I'm fine.

Anyway,

you have your plate to rehearse.

You'll probably not even notice that I'm

gone.

Andre,

I love you.

Morning.

Good morning, Colonel. Michael,

the plane is standing by.

We shall go to the office first.

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Is everything ready for reception in

Omaha

Four of the candidates for the area

governor general have been notified.

Governor General sounds like a character

from Gilded and Sullivan. It is a

position of authority.

Only four were notified. Which one was

not?

Uh the man from Nebraska, Peter

Bradford, the administrator of Milford

County.

Any reason?

Uh there is a feeling that Governor

Smith of Misori would be the nominee of

choice.

How do you think Mr. Bradford came to

our attention?

His county is the most troublefree in

the whole five-state area. There is no

significant resistance.

His production is above quota, only 60

mi from the Omaha urban zone, better

than any county in the central area. Of

course, the committee would assume he

isn't qualified.

He's not the party member.

He's not in an advisory group. The party

member from Muford does not recommend

him. Mr. Herbert Lester, he says Mr.

Bradford was resistant to the

introduction of revised school

curriculum when he was county supervisor

of schools.

You really have no idea what we are

trying to do here, do you?

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83 915

83 915 Sir

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March. Heat.

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Heat.

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Hello.

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See,

in a few hours,

you're going to have your names returned

to you.

I'm here to remind you how you came to

be numbers deserving of no more respect

than a cipher.

You disgraced your country. You brought

shame and hardships on your family.

And now

you'll always have your number.

It'll follow you wherever you go.

And it's waiting to be used again should

you fail to apply the lessons learned

here. For those of you who may doubt

your rehabilitation,

I owe it to you to tell you that if you

found your stay here unpleasant,

next time will be worse.

You all rise and take the oath of

allegiance.

Anyone not comfortable pledging that

allegiance is free not to do so.

Sergeant

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8 3 915.

You will lead

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I pledge my allegiance to the flag of

the community of American, Soviet, and

United Nations of the world and to the

principle for which it stands. A nation

indivisible with others of the earth

joined in peace and justice for all.

Peter, what's up?

New exile list.

Bunch of names.

Take another look.

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There's only one parole leaf from prison

camp. Deon,

I'd almost forgotten about him.

your brother, my friend.

Think we'd be a little glad. You know

what I mean?

How do you get used to things?

Everything in its place.

And some people's place is to be gone,

huh?

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Well, we'll get used to him being not

gone

just like we did gone.

You hear that?

You just have an old

Well, there's no point worrying about

something.

Yeah, like tomatoes. Thought I was going

to be There's rumor about a shipment of

tomatoes. If anybody told you were in

high school, you'd be standing in line

to ship. I guess we'll know soon enough.

Hi.

Hi.

Uh, I'll lose my place in line.

Amanda,

we

did you see what happened in the wild?

Start peacekeepers exercise.

I know what it is. Why do they have to

do that? I mean, we're all scared enough

already.

Can't you do something? People are

upset.

That's why they do it.

I know.

So, it doesn't bother you. Why do you

have that Head for the Hills look on

your face?

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Deon's coming home

here to Milford.

He's out of the hospital.

Turns out it wasn't a mental hospital

after all. Was a prison camp in

southwest Texas.

American gulak.

Oh my god.

Bastards.

Yeah.

Well, I just thought you might want to

know.

Don't.

I hate what happened to him. I'm really

glad he's going to be okay.

But I love you.

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Andre, I'm sorry to burst in on you like

this.

Magistrate Andles. What is it American

executives always used to say?

My door is always open.

They usually said that until someone

took them up on it.

Andre, I have worried that Devon's being

released.

I'm sorry.

Devon Milford, my ex-husband. There's a

report he's being released from Fort

Davis.

Well, I must confess this is one of the

many things in the five-state area I

seem to have overlooked. However, it is

um 1500 miles away.

I'm sure it was a bureaucratic mixup.

They mustn't have realized who he was.

And I'm sure he's been rehabilitated.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be released.

He's dangerous. He undoubtedly has

feelings of revenge. and the children.

Even if it's through, he'll be an

internal exile. There's not a lot of

harm he can do. Restricted to 25 miles

around his home.

You don't know him. You've got to stop

it.

We look into it.

By the way, I ran into some of your more

belligerent associates last night. I

just happened by an outlaw performance

in a church.

A special performance?

A rather harmless little play. Special

person in the cast,

an artist,

appearance and illusion,

beauty and soul,

instability,

madness.

Yes, I forgot with you. That would be a

virtue.

Make me a file on Devon Milford coming

out of Fort Davis, Texas. Videapes

everything. You may have to dig a

little. At least two other areas,

northeast and the federal district.

Oh, and police records, too. Do you want

him to be stopped?

No, not now.

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Heat.

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Heat.

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This is

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one big one.

Big one.

Stay alive.

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Heat. Heat.

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First time I was in Midland Odessa, I

was 18 years old.

Stop over flight from Houston to

Phoenix.

We must have flown over oil fields for

20 minutes.

Lot of money here back then. I'm sure

I've changed a lot though.

You just get in that Fort Davis group

to uh hear anything about what's

happening in the country. I mean,

we can talk. They don't care.

I hear that about Fort Davis

at Coachella. They let you talk. You

used to talk all the damn time at

Coachella. We must have hatched 20

escape plots a day. Formed 100

resistance crews for when we got out.

We're all going to meet up in the

semi-autonomous area up in Idaho and

Utah. I don't know how the hell we're

going to get there.

People do stuff like that, you know,

past the time.

That guy, he's a plant. I hear they knew

Seattle. You hear that? a couple of

years ago.

