V for Vendetta2006

[Gordon pops a champagne bottle]

Evey:
What is this all about?

Gordon:
I'm celebrating.

Evey:
Celebrating what?

Gordon:
I think this could be the best show we've ever done.

Gordon:
[on the television] Very good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Listen. We've got an extraordinary show for you tonight. You're not going to believe it. As a matter of fact, I don't think I do. Would you please give a warm welcome to our own Chancellor Adam Sutler!

["God Save the Queen" plays on the background as an impersonator of Adam Sutler enters]

Mother:
No way!

Girl with Spectacles:
It can't be!

Gordon:
We threw out the censor-approved script, and shot a new one I wrote this morning.

Evey:
Oh, my god.

[Cuts to the audience applaud on being taunted by the fake Sutler's soldiers. Evey chokes on her champagne]

Gordon:
Chancellor, Chancellor, Chancellor. I understand you've been under tremendous strain lately since the beginning of this whole terrorism business, and we thought it would be a nice idea to try and help you relax. Girls?

[Deitrich's girls arrive with a humidor, from where the fake Sutler takes a cigar. Another girl offers him a glass of milk]

Fake Sutler:
Ah! Warm milk. There's nothing better.

Gordon:
I understand you enjoy a glass every night, Chancellor.

Fake Sutler:
Since I was a boy. [The real Sutler is shown sitting in his bunker while watching, holding a glass of milk] But you're wrong, Mr Deitrich. The terrorist was never a serious concern.

Gordon:
(in background) Oh, really?

[A prankster dressed as V ties the fake Sutler's shoelaces together, whilst replacing his cigar with an exploding one]

Girl with Spectacles:
It's him!

Gordon:
Chancellor, Chancellor, are you saying that he's not still alive and active?

Fake Sutler:
The terrorist has been neutralised.

[The cigar explodes as the fake Sutler huffs from it.]

Gordon:
Oh, my God, Chancellor, look! The terrorist!

Fake Sutler:
The terrorist! [The camera pans to the fake V among the musicians, scraping a washboard] Get him! [Sutler walks toward the fake V, but having been shoe-laced, stumbles.]

Gordon:
Oh, dear!

[As Boots Randolph's "Yakety Sax" plays, the show plays a sped-up chase of V, the girls, and the soldiers, while the fake Sutler still struggles to get off from being shoe-laced. An actor in a gorilla suit appears randomly and bangs his chest with his fists. Gordon then throws a banana peel, and the fake V slips on it, and is tackled by the fake Sutler's soldiers]

Fake Sutler:
At last! And now, for all the world to see!

[The fake Sutler approaches the fake V, now restrained by the soldiers. He unmasks the fake V, who was revealed to be another Sutler impersonator]

Girl with Spectacles:
[As her mother gasps and shakes her head] It's him!

Fake V/Sutler:
Unhand me! I am your chancellor!

[A group of old men, who are watching the show, laugh out loud]

Fake Sutler:
How dare you! I am the chancellor!

[Gordon makes a funny act of confusion, pointing to one fake Sutler after the other]

Fake V/Sutler:
Imposter! [the two fake Sutlers tackle each other in a farcical fight. Gordon makes a funny act of sympathy before they get back up.] Soldiers! That man is the terrorist!

Fake Sutler:
I order you to shoot that traitor!

Fake V/Sutler:
Liar!

Fake Sutler:
Faker!

Fake V/Sutler:
Fraud!

Fake Sutler:
Ready...

Fake V/Sutler:
Aim...

Fake Sutlers:
[together, as Gordon blocks his ears with his fingers in a funny act of fright] FIRE!

[The soldiers shoot both fake Sutlers. The curtain closes, the entire public is left laughing and as Gordon bows down to the clapping audience, another fake V sneaks in from the cyclorama, snickering as he holds a cigar. The real Sutler shatters the glass of milk in his hand as he watches]