The Lion King Annihilation/Transcript

This is the transcript for The Lion King Returns, a 2019 film that serves as "part two" of a remaster of The Lion King, while this film serves as a direct-sequel to The Lion King Reborn.

"I'm Gonna Run This Dump"
Just you wait and see
 * Janja: We all agree dis place is a dump and no one likes it, right?
 * [All of the Outlanders growl with disgust and agreement, while Goigoi is seemly relaxing in a area of the valley]
 * Goigoi: I think it's cozy! [starts snoring]
 * Janja: Well, since everyone else hates it, I'm willin' to do you a favor and have us hyenas be in charge!
 * Reirei: You hyenas!?
 * [The crocodiles and jackals growl angrily at Janja's announcement]
 * Kiburi: No way! Scar didn't say nothing about you running things!
 * Mzingo: Territorial leadership claims cannot be determined without proper parliamentary procedure. [turns to Mwoga and a vulture] Isn't that right?
 * Vultures: Aye!
 * Janja: We don't need no procedure. Just let me run this dump!
 * [Fade into the song "I'm Gonna Run This Dump" with upbeat jazz drums playing]
 * Janja: I'm Gonna Run This Dump

And, when I run this dump, You'll all bow to me

I'll be king of dirt Ruler of ash Lord o' the muck A kingdom of trash

I'm gonna run this dump Just you wait and see [singing] I'm Gonna Run This Dump 'Cause, I'm the smartest here
 * Reirei: Oh, you think so, do you?

But, when I run this dump, There's no need to feeeeear

I'll treat you nice I'll be so kind Just bring me all the food you find

And, I'll run this dump 'Cause, I'm the smartest here [singing] I'm Gonna Run This Dump With everyone in this tree
 * Mzingo: Okay, my turn.

And, then, I'll run this dump democraticallllly…

You'll all get a vote But, I'll get the most No need to count It's true not a boast

I'm Gonna Run This Dump quite deservedly…
 * [They all turn to Kiburi for his turn, but he only notices them, then swayly frowns]
 * Kiburi: I don't sing.
 * Janja: [angrily turns to Reirei] Then I'll run this dump
 * Reirei: [starting to headbutt Janja] No, I'll run this dump
 * Mzingo: I'll run this dump
 * All three: Just you wait and seeee

Undercover Kinyonga
To be continued To be continued
 * Shupavu: Scar! Scar! Somebody's there!
 * Scar: Who dares to spy on ME?!
 * Kinyonga: Uh-oh.
 * Ushari: [soon witnesses Kinyonga backing away] S-S-S-S-Stop the intruder!
 * Shupavu: Waza! You see where she went? [Waza nods with an answer] Well, she's got to be around here someplace. Find her!
 * Shupavu: Nyeusi! Nyata! Use your speed. Stop her!!

Kiara's First Hunt
To be started…
 * Nuka: Let's light fires! [they run down the slope, Vitani laughing madly] Roasty toasty princess…roasty toasty princess! [he lights the grass in several places, hopping around in circles. Soon he is standing in the center of the circle of flames] Hey, is it hot in here or is that just me? [realizing he's surrounded by fire, he rockets into the air and lands a good distance away] FIRE! YOWWW! [after landing, he resumes laughing maniacally]
 * Vitani: [growls at Nuka from off-screen] Grr…come on! [she drags him off]

