Zorro

[sighs] [metal creaking, door opens] 

TANDY: [yelling out] 

Movie night is in the house! 

Did this place always look like such a shithole? 

TY :

I hate you so much sometimes.

TANDY: 

Sometimes.

But you love the me that steals from your old stomping grounds.

TY :

Did you get the syllabus from A.P.

TANDY: 

Psychics? Oh, yeah.

And almost all the textbooks on it.

Check it out, I got you one of these thingies.

A new one.

TY :

Okay 

It's cool, but what's it for? 

TANDY: 

For, like, studying? 

And all the "notes to self"? 

TY :

Um, "Note to self: Tandy has no idea what studying is." 

TANDY: 

Solitude has made you sassy.

TY :

And yet, I keep bringing you gifts.

TV night is in the house.

I can't believe people used to watch these things.

[VCR loading] 

TY :

How you been? 

TANDY: 

Really good.

TY :

And your mom? 

TANDY: 

Still at it.

Getting her act together.

But things really couldn't be better.

But today, you know, I had this 

TYRONE: [in the distance]

 Sorry.

[tarp rustling] 

TYRONE: 

Sorry.

[thud] 

What were you saying? 

TANDY: 

Look who's been practicing.

TY :

Well, you know, I got a lot of time on my hands.

TANDY: 

Well if you've gotten so good, why don't you hit up your girl? 

TY :

Super-human booty call.

Nah, I'm just trying to lay low.

No human contact.

TANDY: 

Come on, Ty, you gotta stretch your legs a little.

You know, I heard the last person that lived here, got a little stir-crazy.

TY :

That's why we have movie night.

How 'bout you? 

You been practicing? 

TANDY: 

Every once in a while, you know, when I don't want to get up and grab a knife.

So what's with this Zeppo guy? 

TY :

Zorro? Actually, my mom, and dad, and Billy, and I, we used to watch the reruns in Korean on rabbit ears.

TANDY: 

Wait, you guys speak Korean? 

TY :

Well, you don't have to with Zorro.

The story's always the same.

Town-folks in trouble.

He rises up.

Fights the power.

Bad guys get all Z'd.

TANDY: 

His outfit is kind of ridiculous.

TY :

Check your cloak envy.

TANDY: 

Nobody's getting Z'd with a cloak, Ty.

Man needs a blade for that.

TY :

Lucky I have you.

TANDY: 

Damn right.

Do you miss it? 

TY :

Nah, I can practice as much I can in here, right? 

TANDY: 

No, I mean the real "it." 

The in-the-thick-of-it, risking your life, moment to moment, the saving-the-world rush.

TY :

Nah.

Definitely don't miss running away from bullets.

Risking my life.

Almost dying.

Or puttin' my family in danger, no.

TANDY: 

Yeah, but don't you get restless? 

TY :

Yeah, I suppose I do sometimes.

TANDY: 

What do you do? 

TY :

What I'm supposed to do.

Fight it.

Stay home.

Sit tight.

Hope [scoffs] 

Lady Justice will find a way to get me off the hook.

How 'bout you? You miss it? 

TANDY: 

Yeah from time to time, sure.

But I make knives of light.

I mean what would I even do?