- Prosecutor: In the spring of 1963 while you were working on the Sovetskaya Litva, is it not true you monitored foreign broadcasts of propaganda and fed them through the ship's speaker system?
- Simas Kudirka: Music.
- [quietly]
- Prosecutor: Speak up, please! Do you admit to this act?
- Simas Kudirka: Rock and roll music.
- Prosecutor: I can't hear you!
- Simas Kudirka: What difference does it make?
- Lithuanian Court Judge: The defendant will speak louder.
- Simas Kudirka: What difference does it make!
- [yelling and standing up]
- Simas Kudirka: You will convict me of treason, the same way you made me radio operator: because it suits your needs! What about my needs?
- Genna Kudirka: Simas.
- [in a hushing tone]
- Simas Kudirka: I tell you, you are looking at a frightened rabbit; all my life I have done everything out of fear! When I jumped to the American ship, the fuse pounding in my heart so much I thought it would break into a thousand pieces. But the fear behind me was much worse than anything I was going in to. That's why I jumped. That's why I jumped. There was no treason; there was a life time of walking with my eyes down. You say I should have guilt because of my family - I do! But worse than that is the shame that I feel, that I felt, because I feared you so much! You accuse me of treason? I accuse YOU OF TREASON! You've taken a nation of men and turned us into sheep! But I have been in your prisons, I have been through your nightmare! What more is there to fear from you?
- Commander Edward Devon: Now, where do you live?
- [louder]
- Commander Edward Devon: Home!
- Simas Kudirka: Home! Home Klaipeda, Lietuva. Klaipeda, Lietuva.
- Commander Edward Devon: Lietuva? In Russia?
- Simas Kudirka: No Russia, no! Klaipeda contrary. Russia take Lietuva. Lietuva prisoner.
- Commander Edward Devon: Where is he?
- [running up some steps; an officer opens up a door to what appears to be a closet]
- Simas Kudirka: Hello! I am here! Thank you!