El Filibusterismo Kabanata 21-30 Script | 2025 |

**SIMUN (to self) **: When I light this lamp, the signal of the revolution starts. I will avenge Elias, Maria Clara, and my youth.

**SIMUN (to himself) **: Good. Let them fight each other. Then my hour will come. Jail cell. Basilio sits in shadows.

Simoun enters. All bow slightly.

**BASILIO (to students) **: Today we learn mathematics. But the most important number is this – how many more years until we are free? (fade out)

: The bomb failed… Isagani the fool saved them. BASILIO : No, you are the fool. Revolution cannot start with a massacre of innocents. **SIMUN (laughing bitterly) **: I learned nothing from Elias. He died for a country that doesn’t exist yet. El Filibusterismo Kabanata 21-30 Script

Simoun stands near a pillar. He holds a lamp with a hidden explosive – a nitroglycerin bomb disguised as a gift.

Silence.

: That lamp will kill her! SIMUN : Yes. Then the people will rise.

: Disperse! This is sedition. ISAGANI : This is education, Father! **SIMUN (to self) **: When I light this