Before we hear her reply the scene switches to a remote gloomy farmhouse in Sweden where an unshaven man is shuffling about the house. He looks about 80 years old and keeps bursting in to tears. Slowly his head drops to his chest and he lets out a deep sigh. He sits down on an armchair and bursts in to tears. Suddenly the door opens and a young woman walks in. “Dad,” she says, “what’s the matter?” He looks up and takes about five minutes before replying. “I’ve been asked to help out in the case of Meggy Bitchell over in England.” “What’s so bad about that?”, asks the young woman. But before he can answer the phone rings. The man picks it up. “Inspector Fenceander here”. He listens but says nothing and then puts the phone down. He looks at his daughter and bursts into tears again. “You don’t understand. No-one understands. I once appeared in a film with Meggy Bitchell. She was appalling. I am a great actor and she is nothing. Now they want me to go and co-star with her again. I just can’t do it.”
There is another five minutes of complete silence. Suddenly the door is kicked in and a man with a beetroot where his head should be bursts in. “You come and ‘elp my ma out or else I’ll stick yer head dahn the toilet.” Fenceander bursts into tears again.
Meanwhile back in the hospital, Big Charlie’s son looks at his father and says, witheringly, “Can you lend me a tenner?”
Music….
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