Mr X
Mr X by Jimmy Connerly (One year on from Sleepless in Peckham)
Scene Six - INT- NAGS HEAD, AT
ONE OF THE TABLES, PRESENTLY
Del and Mike are talking.
Del:
So no hard feelings about me taking over the pub then Mike.
Mike: No, honestly
Del, I said so didn't I. Look, it's business.
Del:
Yeah, besides, the brewery would hardly have you back after you
been done for fiddling them
would they.
Mike: Could have
been put more delicately Del but no. But now you've mentioned it,
that's what I've
come to see you about.
Del:
What?
Mike: Listen Del, I
promised myself when I was inside that I'd walk away from all this
and leave it all
behind me. Only then I heard from Sid that you'd taken over
the lease. You're a mate Del and I
had to get back here to warn you.
Del:
Warn me? What about? I know the brown ales are out of date.
Mike: Not brown
ales Del now listen. Do you know what a patsy is?
Del:
Yeah, it's a kind of pie from Cornwall isn't it?
Mike gives Del a look.
Del:
No, sorry Mike, I know what it is, it's like a scapegoat isn't it,
someone that's fitted up for
something he didn't do. Like that bloke what was supposed to
have kill Kennedy, that Lee Oswald
Mosely.
Mike: (shakes head)
Yes, well as you know what a patsy is, I'll tell you something
else, you're talking to
one now. And before you make light of it,
no, that doesn't mean that it was me that shot Kennedy.
Del:
What? You mean you were fitted up with the brewery fiddle?
Mike: Kind of.
Look, this is difficult to explain, forget about me for a minute.
Do you remember the
brewery was in trouble a few years ago?
Del:
Yeah, almost went under, some bloke bought 'em out and saved
them.
Mike: Yeah, Mister
X we called him. Nobody ever saw him, he stayed in the background.
He did his
talking through his cheque book and his two....how do I put
it....'associates'.
Del:
Couple of heavies were they?
Mike: Heavy? They
make the Driscoll Brothers look like the Nolan Sisters.
Del:
Blimey! Who are they?
Mike: Ian and
Charlie Black. They paid me a visit not long after Mr X bought into
the Brewery.
Del:
What, and threatened you?
Mike: Not at first
Del. So long as you play along with them all they're fine. All they
wanted me to do was
the books. Where I came undone was sticking my nose in.
Del:
What did you do?
Mike: Well there
was always something a bit fishy about it. I wanted to find out
what was going on.
Del:
Fisher by name, fishing by nature!
Mike: Del!
Del:
No, sorry Mike, go on.
Mike: I looked into
finding out who Mr X was.
Del:
And did you find out?
Mike: Oh yeah, and
that's how I ended up inside.
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