A character in The Lego Movie (2014)

Bad Cop quotes from The Lego Movie (2014)

Liam Neeson

4th most-quoted character in The Lego Movie (2014): in 19 of its 56 quotes
Most scenes with: Wyldstyle (13), Emmet (10), Unikitty (7)

Scenes with Bad Cop

19 scenes

I feel like maybe I should touch that.

Voice

It's so interesting... Touch the Piece... Touch the Piece... It's so interesting... Touch the Piece... [Emmet gets up and starts walking over to the giant block]

Uh... [he becomes completely transfixed and steps over his instruction manual]

Voice

Touch the--

[he slowly extends his hand and touches the block and infinite gets a vision] [record scratches, which includes Vitruvius reciting the Piece of Resistance prophecy]

A Special one with face of yellow... [Emmet falls, screaming] ...will make the Piece of Resistance found from its hiding refuge underground... [Emmet is still falling] ...this Master Builder... [girl screams] ...will thwart the Kragle and save the realm...

Come on, Emmet, protect the Special!

[Emmet then passes out]

...the Special has arisen.

Boy

It's your turn to be the hero.

Bad Cop
[as Emmet slowly wakes he hears someone's voice interrogating him] [Bad Cop echoes in distorted voice]

Wake up.

[Emmet falls asleep] [echoes in distorted voice]

Ugh.

Bad Cop

Come on, wake up! Where is the Master Builders?! How did you find the Piece of Resistance?! Eh?!, where are the others hiding?

[Emmet's wake up out voice interrogating hears as starts to open his eyes] [in normal voice]

Good morning, apartment...?

Bad Cop
[in normal voice]

WAKE UP! [Emmet screams suddenly an angry looking cop shines a light onto Emmet making him immediately awake] How did you find the Piece of Resistance?

The Piece of what?

Bad Cop

The Piece of Resistance. [Bad Cop grunts, and screams as he falls and finally lands onto the ground, suddenly he knocks a chair aside in anger scaring Emmet, we see Emmet is being held in an interrogation room with his hands shackled to chair]

I don't, where am I, what's happening?

Bad Cop

What's happening? Playing dumb, master builder?

[to Bad Cop]

YOU'RE LIED TO ME!!

No, I... master builder?

Bad Cop

Oh, so you've never heard of the prophecy?

No, I...

Bad Cop

Or the Special?

No! No, I...

Bad Cop

You're a liar! We'll kill ya. [Bad Cop grunting and screams, starts to kick and wrestle a chair]

Look, um... [Bad Cop chuckles] I watch a lot of cop shows on TV... [Emmet gasps] Isn't there supposed to also be a-? Isn't there supposed to be a Good Cop?! [Emmet grunts as he falls and finally lands onto the ground]

Bad Cop

Oh yes. But we're not done yet. [switches head]

Good Cop

Hi, buddy! I'm your friendly neighborhood police officer! Would you like a glass of water?

Yeah, actually that sounds-

Bad Cop
[switches back to his face]

TOO BAAAD!!! [smacks the glass away] Security cameras picked up this! [grunts] You were found at the construction site convulsing with a strange piece!

That's disgusting!

Bad Cop

Then why is it permanently stuck to your back?

[peers back, sees that The Piece of Resistance is glued onto his back, and screams in alarm, but has a panic attack, and tries to get it off]

Oh no! Aaaah! Ah! Ah! Get off me!! It won't come off, it's chasin' me! Look, it's not my fault! I have no idea how this thing got on my back! [Bad Cop changes his face to Good Cop]

Good Cop

Of course, buddy. I believe you!

Great! [suddenly Bad Cop appears beside Emmet] [Screams] Aaaahh!! I don't wanna scared?

Bad Cop

I "believe" you, too! You see the quotations I'm making with my claw hands? It means I don't believe you! Why else would you show up with that thing on your back just three days before President Business is going to use the Kragle to end the world?

President Business is gonna end the world? But he's such a good guy. And Octan, they make good stuff: [flashback books] Music, dairy products, coffee, TV shows, surveillance systems, all history books, voting machines... [flashback ends] ...Wait a minute.

Bad Cop

Oh, come on, you can't be this stupid!

Look, this is a misunderstanding, I'm just a regular, normal, ordinary guy, and I'm late to meet my best friends in the whole world, and they're probably missing me right now, they're probably out looking around! Hey, where's Emmet? Hey, where's my best friend Emmet? And you know what. Ask all my friends! THEY'LL TELL YOU!!

[Emmet looks devastated; to Bad Cop]

There you go, I told you I was a nobody.

Bad Cop
[sighs]

Oh. It's the perfect cover.

Cover? Cover for what?!

Bad Cop

I can't break him. Take him to the meltin' chamber and do nothing.

What?! [in the meltin' chamber Emmet has been strapped to the meltin' device, Emmet screams 10 seconds] NOOOOOOOOO, NOOOOOOOOO, NOOOOOOOOO, NOOOOOOOOOO, NOOOOOOOOOOO, NOOOOOOOOO, NOOOOOOOOO, NOOOOOOOOO, NOOOOOOOOO, NOOOOOOOOOOO!! You're going to melt me?! AM I GONNA DIE?!

Good Cop

You'll live! You'll be fine! [Bad Cop/Good Cop's phone rings and Bad Cop answers it as he switches back to his face]

Melting chamber, or not!

