Dunn discusses with Nikki his views on morality, society, religion, and the purpose of life. He believes society is corrupt and beyond saving, and wants to help slow its decay through his actions. Nikki disagrees with his methods and believes they will only breed more hate. Though they debate the existence of God, higher forces, and the origins of the universe, no conclusions are reached.

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An Untitled Chapter from The Nightwalker
FADE IN FROM BLACK
Painted fingernails of a young woman fold paper. A man's
voice is heard from within the apartment living room.
DUNN
You know, the night it happened, I
just sat on my couch like this.
Dunn holds a gun to his chin.
But when I went to pull the trigger,
the safety was on. At that moment I
realized I couldn't do go through
with it. I had too much more to
accomplish in this life. In this
city. Here at the epicenter of Hate.
The young woman - Nikki - interrupts.
NIKKI
You want revenge...revenge for what
happened.
Dunn shakes his head.
DUNN
It has nothing to do with revenge. I
don't hold grudges. It has
everything to do with morality.
Dunn takes a puff from his cigarette.
Our society is going down the
toilet.
Nikki cuts in.
NIKKI
But you can save it...?
DUNN
It's beyond being saved. Take a look
around and all you'll see is trash.
Humans who have no virtues, values,
or any sense of commitment to
bettering our world. The only thing
we can do is slow the process. Maybe
help alleviate this social decay.

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Dunn shakes his gun like he intends to use it on society.
NIKKI
With bullets? All you're doing is
breeding more hate. You're a
catalyst.
Dunn takes another puff from his cigarette.
DUNN
It's always darkest before the dawn.
People will realize that soon.
Dunn stares deep into Nikki's eyes, as if he is at least
partially crazy. Long silence as Nikki goes back to folding
her paper.
DUNN
Do you ever just sit and think about
your life? You know what your place
is in this little world of ours?
Nikki shakes her head.
You should. Seriously think about
it. It will change you. Perhaps for
the better. Perhaps for the worse.
But it will help you appreciate
everything around you. Friends,
family, even the small things. It's
something we all need to do everyone
once in a while. It's part of the
reason I'm doing this.
DUNN
You know, I just wish I could walk
up to Congress and nail 95 Theses on
the country's door. Fucking losers
run rampant through the street.
Junkies, pushers, whores.
Nikki looks up.
They're killing our society. And
people realize it, but all they do
is attempt to find solace in God.
What a bunch of bull shit.
NIKKI
What's bull shit? Their desire for
faith? The fact they believe in
something?
DUNN

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Just the whole idea in putting faith
in some supreme being that doesn't
exist. There this book - "The
History of God" - or something.
Starts of by saying "In the
beginning, human beings created a
God who was the First Cause of all
things..."
Nikki looks confused.
No truer words have ever been
spoken. Ancient civilizations or
whatever put this little idea into
peoples heads just to provide hope
for when shit goes wrong. This
"everything happens for a reason"
bull shit is just that - bull shit.
You can't convince my loss was
because of fate. That all of our
lives intertwine on a pattern,
something predetermined by some
maker. The whole idea just doesn't
work for a rational thinker.
NIKKI
Okay. But you can't prove or
disprove any of this.
DUNN
That's the point. People abide by
God's law when there is no
justification for it.
NIKKI
Their justification, as you say, is
faith. They believe. Everyone has a
different reason for why they
believe, but the whole point is that
they do. They do it to have hope.
Hope for a better life, or whatever.
DUNN
But, let me ask you this. If people
believe in God or whatever, why do
they blindly follow a religion in
which many people don't agree with?
I'm sure you get those
types...people who don't believe in
extra-marital affairs. Or, rather
their religion doesn't. But yet they
participate in them. It's an
oxymoron. Hell, it's disgusting.

