Mr X
Mr X by Jimmy Connerly (One year on from Sleepless in Peckham)
Scene Five – INT – NELSON MANDELLA HOUSE – PRESENTLY
Rodney enters front door; Cassandra is feeding one year old Joan. Cassandra looks up as Rodney enters.Cass: What are you doing home?
Rodney: Accounts. You’ll never guess what he tried to have me doing.
Cass: Clearing out the cellar?
Rodney: Only wanted me to clear out the….. Hang on, you knew?
Cass: Yes, he mentioned it when I popped by yesterday.
Rodney: And you never told me.
Cass: No, I thought you wouldn’t go if I told you.
Rodney: You think I should do it? I don’t believe you sometimes.
Cass: I just thought you could do with a bit of physical exercise.
Rodney: And what’s that supposed to mean?
Cass: Well there’s not much of you is there. Kelly Holmes is more butch than you.
Rodney: Kelly Holmes is more butch than Lennox Lewis!
Cass: I just thought you could do with a bit of building up, that’s all.
Rodney: I’ve always been like this, I’m lean and mean. I’ve always modeled myself on Robert DeNero.
Cass: (laughs) Is that why you talk to yourself in the mirror?
Rodney: (laughs too, makes a Robert DeNero Face) You talking to me?
Cass: Well now you’re here you can make yourself useful.
Rodney: Yeah, I’ll get going with the accounts now.
Cass: No, you can leave the accounts there’s more important things need doing.
Rodney: Well such as what?
Cass: Your daughter needs changing.
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