Bad Cop

President Business, I have him right here, sir. A blue beam?! Yes and no, we've told him he'll live so he doesn't try to escape, but uh, we're lying to kill him. [Bad Cop presses the button to activate the meltin' device and Evil Villain tells Bad Cop]

I'll never telling you, cop! NEVEEEER!!

Bad Cop
[starts to weeping]

Stop it! [leaves]

Wait! What did he just say?!

Robot

Hold still!

Get off the melting chamber!

Robot

Evil Villain, GET OUT OF THE MELTING CHAMBER, NOW! [Evil Villain leaves] Hold still, Emmet?

Wait, there is obviously been a mix-up here! You have got the wrong-- [a blue beam of light is shoot at Emmet's back to remove the Piece of Resistance and screams] OOOOOW!! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ah-ah-ah-eh-ow! That is gonna start hurting pretty soon!

[as the Robot starts to increase the heat while grinning meanicingly, the hooded woman that Emmet had noticed in the construction site earlier appears and attacks the robots, overpowering them all down and goes to Free Emmet]

No,no,no,nonononono...

[Emmet grunts and falls she frees him from his iron shackles, Wyldstyle grumbles stops. Emmet gasps]

Whoa! Who are you?! [Wyldstyle sighs and takes off her hood to reveal her face and Emmet is transfixed again] It's you...?

Come with me, if you wanna not die. [just as Emmet goes to grab her hand, Emmet and Wyldstyle gasp, Good Cop enters the chamber with a croissant]

Good Cop

Hi, everybody! How's the Melting goi--? [as he notices Emmet escaping with Wyldstyle Bad Cop appears]

Bad Cop

Hey, hey, hey, heeeeeey! [he starts shooting at Emmet and Wyldstyle] Red alert, red alert! I need everyone, repeat, everyone, to go after the special! [kicks the melting chamber, screams] OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW! THAT HURTS!

You're FIRED!

Bad Cop

Evil Villain, you're never seen fired again!

The Emmet NEVER give me the melting chamber again! You're stupid red beam of light and runaway! [Evil Villain bites the Bad Cop]

Bad Cop

OUCH!! He bit me.

Hey, um...

Hang on, sir! [As they pull away, Bad Cop turns to go after them]

Bad Cop

All units, cut them off on Elm, now! [suddenly his face changes to Good Cop]

Good Cop
[Good Cop spins in] [gasping and chuckling]

Or, whenever you can?

Robot

Ten-Four, Bad Cop.

[Many squad cars block the road, as they are being chased and shut at]

Watch out!

Hold on! [she jumps the bike bunny hopping over one squad car and going up onto the monorail platform and onto the track, and screaming. Wyldstyle manages to avoid hitting the police cars in front of them] We need to meet up with Vitruvius and tell him the Piece has been found.

Huh?

Bad Cop

They're up on the monorail. Release the Copper Choppers. [the helicopter above them drops down a motorcycle with two cops in it, a police helicopter flies in dropping a robot on a motorcycle, both Emmet and Wyldstyle gasp, which begins to drive towards Emmet and the girl, firing a laser as he goes, Emmet shields himself from the fire but the girl, pulls out a multi barrelled laser and returns fire, just as they were about to crash, the figure veers off leaving the robots to crash head-on with a train]

Oh, no! [causing a massive explodes, and screaming. He they start shooting at Wyldstyle and Emmet but Wyldstyle shoots back and manages to get their motorcycle onto the street below, they land safely] Will you please tell me what's happening?

I'm rescuing you, sir. You're the one that the prophecy spoke of. You're the Special.

[Whispers]

Me?

Although, you did let the Piece of Resistance go. The one thing that can ruin my plans, the one thing that I asked you to take care of! [Lord Business chuckles and he comes over to Bad Cop and puts one arm around his shoulder] That's super frustrating, it makes me just wanna pick up whoever's standing closest to me and just: THROW THEM THROUGH THIS WINDOW, AND OUT INTO THE INFINITE ABYSS OF NOTHINGNESS!!!!!! [he picks up Bad Cop takes him to the large glass window and bangs his head against it] I wanna do it so bad! [chuckles and Bad Cop]

Bad Cop
[chuckles]

I know you do, sir! But, please! Please, don't! [he throws Bad Cop aside]

And it's not just you, Bad Cop, that keeps messing up my plans. People everywhere are always messing with my stuff. But I have a way to fix that. A way to keep things exactly the way they are supposed to be permanently. [he turns on his TV monitor which shows his robots carrying the box containing the Kragle] Behold the most powerful weapon of all the relics: [his robots open the box containing the Kragle and take it out] THE KRAGLE!!! [we see the Kragle is in fact an old tube of Krazy Glue, Bad Cop gasping and Lord Business] Well, as you can see they're loading the Kragle into a big machine upstairs. I call it: The "Tentacle Arm Kragle Outside Sprayer", or TAKOS! The "S" is silent. So on Taco Tuesday it's going to spray the Kragle over everyone and everything with a bunch of super scary nozzles, like this one. [the tentacle reaches out and comes over to Bad Cop] I'll show you how it works.

Bad Cop

Shut up!

NO! WE DON'T SAY SHUT YOUR MOUTH! The Emmet don't get the melting chamber anymore! You're Emmet is grounded melting chamber of wasting taco tuesday! You're Emmet is bad influence and do nothing!

Bad Cop

No! That's not true.

You're not influence for Emmet.

