You're telling me there's a contagion being spread intentionally at St. Patrick's?
I'm telling you that is what I suspect, even if it sounds...
What exactly are you asking of me?
Well, I suppose I'm asking you to look into it.
Look into what, exactly? Look into St. Patrick's? On -- and, just to be clear -- on the basis that some of your mother's blood tests got damaged?
It's a lot to ask, I know.
Do you? Do you? Did I ever tell you why I moved here?
No. No, I don't think you did.
Didn't tell anybody, now that I think about it. It's almost as if nobody asked.
...
[about his fellow policemen] And more and more, I realize I've lost their trust. I roll with it. I keep my head high. Dignity. Dignity is a word my wife uses. "Show them dignity." And then she's diagnosed. And she's robbed of her dignity so fast. And then she's gone. And I couldn't... Ali and I get as far away as we can. And I find this-- this gig. This little island. So sleepy, it could be dead. No elections, no staff. Just a tiny room at the back of a grocery store and a bunch of fishermen without a notable incident of intentional violence in almost a century, and I beg for the post. Dignity. Ali is bored to tears, but he's safe. And I still think I could maybe move the world that one millimeter. Y'know, maybe-- Maybe here is where we make a difference. Not in the big city, but in this tiny village. Win over the fucking PTA and call it a victory for Islam. So I don't intimidate. I don't overshare, or overstep, or intrude in any way. I don't even carry a gun. And still. Still, Beverly Keane, and a few others too, look at me like I'm Osama bin-Fucking Laden. And you'd like me to investigate St. Patrick's?
For what it's worth, I want very much, very much to be wrong.
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