- Taka: Mufasa, please forgive me.
- Zazu: You must banish him, sire.
- Mufasa: As long as I'm king, my brother will have a place here.
- Taka: Brother, I'm so...
- Mufasa: But I won't ever say your name again. I can't. I won't.
- Taka: Then call me Scar. So I will never forget what I have done.
- Mufasa: Scar.
- Taka: [He bows and leaves.] Your Majesty.
- Rafiki: Sometimes when the people most like you don't love you, it is a hurt that can cause the greatest pain, and this pain can lead you to hate everything.
- Rafiki: [from trailer] This story begins far beyond the mountains and the shadows. On the other side of the light, a lion was born without a drop of nobility in his blood. A lion who change our lives forever. The earth will shake. Destiny awaits you.
- Taka: It's hot, isn't it?
- Sarabi: [politely but clearly uncomfortable] Yup.
- Taka: I love listening.
- Sarabi: Uh-huh.
- Taka: I'm listening right now.
- Sarabi: To what?
- Taka: What you just said.
- Sarabi: You're the one that's talking.
- Taka: I am?... You smell like a duck.
- Sarabi: What?
- Taka: Flower! A duck flower!
- Sarabi: How do you know about those flowers?
- Taka: Well-I-I inhaled you with my nose. I can smell them.
- Sarabi: That's amazing. Our valley was full of those flowers, thousands of them, as far as the eye could see. It was the most beautiful place, Taka.
- [Mufasa and Rafiki are listening from behind]
- Mufasa: Did he just say she smells like a duck?
- Young Rafiki: And you call me a baboon.
- Mufasa: [He addresses the animals of Milele] I am Mufasa, a stray with no pride, and yet I stand before you, head unbowed. I know you are afraid, but trust me. Nothing will change if we remain isolated to our own tribes without concern for the fate of others. Today, they are here for us lions, but I assure you, as you let them walk among you in search of us now, they are plotting to come for you tomorrow. There is no lion as large as an elephant, as strong as an oxen, as fast as a cheetah, or tall as a giraffe, who can soar and scout as wide and far as the cranes and hawks in the sky. So, can't you see? Every being has a place in the circle of life. My breath is your breath. My fight is your fight! I will not bend to evil, and neither should you! NANTS INGONYAMA BAGITHI!
- Mufasa: [singing] Ever since you appeared, I've been running from something deep inside, and it's worse than I feared, cause I look in your eyes and I can't hide, I push you away.
- Sarabi: Don't push me away
- Mufasa: But the feelings come back, twice as strong, I don't know what to say
- Sarabi: You know just what to say
- Mufasa: But I know that I'm right where I belong
- Sarabi: The way you know just where to be
- Mufasa: I don't know
- Sarabi: The way you move, the way you see
- Mufasa: You see me
- Sarabi: The way you feel, when you're with me
- Mufasa, Sarabi: Beside me
- Sarabi: Don't hide from me anymore. Tell me it's you, I know it's you
- Mufasa: What do I say? Where do I go? How do I know you feel the same?
- Sarabi: Tell me it's you, I know it's you
- Mufasa: Quiet and low, letting it go, letting you know what's in me. Everywhere that I roam
- Mufasa, Sarabi: I remind myself not to overstay
- Mufasa: Everytime I find home
- Mufasa, Sarabi: Somethin' happens to take that home away
- Mufasa: But you've seen what I've seen
- Sarabi: I see you
- Mufasa, Sarabi: As you lead with the strength that shines right through
- Mufasa: You move like a queen, a true queen
- Mufasa, Sarabi: Don't let anything take me away from you
- Sarabi: Tell me it's you, I know it's you
- Mufasa: Say it again, say it again, tell me I'll always be with you
- Sarabi: Tell me it's you, I know it's you
- Mufasa: Say it again, say it again, tell me you're always with me
- Sarabi: The way you know just where to be
- Mufasa: Now I know
- Sarabi: The way you move, the way you see
- Mufasa: I see you
- Sarabi: The love I feel when you're with me
- Mufasa, Sarabi: Beside me, beside me
- Mufasa: Say it again, say it again, say it again. Tell me the world won't interfere
- Sarabi: Say it again, say it again. Tell me the words I wanna hear
- Mufasa, Sarabi: Say it again, say it again. Open your eyes and hear we go, I know it's you, I know it's you
- Obasi: No one can ever know you ran, that you ran for your mother. It never happened, Taka, do you understand?
