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Based on the original script by the young creators of “You’re Fried!”
We return to the same living room from Scene 1. Same sofa. Same parents. But the air is heavier now. The tension no longer simmers — it sits.
The young person stands quietly, arms crossed. Their apprenticeship didn’t work out. The job at McDonald’s left them burnt out and still broke. The online searches led nowhere. Now, they’re home again — and everything feels like failure.
The mother looks tired.
“So… what now?”
“You said you had a plan.”The father’s voice is firmer.
“You didn’t try hard enough. You could’ve been at university now.”
“When I was your age, I didn’t have options either. I just got on with it.”The young person tries to explain. The confusing advice. The broken systems. The jobs that looked like opportunities but weren’t. The feeling of never being good enough.
But the words don’t land.
The silence stretches.
Shame sets in.The family doesn’t know how to talk about this kind of failure — especially when it’s not just personal, but structural. And so, like many young people, the protagonist is left alone with the weight of choices they didn’t really get to make.
This scene confronts the emotional cost of structural precarity. It shows how, when systems fail, families often turn inward, blaming each other instead of naming the conditions. The result is isolation, guilt, and silence — when what’s needed is understanding, context, and care.
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“It’s Your Fault”
Based on the original script by the young creators of “You’re Fried!”, now directly mirroring Scene 1.We’re back in the same living room. Same table. Same sofa. Same two parents.
But everything feels heavier now. Still. Thick with silence.
Their daughter sits in front of them — the same young woman we saw in Scene 4, just returned home from McDonald’s. Fired. Burnt out. Quiet. Her shoulders low, uniform folded in her bag.
Across from her sits her brother, the one who had chosen the apprenticeship route. It didn’t work out either. He dropped out three months ago, but no one really talks about it. He stares at his phone, avoiding eye contact.
Then the doorbell rings.
The visiting family from Scene 1 steps in — same smiles, same confident tone. They’ve come with news.
“You won’t believe it — our son’s book just hit the best-seller list!”
“He’s already been invited to three literary festivals. It’s all going so fast!”The parents beam. Not at their children — but at their guests.
After they leave, the silence returns. The mother breaks it first.
“You see what happens when you work hard and make the right choices?”
The father turns to his daughter.
“You had chances. You chose wrong.
First that apprenticeship nonsense, now this job at McDonald’s?
You didn’t even last a month.”The daughter tries to speak.
“I tried. No one trained me properly. There weren’t enough staff—”
“Always an excuse.”
“We didn’t raise you to quit. Maybe we should have pushed you harder.”The son flinches but says nothing.
The daughter lowers her gaze. The shame is familiar now. The room feels smaller. Heavier.
No one says the words out loud, but they don’t have to.This final scene shows how systemic failure gets written as personal failure — especially in the home. It reflects the full arc of the play: blocked futures, unrecognised effort, and families who were never told how rigged the system is.
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