In the case of this scene the dialogue of Kate is sometimes flirtatious and she uses this to persuade Simmonds and Ross to help her move out.
Simmonds dialogue in my out lined section is different from the rest of the text, for example, at the start of the play in the presence of only Ross, Simmonds is very prejudice towards woman. But in the company of attractive ladies, particularly in this segment Simmonds is quiet the gentleman. His change of tone in the dialogue suggests Simmonds is conning the woman to sleep with him. .
The dramatic conflict occurring in this scene is the confession from Fiona to the police of the bashing she endured by her husband Kenny. This physical conflict between the two characters has been purposely written by the composer, Williamson to explore the various manifestations of power derived through sexual intimidation and physical violence .
Dramatic irony is seen throughout pages 51 to 56 to the fact that the girls Fiona and Kate, particularly Fiona believe that the sergeant and Ross are helping the ladies to move the furniture out of the apartment and into there new home to protect them from Kenny. Although we all know that Simmonds is a lazy police officer from earlier on in the text with gestures like.
"we cant handle anything big if there's only two of us, we can handle anything small but then again its hardly worth the effort if its small." Taking this into hand the only reason Simmonds is helping the ladies is because he sees a good opportunity to sleep with them. Furthermore this is proved when the ladies leave the police station and Simmonds to Ross replies "we"ll be in like Flynn tomorrow night".
A small inner city police station is the setting for this scene although it seems that it's situated in Simmonds office. As behind closed doors it was less intimidating for Fiona to show the bruises on her body which created an atmosphere of sexual tension.
