Calliope is my friend.
Emiko's your friend, too,
and she can't wake up
because the ogre is raising dragons
to poison the whole town and eat everybody.
It's always been about you, Simon.
Jared found most of these pages, though.
I can't do this without you, son.
(coughs)
-(choking) -I think this is terrifically ironic.
This is the same way I killed your wife.
Mulgarath killed her, and I let everyone down.
My mom, my dad, you.
I'm your friend, Jared.
Then prove me wrong.
I'm not letting any of you trick me again.
Jared, what did you do?
Lucinda's alive. I-I saw her.
VALENTINA: Only a pure human with pure intent
can wield the vorpal sword.
MALLORY: Why her?
Why not me?
(grunts)
Mom. Please let me come home.
You can't leave me here with this monster.
HELEN: This is for the best.
You were everyone, but you lied.
-You only ever rely... -...rely on yourself.
-Yourself. -Yourself.
-Yourself. -You tried so hard
to stop me from getting the field guide.
You failed, Jared.
-A spectacular failure. -(grunts)
(gasps)
HELEN:Jared was right
-this whole time. -(gasps)
I know that, in time,
you'll come to love me, too.
You have no idea how persuasive I can be.
(Muzak playing)
(scanner beeping)
This is ten whole cows worth of milk.
DORIAN: Well, Yalda,
I got this dragon I've been struggling to raise--
single dad and all--
and after decades of hunting, I finally
got my claws on the instruction manual.
Turns out, it just needs milk. Hmm.
Is this some kind of a TikTok prank?
We're gonna need some help out to the car.
I've been here all night and the morning shift
still hasn't shown.
DORIAN: It's a shame, but it's kind of my fault.
My dragon poisoned the water supply of Henson,
rendering everyone into an unbreakable sleep
so I can have my own deli counter.
YALDA: Okay, guy.
DORIAN: I am guessing that you drink
a lot of filtered water and kombucha.
Prebiotics for gut flora.
You know what else is good for gut flora? Mushrooms.
I put some microscopic spores
in that drink of yours.
You'll be feeling the effects shortly.
Get out of here. Run.
DORIAN:Oh, Helen, calm down.
I know they're not much to look at,
but they can do simple chores.
Dusting, polishing silver, mirepoix.
That's what, uh, sous chefs do
to prep the foundation of flavor for a meal.
Yeah, I know what a mirepoix is.
Of course you do.
You are refined.
So, will you eat us, too?
I'm not cooking you, Helen.
I'm cooking for you. (scoffs)
This is date night.
I know you think I'm this terrible ogre
bent on consuming a town
to feed my insatiable appetite, but...
I really believe we can make this work.
Come on.
("I Go to Sleep" by Peggy Lee playing)
■ ■
■When I look upfrom my pillow ■
■I dream you are there with me ■
■Though you are far away ■
■I know you'll always be near ■
■To me ■
■I go to sleep ■
■Sleep ■
■And imagine that you're there with me ■
■I go to sleep ■
■Sleep and imagine that you're there... ■
(doorknob jiggling)
■I look around me ■
■And feel you are ever so close... ■
(music stops)
(door rattling)
-Shh... -JARED: Thimbletack.
I thought you were afraid to leave the house?
Oh, I was, a-and I am.
But, when the going gets tough,
the tough steal a security card
to bust their friend out of the pokey. So, come on.
(snoring)
THIMBLETACK: Hide. Don't let them catch you.
(door slams closed)
-(door closes) -(buzzer sounds)
THIMBLETACK: Coast is clear. Hurry. This way.
THIMBLETACK: Psst. In here.
Thimbletack?
Thimbletack.
(inaudible)
-(muffled protests) -Shh, shh, shh, shh.
It's me. It's me.
(laughs)
Okay, listen.
The shroomers are sensitive to sound.
If they catch us, they will take us to Mulgarath.
(writing)
JARED: I have a bad feeling about this.
JARED: It's actually working.
(feedback squeals over P.A.)
("I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor playing over P.A.)
■At first I was afraid, I was petrified ■
■Kept thinking I could neverlive without you ■
■By my side ■
■But then I spentso many nights ■
■Thinking howyou did me wrong... ■
Lucinda?
Come on.
