"Vincent:" "This is where the wealthy and the powerful rule." "It is her world," "A world apart from mine." "Her name..." "Is catherine." "From the moment I saw her, she captured my heart" "With her beauty," "Her warmth and her courage." "I knew then, as I know now," "She would change my life..." "Forever." "Catherine:" "He comes from a secret place, far below the city streets," "Hiding his face from strangers," "Safe from hate and harm." "He brought me there to save my life." "And now, wherever I go, he is with me in spirit." "For we have a bond stronger than friendship or love." "And although we cannot be together," "We will never, ever be apart." "¶ ¶" "Boy:" "The tunnel is growing smaller." "It's now just four feet high." "There's a steel door to your left." "Boy 2:" "The gelfin will test the door's strength." "Boy 1:" "Five." "The door will not open." "I send the giant to smash the door." "Boy 3:" "The gelfin stands behind him" "With prince brian." "You need a six to open the door." "Eight." "The giant has dented the door enough to see inside." "The gelfin can enter." "The gelfin uses his extraordinary olfactory powers." ""I sense human life," he growls, hungrily." "Prince brian rushes to the door." "He must get inside." "The room can be entered with a sacrifice." "The gelfin has sworn loyalty." "Prince brian sacrifices the gelfin." "The gelfin dies." "You may now enter the room." "There is one side door." "A beautiful woman cries for help." "It's lady catherine." "Boy 3:" "Prince brian..." "Rushes to the side door." "The giant follows." "Boy 1:" "Suddenly..." "Two green uglies and a dervish robot" "Emerge from the cracks in the walls." "The robot yells, "squash them, cut out their eyes!" (chuckles)" "Seven." "The giant has a secret weapon" "A fire staff" "But will it be enough?" "Prince brian flings open the door..." "Man (over intercom):" "Dinner in five minutes, brian." "(groans)" "The green ghoul, gaining strength as he consumes" "His devoted slave, yells..." ""dinner, brian."" "The serfs flee to the safety of their hovels." "Want to play tomorrow?" "Yeah, sure." "Hey, wait for me stevie." "It's not stevie;" "it's steven." "Steven?" "Since when?" "Since lauren campbell." "Shut up." "Hey, don't worry." "Everybody knows you like her." "Great." "Tomorrow, 4:00." "Hey, did you get a date with her yet?" "Knock it off." "He fights with fearless courage." "His sword slashes at the uglies," "Driving them back over the cliffs to their doom." "Edward (over intercom):" "Dinner now." "I'm not going to say it again!" "Yes, you will..." "As he saves lady catherine from the cave of darkness," "She proclaims for all to hear that prince brian" "Is the most handsome, brave and charming of men." "Man:" "Dinner is at 6:00." "Sorry." "What were you doing?" "Just playing a game." "You done your homework?" "Yeah." "How's everything at school?" "Fine." "May I be excused?" "Go ahead." "Thanks." "Brian?" "Your mother wants you in chicago for easter." "That's okay." "(sighs)" "(whispers):" "Thanks." "Thanks, roger." "You're welcome." "(panting)" "(panting)" "Hi, brian." "Hi, miss chandler." "(door closes)" "(machine clicks, beeps)" "(sighs)" "Woman:" "This is dr." "Johnson's office." "Just calling to remind you" "You're overdue for a dental checkup." "I'll be happy to schedule at your convenience." "(sighs)" "Sounds like a lot of fun to me." "(machine beeps)" "Hi." "This is judy." "Debbie and I thought we'd go out for dinner and catch a movie." "Give me a call if you want to come." "Thanks, anyway... (sighs)" "(tapping at window)" "(sighs)" "I was just thinking of you." "Catherine, I come on an urgent mission." "What is it?" "The children insist that you come below tonight," "To father's chamber." "Really?" "What's the occasion?" "Something of a miracle." "Tell me." "This year, there were several children in the music classes" "Who were felt not to be ready to perform at the winterfest." "Some were simply too inexperienced," "But others failed to show true commitment to the music." "I think in order to prove to all of us that we were" "In grave error, these children have joined together" "To form their own concert society." "That's wonderful." "Their first recital is tonight." "They say you must be there." "Well then, I wouldn't miss it." "You hold a very special place in their hearts." "They're like a part of my family." "Until tonight." "(laughs gently)" "Man:" "Listen, we've been over this again and again." "You said you'd take him for easter." "I've already made arrangements to go away." "No, I can't change them!" "I'm not changing my plans because you woke up this morning" "And changed your mind!" "What the hell do you think "joint custody" means?" "!" "Frankly, damn it, I need a break." "Now listen, I've made my plans." "He'll be out there for easter, and that's it." "No!" