Water by the Spoonful

The scene I think is a pivotal moment in the play that has the realities interacting is the scene where Elliot and Yaz find Odessa's computer and starts talking to Orangutan on the computer. Prior to that, the only time the real life is interactive and not just glimpse of the real world and online world is when Odessa makes it. This time it is two worlds interacting without the middle person. When Elliot and Yaz comes into his biological mother's apartment to grab things to pawn off to get her sister some flowers for her funeral, they come across Odessa's website and Elliot, who is pissed off with his mother, tries to start things on her website, but when Orangutan outs his own addiction to pain medication. Obviously upset and angry, Elliot takes his anger out at Orangutan and then unplugs his mother's computer to sell it. When Yaz tries to get answers from him, having not know of his addiction, but Elliot deflects and pleads with her to let it go, which she does.

In this scene and the scene before, we saw the contempt Elliot had with his mother and people who are addicted in general, so to finally have the information out that he himself is an addict is jarring but somehow understandable. Elliot is in clear denial of his own problems and chooses instead to manifest his feelings of his own addiction upon his mother, who had hurt him in the past with her own addiction. He can't face what he has become so he tries to push off his guilt and turns it into anger at his mother. He hates what his mother's addiction did to her and his family, especially his sister. To have Elliot be confronted about his own addiction by another recovering addict while the realities intersect creates a stronger tie between the two worlds.