Chill Factor Page #4

DARLENE:

(chuckles)

LONG:

You know, I have yet to get a simple cup

of coffee and a meal in this place,

Darlene.

DARLENE:

And you ain't gonna start now.

DARLENE:

Ma-...

DARLENE:

(off) ...-son!

MASON:

Yeah?

DARLENE:

Be sure you feed Bosco.

DARLENE:

And don't give him any ice cream...

DARLENE:

(off) ...like April. It gives him gas.

And make sure there's (on) two pots of

coffee...

MASON:

(off) (overlapping) Two pots of coffee...

DARLENE:

(off) ...ready before the morning crowd

blows in.

MASON:

(off) (overlapping) ...ready before the

morning crowd blows in. I got it...

MASON:

(off) ...Darlene.

LONG:

(grunts)

BRYNNER:

(face off) Is this stool taken?

LONG:

No, go--

BRYNNER:

You look good, Richard.

BRYNNER:

You look fit...healthy...

BRYNNER:

...not at all like a man responsible for

the deaths of eighteen peo-...

BRYNNER:

(off) ...-ple.

LONG:

Is that why you're here? To blame...

LONG:

(off) ...me? Well, you could've saved

yourself the trip.

LONG:

I know where the (chuckling) blame

belongs. But I didn't put you in prison,

Andrew. The government did...

LONG:

...that.

BRYNNER:

Oh, I'm well aware of what the government

did, I assure you. Actually, I've just

come to say how grateful I am to you...

BRYNNER:

(off) ...and the government.

LONG:

Grateful?

BRYNNER:

(off) Mm-hm.

BRYNNER:

Together, you gave me the opportunity to

realize just how very wrong my life had

gone.

BRYNNER:

(off) Do you remember telling me once

that all through my career, I'd never fit

in? Well...

BRYNNER:

...you were right, of course. But

after...

BRYNNER:

(off) ...years of thinking the matter

over, I began to see that the whole thing

wasn't really my problem.

BRYNNER:

What rational man could fit in with the

sorts of things our government was doing?

The sorts of things you've...

BRYNNER:

(off) ...always done, Richard?

LONG:

Do you think I haven't seen the bodies of

those...

LONG:

(off) ...men every time I've closed my

eyes? But after you went away, I--

BRYNNER:

(interrupting) Went away? (chuckles -

continues under following scene)

BRYNNER:

(off) "Went away." I like that.

BRYNNER:

Almost quaint.

LONG:

All right. After they put you away...

LONG:

...I began trying to find ways of

controlling the effects of the weapon

that we tested on Horn Island.

BRYNNER:

And let me guess. You failed.

LONG:

So far, ye-yes.

BRYNNER:

Why is it you scientists can create

implements of destruction...

BRYNNER:

(off) ...so quickly, but when it comes to

cures and benefits, your...

BRYNNER:

...speed is nothing short of glacial?

BRYNNER:

(off) Though at least you're trying,

Richard. And if the road to hell is

paved with good intentions...

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