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- Yeah.

- I understand.

- You understand? You're sure?

I'm serious. I'm going to tow it away.

- Hey! - Hey. Hey, hey, hey.

This is your car, right?

- Yes.

- Yeah? All right. Hold on. Hold on.

You change your mind, give me a call.

- Can I see?

- Yeah.

- Can I put it up now?

- Yeah.

Thank you.

- Should we make one of Daddy?

- Yeah.

- Yeah?

- It's me. I'm behind you in the taxi.

- Why?

- Where are you taking my car?

- I'm taking it to a lot.

- Is it far away?

No. It's a few minutes from here.

Is there one further away?

Yeah. I can go south to Lakeshore.

Well, I want you to take it

to the one furthest away.

- Any reason?

- I need time.

Time for what?

To think. Please. Just keep driving.

Whatever you want.

But it's going to cost you.

That's okay. I'll pay whatever it costs.

- Do you know this guy?

- No.

- So, what's this about?

- Just keep driving.

My mother would have had no idea

of the political situation

she was entering into.

She would have no idea that Bethlehem

at that time was under Israeli control.

My father was giving her no sense

of the violence that had marked that region,

the history of persecution.

My father wanted nothing more than justice,

any sort of justice for his rage,

and he was prepared to sacrifice

the two of us for this noble cause.

You know,

most people have seen this action

as the most horrifying and cynical thing

that a father and husband could inflict

on a family.

And I've come to understand

that it is not the fact.

My father was giving us a gift.

- Wow!

- Simon, if you want to think that's a gift,

you go right ahead,

but I think that's cowardly.

He has a point. He does have a point.

I believe that he has a point.

If he had given you that gift,

you wouldn't be here to say it was a gift.

What? Hannah, you don't think people

can die for a cause?

People can die for a cause, that's fine,

but don't sacrifice other people.

You do not believe that

there is such a thing as a martyr.

How would the wife have been a martyr?

She didn't know what she was dying...

What she was going to die for.

He was doing it

because he believed in something.

Yeah, but he didn't die. He wasn't...

He was doing something to better the world!

He was doing something to better the world!

And, you know,

he has a point when he does that.

I understand your need to, sort of, think

of your father as someone giving a gift,

but I really can't see how

there's any kind of justification

in that much murder

and that much destruction.

And who's on that plane?

Probably people like us.

It's not gonna be people

who are making big political decisions.

Hundreds of other lives...

I'm Daniel, and I heard about

your chat room through a colleague of mine

whose daughter goes to your school.

Now, why did Simon's father

not board the plane himself?

You've acknowledged the possibility

that the man is a coward.

You've acknowledged the possibility

that the man is a monster.

Is it possible that this man just

and quite simply

wanted to view the consequences

of his actions?

You cannot underestimate the deep,

earthly satisfaction

of viewing work you've done

while you are still alive.

It was a heinous crime!

The truth is that I don't think that

whatever happened to Simon's parents,

it's not about concepts and an ideology

and who's a martyr.

This is about that this happened

to his mother.

So why don't you all just shut up?

'Cause why don't you just imagine

what it would be like to be his mother?

You're pregnant and you think

that you have this wonderful husband

who loves you and then he's planning

on killing you and 400 other people.

His parents were killed in a car accident,

Sabine, eight years ago.

They crashed into an oncoming vehicle.

Well, this would have happened

long before that, before he was born.

Would have. So he is lying.

He's making it up for the play he's writing.

Look, I know all about his parents.

I know all the details about the accident.

What are you? Are you an inspector?

You read the police reports?

Well, that's what he's exploring

with this monologue.

And you want me to approve it?

I want you to be aware of what we are doing.

Why?

Because I would like to present it

at the Drama Festival.

No. Absolutely not. No.

You know, I have no problem with him

writing whatever he wants,

as long as it doesn't promote hatred

and as long as everyone knows

that it is fiction,

that he's making it up.

- I put this into my pocket by accident.

- By accident?

You know, I thought the idea

was to test my uncle's tolerance,

not to steal things.

Listen, I talked to the principal.

He wants people to know

that you're making this up.

Why? That's what makes it so interesting.

It's the only way he'll let you

present it at the Drama Festival.

So let's wait until then.

I don't think that's a good idea.

I do.

Keep it.

- Yeah?

- Hi. It's me again.

- I was wondering, have you had lunch?

- Excuse me?

- I was wondering if you had lunch.

- No.

- Well, what if I invite you out?

- For what?

For lunch.

- Lady...

- Sabine. My name is Sabine.

- Yeah, look...

- Is there a place you would like to go?

- Look, I'm a busy guy.

- Yeah? What makes you so busy?

- Lady, I got a lunch right here.

- So keep it for tomorrow.

- Hold on. Sir, have you had lunch?

- No.

- Are you hungry?

- I could eat.

He seems to be enjoying it.

Yeah, he does.

Does your wife pack your lunch every day?

- No. I make it myself.

- You're not married?

No. I got into the habit

when I had to make lunch for my kid.

You were married?

No. No, no, no. My nephew, my sister's kid.

I raised him after she died.

- Is the father around?

- No. They died together.

It was an accident.

How old were you?

How old was I? I was 22.

Thank you.

That's a lot of responsibility,

raising a child at that age.

- Yeah, I guess so.

- She must have trusted you.

And now you put up decorations

as a way of remembering her.

I'm sorry. It was a very stupid thing to do.

- Who are you?

- Simon's teacher, French and Drama.

- You're the one that was fired?

- That's right.

I was coming out of my lawyer's office

when we met.

Do they know about that?

Do they know that you came to my house

and stole that?

No. I'm sorry.

- Does Simon know?

- That it was me?

Of course.

We planned it together.

He doesn't think you're very open-minded.

I wanted to prove that you were.

It was important for the play

he wanted to write.

- Lady...

- I thought it would do him good and...

You're f***ed up. You're f***ed up.

You did that.

You got him to post that stuff about his dad

being a terrorist. You did that?

I had absolutely no idea

he would go that far.

- Well, he took it that far.

- Yes, I know.

And I'm very sorry about it,

but it was not my intention.

Please.

Do you know what you've done to that kid?

- I wouldn't have let him...

- Do you know?

Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus.

It was your grandmother's idea,

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