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| Maggie is locked in her playpen in the yard. Pull back to reveal Bart | |||
| and Lisa sitting in chairs, their heads buried in comic books. At Bart's | |||
| feet lies his skateboard. Marge is in the car (which is in the driveway). | |||
| Homer emerges from the garage. | |||
| Homer: | Bart, Lisa. Keep an eye on Maggie. | ||
| Bart and Lisa wave good-bye, not even looking up. | |||
| The car zooms off. | |||
| In her playpen, Maggie bounces an orange ball, which bounces out of the | |||
| pen, landing at Lisa's feet. Lisa turns the page of her comic book. | |||
| Magge rattles her cup against the bars to get Lisa's attention, and Lisa | |||
| kicks the ball back into the pen. | |||
| Maggie bounces the ball, but it escapes a second time, this time hitting | |||
| Bart on the head. He angrily glares at Maggie, who gestures, ``Gimme.'' | |||
| Rather than returning the ball, Bart kicks it over the fence. Maggie | |||
| watches it sail away. With a flurry of arms, Maggie piles up her toys, | |||
| hops atop the pile, which recoils like a spring, launching her out of | |||
| the playpen. She lands on Bart's skateboard and sails away. | |||
| Maggie deftly skateboards down the sidewalk in pursuit of the ball, | |||
| following it into a drainpipe. Through the drainpipe she goes. | |||
| The ball emerges from the drainpipe as it empties into a river, and | |||
| Maggie rides the skateboard like a surfboard in pursuit. The river | |||
| empties into a polluted lake. Maggie paddles the skateboard like | |||
| a surfboard on her stomach, as she slowly nears the orange ball floating | |||
| a few feet in front of her. As she passes, she reaches for it, but | |||
| misses. She then looks ahead... | |||
| A waterfall. As she goes over, Maggie succeeds in grabbing a nearby | |||
| branch with her right hand, holding the skateboard under her left | |||
| arm. (The branch bends under her weight, then springs back into shape.) | |||
| She sees the ball coming and hooks her pacifier onto the branch, thereby | |||
| freeing her right hand to grab the ball as it tips over the waterfall. | |||
| The branch breaks. | |||
| Maggie falls headfirst, the ball in her right hand, the skateboard in | |||
| her left, the pacifier in her mouth, sucking furiously. | |||
| Freeze-frame. | |||
| A huge dramatic title overlays the frame as ominous music plays... | |||
| To be continued: NEXT WEEK | |||
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