I just came across the China Beach episode "Nightfall", and it ends with what I think is the greatest monologue Marg has ever had the opportunity to give on screen. It looked like it was shot in one entire scene - no camera cuts. The camera just pans around her in a circle. It's very chilling.
K.C.:
Well Father, I'm here for my confession...where are you?... you out there in the dark? ....Sneaking into some corner where you feel safe? ..........When I quit school, I went to work at a meat packing plant. We called it "the Pack".... they would bring the cattle in...and 35 assembly lines later it would end up on a shelf in your icebox... plastic wrapped around it.
I was assigned to the chuck. it would go by me on the line and I would reach in with my fingers and pull out the bloodclots. ........Women weren't allowed to work on the kill floor. But I would sneak down and watch......
First they would stun the animal, shoot it in the forehead with a .22 and then hoist it upside down, shanles around its hind legs. And one quick clean slice right through the jugular...and it would just hang there........bleeding ..... dying..... numb............ And I would watch........ from a corner where I felt safe..... stunned...... numb....... the best thing about being numb is that you don't feel anything....nothing can prick your skin, nothing can pierce your heart...... everything..... everybody you touch feels the same....... and .......when they touch you...... you don't feel anything.........I umm ......I'm feeling a little scared now. What if something does pierce my heart? ......I'll feel it. ....... I'll feel it.