- The Scientist: My lords! My lords! All is not lost! I have found a solution to all our problems. An ingenious combination of Gruenak and Arathim. I call it... GARTHIM!
- [a Garthim scuttles out onto a precipice overlooking the Crystal Chamber. The Skeksis begin cheering and laughing triumphantly]
- [Deet unleashes the power of the Sanctuary Tree on skekLach. They convulse and wail but then the power dies down]
- The Collector: That wasn't so bad.
- [They chuckle, but then their pustules explode, and finally their head explodes like one giant zit, splattering the other Skeksis with pus. The Skeksis gag and spit]
- The Scroll-Keeper: Oh, it's in my mouth!
- [skekSo is watching the Crystal in the chamber. skekVar enters]
- The Emperor: Do you sleep?
- The General: Of course, sire.
- The Emperor: Do you dream?
- The General: Dream?
- The Emperor: Yes.
- The General: No, Emperor.
- The Emperor: Neither did I, until I began my experiments upon the Darkening. Now, my slumber is riddled by nightmares. Do you remember what it was like before we were rent asunder?
- The General: I don't think of such things.
- The Emperor: [solemnly] And yet the thoughts come.
- [skekVar grumbles]
- The General: I remember suffering.
- The Emperor: Yes.
- The General: Guilt.
- The Emperor: Yes.
- The General: And sorrow. But it's hard to recall, like...
- The Emperor: A dream?
- The General: A nightmare.
- The Scientist: What is this? Mutiny!
- Gruenak #1: No... no slave!
- The Scientist: How dare you threaten me? I am skekTek, the Scientist! I am a master of life and death! I am a GENIUS! I am a LORD OF THE CRYSTAL! I! AM! SKEKSIS!
- [He screams with frustrated rage]
- The General: SkekSil, I am badly wounded. Please... help me.
- The Chamberlain: Hmmm... No!
- [suddenly stabs the General]
- The Chamberlain: You. Took. My. Seat.
- Maudra Ethri: The Sifa stand with the heroes of Thra!
- Aughra: Yes!
- [laughs]
- Naia, Gurjin: The Drenchen fight for Thra!
- Maudra Mera: The Spriton ride to battle!
- Lath'N: The Grottans face the suns once again!
- Maudra Seethi: The Dousan heed your call!
- Librarian: The Vapra come, for Thra!
- Rian: They came... the seven clans!
- [several Arathim appear on the roofs of Stone-in-the-Wood]
- Deet: The Arathim fight by our side!
- The Ornamentalist: [facing the Gelflings] Look at their tiny little swords!
- [laughs]
- The Ornamentalist: That's adorable!
- Aughra: I'm reborn!
- The Scroll-Keeper: Oh no, not her again!
- The Collector: Witch is back!
- The Ornamentalist: Does nothing stay dead any more?
- [skekMal breaks free from his gruesome display]
- The Scientist: You're... you're alive!
- The Hunter: Where's Rian?
- The Scientist: Stone-in-the-Wood. The other Skeksis are there already. They've gone to extirpate the Gelfling uprising.
- The Hunter: Yet you remain behind?
- [He points an accusing finger at skekTek, who whimpers]
- The Hunter: Useless coward!
- [He turns away in disdain, growling]
- The Scientist: The Emperor wanted me to stay behind! I wanted to fight! I am not a coward!
- [He sighs, frustrated]
- [as skekTek tussles with one Gruenak slave, the other shoves a cage over his head]
- Gruenak #1: You bad!
- [skekTek, subliminally recalling the traumatic experience he had with the peeper beetle, immediately starts to panic]
- The Scientist: No, help! Release me!