Thompson

Thompson is an off‑stage individual named within Dr. Paul Stubbs' private memory—called up as the batter in Stubbs' mental baseball lineup. Thompson functions purely as a referential anchor inside Stubbs' consciousness, a shorthand that reveals Stubbs' obsessive habit of organizing people into ritualized mental rosters. No actions, affiliations, or biographical details appear onstage; Thompson's narrative force derives entirely from being a named element in another character's psyche, helping dramatize Stubbs' isolation and cognitive patterns without asserting independent agency.