Scene Eleven – Troilo’s Apartment

A loud hammering fills the air, and Troilo crawls out of bed and stumbles for the door.

Troilo: I hear you, I hear you, I say! Don’t knock so loud; you’ll break the door. (He opens it.) ….. Renhart.

Renhart: Sorry it’s so late.

Troilo: Nah.

Renhart: Where is it?

Troilo: Here, hold on a sec. What the heck is that thing?

Renhart: A new NATO alignment system. It was taken off of a gun.

Troilo: Oh. Eh? What?

He panics as a red point of light appears on his pajamas and tried to bat it off.

Renhart: It’s a laser. If that red point is used as a guideline of the gun’s range…

Troilo: I see. Then all you have to do is point at the target and fire? But why was this in a pawn shop?

Renhart: The guerillas who broke into the warehouse were having trouble disposing of them, so they brought it in.

Troilo: Eh, then… Ehh? What’s it all mean?

Renhart: That warehouse was full of weapons. The guerillas broke into it without knowing that.

Troilo: Then that’s why the damage report was withdrawn?

Renhart: That’s right.

Troilo: Then those traders are weapons dealers?

Renhart: That’s right.

Troilo: And? You found out about the guerillas too?

Renhart: No, no information at all about them.

Troilo: Why?

Renhart: Not sure, but maybe they seem to have disappeared like smoke.

Troilo: But, that guy in the pawn shop. Wouldn’t he have known?

Renhart: I’m saying they disappeared.

Troilo: …. That’s—

Renhart: More importantly, that pawn dealer is a problem, don’t you think?

Troilo: Why?

Renhart: This, you see, is a weapon in testing. It couldn’t have been distributed cleanly by the usual routes. Which means what?

Troilo: Smuggling.

Renhart: That’s right. Weapons smuggled through the black market. If that’s the case, can you leave it alone?

Troilo: But there’s no proof, right?

Renhart: Isn’t this proof here?

Troilo: How will you prove the connection?

Renhart: Even if provisional, you’re police under a military regime, right? You can pull people in without a summons or arrest warrant, and make enquiries, right?

Troilo: Ah, that wouldn’t work.

Renhart: What?

Troilo: At any rate, the administration gives us a fair donation. We can’t lift a finger against them.

Renhart is disgusted.

Renhart: Oh, I get it.

Troilo: If there was something I could do…

Renhart: No, that’s fine. I’m taking this with me.

Troilo: What are you going to do?

Renhart: Shake up a certain trader.

Troilo: That’s pointless.

Renhart: There’s no other way.

Troilo: Why would an embassy worker like you go so far?

Renhart: ...

Troilo: I mean, what can you do alone?

Renhart: There’s nothing for it now. If I don’t investigate a little more, nothing can be done.

: Troilo’s right. It’s not my job to clean it up alone. It’s a problem for all of NATO. But if I report, who should I bring it to? Right now I don’t know who the enemy is, and moving carelessly could be fatal.

Date: 2015-02-16; view: 734