The Little Drummer Girl

The catastrophe.

The war of 1948.

If it can be called a war.

When your British betrayed us, and the Zionists drove us out

of our homeland.

When I was eight, l was driven from our land.

When I was ten, I joined the Ashbal with my brothers.

Brothers.

When I was ten, I joined the Ashbal with my brothers.

See? Brothers.

It's not enough.

It sounds like Salim.

The revolutionary crowd.

Who is this?

2312.

Charmian Ross, she's an actress.

An actress? You‘re kidding.

Does she have a voice?

...and we don't want our lives laid down by a multinational

corporation registered in Lichtenstein and banking in

the Dutch bloody Antilles!

What's more is I, for one, don't think the Jewish state has to be

an imperialist American garrison that treats Arabs like dirt.

Well, she's got a point.

Hi. I‘m Charmian, Charmian Ross.

We are thrilled to meet you, Miss Ross. Believe me.

Please.

Shall we begin, Miss Ross?

OK...

- I‘m studying architecture now. - Hm...

No Israeli soldier can doubt

the great Gadi Becker's right to live in peace.

But... is this peace?

This is about truth.

They need to believe her.

I've heard you speak their truth before.

Believed it even.

That truth cost an innocent girl‘s life.

Innocent, but not clever.

Charlie here could learn from you, Gadi.

Surpass you, perhaps.

I thought Charlie was a boy's name?

We will do it right this time.

Khalil.

Who knows?

It may be an imitator.

No killing.

Autonomy.

I left my hat.

Who are you people?

Who are WE?

Come.

Who are we? We...

..are friends.

Non-sectarian, non-aligned friends,

deeply concerned, like you,

with the many wrong directions the world is taking.

Yes.

Friends who must do the unavoidable from time to time.

But friends, nonetheless.

Beautiful, isn‘t it? Please, come in.

Yes, I‘m sure you... you must have a thousand questions for us, Charlie.

Of course you do. You are a curious mind.

And we too also have a thousand questions for you.

Make yourself comfortable.

Freshen up, and we shall go through them all, OK?

Mm-hmm.

It's an honour.

I've heard a lot about you.

No, you haven‘t.

The kids said you made a fine couple up there on the Acropolis, Gadi.

Like a pair of movie stars.

It was a beautiful moment.

Sorry.

Protocol.

I need to go for a number two.

Charlie!

You know what it cost me to get you here?

- Your decency? - Nothing so cheap.

My career.

All for you.

Didn't get what you needed in London, then?

Oh, I saw everything I needed, Charlie.

Everything to know that you are worth this very moment.

What did you say your name was?

I didn't.

How about...

...Marty?

Are you asking me or telling me?

And when God finished making me, he had a few pieces of wire left over

so he tied them up haphazardly and put together Shimon.

Say hello, Shimon.

Everyone else, I think you know.

Oh, you liar!

| suggest you listen to what they have...

And | suggest you go fuck yourself! Who are you?

Do you have a problem with Jews?

Ethnically culturally, politically.

We don't smell bad to you?

Have improper table manners?

- No, don't be stupid. - Wonderful.

Then I pray I can trust you won't jump out a window or vomit

if I say we are also citizens of Israel?

Do you have a bucket just in case?

Ha-ha! Now,

must all of us Jews pack up our belongings,

return to our former countries and begin again?

Wait for the next pogrom?

- I just want... - Peace.

Hm?

We‘re not here to attack your politics, Charlie.

In fact. we love your crazy politics,

every paradox and

conflicted spurt of anger or compassion.

But we believe in a bigger you.

That you have talent to waste and you believe it is being wasted.

And if you decide to collaborate with us on this performance,

I swear to God

you will never be wasted again.

Put in its simplest form,

we‘re mounting a production.

- Hmm? - Now, there will be no cut,

no curtain, constant improvisation.

Well, shit!

I've been kidnapped by an experimental theatre company.

Experimental, certainly.

Your audience, they won't even know they are watching.

But they will be grateful.

Kids, their parents, innocent bystanders who‘d get a piece

of shrapnel in their throat when a bomb goes off right beside them,

were it not for you.

Should you want to go home of course, back to your, er...

...pub theatres...

...your lonely brilliance,

no-one is stopping you.

But if you are at all intrigued by this role...

...we need to ask you a final round of questions.

Tonight.

What's the character?

A terrorist.

No!

Go back.

Are you OK? I'm here to talk to you.

I'll be fine.

Dear God, Salim, I‘m so sorry.

My name is Joanna.

I‘m an observer for the International Aid Alliance,

- and it is our job to... - Where am I?

I‘m not allowed to say.

Am I still in Greece?

Have they mistreated you at all since your arrival?

Are you getting enough fruit and. vegetables? Huh.

What is he, a puppy?

We don't have time.

This side is clean, yes?

We‘ve got to get that drop-off location.

Look what I have...

Fire away then, Mart.

Ask me anything.

Let's begin with your family.

Israeli oranges are the best in the world.

Israeli?

Hm.

It's the only good thing they have...

...because they were grown on Palestinian soil.

If you want to get out of solitary,

you have to pacify your enemies without betraying your friends.

I have no friends.

No-one does.

Not at first.

But they will find out.

Do you have family you can write to?

I will only write to my lawyers.

Of course. But family plays better with the press.

What about your mother?

Jane Ashcroft.

- Dead? - Drunk.

Because of your father?

Because my father was a criminal, yes.

Did the school ask you to leave because of these problems?

Yeah.

It was heartless but we didn‘t have money to pay the school fees.

So, after that fall from grace...

He went to prison,

- and we lost everything. - Mm.

I've been fending for myself since I was 15.

But it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

- Hm. - So as soon as you could,

you rebelled to the stage and radical politics.

Oh, there were other ways of rebelling than radical politics.

Such as?

Sex, of course.

The essential basis to any revolt.

We‘re not interested in all those failures, Charlie.

Was it your father who made you feel so angry?

- Can we take a break? - In a moment.

It must have upset you, his going to prison like that,

conning people out of their money.

It was humiliation.

The bailiffs coming in, ransacking the place.