Two, 2x6 and others in “Unfinished Business”

Are you Six?

If I was 2x6, you'd know it by now.

Ah. Yes. What have I done? Sit with me. The world is not a pretty thing... when you look at it too close. We fell in love with atrocity. We make pornography and call it "news." A daily fix of horror. We think the coming disaster is going to be ecological is us, that the problem is political, but no, no. The great war is psychological. (points to his temple) It's in here. (makes gunshot sound) We've made ourselves into fat and fading and wheezing animals, educated in apathy, amused by cruelty. So, this. We make a new world. Something human. And yet, there is a whispering in my ear that tells me I was wrong, they were right and the savages, savages, savages had it right all along! I wanted you to come. I wanted you to wipe out my guilt. You were right. You are the way. Become hatred. Become vengeance. Yes, I respect that. Kill me. I see the logic in that. And I'm not afraid, at all, because we know, you and I, how it is to be human. We must submit to the beast in man. I tell you this because I know who you are. (turns around, notices the "Six" he is with lacks a scar) You are not Six. Can you still kill me, if you understand the purpose?

Yes.

Don't give him what he wants.

Oh, dear Six, you're too late.

If you do this, we are lost! He will take the thing that keeps him from owning us - our conscience.

Words change nothing! You hear me? Words change nothing!

I know that. I accept that. I have to accept you. Don't make us become the thing we fear. If we are one, then we can defeat Two.

One?

Come back.