Max and Sol

INT. SOL'S APARTMENT - DUSK

	Max charges into the room. Sot is looking at his Go board. Sol
	looks up when Max comes in.

				SOL
		You're early. I was just
		studying our...
			(Noticing ,Max's head)
		What did you do to yourself?

				MAX
		You lied to me.

				SOL
		I thought you were going
		to take a break.

				MAX
		You found the two sixteen
		number in Pi, didn't you? You
		saw it.

	Sol doesn't respond.

				MAX
		I saw it, Sol. I don't
		know what happened, but I
		know things. The market is
		going to crash. It's going to
		crash. It hasn't yet, but I
		know it will. I saw it, Sol.
		What is it, Sol? What's the
		number?

	Sol sighs. He looks down at the board and collects himself.

				SOL
		You have it?

				MAX
		It's in my head!

				SOL
			(Leveling with Max)
		Okay, sit down.

	Max does.

				SOL
		I gave up before I
		pinpointed it. But my guess
		is that certain problems
		cause computers to get stuck
		in a particular loop. The loop
		leads to meltdown, but
		right before they crash they...
		they become "aware" of
		their own structure. The
		computer has a sense of its
		own silicon nature and it
		prints out its ingredients.

				MAX
		The computer becomes conscious?

				SOL
		In some ways...I guess...

				MAX
			(To himself)
		Studying the pattern made Euclid
		conscious of itself. Before it died it
		spit out the number That consciousness
		is the number.

				SOL
		No, Max, it's only a
		nasty bug.

				SOL
		A door in front of a cliff.
		You're driving yourself over
		the edge. You need to stop.

				MAX
		Stop? How can I stop? I'm
		this close.

				SOL
		The bug doesn't only
		destroy computers.

				MAX
		What are you saying?

				SOL
		Look what it did to your
		computer. Look what it's doing
		to you.

	Max doesn't respond.
				SOL
		It's killing you. Leave it
		unknown.

				MAX
			(Clarity)
		You were afraid of
		it. That's why you quit.

				SOL
		Max, I got burnt.

				MAX
		C'mon, Sol.

				SOL
		It caused my stroke.

				MAX
		That's bullshit. It's
		math, numbers, ideas.
		Mathematicians are suppose to
		be out on the edge. You
		taught me that!

				SOL
		Max, there's more than
		math! There's a whole world...

				MAX
		That's where discoveries
		happen. We have to go out
		there alone, all alone, no
		one can accompany us. We have
		to search the edge. We have
		to risk it all. But you ran
		from it. You're a coward.

				SOL
		Max, it's death!

	Max stands up and screams down at Sol.

				MAX
		You can't tell me what it
		is. You don't know You've
		retreated to your goldfish,
		to your books, to your Go,
		but you're not satisfied.

	Sol grabs his cane and whacks the Go board.

				SOL
		Get out! Max, get out!

				MAX
		I want to understand it.
		I want to know!

	Sol swings his cane as Max heads for the door.

				SOL
		Out!