EPISODE 8: GOOD FRIDAY

GOVERNOR

GOVERNOR’S WIFE

CAPTAIN

JESUS

BISHOP

MAN

(Non-Speaking: SOLDIER)

[The GOVERNOR is alone. His WIFE enters.]

GOVERNOR’S WIFE: Husband!

GOVERNOR: Wife! You shouldn’t be here.

WIFE: I had to come. I want to know what’s happening.

GOVERNOR: To the prisoner?

WIFE: Yes.

GOVERNOR: The examination isn’t over.

WIFE: Have you decided...?

GOVERNOR: I thought I had. Now I don’t know.

WIFE: What will you do?

GOVERNOR: Why do you care?

WIFE: I fear him.

GOVERNOR: Why?

WIFE: I keep having a dream ...

GOVERNOR: What about?

WIFE: The time I heard him.

GOVERNOR: Where?

WIFE: In the city.

GOVERNOR: You never told me.

WIFE: No.

GOVERNOR: What did he say?

WIFE: He took a child ... a little girl with a dirty face and said, "If you want to enter the kingdom of God, you must become like this little girl."

GOVERN…