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ScreenVue is the result of a joint venture and partnership between Christian Video Licensing International (CVLI) and Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) and Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC).

ScreenVue first launched in 2003 as a service of CVLI. The CVLI Church Video License provides legal coverage for churches and for other ministry organizations to show DVDs, Blu-rays, digital, movie downloads and streams of motion pictures. Each organization needs to be specifically covered. Coverage includes playing just a few seconds of a movie all the way up to showing the full-length feature.

Each *Total Producer Church Video License* (or any *Church Video Licence* globally) comes with free ScreenVue Vault access.

The ScreenVue Vault offers 14,000+ Scene Ideas, Views and Downloads from a variety of movies and resources. 

ScreenVue saves you hours of time finding that perfect movie illustration for next Sunday’s sermon, child or youth service, or video announcement!  

(*ScreenVue does not sell or rent entire digital copies of movies to download. To purchase or rent entire movies, please access services like Amazon, Apple or Fandango).

About Us


### CCLI

Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) was established in 1988 to provide churches with simple, affordable solutions to complex copyright issues. CCLI helps churches maintain their integrity while giving them the freedom to worship expressively and spontaneously.

Churches often face copyright infringement issues in two areas: 1) copying music without permission, and 2) showing movies without authorization.

For copying music to assist with congregational singing, the Church Copyright License provides blanket coverage for 600,000+ songs and 7,000+ publishers and song owners. Currently, global churches are using 600,000+ CCLI licenses.

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### CVLI

From a unique partnership between Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) and Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC), Christian Video Licensing International (CVLI) and the Church Video License was formed in 2001.

The Church Video License provides churches with legal coverage to show all, or any portion of, thousands of movie titles from a number of movie producers, including all the major studios. Currently, the titles from 3,000+ producers are represented by the Church Video License, including the titles that contain all the scenes that are part of the ScreenVue Vault.

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### MPLC

Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC) was founded in 1986 by former MGM executives and an MPAA attorney. Their goal was to develop a process to help the public leverage the work of the creative community without infringing on copyright.

With decades of experience, MPLC has become the world leader in licensing movies, TV programs, and other content for public performances. Through its Umbrella License® MPLC provides a comprehensive copyright compliance solution that is simple and affordable.

MPLC works closely with a variety of institutions, associations, and antipiracy groups to educate the public about copyright and promote the intellectual property rights of the creative community.

Today, MPLC licenses over 500,000 locations worldwide, including, but not limited to, nonprofit organizations, corporations, and government entities.


Partners

## Privacy is Important to ScreenVue.

We’re committed to using the data that you share with us to provide the best possible service and experience. This Privacy Policy explains when and why we collect personal data, how we use it, and how we keep it secure.

When you provide us with personal data or use our websites, you agree to be bound by this policy which we may update from time to time.

### Our Privacy Principles


- We will only collect personal data that is relevant to the services we provide, handle it securely and retain it only as long as necessary.
-  We will always ask you for your communication preferences and make it simple to change them.
-  We will not sell or give your information to a third-party organization other than our trusted service providers who provide certain secure business functions on our behalf
-  Our websites and online services only use temporary ‘session’ cookies to enhance your online experience. We do not use cookies to collect personally identifying information.

The information below provides more detail about how we use your data.

- Who We Are
- The Information We Collect
- How and Why We Use Personal Data
- How We Protect Your Personal Data
- Your Personal Data and Service Providers
- Your Personal Data and Marketing
- How We Use Cookies
- Google Analytics
- Comment Policy
- Update and Access Your Data: Your Rights and Control
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## Who We Are

ScreenVue is an international organization headquartered in the United States, with offices around the world. As such, many of our systems and online services are employed globally.

We are strongly committed to maintaining the privacy of your personal information and the security of our computer systems and online services.

Concerning the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information, ScreenVue makes every effort to ensure compliance with all applicable laws, including the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the all other local privacy regulations.

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## The Information We Collect

When you purchase licenses or services from ScreenVue, we will require only the personal information that is necessary for the administration of your account with us.

As a general rule, we do not collect personally-identifying information about you when you visit our websites or online services and we will retain only the information you choose to share with us.

When you sign up for CVLI/ScreenVue’s licenses or services, you may provide some or all of the following:

- Your title, name, email, postal address, and telephone numbers. 
- Usernames and passwords that you have chosen to log in to secure ScreenVue services.

When you use our websites and online services we collect:

- Information about the licenses and subscriptions that you purchase from us including your method of payment.
- Information about the pages visited, and links clicked, including the date and time.
- The internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site.
- Information about the devices you have used, including mobile device identifiers, operating system, IP address and type of browser.

Our websites contain links to other websites. When you leave a ScreenVue website by linking to any of these sites, you are subject to the privacy policy of those sites.

When you interact with us through email, social media, surveys or promotions, we may collect:

- Personal data that you freely provide about yourself that is relevant to the nature of the interaction, such as your name, username and email address. 
- Details of the emails you open, and links clicked.
- Your comments in forums and feedback from surveys.

If you identify yourself by sending an e-mail containing personal information requesting that we mail information to you, we will use this information solely for responding to such requests and for our records. We may forward your e-mail to other ScreenVue employees who are better able to serve you.

### Data obtained from other sources
We may obtain personal data from other legitimate sources, including trusted third-party providers, and use this data to:

Verify and correct the information we hold.

- Send information about license renewal and account management.
- Send marketing communications by post or email.
- Initiate or deliver targeted content via online advertising and social media.


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## How And Why We Use Personal Data

ScreenVue will only collect and retain data that is required to administer your account or improve your experience; and we will provide you with information that we believe is important, in your interest to know, or that you have permitted us to send.

We use your data in the following ways:

To make our services available to you

- Ensuring that the administration of your account is simple and secure. 
- Enabling us to provide the services you require and to process orders and refunds efficiently.
- Enabling us to provide support and respond to inquiries quickly and accurately.
- Where ScreenVue acts as an agent for other rightsholder organizations and you hold one of their licenses, we may be required to share your data with them.

To improve the way we operate and communicate

- The data we hold about you enables us to improve our internal systems and our range of services.
- By monitoring the use of our services, we can detect and prevent misuse and fraud and ensure that they can be accessed safely and securely.
- We use web technologies such as cookies to improve the way our websites and online services work. Some cookies are necessary and, if disabled, will limit functionality and affect your user experience.
- We use tools like Google Analytics to help us understand our users’ experience (e.g., how much time they spend on web pages, which links they choose, what they do and don’t like, etc.).
- User feedback helps us build and maintain our services, determine technical design specifications and monitor system performance.

To ensure our communications are relevant and valuable

- Interactions and browsing behavior help us understand you better and determine what is of most and least interest, meaning we can personalize our services, marketing communications, and promotions and measure their effectiveness.
- We’re committed to respecting your marketing preferences and making it easy to change them.

### Consequences of Not Providing Your Data
You are not obligated to provide your personal information to ScreenVue, LLC. However, ScreenVue is unable to issue and administer copyright licenses, services and agreements without it.

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## How We Protect Your Personal Data
ScreenVue takes the protection of your data very seriously.

- We use firewalls and data encryption to protect data that is stored electronically, and we take appropriate measures to ensure that our buildings and any files we store physically are secure.
- Whenever we collect or disclose personal data, we employ physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to ensure its safety. Consequently, we may ask you for proof of identity before we can disclose personal information to you.
- We encrypt all data that is transferred electronically using the industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- When your data is transferred, stored or processed in a different country, we employ appropriate measures to ensure that your data remains secure.

We cannot guarantee the security of any email provider or online service which is not managed by us, and which you use to transfer data to us.

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## Your Personal Data and Service Providers
ScreenVue works with reputable service providers who may process your data to perform business functions on our behalf. These include Google Analytics, MailChimp/Mandrill, SurveyGizmo and others.

All such service providers are contractually required to keep your data safe, use it only for the purposes agreed, and delete it when it is no longer required. They have agreed not share it, nor use it for their marketing purposes.

We will never give, sell or share your personal data with any third-party for any purpose other than that referred to above.

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## Your Personal Data and Marketing
ScreenVue would like to share potentially valuable or interesting information with you and, from time to time, ask for your feedback via online surveys.

- When you provide us with your personal data, either by phone, email or a physical or online form, we will always provide a clear and simple way to confirm your communication preferences.
- We will never assume your consent to receive email marketing. We will only send you marketing emails where you have opted-in to receive them.
- We may give you the opportunity to opt-in to receive different marketing emails based on your interests. An opportunity to unsubscribe from any list will be clearly provided at the bottom of each email.
- We may mail information to you that we believe will be of legitimate interest.
- We will make it simple for you to change your communications preferences, which you can do at any time online, over the phone or by writing to us.

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## How We Use Cookies
A ‘cookie’ is a file placed on your personal computer’s hard drive by a website.

ScreenVue employs cookies to optimize its service to customers. We do not use cookies to collect personally identifying information from users, nor to track user activities beyond our websites. ScreenVue does not maintain copies of cookies on our websites after you leave them.

Cookies store and exchange small pieces of temporary data between a website and a user’s computer which enable a “session” or “dialogue” between the two machines. With the session established, ScreenVue can tailor its responses (i.e., provide you with the information you want) and help you traverse our web pages efficiently and effectively.  A session is broken when you exit your browser.

ScreenVue uses “session cookies” — (i.e., temporarily stored cookies in your computer’s memory). Session cookies are normally deleted from a user’s computer when the user logs off the computer, or the user exits the browser.

For security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, our websites also employ systems to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the law.

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## Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service that uses cookies stored on your computer to collect and report website usage data.  We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our websites and to identify where we can improve our content and services.  Google collects the IP address you use when you visit the site but does not collect any other personal information about you.  We do not combine the information that Google collects with any other personally identifiable information.

[Learn more about how your data is collected by Google](https://policies.google.com/privacy "Learn more about how your data is collected by Google")

[Prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics](https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout "Prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics")

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## Comment Policy
Comments on articles, blogs and videos can be helpful to other viewers, provided that a spirit of helpfulness is the intent of the person doing the commenting.

We review all comments on ScreenVue’s websites. We reserve the right to edit/delete spam comments, duplicate comments, unsupported accusations, vulgar comments, vile comments, personal attacks of any kind, terms offensive to groups when used in a derogatory manner, and any other comment deemed inappropriate at our discretion.

We reserve the right to ban offenders who post comments under another person’s name, submit an egregious comment or repeatedly submit comments that do not meet our standards.

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## Update and Access Your Data: Your Rights and Control
As a benefit of using ScreenVue’s services, we provide you with a way to update your information.  These features allow you to quickly update your personal information at any time, including your name, email address, and profile image.

We are committed to safeguarding your privacy and can only do so if you use ScreenVue Profile features as intended.  Some or all aspects of this Privacy Policy may not apply to individuals who share a login (email and password) with other members of an organization account.

If you believe the information that ScreenVue holds about you is incorrect and you are unable to correct it through our ScreenVue Profile service, please contact us, and we will update our records as soon as possible.

You have the right to see the personal data that we hold about you. However, how we deal with such requests, and whether we charge a fair administration fee may differ depending on the law in the country of your residence.

In all cases, if you would like a copy of the personal data we hold about you, please contact us using our [GDPR / Data Privacy contact form](mailto:support@screenvue.com "GDPR / Data Privacy contact form").

ScreenVue is committed to protecting your personal data and using it only in a manner that is appropriate, fair and transparent. If, however, you have a concern about our use of your data or wish to make a complaint,please contact us using our GDPR / Data Privacy contact form. We will take all reasonable steps to resolve your query or complaint and to do so promptly.



Privacy Policy

The ScreenVue, LLC web site shall be defined herein to include all screenvue.com and all other web pages operated by ScreenVue.

ScreenVue makes available information, materials, and products on this Web site subject to the following terms and conditions. By accessing this site, you agree to the terms and conditions as outlined in this legal notice. ScreenVue reserves the right to change these terms and conditions from time to time at its sole discretion.

__Copyright © 2019 by ScreenVue, LLC. All rights reserved. CVLI® and Screenvue® are trademarks. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.__

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## Use of Software
Any use of software and accompanying documentation from this Web site is subject to the terms of a software license agreement between you and ScreenVue. You must read the license agreement and indicate your agreement to its terms prior to installing or using the software. All rights, title, and interest not expressly granted are reserved.

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## Use of Web Site Information
Except as otherwise indicated elsewhere on this site, you may view, copy, print, and distribute documents available on this Web site subject to the following conditions:

- The document may be used solely for personal, informational, non-commercial purposes.
- The document may not be modified or altered in any way.
- The following copyright notice and permission notice must appear in each document: “Copyright © 2019 ScreenVue, LLC. All rights reserved.”
- ScreenVue reserves the right to revoke such authorization at any time, and any such use shall be discontinued immediately upon written notice from ScreenVue.
- Documents specified above do not include the design or layout of this Web site. Elements of this Web site are protected by trade dress and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part.

