Siete minutos, Ismael Camacho Arango [read with me TXT] 📗

BEARDED MAN
You’ll have to swim.
After the intermediary shouts instructions, the ship goes back. Everybody looks at the sea as the intermediary and Atenagoras pour aguardiente in their glasses.
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EXT. SHIP- NIGHT
They hear a voice through the microphone.
VOICE
We’re very close to the place.
As the ship stops everyone mutters and then something floats in the sea. The life jacket looks orange in the light of a battery operated torch.
NUMBER SIX
I’m here, my lieutenant. The bomb didn’t explode.
A sailor brings a microphone to the bearded man.
BEARDED MAN
Number six, can you hear me?
NUMBER SIX
Yes, lieutenant.
BEARDED MAN
We’re going to destroy you.
NUMBER SIX
Yes, lieutenant.
.The bearded man shoots his gun several times.
BEARDED MAN
Can you hear me, number six?
NUMBER SIX
Yes, sir. I’ve been wounded in my legs and chest.
BEARDED MAN
We’ll use another method.
He looks at the people in the ship.
BEARDED MAN
We can’t leave him there, if the body is found by the reactionaries, we’ll be dead.
I need a low charge. Two kilograms should be enough.
SAILOR
We don’t have one.
A girl stands up and her companions take off ammunition from her brassiere. After counting them, they keep a few and put the rest back in the bra.
SAILOR
She’s ready, my lieutenant.
BEARDED MAN
Now you must revise the equipment.
The men check the wires connected to the girl and she helps them with their job until she’s naked. She has a young and attractive body.
The bearded man looks at the sea.
BEARDED MAN
Number six, can you hear me?
NUMBER SIX
Yes, lieutenant.
BEARDED MAN
How are you?
NUMBER SIX
I’m very bad, lieutenant. I’m hoping to blow up soon.
BEARDED MAN
Don’t worry. Number ten is coming to you in a few minutes.
NUMBER SIX
Thank you, lieutenant.
ATENAGORAS
Why don’t we pick up that young man?
BEARDED MAN
This isn’t your business.
ATENAGORAS
I’ll take him to a hospital.