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Stewart from The Redeemer by Cybele May
The Confession
from Scene Five
Character: Stewart, a detective with the Allentown police, 30-50 years old.
Synopsis: As the kidnapper plays games with Stewart and Connie, Stewart is driven to the edge. When he returns from a failed attempt to retrieve the boy, Connie confronts him with her knowledge of Stewart past:
STEWART
It was an accident.
(Pause.)
We were in the car. We were running late. She was supposed to have hemmed the pants of my suit. She hadn't only I didn't know until I put 'em on so I had to keep them up with masking tape. It looked terrible but she kept saying that we were going to be late. So we were in the car and she looked down at me and said I looked ridiculous and she was glad that she had no standards left otherwise she would be humiliated to be seen with me. That's when I started yelling—what did she want from me? She wanted me to lose control, didn't she? And then she started laughing. The faster I drove the funnier I was and the louder she laughed. I couldn't take it, I couldn't take any of it anymore. We were ugly. I wanted both of us dead. Suddenly, I wanted it all to be over and I turned straight into the oncoming traffic.
(Pause.)
I forgot Tommy was in the back. I forgot my boy was there. He was all dressed up in his little blue suit. If it hadn't been so messed up in the accident he would have been buried in it. He was so quiet, quiet all the time. Shiny black hair, brown eyes. He had freckles from playing soccer all summer with the neighbor kid in the yard. He'd curl up on my lap and put his face against my chest and tap along with my heart. We used to eat cereal for supper when his mother wasn't home.
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I told everyone it was my fault. They'd just hug me and say it would be okay and that I'd stop blaming myself someday. They didn't realize that I had actually done it, it really was my fault.
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posted by Cybele
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