19 Nocturne Boulevard - MURDER WARD - Reissue
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MURDER WARD
"Not guilty by reason of insanity" sounds like an easy out to murderer Edmund - but when he checks into Dr. Larson\'s mental hospital, he gets much more than he bargained for.
Cast List
Edmund/Achilles - Kim Turner
Preacher Ronald - Pat McNally
Rose Connelly - Joy Jackson
Hector - Cole Hornaday
Dr. Larson - Marge Lutton
Terrance - Greg Porter
Lawyer - Sigmund Hoverson
Ape man - Reynaud LeBoeuf
District Attorney - Melinda Mains
Also heard - Julie Hoverson
Music:\\xa0 Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com)
Editing and Sound: \\xa0 Julie Hoverson
Sound effects found on Soundsnap.com
Cover Photos:\\xa0 Front - Witek Burkiewicz
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 (courtesy of Stock Xchange.com)
Recorded with American Radio Theater
"What kind of a place is it?\\xa0
Why, it\'s an insane asylum - can\'t you tell?\\xa0
Where else would you find... a murderer?" \\xa0
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Murder Ward
This was another episode I wrote specifically in an Old Time Radio format and put together with American Radio Theater, a group that recreates old time radio shows.
Parts of this story were very loosely inspired by (of all things) The Seven Keys to Baldpate, a stage play by George M. Cohen (and a film inspired by it, "The House of Long Shadows"), as was at least one other episode of my show, though in a completely separate way.\\xa0
Some stories just stick with me.... Or make me think of ways I could do it better....
A big part of this particular story comes from my love of old true crime and detective stories, and how often (in fiction at least) people claim to be temporarily insane in order to get an easier sentence.
I don\'t want to say more about this story, just will leave it up to the listener.
I want to talk about how I got into podcast audio dramas.
I was doing OTR re-creations with ART when Reynaud Leboeuf (one of my most reliable stock actors in 19 Nocturne Boulevard) said he\'d been cast in this podcast Lovecraftian comedy soap opera called The Unspeakable and the Inhuman (which was hilarious), and that they were still looking for a female lead, and would I like to audition?
Well, of course I would!
I was cast, and we recorded in early 2008 at Neohoodoo Studios (Ryan\'s basement), and during one of these recordings, one of the other actors commented that this was so fun, they should make more shows so that we could record more....
...and I said I have some scripts!!!!
Of course, I still had to learn how to mix, and all that sort of thing, but that\'s basically where it started.\\xa0 For most of 2008, 19 Nocturne was recorded primarily at Neohoodoo, with the help and kind permission of Ryan - and that got me good sound to work with for my beginning efforts, which made a huge difference.\\xa0 Joy from ART and Ryan both showed me a few things and gave me some tips on mixing.
I have to admit to being a teensy bit smug when, after Unspeakable and Inhuman kind of fell apart, I ran into the main writer Derek at a convention a few years later, and he asked me "How did you make it to so many episodes, when we never got past 9?" and I replied "I\'m not a committee."
I do wish Unspeakable and Inhuman was still available somewhere, but I don\'t think it is.\\xa0 Maybe I\'ll get in touch with Derek someday and get permission to post the episodes - for posterity.
For the first year of 19 Nocturne, episodes came out in the U&I feed - after the first 8 came out at Brokensea - which further muddies the waters as to what the original order of episodes might have been.\\xa0 It was late 2009 before I decided I was definitely going to keep making shows, and therefore it was worth getting my own page and RSS feed.
...Everything else, as they say, is history.
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MURDER WARD
Cast:
- OLIVIA, the host
- EDMUND Rafelsen (M/30s) - evil alter ego "Achilles"
- RUDY Horton, Esq. (M/50s) - Edmund\'s lawyer
- TERRANCE (M/20s) - the guard
- ROSE Connelly (F/20s) - paranoid, hears voices
- HECTOR Wilson (M/20s) - phobic, fears women
- RONALD Tomlinson (M/40s) - believes he\'s obeying god
- VINCENT (M/any) - frightening, violently crazy
- DOCTOR Sara LARSON (F/40s) - psychiatrist
- CROWD, GIRL, MOM, KID - any voices
- D-A. - District Attorney
OLIVIA \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Did you have any trouble finding it?\\xa0 What do you mean, what kind of a place is it?\\xa0 Why, it\'s an insane asylum, can\'t you tell?\\xa0 Where else would you find ...a murderer?\\xa0
MUSIC
OLIVIA\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [voice over]\\xa0 "Not guilty by reason of insanity".\\xa0 A legal defense, often misused to try and get a lighter sentence for a heinous crime.\\xa0 And what does it really mean?\\xa0 In a nutshell--
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SCENE 1.\\xa0 OFFICE
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 --it means at the time you did what you did, you didn\'t - couldn\'t - understand what you were doing was wrong.\\xa0 It\'s a tough sell, Ed.\\xa0 No matter what the movies make out, most juries just don\'t believe--
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [cultured voice] \\xa0Mr. Horton, I would prefer that you address me directly when you speak to me.
