Fabry. Why? (Rushes to electric installation at L.)
Hallemeier. They’re grabbing hold of it. (Domin rises—straightens up. All rise.)
Dr. Gall. Connect it up.
Hallemeier. Fine, that’s doubled them up. Two, three, four killed.
Dr. Gall. They’re retreating. (Domin sits.)
Hallemeier. Five killed.
Dr. Gall (Pause) The first encounter.
Hallemeier. They’re charred to cinders, my boy. Who says we must give in? (MUSIC stops.)
Domin. (Alquist and Gall sit. Wiping his forehead) Perhaps we’ve been killed this hundred years and are only ghosts. It’s as if I had been through all this before, as if I’d already had a mortal wound here in the throat. (Looking at each as he speaks) And you, Fabry, had once been shot in the head. And you, Gall, torn limb from limb. And Hallemeier knifed.