spoil a surface by marking it
Not stuck straight. Someone... Someone's tried to deface it,National Theatre Live: Prima Facie · 2022 — 第 13 / 22 章 · 5'03" · C1
Tessa's Police Interview, Explained：get someone offside
She is cold in an interview room, answering whether she knows him and whether last week was consensual. Under that checklist she is fighting the word victim. "I want to be a survivor, but..." every question about hands and bite marks drags her back into a body she has to inventory.
あらすじ
A defence barrister is led into a police interview room, cold, dressed from a spare room. She can wait for a woman officer but wants it over with. She names Julian Brookes, a colleague, says she consented last time, then faces questions about the assault, her phone, and a shower that may have washed the evidence away.
注目の表現
get someone offsideget it over withknown to meThat time
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このシーンの表現
get someone offside
turn someone against you
Cold, in clothes from the spare room, she wants a woman officer but does not want to get the big officer offside.
I softened the email so I wouldn't get someone offside.
このシーンの他の表現
- get it over with
finish an unpleasant thing now
- known to me
I know this person formally
- That time
only on that occasion
- fight back
resist; fight back
- come up with
produce a result, and very little of it
このシーンのメモ一覧
88 行のセリフに 32 件のメモ
recorded pictures of a place
I've only ever seen video footage of rooms like this one –Keep of tiny so footage and rooms stay one piece of information.
I've only ever seen video footage of rooms like this one –feet up, looking unbothered Not just posture: she was comfortably detached.
watching my client's interrogation with my feet up on the desk in chambers.at a barrister's offices Chambers means a barrister's offices, not a bedroom.
watching my client's interrogation with my feet up on the desk in chambers.tactics the police use in interviews
All my sass and outrage at the tricks the police play.bold cheek — Fine for cheek in conversation; too casual for a report.
All my sass and outrage at the tricks the police play.guess a thought I had not said He guessed the request she had not spoken.
He must've read my mind.Have sits inside must've, so don't wait for a separate beat.
He must've read my mind.the team that handles sexual assault
He's telling me I can come back when the sexual assault unit is on,finish an unpleasant thing now
He offers a later slot with the unit or a woman on duty; she chooses to get it over with now.
or a woman on duty, but I just... I want to get it over with.I know this person formally
On the recording, before the name, she answers with the stiff phrase known to me.
'Yes. Yes, he is known to me.'relative clause: The that-clause limits first time to nights they had already spent together.
'Last night, it wasn't the first time that we'd been together.never agreed what the relationship was Not a dictionary definition: they never named what they were.
'We weren't... We hadn't defined anything, so...Let not and a touch; the t should barely interrupt the slide.
'So, no. No. No, not a 'relationship'. No.it began without a clear decision She softens who started it; it was not a plan.
'His office. It just... It sort of happened like that.'Put the weight on That and keep time short, so the limit is clear.
'Yes, I consented. That time.'where-clause: Where names the next step she must take, not a place in the room.
This is where I have to describe the rape.push a person off you
'So, did you use your other hand to push him away?'resist; fight back
The question before asks if she pushed him away. Fight back? asks whether she resisted, and the same line asks whether he will have marks where she fought him.
'Fight back? Will he have marks where you fought him?'adverbial clause: Where points to the spot on his body, not a room she should name.
'Fight back? Will he have marks where you fought him?'shoot someone a loaded look A pointed look, not a casual glance.
'It's my family, friends, my work!' The officer gives me a look.a medical exam to collect evidence
A forensic medical examination? I have to tell him.produce a lot Not inventing an idea: the exam produces little.
'It might not come up with much because I...a savage way to say I'm stupid — Vicious self-blame among people who swear; never in a report.
I am a... I am a fucking idiot!rinse the traces off Everything means the forensic traces, not her whole life.
'I've had a shower. I've washed everything away. I mean...sex both people agreed to
'He would just say... He would just say that it was consensual sex, won't he?'tag question: The tag won't he clashes with would and turns a guess into a plea.
'He would just say... He would just say that it was consensual sex, won't he?'a vicious so-and-so — A harsh insult for someone you despise; keep it out of anything official.
'Wait till he gets a bastard defence barrister, they could say anything then.'show contempt by rolling the eyes
He stops chewing, rolls his eyes.as-if clause: As if gives his look a motive: that she chose this defendant on purpose.
