Helen and Matthew had a final conversation across the prison bars, and Matthew, whose eyes were red from crying, looked dazed and helpless, and the last call with his mother had exhausted all his strength, and he muttered in a low voice, 'It's all Victor's fault'. She kept complaining that I hitched a ride on that guy. I don't want her to think that way. ”

In Helen's sincere gaze, Matthew's defense line was completely collapsed, and his mother's reluctance, fear of death, and Helen's persistence all turned into strength, which made Matthew muster up courage, "As you said, I could have left at that time." But I didn't. I'm the victim, I'm a coward. He's more savage than me, I'm just ...... I drank too much and tried to be imposing, but I still couldn't...... I didn't have the guts to resist him. I sue my mom that I'm a coward. ”

At this moment, Matthew has shed all his shell, like a fragile larva, confiding all the facts, "That boy...... Walter...... I killed him......"

Joshua sat there with a shocked face, and his brain rang with a bell, he couldn't believe that Matthew was the murderer, and Matthew was the murderer who brutally killed the couple. Originally, all the previous qiē were lies, and "Death Row Prisoner Walk" was not what they imagined it to be, and the energy and connotation contained in this story were far beyond their imagination.

Not only Joshua, but the entire movie theater was silent, and all the audience was shocked, and they just looked at the big screen stupidly, and Matthew's soft sobbing voice echoed faintly in the screening room, as if crying in the depths of his heart, it was the voice of the soul in repentance.

Matthew confessed all his crimes, he killed Walter, and he participated strongly. raped Hope; And Carl is just as strong. raped Hope, and lost control zhì stabbed Hope seventeen times in a row, and finally ended Hope's voice with two shots. That's the truth of the matter.

Matthew deserves to die, he's a murderer; But...... What about Carl?

Joshua looked at Matthew's flushed face on the big screen, Matthew's crystal clear amber eyes flashed helpless and hasty tears, the confusion in the faint light revealed his vulnerability, and his inner struggle was like a flower blooming proudly on a rock, struggling to penetrate the surface of the earth to reveal its original true appearance. Under Helen's guidance, Matthew begins to repent and atone, hoping that his death will bring at least some comfort to Walter and Hope's parents.

Helen's involuntarily sliding tears shimmered with divine light, while the little tears in the corners of Matthew's eyes became calm and relieved little by little, and under the tough, rebellious, cold, cruel shell, there was a timid, weak, helpless, painful soul, trembling between midnight dreams.

"I'm really cold." Matthew shrunk his shoulders and sighed softly.

Looking at the thin figure on the big screen that was almost crushed by the prison, Joshua only felt that he couldn't breathe, he knew the truth, he knew that Matthew was the terrible murderer, he knew that the law was not wrongly judged, but why was his heart so turbulent, why he was so depressed that he could barely breathe, why his eyes began to become warm.

Is this sympathy for Matthew? Or are you moved by Matthew's calmness? But the emotions were so complicated that Joshua couldn't even sort them out. But Joshua knew that Helen's persistence was correct, Helen's persistence was finally rewarded, Matthew told the truth, Matthew responded to Helen's call, Helen made her faith come true, and all the gossip became insignificant at this moment.

But no one paid attention to Matthew's needs, except for Helen, the prison was unwilling to give Matthew a coat, the prison did not want Helen to play a hymn to Matthew, and the prison was not even willing to send anyone else to accompany Matthew. Only Helen, in the last days of Matthew's life, Helen's fragile but strong smile became the only light.

Helen sang softly, her voice trembled, not to mention whether the song was beautiful or not, but in the midst of this song, the slight flickering tears in Matthew's eyes were full of pain and suffering, as if his soul had been purified, and the pain between his eyebrows was dancing gently, bathed in Helen's eyes full of divine light, slowly dissipating.

