Anne and Mary

Part 9: Traitor

INSIDE- Seitz leaves Jack in Pulitzer's study. Pulitzer enters.

PULITZER: Sit. Know what I was doing at your age, boy? I was in a war. The Civil War.

JACK: Yeah, I heard of it. So, didja win?

PULITZER: People think war is about right or wrong and not power.

JACK: Yeah, I heard of that too. I don't just sell your papes, Joe. Sometime I read 'em.

PULITZER: Power of the press is the greatest power of them all. I tell this city how to think. I tell this city how to vote. I shape it's future.

JACK: Yeah? Well, right now I'm only thinking about one future, and that's mine.

PULITZER: So am I boy. I have the power to see you stay locked in the Refuge

JACK: And I have the power to break out again.

PULITZER: Or, I can see you released tomorrow, free and clear, with more money in your pockets than you can earn in three lifetimes.

JACK: Are you bribin' me, Joe?

PULITZER: No

JACK: Well, it's been real nice chattin' with ya, Joe. But I got to be goin' now.

PULITZER: You listen to me, boy. You just shut your mouth and listen to me! You shut up and listen to me for once! No game I'm playing. You work for me til the strike's over, and it will end, boy, make no mistake, with or without you. Then you go where ever you want to buy a ticket for. Away from the Refuge, these foul streets. Free. With money to spend and nobody chasing you.

JACK: We must have you scared pretty bad, old man

PULITZER: I offer you freedom and money just to work for me again. To your friends, I won't be so kind. Now, you're partner, what's his name? David. I understand he has a family. What do you think the Refuge will do to him? And it will be you who put him there. And all the others, after all, you're their leader. Go back to the Refuge tonight, think about it. Give me your answer in the morning.

Jack leaves. As he is being taken outside, Snyder lets go of him for one second

DAVID: Jack! Come on! Come on!

Jack slides down the railing and jumps over it. He and David take off.

SNYDER: After him!

The driver whips the horses, who take off without the carriage.

SEITZ: Don't worry. He's got no place to go

David and Jack run into an alley. Jack slows down.

DAVID: Come on! Keep running!

JACK: You shouldn't have done this, Dave. They could put you in jail

DAVID: I don't care

JACK: Come here. What about your family? What happened to them if you go in jail. You don't know nothing about jail. Now, thanks for what you done, but you get out of here

DAVID: I don't understand

JACK: I don't understand either, but just get outta here!

DAVID: No!

JACK: Go!

David turns slowly and walks away. Jack leans against a wall. Suddenly, he's leaning against a wall in the Refuge.

JACK: Santa Fe, My old friend I can't spend my whole life hidin' You're the only light that's guidin' me today

Crutchy opens a little slot in the door. He has a potato.