The Princess & The Dragon (2026) Movie Script
1
(VO) Life is not a fairy tale,
but yours could be.
In the
Storybook program, we will
help you turn the pages of your
life toward
the fairy tale ending you know
that you deserve.
Life is not a fairy tale, but
yours could be.
Welcome to the
Storybook program.
[building music]
[heavy breathing]
(Jenna) Hey, what? What?
What the? What is?
Hey! Hey! Hey!
What is going on? Hey! Hey!
[music]
(VO) The princess came to Castle
Keep in every room a jewel.
To crown the past and wake
from sleep, this coronation was
a jewel.
[music]
(VO) A road within yourself
unfolds the path you won't
abandon.
Yet now begins your tale untold.
The princess and the dragon.
[music]
(Jenna) What is this?
[music]
(VO) Within a soul, the dragon
asks. Can you be brave in
(VO) Castle Vast? Be bold. Be
fast. Complete each task.
[music]
(VO) This tale would have you
choose your mask.
[music]
(Jenna) Hello? Is someone there?
Hello?
Hello?
Is anyone there?
Hello?
[music]
What's going on with my
shoulder?
It's so stiff.
[music]
(VO) Within the secrets there
recorded, a tool to escape your
trial.
(VO) But to find such truth
afforded, you must defeat the
wizard style.
[music]
(Off-Screen) Welcome to the
Minus Institute. Welcome to the
Minus Institute.
[music]
[music]
(Off-Screen) Welcome to the
Minus Institute Storybook
Program.
[music]
Hello?
Hello?
Are you kidding me?
Hi?
Holy shit.
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay,
okay. No, no, you stay there.
You stay there.
I don't know who you are. I
don't know where I am.
You probably don't either. So we
could just help each other.
Get out of here and please no.
[Bang!]
[music]
Okay, quiet. Calm down. He
doesn't know where you are.
[music]
Where am I?
[Nurse] Jenna?
Jenna? Jenna?
[Jenna] Yeah, sorry. I was
listening. You were saying?
This would be a heck of a lot
easier if you took it seriously.
We help people here who are ill
and people who cannot help
themselves.
Not entitled time wasters who
think the world owes them
something.
[Jenna] Hey, I'm here because...
Because why? Because you want to
waste our time?
Because I don't want it to
happen again.
[Nurse] Okay. Because you don't
want what to happen again?
It. The cycle. Everything that
makes my life so shitty.
All. The. Time.
Language.
It's just the thing. The thing
that runs around in my brain.
(Jenna) And it feels like I can
hear and see
everything that everyone is
saying all the time.
And it's just God. It's just...
It's so loud.
And then it's quiet. And then
everyone is
quiet because Jenna doesn't like
it when it's loud.
But why is she so loud? I don't
fucking know.
(Nurse) Language.
Fuck you.
Do you want help or not?
I came here, didn't I?
So help us. Help you. And answer
the questions.
[Sound Cue]
What the heck?
What is this?
(VO) The dark within a grave
concern. Yet from despair you
must adjourn.
(VO) If lighted path you may
discern.
What is this?
Three, four, five, six.
Seven. Seven pages. Only five
more to go.
(Jenna) Who else is here?
(VO) Heartbeat. Heartbeat. In
your breast.
(VO) Twists and turns. Unlock
the chest.
(VO) Yield the gift to guide
your quest.
(VO) The dragon comes, there is
no rest.
(Jenna) It's a puzzle. You're
gonna puzzle us.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
[Mechanism Opening]
[Chink!]
[Ominous Music]
[Creepy Footsteps]
[CRASH!]
[Creepy Footsteps]
Ok, Ok, you're ok. you're ok,
you're ok.
It's just a dream, it's just a
dream, it's just a dream...
Wake up!
Ok.
[SMASH!!!]
[SCREAMING!!!]
[screaming]
[dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
[music]
[Click]
[Click]
[music]
My shoulder.
God, did he get me?
[dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
(VO) To wake at last from this
dread slumber
(VO) where you have been before,
(VO) there are here a very
careful number,
(VO) a ways to open up the door.
One, One, Two.
Three, Four, Eight,
[dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
Who am I, Gretel?
[dramatic music]
(Jenna to self) Rebecca?!
[dramatic music]
(Rebecca) I can take that.
It's okay, it's my job.
But you don't know where it
goes.
I guess, could you show me?
It just goes over here.
See, it's okay.
