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you can put your life back in some  

you can put your life back in some  

order. Chalice - are you listening?  

order. Chalice - are you listening?  

CHALICE  

CHALICE  

7 How could you let this happen? 7 DR WONG pauses. Looks her in the eyes.  

How could you let this happen? DR WONG pauses. Looks her in the eyes.  

 

DR WONG  

DR WONG  

8 After the New Years incident, I 8 needed the part of both of us that  

After the New Years incident, I needed the part of both of us that could see this through. <Beat> I was afraid of messing up.  

could see this through. <Beat> I  

 

was afraid of messing up.  

CHALICE  

CHALICE  

9 So you'd rather be a ruthless 9 programmer than my dad?  

So you'd rather be a ruthless programmer than my dad?

 

DR WONG  

DR WONG  

10 Parenting is programming. Please. 10 Don’t talk like a humanista. The  

Parenting is programming. Please. Don’t talk like a humanista. The  

world needed my work. My work is  

world needed my work. My work is you. I was what you needed me to be.  

you. I was what you needed me to  

 

be.  

CHALICE  

CHALICE  

11 I needed a parent. 11

I needed a parent.

 

DR WONG  

DR WONG  

12 That’s why I gave you BOB. 12

That’s why I gave you BOB.  

14 CHALICE absorbs this. Her hand thoughtlessly motions to 14 adjust something on DR WONG’s exoskeletal neck. She fights the gesture, recoiling self-consciously.  

 

CHALICE absorbs this. Her hand thoughtlessly motions to adjust something on DR WONG’s exoskeletal neck. She fights the gesture, recoiling self-consciously.  

 

CHALICE  

CHALICE  

13 How long would you have left me in 13 there?  

How long would you have left me in there?  

DR WONG breaks eye contact.  

DR WONG breaks eye contact.