Act Eight Scene One

EXT. MOUNTAIN SLOPE — DAY

Kristoff heads into the mountains. Sven lags behind, not wanting to follow. He looks back at the kingdom, then shakes his head. Enough.

He runs past Kristoff. Stops and turns to face him. He snorts and grunts.

KRISTOFF: What is it, buddy?

Sven nudges Kristoff with his antlers.

KRISTOFF: Hey, watch it. What's wrong with you?

Sven snorts with more conviction, moos, brays.

KRISTOFF: (avoiding) ...I don't understand you when you talk like that.

Kristoff tries to walk on ahead, but Sven uses his antlers to lift Kristoff off the ground.

KRISTOFF: Ah! Stop it! Put me down!

Sven drops him hard then "yells" at him once more.

KRISTOFF: No, Sven! We're not going back!

Sven shakes his head, angrily.

KRISTOFF: She's with her true love.

Sven makes an "of-course-she-isn't" face. Kristoff gets it; he's made his point.

Just then the wind picks up. Kristoff looks back at the kingdom. Sees a violent winter storm swirling over the castle. Sharp ice claws its way up the castle, encasing it.

KRISTOFF: Anna.

Without hesitating, he dashes back down the mountain. Sven

runs after him, catches up. Kristoff grabs Sven's harness and jumps onto his back.

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Act Eight Scene Two

INT. LIBRARY — NIGHT

Anna shivers by the door. She looks up to see ice overtaking the ceiling.

The door handle suddenly jiggles. Stops. Jiggles again.

ANNA: (barely a whisper) Help.

CLICK. The door swings open. We see a carrot in the lock and hear a giggle of victory. Olaf takes the carrot, puts it back on his face. Then he sees Anna lying there.

OLAF: Anna. Oh no.

He runs to the fireplace. Throws in some fresh wood, including one of his own arms, which he quickly rescues, before striking a match and relighting the fire.

ANNA: Olaf? Olaf. Get away from there.

OLAF: Whoa! So this is heat... (considering) I love it.

He reaches a twig finger toward the flames. It catches on

fire.

OLAF: Ooh! But don't touch it!

He shakes the flame out, as he rushes over to help Anna to the fire.

OLAF: So, where's Hans? What happened to your kiss?

ANNA: I was wrong about him. It wasn't true love.

OLAF: (confused innocence) Huh. But we ran all the way here?

ANNA: Please Olaf, you can't stay here; you'll melt.

OLAF: I am not leaving here until we find some other act of true love to save you.

He sits down behind her, stubbornly. Leans his back against hers and thinks.

OLAF: Do you happen to have any ideas?

ANNA: I don't even know what love is.

OLAF: (confident) That's okay, I do...

Olaf hops back up and puts a soothing hand on her shoulder.

OLAF: Love is...putting someone else's needs before yours, like, you know, how Kristoff brought you back here to Hans and left you forever.

ANNA: ...Kristoff loves me?

OLAF: Wow, you really don't know anything about love, do you?

His face starts to melt.

ANNA: Olaf, you're melting.

OLAF: (sweet and reassuring) Some people are worth melting for.

But then...his face REALLY melts. He panics, pushes the snow back in place.

OLAF: Just maybe not right this second.

Suddenly, the window blows open, cold wind sweeps in.

OLAF: Don't worry, I've got it!

Olaf flitters to the window. He pulls one panel of it shut but struggles with the second panel.

OLAF: (determined)We're going to get through- (distracted) Oh, wait. Hang on. I'm getting something.

He breaks an icicle off the window, uses it as a telescope

and sees... Kristoff and Sven running back down the mountain.

OLAF: It's Kristoff and Sven! They're coming back this way.

ANNA: ...They-they are?

OLAF: Wow, he's really moving fast. Huh... I guess I was wrong. I guess Kristoff doesn't love you enough to leave you behind.

Anna tries to get to her feet.

ANNA: Help me up, Olaf. Please.

He hurries over, tumbling over the couch, knocking over the

chess set and water jugs.

OLAF: No, no, no, no, no. You need to stay by the fire and keep warm.

ANNA: I need to get to Kristoff.

OLAF: (clueless) Why...? (realizing) Oh, oh, oh, I know why.

He hops around in an excited display of hope.

OLAF: There's your act of true love, right there, riding across the fjords like a valiant, pungent reindeer king! Come on!

The walls crack under the ice pressure.

OLAF: Look out!

They rush out the room just as the ceiling collapses.

INT. CASTLE HALLWAY — DAY

Anna and Olaf struggle down the hall. Ice spikes grow and block their path.

OLAF: We're trapped.

Anna looks around desperately for a way out.

EXT. FJORD — DAY

Elsa runs, but is nearly blinded by the snow and wind.

EXT. CASTLE — DAY

Anna and Olaf bust open a window. The storm is so strong it sweeps the window panes away.

OLAF: Slide, Anna.

It's a long, snowy way down. But what choice do they have?

They slide down the iced-covered building.

Anna arrives at the bottom, weak but uninjured. Olaf gathers snow along the way. He arrives at the bottom as a giant snowball.

OLAF: We made it!

He shakes off the extra snow as Anna struggles to her feet.

EXT. FJORD — DAY

Kristoff and Sven bound off the mountain and sprint across the frozen fjord waters and right into the heart of the storm. Its white-out wind pushes them back. But they fight through.

KRISTOFF: Come on, buddy, faster.

Anna and Olaf reach the shore of the fjords.

ANNA: Kristoff!

The wind lifts Olaf up and pulls him apart. He goes swirling off into the storm.

OLAF: Keep going, Anna!

Anna struggles on.

ANNA: Kristoff!

