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  INT. APARTMENT 2 (Qwag sleeps, Arom hops on the computer and searches the

  interwebs. Each night she watches videos and then one night she is deeply disturbed of the realization she suddenly comes to and slams laptop shut. She goes to bed, staring at the ceiling

  contemplating the realization ordeal and waits to settle and fall asleep.)

  (Qwag is sitting on the chair with a laptop computer on his lap. Arom walks in.)

  AROM:

  "I’m back from work and I’ve even been accepted into online college I bought a plastic folding computer to attend the school but... it seems you already know that... Anyway, did you learn anything about becoming an actor? "

  (Qwag is glued to the computer and doesn’t even acknowledge Arom.)

  AROM:

  "Lieutenant, did you hear me?" (Qwag still doesn’t

  acknowledge Arom.)

  AROM:

  " Hello...?

  (Arom walks over and sees what Qwag is doing. Qwag is

  watching kung fu videos. Arom sits down in front of Qwag and watches him.)

  AROM:

  " Fascinating. He is completely unaware that I’m here. In addition to online college the "personal computer" is also a type of mind control device."

  (Arom sits and watches Qwag while Qwag watches videos.) (A short time later Qwag closes the laptop and takes deep breath, like his brain has been over stimulated.)

  QWAG:

  "How you doin?" (Joey from friends impression.)

  AROM:

  "I... am... standard with no

  complaints. What did you learn about acting?"

  QWAG:

  (Qwag stands up and walks over to the window. He looks out. Pauses.)

  "Looking out this window I see an entire civilization. A whole planet full of possibilities and wonder for it’s inhabitants. Most of them don’t have a choice to become more than they are right now. To be someone different. To create a better life. Those who do have the means tend to escape. They escape from their so called "reality" and become something or someone of time’s past or time’s future. To be a doctor or a soldier if just for a few moments. Feeling an audience cheer and boo, laugh and cry..."

  (Qwag slowly turns, looks at Arom and continues.) "That my dear friend... is

  acting... And scene."

  (Arom is stunned at Qwag’s

  deep, profound speech.)

  QWAG:

  "Well, what did you think?"

  AROM:

  "About what?" QWAG:

  "About my acting? An actor must always strive to be better and take a peer’s criticisms to heart and learn from them. So, what did you think?"

  AROM:

  "I’m not sure. Our species doesn’t really "do" acting. I have nothing

  (MORE) AROM: (cont’d)

  proactive to say. I don’t fully understand why human’s feel the need to be someone else instead of better themselves and their

  civilization? It seems humans are quite pretentious and

  self-important."

  QWAG:

  "Well, human’s have complex emotion systems. Acting, for humans, is a way to explore those emotions and communicate them to other humans who identify and connect with them."

  AROM:

  "So, acting is another way that humans socialize?"

  (Qwag sits back, puts his hands together like Mr. Burns.)

  QWAG:

  "Indeed, it seems that way." AROM:

  "Well, good work lieutenant. Now, I’ve realized something

  particularly disturbing about this civilization."

  (Qwag is making weird faces to try to show emotion. He stops, takes a pause.)

  QWAG: "Go on." AROM:

  "Yes, well, these humans seem to celebrate one gender over another. I last night I took a class on "Women’s studies" to better

  understand my role in this society and what I’ve learn is deeply disturbing."

  QWAG: "Go on." AROM:

  "It seems that the females have been persecuted for the brief amount of time that these humans have existed. In the hunter gather stage women had to stay behind while and gather while the men went and hunted. I realize this is probably due to the reproductive system that the humans grossly attend to. The females, once

  pregnant, carry the offspring inside them for nine human months. The offspring feeds and grows during that time. Once the

  offspring is birthed the human females tend to raise it for

  another fifteen human years until it can fend for itself. This

  practice of reproduction seems to be standard through out the mammal class of species on this planet. In all of this class females grow and raise the child by themselves and often times the females are also the hunters and gathers. However, humans are special in this sense because even though females tend to as much labor as the males they are some how beneath them. It’s both interesting and disturbing. Even now the females tend to have less social and economic achievements then their male counter parts. These humans are full of surprising revelations."

  QWAG: "Go on." AROM:

  "No... I’m finished with my input to the conversation. It’s your turn, lieutenant."

  QWAG:

  "Hmm... Indeed it is. It seems to me that instead of understanding how the human’s economic system works you should learn the history and socio-political aspects of these humans."

  (Qwag puts his hand on his chin like he is in deep thought.)

  QWAG:

  "Or something, I don’t know." (Arom is amazed at Qwag’s composer and intellect.)

  AROM: "Yeah... Okay... QWAG:

  "Oh, you know what we should do?" AROM:

  "No, I don’t. I don’t fully

  understand how that is a question I can answer."

