Peter Appleton:
[Seeing Adele at the cemetery] I didn't know anyone was here.
Adele:
I was just... saying goodbye.
Peter Appleton:
Adele, I'm sorry the way things turned out. I never meant to hurt anyone, least of all you.
Adele:
People get hurt sometimes, we can't always help it. So are you really a communist?
Peter Appleton:
No, I'm really not.
Adele:
I didn't think so. Only a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist could have gotten The Majestic up and running.
Peter Appleton:
Great endorsement. Can I call you as a witness?
Adele:
Eh, if it helps. So what will you tell the committee?
Peter Appleton:
Tell them what they want to hear: "Sorry, I won't do it again, blah, blah."
Adele:
You're not serious.
Peter Appleton:
What's wrong with it?
Adele:
Everything.
Peter Appleton:
Could you be a little more specific?
Adele:
Aside from the fact that this is a free country, and you can be a communist if you want to be a communist - leaving that aside, if you're accused falsely you have a duty as well as a right to stand up and suggest they drop dead.
Peter Appleton:
Emile Zola, you feel strongly about this.
Adele:
Damn right I do!
Peter Appleton:
Great, but it doesn't make the game any less rigged. There's a reason it's called a witch-hunt.
Adele:
And there's burden of proof, innocence before guilt.
Peter Appleton:
Maybe in law school. But the rest of us have to live in the real world and in the real world, I mess with these guys, I go to jail.
Adele:
All the more reason to fight them.
Peter Appleton:
Like Luke would've done? Go ahead, say it.
Adele:
Yes. Like Luke would have done.
Peter Appleton:
God, here it comes. Tell me again what a great guy Luke was, 'cause God I haven't heard that enough!
Adele:
He wouldn've stood up to them.
Peter Appleton:
Yeah well, he's not here... to vouch for that, is he? We have to take your word for it! And forgive me but everybody's memory of Luke is a little rose-colored in this town. Besides, I'm not Luke. While he was liberating Europe, I was running the PX. He couldn't wait to save the world! Me, I was happy not to go overseas!
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