"THE GOLDEN COMPASS" "There are many universes and many earths, parallel to each other." "Worlds like yours, where peoples souls live inside their bodies." "And worlds like mine, where they walk beside us, as animal spirits we call, daemons." "Are we going to see the child?" "I should think so." "So many worlds, but connecting them all, is Dust." "Dust was here before the witches of the air, the Gyptians of the water, and the bears of the ice." "In my world, scholars invented an Alethiometer." "A golden compass." "And it showed them all that was hidden." "But the ruling power, fearing any truth but their own, destroyed these devices," "And forbade the very mention of "Dust"." "One compass remains however, and only one who can read it." "Ahhh, you'll never get me!" "Lets go get him Lyra." "I'll get you!" " I'll get you first!" "Billy!" "You come back here!" "Run, Roger!" ".., will do what ever we say!" "Hurry up Roger, or they'll "gobble" you." "Hurry Up." "Stop!" "If you value your lives, come no further." "Why?" "We gobbled him fair and square." "This ain't no game, Billy Costa." "Don't you know what gate that is?" "It's the back door to your stupid college." "So?" " There's a curse on this gate." "You Gypsians ought to know that." "Crossing this gate, is worse than touching someone's daemon with your bare hands." "Why ain't nothing happened to you, then?" "'Cause we live here." "We got safe passage, see?" "And anyway, my mother's one who put the curse on this place in the first place." "What mother?" "I heard you was an orphan." "And your uncle only left you here cause' nobody wanted you." "Come here and say that." "Don't Billy!" "You should listen to your mate." "The scholars got this special room where they deal with trespassers." "They got this poison gown right, and it burns you alive!" "Rubbish." "Hand him over." "It ain't rubbish." "I'll prove it, I'll steal it!" "You can have Roger, as long as you try it on." "Alright." "Bring it with you tonight." "Or else ..." "War;" "Billy, don't!" "See you later then." " Ok." "Were you really gonna hand me over to them?" "Of course not." "I'll steal any old scholar's gown." "He'll never try it on anyway." "Lord Asriel?" " Morning, Hunt." "Well the Master we be relieved that you've arrived safely." "Sure he will." "I wish you'd listen to me once in a while." " Stop being such a coward." "If I weren't such a coward, where would you be?" "In the retiring room already." "Come on, quick!" "Let's find a robe and get out of here." "Don't be silly." "I want to look around." "You do know that if you get a smack, I hurt too." "62" "You're gonna get us caught." "Oh no!" "I told you!" "Lord Asriel is an eminent fellow of the colleagues." "And as master of Jordan... you must force him to abandon his plan." "They're talking about uncle Asriel." "I speak for the Magisterium." "The Magisterium has no authorities within these walls." "My dear fellow," "The Magisterium has authority everywhere." "And Asriel will be silenced... one way or another." "That may be..." "But while he's at Jordan, his proposal will be heard." "I'm not dispensed with centuries of intolerance, free enquiry..." "And that's my final word on the matter." "Now, if you'll excuse me..." "I shall call the council to order." "I guess we lost that bet." " Hush, Pan." "Lyra!" "He's leaving, let's go." "Lyra!" "Oh no, Stelmaria." "The Master asked me to decant a bottle of bourbon 1995 for you," "Lord Asriel." "He remember you were partial to it." "Thank You." "Lyra!" " It's poisoned!" "Nonsense." " It ain't nonsense." "I saw that man from the Magisterium poured some powder into the wine." "Go back in there, keep your eyes open and your mouth shut... go on." "Ahh, Lord Asriel this a rare pleasure..." "May I introduce Fra Pavel of the Magisterium." "We've never met, but I follow your exploits... closely, Lord Asriel." "That's what the smell is..." "Master, Gentlemen, I shall gget straight to the point." "Hunt, the lights." "This photogram was taken at the magnetic north pole." "in Svalbard," "Kingdom of the Ice bears." "Lord Asriel, is that light rising up from the man's body or coming down." "No, that's coming down from the sky, but that's not light." "It's Dust." "What's Dust?" " I don't know, it can't be the normal sort, they got plenty of that here." "Mirabile dictu, gentlemen, allow Lord Asriel to explain." "Perhaps, you've made a mistake." "It could be an aborational malfunction of some kind." "No it no aboration." "The behaviour of these particles is quite unmistakable." "Dust is flowing in to this man, through his daemon, from a city in another world." "A world much like ours in a parallel universe." "co-existing with our own, invisible, intangible, inaccessible, until now." "From there, and from a billion other worlds Dust flows." "Worlds of infinite possibilities, somewhere men have no daemons, somewhere daemons have no men..." "People without daemons." "That's impossible." "And even some who have no Magisterium." "And no authority." "That is heresy." "That is the