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Wayne and Simon are flatmates and the two men have settled down in their lounge to watch the Yankees game. Simon is anxious and wants reassurance from Wayne. He had a vivid dream that he killed Simon, right there in their lounge. But surely dreams don't affect reality?
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Afternoon. Lounge room. Couch. The sound of a baseball game.
WAYNE watches the TV, wearing a Yankees t-shirt. He sips a beer.
SIMON enters.
SIMON: Who’s playing?
WAYNE: Yankees and Diamond-backs.
SIMON: Yankees up?
WAYNE: Killing them.
SIMON: You need another?
WAYNE: (INDICATING BEER) On the way nicely.
SIMON: Back in a tic.
SIMON EXITS. BEAT. SIMON RETURNS WITH A BEER. HE SITS ON
THE COUCH. HE OPENS HIS BEER AND DRINKS.
SIMON: Who’s up?
WAYNE: A-Rod.
SIMON: What innings?
WAYNE: Bottom of the 4th. Yankees hit three homers already.
BEAT. THEY WATCH THE TV.
WAYNE: Hot out there?
SIMON: Pretty.
WAYNE: Good we’re inside then.
SIMON: Yeah.
WAYNE: Watching the baseball.
BEAT.
SIMON: Ask you a question?
WAYNE: My pleasure.
SIMON: If you … in a dream it means you … in life too, doesn’t it?
WAYNE: If you what?
SIMON: You know?
WAYNE LEANS OVER TO SIMON.
WAYNE: (WHISPERS, SCARILY) Die.
SIMON: Yeah.
WAYNE: That’s what they say. (BEAT) Why? In your dream - did you die?
SIMON: No.
WAYNE: No problem then.
SIMON: Guess not.
BEAT.
WAYNE: So, why’d you ask?
SIMON: (WATCHING BASEBALL) What?
WAYNE: About dying in your dream?
SIMON: Someone else died.
WAYNE: Right.
BEAT.
WAYNE: Anybody I know?
SIMON: Sure.
WAYNE: Who was it?
SIMON: You.
WAYNE: I died in your dream?
SIMON: Not died. Got killed.
WAYNE: Who by?
SIMON: Me.
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