Basilio hesitates.
**SIMUN (to himself) **: Good. Let them fight each other. Then my hour will come. Jail cell. Basilio sits in shadows.
: 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 enters. All bow slightly.
Isagani appears, looking for Paulita. Simoun hands him the lamp.
: Grandfather Selo, I do this so Basilio can study. But the Prayle… he looks at me like a wolf looks at a goat.
Tandang Selo (deaf-mute) arrives, sees Juli crying. He signs angrily. Juli embraces him. El Filibusterismo Kabanata 21-30 Script
**SIMUN (to self) **: When I light this lamp, the signal of the revolution starts. I will avenge Elias, Maria Clara, and my youth.
**BASILIO (grabbing Simoun’s arm) **: Stop! Juli jumped from the convent bell tower. She is dead. The Prayle drove her to it. But killing everyone will not bring her back. : You betray me? BASILIO : I betray vengeance. There is another way.
: Take this – my remaining jewels. Build a school. Teach them not hate, but reason. Now go! Basilio hesitates
(raising glass) : Let us toast to progress! But remember – under the friars’ shadow. ISAGANI (to Basilio) : Macaraig talks like a cannon without gunpowder. BASILIO : He’s right, though. We need a Spanish education – not just Latin and fear. PADRE IRENE (laughing) : Fear? My boy, faith is built on holy fear!
Padre Salvi enters, touches her shoulder. She flinches.