Judy Boone Lines - The Curious Incident (ACT II)

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Judy and Roger enter (SCENE 39)

JUDY. I don’t care whether you thought it was funny or not.

ROGER. Judy look, I’m sorry okay?

JUDY. Well perhaps you should have thought about that before you made me look like a complete idiot.

CHRISTOPHER. You weren’t in so I waited for you.

JUDY. Christopher.

CHRISTOPHER. What?

JUDY. Christopher.

ROGER. What the hell is going on?

JUDY. I’m so sorry Christopher.

ROGER. I suppose this means Ed’s here.

JUDY. Where’s your father Christopher?

ROGER. Thank God for that.

JUDY. But how did you get here?

CHRISTOPHER. I came on the train.

JUDY. Oh my God Christopher. I didn’t… I didn’t think I’d ever… Why are you here on your own?

Christopher, you’re soaking. Roger, don’t just stand there.

CHISTOPHER. …Father killed Wellington with a garden fork

ROGER. Jumping Jack Christ.

JUDY. Roger, please. Come on Christopher. Let’s go inside and get you dried off.

ROGER. Come on the soldier. You’ll catch your death out here.

JUDY. You follow Roger.

CHRISTOPHER. He’s hungry. Have you got any food I can give him and some water?

INTO SCENE 40

JUDY. Are you okay Christopher?

CHRISTOPHER. I’m tired.

JUDY. I know love. I can get you a blanket?

CHRISTOPHER. No, don’t. I’ve got a sleeping bag in my backpack.

JUDY. Will you let me help you get your clothes off? I can get you a clean T-shirt. You could get yourself into bed.

T-shirt, pass me a t-shirt.

You’re very brave.

CHRISTOPHER. Yes.

JUDY. You never wrote to me.

CHRISTOPHER. I know.

JUDY. Why didn’t you write to me, Christopher? I wrote you all those letters. I kept thinking something dreadful had happened or you’d moved away and I’d never find out where you were.

CHRISTOPHER. Father said you were dead.

JUDY. What?

CHRISTOPHER. He said that you went into the hospital because you had something wrong with your heart. And then you had a heart attack and died.

JUDY. Oh my God.

CHRISTOPHER. Why are you doing that?

JUDY. Oh Christopher, I’m so sorry.

CHRISTOPHER. What for?

JUDY. Bastard. That bastard.

Christopher, let me hold your hand. Just for once. Just for me. Will you? I won’t hold it hard.

CHRISTOPHER. I don’t like people holding my hand.

JUDY. No. Okay. That’s okay.

LONDON POLICE. I need to speak to him.

JUDY. He’s been through enough today already.

LONDON POLICE. …Please can you open the door.

ROGER. Come on Christopher.

JUDY. Christopher love. It’s alright. Just open the door will you sweetheart?

CHRISTOPHER. Is he going to take me away?

JUDY. No Christopher he isn’t.

CHRISTOPHER. Will you let him take me away?

JUDY. No I won’t.

LONDON POLICE. Hang on, I’m asking your mother.

JUDY. He told Christopher I was dead.

ED. I’m talking to her whether you like it or not.

JUDY. Roger. Don’t. Just…

ED. I’ll talk to you how I damn well like.

JUDY. You have no right to be here.

ED. He’s my son in case you’ve forgotten.

JUDY. What in god’s name did you think you were playing at saying those things to him?

ED. You were the one that bloody left.

JUDY. So you decided to just wipe me out of his life altogether?

ED. Well, isn’t that what you wanted?

JUDY. I wrote to him every week.