The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998 Video)

Suzanne Pleshette: Zira

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Quotes 

• Zira : It's over, Simba! I have dreamed of nothing else for years!

  Timon : [speaking to himself]  Boy, does she need a hobby.

• Simba : Zira.

  Zira : Simba.

  [sees the lionesses, Nala, Timon and Pumbaa confronting her] 

  Zira : Nala.

  Nala : Zira.

  Timon : Timon, Pumbaa. Great! Now, that we all know each other, GET OUT OF OUR PRIDE LANDS!

  Zira : *Your* Pride Lands?

  [roars thunderously at Timon, who cowers behind Pumbaa's head] 

• Zira : Well done, Kovu. Just like we've always planned.

  Simba : You!

  Adult Kovu : No! I didn't have anything to do with this!

  Zira : Attack!

• Zira : What is your destiny?

  Kovu : I will avenge Scar. Take his place in the Pride Lands.

  Zira : Yes! What have I taught you?

  Kovu : Simba is the enemy.

  Zira : And What... must... do?

  Kovu : I must *kill* him!

• Zira : Vitani, now!

  Adult Vitani : No, Mother.

  [looks at Simba's pride, then at Zira] 

  Adult Vitani : Kiara's right.

  [walks over to Kovu's side] 

  Adult Vitani : Enough.

  Zira : If you will not fight, then you will die as well.

  [all of the remaining Outsiders head towards Simba and his pride] 

  Zira : Where are you going? Get back here!

  Simba : Let it go, Zira. It's time to put the past behind us.

  Zira : [now alone]  I'll *never* let it go!

  [camera points to more logs blocking the river and back to Zira showing her eyes] 

  Zira : This is for you, Scar.

• Zira : Scar, watch over my poor Nuka.

• Simba : Kiara?

  Zira : Kovu! Move.

  Simba : Stand aside.

  Kiara : Daddy, this has to stop.

  Zira : You're even weaker than I thought. Get out of the way!

  Kovu : You'll never hurt Kiara *or* Simba! Not while I'm here.

  [Zira snarls] 

  Simba : Stay out of this.

  Kiara : A wise king once told me, "We are one." I didn't understand him then. Now I do.

  Simba : But... they...

  Kiara : Them? Us? Look at them! They *are* us. What differences do you see?

• Simba : Last chance, Zira. Go home.

  Zira : I am home.

  [pause] 

  Zira : Attack!

• Kiara : [Alternate Scene] 

  [Zira is clinging onto the rock for her life when Kiara reaches out her paw to help] 

  Kiara : Zira, give me your paw!

  Zira : [after looking down at the flood below, Zira grins disturbingly at Kiara and whispers vehemently]  . No! Never!

  [Lets go of the rock and falls into the swollen valley below] 

  Zira : .

• Zira : [snarling]  You're sure?

  Adult Vitani : Affirmative. I saw it with my own eyes.

  Zira : Kovu cannot betray us!

• Zira : Nuka.

  Nuka : I'm sorry, mother... I tried...

  Zira : Sshh.

  [She cradles his face in her paw. He dies] 

• Zira : Kovu was the last born before you exiled us to the Outlands where we have little food, less water.

  Simba : You know the penalty for returning to the Pride Lands!

  Zira : But the child does *not*! However, if you need your pound of flesh, here.

  [pushes Kovu towards Simba] 

  Simba : Take him and get out. We're finished here.

  [picks up Kiara delicately] 

  Zira : Oh, no, Simba. We have barely begun.

  [chuckles at Kiara and picks up Kovu] 

• Zira : These lands belong to Scar!

  Simba : I banished you from the Pride Lands! Now, you *and* your young cub, get out!

  Zira : Oh! Haven't you met my son, Kovu? He was hand chosen by Scar to follow in his pawprints and become king.

• Zira : Scar, watch over my poor Nuka.

  [furiously turns to Kovu] 

  Zira : You!

  [slashes at Kovu, giving him a scratch over his eye just like Scar's] 

  Zira : What have you done?

  Kovu : I didn't... I-I didn't mean to, i-it wasn't my fault, I... I did *nothing*!

  Zira : Exactly! And in doing so, you betrayed your pride. Betrayed Scar!

  Kovu : I want nothing more to do with him!

  Zira : You cannot escape it! Nuka is dead because of *you*!

  Kovu : No.

  Zira : You've killed your own brother!

  Kovu : NO!

  [flees]