■And I learnedhow to get along ■
■And so you're back from outer space... ■
(panting)
I can't believe you guys came for me.
After everything I've done...
(sighs)
I'm sorry, Hatcher. I'm-I'm so, so sorry.
Thankfully, I look pretty dope with a bruise.
(chuckles)
You know, you saved us by playing that song.
It wasn't us.
SIMON: It was me.
Simon just pretended to betray us
so that he could learn Mulgarath's plan.
He has a cure for the sleeping sickness.
We took it. It works.
It's made from the dragon seed,
like a vaccine, but we need a ton more.
JARED: You still trust him, Mallory?
You are so obviously still helping your new daddy.
Look, all of the adults are shroom'd or asleep.
We avoided the spores, so now we are the only ones
that can wake up the town, save Mom, and slay Mulgarath.
Bree has the vorpal sword.
One thrust through that ogre's heart,
and we get our happily ever after.
But, Mallory, I thought you...
I'm not enough.
All right, look, this is impossible.
We can't win with just us and Simon.
Okay.
Look, I told you,
I told you we should've left him in Meskwaki.
Hey.
-Jared. -Jared.
Hey, you're going in the wrong direction.
The fight is that-a-way. (chuckles)
(sighs) Don't leave your family. They need you.
And you need them.
Jared! (grunts)
Jared!
Dinner will be promptly served at 6:00,
and I got you something appropriately...
piquant.
You will literally slay.
■ ■
DORIAN: Our dragon's about to hatch.
This must be what human children feel like on Christmas Eve.
It's a dragon,
not a Nintendo.
Well, we need this beast
to defend ourselves against the
elves, goblins and dwarves.
Our transgressions won't go unnoticed or unpunished.
That's also why we need to complete the field guide,
so we can have the advantage.
That's why I'm keeping it close by.
You still have Simon on a string.
We're all gonna be one big, happy family.
What's wrong with you?
You look...
gassy.
There's too much death coming.
There's no such thing.
Decomposition is good for you.
I already feel like the lactose-intolerant kid
devouring a dulce de leche ice cream cake
at Eva Alvarado-Astrowsky's quinceañera,
and no one has died yet.
You love it.
All creatures are ruled by their stomach.
(car horn honks)
Dinner's here.
They're Postmate-ing kids for dinner.
They have Emiko.
BREE: And Chris and Hind and Thalia.
He chose them just to mess with us.
We need to get to the dragon seed
and save our friends.
THIMBLETACK: Uh, duh-hickey.
That's why I brought him back.
Thimbletack and I have a plan.
-On it,mon capitaine. (laughs) -But...
You still don't trust me.
We were best friends.
I mean, we have a secret language.
How did we get here?
Because, Jared, you're gonna die.
Calliope saw a premonition.
That's why I thought it was safer for you back at Meskwaki.
Look, we had no clue what Mulgarath was planning.
All right, I used our fight to get closer to him and Calliope.
Yeah, well, you could've just told me.
No, it had to be convincing.
It's only convincing because it's true.
-What? -You hate me.
You hate me because I made you move here.
You hate me because you always have to be the good kid.
-Jared, stop. -You hate me, Simon, so just say it.
I hate you, Jared.
And I love you.
MALLORY: Okay, look,
time is running out. What is the plan?
(doorbell rings)
Well, I wondered
when you would return to us.
Well, you know, my, uh, Grandma Melvina
says it's good etiquette to bring a gift to dinner.
CALLIOPE: Wrapped in an iron bow?
DORIAN: Hmm.
Let's give the boy an open ear
and the benefit of the doubt, shall we?
I knew that Jared and the others would try to stop you,
so I stopped them.
Huh.
Our diet doesn't disgust you?
I used to have these mice,
Lemondrop and Jeffrey.
Um, when I first rescued them, they wouldn't eat anything.
MALLORY: Simon and Jared are distracting them. Come on.
SIMON: Not grass or berries or seeds.
I mean, even peanut butter.
Then one day,
I found them eating a millipede.
Lemondrop and Jefferey would only eat grasshoppers
and roaches and ants.
I didn't want to hurt these insects.
You can't help what you are.
You see, Jared's plan was for me
to distract you so that Hatcher could pretend to be asleep
and wake Emiko and the others.
