07- Sparks

A very concerned Mr. & Mrs. Walker deliver four year old Tommy to a young doctor who lead him by hand through a door. The Walkers leave and during the rest of the scene Tommy is escorted through the door after door in an accelerating series of examinations and tests. The doctors and nurses usher Tommy around like an automaton. He is the center of a whirl of file cabinets, eye charts and swinging doors as lab technicians work at a counter where tubes are delivered and tested, readings are taken and charts are filled out. Nurses and Doctors hurry about, passing Tommy and clipboards around like batons in a relay race. They check the boy's pulse, reflexes, heartbeat, eyesight and hearing. In the end the Walkers return and consult with the young doctor, who shakes his head. For the Walkers this is the real court and the verdict is catastrophic. As the doctors walk off with the four year old Tommy, a projection screen tells us it is now 1950, and a nurse enters with a 10year old Tommy, who carries a balloon in one hand. The narrator somersaults in from above to join Tommy and his parents onstage.