Marina tries to hurry Eight along before Eight notices, but she fails.
"Oh Marina look," Eight says enthusiastically, "a ring toss!"
Marina sighs as Eight drags her over to the carnival booth with ring toss.
Marina says, "Let's just not play this year."
"Nonsense," Eight says, "it's a yearly tradition of ours, and to think we almost missed it."
"Almost," Marina mutters.
Eight's eyes light up and he asks, "Marina, do you want the big teddy bear?"
Eight lays three dollars on the table for five rings. The man smiles at Marina, they are here every year, he knows he'll be eating good tonight.
Eight tosses the first ring which hits the side of the booth.
"Just warming up," he says. Marina wonders if maybe this is the year that he finally is magically good at ring toss. She watches with hope as his fifth ring hits a bottle and bounces five feet away.
The man smiles and asks, "Five more?"
Marina asks him, "Can we please just buy the teddy bear?"
The man shakes his head and so does Eight. Eight asks, "Isn't it much better when I win you the teddy bear?"
Marina doesn't want to do this, she really doesn't. She proposes, "How about I win you the teddy bear, maybe we can mix things up a little bit?"
Eight gives Marina a confused look, "It's a tradition that I always win you the teddy bear, though."
"Traditions change," Marina says as she slaps three dollars on the table.
The man gives her five rings and Marina picks them up, ready to throw.
Eight asks, "What is this really about?"
Marina throws one ring and lands it perfectly on a bottle.
"Eight I love that you think you have to always win me a teddy bear, but I'd like to not be paying our mortgage for the rest of our lives."
The second ring lands on a bottle.
"Marina, I don't know if you forgot, but we saved the world, we don't have to pay a mortgage!"
The third ring lands on a bottle.
"Eight, you know I don't like to take advantage of the fact that we are aliens."
The fourth ring lands on a bottle and the man looks nervous.
"Yeah, aliens who saved the world!"
Marina tosses the last ring and it lands on top of the last one. The man looks defeated as he hands Marina the big teddy bear, who hands it to Eight.
Eight takes the teddy bear and pretends to be mad about not being the one to win the teddy bear. Truth be told, he loved seeing Marina come out of her shell. He also may have helped her out just a little with his telekinesis on some of her tosses.