Inside the bedroom, the nets flutter in the slight breeze coming through the open window. The atmosphere is humid; it has recently been raining, making the air heavy and damp.

A girl, around fifteen years of age, is practising smoking by the open window.
She coughs, stubs the cigarette out on the windowsill and tosses the butt into the garden below.

Her mother’s shrill voice calls out from downstairs.

The girl moves over to the bed where she reaches for the wireless on the cabinet.

Sitting on the bed, she hums whilst fiddling with the controls. Static, then music blasts.

WIRELESS: [very loud]…’that the girl I adore, is mine for evermore…’

MOTHER’S VOICE: [increasingly louder] Susan! SUSAN DENNEY! After last night’s debacle, you are in BIG trouble. [Outside the bedroom door] No more pop concerts for you, my girl, you’re going to stay in that room until you learn how to behave.

The girl turns the dial. The music stops. She remains motionless, her eyes fixed in space. More static.
Eventually, she re-tunes the wireless and finds the tail-end of the news…

NEWSREADER (Studio): [serious tone] It’s back for an update on that latest news item, the report that young female fans physically attacked and hospitalised the girlfriend of The Beatles’ George Harrison, after a concert last night at the Hammersmith Palais in London. We can now bring you an update on that report from outside Guy’s Hospital.

REPORTER (Outside Hospital): I am standing outside Guy’s Hospital, where I can confirm that Patti Boyd was admitted late last night, suffering from cuts, bruises and shock. These injuries sustained by Ms. Boyd, it is understood, on leaving the Hammersmith Palais last night after The Beatles concert had finished.
The Metropolitan Police detained three girls, aged fourteen and fifteen, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in connection with last night’s attack, although they have all now been released from custody. Ms. Boyd, the actress and model is described as in a stable condition, and is understood not to want to press formal charges. We will bring you more details, as they are known.