The Year of Living Dangerously Page #6

Only you do it with boys!

What did you say?

You little bastard!

- They'll throw him out of the country!

- You're no better, you and your girls!

Put him down!

I'll have my bags packed tonight.

I want to talk to you!

Billy, stop!

- What's the matter with you?

- What do you want?

- You made the broadcast.

- I didn't source that back to Jill.

- Doesn't matter. That's not the point.

- Yes, it is the point.

When this thing breaks, it could change

the political shape of Southeast Asia.

How far are my loyalties

to Jill supposed to go?

I would have given up the world for her.

You won't give up one story.

It's not just a story.

It's the bloody story.

Can't you understand that?

Don't you understand?

You've lost Jill.

What have you told her?

I gave her to you. I'm taking

her back. Do you understand?

You gave her to me?

For Christ's sake.

You mad little bastard!

You think you can control people's lives

just 'cause you got 'em in your files?

I believed in you.

I thought you were a man of light.

That's why I gave you those stories

you think are so important.

I made you see things.

I made you feel something

about what you write.

I gave you my trust.

So did Jill.

I created you.

Oh, my God.

My God.

My God.

What then must we do?

What then must we do?

What then...

must we do?

We must...

Very nice.

719, please.

Room 719?

Excuse me.

- I made the broadcast.

- Yes, I know.

I got it confirmed

straight from the P.K.I.

I decided to tell you.

You're a journalist.

- Who is it?

- Mr. Davis, security check.

What's going on?

You see the notice

on the door here?

Hey, Guy! Come on!

I didn't mean to frighten you.

You shouldn't be here.

Security men are all over.

I know. I don't

want them to get his files.

He was murdered, wasn't he?

Yeah.

Over a banner, and Sukarno

didn't even see it.

- Who took this?

- He did.

Self-timer, outside that grotty little

restaurant he always used to drag me to.

"Best food in Jakarta, old man."

God, I loved him.

When you leaving?

Tomorrow.

What time?

2:
00.

I never wanted to hurt you

by running that story.

I wanted to talk to you about it.

I don't want to lose you.

You go first. Back door.

- What about you?

- I'll be right behind you. Go!

Jill. I'll be on that plane.

What's going on?

I gotta get to the airport.

What is it?

What's going on?

Some people have

taken over government.

Troops have moved...

to the president's palace.

Let's go.

Broadcast say

we should not go out.

It's okay. They won't touch us.

Come on. Come on!

I think you better keep

the engine running, eh?

Press. Foreign press.

A.B.S. Press.

I don't understand you.

I want to go to the palace.

Take me to the airport.

Can't, boss. Roadblock.

- Take me to Billy Kwan's.

- Okay, boss.

The retina is detached.

You must lie very still.

- How long?

- A week, maybe. Ten days.

If you wish to save your eye,

you will lie still.

You have to bandage both eyes?

- I'll be helpless.

- I'm sorry.

Your eye will be better?

Maybe not.

Lucky still got one.

But men might come soon, I think.

I must go home to family.

I'm sorry, boss.

Good-bye, Hortono.

Good-bye, boss.

Krishna says to him...

"All is clouded by desire, Arjuna...

"as a fire by smoke,

as a mirror by dust.

"Through these,

it blinds the soul."

Who is that?

Hortono? Who's that?

It's me, boss.

Have you been sent to kill me?

We have failed.

We have been overcome

by the Muslim generals.

What about Sukarno?

He is finished. He will

become a puppet of the Right.

And you?

I'm a dead man.

I'm sorry about your eye.

There should be a packet of cigarettes

on the table. Help yourself.

Still the good cigarettes, boss.

Thank you.

Tell me something.

Sure.

Am I a stupid man?

Then why should I live

like a poor man all my life...

when stupid people

in your country live well?

Good question.

- Then please answer it.

- I can't.

Then why do you condemn

those in my country...

who try to do something about it?

Mister Billy Kwan was right.

Westerners do not have

answers anymore.

Water from the moon.

What does that mean?

It's an old Javanese saying.

Means something

one cannot ever have.

What time is it?

Just past 1:
00.

- The airport closed?

- Not yet...

but everything will close down

when the army proclaims martial law.

Drive me there.

They have roadblocked the city.

Never stopped us before.

They will arrest me.

You can wait here to die,

or you can drive me to the airport...

and then take the car

up into the hills.

Why do you have to leave now?

You can stay and write

all the stories you want.

I hope to catch a plane

is worth losing your eye.

Go around, Kumar. Go up.

Easy. Don't show them

anything, Kumar.

You go up to the...

Calmly. Calm.

Easy.

- What's he want?

- Papers.

Corporal, here's my papers.

Australian Broadcasting Service.

I'm a journalist. He's my assistant.

We must go to the airport.

Thank you very much.

- I'm sorry...

- Don't worry.

We will win because

we believe in something.

- Good-bye.

- Think of me, Guy...

when you're sitting

in some nice cafe in Europe.

In my dreams, I'm always

sitting at the table...

by the footpath,

drinking coffee.

- Good luck.

- Now go.

Quickly!

- No!

- I got a ticket, a**hole!

No bags. See? Okay?

Hey! Royal Netherlands.

You got it? Right.

Royal Netherlands, 2:00,

all right?

Thank you.

Hey, stop! You!

- What?

- You bring that here!

This is Guy Hamilton...

reporting from Jakarta,

where a coup attempt...

by the Communist P.K. I...

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