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## Warranties and Disclaimers
Except as expressly provided otherwise in an agreement between you and ScreenVue, all information and software on this Web site are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

ScreenVue assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in the information or software or other documents which are referenced by or linked to this Web site. References to corporations and their services and products are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied. In no event shall ScreenVue be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages of any kind, or any damages whatsoever, including, without limitation, those resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, whether or not advised of the possibility of damage, and on any theory of liability, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this information.

This Web site could include technical or other inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein; these changes will be incorporated in new editions of this Web site. ScreenVue may make improvements and/or changes in the product(s) and/or the program(s) described in this Web site at any time.

This Web site can be accessed from other countries around the world and may contain references to ScreenVue products, services, and programs that have not been announced in your country. These references do not imply that ScreenVue intends to announce such products, services, or programs in your country.

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## Feedback
Except where expressly provided otherwise by ScreenVue, all comments, feedback, information, or materials submitted to ScreenVue through or in association with this Web site shall be considered non-confidential and ScreenVue’s property. By submitting such comments, feedback, information, or materials to ScreenVue, you agree to a no-charge assignment to ScreenVue of all worldwide rights, title, and interest in copyrights and other intellectual property rights to the comments, feedback, information, or materials. ScreenVue shall be free to use such comments, feedback, information, or materials on an unrestricted basis.

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## Links To Third-Party Web Sites
This Web site contains links to third-party Web sites. The linked sites are not under the control of ScreenVue, and ScreenVue is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site. ScreenVue is providing these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link does not imply endorsement of the linked site by ScreenVue.

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## Governing Law And Jurisdiction
ScreenVue controls this Web site from its offices in Vancouver, Washington, USA. All matters relating to this Web site shall be governed by U.S. federal law or the laws of the State of Washington. You agree that any legal action or proceeding related to this Web site must be instituted in, and jurisdiction and venue are proper in, a state or federal court in Clark County, Washington. Your use of this Web site and its information must comply with all applicable local laws or regulations, and with U.S. export laws and regulations.

Terms

__FREE with a Church Video License,*__ the ScreenVue Vault offers 14,000+ Scene Ideas, Views, and Downloads from a variety of movies and resources.

__ScreenVue saves you hours of time__ finding that perfect movie illustration for next Sunday’s sermon, child or youth service, or video announcement! 

__[Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)](https://www.screenvue.com/faqs "FAQ's")__
![ImageSpaceLG](//images.ctfassets.net/micoswd5fgp1/4xvfeylbjqZEW7OapGd8H5/3a1eee9a2b5df7a2282086b9f0656f4c/ImageSpaceLG.png)
__WHAT RESOURCES ARE OFFERED BY THE SCREENVUE VAULT?__

The ScreenVue Vault offers THREE different types of SCENES:
![ImageSpaceSM](//images.ctfassets.net/micoswd5fgp1/2MPfeE8Nyrtovp52LyLJXG/d240766f24d2e2163fcfa9d7f50eb3f5/ImageSpaceSM.png)
![clip-idea-icon](//images.ctfassets.net/micoswd5fgp1/6AhofNH591NHsVrQKd2DXH/466532d661e3732758370bdcf0ef6473/clip-idea-icon.png)
__SCENE IDEAS:__ Use your own movie with our cues and details

To use a SCENE IDEA

- Sign-In.
- Select a Scene (by selecting a MOVIE, a THEME, or by using SEARCH). 
- Utilize the displayed Start/End Times, synopsis, and suggested themes.
- Have the specific movie cued to the appropriate Start Time (using the Digital, Stream, Blu-ray, or DVD you already own, rented or borrowed).
- You're now ready to show the Scene at just the right time in your message!

![SVViewIcon2](//images.ctfassets.net/micoswd5fgp1/3YgYqNCCO4KFGqrFIjT1ra/ef2ecf0139ccb9c4a7c54bb8a3f34b2a/SVViewIcon.png)
__SCENE VIEWS:__ Preview the scene that you are considering to publicly perform from the full-length movie.

To use a SCENE VIEW

- Sign-In.
- Select a Scene (by selecting a MOVIE, a THEME, or by using SEARCH). 
- Preview the scene that you are considering to publicly perform.

![clip-download-icon](//images.ctfassets.net/micoswd5fgp1/610dtwW1MFbAh8RuFlLX7R/964977cd3211364b3a53b350995b6c73/clip-download-icon.png)

__SCENE DOWNLOADS:__ Preview, download and use instantly

To use a SCENE DOWNLOAD

- Sign-In.
- Select a Scene (by selecting a MOVIE, a THEME, or by using SEARCH).
- Click the PREVIEW button to preview the Scene first, if desired.
- Click the DOWNLOAD button.
- Click SAVE, and specify where you want the file saved to.
- Implement the file into your chosen presentation software.
- You're now ready to show the Scene at just the right time in your message!
![ImageSpaceSM](//images.ctfassets.net/micoswd5fgp1/2MPfeE8Nyrtovp52LyLJXG/d240766f24d2e2163fcfa9d7f50eb3f5/ImageSpaceSM.png)

__Filtering Scenes__
At the top navigation of any page, there are links to see: "All Scene Ideas," or "All Scene Views," or "All Scene Downloads."

When you click on a Theme and see the results, there is a "Filter Scenes" option to show: All Scenes, Scene Views Only, Scene Downloads Only, or both Scene Views and Downloads Only.
![White Space](//images.ctfassets.net/micoswd5fgp1/5f1JcADco1e7bfxv1PxAmC/37ff94c8b0c0dc1f852b84c0b83a5604/White_Space.jpg)
__How to Use a Movie Scene__

[![YT-HowToUseMovieScene](//images.ctfassets.net/micoswd5fgp1/75vwFltSCcZmz1M8Thi8zt/9e2604cec5abd47dcf12241501d60d59/HowToUseMovieScene-ScreenShot.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wDXCc9nCM0 "How to know if a movie is covered")

__Email for ScreenVue support__
[support@screenvue.com ](mailto:support@screenvue.com "support@screenvue.com")

__[Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)](https://www.screenvue.com/faqs "FAQ's")__

![White Space](//images.ctfassets.net/micoswd5fgp1/5f1JcADco1e7bfxv1PxAmC/37ff94c8b0c0dc1f852b84c0b83a5604/White_Space.jpg)
__Please Note__

*ScreenVue Vault content can only legally be used in tandem with a [Church Video License](https://store.ccli.com/).

*Before using ScreenVue content, please check your country’s Authorised Producers List to confirm the content is covered (all ScreenVue content is covered in the USA).

*ScreenVue does not provide, sell or rent entire digital copies of movies to download. To purchase or rent entire movies, please access services like Amazon, Google or Vudu.

*ScreenVue Vault access is free with a Total Producer Package or Standard CVLI Video License in the USA or with any Church Video Licence globally.

*CVLI & ScreenVue do not necessarily endorse the entire content of any movie listed. Before showing any movie, in whole or in part, please preview and determine if the footage is appropriate for your intended audience.


Support

__Frequently Asked Questions...__

__"I'M NEW - how does the ScreenVue Vault work?"__
- To get a full explanation of how the ScreenVue Vault works, please visit our support page: https://www.screenvue.com/support

__"Where can I find my Access Key to sign-in with?"__
- Every Church Video Licence globally and every *Total Producer Church Video License* (or *Standard CVLI Video License*) in the USA comes with FREE access to the ScreenVue Vault, which is unlocked with your Access Key. Your Access Key will be included in the monthly CVL update emails you receive. If you can't find your Key, please email us at: [support@screenvue.com ](mailto:support@screenvue.com "support@screenvue.com")

__"Why won't my Access Key work?"__
- The usual reason for the Access Key not to work (and a footer error message to appear) is that something is missing from the sign-in protocol.
- Enter the *Email address* associated with your Church Video License (or CCLI account).
- Enter the *Access Key* found in your last CVL update email (exactly, with no spaces).
- Select the *Terms of Use* and a *Keeping in Touch* option.
- You should be in! If you have done all this and still have a problem, please let us know and we'll dig further.

__"In the USA, why don't I have access as a CVL Family Values Package member?"__
- The *CVL Family Values Package* offers only 65+ studios and producers, and does not include any major/minor Hollywood studios - and does not come with ScreenVue Vault access. 
- The *CVL Total Producer Package* offers 4,000+ studios and producers, including every major Hollywood studio and most of the major/minors, and comes with complimentary access to the new ScreenVue Vault: unlocked with a provided Access Key. 
- In the USA, to gain access to the new ScreenVue Vault, please upgrade to a *Total Producer package* by calling: __1-888-771-2854__.

__"What is the difference between Scene Ideas, Scene Views, and Scene Downloads?"__
- The ScreenVue Vault offers THREE different types of Scenes: 
- *Scene Ideas*: Has the "light-bulb icon," where you would use your own movie (Digital, Stream, Blu-ray, or DVD you already have access to) with our cues and details; as this scene is not available as a View or Download. 
- *Scene Views*: Has the "TV icon," where you can preview the scenes that you are considering to publicly perform from the full-length movie.
- *Scene Downloads*: Has the "download icon," which you can preview, download and use instantly.
- Please visit our Support page for more details: https://www.screenvue.com/support.

__"Why can't I download a Scene Idea or Scene View?"__
- We do not have permission from the studio owners to offer downloads for most Scenes. Instead, use the cues listed in the upper, right hand corner of a Scene Idea in tandem with your own copy or rental, or preview a Scene View. The ScreenVue Vault offers THREE different types of Scenes: 
- *Scene Ideas*: Has the "light-bulb icon," where you would use your own movie (Digital, Stream, Blu-ray, or DVD you already have access to) with our cues and details; as this scene is not available as a download. 
- *Scene Views*: Has the "TV icon," where you can preview the scenes that you are considering to publicly perform from the full-length movie.
- *Scene Downloads*: Has the "download icon," which you can preview, download and use instantly.
- Here is a link to all the movies which have Scene Downloads: https://www.screenvue.com/scene-downloads
- Here is a link to all the movies which have Scene Views: https://www.screenvue.com/scene-views
- When you click on a *Theme* and see the results, there is a "Filter Scenes" option to show: All Scenes, Scene Views Only, Scene Downloads Only, or both Scene Views and Downloads Only.
- Please visit our Support page for more details: https://www.screenvue.com/support.

__"What are the restrictions for streaming our service and including a movie scene? "__
- For churches that stream their services and want to include any part of a movie (the entire film or just a scene), the Church Video License terms do not cover streaming a movie scene - even if used in a sermon - over the internet to the general public.
- However, it is permissible to live stream a movie scene inside the facility as long as it is a closed-stream (not accessed publicly). 
- In light of COVID-19, the Church Video License has made temporary modifications to the license: For churches that stream their services and want to include any part of a movie, they can use a platform that is gated or private (password protected entry to only members and guests and not open to the general public), such as Zoom (requiring a password to join).

__"Can content in the ScreenVue Vault be used with a Church Video Licence anywhere in the world?"__
- Before using ScreenVue content, please check your country’s Authorised Producers List to confirm the content is covered (all ScreenVue content is covered in the USA).

