Act Nine: Ethan's Shocking Revelation, More Killing, A Shopping Spree, and The Return of Johnny Bravo
Scene One: The Crane Mansion (The same night, of course)
While everyone else is enjoying the party, Theresa starts to notice Pilar looking a little worried.
Theresa: Why do you look so worried, Mama? The party's a big success.
Pilar: It's not the party I'm worried about--it's your brother and Sheridan. They should've been here by now.
Theresa: Now that you mention it, I haven't seen them all night. I wonder what's taking them so long to get here.
Pilar: I just can't shake this feeling that something awful will happen tonight.
Theresa: Don't worry Mama. I'm about to marry the man of my dreams--what could possibly go wrong?
Meanwhile, across the room, Chad tries to talk Whitney into leaving with him.
Chad: Come on, Whitney, they'll never miss us.
Whitney: Chad, I can't leave now. I'm supposed to be supporting Theresa.
Chad (putting the moves on her): Come on baby, you know you want to.
Whitney (finally giving in): Oh, alright! But let's not be gone for more than an hour.
They sneak out the back door and take off to God knows where. A few minutes later, Julian brings Ethan over to a corner and decides to give him a pep talk about marriage.
Julian: Ethan, you're about to embark on a lifelong journey of bliss and ecstasy. Now listen to me as I tell you how to live that life without your wife finding out about it.
Ethan: Father, what are you talking about?
Julian: I'm going to share with you the secret of how you can be with as many women as you want without your wife ever realizing it.
Ethan (obviously disgusted): I would never cheat on Theresa like you do on Mother! I'm not like you at all!
Julian: Of course you are, my boy. You are a Crane, it's in your blood.
Ivy, overhearing Julian's conversation with Ethan, goes over to interrupt.
Ivy (irritated): Julian, can I see you in the study for a moment?
After she grabs him by the shirt and drag him upstairs, Theresa approaches Ethan.
Theresa: What's going on with them, Ethan?
Ethan: I'm not sure. I better go upstairs and make sure they don't kill each other.
Ethan leaves Theresa and goes upstairs. When Julian and Ivy go into the study, Ivy slams the door behind her and pulls Julian's tie almost to the point of choking him.
Ivy (very pissed): What kind of bullshit are you feeding Ethan?
Julian (half-choking): I have no idea what you're talk--
Ivy (pulling his tie harder): Don't lie to me, you dirty pig-headed bastard! I heard what you were telling him! I'm not going to stand by while you turn my son into another version of you!
As they continue to argue, Ethan stands outside and listens.
Julian: You keep forgetting, Ivy, he's my son too.
Ivy: He's not your son. He never was your son. He's mine and Sam's.
As Ivy realizes she just blurted out the truth, Ethan storms into the study.
Ethan (in a complete state of shock): Please, Mother. Please, tell me what you just said isn't true.
Ivy: Ethan...
Ethan (yelling): Tell me it isn't true!
Ivy: I'm sorry son, but it is. Sam Bennett is your biological father.
Ethan: Were you planning on keeping this from me for the rest of my life?
Ivy: Ethan, please try to understand. I was just looking out for your best interests.
Ethan (looking at Julian): And I suppose you didn't know anything about this?
Julian: I'm just a surprised as you are.
Ethan (looking back at Ivy): Does Sam...
Ivy: No, I never told him.
Ethan (beginning to leave the study): Thank you for ruining my life, Mother. Now I'm going to go downstairs and tell everyone that the party is over, then I'm leaving. If you think for one second that I'm going to accept this, you can forget it. There's no way in hell I will ever think of Sam Bennett as my father. I'd rather go through life a fatherless bastard! (He slams the door and leaves.)
Ivy: How could I have done this to him?
Julian: To him? Do you have any idea what you've done to me? You've taken away my pride, my joy, my reason for waking up in the morning. I'm going to see to it that you lose everything! Our marriage is over!
Ivy (sarcastically): Oh please, this farce of a marriage was over the day it began.
Julian: I want you and your bastard son out of the mansion before the end of the week.
Ivy: You know, now that I think about it, I'm glad this happened. Now I don't have to deal with your sorry ass anymore!
Ivy then leaves the study, goes into her room, and starts crying. Meanwhile, Ethan runs downstairs and gets everyone's attention.
Ethan: I'm sorry, but this party is over! Everyone leave now!
Ethan runs outside, then Theresa goes after him.
Pilar (thinking to herself): He knows.
She then goes upstairs to comfort Ivy while back outside, Theresa finally catches up to Ethan.
Theresa: Ethan! Ethan, what's wrong?
