[Butcher has baked cookies laced with halothane to feed Ryan during his visit]
I’ve got Connect 4, and LEGO. Plus, a special little something just for you. [opens cookie jar] Your mum’s recipe. World-famous, some say.
Mom used to bake them every year for my birthday instead of cake, but… No, thanks.
Really?
I’m not hungry.
Alright. Maybe later, then. Fancy a game?
[Ryan points at Butcher's ear, which is leaking blood]
It’s nothing. I’m fine.
Butcher. [pause] Are you… scared?
Scared of what?
To die, I mean.
…I’m alright with it.
[...]
I saw your save on the telly. So you’re a big hero now, eh?
Not really.
Come on, you’re a star. Nailed your lines and all.
I actually… I accidentally hurt someone.
What do you mean, “hurt ’em”?
I was supposed to throw them… but I did it too hard.
They gonna be alright?
[shakes his head] My dad says I shouldn’t even care. [pause; tearfully] I get why you don’t want me. I wouldn’t want me either.
Hey… Now you listen to me. Them horrible things I said… I didn’t mean ’em. I have this, uh… I have this habit, see, of pushin' people away.
Why?
‘Cause, uh… ‘Cause I’m a bad man. I ain’t got no business lookin' after a kid.
That's not true.
Before, you asked if I was scared. And the truth of the matter… is I’m bloody terrified, mate. I’m leavin' this world with nothing to show for it. I lost me bruv… your mum. And I could be leavin' without makin' things right with the one part of her that is still alive. And that… that scares me more than anything.
[Butcher takes the cookie jar and dumps the halothane cookies in the trash]
Why’d you do that?
I fucked ’em up. Put way too much sugar in ’em.
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