Molokai (1999)
Leo McKern: Bishop Maigret
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Quotes
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Bishop Maigret : Gentlemen, let us at least agree it is a scourge, and those who have it must be isolated. While I am prime minister we will not fail to do this, or Hawaii will become a nation of lepers.
Bishop Maigret : But as long as you isolate them and keep them in a place where they have no relatives, a place which it turned into a living hell, with no law...
Walter Murray Gibson : That is why I have to called you together. We cannot send police to their island. I tried. They resign. Fear of disease, they can't take their families, it's hopeless. They won't go. They won't do it.
Bishop Maigret : Then the natives will continue to hide their sick. And I for one don't blame them.
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Father Leonor Fouesnel : [refering to a letter in his hand] Your Grace... this is outrageous. He's now demanding timber and nails. He says that he's not going to sleep under a roof until there is adequate cover for all the patients.
Bishop Maigret : There's another article about him in the paper today. The prime minister calls him a Christian hero.
[reads from paper]
Bishop Maigret : "A healthy young man who has sacrificed himself for the dying inhabitants of Molokai." Does he speak of returning?
Father Leonor Fouesnel : Oh no, on the contrary.
[read from the letter in his hand]
Father Leonor Fouesnel : "This settlement needs a resident priest. Many are dying. I want to stay."