Rayman Legends Adventures in An American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West/Script

A young teenage girl, who we all knew as Lex Murphy, had believed to have lost her family recently in a car smash. And now, she'd been living on the streets up to a year now with her only friend Jesse.

They had always looked out for each other.

Lex had always loved orcas, but she had never seen one in real life.

However, Lex didn't like the fact of orcas being captured, torn apart from their families and put into captivity. The adventure girl would have seen nightmares about it sometimes. Knowing that she lived past the ocean, Lex would sometimes see actual orca pods swimming together freely, but she'd also hear the cries of orcas being captured.

One early morning, while Lex was yet asleep, she had a vision.

A young male orca was captured by some greedy whalers and torn off of his pod. Lex awakened to the sound of lamenting whale calls, knowing that it wasn't a dream.

Later, it started out like any other day as Jesse, Lex and their street friends were looking for food.

"I'm starving," said Jesse.

"I know, Jess. Me as well," Lex sighed, "but don't worry, I have a plan."

The slick tomboy had gathered up all the street children together for a plan to get some money in order to buy food.

"Let's try the downtown circle, there are thousands of people there," Lex suggested to the others.

"It was a good idea," Perry said.

"I know," the tomboy smirked, making sure her favorite purple baseball cap was secured tightly around her head.

After a while of trying, the gang met up together and poured the money they collected into a pile.

"A few dollars," one of the children sighed in disappointment.

"Shoot," Perry complained, "I'm hungry!"

"I need food," Jesse added.

"Not always..." Lex rolled her eyes, clutching her empty stomach before an idea burst into her mind, "wait a moment! I have an idea.  Follow me, boys!"

Soon Lex and the street children ended up at a local restaurant where they came up with a plan. Half of the gang would go inside to steal some food while Lex and the rest of them waited until a family was done eating their meal.

"Alright, c'mon," Lex signaled the others.

After the family left, Jesse, Lex and the other children ran over to the table and collected as much scraps of food as they could, but ran away with the rest of the street children.

Later, they also ended up finding a birthday cake in the back of a car that was left open.

"Let's celebrate back to Super Skate," Perry suggested.

That night, the street children all hung out at the skateboarding rink while eating all the food they collected.

The children swiftly grew bored and started speaking about their backstories and what they wanted to do with their lives. The other children laughed as Lex said she wanted to train orcas and other animals, but Jesse seemed quite interested.

The children continued their conversations, until they suddenly heard police sirens.

"Oh, great, it's the cops! RUN," Perry shouts.

"Everyone, follow me," Lex called out, leading the road.

The street children all ran together, but knew they couldn't outrun the police.

"Let's go our separate fashions," Lex suggested.

The children did so and went their separate directions to avoid being caught by the police all at once.

Lex, Jesse and Perry continued running, but the cops weren't far behind.

"Faster, this way," Lex warned the boys as she held up some loose fence boards for them to squeeze through.

Soon Perry led the others into a dark shed.

"Oh, shit," Jesse said, after he tripped and knocked over a few facts due to the darkness.

"Csendes, be careful," Lex whispered, turning on a light-switch.

"We'll stay hidden for a while until we know the police are gone," the tomboy instructed the boys.

Perry got out some spray paint and started to graffiti the walls. Only a few seconds later, Lex and Jesse heard a strange noise. The animal lover teen couldn't sworn it sounded like some kind of cetacean creature.

"What was that," Jesse asked hesitantly.

"Stay close to me," Lex warned him for protection.

Lex went slowly through the dark room with Jesse following close behind her. She heard some noises more clearly that sounded like orca vocalizations.

"It couldn't be...." she thought.

Just then, lightning from outside illuminated the room. Right there, Lex was face-to-face with a murderous whale. She flinched only for a moment before Jesse shrieked and ran away.

"Jesse, please wait," Lex warned her friend, "it's just an murderous whale."

The frightened boy slowly came back to get a look for himself. The two teens were both in awe as the whale swam past.

Lex noticed, the orca looked mournful and lonely. She thought there was something familiar about this whale.

But before she could say anything, they heard Perry yell out......

"Guys, cops! RUN!!"

The teens bolted out of the room as they were chased. But before they knew it, the children were tackled to the ground by some cops, warning them to relax with a Native American staring at them.

The next morning, the two teens were brought back to their social worker, Dwight. He was more disappointed in Lex since she was older.

"We were lucky this time, I kept you out of court. You guys have to clean up the mess you made at Northwest Adventure Park.  That's your probation," Dwight explained to them, "a problem?"

"Yes, why would we have to clean that up," Jesse sassed.

"I'm sorry about this, Dwight," Lex hung her head, feeling disgraceful for what just happened.

"Alright, look, his location is yet in the Greenwoods," Dwight warned the children, "they don't even care about that incident."

"What's wrong with them," Jesse sassed out again.

"They're both yet young, where they have some opportunities, not an infinite number of opportunities, but some," Dwight warned them, "now, do you have any questions?"

"You heard from my mum," Jesse asked hopefully.

Dwight sighed, knowing Jesse had been asking that question for a long time. "No one's heard from your mother in six years, Jesse."

Jesse felt mournful as he had been searching for his mum since he ended up on the streets. Lex was also mournful that she had lost her parents and younger siblings in a car incident. But she yet had hope that they were yet alive.

Later, Dwight took both 12-year-olds to the Greenwoods, parking it up in front of their house.

"If you're ready," Dwight warned the children before they came out of the car. Then the Greenwoods came to greet them.

"How are you, Annie," Dwight asked.

"Good," she replied.

"It's been a long day for the three of us," Dwight mentioned, looking to Lex and Jesse.

"Thanks for making us stay," Lex politely grinned to the Greenwoods.

At least she was trying to be nice, unlike Jesse who was yet upset.

"Why don't we go inside and wash up and have dinner," Annie suggested.

Dinner was alright for everyone. Lex, at least, tried to have a conversation with the Greenwoods, unlike Jesse.

After dinner, the Greenwoods showed the preteens up to their room.

"Our bedroom's downstairs, but you two have the best view in the house," Annie said.

Then the children noticed a present on the bed.

"It's a welcome gift," Glen warned them, "you can open it later, if you'd want."

"Thank you," Lex grinned to them.

"You're welcome. And you can call us Glen and Annie," they said, grinning back to them.

"If you need us for anything, we'll be downstairs," Annie warned them.

"Good night, Jesse, Lex. It's great to have you here," Annie added.

The children had their own separate beds. Jesse pulled out his harmonica and started playing it, while Lex gazed out the window. She couldn't get the thought out of her head about the orca she and Jesse saw the other night.

The next day, Glen drove the children down to the amusement park to clean up.

"If you get in, look for the Aquatic Theater, ask for Randolph," he explained to them.

With that said, the children rode their bikes on over down the theater.

"Yes, my Lord. Do you know where we could find a guy named Randolph," Lex asked one of the workers.

"He lives in a cabin right past the water," he replied.

"Thanks," Lex said, but rode away on her bike with Jesse again.

Soon the children arrived at the cabin and found the door opened...they entered.

"Hello? Randolph," Jesse called.

The children started looking around the living room at all these trinkets and Native American carvings and stuff. The children particularly looked over at this carving that appeared to be an orca.

"What's this," Jesse asked himself.

"Well...the artist is back," said a voice.

The two preteens jumped and turned around to see a Native American man, who was Randolph.

"Welcome back," he continued.

Randolph took the children back to the observation room and instructed them to clean the graffiti.

"You know what to do with all of this," Randolph asked them, motioning to the buckets.

"Yes, we do so," Jesse said.

