Scene 2- Chains Clatter
Setting: The Bebop Interior
(SWITCH and ROCK drag FAYE'S corpse (can be fake or the actor being very still) across the bridge from left to right to the center. SWITCH goes to the left staircase and goes down to the bottom, crouching. ROCK does the same on the right staircase. TALENA and JET enter bridge left. They stop short near the entrance)
JET
Faye, you ok?
(JET goes over to FAYE'S corpse, shaking the body. It doesn't move)
SWITCH
Freeze! (Points a gun at TALENA, while ROCK points a gun at JET. Slowly, SWITCH and ROCK go up to handcuff TALENA and JET. The two start to fight back as soon as they are touched, but they are both injected with the same syringe-like tranquilizer that was used on SPIKE and VICIOUS.)
ROCK
There's only one step left, now. I can take both of these back, you go find the other girl.
SWITCH
Yes. She has to be targeted in her own way. They all have to be dealt with differently.
ROCK
Or that's what Blade says.
SWITCH
What Blade says is law.
ROCK
I can't help wondering, though… Wasn't Spike innocent? He wouldn't have helped Vicious, not if he didn't know. And this Jet guy… Talena and Shadow can be reasoned with, I think…
SWITCH
You keep those feelings to yourself, you hear? Unless you want Blade finding out you're not loyal.
ROCK
I don't think he'd…
SWITCH
Then you think wrong! Believe me, if you voice those opinions once he's in power, you're dead.
ROCK
Would you betray me, then?
SWITCH
Blade's cause is more important than you, or me. I don't trust you to handle Shadow, so I've got to go talk to her now. Take them back, you can't possibly screw that up.
(SWITCH goes down the staircase and exits center)
ROCK
What's her problem? Blade trusts me… And she used to trust me. She's been spending too much time with him… You know what, I'm just going to go deliver these to Blade and quit for the day. I can't take any more of it today…
(BLADE drags TALENA and JET down the staircase and exits center with them)
Setting: The Bebop Interior
(SWITCH and ROCK drag FAYE'S corpse (can be fake or the actor being very still) across the bridge from left to right to the center. SWITCH goes to the left staircase and goes down to the bottom, crouching. ROCK does the same on the right staircase. TALENA and JET enter bridge left. They stop short near the entrance)
JET
Faye, you ok?
(JET goes over to FAYE'S corpse, shaking the body. It doesn't move)
SWITCH
Freeze! (Points a gun at TALENA, while ROCK points a gun at JET. Slowly, SWITCH and ROCK go up to handcuff TALENA and JET. The two start to fight back as soon as they are touched, but they are both injected with the same syringe-like tranquilizer that was used on SPIKE and VICIOUS.)
ROCK
There's only one step left, now. I can take both of these back, you go find the other girl.
SWITCH
Yes. She has to be targeted in her own way. They all have to be dealt with differently.
ROCK
Or that's what Blade says.
SWITCH
What Blade says is law.
ROCK
I can't help wondering, though… Wasn't Spike innocent? He wouldn't have helped Vicious, not if he didn't know. And this Jet guy… Talena and Shadow can be reasoned with, I think…
SWITCH
You keep those feelings to yourself, you hear? Unless you want Blade finding out you're not loyal.
ROCK
I don't think he'd…
SWITCH
Then you think wrong! Believe me, if you voice those opinions once he's in power, you're dead.
ROCK
Would you betray me, then?
SWITCH
Blade's cause is more important than you, or me. I don't trust you to handle Shadow, so I've got to go talk to her now. Take them back, you can't possibly screw that up.
(SWITCH goes down the staircase and exits center)
ROCK
What's her problem? Blade trusts me… And she used to trust me. She's been spending too much time with him… You know what, I'm just going to go deliver these to Blade and quit for the day. I can't take any more of it today…
(BLADE drags TALENA and JET down the staircase and exits center with them)