So what are they doing to you
here?
It's just the treatment.
Do you find this helping?
What?
Do you feel better, are the
treatments helping?
I don't think I'm supposed to
talk about this
with anyone.
Why is that?
It's either helping or it isn't.
These guys wouldn't know how to
be
kind of a bit them in the ass.
(laughing)
Language.
You're not like anyone I've met
here before.
That's because I'm not.
I'm Rebecca.
I'm Jenna.
Oh, so proper.
Pleased to meet you.
(Rebecca) So, is it helping?
I don't know, it's hard to say.
I just can't tell if I'm in a
good spot in the cycle
or if what they're doing is
working.
Sounds like you need to do some
experiments of your own.
What do you mean?
(Nurse) Jenna.
You are expected in the solarium
in two minutes.
It is a five minute walk from
here.
I'm sorry, I was just finishing
up.
We're just chatting, it's okay.
Being late is never okay.
And neither is talking to the
other patients.
Do you think we could just dial
it down?
I don't think.
I know the rules.
And so do you.
Jenna?
It was really nice getting to
meet you.
You too.
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
This is a nightmare.
This is a nightmare.
Rebecca?
Rebecca?
What on earth are you doing?
Where's Rebecca?
Who's that?
(Jenna) What do you mean who's
that?
You know damn well who I'm
talking about.
(Nurse) Language.
[Nurse] There has never been a
Rebecca here.
You are confused.
(Jenna) No, I'm not.
I've been seeing her for months.
I spoke with her last week,
but I haven't seen her since.
Sounds like we need to get you
in to see the specialist.
Hallucinations are a known side
effect of the drugs.
(Jenna) No, they're not.
I know what I saw.
I know I spoke with her.
(Nurse) And yet you didn't?
Yes, I did.
You really are taking a turn for
the worse.
Why are you doing this?
I'm not crazy.
I'm not doing anything.
I am also not the one who is a
patient here.
(Nurse) I'm going to call the
orderlies to take you back to
your room now.
Call whoever you want. I'm not
leaving until I get the truth.
Orderlies to the kitchen.
Orderlies to the kitchen.
Urgent.
(Nurse) Well, see how you handle
this situation.
(Jenna) I told you I'm not
leaving until I find out what
happened to her.
(Jenna) No! No! No! No! No!
No! Stay away!
No! Stop!
Stay away!
[eerie music]
[upbeat music]
[Kachunk!]
[gasping]
[gasping]
Oh, oh my.
[eerie music]
(screaming)
(Rebecca) Help me.
(Jenna) Oh Rebecca, Rebecca is
it you?
Help me.
(Jenna) Oh, come on, come on,
let's get you over here.
(Jenna) Rebecca, Rebecca.
Yeah, I really showed them.
Let me see if you're okay.
(eerie music)
Don't say it.
You're okay, you're okay.
No I'm not.
Oh, we just gotta figure
something out.
We're going to figure something
out, okay?
You don't get it.
No one gets out.
Except us.
(screaming)
[SMASH!]
(footsteps)
[music]
(dramatic music)
Rebecca's real.
The dragon's real.
This book, these pages, the
notes are all real.
Oh yes, yes.
(coughing)
Oooo that's stale!
(eerie music)
Seriously, what is going on with
my shoulder?
God.
[gasping]
Oh.
What?
[gasping]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
I'm the princess.
Where do I find the dragon?
Pipes.
Where do I find Pipes?
Pipes, Pipes, Pipes.
Pipes.
Pipes.
Boiler room, boiler room.
[eerie music]
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
Pipes, yes.
Boiler room.
[eerie music]
(VO) We all want to ease the
pressure
of many things we can't let
go.
Here within the dragon's
shelter,
can you let the trap breath
flow?
[eerie music]
[Click!]
[Buzzing]
[gasping]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[BANG!]
[Click]
[screaming]
[BANG!]
[eerie music]
[screaming]
[screaming]
[screaming]
[CLANG! SMASH!]
[eerie music]
(Dragon) Ooof!
Okay.
Okay.
[eerie music]
[upbeat music]
Where would you be?
It's gotta be around here
somewhere.
(VO) These trees too quiet do no
good.
(VO) The wizard's hand remains
unseen.
A crafted false and silent
wood
conceals his strange
machine.
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[CLICK]
[BZZZZZZ]
[eerie music]
[BUZZZZZZZ]
(eerie music)
(Dr. Storybook) Life is not a
fairy tale, but yours could be.
