Episode One - BLUE AMENDS - 17/10/12
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CAMPBELL (CONT’D) Degradation. Fathers with their daughters, brothers and sisters sharing beds. Beggars and thieves left to run in the streets and astride the whole stinking pile of wounds and rotten flesh...
A pause.
CAMPBELL (CONT’D) Your masters. The men who you touch your cap to.
He stares down on them like God.
CAMPBELL (CONT’D) The Peaky Blinders. The vicious merciless gangs who blind those who see and cut out the tongues of those who talk. He stares down at the lines of officers... CAMPBELL (CONT’D)
You are worse than them. Those of you who have been taking their bribes these years since the war. Those of you who have looked the other way, you are worse than them.
A pause before Campbell yells...
CAMPBELL (CONT’D) God damn you for soiling your uniforms!!
There is a terrified silence.
CAMPBELL (CONT’D) Then there are the Communists. And the IRA Fenians. Blacker hearts still. They feed on the puss of all this corruption like maggots in a corpse. And like maggots, if they are left to swell they will eventually swarm like flies and spread their rotten philosophy across the country and across the world.
His voice echoes to silence.
CAMPBELL (CONT’D) Those then are our enemies. A three headed beast. It is my job to decapitate each one and by God I will do it.
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