Ethan: I'm not sure if I can get married now, Theresa.
Theresa: What happened?
Ethan: I just found out that my mother was keeping something very important from me.
Theresa: What is it, Ethan?
Ethan: I heard her and Julian arguing in the study, then she blurted out that..that I'm...not really a Crane!
Theresa (not surprised): Really?
Ethan: Yes! I can't believe she did this to me all these years. I'm so glad you would never keep anything like that from me.
Theresa begins to walk a few steps away from him.
Ethan: Theresa?
Theresa (beginning to cry like she always does): Actually Ethan, I...I already knew you weren't a Crane.
Ethan (caught off-guard): WHAT?!
Theresa: I just found out yesterday.
Ethan (angry): How could you keep this from me?!
Theresa: Mama made me promise not to tell you.
Ethan: Pilar knows?
Theresa (reaching for him) I'm so sorry, Ethan. I wanted to tell you the minute I found out.
Ethan (pulling away from her): Don't touch me!
Theresa: But Ethan...
Ethan: No! You should've told me from the start! How can I ever trust you again? As far as I'm concerned, we're through!
Theresa: Ethan, you can't mean that!
Ethan: I never want to see you again!
Theresa: Ethan!!!
Ethan runs off, leaving Theresa to fall to the ground sobbing.
Scene Two: Two Blocks Away from the Bennett house (An hour later)
After leaving the Russells, Sam and Grace walk down the street and head for home.
Grace: I wonder what Ethan was so upset about?
Sam: Who cares? That whole damn family's crazy!
Grace: Sam!
When they get to the corner by their house, they see Reese's headless corpse lying by the bushes.
Grace (horrified): Oh my God! Who could've done this?
Sam (looking in the bushes): Oh no!
Grace: What is it Sam? (sees the dead kids) Oh no! My babies! Charity, Simone, Miguel...they're all...dead!
Sam (angry): Whoever did this is not getting away with it!
Grace (looking up when she hears footsteps): What was that?
Sam (yells): Who's over there?
When they look by the lamppost, the Zorro killer approaches them.
Sam: Who are you? Why did you kill these kids?
As Sam runs towards him, the Zorro killer takes his knife and stabs him in the heart.
Grace (crying): Sam! NO! How could you?
Zorro killer (speaking in a distorted voice): You know too much, now you must die!
The Zorro killer takes an axe and chops Grace's head off. He then takes his sword and carves "DWP" into their stomachs and disappears into the night.
Scene Three: The Bennett house (The next morning, finally)
The Digidestined wake up and make breakfast. An hour later they meet in the living room to decide what to do about the Zorro killer.
Tai: First things first. We have to tell Simone, Miguel, and Reese's parents that they're dead.
Sora: But we don't know where they live.
Izzy: I've already taken care of that. I looked in the phone book and found their addresses.
Tai: Okay, Yolei and Ken, you take the Russells, Joe and Matt, you take the Williams, and Mimi and Sora, you take the Lopez-Fitzgeralds.
Davis: "Lopez-Fitzgerald"? What kind of screwy last name is that?
Yolei: And "Motomiya" is a better one?
Davis: Yes, it means "king of worlds".
Yolei: In your dreams, maybe.
Tai: Alright, that's enough. While you guys take care of that, the rest of us will wait for the Bennetts to return so we can tell them about Kay, Jessica, and Charity.
Yolei, Ken, Joe, Matt, Mimi, Sora, and their digimon leave to their different destinations.
Scene Four: The Crane mansion
Later that morning, Julian is standing outside the back door drinking himself into a stupor when the phone rings.
Julian (sloppily drunk): He-llooo?
Alistair: Julian, snap out of it.
Julian: Oh, hi Father.
Alistair: Cut the crap, Julian, and listen up. I'll be arriving in Harmony tonight. Make sure that that lying bitch and her bastard son are out of the mansion by the time I get there.
Julian: Sure, whatever you want.
Alistair: And for god sakes, pull yourself together! (hangs up)
As Julian goes back into the mansion, the woman in the bushes watches him.
Woman: How pathetic! What a sorry excuse for a man he is. All grown up and still has to answer to Daddy. This is making what I have to do so much easier.
Scene Five: The Lopez-Fitzgerald house (mid-afternoon)
Mimi and Sora approach the Lopez-Fitzgerald house and ring the doorbell.
Mimi: Now, how are we supposed to do this again?
Sora: Just let me do all the talking. This is hard enough as it is.
A distraught Theresa opens the door.
Theresa (crying): Can I help you?