"Alright, I'll see you later," Randolph said and then left.

The children started scrubbing the glass and walls until they saw the orca they saw the first time swam past again.

"Wow," they both gasped in amazement.

The children decided to go upstairs to get a better look. They waited past the edge of the pool looking around, waiting for the orca to resurface.

They just didn't expect the orca to be so close as he came up right at them.

"Woah," they both backed off slightly in alarm.

Lex studied the orca for a while, but realized something. "Say, that's the same orca I saw in my dream," she gasped, going wide-eyed for a second.

"Wait, what are you two doing here," Randolph asked as he appeared.

"Nothing," Jesse said.

Then all three watched the orca swim around.

"Seven thousand pounds of this. Jaws powerful enough to crush bones into oatmeal," Randolph explained to the two street children, "Willy's in a mood, you have to give him your space.  Don't bother him, he won't bother you.  Understand?"

"Sure," both children nodded.

Lex looked into Willy's eyes as he came over and looked at her for a second. They both seemed to have a connection with each other.

Later, the children went back to work, scrubbing the paint off the walls until they heard the intercom make an announcement for a show.

Curious, they went upstairs to find a small audience applauding for the sea lion show. The street children watched the sea lions a few tricks.

"Let's give Olivia and Belinda a big hand and their trainer, Rae Lindsey."

"Soon you'll be able to have a look at Willy, our prized orca whale right here in the main tank," the intercom announced.

The two twelve-year-old orphan swiftly ran down to the front edge of the pool to have a look at Willy, as he came in.

Both gasped in amazement as Willy jumped out of the pool.

"You're the graffiti artists, aren't you," they heard a voice, and turned to see that it was the trainer Rae, approaching them.

"I guess," Jesse shrugged his shoulders.

"You really screwed up our observation area," Rae said to them.

"I'm sorry," Jesse replied sarcastically.

The three of them all looked at Willy again while he swam around the pool.

"You like whales," Rae asked the two street children.

"We like him," Lex replied, yet looking over at Willy in admiration.

"Well, he doesn't like anyone," Rae explained about Willy, "be careful with him. Willy's a very special case."

"Then, who's not," Jesse ridiculed.

Soon, the children went back as it was getting late as Spot went out for a walk. He stopped and sniffed. "Huh. This is a nice smell," thought Spot, "I wonder how they're getting on."

Spot went to the flowers in the garden. He sniffed. "No. I don't feel it," he said.

His friend Helen came past on her bike. "Hello, Spot," said Helen the hippo, "why are you sniffing? Do you have a cold?"

"No, I don't," said Spot, "but I feel something really nice, and I don't know what that is."

"Mr. Kangaroo is cutting the grass," said Helen, "perhaps it's because you smell the grass."

The next day, the children were almost done with their work at the park.

"I almost finished this place," Jesse said to Lex.

"I wish we could stay," the adventure girl sighed.

Then Jesse pulled out his harmonica and started playing. Suddenly, Willy came past and jumped out of the water, seeming to enjoy the music and the children smiled.

They swiftly came upstairs to the front of the pool, waiting for Willy to burst up, which he did so and started vocalizing while Jesse continued playing his harmonica.

"He really likes your music, Jes," Lex grinned.

Then Willy jumped out of the water, splashing Rae while she walked past with a box complete with fish, who shrieked. The children couldn't help but laugh.

"Well, you also have a good day, grumbler," she yelled at Willy.

"He likes messing with people's heads, doesn't he," Lex chuckled to Rae.

"Yes, she does so," she nodded, "I can't make him act, no one can. Orcas are usually nice and smart.  Willy's smart and nasty."

"You two really like him, right," Rae grinned at the children while they watched Willy.

"Yes," Jesse and Lex grinned back.

"Well," Rae handed Jesse the box, "you two can help me."

Rae took the children back to the fish house to sort out the fish. Soon Jesse picked up a fish with a broken belly while Lex smelt another.

"Broken belly, throw it off," Rae warned them, "every day, we separate what Willy can eat from that cheap crap they buy."

"Willy's a murderous whale......then he's going to murder us," Jesse asked Rae.

Lex chuckled. "Of course not. Murderous whale is just their name because they're the biggest predators of the ocean, like sea wolves.  They eat fish, porpoises, squid, birds, sharks..."

"Wow," Rae was impressed with the rough young street girl, "you sure know a lot about orcas."

"Thanks," Lex grinned to her, "I want to train orcas someday."

The three continued sorting through the fish until it was time for Jesse and Lex to get back to the Greenwoods.

Later that night, after the Greenwoods were asleep, the children sneaked out of the house and went back to the park to see Willy.

Jesse played his harmonica while Willy splashed around. Lex grinned, enjoying the beautiful orca she admired.

Suddenly, the lights came on, indicating someone was coming. The children dashed, but Jesse slipped and fell into the tank. Lex ended up jumping in as well after him.

But before she could swim down and reach Jesse, Willy came over and gently lifted Jesse out of the water with his rostrum. Lex latched onto Willy's dorsal fin as the orca brought both children up by the edge of the pool to safety.

Soon Jesse regained consciousness after choking up some water. Then both children turned to the former surly orca.

"You saved my life," Jesse said to the orca.

"Thanks, Willy," Lex added as she and the orca looked into each other's eyes.

Soon after, Randolph found the children and took them back to his cottage to dry off.

"You guys should eat something special. Willy didn't eat you guys," he warned them.

"What's that supposed to mean," Lex scowled.

"Willy doesn't have a problem with us. We...enjoy each other," Jesse warned Randolph.

"Yes, why does everyone have a problem with Willy just because he-" Lex started in a tad bit of frustration.

"Willy doesn't like visitors in his tank," Randolph warned the children, "what the hell were you guys doing there?"

The two preteens were silent, glancing at each other before Jesse sighed, looking at one of Randolph's carvings of an orca. "We came to say a farewell......the work is almost done......"

Randolph looked to them for a second, but thought of an idea. "Just perhaps..."

"What," Jesse and Lex turned to him.

"You two can speak the truth," Randolph said to them.

"Sleepwalkers," Jesse asked, confused.

"Rarely, only a person with a pure heart has the ability to communicate with animals," Randolph explained.

"I already speak to animals," Lex spoke up.

"But how are we going to speak to Willy if he doesn't want to hear that," Jesse asked Randolph.

"You have to stay calm, breathe and you and Willy have to stay focused on each other," Randolph explained to the two preteens.

Soon Jesse and Lex had all these thoughts running through their heads. Could they really speak to Willy?

Soon Randolph took the children back home just as the Greenwoods came outside, looking concerned.

"Jesse, Lex, where have you been," Annie asked concernedly, running up to them, "you two are soaking wet."

"We were at work," Jesse replied to them.

"We fell into the tank," Lex explained.

"The whale tank," Annie asked, shocked.

"Could someone let me know what the hell is going on," Glen asked.

"I slipped and fell in the tank, it was my fault," Jesse said, before he was cut off by Randolph.

"Guys, my name is Randolph," the Native American man introduced himself, "I supervise Jesse and Lex at the park. They did a great job.  The point is, we could use them for the rest of the summer, if that's alright."

"Yes, yes, we do so," Lex and Jesse both entreated, "please!"

"Well, fine, but just a few days," Annie warned them both silently, "no more sneaking out at night."

"Well, fine, we promise," Lex grinned.

"Just be honest with us from now on. Do you guys think you can do this," Glen asked the children.

Lex and Jesse both nodded in reply.

"Alright, it's past your bedtime. Why don't you come in, son," Glen warned Jesse.

"I'm not your son," Jesse looked to Glen a bit coldly before entering the house.

