Back by Four
Ruth has the letter from the doctor on the kitchen table and wants Hal to sit down. Hal has a whole day lined up with a boat motor and a trailer hitch and lunch at the diner. He will not cancel it, and the reason is not what she thinks.
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Dialogues
Two and three character scenes for partner work and scene study.
16 scripts
Be Nice
Nora and Eli have both been set up by the same friend, and both promised her they would be nice. Neither one is good at it. It is a first date at a wine bar and both of them have an exit text ready.
Between Floors
Daniel is late for a client dinner when the elevator stops between floors. The delivery person stuck with him is oddly calm. Then they call him by a name he never gave them.
Night Shift
Len has worked the register at a gas station convenience store for twenty years. At quarter to three a calm woman walks in with a young man who will not meet anyone's eye. Len has to decide what he is looking at, and what he is prepared to say about it.
One Seat Left
A failing orbital station has eleven hours of air and one suit for the last shuttle down. Hale has flown that shuttle for fourteen years. Quinn built the casing that bought them the eleven hours. The committee has sent Quinn to talk to him.
One Set Coming Back
Dev went out for firewood almost an hour ago and the snow is getting worse. Caleb volunteers to go look for him. Tess wants to know why his boots are already wet.
Reply All
Priya sent an email mocking her manager to the entire company by mistake. Now she has been called into Jordan's office. She is ready to be fired. Jordan has a different problem.
Roof Access
June has decided to report what a teacher did in the physics lab. Dev was in the room when it happened, and the same teacher is writing his college letter. On the school roof after hours, he asks her to wait. She already knows what it will cost him.
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Same Table
Maya is working in the coffee shop she has always gone to on Tuesdays. Tom, her ex, walks past her table and pretends it is a surprise. He is getting married in May. Neither of them says the thing they came to say.
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Sold As Is
Cal spent four years of Sundays taking care of their father in the house they grew up in. Robbie stayed away. Now the house has sold, and Robbie has driven them both to the curb outside it with an envelope he has not opened yet.
Step Seven
It is 2 a.m. and Priya and Kels are building a bookshelf with instructions that clearly belong to something else. Kels insists on finishing tonight. Priya starts to wonder why her roommate suddenly cares so much about furniture.
The Good Plates
After fourteen months, Ellie has finally brought her girlfriend Sam to Sunday dinner at her mother's house. Margaret has the good plates out. She also has a list of small tests. Sam has decided not to take any of them.
The Name on the Truck
Nate comes home to tell his mother he is leaving the family heating business for a job in Denver. She has known for five weeks. She has been waiting to see if he would say it to her face.
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The Spare Key
Nora and Daniel are clearing out their late mother's house. Nora stayed and cared for her. Daniel flew in with a folder and a plan to sell. One of them knows something the other does not.
Thirty Minute Sync
Diane has to lay off the best person on her team. Jordan read the calendar invite and figured it out before walking in. Jordan has questions, and Diane owes real answers.
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Walt's in the Car
Gene and Howie drove forty-five minutes to scatter their friend Walt in the lake. Neither of them thinks he brought the ashes. Walt, it turns out, has been in the back seat for three weeks.