Writing Credits:
Dennis Lee (Story)
Jim Henson (Story)
Terry Jones
Elaine May (Uncredited)
All songs in here were written by David Bowie
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[Scene: At a park. Sarah runs on screen in a costume]
SARAH: Give me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom is as great....for my will is as strong as yours, my kingdom as great...Damn. I never remember that line. "You have no power over me."
[Thunder clap, her dog barks]
SARAH: Oh Merlin.
[Clock tower bells start chiming]
SARAH: Oh no Merlin. I don't believe it, it's 7:00! Come on. Come on!
[Starts pouring rain. Sarah runs for home]
["Underground" plays]
No one can blame you
For walking away
But too much rejection
No love injection
Life can be easy
It's not always swell
Don't tell me truth hurts little girl
'Cause it hurts like hell
SARAH: Oh it's not fair!
[Sarah runs up to her house, her stepmother waiting for her on the porch]
STEPMOTHER: Oh, really!
SARAH: I'm sorry!
STPMOTHER: Well don't stand there in the rain, come on.
SARAH: All right. Come on Merlin, come on.
STEPMOTHER: Not the dog.
SARAH: But it's pouring!
STEPMOTHER: Go on, into the garage.
SARAH: Oh..go on Merlin, go into the garage. Go.
[Scene: Int. of house, in the downstairs hallway]
STEPMOTHER: Sarah, you're an hour late.
SARAH: I said I'm sorry.
STEPMOTHER: Please let me finish! Your father and I go out very rarely--
SARAH: You go out every single weekend!
STEPMOTHER: --and I ask you to babysit only if it won't interfere with your plans.
SARAH: Well how do you know, you don't know what my plans are. You don't even ask me anymore.
STEPMOTHER: Well I assume you'd tell me if you had a date. I'd like it if you had a date. You, you should have dates at your age.
FATHER: Ah, Sarah, you're home. We were worried about you.
SARAH: I can't do anything right, can I?
[Sarah goes upstairs]
STEPMOTHER: She treats me like a wicked stepmother in a fairy story no matter what I say.
FATHER: I'll talk to her.
[Scene: Sarah's bedroom, upstairs]
SARAH: Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen.
[Knocking at her door]
FATHER: Sarah, can I talk to you?
SARAH: There's nothing to talk about! You better hurry, you're gonna be late.
FATHER: Listen, we fed Toby and put him to bed. We do have to leave now, but we'll be back around midnight.
SARAH: You really wanted to talk to me, didn't you? Practically broke down the door.
[Sarah plops down on her bed and notices a bear of hers is missing]
SARAH: Lancelot! Someone has been in my room again. I hate that. I hate it!
[Scene: Sarah's parents bedroom with Toby in the crib, crying loudly]
SARAH: I hate you. I hate you! Someone save me, someone take me away from this awful place! [to Toby] What do you want, you want a story? Huh? Okay. Once upon a time there was a beautiful young girl whose stepmother always made her stay home with the baby. And the baby was a spoiled child and he wanted everything for himself and the young girl was practically a slave. But what no one knew was that the kind of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl and he had give her certain powers. So one night when the baby had been particularly cruel to her, she called on the goblins for help.
[Scene: Room with sleeping goblins, beginning to wake up]
GOBLIN 1: Listen
[Scene: Parent's bedroom]
SARAH: "Say your right words," the goblin said. "And we'll take the baby to the Goblin City and you will be free."
[Scene: Room with the now awake goblins]ALL: Ooooh!
[Scene: Parent's bedroom]
SARAH: But the girl knew that the king of the goblins would keep the baby in his castle forever and ever and ever and turn it into a goblin. And so the girl suffered in silence until one night when she was tired from a day of housework and she was hurt by the harsh words of her stepmother and she could no longer stand it -- Oh all right, all right! Knock it off. Come on. Stop it, stop it! I'll say the words. No, I mustn't. I mustn't say.
[Scene: Goblin room]
ALL gasp
[Scene: Parent's bedroom]
SARAH: I wish -- I wish..
[Scene: Goblin room]
GOBLIN 2: She's going to say it!
GOBLIN 3: Say what?
ALL: Shhhh!
GOBLIN 4: Shut up!
GOBLIN 3: Sorry.
GOBLIN 4: You shut up!
GOBLIN 1: Listen. She's going to say the words.
