Season Three: Alice turns into Dorothy

(Lights down. We hear the cackling of evil flying monkeys, the screams of a young girl, and the appropriate muiscal score along with it. Suddenly, lights rise to reveal ALICE, 18, clutching a stuffed dog)


Alice:

I really don't know what happened. One minute, I was preparing to go on a trip through the woods, and the next thing I know, all these monkeys are climbing over me! It's terrifying: They keep asking me questions, I think, but I don't speak ape so I decided to keep my mouth shut. Save my voice for screaming for help, you know? But help's not coming. I don't know where my friends are, if they got lost in the thicket or maybe they did turn back...I'm on my own a lot, you see. I have to make friends as I go. It's alright. I'm not lonely, just alone. A lot.
That's not the point here. The point is I was accosted by a bunch of barbaric baboons! Flying savages! They surrounded me, no, the swooped over me and grabbed me like I was a piece of meat! One held my wrists behind my back, scrapping my face raw on the ground. Another shone a light into my eyes, and made excited whooping sounds....three more surrounded me, holding me down. One ground its nasty feet into my leg when I tried to kick at him. Another just stood there by my face and did nothing. Perhaps he was the leader, I never did get a good look at his face, but I spat on him anyway. Well, I tried, I think I got close to his foot, but it was hard to tell. Anyway, at that point they carried me away, and this I remember very clearly: Though I could feel the night air whipping through my dress and around my skin, I never felt less free in my life; their restraints held me so tightly it was like my skin was PlayDough in their hands. I could feel the circulation cutting off my wrists, feet, and when I tried to tell them, the monkeys just clapped something over my mouth which choked me and made it impossible to breathe. I tried to eat it, just to get it out of my way but it was to no avail. I was trapped and headed for the worst place I could never have imagined in my wildest nightmares: Here.
And here I am, sir. I could care less what you say you are. You are not my friend, you are not my co-worker, you are just another Monkey and no amount of glamorous disguises can change anything. I know exactly who you are and exactly who I am.

Officer Ben: And who exactly are you?


Alice: I am Dorothy Gale of Kansas, in the United States of America. One day I will get back home and leave all this insanity behind. If I still have friends out there, if your people didn't do away with them, then they will save me and take me out of....

Officer Ben: Ward AB-11 of Echo Glen Pysch. Hospital....

Alice: ....and take me out of this Witch's Tower.


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