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Get your f***ing hands off me!

Where do you think you're taking me?!

Get off me!

Get your...

We are meant

to be working together on this.

Don't you ever interrupt me

when I'm in session with a patient.

Just hold on a minute.

You just assaulted a 17-year-old child.

I could have your job for that.

I was tryin' to protect you.

Don't bullshit me.

Did Nigel Colbie have

gunshot residue on his hands?

Look. Sal, there are some things I...

Did Colbie have gunpowder on his hands?!

Yes, he did.

So he could've fired that gun.

Look, he was taking a piss.

I just wanted to speed things up a little.

What makes you think

you have the intelligence

to determine whether or not

that boy was f***ing with me?

Well, as long as he confesses,

it doesn't matter, does it?

If Alex confesses my way,

it'll stand up in court.

All right.

All right.

Just... I need time, so just butt out.

Your strong-arm stuff

won't cut it with this boy.

- He's too smart for that.

- Sal.

You're not gonna report this, are you?

Dr. Rowe, I think you'd better come.

Just let me out there.

No. Come on. Just... Just

out there.

That's all I'm asking.

Just let me out.

No. No. Now...

Don't you even think about that!

- Aah!

- You f***ing...

Aah! Ohh!

- Get off me!

- Unhh!

Unhh!

Aahh!

Get off! Uhh!

Get the f*** off me!

- You stay back.

- Get off!

Fine. He's all yours.

Ow!

Oh, God!

Let him up!

They say you want to talk.

Leave us.

I'll be fine.

Nigel set me up.

How do you figure that?

You have to believe me.

He set the whole thing up

to make it look like I did it.

Nigel set it up to make it look

like you killed him.

I think you can do better than that.

I didn't kill him.

You don't exactly come across

as the victim here, Alex.

Feel that?

Can you feel that?

He's here.

He's listening.

He's watching.

Who, Alex?

Shh!

Listening.

Listen.

All rise!

# Onward, Christian soldiers #

# Marching as to war #

# With the cross of Jesus #

# Going on before #

# Christ, the royal... #

Have you ever had that feeling

that there was someone inside your head,

listening to your thoughts?

I read this article on twinning

about how two people

can communicate across countries

through the mind.

Now, just imagine if that were true.

Your darkest secrets

floating out there like radio waves,

just waiting to be picked up on.

There was something about this guy.

#... Jesus #

# Going on before #

Be seated.

Now...

it's come to my attention that some boys

from, um...

What?

Do you two have

something important to contribute?

Hmm? Campbell? Forbes?

Stand up and share with us

whatever it is that obviously can't wait

until after this assembly.

Campbell, do your tie

up properly.

Well? Campbell?

Nothing, sir.

Forbes?

Oh, nothing important, I suppose.

Both of you,

outside my office after assembly.

Be seated.

Now, it's come to my attention

that some of the boys in year-12 drama

will be performing

the Tennyson play Beckett this term,

and they're looking for volunteers

for props and stage building.

Will you calm down?

Nobody on the train could've possibly

known where we're from.

Will you just relax, please?

Inside.

I do recognize your academic achievements

this year, both of you,

but why do you insist on bucking the system?

Hmm?

Be seated.

Till recently, I've always been able

to rely on both of you to set a good example.

Come on.

I beg your pardon?

Well, if that was the case,

then I wouldn't be having

a freak in my room, would I?

Most of your fellow students

have three boys to a room.

I don't think you're too hard done by, Forbes.

Most of my fellow students have a real home

away from this hellhole.

I'm putting your names down to help

with this year-12 play.

Oh, no. I don't have time for this bullshit.

Would you wait outside, Campbell, please?

What's all this about?

I told you before I'm not sharing with anyone.

Nigel Colbie is a brilliant young man.

You may find his company rewarding.

Like how?

Because collaboration is

an important part of learning.

I've put you with a young man whom I believe

you will find academically challenging.

This is such bollocks.

Your future is what is at stake here.

Don't lose sight of your obligations, Alex.

That'll be all.

I said that will be all!

What happened?

Did you say anything?

Well? Did you?

No.

Your father can be

such an a**hole sometimes.

Throughout history,

men have sacrificed themselves

for their fundamental beliefs.

It may not be wise to pit the force of God

against many human desires,

but...

Are you all right, Mr. Simms?

Um...

I'm fine, sir.

I just fell off my chair, sir.

Well.

Be more careful next time.

Yes, sir.

Some of you are working on Beckett.

Who can tell me about its subject...

Thomas of Beckett?

Yes, Mr. Weyland?

Thomas Beckett

was the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

in the early 12th century, sir.

In 1170, he was murdered

in front of at the high altar at his cathedral.

Exactly.

He knew that the knights

were coming to slay him,

but he chose to wait for them

unto the sight of God.

His murder was a sacrilegious act

of gross profanity.

However, almost immediately after his death,

there were whispers of miracles

being performed at his grave.

Believers from all over the country

traveled day and night on foot in ord...

Yes... Mr. Forbes?

His murder was simply political.

Beckett got in the way,

so the Church had him put down.

Trust Mr. Forbes to come up

with such an interesting slant on history.

Well, you can't change history.

Now, if you look at it, you'll see

it's exactly like all the other atrocities

committed against the people by the Church.

Oh, and exactly what atrocities

are you referring to?

The Cathars.

The Cathars?

They were a bunch of heathens

who created their own rules

to suit themselves.

The Church was simply trying to

retain order in a very volatile land.

All right, what about

the Knight Templars, then?

I fail to see how this has got anything

to do with what we're talking about.

Weren't they the knights

that killed Thomas Beckett?

- This is ludicrous!

- Sir, is it?

Sir, weren't the Templars

known as the Knights of Christ?

Weren't they the Church's foot soldiers?

- What?

- So why kill the Archbishop?

At least they had the foresight

to see the pointlessness of the Holy Crusades.

Now, why don't you tell the class

how the Knights of Christ

turned their back on the Vatican

and adopted the Cathars' beliefs?

This better stop now.

Free from the Church,

the Templars took control.

They had more fingers

in the pie than the Vatican,

which is a lot of fingers.

- Sit down.

- Isn't that why they were hunted down

and burned at the stake?

They had betrayed their original cause.

And whose cause was that?

Get out of my class.

Go on. Get out!

Frightful little man.

What are you trying to prove now, hmm?

Trying to upset the Reverend Donaldson?

I thought that might get you up here.

Alex, he's a man of the cloth.

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