Redemption [Stage Play Script]

Script 2

Scene 12: Firing Range

Begins with Arthur practicing shooting wearing a protection gear. A certain, old man comes closer to him. 

Victor: Haven't seen you here in a while here. You were always here to practice except...

Arthur: Leave me alone!

Victor: You've got a new mission weren't you?

Arthur: How'd you know, dirty old man?

Victor: If only I was fast enough and a better man in the past, you couldn't have ended up like this...

Arthur: Shut up! Just answer my question, damn it!

Victor: Sigh... I am always watching you from afar. I have watched how you stained your innocent hands with blood.

Arthur: You're stalking me?!? You said you were watching me, what's your reason?

Victor: I want to stop you but I had no chance but now is different! Stay away from your new mission!

Arthur: You don't need to go that far, for me. Most of all, stop thinking you can let me out of this way of life! An assassin will always be an assassin.

Victor: What were you doing all this time that I left you alone to your master? Killing people? Slacking around and allowing your own hands stained with blood? Or... you are now trying to hide the truth about what you know to protect someone important to you? (Puts a cigarette in his mouth and lights it up.)

Arthur: Leave! I don't need an old man to give a silly, unneeded advices. More on, you're a traitor. I don't need advice from a man who betrayed a person whom I gave my loyalty since master took me away from a war-torn country.

Victor: You still don't remember what your master forced you to forget. The past is your way out of your current way of life.

Arthur: What I only know was that my master saved me from a war-torn country and showed me this way of life. I don't need to remember my rotten past!

Victor: Rotten? You're destroying your one life! Ever since then that your master took you away from your country, you began your own war. Do you want to know why I betrayed your master?!

Arthur: No. It will only pollute me. My mission's to kill Darius Kingsley and I don't need you talking about your past or my past! I am an assassin and to kill is my way of life!

Victor: (Bursts in laughter) Then why isn't he dead yet? You're always a good actor, Arthur, but its different now. Before, you needed to act like a normal human being but now you're struggling from acting like the same child your master have always wanted you to be! You seem to have changed and if there's a possibility that you fail from your mission, you will be killed!

Arthur: You don't need to say that to me! (Points the gun to Victor)

Victor: You've really changed, Arthur! Your eyes have emotions on them now, unlike before! Even if you point that gun to me and successfully kill me, I'd be much happier in death but disappointed that I couldn't get you out of that life!

Arthur: Who are you to say that to me?! You're not my father!

(Silence) Arthur and Victor do a staring contest.

Victor: Your eyes show that you're remembering faded memories your master told you to conceal, weren't they? You're not the assassin your master trained anymore! Your master never saved you but enslaved you in a life you don't deserve!

Arthur: Shut--- (groans.) Leave! Leave or I'll shoot!

Victor: I have always observed whatever you do and it seems, you have fallen so close to the person your master wanted to truly eradicate... No... you've fallen so close to the daughter of the person whom your master wanted to take revenge on and you're struggling to kill her as she makes you remember someone so important to you!