Mimi: You don't look so good--we'll just come back later. (begins to walk off)
Sora (grabs her by the arm): Mimi! (looks at Theresa)Hi, my name is Sora, this is my friend Mimi, and these are our digimon, Biyomon and Palmon.
Biyomon and Palmon: Hi.
Theresa: I must be hallucinating. I thought I heard those weird pets of yours talk.
Biyomon: Hey, we're not weird!
Theresa (freaking out): They...they did talk. (faints)
Palmon: You know, I'm beginning to take this personally.
They bring Theresa into the house and revive her. She wakes up and jumps when she sees the digimon.
Sora: It's okay, they're friendly. Listen, the reason we came over is because we need to talk to you and your parents about something.
Theresa: Mama's not here, and as for Papa, he's been gone for as long as I can remember. What a time for Whitney to pull a disappearing act.
Sora: Is Whitney your sister?
Theresa: No, she's supposed to be my best friend. She probably took off with her boyfriend just when I need her most. (begins to cry again)
Sora: What's wrong?
Theresa: My fiancee broke up with me last night.
Mimi: Oh my goodness! What a jerk! If he dumped you right before you got married then he doesn't deserve you. Say, I have an idea. Why don't you get dressed then we can all go shopping?
Sora and Theresa: What?
Mimi: Well, that's what I do when I get depressed.
Theresa: I guess that might work. Okay, let's do it. (goes upstairs to get dressed)
Sora: Mimi, we were supposed to tell her about her brother, not invite her to go shopping!
Mimi: We can't dump this on her right now. Besides, I need some new clothes. I've been wearing the same thing for the past three days!
Sora: Well, since you put it that way...
An hour later, Theresa comes downstairs, then they all begin to leave.
Theresa: Oh, what was it you needed to tell me?
Sora: That can wait until later.
They all leave the house.
Scene Six: The Harmony Mall (Four hours later)
Mimi, Sora, Biyomon, Palmon, and Theresa sit down to eat at the Food Court.
Mimi: I can't believe all the sales they had today. It's just like back home.
Theresa: Where are you guys from, anyway?
Sora: Odaiba, in Tokyo, Japan.
Theresa: Japan? You're a long way from home. How'd you get to Harmony?
Sora: We're not exactly sure. You see...
Just as Sora is about to explain, Johnny Bravo walks up to the table.
Sora (recognizes Johnny): Hey, that's the creep that hit on me when Tai and I first got here!
Johnny: Hey, little mamasitas! How's about we head back to my place and we can have ourselves a foursome?
Sora, Mimi, and Theresa: In your dreams, pal!
They grab him and stuff him into a trash can.
Johnny (muffled in the trash can): I'll take that as a no.
Sora: That takes care of him.
Mimi: I don't know, even though he was obnoxious, he was kinda cute.
Sora (giving her a crazy look): Oh...kay! Well, Theresa, we have to go meet our friends back at the Bennett house. Do you want to come with us?
Theresa: No, that's okay. I have to get home. Now that my brothers have disappeared, I'm sure Mama will have a fit if I'm not there when she arrives.
Mimi: Alright, it was nice meeting you, Theresa. We'll have to shop together again sometime.
Theresa: I've really enjoyed your company. Bye!
Theresa leaves them, then they get ready to go.
Sora: You were right, Mimi. There was no way we could tell her that her brother was dead, but we are going to have to eventually.
Mimi: All I'm worried about right now is how we're going to drag all this back to the house.
Sora: We'll just have to call a cab to bring us there. Now, did you buy any clothes for the others to wear?
Mimi: Why would I do that?
Sora (annoyed): Never mind.
They call a cab, leave the mall, and head back to the Bennetts.
Scene Seven: The Chamber in Tabitha's house
Timmy looks through the scrolls to find a spell to close the portal.
Timmy: Okay, Timmy's gonna try one more time. If it doesn't work, Timmy gives up.
Cody: Maybe you should wait until Tabitha comes back.
Timmy: Timmy knows he can do this! Timmy has to make up for getting the book thrown into the portal in the first place.
Cody: Actually, that was Armadillomon's fault.
Armadillomon: I said I was sorry.
Timmy: Okay, here Timmy goes.
Timmy recites a spell from the scroll, then, after a lightning bolt zaps him, he falls to the floor.
Cody: Timmy, are you okay?
Timmy: Yes, Timmy's alright, but the portal still didn't close.
Armadillomon: That's okay, Timmy. We'll just wait for Tabitha to come back then she can do it.
Just then, the gateway crackles and a puff of smoke surrounds it.
Cody: Just great, someone else is coming through the portal.
Timmy: Timmy just hopes it's not a monster.
End of Act Nine.