truth." "I wouldn't recommend the Tokay, gentlemen, it's caught." "To discover the source of Dust, I intend to travel to these worlds." "With the sufficient source of energy." "And..." "Well... a sufficient source of funds." "I can affect the crossing." "I humbly beg the college council to fund such a journey." "It wasn't my fault, she wouldn't listen to me." "I will not have my niece slithering round like an alley cat." "You're not very grateful, are you?" "I've just saved your life!" "Uncle, why did he try to poison you?" " You wouldn't understand." "Yes, I would." " Well, I don't see why." "Apparently you are impossible to educate, a miscreant, and a liar." "What will the Magisterium do to you now?" "The Magisterium's day are numbered." "What does that mean?" " Trouble, with a bit of luck." "Did you get the money you needed?" "Are you going North again?" "The college counsel has defied The Magisterium." "I'm leaving immediately." "Can I come with you?" "I wanna see the Ice bears, and glaciers, and learn about Dust and everything." "What do you know about dust?" "Nothing." " Good." "Keep it that way." "Now be a good girl and do what you're told." "But you don't do what you're told!" "You don't let anybody tell you what to do!" "Yes, and look at the welcome I got!" "Hush Pan." " I see your daemon still changes shape." "Hasn't settled yet?" " Yeah." "That's to do with Dust, doesn't it." "Why kids' daemons can change shape but grown-up's deamons can't." "Lyra, Dust is none of your business." "Now you try and behave." "My uncle Asriel said he'd take me to the north the next time he goes." "He swore it. 'Cause he needs my help, see." " What for?" "Fighting probably." "Or spying." "He uses me as a spy sometimes." "Like now for instance." "I'm supposed to be keepin' an eye on them Gobblers." "'Cause they took them Gypsian kids out Boundry Ray." "Billy Costa told me." "I heard them Gobblers take them down to hell." "Of course they don't!" "." "You're afraid of them, ain't you?" " No I ain't." "But the adults are." "Because kids keep disappearing." "But they go after the poor kids, you see?" "." "The orphans..." "and the servant kids as well." "Roger, I promise, If you was taken by the Gobblers," "I'd come and rescue you." "You'd come get me too wouldn't you?" "Of course." "It's everybody who would come looking for you, if you was gobbled." "You're a lady." " Says Who?" "Cook." "He says that's why you are the only one who live here." "To make you a lady." "Nobody can make me a lady!" "Not the master and the scholars and porces combined." "Right!" "Take it back, or we ain't best mates no more." "Alright, alright you ain't a lady!" "Lyra!" "Lyra Belaqua get down off them roofs!" "The Master wants you at High Table." "The state of your knees, and your hair." "Well..." "It's not surprising." "Roger and me's been hunting Gobblers." "It's dirty work." "Don't you make jokes about them Gobblers." "Ain't nothing to play about when children go missing." "Lyra, my dear, the tutor of Metaphysics tells me that you've missed your lesson again." "Now, I know you do not always understand our need to educate you, but sometimes you must do, what others think best." "But I disagree, Master." " Mrs. Coulter." "When I was a young woman i knew that no one could ever truly understand me." "Except of course my daemon." "And that it would be best if we were to do as we pleased." "Sit down, Gentlemen." "Who's she?" " Don't know, but she shut up the Master, alright." "Mrs. Coulter, this is our Lyra, Lyra Belaqua, Lord Asriel's niece." "Lyra, this is Mrs. Coulter, a friend of the college." "Lovely to meet you." " Lovely to meet you, too." "Do you know, I've met Lord Asriel?" "It was at the Royal Arctic Institute." "We discussed the political structure of the Ice bears of Svalbard." "You've seen an ice bear?" "As the matter of fact, I have had an audience with the Bear king himself, Ragnar Stursson." "And I'll tell you something I probably shouldn't:." "King Ragnar is desperate to have a daemon of his own." "Bears don't have them you see ... and Ragnar, he likes to think of himself as a person," "And he will stop at nothing to get one." "But you mustn't repeat that." " Oh, I'd never!" "I feel I can trust you." "I have to go back to the north very soon." "I'm going to need an assistant." "Me?" "Go to the North?" " North?" "It's cold up there." "We'd better get the Master's permission." "Master, I was wondering if I might borrow dear Lyra?" "Only for a while, of course." "I'm not sure that would be consistant with Lord Asriels wishes for her education." "I'll deal with Asriel." "You mustn't deny me this little thing, you really mustn't." "Very well." "A bet's a bet." "Lyra was supposed to show up with the gown." "I told you they wouldn't let her out of the college." "Which one's her room?" "What are you gonna do?" " Give her a fright, that's all." "We get caught, I'll be skinned alive." "Night's patrol is bound to be doing his rounds." "Ratter, check if the coast is clear." "It's all clear." "Billy!" "Billy!" "The