1.

Garage stuffed with things. The front of a car peeking out from under a dark car cover. Mini stands.
Wearing a flowered dress soaked with fresh blood. Three youngsters (Leon, Kiddy and Silvi) listen,
bewildered.

Mini
What strikes me is that I went to the market with the bread knife in the shopping bag. It may have
fallen from the table without me noticing right? Otherwise I can not find an explanation.

Silence.

Do you remember Rebecca, the widow from the next block, the house of hydrangeas? Well, I was
in the market, Rebecca, just ahead of me, insisting on calling the chili peppers just peppers, that is
a habit that makes me sick. I tried to explain, William tried as well, but the woman was determined.
There were people waiting and ... Someone said something about the neighborhood and traffic
accidents and the time that the market had been a market for. There was a dog sniffing at the fish
stand, which is the one attached to the vegetables one. The thing I do not understand is that
somehow I was suddenly sawing Rebecca on this area here...

Indicates one side of the base of the neck

The bread knife is blunt.

Silence.

If you ever deign to prepare breakfast you would know. You know I do not mean you, pupu.

Silence.

I mean that's why I had to saw.

Silence.

Well, straight to the point, what I was saying is that I couldn't buy lemons. The battered fish we are
going to have to eat it with mayonnaise or mustard. If you don't want, Silvi, don't eat. But to the
market I can not go back. At least not today. I killed someone and the police would be after me

Blackout.

2.
The three brothers carry a body wrapped in a black bag.

Silvi
It's slipping.

Leon
Hold it.

Silvi releases. The weight falls to the floor even though the brothers try to hold it.

Why did you let go?

Silvi, curled up on the floor, crying.

Kiddy
Stop it, Silvina. I didn't see her face. I didn't see it.

Leon
Let her cry.

Silvi
I'm not crying.

Kiddy
you're crying. Look at her. Look at yourself.

Silvi
I am distressed, is not the same as crying.

Leon
Where do we put it?

Kiddy
Inside the cupboard where the boiler is.

Leon
It won't fit.

Kiddy
No?

Silvi starts to exit.

Where are you going? Silvi!

Silvi
Everyone saw us.

Kiddy
Who saw us?

Silvi
Everyone.

Leon
Where are you going?

Silvi
I'm sick.

Kiddy
Wait. Who saw us?

Kiddy
One of the twins. I'm sure he saw us.

Baby
What, you saw him?

Silvi
I thought I had seen him.
Kiddy
Which one was it?

Silvi
I don't know.

Kiddy
The dumb or the other one?

Silvi
I said I don't know. I feel sick.

Leon
Go to the toilet.

Kiddy
Go. But come back soon. Don't let mom see you.

Silvi exits.

Leon
Shit ... It has to be the dumb one. The other one is at school at this time.

Kiddy
Did you see him?

Leon
No.

Pause.

I didn't notice.

Pause.

It's true that he is always looking out. But I didn't notice.

Silence.

No. Let's not hide it. It's risky. We should just bury it.

Kiddy
In the garden?

Leon
Yes. And fast. Juliet comes to rehearsal At three.

Kiddy
No, wait. We have to ... dismember it first.

Leon
You mean... in ...? ¿Dismember it?

Kiddy
How many parts do you think that ...?
Leon
Six. The usual. Four limbs, head and torso.

Kiddy
I don't know. The garden is small. Six holes are going to be the same as one. And also, as you
said, that's what's usual. I would make three. It is an illogical number for a dismembered body. Or
even more absurd would be the number fourteen, or twenty. Anyway we have to start softening up
the soil with water to make it easier to dig.

(To Silvi who just reenters.)

Can you put the hose on to sta ...?

Silvi
There's blood on the doorstep.

Leon
blood?

Silvi
Blood. There's blood on the doorstep.

Kiddy
Go and clean.

Silvi
Me?

Kiddy
Yes. Go. Wash the doorstep. Everyone cleans the Porsche.

Silvi
Not at this time. Mom will go out somewhere and notice.

Leon
Where is the blood?

Silvi
Here. In Front of the door.

Leon
Let's get the car out. Anyway we had to take it out to rehearse. we get it out now. The stains will be
covered under the car.

Silvi
(Referring the body).
I need to see it.

Leon
Don't, Silvi.

Silvi
(Referring to the bag).
Open it
Kiddy
Cmon Silvi. What for?

Silvi
I have to see it. I have to see it to try to understand that mom killed someone. To you it may not be
important because you are men and you compare with eachother, but Me, who am I going to
compare myself with? She is my role model. I need to see it.

Leon
It's Rebecca, the widow from the next block. Nothing to see.

Mini enters.

Mini
Guys. I want to tell you something.

Pause.

I lied.

prolonged silence.

It isn't true that I don't know why I did it. I did it because I hate him. I'm speaking about the Father
of you two. I hate him with all my heart.
And through all this years I was always humiliated by the contempt of everyone, including you, who
undermined my hatred, devalued it, and my hatred was real.
Every time I bumped into him (still talking about the father of you both) I made a small staging of
my hatred. Stupid, for some.
Of course, those who knew us both, believed that everything I did, my insults, my clumsy gestures
of contempt, my scenes, were children of a love that still existed between us.
Only I knew how to feed that hatred and I knew that hatred was real. When carrying a truth so
alone, as in, for so long, you end up exploding. So I did.

Kiddy
But Mom, Dad died fifteen years ago.

Mini
But my hatred did not. I had to do it. I had to kill.

Kiddy
Why Rebeca?

Leon
Don't be a fool and shut up.

Mini
I don't know. I'm confused. I can not think of the strange fate of Rebecca, a woman who I barely
knew from the neighborhood. But I knew him and for him this hatred grew in my chest.
(To kiddy.)
You ask me why Rebecca? and I tell you I don't know.7
How do you see me? Do you think a new life is possible for me now?
(To kiddy.)
You have blood there. Wash.

Kiddy notices a spot of blood on his hand.

I can't keep on talking. I have to go rest. Deep down I know I'm not a murderer, I am not the
common killer. It is so easy to judge these things from the outside. So easy. I do not know what will
happen to me, but I feel that everything has changed. And there are fish and chips in the kitchen.
You can prepare them if you want to eat now. But then throw the used frying oil. Throw everything.
Your generation is a generation of wasters. You don't like mixing glass with cardboard, you dig in
the rubbish to make sure everything is properly recycled. You want parks, you, you want the green
belt, you. God's sake, give me a break. Rubbish is rubbish. And we must learn to discard it without
so much fuzziness. Now, if you want me to make the fish and chips, you will have to wait. I don `t
feel good. You'll have to wait five minutes.

Exits. Silence.

Silvi
I hate when she talks about dad like that.

Leon
You were very young, you don't remember. It was horrible to see how they fought. And when they
didn't fight was worse. Silence became unbearable. When I heard the news about the plane ... I
was happy.

Kiddy
Silvi why don't you go find the electric knife? So we do it faster.

Silvi
Wash the sidewalk, turn the hose on, go find the knife. You Want the electric knife?Go get it. I'm
sick of you treating me like a maid. I'm going to the mall.

Blackout.

3.
Papers and books over a sort of tools table. The car is gone. Kiddy extends a map over the wall.
Some steps away, silvi.

Kiddy
Here. Blatantly exposed.

Silvi
What is that?

Leon
A fake map.

Silvi
Of what?

Kiddy
of the garden.

Silvi
And what did you do that for?