Looks at me as if I've done it deliberately – picked the most challenging defendant.cannot tell what a look means Read means interpret his expression, not a text.
I can't read it, not now, flat voice.「Tessa's Police Interview」を読み解く
What's really going on
She knows rooms like this only from video, feet up in chambers, outraged at the tricks police play. In here she is cold and shivering. She wants a woman officer but will not get the big officer offside; told she can come back later, she still wants it over with. She answers "Yes. Yes, he is known to me." Of last week she says "Yes, I consented. That time." She wants to be a survivor, not a victim, then faces questions about hands, pushing him away and fighting back, and cannot look at the officer. She had a shower straight after and says she washed everything away, then that he would call it consensual sex. One line says to wait till he gets a defence barrister. She says Julian is one, and, small voice, that she is one too. She cannot tell if his look is smug or sympathetic. What she hears next is "Ah! Now you need us though, don't you?"
Theme
SurvivalShe says she does not want to be a victim, damaged; she wants to be a survivor, right where she has to describe the rape.
JusticeShe limits consent to that time, will not give up her phone, then says a shower may leave little and he would call the sex consensual.
発音のポイント
- footage of rooms — Keep of tiny so footage and rooms stay one piece of information.
- He must've read — Have sits inside must've, so don't wait for a separate beat.
- not a — Let not and a touch; the t should barely interrupt the slide.
- That time — Put the weight on That and keep time short, so the limit is clear.
It's different when you're in here.The interview room she only knew from video, feet up and outraged in chambers, is not the same once she is shivering inside it.
'Yes, I consented. That time.'She is splitting off an earlier time she agreed to from the assault she has come to report. Consent then is not consent for this.
I don't want to be a victim, damaged. No. No. I want to be a survivor, but...Right where she has to describe the rape, she rejects victim and damaged and reaches for survivor, and the but leaves that wish unfinished.
'He would just say... He would just say that it was consensual sex, won't he?'In this line she answers herself: he will not deny the sex, he will say she agreed. It is her version of what he would say, not something he has said.
'Ah! Now you need us though, don't you?'After she says, small voice, that she too is a defence barrister, and still cannot read his look, this line puts her on the side that needs them.
このシーンについての質問
Why does she insist on getting it over with?
He tells her she can come back when the sexual assault unit is on, or when a woman is on duty. She says she wants to get it over with. The chance to wait is offered, and she does not take it.
Why doesn't she ask for a woman officer?
She wants to ask for a woman, and she says she needs to, but she does not want to get the big officer offside. The request stays unsaid. What she puts into words is the risk of turning him against her.
Why does she say he is known to her before she names him?
She answers, "Yes. Yes, he is known to me." The next line names him: "Julian Brookes." This line only records that she knows him. It does not say they work together; that comes after the name.
Why does she add "That time" once she has said she consented?
She says that last week they had sex, that it was at work, then that it was after hours, in his office. After that she says, "Yes, I consented. That time." The yes stays, and "that time" keeps it to that one occasion.
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第 2 章blood in the waterEnsler Corners the Witness
第 3 章What's new?Tessa Comes Home After the Win
第 4 章crème de la crèmeThe Dean's Induction Warning
第 5 章manoeuvred his way aroundEveryone Is Watching at the Party
第 6 章ethical tightropeSophie Walks the Tightrope
第 7 章burn the midnight oilAfter Hours in Chambers
第 8 章get under their skinTessa Baiting the Sergeant
第 9 章her word against hisJenna's Word on Trial
第 10 章justify the costTessa's Date Ends in Vomit
第 11 章legal truthTessa Asks for the Police Station
第 12 章no armourTessa Enters Court Without Armour
再生中 · 第 13 章get someone offsideTessa's Police Interview
第 14 章in the hands ofTessa Agrees to Testify
第 15 章psyche myself upTessa Is the One on Trial
第 16 章go through with thisUp to the Witness Stand
第 17 章put it down toTessa Runs into Julian
第 18 章cross-examining myselfCross-Examining Herself in Court
第 19 章in the darkWitness Faces the Cross-Examination
第 20 章fall for itTessa Remembers on the Stand
第 21 章news to meTessa Loses Faith in the Law
第 22 章litmus testWitness Calls Out the Rape Law第 13 / 22 章 · 残り約 29 分