- Taka: But I didn't know, I was just, I was just scared.
- Obasi: It doesn't matter. We must protect the bloodline.
- Taka: Protect them with a lie? Father, that's deceitful.
- Obasi: Deceit is a tool of a great king. Taka, it's what kings must do.
- Taka: But I'm not a king. I'm just your son.
- [Mufasa and Taka run over to the males who are napping]
- Mufasa: Elephant stampede!
- [All the males wake up and freak out and start to climb up the shade tree except for Obasi who tries to crawl underneath the tree]
- Mufasa: Chigaru jumped like 20 feet!
- Taka: Oh, that's a new record.
- Chigaru: [annoyed] Obasi, they did it again! Your sons are nothing but trouble.
- Obasi: That one is not my son.
- Chigaru: They're heathens, the both of them.
- Obasi: This stray is forbidden to be near the shade tree.
- Taka: Mufasa and I were just playing.
- Obasi: You two will never be brothers. Go back to the females and stay away from my son.
- [Mufasa sadly walks away]
- Obasi: Oh, your mother, she adopts every lizard. Speaks to passing grasshoppers.
- Taka: I want to go with him.
- Obasi: You want to be with the females? You belong with the males.
- Taka: He gets to hunt with mother.
- Obasi: One day, he will betray you. That is what strays do.
- Taka: Mufasa would never betray me.
- Obasi: Hey, hey, this will all be yours, my son. You will be king. So pay attention. Study every move I make.
- [He lays down to nap]
- Taka: Sleeping again?
- Obasi: That is what males do. We protect the pride as we nap. That's, well, that's power.
- Taka: Power?
- Older Mufasa: [James Earl Jones says these lines at the beginning of the film] Look at the stars. Whenever you feel alone, the Great Kings of the Past will always be up there to guide you, and so will I.
- [a title crawl says In Memory of James Earl Jones]
- [deleted scene of Taka dreaming and seeing his father]
- Obasi: Taka, your name means 'spirit' because you are mine. Honor it, my son. Fulfill your destiny.
- [after Mufasa has won the race]
- Eshe: Well done Taka, well done.
- Young Taka: I thought you said you were fast. I had to let you win.
- Mufasa Cub: Well I did just go days with no sleep all right.
- Young Taka: Anyways come on Mufasa, let's get into trouble.
- [They both run off and play]
- [after watching Mufasa and Sarabi fall in love]
- Taka: [singing sadly] You know I love her, my brother There's nothing we keep from each other I saved your life This is how you repay me? What do I do? What does it mean? How do I ever unsee what I've seen? He was my kin, she was my queen Now it's broken forever and- "Tell her it's you, she knows it's you" What did you say to her, what did you do? I'm next in line, she should be mine, ha! Are the ancestors laughing, I- What would they say? Father is gone, not before giving me strength to go on. He never trusted you, did he know You'd betray me so? When you were drowning, I pulled you out I gave you life which you lived in my debt. Now I'm the one drowning, tumbling down, trying to escape what I cannot forget I have a brother no longer, it's over and done. Now all I have is this shame and this rage that I can't out-run.
