https://youtu.be/4HtoyJ68Pro?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/-5depvLF5rI?si=BQeqeDnrq__b6MIt

Slowly, very slowly, the acrobat wound her shiny white scarf around her husband's neck,

MATILDA & ACROBAT

'For luck, my love.' she said, kissing him with the gentlest of kisses. 'Smile ー we have done this a thousand times'

MATILDA

But suddenly she hugged him with the biggest hug in the world, so hard that he felt that she would hug all of the air out of him. And so they prepared themselves for the most dangerous feat that had ever been performed. The great escapologist had to escape from the cage, lean out, catch his wife with one hand, grab a fire extinguisher with the other, and put out the flames on her specially designed dress within twelve seconds, before they reached the dynamite and blew his wife's head off!

MRS PHELPS

screams out loud. Beat.

MRS PHELPS

Sorry. Go on.

MATILDA

The trick started well.

The moment the specially designed dress was set alight the acrobat swung into the air. The crowd held their breath as she hurled over the sharks and spiky objects - one second, two seconds ー they watched as the flames crept up the dress three seconds, four seconds she began to reach out her arms towards the cage five seconds, six seconds -suddenly the padlocks pinged open and the huge chains fell away -seven seconds, eight seconds ー the door flung open and the escapologist reached out one huge, muscled arm to catch his wife and the child -nine seconds, ten seconds...

MRS PHELPS

Oh, I can't look!

(1:10~4:52)