Jennifer Smith, Amy Smith and others in “Unfinished Business”

Amy, go to your room.

You're not my mother, you can't tell me to go to my room.

You don't want to hear this.

Helen Smith

[ushers Amy] Sweetheart. It's, it's time for bed. Come on, I'll tuck you in in a minute.

It was you. You and Daddy. You killed them.

Helen

Killed who?

The Negroes, the Jews, all those people. What happened to them?

Helen

Oh.

I need to hear it from you.

Helen

Okay, uh, they, they they sent them to camps.

And what did they do in the camps?

Helen

They forced them to work.

Then what? Where are they now?

Helen

They're gone. They killed them.

And you and Daddy were a part of it.

Helen

Yes. Yes, we were. It It was a different time. We felt like our world... It had just ended, it was a decision that we made for one day that led to 20 years.

You could have escaped to the Neutral Zone.

Helen

Yeah, we could have, yes. But we didn't.

So you joined the Party instead. Daddy was in the SS.

Helen

I did it because I well, I believed in it. Not at first, but later I-I - I believed in all of it.

The camps where they killed - the Jews and the Negroes?

Helen

All of it. All of it. They told us it was necessary. I didn't ask any questions. I didn't even think about those people until... oh... [gets emotional] Until we became those people.

You got all this.

Helen

We didn't do it for this. We did it to keep you alive.

You didn't keep Thomas alive, did you?

Helen

Oh, God, Jennifer, don't you think that I know that?

They took him away.

Helen

I am begging you, please, please, please.

They poisoned him!

Helen

Don't, don't do this.

He was my brother! I loved him too! Ye- I know how you must see us, but everything we have was bought with other people's lives.

Helen

You were our children. Our babies.

How many were there? In America? In Europe, in Africa, how many?

Helen

I-I don't - I don't know.

And they're gonna do it all over again, aren't they? And Daddy's gonna be in charge, isn't he?

Helen

I don't know.

I don't ever want to be like you.

Helen

You shouldn't have to be. [Jennifer storms out]