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A Dumb Dragon's Special Presentation.

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Hello, everybody. It's me, Leosin, just warming everybody up before the show tonight just to let you know what's going on here.

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Some of our adventurers have decided to put on a play.

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And that play is A Christmas Carol, and we're calling it A Dumb John's Christmas Carol.

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It's based on the stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' original work, The Christmas Carol, obviously.

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This one originally by Frederick Gaines.

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There's so many recognizable voices that you're going to see on stage here, and we can't wait to share it with you.

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So please grab your snacks, sit down in the front row here.

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Yes, I see you, Arvid. You just have a seat there and we'll get the show going.

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Alright, stage is set. I'm getting word that everybody's ready.

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And we hope you enjoy this presentation of A Dumb John's Christmas Carol.

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The play begins amid a swirl of street life in Victorian London.

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Happy groups pass, brightly costumed carolers and families call out to one another and sing.

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Joy to the world!

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Softly as the children talk.

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I've got to get over and clean out the fireplace and Miss Brickenstone's.

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I love being a child.

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A child in Victorian England is fantastic. Look at that chimney. It's fun.

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Let's go! Play in the chimney!

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My shift starts in three minutes.

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Bob Cratchit, a clerk who works in Scrooge's office, comes in.

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He takes some coal from the mound and puts it into a small bucket.

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Scrooge's nephew, Fred, enters, talks with the children, gives them coins and sends them away.

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With a Merry Christmas.

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Here you go. One for you and one for you and three for you.

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Merry Christmas, Uncle! Bahamut save you!

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Bah, humbug.

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Christmas is a humbug, Uncle.

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I hope that's meant as a joke.

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Well, it's not.

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Come, what do you want? Don't waste my time. I don't have all day, nephew.

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I only want to wish you a Merry Christmas, Uncle.

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Don't be a jerk about it.

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Well, what else can I be when I live in such a world of fools as this?

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Merry Christmas.

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Well, let's out with Merry Christmas.

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What's Christmas to you but a time for paying all your bills with no money, by the way?

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And a time for finding yourself a year older but no richer?

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Richer? If I could work my will, every idiot who would go about with Merry Christmas on his lips

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would be boiled in their own pudding and buried with a stick of holly through his heart.

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Oh, that is a vivid picture, Uncle.

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So nephew, keep Christmas in your own way and let me keep it in mine.

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But you don't keep it.

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That's right I don't, so you should leave it alone.

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Because good may it do you. Much good has it ever done you.

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There are a lot of things that I love that don't make me money.

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Like, you know, when you get up super early and go on a really long run

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and then you plank for like 40 minutes and like that doesn't put any money in my pocket.

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But I love it so it's worth it.

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And that's what Christmas is all about.

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It's done a lot of good for me.

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And I say, bah hamet blesset.

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Bah.

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Don't be angry, Uncle.

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Come, have dinner with us tomorrow.

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Zumba after dinner.

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Oh, yeah, no thanks. I'll dine alone.

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But why?

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Why?

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Why did you get married?

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Well, because I fell in love with a wonderful girl.

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And I fell in love with myself.

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Good afternoon.

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Oh, Uncle, you never came to see me before I was married.

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So how can you now say, well, now you're married so I'm not going to come?

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I said good afternoon.

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I'm sorry with all my heart to find you so determined.

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But I've made the attempt to honor Christmas and I'm going to keep that good spirit to the last.

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So a Merry Christmas to you, Uncle.

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A good afternoon.

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And a Happy New Year. Bahamats blessings.

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Oh, good afternoon.

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Fred hesitates as if to say something more.

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He sees that Scrooge has gone to get a book down from the shelf and he starts to leave.

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As he leaves, the doorbell rings.

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Bells!

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Is it necessary to always have the fucking bells?

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The gentlemen visitors enter, causing the doorbell to ring again.

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Cratchit!

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Yes, sir?

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The bell, fool. See to it. Stop making the noise.

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Yes, sir.

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He goes to the entrance.

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Merry Christmas.

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Wolves howling and a Merry Christmas.

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It's for you, sir.

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No, duh.

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You're not receiving anybody here, are you?

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Show them in.

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Right this way.

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The gentlemen visitors approach Scrooge.

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Yes? What?

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Scrooge and Marley's, I believe.

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Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge or Mr. Marley?

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Well, let me see.

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Molly's dead.

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Seven years tonight, so what do you think?

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Well, I...

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What do you want?

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I have no doubt that his kindness is well represented by you, his surviving partner.

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Here, sir, our card.

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He hands Scrooge his business card.

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Kindness? No doubt of it.

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All right, all right. I can read. What do you want?

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He returns to his work.

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At this, the festive season of the year...

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Yeah, festive my ass. It's winter and it's cold.

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Well, and you make a great point, and that's actually why we're here.

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At this time of year, people might like to set aside just a little something for the poor and the penniless

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and their suffering because they're outside and it's cold

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and they don't even really have like shoes or socks or coats or roofs or food

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and, you know, just sort of the common comforts.

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People don't have those hundreds of thousands of them.

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Oh, are there no debtors' prisons?

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Many, sir.

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And the workhouse, is it still working?

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Yeah, it is still, although I do wish I could say it was not.

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And the poor law, is that still like in full strength then?

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Yes, sir.

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Well, I'm glad to hear it.

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From what you said, I was afraid someone had stopped its operation altogether.

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Well, because it's such a terrible place and so many people are in need,

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a few of us were hoping to raise some money to buy the poor some meat and drink and means of warmth

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and, of course, we chose this time of year out of all of the times of year

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because everybody feels their want so strongly and everybody's rejoicing in abundance

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and what can I put down for you, sir?

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Nothing.

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Ah, you wish to be anonymous. Very generous.

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I wish to be left alone.

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And since you asked me what I wish, sir, that's my answer.

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I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make lazy people merry either.

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I help support the establishments that I have mentioned

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and they cost enough money so those who are poorly must go there.

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Well, many can't go there and honestly many would rather die than go there.

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Okay, well, if they'd rather die they'd better do it and decrease the surplus population.

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That's not my business. My business is my business.

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It occupies me constantly.

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He talks both to the gentleman visitors and himself while he thumbs through his books.

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Ask a man to give up life and means. Fine thing.

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What is it I want to know? Charity?

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Damn charity.

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His nose deep in his books, he vaguely hears the dinner bell being rung in the workhouse.

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He looks up as if he has heard it but never focuses on the actual scene.

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The warder of the poorhouse stands in a pool of light at the far left, slowly ringing a bell.

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Dinner! Alright. Come and get it, yo.

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The poorly clad, dirty residents of the poorhouse line up and file by to get their evening dish of gruel,

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wordlessly accepting it and going back to eat listlessly in the gloom.

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Scrooge returns to the business of his office.

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The procession continues for a moment, then the image of the poorhouse is hidden by darkness.

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The dejected gentleman visitors exit.

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Fucking lock the door, Cratchit!

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Like, both of them, firmly.

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God, draft is cold as Christmas blowing in here. Charity.

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Suddenly, carolers appear on the platform and a few phrases of their carol,

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Angels we have heard high, are heard.

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Scrooge looks up.

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Cratchit!

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As soon as Scrooge shouts, the carolers vanish and Cratchit begins to close up the shop.

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Cratchit!

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Yes, sir?

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Well, to work, then?

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It's evening, sir.

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No duh.

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It's Christmas evening, sir.

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Oh. You want all day off tomorrow, I suppose.

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I mean, yeah. Well, if it's convenient, sir.

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Yeah, it's not convenient. It's not fair.

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If I was to deduct half a crown from your salary for it.

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You wouldn't.

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You'd think yourself ill-used, wouldn't you?

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And you still expect me to pay a day's wage for a day and no work?

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It's only once a year, sir.

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Be here all the earlier next morning.

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I will, sir.

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Get out of here.

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Yes, sir.

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Merry Christmas, sir.

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Bah!

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As soon as Cratchit opens the door, the sounds of the street begin, very bright and loud.

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Cratchit is caught up in a swell of people hurrying down the street.

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Children pull him along the top of an ice slide, and he runs and slides down it, disappearing in darkness as the stage suddenly is left almost empty.

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Scrooge goes around the room, blowing out candles, talking to himself.

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Christmas Eve.

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Carolers. Bah!

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There. Another day.

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He opens his door and peers out.

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Dark. Very dark. Now where are they?