"Yes, I know that," Glen said, a bit dismal.

Lex frowned a bit to that, before entering the house with the others and going back to bed.

The next morning, Lex and Jesse went down to the amusement park and straight to their spots to park their bikes, until they heard some kind of confusion going on and Willy giving off this strange vocalization sound.

They came down to Willy's tank and sneaked over to find Rae, Randolph and other park staff members surrounding Willy, surprised to see the whale in a net.

"You and Dial bought Willy from slime ball whaler. He was too big and too old to be caught at all," they heard Rae speaking to the park owner's assistant, Wade, "you put him in a dolphin pool by himself.  He's not a natural performer, and you expect me to work miracles?"

"You're a pro, right," Wade warned Rae, "then make it work."

Lex and Jesse looked into poor Willy's eyes and saw how distressed he looked, attempting to get out of the net. Lex didn't like Wade for allowing them to do that to poor Willy.

"If the whale lures customers, we can spend some money on him," Wade warned Rae, "since he doesn't, be satisfied with what you have."

Then Lex pointed out to Jesse a rope, knowing what they had to do and sneaked over and pulled it, loosening the net around Willy.

"Easy, now. Easy," Randolph tried to calm the whale as he attempted to get out of the net.

"Release these black lines," Randolph yelled out to the other staff members, which they did so.

Then Willy swam out from the net and back into the main tank. He was free.

"What's going on," Wade rushed back over with Rae, "Randolph, what just happened?"

"I don't know, the net has come loose," Randolph replied.

The children came back down and over to check on Willy to make sure that he was alright, but Randolph appeared in front of them, causing them to stop. "I saw what you two did."

"Well," Jesse and Lex asked.

"Then nothing," Randolph cut them off, but they all looked over to Willy, "Willy's sure to be grateful."

Later, Jesse and Lex went down to the docks to try and get some fish for Willy.

"You yet have leftovers that we could take from you," Jesse asked the seller.

"Might have," he replied.

"Well, we had a special friend named Willy," Lex explained.

"Why would he want scraps," the seller asked her.

"Well...he's a whale," Lex replied.

"A whale," the seller asked like these children were joking.

The children were given their scraps though and were about to leave. But to their surprise, Perry showed up. He warned them he offered to hook them up with a friend, Dayton for work, looking out for cops and stuff.

But Lex and Jesse weren't interested and said they'd see Perry around sometime.

Later, the two children had come back to the park over past Willy's tank. Jesse threw the fish in the water, but blew his harmonica to get Willy's attention. Then the 3-ton whale came up with the fish yet in his mouth.

"What's going on, Willy," Jesse asked confused, taking back the fish from him, "I thought you liked these facts."

"You should eat it like this," Jesse presented, pretending to eat the fish, "you see?"

Willy shook his head no and opened his mouth, as Lex seemed to know what Willy was trying to sell them.

"I think he wants you to put it in his mouth, Jess," the tomboy warned her friend. Then Willy shook his head yes eagerly and vocalized.

Jesse seemed a bit hesitant before he turned to Willy. "I'll make a deal with you......don't bite my hand off, and I'll give you the fish."

Then Jesse hesitantly fed Willy the fish and surprisingly, the whale did no harm to the boy whatsoever. "You like these?"

The two street children looked into the orca's eyes and did something no one would ever do...they slowly reached their hands out and were touching Willy.

"Wow," the children felt amazed as this seemed totally unimaginable.

"Your skin's like rubbery," Jesse said while touching Willy, "but yet a beautiful animal."

"Well, buddy, we have to go," Lex warned Willy, getting up to leave with Jesse.

"We'll save these leftovers and fishes for later," Jesse promised Willy.

As the children started to leave, they turned back and noticed that the orca was following them alongside the pool.

"You want to go with us," Lex asked the orca. Soon Willy raised his fin up out of the water.

"Oh, I can do that as well," Jesse copied Willy.

"Can you do this with your other fin," Lex asked the orca, which he did so.

"Can you wave," Jesse asked Willy and the orca did wave to him.

"Can you dance for us? Can you groove," Jesse asked the orca.

"Like this," Lex lured and started spinning around in circles as soon as Jesse and Willy copied her.

"Yes, you really do so," Lex grinned at Willy, "look at you."

"I get dizzy," Jesse said.

Rae and Randolph appeared to be watching Lex and Jesse play with Willy while the two children stuck their tongues out at the orca and Willy did as well right back at them. The children seemed to have a connection with Willy, even though he had a distraught for humans.

Soon Jesse tried to attempt that truth speaker fact Randolph warned him about.

The boy had his whole focus on Willy and closed his eyes. "Keep calm, breathe, and concentrate...."

Suddenly, the unspeakable happened.

"Jesse, I understand you," Willy said to the boy.

Jesse opened his eyes in great shock that Willy actually spoke to him.

"Well, it's time. What did it take you so long," Lex chuckled at the orca while she hugged him.

"I just had nothing to say...until now," Willy replied.

"This is so unreal," Jesse said, but the children and orca all laughed, having fun being together and were now able to communicate with each other.

"Jess, Lex," they heard Rae's voice say and turned to see her come over, "can you feed him?"

"Sure, we can feed him," Jesse replied, soon throwing another fish into Willy's mouth.

"Mmm, that's a good fish," Willy said, satisfied with his meal.

"I want to try," Lex offered Rae a fish to feed Willy, but she seemed hesitant.

"C'mon," Jesse begged Rae.

Soon Rae took the fish, but Willy disappeared underwater. As he came back up, he splashed the humans with his tail.

Later...

"Willy and I didn't get off to a good start," Rae explained to the children while feeding the sea lions, "he thinks I'm the bad witch because of all the medical tests I've done on him."

Rae explained to the children how out in the ocean, murderous whales like Willy live in families known as pods. Their social structure was very reluctant to them. She knew all this cause her dad was in the navy and did sonar research on whales.

"I want to train at sea," Rae explained to the children, "I'm going back to school to do my doctor of philosophy in marine biology."

"But if you do this, Willy will be alone," Jesse said, "no one will take care of him."

"Yes, what'll happen to him then," Lex added in a bit of concern for Willy.

"Well, Charlie's at school," Rae replied.

"Who's Charlie," Jesse asked.

"My boyfriend, Charlie," Rae warned him, but looked and noticed how Jesse was around Lex, "is she your girlfriend?"

"I'm not his girlfriend! No way," Lex growled, hating it how many people always thought that, while she and Jesse were only friends since they ended up on the streets together. Yet she blushed a little once she looked over towards Jesse.

"Yes, what makes you think I want one," Jesse frowned slightly at Rae.

"Just a guess," she said.

Soon Rae brought the children into one of the back rooms where they found a poster of many cetaceans and spotted the orca.

"No, he's not," Jesse pointed out, noticing how this orca's dorsal fin was straight, "Willy's fin is down."

"That happens in captivity," Rae warned Jesse.

"Why," Jesse asked.

"Nobody knows," Rae shrugged her shoulders.

"Perhaps they need more space to really swim," Lex said.

"Then how is it that Mr. Dial doesn't build Willy a bigger tank," Jesse asked Rae.

"Because Dial treats wild animals like a commodity," Rae explained to them, "it means he won't build a bigger pool for Willy unless he can make more money with him."

"How'd you like to help me," Rae asked the children.

"Sure," Lex and Jesse were eager to work with Willy.

"Most orcas love to play and do tricks. They like the stimulation," Rae said to the children as they came out past the side of Willy's tank.

"Hey, guys," Willy burst up right in front of the children.

"Can he see me underwater," Jesse asked.

"Sure," Rae nodded in reply.

