BORIS: Yes, now I remember… Alexander became angry and shouted: “I won’t permit having such a great leader as Stalin talked about so disgracefully!”… At that moment our good friends started to prepare to leave. Then you were so brave and said to Alexander. “You have not come to the correct address!”… Oh my God! How frightened we all were…
(Pause)
RAECHKA: I don’t understand how Dima could have brought such a person without our permission to my birth day…
BORIS: Reachka, I have to confess… Dima did ask me, and I agreed that we would meet his friend Alexander.
RAECHKA: And you have kept it a secret this whole time? You coward!
BORIS (guilty): Forgive me… Luckily, we survived…(pause) RAECHKA, I didn’t ask you an important question… Where were you, when the bombs exploded at the Marathon?
RAECHKA: I was home…
BORIS: And I was in Copley Square watching like we used to do. I was moving around trying to get a better view. I was safely far away from explore…
RAECHKA: Why should you want to be pushed around by such a crowd?
BORIS: I don’t know… I couldn’t bare to sit home alone…
(Pause)
Earlier when I arrived in America I was completely happy, but now I’ve become more and more anxious and impatient. If anybody can just make a bomb from Macy’s pans, or buy a gun at Walmart. What can we do?
RAECHKA: Here we have FBI and policy…
BORIS: We know that our phones could be listened to by the FBI… And in spite of them listening to a lot of phones the FBI could not save us from these terrorists
RAECHKA: Now I understand, why you said that you didn’t want to talk by phone…
BORIS: Right…
RAECHKA: Boria, who would be interested in your conversations?
BORIS: I don’t know… But I know, that I can talk about my inner thoughts and worries only with you…
RAECHKA: And your worries are…?
BORIS: It seems to me, now in America, the government has made us to be vigilant… (Pause) If the small boat owner was not vigilant and hadn’t seen blood on his boat the police would never have found this Chechen terrorist…
RAECHKA: So, what do you think?
BORIS (depressed): We have to be the same as we were in Russia, to care of our survival ourself…
RAECHKA: What we have to do?
BORIS: We have to be on the lookout for suspicious people, black bags, even look out our windows to see if criminals are hiding in our yard.
RAECHKA: Boria, you are really in a bad way… You are depressed.
BORIS: Do you know a good medicine for depression?
