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Muntz:
Having guests is a delight! More often I get thieves, come to steal what's rightfully mine...

Carl:
No!

Muntz:
[picks up the lantern] They called me a fraud, those... [illuminates the room, revealing a skeleton of Kevin's species, festooned with maps of the area] But once I bring back this creature, my name will be cleared! Beautiful, isn't it? Oh, I've spent a lifetime tracking it... Sometimes, years go by between sightings. I've tried to smoke it out of that ghastly labyrinth where it lives. Can't go in after it. Once in, there's no way out... Lost so many dogs... Here they come, these bandits that think the bird is theirs to take! But they soon find this mountain is a very dangerous place.

Russell:
[notices the skeleton] Hey, that looks like Kevin! Right?

Muntz:
"Kevin"?

Russell:
Yeah, that's my new giant bird pet. I trained it to follow us.

Muntz:
Follow you? That's impossible! How?

Russell:
[pulls out a chocolate bar] She likes chocolate!

Muntz:
Chocolate?

Russell:
Yeah, I gave her some of my chocolate. She goes ga-ga for it.

Carl:
But it ran off! [takes Russell's chocolate bar] It's gone now.

[Beat, Muntz glaring]

Muntz:
You know, Carl... [illuminates a shelf of flight caps] These people who pass through here, they all tell pretty good stories. A surveyor, making a map. [knocks one flight cap over] A botanist, cataloging plants. [knocks another cap over, then picks up a third] An old man, taking his house to Paradise Falls. [drops the cap, glaring at Carl] I mean, that's the best one yet. I can't wait to hear how it ends. [grins sinisterly]