VERONI: And we're back.

MISTO: Took long enough.

VERONI: Not as long as the last one, though! Give me that much!

TUGGER: I'll give you exactly a minute to get on with this.....

VERONI: Wow. Be still my heart. You actually WANT to parody?

TUGGER: "Want" is such a harsh word.

JELLY: For the Tugger, it translates to "I have a hot date tonight and sitting around here is only going to make me late."

TUGGER: (groans) Thanks so much for that.

JELLY: Hey, I changed your diapers! Who would know you better than me, huh?

LEC: And there's a piece of information I didn't want to know anything about....

(The scene changes to the Heavyside Layer once again where Old D and Skimbilly are having a serious discussion.)

OLD D: So that's the way it was.

SKIMBLE: (depressed) Yeah.

OLD D: When you first got here, you had the right to go back for one day and you didn't. Wasn't there anything you wanted to do down there?

SKIMBLE: Yeah. (whistfully) I wanted to break Tigger's head!

TUGGER: HEY!

VERONI: It's in the script! Now sit down!

SKIMBLE: As a matter of fact, it's still a good idea!

OLD D: You won't find Tigger down there anymore.

SKIMBLE: You mean he's HERE?

BUSTOPHER: (walking by in the background) Pfft! Not bloody likely.

VERONI: BUSTOPHER! No ad-libbing... (pauses) "Bloody?" Where the heck did you get THAT from?

BUSTOPHER: (quickly) Oh, nowhere.

VERONI: You've been watching my sister's Buffy tapes again! I told you what that can do to a cat's brain!

OLD D: Oh no. He didn't even get this far.

MAC: (grins, tauntingly) Tugger's in Hades.... Tugger's in the warm place......

TUGGER: HEY!! (pauses for a beat) Wait... that means I'm done, right?

VERONI: (distracted) Yeah. S'pose so.

TUGGER: (jumps up from his chair) WHOOHOO! (bounces off on his tail) The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is Tiggers are wonderful things! Their tops are made out of rubber! Their bottoms are made out of springs!! (voice fades away)

JELLY: Oh dear.

JENNY: He's completely snapped.

VERONI: (covers her mouth with her paw to hide a wide grin)

OLD D: Biggalow, you left your wife havin' a kitten coming and with nothin' to support them. Why'd you do that?

SKIMBLE: (long pause) I.... I couldn't get work. And I couldn't bear to see her... to see if...

OLD D: You couldn't bear to see her cry. Why don't you come right out and say it? Why are you afraid to use the right word? Why are you so ashamed that you loved Julie?

SKIMBLE: I ain't ashamed of anythin'!

POUNCE: How about that accent? Ashamed of that, even?

SKIMBLE: (drops his accent) Can't I just hit him once?

VERONI: NO!

POUNCE: (sighs with relief)

VERONI: If anyone's going to hit Pounce, it's going to be me.

POUNCE: HEY!

OLD D: Then why did you beat her?

QUEENS: GASP!

SKIMBLE: I didn't beat her!

QUEENS: (sigh with relief)

SKIMBLE: I hit her.

JENNY: Gee. That makes it SO much better.

(To cut a long scene short, Skimbilly is allowed to return to earth for one last day to see his daughter.)

(As he returns to Earth, we are treated to a long and famous ballet known as the Catrousel Waltz. Since we can't exactly write out a dance number, we'll just explain what happens. Skimbilly and Julie's little girl, Jemlouise is seen in several situations.... playing games with the boys.... taunting the clean, pretty little girls... and being the laughingstock of the group at the end when a boy she falls in love with leaves her. Heart broken and destructively bitter, she runs home crying)

JEMI: (rubbing her sore feet) And here I was thinking after The Jellicle Ball I was ready for anything. (cries as it says to in the script, but more because of the pain in her feet)

SKIMBLE: (to Admetus, who is along for the ride as his guide) If I want her to see me... she will?

ADMETUS: (nods)

SKIMBLE: Little girl? Jemlouise?

JEM: How did you know I lived here?

SKIMBLE: Uhm... well, somebody told me. I knew your father.

POUNCE: You could say that.

(After some more awkward dialogue.... Skimbilly cuts to the chase and opens his paw to give her something.)

JEM: What's that?

SKIMBLE: A star!

GRIZ: (sticks her head out of her dressing room) You rang?

JEM: Y-you go away!

