Episode 3:
Morose but beautiful, emaciated Christian Bale as The Man in Lost Articles is about to lose his faith because his prayers to find little pink Elijah MP3 Wood have gone unanswered for almost 3 days. Late in the 71st hour he gives up hope & resorts to another god, Science, to clone a new EMP3W to send to Courage. It's a spiritual crisis for The Man in Lost Articles!
But
LO, the dichotomy of Faith vs. Science was a false one! At the dawn (kind of) of the third morning of the vigil for EMP3W, what to Courage's wondering eyes should appear but
two EMP3W's (one to be truthful a little knocked around). Fade out with the face of Christian Bale radiant with the ecstasy of enlightenment.
Cut to Courage--what a luxury problem! Two packages! One will have to be returned. How? To take it to a retail outlet would involve (shudder) human contact, precisely the problem she sought to avoid. But to return it by shipping would involve a telephone call, at the very least, to the scary giant Telephone Answering Robot at BB, and probably also a physical trip to the USPS, a slightly more comforting venue than retail but still Kafka-esque.
What to do, what to do? To start, she will open one package, the beat-about one, the original tho battered Elijah Wood, for whom she has tender feelings by now.
She scrambles at the wrapping. She struggles with the packing tape. It defies her. Her husband, that phantom, takes it out of her hands and opens the box and hands it to her. She probes into the contents. Packing bubbles, all packing bubbles. Then....an object. It's so small! So pink! So strange! Where are the instructions? Where's the plug? Where's the needle? How in the heck does this thing work? Courage bursts into tears.
Stay tuned, we're not finished yet.
