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Scene 22 - The Office of the Chief of Police

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2019

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At the desk LEWIS is leaning over QUEENIE as he gives her the news.

LEWIS: Queenie Dlamini, I'm sorry to tell you, Your job is on the line, you broke all the rules You planned Jimmy ‘Long Legs's escape from jail, You just can't do all that stuff, you fool!

QUEENIE: What are you telling me, what do you mean? I had nothing to do with him running free. I was fighting dark and dastardly crimes, Don't you try pinning his escape on me!

LEWIS: The New South Africa has to save face, The action you took was totally against the law. Too bad. The constitution sits in place, Chief of Police takes the rap. You know the score.

QUEENIE: The legal route! Have you gone crazy? Play by the rules, we'll be dead, we'll be hounded!

LEWIS: You did something real silly! Going for corruption wherever you found it.

QUEENIE: What you mean, don't give me that shit! I tried to get their dirty fingers out the purse!

LEWIS: You tried to put a Senior Man behind bars,

QUEENIE: Stealing the country blind! He was a curse!

LEWIS: So what if he had his hand in the till, He was loyal to the President.

QUEENIE: This job's impossible, the country's full of crime, Every gangster's rights mean so much more than mine. Criminals do what they like - you expect me to toe the line!

LEWIS: Use the police force properly!

QUEENIE: The police! My police don't give a damn!

LEWIS: Justice must be done and seen!

QUEENIE: It seems that being crooked is the only plan.

LEWIS: Yes, well, being crooked gets you further than being clean!

QUEENIE: Justice must be done and seen!

LEWIS: Don't worry, you're getting a golden handshake - nine hundred thousand Rand!

QUEENIE: I think I'll buy a town house in Cape Town, next to yours! Right on the strand!

QUEENIE breaks out into a wildly celebratory religious song.

THE COMPANY changes the set.

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Publisher: Wits University Press
Print publication year: 2000

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