"Who Does She Remind You Of?"
Note: This is 7 years later. Buddy is 11 and Violet is 7.
Violet is playing at Bob's feet outside of her house, gazing out.
"Wow," she giggles continuously, and Bob catches her as she comes near the street.
"Whoah. Where do you think you're going in such a hurry?" Bob asks his daughter.
Violet wriggles in Bob's grasp as he moves her to safety.
"Daddy! Let go!" Violet cries.
She keeps giggling as she tries to escape.
"Well, I just want you to be careful."
Violet starts to chase after a butterfly. Bob holds her arm to keep her still.
"Violet... are you listening? Accidents can happen. You could easily get hurt, or stepped—"
Violet says this well-practiced line along with Bob, and finishes it for him, " ...Hurt, or stepped on, or even get lost."
"And remember,... I want you to stay in sight of our house at all--"
"At all times, I know." She's testy at the repetitive warning. She continues reciting, "And if I see any strangers, don't talk to them. Come straight home. Okay, okay. Can I go now? Please?"
Helen and Zazu enter. Bob exchanges a glance with Helen, reminiscent of when they played out this same scene as kids
"Hmm. Very funny," Bob says
Helen laughs gently, "Mind your father, Violet."
Violet giggles, "Yes, mom."
"And stay away from the Outlands," Bob reminds her.
"Nothing there but a bunch of backstabbing, murderous Outsiders!" Zazu explains.
"Zazu's right... you can't turn your back on them."
"Really? How come?" Violet asks curiously.
"Mmm... never mind. Just run along now."
"But Dad, I--"
"You'll understand someday. Go on."
"Dad..."
Bob runs a hand over Violet, then nudges her off. She resumes giggling and runs away from the house.
"And stay on the path I've marked for you!" Bob calls after her.
Helen chuckles, "Bob. Who does she remind you of? Hmm?"
"Huh? What? Who?" Bob questions cluelessly.
"She's just like you were when you were young."
"Exactly. Do you realize the dangers we put ourselves in?"
Helen tackles Bob and puts him on his back. "You mean the dangers YOU put us in." They chuckle and hug for a few moments, then Helen gets up. "She'll be fine."
She moves off. Bob waits till she is out of earshot.
"Hey, Timon. Kari. Come here." He calls in a loud whisper.
Timon and Kari enter, and Timon says, "Good morning, mon Capitan."
"I want you to keep a close watch on Violet. You know she's bound to run off."
"No worries, Bob. We're on her like stink on Kari!"
"Hey!" Kari cries.
"It's the hard truth, Kari. Live with it."
Bob interrupts, "Guys, I'm counting on you. Danger could be lurking behind every rock."
Timon looks quizzically at Bob, then takes him mock-seriously. He and Kari begin looking theatrically from side to side, scanning behind every rock...
Meanwhile, Violet is walking through the tall grass, chasing a butterfly and saying, "Hey! Wait! Come back! I just wanna play!" She sees the butterfly land, and crouches to attack. "Ahhh... the mighty hunter has cornered her prey. Errrrh!" Violet's jump takes her up the side of a small rise, from which she can see a distance into the Outlands. "Whoah... cool! The Outlands! I wonder what's out there..."
A rustling in the grass behind her draws Violet's attention. She turns, and the grass separates.
"Eeeeek!" Violet, Timon, and Kari squeal with fright and surprise.
Violet is frightened backwards, and falls off the far side of the knoll into a pool below. Kari gets set to leap after her, calling out, "Oooh, don't worry, Violet. Aunt Kari's comin'!"
Timon goes in-character as though talking to Bob, "Oh, no... ohh... uh... uh... let's see, uh... Gee, Bob. The good news is, we found your daughter. The bad news is, we dropped Kari on her. Is... there a problem with that?"
Kari, looking from side to side in the water, calls out, "Violet? Violet?"
"Kari! Let me define "babysitting"!" Timon cries.
Kari finds Violet underneath her, spluttering, and she gets off, saying, "Sorry. Now, Princess Violet... as Bob's daughter, you know better than to go off all alone. You could have been hurt!"
"But... but..." Vilet sputters, but is interrupted by Timon,
"Hurt! Oh... Bob would kill us! You didn't slip a disc, did you?"
"B-but—"
Timon checks to make sure Violet is intact. "Catch a fever? Get a hangnail?"
Timon is examining her fingers; she pulls her hand away. "Nnngh! Timon…"
"I had one once."
"Very painful," Kari adds.
"Excruciating!" Timon is holding a fern branch over Violet's head, shading her. "Darling... with your complexion, you should stay out of the sun." She swats the branch away. "Whaaat? Do you wanna wrinkle?"