And then Mallory would sneak in and steal the field guide
and lure you outside so Jared could save our mom.
-You traitor! -Hey, knock it off.
I knew you would do this.
Find them. Go.
(muffled screams)
(Dorian chuckles)
Are you okay?
It's a lot, putting a town to sleep,
controlling fungus people, raising a dragon,
making a béchamel that doesn't break.
It's-it's a lot.
Yeah, well, um...
I'd-I'd like to help.
Oh, hey, look,
a béchamel is a very delicate sauce.
No, I'm serious.
If we don't stop people like Tanner,
they'll pave everything.
CALLIOPE: Bold words.
Look...
There-there has to be space for everyone.
Okay? Dragons and ogres.
And fetches.
You're absolutely right, son.
I'm learning a lot from you.
After spending all of this time together...
...I finally figured out how I can help you, Jared.
Really?
You just need a father.
Someone who cares enough to stick around
and teach you some table manners.
Would you escort this young man upstairs?
Have him get ready for dinner.
HELEN: This is all my fault.
No, don't-don't say that.
No, you tried to warn me.
It sounded impossible.
Will you stop interrupting my apology with your forgiveness?
(sighs)
I never wanted to be like my mom, you know?
Practical and uptight.
-I wanted to be like Lucinda. -(lock clicks open)
Free and adventurous.
That's why I told you all those stories.
I thought they were just that.
You and Lucinda,
you told me to open my eyes, and I kept them shut
because I was scared of what this meant in the real world.
This is the real world.
(sighs)
I...
We're gonna get out of this,
but you're the only one who can save us.
(hissing)
You came to make enough antidote to cure the sleeping sickness.
Right?
I can't let these people die.
You've become a pretty good liar.
Everything is upside down.
Jared's become Simon, Simon's become Jared.
I need to change the end of his story.
I can't let my brother die.
This is a tragedy.
No one gets out of here without damage.
You're my friend. Please, help me stop Mulgarath.
A friend wouldn't ask me that.
A friend would know better.
No, no, I care about you.
I'm not a pet mouse that you can adopt.
A fetch is perilous. I feed on death.
That's why I'm the loneliest creature in the whole world.
I don't want anyone to suffer.
Not Jared, not you, not this dragon.
Dragons can't be tamed.
You saw Spiderwick's page.
They'll burn everything.
It would be infinitely worse than Mulgarath.
I don't want anyone to die.
But it's worth the risk.
You are worth the risk.
CALLIOPE:I want you to look at me.
To see who I really am.
I think you're beautiful.
Okay.
Want to stop Mulgarath?
We have to get this cure to everyone
and fast.
(dragon roars)
(knife chopping in kitchen)
He's gonna make us eat "Jennifer Miller
with the adult braces" chowder.
How are we supposed to get out of here?
We turn invisible.
I found Lucinda's manchineel tea recipe.
Thimbletack's making it now,
but it's-it's not complete yet.
A few drops. Thumb tucked.
Pinky out and then what?
You stir with your finger, but...
which direction did Lucinda say?
Is it, is it clockwise or counterclockwise?
Mom.
You have to remember.
One way we live,
but the other...
(knife chops)
How are we gonna get the antidote to everyone?
-Where are we going? -To finds the sprites.
(sighs) Guh. Sprites are awful. They won't help us.
They're like mean girls.
I mean, I'd talk to them, but my twin language
is only derivative of faery,
and you also said my accent sucks.
Okay, well, they don't do meaningful conversation.
Not with me.
Not everyone hates a fetch.
(drawer opens)
MALLORY: We need to find
my great-grandfather's field guide right now
to distract Mulgarath.
-(clatters) -(gasps)
Okay, there's too much stuff.
Maybe the field guide isn't in here.
No, no, this is the most secure room in the house.
It's where my great-grandpa put it. It has to be here.
This doesn't have to be your fight.
You don't have to die.
I lost my mom.
And now my dad and Hind and Thalia and Chris
might get eaten, or worse.
But, Mallory,
you are the first
and only person in this whole
stupid universe who understands me.
I... I can't lose you, too.
No, hey.
You and Valentina have just been trying to help me.
I know, I'm...
all head, no heart,
and I still want to be the hero,
but I... I'm inadequate.
I only said that to motivate you.
