I always want to cry when Eponine dies.
Disclaimer:nothing *cry's*
[Inquisitor is bundled away as the first shots ring out. Eponine enters, wounded.]
Joly
There's a boy climbing the barricade!
Ezra
Good Force! What are you doing?
'Ponine, have you no fear?
Have you seen my beloved?
Why have you come back here?
Eponine
Took the letter like you said
I met her father at the door
He said he would give it
[She collapses]
Don't think I can stand any more.
Ezra
Eponine, what's wrong? I feel...
There's something wet upon your hair
[There is blood on his hands]
Eponine, you're hurt
You need some help!
Oh Force, it's everywhere...
A LITTLE FALL OF RAIN
Eponine
Don't you fret, M'sieur Ezra
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
You're here, that's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers grow.
Ezra
But you will live, 'Ponine - dear Force around...
If I could close your wounds with words of love...
Eponine
Just hold me now, and let it be.
Shelter me, comfort me...
Ezra
You would live
A hundred years
If I could show you how
I won't desert you now...
Eponine
The rain can't hurt me now
This rain will wash away what's past
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
I'll sleep in your embrace at last
The rain that brings you here
Is Force-blessed!
The skies begin to clear
And I'm at rest
A breath away from where you are
I've come home from so far
So don't you fret, M'sieur Ezra
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
That's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain
Will make the flowers...
Ezra [in counterpoint]
Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine
You won't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt you now
I'm here
I will stay with you
Till you are sleeping
And rain
Will make the flowers...
Grow.
[She dies. Ezra kisses her, then lays her on the ground.]
Zeb
She is the first to fall
The first of us to fall upon this barricade
Ezra
Her name was Eponine
Her life was cold and dark, yet she was unafraid.
Combeferre
We fight here in her name
Prouvaire
She will not die in vain.
Lesgles
She will not be betrayed.
[They carry her body off.]
NIGHT OF ANGUISH
[Kanan arrives, dressed as a soldier.]
Joly
Here comes a man in uniform
What brings you to this place?
Kanan Jarrus
I come here as a volunteer
Joly
Approach and show your face.
Sentry
You wear an army uniform.
Kanan Jarrus
That's why they let me through.
Joly
You've got some years behind you sir.
Kanan Jarrus
There's much that I can do.
Joly
You see that prisoner over there?
Grantaire
A volunteer like you!
Combeferre
A spy who calls himself Inquisitor!
Grantaire
He's going to get it too...
Sentry
They're getting ready to attack!
THE FIRST ATTACK
[Zeb gives Kanan a gun.]
Zeb
Take this and use it well!
But if you shoot us in the back,
You'll never live to tell.
Random Voices
Platoon of sappers advancing toward the barricade!
Troops behind them, fifty men or more!
Zeb
FIRE!
[Gunfire is heard.]
Feuilly
Sniper!
[Kanan shoots a sniper who is aiming at Zeb.]
Lesgles
See how they run away!
Grantaire
By Force we've won the day!
Zeb
They will be back again,
Make an attack again.
[To Kanan.]
For your presence of mind
For the deed you have done
I will thank you M'sieur
When our battle is won.
Kanan Jarrus
Give me no thanks M'sieur
There is something that you can do.
Zeb
If it is in my power...
Kanan Jarrus
Give me the spy Inquisitor
Let me take care of him
Inquisitor
The law is inside out
The world is upside down
Zeb
Do what you have to do,
The man belongs to you.
The enemy may be regrouping. Hold yourself in readiness.
Come my friends, back to your positions.
The night is falling fast...
[Kanan has taken Inquisitor away.]
Kanan Jarrus
We meet again.
Inquisitor
You've hungered for this all your life;
Take your revenge!
How right you should kill with a knife!
[Kanan cuts the ropes which bind Inquisitor.]
Kanan Jarrus
You talk too much,
Your life is safe in my hands.
Inquisitor
I don't understand
Kanan Jarrus
Get out of here.
Inquisitor
Caleb, take care,
I'm warning you...
Kanan Jarrus
Clear out of here.
Inquisitor
Once a thief, forever a thief
What you want you always steal!
You would trade your life for mine.
Yes, Caleb, you want a deal.
Shoot me now for all I care!
If you let me go beware.
You'll still answer to Inquisitor!
Kanan Jarrus
You are wrong, and always have been wrong.
I'm a man, no worse than any man.
You are free, and there are no conditions,
No bargains or petitions.
There's nothing that I blame you for.
You've done your duty, nothing more.
If I come out of this alive, you'll find me
At number fifty-five Rue Plumet
No doubt our paths will cross again.
[Kanan fires his gun into the air, Inquisitor leaves quickly. Muted applause from the students who think Inquisitor has been shot.]