- [first lines]
- Kaa: [narrates] I am the jungle's eyes. I can see the past, and the future. It is I, Kaa, who witnessed the coming of man. And the jungle trying to survive. I saw chaos and darkness come to our lands. I saw the tiger, Shere Khan, killing man, and breaking the jungle's ancient law. And then, one fateful night, I saw the jungle place its hopes into the hands of a small creature, the like of which it had never seen before.
- [last lines]
- Kaa: [narrates] With the tiger and the hunter now gone, the future shimmered from darkness into light. Mowgli, man and wolf, both and neither, had given the jungle a voice. And for as long as he stood watch, it would speak a lasting peace.
- Shere Khan: The man-cub is mine! I have already tasted its mother's blood! It is my right.
- Nisha: Your right according to whose law?
- [Mowgli is in a cage]
- Bagheera: I lived in a king's palace, in a cage just like this. I bit, and I scratched, and I spent my entire life fighting. Until one day, I just stopped, and they gave me their trust. Gain their trust, and they'll let you out.
- Akela: [to Shere Khan] This cub is under the protection of the pack. Should you decide to take me, you take on the pack, all of us.
- Akela: The cub is spoken for, he is one of us! You will treat him as you would your own. As long as I am alive, the pack will stand by the man-cub.
- Bhoot: You've been spending a lot of time on your own since the monkey-people. It's not good to be alone. Wolves are supposed to be with other wolves.
- Mowgli: I'm not a wolf.
- Bhoot: [laughs] Of course you are Mowgli, you're the best wolf I know!
- Mowgli: Why do you always want to be around me, Bhoot?
- Bhoot: [still chuckling] Because you're my best friend, Mowgli.
- [Mowgli turns away and Bhoot sulks]
- Bhoot: I understand what it's like. For nobody to want you. I don't have any friends, neither. But we have each other. We're kind of the same, you and me...
- Mowgli: We're not the same.
- Bhoot: Of course we are. Because you're special, and I'm special.
- Mowgli: [shouts angrily] We're NOT SPECIAL! Don't you get it? We'll never be one of them, we're freaks! You're not special, Bhoot! It's just something your mother tells you to make you feel better about yourself. BECAUSE YOU CAME OUT WRONG!
- [Devastated, Bhoot cries and leaves]
- Mowgli: [turns around to find Bhoot gone] Bhoot... Bhoot, I'm sorry.
- Akela: You have no right to be here, Shere Khan.
- Shere Khan: I think you'll find I stay where I please.
- Akela: You kill man's cattle, you poison the jungle. You're the reason man is here!
- Shere Khan: But you permitted man to live among you! You pretend he is a wolf. And you know that is the one thing he will never be. He will always be a man! YOU poisoned the jungle.
- Baloo: He was in the lead! I trained that boy! Why did you have to do that?
- Bagheera: HE HAD TO FAIL!
- [Bagheera bites Baloo on the leg]
- Bagheera: Why can't you see how much danger he's in?
- Baloo: The pack would've protected him!
- Bagheera: Khan will kill him and tear the pack apart!
- Baloo: You are not the only one who cares about the boy!
- Bagheera: All you cared about is that he passed!
- Baloo: That's because it's my job!
- Shere Khan: My, my... how you've grown.
- Shere Khan: [Slaps monkey aside] And how much chaos you've brought upon the pack. So... much more... to come.