From the first wiggly protozoa here in the sea, to the ape, and finally to man. As some...

[first lines] Bertram T. Cates: [addressing his class as Mayor Jason Carter, Reverend Jeremiah Brown, Jessie Dunlap, and Deputy Sam enter the classroom to arrest him] Good morning visitors. For our science lesson for today, we will continue our discussion of Darwin's Theory of the descent of man. As I told you yesterday, Darwin's Theory tells us that man evolved from a lower order of animals: from the first wiggly protozoa here in the sea, to the ape, and finally to man. As some of you fellas out there probably gonna say that's why some of us act like monkeys. [the class laughs] Bertram T. Cates: But what Mr. Chatles Darwin was trying to tell us in his own way... Sam - Deputy Arresting Cates: Bertram T. Cates. Bertram T. Cates: Huh, come off it Sam, you've known me all my life. Sam - Deputy Arresting Cates: Bert, you're charged with violation of Public Act 31428 - Volume 37, Statute Number 31428 of a state code - which makes it unlawful for any teacher of the public schools to teach any theory that denies the creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals. [the photographer takes a photo of the arrest] Sam - Deputy Arresting Cates: Bertram Cates, I hereby place ya under arrest. [the scene seamlessly splits to a brief montage of the case appearing as a front page story in various major newspapers: including in the Baltimore Herald with the heading 'Teacher Jailed In Test Of Evolution Law', the Indianapolis Journal as 'Are We Men Or Monkeys?', the Philadelphia Globe as 'Heavenly Hillsboro: A Return To Middle Ages', and the New York Chronicle as 'Monkey Trial In Hillsboro']