VLADIMIR:
Then the two of them must have been damned.

ESTRAGON:
Well what of it?

VLADIMIR:
From death, from death.

ESTRAGON:
I thought you said hell.

VLADIMIR:
Imbecile! From death.

ESTRAGON:
From hell?

VLADIMIR:
Because he wouldn't save them.

ESTRAGON:
Why?

VLADIMIR:
The Saviour.

ESTRAGON:
What's all this about? Abused who?

VLADIMIR:
What?

ESTRAGON:
Who?

VLADIMIR:
One out of four. Of the other three, two don't mention any thieves at all and

ESTRAGON:
(with exaggerated enthusiasm). I find this really most extraordinarily interesting.

VLADIMIR:
And yet . . . (pause) . . . how is it –this is not boring you I hope– how is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of a thief being saved. The four of them were there –or thereabouts– and only one speaks of a thief being saved. (Pause.) Come on, Gogo, return the ball, can't you, once in a way?

ESTRAGON:
I'm going.
He does not move.

VLADIMIR:
Hell.

ESTRAGON:
Saved from what?

VLADIMIR:
Our Saviour. Two thieves. One is supposed to have been saved and the other . . . (he searches for the contrary of saved) . . . damned.

ESTRAGON:
Our what?