LAPUTA The Castle in the Sky Draft 1: Sue Shambaugh Date Unknown Draft 2: Jeff Okamoto 03/15/88 ***** Reproduction of this material is permitted for NON-PROFIT purposes only! ***** MEN Ah!! CREWMAN Wah! It's a gas bomb!! It's an attack!! Men: Wah!! Voices: Ah! Wah! Hey!! MOOSKA Hold them there. You, get down on the floor!! DARK GLASSES Tear gas! DORA'S VOICE What's the delay? SHEETA Ah!! DORA'S VOICE Can't you break in at once ?! LOUIE She's here!! Mama, she's here!! She was hiding!! DORA Hurry up and catch her!! LOUIE Mama, I'll fall!! DORA That's it -- it's that stone!! Hurry -- into the next room!! It's a Levistone! SHEETA Ah!! WOMAN Scream! SHEETA (Falling) Ah!! DORA Damn -- the Levistone. . . PAZU Uncle -- put in two meatballs. SHOP OWNER Working a lot of overtime? PAZU After a long time, it's busy. WOMAN Still working?! PAZU Yes. PAZU What's that? PAZU It's a person!! PAZU Wah!! BOSS PAZU!! BOSS What are you doing up there? What about dinner? PAZU Boss!! A -- a girl from the sky!! BOSS Shit! Ouch. . . PAZU Boss -- a girl from the sky. . . BOSS Shit --worn-out engines!! PAZU Boss -- a girl from the sky!! BOSS Close the #2 valve!! BOSS Ouch. . . Pazu, hand me a wrench. PAZU Yes, sir. BOSS I can't let go!! You do it!! PAZU Huh? BOSS Don't keep the people down below waiting. PAZU Yes, sir! BOSS Keep calm and you can do it. PAZU Yes, sir. BOSS Brake!! PAZU Yes, sir!! Phew. . . ASSAYIST How was it? MINER It's no use. The silver isn't concentrated anywhere. ASSAYIST Just digging is useless. . . Shouldn't you have dug to the east? MINER It's full of old holes, over there. MINER We'll just have to do it over again, won't we? ASSAYIST Yes. . . Please do. MINER That's it. . . BOSS Put out the boiler fire. Without overtime. These are hard times -- we'll end up starving. BOSS Pazu -- oil that run-down engine. PAZU Yes, Sir. CHARLES It's no use, Mama. We can't find anything in the pitch dark. DORA You think we've searched thoroughly, eh?! DORA There's no evidence . . . We'll start afresh when it gets light. SHEETA Ah!! PAZU Ha, ha, ha. . . Well, how do you feel? Wah! Hey, wait!! Wait, I said!! PAZU I'm Pazu. I live alone in this hut. When I'm done playing, I give them this. SHEETA Ha, ha, ha! PAZU Heh, I'm relieved. PAZU At any rate, you look human. Until a little while ago, I was worried, in case you were an angel by mistake. SHEETA Thanks for saving me. I'm called Sheeta. PAZU Sheeta -- that's a nice name. I was surprised, the way you fell out of the sky. SHEETA I see. . . Why do you suppose I was saved. . .? After all, I fell out of an airship. . . PAZU Don't you remember? SHEETA No. . . PAZU Hm. . . PAZU Say, will you show me that for a minute? SHEETA This? PAZU Yes. SHEETA It's been handed down in my family from long ago. . . PAZU A pretty stone, isn't it. . . Just a second. . . Hm. Ha, ha, ha! Hitch!! SHEETA Pazu!! PAZU Looks like it wasn't this stone after all, eh. . .? Wah! SHEETA Pazu -- ah!! Pazu -- hang on. . . SHEETA Are you OK? PAZU Yes -- and you? SHEETA Fine. Does it hurt? PAZU Yes. My head hurts from Boss's fist. SHEETA Ha, ha, ha. . . PAZU Oh, yeah -- the pot has boiled away. Let's go in and eat!! PAZU You can wash your face over there. There are towels, too. SHEETA Thanks!! SHEETA Laputa. . . PAZU Sheeta!! Sheeta, ready yet. . .? That's a photograph Father took from an airship. PAZU ``Laputa'' is an island floating in the sky. SHEETA An island that floats in the sky? PAZU Yes. And although it's said to be a legend. . . My father saw it!! PAZU It's the photograph he took then. Although Swift wrote about Laputa in ``Gulliver's Travels'', that was just a day- dream. Father drew this from his imagination! PAZU Now, there's no one living in the palace any more. But a lot of treasure is sleeping there. But nobody believed it. Father died in Sagi, working on it. PAZU But, my father's not a liar. Now I'll make it real -- surely I will go and discover Laputa. . . Hm? PAZU An automobile -- how rare!! SHEETA They're pirates. PAZU Eh?! SHEETA They're the ones who attacked the airship!! PAZU They're after you? SHEETA Yes. PAZU Hurry -- this way!! PAZU Good morning!! LOUIE Hey!! Wait!! PAZU What? I'm in a hurry, so be quick!! LOUIE Hasn't a girl come to these parts? PAZU She came yesterday, to Boss's place -- baby Madge!! LOUIE Shit!! A coincidence!! PAZU Bye!! PAZU They're after Sheeta, after all. MAN Louie -- It's a girl's dress!! LOUIE Disguised?! You tell Mama!! BOSS Haven't seen her. . . CHARLES A pretty girl, with dark hair in braids? PAZU Boss!! Boss!! CHARLES Just about that age. . . SHEETA Ah!! CHARLES Mmm!? LOUIE Brother!! That's her!! PAZU They're pirates! They're after this girl. MADGE Pirates! Look! BOSS That's far enough. CHARLES We'll get her. BOSS Pirates? CHARLES The Dora Clan. BOSS You won't go back? There are only poor people here. PAZU Wah!! PAZU Okami!! OKAMI During this interval, escape out the back!! PAZU I'll fight, too!! OKAMI They have weapons. PAZU But. . . OKAMI Be a good boy, won't you? Protect her. CHARLES In any case, we'll get her somehow. BOSS If you're a man, settle it with fists. HENRI Amusing. Do it, Brother! CROWD (Claps) OH!! MAN Oh, my -- show him, Daffy! LOUIE Amazing. . . OKAMI Who sewed that shirt? CHARLES Ooh!! MAN Don't be beaten!! Go!! LOUIE AND HENRI