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After a longer than normal pause, the cell phone rings. After the second ring,<br />
JACK quickly wakes up and sits up in the bed)<br />
Gina? (Louder) Gina!<br />
JACK<br />
(While sitting up in the bed, looking around)<br />
(He jumps out of the bed on the Stage Right side)<br />
JACK<br />
(Standing next to the Stage Right side of the bed, screams loudly/hysterical)<br />
Gina!<br />
(He focuses squarely on the ringing phone now, frozen in fear.<br />
The phone stops ringing. Walking to the end of the bed,<br />
he sits down with uncertainty and trepidation)<br />
JACK<br />
(While uncontrollably squeezing/rubbing his left hand with his right.<br />
Oh, my baby…Gina…my love!<br />
Sorrowful/Tearful)<br />
(The phone rings again. Purposefully but wide-eyed, he stands and walks<br />
to the end table. He now realizes his fate -- like an innocent man walking<br />
to the gallows whose outcome cannot be reversed. Once there, he pauses<br />
for a beat before picking up the cell phone and answering it)<br />
JACK<br />
(With a neutral but unsure voice) Hello… (Pause)… (Voice cracks) Mom?…<br />
(He listens and begins to cry as he sits down in the chair.<br />
With the phone still to his ear, he slowly buries his chin into<br />
his chest and looks down as the lights fade to black)<br />
Steve Scuba is an Army Nurse and Iraq war veteran.<br />
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