Unthinkable

Scene 3

(A bomb has just exploded.)

B: How could you do this? How could you?
Yusuf Younger (Y): You wanted proof. I needed a break. I can hold out now.
B: It was a shopping mall! Fifty-three people are dead!
Y: That was your fault. God loves them, they’re martyrs, all martyrs.
B: Fifty-three of them. Fifty-three bodies blown to pieces!
(Brody begins to cut Younger’s body with a knife.)
H: Don’t do it, Brody.
B: Shut up!
H: Don’t.
B: Where are those bombs? Where are those fucking bombs?
Y: Do it! Do it! I love my country, you people crap on it! I love my religion and you people spit on it! Just remember something, I’m here because I want to be here! I let myself be caught because I’m not a coward. I chose to meet my oppressors face to face!
You call me a barbarian. Then what are you? What, you expect me to weep over 50 civilians? You people kill that number every day! How does it feel, Brody? This is not about me. This is about you! How does it feel? You have no authority here! None! There is but one authority and it is not you! You are a blight! You are a cancer! How does it feel, Brody?

Vocabulary

1. cheap: not worthy of respect, vulgar
2. watch: here it means be careful about
3. rapport: relationship, especially one of mutual trust or emotional affinity

(By Wang Yu)