[Very rough draft; incomplete]

A C T   F I V E

Scene 1.

CINGETO. Hahaha.

CAESAR. Cingeto, why do you laugh?

CINGETO. I have changed universes.

CAESAR. You've changed nothing. Take him away.

CINGETO. There is no away, Caesar, to take me to. Come, I'll lead you nowhere.

GERMAN CHIEF. Caesar, we will take care of him.

CAESAR. Caesar does not care. But let him be removed.

The GERMAN CHIEFS exit with Cingeto.

CAESAR. What did he mean, Labienus, that there is no away? that he had changed everything? . . .
What is that sound?

Some commotion in the German camp.

Enter X.

X. Great Caesar, they killed him.

CAESAR. Killed? Killed whom?

X. Vercingetorix.

CAESAR. Vercingetorix?

X. Vercingetorix.

CAESAR. Vercingetorix killed?

X. Killed.

CAESAR. The fools. I didn't want -- Damn the gods!

Germans bring in Cingeto's body, cut in pieces.

CAESAR. It is a sickening sight. Place his limbs together as he was; I mean, in life.
Labienus, Bury him decently on a high hill beneath an oak,
a river below him in the distance,
in the Gaulish fashion of chiefs. Stand back --
Do not interrupt. Learn your place, X,
which is beneath the men of Rome.

LABIENUS.. Caesar, he predicted you would do this.

CAESAR. What?

LABIENUS. By the river of Sainia.

CAESAR. Why, it was so. We have become the slave,
Vercingetorix master.

LABIENUS. Caesar, what shall we tell the soldiers? What is your decision?

CAESAR. Tell them? We will cross the Rubicon. There will be no empire.

Caesar turns to the fire.

Blackout. Curtain falls.

T H E   E N D

This act last slightly modified: 12:02 PM 17/10/2004