"He can hear them as well, from anywhere in the tank," Lex added since she knew these facts.

"With my legendary great hearing and seeing," the murderous whale boasted a little.

"That's a goal now, young man," Rae handed Jesse a long pole used for training dolphins and whales.

"You want Willy to respond, follow it," Rae explained, "if we work on tricks or behaviors, we reward him with fish. We'll see if we can get Willy's nose to touch the target."

Soon Lex and Jesse moved the target pole right out in front of Willy and he touched it with his nose.

"This is great," Rae warned the children.

"Thank you," Jesse and Lex grinned back at her.

"Now give him the fish," Rae instructed them.

Jesse pulled out a fish from the bucket and threw it into Willy's mouth. "Here you go, Willy."

"Thanks, but perhaps next time, give me the entire bucket," Willy warned Jesse.

Rae and the children laughed as they watched Willy roll over on his side.

"Orcas love to be touched, petted, hugged and so on," Rae warned the children, "oh, they love to be petted on their tongues."

"Wait a moment....you want me to take my hand, put it in his mouth and rub his tongue," Jesse said to Rae like she was crazy.

"Yes, eventually," Rae nodded.

"I don't think so," Jesse shook his head no, seeming hesitant about doing that.

"Oh, c'mon, Jess. It's not that bad once you learn to trust each other," Lex said.

"She's right," Rae warned Jesse, "you'll learn to read him. You'll do it."

A while later, Randolph had given the children a carving of an orca whale from his tribe and warned them about a story of a Haida named Natsaclane who lived long before there were orca whales, but got lost one day while hunting for fish.

While he was searching, a fierce storm began. The otters came and took Natsaclane deep under the water where he'd be safe. After the storm, Natsaclane found a huge log and began carving a great beast in it and tried carrying it in the ocean. But the great carving sank to the bottom of the pool and disappeared. Natsaclane sat and watched and waited, saying a prayer he'd never heard before.

"Salana Ayun Iasis."

He kept saying this weird prayer. Then it really got crazy...the water started flying out and all this confusion started happening. And out of the water came the carving. But it wasn't a carving...it was a whale, like Willy. He flew all the road down to the ocean, like a bird. And Natsaclane, he got on his back and rode all the road home like a horse.

Over the next few days, Jesse and Lex continued working at the park, but most reluctantly, getting to see Willy.

One day while the children were cleaning up the observation area, Willy was watching them through the glass window and started vocalizing to get their attention.

"Hi, boy," Lex and Jesse came up to the window to greet their whale friend, "what's up?"

The two children were spending a lot of time with Willy, training him and just hanging out. Jesse continued speaking with Willy as they were all really bonding.

One evening, Jesse and Lex were watching Willy past the edge of his tank, making that strange vocalization sound again for some odd reason, even Lex didn't seem to understand.

"What is this," Jesse wondered what was wrong with the orca whale, "what are you making that awful noise for?"

The training for Willy continued on, as the children would give him extra salmon they'd get from the market plus make him toys to play with. Jesse and Lex made it up to the point where they jumped into the fountain and got to ride on Willy like an Indian atop some wild stallion. Jesse even had the guts to be brave enough and rub Willy's tongue.

Jesse had been eventually getting along better with the Greenwoods. But one night, Jesse got into a little scuffle with them after they weren't convinced that Jesse's mum was coming back for him like he had hoped. The fight got a little out of hand between Glen and Annie which frightened Jesse, causing him to break the window with his baseball present. But both Lex and the Greenwoods were able to reassure Jesse that they were here for him no matter what.

The next day, Lex and Jesse came down to Willy's tank with something special wrapped up in newspaper for him.

"Willy, we have something for you," Lex called out to the orca whale.

"Ooh, is it a fish? Two fish?  No, wait...an entire bucket of fish," Willy eagerly asked as he swam alongside the children, who chuckled at him.

"This is from us to you," Jesse presented Willy with a big salmon, "there you go, man. I have it with all our allowance.  Have fun.  And remember, I love you!"

Soon Perry showed up, surprising Jesse and Lex. He knew that he and Dayton were business partners now and were planning to leave for Sacramento in California, then Los Angeles. He said they could get in on it. But Lex and Jesse declined, saying they had to take care of Willy, which was much more reluctant to them. Perry yet gave them a card though to where he was going if they changed their minds.

A little while later, Jesse and Lex came over to the edge of Willy's tank.

"Hey, Willy," Jesse and Lex sat down next to the whale.

"You miss your family," Jesse asked Willy.

"Yes," the lonely murderous whale sighed.

"I know how you feel, buddy," Lex sighed, petting Willy on his rostrum.

"Well, my mother's a pain," Jesse began warning Willy about his mum, "she couldn't take care of me. She couldn't even take care of herself.  I haven't seen her since I was a boy.  But...I yet miss her."

"You know, it's hard," Lex sighed, warning both Willy and Jesse, "but...that's just the fashion life is."

"Could be a lot worse," Willy warned the children.

"I know my family's yet out there somewhere," Lex warned Willy before looking away into the distance, "I hope to find them one day."

"We hope you find your family as well someday," Jesse warned Willy, before he and Lex both kissed Willy on his rostrum.

"I love you, Willy," they said.

"And I love you guys as well," the orca whale said back to them.

It was incredible how two different species separated from the land and water could understand each other and become friends. It was truly beyond anything you could ever imagine, the bond between two children and a whale.

Later that same day, Dial and Wade showed up to inspect Jesse and Lex with Willy, to see him do some tricks and stuff.

"Would you like to do some tricks today," Lex asked the orca whale.

"You bet," Willy eagerly shook his head yes.

"Alright," Jesse said and Willy started away with squirting water from his mouth while going all around the pool.

Lex and Jesse got Willy to jump, spin around in circles, do flips and all sorts of other facts in front of Dial and his assistant, really impressing them with the children and whale's talent together.

"Alright, boy. C'mon, Willy," Jesse and Lex warned the orca as he put on a spectacle show, "go, Willy!"

"Now come to us! Willy," Jesse and Lex said until eventually, Willy slid out on the stage, presenting himself to his audience.

"And that, gentlemen, is our show," Rae warned Dial and Wade.

The men were left speechless, before Wade applauded. Then Lex and Jesse blew their whistles, warning Willy good job while Randolph and Rae came over to the children as they all cheered in celebration.

Afterwards...

"Then you guys can do everything yet," Dial asked the children what they just did so with Willy.

"Yes, sir," Lex nodded to him in reply.

"Of course, we can do it again," Jesse said, "anytime."

That evening, Lex had a funny feeling that Dial was up to something about possibly being able to eventually make money away from Willy. But more reluctantly, that a tragedy would strike for her, Jesse and Willy tomorrow.

The next day was big for everybody. Dial had planned for Willy to do his first public performance today, calling it "The Willy Show".

An entire mob of people had come to watch, filling up the whole stadium with Payless Shoes, Kid Cuisine and Bumblebee Sea Foods. The Greenwoods were there, and even Dwight was as well.

"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, please take your seats, the Willy show is about to begin."

Jesse and Lex were backstage, getting ready.

"A lot of people out there," Rae came back to check on them, "you two hesitant?"

"A little," Lex admitted, tightening her purple baseball cap around her head.

"Not me," Jesse replied, unwilling to admit that he really was hesitant.

Then Rae handed both children little bags to them.

"What's this," Jesse asked.

"A little gift from Randolph and me," Rae said.

The two children opened their bags, revealing the gifts to be their very own trainer whistles.

"Cool," Jesse placed his whistle over his neck.

"Thank you, Rae," Lex grinned to Rae, while putting her whistle over her neck.

