Prequal
- Stephen Hornsby-Smith
- Sep 3
- 6 min read
Updated: 6 days ago

Scene
- It would be my pleasure to see you on death row by whipping your ungrateful and treasonable arse !
- (he smirks in response laughs with the guards)
-Stuff your grammar !
- Stuff your grammar !
- Impress me then with your epigrams and epithets...Oscar Wilde's..
-.......................................................................................................and I'll gladly punish you and all your ancient barbarism !
-Call me chief, call me a stunt, call me your interrogator because I'm a cunt ! Now who will jive with General Clive ?
(repeated by the 3 guards)
Gun shots ring out in background Listen to that refrain, the tragic sound of inevitability Mr Blandison !
- Wha...
-............sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of your lives, every chip of AI will lead you to talk some lies !
- You are fucking ...this is a freak show !
- AHHH freak out the freak says me ! (singing raucously ! )
- Quiet doesn't buy it Rerady steady blow your fuckin 'brains in out all about !'
- I'm a number...
- We all know your number, rank and ex wife's name
'................................................................................of elements..science is may game, you're a liar and a cheat and amorality is your shame !
- What do we have here ? Sonny, never tell people what you're thinking .....
-AI sunset AI sonny Jim, you're nothing but a sheep eaten on a whim !(He signals to the guards and then speaks in Korean and then back in English : He's a fucking Chinese spy! For he's a spy, he's a spy tra la la la la' and you're to die you're to die tra la la la la la !
- Wait... look, no ,no
- ............................ of course you won't stop pleading, and take it ...just like a little girl !
- Soldier takes a beating until screams go silent and a pool of blood surges on the prison floor , and a quiet gurgling sound emerges...Two huge guards arrive to haul the battered soldier out of the prison room !
- Did you like that 'right Charlie'? Did you like you to 'broke his limbs'?
- I liked to broke his limbs HA HA HA and the interrogator laughs with him
-So who is the next pest from the West ?
-That's 4 this morning...yer,.... fuck-off you slob of a snob - at least when you do nobbery don't forget the lisp !
-This man is a big man
-................................says who? says the interrogator
-a black soldier is struggling but has his hands cuffed to the table and his leg cuffed to the floor
-The news is good, the news is bad, ever played cricket in Hyderabad ?
- Yes I have, yes I will and yes you're finished !
-................................................................your Oscar Wildes...
- I don't know Oscar Wilde but I do know that I'd punch your
-...................................................................................GET RID OFF THIS FUCK (in Korean) He's an American! Do you mind if I'm a wee bit racist ?, because I fancy giving a Yank a kicking !
-Interrogator motions one of the guards to untie him so he can beat up the (non American ) American, and he kicks the soldier a dozen times, but not on his vital organs. He's in a pool of blood but unconscious
- Can't hear you Chester can't hear you Brad ? Have a good day ! The Guards mock 'Have a good day !'
-in Korean he says " Tidy him up, feed him and then sell him to whoever is willing to pay the most
-'The black market' says one of the guards pleased with himself
- That same black market that pays for your young boys you rape you old peado aren't you 'Sir Chuck a mental !!!!?!!!
- What means peedo ?I'm not understanding
--Neither does your trouble and strife !
END OF SCENE
-I know 1984
- Gorgeous Goerge ? The man full of awe ..welly ?
-No! Both are looking at another body, smoking
- Can I have a look at that for a second ?
Guard takes out his pistol and gives the interrogator it unquestioningly
the interrogator shoots the soldier 5 times and hands the gun back to the guard
-I never liked you Mr Rupert anyway ! "One has to die or die and no one will ever know why !? You fucking western bourgeois, narcissistic spy, and murmurs to himself but you were a good one !
-Oh 'One' ! Radio one ? Back in 1984 ? Steev pight and the afternoon !
- Definitely not Orwell, ......but Steve Wright in the afternoon !
