A Clockwork May

If April was the cruellest month for Mrs Weathers, May is no picnic for our anti-hero as the long arm of the law finally has him in its grasp. 

Follow Juli Kearns astute analysis of these sequences here. Ms Kearns is a brilliant observer and deftly brings elements of Kubricks other works into the analysis.  She has some good points on the use of the eye and a possible tarot link which anyone reading here will probably appreciate. Don't read this, read her!

With that said, here's the 'meat and potatoes' ie the timings for May...  I've kept the same format, the summary details the scene changes, but scroll down below to the script if you want to find out exactly where we are in the movie on a given day. Just look for the date by the dialogue. As before, the timings should be ok, but occasionally the change occurs without a helpful bit of dialogue to sync it too, so allow a little leeway. 

May Summary

1st-7th: Police Station 

 Alex's misdeeds have finally caught up with him in May. After the police and Mr Deltoid have indulged in some retributive justice of their own we move to...

8th:  External Prison VO shot

He's sent to prison where a dehumanising admission process ensues

9th - 23rd: Prison Admission  

Followed by a sermon where Alex narrates how miserable his situation has become.

24th - 30th: Religious Sermon 

May ends in the library where Alex daydreams will prove to be as violent as ever. 

May Timings

 

ALEX

Ow... what's that for, you bastard?

1st

FATNECK

That was for your lady victim. You ghastly

wretched scoundrel.

Alex grabs his balls.

Alex is beaten by the other Cop.

Inspector exits to outside office where Sergeant sits, sipping a

cup of tea.

Deltoid has just entered.

INSPECTOR

Sergeant.

SERGEANT

Sir.

2nd

INSPECTOR

Ah, good evening, Mr. Deltoid.

DELTOID

Evening, Inspector.

SERGEANT

Would you like your tea now, sir?

INSPECTOR

No, thank you, Sergeant. We'll have it

later. May I have some paper towels,

please.

SERGEANT

Yes, sir.

INSPECTOR

We're interrogating the prisoner now.

Perhaps you'd care to come inside.

3rd

DELTOID

Thank you very much

They move into Interrogation Room.

Alex is on the floor in the corner covered with blood.

DELTOID

Evening, Sergeant. Evening, all. Dear,

dear, this boy does look a mess, doesn't

he? Just look at the state of him.

FATNECK

Love's young nightmare like.

INSPECTOR

Violence makes violence. He resisted his

lawful arrestors.

DELTOID

Well, it's happened, Alex boy, yes. Just

as I thought it would, yes. Dear, dear,

dear. 4th Well, this is the end of the line

for me... the end of the line, yes.

ALEX

It wasn't me, brother, sir. Speak up for

me, sir, for I'm not so bad. I was led on

by the treachery of others, sir.

INSPECTOR

Sings the roof off lovely, he does that.

ALEX

And where are my stinking traitorous

droogs. Get them before the get away. It

was all their idea, brothers. They forced

me to do it. 5th I'm innocent.

DELTOID

You are now a murderer, little Alex. A

murderer, yes.

ALEX

Not true, sir. It was only a slight

tolchock. She was breathing, I swear it.

6th

DELTOID

I've just come back from the hospital.

Your victim has died.

ALEX

You try to frighten me, sir, admit so,

sir. This is some new form of torture. Say

it, brother, sir.

DELTOID

It will be your own torture. I hope to God

it will torture you to madness.

7th

FATNECK

If you'd care to give him a bash in the

chops, sir. Don't mind us. We'll hold him

down. He must be a great disappointment to

you, sir.

Deltoid spits in Alex's face.

8th (Alex wipes face)

HELICOPTER VIEWS OF PRISON

ALEX (V.O.)

This is the real weepy and like tragic

part of the story beginning, O my brothers

and only friends. 9th After a trial with

judges and a jury, and some very hard

words spoken against your friend and

humble narrator, he was sentenced to 14

years in Staja No. 84F among smelly

perverts and hardened prestoopnicks, the

shock sending my dadda beating his bruised

and kroovy rookas against unfair Bog in

his Heaven, and my mom, boohoohooing in

her mother's grief 10th as her only child and

son of her bosom, like letting everybody

down real horrorshow.

