THE NEW SWINGTON ESTATE
0240HRS
SARAH DJIMON
Unbelievable! The police just pass by without doing anything?
[she reaches out for her phone only to find the battery is dead]
Crap!
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SIMON SENECA
[Reading a passage from Of Immigrants and Madness by Gilbert Foon]
“These are the bad men roaming the earth, with lots and lots of malice.
Their pockets and luggage full of their vices. You can easily hear the
snakes hiss. They shake your hand while the other holds the dagger.”
You are right about that Gilbert. Bad men these people. I think I will run
for Mayor. Just so I could get rid of them. Probably John is also awake.
Need to hear his thoughts.
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ERIC KAPALDI
I guess that was not the police. Must have been an ambulance.
LEAH KAPALDI
No way.
ERICK KAPALDI
Unfortunately.
LEAH KAPALDI
Well, call the police then.
ERICK KAPALDI
[sighs]
Maybe someone has called them.
LEAH KAPALDI
It won’t hurt to make another call, will it.
ERIC KAPALDI
[Reaches out on the nightstand and picks his phone. He dials 911. Some
sweet lady answers on the other end of the line]
Hello, we have a disturbance…Yes…We are at Ne-sorry-Swington Estate
along Cosgrove Road. Yes. Some douchebags are making a ruckus…I
don’t know whether they are armed…I cannot see them…I think they are
on the Old-sorry-Settlement. Oh-, okay. Alright, thanks.
LEAH KAPALDI
So, will they send in the police?
ERIC KAPALDI
HOOPTE GOBBLEDYGOOK
Alot of people have already called it in. The police are on their way.
LEAH KAPALDI
Come back to bed honey.
ERIC KAPALDI
Give me a minute, I want to see how it plays out.
LEAH KAPALDI
Honey. I am feeling cold.
ERIC KAPALDI
[Mumbles something inaudibly]
Alright. Alright. I still don’t understand a single word they are saying. It
is not English, doesn’t sound like any language I know of. What the
buffoonery is it?
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