Swinging Tragedy (script)
Scene one – late working meeting, somewhere around midnight. The scene is laid in an assembly hall.
There are eight men and women sitting in business suits; their faces are dull. Chief Oleg Anatolievich Zolkin – a big stodgy 50-year old man of some 120 kg – is delivering a speech.
Zolkin addressing one of the attendees
– You are a moron and a total failure. All of you together don’t even have five percent of the knowledge I have. I have made my fortune myself; I worked as an auditor at night and I performed at karate competitions after my military service. As a lawyer, I defended our ministers in France. I am now doing some programming for the American NASA, and you are not capable of anything, you, idlers. Let’s take you, Andrey, what will you tell us today about tax risks?
Andrey
– I think it’s dangerous to trade through Molokotorg without paying taxes as our production volumes no longer meet the unified agricultural tax criteria.
Zolkin
– Idiot, you know nothing about the Tax Code, your knowledge is worthless, we won’t pay your wages.
Andrey
– I am sick and tired of sitting here from dawn to dusk and getting nothing for my work apart from curses. I want to leave your company.
Zolkin, red with anger
– What do you mean, to leave?! I once killed a doctor who did not want to operate on my father; I simply put a scalpel to his throat and slit it open. Do you know what I’m gonna do to you?!
Zolkin runs up to Andrey and tries to deal him a blow. Andrey turns away and runs towards the door. Zolkin runs after him. Andrey tries to open the door, but it won’t open. Realizing that Zolkin is about to reach him, Andrey turns back to face him and deals him two boxing blows on the jaw with his left arm ready to add another blow with his right arm. Here, the door opens and Andrey’s colleague – Konstantin – walks in and howls: «Andrey».
Andrey gets scared by the shout; his right arm hangs in the air for a second. Zolkin makes use of this confusion; he hits the jaw with his right arm and follows it with a low blow. Andrey runs a few steps away from the door and takes the boxing stance.
Zolkin walking straight towards Andrey
– Take this!
Andrey
– Suck on it!
And he deals Zolkin a boxing «postie’ blow on the chin, two blows with his left arm and a finisher with his right arm. However strong Zolkin is, the last blow slows him down.
Zolkin steps back and stops. His initial attack is bogged down. He begins to hit isolated direct blows with his right and left arms, but he is not getting anywhere, so he begins to deal side blows aiming at Andrey’s temple, but these fail as well. Andrey puts his elbows to override Zolkin’s side blows.
Angry Zolkin begins to quickly kick Andrey’s legs. Andrey does the same, but then he quickly changes his mind and steps back.
Andrey
– Shit, is there is anything else you want from me other than killing me? You broke my jaw there, by the door.
Zolkin
– I will hand you in to the police, pay them fifty thousand and they’ll be kicking your ass all night long. I’ll hand you in to the Chechens. FSB will bring you to my mansion in Zhukovka. I can deal with a knife like a butcher, I will cut you into pieces. You don’t know who I am, I’ll kill you and raze you to the ground right here and I won’t ever think about you again.
Zolkin walks towards Andrey again, Andrey steps back. Zolkin begins to calm down.
Zolkin
– All right, I want you to come tomorrow and learn your lesson well. Don’t bother going to the police, I don’t give a fuck about all those policemen and prosecutors.
Andrey goes to the hospital.
Doctor, examining an X-ray
– Yes, the right ridge of your jaw is broken. I am obliged to recommend you a splintage for a month. You’ll have to stay with your mouth stitched up for a month. It’s not necessary in your case though. It will heal by itself. Do you want to be admitted to hospital?
Andrey
– Well, since it’s not necessary, I guess I won’t.
Andrey goes home to his apartment where his girlfriend Vika meets him.
Andrey
– I got my jaw broken at work.
Vika