61. Vocal Hero / Сулейман на вес золота
(Setting: inside the palace. A tour guide leads a group of people down a hall.)

Tour guide: Together now, people. We're walking, we're walking... We are now approaching the royal throne room. Behind these doors the sultan toils ceaselessly for the welfare of all citizens of Agrabah.

Sultan: (runs past) Ho ho ho ho! More jewels! More jewels! Must get more jewels for the dancing donkey!

Tour guide: What would our nation be without the royals?

(Setting: the throne room. Aladdin and Jasmine are looking at a mechanical donkey.)

Aladdin: Where did you say your father got this contraption?

Jasmine: It just showed up in the throne room this morning.

Aladdin: I'm lookin' at a donkey, but I'm smellin' a rat.

Sultan: (runs into the room carrying a pile of jewels) I have the jewels! Ho ho ho!

Donkey: (with Iago's voice) Feed me a jewel and watch me dance.

(Sultan puts a jewel in its mouth; the donkey stands up and dances)

Sultan: Wonderful!

Donkey: (stops dancing) Feed me more jewels. Don't be stingy now.

Sultan: (puts the rest of the jewels in its mouth) Oh, no no no. Mustn't be stingy.

Aladdin: Hmm... Abu, listen... (whispers to Abu, who then runs off)

Jasmine: What did you tell him?

Aladdin: Watch.

Donkey: We're running low on diamonds in here.

(Abu removes a bolt from the donkey, and it breaks in half; Iago is inside controlling it.)

Iago: Donkey can't dance without... without... Why, this isn't the palace of King Wasatutu! Why, I... when I get a hold of the chumps who delivered me to the wrong address... Pow! Zoom! Awk!

Sultan: Are you trying to make a fool of me, Iago?

Iago: Oh, there's a challenge. Did I say that out loud?

(Setting: the palace entrance. Sultan throws Iago outside.)

Iago: Aaah! Ow!

Sultan: And you'll stay out until you learn some respect.

Iago: I don't need your charity. I'll just live in the gutter and eat scraps and stagger to an early grave.

Sultan: I'm glad you've made arrangements.

Iago: That worked.

Sultan: If that flapping sound is Iago, tell him I'm not in.

Jasmine: Father, look out!

(Amin Dimoola flies in through the open door, wearing a pair of winged shoes.)

Amin: Surprise! It's me. Amin Dimoola. The prince of thieves. (sprinkles some powder on Sultan)

Rasoul: (trying to attack Amin) Hold still, you sticky-fingered parasite!

Sultan: Ah, ah, ah, ah CHOO!

(Sultan turns into a gold statuette.)

Aladdin: Sultan!

Jasmine: Father!

Amin: (puts the statuette in his hat) Oh, I've been meaning to pick up one of these. So long, keep in touch, don't be a stranger! (flies back out the door)

Aladdin: Carpet! After him! (Aladdin, Abu, and Carpet follow him)

Jasmine: Don't let him get away!

(Setting: the sky above Agrabah)

Amin: Hurry, you sluggardly slippers! (the shoes fly erratically; Amin ends up upside down)

Aladdin: Let's show those loafers some real flying!

(Amin flies towards a spire, feet first)

Amin: Watch out for the spire! Go around! Go around!

(One shoe goes right, the other goes left)

Aladdin: Ooh, that *had* to hurt.

Amin: (dizzily, carrying the broken-off spire between his legs) I'm all right.

(Carpet flies up to Amin while he's disoriented; Aladdin takes the sultan's statue back)

Aladdin: Back to the palace, Carpet!

Amin: (to his shoes) Turn around, turn around. (they turn him upside down) Right side up, you nincom-pumps!

Aladdin: Well, you're safe now, Sultan.

Amin: I have a few tricks under my belt yet, Aladdin. (reaches into his pants) Behold! (pulls out his boxers) My shorts! No. Wait. That's wrong. Sorry. (throws them away, reaches back into his pants and pulls out a monkey's paw) Behold! The Monkey's Paw of Mamoon-Ra! Now, how did that spell go? Give me a minute, uh, oh, yes! Monkey paw, monkey paw, hear my rhyme, take to the sky and get what's mine! (throws the paw; it flies back to him with the boxers) No, not those, the sultan, you silly simian appendage!

(The paw flies in front of Aladdin.)

Abu: Ew, yuck!

(The paw grabs Aladdin's nose and grabs the sultan when he drops him.)

Aladdin: Ow!

(The paw brings Sultan back to Amin.)

Amin: Good job, my disembodied friend.

Aladdin: Head 'im off, Carpet!

Amin: Monkey paw, monkey paw, hear my poem, make Aladdin leave me alone!

(The paw flies at Aladdin's face; he knocks it down. It falls down and staggers disoriented to the edge of Carpet, then falls off. Abu watches sadly, and takes off his hat.)

Aladdin: Amin Dimoola's just a common thief. Where'd he get all these magical devices?

(Abu chatters to him.)

Aladdin: You're right, we need our own magical device. Ah, of all the time for Genie to go visit friends!

(Genie is in a palace with Napoleon, folding a newspaper.)

Genie: We fold this here, this over like this, and voila! A boat!

Napoleon: (puts it on his head) C'est un chapeau!

Genie: Like I said, it's a hat!

(Setting: the sky above the palace)

Amin: (to the shoes) No, no, you're headed the wrong way!

Aladdin: We've almost got 'im, Carpet!

Amin: (pulls a cotton swab out of his pants) Aladdin forces me to use the Swab of the Seven Samurai!

(Cotton shoots out of the swab, trapping Aladdin and Abu)

Aladdin: Ahh! What is this stuff?

(Setting: outside the palace. Jasmine is looking up at Aladdin and Amin; Iago is sunbathing in a folding chair, wearing sunglasses.)

Jasmine: Don't just sit there, Iago. Help them.

Iago: As a newly appointed outcast, my job is to sit here and bask in the irony.

Jasmine: (annoyed) Oh! I'll see that you're reinstated.

Iago: Okay, throw in kitchen privileges and you've got a deal!

Jasmine: Do the words "parrot kebab" mean anything to you?!

Iago: Uh, can't talk. Gotta rescue Sultan!

(Setting: the sky)

Amin: I love this thing! (kisses the swab) Ew, wax.

(Carpet flies Aladdin and Abu back to the palace and drops them in the fountain, washing off the cotton.)

Jasmine: Aladdin, are you all right?

Aladdin: We're fine, but Amin's escaping with your father.

Jasmine: Oh, it's all up to Carpet and Iago now.

(Setting: the sky)

Iago: Yo! Flappy feet! Slow down a second. We should team up. Be partners. I've got a plan that could make us both very rich.

Amin: Why should I listen to you?

Iago: Why, if you let me rescue the sultan, the reward will be...

Amin: What?!

Iago: Well, a lot more than you can imagine!

Amin: I don't know. I can imagine quite a bit.

Iago: Me, too. And I promise you'll get a full ten percent.

Amin: Ten percent? Never!

Iago: Sweetheart! Ten percent is nothing to sneeze at! Lay your baby blues on this! (shows him a diamond) And there's more where this came from.

Amin: Oh, yeah... the sparkly, pretty... No! No! I cannot! I refuse to be distracted by the lure of mere wealth.

Iago: Mere wealth? What are you, daffodil cuckoo-boy now? Mere wealth?

Amin: I'm on a specific mission. I don't want to hear it! Go away, I say! Go! Go! (crashes into a building, dropping Sultan) I'm all right...

Iago: (catches Sultan) Ha! That was easy. Amin Dimoola, king of pain. (imitating Amin) "I refuse to be distracted..." (crashes into a different building, dropping Sultan) Ooh!

Amin: (catches the statue) Dimoola saves it on the rebound! Yes!

Iago: I love makin' the deal; I hate doin' the job. (slides down the side of the building, Carpet catches him) Awk!

(Carpet and Iago follow Amin. Amin shoots cotton at them, but Carpet dodges it)

Amin: I'm beginning to feel harassed!

Iago: Could we go back for my stomach? Ah!

(Carpet drops Iago and wraps around Amin, capturing him. Amin drops Sultan.)

Amin: What the...? Oh!

(Sultan falls toward a canyon filled with flowing lava.)

Iago: My meal ticket! I mean, the sultan!

(Carpet drops Amin and dives after Sultan. Amin's shoes fall off; he grabs one of them to keep himself from falling.)

Amin: I could have taken a winged camel, but *no*! I wanted the shoes!

Iago: (diving after Sultan) Oh, great, here comes another nosebleed! Awk!

(The statue falls into the lava. Carpet flies around franticly, looking for him.)

Iago: I failed you when you needed me most, Princess! If only I could've flapped a little harder! Yeah, that sounds good. (some lava splashes up and burns his tail) Awk! Hey! Gettin' quick-roasted was not part of this bargain!

(Some lava splashes up again, throwing the statue up into the air. Carpet catches it.)

Iago: Now *that* was impressive. If you don't make rug of the year, somebody bribed the judges. (Carpet flies away from him) Hey, wait a minute!

(The shoe Amin isn't holding onto starts kicking him; he lets go of the other and starts to fall.)

Amin: No!

Iago: All right, I'm begging! Let *me* return the sultan to the princess! I can't leave the palace. It's got tapestries, marble floors, indoor plumbing!

(Carpet sees Amin falling, throws Sultan to Iago, and catches Amin.)

Iago: And I wasn't even through groveling yet!

(Setting: the palace, on a balcony)

Jasmine: Oh, they've been gone too long!

Rasoul: That's what happens when a sultan trusts his safety to a street rat.

Aladdin: I'm too worried to resent that comment, Rasoul. Ah, if only Genie were here...

(Genie appears wearing a safari outfit and with his head shrunk.)

Genie: Travel tip, Al. *Never* greet a witch doctor with a joy-buzzer handshake. (grows a new head) Lucky I packed a spare.

(Iago, Carpet, and Amin fly toward them.)

Jasmine: They're coming!

Iago: You shoulda been there! The sultan plunged to certain doom in a fiery chasm. I dove, dodging red-hot geysers, choking in the sulfurous fumes. It was a million to one, but I did it.

(Carpet shrugs.)

Jasmine: (shows Sultan to Genie) What do you think, Genie?

Genie: Very nice. Franklin Mint?

Aladdin: It's the sultan, Genie. Look, can you change him back to the way he was?

Genie: You mean, all soft and squishy? Oh, ho. No problem! Hmm... All we need is some toenail of griffin. (starts looking through his suitcase) Sorry, Jas. Fresh out. I used all my griffin toenail on last night's pizza.

Amin: You won't find any *anywhere*! My client cornered the market months ago. He has a thing for griffins.

Aladdin: Who are you working for, Amin?

Amin: I'll never tell! We thieves have a strict code of honor!

(Setting: the dungeon, a little while later. Amin is suspended by shackles on his wrists above a pit of crocodiles that are snapping at his feet.)

Amin: Maybe I should tell.

(A magic portal appears; through it we can see Mozenrath in his throne room.)

Mozenrath: This is no time for idle hanging around, Amin.

Amin: Mozenrath, the magic dust turned the sultan to gold just as you said it would. You the man.

Mozenrath: I'm disappointed in you, Amin. We agreed that if I provided the magic you'd do the footwork.

Amin: (dodging the crocodiles) I *am* doing the footwork!

Mozenrath: Oh, poor Amin. A two-dinari thief could've owned Agrabah by now with the bag of tricks I've given you! But it has been amusing to watch you fail.

Xerxes: Watch you fail!

Amin: Just a little more time and I'll prove my worth to you. Really!

Mozenrath: You've got two tricks left. Retrieve the statue, and I will make you the most respected thief of the Seven Deserts. Fail, and you will spend the rest of your life repaying me for my kindness. Win-win for me, win-lose for you. (closes the portal)

Xerxes: Amin loser.

Amin: (pulls a piece of cloth out of his pants) The Belt of Invisibility! (he wraps it around himself and vanishes, then escapes from his shackles)

(Setting: the royal treasure room. Genie places the golden statuette of the sultan on a pedestal.)

Genie: You'll be safe here, your bric-a-brac-a-ness!

Iago: After my death-defying rescue, the sultan would surely reward me with a personally selected tidbit from the royal treasury. A little something loaded with meaning and sentiment. But, since he can't pick it out himself, I'll just have to settle for quantity.

(Turns into a vacuum and sucks up Iago.)

Genie: Let's leave that for the sultan to decide, shall we? (Shoots Iago out into the hallway; he falls in a vase with a splash.)

Iago: Okay, who's been spittin' in the vases?

(Setting: a hallway in the palace)

Aladdin: Which cell did you put Amin Dimoola in, Rasoul?

Rasoul: Number nine.

Aladdin and Jasmine: Number nine?

Jasmine: That's the crocodile pit!

Rasoul: Well, I, uh... I must have forgotten. (laughs)

(Setting: the dungeon. Aladdin, Jasmine, Abu, and Rasoul enter Amin's cell and see the empty shackles.)

Aladdin: We're too late. Now we'll never know who Amin was working for!

(The cell door slams shut, trapping them inside.)

Aladdin and Jasmine: What?

Aladdin: There's no one out there!

Amin: Surprise! (takes off the belt and reappears) Look who has a magic belt of invisibility!

Aladdin: What? But where'd you get that...?

(The portal reappears, showing Mozenrath's face.)

Mozenrath: From me. It was just taking up space in my closet.

Aladdin: Mozenrath! So now you're hiring common thieves to do your dirty work?

Mozenrath: Anything to squeeze a few more hours into the day.

Aladdin: It'll take more than just a few cheap tricks to beat us, Mozenrath!

Mozenrath: Big words from someone behind bars in his own dungeon. (to Amin) Now get along, you. I want that sultan.

Rasoul: You'll never get past my guards!

Amin: What the guards can't see they can't catch. (disappears)

Jasmine: Leave my father alone, Mozenrath. I'll give you anything.

Mozenrath: Before I'm done, Princess, you'll give me everything.

(Setting: a hallway in the palace. Iago climbs out of the vase.)

Iago: This is no way to treat a hero! (sees Amin's wet footprints leading toward the treasure room) Either I'm seein' things or... somebody got a new belt of invisibility!

(Setting: the dungeon. Abu is picking the lock of the cell.)

Aladdin: Hurry, Abu! We have to protect the sultan!

Aladdin: Way to go, Abu!

(Setting: the treasure room. Genie is guarding the sultan dressed as a commando.)

Genie: My eye is keen. My aim is true. My gun is big. My every sense is alive! I see! I hear! I smell! ... I smell a little *too* much.

(Amin carries the sultan away while Genie is talking; Iago watches him.)

Iago: Ah, let's see, a belt of invisibility on your average two-dinari thief would hang just about... here! (pulls the belt off of Amin)

(Amin runs into the hall and sees Aladdin and the others)

Amin: But they can't see me, because I'm...

Aladdin: There he is!

Amin: I'm... not invisible.

(They chase Amin back into the treasure room. Genie sees him and turns into a tank.)

Mozenrath: (watching from the Land of the Black Sand) This is what I get for subcontracting.

(Amin pulls out a gem.)

Mozenrath: Ha! His last trick. The Stone of Transformation.

Aladdin: The game's over, Amin.

Jasmine: Give us the statue!

Amin: Oh, Stone of Transformation, turn me into a... a... oh, I don't know... a griffin!

Mozenrath: No, no! Not a griffin!

Amin: (starts transforming into a griffin) Hey, it worked!

Jasmine: If we could just get a toenail...

Aladdin: We'll be lucky if he doesn't get ours. Genie, stop him!

Genie: I can't! I might hit the sultan!

(Amin as a griffin crashes through the roof and flies away)

Aladdin: Come on, Carpet. After 'im!

(Carpet, Aladdin, and Genie fly off after Amin. The griffin shoots laser beams from its eyes, hitting Genie, who is zapped into into many tiny Genies wearing parachutes.)

Genie: Aah!

Aladdin: Genie!

Genie: Don't worry, Al. I'll be right back as soon as I pull myself together.

(Setting: the balcony)

Iago: If only there was something I could do to help! Unfortunately I am but a tiny parrot and...

Jasmine: And perfect for fighting that griffin!

Iago: I am?

Jasmine: (holds out the Belt of Invisibility) You can sneak up on him and rescue Father!

Iago: I can?

Jasmine: Or, I can put the guards on parrot alert.

Iago: Uh, the things I do to support an indulgent lifestyle... (puts on the belt and disappears)

(Setting: the sky)

Aladdin: We have to make him drop the sultan.

(A laser hits Carpet; Aladdin is thrown off but lands on the roof of a building)

Iago: (tickling the griffin) Kitchie-kitchie coo! (Amin drops the sultan) There he goes again. This guy is the plummeting champion of the world! (catches the statue) Gotcha!

(Carpet picks Aladdin back up, he and Genie fly after Amin.)

Aladdin: Now's your chance, Genie.

Genie: One Genie whammy on its way! (sees the griffin about to zap him and holds up a mirror)Just look at what that expression does to your face.

(The laser reflects back on Amin, who changes back to normal, singed, and falls to the ground)

Mozenrath: Today is the first day of the rest of your miserable life.

Amin: I suspected as much.

(Setting: the throne room)

Aladdin: Okay, we got rid of Amin, but we still need some clipping of griffin toenail to restore the sultan.

Iago: Ahem. While I was tickling, I engaged in a little griffin grooming. (holds out a griffin talon)

Aladdin and Jasmine: A toenail!

Genie: Uno momento! (turns into a chef and starts grating the toenail above the golden statue; the powder turns Sultan back to normal)

Sultan: Genie! Stop that this instant!

Jasmine: Oh, Father!

Sultan: I don't know what's happened, but I'm sure Iago has something to do with it. What's that bird doing back in the palace?

Iago: Your majesty! I am cut to the quick. Not only have I saved your life *twice*, but I have a nifty little belt of invisibility for you, too.

Aladdin: Where is that belt, anyway?

Jasmine: I have a pretty good idea.

(A pile of bananas floats by.)

Jasmine: (pulls the belt off Abu) Going somewhere, Abu?

