Summary

Scene Four focuses on Leo, who goes to a walk-in clinic for help with a cough, which a doctor diagnoses as bronchitis. Their conversation reveals not only that Leo is again essentially homeless, but also that he is HIV-positive and did not know it. He also admits to having had several unprotected sexual partners, and that he has no-one he can call for support. As Leo leaves the clinic, narrating his own thoughts in third-person, he thinks through “all the men he’d had sex with in the last six months, either for money, for shelter, for drugs. Never for pleasure” (252). He also thinks about “the chain of infection that had been passed down through the years” until it arrived at him, “a bitter inheritance” (252). He finds himself at Toby’s apartment building, and tries to talk...