APPA: It’s Insam Energy Beverage. It’s new one, very good from Korea. Made from —

RICH: Ginseng.

APPA: No, insam.

RICH: No, like what it’s made from, looks like ginseng.

APPA: No, looks like insam. That’s why it’s call —

RICH: You’re not hearing me. (Picking up a can.) The picture, right here, it’s ginseng.

APPA: No, picture is insam.

RICH: Yo — forget it, it’s no big deal. (Putting the can back.)

APPA: Yo, it’s very big deal. Look same, not same thing. 1904. You know what happen 1904? Japan attack Korea.

RICH: Japan attacked Korea?

APPA: Yah.

RICH: In 1904?

APPA: Yah.

RICH: Are you Japanese?

APPA: No.

RICH: You look Japanese.

APPA: No.

RICH: Yo, you look like that guy in The Last Samurai.

APPA: Who, Tom Cruise?

RICH: No, the Japanese guy.

APPA: Look same, not same thing. You look like you is from Kenya.

RICH: I am from Kenya. I was born there. How’d you know that?

APPA: I can tell.

RICH: Really?

APPA: Yeah. Really.

RICH: Yo, that is cool.

APPA: I know. I am.

RICH: Why were we talking about Japan attacking Korea?

APPA: Japan attack Korea 1904, make slave of Korean. I am Korean. Ginseng is Japanese name. Insam is Korean name. (Beat.) Look same —

APPA &

RICH: — not same thing.

APPA: You understand.

RICH: Yeah, I gotcha. Hook me up.

APPA: Okay. I hook up. Anything else?

RICH: No, that’s it.

APPA: Tallies up the total on the cash register. $12.52.

RICH gives APPA a twenty.

RICH: Thanks.

APPA gives RICH his change.

APPA: Okay. See you.

RICH remains at the counter and plays the scratch-and-win card. He loses.

APPA: You win?

RICH: Nah.

APPA: You choose bad one. Okay, see you.

RICH: Yeah, have a good one.

RICH exits. Bell.

3. Call police

JANET enters from the back of the store with her camera bag. She goes to the side closet for her jacket and fills up on candy throughout the scene.

APPA: Janet.

JANET: Bye Appa.

APPA: Call police.

JANET: Startled. What happened?

APPA: Car is no-parking zone. (Offers her the cordless phone.) Call police.

JANET: I gotta go.

APPA: Slowly dialling. Nine . . . one —

JANET: Stop being so nosy.

APPA: YOU nosy! Talk to police.

JANET: I’m not talking to the police.

APPA: I’m push last one.

JANET: I don’t care if you push last one. I’m not talking to the police.

APPA: I don’t care if you don’t care, I’m push last one.

JANET: Mind your own business, Appa.

APPA: This is my business. Talk to police.

JANET: What, it’s a Toyota?

APPA: No.

JANET: Mitsubishi?

APPA: No. (Beat.) Okay, it’s Honda, but still —

JANET: How many times do I have to tell you, Appa, Japanese people aren’t the only ones driving Japanese cars.

APPA: You buy Japanese, you is guilty by associationship.

JANET: What about your Canon SLR camera, made in Japan?

APPA: Appa get half-price.

JANET: Your money still went to Japan.