The Masked Coward

Voice: No one can face the tough customers like someone who hides behind a mask. (A children's birthday party. A smoker lights up in front of the children, causing the birthday boy to choke when he inhales to blow out his candles. The Masked Coward tiptoes up, hands the delinquent a note, and runs away. The piece of paper is unfolded and read.) Smoker: I read the note and I'm really sorry for chain smoking in front of the children. I won't do it again. Here, let me make up for it. (He picks up a spray can and saturates the air with artificial scent, sending everyone into a coughing fit.) Voice: He's the only one who dared to take on the ogler. (A schoolyard. At practice the cheerleaders go down on their fours to form a human pyramid. Behind them in the trees, peering greedily through binoculars lurks the ogler. An armored car pulls up on the chalk marked perimeter, releases a pack of aggressive hounds, and drives away. The dogs apprehend and subdue the ogler.) Voice: And someone has to stand up to those bullies. (A crowded train. A bully finishes terrorizing helpless victims and gets out at his stop. Just before the doors close and lock behind him, a passenger shouts 'Meanie!'. Trapped outside, the bully's outrage is confined to muffled shouts and hard kicks against the door and window as the train grinds forward to its next stop. One of the seated passengers slowly lowers a newspaper, exposing his mask.) Voice: His name is as mysterious as his face. We know him only as The Masked Coward.
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