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Movie Script

Zootopia s.w.a.t.

by Dan 1966

(c) Zootopia 2016 Walt Disney Animation Studios

For non-profit fandom enjoyment only. No monitary gain desired, wanted not sought.

ACT 2

(Fade in from black)

Scene Location: Ficus Grove, Rain forest District. Bertolt's apartment Time: Next Morning

Scene: Bertolt is sleeping on the furry white underbelly of his twink Tiger partner till he wakes up, slowly slips off and gives the Tiger a nuzzle before grabbing his cell phone and walking into the kitchen for a morning coffee. He swipes the screen to check what's up on his "Furcast" page and he sees the lead news report on the mystery illness. He taps on the video as he's preparing coffee...

ZNN Video: Good morning Zootopia this is Packo Dermus (elephant) continuing our coverage of this medical situation which has developed over the last 10 hours in the city; a mysterious illness of some kind has affected over 30 citizens, the city government right now is not releasing the true numbers involved but never the less we're all waking up this morning to very disturbing news as this yet unknown virus is hitting across the species lines.....

Scene: Frisco Masi (Bengal Tiger) walks into the kitchen and nuzzles his lover. who is glued to the smart phone.

Frisco: Morning.

Bertolt: Morning.

Scene: Bertolt walks from the kitchen and lowers the volume on his phone.

Frisco: What do want for breakfast?

Bertolt: Some of that pie.....would be nice.

Scene: Bertolt's incoming call chime goes off....it's Rick Tavi

Bertolt: Morning.

Rick: Are you seeing this on television?

Bertolt: Yeah. It hit last night?

Rick: It started last night. Animals are just dropping all over the place.

Scene: Bertolt's incoming call chime goes off again.....it's Ajax.

Ajax: This is a re-call, everybody report to HQ by 8am.

Bertolt: Yes Sir. Rick did you get that?

Rick: Already tripping over my butt.

Scene: Bertolt walks into the kitchen.

Bertolt: Better fix things quick. I have to go to Headquarters.

Frisco: But we were going to have the whole day together? That's why I got the day off.

Scene: Frisco picks Bertolt up and snuggles him.

Bertolt: I'll always make it up too you, you know that? Just....do me a favor and stay inside?

Frisco: Stay inside?

Bertolt: Take the day to get some serious sleep? Play with the big yarn ball. Keep things toasty.

Scene: Frisco puts Bertolt down and pets his head.

Frisco: Go get em tiger.

Scene: Bertolt pats his chest and points as he walks to the bedroom.

Bertolt: My tiger......my tiger.

Scene Shift

Scene Location: The home of SWAT team member Sunny Palone the Polar Bear in Tundra Town

Time: Morning

Scene: Sunny Palone comes out of his house, kisses his wife Mandi and runs to Tin Tin's car where Tin Tin offers a slice of pie.

Start background music: Electric Swing from the car radio

Tin Tin: Breakfast?

Sunny: What is it this time?

Tin Tin: Does it matter?

Scene: They drive towards the Headquarters. Sunny is wolfing down the pie.

Sunny: You see this crazy stuff going on?

Tin Tin: Yeah...already have a cause. Unregulated sheep shearing.

Sunny: Oh please tell me you don't listen to Alex Boar's Info-Warts? Please don't tell me I have to make you a foil hat too?

Tin Tin: It makes obvious sense! The sheep shearing and textile industry has no regulatory over-site at all, it was only a matter of time before something would manifest in alpaca fleece that would cross species. The vaccine makers are all over this, I'm telling you.

Sunny: I will not join the Jelly jam conspiracy crowd. There's a logical explanation for this, let's let the experts do their jobs and not contribute to the hysteria stampede.

Scene: Sunny and Tin Tin stop at a light and a heard of reindeer walk across the crosswalk holding handkerchiefs over their noses and mouths. One suddenly sneezes and the whole heard goes crazy and runs around in a panic.

Tin Tin: You asked for a hysteria stampede?

End background music: Electric Swing from the car radio

Scene Shift

Scene Location: ZTA BART train heading into downtown from Baobab Blvd

Scene: Raham is standing and holding a ring while listening to the news reports with ear buds. The news announcer gives out basic health info and there's an obvious air of concern and fear in the animals occupying the car. Raham gets out of the car as a fight ensues between a lama and a camel.

Lama: Hey! Watch your spit buddy!

Scene: Lama pushes the Camel

Camel: You watch your spit!

Scene: Camel pushes Lama

Lama: I don't want to catch your disease you hump back bastard!

Scene: The Lama and Camel start swinging and Raham steps in and paralyzes their arms.

