Overview
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Context
Bennett and Jarvis have just completed a seven day motorbike ride across America to come and see Jarvis' brother, Cedric, perform in a concert. However, the couple have got into an argument after Bennett's phone went off during the concert. As their fight escalates, they both tell some home truths about their relationship.
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BENNETT You have no idea what I did for you.
Jarvis stops and turns.
JARVIS No. I don’t.
BENNETT All I did was try to make you comfortable. That’s why we took seven weeks. Easier routes. I didn’t say anything when you wanted to bring all that extra sh#t.
JARVIS What extra sh#t?
BENNETT I packed my bike with two, or double, of every piece of gear we would need. My gear, and your gear. You brought a bunch of perishables that weighed us down.
JARVIS Are you talking about food and water?
BENNETT It wasn’t a survival mission, Jar. We can get those things anywhere. Look at the bigger picture. We took water out of California. And increased our fuel costs.
JARVIS And you didn’t say anything.
BENNETT No, I didn’t say anything. I did something.
JARVIS And yet you couldn’t do the one thing I asked for.
BENNETT My phone is a potentially lifesaving piece of technology.
JARVIS And yet, the human race managed to survive for millennia before its invention.
BENNETT You develop apps for a living.
JARVIS And I needed a break from code, and scripts, and programming, and so I asked you to do something for me. No screens. And you couldn’t do it.
Bennett heads to the trash can to retrieve his phone.
BENNETT It’s a GPS. It’s an emergency signal. It’s a light. It’s a weather service.
JARVIS We have a map. And flares. And lights. And the ability to tell whether or not it is raining.
BENNETT Those things fail. Roads get closed. Bulbs burn out.
JARVIS You were making calls.
BENNETT We had dates set up. We missed gigs. I needed to check in. I’m sorry.
JARVIS And you were snapping photos. To what, send to the Federal Bureau of Instagram in case we went missing?
BENNETT You know what, Jar? Sometimes it’s nice to have photos. I wanted to be able to remember it.
JARVIS Remember it? You were never there in the first place. You were so busy taking little sh#tty pictures of the meteor shower you never saw the meteor shower.
BENNETT You’re the one who wanted to stop for that.
JARVIS I wanted to share it with you. And you missed it. A once-in-a-lifetime thing. I didn’t do this to collect a bunch of photos to prove that we did it. I don’t want my relationship to be a performance for other people.
BENNETT (Re: the Atrium public) Of course you do.
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