MARY. (Still knitting.) "Looks like we'r...

MARY. (Still knitting.) "Looks like we're stuck here for a while longer, mind you those two are very entertaining." (Indicating Alan and David.)

SUSAN. "I've seen some daft things in my life but that just about took the biscuit. What do you reckon that was all about"?

MARY. "Well they both obviously thought that big bloke was going to batter them, but I wonder why? Do you think they know each other"?

SUSAN. "Didn't look like it, maybe they are just the nervous types. Look, I am going to ask them what was going on, it seems pretty weird to me."

MARY. (Putting down her knitting.)"I'll come with you."

(They both approach Alan and David.)

SUSAN. "What on earth was going on with you and that bloke? Why are you so frightened of him? Do you know him, is he dangerous"?

ALAN. "Which question do you want me to answer first?"

MARY. "We don't mind, just tell us the truth"

DAVE. "Tell them Alan, they might as well know, everyone else does."

MARY. "Tell us what?"

ALAN. "The bloke in the corner, we thought he was involved in a fight in town earlier where a man was very badly hurt, turns out we may be wrong. And to answer your other question, "No" we don't know him but "Yes" we did think he was dangerous because we did, maybe still do, think he was the man involved in the attack earlier today."(Looking at Dave who nods in agreement.)

DAVE. "I agree he might still be the one, we don't know for certain."

SUSAN. "That was what that woman must have been on about outside the station, she said there had been a fight."

DAVE. "Probably, don't get many fights in Altrincham, now Salford, that's a different matter"!

MARY. "So why are you not sure it's him anymore?"

ALAN. "Simply by the way he has been behaving while we've been here. He could have nailed both of us, or even those other women, but he hasn't, in fact apart from when he went outside a while ago he hasn't moved from that spot all the time we've been here."

DAVE. "Well I'm still not convinced it isn't him, he's got blood all down his shirt and he seems to be hiding in here from something."

MARY. (To Alan.) "So you think it may be a big fuss over nothing, typical men jumping to conclusions."

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