Glass Monologues

Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities.

This was an origin story the whole time.

There are unknown forces that don't want us to realize what we are truly capable of. They don't want us to know the things we suspect are extraordinary about ourselves are real. I believe that if everyone sees what just a few people become when they wholly embrace their gifts, others will awaken. Belief in oneself is contagious. We give each other permission to be superheroes. We will never awaken otherwise. Whoever these people are who don't want us to know the truth, today, they lose.

How you doing David? I always though of us as friends.

You shouldn't be hiding in the shadows, David. You're able to hide because people who steal cars and mug people in alleys don't need your full potential. You're only using 1% of your abilities with these petty criminals

I have found someone who will require your full potential to come out. A superhuman serial killer.

We are going to the tallest building in the city, The horde is going to be revealed there. There are 3 floors that house a chemical company in that building, I am going to blow up that building using their chemicals David, You might want to try and stop us. Today is your coming out party. At least you know what to wear

I've turned of the water hoses in your room David. There's only the door left...

It's metal, But you can't get through it because peoples bones break against metal, and your nothing special. A lot of people are going to die! Overseer, if you don't. Get through. That door.

Ma'am. I'm here to see if the tales of the extraordinary being are real, the half-man, half-creature.

I'm a comic book expert, Patricia. I believe comic books are a continuation of documentation that has gone on for centuries of what humans are capable of. That they are someone somewhere saw or left. Are you aware that spandex, the underwear on the outside, and boots come from strongmen in the circus in the 1930s?

The freak show men who could do incredible feats of strength. I urge you to look past the capes and monologuing villains. Are you with me?

I only have a minute left. I believe The Beast may be part of this. There are references to man/animal characters. The dual character, the man who has abilities like animals. I'd like to meet The Beast, see if he's real. If he is, then I'll get us all out of here tomorrow night. What's upsetting you, Patricia?

Everything extraordinary can be explained away, and yet it is true. I think deep down you know this. Everything we will see and do will have a basis in science. But it will have limits. This is the real world, not a cartoon. And yet some of us don't die from bullets. Some of us can still bend steel. That is not a fantasy.

It's all evidence, you see? If that train crash hadn't happened, Kevin wouldn't have been left alone with his mother. If Kevin's mother wasn't allowed to abuse him, then The Beast wouldn't have had to be born. What are the odds that David Dunn and Clarence Wendell Crumb would be together that day? Amazing. I created you, as I created David. It just took longer. 19 years. They almost convinced me I was crazy. I create superheroes. I truly am a mastermind.

In comics... you would go to a public place where all could see you. A place celebrating man's pedestrian achievements. But you need David to convince them. You should fight him in front of the world. The tallest building in this city is opening today. All the cameras in the world will record you. You can convince the Horde and the world at the same time. We exist.

My bones break easily. I was born this way. I've had 94 breaks in my life. I've known only pain.

I assume you were sent here to be an avenging angel. How much do you want to avenge us?

Well, that sounds like the bad guys teaming up.

This is where they would paint you with big eyes and bubbles of confusion above your head.