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LUCY Are you saying it's not a hat?<br />

MARK No, it is a hat-<br />

LUCY Then what's your problem?<br />

MARK No, I mean {inhales) look at it, it doesn't make sense, I<br />

mean how is the audience supposed to piece together that I'm a<br />

a{flips back through script) "A flawed Private Investigator s1ash<br />

Vigilante with a drinking problem, schizophrenia, a child he never<br />

gets to see, a life of regret and a no-funny-stuff boss"? [LUCY<br />

begins to interject] It's cringe-worthy, like<br />

LUCY (gesturing towards audience) They'd figure most of that out<br />

for themselves throughout the course of the play but (obvious sarcasm)<br />

thanks for the spoilers-<br />

MARK I really don't think they would, I mean if it weren't for the<br />

character description, I'd only pick up on_not even half the stuff<br />

I'm supposed to be-<br />

LUCY Okay, alright, let's hope they're smarter than you are-<br />

MARK And it's the name as well-<br />

LUCY Right okay, the name, I suppose I should take out a notebook<br />

at this point, what's wrong with the name?<br />

MARK "Noir 2000"? I mean c 'mon like, "Noir 2000"?<br />

LUCY Yes, I'm listening, enlighten me-<br />

MARK Noir 2000 sounds like an old B-Movie, how do you come up with<br />

a title like that and think "Oh yeah, that's an interesting title"?<br />

What really surprised me is how many people you've managed

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