Script

Preliminary Task- Script

The Interrogation

Inspector Robertson: Mattie Goddard
Marcus Greene: Connor Southwell

MARCUS GREENE is sitting at a table, faced with a empty chair and tape recorder. INSPECTOR ROBERTSON enters the room, sits, drinks for a mug and stares for a while.

INSPECTOR ROBERTSON

Greene, not the first time I’ve sat opposite you at this table.

INSPECTOR ROBERTSON starts recording on the tape recorder and leans forward to question MARCUS GREENE.

INSPECTOR ROBERTSON

Record time beginning at 5:01PM. The defendant was arrested on the 18th October 2011, the defendant was bought to his local police station, where he was arrested after a lengthy police chase. If the defendant would like to state his name and date of birth for the benefit of the tape.

MARCUS GREENE

Marcus Christopher Adam Greene. Date of Birth 12th July 1987

INSPECTOR ROBERTSON

Mr Greene, as a previous offender and a man who only 2 months previous got released from prison, why were you involved in a police chase after the death of a young woman?

MARCUS GREENE

No comment.

INSPECTOR ROBERTSON

Bit suspicious don’t you think Mr Greene?
MARCUS GREENE

No comment

INSPECTOR ROBERTSON

Where were you on the night of the 14th October 2011?

MARCUS GREENE

I was with friends, out and about. You know how it is.

INSPECTOR ROBERTSON

How exactly ‘is it?’ that a young women gets murdered then, Mr Greene?

MARCUS GREENE

It’s discrimination, just cos’ I have been in prison before, youse are adding 2 and 2 and making 5. It’s easy pinning this on me.

INSPECTOR ROBERTSON goes into a file and gets out a piece of paper, he reads from this.

INSPECTOR ROBERTSON

2002, burglary. 2005, car theft. 2007, assaulting a police officer. 2010, assaulting a police officer. 2010, assaulting your girlfriend. Not a great track record, Mr Greene.

MARCUS GREENE

Those are irrelevant to this crime, Inspector, and my past ain’t great, I accept that. But I ain’t no murderer. Especially to a girl I loved...

INSPECTOR ROBERTSON

So you accept you had involvement with Miss Russell, agreed?

MARCUS GREENE

Yes.

INSPECTOR ROBERTSON
Then, for a relationship, or ‘agreement’. How did a 23 year old women end up dead, sir?

MARCUS GREENE is visually distressed at this point, and stands up, and aggressively shouts at INSPECTOR ROBERTSON

MARCUS GREENE

I loved her, and this, all of this, was an accident, I didn’t plan it and you, sitting there in a cushy job, nice suit, money rolling in. You don’t understand, you never will. I didn’t mean to hurt her.

MARCUS GREENE is visually distressed and slumps over the table, sobbing, his anger has turned to guilt.

INSPECTOR ROBERTSON

That will be all, Mr Greene. Recording finished at 17:07.

Ends.