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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 5

(Fade in from black)

Scene Location: ZPD 1st Precinct HQ Time: Morning

Scene: The streets of downtown are less populated due to the ongoing crisis. We see images from various parts and background sound of the morning news. We then see Raham, Tin Tin, Bertolt, Sunny and Rick walking into the building together. Sunny is looking at his cell phone where the Mayor is speaking about the upcoming Animal Kingdom Fair being headlined by a gazelle concert on opening day and that he is determined not to cancel it; assuring the population that the dilligent work being done by the Police and Medical experts will bring a swift and soon ending to the crisis.

Sunny: Can you believe this guy? He still wants to hold the fair!

Tin Tin: We shouldn't just roll over so easily to this. I refuse to live in a cage in my own city. They can go ahead and blow anthrax up my butt, I took the subway here today, I will take the subway here tomorrow, I will stay in my city, I will go down with my ship! I'm telling you there are bastards behind this...bastards! Well screw them! I refuse to surrender! If they think they can scare me into a damn pet carrier, I will not be moved! They can have me when I'm stiff and even then I will wave my bushy butt gloriously in defiance!

Scene: Everyone looks at the melodramatic wolf and laughs at him.

Tin Tin: Hey! I'm being serious here!

Rick: You should have finished with a glorious howl.

Raham: Bert? Did you see Frisky off at the train station?

Bertold: His train doesn't leave for another hour. I couldn't see him off because of work.

Sunny: We would have covered for you buddy?

Bertold: Seeing him off would only have been harder on him. He was so upset this morning when I dropped him off. It was hard getting through the station this morning too with all the protocols in place to try and guard against this thing getting out of the city into the Burroughs. Did anything come from the meeting last night?

Tin Tin: They think it has something to do with Canopian Paste but we have to follow procedures to order recalls and positively confirm that's the problem.

Scene: The group walks up to the reception desk where Benjamin Clawhouser is eating his morning donuts and reviewing the previous night's blotter sheets...

Clawhauser: Morning guys! Hey? Steel? (Tin Tin) I heard your name being called in vain from the Chief's office? I don't know what about but he's put some very bad words around it.

Tin Tin: I should get up there before the Chief comes out screaming. I'll see you guys in the Goat Locker.

Scene: As Tin Tin runs off. Bertolt hops up on Clawhouser's counter.

Bertolt: Benny? Me and Frisky had a long talk this morning and...we're getting married. We want you to be our best cat.

Scene: Clawhauser gasps and puts his paws to his mouth.

Clawhauser: You're serious?

Bertolt: I wouldn't be asking you to be our best cat if it wasn't.

Scene: Clawhouser picks up Bertolt and spins him around.

Clawhauser: This is AWESOME! Oh....oh you have to let me make the preparations! Please? You two don't lift a silly paw, let me handle all the leg work? Oh...I've been waiting for this for like ever!

Bertolt: Alright. Alight. Don't pee yourself.

Clawhouser: I am so happy for you two!

Scene: Suddenly a door slam from the second floor gets everyone's attention and Chief Bogo comes out in a rage and right away he fingers Tin Tin as he's walking towards Bogo's office.

Bogo: YOU! GET YOUR WOLF BUTT IN HERE RIGHT NOW SO I CAN CHEW IT OFF! NOW MISTER!

Clawhouser: Oh........I better get the tools ready. Looks like he's going to throw the door off the balcony he is so angry.

Scene Shift

Scene Location: Bogo's office.

Scene: Bogo turns on his television and Alex Boar's morning program blares out that Canobian Paste is the culprit for all the afflictions and that it's maker Terrence Upperton is responsible. Boar is raging in classic Alex Jones bravado of an interleukin corporate conspiracy.

Bogo: I want your damn badge right now Steel. You will be held on charges of violating department protocols, compromising an official investigation and causing incitement to aid and abet city wide chaos. Give me your badge mister... NOW!

Tin Tin: What?! Chief! I'd never do such a thing I swear! I might listen to the guy but I'd never compromise the department! Why are you fingering me?!

