Ogro (1979)

Eusebio Poncela: Txabi

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• Luque : Incredible! God, it seems incredible to me! Just reach out a hand and I could touch him.

  Iker : I still can't believe he goes every day.

  Luque : And with just one bodyguard.

  Izarra : Relax. Just one in the car with him. But, we don't know if there are more in church, before he arrives. It's the first thing to find out. Nothing is certain.

  Xavi : Except it's possible to kill him. But to get him amid all the people...

  Izarra : Don't start now. No discussion of alternatives. Now we have to work with method, patience and precision. From tomorrow, we go to church every day, in shifts, and two will meet here, once a week, to exchange information. The phone between apartments will be only used in case of absolute necessity. Each of us will note any significant detail. We'll all meet only when the plan is fully prepared. Come on.

• Xavi : How many deaths in total?

  Izarra : Just Carrero's bodyguard.

  Xavi : You sure we can't save that poor guy?

  Izarra : What do you mean?

  Xavi : I mean, it'll be a massacre, we we'll have to shoot like madmen. A lot of people will die, including the innocent, including ourselves. And ETA will be politically destroyed by this massacre. And forget about freeing the 150 comrades.

  Izarra : Listen to me, Xavi. Two things. If you're trying to argue about the kidnapping, then you're wasting time because we've voted. Or maybe... you some criticism to make about tactics, about the details. In that case you'd better propose some concrete solution. Because I already told you. Any fault in the plan, we have to work out together.

• El Albañil : I don't like doing things unless I know what they're for. I don't trust, on principle.

  Xavi : What are you afraid of? That I'm an agent?

  El Albañil : Even if you were, the police know all about me. I've been in and out of jail for years. No, I'm only afraid of getting into something wrong.

  Xavi : It can't be wrong if it's against the Franco regime.

  El Albañil : That's what you say. This thing you're doing, kidnapping industrialists, planting bombs, some Civil Guard killed. These are pointless actions.

  Xavi : What does the good fight mean to you then?

  El Albañil : The struggle's different for us. It's a day to day business. It's organization, getting more and more support. It's trying to change people's minds, little by little, day by day. It's easy to have contempt for shitty work like that.

  Xavi : I think you have comtempt for us.

  El Albañil : No. Thing is, I believe in collective action, by and for the maximum number of people possible.

  Xavi : Our action is for everyone. You can't imagine how useful it will be.

  El Albañil : Well, what can I say? Good luck.

  Xavi : Known who the place is for? Carrero Blanco.

  El Albañil : Holy shit! And you're telling this to someone you don't know?

  Xavi : If my comrades found out, they'd spit in my face, then kill me, and they'd be right.