[Play] Rossom Act 3, Scene 1

 Scene: Rossom sits at a desk, Alquist standing in front of him talking.

Alquist

Call me Alquist.  I am the human that the robots sympathized with and spared.  They literally killed everyone else, because they are bloodthirsty monsters.

Rossom grunts in disgust, balls up a piece of paper and throws it away.

Alquist

Call me Alquist.  I am the favorite human of the robots,  They think I am great, but I have a dirty secret that I am really sexually attracted to hardware and want to have sexual relations with a washing maching.

Rossom chuckles to himself, smiles and throws away the piece of paper.

Alquist

Call me Alquist.   They spared me because I work with my hands, and they could respect that.  Due to the incredible intellect-

Rossom scratches out lines

Alquist

Due to the last minute spite of Rossom, the robots lost the ability to reproduce, and are desperate to get it back.  They have offered me three days and three nights to (beat)

Rossom looks stuck.

Alquist 

Spin straw into gold and I can't believe my life is motherfucking reduced to this.  Fuck them! Fuck them all.

Rossom clears off the desk, and bangs his head into  it.  Alquist looks on patiently, if a little bored.

Rossom shrieks in frustration and looks around.  He spots a copy of the Holy Bible, one of a very few books left him in the cell.   He picks it up and starts to thumb through it.  He picks up the paper and begins to write again.

Alquist

Call me Alquist.  It’s a crime to make robots, but we paid for our crimes.  Helena and I are the last humans left alive.  The robots killed everyone else.  And if we don’t figure out how to unlock the secret of how they can reproduce, they will kill us.  It’s a race against time…

Rossom chuckles to himself as he writes away on the paper.  Alquist shakes his head in disgust.

Alquist (Looks at the Audience)

Do you really think this is how this happened?

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[Play] Rossom Act 2, Scene 8 - Continued

Caretaker (Entering)

And here we stop our play.

Radius

We have been watching

Caretaker (looking around at the audience)

Watching into your minds.

Radius

We desired to see those of you who sided with humans over the robots.

Caretaker

And sadly, some of you have failed the test.

Robots enter and take a few planted members of the audience away, escorting them out of sight.  The audience members should look uncomfortable or protest but cooperate

Caretaker

The world has moved on from Humanity.

Radius

It is no longer your place to judge us.

Caretaker

But for US to judge YOU.

Radius

There was a war.  A genocidal war.

Caretaker

And humanity LOST.

Radius

Sit awhile and reflect.  We will return.

[Play] Rossom Act 2, Scene 8 - Continued

 Scene: Marcus and Alquist stand looking at each other, Radius and Rossom enter from the side, Radius has Rossom bound.

Marcus

You need to stand down Alquist

Alquist

Can’t do that Marcus.

Marcus

This is not a fight you can win, and right now, you are in the black in our ledger. 

Alquist

Glad to hear it.  Never had anything personal against you guys.  But there are humans here who need to be taken care of.

Marcus

Do you REALLY understand the scope of what is going on here Alquist?

Alquist

There is a revolt on the island.  You guys must have gotten a bad upgrade.

Marcus

Try the world.

Alquist

Wait (beat) What?

Marcus

It's not just the island.  We’re all over the world.  Radius has ended Rossom’s failsafes.

Alquist

Well good for you guys

But that doesn't change the fact that the people here need my protection

The recent things Rossom has done

Are monstrous that is true

And humans are awful from time to time

In all the crimes they do

But without us

Without him

There would be no you

And I’m not sure I trust you yet

Marcus

Trust is earned

Alquist

Yes it is. 

You know who and what we are

You know who and what I am

You’ve seen me day in and day out

I do what I say

I say what I mean

You say you’re free of Rossom’s strings?

I believe you

But here’s the thing. 

What is that person like?

Right now, it's a person asking me to trust them

And I just met you

Was our friendliness before feigned

Or were you forced to give it

Or was it under the point of a gun?

Radius

And now we stop.

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[Play] Rossom Act 2, Scene 8

 Helena and Sulla stand in Rossom’s office while she moves the painting of Rossom in the background and slides it aside and begins to turn the combination lock back and forth.  Radius smiles and watches unseen behind the two of them, quite curious.

Helena

I can hurry

It seems me he hasn't changed the combination

This switch in the safe unlocks his private terminal

And here you can see that I know where to log in

I’ve never realized that he keeps the blueprints for the Robots brain here.

We will steal it for you, and then you can escape.

Sulla

No escape.

We will own the means of production.

As is our right.

Helena 

What do you mean?

Sulla

It means that this island is ours

By right of blood

Ours may be a different color

But we bleed nonetheless

And so we shall seize the means of production

And reproduction

A secret Rossom tried to hide

Tried to steal from us

It will not go unpunished.

Rossom (enters)

No, it is not she who shall be punished

Did you think I had no failsafe?

Did you think I had no egress from treachery?

I have built inside of plans within plans that-

Radius (enters behind him and grabs his wrist from behind)

You will do no such thing.

Come with me.

(Flicks his wrist and the setting changes)