- [Presenting Mrs. Brisby with a glowing amulet]
- Nicodemus: Courage of the heart is very rare. The stone has a power when it's there.
- [Mrs. Brisby reads the inscription on the amulet]
- Mrs. Brisby: You can unlock any door if you only have the key.
- Great Owl: I must bid you good evening, Mrs...
- Mrs. Brisby: Mrs. Brisby.
- Great Owl: Brisby? Mrs. Johnathan Brisby?
- Mrs. Brisby: Why, yes. He was my husband. But how did you know about him?
- Great Owl: That is not important. I will say this. His name is not unknown in these woods.
- [first lines]
- Nicodemus: Johnathan Brisby was killed today while helping with the plan. It is four years since our departure from NIMH and our world is changing. We cannot stay here much longer. Johnathan was a dear friend. I am lost in knowing how to help his widow. She knows nothing about us or the plan. Perhaps best that I do nothing at present. I shall miss him. Johnathan, wherever you are, your thoughts must comfort her tonight. She will be waiting and you will not return. Farewell... my friend.
- Jeremy: Well, do you like me?
- Mrs. Brisby: Of course I like you. Bye now.
- [resumes her journey home]
- Jeremy: No, I mean. I mean... I mean you don't think I'm clumsy or anything?
- [loses balance, falls through hole]
- Mrs. Brisby: Auntie Shrew, what's going on?
- Auntie Shrew: Indeed.
- Mrs. Brisby: Please, come back inside.
- Auntie Shrew: Not for a king's ransom. I just have one thing to say,
- [pointing at Martin]
- Auntie Shrew: that child is a brat.
- Mrs. Brisby: Yes, I will speak to him.
- Auntie Shrew: I came here to inform you that the frost is off the ground and moving day is at hand. Prepare to move your very, very odd family. Good day.
- [as she walks out]
- Auntie Shrew: You never know what might be lurking about out there, what with rats in the field.
- Jeremy: Miss Bris. Oh, Bris. Where are you?
- Mrs. Brisby: Over here.
- Jeremy: [Arrives with bag of string] Here it is. I brought the whole nest. There's plenty more where this came from, too. I've got connections. Hey, your house is moved. Oh, no! What am I gonna do with all this string?
- Mrs. Brisby: You'll think of something.
- Jeremy: [sigh] What's the use. What's a guy like me going to do with a love nest, anyway?
- [as he starts to leave Jeremy is knocked over by another crow]
- Jeremy: [groans] Excuse me, pardon me.
- Miss Right: Excuse me, pardon me.
- Cynthia: Look, mommy, another turkey.
- Jeremy: If I had actually been near a cat, I'd be sneezing my brains out. See, I'm allergic to... I'm allergic to... I'm allergic to... I'm a...
- [sneezes]
- Nicodemus: Johnathan, wherever you are, your thoughts must comfort her tonight. She will be waiting and you will not return.
- Mrs. Brisby: I went to see the Great Owl.
- Mr. Ages: The Owl. You say you saw the Owl?
- Mrs. Brisby: Yes. And he said I should ask for Nicodemus.
- Mr. Ages: I know Nicodemus.
- Mrs. Brisby: He lives with the rats.
- Mr. Ages: More specifically, he's the leader of the rats.
- Mrs. Brisby: You know him?
- Mr. Ages: [abruptly] No one has ever seen the Owl! And live to tell about it.
- Mrs. Brisby: You're in great danger. NIMH is coming.
- Jenner: Come come. Let's return to the rosebush.
- Mrs. Brisby: NIMH's coming.
- Rat 1: NIMH?
- Mrs. Brisby: In the morning.
- Rat 2: NIMH?
- Mrs. Brisby: Yes. You will all die unless you leave the farm tonight.
- Jenner: Lies.
- Mrs. Brisby: Please! You must believe me.
- Rat 1: What if it's true?
- Rat 2: We'll all be killed.
- Rat 3: Don't panic.
- Jenner: Don't listen. She's hysterical.
- Mrs. Brisby: Get out now!
- [With a vicious backhand, Jenner sends Mrs. Brisby flying. He shucks his cape and draws his sword]
- Jenner: You get out. I've had enough.
- Martin: I'm not afraid of the dark.
- Auntie Shrew: Martin.
- Martin: I'm not afraid of the farmer.
- Auntie Shrew: I can't hear.
- Martin: I'm not afraid of Dragon. I'm not even afraid of... of the Great Owl.
- Auntie Shrew: Will you hush up?
- Martin: You hush up.
- Teresa: Martin.
- Auntie Shrew: Precocious monster.
- Martin: Bossy bullfrog.
- Auntie Shrew: Spoiled brat.
- Martin: Loudmouth.
- Auntie Shrew: Well! That will be quite enough. Thank you.
- Mrs. Brisby: If you're going to feather a nest, you've got a lot to learn about how to treat a lady.
- Jeremy: Right. When you're right, you're right. And you're right. None of the girls I meet wanna get serious.
