- Adult Simba: I know what I have to do, but going back means I'll have to face my past. I've been running from it for so long.
- [Rafiki hits Simba on the head with his stick]
- Adult Simba: Ow! Jeez! What was that for?
- Rafiki: It doesn't matter. It's in the past.
- [laughs]
- Adult Simba: Yeah, but it still hurts.
- Rafiki: Oh yes, the past can hurt. But from the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.
- [swings his stick again at Simba, who ducks out of the way]
- Rafiki: Ha. You see? So what are you going to do?
- Adult Simba: First, I'm gonna take your stick.
- [Simba snatches Rafiki's stick and throws it and Rafiki runs to grab it]
- Rafiki: No, no, no, no! Not the stick! Hey! Where are you going?
- Adult Simba: I'm going back!
- Rafiki: Good! Go on! Get out of here!
- [Rafiki begins laughing and screeching loudly]
- Pumbaa: Timon?
- Timon: Yeah?
- Pumbaa: Ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there?
- Timon: Pumbaa, I don't wonder, I know.
- Pumbaa: Oh. What are they?
- Timon: They're fireflies. Fireflies that got stuck up on that big bluish-black thing.
- Pumbaa: Oh, gee. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.
- Timon: Pumbaa, with you, everything's gas.
- Mufasa: Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
- Young Simba: But, Dad, don't we eat the antelope?
- Mufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- Rafiki: Look down there.
- [Slowly Simba walks to the edge of the watering hole and peers inside. His reflection stares back at him]
- Adult Simba: That's not my father. That's just my reflection.
- Rafiki: No. Look harder.
- [Rafiki touches the water which causes waves that change Simba's reflection into Mufasa]
- Rafiki: You see? He lives in you.
- Mufasa's Ghost: [From above] Simba.
- Adult Simba: Father?
- Mufasa's Ghost: [He appears in the sky as a group of stars] Simba, you have forgotten me.
- Adult Simba: No. How could I?
- Mufasa's Ghost: You have forgotten who you are, and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the circle of life.
- Adult Simba: How can I go back? I'm not who I used to be.
- Mufasa's Ghost: [Now fully formed in the sky] Remember who you are. You are my son and the one true king. Remember who you are.
- Adult Simba: [Mufasa's ghost begins to disappear] No! Please, don't leave me!
- Mufasa's Ghost: Remember.
- Adult Simba: Father!
- Mufasa's Ghost: Remember!
- Adult Simba: Don't leave me.
- Mufasa's Ghost: Remember.
- Rafiki: Asante sana Squash banana, Wiwi nugu Mi mi apana.
- Adult Simba: Come on, will you cut it out?
- Rafiki: Can't cut it out. It will grow right back. Hehehe.
- Adult Simba: Creepy little monkey. Would you stop following me! Who are you?
- Rafiki: The question is, who... are you?
- Adult Simba: [sighs] I thought I knew, but now I'm not so sure.
- Rafiki: Well, I know who you are! Shh. Come here, it's a secret.
- [Whispers, then grows louder]
- Rafiki: Asante sana Squash banana, Wiwi nugu Mi mi apana!
- Adult Simba: Enough already! What's that supposed to mean, anyway?
- Rafiki: It means you're a baboon... and I'm not.
- Adult Simba: I think you're a little confused.
- Rafiki: Wrong! I'm not the one who's confused. You don't even know who you are!
- Adult Simba: Oh, and I suppose you know?
- Rafiki: Sure do. You're Mufasa's boy!
- [Simba turns around to look at him, shocked]
- Rafiki: Bye!
- Young Simba: Hey, Uncle Scar! Guess what?
- Scar: I despise guessing games.
- Young Simba: I'm gonna be King of Pride Rock.
- Scar: Oh, goody!
- Young Simba: My dad just showed me the whole kingdom, and I'm gonna rule it all!
- [laughs]
- Scar: Yes. Well, forgive me for not leaping for joy. Bad back, you know.
- [flops on his side]
- Young Simba: Hey, Uncle Scar. When I'm king, what'll that make you?
- Scar: A monkey's uncle.
