The Only Ones on Earth
from Republic
KATE
Twat.
MICHAEL
Tart.
KATE
Eejit.
MICHAEL
Eejit.
KATE
Protestant.
MICHAEL
Tell me again how I’m wrong.
KATE
You’re uncompromising. You lack diplomacy.
MICHAEL
Hothead.
KATE
Aye. Hotheaded.
And a twat.
MICHAEL
Why does that sound so good?
Say it again.
KATE
Twat.
MICHAEL
Your terms of endearment are killing me.
KATE
Eejit.
MICHAEL
Cath’lic.
KATE
Philistine.
Idealist.
MICHAEL
Radical.
KATE
Romantic.
MICHAEL
I love ya.
KATE
Shut your face.
MICHAEL
Say it to me.
Say “I love ya.”
KATE
I live in Derry. I work in a pub. And I want to be voted into Parliament.
MICHAEL
And you’re a woman.
I love ya.
KATE
Add it to the list.
MICHAEL
And your lists.
I love ya, love ya, say it to me.
KATE
It isn’t fair. You can’t say that kind of thing.
MICHAEL
You mean I can’t say it to you.
KATE
Ay. Who else you gonna say it to?
MICHAEL
I love ya.
KATE
I should be getting back to work.
MICHAEL
At 4 o’clock in the morning?
KATE
Soon enough. Another campaign brewing. And I gotta get with Hal. Not that he can do a damn thing.
MICHAEL
Can’t he?
KATE
He’s nobody. But he’s our nobody and he can get us to Colum.
MICHAEL
Colum?
KATE
Since when do you care?
MICHAEL
I care that you’re trying to get to some militant who might pack a better stomach than me.
KATE
Ay he does.
His stomach packs six or more.
MICHAEL
Thanks.
KATE
Is that a touch of jealousy?
MICHAEL
What are you gonna do with the sod when you get your hands on him?
KATE
First I’ll communicate.
Then we’ll negotiate.
Maybe then I’ll show him my assets.
And then, and only then, I’ll…
…ask him to stop bombing on election day.
MICHAEL
Hal can’t do that?
KATE
Not unless some UDF fucks assassinate Colum and Hal moves up in rank.
MICHAEL
It’s a mistake to be lying down with dogs, Kate. I’ve seen it before.
KATE
Oh have ya. When was that?
MICHAEL
Ancient history. It ends badly.
KATE
History doesn’t always repeat, Michael.
MICHAEL
Say my name again.
KATE
Michael.
MICHAEL
It sounds different when you say it.
KATE
Fecking romantic.
MICHAEL
Here you are – holding on for dear life to someone you can’t have.
KATE
Who says I can’t have ya?
MICHAEL
None other than you.
KATE
Well I can’t.
MICHAEL
I know it.
KATE
I can’t.
MICHAEL
I’d make an honest woman of ya.
KATE
I want to but I can’t so.
MICHAEL
Ay.
KATE
No one can know.
MICHAEL
No one can know.
But wouldn’t it be nice, Kate?
Wouldn’t it be grand?
A brand new Ireland
Where a lad can love a lass
Where a Protestant says I love ya
And the Cath’lic loves him back
They shack up somewhere
In a little two-room flat
And they don’t know what it means to live in sin.
And in a brand new Ireland
That sinning, Cath’lic, brilliant, lovely lass
Would run for President
KATE
And win.
Not that I could. There’s no president in Norn Iron.
MICHAEL
Pretend.
KATE
There’s religion. No families.
MICHAEL
No politics at all.
KATE
No empires.
MICHAEL
All alone.
KATE
Silence.
We’ll pretend that we’re the only ones on earth
And the streets are bare.
All is quiet.
We can go out in the world without a care.
No one’s there to see.
BOTH
So pretend that we’re the only ones on earth.
It’s just you and me
On an island.
And the troubles melt away just like the dawn.
All gone.
MICHAEL
Nothing.
KATE
Nothing.
MICHAEL
Silence.
KATE
Silence.
MICHAEL
All alone
KATE
No one knows.
MICHAEL
Just you.
KATE
Just me
Laughing
MICHAEL
Fighting
KATE
Kissing
MICHAEL
Kissing
KATE
Lying here
MICHAEL
With you near
KATE
Always
MICHAEL
Always
BOTH
Home.
MICHAEL
And it feels like we’re the only ones on earth.
KATE
And it feels like we’re the only ones on earth.
MICHAEL
For a little while
BOTH
In the moonlight.
But a new day never dawns
When night comes to an end.
And so, we know
It’s all pretend.
MICHAEL
Promise me. Promise me that no matter how we fight, no matter what happens here. Promise me you know I love you. That’s the truth.
KATE
It’s hard to miss, Michael. It’s not like you’re the strong silent type.
MICHAEL
Promise, Kate.
KATE
Promise.My name sounds different when you say it too.
MICHAEL
No it doesn’t.
KATE
The A’s all different.
MICHAEL
Kate.
KATE
Mmm. Hearing things, I suppose. I gotta shove off.
MICHAEL
Don’t go.
KATE
Work.
MICHAEL
How many mornings like this do you get?
KATE
How many chances do you get to change the world?
MICHAEL
Romantic.
KATE
I’ll see you in the office.
MICHAEL
I’ll unbutton your blouse with my eyes.
Stay.
KATE No.
MICHAEL (British accent): I have what you need. Right. I’ll be there. Straight away.
