Beyond Borders Page #3

Oh, yeah, sure. Monica, caII down

to the pharmacy for more morphine.

Where do you think you are, St EIsewhere?

- She's in pain.

- She's beyond pain.

Have you asked her that?

Hamadi...

..ask her if it hurts.

(Ethiopian)

HAMADI:
She er...

..says she feeIs the pain of hunger.

But she knows that death more hungry

than pain, so...she gives thanks.

She gives thanks to you.

She caIIs you by your name.

Matanay.

He who steaIs from death.

(ChiIdren shout)

HAMADI:
He's got a fever and is in shock.

NICK:
Increase the fIuids, antibiotics...

You reaIIy think

he's going to sit up and take a drink?

- I was just...

- He's dying.

He can bareIy move his Iips,

Iet aIone take a cup.

- I was trying to heIp.

- To heIp, you have to know what you're doing.

You think I'm stupid and want me to go home.

You don't have to waste any more time

trying to make that cIear to me.

Get some HEM.

High Energy MiIk. Monica wiII give it to you.

Tease it round his mouth with your finger,

Iet him suck at that. SmaII amounts onIy.

If he revives, caII a nurse.

If he doesn't...

..at Ieast he'II have someone with him

when he dies.

(WaiIing)

How many?

Kat?

The ten-year-oId.

That makes 39.

NICK:
So more than yesterday.

- I know.

You better hire extra men from the camp

and get them digging more hoIes.

Put them on night shifts so nobody sees.

Can't have peopIe dying of depression.

How's the water coming, Joss?

Nothing so far. Drive shaft's bust to buggery and

we're down to two Iitres per person per day.

What about the tankers?

Yeah, sure. That's piss in a bucket, mate.

If we don't get the new weII

up and running, we're knackered.

So what do you need, exactIy?

I just toId you. A new drive shaft.

OK.

Let me see what I can do.

WeII, the good news, boys and girIs,

is that the government's

finaIIy coming tomorrow.

I got confirmation today

that Mr Ningpopo himseIf wiII be here...

for about an hour.

That Iong?

You never know, we might get Iucky.

First thing, we're going to break open

the new suppIies,

immunise the chiIdren against measIes.

Youngest first, untiI we run out.

Kat, Monica, I want you

to get onto that as earIy as possibIe.

AII right.

I'II set up the caII chain and check the syringes.

No, I'II need you with me, and you, TuIa. Joss?

Sanitation.

I think you need to take your team and cut

a new defecation area beyond the camp.

Let's just chIorinate aII the water, OK? AII of it.

- The tank of water's absoIuteIy...

NICK:
F*** the tank of water.

ChIorinate the Iot. There's too much infection.

OK.

OK. Good.

AII right, make sure you get me your requests

for Ningpopo as soon as possibIe.

Two hookers and a singIe to MeIbourne.

Business or coach?

(ChuckIing)

- Good night, Sarah.

- Good night.

Oh, I forgot.

The boy's mother.

She died.

ELLIOTT:
We've got about ten days Ieft.

Maybe two weeks, if we're Iucky.

What happened with US Aid?

Nothing.

CARE?

CARE, US Aid, Oxfam, WFP...

they don't want to know.

Everyone I spoke to in Addis

had an acute case of compassion fatigue.

The oId man?

The trust fund?

My father was the poIitest ''f*** you'' I ever got.

What about Steiger?

- Some smaII favours...

- A shitIoad of weapons here...

- So what if he fucks over the Marxists?

- I don't deaI with those peopIe.

If it's aII we've got, I don't see why!

Because that's not how we started!

And because I wouIdn't have it any other way.

(Piano pIays faintIy)

What the heII is that?

ELLIOTT:
Schumann, I think.

Traumerei

(Footsteps approach)

Hi.

I dream of chiIdhood.

I dream of Iove.

Of a garden where a boy pIays.

Forever young.

Themes From ChiIdhood.

Part of a series from Schumann's Lederhosen.

Lederhosen are trousers.

Ah.

The German for song is Iieder.

Lieder.

Yes, correct.

Is there something you wanted?

The baby.

You tried the HEM?

- Yes.

- And?

And no change.

Sometimes it takes a whiIe.

(TuIa caIIs out)

Baby woman. Come.

Come.

(Babies cry)

Yes.

One Iife.

Ningpopo's here.

(Shouted commands)

ELLIOTT:

Look, right now we're at 800 caIories a day.

In a few days, it'II be down to 500.

The bottom Iine is, we're not gonna make

next week's distribution.

- Not a chance.

- And that raises the issue of security.

If I can't get these peopIe more food,

I can't guarantee the safety of my staff.

Food, security.

I beIieve these are Iisted as separate issues.

Yes, but I'm sure you'd agree they're connected.

(Raised voices)

WeII, if we couId get some emergency corn,

that'd be a start.

I wiII raise it with the WFP.

- Thank you.

- They owe us since August.

- Excuse me?

- Any corn wouId be gratefuIIy...

- Who owes you?

- The WFP, three months' of corn.

- It'II be in your notes.

- There's no reference to the WFP.

- Then your notes are wrong.

- OK, if we couId move on to security.

Our soIdiers have no experience of this order.

We have another meeting

at Korem Camp at 4pm.

If we can deaI with these matters

in their proper order.

It is no good to jump from food to security.

- This is not coherent.

- Not coherent!

They don't get enough food, they get hungry,

they get desperate, they wreck the camp.

- A security issue.

- Do not raise your voice.

They're aII f***ing dying out there.

PIease stop taIking boIIocks

and start getting some food deIivered now.

No excuses. No money changing hands.

I find this innuendo most disturbing, Dr CaIIahan.

I can assure you, not a singIe doIIar

changes hands without authorisation.

- Procedure's of the utmost...

- Procedure my f***ing arse!

Your friends in the water-trucking business

hike up the price by restricting deIivery.

- Those sh*t ants foIIow procedure?

- Outrageous!

- EspeciaIIy coming from you.

- What do you mean?

To take a refugee boy from the camp

without authorisation,

to die Iike an animaI

in a country he does not know.

The death of a chiId is not a minor vioIation,

Dr CaIIahan.

I can assure you...

you are under serious investigation.

What?

He'd never have given us anything, anyway.

WeII, he certainIy isn't going to now.

What happened to his car?

(WhistIe)

WiII that fit our weIIhead?

Do kangaroos crap in the bush?

We've got no choice.

We need Steiger.

SARAH:
Dr CaIIahan?

Sorry, I...

I just had some traveIIer's cheques.

I'm Ieaving tomorrow...

I thought I'd Ieave them here.

EIIiott usuaIIy deaIs with aII that.

- ShouId I give them...

- No.

It's OK, I'II give them to him.

OK.

So...

Do you think they're gonna shut you down?

Maybe.

But we aIways turn up again.

Somewhere.

I reaIIy admire you for the work you do.

Oh, Jesus. Admire. What does that mean?

Why are you so difficuIt to taIk to?

Why are you?

Why do you never say my name?

Sorry?

You never say my name.

Why?

What's the first thing you do

when you get a coId?

What?

What is the first thing you do

when you get a coId?

A chicken soup, aspirin, Scotch.

You ever just have the coId?

I don't und...

- Taken nothing, just have the coId.

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