scholars still refuse to hand over the last alethiomether." "And now they've given Asriel all the funds he needs." "If he succeeds in proving the existence of these other worlds it will contradict centuries of teaching." "There will always be free thinkers, and heretics." "Unless we deal with the root of the problem." "That is why Mrs. Coulter's work is so important." "What progress has she made?" " The doctors at Bolvanger, are close to perfecting the inoculation against the effects of Dust." "I am relieved to hear that." "If we can protect our children from the corrupting influence of Dust, before their daemon settle, we will nurture a generation at peace with itself." "One that will never question our authority again." "We owe it to the young." "Do we not?" "I fear, our defiance will not go unpunished  and I shall be drawn into it" " We've failed her." " We've protected her as long as we could, Master." "She's still a child." "She can't possibly be a threat to them." "She is." "She is meant to play a major part in what is to come." "How could you know such things?" "The Witches." "Could you, could you stay by the door?" "Mrs. Longsdale, it is important that I know if I was followed." "Yes, Master." "It's for you Lyra." " What is this?" "An Alethiometer." "Also known as a Golden Compass." "It was given to the college by Lord Asriel, years ago." "And now, I'm giving it to you." "I feel, you are meant to have it." "What's it for?" " It tells the truth." "We've always tried to acquaint you with the truth but the secrets of the heart and things, elude scholars and authorities." "But this lets you glimpse things as they are." "But Lyra, keep the alethiometer to yourself." "It is of the utmost importance, that Mrs. Coulter does not know that you have it, Do you understand me?" "Of the utmost importance." "Lyra!" "Are you ready?" "There's someone missing." "I want to say goodbye to Roger." " Roger?" "Who's Roger?" "My friend." "He works in the kitchens." "We must go." "The ferry's about to take off." "Why don't you write him a letter?" "You can tell him all about the journey and you can even send him a photograph." "What do you think?" " Yeah, I suppose." "Mrs. Coulter, what's that?" "That is the Magisterial seat, Lyra." "Oh, what's the Magisterium for?" "286 00:23:20,42 8 -- 00:23:21,932" "The Magisterium is what people need to keep things working by telling people what to do." "But you told the Master you did whatever you pleased." "That's Right, clever girl." "Well... some people know what's good for them, and some people don't." "Besides, they don't people what to do in a mean, petty way." "They tell them what to do in a kindly way." "To keep them out of danger." "Sugar?" "SVALBARD" "Look Pan, it's got loads of pictures around the edge." "What do they all mean?" " Don't know." "The needle keep stopping at the same symbols." "Lady, lightning bolt and a baby." "Then it goes back, and does it again, see?" "What do you think makes the needle move?" "I don't know." "Maybe Uncle Asriel knows." "Maybe we're supposed to take it to him." "All washed, and ready for bed?" "We have a busy few weeks." "Well it was a stylish enough party." "But why they don't offer more ice with their drinks," "I shall never understand." "I'll only be a moment, darling." "Official business." "What?" " She likes to show off her new pet, doesn't she?" "She's never taking us to the North." "We're like prisoners in this house." "All these rules, and rooms that we aren't allowed in to." "Perhaps we shouldn't have invited Professor Docker." "He's such a bore isn't he?" "And he had sauce in his beard." "But he is one of the foremost experts on particle Metaphysics." "Have I told you what a particle is?" " Oh I know about particles." "Like Dust." "That's a particle, isn't it." " Dust?" "I mean the Dust from space." "That Dust." "Like in the north." "Oh, where did you hear about that?" "It must have been one of the scholars at Jordan." "A wise person knows Lyra, there are some thing we best ignore." "Subjects that you Well never speak about." "But I d..." " Yes, You didn't know, so I forgive you." "Just don't mention it again." "Now darling, will you take off that childish shoulder bag." "I don't like seeing you wearing it indoors." "Please Mrs. Coulter." "I do love it." " But I do not." "Put it away." "Lyra, put it away now." " I don't want to." "If you do not obey me, we will have an argument which I will win." "Now put it away at once!" "It's absurd to be carrying around a shoulder bag in your own home." "Jordan is my home." "Lyra!" "Don't!" "Please, it hurts!" " Lyra!" "Do as I tell you." " I promise." "Lyra." " Thank you." "And while you're at it, you must learn to control your daemon." "He is much too wild." "Now, kiss me." "I hate her!" "I hate them." "And look, they're spying on us." "What do they want with us?" "Why are we here?" "Did you see her daemon?" "He went to shock when you mentioned Dust." "And what does she keep in that room?" "Let's go find out." "Maybe this isn't such