Transcript: 7. Peace

7. Hope

SCENE 16

EVENING – DESERT

THERESA and ERNEST hang GLOWING DECORATIONS and a WREATH on the PORCH.

#26 BLESSED

THERESA

THE LONGEST-NIGHT CANDLES ARE BURNING

FOR WINTER SOLSTICE EVE

HOPE IN MY HEART IS RETURNING

IT'S THE SEASON TO BELIEVE

ERNEST

COME HOME FOR THAT HOLIDAY FEELING

JOIN IN OUR WARM REFRAIN

WHEREVER YOU’VE BEEN,

IN TIME IN-BETWEEN

WE'LL SOON BE TOGETHER AGAIN

CHORUS

THIS HOUSE IS BLESSED

OUR FAMILY IS BLESSED

BLESS ALL BEINGS

AND THE EARTH

WISH THEM WELLNESS

AND PEACE

THERESA

IT WOULDN'T BE YULETIDE WITHOUT YOU

ERNEST

AND YOU

THERESA

AND EVERY ONE

AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR

I'M SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE

IT WOULDN'T BE YULETIDE WITHOUT YOU

ERNEST

AND EVERY ONE

AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR

I'M SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE

IT WOULDN'T BE YULETIDE WITHOUT YOU

They enter the store.

Transition to ...

EVENING – STORE

ADAM's BED is in the store. He is propped up with his EYES CLOSED and an ICE-PACK on his head.

GEORGIE reads aloud to ADAM from a BOOK.

GEORGIE

(reading)

"As the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting.“

Georgie closes the book with a SNAP.

ADAM

(groggily)

Ungh. The End?

GEORGIE

Adam! You're awake!

ADAM groans.

ADAM

(weakly)

Georgie?

Georgie lifts the ICE PACK.

GEORGIE

You had brain fever. I nursed you all week.

ADAM

I am so glad to see you. Uncle Ernest. Aunt Theresa. I'm home!

THERESA

Welcome back to the land of the living dear. I'm sorry that "Shamanic Tea" really made you sweat it out. I promise to never buy herbal remedies by the side of the road ever again for a while.

ADAM suddenly sits up.

ADAM

WONDER, GRATITUDE AND LOVE!

THERESA

THE MESSAGE? YOU FIGURED IT OUT?

ADAM

IN THE DARKEST OF NIGHT

WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN LIGHT.

ERNEST

THAT'S SOMETHING WORTH THINKING ABOUT

CHORUS

THIS HOUSE IS BLESSED

OUR FAMILY IS BLESSED

WISH ALL BEINGS

AND THE EARTH

WELLNESS

AND PEACE

IT WOULDN'T BE YULETIDE WITHOUT YOU

AND YOU

AND ... EVERY ONE

AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR

I'M SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE

IT WOULDN'T BE YULETIDE WITHOUT YOU

WITHOUT YOU.

THERESA hangs the last GLOWING DECORATION.

THERESA

Well, isn't that nice. Happy hour!

(glancing at ADAM and GEORGIE)

Ernest, help me get the drinks.

Exit THERESA and ERNEST.

Georgie removes her BASEBALL CAP and DIRTY OVERALLS.

In jeans and shirt, she visibly relaxes, and feels more "herself".

She moves to where AURIGA stood earlier to do her medical experiments, and touches ADAM’s forehead.

GEORGIE

You seem a lot better.

ADAM

So do you!

There is a MOMENT between them.

#27 DING DONG

CHORUS

(OFF)

DING DONG! MERRILY ON HIGH

IN HEAV'N THE BELLS ARE RINGING:

DING DONG! VERILY THE SKY

IS RIV'N WITH ANGELS SINGING.

THERESA

ADAM, you have visitors.

They say you met at a rock festival, in Sweden?

SPIRITS

GLO-O-O-O-O-O-RIA,

HOSANNA IN EXCELSIS!

ENTER GLEN and REX, dressed as Swedish hippies, holding hands. Behind them, the SPIRITS.

ADAM

(confused)

Errrr . . .

GLEN

(fake Swedish accent, conspiratorially)

Ze ... er ... Europa Gaia festival?

ADAM

Your faces are familiar, like something from a ...

(realising, nervous)

Heyyyy!!!

REX

(Swedish accent)

Hej Hej!

GLEN

(Swedish accent)

Hej Hej!

ADAM is uncomfortable.

GEORGIE

OK. Not too long please. He's resting his brain.

EXIT THERESA and GEORGIE.

SPIRIT1

We just came to say goodbye.

SPIRIT2

(closing the bedroom door)

... And to give you the good news.

Sound: Low vibrations.

SPIRIT1 opens the wardrobe.

Enter AURIGA and LOVELOCK.

AURIGA is heavily PREGNANT.

AURIGA

Surprise!

ADAM

Wow! You’re pregnant? Congratulations!

AURIGA

Thank you.

ADAM

Did I ... ?

AURIGA

You did everything right, mooncakes.

LOVELOCK

Our mission is finally complete.

GLEN

The Mothership returns to 2099 tonight.

ADAM

And me?

