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[00:01.570]SCENE 7: EXTERIOR. STONY PATH.
[00:05.480]EMILY I'm not ready.
[00:08.010]I'm studying for my big moment.
[00:09.470]EMILY I'm doing ‘Great Thinkers'
[00:13.840]But they're not great at thinking the same thing.
[00:16.350]Did we start off good and couldn't keep it up?
[00:17.610]Or start off bad and this is as far as we've got learning to be good?
[00:22.540]BOY I heard a bell dinging.
[00:24.780]There must be people.
[00:26.770]EMILY Soldiers,look.
[00:28.520]BOY They've got guns
[00:31.740]EMILY Holy moly, what happened here?
[00:34.220]The whole floor of the valley looks like a disaster came through.
[00:37.150]BOY Yeah...like a boneyard or something.
[00:41.430]EMILY There's something moving over there, past the firelight.
[00:44.470]BOY Dogs...feeding on something dead...dead cow...dogs and crows...
[00:51.760]EMILY Someone coming.
[01:00.558]BOY I see him.
[01:03.488]FAT MAN Toto, I've feeling we're notin Kansas any more.
[01:07.108]EMILY a fat man,ooh he's fat.
[01:09.028]FAT MAN It's the pictures that got small.
[01:11.138]Hello there! Do you care for the flickers?
[01:13.498]EMILY The flickers?
[01:14.968]BOY Where is everybody?
[01:16.680]FAT MAN There's a gathering.
[01:18.760]BOY We just got here.
[01:20.310]FAT MAN Overloaded life-raft or sacrificed for organ transplants?
[01:24.218]BOY Runaway train.I was the one on the other track
[01:27.310]FAT MAN Bad luck.A leaky hot-air balloon did for me, someone had to go over the side... fattest first,
[01:34.549]saved the lives of three thin balloonists,bastards.
[01:37.930]EMILY You mean everyone here was a thought experiment?
[01:40.938]FAT MAN That's funny.There's a plane dustin' crops where there ain't no crops.
[01:45.209]EMILY There ain't no anything, not a blade of grass!
[01:47.489]BOY Why's nothing growing?
[01:49.569]FAT MAN It's a tragedy.
[01:51.280]The whole valley was common land,
[01:53.110]first-class grazing and plenty for everyone,
[01:55.140]share and share alike,
[01:57.260]with a stream running down the middle to dip a bucket in and enough water behind the dam to turn a wheel in the sluice-
[02:04.099]you could slip an extra cow or two into your herd with no one any the wiser,
[02:08.399]or take a little channel off the stream for your tomato patch.
[02:11.869]I wasn't the first, believe you me!
[02:14.599]EMILY You mean you cheated?
[02:16.759]FAT MAN I had to. Look at it my way.
[02:20.009]Either there's others cheating or there's nobody cheating.
[02:22.619]If there's others cheating.I'd be a fool to stick to what was agreed.
[02:26.239]For all I know I'd be the only one!
[02:28.769]-So it's best for me to cheat along, that's obvious.
[02:32.789]And if there's nobody cheating,
[02:34.379]my little bit of cheating makes no difference,
[02:36.579]so that's best for me too.
[02:38.619]Whatever the others are doing, it's best for me to cheat.
[02:41.179]The tragedy was that everyone else was thinking the same thing.
[02:46.310]So the common was bound to be overgrazed,
[02:48.060]and the stream was bound to fail.
[02:50.220]Nothing could have stopped the common from being ruined for us all.
[02:53.360]EMILY Yes, it could! You could have decided not to cheat,
[02:56.009]whatever else the others were doing
[02:57.959]FAT MAN It wouldn't have made any difference, me not cheating on my own.
[03:00.689]EMILY You wouldn't be on your own if everybody was thinking the same!
[03:03.549]In the end you gained nothing by cheating,
[03:06.399]so you might as well have played fair.
[03:08.389]BOY Yes!You cracked it, Emily!
[03:11.199]FAT MAN Emily? Aren't you nobody? Emily?
[03:13.109]EMILY No, I'm not a bloody thought experiment, I'm Emily McCoy.
[03:17.339]FAT MAN Emily McCoy? Everybody's waiting for you! Emily McCoy?
