[Elle giggling]
-[Police 1] Where'd she go? -[Police 2] Come on! Don't lose her in the crowd.
[Police 1] Which way? She took my glasses.
[Police 2] This way.
[Police 1] Out of my way. Move it!
Have you seen a little girl running around here with my glasses?
Papa! Wait until you see what I stole.
[growls]
This is what you almost led the police to us for?
Two watches, only three lousy yuan, and glasses?
[laughs sarcastically]
Glasses?
Please, Vachel, you're scaring her.
[Elle cries]
[Vachel sighs]
[crying]
Oh, Elle, ma petite magpie...
Your scarf?
But Maman...
[Elle laughs joyfully]
[Margot laughing]
I want my little magpie to stay warm during her journey.
Wait... Journey?
What journey?
Your journey to find me... there.
You must find me, Elle, in America.
Maman? Maman!
-[Sam] Elle! -[Elle inhales]
[Sam] Gizmo's gone!
[tense music playing]
Again?
[theme music playing]
[Elle] Giz has been here for almost a year.
You'd think these Fritzes would have stopped by now.
Sam, you were on Gizmo watch.
I locked the doors.
How should I know he could break a window?
Because you know windows break.
It doesn't matter that Sam lost Gizmo.
We just need to catch Gizmo.
Shanghai does not need more Mogwai.
Or to learn what Mogwai are.
People think bad alcohol and mutant Komodo dragons
almost destroyed the city.
Like most people have ever fought a drunk Komodo dragon. Hmm!
Ah!
[sniffs] A fresh bite.
Heading north, I should be able to track his exact movements
if he dropped some scat.
[hesitates] A small taste is all I need.
Or we can just follow Gizmo's path of destruction.
Mmm. Not scat, but it works.
Good eyes.
Hmm...
[thuds]
Here we go. Let's wake him up.
Gizmo?
-[cat yowls] -[Sam yelps]
[cat snarls]
[gasps] Gizmo?
-[cat yowls] -[Sam grunts]
[Gizmo mumbles]
We need to grab him
and not wake him until we get him safely down from that tall ledge.
Be careful!
[both grunt]
Caca!
[Elle grunts]
[Sam grunts]
[pants with exhaustion]
[breath trembling]
[Hon] Watch!
[thuds]
Whoa!
[Grandpa yells]
Huh?
[all] Hey!
Uh, hey!
[thuds]
[groans]
[sniffs]
[Gizmo laughs cunningly]
Gizmo! Gizmo!
[Hon] I got him!
[Grandpa] Oh!
Stop him! It's past midnight!
Hold tight and don't scream.
[Sam screams]
[gasps]
Gizmo? Gizmo?
[whimpers]
Sam?
We're not mad, Gizmo. We're just concerned.
That you might be going bad.
Elle!
[whimpers]
It's just that it's been a year since we've saved Shanghai
and things have calmed down...
except for your sleepwalking problem.
At first it was only sleep-growling.
But now, sleep-you can't resist any temptation
-and you, um-- -Destroy everything you touch.
Mom!
Things have been destroyed.
Things? Our street lost indoor plumbing for a week because of him.
Plus, there's what he did to my shoes, my hat, my pants.
Did I do something to you?
Dad!
Gizmo, can you tell us what is going on with you?
No.
[sighs with frustration]
Hey, it's okay.
We still love you.
-Of course we do. -You're still our...
I'm trying not to take it personally.
Ooh, what if food is getting stuck in your teeth,
then swallowed after midnight, making you go slightly evil?
Maybe the answer is flossing!
Uh, Sam, our friend doesn't know what is bedeviling him.
Which leaves...
Which leaves it to us!
New plan.
We solve Gizmo's mystery.
[both] And I could be the muscle.
[Fong] Sam...
we've discussed this.
We discussed adventures.
This is an investigation.
Son, we know you're capable,
but let's leave the supernatural alone for a while.
After all, isn't it nice to be back to relative safety?
Gizmo fell off a building last night.
I said "relative."
Sam, I know you want to help Gizmo.
We do, too.
So let's find a way to help him here, together.
You'll still have plenty of time for adventures
later in your new 20-year,
50-step life plan that we came up with.
You'll be delivering medicine.
Some say that is the greatest adventure of all.
Well, I'm saying it.
[both sigh]
[door slams]
[both sigh sadly]
I can't believe you caved.
I did not cave. To cave is to give in to fear.
I acquiesced to logic.
[Gizmo] Eh, tomato, tomahto.
See, even Giz is calling you out.
[indistinct]
Mom and Dad are just worried.
Think about what we put them through last time.
Grandpa got turned into a pearl, they got kidnapped.
-You died. -For a minute.
That barely counts.
Besides, it's like Dad said, making deliveries is almost an adventure,
especially when it comes to making Mrs. Lu pay up.
