- Now we're back to the park in daylight, and things seem somewhat normal again. Cathy's playing and reciting her dirty nursery rhymes.
- Meanwhile, Edward gives Martin advice about how to take care of Tommy and Cathy and reminds him to give Tommy his antibiotics. Martin gets frustrated that this single, bisexual dude is giving him advice on how to raise his own son.
- Meanwhile, old Betty shows up onstage and talks about how she misses the African sun, even though it's a very nice day in England.
- Betty talks to Martin and gives him some kind words about how she's sure Victoria will come running back to him. Deep down, she's still convinced that her kids want to be totally normal like everyone else, even though she doesn't realize that the phrase "like everyone else" doesn't have a lot of meaning in this play.
- Gerry shows up and says hi to Edward. Edward tells Gerry that he doesn't want to be like a wife anymore. He lets Gerry know that he's living with two women. This, of course, gets Gerry's attention, since Gerry has always assumed Edward would keep following him around like a little dog.
- Edward also tells Gerry that he sleeps in the same bed as his sister and her new lover, Lin. Gerry's not sure what to think of this, as you would probably expect.
- Gerry says he had sex with someone a few days earlier who reminded him of Edward. Then he asks Edward to grab a meal sometime and Edward happily accepts.
- After Edward leaves the stage, Harry Bagley from Act 1 suddenly shows up (and no, he hasn't aged a day) and he and Gerry pick each other up and walk off to go have sex.
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- So now Betty comes onstage alone, and then her mother Maud shows up from Act 1. Maud tells Betty that life will not be good without a man and that she (Betty) needs to run back to Clive. Then Ellen shows up and again asks Betty what to do in bed with a man. Like Act 1, Betty just tells her to lie still.
- Before leaving, Ellen asks Betty not to forget her.
- When Betty's alone again, she gives us a long speech about how she used to think that her husband Clive was the one who liked to have sex. But the truth is that she really misses sex now that it's not in her life. She goes on to describe (in detail) how much she has always loved to touch herself and how anxious she always was about it because people said it was a dirty thing to do. She also felt that by masturbating she was somehow cheating on her husband.
- But at the end of the day, Betty says she feels totally liberated by masturbation because it makes her feel like no one can tell her what to do.
- When Victoria, Lin, and Edward come back onstage, Betty asks them if it would be okay for her to move in with them. She's very lonely, and she has enough money to buy them all a nice big place. Lin seems to think it's a fine idea, but Victoria doesn't want to live with her mother. At this point, Betty realizes that Victoria and Lin are lovers and that they sleep in the same bed as Edward. Betty thinks they'll all be able to learn to get along, but Victoria doesn't want to.
- Before anyone can say anything more, Cathy runs onto the stage with a nosebleed.
- The Dead Hand Gang (a group of young boys) have hit Cathy and taken the money that she was counting for her grandmother. She says the boys told her she couldn't play because she was a girl.
- Lin blames Martin for not watching over Cathy, but Martin argues that Cathy isn't even his kid. They argue for a bit, and Martin makes the case that he's really not a bad guy. Lin agrees and leaves to go "sort things out" with the Dead Hand Gang. Or in other words, she's going to beat them up.
- Everyone except Betty walks off to do various things. Gerry comes onstage and Betty recognizes him as Edward's former "flatmate." If she knows they've been lovers, she's definitely not acknowledging it.
- Betty talks to Gerry about living alone and Gerry says it's awesome because you can do whatever you want. Betty, though, says she has no clue what she wants. Although she does sometimes like to not cook any supper and to just eat bread and hot pickles. Slow down, Betty. You're starting to get a little too wild for this play.
- Betty eventually decides to invite Gerry over for supper because she'd like the company.
- Gerry tells Betty that even though she's old, she could still be very attractive if she stopped worrying about everything all the time. He also tells Betty that he's "very involved" with Edward. Betty admits that Edward tried to tell him this once but she didn't really listen. She also takes comfort in the fact that Edward does sometimes sleep with women (although she leaves out the fact that one of these women is his own sister).
- Referring to her dinner invitation, Betty admits that she's never picked up a man before. Gerry says that not everyone's gay, which seems to be his way of saying that Betty could certainly give it a try with a straight guy sometime.
- After Gerry leaves, Clive comes onto the stage for the first time since Act 1. He tells Betty that she's not "that sort of woman," meaning the kind who would pick up a random guy. He talks about how proud he used to be to be British, and how much he loved believing in high ideals. The problem is that he doesn't realize that his high ideals tended to revolve around him telling black people and women what to do all the time.
- After he finally leaves, Betty from Act 1 (played by a man) comes out and hugs Betty from Act 2. It's a weird moment, but also kind of touching, because it seems like Betty has finally learned to accept herself and define herself as an individual. Remember that the Betty in Act 1 only lived to please men. But the Betty in Act 2, by hugging herself, seems to have finally learned to live her own life.
- And that's it for Caryl Churchill's crazy, surreal play about sexual politics and gender confusion. If your mind isn't a little more open after all that, then we don't know what to tell you.