Isle of Dogs Page #6

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She was due a week ago.

(WHISPERING)

(CLEARS THROAT) Anyway,

the survivors of the disaster

learned to cultiv...

What's he got there?

What's he got there?

Biscuit-o. Biscuit-o.

Biscuit-o.

Puppy-Snaps. (CHUCKLES)

I heard they don't even

make them anymore.

You heard the rumor, right?

About Kobayashi

Pharmaceutical.

I never heard it.

What rumor?

They invented Dog-Flu.

- No.

- Of course.

That makes sense.

Where do you get

all these rumors?

I mean,

who tells them to you?

I don't know. Anybody.

Dogs talk, and I listen.

Always have.

I, uh, love gossip.

GONDO:
Spots!

The black owl has a message.

(PANTING)

(HOOTING)

He's come from all the way

across the island.

Get him a cup

of sewer-water, Chico.

(CONTINUES HOOTING)

SPOTS:
Mmm-hmm.

Mmm-hmm.

Yes. We understand.

He has news from the

Metropolitan Dumping-Grounds.

ALL:
Metropolitan...

Shh! Quiet, please.

We're listening, owl.

Tell us your message.

(DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE)

He's going to poison us.

Re-election Night:

at the moment Mayor Kobayashi

is re-inaugurated,

he'll give the order,

and the extermination-process

will begin.

Oracle saw the plan

in her visions.

(MAYOR KOBAYASHI

SPEAKING JAPANESE ON TV)

NELSON:

If the voters choose me again

on Re-Election Night,

I promise:

a final and permanent end

to the Canine

Saturation-crisis.

JUPITER:
Every pet in the

Trash Island Camp will die.

It may be too late, already;

but, if the black owl

reaches you

with this message in time:

Go to Megasaki City.

Find our masters.

Appeal to the people.

Stop the mayor.

Save us.

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

the river tonight.

Begin preparations

immediately.

You'll meet a b*tch

named Nutmeg.

Tell her Chief says:

I'll see you in Megasaki.

(OWL HOOTS)

(DRUMMING)

(BOTH GRUNTING)

(DRUMMING CONTINUES)

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

(DRUMMING STOPS)

Hmm.

Beautiful night.

Peppermint's in labor.

Oh.

Come sit beside me.

It's okay. (SIGHS)

Master Atari, are you willing

to accept my brother Chief

as new bodyguard-dog

in personal service to you,

former ward

to the mayoral-household?

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

Chief, are you willing

to accept

Atari as your direct master,

to serve and protect

his safety and welfare

with all courage, loyalty

and friendship?

I can do that.

Good.

(DEVICE BEEPS)

(WHINING)

(CHIEF WHISTLING)

(ALL WHISTLING)

(MUSIC PLAYING)

Chocolate milk, cold.

Tracy Walker, Megasaki

Senior High, Daily-Manifesto.

Are you Professor Watanabe's

former Assistant-Scientist,

Yoko-ono-san?

Do I have it?

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

Do I have it?

Too late.

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

(OBJECTS CLATTERING)

Do I have it?

Do I have the story?

Yes or no? On the record!

I am sorry for your loss,

but we both know:

that was no suicide!

I need to prove

my conspiracy-theory!

Ben is dead.

No future on Trash Island.

I am failure.

(GLASS SHATTERS)

Pull yourself together

and act like a scientist!

Professor Watanabe

never gave up.

Is this... Is this the serum?

The Dog-Flu cure?

The Snout-fever treatment?

The end of the Canine

Saturation-crisis?

Last dose.

Tracy:

be careful.

NARRATOR:
Part Four:

"Atari's Lantern."

TRACY:
Not fair!

ALL:
To dogs!

TRACY:
Not fair!

ALL:
To dogs!

TRACY:
Not fair!

ALL:
To dogs!

(KOBAYASHI SPEAKING JAPANESE)

There will never be a place

for Dog-Flu in Megasaki City.

There will never be room

for Snout-fever

in Uni Prefecture.

The time has come to put

the violent, intimidating,

unsanitary bad-dogs

of Trash Island

humanely to sleep.

For their own good;

and also:
ours.

General Yamatachi?

Bring out the replacement-pet.

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

The results are in!

Stand by for the incoming

Re-Election Night tally!

(ANNOUNCER SPEAKING JAPANESE)

(AUDIENCE CHEERING ON TV)

TRACY:
That crook!

He's stealing

the re-election again!

Let's go!

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

(KOBAYASHI SPEAKING JAPANESE)

This landslide re-election

is a massive fraud,

and we demand a re-count!

The mayor is allowing

the unauthorized

Pro-Dog student-protestors

a platform to voice

their dissenting beliefs!

Mayor Kobayashi

has dog's-blood

on his hands! You all do!

Atari was a hero.

Professor Watanabe

was murdered.

The serum works!

The mayor is a crook,

and I hate him.

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

This small minority

of dog-lovers

has been sent by overseas

special-interest groups

to agitate disorder

and incite anarchy.

I hereby cancel and nullify

Foreign-exchange

student Walker's

senior high school study-visa.

She will be expelled

from class,

stripped of

her course-credits,

and formally deported

on the next direct-flight

back to Cincinnati, Ohio.

Oh. Hmm.

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

Mayor Kobayashi

has directed Major-Domo

to bring him the red button.

(BEEPING)

Nutmeg!

(CHIEF SNEEZES)

(ALL GASP)

(SNEEZES)

(GASPS)

(INHALES DEEPLY)

Holy smokes!

My lungs feel clear.

My equilibrium feels balanced.

My vision is sharp as a tack

for the first time in months.

Wow, that's a great serum!

Master Atari, whose death,

I think we can say,

appears to have been

inaccurately reported,

has asked to read a statement

to the General Assembly.

He will then withdraw

from the debate

and respond

to no further questions.

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

Dear Editor-Hiroshi

of the Megasaki Senior High

Daily-Manifesto:

in a series

of first-rate articles

by an attractive cub-reporter

on your staff,

you shine a spot-light

on the great injustice

that has occurred

under the Kobayashi

Administration.

I have spent much of my time

in recent weeks

traveling in the company

of the very kind of animals

our mayor refers to

as "bad-dogs."

They are the finest

living-beings

I have ever come to know

in all my dozen years

on this earth.

To your readers,

the good people of Megasaki,

I say:
the cycle of life

always hangs

in a delicate balance.

Who are we,

and who do we want to be?

(CONTINUES SPEAKING JAPANESE)

to try to express my feelings

about the suffering dogs

of Trash Island.

It is also about nature, love,

friendship, eternity,

and a black owl.

I call it:
Atari's Lantern.

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

(GASPS)

He said a haiku.

(SOBBING) I'll tell you later.

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

I dedicate this poem

to my distant-uncle,

Mayor Kobayashi,

who took me in

when I myself was a stray-dog

with nowhere else to turn.

Editor-Hiroshi,

please extend my subscription

for an additional year.

I enclose a check in the

amount of one thousand yen.

Signed, Atari Kobayashi,

former ward

to the mayoral-household.

(GRUNTS) Hmm.

(GROWLS)

(WHISTLING)

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

NELSON:

Not-fair-to-the-boy.

Not-fair-to-the-dog.

He says:
"I-have-no-honor."

(GROWLS)

Hmm?

(AUDIENCE GASP)

NELSON:

Holy Moses!

The mayor

has just officially

unstamped

the Trash Island Decree!

No kidding!

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

(BOTH ARGUING IN JAPANESE)

(STAMMERING) Major-Domo

is accusing the mayor

of breaking

his campaign promise!

He's steaming mad!

(SHOUTING IN JAPANESE)

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