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Ed, this isn\'t funny.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 There is no "Ed" here.\\xa0 Edmund, however, is sleeping. \\xa0Mr. Horton, if you cannot bring yourself to use my name, at least--
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 OK, look--
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 rustling paper
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [disapproving]\\xa0 --Achilles - I--
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 And I am not insane.\\xa0 Nor is Edmund.\\xa0 I knew perfectly well what I did was wrong.\\xa0 All those pretty little women.\\xa0 I was really doing them a favor.\\xa0 The world is so harsh.
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I--\\xa0 Look, Achilles, let me talk to Ed for a while.\\xa0 It\'s his name on the docket, after all.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Very well.\\xa0 I shall rouse him for you.\\xa0 [voice changes to more lower class - after this, he speaks as Ed any time not otherwise noted]\\xa0 Yeah?\\xa0 What is it shyster?\\xa0 Hey!\\xa0 Why\'s my cigarette all burned down all of a sudden?
MUSIC
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SCENE 2.\\xa0 COURTROOM
CROWD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [MURMURS]
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 GAVEL
DOCTOR LARSON\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Ahem.\\xa0 As I said, after a thorough examination, I have concluded that while Edmund is nominally the dominant persona, his alter ego Achilles was the one who actually committed... [fade out]
MUSIC
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SCENE 3.\\xa0 ASYLUM HALLWAY
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 FOOTSTEPS ON TILE.\\xa0 JINGLE OF KEYS
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Guess you think you\'re lucky, eh?
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 DOOR UNLOCKS
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 And why\'s that?
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 DOOR OPENS
INMATES\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [AD LIB, MURMURS "IN CHARACTER" see monologues at end]
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What the--?
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Your new pals, bub.\\xa0 As I was saying, I guess you THINK you\'re lucky, getting off without the death penalty and all.\\xa0 Come on.
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 SLOW FOOTSTEPS
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Look mac, I thought I was gonna have a private room--
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 These are the induction cells.\\xa0 Once the Doc gets a handle on your syko-sees, she\'ll move you to someplace appropriate.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 She?\\xa0
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 FOOTSTEPS STOP
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Sure.\\xa0 You saw her at your trial - Doctor Larson.\\xa0 She\'s got some big-brain new ideas about how ta deal with luniacks like yourself.\\xa0
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 KEYS JINGLE.\\xa0
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Your room, misshur.
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CELL UNLOCKS, DOOR OPENS.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 But, but there\'s a DAME in here.\\xa0 Ain\'t we supposed to be--
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Funny thing about that.\\xa0 Dames go off the pier too.\\xa0 And we\'re overbooked in that department.\\xa0 She probly won\'t be here long.\\xa0 Besides, she\'s waaaay over there.\\xa0 She can\'t hurt you.
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 FOOTSTEPS
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [fading in - urgent milktoast]\\xa0 --he\'s right.\\xa0 She shouldn\'t be in here.\\xa0 You don\'t understand the damage they can do.\\xa0 [fading] Women are--
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [fading in, hissing whispers]\\xa0 \\u2011\\u2011have new instructions.\\xa0 It is time for you to let me go.\\xa0 HE has declared it.\\xa0 [fading]\\xa0 My presence is required--
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 FOOTSTEPS END, JINGLE OF KEYS
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [fading in] --staring at me.\\xa0 Are you sure they can\'t get out?\\xa0 Please, would you check the locks again?\\xa0 [fading]\\xa0 I\'m so afraid--
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 DOOR OPENS AND SHUTS.
INMATES\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [MOMENT OF SILENCE]
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [sigh]
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [normal, husky voice]\\xa0 Hey. \\xa0New guy.\\xa0 Got any smokes?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What?
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Smokes.\\xa0
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Even if I did, they wouldn\'t let us have any matches, would they?
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [hard dame]\\xa0 Who are you kidding?\\xa0 You can get pretty much anything in here, just as long as you know who to ask.\\xa0 And HOW to ask it.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Funny, you sounded crazy a minute ago.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [snort]\\xa0 Yeah, well.\\xa0 We all have our bad days... \\xa0[raising voice slightly] \\xa0And some never have good days, right Heck?
