AAlbert
[Hands glass to woman] Honey.
AAlbert
If I could just, for a second, have your attention. Hi! I'd like to thank you all for coming, for celebrating this occasion with us in our home... And with our daughter, our spectacular Lila. Look at you. You're just... [Softly chuckles] You're stunning. Your mother and I have always known that you were destined for magnificence. And we... we truly could not be prouder of you. Tonight is momentous. [Guests murmur in agreement] But it's just the first commencement. [Raises glass in toast] To a lifetime of glorious participation. [Entire party raises their glasses]
AAlbert
And now, our gift on the eve of your 18th birthday. Gentlemen? [A homely dressed elderly man sits at a table with a servant bringing platter of a gun and a knife to Lila with her choosing the gun and she starts walking forwards]
[Guests murmurs]
W1Woman 1
Should be fine, right?
W3Woman 3
Ah, it's a big decision.
W4Woman 4
Choose your path.
W5Woman 5
Whenever you're ready, love.
[Guest murmuring]
W6Woman 6
Oh, great choice.
AAlbert
That's my girl. A toast to my daughter.
AAlbert
We're all here to celebrate her and to support her on her journey. To Lila.
GGuests
To Lila. [They all drink in toast]
[Lila discharges firearm into man's head who reels backwards]
[All guests break out in applause]
[Rick is sitting on a couch in the family room placing a gun on the coffee table and the Lila sneaks up behind with with a Greek house paddle and starts assaulting him]
LLila
[Grabs gun and points it at him] You did this! You chose this!
JJenna
Lila, stop! Jenna, Jenna, Jenna, go back upstairs.
LLila
It's okay. I'm protecting us. He grabbed me. He tried to kill me.
JJenna
No, I don't want any more violence tonight!
LLila
He's a violent man! He's a past distant memory! Why would you try risking raising our child with this monster?!
RRick
She's not your child! [Lila cocks gun]
LLila
Rick, no! No. I was there when it happened! You needed me to make her happen! But now you want to cut me out of your life?! He's making you do this. I know he is. He hates what we have!
JJenna
Put the gun down! Put it down!
LLila
You love me, right?! Tell me I'm not crazy. Because I don't know what's real anymore.
JJenna
Yes. It was real. It was real when I said those things. I meant them when I said them. I'm so sorry I hurt you. Okay? Please, I'm sorry. Please. I know you love me.
LLila
You'll understand one day, I did this for us.
RRick
[Lila exerts effort to discharge the firearm and Rick shields his face] No, no, no! [Rick brings hands down, realizing he is unscathed and Lila turns to Jenna to realize that she has stabbed her]
LLila
Why? [She falls down]
YJYoung Joe Owens
I'd like to live in a place like this.
JOJohn Owens
Nothing special about it.
YJYoung Joe Owens
It's more peaceful than the city.
JOJohn Owens
Until you get a look inside one of these houses. City or suburb, people are capable of awful shit. Don't let the picket fences fool you. Wherever you go, people are people.
JOJoe Owens
You want to kill me for that? Do you not understand what you did? Are you so self-absorbed that you can't grasp what your failure that day represents? You spoiled brat! There are two kinds of people in the world-- builders and takers. Workers and babies. I'm a builder. What have you ever built? [Groans] Your whole generation, you just take and take and take with no idea the sacrifices made, the work put into remolding our country!
PGPenelope Guerrero
My parents died for this country--
JOJoe Owens
Shut up! With a gun to your head, you can't follow a goddamn rule. You show respect! Common decency. You say "Thank you." I say "You're welcome." And you! You do not humiliate someone who's just trying to show you a good time.
You little bitch. You almost ruined everything. But right now we can have the trial. Just the two of us. Thank you for holding the door.
It's a little late for that now. We give people one strike in this country now?
Don't talk to me about what we do in this country. Where the hell were you born?
What difference does that make? This is our home.
This country used to be a place where everybody could thrive.
All that hope and change bullshit didn't get us anywhere. America was circling the drain until the Purge. Suddenly each of us had the power to make things better and we did.
No. I woke up today convinced that my life only had value if I was a victim. I was wrong.
Oh, come on. You know you don't have it in you to be anything else. When the rains come and flood this rock, will you... Sink or swim? Will you drown? Or fight your way to shore.
Yeah, Bobby Sheridan. Tavis played us his lectures. Said we needed to understand why Purgers are broken, so we can learn how to help them.
Then you know exactly why I'm doing this.
I do. I just don't know why you believe it will help. Because for me, it can't get any worse.
God bless America, where I have the freedom to decide for myself what's right and the freedom to change my circumstances.
This might be your America, but it's not mine.
Right now it's the only one that matters.
No. The country you're destroying... I want to help rebuild. And I'm not the only one.
I see people that fight everyday to protect this country, even after it took everything from them. And I see people... complete strangers... picking each other up, not tearing each other down. And I see other people... desperate, angry people... hurting each other every year because they've been manipulated into doing it. So Purge all you want. But when you're done, what will be left? A nation of murderers. If Purging really worked... if everyone actually got better... wouldn't we stop needing it?
Like our great nation, I will be reborn. [Miguel enters the pool hall and shoots Joe, with Penelope running up to Miguel in embrace]
It's ok. It's over. It's all over. [Joe attacks Miguel with Penelope striking him the a net rod and the Purge concluding alarm blares]
God damn it! It wasn't supposed to end this way! I was so looking forward to this morning, my clean slate.
What the fuck are you talking about?!
I failed. All that work I did and almost none of it went right. Just like life. God damn it. Now we get back to normal. Come on. Without rules... We're animals. I'm a law-abiding citizen. The Purge is over. [Hands him gun] Take it. Take your sister and go home.
I'll catch up with you guys next year.
Yeah. Next Purge. I'll finish it with both of you. [Miguel shoots him twice] Miguel, it's murder. [Miguel kicks him into the pool]
JSJoe's voiceover
You'll do a lot of good work on Purge night, but you won't be able to get it all done. You'll taste failure. People will always surprise you when they don't want to die.