- Kiros: [singing to Obasi and his pride] You say you're the king But you lie around In the shade, Out of shape Unafraid The moon cuts a path Through the sky By night or by day It doesn't obey And neither do I You took my son I hope you can run 'Cause I'm gonna be The last thing you see Before you go Bye bye There you go Bye bye Climb every tree Across land and sea I make you go Bye bye I make you go Bye bye Everything in my clutches Bye bye Everything the light touches The Circle of Life is a lie A pretty way to say There are predators and prey That circle of vultures up high They keep stealing glances They don't like your chances And neither do I I run my pride You run and hide 'Cause I'm gonna be The last thing you see Before you go Bye bye There you go Bye bye Climb every tree Across land and sea Until you go Bye bye Will you go Bye bye Bye bye For vengeance is mine If I'm the last of my line I must be strong
- Amara, Akua: Like a dream that just doesn't Let up, let up And you scream 'cause you cannot Get up, get up
- Kiros: Bye bye
- Kiros, Amara, Akua: Bye bye
- Kiros: I make you go
- Kiros, Amara, Akua: Bye bye
- Amara, Akua: So long
- Kiros: Bye bye
- Mufasa: [He whispers to Young Rafiki about Taka.] Did he just say she smells like a duck?
- Young Rafiki: And you're calling ME a baboon.
- [Mufasa's parents begin to sing]
- Ensemble: Sekuseduzani, empumalanga, Entshonalanga, sala ngoxolo
- Afia: Beyond the horizon, Beyond the last cloud in the sky, There's a place I know
- Ensemble: Siqhubek'ekhaya s'ofika
- Afia: Imagine a kingdom
- [Ngothando, Ngothando]
- Afia: The water flows, The grass is high
- [S'ofika]
- Afia: It's not a dream
- [Ngothando]
- Afia: Someday, we'll go, We call it
- [Tunaita]
- Afia: Milele
- [Milele]
- Afia: It's always there
- [Daimaiko]
- Afia: Milele
- [Milele]
- Afia: It lives in you, It lives in me
- [Sekuseduzani]
- Afia: You'll see
- [Milele]
- Masego: Life
- Afia: The Circle of Life is not small
- Masego: Great and small
- Afia: We know that
- Afia, Masego: There's enough for all, There is always more
- Afia: Can you feel it?
- Masego: Can you feel it? We're...
- Afia: We'll wander no longer
- Masego: On your side
- Afia: We carry ancestors inside
- Masego: Like a constant tide
- [S'ofika]
- Afia: It's not a dream
- Masego: On an endless shore
- [Ngothando]
- Afia: Can you see it? And as you grow
- Masego: Can you see it?
- Afia: Can you find your way?
- Masego: We call it
- [Sekuseduzani]
- Afia, Masego: Milele
- [Sekuseduzani, Milele]
- Afia, Masego: It's always there
- [Sekuseduzani, Daimaiko]
- Afia, Masego: Milele
- [Empumalanga, sala ngoxolo]
- Afia, Masego: We call it
- [Sekuseduzani, daimaiko]
- Afia, Masego: Milele
- [Empumalanga, sala ngoxolo]
- Afia, Masego: It's always there
- [Sekuseduzani, daimaiko]
- Afia, Masego: Milele
- [Empumalanga, sala ngoxolo]
- Afia, Masego: It lives in you, It lives in me
- [Ngoxolo]
- Afia, Masego: We're free
- Afia: Milele
- Ensemble: Milele
- Mufasa: Every being has a place in the Circle of Life. My breath is your breath. Your fight is my fight. I will not bend to evil, and neither should you!
- Taka: [whispering] Mufasa!
- [louder]
- Taka: Mufasa! You have to help me.
- Mufasa: Help you how?
- Taka: [ecstatically] It's Sarabi, Mufasa! She is the light my mother spoke of.
- Mufasa: What?
- Taka: She's special. The most amazing female I've ever met in my life. I don't know what to say to her. You spent your life with females. Please... tell me what to say.
- Mufasa: Just talk to her. Be yourself.
- Taka: No, Mufasa. You don't understand. Myself isn't good enough. You... just know things
- Mufasa: Fine. Fine. Keep it simple. Ask her a question.
- Taka: Right. A question. This... This is good.
- Mufasa: Yeah. Try to be.. confident. Disinterested.
- Taka: But I'm very interested.
- Mufasa: Tell her... about the flowers.