Zira's Ambush
To be started… Disgrace Evil as plain as the scar on his face
 * [The log on which Nuka has his rear paw breaks, causing Nuka to lose his grip on Simba's ankle and begin to fall. Simba reaches the top, but the pile of logs rolls down the slope with Nuka among them; they all land in a heap at the bottom of the ravine. Nuka lies trapped under a large log. He looks up to the top of the slope to see one final log rapidly falling in his direction; he grimaces, terrified, as the log hits him. Kovu rushes down to help free Nuka, but he is swatted aside by Zira, who pulls enough logs aside to see Nuka's face]
 * Zira: Nuka.
 * Nuka: I'm sorry, Mother. I tried. Well…I finally got your attention. Didn't I? Didn't I…?
 * Zira: [smiles tenderly at Nuka and cradles his face in her paw] Ssshh.
 * [Nuka dies. Vitani appears next to Zira on the edge of the logs]
 * Vitani: Nuka.
 * Zira: Scar…watch over my dear Nuka. [she turns around and notices Kovu] YOU!
 * [Zira swats Kovu across the face with outstretched claws]
 * Kovu: Eeaugh!
 * [Kovu looks away in pain, but soon turns his head, glaring at Zira; he now has a scar over his left eye just like Scar's. Zira recoils at the sight, shocked before recovering quickly]
 * Zira: [menacingly] What…have you…done?
 * Kovu: I-I-I didn't mean to…it-it-it wasn't my fault, I… [forcefully] I did nothing!
 * Zira: Exactly! And in doing so, you betrayed your pride. You betrayed Scar!
 * Kovu: [shouting] I want nothing more TO DO WITH HIM!
 * Zira: You cannot escape it! Nuka is dead because of you!
 * Kovu: No.
 * Zira: You've killed your own brother!
 * Kovu: NO!!!
 * [Kovu turns and flee out from among the pride, many of whom are growling and snarling at his departure]
 * Zira: Let him go. Simba has hurt me for the last time! Now, he's corrupted Kovu! Listen to me: Simba is injured and weak. Now, is the time to attack! We shall take his entire kingdom, BY FORCE!
 * [The Outsiders all snarl and roar in reply. Scene switch to the middle of the Pride Lands, where Simba is walking wearily back to Pride Rock. Kiara sees him from a distance off]
 * Kiara: [realizing] Father! Zazu, get help!
 * Zazu: [flying off] Oh, yes. Help. At once. Of course!
 * [Simba is walking with great pain. Kiara, Timon, and Pumbaa reach him]
 * Timon: Simba! Talk to me! What happened?!
 * Simba: [coughs, wheezing, having a hard time speaking; a painful breath of air] Kovu…ambush…
 * [Simba collapses on his side, groaning in pain]
 * Kiara: No.
 * [Timon grabs Simba's tail and hugs it; Pumbaa hoists Simba on his back, and they start to drag him back to Pride Rock]
 * Timon: It's alright, buddy; we're here for you.
 * [Scene switch back to Pride Rock, where Simba is just waking up]
 * Kiara: Daddy, it can't be true.
 * [Camera shifts down to the valley floor, where the animals are all gathered]
 * Juhudi: It's Kovu.
 * Twiga: What's he doing here?
 * Animals: That's Kovu. Look at that scar, I can't believe he's here. That's Kovu?
 * Kiara: Kovu!
 * [Simba snarls and jumps forward, cutting her off. Timon suddenly gasps and gets angry at Simba, while still believing Kovu is good]
 * Timon: Why I outta…lemme at 'im! Lemme at 'im! [to Pumbaa] Here; hold me back.
 * Pumbaa: Okay.
 * Timon: [held back by the tail; while scampering to attack Simba] Lemme at 'im! Lemme at 'im!
 * Pumbaa: [letting go of Timon's tail] Okay!
 * Timon: [lurching forward; turning back to Pumbaa] I think you're missing the basic point here.
 * Pumbaa: Oh.
 * [Kovu approaches down the narrow aisle between the congregated animals]
 * Animals: I never trusted him. It's the Outsider, it's that little troublemaker. What's he doing here? He doesn't belong here. Look at that scar on his face. He looks just like Scar.
 * Simba: [breathing fire] Why have you come back?!
 * Kovu: Simba…I had nothing to do with —
 * Simba: [furiously] You DON'T belong here.
 * Kovu: [desperately] Please. I ask your forgiveness.
 * Kiara: [actively protesting to Simba] Daddy, please! Listen to him!
 * Simba: [sternly to Kiara] SILENCE! [turns back to Kovu] When you first came here, you asked for judgment. And, I pass it now.
 * [The animals start to clamor and yell]
 * Animals: Give him what he deserves! Kick him out! That's right! Judgment day is here!
 * Simba: EXILE!
 * Kiara: [suddenly shocked by Simba's decision] NO! [Kovu starts to be driven from Pride Rock at hornpoint] No! Kovu!
 * [Nala is also shocked by Simba's actions, while Kiara tries to actively stop the punishment, but is blocked by the angry lionesses that all she can do is watch helplessly]
 * Animals: Deception

