Escorted to prison, after the jury finds her guilty, Patty laments that now she has no identity at all – except the false ones put upon her.
Cinque forces Patty to record her own audiotape ransom note listing the SLA’s unattainable demands.
Patty and Cinque sing a captor/captive duet of their mutual-yet-contradictory ambitions for liberation.
Music & verbatim text of the world’s reactions to the new SLA audiotape, while a proof-of-life Polaroid of Patty is staged.
In a 1964 fantasy flashback, an eight-year-old Patty (played by same adult actor) reinterprets her childhood to rationalize her present path.
Patty rescues her shoplifting comrades with zombie-like programmed reflexes and a spray of gunfire.
The world watches on live TV as Cinque & the SLA are burned alive – Patty realizes the FBI wanted her dead too.
Mr. and Mrs. Hearst endure a year-long stretch of aching uncertainty as Patty completely drops off the radar.
Released from prison by presidential pardon, Patty has a life-changing
insight into why the jury condemned her. A compassionate awakening to
the flaws and frailties of human nature.
Mr. Hearst (Patty’s Father) laments how “a perfect world” is one of the most horrible things ever demanded.