- Taka: What flowers?
- Mufasa: The valley she comes from. There's flowers everywhere. They're called duck flowers. Long stems. It's absolutely beautiful.
- Taka: How do you know that?
- Mufasa: When she passes, I can smell them on her fur.
- Taka: Okay. Flowers. Disinterested. Flowers and disinterested.
- Mufasa: And here's the most important thing, okay?
- Taka: [whispering] Flowers and disinterested.
- Mufasa: Listen when she speaks.
- Taka: [not paying attention] Flowers and disinterested.
- Mufasa: Males have trouble with that one.
- Taka: Flowers... Sorry. What did you say?
- Mufasa: Really?
- Taka: [giddily] I heard you brother.
- [He walks ahead of him]
- Taka: I'm gonna make you proud.
- [Mufasa is trying to intimidate the fearless Rafiki]
- Mufasa: You can try to run, but I'm afraid you won't get very far.
- Young Rafiki: And why would I run from you?
- Taka: Because we're lions. As in... LION.
- [Rafiki completely ignores him]
- Young Rafiki: A flea can trouble a lion more than a lion can trouble a flea.
- Taka: I don't think you understand what's about to happen. There's no place for you to go.
- Young Rafiki: I am going forward.
- Taka: I seriously doubt that.
- Young Rafiki: Is easy to doubt everything when you know nothing.
- Sarabi: [getting impatient] Can we get on with this, please?
- Young Rafiki: If you take my life, you will never find Milele.
- Mufasa: Wait, did you say Milele?
- Young Rafiki: That is where I am going. Toward the light. I've been there many times in my dreams. My brother waits for me there. I've seen the tree, can picture it. The two of us together again.
- Sarabi: And why would anyone trust a baboon's dream?
- Young Rafiki: Sometimes a dream is all you have. The only truth that lives in you, like the memory of a great king.
- Sarabi: How did you know?
- Mufasa: Okay, help us get to Milele and we will let you live. Do we have a deal?
- Young Rafiki: No.
- Mufasa: [confused] What? Why?
- Young Rafiki: Rafiki will let you live.
- Taka: I've had enough of this.
- [He lunges at Rafiki]
- Mufasa: Taka, do not eat!
- Taka: Wonderful. Another misfit stray we're not supposed to eat.
- Sarabi: So you expect us to follow this baboon to a place nobody has ever seen? Ha, I'll be better off alone.
- Young Rafiki: Hey, dumbassan. A single stick may smoke, but it will never burn.
- Zazu: Okay, now that there's five of us, why don't we all go around and say a fun fact about ourselves? I'll go first. I once had a crush on a flamingo. I've never said that out loud. And they're walking away. Yeah, places to go, kingdoms to see.
- [they start to sing]
- Rafiki: If you wanna go fast, go alone, There's the road, Off you go, But if you wanna go far, We go together, So good, so far, We go together
- Zazu: Your father left you in my care, And now, we're running who-knows-where, Sometimes, you need a bird's-eye view
- Zazu, Sarabi: And I've got you to see me through, By land, by air
- Rafiki: If you wanna go fast, go alone
- Sarabi: Day and night
- Rafiki: There's the road
- Sarabi: I just might
- Rafiki: Off you go
- Sarabi: Yeah, all right
- Rafiki, Zazu, Sarabi: If you wanna go far, We go together, So good, so far, We go together
- Mufasa: I will find my family again, I will walk with you until then, I will walk with you 'til the end, It's much easier with a friend
- Zazu: Yoo-hoo
- Mufasa, Sarabi: I will find my family again
- Zazu: Bird's eye view
- Mufasa, Sarabi: I will walk with you until then
- Zazu: Me and you
- Mufasa, Sarabi: I will walk with you 'til the end
- Zazu: Flying through
- Mufasa, Sarabi: It's much easier with a friend