Brother, don't give up! HENRI Go!! Go!! Eh? DORA They think they can fool me? Follow them!! PAZU Hey!! Get on!! PAZU Good!! ENGINEER Pazu -- skipping out on work for a day? PAZU We're being followed by ruffians. ENGINEER Oh. . .? PAZU It's the Dora Clan. . . ENGINEER Pirates? Boy! PAZU Let us ride as far as the next city, and we'll go for the police. ENGINEER All right. Help out as a stoker!! PAZU Sure. LOUIE AND HENRI Mama!! DORA These stupid sons of mine -- hurry up and get in!! LOUIE Eh. . .?! But the girl's over there. DORA She's already gone out the back door. Don't stop. HENRI Brother. . . MEN Wait!! ENGINEER Pazu --they've remembered. PAZU Uncle -- can't this go any faster? ENGINEER It's pretty old. DORA Let's change!! LOUIE Mama -- I'm falling!! ENGINEER Raise the steam --they're gaining on us!! LOUIE Go there!! PAZU Sheeta -- this way!! PAZU Take care of the stoking!! SHEETA Yes. DORA Don't give up!! SHEETA Pazu!! PAZU Shit!! DORA Push!! Keep pushing!! DORA Wait!! They won't get away. Don't just sit there -- push this thing into the bottom of the valley!! DORA'S SONS Eh?? ENGINEER Ha, ha, ha. . . There -- run fast!! PAZU I'll do it. SHEETA Yes -- we'll do it. DORA Wait!! LOUIE It's THEM, Mama. . . What'll we do. . .? DORA As I see it, are we supposed to bow out?? We start at once!! ENGINEER Hey, we're stuck. It's the army's doing. ENGINEER Hey, please help out these kids. They're being followed by pirates. PAZU Sheeta. . .? SHEETA Bye! DARK GLASSES Wait!! PAZU Sheeta!! SOLDIER Stop!! SOLDIER Stop or I'll shoot!! HENRI It's an armored tank!! DORA I don't care! Ram it!! PAZU Sheeta -- what in the world's the matter!! SHEETA Don't ask!! DORA Shit!! LOUIE They'll fall!! DORA Be quiet -- watch closely!! PAZU We're floating!! DORA You saw it, didn't you -- the power of the Levistone!! PAZU It's the power in that stone, after all!! Amazing!! SHEETA Ah!! PAZU It's OK. This way we'll go to the bottom. DORA AMAZING!! I want it. . .! SOLDIER Fire!! DORA Excellent!! I WILL get my hands on it!! SHEETA It's going out. . . PAZU Wah -- wait. . . PAZU It did that when you came floating down, too, Sheeta. The entrance looks so small. . . SHEETA I hope nothing awful happens to your Boss, or the Engineer. . . PAZU It's OK. The miners aren't all that soft. Well, let's go. Shouldn't we look for the exit? Since long ago, the mine's been full of holes over here. SHEETA I'm glad -- I was awfully hungry. PAZU Later, there's one apple, and two sweets. SHEETA Wow. . . SHEETA Pazu's bag is like a magic bag. It gives out everything. PAZU Gondoa . . .? That's right in the heart of the northern mountains , isn't it? SHEETA Yes. . . Although Mother and Father died, they left me the house and farm, and I managed alone, somehow. . . PAZU You were kidnapped by those ``Dark Glasses''? SHEETA Yes. . . PAZU And that same man from a little while ago? Who could it be. . . With such an army. . . Both Dora and the Dark Glasses want to get the stone, don't they? SHEETA But I had no idea there was such a mysterious power in this stone. SHEETA It has always been handed down in my family, since ancient times. Mother gave it to me when she died, telling me never to give it to strangers, or to show it to them. PAZU Hm. Neither one of us has parents. SHEETA Forgive me, for getting you mixed up in my troubles, Pazu. PAZU Sure. When you fell from the sky, my heart was pounding. PAZU Surely, it started a wonderful thing. POM Imps . . . It's imps. . . PAZU Grandpa Pom!! It's OK. He's a very nice man. Grandpa Pom -- we're lost!! POM At last. . . Pazu looked just like an imp. . . And a lit- tle girl imp, too, I fear. PAZU We're being chased by pirates. POM Oh. . .? PAZU And by the army, too. POM Indeed. . . Ho, ho. . . Well, intrepid, aren't you. . . POM Well, help yourself. SHEETA Thanks. Grandpa, do you always stay underground? POM Ho, ho, ho . . . Impossible! Since last night, the stones have been making a mysterious commotion. . . POM I'd like them to quiet down in time. PAZU The rock makes noise . . . ? POM Ho, ho, ho. . . The stones have small voices . . . SHEETA Wow. . . PAZU Amazing. . . SHEETA Pazu -- look up. PAZU But, until a little while ago, it was just rock. . . SHEETA It's pretty. POM Now, let's have a look. PAZU AND SHEETA Wow! SHEETA It went out. POM There are Levistones inside the rocks around here. PAZU Levistones . . .? POM This happens immediately when it touches the air. It ends up becoming just like a rock. . . SHEETA It's glowing. . . POM This -- I'm amazed!! That's a Levistone crystal. . . I, too, am beginning to see. . . It's no wonder the stones are agitated. . .!! SHEETA There's a wonderful power in this stone. POM So long ago, only the people of Laputa had the power of cry- stallization. SHEETA The people of Laputa. . . POM Then, it floated in the sky over Dekkai Island. . . PAZU There really was a Laputa, Sheeta!! It exists, after all. SHEETA Grandpa, do you think that island is there now? PAZU Grandpa Pom? POM S -- sorry, but could you put away that stone? It's too strong for me. . . SHEETA Y -- Yes!! PAZU What's the matter, Grandpa? POM My Grandpa told me. . . When the stones are noisy, it's because Laputa is over the mines. PAZU So. . .! If we go up into the sky at that time, we can see Laputa!! Sheeta, Father