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "(door closes)" "¶ ¶" "Wow..." "Big deal." "It's just another basement." "You got us down here for this?" "You ain't seen nothing yet." "Follow me." "Feast your eyes." "I wonder where they go." "Oh, there's only one way to find out." "(sighs)" "I-I don't know." "I don't..." "I don't know about this." "Let's see how far it goes." "Yeah." "It's too dangerous." "You guys are crazy!" "It looks like it could collapse." "We'd be trapped down here." "I'm getting out of here." "Guys, it's just starting to get interesting." "Hey, I've got plans for my life." "Being buried alive is not one of them." "Suit yourself." "Derek:" "You're going in there?" "Yeah." "Well, you shouldn't go alone." "I'll tell you all about it." "¶ ¶" "Brian:" "Brilliant idea, prince brian." "Now you can go anywhere." "(string squeaking)" "(flutes playing whimsical classical piece)" "(classical music continues)" "They're really good." "Mm-hmm." "We offered our help, but they absolutely refused." "They were so determined to prove themselves to us." "Look at their faces." "They know they've done it." "Yes." "They've succeeded in humbling their elders." "(laughs)" "And besides the music, what could be sweeter?" "You know children?" "I used to be one." "Yes, but..." "You remember." "More and more." "(footsteps crunching, string squeaking)" "(string squeaking)" "Brian:" "Fearlessly," "The intrepid explorer continues his search." "10:30." "I'll live to fight another day." "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "(water dripping)" "¶ ¶" "(faint footsteps)" "Oh!" "(groans)" "(yelling)" "Help!" "Somebody, help me!" "Help!" "Please, somebody, help..." "Oh, help me." "Get me out of here." "Please." "(panting)" "Who are you?" "Please, let me out of here." "What are you doing here?" "Nothing." "I got lost." "I promise, that's it." "Please let me go." "Prisoner now." "(grunts) the ropes-- they're hurting my leg." "Oh, my leg, my leg." "Please?" "Please let me out of here." "My leg-- it hurts, and the ropes!" "(grunts, panting)" "(grunts)" "Please." "Oh... (panting)" "Oh, thank you." "I'll do anything you want, all right?" "But just let me go, all right?" "I didn't mean to be here." "Can't." "Can't do that." "(growling)" "(screaming)" "(grunts) ow!" "Stop!" "Can't go there!" "Danger!" "(loud, overlapping voices)" "(voices grow louder)" "(sighs)" "(panting)" "(classical music playing in distance)" "(music grows louder)" "(classical music continues)" "Woman:" "I told you we're gonna miss it." "(yells)" "(slight gasp)" "Don't be afraid." "Who are you?" "Brian." "How did you get in here?" "Brian:" "Tunnel." "In a tunnel." "What do you want?" "Are you alone?" "Yes." "Nothing." "Brian?" "Oh, miss chandler!" "Father:" "Catherine," "You know this boy?" "Yes." "He lives in my building." "I just followed her, that's it." "Catherine:" "You followed me?" "!" "Sort of." "Well, what do you mean, sort of?" "I followed her into the tunnels." "I came back later to see where she went, but I got lost." "I'm sorry." "I don't know" "How I could have been so careless." "Father:" "This boy must be secluded." "Vincent." "Catherine." "Come with me." "Where are you taking me?" "No one will harm you." "(sighs)" "Summon the others." "¶ ¶" "(door opening)" "(subway cars rumbling in distance)" "I didn't mean to do anything bad." "I'm sure you didn't." "What's gonna happen to me?" "What are they gonna do?" "I don't know, brian." "Who are they?" "Friends." "Then make them let me go." "(sighs)" "I wish it were that simple." "I'm as much to blame as you." "I just wanted to see what was in the tunnels." "(subway cars rumbling)" "I want to go home." "Please." "Try not to worry, brian." "I'm sure you'll be home soon." "How could someone get so far and not be seen?" "Past our sentries?" "Lucky mouse caught him." "Somehow, the lookout person in the upper tunnel" "Had been left unguarded." "It wasn't me." "I was on duty in the morning!" "Then who was supposed to be there?" "We face a much more urgent problem than placing blame." "Father:" "Yes." "What can we do with this boy?" "We can blindfold him" "And take him out before he sees any more." "He's already seen too much." "We'd have to seal up and reroute all the entrances." "Father:" "That's an almost impossible undertaking." "If he told the secret, who would believe him?" "We could temporarily seal up the entrance" "Under catherine's building." "The boy was lost." "Even if he tried, could