Ted
Hey do you want anything from the burger joint?
Elizabeth
No. That place is disgusting. Why do you keep going to that drive-thru?
Ted
Because it’s delicious and cheap
Elizabeth
It’s going to make you sick. You may even die from it one day.
Ted
Yeah yeah…hold on I’m pulling up, need to order
Ted
There’s always a line at this place but I pulled right up
Ted
Then the voice on the speaker was muffled and just said ‘What do you want?’
Elizabeth
That’s strange. Bad customer service today I guess
Ted
Yeah not the usually polite girl who runs the drive-thru
Elizabeth
Maybe they’re giving her a break from that awful place
Ted
Hold, pulling up to the pay window
Elizabeth
Can’t believe you actually pay for that garbage
Ted
Pay window was closed
Ted
And I could see under a little bit. The register was open and things were strewn everywhere. No one was there though.
Elizabeth
OMG what if they got robbed
Ted
Then why would the robber be taking order in the drive-thru? For my extra $5?
Ted
Hold on, pulling up to the next window, maybe it’s a shift change
Ted
That window was closed too
Ted
And there was black stuff all over the window
Ted
Yeah, some kind of think paste, I dunno
Elizabeth
OK, time for you to go
Ted
No I’m going inside to check it out
Ted
I have to. What if people are hurt inside?
Elizabeth
OK, give me a sec
Elizabeth
uhh…I just called 911 and got a busy signal??
Ted
OK, I’m at the door, heading in
Elizabeth
Do you see anyone?
Ted
No, just stuff everywhere
Ted
Looks like a lot of people were in the middle of their meals
Elizabeth
Well where are they?
Ted
Sounds like there is some action in the back
Ted
Sounds like…crunching
Ted
Yeah like one of the machines crunching stuff, I dunno
Elizabeth
I don’t think you should go back there
Elizabeth
What is it?????
Ted
The thing they use to grill sandwiches. There was a goddamn severed head!
Elizabeth
Ted. Leave now.
Ted
Wait I hear something coming from the freezer in the back
Elizabeth
What if he’s still there?
Ted
Exactly, someone needs to stop him if folks are still here
Elizabeth
Ted that’s not your job
Ted
Someone is banging on the door and screaming
Elizabeth
Inside the freezer?
Ted
Yeah I’m going to let them out
Ted
She just ran out of the store
Ted
I mean she didn’t even look at me
Ted
She was covered in blood. She just ran.
Elizabeth
Wow. Something terrible happened. I’m trying the police again.
Elizabeth
They’re saying 5-10 minutes. A lot of calls tonight they said. From fast food joints.
Elizabeth
It was weird, the 911 operator ask me if I was pranking her.
Elizabeth
I screamed “No!”
Ted
So this is happening all over town then? How?
Elizabeth
I don’t know but I think you should leave
Elizabeth
Let the cops take care of it
Ted
But I care about these people
Elizabeth
Is anyone else there?
Ted
Let me look around some more
Ted
There’s a door locked here in the back
Elizabeth
Where does it lead?
Ted
To the supply closet.
Elizabeth
Please don’t open it. Can you hear anyone inside?
Ted
But I don’t have the key. Let me look around for it
Elizabeth
I’d rather you just leave
Ted
He…never turned around
Ted
When I opened the door
Ted
There was a man standing with his back to me
Ted
He was…making burgers
Ted
With the people who used to work in the store
Ted
Just standing at the machine, processing their bodies
Elizabeth
OMG did he hear or see you open the door?
Elizabeth
Where are you now?
Ted
I think I’m going to be sick…
Elizabeth
Of course you just saw something terrible
Ted
That’s not the only reason
Elizabeth
Then what is it?
Ted
As I was walking around looking, I got hungry
Ted
There were some freshly made burgers on the counter
Ted
So I took a few bites of one
Ted
Thought it tasted a little funny
Ted
But I still swallowed it
Elizabeth
Did the guy say anything to you at all?
Ted
As I left the shop, I thought I heard him yell…
