Angels in America by Tony Kushner

: I think you should go.
    JOE : Where?
    HARPER : Washington. Doesn’t matter.
    JOE : What are you talking about?
    HARPER : Without me.
    Â Â Â Â Â  Without me, Joe. Isn’t that what you want to hear?
    (Little pause.)
    JOE : Yes.
    LOUIS : You can love someone and fail them. You can love someone and not be able to—
    PRIOR : You can , theoretically, yes. A person can, maybe an editorial “you” can love, Louis, but not you , specifically you. I don’t know, I think you are excluded from that general category.
    HARPER : You were going to save me, but the whole time you were spinning a lie. I just don’t understand that.
    PRIOR : A person could theoretically love and maybe many do but we both know now you can’t.
    LOUIS : I do.
    PRIOR : You can’t even say it.
    LOUIS : I love you, Prior.
    PRIOR : I repeat. Who cares?
    HARPER : This is so scary, I want this to stop, to go back.
    PRIOR : We have reached a verdict, Your Honor. This man’s heart is deficient. He loves, but his love is worth nothing.
    JOE : Harper . . .
    HARPER : Mr. Lies, I want to get away from here. Far away. Right now. Before he starts talking again. Please, please—
    JOE : As long as I’ve known you Harper you’ve been afraid of . . . of men hiding under the bed, men hiding under the sofa, men with knives.
    PRIOR (Shattered; almost pleading; trying to reach him) : I’m dying! You stupid fuck! Do you know what that is! Love! Do you know what love means? We lived together four and a half years, you animal, you idiot.
    LOUIS : I have to find some way to save myself.
    JOE : Who are these men? I never understood it. Now I know.
    HARPER : What?
    JOE : It’s me.
    HARPER : It is?
    PRIOR : Get out of my room.
    JOE : I’m the man with the knives.
    HARPER : You are?
    PRIOR : If I could get up now I’d kill you. I would. Go away. Go away or I’ll scream.
    HARPER : Oh God . . .
    JOE : I’m sorry.
    HARPER : It is you.
    LOUIS : Please don’t scream.
    PRIOR : Go.
    HARPER : I recognize you now.
    LOUIS : Please . . .
    JOE : Oh. Wait, I . . . Oh!
    Â Â Â Â Â  (He covers his mouth with his hand, gags, and removes his hand, red with blood)
    Â Â Â Â Â  I’m bleeding.
    (Prior closes his eyes and screams.)
    HARPER : Mr. Lies.
    MR. LIES (Appearing, dressed in Antarctic explorer’s apparel) : Right here.
    HARPER : I want to go away. I can’t see him anymore.
    MR. LIES : Where?
    HARPER : Anywhere. Far away.
    MR. LIES : Absolutamento.
    (Harper and Mr. Lies vanish. Joe looks up, sees that she’s gone.)
    PRIOR : When I open my eyes you’ll be gone.
    (Louis leaves.)
    JOE : Harper?
    PRIOR (Opening his eyes) : Huh. It worked.
    JOE (Calling) : Harper?
    PRIOR : I hurt all over. I wish I was dead.
    Scene 10
    The same day, sunset, in front of Hannah’s house in Salt Lake City. Hannah and Sister Ella Chapter, a real-estate saleswoman and Hannah Pitt’s closest friend — although Hannah is never friendly and Ella is severely intimidated by her .
    SISTER ELLA CHAPTER : Look at that view! A view of Heaven. Like the living city of Heaven, isn’t it, it just fairly glimmers in the sun.
    HANNAH : Glimmers.
    SISTER ELLA CHAPTER : Even the stone and brick it just glimmers and glitters like Heaven in the sunshine. Such a nice view you get, perched up on a canyon rim. Some kind of beautiful place.
    HANNAH : It’s just Salt Lake, and you’re selling the house for me, not to me.
    SISTER ELLA CHAPTER : I like to work up an enthusiasm for my properties.
    HANNAH : Just get me a good price.
    SISTER ELLA CHAPTER : Well, the market’s off.
    HANNAH : At least fifty.
    SISTER ELLA CHAPTER : Forty’d be more like it.
    HANNAH : Fifty.
    SISTER ELLA CHAPTER : Wish you’d wait a bit.
    HANNAH : Well I can’t.
    SISTER ELLA CHAPTER : Wish you would. You’re about the only friend I got.
    HANNAH : Oh well now.
    SISTER ELLA CHAPTER : Know why I decided to like