Merida sobbed with the pain. "Hijos de pittas… comunistas… gringos comunistas… "
"Don't call us Communists," Lyons told him. He emphasized his next words with taps to the prisoner's shattered foot. "Answer..." Tap. "...the..." Tap. "...question." Tap.
Merida arched back with agony at each word. Slamming his forehead into the floormat again and again, he tried to beat himself unconscious. Blancanales put his foot on the back of Merida's neck to immobilize him.
"Answer the questions, cooperate with us, and you live. If you do not, you will suffer terribly, then die. Your officers and friends, your family will never know of your courage and sacrifice. They will never find your body. We will tell them we paid you money, flew you to Miami to start a new life. They will remember you as a traitor. Perhaps your family will suffer. If you cooperate, we will arrange that you can say you escaped from us. You will have your pride, you can tell the others of your courage, you can live to see your children have children. Answer the questions and you live."
His breath still coming in ragged sobs, Merida considered the offer. Finally he told them: "It is too late for you. You cannot stop Unomundo now. We will take Guatemala. We will liberate our country from the Communists and the Indians and the Jews and the scum of mixed races. Whether I live or die, the future is ours, for we are strong and pure."
His monologue silenced Able Team. Lyons and Blancanales only stared at their prisoner. Gadgets spoke first.
"You know what that sounds like?Sieg Heil."
"You low-life Nazi scum hole," Lyons cursed. "Pol, give me your Beretta. I'm going to make this world a better place to live."
"No. I gave my word. If he cooperates, he lives."
"I didn't give my word. What's it going to be, you petty pompous Nazi? Dachaus for the Indians? A Holocaust? What makes you so strong and pure and perfect? Because you look European? Because you speak Spanish? Because you have money and wear a suit? I'm the strong one now, and I'm purifying the earth of you..."