Lights up on the bungalow as CAMPBELL lights a cigarette. LEVITT lays out CAMPBELL's kit for inspection. He walks on taxis, small squares of blanket used to polish the floor as he shuffles around. The sound now comes from Levitt's radio. The message is followed by commercial jingles. CAMPBELL turns it off. He pays no attention to LEVITT.

LEVITT: Then you just square off your bed with your dixies [army mess kit] … so. Here the towel at the bottom and on that you put the moving parts of your rifle, your Bible, your razor and other stuff, like that see? Hey, are you watching?

CAMPBELL: What?

LEVITT: I'm not catching a thrill here.

CAMPBELL: What's cutting you?

LEVITT: Next time you'll have to do it yourself.

CAMPBELL: For sure.

LEVITT: Look, if you're still in civvies at inspection we'll all shit off.

CAMPBELL [holding up a pair of trousers and a shirt]: There's it now.

LEVITT: Ja. Browns, pairs one, wearing for the use of. In two sizes: too big and too small.

CAMPBELL: Hey, but true, ek sê [I say].

LEVITT: How come they sent you to our regiment so late?

CAMPBELL: I been here and there.

LEVITT: You weren't RTU-ed [returned to unit] from the parabats or something?

CAMPBELL: Are you serious?

LEVITT: No, it's just that this other ou [guy], Mowbray, he was.

CAMPBELL: Truly.

LEVITT: Where you been then?

CAMPBELL: That's another story again. Like I wasn't really into making choices, but come my call up I put in a no-show.

LEVITT: I wasn't stoked about doing my army either, but what can a ou do?

CAMPBELL: For sure.

LEVITT: They got us by the short and curlies.

CAMPBELL: Well, like the trick is: don't let yourself get taken within yourself. You know what I mean like?

LEVITT: Sort of.

CAMPBELL: Some Russian cat once said: ‘To live is to burn.’ And me, I was into burning. I flashed on this idea: I'm going to see the country. I needed space, so I hit out.

CAMPBELL puts the cigarette out on the floor. He starts changing into his army uniform. LEVITT picks up the cigarette end.