People Live Here by George F. Walker

Author:George F. Walker [Walker, George F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781772013016
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 2020-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

LEO: What evidence? There is no goddamn evidence! (to MADDY) Look. Untie me. And I’ll forget this ever happened.

VIOLET: (offstage) Don’t do it, honey!

LEO: Maddy! Please. I’m getting kinda stressed out here. I had my heart checked out in prison, and the results weren’t that good.

MADDY: Let’s just see what she has. If we humour her for a while it’ll be easier for all of us.

VIOLET returns with a large box, turns it over, and lets the contents spill out onto the floor.

LEO: What the fuck’s all that?

VIOLET: Your mother’s diaries. I forgot I had them, and then one day there they were under my bed. She kept her eyes on you and your brother until the day she died. And when she knew that day was close at hand she gave them to me for safekeeping. I figure it was to provide whatever proof I needed against you.

LEO: She kept diaries? You actually want me to believe that woman kept diaries?

VIOLET: (off the box) Well there’s the proof. Right in that box.

LEO: Yeah? And what language are they in?

VIOLET: What’s it matter?

LEO: Because she couldn’t write more than ten words in English.

VIOLET: I had them translated.

MADDY: Who by?

VIOLET: I have friends who speak many different languages.

LEO: Right. And all of them are in your goddamn head. I’m asking who you know in the real world who speaks what’s-it-called …

MADDY: She was Lithuanian.

LEO: Yeah, right.

VIOLET: Lithuanian. French. Greek. What’s it matter. The woman maybe couldn’t write in English, but she spoke it well enough to let me know what she thought of you and that she highly suspected what you and Keith were up to. (to MADDY) Assassins. Killers. They were hired killers. They worked for anyone who could pay their fee.

MADDY: And Nanna knew this?

VIOLET: (pointing) It’s all in there.

LEO: Bullshit. She had nothing to do with us. We saw her maybe twice a year, Maddy.

VIOLET: She was a very intuitive woman. Plus there were rumours. They both had a well-known tendency to violence. People in the neighbourhood were afraid of them.

LEO: And that meant we were killers for hire? (to MADDY) Look, Maddy. Get this into your head, okay? You have to let me go, or you’re in even more trouble than she is. I mean, you’re not a certified loon, so you can be held responsible.

VIOLET: I’ve heard enough of him for now. Just the sound of his voice makes me want to harm him.

VIOLET is wheeling him towards the bedroom.

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