ke.



CHRISTOF

Since Kirk started this whole crisis in Truman's

life, I came to the conclusion that he was the

only one who could end it.



Flashback: Truman at the Beach



KIRK

Truman! Truman, no! That's off limits.



YOUNG TRUMAN

Why? What's up there?



KIRK

Nothing. It's dangerous, that's all. You've gotta'

know your limitations, Truman.



Lunar Room



INTERVIEWER

But let's remind viewers of exactly why dad was written

out in the first place.



CHRISTOF

As Truman grew up, we were forced to manufacture ways

to keep him on the island.



Flashback: Truman at School



YOUNG TRUMAN

I'd like to be an explorer. Like the great

Magellan.



TEACHER

(a bit too quickly and

pulling down a map of the

world)

Oh, you're too late. There's really nothing left to

explore.



Lunar Room



CHRISTOF

Finally, I came up with the concept of Kirk's drowning.



INTERVIEWER

Most effective. Truman's been terrified of water

ever since.



CHRISTOF

When Kirk read the synopsis for the death at sea

episode he was..disappointed, to say the least.

Uh..I'm sure that's what caused him to break back

onto the set.



INTERVIEWER

But, how do you intend to explain his 22 year absence?



CHRISTOF

Amnesia.



INTERVIEWER

Heh. Brilliant. Let's take some of those viewer

phone calls. Charlotte, North Carolina. You're on

with Christof.



MALE VIEWER

(over the phone)

Um..yeah..uh..Hi, Christof..uh, I was just wondering

how many cameras you got there in that town.



CHRISTOF

Somewhere in the vicinity of five thousand.



MALE VIEWER

Oh..Now that's a lot of cameras.



CHRISTOF

Remember, we started with just one. He was uh..curious

from birth. Premature by two weeks, it was almost as

if he couldn't wait to get started.



INTERVIEWER

And of course his eagerness to leave his mother's womb

uh..was the very reason he was the one who was selected.



CHRISTOF

In competition with five other unwanted pregnancies, the

casting of the show, determined by an air date, Truman

was the one who arrived on cue.



INTERVIEWER

Incidentally, uh, I believe Truman is the first child to

have been legally adopted by a corporation?



CHRISTOF

That's correct.



INTERVIEWER

The show uh, has generated uh, enormous revenues now

equivalent to the gross national product of a small

country.



CHRISTOF
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People forget it takes the population of an entire

country to keep the show running.



INTERVIEWER

Mmm-hmmm. Sicne the show is on twenty-four hours a

day without commercial interruption uh..all those

staggering revenues are generated by product placement.



CHRISTOF

That's true. Everything on the show is for sale. Actors

wardrobes, food products, to the very homes they live in.



INTERVIEWER

And of course all of it available in the "Truman Catalog."

Operators are standing by. Christof, may I ask you, why

do you think that uh, Truman has never come close to

discovering the true nature of his world until now?



CHRISTOF

We accept the reality of the world with which we're

presented. It's as simple as that.



INTERVIEWER

The Hague, for Christof, Hello. The Hague.

(it's a bad connection)

All right, we've lost that call, let's go to

Hollywood, California, you're on TruTalk.



SYLVIA

Hi, Christof, I'd just like to say one thing:

You're a liar and a manipulator and what you've done

to Truman is sick.



CHRISTOF

Well, we remember this voice, don't we? How could we

forget?



INTERVIEWER

Uh...let's go to another call with--



CHRISTOF

No. No no no no no. It--I--It's fine. Okay? I love

to remenice with former members of the cast. Sylvia,

you announced so melodramatically to the world...do you

think because you batted yo