INT. PRISON CHECK-IN ROOM – DAY

A bell rings and a Warder goes and unlocks first a wooden door and

then a barred door.

GUARD

Morning. One up from Thames, Mister.

WARDER

One in from Thames, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Right. Open up, Mister.

WARDER

Yes, sir.

He opens door and steps back. Alex and another Warden move to

Reception desk.

11th

WARDER

Good morning, sir. Committal sheet.

CHIEF GUARD

(who shouts everything)

Thank you, Mister.

He signs sheet.

GUARD

Name?

ALEX

Alexander de Large.

CHIEF GUARD

You are now in H.M. Prison Parkmoor and

from this moment you will address all

prison officers as sir! Name?

12th

ALEX

Alexander de Large, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Crime?

ALEX

Murder, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Right. Take the cuffs off him, Mister.

The cuffs are removed.

13th

CHIEF GUARD

You are now 655321 and it is your duty to

memorise that number.

He hands clipboard back to Warder.

CHIEF GUARD

Thank you Mister. Well done.

WARDER

Thank you, chief.

CHIEF GUARD

Let the officer out.

Officer exits.

CHIEF GUARD

Right. Empty your pockets!

Alex moves to desk and leans forward.

14th

CHIEF GUARD

Are you able to see that white line

painted on the floor directly behind you,

655321?

ALEX

Yes, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Then your toes belong on the other side of

it!!!

ALEX

Yes sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Right carry on.

Alex tosses a bar of chocolate on the desk.

15th

CHIEF GUARD

Pick that up and put it down properly.

Alex does so, and continues to empty his pockets.

CHIEF GUARD

One half bar of chocolate. 16th One bunch of

keys on white metal ring. One packet of

cigarettes. Two plastic ball pens – one

black, one red. One pocket comb – black

plastic. 17th One address book – imitation red

leather. One ten penny piece. One white

metal wristlet watch, "Timawrist" on a

white metal 18th expanding bracelet. Anything

else in your pockets?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Right. Sign here for your valuable

property.

Alex signs.

CHIEF GUARD

The chocolate and cigarettes you brought

in – 19th  you lose that as you are now

convicted. Now go over to the table and

get undressed.

Alex walks to table and undresses. Chief Guard moves to table with

his clipboard.

CHIEF GUARD

Now then, were you in Police custody this

morning?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHECK-IN

One jacket – blue pinstripe.

CHIEF GUARD

Prison custody?

ALEX

Yes, sir On remnd, sir.

CHECK-IN

One neck tie – blue.

CHIEF GUARD

Religion?

20th

ALEX

C of E, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Do you mean Church of England?

ALEX

Yes, sir, Church of England, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Brown hair, is it?

ALEX

Fair hair, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Blue eyes?

ALEX

Blue eyes, yes, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Do you wear eye glasses or contact lenses?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHECK-IN

One shirt – blue, collar attached.

CHIEF GUARD

Have you been receiving medical treatment

for any serious illness?

ALEX

No, sir.

21st

CHECK-IN

One pair of boots – black leather,

zippered, worn.

CHIEF GUARD

Have you ever had any mental illness?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Do you wear any false teeth or false

limbs?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHECK-IN

One pair of trousers – blue pinstriped.

CHIEF GUARD

Have you ever had any attacks of fainting

or dizziness?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHECK-IN

One pair of socks – black.

CHIEF GUARD

Are you an Epileptic?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHECK-IN

One pair of underpants – white with blue

waistband.

22nd

CHIEF GUARD

Are you now, or ever have been, a

homosexual?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Right. The mothballs, Mister.

CHECK-IN

Mothballs, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Now then. Face the wall. Bend over and

touch your toes.

Chief Guard inspects Alex's anus with a penlight.

CHIEF GUARD

Mmmmmmm... any venereal disease?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Crabs?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Lice?

ALEX

No, sir.

23rd

CHIEF GUARD

Through there for a bath.

ALEX

Yes, sir.

INT. PRISON CHAPEL – DAY

Priest in pulpit big rough state-proper type.

Convict audience.

Alex sits apart tending an overhead projector.

