LUTHER by NEIL CROSS Episode 1
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LUTHER I couldn’t help but wonder if perhaps you might like to come home and be married to me. ZOE Some men bring flowers - LUTHER Yes, but this was a grand gesture. ZOE This is professional ruination, is what this is. Next time, think flowers. LUTHER Next time? ZOE You know what I mean. Luther wearies. Searching her gaze for some vestige of hope. LUTHER I just - I need to know why. ZOE You always do. But not everything has a motive. Sometimes things just happen. LUTHER Nothing just happens. There are laws. Physical laws, I mean - not - (Beat) How did we get here? Yesterday I’m in
one place. Suddenly I’m fifteen thousand miles away. I know I’ve travelled, because I’m dizzy and I want to throw up. But I don’t remember crossing the bits in between.
She meets his eyes. Locks on. ZOE
You tell me. How do you think we got here? What happened?
She’s offering him an opening, a chance to say something that’s been left unspoken. There’s a certain hunger in her expression. But whatever it is, Luther can’t face it. He looks away - - to Zoe’s disappointment. Again. She sighs, silently. ZOE Okay. You’re the reason. You are. You left.
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