(Abu drops the bananas, everyone laughs.)

THE END

63. Destiny on Fire / Судьба в огне
(Aladdin, Genie, Iago, and Abu are riding Carpet home from vacation. Abu is reclining and relaxing with a hat on his head.)

Aladdin: *laughs* Looks like Abu isn't ready to end his vacation.

Genie: *sigh* Neither was I … But SOMEONE had to go home. (pulls Iago from behind him.)

Iago: (with cream on his beak) Watch the beak! Ah! (Genie drops him on Carpet, and we see that the tip of his beak is red.) No one seems to care that I've got a 3rd degree sunburn here. All I wanna do is go home and jump in a vat of aloe vera. But we'll never get there if Carpet keeps slowin' down!

Genie: Aw, poor Carpet. He still misses that beach towel he met at low tide.

(He and Aladdin laugh until they enter Agrabah. They gasp, for Agrabah is smoking, and all of the citizens have been turned into small brown slug-like creatures, moaning and crying miserably.)

Iago: Ah! What is that?!

Aladdin: Oh no. Jasmine! I have to find her!

Genie: To the palace, Rug-man! And step on it!

(They start to fly off and Abu starts chattering. A mysterious figure drops a large cloth over them. They can‘t see anything.)

Aladdin: Woahah!

Iago: Ah! My beak!

Aladdin: Genie. (We see them being dragged by a strong hand up Aladdin's hovel.) Genie get us out.

Genie: I'll get us out! (The captor lets go of the bag, and Genie emerges, dressed as a boxer.) Dah, nothing can hold me! Not even… (They see who it is.) Rasoul?

Aladdin: Rasoul! What are you doing? I've got to get to get to Jasmine and the Sultan.

Rasoul: I had to stop you from going to the palace.

Aladdin: (in his face) Which is where you should be! Why aren't you protecting Jasmine and the sultan?

Rasoul: Listen, Street-rat. You're not sultan yet!

Aladdin: And when I am?

Rasoul: Don't expect me to stick around for that wretched day.

Aladdin: Don't expect me to mind.

(Rasoul growls and turns back to Aladdin, grabbing his vest. Genie turns into a referee, whistles, and pushes them apart.)

Genie: Foul play! (tosses Aladdin onto a pile of pillows by the window) You're benched. And you? Start talkin'. Where are Jasmine and the sultan? (puts a spotlight on Rasoul) Who did this?

Rasoul: I don't know. We were on duty at the palace.

(A FLASHBACK starts. We see sleeping guards at the palace entrance. Rasoul throws open the doors, violently waking them up.)

Rasoul: Guards, report!

Hakim: There's nothing to report.

Rasoul: Then, what's that?

(Rasoul points to a menacing, orange, sparkly, dust cloud approaching the city.)

Nahbi: Eh, condensed water vapor, sir. It's called fog.

(The fog rapidly engulfs the city. Everything it passes is badly damaged and smoking.)

Fazal: I have never seen fog do that!

Hakim: It is coming this way!

Rasoul: I have to warn the sultan! (bursts back into the throne room) Your highness! Princess Jasmine! (A magic blue fist punches at him. Just in time, he presses a secret brick in a nearby pillar and falls down a secret chute, yelling. The FLASHBACK ends here. We see the gang in the hovel.) I couldn't get to the sultan or Princess Jasmine.

Aladdin: So, you just left them in the palace?

Rasoul: No one can get near the palace without getting turned into one of these!

(He pulls a slug creature from his vest and holds it out in his hand. Iago and Abu are disgusted.)

Genie: Fazal!

Fazal: Help meee!!

Genie: I'll sure try, big guy! (He pulls up his “sleeves” and shoots him with magic. Nothing happens. Fazal bawls.) That's strange. I just had them in for a tune-up!

Aladdin: You can't undo any of this?

Genie: Oh, we're dealing with some serious hocus pocus here, Al.

Rasoul: You need a genie to figure that out?

(Aladdin approaches Rasoul angrily, and Rasoul growls at him. Genie hits himself in the head then separates them.)

Genie: You both cool your fajitas while I go to the palace and gather some clues! Once I get a scoop on this magic, I can bury it!

(Genie disappears. Rasoul and Aladdin walk to opposite sides of the window pouting.)

Iago: (at Rasoul's shoulder) So! There's a secret tunnel under the throne room! What other palace secrets do you have?

SCENE CHANGE - The palace garden

(Genie slinks around the garden secretively. He changes into a cat.)

Genie: *Purr* I am one sly cat.

(Green magic is shot at him, and he is flung through the air all the way back to the hovel, yelling as a cat might.)

Aladdin: Genie?

Genie: (dizzy from hitting the wall) Don't worry. Curiosity won't kill this cat! (changes back) But that magic sure came close! Sorry, Al. I couldn't get a paw in the palace, let alone look for Jasmine!

Rasoul: Now, do you see what you're up against?

Genie: (puts some of the magic in a test tube) Hmm, doesn't look different from your basic garden-variety magic. (changes into a scientist) But, with the help of Mr. Science! (turns into a robot and prints out the data) And Mr. Computer! We can find out very… little. But! Enough to give it another try!

(Genie shoots Fazal, who is sitting on a barrel, with magic. He turns into himself for a few seconds but changes back and once again bawls. Rasoul scoffs, crosses his arms, and shakes his head.)

Aladdin: Oh no.

Genie: Wait! Let me go back to the palace. I can fight this thing!

Magic voice: I don't want the genie!! Send the boy who is responsible for Agrabah's despicable destiny. Send Aladdin!

Rasoul: What?

Genie: Whoa! Whoa! The kid has an alibi! He was on vacation with me! See? Tan line!

Aladdin: That voice! Carpet! We're going to the palace!

Iago: Count me out!

Rasoul: You're out. Follow me! I know the palace inside and out.

Aladdin: Don't worry. I can handle it. I'm pretty sure I know who we're up against.

Genie: You coming?

Rasoul: (Gets on Carpet with Genie and Aladdin and growls.) Taking orders from a street rat. I'm going to regret this.

Iago: Goodbye! (gets luxuriously comfortable until he hears the creepy moans of the slugs) Uh, I said wait up! HEY! (flies after them)

(The gang flies into the throne room.)

Genie: Well, the palace is still in one piece.

Voice: Because it's MINE!! (A face in a green flame appears on the throne.) And there's nothing you can do about it, Aladdin!

Aladdin: Hello Aziz.

Aziz: (returns to his normal figure) How did you know it was me?

Aladdin: Your demented ideas about destiny give you away every time.

Aziz: Demented?

Iago: Yeah, we're off to a good start.

Aziz: Oh, don't worry, I won't blow you up. Why, it was you who helped me get to the destiny stone! Of course, thanks to you, I was trapped in it for years! But! Now I'm out, and the power it gave me is glorious! (He briefly demonstrates pink power in his hands.) I owe you, Aladdin.

Aladdin: Then tell me where Princess Jasmine and the sultan are.

Aziz: I am the sultan now, Aladdin. My destiny is to lord over Agrabah with limitless power. (gets off the throne) And wait until you see my power.

Aladdin: I don't want to see your tacky magic show, Aziz.

Aziz: Tacky magic? Well, I look forward to proving you wrong, Aladdin. (walks towards the gang) Besides, its fun to have a few humans around for the sake of amusement.

(Rasoul growls.)

Iago: And we thought he had no sense of humor.

Aladdin: Where are they?

Aziz: Haha! Where else would a sultan and a princess be? They're in the palace. Try to find them. I'll give you a sporting chance. (laughs)

Aladdin: Come on. We better check the dungeon.

Rasoul: (pulls a rope, revealing a secret passageway) This way.

Aziz: (after the gang had gone) They'll never find them.

SCENE CHANGE - The dungeon

(The gang crawls into the dungeon from a passageway that could have been the one from the original movie.)

Iago: Another secret passageway. Did you know about that, Al?

Rasoul: There is a lot our little sultan-to-be doesn't know.

Aladdin: Then tell me who that is. (points to a sultan-silhouette the dungeon)

Rasoul: Sultan!

(The gang realizes that it is actually Aziz as Aziz transforms back and walks towards them.)

Rasoul: Filthy jackal! (tackles Aziz, but Aziz disappears)

Aziz: (reappears beside Aladdin) Better keep your thug in line, Aladdin. I hate (slaps Aladdin) poor (slap) sports (slap).

Rasoul: I am royal captain of the guard, and I take no orders from that street rat!

Aziz: (laughs) Do I sense some hostility among the ranks?

Genie: Nahh, just towards you.

Aziz: Good. Then they won't mind getting close.

(Aziz blows some magic at some chains hanging on the wall. They almost fall on Iago, who yells and dodges them. They then wrap up Rasoul and Aladdin together. The two struggle.)

Aziz: (laughing) Looks like it's too close for comfort.

Genie: (tries to saw the chains) Stay still. We'll get you out.

(Abu tries to pick the lock, but Aziz's magic turns him into a slug.)

Aladdin: Abu!

Aziz: Oh, does the little rodent mean something to you, Aladdin? Sorry. (disappears)

Genie: (with torch and welder's mask) Uhh, maybe we can't get you out.

Aziz's voice: They'll only come off when you two kids can agree on things.

Aladdin: We both agree to get rid of you!

Rasoul: For good!

(The chains disappear.)

Aziz's voice: Well, that was fast! But how long will it last? Mhm? (laughs and fades away)

Iago: (looking at Abu) Eww.

(Genie's magic changes him back.)

Aladdin: Genie, you did it! (Abu changes back into a slug.) Oh.

Genie: Oh, *sigh*, not quite. But I am making progress. (picks up Abu) Hey, I'll have the hang of it in no time.

Iago: Another secret passage?

Rasoul: Let's go.

Genie: Sit tight, little buddy. (tucks Abu into his sash)

Aladdin: Not this way. We've gotta—

(Shackles connect Rasoul and Aladdin's wrists.)

Rasoul: Now look what you've done!

Genie: Can't you two try to agree?!

Iago: Rasoul does know the palace inside and out.

Aladdin: *sigh* Okay. Let's go. (The shackles disappear. The gang leaves, and the door closes behind him. Aladdin runs to the bottom of the secret staircase.) Where does this lead?

Iago: To a secret treasure perhaps?

Rasoul: It leads to Princess Jasmine's chambers.

Iago: (sweetly) And where else?

Rasoul: Your grave if you don't BACK OFF!

Iago: Touchy.

SCENE CHANGE - Jasmine's chambers

Aladdin: Jasmine?

Iago: (to Rasoul) Come on! The sultan must have an emergency stash somewhere.

Rasoul: If I tell you, will you leave me alone?

Iago: Oh. Yes, sir!

Rasoul: Well, first you have to go that way… (whispers inaudibly into Iago's ear)

Iago: Yes. Okay. Uh huh.

Jasmine's face in the mirror: Aladdin.

Aladdin: Jasmine?

Rasoul: Princess?

Jasmine's face: Help! (turns into Aziz's laughing face) How's that for power, Aladdin?

Aladdin: You always knew how to trick people, but you'll never know real power.

Aziz: (pokes Aladdin from the mirror) Are you sure?

(Aziz blows magic to Carpet, who becomes a slug.)

Aladdin: No!

Genie: (picks up Carpet) Whoa, looks like even us magic folk aren't safe.

Rasoul: None of us are.

Iago: Well, I've got better things to do than rediscover life as an invertebrate. Just so happens I have a secret treasure to find. (flies away)

Aladdin: Iago?!

Rasoul: (stops Aladdin) He'll be fine, trust me.

Aladdin: Trust you?!

Genie: Uh, Al?

Aladdin: I trusted you to protect Jasmine and the sultan!

(The shackles reappear. Aladdin struggles.)

Rasoul: (after an inaudible angry exclamation) Are you happy now?!

Genie: Oy.

SCENE CHANGE - the dining hall

Aladdin: We won't find them here.

Genie: But what about there?

(They see Jasmine and the sultan across the way in a doorway, struggling, gagged and tied.)

Rasoul: It's another trick. You'll end up a slug like Abu!

Aladdin: (struggles) Jasmine!

(Aladdin and Rasoul look at each other and nod in agreement then charge towards the two gagged royals. The table comes to life and intercepts them. Genie fights with it. He turns into a cowboy and rides it like a bucking bronco or bull. It escapes and kicks Genie against a wall. Rasoul attacks it, but it throws him and Aladdin and pins them to the wall.

Aladdin: Genie!

Genie: Hang on, kids! (turns into a lumberjack with saw hands) Eat. My. Sawdust.

(The scene shows Aladdin and Rasoul, who shield their eyes from Genie's attacking the table. When it's over, we see several piles of sawdust on the floor, and Genie as Geppetto playing with a wooden Pinocchio-like marionette.)

Genie: If only you were a real boy.

Aladdin: Let's go.

(Pulls Rasoul towards the door. Jasmine and the sultan become potted plants.)

Aladdin: Cute trick, Aziz.

Aziz's voice: Feels like real power to me!

Aladdin: I can't believe he tricked us again!

Rasoul: Wake up, Street rat. He's tricked us from the start!

Genie: (collects magic from the potted plants) Hmm…

Aladdin: Oh, so you're saying we never should have left the—

Aladdin and Rasoul: The throne room!

(The shackles disappear.)

Genie: (as Aladdin and Rasoul grab him) Huh? Whoa!

SCENE CHANGE - the throne room

Aladdin: Oh no!

(We see sultan as a slug in a jar hanging on one side of the throne.)

Rasoul: This cannot be!

(We see Jasmine as a slug in another jar hanging on the other side of the throne. They run towards them, Rasoul to the sultan and Aladdin to Jasmine.)

Rasoul: Your highness!

Aladdin: Jasmine, I'm so sorry I—

Jasmine: Aladdin, you can stop Aziz. I know you can.

Aziz: How touching. (blows Aladdin and Rasoul back several feet with his magic and sits on the throne) Oh, what a shame. The game is over.

Aladdin: Change them back, Aziz.

Aziz: Well, actually, I rather like them the way they are.

Rasoul and Aladdin: Let me take their place.

Aziz: Sorry. I find the two of you quite amusing.

Rasoul: In that case, let's play a new game. But now, it's your turn. Catch us if you can, Aziz.

(The gang escapes through a trap door. Genie yells.)

Aziz: Ready or not, here I come!

(After a thrilling fall, the gang lands safely in a huge mound of hay.)

Genie: Uh, Rasoul? If the sultan and Jasmine are up there, what are we doing down here?

Rasoul: As long as Aziz is up there too, he'll never let us get near them. But, if he takes the bait…

Aladdin: He'll leave the throne room! (snaps)

Genie: And I can sneak in to help the sultan and Jasmine!

(Rasoul and Aladdin shush him.)

Aziz's voice: Aladdin? Is that you?

Genie: (secretively) He took the bait.

Aladdin: You'd better head back to the throne room.

Genie: Teamwork!! (as a cheerleader) Thaaat's the spirit!

Aladdin and Rasoul: Go!

(Genie disappears with Abu and Carpet, and the two men run for the nearby door. It is locked.)

Aziz's voice: Tell me if I'm getting warm or if I'm cold.

(A snowy gust of wind blows.)

Rasoul: Aladdin!

Aziz's voice: Or, am I freezing?

(Aziz laughs, and we see the room filled with snow. Aladdin's head pops out from a plump snowman.)

Aladdin: Rasoul?

(A block of ice with Rasoul trapped inside pops out from a frozen pond. Aladdin gasps. An avalanche forms. Aladdin escapes the snowman and runs from the avalanche. He tackles the block of ice and sleds on it across the room yelling and through bursts through the door. The door closes behind them magically. The two pop out from a pile of snow, shivering wildly.)

Rasoul: We're… alive?

Aladdin: For now.

SCENE CHANGE - Castle tunnels

Iago: Rasoul said there was some secret staircase around here. (flies into the wall and falls down a staircase) Ow! Oh! Oh! Ow! Oh! Ow! Ow! That hurt! Ow! Ow! Ooh! Ah! I must be close.

SCENE CHANGE - back to Aladdin and Rasoul

Aladdin: (helps Rasoul up) Come on. We can't make it too easy on Aziz.

Aziz: (secretly watching them) Ohh, no you don't. Time to feel more of my power! (blows orange magic that turns into a giant fist and flies after Aladdin and Rasoul) It's only getting better.

(The fist chases Aladdin and Rasoul, who are running and panting hard.)

Aladdin: Faster!

(The fist grabs them, and they find themselves in the desert in a sandstorm. Aziz's giant face laughs behind them. Then it and the fist and disappear.)

Aladdin: We're getting buried again!

Rasoul: I'll find a way out!

Aladdin: How? We're in the middle of the desert!

(Rasoul digs in the sand and finds a trap door. Aladdin gasps.)

Rasoul: (opens the door) This way!

(Aladdin smiles and follows him in. Once inside, they are climbing down a very tall ladder.)

Rasoul: That rat Aziz is toying with us! His magic is getting stronger! He could catch us any time!

Aladdin: Let him show off. It gives Genie more time to help Jasmine and the sultan!

SCENE CHANGE - The throne room

Genie: (hiding under the throne with Abu and Carpet) Okay, men. Keep a low profile. Uh, or, uh, no profile in your case. (flies out to Jasmine) This slug look just isn't you, Princess! How about a makeover?

Jasmine: And hurry!

Genie: (grabs the jar and gets hurt by a red glowing magic) Okayyy, forget the hands-on approach. (He shoots the jar with a laser gun. It ricochets and hits a pillar, almost hitting Genie.) Never try this at home, kids.

SCENE CHANGE - A high-roofed chamber

(A rope drops from a very high ceiling, and Rasoul and Aladdin begin climbing down.)

Aziz's voice: Oh, you boys are sneaky! Just remember! It's a jungle out there!

(The entire room becomes a jungle. The rope becomes a vine and ties up Aladdin and Rasoul.)

Aziz: (coughing) Looks like I won the game! Well, what do you think of my power now? Aladdin?

Aladdin: (being pull to Aziz by the vine) Give it up, Aziz. You don't have half the power of—

Aziz: Your genie? Why don't you join me in the throne room? We'll see who has real power after I destroy your true blue friend!