SKIMBLE: Please, darling! I just want to give you something.

JEM: NO! (starts to leave, but he grabs her by the arm to stop her) Let me go!

SKIMBLE: (slaps her across the face, instantly horrified) I....

JEM: MOTHER!!!

TUMBLE: He certainly has a way with women, doesn't he?

(Jemlouise runs back inside and an aged Julie rushes outside)

TUMBLE: Wow. And here I was thinking you couldn't make Jellylorum look any older.

JELLY: (hisses)

TANTI: (walks out with a spraycan of hair white) Well, looks like my work's done here.

JELLY: (motions Tantomile over) Not quite yet....

TUMBLE: (starts to look uneasy) What are they up to?

(Skimbilly walks up to Julie, who can't see him, whispering her name)

SKIMBLE: Julie.... (chokes back a sob) Julie....

(sings tenderly) Longin' to tell you,

But afraid and shy.

I let my golden chances pass me by.

Now I've lost you.

Soon I will go in the mist of day.

And you never will know

How I loved you......

How I loooooved yooooooou.....

(Everyone stops what they're doing backstage to listen in, teary eyed)

SKIMBLE: Seems like she knew I was here.

ADMETUS: Julie would always know.

SKIMBLE: She never changes. And my little girl, Jemlouise? I gotta do something for her!

ADMETUS: Well, so far you ain't done much.

SKIMBLE: I know! I know!

ADMETUS: Time's running out.....

(They fastforward ahead to graduation day....)

VERONI: Much as I hate to do this.... Old D? Would you be a dear and take the part of the minster too?

CATS: NO! Don't give him the long winded speach!

VERONI: Normally I'd agree, but well..... the part of the head angel is traditionally played by the same actor who plays the minister. (shrugs) Sorry.

JELLY: Besides, it was either that or Macavity again.

OLD D: (standing at the podium, holding his lapels) I can't tell you any sure way to happiness. I only know that you've got to go out and find it for yourselves. You can't lean on the success of your parents-- that's THEIR success. And don't be held back by their failures.

SKIMBLE: (standing by Jemima, unnoticed) Listen to him. Believe him.

JEM: (whispers) Only if you get OFF MY TAIL!

SKIMBLE: (jumps back) Oops.

VERONI: (groans) You aren't supposed to SEE him!

JEM: But he was standing on my tail!!!!!

OLD D: (droning on) Makes no difference what they did or didn't do. You just have to go out there and stand on your own two feet. The world belongs to you as much as to the next fella, so don't give it up. And try not to be scared of people not likin' you. Just you try likin' them. Just keep your faiths, and your courage, and you'll turn out alright. It's like what we used to sing every morning in school when I was a kitten....

POUNCE: Which would be a good 500 years ago....

OLD D: (casts Pounce a look and continues) When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high... you know that one?

KITTENS: (sing) And don't be afraid of the dark.

SKIMBLE: (whispers) Believe him, darlin'. BELIEVE him.

ENSEMBLE: At the end of the storm there's a golden sky.

And the sweet, silver song of a lark....

SKIMBLE: (walks over to Jelly) I loved you Julie.

ALL BUT JELLY: Walk on, through the wind...

SKIMBLE: Know that I loved you!

(Jellylorum joins in)

ALL: Walk on through the rain

Though your dream seems tossed and blown

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart,

And you'll never walk alone!

You'll NEVER.... WAAAAALK....

(Skimble leaves the group and walks off into the sunset, climbing the staircase back into the Heavyside Layer)

ALL: AAAAAALOOOOOONE!!!!!!!

GRIZ: Hey! No fair! He gets my song AND my exit? I'll call my lawyer!

VERONI: NO!! NO more LAWYERS!

MAC: (turns his pockets inside out) Really isn't worth it in the long run, I promise.

VERONI: (shaking her head) Well, anyhow.... great job everyone!

TANTI: (skips out into the room) Hey all!

POUNCE: Where's Tumblebrutus?

TANTI: (grins) Oh... nowhere special.

TUMBLE: (storms out, fur perfectly white) She knocked me out and made me look like GUS!!!

VERONI: (eyes go wide)

TANTI: (falls over, laughing her head off)

JELLY: Serves you right!!

VERONI: Let that be a lesson to you. Never fight with the techie in charge of makeup.

TUMBLE: (storms off, grumbling)