Moment 18

Question 1

Presley: She’s been panicky all day. I had to describe it five times.

Answer 1

Cosmo: Describe what?

Question 2

Presley: More than five! Five and a half!

Answer 2

Cosmo: Describe bloody what?

Question 3

Presley: I’ve never had to describe it that much.

Answer 3

Cosmo: Describe what, for fucks sake?

Question 4

Presley: Oh … I describe what it looks like outside.

Answer 4

Cosmo: It’s just the street outside.

Question 5

Presley: That’s right.

Answer 5

Cosmo: Well, don’t she already know what -?

Question 6

Presley: I describe a new street. A new everything. Me and Haley - we’ve created it. Together.

Answer 6

Cosmo: Wh-what d’you mean?

Question 7

Presley: We imagine its after the nuclear holocaust and we’re the only two left alive.

Answer 7

Cosmo: The only two?

Question 8

Presley: The only two.

Answer 8

Cosmo: … Describe it to me.

Question 9

Presley: Why?

Answer 9

Cosmo: I want to hear it.

Question 10

Presley: There’s no point.

Answer 10

Cosmo: Yes there is.

Question 11

Presley: Oh no, there isn’t.

Answer 11

Cosmo: Oh yes, there is.

Question 12

Presley: Oh no, there isn’t.

Answer 12

Slight pause.

Cosmo: I want. To bloody. Hear it.

Question 13

Presley: Say, ‘Please.’

Answer 13

Cosmo: Please.

Question 14

Presley: Say, ‘Please, Presley’

Answer 14

Cosmo: … Please, Presley.

Question 15

Presley: Say, ‘Please, Presley, tell me what it’s like outside.m

Answer 15

Cosmo: Please, Presley, tell me what it’s like outside.

Question 16

Presley: Why?

Answer 16

Cosmo: JUST FUCKING DO IT!

Question 17

Presley: All right! All right! Sit down, then.

Answer 17

Cosmo: Well, what you waiting for?

Question 18

Presley: You have to ask me questions.

Answer 18

Cosmo: What questions?

Question 19

Presley: What things look like.

Answer 19

Cosmo: What’s it look like?

Question 20

Presley: No, no, no. That’s not right. You have to begin with the sky.

Slight pause.

Answer 20

Cosmo: What does the sky look like?

Question 21

Presley: It’s black. A sheet of dark cloud obscures everything. No heaven visible.

Answer 21

Cosmo: No heaven visible!

Question 22

Presley: No stars. No moon. No comets. Nothing.

Slight pause.

Ask me if it’s snowing.

Answer 22

Cosmo: Is it snowing?

Question 23

Presley: Slightly - Now the street.

Answer 23

Cosmo: What does the street look like?

Question 24

Presley: You remember the corner shop?

….

Like a… a dark tower in the middle of a wasteland.

Answer 24

Cosmo: Why’re we still alive then?

Question 25

Presley: Because we were good children.

Slight pause.

Answer 25

Cosmo: What happened to your parents, Presley?