Hi, I'm Dr. Storybook and you
are...
I'm Jenna.
Jenna, of course.
How could I be so forgetful?
So, how are you doing here at
the Institute?
(somber music)
Umm, I'm okay, I guess.
No, no.
You can tell me.
(Dr. Storybook) We can't improve
if we don't know where we're
falling short.
Can we?
No, I guess not.
Well, out with it then.
Tell us how we don't know what
we're doing.
What?
Speak your truth.
Um.
Talk about how no matter how
much we adjust the medication,
the cycle resets.
Go on about the constant dread
of it coming back.
OK
(Dr. Storybook) Talk about how
the medication makes you feel
(Dr. Storybook) like a shadow of
yourself.
(Jenna) Stop.
That your hallucinations are
more real
(Dr. Storybook) than what you
can see or touch.
(Jenna) Okay, this is making me
feel--
(Dr. Storybook) Go on about how
you think we're hiding people
from you
that never actually existed.
(Jenna) She's Real!
(Jenna) Why are you doing this?
(Dr.) In fact...
Your brain doesn't know the
difference
between reality and dreams.
It's one of the side effects of
the medication.
You could argue that there is no
difference.
All of this is stories.
Your brain is programmed by
stories.
Sure.
And so, it's a part of the
program.
This program
is that you accept an archetype.
Okay, pardon me, um, doctor.
Storybook.
That's your name?
Of course not.
That's my archetype.
As I was saying, this program,
(Dr.Storybook) the storybook
program involves adopting an
archetype
as a framework for healthy
development.
I don't follow.
An archetype allows us to
put a part of our personality
over there.
So in a manner of speaking,
we can look at this part of
ourselves without judgment.
So,
I am Doctor Storybook.
And you, you can be the
princess.
I'm hardly a princess.
As I was saying, this is a
conceptual framework,
highly experimental.
(Dr. Storybook) It allows us to
look at very serious parts of
ourselves
more easily.
Your suicidal ideations.
Imagine they're outside of you,
(Dr. Storybook) hunting you
like a dragon
In a fairy tale, and this
dragon,
(Dr. Storybook) this dragon has
invaded your castle.
(Dr.) And the dragon is scary,
and it's monstrous, yes.
(Dr. Storybook) But it can be
defeated.
I'm sorry, I don't understand
what you're saying.
Yes, you do, Jenna.
You must defeat the dragon.
Okay, okay, but doesn't the
knight rescue the princess?
Prince Charming saves the
princess.
Very astute, very good Jenna!
See, I knew you'd catch on
quickly. Usually yes,
the princess does need saving
and perhaps for you,
the knight,
the knight is the answer.
But if the knight
doesn't find you,
you must find the knight.
Now my hope is of course,
that this princess
learns to save herself.
So the castle is me,
but I'm
inside of the castle?
Very good. Oh you're getting
this so quickly.
(Dr. Storybook) You Want to hurt
yourself because you believe you
deserve it.
(Jenna) What?
That Guilt, and that shame, and
that confusion...
These are the teeth of the
dragon...
and you, must cut away the
teeth...
or the dragon will eat you up my
dear.
And no one wants that.
[eerie music]
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
I know where this is.
I know where this is.
(Dr. Storybook - VO, it was
always him!) We oft times will
share our stories,
a collection of our lives,
which lift us up to unseen
glories
as if their teller never
dies.
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
Are you kidding me?
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
[Upbeat Music]
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
[ominous music]
[upbeat music]
[ominous music]
No, no.
What more do you want from me!
[ominous music)]
Are you kidding me?
No, no, no, no.
No, no.
Fine, fine, fine.
Fine, I can do this.
[ominous music]
No.
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
[sighs]
Okay.
Okay.
I Hate this place.
[ominous music]
[upbeat music]
(gasps)
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
[ominous music]
Save yourself.
Save yourself.
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
[Zip]
[ominous music]
Hey!
Where are you?
[ominous music]
This is my nightmare.
I'm not hiding anymore.
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
(VO - DR. S) Though mercy begs,
you hear the plea.
Like a serpent in
the garden.
You know at last
you have a key.
But for you, there
can be no bargain.
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
Come on, fight me!
[ominous music]
[SMASH!]
[ominous music]
[grunts]
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
[SMASH!!!]
[ominous music]
[grunts]
[etherial music]
[etherial music]
[PANTING]
You're trapped here too!
