Beauty and the Beast -- The Complete Script Compiled by Ruth COMPILER'S NOTE: This script also contains the scene 'Human Again', which was only included in the special edition DVD, and not heard in the original movie. ******* NARRATOR: Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a young prince lived in a shining castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was spoiled, selfish, and unkind. But then, one winter's night, an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away, but she warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. And when he dismissed her again, the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress. The prince tried to apologise, but it was too late, for she had seen that there was no love in his heart, and as punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast, and placed a powerful spell on the castle, and all who lived there. Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself inside his castle, with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world. The rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his twenty-first year. If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair, and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? (A progression of stained-glass windows illustrates the Narrator's tale. We have also seen the Beast shredding his portrait. The camera zooms out from the castle and we see the title. Fade up onto the home of BELLE. She exits the front door, with her basket over her arm, and begins her walk into town.) BELLE: Little town, it's a quiet village Every day, like the one before Little town, full of little people Waking up to say ... TOWNSFOLK 1: Bonjour! TOWNSFOLK 2: Bonjour! TOWNSFOLK 3: Bonjour! TOWNSFOLK 4: Bonjour! TOWNSFOLK 5: Bonjour! BELLE: There goes the baker with his tray like always The same old bread and rolls to sell Every morning just the same Since the morning that we came To this poor provincial town ... BAKER: Good morning, Belle! (BELLE heads over towards the bakery.) BELLE: Morning, monsieur! BAKER: Where are you off to? BELLE: The bookshop. I just finished the most wonderful story, about a beanstalk, and an ogre, and ... BAKER: (Ignores her) That's nice ... Marie! The baguettes! Hurry up! TOWNSFOLK: Look there she goes, that girl is strange, no question Dazed and distracted, can't you tell? WOMAN 1: Never part of any crowd BARBER: ' Cause her head's up on some cloud TOWNSFOLK: No denying she's a funny girl, that Belle! (BELLE hitches a ride on the back of a wagon and rides it through town.) DRIVER: Bonjour! WOMAN 2: Good day! DRIVER: How is your family? WOMAN 3: Bonjour! MERCHANT: Good day! WOMAN 3: How is your wife? WOMAN 4: I need six eggs! MAN 1: That's too expensive! BELLE: There must be more than this provincial life! (BELLE enters the bookshop.) BOOKSELLER: Ah, Belle! BELLE: Good morning. I've come to return the book I borrowed. BOOKSELLER: (Putting the book back on the shelf) Finished already? BELLE: Oh, I couldn't put it down! Have you got anything new? BOOKSELLER: (Laughing) Not since yesterday! BELLE: (On the ladder on the bookshelf, looking at the books) That's alright. I'll borrow ... this one. (She hands it to him) BOOKSELLER: That one? But you've read it twice! BELLE: Well, it's my favourite! (She swings on the ladder, making it roll down it's track.) Far-off places, daring swordfights, magic spells, a prince in disguise! BOOKSELLER: (Hands her the book) If you like it all that much, it's yours! BELLE: But sir! BOOKSELLER: I insist! BELLE: Well thank you ... thank you very much! (Leaves the bookshop.) MEN: (Looking in the window, then turning to watch her) Look there she goes That girl is so peculiar! I wonder if she's feeling well? WOMEN: With a dreamy far-off look! MEN: And her nose stuck in a book! ALL: What a puzzle to the rest of us is Belle! (BELLE sits on the edge of a fountain and starts singing to the sheep ... and the washer-woman in the background, who leaves in a huff.) BELLE: Oh ... isn't this amazing? It's my favourite part because ... you'll see! Here's where she meets Prince Charming ... But she won't discover that it's him 'till chapter three! WOMAN 5: Now it's no wonder that her name means 'beauty' Her looks have got no parallel! MERCHANT: But behind that fair facade, I'm afraid she's rather odd. Very different from the rest of us ... ALL: She's nothing like the rest of us Yes different from the rest of us is Belle! (GEESE fly overhead. A shot is heard and one of the GEESE plummets to the ground. LEFOU runs over and holds a bag out to catch it. He missed it. He hastily shoves the GOOSE in the bag, and hurries back over to GASTON.) LEFOU: Woah! You didn't miss a shot, Gaston! You're the greatest hunter in the whole world! GASTON: I know! LEFOU: Huh. No beast alive stands a chance against you! Ha ha ha! And no girl, for that matter! GASTON: It's true, Lefou. And I've got my sights set on that one! (He points to BELLE) LEFOU: The inventor's daughter? GASTON: She's the one! The lucky girl I'm going to marry. LEFOU: But she's ... GASTON: The most beautiful girl in town. LEFOU: I know, but ... GASTON: That makes her the best. And don't I deserve the best? LEFOU: Well of course, I mean you do, but I mean ... GASTON: Right from the moment when I met her, saw her I said she's gorgeous and I fell Here in town there's only she Who is beautiful as me So I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle (GASTON is so busy admiring his own reflection, he doesn't notice BELLE walk past and away. LEFOU pokes him to get his attention, and when he does, GASTON hurries after BELLE.) BIMBETTES: Look there he goes, isn't he dreamy? (LEFOU is squirted when the BIMBETTES lean on a pump) Monsieur Gaston ... oh, he's so cute! Be still my heart, I'm hardly breathing He's such a tall, dark, strong and handsome brute! (BELLE is weaving her way easily through the crowd and GASTON is having trouble catching up to her.) MAN 1: Bonjour! GASTON: Pardon! MAN 2: Good day! MAN 3: Mais oui! WOMAN 1: You call this bacon? WOMAN 2: What lovely grapes! MAN 4: Some cheese? WOMAN 3: Ten yards! MAN 4: One pound. GASTON: 'Scuse me! MAN 4: I'll get the knife. GASTON: Please let me through! WOMAN 4: This bread! MAN 5: Those fish! WOMAN 4: It's stale! MAN 5: They smell! MAN 6: Madame's mistaken! BELLE: There must be more than this provincial life! GASTON: Just watch, I'm going to make Belle my wife! (TOWNSFOLK gather around GASTON and eventually surround him, watching after BELLE.) ALL: Look there she goes, that girl who's strange but special A most peculiar mademoiselle It's a pity and a sin She doesn't quite fit in ... GROUP 1: But she really is a funny girl ... GROUP 2: A beauty but a funny girl ... ALL: She really is a funny girl ... that Belle! (GASTON has been climbing over people to get to BELLE. He eventually climbs up over the roof of a house and slides down the other side. BELLE looks around when the people stop singing, but keeps walking. GASTON jumps in front of her.) GASTON: Hello, Belle. BELLE: Bonjour, Gaston. (GASTON grabs her book) Gaston, may I have my book, please? GASTON: How can you read this? There's no pictures! BELLE: Well some people use their imaginations. GASTON: Belle, it's about time you got your head out of those books (He throws the book into the mud) and paid attention to more important things. Like me. (The BIMBETTES, who are looking on, sigh.) The whole town's talking about it. (BELLE picks up her book and starts cleaning off the mud.) It's not right for a woman to read. Soons she starts getting ideas ... and thinking ... BELLE: (Cleaning her book with her apron) Gaston, you are positively primeval. GASTON: Why, thank you, Belle! Whaddaya say you and me take a walk over to the tavern and take a look at my trophies? (He takes the book from her again, and, putting his arm around her shoulders, starts to lead her away.) BELLE: Maybe some other time ... BIMBETTE 1: What's wrong with her? BIMBETTE 2: She's crazy! BIMBETTE 3: He's gorgeous! BELLE: (Pulling away from Gaston) Please, Gaston, I can't. I have to get home to help my father. Goodbye. LEFOU: Ha ha ha! That crazy old loon, he needs all the help he can get! (GASTON and LEFOU start laughing heartily.) BELLE: Don't talk about my father that way! GASTON: Yeah, don't talk about her father that way! (He conks LEFOU on the head.) BELLE: My father is not crazy! He's a genius! (An explosion comes from the direction of BELLE's cottage. BELLE hurries off, leaving GASTON and LEFOU to continue laughing. BELLE, once she gets home, opens the basement door, is momentarily startled by the smoke issuing from it, then descends into the basement, waving away the smoke, where she finds MAURICE upside-down in a barrel. He bounces a few of times, breaks the barrel and ends up wearing it.) BELLE: Papa? MAURICE: How on earth did that happen? Dog-gonnit! (He pulls the barrel off his waist, along with his pants. He quickly pulls his pants back up again and shakes the broken barrel from around his ankle.) BELLE: Are you alright, Papa? MAURICE: I'm about ready to give up on this hunk of junk! (Kicks machine) BELLE: You always say that. MAURICE: I mean it this time. I'll never get this bone-headed contraption to work! BELLE: Yes you will. And you'll win first prize at the fair tomorrow. MAURICE: Hmmph! BELLE: ... and become a world famous inventor! MAURICE: You really believe that? BELLE: I always have. MAURICE: Well, what are we waitin' for? I'll have this thing fixed in no time! (He slides under the machine) Hand me that ... that dog-legged clencher thing ... So, did you have a good time in town today? BELLE: I got a new book. Papa ... do you think I'm odd? MAURICE: My daughter? Odd? (He appears from under the machine wearing a bizarre goggle contraption that distorts his eyes ... and making him look very odd.) Where'd you get an idea like that? BELLE: Oh, I don't know. It's just that I'm not sure I fit in here. There's no-one I can really talk to. MAURICE: What about that Gaston? He's a handsome fellow ... BELLE: He's handsome alright, and rude and conceited and ... oh, Papa, he's not for me. MAURICE: Well, don't you worry, 'cause this invention's gonna be the start of a new life for us. (He comes out from under the machine) I I think that's done it. Now ... let's give it a try. (He pulls a lever on the machine and it starts working. Both MAURICE and BELLE duck at first, until they realise the machine is actually chopping wood the way it should. It throws the wood over their heads to land in a pile against the wall.) BELLE: It works! MAURICE: It does? It does! BELLE: You did it! You really did it! MAURICE: Hitch up Phillipe, girl. I'm off to the fair! (A piece of wood hits him in the head on the way past, knocking him out. Fade to later in the day. MAURICE and PHILLIPE are setting off.) BELLE: Goodbye, Papa! Good luck! MAURICE: Goodbye, Belle! And take care while I'm gone! (MAURICE and PHILLIPE continue along their way 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. (He lifts his lantern to illuminate the signpost they've arrived at. One side says ANAHEIM, the other says VALENCIA.) Let's go this way. (PHILLIPE looks right, down a dark, overgrown passage, the one MAURICE wants him to take, then left, down a sunny path where birds are singing. He goes left.) MAURICE: Come on, Phillipe, it's a short-cut! We'll be there in no time. (MAURICE and PHILLIPE continue down the dark path.) MAURICE: This can't be right ... where have you taken us, Phillipe? We'd better turn around ... and ... whoa ... whoa ... whoa boy, whoa Phillipe. Oh, oh! Look out! (PHILLIPE backs into a tree, causing a swarm of bats to fly out. They dash through the forest, avoiding everything until they end up on 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 MAURICE off) Phillipe! (PHILLIPE turns and races back through the forest, leaving MAURICE