Kiddy
Those are the spots where the body is NOT buried. We named them using the Greek alphabet.
They are the names of trigonometric functions key codes. Out of these fake spots you can deduce
the real spots where the parts are buried. One part of the key is with Pupú and the other part is
with me. On our own we wouldn't know where to dig.
Leon
Kiddy, you called me Pupú and you know I hate that. Mom cannot help it, but...

Silvi
That's so stupid. You can see perfectly where there's grass missing.

Kiddy
The grass will be back in about a week.

Silvi
Yes. And in the meantime?

Kiddy
I don't think the police will come check out the garden if no one has even reported it.

A uniformed police officer appears at the door frame.

Norbert
Good afternoon.

Pause.
With infinite calm he registers the place with his eyes, And then stops at the door that leads to the
house.

What a band.

Notices the map

.
What's that?

Kiddy
A map.

Norbert
Of the garden.

Leon
Fake.

Pause.

Norbert
Who is the guitarist?

Leon and Silvi point to kiddy.

Him.

Kiddy
And Juliet D'onofrio, a girl who comes to rehearsal and does the second guitar and sometimes the
first, as well, depending on the song.

Norbert approaches the guitar and plays one or two chords.

Norbert
I also have an idea for a revolution. Do you want to hear it? It's more or less like this.

Plays a fragment of his song called revolution. Stops, leaves the guitar

It's a base plan. It consists of circulating a lot of adulterated coca cola in some country. Then report
it to the health authorities. And from there, coca cola gets banned in that country.

Leon
They would remove Coca-Cola?

Norbert
Forbidden. Coca cola gets forbidden. It's just a start . After that, if we reach that, then anything can
happen. It's... Something in which I think sometimes.

Silvi
Didn't that already happen somewhere?

Norbert
Where?

Silvi
I don't know. I'm only asking.

Norbert
You mean in Belgium?

Silvi
I don't know, maybe I read wrong.

Norbert
How can I know.

Mini enters.

Mini
Have you already met...?

Norbert
Norbert. Agent Norbert Duncan, MET.

Leon
Officer, we can explain, so why don't we all sit and discuss this calmly.

Mini
You don't get it. I'm dating Norbert.

Points to Leon.

That's Pupú.

Norbert nods.

Leon
Leon.

Norbert nods to kiddy.

Kiddy
Kiddy.

Mini

Skipping silvi.

Well, this is the garage area. There's the garden. It's full of holes, I don't know why. And upstairs
the three bedrooms. You know I have a problem, in mine. It happens that I've got the curtain stuck.
And the kids are not made for this things.

Norbert
Do you want me to check if I can unlock it?

Mini
Could you?

Norberto
Of course. Let's see what we can do. Excuse us.

Mini and Norbert exit.

As soon as they pass the door, we hear them laugh, excitedly.

Blackout.

4.
Silvi and kiddy. Leon comes in holding a shopping bag high up.

Leon
Tell me you haven't bought this by card?

Silvi
Yes. In instalments.

Leon
Excuse me, but you are an idiot.

Silvi
What's the problem?

Leon
It incriminates us.

Silvi
That?

Leon
Anything.

Kiddy
Well, it's not such big deal.

Leon
Do you two think it's not a big deal? Do you really think Norbert fancies mom? Isn't it more logical
to think he got involved with mom to investigate? Let me see, which card did you use to pay?

Silvi
The Amex.

Leon
It's an extension of moms isn't it?

Silvi
Well, it's the one that...

Leon
And you think they are not checking what money comes in an out of this house by now? What is
bought and what is not, Silvi?

Silvi

Look, I'm going to tell you what I think. I think you are hungry for power, and that this situation suits
you perfectly to tell us all how to live. But I'm not you, you know? I am neither of you. I want my
things, I want to be pretty, I have the right to buy what I want and pay for it however I please.
Especially if Im earning my own money down at the off license.

Leon
Couldn't you have waited?

Silvi
And also, to buy in instalments just sits right with me. It gives me a feeling of stability. When I buy
in instalments is as if I say: “I trust”. And I think if we all said a bit more “I trust” we would avoid
many economical disasters, and I speak as a nation now.

Kiddy
But how much would a hair dryer have cost in cash, without all that paperwork, without that much
exposition?

Silvi
There was no paperwork whatsoever! I just gave them the Amex and that was it.

Leon
The Amex is swiped on a machine, and your number stays registered in three or four different
copies, and they can check on the statement everything that goes inside a house

Silvi
I'm not going to dispense with my staple products.

Leon
Don't you understand that we are in a delicate situation? That we have to handle things with
caution? You have to make sacrifices. First the stains on the sidewalk, then the twin that according
to you, ACCORDING TO YOU, saw it all. And third mom lets a police officer corner us, a police
officer that by mere coincidence didn't notice the holes in the garden. And now the hair dryer.

Mini
Entering.
Want to know something curious? I have been thinkin a lot about the mother of the twins, Jimmy
and the other poor one...

Points to her head.

And the bell rangs, and it's her! I don't know what she said. I lost the thread. She was rambling on
with no end in sight. She spoke of a committee of neighbors, you, Rebecca. I don't know why I
invited her in.

Gets a kitchen knife stained with blood from her apron pocket.

It was with the carving knife, she caught me cutting the cod for the fish and chips. That woman will
talk no more. I'm not feeling well

She goes silently.

León
Well, there we are.

Silence.

Silvi
This is bullshit.

Kiddy
Does this not help us, actually ?

Leon
How does it help? It's an extra corpse on the list, the murder becomes serial and regardless of
what we decide to do, at some point we will have to talk seriously with mom and ask what is she
lacking, why is it manifesting this way.

Silvi
Now, returning the hair dryer, Would that solve anything?

Kiddy
Okay, but I think in more practical terms: Mom cleared consciously or unconsciously the only
possible witness to the murder of Rebecca.

Silvi
But the witness was the son, not the mother.

Kiddy
But which one? ¿Jimmy or ...?

Points to his Head.

Silvi
I don't know. I can't distinguish. I saw one looking.

Leon
No matter which one saw us. What Matters is that a boy sees something and tells his mother,
"Mom, Mom, I saw something." And besides, it is not the only witness. The entire market saw mom
sawing Rebecca!

Kiddy
That's expeculative. Something of such monstrous proportions that everyone sees, cannot be real.
you know?
Leon
What do you mean?

Kiddy
Why has no one reported it yet? Why does Norbert not get us arrested? Think a little. Why?
Because people in the market did not register what they saw just like Norbert saw the holes in the
garden and didn't register them. If I'm alone down the street and I see a guy riddled with bullets by
another, I can not help but registering the fact, imprint on my mind the face of the murderer, have
formal response to the problem: call the police, hide until the danger passes, whatever. But if what
I see, Is seen by everyone on the street, my behavior is different. Someone else will act, I say.
Maybe it's not what I think, I say. And I do not call any police, and I do not hide or anything, and
two blocks away I've forgotten about it. I am like that. I mention this at dinner, and nothing else.
The next day I do not read anything about it on the evening standard, and then I am convinced that
nothing happened.

Leon
And Norbert? Norbert was alone when he saw the holes.

Kiddy
Exactly. We agree that he infiltrated our house to investigate and not because he is in love with
mom. Do we agree on that?

Silvi
I'm not so sure he's not in love.

Leon
Please.

Silvi
Did you see how he looks at her? How he actually listens when she speaks?

Leon
He's pretending, it's obvious.

Silvi
Sure, you don't pay attention to these details. When was the last time you fell in love with
someone?

Leon
Don't start.

Kiddy
Sure, it's the same. We do not track the love between mom and Norbert, which is obvious to you.
Why assume that Norbert will find what he wants in this house just by looking out into the garden?
If I'm looking for a corpse, I have less chances of seeing a corpse.

