Peter Pan & Wendy2023

[Aboard the Jolly Roger pirate ship, Wendy, John, Michael, and the Lost Boys are all locked in a cellar]

Captain Hook:
I want a word... with... [points his hook to Wendy] you.

Wendy:
[breaths shuddering] I have nothing to say to you.

Captain Hook:
Then listen. [starts humming the lullaby] What is that?

Wendy:
Yeah, that's simply... That's just a lullaby.

Captain Hook:
Yes, but why... does it remind me of something? [to Mr. Smee] Open this.

Mr. Smee:
Yes. Keys, keys, keys. Where are the keys?

Captain Hook:
Where does it come from? Tell me.

Wendy:
I don't know.

Captain Hook:
TELL ME! Why does it make me feel so…

Wendy:
I couldn't say. It was just something my mother sings us.

Captain Hook:
Your who?

Wendy:
My mother.

Captain Hook:
Yes, of course.

Wendy:
I know you weren't always like this, Captain Hook. I know you and Peter were friends. I've heard the stories.

Captain Hook:
Have you?

Wendy:
You left Neverland. And when you returned, you were…

Captain Hook:
Evil.

Wendy:
Yes.

Captain Hook:
Hmm. There's truth to that. But he left out the most important part. I didn't just leave Neverland.

Wendy:
Peter made you go.

Captain Hook:
There it is. That's the sticking point. My once and best friend banished me, all because I missed my... I... missed... my...

Wendy:
Your mother?

Captain Hook:
Yes, my mother. Who sang me that very song. Is it so terrible a thing, to miss a mother?

Wendy:
No, of course, it's not.

Captain Hook:
Tell that to your dearly departed friend, for he surely thought otherwise. And do you know, after all that, I never did find her. I never made it home. I never saw my poor, sweet mama, ever again. I left Neverland and I was lost at sea. I'd have surely perished, were I not saved by this man here. There I was, rescued and raised by pirates. And by-and-by, I became their Captain and I, in-turn brought them right back here.

Wendy:
But why? Why come back at all, if Peter hurt you so?

Captain Hook:
Because he was my friend. I'd been happy here.

Wendy:
You could be happy again.

Captain Hook:
No. My time for joy is lost. Everything I could have been has reduced to this. This... is what growing up looks like.

Wendy:
No. This is what it looks like when you grow up wrong.