A Number by Caryl Churchill Salter Early Sixties, Dad Bernard (B1) Forty, Son Bernard (B2) - Thirty-Five, Son

on Michael Black Thirty-Five, Son - B2 and Salter talking about the clones (copies), B2 says they are people too while Salter refers to them as things - Mad scientist illegally cloned people (Salter) - B2 says he is a copy and Salter tells him he isnt because he is his father - Salter wants to sue themSue the hospital for taking B2s cells - Salter said they could have taken his cells when he was born or when he broke his leg at the age of 2 (hairs, scraping of his skin) - Salter is talking about getting half a million for each copy made - B2 overheard them saying he wasnt the original and he ask Salter if he did in vitro and he says yes - Salter tells B2 there was an original son who had died - He said his mother died in a car crash with the original child (4 years old) - B1 talking about dogs, protecting him, having to take care of them - B1 talking about when he was a little boy and he shouted and asked Salter if he could hear him, salter denies hearing him - B1 ask salter if B2 has a child because he would have killed it he said - B2 is afraid B1 might hurt him, want to leave - Mother wasnt a happy person, killed herself under a tube train - B2 is saying that both him and B1 hated Salter but in different kinds of ways - B2 says he doesnt blame Salter for how he treated them - Salter is asking B1 how he killed B2, did he follow him, and does he want to kill the other clones. - Salter is telling him that he should have killed him because it was his fault, not the others - When he screamed at night, Salter would hear him, some nights he would listen, others he would go out, B1 was scared of him, hid under his bed, Salter put him in the cupboard - B1 followed B2 on the train - Michael is a teacher (mathematics), married, three kids, 2 girls, 1 boy - Talking about crawling in chambers where the ceiling kept getting lower, dead bodies in the walls - Salter wants him to tell him about himself but he keeps describing other things such as his wifes ears - We find out that B1 has killed himself, which makes salter sad and miserable - we find out that there are 19 more clones