wasn't lying!! POM Um, little girl. . . That is. . . SHEETA Yes? POM I tell others about those stones because that's how I make a living, but the power that the stone has to bring people luck, seems to invite bad luck. . . SHEETA Yes. POM Still more, that stone was made by human hands. Pay atten- tion to that. . . PAZU It's not like that!! That stone has saved Sheeta twice already, hasn't it! PAZU It's amazing!! Laputa is real. LOUIE They've gone. Let's go back to the ship, Mama. . . DORA Keep quiet. DORA We shouldn't move for the time being. CHARLES I'm hungry. . . PAZU It's OK -- let's go. SHEETA Thanks, Grandpa. POM Be careful. PAZU Wow -- amazing clouds. Beyond the peaks of those clouds, where nothing can be seen, the island is floating.. . PAZU I'll do it!! I'll see Laputa for sure! SHEETA Pazu. . . PAZU Hm. . .? SHEETA There's something I still haven't told you. . . SHEETA There's an old, secret name in my family. When I inherited this stone, I inherited that name as well. . . My inherited name is Lusheeta. . . Lusheeta Toelle Ul Laputa. . . PAZU Laputa. . . Th -- that's. . .! It's the army!! Run, Sheeta! PAZU Run to the cave!! SOLDIER Don't move. . . PAZU What are you doing!? P.41 SHEETA Ah -- Pazu!! Let me go. . . (chomp) DARK GLASSES Ah!! SHEETA Pazu! Pazu! Pazu! Pazu! SOLDIER We've picked them up. MOOSKA Gave you a lot of trouble, eh? PAZU Open up! Open up! PAZU Sheeta. . . GENERAL Sluggish!! If we lock up a little girl like that, she'll talk at once!! MOOSKA That's the bad habit of the government. MOOSKA Hurry the matter, and both the girl and the investment will suffer, Your Excellency. GENERAL Hmph!! If we'd mobilized the troops in the first place, Dora wouldn't have stolen a march on us. MOOSKA Your Excellency, the elementary code was deciphered. GENERAL What!? MOOSKA This is work for my agents. If Your Excellency would move the troops at the necessary time, then fine. GENERAL Mooska!! I am the commander of the Laputa investigation. Don't forget it! MOOSKA Of course. And Itake secret orders from the government, don't forget. GENERAL Shit! Special NOVICE!! MOOSKA Did you sleep well? SHEETA Where's Pazu?! I want to see Pazu!! MOOSKA Don't you like fashionable clothes? Don't worry about him. That rock-head is harder than mine. Look -- right or wrong, there's something I want you to see. Go in. SHEETA This. . . MOOSKA It has terrible destructive power. It's a robot soldier. MOOSKA If this fellow hadn't come falling out of the sky, nobody would have believed in Laputa. . . MOOSKA This one wasn't made on the Earth's surface. And this body -- metallic? Ceramic? Our scientists don't know aboutthat. Look at this. . . MOOSKA Don't be afraid. This one has been dead from the beginning. Here. The same sign that was on the old fireplace in your home. And on this necklace, eh. . .? MOOSKA This stone won't work except in your hands. The stone, inherited by you, will protect its owner, until the day you return to Laputa in the sky, when it will show you the way. SHEETA But, I don't know anything!! SHEETA If you want the stone, tell me!! SHEETA Leave us alone. . . MOOSKA You think Laputa is kind of a "Treasure Island", don't you? Laputa is in the sky because of a formerly impressive scien- tific power. It controlled the whole surface of the Earth. It was an empire of fear!! MOOSKA If a thing like that is still roving the sky, is it not a danger to peace? I think you understand. I'd like you to help me. Laputa's location is in the Levistone. You must know an incantation? Or something. SHEETA I really don't know. . . Let me see Pazu. . . MOOSKA I don't like to be violent. That young man's fate is in your hands. If you help us, I'll set that young man free, Lusheeta Toelle Ul Laputa. SHEETA How do you know that . . . MOOSKA ``Ul'' means ``King'' in Laputan. ``Toelle'' is ``True''. You arethe rightful successor of the Laputan royal family -- Queen Lusheeta. PAZU Ouch. . . GUARD Come out. PAZU Sheeta! SHEETA Pazu -- are you hurt? PAZU I'm OK. But you!? They haven't done anything terrible to you, have they?! MOOSKA Pazu -- I was quite mistaken about you. Please forgive me. I didn't know that you fought hard to protect her from pirates. PAZU Sheeta -- what in the world. . . SHEETA Pazu -- I beg you. Forget about Laputa. PAZU What!? MOOSKA The situation has become such that the army will investigate Laputa in secret with Sheeta's help. I understand how you feel, but I'd like you to keep ``hands off'' somehow. PAZU Sheeta -- is it true? But. . . SHEETA Forgive me. For troubling you so many ways. Thank you. I'll never forget you, Pazu. . . PAZU It can't be -- Sheeta -- didn't you promise? SHEETA Goodbye. PAZU Sheeta!! Wait, Sheeta!! MOOSKA If you want to be a man, too, then listen to reason!! PAZU SHEETA!! MOOSKA This is small, but it's heartfelt thanks. Take it and go. MOOSKA Please remember the words to make this stone work. . . If you keep your promise, you'll be set free, too. . . SHEETA Pazu. . . MADGE Shoo -- Shoo! Mama -- it's Pazu. Pazu came back!! OKAMI Pazu -- I've been worried. I haven't seen you since that time. What happened to that little girl? PAZU She's all right. OKAMI Eh?! Pazu!! PAZU Wah -- let me go -- what are you doing! DORA Just borrowing for a little while, my boy. PAZU Get out!! This is