Five Television Plays (David Mamet) by David Mamet

Author:David Mamet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

A Wasted Weekend

Dramatis Personae

RADIO ANNOUNCER

JABLONSKI

RENKO

HILL

LUCY BATES

BUNTZ

HENRY GOLDBLUME

BELKER

KHAKI OFFICER

HUNTER

FURRILLO

STATE TROOPER

SECOND STATE TROOPER

YOUNG WOMAN (MISS CARRINGTON)

GUY

I.A.D. OFFICER

LAWYER

PROPRIETOR oF THE CURRENCY EXCHANGE

ROBBER

OFFICER

INTERIOR: JABLONSKI'S HOUSE. DAY.

(Angle: Kitchen countertop. Man in plaid lumberjack shirt making coffee.)

RADIO ANNOUNCER (voice over): I'll be with you this morning right up until six a.m., Roger Armandale and the traffic report. Thanks for stickin’ with me through the night. If you've been up all night, here is the song for you. For those of you who just got up, here's how the other half lives: the immortal Glenn Miller:

(Radio starts playing “Moonlight Serenade.”)

(Hand comes into the frame, picks up a clock, it reads 4:45. Sound of a knock on the door.)

(Angle: JABLONSKI, the man in the lumberjack shirt, going to open the back door. HILL and RENKO enter. They are dressed in outdoorsy clothes. They come into the kitchen and make themselves comfortable at the kitchen table.)

RENKO: Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes.

HILL: Gimme some of that coffee . . .

(JABLONSKI starts pouring them coffee.)

JABLONSKI: How'd you sleep last night?

HILL: Not a wink, man, I was up at two, at three . . .

RENKO: I couldn't sleep . . . I was up cleaning my gear, packing . . .

HILL: . . . where's Henry?

JABLONSKI: . . . meeting him at the Stationhouse.

RENKO: . . . maan, I'm thinkin’. . . get me out of that car and get me out of that job a minute, get me somewhere where it matters . . .

HILL (gets up, holding his coffeecup, checks his watch): Come on, we'll take it in the car.

(RENKO gets up. JABLONSKI puts on his coat. They all move toward the door. JABLONSKI takes several hunting rifles from behind the door, passes them out to his friends. As RENKO exits he declaims:)

RENKO: “My heart's in the highlands. My heart is not here. My heart's in the highlands a chasin’ the deer.”

(They exit the kitchen. We hear them faintly, outside, talking.)

INTERIOR: SQUAD ROOM

Roll call. LUCY BATES in charge.

BATES: Lieutenant will be posting the duty roster for the next rotation . . . (checks clipboard) . . . those of you interested, your requests for overtime . . .

(Reaction: "Yeah. What about ‘em . . . ?")

BATES: They're in process. Several of them have been submitted for the Pulitzer Prize for Modern Fiction . . . (Checks list. Holds up a composite drawing.) White man, early thirties, shoulder-length blond hair, blue windbreaker . . . this is the third armed robbery, a currency exchange, last night. Eighteenth and Promontory. Look for him. White male, one hundred fifty pounds, medium height, shoulder-length blond hair, a blue windbreaker . . . (She lowers the composite drawing, checks her list.) Ther'll be a bunch of Boy Scouts in the House today. The Captain's talking to them at eleven hundred hours on “Law Enforcement as a Career.” Anyone who'd like to attend is . . .

BUNTZ: Law Enforcement as a Hobby . . . ?

BATES: In your case I see how that's appropriate, but the Captain's subject will be Law Enforcement as a Career .

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