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May 2012<br />
Exile, CONT’D FROM P. 12<br />
SAMEERA<br />
In order to -<br />
TAMRIN<br />
You have to be clear about this -<br />
SAMEERA<br />
In order to make, to rebuild -<br />
TAMRIN<br />
Good.<br />
SAMEERA<br />
A new civilization in place of the old one.<br />
TAMRIN<br />
That’s better; there’s the action.<br />
SAMEERA<br />
Wipe out the entire world, and start from<br />
scratch.<br />
TAMRIN<br />
How?<br />
SAMEERA<br />
Nuclear bombs. Nuclear holocaust.<br />
TAMRIN<br />
Who starts it?<br />
SAMEERA<br />
Who cares?!<br />
TAMRIN<br />
Wrong. Everyone cares. You care.<br />
SAMEERA<br />
The question is who survives it.<br />
TAMRIN<br />
Keep going.<br />
SAMEERA<br />
Whose left to make something new happen?<br />
Is she a good person, bad person, radioactive<br />
person?<br />
TAMRIN<br />
So your heroine is radioactive?<br />
SAMEERA<br />
Yes.<br />
TAMRIN<br />
And she uses that radiation to help make a new<br />
world.<br />
SAMEERA<br />
That’s her thing.<br />
TAMRIN<br />
You have to get to that part sooner.<br />
SAMEERA<br />
A radioactive survivor of a nuclear holocaust<br />
TAMRIN<br />
is called upon to rebuild her world.<br />
SAMEERA<br />
One sentence.<br />
TAMRIN<br />
And where does this all take place? The Middle<br />
East?<br />
SAMEERA<br />
Iran.<br />
TAMRIN<br />
You want to nuke the place where you were born?<br />
SAMEERA<br />
I want to give it a chance to start over.<br />
(Pause.)<br />
TAMRIN<br />
I’d play that game.<br />
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