Hardboiled crime monologue: Ian

Hardboiled crime monologue, weary, defiant, and honest

Prompt: A gravelly, hard male hardboiled-crime-monologue voice delivering a criminal's bitter reckoning. His low baritone moves through a life of crime and its costs with weary defiance, the tone of a man who chose the wrong road and made his peace with it. There's street-worn grit and dark honesty in his tone. The voice of the crime confessional. You want to know if I regret it. Here's the truth: I regret getting caught. The rest of it, I'd do again.

Script: You want me to say I'm sorry. That's how these stories are supposed to go, right? The criminal, at the end, sees the light, weeps for his sins, tells the kids at home that crime doesn't pay. Well, I saw the light long ago; I just chose the darker road.