- Young Simba: [laughs] You're so weird.
- Scar: You have no idea.
- Young Simba: Hakuna Matata?
- Pumbaa: Yeah. It's our motto.
- Timon: What's a motto?
- Timon: Nothing. What's a motto with you?
- [laughs]
- Young Simba: Dad?
- Mufasa: Hmm?
- Young Simba: We're pals, right?
- Mufasa: Right.
- Young Simba: And we'll always be together, right?
- Mufasa: Simba, let me tell you something my father told me. Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.
- Young Simba: Really?
- Mufasa: Yes. So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you. And so will I.
- Zazu: [singing] Nobody knows the trouble I've seen. / Nobody knows my sorrow.
- Scar: Oh, Zazu, do lighten up. Sing something with a little bounce in it.
- Zazu: [singing] It's a small world after all
- Scar: No, no! Anything but that!
- Zazu: [singing] I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts. / Dee-dee-dee-dee, / There they a-standing in a row.
- Zazu, Scar: [Scar joins in] Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head
- Zazu: [whispering] I would never have had to do this with Mufasa.
- Zazu: Checking in with the morning report.
- Mufasa: Fire away.
- Zazu: Well the buzz from the bees is that the leopards are in a bit of a spot. And the baboons are going ape over this. Of course, the giraffes are acting like they're above it all... The tick birds are pecking on the elephants. I told the elephants to forget it, but they can't. The cheetahs are hard up, but I always say, cheetahs never prosper...
- Banzai: [In the hyenas' lair, Banzai slouches with claw marks on his rear] Man, that lousy Mufasa... I won't be able to sit for a *week!*
- Ed the Hyena: [laughs, but also tries his best to conceal it from time to time] Eh-hee-hee-hee. Heh-heheheheheheheheheh...
- Banzai: [Glares at Ed and bares his teeth with impatience] It's not funny, Ed.
- Ed the Hyena: [Cups his paws over his mouth then bursts into hysterical laughter, spitting as his tongue lofts out of his mouth] BA-HA-HA-HAAAA! HA-AH-AH-AH-AH!
- [Inhales deeply]
- Banzai: Hey, shut up!
- Ed the Hyena: AH-HA-HO! HO-HO-HO-HO!
- Banzai: [Bares his teeth] Grrrrrr...
- [as Ed continues to laugh, Banzai barks and pounces on Ed, abruptly ending his laughing. The two commence a brief fight]
- Shenzi: [Rolls her eyes and turns to the two yelping and rolling atop each other aggressively] Will you knock it off?
- Banzai: [ed appears to be chewing on Banzai's leg; Banzai sits up] Well, he started it!
- [It is now obvious that Ed is chewing his own leg repeatedly]
- Shenzi: Look at you guys! No wonder we're dangling at the bottom of the food chain!
- Banzai: [a string of drool dangles from his chin] Man, I hate dangling...
- Shenzi: [Scoffs] Yeah? You know, if it weren't for those lions, we'd be *runnin'* the joint.
- [Ed nods idiotically]
- Banzai: Man, I *hate* lions!
- Shenzi: [Grumbles] So pushy...
- Banzai: And hairy...
- Shenzi: [Smiles] Stinky...
- Banzai: [Grins] And man are they...
- Banzai, Shenzi: [Elongated use of the 'u'] U-GLY!
- [both laugh hysterically]
- Scar: [after forcing Simba to the edge of a cliff while a fire burns below] Now this looks familiar. Where have I seen this before? Hm, let me think. Oh, yes, I remember! This is just the way your father looked before he died.
- [He claws Simba's paws the same way he did to Mufasa]
- Scar: And here's 'my' little secret...
- [whispering]
- Scar: I killed Mufasa!
- Young Simba: [In a flashback] Nooooo!
- Adult Simba: [leaps back up and pounces on him] Nooo! Murderer!
- [Timon and Zazu are cornered by hyenas]
- Timon: Please don't eat me.
- Pumbaa: Drop 'em!
- Banzai: Hey, who's the pig?
- Pumbaa: Are you talkin' to me?
- Timon: Uh-oh. He called him a pig.