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The children are heard singing carols for a moment.

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Oh, begging pennies for the songs, are they?

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Oh, boy.

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Grandma's not gonna run by while you're in here!

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Hey! Quiet! Quiet! Shut the fuck up down there!

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Get off now!

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There, that's it.

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It's black as pitch out there.

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The house of Ebenezer Scrooge.

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Yeah. Here's the key.

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He turns the key towards the door, and the face of Jacob Marley, Scrooge's deceased business partner, swims out of the darkness.

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Scrooge watches, unable to speak.

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He fumbles for a match, lights the lantern, and swings it towards the figure, which melts away.

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Scrooge fits the key in the lock and turns it as the door suddenly is opened from the inside by the porter, Sparset.

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Scrooge is startled, then recovers.

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Sparset?

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Yes, sir. It is I, Sparset.

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Emerging from the shadows, where I live.

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Okay, so hurry up. The door. Close it.

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Did you knock, sir?

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Knock? What the fuck? It's my house. What's the matter?

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Never mind. Just give me some light up the stairs.

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Yes, sir. I will push back the darkness for you.

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He leads Scrooge up the stairs. They pass the cook on the way.

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Scrooge brushes by here, stops, looks back, and leans towards him.

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Uh, something to warm you, sir.

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Porch? It's your favorite.

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What?

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It's bland. Flavorless.

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No. No, nothing.

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Waiting for her Christmas coin.

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Merry Christmas, sir.

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Scrooge ignores the request, and the cook disappears.

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Mumbling, Scrooge follows Sparset.

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Fucking good.

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Looking back after the cook has gone.

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Right at the end of his life. Merry Christmas.

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Bah!

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Your room, sir!

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Okay, yeah, it's my... You don't have to... Listen, okay.

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You don't have to announce every single fucking room we go into, okay?

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It's my house. I know it's my room. Good night.

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Understood.

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Extending his hand for his coin.

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Merry Christmas, sir.

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Yes, yes.

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He sees the outstretched hand.

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He knows what Sparset wants, and is infuriated.

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No! Out! Get out!

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He closes the door after Sparset, turns towards his chamber,

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and discovers the Char Woman, a woman hired to do the cleaning, directly behind him.

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I'll warm your bed for you, sir!

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What, like, you get in and roll around in it before I get in?

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That's weird and unnecessary. No! Out! Get out!

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Aye, sir.

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She starts for the door. Marley's voice is heard mumbling something unintelligible.

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Why you gotta be so rude?

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What's that? Is it magic?

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Me, sir? Not a thing, sir.

247
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Yeah, okay. Good night, then. Go.

248
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Good night.

249
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She exits, and Scrooge pantomimes, shutting the door behind her.

250
00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:40,000
The voice of Marley over an offstage microphone whispers and reverberates.

251
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Merry Christmas, Scrooge!

252
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Silence.

253
00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,000
Scrooge hears the voice, but cannot account for it.

254
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He climbs up to an open window, and looks down.

255
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A cathedral choir singing,

256
00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:01,000
O come all ye table,

257
00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000
is heard in the distance.

258
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Scrooge listens a moment, shuts the window, and prepares for bed.

259
00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,000
As soon as he has shut the sound out of his room, figures appear.

260
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They seem to be coming down the main aisle of a church, bearing gifts to the living nursery.

261
00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,000
The orchestra plays as the procession files out.

262
00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,000
Scrooge, ready for bed, warms himself before the heap of coals.

263
00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:35,000
As he pulls his nightcap from a chair, a small handbell tumbles off onto the floor.

264
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Startled, he picks it up and rings it for reassurance.

265
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An echo answers it.

266
00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,000
Scrooge escapes to his bed.

267
00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:51,000
The bell sounds grow to a din, incoherent as in a dream, then suddenly fall silent.

268
00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:56,000
Scrooge sits up in bed, listens, hears the chains of Marley coming up the stairs.

269
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Scrooge reaches for the bell pole to summon Sparset.

270
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The bell responds with a gong, and Marley appears.

271
00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000
He and Scrooge face one another.

272
00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,000
Oh, hi, Scrooge!

273
00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,000
Hey, it's me!

274
00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,000
What do you want with me?

275
00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,000
Oh, much.

276
00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000
Who are you?

277
00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,000
Oh, more ask who I was.

278
00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,000
Don't tell me you had to ask a question.

279
00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,000
Who were you?

280
00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:29,000
In life, I was your partner, Jacob Marley.

281
00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,000
Okay, so he's dead.

282
00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,000
Yes, seven years, this night, Ebeneezer Scrooge.

283
00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,000
I said that earlier today, I know.

284
00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000
So why are you here?

285
00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,000
I must! It is commanded by me!

286
00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:48,000
I must wander the world and see what I can no longer share.

287
00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:52,000
And what I would not share when I walked where you do.

288
00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000
Yeah, no, that's fucking confusing.

289
00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,000
So you, like, have to do something with the chain?

290
00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,000
I don't know.

291
00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,000
The chains, look at them.

292
00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,000
They are very shiny, Ebeneezer, study them.

293
00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,000
They are locks and bolts and gold coins.

294
00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,000
Seems heavy.

295
00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000
I forged them.

296
00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,000
I crafted them with deco pot.

297
00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,000
Each link, each day, when I sat in these chairs,

298
00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,000
commanded these rooms, greet Ebeneezer and Vel,

299
00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,000
feel them, know them.

300
00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:29,000
Yours was as heavy as this I wear seven years ago,

301
00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,000
and you have labored to build it since.

302
00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:38,000
So, if you're here to, like, give me a talk and lecture me and stuff,

303
00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,000
like, I don't have time for that.

304
00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,000
It's really late, it's cold, I don't know if you know that,

305
00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,000
and I would like my comforts now.

306
00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,000
Oh, I have no comfort for you.

307
00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:49,000
I know not how you see me this night.

308
00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,000
I did not ask it.

309
00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,000
I was like, Scrooge, I don't want to see him, not on Christmas.

310
00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,000
I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day.

311
00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:58,000
That's creepy.

312
00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,000
Wishing that I could see you, but not tonight specifically.

313
00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:06,000
I was out on a date, and then they sent me here with these chains again.

314
00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000
I am commanded to bring you a chance, Ebeneezer.

315
00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,000
Heed it!

316
00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,000
Okay, get on with it then.

317
00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:18,000
You are going to be haunted tonight by three spirits.

318
00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,000
Is that, is that, yeah, okay.

319
00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000
Yeah, yeah, mark it, three spirits.

320
00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,000
Yeah, no, no, I don't, no, I will not mark it.

321
00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:31,000
Oh, then I will walk where I do.

322
00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,000
Yeah, you should walk where you do.

323
00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000
Burdened by your riches, your greed.

324
00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000
I'm burdened?

325
00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,000
Okay, listen, ghosts don't mean, they don't mean nothing to me.

326
00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:43,000
Oh, I'm going to slowly back away now.

327
00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:48,000
Expect the first tomorrow when the bell tolls one,

328
00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:52,000
the second the next night at the same hour,

329
00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,000
and the third upon the next night when the last stroke of twelve has ended.

330
00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,000
So like the same hour?

331
00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,000
Look to see me no more.

332
00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000
I've left the room.

333
00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:05,000
I must wander and echo through your halls.

334
00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,000
Look over there!

335
00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,000
What? No.

336
00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,000
Jacob, don't, don't, that was fucking stupid.

337
00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,000
Jacob!

338
00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,000
Goodbye, Ebeneezer!

339
00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:18,000
At Marley's last words, a funeral procession begins to move across the stage.

340
00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,000
A boy walks in front, a priest follows, swinging a censer.

341
00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,000
Sounds of mourning and the suggestion of church music are heard.

342
00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000
Scrooge calls out.

343
00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,000
Jacob, don't leave me!

344
00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:35,000
As if talking in the midst of a bad dream, Scrooge pulls shut the bed curtains.

345
00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,000
The bell sounds are picked up.

346
00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000
The clock begins to chime, ringing the hours.

347
00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000
I need fucking pills.

348
00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,000
Scrooge sits up in bed and begins to count the chimes.

349
00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:47,000
Okay, eight, nine, ten, eleven.

350
00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000
What? It can't be.

351
00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,000
Twelve? Midnight?

352
00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,000
No, not twelve, it can't be.

353
00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,000
I haven't slept the whole day through.

