Nadia Everything is terrible. Nothing means anything. There’s nobody out there. I’m alone in the universe.

Jonathan Excellent. Excellent. How do you feel?

Nadia Dead.

Jonathan Yes. That’s normal.

Nadia It’s horrible.

Jonathan For a while you think: ‘I’m dead.’ But then you pass through that and … something else emerges.

Nadia What? What?

Jonathan I really think you have to discover that for yourself.

Nadia Tell me.

Jonathan We each have to learn for ourselves.

Nadia Tell me. Tell me. You can’t just fucking leave me to … Sorry. Sorry. Please. Tell me.

Jonathan Since you insist. It won’t mean anything until you actually live it.

Nadia Alright.

Jonathan You’re dead and then you come through that and you embrace the chaos … you see the beauty of… the way money flows, the way it moves around the world faster and faster. Every second a new opportunity, every second a new disaster. The endless beginnings, the infinite endings. And each of us swept along by the great tides and winds of the markets. Is there anything more thrilling, more exhilarating than that?

Nadia I…

Jonathan Do you understand?

Nadia Yes.

Jonathan The truth.

Nadia No.

Jonathan No. But you’re learning. Who are you in love with?

Nadia It doesn’t matter.

Jonathan Tell me who it is. It’s Nick isn’t it?

Nadia What?

Jonathan You’re in love with Nick.

Nadia You know Nick?

Jonathan Yes. Yes.

Jonathan takes off his shirt.

These are the scars you see? This is what Nick did to my body. This is why Nick was in prison. Where is he?

Nadia I don’t know.

Jonathan I want to find him. Where is he?

Nadia I don’t know. The truth.

Jonathan My body is disgusting.

Nadia I’ll kiss it better.

Jonathan Don’t be so fucking stupid. That’s not going to work is it?

Scene Nine

Hospital.

Tim lying in a bed.

Victor They give us an hour. Before he’s taken away.

Nadia Yes.

Victor So we … what do you want to do?

Nadia I don’t know.

Victor I wish we knew what to do. I think maybe inside us, if we were allowed feelings we would know what to do.

Nadia I don’t think, so.

Victor Oh yes. Inside us there must be some … something we should do now. Get in touch with our feelings?

Nadia No. I don’t believe that any more.

Victor Maybe it’s fal to our knees, sway, beat our chests. Maybe wash his body. Maybe that’s inside us.

Nadia Maybe you just saw that in a film somewhere. There is nothing for us to do.

Victor But we have to say goodbye.

Nadia He’s not going to hear that.

Victor No.

Victor prods Tim.

Nothing.

Nadia But maybe if you were alone with him. So if we take it in turns. I’ll wait outside for a while.

Nadia exits.

Long pause. Victor looks at the body.

Victor Fucking stupid. Fucking.

Victor hits Tim’s body.