Two Winters Past

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EXT. YARD

BLYTHE stands on the porch, watching down the road. His clothes are bloody and disheveled. SPIDER enters from within the house and melts against him.

SPIDER: You were amazing.

BLYTHE: I’ve never done that to a man before. I’m no torturer.

SPIDER: He would have raped me and made me a slave.

BLYTHE: He doesn’t deserve torture. No one deserves that.

SPIDER: It’s no less than what he’d do to me. That man is going to die otherwise, and you got important information.

BLYTHE: I need to tell Turner.

SPIDER: Turner can wait! (Desperate.) That man hasn’t told you all he knows. You need to go back in there.

BLYTHE: I can’t go back in there.

SPIDER: You can, and you will. There is a hammer, you’ll break his fingers.

BLYTHE: I can’t.

SPIDER: Do it for me.

Tense hesitation before BLYTHE pushes past her into the house.

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