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Wicked Jezebel.\\xa0 You shouldn\'t be here.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [to Edmund]\\xa0 We\'re pretty sure that Hector there is the real McCoy.\\xa0
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Now, now.\\xa0 We\'re ALL nuts.\\xa0 We must keep that in mind.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Yeah, but THAT guy - he just never lets up!
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 But if you ain\'t crazy--
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [chuckles]\\xa0 Court says we are.\\xa0 Even with moments of lucidity, well--\\xa0 What can they do?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What if they\'re listening?\\xa0 Recording, maybe?
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I thought I was the one with the persecution complex.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I\'ve been trying to catch them for over a month.\\xa0 Nothing doing.\\xa0 They\'re just not interested.\\xa0 Besides, once the jury brings down the verdict, the court has to keep you locked you up until they cure you.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 OR you give up and confess.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Oh, sure.\\xa0 [sarcastic]\\xa0 I\'ll just admit it was all phony, take my lumps and go to the Chair!\\xa0
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What if one of you decides to squeal?
ROSE \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0[laughs]\\xa0 Who\'d take the word of a head case?
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 If you try and spit your fiendish poison at me, fiend, I shall find a way to defend myself!
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0[disgusted sigh]\\xa0 I am real sick of him.\\xa0
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 He probably had a bad mother.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Yeah?\\xa0 Well who didn\'t?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 The guard said I\'d only be in here for a little while--
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Yeah.\\xa0 Us too.\\xa0 I\'ve now been here for two months, and Rose--
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Rose Connelly, p\'raps you hearda me?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 YOU\'RE Rose Connelly?
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0[pleased]\\xa0 Yeah.\\xa0 The one and only.\\xa0 My sister\'s got a scrapbook of clippings for me.\\xa0 She can\'t bring them, but she tells me all about them when she visits.\\xa0
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Rose\'s been here about three weeks.\\xa0 Since her sentencing.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 And Romeo over there?
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Hah!\\xa0 Cute.\\xa0 Two incredibly long days.\\xa0
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 And...this is it?
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 This is what we get?\\xa0 I mean, in prison they at least get some kind of exercise and stuff.\\xa0 Geneva convention, and all that.\\xa0
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Ah, it\'s just temporary.\\xa0 I guess the loony bins are all booked up right now.\\xa0 [giggles]\\xa0 Say, maybe there\'s a convention in town.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Don\'t worry. \\xa0We get to talk to the Doc each day, regular as clockwork.\\xa0 She\'s a sweetheart, but I bet Hector isn\'t making any improvements.
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [matter of fact]\\xa0 Doctor?\\xa0 She\'s the devil!\\xa0 I refuse to give her the satisfaction of a single word.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [derisive]\\xa0 "Doctor," hah!\\xa0 She\'s the one that let me get myself in here.\\xa0 I thought it would be real tough to fool a head shrinker, but boy was she a pushover.\\xa0 Always so sympathetic.\\xa0 So understanding.\\xa0 She don\'t deserve to be a nurse, let alone a doctor.\\xa0
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Funny, she testified at my trial too.\\xa0 Hmm.\\xa0 Guess we both got lucky.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [absently]\\xa0 Yeah.\\xa0 Lucky.
MUSIC
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SCENE 4.\\xa0 DOCTOR\'S OFFICE
DOCTOR LARSON\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Edmund, I can\'t help you if you refuse to cooperate.\\xa0
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [as Achilles]\\xa0 I am trying my utmost, madam, but he simply refuses to converse with you.
DOCTOR LARSON\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0[not batting an eye]\\xa0 Then let\'s you and I talk, Achilles.\\xa0 You claim that the killing was--
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [as Achilles]\\xa0 Killings.\\xa0 Let us be precise.\\xa0 Mercy killings, actually.\\xa0 [fading]\\xa0 I felt so kindly\\u2011\\u2011
MUSIC
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SCENE 5.\\xa0 CELL HALLWAY
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 SNORING FROM ALL INMATES
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 SCRITCHING, LIKE A MOUSE TRYING TO BORE THROUGH WOOD
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [snores, then wakes, frightened]\\xa0 Ah! ah!\\xa0 What?
[NOTE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 LOW VOICES]
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Shh.\\xa0 You\'ll wake the neighbors.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What was that?\\xa0 But that noise - it\'s--
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I know.\\xa0 We call him Mortimer.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 This place has mice?
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 We haven\'t seen him, so we\'re not sure what particular type of rodentia he is, but we sure hear him.\\xa0 Particularly when it\'s quiet.\\xa0
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 But how can I get any sleep--?
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 You get used to it.\\xa0 We all get used to lots of things.