Kristoff rides Sven past cracking, frozen ships. Sven struggles over the uneven surface.

KRISTOFF: Come on! Come on!

Suddenly, a mangled ship, risen by ice, capsizes over them.

They give it all they've got as debris falls all around them and the mast shatters. They make it past just as the entire ship slams down and cracks the thick ice beneath their feet.

The ice opens up. Sven bravely jumps over a gap. But it's too wide. He bucks Kristoff to safety, but lands in the freezing water and disappears below.

KRISTOFF: Sven? Sven!

At first there's nothing but the wind and the tumbling icy

water. But suddenly, Sven surfaces and claws his way to a floating ice chunk. He calls out, signalling for Kristoff to go on.

KRISTOFF: Good boy.

Anna moves blindly across the fjord. Anna's hands frost over an icy blue. She stumbles on, determined. But she's running out of time.

She clutches her chest. The color in her eyes fades, the inevitable is coming.

Kristoff, lost in the white-out, doesn't know which way to

turn. But then he hears a faint-

ANNA: (O.S.) Kristoff.

KRISTOFF: Anna...? Anna!

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Act Eight Scene Three

(the stage has been replaced by a large pool filled with water. A layer of ice is over it a small ship large enough for a few actors and actress is under the ice its mast visible. A reconstruction of a castle tower is in the far corner)

Elsa struggles through her own storm, but the fear is

consuming her. A dark shadow approaches. It's Hans.

(tune of Frozen heart)

HANS

Elsa. You can't run from this!

Elsa backs away from him.

ELSA

...Just take care of my sister.

HANS

Your sister? She returned from the mountain weak and cold. She said you froze her heart.

ELSA

What? No.

HANS

I tried to save her, but it was too

late. Her skin was ice. Her hair

turned white...

Elsa's face sinks as she realizes what she has done.

HANS (CONT'D)

Your sister is dead... because of

you.

Elsa drops to her knees, emotionally broken. And with that,

the swirling storm suddenly stops. The snow freezes mid-air, hangs suspended, trapped in grief.

Citizens and dignitaries rush to the wall's edge and look out to see...

Anna, barely able to move but now able to see across the fjords to...

ANNA: (a whisper) Kristoff.

KRISTOFF: Anna.

Anna pushes on towards Kristoff. He runs top speed towards

her. There's still a lot of fjord to cross, but Kristoff is giving it all he's got. He's going to make it.

But then, Anna hears the sound of a sword being drawn from its scabbard. She turns and sees Hans, behind Elsa, as he raises his sword over his head.

ANNA: Elsa.

Anna looks back at Kristoff as he runs for her. She gives him a longing look, but then turns away from him and then... Using all of her remaining strength, as Hans brings his sword down, Anna throws herself in front of Elsa.

ANNA

No!

In that instant, Anna freezes to solid ice. The sword hits

her instead of Elsa. The sword shatters completely. The force of it sends Hans flying back and knocks him out.

ELSA

Anna!

Elsa rushes to Anna and touches her sister's frozen face.

(The ice harvesters from earlier enter on the castle tower)

Ice Harvesters

STRIKE FOR LOVE AND STRIKE FOR FEAR.

THERE'S BEAUTY AND THERE'S DANGER HERE.

SPLIT THE ICE APART!

BEWARE THE FROZEN HEART.

ELSA

Oh, Anna...no...no, please no.

Olaf walks up and sees Anna, frozen.

OLAF: (confused, sad) Anna?

Elsa hugs Anna and cries.

Kristoff watches in shocked despair. Sven steps up to his

side. Citizens and dignitaries on the castle walls bow their heads. All of Arendelle is joined in somber silence.

But then, Anna warms. She begins to thaw.

Olaf looks up and gasps. Kristoff and Sven notice, light up. Anna bends her arm and embraces Elsa.

ELSA: Wha-? Anna?

Anna opens her eyes. She smiles at Elsa, relieved.

ANNA: Oh, Elsa.

They embrace.

ELSA: ...You sacrificed yourself for me?

ANNA: (weak)...I love you.

Olaf realizes what's happened. He's so excited about it, he lifts his head right off his body and exclaims-

OLAF: An act of true love will thaw a frozen heart.

ELSA: (processing) Love...will thaw...(realizing)Love...Of course.

Elsa looks at Anna with confidence.

ANNA: Elsa?

ELSA: Love.

Elsa lifts her arms, and the ground shakes and cracks. The ice and snow breaks away and rises high into the air.

Beneath their feet the bow of the ship thaws. The entire fjord melts and other boats right themselves. The villagers come out to see the warmth returning. In one final wave, Elsa draws all of the snow into a giant snowflake in the sky, then waves it away, leaving only a warm summer day.

ANNA: I knew you could do it.

OLAF: (melting, good-naturedly) Hands down, this is the best day of my life...and quite possibly the last.

ELSA: Oh, Olaf. Hang on, little guy.

Elsa waves her hand and surrounds Olaf with a swirl of cold air. He refreezes. Above his head she leaves a little, perpetually-snowing storm cloud. Olaf loves it.

OLAF: Hey, my own personal flurry.

Kristoff sees Hans trying to get to his feet. He marches toward him, prepared for a fight. But Anna puts up a hand and stops him.

ANNA: Uh. Uh. Uh.

She'll handle this. She goes over to Hans.

HANS: (confused) Anna? But she froze your heart.

ANNA: The only frozen heart around here is yours.

She turns away from him, proud of her words. But not yet satisfied, she turns back and punches him right in the face.

HANS: Ah! Whoa, whoa, whoa!

He falls overboard.

Elsa comes over to Anna and hugs her. Over her shoulder,

Kristoff meets Anna's eyes. She smiles brighter, happy.

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