he find his way back?" "Before we send him back up," "We should scare the daylights out of him" "So he knows it's serious." "He knows it's serious." "Perhaps, rather than concealing the truth from this boy," "We should tell him who we are, how we live." "I don't know about that." "Maybe let him stay." "He has a home-- above." "If, in the end, we have no choice" "But to send him home and pray that he keeps our secret," "He must be made to know its importance." "A secret that any boy of his age would want to tell." "How can we expect this child to be trusted with our secret?" "I think this boy has a good heart And a conscience." "If he understands that people's lives" "Depend on his keeping this secret," "I believe he can be trusted." "I'd like a chance to try." "Yes, I committed a great crime in the world above." "Then you're in hiding?" "No, no one's looking for me." "My crime was that I grew old." "You see, in the world above," "People don't want to look at me, an old man," "This unpleasant reminder of their future." "I was to be cast away," "Hidden from the eyes of the young," "Who want to believe they will live forever." "To the world above, I had lived too long," "But here," "Below, I have not lived long enough." "So why am I here?" "To make memories," "So that the last moments of my life may be as full of warmth" "And love, as were the very first moments of my life." "Mary:" "Home." "Children." "I help the children grow." "I nurse them when they're sick." "I teach them." "I love all of them as if each were my own." "I lost my own." "To lose a child is to lose everything." "And it was here I found family again." "The children are safe here." "This is our safe place." "I tell them it will be here for them always." "Trust, continuity..." "A tradition of work and honor" "Passed down from my father to me." "A system of communication," "A way in which we can always be connected." "I continue what he began so many years ago," "So that those that come after will remember him," "Long after I'm gone." "I was born here." "This is my birthright and my legacy." "My life above nothing but disappointments and failures." "Nothing good ever happened" "Until I found this home beneath the city." "Down here I do what I do best." "I cook, feed people." "And they appreciate me." "I'm needed." "It's a new beginning." "A chance." "Hope." "I help everyone." "Everyone helps me." "I go; they miss me." "I come back; they're glad." "I'm never alone." "Before, I was no one." "Now, I am me." "I am mouse." "When my mother died, I went to the orphanage," "And people came to adopt us." "We'd all line up, and I'd smile when they came by," "Hoping they'd choose me, but they never did." "You know, but everyone wants me here." "I don't cry anymore." "I got chosen." "Father:" "When I left the world above," "I was..." "Disillusioned..." "Heartbroken." "I'd lost my faith." "Here it was I learned to listen to my heart," "To face my old enemies and heal my wounds." "Here I learned to believe again." "Hopes and dreams created this fragile world." "Pride and vigilance maintain it," "And it survives only because it is separate and apart." "It is a refuge where the disillusioned" "Regain their vision," "The lost become found," "Where each one of us can explore the best of our being," "The best of what it means to be human..." "And to be..." "Alive." "My very existence lies here within these tunnels." "It is my salvation." "I couldn't exist elsewhere." "Without this place, there is nothing for me." "You must never, as long as you live," "Reveal what you have seen here to anyone." "To do so would mean the end of life for all of us," "The end of our world." "You bear the weight of a great responsibility," "But it is also a great privilege." "You will always have a safe place here with us" "Should you need it," "But now you must go back to the world above," "Carrying our secret with you, forever in silence." "You can go on alone from here." "Our secret is now in your hands." "Please keep it safe for us." "I will." "Brian!" "Yeah." "Do you know what time it is?" "No." "It's 2:00 in the morning, young man," "And I want an explanation right now." "Uh, I just went to a movie with derek." "You know, we stayed late." "Well, I called derek." "He's been home all night." "Try again." "Damn it!" "I have had it with you!" "Now where have you been?" "I've been waiting up for you" "And I have an important meeting in six hours." "Now you'd better start talking" "Or I'm shipping you to your mother tonight." "I don't have to stay with either one of you." "Oh, you don't, huh?" "I have somewhere to go." "Oh, yeah, where's that?" "A place." "A place..." "A