Resistance Page #2

It was destroyed in an air raid.

The same one that took my wife.

I'm sorry.

Do you kill people?

Yes.

You wouldn't think it.

What are you doing?

Sarah!

I'm not in uniform.

Did you see anyone?

No.

Everyone will be at the show.

Anyone who knows about Tom will

know about it.

He won't let us go.

The captain.

He will.

He'll have to.

I'll run the colt.

It's what Will would have wanted.

Isn't it better we leave the valley

before someone comes in?

Somebody is bound to, soon enough.

Why not wait?

A couple of weeks and it

will maybe over.

We've got no milk.

On top of that, the cows are sick.

We'll be out of oil soon.

And then the heating coal.

The slaughtering, the sheering,

the hay.

We can manage.

No we can't.

There is no need for you both to go.

Gernot can go with you instead.

He handles the horses well, doesn't he?

Yes, but he doesn't speak English.

Have you ever seen a man

go mute with shell shock?

Say he is a cousin, from the front.

Capt. Tooley for the 2 year old colt class.

Name?

Margaret Jones.

Fine, that will be "124" then. Good luck.

Thank you.

Maggie?

Maggie!

Oh! I'm so pleased to see you.

Is Willis here?

No, he stayed on the farm.

Lots to catch up on after last winter.

Oh Maggie, you have no idea how

pleased I'm to hear that.

We don't know what to

believe these days.

They've got some of them on

the railway, see?

Just outside the depot.

Well, I feel silly saying this now,

but ah, someone said, one

of them was Will.

Felt ridiculous.

I said as much to my John.

"There is no way William Jones is mixed

up in all that."

I don't know why they're carrying on.

They earned their troubles.

You know Vera's youngest was

in that lot they took

away after the bridge was blown.

Hung them all, they did.

Oh Maggie, it's so good to see you again.

How have you been keeping?

Oh, you know, managing.

And Ruth? Reg, and the boys?

Doing fine.

Ah... Glad to hear it.

And do come around when you're

next in town, won't you?

Yes.

Maggie?

Cut himself on the way down.

Got a medal.

Played well.

Judges brought him in third.

What happened, Maggie?

Nothing different, really.

There was some soldiers there, but

other than that, it doesn't matter.

More or less.

Think most folk thought we'd

copped it over the winter.

We'll talk in the morning, eh?

Then stay, Maggie.

There's something else

you might have to do.

Something you will find difficult.

Because collaboration...

...cannot be tolerated.

One thousand, two thousand,

three thousand...

BANG!

Maggie?

Maggie!

Maggie.

There will come a time, when people

will just want this to stop.

And more than anything...

they'll just want to survive.

But, what we have to ask ourselves is...

"How do we want to survive?"

"What... is worth surviving for?"

These are questions that cannot

be answered in words.

We'll need choices.

It is the choices that we make...

that will decide the nature

of our resistance.

The nature of our survival.

Our choices...

will be the mark...

of who we are.

Understand what I'm saying, George?

George?

Yes.

George.

STEINER!

Sarah, we must leave.

Steiner has taken the radio. He

will contact local command.

Do you understand what that means?

Did they find out who shot the colt?

He'll report me, defense soldiers, and

staff will come with him.

You know I can't leave.

Would you really rather

stay here and die?

Who are you making this sacrifice for?

This, will all stop one day.

And when it does, then you can

live as you wish.

Maybe even come back to the valley.

But if you stay now...

...then you die.

Where would we go?

West, to the coast, And then to Ireland.

And then if we need, to America.

What about the other women?

It's too late.

I'm sorry.

We don't have much time.

Alright.

It is the right thing to do.

We must leave, now.

Maybe we'll need some clothes.

I'll get you some of Tom's.

- I'll come with you.

- No.

They'll come for you first.

It won't take long.

- But I can't...

- Please.

Thank you, Sarah.

I know how hard this is.

Where should I met you?

Behind Landor's ruin.

Wait for me there.

No.

"I can't stay here.

"I have to come, and look for you.

"Whatever that might mean.

"I hope you understand."

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