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [coming awake with a scream]\\xa0 Aaagh!\\xa0 Off me, you fiend from hell!\\xa0 No! No! [goes on incoherently]
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [Wakes with a whimper]
[NOTE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 VOICES NORMAL]
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 That\'ll take some getting used to.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Yeah.
MUSIC
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SCENE 6.\\xa0 DOCTOR\'S OFFICE
DOCTOR LARSON\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Edmund, why don\'t you tell me about your mother?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [as Edmund]\\xa0 My mother?\\xa0 What - why?\\xa0 My mother\'s fine.\\xa0 She got nothing to do with this.
DOCTOR LARSON\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0Do you love your mother?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Well, o\'course.\\xa0 I mean, you gotta - it\'s just nature, ain\'t it?\\xa0 [trailing off with] No matter... what... she does t\'you.
DOCTOR LARSON\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What did your mother do, Edmund?\\xa0 [beat]\\xa0 Edmund?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [as Achilles]\\xa0 It\'s no use, doctor.\\xa0 He has gone into retreat.
MUSIC
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SCENE 7.\\xa0 CELL HALLWAY
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CELL BLOCK DOOR OPENS
INMATES \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0[begin their various muttering]
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 This way folks.\\xa0 Step lively now.
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CROWD MURMURS, LOTS OF SHUFFLING FOOTSTEPS
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What is this?\\xa0 How dare you bring in more of THEM!\\xa0 Mischief!\\xa0 Mischief!
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [aside, shocked, not pretending] What\'s a kid doing here?
MOM\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Tommy, now look at that - that\'s what crazy folks look like.
KID\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Gee.
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [like a carnival barker] Not just any crazy folks, lady, these are all crazy murderers!
CROWD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Ooh!
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Each and every one of these... people... has committed the most heinous of crimes!
GIRL\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Wow, look at that one over there, he\'s kinda cute--!
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Harlot!\\xa0 Harlot!\\xa0 Do not approach, or I must smite thee down!
GIRL\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What\'s smite - is that bad?
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Best to stay away from the bars.\\xa0 Now, this here is Rose Connolly, known throughout the entire state--
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [seriously disturbed] Stop looking at me!\\xa0 How can you--? \\xa0Get them outta here, wontcha?\\xa0
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 --For killing her husband while under the inexorable compulsion of a persecution complex.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 This isn\'t right!
GIRL\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What\'s inexcorable - is that bad?
MOM\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Killing your man - now, that ain\'t right!
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Come, come, now - leave her, she is unimportant, aha!\\xa0 But I - I have a message to give unto you.
MUSIC - TIME PASSES
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SCENE 8.\\xa0 CELL HALLWAY
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CROWD WANDERS OUT, DOOR SHUTS
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [Breaks down]\\xa0 Oh!
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 How mortifying.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [sobbing]\\xa0 Like animals in a zoo.\\xa0
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0I\'m surprised they didn\'t start throwing us peanuts.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I tried to get them away from you, Rose, I really did.\\xa0 But big headlines trumps preaching, I guess.
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 This should stand as a warning to you, woman!\\xa0 You are never alone!\\xa0 There is always a witness to the wicked things you do!
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I have had just about enough out of you!\\xa0 You-- noisy little weasel!\\xa0 We girls, we\'re just folks just like everybody else - you have no right to--
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Rose, calm down.\\xa0 Shh.\\xa0 It\'s not going to help.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Yeah.\\xa0 For crying out loud, we\'ve made it this far, how much worse can it get?\\xa0
MUSIC
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SCENE 9.\\xa0 DOCTOR\'S OFFICE
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [as Achilles]\\xa0 It was mortifying for Edmund, Doctor.\\xa0 I think he may have suffered a terrible setback.
DOCTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Now, the tours are conducted for very good reasons.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What, pray tell?
DOCTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 It\'s really not something we should be discussing, but - since you are so concerned - First, it is to show the public that this facility is on the up and up - you\'ve certainly heard of the old fashioned "asylums" where inmates were neglected and beaten?\\xa0 This way, nothing is hidden - so no abuses occur--
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [almost breaking character]\\xa0 No abuses?
DOCTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Also, it helps to make insanity seem less frightening to the general public.\\xa0 Most people have seen insanity only in movies - where it is so inevitably terribly destructive and dangerous.\\xa0 This way, they see the human side of it.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [as Achilles] I see that your intentions are admirable, but I can\'t help but think that a trip through the violent ward would merely reinforce the negative popular belief?
DOCTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 That\'s why the tour through the violent ward is only for serious students of psychology.\\xa0 [fading] \\xa0You must have misunderstood.
