Mid-afternoon on a busy commercial street, left of the stage is a junction and far off is a huge billboard ad:

A movie based on Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses
Stars Sean Connery, Ewan McGregor, Catherine Zeta-Jones etc.
Directed by Zach Snyder, screenplay adaptation by Hanif Kureishi


A crew of three from a local TV station.

"Battery's dead, what time do you got?"
"Nine past three."
"Okay, let's get this over with as fast as we can... ready?"
"Ready, which one?"
"Over here."
"Excuse me sir... ma'am can we have an interview... can we interview you just for a sec..."
"Do you believe in The Second Coming?... what the..."

Nods, shakes head, waves off and refuses to be interviewed, shrugs, laughs, giggles, etc.

Replies:

"What?"
"Absolutely"
"I don't even believe in the first."
"Are you kidding me?"
"Go to hell!"
"Yes of course..." (Then quotes a number of passages from the Bible)
"Come again?"
"If you give me a twenty, I'll say whatever you want me to say."
"You mean multiple orgasm?... oh... I beg your pardon."
"Fuck you!"
"Uh..."
"Of course! Aren't you ashamed of asking such a question?"
Etc.

Bum:
"You mean you didn't know?... the guy already came here... I mean He... Him... He and I shared a bottle of rum the other night... or was it last night?... hmmm... I was the only one who knew about it... about Him coming back! You see... He told me..."

Reporter:
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, right."

TV crew:
"I think we have enough."
"I had enough."
"I think so too, that'll do."
"Let's get out of here."
"Okay, pack up."
"Let's go..."
"Did you get that broad's number?"
"Which one?"
"Miss second, third and fourth coming."
"Oh yeah, had it in here."
"God I love this job."
"Me too"
"Yeah"
(Laughs out loud)

Lights out