Just as I thought. You're Good Cop side's making you soft, Bad Cop. Robots, bring me the fleece crested scepter of Q-teep and Po-Leesh Remover of Nai-eel! [the robots bring him a big Q-tip and nail polish remover and Lord Business deeps one end into the polish before turning to Bad Cop] You've already let the special get away once. [two of the robots hold Bad Cop]

Bad Cop

Sir?

I'm just gonna make sure it doesn't happen again, [the robots switch Good Cop in, one of the robots turns Bad Cop's face to Good Cop] NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!!! [he brings the Q-Tip onto Good Cop's face, suddenly Lord Business uses the end of the Q-tip with nail polish remover to wipe Good Cop's face off, after three scrubs back and forth, there's nothing left]

Ma Cop
[starts to weep]

Oh, son!

On Taco Tuesday, I'm going to kraglize the entire universe so that EVERYONE WILL STOP MESSING WITH MY STUFF! [turns to he now faceless Good Cop] Are you gonna be with me or are you STUCK HAVIN’ A TEA PARTY WITH YOUR MOM & DAD?!

YOU'RE LORD BUSINESS IS GUILTY OF WASTING TACO TUESDAY!

Robot

What happened, Lord Business?

He wasn't my fault, honest.

Robot

I'm sure to him, Lord Business?

IT'S OVER, YOU'RE MELTING CHAMBER'S BROKEN!!!!!! [echoes]

Pa Cop

Son?

Bad Cop
[The now faceless Good Cop stands back up, only to switch to Bad Cop]

Sorry, Dad. I've a job to do. [he uses the TAKOS device to completely glue his parents, the nozzle powers up, he presses a button and the TAKOS fires completely freezing them solid]

(cries)

'THE EMMET DON'T GET THE MELTING CHAMBER AND NEVER SEEN IT AGAINNNNNNN!!!!!!

Bad Cop

Evil Villain, do not listen you're never guilty again. The yellin', you're going destroyed the melting chamber!?

IT DIDN'T BREAK!

Bad Cop

Because it's Kragled. [to his robots] Machine gun! Fire! [they shoot at Superman with chewing gum making him splat to the ground stuck in the gum]

[screams]

I CAN'T MOVE!

Don't worry, Superman! I'll get you out of there. [as Green Lantern goes to rescue Superman his hands get stuck in the gum and screams] Oh, my gosh! My hands are stuck! [he wriggles his legs and those get stuck in the gum too] My legs are stuck as well!

I super hate you.

[as the robots have got hold of Emmet]

OW, YOU'RE PULLING MY TORSO OFF!!

Babe, help me get him out of here!

I said every man for himself.

Hey, you gotta be there for me. [Batman groans as he falls and finally lands onto the ground]

Fine! Fine, fine, fine! [reluctantly he goes to her aide and fights off the robots attacking Emmet] Fine, fine, fine, fine!

I need you to have a better attitude about it!

I've a great attitude! [Batman gets the tracker off Emmet and throws it at one of the robots]

Bad Cop
[Bad Cop picks up Emmet's tracker which is now attached to the robot]

The Special's in the northwest quadrant, we've got him corner! [he looks down but all he sees is the robot with the tracker attached to his head smacking into a wall] Where did he go?

Oh, no! They've hit our silly cloud stabilizer!

Let's go, we need to get Emmet outta here!

Can't we build something? [suddenly the space guy comes over to them]

Hey, I'm Ben! But you can call me Benny! And I can build a spaceship. Watch this. [he starts building a spaceship and chanting along as he works] [Benny singing] Spaceship, spaceship, spaceship, spaceship! Spaceshi--!

No, no, no, no! You can't, the skies are surrounded.

That's okay, I didn't really wanna build a spaceship. [Benny chuckles] Anyway, that's cool. [Groaning] [looking visibly disappointed he kicks his half built spaceship and it falls apart]

Bad Cop
[the group takes the submarine towards the water as Bad Cop at his robots are chasing after them]

Stop him, stop him! [suddenly the submarine goes off the edge of a cloud and plunges down] Don't let him get to the water! [as they get closer to the water]

[Wyldstyle screams as he falls and finally lands onto the ground] [screaming]

Dive, dive, dive!

[to Bad Cop] [screaming]

Everybody in!

[to Unikitty] [screaming]

We're going under!

Bad Cop
[A submarine splashes, the submarine plunges into the water. A chair splashes] [grunts]
Wonder Woman
[We hear muffled screams and we then see Cloud Cuckoo Land being destroyed by the robots and the Master Builders handcuffed and taken as prisoners]

Oh, no.

[he trails off hoping for any positive comments]

You are so disappointing on so many levels.

Why are my pants cold and wet? [A shot of water rising in the sub] Uh...

[a wall is breached and even more water floods in]

Hull breach!

The walls are crying!

[as she tries to plug a hole]

We're falling apart at the seams! [screams] [as the submarine starts to fall apart]

This is not how Batman dies!

[Emmet screams, as the submarine fills with water Emmet starts to drown. Wyldstyle reaches for him]

Emmet! Hold on, hold on!

Wyldstyle!

[the shot goes to outside the sub, red lights coming from the windows as it goes through the water as an alarm beeps faster and faster signalling a detonation]

Deep breath! [gasps] Deep breath, everybod--!!

Bad Cop
[the sub explodes, the camera follows a floating piece of debris to the surface] [where Bad Cop and a few Micro Managers are looking around]

Micro-Managers, what's going on down there?

