Anne, Burden's Landing is a place on the moon. It isn't real. It doesn't exist. It's me, pretending I live on what I earn. It's my mother, trying to keep herself young and drinking herself old doing it. She and Adam living in this house as though your father was still alive. It's an old man like the judge, dreaming of the past. Anne, come away with me.
Anne And do what?
Live in a shack and eat red beans. Anne, what do you want me to do?
Anne Oh Jack, you haven't been sure. You've gone from one thing to the other. A year at law school and now this job as a reporter.
Are you afraid I can't make a living?
Anne Oh no Jack, it isn't that. I don't care about the money. It's just that I, I want you to be something.
What is it you want me to be?
Anne I don't know. It's just that I want you to be, to do something important.
Like your father? All right, I'll run for governor. Anne, I'm sorry, I'm sorry I said that.
Anne All right, Jack. I'll go away with you. I'll do anything you want me to.
I've wanted you to say that more than anything in the world. And now that you have said it - Anne, I guess you were right. I'm not sure of anything, including myself. I'm not sure I could live up to the...Anne, wait for me. Please wait for me.
Anne I'll wait for you.
I learned something from him [Willie]. You can't make an omelette without cracking eggs.
Adam Or heads?
Anne But at least a hospital will be built and the sick will be cared for.
Adam At what price?
Adam Do you really believe that, Jack?
I really believe that Stark wants to do good. You do too. It's a matter of method. Many times, out of evil comes good. Pain is evil. As a doctor, you should know that.
Adam Pain is an evil. It is not evil. It is not evil in itself. Stark is evil.
The people of this state don't think so.
Adam How would they know? The first thing Stark did was to take over the newspapers and the radio stations. Why be so afraid of criticism? If Stark is interested in doing good, he should also be interested in the truth. I don't see how you can separate the two. No, Stark is not for me.
Anne No, Stark is not for you. Well, what's for you? Pride, pride, that's all it is, foolish, stupid pride. All you've ever talked about is what you could do if somebody would tear down and build. All right, all right, somebody has and he's given it to you. But he's not for you. No, he's not for you.
Anne He wasn't like anybody I ever knew before.
You mean he wasn't like me.
Anne He wasn't like anybody I ever knew before. I love him, I guess. I guess that's the reason.
Anne He wants to marry me.
Anne Not now, it would hurt him. Divorce would hurt his career.
Anne Jack, Jack, what are you going to do? You can't leave him now. He needs you now more than he ever did before.
What Willie needs, Willie's got.
Anne You don't know him. You've known him all these years and you don't really know him at all.
Anne Adam?
Well, you don't have to worry about him. If Adam finds out, it'll be easy to prove a Stanton is no different than anyone else. Just show him these. [He hands her evidence he uncovered about her uncle] Willie was right. Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption, even Judge Stanton. Show them to him, Anne. Change the picture of the world that Adam has in his head, just like our picture of it has been changed. Wipe out everything he's ever believed in, it'll be good for him. There's no god but Willie Stark. I'm his prophet and you're his... Anne, Anne, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. Anne.
Anne I tried to explain to him that it wasn't the way he thought it was.
How was it, Anne? You tell me.
Anne He hit me, Jack. My own brother, he hit me.
Your brother's an old-fashioned man. He believes in his sister's honor. Me, I'm a modern man, the 20th-century type, I run.
Anne I'm frightened, Jack.
For who, your brother or Willie?
Anne We're through.
Anne He called me this afternoon. He's going back to Lucy. He said it was better this way.
Anne Both of us.
Did he tell you that too when he asked you to betray the judge? At least I walked out on him.
Anne Oh Jack, help me, please! Please! Adam's all I've got left now. Oh Jack, if you ever loved me.
If I ever loved you? ...I'll go find Adam.
Anne, where are you going?
Anne I don't know. Leave me alone.
Anne I don't care.
Anne I don't know, I don't know, I don't know!
Anne Leave me alone, please.
Anne He's dead.
Anne My brother's dead.
We've got to go on living.
Anne How?
So that Adam's death has meaning. So that it wasn't wasted. Anne, our life has to give his death meaning. Don't you see that? Look at those people. LOOK AT THEM! They still believe. And we've got to make them see Willie the way Adam always saw him or there's no meaning in anything, anything.