MUSIC
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SCENE 10.\\xa0 CELL HALLWAY
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CELL BLOCK DOOR OPENS
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 And the lord said--
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Can\'t you make them stop staring?
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 FOOTSTEPS, DOOR CLOSES
INMATES\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [CONTINUE MURMURS]
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CELL DOOR OPENS
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [Achilles]\\xa0 Thank you, my good man.
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CELL DOOR CLOSES, FOOTSTEPS.\\xa0 THEN A SCUFFLE!
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [struggling]\\xa0 Give it to me!\\xa0
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [struggling]\\xa0 Leave go, you ape!
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [struggling]\\xa0 I have to-- oof! [air knocked out of him]
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 TWO FOOTSTEPS.\\xa0 DUSTING OFF HANDS
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 That\'ll show you to tangle with me.\\xa0
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [weak]\\xa0 Yes, but ... I have your gun.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [scream]\\xa0
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Stop him Ron - you\'re closest!
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 GUN SHOT
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Aargh!
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Oh no!\\xa0 No!
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [calm and creepy] The next one is for you, Delilah!\\xa0 Salome!
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Me?\\xa0 I didn\'t do anything-- [gasps]
INMATES\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [GASP]
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CLICK
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Who put out the lights?
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 It was the monster - Lilith, devourer of infants!\\xa0
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 PSSST OF GAS
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Do you... hear... [getting sleepy] Some...thing...?
MUSIC - TIME PASSES
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SCENE 11.\\xa0 CELL HALLWAY
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [waking up]\\xa0 Hmm?\\xa0 Wha--?
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [groans]
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [wakes with a startled gasp]
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What happened?
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 At least the lights are back on.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 But I don\'t wanna open my eyes.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Look!
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Where?\\xa0 [disgust]\\xa0 Oh!
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Just ... just tell me, I don\'t wanna--
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Better you don\'t look, Rose.\\xa0 [muttered]\\xa0 That\'s a lot of blood.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [muttered back]\\xa0 You don\'t lose that much and walk away.\\xa0 Too bad.\\xa0 Terry was a right guy.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Blood?\\xa0 Oh, no!\\xa0 Hector?\\xa0 Where is he?\\xa0 He\'s going to shoot me!
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Calm down, Rose.\\xa0 He\'s gone.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 So\'s the guard.\\xa0 There\'s just the... blood.
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CLICK - LOUDSPEAKER ON
DOCTOR LARSON\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [filter/loudspeaker]\\xa0 We apologize for the inconvenience of using a psychotropic gas on you.\\xa0
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Gas?
DOCTOR LARSON\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [filter]\\xa0 Rest assured there will be no long-term effects.\\xa0
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 That was what I heard.
DOCTOR LARSON\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [filter]\\xa0 If you are feeling groggy or your head aches, sit quietly, breath deeply, and it will pass.
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CLICK - LOUDSPEAKER OFF
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [breathing deeply but raggedly]\\xa0 It wasn\'t our fault - they haveta know that!\\xa0
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 It\'s not like we\'re a bunch of babes in the woods.\\xa0 They may know what happened and just not care.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 So just because I killed my husband, I;m gonna - I\'m gonna hurt a random stranger?\\xa0 That\'s silly.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [chuckles]\\xa0 No.\\xa0 Just insane, m\'dear.\\xa0
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SCENE 12.\\xa0 OFFICE
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I don\'t see any way to--
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What?\\xa0 This is cruel and inhumane--
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 You don\'t understand, Ed.\\xa0 [dry]\\xa0 It is Ed I\'m talking to, isn\'t it?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Yeah, yeah.
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 You are not a free citizen.\\xa0 You\'ve been consigned to Dr. Larson\'s care, and--
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Now you don\'t understand, Horton.\\xa0 A guard was killed last night, in our block--
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 You didn\'t--?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Nah, it was this loony who thinks women are all evil.
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Which, of course, you don\'t--?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 This ain\'t the time for that, Rudy.\\xa0 I\'m talking about a murder.
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 There\'s no record of--
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 The corpse\'s name is Terry, Terrance, something like that.\\xa0 He is - was - a guard here.\\xa0 Come on, someone\'s gotta be doing something!
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I haven\'t seen anything in the papers.\\xa0 These state-run facilities, though-- sometimes they\'re like a world in themselves.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Well get me another world.
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [chuckles]\\xa0 There\'s only ONE way to do that.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Yes?
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Admit that you\'re not insane... and go to the chair.
MUSIC
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SCENE 13.\\xa0 CELL HALLWAY
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CELL BLOCK DOOR OPENS, ROSE\'S FOOTSTEPS AND A HEAVY SET OF MAN\'S FOOTSTEPS, SLOW AND MEASURED.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Can\'t you please stop looking at me?\\xa0 I know why - I know why you\'re staring!\\xa0 You can read my mind!
