Sometimes in April (2005 TV Movie)

Francis Imbuga: Priest

Quotes 

• Augustin : [Over the telephone]  Anne-Marie, can you hear me?

  Anne-Marie : Yes, how are you Papa?

  Augustin : [Hesitant]  I'm fine.

  Anne-Marie : And Mama...?

  Augustin : She's fine. She's next door with your brothers. fine.

  Anne-Marie : I'm scared...!

  [the sounds of gunfire and mayhem increase] 

  Anne-Marie : We can hear the guns.

  Augustin : [Trying to reassure himself as well as Anne-Marie]  It's all right. You're in a Catholic school; nobody can go in there.

  Anne-Marie : Papa, I have to go

  [the alarm bell begins ringing offscreen] 

  Anne-Marie : . The other girls are waiting for the phone.

  Augustin : [Distressed]  All right... you, you know I love you...!

  Anne-Marie : [Tearfully]  I love you too, Papa...! Bye...!

  Augustin : Bye-bye...!

  [Hangs up. Anne Marie and a friend hug in fright, a scream from outside calls the girls' attention to the pandemonium in the courtyard] 

  Augustin : .

  Martine : [Enters the office in a hurry]  Girls... calm down! I want you to go to your dormitories, quickly-! Quickly-!

  Priest : [Entering the office as Martine shepherds the girls out]  Martine, a word.

  Martine : [Focused on her frightened students]  I'm sorry Father, we have a school full of terrified girls.

  Priest : Martine, we are in a very difficult position, but we must do our duty. We cannot harbor rebels. We must hand them over.

  Martine : [Shocked at this proposal]  Father, these are not rebels! These are girls, girls that you've promised to raise as your own daughters! And now you would turn them out?

  Priest : What can I do, my child? We cannot protect all of them! I do not have the power to change the situation!

  [Martine begins to leave, then turns to him again] 

  Priest : We must pray.