Alternate Endings

• A velociraptor awakes with a start, shaking her head swiftly and flaring her nostrils. It is 75 million B.C. in the Cretaceous. Moments ago she had been on the verge of pouncing upon a large primate when she had been snatched up into the jaws of a Tyrannosaurus. A large banner reading "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" had fluttered down as the Tyrannosaur, now pinning her under its foot, had let out a triumphant roar. The velociraptor snorts before rising to rejoin her pack. Tyrannosaurs are extinct. It is not the future. It was all a dream.

• The camera pulls away swiftly from the eyes of Euphegenia Doubtfire as she sits up sweating and panting. She is in a darkened bedroom in England. She turns on her bedside lamp and handles a worn newspaper clipping. Her adult child Daniel and her grandchildren Lydia, Chris, and Natalie died in an automobile accident in San Francisco over five years ago. She lies back upon her pillow and begins to weep before the screen goes black and credits roll over the Roy Orbison song "In Dreams". It was all a dream.

• We cut back to full color as the Wicked Witch of the West awakes with a cackley shriek. There is no Dorothy. There is no Toto. She is safe. But she is still in an asylum, crazy with grief from being ugly. The camera holds on the witch in her cell as the credits roll over the scene. Roy Orbison singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" begins to play. It was all a dream.