Bogo: Unfortunately for you. There are some people at INFO WARTS who don't share a loyalty not to expose their sources. You called their night desk and blabbed about the Canobian Paste! So now you add to your charges by lying to your superiors? GIVE ME YOUR BADGE NOW! I'M PLACING YOU UNDER ARREST STEEL!

Scene: We see Tin Tin about to take off his badge when Judy Hopps walks into the office with Nick behind her.

Judy: Don't take that badge off Tin Tin....not yet.

Bogo: You had better have a good explanation for barging into my office like this Hopps.

Judy: I do Sir. Preventing you from making a very egregious mistake. The Canobian paste is not the problem.

Bogo: Oh? And by what means did you deduce this fact Miss Hopps?

Nick: She's quite the small brain stormer....I mean....big brain stormer....I mean....well she is small but her brain....

Bogo: Wilde? Zip your yap? Go ahead Miss Hopps? Why shouldn't I pull Officer Steel's badge and follow department protocol for him destroying our investigation and lying to my face? You better be on target with this or you'll join him.

Judy: Because Officer Wilde just out of the blue last night convinced me that we're in the midst of a very complex hustle. After all before he became a police officer, officer Wilde was the best hustler and con artist in the city and the way he framed all of this? The Canobian paste is only a facet of a complex hustle.

Nick: Actually? You should fire officer Steel sir....you disgrace to the force. You dirty criminal....

Scene: Nick pulls Tin Tin's badge off.

Tin Tin: Nick! What the hell are you doing? I'm innocent!

Nick: Because that's exactly what the hustlers want to see. Not only should you fire him Chief? You should run him through the ringer with all the bells and whistles of a degrading perp walk.

Tin Tin: I don't know what you're getting at Nick but I'm not doing anything to degrade myself! No!

Nick: Calm down Tin-eeee boy. I have everything planned out. We're going to give the hustlers what they want except....you'll still be on the force...only....we're going to turn you from a beautiful white arctic wolf? Into a sweet and lovable, yet much feared....German Shepherd. Your replacement from precinct three.

Tin Tin: What?! Oh no....no! You are NOT going to turn me into a degrading house pet! A dog! I refuse! If you touch me, I'll bite!

Quick scene shift

Scene: We see that Tin Tin has gone from a white arctic wolf to being done up like a German Shepherd. He's being finished up as video of him being taken through the station in an orange jump suit like a perp walk is flashed over ZNN.

Tin Tin: I hear all Dogs go to Heaven....but I'm in hell. Oh....if my mother sees this? She'll disown me! I'll be kicked out of the Fraternal Order of the Howl! My Wolf Club cards will get shredded! Uh....I am.....in hell.

Nick: Stop crying. At least you're not in a cell right now. Awwww....you look so noble and heroic. Give me a bark big fellow.

Tin Tin: Woof woof and screw you.....you little....

Nick: Perfect!

Judy: Now your new name and rank is Corporal Rinty. We thought about Rin Tin Tin but that's way to suspicious.

Tin Tin: Why don't you just get real insulting and call me "Spot" or "Rover"?

Nick: It's only temporary big boy until we expose these hustlers....chin up.

Scene: Tin Tin snaps his jaws, almost snatching Nick's hand.

Tin Tin: Oops....I kinda slipped. I swear you little bushy tailed bastard, you will owe me big time for this degradation...I promise you.

Bogo: Come on...let's introduce you to our adoring public "Rinty boy".

Scene: Clawhouser comes into Chief Bogo's office.

Clawhouser: Chief? I just got a call from Paw-a-Zon. Terrence Upperton wants to hit back at Info Warts with a press conference at the Paw-a-Zon campus and he's asking for some police protection.

Bogo: Hopps? Short notice so you and Wilde go quickly and collect Delgato, Fangmeyer, Grizzoli and McHorn and head over to Paw-a-zon.

Judy: Yes Chief!

Bogo: In the meanwhile...I will call the Mayor and Doctor Beckworth and give them a primer on your theory.

Scene Shift

Paw-a-Zon Campus, Downtown Zootopia Time: Mid morning

Scene: We see a podium from above, an angry crowd with protest signs, officers Fangmeyer, Grizzoli and McHorn in front of the podium. Judy and Nick behind to the left and right. As Terence Upperton comes walking up to the podium the camera flies down to be in front of him.