Well, it worked because...
it's true.
You're a brilliant warrior.
Damn right I am.
And that's why
my plan is going to work.
Because even if it puts me at risk,
I know that you will save me.
Damn right I will.
Okay, so...
Mulgarath hated Arthur Spiderwick.
He would've wanted to gloat,
rub it in, you know?
Bree.
Bree, help me with this.
There it is.
That's it.
-Yes, this is it. -It is. (chuckles)
THIMBLETACK: (clicks tongue) Hey.
What's that?
Thimbletack. He made the tea.
(drink pouring)
DORIAN: Isn't this civilized?
Beautiful company, exquisite food.
My people are on the hunt for Mallory.
Simon should be here shortly with Calliope.
I just can't wait.
HELEN: Is that blood?
That is a scallop crudo
with pomegranate reduction and mint.
And for the gentleman...
Is that pomegranate reduction?
That is an answer to a problem.
I have answers to all your problems.
(both laughing softly)
(yells, gasps)
Daddy. Daddy, stop! Stop.
Stop. You have to fight it.
(Tanner groans softly)
Dad, please. Dad, I know you're in there.
Fight those mushrooms!
-(classical music playing) -Looks like a mushroom.
You want to make him one of them?
Well, that is why you came here.
I came here for help.
You came here to end
Jared's abhorrent behavior.
You want to make me a puppet.
You're all puppets...
to your emotions.
(sighs)
I'm offering you a salve, Jared.
A better you.
You'll finish your homework on time,
pick up after yourself,
FaceTime Grandma on her birthday
without having to being asked to do it.
And happy. You'll beso happy.
MALLORY:Jared needs us.
-We need to go. -No, no, no. He's fighting it.
-Bree, come on. -Mulgarath is distracted. His...
His control is weakening.
(quietly): Daddy, please.
Please. I need you.
(yelling)
-(thudding) -If you want to save your dad,
we have to stick to the plan.
Come on, Bree!
DORIAN:This is what you both want.
This isn't what I want.
DORIAN: Helen, you're a librarian.
You loathe this modern world.
You long for dust jackets
and the aroma
of decaying pages.
Jared, did you know,
the Sumerians believed
that librarians ordained the universe?
HELEN: They believed
they could capture all knowledge through classification.
(Dorian sighs)
And that's what your grandfather wanted.
That's why he created the field guide.
And that's what you want, too, Helen.
Please. Allow me to be your guide
through the fantastical world around you.
-Mom, don't listen to him. -Jared,
I'm trying to put your mother on the pedestal
she so rightly deserves.
I just want to be able to go
to parent-teacher conferences in the fall.
You're not pragmatic like your monster of a mother.
(sighs) You're more like Lucinda.
Kind and curious.
That's why you loved her.
That's why I love you.
In all my travels, adventures, plans,
I never expected you.
(Dorian sighs)
I just want to give you everything that you deserve.
Is that so wrong?
Maybe I am broken.
The kid who's too angry.
Too wrong.
You-you always wanted me to be normal.
Maybe I did, too.
Maybe...
I want to be fixed.
Jared, no.
We are gonna be so happy... son, and
it beats the alternative.
Threats aren't exactly aphrodisiacs.
Hence, the scallops.
YOUNG LUCINDA:Little Miss.
Just a few drops.
Stir with the forefinger clockwise,
then counterclockwise. Drink.
Clockwise, counterclockwise. Drink.
YOUNG LUCINDA:Pinky all the way out.
I want to make a toast.
(Helen sighs)
To new adventures.
(dings)
DORIAN: Mmm.
-Oh! -Ooh.
What's wrong?
(Helen groans softly)
-(sighs) -DORIAN: What's happening?
-(glass breaking) -No, no, no, no, no, no!
DORIAN (growling): No!
JARED:Mom, it worked!
HELEN:I can barely see.
JARED:There's someone in the garden.
HELEN: Who is it? They're coming this way.
Lucinda?
I'm proud of you, Little Miss.
You remembered the recipe perfectly.
(Helen gasps)
We were trying to help save you.
(laughs softly) You've got it the wrong way around.
I've been here helping save you.
That was you in Meskwaki.
You helped me find the tea recipe.
There's little I can do in this form,
but... family never gives up.
I did.