- Another soldier is brought in
-A feminist, a 'new man,' a flesh brat to be slain and not get a tan'
-'Steve Wright in the Afternoon !' says one of the guards
- Just fucking say it ! Radio One, Steve Wright in the fucking afternoon !
-reluctantly the soldier says 'RADIO ONE !'
- Yes , 'they don't know what I know ' (he sings ) you're just a millennial red rose and perennial'
- 'Steve wright in the afternoon' the soldier says angrily
- Okay Yar, okay yar !! 'I'm so angry 'I'm so ANGRY, I'm so ANGRY !!!
- Okay Yar !
-One of the guards says 'Yar? Yar vole ??
- Now he wants fucking German !!
- I speak German !
- No you fuckinmg don't !!
- I too speak German-
-You can speak all the German you like but I know you only have one bullet left
- Yar vole mein herr
- Du bist eine shieser?
-Watch it sunny ! the interrogator says quietly
- Vater , vater everywhere but not a drop to drink (says one of the guards)
- Don't be drawn..
-Spreccan szie Deutch'
- You fuckin idiot !
- the soldier is hit with a rifle butt and spits out teeth with some blood
- And if you insult people when these kind men
of freedom are trying to help, then you get all the shit you have coming for you !
- What did I do wrong ?
- You spooked them !
- A trap ?
- A trap, a routine, a play for today says 'Time to shut your cake hole or have a hammer and sickle in every other orifice'
-'Was ist das?' says one of the guards, pointing at 2 teeth on the floor next to the beaten soldier, laughing mockingly.
- Das ist ein swinehunde, yar ? as the interrogator points at the soldier in pain on the floor
-- Fuck your phonetics, fuck your spelling, I hate your...
- ........................................................................shut the fuck up . Kicks in the face and motions for all the guards to laugh rather than continue to kick the beaten soldier !
- Well, Chuck a mental, Mr Right Charlie.... BRING Me......?
- And the guards all say in English.....ANOTHER!!!! They all laugh in unison, whilst the beaten man says .. STEVE WRIGHT IS A FUCKING LOON' and then he falls silent
Gunshots are heard in the background, another firing squad cheers afterwards
-Interrogator says to himself ..you and I deserve to die for this Jimmy !
-.....Guards sing "You're not wanted anymore," he joins in " I will survive,I will survive..."
- Singing subsides and main guard takes out his pistol puts it to the interrogators temple saying: 'Aber, Du bist ein Inglander..entiendes cono? "WORK LIVE,JERK DIE, CASUS BELLI !!!" Continues to mock and sneer, and eventually interrogator joins in !
-Who will jumpin jive because .... Come on lads , "I will survive" and the guards continue to laugh and joke that clearly excludes the interrogator, who tries to conceal his deep unease as if he fears what comes next whilst the other prisoners continue to shout "Hope you're satisfied Lee because 'you're a fuckin wanker, and then they start chanting 'you're a wanker ,you're a wanker tra la la la la la etc and after a minute they start yelling :'Wait till Jimmies out ! Wait till Jimmies out !
SUDDENLY THE LIGHTS GO OUT!
' Even if the lights go out , Wait til Jimmy gets out !'
Then angry Korean is heard , then water sounds of gushing fired at the prisoners, and voices of choking, cries of pain mixed with defiant insults , then thud and thump sounds followed by silence ! minutes go by and then the fire of gun shots ring out and then the lights are switched on !
- YOU LIKE? YOU WANT WE DO! Ha ha ha ha, rant the guards.
- Sir Right Charlie ? You've stolen my heart, but I'm afraid my heart is already broken. They all largely nervously laugh at first, and then they all laugh more reassuringly together !
- Then Lee shouts out loud " LET'S NOT...
-.............................................. ........MEND SOME HEARTS!' shout the guards
- Let's all HEART ATTACK !! says Lee, "A total eclipse of our hearts !!' and they all laugh heartily ! .
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