[Scene: Parents' bedroom]
SARAH: I can bear it no longer! Goblin king, goblin king, wherever you may be. Take this child of mine far away from me!
[Scene: Goblin room]
ALL: Nooooo
GOBLIN 5: That's not it.
GOBLIN 4: Where'd she learn that rubbish? It doesn't even start with 'I wish'!
[Scene: Parent's bedroom]
SARAH: Oh Toby, stop it! Oh I wish I did know what to say to make the goblins take you away.
[Scene: Goblin room]
GOBLIN 4: "I wish the goblins would come and take you away right now." That's not hard is it?
[Scene: Parent's bedroom]
SARAH: I wish....I wish....
[Scene: Goblin room]
GOBLIN 3: Did she say it?
ALL: Shut up!
[Scene: Parent's bedroom]
SARAH: [leaving room and turning off the bedroom light] I wish the goblins would come and take you away. Right now.
[Toby stops crying as Sarah steps into the hall. She turn back into the bedroom]
SARAH: Toby? Toby, are you all right? [tries light switch] Why aren't you crying?
[Sarah moves towards the crib. She pulls back the blanket to find it empty. Goblin noises and movement are everywhere. An owl starts banging outside the balcony doors and they burst open. The own flies in and flaps around Sarah, then turns into Jareth, the goblin king]
SARAH: You're him, aren't you? You're the goblin king. I want my brother back, please, if it's all the same.
JARETH: What's said is said.
SARAH: But I didn't mean it.
JARETH: Oh you didn't?
SARAH: Please, where is he?
JARETH: You know very well where he is.
SARAH: Please bring him back to me. Please.
JARETH: Sarah, go back to your room. Play with your toys and your costumes. Forget about the baby.
SARAH: I can't.
JARETH: I've brought you a gift.
SARAH: What is it?
JARETH: It's a crystal. Nothing more. But if you turn it this way and look into it, it will show you your dreams. But this is not a gift for an ordinary girl who takes care of a screaming baby. Do you want it? Then forget the baby.
SARAH: I can't. It isn't that I don't appreciate what you're trying to do for me, but I want my brother back. he must be so scared.
JARETH: Sarah. [crystal turns into snake] Don't defy me.
[Jareth throws the snake onto Sarah. She fights it, then it turns into a silk material which she drops, then it turns into a goblin who scurries away]
JARETH: You're no match for me Sarah.
SARAH: But I have to have my brother back.
JARETH: He's there, in my castle.
[Sarah looks out the doorway and sees a great labyrinth with a castle in the distance on a hill]
JARETH: Do you still want to look for him?
[Scene: Both are outside, in the labyrinth world. The house is nowhere to be seen]
SARAH: Is that the castle beyond the Goblin City?
JARETH: Turn back Sarah. Turn back before it's too late.
SARAH: I can't. Don't you understand that I can't?
JARETH: What a pity.
SARAH: It doesn't look that far.
JARETH: It's further than you think. Time is short. You have 13 hours in which to solve the labyrinth before your baby brother becomes one of us forever. Such a pity.
[Jareth fades away out of sight]
SARAH: The labyrinth doesn't look that hard. Well, come on feet.
[Scene: In front of the labyrinth. Sarah comes upon Hoggle who is peeing into a pond]
SARAH: Excuse me?
HOGGLE: Oh, excuse me. Oh, it's you.
SARAH: Excuse me, but I have to get through this labyrinth. Can you help me?
[Sarah sees a flying fairy go by]
SARAH: Oh how sweet.
[Hoggle sprays it with something and it drops to the ground with a whimper]
HOGGLE: Fifty-seven!
SARAH: How could you?
HOGGLED: Yeah.
SARAH: Poor thing. [she picks up the fairy and holds her] You monster. Ow!! It bit me!
HOGGLE: What did you expect fairies to do?
SARAH: I thought they did nice things, like granting wishes.
HOGGLE: Hugh? Shows what you know, don't it? Fifty-eight!
SARAH: You're horrible!
HOGGLE: Huh? No I ain't. I'm Hoggle. Who are you?
SARAH: Sarah.
HOGGLE: That's what I thought. Fifty-nine!
SARAH: Do you know where the door to the labyrinth is?
HOGGLE: Oh, maybe.
SARAH: Well where is it?
HOGGLE: Oh you little -- wah! Sixty! Ooooh-ha!
SARAH: I said, where is it?
HOGGLE: Where is what?
SARAH: The door!
