REPORTER   After weeks and months of laughing, mocking, and protest, the people of Sumeria are now reluctantly coming to accept that the rantings of the old bearded weirdo might have a grain of truth in them. It hasn't stopped raining now for eight days, and most houses are under water. A long queue of people has grown at Noah's front door, but Noah seems determined that none of them will ever sail on his boat. 

NOAH              Ark! 

REPORTER   Whatever! 

SUM 1             Let us on! 

SUM 2             Come on Beardo, give us a ride! 

SUM 3             I can't swim! 

SUM 4             I can only handle the shallow end! 

SUM 2             Come on, let us on!! 

SUMS              (chanting)  We want a ride! We want a ride! 

NOAH              No! You've always doubted me! You never believed me! You've made fun of me for months! Tough! My family and our animals are going to live, and you're going to die! 

SUM 1             But why all the animals? 

SUM 3             Yeah, why them instead of us? 

SUM 4             We're humans, after all! 

NOAH             God is angry with you! He needs a fresh start. With my family and two of each species of animal we can make that fresh start. A new world will be born, but without all the evil of the past. I'm sorry, but that's the way God wants it, so that's the way it's got to be! Right lads, load up!