ALADDIN

ABU: Uh oh. Hello? Hello?

(JASMINE stops at the fruit stand and sees a young homeless child

reaching for a piece of fruit. She picks one up and gives it to

him.)

JASMINE: Oh, you must be hungry. Here you go. (The

boy runs off.)

PROPRIETOR: You'd better be able to pay for that.

JASMINE: (Mystified) Pay?

PROPRIETOR: No one steals from my cart!

JASMINE: Oh, I'm sorry sir. I don't have any money.

PROPRIETOR: Thief!

JASMINE: Please, if you let me go to the palace, I can

get some from the Sultan.

PROPRIETOR: Do you know what the penalty is for stealing?

(He takes her hand and pins it down on the table, intending to

chop it off.)

JASMINE: No, no please!

(The sword drops, but his hand is stopped by ALADDIN's.)

ALADDIN: Thank you kind sir. I'm so glad you've found

her. I've been looking all over for you.

JASMINE: (whispering) What are you doing?

ALADDIN: (whispering back) Just play along.

PROPRIETOR: You know this girl?

JASMINE: Sadly, yes. She is my sister. She's a little

crazy. (He circles his finger around his ear.

She is shocked. The PROPRIETOR grabs him by

the vest.)

PROPRIETOR: She said she knows the Sultan!

ALADDIN: She thinks the monkey is the Sultan.

(ABU is picking a pocket. He hears this, then straightens up.

JASMINE, playing along, kneels and bows to ABU.)

JASMINE: Oh, wise Sultan. How may I serve you?

ABU: Well, blah blah blah blah.

ALADDIN: Tragic, isn't it? (He leans forward, picking

up another apple from the cart with his

foot.) But, no harm done. (Walks over to

Jasmine.) Now come along sis. Time to see the

doctor.

JASMINE: (To a camel standing nearby) Oh, hello doctor.

How are you?

ALADDIN: No, no, no. Not that one. (To ABU, whose

pockets are bulging.) Come on, Sultan.

(ABU bows to the crowd and everything he's stolen from the cart falls

out.)

PROPRIETOR: Huh? What is it? (ABU picks up what he can

carry, and the trio run off.) Come back here,

you little thieves!

(Cut to int. of JAFAR's lab. IAGO is running on a gear in a bizarre

contraption. At the top of the contraption is a storm brewing.)

IAGO: (huffing and puffing) With all due respect, your

rottenness, couldn't we just wait for a real storm?

JAFAR: Save your breath, Iago. Faster! (He places the

SULTAN's ring in the contraption.)

IAGO: Yes, o mighty evil one.

(IAGO runs faster. A lightning bolt streaks through the ring, passing

into an hourglass below. The sands begin to swirl.)

JAFAR: Ah, sands of time--reveal to me the one who can

enter the cave. (The sand in top forms the Cave of

Wonders. It falls through into a storm, but it

shows ALADDIN climbing up a ladder, followed by

JASMINE who is covered in her cloak.) Yes, yes!

There he is. My diamond in the rough!

IAGO: That's him?!?! That's the clown we've been

waitin' for? (IAGO loses his footing and is sucked

into the gears.)

JAFAR: Let's have the guards extend him an invitation to

the palace, shall we?

(IAGO goes flying past and slams into the wall upside down.)

IAGO: Swell.

(JAFAR laughs hideously, and the camera zooms in on the sandstorm with

ALADDIN in it. Finally, we dissolve into the real ALADDIN climbing

to the top of the ladder, followed by JASMINE.)

ALADDIN: Almost there.

(JASMINE climbs over the top, but trips and falls into ALADDIN's arms.

She stands up.)

JASMINE: I want to thank you for stopping that man.

ALADDIN: Uh, forget it. (He grabs a pole.) So, uh, this is

your first time in the marketplace, huh?

(ALADDIN pole vaults to the next building, leaving JASMINE behind.)

JASMINE: Is it that obvious?

ALADDIN: Well, you do kinda stand out. (He stares at her,

still in love. She returns the look. But he

realizes what he is doing, and returns to normal.)