a good idea." "Over here." "That's just one of her stupid guest lists." " No it isn't." "Look at it." ""Intercision"." "What does it mean, Pan?" "And that?" "General Oblation Board." "G.O.B." " Gobblers." "From the letters." "G.O.B." "Workman, Edwards, Parslow, Costa." "Billy and Roger!" "Pan, it's her." "She is running the Gobblers!" " Lyra, where are you?" "We have to get out of here." "Lyra!" "Lyra, what have you been doing?" " Nothing." "Well we must find something for you to do." "Shall you help me arrange our passage to the Noroway?" "Oh you do want to come to the north with me, don't you?" "Where is he?" "I don't see him." "Lyra, this way!" "Quick, Lyra!" "Lyra!" "What are we gonna do, Pan?" "We got to save Roger, and Billy." "We've gotta save ourselves first." "Where are we gonna go?" "Anywhere is better than here." "Come on, this way!" "Alright then, split up, the girl can't be far." "Spread out." "Search all the buildings." " Gobblers!" "You, cover the canal." "She's gotta be here somewhere." "Get her!" "Pan!" " Run, Lyra!" "Lyra!" "Pan!" "Lyra!" " Pan!" "Gyptians." "Don't threaten on, Lyra." "Come here." "You're save with us." " You're Ma Costa," "Billy's Mum." "But, what are you doing here?" " We've been in your shadow ever since you left Jordan College, watching over you." "An a good thing too." "You best come with us." "Where are we going?" " To see Lord Faa, King of the Gypsians.." "Not very friendly, are they?" " What you looking at?" "So now all the clans are here and we'll head north on the next tide" "Ma Costa!" "This is the child." "It's alright." "How do you do, Lord Faa?" "Hello Lyra, you come and sit by my side." "This is Farder Coram." "And these are the chiefs of the gypsian families." "You're are our guest here and you are under our protection." "Lord Faa, I want to thank you." "For keeping watch with me and all..." "But why did you do it?" "Lord Asriel has been a good friend to the Gypsians this many a year and..." "This many a year it has been our charge to bring him news of you, as we traveled along our ways." "But you didn't know that, did you?" "And when Mrs. Coulter got a hold of you, well... we suspected that she had something to do with the Gobblers." "And she did." "She and them Gobblers took my little boy, Billy." "Lyra, We know your tale up until you ran away the Costas found you." "But ss there anything else you can tell us?" "Is there anything you may have forgot?" "Don't show it to them." "The Master of Jordan gave me this." "I thought they was all taken by the Magisterium." "It's an alethiometer." "It's a truth measurer." "A Golden compass." "It enables you to see, what others wish to hide." "You've got three hands that you can control." "By pointing at three symbols, you can ask any sort of question you can imagine." "Once you've got your question framed, this blue needle points to more symbols, that give you the answer." " Could it be used to find the missing children?" "Not by me." "The art was jealously guarded." " Can I try?" "Alright." " What are you doing, Lyra?" "You don't know how to read it." " Hush Pan!" "Well, the serpent is cunning, like the Gobblers." "And the Pot could mean a recipe or a plan... the baby." "That means kids." "One thing I do know, Lyra, you mustn't grasp at the answer." "Hold the question in your mind but lightly, like it was something alive." "It's an hourglass." "But it came around to it on the second time." "The first time it only stopped there a moment." "On top of the hourglass, is a scull." "Thank you children." "Finish your letters now." "Billy Costa, why didn't you write anything?" "Your mother must be missing you terribly." "I don't know what to put in the letter, Miss." "They haven't told us what we're here for." "You're here to help us." "And just as soon as you've helped us, we'll send you back home." "That's what you should write." "Or don't they teach gypsian children to write?" "They teach us to write the truth, miss." "Billy, just write the letter." "Well, as I'll be posting these straight away," "I'm afraid your parents will be disappointed." "I confess I am puzzled by your interest in the Belaqua-girl." "For one thing, she is in possession of the alethiometer." "How ... ah yes, the Master." "Can she read it?" " Of course not." "Mrs. Coulter, are you familiar with the prophecies of the witches?" "You think she is that child?" "Impossible." "Nonetheless, she must be found." "They'll seek her out, like bees to honey." "Svalbard." "Kingdom of the Ice bears." "We shall have to watch ourselves Stelmaria" "You can bet that Coulter-woman has hired every Samoyed-bandit from here to the pole to hunt us down." "Don't be so hasty." "We can work this out like gentlemen." "Don't worry Lyra." "We'll find Roger." "I'm alright." "What is it?" " It's a spy fly." "Is it dangerous?" "The one that got away is." "If you was to crack it open, you find no living thing in there." "No animal or insect at any rate." "There's a clockwork and pinned to the spring of it is a bad spirit with and a sleeping