00:00I'm going to recommend to the disciplinary committee that you be expelled, Mr. Simms.
00:08You are a cover-up artist and you are a liar.
00:11But not a snitch!
00:14Excuse me?
00:16No, I don't think I will.
00:18Mr. Slade.
00:19This is such a crock of shit!
00:23Please watch your language, Mr. Slade. You are in the Barrett School, not a barracks.
00:29Mr. Simms, I will give you one final opportunity to speak up.
00:32Mr. Simms doesn't want it.
00:34He doesn't need to be labeled still worthy of being a bad man.
00:38What the hell is that?
00:41What is your motto here?
00:43Boys, inform on your classmates, save your hide.
00:47Anything short of that, we're going to burn you at the stake?
00:51Well, gentlemen, when the shit hits the fan,
00:54some guys run and some guys stay.
00:58Here's Charlie facing the fire and there's George hiding in Big Daddy's pocket.
01:04And what are you doing?
01:06You're going to reward George and destroy Charlie.
01:11Are you finished, Mr. Slade?
01:13No, I'm just getting warmed up.
01:16I don't know who went to this place.
01:18William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bride, William Terrell, whoever.
01:23Their spirit is dead, if they ever had one.
01:27It's gone.
01:28You're building a rat ship here.
01:31A vessel for seagoing snitches.
01:34And if you think you're preparing these minnows for manhood,
01:38you better think again.
01:39Because I say you are killing the very spirit this institution proclaims it instills.
01:46What a sham.
01:48What kind of a show are you guys putting on here today?
01:51I mean, the only class in this act is sitting next to me.
01:55And I'm here to tell you, this boy's soul is intact.
01:58It's non-negotiable.
02:00You know how I know?
02:01Someone here, and I'm not going to say who, offered to buy it.
02:06Only Charlie here wasn't selling.
02:08Sir, you're out of order.
02:09Out of order?
02:09I show you out of order.
02:11Now, you don't know what out of order is, Mr. Trask.
02:15I'd show you, but I'm too old.
02:17I'm too tired.
02:18I'm too fucking blind.
02:19If I were the man I was five years ago,
02:22I'd take a flame thrower to this place.
02:28Out of order.
02:29Who the hell do you think you're talking to?
02:32I've been around, you know.
02:35There was a time I could see, and I have seen,
02:40boys like these, younger than these,
02:43their arms torn out, their legs ripped off.
02:46But there is nothing like the sight of an amputated spirit.
02:51There is no prosthetic for that.
02:56You think you're merely sending this splendid foot soldier
03:00back home to Argonne with his tail between his legs,
03:03but I say you are executing his soul!
03:08And why?
03:10Because he's not a bad man.
03:13Bad man.
03:15You hurt this boy, you're going to be bad bums.
03:18The lot of you, and Harry, Jimmy, Trent,
03:23wherever you are out there, fuck you two!
03:29Stand down, Mr. Slade.
03:31I'm not finished.
03:34As I came in here, I heard those words,
03:38cradle of leadership.
03:41Well, when the bow breaks, the cradle will fall,
03:45and it has fallen here.
03:47It has fallen.
03:49Makers are men.
03:51Creators are leaders.
03:52Be careful what kind of leaders you're producing here.
03:56I don't know if Charlie's silence here today is right or wrong.
04:00I'm not a judge or jury, but I can tell you this.
04:04He won't sell anybody out to buy his future!
04:09And that, my friends, is called integrity.
04:13That's called courage.
04:15Now, that's the stuff leaders should be made of.
04:24Now, I have come to the crossroads in my life.
04:28I always knew what the right path was.
04:32Without exception, I knew, but I never took it.
04:36You know why?
04:38It was too damn hard.
04:43Now, here's Charlie.
04:45He's come to the crossroads.
04:46He has chosen a path.
04:48It's the right path.
04:51It's the right path.
04:51It's a path made of principle that leads to character.
04:57Let him continue on his journey.
05:02You hold this boy's future in your hands, committee.
05:06It's a valuable future.
05:09Believe me.
05:11Don't destroy it.
05:13Protect it.
05:16Embrace it.
05:18It's going to make you proud one day.
05:20I promise you.
05:39How's that for Paul Moore?
06:02Nothing but shut him up, sir.
06:09The disciplinary committee will take this matter under advisement in closed session.
06:17What are they doing, Charlie?
06:25I think they're going to come to a decision.
06:38Apparently, that meeting will be unnecessary.
06:42Mrs. Hunsaker?
06:48The Joint Student-Faculty Disciplinary Committee needs no further sessions.
06:53They have come to a decision.
06:56Measures Havemeyer, Potter, and Jameson are placed on probation for suspicion of ungentlemanly
07:03conduct.
07:04It is further recommended that Mr. George Willis Jr. receive neither recognition nor commendation
07:11for his cooperation.
07:14Mr. Charles Simms is excused from any further response to this incident.
07:19Hoo-rah!
07:20Yeah.
07:21Yeah!
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