::As the trailer plays, from under the stage comes the muffled voices again::

Voltaire: So, you think you've got it now, do you?

Euripides (snickering): I'm sure it's a fine plan.

Sewernose: It can't miss! I'll pop up through the trapdoor, and surprise everyone with my appearance, then dazzle them with my performance!

Voltaire: Either that or look really foolish...

Euripides: Ah, my money's on that one, too.

Sewernose: Doubters! <I><U>Critics!</U></I> Watch and learn!

Announcer: And that concludes the International Awards portion of our Program. We'll now take a short break while preparing for the remainder of the ceremony.

::As the audience leaves to go mingle and indulge in the buffet, bar, and breakfast (for those who flew in from abroad for the occasion,) a mysterious cloaked figure bounds up through the trapdoor behind the podium. The stage curtain, on the other hand, bounds downwards to the stage. The meeting was very brief and one-sided::

Sewernose: Ack! What has happened?

::All that is visible from under the curtain are the heads of Euripides and Voltaire, and the end of Sewernose’s snout::

Euripides: Well, we watched and learned.

Voltaire: I watched a curtain fall down on us.

Euripides: And I learned it's very heavy and immobilizing.

Sewernose: This is not the curtain call I expected!

Voltaire: It's the one I expected you to get.

Euripides: At least he's on the stage now...sort of…