P Puggsy
The name is Puggsy. What's yours?
Tom
[Starts talking]
I'm Tom.
Jerry
[Starts talking]
I'm Jerry.
TA Tom and Jerry
[Look at each other]
You talked!
Tom
Well, sure, I talk. What do you think I am, a dummy?
Jerry
You said it, I didn't.
Tom
Hey, you little pipsqueak, I oughtta– Hey! How come you never spoke before?
Jerry
Well, there was nothing I wanted to say that I thought you'd understand, and there still isn't!
Tom
Alright, that does it, you little– Oh, boy, you get me angry! [Grabs Jerry]
Jerry
[Jerry has just saved Tom from the alley cats.]
You okay, pal?
Tom
Yeah. I'm okay. But don't call me pal.
Tom
[Tom walks off, leaving Jerry dejected. Tom stops walking.]
Come on, mouse.
[Tom resumes walking, with Jerry walking behind him. As Tom and Jerry walk towards a bridge, a shadow looms behind them. Tom and Jerry notice and hide on the side of the bridge. After the shadow passes them, Tom and Jerry look up to see Robyn run across the bridge. Robyn looks around to see if no one was following her, then goes towards the stairs. Tom and Jerry climb back onto the bridge. They go towards the steps. Robyn jumps down the stairs and hides under the bridge. As Jerry climbs down the steps, Tom tip-toes down the steps. Tom accidentally hits a can, causing it to bounce down the steps. The can rolls over to Robyn's foot. As Tom makes it to the bottom, Robyn swings her backpack at him, but he dodges.]
Tom
Whoa! Hold it! Hold it!
Robyn
Who– Who are you?
Tom
Nobody.
Jerry
[Hops onto Tom's hand]
Just us. He's Tom, and I'm Jerry.
Robyn
Oh. I thought you were somebody else. I thought you were following me.
Tom
Heck no.
Robyn
Well, then, what are you doing out here?
Tom
We're lost and we're looking for something to eat.
Jerry
Yeah. We're kinda hungry.
Robyn
Oh, well, um– [Opens her backpack and takes an apple and a plastic bag of cookies out] I've got cookies and an apple and–
Jerry
[Tom, Jerry, and Robyn are sitting near a fire under a bridge.]
So your name's Robyn and you ran away from home.
Robyn
How did you know?
Jerry
Your name's on your locket. [Points at Robyn's locket]
Robyn
Oh, yes. It's Robyn Starling. I'm afraid I don't have a home anymore. I– I'm an orphan. My mother died when I was a baby.
Jerry
What about your father? What happened to him?
Robyn
My father's on an expedition climbing a mountain, when the snow gave way in an– av– ava–
Tom
Avalanche?
Robyn
[Starts to cry]
Uh-huh, and he was the most wonderful father in the world. [Opens her locket and shows Tom and Jerry pictures of herself and her father] We had our own secret place just for the two of us, and–
Jerry
And that's where you were going?
Robyn
Uh-huh, and to get away from my Aunt Figg. She's not really my aunt, just my guardian. But she's taken over the house. She moved me into the attic and gave my room to her dog Ferdinand.
Tom
Ferdinand?
Robyn
Aunt Figg was always calling me orphan. She even stole my locket and threw it out the window, but I climbed down and found it, and– and–
Jerry
Kept on running.
Robyn
As fast as I could, and I'm never going back.
Tom
Oh, smart, real smart, kid. You got a roof over your head, three sure meals a day, a warm bed. Who'd wanna leave that?
Jerry
I hate to admit it, Robyn, but Tom's right. You never know what you're missing till you don't have it.
Robyn
You don't know Aunt Figg. She seems sweet, but underneath, she's mean, real mean.
Jerry
Aw, come on. I'll bet she's frantic looking for you.
Tom
Oh, sure. She's crying her eyes out for you right this minute.
Lickboot
[Discussing Robyn Starling]
Just pray the police find her, or we're doomed to return to the ranks of the peasantry. And you'd better hope this rumor that dashing Daddy Starling may have survived the avalanche is just a rumor, or we'll be worse than ordinary. We'll be...
Aunt Pristine Figg
Don't say it!
Lickboot
Poor.
Aunt Pristine Figg
Penniless!
Lickboot
Bankrupt!
Aunt Pristine Figg
No more m-money?
Lickboot
[In a sinister tone]
We've got to have– money!
Tom
[Tom is walking along the corridor when Jerry, holding the crumpled telegram, runs past him on his way to Robyn's bedroom. Tom catches up to Jerry.]
Hold it! [Picks Jerry up] What's the big rush? [Drops Jerry, then catches him]
Jerry
[Holds the telegram up in Tom's face]
Read this. Robyn's father is alive.
Tom
"Daddy–" [Reads the telegram] "Tibet"? [Continues reading the telegram] Hey! She's not an orphan no more!
[Tom grabs the telegram from Jerry, drops him, and runs up to Robyn's bedroom. Jerry runs after him.]
Robyn
[Tom and Jerry have just told Robyn that her father is alive.]
He's alive? My daddy's alive? I've got to go find him. [Opens her drawer] He might be hurt. [Pulls clothing out of the drawer and throws them aside]
Robyn
[As Robyn throws the clothing out of the drawer, a sock flies into Jerry's face. He removes it. Robyn throws a hat onto Tom's head.] [Takes the hat off Tom's head and puts it on her own head]
I better wear a hat. [Sits on her bed and pulls her sock up]
Jerry
Tibet?
Robyn
If that's where my daddy is, that's where I'm going.
Tom
Do you have any idea where Tibet is?
Robyn
No.
Jerry
[Robyn pulls the bedsheets off the bed.]
It's– It's way, way, way out there.
Robyn
Put your finger here, please.
Tom
[Tom puts his finger on the knot, allowing Robyn to tie the line to the bed post.]
It's– It's across the river.
Jerry
Into the woods.
Tom
Over the hills.
Jerry
It's past Cleveland.
Robyn
[Picks the bedsheets up]
Here, Tom. [Throws the line of bedsheets to Tom] Throw this end out the window.
Robyn
[Tom walks over to the window, opens it, and drops the line of bedsheets down the front of the house. Robyn puts her backpack on. She looks down to the ground, then climbs down the line. Robyn lands on the ground. Tom and Jerry look down from the window.]
Tom, hurry!
Jerry
[Tom starts to climb down the line. Jerry hops onto his paws.]
Down, please.
Tom
I'll give you down.
Aunt Pristine Figg
[Tom grabs Jerry. Jerry points down. Tom looks down and realizes he has let go of the line. Tom and Jerry fall to the ground. Figg wakes up, turns the lamp on, and removes her sleeping eye pieces. She sees the line of bedsheets hanging outside her window.]
She's escaped again! I've got to call Lickboot. [Picks her phone up]