I stopped believing in you.
I've been watching you all.
Mallory is one valiant knight.
And Simon is a caretaker and a healer.
Jared-- a brave explorer of the unknown.
A powerful trio.
Because of you.
You shared my stories with them.
You nurtured their sense of wonder.
You guarded their dreams.
I read what you wrote on my gravestone.
"She was loved...
and beloved."
(sniffles) Yes.
Beautiful way to be remembered.
Having someone believe in you
is the most powerful form of magic there is.
You look radiant.
One cannot visit the Faerie Queen
in a tattered smock from JCPenney.
(grunts) Luce?
Thimbletack?
Luce, you're... you're leaving?
Don't start grieving.
Why didn't I ever see you before?
Why did you hide from me?
I didn't want you stuck in the past.
Alone.
-I have to go. -(sniffles, cries)
I made a deal with the elves
to unbind me from the human spectrum
so that I might plead my case to the Seelie Court.
I have to find out what happened to my father.
Family never gives up.
Take care of each other.
Hmm?
Little Miss?
I believe in you.
(whooshing)
(distant bellowing)
Come on. Let's go.
(wind whistling)
Let's go.
DORIAN: Hey!
You're late for dinner.
One more step, and I'll destroy it.
Well... (sighs)
That almost sounded convincing, but I can hear you fibbing.
I have spent a lifetime being other people.
The trick to a good performance is motivation.
The words have to feel honest.
For example, if I say,
"I'm going to devour you raw
so I can watch the life drain out of your eyes,"
you believe me.
I'll give you another chance.
This time, from the diaphragm.
Come on!
-Try again. -"One more step, and you die."
(scoffs)
-(grunting) -(groaning)
(low growling)
-(Dorian grunts) -(Bree groans)
Bree?
I-I couldn'tnot think of my mother.
My thoughts weren't pure.
You're Valentina's best?
You stab me in the back?
(laughs)
I may be a murderer and a manipulator, but...
at least I have honor.
Your mother had honor.
You kind of look like her.
(Dorian inhales sharply)
And you're gonna die like her, too.
(groans, gasps)
-(Dorian groans) -(Mallory sighs)
I did it.
I actually did it.
What's purer than saving a life?
(growling) Ending one.
Bree, get out of here.
(low growling)
(both grunting)
Mallory needs our help!
To fight a monster, well,
we're gonna need a bigger monster.
There is a troll that lives under the Claire River Bridge.
The same nasty who ate Arthur Spiderwick's brother.
If we can summon it, it'll eat Mulgarath, too.
Can you bring the troll here?
What? No. No, no, no.
Only Simon can translate the faery language.
He was supposed to be back by now.
-(distant booming) -What was that sound?
It's the vorpal sword.
No, no, no. They're trying to kill Mulgarath. They won't.
(Dorian grunting, growling)
(grunting)
(low growling)
HELEN:There's not enough time.
I got to help your sister.
This. Jared,
you have to translate this page.
-I... -Jared, you can do it.
You can.
I know you can. I believe in you.
We need you.
CALLIOPE:No one's coming to help.
We can't win.
Calliope?
Look.
THIMBLETACK:Hey, buddy.
So, no pressure at all, but the future of everyone in Henson
and maybe the entire world is relying on you.
I'm working on it, all right?
I know this has some connection
to the twin language Simon and I made up.
(Jared repeats phrase in made-up language)
Bubblegum.
Bubblegum!
That's the word we used
from the Lorengorm story for "bubblegum."
"Dreidel-bear" means "tree sap."
So the troll page must be saying, uh, tree...
Tree what?
You're afraid of the vorpal sword.
(both grunting)
All I need is one thrust through the heart.
(pants) Me, too.
(groaning)
-(Dorian grunts) -(Mallory yells, pants)
(grunts, pants)
(growls)
(panting)
(groans, pants)
Sad.
(swords clink)
(footsteps booming)
(growling)
(groaning, yelling)
Iron is also good for gut health.
(groaning)
Come on!
Wind? Wind.
Trees, wind.
Wind through trees?
(wind whistling)
JARED:Wind through trees.
(yelling)
THIMBLETACK: That might be it!
Jare-bear, you're a genius!
Come on!
I figured it out. We have to make the sound
of wind going through trees to summon the troll.