(Aziz blows green fire-like magic that fills the room. Once the magic clears, Aziz is gone, and Aladdin and Rasoul are back in the room they were climbing into.)

Aladdin: We have to stop him!

SCENE CHANGE - The throne room

Genie: (tries to break the jar as a nutcracker, but to no avail) Ya! That's one tough nut.

Aziz's voice: Aww. Why don't you let me help you?

Genie: Wuh oh! (A cloud of orange magic wraps around the jars, and they disappear.) Where'd they go?!

Aladdin: (runs in with Rasoul, who gasps) Genie!

(The orange magic becomes a fiery wheel, spinning in place.)

Genie: Your highness! Jasmine!

Aziz: (His head appears in the magic, laughing.) I've got the power of the world, man! The universe! It even blows my mind!

Genie: Okay. We've got a delicate situation here! But there's someone everyone listens to. (poofs into a lady with a trunk/chest beside him) Mom! That will be quite enough, young man. Time to put your toys away!

(Aziz gasps. He and the orange magic are sucked into the chest.)

Aziz: (flies from the chest, flaming green) How DARE you!

Genie: Now, don't make me the bad guy. You've had enough fun for one day! Time for bed! (turns the chest into a bed)

Aziz: No!

Aladdin: Rasoul, look.

(The green magic around him disappears, and his horns/ears catch fire. He puts them out with his hands.)

Aziz: D'oh!

Genie: Still wound up are we?

Aziz: I'll show you wound up!

Aladdin: Genie, watch out!

(Aziz, ears flaming again, wraps Genie up with orange magic. It shocks him, and he falls to the ground as a blue slug.)

Aladdin: Genie!

Genie: (turns into Dumbo) It's okay, Al! (turns back to a slug) He (changes into a flamenco dancer) cannot stop me! (changes back into a slug and falls to the floor) Oh, rats.

Aziz: (returns to the throne, horns still flaming) You can't deny it now, Aladdin. My power is so real, it's unreal. An invincible, supreme force!

(Aladdin looks at Rasoul as Aziz speaks, and they nod in agreement.)

Aladdin: Your power destroyed my best friend. Why didn't you get that sad excuse for a guard instead?

Rasoul: What?!

Aziz: (laughs and puts the fire out on his horns) That can be arranged.

(Aziz shoots magic at Rasoul from his mouth. Rasoul ducks, and the magic hits a pillar.)

Rasoul: Dah! That power-hungry street rat! He's the one you've got to get rid of! He'll never let you rule Agrabah!

Aziz: (horns once more on fire, more than before) Ah ha! Divided they fall!

(Aziz has two pillars fall. Aladdin runs from them.)

Aladdin: No! Rasoul is lying! That traitor will never let you live!

(Aziz, panting as his back now on fire, blows green magic at Rasoul. Rasoul dodges it.)

Rasoul: That flea-bitten weasel Aladdin is a liar AND a thief! Get him!

(Aziz's fists are now on fire, and his eyes are blood-shot. His body turns red. He huffs fiery orange magic at Aladdin, who swings on a rope and dodges it. Aziz turns black.)

Rasoul and Aladdin: (pointing to each other) Get him!

(Aziz boils over and explodes. Blue magic, like a comet, shoots up and through the throne room roof.

Rasoul: It worked!

Aladdin: Ha ha, we did it! (The blue magic shoots across the sky and explodes in fireworks.) I guess his destiny wasn't to lord over Agrabah, but to shine over it.

Genie: (turns back to normal) How did you guys know that?

Sultan's voice: Because Agrabah has a grand destiny ahead of her, (appears from the balcony) and one day Aladdin must guide it as sultan.

(Jasmine runs to Aladdin.)

Aladdin: Jasmine!

Rasoul: Your highness.

(Carpet flies the chattering Abu in.)

Jasmine: You'll be a great sultan, Aladdin.

Aladdin: As long as Rasoul will carry on as my captain of the royal guard.

Rasoul: I'm not going anywhere… Street rat.

Aladdin: You're never going to call me “your highness,” are you?

Rasoul: Get rid of that parrot, and I'll think about it.

(Everyone laughs.)

Genie: Hey. Where is Iago?

(We see Iago, still looking for the treasure.)

Iago: *Gasp* I finally found it! The sultan's secret stash! (struggles as he opens the chest) Soon I'll be rolling in pearls, diamonds, rubies, and… (sees the chest is full of dates) dates? Dried dates? (flies around, reading all of the boxes in the room) Beans? Walnuts? Uh! More dates! AAHH!! RASOUL!!!

(The camera shows the city night as he yells.)

THE END

65. The Sands of Fate / Пески судьбы
SORRY, but this episode is not completed

67. The Spice Is Right / Цена пряностей
(Setting: an ancient ruin. Aladdin, Abu, and Carpet are looking down a hole.)

Aladdin: Wow, I'll bet it's been a hundred years since the wind buried this
place.

(Abu chatters nervously.)

Aladdin: I know. They've been gone a long time, Abu.

Iago: Gangway! Big bucks coming through! (flying out of the hole wearing a
snorkel and flippers.) I hope.

(Abu points and laughs at Iago's clothing.)

Iago: Stupid apparatus! (takes it off) This was not my idea.

(Genie flies out of the hole wearing a scuba diving outfit.)

Genie: Greetings, landlubbers!

Aladdin: All right! What'd ya find, Genie?

(Genie goes back into the well and carries out a chest.)

Genie: Sure was deep! Whoever buried this must have wanted it to stay put!

Aladdin: (brushing dust off the chest) It says something about spice, Genie.
Magic spice.

(Aladdin opens the chest; it is full of sparkling purple spice.)

Iago: I've heard about this stuff; it turns anything it touches into gold!
(takes Abu's fez) Note, one polyester blend, sweat-stained monkey fez.
(sprinkles spice on it) Watch it transform... (nothing happens) Gold! Gold!
(pouring on more spice frantically) Come on, gold! Gold sesame!

(Abu takes his fez back.)

Iago: Maybe it's an invisibility spice. Yeah, that's it, invisibility. (puts
some on himself) Here, can't see me at all, can you?

Genie: (shooing Iago away) 'Scuse me. (changes into an original Star Trek
uniform, holding a tricorder) It's dead, Jim. There's more magic in a
doornail. (changes into a Mexican outfit) Goes great on frijoles, though.

Iago: I knew it! I've never done manual labor that I didn't live to regret!

Aladdin: Hey, look at this! (pulls a necklace with a large purple jewel out of
the chest)

Genie: A free prize in every box, kids! (taking the necklace) Hey, Al, this is
no cheesy costume stuff! We're talkin' the real enchilada here!

Aladdin: It's beautiful!

(Something inside the jewel starts to swirl, and clouds begin to gather
overhead.)

Iago: It must be worth a fortune. We can sell it! Rich at last! With my share
I'll buy a solid gold perch... nah, that's too birdy. Make that a solid gold
La-Z-Guy recliner!

Aladdin: This'll look great on Jasmine.

Iago: Well, so would a parrot-skin headdress, but I am not that big-hearted!

(The clouds overhead have turned black, and there is purple-colored lightning
coming out of them.)

Aladdin: That's strange. It was clear just a moment ago.

(They jump out of the way just before lightning strikes, leaving a giant hole
in the floor.)

Aladdin: Aah!

Genie: Ooh, the weather's really gone screwy since this hole-in-the-ozone
thing.

Iago: (is struck by lightning) Aah!

Aladdin: Genie, can you stop this lightning?

Genie: Let's see now. History of lightning. (a kite appears next to him)
Discovery of electricity. (Ben Franklin appears holding the kite) Discoverer of
electricity. (electric shaver appears in Genie's hand) Electric shaver. (shaves
off his beard) Hmm, smooth close shave.

Aladdin: (dodging lightning) Genie!

Genie: Lightning conductor! (changes into an orchestra conductor and is struck
by lightning) Uh, wrong conductor. (creates a barn; a cow wanders out of it)
Oops, my barn door's open. (The lightning strikes the weathervane on the top of
the barn.) Yahoo! Woohoo! I just love the smell of electromagnetism in the
morning!

(The wind blows the necklace out of Aladdin's hand.)

Aladdin: Abu, the necklace!

(Abu grabs the necklace, but the wind blows him into the chest, which slams
shut. The storm immediately clears up.)

Aladdin: You did it, Genie!

Genie: Yeah, I did, didn't I? (spins the weathervane in his hand) Well, color
me bad!

Aladdin: I just wonder where that purple lightning came from.

(Setting: the palace garden, later that day. Aladdin and his friends arrive on
Carpet, carrying the chest of spice.)

Genie: I can't wait to see the look on Jasmine's face when you give her the
necklace, Al.

Aladdin: Uh, I'd really like to give it to her in, um, private.

Genie: Ooh, private! I get it. (winks)

Aladdin: (takes the necklace out of the chest) Thanks for understanding, guys. (leaves)

(Abu sounds annoyed and follows after Aladdin.)

Iago: Boy, it takes absolute genius to give away a fortune to a girl who was
born rich. Say, it's a shame to waste all of this nice, shiny spice, isn't it?
Especially when we can take it to the marketplace and sell it.

Genie: That's a swell idea!

Iago: Well, it was nothing really...

Genie: Why, with the money Al can buy a shirt to go with that vest of his!
(walks away carrying the chest)

Iago: (coughs) I had something a little less charitable in mind. Genie! Genie!
Oh, Genie! Yoo-hoo!

(Iago runs off after Genie. Only Carpet is left in the garden.)

(Setting: Jasmine's room; she's brushing her hair while Rajah watches. Aladdin
enters holding the necklace behind his back.)

Jasmine: Aladdin! You look happy. Did you find what you were looking for?

Aladdin: I found what I was looking for long before I departed Agrabah, when I
met you.

Abu: Oh... (rolls his eyes)

Jasmine: Uh huh. When you lay it on this thick I know you're up to something.

(A tiny cloud has appeared high over Aladdin's head and starts to swirl.)

Aladdin: Just a little priceless treasure I picked up on my latest adventure.
(puts the necklace around Jasmine's neck)

Jasmine: Aladdin, it's beautiful! Come on, I wanna show Father.

(Jasmine runs out of the room, pulling Aladdin with her; Abu follows. Rajah is
growling at the growing cloud.)

Jasmine: Come, Rajah!

(Rajah leaves)

(Setting: the marketplace. Iago and Genie have a stand set up with the chest of
magic spice on it.)

Iago: Spice! Get your magic spice! (grabs a passing man by the beard) Hey,
Bosco! You should buy some magic spice.

Man: Magic? What kind of magic?

Genie: Mastery of the time-space continuum?

Man: Hmm... I give you five coppers.

Genie: Sold, for five coppers!

Iago: Take a hike, you hyena!

(The man runs away.)

Iago: Genie, magic spice doesn't come cheap. Get it?

Genie: Oh, I know that. Oh, if only we had some magic spice to sell...

Iago: Genie, this is magic spice, remember? We just don't know how it works
yet. Maybe we need to, yanno, spice up the spice a little. (starts whispering
something to Genie)

Genie: Hmm... bird's got a point.

(Setting: the palace. Aladdin and Jasmine are showing the necklace to Sultan.)

Sultan: Exemplary wedding present, my boy!

Aladdin: Huh? It wasn't a—

Sultan: I take it this means you and Jasmine have decided to get on with the
royal marriage ceremony, hmm?

Aladdin: Er, well, sir, I...

Jasmine: (giggles) Actually, Father, it's not a wedding—

(There's a loud sound from behind them. They turn around to see the cloud from
before, now as large as a person and coming towards them. The cloud disappears
and a gray-skinned man appears in its place. Rajah growls at him, but when the
man looks at him he becomes frozen. The man walks over to Jasmine.)

Man: Darling... (kisses Jasmine's hand)

Aladdin: Hey, look mister!

Man: You little matchmaker, you! I like her. (shakes Aladdin's hand) My name's
Ayam Aghoul. Many thanks for unleashing me.

Aladdin: Unleashing you?

Ayam: (coughs out cobwebs) I haven't felt so alive since... Ooh, silly me. I've
never been alive.

Jasmine: Ew! (wipes the hand he kissed frantically on her clothing)

Sultan: See here, sir! No one from beyond the grave kisses my daughter!

Ayam: Oh, I'm hardly just anyone. You're talking to the duke of the undead. You
see, I once possessed that enchanted necklace. Any woman who wore it became my
bride. I went through a long line of wives, until the day I tried slipping my
necklace onto a comely young sorceress. She trapped me within my necklace!
Where I stayed... until today, when you placed it on Jasmine, betrothing her as
Ayam Aghoul's next bride. (takes a skull-shaped container wrapped in a bow out
of his cape and offers it to Jasmine) For you, my love. (removes the lid, it
is full of live spiders) Chocolate-covered spiders.

Aladdin: Don't worry, Jasmine, we can unbetroth you just as easy.

(Aladdin tries to remove the necklace but is hit by a bolt of purple
lightning.)

Jasmine: Aladdin! (gasps)

Aladdin: That won't stop me!

(Ayam throws a bone on the floor, which turns into three skeletons.)

Aladdin: Whoa, this is getting weird. (to Abu) Let's rattle some bones!

(Aladdin knocks over all three skeletons, breaking them to pieces.)

Aladdin: Ha! Got any more cheap tricks, Aghoul?

(The bones reform into a giant, three-headed skeleton.)

Aladdin: Sorry I asked!

Sultan: Guards!

(Three guards enter the room, and two more skeletons appear.)

Fazal: Ew!

(The guards run at the two skeletons to attack them, but the skeletons
rearrange their bones to form a cage, trapping the guards.)

(The three-headed skeleton catches Aladdin and Abu.)

Aladdin: Hey!

(The skeleton throws Aladdin off the balcony.)

Aladdin: (falling) Whoa!

Jasmine: Aladdin!

(The skeleton picks Jasmine up; she struggles to escape. Meanwhile, Carpet sees
that Aladdin has fallen and flies after him.)

Jasmine: (under her breath) Carpet!

(Carpet catches Aladdin and Abu just before they hit the ground.)

Ayam: Time for the fitting! (two skeletons start measuring Ayam with tape
measurers) Skeletons! They're creatures of destruction, they're tailors...
gotta love 'em!

Jasmine: (to herself) Please, Carpet...

Ayam: Oh, so sorry about your young lad. I was going to make him my best man,
you know. (to one of the skeleton tailors) Not so tight on the inseam; I'll
need room to tango.

(As Sultan gives Jasmine a hug, Aladdin waves to them from out on the balcony.)

Sultan: He's alive!

(Jasmine covers Sultan's mouth, and Aladdin and Abu fly away on Carpet. They
land in the palace garden.)

Aladdin: Oh, Carpet, this is all my fault. I had to give Jasmine that stupid
necklace! Carpet, we need Genie!

(Setting: the marketplace, at Genie and Iago's stall. Genie is dressed as a
salesman.)

Genie: Come on down! See the incredible miracle elixir spice of Agrabah!
Straight out of the Sands of Time to you!

(Two men stop to watch for a moment, then keep walking, clearly unimpressed.)

Genie: Why just look at how magic spice cleans stains!

(Genie throws some spice on two children playing in mud. Nothing happens. The
passersby are still unimpressed. Genie uses his own magic to zap the dirt from
the children's clothing. Everyone is amazed, thinking the magic spice did it.)

Genie: Witness how magic spice grows hair! (puts some on the head of a bald
man, then zaps him, giving him a full beard and long hair) And see magic spice
revolutionize transportation! (puts some spice on a camel, then zaps it, making
it grow twice as long and giving it six humps) Behold, the airport limo camel!
Gets you to the airport hundreds of years before check-in! Anyone interested
in a little spice?

(The stall is mobbed with customers.)

Iago: (taking customers' payments) Oh, I've died and gone to heaven! It's a
good place.

(Carpet flies up to the stall.)

Genie: Magic spice is so all-purpose, it can even make you disappear! (Carpet
flies under Genie's feet and lifts him up into the air.)

Iago: That's right, folks! The magic disappearing spice! Available here... for
a price.

(Setting: the palace. Jasmine, Sultan, and Ayam Aghoul are on a balcony,
looking down into the garden.)

Ayam: Feast your eyes on your magnificent future, Jasmine.

(Skeletons are carrying stone blocks into the garden and stacking them up in a
pile.)

Ayam: The nice thing, Dad, is that Jasmine will stay close. We're moving in
right next door.

Sultan: Oh my.

Ayam: White ribcage fence, a little carnivorous plant garden out back. Our
little dream house, with you, my wife, to keep it spotless.

Jasmine: What?! I'll never clean your house! (runs back inside, into the throne
room)

Ayam: (angry) For a second there, Jasmine dear, I thought you didn't appreciate
my offer of domestic bliss.

(There's a squeaking sound coming from out on the balcony. Ayam leaves Jasmine
alone and goes out to see what it is. Abu is out on the balcony riding a
mechanical sphinx. He waves at Ayam.)

Abu: Hello!

(Ayam looks confused, then advances on Abu angrily. A pyramid falls out of the
sky and lands on Ayam, destroying the balcony in the process. We then see Genie
and Aladdin on the roof of the palace, shaking hands, with Abu and Carpet
watching.)

Genie: The strength of a thousand Teamsters in one little finger. I love being
a genie!

Aladdin: (flying down into the throne room) I think that dream house suits him
much better.

Jasmine: Oh, Aladdin, you won!

(Aladdin runs toward Jasmine to give her a hug, but Ayam appears in front of
her, and Aladdin accidentally hugs him instead.)

Aladdin: Ick!

Ayam: So, it's a fight you want, is it, boy?

Aladdin: Great, I gotta fight this guy and he's already dead!

(Ayam turns into a giant whirlwind, which spits out purple lightning bolts.)

Genie: Don't sweat it, Al. (the weathervane appears in his hand) I got this one
down, remember? (turns into a cowboy, imitating John Wayne's voice) All right,
listen up, ya twinklin' purple Tesla coil, ya!

(Ayam electrocutes Genie.)