AURIGA

You’re staying in the here and now, where you belong, with Professor Lovelock to keep an eye on you.

ADAM

But Auriga, I thought ...

AURIGA

(interrupting)

I’ve done the thinking for both of us. This baby is the future, but it’s not your future. What you’ve seen and done has created a parallel timeline. A new human history that is yet to be written. You have to be part of that difference.

ADAM

You're only saying this to make me stay.

AURIGA

I'm saying it because it's true. If that spaceship leaves tonight with you on it, you'll regret it, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but ...

ADAM

So I’ll never see you again?

AURIGA

We'll always have Hicksville. We made sure of that last night.

ADAM

When you said you wouldn’t forget me?

AURIGA

I won’t. And remember this: A hundred years from now,

When your light’s long gone out, the whole youth of the world, in my timeline, will be descended from you. And every time I see their little faces . . .

AURIGA gently places her hand under ADAM’s chin and raises it so their eyes meet.

ADAM smiles bravely.

I’ll be looking at you kid.

#28 LATER

AURIGA

LATER, MUCH LATER

YOU'LL LOOK BACK AND FIND

WHAT WE HAD WAS RIGHT

BELIEVE ME

ALL WE NEEDED WAS JUST THAT NIGHT

COS LONGER

WOULDA FELT WRONGER

LATER AHA. LATER AHA

ADAM

But, but . . ..

LOVELOCK comforts him.

LOVELOCK

LATER, MUCH LATER

YOU’LL APPRECIATE-THE-WHOLE-DESIGN

AND NO LONGER PINE

BELIEVE ME

WITH DENIAL, ANGER, BARGAINING, ACCEPTANCE

AND GRIEVING

BEHIND YOU

YOU'LL FEEL FINE

LATER AHA. LATER AHA

CHORUS

SEE YOU LATER. MUCH LATER.

LOVE YA BABY. BUT I GOT TO GO.

EXIT AURIGA and GLEN.

Enter THERESA with a TRAY OF FOOD.

THERESA

TIME IS A HEALER

A GOOD HOT MEAL

AND YOU’LL SOON BE BACK ON THE MEND

THERESA brings the TRAY to ADAM in bed.

YOU DON'T NEED A LOVER

UNDER THE COVER

IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS

YOU’LL BE FEELING YOUR OLD SELF AGAIN

CHORUS

AND AGAIN

Exit Auriga.

ADAM tucks in a NAPKIN, grabs a SPOON and eats.

Enter GEORGIE.

GEORGIE

THEN SOON.

PRETTY SOON.

I’M HOPING DUH! YOU’LL SEE

THE REAL DEAL ROUND HERE IS NOT HER. IT'S ME

SO MAYBE MAKE AN EFFORT?

AND TRULY, ADAM, DEEPLY

WE'LL SEE

SOONER OR LATER

ADAM smiles at GEORGIE takes her hand.

ADAM

NOW

RIGHT NOW

EVERYTHING LED HERE SOMEHOW

AND I UNDERSTAND

FINALLY, THIS:

WE'RE HELPED BY HIDDEN HANDS IF WE FOLLOW OUR BLISS

SO GEORGIE, IS THIS WHEN WE KISS?

GEORGIE

Maybe later. Let's dance.

ADAM and GEORGIE dance.

LOVELOCK

Wooo! I’ve got a good feeling about those two.

(dancing)

Rumba!

Enter MAJOR DON with a foil-wrapped glowing SPACE ROCK. He waves to LOVELOCk and makes chef's kiss gesture.

LOVELOCK

(coy)

Ooh. Major Don!

MAJOR DON

(struggling with package)

LATE? AM I LATE?

IT'S FURTHER CARRYING THIS FUNKY WEIGHT

PLEASE, CHECK THE CLOCKS. TURN ON THE BOX

THANKS TO ADAM, "BLESS HIS COTTON SOCKS",

THE FUTURE FATE,

OF HICKSVILLE ROCKS

... IS LOOKING GREAT AHA

SO GREAT AHA

#29 HUNKAFUNK

PRESIDENT

It's my honour today, as President of the United Nations of the World, to give a medal, a substantial financial prize, and my own personal thanks, to Adam, and his family at Hicksville Rocks.

Working with a special "pan-national" team, they discovered an extremophile bacteria from space, that digests rock, to generate light, heat, wifi... and a really interesting odor.

These hunks of funky smelling rock symbolise hope and co-operation, exploring true mysteries, doing more with less ... towards clean organic energy, environmental recovery, and a sustainable human future.

As we celebrate this solstice season, remember, if it is a long winter night where you are now, it is also a long summer day, for someone, somewhere else on our planet. We are all in it together, and together, we have all we need.

Seasons greetings to all of us on Spaceship Earth. And bless us, every one! Hit it!

CHORUS

HUNKAFUNK

ERNEST

ALL THE WAY FROM SPACE

ADAM BROUGHT IT BACK

FOR THE HUMAN RACE

THE VERY THING WE LACK

THERESA

NOW THE FUNK IS FOUND

A NEW AGE IS BORN

ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND