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We'll never get back to our own world,

we're buried here deep in the earth.

Steady, Pole.

PUDDLEGLUM: But we're doing very well.

Don't you remember? We were to go under the Ruined City.

Well, we have done, we most certainly are under it.

PUDDLEGLUM: That means we're following Aslan's instructions.

Warden? Er, Mister Warden?

My name is Mullugutherum.

Warden, have many...any others from our world up-atop, done this trip?

Many have come down.

I know...and few have returned to the sunlit lands.

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No flavour.

Absolutely no taste at all.

Well, it could be worse. At least if they don't taste of anything

they can't taste terrible. I think they're rather nice.

It feels like we've been on this boat forever.

As though we've been underground forever.

EUSTACE: I hardly remember what the sun looks like.

Oh, for a bit of blue sky.

Couldn't we play a game? To fill up the time.

I can think of a game: Remembering the Signs.

Well, yes, as you said, three was to do whatever is written in the stones,

and we did. We came down here.

Four...

EUSTACE: What's four?

The first and only person on our trip to ask us to do

something in the name of Aslan, must be obeyed.

Not that we're likely to meet any such person down here.

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WARDEN: Halt!

Get your hands off me!

Make haste.

What is this place? Where are you taking us?

[MINING NOISE]

Many sink down to the Underworld...

And few return to the sunlit lands.

That light, it's our kind of light, not all blue and dismal.

No, no, I tell you, the Queen is gone away on some great affair.

The only thing to be done with these Topdwellers is to...

KNIGHT: What? Is that you up there, old Mullugutherum? Who have you there?

Strangers sire, creatures of the Overworld.

KNIGHT: Overworlders? Bring them down to me this instant!

May it please Your Highness to remember, that the Queen...

KNIGHT: It pleases my Highness principally to be obeyed, old mutterer.

Bring them down!

Enter.

Welcome, Overworlders, welcome to my...but, stay! I cry you mercy!

I have seen you two children and your strange governor before.

Was it not you three that met me on the borders of Ettinsmoor

KNIGHT: when I rode there by my Lady's side?

JILL: You mean you were the Black Knight who never spoke?

I was.

And that Lady is the Queen of this Underworld?

EUSTACE: What did she think she was doing? Sending us to a castle

of giants to be eaten for dinner. We never did her any harm.

How dare you speak so of the Queen. Insolent boy...

Prepare yourself for death!

Here, he's only a kid.

Do you want to die instead?

Not especially, but if it's a choice between me and a child,

you'd better kill me.

My, that's well spoken.

KNIGHT: If you, boy, were not so young a warrior,

you and I would have fought on this.

For I will hear no word against my Lady's honour.

Whatever she said to you, be assured it was of good intent.

It couldn't have been.

JILL: She must have known...

KNIGHT: Silence!

She is a nosegay of all virtues.

But you shall know and love her, hereafter.

Meanwhile,

what is your errand in the Deep Lands?

Please, we are trying to find Prince Rilian of Narnia.

Rilian?

Narnia?

Strange names. Narnia? What land is that?

I have never heard the name before.

It must be a thousand leagues from those parts of the Overworld I know.

What a strange fantasy to come searching for...

how do you call him, Bilian? Trilian? In my Lady's realm,

to my certain knowledge there's never been such a man here.

We'd been told to look for a message on the stones of the City Ruinous.

And we saw the words, 'Under Me'.

And under it is here...

PUDDLEGLUM: more or less.

You were the more deceived. My Lady could have given you better counsel,

had you had the sense to ask her.

Those words are all that is left of a longer script, from ancient times,

which as she well remembers,

expresses this verse:

KNIGHT: 'Though under Earth and throneless now I be,

yet while I lived, all Earth was under me'.

Come!

You must know that I'm a man under a most strange affliction.

My Lady, the Queen, has said that none may see my face,

until the bewitchment is broken.

Ho there! Guards! Bring wine and Updwellers' food for my guests.

Please, be seated, gentlemen.

You must work a little harder,

I am determined to break through to the Overworld, as soon as possible.

KNIGHT: You must understand, my friends,

that I know nothing of who I am or who I was in my past life.

I remember no time when I was not dwelling at the court of this Queen,

but my thought is...

that she brought me hither to save me from the evil enchantment.

An empty cup, Frogfoot.

Suffer me to refill it.

The Queen and I ride sometimes in the Overworld to accustom my eyes

to the sunlight, but I must go with my visor down and may never speak,

lest the spell be broken.

But what is this evil enchantment you're under?

I know not...

only that at a certain time every evening I become a changed man.

I grow in fury and rage and would kill

KNIGHT: even my dearest friend, if he came close to me.

And that is a spell with the marks of a witch upon it.

But, by Her Majesty's art, I shall be freed from this accursed mask

and the bewitchment the moment she has made me King of that land

and given me her hand in marriage in the Overworld above.

As a matter of interest, where is the Queen now?

At that very place,

inspecting the diggings.

Soon, the thin roof of earth will be broken through,

and with her to guide me

and a thousand Underearth men at my back,

I shall ride forth in arms, slay my enemy's chief men

and doubtless be their crowned King

KNIGHT: within four and twenty hours.

Bit of rough luck on them, isn't it?