Leon
On The market people are not looking for a cold blood murder. If I look for cod, I see the murder.

Kiddy
It's different. I explained to you. They were many. And if many see the same thing at the same
time, everyone sees only some of it. They see LESS. it's like that. Or how do you think the brain
works? Do you believe that the psyche will adapt to your speculation? Husserl also says that the
form does not exist, perception builds it up.

Silvi
And what is also true is that the right hemisphere sees different than the left. And the eye sees
upside down and the brain straightens it.

Silence.

Leandro
So?

Silvi
Ah ... You stagger. You ask us now?

(To kiddy)
I prefer to trust you. I will return the dryer.

(To Leon.)
You're a grown up. For How long are you going to live in this house ... Pupu?

Exits.

Kiddy
I tell you: we will shield us behind the seriality of the crimes. First. We must hide the body of Fito's
mother. Second. We find a link between the murder of Rebecca and Azucena. A relationship that is
not us, obviously. And third (and here's the key that connects): Norbert must become our alibi. The
next time mom brings him home, Azucena's murder will occur, Elsewhere. Far from this family.

We hear Silvi and Mini arguing off stage.

Silvi
But what did he say?

Mini
He didn't say anything. I said. That this was not going well.

Silvi
But he is so very much into you.

Mini
You are wrong. I'm just a good fit for him. He is married.

Silvi
Did he say that?

Mini
He didn't even showed his face. He told me over the phone. Norbert Duncan is dead to me.

Silvi
Close that door, Mom, dont be stubborn.

Mini
Let me, can you? it's over. It's all over. What do you want? That I live locked up inside my own
home? We have to cleanse, we have to cleanse, open the doors, the windows, let this house
breathe! I am your mother, I don't have to ask permission. So move.
Drop that mat, Silvina, please!

Silvi
Oh yeah? You are my mother? Very good. I want to tell you something very simple, then, and I ask
you to calm down to listen, and then yes, you can go if you want and do whatever you have to do.

Mini
I am calm.

Silvi
No, you're not. It has to do with the extension of the Amex. Whatever I do falls on your summary. I
guess you understand what that means.

Kiddy
(To Leon.)
Do not let mom go out and do something crazy.

Leon goes. As Silvi enters.

Silvi
I hate her. I hate her. I hate her.

Kiddy
Stop it Silvi. If Norbert becomes a jilted lover, he will want revenge. We must find out what he
knows and try to reconcile him with mom.

Silvi
How?

Blackout.

5.
Leon with earphones. Some kind of electrodomestic , aerials. Speakers and amplifiers from the
guitars all interconnected as a home-made telephone spying device. Kiddy goes around with
something that serves as an aerial. Leon guides him.

Kiddy
And?

Leon
No. To the right... No. Go backwards. ¡There! ¡No! ¡I lost them! There, there. Step on the chair.

Kiddy does.

Listen. I have them there. It works.

Kiddy
But what do you hear? Is Norbert speaking?

Leon
I told you it was going to work. It seems to be a woman. Tell Silvi to come.

Kiddy
Connect the speakers.

Leon

While doing it
I'm going to try to improve the sound. ¡Go call Silvi!

Kiddy
¡Silvi!

Leon
Go look for her. Otherwise she'll go mad at me later.

Kiddy

Exiting.

¡Silvi!

But silvi is already coming in.

Silvi
Does it work?

Kiddy
Get up there.

Silvi
No.

Leon
Where were you ?

Kiddy
Get up there !

Kiddy gives her the aerial. We hear a conversation between two eight year old boys.

Boy 2
“Documents of the past.”

Boy 1
Wait. ¿“Documents...”?

Boy 2
“...of the past.” ¿Done?

Boy 1
Yes. Go.

Boy 2
“The objects that show us...”

Simultaneously, kiddy and Leon

.
Kiddy
Write down.
Leon
Come, hold here

Kiddy goes running to hold the other side of the aerial. Leon runs to write

Leon
The note pad?

Kiddy
You had it, Silvi

Silvi
I don't have anything.

Kiddy
Here it is. I have it.

Takes a notepad from the pocket of his shirt.

Write down.

Silvi
¡Shh!

Boy 1
Wait. ¿“That...”?

Boy 2
“Show us ... How was...”

Boy 1
“was the...”

Boy 2
“the life...”

Boy 1
¿“the" again?

Boy 2
What?

Boy 1
Yes, “the” goes twice.

Boy 2
Where?

Boy 1
“Show us how was the the...” Ah. Keep going, it's fine.

Boy 2
“The life during prehistorical times...”

Leon
What did he say?

Silvi
“Prehistoric times”.

Boy 2
“...are usually...”

Silence.

“... Discovered in...”

Silence.
“... excavations.”

Silence

Punto aparte. ¿Está?

Boy 1
Is that it?

Leon
¿Punto aparte?

Boy 2
No. Ahora hay que poner sangría.

Boy 1
What?

Boy 2
Hay que poner sangría. Lo explicó ayer la seño. Es re-fácil.

Boy 1
¿Sangría?

Boy 2
Como sangre.

Boy 1
I write down “sangría”?

Boy 2
No. Wait. Now you have to start writing two centimetres away from the margen.

Kiddy
Leon... ¿Which... Which line did you connect us to?
Leon
Duncan's: 02074373175, it's the number down on the phone book.

Kiddy
They're two kids.

Boy 1
¿De cuál margen?

Boy 2
this one here. The one... On the left.

Boy 1
You mean two centimetres below?

Boy 2
¡No! Can't you realise?

Boy 1
And what do I write?

Boy 2
Wait. Do you see the margen?

Boy 1
Yes.

Boy 2
Hacé dos centímetros.

Boy 1
¿Cómo “hago”?

Boy 2
To the right!

Boy 1
I don't get it!

Boy 2
¡Para la derecha del margen! ¡Para la derecha del margen! Is it that hard?!

Boy 1
And then what do I do?

Boy 2
You start to write!

Boy 1
From then on? But what about the other side?

Boy 2
What other side?
Boy 1
Should I do the same on the other side of the page as well?
Boy 2
You mean when you turn the page?

Boy 1
No. I talk about the other margen. The one at the other side. On the right.

Boy 2
But where did your mom buy your notepads?

Boy 1
Aldi.

Boy 2
Ah, I don't know then . I... I mean, mine is from Rymans. And the seño showed me like this.. But
maybe for yours it's not the same. You shouldn't do it just in case. I...

Silvi puts the aerial down and the conversation is gone.

Silvi
It's his son.

Kiddy
What?

Silvi
It's his son.

Kiddy
What son?

Silvi
Norbert's

Leon
Are you saying he has a child?

Silvi
It seems so. Do you think mom knows, that apart from being married he has a child?

Kiddy
Let's get back in. At some point he will have to use the phone.

While the three try to find again the frequency:

Leon
Have you thought already in which way can we relate the crimes?

Kiddy
Of course I thought.

(To Silvi.)
This one cannot think of anything this days.

They laugh.
Leon
What happens to you two? Why do you take it on me? I brought all this from Telecom. Do you think
I do too little? Or do you have some other complaint? I know why you are like this with me. You do
this things to me because I did meet dad and you barely remember him. Why am I to blame for
that? You are a pair of...!

Kiddy
Hey, there's nothing coming .

Leon
It's a phone. Sometimes it's on use, sometimes it's not.

Exits.
Kiddo and Silvi stay for a short while to see if they can hear something. Then exit. The stage is
now empty. After a pause, a voice comes out of the speaker.

