THE NEW SWINGTON ESTATE
1100HRS
[Night passes and morning arrives. Despite the earlier incident, most
Swingtonites are awake]
MARION HORACE
[shakes her sleeping husband awake]
Guess what?
JAMES HORACE
What? Another kerfuffle?
MARION HORACE
Silly. No. It is sunny today. Rise and shine.
JAMES HORACE
Fantastic. I am feeling better already.
* * *
SIMON SENECA
[snoring]
* * *
JOHN KNOWS
It is good to have the sun shine in these dark days. The little wins. I need
to find out from Strauss what that was all about.
* * *
HARRY AND JOSEPHINE MOTLEY
[jogging, they pass by Dak Rundy’s lawn. Dak Rundy is seated on his
porch]
[in unison]
Morning Dak.
DAK RUNDY
Morning Harry, Morning Josephine
[mutters as they pass by]
Wankers.
* * *
[Noise erupts from the living room. The TV is on. A sports broadcast
comes on. Sally and David are still in bed]
SALLY MABRAT
HOOPTE GOBBLEDYGOOK
I guess he arrived at Damascus.
DAVID PABRAT
I will set him straight. In time.
* * *
JOJI KOJIMA
[wakes up with a start, grabs the alarm clock]
Oh shit!
* * *
SARAH DJIMON
[on her way to the estate caretaker’s office she glimpse at the gate and
sees multiple police vehicles parked on the settlement side]
God, I hope they are arresting the whole lot of them.
* * *
LEAH KAPALDI
[speaking from the kitchen]
Your breakfast will grow cold babe.
ERIC KAPALDI
[speaking from the bedroom]
You know I had this funny dream. I dreamt that the settlement was up
in smoke and that there were firetrucks all over the place.
LEAH KAPALDI
I didn’t dream anything.
ERIC KAPALDI
I guess it was my way of imagining someone angry enough to have
torched the place up after what happened.
LEAH KAPALDI
And who would be crazy enough to do such a thing?
* * *
JOE SMOCKER
What is the opposite of good morning Lenny?
LENNY SMOCKER
Bad morning, I guess?
JOE SMOCKER
Sounds too easy. You mean you didn’t find a better answer in your
Thesaurus, Lenny?
LENNY SMOCKER
Will you let me be? I am stymied.
JOE SMOCKER
Bad morning, Lenny.
LENNY SMOCKER
HOOPTE GOBBLEDYGOOK
Well thanks brother.
JOE SMOCKER
You have a burning problem, you know that.
LENNY SMOCKER
I don’t have a burning problem, I just like burning. No problem.
JOE SMOCKER
You are crazy. No more crazy ideas.
LENNY SMOCKER
[Ruffles his hair, breaks into a smile]
Well, it is still a good idea. Will keep it for future use. It is a matter of
honour. We cannot let a good idea go to waste.
JOE SMOCKER
Is there something I should know about you, Lenny?
LENNY SMOCKER
[throws a wide grin]
I love the smell of gasoline in the morning…
* * *
CAIN MISON
Hey Mars. How is it going?
MARS ANON
Same old. Same old.
You look like shit, what happened to you bruh?
CAIN MISON
I haven’t slept for a while now. It didn’t help that those goddam
immigrants kept me awake the whole night with their goddam
excruciating noises.
MARS ANON
What excruciating noises?
* * *
~FIN~