Genie: Yow! (dizzily) Best two outta three? (passes out)

(The whirlwind changes back into Ayam.)

Ayam: Some advice for you, boy. Start looking for a new girlfriend. For once
Jasmine enters my dream house with me, she'll be mine for eternity.

Aladdin: What do you mean, "for eternity"?

Ayam: Oh, I guess I haven't formally introduced you to my other wives.

(Ayam claps his hands and three skeletons appear behind Jasmine, giggling and
holding cobweb fans.)

Ayam: Quite a harem, eh? (laughs)

(Setting: later, outside Ayam Aghoul's house, which is almost completed.
Aladdin, Abu, and Genie are watching the skeletons work.)

Genie: So those are his wives! I gotta tell ya, Al: Jasmine really looks much
better with skin.

Aladdin: (sigh) I'm gonna lose her, Genie, and it's all my fault.

Abu: Oh...

Genie: You're right kid. All your fault.

Aladdin: Huh?

Genie: You know, the situation. Mingle with zombies, pay the price. You have
every right to feel like a creep. Creep.

Aladdin: Now, wait a minute here! How was I supposed to know giving Jasmine a
gift was gonna unleash that guy!

(Genie sticks a fish in Aladdin's mouth.)

Genie: (dressed as an animal trainer) Good boy! Aladdin will encore with a
double somersault through seven fiery hoops, but, for his next trick...
(changes back to normal) he'll stop blaming himself so we can put the kibosh on
Count Dracula.

Aladdin: You're right, Genie. Aghoul mentioned that a sorceress once trapped
him within his own necklace. We have to figure out how she did it!

Genie: Hmm, that's a toughie. You're right, Al. You shoulda left that dumb
spice chest buried where you found it.

Aladdin: Wait a minute... the necklace was buried in the spice! Genie, that
spice was magic! I unleashed Aghoul when I pulled the necklace out of the
chest!

Genie: So the spice stopped the lightning storm the first time... not me. (to
the weathervane) What good are you?!

Aladdin: If I'm right, it's not too late to lock Aghoul up again. So Genie,
where's the spice?

Genie: (guilty) Ha ha... Al, uh, ya see, Iago had a, yanno, idea, that...

Aladdin: You did what!?

(Setting: later, outside Ayam's house. The skeletons are putting on the
finishing touches while Ayam, Jasmine, and Sultan watch. Jasmine is wearing a
purple and gray dress with a veil.)

Ayam: Behold, the portal through which we enter our eternal home. Aprиs vous?

Jasmine: Over my dead body!

Genie: Places, people, places! (enters wearing a bizarre outfit) What's a
wedding without — ta da! — your friendly neighborhood wedding consultant!
(whispers to Jasmine) Al says we've gotta stall. (to Ayam) Look alive, people!
Except you, of course.

Ayam: No one hired you!

Genie: Now, don't be coy, zombie-man. The sultan did, didn't you, handsome?

Sultan: Uh, well, I...

Ayam: I'm the only wedding consultant we'll need!

Jasmine: Oh, come on, Ayam, it's an old Agrabanian custom.

Ayam: Okay, but be quick about it.

Genie: Beloved gathered friends, we now initiate the hallowed Agrabanian
wedding ceremony. (creates a limbo stick and a stereo) Let's limbo! (limbos
under the stick) Day-o!

Jasmine: (to Ayam) Aprиs vous?

(Setting: the marketplace. Aladdin, Abu, and Carpet fly up to Iago's stall,
where he is rolling in a pile of coins and laughing.)

Iago: I made it! Ah ha ha! Little me! (singing) Mama's little Polly loves
money, money... (laughs)

Aladdin: Iago, snap out of it! Where's the spice?

Iago: The spice? I sold it all! Where d'ya think I got all of this lovely,
shiny, beautiful money?

Aladdin: (devastated) Sold all the spice?

Iago: Relax, you'll get your cut: five percent. (under his breath) Minus stand
rental and my commission.

Aladdin: (angry) We have to get that spice back! Where is it?

Iago: Okay, okay, okay... Ten percent, forget the rental, and I'll throw in the
genie's cut.

(They overhear a man nearby talking to himself and turn around. They see he has
a pile of magic spice on his bald head.)

Man: It worked faster before. Maybe I'm not doing it right.

(Nearby, Omar the merchant is rubbing spice on a camel's backside.)

Omar: Hmm... well, perhaps it takes more rubbing for the airport limo camel.

Aladdin: We have to buy it back, even if it means paying double their purchase
price!

Iago: No! No! This can't be happening!

(Setting: outside Ayam's house. Ayam and Genie are standing at the top of an
extremely tall diving board.)

Genie: Oh, yes! The pita bread high dive, it's a must for the groom.

Ayam: Are you sure this is proper wedding custom in Agrabah?

Genie: Just make sure you hit it dead center. (points to a pita that has been
placed under the diving board)

(Jasmine and Sultan are watching from below.)

Jasmine: Yes, that's a special honor!

Sultan: My word, Jasmine, I've never heard of this custom and I'm the sultan.

Genie: (pushing Ayam off the diving board) Break a leg!

(Ayam hits the ground so hard that he ends up half-buried. Genie goes down to
the ground and pulls him out. Ayam has the pita stuck to his face. Genie pulls
it off of him and measures it with a measuring tape.)

Genie: Aw, too bad, Champ. Missed dead center by a hair. Good thing for you
we've got lots more pita bread! (holds up two big plastic bags full of pitas)

Ayam: Enough!

(Ayam shoots a bolt of magic at the door of his house, which starts to open
slowly. All that can be seen inside is a bright red light. Ayam grabs Jasmine's
arm.)

Ayam: And now my dear, enter eternity with me.

(Purple light surrounds Ayam and Jasmine, and they raise into the air and begin
to float toward the doorway. Genie jumps in front of them.)

Genie: Excuse me, but you haven't paid the deejay!

(Ayam zaps Genie out of the way.)

Jasmine: I'll never love you.

Ayam: If I waited for love I'd still be a bachelor. (chuckles)

(Aladdin, Abu, and Iago swoop down from the sky on Carpet. Aladdin jumps off
the carpet and tackles Ayam.)

Ayam: What do you think you're doing?

Aladdin: Just giving back something that belongs to you! (takes the chest of
spice off of Carpet and opens it)

Ayam: Aah! Not that cursed spice!

Iago: I hear ya, pal. It's brought me nothing but heartache, too.

(Ayam struggles with Aladdin and pushes him to the ground, then tries to shoot
him with a bolt of purple lightning and misses. The bolt does, however, make a
crack in the ground large enough that Aladdin can't get over it to reach Ayam.
Ayam grabs Jasmine, and the purple light surrounds them again.)

Ayam: We'll send a postcard from our honeymoon.

Aladdin: Jasmine! No!

(Aladdin leaps over the crack in the ground and runs towards them, but it's too
late: Ayam and Jasmine have entered the house and the door has shut behind
them.)

Aladdin: (sadly) No, it can't be. Come back, Jasmine.

Jasmine: Aladdin.

(Aladdin turns around to see Jasmine standing behind him. They hug.)

Aladdin: But, if you're out here, who's in there?

(Inside the house)

Ayam: Well, darling, how do you like it?

(The fake Jasmine turns around, and we can see that it's Genie in a dress.)

Genie: Oh, I don't know. Maybe with some cafй curtains over the window. Maybe
with some windows, for that matter...

(The doors to Ayam's house open and he emerges, angrily, and starts shooting
lightning bolts at Aladdin.)

(Aladdin grabs some of the magic spice and throws it on Jasmine's necklace,
which causes it to fall off. When this happens, Ayam clutches at his chest as
if he's in pain. Abu then picks up the fallen necklace and throws it in the
spice chest. A whirlwind emerges from the spice, sucking Ayam inside. Abu slams
the chest shut.)

(Jasmine's purple dress changes back to her normal clothes. The bone cage
trapping the guards falls apart. Rajah unfreezes. Ayam's house disappears.
Genie appears in the garden with the others, wearing a tattered purple dress.)

Genie: (sobbing) Always a genie, never a bride... Oh, well. Better unwed than
undead.

Aladdin: (handing Genie the chest) Genie, make sure this is buried someplace no
one will ever find it. (sighs) I'm sorry about your present, Jasmine.

Jasmine: Oh, it's the thought that counts. Besides, it looks like Iago's the
one who'll really miss it.

Iago: Look, Genie, there's plenty of other towns! We could get quadruple the
price! We could retire tomorrow! For my sake, think about what you're throwing
away!

(Genie slingshots the chest off somewhere over the horizon.)

Iago: Oh, the humanity!

THE END

69. The Prophet Motive / Грозное пророчество
Narrator: Long ago, there lived an evil giant, Fashoom, who amassed a
prodigious treasure plundered from a thousand caravans.

(Wall painting of the giant cyclops Fashoom and his treasure; pan to a
painting of a thief.)

Narrator: All who tried to steal Fashoom’s treasure fell victim to his
eye of destruction.

(Pan to another painting of Fashoom, with fire shooting out of his eye.)

(New painting, of a young man with long black hair and brightly colored
clothes holding a glowing magic staff.)

Narrator: His brother, Fasir, cast a spell on Fashoom, turning the
monster to stone.

(Painting of stone Fashoom.)

Narrator: For a thousand years, none of this has mattered. Until now.

(Close up of Fashoom painting; his eye is a red precious stone, which
glimmers.)

(Setting: the streets of Agrabah.)

(Aladdin and Abu turn a corner onto the street. They walk to the end of
the street; it is a dead end. Iago flies around the corner after them
and lands on a windowsill.)

Iago: Oh, yeah. Here’s another promising dead end. You don’t get any
loster than this. If you’re streetwise, I’d hate to see street-stupid!

Aladdin: But we can’t be lost! I’ve lived in these alleys for seventeen
years! Now suddenly everything’s different. All changed around.

Old man: Perhaps I can help you find your way.

(They turn around to see an old man with a long white beard and long
hair, wearing ragged brown clothes and with a cloth tied around his
eyes and using a stick to walk. Apparently, he is blind.)

Iago: Oh, great, the blind leading the incompetent.

(The man swings his stick at Iago and barely misses. Iago squawks.)

Old man: Appearances can be deceiving, raucous one. Even blind I see
more than you, for I see... the future.

Iago: And I see... a rip-off!

Aladdin: I’m sorry, but I can’t afford to be, uh...

(The man blocks Aladdin with his cane.)

Old man: And who mentioned money?

Aladdin: Well, I - I just assumed that, uh...

Old man: That because I choose to dress simply, I must be a beggar. Ah,
you see, appearances can be deceiving.

Aladdin: Ah, well, thanks but no thanks. (starts to walk away)

Old man: I understand. Many are afraid of the future.

(Aladdin stops and turns around.)

Aladdin: Afraid?!

Iago: He’s hooked.

Aladdin: Hey, I am not afraid, old man. Go on, tell me what you see.

Old man: I see... (puts hand on his forehead) ... and the Mouth of
Mamoon-Ra speaks. (he takes his and away, and there is the shape of a
pair of red lips on his blindfold)

(The scenery around Aladdin has changed into gray clouds. A mask in the
shape of a female face with blue-green skin and red lips floats out of
the man’s blindfold and floats toward Aladdin.)

Mouth of Mamoon-Ra: You’ll race to save a friend so thin.
The dark ship flies; you cannot win.
A pick you’ll find among the bones,
Then meet your doom upon the stones.

(The mask flies back into the man’s blindfold, and the scenery returns
to normal.)

Old man: The Mouth of Mamoon-Ra has spoken.

Aladdin: Did you say “doom”?

Iago: Hey, what am I, chopped camel meat? What about my future?

(The old man waves his hands, and a cloud appears, which shows Aladdin
lying on the ground as if dead, with Jasmine, Abu, and Iago around him.)

Old man: I see you weeping over his motionless form.

Abu: Ooo....

Aladdin: Oh, this is ridiculous. (starts to walk away) Hey, come on,
we’ve wasted enough time here.

Old man: Remember, Aladdin: Appearances can be deceiving.

Aladdin: (turns around) Yeah? Well... what? But I... we were... there
was... the marketplace? (Aladdin and the others are now in the
marketplace instead of an alley) But...how did we get here?

Iago: Am I the only one having an anxiety attack?

(Setting: in the palace garden.)

(Genie, in the form of a fat woman, is giving a manicure. Carpet is
fanning her with a leaf.)

Genie: I swear, honey, just look at your cuticles. How long have you
been working on the railroad? Ha, just kidding.

(Carpet hears a rustling sound and turns around to see a pink, feminine-
looking carpet in front of a tree holding a small hand fan. It giggles
and waves to Carpet. Carpet points to himself, as if to say, “Who, me?”
The other carpet waves some more and whistles to him. Carpet jumps into
the air excitedly and speeds over to the other carpet who has ducked
behind a tree. She flies up into the tree and signals for Carpet to
follow. We then see that the lady carpet is a marionette being
controlled by Haroud, who lays it on a branch. When Carpet follows,
Abis Mal reaches out and grabs him.)

Abis Mal: Gotcha. (Grunts with effort) Quick, Haroud! The moths! The moths!

(Haroud pulls a jar full of moths out of his jacket.)

Abis Mal: (to the audience) Note: piranha moths. From the Congo.
(Struggles with Carpet some more) Do what I say or you’ll have more
holes than something with a great many holes.

(Carpet stops struggling.)

(Genie pulls out a chainsaw to use on Jasmine’s nails. Jasmine hears
Abis Mal laughing, and turns to see him and Haroud flying away on Carpet.)

Jasmine: Abis Mal!

(Carpet flies over the palace.)

Jasmine: Carpet, no!

(Setting: just outside the palace.)

(Aladdin, Iago, and Abu are returning to the palace.)

Aladdin: “save a friend so thin”... Who do I know who’s thin?

Iago: Ahem. (sucks in his gut)

(Jasmine and Genie run out of the palace.)

Jasmine: Aladdin! Abis Mal’s stolen Carpet!

Iago: Oh, *him* ...

Aladdin: We need some transportation, Genie.

Genie: I’ve got just the thing!

(Genie changes into a chariot, and Aladdin and Jasmine jump inside.)

Abu: Uh oh! (Starts to run away, but Genie changes him into a horse and
hooks him up to the chariot)

(They chase after Abis and Haroud on Carpet through the marketplace.)

Aladdin: A fortune teller said I’d “race to save a friend so thin”! He
must have meant Carpet!

Abis Mal: (looking down) What? Oh, great, it’s that Aladdin kid again.
Curse him! May his bones...uh...uh...bones...uh...

Haroud: Crumble, sir?

Abis Mal: Crumble! Yes, ya ha ha! And may his flesh just...hmm...

Haroud: Rot.

Abis Mal: Rot. Rot’s good. I like rot. Let’s, let’s stick with rot.
(evil laughter)

(They chase Abis Mal to a village on the sea.)

Haroud: We’ve reached the ship, sir. (they land in a ship)

(Genie and Abu stop. Genie changes into a pelican, and zaps Abu back
into a monkey, but still wearing a horse collar.)

(Aladdin, Jasmine, and Iago stand on the pier, watching Abis Mal’s ship
get away.)

Jasmine: We’re too late!

Iago: Just like the old man predicted!

Aladdin: “The dark ship flies; you cannot win”!

Iago: Well, that’s that. When we get back to the palace, let’s send out
for falafel.

Aladdin: Haven’t lost the race yet. (walks over to a fisherman holding
a net) Excuse me, is your boat seaworthy?

Fisherman: Well, yes...

Jasmine: We’ll buy it! (hands him a bag of gold)

Fisherman: (looking at the coins) But...

(They have already left in a boat.)

Fisherman: (to the audience) That’s not my boat!

(Setting: Abis Mal’s ship.)

(Haroud is sewing Carpet to the sail.)

Abis Mal: (calling up to Haroud) If it were me, I’d go for double
stitching on the corners!

Haroud: (annoyed; growls) As you wish, O great Abis Mal!

(Setting: Aladdin’s ship.)

(Aladdin pulls down the sail; it is ragged and full of holes.)

Aladdin: I think we overpaid. Genie, we need a new sail!

Genie: I’ll do better than that.

(Genie goes to the back of the boat, pulls on his hair, and makes
sounds like an outboard motor starting up. Then he puts his face in the
water and uses it as a motor, speeding their boat towards Abis Mal’s.)

(Setting: Abis Mal’s ship.)

Abis Mal: Still he pursues me! What is it with this kid? May he...he...um...

Haroud: Burn in eternal flame, sir.

Abis Mal: Right! Starting tomorrow I learn a new curse every day.
Haroud! The moths!

Haroud: Moths it is, sir! (takes out jar and holds it towards Carpet)
Fly. Now.

(The carpet starts to glow, and the glow spreads over the entire ship,
which starts to rise into the air.)

(Setting: Aladdin’s ship.)

(Aladdin is talking to Jasmine.)

Aladdin: ...Then he said, “A pick you’ll find among the bones, then
meet your”...uh...um, uh, I - I forget the rest.

Iago: Are you kiddin’? That’s the best part! “Meet your doo-”

(Aladdin claps his hand over Iago’s beak.)

Jasmine: Meet your what? What are you hiding?

(Aladdin sighs and lets Iago go.)

Aladdin: “Meet your doom upon the stones.”

(Jasmine gasps.)

Aladdin: It’s just a lot of mumbo-jumbo! Doesn’t mean a thing!

Jasmine: But racing to save a thin friend! He was right about that!

Aladdin: Yeah, well, he said Abis Mal’s ship would fly, too...

(Abu screeches and points to something behind Aladdin.)

Aladdin: ...But you don’t see that (turns around) hap...en...ing...

(Abis Mal’s ship flies towards them.)

Aladdin: “The dark ship flies”!

(When the ship is directly over Aladdin’s, it drops its anchor, sinking it.)

Abis Mal: Dropping heavy objects on people! (laughs) I like it! Haroud,
remind me to steal more heavy objects. Now, get the net! I want to do...
a little fishing.

(Aladdin, Jasmine, and Abu cling to driftwood. The genie turns into a
buoy and Iago lands on him.)