354
00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,000
Twelve.

355
00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,000
Okay, yes, twelve noon.

356
00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,000
He hurries to the window and looks out.

357
00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000
Oh, black.

358
00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,000
Oh, twelve midnight.

359
00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000
Pause.

360
00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,000
I must get up, it's a day wasted.

361
00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000
I gotta get down to the office.

362
00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000
Two small chimes are heard.

363
00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,000
Well, that's quarter past, but it just rang twelve.

364
00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,000
Fifteen minutes hasn't gone past, that's too fast.

365
00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000
Again, two small chimes are heard.

366
00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000
It's a quarter to one.

367
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:27,000
The spirit, Molly said he would come at one.

368
00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,000
He hurries to his bed as the chimes ring again.

369
00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,000
One.

370
00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:50,000
The hour is struck again by a large street clock and the first spirit appears.

371
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,000
It is a figure dressed to look like a little girl's doll.

372
00:19:54,000 --> 00:20:02,000
Are you the spirit who's coming to me that Molly said was coming?

373
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,000
I am.

374
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:11,000
Oh, okay, who and what are you?

375
00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:16,000
I am the ghost of Christmas past.

376
00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:22,000
Like, like long past, like yesterday, like five years ago.

377
00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,000
Your past.

378
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,000
So why are you here?

379
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,000
Your welfare.

380
00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,000
Rise, walk with me.

381
00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:40,000
Okay, but I'm just like a mortal person and I can't just float through the air.

382
00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000
My hand.

383
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:47,000
Scrooge grasps the spirit hand tightly and the doll's bells ring softly.

384
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:52,000
Scrooge remembers a scene from his past in which two boys greet each other in the street.

385
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,000
Hello, Jack.

386
00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:54,000
Ben.

387
00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,000
Merry Christmas, Ben.

388
00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,000
Jack Walton?

389
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,000
Young Jack Walton.

390
00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,000
Spirits, what is?

391
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,000
Well, have a good holiday, Jack.

392
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,000
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember him.

393
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,000
Both of them.

394
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:11,000
That's little Ben Benjamin and he used to...

395
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,000
See you next term, Jack.

396
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,000
Next term.

397
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:20,000
Oh, yeah, they're off of the holidays and going home from school because it's Christmas time and all the children off home now.

398
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,000
And well, okay, well, no, not all the children there.

399
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,000
There was one.

400
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:33,000
The spirit motions for Scrooge to turn and he sees a young boy playing with a teddy bear and talking to it.

401
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,000
Yeah, reading.

402
00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000
Poor kid.

403
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,000
What?

404
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,000
I wonder.

405
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,000
Reading?

406
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000
Oh, it was nothing.

407
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,000
All fantasy and make believe and take me away and shit like that.

408
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,000
Yeah, all of it.

409
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,000
It's just it's all nonsense.

410
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,000
Alibaba.

411
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000
Yeah, that was it.

412
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:59,000
Genie, take me to the gates of Damascus.

413
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000
Yes, old master.

414
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:06,000
And jewels I shall bring you and gold and myrrh and frankincense.

415
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,000
And they put him down.

416
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,000
Do you remember?

417
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:13,000
That silly one at the gate of Damascus in his under drawers asleep.

418
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,000
Yes.

419
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,000
Yes.

420
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:19,000
The genie turned the sultan's groom upside down and stood him on his head.

421
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,000
Served him right, I say.

422
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,000
And all the thieves and the jars of oil.

423
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,000
Scrooge pretends to stab the jars of oil with his scimitar.

424
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,000
Yes.

425
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,000
Yes.

426
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,000
And running them true.

427
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,000
This and this and this for each of you.

428
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000
Yes.

429
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,000
And remember?

430
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,000
Do you remember?

431
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000
Remember Robinson Crusoe?

432
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:37,000
And the parrot.

433
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,000
It was the parrot I loved him best.

434
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000
Imitating the parrot.

435
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:46,000
With his stripey green body and yellow tail drooping along and couldn't sing.

436
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,000
But could talk.

437
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,000
And a thing like lettuce grown out the top of his head.

438
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,000
And he used to sit on the very top of the tree up there.

439
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,000
And Robinson Crusoe sailed around the island.

440
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000
And he thought the parrot said.

441
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,000
The parrot said.

442
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,000
Robinson Crusoe, where you been?

443
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000
Robinson Crusoe, where you been?

444
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,000
And Robinson Crusoe looked up in the tree.

445
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:16,000
He saw the parrot and he knew he hadn't escaped and he was still there.

446
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,000
He's still alone there.

447
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,000
Poor Robinson Crusoe.

448
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,000
Poor Robinson Crusoe.

449
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000
Poor kid.

450
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000
Poor kid.

451
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000
Why poor?

452
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,000
It's all fantasy.

453
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,000
He tries to mask his feelings by being impolite.

454
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,000
But it's his way, you know.

455
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,000
It's a kid's way to lose being alone and just dreaming.

456
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,000
And that doesn't matter because it's all nonsense.

457
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,000
Yeah.

458
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,000
It's just nonsense.

459
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,000
But he's going to be alright.

460
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000
He's going to grow out of it.

461
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,000
Yeah.

462
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,000
He did grow out of it.

463
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,000
All that nonsense.

464
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,000
Became a man.

465
00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,000
And left there.

466
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000
And he became.

467
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,000
Yeah.

468
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,000
Yeah.

469
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,000
A man.

470
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,000
And yeah.

471
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,000
And successful.

472
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,000
And rich.

473
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,000
The sadness returns.

474
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000
Never matter.

475
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000
Never matter.

476
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:19,000
Fan, Scrooge's sister, runs in and goes to Child Scrooge.

477
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,000
Fan?

478
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,000
Brother.

479
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,000
Dear brother.

480
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,000
She kisses Child Scrooge.

481
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,000
Dear dear Fan.

482
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,000
I've come to bring you home.

483
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,000
Home for good and ever.

484
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,000
Come with me.

485
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,000
Come now.

486
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000
She takes his hand and they start to run off,

487
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:44,000
but the spirit stops them and signals for the light on them to fade.

488
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,000
They look at the spirit,

489
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,000
aware of their role in the spirit's education of Scrooge.

490
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:52,000
Well, let me watch him go.

491
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,000
Let him be happy for like a minute.

492
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,000
The spirit says nothing.

493
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,000
Scrooge turns away from them and the light goes out.

494
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,000
A delicate, delicate child.

495
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,000
Like a soft breeze might have blown her over.

496
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:12,000
She dies a woman and had, as I remember, children.

497
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000
One child.

498
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000
Your nephew?

499
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,000
Yes.

500
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,000
Yeah.

501
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,000
Fred.

502
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,000
My nephew.

503
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,000
Scrooge pauses, then tries to bluster through.

504
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,000
Well, all of us have that, haven't we?

505
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,000
Like childhood, sadness, trauma.

506
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,000
But we grow and we become men.

507
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,000
Masters of ourselves.

508
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,000
The spirit gestures for the music, Fezzowig's Party, to begin.

509
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,000
It is heard first as from a great distance.

510
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000
Then Scrooge becomes aware of it.

511
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000
I've no time for it, spirit.

512
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,000
Music?

513
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000
And now your Christmas bullshit?

514
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,000
Yes, yes.

515
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000
I've learned what you have to show me.

516
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:54,000
Fezzowig, young Ebenezer, and Dick appear busily preparing for the party.

517
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,000
Oh, there.

518
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,000
Ebenezer, Dick, come on in.

519
00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,000
Fezzowig?

520
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,000
It's old Fezzowig that I apprentice under.

521
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,000
Your master?

522
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:04,000
Oh, yes.

523
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000
And the best that any boy could have.

524
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,000
And there's Dick Wilkins.

525
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,000
Oh, God.

526
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,000
He was very much attached to me, was Dick.

527
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,000
Oh, poor Dick.

528
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000
My boys, my boys, no more work tonight.

529
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000
Step away from your stations.

530
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,000
It's Christmas Eve.

531
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,000
Ebenezer, Dick, stop the work.

532
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,000
Let's have the shutters up before a man can say

533
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:24,000
Jack Robinson.

534
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,000
The music continues.

535
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,000
Chandeliers are pulled into position.

536
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,000
And Mistletoe, Holly, and Ivy are draped over everything

537
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,000
by buffling servants.