poison in its sting." "We'll keep him safe, in here." "What was it after?" " You, Lyra.." "Why me?" "Why are they doing this?" "We don't know." "But we Gypsians are being hurt worse than most by these Gobblers." "These child thieves, They're taking our children up North." "The land of cold and dark." "What they are doing with them there, we don't know." "But we have heard terrible rumor." "Our aim is first to go north and to rescue these children." "Both gypsian and landlubber alike." "But if they have been harmed..." "I promise you, if they have been harmed there is not a place, nor on land, nor on sea for these Gobblers." "And when the time comes to punish, we will strike such a blow, as will make their hearts faint and fearful." "We will strike the strength out of them." "We will leave them broken and shattered." "Are you getting scared, Pan?" " Scared?" "A little." "It's all bigger and scarier than we ever thought." "Maybe we shouldn't be doing this." " But we've got to, ain't we?" "Go on I mean." "Who are you?" "My name is Serafina Pekkala." "Clan queen of the witches of Lake Enara." "A witch." "Where's your daemon?" " Kaisa can fly a long way from me." "Are you the girl the Magisterium seeks?" "The one with the symbol reader?" "Let me see you read it." "I want to know if you can tell me .." "which of the men on this ship was once my lover." "Farder Coram ... but ..." "He was young and beautiful once and we witches live for hundreds of years." "Farder Coram wishes to know where the child-cutters take their prey." "It is a place they call Bolvangar." "The place of fear." "A regiment of Tartars with wolf-daemons guards it." "Birds do not fly above." "Animals have fled." "Even the Samoyeds fear it." "It is a weeks march from Trollesund on the coast of Noroway." "You will find something to help you in Trollesund." "You will need all your courage." "I'm glad I've lived long enough to see you, child." "Who's going to help us?" "Can you see anything?" "Lyra, you're not listening to me!" "That's a mighty fancy clockwork you got there." "It's just a toy." " Uhuh." "Hell then it's a mighty fancy toy." "How did you come by something like that?" "Oh Lord, Lee when are you gonna learn to mind your own business?" "I do beg pardon." "Lee Scoresby, and this old gal is Hester." "I'm Lyra." "This is Pan." "Pantalaimon." "Howdy?" "Mighty pleased, Miss Lyra." "You rode in with them Gypsian fellows, am I right?" "Oh, boy." "Here I go again." "Don't answer that." "What are you doing in Trollesund, Mr. Scoresby?" "Oh, a friend of mine got himself into a fix." "So I come to see what I can do about it." " Me too." "Of course, that ain't my normal occupation." "Most of the time I plan my trade up in the sky." "You're an aeronaut!" "Can I go up in your ship?" " I'd be honored." "Just as soon as I get her out of hawk." "Miss Lyra, I'd like to give you a word of advice, though you ain't asked for none." "If I was on the kinda scout, that I reckon you're on," "I'd hire myself an aeronaut, and an armored bear." "An armored bear?" " There's one in town." "Iorek Byrnison's his name." "Works at the sled depot behind Arson's Bar." "Good one to to have on your side in a scrap." "Not that you're looking for that." "Iorek Byrnison, Iorek Byrnison, may I speak to you?" "What?" " We want to offer you employment." "I am employed by the town's people." "I mend broken machinery." "I lift heavy objects." "What kind of work is that for a panserbjorne?" "Paid work!" "Is that what they pay you?" "Whisky?" "Iorek Byrnison, you are the first Ice bear" "I have ever met." "I was ever so excited and scared." "But now I'm just disappointed." "I heard that bears lived to hunt and to fight." "Why are you wasting your time here, drinking whisky?" "I stay because the people of this town gave me spirits and let me drink till I was asleep," "and they took my armor away." "And without my armour, I cannot go to war." "And I am an armoured bear." "War is the sea I swim in, the I breath, without my armour I am nothing!" "But..." "Can't you make new armor?" "I thought bears were good at that." "There's all this metal around." " Worthless!" "My Armour is made of sky iron, from the falling stars that land in Svalbard." "A bear's Armour is his soul, as your daemon is your soul." "Irreplaceable." "You may as well take him away and replace him with a doll." "It must have been terrible to lose your armor." "I was no less than I deserved." "I am in exile." "I was sent away from Svalbard because I was unworthy." "I fought another bear in single combat and was defeated." "Come child." "We can't involve ourselves." "He was prince." "He would have been the king if the other bear hadn't defeated him." "He lost everything." "Oh Pan, they've really hurt him." "Iorek Byrnison." "Iorek Byrnison." "Be careful." " I know where your armour is." "They tricked you out of it." "They shouldn't have done that, Iorek Byrnison." "It's in the District Office of the Magisterium, right here, in Trollesund." "What's your name child?" " Lyra