- Rapunzel: Are you all right?
- Stefan: I am now.
- [they gaze happily into each other's eyes; Wilhelm approaches]
- King Wilhelm: Rapunzel?
- Rapunzel: [turns in surprise] Father?
- [Wilhelm holds out his right hand; Rapunzel approaches; they hold hands]
- King Wilhelm: I thought you were gone forever.
- Rapunzel: All those years, I thought I was alone.
- King Wilhelm: Your mother and I have *never* stopped thinking about you. Our love is as constant...
- Rapunzel, King Wilhelm: As the stars above.
- [Frederick approaches; Wilhelm turns to face him]
- King Wilhelm: I don't know where to begin, Frederick. I've wronged you all these years.
- King Frederick: I'm glad that Rapunzel is safe.
- King Wilhelm: Hmm. I hope, someday, you can find it in your heart to forgive me.
- [Frederick turns to Stefan and extends his right hand out to Wilhelm; Wilhelm approaches and they shake hands]
- Stefan: I've been thinking, Father, about my birthday.
- King Frederick: Yes?
- Stefan: I would like permission to invite King Wilhelm.
- King Frederick: What? Are you mad?
- Stefan: Maybe, but lately, I've been thinking. This feud has gone on as long as I can remember. Families have been separated, brother from brother.
- King Frederick: Stefan, King Wilhelm is our sworn enemy.
- Stefan: And it will always be that way unless we try to change it. Someone has to make the first move to forgive.
- King Frederick: No! Impossible! When you're older, you'll understand.
- [Stefan sadly watches as Frederick marches angrily away]
- Gothel: So, again, we meet at a ball.
- King Wilhelm: Gothel, is that you? What are you doing here?
- Gothel: I came to clean up some loose ends.
- Stefan: You know her? Who *is* she?
- King Wilhelm: I knew her once, long ago. We were friends!
- Gothel: Friends? *Friends*? You loved me! I know you did!
- King Wilhelm: No, Gothel. I never loved you.
- Gothel: And for that, you will pay once again!
- [Gothel blasts Wilhelm, knocking him to the floor]
- King Wilhelm: [sits up] "Pay again"? What are you talking about?
- [stands up]
- Gothel: Let me ask you, Frederick. You hate this man. Why?
- King Frederick: He attacks my kingdom without cause!
- King Wilhelm: You stole my daughter!
- King Frederick: No! For the *thousandth* time, I never stole her!
- Gothel: No. *I* did.
- King Wilhelm: What?
- Gothel: She would have been *my* daughter if you had married me. I simply took what was mine.
- [smiles evilly]
- King Wilhelm: *You* took Rapunzel?
- [furiously]
- King Wilhelm: Where *is* she, Gothel? *Tell* me, you *monster*!
- Gothel: What does it matter?
- [blasts Wilhelm again; Wilhelm flies across the room screaming and lands on his back]
- Gothel: You'll never see her again! Ha, ha, ha, ha!
- King Wilhelm: [sits up sadly] My beautiful little girl.
- [Stefan and Frederick help Wilhelm to his feet]
- Stefan: [whispering] I've seen her.
- King Wilhelm: Where? When?
- Gothel: Now do you realise what a fool you were, Wilhelm? You could have had so much! You should have loved me!
- King Wilhelm: [spitefully] You don't know what love *is*, Gothel!
- Gothel: I'm finished with you! *All* of you!
- [Penelope, having walked into the painting, magically appears in the royal garden; Rapunzel and Stefan gasp]
- Penelope: [touches her belly] I made it. I actually made it! Ha, ha, ha, ha!
- Stefan: [draws his sword] Stand back!
- Rapunzel: Wait! She's my friend.
- Penelope: [lowers the sword's blade with her finger] Watch it with that thing! Somebody could get seriously hurt.
- Stefan: [to Rapunzel] You're friends with a-a... a *dragon*?
- Penelope: [offended] Hey! The name's Penelope, bucko!
- Gothel: Tower, tower, do your part / *Never* release your prisoner with a lying heart / And in which these words are spoken / This fearsome spell can *never* be broken!
- Gothel: [finds herself trapped in the tower] What? It *can't* be!
- [the chain around Hugo's neck vanishes and he flies away; the Magic Wall disappears; Gothel approaches the window and touches the sparkling green barrier, which zaps her; she gasps in pain, thinks and raises her hands high]
- Gothel: Magic spell upon the tower / I *command* you to lose your power!
- [fires at the barrier; her magic is absorbed right into it]
- Gothel: [gasps in horror] No!
- [looks out the window]
- Gothel: Hugo! Hugo! Get me out of here!
- Hugo: [flies up to the window] I... can't. You said one with a *lying* heart will be imprisoned forever. Rapunzel never lied, but *you,* Gothel.
- Gothel: [voiceover] *Never* release your prisoner with a lying heart. *Never* release your prisoner with a lying heart.
- Gothel: No.
- [collapses in defeat]
- Gothel: *No-o-o-o-o*!
- Gothel: [voiceover] *Never* release your prisoner with a lying heart.
- [Penelope and Hobie stare at a painting of a village]
- Penelope: Do you think she's really there?
- Hobie: Your guess is as good as mine.
- Penelope: Oh, I miss her already.
- Hobie: Yeah, yeah. Don't get all blubbery on me.
- [his ears twitch and he shudders nervously]
- Hobie: Big Bad Gothel on the horizon!
- [Gothel gallops through the forest on horseback]
- Penelope: [gasps] What are we gonna do? If Gothel finds out Rapunzel's gone, who knows what she'll do to my father?
- Hobie: Nothing more than he deserves.
- Penelope: Hobie, come on, this is serious! I have to get Rapunzel back!
- Hobie: In three minutes? Well, that's how long it'll take for Gothel to get here!
- Penelope: I have to do something! My father!
- Hobie: OK, here's the plan: I'll stall Gothel, and you find Rapunzel.
- Penelope: Great. You stall, I'll go. I like it, except for one thing.
- Hobie: [covers his ears] I'm gonna become ferret food.
- Penelope: No! I can't fly over the Magic Wall, and I don't even know where the village is! How can I find her? I mean, she went somewhere through there!
- [points to the painting]
- Hobie: There's your answer.
- Penelope: Me? Go in the painting too? As in, me?
- [Hobie nods]