Upperton: Ladies and Gentlemen...I have always shown considerable courtesy and patience...please afford me the same kindness.

Animal 1: The only kindness for you is jail you dirt bag!

Animal 2: You murderer!

Animal 3: Who are you plotting with you mange ridden coyote filth! Who's paying you money to kill all of us huh!

Upperton: If you would be quiet and allow me to explain what we have found out because of the tireless efforts of Doctor Bechworth and his staff...We found nothing in the Canobian Paste which is causing this affliction....

Animal 4: YOU DAMNED LIAR!

Scene: A bottle gets thrown.

Upperton: PLEASE! I BEG YOU ALL TO LISTEN!

Scene: More stuff gets thrown, now Fangmeyer, Grizzoli and McHorn have to pull their batons.

McHorn: Hopps! Get him out of here! We can't control this situation. This was a bad idea from the start!

Scene: As Judy and Nick run for Upperton. A shot is fired from the crowd and strikes him in the chest!

McHorn: GUN!

Scene: The crowd of animals scatters as McHorn charges in and about destroys the young gun toating Cheetah with a football tackle.

McHorn: Officer McHorn! Shots fired at the Paw-a-Zon campus, send medical aid and extra officers....NOW! Shooter in custody, I need a cruiser to get him out of here!

Scene: Judy and Nick tend to the fallen Upperton.

Judy: Sir? Sir? Hang on....hang on....

Nick: He wasn't wearing a vest. Why didn't you wear a vest?!

Scene: Nick looks at Judy and turns his head away. Upperton's not going to make it.

Upperton: Punishment for my sin....I should have known....I knew he would think of such a thing but when this started....I should have said something....my coat pocket....It will give you some help....

Scene: Upperton dies in Judy's arms as nick pulls a small note book from the coat pocket.

(Scene fade out)

(Scene fade in)

Scene Location: ZTA...Zootopia Transit Authority Master Control Time: Mid morning

Scene: ZTA Master Control handles all the Bus and Train routes in and out of Zootopia and into the outer boroughs. Bunnies handle all the administration. The boss of Master Control is "Big Gene" (voiced by former NASA mission control boss Gene Kranz) He's always chewing on carrot sticks and has an over-sized coffee cup. The whole control set-up looks like the old Apollo mission control center. The beginning background music sort of sets the serious professional tone of the place as the camera moves around the room sweeping past various bunnies at work in their monitoring stations. The camera finally stops in front of Big Gene who's sucking coffee from a huge mug that says...."My big feet and ur the ant"

Bunny controller 1: Gene?

Scene: Gene lowers his cup and walks over to where a controller is sitting at his console.

Gene: Yeah?

Bunny controller 1: Our first run to Bunnyburrough just passed mile marker 30 and it's slowing down.

Gene: When's the next turn requiring a slow down?

Bunny controller 1: Not until marker 45 and this isn't a gradual slowdown.

Scene: The controller points to the rapidly falling speed indicator.

Gene: Call them.

Scene: The controller picks up a phone receiver and pushes a few buttons.

Bunny controller 1: Long Hopper One, Control.

Bunny controller 1: Long Hopper One, Control.

Bunny controller 1: Long Hopper One, Control.

Bunny controller 1: They're not answering Gene. The speeds still dropping.

Gene: Send a ping to the cars. Have a passenger or crewman pick up a red phone.

Scene: The controller presses a button which sends a message through each car asking a passenger or crew member to call back to Control on a red phone. The Controller tries a few cycles.

Bunny controller 1: No response.

Gene: Still dropping?

Bunny controller 1: Dropping faster now. The brakes just engaged.

Scene: Gene walks back to his desk and picks up a red receiver.

Gene: ZPD headquarters. This is Boss Gene at ZTA. Our morning speed liner to Bunnyburrough is stopping without orders and we can't get a reply to any calls from the cars. It's now at mile marker 33. I'm declaring an emergency...requesting a tactical response.

Scene Shift

Scene Location: ZPD HQ 1st Precinct

Scene: Clawhouser gets the call from Gene and the information about the train involved comes up on his computer screen.

Clawhouser: Gotcha....on the way!