[03:21.459]You're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
[03:34.669]SCENE 8: INTERIOR. STONE CORRIDOR
[03:37.839]EMILY(panicked) I'm not ready!
[03:39.720]BOY This is not a drill.
[03:41.679]This is it.
[03:42.209]EMILY I need time to think
[03:44.679]BOY No, it came in like a bird through a window and out,
[03:46.349]it's done.
[03:47.660]EMILY But I have to find the words
[03:50.459]BOY Hold the thought like holding your breath till you can't hold it any more,
[03:54.089]then hold it more till you think you're going to die,
[03:57.259]and let it go,
[03:59.619]a thought wave, sound waves of pure thought!
[04:07.030]Voice in the underscore: ‘...not frightened of dying, any time will do...’
[04:10.009]EMILY And I'm getting voices-
[04:20.348]BOY Thought waves. You can do that.
[04:26.500]Take a breath, hold it.
[04:28.899]Emily sucks in her breath and holds it.
[04:31.339]FX: atmosphere opens into arena and crowd murmur Underscore continues.
[04:39.819]FAT MAN Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world,
[04:43.360]she walks into mine
[04:46.528]Crowd murmu goes to silence.
[04:50.889]BOY Go, girl.
[04:51.870]Emily lets go her breath into GREAT GIG vocal.
[04:58.829]Sporadically individual voices are overdubbed as in a revivalist church congregation, assenting, endorsing, ‘Yeah yeah!' ‘That's right!', ‘That's the truth！’... At 2.32(1.24 into the vocal) Emily's speaking voice comes in like an overdub.
[06:17.300]EMILY (sing-song)
[06:18.069]So woe to you
[06:22.360]So woe to you and me
[06:25.610]and woe to all of us
[06:28.180]EMILY(speak-song)
[06:31.709]But we can save the earth
[06:34.968]from turning to dust and bones
[06:39.360]dust and bones
[06:42.778]from fire and flood
[06:47.389]EMILY(speaks)
[06:50.310]Here's the thing.Here's what I'm saying.
[06:53.930]The earth is a common.
[06:56.810]You can't save it for yourself
[06:58.889]but you can save it for others,
[07:00.560]and the others will save it for you.
[07:03.170]The other is us, and we are the other.
[07:07.939]We are of a kind,
[07:09.680]we are natural born to kindness,
[07:11.759]which means to act as to our kind,
[07:14.038]as kin to kin, as kindred,
[07:16.889]which is to act kindly.
[07:22.139]What is the Good？
[07:24.538]It is nothing but a contest of kindness.
[07:27.879]To be unkind is against nature,
[07:30.199]and it makes us feel bad.
[07:32.360]To be selfish is against nature
[07:34.879]because it is against  our kindness.
[07:40.339]We are as natural-born to unselfishness as a mother to her baby.
[07:45.800]Her milk is the milk of human kin and kindness.
[07:51.750]But when we live for trickery and gain,
[07:56.310]we turn against nature,
[08:01.228]and nature will turn against us.
[08:06.269]We will be lords of dust and bones.
[08:13.120]Vocal fading
[08:22.589]WITCH FINDER
[08:23.490]Are you with the witch, boy?
[08:24.538]BOY What?
[08:25.968]WITCH FINDER Are you with the witch?
[08:26.740]Boy What witch?Suspend album.
[08:29.218]EMILY(amplified) Thank you,ladies and gentlemen.for your attention. Crowd moans, weeps.
[08:31.098]WITCH FINDER That witch.
[08:32.529]BOY Who are you?
[08:33.089]WITCH FINDER I'm the Witch Finder.
[08:34.799]BOY The Witch Finder?
[08:35.820]She's not a witch.It was me showed her.
[08:36.958]WITCH FINDER You bewitched her?
[08:38.469]EMILY(arriving) What happened?
[08:39.929]BOY They heard you!
[08:41.229]WITCH FINDER They were bewitched.
[08:42.279]EMILY Dr Antrobus！
[08:43.469]BOY He says he's the Witch Finder
[08:45.629]EMILY Dr Antrobus,It's me-Emily!
[08:47.700]WITCH FINDER Don't be afraid,
[08:49.700]I am here to help you.
[08:52.299]FX: a heavy door slams shut, echoing.