The prison guard informed Helen that it was time to leave, and Helen walked out into the corridor in pain, while Matthew slowly lowered his head, his shoulders were slightly shaking, and he could faintly hear the sound of his forced crying inhalation, the intricate sound made Joshua feel sad for a while, and he could only look at Matthew's thin shoulders and be silent, but his heart was throbbing for a while.

However, Joshua himself did not know what he was suffering from.

The prison guard escorted Matthew out, and although Matthew showed his toughness, his muscles began to tremble uncontrollably, like dead leaves that would fall at any time in the autumn wind. Helen looked at Matthew with tears in her eyes and said sincerely, "I think what you saw before you left the world was a face full of love, and you were going to look at me while they were executing. ”

"Death row inmates walk (dead. man。 walking）！ The prison guard shouted, and Matthew was escorted to the execution ground, and Helen put her right hand on Matthew's left shoulder, and walked side by side, Helen whispered the Bible, and in the sacred church hymn, Matthew whispered to Helen, "Would you like to visit my mother sometime?" The loneliness on his face was mixed with panic and fear.

In an instant, Joshua felt a corner of his heart collapse, looking at Helen's eyes that were flashing with tears, looking at Matthew's thin back, and the surging intricacies at this moment almost made Joshua unable to breathe.

Matthew is tied to the torture device, the camera of the movie is so calm, revealing every detail, the clock that keeps flying away on the wall, the prison guard who meticulously ties Matthew up, the left calf that is shaved clean because he is worried that he can't find the blood vessel, the nurse who puts on a glove and pierces the needle into the blood vessel, Matthew's eyes are full of fear and unease......

When the curtain was opened, the executioners and the spectators could see each other through a layer of glass, but at this moment, Matthew was tied to the torture instrument like a brute, and the indifferent faces of the prison guards next to him made his facial muscles twitch from excessive fear look so ridiculous. Joshua sat as if he were sitting side by side with Helen, and he was now sitting at the scene of Matthew's execution, and the tense atmosphere made him writhe uneasily.

"Mr. Draco," Matthew began to say his last words, his gaze was filled with firmness and relief, and there was a vague sense of remorse, but his voice was trembling gently, and the muscles all over his body were trembling, even if he was tied up, he could still clearly see his muscles trembling uncontrollably, making him look like a spasm, "I don't want to die with hatred, I beg your forgiveness......"

Matthew's lips twitched slightly, and the sweat on his forehead made his face look extremely pale, but Joshua's eyes couldn't leave Matthew's amber eyes, those crystal clear eyes could clearly see his struggle and fear, the layer of smoke-like mist made his pupils seem to flicker uneasily, and the fragility and confusion hidden behind were actually trembling, even the gritted teeth could not hide the fear that erupted from the depths of his soul.

"I am deeply sorry for the loss of your child...... Mr. and Mrs. Percy......" Matthew couldn't control his voice at all, and even his vocal cords seemed to be fluttering wildly in the wind, "I hope my death will give you comfort." Choked tears shattered his words and couldn't be organized coherently, "I just want to say that whoever it is, killing people is wrong...... Whether it's me, you, or the government......"

Matthew clenched his fists, but even so, he still couldn't control his body and voice like a coward, the trembling emotion made his eyes full of water, he bit his lower lip fiercely, but his brows still frowned involuntarily, and the invading fear overwhelmed him in an instant.

Joshua only felt that he was starting to tremble uncontrollably, he was witnessing the disappearance of a life, even though he knew that this man was a murderer and ruined two wonderful families, but he still couldn't control the fear and sadness in his heart, Matthew's remorse, pain, and entanglement rolled in those misty eyes, Joshua couldn't even tell whether he hated Matthew or was moved by Matthew's self-redemption.

When the camera focuses on Walter and Hope's parents, Joshua tries to find joy in their faces—their children's killers are finally about to die, but their faces are filled with sadness and a little more dazed. Just like Joshua.

A tooth for a tooth, blood for a blood, can you really calm your mind?

Joshua looked at Matthew who was panicked and trembling, he should have laughed at Matthew's cowardice and cowardice, and he should have mocked Matthew for the fear and unwillingness that Walter and Hope had experienced at the beginning, but now he found that he couldn't do it at all. The muscles began to spasm and twitch, which forced Joshua to hold on to the back of his chair hard, with both hands and again. But the effect was very weak, he looked at Matthew in front of him, and the pain came to his face, so that he had no way to struggle.

The prison guard came over and put down the torture instrument. Matthew turned his head and saw Helen's eyes, which had been blurred with tears, and he looked at them like this, full of affection. At this moment, Matthew's amber eyes actually had a divine light, and he looked deeply at Helen and whispered, "I love you." ”

This made Joshua wonder: If Matthew had met someone who really loved him earlier, would he have been able to be saved? Those deep eyes touched every trace of Joshua's affection, as if falling from a high altitude into the abyss, falling and falling, but never finding a landing point, the empty loneliness and fear began to erode every inch of his skin, making Joshua feel cold in his bones.

Helen stretched out her right hand and took Matthew's right hand in the air.

The hour, minute, and second hands overlapped, and at twelve o'clock, the prison guard turned on the autoinjector, and the roaring sound of the machine was deafening, as if it were constantly echoing in the valley.

Matthew's heavy breathing was drowned out in the sound of the machine, and the scene switched to the scene of the original crime, how did Matthew and Carl brutally ravage Walter and Hope, and how did they brutally kill Walter and Hope...... But between the staggered pictures, Matthew's crystal clear amber eyes make people unbearable to look at directly, and the contrast between extreme cruelty and extreme calm makes a rapid gasp sound in the screening room, and many people even can't bear to close their eyes.

Killing Walter and Hope, killing Matthew, it's all killing, and the blood on your hands won't change.

Matthew's eyes slowly closed, the tears swirling in his eyes slowly slipped down, the tightly clenched fist slowly loosened, and the muscles in his body relaxed. Helen couldn't bear to close her eyes, and Hope's father, who was shouting that he wanted to kill Matthew with his own hands, couldn't bear to look away, and Walter's father also lowered his eyes with a lonely face.

The culprit has been punished, but has the heart really been liberated?

The camera hovers over the bodies of Walter and Hope, and then over Matthew's bodies, and so on.

Matthew's expression was so calm, without a trace of pain, that it seemed that he didn't feel any emotion at all, but Hilton's words at that time echoed in Joshua's ears: We just can't see their pain, but in fact their internal organs are rotting.

When Joshua saw Matthew's fingertips relax like this, the fear and disgust made Joshua can't help but close his eyes, he doesn't like such a scene, he doesn't like to watch a life slowly disappear like a light smoke, he is afraid of such a scene, and he hates such a scene even more. Joshua finally didn't hold back, the tears in his eyes slipped down directly with the lower closure of his eyelids, and the turbulence in his heart swallowed him in an instant, all his thoughts, all his entanglements, all his hesitations, and all his conflicts were answered at this moment, but he had no time to care, he just let his feelings be completely released.

When he opened his eyes again, through the haze of his vision, Joshua saw the peace of Matthew's face, as if he had touched the light of heaven, but this made Joshua even more painful, and the halo of tears bloomed into a stinging bitterness.

At Matthew's funeral, Helen meets Walter's father, Earl, "You're welcome. ”

"I don't know why I'm here, I'm full of hatred, I don't have your faith." Earl's expression was heavy and miscellaneous.

"It's not belief, it's not that simple, it's something that takes effort." Helen shook her head, "Perhaps, we can help each other get rid of hatred." ”

"I don't know, probably not." Earl hesitated, but he finally breathed a sigh of relief, "I should go." Then he turned and left.

Helen returned to the neighborhood where she worked, a black ghetto, but the walls read, "We love you, Sister Helen." ”

Looking at these lines, Helen stood in place for a long time, as if all the turbulence had slowly calmed down in the thin sunlight.