538
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,000
Dancers fill the stage for Fezzowig's wonderful Christmas party.

539
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,000
In the midst of the dancing and the laughter,

540
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,000
servants pass back and forth through the crowd

541
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000
with huge platters of food.

542
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000
At a pause in the music, young Ebenezer,

543
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000
who was dancing, calls out.

544
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,000
Mr. Fezzowig, sir, you're a wonderful master.

545
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000
A wonderful master.

546
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,000
A wonderful master.

547
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,000
The music changes suddenly, and the dancers

548
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000
jerk into distorted postures

549
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,000
and then begin to move in slow motion.

550
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,000
The celebrants slowly exit,

551
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000
performing a ghoulish dance to the jarring sounds.

552
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,000
Well, that's fucking weird.

553
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,000
That was creepy.

554
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,000
Just because he gave us a party,

555
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,000
it was very small.

556
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,000
Small?

557
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,000
He spent a few pounds of your mortal money.

558
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,000
Three, four at the most.

559
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,000
Is that so much that he deserves this praise?

560
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,000
Yeah, okay, but listen.

561
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,000
It wasn't about the money.

562
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,000
He had the power to make us happy,

563
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,000
to make our service light,

564
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000
or give us a shit-ton of work.

565
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,000
The happiness he gives us

566
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000
quite as great as if it had cost a fortune.

567
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,000
That's what a good master is.

568
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,000
Yes?

569
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,000
Uh, nothing.

570
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,000
Something, I think.

571
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,000
Well, I should like to be able to say

572
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,000
a word or two to my clerk just now.

573
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,000
That's all.

574
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,000
But this is all in your past.

575
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000
Your clerk, Cratchit, couldn't be here.

576
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000
No, no, no, no, of course not.

577
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,000
It was an idle thought.

578
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,000
Are we done?

579
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,000
Motioning for the waltz music to begin.

580
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,000
Nearly.

581
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000
Hearing the waltz and remembering it.

582
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,000
Oh, surely it's enough.

583
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,000
Haven't you tormented me enough?

584
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,000
Young Ebenezer has seen waltzing

585
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000
with his sweetheart.

586
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,000
I only show the past,

587
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,000
what it promised you.

588
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,000
Look, another promise.

589
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,000
Oh, oh, yes.

590
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,000
I'd forgotten her.

591
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000
Don't they dance beautifully?

592
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,000
So young, so young.

593
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,000
I would have married her if only...

594
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,000
Can you love me, sweet Ebenezer,

595
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,000
a simple janitor?

596
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,000
I bring no dowry into my marriage,

597
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,000
only me, only love.

598
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,000
It is no currency that you can buy and sell with,

599
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,000
but we can live with it.

600
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,000
Can you?

601
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,000
She pauses, then returns the ring

602
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,000
Scrooge gave her as his pledge.

603
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000
I release you, sweet Ebenezer,

604
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000
for the love of the man you once were.

605
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,000
Will that man win me again

606
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000
now that he is free?

607
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,000
If only it held me to it.

608
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000
You shouldn't have let me go.

609
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,000
I was young, I did love you.

610
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,000
We have never lied to one another.

611
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,000
May you be happy in the life you have chosen.

612
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,000
Goodbye!

613
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,000
She runs out.

614
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,000
Young Ebenezer slowly leaves.

615
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:36,000
No, no, it didn't go down like that.

616
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000
You cannot change now,

617
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,000
what you would not change then.

618
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,000
I am your mistakes, Ebenezer Scrooge.

619
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,000
All of the things you could have done and did not.

620
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,000
Then go.

621
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,000
I've done with them.

622
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,000
I'll live with them.

623
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,000
I've been living with them,

624
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,000
and I'll continue to live with them.

625
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000
There is another Christmas,

626
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,000
seven years ago,

627
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,000
when Marley died.

628
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,000
No.

629
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,000
I will not see it.

630
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,000
I will not.

631
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,000
He dies.

632
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,000
I couldn't prevent it.

633
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,000
I couldn't stop it.

634
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,000
I didn't choose for him to die on Christmas Day, okay?

635
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000
And when his day was chosen,

636
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,000
what did you do then?

637
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,000
Well, I looked after his affairs.

638
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,000
His business.

639
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,000
Yes, his business.

640
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,000
Mine.

641
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000
It was all I had.

642
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,000
All I could do in this world.

643
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,000
I have nothing to do with the world that comes after.

644
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,000
Then I will leave you.

645
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,000
Hold up.

646
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,000
Not yet.

647
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,000
No, you can't leave me here.

648
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,000
You gotta tell me what I have to do.

649
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,000
What's going on with the other spirits?

650
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,000
They will come.

651
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:45,000
Bond you?

652
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,000
What are you gonna do?

653
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000
I am always with you.

654
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,000
Oh, that's creepy.

655
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,000
Scrooge numbly heads to bed.

656
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000
Signal the chiming of Scrooge's bell.

657
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000
Scrooge sits upright in bed as he hears the chimes.

658
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,000
One minute until when?

659
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,000
No one here?

660
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,000
Well, no one's coming.

661
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,000
A larger clock strikes one o'clock.

662
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,000
A light comes on.

663
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,000
Scrooge becomes aware of it and goes slowly to it.

664
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,000
He sees the second spirit, the spirit of Christmas present,

665
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,000
who looks like Fezzowick.

666
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,000
Fezzowick?

667
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,000
Hello, Scrooge.

668
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,000
But you can't be.

669
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000
Not Fezzowick.

670
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,000
Is that who you see me as?

671
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,000
Yeah.

672
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,000
Well, do you hear me as him as well?

673
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,000
Uh-huh, yeah.

674
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,000
Well, you should probably get your eyes and ears checked, old man,

675
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,000
because I am not that gentleman.

676
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000
So I'm sorry to disappoint you.

677
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,000
But you're not...

678
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,000
No, no I'm not, Scrooge.

679
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,000
You have never seen the like of me before.

680
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,000
I am the ghost of Christmas present,

681
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,000
here to give you...

682
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,000
Hold on.

683
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,000
You still choose to see what you will, don't you, Scrooge?

684
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,000
But you're not going to see it anymore.

685
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,000
Not if you take a walk with me on this Christmas Eve.

686
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,000
Would you take a walk with me?

687
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,000
Yeah, I'm in my...

688
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,000
I'm in my jammies.

689
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000
Oh, don't worry about that.

690
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,000
Take my tails, dear boy,

691
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,000
for we're heading out into the world.

692
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,000
Like the edges of your pants?

693
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,000
No, my tail.

694
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:36,000
I am a spirit with a tail.

695
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,000
That's what I wanted when I took the role, so...

696
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,000
Just grab the tail.

697
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,000
It's totally fine.

698
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,000
Oh, okay.

699
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,000
Don't wag it.

700
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,000
It's weird.

701
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,000
Wait, wait, hold on.

702
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,000
You're wagging it.

703
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,000
Just...

704
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,000
Okay, let's go.

705
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,000
What is it now?

706
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,000
Wait.

707
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000
Christmas present, you said?

708
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,000
That I did.

709
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000
Then we're traveling here?

710
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,000
Yes.

711
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,000
In this town?

712
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,000
Yeah.

713
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,000
Yeah, of course.

714
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,000
Okay, then we could walk, right?

715
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,000
Because you fly in, well, it's...

716
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,000
It's too much for an old man's hut.

717
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000
The first one didn't talk about...

718
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,000
They definitely did.

719
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,000
I know them fairly well.

720
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,000
So it's your Christmas, Scoot.

721
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,000
Scooch.

722
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,000
That's what they used to call me when I was a kid.

723
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000
And it's really offensive, and I don't like it.

724
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,000
I apologize.

725
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,000
I apologize, Scooch.

726
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,000
Scrooge.

727
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,000
It's your Christmas.

728
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,000
I am merely the guide.

729
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,000
Can we whack?

730
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,000
Fine.

731
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,000
The spirit nods.

732
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,000
Ugh.

733
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,000
Okay, well, we a guide meet you.

734
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,000
Oh, you're gonna like this one.

735
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,000
Are you ready?

736
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,000
You ready?

737
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,000
No.

738
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,000
I've been ready this whole time.

739
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,000
Well, get ready.

740
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,000
It's Bob Cratchit's.

741
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,000
Let's go.

742
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000
My clerk?

743
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,000
Yeah, you said you wanted to talk to him.