__"How do you use a Movie Scene?"__

[![How to Use Movie Scene - YT Screenshot](//images.ctfassets.net/micoswd5fgp1/7A1bBWDs42jsvz6bjD5Pq2/9497df89415a355973e899330afc1a68/How_to_Use_Movie_Scene_-_YT_Screenshot_.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wDXCc9nCM0 "How to Use a Movie Scene")

__"How do you know if a movie is covered for use?"__
[![YT How to know coverage](//images.ctfassets.net/micoswd5fgp1/1OFHSO0FQkCznBWENF5FXn/cae3f70acff69914f9f84ad5a7169175/YT_How_to_know_coverage.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLx-Zb3HcYI "How to know if a movie is covered")


FAQs

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Themes

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Jesus Film, The

Breakthrough

InsideOut2

Rohirrim

SV-Hero-WildRobot-7

Chosen

Kung Fu Panda 4

Twisters

Ben-Hur (1959)

FireInside

Shack, The

Chosen2

Wicked

Chosen3

Despicable4

Son of God

Nativity Story, The

AmazingGrace

Ben-Hur (2016)

WildRobot

Ioan Gruffudd

Sam Worthington

Laura Brent

Lupita Nyong'o

Jack Huston

Sandra Bullock

Josh Lucas

Awkwafina

Elizabeth has just told the priest that her child's name will be John.  The priest protests, causing Zechariah to write on his tablet.  The scene moves ahead many years, to when Abner approaches Jesus, who is praying.  Back in the past, Zechariah shows the priest his words: "His name is John."  As soon as he does this, his voice returns to him and Zechariah begins to praise God.  Elizabeth, smiling, hands baby John to his father.  Again in the future, the executioners prepare to behead John.  John turns his head to look out of the window of his prison.  He sees a beautiful, sun-kissed field.  A lamb stands in the field, grazing.  The lamb looks back at John for a moment, at the same time a rainbow appears reflected on the grass.  John, whispering: "Thank You."  The executioner swings his axe.  Some distance away, Jesus has just heard Abner's news of John's death.  He tears his clothing and mourns.
(Season 4, Episode 1)

Jesus is speaking alone with Lazarus, after having raised from the dead (see clip # CV11913).  Jesus talks of His own humanity and His very human feelings.  He feels frustration that His followers are so slow to learn.  He feels anger that the religious leaders twist true faith in God.  And, He feels dread for His coming suffering: "The cup I must drink to fulfill my Father's will."  Lazarus doesn't want to hear that Jesus will suffer.  Jesus: "The Son of Man must suffer many things.  The prophet Isaiah gave you many warnings."  Lazarus, heavily: "Yes.  Yes.  'He was despised and rejected by men.  A man of sorrows, acquainted with grief.'  They were just words on a scroll.  Now that they are about You...it's another story."  Jesus, gravely: "A story nearing its end."
(Season 4, Episode 7)

Nicodemus sits at his dressing table, too disturbed by his failure with Lilith (see clip #CV11459) to get ready for dinner.  His wife, Zohara, scurries around the room, busy with thoughts of their important evening.  But Nicodemus is suddenly discontent with the superficiality of his role as spiritual leader: "When did Shabbat become theater?"  Zohara, however, enjoys her position as wife of a respected Teacher of Israel.  She admonishes her husband: "You do not have questions.  You have answers.  You have authority.  You bring clarity, not confusion."  Nicodemus asks his wife to look in the small mirror on his dressing table.  The mirror is warped and gives only a distorted reflection.  Zohara: "It is a cheap glass.  I can barely make out anything at all."  Nicodemus: "Sometimes...I wonder if what we can know of Adonai in the law...it's just as blurred.  What if we're not seeing the whole picture?  What if it's more beautiful and more strange than we can ever imagine?"  Zohara, dismissively: "That is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.  It might even be blasphemy."  Nicodemus, sighing: "It was just a thought." (Season 1, Episode 1)  


Albert Finney

Stanley Townsend

Eli Danker

James and John are standing with Jesus when a group of Samaritans throw stones at them.  The brothers angrily lunge at the men, but Jesus stops them, telling them not to act or speak in return.  But, when one of the Samaritans spits on John, his temper boils: "You filthy dogs!"  Jesus rebukes him: "I said, quiet!"  When the men leave, the brothers beg Jesus to let them avenge His honor: "They reviled and humiliated You!  They deserve to have bolts of lightning rain down and incinerate them!  Yes, fire from the heavens!"  Jesus: "Fire?"  John: "You said we could do things like that!  Say the word and it will happen!" James regrets coming to Samaria at all: "They don't deserve You."   In response, Jesus asks the brothers why He had them plow the field of a Samaritan.  James and John don't have a clue.  Jesus tells them that the work they are doing is sowing seeds that will last generations: "These people that you hate so much are believing in Me without even seeing miracles.  It's the truth that we're giving them.  And you're going to get in the way of that because a few people from a region you don't like are mean to you?  That they are not worthy?  What, you're so much better?  That you're more worthy?  Well, let me tell you something, you're not!  That's the whole point!  It's why I'm here."  The brothers look appropriately chastised.  They hang their heads and apologize.  Jesus, softening his voice: "As we gather others, I need you to help show the way, to be humble."  The brothers promise.  Laughing, Jesus gives them the name Sons of Thunder.


Stephen Boyd

Peter Sarsgaard

Jesus has sent Zee and Matthew to get a donkey's colt for Him to ride into Jerusalem.  They have found the colt described, one who has never been ridden, and are busy untying it when a servant confronts them.  Servant: "You're taking my master's colt?"  Matthew, giving the answer Jesus told them to say: "The Lord has need of it."  The servant still protests: "What is this all about?"  Zee, firmly: "The Lord has need of this."  The servant looks impressed: "Are you followers of the Nazarene that raised Lazarus?"  Zee nods: "Do you know the prophets?  From Zechariah, 'Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion.  Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem.  Your King is coming to you.  Righteous and having salvation is He, humble and mounted on a donkey."  Servant, finishing the quote: "On a colt, the foal of a donkey."  Servant, astonished: "This colt?  Today?  What are you waiting for?"  He joyfully gives them the donkey.
(Season 4, Episode 8)

Michael Apted

William Wyler

Jesus is preparing to give the Sermon on the Mount.  He is speaking with His disciples beforehand, telling them why He has chosen to speak to the people.  He tells them it isn't to make their presence felt in the region, or about the details of how it's going to happen.  Jesus: "What makes this sermon so important is each person who will be there.  Philip, what makes John's sermons so memorable?"  Philip, joking: "His volume."  Jesus laughs as Philip continues: "He spoke directly to whoever was there.  It was personal."  Jesus: "Yes, good."  Jesus tells the disciples there will be thousands who hear His words: "What I say will be for each and every one of them.  They are coming because the word is spreading from the signs and wonders.  But what I will be giving them will be far more important.  Truth."
(Season 2, Episode 7)

Joyce and Pastor Jason are at the hospital, where Joyce's son lies in a coma.  Joyce tells the pastor how, as a teenager, she gave her first child up for adoption: "I've never forgiven myself.  I can't let it go.  I can't go back.  I can't fix it."  Because she feels so helpless to change her past, Joyce does her best to control the present and prevent further mistakes.  She tells her son how to spend his allowance, her husband how to dress, and her pastor how he should cut his hair.  "My whole life, I have not stopped trying to control the outcome.  I can't control this, can I?"  Jason shakes his head soberly.  He looks at her for a few moments: "Joyce, why don't you let God handle it?"


Every night Jonah would pray and ask God where he should deliver his next message.  But this night, God's direction caught Jonah completely off-guard: "Nineveh? ...That Nineveh?"   Yes -- the biggest, meanest city around. Their people lied, they stole, and worst of all, they slapped people with fishes! Jonah was shocked that God would want him to deliver a message to his enemies.  "You don't want me to go there! You don't know what Nineveh is like..."

"Oh, this is going to be great -- the bad guys finally getting what they deserve!" says Jonah, waiting for Nineveh's destruction.  But God does nothing. Even a plant giving Jonah shade withers, sending him into a hissy-fit.  His sidekick, Khalil, tries to help him: "...Because God is merciful; He gave you a second chance... Has it ever occurred to you, that maybe God loves everybody, and not just you? That maybe He wants to give everyone a second chance?"

Mike Nawrocki

Phil Vischer

Tim Hodge

VeggieTales Movie, A: Jonah

Jesus and Andrew are sitting Shiva after the death of John the Baptist.  This week-long period of mourning is a time for the bereaved to feel their loss and weep with others.  So, when Andrew laughs at something funny Jesus says, he feels wrong somehow.  Andrew: "Can we be laughing?"  Jesus: "Why not?  You know, some of the moments in which we laugh the hardest come around the time of a funeral.  Our hearts are so tender, all our emotions right at the surface.  Laughter and tears, closer than ever."  Jesus, smiling, recalls how even John himself could not remain sullen during Shiva for seven straight days.  Andrew: "I feel guilty.  I should be in shambles."  Jesus: "No, Andrew.  There is no 'should' in grief.  There's no right way to mourn."
(Season 4, Episode 2)

Jesus and His disciples are visiting the house of Lazarus.  While Jesus teaches in the other room, Martha is busy preparing food for everyone.  As she passes food around, Martha glares at her sister.  Mary is sitting near Jesus, drinking in His words.  Bitterly, Martha complains to Jesus: "It seems You didn't notice my sister has left me to serve alone."  She asks Jesus to tell Mary to help.  Tenderly, Jesus invites Martha to sit next to Him.  Martha: "How can I sit?  Only half Your followers have been served."  Jesus: "You are anxious and troubled about many things, and it is not for nothing.  Hospitality will always matter, and I am grateful for what you have done.  Your intention is well-meaning, but only one thing is truly necessary.  The best way to serve Me is to pay close attention to My words.  That is the priority.  That is what your sister has chosen.  It is a good portion, and it will not be taken from her."
(Season 4, Episode 5)

Kelsey Mann

Tyler and his crew are directly in the path of what promises to be a decent tornado.  Everyone, with the exception of Ben, is excited ride out the storm in their specially-equipped truck.  While Ben tightens his harness and fearfully watches the funnel quickly approach, the others are busy focusing on their instruments.  They've experienced enough tornados not to be frightened by one of this size.  But, they are eager to experience it.  They flip switches, preparing their instruments to record data from the storm.  Ben whimpers as they deploy augers into the ground to stabilize themselves.  The others scream in excitement.  However, just before the funnel touches them, it fizzles out and disappears.  Lily pouts in disappointment.  Tyler, discouraged, gets out of his truck and looks in the opposite direction.  They chased the wrong tornado.


Melech, a Samaritan, is grateful to Jesus for plowing his field, but he knows he is unworthy of such a kindness from a Jew: "If You knew who I am, You would never have helped me."  Jesus: "That's not true.  This is what we Jews do.  We tell and listen to stories.  Our stories connect us.  Tell me your story."  Melech, ashamed, tells Jesus that his family was starving.  And so, he and his friend waylaid a Jewish traveler on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho and stole everything he had.  They left him naked and seriously wounded on the side of the road.  While riding the man's stolen horse, Melech was thrown and broke his leg, permanently damaging it.  Melech: "So, now You know what You've done.  The kind of man You helped.  Every day I think about that Jew, naked and alone on the road, possibly dead.  I could be a murderer."  Jesus, softly: "He didn't die.  Somebody came along and helped him."  Melech: "How do You know?"  Jesus: "Melech, I know.  I promise you, he did not die."  Melech begins to weep.  Melech, shaking his head at Jesus: "Why me?"  He wonders why Jesus came to him, out of all the people that are clamoring for His attention.  Jesus: "A shepherd leaves the 99 on the mountain to search for the one that went astray."  (Season 2, Episode 1)


Rescue workers have been sent to the frozen lake where three boys have fallen through the ice (see clip # CV10100).  Police arrive on the scene first, and two officers immediately walk out onto the lake.  The first officer stops as the ice begins to break underneath his feet, but the second continues on toward the desperate boys.  Josh looks pleadingly at the officer as he approaches: "Please help us!"  Reiger, paddling weakly in the water: "I can't hold on much longer."  Crawling to the opening in the ice, the officer grabs Reiger's hand and pulls him out of the water.  Cracking sounds are heard, but the officer is able to help Reiger to the shore and into the waiting ambulance.  Two men from the fire department arrive, wearing special suits to enable them to get in the water.  Carrying long poles with hooks at the end, Tommy and Joe walk to the edge of the gaping hole.  Josh, still crouched on the broken ice, terrified, begs them to save John, who has now been underwater for a full ten minutes.  Tommy and Joe enter the water and begin to methodically drag their poles back and forth across the lake bottom, searching for John.  Without more specialized equipment, they cannot go underneath the water themselves and must limit their search to the area the poles can reach.  When Josh has been under 15 minutes, Joe begins to lose hope: "It's going to be a recovery, not a rescue."  But both men continue to sweep with their poles.  Suddenly, Tommy hears a voice telling him to go back.  He looks up, thinking the chief had called to him.  Joe, however, heard nothing.  Tommy, looking confused, wonders what the words meant.  Following the order, he goes back to a place he previously searched.  Joe, seeing him, tells him the spot is hopeless: "Tommy, if he went under the ice back there, he's a goner."  But Tommy keeps looking, hoping against hope.  His eyes widen as his pole makes contact with something.  He begins to pull, dragging the object toward the surface.  Tommy, now sure, shouts to the other rescue workers: "We got him!"  Joe, Tommy, and the others work together to pull John's white body out of the icy water.


