(Faha goes to Bakkar’s house)

Faha: I’m looking for your other son.

Bakkar: I think he’s playing with his friends.

Faha: Really.

Bakkar: I tell you the truth.

Faha: Oh, sure. When he comes home, maybe he’d like to visit his little brother.

(Faha grabs Abu and takes him away)

Bakkar: No, please! Not the child!

Abu: Let me go! Let me go!

Sinbad: (draws sword and points it at Faha) I don’t think so.

Faha: Sinbad. You’re a fool of the first water.

Sinbad: You know, I’ve heard that so many times, I now take it as a compliment.

(Sinbad uses his sword to cut open Faha’s pants; Maeve closes her eyes, so she doesn’t have to see; the men of the crew laugh)

Faha: Guards! Now! (the guards come) Now, who has the drop?

Sinbad: Maeve? If you’d be so kind.

(Maeve throws a fireball behind her)

Doubar: Nice escape route!

Maeve: Thank you!

(They run through the spot she blew up, then found themselves surrounded)

Doubar: Care to elaborate on your plan, little brother?

Sinbad: I was hoping they’d tire easily.

(They start fighting)

(Sinbad is on top of a roof, he sends the guy falling to the ground, then he jumps into a pile of hay)

(They run through the town, then Sinbad sees a house)

Sinbad: This way!

(They run into the house, where a family is eating)

Sinbad: Hi. Pardon us for disturbing your meal.

(The guards enter)

Sinbad: Gentlemen, you have to wait to be served.

(They start fighting again)

Sinbad: Doubar! Show these men to their seats.

(Doubar knocks his elbows on the heads of two guards who stood behind them; they fall to the ground)

Sinbad: Don’t you just hate uninvited guests? Come on!

(Sinbad and his crew leave through the back door)

(They reach a dead-end)

Firouz: We’re going to need some help, and we’re going to need it now!

(They duck in the alleyway, and the guards run past)

Bakkar: (opens the door of a nearby house and sticks his head out) Quick! In here!

Sinbad: Ask and you shall receive.

(They run into the house)

Bakkar: (moves a stone in the wall) Down! Come on, come on! Come on! In here! Come on! (to the man that was with him) Go to the door! (he closes the wall behind the crew)

Guard: Where are they?

Bakkar: Come with me, I’ll show you.

Doubar: Never a dull moment, eh, little brother?

(Faha and some guards are riding through the forest)

Faha: Keep a sharp eye out. (Sali shows up on a carpet again) So happy to see you again. (Sali makes a few passes) Steady now! Steady now! Easy!

Sali: Death to the Royal Protector! Long live the King!

(Sali takes off flying again)

Faha: Come on! Pursue him! Go! Go!

(They take off in the cart after Sali; Sali flies right into Faha’s trap, which was a net, stretched between trees on either side of the road; he falls to the ground and is caught in the net)

Sali: (to the others on a carpet) Escape! Get Sinbad! Leave me! Go! Go!

(Faha laughs as he approaches Sali)

Faha: Why don’t you try to fly away now, you little rebel?

(The two who were flying with Sali had come back and were now talking to Sinbad, the crew, and the rest of the village in Bakkar’s house)

Abu: They were waiting for us. We never had a chance.

Bakkar: Where are they taking him?

Abu: Back to the castle, I guess.

Bakkar: Sali. That boy is far too courageous for his own good. I never know what he’s up to. What do we do now?

Maeve: Take us to Dinar the magician.

Bakkar: A good suggestion, had he survived the Protector’s tyranny.

Abu: Father? There’s something else Sali didn’t tell you.

(Everyone is in Dinar’s house now)

Bakkar: Gone.

Firouz: Why wouldn’t he take these with him?

Abu: Why would he have run away? He was the greatest magician there ever was.

Sinbad: I don’t think he’s run away. I think he’s done just the opposite.

Maeve: You’re right. He’s gone to the castle.

(Zabtut has Sali in the dungeon)

Zabtut: Treason! You’re guilty of treason! So young and so foolish! Why do you do this?

Sali: Why do you do what you do?

Zabtut: (laughs) Mostly because I do it so well, don’t you think?

Sali: I think you’re a fool.

Zabtut: Tell me where Dinar the magician is. Oh, you will tell me, soon enough.

(The King enters the room)

King: Why have you brought him here?

Zabtut: Treason, your royal highness. We caught him red-handed attacking your royal emissaries.

Sali: Trying to eat is not treason!

Zabtut: So ungrateful for what your King has done for you!

Sali: Why don’t you do something?

(Zabtut hits Sali with his cane, and he falls to the ground)

King: What could he have done? He’s just a boy like me.

Sali: No. I’m not like you. I have the courage to fight. I love the land we live in!

King: I will not have this in my kingdom.

Zabtut: Your kingdom? You’re making the same mistake your father made.

King: I will not be a tyrant. You will not behave like this. Do you hear me?

Zabtut: Hear you? Do you know what I hear? I hear a frightened little boy! A frightened little boy’s exhausted my patience!

(Dinar appears out of thin air)

Zabtut: Dinar, why are you here?

