Your Obedient Servant

BURR
How does Hamilton,
an arrogant,
immigrant, orphan,
bastard, whoreson,
somehow endorse
Thomas Jefferson, his enemy,
a man he’s despised since the beginning,
just to keep me from winning?
I wanna be in the room where it happens —
BURR AND COMPANY
The room where it happens.
The room where it happens.
BURR
You’ve kept me from—
BURR AND COMPANY
The room where it happens.
BURR
For the last time.
Dear Alexander:
I am slow to anger,
but I toe the line
as I reckon with the effects
of your life on mine.
I look back on where I failed,
and in every place I checked,
the only common thread has been your
disrespect.
Now you call me “amoral,”
a “dangerous disgrace,”
if you’ve got something to say,
name a time and place,
face to face.
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant,
A dot Burr.
HAMILTON
Mr. Vice President,
I am not the reason no one trusts you.
No one knows what you believe.
I will not equivocate on my opinion,
I have always worn it on my sleeve.
Even if I said what you think I said,
you would need to cite a more specific
grievance.
Here’s an itemized list of thirty years of
disagreements.
BURR
Sweet Jesus.
HAMILTON
Hey, I have not been shy.
I am just a guy in the public eye
Tryin’ to do my best for our republic.
I don’t wanna fight,
But I won’t apologize for doing what’s right.
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant,
A dot Ham.
BURR
Careful how you proceed, good man.
Intemperate indeed, good man.
Answer for the accusations I lay at your feet or
prepare to bleed, good man.
HAMILTON
Burr, your grievance is legitimate.
I stand by what I said, every bit of it.
You stand only for yourself.
It’s what you do.
I can’t apologize because it’s true.
BURR
Then stand, Alexander.
Weehawken. Dawn.
Guns. Drawn.
HAMILTON
You’re on.
BURR AND HAMILTON
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant,
HAMILTON
A dot Ham.
BURR
A dot Burr