Quantum Leap1989

Al:
You're not a prisoner of war.

Oswald:
All members of the proletariat are prisoners in the class struggle.

Al:
I thought you were a member of the Marine Corps.

Oswald:
My status as a marine does not alter my membership in the exploited and oppressed class into which I was born.

Al:
I was joking.

Oswald:
I was not!

Al:
Take it easy, kid. I'm on your side.

Oswald:
Then I'm free to leave?

Al:
Uh, no. Not exactly.

Oswald:
Then I'm a prisoner.

Al:
Okay, all right. You're a prisoner of the proletariat and...

Oswald:
I'm a prisoner of the bourgeois and a *member* of the proletariat. You don't know your Marx, do you?

Al:
[coldly] After six years in the Hanoi Hilton, I tend to repress it.

Oswald:
Where?

Al:
That's where I was held as a prisoner of war, and where they didn't give a damn about the Geneva Convention.