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INDIO

Animal! You call us lazy? Only a year ago you were crying how the Nazis raped your daughters, separated your families, put you into big plantations and turned you into oxen to grow food for the Master Race! You cried that they converted you into animals and then called you animals; that they separated your families and then said you had no sense of family. But you want me to join your army and slaughter my own people so you can speak of my sense of family! Animal! And if we join the Nationalist Army and chase you back to Holland and take your land to grow food for ourselves and work harder than you know how--then we've suddenly gone Dutch-Crazy!

DUTCHMAN This! This! I will not tolerate this! This will not be allowed!

AMERICAN Calm down! There's some truth in what he says, isn't there? If you keep no discipline here you should expect this type of insubordination.

If you have so much energy, why don't you spend it cleaning up this place and getting the stench out, instead of shooting your mouth off? How long is it since you've washed? Look at this filth! You have a sick man and two babies here. Use some of that energy taking care of them! You dump all your garbage right on the floor. Those pots look like they've never been cleaned. Don't you have any sense of responsibility? Look at those children! It's amazing that anything can stay alive in this miserable stench, this filth!

INDIO Get out. Get out! Get out!