We're the same!
You don't have to do this!
please!
Stop.
[etherial music]
[CRASH!]
[etherial music]
[PANTING]
[Grunts]
[LOUD SHOT]
[GASPING]
[ominous music]
[GRUNTING]
[GASPING]
[screaming]
[screaming]
[ominous music]
[crying]
[crying]
[ominous music]
[etherial music]
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
[door unlocking]
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
[Subtle heartbeat]
[ominous music]
[Door unlocking]
[silence]
It's ok.
Are you kidding me?
[eerie music]
Are you kidding me?
No.
[eerie music]
The knight saves the princess.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No. No, God.
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
No, you're kidding me.
No.
No, no, no. [Sobbing]
[ominous music]
[eerie music]
I'm not going to die here.
[Bang!]
No. [sobbing]
[omimous music]
(Nurse) They never take the
knight do they?
They never do, because the
treatment works.
No. [sobbing]
Oh my God. [manically laughing]
Are you kidding me?
Oh great, great.
Peeew, peeew.
[maniacal laughing]
No.
No.
No. [crying]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[Clap, clap, clap - off screen]
[Clap, clap, clap]
Jenna.
Jenna.
Hi.
Hi.
There you are.
[smash!]
(Nurse) Hold her!
[laughing]
You are grand.
I'm so happy to see you've
maintained your fighting spirit.
You're going to need it.
Look at you, such progress.
Such a will to live.
It's over, I made it, I won.
And now you'll help others.
It's over.
True stories are like stories.
They're like cycles, and cycles
repeat.
A true story never ends, isn't
that right?
It just goes on and on and on
and on.
And it never ends.
This is what interests me.
This cycle, this never ending
scenario.
You don't think I'm going to end
this?
Oh, I believe you want to.
Just don't think you can.
But, let's find out, shall we?
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
(Dr. Storybook) A slight
adjustment.
[Ominous Music]
No, no, no, no.
[crying]
[muffled screaming]
[Ominous Music]
[muffled screaming]
We'll see you again soon.
[dramatic music]
(VO - Dr. S) A road within
yourself unfolds
the path you won't
abandon.
Yet now begins your
tale untold.
The Princess And The Dragon.
[dramatic music]
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
(VO) Life is not a fairy tale,
but yours could be.
In the
Storybook program, we will
help you turn the pages of your
life toward
the fairy tale ending you know
that you deserve.
Life is not a fairy tale, but
yours could be.
Welcome to the
Storybook program.
[building music]
[heavy breathing]
(Jenna) Hey, what? What?
What the? What is?
Hey! Hey! Hey!
What is going on? Hey! Hey!
[music]
(VO) The princess came to Castle
Keep in every room a jewel.
To crown the past and wake
from sleep, this coronation was
a jewel.
[music]
(VO) A road within yourself
unfolds the path you won't
abandon.
Yet now begins your tale untold.
The princess and the dragon.
[music]
(Jenna) What is this?
[music]
(VO) Within a soul, the dragon
asks. Can you be brave in
(VO) Castle Vast? Be bold. Be
fast. Complete each task.
[music]
(VO) This tale would have you
choose your mask.
[music]
(Jenna) Hello? Is someone there?
Hello?
Hello?
Is anyone there?
Hello?
[music]
What's going on with my
shoulder?
It's so stiff.
[music]
(VO) Within the secrets there
recorded, a tool to escape your
trial.
(VO) But to find such truth
afforded, you must defeat the
wizard style.
[music]
(Off-Screen) Welcome to the
Minus Institute. Welcome to the
Minus Institute.
[music]
[music]
(Off-Screen) Welcome to the
Minus Institute Storybook
Program.
[music]
Hello?
Hello?
Are you kidding me?
Hi?
Holy shit.
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay,
okay. No, no, you stay there.
You stay there.
I don't know who you are. I
don't know where I am.
You probably don't either. So we
could just help each other.
Get out of here and please no.
[Bang!]
[music]
Okay, quiet. Calm down. He
doesn't know where you are.
[music]
Where am I?
[Nurse] Jenna?
Jenna? Jenna?
[Jenna] Yeah, sorry. I was
listening. You were saying?
This would be a heck of a lot
easier if you took it seriously.
We help people here who are ill
and people who cannot help
themselves.
Not entitled time wasters who
think the world owes them
something.
[Jenna] Hey, I'm here because...
Because why? Because you want to
waste our time?