Assistant
Suicide hotline

Woman
I'm feeling bad... I don't know why I'm calling there... You are employees... You get paid per person
that doesn't commit suicide right?... You are all the same...

Assistant
Are you at home now?

Woman
Yes.

Assistant
Is there anyone else in the house with you?

Woman
Do you really think everyone calling you wants to actually commit suicide?
Why do you feel so important? I'm only doing an enquiry. I'm not well. I'm pretty bad. But I'm not
going to kill myself. ¿Hello? ¿Hello?

Assistant
Yes, I can hear you sir.

Woman
I am a woman, good gentleman.

Assitant
Me too.

Woman
What?

Assistant
What?

Woman
Me too what?
Assistant
My name is Susan and I was also on that side of the phone once.

Woman
¿Susan? ¿Susan what?

Kiddy enters unexpectant. Hears the voices. Smiles. Exits.

Woman
you know I met a Susan who killed herself? She jumped from the balcony.

Assistant
No, that wasn't me. I took pills that were out of date. That's why I can be now here, listening to you.
Doesn't that tell you something?

Silence. Leon enters. Listens to the voices. Exits.

What's your name?

Woman
It doesn't matter what's my name.

The three come in, stop together and listen, smiling

Woman
What matter is him and he is called Norbert Duncan. What matters is that he fell for another
woman and now he doesn't love me. What matters is...

But she can't continue. The woman surrenders to cry.

Silvi
¡Norbert! ¡She said norbert! turn the volume up.

Kiddy
¡Turn it up!

Leon turns the volume up. The crying continues. They wait in silence.

Woman
He doesn't love me anymore... It happened... He loves another woman...what can I do? What can
anyone do against that? I'm alone. Since he confessed it to me I'm alone with this, with this that
hurts me and that I can't take out. What am I going to do?

She cries.

I can't stop loving him. i can't. It hurts so much. I call here because I don't know who to talk to.
I waited for my son to stop using the phone and sent him to do some groceries. I don't want him to
see me like this. He already had to miss some days of school. He had a bit of fever. I think he
realises. Kids can feel it all. Now what worries me the most is that he doesn't see me this way... It's
gonna be just the two of us now. I don't know if I'm strong enough to care for him alone... And I
don't have anyone to talk to. Because I... I used to talk with him and now... Who am I going to...?

Kiddy violently cuts the audio out. What they've just heard has moved them to tears.

Kiddy
That's enough. We already know what we needed to know.
Silvi
And what's that?

Kiddy
That you were right, Silvi. Norbert is in love with mom. And that love is what is going to save her.
Her, and us.

Blackout.

6.
Kiddy, Leon and Silvi ready to play. Silvi the keyboard, kiddy the guitar and Leon the bass.

Silvi
One, two, three, cuatro.

They sing:

Sweet staircase
A revolution
Sweet sweet race
To make you this song

Sweet staircase
confusion and depth
It changed direction
You fell at the step

Now you are an angel / on the staircase

Now you are the angel / of the staircase
Now you are an angel / and my staircase

When I die

Suddenly, Silvi stops.

Leon
What happened? Why do you stop playing?

Silvi
I have to call Juliet.

Leon
Juliet?

Kiddo
And it has to be now?

Silvi
Yes. She had an idea for the chorus. Has anyone seen the phone?

Leandro
Here.

Silvi
I'm dialling her number now ok?
She presses only three buttons.
Kiddy
(speaking to an empty chair)
Yes, because we noticed that here on the chorus... Can you pass me the púa?

Pause

That one.

Leon
And? Is she picking up?.

Kiddy
Here on the chorus we have an extra sillable, but if we take it out, see?

Now you are an angel / on the staircase

Now you are the angel / of the staircase
Now you are an angel / and my staircase

Now you are an angel / my staircase

Then it ends in a minor chord and it no longer sounds like a love song. Do you want some more irn
bru?

Silvi
Hello, Juliet.
You didn't come to rehearse.
Ah. No worries
Just one thing. You know on "sweet staircase", on the last chorus? What was it you suggested to
change on the last line
Yes.
Now you are an angel / and my staircase
How?
You are an angel-staircase? Alright ! It fits perfectly.

Hangs up.

Bye.

The three staring at the phone, it rangs

Here.

Gives the phone to Leon.

Leon
Hello.

Kiddy
(To the chair)
It must be Juliet, she's probably forgotten something . What will It all be about?

Leon
Jimmy?

Kiddy
(To the chair).
Uy, Jimmy. He lives here around the corner. You know, a real tragedy, he has a brother a little bit...

He touches his head.

And you know how they are. They get aggressive for anything, imagine things and make false
accusations... Once he said –the brother of Jimmy, not Jimmy, the one that is a bit... Poor thing-
that Silvi had dyed her hair and then he said there were Human blood stains on our Porsche, here,
right in front of the garage.

Silvi
They are retards. I'd never dye my hair.

Leon
What!? Calm down and explain it to me again.
That he grabbed a knife?
And he is doing what?
To your mom?
You need to leave the house immediately...
And take your mom with you...
Dead?

Silence

Well, where are you? In which part of the house?

In the toilet?
Have you called the police ?
You don't know the number?
Do you want me to call?
Well, right here in front of me there is a man who is a police officer.
No. No, he can't go himself now. How is he gonna go? He is not on duty. He doesn't have the
weapon, the hat, the... The... The stick. But I will hang up and he will call his friends to go and
detain your brother.

Blackout.

7.
Kiddy, Leon and Silvi are ready to play. Norbert is seated on the chair they all talked to on scene 6.

Silvi
One, two, three, cuatro. Five... Six...

Silvi, kiddy, Leon:

Seven shades of white

Seven ways to love
Seven shades of white
Ways to love / and give

If you blow your boat

Si es que lo echas a andar
Si es que ya no me amas
Échate a andar / al mar

Monday and Tuesday / give you Mars

Tuesday and Friday / givvyou more
Saturday I watch the TV spots
Sunday I go for a walk
Al mar
A inseminar

Seven shades of white

Seven shapes of love
Seven shapes of foam
Jokes from the sea / from the disease
That made me lov.

Silence. They look at Norbert.

Silvi
And? What do you think? We need to add some more details, still, and to rehearse it on
Wednesday, but basically, this is it.

Leon
What's missing the most is the second guitar

Norbert
Yes, you told me last time, Juliet D'onofrio.

Leon
Did you like it?

Norbert
No.

Pause.

No, I don't like this. I came because you asked me to, but I should have been firm and said: no. I
don't know if I should see... I'm talking about your mom. And I'm here, with you, and she is gonna
come any second...

Kiddy
No, relax. She is out dropping off the last kids.

Norbert
What "last kids"?

Kiddy
The kids... Of the school bus... From the school...

Leon
The Charlie Dickens.

Kiddy
She does the school transport, didn't she tell you?

Norbert
I love her. But... I know how it is, and that it could be much easier...but it's not. Things have not
gone that way, and we must take things as they are. And you invite me here, and I come. Because
I know you need...I know you would like to see in me, you look for... A dad... I lost mine, too. I
know what that is. And you play songs...one listens to songs if one's doing well. If one is not well
one doesn't listen to songs because they make you feel worse. And how can I judge music, if I
didn't even realise how much damage I was doing to the mother of my child? Because I am a
father. My wife is not well, she is terrible... And now it seems she attempted to commit suicide.
Pause
.
I'm going to sit down, excuse me.

He sits on a chair.

