Dim the Fluorescents Page #8

[Bradley] Yeah.

So, where're you headed?

Oh, uh, just some conference

up north.

- Everybody has to go. Uh, do you need to get...

- [cell phone vibrating]

Yeah, look, we had a...

We had a fight,

uh, with Lillian and...

- I don't really have anywhere to stay.

- Okay.

Can I stay at your place?

- [colleague] I'm not sure...

- [Audrey] Just for a day or two, uh...

I know it's... Yeah, I could...

I could borrow your key or...

I'll take really good

care of it.

I mean, you won't even know

I was there.

Sorry.

I'm not gonna go.

No. No, you don't have

to do that. I Just...

No, no. It's not like I don't

trust you or anything like that.

If you're having a hard time,

I'm not just gonna run off

and leave you here alone.

[sniffles] Really?

Well, don't you have to go?

I mean, it's just some stupid

conference,

- like who cares, right?

- [chuckles]

[knock at door]

[colleague] Uh,

shuttle's here, Brad.

This will be great for us.

Yeah.

The shuttles here, Brad.

Taking off.

[indistinct]

[Audrey] Oh, sorry. Sorry.

Act normal. Act normal. If you run too

fast, then people'll know you're guilty.

[chuckles]

[Bradley sighs]

So this is the place.

It's really nice.

Yeah, I know.

I'm very lucky.

Feel free to put your...

- I guess you don't really have stuff, do you?

- Nope.

Cool.

- This couch folds out.

- Oh.

I'm gonna get

started on dinner.

- So, uh, make yourself comfortable, okay?

- Okay, thanks.

[chuckles]

This is really good.

You do that a lot?

Yeah, all the time.

Is that

a bed and breakfast thing?

- No, I think it's more of a survival thing.

- I don't. I'm alive.

- I noticed that earlier.

- You're good.

Yeah, it's in the eyes.

- I need more time to be sure.

- Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

[Audrey clears throat]

[cell phone ringing]

- There it is. Totally alive.

- [clears throat]

Dead give away there

at the end.

- Well, I'm an actress.

- Really, professionally?

- So is Brad, you know.

- Bradley's like a last name though.

- It's my name.

- What does it mean?

I've no idea.

- It doesn't signify anything?

- Not that I know of.

- What does your name mean?

- Noble strength.

I'd say

that's pretty accurate.

You don't know

a lot about me.

Just giving you my impression.

You are not going to f*** me

around, are you?

Okay.

[cell phone vibrating]

[Bradley] I've got

somewhere to be.

And I'm not there

and I've never felt better.

- Have you seen Caribou yet?

- No.

It's playing at The Review at 3:20.

Can you make that?

Let me check my schedule.

Hmm.

- [cell phone ringing]

- [chuckles]

Hello.

Yes, yes, it is.

Yes, I can.

You know, just...

Just one minute.

Okay, go ahead.

Mmm-hmm.

Right, right.

Okay. Great.

Got it, thank you.

Thank you so much.

See you then. Bye-bye.

- Yes!

- What is it?

Do you have a printer?

Of course, you do.

- Do you still want to do the movie?

- What time?

- 3:
20.

- Yeah, I can do that.

- All right.

- Okay.

- [Bradley] It's at The Review.

- Uh-huh.

- I'll get tickets.

- Yeah.

[whispers] Need to understand.

Do you understand?

[sighs]

[mumbling]

[indistinct chatter]

[Hannan] Audrey?

Hannan.

I'm back home for a bit

with my parents, you know.

Don't laugh at me, Hannan.

Don't laugh at the work

and don't laugh at me.

Oh, it's just for a while

till I get stuff figured out.

You know thousands of people

want to do what you do.

And they never will, never.

- Good for them. This is good for me.

- You're wrong.

I need to and you don't know

what I need.

No, listen, you're so wrong.

We could work on this together.

- Did June ask you to come in?

- No.

I applied like everybody else.

And I'm auditioning like everybody else.

Except, better.

[Hannan] Hmm.

This way.

She's already casted.

What?

[sighs] They just have to do these open

calls so they're eligible for grants.

It's just gonna be the

regulars. Steph, Mark, David...

- You?

- No. Uh...

I'm just reading

those people as a favor.

After this, I'm done.

Really?

- [Hannan] Yeah.

- [scoffs]

- Hey, Audrey, so glad you could make it.

- Me too.

[Audrey] Hi, pleasure.

[man] Thank you.

Hey, Audrey.

Would you rather sit or stand?

I'll stand.

Okay. We'd love to see

how to tackle this.

Whenever you're ready.

"I'd asked you where

you been but I already know.

Out, not here.

Tell me, I'm wrong."

You're gonna tell me anyway.

"That machine means

more to you than me."

It does, okay. It does.

What are you?

Are you the cure for cancer?

[Hannan] "Sure. Sure.

Say that."

I'm helping more people

than you can understand.

We are all part of this cycle.

We are all the same thing.

There will be 11 billion people on

this planet within our lifetime.

And they will all be asking,

"Why we didn't do more?

What were we thinking?"

And I will have

to tell them something.

You are not the answer

I will give them.

You are not that something.

Do you understand?

- [Hannan] "I'm not asking..."

- Do you understand?

[sighs]

[sniffles]

[phone ringing]

[Peter over voicemail] Hi, you've

reached the office of Peter Fielding.

I'm afraid I can't come

to the phone right now,

so please leave a message after the

tone and I'll get back to you soon.

- Bye for now.

- [voicemail beeps]

Everyone's upset.

I'm upset. You are.

I can only imagine how Charles

and Louis are feeling.

[receptionist] He...

He's on a call right now.

And that I will see them.

I'm... I'm gonna call you back.

I'm calling you back.

Audrey, I was kind of

in the middle of a...

Peter, is your job a challenge?

I don't know what you mean.

Or do you find it very

difficult here at the agency?

If I found it all that difficult,

I wouldn't still be here,

would I, Audrey?

How are you?

Wonderful. Great.

So, when you go home,

do you have to decompress?

- What do you do?

- What is this?

You play squash?

[sighs] What is this?

It strikes me that you

are not doing your job.

And it strikes me that I don't

feel too great about that.

I went too easy on you.

I see that now.

I thought, you know,

it's a tough racket.

This guy is under

a lot of pressure.

But apparently

that is not true.

Apparently,

you are just incompetent.

Please don't talk to me

like that, Audrey.

When was the last time

you put me up for anything?

It has been months

since I've heard from you.

You don't even return my calls.

- Has your number changed?

- No!

I've been under

a lot of stress lately.

- I could...

- How hard is it for you to just put me up!

Argh! I put you up Audrey. I put you

up for anything and everything.

Ten years younger, ten years older.

I put you up for all of it.

They just don't hire you

and I'm sorry.

I can't force them to hire you.

I don't do miracles.

[sighs] Sorry. That was harsh.

Miracles is harsh.

You're fired.

Okay? Because I can

do this on my own.

That is the miracle here.

Look at me, Peter!

I'm a miracle.

[sighs]

Doesn't matter.

[knock at door]

I'm so sorry.

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