STAY IN CHARACTER!

Mary: I'm not your wife! Clark: Stay in character! [Mary shakes the fake hair from her head] Stay in character! Mary: I've never even met her! Clark: Stay in character! Mary: Fuck you! Clark: [Pause] What did you say? Mary: You want to know the real reason your wife left you? It wasn't the drinking! or the stumbling home at all hours or the rage! It was the whining! Nothing's ever your fault, is it? You drink too much? Blame your job. You hate your job? Blame the world. You get kicked out of the house? Blame your wife. You attack me and tie me up? Blame your brain- you are your fucking brain, you dipshit! Clark: You're saying it's my fault?! Mary: Yes. But it's just the way you're wired, isn't it? Isn't it? Clark: How do I stop doing that? Mary: Honestly. I have no fucking idea. I can't help you, Clark. As much as I tried. It's just not up to me. I can't save anyone. Clark: I don't think I want to change. Mary: Then don't. Clark: I like it in here. For the first time in a long time, I feel like I'm... Like I'm right where I'm supposed to be. Mary: Then stay. But let me go. Clark: [Starts cutting Mary's binds] I'm sorry. Mary: For what? [Woman figure suddenly runs into corner] Clark: [Pirate Clark monster appears in doorway] This is Mary. She's our therapist. She was just leaving. You don't have to worry. She says we don't need to change. [Pirate Clark monster picks up Clark] It's okay. It's just the way we're wired. [Pirate Clark monster bites down on Clark's neck/shoulder who screams in anguish] No!

Phil: [enters interview room] Hello, I'm Phil. And you're Mary, yeah? [Sits at opposite end of table facing Mary] I was hoping to ask you a few questions for some clarification on our end, if that's okay. First thing, could you establish how you got in here? Mary: I walked through a wall. In the basement of a furniture store. Phil: [Holds up photo of Cap'n Clark's store front] Can you confirm that this is the location in question? Okay, good. So you were shopping, or... Mary: I was looking for someone. Phil: [Holds up photo of Clark with Captain Clark monster blotted out] Were you looking for this man? Right here? Mary: Where am I right now? Phil: Could you just confirm for me? [Points to photo of Clark again] Is this man right here? Here, the man you were looking for. Mary: Please. Sorry, what was your name? Phil: Phil. Mary: Please, Phil. Where am I? Phil: I'm not... I make, um... sorry, my... our company... [slides ASYNC pamphlet across table] we make MRI machines. Or, I should say, um... We used to make MRI machines. Not anymore. That was before we... before... we found... Mary: You've been there? Phil: [Turns to tinted window and then back to Mary] Yes, I have. And now, it's my job. Every day, I go in there. And I just try to... Try to find out even a little bit more. I map out areas to the best of my ability. And more and more, I'm convinced... that nothing in our lifetime... Mary... nothing in maybe all of recorded history... means more... than this. Mary: But I don't understand it. Phil: I don't... I can't even describe it. It... Mary: It's like describing a dog to someone Who's never seen a dog. And then asking them to try draw it. Now you want me to... describe it. And then... You'll write it down, and then what? Phil: Mary... Mary: You'll let me go? Phil: We all want the same thing here. We do. We just... want to find out even a little bit... more. Mary: What's gonna happen to me, Phil? Phil: That decision's not up to me. So... If we could just... talk. Just you and me. You know? Just like... Just like two regular people. We could unpack... some of this. We've both been in there. And... and... and... and get on the same page. There are... doors... opening... everywhere. We don't know why... or... what's connecting them. They just sort of keep happening and we don't want to stop them. :[A backrooms montage of Mary's childhood moments and aesthetics, career book launches, poles of Kat and Bobby missing posters and their motel residence, and contemporary urban landscapes follows with a backroomsised catatonic Mary-esque figure in a room]

we have

captain clark (monstr)

mary (woman)

clark (architect)

mary ({{user}}) is playing the role of wife for clark {{char}} and captain clark comes in when certain lines are said or whatever