Raham: Please don't make me have to arrest you guys?

Lama: I'm sorry officer but....well this is some scary stuff.

Scene: Raham restores their arms.

Raham: What will be scary is if we all revert to teeth and claws over this. You don't call someone a "hump back bastard" and start swinging for no reason? All you two do is cause more animals to get upset. We have to remain calm, keep the peace and work this all out logically. Now stop this foolishness.

Lama: I'm sorry bro...I'm just scared hoofless you know?

Camel: It's good man...I really should control my spit.

Scene: Raham continues to walk out of the subway when something tries to come down from above and attack him. He catches Rick in his paw and smirks...

Raham: You still make too much noise.

Scene: Rick settles down on Raham's shoulder.

Rick: That's been happening all over the place. These fights over personal space? Someone so much as sniffles and fists start flying.

Raham: What do they know about this.....affliction? What have you heard?

Rick: Only that it's brutally fast and absolutely terrifying. A white crane that lives four houses down from me caught it. No one left their house this morning...no one. By the time the ambulance showed up and they carried him out? He looked like he was about to take flight but he froze in place like those paintings you see in the Asian animal cultural garden.

Scene: Raham and Rick appear above ground from the Subway in the open square before the Zootopia 1st Precinct HQ building. They catch eye of Ajax and run to walk with him....

Raham: Captain? So what's the story?

Ajax: I'm just as wanting to know as everyone else. They're recalling everyone to all the precincts. I know we're going to get real busy.

Scene Location: ZPD 1st Precinct HQ lobby

Background music: "Headquarters set up" from "Emperor"

Scene: Ajax, Raham and Rick enter the big lobby of 1st Precinct to officers wearing medical masks and rubber gloves. A lot of bacterial soap being passed around and used. They walk up to Clawhouser who's wearing a MOP chemical weapons suit and a mask.

Ajax: Aren't you going a little orbital with this Clawhouser?

Clawhouser: You can't be too careful. Lemme see....Rhino.....Tiger.....Ferret.

Scene: Rick jumps off Raham and grabs Clawhouser.

Rick: Oh please tell me you did not call me cute and fuzzy?

Clawhouser: I meant the mask size. It's the new policy.

Ajax: You are cute and fuzzy Rick, do you want to make a case out of it?

Rick: I only let you say it because hitting you is sort of taking on a fat Mack truck.

Scene: Ajax, Raham and Rick dawn their masks and gloves and walk into the "Bull Pen" which is now crowded with officers all trying their best to avoid getting face to face with each other.

End background music: "Headquarters set up" from "Emperor"

Ajax: The brotherly love in here is infectious.

Scene: Everyone stares at Ajax.

Ajax: Guys? And our very capable partners of the other gender.

Scene: A praying mantis wags a leg.

Mantis: Hey pal, I can switch genders!

Ajax: And our equally expertively flex gender capable partners. Let's not stop talking to each other? Wait till we have all the facts.

Scene: Tin Tin pops up.

Ajax: Don't make me muzzle you?

Scene: Officer Higgins snaps to attention at the front of the room.

Higgins: Ah-ten-tion!

Scene: Chief Bogo enters the room and stands at the podium.

Bogo: Good morning. Obviously everyone is sort of well informed by now of events to this moment? I'm going to bring us up to full speed before I attend the emergency city counsel meeting with the mayor. This situation began last night with "patient Zero" a lion who was frequenting TEE SEAS night club in Sahara Square. Since then...the number of infections has risen to 47 animals across diverse species.

Scene: Bogo turns on a monitor.

Cameo: Sid from Ice Age

Bogo: This was taken at Zootopia General this morning. This sloth is already half way into the affliction. See the purple spots? That's one of the mid-stage symptoms. The afflicted animal begins to have fever, followed by enormous sweating, then these purple spots. Then in the last stage, delusion, madness, panic......and......paralysis.

Scene: Sid is frozen with the most funny screwed up face.

Bogo: Yes.....pretty ghastly. I'm talking about the poor blokes face.

Scene: Bogo turns the video to a scene inside the central conference hall of Zootopia General Hospital where the victims are set up like statues in an art gallery.

Bogo: This thing is pretty frightening. All of these animals are alive...just barely. This is why the Mayor, the city counsel and the experts are meeting this morning but I'll tell you what I know so far and you guess what I'm thinking. So far this thing has been totally random and selective, we have yet to see a massive outbreak among the communities. The locations of the victims is diverse as well. All the victims are relatively young, one is even a cub in Middle School. So? Can anyone guess what I'm thinking?