Dinar: I have come to make a bargain. My magic will stop, if you will stop your treachery.

Zabtut: You offer a trade?

Dinar: My life, for the life of this child.

Zabtut: No deal. What good are you to me without your magic?

Dinar: I will never use my magic again. I am near my end.

Zabtut: Perhaps I can convince you.

Dinar: Nothing you will ever say can convince me.

Zabtut: I can be very convincing!

(They leave)

Sali: (to the King) Do something!

King: What can I do? I’m helpless in my own kingdom.

Sali: Then you have one friend. Find Sinbad. Now! My father will know where he is!

(The King runs out of the room)

(The crew and the villagers are talking in Bakkar’s house)

Bakkar: You must lead us, Sinbad. You’re are only hope.

Sinbad: Hope is a good place to start.

Bakkar: Your feats are legendary. Don’t you have some trick? Some way to outsmart the Royal Protector?

Sinbad: A great trick would be to get more men.

Bakkar: That can be taken care of. Every villager here is ready to help. They only await your signal.

Doubar: If only we could get to them.

Sinbad: How many weapons do you have?

Bakkar: (holds up pitchfork) We plan to use what we have.

Firouz: (takes pitchfork) You won’t do much damage with pitchforks and rakes against swords and arrows.

Bakkar: When you fight with your heart, what you have is plenty.

Sinbad: I can’t ask you to fight. It would be far too dangerous.

(A knock is heard at the door; Sinbad and crew get ready to draw their swords)

Doubar: (opens the door) It’s just another boy.

Sinbad: (turns away from the door) Not exactly what I was hoping for.

Maeve: Perhaps he has brought word of the magician.

(Everyone bows when they see the King enter the room; Sinbad turns around, draws his sword, and bows)

King: It is I. Your son’s courage gave me the strength to do what I was afraid to do. (turns to Sinbad) I was told you could help.

(An arrow on fire flies through the room)

Faha: (from outside) Come on, Sinbad, and face your doom! There’s no escape! No way to avoid the end!

King: I’m sorry! I must have been followed!

Doubar: What now, little brother? Fight, or run?

Sinbad: Either choice really makes my day.

Bakkar: I say, fight! (he pulls out swords hidden above, in some kind of attic) I for one have had enough. What of you men?

(The other villagers shout their agreements)

Doubar: Sinbad, this is lunacy! These aren’t fighting men!

Bakkar: Better we die now, then have our children die, without us ever having tried to free them.

Sinbad: Perhaps another time.

Bakkar: But there are many others, just like us. Just waiting for the chance to fight.

Sinbad: My only concern right now is for the King’s safety. We’ll hold them off (he draws his sword) and let the King escape.

King: (to Abu) Take my royal amulet, as a rallying sign for others to join us.

Bakkar: Take this. After the King escapes, go show the others. (the King and Abu start to walk towards the front door) No, this way. (Bakkar directs them to the back door) Quickly, go out through the vineyard. Sinbad, you (don’t know what goes here)

Sinbad: In these situations? I always hope for the surprise.

(They go outside and face a group of guards and Faha)

Doubar: So, this is how it ends, little brother.

Maeve: So long as we go out in a fight, and for a good cause.

Firouz: The only way to go.

Sinbad: (to Bakkar, who had joined them outside) Get back in the house.

Bakkar: No. Today we fight.

Sinbad: We’ll give you a chance to surrender, before any harm is done.

Faha: Why, of all the presumptuous insults! You think you’re some sort of legend, you swine! When I get done with you, I’ll be wearing your teeth as a necklace!

(The villagers join the crew, and they surround the guards, each taking a sword to a guard’s throat)

Sinbad: On the other hand, shall we say you are completely surrounded.

(Zabtut is talking to Dinar)

Zabtut: It’s rather simple, really. You use your skill to help me, or the little one meets his doom.

Dinar: Let me pass away in peace. You have what you want. There’ll be no magic in the kingdom.

Zabtut: That’s not good enough! You have the power, and I want it!

Dinar: I have no power to help a lowly dog like you!

Zabtut: You don’t get lower than killing a King. I’ve done it once, and I will do it again!

Dinar: Release the child, and I will try to see what power I have left.

Zabtut: We’re not negotiating here! You have no bargaining chips!

(The crew, wearing gowns that completely hide their faces from view, takes a cart up to the front gates of the palace, while the villagers are hiding in the woods surrounding the area)

Guard: What is this?

Sinbad: Supplies for the mourning.

Firouz: Food for the Royal Protector’s kitchen.

(The guard opens the door)

Guard: Let’s have a look.

(He walks with Sinbad and Firouz to the back of the cart; he lifts up the blanket, and gets knocked out by a waiting Rongar, who was sitting underneath the blanket; the crew walks back to the door)

Sinbad: (turns around) Come on! (gestures to the hiding villagers to follow)

(The villagers run out of hiding and into the palace)

(Sinbad and crew runs down to the dungeon, where Sinbad unlocks the cell Sali is being held in; Sali reunites with his father)

Sali: Good work, Sinbad.

Sinbad: Thank you. It’s always good to feel appreciated.

Sali: I assume you have a plan.

