Action: The Fairy Godmother’s magic (or the device's battery) runs out at midnight. Cinderella flees, not because of a rule, but because the device is smoking. She leaves behind a blueprints book or a specific tool (not a shoe).

We’ve been working on it for months.

(To a mouse) I know, Bruno. Cleaning the cinders is boring. But if I fix this cage, the Duchess will pay me two silver pieces. Two silver pieces buys the fabric to finish my invention. (She holds up a rough sketch of a windmill-waterwheel hybrid.) This is what gets me out of this house. Not a prince.

Ella’s phone lights up: 14 missed texts from Diana. One from Chloe: “Mom found your room. She’s live-streaming a ‘messy teenager intervention.’”

Cinderella: (longingly) I wish I could go...

NARRATOR Once upon a time, in a kingdom bright and fair, Lived a kind young girl with golden hair. Her name was Cinderella — gentle, brave, and sweet; Though chores filled her days, she never missed a beat.

The prince sets out to find the girl whose foot fits the glass slipper. When he arrives at Cinderella's house, her stepsisters try to fit into the slipper, but it doesn't fit either of them. When Cinderella tries on the slipper, it fits perfectly.