Micro-Manager

Scanning submarine wreckage. No survivors detected.

Bad Cop

Scuba Cops? Dredge the entire ocean if you have to, we've go to find that piece, [Scuba Cops dive in the water to begin their search] let's get these prisoners back to Lord Business and give him the good news: "the Special is no more"! [they all depart from the wreckage]

: Okay. :[Emmet walks up to the platform and waves to everyone. Clears his throat] Hello, I'm Emmet. [referring to the Piece of Resistance] Oh, and this is the Piece of Resistance.

[the Master Builders cheer. Wyldstyle watches in bewilderment]

Thank you. Well, eeeeehhhh. I know that I for one am very excited to work with you guys, to get into the Octan Tower, find the Kragle and put this thing on the thing, and I know it's going to be really hard, but... [suddenly gets interrupted by another Master Builder]

REALLY HARD?! [the audience gasps] Wiping ye bum with a hook for a hand is really hard, this be impossible! The last time we tried to storm Lord Business's office, we used every plan we could conceive, the result was a massacre too terrible to speak of.

Who are you?

The name be Metal Beard, and I'll tell you me tale of woe.

Oh, great. Here we go again. [Metal Beard recounts his failed attempt in trying to infiltrate Lord Business's office]

I arrived at the foot of the tower with me hearty Master Builder crew, only to find the Kragle was all the way up on the infinitieth floor guarded by a robot army. And security measures of every kind imaginable, lasers, sharks, laser sharks, overbearing assistants, and strange dangerous relics that entrap, snap and zap. And there be a mysterious room called "The Think Tank." I barely made it out of that room with just me head... [Metalbeard hops out of the tower with his head and escapes on his ship as it purrs away] ...and organs! [Metalbeard's organs pop out of the Octan tower and land in his ship and it purrs away again]

[disturbed]

Okay.

I had to replace every part of my once strapping virile pirate body with this useless hunk of garbage ye see before ye. [to Emmet] So if ye think it'd be a good idea to return to that foresaken place, Special, what idea have ye that be better than the ideas of-100-of our fallen Master Builder brothers?

Well, technically I'm not exactly a Master Builder yet.

WHAT?! [the other Master Builders shout in outrage]

Please, everyone, everyone! please.

William Shakespeare
[throws a pizza]

Rubbish!

[addressing the Master Builders]

Yes, it's true, I may not be a Master Builder, I may not have a lot of experience fighting or leading or coming up with plans, or having ideas in general, in fact, I'm not all that smart, and I'm not what you'd call a creative type, plus, generally unskilled, also, scared and cowardly, I know what, you're thinking? "He is the least qualified person in the world to lead us!" And, you are right!

Swamp Creature

This is supposed to make us feel better?

What th-? No, there was about to be a but...

You're a butt!

Dumbledore

Yes.

[Outside Cloud Cuckoo Land, Metalbeard and a few knights and cowboys are leaving]

You all be on your own! I be leaving this lost cause! [Metalbeard jumps onto his ship and sails off Cuckoo Land, as it purrs]

Why are you leaving?!

A house divided against itself would be better than this. [Lincoln jumps into his seat and it suddenly takes off like spaceship]

Abraham Lincoln, you bring your space chair right back here! Come on, guys! [nearly gets hit by an object] We can still do this! [another Master Builder throws a blue disc at him] Oh! Right?

Master Builder 1

You're not even a bit special.

[Wyldstyle, Batman and Unikitty sadly watch] [Batman whispering to Wyldstyle as they watch Emmet]

Well, you were right about him being a ding-dong. [the Master Builders continue to jeer and throw things at Emmet]

Master Builder 2

You're a huge disappointment!

Master Builder 3
[Emmet, sad and disappointed, turns and starts walking off]

Get him out of here, I don't wanna look at him!

Well, at least it can't get any worse.
Master Builder 4: Special? Not!
[A giant golf ball suddenly falls out of nowhere, destroying the Dog] :

I was wrong.

[Emmet yells and runs away as the falling ball falls onto the ground, goes through the eye of the dog and squishes an Island Warrior Master Builder]

It's the orb of Tee-te-list.

You... don't have to be... the bad guy. You are the most talented... most interesting... and extraordinary person in the universe. And you are capable of amazing things, because you are the Special.

[Lord Business looks shocked and lowers the Kragle]

And so am I, and so is everyone, the prophecy is made up, but it's also true, it's about all of us, right now, it's about you, and you, still, can change everything.

[he holds up the Piece of Resistance. Business, touched by Emmet's speech drops the Kragle and starts walking over to him. Cut to the real world where Finn's father approaches his son, kneels down and hugs Finn, at the same time in Lego world, we see Lord Business is hugging Emmet.]

Oh, we got a hugger. [Emmet hands the Piece of Resistance to Lord Business] Be careful, I have been told... it might explode.

[Lord Business winks at Emmet, makes his way to the Kragle, in the real world Finn's father places the lid on the Krazy Glue, at the same time Lord Business places the Piece of Resistance on to the Kragle and into the TAKO device] [strains, exhales deeply]

Emmet, thank you.

[Emmet inhales]

And I just want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, from this moment forward, I solemnly promise that I will never--

[screaming]
[suddenly the Kragle explodes causing all the micro-managers to de-activiate. Emmet lands in the middle of the city where his friends are.]

EMMET!

