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TED and ANN in Ann and her boyfriend’s third-floor flat.
TED I don’t believe it.
ANN You did that.
TED John, John get in here quick.
ANN You did that coming in here.
JOHN comes in.
JOHN I can’t find nothing in the bedroom.
TED John you won’t believe this.
JOHN Where is he?
ANN It’s your fault coming in here.
TED He ran on the balcony and jumped over.
JOHN He what?
TED I can’t look.
ANN I’m going down. You did it, I’ll tell everyone you did it, why can’t you keep out of my life.
ANN goes.
TED I just said we’ve had enough of you. I didn’t touch him.
JOHN He knew what we was here for.
TED He knew we were here to say you got our sister on drugs.
JOHN And we said that.
TED That’s all we said.
JOHN We weren’t going to kill him or nothing.
TED We were going to give him a smack.
JOHN That’s all right. Anyone expects a smack.
TED We’ll say exactly what happened. We don’t need a story, do we, I mean what happened is what happened is perfectly all right.
JOHN He might not be dead you know.
TED I can’t look.
JOHN I’ll look.
TED Go on then.
JOHN Yes I’m going to.
TED He must have been out of his head is what it is.
JOHN They’ll see what he was on at the hospital.
TED Maybe it’s something he was going to do whether we come or not.
JOHN Don’t be stupid.
TED So are you going to look or what?
JOHN Yes I’m going to look.
TED What a stupid bastard.
JOHN Do you think she’s down there by now? I’ll have a look.

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