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Monologue Mania Day #1092 The Other Side of the Table (next scene) by Janet S. Tiger (c) Feb. 8, 2017
(Not) A monologue by
by Janet S. Tiger)
by Janet S. Tiger)
(The agent is talking with the woman - in her 60s - he is recruiting, she is reluctant)
HIM - So let me get this straight, you're thinking about this, but now mostly you're worried about being a snitch....interesting.
It didn't bother you that you moved drugs for a dealer, that those drugs might have killed someone. That your son died from drugs, nah. Not as important as the possibility that you might be called a snitch. Not that it's dangerous, that someone could hurt you, or kill you! Nah, it's what people think about you that matters most.....(laughs) Lemme tell ya about my family...... my father was in the FBI before me, and his uncle. It's a genetic thing I guess.
One of his last cases, my Dad worked on the Unabomber file. They never would've caught the Unabomber, except for his brother and sister-in-law, and people said the meanest things about them. And that was before the Internet! My Dad was amazed, and he wasn't easily amazed. He couldn't understand why they weren't heroes, these people. Because if the Unabomber had kept on, he would've killed others.
I mean, we're all strange, but the public is strange. And a snitch, well, that's like the lowest of the low. But the people doing the dirty stuff, the stuff that kills you, wow......they get to be heroes. They make TV shows about 'em....breaking bad......
HER - All right, i get it......as a snitch I'm what, the hero? Maybe I don't feel like a hero, maybe, I just want to....
HIM - Even the score?
(She nods)
HIM - There's nothing wrong with that, and don't forget it.....
HER - (Sigh) So, what happens next? I mean, do I have to pass some test or something? Screening? I mean, is ther training?
HIM - (Laughs) No training! No tests! No fingerprints, nothing to tie you to the department.
HER - Nothing?
HIM - I pay you in cash. You figure out how to deal with it. Get this, and get it now. You are not officially anything. You have no ID, no connection to me except for an affair. And you didn't know I was anything more than a guy who wanted to get laid.
HER - (Hard to accept) Ok, I got it.....I got that....I'm not....official..but ....then....what am I ?
(He looks at her and nods)
HIM - Haven't you figured it out yet? You're the snitch...
(end of scene)
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1 comment:
The last line made me laugh! Good one...
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