[Col. Hathi and the Jungle Patrol are marching]
Stop! Wait a minute! [bellows] HA-A-A-A-A-A-A-LT!
[The Jungle Patrol abruptly stops]
Who said, "Halt!"? I give the commands around here. Now, speak up. Who was it?
What do you mean, sir? Taking over my command? Highly irregular, you know!
[Shere Khan is seen spying on them]
Oh, Colonel, I'm sorry, but I need your help.
Oh, absolutely impossible! We're on a cross-country march!
This is an emergency, Colonel! The Man-Cub must be found!
SK Shere Khan
[**** his left ear while eavesdropping their private chat from afar]
How interesting.
The one who I was taking to the Man Village!
Good, that's where he belongs. Now, sir, if you don't mind, we'd like to get on with the march.
No, no, you don't understand, Hathi! He's lost. He ran away.
SK Shere Khan
How delightful.
Well, it serves the whippersnapper right.
But Shere Khan, the Tiger, he's sure to pick up the Man-Cub's trail.
[Shere Khan nods his head, agreeing with Bagheera.] [laughs]
Shere Khan? Nonsense, old boy. Shere Khan isn't within miles from here. [Shere Khan shakes his head in disagreement, and chuckles evilly.] Oh, sorry, Bagheera. Fortunes of war and all that sort of thing, you know.
[storms towards Hathi, with Hathi Jr. following her]
This has gone far enough! Far enough! [to Hathi] Now, wait just a minute, you pompous old windbag!
Winifred! What are you doing out of ranks?
Never mind! [indicating Hathi Jr.] How would you like to have our boy lost and alone in the jungle?
Our son.... alone? But, Winifred, old girl, this is an entirely different matter!
That little boy is no different than our own son. Now, you help find him, or I'm taking over command!
WHAT?! A female leading my herd?! Utterly preposterous!
HJ Hathi Jr.
Pop, the Man-Cub and I are friends. He'll get hurt if we don't find him. Please, Pop? Sir? Please?
[smiles]
Now, don't you worry, Son. Your father had a plan in mind all the time.
[scoffs; sarcastically]
Sure you did.
Bugler, when the Man-Cub is sighted, you will sound your trumpet three times.
BE Bugler Elephant
Yes, sir. [trumpets loudly, but Hathi abruptly stops him.]
BE Bugler Elephant
[nasally]
Sorry, sir.
[to Lieutenant]
Lieutenant, our strategy shall be the element of surprise. [whispers] You will take one squad, and cover the right flank.
L Lieutenant
[whispers]
Yes, sir.
[whispers]
And I shall take the other squad on the left flank. Very well. [bellows] COMPANY-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y!!!!! FORWARD, MARCH!
SK Shere Khan
Element of surprise? Ho. I say. And now for my rendezvous with the little lost Man-Cub.
Oh, now what? I'll be right down. [gets down from the tree almost completely] Yes? Yes? Who is it?
SK Shere Khan
It's me. Shere Khan. I'd like a word with you, if you don't mind.
Shere Khan. What a surprise.
SK Shere Khan
Yes, isn't it? I just dropped by. Now, forgive me if I've interrupted anything.
Oh, no, no. Nothing at all.
SK Shere Khan
[his claws pop out from his paw, and he drums on the ground with them]
I thought perhaps that you were entertaining someone up there in your coils.
Coils? Someone? Oh, no. I was just curling up for my siesta.
SK Shere Khan
But you were singing to someone. [grabs hold of Kaa's throat] Who is it, Kaa?
[choking like mad]
No. No. I was just...singing to myself.
Yes. You see, I have... [gulps] ...trouble with my sinuses.
SK Shere Khan
What a pity? [releases Kaa's neck and gently pins him to the ground]
Oh, you have no idea. It's s-ss-simply terrible. I can't eat. I can't s-ss-sleep. So, I s-ss-sing myself to s-ss-sleep. You know, s-ss-self-hypnosis? [smiles deviously, brings his head close to Shere Khan's face] Let me show you how it works-ss-s. [He uses his hypnosis technique with his eyes] "Trus-ss-st in me...."
