Catch a Fire Page #2

Try to

visit again soon.

Please.

It's hard.

I'll come when I can.

Oh, wow!

What's that?

Fire, man! It's fire!

Sh*t, man!

Watch your mouth.

I hope it's the school.

It's Secunda.

Earlier this week, Minister

of Police, Mr. Louis le Grange,

warned that South Africa is in a

virtual state of war... Is it safe?

Day or night,

the plant keeps going.

What?

Bye-bye.

Bye.

The plant here in Secunda

uses a revolutionary technique

to convert coal into

oil and petrol. Bye, Ma.

Almost half of South Africa's

cars use the fuel

processed in this

particular plant.

Perhaps it's too early

to speculate,

but if this is confirmed

as a terrorist attack

it'll be

the largest sabotage...

Come on, arms up.

You think you're

so clever, huh?

You and your

bloody terrorists!

...two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight,

nine, ten, eleven, twelve,

thirteen, fourteen.

I think it makes nine.

Okay. Count.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten...

I've done nothing!

Come on.

Chamusso's

in the checked shirt.

Patrick Chamusso?

Yes.

Yes, what do you want from me?

Let him go!

Let him go!

What are you doing?

Daddy! Take your

hands off my daddy!

Get away from him!

Daddy!

Daddy.

Let me go!

Patrick! Let me go!

Patrick!

Precious! Let her go.

Precious!

Patrick!

Patrick.

I'm very sorry,

Mrs. Chamusso.

We have to ask your

husband some questions.

I wanna be your friend.

I want to be your friend.

Who is your contact?

I'm asking you a question now,

Patrick. Look at me in the eyes.

I said, look at me!

Are you a member of the ANC?

It's simple.

You think a communist

is a good thing?

What the hell

have you done to him?

Here. Sit up.

Get up.

It's water.

Slowly.

Slowly. Slowly.

I want a doctor

to take a look at him.

Now!

Here.

Why won't they

let him go, Zuko?

Why are they

still holding him?

And Johnny, too.

I don't know.

And that night he

wasn't even in Secunda.

You know him, Zuko,

he's not into politics.

His family, his work, his

football. That's Patrick's life.

I must go to Joburg

and find a lawyer.

That's what I must do.

He doesn't have

the right a lawyer.

Only if they charge him.

Charge him with what?

At the moment, they can hold

him as long as they want.

What am I supposed to do?

What am I

supposed to do now?

I want to know who you are.

When I look at a man

I don't see a terrorist.

I see a human being.

I told you 100 times.

I'm innocent.

I am not ANC.

How many men

in your maintenance team?

A foreman

and two other men.

You, Zuko September,

Johnny Piliso.

Who collects the vehicles?

Who signs for the keys?

The foreman on the shift.

That night,

that would be you.

I told you, I wasn't there.

I was sick.

Did you see a doctor?

Yes.

Got a sick note?

Yes. Yes.

The doctor's note

was forged, Patrick.

We know that.

You are lying.

I'm a coach

for Secunda Lions.

Township kids. We were

in the playoffs at Ermelo.

We stayed an extra day.

I have no holiday left

this year.

And I don't want to

lose my job.

It's good what

Patrick does with those boys.

Giving them a focus.

Keeping them off the streets.

Good man.

So, that day, he takes the

boys to the playoffs in Ermelo.

They win. 2-1.

And then he drives somewhere.

Takes off in the Kombi.

Do you know where he went?

Who he met?

In the middle of the night?

Patrick.

It's Sunday.

Day of rest.

Let's get you cleaned up.

Take a drive.

Between you and me, Patrick,

apartheid cannot last.

Twenty-five million blacks.

Three million white people.

We are the underdogs.

We are the ones under attack.

Amen.

Amen.

I'm starving.

Maybe Patrick would like

some gravy please, Elsie.

Cool drink, Mom?

Thank you.

Patrick, don't tell me.

Let me guess.

No, I'm Shangaan.

Oh.

I usually can tell.

Patrick also has

daughters. Two.

Is it? How old?

Albertina, she's eight.

Lindiwe, she's six.

How sweet.

That's the best age.

The little one, she's naughty.

She is very bad.

Patrick has a beautiful wife.

Miss Highveld Africa...

Yes.

She likes nice things.

Nice clothes.

Nice furniture.

Is there something

wrong with that?

No. Nothing wrong.

She's got class, man.

She does.

Sing along, Patrick.

You know the words, yeah?

Were you singing, Patrick?

Celebrating

the terrorist attacks?

Ask anybody in Secunda

and they will you that Patrick

Chamusso is not a terrorist.

They would laugh at you.

I saw your boys.

I watched them play.

That one kid. Sixpence?

He's really good, huh?

After supper you dropped the

boys off at the school in Ermelo.

Then you took off

somewhere.

In the morning you were

late picking them up.

That's what they said.

We checked the mileage

on the vehicle.

That tells us

you drove to the plant.

You fixed the mines.

No.

Then where were you

that night, Patrick?

When you dropped the boys off,

where did you go?

He's pissed off now.

Watch this, Mommy.

I used to do that

when I was a girl.

You show me.

There's another woman.

Not far from here.

That's where I was.

Yes?

I love my wife.

You're lying.

Nice try, Patrick.

Did you know your friend

Johnny had a weak heart?

Is somebody here?

Is somebody here?

Hello.

Hello?

Precious!

What have they done to you?

What have they done to you?

I'm sorry.

Precious.

I'm sorry.

Nic Vos!

I am talking to you, Nic Vos!

I will stand up in court

and this is what I will say.

After the game, I fetched the

boys to the school in Ermelo.

I went to Secunda.

After that I opened

the east perimeter fence.

Patrick, stop!

No one saw me.

I was there ten minutes

and I was gone.

You can do anything

you want to do with me.

But you must release my wife!

What kind of man are you who

does these things to a woman?

What kind of man are you?

Pray.

I am talking to you,

Nic Vos. Here it is.

I will stand up in court and this

is what I will say. I let him go.

After the game,

I fetched the boys.

I took the boys

to the school in Ermelo.

He didn't do it.

I let him go.

He confessed on tape.

Confessed? To what?

That he cut a hole

in the fence?

They got in with a key.

You know that.

He said he did it. Okay?

That's good enough for me.

So we lie

to get a conviction.

We hang him.

We lock him in jail for the rest of

his life for something he didn't do.

In the meantime, there's a

terrorist loose on the ground.

What the hell is

the point in that?

Our job is

to find the terrorists.

Daddy!

That night I was in Evander.

You told me

it was finished.

You told me 10 times,

you said it was finished.

It's true. It is finished.

So why did you

go to her house?

I will make this right.

I promise

I will make this right.

Comrades and compatriots,

duty calls.

The battle lines are drawn.

The African National Congress

commands and urges all of us

to act for unity and as one

to engage the enemy.

If united, there's action.

The time has come.

This government of slavery.

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