Rapture Page #3

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Finish this.

They're going to find me sooner or later

so I may as well go and give myself up.

I don't want to cause

you any trouble.

Thanks for the help, I mean it.

Will you tell me what happened?

Sure.

We docked just a

couple of days ago.

That night I went out for a few

drinks with some friends of mine

and we got into a fight

with some civilians.

And the police picked you up?

Yes.

And so we spent the night in jail.

In the morning they were taking us

back to the ship and we made a break.

Why?

In the police van

we got into an argument

with the gendarmes.

They got mad and one of them took

a swing at this friend of mine

and he hit back.

Then I remember throwing

this gendarme off of me...

and seeing you.

You remember that?

- Yeah.

- I too.

Strange.

So you were confused.

It was done in the

heat of the moment,

brought on by the

brutality of the guard.

You were confused, right?

Yes, I guess so.

Do you think the law

will understand that?

It falls very heavily on the side

of the police in a case like this.

You have only to come before a

harsh, unsympathetic judge.

Well, I have to take my chances.

How can a judge...

how can anybody understand the

roots of human behaviour?

I am working on a book, you see.

It has to do with human

understanding and the law.

Has the law ever interested you?

No.

The law is meaningless

unless it is compassionate.

I would like to make

that clear to people.

I write letters. I send out circulars.

I even try to arrange meetings.

But who cares? It's impossible

to talk to anyone here.

I haven't talked like this...

It's a little late, isn't it?

Shouldn't you be asleep?

Yes.

Well, good night, then.

Do you think I'm ugly?

No, I don't.

Do you think... Karen is pretty?

- Who's Karen?

- You saw her.

She works here but she's my friend.

Do you think she's nice?

I suppose so.

Would you let her

come here at night?

Well, that might be a

different story...

You shouldn't treat me like this.

You don't belong to her.

She hasn't waited all these

days for you to come alive.

I've been thinking about

you for a very long time.

Agnes.

What?

You know I'm not any scarecrow.

You know that.

No.

You are.

You've forgotten.

All that time standing

in the garden,

with your arms stretched out.

How nice you looked.

I watched you day and night.

I brushed your clothes and...

I cleaned your gloves.

And when the rain fell on you,

I'd sometimes take my umbrella

and hold it over your head.

You never refused me anything then.

I can teach you a lot of things

now that you can hear and see.

And you can teach me.

Because I feel...

I feel I can hear and see

now too for the first time.

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