Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series)

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1985)

Keram Malicki-Sánchez: Willie, Lame Boy

Quotes 

• Lame Boy : And just as I became assured my lame foot would be speedily cured, the music stopped and I stood still...

  [we see the Lame Boy at night standing before the place in the mountain where the portal had opened] 

  Lame Boy : and found myself outside the hill...

  Lame man : [He turns around and we see him grown into an adult]  Left alone against my will... to go now limping as before and never hear of that country more.

• Lame Boy : [holding up a rat for the Pied Piper to see]  You're needed here without a doubt... you must have figured *that* much out.

• Lame Boy : Are you an actor?

  The Pied Piper : You might call me a rat attractor.

• Willie : But I'm on holiday! What's the point of being on holiday if you can't stay up?

  Robert Browning : That's a very clever argument, young Willie, to be sure! And while I'm certain I can't answer it as you phrased it, put like that I see no reason why you shouldn't stay up until dawn; that's what holidays are for.

• The Pied Piper : This I'll promise... the time may come when I wear out my current welcome. Should that happen, you have my word I'll remember what I heard and give you my protection.

  Lame Boy : Against what?

  The Pied Piper : Why, unnatural selection.