Nicodemus has been asked to try to help Lilith, a woman possessed by a legion of demons.  Nicodemus stands outside her home and interviews her friend, Rivka.  The sounds of screaming and breaking glass coming from inside the home is heard by everyone in the courtyard.  Rivka: "You can put an end to this?"  Nicodemus doesn't respond, uncertain of his own power over whatever is controlling Lilith.  Holding his incense burner, which is filled with herbs thought to promote a holy atmosphere, Nicodemus slowly enters the house.  The room is dark, the furnishings minimal but scattered.  The bed is overturned and Lilith hides on the floor behind it.  Nicodemus, attempting to cast the demons from the woman: "I adjure you by the holy angels Michael, Gabriel, Rafael, Uriel and Reziel.  I adjure you, cursed dragon and diabolical legions.  Come out!"  A gasp is heard from behind the bed.  Nicodemus continues to call the demons out: "In the name of Adonai, God of the heavens, cease to deceive this human creature!"  Lilith groans again.  Nicodemus, who has already called on the names of the angels and the name of God, now invokes the names of the patriarchs, but to no avail.  The one Name which would have helped is unknown to him.  Lilith sits up and speaks, in a demonic voice: "We are not afraid of you.  You have no power here, teacher."  Nicodemus, frightened, leaves as quickly as he can.  (Caution: scene may disturb some viewers) (Season 1, Episode 1)  


Matthew tells Jesus that he doesn't understand why Jesus chose to use salt as a metaphor for the Christian life.  Jesus: "Salt preserves meat from corruption.  It slows its decay.  I want My followers to be a people who hold back the evil of the world.  Salt also enhances the flavor of things.  I want My followers to renew the world and be part of its redemption.  Salt can also be mixed with honey and rubbed on the skin for maladies.  I want my people to participate in the healing of the world, not its destruction."  Matthew wonders aloud why Jesus would choose to speak in metaphors instead of speaking plainly.  Jesus: "These things will make sense to some, but not to others.  I don't want passive followers.  Those who are truly committed will peer deeply into it, looking for truth."
(Season 2, Episode 8)

Brian Tyree Henry

Judah travels to Jerusalem to take part in an epic chariot race. On the day of the race, as the riders are lining up their horses at the gates, Judah is stationed next to his enemy, Messala, who tells Judah: "You should have stayed away." Judah: "You should have killed me."  Messala: "I will..."

Carl, a straight-shouldered long-time employee of the AVF, has the dubious honor of driving a bus full of Minions to headquarters.  The bus is chaos, as the child-like Minions have zero self-control.  Paper airplanes, spitballs, and bubbles are just a few of the many projectiles sailing around the bus.  And the noise is deafening.  When a spitball hits the back of his neck, the beleaguered bus driver pulls over immediately: "That is it!"  He stands, using the intercom: "Quiet!  You are now on Carl's bus!"  Carl marches down the aisle: "While on Carl's bus, you follow Carl's rules!  No shenanigans, no antics, and no tomfoolery!  So, this ends now, or you're gonna see a side of Carl you do not want to see.  Do I make myself clear?!"  The Minions are quiet for one terrified moment.  Then, someone throws a pie in Carl's face.  Bedlam again reigns.


Mary reads a letter sent from Mary and Martha, telling the disciples that Lazarus has died.  They are in shock, remembering that Jesus had told them that Lazarus's illness would not end in death.  Jesus is grieved, but tells His disciples they will return to Judea.  The disciples are afraid of returning to the place where they were almost stoned, but Jesus is firm.  Jesus: "Our friend has fallen asleep, but I will go and awaken him."  Judas insists that a man could recover from sleep, but this is not the kind of sleep Jesus means.  Jesus: "Lazarus has died.  And, for your sake, I'm glad I was not there...so that you may believe."
(Season 4, Episode 6)

Matthew greets his friend, the centurion Gaius.  He can tell the man is disturbed.  Gaius tells him his situation is complicated: "I'm helpless."  Matthew: "I complicate everything, but my Teacher, He makes life very simple.  Every morning I wake up, my ideas and fears are jumbled.  I feel overwhelmed with doubt and regret."  Gaius nods, feeling similar.  Matthew: "But, if I just pause for a moment and remember...I have only one thing to do today.  Follow Him.  The rest takes care of itself."
(Season 4, Episode 2)

Simon confesses to Eden that he doesn't have their financial situation under control.  He has been hiding the fact that their tax debts are so high they are in danger of losing their home.  Simon: "I did some things I'm not proud of to fix it, and now it's gone bad.  We're in trouble."  Simon tells his wife that he could be put in prison.  Simon, nearly frantic, feels he has only one option left: "I've got to spend the rest of the week doing nothing but catch every fish I can and hope I can fix this somehow!"  Eden, tears on her cheeks, tells her husband that his eyes have been closed for a long time: "Where is your faith?"  Simon: "Faith isn't gonna get me more fish."  But Eden doesn't mean faith for simply today's problem.  She has watched him trying to do everything by himself, without consulting God, for far too long.  Eden: "You have not pursued the Lord lately.  That is why you are stuck, and you feel desperate, and now you're off to try to fix it yourself again!"  Eden tells Simon to go.  Eden: "No more talking.  Maybe God can get your attention now."  (Season 1, Episode 4)


Stephanie Stine

The doctor has just told Joyce that her teenage son has died (see clip # CV10102).  She stands over his lifeless body, weeping.  She begins to pray, crying out to God to save John: "Please, Jesus, please!  Holy Spirit, I need You now.  Please don't take my son!"  Her prayers interspersed with her tears, she pours out her heart: "Please bring life back into John.  Please!"  Outside, in the hallway, the doctor and nurses can hear Joyce's prayers and tears fill their eyes.  Joyce continues to plead with God, her whole body wracked with such desperate grief that she is screaming: "Send Your Holy Spirit to save my son!"  Just then, the heart monitor begins to beep.  A nurse watching from the hallway cries out in amazement: "We've got a pulse!"  As hospital workers begin to rush back into the room, the beep grows stronger.  Joyce stands by her son, awed.


A wealthy group of England's elite are being given a boat tour of the bustling port.  Ladies and gentlemen dressed in velvet and lace are seated comfortably on the deck of a ship.  An orchestra plays music for their entertainment and servants offer plates of delicacies and glasses of champagne.  Engrossed in their festivities, the guests hardly notice when the ship pulls up alongside a massive boat, only stopping their quiet chatter when their host orders the orchestra to be silent.  The host, a powerful politician, confesses that the purpose of the trip isn't purely one of pleasure.  Gesturing to the ship behind him, the host reveals Wilbur standing on the deck.  Wilbur, wasting no time: "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a slave ship."  It is now, perhaps, that the passengers first notice the large iron manacles hanging from the ship's bow.  Wilbur: "It is just returned from the Indies, where it delivered 200 men, women, and children to Jamaica.  When it left Africa, there were 600 on board.  The rest died of disease or despair."  The passengers begin to notice the horrid smell of the ship and lift lacy handkerchiefs to their offended noses.  Wilbur: "That smell is the smell of death.  Slow, painful death.  Breathe it in.  Breathe it deeply.  Take those handkerchiefs away from your noses!  Remember that smell!  Remember that God made men equal!"  The passengers, so recently blind in their life of opulence, now open tear-stained eyes at the suffering and evil around them.


Kate and Josh are on a canoe in the lake when Kate stands, balancing on the wobbly craft.  She calls out to her father to watch her antics, but isn't able to keep her balance.  The canoe tips over, throwing both youths into the water.  Mack comes running when Kate begins to scream that Josh is trapped under the canoe.  Mack sprints down the dock, diving into the water.  When he swims to the canoe, he finds that Josh has been pinned underneath by the strap of his life vest.  He sets him free and drags him ashore.  Josh is unconscious and not breathing.  Panicked, Mack begins to perform CPR.  After several tense moments, he succeeds in reviving his son.

Mack's life is shattered when their youngest child Missy disappears during a camping trip while he is saving Kate and Josh during a canoeing accident. The police determine Missy is the victim of a serial killer after finding her torn dress and blood in a derelict cabin in the forest.  

After Mack receives an unstamped, typewritten note inviting him to meet at the shack where Missy was murdered (the message is signed "Papa" - Missy's nickname for God), he arrives as the shack with a gun, thinking this may possibly be an opportunity for meeting and punishing the serial killer. Finding the shack empty, an enraged Mack is tempted to shoot himself; before he can, he encounters a deer, which seems to want to lead him somewhere...

Mack enters the shack, which has been transformed into a lovely country cottage.  He is greeted warmly by a middle-aged black woman: "Mackenzie Allen Phillips!"  After the woman releases him from a big hug, Mack stares at her in confusion: "Do I know you?"  Woman, smiling: "Not very well.  But we can work on that."  Mack looks around the room, seeing two additional people...a young Asian woman and an Arabic man.  The woman introduces herself as Elousia: "I have a lot of names, but that's one of my favorites."  Mack looks at her, realization dawning on his face: "Are you saying that you're..."  Elousia: "I am."  Mack, continuing: "The 'I AM?'"  Elousia: "I am that I am."  She and the other two laugh: "Look at that, already quotin' Scripture."  Elousia then introduces her son, Jesus, who steps forward to shake Mack's hand.  The Asian woman introduces herself as Sarayu.  Jesus, explaining: "Sarayu.  It means, 'a breath of wind.'"  Mack, squinting in confusion, looks around at the three: "So, which one of you is...?"  All three, together: "I am."  Elousia, smiling: "And you have no idea how much I love you."  Mack blinks.

Mack is helping Sarayu dig in the garden.  Mack reaches for an exposed root, but is stopped by Sarayu: "Careful.  That one's deadly."  Mack understandably wonders why she would plant a poisonous plant in her garden.  Sarayu: "You're presuming that poison is bad?"  Mack: "Uh-huh."  Sarayu plucks the root and holds it next to a flower from a different plant: "On its own, the sap from this twig would kill you.  But, combine it with the nectar from this flower, and, suddenly, it contains incredible healing properties."  Sarayu, resuming her digging: "Let me ask you, how confident are you in your ability to discern good from evil?"  Mack: "Usually pretty obvious."  Sarayu: "And your basis for something being good is what?"  Mack: "Well, if it helps me or the people that I love."  Sarayu: "And evil?"  Mack: "If it's harmful.  If it hurts someone that I care about."  Sarayu: "So, pretty much, you are the judge?"  Mack, continuing to work: "Yeah, I guess."  Sarayu: "You ever been wrong?  Or changed your opinion over time?"  Mack: "Sure."  Sarayu: "And there are billions like you...each determining what you think is good and evil.  And when your good clashes with your neighbor's evil, arguments ensue.  Wars break out.  Because all insist on playing God.  You weren't meant to do any of that."

Mack is sitting in a rowboat in the middle of a lake.  Suddenly, his quiet reflection is broken by the sound of his terrified daughter's voice.  He looks around, seeing nothing.  The boat jerks as something underneath strikes it, hard, again and again.  Mack looks down into the water and sees his son under the surface, struggling to come up for air.  He reaches into the water to save him, but the vision disappears.  Mack pulls back his hand, which is now coated in a black sludge.  The inky slime begins to spread outward from the boat, leaking inside and polluting the clean lake.  The boat begins to break apart underneath Mack, who is now gasping in fright.  In the midst of his terror, Mack hears the voice of Jesus: "Mack!  Mack, it's okay."  Mack: "Why are You doing this to me?"  Jesus: "This isn't Me."  Mack: "You told me to come out here!"  Jesus: "Mack, this is happening inside you.  You're letting it consume you and you don't have to."  Mack continues to see painful images from his past - - himself giving CPR to his drowning son and his murdered daughter's coffin.  He looks at the water now rapidly filling the boat and is horrified.  Jesus, pointing to Himself: "Don't look at it, Mack!  Look here!"  Jesus continues, walking on the water toward Mack: "Don't think about the past.  Don't think about the pain.  Look at Me.  Everything is gonna be okay."  Mack looks down one more time as the stern of his boat sinks beneath the water.  He looks back at Jesus and stares at Him in desperation as he sinks.  Jesus, locking into his gaze: "None of this can hurt you.  Trust Me."  Mack's breathing slows as he keeps his eyes on Christ.  Suddenly, he is sitting once again in a sturdy rowboat in the middle of a clear lake.  Jesus walks across the water toward him.

Mack also visits another cave where God's wisdom, in the form of a woman named Sophia, talks to him. Sophia asks Mack to sit in divine judgment over sinners and his family. How would he judge the man who murdered Missy? "I would damn him to hell." What about that man's father, who twisted him into that defiant monster? "I would damn him, too." But how can he stop there - doesn't the legacy of brokenness go all the way back to Adam?  And what about God? "Absolutely, God is to blame."  If it's so easy to judge God, what if he had to choose between his two children? She forces him to make a choice: only ONE can spend an eternity in heaven, and the other an eternity in hell.  "I Can't"  Even though she's only asking him to do something he believes God does. She still presses him, but unable to send one of his children to hell, Mack has an idea: "Take me instead..."

