Blood On The Beach

Terence and Hedley both reach the megalodon tooth football at the same moment.

Both of them kick it.

Ouch!

The megalodon tooth has not moved.

But one of Terence's toes has cracked, and Hedley's big toe is bleeding.

Hedley's mother is on her way over.

....

Knee deep in the sea, Vello is waiting for Great White Teacher.

Way out beyond the breakers, he sees Sweezus gesticulating from his surfboard.

Good, thinks Vello. They are coming in together.

Sweezus surfs in, and hops off his board. 

Great White Teacher surfaces beside Vello.

I hear you have a proposition, says Vello.

I hear YOU have a proposition, says Great White Teacher.

I do not, says Vello. But Gaius mentioned a large bag of teeth.

Yeah, the teeth, says Sweezus. Great White Teacher wants to sell them.

They are worthless says Vello. 

That was the point, says Great White Teacher. They are worthless, and could be used in your production as props.

The point you appear to have missed, says Vello, is that the props represent gold nuggets and precious stones.

But am I wrong in my understanding that the people of Eldorado believe they have no value? asks Great White Teacher.

That is what they believe, says Vello. What are you suggesting?

The value of using my megalodon teeth collection is therefore doubled, says Great White Teacher.

How so? asks Vello.

They are either worthless or valuable in the play's context as gold nuggets, but also in the present day, as fossils, says Great White Teacher. It depends on who makes the evaluation. 

See why he's called Great White Teacher? says Sweezus. He's smart.

Our audience may be less smart, says Vello.

Should you not give them the benefit of the doubt? asks Great White Teacher. 

All right, says Vello. I'll take half a dozen, in exchange for five percent of the profits.

Done! says Great White Teacher. By the way I smell blood on the beach.

Vello turns to see Hedley lying on his back with one foot in the air and his mother looking angrily seawards.