Syd and Casey, Part 1

Question 1

1. Is anyone with you?

Answer 1

1. What?

Question 2

2. Answer my question, please.

Answer 2

2. What’s the question?

Question 3

3. Is there anyone else with you?

Answer 3

3. It’s just us in here.

Question 4

4. I know that already.

Answer 4

4. Then why did you ask? It’s a stupid question.

Question 5

5. I meant is there anyone else. Anywhere.

Answer 5

5. Do you not—

Question 6

6. Just answer the question. It’s just you?

Answer 6

6. You and me, we’re it.

Question 7

7. Why are you still alive?

Answer 7

7. Why are you?

Question 8

8. What about the gun?

Answer 8

8. What gun?

Question 9

9. The gun I found in your glove compartment.

Answer 9

9. I found it on the road a few months ago, I thought maybe it would come in handy some day.

Question 10

10. Against who?

Answer 10

10. Well, who’s to say they won’t all come back from the dead?

Question 11

11. That’s not going to happen.

Answer 11

11. How do you know?

Question 12

12. Because I know, it doesn’t happen.

Answer 12

12. The entire human population of earth dropped dead, no warnings, no symptoms, on a random Thursday afternoon, I guess except for me and you. Is that the sort of thing that also doesn’t happen?

Question 13

13. You should leave, please. Don’t come back. I’m going to walk out of this room and count to 20. By the time I’m finished, you should be out of here.

Answer 13

13. Just hang on a second.

Question 14

14. I left a car outside with a full tank of gas and all your belongings. Except the gun. You don’t need that.

Answer 14

14. What the hell/fuck?

Question 15

15. I’m gonna start counting now.

Answer 15

15. We’re all that’s left, the sole survivors, you can’t just force me to leave like this.

Question 16

16. Yes, I can. I can do whatever I want.

Answer 16

16. You’re bossy. We can work around that.

Question 17

17. We’re not working around anything, because you’re leaving.

Answer 17

17. Why do you think we found each other? Do you think it was a coincidence?

Question 18

18. No. You were drunk and you crashed your car on my street. You took down a lamppost that I now have to spend precious time fixing. I have a lot of work to do…if you don’t mind.

Answer 18

18. You don’t have time to talk to me? What obligations could you possibly have that are preventing you from talking to someone who is quite possibly the only other human being on the planet?

Question 19

19. The engine’s running in the car. You’re wasting gas.

Answer 19

19. Are you going to tell me I’m ruining the environment next?

Question 20

20. You’re making fun of me.

Answer 20

20. No, I’m not.

Question 21

21. I’ve gotta go.

Answer 21

21. No, hey, listen, I’m sorry, will you just wait a minute?

Question 22

22. Why?

Answer 22

22. Is this really where you live? All alone?

Question 23

23. Yes.

Question 24

Start

Answer 24

What is going on?