Denial Page #3

MEG:

Talking to people you don’t agree

with, that’s democracy, isn’t it?

It’s supposed to be a free country.

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MEG (CONT'D)

They’ve an opinion. So have you.

It’s cowardly not to talk to them.

DEBORAH:

You calling me a coward?

MEG:

Well...

Everyone is amused.

DEBORAH:

Let me tell you, I don’t see it

that way. You can have opinions

about the Holocaust. You can argue

about why it happened and how it

happened. But what I won’t do is

meet with anyone - anyone - who

says it didn’t happen. The

Holocaust happened. It happened.

That isn’t opinion. That’s fact. I

won’t debate fact. That way madness

lies.

At the back, DAVID IRVING slips in the door, unobserved. He

goes and sits. The SECOND MAN holds up his hand.

DEBORAH (CONT’D)

Yes?

SECOND MAN (AMERICAN)

In your book, why do you

continually denigrate the work of

David Irving? He’s a scholar, he’s

a fluent German speaker, he’s

discovered all sorts of primary

sources no-one else knew about...

DEBORAH:

To be honest, I don’t think I do

denigrate him. I just don’t think

about him that much. He’s not

important.

This last statement has been seen through the first MAN’S

video camera, and now the image whip-pans to the back of the

hall where IRVING is standing, hand raised.

IRVING:

Professor Lipstadt, I am right in

believing you are not a historian,

you are a professor of religion?

DEBORAH:

Well that isn’t quite the case. I

am a historian, a historian of

religion.

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IRVING:

Let me reveal something to you,

Professor. I am that David Irving

about whom you have been so rude.

People turn, amazed. DEBORAH, too, is taken aback.

IRVING (CONT’D)

Yes, I am he. And it puzzles me why

you think yourself qualified to

attack me, given that I have thirty

years’ experience in the archives,

and my books have been published by

some of the greatest publishing

houses in the world - Viking Press,

William Morrow, E.P. Dutton. I have

to conclude the reason you don’t

engage with people you disagree

with is because you can’t. And you

might learn some facts - facts,

Miss Lipstadt, which don’t suit

your opinions. Well? Well?

DEBORAH is seen through the viewfinder of the camera, in

grainy black and white, flustered, not knowing to react.

DEBORAH:

No. I won’t. I’ve said this. I

won’t debate. Not with deniers.

DEBORAH looks urgently across to GLORIA.

IRVING:

Today I’ve heard you telling lies

to students. You want gullible

students to believe that there are

mounds of documents which prove a

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