Storm Center

Martha Lockridge:
Whatever was the issue? A stubborn woman was fired. Your council blew itself up with civic virtue. The city got something to buzz about. I got a better job. You got a platform.

Paul Duncan:
You make it sound like a grab bag.

Martha Lockridge:
Well, what do you think it was? Patriotism?

Alicia Hull:
How about helping out an old friend?

Freddie Slater:
Your not my friend!

Alicia Hull:
Freddie.

Freddie Slater:
You're not anybody's friend! They kicked you out! You don't belong here. They found out about you! You want to destroy us! Your like all the rest of them! They found out what you were doing! You don't belong here! Your not the librarian anymore. Your a communist! A communist! A communist! A communist!

George Slater:
Sure she talks sweet as honey. All the time you can bet she was working away back there. She has twenty five years to fill those shelves with poison. She and those books of hers. All they want is one thing: smash and destroy. Smash everything we've ever built up in this country.