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Eleven Minutes

A two-person thriller scene, written for Sides. About 1 min.

An interview room and an alibi with eleven minutes missing.

Detective Alvarez
40s. Patient, in control
Kai
20s. Has an alibi with a hole in it
You read

  1. An interview room. Alvarez slides a coffee across. Kai doesn’t touch it.

  2. Detective Alvarez

    You were at your sister’s from eight until midnight.

  3. Kai

    I already told the other guy.

  4. Detective Alvarez

    I know. I’m slow. Humor me.

  5. Kai

    Eight until midnight. We watched a movie. She fell asleep on the couch.

  6. Detective Alvarez

    What movie?

  7. Kai

    Something with boats. I wasn’t really watching.

  8. Detective Alvarez

    What were you doing?

  9. Kai

    My phone.

  10. Detective Alvarez

    Your phone. See, that’s the thing. Your phone was at your sister’s. Your car wasn’t.

  11. Kai

    My car was in her driveway.

  12. Detective Alvarez

    For most of the night. The neighbor’s camera has it leaving at ten forty-one. Back at ten fifty-two.

  13. Kai

    I went for cigarettes.

  14. Detective Alvarez

    Eleven minutes. The nearest gas station is nine minutes each way.

  15. Kai

    Then I drove fast.

  16. Detective Alvarez

    You didn’t buy cigarettes, Kai. We checked.

  17. Silence.

  18. Kai

    Am I under arrest?

  19. Detective Alvarez

    Not yet. Right now you’re a guy with eleven missing minutes and a story about boats. Tell me where you went, and maybe you’re just a guy.

  20. Kai

    If I tell you, it’s not me you’ll be looking for.

  21. Detective Alvarez

    Then start talking before I stop believing that.

Written for Sides.

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