Shake No Shake

BBloch:

Thought I’d sit over here for a change.

Carr.:

I can’t see you but that’s okay. Sometimes best not to see better to hear.

BB:

Beer?

Carr.:

Not yet. (pause) So… you know more now. You see it developing. Dr. Mulholland is back. And Mulholland Dr. [ and its dilemma] with it. But there’s really no choice.

BB:

No. Not for me, of course. Or I guess you could call it my anti-me. My evil me.

Carr.:

Not evil. Don’t worry about that. But your double. And it’s you as well.

BB:

I am happy.

Carr.:

Of course. But you must put it to a better test. This makes you even safer.

BB:

The 4th has entered. Like it always had been.

Carr.:

Beer?

—–

Karoz walks in.

“So you knew.”

“Of course.” Karoz looks down at his nails.

“Hidi.”

“But not Lodi,” Karoz responds. “Don’t go there.”

“Pluto, then,” Baker offers.

“Emmm.”

“Can we make true peace now?”

“You are the bald headed Seal,” Karoz says. “That is what you’ve always been. A bald headed Seal.”

“I guess I could take that as a compliment.”

“Think about it. You have to take off your hat.”

Baker thought about it.