[* The roar & chaos of Judge Sewall's Courtroom hushes to a deadened silence as his gavel POUNDS the High Desk before him]

JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL: (woggling cheeks with nixonian solemnity) "This court will now come to order !! -- Mister Greenjeans, bring the Defendant forward so that he may declare his guilt or innocense."

DOKTOR SIEGEL: (nervously) "Hi, Your Honor, -- Sir." (softly, biting lip) "I wish to plead insanity, if it pleases the court."

MEPHISTOPHALES: (cuts in, spitting fire) "My client will withdraw that plea!"

JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL: (raising eyebrows toward the Heavens) "Counselor, I thought that an agreement had been reached during the araignment?"

MEPHISTOPHALES: (rises from the bench, stroking his goatee) "Well, yes --- it was so decided. But with a long dark night spent with other clients I represent, the Doctor has requested the cross-examination of a few witnesses before a verdict is decided."

JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL: "Very well then. -- Bailiff, present the witnesses, if you will."

[*Four individuals approach the bench, and following a swearing in takes their places alongside Dr. Siegel.)

JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL: "Be so good then to introduce your witnesses Counselor."

MEPHISTOPHALES: "Your Honor, the Defense wishes to call five witnesses to stand before the court."

JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL: "Gentlemen -- identify yourselves, your residencies and occupations."

VIRGIL of Mantua: (stands forth) "Publius Vergilius Maro is the name given to me -- but my neighbors in Rome and my liege, know me simply as Virgil. I am a humble poet, and nothing more."

DANTE ALIGHERI: (with some small pride) "I am Dante -- a poet as well. -- I have no stable dwelling at present."

BOBBY KENNEDY: (flashing teeth) "Judge Sewall, I am Robert Francis Kennedy. I am a martyred politician, as well as native Bostonian, like yourself. -- In recent years I have been residing in Limbo, near the City of Dis."

SIRHAN SIRHAN: (cracks a weird smile) "I am now a Californian -- I live in San Quentin where I am semi-employed as a tailor. My friends call me 'Noodles'."

JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL: "Doktor Siegel, you are charged by The People of Society of having concocted a perfectly ludicrous tale......."

MEPHISTOPHALES: (jumps up with defiance) "I OBJECT !!!"

JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL: "Scribe" -- (sniffs, raising his nose askance) -- Scratch the term, ludicrous. Respond, Doktor --"

DOKTOR SIEGEL: (wimpishly) "Your Honor -- these witnesses will testify to the Truth of Mister Sirhan's non-complicity in the shooting murder of the Senator. T'was the CIA that done did it."

JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL: "Couselor, -- just where is your screwball client going with this nonsense? -- The Court in past cases has already concluded that Mister Sirhan alone pulled the trigger." --

MEPHISTOPHALES: "Sir, the 'facts' speak for themselves -- Doktor Siegel is an upcoming soon-to-be famous hollywood filmaker....."

JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL: "Thirty years ago the sometimes hollywood actor, sometimes American Corporation Bigshot, Burt Lancaster was charged with murdering Senator Kennedy's brother -- and some 10 years ago that little, fat, ugly hollywood actor who played Mary Tyler Moore's boss, set up that Commie freak Oswald as a patsy -- for the same crime. -- Now here we go with yet another Ludicrous --- errrr, withdraw that last sentance. --- Look, --- let's just wrap this thing up. Mister Virgil, --- can you add anything to this Tar Baby."

VIRGIL of MANTUA: "Apparently the altercation between Senator Kennedy and Mister ... 'Noodles' ... began sometime after the 1919 Versaillies Treaty when the West, having bludgeoned the Ottomans to Smitherinies, colonized the newly conquered territories with a smattering of Hebrew conduits. This dribbling of foreigners turned into an open spicket of Hebrew Invaders following the drubbing of the Luciferian Notzie Scumbags ....."

MEPHISTOPHALES: "I OBJECT !!!"

DANTE ALIGHERI: (stands forward, pounding a palm) "Eeet iz zee Troooths --- Zee Zenator here waz de one who zee Hebrus propped up wit zee puppet $trings in order to permenantly lock up de Krimes uf 1919 & 1948 !!"

SIRHAN SIRHAN: "May I just tell the jury that the Blood Money that Meester Bobbie took from the plundering invaders to my homeland was not so different from the Blood Money what his own daddy, Joe Senior, took from the Mob to get his sons into the white house and help permanentalize the Occupation of Palestine by the post-1948 Onslaught of European Hebrew Crusaders."

JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL: "What are you driving at, Mister Sirhan?"

SIRHAN SIRHAN: "You Stupidos !! --- The Jihad and present wars being fought by the West in Islamic lands today was NOT triggered in America on November 11, 2001 --- it was triggered 40 years ago in America on June 5, 1968.

JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL: "MISTER SIRHAN !!! ORDER IN THE COURT !!!"

SIRHAN SIRHAN: "Again, I say --- You Stupido Americans !! -- The Jihad will NEVER END --- Not until all military forces withdraw from the Mideast -- AND --- when the Criminal Crusader State of Israel is completely dismantled & its Criminals are returned to Europe from whence they came."

DOKTOR SIEGEL: "I withdraw my plea of insanity. The film I made is goat-dung. But I always fantasized about becoming a hollywood Bigshot -- and my brother in law told me this screenplay would get my toes in the door -- 'its shure to sell to them Paranoids in the States' -- he told me."

MEPHISTOPHALES: "STOP, STOP -- Can we not continue these proceedings on the morrow?"

JUDGE SAMUEL SEWALL: "Yes, yes, very well --- the court is adjourned until 9 am tomorrow morning."

[* As two guards lead Sirhan & Siegel away in orange jump-suits and shackles, Virgil and Dante each place arms on the shoulders of the quivering martyred senator betwixt them]

BOBBY KENNEDY: "I'm afraid oh great audacios Virgil -- I don't wanna go back. That Charon fellow creeps me out.

VIRGIL: "Fear not, my son, the journey is long -- all you need yourself is a little audacity of hope, yourself."

DANTE ALIGHERI: "Oh yes, my friend --- just keep a'thinking -- t'is the best of all possible worlds."