"You're welcome," she grinned back at them before waving at them, "farewell."

Soon the two children heard the intercom make an announcement as they made their road out of the locker room and up to the stage.

"And now...we proudly present the Willy show!"

"Go get them," Randolph warned the children as they passed by him.

Lex's hands and legs were tingly all of a sudden, feeling a bit hesitant and astonished. Could this really be happening, she thought to herself. The tomboy took in a deep breath as she stood next to Jesse, ready to walk out on stage.

"Ladies and gentlemen......" Rae came out on stage, holding a microphone, "presenting the superstar orca of Northwest Adventure Park...let's hear it for Willy!"

Soon Randolph opened the gate from the medicine pool to let Willy swim out into the main tank. The audience roared with applause while Lex and Jesse walked out on stage.

Dial whispered to Wade. "This can be big. This could be big."

"And these are Willy's friends, Jesse and Lex all," Rae announced.

Jesse and Lex waved to the crowd while they applauded again.

"Jesse, Lex and Willy have a special show for you," Rae warned the crowd before whispering in the children's ears, "take them."

What no one didn't seem to know was that Willy seemed antagonized by the children banging constantly on his underwater observation window down below.

It was taking the hostile orca a little while to come on up and over to the children.

"He's not in this," Jesse turned to Rae.

"Something's wrong," Lex added, seeming to sense Willy's stress.

"Try something simple. I'm speaking," Rae whispered to them before speaking in the microphone to the audience, "Willy is a twelve-year-old orca.  He's 22 feet tall and weighs over 3.5 tons."

Lex and Jesse both splashed at the surface of the water lightly to get Willy's attention, as he eventually came up to them.

"Come here, buddy," Lex gently warned Willy, doing her best to soothe him.

"What's up, boy," Jesse asked his whale friend.

But Willy didn't speak to them for some strange reason.

"C'mon, Willy," Lex warned the whale, "you know the signals."

The children could see that Willy looked very stressed out about something.

"Willy, this is important to us," Jesse warned his whale friend.

"Please, Willy, please. Don't blow it," the two children begged. But Willy continued not responding to them and started making that strange vocalization noise again.

Everyone in the audience remained silent, waiting anxiously for something to happen while Rae and Randolph held their breaths, hoping Willy wouldn't mess this up.

"You can do it, Willy," Lex warned the humpback whale with her deep encouragement, "we know you can."

"Alright," Jesse said to Willy, "now we go, bud."

Then Jesse and Lex gave a single, but he did nothing. They tried another single, but Willy yet refused to take it and swam off from them.

The crowd started to get bored, some even booed for Lex and Jesse to get off the stage.

"Hey! Stop," Jesse and Lex tried to coax Willy, but it was getting out of range, "stop!"

"Like all great artists, ladies and gentlemen, Willy sometimes gets a little scary once in Hawaii," Rae explained to the audience.

The crowd started clapping for the show to go ahead. Poor Jesse couldn't handle the pressure and ran off the stage.

"Taxi," Lex frowned and ran after her friend.

Meanwhile, in a stress-induced rage of the children constantly banging on the glass windows, Willy rammed at the window. Smashing against the tank and damaging it slightly enough to cause a leak in the process, while the children all shrieked and ran out of the observation area in a panic.

"EVACUATE," commanded Gwenie.

"EVERYONE, TO THE BOATS," ordered Vector.

After the disaster, Lex and Jesse were back in the locker room with Rae, changing back into their regular clothes.

"He just wasn't ready," Rae warned them softly.

But Jesse was just too uspet, blaming the entire fact on himself.

"Jesse, it wasn't your fault. You did nothing," Lex tried to warn her friend, but Jesse walked out on her and left the park in furiousness.

Lex, Dwight and the Greenwoods followed Jesse down to a bay side, where they found him kicking a trashcan in frustration as they came over.

"Jesse, it takes a lot of courage to do what you did so...to work with an animal that's so big and strong," Annie comforted the poor street boy.

"Perhaps that choice just doesn't want to be an artist," Glen said to Jesse, "you gave it your best shot. You worked hard and did everything you could."

"And we're very proud of you," Annie added, acting very motherly as if Jesse was her own child.

Jesse was yet upset and wouldn't speak to the Greenwoods. Soon Lex came up in front of her friend.

"Listen, Jess...none of this is your fault," she said to him, "Willy's probably just stressed out."

But Jesse yet didn't say anything or even looked to his the only friend he'd known while on the streets.

"You know I'd be hesitant even if I had to do tricks in front of all these people," Annie added.

But the frustrated twelve-year-old boy left them and sat down over on a bench. Dwight went over to try and speak to Jesse, with the twelve-year-old saying he was sick of this place.

He said he was going to leave to find his mum.

But Dwight said nobody could find his mum, saying she was not coming back and that if Jesse would go away on his own again, he'd end up losing big-time.

"Dwight, shut up and leave me alone," Jesse yelled out in frustration before he ran away.

"Jesse," Lex called out before running after him.

Later that night, Lex and Jesse were in their separate beds, thinking about many different facts that were running through their heads. Lex couldn't stop thinking about what would happen to poor Willy if they left him.

Soon, Annie came in, standing past the edge of the doorway.

"I feel very sorry for Willy..." she said to the two children.

"Us as well," both children responded weakly.

"You know...animals can be unpredictable and they can behave sometimes...just like humans," Annie explained calmly, "but that doesn't mean you have to lose confidence in them. Right?"

Lex only replied with a weak nod while Jesse didn't say anything.

"Well...goodnight," Annie left the room.

The two street children thought again while Lex looked at the orca carving Randolph gave them. What were they gonna do now?

Awhile later that night, Lex and Jesse sneaked out of the house, went down to the amusement park and sat down past Willy's tank, thinking long and hard about what they were gonna do now and where they were gonna go.

Soon the lonely whale swam up to them.

"Uh...hey, guys," he greeted the children silently.

"What have you done," Jesse frowned at Willy, not understanding the whale right now since they weren't in the tank with each other with a pure heart and clear mind like truth speakers were supposed to be.

"I want to apologize...about earlier," Willy said softly, feeling disgraceful at what just happened.

"What just happened," Lex asked the mournful orca like a worried mother.

"You choked, didn't you," Jesse added, frowning at Willy.

"I'm sorry, Jesse," Willy brought his toy over that Jesse and Lex had made for him.

"Now you want to mess around," Jesse scoffed at the whale before throwing the toy far out to make Willy go away.

But Willy didn't, and instead started squirting water at the children.

"Stop this," Jesse warned the orca whale, "Willy, stop that."

But Willy continued squirting at them.

"Stop this," Jesse yelled, upset.

"Willy, please stop," Lex warned the orca gently, "it won't help Jesse."

"I'm sorry..." the poor orca frowned, "I didn't mean to hurt you."

"It's alright, boy. It wasn't your fault," Lex soothed, reaching out to pet the whale's rostrum.

While this was going on, Jesse looked at his whistle Rae and Randolph had given him.

"You see this," Jesse showed the whale his trainer whistle, "you see that, Willy? It goes a farewell and it'll never come back," before throwing his whistle far off.

"Jesse..." Lex frowned, feeling truly bad for her friend who was so hurt.

Then Willy started making that strange vocalization noise at the children.

"Don't stop that now," Jesse warned the orca whale.

"Why are you making such a strange noise," Lex questioned the whale.

But Willy didn't seem to answer her and kept making these strange vocalizations, even the tomboy couldn't understand.

Then Jesse caught his bag, sniffling just a little as he warned his two friends. "I'm out of here. I'm going to California."

