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Phoenix Police Department - Lt. Riley is in the office signing off on papers. I thought I'd never see the day, Riley says. So did I, says Lt. Costa (who will eventually play Horace Gladstone in 1970PT)--I must say I'm relieved. So am I, says Riley, I guess we'll have to settle for that. We could have kept at it until we went out of our minds, Costa agrees, but what would be the point? I'm with you there, says Riley, this case is finished, closed, over with, done. We hope, Costa says. I've never been a drinking man, says Riley, but this case very nearly converted me. It did the opposite with me, Costa, when those medical records came from back east, saying that Laura Collins was alive, even though the body in the fire checked out so completely--you want to know something? If it's about Laura Murdoch Collins, no, says Riley. No, this isn't about the REAL Mrs. Collins, Costa says, the one that's alive in Maine. You mean you consider the woman in the morgue to be the unreal Mrs. Collins? asks Riley. Exactly, the other man says, that's what I was going to tell you. Oh, come on, says Riley. It's not my preference, believe you me, says Costa, I can't help it--try as I might, I can't think of that woman in the morgue as identity unknown--I cannot believe that she is not the real Laura Collins, no matter what the proof is. I make it a policy to go as far as the evidence goes, and no further, says Riley. So do I, says Costa, only don't forget, I lived with positive proof there that that WAS Laura Collins, and I cannot let it go.[/spoiler]
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... followed by today's second quote -Page 92/Scene 192 - Carlotta: 'Doing what you know must be done.'
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we are transported back in time 150 years, where a very youthful-looking Angelique is being chastised by a man--Amadeus Collins, a judge--in a courtroom--"Wittingly or unwittingly," he says, "you have done Satan's bidding--you realize that the penalty for your sins is death." Yes sir, I know that, she says, trembling. And yet, Amadeus continues, you refuse to bear witness against Judah Zachary. I told you my reasons! she cries. "A curse upon your reasons!" he retorts, banging his fist repeatedly on the table for emphasis. "This man is a warlock, the living embodiment of Lucifer himself--he's depraved and evil!--his acts of sorcery are legendary--he MUST be condemned--and it is your Christian duty to tell this tribunal all you know about him!" I want to, she says, but I can't because I'm afraid of what will happen! You have nothing to fear in this courtroom, he assures her, you will stand here (he points to a podium), draped in the protective cloak of the Almighty--think of it, my child, think of the golden opportunity God has given you--he is willing to forgive your own sins--you will be immune from persecution, and given safe escort out of this country!--but only if you cooperate in helping us dispatch Judah Zachary back to the hell from whenst he came!--if you refuse, you will take his place in the prisoner's dock.[/spoiler]