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SOLDIER 3 (MR. BEATTY)

  My wife and I can't have children. We thought adopting would be for the best. But you can't imagine the evil that spills from that girl's mouth. Even when I'm beating her with the belt, she still speaks evil.

  SOLDIER 4 (MRS. BEATTY)

  It doesn't stop there, neither. Why I saw her one time putting on makeup and wearing skirts she cut off to short that they showed her bloomers when she bent over. Guess her mother stained her soul forever. Yes, she did.

  NAOMI

  Stop it! Stop it, all of you! LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!

  Beat.

  SFX: The battlefield noises stop.

  The soldiers are silent.

  DEED

  They'll never leave you alone. Not until...

  DEED hands over a gun to her.

  DEED (CONT.)

  You make them feel your pain.