Emmet, arr!

[Chuckling]

Hey, everyone! Is everyone, okay. Where's Lucy? [Unikitty laughs, as the micro-managers fall down] [Wyldstyle comes up from under a micro-manager]

Emmet!

Lucy! [Emmet rushes over to her and Wyldstyle jumps into his arms]

We did it! [Unikitty laughs] [Batman clears throat. Just as Emmet and Wyldstyle are about to hold hands Batman interrupts them] [Emmet gasps] Oh, eeehhh. Emmet, wait, Batman, there's something I need to say to you!

No, Wyldstyle. I mean, Lucy! [he points to Emmet] He's the hero you deserve!

[Wyldstyle smiles and Emmet looks behind him to see who Batman was pointing at]

Thanks, Batman!

[giggles]
[Wyldstyle turns Emmet's face towards her and they finally hold hands, everyone cheers for them, then we see Vitruvius's ghostly form hovering over the city watching them] [whispers]

I liked Emmet before he was cool. [we see Lord Business is pouring an antidote to unstick everybody]

Whoops! I have the antidote for the Kragle! HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?!

Finn
[at the same time in the real world Finn's father is pouring glue remover all over the Lego pieces as Finn watches]

De-kragler!

The Man Upstairs

Watch this. YEAH! [as Finn's father pours glue remover onto Pa and Ma Cop Finn reunites Bad Cop with his parents]

Finn

Oh, Mommy, Daddy, you're okay!

Ma Cop
[scene changes to Bad Cop reunited with his parents] [Ma Cop chuckles]

Oh, son! [Bad Cop who's now using his drawn on Good Cop face hugs his parents]

Good Cop

Hi, Mom, hi, Dad.

Pa Cop
[chuckles]

We're okay, son. [Pa Cop chuckles, in the real world as Finn and his father are playing with the Lego pieces Mom calls out]

Mom
[he door opens calls out something]

Uh, hey, guys? Time to come up for dinner! It’s Taco Tuesday, your favorite!

The Man Upstairs

Okay, honey, well, be up in a sec.

Finn

Oh, yeah, we'll be up in a sec!

The Man Upstairs

Well, I got to tell you something.

Finn
[hysterically]

What?

The Man Upstairs
[to Finn the antidote for the Kragle, favorite and his father Lego pieces]

Now that I'm letting you come down here and play, guess who else gets to come down here and play?

Finn

Who?

The Man Upstairs

Your sister.

Finn
[surprised]

What?

[last lines; as everyone Emmet and the gang are having a feast on the Double-Decker couch]

We'll things sure have a way of working out smoothly. Am I right, guys? [suddenly an alien spaceship hovers above them] Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat...?

Duplo
[a trio of Duplo alien figures descend into the Lego world] [Baby voice]

Well, we're from the planet Duplon, and we're here to destroy you.

... Oh, man. [End of The Lego Movie]

Oh, no. [Emmet and Wyldstyle enter the secret tunnel that closes, which causes the police cars and helicopter to crash and burn up]

Bad Cop

Darn, darn, darn, darny, DARN!

Although, you did let the Piece of Resistance go. The one thing that can ruin my plans, the one thing that I asked you to take care of! [Lord Business comes over to Bad Cop and puts one arm around his shoulder] That's super frustrating; it makes me just wanna pick up whoever's standing closest to me and just... THROW THEM THROUGH THIS WINDOW, AND OUT INTO THE ̣̪INFINITE ABYSS OF NOTHINGNESS! [camera pans down to show the abyss going to a different world, then returns to the two. He picks up Bad Cop, takes him to the large glass window, and bangs his head against it] I wanna do it so bad!

Bad Cop

I know you do, sir. But please! Please, don't.

[as he throws Bad Cop aside]

And it's not just you, Bad Cop, that keeps messing up my plans. People everywhere are always messing with my stuff. But I have a way to fix that. A way to keep things exactly the way they are supposed to be permanently. [he turns on his TV monitor, which shows his robots carrying the box containing the Kragle] Behold the most powerful weapon of all the relics: THE KRAZY, RASCALLY, ASSISTANT, GLUE, LOCKER, ERASER!!! OTHERWISE KNOWN AS... [his robots, wearing hazmat suits, open the box containing the Kragle and take it out] THE KRAGLE! IT WILL DESTROY THEM ALL, FOREVER! [We see the Kragle is, in fact, an old tube of Krazy Glue. Bad Cop gasps] As you can see, they're loading the Kragle in a big machine upstairs while sucking up apples and trees. I can also call it: The "Tentacle Arm Kragle Outside Sprayer", or TAKOS! The "S" is silent. So, on Taco Tuesday, it's going to spray the Kragle over everyone and everything with a bunch of super scary nozzles, like this one. [The tentacle reaches out and comes over to Bad Cop] I'll show you how it works.

Bad Cop

Sir, I don’t know if it is necessary.

Don’t worry, I won’t test it on you; I’ll do it on your parents!

Pa Cop

Hiya, son!

Ma Cop

How’s it going in the big city?

Bad Cop

Mommy, Daddy, what are you doing there?

OK, Pa, I want you to act normal, like you are having a good day. [Pa Cop raises his hand] Yeah, keep your hand up like that.

Ma, scoot 2 steps to the right.

[Pa Cop moves]

Pa, why d-whenever I talk to Ma, you start to move? Get back to where you were!

