The lights come up on the scene. It is a domestic argument. Perhaps the actors are fighting with each other or maybe they stand with their backs to one another or fight an invisible partner as they face the audience. The staging can be orchestrated liberally.

MAN1: Let's make this perfectly clear. This game of cat and mouse. You playing this role of a detective...of some goddamn police officer...and me playing the role of the fugitive trying to run for my life is just ridiculous...I'm over it.

WOMAN1: Let me make this clear. I don't have all day to keep arguing...The same fight over and over again. You're so much more concerned with winning...with being right than with what you're doing to us.

MAN2: Let's make something perfectly clear. I am not your property. I don't belong to you. You