Jasmine: Maybe we can reach those rocks! (points to some sharp rocks in
the distance)

Aladdin: But we still have to rescue Carpet! And - and he’s...

(Abis Mal’s net drops on them and catches everyone but Iago.)

Abis Mal: (to Haroud) Lucky shot. Now, reel them in.

Haroud: (to himself) Physical labor, ugh. (out loud) As you wish, sir. The thrill
of the capture shall be mine. (starts to turn the winch)

Abis Mal: What? No! No! Stop taking my thrills. I don’t get that many
thrills! (pushes Haroud out of the way and winds the winch himself)
I’m...ugh...oof...

(Haroud smiles.)

(Coughing, Genie, Aladdin, Abu, and Jasmine are slowly lifted out of
the water.)

Aladdin: Genie! (coughs) Go check on Carpet!

Genie: Aye aye, Captain! (salutes, turns into a fly, and flies away)

Jasmine: You could have had him get us out of this net first!

Aladdin: Why? We wanted to catch up with Abis Mal, and that’s where
we’re headed.

Iago: Oh yeah, this is a good thing...

(They all scream; they are headed for the sharp rocks.)

Mouth of Mamoon-Ra: (voice over) Meet your doom upon the stones....

(Aladdin pushes Abu through the net.)

Aladdin: Save yourself, Abu!

(Abu starts to climb up the rope towards the ship, then stops.)

Aladdin: Go on! Abu, go!

(Abu runs back and grabs Aladdin’s arm.)

Aladdin: Iago!

Iago: I know, I know, save the monkey. (flies down and grabs Abu with
his talons) Isn’t it enough I gotta risk life and limb? Now I gotta
risk fleas!

(Abu chatters angrily.)

Aladdin: Come on, Jasmine, help me lift!

(Aladdin and Jasmine try to lift themselves up with the rope; they
barely miss the sharp rocks, and sigh with relief.)

Abis Mal: (grunting; still turning the winch) Villainy is a lot more
rewarding with someone to gloat over, am I right?

Haroud: (leaning against the mast, drinking a cup of tea) Mm, well,
that has been my experience, sir.

(Abis Mal pulls Aladdin and Jasmine onto the boat.)

Aladdin: You won’t get away with this, you filthy jackal!

Abis Mal: Ooo! Filthy jackal! Haroud, write that one down!

(Abu and Genie are watching from the sail with Carpet.)

Genie: Pst! Up here! (Genie has turned into a pair of scissors) Do I
cut him loose neatly or (turns into a sword) quickly?

Abu: No! No, no no no no! (signals with his hands that the ship will
fall if Carpet is cut loose)

Genie: Oh, right. We’d drop like a stockbroker on Black Tuesday! And
*that* would be *bad*! Sorry, my hands are tied!

(Carpet points to Aladdin and Jasmine.)

Genie: Roger! I’ll stick with Al and Jas! (turns into a fly and flies
below deck where Aladdin and Jasmine have been taken)

(Setting: below deck on Abis Mal’s ship.)

(Aladdin and Jasmine are tied to chairs.)

Abis Mal: Admit it, (Iago looks in the window) you’re dying to know why
I stole your tasseled friend.

Jasmine: Obviously to make him fly your stupid ship.

Abis Mal: But why do I want him to fly my stupid ship? That’s what you
should be asking.

(Genie as a fly flies in Abis Mal’s face, who tries to swat him with
his hand. Genie lands on Aladdin’s nose.)

Genie: Should I make with the semi-phenomenal, nearly cosmic powers?

Aladdin: Not yet, I wanna hear his plan!

Abis Mal: Beg all you want! I’ll never reveal my plan! Ha ha! Go ahead!
Beg me!

(Aladdin and Jasmine yawn.)

Aladdin: Couldn’t care less, actually.

Abis Mal: OK, you dragged it out of me. (pulls up a chair) I’m going to
steal the treasure of Fashoom!

Aladdin: (laughs) Fashoom?

Jasmine: He’s just a myth!

Abis Mal: Myth? Ha ha. It’s a cover-up. And I have learned the location
of his secret castle.

Jasmine: But that doesn’t explain why you need a flying ship.

(Haroud enters, holding a bottle.)

Haroud: Uh, approaching the castle, sir.

Abis Mal: Well, Fashoom’s castle is a little off the beaten path.

(The clouds part to show a castle floating in the air.)

Haroud: One more thing, sir. (holds up the bottle) I found this buzzing
about the garbage pail. (it is Genie as a fly, who changes into a
miniature Genie) Seems to be a genie of some sort. Absolutely powerless
when confined.

Abis Mal: This is great! (sticks the bottle in his belt) First I steal
your carpet, then your genie! (laughs) What else have you got for me to
take, I wonder? (touches Jasmine’s chin; she tries to bite him) Ah ah ah!

(Setting: a cell on the ship.)

(Abis Mal throws Aladdin into a cell, which has two skeletons in it.)

Abis Mal: Now, play nice. You guys will be rooming together for the
next few centuries. (slams the door)

Aladdin: What about Jasmine? Where are you taking her?

Abis Mal: Don’t worry, she’s going with us. Somebody has to check for
booby traps.

(Haroud drags Jasmine above deck; Abis Mal follows them.)

Jasmine: Aladdin!

Aladdin: Jasmine!

(Aladdin looks at the skeletons.)

Aladdin: What are you grinning at? (thinking) Hmm...

(Setting: the sail of the ship.)

(Abu is starting to pull out the string Carpet is sewn to the sail with.)

Iago: OK, OK, as soon as Genie gets them free, you rip out those
stitches, and we’re outta here. Got it?

Abu: Uh huh!

(Carpet sees Abis Mal, Haroud, and Jasmine leaving the ship and starts
flapping around. Abu starts chattering at him.)

Iago: Hey! Chill your tassels!

(Setting: Aladdin’s cell.)

(Aladdin picks the lock of the cell with a finger bone and lets himself
out.)

Aladdin: Huh! Now that’s what I call a skeleton key.

Mouth of Mamoon-Ra: (voice over) A pick you’ll find among the bones...

Aladdin: ... “Then meet your doom”...

(The ship rocks, and knocks Aladdin over.)

Aladdin: What was that? (runs above deck)

(Setting: the sail of the ship)

(Carpet is thrashing around.)

Iago: Hey, simmer down! We’ll rescue Jasmine in a minute!

(Carpet rips himself almost all the way out, knocking down Abu, who
grabs a rope on the way down.)

Iago: No! Aaaahh!

(Carpet is all the way out; the ship starts to fall.)

Iago: (to Carpet) Uh oh, we blew it.

(Setting: the deck of the ship.)

(Aladdin has just come up the stairs.)

Aladdin: What’s goin’ on? Huh?

(Abu swings down and hits him in the face, knocking him against the
side of the ship. They look over the side and see that they’re falling.)

(Aladdin and Abu fall over the side of the ship and start yelling. They
fall through some clouds; a second later they come flying back through
the clouds on Carpet.)

Aladdin: Huh! You weren’t worried, were you, Abu?

Abu: Who, me? Hah! (falls over)

(Setting: Fashoom’s castle)

(Abis Mal pushes open the door to the castle.)

Jasmine: Oh...

Abis Mal: ...boy!

Haroud: And, might I add, wow!

(The entire castle is filled with piles of gold and jewels.)

Abis Mal: As treasures go, this one’s a real, um, uh, oh...

Haroud: A lollapalooza, sir?

Abis Mal: Yahoo! (jumps headfirst into a pile of gold, and spits out
some coins. He looks up and sees a giant stone statue of a cyclops with
a ruby for an eye) Yeaaaahhhhh!

(Setting: just outside the castle.)

Iago: (pacing in a circle) Oh, boy. If they’re not back in ten minutes,
I call all the hospitals.

(Aladdin and Abu fly up on Carpet.)

Iago: Take a little longer next time! Oh, why don’t you just go for
some espresso? (sees the finger bone) Wait a minute, what, praytell,
have we here?

Aladdin: Just the bone I used to pick the lock of my cell!

Iago: You mean you found the pick among the bones? Eh, that’s it.
Prophesy fulfilled. You’re dead.

Aladdin: Forget the prophesy! Hey, who’s in charge of my destiny,
anyway? I am, that’s who! Not some back-alley fortune teller!

Abu: Uh huh!

Iago: Yeah, we are talking some serious denial here.

Aladdin: Let’s go, Carpet!

(Carpet flies away with all of them, Iago squawks.)

(Setting: inside Fashoom’s castle)

Haroud: (knocking on the statue of Fashoom) It’s solid stone, see.
Perfectly harmless. Now let’s be a grown-up villain and stop gibbering
and drooling.

(Abis Mal is making gibbering noises and trying to run away, but Haroud
is holding on to the end of his coat. After Haroud finishes talking, he
gets a grip on himself.)

Abis Mal: Uh...uh...Oh. Uh, yes. Ahem. Ahem. Of course. Focus. Focus.
Well, what are you waiting for? Get me that eye!

Haroud: (laughs) You mean, *I* will have the honor of being first to
touch the eye?

Abis Mal: Yes! I mean, no, no! Of course not! You? Ha ha ha! Don’t make
me laugh! Nyah ha ha! (starts climbing the statue) Ha ha, once I’ve got
that eye, the whole world will, will, uh...

Haroud: Shudder at your name. (pulls out a nail file; Jasmine starts to
sneak away)

Abis Mal: (pulling out the eye) Oh, you think? Shudder! (pulls out the
eye and falls off the statue) Yeow! Ooh... (Haroud looks concerned) I’m
OK... My fall was broken by my spine. Now, who will be my first victim?
(sees Jasmine almost out the door) Ha ha! (zaps the pillar next to her,
blocking her path; she gasps) I like this thing!

Haroud: It’s you, sir.

(Aladdin, Abu, and Iago swoop down on Carpet, and Aladdin grabs the eye
from Abis Mal.)

Abis Mal: Huh? What?

Jasmine: Aladdin!

Aladdin: (stops Carpet in front of the statue and aims the eye at Abis
Mal and Haroud) Now you’ll do as *I* command!

Abis Mal: (grabs Jasmine and uses her as a shield) Go ahead. Use it to
turn your princess to cinders!

(The statue roars and comes to life.)

Fashoom: Who has Fashoom’s eye? (waves his hands around searching, and
knocks into Carpet, knocking Aladdin to the floor.)

(Jasmine gasps. Fashoom picks up the fallen eye and puts it back; it
changes into a real eye.)

Fashoom: Ah, yes. (picks up Aladdin’s limp body) No one steals from
Fashoom!

Abis Mal: Told you we shouldn’t steal from Fashoom! (lets go of Jasmine)

Fashoom: (puts down Aladdin) So, you stole Fashoom’s eye!

Abis Mal: Stole is a very strong word!

(Abis Mal and Haroud run away; Fashoom tries to step on them.)

Jasmine: (Goes over to Aladdin, who still isn’t moving) Aladdin?

Abu: Oh... Aladdin? (lifts up Aladdin’s eyelid)

Jasmine: Aladdin! (hugs him)

(Abu and Iago start crying; it looks just like the scene the old man
showed earlier.)

Iago: “And meet your doom upon the stones”! (blows his nose)

Jasmine: No! No!

Fashoom: (roars and tries to zap Abis and Haroud)You stole Fashoom’s
eye! (Abis jumps into Haroud’s arms)

Aladdin: (opens his eyes) Pst! Princess!

(Jasmine gasps; Iago squawks with surprise.)

Jasmine: I thought you were...You looked...!

Aladdin: Hey, appearances can be deceiving! Now listen closely...

Fashoom: (roars) All who steal from Fashoom must pay!

Abis Mal: (gets down on his knees) Oh, please! Spare me! Do what you want to
him, (gestures to Haroud) but leave me alone! Please!

Haroud: (sarcastically) Your loyalty is touching, O great one. (bows)

Fashoom: Foolish mortal! Fashoom spares no one!

Jasmine: Fashoom! We’re warning you to stop, or else!

Fashoom: (laughs) You cannot stop Fashoom! Fashoom will once again rain
destruction upon the land! And he begins with you!

(Fashoom tries to zap Jasmine and the others, but they jump out of the
way, and the bolt hits a silver shield Aladdin is holding and bounces
off it to the ceiling just above Fashoom.)

Fashoom: What? Aahh! (the ceiling caves in trapping Fashoom)

Jasmine: It worked!

Aladdin: Ha! He won’t bother anyone again!

Abis Mal: (holding a bottle) Forgetting something, Aladdin? (sing-song
voice) I’ve got your genie! Until I let him out, then he’ll be my genie.

Iago: Oh, that *can’t* be right. Can it?

Aladdin: Uh, I - I don’t know! Well, it’s never come up before!

Abis Mal: Well, let’s just pop her open and see. (opens the bottle)
Destroy them! (piranha moths come flying out of the bottle and eat all
of Abis Mal and Haroud’s clothes except their hats and boxers)

Haroud: Wrong bottle, sir.

(They run away from the moths, screaming.)

Jasmine: But if that jar was the moths, then where’s Genie?

Abu: Oh! Ho ho ho ho! (pulls the genie’s bottle out of his vest)

Aladdin: Ha! Abu, you little thief! (takes the bottle)

Genie: Oh, it’s great to be back, Al. Uh, now how about letting me out?
I’ve got such a leg cramp!

(Setting: on the carpet, flying back to Agrabah)

Jasmine: Aladdin, what about Abis Mal and Haroud? We can’t just leave
them there!

Aladdin: Eh, we’ll come back for them... after we stock up on mothballs.
(pats the carpet, who gives him a thumbs up)

Jasmine: I’d like that fortune teller to read my future. Do you think
you could find him again?

Aladdin: I don’t know. Somehow, I think he’s the one who’ll find us.

(Setting: an alley in Agrabah)

Old man: Don’t worry, Aladdin. Fasir will keep an eye out for you.

(Fasir takes off his blindfold; he has one eye like a cyclops, with a
red iris. He chuckles and starts to walk away, then disappears.)

THE END

71. Hero with a Thousand Feathers / Пернатый витязь
(Setting: the Marketplace, at night. Aladdin, Abu, Carpet, Genie, and Iago are there, looking at a stall where a merchant is selling fireworks.)

Aladdin: Wow…

Merchant: I bring them from my homeland!

Aladdin: I've never seen anything like this in Agrabah before!

Merchant: They are called fireworks. (lights a sparkler) Very beautiful, and very dangerous.

(Abu looks scared, and Carpet pats his head to comfort him. Aladdin and Iago are handed sparklers, and Genie picks up a rocket.)

Merchant: Be careful, they are not toys to play with!

Iago: Well they look like toys to me.

(Iago spins his sparkler around and around, and one of the sparks hits the fuse from Genie's rocket and sets it alight. The rocket takes off, shooting Genie up into the air. The fireworks explode, and Genie crashes back to the ground.)

Genie: That's one giant step for man, and one giant headache for me. (falls over)

Iago: Gee, you're right! This stuff is really dangerous! I'll take two of the big ones.

(Iago tosses a coin to the merchant, but it stops in mid-air before it reaches his hand. The merchant is not moving, either. Iago flies over to him and starts waving a wing in front of his face. Then he looks over at his friends and sees that they aren't moving either, as is everyone else in the Marketplace.)

Iago: Okay, this is bad.

(Iago reaches up to take the floating coin back, but there's suddenly a flash of light.)

Fasir: Iago!

(Iago looks up to see Fasir, the blind seer from "The Prophet Motive", floating above him.)

Fasir: Iago, I have come to warn you. An ancient evil is about to return to Agrabah.

Iago: (laughs nervously) Aladdin! There's a guy talkin' about ancient evil! Sounds like your department!

Fasir: They can neither see nor hear you. I have halted time to pay you this visit.

Iago: Halted time…

Fasir: Iago! I have foreseen two possible futures. In one, you heroically defeat the beast.

Iago: Oh, really! Now that's what I call a prophesy.

Fasir: In the other, you are destroyed by the beast and banished to the realm of perpetual torment!

Iago: Wake up, Al! We've got some packing to do!

Fasir: You cannot escape your destiny! By your hand shall the beast awaken, and by your hand alone can it be returned to its eternal slumber. Take this. (takes out a medallion with a sun design and places it around Iago's neck) Use it against the beast.

Iago: A medallion? Well, we all know how costume jewelry can come in handy when you're fighting ancient evil. What am I supposed to do with this?!

Fasir: From within, Iago. You can only destroy the beast from within. From within…

(Fasir disappears, and time restarts.)

Aladdin: Genie, are you okay?

Iago: Aladdin, we gotta get outta here! Now!

Aladdin: What's the hurry? Hey, nice medallion. Where'd ya get it?

Iago: Uh… I found it in the gutter. Hey, I've got a swell idea. Let's all take a nice little vacation somewhere. Somewhere real far.

Aladdin: That's not a bad idea. In fact, there's a place I've been meaning to check out.

Iago: Fine. Whatever. Let's go.

(Setting: later that night. The five of them are flying through a canyon.)

Iago: Heh, ancient evil, he says. Can't escape your destiny, he says. (chuckles)

(They fly into the entrance of an ominous-looking temple carved into the canyon wall.)

Aladdin: Sure is dark in there.

Genie: Say no more! (pulls a torch out of his mouth) Eating the fire is the easy part.

(They start walking further into the temple.)

Iago: You know, when I think vacation I think tropical beaches. What're we doin' here?

Aladdin: The sultan wants to run a trade route through these mountains, so I thought I'd make sure they're safe. Apparently there's a legend about some kind of ancient evil trapped in here.

Iago: AAAAAAHHH! We gotta get outta here! Where's the nearest exit? I can't see a thing!

Genie: (as a firefly) Does this help?

Iago: Light! We gotta get some light in here!

(Iago grabs the torch and throws it in a brazier in the center of the room. While Iago is warming himself, he hears a voice coming from the fire.)

Voice: Ahhh… Many thanks for rekindling the flame of my existence.

