Bee Movie Page #10

Adam:
But you can't! We have a terrific case.

Montgomery:
Where is your proof? Where is the evidence? Show me the smoking gun!

Barry:
(Barry flies in through the door) Hold it, Your Honor! You want a smoking gun? Here is your smoking gun.

(Vanessa walks in holding a bee smoker. She sets it down on the Judge's podium)

Judge Bumbleton:
What is that?

Barry:
It's a bee smoker!

Montgomery:
(Picks up smoker) What, this? This harmless little contraption? This couldn't hurt a fly, let alone a bee.

(Montgomery accidentally fires it at the bees in the crowd and they faint and cough)(Dozens of reporters start taking pictures of the suffering bees)

Barry:
Look at what has happened to bees who have never been asked, "Smoking or non?" Is this what nature intended for us? To be forcibly addicted to smoke machines and man-made wooden slat work camps? Living out our lives as honey slaves to the white man?

(Barry points to the honey industry owners. One of them is an African American so he awkwardly separates himself from the others)

Lawyer:
What are we gonna do? He's playing the species card.

Barry:
Ladies and gentlemen, please, free these bees!

Adam and Vanessa: Free the bees! Free the bees!

Bees in the jury: Free the bees!

Human Jury:
Free the bees! Free the bees!

Judge Bumbleton:
The court finds in favor of the bees!

Barry:
Vanessa, we won!

Vanessa:
I knew you could do it! High-five!

(Vanessa hits Barry hard because her hand is too big)

Vanessa:
Sorry.

Barry:
(Overjoyed) I'm OK! You know what this means? All the honey will finally belong to the bees. Now we won't have to work so hard all the time.

Montgomery:
This is an unholy perversion of the balance of nature, Benson. You'll regret this.

(Montgomery leaves and Barry goes outside the courtroom. Several reporters start asking Barry questions)

Reporter #1:
Barry, how much honey is out there?

Barry:
All right. One at a time.

Reporter #2:
Barry, who are you wearing?

Barry:
My sweater is Ralph Lauren, and I have no pants.

(Barry flies outside with the paparazzi and Adam and Vanessa stay back)

Adam:
(To Vanessa) What if Montgomery's right?

Vanessa:
What do you mean?

Adam:
We've been living the bee way a long time, 27 million years.

(Flash forward in time and Barry is talking to a man)

Business Man:
Congratulations on your victory. What will you demand as a settlement?

Barry:
First, we'll demand a complete shutdown of all bee work camps.

(As Barry is talking we see a montage of men putting "closed" tape over the work camps and freeing the bees in the crappy apartments)

Barry:
Then we want back the honey that was ours to begin with, every last drop.

(Men in suits are pushing all the honey of the aisle and into carts)

Barry:
We demand an end to the glorification of the bear as anything more

(We see a statue of a bear-shaped honey container being pulled down by bees)

Barry:
than a filthy, smelly, bad-breath stink machine. We're all aware of what they do in the woods.

(We see Winnie the Pooh sharing his honey with Piglet in the cross-hairs of a high-tech sniper rifle)

Barry:
(Looking through binoculars) Wait for my signal. Take him out.

(Winnie gets hit by a tranquilizer dart and dramatically falls off the log he was standing on, his tongue hanging out. Piglet looks at Pooh in fear and the Sniper takes the honey.)

Sniper:
He'll have nausea for a few hours, then he'll be fine.

(Flash forward in time)

Barry:
And we will no longer tolerate bee-negative nicknames...

(Mr. Sting is sitting at home until he is taken out of his house by the men in suits)

Sting:
But it's just a prance-about stage name!

Barry:
...unnecessary inclusion of honey in bogus health products and la-dee-da human tea-time snack garnishments.

(An old lady is mixing honey into her tea but suddenly men in suits smash her face down on the table and take the honey)

Old Lady:
Can't breathe.

(A honey truck pulls up to Barry's hive)

Worker:
Bring it in, boys! Hold it right there! Good. Tap it.

(Tons of honey is being pumped into the hive's storage)

Bee Worker #1:
(Honey overflows from the cup) Mr. Buzzwell, we just passed three cups, and there's gallons more coming! I think we need to shut down!

Bee Worker #2:
Shut down? We've never shut down. Shut down honey production!

Dean:
Stop making honey!

(The bees all leave their stations. Two bees run into a room and they put the keys into a machine)

Dean:
Turn your key, sir!

(Two worker bees dramatically turn their keys, which opens the button which they press, shutting down the honey-making machines. This is the first time this has ever happened)

Bee:
...What do we do now?

(Flash forward in time and a Bee is about to jump into a pool full of honey)

Bee:
Cannonball!

(The bee gets stuck in the honey and we get a short montage of Bees leaving work)

(We see the Pollen Jocks flying but one of them gets a call on his antenna)

Lou Lu Duva:
(Through "phone") We're shutting honey production! Mission abort.

Pollen Jock #1:
Aborting pollination and nectar detail. Returning to base.

(The Pollen Jocks fly back to the hive)

(We get a time lapse of Central Park slowly wilting away as the bees all relax)

Barry:
Adam, you wouldn't believe how much honey was out there.

Adam:
Oh, yeah?

Barry:
What's going on? Where is everybody?

(The entire street is deserted)

Barry:
Are they out celebrating?

Adam:
They're home. They don't know what to do. Laying out, sleeping in. I heard your Uncle Carl was on his way to San Antonio with a cricket.

Barry:
At least we got our honey back.

Adam:
Sometimes I think, so what if humans liked our honey? Who wouldn't? It's the greatest thing in the world! I was excited to be part of making it. This was my new desk. This was my new job. I wanted to do it really well. And now...Now I can't.

(Flash forward in time and Barry is talking to Vanessa)

Barry:
I don't understand why they're not happy. I thought their lives would be better! They're doing nothing. It's amazing. Honey really changes people.

Vanessa:
You don't have any idea what's going on, do you?

Barry:
What did you want to show me?

(Vanessa takes Barry to the rooftop where they first had coffee and points to her store)

Vanessa:
This.

(Points at her flowers. They are all grey and wilting)

Barry:
What happened here?

Vanessa:
That is not the half of it.

(Small flash forward in time and Vanessa and Barry are on the roof of her store and she points to Central Park)

(We see that Central Park is no longer green and colorful, rather it is grey, brown, and dead-like. It is very depressing to look at)

Barry:
Oh, no. Oh, my. They're all wilting.

Vanessa:
Doesn't look very good, does it?

Barry:
No.

Vanessa:
And whose fault do you think that is?

Barry:
You know, I'm gonna guess bees.

Vanessa:
(Staring at Barry) Bees?

Barry:
Specifically, me. I didn't think bees not needing to make honey would affect all these things.

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