"What," Lex looked shocked that her friend was leaving, "Jesse, no!"

"I'm sorry, Lex," Jesse looked to the tomboy, then at Willy, warning the whale, "have a great life."

Willy started shaking his head no at Jesse. "You can't go, Jesse. You're my friend."

Jesse started to leave, but stopped in his tracks once he heard something. It sounded like....orca whale calls?

Lex heard it as well, as she and Jesse both climbed up to the top of the lighthouse past the stage while Willy came up to the edge of the tank and kept making these strange vocalization calls.

The children looked out to discover out in the bay not just one, but an entire pod of orca whales all calling to Willy.

"Wow," the children were amazed, having discovered Willy's pod.

"It's your family," Jesse said to Willy while he kept making these vocalizations back out to his pod.

"Oh, you poor fact," Lex felt her heart ache as she and Jesse realized how miserable Willy truly was in captive.

They just had to get Willy back out in the ocean to his family somehow.

Then Jesse and Lex turned around and spotted something strange going on down below in the observation area. They sneaked downstairs to discover that Wade and many other colleagues were using some tools to damage Willy's tank.

After they left, Lex and Jesse came down to the glass window and saw that the damage was just big enough for all that water in the tank to leak out and murder Willy.

"Randolph! Wake up!  Wake up," Lex and Jesse were down at Randolph's hut and kept banging on the door until eventually, Randolph responded.

"There's a hole in Willy's sink," Lex and Jesse both said, gasping.

The three humans swiftly came back to the park and down to the observation area where the water had leaked out enough up to their legs now.

"They tried to murder Willy," Jesse warned Randolph.

"Wade was with them," Randolph asked.

"Yes, and they dropped this," Lex replied, showing Randolph a screw she had found.

"It's part of the tank," Randolph said to the children, "Dial's trying to collect the insurance. Willy's worth a million dollars."

"A million dollars," Jesse gasped, looking at Willy through the glass window.

"That greedy selfish little--" Lex was about to say about Dial in outburst, but before Jesse had the unimaginable idea.

"Randolph, let's release him!"

"What," Randolph asked, wondering if he heard Jesse correctly.

"Let's liberate Willy," Jesse said.

"Yes," Lex swiftly agreed with the idea, "he has a family there waiting for him. All we have to do is get him in a giant sling, put him in a truck, take him to the bay and put him back again in the ocean."

Randolph thought for a long moment before eventually saying, "I never liked this job anyhow."

A little while later, Rae came right down after Randolph and the children had called her up. Rae swiftly came out of her car and came over to the others to see what the emergency was.

"What just happened? Was there an incident," she asked in a concerned tone.

"This isn't an incident," Randolph replied, "Dial's trying to murder Willy."

"Then we'll put him back in the ocean," Lex and Jesse added.

"You three," Rae asked, pointing to Lex, Jesse and Randolph.

"And you," Randolph warned Rae.

"And I? Wait a moment," Rae said, "he'll die if he's in the dry dock too long."

"The tank's beyond repair," Randolph replied.

"He's had a family out there! We heard them," Jesse said to Rae.

"Don't you get it," Lex warned Rae, "he's homesick. That's why he acted so weird."

"Rae, they tried to assassinate him," Jesse added, begging for her help.

Rae thought for a moment before asking Randolph. "Randolph, did you call the police?"

"What good would this be," Randolph said, "listen, soon if we don't get Willy in the water, he'll die. Rae, get out of here or turn on the pump."

Rae thought for another moment what she should do, but ran over to turn on the pump to keep the water elevated as best as they could where Willy wouldn't get beached and die. Then the humans had the sling ready and raised it down into the medicare pool. Now all they needed was a whale to go into it.

"C'mon, boy," Jesse and Lex tried to lure Willy over with fish, "c'mon, c'mon, Willy. OK, that's it.  C'mon, boy."

Willy was a bit hesitant about going into the sling. It got worse once the glass windows from the observation area burst and now the water was leaking even faster down to a more dangerously lower level.

"SARABI!!"

It's too late since Jesse and Lex both jumped into the tub to help Willy while Randolph shrieked Jesse's name, but it was no use.

"Jesse, Lex, get out of there," Rae yelled at the children, shocked that they might get hurt, who growled in frustration before shouting out an enraged "STEELE!!"

"STAY AWAY FROM MY SERVER," yelled Heckler upset.

This yell was so loud that it echoed across Dawson's Marina. But Jesse didn't listen to them. "Willy, I wanted to obey Randolph and Rae," the children swam over to the whale and consoled him, "c'mon, Willy. C'mon, now!  Someone get some water!"

"Don't worry, Jesse," Randolph shouts, "everything is under control!"

"If we want to get you out of here, give us a little help," Jesse said to Willy.

"Attaboy, Jess," Randolph warned Jesse.

"I'm afraid," Willy said fearfully, and Jesse could understand him again.

"Please, Willy. Please, listen!  Just cooperate," Jesse begged the orca whale as they were running out of time.

"Get into the net, boy," Lex instructed Willy, and he did so as she said, "trust me. Good work, Willy."

"It's gonna be alright, Willy," Lex and Jesse soothed the frightened orca, "it's gonna be alright."

Soon Willy was positioned in the giant sling and Randolph lifted him up with a crane and placed him on the back of a trailer.

"How's he doing," Jesse asked once Willy was positioned on the back of the trailer.

"He's fine," Rae replied, "as long as we keep him wet, we'll be fine."

"How are we going to pull him," Randolph asked, since they had nothing to tow Willy with, hearing the frustrated trainer shout his name.

Jesse, Lex and Randolph sneaked over to the Greenwoods house and took Glen's truck and brought it back to the park in order to tow Willy.

Soon the gang decided on where they were gonna go to get Willy back to the ocean and soon drove away. They drove on the crossroads through the woods in order to avoid being spotted.

"It's gonna be alright, boy," Jesse and Lex said as they sat in the back with Willy, "we're not going to let anything happen to him. We promise."

"Thank you, guys," Willy said to them in gratitude.

Everything was going well for the gang, until they ran into a tree that had been knocked over and was blocking their path.

"Oh, dear, what are we gonna do," Rae frowned.

"We'll have to back it up," Randolph replied.

Soon Randolph put the truck in reverse while Rae guided him down the path. "Which is good? Keep moving," she warned Randolph.

It was all going smoothly until suddenly, the trailer started to fall off the side of the ledge.

"Stop! Stop!  Randolph, stop," Rae and the children cried out in grief.

The gang looked to see that the trailer had gotten stuck in a ditch while Willy started vocalizing in hesitation again.

"It's alright, boy," Lex soothed Willy while petting him, "it's over now."

"How's he doing," Rae asked the children as she came over to check on Willy.

"We don't know," Jesse said, "he's pretty afraid."

"If the trailer tips any further, we'll lose him," Randolph warned them in a severely fashion.

Lex's eyes widened a bit in fear, knowing if they didn't do something now, Willy would die.

"Lex, I'm afraid," Willy warned the adventure girl in hesitation, looking into her eyes.

Lex turned back to the whale's eyes and took a deep breath, trying her best to remain calm and be brave for him.

"It's alright," she soothed Willy while rubbing him down, "you're gonna be alright, Willy."

A car engine was heard roaring, trying its very best to move at least an inch. Rae was driving while Randolph was trying hard to push the truck out of the ditch.

But it was no use.....

"Well," Lex asked hopefully while she sat past Willy and Jesse.

"We certainly hit some lows," Randolph admitted, "there is no question about that."

"We need help," Rae sighed.

Everyone frowned in hopelessness, until Jesse had an idea and called up the Greenwoods on the truck's radio and they came right over.