Scene: Clawhouser reaches for his alarm switchboard and flicks the one marked "Train" on it.

Clawhouser: Now hear this! Now hear this! Pilots to their loaches! Pilots to their loaches! We have a possible incident with the morning speed liner to Bunnyburrough. Mile marker 33. Train is stopped on the tracks, no response from the crew of passengers. SWAT to the helicopters at once!

Start background Music: "Rescue" from "Delta Force"

Scene: We see flying squirrels running onto a rooftop helicopter pad to a pair of small "Loach" helicopters known as little birds.

Camio: Rocky the flying squirrel from Rocky and Bullwinkle

Scene: Rocky jumps into his Loach and starts throwing switches to get the helicopter going.

Rocky: Hydraulic pressure up! Fuel pumps up! Starter on! Engine up!

Scene: We see the Loach helicopters turning up as the SWAT team comes running up to the roof through a door. They jump in with Ajax, Raham and Sunny strapping themselves to the landing skids because of their size.

Ajax: Go!

Scene: The Loaches lift off. We see them leave the ZPD from the front quarter view one helicopter after another.

Scene: Sunny peaks in to look at Tin Tin all done up like a German Shepherd.

Sunny: Oh you look so cute. Would you like a cookie?

Scene: Tin Tin pulls out a tactical knife.

Tin Tin: Would you like to follow us on foot?

Scene: In the other loach, Rick and Bertolt sit side by side.

Rick: Is this Frisky's train?

Scene: Bertolt gives Rick a worried look.

Rick: Keep in the game ok? You won't help him if you fall apart.

Scene: Bertolt takes a deep breath, closes his eyes and brings his assault rifle to his face.

Ajax: Alright...here's the go down. The morning speed liner has fifteen cars. We'll drop Rick and Bertolt on the roof to sweep the windows and check the passengers and the crew. Myself and Raham will check the control cab and be ready to assault through the front. Sunny and Tin Tin be ready to pop the rear door and assault the cars from the back on my orders. If this is the "thing" no one does anything until I say....do you understand? Bert? Do you understand?

Bert: Clear.

Scene: Rick assures Bertolt with a tight shoulder hug.

Ajax: Alright....here we go!

Scene: The Loach helicopters dive down. We watch them drop to hair close to the earth as the camera rolls from being above and ahead of them to being behind on the right quarter looking forwards and level with their sides.

Raham: I'm so glad you squirrels are so good at this!

Rocky: Like pulling rabbits out of hats...except every now and then you get Tigers.

Scene: The Loach helicopters pull up over a train tunnel, over the trees and before them is the stopped Speed Liner.

Ajax: Ready set!

Scene: We see Bertolt and Rick slip out and one after the other hook themselves and their rappel lines to rings on the Loach body.

Scene: The Loach flies over the train and Bartolt and Rick drop off the skids, fast fall rappel to the train's roof and un-clip themselves on a run. It then drops Ajax and Raham at the front of the train where they slide on the ground to a stop and point their rifles as they advance on the control cab. We then see the other Loach drop Sunny and Tin Tin where they run up to the back of the train. Sunny pops open the emergency door opening control and snatches the "D Ring"

Sunny: Set!

Scene: Raham does the same with the door at the front of the train.

Raham: Set!

End background Music: "Rescue" from "Delta Force"

Ajax: Bert? Rick? Give me a sit-rep....what are you seeing up there? Anything through the sky transoms?

Scene: Bertolt and Rick carefully peak through one of the sky transoms.

Rick: They're.....they're all.....

Start Background Music: Wave of Sorrow: The Untouchables

Scene: Bertolt panics and starts to run the length of the train looking through transoms.

Rick: Bert! Bert! Don't panic!

Scene: Bert looks through one transom and sees Frisco laying on a side long seat in one of the cars. He finds a place to clip his rappel line, jumps off the roof and smacks his feet against the side glass of one of the windows. He looks in to see Frisco curled up in a ball with his eyes wide open. As Rick jumps from the roof, we see Bertolt pull a spring loaded punch from his gear bag. He's about to shatter the glass when Rick snatches his wrist and pulls his hand back.

Rick: NO! BERT! NO!

