Deliver us from evil
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00intro
VOICE OVER
All these years later I still remember that one man
That slow motion train wreck who professed to be my company’s delivery man
Who couldn’t managed to arrived on time even for his own disaster
02late
VOICE OVER: He haunted me daily, but never so much as on Fridays when we needed deliveries made for weekend sales
CECIL: It that Idiot in yet?
KENNY: Not yet, Mr. Cecil
CECIL: This makes three days this week, doesn’t it?
KENNY: Three days in a row. Four for the week. But he came in on time on Tuesday.
CECIL: Did you call him?
KENNY: I do every day
CECIL: Did you remind him that this is Friday. And that we need him early on Fridays?
KENNY: I told him how we lose money if the stores don’t get their paint on time for the weekend.
CECIL: And?
KENNY: He said “Okay.”
CECIL: That’s all he said?
KENNY: That’s what he always says.
CECIL: Why don’t you get him another call to see what’s holding him up.
KENNY: I’d rather not, Mr. Cecil
CECIL: Are you afraid to call him?
KENNY: It’s hard to explain.
CECIL: Then give me the phone, I’ll call.
02phone
VOICE OVER: Yet confronting him felt like I was confronting an earthquake, I never knew where to start
CECIL: Hello?
Is that you, Garrick, my boy?
Didn’t Kenny tell you I needed you in early today?
What’s that?
I’m sorry to hear about your stubbed toe.
Can you walk?
Can you drive?
Then can I expect you in soon?
03wait
KENNY: So
CECIL: He said he snagged a toe and had to bandage it.
KENNY: But is he coming in?
CECIL: He says he is?
KENNY: When?
CECIL: He said he was just leaving.
VOICE OVER: Yet waiting on him was like waiting for the next drip to drop from an aggravatingly slow dripping faucet. You knew the drip would come, but not precisely when.
04-05 arrival
VOICE OVER: When he finally arrived, he enveloped me before I even know I was involved
GARRICK: Is something wrong?
CECIL: Do you know what day this is?
GARRICK: Pay day?
CECIL: It’s Friday!
GARRICK: Then it is pay day.
CECIL: You do know you’re supposed to be in early on Fridays.
GARRICK: Okay.
CECIL: Where are you going now?
GARRICK: Breakfast.
CECIL: Now?
GARRICK: I always have breakfast before I start work.
CECIL: All right. Have your breakfast. But I want you on the road the moment you punch in. Is that clear?
GARRICK: Okay.
VOICE OVER: Talking to him, of course was like talking to a storm cloud. I could feel something potent there, but could never lay my hands on it. So I watched him eat. For all of Garrick’s bulk, he seemed prissy in his precise habits, laying out his meal as if The Last Supper.
06-07 Breakfast
VISUAL: Garrick goes into lunch room, pulls out a chair, sits, unfolds the top of his paper bag, pulls a paper wrapped sandwich out, a cardboard container with coffee, an oversized muffin, a bottle of Snapple, a napkin, salt and pepper packets, placing each in a specific place and eats while he reads his newspaper
VOICE OVER: So locked into ritual, a martyr seemed less dedicated.
CECIL: Time’s up, Garrick
GARRICK: Okay
VISUAL: Garrick goes through a similar routine to pickup his stuff then goes towards the bathroom
08toilet:
CECIL: Where are you going now?
GARRICK: To the toilet
CECIL: No way, you’ve wasted enough time. Go when you get on the road
GARRICK: But it could be a long drive and the truck’s springs aren’t what they ought to be and if I get caught in traffic…
CECIL: All right! Use the toilet. I’ll give you five minutes.
VOICE OVER: Perhaps I thought I might earn sainthood for the patience I possessed, poised outside, listening to even the remotest sounds of progress. Time passed.
CECIL: Time’s up, Garrick
GARRICK: Okay.
SOUND: (Flush of toilet, squeak of shoes, snap of a latch, watering running, paper towel dispenser
09 emergence
VOICE OVER: To see him emerge was like seeing someone rise from the grave, leaving me grateful to have witnessed it.
CECIL: Are you ready now?
GARRICK: Okay.
CECIL: Wonderful. Now get to work.
GARRICK: Okay.
10 -11 Office
VOICE OVER: Arming a knight seemed simple in comparison. So wearying was this effort that I went to my office to rest
12-13 ghost
VOICE OVER: No spirit could have spooked me more than seeing him pass outside my window.
CECIL: Kenny!!!!
KENNY: (rushing in) What is it Mr. Cecil.
CECIL: (pointing at the window) It was him.
KENNY: Garrick?
CECIL: He just walked passed.
KENNY: But why would he do that? There’s nothing up there but a shoe repair store and a gas station.
CECIL: Why does Garrick do anything?
VOICE OVER: Nothing, of course, prepared me for the call when it came.
SOUND: The telephone rings – Cecil snatches it up.
CECIL: (speaking into the phone)
Where are you?
Why did you go to the gas station?
If you needed gas, why didn’t you bring the van?
You don’t need an appointment to purchase gasoline.
Obviously you didn’t know that.
So come back, load the truck and I’ll give you money for gas.
14 take him
(Slams down the phone, then to Kenny)
VOICE OVER: After that I wanted no more of him
CECIL: Do you think he does this on purpose?
KENNY: On purpose? Why would he do that?
CECIL: To drive me crazy. You deal with him. Make sure he gets the van out. If I see him again, I’m liable to murder him.
KENNY: Right
15 He’s back
VOICE OVER: Just when I thought I was rid of him, he meandered into the office again
GARRICK: You forgot to give me money for…
CECIL: (shouting) Out. I don’t want to hear it. Just go do your job!
GARRICK: Okay
16call
VOICE OVER: I didn’t pay any attention to the ringing phone until Kenny shouted.
KENNY: Mr. Cecil. It’s Garrick. He says he’s run out of gas
17 end
VOICE OVER: Now, these many years later, I miss Garrick most