Atlas Shrugged: Part III Page #2

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word was spreading quickly

that another giant of industry,

Dagny Taggart, had gone missing.

Meanwhile, the government

again increased its reward...

for the capture of pirate

Ragnar Danneskold.

Dagny. For a woman that just fell out

of the sky, you look pretty damn good.

Thank you, Midas.

And you... you look just the same.

Come on in.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Taggart Transcontinental.

Hear, hear!

Dagny, it's wonderful

to have you here.

Enjoy the evening.

Thank you, Rebecca.

Everyone here has a story.

- Is that Kay Ludlow?

- Straight from Hollywood.

How did you get here, Midas?

Me? I made my fortune lending people money

to buy houses and build businesses,

and I only loaned to those people

I was confident could repay me.

Sure.

They called me heartless,

which I could live with.

But when they forced me to give loans

to people who could never pay me back,

I got the hell out.

Come. You must be hungry.

When the politicians started

making medical decisions for me,

I decided I couldn't

be a party to it anymore.

Here in this valley, I treat my patients

using my professional judgment,

not some political directive.

Dagny, we are on strike.

What happened to Midas,

what happened to Doc,

it happened to each of us.

No man belongs

to another, Dagny.

But there are those in power who

would have you think otherwise.

We honor charity

and benevolence,

but it must be provided

on the giver's terms...

Voluntarily, and not by force.

The powerful try to make us

feel guilty for our success.

And we are guilty... guilty

for sacrificing ourselves...

and for working

under their terms.

So we had to withdraw,

to go on strike.

But what about

what you left behind?

We left nothing behind, Dagny.

What... We took with us

the only real thing of value.

Dagny, this is a strike

of our minds.

So what are you demanding?

Nothing. We're not trying to impose our

values on the world that we left behind.

They're free to continue to believe

as they want, whatever they want.

But they're going to have

to do it without our help.

Hear, hear.

Dagny.

Ellis Wyatt.

I can't believe it.

I felt abandoned.

I finished the John Galt line to move

your oil, and you disappeared on me.

You quit when I needed you most.

All of you did.

Now you know why.

Well, perhaps, but you made a very

difficult task nearly impossible.

Dagny, I couldn't keep supporting a

system that was determined to destroy me.

Had I let 'em, they...

They'd have never stopped.

Everyone here knows that.

We know what it takes

to build something...

and how little recognition

you get from the outside world.

You deserve more.

You deserve to hear what each of

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