Because I don't want it to
happen again.
[Nurse] Okay. Because you don't
want what to happen again?
It. The cycle. Everything that
makes my life so shitty.
All. The. Time.
Language.
It's just the thing. The thing
that runs around in my brain.
(Jenna) And it feels like I can
hear and see
everything that everyone is
saying all the time.
And it's just God. It's just...
It's so loud.
And then it's quiet. And then
everyone is
quiet because Jenna doesn't like
it when it's loud.
But why is she so loud? I don't
fucking know.
(Nurse) Language.
Fuck you.
Do you want help or not?
I came here, didn't I?
So help us. Help you. And answer
the questions.
[Sound Cue]
What the heck?
What is this?
(VO) The dark within a grave
concern. Yet from despair you
must adjourn.
(VO) If lighted path you may
discern.
What is this?
Three, four, five, six.
Seven. Seven pages. Only five
more to go.
(Jenna) Who else is here?
(VO) Heartbeat. Heartbeat. In
your breast.
(VO) Twists and turns. Unlock
the chest.
(VO) Yield the gift to guide
your quest.
(VO) The dragon comes, there is
no rest.
(Jenna) It's a puzzle. You're
gonna puzzle us.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
[Mechanism Opening]
[Chink!]
[Ominous Music]
[Creepy Footsteps]
[CRASH!]
[Creepy Footsteps]
Ok, Ok, you're ok. you're ok,
you're ok.
It's just a dream, it's just a
dream, it's just a dream...
Wake up!
Ok.
[SMASH!!!]
[SCREAMING!!!]
[screaming]
[dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
[music]
[Click]
[Click]
[music]
My shoulder.
God, did he get me?
[dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
(VO) To wake at last from this
dread slumber
(VO) where you have been before,
(VO) there are here a very
careful number,
(VO) a ways to open up the door.
One, One, Two.
Three, Four, Eight,
[dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
Who am I, Gretel?
[dramatic music]
(Jenna to self) Rebecca?!
[dramatic music]
(Rebecca) I can take that.
It's okay, it's my job.
But you don't know where it
goes.
I guess, could you show me?
It just goes over here.
See, it's okay.
So what are they doing to you
here?
It's just the treatment.
Do you find this helping?
What?
Do you feel better, are the
treatments helping?
I don't think I'm supposed to
talk about this
with anyone.
Why is that?
It's either helping or it isn't.
These guys wouldn't know how to
be
kind of a bit them in the ass.
(laughing)
Language.
You're not like anyone I've met
here before.
That's because I'm not.
I'm Rebecca.
I'm Jenna.
Oh, so proper.
Pleased to meet you.
(Rebecca) So, is it helping?
I don't know, it's hard to say.
I just can't tell if I'm in a
good spot in the cycle
or if what they're doing is
working.
Sounds like you need to do some
experiments of your own.
What do you mean?
(Nurse) Jenna.
You are expected in the solarium
in two minutes.
It is a five minute walk from
here.
I'm sorry, I was just finishing
up.
We're just chatting, it's okay.
Being late is never okay.
And neither is talking to the
other patients.
Do you think we could just dial
it down?
I don't think.
I know the rules.
And so do you.
Jenna?
It was really nice getting to
meet you.
You too.
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
This is a nightmare.
This is a nightmare.
Rebecca?
Rebecca?
What on earth are you doing?
Where's Rebecca?
Who's that?
(Jenna) What do you mean who's
that?
You know damn well who I'm
talking about.
(Nurse) Language.
[Nurse] There has never been a
Rebecca here.
You are confused.
(Jenna) No, I'm not.
I've been seeing her for months.
I spoke with her last week,
but I haven't seen her since.
Sounds like we need to get you
in to see the specialist.
Hallucinations are a known side
effect of the drugs.
(Jenna) No, they're not.
I know what I saw.
I know I spoke with her.
(Nurse) And yet you didn't?
Yes, I did.
You really are taking a turn for
the worse.
Why are you doing this?
I'm not crazy.
I'm not doing anything.
I am also not the one who is a
patient here.
(Nurse) I'm going to call the
orderlies to take you back to
your room now.
Call whoever you want. I'm not
leaving until I get the truth.
Orderlies to the kitchen.
Orderlies to the kitchen.
Urgent.
(Nurse) Well, see how you handle
this situation.
(Jenna) I told you I'm not
leaving until I find out what
happened to her.
(Jenna) No! No! No! No! No!
