Dog With a Broken Spirit

In drama scene from Dog With a Broken Spirit, Nicolas defends himself with his girlfriend for getting into a fistfight in a bar.

Featured Script – Dog With a Broken Spirit

FADE IN.

INT. APARTMENT – 2.AM.

NICOLAS leans against the wall holding a bloodied handkerchief to his lip. SASHANE sits on the couch clutching her bag on her lap.

NICOLAS:  Won’t stop bleedin’…my lip.

SASHANE:  Let it bleed till it dries up.

NICOLAS:  Keeps gushing.

SASHANE:  Lemme see.

Nicolas stands in front of Sashane, removes the handkerchief, sticks out his face.

(examining) You’re fine.

Nicolas sits beside Sashane.

NICOLAS:  Keeps leaking.

SASHANE:  Don’t press down on it so hard, let it try to scab.

NICOLAS:  It won’t scab cause too much blood keeps coming out of it.

SASHANE:  You’re such a baby.

NICOLAS:  I got my lip busted open for you, and you call me a baby.

SASHANE:  You chose to get your lip busted open. Wasn’t my fault.

NICOLAS:  I wasn’t blaming you.

SASHANE:  Sounded like it.

NICOLAS:  No, I’m glad I got my face punched in some. Brought me back to feeling things…you shoulda let them boys beat on me more.

SASHANE:  To show how tough you are? Grow up, already.

NICOLAS:  Defending my woman isn’t grown up?

SASHANE:  But, you didn’t have to. I handled it.

NICOLAS:  I didn’t like the way he was smiling at you.

SASHANE: You think guys don’t always try me?

NICOLAS:  Why’d you start smiling back at ’em?

SASHANE:  I didn’t wanna create a problem.

NICOLAS:  What problem?

SASHANE:  If I was rude or whatever, then it could cause bullsh’t I don’t wanna deal with.  So, I was just being friendly.

NICOLAS:  That wasn’t flirting?

SASHANE:  Those a**holes were drunk and all I did was smile back and walked on.

NICOLAS:  Then things got ugly.

SASHANE:  Cause you didn’t let it go. I was already walking back to you, but you wouldn’t let it go.

NICOLAS:  That dude reached for your a** as if he was about to grab it, and then followed you back to me with his eyes before giving me a look.

SASHANE:  What look?

NICOLAS:  He gave me the,’Oh, she’s with you.’ sort of look.

SASHANE:  So?

NICOLAS:  It was an, ‘Oh, she’s with that loser.’ sort of look.

SASHANE:  So what Nicky?!

NICOLAS:  I didn’t like it!

SASHANE:  YOU needed to let it go. This is what I mean. You always think you’re right. You refuse to see the bigger problem. You don’t know how to grow up and be a man.

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Script Summary

In the short screenplay Dog With a Broken Spirit, Sashane comes down hard on her boyfriend Nicolas for always being at the ready for a brawl.

• Genre: Drama
• Length: ~10 Minutes
• Script Characters: 1 woman, 1 man
• Age Range: Any
• Themes: dating
• Best For: drama scripts

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Script Source: Dog With a Broken Spirit

Dog With a Broken Spirit is a drama script by Joseph Arnone, 2026.