Scene 3: There's No Messing With Alcanivorax

from MADE OF SHADOWS by ABEARICA & DEEP ROOTED

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Door closing. The occasional scream in the distance.

ALICA:
Why’d you go out drinking last night?

GERALD:
You have to murder you darlings.

Stop. Scuff of a turnaround.

ALICA:
What!?!

GERALD (reproachful):
It’s... it’s a term. I think Faulkner said it. Like, when you write something, no matter how much you may like it, if it’s not working, then you have to get rid of it. ‘You must kill all your darlings.’

Scuff again. Walking continues.

ALICA:
So, I have some competition?

GERALD:
What?
(Laughs)
No, we were doing an experiment with Alcanivorax. It’s a bacteria used to clean up oil spills. We were trying to modify it to digest other man-made toxins.

ALICA:
Huh.

GERALD:
It was going great, like, a new field of Bio-remediation. And then...

ALICA:
It didn’t work.

GERALD:
It didn’t work.

ALICA:
Why?

GERALD:
There’s no messing with Alcanivorax. It’s a naturally- occurring bacterium that’s perfectly evolved to do exactly what it does. So, we offed the experiment.

ALICA:
Killing your darling.

GERALD:
And then got drunk.
(Beat... footsteps continuing)
What’s so funny?

ALICA:
The irony.

GERALD:
I don’t get...

VOICE:
Hello? Gerald! Alicia!

GERALD:
Is that Erica?

ALICIA:
For the time being.

GERALD:
Come on, she might need some help.

Footsteps, Gerald goes running off.

ALICIA:
Whatever you say... darling.

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from MADE OF SHADOWS, released December 24, 2013
Script written by Jeremy Berger

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