Deception (An outrage!) Raised in hate Helpless to defy his fate Let him run Let him live But do not forget What we cannot forgive
 * Giraffes: Disgrace (For shame!)
 * Basi: He asked for trouble the moment he came
 * Zebra: Deception (An outrage!)
 * Animals: (He can't change his stripes!)
 * Giraffes: Disgrace (For shame!)
 * Animals: (You know these Outsider types!)
 * Giraffe: Evil as plain as the scar on his face
 * Animals: (See you later, agitator!)
 * Zebra: Deception (An outrage!)
 * Animals: (Just leave us alone!)
 * Giraffe: Disgrace (For shame!)
 * Animals: (Traitor, go back with your own!)
 * Basi: He asked for trouble the moment he came
 * Animal: (See you later, agitator!)
 * Animals: Born in grief

And he is not one of us He has never been one of us He is not part of us Not our kind Now, we're not so blind For we knew he would do what he's done And we know that he'll never be one of us Deception
 * [Kovu is hounded from the Pride Lands. As he runs, he sees his reflection in a pool change to that of Scar]
 * Animals: Someone once lied to us
 * Antelope: He is not one of us
 * Zebra: Disgrace
 * Antelope: Deception
 * Zebra: Disgrace
 * Antelope: Deception
 * [Kovu wanders into the desert; the overlaid images are of Kiara weeping and of Simba's face turning away. Watching the tragedy from afar, Rafiki sighs in sadness]

Love Will Find a Way
To be continued… To be continued… To be continued…
 * [Scene switches back to Pride Rock. Simba is standing at the tip of the promontory, staring off into the distance]
 * Kiara: [runs up to confront her father] Father…please reconsider!
 * Simba: [sternly] You will not go anywhere without an escort from now on. [stubbornly] He used you to get to me.
 * Kiara: No! He loves me. Why me!?
 * Simba: [refuses to listen] Because you are my daughter. You will not leave Pride Rock. You will stay where I can keep an eye on you…away from him!
 * Kiara: You don't know him!
 * Simba: I know he's following in Scar's pawprints! And I must follow in my father's.
 * Kiara: [that does it. Kiara has had it with her father's overprotectiveness and strictness] YOU WILL NEVER BE MUFASA!
 * [Simba is stung, but silenced; Kiara breaks down, weeping, and runs back to her den to lie down. She discovers a stream of light shining through a hole in the wall. Determined, she pushes her way through the wall, then runs down away from Pride Rock, searching for Kovu. She tracks the same path Kovu took while fleeing Pride Rock, but cannot find him]
 * Timon: Take that, you cree-py wart-hoooog! Say it! Say it!
 * Pumbaa: Fat! Fat! Fatty, fat, fat.
 * [Zira and her two backup lionesses approach Simba, who is fighting off several enemies at once. The lionesses part, making way for Zira and Simba to fight one-on-one. Just as they are about to land the first blows, Kiara and Kovu leap into the scene, and stand between the two enemies]
 * Simba: Kiara?
 * Zira: Kovu! [Kovu stares at Zira, his eyes narrowing at her mention of his name] Move.
 * Simba: Stand aside.
 * Kiara: Daddy, this has to stop.
 * Zira: [to Kovu] You're even weaker than I thought. Get out of the way!
 * Kovu: You'll never hurt Kiara, or Simba, not while I'm here.
 * Zira: [hesitates] Ha!
 * Simba: Stay out of this!
 * Kiara: A wise King once told me: We are one. I didn't understand what he meant now I do.
 * Simba: But…they…
 * Kiara: Them…us. Look at them…they are us. What differences do you see? Aren't we all apart of the Circle of Life?
 * [Simba pauses; the battle has stopped. As Simba and Kiara look at one another, the clouds part and the rain stops. Finally, Simba and his daughter nuzzle]
 * Zira: Vitani…now!
 * Vitani: No, Mother! Kiara's right. [she walks over to Simba's side, turning around to face Zira] Enough.
 * [Zira's other lionesses look shocked]
 * Zira: If you will not fight, then you will die as well.
 * [The Outsiders, disgusted by Zira's words, begin to move over onto Simba's side. Zira's eyes begin to panic as her whole pride leaves her]
 * Zira: Wh-wha-?! Where are you going?! Get back here!
 * Simba: Let it go, Zira. It's time to put the past behind us.
 * Zira: [now alone] I'll never let it go! [more logs pile up in the river, forming a dam] This is for you, Scar!
 * [Zira leaps at Simba, but Kiara catches her in mid-flight and rolls over with her; the two lionesses tumble down the embankment. Simba jumps down the slope, trying desperately to reach Kiara, but she and Zira have already fallen too far for him to catch up. Kiara manages to catch a hold on the ledge, slowing her descent enough for her to jump onto a small ledge. Zira clings to the rocks some distance below Kiara, hanging by her front paws]
 * Nala: Hold on, Kiara! [the dam of logs breaks; the river suddenly begins to swell to many times its normal flow] Simba! SIMBA, THE RIVER!
 * [The river is rapidly rushing to fill the canyon. Simba leaps from rock face to rock face, trying to reach Kiara. Below, Zira hangs precariously from the rock face. Kiara is above on the ledge]
 * Kiara: Zira! Give me your paw! [Zira swipes at Kiara, growling. She slips further down the rock face; she glances at the tumbling water and logs below] Zira, come on…I'll help you.
 * [Zira slides further down the rock wall, scrabbling for traction on the rock, but is unable to climb up. A change comes over Zira's face; she grins slowly up at Kiara]
 * Zira: No…never.
 * [She lets go, and falls back-first into the churning water below. The water and logs carry her under, and the flow in the canyon gradually subsides. Kovu looks down where his mother fell, closes his eyes, and lets out a sigh. Simba is waiting on the rocks near Kiara]
 * Simba: Kiara.
 * Kiara: Daddy, I tried.
 * [Simba pulls his daughter out of the canyon and Nala proudly nuzzles on Kiara's head]
 * Nala: Kiara!
 * Pumbaa: Wow! That was really brave!
 * Timon: Yeee-haaa!
 * [Kiara and Kovu approach each other]
 * Simba: Kovu, I was wrong. You belong here. [Kiara leans into Kovu] Let's go home — all of us.