She was alone at home with the kid. She sent him out to make some groceries... He had just
managed to get out of bed, he was with fever, missing classes, he is probably affected by all this,
and he went out to do the groceries... She sent him out, she sent him out of the house to... She
told him: bring me Dolca. Tía María, Kasfruit, little things... That were probably needed, as well, I'm
not saying they weren't... And then she called the suicide hot line.

Silence.

Right at the very same time she was talking with the assistant, A woman, Susan, Susan Prior... I
spoke with her afterwards and she told me all this. Because my wife won't talk... Not only with me,
she doesn't talk about it, she doesn't talk at all. She is... She is... Silent, it's a time bomb. At the
same time she was telling Susan prior: "I'm not gonna kill myself”, she was cutting her arm veins
with the bread knife...

Mini enters, very sexy, with a plate full of fish and chips
She puts the plate down. Decisively.

Mini
Try them.

She goes aside, and puts her arm against the wall
Silence.

Kiddy
Have you finished with the school bus?

Mini
No, there wasn't any. There is no more school bus for me.

Kiddy
Wat happened?

Mini
they don't want to get in.

Leon
What do you mean?

Silvi
Are the parents not sending them?

Mini
It's the kids. The kids don't want to get in. They are scared of how I drive. I started enjoying
skipping traffic lights, get on top of the pavement at each turn, I like -how to say it?- not giving
priority to the poor one coming from the left, suddenly it drives me crazy to Adelantar on the
curves, speed up on Los charcos... Those things law doesn't like, I like.
Norbert, the weather seahorse.

Norbert
What?

Mini
The weather seahorse.
(To the kids.)
That souvenir from Cornwall. That one that changes with the weather.

Norbert
I thought it was a present.

Mini
I didn't even lend it to you. You stole it. And now that we are no longer dating I want you to give it
back... And the stripped jumper.

Norbert
What stripped jumper?

Mini
Silence.
That night around City airport. That we went to watch the planes take off. And it got cold.

Kiddy
Mom, I want you to now that we asked Norbert to come.

Silvi
Yes, because we are playing at an Irish Pub, in Hoxton, and our second guitar is missing. You
know Juliet is going to New York.

Mini
Which pub?

Silvi tries to answer.

Mini points at Norbert.

He is going to answer.

Pause.
Leon and Kiddy try to make Norbert understand some credible names.

Norbert
"Someone's head”?

Silvi
Simultaneously with Norbert.
La cucaracha”?

Mini
La cucaracha”? That's what I thought. I knew it all. Why did you tell me to dress like this? And now
he is here.

Ripping off some earrings.

Why did you get me this from the mall that makes me look like shit? Why did you tell me to make
this many fish cakes? Are you in such need for a second guitar? What? Have you just found out
Juliet is going to New York? She's been years saying that she is going to New York, saving money,
playing at parties.
(To Norbert).
And you dare?

Slaps him and exits.

Norberto
Following her.
¡Mini... Mini!

Stops.
(To the kids)
What's going on? You fool me into this.
Exits.

Leon
(To silvi)
La cucaracha” you are so obvious.

Silvi
¿Ah, me?

Kiddy
It's alright. It's part of plan B that plan A fails.

Silvi
Always?

Norbert comes back.

Pause.

Norbert
Was it really that important to you?

Leon
What?

Norbert
The weather seahorse.

Silvi
Yes.

Kiddy
(At the same time than Silvi).
No.

Norbert
Ah.
Exits.
Mini, they say they don't really care ... That...

Leon
Go, Silvi. Don't let Norbert leave.

Silvi
How do I do that?

Kiddy
What do you mean how do I do that”? Plan B.

Leon
Sandals.

He brings Silvi some sandals

Silvi
While she rapidly puts them on, and they two try to make her look presentable.

It's not going to work. He doesn't like me.

Kiddy
I already explained to you. Every man that falls in love with a widow with children... Well, they
fantasise with the possibility of seducing also the daughter. Go.

Silvi exits.

While they put on a table, and then put on the table cloth, cutlery, etc.

Leon
Why did she arrive before?

Kiddy
You heard her. The kids don't want to get in the bus. It doesn't matter. We keep on going with what
we rehearse. Let's improvise.

Finds a woman shoe.

And this?

Leon
What? I don't know.

Kiddy
This is Lilly's.

Leon
No...

Kiddy
This is one of Lilly's shoes. Can you do anything right you two?

Leon
Let me hide it. It must have fallen when we took the body to Jimmy's.

Kiddy
Can you not give that information out loud?

Silvi enters.

Leon
What happened? And Norbert?
Silvi
It's disgusting.

Kiddy
He left?

(The brothers are staring at her.

Silvi
They are kissing.

Leon
With mom?

Kiddy
Back to Plan A. Fantastic.

Silvi
You only say that coz you haven't seen it. He puts... His hand... It's disgusting.

Norbert and Mini enter holding hands. The telephone rings. The siblings look at each other .

Mini
Pick up.

The three doubt.

Leon
No. What for? Let's sit down and eat.

He picks up the phone and hangs. Takes the plate full of fish and chips and puts it on the centre Of
the table

Kiddy
Is he staying?

Mini
Yes. We are fine again... Me and Norbert.

Leon begins to serve the food. They all sit around the table. The siblings, stressed. Mini and
Norbert, very relaxed.

Mini
Why don't you bring something to drink?

Kiddy
Oh, yes, Irn bru. I'll bring it in a second.

Mini
There's no more irn bru.

Kiddy looks at his siblings with deep concern.

There's kiwi juice. Bring.

Kiddy exits.
Norbert
Hey, Mini, this are amazing.

Silvi
¿Mini?

Norbert
Eh... Yes, it's how I call her with affection... Does it bother you?

Silvi
No.

Norbert
I call her Mini, and she sometimes calls me... Do I tell them how you call me?

Mini
No.

Norbert
(To Silvi).
Because you must have a boyfriend as well, right? How does he call you? ¿“Silvia, this, Silvia,
that”?

Silvi
No, Silvina is my name. And he calls me: “Silvi”, o “Sil”.

Norbert
Well, Silvi, Sil, are affectionate nicknames.

Mini
Alright, Silvina, cut it.

Awkward silence

Norbert
Did you know that kiwi didn't use to exist? It's new.

Mini
It existed but in Australia.

Silence.

Kiddy
Here's the juice. I debased it a bit because kiwi it's too acid. It's from the same family of cucumbers
and aubergines.

Mini
No, kiwi it's a combination of tomato and something else.

Kiddy
And aubergine.

Mini
I don't think so.
Silence. Kiddy pours juice from the jug.

You are pouring it all over the table.

Kiddy
It's the jug that...

Mini
No sir, he has me sick all the time blaming the jug. Put that cod back.

Kiddy
But I barely ate anything.

Mini
Nor will you eat. You will fast all day today, and tomorrow we will decide.

Silence.

Kiddy
I'm just a little nervous, because we play in two days. Why don't we show Norbert "Sweet
staircase" to see if he wants to make the second guitar on La Cucaracha"? Or do you want to finish
eating first?

Silvi and Leandro

No

Mini
Why do you have to play that unpleasant song?

To Norbert

They made a song about that poor people, the girl on the escalator, that tube station accident, do
you remember, on Finsbury Park?

Silvi
What happens, Norbert, is that it touched us deeply. Imagine thousands of people stepping on
each other ...

Mini
There Were not thousands, Silvina; always exaggerating. It was a single person and she didn't
even die. I saw it on the sun, she had all her face striped from those stripes on the steps, as if she
had gone through a pasta machine. But she didnt die.

Kiddy
Well, we thought we had to do something, Mom, we couldn't remain indifferent, that ...