PRIEST

I ask you friends. What's it going to be

then? Is it going to be in and out of

institutions like this?Or more in then out

for most of you? Or are you going to

attend the divine word and realise the

punishment that awaits unrepentant sinners

24th in the next world as well as this. A lot

of Idiots you are, selling your birthright

for a saucer of cold porridge. The urge to

live easy. I ask you friends, is it worth

it? When we have undeniable proof – yes,

my friends, incontrovertible evidence that

25th Hell exists. I know, I know, my friends. I

have been informed in visions that there

is a place darker than any prison, hotter

than any human flame of fire, where

26th unrepentant criminals, sinners like

yourselves...

A convict burps.

All laugh.

PRIEST

Don't you laugh, damn you, don't you

laugh. I say like yourselves – scream in

endless and unendurable agony. Their

nostrils choked with the smell of filth,

their mouths crammed with burning ordure.

Their skins rotting and peeling. A

27th fireball spinning in their screaming guts.

I know... oh yes, I know.

A convict lets rip some lip music – prrrrrrrp. There is laughter.

Chief Guard moves forward – points.

CHIEF GUARD

I saw you, 920537. I saw you.

CONVICT

Up yours, mate.

CHIEF GUARD

Just you wait, 744678. One on the turnip

coming up for you.

PRIEST

Quiet, my friends. Quiet. Quiet, I say. We

will now sing Hymn 258 in the Prisoner's

Hymnal.

Piano starts up and Alex starts up overhead projector which

displays the words of the hymn.

28th

CHIEF GUARD

Show a little reverence, you bastards.

Quiet!

Convicts and all start to sing.

SINGING

I was a wandering sheep.

I did not love...

CHIEF GUARD

Sing up damn you. Louder, sing up.

SINGING

... the fold

I did not love my shepherd's voice.

I would not be controlled.

CHIEF GUARD

Come on, sing up, damn you.

SINGING

29th I was a wayward child

I did not love my home

I did not love my father's voice

I loved afar to roam.

ALEX (V.O.)

It had not been edifying, indeed not,

being in this hell hole and human zoo for

two years now, being kicked and tolchocked

by brutal warders, and meeting leering

criminals and perverts ready to dribble

all over a lucious young malchick like

30th your story-teller.

INT. PRIEST'S LIBRARY – DAY

Alex reading the Bible.

ALEX (V.O.)

It was my rabbit to help the prison

charlie with the Sunday service. He was a

bolshy great burly bastard, but he was

very fond of myself, me being very young,

and also now very interested in the 31st  big

book.

Priest walks by and nods pleasantly.

ALEX (V.O.)

It had been arranged by the prison

charlie, as part of my further education

to read him the Bible. I didn't so much

like the latter part of the book which is

more like all preachy talking, than

fighting and the old in-out. I liked the

parts where these old yahoodies tolchock

each other and then drink their Hebrew

vino and, then getting on to the bed with

their wives' handmaidens. That kept me

going.

BIBLE FANTASY – FIGHTING – DAY

Biblical fighting shot. Alex slashing away. Blood spurting.

HANDMAIDEN FANTASY IN TENT – DAY

Alex lying with three semi-nude handmaidens.

EXT. BIBLICAL STREET

Christ being whipped on by Alex, dressed as a Legionary.

ALEX

Move on there. Move on.

ALEX (V.O.)

I read all about the scourging and the

1st June crowning with thorns and all that, and I

could viddy myself helping in and even

taking charge of the tolchocking and the

nailing in, being dressed in the height of

Roman fashion.

BACK TO THE LIBRARY

Alex sits with his eyes closed.

Priest comes over and squeezes his shoulder.

Alex looks up at him and smiles.

A Clockwork April

I'm a little later publishing this month than planned. Some PC trouble that doesn't amount to a hill o' beans when matched against the world's ongoing march to Ragnarok, but which has proved a colossal pain in the arse nonetheless...

Once again I would like to direct your attention to the wonderful Juli Kearns work on ACO, for example her analysis of the upcoming marina scene can be found here. There's insight aplenty along with some interesting parallels to others work. Highly recommended.

April Summary

1st - 4th: April begins at the marina where Alex issues his response to Georgie and Dim's challenge. 

 After his rule has been re-established

5th - 8th: the Droogs proceed to the Duke of New York snug to nurse their wounds and plan their next adventure. 

