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* * PART SIXTEEN * *
FinalePANDORA:
You have to hide. No one can know you were here. Hide yourself!
(PANDORA drapes a curtain over LINDA)
667ERS:
And goodness knows
The wickeds' lives are lonely
Goodness knows
The wicked have no friends...
(PEN and other WITCH HUNTERS run in. The mob, holding silver weapons, surround PANDORA. There are screams, and it is unclear what is going on. Finally, the mob leaves.)
LINDA:
Pandora? Pandora?
(KYLE helps her out from behind the curtain, and they see that nothing remains of PANDORA except for a bit of dust. KYLE and LINDA cry and hug each other.)
(The next scene opens in Alarming Announcements with TERRY CRAIG and SOPHIE. LINDA enters the room.)
LINDA (addressing TERRY CRAIG):
I want you to leave 667. I'll make the pronouncement myself: that the strains of leadership have been too much for you and you are taking an indefinite leave of absence! Did you hear what I said?!
TERRY CRAIG:
Yes, your goodness.
LINDA:
You'd better get ready. Guards!
(He exits.)
SOPHIE:
Linda, dear, I know we've had our differences in the past...
LINDA:
Guards! Madame, have you ever considered how you'd fare in captivity?
SOPHIE:
What?
LINDA:
Captivity... prison! Personally, I don't think you'll hold up very well. My professional opinion is that you do not have what it takes. I hope you prove me wrong. I doubt you will. Take her away!
SOPHIE:
No!!!!
667ERS:
Good news!
She's banned!
The Witch of the West is banned!
The wickedest witch is not in heaven
The enemy of all of us at 667
Is banned! Good news! Good news!
Good news!
(CHARLIE walks on stage. He bends down and knocks on a trap door in the floor.)
CHARLIE:
It worked! (He opens the door and PANDORA climbs out.)
PANDORA:
I thought you'd never get here. (She touches his new werewolf face)
CHARLIE:
Go ahead, touch, I don't mind. Ah, you did the best you could. You saved my life.
PANDORA:
You're still beautiful.
CHARLIE:
You don't have to lie to me.
PANDORA:
It's not lying... its looking at things another way.
667ERS:
No one mourns the wicked
Now at last, she's banned and gone
Now at last there's joy throughout the board
LINDA:
Fellow 667ers, friends, we have been through a frightening time. There will be other times and other things that frighten us. But if you let me, I'd like to try to help. I'd like to try to be... Linda the Good.
667ERS:
Good news!
CHARLIE:
(After one last smolder for the camera, because that is totally a thing now) It's time to go.
PANDORA:
We can never come back to 667, can we?
CHARLIE:
No.
PANDORA:
I only wish...
CHARLIE:
What?
PANDORA:
Linda could know that we're okay.
CHARLIE:
She can't know, not if we want to be safe. No one can ever know.
667ERS:
Good news!
CHARLIE:
Come...
LINDA:
Who can say if I've been changed for the better? But...
PANDORA and LINDA:
Because I knew you...
667ERS:
No one mourns the wicked....
LINDA:
Because I knew you...
PANDORA and LINDA:
I have been changed...
(PANDORA and CHARLIE exit.)
667ERS:
No one mourns the wicked....
Wicked
Wicked!