We can now tell we're in The Funky Cat (although Dwight wondering why Michael cut the part with his circuit board malfunctioning and "what was the point of spilling the drink on me?") Anyway, back in the club, a set I don't recognize, he sees Jasmine Windsong (played by Jan) singing something with the lyrics "They call me Jasmine Windsong" while spread out on the piano. Wherever the real Jan is, she pretends to be happy Michael finished his movie, although she clearly can't wait to get away.
Back in the movie, Scarn's at the piano while Jasmine is singing gibberish (even more than Jan usually does). He's confused until he records it on a Dictaphone, then plays the tape backwards to hear her singing, "The hostages are under the stadium." Clever, and completely nonsensical. Just then a guy in the wings (it's actually Hide from the warehouse) shoots Jan in the throat with a blowdart, and she flops over on her back with her face in Scarn's. "Check, please," Scarn quips.
Meanwhile, Goldenface shoots his first hostage: Toby. The movie shows his papier-mâché head blow apart from like six different angles. Michael admits that was the most expensive shot in the movie (which I don't believe for a minute), but "It was intrergral [sic] to the story."
Scarn and Samuel burst into the basement, and Scarn's not too upset about the dead hostage. "That man was a wanted animal-rapist," he informs Goldenface. Samuel demands to know where the bomb is, and Goldenface makes him repeat it like three times, just because Jim was messing with Dwight (and Michael apparently kept it in the final cut). Goldenface tosses the puck (which he says contains the bomb) to Scarn, and says he's going to kill him, "Unless you forgive me for murdering your wife." Michael looks at the puck and sees flashbacks of happier times with his wife...well, obviously those flashbacks only show himself. He spits at Goldenface, "Go puck yourself." He throws it back at Goldenface, who ducks and raises his golden gun. Samuel shouts "No!" and jumps in front of the bullet. "That was not scripted," Michael THs. Goldenface fires again, and the screen goes black.
But not for a commercial this time! Fade back up to an extreme close-up on a nurse's deep cleavage. "Oh God," Pam bursts out, recognizing her mom. Then she quickly turns back to Michael and adds. "So good." Scarn tells Nurse Helene, "It'll take a lot more than a bullet to the brain, lungs, heart, back and balls to kill Michael Scarn." She leans in and says they need to make sure everything's working properly. Fade out on Scarn's EKG going nuts. Good thing his brief relationship with Helene coincided with the shooting of that pivotal scene.













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