Belaqua." "Then, Lyra Belaqua, I owe you a debt." "I will serve you in your campaign, until I am dead or you have a victory." "Iorek!" "Iorek Byrnison!" "Iorek listen!" "Don't fight these men." "What they've done ain't right, I know." "If you fight you'll kill them, there'll be more fighting and we'll never get away to rescue those kids." "Just not be too hasty." "Way I see it, there's no need for a dust-up." "Howdy Iorek." "I was down south heard you ran in to a little local trouble." "Didn't have the first notion on how to spring ya." "Fortunately little girls come in real resourceful up in these parts." "Well look at here, reinforcements." "What do you say you fellow just call it a day." "Just been hired on by these gentlemen of the" "Gypsian persuasion." "You figuring on joining this turkey shoot?" "Yes." "I have a contract with the child." "That's some pretty fast work Miss Lyra." "My Lord..." "Rise, Fra Pavel!" "I have received your news about the Gypsian party heading to the North." "The matter is of the first importance." "They must be eliminated, and Bolvangar protected." "The intercision process is more important than ever." "Which is why it must be taken out of the hands of the Coulter woman." "Oh." " It was Mrs. Coulter who and then let her slip away." "Yes, that is the most troubling of all." "No matter." "One way or another, it is better that I've sent Mrs. Coulter after the child." "You've sent her?" " Yes." "She is to demonstrate the improvements to the intercision-process upon the Belaqua-girl." "I'm sorry." "I would never hurt you." "Oh, Lyra." "I'll find you." "I will find you." "Careful now boys, airship machinery is kind of finicky." "I wanna die in a rocket chair not a hydrogen fire." "... but she was ever so clever, Mrs. Coulter." "But she was always telling me what to do." "I don't like people telling me what to do." "I bet you don't like it either." "I can tell." "You're like my Uncle Asriel." "He's a rough noble like you." "That's what I think." "Samoyede Lands." "Samoyedes don't take kindly to trespassers." "It's the only way to reach Bolvangar." "Stay close to me." "Come child." " It will be dark soon." "What's wrong?" "What can you see?" "Where are we going?" " Hush Pan" "Iorek?" " What is it child?" "The alethiometer keeps telling me something." "In the next valley there's a lake with a house by," "And it is troubled by a ghost." "It's something to do with the Gobblers and Roger." "You could take me there, couldn't you." "You could carry me there and back before anyone knew, couldn't you?" "You wish to ride me?" " Yeah." "We will travel faster without armor." "Are those birds?" " Witches." "More than I have ever seen." " Where are they going?" "Flying to war." "If they are flying to the aid of your enemies you should all be afraid." "Are you afraid?" " No." "When I am, I will master my fear." "I will make sure the way is clear." "No, stay here." "Lyra no." "Please don't!" "Something's wrong." " Hush, Pan." "Something terrible." "I'm eh ..." "I'm afraid." "We've got to master our fear." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Billy." " Where is his daemon?" "He doesn't have a daemon." "That's ... intercision." "That's what the Gobblers do." "Cutting away kids' daemons." "Where's my Ratter?" "Have you seen her?" "Billy, it's me, Lyra." "Let me take you back to your mum." "I need Ratter." " Billy come on with me." "We'll take you some place safe." "We'll find Ratter." "Gracious God what's this?" "Lyra child, what have you found?" "Billy." "Billy Costa." "Oh Billy, You're alright Billy." "You're safe now." "We'll find your deamon, we'll bring her back." "Here, take Lyra!" "Defence!" "To arms!" "Protect the children!" "Look out Lyra!" "Iorek Byrnison!" "Pan, where are they taking us?" "I don't know." "We've been going for hours." "Ice bears Pan." "I hope you're happy now." "00:12:5y6,000 -- 00:12:59,500" "Don't worry." "We'll bring her back." "The Samoyedes won't lay a hand on her, she's worth more in one piece." "I'll find her." "I'll bring her back." "I can bargain with Ragnar." "... drop you to border, pick you up on the way out." "No." "I will not leave her." "If you show up in Svalbard, Ragnar and the rest of them will tear you to pieces, you know that." "I know that I would feel ashamed to show less courage than that child." "That kind of courage can get you killed." "I will not live in shame any longer, Scoresby." "I reckon not." "Let me take her down." "Pick up the trail." "Don't worry, Iorek will come." "That's just it Pan." "There's too many of them for him to fight." "We've got to do something." "Do you remember what Mrs. Coulter said back at Jordan?" "About the King of the bears wanting a Daemon." "Pan, I need you to hide." "Don't let them see you." "That's fine with me." "We can beat him, Pan." "What is this little thing?" " All greetings to you, Great King." "Or rather, my greetings and not his." "Not whose?" " Iorek Byrnison's, Your Majesty." "What have you to do with Iorek Byrnison?" "I'm Iorek Byrnison's daemon." "How