THE GUARD ✎ who has completely recovered his composure. ✎ — Move it, move it, no funny business! You can tell it to the boss. I'm just following orders. 🔊✎ I'm not interested in what you were doing there. They've all got excuses, they're all special. If you had to listen to everyone, if you had to understand why they did it, we'd be in a right mess. 🔊✎ Come on, move it! You others, keep her there and don't let her try anything. Whatever she wants to say, I'm not interested! 🔊✎
ANTIGONE ✎ —Tell them to take their dirty hands off me, they're hurting me. 🔊✎
THE GUARD ✎ —Their dirty hands? You could try being polite, miss. Me, I'm polite. 🔊✎
ANTIGONE ✎ —Tell them to let go of me. I am the daughter of Oedipus, I am Antigone. I won't try to escape. 🔊✎
THE GUARD ✎ —The daughter of Oedipus, right! Those hookers they bring in at night, they always say you watch it, my boyfriend is a police inspector! 🔊✎ They laugh. ✎
ANTIGONE ✎ —I don't mind dying, but don't let them touch me! 🔊✎
THE GUARD ✎ —Yeah. But dead bodies and shit, you don't mind touching that, right? You said "their dirty hands". Just look at yours. 🔊✎
Antigone looks at her cuffed hands with a little smile. ✎ They are covered in earth. ✎
THE GUARD ✎ —Took your spade, did they? 🔊✎ So next time you had to do it with your fingers? 🔊✎ Ah! the fucking cheek of her. I turn my back for a moment, I ask for a smoke, and before I've got time to light up and say thank you she's back again scraping away like a little hyena. 🔊✎ Right in the middle of the day! And then the way the bitch carries on when I grab her. 🔊✎ Tries to scratch my eyes out! Yelling she hasn't finished... fucking crazy, yeah. 🔊✎
THE SECOND GUARD ✎ — I arrested one of those crazies the other day. Standing there showing her cunt to everyone. 🔊✎
THE GUARD ✎ —Hey Boudousse, where do you think we should go to celebrate? 🔊✎
THE SECOND GUARD ✎ — How about the Twisted Wrist? I like their red. 🔊✎
THE THIRD GUARD ✎ — We're due for some R&R on Sunday. What you say we bring the wives along? 🔊✎
THE GUARD ✎ —No, we'll have more fun on our own... You bring the wives, something always happens. And then the fucking kids need to go for a piss and where are you? 🔊✎ Fuck Boudousse, half an hour ago I didn't think we'd be sitting here laughing. 🔊✎
THE SECOND GUARD ✎ — Maybe they'll give us a reward. 🔊✎
THE GUARD ✎ —Could be. If it's important. 🔊✎
THE SECOND GUARD ✎ — Flanchard from the Third, when he caught the fucking arsonist last month he got double pay. 🔊✎
THE THIRD GUARD ✎ — No shit! Look, if we get double pay, how about we skip the Twisted Wrist and go to the Arab Palace. 🔊✎
THE GUARD ✎ —To drink? You fucking crazy? They charge fucking double for a bottle at the Palace. But if we're going in the back, sure. 🔊✎ Look, here's what we do: we go to the Twisted Wrist first, have a few, then on to the Palace. Hey Boudousse, you remember the fat chick at the Palace? 🔊✎
THE SECOND GUARD ✎ — Ha! You was so fucking drunk that day! 🔊✎
THE THIRD GUARD ✎ — But look, if we get double then the wives will know. They'll give us a public citation or something. 🔊✎
THE GUARD ✎ —Okay, let's see what happens. We'll figure it out. 🔊✎ If they do a big show at the barracks, like when they hand out the medals, the wives'll be there too and the kids. So then we go to the Twisted Wrist. 🔊✎
THE SECOND GUARD ✎ — Yeah, but then we need to order ahead of time. 🔊✎
ANTIGONE, ✎ asks in a small voice. ✎ — I would like to sit down, please. 🔊✎
THE GUARD ✎ after thinking it over. ✎ — It's okay, she can sit down. But don't let go of her. 🔊✎ Creon enters, the guard immediately yells. ✎