Scene 1
DARKNESS
2 BURLY GUARDS: Get up, you loony pig!
LIGHTS UP.
Set: BROADMOOR ASYLUM
A tiny cell. KELLY lays on a filthy cot. He jumps up when there is a sound off stage of a rusty, metal door being unlocked and opened. Kelly hides an unseen object in his clothes. 2 BURLY GUARDS storm into Kelly’s cell carrying a straight jacket.
KELLY: What do you want? I didn’t do anything wrong!
2 BURLY GUARDS: You got a visitor. We need to make you look pretty.
KELLY: What? Who?
2 Burly Guards force Kelly into the straight jacket and sit him in the metal chair next too the bed.
2 BURLY GUARDS: Shut up, you! Quit yer squirmin’, or I’m gonna smash your face!
KELLY: I don’t want to talk! Tell him I’m ill! Come back tomorrow.
2 BURLY GUARDS: I thought I told you to shut your mouth!
Enter ALICE.
ALICE: Get your hands off him!
Alice struggles with 2 Burly Guards until they release Kelly.
ALICE (cont): Mr. Kelly asked to see this man!
2 Burly Guards glare at Alice and exit. Alice kneels next to Kelly and puts her hands on his knees.
KELLY: What’s going on, Alice?
ALICE: It’s okay, Jimmy. Don’t worry. It’s that man you wrote to. Abberlane. Do you remember?
KELLY: Abberline?
ALICE: Yeah, that’s the one. Said he used to be a cop.
KELLY: First Class Inspector Frederick Abberline.
ALICE: These damn cops think they can come in here to knock you boys around whenever they feel!
KELLY: He’s waited years for this.
ALICE: Well, I ain’t gonna let him lay a finger on you.
KELLY: Wait ‘till you hear what I done.
ALICE: I don’t care about your wife, that was years ago. You ain’t like that now.
KELLY: He ain’t here about my wife.
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