No! Stay away!
No! Stop!
Stay away!
[eerie music]
[upbeat music]
[Kachunk!]
[gasping]
[gasping]
Oh, oh my.
[eerie music]
(screaming)
(Rebecca) Help me.
(Jenna) Oh Rebecca, Rebecca is
it you?
Help me.
(Jenna) Oh, come on, come on,
let's get you over here.
(Jenna) Rebecca, Rebecca.
Yeah, I really showed them.
Let me see if you're okay.
(eerie music)
Don't say it.
You're okay, you're okay.
No I'm not.
Oh, we just gotta figure
something out.
We're going to figure something
out, okay?
You don't get it.
No one gets out.
Except us.
(screaming)
[SMASH!]
(footsteps)
[music]
(dramatic music)
Rebecca's real.
The dragon's real.
This book, these pages, the
notes are all real.
Oh yes, yes.
(coughing)
Oooo that's stale!
(eerie music)
Seriously, what is going on with
my shoulder?
God.
[gasping]
Oh.
What?
[gasping]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
I'm the princess.
Where do I find the dragon?
Pipes.
Where do I find Pipes?
Pipes, Pipes, Pipes.
Pipes.
Pipes.
Boiler room, boiler room.
[eerie music]
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
Pipes, yes.
Boiler room.
[eerie music]
(VO) We all want to ease the
pressure
of many things we can't let
go.
Here within the dragon's
shelter,
can you let the trap breath
flow?
[eerie music]
[Click!]
[Buzzing]
[gasping]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[BANG!]
[Click]
[screaming]
[BANG!]
[eerie music]
[screaming]
[screaming]
[screaming]
[CLANG! SMASH!]
[eerie music]
(Dragon) Ooof!
Okay.
Okay.
[eerie music]
[upbeat music]
Where would you be?
It's gotta be around here
somewhere.
(VO) These trees too quiet do no
good.
(VO) The wizard's hand remains
unseen.
A crafted false and silent
wood
conceals his strange
machine.
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[CLICK]
[BZZZZZZ]
[eerie music]
[BUZZZZZZZ]
(eerie music)
(Dr. Storybook) Life is not a
fairy tale, but yours could be.
Hi, I'm Dr. Storybook and you
are...
I'm Jenna.
Jenna, of course.
How could I be so forgetful?
So, how are you doing here at
the Institute?
(somber music)
Umm, I'm okay, I guess.
No, no.
You can tell me.
(Dr. Storybook) We can't improve
if we don't know where we're
falling short.
Can we?
No, I guess not.
Well, out with it then.
Tell us how we don't know what
we're doing.
What?
Speak your truth.
Um.
Talk about how no matter how
much we adjust the medication,
the cycle resets.
Go on about the constant dread
of it coming back.
OK
(Dr. Storybook) Talk about how
the medication makes you feel
(Dr. Storybook) like a shadow of
yourself.
(Jenna) Stop.
That your hallucinations are
more real
(Dr. Storybook) than what you
can see or touch.
(Jenna) Okay, this is making me
feel--
(Dr. Storybook) Go on about how
you think we're hiding people
from you
that never actually existed.
(Jenna) She's Real!
(Jenna) Why are you doing this?
(Dr.) In fact...
Your brain doesn't know the
difference
between reality and dreams.
It's one of the side effects of
the medication.
You could argue that there is no
difference.
All of this is stories.
Your brain is programmed by
stories.
Sure.
And so, it's a part of the
program.
This program
is that you accept an archetype.
Okay, pardon me, um, doctor.
Storybook.
That's your name?
Of course not.
That's my archetype.
As I was saying, this program,
(Dr.Storybook) the storybook
program involves adopting an
archetype
as a framework for healthy
development.
I don't follow.
An archetype allows us to
put a part of our personality
over there.
So in a manner of speaking,
we can look at this part of
ourselves without judgment.
So,
I am Doctor Storybook.
And you, you can be the
princess.
I'm hardly a princess.
As I was saying, this is a
conceptual framework,
highly experimental.
(Dr. Storybook) It allows us to
look at very serious parts of
ourselves
more easily.
Your suicidal ideations.
Imagine they're outside of you,
(Dr. Storybook) hunting you
like a dragon
In a fairy tale, and this
dragon,
(Dr. Storybook) this dragon has
invaded your castle.
(Dr.) And the dragon is scary,
and it's monstrous, yes.