[Pa Cop returns to his original position]

Now, Ma, hand on his shoulder.

[Pa Cop moves again]

Pa, you moved, and you just wrecked it! YOU WRECKED IT! Bad Cop, you see what I am talking about? All I’m asking for is total perfection. Send in a Micro-Manager!

Micro-Manager
[a Micro-Manager comes in the room]

Commencing micromanagement.

[The Micro-Manager reshapes Bad Cop’s parents]

And now, I just spray them with the TAKOS!

Ma Cop
[The tentacle sprays the parents with Krazy Glue]

Oh, Pa! Hold me!

Pa Cop

No, darling. I can’t move my legs!

Bad Cop, you feel bad about your parents, and you want to help them, do you?

[as they float around Emmet's empty mind]

There must be something around here that proves his potential. If The Man Upstairs chose him to the Special, there must be a reason.

Who's The Man Upstairs?

See? He doesn't even know about The Man Upstairs.

Does he have super gross hands that look like they're made out of big pink sausages, like eagle talons mixed with squid? [suddenly, they turn to see Emmet being raised up on a large human-like hand]

Wait. You've seen the...? [Emmet turns and notices he's standing on a large hand]

Wow! That's what I was just thinking about!

How did you...?

I had this weird dream when I touched the Piece. Well, I... I mean, I wasn't asleep, so it wasn't really a dream...

Emmet, you had a vision.

I did?

Master Builders spend years training themselves to clear their minds enough to have even a fleeting glimpse of The Man Upstairs. And yet, your mind is already so prodigiously empty that there is nothing in it to clear away in the first place. With proper training, you could become a great Master Builder.

I could?

The prophecy chose you, Emmet.

But I can't do any of the stuff that the prophecy says I'm supposed to do.

All you have to do is to believe; then you will see everything. Are you ready, my son?

Yes, I am. I think.

Then, we haven't a moment to lose. We must assemble the Master Builders.

Cowboy
[In the saloon, the cowboys are still playing.]

Do you think zeppelins are a bad investment?

Bad Cop
[Bad Cop storms in the saloon, his horse galloping, the cowboy's grunt]

Has anyone seen this guy? [shows a picture of Emmet]

Sheriff

Wait a minute, draw a cowboy hat on him.
[Bad Cop draws a cowboy hat on the wanted poster]

Uh, is this Cloud Cuckoo Land? I don't see any clouds or cuckoos.

No, no. This is Middle Zealand. A wondrous land full of knights, castles, muttons, torture weapons, poverty, leeches, illiteracy, and um...

DRAGON! [the Batwing dives as a dragon swoops down]

Yeah, that too. [Batman transforms the Batwing into the Batmobile, lands the car in a forest area and drives through the woods] Once we arrive in Cloud Cuckoo Land, we'll raise an army of Master Builders...

Yeah, yeah, anyway. You guys gotta check out these new subwoofers I installed in the back; I call them The Dogs. Listen to them bark! [Batman turns on his stereo, sending heavy metal blasting through the Batmobile, making Emmet and Vitruvius bounce in the back]

Aaah! Can you turn that down a little bit?!

This is a song I wrote for Wyldstyle! [Wyldstyle smiles at Batman before singing with the song; we hear Batman's voice as he sings to the heavy metal music] Darkness! [to Emmet and Vitruvius] It's about how I'm an orphan! [the song continues] No parents!

[Wyldstyle turns to Emmet]

This is real music, Emmet. Batman's a true artist. Dark, brooding.

Well, I'm dark and brooding too! [Emmet gasps, suddenly he notices something ahead] Look, a rainbow! [as they reach the rainbow]

So, you're gonna drive up the curved part, take it all the way to the top and park the car. [The Batmobile stops, Batman drives up the rainbow and stops the car at the very top] Friends, welcome to Cloud Cuckoo Land. [An angelic chord plays as the camera pans down to the group standing in front of a rather large cloud; the rainbow disappears.] Now, I just need to give the secret knock. [he turns and knocks once with his scepter on the cloud door, after a short pause the door bursts open and as they enter inside they hear music being played and everyone is happy and dancing around.]

I'm not sure about this place and what I am supposed to do.

Hi! I am Princess Unikitty, and I welcome you all to Cloud Cuckoo Land!

[Everyone cheers]

But there are no signs or anything! How can people know what not to do?

Here in Cloud Cuckoo Land, there are no rules! There's no government, no babysitters, no bedtimes, no frowny faces, no bushy mustaches, and no negativity of any kind.

You just said the word "no" like a million times.

And there's also no consistency.

I hate this place.

All ideas are the good ones, except the not-so-good ideas. Those that push down deep inside where you'll never, ever, ever, [angrily tone] EVER... [normal tone] find them! Your fellow Master Builders are gathered in the Dog!

The what?

French Narrator

Meanwhile, at the dog...

[Emmet gasps]

Is that Superman?

Statue of Liberty

Bonjour.

Girl, what are you doing right now?

[appears from behind Emmet]

Hey, Superman!

Oh, hey... Hey, what's up?

[fixing his mask]

Lantern. Green Lantern.

Yeah, yeah.

Do you wanna sit together at the meeting?

Uh, I have to, I have to go back to Krypton. [Superman quickly flies off]

[the camera pans to Vitruvius addressing the room at large]

Did didn't Krypton blow up?

My fellow Master Builders, including, but not limited to Robin Hood, Mermaid Lady, Gandalf, Swamp Creature, 1980-something Space Guy...