- Taka: Like clouds and rain, Like a meal in a field of grain, Like the flecks of gold in your mane, Sarabi, You and me, We go together
- Zazu: Yoo-hoo
- Taka: Like clouds and rain
- Mufasa, Sarabi: We will find our family again
- Zazu: Bird's eye view
- Taka: Like a meal in a field of green
- Mufasa, Sarabi: We will walk together 'til then
- Zazu: Me and you
- Taka: Like the flecks of gold in your mane
- Mufasa, Sarabi: We will find our way to the end
- Zazu: Flying through
- Taka: Sarabi
- Mufasa, Sarabi: It's much easier with a friend
- Taka: You and me, We go together
- Rafiki: My brother waits for me to find him
- Zazu: Yoo-hoo
- Taka: Like the sea and skies
- Mufasa, Sarabi: We will find our family again
- Rafiki: My brother knows I'm right behind him
- Zazu: Bird's eye view
- Taka: Like the bird that sings at sunrise
- Mufasa, Sarabi: We will walk together 'til then
- Young Rafiki: My brother tends to lose his way and go astray
- Zazu: Me and you
- Taka: Like the flecks of gold in your eyes
- Mufasa, Sarabi: We will find our way to the end
- Young Rafiki: Say, if you see my brother, please remind him
- Zazu: Flying through
- Taka: Sarabi
- Mufasa, Sarabi: It's much easier with a friend
- Taka: You and I, We go together
- Young Rafiki: What?
- Taka, Mufasa, Young Rafiki, Sarabi, Zazu: It's much easier with a friend
- Young Rafiki: Again!
- Taka, Mufasa, Young Rafiki, Sarabi, Zazu: It's much easier, We won't go alone, Here we go, Down the road, 'Cause we're gonna go far, We go together, So good, so far, We go together
- Young Rafiki: Whoo-hoo-hoo!
- Young Taka: When I am king, No other animals will break my stride, Break my stride, And my brother
- Mufasa Cub: My brother
- Young Taka: When I'm king, You'll always take my side
- Mufasa Cub: Ha! Yeah, right
- Young Taka: That's right, When I am king
- Mufasa Cub: When you are king
- Young Taka: No other animal will break our pride, Break our pride, And my brother
- Mufasa Cub: My brother
- Young Taka: Our prey may run away, But they can't hide
- Mufasa Cub: Watch your hide
- Young Taka: Let's go, Let's go
- Young Taka, Mufasa Cub: Let's go!
- Choir: Hey, Did your mama say, You could be up this late?
- Young Taka: Okay, She didn't say, Either way
- Young Taka, Mufasa Cub: Hide away, Let's go!
- Choir: Hey, Did your father say, You could be out this far?
- Young Taka: Okay, We're on our way
- Young Taka, Mufasa Cub: On our way, Run away, let's go!
- Choir: Hey, Did your mama say, You could be up this late?
- Young Taka: You're really sharp
- Young Taka, Mufasa Cub: Yes, you are, Yes, you are, Let's go!
- Choir: Hey, Did your father say, You could be out this far?
- Young Taka: Make a wish on the brightest star, And I say, I always a brother, I always wanted a brother, I always wanted a brother, Just like you
- Young Taka, Mufasa Cub: And I always wanted a brother, I always wanted a brother, I always wanted a brother, Just like you
- Mufasa Cub: See that tree? Those birds are watching the world unfold
- Young Taka: The world unfold, Oh, brother
- Mufasa Cub: My brother
- Young Taka: When I'm king, They will do as they're told
- Mufasa Cub: You may look down on them, They are free
- Young Taka: You can't catch me
- Mufasa Cub: And where they go, Cannot be controlled
- Young Taka: No one looks down on me
- Mufasa Cub: No one looks down on us, brother
- Young Taka: Ha!
- Mufasa Cub: Some things you chase, But you cannot hold
- Young Taka: Okay, It's getting old, Let's go
- Young Taka, Mufasa Cub: Let's go!
- Choir: Hey, Did your mama say, That you could learn this way?
