Five Kinds of Silence - Script [Drama Work]

Five Kinds of Silence - Scene Twelve

Five Kinds of Silence - Scene Twelve

Lawyer: We're trying to prepare a case for the defence –

Janet: I had clinical depression. That's what they called it. The doctors kept saying why Janet, why are you like this?

Lawyer: – so if you can tell us everything you can about what happened –

Janet: Every morning, wake up crying. It made him mad, he wanted me to smile, go on, take that look of yours, smile Janet, smile, or people might catch on –

Lawyer: – I think we may be able to provide a very strong case –

Janet: I couldn't do it anymore, the muscles I my face stopped functioning.

Lawyer: – for citing migration, over a period of years –

Janet: He'd shout you lot've got everything, to want for nothing.

Lawyer: Perhaps you'd like a cup of tea –

Janet: Every time I went to the hospital, is there anything you want to tell us? No, nothing, no. Because would could I say? Where would I start? And if I did, I knew he'd kill us all. Mum, then Susan, then me. I'm that order. Then himself. I knew he would because he told me.

Lawyer: What did you feel when you'd shot him?

Janet: Pardon me?

Lawyer: When you shot him, what were you feeling?

Janet: What did you feel here, what did you feel there? Where did the intercourse take place? What difference does it make? The pictures in my head are mine, and giving them to you won't wipe them out –

Lawyer: Janet? Are you listening?

Janet: I felt nothing.

Lawyer: Did you feel relieved, elated?

Janet: You think he's gone now he's dead. But the dead don't go anywhere, they dance in your head, they come to you at night. The dead don't die, I know that now.

Lawyer: Did you love him?

Janet: Of course we did. He was out father. (Crossfade to Susan and the psychiatrist.)