The Divine Trio gives Mack a glimpse into heaven where he encounters the spirit of his father, who apologizes for his mistreatment of Mack and forgives him. Mack also apologizes to his father, whom he killed.

God (in the form of an elderly man called Papa) has brought Mack to the forest for a task He says will be very painful.  Mack backs away in horror: "You want me to forgive him?"  Papa nods.  Mack: "He killed my daughter!  I wanna hurt him.  I want him to hurt like he hurt me.  I want You to hurt him!"  Papa: "I know you do.  But he, too, is my son.  And I want to redeem him."  Mack, angrily: "Redeem him?  He should burn in Hell!"  Papa: "So, we're back to you as the judge?"  Mack, struggling: "So, You just let him get away with it?"  Papa shakes His head: "Nobody gets away with anything.  Everything bears consequences."  Mack, beginning: "What he did - -"  Papa, finishing: "Was horrible.  I'm not asking you to excuse what he did.  I'm asking you to trust Me to do what's right and to know what's best."  Mack grimaces, shaking his head.  Papa: "Mack, the pain inside is devouring you, robbing you of joy and crippling your capacity to love."  Mack, tearfully: "I can't!"  Papa: "You're not stuck because you can't.  You're stuck because you won't."  Mack sits down, his head between his knees.  Suddenly, he notices a ladybug on his hand (his daughter was murdered by the Ladybug Killer).  Papa bends down next to him: "You don't have to do this alone."  Mack whispers his forgiveness aloud and the ladybug flies away.  Mack, looking far from relieved of his burden: "I'm still angry."  Papa: "Of course you are.  No one lets go all at once.  You might have to do it 1,000 times before it gets any easier.  But, it will."

After Mack helps Jesus build a wooden box and helps the Holy Spirit prepare a spot in her garden for a planting, they prepare her body for burial. They place her in the box and lower her in place. They Holy Spirit then takes a bottle and sprinkles liquid on Missy's box. Papa: "Those are your tears, Mackenzie, we've been collecting them for a long time..."

Mack hears the pastor's altar call and comes forward to confess.  Mack's father, an elder in the church and a secret alcoholic, abuses Mack and his mother, and Mack feels a terrible responsibility.  He kneels, crying, confessing his helplessness to an elder.  The elder looks in horror at Mack's father sitting in his pew.  Later, in the pouring rain, Mack's father drags him to the woodpile to punish him for his "disobedience."  Father, furious: "Why do you make me do this, boy?  Why do you embarrass me in front of my people?"  Pushing Mack up against a log, the father begins to beat his son's back with a belt.  Screaming, he orders Mack to recite a Scripture passage: "Say it!"  Mack, crying out in pain: "Obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord."  Father, striking Mack harder: "Louder!"  Mack, calling out through his tears: "Colossians 3:20, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord!"  Mack's father continues to beat him while his mother watches, anguished, from a window in the house.

Mack has brought his children to see Multnomah Falls.  As the four stare at the majestic waterfall, Mack tells them a fable about its origins.  According to the tale, an Indian village became ill with a mysterious disease that ravaged the entire countryside.  When the elders met to devise a plan, the chief told of a prophecy: "The illness could only be stopped if the daughter of a chief gave up her life for her people."  This chief had a daughter, his only child, but he and the other elders were unwilling to ask for such a sacrifice.  When the princess heard the prophecy, however, she decided to give up her own life for her people.  Because her love for them was so great, she climbed to the top of the cliff and jumped over.  "The next morning, a great healing came over the tribe."  The chief wept, grieved over his daughter's sacrifice, asking that her act be remembered forever.  "The Great Spirit was so moved by his tears that he answered his prayers."  Mack points to the waterfall: "Water began to fall.  Right there."

Mack is driving, his thoughts far away on memories of home and family.  His eyes wander from the road, drifting along with his mind.  He breezes past a stop sign and is suddenly jerked into the present by the blare of a loud horn.  He yanks the steering wheel to the side just in time to narrowly avoid being struck by a semi-truck.  His vehicle spins around and around before finally coming to a stop.  Mack, safe but shaken, pants as he watches the truck drive away.

God (in the form of a woman called Papa) tells Mack she knows he is suffering and wants a relationship with him.  Mack: "You're the Almighty God, right?  You know everything.  You're everywhere, all at once.  You have limitless power.  Yet, somehow, you let my little girl die.  When she needed you most.  You abandoned her."  Papa: "I never left her."  Mack: "If you are who you say you are, where were you when I needed you?"  Papa: "Son, when all you see is your pain, you lose sight of me."  Mack: "Stop talking in riddles.  How can you say that you will help me when you couldn't help her?  Because of you, she's gone."  Papa: "The Truth sets everyone free.  And the Truth has a name."  Mack: "Truth?  I know that story.  You left Him, too.  Seems like you have a bad habit of turning your back on those you supposedly love."  Papa: "I'm not who you think I am."  Mack: "He said it Himself: 'My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?'"  Papa, tears in her eyes: "You misunderstand the mystery."  She holds out her wrists for Mack to see the nail scars: "Don't ever think that what my Son chose to do didn't cost us both dearly.  Love always leaves a mark.  We were there together.  I never left Him.  I never left you.  I never left Missy."

God (in the form of a woman called Papa) is serving breakfast to Mack on the patio.  Mack, taking a sip of the coffee she poured him: "Is there anyone you're not especially fond of?"  Papa, smiling: "Nope.  Never been able to find any.  Guess that's just the way I am."  Mack: "Don't you get mad at 'em?"  Papa: "Well, sure.  But what parent doesn't?"  Mack, allowing a little bitterness to seep into his tone: "And that's where your whole wrath thing comes in, doesn't it?"  Papa: "My what?"  Mack: "Your wrath."  Papa, looking blank: "You lost me there."  Mack: "Come on.  Everybody knows you punish the people who disappoint you."  Papa shakes her head: "Nope.  I don't need to punish people.  Sin is its own punishment."

Mack is speaking with Wisdom (personified as a woman in a white dress) in a dim cave: "You know what I don't understand, is how God can love Missy and put her through so much horror?"  Mack wonders if God used the murder of his little girl to punish him.  Wisdom: "Is that who your God is, Mackenzie?  No wonder you're drowning in great sorrow.  God isn't like that.  This was not God's doing."  Mack, accusingly: "He didn't stop it!"  Wisdom: "He doesn't stop a lot of things that cause Him pain.  What happened to Missy was the work of evil.  And no one in your world is immune from it.  You want the promise of a pain-free life?"  Mack, nodding: "Yes."  Wisdom: "There isn't one.  As long as there is another will in this universe, free not to follow God, evil can find a way in."  Mack, whispering: "There's gotta be a better way."  Wisdom: "There is.  But the better way involves trust."  Mack sinks to the ground, relinquishing control: "I don't wanna be the judge anymore."  A glowing light begins to fill the cave behind the waterfall.  Mack stands, looking through the mist, and sees a vision of his daughter, Missy, playing happily in the fields of Heaven.

Mack has just been given the choice of whether to go to heaven or remain on Earth and return to his family.  Mack: "Everything about being here has been so remarkable.  Back home, I go to work.  Try to be a good person.  Love my family.  Does what I do really matter?"  Sarayu: "Absolutely.  Mack, you are important.  And so is everything you do."  Jesus: "Every time you love, Mack, or forgive, with every act of kindness, the universe changes for the better."  Papa nods in agreement: "If anything matters, then everything matters."  Mack: "Then I wanna go home."

Stuart Hazeldine

Radha Mitchell

Octavia L. Spencer

Aviv Alush

Tim McGraw

Roz looks at the burned-out husk of her home.  She knows the robots will never stop coming for her and determines she must leave the island in order to protect her friends.  The animals are sad to see her leave.  But Roz knows she is not leaving them alone.  They have each other.  Fink: "You're my friend.  I need you.  What if I need to tell you something and you're not here?"  Thorn puts his paw gently on Fink's back: "You can tell me."  Pinktail, holding the fox's face in her hands: "And me."  Even grumpy Paddler offers comfort: "And you can talk to me as well, if you must."  The outcast fox is no longer alone.  He has a community.  And, together, the animals and Roz work to rebuild Roz's home.


Jesus is speaking to a growing crowd.  A man has asked Him why it is that His words inspire some, but threaten others.  To explain, Jesus tells them the parable of the sower.  As He speaks, His disciples spread throughout the crowd, repeating His words to those far away.  Jesus: "A sower went out to sow.  And, as He sowed, some seeds fell along the path and the birds devoured them.  Others fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil.  Immediately, they sprang up, for there was no depth of soil.  But, when the sun rose, they were scorched.  And, since they had no root, they withered away.  Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.  Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred-fold, some sixty, some thirty.  He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
(Season 3, Episode 8)

The rabbi approaches Jesus after His startling claim to be Messiah (see clip # CV11690).  "If You do not renounce Your words, we will have no choice but to follow the Law of Moses."  Jesus: "I AM the Law of Moses."  Infuriated, the men immediately seize Him and drag him outside the town.  Mary watches in horror as her Son is led away to be killed.  The crowd takes Him to the edge of a cliff, where the rabbi pronounces the sentence of death.  But, as the men step forward to stone Him, Jesus stops them with only His words.  He slips through the crowd unharmed and escapes. (Season 3, Episode 3)

Jesse is now a teenager (see clip # CV11639 for Jesse's backstory).  He has spent his adolescence on his mat, watching others live life.  Even now, he watches as his younger brother, Simon, plays with friends.  Simon sees Jesse watching and knows he feels left out.  He draws his friends over to Jesse's mat and they include him in their play.  Later, the brothers lie on their backs, looking at the stars together.  Finally, they end the evening by playing a game.  They share a secret handshake before lying down to sleep in their shared bedroom.  Years pass, and the boys are young men.  Their love for one another hasn't waned and they still end each night with their secret handshake.  (Season 2, Episode 4)


Unable to choose a dragon warrior as his successor, Master Shifu brings Po to a lovely hillside with a great cherry tree. "You will know when you know. When I'm conflicted I come here, to ask the universe for answers…" and then has Po focus on a peach pit in his hand. "Every pit holds the promise of a mighty tree...Be the pit!"  Alone, Po settles down and prays: "All right, universe, give me some guidance."  He begins thinking: "Inner peace, inner peace, inner peace..." which soon turns into: "Dinner, please. Dinner with peas. Snow peas in a sesame soy glaze..." Stopping himself, he goes back to "Inner peace..." but then gives up, "This is not working at all."  To make matters worse, not one, but multiple inner voices start talking all at once, tempting and distracting him all the more. He eventually yells for all of them to stop, which they do. As the wind picks up and swirls dozens of cherry blossom petals, Po excitedly: "Universe, is that you?!" as he greatly inhales in awe - and swallows several petals, choking himself. 


Joy has developed a system to keep Riley's bad memories from affecting her.  She shows the other emotions how she picks out any memory that has a negative element and catapults it to the outer darkness of Riley's mind: "A one-way expressway to, 'We're not gonna think about that right now.'"  Joy believes that in doing so, she is protecting Riley from bad feelings: "We keep the best and toss the rest."


As Riley meets Val, her hockey hero, new emotions begin to flood her brain.  The first to introduce herself is Anxiety.  She brings a ton of baggage and prepares for a long stay.  Next is envy, whose eyes grow big at the sight of Val's hair.  With Envy touching the console, Riley unthinkingly reaches a hand out to touch the red streak in Val's hair.  Quickly, Embarrassment steps in, smashing a large hand down on the console.  Riley's cheeks turn red as she realizes her social solecism.  Finally, when Val invites Riley to join her and the rest of the hockey team, the third new emotion appears.  Anxiety: "Oh, this is exciting!  But we can't let her know we're excited."  A lever on the console toggles and Riley instantly assumes an attitude of disinterest: "Sure.  Sounds good."  Anger: "What emotion was that?"  From a nearby couch, a lazy voice answers: "Ennui.  It's what you would call the boredom."  Ennui droops on the couch, staring at a phone, too cool for the other emotions.


Joy and the other emotions are trying to navigate their way back to headquarters when they arrive at a deep chasm.  Fear: "What is that?"  Nearby worker: "It's a Sar-chasm!  It can open for miles!  Run for your lives!"  Needing to find a way around the chasm, Joy yells across it at a pair of workers: "Boy are we so lucky we ran into you guys!"  But Sar-chasm changes the inflection of her words to sound sarcastic: "Boy, are we sooooo LUCKY we ran into YOU guys!"  The workers look at them in surprise.  Fear: "Please, we really need your help!"  Sar-chasm: "Please, we REALLY need YOUR help."  Everything they say is twisted by the new tone into something mean and nasty.  The workers drive away, disgusted: "Wow.  Those guys are jerks."  Anger, watching them leave: "Wow.  Those guys are jerks."


