INTO FIRE
a play by Lee Shackleford
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It's a little morality play, with a sobering question at the end. Two desperate radicals in some faraway land have stolen a vial of deadly germs -- a few ounces of fluid that could kill millions. It's all part of a plan to blackmail the governments of the world into making peace with one another. But can peace ever truly be attained through force?
Stefannie Azoroh and Michael Price in INTO FIRE at Theatre UAB
KRYS
One of these days, Michael ... I’m gonna have already put a hole in you before I know it’s you.
MICHAEL
There are worse things that could happen to me.
KRYS
Yeah, well, if there was anybody who saw --
MICHAEL
And nobody followed me.
KRYS
How do you know?
MICHAEL
The way I always know.
KRYS
Okay, well?
MICHAEL
Well?
KRYS
C’mon, Michael -- either you got it or you didn’t.
From his pack he pulls out an innocuous-looking metal tube with a heavy cap screwed onto one end.
KRYS
My God.
MICHAEL
Yeah.
KRYS
Well, here -- let me hold it.
MICHAEL
Be my guest.
KRYS
Started to wonder if I’d ever really and truly have it in my hands. Y’know? After three years and -- what is it -- four continents?
MICHAEL
We've seen the world all right.
KRYS
Don't look like much, does it?
MICHAEL
If it looked like what it is, we'd never have got it.
KRYS
I know that. I’m just saying.
MICHAEL
I know.
KRYS
And tomorrow --
MICHAEL
Tomorrow we finally get the hell out of this godforsaken country.
KRYS
Yeah, well... what's the, uh ... what is it people say? My dad used to say it. Something about a frying pan.
MICHAEL
"Out of the frying pan, into the fire."
KRYS
Yeah! Yeah, that's ... that's what it was.
MICHAEL
Krys. You said once we had it, we could finally talk about it.