ADRIAN'S AUDITION READING

ADRIAN - REVIEW BOARD HEARING

You have been incarcerated for six years of your life sentence without parole. This is your 2nd incarceration for the same offense, the abduction, torture, rape and murder of a teenage girl.
Rumor has it that felons are being released on parole due to an extreme shortage of prison space and you have been called before a review board of 5 people for an undisclosed reason.
Somehow, the mother of the girl you murdered has seated herself in the room, 25 feet directly behind the chair provided for you. The sheriff responsible for your arrest is also seated behind you.

CORRECTIONAL REVIEW OFFICER: Mr. Drake. We are here because a review of your prison records since incarceration reveals an exemplary effort on your part to rehabilitate yourself. Would you please explain for the panel why and go into detail regarding your experience in the process.

ADRIAN: Thank you for this opportunity to appear before the board. It's been a long road to recovery as I've participated in the counseling program offered by Dr. Weinstein four days a week. I've never missed a session, even when I was feeling a little under the weather. I think he'll verify the great strides we've made in my efforts to become a harmless and productive member of society. Even if that society is limited to the state penitentiary. Even though I have no chance for parole, I want to understand why I was driven to hurt young girls. I don't want to die in here as the monster that was incarcerated for a terrible crime. I've spent a considerable amount of time with Father Maxwell, the Prison chaplain. With his guidance through bible study I've turned my life over to Christ and prayer has saved my soul. I know that my sins will never be forgiven with man but I've been washed in the blood of the lamb and that's more freedom than I've ever experienced in my life. I know I deserve to be here. I'm so sorry to the families that I've caused such pain and agony. In a million years and a million tongues I could never express the remorse I feel for my actions. I can stand here before you and with the greatest conviction say that I am no longer the man that I was six years ago.

CORRECTIONAL REVIEW OFFICER: You said you wanted to understand why you were driven to hurt young girls, can you share that with us and what have you done to change this about yourself?

ADRIAN: If you'll give me a second, this is difficult to address... For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated with mythology, Hades to be specific. Hades abducted Persephone into the underworld and made her his queen. Mandy... when I saw her, she was the personification of my image of Persephone. Then Isabelle, she was so vibrant. I've undergone extensive psychotherapy to aid in my seperation from this alterego.

CORRECTIONAL REVIEW OFFICER: There are no girls here, what makes you think you can enter a world full of vibrant and innocent Persephones and control yourself?

ADRIAN: It's only a story. Persephone doesn't exist. These were stories to explain the unexplainable. The seasons, the storms, all things that science explains for us now. Hades was nothing more than an explanation for where the dead go and who runs that place. I urge you to visit with Dr. Walters on my progress regarding the subject.