- Pumbaa: Are you talkin' to me?
- Timon: Shouldn't have done that.
- Pumbaa: Are you talkin' to me?
- Timon: Now they're in for it.
- Pumbaa: They call me Mr. Pig!
- [screams as he charges towards the hyenas]
- Mufasa: Don't turn your back on me, Scar.
- Scar: Oh, no, Mufasa. Perhaps you shouldn't turn your back on me.
- Mufasa: [growls, runs to stand before him] Is that a challenge?
- Scar: Temper, temper. I wouldn't dream of challenging you.
- Zazu: Pity. Why not?
- Scar: Well, as far as brains go, I got the lion's share. But, when it comes to brute strength, I'm afraid I'm at the shallow end of the gene pool.
- Zazu: Well, as slippery as your mind is, as the King's brother *you* should've been first in line.
- Scar: [Scar threatens to bite, Zazu retreats toward Mufasa] Well, I was first in line, until the little hairball was born.
- Mufasa: That hairball is my son. And *your* future king.
- Scar: Oh, I shall have to practice my curtsy.
- Adult Simba: Man, I'm stuffed.
- Pumbaa: Me, too. I ate like a pig.
- Adult Simba: Pumbaa, you *are* a pig.
- Scar: [bellowing] Sarabiiiii!
- [echoes and reechoes; we soon see Sarabi walking through the pack of hyenas, trying to snap at her; Simba looks on as Sarabi approaches]
- Sarabi: Yes, Scar?
- Scar: Where is your hunting party? They're not doing their job.
- Sarabi: Scar, there is no food. The herds have moved on.
- Scar: No! You're just not looking hard enough.
- Sarabi: It's over. There is nothing left. We have only one choice. We *must* leave Pride Rock.
- Scar: We're not going anywhere!
- Sarabi: Then you have sentenced us to death!
- Scar: Then so be it!
- Sarabi: You can't do that!
- Scar: I'm the king! I can do whatever I want!
- Sarabi: If you were half the king Mufasa was, you...
- Scar: [knocks Sarabi unconscious] I'm *ten* times the king Mufasa was!
- [Lightning flashes and illuminates a snarling Simba]
- Scar: Mufasa! No! You're dead!
- Zazu: [about Scar] There's one in every family, sire. Two in mine, actually, and they always manage to ruin special occasions.
- Mufasa: What am I going to do with him?
- Zazu: He'd make a very handsome throw rug.
- Mufasa: [Surprised] Zazu!
- Zazu: And just think, whenever he gets dirty, you can take him out and beat him.
- Adult Simba: Listen, you think you can just show up and tell me how to live my life? You don't even know what I've been through!
- Nala: I would if you just tell me!
- Adult Simba: Forget it!
- Nala: Fine!
- Scar: Mufasa's death was a terrible tragedy. But to lose Simba, who had barely begun to live... For me, it is a deep, personal loss. So it is with a heavy heart that I assume the throne. Yet out of the ashes of this tragedy we shall rise to greet the dawning of a new era in which lion and hyena come together in a great and glorious future.
- Scar: Now, you wait here. Your father has a marvelous surprise for you.
- Young Simba: Oooh, what is it?
- Scar: If I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise now, would it?
- Young Simba: If you tell me, I'll still act surprised.
- Scar: Ho ho ho! You are such a naughty boy.
- Young Simba: Come on, Uncle Scar.
- Scar: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is just for you and your daddy. You know, a sort of father-son thing. Well, I'd better go get him.
- Young Simba: I'll go with you.
- Scar: No.
- [regaining composure]
- Scar: No. Just stay on this rock. You wouldn't want to end up in another mess like you did with the hyenas.
- Young Simba: You know about that?
- Scar: Simba, everybody knows about that.
- Young Simba: Really?
- Scar: Oh, yes. Lucky Daddy was there to save you, eh? Oh, and just between us, you might want to work on that little roar of yours, hmm?
- Young Simba: Oh, okay. Hey, Uncle Scar, will I like this surprise?
- Scar: Simba, it's to die for.
