Noble Page #5

My children

would have been killed

or maimed if they'd

been in that car.

I'm gonna do something

about you.

Yeah?

I'm gonna do something

about you too.

Do you know who I am?

I know what you are.

What am I?

A fish wife.

Get your own husband.

He'll come after me, Joan.

He always does.

This can't go on,

Shoes.

You're lucky you

didn't lose an eye.

What'll he do the next time?

I need to know

that you're still there.

Have you forgotten me

completely?

I don't think

Joan believed me

when I told her

you sent me the dream.

She's more worried

about me now

than when I was dead

to the world.

But I know you've sent it

and I know

I have to follow it,

just give me

a bit of time, will you?

I will go to Vietnam,

I swear to Almighty you,

when the time comes

nothing would stop me

and You better be

coming with me.

Well, they're rubbish.

Thanks for keeping

them for me, Fan.

No good news?

No, not today.

Maybe it's not your destiny. What isn't?

Looking after these bui doi,

maybe you can't do it.

There's no such thing as can't.

You tell him, Christina.

You get me

this number in Hanoi

and I'll take it in

booth three.

Okay.

Who's this little man?

This is Lam.

He's my new business partner.

We're waiting for everything

to go whoosh.

Very funny.

Hello, Lam.

He's got look of a young

Jimmy Cagney about him...

Something in the eyes I think.

Your call.

Great.

Don't let her

work you too hard.

From here

to the end of that wall.

Yeah.

Just having a child

is difficult for poor people

in Ho Chi Minh City.

If there is a birth defect,

they think they are being

punished by fate

and they abandon the child.

Abandon where?

In this place, in the garbage.

We always give babies a name

when they arrive.

We call her Mai,

it means cherry blossom.

Will Mai live?

The infection

on her head is bad.

We will see.

Stars shining bright

above you

Night breezes seem

to whisper "I love you"

Birds singing

in the sycamore tree

Dream a little dream of me

Stars fading

but I linger on, dear

Still craving your kiss

I'm longing to linger

till dawn, dear

Just saying this...

My name is Christina Noble,

and I work

for the street children

of Ho Chi Minh City.

There's a lot of them

as you know

and they need love and looking

after as much as the next kid.

So if you can help us,

we'll be very grateful.

Dream a little

dream of me

It's a fair enough proposal

if we can make it...

We make it happen

before the year ends.

Yeah.

Listen, can I call you back?

Something's just come in.

All right.

Can you give me

half an hour, Gerry?

I'm afraid you'll have

to make an appointment

just like anyone else,

Christina.

Do you not take

a lunch break?

Texas, Siberia, Vietnam,

or everywhere.

You'd be surprised

how many parties

there are in the oil business.

Why is that do you think?

Because we are

very good at digging.

Years of practice.

I always thought

people drill for oil.

Well, that's exactly

where they've been going wrong.

Digging is the new drilling.

Is it?

It is,

and that is our company motto

and that is why we are

top of the heap.

And what do you see

when you look down, Gerry?

Ah, you don't look down,

Christina.

Isn't that

what they tell you?

Because you might get

vertigo and fall.

That's right.

Don't you be worrying,

I'll catch ya.

Hello, Mr. Ban, hello, Wade.

Hello, Mama Tina.

I brought you some rice

and toys on my way.

This is my friend, Gerry.

He wanted to meet you also.

Mama Tina, Mama Tina.

Must come now,

please, must come now.

What is it?

Mama Tina.

I'm coming, Lam.

Okay, Lam, you stay here.

You mind the bike, okay?

Don't worry, don't worry.

It is him.

Bastard.

How old is that girl?

I would say 10.

So would I.

You better careful,

Christina.

This man always dangerous.

Just in here.

A foreigner has just taken

a young girl up to his bedroom.

You call him, tell him

bring her down, now.

What you say?

Trung, please.

What are they saying? They're

asking if anyone know who you are.

It doesn't matter who I am. There's

a dangerous man up there with a child.

Get the manager, now.

Come on, come on, for God's

sake. What do you want?

I want you to do something

about the fact

that your hotel

is being used by foreigners

to abuse Vietnamese children.

Get out.

This is a good place,

three stars.

I have just seen one of them

take a child up

in the elevator.

His name is David Summers.

You call him,

you get him down here

or we will go up

and break the door in.

What'd he say?

He says you have to go

or he'll call the police.

Yes, call the police, that's

exactly what you should do.

I ask you

for the last time to get out.

I don't know you,

why are you causing trouble?

Listen to me, I have

been given permission

by the government to look

after these children,

to stop them

from being raped in your hotel.

Now you get that man down here

or I will call

Inspector Bong myself.

Would you do this to a 10-year-old

girl in your own country?

I should've known

you're just a frustrated

old cad the

first time I met you.

Just because

she's a street child

you think you can do

what you like to her?

Mind your own business.

If I see you

with a child again,

I'll splash your ugly face

across every newspaper

in Southeast Asia.

I will get you, b*tch!

Oh, you don't frighten me.

I am not a child

that you can frighten.

Look, those kids up there

are the lucky ones.

They've got a roof

over their heads.

What if you're a child

living on the streets?

You're 12 years old and you're looking

after your little sister, she is 6.

Forget about education

or healthcare,

forget about protection

from danger

or a little bit of love

and a cuddle, forget that.

And now count yourselves

in the thousands,

living out there in every

derelict building in this city.

Just like this one here,

except this one is going to be

rebuilt so that you can come

and visit for basic hygiene,

for medicine, for school,

and to be treated

like a kid again.

Because that's the very least

that you

and your little sister deserve.

So it'll go before

the committee up at head office.

Now unfortunately, Christina,

there's a couple of today's

delegates that feel it's...

Feel what?

That it's just a drop

in the ocean

in the context of the overall

need in Ho Chi Minh City.

Now therefore disinclined

to recommend.

But this

is only the beginning.

This is just the blueprint.

If we build one center,

we can build ten.

I'm sorry

not to be more positive.

Fight for me, Gerry.

You can bring them around,

I know you can.

Christina, you don't want

to work for me, do you?

No, I want you to come

and work for me.

Is that Carol?

Speaking.

It's Christina Noble.

Yeah, I know that

but if you could just be sure

to tell Gerry

that I called again.

I will, yes.

Yeah, and to make the point that it's

been 2 weeks since the delegation visited

and I was promised a decision

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