place..." "What place?" "I'd really like to know." "Damn it, brian, you'd better get out of your fantasy world." "This is where you live, right here." "Right here with me." "And as long as you do, you follow my rules." "Do you understand that?" "(sniffling)" "Yes, sir." "Okay, get to your room and get to bed." "I do not have any more time for this." "(panting)" "(indistinct chattering)" "Paul..." "What's going on?" "You got me." "As far as I can tell, some kid from the building is missing." "I think they're down in the basement looking for him." "Man:" "Yes, sir, on each floor." "Man #2:" "We'll need four more men over there, bob." "Tell stan to move everything back a block." "Let's get some lights down there." "Go up and get me the map for the subway corridor." "And tell them not to do any drilling" "Until we find out what we're doing." "Please." "Nothing yet." "There's a passage below the subway system." "We're sending a team down there now." "Man:" "Thank you very much." "(rhythmic tapping)" "Vincent, thank god." "What is it, catherine?" "Is brian with you?" "No." "He's missing." "They've sent a search team" "To look below the subways." "They're going to search in the tunnels." "Hurry..." "Please." "(people chattering in distance)" "(sniffles)" "Heard crying." "Why?" "I don't know." "Everything, I guess." "You came back." "In your world, everything is so different." "People care, they listen." "They don't just give orders and make rules." "We have rules here, too." "Break the rules, get in trouble." "I know." "(sighs)" "Me, too." "(laughs quietly)" "Did you tell secret?" "I wanted to scream it so loud" "That my dad would never yell at me again." "But I didn't." "I had to leave." "It scared me that I wanted to tell, even just for a second." "Hard to keep secrets." "(sniffles)" "(sighs)" "First time's the hardest." "Gets easier..." "Gets better." "(sniffles)" "Maybe." "They don't know me." "My father doesn't care about me." "Neither does my mother." "I don't believe that's true." "Everything is different now." "He hardly talks to me except when he's yelling." "His life must be in great torment." "And so is mine." "Do you remember a time" "When all was right with your family?" "When you could feel their love for each other" "And for you?" "Yes." "Try to imagine the sadness" "And the terror your father is feeling having lost that." "There's nothing I can do about that." "There is." "Understand him." "Forgive him." "Love him." "There's great strength in that." "But to do those things, you have to go back and face him." "You have to be braver than you've ever been before." "I know." "Part of me just wishes I could stay here." "This is not a place to hide." "This is a place to gain strength." "You carry that now within you." "Hold it..." "Close, deep inside your self." "I will." "I'll miss everybody." "Especially you." "You have friends below always." "Thank you." "Your heart led you here." "Let it show you the way when you go home." "I'll try." "(garbled police radio chatter)" "All right." "Got a whole list of names here." "Hey, kids, kids," "Kids, here." "All right, take-take it easy." "All right, open it up, clear the way." "Clear the way." "They've got him." "There he is." "They got him." "Take it easy." "Paramedics." "Brian." "Come on, fellas, stand back, everybody back." "¶ ¶" "Prince brian shields lady catherine" "And faces the dervish robot, sword drawn." "Does the sword have power?" "Three." "The sword is made out of paper." "Prince brian has no defense." "The giant aims his fire staff at the dervish robot." "Four." "The fire staff has no fuel." "They're doomed." "(sighs)" "Can't a bargain be struck?" "Vincent the protector" "Rescues lady catherine and keeps her safe from harm." "Vincent?" "Who's vincent?" "Is he a new character?" "No, he's been here the whole time." "I-I guess I just forgot to tell you guys." "Well, this game's over." "Derek:" "I was getting kind of tired of it anyway." "You ever going to tell us what happened?" "Huh?" "You know, in the tunnels." "What was it like?" "What was down there?" "Just bricks, stones." "Nothing much." "I got this great idea." "We build this multi-level maze." "Stevie:" "And it all takes place in the city skyscrapers at night." "Derek:" "Skyscrapers at night." "I like that." "I like that a lot." "Stevie:" "Yeah, me, too." "He'll keep the secret." "There may be times his strength is tested." "Some secrets give us strength." "Yes, and comfort." "I know what brian was looking for when he followed me down." "It was the same thing I looked for for so many years." "What, catherine?" "A family." "You find family wherever people love each other."