EPISODE 2: THE SECOND WEEK IN LENT

JESUS

PETER

JOHN

JUDAS

THOMAS

MAN

WOMAN

FIRST CLERGYMAN

MARY MAGDALENE

[JESUS, PETER, JOHN, JUDAS present. THOMAS enters.]

THOMAS: Lord!

JESUS: Thomas?

THOMAS: I’ve brought someone to see you.

JESUS: Who is it?

THOMAS: A lady ... and her husband.

JESUS: Bring them in.

THOMAS: [Turning] You can come in. [A WOMAN enters, pushing a MAN in a wheelchair. The FIRST CLERGYMAN follows, observing.] There, that’s good.

WOMAN: Is this him?

THOMAS: This is the man you’re looking for.

WOMAN: [To JESUS] Hello, mister.

JESUS: Hello.

WOMAN: You’re the one they call Jesus?

JESUS: That’s my name.

WOMAN: You don’t look like anything special.

JESUS: What did you expect me to look like?

WOMAN: I don’t know.

JESUS: Why did you come?

WOMAN: We heard that you can do something for sick people.

JESUS: What di…