By the time Neil lets her go and narrowly escapes the tightening set-dressings, there is barely any space to breathe among the plaster asteroids and papier-mache hunks of space debris. He vanishes in a flash, leaving CT a dizzy, stumbling mess among the wreckage and snatches her mask.

The curtain plummets to the floor before the audience can see CT's true face.

Then, from between the red velvet, Neil emerges bare-faced, with CT's brown and gold mask in hand. He places it on his own face, and with a snap of his fingers, the red and black color drains from his suit, replaced by shades of brown.

He bows stiffly, and exits stage right, leaving only his own mask abandoned forlornly on the center of the stage. The spotlight tightens on it before fading to black.