- Young Taka: I've got to, Find a way
- Mufasa Cub: Find our prey
- Young Taka: Fine, I'll wait
- Young Taka, Mufasa Cub: Let's go!
- Choir: Hey
- Chigaru: I heard his father say, He doesn't want this stray
- Choir: Ooh
- Young Taka: I dare you to say that again, To my face, What did you 'bout my brother? That's not a stray, That's my brother, You stay away from my brother, 'Cause I say so
- Young Taka, Choir: If you put your paws on my brother, You'll meet the jaws of his brother
- Young Taka: Those are the laws for my brother, Where'd he go?
- Mufasa Cub: I always wanted a brother, I still remember my mother, One season after another
- Choir: One season after another, One season after another
- Taka: Everyone sing for my brother, Do anything for my brother, Soon, I'll be came with my brother, By my side
- Mufasa: I always wanted a brother
- Mufasa, Taka: Now, we rely on each other, One season after another
- Taka: Hey, Mufasa
- Mufasa: Yes, Taka?
- Taka: I'll race you to the other side
- Mufasa: Race you to the other side
- Mufasa, Taka: Race you to the other side
- [deleted scene]
- Young Rafiki: A giraffe with two tongues chokes on a single leaf.
- Mufasa: What's that supposed to mean?
- Young Rafiki: You tell me.
- Mufasa: I'm the giraffe.
- Young Rafiki: No. You are the camel.
- Mufasa: The camel?
- Young Rafiki: The camel does not see his own hump.
- Mufasa: If I had a hump, I would see it but I don't so... not a camel
- Young Rafiki: Then why did you lie to Sarabi?
- Mufasa: I made a promise to take care of my brother, to save my pride I...
- Young Rafiki: Oh Mufasa, no matter how far you walk destiny will follow.
- [deleted scene]
- Taka: We can't keep going this way. There's certainly another way around, there has to be.
- Mufasa: If we go over the peaks we can use the snowfall to cover our tracks if there is a Milele...
- Taka: All this talk about Milele. What if it isn't there?
- Mufasa: A place across the deepest canyon on the other side of the mountain beyond the horizon itself, remember? Our mother spoke those words. Have faith in her.
- [Taka encounters the outsiders on the mountain]
- Kiros: There wasn't much to eat on this mountain until now. Tell me, how did you cover your tracks in the snow?
- Taka: A bird helped us.
- Amara: Lion getting help from a bird?
- Taka: Just as I will help you.
- Akua: You will help us?
- Kiros: You think we need help from a wounded coward?
- Taka: I may hold the blood of a king, but it was Mufasa who killed your son. It was Mufasa who trapped you up here, outsmarted you at every turn. But now I will lead you to him and to Milele.
- Kiros: Milele! Milele there's nothing but a dream, a vision sold to cubs.
- Taka: Ah. Well, tell that to the monkey. He leads them to it. Look at you. A pack of starving wolves clinging to the side of a mountain. No tracks to follow. Only one chance at revenge.
- Kiros: Revenge... What about your father?
- Taka: Because of Mufasa, I have no father. He did this.
- Kiros: Yes. You lost a father, and I, a son. Taka, will you join us? Together, we can both have our revenge.
- Taka: It will be my pleasure... King.
- [he devotes his loyalty to Kiros]
- [Azibo reports back to Kiros]
- Kiros: Where is my son?
- Azibo: There was a young lion, Majesty. He fought Shaju.
- Kiros: And yet you came back. You survived.
- Azibo: I was badly hurt. I promise, Majesty. This is the truth.
- Kiros: The truth?
- Azibo: Yes, the truth.
- Kiros: [scoffs] The truth is standing behind you.
- Amara: There were others, Majesty.
- Azibo: No, no, no.
- Akua: But only one left blood on his mane.
- Amara: Which means he left Shaju to die.
- Akua: Saved himself.
- Kiros: This young lion, was he their king?
- Akua: His blood is kind. Ordinary.
- Kiros: [in an angry tone] Answer me! Was he their king?
- Amara: No, Kiros, you are the only king.
