高级英语话剧Blackmail台词.doc

Blackmail(paragraphy14109)Ogilvie: now then, you two was in the hit-n-run.Duchess: what are you talking about?Ogilvie: dont play games, lady. This is for real.(拿烟，咬烟头) you saw the papers. Theres been plenty on radio, too.Duchess: (脸红)what you are suggesting is the most disgusting, ridiculousOgilvie: I told you cut it out! (拿烟在公爵鼻子下晃了晃)you listen to me, your high-an-mightiness. This citys burninmad-cops, mayor, everybody else. When they find who done last night, who killed that kid anits mother, then high-tailed it, theyll throw the books, and never mind who it hits, or whether they got fancy titles neither. Now I know what I know, and if I do what by rights I should, therell be a squad of cops in here so fast youll hardly seeem. But I come to you first, in fairness, sos you could tell your side of it to me.（眨眼变凶）if you want it the other way, just say so.Duchess: (跳起来怒容满面)you unspeakable blackguard! How dare you!Duke: (对Duchess)its no go, old girl. Im afraid. It was a good try.(对Ogilvie) what you accuse us of is ture. I am to blame. I was driving the car and killing the little girl.Ogilvie: thats more like it.(点烟) now were getting somewhere.Duchess: (疲乏的做认输手势，颓然坐回椅子上，双手对握已掩饰颤抖) what is it you know?Ogilvie: well now, Ill spell it out.(吐眼圈带嘲讽意看Duchess（皱鼻）指向Duke)last night, early on, you went to Lindys Place in Irish Bayou, You drove there in your fancy jaguar, and you took a lady friend. Leastways, I guess youd call he that if youre not too fussy(看Duchess咧嘴笑)Duke: (厉声吼) get on with it.Ogilvie: well, the way I hear it, you won a hundred at the tables, then lost it at the bar. You were into a second hundred-with a real swinging party-when your wife here got there in a taxi.Duke: how would you know all this?Ogilvie: I told you, Ogilvie-Ive been in this town and this hotel a long time. I got friends all over. I oblige them; they do the same for me, like letting me know what gives, and where. There aint much, out of the way, which people who stay in this hotel do, I dont get to hear about. Most ofem never know I know, or know me. They think they got their little secret tucked away, and so they have-except like now.Duke: (冷冷地)I see.Ogilvie: one thing Id like to know. I got a curious nature, maam. Howd you figure where he was?Duchess: you know so much I supposed it doesnt matter. My husband has a habit of making notes while he is telephoning. Afterward he often forgets to destroy them.Ogilvie: (咋舌表责备)a little careless habit like that, Ogilvie-look at the mess it gets you in. well, heres what I figure about the rest. You anyour wife took off home, you drivin, though the way things turned out it might have been better if shed have drove.Duke: my wife doesnt drive.Ogilvie: (点头表理解) explains that one. Anyway, I reckon you were lickered up, but goodDuchess: then you dont know! You dont know anything for sure! You cant possibly proveOgilvie: lady, I can prove all I need to.Duke:(规劝Duchess) better let him finish, old girl.Ogilvie: thats right, just sit an listen. Last night I seen you come in-though the basement, sos not to use the lobby. Look the right shaken, too, the pair of you, just come in myself, anI got to wondering why. Like I said, I got a curious nature.Duchess: go on.Ogilvie: late last night the word was out about the hit-n-run. On a hunch I went over the garage and took a quiet look-see at your car. You maybe dont know-its away in the corner, behind a pillar where the jockeys dont see it when theyre cominby.Duke:(舔嘴唇)suppose that doesnt matter now.Ogilvie: you might have something there. Anyway, what I found made me do some scouting-across at police headquarters where they know me too.(吸香烟看一眼红烟头) over there they got three things to go on. They got a headlight trim ring which musta come off when the kid anthe woman was hit. They got some headlight glass, and lookin at the kids clothin, they reckon therell be a brush trace.Duchess: a what?Ogilvie: you rub clothes against something hard, Duchess, specially if its shiny like a car fender, say, anit leaves a mark the same way as fingerprints.Duke: (像讨论与自己无关紧要的事) thats interesting, I didnt know that.Ogilvie: not many do. In this case, though, I reckon it dont make a lot difference. On your car you got a busted headlight, and the trim rings gone. Aint any doubt theyd match up, even without the brush trace anthe blood. Oh year, I shoulda told, theres plenty of blood, though it dont show too much on the black paint.Duchess:(一手捂脸转过面去)oh, my god!Duke: what do you propose to do?Ogilvie:(搓手低头看手指) like I said, I come to hear your side of it.Duke: (绝望地)what can I possibly say? You know what happened.(作势想挺胸但没成功)youd better call the police and get it over.Ogilvie: well now, theres no call for being hasty. Whats dones been done. Rushing any place aint gonna bring back the kid nor its mother neither. Besides, what theyd do to you across at the headquarters, Ogilvie, you wouldnt like. No sir, you wouldnt like it at all.(接着说)I was hoping, that you folks could suggest somethingDuke:(狐疑地说) I dont understand.Duchess: I understand, you want money, dont you? You came here to blackmail us.Ogilvie: (耸肩)whatever names you call things, maam, dont matter to me. All I come for was to help you people out of trouble. But I got to live too.Duchess: youd accept money to keep silent about what you know?Ogilvie: I reckon I might.Duchess: but from what you say, it would do no good. The car would be discovered in any case.Ogilvie: I guess youd have to take that xhance. But theres some reasons it might not be. Something I aint told you yet.Duchess: tell us now, please.Ogilvie: I aint figured this out myself completely. But when you hit that kid you was going away from town, not to it.Duchess: wed made a mistake in the route, somehow wed become turned around. Its easily done in New Orleans, with the street winding as they do. Afterward, using side streets, we went back.Ogilvie: I thought it might be that.(点头表理解) but the police aint figured it that way. Theyre looking for somebody who was headed out. Thats why, right now, theyre workinon the suburbs and the outside towns. They may get around to searchindown town, but it wont be yet.Duchess: How long before they do?Ogilvie: maybe three, four days. They got a lot of other places to look first.Duchess: how could that help us-the delay?Ogilvie: it might, providin nobody twigs the car-anseeinwhere it is, you might be lucky there. Anif you can get it away.Duchess: you mean out of state?Ogilvie: I mean out othe south.Duchess: that wouldnt be easy?Ogilvie: no, maam. Every state around will be watching for a car damaged the way yours is.Duchess:(考虑) Is there any possibility of having repairs made first? If the work were done discreetly we could pay well.Ogilvie:(摇头) you try that, you might as well walk over to headquarters right now angive up. Every repair shop in Louisianas been told to holler copsthe minute a car needing fixinlike yours comes in. theyd do it, too. You people are hot.Duchess:(想到一个主意) the piece from our car which you say the police have. What is it called?Ogilvie: a trim ring.Duchess: is it traceable?Ogilvie:(肯定点头) they can figure what king ocar its from-make, model,an maybe the year, or close to it. Same thing with the glass. But with your car being foreign, itll likely take a few days.Duchess: but after that, the police will know theyre looking for a Jaguar?Ogilvie: I reckon thats so.(Duchess认真考虑很长一段时间)Duchess: (面向Ogilvie)how much do you want?Ogilvie: wellI figure you people are pretty well fixed.Duchess:(冷冷地) I asked how much.Ogilvie:(眨眼) ten thousand dollars.Duchess:(不动声色地) assuming we paid this grotesque amount, what would we receive in return?Ogilvie: like I said, I keep quiet about what I know.Duches