Thank you.

Never let them see that they get to you.

So...things do get to you?

Oh, I mean, not not anymore but

I was small

and emotionally unbalanced like you once.

(sarcastically) Har-har.

No, it's true.

I think I was eight, maybe nine,

and all I wanted to do was join the junior ranger scouts.

NICK: So, my mom scraped together enough money

to buy me a brand new uniform, (Child Nick laughs)

because, by God, I was gonna fit in,

even if I was the only predator in the troop, the only fox.

WOODCHUCK: Okay Nick.

NICK: I was gonna be part of a pack.

Ready for initiation?

Yeah, pretty much born ready.

NICK: I was so proud.

(finger snap)

(flashlight flicker)

WOODCHUCK: Okay, now raise your right paw

and deliver the oath.

I, Nicholas Wilde, promise to be brave, loyal, helpful and trustworthy!

Even though you're a FOX?

...What...?...

(grunts) Ohh!

No! NO!

What'd I do wrong, you guys?!

NICK: No please tell me, what did I do wrong?!

What'd I do?! NO!!

(chuckles) If you thought we would ever trust a fox without a muzzle,

you're even dumber than you LOOK!

(all laughing maliciously)

KID: Crybaby.

SECOND KID: Aw, is he gonna cry?

(laughter continues)

(breathing heavily)

(straining)

(shouts)

(sobbing softly)

NICK: I learned two things that day.

One..I was never gonna let anyone ever see that they got to me.

And two?

If the world's only gonna see a fox

as shifty and untrustworthy,

then there's no point in trying to be anything else.

Nick, you are so much more than that.