Series 1a: Beginning

Series 6: Entrance #2

CLOV (irritably):
I tell you I don't complain.
HAMM:
I feel a little strange.
(Pause.)
Clov!
CLOV:
Yes.
HAMM:
Have you not had enough?
CLOV:
Yes!
(Pause.)
Of what?
HAMM:
Of this... this... thing.
CLOV:
I always had.
(Pause.)
Not you?
HAMM (gloomily):
Then there's no reason for it to change.

Series 7: Entrance #3

Series 8: The Pier

CLOV:
It may end.
(Pause.)
All life long the same questions, the same answers.
HAMM:
Get me ready.
(Clov does not move.)
Go and get the sheet.
(Clov does not move.)
Clov!
CLOV:
Yes.
HAMM:
I'll give you nothing more to eat.
CLOV:
Then we'll die.
HAMM:
I'll give you just enough to keep you from dying. You'll be hungry all the time.
CLOV:
Then we won't die.
(Pause.)
I'll go and get the sheet.
(He goes towards the door.)
HAMM:
No!
(Clov halts.)
I'll give you one biscuit per day.
(Pause.)
One and a half.
(Pause.)

Series 9: The Pier #2

HAMM:
Why do you stay with me?
CLOV:
Why do you keep me?
HAMM:
There's no one else.
CLOV:
There's nowhere else.
(Pause.)
HAMM:
You're leaving me all the same.
CLOV:
I'm trying.
HAMM:
You don't love me.
CLOV:
No.
HAMM:
You loved me once.
CLOV:
Once!

Series 10: Sun

HAMM:
I've made you suffer too much.
(Pause.)
Haven't I?
CLOV:
It's not that.
HAMM:
I haven't made you suffer too much?
CLOV:
Yes!
HAMM (relieved):
Ah, you gave me a fright!
(Pause. Coldly)
Forgive me.
(Pause. Louder.)
I said, Forgive me.
CLOV:
I heard you.
(Pause.)