Bertolt: LEAVE ME ALONE! I HAVE TO GET TO HIM! FRISCO!

Rick: STOP! DAMN IT STOP WE'RE TOO LATE!

Scene: Bertolt is fighting and kicking at the window until Rick is forced to pop his claws out....

Rick: DAMN IT BERT, DON'T MAKE ME STICK YOU! STOP IT!

Scene: Bertolt slowly stops trying to struggle. Rick hugs him tightly.

Rick: Damn it......we're too late.....we're too late Bert....

Scene: Bertolt is wiping his paws over the glass and sobbing...until he sees Frisco's eyes bat.

Bertolt: What? What the?

Scene: Frisco bats his eyes again.

Bertolt: Oh.....oh my god.....

Scene: Frisco's mouth moves slightly

Bertolt: He's ok? He's ok....he's ok.....he's ok.....he's ok....

Scene: Bertolt bangs furiously on the glass.

Bertolt: That's it.....he's crying.....HE'S CRYING! HE'S ALRIGHT! He's scared to death but he's alright! Shhhhhhh....shhh.....shhh.....I'm here....I'm right here.

Ajax: Rick? What have you got?

Rick: We got Frisco in one of the cars. He's scared a "pile of rabbit pellets" but he looks alright. Question is? How do we get him out of there?

Bertolt: Screw out, I want in!

Rick: It doesn't make any sense? How the hell is he not a stiff right now? Wait? Does he use Canobian Paste?

Bertolt: Off an on. He used to play High School baseball and football a lot and picked up chronic Bursitus.

Scene: Frisco sits up and tries to get up.

Rick: Tell him to stay put?

Bertolt: (hand gestures) stay put!

Frisco: (Hand gestures) I'm scared. Get me out of here?

Bertolt: (Hand gestures) No! You're safer where you are...stay there! I love you.

Frisco: (Hand Gestures) I love you.

Scene: Rick is looking around the car and notices spilled plates and cups on the floor.

Rick: (To Bertolt) Ask Frisco if he ate anything.

Bertolt: (Hand gestures) Have you eaten?

Frisco: (Hand Gestures) No. To upset to eat.

Rick: You....gotta be kidding me.

Scene: Rick radios Ajax.

Rick: Captain! I think we got a serious breakthrough here! (to Bertolt) Ask him? What was everyone having for the complimentary breakfast?

Bertolt: (Hand gestures) What was everyone else eating?

Frisco: (Hand Gestures) Pie.

Bertolt: (to Rick) Pie.

Scene Shift

Scene Location: ZPD HQ 1st Precinct, Medical Lab, The Speed Liner

Scene: In the Investigations conference room we see Judy, Nick, Chief Bogo, and Detective Roxy Swissgar reviewing the notes that the late Terrence Upperton wrote prior to his death. As they look over all their evidence we hear Upperton (Jeremy Irons) describing his relationship with one of his first business partner, a hyena named Pempton Bell. The scene will shift to and from flashbacks between Upperton and Pempton's life, the ZPD HQ, Doctor Beckworth and his staff trying to find an answer to Bertolt busting the window on the train car and throwing Frisco a protective suit and then jumping on him with a gas mask on and hugging him as they cry while the SWAT team moves through the train and Rick gathers up pieces of pie and throws them into a bag.

Voice of Terrence Upperton: I first met Pempton in College during our chemistry and biology majors class. He was extremely bright, far brighter than many Hyenas I came to know. He didn't fit the common irresponsible comedic and violent tag so attached to his species. Back then we were both young and driven to use our respective talents to achieve great things but one day....Pempton showed me an idea he'd been working on which had terrifying military purposes, a way to combine seemingly benign and innocent naturally growing bacteria into a deadly biological contagion by manipulating their genetic structures. He claimed that if successful, we could be as rich as avarice would gift us. I protested him bitterly and one day we had a violent flight. He stormed out and I never saw him again. Though we had been torn by anger, I never thought Pempton would follow through on his weaponizing of bacteria. To my shame and sin...I continued in denial even as the first reports of the affliction hit the news. I simply didn't want to believe any of it but by then...it had become a horrible reality too late for me to stop. Thus today....if I loose my life, it will be justice to all those who have suffered for my own stupid silence.

