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Alexis: Is it midnight, father?
Nicholas: Hurry, children. All of you. Dress warmly.
Alexandra: Wear as many clothes as you can.
Alexis: Where will the soldiers take us, father?

MEDIUM ANASTASIA
Anastasia: They intend to kill us.
Nicholas: (Voice Over) Anastasia!

ANOTHER ANGLE FEATURING ANASTASIA

Anastasia: Outside the guard room. I heard them talking.
Alexandra: That will be, Anya, enough. God is with us.
Nicholas: Go, Anastasia. Go. Go, you girls. Dress. (The four
Grand Duchesses exit)

MEDIUM NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA

Nicholas: ...Anya is right.
Alexandra: Never!
Nicholas: I’ve known all along.

ANOTHER ANGLE

Alexis: Why do the soldiers wish to kill us, father?
Alexandra: Because we are everything they can never hope to be.
Nicholas: Because they believe differently than we.
Alexandra: Communists! Atheists! Godless atheists!
Nicholas: They think to make a whole new world.
Alexis: When I am Czar and have 20 ships, I too will make a
whole new world.
Alexandra: Oh my dear Alexei!
Nicholas: (Sadly) ...when you are Czar of Russia...

INT. DUCHESSES’ BEDROOM—NIGHT

The FOUR GRAND DUCHESSES are in a flurry of dress-
ing. Each is pulling on three and four dresses. ANASTASIA
accidentally rips the seam in a muff. Jewels spill out. The

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