744
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,000
That's...

745
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,000
That's what Christmas Past told me.

746
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,000
Don't worry if you don't want to talk to Bob.

747
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,000
You won't have to.

748
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000
In fact, it may be better that way.

749
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000
Yeah, well, you know, it shouldn't be too much of a trip.

750
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,000
With 15 Bob a week, how far off can it be?

751
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,000
It's a world away, Scrooge.

752
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,000
At least that far.

753
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,000
Scrooge and the spirit start to step off a curb

754
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,000
when a funeral procession enters with the child's coffin,

755
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,000
followed by the poor house children who are singing.

756
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,000
Follow them, Scrooge.

757
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,000
Follow the music.

758
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,000
The procession follows the coffin off stage.

759
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,000
Scrooge and the spirit exit after the procession.

760
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,000
As they leave, the lights focus on Mrs. Cratchit and her children.

761
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,000
Mrs. Cratchit sings as she puts Tiny Tim and the other children to bed,

762
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,000
all in one bed.

763
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,000
She pulls a dark blanket over them.

764
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:42,000
When you wake, you shall have all the pretty little horses,

765
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:53,000
demon steeds, poison breath freed, all the pretty demon horses.

766
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:57,000
Go to sleep now, all of you.

767
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,000
Tomorrow is Christmas.

768
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,000
She kisses them and goes to Bob Cratchit, who is by the hearth.

769
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,000
How did Tiny Tim behave?

770
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,000
Oh, as good as can be expected.

771
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000
And better.

772
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,000
You know, he told me it was super cute coming home,

773
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,000
that he hoped people might see him in the church

774
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000
because he's differently abled

775
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:27,000
and they might be able to reflect on how good they have it.

776
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:31,000
That's kind of fucked up.

777
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,000
But he's a good boy.

778
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000
The second spirit and Scrooge enter.

779
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,000
Mrs. Cratchit feels a sudden draft.

780
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,000
Oh.

781
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000
The wind.

782
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,000
Hurry.

783
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,000
She gets up and shuts the door.

784
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,000
Hurry along, Scrooge.

785
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Quick.

786
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,000
Like the wind here.

787
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,000
He nudges Scrooge in before Mrs. Cratchit shuts the door.

788
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,000
I'm coming.

789
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,000
She hardly has spitables, what I'd say.

790
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,000
Oh, I think they'd say a great deal more, Scrooge,

791
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,000
if only they could see you.

792
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,000
Oh, they should, should they?

793
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,000
Well, I might have a word for them.

794
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,000
You're here to listen?

795
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,000
Oh, oh, yes.

796
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,000
All right, well, then would you like to sit by the fire, please?

797
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,000
Fine.

798
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000
Okay, but not a word.

799
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,000
No.

800
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,000
No talking, all listening.

801
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,000
You too.

802
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,000
Believe me, I've got this down now.

803
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,000
I think Bob's about to speak, so pay attention to this.

804
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:27,000
Raising his glass, my dear, to Mr. Scrooge.

805
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,000
I give you Mr. Scrooge, the founder of the feast.

806
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,000
Lord of the feast, indeed.

807
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:38,000
If I had him here, I'd give him the flat of my axe to feast upon.

808
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,000
I'm sure he'd have a good appetite for it.

809
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,000
Not surprising.

810
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,000
My dear, it is Christmas Eve.

811
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Yes, Christmas Eve, where we drink to the health of the cowardly, the odious,

812
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:59,000
the stingy, hard, unfeeling men like Mr. Scrooge.

813
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,000
You know he is, Robert.

814
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:07,000
Nobody knows it better than you do, poor dear.

815
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,000
Oh, boy, you only call me Robert when you're angry.

816
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:17,000
Well, I know there's one thing, and that's on Christmas, one must be charitable.

817
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:23,000
I'll drink a flagon to his health for your sake before the days,

818
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,000
and not to waste the ale.

819
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,000
Not for his.

820
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,000
Long life to him.

821
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,000
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.

822
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:39,000
He'll be very merry, I have no doubt.

823
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:44,000
Well, if he cannot be, we must be happy for him.

824
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,000
A song, a song is what's needed.

825
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,000
Shush!

826
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,000
Tim!

827
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,000
I just got them down.

828
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,000
He needs all the sleep he can get.

829
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,000
Oh, if Tim's asleep on Christmas Eve, I'll be much mistaken.

830
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,000
Tim! Tim!

831
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,000
He must sing, dear.

832
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,000
There's nothing else that might make him well.

833
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,000
That's not how this works.

834
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,000
What's up?

835
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,000
You up?

836
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,000
Just a little bit.

837
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,000
A song, then.

838
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,000
Entertain us.

839
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,000
One of Dad's rousing midnight song times.

840
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,000
Yeah, let's go sing a song.

841
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,000
Okay, let's do this.

842
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,000
Here we go.

843
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,000
What child is this?

844
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:23,000
I don't know.

845
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:27,000
Ready, and a three, and a two, and a one, two, three.

846
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,000
What child is this?

847
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:36,000
I don't know the words.

848
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,000
Every time, I know I've fucked it up.

849
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,000
Sorry, Dad.

850
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,000
As they sing, Scrooge speaks.

851
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,000
Spirit.

852
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,000
Yeah, one second.

853
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,000
He holds up his hand.

854
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000
I'll stop singing and look at him.

855
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,000
Oh, yeah.

856
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,000
I've seen enough.

857
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,000
When the spirit signals to the children,

858
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,000
they leave the stage, singing the carol quietly.

859
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,000
Tiny Tim remains, covered completely by the dark blanket,

860
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,000
disappearing against the black.

861
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,000
Tiny Tim, will he live?

862
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,000
Oh, I'm sure he'll be fine.

863
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,000
No, Scrooge, he's very ill.

864
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:13,000
Oh, God.

865
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000
I don't know when the last time you went and saw a doctor was,

866
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:20,000
but they typically don't prescribe music as medicine.

867
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,000
Oh, yeah.

868
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,000
Well, I mean, that's, yeah, that's reasonable,

869
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,000
but you still haven't answered my question.

870
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Imitating Scrooge.

871
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000
If he be like today, he had better do it

872
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,000
and decrease the seropelous population.

873
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,000
Scrooge turns away.

874
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,000
Erase, Scrooge.

875
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,000
Erase those words from your thoughts.

876
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,000
You are not the judge, so do not judge.

877
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000
It may be that in the sight of heaven,

878
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,000
you are more worthless and less fit to live

879
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,000
than millions like this poor man's child.

880
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,000
And oh, the gods, to hear an insect on a leaf

881
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,000
pronouncing that there's too much life

882
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,000
among hid, hungry brothers in the dust.

883
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,000
Well, to that, I say goodbye, Scrooge.

884
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:11,000
Wait, wait, but is there no happiness in Christmas present?

885
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,000
What would you do with happiness?

886
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,000
There is.

887
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000
Well, take me there.

888
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,000
It's at the home of your nephew, Scrooge.

889
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,000
Nope, nope, nope, never mind.

890
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,000
Then there is none.

891
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,000
But that isn't enough.

892
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,000
You've got to teach me.

893
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000
It's your job.

894
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,000
Would you even have a teacher, Scrooge?

895
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,000
Take a look at your own words.

896
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:38,000
Well, the first spirit gave me more.

897
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,000
Yes, the past.

898
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,000
Me?

899
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,000
I only have this day, one day,

900
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,000
and I am stuck with you, Scrooge.

901
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,000
I have nearly lived my fill of both.

902
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,000
Christmas present must be gone at midnight.

903
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,000
That is near now.

904
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000
He speaks to two beggar children

905
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,000
who pause shyly at the far side of the stage.

906
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000
The children are thin and sickly.

907
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,000
They are barefoot and wear filthy rags.

908
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,000
Come to me, children.

909
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,000
They go to him.

910
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:13,000
Is this the last spirit who's come to me?

911
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,000
No, Scrooge, it is not.

912
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000
They are no spirits.

913
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,000
These are, well, they're real.

914
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,000
This one's hunger.

915
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,000
Hey.

916
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,000
And this one, ignorance.

917
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:24,000
Uh-uh.

918
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000
No, not spirits, Scrooge.

919
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000
They are but passing dreams.

920
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,000
But they are real, and they walk your streets.

921
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:35,000
They look to people like you for comfort.

922
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,000
But you deny them.

