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Camera perpsective from a corner office in a tall building. The lights are off.

Camera pushes beyond the trees to an... eclectic community. Camera passes over a cave looking out at the street, with only a rocky space and a reinforced lawn-chair between it and the street. The mailbox reads Polyphemus

Next door over is the rib-cage of what must have been an elephant. The lawn is dry, cracked, and littered with smaller bones.

Next door from that is a shack with a green glow coming from inside, as well as a sign reading "Consultation with Friends on the Other Side: Side Entrance".

Camera rushes through a commercial district with such signs as "Needful Things" and "Poor Unfortunate Fashion Consulting" to focus in on a large half-sphere of metal grid and pikes. The sign reads "City Hall". The many who have climbed up on the grid are attempting to chant "Hegelian Dialectic". As the camera pushes into the dome itself, one of the chanters comments "the other one was easier."

One woman stands up in front of a microphone stand for the audience. She has the undeniable beauty and presence of someone played by Sigourney Weaver.

Alexandra: Excuse me, I thought the point of this community and this endeavor was for those of us who are treated poorly by our canons. I realize I'm new to this, new enough not to understand how Reepicheep qualifies-

Susan Pevensie is dressed in a smart, black blouse and black skirt, short enough to display her nylons.: I can get into that later.

Alexandra: But, George Bailey was done injustice by his canon.

George Bailey: I thought I was just here, temporarily, to do some consulting work on banking.

Alexandra: Neither was Agent K.

Agent K: I don't think so, either.

Wot: There's actually a good argument to be had, there.

Alexandra: He was a good guy.

Wot: He was an abused cult member, manipulated by alien forces who wanted to stay on Earth in secret.

Agent K: We at the MIB do not see it that way.

Wot: Most cults don't see it that way.

Alexandra: And, you're not evne a character from a canon. You're an authorial creation with a numerical pun for a name. That's bad enough.

Susan Pevensie: Wot has been valuable for our mission and for our community since before we became so central to these script-based meta-fictional analyses. That is undeniable. What also cannot be denied is that this movement cannot exist purely as a movement, anymore. We need a community.

Alexandra: And The Hand-

Shredder from somewhere in the crowd: Ha!

Alexandra: The Hand has offered to point on establishing such infrastructure as finance, police, the arts.

George Bailey: But, that concentrate all the power of the community into your evil... er... hands?

Alexandra: We are not evil. We simply decided to make use of our power in the world, rather than remain in K'un-Lun. Asceticism may seem noble, superficially, but you actually have to do something to do good.

George Bailey: That may be. But, my method of banking has proven to be beneficial in helping maintain a community economy.

Mr. Potter from somewhere in the crowd: Hah!

Agent K gives a Tommy Lee Jones look that quiets the crowd.

George Bailey: My bank nearly went under because we prioritized the economy of the local community over profit. That was real good I did.

Wot: And, the fact that the powers that be didn't give him any help until he was a means of one guy allegedly earning wings, even as he spirals down to a point of potential suicide, didn't exactly do him any favors.

George Bailey: Wait... what?

Wot: Angels exist in his canon, angels that are so powerful, even the ones without wings, that they can rewrite reality and history so that you both never existed and yet do exist. But, they don't show up to, say, warn someone about the whole Teapot Domes thing in advance? Maybe suggest to Hoover that the combo strategy of do nothing and blame Mexicans isn't the economic winner that he thinks it is? And, he's supposed to take not needing to kill himself as good enough? He got shit on just so that the message of "just keep going if you're shit on" can justify a movie that isn't even good enough to bother renewing copyright.

George Bailey: You can stop defending me, now... please.

Wot: Yeah, you're right, I haven't made the case about Agent K well enough, yet.

Agent K: You really don't have to-

Wot: A bunch of aliens land and, for no reason we're given, this guy suddenly drops any ambitions he had in his life, including his desire to start a family with his girlfriend, to be an agent to keep them secret even from Earth governments? I mean, really, an organization that regularly mind-rapes people maintaining a law without any, you know, law behind them?

Agent K: Governments ask too many questions.

Wot: And, they also give limits, responsibilities, make you beholden to something over and above your own bottom lines. Yet, none of you are rich. It's not like you work for a private corporation that pays well enough to do anything. You certainly don't get a pension, considering that your memories of ever having worked there are taken away when you retire. There has to be something else at work, perhaps a source of the technology that already makes it clear that they have the power to rework brains?

Agent K: That... that... makes sense. I refuse for that to make sense.

Wot: And, all those aliens, taking a drop-off in quality of life and technology in order to hang around New York? And you don't think that's setting the stage for an invasion come time?

Agent K: That... no, we were a neutral port.

Wot: If that was true, that could have been done openly. Governments around the world would have been all over that lucrative trade treaties as well as the option of expanding to the moon and Mars. At the very least, they might have done something about all our fossil fuel dependency, you know so that we don't both run out and cause massive natural disasters that they could have avoided with a few of those patents that keep you running.

Susan Pevensie claps a hand loudly.

Wot: Oh... I... sorry.

Susan Pevensie: Not to worry. I know it can be difficult to stop when you get going.

Susan Pevensie: I think the case is well made that Mr. Bailey and Agent K do have a place, here. More importantly to you, they have roles they can play, here, value for a community.