(in the darkness, garbled sounds of voices and static. the voices change - like a radio trying to find the right station - to music, such as "Dream Weaver" and Aerosmith's "Dream On", then the radio station changes again to a reading from Revelations)
(a dim light comes up on Mary, in bed, dreaming)
(the radio station changes again and again, to music, to Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, to Joseph's dream to get out of Egypt, to Nostradamus' writings, etc.)
(Finally, the radio tunes in on the sound of thunderous footsteps approaching)
(lights rise slowly on Rex. the sound of thunderous footsteps and breathing continues as in his previous scene, but each footstep is echoed by tympani and several other drumbeats. And there is a faint dreamlike babble of voices as well, seldom intelligible.)
(Rex is standing next to a large - one foot tall - crucifix. He looks at it. In the babble of voices, "Forgive them for they know not what they do" can be heard, and possibly the conversation with the thieves.)
(the sounds grow louder and louder, drumbeats and footsteps and many voices talking at once. As the sound begins to crescendo, Rex starts to growl - which also crescendos)
(Rex eats the crucifix. Blackout. Silence.)
(Mary sits bolt upright in bed)
(She looks around frantically)
Jesus! Jesus! JESUS!!
(She sits in bed, glancing about fearfully as the lights slowly fade to black.)
(but just before the scene ends, the phone rings)
(pause)WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ?!?!!
(blackout)
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