8. Find My Glasses (Light My Candle)

(Zoro throws open the door.  A woman stands back lit in the doorway.  As she enters, she trips and falls into the apartment, losing both her sword and her glasses in the process.)

Zoro:
Are you okay?

Tashigi (on floor, searching):
My glasses…

Zoro (picks them up, and as he is about to give them to her, sees her face.  He crushes them in the palm of his hand):
I know you!  You're -
(watches her grope blindly for a moment.)
You're blind?
(looks at the crushed glasses in his hand and winces)

Tashigi (still searching):
I'm sorry.
Need my glasses to see
And I'm just
clumsy on my feet.
Would you find my glasses?
(looks up and squints)
What are you staring at?

Zoro:
Nothing.
Your hair in the moonlight.
You look familiar.
(guiltily, looking at the glasses)
Did you find them?

Tashigi:
Can't see squat without them
At least I didn't break my neck
Anyway.
What?

Zoro:
Nothing.
Your face reminded me of -

Tashigi:
I always remind people of - who is she?

Zoro:
She died.  Her name was Kuina.

Tashigi:
My glasses…
Sorry about your friend.
(realizes Zoro is holding something)
Did you find my glasses?

Zoro:
Well…

Tashigi (stands up, tries to take them and is poked by the shards of glass):
Ow!

Zoro:
Oh, the glass - it's -

Tashigi:
They're broken! (angry)  I'm gonna -

Zoro:
Kill me?  I figured.
Oh well.  Good night.
(He pushes her out the door, but Tashigi comes right back in.)
You really want to fight?

Tashigi (worried):
No - I think I dropped my sword.

Zoro:
I know I've seen you out and about
When I used to go out.
Sorry about your glasses…

Tashigi (on ground, looking for sword):
Who cares?
I had my sword when I fell through the door.
It's important.
Is it on the floor?

Zoro (picks up sword, examines it):
The floor?

Tashigi (squints and realizes that he has it):
They say that I have the best sword
This side of South Blue.
Is it true?

Zoro:
What?

Tashigi:
You're staring again.

Zoro (flustered):
Oh no.
I mean you do - have a nice -
I mean - you look familiar.

Tashigi:
Like your dead friend.

Zoro:
Without your glasses.
But I'm sure I've seen you somewhere else.

Tashigi:
Have you seen the Marine base?
That's where I work -  I catch - the bad guys.

Zoro:
Yes!
You've got the Devil Fruit boss -

Tashigi:
It's a living.

Zoro:
I didn't recognize you
Without the jacket.

Tashigi:
We could search for swords…
Oh, won't you search for swords?

Zoro:
Why don't you forget that stuff?
You don't look like a Marine.

Tashigi:
(indignantly) I'm a Marine.  And I'm strong for my size!
I was born to be bushido!

Zoro:
You wish you were born to be bushido.
I used to yearn like that.

Tashigi (defensively):
I'm a Marine.  I told you.

Zoro:
I used to want.

Tashigi:
I just like swords.

Zoro:
Uh huh.
I used to be a sword junkie.

Tashigi:
Well now and then I like to -

Zoro:
Uh huh.

Tashigi:
Col-lect.

Zoro (finally realizing that there is a Marine on the boat):
Take it - go.

Tashigi (pointing at Zoro's arm, where his black kerchief is knotted):
What's that?

Zoro:
Um, it's nothing.

Tashigi:
We could search for swords…
Won't you search for swords?

Zoro (hands her the sword):
Nope.  Not gonna.
(she takes it; their hands - gasp! touch.)
Cold hands.

Tashigi:
Yours too.
Big, like my captain's.
You wanna spar?

Zoro:
With you?

Tashigi:
No.  With my captain.

Zoro (considers it, then thinks better of it):
No way.

Tashigi (as Zoro is pushing her out the door):
They call me.
They call me - Tashigi.

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