Beyond Borders Page #5

Is that...perfume?

You're wearing perfume...

in the middIe of the f***ing desert?

The boy, is he being Iooked at?

Yes, ma'am. Checking him now.

One shed over, as you instructed.

(Woman caIIs out weakIy)

What does that mean?

Soda. Monica, get her a Fanta.

It's weird, isn't it?

AII those pIans you have,

pIaces to go, peopIe to meet...

aII that matters in her worId is that.

Just one suck of soda. That's aII she Iives for.

She's in pain. Can't you give her something?

Oh, yeah, sure. Monica, caII down

to the pharmacy for more morphine.

Where do you think you are, St EIsewhere?

- She's in pain.

- She's beyond pain.

Have you asked her that?

Hamadi...

..ask her if it hurts.

(Ethiopian)

HAMADI:
She er...

..says she feeIs the pain of hunger.

But she knows that death more hungry

than pain, so...she gives thanks.

She gives thanks to you.

She caIIs you by your name.

Matanay.

He who steaIs from death.

(ChiIdren shout)

HAMADI:
He's got a fever and is in shock.

NICK:
Increase the fIuids, antibiotics...

You reaIIy think

he's going to sit up and take a drink?

- I was just...

- He's dying.

He can bareIy move his Iips,

Iet aIone take a cup.

- I was trying to heIp.

- To heIp, you have to know what you're doing.

You think I'm stupid and want me to go home.

You don't have to waste any more time

trying to make that cIear to me.

Get some HEM.

High Energy MiIk. Monica wiII give it to you.

Tease it round his mouth with your finger,

Iet him suck at that. SmaII amounts onIy.

If he revives, caII a nurse.

If he doesn't...

..at Ieast he'II have someone with him

when he dies.

(WaiIing)

How many?

Kat?

The ten-year-oId.

That makes 39.

NICK:
So more than yesterday.

- I know.

You better hire extra men from the camp

and get them digging more hoIes.

Put them on night shifts so nobody sees.

Can't have peopIe dying of depression.

How's the water coming, Joss?

Nothing so far. Drive shaft's bust to buggery and

we're down to two Iitres per person per day.

What about the tankers?

Yeah, sure. That's piss in a bucket, mate.

If we don't get the new weII

up and running, we're knackered.

So what do you need, exactIy?

I just toId you. A new drive shaft.

OK.

Let me see what I can do.

WeII, the good news, boys and girIs,

is that the government's

finaIIy coming tomorrow.

I got confirmation today

that Mr Ningpopo himseIf wiII be here...

for about an hour.

That Iong?

You never know, we might get Iucky.

First thing, we're going to break open

the new suppIies,

immunise the chiIdren against measIes.

Youngest first, untiI we run out.

Kat, Monica, I want you

to get onto that as earIy as possibIe.

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