on the edge of the cliff.) Phillipe? Oh no! (He looks up and sees a pack of WOLVES growling at him. MAURICE runs away, being chased by the WOLVES. He stumbles down a hill and lands at the gate of a dark castle. He grabs the gate and tries to shake it open.) MAURICE: Help! Is someone there? (The gate swings open and MAURICE enters. He slams the gate in the faces of the WOLVES. They pull at his shoe, but he manages to get free. Leaving his hat on the ground, he runs to the castle door as it starts raining. He bangs on the castle door and it creaks open. MAURICE steps inside, cautiously.) MAURICE: Hello? Hello? (On a table near the entrance stand LUMIERE and COGSWORTH, watching MAURICE.) LUMIERE: (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 kitten) Oh, Cogsworth ... have a heart. COGSWORTH: Shhhhhh! (COGSWORTH puts a hand over LUMIERE'S mouth, who promptly touches his lit candle to COGSWORTH'S hand.) Ow Ow Ow Ow OW OW OUCH!!! LUMIERE: (No longer whispering) Of course, monsieur, you are welcome here! MAURICE: (Looking around in confusion) Who-who said that? (He picks up the candlestick for light, not realising the speaker is in his hand.) LUMIERE: Over here! MAURICE: (Spins around, putting LUMIERE on the other side.) Where? LUMIERE: (Taps MAURICE on top of his head. MAURICE looks at him.) Allo. MAURICE: Oh! (He drops LUMIERE, startled.) Incredible! COGSWORTH: (Hopping over) Well, now you've done it, Lumiere! Splendid, just peachy -- aaaarrgh! (MAURICE has picked up COGSWORTH.) MAURICE: How is this accomplished? (He examines COGSWORTH.) COGSWORTH: Put me down! At once! (MAURICE starts to tickle the bottoms of his feet.) Stop that! (He laughs) Stop that, I say! (MAURICE then shakes COGSWORTH, upside-down, making LUMIERE chuckle. Then MAURICE starts 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 starts playing with the pendulum.) Sir! Close that at once! (He slams the door shut on MAURICE'S finger) 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-choo! (MAURICE sneezes in COGWORTH'S face, who proceeds to wipe his face clean with the clock hands like windscreen wipers. MAURICE sniffles.) LUMIERE: Oh, you are soaked to the bone, monsieur. Come ... warm yourself by the fire. MAURICE: Thank you. (LUMIERE leads MAURICE towards the den, with COGSWORTH running after them.) COGSWORTH: No, no, no, do you know what the master would do if he finds you in here? (BEAST watches from overhead as the trio enter the den.) I demand that you stop -- right -- there! (COGSWORTH tumbles down the steps. LUMIERE shows MAURICE to a seat in a large chair by a roaring fire.) Oh no, not the master's chair! (The FOOTSTOOL runs past COGSWORTH, barking.) I am not seeing this ... I am not seeing this! MAURICE: (As FOOTSTOOL rushes up to him) Well ... hello there, boy! (The FOOTSTOOL props himself under MAURICE'S feet, and the COATRACK puts a cloak around MAURICE'S shoulders.) What service! COGSWORTH: Alright, this has gone far enough! I'm in charge here, and -- (He is run over by MRS. POTTS' tea cart.) MRS. POTTS: (Arriving at MAURICE'S side) How'd you like a nice spot of tea, sir? It'll warm you up in no time. (She pours tea into CHIP.) COGSWORTH: (From face-down on the rug) No! No tea, no tea!! CHIP: (When MAURICE picks him up and takes a drink) Ha ha! His moustache tickles, momma! MAURICE: (Startled by the cup) Tickle -- 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 and CHIP takes refuge behind her.) CHIP: Uh-oh! (The BEAST enters and we see him in full for the first time. He is down on all fours. He looks around the darkened den.) BEAST: (Growling) There's a stranger here ... LUMIERE: (Who has re-lit his flames) Master, allow me to explain. The gentleman was lost in the woods and he was cold and wet ... (His last sentence is drowned out by a fierce growl from the BEAST, which puts out his flames again. He looks down, dejected.) COGSWORTH: (Coming out from under the rug) Master, I'd like to take this moment to say ... I was against this from the start! (He points at LUMIERE) It was all his fault -- I tried to stop them, but would they listen to me? No, no, no! (Once again, BEAST growls fiercly, sending COGSWORTH quivering back under the rug.) (MAURICE looks from one side of the chair to the other, and sees the BEAST.) BEAST: Who are you? What are you doing here?! MAURICE: (Petrified, backing away from the advancing BEAST) I was lost in the woods and ... (He can't help staring at the BEAST.) BEAST: (Still advancing) You are not welcome here! MAURICE: I'm sorry ... BEAST: What are you staring at?! MAURICE: (Cowering under BEAST) N-n-n-nothing! (He turns to leave.) BEAST: (Races around and blocks the entrance with remarkable 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 MAURICE up and carries him out of the room, slamming the door behind him, plunging the den, along with COGSWORTH, LUMIERE, MRS. POTTS and CHIP into darkness. Fade out.) (Fade in to BELLE'S cottage, seen from GASTON and LEFOU'S point-of-view.) LEFOU: Heh! Oh boy! Belle's gonna get the surprise of her life, huh, Gaston? GASTON: Yep. This is her lucky day! (GASTON lets go of a branch, which flies back and hits LEFOU in the mouth. GASTON turns to the band and wedding guests, gathered around the cottage.) GASTON: I'd like to thank you all for coming to my wedding. But first, I better go in there and ... propose to the girl! (The MINISTER, BAKER and others laugh heartily. The camera pans to show the BIMBETTES, crying their eyes out. To LEFOU) Now you, Lefou -- when Belle and I come out that door -- LEFOU: Oh I know, I know! I strike up the band! (He turns to the band and begins directing them in 'Here Comes the Bride'. GASTON slams a tuba over his head.) GASTON: Not yet! LEFOU: (From inside the instrument, his lips sticking out the mouthpiece) Sorry! (Cut to the interior of the cottage. BELLE is sitting in a chair reading her new book. We hear a knock at the door. BELLE puts the book down, marks her page, and goes to answer it. She reaches up and pulls down a viewing device, seeing a fish-eye view of GASTON. She groans, but opens the door for him.) BELLE: Gaston. What a pleasant ... surprise. GASTON: Isn't it, though? I'm just full of surprises. Y'know, Belle, there's not a girl in town who wouldn't love to be in your shoes. This is the day ... uh ... hmmm ... (He pauses in front of a mirror and licks his teeth clean.) Ah. This is the day your dreams come true. BELLE: What do you know about my dreams, Gaston? GASTON: Plenty! Here ... picture this. (He plops himself down in a chair and puts his muddy boots on BELLE'S book. He kicks off his boots and wiggles his toes through his hole-y socks.) A rustic hunting lodge, my latest kill roasting over the fire, and my little wife, massaging my feet ... while the little ones play on the floor with the dogs. (BELLE looks disgusted, and delicately holds her nose against the odour of GASTON'S feet. GASTON gets up next to her and she grins innocently at him.) We'll have six or seven. BELLE: Dogs? GASTON: No, Belle! Strapping boys ... like me! BELLE: Imagine that. (She picks up her book, marks her page with a book-mark and puts it back on the shelf. Gaston follows her.) GASTON: And do you know who that little wife will be? BELLE: Let me think ... GASTON: (Cornering BELLE) YOU, Belle! BELLE: (Ducks under GASTON'S arms) Gaston ... I'm ... speechless! I really don't know what to say. GASTON: (Pushing chairs and things out of the way until he reaches BELLE, trapping her against the door.) Say you'll marry me. BELLE: I'm very sorry, Gaston ... but ... (She reaches for the doorknob behind her, as GASTON tries to kiss her) ... but ... I just don't deserve you! (Finding the doorknob, she turns it and opens the door, outwards this time, causing GASTON to topple into the mud.) GASTON: Whoa! (The band, led by LEFOU, starts to play 'Here Comes the Bride'. GASTON'S boots are thrown out the door, now opened inward, and the door is slammed shut again. LEFOU, still conducting, looks down and sees GASTON'S legs sticking up, and PIERRE'S head sticking up. LEFOU cuts the band off and GASTON'S head pops up out of the mud, PIERRE on top of him. GASTON tilts his head and the pig slides down his back.) LEFOU: So ... how'd it go? GASTON: (Picking LEFOU up by the neck and standing up) I'll have Belle for my wife ... make no mistake about that! (He drops LEFOU into the mud and walks off.) LEFOU: (To PIERRE) Touchy. PIERRE: Grunt grunt. (GASTON passes the camera as the focus returns to the cottage. BELLE pokes her head out the door, to make sure everyone is gone) BELLE: (To the chickens) Is he gone? (Seeing he is, she steps outside, a bucket of chicken feed in her hand.) Can you imagine? He asked me to marry him! Me! The wife of that boorish ... brainless ... Madame Gaston, can't you just see it? Madame Gaston, his little wife No sir, not me, I guarantee it I want so much more than this provincial life ... (BELLE has walked into the animal pen and fed the chickens, then runs off singing into an open field overlooking a beautiful valley.) I want adventure in the great wide somewhere, I want it more than I can tell And for once it might be grand To have someone understand I want so much more than they've got planned ... (A neigh is heard, and PHILLIPE runs into the field. BELLE looks up at him, disturbed that MAURICE is not with him.) BELLE: Phillipe! What are you doing here? Where's ... where's Papa? Where is he, Phillipe? What happened? Oh, we have to find him! You have to take me to him! (BELLE unhitches the wagon from PHILLIPE. Cut to exterior of the castle gate.) BELLE: What is this place? (PHILLIPE snorts, then begins to buck as if something is scaring him. BELLE dismounts to comfort him.) BELLE: Phillipe, please ... steady. Steady. (She sees MAURICE'S hat lying just inside the gate, gasps and runs over to it.) Papa. (Cut to interior of castle. COGSWORTH and LUMIERE are discussing events) COGSWORTH: Couldn't keep quiet, could we? Just had to invite him to stay, didn't we? Serve him tea, sit in the Master's chair, pet the pooch. (He is clearly NOT very impressed.) LUMIERE: (A little dejected) I was trying to be hospitable. (Cut to the door opening and we see BELLE entering the castle) BELLE: Hello? Is anyone here? Hello? Papa? Papa, are you here? (We follow BELLE as she ascends the grand staircase, looking for her father. Cut to the kitchen. MRS. POTTS is standing by a tub of hot water. CHIP hops In.) CHIP: Momma, there's a girl in the castle! MRS. POTTS: Now, Chip. I'll not have you making up such wild stories! CHIP: Really, momma, I saw her! MRS. POTTS: Not another word. Into the tub. (She lifts CHIP into the tub. FEATHERDUSTER enters.) FEATHERDUSTER: A girl! I saw a girl in the castle! CHIP: (Poking his head out from under the water) See, I told ya! (Cut back to COGSWORTH and LUMIERE bickering.) COGSWORTH: Irresponsible, devil-may-care, waxy eared, slack-jawed -- BELLE: Papa? (COGSWORTH and LUMIERE turn to look at the new arrival.) LUMIERE: Did you see that? (Running to the door and poking his head around the corner with COGSWORTH) It's a girl! COGSWORTH: I know it's a girl! LUMIERE: Don't you see? She's the one! The girl we have been waiting for. She has come to break the spell! (He chases after BELLE.) COGSWORTH: Wait a minute, wait a minute! (BELLE continues down a narrow hallway. COGSWORTH and LUMIERE sneak up behind her and open the door that leads to the tower, where MAURICE is being kept. The door creaks open and BELLE hears the sound. She turns towards it. BELLE: Papa? Papa? (COGSWORTH hides behind the door, while LUMIERE rushes off.) Hello? Is someone here? Wait! I'm looking for my father, I -- (She starts up the stairs, unaware that LUMIERE is watching her.) That's funny. I'm sure there was someone ... I-I-is there anyone here? (MAURICE'S voice echoes from his cell) MAURICE: Belle? BELLE: Papa! (She grabs a torch from