The Trial of the Century! A year after his miraculous transformation, Ebenezer Scrooge is back to his old ways and is suing Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future for breaking and entering, kidnapping, slander, pain and suffering, attempted murder and the intentional infliction of emotional distress. One by one, Bob Cratchit, Scrooge's nephew Fred, solicitor and philanthropist Sara Anne Wainwright, and the ghosts themselves take the witness stand to give their account of the night in question. But the Spirit of Christmas Future breaks down under heavy questioning and confesses that Jacob Marley forced the spirits to break one of the rules of redemption: Do not use a dead body to scare someone into redemption, for the consequences could prove fatal. In a staggering turn of events, Scrooge makes the spirits an offer: work every day, not just one day a year, and he'll drop the charges. Scrooge confesses that Marley and the Spirits had to go to extraordinary measures to change him, so he had to go to extraordinary measures to change them. The spirit of caring and giving should be every day, not just once a year.