Laurie Holden credited as playing...
Adele Stanton
- Peter Appleton: [Seeing Adele at the cemetery] I didn't know anyone was here.
- Adele: I was just... saying goodbye.
- Peter Appleton: Adele, I'm sorry the way things turned out. I never meant to hurt anyone, least of all you.
- Adele: People get hurt sometimes, we can't always help it. So are you really a communist?
- Peter Appleton: No, I'm really not.
- Adele: I didn't think so. Only a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist could have gotten The Majestic up and running.
- Peter Appleton: Great endorsement. Can I call you as a witness?
- Adele: Eh, if it helps. So what will you tell the committee?
- Peter Appleton: Tell them what they want to hear: "Sorry, I won't do it again, blah, blah."
- Adele: You're not serious.
- Peter Appleton: What's wrong with it?
- Adele: Everything.
- Peter Appleton: Could you be a little more specific?
- Adele: Aside from the fact that this is a free country, and you can be a communist if you want to be a communist - leaving that aside, if you're accused falsely you have a duty as well as a right to stand up and suggest they drop dead.
- Peter Appleton: Emile Zola, you feel strongly about this.
- Adele: Damn right I do!
- Peter Appleton: Great, but it doesn't make the game any less rigged. There's a reason it's called a witch-hunt.
- Adele: And there's burden of proof, innocence before guilt.
- Peter Appleton: Maybe in law school. But the rest of us have to live in the real world and in the real world, I mess with these guys, I go to jail.
- Adele: All the more reason to fight them.
- Peter Appleton: Like Luke would've done? Go ahead, say it.
- Adele: Yes. Like Luke would have done.
- Peter Appleton: God, here it comes. Tell me again what a great guy Luke was, 'cause God I haven't heard that enough!
- Adele: He wouldn've stood up to them.
- Peter Appleton: Yeah well, he's not here... to vouch for that, is he? We have to take your word for it! And forgive me but everybody's memory of Luke is a little rose-colored in this town. Besides, I'm not Luke. While he was liberating Europe, I was running the PX. He couldn't wait to save the world! Me, I was happy not to go overseas!
- Adele: Why?
- Peter Appleton: [gesturing to the graveyard of soldiers] Because I didn't want to end up like him. I wanted to survive! You stand for a cause, you get mowed down. Look. Look! That's the real world. I want my Goddamn life back, Adele...
- Adele: Dad, what is it? Oh my God, did somebody die?
- Doc Stanton: Well... somewhat the opposite, actually.
- [last lines]
- Adele: So what was your question?
- Peter Appleton: I forget
- [they kiss to the crowd's applause]
- Peter Appleton: .
- Adele: Come on.
- [opens window leading down to Town Hall's basement]
- Adele: You first.
- Peter Appleton: [pause, suspiciously] Why me?
- Adele: [deadpan] Well, in the case the vicious guard dogs haven't been fed.
- Peter Appleton: [silent, looks horrified]
- Adele: So you can be a gentleman and help me down.
- Adele: I'm trying to make up my own mind, about you being Luke.
- Peter Appleton: [rolls eyes] Join the club. So what you do think?
- Adele: The jury is still out.
- Peter Appleton: Fair enough.
- [Peter -- as Luke -- and Adele are walking down the street, having just reunited]
- Peter Appleton: Adele?
- Adele: Yes?
- Peter Appleton: [confidentially] It may just be my imagination, but I feel like we're not alone.
- [They turn to find half the town quietly following them]
- Adele: Go about your business! He's not going anywhere.
- Peter Appleton: It's okay, folks. Go ahead home. And thanks for the welcome.