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BENJY Dude! Oh my god, dude! You’re alive! You’re alive in here!

JONAS Um. Yes. And you are …?

BENJY You have no idea what it’s like out there. It’s nuts, it’s crazy, it’s a madhouse, a madhouse!

SEAN We can hear it! Are people shooting each other now?

BENJY I didn’t. I don’t know what you’re implying; don’t look at me like that; listen, I didn’t shoot anybody, I didn’t!

JONAS Uh-huh. Anyway, it was nice to meet you, sorry you can’t stay –

SEAN Wait! Don’t you think he could, you know, for even just a minute?

JONAS No.

BENJY You have to let me stay here! They said there was no one here, that this old place was too unstable, like falling down or collapsing in on itself or whatever, rats, you’d get the virus here even, that you’d have to be crazy to hide out here, so I thought, I’ll just try it, I’ll just see –

JONAS We were going to board it up.

SEAN (too eagerly) They said it was haunted, didn’t they!

JONAS (sad head shake) We should’ve boarded it up.

BENJY (to SEAN) Yeah, yeah! But I didn’t believe that happy crappy.

(a gunshot from outside)

See? You have to let me stay!

SEAN (to JONAS) We have to let him stay!

BENJY (trying for menacing) I mean, I could just not leave …

JONAS Oh?

(grinning at SEAN)

I think you’re right.

SEAN Oh, you can stay, you can stay!

BENJY Thanks, dude.