- Kiros: An ordinary lion? And you left my son to die?
- Azibo: [stuttering] I was injured. There was no choice. Please, Majesty. You have to believe me.
- Kiros: There's no reason to fear me. I would never harm one of my own.
- Azibo: Thank you, Majesty.
- Kiros: I'll leave that pleasure... to them.
- [the outsiders surround a terrified Azibo as they prepare to kill him]
- Azibo: Majesty! No. Kiros! Kiros!
- [Azibo comes back to report to Kiros]
- Kiros: Where is my son?
- Azibo: There was a young lion, Majesty. He fought Shaju.
- Kiros: And yet you came back. You survived.
- Azibo: I was badly hurt. I promise, Majesty. This is the truth.
- Kiros: The truth?
- Azibo: Yes, the truth.
- Kiros: [scoffs] The truth is standing behind you.
- Amara: There were others, Majesty.
- Azibo: No, no, no.
- Akua: But only one left blood on his mane.
- Amara: Which means he left Shaju to die.
- Akua: Saved himself.
- Kiros: This young lion, was he their king?
- Akua: His blood is common. Ordinary.
- Kiros: [in an angry tone] Answer me! Was he their king?
- Amara: No, Kiros, you are the only king.
- Kiros: An ordinary lion? And you left my son to die?
- Azibo: [stuttering] I was injured. There was no choice. Please, Majesty. You have to believe me.
- Kiros: There's no reason to fear me. I would never harm one of my own.
- Azibo: Thank you, Majesty.
- Kiros: I'll leave that pleasure... to them.
- [the outsiders surround Azibo as they prepare to kill him]
- Azibo: Majesty! No. Kiros! Kiros!
- [Taka encounters Kiros and the other Outsiders on the mountain]
- Kiros: There wasn't much to eat on this mountain until now. Tell me, how did you cover your tracks in the snow?
- Taka: A bird helped us.
- Amara: Lion getting help from a bird?
- Taka: Just as I will help you.
- Akua: You will help us?
- Kiros: You think we need help from a wounded coward?
- Taka: I may hold the blood of a king, but it was Mufasa who killed your son. It was Mufasa who trapped you up here, outsmarted you at every turn. Now I will lead you to him and to Milele.
- Kiros: Milele! Milele is nothing but a dream, a vision sold to cubs.
- Taka: Ah. Well, tell that to the monkey. He leads them to it. Look at you. A pack of starving wolves clinging to the side of a mountain. No tracks to follow. Only one chance at revenge.
- Kiros: Revenge... What about your father?
- Taka: Because of Mufasa I have no father. He did this.
- Kiros: Yes. You lost a father, and I, a son. Taka, will you join us? Together, we can both have our revenge.
- Taka: It will be my pleasure... King.
- [he devotes his loyalty to Kiros]
- Junia: Rafiki... .
- Inaki: Order! We will have order in the congress of baboons
- Zala: Tonight, a cheetah came into our trees for the third night in a row.
- Inaki: Almost took one of our own!
- Baboon elder: It was Rafiki's fault! He summoned the beast with his dreams.
- Zala: Rafiki and his visions must be banished once and for all!
- Junia: Rafiki tried to warn you!
- Inaki: His dreams conjure our enemies. He talks to the spirits, summons the devil!
- Junia: What are you talking about?
- Baboon elder: He's done it before. His brother was chased from these very trees, never to be seen again.
- Junia: Rafiki was just a child!
- Inaki: A child born with a leg that does not work. Yet somehow, he survived?
- Junia: It was Rafiki who found water in the dry season. Who healed you, Inaki, when you were sick.
- Zala: He speaks to the insects, converses with the moon!
- Junia: Zala, you know what will happen if you send him down from the trees.
- Inaki: He is amelaaniwa, a curse to us all!
- Junia: That's not true!
- Baboon elder: He doesn't belong here. All in favor of banishment, cover one eye.
