- Kwon: Father Murray, the Pilgrim priest!
- Father Joseph Murray: Mr. Kwon! Your fortunes have improved immeasurably.
- Kwon: Yes, the Gods have been gracious. But I will not detain you further. My business with you is very simple. I want money. How much do you think your superiors at the Catholic University in Peking would pay for your safe return?
- Father Joseph Murray: I'm afraid you overestimate my importance. There will be no ransom.
- Kwon: Then, Father, can you think of any good reason why I should not have you shot?
- Father Joseph Murray: I can think of no reason that would appeal to you.
- Kwon: I will give you my decision later. If it is necessary to kill you, you will understand there is nothing personal.
- Father Joseph Murray: If it is necessary, I shall try to regard it as an impersonal bullet.
- Wong: [Michael is tending to Wong's injured hands] You are kind to me. Why?
- Michael Bachlin: Because you need help.
- Wong: I am your enemy.
- Michael Bachlin: Only as a man. As a doctor, I have no enemies.
- Wong: Perhaps you are a good man. And you have been deceived by your government.
- Michael Bachlin: You couldn't be the one who's been deceived?
- Wong: Why did the Americans attack us?
- Danielle Grenier: It was you who attacked the Americans. You can't be that deceived.
- Wong: I am not deceived by the charity you do me. Those who are not with us are against us.
- Michael Bachlin: I'm not against you. I am against what you stand for.
- Wong: It is easier to say what you are against. What is your country for?
- Michael Bachlin: Well, in a democracy, there's no, no inflexible line, no dogma. But I'm sure that all Americans agree that life without personal freedom would be intolerable.
- Wong: The Chinese people do not need a few unimportant personal liberties. They need security.
- Michael Bachlin: Well, we too want security and land and food for all people. But we believe that no security is worth the price of freedom.
- Wong: And what about you, personally, doctor? Has this freedom brought you happiness?
- Michael Bachlin: Happiness, Mr Wong, happiness is something that every man must find in himself.
- [Danielle Grenier and Li Elu can be seen in the former's train compartment]
- Danielle Grenier: Make yourself comfortable.
- Li Elu: [nods] You're very kind.
- Danielle Grenier: Where is your luggage?
- Li Elu: I have none. You will forgive me. There is someone on the train I do not wish to see yet.
- [Li Elu sits down]
- Danielle Grenier: Police?
- Li Elu: I have done nothing wrong.
- Danielle Grenier: If I'm going to help you, I'd better find out what the trouble is.
- Li Elu: It is personal.
- Danielle Grenier: I'd prefer not to get involved. Please?
- [Grenier turns and opens the compartment door before exiting]
- [at a station, Michael Bachlin can be seen on the platform, with a soldier runs up to him and shouts at him in Chinese. As this happens, Wong can be seen standing in between the doors on two of the cars]
- Wong: He is telling you to get back on the train. You would be well to comply, Doctor.
- Michael Bachlin: Tell him I want to stretch my legs.
- Wong: No one is permitted to leave the train, especially foreigners.
- Michael Bachlin: That's silly.
- Wong: You have an expression, Doctor. When in Rome, do as the Roman's do. You are now in China.
- [Bachlin accepts this and proceeds to get back on the train]
- [at a station, Michael Bachlin can be seen boarding the train. As he's doing this, he looks to see a large number of Chinese Soldiers also boarding. After looking at them for a few seconds, he looks at Wong]
- Michael Bachlin: Are you expecting trouble? All these soldiers boarding the train?
- [the soldiers can be seen getting on the train with various forms of weapons]
- Michael Bachlin: The guerillas must be...
- Wong: [interrupting] There are no more guerillas. China is unified for the first time in its history.
- Michael Bachlin: Unified like Czechoslovakia and Poland?
- [Wong glares at Bachlin before turning to get back on the train. Bachlin looks at the soldiers for a few more seconds before following]
- [the train has come to a sudden stop, in which a cow can be seen impeding its progress. Wong and Michael Bachlin can be seen looking out of one of the cars. Wong appears disgusted]
- Wong: These peasants should be taught a lesson. It is our curse that we must build a new China with peasants, instead of the industrial proletariat that was done in Russia.
- Michael Bachlin: You mean, communism isn't flexible enough to include farmers?
- [Kwon can also be seen looking at the scene before him]
- Kwon: Not at all, Doctor. It is simply that, in some respects, the new China is very much like the old.
- [Wong looks at Kwon]
- Wong: When the gains of the revolution are finally consolidated, there will be many corrupt elements missing.
- [Wong goes back inside the train, which starts moving again within a few seconds]
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