the wall and rushes over.) MAURICE: How did you find me? BELLE: Oh, your hands are like ice. We have to get you out of here. (MAURICE coughs) MAURICE: Belle, I want you to leave this place. BELLE: Who's done this to you? MAURICE: No time to explain! You must go -- now! BELLE: I won't leave you! (Suddenly, BEAST grabs BELLE'S shoulder and whips her around. She drops the torch into a puddle and the room is dark except for the light from the skylight) BEAST: What are you doing here? MAURICE: Run, Belle! BELLE: Who's there? Who are you? BEAST: The master of this castle. BELLE: I've come for my father. Please, let him out! Can't you see he's sick? BEAST: Then he shouldn't have trespassed here! BELLE: But he could die! Please, I'll do anything! BEAST: There's nothing you can do. He's my prisoner. BELLE: Oh, there must be some way I can ... wait! Take me instead. BEAST: You! (His voice softens) You would take his place? MAURICE: Belle! No! You don't know what you're doing! BELLE: If I did ... would you let him go? BEAST: Yes. But ... you must promise to stay here forever. (BELLE ponders her situation, until she realises she can't see the captor.) BELLE: Come into the light. (BEAST drags his legs, then his whole body into the beam of light. BELLE watches, her eyes growing wider and wider until she can stand it no longer and falls back to MAURICE) MAURICE: No, Belle! I won't let you do this! (BELLE regains her composure and steps into the beam of light.) BELLE: You have my word. BEAST: Done! (BEAST moves to unlock the cell door and BELLE collapses to the ground, her head in her hands. We hear the BEAST unlock the cell door and MAURICE rushes over. He takes BELLE'S hands in his and she looks sadly up at him.) MAURICE: No, Belle, listen to me, I'm old, I've lived my life -- (BEAST grabs him and drags him out of the cell, and away from BELLE.) BELLE: Wait! MAURICE: Belle! BELLE: Wait! (Cut to the exterior of the castle. BEAST drags MAURICE towards the PALLENQUIN.) MAURICE: No, please! Spare my daughter! Please! BEAST: She's no longer your concern. (BEAST throws MAURICE into the PALLENQUIN and slams the door.) Take him to the village. (The PALLENQUIN breaks the ivy holding it to the ground and stands up. It slinks off towards the village like a spider with MAURICE inside.) MAURICE: Let me out! Please let me out! Let me out! Please! Please! (Cut to BELLE looking out of the tower window. She watches the PALLENQUIN crossing the bridge with MAURICE and starts to cry. Cut to BEAST walking up the stairs. LUMIERE is still at his post outside the tower door.) LUMIERE: Master? BEAST: (Angrily) What? LUMIERE: Since the girl is going to be with us for quite some time, I was thinking that you might want to offer her a more comfortable room. (BEAST growls angrily at him.) Then again, maybe not! (BEAST enters the cell where BELLE is still crying. She looks up.) BELLE: You didn't even let me say goodbye. I'll never see him again. I didn't get to say goodbye. BEAST: (Feeling bad) I'll show you to your room. BELLE: My room? But I thought -- BEAST: You wanna, you wanna stay in the tower? BELLE: No. BEAST: Then follow me. (BEAST leads BELLE to her room. As they proceed, she looks around, and begins to lag behind. She looks at the hideous sculptures and the light casting shadows on them. Frightened, she gasps and hurries to catch up to BEAST, who is carrying LUMIERE as a light source. BEAST looks back at BELLE and sees a tear forming in the corner of her eye.) LUMIERE: (Quietly, to the BEAST) Say something to her. BEAST: Hmm? Oh. (to BELLE) I ... hope you like it here. (He looks at LUMIERE for approval. LUMIERE motions for him to go on) The castle is your home now, so you can go anywhere you like. Except the West Wing. BELLE: (Looking intrigued) What's in the West -- BEAST: (Stopping angrily) It's forbidden. (He growls and continues.) (BEAST continues and BELLE follows. Cut to the interior of BELLE'S room. It is dark. The door opens and the light spills in. BELLE follows the BEAST in.) BEAST: (Softly) Now if you need anything, my servants will attend you. LUMIERE: (Whispering in his ear) Dinner -- invite her to dinner. BEAST: (Growing angry) You will ... join me for dinner. That's not a request! (BEAST leaves, slamming the door behind her. BELLE puts her hands on it, then turns into the room, looking upset. She runs over to the bed and collapses on it, finally breaking down at sobbing. Outside it is snowing. Fade to tavern.) GASTON: Who does she think she is? That girl has tangled with the wrong man! No-one says 'no' to Gaston! LEFOU: (Coming over with mugs of beer) Heh-heh. Darn right! GASTON: Dismissed. Rejected. (He snatches both mugs from LEFOU.) Publicly humiliated. Why it's more than I can bear! (He throws both mugs of beer into the fire) LEFOU: Uh ... more beer? GASTON: What for? (He turns his chair away.) Nothing helps. I'm disgraced. LEFOU: (Running around in front) Who, you? Never. (GASTON turns his chair away again and again LEFOU runs around in front of him.) Gaston, you've got to pull yourself together. Gosh, it disturbs me to see you, Gaston, Looking so down in the dumps Every guy here'd love to be you, Gaston (cheers from the gallery) Even when taking your lumps (GASTON turns his chair around to face the fire. LEFOU ducks around in front of him again.) There's no man in town as admired as you You're everyone's favourite guy Everyone's awed and inspired by you (LEFOU turns GASTON's chair around to face the front again.) And it's not very hard to see why! (The BIMBETTES collapse at GASTON'S side, sighing.) No-one's slick as Gaston No-one's quick as Gaston No-one's neck's as incredibly thick as Gaston For there's no man in town half as manly Perfect, a pure paragon! You can ask any Tom, Dick or Stanley And they'll tell ya who's team they'd prefer to be on! (During this, LEFOU has pulled off a man's belt, causing his pants to fall down. He jumps up and wraps the belt around GASTON'S neck then swings off it. GASTON flexes his neck and breaks the belt. LEFOU continues to dance around, including on the heads of some of the taverners. They pick him up and swing him around.) TAVERNERS: No-one's been like Gaston, a king-pin like Gaston LEFOU: No-one's got a swell cleft in his chin like Gaston! (The TAVERNERS swing LEFOU back and forth. He tickles GASTON's chin and GASTON looks very proud.) GASTON: (Flexing) As a specimen yes, I'm intimidating! TAVERNERS: My, what a guy, that Gaston! Give five hurrahs, give twelve hip-hips LEFOU: Gaston is the best and the rest is all drips! (LEFOU swings his arm back and the beer in the mug he's holding splashes into GASTON'S face, who has chosen that moment to stand up. LEFOU looks nervous, and rightly so, because GASTON socks him one.) TAVERNERS: No-one fights like Gaston, Douses lights like Gaston (GASTON jumps into the TAVERNERS and starts fighting with them all. He bites one of them on the leg.) WRESTLER: In a wrestling match nobody bites like Gaston! BIMBETTES: For there's no-one as burly and brawny (GASTON lifts the bench they're sitting on and they squeal in delight.) GASTON: As you see, I've got biceps to spare LEFOU: Not a bit of him's scraggly or scrawny GASTON: That's right! (He drops the bench on LEFOU) And every last inch of me's covered with hair! (He winks and opens his shirt to the camera, showing off his hairy chest.) TAVERNERS: No-one hits like Gaston, matches wits like Gaston (GASTON is seen playing chess. When he can't make a move, he hits the board away.) LEFOU: In a spitting match nobody spits like Gaston! GASTON: (Taking a bite of the leather belt that was around his neck and chewing it) I'm especially good at expectorating! Ptooey! TAVERNERS: Ten points for Gaston! (The leather hits several things in the tavern before landing in a spittoon, which falls on LEFOU'S head.) GASTON: When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs Every morning to help me get large And now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs So I'm roughly the size of a barge! (GASTON juggles with several eggs, then swallows them whole. LEFOU attempts the same trick, but is just hit in the face by the several eggs he threw up.) ALL: No-one shoots like Gaston, Makes those beauts like Gaston LEFOU: Then goes tromping around wearing boots like Gaston! GASTON: I use antlers in all of my decorating! (GASTON takes three shots at a beer barrel, which leaks into the mugs of the onlookers. He then stomps back to his chair and jumps in it. Above the fireplace, we see the wall is full of trophies of the animals he has killed. The following verse is not heard in the movie, just on the soundtrack.) ALL: Say it again. Who's a man among men? And then say it once more. Who's the hero next door? Who's a super success? Don't'cha know? Can't'cha guess? Ask his fans and his five hangers-on There's just one guy in town who's got all of it down LEFOU: And his name's G-A-S ... T ... G-A-S-T-E -- G-A-S-T-O *tut* Oh! ALL: Gaston! (The TAVERNERS pick up GASTON'S chair and carry him around in it. They go to throw the chair into it's normal place. LEFOU scampers to get out of the way, but the chair lands on him and he is pinned underneath. MAURICE bursts in frantically.) MAURICE: Help! Someone help me! BARMAN: Maurice? MAURICE: Please, please, I need your help! He's got her -- he's got her locked in the dungeon! TAVERNER: Who? MAURICE: Belle. We must go -- no-not a minute to lose! GASTON: Whoa, slow down, Maurice. Who's got Belle locked in a dungeon? MAURICE: A beast! A horrible, monstrous beast! (MAURICE has been from person to person pleading his case. When GASTON speaks, MAURICE hurries over to him. Now the TAVERNERS start snickering at him.) TAVERNER 1: Is it a big beast? MAURICE: Huge! TAVERNER 2: With a long, ugly snout? MAURICE: Hideously ugly! TAVERNER 3: And sharp, cruel fangs? MAURICE: Yes, yes! Will you help me? (The TAVERNERS pass MAURICE around between them, then push him so he lands at GASTON'S feet.) GASTON: Alright, old man. We'll help you out. MAURICE: You will? Oh, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou! (The TAVERNERS 'help him out' by throwing him out the door into the snow.) Oh! TAVERNER 4: Crazy old Maurice. TAVERNER 5: Heh-heh. He's always good for a laugh. GASTON: (Very pensive) Crazy old Maurice, hmm? Crazy old Maurice. Hmm. Lefou, I'm afraid I've been thinking LEFOU: A dangerous pastime -- GASTON: I know. (He pulls LEFOU out from under his chair.) But that wacky old coot is Belle's father And his sanity's only so-so Now the wheels in my head have been turning Since I looked at that loony old man See I've promised myself I'd be married to Belle And right now I'm evolving a plan! (GASTON picks LEFOU up off the floor, holds him close and whispers in his ear.) GASTON: If I ... (whisper) LEFOU: Yes? GASTON: Then we ... (whisper) LEFOU: No! Would she? GASTON: (Whisper) ... Guess! LEFOU: Now I get it! BOTH: Let's go! (They begin dancing around the room while they sing.) BOTH: No-one plots like Gaston GASTON: Takes cheap shots like Gaston LEFOU: Plans to persecute harmless crack-pots like Gaston! ALL: So his marriage we soon will be celebrating My what a guy ... Gaston! (Camera zooms out through the window to show the empty square, except MAURICE.) MAURICE: Will no-one help me? (Fade back to the bedroom in the castle where BELLE is still crying. There is a 'chink chink chink' at the door. BELLE looks up, sniffling.) BELLE: Who is it? MRS. POTTS: Mrs. Potts, dear. (The door opens and MRS. POTTS, CHIP and the entourage enter.) I thought you might like a spot of tea. BELLE: (Astonished) But you're a ... you're a ... (she backs away from the door, and bumps into the WARDROBE.) WARDROBE: Ooh! Careful! BELLE: This is impossible -- WARDROBE: I know it is! But, here we are. (The WARDROBE leans a 'shoulder' on the bed, sending the other end and BELLE into the air.) CHIP: (as sugar and cream