SK Shere Khan
[Shere Khan pushes Kaa away and pins his head to the ground, unaffected]
Oh, no, I can't be bothered with that. I have no time for that sort of nonsense.
Some other time, perhaps?
SK Shere Khan
Perhaps. But at the moment, I'm searching for a Man-Cub.
SK Shere Khan
The one who's lost. Now, where do you suppose he could be?
Search me. [He closes his mouth for telling Shere Khan to search Mowgli on his tentacles]
SK Shere Khan
That's an excellent idea. I'm sure that you wouldn't mind showing me your coils, would you, Kaa?
Certainly not. Nothing here... [lowering his tail] ...and nothing in here. [his tail pointing to his mouth open, and Shere Khan hears Mowgli snoring. Alarmed, he starts snorting and coughs.] It's my sinuses.
SK Shere Khan
Hmm. Indeed. And now, how about the middle?
The middle? Oh, the middle. [lowering the middle leaving Mowgli on the tree trunk spinning around and showing Shere Khan the middle of his coils and then getting tickled] Absolutely nothing in the middle!
SK Shere Khan
Hmm. Really? Well, if you do just happen to see the Man-Cub, you will inform me first. Understand? [scratching Kaa's neck gently]
[gulps]
I get the point. [spinning himself into a bow with his head on top] Cross my heart and hope to die.
SK Shere Khan
Good show. And now, I must continue my search for the helpless little lad. [leaves]
Ooh, who does he think he's fooling? "The helpless little lad." Ooooh, he gives me the sh-sh-sh-shivers. [Kaa's shivering unintentionally wakes up Mowgli] Picking on that poor, little, helpless boy. [smiling] Oh, yes. Poor, little, helpless boy. [Mowgli pushes the rest of Kaa off the branches and sends him falling comically to the ground yet again]
[climbs down the tree]
You told me a lie, Kaa! You said that I could trust you!
It's like you s-ss-said; you can't trus-ss-st anyone! [tries to strike Mowgli, only to again be caught in by a knot in his tail; when he pulls it out, his body comes back like an accordion] If I never see that s-ss-skinny little shrimp again, it will be too s-s-s-soon. Oh, my s-s-s-sacriliac.
SK Shere Khan
Why should you run? Could it be possible that you don't know who I am?
I know you, all right. You're Shere Khan.
SK Shere Khan
Precisely. And you should also know that everyone runs from Shere Khan. [pokes Mowgli's chin with his right pointy claw]
[angrily pushes Shere Khan's paw away]
You don't scare me! I won't run from anyone!
SK Shere Khan
Ah, you have spirit for one so small. And such spirit is deserving of a sporting chance. Now, I'm going to close my eyes, and count to 10. It makes the chase more interesting...for me. 1... [Mowgli looks for something to defend himself with as Shere Khan continues counting]...2... [Mowgli spots something and goes over to retrieve it.] ...3... [As Mowgli picks up a stick, Shere Khan begins to suspect something.] ...4... [Mowgli prepares to defend himself] You're trying my patience. [counts faster just as Baloo arrives] 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!
[Shere Khan leaps at Mowgli with a loud roar, Mowgli loses all of his nerve at the sight of this fearsome creature; Shere Khan almost catches Mowgli until Baloo grabs him by the tail]
Run, Mowgli, run!
SK Shere Khan
Let go, you big oaf!
He's got a tiger by the tail, he has!
And he'd better hang on, too!
[Baloo hides beside a tree, but Shere Khan bites him in the butt] [screams in serious pain]
YEOW!!!!
[hitting Shere Khan with a thick twig in serious anger]
Take that, you big bully!
Let 'im 'ave it again, kid! 'it 'im again, kid! Go on!