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 KEYS JINGLE
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [Achilles]\\xa0 You are such a lovely young lady.\\xa0 And so frightened.\\xa0 Come to me and I shall cure you of all your fear.
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 DOOR UNLOCKS, OPENS
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0Stop!\\xa0 Don\'t say things like that.\\xa0 He never takes his eyes off of me, you know.\\xa0
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [quietly]\\xa0 And he said unto me, for I am the way--
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 ROSE\'S QUICK FOOTSTEPS, DOOR SHUTS, LOCKS.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Hey, buddy, don\'t you talk?
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 KEYS JINGLE.\\xa0 HEAVY FOOTSTEPS LEAVE
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Justice is ever mute.
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 DOOR OPENS, CLOSES
INMATES\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [quiet for a moment]
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What\'s with that guy?
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I hate being ignored like that.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 He didn\'t say anything in the halls - going to the doc\'s office OR coming back, either.\\xa0 No matter what I did.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Did the doc say anything about the dead guard?
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Not a word, even though I asked.\\xa0 She just ignored the question.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 She didn\'t ignore you completely, though?
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 No... But she didn\'t say much.\\xa0 Did she talk to you at all during your appointment?
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I didn\'t have an appointment with her this morning.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 But you were gone--
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I wasn\'t going to say anything, but the guard just took me out and walked me around the halls for an hour.\\xa0
MUSIC
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SCENE 14.\\xa0 OFFICE
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I got rights, Horton!
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Well, technically, no.\\xa0 Actually, I could do more for you if you WERE in prison.\\xa0 Once you\'re committed to the doctor\'s care, you really can\'t complain.\\xa0 Particularly since you don\'t have any proof for any of your allegations--
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Allegations?\\xa0 Proof?\\xa0 How\'s this for proof - the others will back me up!
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [condescending] \\xa0Two other certified inmates?\\xa0 Oh, sure.\\xa0 That\'ll stand up in court.
MUSIC
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SCENE 15.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 You guys ever wonder what they did with old Hector?
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Solitary confinement, I guess.\\xa0 Killing a guard\'s pretty serious.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [sarcastic] Oh, yeah, unlike whatever it was we did to get here.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Hey, I draw the line at killing strangers.\\xa0
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Just your husband?
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Looking back, I guess it wasn\'t such a great idea.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 You guess?\\xa0 Hah! You--
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Why\'d you do it, then?\\xa0 Did he push you around or something?
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [snorts] Nah.\\xa0 If he\'d\'a beaten me, I woulda had a defense in court.\\xa0 Nah, it was just little things.\\xa0 Like the sounds he makes when he eats - ate - and the thing with his toenails.\\xa0 Us women have to put up with this kind of thing all the time, but...\\xa0 It just got to me.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 It just got to you?\\xa0
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Well, yeah!\\xa0
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 There\'s a reason the marriage vows say until death do we part--
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 AND I wasn\'t going to the chair for something like that, so I started pulling the "he was out to get me" hash on my lawyer, and it worked.\\xa0 More or less.\\xa0 Not like this joint is anything to write home about.\\xa0
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 It wasn\'t so bad up until that guy Hector showed up.\\xa0 Since then... well.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 So who\'d you kill?
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 TINNY CHAMBER MUSIC BEGINS TO PIPE IN, VERY QUIETLY.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I don\\u2019t think so--
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [pushing] Go on.\\xa0 Who?
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Oh, leave off.\\xa0 Hey, that\'s kind of nice.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 What?\\xa0
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 The music.
RONALD \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Hmm.\\xa0 And if I prefer to maintain my right to avoid self-incrimination?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Geez.\\xa0 Don\'t take it that way, I was just curious.\\xa0 [pause]\\xa0 I killed four women.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Four?\\xa0 Maybe I SHOULD be worried.
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 MUSIC STARTS TO VERY SLOWLY GET LOUDER
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Oh, I put on a song and dance for the cops about how they needed to be killed to save them and all.\\xa0 Making up a Mr. Hyde personality to take all the blame.\\xa0 [beat]\\xa0 Three of em were mob snitches.\\xa0
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0So what, you\'re a hit man?