- [One by one, all the baboons cover one of their eyes]
- Baboons: How can you trust him? I don't trust him, and I don't trust his magic! He doesn't belong here! He's not a baboon, and he never will be! He's not one of us!
- Young Rafiki: [he touches Junia's shoulder] And so, it is time.
- Junia: No. Wait! Where will you go?
- Young Rafiki: Where I should have gone long ago, to find all that was lost. My family.
- Junia: You can't survive on your own.
- Young Rafiki: Nobody can.
- [a firefly flies toward Junia and him]
- Young Rafiki: and yet
- [a tear slips out of Junia's eye and he wipes it away]
- Young Rafiki: here we are.
- [He tips up her chin so that they are meeting each other's eyes. He cups her hands, and the firefly lands in them]
- Junia: Oh, Rafiki... .
- Young Rafiki: The eye never forgets with the heart has seen.
- [Junia tries to follow him but the other baboons hold her back]
- Young Rafiki: It's all right.
- Afia: Mufasa. Mufasa! Come see!
- Mufasa Cub: Mom, what is that light way out there?
- Afia: Oh, that's very special. Beyond the horizon, beyond the last cloud in the sky, that's a place we call Milele.
- Mufasa Cub: Milele?
- Afia: Mm. It means forever.
- Masego: Imagine. A kingdom full of life, water and food, grass and sky as far as the eye can see.
- Mufasa Cub: Will we ever go there?
- Afia: Oh, yes, Mufasa. That's exactly where we're headed. But we can also be there right now. We can close our eyes, let our dreams take us.
- Obasi: Eshe. What has happened? Are you hurt?
- Eshe: [hoarsely] They were huge, white as ghosts. Like nothing I've seen before. Obasi had Mufasa not been there, I...
- [She looks over to see Taka standing nearby he hunches his shoulders with an ashamed expression]
- Eshe: Taka...
- Obasi: I owe you a great debt, Mufasa.
- Mufasa: We need to prepare. They're downwind... less than a day away.
- Obasi: No. You couldn't possibly know this.
- Mufasa: Send a scout, and you'll see! They'll be coming for us.
- Obasi: Chigaru.
- [Chigaru runs off]
- Taka: Father, please. Let me explain.
- Obasi: Not here. Not now.
- Eshe: Taka, come.
- [Chigaru returns to report back to Obasi]
- Chigaru: Obasi!
- Obasi: Chigaru, I'm here! What did you see?
- Chigaru: They're coming this way, Obasi! Two lions for every one of ours, each one bigger than the next but none as mighty as Kiros, their terrifying king.
- Obasi: Outsiders. The stories were all true. I must protect the bloodline, Eshe. The future of this pride. Taka, you are that future.
- Taka: Future? Dad, what do you mean?
- Obasi: I'm sending you away. Far from here. You will leave and start a new life, a new beginning. I need you to go with him, Mufasa... to pledge your loyalty.
- Chigaru: They'll arrive with the sunrise.
- Mufasa: Where will we go, Eshe? Without you, I have no home.
- Eshe: Mufasa, you and Taka together, that... that is home.
- Mufasa: Eshe...
- Eshe: Mufasa, look out there. Beyond the light, you know what I see? I see the place your mother told you about, a place beyond the river's end, across the deepest canyon, on the other side of the mountains, a place beyond the horizon itself. A pride land so green, so... perfect... that to see it is to see...
- Mufasa: Milele.
- Eshe: Yes. Forever.
- Mufasa: My parents spoke of Milele often. My mother told me it was where we were going.
- Eshe: And don't you see, Mufasa? You must keep going. You must continue your journey toward the light.
- Mufasa: Please, Eshe. I can't lose you.
- Eshe: You have my love always, Mufasa. But your family is still out there... waiting for you. I can feel their presence... and I know you can too. Go. Go, Mufasa. Find your way home.
- Taka: Mother? Please forgive me. I beg you.
- Eshe: There's no need, my love. Taka, your moment of courage will come.
- [She knows him]
- Eshe: Now, both of you, go. Go and find your place in the Circle of Life.
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