Scene 17: The Dead Frodo
     
    [wailing]  
    Jinxx: Well, this is the main hall. We're going to have all this 
    knocked through, and made into one big, uh, living room.  
    762: There he is!  
    Jinxx: Oh, bloody hell.  
    K'tujHegh: Ha-ha! etc.  
    [more carnage and mayhem] more missiles fly. With scatterpacks  
    Jinxx: Hold it, hold it! Please!  
    K'tujHegh: Sorry, sorry. See what I mean, I just get carried away. I 
    really must -- sorry, sorry! Sorry, everyone.  
    762: He's killed the Lyran ambassador!  
    [yelling]  
    Jinxx: Hold it, please! Hold it! This is Commodore K'tujHegh from the 
    XenoCorp Crew -- a very brave and influential SFCer, and my special guest 
    here today.  
    K'tujHegh: Hello.  
    Hobbesmaster: He killed my auntie!  
    [yelling]  
    Jinxx: Please, please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion! ... 
    Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who. We are here today to 
    witness the graduation of two young cadets to using magic photons. 
    Unfortunately, one of them, my son Frodo, has just fallen to his death. But 
    I don't want to think I've lost a son, so much as... gained a dreadnought! 
    For, since the tragic death of the Lyran ambassador--  
    762: He's not quite dead!  
    Jinxx: Since the near fatal wounding of the ambassador--  
    762: He's getting better!  
    Jinxx: For, since the dreadnought's owner, the Lyran ambassador... 
    who, when he seemed about to recover, suddenly felt the icy hand of death 
    upon him,--  
    [Newbies "Waporize" the ambassador] 
    [ugh]  
    762: Oh, he's died!  
    Jinxx: And I want his dreadnought to be passed on to XenoCorp in a 
    very real, and legally binding sense. [clapping] And I feel sure that the 
    merger -- uh, the union -- between the dreadnought and the brave, but 
    dangerous, K'tujHegh of XenoCorp--  
    K'tujHegh: What?  
    762: Look! The dead Cadet!  
    theSea: He's not quite dead!  
    Frodo: Oh, I feel much better.  
    Jinxx: You fell out of the Tall Tower, you creep!  
    Frodo: No, I was saved at the last minute.  
    Jinxx: How?!  
    Frodo: Well, I'll tell you... [music]  
    Jinxx: Not like that! Not like that! No, stop it!  
    Singing: He's going to tell! He's going to tell!  
    Jinxx: Shut up!  
    Singing: He's going to tell! He's going to tell! He's going to tell! 
    He's going to tell! 
    He's going to tell! He's going to tell! He's going to tell! He's going to 
    tell! 
    theSea: Quickly, sir! Come this way!!!  
    K'tujHegh: No, it's not right for my idiom. I must escape 
    more..........[sigh]  
    theSea: Dramatically sir?  
    K'tujHegh: Dramatically!!!! 
    [crash] 
    [K'tujHegh hovers on chandelier] 
    Excuse me, could, uh, could somebody give me a push, please...?  
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