QUIET! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...DISTINGUISHED GUESTS FROM AROUND
THE WORLD...MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE!
There’s a BOMB beneath this theater, and there’s a DETONATOR in MY
HAND.
So, I STRONGLY SUGGEST that you remain in your seats.
Now...my apologies for interrupting this evening’s entertainment,
hopefully I can provide you with some of my own. My name is Harrison
Bergeron.
I am a fugitive and a public threat. I am an abomination of the able. I am
an exception to the accepted. I am the greatest man you have never
known.
And for the last SIX YEARS I have been held prisoner by the
State...sentenced without trial... to TORTURE without end.
They had hoped to destroy in me any trace of the extraordinary, and in
time, I came to share that hope. But the extraordinary, it seems, was
simply out of their reach. So, now I stand before you today: beaten,
hobbled, and sickened. But sadly, not broken. And I say to you, that if it
is GREATNESS we must destroy, then let us drag our enemy out of the
darkness where it has been hiding! Let us shine a LIGHT...so that AT
LAST, ALL THE WORLD CAN SEE!