Play+scene

Scene: Prison Cell, Dark

//Two inmates, close friends are discussing plan for after release.//

Jerome:(whispering) First things first. I'm goin to the bar.

Damien: (whispering) Me? I'm getting the hell outta the state.

//Enter guard//

Guard: (shouting loudly) Keep it down in there! it's lights out!

Jerome: (whispering) Ingrate. Must be easy; huh. (Pause) eh, Damien? (longer pause) Damien? (Silence) (panicking) Damien!?

Damien: (to himself) Damned guards sitting up there all high, and mighty. (shouting) Any of you guards wanna come down here, and make me keep it down!

//Exit guard//

Jerome: Damien, shut up man. they'll kill you!

Damien: (still shouting) You guards wouldn't be so tough without your weapons! I'd bet I could take any of you on!

Jerome: Your an idiot Damien! You tryin to die? there's easier ways than getting the hell beat out of you by a guard!

Damien: (to Jerome) At least like this I died a fightin man.

Jerome: You don't have to die at all.

//Lights turn on. Damien's cell door is slammed open. Enter guard.//

Guard: Still feel tough?

Damien: Remember: I'll never die alone.

Guard: (chuckling) Then I guess I'll have to send your friend after you. eh Jer--

Damien: (interrupting) Leave him out of this you heartless bastard.

Guard: One's good enough for me anyway.

//Damien draws a shank, and after a short scuffle the shank is buried in the neck of the guard.//

Damien: (shaking) Got what he deserved.

Jerome: Are you okay Damien?

Damien: Fine, but not for long.

//Jerome's cell door opens to allow a guard outside to drag him next door to Damien's cell. Enter warden with three guards//

Warden: Well Damien, you know how this goes. Eye for an eye, and all that.

Damien: At least I brought justice to somebody. (closes eyes)

Warden: (drawing a handgun) How ungrateful. You kill one of my men, after I provide you; a criminal rejected by society with shelter, (voice rising to a shout) and then dare say it was justified!

Damien: (yelling) Your damn men set us all up! he deserved what he got!

Warden: (pointing his gun at Damien's forehead) Well, be that as it may//,// you just murdered a man. In my prison the rules are clear: an eye for and eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a death for a death. (squeezes trigger)

//Damien weakly waves at Jerome before having his head ruptured by a bullet.//

Jerome: (shouting in rage) You bastards! I'll kill every one of you!

Warden: (calmly) Now Jerome you may want to keep it down before I have to solve that disturbance as well. We wouldn-

Jerome: (yelling at the warden) You think you can just do whatever you want?

Warden: (smiling) Actually, I do. I do think that, and just to prove it I wanna kill you like an animal. So (he pauses pointing the gun at Jerome's eye) I think I just may.

Jerome: (calmly) Well then, I guess I'll see you in He--

//Jerome dies//

//End Scene//