Thou art a lad of wondrous quick-working wit. For, on my honour,

I'd never thought of it so before. I see your meaning.

Isn't it comical to think of them all going about their business,

never dreaming that under their peaceful fields and floors,

only a fathom down, is a great army

KNIGHT: about to break out upon them like a fountain.

I don't think it's funny at all.

JILL: You sound to me as though you'll be a wicked tyrant.

What? Is the little maid a deep politician?

Never fear, sweet one. I shall rule that land by the counsel of my Lady

who will then be my Queen too.

Her word will be my law.

Friends, my hour is very near.

I am ashamed that you should see me, yet I dread to be left alone.

PUDDLEGLUM: What is to happen?

Come.

EUSTACE: A silver chair.

JILL: It's beautiful.

KNIGHT: Beautiful?

Under its enchantment, I become furious in rage.

Stay with me.

In truth, none may be here when the enchantment grips me,

none except the Queen. But as she is away, you...you must stay.

We'd certainly be happy to. But those guards threatened us,

and the moment they see us, well...

The guards!

Go through yonder door, it leads to my private apartments.

And there, await my coming to you, once my sufferings are over.

[SCREAM]

Should we go back to him?

No. I'd rather not.

But think a minute. I'm sure that Queen's a witch and an enemy.

There's a strong smell of danger and magic and lies

and treason. We need to know everything that's going on.

I vote we go back.

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[SCREAM]

Come in, friends. The fit comes and goes and is not yet fully upon me.

KNIGHT: Make no noise, for I told that prying warden that you were in bed.

Listen, while I am still master of myself.

KNIGHT: When the fit is upon me, I shall beg and implore you,

entreat and threaten you, to loosen my bonds.

They tell me that is what I do.

KNIGHT: I shall call upon you by all that is most dear and most dreadful,

but do not listen to me. Harden your hearts, stop your ears.

For while I am bound, you are safe.

KNIGHT: If once I were up and out of this chair,

I'd be transformed into a serpent and would kill you.

Never fear, we have no desire to do battle with serpents.

KNIGHT: But be careful. There's no knowing what I will say

KNIGHT: to catch you off your guard.

You promise, you swear

that whatever I say or ask, you do not release me from my bonds?

I should jolly well think not.

Nevertheless, we must be cautious. He'll be cunning, I shouldn't wonder.

Argh...argh.

Black...black dark, burying me... burying me...enchantment...enchantment,

KNIGHT: dragged down into the black dark.

Mercy...mercy...have mercy!

Quick! I am sane now.

KNIGHT: Every night I am sane and it is the only time that I am.

If only I could get out of this enchanted chair, my sanity would last,

I'd be a man again, myself again.

But every night they bind me, every night my chance is gone.

You are not my enemies.

KNIGHT: Please, quickly, cut my bonds.

Please, I beseech you.

Have they told you that if released I will go berserk and kill you?

KNIGHT: I see by your faces that they have. It is a lie!

KNIGHT: It is at this hour that I am in my right mind...

all the rest of the day, I am bewitched.

You are not witches, you are not Underworld men.

Of your courtesy, cut my bonds.

I hope they're safe.

You have hearts of stone.

You look upon a wretch that has suffered almost more

than any mortal can bear.

KNIGHT: The hours are slipping by.

Save me now...

KNIGHT: for when these hours have passed, I shall be witless again...

KNIGHT: the toy of that most devilish sorceress.

And this night of all nights,

KNIGHT: when she is away... JILL: Help me!

KNIGHT: you take me from a chance that may never come again.

Someone surely must have sent you to me this night?

No!

I wish we'd stayed in the other room until it was all over.

Help me! Help me! Give me my sword!

Not on your life.

Once I am free, I shall take such revenge on this Queen

and her people, that they'll talk of it for a thousand years.

Beware! Beware! One night I did break my bonds.

The witch was here to stop me. You will not have her to help you tonight.

Free me now and I am your friend, I'm your mortal enemy else.

Once and for all, I beg you to set me free.

By all fears, by all loves,

by the bright skies of Overland,

by the great Lion, by Aslan himself...

set...me...free.

Oh no!

Oh dear.

PUDDLEGLUM: It's the sign!

It's the sign.

No, it's the words of the sign.

What shall we do?

Would Aslan really have meant us to...to unbind this savage lunatic?

If only we knew.

PUDDLEGLUM: I think we do know.

Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen if she followed the signs.

He simply told her what she had to do.

PUDDLEGLUM: This fellow might be the death of us if we loose him.

But that doesn't let us off following Aslan's signs.

Destroy!

Lie there in ruin, vile engine of sorcery,

lest your mistress should use you upon another victim.

KNIGHT: What? Do I see a Marsh-wiggle?

A real, live, honest, Narnian Marsh-wiggle?

Then you have heard of Narnia?

You may well believe it for I am Rilian, Prince of Narnia.

Your Royal Highness, we've come for no other reason but to seek

and to deliver you.

Who are my other rescuers?

I am Eustace.

I have heard my father speak of you.

And I am Pole. Jill Pole.

I owe all three of you a greater debt than I can ever repay,

but tell me, my father, he is well? He still lives?

He lives, my lord, but is old and frail.

Excuse me, but shouldn't we be going?

We must use cunning for that.

Which one of you three

has dared destroy the silver chair?

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