my house!! DORA Big talk, eh, for a brat who can't protect a little girl by himself. . . HENRI Look at how much money he's got!! DORA Oh, dear -- you sold the girl for money? PAZU You're wrong!! Would I do a thing like that?! DORA I don't suppose you'll say how you got the money? PAZU Sheeta told me to take it!! So, I . . . DORA So you grew timid, and came back shamelessly? And yet, you call yourself a man!?! Eh?? PAZU Don't brag!! Weren't you trying to get hold of Sheeta, then?! DORA Of course. Pirates try to get treasure, and where's the harm!! They're strange fellows. Why do they repeatedly kidnap the girl? DORA Do you think they'll let the girl live? Did ``Sheeta say so''? Idiot! Wasn't she intimidated into settling with them to save you? CHARLES You understand well, don't you, Mama? DORA I haven't been a woman for 50 years for appearance's sake. DORA Aren't you crying? To save a man -- heartless behavior. Just like my young heart. All of you -- if you marry, find a nice girl like her. LOUIE Heh!? Is she like Mama, that girl? DORA No good -- they've changed the code . . .!! They've sum- moned a warship. DORA They'll depart with the girl on board . And if we don't hurry, it will get out of our reach . . . We'll set out. How long were we eating? PAZU Are you going to go kidnap Sheeta? HENRI The girl is useless -- it's the Levistone! PAZU But, the Levistone by itself is useless!! If Sheeta doesn't hold that stone, it doesn't work!! PAZU Auntie -- won't you take me with you?! I want to save Sheeta. DORA Don't be spoiled. If you go, you do things with your own strength. PAZU I will. I'm not a fool. If I have the strength, I'll pro- tect her. The treasure of Laputa is not useless. Please. . . LOUIE Oho, you've made her cry. . . DORA Shut up!! LOUIE Y -- yes. .. DORA We don't know if the girl will listen to what we have to say, do we? We can't go there twice. PAZU Understood. DORA I expected as much!! PAZU Yes! DORA Don't take more than 40 seconds. PAZU All of you -- take care. DORA Fasten yourself onto me with this belt. You all, wait on the ship. GENERAL It's an excellent ship. Mooska -- has the girl confessed? MOOSKA I need a little more time. GENERAL I don't care! There'll be time enough in the air. With nightfall, I'll put the girl on board and depart. DORA If we dawdle, night will fall!! PAZU Sheeta!! GRANDMA That's too bad. So, Sheeta, I want to tell you something good. A spell for times of trouble. YOUNG SHEETA A spell? GRANDMA That's right. Very old, secret words. ``Leete Latobarita Uruth Ariaroth Bal Netoreel.'' YOUNG SHEETA Leete. . . La. . .? GRANDMA It's to save us. It is a wish -- ``Light, be reborn.'' Leete Latobarita Uruth Ariaroth Bal Netoreel. SHEETA Leete Latobarita Uruth Ariaroth Bal Netoreel. . . SHEETA Aaah?!! MOOSKA Excellent!! It was in an old manuscript -- this light is a holy light. . . SHEETA Holy light. . .? MOOSKA What kind of incantation is it? Tell me those words. GUARDS Hey?! GUARD It moved!! Yah!! The robot -- the robot's alive. Hello?!! GUARDS Save us! It's crazy! GUARDS It's moving. Put out the fire. It's the robot!! MOOSKA The robot! ? MOOSKA Where does it think it's going?! ? VOICE Hurry!! MOOSKA Amazing!! I see!! SHEETA Ah!! MOOSKA It's that light!! The seal on the robot was broken by the holy light. It has opened the way to Laputa!! Come here!! SHEETA NO!! MOOSKA It thinks it can fly?! DARK GLASSES It's crazy!! SHEETA It's piercing the sky. . . MOOSKA Laputa is in the same direction as that light. Not ready yet? Hurry up! GENERAL Use the blasting powder?! Idiot -- do you want to blow up this fort?! GENERAL Hm!? Hello? Hello?? Hey -- what's wrong!! DARK GLASSES 1 Good. DARK GLASSES 2 It's connected. MOOSKA This is Captain Mooska. Because of the robot, the communi- cations circuits have been destroyed. Take emergency action. I will temporarily take command . MOOSKA The robot is trying to get to the girl on the East tower. Kill it the moment it's shown itself. Leave the fuses off the shells. Don't hurt the girl. GUARD Hurry! Hurry! SOLDIER Fire! VOICES We did it! Forward! Hurry! SOLDIER 1 Ha, ha -- it's flattened. SOLDIER 2 Amazing. . . SOLDIER 3 Get the girl. SOLDIER 4 Is she dead? SOLDIER 5 Hey -- get up. SHEETA Ah. . . SOLDIER 6 She's just fainted. Hey, stand up. SOLDIER It -- it moved. .. SOLDIERS Wah! Run! PAZU Ah!! DORA What's the matter -- looks just like a war. PAZU Let's go, Auntie! DORA Call me Captain!! Charles, fly a little lower, can't you? SHEETA Stop!! Stop, already!! SHEETA Please!! LOUIE Mama -- the Goliath has started to move!! DORA As it is, if they go, we'll end up flying into their blast- ing powder. We'll start anew. PAZU There she is -- it's Sheeta. DORA What? Where?! PAZU As I see it, go straight ahead. She's on the top of the small tower!! DORA The girl is brave!! You all, cover us!! PAZU Sheeta!! Sheeta, go now!! SHEETA Pazu!! PAZU Auntie, a little closer!! Wah! SHEETA Pazu!! Ah!! LET ME GO! PAZU Sheeta!! PAZU Auntie!! SHEETA Pazu! SHEETA Ah. . . PAZU!! PAZU Go up!! DORA It's our last chance. If we brush past, catch hold!! PAZU Yes. SHEETA Pazu!! PAZU Great!! DORA Go!! MOOSKA Get out of the way!! Damn!! PAZU Sheeta!! MOOSKA Shit. What is the Goliath doing? Ah!! MOOSKA A smoke screen. . .? GENERAL Mooska -- what happened to the robot?! MOOSKA