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The Last Lock

Stood up for a blind date at an escape room, a nervous man gets paired with a sharp stranger who solves everything, until her yellow coat on the hook gives her away.

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Casting range
Juno 22-30; Tobi 22-30. Either role may be cast without regard to gender or ethnicity.
Duration
4 min
Difficulty
Intermediate
Relationship
Blind dates, one of whom is pretending to be a stranger
Role balance
balanced
Setting
A themed escape room built to look like the inside of a sinking submarine. Painted dials, a hatch door, and a red countdown on the wall.
Scene heading
INT. ESCAPE ROOM - FAKE SUBMARINE - EVENING
Content notes
Mild deception between new acquaintances
Language
English
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Scene work

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Objective
Juno wants to stay a stranger; Tobi wants her to stop being one.
Obstacle
Each of them is running a secret test of the other, and neither wants to be the first to admit it.
Relationship
Set up by a chaotic mutual friend who refused to tell either of them the other's name.
Stakes
If the door opens before someone tells the truth, the date never really happens.
Turn
Tobi produces the coat and the bus pass, Juno admits she watched him through the window, and Tobi reveals he knew from her photo all along.

Playing age 22-30

Juno

Wants: Find out what Tobi is like when he thinks it does not count, then get out before the timer and before he knows.

Up against: Tobi keeps saying things she likes, and her expertise keeps giving her away.

Choice prompts

  • Juno solves puzzles to avoid conversation. Every time Tobi gets personal, give her a lock to look at.
  • The bus shelter answer slips out because the question is good. Let her hear her own tell.
  • When Tobi reveals he knew, decide whether 'three times, alone' is a confession or a counterattack.

Playing age 22-30

Tobi

Wants: Find out whether his date is going to own up, and make the hour worth what he paid for it.

Up against: He has been stood up before, he is a terrible actor, and Juno is better at this room than he is at anything.

Choice prompts

  • Play the early nerves fully. Tobi does not know yet whether he will reveal what he knows, so the audience should not either.
  • The list of questions is real. Read the bus shelter question as if it has been rehearsed in the mirror.
  • Closing the door is his first bold move of the night. Do it before he can talk himself out of it.
Full script

The Last Lock

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INT. ESCAPE ROOM - FAKE SUBMARINE - EVENING

The countdown reads twenty-four minutes. Tobi frowns at a brass dial lock. Juno is on her knees, unscrewing a vent cover with a coin. A yellow coat hangs on the hook by the door.

Tobi

Should we not read the clue card first?

Juno

I read it while you were reading the safety rules out loud. Hold this.

Tobi

Sorry, I am being useless. I am not even meant to be in here with a stranger. I had a date.

Juno

In an escape room.

Tobi

My friend Lou said, take her somewhere you have to talk to each other. It was this or a boat.

Juno

And she did not come.

Tobi

She was meant to meet me outside at seven. In my experience, nobody by quarter past is a no in a nice coat.

Juno

Maybe she came. Maybe she saw you through the window and panicked.

Tobi

Thank you. That is very comforting.

Juno

Four digits. The depth gauge is stuck on one, nine, zero, four. Try it.

Tobi turns the dial. The lock drops open.

Tobi

How did you see that?

Juno

The needle is painted on. Everything in here is painted on. And do not lean on that wall. It is plywood on a frame. You can see the screw heads.

Tobi

Lou said she was an architect. My date. Lou would not tell me her name. Lou thinks names make people prepare.

Juno

What were you going to talk about? With the architect.

Tobi

I made a list. In case it went quiet.

Juno

Read me one.

Tobi unfolds a small card from his back pocket.

Tobi

'What is a building you love that nobody else notices?'

Juno

That is a good question.

Tobi

Lou said she would say a bus shelter. Who loves a bus shelter?

Juno

Bus shelters are honest. A roof, a bench, and a timetable. They do not pretend to be anything else.

Tobi

Lou also said she would be wearing a yellow coat.

Juno

Popular colour this year.

Tobi

There is a yellow coat on that hook. With a bus pass sticking out of the pocket. With your face on it.

Juno

Lots of people look like me. It is a very common face.

Tobi

Juno.

Juno

I was across the road from twenty past six. You got here at half past and practised in the window. You did a little wave, and then you tried a different wave.

Tobi

The first wave was too much.

Juno

You had a list, Tobi. You had a whole list. I had a coat.

Tobi

So you walked in as a stranger.

Juno

Nobody gets stood up by a stranger. I thought I would see what you were like when it did not count, and leave before the timer ran out.

Tobi

Lou sent me your photo at six o'clock. In case.

Juno

You knew? The whole time?

Tobi

From the moment you said hold this. Then you opened a vent with a coin, and I knew you had been here before.

Juno

Third visit. On my own. Do not tell Lou.

Juno turns the last dial. The hatch clicks and swings open. Tobi pushes it shut again.

Tobi

We paid for nine more minutes.

Juno

Then ask me one off your list.

Tobi

What is a building you love that nobody else notices?

Juno

The bus shelter across the road. I sat in it for forty minutes.

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