The Icelandic connection - 01.06.2010, Side 18

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ICELANDIC CONNECTION
Vol. 63 # I
BORGA I doubt that he will. He’s just a kid - but still - I’m so afraid!
INGI (hearing footsteps) Sh - here he comes.
INTRUDER (entering kitchen) It’s a bloody mess up there and nothin’ to be found! Sure hope I’m not wastin’ my time!! I coulda bin way down the highway by now - but it was rainin’ so damn hard -couldn't see a thing, so I pulled off onto your dirt road ...
BORGA (emphatically) Would you like a cup of coffee?
INTRUDER Forget it! I want a - a pot o’gold!!
BORGA I can tell you’re not from around here because nobody ever robs anyone in our area. It’s unheard of! You know...
INGI Stop it, Borga! The Intruder opens more cupboard doors and drawers in the kitchen.)
BORGA (clearly) You know, you’re nothing but a two-bit-operator. You’re a young, good-for-nothing. What do they call it these days...?
INGI Borga!
BORGA A punk! That’s what you are!
INTRUDER Shut up!
BORGA It’s true! You don’t like hearing that, do you? You’re a no-good punk and you have no business...
INGI Borga! Stop talkin’!
BORGA (starting to cry) You have no business coming into our home ‘n getting us out of our beds ‘n turning our place upside down ‘n
INTRUDER (switchblade clicks) I said to shut up!!
BORGA (sobbing heavily and biting her lower lip) Please - please,
don’t hurt us - don’t hurt us...
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