History WMG / Wicked

** It is not known whoever or not Dorothy is in on the plan or not, but it's canon that the letter supposedly confirming Fiyero's death is actually from Fiyero telling Elphaba that he's alive and has a plan. The prop letter used in the show has the actual text on it.

[[WMG: Schwartz wrote this play for no reason but to make something that plays havoc with our expectations.]]

Elphaba receives a message from Chistery about Fiyero's death, and immediately plans to surrender. Given that [[spoiler:Fiyero/The Scarecrow and Dorothy had become good friends, and Elphaba wasn't surprised by Fiyero being a scarecrow, what if the message was instead from Fiyero, telling both her and Dorothy his plan to help save the both of them? Given that Elphaba only became "Wicked" because she believed that Fiyero was dead, what if she shared this message with Dorothy, and Dorothy, knowing the myth that Elphaba would melt if doused with water, threw the bucket to help it look like she killed the "Wicked Witch"? Then after making sure his young friend got home to Kansas safely, that's when Fiyero went back to retrieve Elphaba?]]
** I don't know if Dorothy is in on the plan or not, but it's canon that the letter supposedly confirming Fiyero's death really is from Fiyero telling Elphaba that he's alive and has a plan. The prop letter used in the show has the actual text on it.

The stage musical was originally supposed to end with a scene of [[spoiler:Elphaba taking refuge with the animals and trying to help Doctor Dillamond.]] Schwartz really liked this scene, but it was cut to avoid EndingFatigue. Now that the two-part movie adaptation is bound to feature additional moments not present in the stage version, it would be fitting to have the original planned finale as an epilogue.