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15EXT. PUB - DAY

COLM is sitting there smoking at the table overlooking the island and the ocean, as PADRAIC comes out.

PADRAIC

Now I’m sitting here next to ya, and if

you’re going back inside I’m following

ya inside, and if you’re going home I’m

following you there too, no matter how

many walls you scale or bulls you

threaten.

PADRAIC sits. *

PADRAIC (CONT'D)

Now if I’ve done something to ya just

tell me what I’ve done to ya, and if

I’ve said something to ya, maybe I said

something when I was drunk and I’ve

forgotten it, but I don’t think I said

something when I was drunk and I’ve

forgotten it, but if I did then tell me

what it was and I’ll say sorry for that

too, Colm. With all me heart I’ll say

sorry. Just stop running away from me

like some fool of a moody schoolchild.

COLM *

But you didn’t say anything to me.

And you didn’t do anything to me.

PADRAIC

That’s what I was thinking, like.

COLM

I just don’t like you no more.

PADRAIC is tremendously hurt by this, but tries not to show it as best he can.

PADRAIC

You do like me.

COLM

I don’t.

PADRAIC

(pause)

You liked me yesterday!

COLM

Oh did I, yeah?

PADRAIC

I thought you did.

COLM

You know best, I suppose.

PADRAIC

(pause)

I like you.

(pause)

What’s the matter with ya?

(teary)