Calvary Page #7

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LAVELLE looks blankly at him.

BRENNAN:

Will I cut you a nice side of beef

to be taking home with you, Father?

Freshly slaughtered.

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EXT. GARAGE - DAY 27

Boots sticking out from underneath a car. The skirts of

LAVELLE’s soutane appear. He nudges a boot with his shoe.

SIMON ASAMOAH glides out on a car trolley.

LAVELLE:

Simon.

ASAMOAH:

Hello, Father.

(getting up, wiping his

hands on a rag)

I am rather busy today-

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LAVELLE:

It’s not about my car. It’s about

Mrs Brennan.

ASAMOAH reaches for a Coca-Cola bottle and takes a

swallow.

LAVELLE:

You’re her boyfriend?

ASAMOAH:

I f*** her from time to time.

Does that make me her boyfriend?

LAVELLE:

It does around here.

ASAMOAH:

She has a lot of boyfriends, I have

heard.

LAVELLE:

Is that right?

ASAMOAH:

Do you want me to confess to adultery?

Is that why you are here?

LAVELLE:

Somebody beat her up.

ASAMOAH:

She told you I beat her up?

LAVELLE:

No, she didn’t.

ASAMOAH:

Then why are you here?

LAVELLE:

Somebody beat her up. It’s either

you or the husband.

ASAMOAH:

I do not think Jack beat her up.

He is not the type.

LAVELLE:

What is the type?

ASAMOAH takes a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and

lights one, looking out over the garage forecourt.

ASAMOAH:

Some of them like to be hit,

you know.

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LAVELLE:

Who?

ASAMOAH:

White women. Irish women. Do not

ask me why. You would have to be

a psychiatrist-

LAVELLE:

Ah that’s nonsense. A justification

for your own brutality.

ASAMOAH:

No, no, they like to be hit.

In certain...situations. They beg

for it, in fact.

LAVELLE:

So she got what was coming to her,

did she?

ASAMOAH:

I was speaking generally.

LAVELLE:

Oh you were speaking generally.

Well I’m speaking specifically.

Don’t do it again.

ASAMOAH:

You cannot tell me what to do.

We are not in the Missions now.

LAVELLE:

Oh the Missions, right-

ASAMOAH:

Are you going to chop off my hand

if I disobey you?

LAVELLE:

You know your history, that’s grand.

ASAMOAH:

I like to read. You probably do not

think that black people-

LAVELLE:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, black people,

white people, blah, blah, blah.

ASAMOAH looks at him. Flicks his cigarette at him. LAVELLE

flinches, taken aback.

ASAMOAH:

Run along now, Father, your sermon

is finished.

(CONTINUED)

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He slides back under the car. LAVELLE exits.

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INT. CHURCH - DAY 28

LEARY is preparing the altar. LAVELLE glancing through the

large Bible set for Mass.

*

LEARY:

You’d better watch your step there.

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LAVELLE:

Why is that?

LEARY:

If it was him who was laying into

her. You’ll have to tread very

carefully there. It’s a very

sensitive area.

*

LAVELLE:

You’ll have to explain this one

to me, now, Father, I’m afraid

you’ve lost me completely.

LEARY:

Well the Church can’t be seen to

be getting involved in matters of

diversity and the like, d’you know.

*

LAVELLE:

You mean, like, what if beating her

up is one of those ethnic rituals

or something? Like when they do

that thing when they shake hands?

LEARY:

(after a pause)

You’re mocking me, now, I can tell.

*

LAVELLE looks blankly at LEARY. *

LEARY:

We have to be very circumspect

in those areas, is all I’m saying.

*

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LAVELLE:

I’ll be very circumspect, Father.

Don’t you worry about that.

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INT. COTTAGE - DAY 29

An older man -- GERALD RYAN -- is leaning back in a chair,

deep in thought, a shillelagh between his legs.

An American, slightly bohemian, he wears an old brown

corduroy suit, blue shirt, black boots. Music playing on

an old record player.

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