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Ned and Elizabeth in the middle of their first meeting. Ned is discussing why he resorted to violence.
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NED: The British state has all the power and yet resorts to violence. That isn't right. [...] People who have no power, forced into a corner, act violently. Elizabeth, Brighton worked. Because of Brighton, things changed. Like I can now sit down and talk to you here.
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ELIZABETH: ( She takes a deep breath, holds on) I don't believe revenge or killing someone is the answer.
NED: We were in a war and war results in casualties. I don't say that lightly.
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NED: I wish there'd been another way. There was none.
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NED: It's new this... you, me... like we are involved in some sort of experiment here...
ELIZABETH: There's a voice in my head that says, 'You shouldn't be talking to the man who killed your father'. Meeting you is hurting people - the families of others you killed... my daughter, now her life is - ( She gestures 'being blown to bits'. ) Am I not making more pain?
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NED: I... I can't undo that. I... Things are different now.
You... ( he struggles for words. ) ...there's a wall ( between us ) ...but we can dismantle it.
ELIZABETH: Can we? Can we? Not on my own we can't! ...I do understand, you know. Or am trying to, have been trying to for twenty years, that you say you had no choice but to plant the bomb.
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Ned takes off his glasses. The justifying has finished. She has had an effect on him. He wipes his eyes.
NED: When the bomb went off...
ELIZABETH: My life changed forever. I changed.
NED: And I didn't.
(reproduced with permission from: Dyer, Kevin. 2005. The Bomb. Aurora Metro Press: London, p 67-70)