I mean, uh, you don't seem to know how dangerous

Agrabah can be. (He lays a plank between the

buildings for her to walk over, but as he is leaned

down, she vaults over his head. He looks back in

surprise. She tosses the pole to him. Both

ALADDIN's and ABU's eyes bulge.)

JASMINE: I'm a fast learner.

ALADDIN: Right. C'mon, this way. (They go inside the roof

of a building, dodging planks and beams as they

go.) Whoa. Watch your head there. Be careful.

JASMINE: Is this where you live?

ALADDIN: Yep. Just me and Abu. Come and go as we please.

JASMINE: Fabulous.

ALADDIN: Well, it's not much, (he pulls back the curtain and

exposes the palace) but it's got a great view.

Palace looks pretty amazing, huh?

JASMINE: Oh, it's wonderful.

ALADDIN: I wonder what it would be like to live there, to

have servants and valets...

JASMINE: Oh, sure. People who tell you where to go and how

to dress.

ALADDIN: It's better than here. Always scraping for food

and ducking the guards.

JASMINE: You're not free to make your own choices.

ALADDIN: Sometimes you feel so--

JASMINE: You're just--

BOTH: (in unison) --trapped.

(They look at each other, realizing that they're perfect for one

another. But ALADDIN then realizes where he is, and breaks the

look. He takesthe apple out of ABU's hand and rolls it down his

arm into the hand of JASMINE.)

ALADDIN: So, where're you from?

JASMINE: What does it matter? I ran away, and I am not

going back.

ALADDIN: Really? (He takes a bite from the apple in his

hand, then hands it to ABU, who has a disgusted

look on his face.)

ABU: Why you!

(ALADDIN walks over and sits next to JASMINE.)

JASMINE: My father's forcing me to get married.

ALADDIN: That's--that's awful. (ABU appears from behind the

princess and tries to steal the apple.) Abu!

(ABU races up to a higher point, chattering and cursing as he goes.)

JASMINE: What?

ALADDIN: Abu says that--uh--that's not fair.

ABU: What?

JASMINE: Oh did he?

ALADDIN: Yeah, of course.

JASMINE: And does Abu have anything else to say?

ALADDIN: Well, uh, he wishes there was something he could do

to help.

ABU: Oh, boy!

JASMINE: Hmm, tell him that's very sweet.

(ALADDIN and JASMINE have been getting closer and closer, until

ALADDIN leans in to kiss her. He is interrupted, however,

by the GUARDS, who have found them.)

GUARD: Here you are!

ALADDIN and JASMINE: They've found me! (To each other) They're

after you?

JASMINE: My father must have sent them--

ALADDIN: Do you trust me?

JASMINE: What?

ALADDIN: Do you trust me? (He extends his hand)

JASMINE: Yes. (She takes it.)

ALADDIN: Then jump!

(They both jump off the roof, fall and land in a pile of salt. They

try to get away, but the exit is blocked by a GUARD.)

GUARD: We just keep running into each other, don't we,

street rat?

(Again, the GUARD's turban is pulled down by ABU, but more guards are

here and block the exit. The first GUARD pulls ABU off his head and

throws him in a vase. Three other GUARDS grab ALADDIN.)

GUARD: It's the dungeon for you, boy.

ALADDIN: Hey, get off of me!

JASMINE: Let go of him.

GUARD: (Not realizing she is the princess) Look what we

have here, men--a street mouse. (He throws her

down.)

JASMINE: (standing up and pulling off the hood of her cloak)

Unhand him, by order of the princess.

(The GUARDS suddenly stop and bow, forcing ALADDIN to bow as well.)

GUARD: Princess Jasmine.

ALADDIN: The princess?

ABU: (peeking out from the vase) The princess?

GUARD: What are you doing outside the palace? And with

this street rat?

JASMINE: That's not your concern. Do as I command. Release

him!

GUARD: Well, I would, princess, but my orders come from

Jafar. You'll have to take it up with him.

(The GUARDS drag ALADDIN out, bowing as they go.)

JASMINE: (getting a very pissed-off look) Believe me, I

will.

(Cut to int. of palace, JAFAR emerging from his secret chambers. He

slides the door shut carefully, but the princess comes storming

in before he is finished. He slams it shut, pinning IAGO inside

the door frame.)