A Christmas Carol2009

Ebenezer Scrooge:
Spirit! Hear me! I'm not the man I was! Why show me this if I am past all hope!?!! (Scrooge's death date appears on the stone) Spirit!?!!! Spirit, assure that I may yet change these shadows you've shown me! Change them by an altered life!! (Scrooge's death date comes) No, Spirit. No!!! No, Spirit!!!! (tries to move, but gets stuck, then slowly sinks in) Good spirit... Help me!!! Spirit!!?! Help me, Spirit!!!!! (Scrooge holds onto a branch and looks down at the coffin, which opens the door. He yelps in surprise, and squeals in panic, but shouts in terror) Help, Spirit!! (as the Spirit comes closer, Scrooge screams in horror at his face) Spirit?!! I will only honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will not shut out the lessons of the past, nor present, nor future. Oh, please, Spirit?! Tell me!! I may sponge away the writing on that stone! (opens his eyes to see the branch turn into the Spirit's hand and squeals in panic and falls into the coffin as the spirit lets him go)