Chapter Eight

Piper: (sobbing) I couldn't! I couldn't go through with it! I saw you there and I... I felt you in me and I couldn't pretend... And Dan... he saw... he saw and he... and he... I love you...

Leo: It's ok, ok...

Piper: And I couldn't do it, I don't wanna pretend anymore. I don't wanna lie... i don't... and he knows... he knows... he saw!

Leo: It's alright, you don't have to pretend anymore. We'll leave! We'll leave tonight.

Piper: Leave? Wh.. Wh.. the show...

Leo: I don't care... I don't care about the show. We love each other and that's all that matters.

Piper: Yes... yes. As long as we have each other. We have each other.

Leo: Chocolat, take Miss Piper to her dressing room and get the things she needs. No-one must see you, do you understand?

Chocolat: I understand.

Leo: Darling, you go and pack and I'll be waiting.

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Dan: It's the boy. He... he has bewitched her with words. I want her back, Morris. Find her. Tell her that the show WILL end my way and she will come to me when the curtain falls. Or I'll have the boy killed.

Morris: Killed?

Dan: Killed.

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Morris: Forgive the intrusion, cherub.

Piper: You're wasting your time Darryl.

Morris: Poppet, you don't understand. Dan is going to kill Leo.

Piper: What? No...

Morris: Dan is insanely jealous. Unless you do his ending and sleep with him tomorrow night, Dan will have Leo killed.

Piper: He can't scare us!

Morris: He's a powerful man. You know he can do it. What are you doing?

Piper: I DON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE! All my life you made me believe I was only worth what someone would pay for me! But Leo loves me. He loves me, Darryl. He loves me. And that is worth everything. We're going away from you, away from Dan, away from the Moulin Rouge! Goodbye, Darryl.
(she starts to leave)

Morris: You're dying Piper. You're dying.

Piper: Another trick Darryl.

Morris: No, my love. The doctor told us.

Piper: Prue? (Prue nods) I'm dying.

Piper: I'm dying...
I was a fool to believe.
A fool to believe.
It all ends today.
Yes, it all ends today...

Morris: (spoken) Send Leo away. Only you can save him.

Piper: (spoken)He'll fight for me.

Morris: (spoken)Yes. Unless he believes you don't love him.

Piper: (spoken)What?

Morris: (spoken)You're a great actress, Piper. Make him believe you don't love him.

Piper: (spoken)No.

Morris: (spoken)Use your talent to save him. Hurt him. Hurt him to save him. There is no other way. The show must go on, Piper. We're creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love.

Piper: Today's a day...

Both: When dreaming ends.

Morris: Another hero.
Another mindless crime.
Behind the curtain, in the pantomime.
On and on... does anybody know what we are living for?

Morris and Women: What ever happened? We leave it all to chance. Another heartache. Another failed romance. On and on... does anybody know what we are living for?

Morris: The show must go on!
The show must go on!

Morris: and Women: Outside the dawn is breaking on the stage that holds our final destiny...
The show must go on!
The show must go on!

Piper: Inside my heart is breaking.
My makeup may be flaking
But my smile still stays on...

Morris: The show must go on!
The show must go on!

Piper: I'll top the bill!
I'll earn the kill!
I have to find the will to carry on...

Morris and Piper: ...with the
On... with the
On... with the show!

Morris: On with the show!
On with the show!
The show... must... go on!

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(Piper enters)
Leo: What's wrong?

Piper: I'm staying with Dan. After I left you Dan came to see me and he offered me everything, everything that I've ever dreamed of. He has one condition - that I must never see you again. I'm sorry.

Leo: What are you talking about?

Piper: You knew who I was.

Leo: What are you saying, what about last night? What we said...

Piper: I didn't expect you to understand. The difference between you and I is that you can leave anytime you choose. But this is my home. The Moulin Rouge is my home.

Leo: No. There must be something else- this can't be real! There's something the matter, tell me what it is... Tell me what's wrong! Tell me the truth! Tell me the truth!

Piper: The truth? The truth is I am the Hindi courtesan. And I choose... the Maharaja. That's how the story really ends.

Morris: (voiceover): The jealousy has driven him mad!

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(Leo is stood outside the Moulin Rouge in the rain)
Leo: PIPER! PIPER! Piper!
(Two guards grab him, and he struggles. Finally, one of the guards punches him and he is then thrown on the ground)

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Toulouse: Things aren't always as they seem.

Leo: Things are exactly the way they seem.

Toulouse: Leo, you may see me only as a drunken, lice-ridden gnome whose friends are just pimps and girls from the brothels. But I know about art and love - if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being. She loves you. I know it - I know she loves you.

Leo: Go away Toulouse. (he stays) Go... away... (he stays) GO AWAY!

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I wanted to shut out what Toulouse had said. But he had filled me with doubt. And there was only one way to be sure. (Leo goes to a pawn shop, where he trades in his typewriter for a large sum of money) I had to know. So I returned to the Moulin Rouge. One... last ... time...

Morris: (spoken) She is mine!

Toulouse: I only speak the truth
I only speak the truth
I only speak the truth
I only speak the truth
I only speak the truth
I only speak the truth
I only speak the truth
I only speak the truth

Phoebe: Chamma chamma he chamma chamma
Chamma chamma, baajare meri bendariya
Re chamma chamma, baajere meri bendariya
Tere paas aawoun teri
Saanson mein samavoun
Chamma chamma he chamma chamma
Chamma chamma, baajare meri bendariya
Re chamma chamma, baajere meri bendariya
baajere meri bendariya
bendariya
He chamma chamma he chamma chamma
Chamma chamma, baajare meri chamma
( Ohhh )
baajare meri bendariya
baajere meri
Tere paas aawoun teri
Saanson mein samavoun
Saanson mein samavoun raja
Saanson mein samavoun raja

Piper: Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh (she coughs and almost faints)
Kiss... hand... diamonds best friend.
Kiss... grand... diamonds best friend.
Men cold... girls old...
And we all lose our charms in the end.
Ohh... ohh... ohh...ohhh!
Diamonds are a
Diamonds are a
Diamonds are a
Diamonds are a
Diamonds are a
Diamonds are a
Diamonds are a
Diamonds are a
Girl's... best... friend.

Morris: She is mine

Dan: She is mine