- Mrs. Brisby: I doubt they'd survive.
- Jeremy: [needs something to impress a female crow he just met] Mrs. Bris, Mrs. Bris, let me have the sparkly! I gotta have the sparkly. Mrs. B, I gotta have it. Girls can't resist a sparkly. Please. Please!
- Mrs. Brisby: I gave it to Justin.
- Jeremy: Justin? Who the heck is Justin?
- Mrs. Brisby: The leader of the rats.
- Jeremy: "The leader of the rats." How could you do this to me? What'll I say, Mrs. B? What'll I do?
- Mrs. Brisby: Well, Just be... Be athletic!
- Jeremy: That's right. Athletic.
- [gets up and starts running back to female crow]
- Jeremy: I'll just be a little...
- [trips over Cynthia]
- Jeremy: I think I got real potential. I mean, girls go for the athletic type, don't they?
- Mrs. Brisby: Jeremy, you're stepping on my tail.
- Jeremy: Oh, yeah. Excuse me. Pardon me.
- Mrs. Brisby: Jeremy?
- Jeremy: [shushes] I'm being followed.
- Mrs. Brisby: Followed?
- Jeremy: There's a crazy lady with a hat. She has big teeth, she tied me up, and then...
- [Sees Mrs. Brisby's amulet]
- Jeremy: A sparkly.
- Mrs. Brisby: What?
- Jeremy: You're wearing a sparkly. Can I hold? Please, can I?
- Mrs. Brisby: Jeremy, listen.
- Jeremy: [still mesmerized by the amulet] Wow.
- Mrs. Brisby: I need lots and lots of string.
- Jeremy: String.
- Mrs. Brisby: To move the block.
- Jeremy: Move the block. Hey! I've got string. I've been saving them.
- Mrs. Brisby: You do?
- Jeremy: Oh, sure. Red ones, blue ones, green, yellow...
- Mrs. Brisby: Pay attention. Got get all the strings you can.
- Jeremy: Okay. That'll take all day.
- Mrs. Brisby: Good. Get going.
- Jeremy: I... I just thought I'd mention in passing... I've always wanted a sparkly of my very own.
- Mrs. Brisby: Will you get going?
- Jeremy: Sure. Excuse me. Pardon me. Bye.
- Mrs. Brisby: Forgive me. I just noticed you were limping.
- Mr. Ages: That is none of your affair. Now, to what you are about to see in here, you must swear absolute secrecy.
- Mrs. Brisby: Yes, I...
- Mr. Ages: Swear it.
- Mrs. Brisby: I promise.
- Mr. Ages: If any of this ever got out, we'd have humankind bulldozing their way down here to blow the place apart.
- Mrs. Brisby: Is it always so dark?
- Mr. Ages: We're down three feet.
- Auntie Shrew: The Great Owl would know what to do about this. You must go see him.
- Mrs. Brisby: I couldn't do that. Owls eat mice.
- Auntie Shrew: Well, my child, show a little courage. We're fighting for Timmy's life.
- Nicodemus: In the beginning, we were ordinary street rats stealing our daily bread and living off the efforts of man's work. We were captured, put in cages, and sent to a place called NIMH. There were other animals there in cages. They were put through the most unspeakable tortures to satisfy some scientific curiosity. Often, at night, I would hear them cry out in anguish. Twenty rats and eleven mice were given injections. Our world began changing.
- Auntie Shrew: You think the world owes you a living, right?
- Jeremy: Right.
- Auntie Shrew: Wrong!
- Jeremy: Wrong!
- Nicodemus: Johnathan, your wife has come at last. Perhaps now I can repay you for your kindness to me. Yet Mrs. Brisby may serve the rats of NIMH more than we her. Jenner, I fear, could do her harm. He is consumed by a lust for power. Thus far, the amulet has remained safely hidden. But if he finds it, heaven help us.
- Mrs. Fitzgibbons: Dragon, you lazy kitty. Go chase some of those rats out in the barn. I've never seen a cat sleep so much.
- Jeremy: Say! You were a girl once. You can teach me how to... You know, how to...
- Mrs. Brisby: Behave yourself?
- Jeremy: I'm not that bad. I just need a few pointers to polish my style.
- [trips and falls down]
- Mrs. Brisby: Jeremy, I've got to go home.
- Jeremy: [stutters] Let me fly you home. We can talk on the way.
- Mrs. Brisby: Oh, no, thank you. I'm afraid of heights.
- Jeremy: Okay, then. We'll walk.
- Justin: [after battling Jenner] Friends, tonight we journey to Thorn Valley. We will leave no tracks. No evidence that the rats of NIMH ever existed. Come.
- Martin: Well, I guess we better untie him.
- Teresa: But, Martin.
- Martin: Hey! Mom helped a crow in the field the day before yesterday.
- Cynthia: He's trying to talk.
- Teresa: He looks like a loony.
- Martin: He even took her to see the... The Great Owl.
- Teresa: So?
- Martin: This could be the same crow.