are poured into him) Told ya she was pretty, mama, didn't I? MRS. POTTS: Alright, Chip, now that'll do. (CHIP hops over to BELLE, who moves down to the floor.) Slowly now -- don't spill! BELLE: Thankyou. (She picks up CHIP and is about to take a sip.) CHIP: (To BELLE) Wanna see me do a trick? (BELLE looks at him and CHIP takes a big breath and blows bubbles out the top of his cup.) MRS. POTTS: (Admonishingly) Chip! CHIP: (Looking guilty) Oops. Sorry. MRS. POTTS: (To BELLE) That was a very brave thing you did, my dear. WARDROBE: We all think so. BELLE: But I've lost my father ... my dreams ... everything. MRS. POTTS: Cheer up, child. It'll turn out alright in the end. You'll see. (She looks up, startled.) Ooh! Listen to me! Jabbering on when there's a supper to get on the table. Chip! CHIP: (Hopping away) Bye! (The other OBJECTS leave.) (BELLE stands and the WARDROBE approaches her.) WARDROBE: Well now ... what shall we dress you in for dinner? Ooh ... let's see what I got in my drawers! (She flings the doors open and moths fly out. WARDROBE closes the doors again quickly.) Oh! How embarassing ... (she laughs nervously) Ahem. Ah, here we are! (It picks out a pink dress) You'll look ravishing in this one! (What the prince is doing with a wardrobe full of women's clothes is beyond me. There's never mention of a princess, or parents.) BELLE: That's very kind of you ... but I'm not going to dinner. WARDROBE: (Gasps) But you must! (COGSWORTH waddles in) COGSWORTH: Ahem, ahem, ahem, ahem. Dinner ... is served. (Cut to BEAST. He is pacing back and forth in front of the fire, while LUMIERE and MRS. POTTS look on. He is clearly not impressed.) BEAST: (More to himself) What's taking so long? I told her to come down. (To MRS. POTTS and LUMIERE) Why isn't she here yet?! MRS. POTTS: Oh, try to be patient, sir. The girl has lost her father and her freedom all in one day. LUMIERE: Uh, master? Have you thought that perhaps this girl could be the one to break the spell? BEAST: Of course I have! I'm not a fool. LUMIERE: Good! So ... you fall in love with her, she falls in love with you and -- poof -- the spell is broken. We'll be human again by midnight! MRS. POTTS: Oh, it's not that easy, Lumiere. These things take time. LUMIERE: But the rose has already begun to wilt. BEAST: It's no use. She's so beautiful, and I'm ... well, look at me! (LUMIERE shrugs his shoulders and he and MRS. POTTS exchange a worried glance.) MRS. POTTS: Oh, you must help her to see past all that. BEAST: I don't know how. MRS. POTTS: Well, you can start my making yourself more presentable. Straighten up, try to act like a gentleman. (BEAST sits up and straightens his face, trying to look formal.) LUMIERE: (Adding to this) Ah, yes, yes, when she comes in give her a dashing, debonair smile. Come, come, show me the smile. (BEAST bears his fangs in a rather scary, yet very funny grin.) MRS. POTTS: But don't frighten the poor girl. (BEAST shakes his head.) LUMIERE: Impress her with your rapier wit. (BEAST nods.) MRS. POTTS: But be gentle. LUMIERE: Shower her with compliments. MRS. POTTS: But be sincere. LUMIERE: And above all ... BOTH: You must control your temper! (The door creaks open. BEAST wipes the silly grin off his face and looks towards the door expectantly.) LUMIERE: Here she is! (Unfortunately, instead of BELLE, COGSWORTH enters.) COGSWORTH: Uh ... good evening. (BEAST goes from looking expectant to mad.) BEAST: Well ... where is she? COGSWORTH: Who? Oh! (He laughs nervously) The girl. Yes ... uh ... well, actually, she's in the process of ... uh ... circumstances being what they are ... (he realises this is hopeless and says in a very small voice,) She's not coming. (Cut to a view of the den with the door slightly ajar.) BEAST: WHAT?! (The door bangs open and the BEAST rushes out with the OBJECTS giving chase.) COGSWORTH: Your Grace! Your Eminence! Let's not be hasty! (Cut to exterior of BELLE'S room. BEAST runs up and bangs on the door.) BEAST: I thought I told you to come down for dinner! BELLE: (From inside) I'm not hungry. BEAST: You'll come out or I'll ... I'll ... I'll break down the door! LUMIERE: Master ... I could be wrong, but that may not be the best way to win the girl's affections. COGSWORTH: (Pleading) Please ... attempt to be a gentleman. BEAST: But she is being so difficult! MRS. POTTS: Gently ... gently. BEAST: (Very dejected) Will you come down to dinner? BELLE: No! (BEAST looks at the OBJECTS, very frustrated.) COGSWORTH: Ah, ah, ah ... suave. Genteel. BEAST: (Trying to act very formal and bowing at the door) It would give me great pleasure if you would join me for dinner. COGSWORTH: Ahem, ahem, we say 'please'. BEAST: (Again dejected) ... please. BELLE: (Mad) No, thankyou! BEAST: (Furious) You can't stay in there forever! BELLE: (Provokingly) Yes I can! BEAST: Fine! Then go ahead and STARVE!! (To OBJECTS) If she doesn't eat with me, then she doesn't eat at all. (BEAST growls and runs back down the hall, slamming a door and causing a bit of the ceiling to fall on LUMIERE.) MRS. POTTS: Oh dear. That didn't go very well at all, did it? COGSWORTH: Lumiere, stand watch at the door and inform me at once if there is the slightest change. LUMIERE: (Saluting) You can count on me, mon capitan. (He takes up a guard position at the door and starts pacing back and forth) COGSWORTH: Well, I guess we better go downstairs and start cleaning up. (He and MRS. POTTS head back downstairs. Cut to interior of BEAST'S lair. BEAST enters, knocking over and destroying things in his path.) BEAST: I ask nicely, but she refuses! What a -- what does she want me to do -- beg? (He picks up the MAGIC MIRROR.) Show me the girl. (The MAGIC MIRROR shines for a moment, then glows green and we see BELLE in her room, talking to the WARDROBE) WARDROBE: (In the mirror, pleading) The master's really not so bad once you get to know him ... why don't you give him a chance? BELLE: (Still upset) I don't want to get to know him! I don't want to have anything to do with him! BEAST: (Setting down the MAGIC MIRROR and speaking softly) I'm just fooling myself. She'll never see me as anything ... but a monster. (Another petal falls from the ROSE.) It's hopeless. (BEAST puts his head in his paws as in a depressed state. Fade out/fade in to the exterior of BELLE'S bedroom, later that night. The door creaks open and BELLE silently emerges. We see her feet go by as three bright spots shine through a curtain at floor level. Behind it are LUMIERE and FEATHERDUSTER.) FEATHERDUSTER: Oh, no! LUMIERE: Oh, yes! FEATHERDUSTER: Oh, no! LUMIERE: Oh yes ... yes, yes! FEATHERDUSTER: I 'ave been burnt by you before! (LUMIERE and FEATHERDUSTER have emerged from behind the curtain. LUMIERE laughs and takes her in his arms. Suddenly he looks up and sees BELLE disappearing down the hall. He drops FEATHERDUSTER.) FEATHERDUSTER: Oof! LUMIERE: Zut alors! She has emerged! (Cut to the kitchen, where we see MRS. POTTS, CHIP, COGSWORTH and the STOVE.) MRS. POTTS: Come on, Chip -- into the cupboard with your brothers and sisters. (MRS. POTTS helps CHIP up to the cupboard.) CHIP: But I'm not sleepy. MRS. POTTS: Yes you are. CHIP: No I'm not. (He falls asleep and MRS. POTTS closes the door) (A banging of pots and pans comes from the STOVE.) STOVE: I work and I slave all day long and for what? A culinary masterpiece gone to waste! MRS. POTTS: Oh, stop your grousing. It's been a long night for all of us. COGSWORTH: Well, if you ask me, she was just being stubborn. After all, he did say 'please'. MRS. POTTS: But if the master doesn't learn to control that temper, he'll never break the -- (BELLE enters and COGSWORTH cuts off MRS. POTTS before she can say 'spell'.) COGSWORTH: (Interrupting) Splendid to see you out and about, mademoiselle. (LUMIERE comes running in.) I am Cogsworth, head of the household. (He holds out his hand for BELLE to take and is about to kiss her hand when LUMIERE butts in front of him.) This is Lumiere. LUMIERE: En chante, cherie. COGSWORTH: (Trying to talk around LUMIERE, who is still kissing BELLE'S hand) If there's anything ... stop that ... that we can ... please ... (finally shoving him out the way) do to make your stay more comfortable. (LUMIERE burns his hand.) Ow!! BELLE: I am a little hungry. MRS. POTTS: (Excited, to the other teapots) You are? Hear that? She's hungry! Stoke the fire, break out the silver, wake the china. (The STOVE roars to life and the SILVERWARE pops out of the drawer to attention.) COGSWORTH: (Secretively) Remember what the master said. MRS. POTTS: Oh, pish tosh. I'm not about to let the poor child go hungry. COGSWORTH: Alright, fine. Glass of water, crust of bread, and then -- LUMIERE: Cogsworth, I am surprised at you. She's not a prisoner -- she's our guest. We must make her feel welcome here. (To BELLE) Right this way, mademoiselle. (He leads the way to the dining-room.) COGSWORTH: Well ... keep it down. If the master finds out about this it will be our necks. LUMIERE: Of course, of course. But what is dinner without a little music? (LUMIERE has started out the swinging door to the dining-room. He lets it close and it hits COGSWORTH, sending him flying across the room to land in a pan filled with pancake batter. He screams his line out while in flight.) COGSWORTH: MUSIC?! (Cut to the dining-room, where BELLE is standing at the end of a long table. LUMIERE is on the table, and a spotlight shines on him.) LUMIERE: Ma chere mademoiselle. It is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight. And now ... we invite you to relax ... let us pull up a chair (CHAIR comes up behind BELLE and she sits down.) as the dining-room proudly presents ... your dinner. (The dishes all take their places on the table.) Be our guest, be our guest Put our service to the test Tie your napkin 'round your neck, cherie, And we provide the rest (The CHAIR has wrapped a napkin around BELLE'S neck. She takes it off and places it in her lap. The CHAIR puts its 'hands' on it's 'waist' as if angry.) Soup de jour, hot hors d'oeuvres Why we only live to serve Try the grey stuff, it's delicious! Don't believe me? Ask the dishes! (LUMIERE offers BELLE a plate. She dips her finger into a dip and tastes it.) They can sing, they can dance After all, miss, this is France! And a dinner here is never second best! Go on, unfold your menu, take a glance and then You'll be our guest, oui, our guest, be our guest (A cabinet at the end of the table opens to reveal a large china collection, which begins to perform. LUMIERE hands BELLE a menu, which she begins to read.) Beef ragout, cheese souffle, Pie and pudding en flambe! (Plates go dancing past with COGSWORTH in the pudding. LUMIERE sets it alight, turning COGSWORTH black.) We'll prepare and serve with flair A culinary cabaret! You're alone, and you're scared, But the banquet's all prepared (The cutlery start a 'Bubsy Berlkley'-esque swimming scene.) No-one's gloomy or complaining, While the flatware's entertaining! We tell jokes, I do tricks With my fellow candlesticks (LUMIERE, standing on a plate, is elevated and starts juggling his candles The MUGS enter the shot.) MUGS: And it's all in perfect taste, that you can bet! ALL: Come on and lift your glass You've won your own free pass To be our guest ... LUMIERE: If you're stressed, it's fine dining we suggest! ALL: Be our guest, be our guest, be our guest! (All leave except COGSWORTH. He looks scared, then grins nervously and begins to inch away. LUMIERE enters and holds him there.) LUMIERE: Life is so un-nerving For a servant who's not serving He's not whole without a soul to wait upon COGSWORTH: Get off! LUMIERE: Ah, those good old days when we were useful ... Suddenly, those good old days are gone. (LUMIERE sings as if reminiscing. Snow begins to fall. COGSWORTH looks up and sees the SALT and PEPPER shakers doing their thing. He moans.) LUMIERE: Ten years we've been rusting, Needing so