Iago: (nervously) Don't mention it. (tries to blow the fire out)

(The fire grows until it reaches the ceiling. It then turns into a giant covered in red fur, with the tail of a lion and wings on his back covered with black and white feathers.)

Amok: I am Amok Mon Ra! I am again free to rule Agrabah, as I did thousands of years ago.

(Amok tries to smash Iago with his fist, but he gets out of the way in time. He tries again, but Aladdin grabs him and they all fly out of the temple on Carpet. Amok crawls out of the temple entrance and grabs Carpet; everyone else falls. Genie turns into a giant catcher's mitt and catches them. Meanwhile, Amok flings Carpet away like a rubber band. Genie sets the others on the ground. Amok stands over them, making a ball of fire with his hands.)

Genie: Okay, tall dark and horrid! Choose your weapons!

(Amok throws his fireball at the canyon wall just above Genie, causing boulders to fall down onto his head.)

Amok: You cannot hide from Amok!

(Amok throws another fireball at the canyon wall near Aladdin, Iago, and Abu, knocking a boulder down on Iago's tail, trapping him.)

Iago: I'm stuck! Guys, I'm stuck over here!

(Aladdin and Abu try to pull Iago out. Amok looms over them.)

Amok: Now you shall perish!

Iago: (looking at his medallion) What do I do?

(Amok creates another fireball and is about to throw it when the sun starts to rise. Amok winces when he sees it.)

Amok: The sun! I'll return, and all of Agrabah shall cower before me. (vanishes)

Iago: Well, he's off to a good start.

(They finally manage to get Iago free. Genie emerges from under the pile of boulders he was trapped under.)

Genie: (punching the air) I'll moitalize ya! I'll moitalize ya!

Aladdin: We've gotta get back to Agrabah and warn the city!

Iago: Okay, how many for running away and saving our own hides?

(The others scowl at him.)

Iago: Eh, just goes to show the essential flaw in democracy…

(They all fly back to Agrabah.)

(Setting: Agrabah, shortly before dusk. Archers are taking their places on the walls. Some men are rolling a catapult into place. Guards are sharpening their swords.)

(Setting: in the palace, the throne room. Aladdin, Jasmine, Abu, Iago, Carpet, and Sultan are all there. The guards Rasoul and Fazal watch them from the doorway.)

Jasmine: I can't, Father. I can't hide while Agrabah is in danger.

Sultan: But it's far too dangerous out there! Let Aladdin handle it!

Aladdin: You two are the rulers of Agrabah. You can't be at risk.

Jasmine: We're wasting time.

Aladdin: (sighs) She's got that look…

Sultan: She used to get like this at bedtime. Once she stayed up for six weeks straight! There's no changing her mind now, my boy.

(Jasmine smirks.)

Aladdin: I'll see that nothing happens to her. Now please, go with the guards.

Sultan: Very well. One might as well argue with a camel. (leaves, followed by the guards)

(Genie comes out of his lamp holding a large book.)

Genie: Look what I found in my library! "Amok Mon Ra: The Beast, the Myth, the Legend." It's his authorized biography.

Aladdin: What does it say?

Genie: (reading) His name is Amok. "Overwhelming physical force is utterly useless against him."

Iago: Maybe we can reason with him.

Genie: "Amok is Malevolence Incarnate and therefore completely unreasonable."

Aladdin: There's gotta be some way to stop him!

Genie: Hmm… It says here Amok can only be defeated by whoever set him free.

Jasmine: Well, then who set him free?

Aladdin: Wasn't me.

Abu: Uh uh.

Genie: I didn't do it.

(Iago starts to walk away slowly, whistling.)

Aladdin: Iago…

Iago: What're you accusing me for?! I'm not acting guilty!

Aladdin: I just wanted to ask what Amok whispered before he took full form. We couldn't hear him.

Genie: It sounded like something about "the flame of my existence."

Iago: He said… he said, "the genie's magic has rekindled the flame of my existence."

Genie: Oh, what have I done?! Woe is me! I am woe!

Aladdin: Hey, it's okay, Genie. You couldn't have known.

Genie: Well, I guess it's up to me, then.

Aladdin: Genie, only you can save us now.

Genie: Don't worry, the book says he who released him can destroy him. It's a good thing, too. Otherwise I wouldn't have a chance. He'd tear me into bits! He'd squish me into a gelatinous smear! He'd grind me into—

Iago: We get the idea!

(The sun sets, and Amok appears at the city wall.)

Amok: I am Amok! Surrender Agrabah!

Guard: Fire!

(The archers on the wall fire at Amok, but Amok burns the arrows before they reach him. The catapult throws rocks at him, which he bats away as if they're nothing.)

Amok: (laughing) Force is useless against me.

Genie: (gulp) That's my cue.

Iago: Genie!

Genie: Yes?

Iago: Uh… good luck!

Genie: Thanks, buddy!

(Genie goes outside the city walls and confronts Amok.)

Genie: Foul demon! Leave now, or I will be forced to destroy you!

Amok: Destroy me? (laughs)

Genie: Oh, goodie. I've intimidated him.

Amok: Don't worry, little genie. You shall not suffer… for long.

Genie: I can destroy you because I released you!

(Amok laughs and smashes Genie into the ground with his fist. He then reaches into the hole to pick Genie out, but he has turned into a giant mousetrap and snaps Amok's fingers. He shakes Genie off and starts throwing fireballs at him, which Genie deflects.)

Genie: Ha ha! So, I am a more formidable foe than you expe—

(Genie notices his pants are on fire and jumps into the air, where Amok grabs and squeezes him.)

Genie: Go ahead, make my day.

Amok: (hitting Genie against the city wall) Surrender the city to me, now!

Jasmine: Stop! (goes up to Amok) I am the city's ruler. Spare the genie and Agrabah is yours.

Amok: (drops Genie) Good. Now the people of Agrabah shall celebrate the entrance of the mighty Amok into their city.

(A little while later, Amok is carried through the streets on a giant throne by several men, including Aladdin.)

Aladdin: (to Abu) We've got to do something!

(Carpet and Iago have gone to take care of Genie.)

Genie: (as a little boy) Mommy, where do genies come from? (passes out again)

(Amok is now sitting in his throne in front of the palace doors, with giant bonfires to either side of him. Jasmine is next to him, in chains.)

Amok: People of Agrabah, your old lives are at an end. Gifts! Bring me gifts!

(The fireworks merchant approaches Amok.)

Merchant: Fireworks from the east, oh mighty Amok! Most impressive!

Amok: I am not so easily impressed.

(The merchant lights several rockets, which shoot into the air and explode.)

Amok: Ah! I like fireworks.

(The merchant sighs with relief and walks away.)

Amok: Sacrifices! Bring me sacrifices!

(A poor woman carrying a small sack of coins and a little boy with a teddy bear approach him.)

Woman: This is my entire life savings.

(Amok takes the sack of coins and throws it into the fire.)

Amok: Give me the bear.

Boy: No, Wuzzy! You can't take Wuzzy!

(Amok takes the bear.)

Boy: Mommy! (starts to wail, and his mother carries him away)

Amok: Enough! (laughs, and throws the bear in the fire)

Jasmine: You monster! (starts pulling at her chains)

(Aladdin starts to approach Amok, but Abu pulls on his vest and chatters at him.)

Aladdin: (sighs) You're right, Abu. I can't outfight him. But maybe I can outsneak him.

(Setting: the palace gates. Iago is pacing back and forth, moaning to himself.)

Iago: It's no use! I can't just stand by and watch this. There's only one thing to do! And that's… leave so I don't have to see it. (flies off, out of the city)

(Setting: Amok's throne. There is now a giant pile of treasure in front of him, and people are walking up and adding more to the pile.)

Amok: Sacrifices! More sacrifices! (throws a handful of treasure into the fire)

(The sun starts to rise.)

Amok: I will return at sunset, and the people of Agrabah will glorify me properly! You will build a great statue in my honor. And… fireworks! I want more fireworks! (vanishes)

Aladdin: If it's fireworks he wants, we'll give him fireworks.

(Setting: later that day, in front of the palace. The people of Agrabah are building a giant, hollow statue of Amok and filling it with fireworks.)

Aladdin: Abu, more fireworks! You're in for a big surprise, oh mighty Amok!

(Carpet flies Genie, who is still punch-drunk from his fight with Amok, into the throne room and starts fanning him.)

Genie: (dizzy) Back for more, eh? Well, I shall thrash you soundly, blaggard!

(Genie's eyes slowly focus on the Amok statue outside. He turns into Don Quixote, with a horse and a lance, and charges at the statue.)

Genie: Charge! Fear not! I shall handle this foul demon!

Aladdin: No, Genie, no!

(Genie's lance slips and hits the ground, catapulting him through the air, hitting the statue and then falling to the ground.)

Genie: Take that, vile creature! (passes out)

(Setting: A tropical island. Iago is lying in a hammock, drinking coconut milk.)

Iago: I don't get it. It's a beautiful day. I've got peace and quiet and plenty of coconut milk. And yet I'm not enjoying myself!

(Behind Iago there's a sound of someone panting and clinking chains. He turns around, and there's another Iago behind him, wet and breathing heavily, covered in seaweed and chains, and wearing a halo.)

Iago: Aah! It's my conscience!

(The conscience rips off the chains and seaweed and straightens his halo. He then advances on Iago, angrily.)

Iago: Heh heh heh! So, long time, no see. Where've you been?

Conscience: You chained me up, locked me in a chest, and dropped me off a cliff into the ocean! Remember?!

Iago: You were cramping my style.

Conscience: You instigated one of the bloodiest wars in the history of Mesopotamia just so you could corner the falafel market!

Iago: Hey, no one's perfect.

(Iago's conscience picks him up, spins him around, and throws him into a tree trunk.)

Iago: (cough) Point taken.

Conscience: Look, pal, as your conscience I'm telling you to get back to Agrabah and save your friends! Now!

Iago: And if I decline?

Conscience: Then you will pay!

(Iago wakes up and falls out of the hammock.)

Iago: Whew, just a dream. I'm off the hook! Conscience, what a laugh!

(Some chains and seaweed wash up on the beach.)

Iago: Aah! Okay! Okay! I'm goin'! I'm goin'! (flies off into the setting sun)

(Setting: Agrabah, at sunset. The statue is finished, and Jasmine is inspecting a fuse running into the statue from where Aladdin is hiding, holding a sparkler. Amok approaches the city in the form of a cloud, then changes into his normal form when he reaches the palace.)

Amok: Mighty Amok has returned. You shall now honor him!

Jasmine: Your statue awaits you, o mighty Amok!

Amok: Where are the fireworks?

Jasmine: Uh, before you see the fireworks, you should look at the statue. It is filled with all the gold of Agrabah.

Amok: Gold?

(Jasmine runs for cover behind a pile of pots.)

Jasmine: Now!

(Aladdin lights the fuse.)

Amok: I don't see any—

(Amok looks down and sees the fuse, then the statue explodes. There's a giant cloud of smoke, and fireworks flying everywhere. Everyone watching jumps up and down.)

Aladdin: Woo! Yeah!

Jasmine: Yes! We did it! It worked!

(Iago flies into the city and sees fireworks going off.)

Iago: A party! They must have mashed the creep on their own! Huh, talk about luck!

(The cloud of smoke starts spinning, and turns into Amok, even larger than before.)

Amok: I am Amok!

Iago: Uh oh.

Amok: (laughs) Fools. From fire was I born! It only increases my power. Now you shall perish for your treachery!

(Amok creates a fireball and throws it at one of the palace towers. Aladdin and Abu try to dodge out of the way of the falling masonry. He throws another fireball at the pots Jasmine is hiding behind. Abu's foot is caught under a rock, and Aladdin tries to get him out.)

Iago: Well, here goes nothin'.

(Amok is laughing and about to throw another fireball at Aladdin and Abu, when Iago flies up to him.)

Iago: Hold it right there, creep!

Amok: So, he who set me free has returned to face his doom.

Iago: Would you mind keeping your voice down!

(Amok is about to throw a fireball at him, but Iago holds up his medallion, which starts to glow.)

Iago: Aha!

(Amok cowers, until he figures out Iago doesn't know what he's doing.)

Iago: Okay, so he doesn't like the medallion. Now what do I do?

Fasir: (voice) From within, Iago. It can only destroy Amok from within.

Iago: "From within"? What does he mean by "within"?

(Amok roars at Iago.)

Iago: (looking into Amok's mouth) I've gotta go in there?

(Iago flies into Amok's mouth. Amok looks surprised and clutches his stomach, roaring in pain. Genie walks up to Amok.)

Genie: (dizzy) Demon! How many times must I defeat you?

(Genie turns into a wrecking ball and hits Amok's knee. Amok continues screaming with pain, turns into a cloud of smoke, and disappears. Aladdin frees Abu from the rock. Iago falls to the ground next to Genie, and his medallion fades away.)

Jasmine: Genie, you did it!

Aladdin: You saved the city!

Iago: Huh? Hey, wait a minute! What're you talkin' about? I'm the one who—

Genie: It's the least I could do since I was the one who released him.

Iago: Eh… good point. Oh, well that was just careless of you, Genie!

Aladdin: He didn't do it on purpose, Iago.

Iago: So what? He could have gotten us all killed! (flies toward the palace, muttering) The things I put up with around here…

Aladdin: Sure hope we never have to count on him in a tight spot.

(Iago lands on a perch by one of the palace windows, sighs, and smiles proudly.)

THE END

73. A Sultan Worth His Salt / Султан не промах
(Setting: the palace, at night. Aladdin and Sultan are playing with a clockwork shooting gallery; cutouts of monsters move back and forth in front of a picture of Agrabah, while they shoot marbles at them with tiny catapults. Aladdin manages to knock one down.)

Sultan: Well done, my boy! Keep your eye on the targets, Aladdin.

Aladdin: (rolling his eyes) Yes, your highness. (shoots another marble and hits a target)

Sultan: Excellent, my boy!

(Aladdin hits several more targets.)

Sultan: Bravo! I say! You did it again!

(Iago is watching from a distance, shaking his head. He then swoops down and lands on Aladdin's head while he's aiming, causing him to miss the target, almost hitting Abu.)

Aladdin: Iago!

Iago: (whispering) Dating tip: Always let the girl's father win. Especially when he's the ruler of the land!

Sultan: Nasty luck on that last shot. Well, my turn!

Genie: Bad aim, Al. Maybe you need glasses. (turns into a doctor with an eye chart) Can you read this chart?

Iago: (to Genie) Make sure the sultan gets all bullseyes.

Genie: Gotcha! A perfect score for the kindly, kingly fellow.

(Genie shrinks himself down and goes inside the shooting gallery.)

Sultan: The secret is a keen eye.

Iago: Ya see, Aladdin? There's a lot you can learn from the sultan.

Aladdin: Yeah, yeah...

(Inside the shooting gallery, Genie is barely avoiding getting caught in the machinery.)

Genie: Whoa! Ho! Whoops! Hey! Comin' through! Ooh! Looks more complicated from in here. Much more.

(Genie is now behind one of the targets; Sultan hits it with a marble, and Genie gets stuck on the conveyor belt the targets are on.)

Sultan: (laughs) Oh, this is fun, indeed! I'm winning!

Aladdin: I wonder if Jasmine's ready yet.

(Genie is still struggling to free himself.)

Genie: Uh oh, I'm on!

(Genie changes himself into a target just as the clockwork moves him up towards the front of the shooting gallery. He gets hit with a marble, breaking his teeth.)

(Setting: outside Jasmine's room. Four winged horses carrying women in ancient Greek clothing land on Jasmine's balcony.)

(Jasmine is brushing her hair in front of her vanity. Rajah is next to her, making sad noises.)

Jasmine: Cheer up, Rajah. We're just going for a little ride on Carpet.

(Rajah walks over toward the curtain and lies down. The women enter Jasmine's room. One ties a rope around Rajah's muzzle and pulls him back before he realizes what's happening. Another runs behind Jasmine, who sees the reflection of something moving in her mirror.)

Jasmine: Rajah?

(One of the women shoots two golden arrows at Jasmine; they both miss, lodging themselves in Jasmine's vanity.)

Jasmine: No!

(A third arrow is fired. In mid-air it magically changes from an arrow into a rope, which ties Jasmine up.)

Woman: Princess Jasmine. Our search is over.

(Three guards run into the room.)

Rasoul: Princess Jasmine!

Hakim: What is going on?

(Rasoul gasps when he sees the three other women aiming their bows at them. They each fire an arrow which turns into rope, tying up the the guards. The women then leave, taking Jasmine with them. Rajah finally manages to break the rope tying his legs and mouth and runs after the women, but he's too late; they've already left on their flying horses.)

(Setting: Jasmine's room, a few minutes later. Rajah drags Sultan into the room by his sleeve; the others have followed him.)

Sultan: What is it, Rajah? Jasmine?

(The guards, still tied up, hop over to him.)

Rasoul: Your highness! Their horses had wings! They were fierce, giant warriors!

Hakim: They were women. We were beaten by women.

Aladdin: Where's Jasmine?!

Rasoul: The princess has been kidnapped.

Sultan: What?!

Iago: (landing on one of the golden arrows) Ooh, golden arrow! 24-karat, no less! Uh oh, this isn't treasure, it's trouble.

Aladdin: What does it mean?

Iago: Ever hear of the Galafems?

Aladdin: No.

Iago: Well, you will. You're dating one!

Aladdin: What're you talking about?

Iago: They're warrior women. Who disembowel first and ask questions later!

Sultan: But... what do they want with Jasmine?

Iago: That golden arrow means Jasmine made the team. They want her to become a Galafem!

Aladdin: Come on! We're going after 'em.

Iago: See ya! I better stay here with the sultan. Somebody has to help him protect the guards.

(Rasoul scowls at Iago.)

Sultan: But I'm going with Aladdin!

Everyone else: What?!

Aladdin: But Sultan, these Galafems defeated all your guards and Rajah! They're dangerous!

Sultan: And they have my daughter!

(Setting: a short time later. Aladdin, Genie, Abu, Iago, and Sultan are all sitting on Carpet, on Jasmine's balcony.)