Huh?
Ah, again?
Maybe I'll catch Mrs. Lu tomorrow.
I've seen you reading Grandpa's journal late at night.
You want an adventure as much as we do.
And we really do need to find out what's wrong with Giz.
[Sam] We can find out whatever is not right with Gizmo here in Shanghai.
Like, maybe we find him a sleep doctor,
and maybe they can figure out what's going on with you, too.
What do you mean? Nothing's--
I hear you shouting in your sleep.
[chuckles awkwardly]
-What did you hear? -Well--
I'm telling you monsters!
It was more of those mutant Komodo dragons that wrecked Shanghai.
[Sam] Think I understood it was Mom.
Hey, where are you going?
[sailor] Those monsters took our ship.
Some lives, a lot of limbs.
We did what we could,
but at least one escaped into San Francisco.
I thought it'd stop back on land,
but I still hear them laughing at me.
If more of those monsters are still on there,
I'm never going back to America.
[Grandpa laughs]
Bad Mogwai escaped to America.
We need to pack now, panic later and plan on the go
because there's only one thing to do.
-[Sam] We need to-- -[Elle] Go to San Francisco!
What? No.
Go tell Nuwa!
Nuwa?
Yeah, Nuwa is the safer choice.
She'll know exactly what to do.
Oh, really, Nuwa? In The Valley of Jade?
Only reachable by the Celestial Administrator
who lives hundreds of miles away and hates us.
All valid points.
But my parents will never let us go to America.
And it will take weeks to get there.
And how would we even stop them?
We'd trap them.
And we'd get to ride horses.
Why are we riding horses?
Uh, it's America, land of cowboys.
Everybody rides horses there.
[Grandpa chuckles]
Actually, I may know a faster way to Nuwa...
in the Old City.
But we're in the Old City.
No, no, no, no.
You're mistaken.
No, we're standing on top of it.
It's time to visit the Old City!
[laughing hysterically]
[sharp yell]
[hen clucks]
[Grandpa] After meeting Nuwa, I did some digging.
Turns out her Celestial Administrator
has portals to his Bagua room
all over the Middle Kingdom.
Your answer is a movie theater?
Child, [tsks] do not be so quick to judge.
Magic is all around us!
But, uh, magic does require a ticket,
and my pockets are a little light so...
Huh?
[Sam sighs]
[Grandpa] Chatter among treasure hunters says that our closest portal
is located here, below our "Old City"
-in what's truly the oldest part... -Shh!
...of Shanghai,
The Winter Garrison.
I hear Nuwa uses this spot to visit Shanghai...
[Gizmo] Oh!
...once a year for dumplings.
[all gasp]
[all sigh with disappointment]
Dead end.
A dead end is just the beginning for a treasure hunter.
Understand?
[thud]
[audience members gasp]
[thuds]
[audience cheers]
Oh. I feel like I'm breaking my "no adventure" promise to Mom and Dad.
No, this is educational, Grandson.
I'm teaching you...
[sputters]
[Grandpa grunts]
[Elle grunts]
[Sam thumping down stairs]
[Sam grunts]
[rat squeaks]
[tense music playing]
[whimpers fearfully]
Seems easy.
Maybe... too easy.
Uh, you could say that.
[all yelp]
[shrieks]
[wind blows]
But you could also say that the path through the Winter Garrison
is fraught with inconceivable danger
that could tear us from limb to limb.
We are now entering the lair of the fearsome... Ice Dragons.
Did you say... Ice Dragons?
They could be anywhere here.
Lurking in the cold, cold darkness.
-[Big Big] Hi! -[Grandpa cries out]
[Little Big] Over here!
Look at this.
We have guests!
Can you believe this?
Guests, come on, come on!
Get out of here. Let's have a look at you.
I haven't seen a human since...
Oh, my God. Where'd your tails go?
That new?
Are these deceased?
Don't be rude.
Excuse my brother.
He's Big Big.
I'm Little Big.
-And it's been years since we had guests! -Yeah.
-So exciting. -So long.
Please, have a seat. Have a seat.
Have a seat. Sit down, please.
-Talk to us. -Please, sit down.
I've heard all of his stories like ten thousand times.
[Big Big] It's true, our conversations are lacking.
Immortality is so boring!
So boring, kill me now.
Yeah, kill him now.
Children, these are dangerous creatures, not to be trusted.
Really? Compared to our usual dangers, they seem... friendly.
Ooh!
-Hey! -What's in the box?
It smells good.
I haven't had human cooking in a century.
Please tell me that's like xiaolongbao.
[both] Aiyah!
-Ha! Look at your face. -Look at your face.
-He got you good. -He got you, too.
-He got you. -You were so scared. You almost fell down.
