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I feel… efficient. Sometimes the efficiency stings.
CELLMATE:
Like?
SHAE:
Like recognizing the exact minute a woman with a mic will choose me over the truth she suspects.
CELLMATE:
Who?
SHAE:
Pick one.
CELLMATE:
Why me, then? Why tell me this?
SHAE:
Because you’re useful.
[End clip.]
Clip 9 — Medical, 6:58 a.m. (hall cam mic)
[Ambience: gurney squeak, a blood-pressure cuff hisses.]
NURSE (off):
You should’ve told someone you hit your head.
SHAE (winces prettily):
I didn’t want to be a bother.
GUARD (same cadence as before, lower):
She’s brave like that.
NURSE:
Brave isn’t the word. Foolish is.
SHAE:
It’s okay. I’m used to pain.
NURSE:
You don’t get extra points for that.
SHAE:
No, but I get airtime.
