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Part 4: The Professionals

Part 4: The Professionals. By Chris Huxley. Events. This act is primarily used to establish the alibi’s for the characters through interviewing by the policemen.

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Part 4: The Professionals

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  1. Part 4: The Professionals By Chris Huxley

  2. Events • This act is primarily used to establish the alibi’s for the characters through interviewing by the policemen. • We are introduced too the two police officers – Sgt. Buckley, an ambitious, well educated young professional, and his superior Grogan, experienced and renowned. • Munter, Gorringe and Sir George meet them at the pier. • They inspect the body and the room. • Ambrose is forced to turn back a group of actors and guests. All the party are waiting in the library. They discuss Sir George and his radical conservative allegiance.

  3. Events Cntd. • Meanwhile Sir George is being interviewed by the police. • He comes back to library, and it is Cordelia’s turn. She impressed the police officers with her knowledge. She informs them about the ‘poison-pen’ letters. • Gorgan and Buckley discuss Cordelia as a suspect and then rule her out. • Munter is then interviewed, followed by Ambrose. He seems very cool and even gives his own theory as too what happened. • Ivo’s interview reveals his sexual relationship with Clarissa which later detriated.

  4. Events Cntd. • Finally they see Simon, who is very nervous and jumpy. They enquire into his relationship with Clarissa. Sir George sits in on the entire interview. At the end they ask him whether he loves Clarissa. He tells them she probably didn’t have “the capacity for happiness” but that he did love her. • Grogan and Buckley want to leave now that their shift is over, they recall interview with Rose and review more evidence. They think there is something that someone has missed in her room. They are replaced by the night stand. • Clarissa finds herself in a new, less pleasant room but still sleeps soundly.

  5. Language • Detailed character descriptions to give background on the two police officers. • “Murder, the unique and ultimate crime, was seldom the most interesting forensically or the most difficult to solve. But when you did get a good one there was no excitement like it…” (pg. 182) Consistent theme of death and murder that takes place through the play. Direct address to the reader. • Mocking the infallible nature of the police: “I’d better be careful about offering him a drink. It could be constructed as an attempted to bribe or corrupt” (pg. 191) • Reflection of left wing suspicion of the police: “’Nothing about the Police reassures me.’” – Roma (pg. 191)

  6. Language • Very dialogue heavy as, and propels the plot. • Alibi’s are established – a classic technique in the realm of Crime Fiction. • Highlights the differences between characters: Simon has short response, doesn't give detail which underscores his introvertedness. Ambrose is cock-sure, even gives his own theories. Cordeliaqoutes Voltaire etc. • The police officers make a slew of sexist and sexualised comments towards Cordelia. She manages to bat them away with her intelligence. Grogans opinion of her to Buckley after she leaves the interview: “She’s attractive. Like a cat… self-contained and dignified.” (208) Hypothesizing a possible sexual relationship with Sir George.

  7. Language • Grogan angrily crumples a sketch he made of the room. This is symbolic of their cluelessness, that there is a vital piece of information missing. “Then he put his great hand over the drawing and ripped out the page, crumpling it in his fist. The gesture was unexpectedly violent, but his voice was quiet, almost gentle.” (pg. 232) Also suggests that there is something beneath the surface of Grogan, a deep anger which he is hiding (Possibly) or just his frustration at a complex and clueless case. • The police officers play a different role to all the other characters. As they cannot be suspects, they are somewhat omnipotent.

  8. Language • Anecdotes are used by Grogan to begin a process of elimination of possible suspects etc. • Cordeliaqoutes Voltaire to show how smart she is. • The two rooms (library and business room) to represent different things. Library represents an escape, isolated, sanctuary from the horror. Business room is professionalism, the investigation.

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