[confronts Ariel in her grotto]

I consider myself a reasonable merman. I set certain rules and I expect those rules to be obeyed.

But Dad, I...!

Is it true you rescued a human from drowning?!

Daddy, I had to.

Contact between the human world and the mer world is strictly forbidden! Ariel, you know that! Everyone knows that!

He would've died!

One less human to worry about.

[angrily]

You don't even know him!

Know him? I don't have to know him! They're all the same: Spineless, savage, harpooning fish-eaters, incapable of any feeling.

Daddy, I love him! [gasps, as she has accidentally slipped the truth]

[shocked]

No. Have you lost your senses completely?! He's a human! You're a mermaid!

I don't care!

So help me, Ariel, I am going to get through to you. And if this is the only way, so be it!
[He proceeds to destroy most of the grotto with his magic trident]