We just have to get the right frequency. Come on, help me.
HELEN: Okay.
(whistling)
(all whistling)
Keep trying. As loud as you can.
(all whistling)
(whistling)
(slow clapping)
A valiant effort, but...
a failure, nonetheless.
I really wanted this to work out between us.
Helen, you'll always be in my heart.
And now, my stomach.
-Huh? -(growls)
(low growling)
(footsteps crunch through brush)
("Such Great Heights" by Joy Kills Sorrow plays)
■ ■
■I am thinking it's a sign ■
■That the frecklesin our eyes ■
■Are mirror images ■
■And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned... ■
(muffled groaning)
■Us into corresponding shapes ■
■Like puzzle pieces from the clay ■
■True, it may seem like a stretch ■
■But it's thoughts like this that catch ■
■My troubled head when you're away ■
■I am missing you to death ■
■When you are out there on the road ■
■For several weeks of shows ■
■And when you scan the radio ■
■I hope this song will guide you home ■
■They will see us waving from such great heights ■
■Come down now, they'll say... ■
(siren wails)
■They will see us waving from such great heights ■
■Come down now, they'll say ■
■But everything looks perfectfrom far away ■
■Come down now ■
■But we'll stay ■
■They will see us waving from such great heights ■
■Come down now ■
■Down now ■
■They will see us waving from such great heights ■
-■Come down now ■ -■ Come down now... ■
(loud rumbling)
(door creaks)
(chittering)
We have to kill it.
These creatures. Mulgarath.
Calliope. Dragons.
I've read enough to know that you can't save them.
We... They're unfixable,
no matter how hard you try.
Come on.
Do it now before it grows up and gets completely out of control.
(baby dragon chittering)
You're not a monster, Jared.
Then why'd we come here in the first place?
Hmm?
None of this would've happened to us...
if I wasn't...
If I wasn't me.
We made you feel like this.
Made you feel like you were less than.
We tried to change you. We played a part.
But Jared, you'll never be like everyone else.
That's your gift.
MALLORY: You're worthy.
See for yourself.
(whooshing, ringing)
(chittering)
THIMBLETACK: No, Jared!
Unclench your fist.
Release the past.
Embrace those near.
We've won at last.
Be a brownie. Don't be blue.
If I may do so, so may you.
JARED: That's it?
That's your brownie form?
Your eye just barely changed color.
Anger and ire are not our name.
Boggart, brownie are one and the same.
MALLORY: We've all done bad things.
It doesn't mean we can't be heroes, Jared.
(baby dragon chittering)
It's your choice.
(chittering)
(whooshing)
Here, Mallory.
(baby dragon chittering)
That's not me! That's not me!
What the hell is going on?
That's Mulgarath. That's why you didn't kill the dragon!
No, no, no. I'm me. He's lying.
Creatures can't lie, which means
I'm telling the truth. I'm Jared.
He's Mulgarath!
MALLORY: Use the seeing stone.
CALLIOPE: It's a shape-shifter. It's not a spell.
Mulgarath is too good.
We won't be able to tell them apart.
-Ask me anything. -No, no, no, no, no. He studied
all my files. He knows me as well as me.
Iron burns faeries,
and I'm perfectly fine.
Mallory?
Grace family motto-- don't be d-bags.
(Helen laughs)
(birds singing)
(gasps)
(panting)
You look like you could use a hand there, fella.
JARED:Arthur Spiderwick?
■Do you see it too? ■
■I don't know what to do ■
■Call me on the telephone ■
■Because I'm feeling all alone ■
■So where you wanna go? ■
■We can hit the road ■
■We canhit the road ■
■We'll find the sun out there ■
■No need to run out there ■
■Another fire, I'm not afraid ■
■To see new worlds come off the page ■
■I'm not a hero but I can see ■
■There's something specialin you and me ■
■There's something magic in the sky ■
■And no one gets it like you do ■
■There's something magic in your eyes ■
■And no one gets me like you do ■
■Ooh ■
■Ooh-ooh ■
■There's something magic in the sky ■
■There's something magic in your eyes ■
■There's something magic in the sky ■
■And no one gets it like you do ■
■There's something magic in your eyes ■
■And no one gets me like you do. ■
■ ■