- Shenzi: Well, well, well, Banzai, what have we got here?
- Banzai: Hmm, I don't know Shenzi uh, what do you think Ed?
- Ed the Hyena: Oo ehehe, oh hahahaha
- Banzai: Yeah, just what I was thinking, a trio of trespassers.
- Zazu: And quite by accident let me assure you...
- Shenzi: Whoa, whoa, wait wait. I know you, you're Mufasa's little stooge.
- Zazu: I madame, am the king's majordomo.
- Banzai: And that would make you...?
- Young Simba: The future King!
- Shenzi: Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?
- Young Simba: Puh, you can't do anything to me.
- Zazu: Uh-uh, technically they can, we are on their land.
- Young Simba: But Zazu, you told me they are nothing but slobbery, mangy stupid poachers.
- Zazu: Ix-nay on the upid-stay...
- Banzai: Who you callin' upid-stay?
- Scar: Ah, so you haven't told them your little secret. Well, Simba, now's your chance to tell them. Tell them who is responsible for Mufasa's death.
- Adult Simba: [pause] I am.
- Sarabi: [whispering] It's not true. Tell me it's not true.
- Adult Simba: It's true.
- Scar: You see? He admits it! Murderer!
- Adult Simba: No! It was an accident.
- Scar: If it weren't for you Mufasa would still be alive. It's your fault he's dead! Do you deny it?
- Adult Simba: No.
- Scar: Then, you're guilty.
- Adult Simba: No, I'm not a murderer!
- Young Simba: [Nala's mother, Sarafina is giving Nala a bath] Hey, Nala.
- Young Nala: Hi, Simba.
- Young Simba: Come on, I just heard about this great place.
- Young Nala: Simba, I'm kinda in the middle of a bath.
- Sarabi: And it's time for yours.
- [grabs Simba and starts licking him]
- Young Simba: Mom! Mom, you're messing up my mane!
- [Sarabi smiles]
- Young Simba: Ok, ok. I'm clean. Can we go now?
- Young Nala: So where are we going? It better not be anyplace dumb.
- Young Simba: No, it's really cool.
- Sarabi: So where is this really cool place?
- Young Simba: Oh... around the waterhole.
- Young Nala: The waterhole? What's so great about the waterhole?
- Young Simba: [muttering] I'll *show* you when we *get* there.
- Young Nala: Oh... Mom, can I go with Simba?
- Sarafina - Nala's Mother: Hmm, what do you think Sarabi?
- Sarabi: Well...
- Young Simba, Young Nala: [with forced grins] Please!
- Sarabi: It's alright with me.
- Young Simba: Yeah!
- Young Nala: All right!
- Sarabi: As long as Zazu goes with you.
- Young Simba: No, not Zazu!
- Mufasa: Simba, I'm very disappointed in you.
- Young Simba: I know.
- Mufasa: You could have been killed. You deliberately disobeyed me, and what's worse, you put Nala in danger.
- Young Simba: I was just trying to be brave, like you.
- Mufasa: I'm only brave when I have to be. Simba, being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble.
- Young Simba: But you're not scared of anything.
- Mufasa: I was today.
- Young Simba: You were?
- Mufasa: Yes. I thought I might lose you.
- Young Simba: I guess even kings get scared, huh?
- Mufasa: Mmm-hmm.
- Young Simba: But you know what?
- Mufasa: What?
- Young Simba: I think those hyenas were even scareder.
- Mufasa: [laughs] 'Cause nobody messes with your dad. Come here, you.
- Young Simba: [laughing] No! no!
- [Mufasa and Simba have a little wrestling match]
- Mufasa: Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom.
- Young Simba: Wow.
- Mufasa: A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun. One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here and will rise with you as the new king.
- Young Simba: And this'll all be mine?
- Mufasa: Everything.
- Young Simba: Everything the light touches.
- Scar: Simba, Simba, please. Please have mercy, I beg you.
- Adult Simba: You don't deserve to live.
- Scar: But, Simba, I... am... family. It's the hyenas who are the real enemy. It was their fault. It was their idea!
- Adult Simba: Why should I believe you? Everything you ever told me was a lie.
