The Interrogation (Scene)

The Interrogation was the cold open to Beneath A Shadowed Sky, Part 2.

Scene

A dark room blooms into harsh light as a bare overhead bulb snaps on. A young man, maybe teen, maybe twenties groans into painful wakefulness. He is bound to a chair, scrawny under an oversized NFL jersey and red bandana, and shivering with the chill. One eye is swollen closed and dried blood has left a rusty trail from a broken nose and split lip. A small table sits nearby, detritus and waste line the walls.

A door opens, two men come in. One wiry and well-dressed, glasses glinting in the sharp light. He frowns as he notices the young man, makes a noise in the back of his throat and gives his colleague a hard look. The colleague, a bull-necked man with a lumpen face, looks away and closes the door, standing guard as the well-dressed man approaches the seated prisoner.

"I have some more questions for you," The well-dressed man speaks with a slavic accent, his words quick and precise as his movements, "and I hope you will be more cooperative this time."

The prisoner croaks something through a dry throat in reply. The well-dressed man ignores him as he sets a a briefcase onto the table, snaps it open and checks the contents, the rustle of papers mixing with the clink of metal and glass. "You are going to tell me everything about the events around Hopkins Street. And you will begin by telling me when you last saw this man."

He sets a photo down on the table where the prisoner can see it. Its subject is an expressionless white male in hospital scrubs, name badge barely readable in the photograph: Dr. E. Winters.