End Background Music: Wave of Sorrow: The Untouchables

Scene Shift

Scene Location: ZPD HQ 1st Precinct. Time: Early afternoon

Scene: Ajax drops the bag full of pie on a table.

Ajax: There's the culprit. Everyone on the Speed Liner ate that pie for breakfast except Bertolt's boy friend. He refused it even after the steward told him over and over that he should try the pie everyone else ate. And guess what? That steward?.....no place. When the train got slow enough? He beat feet and "poof"

Judy: Backs up what Upperton wrote in this notebook...at least by a string for now.

Tin Tin: Everyone owes me a damn apology.

Judy: Here's a dog biscuit Tralphaz.

Bogo: So you claim this? This is what's causing all the hell we're going through?

Nick: Yup....this pie and the Canobian Paste. Frisco uses the paste for joint inflammation and yet? Nothing. And in some way? Every other animal in that train car has been in contact with the paste but nothing happened till they bit into this pie. Our test cases on the board? Bet you they all had that pie...which is why the victims have been so widely sparse and dispersed.

Roxy Swissgar: Ok smart fox. If you're right? Explain the casino?

Scene: Nick snatches a picture off the board.

Nick: Free sample table....

Scene: Nick drops the picture like a microphone.

Nick: Ahhhhhhh....boom! But to further sooth the unconvinced?

Scene: Nick opens the door and lets in Doctor Bechworth.

Nick: That bowl over there doc.

Scene: Doctor Beckworth pours blood into the bowl.

Nick: Now....one spoon of Canobian Paste.

Scene: Nick drops a spoon of the paste into the blood then puts on a glove, snatches a handful of pie stuff.

Nick: Add the pie stuff.

Scene: The bowl starts to smoke, there's a violent frothy reaction, then nothing. Nick grabs the bowl, drops it on the floor and it shatters leaving a bowl shaped solidified mass of blood on the floor.

Nick: Kaaaaaaaaa.....double boom!

Scene: Bogo and other officers surround the solid form of blood.

Bogo: What's the ingredient in the pie?

Beckworth: Rappleberries. Both the berries and the paste contain two different biological cultures that when they combine? They violently react to form a bacterial virus...which is not supposed to happen under any natural condition if someone didn't tamper with the genetic structure of a bacteria. It would seem the Rappleberries are the altered biology.

Bogo: And what about the Kangeroo Mother? What's keeping her from fully falling to the virus? How was it her joey was fine and then he ended up a stiff?

Beckworth: We fed him a rappleberry pie as a dessert. His mother however? She's pregnant, her T cells are surging like crazy. We're working now on an antidote and we think if we inject her with enough to crush the virus? She'll return to normal.

Ajax: Another thing Chief? You know who makes those Rappleberry pies? Gideon Gray.

Tin Tin: Are you daring to say Gideon Gray would be in on this?! That's a pile of bull turd captain! Gideon Gray doesn't have a drop of criminal blood in his body! What you're suggesting to me amounts to damn heresy!

Note: Remember that Tin Tin now looks like a German Shepherd

Judy: Tin Tin! Sit!

Scene: Tin Tin sits.

Judy: Roll over?

Scene: Tin Tin rolls over.

Judy: Play dead?

Scene: Tin Tin plays dead

Judy: Speak?

Scene: Tin Tin speaks

Judy: Good boy

Scene: Judy throws Tin Tin a dog cookie.

Tin Tin: HEY! WAIT A MINUTE!

Bogo: Every option must be explored. I want two officers to meet with Gray. For now? And I'm looking at you Steel! For now? No one says a damn thing about anything we have so far. I want information on this Pempton Bell. We'll move on him when I say the time is right for it.

Judy: Chief? Gideon Gray is a family friend. He'll feel easier opening up to me than anyone else...please?....let me meet with him?

Nick: I have a better idea Carrots. We're going to hustle, hustle and reverse hustle mister hyena. Chief? You willing to have your brain scrambled over this latest idea?

Bogo: You're luck I've been patient this far. What's on your little scheming fox mind now Wilde?

(Scene fade to black)

End of act 5