has he, exile, the unworthy Iorek Byrnison obtained a daemon!" "?" "Iorek Byrnison was the first bear to receive a daemon, but it should have been you." "They gave me to him at Bolvangar." "Mrs. Coulter did." "How can you be so far from him." "I'm like a witch's daemon, Great King." "I can go as far from him as I please." "Well..." "If you are his daemon, then I will kill you right now and be free of an enemy!" "If you do that, I can never be your daemon." "My daemon?" "That's why I come here, see." "Cause I want to be your daemon, not his." "He's just an exile, nothing." "But you - you're powerful, and clever, and rich, and ... and better in every way." "He's on his way here now to fight you." "What?" "He's mad." "We shall destroy him!" "No." "No." "If you defeat him I will become your daemon." "But you must defeat him in single combat." "Then all his strength will flow into yours." "And my mind will flow into your mind." "You and me together." "Have him killed any other way, I'll just go out like a light and you'll never have deamon." "Prove it." "Prove to me that you are a daemon." "Ask me something only you know." "How did I become king?" "What is that?" " It's a daemon mirror, Great King." "We daemons use it to see the truth in our own eyes." "Truly you are great and powerful, Ragnar." "You poisoned the old king, then challenged the heir to the throne, and beat him in single combat." "Iorek Byrnison." "Oh Pan, what have I done?" "Ragnar is too strong." "Here he is..." "What if the coward dare not fight me." "Great king, let me speak to him." "If I do he will not suspect." " Very well." "You go to him." "Give him courage." "Bring him to his death." "Soon you'll be mine." "Oh Iorek, Iorek dear, I've done a terrible thing." "What terrible thing?" "Told the king I was your daemon, and that he must fight you." "If not, they would never let you fight." "The would burn you before you got up close." "But you've been fighting and running all this way." "Lyra, Lyra Belaqua ..." "No, I shall call you, Lyra "Silvertongue"." "To fight him, is all I want." "Come, little daemon." "Fight well, Iorek my dear." "You're the real king, and he ain't nothing." "Lyra, if I am killed, Scoresby will find you." "Is that all, whimpering cob?" "Is that all?" "Soon to die?" "Is that all?" "Ha?" "Is that all!" "?" "Yes, that is all, that is all!" "Bears!" "Who's your king!" "?" "Iorek, Iorek I thought I'd lost you." " Why?" "You're still own my contract." "And now I will take you to Bolvangar." "We've got to stop them Iorek, the alethiometer says they'll hurt Roger." "There." "It may not hold us both." "You cross on your own, I will follow." "I'm right here, step quickly, don't look down." "Don't look back, you're almost there!" "Run Lyra, run!" "Run!" "Lyra, I will get Scoresby and the Gypsians." "Wait for me there." "Lyra, wait!" "I don't like the look of this place." "Bolvanger!" " Hello there." "I ..." "I got lost in the snow." "Where am I?" "No need to worry my child." "You're safe now." "You better come inside." "It's warm and comfortable in here." "What's your name." " Don't tell him who we are." "Lizzie." "Lizzie Brooks." "What were you doing so far north Lizzie, that must be an interesting story." "My dad and uncles, they took me north." "they're traders." "Well, you're very lucky to have found us when you got lost." "What is this place?" " Oh, you'll like it." "It's called the experimental station." " What do you do here?" "We help children grow up." " Liar." "You must be hungry Lizzie." "Lucky you, just in time for dinner." "Can you see him?" "Is he here?" "Lyra, it's them!" " Pan, you found us!" "You kept your promise." "I knew you'd come." " I promised, didn't I?" "Roger, do you know what they do to the kids here?" "Well they say they're gonna give us this operation, right?" "Then they'll send us home, and we won't have to worry about Dust." "But once they call a kid in, you'll never see them again." "They took Billy Costa away last week, and he's still gone." "Don't worry." "I've got a plan, alright?" "Tell the kids to have their warm clothes ready." "I need to be alone somewhere." "But not here." "They hardly ever use this one." "But be quick." "Ask it how we are gonna get out of here." "But why would it..." " Oh no, it's them." "... that may be so, but I'm interested in discovering how several children managed to wander free from the station." "Mrs. Coulter, I hope you understand, that the question is moot." "Any child who escapes the facility, would not last very long in the cold." "We have already recovered 2 out of the 3 missing children." "Where they alive?" "Well that is unfortunate..." "But enough of that for now." "I, at least, have some good news." "We needn't be concerned with Lord Asriel any longer." "He has bribed his captors and set up a secret laboratory in the further reaches of the North." "The Magistiriums soldiers are on their way." "He will be arrested for heresy, and sentenced to death." "Put him to death?" "Dear me." "I think I will retire for the