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Hmm!

- (FELICIE GRUNTS)

- (ODETTE GASPS)

- Start again.

- She fell! She's eliminated!

Start again!

(MUSIC CONTINUES)

(GRUNTS)

(CAMILLE AND REGINE LAUGH)

You remember our deal?

(WHIMPERS)

Camille,

you will have the honour

of dancing Clara

in 'The Nutcracker'.

(BOTH LAUGH)

(SOBS)

(CRIES)

Did you think it would end here,

little rat?

No! Let me go! No!

Oh, no!

Please! Please!

Odette! No!

Odette!

Felicie!

You will never see her again.

And, of course, you're sacked.

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

(SEAGULLS SQUAWK)

Stop! (GRUMBLES)

Where is Felicie?

FELICIE:
Ahem!

I'm here.

Oh! Well, uh, good.

(CHILDREN LAUGH)

(BELL TOLLS)

- She's lost her spirit.

- Tut-tut-tut!

Pull yourself together,

you big fool!

(CHICKEN CLUCKS)

I know. I miss him too.

(CHILDREN SNORE)

- (BIRDS CHIRP)

- (BABY GIGGLES)

(UPLIFTING MUSIC)

(GIGGLES)

('SUITCASE' BY SIA)

SONG:
Have you told me all?

I've got things to say

Hey, I'm talking to ya

We got things to do

We got plans to make

And I wanna

take ya with me

Yeah, I wanna

take ya with me...

(LAUGHS)

But a far-off gaze

is wide in me

Can you feel it?

And if you can't tell

I'm a restless girl

What are you hearing?

Pack it all away

Pack it all in one suitcase

I got all I need,

all I need to be free

Pack it all away

Pack it all in one suitcase

I got all I need,

all I need to be free

Pack it all away

Pack it all in one suitcase

I got all I need,

all I need

I'm flying

Pack it all away

Pack it all in one suitcase

I got all I need,

all I need to be free

Pack it all away

Pack it all in one suitcase

I got all I need, all I need

I'm flying...

(CRICKETS CHIRP)

(GRUMBLES)

OK, I was escaping,

but it's stupid,

and you caught me.

So, a big sorry to you,

and I'll just go back to the dorm.

- This way, quick!

- Huh?

- (CHUCKLES)

- Whoo! Whoo-hoo!

(STIRRING MUSIC)

- Whoo!

- (HORN HONKS)

(BIRDS CHIRP)

(TYRES SCREECH)

(DOG BARKS)

Thank you!

(CHUCKLES)

(GRUNTS)

(CHUCKLES)

Go now.

(SIGHS)

- Let me help you.

- (GASPS)

You need me. I can clean.

'Squeaky Clean'

is my middle name.

In fact, I need you.

I wanna stay with you.

I'm so sorry!

I really missed you!

(CHUCKLES) Me too.

Come on.

Merante has given me

a room in the attic.

There's a little corner for you.

Work starts at 6:00am.

One hour for lunch.

6:
00am?

I promise, he is not here.

Do you know

when he's coming back? Please!

Well, actually...

- Ow!

- (OBJECTS CLATTER)

Nope! I don't know that.

So...

Will you please

tell him that I'm sorry?

I've been unkind and foolish

and silly and stupid.

- And rude.

- And rude.

Tell Victor that

he's my best friend ever.

Oh!

Uh...

That's my other hand.

- I have three hands, actually.

- (SIGHS)

- (SIGHS)

- (MUSIC BOX PLAYS GENTLE TUNE)

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

Goodbye, then.

'Bye, Victor.

That wasn't him.

He is not here.

ODETTE:
Victor has worked

a miracle! Who'd have thought?

He just has the look

of a total nitwit.

He doesn't wanna

speak to me ever again.

- He will.

- MERANTE:
No, no, no!

- Here we go!

- Stop! As cold as lard!

Miss Le Haut,

you perform tonight

and so far, we have no emotion!

But I'm doing exactly

the steps you told me.

It's not enough to do the steps.

Find some anger or some pain

or some love,

but find something!

She lacks this.