Moments later....

The Greenwoods had arrived on the scene to find the gang and Willy stuck.

"What's happening," Annie asked as she came out of the car with Glen.

"What are you doing here on my truck? And this whale," Glen looked a bit upset and confused.

"They tried to butcher Willy," Jesse explained.

"Then we're returning him from the sea," Lex added.

Glen and Annie both looked a bit hesitant, not knowing if they should help or not.

"Glen, help us. Please help us, and I'll do anything.  Anything," Jesse begged.

"What do you think I want from you," Glen asked Jesse as if he were his own son.

"I don't know. I don't know what you want from me," Jesse looked tearful, "you see, I have to be careful with Willy, and I have to do my best for him.  Do you understand?"

"Please, Glen, please," Lex also begged desperately, "Willy's going to die."

Glen thought for a moment, before replying with. "There's a chain and a winch behind the truck seat. Go get it."

Jesse ran up to hug Glen in great gratitude. "Thank you, Glen."

The gang got right to work as they took the chain and wrench to connect to the back of the trailer and pull it out of the ditch.

"What just happened," Willy asked the children, sounding afraid.

"Don't worry, boy. You'll be alright," Jesse stroked the orca whale to soothe him, "Glen's working on it."

"We'll take you out of here. We promise," Lex added.

Soon they started moving the truck back away from the ditch while the children sat in the back with Willy to keep him calm.

With only a few more pushes back, they had made it.

"We have to get Willy fully wet, he's dry," Rae explained.

"The sun will rise soon," Randolph added.

"I know where we can go," Glen said as he took to the wheel and drove.

Of all the places, Glen took them down to a car wash, which was really the perfect place for Willy to get wet and washed down.

"Where are we," Willy asked Jesse and Lex.

"Don't worry, boy. You'll be alright," Lex warned the whale.

"We're going to give you a nice rinse," Jesse said.

Meanwhile, Dial had found out from Wade that Willy was missing and ordered all his lackeys to hunt him down.

"Oh, this feels very relaxed," Willy said, as he was enjoying getting sprayed with the hose very much.

"Open your mouth," Rae warned the children to get Willy to open his mouth.

"Alright, bud. Open up," Lex and Jesse instructed, giving Willy the hand signal to open his mouth, which he did so, "good boy.  Thank you."

"I'm sorry, we don't have fish for you," Lex apologized.

"Oh, that's alright," Willy grinned to her.

Soon the gang drove the trailer out of the car wash while two homeless men were passing by and noticed Willy.

"Nice work," he said.

"Thank you," Glen replied.

The gang continued driving down to the harbor, as soon as it would be morning.

"I don't know how long this can be taken," Willy complained a bit to the children.

"It'll be alright, Willy," Lex warned the orca as it was almost sunrise and they were almost there.

Daybreak had eventually arrived, as the gang was nearing the harbor with Willy.

"Hang in there, bud. We're almost there," Lex and Jesse warned Willy.

Willy looked at them in praise of their help, but began closing his eyes.

"We have to hurry," Jesse warned the adults, "he's not doing very well!"

As they neared the gates to the harbor, Dial and his goons were there, blocking their path and had the gates locked. Glen started slowing the truck down, hesitating to go any further.

"Please, Glen! Hurry up," Jesse and Lex begged.

Glen yet hesitated, not knowing what to do as Wade and the others were warning him to stop.

"Hurry up, Glen," Jesse and Lex cried out in despair.

Soon Annie gave her husband the look to go for it and with that, Glen revved up the truck engine and charged at the gate. Dial and his goons all ran in to get out of the road, afraid of getting hit while the truck burst straight through the gates.

Then Glen put the truck in reverse and drove backwards, getting Willy swiftly back into the water.

Not too far away, a family had been walking down to the bay, as they spotted what was occurring with Willy and the group of people.

"What's going on," the little girl asked her parents.

"Is that a whale slaughter," the little boy pointed out, looking greatly astonished.

But the parents looked even more shocked and astonished as they saw that one of the people, the young girl, was wearing a purple baseball cap. She looked very familiar to them.

"Alan..." the woman hesitated to say anything while she stared at Lex, before eventually asking her husband, "do you see what I see?"

"Oh, yes..." the man nodded to his wife, never taking his eyes off Lex.

Jesse, Lex and the entire gang came into the water to help Willy get out of the sling and back into the bay.

"Stop them! Stop them," Wade and the other lackeys came running towards the gang.

"Willy, what's wrong," Lex asked, looking shocked as Willy wasn't even trying to swim out.

"C'mon, boy! We took you into the water, now you have to do your part," Jesse warned the whale.

"Stop! Don't let the whale go away," Wade cried out in sadness as he and the goons came into the water to stop Jesse and the others.

"Willy, please, no," Lex looked tearful as it looked like Willy wasn't going to make it.

"Randolph, why doesn't he move," Jesse asked the shaman man, looking shocked, "you said if we put him in the water, he'll be fine."

"I don't know, guys," Randolph said to the kids, "he has been out of the water longer than we thought."

"C'mon, Willy! Go, Willy, go!  Leave here," Jesse and the others encouraged the whale and tried pushing him out before Wade and Dial's goons came to them and a fight broke out in the water.

"Willy, please, go," Lex and Jesse begged, trying to push the three-ton orca out further into the water and soon Willy started swimming on his own.

"Good boy," Jesse and Lex warned the orca before he swam away out into the open waters, "we love you, Willy."

Willy started swimming through the harbor, straight out into the ocean. Nothing could hold him back now.

"Boy, now this brings me back to the time if I was feeding chickens in Yorkshire from the evil aunt and uncle's farm," the tomboy mentioned, grinning in memory while she watched Willy swim out of the harbor.

But as Willy continued swimming out to the open ocean, some boats with nets from the harbor came in and blocked Willy's only path at getting out of here.

The other family watched from the top of the hill.

"That poor whale," the little girl frowned as she watched with her parents and twin brother.

"He can never do it," the little boy added.

Wade and the other confederates came back up out of the water and over to Dial.

"That whale has nowhere to go," Dial said, "the water is 20 feet high, and the mosquito nets will bottom out and seal him off."

The gang watched hopelessly as these nets trapped Willy once again. But soon Willy turned around and went off in a separate direction away from the boats. Jesse and Lex swiftly had the same idea, rushed out of the harbor and started chasing after Willy.

"Jesse. Lex," Glen and Annie called out to them, "Jesse, Lex, come back here!"

The other family from the top of the hill also watched at how determined Lex looked as she went after Willy.

"C'mon, Willy! C'mon, boy," the two preteens kept calling out to Willy as they ran with him as fast as they could away from the boats.

"Follow us to the breakwater! Hurry up!  Go, Willy, go!  Get out of these mosquito nets!  Swim!  Come to us!  Heel, boy!  Hurry up!"

Soon they came over to a rocky seawall and lightly splashed at the surface of the water to call Willy over. "C'mon..."

Then Willy came right up to the children.

"Come here, boy," Jesse and Lex warned the whale gently, starting to tear up.

Willy looked right up at the children. "Thank you very much.....for everything," he said to them.

"We'll miss you," Jesse started to weep.

"Don't forget us, alright? We won't forget you," Lex added, also weeping a bit.

"I love you, guys. I'll miss you as well," Willy warned them, "you're the best friend I've ever had."

"Being able to speak to you has always been the greatest gift..." Jesse wept once more, saying a tearful farewell to his friend, "I really love you, boy."

Then Lex got Jesse to pull himself together as they warned Willy all he had to do was jump over the rock wall to the ocean on the other side and he would be free.

