The characters describe an argument between Ryan and his father that turned violent, with Nathaniel striking his father with a hammer and Megan coming at them with a kitchen knife, after which they realize Morgan and Ryan's father are seriously injured and not moving, expressing shock that someone could die so easily from what seemed like a brief altercation.
1. Blackwell Opening:
(Ryan is sat in the arm chair, Elliot is stood leaning over the arm chair, Nathaniel is stood in
the centre above the bathtub, below him is Morgan who is laying in the bathtub, to her left on
the stairs is Hannah who is hanging up paintings and below the stairs is Megan who is
peeling potatoes.)
Hannah: I had, during the day, been hanging up pictures on my wall…
Elliot: …wall. I’d just come into the lounge when we started having a discussion…
Ryan: …discussion.It got to a violent stage in the arguments with my dad…where I, obviously,
felt under pressure to push back and…
Nathaniel: …and then struck him with the soft side…of the hammer…the part you hammer a
nail in with. That knocked him back slightly…
Elliot: …slightly. It was a split reaction. My mum was in the kitchen, obviously heard the
commotion and everything. She…
Megan:…she camein with a carving knife, up in a stabbing motion, obviously for self-defence.
I swung…
Nathaniel: …swung more than anything… Swung the hammer, just to get myself free…
Morgan: …free. I’m not sure who exactly I struck, where, how many times or anything… and
I remember I did take the knife. I just remember…
Ryan: …remember my dad laying in his seat… there was some blood coming up…
Hannah: …up. My mum said…
Morgan: …said “What did you do, Boo?”…
Hannah: I spoke to him for a bit and told him I still loved him…
Megan: …loved him… I couldn’t believe…
Nathaniel: …believe what I had done… I saw my mum and she seemed alive…She…
Morgan: …she didn’t look…
All: cold…
Morgan: …or like a dead person…I thought she may still be alive… But for some reason, I
can’t explain, I pulled her to the bathroom…
Hannah: …bathroom. Finally, I splashed some water…
Megan: …water on her and asked her to come back…
All: I asked her to come back!
Elliot: The thing was though I didn’t think that the blade… I didn’t think the blade had
particularly gone in… deep…
Megan: …deep because… I didn’t know how easily a blade goes into somebody, but…
Hannah: ….but… it was just a short, just short jabs probably, the blade was like an inch away
from him each time… and with my…
2. Morgan: …my mum. I couldn’t see it because he was very close… I thought it had barely…
but…
Nathaniel: …but I couldn’t believe that someone would die so easily.
Ryan: …easily. It seemed like just a bit of commotion.
All: I couldn’t believe that someone could die so easily from that.
