PAUL
Do you want to get a motel room? Fool around?
ANNA
I dunno, maybe. Is that all you ever think about?
PAUL
No. I think of other stuff.
ANNA
Like what do you think about other than sex and killing yourself?
PAUL
You know.
ANNA
Tell me.
PAUL
Well, I guess I think about the hydrogen bomb. Right. You know,the explosion.The impact. Fallout. Megatonnes. I mean how big is a megatonne? It's gotta be pretty big.
ANNA
Huge.I would think.
PAUL
Me too. Huge. I think a one tonne explosion is pretty big.But were talking sixteen megatonnes or forty megatonnes here. Jesus. The blast alone would incinerate everything for seven or eight miles. And apparently there's like, 1500 of these bombs that are buried and timed so they'll all explode within fifteen minutes of each other.
ANNA
Wow!
PAUL
Yeah. And the Neutron Bomb is especially troubling.
ANNA
What’s a Neutron Bomb?
PAUL
It’s a H-Bomb, that’s all radiation and no explosion. This guy name Sam Cohen developed it cause he thought it be much more practical in Nuclear War. And really you can just drop one on a small city and kill most of the people without too much harm to any of your own army, cause it’s all radiation and very little explosion.
ANNA
That is troubling. Very frightening.
PAUL
I know.See if you drop a few H-bombs on say, New York -
ANNA
Not New York.
PAUL
Right not New York. So, if you dropped a bunch on Ottawa, well the explosion and radiation would certainly push North America into a Nuclear winter of radioactive fallout. But if you dropped a Neutron Bomb. You could kill enough people to drive in with tanks. Take the city over and all the architecture would be still there. Not that Ottawa's architecture is worth saving. Just the people and trees and animals would be all dead. So it kinda makes sense to use in War. And that’s what I fear. When Taiwan said they were going to pursue free elections. China said it had the Neutron Bomb. Look it up if you don’t believe me. And if they use it on Taiwan. The U.S. will use it on China. And China would use it on the U.S. And eventually, someone gets the bright idea to drop a few here.
ANNA
I don’t like that at all Paul.
PAUL
That’s why I don’t sleep. And, I don't know, lately I've been thinking about getting a gun, probably a semi-automatic and climbing up to the sixth floor of my apartment building and shooting people. Lots of people.
ANNA
How many is a lot? Ten? I think ten is a lot of people.
PAUL
Ten's not a lot. Sickos who get fired from Wal-Mart kill ten people. I'm talking something poetic. Not genocide or anything, nothing political. Just random senseless shootings. You know? Something that people will think is significant. Fifty or a hundred people get killed everyday and that's only in America.
ANNA
Would you kill women and children?
PAUL
I'd have to. It has to be significant. Poetic.
ANNA
Yeah, I guess so. Would you kill me?
PAUL
No.No, I don't think so.
ANNA
That's good. You're like Hiroshima, Paul.
PAUL
Yeah, I guess so. I'm actually more like Three-Mile Island.Do you want to go back to your place?
ANNA
My roommate's home.
PAUL
That's alright.
ANNA
We're not sleeping with her, Paul.
PAUL
You should consider it just once. One day you'll be married and have a kid and you'll wonder what it was like to make it with a girl, but you'll be bound by your marriage vows.
ANNA
Like that'll stop me. Besides, I know what it's like to sleep with another girl.
PAUL
Ooh. Do tell.
ANNA
No! Have you ever slept with a boy?
PAUL
No.
ANNA
Thought about it?
PAUL
No. Of course not.
ANNA
No? Not even once?
PAUL
No. Not even once. Never.
ANNA
Really? Even hot boys. You've never even thought about fucking a hot boy?
PAUL
No. Jesus.
ANNA
What about Bowie?
PAUL
What about Bowie?
ANNA
You like him. Would you sleep with him? He slept with Mick didn’t he?
PAUL
So, I'm not Mick. Just because I like Bowie doesn't mean that I want to have sex with him.Guys don't think that way.
ANNA
Gay guys do.
PAUL
I'm not gay.
ANNA
How do you know?
PAUL
What do you mean how do I know? I know. And I'm sure lots of straight men want to sleep with Bowie so it doesn't really prove anything. How do you know you're not gay, you slept with a girl didn't you. Maybe you're a lesbian.
ANNA
Maybe I am. It doesn't threaten me. Men are attractive. Women are attractive. So what?I mean obviously if I wanted to have a kid, I'd marry a guy, but these days I could just adopt, or just sleep with a guy for one night, so it doesn't even matter anymore. What's a matter Paul? Do you think you're gay and you’re just too scared to admit it, so you'll just sleep with me. I'm pretty boyish for a girl. Look at me. I have small hips. I barely have an ass.
PAUL
I like your ass.
ANNA
I bet you do. But that's not the point. Maybe you just like me cause it makes you think of a boy.
PAUL
Anna, I'm not gay. Alright. And, I think you look good for a girl.
ANNA
Cause you think I look like a boy.