Neve Campbell: Kiara

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

Kiara

[Kiara and Kovu are stargazing]
Kovu: I've never done this before.
Kiara: Really? My father and I used to do this all the time. He says all the Great Kings of the Past are up there.
[chuckles]
Kovu: Do you think Scar's up there?
[shocked, Kiara doesn't answer; realising what he just said, Kovu gets up and sits a short distance away; Kiara watches him sadly]
Kovu: He wasn't my father, but he was still... part of me.
Kiara: [approaches Kovu] My father has said there was a... a darkness... in Scar that he couldn't escape.
Kovu: [ashamed] Maybe there's a darkness in me too.
[Kiara nuzzles him]

[Kovu pounces, only to realize Timon is there]
Timon: AHHH! Don't eat me, please! I... I never really met your tyrant, I mean, uh, Scar! Scar, oh heck of a guy. A little moody, but...
Kiara: Timon, what are you doing here?
Timon: Kiara! Thank goodness! Oh. Hey, for once, we're not following you. This just happens to be the best smorgasbord in the Pride Lands! Bugs everywhere! But, you don't call for a reservation and... yeesh!

Kovu: [points out their reflections in a puddle having merged together] Hey, look... we are one.
Kiara: What?
Kovu: Let's get outta here. We'll run away together! And start a pride... all our own.
Kiara: Kovu... we have to go back.
Kovu: You're kidding. But we're finally together!
Kiara: Our place is with our pride. If we run away, they'll be divided forever.

Kiara: [about letting Kovu return to the Pride Lands] Father, please reconsider.
Simba: You will not go anywhere without an escort from now on.
Kiara: No! That's not...
Simba: He used you to get to me!
Kiara: No! He loves me, for *me*!
Simba: Because you are *my* daughter! You will not leave Pride Rock. You will stay where I can keep an eye on you, away from him!
Kiara: You don't know him!
Simba: I know he's following in Scar's pawprints!
[hangs his head]
Simba: And I must follow in my father's.
Kiara: You will *never* be Mufasa!
[Simba is horrified; Kiara runs into the den, crying]

[Kiara and Kovu are stargazing]
Kiara: That one looks like a cute bunny. See the fluffy tail?
Kovu: Yeah. Hey! That one looks like two lions killing each other for a scrap of meat! Ah, I've never done this before!

Simba: Kiara?
Zira: Kovu! Move.
Simba: Stand aside.
Kiara: Daddy, this has to stop.
Zira: You're even weaker than I thought. Get out of the way!
Kovu: You'll never hurt Kiara *or* Simba! Not while I'm here.
[Zira snarls]
Simba: Stay out of this.
Kiara: A wise king once told me, "We are one." I didn't understand him then. Now I do.
Simba: But... they...
Kiara: Them? Us? Look at them! They *are* us. What differences do you see?

Kiara: Hey. Thanks for saving me today.
Kovu: What kind of hunter are you anyway, princess? You almost got yourself killed out there.
Kiara: What?
Kovu: You wouldn't last three days on your own.
Kiara: Oh, and I suppose *you* could teach me?
Kovu: Yeah.
Simba: Kiara!
Kiara: Coming!
[stalls Kovu]
Kiara: All right, impress me. We start at dawn.
[goes inside]
Kovu: I look forward to it.

Timon: [Timon and Pumbaa scream as the antelope were running past them] This must be where the deer and the antelope play.
[they both scream again but towards Kiara]
Kiara: Timon, what are you doing here?
Timon: Shopping! We thought a nice pelt for the den, some throw pillows, a little potpourri...
Kiara: My father sent you. After he promised to let me do this on my own. He lied!
Timon: No. He just doesn't want you to get hurt.
Kiara: I should have known he'd never give me a real chance. I'll do this on my own, *away* from the Pride Lands.
[she runs further away from Timon and Pumbaa]
Timon: Hey! Wait! Come back!
Pumbaa: Come back here! Kiara!
[they chase after Kiara]
Timon: Kiara, come back! She's gone again. Somebody's gotta get a beeper for this kid.

Kiara: [Alternate Scene]
[Zira is clinging onto the rock for her life when Kiara reaches out her paw to help]
Kiara: Zira, give me your paw!
Zira: [after looking down at the flood below, Zira grins disturbingly at Kiara and whispers vehemently] . No! Never!
[Lets go of the rock and falls into the swollen valley below]
Zira: .

Kiara: Father, how could you break your promise?
Simba: It's a good thing I did. I almost lost you. No more hunts for you, not ever.
Kiara: But I was doing just fine. Even before Kovu...
Simba: Kovu?

Timon: Hey! Wait! I have an Idea.
[he jumps off of Pumbaa]
Timon: What if he helps?
Pumbaa: What?
Timon: [to Kovu] You wanna lend a voice? Huh? Grr... gr... Roar! Work with me!
Kovu: Huh?
Kiara: Like this.
[she rawrs. The birds were scattered]
Timon: Wooo hoo! Come on, do it again! Do it again!
Timon: [Kovu rawrs making the birds scatter even more] Yee-haa!