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Outside Intervention
A stageplay in two acts: An apocalyptic event leaves the fate of the white race dependent upon a criminal trial.
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Excerpt
INTERPRETER
(Enters on the Palestinian woman's last line)
Shall I bring in the Indian, Madam?
(DOTTIE nods her consent. The INTERPRETER brings in MARVIN DECROUX, a large Sioux man in his late fifties, also dressed in a prison uniform)
MARVIN
I am told the guards, the police, the military are all dead. Is this true?
DOTTIE
Yes, all traces of their power are gone.
MARVIN
The courts? The FBI? The governments?
DOTTIE
Gone.
MARVIN
Then why are we still behind bars?
FATIMA
That is why we sent for you.
MARVIN
(Ignores Fatima)
Am I free or not? And are the prisoners to be freed or not?
DOTTIE
You are. And they will soon be set free.
MARVIN
(Rips label from the breast of his shirt)
Good riddance Mr. United States Prisoner 66797-459.
I'm out of here.
FATIMA
Not so fast. This woman has a need of you.
DOTTIE
There are a million captives left over from the alien destruction, ones that somehow escaped death. There are a million prisoners who want to kill them. Do you believe the captives should live or die?
MARVIN
Are they wasichu? Whites?
DOTTIE
They are.
MARVIN
Die. Good riddance to a bad lot.
FATIMA
The Indian and I are in agreement, so there is no need of your show trial.
MARVIN
Trial?
DOTTIE
I want you to prosecute the captives, and if they are found guilty they will be sentenced accordingly. Do you think the prisoners would be satisfied with the result of such a trial and not seek revenge on the captives?
MARVIN
First of all, old woman, I'm not going to prosecute anyone. I'm going to reclaim the land stolen from my people, settle with my family, raise ponies and hopefully never look upon a white face again. Secondly, what I know about the law you can put in your nose. And thirdly, if sentence accordingly is anything less than death, then you might as well not hold your trial. You have been on the other side of the wall. Do you really think those diseased, the deranged, the despoiled will settle for less than death?
DOTTIE
I'm told you can convince them to do so. I'm sorry to tell you that your family is probably dead, as are all the Sioux outside prison walls.
MARVIN
Dead. My people? My grandchildren?
DOTTIE
Everyone and everything are dead. The pony. The eagle. The wolf.
MARVIN
Everything. (Sinks into a squat) How?
FATIMA
(Pulls Interpreter on stage)
How did the aliens do it?
INTERPRETER
They targeted their weapons at the smallest unit of matter, the building blocks of all life. The atoms and their structure. From the simple hydrogen to the complex uranium molecules. The new weapons, the aliens were so anxious to use here, pulverize neutrons in the atom nucleus of all living organisms. Subsequently, the proton loses its charge, becomes unstable, its electrons become disoriented, decelerate and lose their spin. The molecule linkages break apart, and the organism's system shuts down. As for the buildings, bridges, dams, et cetera, their weapons similarly break the bonding of complex molecular structures. Dust finer than talcum powder is all that remains. The destruction was instantaneous, taking only a few hours.
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