Aladdin: (whispering) Genie, we've got to get to Jasmine fast! But we can't let anything happen to the sultan.

Genie: (as an airline pilot) Will all passengers in ruling class please fasten your seatbelts. (a seatbelt appears on Sultan)

Iago: And what am I?

Genie: Cargo. (they take off)

(Setting: the Galafems' island, the next morning. The island is covered with beautiful ancient Greek architecture and gardens. Jasmine is standing in a group of Galafems, now dressed like one of them. The woman who captured Jasmine is now sitting on a throne.)

Galafem queen: You are in very select company, Princess. My warriors are chosen by the path of the golden arrow. Only the worthy are spared.

Jasmine: And what if I had been unworthy?

(The queen stabs an arrow into the arm of her throne.)

Jasmine: Oh.

(A fat, redheaded galafem runs to Jasmine's side.)

Galafem: Your highness! I would just be tickled to take charge of Jasmine's training!

(The queen waves at her and nods.)

Galafem: Hi-ee! I'm Scara! Now, you'll have a teensy little sleepover in the dungeon, but before you know it it'll be initiation time!

Jasmine: I'll never become one of you!

Queen: Such spirit! It will serve you well as a Galafem warrior.

(Aladdin and the others land on the Galafems' island.)

Genie: Next time be sure to ask for your senior sovereign discount!

Aladdin: It doesn't look that dangerous.

Iago: Beautiful but deadly. Just like the Galafems!

(Sultan starts to wander off by himself, but Genie appears in front of him as a crossing guard holding a stop sign.)

Genie: Whoa! Park it right here, your highness.

Aladdin: You can't go off alone!

Sultan: My daughter is in trouble!

Aladdin: Let me lead! I've gotten myself out of a few more close calls than you ever... (sees Sultan scowling at him) Uh, uh, I mean, living in a palace and all...

(Setting: the Galafems' dungeon. Jasmine is sitting on the ground.)

Jasmine: (taking off her headband) Their army can't stop me.

(She throws her headband, tied to a rope, up towards the bars of her cell. The rope wraps itself around the bars so she can climb out.)

(Setting: Back outside on the island. The others are still searching for Jasmine. Sultan is lagging behind them, panting.)

Aladdin: You should rest now, Sultan.

Sultan: Nonsense! Onward!

(Abu sees a bunch of grapes hanging from a stone gazebo and starts licking his lips, hungrily.)

(Jasmine has escaped from the dungeon and starts running away. The queen and Scara are watching her.)

Queen: She's escaped.

Scara: (giggling) Oh, she is a naughty one!

(Abu runs up to grab the bunch of grapes.)

Iago: Uh, look, not that I care, but one moldy monkey seems to be missing.

Aladdin: Abu?

(Abu grabs the grapes, and the pillars holding up the building fall away. Abu runs away quickly before the stone roof crushes him.)

Aladdin: Abu!

Iago: Like I said, beautiful but deadly. Everything's a trap!

Abu: Uh huh!

Genie: (looking at the flattened grapes) Ooh, those Galafems don't fool around.

Aladdin: Neither can we, Genie. We have to protect the sultan!

(Genie turns into three Secret Service agents.)

Genie: Don't worry, sir. Nobody gets by us. (talking into his watch) Keep 'im covered.

(The Genies search the area, peering from behind trees and bushes. One pops up holding Abu.)

Genie: (into his watch) Blue leader? We've got a hair boy here. Says he's cleared security. (a muffled voice comes from the watch) Roger. The chimp checks out. (tosses Abu away, then looks around) All clear on the she front. Bring in the big cheese.

(Aladdin and Sultan walk into the area Genie just checked. As soon as Sultan enters, the three Genie Secret Service agents surround him.)

Genies: (in unison) Keep 'im covered, boys.

Sultan: (squeezing out from between the Genies) This is quite unnecessary!

(A shadow passes over them, and they look up to see a group of Galafems flying overhead.)

Aladdin: Take cover!

Genie: Code red!

(They run and hide behind a bush as the Galafems pass by.)

Sultan: (whispering) Aladdin, I have a plan. I'll reveal myself to the Galafems.

Aladdin: No, Sultan, that—

Sultan: Once I'm captured the rest of you can follow me straight to Jasmine.

Aladdin: It's too risky.

Genie: All clear, move 'em out!

(They all climb out from behind the bush.)

Aladdin: This way.

(The Genie agents surround Sultan again.)

Genie: Keep 'im covered, boys.

(As they walk over a path covered with large flat stones, one of the stones opens up when Sultan and the Genies pass over it. Sultan slips through the hole, while the Genies keep going.)

Aladdin: Wait! (looks between the three Genies) Where's the sultan?

(Setting: another part of the island.)

(Jasmine is still running away. She sees a road lined with columns and starts to run along it. As soon as she steps on the road the columns start to fall down; Jasmine barely manages to run fast enough to escape them all. As soon as she passes them all and stops to catch her breath, they stand themselves back up.)

(A shadow passes over Jasmine; she looks up to see a group of Galafems riding winged horses. One of them is Scara, who aims her bow at Jasmine.)

Scara: Fire! (lets the arrow fly)

(Jasmine tries to run, but she's blocked by a river and a waterfall. The other galafems take aim and fire their arrows at Jasmine.)

Jasmine: No!

(Jasmine jumps over the edge of the waterfall, but the arrows the Galafems fired turn into ropes, forming a net that catches her. The Galafems fly back with Jasmine and drop her in front of their queen, still trapped in the net. Jasmine glares at the queen.)

Queen: Jasmine, your performance on the escape test was superb. High marks for speed and style.

Jasmine: Test?

Scara: Oh, I should be jealous! You put my old score to shame! But I'm just so proud! (giggles)

Jasmine: (sly) I, uh, always find a challenge invigorating, sister.

Scara: I knew she had that Galafem spirit!

Queen: You are ready for the next training phase: weaponry!

(The other Galafems cheer for Jasmine; Scara waves a flag.)

Jasmine: Excellent! (thinking to herself) I'll need weapons for my escape.

(Setting: elsewhere on the island. The others are still looking for Sultan.)

Aladdin: Sultan! Sultan!

Genie: How could I lose the head of state? I'll just retrace our steps.

(Genie turns into Sultan and starts walking backwards, while talking backwards in Sultan's voice. He comes to the place where Sultan fell down the hole, but it's closed now.)

Aladdin: Then what happened?

(The hole opens up again and everyone falls through. The chute drops them off a cliff; Carpet catches Aladdin and Abu.)

Genie: We found the sultan!

Iago: But it's not a pretty sight.

(At the bottom of the cliff are giant statues of Galafems. Sultan's clothing is caught on the sword of one of the statues.)

Sultan: Oh, bother. Aladdin, stay back! I believe there's more to this than meets the eye.

Aladdin: (pulling Sultan off the statue) Don't worry, I've got you!

(The statue's arm raises slightly when Sultan's weight is removed from it. The other statues, all holding bows, start shooting giant arrows at them, pinning Aladdin and Sultan by their clothing to the side of the cliff. An arrow also hits Carpet, ripping him. Aladdin manages to free himself, while Genie saves Sultan.)

Genie: (setting Sultan on the ground) No need to panic, your highness. Deep cleansing breaths...

Sultan: (annoyed) I'm fine!

Aladdin: Oh no, Carpet! You're ripped!

(Carpet tries to fly, but keeps crashing.)

Aladdin: I don't think he can fly.

Genie: (as a mechanic) I can patch 'im up, no problem. Have 'im ready by next Tuesday.

Iago: We'll all be pincushions by next Tuesday!

Sultan: We must move on! (rolls Carpet up and starts to carry him away)

Aladdin: How can we rescue Jasmine when we're so busy rescuing him?

Sultan: If that's how you feel, I shall find my daughter by myself! (leaves)

Aladdin: Genie, what am I gonna do? It's too dangerous out there!

(Setting: later, still on the island. Aladdin is on a mountain path but is slowly edging himself along one side. Abu and Iago are with him.)

Aladdin: Keep clear of that path. It could be a killer.

Iago: I hate this splitting up idea. Go with you, I'm facing danger. Stay with the genie, I'm yeuch, with the genie.

Aladdin: It was the only way, Iago. If the sultan came with us we'd be caught—

(Some Galafems swoop down from the air and start shooting at them.)

Aladdin: (running onto the path to escape) Whoa! Look out! Go!

(A cage pops up out of the path, capturing Aladdin. The Galafems shoot rope-arrows around the cage, then carry it away.)

Aladdin: Genie!

(Setting: elsewhere on the island. Genie, Sultan, and Carpet are walking in a line, led by Genie.)

Genie: That Al was using the old gray matter. Splitting up into two teams! What strategy! We'll cover more ground this way!

(Sultan starts to walk off in a different direction from Genie.)

Genie: (turning Sultan around) Ah ah ah! Not that way! This way looks much more promising.

Sultan: But I'm quite sure this is the third time we've passed those trees! Genie! You've been leading me in circles!

(We can now see the path they were walking on from a further distance, and it is in fact a circle.)

Genie: I, uh...

Sultan: My daughter is in danger! And no one, not you, not Aladdin, no one will stop me from saving her!

Genie: Don't worry! Al will save Jasmine! That's what he does. You're a sultan, and that's what you do.

Sultan: Oh really? When I was half Aladdin's age I was taming wild stallions for the royal army!

(Iago flies up to them, out of breath.)

Iago: Aladdin and Abu have been captured.

Genie: How are you with winged horses?

Sultan: Try me.

(Setting: back at the Galafem queen's throne. Jasmine is riding a winged horse.)

Scara: Now, concentrate and your arrow will do whatever you wish!

(Jasmine shoots an arrow at Scara; it turns to water before it hits her in the face. Jasmine giggles.)

Queen: A bit too playful for my tastes, but inventive.

Jasmine: (landing her winged horse and dismounting) Have I not proven myself, Queen Hippsodeth?

Queen Hippsodeth: You must pass one last test.

Scara: (gasps) Your final exam! Already?! What an overachiever!

Jasmine: I am ready.

Hippsodeth: Bring them in!

(Two Galafems with spears lead out Aladdin and Abu, in chains.)

Aladdin: Hey!

Hippsodeth: To prove your loyalty as a Galafem warrior, you will execute these intruders. Jasmine, don't keep us waiting.

Jasmine: But, Queen Hippsodeth, it's only a boy and a monkey!

Aladdin: Huh?

Jasmine: Uh, they're hardly worth our trouble.

Scara: Trouble? It'll be kicky! You can use the Spartan spine spin, always my fave.

Jasmine: The spine spin seems too... swift and merciful. Isn't there something more excruciating? (whispering to Aladdin) Play along, I'm just—

(A shadow passes over them; it's Sultan and Carpet, on a winged horse.)

Jasmine: (gasps) Father!

Aladdin: Sultan?!

Abu: Huh?

Hippsodeth: How did he get by our sentries?!

(A giant screen appears in the sky. On it we can see Genie as a female talk show host. Behind him are four Galafems, bound and gagged.)

Genie: Today on Genie, "When Sorority Girls Go Bad"!

Hippsodeth: Impossible! Galafem security cannot be breached!

Genie: You didn't count on the jolly juggernaut, who even now races to rescue his daughter!

(Genie comes out of the screen and turns it off with a remote control. It disappears.)

(Hippsodeth and Scara start to run away, while Sultan fires several arrows after them.)

Genie: And she's not the only one who's underestimated him, eh Al?

Scara: Run! Run, your majesty!

(The sultan's arrows turn to ropes, tying themselves around the two Galafems' ankles, tripping them.)

Sultan: Marksmanship is my forte, but I do believe in fair play. So you may surrender now, before anyone gets hurt!

Hippsodeth: (tearing off the rope) Scara! To our mounts!

Scara: My queen and I, alone in battle against these outworlders! Neat! (bounces off after Hippsodeth)

Aladdin: I've got to get up there to help the sultan. Genie, I need a flying horse!

Abu: Uh oh...

(Genie turns Abu into a winged donkey, who brays loudly.)

Iago: Hey, less attitude, more altitude!

(Aladdin climbs on Abu's back, and they take off.)

Iago: Look out!

(Scara is approaching them on her flying horse. She sweeps past, causing them to start spinning in the air uncontrollably.)

Sultan: Hang on Aladdin! I'll save you!

(Hippsodeth is coming up behind Sultan on a chariot pulled by a winged horse.)

Hippsodeth: You had better look out for yourself, foolish man!

Sultan: Oh my!

Jasmine: Genie! You save Aladdin, I'll help my father.

Genie: Those leadership skills must run in the family!

(Jasmine shoots a rope-arrow at Hippsodeth that ties itself around the queen's wrist. Jasmine tries to pull her down, but Hippsodeth grabs the rope and pulls Jasmine up instead.)

Hippsodeth: I will not lose a warrior with such potential!

(Abu is now flying normally again, but Aladdin isn't on his back.)

Iago: The kid's gone! Who's gonna drive!

Aladdin: (dangling from one of Abu's legs) I'm fine, Iago! More or less...

(Scara is headed back towards them, aiming her bow at them.)

Genie: I'm comin' guys!

(He starts to fly towards them, then notices the cupid sculptures decorating one of the buildings.)

Genie: (zapping the cupids) Look alive, kids. Al needs us.

(The cupids come to life and fly up into the air. One of them flies in front of Aladdin and deflects one of Scara's arrow with his own. Aladdin climbs back up onto Abu's back.)

Scara: Ooh, that shot was right on target and everything!

(Scara starts to aim again, but the other two cupids have grabbed her horse's tail, causing her to fall off. Genie catches her.)

Genie: (hugging her) Ooh, you are so cute when you're battle-crazed!

(Sultan is following Hippsodeth's chariot.)

Hippsodeth: Forget your father, Jasmine. The Galafems are your family now!

Sultan: You are quite mistaken, madam! (to Carpet, who is steering while Sultan uses his bow) Get me up there. It's time to do some damage.

(Sultan shoots an arrow at the link connecting Hippsodeth's flying horse to her chariot, and the chariot starts to fall.)

Hippsodeth: No!

(Sultan swoops down and saves Jasmine, while Hippsodeth and the chariot keep falling. Genie then appears by the chariot with Scara.)

Genie: You know, ride sharing is an idea whose time has come. (puts Scara in the falling chariot with Hippsodeth) Hate to be a nag, but you aughta buckle up, too!

(Hippsodeth, Scara, and the chariot all fall into a lake.)

Genie: Ooh, told ya!

Sultan: Follow me, my boy! Back to Agrabah!

Aladdin: (struggling to stay on the winged donkey's back) Uh, yes, your highness. Whoa!

(They fly away from the island.)

(Hippsodeth and Scara are sitting in the lake.)

Hippsodeth: The Galafems have been defeated in battle...

Scara: Sounds like rematch time! I'm game!

(Hippsodeth faints and falls backwards into the water.)

(Setting: the palace, that night. Genie, Iago, and Abu are all dressed as mechanics, examining Carpet.)

Genie: I don't know, Carpet, looks like a weave-job to me.

Iago: Uh, yeah, that's gonna cost ya. We charge by the hour.

Abu: Uh huh.

(Sultan is playing the shooting gallery game with the three cupids. Aladdin and Jasmine are watching.)

Sultan: Ooh! That's two for me!

Jasmine: Great shot, Father!

Aladdin: He hasn't missed one yet!

Sultan: Not bad for someone who doesn't get out of the palace much, hmm?

Aladdin: I was wrong, your highness. You know, you're pretty handy on an adventure.

Sultan: Splendid to hear you say so, my boy. 'Cause I heard about about a sunken treasure. It's guarded by sea serpents. But I propose we move in at night. We'll have surprise on our side then.

Iago: Dating tip: always let the girl's father win!

Aladdin: Yes, your highness...

THE END

75. Sneeze the Day / День большого чиха
SORRY, but this episode is not completed

77. The Lost Ones / Бой с тенью
(Setting: the marketplace just before sunset.)

(Merchants are gathering their wares to take home for the night. Farouk,
a fruit merchant, is almost tripped up by a little boy.)

Farouk: Why you...

Waheed: (innocently) Sorry, mister.

Farouk: Out of my way, boy. The entire city must be indoors by nightfall!

Waheed: (stealing apples while Farouk’s back is turned, takes a bite of
one) Why’s that, mister? (slips some apples and a bunch of bananas down
his shirt)

Farouk: Orders from the palace. Last night another child disappeared.

Waheed: (eats an apple) Disappeared? How?

Farouk: Poof! Like that! Into thin air! Now if only you would do the
same!

Waheed: (picks up an orange and puts it in his vest) Yes, sir. I’m
sorry, sir. I’ll be leaving now, sir. (runs away, but runs into Aladdin,
spilling fruit everywhere) Hey, why don’t you watch where you’re going?

Aladdin: Watch where *I’m* going?

Abu: Yeah!

Aladdin: Look, street rat, you oughta be more careful.

Waheed: (picking up fruit) The name’s Waheed, and I had the right of
way, mister.

Aladdin: No, I meant careful about -

Waheed: (sarcastically) Oh, the disappearances? Kids vanishing, poof?
Not scared.

Farouk: (off screen) Hey! You little thief!

Waheed: Farouk. I’m not scared of him either.

Aladdin: Ah, the case of the stolen fruit.

Abu: Uh huh.

Waheed: Hey, I know it’s wrong to steal. I don’t need any lectures. I’m
not going to be a street rat forever, you know. Someday...

Waheed and Aladdin: ... I’m gonna make something of myself.

Waheed: How’d you know that? (Aladdin is completely still, as if
hypnotized) Mister? Mister?

(The camera rotates around Aladdin, and then everyone is gone except
Aladdin. He is suddenly standing in an alley next to a well. A little
boy runs into the alley; he doesn’t seem to see Aladdin.)

Amal: Hurry up, slowpoke! (Aladdin turns around) I’ve seen sand worms
move faster than you, Aladdin!

(A younger Aladdin runs into the alley, panting.)

Young Aladdin: I don’t think we should have stolen that.

Amal: (jumps up onto a wall; mocks Aladdin) I don’t think you should
have stolen that... (pulls out a sack of coins) Like you’ve never
stolen anything before.

