38 (cont.) Oh no! I don’t want that. I’ve finished with that forever. Colonel, I would be so pleased if you would accept this bomb as a present from me and as a souvenir of our happy times together. It can be a mark of the fatherly triumph that you have achieved over me. It is all that remains of the last revolutionary. You can have the mask too. (Takes the mask from his pocket.)
Just as you like.
Unconcernedly takes the bomb and mask from the Prisoner’s hand and puts them in a drawer.
Allow me to congratulate you, Colonel. The last revolutionary is dead. A new citizen has been born. In your place I would order the rockets to be sent up and give my staff three days’ holiday. And why only three days? From now on there will be nothing left for them to do. Good-bye all and thank you for everything.