Joy and the other emotions are looking out at Riley's "Personality Islands," the parts of her brain that help determine her personality.  Goofball Island, Friendship Island, and Family Island are all part of the system that is Riley.  Joy, narrating: "We realized her islands aren't the only things made by memories.  Way down, at the root level, these memories were also creating beliefs."  To illustrate this, we see a series of clips of Riley where memories and experiences create thought patterns that themselves create beliefs hardwired into her brain.  At first, the beliefs are superficial, like which band is the best ever.  But the beliefs also go deeper.  One day, Riley is sitting in class when she sees another girl flub her class presentation by spilling everything on the floor.  The girl is obviously embarrassed.  But, because Riley's belief system has been developing in her the desire to be a good friend, Riley risks her own reputation to go to the front of the class and help the girl.  As she kneels, she introduces herself with a smile.  Another girl also joins in to help.  The three become best friends.  Joy and the emotions are amazed to discover that this important choice has created a beautiful flower inside Riley's mind.  Joy: "Turns out when you put all of those beliefs together, they make the most wonderful thing of all...her sense of self.  It's what helps Riley make good choices."


The hockey match is almost over and the score is tied.  Riley's thoughts are racing.  She is debating what move she can make to win the game.  Her first thoughts involve a one-man show, with Riley herself starring.  But, then she realizes that Grace hasn't had a chance to score yet.  She calls a play that allows multiple players to participate.  Then, for the final shot, Riley passes the puck to Grace.  Grace shoots and scores and the team wins.


Joy and the others have been awoken by the sound of a buzzer from the console.  They stare bleary-eyed at a large, red light labelled "Puberty."  It beeps quietly at first, but suddenly is blaring a siren all over headquarters.  The emotions frantically try to shut it down, pushing buttons all over the console, but nothing stops the flashing alarm.  Anger: "It's the apocalypse!"  Finally, a desperate Joy rips the buzzer off the console and ejects it into outer darkness: "Problem solved."  Before Joy is done speaking, a huge wrecking ball crashes through the window.  A large army of workmen appear, yelling: "It's demo day!"  The workmen begin blowing up everything in sight.  Nothing is sacred as they tear it all apart.  Even the console is modified.  Just as Riley wakes up, the workmen take a lunch break, leaving the control room in a shambles.  The emotions watch in horrified anticipation to see how Riley will react to all the destruction this mysterious "puberty" has caused.  Her mom enters her room: "Riley! You aren't packed yet?"  Riley screams in frustration: "Ugh!  You're always on me!  Can't you just lay off for like one second?!?"  Her mother's eyes widen in shock.  Anger takes his finger off the button: "I barely touched it."  Each emotion takes their turn at the console, but all discover the same thing.  Riley's emotions are over-sensitive and out of whack.  "Those morons broke the console!"  Inside Riley's mom's mind, we see her emotions resigning themselves for a long ride: "We all knew this day would come."  And, when Riley stomps out of the room in a blaze of fury: "Well, that's a preview of the next ten years."


Riley is trying desperately to fit in to what she considers to be the cool crowd.  Riley, walking a few steps behind the group, thinking: "Okay.  First big hang with the group.  We just gotta act casual."  Suddenly, she notices that her arms swing when she walks.  In her mind, this quirk is keeping her from coolness: "Try to keep them still!"  She begins to walk with her arms stiff at her side.  Then, noticing that Dani swings her arms rhythmically when she walks, Riley tries to copy her.  But, she just ends up looking strange.  Embarrassed, she stuffs her hands in her pockets.  Ironically, no one except Riley notices or cares about her arm swing.  Riley tries again to blend in with the group.  Seeing them all laugh, Riley joins in.  But her faked laughter only makes the others turn to look at her.  Now that she has finally earned their notice, Riley is humiliated.


The emotions are lost in the recesses of Riley's mind and Disgust is ready to give up.  Joy, ever positive, is sure they can make their way back to headquarters if they could just see the way.  Spotting an electric lift, Joy thinks she's got the answer.  While the others bicker about their slim chances, Joy pushes buttons and levers.  Nothing works.  Joy tries to stay positive: "Everything's fine."  But the negativity of the others soon drags her down to their level.  Joy finally explodes: "Do you know how hard it is to stay positive all the time when all you folks do is complain, complain, complain?  Do you think I have all the answers?  Of course I don't!"  Joy sits down and puts her head in her hands, ready to quit.  The others are shocked to see Joy so despondent.  Anger gently approaches her: "Joy, you've made a lot of mistakes.  And, you'll make a whole lot more in the future.  But, if you let that stop you, we might as well lie down and give up now."  He reaches out a hand and helps her to stand.  Then, he takes his own advice.  Anger grabs a powerful suction hose away from some workers and tells everyone to hop on.  When he flicks the toggle, the force of the air lifts the hose and allows them to reach the top of the stacks.


The emotions have discovered a tent in Riley's mind that is emitting an orange glow.  Suspicious, Joy follows a worker inside.  Row after row of cubicles house workers scribbling furiously.  A large screen displays Anxiety, giving instructions to the team: "We need to help Riley prepare.  Now is the time to send up every possible thing that could go wrong."  Rows of screens display images of scenarios of Riley failing.  The images come from the workers, who quickly draw every bad outcome they can think of.  Anxiety approves each: "Riley misses an open goal.  Coach writes about it in her notebook.  Yes!  More like that."  Disgust: "Oh no.  They're using Riley's imagination against her!"  In Riley's bedroom, we see the girl tossing and turning in her bed, tortured by her own imagination.  Anxiety continues to put new images on the screens: "Bree and Grace's team win and we look stupid.  Val passes to us, and we miss it."  Joy, whispering to the other emotions: "We can't let her do this to Riley!  We have to shut this down.  Quickly, the emotions find an empty cubicle and begin to send scenarios of their own to the screens.  These scenarios are all positive, portraying Riley succeeding and making new friends.  When Anxiety sees these optimistic outcomes popping up around her, she suspects a mole and alerts the mind police.  Joy stands to address the workers: "Don't listen to Anxiety!  She's using these horrible projections to change Riley."  Joy encourages the workers to change their projections to uplift Riley.  Anxiety tries to keep them focused on the worst, but Joy's assurance is contagious.  Soon, positive thoughts take over and Riley sighs contentedly, finally able to sleep.


Riley has been sent to the penalty box after hurting Grace.  No matter how hard she's tried, the game feels like a failure.  Her heartbeat increases until it pounds in her chest.  Her toes tap compulsively and she runs her fingers nervously through her hair.  Sweat beads on her forehead as she repeats to herself: "I'm not good enough."  Riley is having a panic attack.  Inside her mind, Anxiety is working furiously at the controls.  Even Envy can see it's overkill: "Anxiety, you're putting too much pressure on her."  The others try to stop Anxiety, but she seems to be trapped herself in a cycle of her own making.  Grace skates by the penalty box and stops as she sees that Riley appears to be severely distressed.  Anxiety spins so quickly she creates a whirlwind of negative thoughts and emotions.  Joy is finally able to push her way into the whirlwind, but when she tries to grab Anxiety, she finds she is moving so fast her hands just go through her.  Joy: "Anxiety, stop!  You don't get to choose who Riley is.  Anxiety...you need to let her go."  Finally, Anxiety is able to pull her hand from the lever.  Joy grabs her and drags her out of the whirlwind.  Once Anxiety is free, the others are able to replace Riley's Sense of Self.  Once stabilized, they hear Riley's voice: "I'm a good person."  Joy smiles.


Now that Joy has removed the fake Sense of Self that she forced into being, Riley begins to grow her own.  This new, unmanipulated Sense of Self has all of Riley's attributes, both positive and negative.  "I'm selfish.  I'm kind.  I'm not good enough.  I'm a good person.  I need to fit in, but I want to be myself.  I'm brave, but I get scared."  As these various thoughts begin to spin, Joy bends down and hugs Riley's Self.  All the other emotions join in, embracing Riley's mind until she calms down.  Her breathing slows, and she begins remembering who she is.  Grace and Bree enter the penalty box and ask Riley if she's okay.  Riley apologizes: "I was such a jerk to you guys.  I'm so sorry.  If you don't want to be friends anymore, I get it.  But...I really hope that you can forgive me...someday."  Smiling, Grace and Bree embrace their friend.


Amy Poehler

Maya Hawke

Kensington Tallman

Inside Out 2

It is the opening day at Shiz, a prestigious college in Oz.  Elphaba has come to escort her younger sister.  As she walks through the courtyard, the crowd parts with gasps of horror.  People overtly back away from her, shocked and horrified by her green skin.  When Galinda spots her, she gives an involuntary little scream.  Elphaba, now in the middle of a wide circle of staring eyes, decides to play it coy: "What?  What are you staring at?  Do I have something in my teeth?"  Galinda: "No, it's just...you're green."  Elphaba looks down in mock surprise at her hands: "I am!"  She gives a tight, little smile, having lived her whole life with this kind of reception.  She turns to face the crowd: "Fine.  Let's get this over with.  No, I am not seasick.  No, I did not eat grass as a child.  And, yes, I've always been green."  Galinda, feeling she's being quite generous, swallows her revulsion: "Well, I for one, am so sorry that you have been forced to live with...this."  Elphaba, lifting her chin a little: "Is that so?"  Galinda continues, missing Elphaba's sarcasm.  She offers to work to learn a spell that could someday change Elphaba's skin color.  The crowd applauds Galinda's magnanimous gesture.  Elphaba: "Offering to help someone that you don't know with skills that you don't have.  I'm sure everyone is duly impressed."  Galinda: "I could care less what others think."  Elphaba: "I doubt that."


For the first time in her life, Elphaba has tangible hope that she will meet the Wizard.  She dances, singing dreamily of that day: ♪ "When I meet the Wizard, once I prove my worth, then I meet the Wizard, what I've waited for since birth.  And with all his Wizard wisdom, by my looks he won't be blinded.  Do you think the Wizard is dumb, or like Munchkins, so small-minded? No!  He'll say to me, 'I see who you truly are, a girl on whom I can rely.'  And that's how we'll begin, the Wizard and I.  Once I'm with the Wizard, my whole life will change.  'Cause once you're with the Wizard, no one thinks you're strange.  No father is not proud of you.  No sister acts ashamed.  And all of Oz has to love you when by the Wizard you're acclaimed." ♪ Elphaba dreams of the Wizard offering to change her green skin and make her as beautiful on the outside as she is on the inside.  She sees a future where she is celebrated instead of reviled in Oz: ♪ "And I'll stand there with the Wizard, feeling things I've never felt.  And though I'd never show it, I'd be so happy I could melt.  And so it will be for the rest of my life and I'll want nothing else till I die.  Held in such high esteem...the Wizard and I." ♪


The beautiful but shallow Galinda and the intelligent outcast Elphaba have found themselves sharing a college dormitory.  Clashing from the start, they are both writing letters home to complain to their parents about their new roommate.  Singing, together: ♪ "There's been some confusion, for you see my roommate is..." ♪ Galinda, looking across the room at Elphaba: ♪ "Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether impossible to describe." ♪ Elphaba, looking back at her: ♪ "...blonde." ♪  The two toss and turn on their beds as they continue to sing out their irritation: ♪ "What is this feeling, so sudden and new, I felt the moment I laid eyes on you.  Loathing.  Unadulterated loathing.  For your face, your voice, your clothing.  Let's just say...I loathe it all.  Every little trick, however small, makes my flesh begin to crawl." ♪  The two go throughout their day, continuing to sing of their hatred for each other and taking every possible chance to exact petty revenge.  Both vow to carry their grudge forever, ending their song with a promise: ♪ "...loathing you my whole life long." ♪


Prince Fiyero has come to his new school to shake things up.  He scoffs at studying in the library.  Instead, he wants to dance.  Fiyero, tossing a book onto the floor:  ♪ "The trouble with schools is they teach the wrong lessons.  Believe me, I've been kicked out of enough of them to know.  They want you to become less callow, less shallow.  But, I say, why invite stresses?  Stop studying strife and learn to live the unexamined life." ♪ The Prince's handsome looks and fun demeanor attract the students and they drink in his superficial philosophy: ♪ "Dancing through life, skimming the surface...life's more painless for the brainless.  Why think too hard when it's so soothing dancing through life?  No need to tough it when you can slough it off as I do.  Nothing matters, but knowing nothing matters.  It's just life, so just keep dancing through." ♪  Elphaba alone is troubled by his attitude.  Everyone else has now started to mimic all that the Prince does.  No one is studying now.  Instead, everyone is dancing, hanging onto such gems from the Prince as, "Those who don't try never look foolish," and, "If only because dust is what we come to, nothing matters."


