A scene from The First Purge 2018
Arlo Sabian

Did you really think you could just snoop around an NFFA building?

Dr. Updale

I know what you're doing. You're sending soldiers into the island disguised as gangs, as citizens, hunting people down using the tracking implants. You're making it look like people are participating because there wasn't enough purging.

Arlo Sabian

But they're not soldiers. They're mercenaries from all over. This country is overpopulated, Doctor. There's too much crime. Too much unemployment...

Dr. Updale

Is that even true? Or did you falsify those numbers, too?

Arlo Sabian

...bankrupt governments that can't afford to take care of its own citizenry. People don't want us to raise taxes, our debt has tripled. We can't pay for anything. We, the NFFA, we inherited all this mess. All right? Something needed to be done.

Dr. Updale

Not like this.

Arlo Sabian

Well, what, then? You tell me. Because we exhausted every possibility. I need for this to work. I need to sell this on a country-wide scale because this is our last hope.

Dr. Updale

You're trying to depopulate the lower classes just so the NFFA doesn't have to support them.

Arlo Sabian

Come on. We both know there's... there's no easy answer where somebody, some group doesn't suffer.

Dr. Updale

What have I done?

Arlo Sabian

You saved us. I thank you for it.

Dr. Updale

No! No! Don't... don't do this. The American people don't need this.

Arlo Sabian

I'm terribly sorry.

Dr. Updale

Do not build this on a lie! I was wrong!

Arlo Sabian

The NFFA and America will remember you fondly. As a hero to your nation.

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