Our ancestors were very rough and they

got in fights a lot and there was lots

of bullies and when the Americans

conquered the continent um they killed

lots of Indians who'd been living on the

land peacefully for thousands of years.

Thank you, Caleb. Now, can anyone tell

us what caused our ancestors to be this

way?

Bill.

They believed in the survival of the

fittest. Everything is run by big

companies and the people who came into

the country were forced on building

railroads or sweat shops or coal mines

for almost nothing. While the companies

and bosses in government were rich and

lived in big houses and had servants. If

you couldn't work, they didn't think you

were good for anything. And old people

had to die because they lived in slums

or had gotten hurt in factories.

What is this philosophy called?

social Darwinism,

which meant that everybody just looked

out for himself, didn't care what

happened to anyone else.

Class, I'd like to introduce Miss Marian

Andrews, who's a magistrate here in

Chicago, and a member of the National

Advisory Group who help our president

and representative solve problems.

Most important, I'm Caleb's mom.

May I steal him for a moment? I I need

to talk to him.

Certainly.

Thank you.

Now, let's continue.

There's nothing wrong, darling.

But, uh,

you know how we've talked about your

father maybe trying to see you.

He's in the hospital.

Well, he may be out now. Now, he's not

supposed to come anywhere near us, but

just in case, I wanted to warn you and

your brother. It's no big deal or

anything, but there'll be a policeman to

pick you up after school today.

Sure.

Okay.

All right. Back to class.

I love you, sweetheart.

You too, Mom.

Where is he?

I don't know. It's hard to get reliable

information from that far.

You're a big shot. You should be able to

find out.

I'm not going to argue about what I

should or should not be able to do. I am

telling you an officer will pick you up

after school and be at the apartment.

I don't want some pro hanging around

watching me.

I told you not to use that word. Maybe

in among ninth graders, but you don't

even know what it means.

Whatever.

An officer will pick up your brother

first and come and get you. Okay.

Okay,

mom.

Do you think he's hurt?

I mean, in those hospitals, do they do

stuff like shock treatment and

prefrontal labbotoies?

No, I'm sure he's fine.

Well, they have to let us see him, don't

they?

He

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It could be bad for us.

I want to see my dad.

Let's not talk about it now, okay? We'll

discuss it later, okay?

Your records were left on the truck from

Fort Davis. That's not unusual.

You somebody important?

No.

Says in your file here, you ran for

president in 1988. Is that a joke?

Yes.

Well, before my time, I didn't used to

be too interested in politics when I was

in high school.

But whatever it was, you got a red tag

file.

Says you're in a mental hospital, too.

No, I was sent to Fort Davis.

Well, it's probably screwed up. Most of

them are. It's not like we can pick up a

phone, check up on anything.

Prison records. what counts. Anyway,

you know, a lot of people get in a lot

of trouble in prison. This looks good.

Real clean. That's a real good thing for

you.

Looks good on your file. You have to go

through orientation and delouse and then

the magistrate will see you.

They cleaned us up at camp.

Threw that dorm weight outside to be

called next.

Look, I'm tired of taking it in the year

for this stuff. I didn't send those damn

people here.

Only time you've ever put yourself out

on a limb is when you were 8 years old.

You had to memorize a song for the

Christmas pageants.

We damn sure know how we came to be

honored with a load of those people.

Look, Milford's lost more than anyone.

So don't give me that it was all your

brother's fault. What do you think? We'd

all be sitting here everything perfect

like it was before? Come on. We can't

meet the court and feed ourselves, much

less these squatters. I know, but we're

coming up short. The exiles working in

the elevator. Each one of them cops a

sack of grain. They're hungry. This is

the third winter for some of them. You'd

think they'd learn to take care of

themselves.

What do you expect? They're not farmers.

They're out there trying to produce a

quota on those pathetic little pieces of

land that we've been divided up on. We

come to town, some of us work in your

houses. It's almost like we're from

another country. None of us even wants

to be here. You look around, you find

yourself in a terrible situation. You

can't believe it's going to be

permanent. And even if the guy next to

you has to stay, you won't. It's only

human. The government sent them here.

It's their responsibility. Let them take

care of them.

That's easy to say, but it's our

problem. And if it blows up, it's not

going to be some political security

bureaucrat from Chicago or Washington

who's going to have to deal with it.

It's us.

There was a riot down in Missouri last

week. Grand City exiles went on a

rampage. I don't want any surprises.

Just pick up the red phone. That's what

the special

county administrator. We've only called

the UNSS unit once and that was

outsiders. I want to keep it that way.

Next order of business, a parade.

Well, we got all the marching units

lined up. The only problem is the old

BFW guys. They say they won't march if

the special service unit's going to be

there.

All right, I'll talk to them. Have we

gotten the slogans for the banners from

the advisory committee yet?

Not yet. Uh, we don't have a lot of time

and they get real upset when you make up

your own.

How's it look for our crowd?

Everybody's pretty apathetic.

You mean Joseph Stalin wasn't the father

of our country?

I always thought it was Alexander

Hamilton.

Okay, look. This is not my favorite time

in history either.

But we all got a choice.

We can hang on to the past or or we

could we could pull together, make the

best of this.

There isn't going to be the kind of

country I grew up believing would always

be around. I I damn sight rather work

for a decent community with some of the

values I can still believe in.

Probably had a more sophisticated view

of things in Philadelphia. Not at all. I

thought it was an impassioned plea for

fence sitting, perfectly appropriate to

the time.

I see it as an alternative to running

your head into a stone wall.

I think I'm just suffering from an

ailment that comes from having lived too

close to the Liberty Bell.

Well,

I guess you wouldn't be here if it

weren't for your wit. Huh, doctor?

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