Mini
Play it better, if not you will be until tomorrow explaining.

Leon
He points at the empty chair they were all talking to on scene 6

Don't you want to sit there?

Norbert
No.

Silence.

Kiddy
Well, as you wish. you won't hear anything from there.

He looks at his siblings concerned. Norbert does not move. Mini and Norbert whisper and Laugh.

They play and sing, Norbert and Mini are chatting among themselves. They do Not pay the
slightest attention to the music:

Sweet staircase
A revolution
Sweet sweet race
To make you this song

Sweet staircase
confusion and depth
It changed direction
You fell at the step

Now you are an angel / on the staircase

Now you are the angel / of the staircase
Now you are an angel / and my staircase

When I die
press the button
Of This staircase
Which brings me to you.

Finsbury Park,
Fateful station,
Where science beatens love
It scratches a sun on your face

Sour Panther/ sweet staircase

(Now) you're an angel / on the stairscase
I want to go / to your stairscase

Suddenly silvi stops.

Leon
"What's up? Why do you stop? "

Mini
Finally.

Silvi
"I have to call Juliet."

Leon
Juliet?"

Kiddy
"Right now?"

Mini
Oh, that girl is an idiot. Five years to raise money for a ticket to New York? now there are plenty
offers with United ... Not to mention some Bolivian airline, Aeroperú, Lanchile ...
On top of that she is ugly.

Kiddy
Mom, don't interrupt. What were you going to say, Silvi?

Silvi
"Yes. She had..."

Kiddy
She who? be clear. They don't understand.

Silvi
Juliet D'onofrio. "She had an idea for an arrangement for the chorus. Did anyone see the phone? "

Leon
"Here."

The telephone rings.

Mini
Pick up.

Kiddy
Hang up

Leon picks up and then hangs.

There you go now Silvi. The phone.

Leon
"Here."

Silvi
I dial the number now, ok?"

Digits three numbers.

Kiddy
(To Norbert)
"Yes, because we were noticing something here in the chorus ... Could you pass me the spike?"

Norberto
Do you Strum with a spike?

Pause

Kiddo
"that one."

Norbert
What?
Pause.

Baby
"That one" That spike. Yes, I strum with a spike
(to Leon).
Is not that in "Sweet staircase" Im strumming with a spike?

Norbert
(To Mini.)
Are we going to the garden, as they get organised with the songs?

Mini
Yes, lets go.

Kiddy
Dont!

Leon makes gestures and Silvi accelerates the scene.

Leon
And? can you communicate? "

Kiddy
"In the chorus there is an extra syllable, but if we take it out, look

Plays and sings

Now you're an angel / on the stairscase

Now you're the angel / of the staircase
Now you're an angel / And my staircase

Interrupts and resumes the last line removing "and":

Now you're an angel / MY staircase

Stops playing.

"Then we close on a minor chord, and it no longer looks like a love song. Would you like more Irn
Bru? "

Mini and Norbert, who were about to go out stay watching the strange behavior of the children.
Especially Silvi, who tries to hide Lilly's shoe putting it in a cookie tin she can not open.

Silvi
Hello, Juliet.
You didn't come to rehearse.
Ah. No worries
Just one thing. You know on "sweet staircase", on the last chorus? What was it you suggested to
change on the last line
Yes.
Now you are an angel / and my staircase
How?
You are an angel-staircase? Alright ! . It fits perfectly.

Hangs up.

Bye.
The three staring at the phone, it rangs

Here.

Gives the phone to Leon.

Leon
Hello.

Kiddy
(To the chair)
It must be Juliet, she's probably forgotten something . What will It all be about?

Leon
¿Jimmy?

Kiddy
(To the chair).
Uy, Jimmy. He lives here around the corner. You know, a real tragedy, he has a brother a little bit...

He touches his head.

Mini
I attacked their mom.

Norbert
Oh, you're such a ... Come on, let's go the garden.

Mini
No. Let's go to the part, it's better.

Kiddy
Mom, wait. I'm talking to Norbert.

Norbert
About what?

Kiddy
I'm explaining how Jimmy's brother is like.

Mini
He is a retard that's how he is like.

Kiddy
Retakes.
"And you know how they are. They get aggressive for anything, imagine things and make false
accusations... Once he said –the brother of Jimmy, not Jimmy, the one that is a bit... Poor thing-
that Silvi had dyed her hair and then he said there were Human blood stains on our Porsche, here,
right in front of the garage."

Silvi
"Retards"

Mini
Silvina don't repeat everything Mommy says ...
Silvi
Don't interrupt me, Mom, I haven't finished talking. I still have to say, "I would never dye my hair."

Leon
What!? Calm down and explain to me again.
That he grabbed the knife?
And he is doing what?
To your mom?

Mini
Oh, Norbert, I want to be sprawled out and have you tickle my belly.

Norbert
Now attentive to the nature of the alleged situation on the phone.
(To Mini.)

No wait.

Leon
You need to leave the house immediately...
And take your mom with you...
Dead?

Silence

Well, where are you? In which part of the house?

In the toilet?
Have you called the police ?
You don't know the number?
Do you want me to call?
Well, right here in front of me there is a man who is a police officer.
No. No, he can't go himself now. How is he gonna...

Norbert
Snatches the phone.

Give it to me

The three look alarmed.

Officer Norbert Duncan!

Hello Hello...

Leon
I was talking to a person for real.

Kiddy
What must have happened is that ...

Silvi
Probably ...

Norberto
He cut.
Silvi, Kiddy and Leon
Exactly.

Norbert
What did he say? ... What did he say?

Leon
A lot of things. That ... that ...

Kiddy
That the brother, who is half ... was killing the mother, Lilly, which lives around here, with a Jamie
Oliver knife?

Leon
Yes something like that.

Norbert?
But was she alive? Was she still alive?

Mini
No. She was dead. If I did it. The Jamie Oliver knife. Mommy did it three days ago.

Norbert
Mini, wait this is serious.
(To Leon).
Did he say if she was alive? ¿Did You listen any screams? !? Listened any cries ?!

Leon looks at Kiddy and Silvi not knowing what to say.

Kiddy
He is shocked. I think he heard screams and that's why he's now petrified.

Leon
Yes Yes.

Norbert
Where is it?

Silvi
You're going?

Kiddy
No. How are you going to go? Even if you have the ... the ... the stick.

Norberto pulls a gun.

Norbert
Mini. Where is it? Do You know?

Mini
Around the corner. On Top of the haberdashery on Lower Road. That family, one misfortune after
another, first a retard, then I kill the mother and now the retard cuts her into pieces. Norbert take
care, those have angel faces but are very dangerous.

Norbert
Mini, don't worry, it's a 414 and I know what I have to do. Wait for me. And don't worry.
Kiddy
Yes, go. Maybe you could save a life.

Norbert exits.

Leon
No, don't go. It's better if your friends find the body ...

Kiddy
Sh! Don't you realize? Plan C, it's the same wether he or the police discover it.

Mini
What are you talking about?

The telephone rings. Mini takes it. Silvi takes it out of her hands and automatically hangs.

Mini
What have you been doing with the phone today? What if it's something important?

The children ignore her.

Leon
(To kiddo.)
What "Plan C"?

Kiddo
Think for a second. What is he going to find? A mutilated woman. A retard. A Jamie Oliver knife.
There is no way not to think that the murder occurred at the time when Mom was here, beside him.
Mini
Do not chaperone me any more. I am already a big woman and I can decide ...

Leon
... Shut up you idiot!

Mini
Pupu! What did you just called me, pupu?