"Would someone please just listen to me?" Violet says with frustrations.
"I'm sorry; I wasn't listening. Did you say something, Princess?"
"I'm not just a princess, you know. That's only half of who I am!"
"Oh, uh... who's the other half?" Kari asks with confusement.
This stumps Violet, "Uh... well, I, uh... um..."
"Well, while you're figuring it out, let's eat," Timon suggests. He snaps his fingers, and Kari lifts up a log. "Snail!"
"The other white meat!" Kari adds.
Timon offers a leaf-full of snails to Violet. "And so high in protein!"
"Eww! Gross!" Violet shudders, looking discusted.
"No? How 'bout you, big girl?"
Kari sniffs the snails, "Aaah. Love snails!"
"Not like..."
"Love!" Timon and Kari say simultaneously.
Timon tosses a bug into Kari's mouth. She crunches and coughs on it a little, then hiccups and spits the fragments back onto the leaf, coating them all with saliva.
Grossed out, Timon says, "Ohhh.. you always do that! You take a bite out of every one, and then put it back. It drives me crazy!"
"But you can't tell from the outside which are the real slimy ones!" Kari argues.
"Slimy? Kari... my corpulent compadre. It's the crunchy ones that make the meal!"
"Slimy!... Slimy!... Slimy!... Slimy!... Slimy!... Slimy!... Slimy!... Less filling!... Less filling!... Less filling!... Less filling!..."
"Crunchy!... Crunchy!... Crunchy!... Crunchy!... Crunchy!... Crunchy!... Crunchy!... Tastes good!... Tastes good!... Tastes good!... Tastes good!..."
Violet wanders off while they argue. She crosses a river on a log, and tumbles off-- directly into Buddy, bowling him over. He glares at her confrontationally, and continues to look at her meanly.
"Who are you, Pridelander?" he demands.
Violet does not answer, but keeps jumping from side to side, staying facing Buddy at all times. Buddy keeps glaring menacingly, but eventually his curiosity gets the better of him, as he asks,
"What are you doing?"
"My father says to never turn your back on an Outsider!" Violet retorts.
"You always do what Daddy says?"
"No!"
"Bet you do. Bet you're Daddy's little girl! Ha ha!" He moves away, hopping on logs across the river. "An Outsider doesn't need anybody. I take care of myself!"
Violet is awed, and follows him across. "Really? Cool!"
Buddy looks back at Violet, and notices a huge crocodile rising up behind her with its mouth gaping. "Wuhh... waaaahh!"
Violet turns and sees the crocodile, crying out, "Aaaaahhh! Run!" The crocodile's teeth crunch just behind them. "This way!"
They narrowly escape, leaping from rock to rock across the river and out of the reach of the crocodiles' jaws as more and more rise up out of the water. They rest on two unmoving "stones" further down, and begin to pant and giggle.
That was a close one," Buddy says with a laugh, still breathing heavily.
"Yeah…" Violet nods.
The stones they are sitting on rise up and reveal themselves as more crocodile heads.
"Whooaaahhh..." the kids scream.
Violet runs up a tree limb, getting out of reach. However, Buddy runs past her, leaping from crocodile to crocodile down the river.
"Hey… what about me?" Violet asks worriedly.
"I'll distract them. Run!" Buddy informs her.
He slips off the last crocodile into the water. As he comes up, gasping for air, the crocodiles loom over him.
Violet, swiping at crocodiles from her branch, calls to him, "Look out!" Buddy is paralyzed by fright. The gaping mouth in front of him is suddenly clamped shut by Violet leaping on top of it. "Move it!"
The two kids scramble up a branch and up onto the bank, out of reach of danger. From the top, they pant and rest for a few moments, then move back to look over the edge. The crocodiles are massing below, furious at being cheated of their meal.
"I did it... I did it! Violet "thhppbbts" the crocodiles below.
"Hah!" Buddy calls to them with a grin.
The kids move back from the edge and recount their adventure.
Violet starts talkin immediately, "Whoah, man-- did you see the size of those teeth? They were goin' 'Rrrarrarrarr' ..." She rolls over on her back and laughs. "He was just totally eatin' you up right there, and I jumped on his head-- and I bopped him so good— We make such a good team! And you... you were really brave!"
Buddy nods in agreement, "Yeah... you were pretty brave too. My name's Buddy."
"I'm Violet," she introduces sweetly as she leans into him. Then she crouches down playfully. She reaches out and bats him"Tag! You're it!" She jumps back, laughing. Instead of chasing, Buddy just looks at her silently. She tries again. "Tag! You're it! You're it!" Still no response. He just stares at her. "Hello? You run, I tag... get it? What's the matter? Don't you know how to play?"
