Gary Graham credited as playing...
Detective Matthew Sikes
- [a group of human Purists have are protesting the admission of a Newcomer student by blocking the school door]
- Ms. Purist: They're unnatural. They've already taking too many jobs, our jobs! If we let her in here now, there'll be a hundred more next week.
- Protestor: We don't want them mixing with our kids. Their quarantine wasn't long enough. The ACLU got them released too soon. How do we know they're really safe?
- Ms. Purist: I say we run them back to Slagtown!
- [Matt fires his gun and the crowd falls silent]
- Matt: Why stop with running them back to Slagtown, why don't we just kill them?
- [fires his gun again]
- Matt: Teach them a lesson. Keep them in their place. Keep America pure.
- [crowd cheers]
- Matt: We don't even need to paint little stars on them to recognize them, do we?
- [cheering stops]
- Matt: Hell, they'll be easy to round up. Look at them, they stand out even better than the Japs that we threw into concentration camps back in 1942. This will be a piece of cake. And if enough of us get together, it'll almost seem legal, won't it? Put little white pointy sheets on our heads and hang us a few Slags, huh? Let's start with this little one right here.
- [takes Emily's hand and winks at her]
- Matt: Just 'cause she's an American citizen, that doesn't make her a human being, does it? So what if she's a little brighter than some of our kids? We can beat that out of her. Discourage her enough, she'll give up. So what if she might have come up with a cure for cancer someday? She's not *civilized* like us. So why don't we just put a gun to her head and end it all right here, huh?
- [starts offering his gun to the crowd, but no one will take it]
- Matt: Come, pull trigger. Come on, take it. Come on!
- [to the rally leader]
- Matt: How about you, Ms. Purist? I know you want to come pull the trigger. Get down over here! Come on down!
- [Ms. Purist doesn't move]
- Matt: What, I have to do it myself? Okay.
- [cocks the hammer on his gun]
- Protestor: No, we don't want her dead. We just want her back where she belongs.
- Matt: [uncocks gun's hammer] She belongs *here*.
- [holsters his gun and turns to the crowd]
- Matt: Aren't you shamed of yourselves?
- [faces a black man in the crowd of protestors]
- Matt: Aren't *you*?
- [the protestors and the teachers come out to meet Matt and Emily]
- Matt: Anybody gives this little one any trouble answers to me, got it?
- Principal: Yeah, I do.
- Matt: [to Emily] You okay?
- [Emily nods]
- Matt: Good girl. Now, go in there and show them your stuff.
- [the teachers take Emily into the school and Matt turns back to the protesters]
- Matt: Party's over people. Anybody still here in three minutes will be under arrest for the violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.