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Eddie: Lions and tigers and bears.

Dani: How old are you?

Eddie: We watched it every year when I was a kid during some holiday, I can’t remember.

Dani: If you only had a brain.

Eddie: True. At least the fog has lifted.

Dani: (pause) Hey, you never told me what you’re running from.

Eddie: You’ve not told me anything, at all, I mean, not a damn thing.

Dani: I like my privacy.

Eddie: We have that in common.

Dani: I’m not running from anything.

Eddie: I never said I was running, I said I was looking. Or maybe I didn’t even say that. But I am, I’m looking.

Dani: Yeah, looking for a place to hide.

Eddie: So now I’m the lion.

Dani: That makes me the tin man.

Eddie: You said it.

Dani: Love gone bad, is that it?

Eddie: I’m not running.

Dani: You hooked up with her, turns out she’s crazy, you try to end it, she starts showing up when you’re at work, causes a scene, finds you out with friends, causes another scene, you’re asleep in your bed, she’s banging on the door waking the neighbors. “Why don’t you want me?” “You know you love me!” Like that. So, you run.

Eddie: That’s from a movie.

Dani: Lots of them, actually, and real life.

Eddie: Yours probably. Not mine.

Dani: (sings a verse of the U2 song) I have spoke with the tongue of angels/I have held the hand of a devil/It was warm in the night/I was cold as a stone.

Eddie: (joining Dani to sing the chorus) But I still haven't found/What I'm looking for./But I still haven't found/What I'm looking for.

Dani: Well at least I know you’re not a singer.

Eddie: Thanks.

Dani: I just don’t understand why you’d take off with a stranger when you don’t have a clue what she’s capable of doing and stay with her when she’s clearly up to something, not to mention having no idea where the fuck you are or where she’s taking you.

Eddie: Yeah, that’s, uh, that’s hard to explain.

Dani: Yeah.

Eddie: So, throw me a little compassion and give me a clue, just one detail or something.

Dani: I got to get some electricity.

Eddie: There aren’t very many electrical outlets in the woods.

Dani: A lot of electricity.

Eddie: (indicating the bag) You going to reanimate the severed head?

Dani: Worked for Frankenstein.

Eddie: Tell me something that’s actually true and not, you know, sarcastic or...

Dani: I’m working for someone who…you’re not going to understand this…ok, I’ve got to do a thing that, when I do it, if it works like it’s supposed to, will change all this.

Eddie: You’re right, I don’t get it. Change all this, what’s all this?

Dani: …your perception. (beat) I can’t tell you.

Eddie: Great.

Dani: I gave you one thing.

Eddie: That made no sense.

Dani: “Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.”

Eddie: Shakespeare?

Dani: Frank Baum. Well, the white pearl actually. Rinkitink in Oz. I saw the movie, but I loved the books.