DNA

JAN: coz its not funny.MARK: its not funny because its not a joke, if it was a joke it would be

JAN: Dead?
MARK: Yeah.
JAN: What, dead?
MARK: Yeah
JAN: Like dead, dead
MARK: Yes
JAN: proper dead, not living

No answer.
No, don’t tell me, sorry, that’s a stupid, that’s such a stupid –

ean it is, it is, don’t say it isn’t, really, don’t, you’ll just embarrass us both because it is different, it’s different because it doesn’t matter to you. Does it. Sitting there. Sitting there, all...
all...
You’re not scared. Nothing scares, there, I’ve said it; scared. Scared, Phil. I’m scared, they scare me, this place, everyone, the fear, the fear that everyone here, and I’m not the only one, I’m not the only one, Phil, I’m just the only one saying it, the fear that everyone here lives in, the brutal terror, it scares me, okay, I’ve said it and I am not ashamed. Yes, I am ashamed but I’m not ashamed of my shame, Phil, give me that much credit at least, thank you.
Everyone’s scared.
S’not just me.

my teeth with a pair of rusty pliers, I talk too much, what a crime, what a sin, what an absolute catastrophe, stupid, evil, ridiculous, because you’re not perfect actually, Phil. Okay? There. I’ve said it, you’re not...
You’re a bit...
You’re...
Pause. She sits.
Do I disgust you? I do. No, I do. No don’t because, it’s alright, it’s fine, I’m not gonna, you know, or whatever, you know it’s not the collapse of my, because I do have, I could walk out of here, there are friends, I’ve got, I’ve got friends, I mean alright, I haven’t got friends, not exactly, I haven’t, but I could, if I wanted, if I wanted, given the right, given the perfect, you know, circumstances. So don’t, because you haven’t either, I mean it’s not like you’re, you know, Mr, you know, popular, you know, you haven’t, you know, you haven’t, you know, you haven’t, but that’s, that’s different, isn’t it, I

LEAH: What are you thinking?
No answer.
No, don’t tell me, sorry, that’s a stupid, that’s such a stupid –
You can tell me, you know. You can talk to me. I won’t judge you, whatever it is. Whatever you’re, you know, I won’t, I won’t...
Is it me?
Not that I’m –
I mean it wouldn’t matter if you weren’t or were, actually, so –
Are you thinking about me?
No answer.
What good things? Phil? Or...
I mean is it a negative, are you thinking a negative thing about –
Not that I’m bothered. I’m not bothered, Phil, I’m not, it doesn’t, I don’t care. You know. I don’t...
What, like I talk too much? Is that it? That I talk too much, you, sitting there in absolute silence thinking ‘Leah talks too much, I wish she’d shut up once in a while’ is that it, is that what you’re, because don’t, you know, judge, you know, because alright, I do. There, I’m admitting, I am admitting, I talk too much, so shoot me. So kill me, Phil, call the police, lock me up, rip out

JAN: Dead?

MARK: Yeah.

JAN: What, dead?

MARK: Yeah

Maybe being seen as heroes is making them behave like heroes.

Living, she was shouting at me to get off the ground, but I love the ground, don’t you like the ground?

I’ve got, I’ve got friends, I mean alright, I haven’t got friends, not exactly, I haven’t, but I could, if I wanted, if I wanted, given the right, given the perfect, you know, circumstances