evening." "Oh well, yes, of course the orders will show you to your chambers." "I wouldn't get on the wrong side of her I'll tell you that." "She's positively girlish." "You remember the first experiments?" "When she was so keen to see them pulled apart." "Her and the hood of a daemon." "What was that?" " Down there, under the table." "You can't!" "You're not allowed." " Get off of me." "Lyra!" "Quickly now." "Straight into the chamber." "Let me go!" "Iorek Byrnison's gonna kill you." "Don't be afraid, my dear." "It's only a little cut." " You'll never keep us apart!" "You wanna grow up, don't you." "Well, this is how you grow up." "Stay away from me!" "You'll never keep us apart!" "Never!" "Never!" "No stop!" "Lyra!" " Pan!" "Lyra!" "Don't!" "Don't you touch!" "No one is going to hurt you." "No one is ever, ever going to hurt you." "They did it to Billy, and to those other kids." "They cut their deamons away." "Why?" "Why are they doing that?" "I know it's difficult to understand, but it's for their own good." "It's just a little cut." "You listen, listen to me." "A long long time ago, some of our ancestors made, made a terrible mistake." "They disobeyed the Authority." "And that is what made Dust come in to the world." "And ever since then, we've been sick with it." "We've been sick with Dust." "But there is a way out." "You see, Dust doesn't settle on innocent children." "It's later." "When your daemon begins to settle." "The Dust begins to swarm all around us, trying to work its mischief." "And that is how children begin to have all sorts of nasty thoughts and unhappy feelings." "But there is a way to stop it." "A little cut. and gone forever." "Well if it's so good, then why don't you do it yourself." "Why didn't you let them do it to me?" "I'm going to tell you something." "Something very important, something you don't know." "Intercision isn't perfect yet, and you're not just anyone, Lyra." "Your mother didn't die in an airship accident as you were told." "She wasn't married to your father and even though and even though she loved you very much," "and she wanted to keep you." "It wasn't allowed." "So you were taken from her, and it wasn't until things changed and she was free to do as she wanted, that" "that she went to Jordan College and spoke to the Master." "No!" "You can't be!" "Yes, Lyra." "You're mine." "And you're safe with me." "You'll always be safe with me." "Who's my father?" "Lord Asriel?" "He's my father, isn't he?" "Yes." "Yes." "Now I almost forgot." "The Master of Jordan gave you something, didn't he?" "He gave you an alethiometer, didn't he?" "But you see, it wasn't really his to give, well he did must have seemed like a puzzle, what a silly old thing like that was any good for." "Alright." "Here it is." "Thank you." "What a funny old tin." "Did you put it in here to keep it safe?" "Run!" "Lyra, let's go!" "Go!" "Go on then." "Go on." "Iorek, Iorek!" "Run child!" "Let's go!" "Better not touch me." "I'm warning you." "Serafina Pekkala." "Mrs. Coulter!" "Get her out!" "Go!" "Well come on!" "Charge!" "Mr. Scoresby, help Iorek!" "Come on!" "Gyptians to me!" "We're going home!" "Lyra, we've got to go!" "It's time to go home." "I can't Roger." "I've got to go to my father and bring him the alethiometer." "Your father?" " Lord Asriel." "Mrs. Coulter and them, they're gonna kill him." "Then I'm going too." "You said you was gonna come get me." "You got me." "Miss Lyra!" "Are you ready to fly?" "I know where she's going." "Well, they're all tugged in back there." "That little girl's something, huh?" "There's a prophecy about that child, Mr. Scoresby." "She will decide the war which is to come." " War?" "I ain't heard a rumor of any war." " You will." "It is your war too, whether you know it or not." "What would the quarrel be about?" " Nothing less than free will." "The Magisterium not only seeks to control everyone in this world, but every world, in every universe." "They've been unable to extend their power until now, but if Asriel finds a way to travel between worlds, nothing will stop them from trying to take over." "Nothing but us, and that child." "What's it telling you?" "It's telling me about my father." "It says I'm bringing him what he needs!" "We're going home, aren't we Lyra?" "After we save your father?" "Of course." "Except first we got to sort out some things that needs sorted." "Like Billy and another kids who lost their daemons." "We've got to help them." "And it isn't like The Magisterium's just gonna let us go home to Jordan just like that." "And Dust." "I want to know what Dust is." "Maybe we're supposed to go to that other world with my father, and find out." "That's an awful lot to sort out." " Well who else is gonna do it?" "Besides, we're in this together now." " Yeah." "Suppose we are." "You reckon it would do any harm to get some sleep now?" "Go on then." "We'll set things right." "We will." "You, and me, and Iorek and Serafina Pekkala and Mr. Scoresby." "And my father." "We'll set it right, Pan." "Just let them try to stop us."