Dear, dear Angela.
I'm sorry I haven't visited you as often as I'd like.
There's still a hole in my heart, and I miss you a lot.
Oh, sorry.
Didn't mean to interrupt.
- Hey, I know you.
Ponzo!
What a coincidence, us two bein' here at the same time.
I was just visiting my old buddy Belchy.
He's buried here, ya know.
Thought I could get some guidance.
Oh yeah? For what?
Things ain't lookin' too good for my troupe
and it's getting worse since you saw us in the hospital a couple years ago.
We're barely scrapin' by.
Have you thought about finding a new job, or maybe joining another circus?
- Are you kiddin'?
I've been in the biz my whole life, born and raised
and by golly, I'm gonna die in it.
And joinin' another circus?
That'd be like walkin' on my pop's grave and takin' a dump!
Circus is family, family is circus
and joinin' a circus when you got your own shames the family name fer generations!
Wow, there's so much I don't know about clowns.
Then it's time you learned, buddy boy.
I'm gonna need your help.
One of the reasons we ain't been doing so good is 'cause we don't have support of the Grand Minister of Comedy.
Grand Mini...wh--
Y-you guys have a--
There's a clown leader?!
He's had it out for me since he killed my father and married my mother.
Look, the only reason he has power is 'cause he stole the Progenitor Stone.
You've lost me.
The stone's the crystallized remains of the first Grand Minister
the founder of our society.
If I take it from him, I take away his power.
(Roger)
If it was that easy, wouldn't someone have done it by now?
I mean, he's gotta have loads of enemies, right?
(Ponzo)
It's in a highly guarded vault in Switzerland.
That's where you come in.
Your buddy with the mask told me you got a belt that can teleport you anywhere in the world.
Yeah, the spatial displacer.
I need to borrow it for five minutes.
I get the stone, get out, and the Coalition of Circuses will have no choice but to back me as the new minister.
I don't know...I'd have to ask the Professor.
We can't risk him sayin' no.
Please, Roger, I'm beggin' here!
Without the stone, I'm as good as dead.
So's my family and the families of all the clowns in my troupe.
I don't know, man...
Roger, the Minister's a cruel man.
He's gonna be ousted sooner or later.
Let me be the one to do it.
Okay, fine.
I'll help.
You won't regret this!
Okay, I got it.
Five minutes, that's all I need.
No man, we're a package deal. Where it goes, I go.
Suit yourself, buddy.
(Daisy)
Son?!
Ponzo!
What is the meaning of this?
I thought the place was gonna be empty.
Dammit!
You weren't supposed to be here.
Your father wanted to show me the Progenitor Stone.
We were going to polish it together.
How many times do I have to--
That man ain't my father!
Okay everyone, let's all take a deep breath and chill out.
Who's your friend?
That's none of your concern.
Give me the stone!
Good heavens!
Have you gone mad?
Oh my God!
(sobbing)
(Ponzo)
At last!
(sobbing)
You're finally free now, mother.
After all these years!
He was a good man.
A good man!
Why did you do this?
Survival, mother, survival.
I didn't want to do this, but he left me no choice.
- If you needed help, you could have just asked!
Wait, I thought you did ask.
Stay out of this, Roger.
There's a lot you don't know!
(choking)
(Ponzo)
Mother!
She swallowed her tongue.
She's dead, man.
Dead!
Five minutes exactly.
Thanks for your help.
You totally used me. I didn't know you were going to kill him!
- Neither did I.
Bbut I didn't want to waste the pportunity.
I wish you didn't come along.
I wish you didn't see that.
- I've seen a lot worse, but its usually not my friends doing the killing!
It may not seem like it
but what I just did's gonna save a lot of lives in the long run.
I guarantee it.
Today was a good day.
Yeah, right. Whatever.
(Professor)
Thanks for telling me what happened.
You didn't have to.
I totally messed up.
I thought I was doing something good
but people died because of it.
One person's justice is another person's injustice.
It's all a matter of perspective.
What would you have done?
I wouldn't have helped him.
But I've suffered many similar betrayals in the past at the hands of people who I thought were my friends.
Let this be a lesson to you.
Know the facts so you won't be taken advantage of.
Ponzo believed in what he was doing.
Maybe he was right.
Righteousness does not necessarily equate to sound ethics.
But is Ponzo himself a bad person?
Clowns are just people, Roger.
Intrinsically neither good, nor bad
but made up of good and bad.
Like you.
Like me.
I understand Carl left a styrofoam container full of nachos in the fridge for you.
- Uh huh. Yeah, I'll eat it now.
I'm proud of you, Roger.
I really am.
