On the Edge Irene Sankoff and David Hein

[CLAUDE, spoken]
Some people spend their days crammed inside shoulder to shoulder with nothing to do but watch the news and wait for something to happen

[COMPANY]
On the edge

[BEULAH, spoken]
We've got the TVs going 24/7 in the cafeteria and the more they watch the more scared and angry they get

[COMPANY]
On the edge of the -

[OZ, spoken]
Some of the plane people haven't slept in three days
None of us have either
And we're jumping at our own shadows

[COMPANY]
On the edge of the world

[BEULAH, spoken]
Around suppertime on Thursday, people are waiting to use the phones and there’s a fight in the hallway

(ALI is speaking in Arabic on the phone to his mother)

[ALI, spoken]
Ana Kwyiss Alhamduliallah. El aakl hena helw awi. Hagga Faw’a el wassif. Lekin, fee ness, fee naass kateera hena, Be-yeboosooly
Akiny Irtakept gereema