Dogville Page #5

Tom has told us about your predicament, Miss.

I really don't want to put any of you

in jeopardy.

Why don't you just go to the police?

They can take care of gangsters!

It's their job.

I, I don't know if that's such a good idea.

The transportation

business would uh...

Ben!

These men, they have powerful connections,

even with the police.

Do you think we should give

sanctuary to a fugitive?

A fugitive that gangsters wanna get a hold of.

That would put us in pretty pickle.

Easy, Claire...

think of your asthma.

Dogville is a good place to hide,

that's for certain.

Exactly.

The only way up here is Canyon Road.

That could easily be watched by Ma Ginger's

-excuse me-nosey cousin who lives

only yards from the turn off.

She has a telephone.

Martha, you could ring the bell,

tell the town if people were coming.

But Tom, I chime the hours,

what if people get confused with all the ringing?

Come now, Martha.

Surely we can use our old bell to save a life, if need be.

Why should we?

Because we care, Chuck.

We care for other human beings.

No, that ain't what I mean.

How do we know that this woman is

telling us the truth?

Maybe these gangsters did shoot at her,

but that don't make her somebody to be trusted.

He is right.

Why would you trust me?

I trust you!

Tom, we're not gangsters.

We mind our own business

we don't ask nothin' from nobody.

So at last you admit it!

If only there were some way,

we wouldn't doubt the young lady's word.

some way to know her..

Then I think we would all ignore the risk.

But there is a way!

You said it yourself.

By living side by side with her.

Dad, you are such a fine judge of character.

How long would it take a good man

like you to unmask her?

A week? Maybe two?

Surely we can offer her two weeks.

And if after that time so much as

one man cries out 'BE GONE!'

I promise I'll happily send her

packing herself.

Well, if Master Tom thinks this is right

for us, and for the

community,

then that will do for me.

He might be young, but his heart is right.

And I've known his heart

for as long las it's been beating.

[Narrator] No more words were spoken

at the town meeting in the mission house.

But it had been decided, they all felt,

that the fugitive would be given two weeks.

And they would all be able to look

at themselves in the mirror and know

that they had done what they could, indeed,

and perhaps more than most people would have done.

So that very afternoon Tom took Grace on a stroll

down Elm Street to introduce her to the town "he loved".

Well, this is where Olivia and June live.

June is a cripple...

They live here as a token of my dad's broadmindedness.

Chuck and Vera have seven children

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