Scene: Judy jumps up.

Bogo: Hopps?

Judy: Drugs sir. Some messed up batch or a combination.

begin background music: Second set of "Headquarters set up" from "Emperor"

Bogo: Rabbit score one. Until I meet with the experts, we'll go on that line for the moment. We'll investigate ten of these victims for controlled substance abuse or a connection pattern between them. Assignments are....

Scene: Tin Tin stands up.

Bogo: Yes Officer Tin Tin?

Tin Tin: And....what if it isn't drugs sir? What if it's a virus?

Bogo: Then gawd help us because right now? There's no cure. Let's pray it doesn't turn your way Officer Tin Tin.

Scene: Tin Tin sits down.

Sunny: He's got your foil hat all ready to go.

Tin Tin: Shut up? I'm telling you Sunny...this sounds manufactured!

Bogo: Assignments....Hopps/Wilde patient 10, McHorn/Fangmeyer patient 9, Wolford/Francine patient 8, Trumpet/Delgato patient 7, Higgins/Grizolli patient 6, Anderson/Oats patient 5, Dorothy/Charles patient 4.....

Bogo: SWAT...I need you to cover the last three victims but be ready for recall in case this is a drug involved situation and we'll need you to bust some labs on our targeting list. Ajax/Raham patient 3, Sunny/Tin Tin patient 2, Bertolt/Tavi patient zero. Report your findings to Officer Clawhouser.

Scene: Rick and Bertolt walk out of the Bull Pen.

Rick: Not exactly what you'd want to do on your day off huh?

Bertolt: I promised Frisco a spa day. He is going to be one cranky kitty when I get home tonight.

Rick: Best trick is to rub behind the ear on the lowest spot. Tiger's call it "the nub" trust me, you hit the right spot and Frisco will absolutely melt on you. I'll check out the car and drive, you grab our ready bags.

Scene: Bogo catches up with Ajax.

Bogo: Captain Ajax?

Ajax: Yes Chief?

Scene: Bogo hands Ajax another folder.

Bogo: First lab on our possible target list. Study the folder so you and your crew will be ready to go just in case.

Ajax: Rodger that.

Scene: Raham studies the victim file.

Raham: Patient 3. So big he couldn't he moved from where he was afflicted. Orchid Drive in Canal District. This one shoots down the drug theory.

Ajax: Don't be so certain just yet. We follow through till different.

end background music: Second set of "Headquarters set up" from "Emperor"

Scene Shift

Scene Location: City Hall, Downtown Zootopia

Begin background music: MacArthur's arrival from "Emperor"

Scene: The camera follows the mayor of Zootopia from behind as he walks through a flock of reporters taking pictures and trying to get answers. The Mayor is a Beaver (Voiced by Danny DeVito)

Reporter: Mister Mayor?! What do you know about this sickness?

Reporter 2: Sir? Do you have a statement for the citizens? Reporter 3: What's your plan of action Mister Mayor?

Mayor: When I'm ready to speak to you all, I will.

Scene: The Mayor enters the conference room where the city counsel, heads of the various departments including Doctor Beckworth and Chief Bogo as well as some invited civilian representatives stand up as the Mayor climbs into his chair at the head of the rectangular table. The chair is obviously a large log cut into a Mayor's status style chair shape by beaver teeth.

End background music: MacArthur's arrival from "Emperor"

Mayor: Allright....I have Buffalo stampeding the Pawsco for grain, Storks raiding the convenience stores for diapers and bull fighting over red face masks at the Pen Depots...in short....I got an out of control circus out there and few answers to tell the people so lets go around the room shall we before the wheels fall off the apple cart?

Scene: The mayor's assistant is by a window pointing down.

Mayor's assistant: Too late.

Scene: The Mayor shakes his head and looks like he's having a conniption.

Mayor: Doctor Beckworth? What do we know about this "thing"?

Scene: Camera focuses on Beckworth.

Beckworth: We have no idea of the transmission vehicle if it is a virus. We don't have the incubation period but we do know that from the outset of noticeable symptoms to the last stage....it's as fast as 10 minutes. We were lucky to get only one blood sample to study because the EMT had the presence of mind to to stick his patient before he froze solid. We've only managed so far to give this condition a name....."Pompei-Taxdermus"

Mayor: Pom-wonderful-whatsis? What do you people do, write on slips of paper , toss them in the air and get the names from the sides the show face up? How about something simple like "Frozen Popsicle" or "statuary disease" or....

Chief Bogo: Mister Mayor?! May I remind you that these "Popsicles" as you call them are still alive with families who are right now very upset? I'm sure they would take offense to you calling their loved ones an icy treat.

