"I thought it was… group consensus," he replied vaguely.
"So instead of just taking off for your new world, you do the one thing that would eventually expose your plans to the rest of us?"
The Director looked to his co-conspirators for answers, but they were looking back at him. He finally turned to Julia and shrugged.
"So where does that leave us?" Julia asked, turning on her companions. "Do we defeat this conspiracy, save the town, and live happily ever after? Is that what we're supposed to do?"
"Don't be silly!" Ritchie said. "They have to be stopped!"
"Why?! Because they kidnapped Kurt? Well, he's happy to be with them, so that can't be the issue. They've harmed you? If they leave for their New World with this theater, what do we lose? We can rent videos, you know! Why exactly are you doing this?"
"They're evil!" Tom exclaimed.
"Oh, please! Where did you get that word from? From the films you run here that you hate so much?"
"Look!" Ritchie bellowed. "You just get out of the way unless you want to be considered one of them!"
"How did we all come together at just the right moment?" Julia demanded. "All finding out the right information on the right day, appearing in the same alleyway at the same time, divided conveniently into two sides just to fight out… what? Some badly written melodrama, where we're the cavalry and they're the Three Stooges?"