Catch a Fire Page #4

Get back. Back.

Back! Back! Police.

That door.

Right. Come on, boys.

Quietly.

Block every road

in every direction.

Echo Seven, Echo Seven.

Block every road

in every direction.

I'll check the core reactor.

You search.

Found it.

Sierra 1 from Sierra 7.

Sir, they reported a man crashing

through the barrier at Kinross.

Two police down.

Repeat, two police down.

Miriam!

Excuse me, sir. There's

a girl outside to see you.

Stop!

Stop!

Hands up!

Take off your clothes!

Take off your clothes!

Your pants! Take them off!

He's clean.

You people

will never learn.

They'll probably

hang you.

Or if you're lucky you'll spend

the rest of your life in jail.

There's nothing else

you can do with me.

My life is finished.

I may never see

my children again,

but when they speak

of their father,

they will say, "He was a man

who stood up for what was right.

"A man who said,

'I must do something now. '"

What will your children say

about you?

Years later, when I came

back to that township,

the neighbors said

that after that day,

Zuko and Sixpence

were never seen again.

He kept me there at that

farm for many months,

trying to find

where our leaders might be.

So, they could also be killed.

I was sentenced to 24 years

in prison

on a little island

at the bottom of Africa,

Robben Island.

There were almost

Mostly men like me,

found guilty of treason.

Men who spent their days

breaking rocks.

So many hearts filled with

sorrow and filled with anger.

But our leader, our father,

he told us,

we could never be free

until we learned to forgive.

Africa.

After five years

in that prison,

Precious, had written to say,

she was getting married again.

And after another five years I found

the power in my heart to forgive.

Then they were forced to end the system

of apartheid that had kept our people down

and we could go home again,

back to Africa.

Precious. You look good.

A little more curvy.

Are you saying I'm fat?

Maybe.

Lindiwe passed Matric

with flying colors.

Second in her class.

Oh, that's my girl.

Albertina has a boyfriend.

No, you didn't tell me that.

Patrick, it's only

since last week.

She thinks

maybe you won't like him.

She's scared about that.

She should be.

Patrick, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, me too. I'm sorry.

I tried to settle down, start again.

Moved back to live

close to my kids.

Started even

to understand myself.

My mistakes.

But that man.

That pain he caused

to so many.

That pain kept coming back.

I kept seeing him.

In my nights and the days.

I moved closer to prove

to my mind that it was him.

That monster.

Then I said to myself,

"Patrick, you can end it now.

"Break his neck.

Kill him.

"Here in this spot. End it. "

As I was walking towards him,

I said, "No, oh, no!

"Killing is not going

to help me.

"Revenge is not good.

"It's going to be...

It's going to carry on war

"for this generation,

and the next generation.

"Let me let him live

and then I will be free.

"I am free

and everyone is free.

So, I built this house

so every child

that has been left without

parents is coming here.

It belongs to them.

It's not my house anymore.

Those are the owners

of this house.

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