Pleasantville1998

David/Bud:
What's going on?

Jennifer/Mary Sue:
I'm not sure. Um… They wanna ask you a question... I didn't know how to handle it. So....

David/Bud:
Sure. [to the others] How you doin'? You wanted to ask me something?

Tommy:
How'd you know about the fire?

David/Bud:
What?

Tommy:
How'd you know how to put it out and all?

David/Bud:
Oh. Well — where I used to live, that's just what firemen did.

[The kids all murmur together]

Tommy:
And where's that?

David/Bud:
Um... Outside of Pleasantville.

Tommy:
Well, what's outside of Pleasantville?

David/Bud:
Look it doesn't matter. It's not important.

Tommy:
What's outside of Pleasantville?

David/Bud:
It's really not important.

Margaret:
What's outside of Pleasantville?

David/Bud:
There are some places … that the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some places where the road keeps going.

Margaret:
Keeps going?

David/Bud:
Yeah, yeah — it just keeps going — it all keeps going. Roads and rivers and …

Will:
Like the "Mighty Mississippi."

David:
What?

[Will holds up a copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]

David/Bud:
[to Jennifer/Mary Sue] I thought the books were blank?

Will:
They were.

Jennifer/Mary Sue:
Okay, this was NOT my fault. When they asked me what it was about I didn't remember because I read it like back in tenth grade. When I told them what I did remember, thats when the pages filled in.

David/Bud:
The pages filled in?

Jennifer/Mary Sue:
But like only up to the part with the raft, because that's as far as I read.

Tommy:
Do you know how it ends?

David/Bud:
Yeah… I do.

Margaret:
So how does it end?

David/Bud:
Well, um — okay, let's see…. they were running away — Huck and — and the slave.... they … they were going up the river, trying to get free…. and — in trying to get free … they see that they're sort of free already…. [The pages fill in by themselves, completing the book] Oh my God.