(Dr. Storybook) But it can be
defeated.
I'm sorry, I don't understand
what you're saying.
Yes, you do, Jenna.
You must defeat the dragon.
Okay, okay, but doesn't the
knight rescue the princess?
Prince Charming saves the
princess.
Very astute, very good Jenna!
See, I knew you'd catch on
quickly. Usually yes,
the princess does need saving
and perhaps for you,
the knight,
the knight is the answer.
But if the knight
doesn't find you,
you must find the knight.
Now my hope is of course,
that this princess
learns to save herself.
So the castle is me,
but I'm
inside of the castle?
Very good. Oh you're getting
this so quickly.
(Dr. Storybook) You Want to hurt
yourself because you believe you
deserve it.
(Jenna) What?
That Guilt, and that shame, and
that confusion...
These are the teeth of the
dragon...
and you, must cut away the
teeth...
or the dragon will eat you up my
dear.
And no one wants that.
[eerie music]
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
I know where this is.
I know where this is.
(Dr. Storybook - VO, it was
always him!) We oft times will
share our stories,
a collection of our lives,
which lift us up to unseen
glories
as if their teller never
dies.
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
Are you kidding me?
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
[Upbeat Music]
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
[ominous music]
[upbeat music]
[ominous music]
No, no.
What more do you want from me!
[ominous music)]
Are you kidding me?
No, no, no, no.
No, no.
Fine, fine, fine.
Fine, I can do this.
[ominous music]
No.
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
[sighs]
Okay.
Okay.
I Hate this place.
[ominous music]
[upbeat music]
(gasps)
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
[ominous music]
Save yourself.
Save yourself.
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
[Zip]
[ominous music]
Hey!
Where are you?
[ominous music]
This is my nightmare.
I'm not hiding anymore.
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
(VO - DR. S) Though mercy begs,
you hear the plea.
Like a serpent in
the garden.
You know at last
you have a key.
But for you, there
can be no bargain.
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
Come on, fight me!
[ominous music]
[SMASH!]
[ominous music]
[grunts]
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
[SMASH!!!]
[ominous music]
[grunts]
[etherial music]
[etherial music]
[PANTING]
You're trapped here too!
We're the same!
You don't have to do this!
please!
Stop.
[etherial music]
[CRASH!]
[etherial music]
[PANTING]
[Grunts]
[LOUD SHOT]
[GASPING]
[ominous music]
[GRUNTING]
[GASPING]
[screaming]
[screaming]
[ominous music]
[crying]
[crying]
[ominous music]
[etherial music]
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
[ominous music]
[door unlocking]
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
[Subtle heartbeat]
[ominous music]
[Door unlocking]
[silence]
It's ok.
Are you kidding me?
[eerie music]
Are you kidding me?
No.
[eerie music]
The knight saves the princess.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No. No, God.
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
No, you're kidding me.
No.
No, no, no. [Sobbing]
[ominous music]
[eerie music]
I'm not going to die here.
[Bang!]
No. [sobbing]
[omimous music]
(Nurse) They never take the
knight do they?
They never do, because the
treatment works.
No. [sobbing]
Oh my God. [manically laughing]
Are you kidding me?
Oh great, great.
Peeew, peeew.
[maniacal laughing]
No.
No.
No. [crying]
[eerie music]
[eerie music]
[Clap, clap, clap - off screen]
[Clap, clap, clap]
Jenna.
Jenna.
Hi.
Hi.
There you are.
[smash!]
(Nurse) Hold her!
[laughing]
You are grand.
I'm so happy to see you've
maintained your fighting spirit.
You're going to need it.
Look at you, such progress.
Such a will to live.
It's over, I made it, I won.
And now you'll help others.
It's over.
True stories are like stories.
They're like cycles, and cycles
repeat.
A true story never ends, isn't
that right?
It just goes on and on and on
and on.
And it never ends.
This is what interests me.
This cycle, this never ending
scenario.
You don't think I'm going to end
this?
Oh, I believe you want to.
Just don't think you can.
But, let's find out, shall we?
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
(Dr. Storybook) A slight
adjustment.
[Ominous Music]
No, no, no, no.
[crying]
[muffled screaming]
[Ominous Music]
[muffled screaming]
We'll see you again soon.
[dramatic music]
(VO - Dr. S) A road within
yourself unfolds
the path you won't
abandon.
Yet now begins your
tale untold.
The Princess And The Dragon.
[dramatic music]
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)