Post-credits scenes

 * [The rest of the credits scroll up from the bottom of the screen. It then fades into the Outlands; Timon and Pumbaa are chowing down on bugs]
 * Pumbaa: Hakuna Matata!
 * Timon: Outlands, shmoutlands. This place is better than Disneyland!
 * [A bug flies into shot and flits from side to side like Tinker-Bell in the traditional Disney transition-out sequence]

End of the transcript.

Cast

 * Matthew Broderick as Simba
 * Jeremy Irons as Scar
 * Gabrielle Union as Nala
 * Eden Riegel as Kiara
 * Jason Marsden as Kovu
 * Nika Futterman as Zira
 * Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa
 * Nathan Lane as Timon
 * Khary Payton as Rafiki
 * Diamond White as Fuli
 * Maia Mitchell as Jasiri
 * Andy Dick as Nuka
 * Lacey Chabert as Vitani
 * Rowan Atkinson as Zazu
 * Landry Bender as Makini
 * Joshua Rush as Bunga
 * Atticus Shaffer as Ono
 * Dusan Brown as Beshte
 * Angela Bassett as Sarabi
 * Max Charles as Kion
 * Sarah Paulson as Sarafina
 * James Earl Jones as Mufasa
 * Christian Slater as Ushari
 * Andrew Kishino as Janja
 * Ana Gasteyer as Reieri
 * Common as Kiburi
 * Greg Ellis as Mzingo
 * Kristin Chenoweth as Shupavu
 * Kevin Schon as Thurston
 * Lynette DuPree as Ma Tembo
 * Vargus Mason as Cheezi
 * Mark Hamill as Chungu
 * Justin Felbinger as Mtoto
 * Meghan Strange as Nyata, Laini
 * Albert Brooks as Goigoi
 * Michael Dorn as Bupu
 * Alex Cartañá as Twiga
 * Steven Blum as Makucha
 * Maisie Klompus as Madoa
 * Cam Clarke as Mwoga
 * Ford Riley as Jumla
 * Rob Lowe as Jumla
 * Nick Watt as Zito
 * Frank Welker as Ned
 * Patrick Fraley as Jumbo Jumbo
 * Crimson Hart as Tunu
 * Fiona Hart as Wema
 * C. C. H. Pounder as Kongwe
 * Amy Poehler as Kinyonga
 * AJ McLean as Kuchimba
 * Christopher Jackson as Shujaa
 * Behzad Dabu as Azaad
 * Seth Rogen as Mooser
 * Peyton Elizabeth Lee as Rani