surprises everyone by firing his gun at the preacher leading the hate rally. Levi leaps in the way and takes the bullet, which does not harm him. Scene Seven follows Adam to a beach, where he attempts to pray but finds he is no longer sure he believes in God. At the moment of his greatest despair, the angels appear to him and give him a message of hope, which they tell him is his to "deliver to the world." Scene Eight takes Adam back to Mama Marie, who reveals to him the full extent of her powers by physically describing the angels who appeared to him at the beach. The angels, invisible to the humans, decide their work is done, and Levi tells Cyrus that his actions at the hate rally and the beach have finally helped to prove himself worthy of being an angel. They go off to heaven, still bickering along the way. History O'Neill finished the play when he was still sixteen or shortly after his seventeenth birthday on January 28, 2002, close to a year before the Station fire. Although he was an accomplished young actor and singer-songwriter, They Walk Among Us marked his only attempt at playwrighting. Shortly after the fire, members of his family remembered the play but were unable to locate any copies of it until one of his friends, Emily Kunkel, produced one after cleaning out her closet. Upon re-reading it, his family (as they describe in the documentary 41) were surprised to note that the character of Cyrus, one of the angels who had died at an early age, seemed to be based on Nicholas himself. The play's message is that although tragedies occur and life is full of trials, it is crucial that people never lose hope in themselves, in God's love, or in the possibility of a higher purpose behind human existence. The first two-stage incarnations of the play - a staged reading performed in June 2003 and a full production in February 2004, the one year anniversary of the fire - and the feature film version were all directed by O'Neill's brother, Christian. In 2005, the film version received the award for Best Screenplay at the Black Point International Film Festival in Geneva, Wisconsin. In 2008, a New York City production was developed by Rene Benoit for his company My Own Delirium. Christian O'Neill, the play's original