Scene Eleven: Police headquarters
Chief Superintendent Barton:
What the hell happened over there?
Swat team leader:
We don’t know, sir, the place must be booby trapped.
Chief Superintendent Barton:
What do you think, Inspector Mac nee?
Inspector Mac nee:
I have said before, sir, that the Magnusson place has always been known as a local oddity. Some people won’t walk by it. They say there is a curse on it.
Chief Superintendent Barton:
Nonsense! It must be as the swat leader say’s. It is booby trapped. I’m going to get authorization to get a helicopter to drop a team to break through the roof.
An officer appears at the door and says, Chief Constable on the phone, sir, he wants updating about the Magnusson case.
Chief Superintendent Barton:
Bloody hell! OK, tell him I’ll be right over. Inspector Mac Nee, if Grun Magnusson is not in the house I want you to find him and fast. There are four critically injured men to be accounted for.
Swat team leader:
I want to ask permission to be on the team to break through the roof, sir.
Chief Superintendent Barton:
I’m going to try and get clearance to get an S.A.S squad in there. But I understand what you must be feeling. If it was up to me I would bomb the bloody place.
Inspector Mac Nee: (speaking to his colleague later)
If they had just used a little tact they would have taken Grun without a struggle, and avoided all this trouble.
John Watkins:
I think you are right. I feel strange when I am in that house. I can’t explain it; it gives me a weird light headed feeling.
Inspector Mac Nee:
Yes, me too. You know we will never get Grun; he won’t be caught unless he wants to be. I told the chief about the image on the door that disappeared and the photos also, but he just dismissed it with a laugh. I know one thing for sure, I’m never going back to that house; I’ll retire first.
An officer appears at the door of Inspector Mac Nee’s office and says, did you hear about the swat team member who got burned at the back of the house? He says he saw the outline of a giant snake just before he was hit with the fire.
Inspector Mac Nee: (turning pale and looking at Detective Watkins)
I’m going to the canteen, I need a serious rest from all this.