: Take this – my remaining jewels. Build a school. Teach them not hate, but reason. Now go!
Padre Salvi enters, touches her shoulder. She flinches.
: Disperse! This is sedition. ISAGANI : This is education, Father! El Filibusterismo Kabanata 21-30 Script
**SIMUN (watching from carriage) **: They imprison the future. Tonight, they will all burn. Manila Cathedral. Paulita Gomez marries Juanito Pelaez. All elites present – friars, officials, rich merchants.
: Juli, you work slowly. You need spiritual correction. Come to my office tonight. **JULI (trembling) **: Father, please… I am betrothed. PADRE SALVI : Betrothals are nothing before God. (leaves) : Take this – my remaining jewels
Tandang Selo (deaf-mute) arrives, sees Juli crying. He signs angrily. Juli embraces him.
: Basilio. Do you want freedom? BASILIO : Simoun! Help me. SIMUN : I can get you out – if you join my plan. On the night of the wedding, I will blow up the government. All oppressors die. BASILIO : That’s madness! SIMUN : That’s revolution. Choose: rot here or fight. Now go
Basilio runs. Simoun faces the soldiers. He pulls a poisoned vial from his coat.
: We students propose an academy for Castilian. The friars control all teaching. **PADRE SALVI (coldly) **: An academy? Or a den of filibusteros? ISAGANI : We only want to learn – not rebel. PADRE SALVI : Learning leads to rebellion. Remember 1872.
**BASILIO (grabbing Simoun’s arm) **: Stop! Juli jumped from the convent bell tower. She is dead. The Prayle drove her to it. But killing everyone will not bring her back. : You betray me? BASILIO : I betray vengeance. There is another way.
Guardia Civil arrive. Padre Salvi leads them.