On her way to Bruno’s door, she sneaks past Isabela and Abuela Alma.
ABUELA ALMA: Such a perfect match.
ISABELA: So perfect.
ABUELA ALMA: And so good for the Encanto.
Mirabel sneaks past the two and reaches Bruno’s door. No one’s been in there for years.
(Camilo: What if his ghost roams there!?
Dolores: He doesn't.
Camilo: How do you know?
Dolores: Because he's no dead, idiota!
Pepa: Language!)
Mirabel shoves open Bruno’s door, revealing a dusty, dark ante room. In front of her, sand spills in from above, creating a curtain of sand, beyond which she can’t see.
MIRABEL: Casita, can you turn off the sand?
Nothing happens. Mirabel looks back where she can see the floor tiles at the doorjamb say “the house cannot help beyond this point.” The gravity of this hits Mirabel.
(Antonio: Awww )
MIRABEL: You can’t help in here?
The House responds “no... and I’m worried about you,” after all, Mirabel has never been “without the House.”
MIRABEL: I’ll be fine. I need to do this, for you, for Abuela... maybe a little for me. (looks to sand) Find the vision, save the mir-ack!
As Mirabel steps through the “sandfall” she...falls!
(The others chuckle, while Julieta looks on, worried)
Mirabel falls face first and slides down a giant sand dune. She looks up to see... she’s in towering room.
MIRABEL l: Whoa...
(Antonio: Tío Bruno's room looks awesome!
Abuela: It is not to he spoken of.)
Widen to reveal a SIGN reading “Your Future Awaits,” which points to the TOP of the cavern. HUNDREDS OF STAIRS lead all the way up. As Mirabel looks up - FLIT-FLIT-FLIT... Antonio’s
TOUCAN flaps down next to her. It smiles and squawks “hello.”
MIRABEL: Oh, hello. Lotta stairs, but at least I’ll have a friend-- (the toucan flies away) no, you flew away immediately.
(Isabela: *Laughs*
Antonio: ;w;
Mirabel: No friend.)
Mirabel watches it fly to the top. She’s on her own. Mirabel grits her teeth and starts climbing.
MIRABEL: Alright.
As she goes, they pop forward in time, and with each little pop, she gets more tired and is soon wheezing and struggling.
MIRABEL: (talk-singing) Welcome to the Family Madrigal... (NEXT POP)...there’s so many stairs in the Casa Madrigal... (NEXT POP) you would think there’d be another way to get so high cause we’re magic, but no -- magical, how many stairs fit in here! Bruno, your room is the worst!!
(Dolores: I agree.
Isa: I would never go up there.)
Later, Mirabel finally gets to the top of the stairs, only to find there is a gap in the path. She groans, exhausted.
MIRABEL: Come on...
As Mirabel takes a breath... then removes a rope railing on and throws it over a boulder above as an anchor.
