Dear John Doe(Monologue)

(A man and a woman sit on either side of a plate glass window in a
prison. The mans hands are in chains but with difficulty, he still
manages to hold the phone to his ear. Throughout the following he sits
impassive and silent just staring at the well dressed woman. The woman
is in the midst of talking)

You know when you're kind of like a serial killer and you've killed
around like let's say forty women roundabouts and you're in your bed
one Sunday morning and suddenly the door bursts open and the cops are
standing at the end of your bed screaming their fucking heads off, guns
pointing, just waiting for an excuse to blow your fucking brains out
and you're lying there but you're not feeling scared or angry, no sir,
most of all you just got this overwhelming sense of Phew, what a
relief.
Phew what a relief because you know it's finally over. You can breathe
a little easier because that goddamn secret that's been torturing you
for seven years is finally out and where once at the beginning of it
all, it was kind of like a turn on, the secret's now just a 100\% pain
in the ass. That's why when the F.B.I. burst into your little log cabin
there, you could even say it's one of the happiest days of your
life.
At least that's the way you described it to me in those first letters
you wrote, remember those first letters when, in between those
beautiful love poems you wrote me, you described your childhood, about
how your father beat you and remember how you described in your book,
your first book I mean, the autobiography, not the novels, about how
you lived with that terrible secret all those years, about how you felt
the constant need to tell someone, anyone, that all that time it was
simple old you that was doing the killings, but couldn't, cos' well,
they'd fucking kill you.
That's what I'm trying to say to you Chuck, just remember that need to
let someone know the truth you had inside you all that time and the
feeling of relief you felt once it was out in the open. What I'm
getting at is, is, well, that's why I've got to tell you, that.....I've
just got to let you know......that there's someone else in my life
now.
Now before you get all angry and depressed again, just hear me out. I
didn't mean to meet someone else. Just like you didn't mean to kill all
those women, well I mean you did mean to kill all those women but what
I mean is, it just happened and me and Bill, that's his name by the
way, Bill, are pretty happy together.
What's more me n' Bill have been talkin' recently and Bill was sayin'
about how what you done wasn't too nice, even if you did have a hard
upbringing and frankly I'm beginning to see his point. See, Bills a
decent man, he's got morals and, and, what's the word, scruples, that's
it, by christ he's even got a job. A job! can you imagine!, do you know
what that means to me? I've just never known a man like that. Some who
works insurance.
And it ain't just that,Chuck, I mean it can't have escaped your notice
our relationship just ain't going nowhere, what with you being on death
row n'all. I mean don't get me wrong, our marriage day was the happiest
day of my life, you sure looked handsome that day, my, I can still see
you standing there in your tuxedo and ankle chains, I tell ya, I must
have been the proudest gal in all of Utah.
But things change Chuck, well at least for me, there's just no pzazzz
in our marriage anymore, in short , the magic has gone Chuck, the magic
has gone.
I tell ya what don't help,is them takin' their time with
the..........well, you know what, I mean what's the hold-up? Have they
ran out of gas or what? Don't get me wrong Chuck, I hope you live a
long and happy life, but I mean if they're gonna do it, why don't they
just gaddamn go ahead and do it! I mean it ain't easy waitin' for your
husband,you know, to be no more, and it sure as hell can't be easy for
you. Listen I hope you don't think I'm takin' liberties or anything but
I wrote a letter to the governor, last week, telling him to get his act
together, I mean Christ, what do we pay our taxes in this state for
anyway! Now listen, don't go lookin' at me that way Chuck, besides I
got some good news for ya, I was talking to my lawyer this morning and
he says I can have the book rights, once you're em, you know, not of
this world and what with the film deal just been signed, I sure am
gonna have my hands full in the next couple of months. That's why I
think we should sort of stay legally married until, em, you know
what.
Anyway,I better go, I told ya about how 60 minutes are doin' a feature
on me, I'm seeing them this afternoon, it's all go, I tell ya, I
thought they might want to interview yourself, but I guess that ain't
allowed or sumthin', still I'll put a good word in for you. ( she
stands up) I just wanted to let you know, about Bill and me, that's
all, see Bill says that every day is the first day of the rest of your
life.......(she walks away, then turns)Hey, d'you know Chuck, you're
right, I do feel better now that you know about me n' Bill.( She smiles
and walks out as Chuck stands up and is shuffled back to his cell in
his ankle chains)
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