much more than dusting (He dusts the salt from COGSWORTH'S head) Needing exercise, a chance to use our skills! (COGSWORTH tries to escape, but trips and lands in a gelatin mould.) Most days we just lay around the castle Flabby, fat and lazy, You walked in and oops-a-daisy! (He jumps onto the spoon sticking out of the gelatin, catapulting COGSWORTH out of the gelatin.) (Cut to kitchen, where MRS. POTTS is surrounded by various dishes, glasses, etc.) MRS. POTTS: It's a guest, it's a guest! Sakes alive, well I'll be blessed! Wine's been poured and thank the Lord I've had the napkins freshly pressed! With dessert, she'll want tea, And my dear, that's fine with me! While the cups do their soft-shoeing I'll be bubbling, I'll be brewing I'll get warm, piping hot Heaven's sakes, is that a spot? Clean it up! We want the company impressed! We've got a lot to do -- Is it one lump or two? For you our guest! (MRS. POTTS is cleaned up by a napkin. She jumps on the cart and rolls into the dining-room, where she offers tea to BELLE) ALL: She's our guest! MRS. POTTS: She's our guest! ALL: Be our guest, be our guest, Our command is your request! COGSWORTH: (Spoken, trying to keep things in order) Let's go, people. Fun's over. Over here. Line up. (He yelps as he's almost dusted away by the advancing DUSTERS.) ALL: It's ten years since we've had anybody here, And we're obsessed! With your meal, with your ease, Yes indeed, we aim to please While the candlelight's still glowing, Let us help you, we'll keep going -- (The CHINA and CANDLESTICKS perform an elaborate sequence, ending in a close-up of LUMIERE.) ALL (esp. LUMIERE): Course by course, One by one 'Till you shout "Enough, I'm done!" Then we'll sing you off to sleep as you digest Tonight you'll prop your feet up, But for now let's eat up Be our guest, be our guest, be our guest, please be our guest!! (The music stops and COGSWORTH is the centre of attention until LUMIERE slides onto the table and knocks him out of the camera range. BELLE starts clapping.) BELLE: Bravo! That was wonderful! COGSWORTH: Thankyou! (He laughs) Thankyou, mademoiselle. Yes, good show wasn't it? Yes ... everyone! (He yawns and looks at his own clock face.) Oh, my goodness, will you look at the time. Now it's off to bed, off to bed! BELLE: Oh, I couldn't possibly go to bed now! It's my first time in an enchanted castle! COGSWORTH: Enchanted? Who said anything about the castle being enchanted? (He tries to cover it up, just as a fork runs past. To LUMIERE) It was you, wasn't it? (COGSWORTH and LUMIERE start fighting.) BELLE: I figured it out for myself. (COGSWORTH and LUMIERE stop fighting and look up. COGSWORTH dusts himself off and LUMIERE fixes his wax nose. BELLE stands up.) I'd like to look around ... if that's alright. LUMIERE: (Excited) Oh! Would you like a tour? COGSWORTH: Wait a second, wait a second. I'm not sure that's such a good idea. (Confidentially, to LUMIERE) We can't let her go poking around in certain places, if you know what I mean. BELLE: (Poking COGSWORTH in the belly) Perhaps you'd like to take me. I'm sure you know everything there is to know about the castle. COGSWORTH: (Flattered) Well ... actually, I -- yes, I do. (Fade to COGSWORTH, LUMIERE and BELLE walking down a corridor with FOOTSTOOL tagging along behind. COGSWORTH is lecturing.) COGSWORTH: As you can see, the pseudo facade was stripped away to reveal a minimalist rococco design. Note the unusual inverted vaulted ceilings. This is yet another example of the neo-classic baroque period and, as I always say, if it's not barouqe, don't fix it. Ah-ha-ha. (He wipes a tear of amusement from his eye) Now then, where was I? (He turns to find the heads of the SUITS OF ARMOUR down the hall have turned to follow BELLE.) As you were! (They all snap back to face forward.) Now then, if I may draw your attention to the flying buttresses above the -- mademoiselle? (COGSWORTH turns back to the group to find BELLE is missing. He sees her starting to climb the grand staircase that leads to the West Wing. He and LUMIERE run up to her and jump in front of her, blocking her progress upstairs.) BELLE: What's up there? COGSWORTH: Where? Up there? Nothing. Absolutely nothing of interest at all in the West Wing. Dusty, dull, very boring. (LUMIERE has been shaking his head, but COGSWORTH nudges him and he nods.) BELLE: Ah, so that's the West Wing. LUMIERE: (To COGSWORTH) Nice going. BELLE: I wonder what he's hiding up there? LUMIERE: Hiding? The -- the master is hiding nothing. BELLE: Then it wouldn't be forbidden. (She steps over them, but they dash up the stairs and block her again) COGSWORTH: Perhaps mademoiselle would like to see something else. We have exquisite tapestries dating all the way back to ... BELLE: (Again stepping over them) Maybe later. LUMIERE: (With COGSWORTH, once again blocking BELLE) The gardens, or ... or the library perhaps? BELLE: (Now with incredible interest) You have a library? COGSWORTH: (Thrilled to have found something to interest her) Oh, yes! Indeed! LUMIERE: With books! COGSWORTH: Scads of books! LUMIERE: Mountains of books! COGSWORTH: Forests of books! LUMIERE: Cascades ... COGSWORTH: ... of books! LUMIERE: Swamps of books! COGSWORTH: More books that you'll ever be able to read in a lifetime! Books on every subject ever studied, by every author who ever set pen to paper ... (COGSWORTH and LUMIERE begin marching off, and BELLE begins to follow, but her curiosity gets the better of her and she turns back to the West Wing. Her excitement begins to dwindle, though, when she enters the hallway leading to BEAST'S lair. As she walks down the hall, she stops to look in a mirror that has been shattered into several pieces, each one reflecting her concerned look. She reaches the end of the hall and comes upon a closed door with gargoyle handles. She hesitates, then takes a deep breath and opens the door. Cut to the interior of the lair. BELLE begins to explore. She is truly shocked by everything she sees -- broken furniture and the like. She wanders around, looking, and knocks into a small table, but she catches it before it crashes to the ground. She turns her head and sees a shredded portrait hanging on the wall. It is the same portrait that was shredded in the opening. BELLE reaches out and lifts the shreds of the picture to reveal the prince. We never see the completed portrait, however, since she turns her head again and see the ROSE under the bell jar. She walks over to it, her eyes transfixed. She reaches out, then lifts the lid off the jar, leaving the ROSE unprotected. She brushes back the strand of hair that has repeatedly been falling over her forehead, then reaches out to touch the ROSE. As her hand nears it, a shadow falls over her. BEAST has been on the balcony, and sees her. He jumps back into the room and slams the jar back on the ROSE. He then turns his attention back to BELLE.) BEAST: (Growing angry) Why did you come here? BELLE: (Backing away, frightened) I'm -- I'm sorry. BEAST: I warned you never to come here! BELLE: I didn't mean any harm. BEAST: (Angrier) Do you realise what you could have done?! (He begins to thrash at the furniture in the room.) BELLE: (Pleading, but still scared) Please, stop! No! BEAST: (Screaming) Get out! GET OUT!!! (BELLE turns and flees the room. BEAST calms down, then falls into despair, finally realising that he may have destroyed his chances with BELLE. She reaches the stairway and grabs her cloak. She rushes down the stairs, wrapping the cloak around her and bursting past a confused LUMIERE and COGSWORTH.) LUMIERE: Wh -- where are you going? BELLE: Promise or no promise, I can't stay here another minute! COGSWORTH: Oh no, wait! Please wait! (LUMIERE tries to respond, but BELLE slams the door behind her. He and COGSWORTH both bow their heads in sadness. Cut to BELLE outside in the forest on PHILLIPE. She begins to ride through the forest, but PHILLIPE comes to a stop. She looks up and sees the WOLVES. She gasps, then pulls the reins and begins to flee. She runs from side to side, making the WOLVES hit the trees. PHILLIPE runs onto a frozen pond, but his and BELLE'S weight collapse the ice. The WOLVES chase her into the water. Some of them begin to drown, but PHILLIPE is able to get out of the water before anything serious happens. He runs into a clearing, but becomes surrounded by WOLVES. He bucks, throwing BELLE off and wrapping the reins arond a tree branch. The WOLVES begin their attack ph PHILLIPE, but BELLE comes to his rescue and beats them away with a stick. One WOLF grabs the stick in his mouth and breaks half of it off, leaving BELLE defenseless. Another leaps at her, grabbing the corner of her cloak and dragging her to the ground. She looks up and sees a WOLF about to jump on her. She cries out as it leaps, but it is caught mid-air by BEAST. He throws the WOLF away and takes up a defensive stance behind BELLE. A WOLF lunges at them and BEAST lunges back. One rips a hole in BEAST'S shoulder, and the others focus their attack on that spot. BEAST fights them all off. Finally, he throws a WOLF against a tree, knocking it out and making the others run off in fear. BEAST turns back to BELLE, looks at her despairingly, grunts, then collapses. BELLE turns back to PHILLIPE, intending to flee, but her conscience comes in and she turns back to the fallen BEAST. She goes over to him and covers him with her cloak. Fade to BELLE and PHILLIPE walking back to the castle with BEAST on PHILLIPE'S back. Fade to interior of den, where BELLE pours hot water from MRS. POTTS. She soaks a rag in the water and tentatively approaches BEAST.) BELLE: Here now. Oh, don't do that. (BEAST growls at her as she tries to clean his wound with her rag.) Just ... hold ... still. (She touches the rag to his wound and BEAST roars in pain. The OBJECTS, who have been watching, jump back into hiding at this outburst from their master.) BEAST: That hurts! BELLE: If you'd hold still it wouldn't hurt as much! BEAST: Well if you hadn't have run away, this wouldn't have happened! BELLE: If you hadn't frightened me, I wouldn't have run away! BEAST: (Opens his mouth to respond, but has to stop to think of a good line.) Well you shouldn't have gone in the West Wing! BELLE: Well you should learn to control your temper! (BEAST raises his hand to bring out another point, but realises he has none, so he bows his head again. The OBJECTS emerge from their hiding place as BELLE has conquered BEAST'S ferocious temper. BELLE takes BEAST'S arm and moves the rag closer.) Now hold still. This might sting a little. (BEAST gives a surprised grunt, then grits his teeth as the rag is applied. BELLE speaks tenderly to him.) By the way ... thankyou ... for saving my life. (BEAST opens his eyes, looking surprised.) BEAST: (Also very tenderly) You're welcome. (Camera zooms out and we see the OBJECTS looking on with great interest.) (Fade to the tavern, empty now, except for GASTON, LEFOU and MONSIEUR D'ARQUE, who are all sitting around a table. GASTON finishes his mug of beer.) D'ARQUE: I don't usually leave the asylum in the middle of the night. But they said you'd make it worth my while. (GASTON pulls out a bag of gold coins and tosses it in front of him. D'ARQUE takes out a piece and rubs it against his chin.) Aah ... I'm listening. GASTON: It's like this. I've got my heart set on marrying Belle. But she needs a little ... persuasion. LEFOU: Ha ha ha! Turned him down flat! (GASTON slams a beer mug on his head.) GASTON: Everyone knows her father's a lunatic. He was in here tonight, raving about a beast in a castle! D'ARQUE: Maurice is harmless. GASTON: The point is, Belle would do anything to keep him from being locked up. LEFOU: Yeah! Even marry him! (GASTON gives him another threatening look and raises his arm, so LEFOU ducks back under the beer mug.) D'ARQUE: So you want me to throw her father into the asylum unless she