EDMUND\\xa0 \\xa0\\xa0I owed some money.\\xa0 Shouldn\'t have got caught at all, seeing as how there was no connection between me and them, but the cops got something - fingerprints or something - and they tracked me down.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 And ...the fourth?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Huh?\\xa0 [offhanded]\\xa0 Oh, just some dame - I did her to throw off the connections and make myself look nuts.\\xa0 I\'d already figured on being caught - and better a whacko than a torpedo, ya know?\\xa0
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 MUSIC IS LOUD ENOUGH THAT THEY ARE RAISING THEIR VOICES OVER IT
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 You are some piece of work.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Still casting stones, eh, preacher?\\xa0 Why don\'t you explain how you got here--\\xa0 What in the name of --- What IS that MUSIC?
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 It was ok... to start with... but, now--!
SOUND \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0MUSIC REACHES A CRESCENDO, THEN CUTS OUT WITH
MUSIC STING - TIME PASSES
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SCENE 16.\\xa0 CELL HALLWAY
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 DOOR LOCK UNLOCKS, DOOR OPENS.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 --said the offender must be plucked out!
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 SLOW FOOTSTEPS - ORDERLY BRINGING IN NEW INMATE, VICTOR
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I am so sick of this guy.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Are you taking me away?\\xa0 I know you\'ve been watching me.
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 RATTLE OF LARGE CHAIN, STUMBLING FOOTSTEPS
VICTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [growls and snaps]\\xa0
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 KEYS, CELL DOOR OPENS.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [whispered]\\xa0 Ed?\\xa0 Ed?\\xa0 That guy - is he even human?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [whispered]\\xa0 Shh.\\xa0 I dunno.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [whispered]\\xa0 But he\'s so... so huge!
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 SHUFFLING FOOTSTEPS, CHAIN RATTLING.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 The beast!\\xa0 For I have seen--
VICTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [growl - lunge]
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 SCUFFLE OF FEET, CHAINS CLANG AGAINST BARS.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Aah!\\xa0
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 SCUFFLE AWAY.
VICTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [snarling]
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 THUNK OF NIGHTSTICK ON FLESH, RATTLE OF CHAINS
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 He didn\'t-- it didn\'t even notice!\\xa0 The guard hit it and hit it--\\xa0 [screaming]\\xa0 Get me out of here!\\xa0 Please!\\xa0 Please get me out of here!\\xa0
sound\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 cell door closes, locks, rattle of chains against bars
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Shh.\\xa0 He\'s not listening anyway.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Anything!\\xa0 Whatever you want!\\xa0 [collapsing into sobs]\\xa0 I can\'t take any more!
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 GUARD\'S FOOTSTEPS, KEYS, CELL BLOCK DOOR UNLOCKED
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Please!\\xa0 I\'ll admit everything!\\xa0 Take me to the doctor - the lawyer - the JUDGE!\\xa0 Anything!
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [BEAT]\\xa0 FOOTSTEPS RETURN, KEYS, CELL DOOR UNLOCKS.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [Breaking down] Oh... thank you.\\xa0 Thank you...!
MUSIC
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SCENE 17.\\xa0 OFFICE
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 --none of your business.\\xa0 She\'s not my case.\\xa0 Now, Ed, they can keep you locked up any way they want - with anyone they want - for as long as they want.\\xa0 You\'re getting three squares a day, right?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Usually.\\xa0 Sometimes it comes pretty late, though.\\xa0 And there\'s been a couple of times it\'s been too salty to eat.
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 So they have a crummy cook - place like this?\\xa0 Go figure.\\xa0
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 You gotta get me out of here, Rudy.
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I\'ve told you, there\'s no place else to put you.
MUSIC
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SCENE 18.\\xa0 CELL HALLWAY
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I think he\'s asleep.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 It.\\xa0 Rose called it an it.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I asked the doctor about Rose.\\xa0 The doc said a whole lot of nothing, but I get the impression she - Rose - has revealed all, as they say, and is heading for a short vacation in a nice clean death row cell.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Not so bad for her.\\xa0 Women get pardoned all the time, specially pretty ones.\\xa0
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Yeah.\\xa0 And you would know all about the pretty ones, eh?
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [remembering fondly]\\xa0 They were all lookers, yeah.\\xa0
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 How can you sleep?\\xa0
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Don\'t get high and mighty moral on me, bud, you\'re in here too.
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I was only--\\xa0 It WAS a moral choice.\\xa0 A decision that had to be made and no one was making it.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Oh, so who\'d you kill?\\xa0 Cripples?
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I ended the suffering of several decrepit--
VINCENT\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [ROAR!]
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CHAINS SMACK AGAINST CELL BARS
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [half choking] Let go!
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0Nobody\'s got arms that--!
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [gasping]\\xa0 Get someone!\\xa0 You gotta-- [choking]
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Hey!\\xa0 Hey! over here, ugly!