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NIKKI
I don't know.
DUNN
Of course you don't. Nobody does.
Not even those Bible-freaks do. And
speaking of the Bible, how the hell
is it treated as a sacred text? A
book written by biased humans, a
collection of stories no different
than some L. Ron Hubbard novels. And
that guy is treated as a joke by
everyone. Why the hell aren't King
James, or the Twelve Apostles, or
whoever wrote the Bible? Because
Christianity is, and has always
been, the biggest corruption-filled
confidence game. Nothing more, and
absolutely nothing less.
NIKKI
Christians aren't the only ones who
believe in a supreme being. What
about Muslims? Jews?
DUNN
I don't know enough about those
religions to criticize, but it's
gotta be the same deal. False hope.
The two are silent.
NIKKI
What's the one thing you miss about
her?
DUNN
The way she talked. She had a sense
of hope about things. Looking back
on it, it's hard to do. You know,
before she died, she was talking
about having kids.
NIKKI
I'm sorry.
DUNN
Don't be. I didn't want them. The
only reason to have kids is to live
vicariously through them.
NIKKI
Is that why your parents had you? To
relive their youth and wrong their

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mistakes?
DUNN
My parents had me because my mom
didn't believe in abortion.
Long, awkward silence.
DUNN
I just don't think there's anything
to love for anymore. Why would I
want to bring a kid into a world
like this - it's so corrupt...pain-
stricken...just...broken. That's why
I'm doing what I'm doing. Just
giving any sort of hope to the
future of myself. Do you get that?
NIKKI
I guess I get your rationale. But I
don't necessarily agree with it.
DUNN
But it's not something you can
criticize, is it? I mean you're a
whore. Literally. But I can't make
judgments of you because I don't
understand your position.
Nikki looks disturbed by the question.
NIKKI
Yet you're placing judgment on
everyone else. Just because we know
each other on a personal level
doesn't mean I should be treated any
differently. I appreciate the fact
that you don't kill me for what I
do, but that misconception of the
entire world is clouding your
judgment. I completely agree that
this world is going down the drain.
I get that. But you can't just pick
and choose who to eliminate.
Dunn aims the gun at Nikki. Nikki looks frightened.
DUNN
So yo u want me to throw you in the
trash and dump you in the waste hole
like the others?
NIKKI
Of course not.

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DUNN
Look. Because we're friends, I can
see you aren't harming the world.
You extort cash from people who are
lonely. People who can't find
sensual gratification without funds.
But you aren't pushing drugs into
the veins of the youth. You aren't
putting bullets in the brains of
innocent people. All you're doing is
putting a dick in your mouth. I can
live with that.
NIKKI
Well, I'm glad someone can. I love
what I do.
DUNN
Love, huh? I swear if there's one
thing I believe less in than God,
it's love. True love, I mean,
between two non-blood individuals. I
get loving your parents and
relatives and all that. But there's
no such thing as a soul mate.
NIKKI
What about Lucy?
DUNN
It was mutual admiration. On a
personal...thoughtful...sexual...basis.
But love? No, not the word for it. I
get that now. I've heard too many
stories where a married man his wife
and then goes behind her back and
nails everything with a pulse. I've
seen that.
NIKKI
But a few bad apples don't ruin the
whole batch. Just like the our
world.
DUNN
It all comes back to that, doesn't
it? This feeling you have that while
some people are intrinsically bad,
everyone else is intrinsically good.
You need a wake-up call, my friend.
Everyone in this God damned world
thrives on evil. They live for it.
NIKKI

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You're the exception?
DUNN
I'm not exception. At my core I burn
to massacre, but I can suppress that
urge when I have to. Most can't.
NIKKI
So you're better than everyone else?
DUNN
Absolutely. Why shouldn't I be? I
don't live this life to think I'm
inferior. What's the point of living
if I don't think I'm the best. I
covet success. And I get it more
than anyone else.
NIKKI
A bit egotistical, aren't you?
DUNN
Of course I am. We all are. We might
think about bettering society - I
know I do - but every one of our
longterm goals revolve around
ourselves. I don't like to help my
neighbors. I don't cherish their
lives. I do what's best for me, and
at the end of the day, ridding the
trash is it.
Nikki shakes her head.
NIKKI
So you have no regard for the people
you share this world with?
DUNN
A little. I'll hold the door open
for someone. But only to see how
they react. The human mind is one
thing that's unique. It's someone's
tell.
NIKKI
Even if we all have the same goals,
as you mentioned?
DUNN
Yes. We all have the same goals, but
it's how we can obtain them that
matters. And each individual has a
different method. Bis as I was

