The Banshees of Inisherin scene 67: INT. PUB

67INT. PUB - NIGHT

Bar quite full, COLM is playing fiddle, along with some STUDENT MUSICIANS, one on accordion, one on tin whistle or * fiddle, and a handsome one, DECLAN, on fiddle. PADRAIC is at * bar, on his 5th or 6th whisky, and JONJO is already worried.

PADRAIC

Who are them?

JONJO

Music students, I think, from

Lisdoonvarna.

COLM shows DECLAN a new chord on the fiddle or accordion, placing his fingers in the correct places, and PADRAIC watches, almost jealously, before the band continue.

PADRAIC

He used to try to teach me them things

once, but I could never figure them.

JONJO

What things?

PADRAIC

Chords. (But pronounced WITH THE ‘H’,

as in CHALK)

JONJO gives him a sad look.

PADRAIC (CONT'D)

Another whisky, anyways, Jonjo.

JONJO

Jeez, you’re going at it at a fair oul

lick tonight, Padraic.

PADRAIC

And whatever anybody else wants, apart

from that man...

(indicates COLM)

And apart from that man...

(indicates PEADAR)

GERRY

Jeez, thanks, Padraic, and you leave him

alone, Jonjo, he can drink as quick as he

likes, can’t he, if he’s paying? I’ll have

a triple whiskey, Jonjo.

PADRAIC & GERRY clink glasses/bottle, & PADRAIC knocks his whisky back in one, then turns, leans back against the bar, and stares at COLM hatefully.

67B LATER. DECLAN has taken COLM’s place in the session, 67B * as COLM is chatting quietly to PEADAR again.

PADRAIC observes them, the betrayal of it, perhaps in SLOWMO,