HOGGLE: What door?
SARAH: It's hopeless asking you anything.
HOGGLE: Not if you ask the right questions.
SARAH: How do I get inot the labyrinth?
HOGGLE: Ah -- now that's more like it. You gets in there.
[The labyrinth doors open, mist pouring out of the opening]
HOGGLE: You, uh, really going in there, are you?
SARAH: Yes, I'm afraid I have to.
[Scene: Just inside the entrance to the labyrinth]
HOGGLE: [sneaking up behind Sarah and scaring her] Cozy, isn't it? [Sarah jumps] Ooooh ha ha ha....now, would you go left...or right?
SARAH: They both look the same.
HOGGLE: Well, you're not gonna get very far.
SARAH: Which way would you go?
HOGGLE: Me? I wouldn't go either way.
SARAH: If that's all the help you're gonna be, you can just leave.
HOGGLE: You know your problem, you take too many things for granted. Take this labyrinth. Even if you get to the center, you'll never get out again.
SARAH: That's your opinion.
HOGGLE: Well it's a lot better than yours.
SARAH: Thanks for nothing, Hogwart.
HOGGLE: Oh, it's Hoggle! And don't say I didn't warn you.
[Hoggle exits out the front doors, and closes them with a wave of his hands]
[Sarah starts walking down the right corridor]
SARAH: What do they mean 'labyrinth'? There aren't any turns or corners or anything, this just goes on and on. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe I'm just taking it for granted that it does.
[Sarah stars running now and there are still no turns. She stops and screams in frustration, sinks to the floor where there is a blue worm looking at her]
WORM: 'Allo.
SARAH: Did you say 'hello'?
WORM: No, I said 'allo' but that's close enough.
SARAH: You're a worm aren't you?
WORM: Yeah that's right.
SARAH: You don't by any chance know the way through this labyrinth do you?
WORM: Who me? No, I'm just a worm.
SARAH: Oh.
WORM: Come inside, meet the missus.
SARAH: No thank you but I have to solve this labyrinth. But there aren't any turns or any openings or anything. It just goes on and on.
WORM: Well you ain't looking right. It's full of openings, it's just you ain't seeing 'em.
SARAH: Well where are they?
WORM: There's one just across there. It's right in front of ya.
SARAH: No there isn't.
WORM: Come inside and have a nice cup of tea.
SARAH: But, there isn't an opening.
WORM: Of course there is. You try walking through it, you'll see what I mean.
SARAH: What?
WORM: Go on, go on then.
SARAH: That's just wall, there's no way through.
WORM: Things are not always what they seem in this place. So you can't take anything for granted.
[Sarah walks through the opening]
SARAH: Hey!
WORM: Hey, hang on!
SARAH: Thank you, that was incredibly helpful.
WORM: But don't go that way.
SARAH: What was that?
WORM: I said don't go that way. Never go that way.
SARAH: Oh, thanks.
WORM: Oh....if she'd of kept going down that way she'd of gone straight to that castle.
[Scene: New section of labyrinth]
SARAH: [hears crying far off] Toby. I'm coming Toby.
[Scene: Castle throne room]
[Various goblin dialogue]
A GOBLIN: Give me back this! Go on, get off me!
A GOBLIN: Stay out of the way. What are you talking about?
A GOBLIN: Walk, walk, walk
["Magic Dance" song begins]
JARETH: You remind me of the babe.
A GOBLIN: What babe?
JARETH: The babe with the power
A GOBLIN: What power?
JARETH: The power of voodoo
A GOBLIN: Who do?
JARETH: You do
A GOBLIN: Do what?
JARETH: Remind me of the babe [all goblins laugh] Quiet! A goblin babe, ha ha ha ha ha! [all goblins are quiet] Well?!? [all goblins laugh with Jareth]
JARETH:
I saw my babye
Crying hard as babe could cry
What could I do
My baby's love had gone
And left my baby blue
Nobody knew
ALL: What kind of magic spell to use
A GOBLIN: Slime and snails
A GOBLIN: Or a puppy dog's tail
A GOBLIN: Thunder or lightning
JARETH: And baby said [Toby makes baby noises]
GOBLINS: Dance magic dance
JARETH: Dance magic dance
GOBLINS: Dance magic dance
JARETH: Dance magic dance
GOBLINS: Put that baby spell on me
GOBLINS: Jump magic jump
JARETH: Jump magic jump
GOBLINS: Jump magic jump
JARETH: Jump magic jump
GOBLINS:
Put that magic jump on me
Slap that baby
Make him free
[Scene: Sarah in labyrinth. She takes out her lipstick and marks an arrow on a stone slab on the floor to mark where she is going. When she continues on, a little guy pops up from underneath yelling at her and flipping the stone over]
LITTLE GUY: Hey, what goes on? [yells incomprehensibly] Your mother is a fraggin' aardvark!