- Scar: What are you going to do? You wouldn't kill your *old* uncle...?
- Adult Simba: No, Scar. I'm not like you.
- Scar: Oh, Simba, thank you. You are truly noble. I'll make it up to you, I promise. How can I, ah, prove myself to you? Tell me anything, anything.
- Adult Simba: Run. Run away, Scar. And never return.
- Scar: Yes. Of course. As you wish,
- [Scar's words turn into a snarl]
- Scar: your Majesty!
- [throws embers in Simba's face]
- Adult Simba: Aaah!
- Timon: Hyenas. I hate hyenas. So what's the plan for getting past those guys?
- Adult Simba: Live bait.
- Timon: Good idea.
- [realizes what he means]
- Timon: HEY!
- Mufasa: [above the stampeding wildebeest] Scar! Broth-brother, help me!
- Scar: [Scar puts his claws into Mufasa's paws] Long live the King.
- [throws him into the stampede]
- Mufasa: Aaaaah!
- Young Simba: [as the Camera zooms out] Nooooooooo!
- Timon: [singing and dancing the hula] Luau! / If you're hungry for a hunk of fat or juicy meat / Eat my buddy Pumbaa here, / 'Cause he is a treat / Come on down and dine / On this tasty swine/ All you hafta do is get in line. / Ahhhh ya achin'...?
- Pumbaa: Yup, yup, yup!
- Timon: Forrrr some bacon?
- Pumbaa: Yup, yup, yup!
- Timon: Heeee's a big pig!
- Pumbaa: Yup, yup!
- Timon: You can be a big pig, too. Oy!
- Adult Simba: Well...
- Timon: Yeah?
- Adult Simba: Somebody once told me that the great kings of the past are up there watching over us.
- Pumbaa: Really?
- Timon: You mean a bunch of royal dead guys are watching us?
- [he and Pumbaa started laughing]
- Timon: Who told you something like that?
- Adult Simba: Yeah, yeah.
- Timon: What mook made that up?
- Adult Simba: Yeah. Pretty dumb, huh?
- Timon: You're killing me.
- Timon: [of the decimated Pride Rock] We're gonna fight your uncle for this?
- Adult Simba: Yes, Timon. This is my home.
- Timon: Talk about your fixer-upper!
- Scar: So, your father showed you the whole kingdom, did he?
- Young Simba: Everything.
- Scar: He didn't show you what's beyond that rise at the northern border?
- Young Simba: Well, no. He said I can't go there.
- Scar: And he's absolutely right. It's far too dangerous. Only the bravest lions go there.
- Young Simba: Well, I'm brave. What's out there?
- Scar: I'm sorry, Simba, I just can't tell you.
- Young Simba: Why not?
- Scar: Simba, Simba, I'm only looking out for the well-being of my favorite nephew.
- Young Simba: Yeah, right! I'm your only nephew.
- Scar: All the more reason for me to be protective. An elephant graveyard is no place for a young prince. Oops!
- Young Simba: An elephant what? Whoa!
- Scar: Oh, dear, I've said too much. Well, I suppose you'd have found out sooner or later, you being so clever and all. Just do me one favor. Promise me you'll never visit that dreadful place.
- Young Simba: No problem.
- Scar: There's a good lad. You run along now and have fun. And remember, its our little secret.
- Timon: Let me get this straight. You're the king? And you never told us?
- Adult Simba: Look, I'm still the same guy.
- Timon: But with power!
- Nala: Could you guys excuse us for a few minutes?
- Timon: Hey, whatever she has to say, she can say in front of us. Right, Simba?
- Adult Simba: Mm... Maybe you'd better go.
- Timon: It starts. You think you know a guy...
- [Timon and Pumbaa leave]
- Adult Simba: Timon and Pumbaa. You learn to love 'em.
- Scar: [singing] I know that your powers of retention / Are as wet as a warthog's backside / But thick as you are, / Pay attention! / My words are a matter of pride / It's clear from vacant expressions / The lights are not all on upstairs / But we're talking kings and successions / Even *you* can't be caught unawares!