Bernadette Carter delivers a frantic monologue rejecting someone she calls an emotional terrorist, invoking serial killers and metaphors of planes crashing and buildings collapsing to convey betrayal and danger. She names Dominic, Eddie, Nash, and Ijeoma while oscillating between pleas for solitude and threats of retaliation, describing her house as a death trap.
Okay, so you want crashing planes, collapsing buildings, exploding people? Yes! Yeah, I can do all that. Alright. But that's what it's gonna cost ya. Friends? God, I hope you weren't about to say that because I don't need any more friends. You know what, maybe I should be more specific. I don't need you. At all. I'm serious. I mean, I barely even wanted to come over here, so what makes you think that I wanna be What, buddies? Pals? Don't get me wrong, you're a nice guy, but don't do something so pathetic, so pathetic, like pretending that you want to smooth things over between us. Don't, don't do that. You know, you, you took something from me. Not what you think you took, but you did that to And you didn't care. And you didn't look back. And that one small little brutal gesture makes you more than just some ex-boyfriend. You are like an emotional terrorist. You are like a fuck— you— Would you stop saying that? He wasn't looking at me. Girl, you know it's obvious. He was staring at you the whole period. No, I— I think he likes you. Remember when he was like, oh, Ijeoma, do you need help? Walking up to you. That's not even how he walked. I know I've seen you before. Are you scared? Yes. How do you get over here? I don't know. Wait, leave this door closed. No, stop, stop, stop. Who is there? Dominic? Whoever that is, I want you to know that I got a bottle and I'm not afraid to use it, and it's it's big. What are you doing? What are you doing here? What did you do? You know what? Shut up! Hush up! Hush up! I'm looking for the phone book, okay? I'm looking for the cabinet's phone number. Wait, you want to leave? I'm sorry. Are are we? Are we not in the same house? Did you not see all that crazy shit that's happening today? Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no. We have got to go. Okay, I know that Dominica's a magnet. We gotta get out. No, no. Yes, yes. See, Eddie and Nash is gonna lock him up. I heard them. That does not matter anymore. Okay, everything in this house is dying, and I'm not staying. Okay, listen. You know what? Eddie's a freaking black bull before we even get a chance to quit. Eh, nobody's gonna listen to that hoe. Okay, I just don't understand it. Dominic was such a sweet boy. But that's how it starts. That's how it starts. That's how it always starts, okay? Okay? First, first, it was Dahmer. You remember Dahmer? Yeah. Gacy. Mm. Daniel Hardy. All of them killing people. All of them killing people. We're all gonna die. We're all gonna die. No! Shh! Quiet! Why? Why? Shut up, he's still upstairs. You're the loud one, leave me alone. Really? Hello there. I heard everything. What? No, you didn't. Do you really think I'm killing people? We think we don't even think. No, we don't think anything. Nothing at all. No, no, completely stupid. Come on. No, no, no. You know, no, we don't. Don't say that. You're not stupid. Actually. I changed my mind. Oh my God, the voice! You two are the definition of idiotic. Oh my God. I wish to be left alone. Okay. Get out of my house. My fault. Now!
