Scene 4- Red Mars
Setting: Same as for Bebop Rhythm, with lighter colors. A counter-like table has been brought out and set along the balcony, and as many stools as characters at this point (6) are set behind it. Everyone is seated in the order they were standing in earlier, and are onstage finishing breakfast as the lights come up. Everyone except SPIKE is finished eating, and SPIKE is coming to the table with a new plate, obviously seconds.
JET
Mars. All the best bounties seem to be here. Right Spike?
SPIKE
(through a mouthful) mmmppht. (GULP.) Uh, yeah…
(SPIKE goes back to eating, eating very quickly. Oatmeal or cereal is appropriate for use in this scene)
FAYE
Yeah, maybe we've got an opportunity to make some quick cash while we're here. What do you say, Talena?
TALENA
Why not?
JET
Okay, Ed, go get the computer working, check out the bounties. Faye, your turn on the dishes.
FAYE
Whatever…
(FAYE takes all of the dishes, including the one Spike is still eating from, and exits RIGHT.)
SPIKE
Hey! I was… eating that.
FAYE (From offstage:)
TOUGH LUCK!
SPIKE
See what I have to endure these days, Shadow?
SHADOW
Sounds really grueling, Spike. Seriously.
(A loud noise, like a computer noise, comes from offstage the way ED exited. TALENA rushes offstage to see what happened.)
SHADOW
If we're going back to Vicious, Spike, now might be a good time.
(SPIKE nods, unlatches SHADOW'S handcuffs from the banister, and they go down the stage left staircase, and then exit through the back-center exit, the lights going completely black)
Setting: Same as for Bebop Rhythm, with lighter colors. A counter-like table has been brought out and set along the balcony, and as many stools as characters at this point (6) are set behind it. Everyone is seated in the order they were standing in earlier, and are onstage finishing breakfast as the lights come up. Everyone except SPIKE is finished eating, and SPIKE is coming to the table with a new plate, obviously seconds.
JET
Mars. All the best bounties seem to be here. Right Spike?
SPIKE
(through a mouthful) mmmppht. (GULP.) Uh, yeah…
(SPIKE goes back to eating, eating very quickly. Oatmeal or cereal is appropriate for use in this scene)
FAYE
Yeah, maybe we've got an opportunity to make some quick cash while we're here. What do you say, Talena?
TALENA
Why not?
JET
Okay, Ed, go get the computer working, check out the bounties. Faye, your turn on the dishes.
FAYE
Whatever…
(FAYE takes all of the dishes, including the one Spike is still eating from, and exits RIGHT.)
SPIKE
Hey! I was… eating that.
FAYE (From offstage:)
TOUGH LUCK!
SPIKE
See what I have to endure these days, Shadow?
SHADOW
Sounds really grueling, Spike. Seriously.
(A loud noise, like a computer noise, comes from offstage the way ED exited. TALENA rushes offstage to see what happened.)
SHADOW
If we're going back to Vicious, Spike, now might be a good time.
(SPIKE nods, unlatches SHADOW'S handcuffs from the banister, and they go down the stage left staircase, and then exit through the back-center exit, the lights going completely black)