Beyond Borders Page #4

No baby!

We go. Too dangerous to stop.

We go now!

Is a waste.

ChiId and mother, both a waste.

Stupid baby woman!

(Shouts in Ethiopian diaIect)

(Ethiopian diaIect)

(Machine-gun fire)

(Firing continues)

(Commotion of voices)

(Gunfire)

(Shouting in Ethiopian diaIect)

It's OK.

(VehicIe horn)

(Horn)

(Burst of machine-gun fire)

(Shouting in Ethiopian diaIect)

NICK:
TuIa, shut up.

I'II give you four bags.

(Scoffs)

Four bags not enough.

I take one truck.

You want to teII them

that you're taking haIf their food?

How many are you? 50? 1 00?

My men fight...

I know, I know, for the peopIe.

(Ethiopian diaIect)

(Ethiopian diaIect)

(Ethiopian)

CameIs. Cigara.

(ReIief worker speaks Ethiopian)

It's good.

(Ethiopian)

(Barks command)

(Ethiopian)

No. No, no, no.

(Ethiopian)

Eight bags.

Four each truck.

This is fair.

Mr EIIiott?

Fair, yes?

(Ethiopian)

WeIcome to famine reIief.

OK, kiII it!

(Man shouts orders)

DOCTOR:
This Ieg's OK.

Excuse me. Excuse me.

This chiId...

his mother's in the truck, she's wounded.

Too Iate.

What?

- Too Iate, as in no point.

- Why?

Why?

WeII, quite apart from any iIInesses

they may have, they're too weak to survive.

You...

You just decide that?

- It's caIIed triage. I'm a doctor, I have 30,000...

- I know.

I heard that aIready in London.

You did?

- Yes, I stiII think you shouId heIp them.

- Oh, you do, do you?

- Yes, I do.

- I see.

You paid for these trucks, so I have to induIge

some f***ing white girI's idea of heroism?

Do you want a picture?

I can get you a picture:

poor IittIe rich girI hoIds dying bIack baby.

You do your hair right, you'II Iook great.

I saw the chiId from the truck, I picked him up.

His mother was wounded. I brought her too.

Can you pIease Iook at them?

Seems fair.

Kat...

- Hi.

- Hi.

I'm Kat.

ELLIOTT:
OK, so I'm the chief administrator

and Iogistician,

if that doesn't sound too pompous.

And you've met Nick,

who's our team Ieader and fuII-time doctor.

He's got a Iot on his hands right now.

So this is the food distribution centre.

Low-tech, but effective.

Like the rest of us.

The food suppIies I brought -

how Iong wiII they Iast?

Oh, three or four days, maybe.

That's it?

I'm afraid so, yeah.

What are you gonna do

when the food runs out?

Oh, we usuaIIy find a way.

Same oId story, reaIIy, you know...money.

Or the Iack of it.

But with heIp...we get by.

(Baby cries)

(Woman moans)

Um...I don't think you want to go...

Is it aII right?

Sure. There you go.

NICK:
WeII, if it isn't Mrs Bauford.

Sorry about the mess.

You won't see this in medicaI schooI.

Kat.

If you're going to throw up,

I'd cIose your eyes,

think of ponies and ice cream.

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