9th - 26th: Georgie knows of a health farm in the countryside which is occupied by a lone woman and her cats. 

Alex once again attempts the injured motorist routine

but is forced to scale the wall instead before confonting Mrs Weathers in an encounter that soon turns from comic to ultra violent.

Alex flees but finds his Droogs have vengeance on their mind. He is floored by Dim's milk bottle. The scene comes to an end with sirens approaching and the other droogs nowhere to be seen.

27th - 30th inclusive: Alex has been taken to the Police Station where the officers interrogate him, taking the opportunity to engage in some ultra violence of their own.  

As April showers give way to May flowers, the seedy Mr Deltoid makes another appearance to kick off the month.

April day by day

Note: There are minor differences between the screenplay text and the movie version. I've tried to get the timings correct, but there may be some inaccuracies, particularly where a passage takes place without dialogue.

EXT. FLATBLOCK MARINE – DAY

The gang come out of the flatblock and walk along the marina.

ALEX (V.O.)

As we walked along the flatblock marina, I

was calm on the outside but thinking all

the time,

1st April so now it was to be Georgie the

General, saying what we should do and what

not to do, and Dim as his mindless,

grinning bulldog. But, suddenly, I viddied

that thinking was for the gloopy ones and

that the oomny ones use like inspiration

and what Bog sends, for now it was lovely

music that came to my aid and I viddied at

once what to do. 

2nd There was a window open

with the stereo on.

IN SLOW MOTION

Alex clubs Georgie into water with his stick. Dim swings chain.

3rd Alex ducks. Dim goes into water.

Alex kneels, hands behind back, takes knife from sword stick,

offers hand to help Dim, 4th and slashes Dim when he gets it.

Dim falls back into the water.

Alex laughs.

5th INT. DUKE OF NEW YORK PUB

The four boys sit round table.

ALEX (V.O.)

I had not put into any of Dim's main

cables and so, with the help of a clean

tashtook, the red, red kroovy stopped, and

it did not take long to quieten the two

wounded soldiers, down in the snug in the

Duke of New York. Now they knew who was

Master and Leader. Sheep, thought I, 6th but a

real leader knows always when like to give

and show generous to his unders.

ALEX

Well, now we're back to where we were.

Yes? Just like before and all forgotten?

7th Right, right, right.

ALL BOYS

Right. Right. Right.

ALEX

Well, Georgie Boy. This idea you've got

for tonight. Well, tell us all about it

then.

GEORGIE

8th Not tonight – not this nochy.

ALEX

Come, come, come, Georgie Boy. You're a

big strong chelloveck like us all. We're

not little children, are we, Georgie Boy?

What, then, didst thou in thy mind have?

Confrontation. Georgie backs down.

GEORGIE

9th It's this Health Farm. A bit out of the

town. Isolated. It's owned by this like

very rich ptitsa who lives there with her

cats. The place is shut down for a week

and she's completely on her own, and it's

10th full up with like gold and silver and like

jewels.

ALEX

Tell me more, Georgie Boy.

INT. CATLADY'S HOUSE

Catlady doing yoga exercises.

Room is full of cats. 11th Doorbell rings.

CATLADY

(softly to herself)

Oh shit.

She goes to the door.

EXT. CATLADY'S HOUSE

CATLADY

Who's there?

ALEX

Excuse me, missus, can you please help?

There's been a terrible accident. Can I

please use your telephone for an

ambulance?

CATLADY

12th I'm frightfully sorry. There is a

telephone in the Public House about a mile

down the road. I suggest you use that.

ALEX

But, missus, this is an emergency. It's a

matter of life and death. Me friend's

lying in the middle of the road bleeding

to death.

CATLADY

13th I... I'm very sorry, but I never open. I'm

very sorry but I never open the door to

strangers after dark.

ALEX

Very well, madam. I suppose you can't be

blamed for being suspicious with so many

scoundrels and rouges of the night about.

14th Alex walks away from door, then ducks into the bushes where the

others are hiding. They put on their maskies and follow Alex round

to the rear of the house.

ALEX

Dim, bend down.

(Alex points to an

upstairs window)

15th I'm gonna get in that window and open the

front door.

He climbs up drain-pipe to the bathroom window.

