Call me Juliet, and call Cor Romeo

Call me Juliet, and call Cor Romeo is an expression through which Scarlet O’Bannon frames herself and Cormac MacKay as a romantic pair. Its brief appeal to the Juliet-and-Romeo pairing carries added weight beside their earlier discussion of Scarlet’s duty to arrest him: the language of love presses against the future separation that Cormac had predicted.

The Expression and Its Pairing

Scarlet asks to be called Juliet and assigns the Romeo role to Cormac MacKay, whom she refers to as Cor in the expression. Rather than explaining their circumstances, the paired names place them inside a familiar romantic frame. The request is intimate and declarative: Scarlet proposes a shared identity for the two of them, not merely a name for herself.

Earlier Conflict and Significance

The expression recalls an earlier exchange about the possibility that Scarlet would one day put handcuffs on Cormac MacKay. He had said he would do so gladly and without hesitation; when she asked what that would mean for their relationship, he had laughed and denied that there would be an “us” by then. Scarlet’s later Juliet-and-Romeo framing sits in deliberate contrast with that forecast. The evidence establishes the juxtaposition, but does not specify whether the expression resolves their conflict or changes what will happen.