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a hunger strike?

- Yes, l did.

perfectly legal hunger strike.

fter which

l was detained illegally

at the urging of my father.

- nd now you wanna--

- Sue him.

- For?

- l don't know.

What are my options?

l'm thinking, uh, wrongful

imprisonment, false arrest?

l--l--l'm not sure.

You see, this is

why l need council.

- No, l don't know

how l can help you, kid.

l haven't practiced law

in 20 years.

- Yeah, that's right,

not since the concentrator

and pellet facility

closed down

in Sept-les in 1982.

- Right.

ut l still don't think

you need a lawyer.

- Oh yes, l do.

nd l need it to be you.

- lt's Leon, right?

- Yes, sir.

- Well, Leon, you're half right.

You need counselling.

ut you haven't got a case

against your father.

Sorry.

- This isn't over.

- Yeah, it is.

- What would your colleagues of

the Communist Party of Canada,

which you led from 1971 to 1982,

think of you turning me down?

- You're following me?

- Maybe.

- Go home.

- ln your Ph. D. dissertation,

you stated that

the dialectic is only growing...

that the illusion

of the middle class will die

and that a new

leadership will rise

from the ashes of that dream.

- My writing isn't that flowery.

- l am that leadership!

What about your fellow

Vietnam War draft dodgers?

What about taking haven

in this country

and in turn becoming

the chief architect and guinea pig

for our extradition laws!

Don't you feel an obligation

to see our labour laws

progress further?

- l'm this far away

from calling the cops, Leon.

- l'm not freaked-out

about finishing my Ph. D.

Maybe l don't want to go back

to being a Federal prosecutor.

- Oh, for Christ's sake!

- Please take my case!

- You have no case to take, Leon.

- How--

What the hell happened to you?

- Get up off the street!

- h! l see...

Have you, uh, turned into

one of those people?

- Sorry, lexandra.

- You Menshevik!

- This is Leon.

- Wait, wait!

Stop, stop, stop, stop.

oth of you.

You.

Uh, what is your name?

- lexandra.

- ls she making that up?

- Why would anyone do that?

- Uh, yeah, yeah.

How old are you?

- How old are you?

- Uh, 17 and three quarters.

Give or take.

How old are you?

- l'm a whole 27.

- Oh my god!

Oh my god!

Oh, my god! lt's happening.

lt's happening.

So it's happening.

- What's happening, Leon?

- Uh, l think

l'm gonna throw up.

- What are you talking about?

- O.., you see, ever since

l first heard about him,

when l was a little boy,

and then as l got older,

l swear to you more and more

things started making sense.

nd now, this...

This whole...

- Uh...

- This is...

What l'm about to say to you,

l've never said aloud,

aside from when l'm pretending

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