When Elphaba shows up at the party wearing the castoff hat that Galinda gave her, everyone stops to stare.  Voices whisper that she looks ridiculous and no one bothers to hide the fact that they are laughing at her.  Elphaba, hiding her pain, walks to the center of the dance floor and dances her own strange, solitary dance.  She ignores the mockery all around her, dancing to the beat of her own drum.  Galinda watches, knowing the part she has played in making Elphaba even more of a pariah.  Fiyero, somewhat impressed, whispers to Galinda: "I'll say this much, she doesn't give a twig what anyone thinks."  But Galinda knows the truth: "Of course she does.  She just pretends not to."  Elphaba boldly faces the jeering crowd, knowing that even her own sister is ashamed of her.  Galinda, whispering to Fiyero: "I feel awful."  Fiyero, unaware of Galinda's actions: "Why?  It's not your fault."  Galinda leaves him, walking to the center of the room to stand face-to-face with Elphaba.  Slowly, Galinda begins to dance Elphaba's dance.  At first, everyone giggles, thinking Galinda is making fun also.  But, when Galinda stares back at them pointedly, they know she is serious.  Her friends beg her to stop making a fool of herself, but Galinda refuses.  She keeps dancing and soon Elphaba joins her.  They dance the strange and yet touching dance together.  Elphaba begins to cry as she dances and Galinda smiles at her tenderly: "It's all right."  They keep dancing and soon everyone begins to join in.  


All of Oz is celebrating the death of the Wicked Witch of the West.  Glinda, singing: ♪ "Isn't it nice to know that good will conquer evil?" ♪ The Munchkins shed no tears for the witch's demise, believing it to be her just desserts.  Munchkins, singing: ♪ "No one mourns the wicked.  No one lays a lily on their grave.  The good man scorns the wicked.  Through their lives, our children learn what we miss when we misbehave." ♪ Glinda: ♪ "And goodness knows the wicked's lives are lonely.  Goodness knows the wicked die alone.  It just shows, when you're wicked, you're left only on your own." ♪ The celebration continues and the Munchkins sing, glad that they aren't wicked: ♪ "Nothing grows for the wicked.  They reap only what they sow." ♪


The Wicked Witch of the West is dead and the Munchkins are celebrating.  One little Munchkin girl asks Glinda: "Why does wickedness happen?  Glinda: "That's a good question.  One many people find confusifying.  Are people born wicked?  Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?"


Elphaba is reading her little sister a story when the neighborhood children begin to taunt her: "Elphaba Thropp green on top.  Someone run and tell her everyone can smell her!"  The children laugh and mock her for her green skin.  Elphaba's sister begins to cry, which makes Elphaba furious.  She faces the children, seething with rage.  Her fingers curl and the rocks on the ground begin to levitate.  She cries out for the children to stop and, suddenly, the rocks fly toward them and hit them hard.  The kids yelp in pain and run away.  


When the headmistress announces to the school that Prince Fiyero will be transferring to the Shiz, Galinda excitedly begins to primp.  Carefully choosing an attractive outfit and applying her makeup, Galinda dresses to impress.  But, she's savvy enough to know she shouldn't come on too strong.  While the other girls (and some of the guys) drool blatantly over the prince, Glinda stands at the back, pretending not to notice him.  Finally, she chooses the moment to make herself seen.  Glinda, tosses her hair in what is meant to be an alluring way: "Are you looking for something?  Or someone?"  The prince, a practiced flirt himself, does a double-take when he sees her beauty.  He pretends to lose his memory at the sight: "What was I doing?"  Glinda, tossing her head: "How would I know?"  Prince: "Our first fight."  Glinda pretends to flounce away, but is really just around the corner.  The Prince follows her.  She casually offers to give him a tour of the school, acting like it's something she would give any new student.  When the Prince says he hasn't lasted long at any of his past schools, Glinda confidently asserts: "But, I wasn't at any of your other schools."  She sashays away, looking back over her shoulder teasingly.  The Prince smiles and follows.


Glinda has decided to transform Elphaba into someone popular.  And, of course, that means making the girl more like herself.  Glinda, singing: ♪ "Popular.  You're gonna be popular.  I'll teach you the proper ploys when you talk to boys, little ways to flirt and flounce." ♪ Glinda goes through her dresses, makeup, and shoes, looking for something to make Elphaba what she considers pretty.  Glinda: ♪ "I'll show you what shoes to wear, how to fix your hair, everything that really counts to be popular.  I'll help you be popular.  You'll hang with the right cohorts, you'll be good at sports, know the slang you've got to know.  So, let's start,'cause you've got an awfully long way to go." ♪ Glinda makes Elphaba try on various accessories, none of which become her.  She promises to change Elphaba from the dreary person that she is into something special.  ♪ "It's not about aptitude, it's the way you're viewed, so it's very shrewd to be very, very popular like me." ♪ But, no matter how much Glinda tries to make Elphaba like her, she doesn't succeed.


Glinda and Elphaba have come to meet the great and powerful Wizard of Oz.  With great trepidation, they slowly enter the room.  A loud rumbling sound comes from behind a screen of hanging vines.  Elphaba is so frightened she almost turns around and leaves.  A deep, terrifying voice sounds from a giant head protruding from the vines.  Its eyes glow ominously.  Head: "I am Oz, the Great and Terrible."  Smoke curls out of his mouth and flames shoot up to the sky.  Oz: "Say something!"  When Elphaba introduces herself, the voice from the wizard suddenly changes.  Elphaba hears the sound of machinery shutting down.  A man's voice is heard: "Elphaba Thropp?"  The facade of terror disappears and a normal guy approaches: "Sorry about that.  I didn't mean to startle you."  The great and powerful wizard reveals himself to be just a man.  He performs a childish magic trick and then explains his subterfuge: "I think it's a bit much, but folks have come to expect that sort of thing."  He does a little tap dance: "You've gotta give the people what they want."


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Gru and Poppy sneak into the principal's office to steal the school mascot, a honey badger.  Gru, knowing honey badgers can be fierce, grabs a tranquilizer dart just in case: "Once he's knocked out, we'll open the cage.  The fuzzy demon will sleep like a baby..."  Gru gasps, seeing Gru Jr. already opening the cage.  The plan falls apart.  The badger leaps out, startling Gru into tranking himself.   The crazed animal runs all over the office, causing mayhem.  No one can stop it.  Poppy, in her fear, accidentally trips the alarm, notifying the principal of their presence.  Meanwhile, Gru Jr. feeds the badger some of his snack, making an instant friend.  Using the temporary peace to escape, Gru and the others begin to run towards the exit, the principal in hot pursuit.  


Just off the shore of the Valley of Peace, Po confronts a large, nasty stingray and confidently ties the beast up (literally) with its own tail. He then extracts three piglet children from the creature's belly, all to a cheering crowd!


When Roz hears that a terrible storm is threatening the lives of the animals on the island, she insists that she and Fink save them.  While Fink would prefer to stay by the fire rather than brave the snow to save their enemies, Roz knows they must do it.  Fink: "No one likes me."  Roz: "Nor me, but right now we are their only chance.  Funny how life works."  One-by-one, they dig into dens, burrows, and holes hidden deep under snow and ice.  They work until they rescue every single animal and bring it back to their fire.  Even those who are mortal enemies are saved.  By the time the last are rescued, Roz's battery is dangerously low, but she still goes back into the storm to find the last one.


Hera enters the meeting chamber to discover Lord Frygt and Lord Pryme discussing their dire situation.  Frygt: "I've tried to send for help.  All our messenger birds are shot down.  None can get past their archers.  What other choice is there but to submit?"  Lord Pryme: "Don't be a fool!  There will be no surrender, only slaughter."  Frygt, desperately: "We've barely any food or fuel.  The other lords of Rohan have retreated to their strongholds.  We are cut off!  How are we to survive?"  Hera breaks into their conversation to offer hope: "We find a way.  Despair is Wulf's greatest weapon against us.  We cannot succumb.  We find a way to survive, and we do it together."


Matthew is speaking alone with Jesus.  He is hurt by the many ways Peter has lashed out at him.  Matthew, recalling some of Peter's harsh words: "He would never forget what I did to him and that he could never forgive me."  Jesus: "Have you asked for forgiveness?"  Matthew: "Why would I when he said he wouldn't forgive?  It's pointless."  Jesus: "Matthew.  You don't apologize to be forgiven.  You apologize to repent.  Forgiveness is a gift given from the other person."  But Matthew still doesn't understand why Peter has been given special leadership when he is so temperamental.  Jesus smiles: "I make people what they aren't.  You know that better than most."  But Matthew is still hurt that Jesus has elevated someone who has caused him so much pain.  Jesus: "There have been times when Peter has been overly harsh with you, and that has not pleased my Father in heaven.  Nor has it pleased Me."  But, Jesus asks Matthew to think about his situation in a different light: "Who harmed the other first?"  Matthew tries to soften his own sin: "I guess, in the abstract - -"  Jesus, interrupting: "No.  No.  Not in the abstract.  In fact."  Matthew starts to list the ways he harmed Peter.  And, as he says them aloud, he is struck by the gravity of his sins.  Jesus: "And you've never apologized for this?"  Matthew says he just wants to forget the past and keep the peace.  Jesus: "There is no peace when two of My followers hold resentment against one another.  You know what you must do."
(Season 4, Episode 2)

Nathaniel is a broken man.  His dream of being an architect of synagogues was crushed after one of his buildings collapsed during construction.  He sits down beneath a fig tree to cry out to God in his distress.  Opening the satchel containing his precious drawings, he holds them out to the heavens: "This was done for You!  Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe."  Weeping, he burns them and begins to pray using the words of Psalm 102 (The Prayer of the Afflicted): "Hear my prayer, O Lord.  Let my cry come to You.  Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress.  Incline Your ear to me!"  Nathaniel is trying to understand why God would allow this disaster when he was just trying to serve Him.  He cries out from his heart, but feels like he gets no response: "Do not hide Your face from me!  Do you see me?  Do you see me?"  (Season 2, Episode 2)


The disciples and Mary are sitting around the fire when someone asks Mary about her experiences as Jesus's mother.  Mary looking thoughtful, telling them nothing about the birth was easy, but it was different than she had expected.  Somehow, she hadn't expected the Son of God to be like a normal baby.  He was dirty.  He was cold.  He needed her.  Mary: "It actually made me think, for just one moment, is this really the Son of God?  But we know He was.  I don't know what I expected, but he was crying and He needed me.  And I wondered how long that would last.  He doesn't need me anymore.  He hasn't needed me for a long time, I suppose.  I wish I could say that made me happy.  But...as a mom...it makes me a little sad sometimes."  (Season 2, Episode 3)


Jesus has come to the pool of Bethesda to see Jesse, a man who has been paralyzed for decades.  He stands in front of him, asking: "Do you want to be healed?"  Jesse, hopeful: "Will you take me to the water?"  Jesus smiles, shaking His head no.  Jesse complains that he has no one to help him to the water.  He has lost all hope of healing.  Jesus kneels down to look Jesse in the eye: "You don't want false hope again, I understand.  But, this pool, it has nothing for you.  It means nothing, and you know it.  But you're still here.  Why?"  Jesse, crying now: "I don't know."  Jesus: "You don't need the pool.  You only need Me.  So, do you want to be healed?"  Jesse smiles.  Jesus: "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk."  Jesse looks at Jesus in surprise.  He slaps his leg with a hand.  Now he is astonished.  His leg has feeling.  He begins to laugh.  He stands up, still laughing.  
(Season 2, Episode 4)

A demon-possessed man has wandered into camp.  Mary Magdalene, recognizing what the man is suffering, approaches him.  The demon acknowledges her by her former name, trying to intimidate her.  But Mary won't be intimidated.  She tries to appeal to the man behind the demon, asking him his name.  There are a few moments where the man tries to fight his way forward, choking and gasping, but the demon wins out.  He laughs and then lunges at Mary.  Before he can attack, Simon the Zealot comes out of nowhere and tackles him to the ground.  The demon begins to strangle Simon.  Before he can kill him, Jesus arrives on the scene.  From a distance, Jesus waves a hand: "Out!  Out of him!"  Immediately, the demon leaves the man's body.  He falls to the ground.  Jesus kneels tenderly beside the weeping man: "It's all right.  Welcome back.  I know.  It seemed like it would never end.  What is your name?"  Man: "Caleb."  Jesus: "Well, it's over now."  He helps Caleb to his feet and embraces him.  (Caution: scene may disturb some viewers)
(Season 2, Episode 5)