[Scene: Castle throne room]
JARETH: [to Toby, who he is holding] In 9 hours and 23 minutes, you'll be mine]
JARETH:
I saw my baby
Trying hard as babe could try
What could I do
My baby's fun had gone
And left my baby blue
Nobody knew
ALL: What kind of magic spells to use
A GOBLIN: Slime and snails
A GOBLIN: Puppy dog's tails
A GOBLIN: Thunder or lightning
JARET: And baby said [Toby makes baby noises]
GOBLINS: Dance magic dance
JARETH: Dance magic dance
GOBLINS: Dance magic dance
JARETH: Dance magic dance
GOBLINS:
Put that baby spall on me
Jump magic jump
JARETH: Jump magic jump
GOBLINS: Jump magic jump
JARETH: Jump magic jump
GOBLINS:
Put that magic jump on me
Slap that baby, make him free
Dance magic dance
JARETH: Dance magic dance
GOBLINS: Dance magic dance
JARETH: Dance magic dance
GOBLINS: Dance magic dance
JARETH: Dance magic dance
GOBLINS: Dance magic dance
JARETH: Dance magic dance
GOBLINS: Dance magic dance
JARETH: Jump magic jump
GOBLINS: Jump magic jump
JARETH: Jump magic jump
GOBLINS: Jump magic jump
Put that baby spell on me
JARETH: Ooooohhh....
[Scene: Sarah in labyrinth. She marks a stone like before and this time 2 little guys come up from underneath and rotate the stone]
LITTLE GUY 1: You got it?
LITTLE GUY 2: I got it.
LITTLE GUY 1: Good.
LITTLE GUY 2: Shhhhh!
SARAH: [sees a dead end in front of her] No...[goes back to her marker and sees it has changed] Someone has been changing my marks. What a horrible place this is! It's not fair!
[2 doors are now where the dead end once was. The doors are guarded by creatures holding a shield before each door. There is a creature peeking from the top of the shield and one from the bottom. It's the same on both shields]
LEFT SHIELD BOTTOM: That's right, it's not fair. [all laugh] But that's only half of it.
SARAH: This was a dead end a minute ago.
RIGHT SHIELD BOTTOM: No, that's the dead end behind you [all laugh]
SARAH: It keeps changing. What am I supposed to do?
LEFT SHIELD BOTTOM: Well the only way out of here is to try one of these doors.
RIGHT SHIELD BOTTOM: One of them leads to the castle at the center of the labyrinth and the other one leads to--
RIGHT SHIELD TOP: Ba ba ba boooom!
RIGHT SHIELD BOTTOM: --certain death! [all 'oooh!']
SARAH: So which one is which?
LEFT DOOR BOTTOM: Ah, we can't tell you.
SARAH: Why not?
LEFT DOOR BOTTOM: We don'e know.
RIGHT DOOR BOTTOM: But they do.
SARAH: Oh. Then I'll ask them.
LEFT SHIELD TOP: No you can't ask us. You can only ask one of us.
RIGHT SHIELD TOP: Mmm-hmm. It's in the rules. And I should warn you that one of us always tells the truth and one of us always lies. That's a rule too. He always lies.
LEFT SHIELD TOP: I do not. I tell the truth.
RIGHT SHIELD TOP: Oh what a lie!
LEFT SHIELD TOP: Oh! He's the liar.
SARAH: [to left shield top] All right. Answer yes or no. Would he [pointing to right shield top] tell me that this door leads to the castle?
LEFT SHIELD TOP: Ahhhh...[whispers to bottom] Yes?
SARAH: Then the other door leads to the castle and this door leads to certain death.
[all 'oooh!']
LEFT SHIELD TOP: How do you know? He could be telling the truth.
SARAH: But then you wouldn't be. So if you told me that he said yes, I know the answer is no.
LEFT SHIELD TOP: But I could be telling the truth.
SARAH: But then he would by lying. So if you told me that he said yes, I know the answer would still be no.
