Josh Ireland

But what he actually does is he sort of plunges it into Trotsky's skull.

Yeah.

it was just a deep horrible vicious sort of seven inch i think a seven inch wound inside inside but it's not enough to kill him so trotsky stands trotsky screams and ramon will until the day he dies he says he he cannot get the precise quality and intensity of the scream out of his head

And then Trotsky stands up and starts grabbing everything he can from his desk, tossing it at Ramon.

And he's bleeding.

His glasses are shattered.

He has blood all over him.

But both of them are covered in blood by this point.

And Ramon tries to escape.

Trotsky follows him.

And then Ramon doesn't get very far when Trotsky's guards, who suddenly realise, they hear the scream too.

They realise something terrible happens.

has happened they realize that they failed to do the thing that they're there for so they rush down start to sort of try and beat i mean effectively beat ramon to death and as they're doing so trotsky who sort of claps in a heap being sort of nursed by natalia says leave him leave him we need to find out who sent him yeah and

ramar who has remained reasonably cool has this weird flash where he sort of lets on something different he says they they're saying the nkvd sent you the nkvd sent you he said no no no but then he says fairly enigmatically they have my mother they have my mother they won't let her go and then he comes up again and they just i mean he's being sort of they're just taking out all of their frustration and rage out on him

And then he's taken away into prison, into custody.

And Trotsky goes to hospital where he lingers for another day.

I mean, it sounds ghastly.

They Japan him in an attempt to try and... It's one of those things where you're so pleased to be in the 21st century with 21st medicine where they don't think cutting off a big chunk of your skull is the best way of...

And he's conscious?

He's conscious briefly and then he sort of subsides into basically a coma.