Hello!

...2002 NBA All-Stars and Wonder Woman. You have traveled far to be here for a moment of great import. We have learned that Lord Business plans to unleash a fully weaponized Kragle on Taco Tuesday, to end the world as we know it. [the Master Builders express their shock and outrage] Please, calm yourselves. Green Ninja, Milhouse, Nice Vampire, Michelangelo, Michelangelo and Cleopatra. There is yet one hope; the Special has arisen.

[he steps aside to reveal Emmet while hushed murmurs spread around]

Have the young man step forward.

As you wish, [says it incorrectly] Dubbledore.

I’m Gandalf.

Dumbledore

It's pronounced Dumbledore.

Dubbledore?

Dumbledore

No, Dumbledore.

I thought you said Dubbledore.

Vitruvius?!

Ah, we gotta write all that down 'cause I'm not gonna remember any of it, but here we go. The Special will now give an eloquent speech. [to Emmet] Go ahead, man, you got this.

Okay. [Emmet walks up to the platform and waves to everyone. He clears his throat] Hello, I'm Emmet. [referring to the Piece of Resistance] Oh, and this is the Piece of Resistance. [the Master Builders cheer. Wyldstyle watches in bewilderment] Thank you. Well, eeeeehhhh. I know that I, for one, am very excited to work with you guys, to get into the Octan Tower, find the Kragle and put this thing on the thing, and I know it's going to be really hard, but... [gets interrupted]

REALLY HARD?! [the audience gasps] Wiping ye bum with a hook for a hand is really hard; this be impossible! The last time we tried to storm Lord Business's office, we used every plan we could conceive. The result was a massacre too terrible to speak of.

Who are you?

The name be Metalbeard, and I'll tell you me tale of woe.

Oh, great. Here we go again. [Metalbeard recounts his failed attempt in trying to infiltrate Lord Business's office]

I arrived at the foot of the tower with me hearty Master Builder crew, only to find the Kragle was all the way up on the infinitieth floor, guarded by a robot army. And security measures of every kind imaginable: lasers, sharks, laser sharks, overbearing assistants, and strange, dangerous relics that entrap, snap, and zap. And there be a mysterious room called "The Think Tank". I barely made it out of that room with just me head... [Metalbeard hops out of the tower with his head and escapes on his ship as it purrs away] and organs! [Metalbeard's organs pop out of the Octan tower and land in his ship and it purrs away again]

[disturbed]

Okay.

I had to replace every part of my once strapping, virile pirate body with this useless hunk of garbage ye see before ye. So if ye think it'd be a good idea to return to that forsaken place, Special, what idea have ye that be better than the ideas of 100 of our fallen Master Builder brothers?

Well, technically I'm not exactly a Master Builder yet.

WHAT?! [The other Master Builders shout in outrage]

Please, everyone, everyone! Please.

William Shakespeare
[throws a pizza]

Rubbish!

[addressing the Master Builders]

Yes, it's true, I may not be a Master Builder. I may not have a lot of experience fighting or leading or coming up with plans, or having ideas in general. In fact, I'm not all that smart, and I'm not what you'd call a creative type; plus, generally unskilled, also scared and cowardly. I know what you're thinking: "He is the least qualified person in the world to lead us!" And you are right!

Swamp Creature

This is supposed to make us feel better?

Vampire Max

Grrrg!

What th-? No, there was about to be a but-

You're a butt!

Dumbledore

Yes. [Outside Cloud Cuckoo Land, Metalbeard and a few knights and cowboys are leaving]

You all be on your own! I be leaved this lost cause! [Metalbeard jumps onto his ship and sails off Cuckoo Land, as it purrs]

Why are you leaving?!

A house divided against itself would be better than this. [Lincoln jumps into his seat and it suddenly takes off like a spaceship]

Abraham Lincoln, you bring your space chair right back here! Come on, guys! [nearly gets hit by a falling object] We can [a Master Builder throws cheese at him] still do [another Master Builder throws a DVD disc at him] this! [yet another Master Builder throws a blue disc at him] Oh! Right?

Master Builder #1

You're not even a bit special.

[Wyldstyle, Batman and Unikitty sadly watch] [Batman whispering to Wyldstyle as they watch Emmet]

Well, you were right about him being a ding-dong. [the Master Builders continue to jeer and throw things at Emmet]

Master Builder #2

You're a huge disappointment!

Master Builder #3
[Emmet, sad and disappointed, turns and starts walking off]

Get him out of here, I don't wanna look at him!

[dolphin chirp, cat yowl]

Well, at least it can't get any worse.

Master Builder #4

Special? Not! [A giant golf ball suddenly falls out of nowhere, destroying the Dog.]

I was wrong. [Emmet yells and runs away as the falling ball falls onto the ground, crashes through the eye of the dog, and squishes an Island Warrior Master Builder]

It's the orb of Tee-te-list!

Bad Cop

Ruh-roh, it's the bad guys.

Shaq

Y’all ready for this? Oh no! They were ready for that.

IT DIDN'T BREAK!

Bad Cop

Because it's Kragled. [to his robots] Machine gum! Fire! [they shoot at Superman with chewing gum making him splat to the ground stuck in the gum]

[screams]

I can't move.

Don't worry, Superman! I'll get you out of there. [as Green Lantern goes to rescue Superman, his hands get stuck in the gum] Oh, my gosh! My hands are stuck! [he wriggles his legs and those get stuck in the gum too] My legs are stuck as well!