Young Aladdin: (jumps up on the wall with him) I only steal food! To eat!

Amal: Oh, big difference. Listen, I’m not gonna be a street rat forever,
like you. (pushes young Aladdin off the wall) Someday, I’m gonna make
something of myself.

Young Aladdin: I won’t be a street rat forever. But I’m not going to
make something of myself by doing bad things, Amal.

(Amal is gone.)

Young Aladdin: Amal? (sees a shadow go around the corner) Amal! (runs
after the shadow) Amal? (sees a dark figure jump into the well) Amal!
(looks down the well; there’s nothing there)

Aladdin: (watching his younger self) Amal. Amal!

(Genie snaps his fingers in front of Aladdin’s face, and everything
returns to normal, and Aladdin is in the marketplace again.)

Genie: (to Abu) Feed him anything sugary? You know it makes him...weird.

Abu: Nuh uh.

Aladdin: Huh? (shakes his head) Whoa, I just had the strangest -

Genie: Al, who’s Amal?

Aladdin: My best friend. When we were kids. Until he disappeared.

Abu: Huh?

Aladdin: One second Amal was right there. And then I turned my back...
and he was gone. I chased after a shadow - of something. But it
disappeared, too. I never found Amal. Never found out what happened.
Hey! Hey, I was talking to a kid! Where’d he go?

Genie: About yea high (pulls out a tape measurer) packing this much
fruit? (turns into Carmen Miranda) He ran off... (back to normal) after
making Farouk slip on a banana.

Abu: Yeah. (makes a sound like someone slipping on a banana)

Aladdin: Genie...the children. The disappearances. It’s happening again.

(Setting: Agrabah, that night.)

(Aladdin, Abu, and Iago are flying over the city on Carpet.)

Iago: I knew it. I knew I should have migrated with the other birds
this year. But no! I’m here in Agrabah for monster-hunting season with
you bozos!

(A woman screams.)

Aladdin: Carpet! Down there! Quick!

(Carpet turns around.)

Iago: Oh, yeah, let’s get as close as we can. I wanna see monster drool.

(A woman and a baby she is holding are both crying.)

Woman: It tried to take my little Hamed!

Iago: I know he’s gonna say (with Aladdin’s voice) “There it goes! Come
on!” and we’ll go racing after it.

(A shadow goes around a corner.)

Aladdin: There it goes! Come on! (they fly after it)

Iago: Did I call that one, or what?

(They come to a dead end.)

Aladdin: (gasps) It’s gone! But where? It’s a dead end!

Iago: Do you have to call it a dead end? How about a cul de sac? It’s
so much nicer.

(There is a growling sound behind them.)

Iago: Eee! It’s trapped us!

Aladdin: (pulls out Genie’s lamp and rubs it) Genie! Help us!

Genie: (comes out of the guitar in the form of a grunge rocker, holding a
guitar) Thank you! (plays a chord) Good night!

(They all jump on Genie and cover his mouth. He changes back to normal.)

Genie: Uh, what’s goin’ on?

Aladdin: Shh! (points at the shadow; they all creep towards the corner)
Shh. (signals a count of three with his hand, and he and Genie jump
around the corner) Ha!

Genie: Yah!

Waheed: Aaaahhhh!

Iago and Abu: Aaaahhh!

Genie: Daaaaahhhh!

Aladdin: (closes Genie’s mouth) Waheed! What are you doing out here?

Waheed: I... I - I saw something...weird.

Aladdin: Yeah, we saw it too. Stay close.

Waheed: Anything you say.

Aladdin: Alright, Genie, we’re gonna - (Genie’s face is frozen) What’s wrong?

(There is a growling noise.)

Waheed: Yaahh!

(A gargoyle-like monster crawls down the side of the building towards
them. Aladdin picks up Waheed and sets him on Carpet.)

Aladdin: Carpet, take Waheed! Go! (Carpet flies away)

Iago: How about me?

Aladdin: So you’re the thing that took Amal!

(The thing roars in their faces.)

Genie: (fanning his face) Whoo! Ever try a breath mint?

(The thing claws at Aladdin, who does a back flip out of the way.)

Genie: Look out!

Iago: Yaaaahh! (the monster claws at Iago, knocking him into a wall)
Ouch. (he falls into a barrel, and looks out through a knothole) Ah, I
should be safe in here.

(Aladdin pulls a piece of wood off of a building, and hits the monster
with it. The monster is okay, but the wood breaks in half.)

Aladdin: I’m in trouble.

(The monster roars. Up on top of a building, Abu pushes off a piece of
stone, which hits the monster in the head. It roars and comes after Abu.
Abu runs away, and the thing can’t follow because Genie, as a fisherman,
has caught its leg with a fishing rod.)

Genie: Ya-hoo! It’s a big ‘un!

(He tries to pull it down, but it roars, jumps to another building,
pulls Genie up with the fishing line and slams his head into the building.)

Genie: (falling to the ground) Ow. (dizzily) The fish are really biting
today. Okay, I’m gonna end this right here, right now!

(Genie zaps the monster. The blast bounces off its hand and hits Iago
in the barrel.)

Iago: Yaah!

Genie: Ah, see. It’s got thick skin. I did not know that.

(It growls from the top of the building.)

Aladdin: What’s it doing?

Genie: Beats me.

(It crawls around the corner, walking on the walls, and ducks behind a
bridge. Aladdin runs after it.)

Aladdin: It’s gone!

Iago: Good!

(Setting: above Agrabah.)

(Waheed is flying away on Carpet.)

Waheed: Carpet. Carpet. Carpet! I think maybe we’re far enough away now.

(Carpet stops. A black round portal opens behind him, and a monster’s
hand reaches out.)

(Setting: an alley in Agrabah.)

Genie: What was that thing?

Aladdin: I don’t know.

Abu: I don’t know.

Iago: That was a first-class, bona fide, legitimate argument in favor
of migrating!

(Carpet flies around the corner, and circles Aladdin.)

Aladdin: Carpet? What? Where’s Waheed? No, not again.

(Setting: Aladdin’s hovel.)

Aladdin: Waheed’s gone, and it’s all my fault.

Genie: Oh, Al, it’s not.

Aladdin: It is! I let it happen, just like I let it happen to Amal.

Genie: (turns into a hockey player) Al, I’m gonna smack you upside the
head! Hard! (changes back) Snap out of it, buddy! You’re not doing
yourself any good like this. We’re going to find Waheed, okay? (grabs
Aladdin’s head and makes him nod) And who knows? Maybe we’ll even find Amal!

Aladdin: If he’s even alive. Who knows why this thing steals kids. Okay,
Genie, what’s the plan?

Genie: Glad you asked. We know the monster only takes kids, so, step
one: ... (grabs Iago)

Iago: Hey!

Genie: We get a decoy. And dress him in swaddling clothes. (Iago is
dressed as a baby; Genie holds a baby bottle)

Iago: No. No, no, no, no. Don’t listen to him. It’s really a stupid
idea. No, no.

Genie: Ah, ah, ah, ah! Baby-wabie needs his bottle-wattle!

Iago: No decoy! Monster will eat decoy!

(Genie zaps Iago, and he starts to cry like a baby.)

Genie: Much better. (stuffs the bottle in his beak) Where was I? Right!
Step two: the monster shows up and takes Iago.

Aladdin: (gasps) Genie! Iago’s gone!

Genie: Perfect! Now we’ll track him! (turns into Q from the James Bond
movies) The bottle Iago’s carrying sports a Lankershim 5200 homing
beacon. (hold up a small device, which is beeping) We’ll be able to
follow him wherever he goes.

Aladdin: And wherever we find Iago, we find the missing kids!

Genie: Check. You steer, I’ll track. (they all jump on Carpet; Genie
turns into an Englishman in a fox hunting outfit and blows a horn, and
zaps Abu, turning him into a bloodhound; Abu barks) Tallyho! (they fly
away) We’re getting a strong signal. We’re gaining on him...He should
be just below us.

Aladdin: I don’t see anything.

Genie: (looking at the tracker) Hey, now he’s way over here!

Aladdin: That’s clear across town!

Genie: What gives? I want to know how he does that!

Aladdin: I see him!

(A shadow goes around a corner.)

Iago: Help!

(They see the bottle lying on the ground.)

Aladdin: Iago.

(They see Iago stuck in a crack in a wall. Genie pulls him out.)

Genie: Uh!

(There is the sound of running footsteps. Aladdin turns around to see
Waheed running away, and runs after him.)

Iago: (pulls off his disguise) No! Wait! Al! It’s not what you think!

(Aladdin follows him to the place in his flashback. Waheed is leaning
against the well.)

Aladdin: The old well. Where Amal disappeared. Waheed! Ah, you’re all
right! (runs up and hugs him) Come on, let’s get you out of here.
(Waheed pushes him back) Uh!

Waheed: I’m not going anywhere.

Aladdin: What do you mean?

Waheed: Nobody stole me. I went with the monster because I wanted to.

Aladdin: What? Why?

Waheed: Power. (his eyes are yellow, and his hand is starting to turn
into a claw) I can do all kinds of neat things. I joined the kinship of
the El Katib! (picks up Aladdin and throws him, then jumps towards
Aladdin and rips off his shirt) I’m not a lowly street rat anymore. I’m
finally making something of myself. And the best part is, the El Katib
are immortal. I’m going to live forever!

Aladdin: If this is what’s happened to you, then - then Amal -

(The monster is standing behind Aladdin, and roars. It grabs him by the
vest and looks into his eyes.)

Aladdin: Amal?

Amal: (sighs) Yes. Amal. I, too, have finally made something of myself,
Aladdin.

(The others fly towards them on Carpet.)

Genie: It’s got Al!

Aladdin: Genie, no! It’s Amal! (Amal throws him down) Ooh!

Genie: Told you we’d find him, buddy!

(Waheed and Amal jump into the well; Genie turns into an Olympic diver
and dives after them. Amal creates a portal, and he and Waheed go
inside right before Genie hits the bottom of the well.)

Genie: Ow. (gets up) Alley-oop! Oops! (the portal starts to close, but
Genie grabs it and opens it again; he turns into a carnival announcer)
Step right up! See the amazing, living, shadow-painting doorway to who-
knows-where!

(The others look down the well.)

Aladdin: So that’s how it got clear across town! It moves through shadows!

Iago: Shadows? It’s the Shadow Walkers! The El Katib! (flies down to
the bottom of the well)

Aladdin: The El Katib. That’s what Waheed was talking about. (the
others fly down on Carpet)

Iago: I’ve heard about these El Katib guys. They come out once every
seven years, and only during a full moon.

Genie: (turns into an astronomer with a telescope, and starts doing
calculations on the side of the well) Which, according to my calculations,
sets in, hoo hoo hoo, 8 minutes, 30 seconds.

Iago: Hey! If we just wait out here, they’ll just go away, see? For
another seven whole years!

Aladdin: Come on, we don’t have much time.

Iago: Al, what are we doin’? The kid made his choice. He wants to be a jerk.

Aladdin: No! Amal may be too far gone, but Waheed’s not a monster - yet.
There’s still hope for him and the other children. (steps into the portal)

Abu: Yeah!

Iago: Hey, it was worth a try.

(The others follow him.)

(Setting: inside the portal. There is mist everywhere, and no ground.)

Iago: Nice place. It could use a little flooring!

Genie: Just don’t look down, or you’re a goner. I’ve seen it happen in
cartoons.

Aladdin: Shh! Listen!

(There is the sound of children crying.)

Genie: (makes his ear huge) Sounds like...kids!

Aladdin: It’s coming from over here! (points)

(Genie opens a portal where Aladdin pointed.)

(Setting: some ruins, through Genie’s portal.)

(The crying sound is louder; Aladdin jumps out of the other side of the
portal. There are some children behind glowing bars.)

Aladdin: It’s the kids! The lost ones! They’re all gonna be El Katib!
Just like Waheed.

Boy: Help! Let us out!

(Another boy starts crying.)

(The others come out of the portal.)

Genie: Amal’s been a busy boy, uh, El Katib.

Aladdin: Genie, this happened to Amal, too. He didn’t start it; someone
else is behind this!

(There is the sound of clapping. Mirage is sitting on a throne in the ruins.)

Mirage: Impressive, Aladdin. Impressive. And you figured this out all
by yourself, too!

Aladdin: Mirage. Mirage, set those children free!

Iago: Ho! That’ll work!

Mirage: Very well, Aladdin. (zaps the bars holding the children)

Aladdin: Carpet, get ‘em outta here, quick!

(Carpet carries the children away.)

Mirage: Bah! Take them! Those brats are useless crybabies not fit to be
El Katib. (Amal stands next to her) You see, every seven years brings
new blood into the kinship. The promise of power and immortality
entices them.

(More El Katib begin to crawl out of the ruins; Iago squawks.)

Mirage: Those with the seeds of true evil within them are perfect
additions to the legion.

Genie: Psst! Al!

Aladdin: I see them!

Mirage: (purrs, stroking Amal’s head) Amal was an exceptionally fine
specimen, (Waheed approaches her) and I have high hopes for young Waheed.

Aladdin: You’re not keeping him, Mirage.

Mirage: Ha ha ha ha ha. Wrong. (a portal opens behind Mirage) Say your
goodbyes, Aladdin. Waheed really must be going.

Waheed: What? Where am I going?

Mirage: Into the shadow realm, my little minion. Quickly, now, for when
the full moon sets, the portal will close.

Waheed: No, I don’t - I don’t wanna go! I’ve got things to do here!

Mirage: (teeth gritted) No, you’ll enter the realm now.

Aladdin: What’s wrong, Mirage? Did you fail to mention that with power
and immortality comes eternal servitude? That the El Katib can only
walk the earth for three nights every seven years?

Waheed: You’re lying!

Aladdin: If you don’t believe me, just ask my old friend Amal.

(Amal turns away from Waheed.)

Waheed: (to Mirage) You never said anything about that!

Mirage: Never mind that now, the portal’s closing.

Waheed: Good! Let it! I’m not going!

Mirage: You’ll do what I say, minion!

Waheed: Nobody tells me what to do, and I am not your minion!

Mirage: Fine, stay. When the moon sets, you die.

Waheed: What? (looks at the moon setting)

Mirage: Oh, I failed to mention that too! (hitting the back of her
hand) Bad Mirage! Bad, bad Mirage! Ha ha ha ha. All part of being El
Katib. Everything has a catch.

Waheed: (crying) I - I don’t want to be El Katib anymore! I don’t want to!

Aladdin: Mirage! Take me instead!

Iago and Abu: Huh?

Mirage: What?

Aladdin: Return Waheed to normal. Take me in his place. Even trade. Him
for me.

Iago: That’s it. He’s lost it.

Aladdin: Come on, Mirage, you know you’d rather have me.

Mirage: You’re too pure of heart to ever be El Katib, Aladdin. Ooh, but
I’ll relish having you, my greatest enemy, as my personal manservant.
Ha ha ha ha ha! (zaps Waheed back to normal)

Waheed: (rubbing his head) Oh.... (looks at his hand) What?

Mirage: Enter, Aladdin. There’s work to be done in the shadow realm.

(Aladdin starts to walk towards the portal.)

Waheed: (Carpet is holding him back) Aladdin, don’t!

(Aladdin enters the portal.)

Mirage: Ha ha ha ha ha! The uncorruptible Aladdin has joined the forces
of evil!

Aladdin: (pokes his head out of the portal) Just a couple of quick
addendums!

Mirage: Huh?

Aladdin: (jumps out of the portal) 1 - I get my own parking space.
Otherwise the whole deal’s off!

Mirage: (turns her head to see another Aladdin and Waheed running away) Wha...?

(The Aladdin standing next to Mirage changes into Genie in a puff of
smoke.)

Genie: 2 - You’re so cute! (kisses Mirage) Mmm-wah! (pulls out a toy
mouse) Here, have a cat toy.

Mirage: Tricked! (hits Genie back into a wall)

Genie: 3 - Good backhand. (squeaks the mouse)

Mirage: El Katib, arise! Stop them!

(The El Katib hiding in the ruins run after Aladdin and Waheed, and
more appear out of portals in front of them, roaring. They run off in
another direction, but Aladdin runs into Amal, who picks him up in his hand.)

Waheed: Let him go! (Amal pushes him out of the way) Uh!

Mirage: Yes! Now, destroy him! Squeeze him! Crush his spine!

(Amal starts to squeeze Aladdin, but then stops, and looks at him sadly.)

Mirage: What are you waiting for? Do it!

Amal: No. He was my friend.

Mirage: No?! (is surrounded by green lightning, Amal puts Aladdin down)
Eeee! (Mirage stops and calms down)

(The moon is setting, and the portal has almost closed.)

Mirage: Then die, Amal. Die. Farewell! (evil laughter, then disappears)

(The moon sets and the portal closes. The other El Katib slowly
disappear. Amal’s arm begins to glow as if he is vanishing, too.)

Amal: Goodbye, Aladdin.

Aladdin: Amal! (everyone looks sad, then Aladdin looks up at Amal
again) What?

(Instead of disappearing, Amal’s arm has become human again.)

Aladdin: You’re all right!

(Abu jumps up and down, chattering happily.)

Aladdin: But why? How?

Amal: I...don’t know.

Genie: I do! He wouldn’t kill ya, Al! Smart move. We like him. Which
means he doesn’t have what it takes to be El Katib!

Amal: I’ve...lost my seed of evil.

Waheed: (jabs Aladdin with his elbow) No seed of evil here!

(Mirage’s eyes appear in the sky above them, and she hisses at them.
The eyes fade away.)

(Setting: at the gates of Agrabah.)

(Aladdin hugs Amal, who is wearing a robe.)

Amal: Thank you, Aladdin. With every good deed I seem to regain more of...
of my humanity.

Aladdin: Please stay, Amal. You could do good here.

Amal: Agrabah has you. There are other places where I could be of more help.

Aladdin: Take care, Amal. (shakes Amal’s human right hand) You make
something of yourself.

(Amal messes up Waheed’s hair, then walks out into the desert.)

THE END