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Kowalski

Beautiful, don't you think?

Ryan

What?

Kowalski

The sunrise. That's what I'm gonna miss most. So, where's home, Dr. Stone? Ryan, where's home?

Ryan

Home?

Kowalski

Mm-hm. Down there. Mother Earth. Where do you pitch your tent?

Ryan

Lake Zurich.

Kowalski

Where the hell is that?

Ryan

Illinois.

Kowalski

Illinois. Central Time Zone. That would make it roughly... 8PM. What are the good people of Lake Zurich doing at 8:00?

Ryan

I don't know. I'm not going to make it, I'm slowing you down.

Kowalski

What would you be doing? Come on, Ryan. It's 8:00. You've just left the hospital after a 18-hour shift.

Ryan

The radio. I listen to the radio.

Kowalski

There we go. Let me guess. NPR? Classical? Top forty?

Ryan

Anything. I don't care, as long as they don't talk, I just drive.

Kowalski

And where are you driving to?

Ryan

I just drive.

Kowalski

What do you miss down there? Is there a Mr. Stone?

Ryan

No.

Kowalski

Nobody special? Somebody down there looking up? Thinking about you? Ryan?

Ryan

I had a daughter.

Ryan

[Kowalski switches off his music and watches Ryan in his wrist-mirror]

She was four. She was at school, playing tag. Slipped, hit her head, and that was it. Stupidest thing. I was driving when I got the call, so ever since then that's what I do. I wake up. I go to work. And I just drive.

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