Shirl

Shirl

Background

Shirl is a Furniture Girl in New York City. She lives with Simonson in apartment 22A at Chelsea Towers West.

During the events of Soylent Green (1973) played by Leigh Taylor-Young

Shirl is playing her video arcade when Simonson walks up to her and she thanks him for the video arcade. Tab tells her they need to go grocery shopping. They buy a few pieces of fresh fruit and vegetables from Brady, who gives them a discount. He then gives Shirl something special, a cut of beef. Shirl and Tab return home to find Simonson dead. Thorn arrives and he questions Shirl who tells him she would never cheat on Simonson. As Simonson is being taken away by Wagner and the Sanitation Squad, Shirl tells Tab she remembers when her grandmother died there was a ceremony. She is having a party with The Furniture Girls in the complex when Thorn comes back to ask her some questions. He brings her into the bedroom and tells her he thinks Simonson was assassinated and asks who Simonson's friends were. She tells him she doesn't know many of them but he did take her to church and sometimes he would start crying suddenly. They then have sex. Thorn goes outside to find Charles slapping The Furniture Girls and tells him he brought them to Shirl's apartment for questioning. After Charles and The Furniture Girls leave, Shirl asks Thorn to stay overnight and that the New Tenant is coming tomorrow. He decides to stay when she tells him she has hot water and they turn the air conditioning low and kiss. Thorn again returns to Shirl's apartment when he is shot in the calfa and while he sleeps, she tries to patch up his leg. When he wakes up, Shirl suggests that they go to another city, but he tells her they are all the same. Later, the New Tenant arrives and tells Shirl how he wants things. He then tells her sometimes he will have friends that will come over and want to have sex with her. Thorn calls her and tells her to stay with the New Tenant and then they get disconnected.