"You can do it. Do it," they whispered to Willy, giving him the signal.

Soon Willy listened to them and was ready to make the highest jump in his life.

"Please, Willy. We know you can do it," Jesse and Lex encouraged Willy as they ran up to the top of the rock wall, "we know you can jump this wall!"

"C'mon, we trust you! You can do it!  You're free!"

Jesse and Lex came up to the top of the rock wall while everyone watched and waited.

"Please, Willy! You only need to do it once," Lex and Jesse warned Willy, "do it once, boy!"

Willy swam done as deep as he could and was ready to make the ultimate jump. Everyone, including that the other family watched and waited anxiously.

"Randolph, have you ever seen him jump so high," Rae asked a bit hesitantly.

"Facts may happen," Randolph said.

Jesse and Lex started saying that Randolph Johnson taught them as they gave Willy the signal to jump.

"Salana Ayun Iasis."

Suddenly, Willy made the jump as everyone watched the spectacle event unfold right before their eyes. Lex and Jesse both raised their hands in victory as Willy jumped right over them and plunged back into the ocean on the other side.

Everyone cheered in happiness for Willy, while Dial grumbled in defeat...

"I hate that whale."

Lex and Jesse continued cheering until they realized, this would be the last time they'd see Willy for awhile. They both frowned for a moment, but knew it was for the best.

"Farewell, Willy. We'll miss you," Lex whispered.

"Hope we can see each other again," Jesse said once Willy swam away back out into the ocean, "I love you..."

"Lex," the adventure girl heard some familiar voices she hadn't heard in a long time. She turned around and couldn't believe it. Right there in front of her......was her family.

"Mum! Dad," she ran to her family and they all reunited in a big group hug.

It was the most joyous fact for the adventure girl to see that her family was alive.

"Oh, I've missed you guys," she hugged her parents and younger siblings so tight, while looking uncontrollably tearful.

"We missed you as well," her parents, Ellie and Alan returned the hug and joyful tears.

"You must warn us about that whale," the twins jumped up and down eagerly, willing to know everything that their sister had been doing since they were gone.

Jesse was happy for his friend to reunite with her family, but he heard some familiar voices.

"Hey, Jess."

He turned around to see the Greenwoods come up to him and he hugged them.

"Thank you all, guys," he said to them, before both families turned back out into the ocean to see Willy reunite with his family and swam away.

"So long, Willy," Jesse and Lex said to their whale friend, and they could've sworn they heard Willy call back to them in the distance.

"Let's all go home," Ellie warned her daughter, and the family left the harbor with the Greenwoods, happy to be together again.

And who knew, perhaps someday....Lex and Jesse would see Willy again.

Executive Producers DENNIS DESHAZER SHERYL STAMPS LEACH

Senior Producer JIM ROWLEY

Producers JEFF GITTLE MARTHA DATEMA LIPSCOMB

Director BRUCE DECK

Writer MITCH LOBROVICH

Production Designer JESS NELSON

Musical Director BOB SINGLETON

Lyricists/Composers STEPHEN BATES BALTES LORY LAZARUS

Performance Director PENNY WILSON

Educational Specialists MARY ANN DUDKO, Ph.D. MARGIE LARSEN, M.Ed.

Cast: Voice of Barney... BOB WEST Barney's Body Costume... DAVID JOYNER Voice of Baby Bop... JULIE JOHNSON Baby Bop's Body Costume... JEFF AYERS Voice of B.J. ... PATTY WIRTZ B.J.'s Body Costume... JEFF BROOKS

Cast: Shawn... JOHN DAVID BENNETT, II Tosha... HOPE CERVANTES Stella the Storyteller... PHYLLIS CICERO Jason... KURT DYKHUIZEN Kathy... LAUREN KING Juan... MICHAEL KROST

Cast: Carlos... COREY LOPEZ Min... PIA MANALO Kenneth... NATHAN REGAN Julie... SUSANNAH WETZEL Puppeteers... JESS NELSON RAY HENRY D.J. SEGLER

Associate Director ERIC NORBERG

Stage Manager TERRIE DAVIS MANNING

Lighting Design BERNER & BRILL LIGHTING DESIGN, INC.

Editor MCKEE SMITH

Audio Director DAVID M. BOOTHE

Art Director ELIZABETH SAGAN VELTEN

Wardrobe Supervisor/Designer LISA O. ALBERTSON

Technical Operations Supervisor RANDY BREEDLOVE

Video Engineer BINK WILLIAMS

Camera Operators LARRY ALLEN OZ COLEMAN TOM COX BRUCE HARMON

Production Audio RONALD G. BALENTINE DAVID LOWE

Boom Operators DAVID M. ROBERTS DAVID SMITH

Lighting Director CASEY COOK

Key Grip BUZ CANNON

Lighting Board Operator TODD DAVIS

Grip/Electric JAMES EDWARDS

Construction Supervisor CHARLES BAILEY

Craft Shop Supervisor RAY HENRY

Art/Craft Coordinator AMY ATHERTON

Set Dresser AGGIE DAVIS-BROOKS

Draftsperson CHRISTOPHER MCCRAY

Craft/Prop Artist MARK BROGAN

Props/Special Effects DAVID COBB

Carpenters TY M. BURNS DANNY SMITH

Scenic Painter E. (BILL) SLETTE

Swing Crew CARMELO GOMEZ

Costume Shop Manager GEORGIA FORD WAGENHURST

Costume Technician D.J. SEGLER

Costume Sewing NATALIE SERGI-SAARI SUSIE THENNES

Make-Up Designer JEANIE L. D'IORIO

Hair Stylist DEBRA HERTEL HAEFLING

Costume/Wardrobe Assistants BRIAN N. BLEVINS JANET BUSH SANTIAGO MOLENA

Field Producer SANDY JANTZEN

Post Videotape DUDLEY ASAFF

Dialogue Editor DENICE CROWELL

Post Production Audio CRAIG CHASTAIN

Production Office Manager SUE SHINN

Script Supervisor CATHERINE REYNOLDS

Production Coordinators JULIE HUTCHINGS KELLY MAHER

Production Accountant DEBBIE COTTLE

Production Secretary AUSTIN GRAY

Asst. to Performance Director DAVID VOSS

Production Assistants BRADEN MCDONALD JOEL ZOCH

Barney Music Department JILL HANCE CHARLES KING JONATHAN SMITH ETHEL WADSWORTH

For Singleton Productions, Inc. BRADFORD COLEMAN LARRY HARON MIKE PIETZSCH

Educational Research Staff PATSY J. ROBLES GOODWIN, M.Ed. KIMBERLY THORNTON, M.Ed. JOY STARR

Children's Supervisor MARY EVANS

Additional on set tutoring provided by ON LOCATION EDUCATIONAL • MICHELE DANCHES

Barney and the Backyard Gang™ and Barney & Friends® were originally developed by Sheryl Leach, Kathy Parker and Dennis DeShazer.

Vocal Performances Enhanced with Help from Singleton Productions, Inc.

"I Love You" • Lyrics by Lee Bernstein (BMI)

Special Thanks to Tom Rennen of Intelligent Light Digital Imaging Samuel Farm • Mesquite, Texas City of Dallas Park and Recreation Department

Original Barney, Baby Bop and B.J. Costumes by IRENE COREY DESIGN ASSOCIATES

Produced by THE LYONS GROUP AND CONNECTICUT PUBLIC TELEVISION

For Connecticut Public Television Executives in Charge LARRY RIKFIN SHARON BLAIR

Executive in Charge RICHARD C. LEACH

BARNEY & FRIENDS • At Home with Animals Copyright 1993 • Lyons Partnership, L.P.