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Show Summary The Story of CHESS (continued) Thanks to Molokov, Florence is taken through the winding streets of Budapest to meet a man who might be her father. When he sings her a tender Lullaby (Apukád eros kezén), she is sure of it. The exhausted and confused Anatoly is the subject of speculation by the K.G.B., the Arbiter, the C.I.A., the press and the merchandisers. Anatoly enters the arena and begins to play. At the height of the match, deciding to accept the K. G. B. offer to return to Russia so that Florence may be reunited with her father, he knowingly makes a wrong move-and Freddie is the victor (Endgame). At the airport Florence has a tearful goodbye with Anatoly (You and I). Once he is gone, she is told that the man she met was not her father after all. Instead, Anatoly had been traded for a captured C. I. A. agent. Betrayed by her own country, having lost both her father and the man she loves, Florence is left alone to face whatever the future may bring. ~ by BILL ROSENFIELD
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