Encanto

Bruno

Lightning flashes, and thunder rumbles as Mirabel pursues the wet rats holding the shards along the upper walkway. But as she turns the corner, they're gone.

SQUEAK!

She spots a single rat tail disappear through an opening under a large painting. Mirabel approaches the painting and then slowly pulls it open, revealing a passageway within the walls. Mirabel climbs into the secret passageway between the walls of the house to find the inside covered in cracks, which undulate malevolently. What is this place?

A rat squeaks as it scurries past Mirabel's feet and away into the darkness, but as its glowing shard retreats, the glow moves into the air. As Mirabel squints to get a better look, a bolt of lightning illuminates Bruno, sinister and evil, who holds the shard.

Mirabel and Bruno stare at each other for an electric second. Another flash, and he turns and runs, his shadow streaking away down a distant corridor. Realizing this may be her only chance to understand Bruno's terrible vision, Mirabel races after him. "HEY!"

Mirabel races through the narrow corridors, struggling to catch up in the winding, twisting labyrinth.

Shafts of light peek through the interior of the house to illuminate them as they streak by.

The rhythm of their feet creates a syncopated rhythm as they move faster and faster, sliding down unexpected drops and tight turns.

WHAM!

As Mirabel recovers from slamming a wall, another flash illuminates her chasing Bruno.

"Stop! STOP!" Mirabel is almost to Bruno, but he jumps a chasm, and it looks too far for Mirabel to follow. As Bruno disappears down a distant corridor, Mirabel summons her courage and jumps and makes it. But the floor below her gives way, and she falls, barely catching herself at the last second but only holding on by a finger. Below is a seemingly endless fall into darkness.

Bruno stops as he hears his hija call out in panic, "CASITA?! CASITA?! HELP ME! HELP ME!" Moving swiftly, he goes back and catches Mirabel's hand. His face comes into the light, and she sees he's not at all what she thought; he's small, timid, and straining.

"You're very sweaty."

But before Mirabel can respond, the floor underneath Bruno collapses too; Mirabel grabs onto a loose board and catches Bruno. They are now both dangling from the pit. As Mirabel looks at her 'Tio', a rat pops from his cloak; she startles and accidentally drops him to his death.

"Ahhh!"

"Oh no!"

Bruno pops up, and looks around, surprised. He fans the dust away to reveal the wooden floor under his feet, "Huh." Bruno climbs up the wall boards as Mirabel helps him up. Bruno looks to Mirabel for a long moment, "Bye."

"What? No-- Hold on--" Mirabel hurries after Bruno and follows him through a strange 'back of house' tour: pipes, furniture, relics, evidence of the rooms on the other side, etc. As Mirabel tries to keep up, she sees that Bruno is extremely superstitious, avoids walking under a ladder, and has all kinds of good luck charms around him.

"Wait, wait-- Ow!" She hits her head on a beam but continues following, "Why did you take the vision? What does it mean? Is it why you came back or--" Bruno passes a piece of wood, "Knock, knock, knock. Knock on wood." Then he crosses his fingers and holds his breath.

"Tio Bruno?"

He passes another piece of wood, tapping a wall, "Knock, knock, knock. Knock on wood." Bruno uncrosses his fingers. "You were never supposed to see that vision, no one was-- a little salt." He throws salt behind his back.