923
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,000
And if you deny them too long, Scrooge,

924
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,000
they will grow and multiply,

925
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,000
and they will not remain children,

926
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,000
if you understand my meaning.

927
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,000
Well, don't they have any where to go,

928
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,000
like a place for help?

929
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:51,000
Again, imitating Scrooge.

930
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:52,000
Are there no prisons?

931
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,000
Are there no workhouses?

932
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,000
Tenderly to the children.

933
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,000
Come, children.

934
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,000
It's Christmas Eve.

935
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,000
Let's leave this miser to himself.

936
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,000
He leads the children off stage.

937
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,000
I don't sound like that.

938
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,000
I don't sound like that.

939
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,000
Scrooge is entirely alone for a long moment.

940
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,000
He is frightened by the darkness

941
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,000
and feels it approaching him.

942
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,000
Suddenly he stops,

943
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,000
senses the presence of the third spirit,

944
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,000
turns towards him and sees him.

945
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,000
The spirit is bent and cloaked.

946
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,000
No physical features are distinguishable.

947
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,000
You are the third.

948
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,000
The spirit says nothing.

949
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,000
Uh, nothing.

950
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:43,000
Uh, the ghost of Christmas yet to come?

951
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,000
The spirit says nothing.

952
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,000
Oh, well, that's not going to get very far.

953
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,000
Yeah, that's me.

954
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,000
Okay, so you can't speak to me then,

955
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,000
so you tell me what's going to happen to me,

956
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,000
to all of us.

957
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,000
The spirit says nothing.

958
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,000
Oh, this guy is just telling me to say nothing.

959
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,000
Well, just, you know, just come along over here.

960
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,000
Okay, you're going to show me what I got to see?

961
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,000
Yeah, like, look.

962
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,000
The spirit points.

963
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,000
Light illuminates the shadows of Scrooge's house.

964
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:13,000
Recognize that house?

965
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,000
Well, yeah, I know it.

966
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,000
Yeah, it's the house you're in.

967
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,000
I know it well.

968
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,000
It's the house Scrooge built.

969
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,000
That's right, it's cold, it's cheerless, it's mine.

970
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,000
The cook and the charwoman are dimly visible

971
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:23,000
in Scrooge's house.

972
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,000
What is, what the fuck?

973
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,000
The thieves, the thieves in my rooms!

974
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,000
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

975
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:31,000
Coolant?

976
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,000
He starts forward to confront them,

977
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,000
but the spirit beckons for him to stop.

978
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,000
Hold on, I'm holding you back.

979
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,000
I cannot, you can't tell me that I gotta watch him

980
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,000
and do nothing?

981
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:42,000
This is the Christmas future.

982
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,000
You can't affect that.

983
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:44,000
You're a spirit now, too.

984
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,000
I will not, it is mine still.

985
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,000
He rushes into the house to claim his belongings

986
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,000
and to protect them.

987
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,000
The two women do not notice his presence.

988
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,000
Well, he, uh, he ain't about, is he?

989
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,000
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

990
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,000
Well, let's try another new laugh.

991
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,000
Okay, cool.

992
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:03,000
Uh, poor old Scrooge just met his end again.

993
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:04,000
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

994
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,000
Oh, yeah, still sticking with it.

995
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,000
I like this one.

996
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,000
Yeah, that's fair.

997
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:08,000
It's good.

998
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,000
It fits you well.

999
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,000
And time for it, too.

1000
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:15,000
Ain't been alive, indeed, for Raffy's life.

1001
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:16,000
Alive?

1002
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,000
Okay, now I hate asking this question,

1003
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,000
but the sparse, it's nowhere, is he?

1004
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,000
Emerging from the blackness.

1005
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,000
I emerge from the darkness.

1006
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,000
Oh, shit.

1007
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,000
Where, where it is my home

1008
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,000
in the blackness and the darkness?

1009
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,000
Why have you been looking for Sparset?

1010
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,000
The cook shrieks,

1011
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,000
but the charwoman treats the matter more practically,

1012
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,000
anticipating competition from Sparset.

1013
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,000
Look, now, get out of here.

1014
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,000
There ain't enough before the two of us.

1015
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,000
More than enough if you know where to look

1016
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,000
in the shadows.

1017
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:51,000
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

1018
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,000
He's hardly, hardly decent

1019
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,000
is what I'd say, hardly decent.

1020
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,000
Oh, the poor old fella, hardly no.

1021
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:58,000
He's hardly cold,

1022
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,000
and you're thieving his wardrobe.

1023
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,000
What's hot coat?

1024
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,000
Oh, there's no time for that.

1025
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,000
Sparset acknowledges Scrooge for the first time,

1026
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,000
gesturing towards him

1027
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,000
as if the living Scrooge were the corpse.

1028
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,000
Scrooge stands as if rooted to the spot,

1029
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,000
held there by the power of the spirit.

1030
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:15,000
What the hell?

1031
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,000
He isn't about to bother us, is he?

1032
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,000
Well, ain't he a picture?

1033
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,000
Oh, he isn't a happy one.

1034
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,000
He isn't a happy one.

1035
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,000
Ladies, shall we start?

1036
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:38,000
The three of them grin and advance on Scrooge,

1037
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:41,000
snatching the cufflinks from the shirt Scrooge wears.

1038
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:42,000
Hey.

1039
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,000
Oh, they're gold, ain't they?

1040
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,000
The purest, madam.

1041
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:47,000
Those are mine.

1042
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,000
I always had a fancy for that knight capes.

1043
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,000
My old man could use it.

1044
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,000
She takes the knight cap from Scrooge's head.

1045
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,000
Sparset playfully removes Scrooge's outer garment,

1046
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,000
the coat or cloak that he has worn in the previous scenes.

1047
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,000
Excuse me?

1048
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,000
Be a man of practical tastes.

1049
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,000
Born in the darkness, I will go for the worsted

1050
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,000
and hope that the smell is not permanent.

1051
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,000
Cook, we go around again.

1052
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,000
I think that little bell he's always ringing at me

1053
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,000
is silver enough to sell.

1054
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,000
The three of them move toward the nightstand,

1055
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,000
and Scrooge cries out.

1056
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,000
No more! No more!

1057
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,000
As the spirit directs Scrooge's attention

1058
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,000
to the tableau of the three thieves

1059
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,000
standing poised over the silver bell,

1060
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,000
Scrooge bursts out of the house,

1061
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,000
clad only in his knight shirt.

1062
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,000
Listen, I know I'm half naked, but I cannot.

1063
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:44,000
I can't.

1064
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,000
This room, it's too, like a cheerless place

1065
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,000
and it's like so familiar and I won't see it.

1066
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,000
Let's go. Let's go anywhere but here.

1067
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,000
I mean, you decorated it, but yeah, sure.

1068
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,000
Let's look at house number two.

1069
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:57,000
Come on down.

1070
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,000
The spirit directs his attention to the Cratchit house.

1071
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,000
The children are sitting together near Ms. Cratchit,

1072
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,000
who is sewing a coat.

1073
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,000
Peter reads by the light of the coals.

1074
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,000
And he took a child and sat him in the midst of them,

1075
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,000
putting her hand to her face.

1076
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,000
The light tires my eyes so.

1077
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:16,000
Pause.

1078
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,000
They're better now.

1079
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:22,000
It makes them tired to try to see by firelight.

1080
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:26,000
And I would not show reddened eyes to your father

1081
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,000
when he comes home from the world.

1082
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:32,000
It must be near his time now.

1083
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,000
Pasty to think.

1084
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,000
But he walks slower than he used to

1085
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:41,000
these last few days, mother.

1086
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:44,000
I have known him to walk with tiny Tim

1087
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:48,000
upon his shoulder very fast indeed.

1088
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,000
She catches herself, then hurries on.

1089
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:54,000
But he was very light to carry,

1090
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,000
and his father loved him,

1091
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,000
so that was no trouble.

1092
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,000
No trouble.

1093
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,000
She hears Bob Cratchit approaching.

1094
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,000
Smiles, everyone.

1095
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,000
Smiles.

1096
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,000
Entering.

1097
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,000
My dear, Peter.

1098
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,000
All the other children.

1099
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:15,000
How's it coming?

1100
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:16,000
Handing him the coat.

1101
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,000
Nearly done.

1102
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,000
Yes, yes, good, good, good.

1103
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,000
I'm sure that it will be done long before Sunday.

