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is hidden in the castle. That means

someone must have seen it... a

footfrog, a chamber mouse, a pigstool,

someone! Ask them all! Go!

The Tweedles go off. The Dormouse and White Rabbit remain.

THE DORMOUSE:

I don’t take orders from big clumsy,

galumphing...

Alice looms over her. She points imperiously.

ALICE:

Shoo!

Humiliated but outsized, the Dormouse stalks off. The White

Rabbit is still there.

ALICE:

What is it, McTwisp?

WHITE RABBIT:

I know where the Sword is.

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ALICE:

Why didn’t you say so?

WHITE RABBIT:

You’ll hit me again.

ALICE:

I won’t hit you!

60 EXT. THE STABLES - NIGHT 60

They stand in front of the stables.

WHITE RABBIT:

The Sword’s hidden inside.

Alice opens the door. They both react to the stench.

ALICE:

I know that smell.

She looks inside the stable.

ON THE BANDERSNATCH - HER POV - NIGHT

The Bandersnatch lays in his stall with his huge ugly head on

its paws. He moans. The socket with the missing eye oozes

blood.

Alice gasps and closes the door.

The White Rabbit ducks to avoid another hit.

ALICE:

I’m not going in there! Look what that

thing did to my arm.

She shows him the wound. It’s larger, very swollen. He gasps.

WHITE RABBIT:

Dear oh dear! Why haven’t you

mentioned this?

ALICE:

It wasn’t this bad before.

He twitches, breathing fast, flapping his paws and faints.

Alice looks back at the door, considering.

61 INT. QUEEN’S CASTLE - UPSTAIRS HALL - NIGHT 61

Alice sees Mallymkun studying a decorative sword on the wall.

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ALICE:

Mallymkun! Do you still have the

Bandersnatch eye?

THE DORMOUSE:

Right here.

She hikes up her maid’s skirt to reveal her breeches beneath.

The Bandersnatch eye is still at her waist.

ALICE:

I need it.

Alice tries to take it. The Dormouse swats her hand away.

THE DORMOUSE:

Get your own!

ALICE:

I need that eye, Mally.

Mallymkun draws her hatpin sword, brandishing it dangerously.

THE DORMOUSE:

Come and get it.

She’s much much smaller than Alice with a tiny weapon. Alice

laughs. Mallymkun realizes the absurdity.

THE DORMOUSE (CONT’D)

Right.

She tosses Alice the hatpin and takes the decorative sword

from the wall. She runs at Alice with the huge sword.

THE DORMOUSE:

AHHHHH!

Alice sidesteps her attack, then tentatively stabs at her

with the hatpin. The Tweedles arrive and coach Alice.

TWEEDLEDUM:

Thrusting now!

TWEEDLEDEE:

No, stabbing!

TWEEDLEDUM:

Thrusting like this!

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He pokes him. Dee pokes him back. They go at it as the

Dormouse and Alice fight. Alice steps...back...and back. They

pass the Queen’s dressing room.

62 INT. THE DRESSING ROOM - NIGHT 62

The Hatter tries hats on the Queen with aloof disdain. She

looks in her MIRRORS which are distorted to make her head

appear normal-sized. She preens. Hatter looks up to see Alice

losing in swordplay to the Dormouse. In a moment, the

battling Tweedles pass by as well.

63 INT. THE HALL - NIGHT 63

Mallymkun stands on a bureau with Alice up against the wall.

Alice ducks as the sword swishes over her head. Alice sees

her moment and slices the thin rope at Mally’s waist which

holds the eye. It drops into her hand.

ALICE:

Ha!

She runs with it. Mallymkun doesn’t give chase.

64 INT. THE DRESSING ROOM - NIGHT 64

Mallymkun shakes her head at the Hatter as if to say Alice is

a hopeless case.

65 INT. BANDERSNATCH STABLE - NIGHT 65

Alice approaches the Bandersnatch. He growls.

ALICE:

I have your eye.

She holds it up. Seeing his lost eye, the Bandersnatch

whines. Alice slowly lifts the bar to open the stall door

and eases inside.

66 INT. THE BANDERSNATCH STALL - NIGHT 66

She holds the eye up. He growls. She puts it on the ground

near him. He sniffs it, whines, and pulls it closer with his

paws.

While he’s distracted, Alice goes to the back of the stall.

She sees a chest covered by a tarp. She removes the tarp to

reveal an ornate metal chest secured with a large lock.

Disheartened and feverish, Alice slumps to the ground.

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She pulls her sleeve back to look at the swollen, infectedwound on her arm. She touches it, stifles a cry of pain.

She glances at the Bandersnatch, still busy with his eye.

Sweating and shivering, she pulls at the lock. But her

vision goes dim. She blinks, shaking her head. And the

world goes black.

67 INT. THE HALL - MORNING 67

BIG NOSE WOMAN and BIG BELLY MAN walk silently to the Queen’sdressing room. They fidget as if they’re very uncomfortable.

68 INT. QUEEN’S DRESSING ROOM - CONTINUOUS 68

Once inside, they smile, gasp and flatter.

BIG BELLY MAN:

You are stunning in that hat!

The Hatter takes it off and dumps a large brimmed hat on herthat covers half her face.

BIG NOSE WOMAN:

Your Majesty has never looked better.

Her NOSE falls off and lands on the Queen’s shoulder. The

Hatter picks it up curiously.

MAD HATTER:

It smells like you’ve droppedsomething.

*

The woman feels for her nose which is still there but normal

sized. She gasps, grabs the fake and turns away quickly.

The Hatter’s eyes narrow suspiciously. He can see strapsabove BIG BELLY MAN’S pants which hold his protruding bellyin place. The woman turns back with her long nosereattached. Hatter laughs out loud, not a mad laugh but withgenuine amusement. They look at him.

RED QUEEN:

Never mind him. He’s mad.

Lady Long-Ears rushes in and whispers into the Queen’s ear.

STAYNE!

RED QUEEN (CONT’D)

69 INT. BANDERSNATCH STABLES - DAY 69

Alice wakes up. The Bandersnatch looms over her. He’s

managed to shove the eye back into its socket. It stares

upwards uselessly.

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But he seems to feel better for having it back in place. She

notices a large key on a chain hung around his neck. The key

to the lock. She reaches for it. The Bandersnatch sniffs

her arm and the wound he inflicted. She winces but will not

be deterred. She pulls the key off.

The Bandersnatch gently licks the wound. His tongue is

soothing. She sighs and allows him to lick the wound clean.

She looks at it. Miraculously, the infection is gone and the

swelling is down. She moves it around. No pain. The

Bandersnatch looks at her, one eye askew.

ALICE:

I suppose you think this makes us even

now.

Alice fits the key into the lock on the chest and opens it.

She lifts the Vorpal Sword. It’s made of shining silver with

an ornate handle. She holds it up to the light. There are

runes engraved on the blade. She carries it out of the

stall, glancing back at the Bandersnatch before going out.

INT. RED QUEEN’S GREAT HALL - DAY 70

The Knave is on his knees before the Queen, talking fast.

KNAVE OF HEARTS:

Um forced herself on me. I told her

my heart belongs to you. But she’s

obsessed with me.

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