(MAURICE and PHILLIPE continue on their journey until they become lost)
MAURICE: We should be there by now. Maybe we missed a turn. I guess I
should have taken a...wait a minute. (Lifts lantern to
illuminate sign giving directions to Anaheim and Valencia)
Let's go this way!
(PHILLIPE looks right, at a dark, overgrown path, then left towards a more
inviting route, then begins to go left)
MAURICE: Come on, Phillipe! It's a shortcut. We'll be there in no time!
(PHILLIPE and MAURICE continue through the dark.)
MAURICE: This can't be right. Where have you taken us, Phillipe? We'd
better turn around...and...whoa...whoa boy, whoa Phillipe. Oh,
oh! Look out!
(A swarm of bats fly out of a tree. PHILLIPE runs through the forest avoiding
everything until he almost runs over the edge of a cliff)
MAURICE: Back up! Back up! Back up! Good boy, good boy. That's good,
that's--back up! Steady. Steady! Hey now. Steady. (PHILLIPE
finally bucks him off.) Phillipe! (PHILLIPE runs away, leaving
MAURICE on the edge of the cliff.) Phillipe? Oh no! (He looks
up and sees WOLVES growling at him. MAURICE runs away, being
chased by the WOLVES. He stumbles down a hill, and lands at the
gate of a castle. He grabs the locked gate and tries to shake it
open.)
MAURICE: Help! Is someone there?
(The gate opens, and MAURICE runs in. He slams the gate in the faces of the
WOLVES. Leaving his hat on the ground as the rain begins to fall, MAURICE runs
to the castle and bangs on the door. It creaks open and he enters,
cautiously.)
MAURICE: Hello? Hello?
(Watching from a table near the entrance are LUMIERE and COGSWORTH)
LUMIERE: (Barely whispering) Old fellow must have lost his way in the
woods.
COGSWORTH: (Also whispering) Keep quiet! Maybe he'll go away.
MAURICE: Is someone there?
COGSWORTH: Not a word, Lumiere. Not one word!
MAURICE: I don't mean to intrude, but I've lost my horse and I need a
place
to stay for the night.
LUMIERE: (looking at COGSWORTH like a child having just found a lost
puppy)
Oh Cogsworth, have a heart.
COGSWORTH: Shush shush shhhhh! (COGSWORTH puts hand over LUMIERE'S mouth,
who promptly proceeds to touch his lit candle hand to COGSWORTH's
hand.)
Ow ow Ow OW OW OUCH!!!!!
LUMIERE: Of course, monsieur, you are welcome here.
MAURICE: (looking around in confusion) Who said that? (He picks up the
candlestick for light, not realizing that the speaker is in his
hand)
LUMIERE: (Tapping him on the shoulder) Over here!
MAURICE: (Spins around, pulling LUMIERE to the other side) Where?
LUMIERE: (Taps MAURICE on the side of the head. MAURICE looks at
LUMIERE.)
Allo!
MAURICE: Oh!!!! (Startled, he drops LUMIERE onto the floor.) Incredible!
COGSWORTH: (hopping over) Well, now you've done it, Lumiere. Splendid,
just peachy--aaarrrgghh! (MAURICE picks up COGSWORTH)
MAURICE: How is this accomplished? (He fiddles with COGSWORTH)
COGSWORTH: Put me down! At once! (MAURICE tickles the bottoms of
COGSWORTH's feet. He laughs. He begins to wind the spring on
the back of COGSWORTH's head, twisting his face around with the
clock hands. MAURICE opens the front of COGSWORTH and begins
to play with his pendulum. COGSWORTH slams the door shut on
his finger.) Sir, close that at once, do you mind!
MAURICE: I beg your pardon, it's just that I've never seen a clock
that...aah...i mean...aah aah aah-chooo!!!! (MAURICE sneezes in
the face of COGSWORTH, who proceeds to wipe his face off using
his clock hands in a very anachronistic windshield wiper manner.
MAURICE sniffles, indicating the cold he has caught from being
in the rain.)
LUMIERE: Oh, you are soaked to the bone, monsieur. Come, warm yourself by
the fire.
MAURICE: Thank you.
(LUMIERE and MAURICE head towards the den, with COGSWORTH running after them.)
COGSWORTH: No, no, no, do you know what the master would do if he finds you
here. (BEAST is watching the action from an overhead walkway,
and rushes off as the trio enters the den.) I demand that you
stop...right...there! (COGSWORTH tumbles down the steps. MAURICE
takes a seat in a large chair in front of a roaring fire.) Oh
no, not the master's chair! (FOOTSTOOL rushes past COGSWORTH,
barking up a storm.) I'm not seeing this, I'm not seeing this!
MAURICE: (As FOOTSTOOL rushes up to him) Well, hello there, boy.
(FOOTSTOOL
props himself up under the feet of MAURICE. COATRACK enters and
removes his cloak.) What service!
COGSWORTH: All right, this has gone far enough. I'm in charge here, and
(COGSWORTH is run over by the (once again) anachronistic
IndyCar sounding teacart of MRS. POTTS)
MRS. POTTS: (Arriving by the side of MAURICE) How would you like a nice
spot of tea, sir? It'll warm you up in no time. (Pours tea into
cup (CHIP), which hops over into MAURICE's open hand)
COGSWORTH: (from face down position on carpet) No! No tea, no tea!!!
CHIP: (As MAURICE sips the tea) Ha ha! His moustache tickles, momma!
MAURICE: (Startled by the cup) Oh! Hello!
(The door to the den slams open and a strong gust of wind blows into the room,
extinguishing LUMIERE's flames and the fire in the fireplace. COGSWORTH dives
for cover. MRS. POTTS begins to shake. CHIP jumps back onto the tea cart and
takes refuge from behind his mother)
CHIP: Uh oh!
(BEAST enters. We see him in full for the first time. He is on all fours. He
looks around in the darkness.)
BEAST: (Growling his words) There's a stranger here.
LUMIERE: (who has relit his flames) Master, allow me to explain. The
gentleman was lost in the woods and he was cold and wet...
(LUMIERE's last sentence is drowned out by the very loud growl
of BEAST, which puts out his flames once again. LUMIERE looks
down, dejected.)
COGSWORTH: (Coming out from under a rug) Master, I'd like to take this
moment to say...I was against this from the start. I tried to
stop them, but would they listen to me? No, no, no! (Again,
BEAST's growl drowns out COGSWORTH.)
(MAURICE looks to one side of the chair, then to the other and sees BEAST.)
BEAST: Who are you! What are you doing here?
MAURICE: (Very scared and backing away from the advancing BEAST) I was
lost
in the woods and...(stares at BEAST)
BEAST: (Advancing on him) You are not welcome here!
MAURICE: I'm sorry
BEAST: What are you staring at?
MAURICE: (Cowering under BEAST) Noth-noth-nothing! (Turns to leave)
BEAST: (Racing around and blocking the entrance with surprising speed)
So, you've come to stare at the beast, have you?
MAURICE: Please, I meant no harm! I just needed a place to stay .
BEAST: I'll give you a place to stay! (BEAST picks up MAURICE, carries
him out of the room and slams the door, plunging the den, along
with COGSWORTH, LUMIERE,MRS. POTTS, and CHIP into darkness.
Fade out.)