“And
these are what you call the events of ‘Fall Out.”
“Yes.”
“Well that’s what you almost caused, by the
launching of that rocket. When you go rouge there’s no half measures is there,
not with you!”
“Ask the honourable gentleman in the House
of Lords.”
“Oh
yes we will, and he’ll corroborate all of this will he?”
“Yes.”
“And the hippie?”
“We dropped him off somewhere along the
M1.”
“So he could be anywhere now.”
“The rocket.”
“What about it?”
“Where did it come down?”
“Bennett.”
“According to reports it crashed into the Irish sea .”
“There were no survivors?”
“You mean there were people aboard that
rocket?”
“One person.”
“The pilot you mean.”
“There was no-one.”
“And now you must go back!”
“I must what?”
“Go back to this Village.”
“Wild horses wouldn’t drag me back there,
not after all I’ve been put through.”
“I escaped once before, I risked my life to
come back here and......”
“Yes, yes.........”
“............And you sent me back then. I
want some answers!”
“Oh I don’t think so....what do you think
Bennett?”
“Wouldn’t be right would it sir.”
“Listen, Colonel James, Fotheringay, and as
for Thorpe he turned out to be Number Two!”
“Number Two?”
“Now don’t you start!”
“You know what you have to do now don’t
you?”
“Find the answers!”
“Answers?”
“There are some questions I have, and then
there’s the question of compensation.”
“Can there be a question of compensation,
you resigned remember?”
“I resigned?”
“See…you admit it. And now you have to go
back.”
“Back, back where?”
“To The Village of course.”
“But there’s nothing there, the place is
deserted.”
“According to you Number Six, it had been
deserted before, but you still went back.”
“I didn’t……..and don’t call me Number
Six……….”
“Good morning Number Six, and what a
beautiful day it is.”
“I’ll take your word for it.”
“My, we did get out of bed the wrong side
this morning didn’t we!”
“Just put the breakfast tray down and go!”
“I’ve a good mind to report you. You should
try and get along.”
“I’m sure you get along with everyone!”
“I shall report you!”
“Go on then, see if I care!”
{The telephone bleeps impatiently}
“Yes.”
“Is that Number Six, you know it is,
otherwise you wouldn’t be calling!”
“I’ve a call for you from Number Two.”
“And he knows what he can go and do……”
“I can, can I. Look Number Six you play the
game or you become an outsider. You wouldn’t want to become an outsider would
you?”
“Look, I was playing the game long since
before you turned up. So you can go and get……..
{The cottage door opens, a figure stands
framed in the doorway}
“You, it’s you, it’s been you all the
time!”
“You only have yourself to blame!”
Be seeing you
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