The robot was destroyed. The girl is out there. GENERAL What!? Look sharp -- put out the fires! Form search parties!! MOOSKA Don't lose the holy light. MOOSKA It shows the direction of Laputa. . . Inform the General, and we will depart for Laputa in the planned direction. LOUIE Nice, isn't she. . . CHARLES Do you believe it. . .? That girl looks like she's becoming like Mama. DORA It's your valley. Really, it's absurd; you were a useless limb. PAZU Say. . . Auntie, please let us ride on your ship. DORA Call me Captain!! You don't have the Levistone. To let you on board is special. PAZU We'll repay you. SHEETA I certainly want to see the real Laputa with my own eyes. DORA Hmph. And if the treasure is useless. . . ? I certainly want to see the true character of Laputa. Your motive to ride on a pirate ship is impure. LOUIE Mama -- can she come along? DORA If there's any strange mockery, I'll throw you into the sea at once!! PAZU Yes! LOUIE We did it! A live-in charwoman. HENRI A dishwasher!! CHARLES A potato peeler!! ALL Yeah! Whew! CHARLES Can you make pudding? SHEETA Yes. . . LOUIE I like mincemeat pie!! HENRI And me. . . Well, now, let me see. . . I'll eat anything!! DORA Behave yourselves! Really! Still just children. DORA Don't fall!! PAZU It's cloth strips!! PAZU This ship is made of cloth strips!! DORA Don't ruin it. PAZU WAH! LOUIE Don't loiter!! It's cramped. SHEETA Wah!! DORA Hurry up -- this way!! I hate shirkers!! LOUIE You -- this way. PAZU Wah!! SHEETA Pazu!! DORA Can't eat yet. Come on!! LOUIE You didn't come here to play!! PAZU It's an amazing engine. LOUIE Where'd he go? Uncle! Uncle!! Uncle -- hey, it's the assistant you wanted. ENGINEER Not so loud. I can hear you. LOUIE Go. He's worse than Mama. Be careful. ENGINEER It's so cramped, my hand won't go in. PAZU It's this packing, isn't it. .. ENGINEER Your name? PAZU Pazu. DORA It's almost due East, isn't it, the direction that the light from the Levistone gave. No mistake, is there? SHEETA From the tower where I was, I could see the sun rise. Right now is the next mowing season, therefore. . . SHEETA The sunrise is moving a little to the south of due East, because the light of the sun rose to the left of the hills. . . DORA A good reply. How're things up there? RADIO OPERATOR Neither yea nor nay. DORA So, they're jamming the radio to hide their whereabouts, are they?! HENRI Mama, the Goliath's way is a fast pace!! What'll we do? DORA We'll be on their windward side. If we use the trade winds. . . This is it. The East electronic computer. The Goliath has already departed for Laputa! DORA With wind speed 10. . . We'll do it somehow. Everybody, listen up!! Our ship will now commence pursuit!! DORA If we use the wind, we should be able to make contact tomor- row!! And I'll give 10 gold pieces to the first spotter!! CHARLES 10 gold pieces. . . DORA Laputa is some sort of island, I guess. There must be enough treasure to comfort us pirates. So! Everybody. . .GET TO WORK!! ENGINEER There!! DORA Course 98. Velocity 40!! DORA There's nothing in that size!! Put this on!! DORA It's your post. LOUIE Good!! DORA Meals are 5 times a day. Economize on the water. MEN WAH!! DORA These fools!! Can't you do your work at once?? SHEETA Come in. Sorry, there's no dinner yet. LOUIE Heh, heh, heh. . . SHEETA My first airship kitchen. . . Do you want something? LOUIE Well . . . SHEETA Yes? LOUIE No, no -- I have some spare time, so I thought I'd be of some help. . . SHEETA Well, thank you. Would you do that washing? LOUIE Easy. . . OOP! LOUIE A little while ago, you said your back hurt. . . CHARLES I had some spare time and thought I'd help. . . MAN 1 Out of the way. CHARLES Don't shirk. .. MAN 2 Don't get in the way. MAN 3 Shit -- what hurt your back? HENRI Hey -- can I be of some help. . .!?! ENGINEER Dora was scared too, eh? And with the Goliath to help them. . . It's hopeless. . . DORA Hmph! It's the island of Laputa, so it's no wonder . ENGINEER Heh, heh. . . Certainly they're good kids, those two.. . DORA What does he want me to say? This damned old man. . . ENGINEER Help the enemy, too. Please don't respect! ( ? ) DORA What!! ENGINEER No. . . Hey. . . Checkmate, isn't it? MEN It's good! Yum! Delicious. SHEETA Well. . . If anyone wants seconds. . . MAN Um. . . SHEETA Yes. VOICES Seconds!! Seconds!! Seconds!! LOUIE Hey!! Get up. It's arrival time. Take this with you -- it's cold!! PAZU The lookout. . .? LOUIE Yes . . . Phew -- cold!! You're up top. PAZU Yes. PAZU I'm second shift. LOOKOUT Thanks. PAZU Sheeta!! SHEETA Wow -- I was scared!! Wow!! SHEETA Pretty. . . PAZU Sheeta. . . Get in. DORA Can't sleep. . . SHEETA Yes. . . It's warm. . . PAZU Sheeta, look behind. SHEETA Yes . . . SHEETA Pazu. . . PAZU Hm? SHEETA I'm scared beyond words. . . The truth is, I don't want to go to Laputa at all. I hope we don't find the Goliath. PAZU Well. . . SHEETA Um. . . The direction that the light pointed at, is really. . . Well . . . PAZU And that incident with the robot. . . It was pitiful, wasn't it? SHEETA Yes. . . What a thing to happen, from an incantation taught to me by my grandmother. . . I learned many other incanta- tions, too. To find things, and to cure illness . . . And words I must absolutely never use. PAZU Words you must absolutely never