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Start: I mean, Jesus…you think I was born this way, like some cutthroat pirate of the high seas? Huh? Hell, I’m just trying to muddle through, that’s all.
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End: We’ve been given something here. A chance to…I don’t know what, to wash away a lot of the, just, rotten crap we’ve done. More than anything else, that’s what this is. A chance. I know it is.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Neil LaBute, The Mercy Seat, Faber and Faber, 2002, pp. 31-32.
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