Description

Des and Lionel stand and discuss what they are going to do with the prisoner who sits blindfolded on a chair before them. They taunt the silent victim with speculatory chit-chat that intimates the torture that is to follow. 

Lionel breaks down in tears because he loves his job so much, it makes him feel so pure”. Des replies he is “keeping the world clean for democracy”.

Contained in the volume Harold Pinter: Plays 4.“