Leon
You call me pupu again and I swear to god you go straight to jail. Do you think it's easy for us to do
all this? Fool! Selfish! You only think about yourself. Silvi is right in saying that you do not listen to
others. I always defended you from them. I'm sick. You're a psychopath! You're ill and you need to
accept it and shut up and ask for forgiveness and thank us all. All plans: the A, B, C. But you can
not right? You can not thank. As you could not thank dad for giving us all three the same name
when it was known, when everyone knew that one of us was not a Otegui. And he was paid with
contempt and abuse. You say you hated him, but truth is what you couldn't tolerate was that fact
you had next to you a man ethically superior, a man who you could have never equalled. And
those things weigh. And now the guilt makes you get out and kill people. You're killing people,
Mom! And if we do not end this, where are we going to end? Do you believe that raising children is
only cooking fish and chips? Are we going to spend a lifetime creating alibis to protect you? When
is our turn to live? When are we going to live? When is Silvi going to get a boyfriend? When will
Kiddy define and assume his homosexuality, poor thing? When will I be able to get from inside the
genius that you've always suppressed? "Pupu, pupu, pupu". Do You know what a psychoanalyst
would tell you?

Silvi
Wait a second. I'm perfectly fine with Jack. So don't mix up things.
Leon
Jack is a patch for your anguish.

Silvi
A patch for what? What are you saying? Would you like to talk to him? Button watcher.

Picks up the phone and dials.

Kiddy
Excuse me. You mean that I ... That you think I ...? Forgive me, you think I'm ...? Why do you think
I am ...? What ? "gay"?

Leandro
There. You are saying it. And it hurts, but I'm glad you finally assume it.

Hugs him.

Silvi
(On the phone).
Hi, Jack? I'm so-distressed. Leon says you're a patch. Do you love me? Can you tell him, please?

Gives the phone to Leon.

Leon
Picks up the phone, but still discussing with Mini. He points to his brothers with the phone tube.

This is the only thing that could grow out of you. What a pride right? Better would have been that
you had raise silkworms. At least they break the cocoon, they get out, and go, they fly.

Silvi
Can you speak to Jack who has something to say? Or do you prefer to throw the stone and hide
the hand? Unsuccessful, unhappy, big guy! Pick up the phone!

Leon
And then Norbert! Do You know what you did to the family of that poor cop? Do You Know what
you accomplished with your selfishness?

Silvi
Are you not going to pick up?

Leon
(To phone.)
Hello? How is it going? Who is this? Ah, Jack, yes. Forgive me I didn't call about the axis. I
consulted with my friend, but he says he doesn't sell it after all.

Silvi begins to maneuver the connecting cables between the amplifier and the telephone.

Silvi
What semieje? Ask. Ask him if he loves me. Ask him what I mean to him, what he gives me and
what I give him. Ask what we give to each other.
And I want something now, You know what it is?
(To all.)
Do you know what it is? For everyone to hear it

She finally connects. Press a button and we listen to Jacks voice off.
Jacks Voice
Fuck I can't believe he won't sell his semieje. You know I've made numbers and its cheaper to get
a second hand one than repairing the "Dune"?

Leon
And isn't it better to get a "Dacia"?

Jacks Voice
Hey can you hear the mess?

The sound of sirens of patrol filters through.

The street is packed with police cars.

Leon
On lower road?

Jacks Voice
No idea.

Silvi
(Getting the phone).
Tell them what we give to eachother, moron!

Leaves the phone and turns the volume to maximum.

Jacks Voice
¿Moron?

Silvi
No, no, Jackie, forgive me. This place is hell. Can you tell them what ...?

Jacks Voice
¿Moron? ¿Moron? That's you. Two months I've been dating Karen and you keep calling me like a
hungry dog. You have no self-respect.

Silence.

Hello. Hello?

We hear interference.

Hello. Hello?
And the asshole hangs up.

Jacks Mom Voice

Who was it?

Jacks Voice
Nothing. They fucked me over with the semieje, Mom. The Oteguis are all fucked up.

Silvi hangs. She is dismayed. He approaches kiddo, compassionate.

Kiddy I accept your thing. If you want to talk about it, let's talk about it.

Pause.
Kiddy
Leon, you talk about what happened at the swimming pool right? That was long ago, and you were
a grown up, I wasn't, it did not matter to me but it did to you, you could see things I couldnt... I
mean that's an issue... more yours than mine. To me that episode at the swimming pool did not
affect me either then nor later, and it doesn't affect me now. I always aknowledged it and I'm glad
you say this because I want to tell you one thing: swimming pools are made for that. And you were
my older brother.

Leon
Yes.

Kiddy
So don't mix things up and act like everything is lost. Any second Norbert will be back

Mini
I can be through all this and more. If you knew all that I have endured! But to Norbert you will not ...

Kiddy
you better shut up!

Mini
no! you better shut up!

Kiddy
Mom...

Mini
Get away! Do not touch me! Faggot! You yell at me, touch me! And you are grown ups, have hairs,
sweat! You Disgust me! the only one that touches me is Duncan! Officer Norbert Duncan!

Norbert enters shocked and covered in blood.

Norbert
It is horrible ... She is ... destroyed ... That boy is a beast ... He ... attacked me. Fill the tub with hot
water. I'll make a tourniquet. Do not touch! Do not touch me there! He is a murderer, has the face
of a murderer, no, I will never forget, I will not be able to erase that look from here.

Points to his head.

Mini
Fuck, fuck! Now that I was going to rebuild my life, fate takes him away, with a snatch. I loved you
like I never loved anyone, like I will never love anyone.

Norbert
Calm down, Mini, I will be fine. My blood pressure went down that's all.

Kiddy
Did he attack you?

Norbert
Yes. That retard killed his mother, la troceo, and when he saw me, he threw his arms around me. I
escaped by miracle.

He pulls a pair of keys stained with blood.

I locked him up. He's inside the boiler cabin. Call 911.
Mini
You look so frightened.

Puts her arm around his waist, as she tries to comfort him and Discovers something under his
clothes.

What is this? What do you have there?

Norbert
No, nothing. Go Fill the bathtub. Is there vinegar?

Mini
Do not scare me. What do you have there? What is that bulge?

Norbert
Nothing, I tell you! Stop!

Mini
Wrestles with him until he shows a box. He opens it. Music sounds.
The music box with a ballerina playing the Nutcracker theme from the film Love Story.

Pause.

This is a family memory, Norbert. Why was it in your crotch?

Norbert
You want to know why I had that?

Norberto rips the box and closes it.

The phone rings again.

Mini
And the striped sweater... where is it?

Silvi
Picks up the phone.

jack? Is it you?

Voice of Mayers
(Amplified through the speakers.)
Quiet, Miss. Commissioner Francis B. Mayers speaking, from the Central Police Department. We
have been trying to get in contact for an hour, you keep hanging up the phone. This has forced us
to deploy the operation. Next to me is the Head of Special Investigation Service, Commissioner
Ruben Boer, and leaders of the Brigade. I'm going to ask you to stay quiet and pretend you're
talking to your boyfriend. You answer me with a yes or no. Is there a man who calls himself Officer
Norbert Duncan?
Norbert makes signs for her to say no, as we hear increasingly some helicopter noise.

Silvi
No, it's not.

Voice of Mayers
I see I see. He is threatening you. Stay calm. No one will get hurt. Who else is with you?

Silvi
How is it...? You tell me names and I say yes or no? Does this have anything to do with the
murders of the neighborhood?