use. . .? SHEETA Spells of destruction, good spells to bestow power. . . She said I must know the bad words, too, but never use them. SHEETA When I was taught, I couldn't sleep for fear. . . I was never to take out that stone. . . So it was always hidden in the fireplace, and except at weddings, never used. . . SHEETA Mother, and Grandmother, and Grandmother's Grandmother -- everybody came to do so. . . I hope we can save such a stone quickly. . . PAZU You're wrong. Thanks to that stone, I met Sheeta. By sav- ing that stone, Laputa won't be lost. Quickly progressing in the flying machine, when will someone discover it? PAZU Yet, what shall we do if Laputa is really a terrible island? It looks like Mooska must not deliver the others to it. . . Besides. . . If we run away now, we'll be followed all the time. SHEETA But, I don't want to make Pazu a pirate for my sake. . . PAZU I won't become a pirate . PAZU Even Dora understands . She appears to be a good person. . . When this is all over, surely she'll send you to Gondoa .. . I want to see it. . . The old house where Sheeta was born, and the yaks. . . SHEETA Oh, Pazu. . . PAZU What's that!! Underneath the ship -- hey, there!! PAZU It's the Goliath -- it's right below us!! DORA Starboard -- run!! P.60 GENERAL Mooska -- why aren't we chasing them? Let them get away, and we've got trouble. MOOSKA It's no good, in the clouds. Let them -- at any rate, they won't run far! MOOSKA The navigation research is going smoothly. DORA As expected, the course was north. Pazu -- there's no time -- listen up!! If we don't shake off the Goliath, it's the end. You have good eyes; only the lookout post. . . If we go out of the clouds, they'll pursue. PAZU What should I do? DORA That lookout post will turn into a kite. There should be a handle inside. PAZU Found it!! DORA If you turn it clockwise, the hook will catch. If you turn the upper handle, the wings will open. . .! DORA If it's open, don't stretch the wire. Remember, steer with your body!! DORA Sheeta's up there, isn't she!! SHEETA Yes!! DORA You come back down!! SHEETA Why? DORA ``WHY''?? You're a little girl!! SHEETA Hey, Auntie, you're a girl, too!! Besides, I'm mountain- bred -- I have good eyes, too. PAZU Sheeta!! SHEETA (Please!) Pazu thinks so, too!! DORA Ha, ha, ha. . . If you go up, don't use the voice tube. Because there's an internal telephone. SHEETA Is this the phone you were talking about, Auntie? CHARLES Wow. . . PAZU Yes -- we'll try. Let us up!! DORA Go!! SHEETA It's not here, is it. PAZU They've dived into the clouds. DORA Don't be careless. They don't have to be in front of us. PAZU Yes!! SHEETA Yah!! PAZU Hang on tight!! DORA What's wrong!! PAZU It's turbulence -- we're ok!! PAZU Just a little stirred up!! Yes!! I'll continue the watch. Scared? SHEETA Yes. PAZU I've gotten the hang of how to do it. PAZU It's a little stormy. Sheeta, get the string out of my suitcase. SHEETA Yes. PAZU Tie us together with it.. . SHEETA Sure!! LOUIE The barometer is falling rapidly, Mama. . . DORA Unlucky, eh? What a time to get stormy. How long until sunset? CHARLES One hour!! PAZU It's sunset!! SHEETA Pazu, it's strange, the sunset coming from the side. . . PAZU I see!! We must be moving towards the east!! Bridge!! DORA Eh!? Go north, you say!? CHARLES The compass is pointing north!! DORA The wind's changed. The course has gone wrong!! SHEETA Look -- there!! DORA What's the matter -- the Goliath?! PAZU It's the clouds. They're awfully big. . . DORA The clouds! ? SHEETA They're coming this way!! PAZU It's a sky castle. . . DORA THAT'S a low pressure center!! The ship can't stand the wind. Full power! It's dragging!! PAZU We're rapidly being drawn closer. DORA Don't persevere -- we can't take it!! PAZU WAH!! CHARLES The rudder won't move!! DORA Always the damn power -- what's the problem!! ENGINEER Dora -- the engine will burn up. DORA I don't want to hear any complaints, all right? Do it, somehow or other!! DORA Get out of the clouds!! PAZU Sheeta -- It's the ocean!! SHEETA Eh?? DORA The Dragon's Nest!! PAZU The Dragon's Nest!? This. . .? PAZU The wind there is blowing in the wrong direction, just like Father said. DORA That way is a wall of wind!! CHARLES So much for the return trip. DORA We'll be sucked in. The man simply won't give up. PAZU Bridge!! Laputa is in here!! DORA What! ? PAZU Father saw Laputa in the Dragon's Nest!! DORA You're crazy!! If we go in, we'll be shaken to pieces!! SHEETA Pazu -- over there!! PAZU Ah!! DORA At a damn busy time like this!! PAZU Let's go, Auntie!! It's the way Father talked about. Father came back!! DORA ALL RIGHT!! Let's go -- into the Dragon's Nest!! PAZU Ah!! GENERAL Yeah, we did it!! MAN Our ship is in danger, too. I will retreat. MOOSKA Progress just as before!! MAN Hunh?! MOOSKA The light always indicates the center of the whirling clouds. Laputa is inside the storm. Didn't you hear me: Progress just as before. There is certainly an entrance. PAZU Let's go, Sheeta!! SHEETA Yes!! PAZU (Father!) PAZU Sheeta. . . Sheeta! Are you OK? PAZU Look. . . SHEETA Laputa . . .? PAZU Yes. 0h -- sorry!! SHEETA Wait. . . Still pretty tightly knotted. My hands are shak- ing.. . PAZU We did it!! BOTH WAH!! Ha, ha, ha . . . PAZU There are birds. . . SHEETA What do you suppose happened to