Forging Ahead part 8
FORGING AHEAD by Jimmy Connerly (based on an idea by Rico)
…continued
Scene Four Ext. Nelson Mandella House, not long after.
Del, Rodney, Trigger and Grandad all exit Nelson Mandella House, walking towards the car-parking area.
Grandad: Say he don’t tell us.
Rodney: Yeah, we don’t even know if he’ll see us. And how shall we bring it up?
Del: Leave it to me, I’ll get it out of him.
The four continue to walk.
Del: We’ll carefully word the questions, let him know that we know. He knows how much money’s at stake so I’d reckon he’d weigh it up. Just let me do the talking. I’ll let him know he’ll get a cut, he knows we won’t con him. He’s crafty but he ain’t stupid, I reckon he’ll be as good as gold so long as we…….
Rodney: (Pulls at Del’s lapel) Del-boy!
Del looks up, they have got to where the van was parked. Del looks at the scene aghast. The back of the van has been forced open. Two interior ‘plastic panels’ have been ripped out and are hanging outside of the van. Boxes of ‘handy ghandi’s litter the floor. Del stands in stunned silence. Del looks at Rodney.
Del: He knew where it was all the time.
Rodney: Well he did as soon as he knew we still had the van.
Del: He’d have banked on it being moved years ago. I bet he couldn’t have believed his luck!
Rodney: That’s why dad never had the opportunity last year. You had the van most of the time while you were keeping out of his way.
Del: I always wondered why Inky agreed to do the lettering for nothing.
Trigger holds and looks at one of the panels and nods, it looks familiar to him. He pulls it back slightly and looks behind it. He reaches his hand in gingerly and pulls out a pound note.
Trigger: Look, he left one behind!
Del: (Forlorn) Oh good. And there was me thinking he’d got away with the lot!
THE END
This was awesome, well written.
Well done, even though this was an older post I thought it was great….only fools and horses through and through.