The Micallef Program Episode 1 “Drinking”
— Front sitting room
A man in a suit with a briefcase enters the room via the front door. There is a woman on the couch. The man approaches a chair with difficulty and sits down. He falls off the chair and slides across the room, grabbing a bowl of grapefruit and spilling a sugar bowl as he passes the coffee table.
Woman (RH):
[resigned] Have you been drinking?
Man (SM):
No, not at all. [He picks up a fruit and kicks it away.] I’ll have that later. [The man resumes his seat, straightening a painting on the way there.]
Woman:
Tea?
Man:
Yes, that’d be lovely, thank you. [The woman doesn’t move.] No, I’ll get it, it’s fine. [He lies next to the table and pours the tea and milk, and adds sugar from the floor. He returns to his chair, setting the teacup on the side table, whence it slides off. The phone rings, which he answers.] Hello? [While he is speaking, he rises from his chair and stumbles away from the wall, stretching the phone’s cord to its length.] Yes. Yes. Yes, this is he. Right. Certainly. [He pulls himself toward the phone cradle by the cord and hangs up.] [to the woman] That’s the hospital. I’m wanted in surgery urgently and must leave immediately. [He stumbles and falls out of the window.]
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