INT. CADLADY'S HOUSE

16th The Catlady enters and dials a number.

CATLADY

17th Hullo, Radlett Police Station. Good

evening. It's Miss Weathers at Woodmere

Health Farm. Look, I'm frightfully sorry

to bother you but something rather odd has

just happened... Well, it's probably

nothing at all, but you never know...

18th Well, a young man rang the bell asking to

use the telephone... He said there had

been some kind of accident. The thing that

caught my attention was what he said – the

words he used, sounded exactly like what

was quoted in the papers this morning in

connection with the writer and his wife

who were assaulted last night... Well,

just a few minutes ago... 19th Well, if you

think that's necessary, but, well, I'm

quite sure he's gone away now. Oh...

alright. Fine. Thank you very much. Thank

you.

She puts phone down, turns and nearly jumps out of her leotard

when she sees Alex in the doorway.

ALEX

Hi, hi, hi there, at last we meet.

CATLADY

20th What the bloody hell d'you think you're

doing?

ALEX

Our brief govereet thru the letter hole

was not, shall we say, satisfactory, yes?

CATLADY

21st Now listen here, you little bastard, just

you turn around and walk out of here the

same way as you came in.

Alex eyes a giant white, fibreglass phallic sculpture on the table

beside him.

ALEX

Naughty, naughty, naughty, you filthy old

soomaka.

CATLADY

No! No! Don't touch it. That's a very

important work of art. 22nd What the bloody

hell do you want?

ALEX

You see, madam, I am part of an

international student's contest to see who

can get the most points for selling

magazines.

CATLADY

Cut the shit, sonny, and get out of here

before you get yourself in some very

serious trouble.

He rocks the giant phallus which has a special weight swinging

inside causing it to swing up and down an eccentric motion.

CATLADY

23rd I told you to leave it alone. Now get out

of here before I throw you out, wretched

slummy bedbug. I'll teach you breaking

into real people's houses. Get out!

24th She grabs up a bust of Beethoven and rushes at Alex. He grabs the

giant phallic sculpture.

Circling, Alex fends off her mad rushes with skilful jabs of the

giant phallus.

She ducks under and clobbers him with the heavy bust of Beethoven.

He goes down, pulling her off balance and they both wind up the

floor.

25th In the struggle, Alex bashes her with the phallus.

26th Distant Police sirens.

He exits.

EXT. CATLDAY'S HOUSE – NIGHT

Alex rushes out. Dim and the others are waiting.

ALEX

27th Come on. Let's go, the police are coming.

DIM

One minoota, droogie.

Dim smashes Alex in the face with a full milk bottle. He goes

down. The others run away, laughing.

ALEX

28th (screaming)

You bastards... bastards. 

INT. POLICE HQ – NIGHT

Inspector takes out cigarette and lights up.

INSPECTOR

Right. Right , Tom, 29th we'll have to our

little friend, Alex, here that we know the

law, too, but that knowing the law isn't

everything.

He nods to Fatneck.

FATNECK

30th That's a nasty cut you've got there,

little Alex. Spoils... all your beauty.

Who gave you that then... eh... eh...

He presses Alex's nose, inflicting great pain. Alex sinks to his

knees.

ALEX

Ow... what's that for, you bastard?

FATNECK

1st May: That was for your lady victim. You ghastly

wretched scoundrel.

Alex grabs his balls.

Alex is beaten by the other Cop.

Inspector exits to outside office where Sergeant sits, sipping a

cup of tea.

Deltoid has just entered.

INSPECTOR

Sergeant.

SERGEANT

Sir.

INSPECTOR

2nd May Ah, good evening, Mr. Deltoid.

DELTOID

Evening, Inspector.

SERGEANT

Would you like your tea now, sir?

INSPECTOR

No, thank you, Sergeant. We'll have it

later. May I have some paper towels,

please.

SERGEANT

Yes, sir.

INSPECTOR

We're interrogating the prisoner now.

Perhaps you'd care to come inside.

DELTOID

3rd May Thank you very much

They move into Interrogation Room.

Alex is on the floor in the corner covered with blood.

DELTOID

Evening, Sergeant. Evening, all. Dear,

dear, this boy does look a mess, doesn't

he? Just look at the state of him.

FATNECK

Love's young nightmare like.