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saying, the human mind works in ways
beyond our understanding. It's
fueled by some unknown force, and
you can tell everything you need to
know about a person by the way they
think. Take you, for example. You're
a pacifist. I've said a lot of
things that you or anyone else would
disagree with. But you've failed to
argue your point. Well, except for
God, but that just shows you're a
believer. I, on the other hand,
think philosophically. I'm ten steps
ahead of everyone when it comes to
the thought process.
NIKKI
So why do you think so differently?
DUNN
I have a greater understanding of
how things work. On an individual
level and on a much greater scale.
My mind is intertwined with some
force that allows for understanding.
I have some cerebral mechanism that
clicks much more often and much
deeper than anyone else.
NIKKI
So, you're...divine.
Dunn rolls his eyes.
DUNN
Divine implies I'm from God. We've
gone down that path. I'm not divine.
NIKKI
Then perhaps you're alien.
DUNN
As much as I'd like to believe that,
no. It's a much simpler answer.
Nikki looks confused.
I'm educated.
NIKKI
So am I. I went to college.
DUNN
Just because you went to some

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classes on a dilapidated campus
doesn't mean you're educated.
Education is a deeper notion. It's
not having some meaningless piece of
paper hung on a meaningless wall.
It's in your brain.
NIKKI
And how did it get there?
DUNN
Certainly not from sitting through
lectures. It's a willingness - an
have the capability - to understand.
Literally having an open-mind and
the ability to absorb everything
around you. Everyone around me fails
to do this. It's not explicitly
hard, but it requires desire.
Something the populous doesn't
have.
NIKKI
When did you know you were
different? That you have this deeper
understanding?
DUNN
Three days ago. When I lost
everything. Or what I thought was
everything. Before Lucy's death I
was a conformist. One of society's
drones. But I'm not now. I guess
they were right when they said it
takes pain to heal. But my healing
process was different.
Long silence. Nikki continues to fold her origami.
NIKKI
Then if you are some philosophical
genius, riddle me this. You don't
believe in God, but you keep
speaking of this unknown power, or
force. Are they not one in the same?
Dunn ponders the question.
And where did we - our universe -
come from? How do you explain that?
DUNN
God sure as hell didn't create it.

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NIKKI
So...the Big Bang?
DUNN
It's a possibility.
NIKKI
Okay, so everything began with one
tiny atom?
DUNN
That's what the scientists say.
NIKKI
Let's say that's what happened.
Theoretically.
Dunn nods.
Where did that atom come from? It
have to have been placed there. If
there's one thing I'm sure off, it's
that something can't come from
nothing. God put it there. And it
doesn't have to be the God depicted
in Greek Mythology or Roman art. You
were right when you said I was a
believer. I am. But I'm also a
realist and I know there isn't some
old man standing over us like a
puppeteer dancing his strings to
make me move. But there is a
creator. A higher force. God.
Nikki stops to collect herself. Dunn allows her to continue
her rant.
I treat God like gravity, okay? A
physical force that can't really be
explained in the realm of things,
but it just makes sense. Fair
enough?
Dunn nods.
DUNN
It's all hypothetical. There's no
way of knowing.
NIKKI
Exactly my point! There's no way of
disproving it. So when you go and
say God is a Fraud like some atheist
asshole, at least understand that

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you have to leave the door open for
faith.
Dunn is silenced by a pacifist. He nods and gets up from his
seat. He holsters his gun and puts on his jacket. He walks
towards the door, but before he exits, he gently folds a
$100 bill and sets it on the table.