Can I ask you a question, sir? Where did you learn to fight so dirty, sir?
Same place as you, Cooper: Saturday night in the gutters.
Long way from home, sir.
Never was much of a home, Cooper.
No, sir. That it weren't.
Did you volunteer for this lot, Cooper?
Erm, no, not exactly, sir. I was "invited" to join... by a magistrate. [singing softly] Here's adieu to all judges and juries / justice and Old Bailey too / for they bound me to King George's army / so adieu to old England, adieu...
[on a hill overlooking the monastery, Hogan is reading by the light of a small fire, and hears Cooper's singing on the wind]
[singing softly] Now it's over the seas that I wander / to stand 'neath the red, white, and blue / for they gave me the old King's hard bargain / so adieu to old England, adieu...
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