Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin
(Conspiracy Part III)
Room in Kremlin Palace
Vladimir Putin is at his desk, intently looking at some files. There is a knock on the door. He lifts his head, looks at the door, and shrugs. Continues looking at his files. After half a minute,there is another knock. With a snarl he shouts:
Putin: Come in! Come in if you must.
A 40 year-old man in civvies, with dark glasses enters and walks towards the desk, waiting to be invited to take a seat. He is obviously a Spook. Putin ignores him and puts the files away, but opens a drawer to find some other file. He is absorbed in this for a while, and Spook hems hems discreetly. Putin ignores him.
Spook: Vladimir Vladimirovich, you sent for me.
Putin: Did I? Oh yes, I did Kapitan. Why?
Spook: Why what, sir?
Putin: Why do you fucking think I sent for you?
Spook becomes uneasy blushes.
Putin: Surely not to congratulate you for having ballsed up your operation. A new recruit in the army with no training, asked to throw a few drops of novichok on the clothes of that renegade Sergei Skripal would have been offended at the triviality of the task. But what did you, a hero of the Soviet Union do? You fucking got it wrong, Semyon Ibrahimovich! The sonofabitch and his whore daughter are alive and well and are already betraying the holy Motherland country again.
Spook: I know Mr President, but you see_
Putin: I don’t know why I listened to to their fucking advice. They said a man of your calibre who has gone wrong once, is the most reliable agent after he’s messed up once. Like the goalkeeper who commits a howler will save a penalty neXt time. And what did I do?
Spook blinks and flinches.
Putin: I must have been mad! I gave you the Navalny job. What could’ve been simpler?
Putin stands up in anger and shakes his fist at Spook.
Putin: Were you trying to prove something?
Spook: No sir, I have no eXcuse. I honestly don’t know what went wrong. And I take full blame for making you appear _
Putin: We can live if the world thinks we’re murderers, double-crossers, most world leaders are! None of us minds if the whole world knows we’re thieves with billions stacked in The Virgin Islands, Gibraltar, or Dubai. You take bribes, give bribes, you pardon a guilty friend, that’s OK too. But, Semyon Ibrahimovitch, show your enemy that you’re ineffectual, and they laugh at you! And when they laugh at you, you’re done for. (Pause)Like you’re done for.
Takes a file from under a pile of files, and smiles wickedly.
Putin: Now, Semyon Ibrahimovitch, that’s your neXt assignment.
