KEVIN

Hi.

NORA
Hi. What happened to your head?

KEVIN
Are you smoking?

NORA
Yeah, you want one?

KEVIN
What happened?

NORA
They turned me down.
[Chuckles.]

KEVIN
Who?

NORA
The people who invited me here.
They-- they told me that I wouldn't be proceeding any further.

KEVIN
Did they take your money?

NORA
No.

KEVIN
[Scoffs.]
I thought it was a scam.

NORA
Yeah! And they must've known that I knew it was a scam and that's why they fucking
ran. But I'm gonna find them. I’m gonna find them and I'm gonna fucking destroy them.
Are you okay?

KEVIN
Yeah, I'm fine.

NORA
Kevin. What's wrong? You can tell me anything.
 KEVIN
No, I can't.

NORA
Why not?

KEVIN
The last time I told you everything, I woke up handcuffed to a bed and you were gone.

NORA
Kevin.
[Sighs.]
I didn't know how to handle you talking to a dead person.
Oh, Jesus.
Is it happening again?

KEVIN
I, uh-- we need to call Laurie.

NORA
-What?

KEVIN
I told her I would come back here and we would call her.

NORA
When did you talk to Laurie?

KEVIN
I needed help.

NORA
With what?

KEVIN
I saw some-- I thought that I saw someone.
I needed to make sure—

NORA
Who did you see?
KEVIN
That doesn't matter.

NORA
You won't tell me, but you'll tell Laurie? Who else? Matt? 'Cause if you're having visions,
he's gonna wanna put it in your fucking book.

KEVIN
It's not my fucking book!

NORA
No? I think you like it.
I think you wanna be Jesus Christ fucking Superstar because it makes you feel
important.

KEVIN
Like it? I fucking love it! It's riveting! I've read it fucking cover to fucking cover! [Pages
tearing.]
- [Lighter clicks.]
There you go.
Book's gone.
We never have to talk about it again, because that's what we do.
We don't fucking talk about anything!

NORA
What do you wanna talk about?

KEVIN
What do you wanna talk about?

NORA
Why didn't you stop me?

KEVIN
Stop you from what?

NORA
From giving her away-- Lily.

KEVIN
I didn't stop you because you decided you wanted to do it, and you did it.
You never even asked me what I wanted.

NORA
And if I had, Kevin, what would you have said? You were relieved.
Just say it! And now you want a new baby.

KEVIN
Are you fucking insane? Are you afraid you're gonna give that one away, too? You can't
have a kid, because then you'd have no excuse.
You couldn't be a victim anymore.
You'd have to be okay.
No one would feel sorry for you.

NORA
I do not want people to feel sorry for me.

KEVIN
Well, then how long, Nora? How long before you move past it?

NORA
Move past what?

KEVIN
That you lost your kids.

NORA
I did not lose them! My kids are not dead.
They are gone.
They are just gone.

KEVIN
Then you should go be with them.