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SPEAK:MAR
Oh, la-di-fucking-dah!
So your meat got pounded by a massive undersea predator!
So what?
Boo hoo, poor little you - what about ME?
I'll never win the Fish Nobel Prize now!
I got these fake boobs put in for nothing!

SPEAK:YOU
Look, it just all turned out to be a tad more complex than we bargained for.
There's still heaps of talking fish to be had, I'll go get one now.

SPEAK:MAR
Oh no, don't do me any favours dillhole!
It's over. I give up! Everything is borked!
My career, my dreams, the continuity of time, everything!!

SPEAK:YOU
Oh don't lose hope, Marina! We can come again tomorrow.

SPEAK:MAR
No, we can't!
Don't you ever listen? My budget is all gone, spent on 3 days of worthless boat hire.

SPEAK:YOU
Would a hug make you feel better?

SPEAK:MAR
If you ever... attempt to touch me...
I swear to the seven flaming daemons of Hell...
Bugger it!
I suppose there's nothing else to do but ask daddy for some personal money.

SPEAK:YOU
Daddy?

SPEAK:MAR
Yes. He's extremely rich.
He didn't want me to be a Fish Scientist.
"It's a very sexist profession," he'd say.
"Get a real degree that will be useful in the real world, like Women's Studies," he'd say.
But I showed him! He won't like funding another expedition but I'll just cry until he does.

SPEAK:YOU
Guess you'll want a different Scuba School grad, huh?

SPEAK:MAR
Oh no you don't, you twerp.
Painful as you are, I don't want everyone knowing about this talking fish business! The fewer people involved, the better!
So you're staying on the payroll until we get this right!
You got me?!

EXIT

SPEAK:YOU
I guess I do, Marina.
...
I guess I do.

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