Tonight will make that clear.

OK, I'm going to do

the stairs in the lobby.

- You can finish here.

- OK.

(SIGHS)

(CAMILLE GRUNTS)

Leave it. Give it back.

(CHUCKLES) Silly me!

I didn't throw it hard enough

the first time.

Don't make the same mistake.

Why are you leaving?

Scared of being humiliated?

Looks like you need

more training.

You are nowhere near ready.

I'm going to show you

what a real dancer looks like.

- Are you sure about that?

- Quiet!

Tonight these seats

will be full.

Paris will be looking at me,

adoring me!

- Or not.

- I already told you!

You are nothing.

You will always be nothing!

Only one way to find out.

Right here, right now.

('CONFIDENT' BY DEMI LOVATO)

SONG:
It's time for me

to take it

- I'm the boss right now...

- Hmm!

Not gonna fake it

Not when you go down

'Cause this is my game

And you better come to play

I used to hold my freak back

Now I'm letting go

I make my own choice...

- Oh, my God! BATTLE!

- (STUDENTS CHEER)

So, leave the lights on

No, you can't make me behave

So, you say I'm complicated

That I must be out of my mind

But you had me underrated

Rated, rated

Oh, oh, oh

- What's wrong with being...

- (CAMILLE CHUCKLES)

What's wrong with being

What's wrong with

being confident?

- (GROWLS)

- What's wrong with being

What's wrong with

being confident?

(CROWD EXCLAIMS)

(PANTS)

(WHISPERS) You can do it!

(DETERMINED MUSIC)

(CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS)

(PANTS)

(CROWD GASPS)

(GRUNTS)

(CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS)

Impressive, ladies.

But let me ask you both

an important question.

Why do you dance?

I dance because...

I dance because... because...

..my mother makes me.

Because it's always been

a part of my life.

It was there with my mom

when I was a baby,

and it's here now,

thanks to Odette.

It allows me to live,

to be myself.

She should dance.

That was very honest,

Miss Le Haut, and brave.

You have a future at the Opera,

if you wish it.

Felicie, tonight,

YOU dance 'The Nutcracker'.

(CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS)

Great job.

Well done, my sweetness!

OK. Bravo, bravo.

- Oh, bravo!

- Yes! Yes!

Voil!

- I call them Pigeon Wings!

- Wow! Great!

But I'm not sure

I want to test them.

Live dangerously, Matty!

I promise you they will

almost certainly work.

- (DOOR CREAKS)

- MATTY:
Oh!

- (GASPS)

- This is nice!

Matty, can you give us

some privacy?

- When?

- Matty, privacy!

Oh, now. OK!

I'm dancing tonight

at the Opera.

- I want you to be there.

- Really?

Really.

I like you, Felicie.

You make me laugh and cry

at the same time.

- (GROANS)

- You're a weirdo!

Tut-tut-tut!

- You cannot help him.

- (GASPS)

First you deceive my daughter.

- Then you take her identity!

- Mom, stop!

Now you try and take

our honour and our future?

- (ROARS)

- CAMILLE:
Mother!

REGINE:
Do you think you can

turn my daughter against me

and get away with it?

Ah! No-one cheats me!

Mother! You scared her! Stop!

(DANCERS LAUGH)

(SIGHS)

The last time she was this late,

it did not end well.

(WHIMPERS)

(GRUNTS)

Aaah!

(GRUNTS)

- (GRUNTS)

- (SCREAMS)

VICTOR:
Hey, it's Matty

and his twin sister!

What happened?

There's a big, scary lady

chasing your girl up the statue,

trying to kill her.

- What?

- And, also, I wet myself.

- (VICTOR GROANS)

- Come on! Quickly! Save her!

Matty, the Pigeon Wings!

(FRANTIC MUSIC)

- (ROARS)

- (WHIMPERS)

(GRUNTS AND SQUEALS)

(VICTOR MOANS)

(SCREAMS)

This is the only crown

you will touch today,

victim of a terrible accident

on the night of your debut.

You will have something

to share with Odette.

Both of you used to be dancers.

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