everyone. . .? PAZU It's coming to meet you, Sheeta. . . SHEETA But I don't have the Levistone . . . PAZU A knife will do it. . . PAZU What are you doing!! SHEETA Wait! Please, don't break that. Without that, we can't go back. SHEETA Ah!! SHEETA It's a Hitaki nest!! PAZU For this . . .! ? SHEETA Oh, good, the eggs aren't broken . . . PAZU Not afraid of people, are they. . . SHEETA Let's follow. PAZU Do you know the words? SHEETA Just don't worry about that! PAZU Wow!! PAZU It's a city!! PAZU But we must be inside the buildings. . . Sheeta, that sky. . . SHEETA Yes. . . PAZU But it looked like stone walls from the outside. . . It was a splendid city. If science was progressing all the while, why. . .? PAZU It's a tomb, isn't it. . . SHEETA Although the forgotten writing is legible. . . Is it your doing? Pazu!! PAZU It's not the same robot as before. . . PAZU It must be a gardening robot. Because there weren't any people, all the time, it was standing guard here. . . SHEETA You came to pick flowers to offer before a tomb. . . Thank you. . . PAZU You're all alone? Aren't there any other robots here?! PAZU Ha, ha. . . PAZU Doesn't look lonely at all, does it. . . SHEETA It has friends. . . Inspecting the Hitaki nest, too, it won't die. . . time. PAZU This way!! PAZU The back face has crumbled. PAZU The Tiger Moth has been defeated. SHEETA Auntie and the others are probably OK. PAZU Sheeta -- over there!! SHEETA Ah. . . Everyone is caught!! PAZU They tied up the pirates at once. SHEETA Can't we rescue them?! PAZU Let's go!! MAN We've opened a way into the city. Please observe -- there's a mountain of treasure inside!! GENERAL Phew. . . LOUIE Wow... GENERAL How do you like this? Do you want it? You'll all get enough -- rope! GENERAL Did you notify our country of the discovery of Laputa? MOOSKA I'll do it now. GENERAL Try to set up a difficult code. Hey -- don't embezzle!! MOOSKA The fools are just blind enough. SHEETA Amazing tree roots. . . PAZU Sheeta, you climb trees calmly, eh? Let's go. PAZU Doing terrible things. . . SHEETA If they go to the upper gardens. . . PAZU Sheeta, let's get back the Levistone. PAZU Only that will protect this place from those rascals. Why have the clouds cleared? I'm worried. . . PAZU If it hadn't been like this, they wouldn't have been able to land. SHEETA The effect of my spell. . . PAZU Surely this is what Mooska said, about ``the seal being broken.'' PAZU Already this castle is awakened, because the holder of the Levistone approached, riding on the storm. As it stands, then, Mooska will become King. After the plunder, very ter- rible things will start to happen. SHEETA But how should I get the Levistone back . . . ? Those words . . . PAZU Those words? Impossible. . . But. . . PAZU We'll go around from below. PAZU I'll jump first. SHEETA Yes. . . PAZU Ah!! MOOSKA It's around here. SHEETA Dear God. . . MOOSKA This is it!! DARK GLASSES Oh!! DARK GLASSES It's that brat! DARK GLASSES 0h!! PAZU Damn?!! MOOSKA Don't shoot -- I'll catch her! SHEETA Ah!! MOOSKA This, this isn't a queen?! PAZU Sheeta! Shit. . . SOLDIER Captain -- What's going on? MOOSKA The rest of the pirates. One more is hiding at your feet. SOLDIER Yes! Look for him!! PAZU Sheeta!! Wait. . . SHEETA Pazu!! SOLDIER Bring me a hand grenade. LOUIE It's Pazu and the others, eh. . . VOICES What? Wow! DORA You're mistaken!! SOLDIER 1 His Excellency!! SOLDIER 2 What? SOLDIER 2 Guards, fall in!! SOLDIER 2 Hurry!! PAZU Auntie!! They've got Sheeta. I'm going to go rescue her. After I cut the ropes, escape. PAZU Run well away! DORA Hey, wait!! Take these. PAZU Thanks. DORA He became a man in an emergency, didn't he. . .? GENERAL What!! Mooska broke up all the radios? SOLDIER Yes, sir. We caught his pets making themselves scarce inside the ship. SOLDIER 1 Many in the arrival army are seriously wounded. The Captain is inside the lower dark hemisphere. The army witnessed it. GENERAL Greenhorn! Showed his true colors. Gather the troops. It's a spy hunt! SOLDIERS Gather all squadrons!! Hey -- Hurry up!! Number 3 squadron. SOLDIERS If they resist, I don't care if you shoot to kill. Find the entrance! DARK GLASSES Captain -- where in the world is this place. ..? MOOSKA The nerve center of Laputa. The castle above and such, are no more than rubbish. MOOSKA The science of Laputa is completely stored in here. You will wait here. DARK GLASSES Captain! Wait, Captain!! MOOSKA Beyond here, none but the royal family can enter -- it's a sanctuary. What's this!! MOOSKA The tree roots, as far as here. . .? (flip, flip) One paragraph, and it will all be reduced to ashes. Come -- this way. MOOSKA Shit -- here it is!! MOOSKA H -- here, too?! Shit! MOOSKA Found it!! Oh. . . Look at this huge Levistone!! THIS is the source of Laputa's power. MOOSKA Excellent. For 700 years it has been waiting for the return of the king. SHEETA 700 years. . .? MOOSKA Your clan forgot about that, didn't it? MOOSKA It's the black stone!! Just like in the legend!! MOOSKA I can read it -- I can read it!! SHEETA Who in the world ARE you? MOOSKA I, too, have an old, secret name, Lusheeta. My name is Romooska Paro Ul Laputa. MOOSKA Your clan and my clan were originally one royal family. But when it fell to the ground, it was divided into two. . . SOLDIER 1 Not a