YOU AND I

Florence and Anatoly talk about Freddie throwing the match and about her father. She has series doubts about it actually being her father, but she’s hoping that at the very least she might be able to get some more information about what did really happen to him. From the information she has already been given she is certain that somebody knows the truth.

They reflect on their time together and the wishes they have of being able to continue with their love. They know this can never be, so they accept it and vow to remember it as a moment of joy and happiness.

While Florence and Anatoly kiss and embrace for the last time, Freddie and Svetlana appear up-stage left and right. They see the embrace and reflect on their own feelings about this love affair and their own relationships with these two people. All four speak to each other as they say their farewells. As they do so, echoes from their pasts are heard – sung by the chorus.

CHORUS
Didn't I know how it would go?
If I knew from the start
Why am I falling apart?

Hoping to keep that best of moments
When the passion starts
Heaven help my heart

And what I'm feeling now
Has no easy explanation
Reason plays no part
I love him / her too much

When the crazy wheel slow downs
Where will I be? Back where I started

Pity the child who has ambition
Knows what he wants to do

Although the feelings run just as deep
The promise she made has grown impossible to keep

Each day got through
Means one or two
Less mistakes
Remain to be made

FLORENCE, ANATOLY, SVETLANA & FREDDIE
You and I
We've seen it all
Chasing our heart’s desire
But we go on pretending
Stories like ours
Have happy endings

+ CHROUS
Have happy endings

As the song comes to an end the screens begin to move and all four of them turn and walk off stage alone. At the very end of the music, the lights begin to fade and we catch just a glimpse of Molokov and Walter shaking hands up-stage centre. It seems only their story really had the happy ending!
Now the game assessment begins…

Anatoly is still the champion. He’s won the tournament, but he didn’t win by his own merit, so he feels he has lost. He now needs to go back to Russia. Much as he would like to defect and run away with Florence, he knows this can not be. He has to go back for the release of her father and for the sake of his wife and family. He knows that if he did defect, Molokov and his KGM associates would make life difficult for his wife and other members of his family. The crazy wheel HAS slowed down and as he expected he IS back where he started.
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