Getting an idea, she crouches down and goes back to playing his style, with bared teeth and glares. He gets the idea and mock-glares back, but suddenly he finds himself at Bob's leg. Bob glares at him, and Jenny jumps out of the grass.
"Jenny," Says Bob.
"Bob!" exclaims Jenny.
Helen, Timon, and Kari arrive behind Bob, with other people.
Jenny says, "Helen."
"Jenny." Helen returns.
Timon interrupts this, "Timon, Kari. Great. Now that we all know each other.. GET OUTTA OUR PRIDE LANDS!"
"Your Pride Lands? These lands belonged to Scar," Jenny explains in a rather mean way.
Bob steps in, "I banished you from the Pride Lands! Now you and your young child... get out!"
"Oh... haven't you met my son, Buddy? He was hand-chosen by Scar to follow in his footprints... and become King!"
Timon laughs, "Pbbb! That's not a king... that's a fuzzy maraca!"
Jenny ignores him and continues. "Buddy was the last born before you exiled us to the Outlands, where we have little food, less water..."
"You know the penalty for returning to the Pride Lands!" Bob reminds her.
"But the child does not! However... if you need your pound of flesh... here."
She nudges Buddy toward Bob, daring him to show either ruthlessness or cowardice.
But instead, Bob says, "Take him and get out. We're finished here."
Bob picks up Violet in his arms. Jenny walks over to Bob and looks down at a terrified Violet.
"Oh no, Bob... we have barely begun."
She glares wickedly at Violet, then turns and picks up Buddy in her arms. He and Violet watch each other dangle as they move apart.
"Bye…" Violet whispers to Buddy.
"Bye…" Buddy whispers back.
Bob and the other supers move off over the ridge, back toward the Pride Lands, while Jenny takes Buddy back to the Outlands. Once within sight of their house, Helen looks back at Bob, saying,
"Bob?"
Bob clears his throat, with Violet still in his arms. Helen smiles back at him, understanding that it's time for The Talk. She and the rest of the supers move off back home. Bob drops Violet, who grins ingratiatingly up at him; he glares sternly back. She looks at the ground, sighing.
Bob begins with a question, "Violet, what did you think you were doing? You could have been killed today."
Violet tries to argue, "But Daddy, I-- I didn't mean to disobey--"
"I'm telling you this because I love you. I don't wanna lose you."
"I know..."
:If something happened to you, I don't know what I'd do. One day I won't be here... and I need you to carry on in my place. You are part of the great Circle of—"
"Circle of Life. I know," Violet finishes for him.
Bob nods, "Exactly. And you need to be careful. As future Queen--"
"But what if I don't wanna be Queen? It's no fun."
"That's like saying you don't want to be a super. It's in your blood... as I am. We are part of each other."
Violet turns around with a frown. Bob smiles and playfully shoves her off the rock.
(music)
Bob grins back down at her, and they hug as Bob begins singing.
"As you go through life you'll see
There is so much that we
Don't understand"
A mother bird sternly prevents one of her chicks from trying to fly. A wildebeest calf gets up for the first time as they watch.
"And the only thing we know
Is things don't always go
The way we planned
But you'll see every day
That we'll never turn away
When it seems all your dreams come undone"
Monkeys grooming each other, hippos jumping and playing.
"We will stand by your side
Filled with hope and filled with pride
We are more than we are
We are one"
Violet sings to her reflection in the river during her verse. A fish jumps out of the water and into her reflection at "The way I am?"
"If there's so much I must be
Can I still just be me
The way I am?
Can I trust in my own heart
Or am I just one part
Of some big plan?"
Wind blows during this verse by Bob, underscoring the reference to Mufasa's spirit.
"Even those who are gone
Are with us as we go on
Your journey has only begun
Tears of pain, tears of joy
One thing nothing can destroy
Is our pride, deep inside
We are one"
They run through groups of curiously unafraid animals, many with their young, as they approach the Parr house.
"We are one, you and I
We are like the earth and sky
One family under the sun"
Running back towards their house, Bob indicates it to her.
"All the wisdom to lead
All the courage that you need
You will find when you see
We are one"
Bob speaks now, "As long as you live here, it's who you are." He hugs her and kisses her side, lifting her body off the ground. She seems unconvinced "You'll understand someday."
A bird flutters by her, circles, and flies off over the Pride Lands into the sun. Violet looks sadly thoughtful for a second, and then turns to face the sun. Sitting down, she looks at the ground for a second, but then looks towards the sun.