agrees to marry you ... (GASTON looks smug, LEFOU nods.) Oh, that is despicable. (He starts to laugh) I love it! (Cut to the interior of BELLE'S cottage, where MAURICE is packing to leave.) MAURICE: If no-one will help me, then I'll go back alone! I don't care what it takes. I'll find that castle and somehow I'll ... I'll get her out of there. (MAURICE leaves on his journey. Seconds later, GASTON and LEFOU arrive with D'ARQUE. They enter the house, looking for one of the residents.) GASTON: Belle! Maurice! LEFOU: Oh well, guess it's not gonna work after all. (GASTON grabs him around the neck and walks back outside.) GASTON: They have to come back sometime. And when they do, we'll be ready for them. Lefou, (He drops LEFOU into a snow drift by the front door.) don't move from that spot until Belle and her father come home! (GASTON jumps back on the wagon which leaves.) LEFOU: But ... but ... aww, nuts! (He pounds the side of the house with his fist, causing a pile of snow to fall on his head.) (Fade to the exterior of the castle. BELLE is outside in the snow. PHILLIPE is with her. BELLE looks sad and PHILLIPE nudges her. She smiles and hugs him. FOOTSTOOL rushes past and jumps in the snow. BELLE holds her arms out and FOOTSTOOL rushes over to her and jumps in her arms. She laughs. The camera looks up and we see BEAST, LUMIERE and COGSWORTH watching from above.) BEAST: I've never felt this way about anyone. (He looks excited) I wanna do something for her. (His face falls) But what? COGSWORTH: Well, there's the usual things -- flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep ... LUMIERE: Ahh, no, no. It has to be something very special. Something that sparks her interest -- wait a minute. (Cut to the interior of the hall leading to the library with BEAST and BELLE.) BEAST: Belle ... there's something I want to show you. (He begins to open the door, then stops.) But first, you have to close your eyes. (BELLE looks at him questioningly.) It's a surprise. (BELLE closes her eyes and BEAST waves his hand in front of her. When he's convinced she can't see, he grins and opens the door. He turns back to BELLE and takes her hands, leading her into the library.) BELLE: (Just as she enters the room) Can I open them? BEAST: No, no. N-not yet. Wait here. (BEAST walks away to open the curtains. He does so, and brilliant sunlight spills into the room. BELLE flinches reflexively as the light hits her face.) BELLE: Now can I open them? BEAST: Alright. Now. (BELLE opens her eyes and the camera pulls back to show the gigantic library, filled from floor to ceiling with books. BELLE gasps.) BELLE: I can't believe it. I've never seen so many books in all my life! BEAST: You -- you like it? BELLE: It's wonderful! BEAST: Then it's yours. BELLE: Oh, thankyou so much. (BELLE takes his paws. Cut to BELLE and BEAST in the background, with the OBJECTS, including CHIP, in the foreground, watching them.) MRS. POTTS: Oh, would you look at that? LUMIERE: Ha ha! I knew it would work. CHIP: What? What worked? COGSWORTH: It's very encouraging. FEATHERDUSTER: Isn't this exciting? CHIP: I didn't see anything! MRS. POTTS: Come along, Chip -- there's chores to be done in the kitchen. CHIP: But what are they talking about? What's going on? C'mon, mom. (The OBJECTS walk away. Fade to the breakfast table. BELLE is sitting at one end, BEAST at the other, with MRS. POTTS between them. BELLE is served breakfast and as she starts to eat, she looks over at BEAST and gasps. He is gobbling down his breakfast with no table manners whatsoever. CHIP laughs, but MRS. POTTS shoots him an admonishing look. BELLE bites her lip and tries to ignore it, and CHIP pushes a spoon with his nose and BEAST reaches out for it. BELLE watches him in wonder as he tries to eat with the spoon, but has little success. Finally, BELLE puts down her spoon and lifts up her bowl, as in a toast. BEAST looks at the compromise and does the same. They toast, and begin to sip their breakfast out of their bowls. Fade to the courtyard, where BELLE and BEAST are feeding the birds. BELLE gives BEAST some seed.) BELLE: There's something sweet And almost kind But he was mean, and he was coarse and unrefined. And now he's dear, and so unsure I wonder why I didn't see it there before (BELLE is trying to attract some birds to BEAST, who shoves a handful of seed at them. Finally, she takes a handful of seed and gently spreads it out, creating a trail. A bird lands in BEAST'S hand and he looks up, thrilled.) BEAST: She glanced this way, I thought I saw And when we touched she didn't shudder at my paw No it can't be ... I'll just ignore But then she's never looked at me that way before (BELLE ducks around behind a tree, leaving BEAST with the birds. She begins to look doubtful again. She takes off her hood, looks back around the tree and laughs. BEAST is covered with birds.) BELLE: New, and a bit alarming Who'd have ever thought that this could be? True, that he's no Prince Charming, But there's something in him that I simply didn't see (BELLE throws a snowball at BEAST, who had looked up at her proudly when the birds flew away. He begins to gather a large pile of snow. We cut to the OBJECTS watching them out of the window. In the background, BELLE throws another snowball at BEAST, who falls over and drops his huge pile of snow on his head. BELLE laughs and BEAST chases around a tree, but she ducks around the other side and throws another snowball at him from behind.) LUMIERE: Well who'd have thought? MRS. POTTS: Well bless my soul. COGSWORTH: And who'd have known? LUMIERE: And who'd have guessed they'd come together on their own? MRS. POTTS: It's so peculiar. ALL: We'll wait and see A few days more There may be something there that wasn't there before. (Fade to den where BEAST hangs up BELLE'S cloak then sits down next to her by the roaring fire. She starts to read to him. OBJECTS watch from doorway.) COGSWORTH: Well, perhaps there's something there that wasn't there before. CHIP: What? MRS. POTTS: There may be something there that wasn't there before. CHIP: What's there, momma? MRS. POTTS: Shhh. I'll tell you when you're older. **** THE FOLLOWING SCENE IS ONLY SEEN IN THE SPECIAL EDITION DVD **** ********** (COGSWORTH is standing on the staircase, organising the OBJECTS.) COGSWORTH: Right then, you all know why we're here. We have exactly 12 hours, 37 minutes and 15 seconds to create the most magical, spontaneous, romantic atmosphere known to man or beast. (He laughs) Right. Need I remind you that as the last petal falls from this rose, the spell will never be broken! Very well. You all know your assignments. Half of you to the West Wing, half of you to the East Wing, the rest of you come with me. (The OBJECTS all rush off and leave COGSWORTH alone. FOOTSTOOL, who COGSWORTH has been standing on, suddenly bursts from under him, sending him tumbling down the stairs. COGSWORTH yells as he falls, and lands, losing a cog. LUMIERE, MRS. POTTS and FEATHERDUSTER hop back in and LUMIERE picks up the cog.) LUMIERE: Lighten up, Cogsworth, and let nature take its course. MRS. POTTS: It's obvious there's a spark between them. (LUMIERE starts to polish COGSWORTH'S cog.) COGSWORTH: Yes, but (he snatches the cog from LUMIERE) there's no harm in fanning the flames, you know -- a little. (He replaces the cog.) Besides, they must fall in love tonight if we ever expect to be human again. LUMIERE: Ah ... human again. MRS. POTTS: Human again. LUMIERE: Yes ... think what that means. (He winds COGSWORTH'S minute hand so that it points to the 12. COGSWORTH starts chiming.) I'll be cooking again, Be good-looking again With a mademoiselle on each arm When I'm human again, Only human again Poised and polished and gleaming with charm I'll be courting again, Chic and sporting again MRS. POTTS: Which should cause several husbands alarm LUMIERE: I'll hop down off this shelf, And tout de suite, be myself! ALL: I can't wait to be human again! PERFUME BOTTLE, COMB, POWDER PUFF and BRUSH: When we're human again, Only human again When we're knick-knacks and what-nots no more When we're human again, Good and human again WARDROBE: Ah, cherie, won't it all be top drawer? I'll wear lipstick and rouge, And I won't be so huge Why I'll easily fit through that door! I'll exude savoir faire, I'll wear gowns, I'll have hair! It's my prayer to be human again! (The scene moves outside, where MRS. POTTS and COGSWORTH are standing on a fence. COGSWORTH is wearing a farmer-style hat and holding a pitchfork.) MRS. POTTS and COGSWORTH: When we're human again, Only human again When the world once more starts making sense (A BUCKET and a couple of BRUSHES hop past. COGSWORTH goes to follow them, but the pitchfork gets stuck and COGSWORTH flies into the barn, where LUMIERE is brushing the horse's nose and lands in a bucket of water.) COGSWORTH: I'll unwind for a change. LUMIERE: Really? That'd be strange. (He helps COGSWORTH out) COGSWORTH: Can I help it if I'm t-t-tense? In a shack by the sea I'll sit back sipping tea, (He starts drying himself with a towel) Let my early retirement commence! Far from fools made of wax, (He puts the towel over LUMIERE) I'll get down to brass tacks (Behind him, LUMIERE takes the towel off his head, rolls it up and snaps it on COGSWORTH, who falls back into the water while saying his line.) And relax! ALL: When I'm human again! So sweep the dust from the floor Let's let some light in the room I can feel, I can tell Someone might break the spell Any day now! Shine up the brass on the door Alert the dustbin and broom If it all goes as planned, Our time may be at hand Any day now! DUSTERS: Open the shutters and let in some air MRS. POTTS: Put these here, and put those over there ALL: Sweep up the years, The sadness and tears And throw them away (The BROOMS sweep the dust off the the balcony and it falls on COGSWORTH, who is organising the SHOVELS below. The camera goes through the window to where the MOPS are mopping a great hall.) ALL: We'll be human again, Only human again When the girl finally sets us all free Cheeks a-bloomin' again, We're assumin' again We'll resume our long-lost joie de vivre We'll be playin' again, Holidayin' again And we're prayin' its A.S.A.P. We will push, we will shove, They will both fall in love And we'll finally be human again! (FOOTSTOOL dashes through the room chasing a cushion that was obviously once the castle cat. The BROOMS and MOPS sweep him out of the room and we go to the den, where BELLE and BEAST are seated at a table. BELLE is reading to BEAST.) BELLE: "There never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo." BEAST: Could you read it again? BELLE: Here -- why don't you read it to me? BEAST: Uh ... alright. (He takes the book and tries) I can't. BELLE: You mean you never learned? BEAST: I learned -- a little. It's just been so long. BELLE: Well, here, I'll help you. Let's start here. BEAST: Here. Okay -- "Twoh" -- ? BELLE: "Two." BEAST: "Two." I knew that. "Two households" -- (The camera moves outside the window, where the OBJECTS have moved to the garden and are cleaning up out there while singing.) ALL: We'll be dancing again, We'll be twirling again, We'll be whirling around with such ease When we're human again, Only human again We'll go waltzing those old one-two-threes We'll be floating again, We'll be gliding again, Stepping, striding as fine as you please Like a real human does (LUMIERE turns on a fountain) I'll be all that I was (COGSWORTH turns on a fountain) On that glorious morn when we're finally reborn And we're all of us human again! (WARDROBE bursts out onto the balcony wearing a pink bathing suit and cap. She dives for the pool and all the OBJECTS scatter. WARDROBE lands and the water goes everywhere. Cut to interior of BEAST'S lair. He's in the tub, being washed by COATRACK in preparation for his big night. LUMIERE is there with him.) ********** LUMIERE: Tonight is the night! BEAST: (Hesitantly) I'm not sure I can do this ... LUMIERE: You don't have time to be timid. You must be bold, daring. BEAST: Bold. Daring. (BEAST emerges from the tub and shakes himself dry.) LUMIERE: There will be music. Romantic candlelight ... provided by myself. And when the moment is right, you confess your love. BEAST: (Inspired) Yes, I con -- I -- I -- no, I can't. LUMIERE: You care for the girl, don't you? BEAST: More than anything. LUMIERE: Well then, you must tell her. (COATRACK has been cutting BEAST'S hair. It finishes and steps back.) Voila! Oh, you look so ... so ... (cut to shot of BEAST in pigtails and bows.) BEAST: Stupid. LUMIERE: Not quite the word I was looking for. Perhaps ... a little more off the top. (COATRACK begins to cut and chop again. COGSWORTH enters.) COGSWORTH: (Clears his throat) Your lady awaits. Hoo hoo hoo. (Cut to a view of the grand staircase. BELLE descends from one side wearing a glittering gold ballgown. She reaches the landing and looks up at BEAST, standing on the other side wearing his dress clothes. He is nudged on by LUMIERE from behind the curtain. BEAST clears his throat and descends, meeting BELLE on the landing. He bows, she curtsies and when he offers her his arm, she takes it and they descend the last part of the staircase arm in arm, on their way to dinner, stopped momentarily by FOOTSTOOL. MRS. POTTS sings from her cart, with CHIP on board.) MRS. POTTS: Tale as old as time True as it can be Barely even friends Then somebody bends unexpectedly Just a little change Small to say the least Both a little scared Neither one prepared Beauty and the beast (BELLE and BEAST are dining. COATRACK is now playing the violin for them. BELLE finds she can't sit still any longer and goes over to BEAST, who is eating very nicely with a spoon, and takes his paws. They move into the ballroom, and through a computer-perfect dance sequence. BEAST occasionally looks over at COGSWORTH and LUMIERE for approval once BELLE gets him started. MRS. POTTS and CHIP are in the ballroom on their cart, watching them dance.) MRS. POTTS: Ever just the same Ever a surprise Ever as before, ever just as sure As the sun will rise Tale as old as time Tune as old as song Bittersweet and strange, Finding you can change, learning you were wrong Certain as the sun Rising in the east, Tale as old as time, Song as old as rhyme Beauty and the beast LUMIERE: (To other CANDLES) Shh ... (the CANDLES dim slightly.) MRS. POTTS: Tale as old as time Song as old as rhyme Beauty and the beast. (Spoken, to CHIP) Off to the cupboard with you now, Chip. It's past your bedtime. Good night, love. (CHIP slides off the cart and hops through the door, but comes back for one last look. BELLE and BEAST have adjourned to the balcony, under a starry sky.) BEAST: Belle? Are you ... happy here with me? BELLE: (Slightly hesitant) Yes. (She looks off into the distance.) BEAST: What is it? BELLE: If only I could see my father again. Just for a moment. I miss him so much. BEAST: (Looks disappointed, then excited) There is a way. (The pair adjourn to the BEAST'S lair, where BEAST hands BELLE the MIRROR.) BEAST: This mirror will show you anything. Anything at all you wish to see. BELLE: (Hesitantly) I'd like to see my father ... please. (The MAGIC MIRROR shines and BELLE turns her head away as it flashes. Then it reveals MAURICE fallen in the woods, coughing and lost. BELLE is shocked. BEAST looks at her with concern.) BELLE: Papa. Oh, no. He's sick, he may be dying. And he's all alone. (BEAST turns, then looks at the ROSE, deep in thought.) BEAST: Then ... then you -- you must go to him. BELLE: What did you say? BEAST: I release you. You're no longer my prisoner. BELLE: (Amazed) You mean ... I'm free? BEAST: Yes. BELLE: Oh, thankyou. (To MAGIC MIRROR) Hold on, Papa. I'm on my way. (She turns to leave, then turns back to give the MAGIC MIRROR back to BEAST.) BEAST: Take it with you ... so you'll always have a way to look back ... and remember me. BELLE: Thankyou for understanding how much he needs me. (BELLE turns to leave and BEAST looks down sadly. She touches her hand to his cheek and hurries out. We see her skirt fly past COGSWORTH, just entering.) COGSWORTH: Well, Your Highness, I must say everything is going just swimmingly. I knew you had it in you, ha ha! BEAST: (Sadly) I let her go. COGSWORTH: Ah-ha-ha, yes, yes, splen -- (He stops mid-word. You ... what? How could you ... do that? BEAST: I had to. COGSWORTH: (Still amazed) Well, yes but-but-but ... why? BEAST: Because ... I love her. (Cut to COGSWORTH telling the rest of the OBJECTS about BEAST'S decision.) ALL (except COGSWORTH): He did WHAT?! COGSWORTH: Yes ... I'm afraid it's true. CHIP: She's going away? LUMIERE: But he was so close. MRS. POTTS: After all this time ... he's finally learned to love. LUMIERE: That's it then! That should break the spell! MRS. POTTS: Oh, but it's not enough. She has to love him in return. COGSWORTH: And now it's too late. (Cut to BEAST watching BELLE leave from above. He roars in sorrow and anger. His roar turns into the sound of the wind. BELLE is out in the snow, riding through the forest on PHILLIPE, calling out "Papa?". She eventually finds him, face-down in a snowbank. They return home, where LEFOU is still waiting.) LEFOU: Ooh ... they're back. (Cut to black. Point of view of MAURICE as he opens his eyes and sees BELLE.) MAURICE: Belle? BELLE: Shh ... it's alright, Papa. I'm home. MAURICE: I thought I'd never see you again. (They hug) BELLE: I missed you so much. MAURICE: But the beast. H-how did you escape? BELLE: I didn't escape, Papa, he -- he let me go. MAURICE: That horrible beast? BELLE: But he's different now, Papa. He's ... changed somehow. (There is a sound coming from BELLE'S little pack. The flap opens and the MAGIC MIRROR falls out and CHIP rolls to a stop on it.) CHIP: Hi! BELLE: Oh, a stowaway. MAURICE: Why, hello there, little fella. Y -- didn't think I'd ever see you again. (CHIP turns to BELLE with a questioning look on his face.) CHIP: Belle, why'd you go away? Don't you like us anymore? BELLE: Oh, Chip, of course I do, it's just that -- (There is a knock on the door. BELLE opens it with a smile that disappears when she sees MONSIEUR D'ARQUE standing on the porch.) BELLE: May I help you? D'ARQUE: I've come to collect your father. BELLE: My father? D'ARQUE: Don't worry, mademoiselle. We'll take good care of him. (He steps aside to show the Asylum D'Loons wagon behind him.) BELLE: My father's not crazy. LEFOU: (Emerging from the crowd) He was raving like a lunatic! We all heard him, didn't we? BYSTANDERS: Yeah! BELLE: No, I won't let you! (MAURICE has emerged from the house.) MAURICE: Belle? LEFOU: Maurice! Tell us again, old man -- just how big *was* the beast? MAURICE: Well, he was ... that is ... he was ... enourmous. I'd say at least eight ... no, more like ten feet. (The CROWD laughs at him.) LEFOU: Well, you don't get much crazier than that! (D'ARQUE waves his arms and ORDERLIES move in and pick up MAURICE) LEFOU: Get him outta here! MAURICE: Let go of me! (GASTON has been watching quietly from the sides, standing near D'ARQUE.) BELLE: (To D'ARQUE) No, you can't do this! (D'ARQUE simply shrugs her off and walks away. GASTON emerges from the shadows.) GASTON: Tsk, tsk, tsk. Poor Belle. It's a shame about your father. BELLE: You know he's not crazy, Gaston. GASTON: I might be able to clear up this little misunderstanding -- if ... BELLE: If what? GASTON: If you marry me. BELLE: What? GASTON: One little word, Belle. That's all it takes. BELLE: Never! GASTON: Have it your way. (He turns and walks away slowly, playing hard to get.) MAURICE: (Being thrown into the wagon) Belle? (She turns and runs back into the house.) Let go of me! BELLE: (Comes back out with the MAGIC MIRROR. She yells to the crowd) My father is not crazy and I can prove it! (To MAGIC MIRROR) Show me the beast! (The MAGIC MIRROR again shines and BELLE turns it towards the crowd, showing an image of the still-depressed BEAST. The crowd ooh and aah at it.) WOMAN 1: Is is dangerous? BELLE: (Trying to reassure her) Oh, no, no, he'd never hurt anyone. Please, I know he looks vicious, but he's really kind and gentle. He's my friend. (GASTON takes her shoulders and turns her around.) GASTON: If I didn't know better, I'd think you had feelings for this monster. BELLE: He's no monster, Gaston. You are! GASTON: She's as crazy as the old man! (He grabs the MIRROR from BELLE.) The beast will make off with your children! He'll come after them in the night! BELLE: No! GASTON: We're not safe until his head is mounted on my wall! I say we kill the beast! (The MOB cheer.) MAN 1: We're not safe until he's dead. MAN 2: He'll come stalking us at night! WOMAN 2: Set to sacrifice our children to his monstrous appetite! MAN 3: He'll wreak havoc on our village if we let him wander free! GASTON: So it's time to take some action, boys, It's time to follow me! (GASTON takes a torch and throws it in a haystack, creating an instant bonfire. He starts to prance around it, warning of the dangers of the horrible BEAST.) Through the mist, through the woods, Through the darkness and the shadows, It's a nightmare -- but it's one exciting ride. Say a prayer, then we're there At the drawbridge of a castle And there's something truly terrible inside. (GASTON chases LEFOU around, mimicking a monster.) It's a beast, He's got fangs, razor-sharp ones Massive paws, Killer claws for the feast (MAGIC MIRROR shows the face of BEAST to LEFOU, which GASTON exaggerates about.) Hear him roar, see him foam, But we're not coming home 'till he's dead! Good and dead! Kill the beast! BELLE: (Interjecting) No, I won't let you do this! GASTON: If you're not with us, you're against us. Bring the old man! MAURICE: Get your hands off me! (GASTON throws them both into the basement and bolts the door.) GASTON: We can't have them running off to warn the creature! BELLE: Let us out! GASTON: (To the MOB) We'll rid the village of this beast. Who's with me? (A chorus of "I am!"s come from the CROWD.) MOB: Light your torch, mount your horse, GASTON: Screw your courage to the sticking place MOB: We're counting on Gaston to lead the way! Through a mist, through a wood, Where within a haunted castle, Something's lurking that you don't see every day! (GASTON leads the MOB through the town and out into the forest, where they start chopping down trees in preparation for their assault on the castle.) It's a beast, One as tall as a mountain! We won't rest 'till he's good and deceased! Sally forth, tally ho, Grab your sword, grab your bow, Praise the Lord and here we go! GASTON: We'll lay siege to the castle and bring back his head! (Cut to interior of the basement. BELLE is prying at the window with a stick.) BELLE: I have to warn the beast. This is all my fault. Oh, Papa, what are we going to do? MAURICE: (Comforting her) Now, now. We'll think of something. (We see CHIP looking in through the window. He turns around, thinking and has an idea when he sees MAURICE'S contraption with the axe on the end of it.) MOB: We don't like what we don't understand, In fact, it scares us And this monster is mysterious at least Bring your guns, bring your knives, Save your children and your wives, We'll save our village and our lives ... We'll kill the beast! (The scene changes to show the OBJECTS, back at the castle.) COGSWORTH: I knew it, I knew it was foolish to get our hopes up. LUMIERE: Maybe it would have been better if she'd never come at all. (FOOTSTOOL dashes past them to the window, barking.) LUMIERE: Could it be? MRS. POTTS: Is it she? (They all dash over to the window, expecting the return of BELLE.) LUMIERE: (Realising the MOB that is now crossing the drawbridge is not BELLE) Sacre bleu! Invaders! COGSWORTH: Encroachers! MRS. POTTS: (Seeing GASTON) And they have the mirror! COGSWORTH: (Issuing