SIMON: Do you believe that?

Do you—

Do you think—?

Do you think I’m really here Camille?

Beat.

Can I tell you something too?

Promise me you won’t tell anybody? /

CAMILLE: Oh God! /

SIMON: What? /

CAMILLE: Don’t tell me you’re fucking Matt as well!

She laughs.

I promise. I promise on your promise.

SIMON: Something bad happened in my life. A long long time ago.

I [He hesitates.] made a mistake, a bad one, and I had to—

I changed my name.

CAMILLE: You’re kidding me. You’ve got another name?

So what is it? The real one.

SIMON: You want to actually know the name?

CAMILLE: You trust me don’t you?

SIMON: Yeah.

CAMILLE: So tell me.

Beat.

Promise I won’t tell—

I promise on Angus’ life.

Go on, what was it?

SIMON:—

CAMILLE: Harvey, no.

Lucas?

I know. I know.

She laughs

Ignatius.

Pause.

SIMON: Richard.

CAMILLE: Oh? Richard.

SCENE TWO

Much later that night.

SIMON: You should be in bed.

JESSICA: Didn’t find him?

SIMON: Nothing.

JESSICA: Did you drop Camille off?

SIMON nods.

Lachie came over, with Angus.

Neither of you had your phones on.

We were worried.

SIMON: Lachlan came over.

Sounds convenient.

Beat.

JESSICA: Actually Simon, it was.

The police came around.

They wanted to talk to you.

Ask you questions.

Why Simon?

SIMON: Probably about the search.

JESSICA: But why come round here?

What’s going on?

SIMON: They’re probably interviewing everyone.

JESSICA: But they were asking all sorts of questions

About you.

SIMON: It’s probably a traffic thing, a speeding fine.

JESSICA: No.

Definitely not a traffic thing.

SIMON: What did they want?

JESSICA: They wanted to know things about your past.

SIMON: My past. What did you tell them?

JESSICA: Nothing. I don’t know anything.

Only that you were taken away as a child.

SIMON: What? Why did you tell them that?

JESSICA: Simon why are you being—? /

SIMON: What else did you tell them?

JESSICA: Simon, where were you taken as a child?

Pause.

SIMON: Jess, I was a messed up kid. I want all that behind me.

JESSICA: You said it wasn’t a foster home.

Where were you taken?

SIMON: It was an, an institution.

JESSICA: Did you—

God, did you go to prison!?

SIMON: No. No.

Juvenile detention.

JESSICA: Oh my God.

SIMON: I was young.

JESSICA: What did you do?

SIMON: Just stealing and car stuff.

JESSICA: They put you in detention for that?

SIMON: I told you I was messed up.

JESSICA: Does Andy know?

SIMON: Yes.

JESSICA: How?

SIMON: I told her.

JESSICA: But not me.

Beat.

SIMON: So now you tell me.

JESSICA: Tell you what?

SIMON: Do you think that without the truth we’re just animals?

Do you, Jess?

Do you fancy him?

Lachlan. /

JESSICA: Don’t be stupid.

SIMON: Because he fancies you, doesn’t he?

JESSICA: Don’t.

SIMON: What?

JESSICA: Just trust me.