Maeve: We’re gonna save Dinar.

Sali: What are we waiting for?

Firouz: Sinbad, he’s got a point.

Sinbad: A good point. Secure the rest of the castle. We’ll take care of this royal high protector. Come on!

(They leave the dungeon and run to where Zabtut and Dinar are)

Zabtut: (laughing) Oh, what a glorious day! The end of the road for Sinbad the Sailor.

Sinbad: I can go along with the end of the road part. With you out of power, the young King can assume his responsibilities.

Zabtut: You can defeat my army?

Sinbad: I only need to defeat you. And if you look out that window, you’ll see that all the citizens of this fine land agree with me.

(A guard looks out the window and sees all the people)

Guard: He’s right. There must be hundreds of them out there! Our guards will never stop them.

Zabtut: But if we stop Sinbad, we stop the peasants. Guards! Cease them!

(The guards draw their swords and go after Sinbad and his crew; that’s when Sali and his friends appear at the door to the room)

Sali: Go, go, go, go! (he gestures for them all to enter the room)

(A lot of fighting goes on for awhile)

(Sali trips a guard, and when he has fallen, he ties him up with a gold chain)

Doubar: (laughing) Little brother, that little hellcat reminds me a lot of you.

Sinbad: You think he’s that good?

Doubar: Oh, yes. I think he’s that good.

(They fight for another little while)

(Maeve runs to Dinar to free him)

Dinar: You are a friend of Dim-Dim’s.

Maeve: Yes.

(Zabtut grabs Sali and holds a sword to his throat)

Zabtut: Make this carpet fly, or this boy dies!

(Dinar makes the carpet fly, Zabtut lets go of Sali, jumps onto the carpet and flies out of the window; Sinbad runs to Dinar)

Sinbad: I have to catch him! Enchant another carpet.

Dinar: The boy is safe. That’s enough.

Sinbad: No one is safe if he escapes.

Dinar: I’m sorry. I have no choice.

Sinbad: Then bring that carpet back here.

Dinar: I have no strength.

Sinbad: You must try.

Dinar: No.

Sinbad: You must.

Dinar: My life, my magic, is going.

Maeve: Dinar, try to help us. Please.

(He enchants another carpet; Sinbad runs to it)

Sali: Let me ride it!

Sinbad: No! This time, I’ll do the aerial work.

(He jumps on the carpet, and flies out the window, after Zabtut; he finally catches up to him; they fight with their swords, trying to knock each other off)

Zabtut: To the death!

Sinbad: I can live with that!

(They fight some more, then Sinbad is knocked off the carpet, and he is just holding on; he fights while he tries to get back onto the carpet; he finally gets back onto the carpet)

Zabtut: You aren’t as good as I thought you were!

Sinbad: I’m counting on being just that much better.

(They fight some more, until Zabtut is holding onto Sinbad’s arm)

Zabtut: Help me! Help me!

(Sinbad rips off the sleeve of Zabtut’s shirt, making him fall the great distance to the ground)

(Maeve and Dinar are talking)

Dinar: You are searching for Dim-Dim. He is searching for you.

Maeve: Where is he?

Dinar: A place impossible to find, without the bees and daffodils.

Maeve: I don’t understand. May my powers hold you, keep you…

Dinar: It’s too late. I have to go.

Maeve: No. I don’t understand.

Dinar: You will. You…you will…

(He vanishes into thin air)

Maeve: May the roads rise up to greet you, wherever you are going.

(The King and the crew and some villagers are in that same room in the palace, with the entire village’s possessions in front of them)

King: A King’s ransom, indeed. These riches that are accumulated, surely you are entitled to them?

Sinbad: No, I’m afraid not.

Firouz: Sinbad, might I suggest that, for once, you think before you speak?

Doubar: Remember, no one says we have to live from cargo to cargo.

Sinbad: Your majesty, we only ask for enough supplies to allow us to continue with our adventures.

King: Granted!

Sinbad: Return the rest of the riches to those they were taken from. Let the kingdom prosper. Right, crew?

King: You really don’t want the riches?

Sinbad: No. We want you to remember those that spurged you into action. We wouldn’t have succeeded without their help.

Sali: You got that right!

(The crew laughs)

(The crew is back on the Nomad again; Sinbad is sitting beside Maeve)

Sinbad: We will end our search, Maeve. We will find Dim-Dim.

Maeve: Dinar only gave me a riddle.

Sinbad: And yet, I know we can find him. Out there on the horizon, Dim-Dim is waiting for us. Wherever the wind takes us, that’s where he’ll be.

(Sinbad’s hand is on Maeve’s shoulder, and Maeve puts her hand on his, and he gets up and walks to Doubar, who is at the tiller)

Sinbad: Let’s sail!

Doubar: Why not?

Sinbad: Raise anchor!

Doubar: That Sali brings back a lot of memories.

Sinbad: About me, right?

Doubar: His grace, his courage, his spunk. He will be as good as you someday.

Sinbad: He’s got a long way to go, before he’s that good. (he checks his boot, where he keeps his dagger) What the—? That little beggar! He stole my dagger!

(The crew laughs)

THE END