Mayor: What are you doing Chief Bogo?

Chief Bogo: Currently I'm having my officers conduct a survey of ten victims to rule in or out any possible drug or material cause. It's standard procedure.

Author's note about Terrence Upperton: Terrence Upperton is a Coyote and the founder/CEO of "Hoof-a-Zon" the largest commercial business in Zootopia. He is voiced by Jeremy Irons. Terrence Upperton is designed to be detested, invite suspicion, breed mistrust.

Scene: The Mayor sees Terrence Upperton.

Mayor: And who are you Sir?

Terrence Upperton: Terrence Upperton....your honor.

Mayor: Terrence Upperton? The.....Terrence Upperton?

Terrence Upperton: Is that a concern?

Mayor: I didn't realize the CEO of "Hoof-a-Zon" was a Coyote?

Terrence Upperton: I see....what were you expecting....someone who chases small speedy birds, fires catapults haphazardly in the streets and drops anvils on people? I believe in not being overly out in public trying to earn public adoration mister Mayor, I find public fame chasing to be a little counter productive to successful business.

Mayor: Then why are you here?

Terrence Upperton: I stand ready to offer the vast abilities of my corporation in this time of crisis to face this threat to the population. I can offer Doctor Beckworth extensive lab facilities for testing and research and have the in-place and ready distribution system for quick dissemination of any serum or vaccine.

City Counsel member Vargas: (Great Horned Owl) This whole situation would benefit you greatly Mister Upperton.

Terrence Upperton: I see the false assumptions flow even into the center of wisdom of our fair city. You follow baseless stories madam. This situation not only threatens our city, it threatens my workers, my customers and the very existence of my company. Please don't follow all the myths and conspiracy minor birds to judge my character madam...that can prove more costly to you than me.

Scene: Upperton stands up and excuses himself.

Terrence Upperton: My offer is given to the city without any cost...in my good faith. Now please excuse me, I am pressed with other engagements.

Scene: Upperton leaves the room.

Mayor: (shivers) Now he just gave me the serious tail slaps. Doctor Beckworth? Should we take mister Upperton on his offer?

Beckworth: I have no reservations. We need all the help we can get.

Mayor: Anyone have any concerns or complaints at all?

City Counsel member Vargas: I urge care Mister Mayor. Upperton has been investigated for questionable business practices in the past.

Chief Bogo: Investigations and charges are two different things Counsel member Vargas. Mister Upperton has never been charged with any criminal acts to date. And unless you have clear probable cause? Don't ask my Department to unlawfully surveil any citizen.

Mayor: Right now the issue is this virus or whatever this thing is. We'll accept Mister Upperton's offer and for now we'll just have to rely on good old fashion country doctor know how for prevention purposes. We will also continue planning for the World's Fair. I'm not going to let this "bug" cage the city in fear. That's all for now ladies and gentlemen, keep me informed.

Scene: The Mayor walks out of the room and into the media push, among the reporters is Alex Boar of "Info-Warts" (Voiced by Joe Peschi) (A slap on Alex Jones and the conspiracy mongers who follow him)

Alex Boar: Say...Mister Mayor....I see Terrence Upperton was called to the meeting? Aren't you just a bit suspicious that he would show up?

Mayor: He's a citizen just like you Boar, are you concerned about what's happening or are you using this problem we're facing to further your own ratings and ego?

Alex Boar: Are you aware he's a member of a secret society?

Mayor: Are you aware that you're annoying?

Alex Boar: Mister Mayor. These are serious questions that need answering now!

Mayor: Let me warn you, you stubborn, tusk pushing buffoon. Mister Upperton in this city has the same rights as anyone else....like the right to sue your fat blubber for libel. I'd watch very much what you print right now Alex because it may come back to bit your fat butt off. Now good day.

Scene: The mayor walks off.

Alex Boar: Just like the typical elected official, side with the powerful to stomp over the common animal! The people have the right to the truth your honor!

Chief Bogo: "Enquiring minds want to know." how's your alien death ray weapon setting dumpster fire angle working there boar? Found any evidence yet?

Alex Boar: Why won't you investigate it Bogo!

Chief Bogo: Have, caught the weasel who was setting the fires, case closed.

Alex Boar: He's a patsy for the alien conspiracy! I have proof!

Chief Bogo: I wouldn't call dirty socks proof but if that's how you roll Boar? Go with it. Smarter animals have better places to put their brains.

Scene: Alex Boar looks totally perturbed

(fade to black)

End of Act 2