Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner

Author:Erich Kästner [Miller, Carl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783195176
Publisher: OBERON BOOKS Ltd

INTERVAL

PART TWO

Night falls.

EMIL looks in wonder as lights fizz alive across the city. Neon reds and sodium yellows turn night into a kind of day.

ARNIE Middleton, Silent IRENE (or ISAAC) and PETZOLD arrive with HILDE, PONY, the PROFESSOR, TOOTS and TUESDAY.

HILDE: This is Emil.

PONY: He is the victim of a dastardly crime.

TOOTS: But he can’t involve the feds on account of he’s on the run from the peelers out in the sticks.

HILDE: This is Arnie Middleton.

TUESDAY: Our best poker player.

PETZOLD: Petzold.

PROFESSOR: From my building.

ARNIE: Silent Irene (or Isaac).

TOOTS: She (or he) doesn’t say much.

PONY: This isn’t going to be easy.

PETZOLD: Not for girls, maybe.

PROFESSOR: We need to find a perpetrator last seen heading that way twenty minutes ago.

HILDE: Who knows all the alleyways round here?

TUESDAY puts up his hand.

PROFESSOR: Petzold, Toots, Arnie – post lookouts at every junction.

HILDE: Who is good at drawing?

TUESDAY puts up his hand.

PROFESSOR: Irene (Isaac), make portraits from Emil’s description of the suspect.

EMIL: Hat like this.

EMIL, HILDE, PONY, the PROFESSOR, TOOTS and TUESDAY demonstrate MR SNOW’s hat.

EMIL: Moustache like this.

EMIL, HILDE, PONY, the PROFESSOR, TOOTS and TUESDAY demonstrate MR SNOW’s moustache.

HILDE: Who has a telephone at home?

TUESDAY puts up his hand.

PROFESSOR: Tuesday.

TUESDAY: Yes!

HILDE: All memorise Tuesday’s telephone number.

TUESDAY: B A V zero five seven nine.

DETECTIVES: B A V zero five seven nine.

HILDE: Any information, call that number and tell Tuesday.

TUESDAY: But I won’t be there. No! I don’t want to stay at home.

PETZOLD: Do as you’re told.

PROFESSOR: We are joined in a common purpose.

HILDE: We are Detectives.

PONY: We need a password.

TOOTS: So Tuesday knows we’re legit when we call.

ARNIE: Emil.

HILDE: Password Emil.

PETZOLD: This is never going to work.

PROFESSOR: Good luck Detectives!

DETECTIVES: Password Emil!

DETECTIVES spread out across the city.

~

MADAME MIMI: Now the sun is down,

the lamps are bright.

Children are asleep

But I’m awake…

IDA prepares to sleep in a lonely house.

The MAN FROM THE 177 drinks.

DETECTIVES show the sketches of MR SNOW to other CHILDREN – Shoe-shiners, Messengers, Street Sweepers – some of whom can show the way MR SNOW went.

PETZOLD: (Telephone.) Password Emil! Sighting outside Metropol Theatre.

TOOTS: (Telephone.) Password Emil! Seen turning down Martin Luther Street.

ARNIE: (Telephone.) Password Emil! Suspect passed the Western stores.

HILDE tracks sightings of MR SNOW on a map.

HILDE: Here. Here. Here. He must be somewhere on Nuremburg Street.

EMIL: What’s on Nuremburg Street?

HILDE: Hotels.

On Nuremburg Street, uniformed Hotel DOORMEN guard their separate hotels, each accompanied by a PAGE.

DETECTIVES work their way along the hotels trying to get information from the PAGES without the DOORMEN noticing.

TUESDAY’s telephone rings.

TUESDAY: Password Emil. Hotel Eden, negative.

TUESDAY writes down the message.

TUESDAY: This is an important job, Count Hindenburg.

The telephone rings.

TUESDAY: Password Emil. Hotel Bavaria, negative.

TUESDAY sighs as he writes the message.

TUESDAY: There are a lot of hotels in Berlin.

The telephone rings.

TUESDAY: Password Emil. Hotel El Dorado – Yes!

PONY cycles up to EMIL and HILDE.

PONY: Detective Hilde! Detective Emil! Hotel El Dorado. And we’ve got someone on the inside!

~

GERDA, a chambermaid, guides EMIL, PONY, the PROFESSOR and TOOTS along a hotel corridor.

TOOTS: We’ve definitely got him now.

PROFESSOR: This is Gerda.

PONY: She used to go to my school.

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