Beyond Borders Page #6

(Conversation in Khmer)

TAO:
He say...

you are CIA agent working for Vietnam.

One of you must die.

(Speaks Khmer)

TAO:
EngIish doctor,

you say aII you care about is my peopIe.

(Gives order in Khmer)

(Woman whimpers)

(Baby cries)

(Screams)

(Baby crying)

(Speaks Khmer)

Life mean nothing.

We serve onIy Angka.

Now you wiII see.

For God's sake, he's just a baby!

TeII them to drop their guns!

TeII them to drop their f***ing weapons now!

No! Nick!

TeII them to back off. Back off!

(Speaks Khmer)

TeII them to back off.

- TeII them to back off.

(Tao shouts in Khmer)

(Baby cries)

(Screaming)

(Tao speaks urgentIy in Vietnamese)

TAO:
On! On! On!

(Baby crying)

Look, as Iong as we hoId due west,

we'II hit the river.

- That's about two miIes.

- The camp's there.

- About three miIes north, over the Thai border.

- Oh, Jesus.

(Distant gunfire)

Sh*t. That's Khmer Rouge.

They've reached the viIIage.

At this rate, they're going to catch up.

(Urgent shouting in Vietnamese)

Tao!

Keep them moving! Keep them moving!

TeII them we're nearIy there.

Sierra Tango 6-1-9.

(Static on waIkie-taIkie)

Sierra Tango 6-1-9, this is outpost Red Seven.

(Static hisses)

Sierra Tango, come in.

(Thunder rumbIes)

Me father. Me father.

(Baby cries)

(Speaks Vietnamese)

TAO:
Boss! Boss!

Boss! Look.

(HeIicopters whir)

- Look! HeIicopter!

HeIicopter!

HeIicopter!

That's Vietnamese, mate.

Good. That'II keep them busy.

Nick.

- It wasn't your fauIt.

- Yes, it was.

If I'd Iistened to him,

none of this wouId've happened.

CouIdn't even bury him properIy.

I didn't even give him a decent f***in' buriaI.

EIIiott wanted to dedicate his Iife

to heIping other peopIe...

..and in the end, he died for them.

Be proud of him.

Miss him.

But be proud of him.

I don't know what I'm going to do without him.

I can't stop. I've got to keep going.

- There's so much...

- I'm worried about you.

Here.

I'm worried that something's

gonna happen to you.

Every day for four years, every morning,

I wake up and I wonder if you're OK,

if you're stiII aIive, where you are.

ShaII I ring down for some room service?

Mmm...chocoIate cake.

And some air conditioning.

That'd be IoveIy.

When did you meet Henry?

When I was staring at a Rothko.

What's that - some sort of dishwasher?

No, he's a painter.

I used to work in an art gaIIery.

And one day, Henry came in.

How oId were you?

Um...too young.

But you stayed together?

(Sighs)

Yeah.

He... We've both known that the marriage

has been over for a Iong time.

But we stayed together for Jimmy.

- You Iove him very much, don't you?

- Mm.

He's amazing.

(Water spIashes)

I'm going to have to start making pIans

to go to New York.

See EIIiott's parents.

TeII them what happened.

- How Iong wiII you be gone?

- I don't know.

No idea.

What is this?

What are you doing?

I'm absoIuteIy crazy about you.

I can't stop thinking about you.

You're aIways in my mind. You're in my heart.

You're in every f***in' beat of me.

But I can't go there with you.

I can't do it. Look at what happens

to peopIe around me. I'm not good for you.

- That's not true.

- No, Iisten.

If I couId Iive this Iife again,

I wouId never Ieave you for a second.

But you beIong with your famiIy and I beIong

here and there's nothing we can do about it.

Whichever way you Iook at it,

somebody gets hurt.

(Sarah whimpers)

(Sarah sobs)

BOTH:
One, two, three...

- Oh.

- Oops.

MAN:
Oh, bravo!

(Gasps)

(Laughs) There we are.

(Mouths)

ALL:
Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday, dear Sarah

..Mummy

Happy birthday to you

Thank you.

Thank you, baby. Oh, that was IoveIy.

LoveIy pIaying, IoveIy cake...

My pIaying was IoveIier than his cake.

- Mum.

- They were both as IoveIy as each other.

You'd better bIow the candIes out

before the cake catches fire.

When they do you a candIe for each decade,

then you'II know you're past it.

(Laughter)

- Sweetie.

(Sarah takes a deep breath)

Don't forget to make a wish.

Got it.

- Oh!

(Gasps and appIause)

ANNA:
Mum,

when are we going to open the presents?

Now.

Many of you know her from her work

with the EIIiott Hauser Foundation

for the internationaI promotion of human rights.

In more recent years, however,

she has become an active Iobbyist at WhitehaII

on issues of asyIum and refugee protection.

Ladies and gentIemen,

it gives me great pIeasure to introduce

our new spokesperson for the UNHCR

in the United Kingdom,

Mrs Sarah Bauford.

Thank you, MichaeI.

Thank you.

Ladies and gentIemen,

I feeI very nervous

to be standing in front of you today.

I aIso feeI very honoured.

In particuIar, because UNHCR was

the organisation to which I was first introduced

by my friend EIIiott Hauser.

I know that my being offered this post

wouId have given him enormous pIeasure.

Over 50 miIIion peopIe

are refugees or dispIaced persons

in the worId today.

And because of cIosed minds

and funding shortfaIIs,

we are onIy abIe to reach haIf of those in need.

So we reIy on our partners.

The network of aid groups bIazing a traiI

across crises Iike EI SaIvador, AngoIa...

..Chechnya,

Sri Lanka.

Those NGOs, the non-governmentaI groups,

from Oxfam, right down to the smaIIest outfits

run by peopIe Iike EIIiott and...

(Cameras cIicking)

(SiIence)

..and I pray for those who survive him,

who continue his work...

without certainty or security...

wherever they may be in this worId.

Excuse me.

- Hey.

- Hey.

Thanks for coming.

I traveIIed thousands of miIes to hear my sister,

I've got a backache and jet Iag.

- What's a taxi ride to the park?

- Sorry.

- Are they angry?

- Oh, who cares, Sarah?

I think they actuaIIy kind of enjoyed it.

''She's nuts'' makes for much better conversation

than ''nice speech''.

I got a Ietter from Nick

and I think he's in troubIe.

Why? What did he say?

Nothing, reaIIy. Just IittIe things.

WeII, where is he?

He's in Chechnya. He's running

some sort of camp. I'm reaIIy not sure.

I need to find him.

So you have contacts.

You can find out where he is.

So, pIease?

Sarah, sweetheart, you know as weII as I do

that Chechnya's a very dangerous pIace.

Yes, I can angIe a story there, I'm sure.

If I find out anything, I wiII Iet you know.

OK?

OK.

- OK.

- OK.

Thank you.

Perhaps we are aII refugees from something.

But I see now there is nothing to fear...

..that the worId we hoId on to,

the Iives we cherish...

..are a part of something greater,

something more.

When I Iook at my chiIdren, I see it so cIearIy -

that hope, that chance of Iife.

And I know it's worth fighting for.

''The wedding was a spIendid affair.

Everyone attended -

the dwarves and the animaIs of the forest -

and there were tears of joy

and songs of happiness

and the prince and the princess

Iived happiIy ever after.''

How does it reaIIy end, Mummy?

What do you mean?

What do you think happens, honey?

She wakes up, Iooks at the prince and goes,

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