: Basilio. Do you want freedom? BASILIO : Simoun! Help me. SIMUN : I can get you out – if you join my plan. On the night of the wedding, I will blow up the government. All oppressors die. BASILIO : That’s madness! SIMUN : That’s revolution. Choose: rot here or fight.
: That lamp will kill her! SIMUN : Yes. Then the people will rise.
**SIMUN (to self) **: When I light this lamp, the signal of the revolution starts. I will avenge Elias, Maria Clara, and my youth.
Isagani appears, looking for Paulita. Simoun hands him the lamp. El Filibusterismo Kabanata 21-30 Script
: The bomb failed… Isagani the fool saved them. BASILIO : No, you are the fool. Revolution cannot start with a massacre of innocents. **SIMUN (laughing bitterly) **: I learned nothing from Elias. He died for a country that doesn’t exist yet.
Simoun stands near a pillar. He holds a lamp with a hidden explosive – a nitroglycerin bomb disguised as a gift.
Guardia Civil approach. Simoun hands Basilio a box. : Basilio
: Juli, you work slowly. You need spiritual correction. Come to my office tonight. **JULI (trembling) **: Father, please… I am betrothed. PADRE SALVI : Betrothals are nothing before God. (leaves)
**PAULITA (whispering to friend) **: I once liked Isagani, but he has no future. Juanito will inherit lands.
: We students propose an academy for Castilian. The friars control all teaching. **PADRE SALVI (coldly) **: An academy? Or a den of filibusteros? ISAGANI : We only want to learn – not rebel. PADRE SALVI : Learning leads to rebellion. Remember 1872. Help me
Paulita leaves, but listens from behind a curtain.
**BASILIO (monologue) **: Ten years ago, I found Simoun dying in the forest. He gave me a chest of jewels. I used it for medicine studies… but Juli. Juli is now a maid in the convent of the Prayle. (cries) They imprisoned me for stealing papers I never saw. Is this justice?
**BASILIO (to students) **: Today we learn mathematics. But the most important number is this – how many more years until we are free? (fade out)
He falls. Soldiers find no documents – only a letter: “Tell my countrymen: The friars fear only one thing – an educated people.” Basilio in a small hut, teaching children. On the wall: photo of Juli and Tandang Selo.
Basilio runs. Simoun faces the soldiers. He pulls a poisoned vial from his coat.