detective lines

Question 1

THERAPIST. All three children –

B. Gone.

Answer 1

Taken.

Question 2

B. Can you image?

A. Their poor mother.

Answer 2

Was there anything different about that night?

Question 3

MOTHER. It was supposed to be Wendy’s last night in the
nursery.
They’ve all slept in the same room since they were
babies.
But it was time.
Wendy was at That Age.

Answer 3

What age is that?

Question 4

BOY. What was her name again?

THERAPIST. Those children.

Answer 4

They’re back.

Question 5

WENDY. He said come away with me.
He said forever.
I said
That’s an awfully long time
and I guess we were just saying pretty words
Even though it felt Big and Real.
Boys make big promises.
Girls know better than to believe them,
but they go along with them anyway.
...
I went along with him anyway.

Answer 5

No official statement has been given.

Question 6

WENDY. They asked me a lot of questions when I got back.

Answer 6

Were they in danger? These boys?
Is that why you brought them with you?
Was it him? 
Peter?
What can you tell me about him?

Question 7

A. He loves stories.
B. One night I heard him crying when he thought I was asleep.
C. I never asked why.

Answer 7

Wendy?

What can you tell me about him?

Question 8

WENDY. Nothing.

Answer 8

Did he hurt you?

Question 9

WENDY. I fell down and scraped my knee and my elbow,

When we were running one night.

Answer 9

What were you running from?

Question 10

WENDY. We were running to, not from.

Answer 10

What were you running to?

Question 11

WENDY. Who can remember.
We were always running.
It was magical.
And scary.

Answer 11

Scary how?

Question 12

WENDY. Everyone wants to know about scary, no one wants

to know about magical.

Answer 12

Okay then, how was it magical?

Question 13

WENDY. Literally.
There was magic everywhere.
In the air, in the water, in the trees…

Answer 13

And how was it scary?

Question 14

WENDY. How long was I gone?

Answer 14

How long do you think you were gone?

Question 15

WENDY. A year?
(Beat.)
Longer?

Answer 15

Nine days.

Question 16

DETECTIVE. Nine days.

WENDY. Oh.

Answer 16

You’re mother says you haven’t stopped crying, why?

Question 17

A. Did you hear –?
BOY. Do you remember –?
B. That girl.

Answer 17

Wendy Darling

Question 18

BOY. She doesn’t even try, they say.

NINA. How long has it been?

Answer 18

Long enough.

Question 19

B. Remember?

DOCTOR. Three children disappear.

Answer 19

Seven come back.

Question 20

C. But wait –

A. Did you hear about the fliers?

Answer 20

She’s looking for him.

Question 21

WENDY. Flying isn’t real anymore.
This was a stupid idea.
(An office.)
(The DETECTIVE works at his desk.)
Hello.
Do you remember me?

Answer 21

How could I forget the famous Wendy Darling

Question 22

WENDY. I need your help.

I need to find him.

Answer 22

Case is closed.
There haven’t been any missings that follow his pattern in quite some time. The last one took place within a year after you returned.

Question 23

WENDY. What was his pattern?

Answer 23

It doesn’t matter anymore.

Question 24

C. Everything sounded so new then.

Answer 24

You sabotaged things.
You gave your doctor and therapist false information.
You slept with the window open - even though it gave you a cold
Your mother put a lock on it - you broke the lock.

Question 25

WENDY. Please.
Please, I –
Help me.

Answer 25

If I were you, I´d start with the letters.

Question 26

DOCTOR. People mail all kinds of letters

Answer 26

Santa Claus – The North Pole

Question 27

BOY. Second star to the right

Answer 27

Straight on till morning.