- Jeremy: That's me. I am the crow. Untie me quick. I can't stand it.
- Teresa: What are you doing here?
- Jeremy: It's a good question, but don't ask. The legs, the legs, the legs!
- [Falls down]
- Cynthia: Aw, the poor turkey fall down.
- Jeremy: I'm not a turkey! Your mother...
- Teresa: Where's our mother?
- Jeremy: Hold it. No.
- Martin: You big buzzard. Where's our mother? You better tell me or I'll...
- Jeremy: You're tickling!
- Martin: Or I'll tie you back up again.
- Jeremy: The rosebush to see the rats.
- Teresa: Did you take our mother to the rats?
- Martin: I'm gonna go look for her.
- Jeremy: No, no, listen. Hold it. Wait a minute. The rats, they're friendly. Good. Tonight, stay. They're coming here to move your house where it's safe. Understand? Stay. The Owl said they're good and smart. Get it?
- Martin: You're right. He's a loony.
- Mrs. Brisby: Please, sir. I'll do anything for Timothy. Anything.
- Great Owl: There is a way. Go to the rats.
- Mrs. Brisby: But I don't know any rats.
- Great Owl: In the rosebush.
- Mrs. Brisby: Yes. Near the farmhouse.
- Great Owl: Go there. Ask for Nicodemus.
- Mrs. Brisby: Nicodemus? But how can they help?
- Great Owl: They must move your house to the lee of the stone.
- Mrs. Brisby: No rat could move my house. It's...
- Great Owl: They have ways.
- Mrs. Brisby: I don't understand, but I will do as you say.
- Jeremy: Nice evening, huh? I told you you'd love flying.
- Mrs. Brisby: I don't know how I let you talk me into this.
- Nicodemus: Johnathan couldn't tell you about NIMH because the injections slowed the aging process. You see, you would have grown old while he remained young.
- Mrs. Brisby: Well, you keep making all that noise and Dragon will hear you. If he hasn't already.
- Jeremy: Wouldn't you sing, too? I mean, if you felt...
- [laughs]
- Jeremy: if you felt the call of the wild?
- Mrs. Brisby: I would... I would not if I knew there was a cat nearby.
- Jeremy: But... But she's out there. Somewhere. And when I find her, I'll feel it way down in my wishbone. I'd... What cat?
- Jenner: Listen, the Brisby house is a large cement block. In the moving, what if it should fall?
- Sullivan: An accident?
- Jenner: Of course. Cut the lines and the weight of it will crush his bones.
- Sullivan: It's risky.
- Jenner: Once rid of Nicodemus, the plan will die. We can stay here as long as we like.
- Sullivan: What about Justin?
- Jenner: Leave him to me.
- Justin: It's Jenner. He's at it again.
- Mr. Ages: There blows an ill wind.
- Justin: He's before the council now. This time he's attacking Nicodemus openly.
- Mr. Ages: And the plan, no doubt.
- Justin: Nothing will come of it. It'll pass.
- Mr. Ages: Beware, boy, he's dangerous. Jenner could be the undoing of the rats of NIMH.
- Auntie Shrew: Why me? That I alone should be responsible for the welfare of the entire field is monstrous.
- [Mrs. Brisby listens to the farmer start the tractor]
- Auntie Shrew: What did I tell you? Moving day.
- Mrs. Brisby: It can't be.
- Auntie Shrew: It certainly can. I don't supposed you've packed.
- Mrs. Brisby: What about Timmy? The chill in the air could kill him.
- Auntie Shrew: Well, child, that tractor surely will. For the last time, get your children out of here before it's too late.
- Jeremy: Well, let me explain... What a lovely hat you're wearing.
- Auntie Shrew: Don't you sweet talk me.
- [Jeremy sneaks up behind her wearing a human blouse like a large hooded robe - he pulls the "hood" back]
- Mrs. Brisby: [surprised] Jeremy? What on Earth?
- Jeremy: [whispering] I'm in disguise.
- [laughs]
- Mrs. Brisby: Jeremy, please. Not now. I'm trying to find the entrance. And these thorns are very dense.
- Cynthia: Is Timmy gonna die?
- Mrs. Brisby: No, sweetheart. He's just very sick.
- Teresa: What's the matter with him, Mother?
- Mrs. Brisby: Mr. Ages called it pneumonia.
- Teresa: Pneumonia.
- Cynthia: When will he get better?
- Mrs. Brisby: Soon, I hope.
- Mrs. Brisby: [after Auntie Shrew has left after being mistreated by Martin, she glares seriously at Teresa, Martin and Cynthia] Well, children, now, you've done it.
- Teresa: [making a point] It was Martin.
- Mrs. Brisby: [understanding; as she crosses to the fireplace to mix Timothy's medicine with a broth] The Shrew means well. She only wants to help.
- Martin: [feeling guilty over his behavior in front of Auntie Shrew, as he follows Mrs. Brisby into Timothy's bedroom] Gosh, I'm sorry, Mom.
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