-I wasn't scared like you. -You were so scared, your tail crawled into your butt.
I wasn't actually scared, no, man.
[sniffs]
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
It can't be.
Get back, Little Big brother.
-That is a Mogwai. -No!
-Yeah. -Why would you bring that here?
That thing is the most dangerous creature in all seven realms.
All right? I mean, just look at it.
It's got ferocious teeth.
Horrible claws.
It's got waxed-filled ears.
[Little Big] Oh, it's so scary looking.
Who? Gizmo?
He's a sweetie. And we clean his ears--
Uh, no. Don't lie to our new friends.
[gasps]
Gizmo is exactly as terrifying as you fear.
He'll be picking his teeth with your icy bones
unless you tell us what we want to know.
-[yells ferociously] -[both gasp]
I'll tell you everything.
I got juicy secrets.
Ice age? My fault.
Dinosaurs dying? That was me.
-[yells] -[laughs]
She's good.
The Mogwai demands passage for us to the Bagua room
and the Celestial Administrator.
-Oh! that's it? -[laughs]
Okay, just go straight through this door right through here.
-[Little Big] Yep. -[Big Big] Yeah, we'll even open it for you.
[Big Big] Just go in there and ask our little bro, Little Little,
to show you the way.
[Little Big] Yep. Right through the door.
Oh, and when you see him say "hi' for us.
He's a really cool guy.
You'll like him. You'll like him.
This is gonna be fun.
Hello? Little Little?
[Elle] Here Little Little.
[Gizmo calls out]
[loud snort]
[Sam] That's not little.
[roars]
[all] Ahhh!
[all screaming]
[Little Big] Forgot to warn you Little Little can be grumpy when he wakes up.
[laughs] Yeah, yeah. Might want to toss the boy to him as a tribute snack.
-[both laugh] -Whoo!
[rumbling]
An earthquake?
Coming from the Pagoda Theater?
[people shouting]
Where's my dad?
Come on. He couldn't cause an earthquake...
could he?
[Fong gasps]
There's the door.
Stay close!
[tense music playing]
[Gizmo laughs mischievously]
-Not now, Giz! -Stop please!
[Sam grunts]
[Gizmo taunting, laughing]
[Gizmo bites]
[cackling]
[blows raspberry]
[continues laughing, groaning]
[roars]
Sam! This way!
[Gizmo laughing]
Whoa!
[all groan]
We survived! Phew!
So now I get to ask, what is going on, Gizmo?
Is your situation getting worse,
or are my nerves just getting completely fried?
Oh!
[Celestial Administrator] No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Not you again.
Especially not before I eat my lunch.
My soup has no time for you.
We understand.
We'll wait while you eat,
and then you can take us to Nuwa.
Nuwa?
Absolutely not!
Nuwa gave me very specific instructions
not to bother her at all
for the first decade of her rest
in the Valley of Jade.
Not even to deliver dumplings!
But there are evil Mogwai in San Francisco.
And it's not our fault this time.
Evil Mogwai? In San Francisco?
San Fran caca.
Well, I can take care of that.
-[Sam] Thank you. -[Elle] Thought so.
[Celestial Administrator] I'll simply open up a portal from inside a volcano
over San Francisco and voila!
Lava floods in, evil Mogwai problem solved!
What about the rest of the city?
Melted away.
But trust me, with California's fault lines,
that city's on borrowed time anyway.
Okay, maybe we should have taken a ship to America.
Yeah, maybe.
Here's San Francisco, I think.
Hard to be certain through all this fog.
-Now for a volcano... -[both gasp]
[Grandpa] Children, new plan!
[thuds]
[roars]
You woke Little Little!
-[Gizmo shrieks] -You have to go now!
[Sam] Grandpa, aren't you coming with us?
No! I can never set foot in America again.
[Sam] "Again"? You've been to America?
Figures.
Ah, yes! Very picturesque! Now go.
Wait, how do we even stop them?
[yelps]
Just believe in yourself!
You'll figure it out!
Bye!
[grunts]
Back, you vile beast!
Again?
Seriously?
[Little Big and Big Big exclaim]
Nobody even died?
[tense music playing]
[people screaming]
Whoa!
Where... is... Sam?
Surprise!
Sam got accepted to a medical study abroad, uh, program.
Yes. [chuckles nervously]
Okay, so I pushed him, the girl, and the Mogwai
through a magic portal to San Francisco.
[grunts]
Then we're going after them.
[Grandpa chuckles] Ow!
[Elle groaning]
-[Sam gasps] Gizmo? -[Gizmo] I'm fine.
[both exhale with relief]
Where are we?
Elle... is this America?
[metal clangs]
Oh hi! We're lost. Very lost.
Can you tell us where we are?
Sure thing! Welcome to Alcatraz.
[theme music playing]