orders) Warn the master. If it's a fight they want, we'll be ready for them. Who's with me? (He turns from the window to find the other OBJECTS have already gone.) Aahh! GASTON: Take whatever booty you can find, but remember, the beast is mine! (Cut to stairway, where OBJECTS are marching down to do battle with the MOB.) OBJECTS: Hearts ablaze, banners high, We go marching into battle, Unafraid, although the danger's just increased! MOB: Raise the flag, sing the song Here we come, we're fifty strong And fifty Frenchman can't be wrong, Let's kill the beast! (They start their assault on the door) (Cut to interior of BEAST'S lair, where MRS. POTTS is briefing him.) MRS. POTTS: Pardon me, master. BEAST: (Still sad) Leave me in peace. MRS. POTTS: But sir, the castle is under attack! MOB: Kill the beast! Kill the beast! (The OBJECTS have tried to block off the door, but the MOB keep bashing it.) LUMIERE: This isn't working! FEATHERDUSTER: Oh, Lumiere! We must do something! LUMIERE: Wait! I know! MOB: Kill the beast! Kill the beast! (Cut to BEAST'S lair.) MRS. POTTS: What shall we do, master? BEAST: (Still very sad) It doesn't matter now. Just let them come. MOB: Kill the beast! Kill the beast! Kill the beast!! (The MOB succeeds in breaking down the door, and finds a grand entrance filled with assorted pieces of furniture, teacups, candlesticks, featherdusters and clocks. They tiptoe in, and LEFOU unknowingly picks up LUMIERE.) LUMIERE: NOW!! (All the objects spring into life, attacking the human enemies. COATRACK enters a boxing match, a MOP knocks one of the MOB to the floor, two CHESTS of DRAWERS fight one of the MOB, with a drawer coming from each side, a POT falls on one of the MOB'S head, while a PITCHFORK and PAN bang on either side, a CHAIR boxes one of the MOB over, who rolls into a RUG, who rolls him into a CHEST. CHEST licks his lips and burps. GASTON avoids this and breaks away from the MOB.) (Cut back to BELLE'S home, where CHIP has readied the invention.) CHIP: (After blowing on some hot coals) Yes! (He jumps up and pulls a cord which sets the machine in action.) Here we go! (Cut to interior of the basement. BELLE and MAURICE are watching through a crack and see the axe approaching.) MAURICE: What the devil? Belle, look out! (A cloud of red smoke issues from the basement as the machine crashes through. BELLE and MAURICE look out from behind a pile of junk to see CHIP swinging from a cord on the now broken machine.) CHIP: You guys gotta try this thing. (Cut back to the castle, where the fight between OBJECTS and MOB is still in full-swing. BEER STEINS fling tomatoes at one of the MOB. He is about to hit them with his shovel, when he hears a voice from above.) MRS. POTTS: Up here, ya scurvy scum! (When he looks up) Now! (MRS. POTTS and all the CUPS pour boiling tea on his head.) (WARDROBE jumps from the top of the stairs, landing on one of the MOB. Cut to GASTON as he kicks open a door and readies his arrow, looking for BEAST. He doesn't find him and moves on. Back downstairs, WARDROBE is fighting several more of the MOB in her own kung-fu style. A COMB and BRUSH hop out and attack one of the MOB, pulling him into WARDROBE. When he emerges, he's dressed in a bikini top, yellow tu-tu, high heels, gloves and a pearl necklace ... and his hair's done up a la Marge Simpson. Cut to LEFOU, who is almost melting LUMIERE with a torch. COGSWORTH appears at the top of the stairs brandishing a gun and a pair of scissors. He's dressed like an admiral. He sees what's going on and slides down the bannister, poking LEFOU in the backside with the scissors. LEFOU yells. Cut to BELLE and MAURICE riding PHILLIPE back towards the castle. Cut back to the castle, where one of the MOB is pulling feathers out of FEATHERDUSTER and laughing. LUMIERE hops up behind him and flares up his candlesticks, burning the MOB-ster. When he jumps, LUMIERE catches FEATHERDUSTER. Cut to LEFOU and several others chasing FOOTSTOOL. He runs into the kitchen. Thinking they've got him cornered against the cupboards, the MOB laughs and advances, only to find that the KNIVES pop out of the drawers and the STOVE flares up. They run screaming from the castle and the OBJECTS all cheer.) COGSWORTH: And stay out! (LUMIERE takes hold of COGSWORTH and kisses him once on each cheek. COGSWORTH shrugs him off. Cut to GASTON, who opens a door and finds BEAST'S lair. BEAST is just sitting there. GASTON raises his bow and takes aim. BEAST looks up at him, then back down in despair. GASTON releases the arrow and it strikes BEAST in the shoulder. BEAST yells in pain and stands. GASTON rushes him and pushes him out the window onto the balcony, where it has begun to rain.) GASTON: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! (GASTON kicks BEAST off the balcony and he rolls down the roof. GASTON jumps over the railing and follows. After kicking him a few times, GASTON has BEAST cornered on the edge of the roof. BEAST simply sits there, looking depressed.) GASTON: Get up! Get up! What's the matter, Beast? (He laughs, in a very unpleasant way) Too kind and gentle to fight back?? (BEAST looks up at him sadly. GASTON pulls a piece off the roof to use as a club and is about to smash it on BEAST'S head, when BELLE'S voice drifts up. She is on the bridge, calling to GASTON to stop.) BELLE: No! BEAST: (Hearing BELLE'S voice and giving him new life) Belle. BELLE: No! Gaston, don't! (GASTON swings at BEAST, but BEAST catches the weapon before it hits him. BEAST gets up and roars in GASTON'S face. GASTON starts to look frightened.) BELLE: (To PHILLIPE) Let's go, Phillipe. (They ride into the castle.) (On the rooftop, BEAST and GASTON are still fighting, with BEAST pushing GASTON off parts of the roof. BELLE runs up through the castle. GASTON chases BEAST and GASTON smashes one of the gargoyles on the roof, thinking it's BEAST. He looks up and realises BEAST has taken shelter somewhere among the gargoyles.) GASTON: Come on out and fight! Were you in love with her, Beast? Did you honestly think she'd want you when she had someone like me? (This is enough provocation for BEAST, who comes out growling. They fight again, with GASTON swinging several times at BEAST, who tries to bite the end off his club. Again, GASTON gets BEAST cornered. GASTON raises his club.) GASTON: It's over, Beast! Belle is mine! (This time, however, BEAST picks GASTON up by the neck and holds him out over the edge of the roof. GASTON pleads with BEAST.) GASTON: Put me down. Put me down! Please, don't hurt me! I'll do anything! Anything! (BEAST'S anger slowly melts from his face and the look of compassion returns. He pulls GASTON back in.) BEAST: Get out. (He shoves GASTON to the ground.) BELLE: (Coming out onto the balcony above) Beast! BEAST: Belle! (He climbs the tower until he reaches the balcony and hangs over the side.) Belle? You came back! (BELLE smiles at him and he smiles back until the moment is broken by GASTON, who sneaks up and stabs BEAST in the back. BEAST roars in pain, and BELLE is helpless. GASTON pulls his knife out and swings back for another shot, but BEAST starts to fall, knocking GASTON off-balance. BELLE reaches forward and pulls BEAST back, but GASTON falls off and plummets into the moat below, never to be seen again. BELLE helps the injured BEAST back onto the balcony, where he lies down on the ground. The OBJECTS come out, but stay out of sight.) BEAST: You came back. BELLE: Of course I came back. I couldn't let them ... oh, this is all my fault. If only I'd gotten here sooner. BEAST: Maybe it's better this way. BELLE: Don't talk like that. You'll be alright. We're together now, everything's going to be fine -- you'll see. BEAST: At least I got to see you one ... last ... time. (BELLE puts BEAST'S paw to her face. He holds it there for a few seconds, then drops it. His head falls back and his eyes close. BELLE drops the paw and puts her hands to her mouth. She can't believe this has happened.) BELLE: (Crying) No, no! Please! Please! Please, don't leave me. I love you. (Cut to the OBJECTS, who watch the last petal fall from the ROSE. They all look down at the floor and COGSWORTH puts his arm on MRS. POTTS. Cut back to BELLE and BEAST. The rain continues to fall, but one beam of light falls, like a shooting star. Another comes. Then another, and another. BELLE finally notices what's happening. She stops crying for a moment, then starts to back away. A fog begins to enshroud BEAST. We see the OBJECTS looking on in extreme anticipation. BEAST rises up into the air magically and begins to turn. He is enveloped in a cloud of light and becomes wrapped in his cloak. Underneath, we can see BEAST'S body shifting and forming. A fore paw comes out and the claws turn into fingers. A hind paw emerges and develops into a foot. Finally, the wind blows across his face and the fur melts away to reveal the young PRINCE. He gradually descends and is laid out on the floor again. The fog disappears and BELLE reaches out to touch him. She jerks her hand back, however, when the figure begins to move. It stands, then looks at its hands, and turns to face BELLE. It is a human, but with the same blue eyes as BEAST. It is obviously BEAST, transformed. BELLE gives him a mysterious look.) PRINCE: Belle ... it's me! (BELLE continues to look at him skeptically, and runs her fingers through his hair. Finally, she sees his blue eyes and instantly knows that it's him.) BELLE: It is you! (They kiss. A fireworks display explodes around them. The gloom surrounding the castle disappears, revealing a bright blue sky. The castle is transformed, with the gargoyles changing into cherubs. Finally, we return to the balcony, where the ENCHANTED OBJECTS hop out to meet the PRINCE and BELLE. As they do so, one by one, they are turned back to their original human conditions.) PRINCE: Lumiere! Cogsworth! Oh, Mrs. Potts! Look at us! (CHIP comes riding in on FOOTSTOOL.) CHIP: Mama! Mama! (The pair transform back into a boy and a dog.) MRS. POTTS: (Picking up her boy and hugging him) Oh, my goodness! LUMIERE: It is a miracle! (The PRINCE picks up BELLE and swings her around. The ruffles of her skirt wipe to the ballroom, where all are gathered to celebrate. The PRINCE and BELLE dance around the room as the rest of the characters get in their last lines.) LUMIERE: Ah ... l'amour. (He says this, and a maid, obviously the former FEATHERDUSTER, walks by, brushing him on the chin.) Heh heh! (He starts to chase after her, but COGSWORTH stops him.) COGSWORTH: Well, Lumiere, old friend. Shall we let bygones be bygones? LUMIERE: Of course, mon ami. I told you she would break the spell. COGSWORTH: I beg your pardon, old friend, but I believe I told you. LUMIERE: No you didn't. I told you. COGSWORTH: You most certainly did not, you pompous, paraffin-headed pea-brain! LUMIERE: En garde, you, you ... overgrown pocket watch! (He takes off his glove and slaps COGSWORTH in the face with it. They start to fight. Cut to BELLE and the PRINCE who continue to dance around the floor. The camera stops on MRS. POTTS, CHIP and MAURICE, who is beginning to cry.) CHIP: Are they gonna live happily ever after, mama? MRS. POTTS: Of course, my dear. Of course. CHIP: (Looks happy for a moment, then a look of puzzlement crosses his face.) Do I still have to sleep in the cupboard? (MAURICE laughs and MRS. POTTS hugs her child and laughs too. Cut to a camera looking over the entire ballroom with all in the shot, including LUMIERE and COGSWORTH, who are still fighting. It slowly zooms out with BELLE and the PRINCE dancing around the room and fades into the final stained glass window, this one with BELLE and the PRINCE in the centre, surrounded by the others.) CHORUS: Certain as the sun Rising in the east, Tale as old as time, Song as old as rhyme, Beauty and the beast Tale as old as time, Song as old as rhyme, Beauty and the beast! (Fade out into credits. The end.)