(peaceful music)
Thank you.
Never let them see that they get to you.
So...things do get to you?
Oh, I mean, not not anymore but
I was small
and emotionally unbalanced like you once.
(sarcastically) Har-har.
No, it's true.
I think I was eight, maybe nine,
and all I wanted to do was join the junior ranger scouts.
NICK: So, my mom scraped together enough money
to buy me a brand new uniform, (Child Nick laughs)
because, by God, I was gonna fit in,
even if I was the only predator in the troop, the only fox.
WOODCHUCK: Okay Nick.
NICK: I was gonna be part of a pack.
Ready for initiation?
Yeah, pretty much born ready.
NICK: I was so proud.
(finger snap)
(flashlight flicker)
WOODCHUCK: Okay, now raise your right paw
and deliver the oath.
I, Nicholas Wilde, promise to be brave, loyal, helpful and trustworthy!
Even though you're a FOX?
...What...?...
(grunts) Ohh!
No! NO!
What'd I do wrong, you guys?!
NICK: No please tell me, what did I do wrong?!
What'd I do?! NO!!
(chuckles) If you thought we would ever trust a fox without a muzzle,
you're even dumber than you LOOK!
(all laughing maliciously)
KID: Crybaby.
SECOND KID: Aw, is he gonna cry?
(laughter continues)
(breathing heavily)
(straining)
(shouts)
(sobbing softly)
NICK: I learned two things that day.
One..I was never gonna let anyone ever see that they got to me.
And two?
If the world's only gonna see a fox
as shifty and untrustworthy,
then there's no point in trying to be anything else.
Nick, you are so much more than that.