- In this scene, we see a dude sitting on a park bench with Edward gardening nearby. The guy is actually Edward's lover Gerry, who Edward had mentioned in the last scene. Edward tells Gerry that he fantasizes about not knowing him sometimes. He likes thinking that Gerry is just a stranger who visits the park to stare at him.
- Gerry admits that this would make things more interesting. Edward demands to know where Gerry was the night before, since they're supposed to tell each other everything. It looks like the two of them are having a little lover's quarrel.
- Gerry says he got drunk and woke up on someone's floor. He didn't call Edward because he didn't want to. Next off, he says he's going to the pub and that he doesn't want Edward to follow him there. In other words, he's a pretty mean boyfriend. But Edward seems to take all of it in stride.
- Edward goes back to gardening, and Gerry gives us a nice soliloquy about how he first met Edward in a train car. It was a very, very graphic sexual experience. It seems that even in that early time, Gerry was trying to get away from Edward as soon as he was sexually satisfied. But Edward just kept pursuing him and trying to get his attention. This explains the dynamic of their relationship, where Gerry tolerates Edward's affection more than he welcomes it.
- Cathy sits on a nearby swing and resumes chanting her dirty nursery rhymes.
- Edward, Gerry, and Cathy clear out, and Betty, Victoria, Tommy, and another dude we haven't seen before walk onstage. We find out soon enough that this new dude is Martin, Victoria's husband.
- Martin and Betty get worried about Tommy falling into a nearby pond. Victoria assures them that everything will be fine and that they need to stop being so overbearing.
- Betty starts talking about how difficult life will be for her (Betty) now that she's leaving her husband. She's been married her whole life and she gets extremely nervous when she's by herself. She mentions that she has thought about going on anti-anxiety medication.
- Martin suddenly gives us a soliloquy of his own about how his relationship with Victoria is going. It's not going so well. He thinks he might like to move out and that he and Victoria can just take turns babysitting Tommy for each other. He also mentions that he's interested in having sex with other women. Little does he know that Victoria might be too.
- Lin comes back onstage with her daughter Cathy, who's wearing a pink dress and carrying a gun. Lin mentions that Cathy won't wear jeans anymore because girls at school teased her for being boyish.
- Meanwhile, Martin keeps talking to himself about his relationship with Victoria. He says that there's no shame in staying together. It's just that when they're having sex, he hates the fact that she's always talking out loud and telling him how to do it. It makes him feel like he's getting a driving lesson.
- Cathy keeps playing with her gun nearby and talking about how she wants to play with a group called the "Dead Hand Gang."
- Meanwhile, Martin starts talking to us about how he loses his erection when he's having sex with Victoria because she keeps talking during sex. He says that he has a lot of sympathy for Victoria because he knows it's not as easy for women to have orgasms as it is for men. It's not like he's some jerk who only cares about his own pleasure. Then he just starts going off about how he can't give Victoria orgasms and how this makes him feel inadequate.
- Martin finishes his speech by talking about how Victoria should leave him and take some time to figure herself out. He'll patiently wait for her because he thinks of himself as a really good guy. That doesn't change the fact, though, that his relationship totally frustrates him.
- Meanwhile, Betty talks to Lin about how she doesn't know who to do things for now that she's single. Lin tells her to do things for herself, but Betty finds this very selfish.
- Betty confesses that she doesn't really like women. She thinks that they aren't as interesting or intelligent as men are. Lin thinks that this is a bad outlook.
- Betty asks Martin to walk her home because she feels safer walking through the city with a man. Martin agrees and the two of them leave. Martin mentions that he's trying to write a novel about women from the woman's point of view. Which seems kind of lame. The dude really wants to sympathize with women, but he's pretty clumsy about it.
- Betty and Martin leave, and Victoria and Lin embrace once they're gone. They talk about living together. But in the end, Vitoria dismisses this idea as silly. She's open-minded, but there's still a lot of her mother in her.
- Out of nowhere, Lin starts talking about how she often feels like being more girly and dressing like a princess. She admits that she's totally aware of traditional gender roles and often feels like she should be less boyish. Victoria calls her a hypocrite.
- Lin basically admits that she's confused by the world and its expectations. She also takes the opportunity to say that her brother has been killed in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- After awhile, Victoria realizes that Tommy's not around and that she hasn't seen him in a while. She thought he'd left with Martin, but now she's not so sure. Now she begins to worry that he fell into the park pond.
- Eventually, they find him in some bushes and everything calms down. Although Cathy also takes the opportunity to say that she helped Tommy do up his pants in the bushes. And yes, Churchill is once again being suggestive here.
- They all leave, and Edward and Gerry come back into view. Edward says he'll be making fish for supper, and Gerry says he won't be home because he's going to the sauna instead. He also gets annoyed with Edward and accuses Edward of acting like a wife. Edward says he enjoys acting like a wife.
- Gerry is fed up, and he says he'll come to their flat the next morning to pack up his stuff. He doesn't want a marriage-type situation, and Edward's devotion really weirds him out.
- Gerry leaves and Victoria comes to sit on the park bench next to Edward. He tells Victoria that he wishes he were a woman. Both Edward and Victoria admit that they're sick of men, and Edward closes the scene by saying he thinks he's a lesbian.
- Yeah, the sexual dynamic in this play is confusing.