INSPECTOR

Violence makes violence. He resisted his

lawful arrestors.

DELTOID

Well, it's happened, Alex boy, yes. Just

as I thought it would, yes. Dear, dear,

dear. Well, this is the end of the line

for me... the end of the line, yes.

ALEX

It wasn't me, brother, sir. Speak up for

me, sir, for I'm not so bad. I was led on

by the treachery of others, sir.

INSPECTOR

Sings the roof off lovely, he does that.

ALEX

And where are my stinking traitorous

droogs. Get them before the get away. It

was all their idea, brothers. They forced

me to do it. I'm innocent.

DELTOID

You are now a murderer, little Alex. A

murderer, yes.

A Clockwork 2022 - Timings for the rest of the year

Some recent PC trouble meant that I've fallen behind schedule and it struck me that publishing month by month like this may also hinder those who wish to look ahead for spoilers...  

So although the monthly breakdowns will continue, (if this aging laptop currently pressed into service manages to linger awhile) please find below the timings for the rest of the year. If you want to correlate with the movie and struggle to find a copy online, this excellent shot by shot analysis by Juli Kearns could be of assistance and the screenplay can be found here.

Date             Time

01/May 00:44:41.65

02/May 00:45:04.00

03/May 00:45:26.35

04/May 00:45:48.70

05/May 00:46:11.05

06/May 00:46:33.40

07/May 00:46:55.75

08/May 00:47:18.10

09/May 00:47:40.45

10/May 00:48:02.80

11/May 00:48:25.15

12/May 00:48:47.50

13/May 00:49:09.85

14/May 00:49:32.20

15/May 00:49:54.55

16/May 00:50:16.90

17/May 00:50:39.25

18/May 00:51:01.60

19/May 00:51:23.95

20/May 00:51:46.30

21/May 00:52:08.65

22/May 00:52:31.00

23/May 00:52:53.35

24/May 00:53:15.70

25/May 00:53:38.05

26/May 00:54:00.40

27/May 00:54:22.75

28/May 00:54:45.10

29/May 00:55:07.45

30/May 00:55:29.80

31/May 00:55:52.15

01/Jun 00:56:14.50

02/Jun 00:56:36.85

03/Jun 00:56:59.20

04/Jun 00:57:21.55

05/Jun 00:57:43.90

06/Jun 00:58:06.25

07/Jun 00:58:28.60

08/Jun 00:58:50.95

09/Jun 00:59:13.30

10/Jun 00:59:35.65

11/Jun 00:59:58.00

12/Jun 01:00:20.35

13/Jun 01:00:42.70

14/Jun 01:01:05.05

15/Jun 01:01:27.40

16/Jun 01:01:49.75

17/Jun 01:02:12.10

18/Jun 01:02:34.45

19/Jun 01:02:56.80

20/Jun 01:03:19.15

21/Jun 01:03:41.50

22/Jun 01:04:03.85

23/Jun 01:04:26.20

24/Jun 01:04:48.55

25/Jun 01:05:10.90

26/Jun 01:05:33.25

27/Jun 01:05:55.60

28/Jun 01:06:17.95

29/Jun 01:06:40.30

30/Jun 01:07:02.65

01/Jul 01:07:25.00

02/Jul 01:07:47.35

03/Jul 01:08:09.70

04/Jul 01:08:32.05

05/Jul 01:08:54.40

06/Jul 01:09:16.75

07/Jul 01:09:39.10

08/Jul 01:10:01.45

09/Jul 01:10:23.80

10/Jul 01:10:46.15

11/Jul 01:11:08.50

12/Jul 01:11:30.85

13/Jul 01:11:53.20

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A Clockwork March

March summary

This is a supporting post for work published at the Hermetic Lessons. 

Note, this month I was happy to find an excellent shot by shot analysis by Julli Kearns. Well worth checking out.  

March begins at Alex's place, the morning after his montage reverie he awakes to find creepy Mr Deltoid waiting for him. Later he visits the record store where he meets Marty and Sonietta who accompany him back for a bit of the old in and out before he finds his Droogs waiting in the stairwell of his block. A tense encounter there leads to the final sequence of the month on the marina with Rossini's thieving magpie once again the soundtrack. 