I super hate you.

[as the robots have got holding of Emmet]

Ow, you're pulling my head off!!!

Babe, help me get him out of here!

I said, every man for himself.

Hey, you gotta be there for me. [Batman groans as he falls and finally lands onto the ground]

Fine! Fine, fine, fine! [reluctantly goes to her aide and fights off the robots attacking Emmet] Fine, fine, fine, fine!

I need you to have a better attitude about it!

I've a great attitude! [Batman gets the tracker off Emmet and throws it at one of the robots]

Bad Cop
[Bad Cop picks up Emmet's tracker, which is now attached to the robot]

The Special's in the northwest quadrant; we've got him cornered. [he looks down, but all he sees is the robot with the tracker attached to its head smacking into a wall] Where did he go?

Oh, no! They've hit our silly cloud stabilizer!

Let's go, we need to get Emmet outta here!

Can't we build something? [suddenly, the space guy comes over to them]

Hey, I'm Ben! But you can call me Benny! And I can build a spaceship. Watch this. [he starts building a spaceship and chanting along as he works] [Benny singing] Spaceship, spaceship, spaceship, spaceship! Spaceshi--!

No, no, no, no! You can't; the skies are surrounded.

That's okay, I didn't really wanna build a spaceship. [Benny chuckles] Anyway, that's cool. [looks visibly disappointed as he kicks his half-built spaceship and it falls apart]

Well, where can we go where we can’t be found?

How about we went underwater?

In a submarine!

Great idea, a Bat submarine patent pending.

With rainbows!

And dream catchers, just in case we took a nap.

Like an underwater spaceship!

But we can't build all of them at once!

Wyldstyle, Batman, Benny, Unikitty and Vitruvius
[as they stick together like a team for a moment]

READY? BREAK!

[as the others go off-screen]

Okay.

Bad Cop
[the group takes the submarine towards the water as Bad Cop at his robots are chasing after them]

Stop him, stop him! [however, the submarine goes off the edge of a cloud and plunges down.] Don't let him get to the water! [as they get closer to the water]

Dive, dive, dive! Everybody in! We're going under! [A submarine splashes, the submarine plunges into the water. Bad Cop grunts and throws the chair into the ocean]

Wonder Woman
[We hear muffled screams and we then see Cloud Cuckoo Land being destroyed by the robots and the Master Builders handcuffed and taken as prisoners]

Oh, no.

My home... It’s gone! I feel something; it feels like... THE OPPOSITE OF HAPPINESS! I must stay positive! Bubblegums... butterflies... [sees the dog's head break off; horrified] cotton candy!

I’m sorry, Unikitty...

Hey, everybody. You don't know me, but I'm on TV, so you can trust me. I know things seem kind of bad right now, but there is a way out of this. This is Emmet. [footage of Emmet is shown] And he was just like all of you. A face in the crowd, following the same instructions as you. He was so good at fitting in; no one ever saw him. And I owe you an apology, because I used to look down on people like that. [Wyldstyle's broadcast is watched by all Lego citizens across the realms in the universe, including Middle Zealand, where a knight is reading from a scroll]

Knight

I used to think they were followers with no ideas or brains.

Because it turns out Emmet had great ideas. And if they seemed weird and kind of pointless, they actually came closer than anyone else to saving the universe. And now we have to finish what he started by making whatever weird thing pops into our heads. All of you have the ability inside of you to be a ground breaker. And I mean literally, break the ground! Peel off the pieces, and tear apart your walls! Build things only you could build, defend yourselves! We need to fight back against President Business's plans to freeze us! [the Lego citizens start putting Lego pieces together and building things] Today will not be known as Taco Tuesday; it will be known as Freedom Friday! [the citizens start cheering] But still on a Tuesday! [suddenly, they are interrupted as the robots burst from the barricaded studio entry.]

Robot

End of the line! [just as the robots are about to attack, they are quickly disposed of by Bad Cop]

Wylstyle

Bad Cop?

Bad Cop

I hope there's still a Good Cop in me somewhere. [draws a new face for Good Cop with a marker]

Scribble Cop (Good Cop)

I'll hold these guys off. You go stop 'em. Yay!

Great idea! But how will we get there? [suddenly, Benny starts having an idea]

Voice Man

T-minus 10, 9, 8...

I could, eeehhh...

Voice Man

...7, 6, 5, 4...

I could build a...

Voice Man

...3, 2...

I could build a...

Voice Man

...1!

I could build a spaceship! [he looks around to see if anyone disagrees] You-you're not-you're not going to say "No"?

Scribble Cop

Build away, whatever your name is!

[laughs and jumps around in excitement as he quickly assembles a spaceship]

SPACESHIP! [Benny and the team fly the spaceship through the different realms] SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP! [the team are spotted by the robots]

Robot

All units, attack that spaceship! [the robots chase after the spaceship in their aircraft and start shooting at it]

SPACESHIP! [quickly steers the spaceship away from sight]

Robot

Where did he go?! [suddenly, the spaceship flies up through the robots' aircraft, destroying them]

SPACESHIP!

[as they fly over Bricksburg]

Wyldstyle, look! It's the citizens! [the citizens have built aircraft which they are using to attack Lord Business's robots]

And don't forget us; we're Master Builders.

What is going on?! You stop building that stuff! Just stop it!

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