crack. SOLDIER 2 It's not mere stone. GENERAL Use all the bombs we've got!! MOOSKA'S VOICE Your Excellency -- you cannot get in like that. GENERAL Mooska -- where are you?! VOICES Oh!! PAZU WAH---! MOOSKA'S VOICE Well! Why do you hesitate? Please come inside, Your Excellency. GENERAL Yes -- Follow me!! VOICE Follow His Excellency!! PAZU Oof! GENERAL Wh -- what is this place!! Mooska -- come out!! MOOSKA Be silent. GENERAL Wh -- what mockery is this? MOOSKA Refrain from speech. You are before the King of Laputa. GENERAL Are you sane. . . ? MOOSKA From now on, congratulate the rebirth of the monarchy. I think I will show you gentlemen the power of Laputa. PAZU Sheeta!! MOOSKA I will show you the threat of Laputa. PAZU AND SHEETA WAH!! VOICES Oh! Wah! MOOSKA It's the heavenly fire that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah in the Old Testament. Ramayana, then Indora's arrows, too, it handed down. MOOSKA The whole world will bow to Laputa again, I believe. . . GENERAL Excellent, Mooska. . . You're a hero. It's an important distinguished service. MOOSKA Ha, ha, ha . . . MOOSKA Your stupid face made a perfect mask of disgust. Ow!! Oh -- you!! SHEETA Everyone -- run!! SHEETA Ah! MOOSKA Die!! MOOSKA Ha, ha, ha. . . SOLDIER Ah -- it's coming out!! DORA Those fools!! LOUIE It's full of them. . . DORA Everybody -- RUN!! LOUIE Y -- yes! DORA Check the Flapters!! CHARLES Mama -- fly!! LOUIE Hurry, let's get away!! DORA Be quiet. Don't raise your voice. DORA Why are those two loitering behind!! They'll end up falling. MOOSKA I hope you don't anger me again. MOOSKA Therefore, for the time being we will live here together. They had better run away at once. MOOSKA Do they intend to fight me? PAZU A robot. PAZU Sheeta!! SHEETA Ah. . . MOOSKA Excellent!! Don't you think it's the best show? Oh!! Look!! The people are like garbage. MOOSKA What are you doing!! MOOSKA Shit . . . Give it back -- be a good girl. Come on. SHEETA Please -- open up!! MOOSKA Ha, ha, ha. . . Where do you think you're going, hm? SHEETA Open up!! SHEETA Pant, Pant . . . PAZU'S VOICE Sheeta--- SHEETA Pazu. . .! PAZU!! PAZU Sheeta . . . SHEETA Pazu!! PAZU Sheeta!! Sheeta!! Sheeta!! SHEETA Ah, Pazu!! PAZU I'm coming now. Shit. . . Get down!! SHEETA Hurry, take this!! It's Mooska -- hurry!! SHEETA Throw it in the ocean. . . PAZU Sheeta!! MOOSKA That stone you have is important. I'll trade the girl's life for it. MOOSKA Get up!! The game of tag is over. MOOSKA The old throne room is not very splendid, is it? Come here!! SHEETA You say this is the throne room? Here is a grave. Yours and mine. SHEETA Although the country was destroyed, such a king is left. It's a joke. I won't give you the stone. You can't leave here without killing me. SHEETA Now, why was Laputa destroyed? I know perfectly well. There's a song in the valley of Gondoa: ``Put down roots in the Earth; ``Let's live with the wind; ``With seeds, make fat the winter; ``With the birds, let's sing of spring.'' SHEETA Whatever terrible weapons you may have, however many poor robots you use, you can't live separated from the ground. MOOSKA Laputa will not be destroyed. However many times, it will be reborn. MOOSKA The power of Laputa -- it's the dream of the human race. Your ears will be next. On your knees!! Beg for your life. Get the stone back from the brat!! PAZU Wait!! The stone is hidden. If you shoot Sheeta, I won't return the stone. SHEETA Pazu -- don't come here, it's no use. No matter what, I think he's going to kill us. MOOSKA Brat -- the girl's life is in exchange. Tell me where the stone is. Or else, will you defeat me with that cannon? PAZU I want to talk with Sheeta, alone. SHEETA It's no use -- throw away the stone and run!! MOOSKA I'll wait three minutes. SHEETA Pazu!! PAZU Sheeta -- calm down. Listen closely. Tell me those words. I'll say them, too. I have it in my left hand. I'll show you. PAZU I cut the ropes on Auntie and the others. MOOSKA It's time!! Let's hear your answer. PAZU AND SHEETA Balse!! MOOSKA Ah. . . My eyes. . . My eyes! My eyes. . . My eyes. . . CHARLES Mama -- it's collapsing!! DORA It can't be helped -- launch!! Hurry!! HENRI Quickly!! HENRI Mama, look!! The kettle bottom is falling off. LOUIE But Sheeta was a good girl. . . DORA She used the word of destruction. Those children protected Laputa from the idiots. CHARLES The collapse has stopped!! LOUIE It's the Levistone!! Exceptional rascals. MAN It's going up. DORA It's a tree. . . I think that tree ended up holding every- body. Follow it. Heavy -- everyone, don't fall. LOUIE That's crazy. PAZU Sheeta . . . SHEETA Pazu. . . Wow. . . PAZU The tree roots protected us. PAZU If we break the wire, it's OK. Let's go. SHEETA Yes. DORA What are you doing? Aren't we dropping a bit? HENRI You're wrong. Ride like this. LOUIE It's Sheeta!! VOICES It's Sheeta!! LOUIE They're alive. VOICE It's the apprentice. VOICES Hey!! Yoo-hoo!! SHEETA Auntie!! DORA Safely alive, aren't you. PAZU Everyone's OK!! ENGINEER Everyone's OK but my poor, tattered ship. . . SOB DORA Don't be maudlin. We can build a pretty good ship!! Poor thing -- pretty cruel way to get a haircut. . . SHEETA Auntie -- ouch! DORA Oh, sorry. Isn't it pitiful? Worrying terribly, full of these. CHARLES At any rate, in our spare time. . . THE END