1104
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,000
Sunday.

1105
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,000
You went today, then, Robert.

1106
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,000
Yes, it's already.

1107
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:35,000
Two o'clock and a nice place.

1108
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,000
It would have done you good to see how green it is.

1109
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:39,000
But you'll see it often.

1110
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,000
I promised him that.

1111
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,000
That I would walk there on Sunday often.

1112
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,000
We mustn't hurt ourselves for it, Robert.

1113
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,000
No, no, he wouldn't have wanted that.

1114
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:51,000
But come now.

1115
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,000
You won't guess who I've seen.

1116
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,000
Scrooge's nephew, Fred.

1117
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,000
And he asked after us,

1118
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,000
and he said he was heartily sorry,

1119
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,000
and to give his respect to my good wife.

1120
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,000
How he ever knew that, I don't know.

1121
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,000
Knew what, my dear?

1122
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,000
Why, that you were a good wife.

1123
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:10,000
Everybody knows that.

1124
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,000
Well, I hope that they do.

1125
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:15,000
Heartily sorry, he said, for your good wife.

1126
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,000
And if I can be of service to you in any way,

1127
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,000
then he gave me his card.

1128
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:21,000
That's where I live.

1129
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,000
And Peter, I shouldn't be at all surprised

1130
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,000
if he got you a position.

1131
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,000
Only hear that, Peter.

1132
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:30,000
And then you'll be keeping company

1133
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,000
with some young girl and setting up for yourself.

1134
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:33,000
Aw, come on.

1135
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:36,000
Well, it will happen one day.

1136
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,000
But remember, when that day comes, as it must,

1137
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,000
we must none of us forget poor Tiny Tim

1138
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,000
and this first parting in our family.

1139
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,000
He died?

1140
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,000
No.

1141
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,000
No.

1142
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,000
He steps back, and the scene disappears.

1143
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,000
He moves away from the spirit.

1144
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,000
Because he wouldn't.

1145
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,000
No, you can't tell me that he died.

1146
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,000
For that Christmas hasn't happened yet.

1147
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,000
And I will let it happen.

1148
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,000
I'll be there.

1149
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:15,000
Yeah, me.

1150
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,000
And yeah, I knew it.

1151
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,000
And I couldn't look.

1152
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,000
And I won't be able to help.

1153
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:22,000
I won't.

1154
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:26,000
But spirit, hear me.

1155
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,000
I'm not the man I was.

1156
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:32,000
I won't be that man that I've been all these years.

1157
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:36,000
So why show me all this if I'm past all hope?

1158
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:40,000
Assure me that yet I may change these shadows that you show me?

1159
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,000
Let the boy live.

1160
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,000
I'll honor Christmas in my heart

1161
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,000
and try to keep it there all the other days of the year.

1162
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:51,000
And I will in past, the present, and the future.

1163
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:55,000
The spirits of all three is going to live within me.

1164
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:58,000
But not in a weird way, but like in my heart and stuff.

1165
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:01,000
And I won't shadow the lessons that I was taught today.

1166
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,000
Just tell me that I'm not too late.

1167
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,000
Blackout!

1168
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:13,000
When the lights come up again, Scrooge is in bed.

1169
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,000
The third spirit has disappeared.

1170
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:18,000
Scrooge awakens and looks around his room.

1171
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,000
The curtains.

1172
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,000
They're mine and they're real.

1173
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:23,000
And they're not sold.

1174
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:24,000
They're here.

1175
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:25,000
And I'm here.

1176
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,000
And I have to give a raise to my house help.

1177
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,000
Because otherwise when I die, they're going to rob me blind.

1178
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,000
And I don't blame them.

1179
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:34,000
And I'm here.

1180
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,000
The shadows has been dispelled.

1181
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,000
And they will be.

1182
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,000
I know they will be.

1183
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:41,000
He dresses himself hurriedly.

1184
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,000
I can't go out naked.

1185
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,000
That's a modesty law we have here.

1186
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,000
Now I don't know what to do.

1187
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,000
As light as a feather, I have a second life.

1188
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,000
I'm merry as a boy again.

1189
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:53,000
Merry Christmas.

1190
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,000
Merry Christmas.

1191
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,000
I've got to practice.

1192
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:58,000
Happy New Year to all the world.

1193
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,000
I don't think I've said those words in my entire life.

1194
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:02,000
Hello there.

1195
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:03,000
Whoop.

1196
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,000
I've never whooped before.

1197
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:06,000
Hello.

1198
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:07,000
What day of the month is it?

1199
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:08,000
That's a weird question to ask.

1200
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:11,000
But I'm wondering how long did the spirits keep me?

1201
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:12,000
Whatever.

1202
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:13,000
I don't care.

1203
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,000
He opens the window and calls to a boy on the street below.

1204
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:16,000
You there, boy.

1205
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,000
What's today?

1206
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,000
Eh?

1207
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:24,000
Like the day, my fine fellow.

1208
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,000
Today?

1209
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:29,000
Why, it's Christmas Day.

1210
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,000
I thought I was the dense one here.

1211
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:32,000
It's Christmas Day?

1212
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,000
I haven't missed it.

1213
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:36,000
The spirits have done it all in one night.

1214
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,000
Gosh, they can do anything, hey?

1215
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,000
Okay, so of course they can.

1216
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,000
Of course they can save Tim.

1217
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:43,000
Excuse me.

1218
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:44,000
Hello.

1219
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:45,000
Yes, my fine fellow.

1220
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,000
Hello?

1221
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:52,000
Do you know the Chickaneers in the next street in the corner?

1222
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,000
I should hope I do.

1223
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,000
Oh, you're so smart.

1224
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:59,000
Oh, a remarkable boy.

1225
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:03,000
Okay, so do you know whether they sold that prize turkey that was hanging up there?

1226
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:04,000
Not the small little one.

1227
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:05,000
That thing was bullshit.

1228
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:07,000
But like the really big one.

1229
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:10,000
The one as big as me?

1230
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,000
Yes, what a delightful boy.

1231
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:13,000
Yes, my bucko.

1232
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,000
Yeah, I'm a bucko.

1233
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,000
Yeah, you are.

1234
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:17,000
It's in there now.

1235
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,000
It's hanging in there.

1236
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:20,000
It is?

1237
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,000
Go and buy it.

1238
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,000
I don't have any money.

1239
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,000
No, no, for realsies.

1240
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:25,000
Go and buy it.

1241
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,000
And tell him to bring it here.

1242
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,000
And I'll pay him when they get here.

1243
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:31,000
Don't you worry about it.

1244
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:32,000
They know I'm good for it.

1245
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:35,000
And I'm going to give them the direction where to take it.

1246
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:36,000
Okay?

1247
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:39,000
So you come back with the butcher and the really big turkey.

1248
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:40,000
And I'll give you a shelling.

1249
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:44,000
Or if you come back in less than two minutes, I'll give you half a crown.

1250
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,000
You betcha.

1251
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,000
He exits.

1252
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,000
I'll send it to Bob Cratchits.

1253
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:53,000
He's not going to know who sent it.

1254
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,000
Oh, it's going to be twice the size of Tiny Tim.

1255
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,000
It really needs to make sure it doesn't fall on him.

1256
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,000
That would be a really dark twist in this story.

1257
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,000
But, like, what a Christmas dinner it'll make.

1258
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,000
Carolers suddenly appear, singing,

1259
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:10,000
Hark the herald angels sing.

1260
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:14,000
Scrooge leans out the window and joins them in the song.

1261
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:19,000
Glory to the newborn king.

1262
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:20,000
Oh, wow.

1263
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,000
Oh, God, I'm not dressed.

1264
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:23,000
I got to dress.

1265
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:24,000
I got to dress.

1266
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:25,000
Christmas day.

1267
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:26,000
I got to look my best.

1268
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,000
I got to look my best for such a day.

1269
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,000
Where's my silk shirt?

1270
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,000
The boy and the butcher run in with the turkey.

1271
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,000
Oh, God, I'm not dressed.

1272
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:36,000
What?

1273
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:37,000
You're back already?

1274
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,000
Whoa, that's a turkey.

1275
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,000
You can't carry that all the way back to the Cratchits.

1276
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:43,000
Okay, here, boy.

1277
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,000
Here's your half a crown.

1278
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,000
And here's an address in Camden Town.

1279
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:48,000
You see that?

