Broken Page #2

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No.

(SKUNK) Gross.

(JED) Nice move.

(KASIA WHISPERS) Stop, stop.

Hi, guys.

(MIKE) Come on. Look, this is a six.

(SKUNK) That's cheating.

(JED) What? Stop doing that.

(MIKE) This is a nine. Come on.

(SKUNK) Mike.

(MIKE) Yeah?

(SKUNK) When you're a teacher...

(JED) Blue.

...will you still bring us treats

and stuff?

Uh, no.

That's all gonna have to end, Skunk.

Really?

Well, you see, the relationship

between student and teacher

- is by its nature...

- (JED) You won't be our teacher.

- Well, you never know, Jed.

- Mike.

- By nature is what?

- Well, it's adversarial.

- What does that mean?

- (WHISPERS) Go.

Well, it means that it'll be my job

to see you as the enemy.

- He's full of sh*t.

- Somebody only worthy of my contempt.

- (KASIA) Mike!

- And you'll begin to see me

- that way too.

- Mike!

- Whose go is it?

- (ALL) Yours.

Okay.

- I won't ever see you that way, Mike.

- (JED, SARCASTICALLY) Aw.

- It's 'cause you're in love with him.

- No, I'm not!

(MIKE) Guys, guys.

In my experience, the person

who brings up the subject of love

is more often than not

the person who is in love.

- Really?

- Shut up.

- You're blushing, Jed.

- (LAUGHING)

What about you two? Are you in love?

Mike and I? Of course.

Then why aren't you married yet?

(JED) That's the question.

- (SNAPPING)

- (BEEPING)

(KASIA) All good?

(SKUNK) Uh-huh.

- Night.

- Night.

Close your curtains.

(ARCHIE) Have you called Dr Curtis?

Oh, yes, but he says, uh,

he can't act in any way

without Rick's permission.

- Which he won't give.

- This is what I'm saying.

He won't come out

of his bedroom, Archie.

(MR BUCKLEY) Janet sits outside

his door all day

trying to talk to him, and nothing.

(SIGHS) I'm sorry to drop in on you

like this, out of the blue,

but I just...

You know, I just thought...

I thought, "Well, Archie, he's a...

a solicitor and..."

So you want...

you want to take this matter further?

You want to make this a legal matter?

Bloody legal action?

No, no, no. Forget it. Uh...

I don't want anything more

to do with the bastard.

- Oswald?

- Yes.

Why not?

Because I'm scared of him.

I'm just really bloody scared of him.

(MRS BUCKLEY) And you went

under the water.

Five years old.

And your father ran so fast

across those stones to get you.

And he got you.

He saved you.

- And then...

- (DOORBELL CHIMING)

Hello, Mrs Buckley. Is Rick in?

Why?

Don't know.

Just thought he might like

to hang out or something.

He's ill, love. He can't come out.

Oh...

- Okay, well...

- Goodbye now, love.

Bye.

(DOOR CLOSES)

(KEYS JANGLING)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(MRS BUCKLEY) And anyway...

Then we bought you

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