Voice Mayers
"There are a number of corrupt cops in the forces of our organization. We must purge the evil from
the roots. It is with this conviction that we are pursuing all agents, whom protected by the prestige
that gives our uniform, manage to commit their crimes in day light, right under the nose of our
citizens. The Norbert Duncans will know by this exemplary punishment that crime, however small,
goes not unpunished. " What I just read is an excerpt from the manifesto written by the
commissioner Boer and who speaks now. The house is surrounded. tell officer Duncan ...

Norbert
Norbert picks up the phone.
Officer Duncan speaking.

Voice of Mayers
Duncan, you better surrender. We will not negotiate.

Norbert
Me neither.

Voice of Mayers
Leave the house with your hands up.

Mini
Rips the phone from Norbert.
Don't do anything to him. He did nothing. It was me. I killed them. I ruined, in my haste, the lives of
my children. I was very unfair, I was selfish, I have no words to apologize ...

Voice of Mayers
It's Okay lady, calm down. We just registered agent Duncans property. Tell us if some of these
things that I am going to name belong to you : a calendar of Italian Tuscany, a reliquary with brown
hair, a potaovillo from the brand Knittax, a pen with a mobile Venetian gondola that moves up-
down down-up, a corkscrew siren, a Fujifilm calculator that converts any currency into euros, a
marble base crowned with bedding and attached by golden chain to a dromedary and palm tree, a
doll known as Ekeko, a reproduction of the Holy Shroud that opens and closes his eyes depending
from where you look at it, a poster of Angie Dickinson in her famous role ...

We hear the helicopter is approaching.

A Quetzalcoatl, a Lassie, a Flipper, a set of six glass bases with the following motifs: first, Vatican,
two London Eye, three, Saint Lawrence in its fullness, four, dad do not run away we wait for you,
five symbolic fox hunt , six, Nicole Kidman ...

Mini
What? I didn't hear well.

Voice of Mayers
... Nicole...Kidman.

Mini
No, that's not Nicole Kidman, that is Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco. And except for the Bedouin,
all that is mine. But I have it here at home.
Voice of Mayers
No, ma'am, that's only part of the spoils of Norbert Duncan. You and your family are facing a real
criminal, a disturbed ...

Mini
Look, sir ... I appreciate your warning, but know that Norbert is here listening to everything.
Because this phone is not a speakerphone. It's like ... a system of wiretapping, I don't even think it
is legal and well ... Oh, I do not know.
(To his children.)
Can anyone explain him?

Voice of Mayers
Duncan. I know you're listening. What you will do is open the garage door, and throw the weapons
where we can see them. And then going out with hands crossed behind your head, walking slowly.
Duncan, it's over. You are a disgrace to this force. Obey Me and nobody will get hurt.

Norbert
Mayers, if you do not want anyone to get hurt give me a salvoconducto. I will not surrender.

Voice Mayers
You are only making it worse. You're going to jail and there you'll have time to reflect. The dignity
of this force is not negotiable.

Norbert
What dignity? What jail ...? What? What do you mean, Mayers? Mayers Mayers ... ...! Prisoner ¿?
I? Do You Know what they do to police officers when they go to jail?

Voice Mayers
Yes, it's horrible. You should have thought of that before. Now it's too late. We will not pour out
innocent blood.

Norbert
I have three hostages, Mayers.

Mini
And me? Tell him four Norby.

Norbert
And I clarify that I don't care about any of them. I will start killing them one by one if you don't clear
the area.

Grabs Kiddy violently and puts the tip of the gun against his temple.
(To Mini.)

You tell them. Tell them I'm going to kill you. Tell them if they don't do what I say I will kill you!

Mini
Norbert. Have you gone crazy? i don't care about those little things, Lassie, Flipper; I care about
you; and you were almost a father to these poor souls. And now you want to kill them?

Silvi
A father? A father? this petty second hand thief, a father? How can you compare?

Mini
I do not compare ... To compare it takes two things and your father ...

Silvi
Exactly. We both know what really happened to Dad, that he's not dead as they made us believe,
and where they are living now.

Mini
I will not let you! Don't say it! Don't say it! Pupu, don't listen, she is an intriguer! She Lies!

Voice Mayers
Exit Duncan! In the helicopter there are two officers pointing directly at the skylight!

Norberto
I'm serious. I'll kill them.

Voice Mayers
Oh, stop, Duncan, I'm fed up, do you know from what time have we been ...?

Silvi
Pupu, kiddy: Dad is in a cabin in ...

Norbert
Shut up.

Silvi
On the route from ...

Norbert shoots her. Silvi falls and dies instantly.

Voice Mayers
What happened? Is Everyone fine?

Norbert
I do not negotiate. I warned you already. This is a 825 and you are not following the rules. All the
dead of tonight will fall on your file.

Voice Mayers
This is not a 825. A 825 is jewelry, important documents, microfilm, counterintelligence, and no
souvenirs. Kill whoever you want. We're going down. Now!

the sound of the helicopter increases. The voices are not audible. Norbert wants to force kiddy to
exit with him. Leon throws himself at Norbert to save his brother. The Three fall to the floor. Mini
protects the body of Silvi. Norbert shoots into the air. Suddenly the roof of the garage receives a
violent impact. The sound of the helicopter is deafening. Leon stands. The roof begins to collapse.
A beam is broken. Falling masonry. we see sniper red laser lights through the holes in the ceiling.
The lamps that illuminate the garage burst. Sparks. Peeks through the hole in the roof the
impressive leg of a helicopter. Norbert exits dragging out kiddy.

Blackout.

EPILOGUE
Kiddy on a wheelchair. Mini with a bandaged hand. Leon with suitcases near the door.

Mini
And the worst of all,

She looks at her hand.

I got hurt with that crap shit thing of the Nutcracker of Love Story. Here, I fell and it pierced me
here. Here the little dancer had to hit. How do you call this tiny bone?
Kiddy babbling things that are not understandable. Saliva coming out of his mouth. Leon and Mini
watch him.

What do you say now?

Leon
The same. That he is not gay.

Mini
How am I going to do to understand him if you leave?

Leon
I don't know.

Mini
Poor retard.

Leandro
Well, he doesn't do it on purpose. He has a chip at the base of the occipital.

Mini
No. I'm not talking about your brother. I talk about Jimmy's, Jimmy's brother, which is half ...

Points to her Head.

Poor soul

Leandro
Why poor soul? It will be better for him. In prison he will have someone caring for him. It is a
differential jail. You know how they live there? The Play basketball, manufacture pens ... I wish my
brother ever in his life could return to manipulate a pen.

Kiddy babbles.

Or that, kiddy, yes, Your guitar.

Mini
And how was it, I still don't quite understand that the retard had also been blamed for the death of
Rebecca?

Leon
We told the police he did work in our garden.

Mini
Yes, but I confessed, I said that there was the body of the woman I killed on the market.

Leon
But you can't prove it.

Mini
Ah.

Leon
The police had a murderer, who worked in our garden, not to mention the map with Greek letters
that appeared on his school bag. Your version is unlikely.
You can say what you want, it will not bring Silvi back...

Mini
Neither Norbert.

Leandro
Nor will it prevent me from going.

Mini
You'll be happy. I'm sure.
(About her bandaged hand).
This wound will heal soon. The one who will miss you is Kiddy. But for you it's the best, isn't it? And
Silvi is now in peace. What tormented life that of Silvina, despised by all, without any musical
talent, haunted by the ghost of her father. And you know how much I appreciate, Leon, you Not
having asked any questions about it.

Pause.
They hug. Silent.

Leandro
Breaking the hug.
I'll miss the plane.

Leandro goes.
prolonged silence.

Mini
What a mania going out through the garage.
Blackout.