1-10th March  Alexander home

11-16th  Shopping arcade / record store

17th-19th  Alex Bedroom

20th-30th Alex's towerblock stairwell / entrance

31st Marina

01/03 0:21:58

INT. EM'S BEDROOM - DAY

Alex comes out of his room and finds P.R. Deltoid sitting on bed in

parent's room.

ALEX:

Hi, hi, hi there, Mr. Deltoid, funny surprise to see you here.

02/03 0:22:20

DELTOID:

Ah, Alex boy, awake at last, yes? I met your mother on the way to work,

yes? She gave me the key. She said something about a pain somewhere...

hence not at school , yes?

ALEX:

A rather intolerable pain in the head, brother, sir. I think it should

be clear by this afterlunch.

DELTOID:

Oh, or certainly by this evening, yes? 

03/03 0:22:43

The evening's a great time,

isn't it, Alex boy?

ALEX:

A cup of the old chai, sir?

DELTOID:

No time, no time, yes. Sit, sit, sit.

Alex sits next to him.

ALEX:

To what do I owe this extreme pleasure, sir? Anything wrong, sir?

Deltoid "playfully" grabs Alex's hair.

04/03 0:23:05

DELTOID:

Wrong? Why should you think of anything being wrong, have you been

doing something you shouldn't. Yes?

He shakes Alex's hair.

ALEX:

Just a manner of speech, sir.

DELTOID:

Well, yes, it's just a manner of speech from your Post Corrective

Advisor to you that you watch out, little Alex.

He puts his arm round Alex's shoulder.

DELTOID:

Because next time it's going to be the barry place and all my work ruined. 

05/03 0:23:27

If you've no respect for your horrible self, you at least might

have some for me who'se sweated over you.

He slaps Alex on the knee.

DELTOID:

A big black mark I tell you for every one we don't reclaim. A

confession of failure for every one of you who ends up in the stripy

hole.

ALEX:

I've been doing nothing I shouldn't, sir. The millicents have nothing

on me, brother, sir, I mean.

Deltoid pulls Alex down on the bed.

DELTOID:

Cut out all this clever talk about milicents. Just because the Police

haven't picked you up lately doesn't, as you very well know, mean that

you've not been up to some nastiness. There was a bit of a nastiness

last night, yes. Some very extreme nastiness, yes. A few of a certain

Billyboy's friends were ambluenced off late last night, yes. Your name

was mentioned, the word's got thru to me by the usual channels. 

07/03 0:24:12

Certain friends of yours were named also. Oh, nobody can prove anything about

anybody as usual, but I'm warning you, little Alex, being a good friend

to you as always, the one man in this sore and sick community who wants

to save you from yourself.

Deltoid makes a grab for Alex's joint but finds his hand instead. Alex

laughs. Derisively and rises. Deltoid distractedly reaches for a glass

of water on the night table, and fails to notice a set of false teeth

soaking in them. He drinks from the glass. The clink of the teeth

sounding like ice-cubes.

DELTOID:

What gets into you all? We study the problem. We've been studying it

for damn well near a century, 

08/03 0:24:34

yes, but we get no further with our

studies. You've got a good home here, good loving parents, you've got

not too bad of a brain. 

09/03 0:24:57

Is it some devil that crawls inside of you?

ALEX:

Nobody's got anything on me, brother, sir. I've been out of the rookers

of the milicents for a long time now.

DELTOID:

That's just worries me. A bit too long to long to be reasonable. You're

about due now by my reckoning, that's why I'm warning you, little Alex,

to keep your handsome young proboscis

10/3 0:25:19

out of the dirt. Do I make myself clear?

ALEX:

As an unmuddied lake, sir. Clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You

can rely on me, sir.

Deltoid drinks again but this time sees the teeth in the glass. 

11/03 0:25:41

He groans and retches.

INT. MUSIC BOOTICK - DAY

12/03 0:26:04 

Alex enters. Two pretty micro-boppers, Marty and Sonietta, sucking

phallic ice sticks.

13/03 0:26:26

ALEX:

Pardon me, brother. I ordered this two weeks ago. Could you see if it's

arrived.

CLERK:

OK. I'll see if it's in.

Clerk exits. Alex turns to the girls.