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0RATTLE OF CHAINS
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [gasps for breath]
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 THUMPING FOOTSTEPS, RATTLE OF CHAINS
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Hah!\\xa0 Gorilla!\\xa0 Even you can\'t reach this far, eh?\\xa0
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CELL DOOR BEING SHAKEN
VICTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [growls]
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [hoarse]\\xa0 Thanks, pal.
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Don\'t thank me yet - I think those hinges are coming loose!
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CELL DOOR BREAKS OPEN, RATTLE OF CHAINS
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Oh, god!\\xa0 No!\\xa0 Release the gas!\\xa0 Someone please release the gas!!!\\xa0 [choking]
VICTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [growls]
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 CHAINS RATTLING AGAINST BARS
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0TINNY CHAMBER MUSIC PLAYS OVER THE FIGHT NOISES
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Not the music!\\xa0 The gas!\\xa0 He\'s dying, for crying out loud!\\xa0
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [expiring noise]
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 GAS
MUSIC
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SCENE 19.\\xa0 OFFICE
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Horton, whatever I need to do, whatever I need to sign, just hand it over.\\xa0 I ain\'t spending another night in this place.
RUDY\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 You understand the consequences?\\xa0 You won\'t have the slightest option of recanting again and going back to your original statement.\\xa0
EDMUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Yeah, yeah.\\xa0 Anything - and I mean anything - is better than this freak show.\\xa0
MUSIC
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SCENE 20.\\xa0 RECEPTION PARTY
SOUND\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 GLASSES TINKLE, DRINKS BEING POURED
DOCTOR LARSON\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I\'m so glad you find my program effective, Mr. District Attorney.
D-A.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Well, I admit I had my doubts, when you first outlined it--
DOCTOR LARSON\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 You expressed concern about the danger of physical harm to the subject?\\xa0 As you now see, there is never any direct physical contact.\\xa0 Thus, there can be no allegations of physical harm or coersion.
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 He might have come close to dying with fright, though.\\xa0 [teasing]\\xa0 You were quite terrifying, darling.
VICTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [growls jokingly, then fairly cultured voice]\\xa0 After fifteen movies as monsters
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 And an apeman...
VICTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [chuckles]\\xa0 And one apemen, who wouldn\'t be?
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I\'m rather glad I get to duck out early.\\xa0 Murderers just [shudders] give me the creeps.
TERRANCE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Hey, we\'re out of sham-pane.\\xa0 Want me to go and get some more?
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Nah, I\'ll go.\\xa0 Be right back!\\xa0
D-A.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0It seems like a lot of effort, though, for a single confession.\\xa0 A lot of manpower.\\xa0 [tip of the hat] \\xa0And woman power.
DOCTOR LARSON\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Ah, but it\'s valuable work on a number of levels.\\xa0 We convince a murderer to confess, and we learn a great deal about the human psyche each time through the experiment.
D-A.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Each time?\\xa0 How many--?
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Hmm...\\xa0 [thinking]\\xa0 I\'ve had the screaming meemies four times--
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 And I\'ve nearly died... oh, three, I think.
DOCTOR LARSON\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Not all of them last as long as our good friend Edmund.\\xa0
D-A.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I\'ll drink to that.
MUSIC
CLOSER
OLIVIA\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Now that you know how to find us, you\'ll have to come back.\\xa0 Maybe next week?\\xa0 Don\'t be a stranger - we have enough of those already...
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INDIVIDUAL SPEECHES FOR THE "INMATES" FOR "ad lib" SECTIONS
ROSE\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 I can feel them, all the time, watching everything I do - always making sure.\\xa0 Always knowing.\\xa0 I never get a moment alone, never a smidgen of privacy.\\xa0 How can I live like this?\\xa0 It\'s always the same - at first, they seem so nice, so different, then they turn on you, controlling you, having to know everything you do, and then they just don\'t let you do anything.\\xa0 I couldn\'t even have a glass of water without getting permission.
HECTOR\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Sinner!\\xa0 Be penitent and god may be merciful and end your despicable life - hah, raise your head in the presence of your condemnation, will you?\\xa0 Created to sin, designed by Satan to tempt honest men from the path of righteousness.\\xa0 Daughters of Eve, you share her taint!\\xa0 You try and draw us into your web, to make us debase ourselves for your enjoyment!\\xa0 Wickedness!\\xa0 Temptress!\\xa0 Succubus!
RONALD\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 God moves in mysterious ways, for his decisions are inscrutable and his calling ineffable.\\xa0 He has summoned me to his bidding, and I must obey.\\xa0 There is no evil in ending the suffering of those that god would have called home to his presence.\\xa0 He does not strike out in anger, but reaches forth to embrace his injured and damaged children, who need his solace.
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