1280
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:49,000
See that?

1281
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:50,000
It gets there.

1282
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,000
Here, money for the cap and for the turkey.

1283
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:53,000
And for you, good man.

1284
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:56,000
The boy and the butcher, delighted, catch the money and run out.

1285
00:54:56,000 --> 00:55:00,000
Scrooge sees the gentleman visitors walking by the window.

1286
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,000
Hello there.

1287
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,000
Oh, oh, hi.

1288
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:07,000
My dear, my dear, how do you do?

1289
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,000
I hope you succeeded yesterday.

1290
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,000
It was very kind of you to stop by and see me.

1291
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:13,000
Mr. Scrooge?

1292
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:14,000
That's my name.

1293
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:15,000
Don't wear it out.

1294
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,000
Although that's probably not like a really good name for you to hear

1295
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,000
because associations and whatnot.

1296
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:24,000
But allow me to ask for your forgiveness.

1297
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:27,000
And will you have the goodness to add this?

1298
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,000
Throwing him a purse?

1299
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,000
To your good work.

1300
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,000
Oh, oh, my goodness.

1301
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,000
My dear Mr. Scrooge, are you serious?

1302
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:36,000
If you please.

1303
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:37,000
And not a penny less.

1304
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:41,000
A great many back payments are included in it, I assure you.

1305
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,000
Will you do me that favor?

1306
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:46,000
My dear sir, we don't know what we can say to such generosity.

1307
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,000
Say nothing, just accept it.

1308
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:50,000
Come and see me.

1309
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:51,000
Will you come and see me?

1310
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,000
Yeah, of course we will.

1311
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:54,000
Thank you.

1312
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:55,000
I'm much obliged to you.

1313
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,000
Thank you 50 times.

1314
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,000
And God's bless you.

1315
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,000
And Merry Christmas.

1316
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:02,000
Merry Christmas to you, sir.

1317
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,000
Merry Christmas.

1318
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:08,000
Running downstairs out of his house and on to the street.

1319
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:13,000
Now, which way is it to that nephew's house of mine?

1320
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,000
Girl?

1321
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:16,000
Yes, sir.

1322
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:17,000
Yes, sir.

1323
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:22,000
Could you please be so kind as to find me a taxi?

1324
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,000
I can, sir.

1325
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,000
A coachman appears.

1326
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:29,000
Here, can you show me the way to this home?

1327
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,000
I can, sir.

1328
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:32,000
Spassett?

1329
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:36,000
I'm gigging, is it, Uber driver?

1330
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,000
Because I don't make enough money.

1331
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:40,000
Oh, heard, my dear fellow, heard.

1332
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,000
And it will be rectified, I promise.

1333
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:44,000
Thank you.

1334
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:49,000
Excuse me, my dear girl, would you be an old man's guide to a Christmas dinner?

1335
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:54,000
Make sure I don't make a fool of myself and such.

1336
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:56,000
They mount to the top of the taxi.

1337
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,000
I would, sir.

1338
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,000
And God's bless you.

1339
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,000
God's bless us, everyone.

1340
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,000
Raising his voice, almost in song.

1341
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,000
Driver to Christmas.

1342
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:09,000
They exit.

1343
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,000
Blackout.

1344
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,000
The lights come up for the finale at Fred's house.

1345
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:19,000
The Cratchits are there with Tiny Tim.

1346
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,000
I'll stop moving and talking when they hear knocking on the door.

1347
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:27,000
Okay, so we're going to do the step ball change, and then you're going to lift the hand.

1348
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:31,000
And Tiny Tim, if you, you actually can just watch my dear sweet wife.

1349
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,000
She's going to do an alternate sort of modified version.

1350
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:35,000
Okay.

1351
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:36,000
Okay.

1352
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:37,000
Okay, I'm just going to grab the door.

1353
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:39,000
Everybody practice.

1354
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:42,000
Uncle Scrooge.

1355
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,000
Yeah, yeah, hi.

1356
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,000
Hi, Merry Christmas.

1357
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,000
Come in.

1358
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:50,000
Thank you.

1359
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,000
I brought a whole bunch of people with me.

1360
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:54,000
Everyone's very welcome.

1361
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:55,000
Please come in.

1362
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:58,000
Somehow, mysteriously, a giant turkey arrived.

1363
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:02,000
Oh, what a surprise.

1364
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:09,000
I'm very glad to be here with your friend at your house.

1365
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:14,000
Oh, well, I'm very glad to have you here with us, too.

1366
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:18,000
Maybe meet your, maybe meet your wife finally.

1367
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:20,000
She would love that.

1368
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,000
Just, oh, come on in, come on in.

1369
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:23,000
Who is this stranger?

1370
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:24,000
Merry Christmas.

1371
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:25,000
This is my uncle.

1372
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,000
I told you so much about him.

1373
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,000
Oh, nice to meet you on Christmas.

1374
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:36,000
I am so sorry for everything that Fred probably said that was 110% true.

1375
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,000
But I want to make it up to you.

1376
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,000
I've been holding my hands above my head for far too long.

1377
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:42,000
Okay, yeah, everybody.

1378
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:44,000
Okay, let's take a break.

1379
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:45,000
We can take a break, everybody.

1380
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:48,000
You don't need to.

1381
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:49,000
Everyone's here.

1382
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:56,000
I just, I just want to say Merry Christmas.

1383
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,000
Merry Christmas.

1384
00:58:58,000 --> 00:58:59,000
Merry Christmas.

1385
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:00,000
Merry Christmas.

1386
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:01,000
Yeah, yeah.

1387
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:05,000
I'm still working on it, too.

1388
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:08,000
They sing, greeting one another and exchanging gifts.

1389
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:11,000
Scrooge puts Tiny Tim on his shoulders.

1390
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:12,000
Whoa, there you go.

1391
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,000
Whoa, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

1392
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:15,000
I probably should have asked first.

1393
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:16,000
I'm so sorry.

1394
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:17,000
Like, geez.

1395
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:18,000
You're very carryable.

1396
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,000
I saw Cratchit do it like a hundred times.

1397
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:23,000
Yeah, no, well, that's, that's the mobility thing, but it's okay.

1398
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,000
Bahama bless us, everyone.

1399
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:32,000
Oh, yeah, what he said.

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00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:37,000
A Dungeon's Christmas Carol is based on the stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' original

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00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:39,000
work by Frederick Gaines.

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00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:45,000
Starring Carla Maxted as Fred and Gentleman Visitor Number One, Tom Laird as Bob Cratchit,

1403
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:51,000
Ben Benjamin and Sweetheart of Scrooge, Russ Morris Cook, Jacob Marley, Third Spirit

1404
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:57,000
and Tiny Tim, Kyle Claset as Fezziwig and Second Spirit, Kristen Flemmons as

1405
00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:03,000
Char Woman, Mrs. Cratchit and Young Scrooge, Abdul Aziz as Gentleman Visitor Number Two

1406
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:10,000
in Sparse It, Cicero Holmes as First Spirit, Warder, Boy and Girl, Rev Deshaen as Jack

1407
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:17,000
Walton and fan Scrooge's sister, with Amy More as Scrooge and Justin Foisey as

1408
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,000
your scene narrator.

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01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:22,000
Production and sound design by Russ More.

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01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:26,000
This episode featured music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist, sound effects from

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01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:31,000
Epidemic Sound, Boom Library, Sound Ideas and Sound Snap.

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01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:51,000
A huge thank you to our supporting producers.

1413
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:56,000
Thank you so much for listening to this special presentation of a Dungeon's

1414
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:57,000
Christmas Carol.

1415
01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:01,000
We hope like many other holiday favorites, it becomes part of your

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01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,000
yearly listening traditions.

1417
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:08,000
And from all of us to you, we wish you a happy and safe holiday season

1418
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:11,000
spent with family and friends.

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01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:13,000
Thank you.

1420
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:37,000
There you go.

1421
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:38,000
Beautiful.

1422
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:40,000
It's great.

1423
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,000
Nailed it.

1424
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:44,000
We don't even have to do that a second time.

1425
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,000
No, no, I think that's good enough.

1426
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:47,000
No notes.

1427
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:48,000
Print.

1428
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:49,000
Got it in one.

1429
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:51,000
That's why we take our headphones off.

1430
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,000
Scrooge fits.

1431
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:57,000
Scrooge fits the key.

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01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:01,000
Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.