LEFT SHIELD TOP: Wait a minute. [to right shield top] Is that right?
RIGHT SHIELD TOP: I don't know. I've never understood it. [all laugh]
SARAH: No, it's right. I figured it out. I could never do it before. I think I'm getting smarter. [starts going through right door] This is a piece of cake! [she takes a few steps and falls through a trap in the floor with a scream]
[Scene: Shaft leading down. Lots of hands line the walls of the shaft and they grab at and hold Sarah suspended. Different pairs of hands take turns speaking.]
SARAH: Help! Stop it! Help!
HANDS: What do you mean 'help'? We are helping.
HANDS: We're helping hands.
SARAH: You're hurting.
HANDS: Would you like us to let go?
HANDS: Well then, come on, which way?
SARAH: Which way?
HANDS: Up or down?
SARAH: Oh.
HANDS: Come on, come on.
HANDS: We haven't got all day.
HANDS: Well it's a big decision for her.
HANDS: Which way do you want to go, hmm?
HANDS: Yes, which way?
SARAH: Well, since I'm pointed that way I guess I'll go down.
HANDS: She chose down!
HANDS: She chose down? Ha!
SARAH: Was that wrong?
HANDS: Too late now! [the hands drop her down and she lands in a dark room]
[Scene: Sarah sitting in a dark room, an oubliette, a shaft of light coming out of the slammed door up above]
[Scene: At the castle]
JARETH: [looking at Sarah in a crystal he is holding] She's in the oubliette. [goblins laugh] shut up! She shouldn't have gotten as far as the oubliette. She should have given up by now.
A GOBLIN: She'll never give up now.
JARETH: Won't she? The dwarf's about to lead her back to the beginning. She'll soon give up when she realizes she has to start all over again. Ha ha ha.. [goblins are quiet] Well, laugh! [goblins all laugh]
[Scene: The oubliette]
SARAH: [hearing noise] Who's there?
HOGGLE: Me. [lights candle]
SARAH: Oh it's you!
HOGGLE: Ah, yes, well I knew you were gonna get into trouble as soon as I met you so I've come to give you a hand. Oh, you're looking around now, aren't you? I suppose you noticed there ain't no doors. Only the hole. This is an oubliette. Labyrinth's full of 'em.
SARAH: Really? How do you know that?
HOGGLE: Oh don't sound so smart. You don't even know what an oubliette is.
SARAH: Do you?
HOGGLE: Yes. It's a place you put people to forget about 'em. Now what you've gotta do is get out of here. And it just so happens that I know a short cut out of the whole labyrinth from here.
SARAH: No, I'm not giving up now! I've come too far. No, I'm doing ok.
HOGGLE: Of course you are. But it gets a lot worse from here on in.
SARAH: Why are you so concerned about me?
HOGGLE: Oh well, well I am that's all. Nice young girl, terrible black oubliette.
SARAH: You like jewelry, don't you?
HOGGLE: Why?
SARAH: If you help me solve the labyrinth, I'll give you this. [takes off her bracelet and holds it in front of him] You like it, don't you?
HOGGLE: Oh, so-so.
SARAH: [starting to put the bracelet away] Oh. Ok.
HOGGLE: Tell you what. You give me the bracelet and I'll show the way out of the labyrinth.
SARAH: You were gonna do that anyway!
HOGGLE: Yes, well that's what would make it a particularly nice gesture on your part.
SARAH: No. I'll, I'll tell you what. If you can't take me to the center, take me as far as you can then I'll do it on my own.
HOGGLE: What is that anyway?
SARAH: Plastic.
HOGGLE: I don't promise nothing but I'll take you as far as I can, then you're on your own, right?
SARAH: Right.
HOGGLE: Right. Wow. Plastic! [uncovers door lying on ground and props it up against the wall. He opens it on the left side and buckets and things fall out.] Damn. Broom closet. Well, can't be right all the time. [he then closes the door and opens it from the right side, revealing a way out] Ah, this is it. Come on then.
[Scene: A passage way with rock walls. While they walk, faces in the rock speak to them in ominous tones.]
HOGGLE: This way.
FACE 1: Don't go on.
FACE 2: Go back while you still can.
FACE 3: This is not the way.
FACE 4: Take heed and go no further.
FACE 5: Beware. Beware!
FACE 6: Soon it will be too late.
