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Summary The movie opens when police officers arrested Bertrum T. Cates for teaching evolution in his biology class. They called this the beginning of the “Monkey Trial”. Rachel Brown, the Reverend’s daughter, came to see Cates while he was in custody. They had been seeing each other. While she was there, a reporter named Mr. Hornbeck came and told Cates that the Baltimore Herald was on his side. Meanwhile, the townspeople were protesting against Darwin’s Theory. During the protests, Mathew Harrison Brady came and spoke against Cates. Rachel said that he was not a heathen. Also, the lawyer Henry Drummard was going to defend Cates. Preaching against them, Brady referred to Drummard as the devil and Cates as the devil’s deciple. When Rachel tried to talk to her dad about Cates not