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Todd Jense writes...

The first time that I saw "The Price", when Macbeth appeared to return from the dead to hunt the gargoyles down again, I had already seen "City of Stone" and so naturally thought when he had seemed to survive even Goliath downing his sky-sled, "Of course! Only Demona can kill him, so he'd be able to survive Goliath's attack!" Consequently I was genuinely surprised when it turned out that the real reason for this survival was that it wasn't the real Macbeth but a robot (although I was already starting to get a little suspicious about Macbeth here anyway since hunting the gargoyles down simply for trophies didn't seem quite his style; he generally had far more significant reasons for hunting them). Now, were you going for this response from those members of your audience who'd already seen "City of Stone"? A sort of feint left, turn right tactic to initially dupe us into thinking that the reason for Macbeth's survival was his link with Demona, before revealing the real reason?

Greg responds...

That was part of it, but mostly I just wanted to fool them with the robot, and still play fair (like by having the 'bot repeat the same few phrases over and over) so that when the truth was revealed, the audience would go "Oh, of course!" instead of saying "Duh!" or feeling cheated.

Response recorded on March 22, 2000