HOGGLE: Yah. Don't pay any attention to them. They're just false alarms. You get a lot of them in the labyrinth. Especially when you're on the right track.
FACE 7: Oh no you're not.
HOGGLE: Shut up!
FACE 7: I'm sorry..just doing my job.
HOGGLE: Well you don't have to do it to us.
FACE 8: Beware, for the--
HOGGLE: Just forget it.
FACE 8: Oh please. I haven't said it for such a long time.
HOGGLE: Oh all right. But don't expect a big reaction.
FACE 8: No no no, of course not. [clears throat] For the path you will take will lead to certain destruction! [as he's speaking a crystal is rolling down the path past them] Thank you very much.
SARAH: Uh-oh.
HOGGLE: Oh, no.
OLD WOMAN: [the crystal rolls along and hops into a cup being held by what appears to look and sound like an old woman] Ah, what have we here?
HOGGLE: Ah, nothing.
OLD WOMAN: Nothing? Nothing? [the woman stands and takes off the costume, revealing Jareth]
JARETH: Nothing, tra-la-la.
HOGGLE: Your majesty. What a nice surprise.
JARETH: Hello Hedgewart.
SARAH: Hogwart.
HOGGLE: Hoggle.
JARETH: Hoggle, can it be that you're helping this girl?
HOGGLE: Helping? In what sense?
JARETH: In the sense that you're leading her towards the castle.
HOGGLE: No, no, I was taking her back to the beginning your majesty.
SARAH: What?
HOGGLE: I told her I was gonna help her solve the labyrinth. A little trickery on my part. But, but actually--
JARETH: What is that plastic thing 'round your wrist?
HOGGLE: Oh - oh this! Oh my goodness, where did this come from?
JARETH: Higgle--
HOGGLE: Hoggle.
JARETH: --yes. If I thought for one second taht you were betraying me, I'd be forced to suspend you headfirst in the Bog of Eternal Stench.
HOGGLE: No your majesty! Not the Eternal Stench!
JARETH: Oh yes, Hoggle! And you, Sarah. How are you enjoying my labyrinth?
SARAH: It's a piece of cake.
HOGGLE: Oh!
JARETH: REally? Then how about upping the stakes? Hmm? [a closk appears and he motions for it to move spin forward, shortening her deadline]
SARAH: That's not fair!
JARETH: You say that so often. I wonder what your basis for comparison is. So the labyrinth is a piece of cake, is it? Well let's see how you deal with this little slice. [he produces a crystal and throws it down the hall. A machine appears, taking up the whole hallway. It has spikes and spinning blades and is coming straight towards them]
HOGGLE: Oh no, the cleaners!
SARAH: What?
HOGGLE: Run!
SARAH: [helping Hoggle up after he trips] Are you ok? Come on! Faster!
HOGGLE: [both banging on a locked gate blocking their path] The cleaners! The Bog of Stench! you sure got his attention!
[Sarah starts pushing on a closed door on the right, Hoggle helps and they both push it in just in time.]
[Scene: In a room with a ladder]
HOGGLE: Ah [heading towards ladder] this is what we need. A ladder. Follow me.
SARAH: But how can I trust you now that I know you were taking me to the beginning of the labyrinth?
HOGGLE: I wasn't. I told him I was taking you back to the beginning just to throw him off the scent.
SARAH: Hoggle, how can I believe anything you say?
HOGGLE: Well let me put it this way. What choice have you got?
SARAH: You're right. [she starts climbing after Hoggle]
HOGGLE: You see, you've gotta understand my position. I'm a coward and Jareth scares me.
SARAH: What kind of position is that?
HOGGLE: No position. That's my point. And you wouldn't be so brave if you'd ever smelled the Bog of Eternal Stench. It's, it's, it's--
SARAH: Is taht all it does, is smell?
HOGGLE: Oh believe me, that's enough. But the worst thing is, if you so much as put a foot in the Bog of Stench, you'll smell bad for the rest of your life. It'll never wash off. Ah!
[Scene: Outside in a part of the labyrinth. They climb out of a big stone jug.]
HOGGLE: Here we are then. You're on your own from now on.
SARAH: What?
HOGGLE: That's it. I quit.
SARAH: Wait a minute. Hoggle!
HOGGLE: I didn't promise nothin'! I said I'd take you as far as I could go.
SARAH: You little cheat! You nasty little cheat!
HOGGLE: Now don't try to embarrass me. I've got no pride.
