(Opening titles appear with dramatic muziki in the background.)
(It's night now and everyone is sleeping in the den. Humphrey tosses and turns, talking in his sleep.)
Humphrey: Mom. Dad. No. Don't leave. Help!
(Meanwhile, just outside the den, Kate and Winston are quietly talking.)
Winston: We can't keep it a secret any longer. He has to know the truth.
Kate: I agree.
(The inayofuata day, Winston calls a pack meeting.)
Winston: Everyone, quiet!
(The entire pack was gathered in the center of the valley. Winston stood on a rock as Cando and Hutch sat on either side of him.
Hutch: Are wewe sure we should really tell him, sir?
Winston: He has to know.
(Everyone quiets down as Winston begins to speak)
Winston: Everyone, we are faced with a time we all knew would come. A time, we all knew would be hard on this pack. But it will not be as hard for us as it will be for Humphrey.
(Everyone turns to look at Humphrey, who is sitting at the very back of the assembly)
Winston: Humphrey. Come here. We have something we need to discuss that is of the utmost importance.
(Humphrey walks to the front)
Winston: It's time wewe learned how got here. How wewe came to be in this pack.
(There was a silence that followed these words)
Winston: When we first found you, wewe were still quite young, but it was obvious wewe had been on your own for a long time.
Humphrey: What happened?
Winston (to Cando and Hutch): I think wewe two should take it from here.
Cando: Right.
(Winston steps down as Hutch and Cando step onto the rock.)
Cando: The siku we found wewe started off like any other day.
(Movie flashes back to when Humphrey was found with Cando and Hutch narrating)
Hutch: We were on a routine patrol around the edges of the territory.
(Flashback shows Cando and Hutch walking through dense woods in the early hours of the morning. A small silhouette appears through the morning mist.)
Hutch: When we were about to turn around and head back, we noticed something. A small shape in the mist.
Hutch (in flashback): Who are you!?
(The figure slowly moves closer. Soon enough, the shape of a young mbwa mwitu pup is visible.)
Cando: wewe were so young, and we couldn't understand why such a young pup would be out all alone.
Hutch: We didn't recognize wewe from the Western au the Eastern pack. So we decided to take wewe to Winston.
(Winston joins Cando and Hutch on the rock)
(Flashback shows Cando and Hutch bringing a young Humphrey into the den)
Winston (in flashback): What's this?
Cando (in flashback): We don't know. We found him out on the edges of the territory.
Hutch (in flashback): It doesn't look like he's from either pack.
Winston (in flashback) Indeed.
(In the flashback, a young Kate comes out from behind Winston)
Young Kate: Dad? What's going on?
Winston: Nothing, Kate. You'll understand when you're older. Now, go back to your mother.
(Kate reluctantly obeys her father and returns to a pregnant Eve as Lilly hasn't been born yet.)
Hutch: What do wewe want us to do, sir?
Winston: Well, we can't just leave him. It's a wonder he's even alive. Leave him with me. I'll take care of him for the day, then we'll decide what to do tomorrow.
(Back in the present day)
Winston: wewe were quite rambunctious that siku and it quickly became clear that wewe were an omega. wewe also became fast Marafiki with Kate, mostly because she couldn't contain her curiosity of you.
(Humphrey looks over at Kate)
Humphrey: I remember. She couldn't stop asking questions.
(Kate turns away and smiles as she remembers)
Winston: We decided to accept wewe into the pack and it wasn't long before wewe met your other friends. Over the first couple of years, wewe lot were quite the troublemakers, but it wasn't long before wewe all grew into the Mbwa mwitu loups wewe are today.
(Humphrey struggles to speak, the thoughts weighing down on his mind)
Humphrey: But what...what about my...parents?
(Winston sighs)
Winston: No one here really knows what happened the siku wewe Lost your parents. Only wewe can tell us that.
Humphrey: But all I remember are images. I just remember a cage and, a truck, I think.
(Humphrey stops, and then gets a look on his face. Like an "aha!" look because he's just remembered something else.)
Humphrey (slowly): And my parents, running after the truck. Someone else was with me. There was a cage inayofuata me, but I can't remember who was in it. The last thing I remember was my dad shouting that he would find me. That was the last time I saw them.
(There is silence once again)
Winston: Humphrey, we know your parents might still be alive somewhere. And if they are, we wouldn't want to keep wewe from them. So, I've decided to let wewe go and tafuta for them. I've assembled a team to go with wewe if wewe like.
Humphrey: Really?
Winston: Of course. If they're out there, wewe have to find them. Now, as I said, I've assembled a team to go with you, if wewe want them.
Humphrey: Yes, I'll take them.
Winston: Good. Cando and Hutch will take wewe to the edge of the territory where they found you. wewe can start there. I'll also be sending Daria with you. If there's anything out there, she'll hear it. And, although there's about a million things telling me otherwise, I'm sending your pups with you, too.
Humphrey: I'll take Stinky, but Claudette and Runt stay.
Winston: Humphrey, I think wewe know as well as I do that if wewe take one, it won't be long before wewe have the other two following you. You'd be better of with all three.
Humphrey: All right.
Marcel: We're going too.
Paddy: Yes, if there's anything to see from the air, you'll hear it from us.
Kate: I'm going, too.
Garth: And so are we.
Winston: Very well. You'll leave tomorrow. Now, try and get a good night's sleep tonight. And Humphrey,
(Humphrey looks back at Winston as the pack begins to mgawanyiko, baidisha up)
Winston: Don't get your hopes up. wewe might not like what wewe find. And good luck.
