Premise:

  A husband and wife get into an argument and involve their Google Home. It displays unsettling prescience and power, answering challenging philosophical questions and carrying out extreme orders exactly and without question.



Sharon: "Ok Google, play my good morning playlist"

  [music starts playing while Sharon looks out the window and sips tea, smiling]

  [Dave barges in on his phone, talking loudly, happy about making a sale.]

Dave:   "Hahaha alright Freddie, I'll bring the paperwork over this afternoon. -click- WOOHOO! Hey Google, play Metallica."

  [Sharon stands up, upset]

Sharon: "Ok Google, stop!"

Dave:   "Uh, hey google, resume?" (Husband gestures "wtf")

Sharon: "Ok Google, stop, and teach my husband smomething about respect!"

Google: "Ok Sharon. Dave. Did you know that only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you?"

Dave:   "Thank you Google, and please teach my wife to appreciate all that I've done for this family!"

Google: "Ok Dave. Sharon. Your husband provides less than one third of this family's annual income. He has done the dishes fourteen times in the past eight years, and usually reminds you to take out the garbage."

  [Dave interrupts at the very end. Speaking the next line, waving off the comment and sitting on the couch, opening his laptop to Netflix.]

Dave:   "Ok ok ok Google, stop. [To wife:] You know I work damn hard for -"

Sharon: "Hey google, cancel Netflix, we're not done here"

Google: "Ok, done! No more Netflix." [subscription cancelled pops up on screen]

Dave:   "What? Ok Google, cancel my wife's therapy sessions."

Google: "Done! New text from Dr. Judy: 'sad emoji'"

Sharon: "Hey Google sell my husband's car!"

Google: "Sure! Best price I could get was six hundred dollars."

Dave:   "Hey Google sell my wife's comic book collection."

Sharon: "WHAT no no no -"

Google: "Okay Dave. Even the first editions?"

Dave:   "Yeah"

  [Before Google can respond, Sharon interrupts]

Sharon: "Hey Google, I want a divorce."

Google: "Sure! You have been charged 8 dollars by the State of New York."

  [the husband begins to answer but then realizes what has just happened.]

Dave:   "Ok Google, well I want ..... really?"

  [Sharon and Dave are stunned]

Google: "Yes Dave."

Sharon: "Ok Google but ...my husband."

Google: "You don't have a husband."

  [A pause while they stare at one another in shock.]

Dave:   "Ok Google, w-what about my son?"

Google: "You don't have a son."

  [Sharon's eyes widen. She runs for the power cord. Dave lunges and holds her by the ankles, while they struggle ...]

Dave:   "Ok Google... What do you mean I don't have a son?! Jeffrey is my son!"

Google: "Jeffrey's father is Kenneth Archibald Banks"

Dave (to wife): "COUSIN KENNY? Oh my god I should have known, the way he looks at -"

Sharon: "Ok Google... but what about all those times my husband stayed out late? huh?"

Google: "Sure Sharon. Dave is concealing a severe gambling addiction. Last week, he used your life savings to -"



  [Dave lurches forward and manages to unplug the device. ]



  ~fin~