神父出场的几句台词简直是本剧核心。

— We understand that you were forced. There’s no shame in it.

— There isn’t for the men.

— It’s a pimp’s trick. Old as the hills. A young man finds a vulnerable girl, lures her to bed with a kiss and kind words. By the time he’s finished with her, she’d do anything for him.

— But don’t the girls have any sense of danger?

— They’ve usually been in danger all their lives. If not from violence, then from hunger and disease. It’s hard to imagine, I grant uou, if you’ve never lived like that.

— I work in the East End, father. I know about poverty.

— Nurse, I don’t think you do. Poverty isn’t bad housing, dirty clothing, families of ten. It’s never having been loved, or even respected. Not knowing the difference between love and abuse, a kiss that wasn’t down payment on a blow.