The One About The Boiler

INT.  SUNNYSIDE SHOPPING CENTRE.  DAY.

A hairdressers, S. Todd  - old style, Fifties chairs, trendy.  A sofa.  Large mirrors along the walls, a wooden floor.  A large window onto the mall.  It's busy.  There are four HAIRDRESSERS working: MACKENZIE and BEDFORD (both mid-30s), KERRY (25) and KIRSTEN (late 20s).  An assistant, WINSTON (21) is on the phone and entering an appointment into a diary.  A door at the back leads downstairs.

The focus throughout is MACKENZIE as he cuts the hair of SIMON, who was last seen in The One About The Bogeyman.  Their conversation is framed entirely in the mirror in front of them.  On the mirror, close in on a sticker which shows troops in full combat-gear with helicopter gun-ships flying above them.  Underneath, the caption reads 'Americans Flying Overhead.'  

MACKENZIE

I searched on the internet and I

discover that the going rate to fix

it is two and a half grand.

SIMON

For a new boiler?  That sounds a

bit steep.

MACKENZIE

I've got this mate who buys council

properties, puts as many bedrooms

in them as possible, then rents them

to students.  Does everything on the

cheap.  Consequently he's very rich.

He says to me, 'The Bosch is like a

Mercedes, the Vaillant's like a Ford,

and what you want's a Fiat.  Something

that runs forever and there are always

parts available.'