3 INT. THE MACHINE

While Will is working the controls and the ship is taking off, Kale takes the interior of the ship in. The Mary Poppins effect throws him for a bit of a loop. There are jackets and clothes strewn all about the railings and there may even be some kind of matress in one corner. A Japanese style futon, blankets and padding meant to be rolled up in the morning, except it was never rolled up. Eventually Kale moves to one side of the door, to avoid any suit attacks that may pierce it.

WILL
So? How do you like it?

KALE
(how can i say this nicely?)
It's a bit tacky, isn't it?

WILL
It's fabulously tacky, even by my standards. How could you not like it?
(then)
Come on in. It won't bite.

KALE
Is it alive?

WILL
(pause for lies)
No.

KALE
(knows)
Okay.

WILL
Anyhow, come in. This is the main control room, where I spend most of my time, but there are a few other rooms back here somewhere. Some of them, I imagine, may even have furniture.

KALE
Isn't this your ship?

WILL
Yeah. Like I said, I spend most of my time in here. Follow me, I'll give you the dollar tour.

Will leads him further into the Machine's labrynthine innards. We see Will's bedroom (the bedroom is LITERED with books), the den, the bathroom, the eating area, all looking as if (as if?) they've never been used. The design is fairly conservative in that there is basically nothing but necessities in the entire ship. All the rooms are open and as bare as the day they came off the factory line. The thing looks like a show house.

WILL
This is the bedroom, which I don't use. The den, which I only wander into occassionally to retrive information. The bath. I use that one. The little dining room. I think I used the dining room once, like the day after launch. Anyhow, right this way...

Kale reaches for the only closed door, off the dining room.

WILL (con't)
I... wouldn't do that if I were you.

KALE
What is it?

WILL
The pantry.

KALE
(okay, you're daft, right?)
What's in there?

WILL
I-- (shrug) Prob'ly sentient pudding or something. Back here is the really cool part, though.

--- "Back here" is the workshop. It's kind of smaller than you'd expect it to be, it's got a bench littered with tools and half-finished projects, reference books lining the shelves, scrap chunks of wood all about the floor.

WILL (con't)
This is the workshop.

KALE
Uh-huh.

WILL
What?

KALE
(where do i start?)
It's kind of small, isn't it?

WILL
Well there's just me. And really how much room does one need for proton manipulation?

KALE
(proton...)
Okay, I'm going home now.

WILL
(watching him go)
Ah...

KALE
(puts his foot down!)
No.
(don't give me that look!)
No, dammit. There was a door in the middle of the... And it opened up into this. It's a fucking Jetson's condo. Now take me home.

WILL
(genuinely sorry)
They saw you. I-- I am sorry.

KALE
You sat down next to me. Across from me. And now I've got Will Smith wannabes camping out in front of my apartment with ray guns?

WILL
(not exactly, but close enough)
You're safer with me. I know it doesn't seem like that, but. I'm not the only one with time travel, and they don't care what they mess up...
(then)
I'll make you as comfortable as I can. And we can go anywhere you want.

KALE
(no. we can't)

WILL
And in the meanwhile...

KALE
What.

WILL
Some pretty good cuisine in this end of the galaxy...