  QWAG:

  "We should go get tacos." AROM:

  "Tacos? A food native to the country of Mex-I-Co? We aren’t even geographically close to that country."

  QWAG:

  "I know that. The people of

  Mex-I-Co have immigrated and brought with them the "Taco" and I know where to find one."

  AROM:

  "Well, I haven’t had any nutrition today so, yeah, sure, let us go acquire this "taco."

  QWAG: "Oh, goody!" EXT. TACO RESTAURANT 3 (Arom and Qwag stand outside

  of a taco restaurant.)

  AROM:

  "I’m not understanding the correlation between "tacos" and "bells."

  QWAG:

  "Me either but I here that tacos are the best food on this planet. They are full of grease, fats and calories all one needs to survive."

  AROM:

  "Alright, let’s go get a taco." INT. TACO RESTAURANT 4 (Arom and Qwag stare blankly

  at the menu for a long time.)

  EMPLOYEE:

  "Can I take your order?" AROM:

  "Just a moment."

  (A human behind them steps beside them.)

  HUMAN:

  "Do you guys want some help?" QWAG:

  "Well, my good sir that would be most appreciated considering that we’ve never been here before."

  HUMAN:

  "Okay, let’s see... here... The soft shelled and hard shelled tacos are always a good simple choice to choose from but the potato bites are also very good. You can have beans, chicken or beef in your taco or burrito but since you’ve never here I would just go simple with a couple soft and hard shell burritos and tacos."

  QWAG:

  "Hmm... that sounds great. Thank you my good sir."

  (Qwag bows to him.)

  EMPLOYEE:

  "So, are you guys ready or what?" AROM:

  "Two soft tacos and two hard tacos, please."

  EMPLOYEE:

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p; "Okay that will be seven dollars and twenty-two cents."

  (Arom hands the employee the money.) EMPLOYEE:

  "Thank you. Your food will be ready in a minute."

  (Arom and Qwag still in the same spot until their food is ready. They get their food and sit down at a table.)

  (Qwag quickly unwraps and eat his tacos in two bites each.)

  QWAG:

  (With his mouth full) "Oh,wow! Wow! This is the greatest thing I’ve ever enjoyed. Ohhhh..."

  AROM:

  "Wow lieutenant, are they really that good?"

  QWAG:

  "Yes, sir. They really really really really really really are."

  AROM:

  "Alright then. Here we go."

  (Arom takes a bite and she is amazed and stunned.)

  AROM:

  "Woah... This... This... Taco is why we must consider this

  species... Mmm..."

  QWAG:

  "Tacos are the food equivalent to the big bang."

  (They just sit their and enjoy the high they got from the tacos.)

  INT. APARTMENT 5 (Qwag is sitting on the couch

  watching pro wrestling on the

  laptop. His eyes are glued to

  the screen and his mouth is

  wide open.)

  QWAG:

  "Wow! Oh! Awesome!"

  (Qwag stands up and does some wrestling moves to the air. He jumps on the couch.)

  QWAG:

  "RKO! RKO!" (Puts hands together and cheers like a crowd of people.) "Yeah!"

  (Arom walks in. She is wearing her work uniform.) AROM:

  "Lieutenant, what are doing!?" (Qwag stops wrestling himself and stands up.)

  QWAG: "Nothing sir!" AROM:

  "I could hear you in the hallway. What are you doing?"

  QWAG:

  "I was "surfing the web" and stumbled on this thing called "pro-fess-ial wrest-iling." It’s really really really rally really really really fun. Here check it

  out."(Qwag pulls Arom over to the laptop and they watch

  wrestling. Qwag jumps and cheers while Arom just stairs at it, curiously.)

  AROM:

  "I don’t... Get it... Why is this interesting to you? It’s obviously a scripted fight show for an audience."

  (Qwag looks at her angrily.) QWAG:

  "What?! No, it’s not! Theirs no way it’s fake... Are you sure?"

  AROM:

  "Yeah. You can’t tell when they hit each other or jump on them? It’s pretty obvious but it is quite animated and high energy."

  QWAG:

  "See, you’re understanding it. I think it’s really swell."

  AROM:

  "Okay. What else have you found?" (Qwag is still glued to the laptop.)

  AROM:

  "Lieutenant?" QWAG:

  "Huh? Oh, yeah. It’s called kung fu!!!"

  (Qwag brings up the a fight scene from the movie "kung fury.")

  (They watch the scene.)

  AROM:"Huh..."

  QWAG:

  "Isn’t this magnificent!?" AROM:

  "Sure... So, this is what humans watch for entertainment. Huh... I figured they would be more

  interested in the socio-political problems of the middle east or how the top tier of the economic scale has more wealth than the rest of them."

  QWAG:

  "Huh? Oh, I don’t know either... Yeah!"

  (Qwag jumps and cheers.) (Arom sits in the chair and reads a text book.)

  END OF EPISODE 2 6

 

 

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