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ACT 1 SCENE 1
(Skipper, Private and Rico are sat around a plain grey table to the left of the stage. This area is the Penguin's HQ. Just to the right of them, blacked out behind a door, Kowalski's siluette is just about visable, experimenting with differntly coloured liquids in a sectioned off part of the stage (which will be referred to as his lab) behind a curtain, lit from behind. Where he is standing obscures a dead body strapped to a table which cannot be seen at this point. Private is murmuring something to Skipper, who isn't paying much attention to him and is just sipping from his mug. Rico looks bored. Kowalski moves to stand by the door. Suddenly there is a loud explosion from the blacked out lab, and the door falls out of place. The other three look confused and startled. Kowalski falls, dazed on top of the door. His face is commiaclally blacked with soot.)

Kowalski: Ow.

Rico: (running to help him up) Kowalski!

(Kowalski brushes him off, gets to his feet quickly, replaces the door, and retreats back into his lab. Skipper gives him a quizzical look)

Private: What was that all about?

Skipper: No idea... (He gets up and follows Kowalski into the lab, in turn followed by Private. They listen at the door. Blacked out Tableux on Rico. The curtain has been pulled away, and the lights go up on Kowalski in his lab.)

Kowalski: (sighing and washing the soot from his face with his back to the door.) Another failure...

(He glances over at what he was obscuring earlier. It is now quite obviously a dead body.)

Maybe I should stop playing God, trying to re-animate this thing...(Skipper and Private fully enter the room)

(smiling) No, I'll succeed. I just need more time.

Private: (betrayed and tearful, but not excessively so) So when you said, "I guess I'm not the mad scientist type" you were lying?

(Kowalski's smile fades and he turns around to see a disappointed Private and an extremely aggravated and disapproving Skipper. He is fidgety and nervous.)

Kowalski: Skipper! I-It's not what you think! I-I-

Skipper: You lied to us. And, you don't even care. You said you would try anything like (gesturing to the table) this again.

Kowalski: L-Look! Things are completely under control! No need to fret!

(Private looks up at Kowalski, who hangs his head in shame. Private seems to forgive him a little)

Private: Well if Kowalski says it's fine, then- (Kowalski gives him a sheepish smile)

Skipper: (cutting him off) That's never a guaruantee, is it?

(Kowalski's smile drops again, and stays dropped.)

Private: I suppose not...

Skipper: Private, go in the other room. I'd like to talk to Kowalski in private, if you wouldn't mind.

(Private nods and goes to leave. Kowalski raises an eyebrow but Skipper still gives him a dissaproving look. He waits for Private to leave before speaking again.)

Why have you been trying to re-animate Frankenstein over here?

Kowalski: (matter of fact tone) Frankenstein was the scientist not the-

Skipper: Shut up.

Kowalski: Yes sir. (looking at his feet)
(beat)

Skipper: You've been in here for six days straight. The last time any of us spoke to you was about the last day of september. (shakes head) Kowalski, countless times you've done something radical, or stupid or downright insane which threatens to hurt someone, yourself, or the whole damn universe, and countless times we've been able to stop it.
(pause)
But one day you're going to hurt or kill someone for real. I don't want things to escalate to that point. You are hereby banned from your lab until further notice.
(Kowalski's head snaps back up in disbelief. Skipper turns to leave.)

Clean it up, and be out of here in an hour. I'm going to bed, and so should you. But you can at least start by getting rid of this thing. (points at the corpse, and exits through the door, slamming it behind him. Kowalski pauses for a moment, then grins.)

Kowalski: Of course not, Skipper.

(Blackout)

***

SCENE 2

(Kowalski's lab is full of various glowing liquids and equiptment. They are the only lighting at this point, casting an eerie glow about the blackened room. Kowalski is laying unconcious on the floor of his lab. Footsteps can be heard above the hum of the equiptment. It's Private, approaching the lab. He yawns and opens the door.)

Private: Kowalski, I need to-

(There is a pause. Private gasps, barely lit by the glow. He rushes to the floor at the centre of the room, where Kowalski is laying.)

Oh God, the blood! SKIPPER!

(He panicks and holds Kowalski off the floor, shaking him.)

Don't die, Kowalski, Please don't die!

(More footsteps can be heard. This time it's Skipper. He comes through the door, rubbing his eyes.)

Skipper: Honestly, Private. What the hell could you possibly want at this hour?

(He stops and notices what's going on.)

(Coldly, but angrily) I knew it would come to this. I warned him. I warned him...

(The curtain over the lab is drawn, and that characters move to their places for scene 3 in the darkness.)

***
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