14/03 0:27:11

ALEX:

Pardon me, ladies

He steps in between them and goes through the motions, looking through.

ALEX:

Enjoying it then, my darling?... A bit cold and pointless isn't it, my

lovely... What's happened to yours, my little sister?

Marty giggles.

16/03 0:27:33

MARTY:

Who you getten bratty, Goggly Gogol? Johnny Zhivago? The Heaven

Seventeen?

ALEX:

What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? 

17/03 0:27:55

I bet you got little save pitiful portable picnic players. Come with

Uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You

are invited.

18/03 0:28:18 - 19/03 0:28:40

(sequence sped up to William Tell overture / Lone Ranger Rossini)

INT. ALEX'S BEDROOM - DAY

The two girls, naked, jumping up and down on Alex's still unmade bed

zonked by the booming, all engulfing sound of Alex's incredible Hi-Fi.

20/03 0:29:02

INT. ALEX'S FLATBLOCK - LOBBY HALL - DAY

Alex finds the gang waiting for him.

21/3 0:29:25

ALEX:

Hi, hi, hi, there

ALL THREE:

Well, .

DIM:

He are here! He have arrived! Hooray!

ALEX:

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the

extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

Georgie rises.

22/03 29:47

GEORGIE:

We got worried. There we were waiting and drinking away at the old

knify Moloko and you had not turned up and we thought you might have

been like offended by something or other, so around we come to your

abode.

23/02 30:10

ALEX:

Appy polly loggies. I had something of a pain in the gulliver so had to

sleep. 

24/3 0:30:32

I was not awakened when I gave orders for awakening.

DIM:

Sorry about the pain. Using the gulliver to much like, eh? Giving

orders and disciplining and that perhaps, eh? You sure the pain's gone?

You sure you'll not be happier back up in bed.

25/3 0:30:54

ALEX:

Lets get things nice and sparkling clear. This sarcasm, if I may call

it such, does not become you, O my brothers.

26/3 31:17

As I am your droog and leader, I am entitled to know what goes on, eh? 

Now then, Dim, what does that great big horsy gape of a grin portend?

GEORGIE:

All right, no more picking on Dim, brother. That's part of the new way.

27/3 0:31:39

ALEX:

New way? What's this about a new way? There's been some very large talk

behind my sleeping back, and no error. Let me hear more.

28/03 0:32:01

GEORGIE:

Well, we go round shop crasting and the like, coming out with a pitiful

rookerful of money each.

DIM:

Pitiful rookerful...

GEORGIE:

And there's Will the English in the Muscleman coffee mesto saying he

can fence anything that anything that any malchick tries to crast.

DIM:

Yeah... Pete the English.

GEORGIE:

The shiny stuff. The Ice. The big, big, big money is available's what

Will the English says.

DIM:

Big, big money.

29/03 0:32:24

ALEX:

And what will you do with the big, big, money? Have you not everything

you need? If you need a motor-car, you pluck it from the trees. If you

need pretty polly, you take it.

GEORGIE:

Brother, you think and talk sometimes like a little child. Tonight we

pull a mansize crast.

30/03 0:32:46

ALEX:

Good. Real horrorshow. Initiative comes to them as waits. I've taught

you much, my little droogies. Now tell me what you have in mind,

Georgie Boy.

GEORGIE:

Oh, the old moloko-plus first, would you not say

DIM:

Moloko-plus.

31/03 0:33:08

GEORGIE:

Something to sharpen us up, you especially. We have the start.

EXT. FLATBLOCK MARINE - DAY

The gang come out of the flatblock and walk along the marina.

ALEX (V.O.)

As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside but

thinking all the time, 

01/04 0:33:01

so now it was to be Georgie the General, saying what we should do and 

what not to do, and Dim as his mindless, grinning bulldog. But, suddenly,

I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones

use like inspiration and what Bog sends, for now it was lovely music that

came to my aid and I viddied at once what to do. There was a window open 

with the stereo on.

IN SLOW MOTION:

Alex clubs Georgie into water with his stick. Dim swings chain. Alex

ducks. Dim goes into water.

Alex kneels, hands behind back, takes knife from sword stick, offers

hand to help Dim, and slashes Dim when he gets it.

Dim falls back into the water.

Alex laughs.