The Debt Page #14

RACHEL:

Stop it!

They stop, breathing hard.

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DAVID:

We’re not animals. Just remember

what we are. Remember what we’re

not.

He walks back out. Stephan sits back at the table, starts

eating again. He glances at Rachel, but she won’t look at

him. After a moment she gets up and walks out.

158 INT. SITTING ROOM - CONTINUOUS 158

David looks up from his chair to see in the hallway.

Something purposeful in her manner alerts him.

159 HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS 159

David appears in time to see Rachel is putting on her

overcoat.

DAVID:

What are you doing?

Rachel doesn’t look at him.

RACHEL:

I have to get out.

DAVID:

(Gently)

Rachel...

Rachel tries to unbolt the door. David bars her. Rachel

tries to talk calmly but she’s fighting panic.

RACHEL:

Get out of my way, please.

I’m just going to go out for a

few minutes. That’s all I want to

do.

Stephan walks out of the kitchen, taking in the scene.

DAVID:

She wants to go out.

RACHEL:

(appealing)

No one will see me. Tell him,

David. I just want to walk. I

just want to get some...air.

Please.

Stephan shakes his head.

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Rachel tries to unlock the door, but David has hold of it.

She struggles against him.

STEPHAN:

Don’t be stupid.

He takes her arm. Rachel jerks free.

RACHEL:

GET OFF ME!

Then she slumps against the door, her back to them. She’s

crying brokenly.

A beat as the two men stand over her, not attempting to

comfort her any further.

Stephan turns and walks away.

David leans his head against the door, waiting for her to

stop.

160 INT. SAFEHOUSE - LIVING ROOM. EVENING. 160

It’s raining heavily outside and water is dripping through

the cracks in the ceiling.

David kneels next to VOGEL with a bowl of oatmeal and

strips the tape from his mouth.

VOGEL:

Thank you. David.

David doesn’t react.

Vogel hums a tune to himself in between spoonfuls, watching

David, his mood strange.

VOGEL (CONT’D)

David and Stephan and Rachel...

He gives a soft laugh, finding something amusing in the

sound of the names.

VOGEL (CONT’D)

If I had a choice I’d prefer

Rachel to feed me. So gentle...in

another life, the makings of a

Nurse, I think...in another

life...

David continues to feed, careful to appear immune to Vogel.

VOGEL (CONT’D)

How is she today?

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VOGEL (CONT’D)

You should let her get more rest.

It’s a dangerous time, the first

month or two of the pregnancy.

David stares at him, unable to hide his shock.

VOGEL (CONT’D)

(Beat)

You didn’t know?

Vogel absorbs this thoughtfully.

VOGEL (CONT’D)

You’re not the father then?

(Beat)I thought it would be you.

I thought...I don’t know. The way

you look at her. The way she

looks at you...

David stirs the oatmeal, trying to think about what he’s

just discovered. Vogel doesn’t take his eyes off him...

VOGEL (CONT'D)

Women can be like that, they like

to make you dance first, I

remember. (As though to himself)

So, she chose the other one...?

He shakes his head, shrugs.

VOGEL (CONT’D)

That must be hard, watching them

together, right in front of you.

And you not saying a word. Like

the Poet says - “Great souls

suffer in silence.” I wouldn’t

have taken Stephan as a family

man. Too ambitious, too...?

Whereas you? David, I see you

with children...

DAVID:

(Quietly)

Shut up.

Vogel stares at him. This is the first time someone has

spoken to him in weeks. He’s quick to hide his sense of

triumph.

VOGEL:

I am expressing my sympathy. For

your suffering.

DAVID:

What does a monster like you know

about suffering?

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VOGEL:

I’m a doctor, David.

David stares at him.

DAVID:

A doctor. (beat)You blind

children trying to change the

colour of their eyes. You inject

people with petrol. You...you

replace people’s hands and legs

and you watch as they...

He stops himself.

DAVID (CONT’D)

This isn’t medicine. This is

disease. This is sickness.

Vogel seems to consider this.

VOGEL:

So we were all insane? Is that

the answer?

DAVID:

(Beat)

There’s no answer. I’m not

looking for an answer. I’m not

looking for...

He forces himself to be silent, tries to regain control of

himself. He offers Vogel another spoonful, but his hand

trembles a little with the violence of his emotions.

VOGEL:

You’re trembling.

David pushes the spoon into Vogel’s mouth, starts to load

another spoonful.

VOGEL (CONT'D)

It’s strange. Here I am - the

victim, kidnapped, bound, soon to

be murdered, but I think you are

the one that is afraid, David.

(Beat) Afraid of the monster.

He leans closer to David.

VOGEL (CONT'D)

(Softly)

Boo.

They stare at each other, eye to eye. Vogel senses a new

brittleness in David. His tone becomes more assured.

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VOGEL (CONT’D)

Yes. Do you know why it was easy

to exterminate you people?

Your weakness. I saw it. Every

day I saw it. Every one of them,

thinking only of how to avoid

being flogged, or kicked, or

killed. Only thinking of

themselves.

David looks up at him with a strange, crooked smile, eyes

glittering.

VOGEL (CONT’D)

Why do you think it only took

four soldiers to lead a thousand

people to the gas chambers?

Entire families? Because not one,

out of thousands, had the courage

to resist, the courage to be the

first to fall. Not one would

sacrifice himself. Even when we

took their children from them. I

knew then that you people had no

right to live, no right to...

He may have begun his speech hoping to get a reaction from

David but he has lost himself in his rant and so rather

than triumph we see only a moment of startled fear in his

eyes as David suddenly swings the bowl violently at his

head, SHATTERING IT on the pipe to which he is tied.

He grabs Vogel by the collar and begins to punch him, hard,

again and again.

Vogel slides sideways, limp. And still David punches him in

a murderous rage, possessed, wanting to break his skull

open, to kill him.

Rachel and Stephan run in, with Rachel reaching him first.

She throws her arms around him, trying to stop him, but -

instinctively - he throws a punch behind him. It connects,

splitting her lip and sending her flying to the ground.

Stephan runs at him, knocking him to the floor, and remains

lying on him, the two of them breathing hard, the assault

finally over.

VOGEL slumps forward, held up only by the rope at his

wrists binding him to the pipe on the wall.

Stephan is still struggling with David, who’s panting,

adrenalised, staring wildly at Vogel’s slumped body.

STEPHAN:

Out. We’re going out.

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He begins to drag him out. Stephan nods in the direction of

VOGEL.

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