Mrs. Johnstone (with a sigh of relief): Mickey!
MICKEY glances over at his mother.
Mickey: You… What do you want?
LINDA steps forward towards MICKEY, she moves to hug him, but he stands up and walks to the front door of his old house.
Linda: Mickey? What… What’s the matter Mickey?
MICKEY turns on LINDA in a blind rage.
Mickey: You! You’re the matter Linda!
Linda (confused): M… Me? What do you mean? You need to get off those pills love.
Mickey: I did Linda… I did, and do you know what I started to notice? You! You and that posh git Eddie.
Linda: Eddie? We’re just friends Mickey, your so friggin paranoid!
Enter EDWARD slowly from behind MRS. JOHNSTONE.
Edward: Linda, are… are you okay? I saw you running and…
Mickey: Yeah, yeah, she’s just fine Eddie! ‘Course you would know!
Edward: Mickey…
Mickey: Don’t Mickey me!
Linda: Eddie, Mickey, stop this please!
MICKEY pulls out the gun from his back pocket and aims it at EDWARD, LINDA screams.
Edward: Put the gun away Mickey… I just want to talk!
Mickey: NO! I’m going to end this right here and right now!
A POLICEMAN walking along the road to the left of EDWARD, MICKEY, LINDA and MRS. JOHNSTONE notices the gun in MICKEY’ s hand, he takes his gun from his holster and kneels low and calls for backup.
Mrs. Johnstone: Eddie! Mickey! Stop this at once!
Mickey: Quiet mam, I have to do this.
Mrs. Johnstone: Mickey, Eddie, you’re… you’re brothers!
MRS. JOHNSTONE steps forward towards EDWARD, MICKEY and the POLICEMAN hold their aim still.
Mickey: That’s kids stuff mam, he’s not my brother!
Mrs. Johnstone: No… Mickey, you and Eddie are twins…
Both EDWARD and MICKEY look paralysed with shock, MICKEY steps towards EDWARD looking closely at his face, and with a sharp reaction the POLICEMAN shoots MICKEY in the arm, reacting, MICKEY falls to the floor staring at EDWARD. The POLICE storm the room all aiming their guns at EDWARD and MICKEY.
Edward: Are you okay Mickey?
Mickey (Delusional from Blood loss): It was all a game… just a game… You planned this, you, you bastard.
With his last breath MICKEY fires at EDWARD, the POLICE try to react by taking out MICKEY, but it is already too late, EDWARD falls on MICKEY and they lay dead together. LINDA and MRS. JOHNSTONE are hysterical with tears, Enter the NARRATOR
POLICE (Through Megaphone): Its okay ladies stay where you are we have everything under control.
As the light begins to dim we see the NARRATOR, watching.
Narrator: And do we blame superstition for what came to pass?
Or could it be what we, the English, have come to know as class?
Did you ever hear the story of the Johnstone twins?
As like each other as two new pins,
How one was kept and one given away,
How they where both born, and they died, on the self same day?
Mrs. Johnstone (Singing): Tell me it’s not true,
Say it’s just a story.
Something on the news
Tell me it’s not true.
Though it’s here before me,
Say it’s just a dream,
Say It’s just a scene,
From an old movie of years ago,
From an old movie of Marilyn Monroe.
Say it’s just some clowns,
Two players in the limelight,
And bring the curtain down,
Say it’s just two clowns,
Who couldn’t get their lines right,
Say it’s just a show
On the radio
That we can turn over and start again,
That we can turn over; it’s only a game.
Company: Tell me it’s not true,
Say I only dreamed it,
And morning will come soon,
Tell me it’s not true,
Say you didn’t mean it,
Say it’s just pretend,
Say it’s just the end,
From an old movie of years ago,
From an old movie with Marilyn Monroe.
Curtain.