Give one final light toss, seasoning once again with salt and pepper.
But first there's a final light-hearted lecture to get through, on the subject of misconceptions.
Among hundreds of local events, Westminster Abbey will be hosting a candlelit vigil at 10pm, including the gradual extinguishing of candles, with the final light, on the tomb of the unknown warrior, being put out at 11pm.
He even cut off the traditional, final, light-hearted question from La Gazzetta dello Sport's veteran London correspondent last night – one that referred to his record of winning games on his birthday – with a curt "bye-bye".
As the final lights went down, Paxo sat alone looking contemplative, although, as the camera pulled out, it was impossible to be sure if broadcasting's hard-man interrogator had softened as far as tears on his final night in the studio.
Until the final light of a rain-plagued Thursday, Phil Mickelson's 3-under-par 67, shot after an overnight trip back from his daughter's eighth-grade graduation in Southern California on the West Coast, earned him no worse than a share of the first-round lead at the United States Open.
As the show finished, however, and the final light cue was called and the audience began to applaud, I felt something I vaguely remembered from my acting days: that strange curtain-call sensation, that addictive feeling that you never really feel more like yourself, or at least more alive, than after playing another character.
Even if, as Middleton points out, you don't "become famous posthumously", once we all accept that we will be alone as we make our journey towards the final light, there is something comforting in the fact everyone will all be alone together.
I point my light forwards, and the final light installation at Trouw emerges.
The dress code lacked uniformity, but when the final light dimmed after the fourth act, the crowd showed solidarity in its reaction: polite clapping.