Jesus and His disciples enter a synagogue on the Sabbath.  The priest is reading from the Law.  Jesus approaches a man with a withered hand, quietly asking his name.  Angry, the priest stops reading to confront Jesus: "It is not lawful to heal on Sabbath."  Jesus sighs heavily: "Which one of you who has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath will not take hold of it and lift it out?  Of how much more value is this man than a sheep?"  The priest and head priest are still furious, so Jesus continues: "Is it lawful on Sabbath to do good, or to do harm?  To save life or to kill?"  Ignoring the protests of the priest, Jesus heals the man's hand.  Instead of being awed by the miracle before them, the priests continue to focus on Sabbath law: "If he was supposed to be healed, God would have done it Himself!"  Jesus: "Interesting point."
(Season 2, Episode 6)

Jesus is preparing for the Sermon on the Mount.  He tells Matthew, who is recording His words, that He has a map that will allow people to find Him.  As Matthew takes notes, Jesus looks down on the camp where His disciples are sleeping.  He begins to speak: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven..."  As Jesus speaks the Beatitudes, we see scenes of the lives of his disciples illustrating each one.  Jesus is remembering their acts of service, humility, and love as he talks about the way Christ-followers are supposed to live.   Finally, he looks at Matthew, who is often misunderstood and ridiculed even by those closest to him: "Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.  Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven."  Matthew smiles: "But how is it the map?"  Jesus: "If someone wants to find Me, those are the groups they should look for."
(Season 2, Episode 8)

Jesus is preaching to the crowd about God's pursuit of the sinner.  He finds a shepherd in the crowd who has 100 sheep, asking him: "Say one of them goes astray, what do you do?"  Shepherd: "I'd go look for it, of course."  Jesus: "Of course.  But, what about the other 99?"  Shepherd: "I'd have to leave them behind.  I can't lose the one sheep."  Jesus: "And if you find it?"  Shepherd: "I would probably do a little dance."  Jesus laughs: "And what would you say to your friends who are worried for you?"  Shepherd: "Rejoice with me!  I have found my lost sheep!"  Jesus: "He rejoices more for one sheep than over the 99 who never went astray.  So, it is not the will of my Father that one of these should perish.  In the same way, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous persons who need no repentance."  (Season 2, Episode 1)


Jesus is visiting the home of Melech, a man made lame by a fall from a horse.  His wife, Chedva, asks Jesus: "When I was a little girl, my father told me the Messiah would bring an end to pain and suffering.  If You are who people are saying You are, when will You do that?"  Jesus: "I'm here to preach the good news of the Kingdom of Heaven.  A kingdom not of this world, a kingdom that is coming soon.  Where, yes, sorrow and sighing will flee away.  I make a way for people to access that kingdom.  But, in this world, bones will still break.  Hearts will still break.  But, in the end, the Light will overcome darkness."  (Season 2, Episode 1)


Jesus has been asked to read from the Torah in the synagogue.  He asks John to choose a favorite passage.  John: "I love the beginning.  I love how God simply spoke and the world came into being."  Jesus: "Yes, as David wrote, 'by the Word of the Lord, the heavens were made.'"  John: "You know, the Greeks use 'word' to describe divine reason, what gives the world form and meaning."  Jesus picks up the first scroll and carries it into the meeting room.  He begins to read to the people gathered there.  While He reads, we see the future John, reading from his own book, interspersed with Jesus's reading.  Jesus: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."  John: "In the beginning, was the Word."  Jesus: "And the earth was void and without form."  John: "And the Word was with God."  Jesus: "And darkness covered the face of the deep."  John: "And the Word was God."  Jesus: "Then God said, 'Let there be light.' And there was light."  John: "He was in the beginning, with God, all things were made through Him and without Him was not anything made that was made.  In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.  The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it."  (Season 2, Episode 1)


Philip, noticing the tension between Matthew and Simon, asks Matthew about it.  Matthew: "He doesn't like me.  He sees me as his enemy."  Philip, who is new to the group: "Why?"  Matthew, somewhat ashamed: "I was a tax collector.  I was everyone's enemy."  Philip seems to still not understand why Matthew's past would be a problem.  Matthew, surprised: "That doesn't shock you?"  Philip: "I was something else once, too.  Once you've met the Messiah, 'am' is all that matters."  Philip tells Matthew not to let Simon define him by his past sins.  (Season 2, Episode 2)


Philip asks Matthew if it was hard to leave his wealth to follow Jesus.  Matthew, with some surprise: "No.  It should have been.  I was comfortable."  He tells Philip that his former life wasn't really that satisfying.  He had no relationship with his parents, he felt guilt for the source of his money, and even his gifting was meaningless.  It wasn't hard to let go of that life, but his new life is uncomfortable because no one likes him due to his past.  Philip: "If this Rabbi, Jesus of Nazareth, called you, it means you already have everything you need for right now.  He'll give you the rest in time."  Matthew: "I just don't know what He sees in me.  He's a religious teacher, and I know very little about religion."  Philip: "From what I understand, Jesus doesn't love everything about religion.  Matthew, what you think you know doesn't matter.  Only that Jesus chose you.  That's where your confidence comes from now."  (Season 2, Episode 2)


Simon has come to Jesus, hoping to set up some kind of structure of authority within the group of disciples.  He argues that the larger numbers have brought in more opinions, and, at times, it is difficult to come to a consensus.  Jesus: "You have my instructions."  Simon: "But how we get there, how we achieve it, sometimes there's a lot of noise."  Jesus, already knowing the answer: "So, what are you suggesting?"  Simon tells Jesus they need a way to formalize the decision-making process.  He suggests that all ideas be filtered through by James and then brought to him (Simon) for consideration.  Jesus kindly tells Simon that, while He cherishes his leadership skills, they will be needed in the future, not now.  Jesus: "Every one of these people I have called for a reason.  Each of them brings something unique and important to the whole.  I want every voice heard, and none silenced.  Everyone can learn from each other."  Simon: "Yes, but some people are troubled by tiny things and they slow us down."  Jesus, patiently: "I won't ask who you mean by that.  But, I will say, if someone is thinking about things you feel slow everyone down, maybe you need to slow down.  One day, Simon, there will need to be more structure, and I see you playing a big part in it."  Simon: "Out of all humility, Rabbi, why not now?"  Jesus: "Because I am still here."  (Season 2, Episode 2)


Philip has brought his friend, Nathaniel, to meet Jesus.  Jesus greets them, calling Nathaniel a truth-teller.  Jesus: "You are a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit."  Nathaniel looks in surprise at Philip: "What did you say about me?"  Philip denies saying anything.  Nathaniel looks at Jesus with suspicion: "What is this?  How do you know me?"  Jesus: "I have known you long before Philip called you to come and see."  Nathaniel looks back at Philip, questioningly.  Jesus: "Don't look at him.  Look at Me."  Jesus, stepping closer to look Nathaniel in the eye: "When you were in your lowest moment, and you were alone, I did not turn My face from you.  I saw you under the fig tree."  (See clip # CV11615, when Nathaniel cried out to God to see him.)  Nathaniel, tears in his eyes, whispers: "Rabbi.  You are the Son of God.  The King of Israel."  Jesus, putting a hand on Nathaniel's shoulder: "Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree,' you believe?  You are going to see many greater things than that.  Like Jacob, you are going to see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."  (Season 2, Episode 2)


Matthew has asked to learn the wisdom of Scripture from Philip.  While the multitudes wait to be healed by Jesus, Matthew asks Philip where he should start: "The law of Moses?  The prophecies of Isaiah?  The wisdom of Solomon?"  Philip: "For you, I think, psalms of David."  Matthew, poised to take notes: "I'm ready."  But, instead of the treasure troves of ancient knowledge he expects, Philip gives him only one verse: "If I ascend to heaven, You are there.  If I make my bed in the depths, You are there."  Matthew: "And?"  Philip: "Just that."  Matthew looks confused.  He tells Philip he was hoping for something that would help him understand more.  Philip tells him that verse is what Matthew must come to understand if he wants to make any meaningful study of Torah.  Matthew still doesn't understand.  Meanwhile, people all around them are being healed by Jesus.  Philip tells Matthew to recite the verse back to him and then explains it: "There's nowhere you can go.  There's no height you can climb to in your intellectual mind, no depths you can reach in your soul where God is not with you.  Do you get it?"  Matthew: "I think so."  Philip, continuing to explain why he chose that verse specifically for the academically-bent Matthew: "No amount of learning can bring you closer to God, or make you more or less precious to Him.  He's always right here, right now.  With you.  For you."  Matthew: "But...I don't feel it."  Philip: "The feeling doesn't always come first.  Sometimes you have to believe first."  (Season 2, Episode 3)


The disciples are discussing their former expectations of the Messiah as it relates to Jesus.  John: "Isn't the Messiah supposed to come at a time when all is holy?"  James, quoting: "And there shall be no unrighteousness in them on His day, for they shall all be holy and their King shall be the Lord Messiah." John jokes that in order to fulfill that prophecy they would need to clean up the Red Quarter first.  Mary: "I don't think He is waiting for us to be holy.  I think He is here because we can't be holy without Him."  (Season 2, Episode 3)


Young Jesse is climbing a tree when a disastrous fall paralyzes him from the waist down.  His anxious father carries the boy's unconscious body into their home, where a doctor delivers the bad news.  Jesse will never walk again.  He watches silently from his mat as his parents weep.  Later, Jesse is sitting on his mat outside, watching other children play.  His father sees the boy's sad face and his heart is in anguish for his son.  Out of desperation, Jesse's parents hire a witch doctor to come and administer "healing."  But no healing will come. (Season 2, Episode 4)


Jesse is now a young man.  He sits by the pool of Bethesda, surrounded by the disabled and the sick.  Suddenly, the waters of the pool bubble up and people all around rush to enter the water, believing it is a source of healing.  Jesse tries to get to the pool, but the others are just too fast.  They crowd in and shut him out.  Days and months go by, and every time the water is stirred, the same thing happens.  Jesse is trampled on, pushed, and struck in his efforts to get to the pool.  But he never reaches it.  Years pass and his beard is filled with gray.  His face is lined with decades of suffering.  Still, he hopes for healing but never gets it.  Finally, the waters are stirred and Jesse no longer moves towards it.  He has given up all hope.  He lies still on his mat, in despair, as the others around him get into the pool.  (Season 2, Episode 4)


The Jews are gathered outside Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.  Jesus and his disciples sit in one of the many temporary shelters, sharing a meal.  Matthew looks up at the branches forming the ceiling: "This thatched roof won't keep the rain out."  Little James and Mary tell Matthew that it was built that way on purpose.  Mary: "If a few raindrops get through, it is a reminder of our dependence on God, of His provision, and of how our people were so vulnerable in the wilderness.  And He brought us through."  Mary Magdalene: "There was a time in my life, in my old life, where I had to sleep outside.  It is a good reminder of how I was delivered from that."  Jesus: "This time of living in booths is also a leveler of people.  Wealthy, poor, everyone sleeps outside, as equals."
(Season 2, Episode 4)

Big James asks Jesus why Zechariah prophesied that all the nations would eventually worship the Lord at Jerusalem.  James is rather disgusted that the enemies of Israel will celebrate along with the Jews: "Babylonians?  Assyrians?  The Romans?  Jews and Gentile at this table?  What would have to happen for that to be possible?"  Jesus, smiling: "Something would have to change."  James and Andrew think the Feast of the Tabernacles would be meaningless to people who haven't suffered the same time in the desert as the Israelites did.  Jesus: "Everyone has wandered through the wilderness at some point."  Matthew wonders how all the nations could possibly fit in Jerusalem.  Jesus: "I think it will not be Jerusalem as we know it now."  Ramah: "But, if Zechariah prophesied it, it will be fulfilled, right?"  Andrew: "It sounds impossible."  Mary: "I know a thing or two about prophecies that sound impossible."
(Season 2, Episode 4)

John the Baptist is having a conversation with Jesus.  He confesses that He is impatient for Jesus to stop "telling stories" and to reveal Himself to the public.  Jesus: "I am going to tell stories that make sense to some people, but not to others.  And that's just how it's going to be."  John sighs, acquiescing.  He looks thoughtful: "It's becoming real, isn't it?  Everything we've prepared for.  It's heavy when it becomes real, no?"  Jesus agrees, knowing John is perhaps the only person on Earth who shares a fraction of His burden.  John: "Do You feel ready?"  Jesus: "I am always ready to do My Father's will.  But that doesn't make it easy."  John pledges his life to the service of His Lord: "I'm just impatient for You to get to work."  Jesus smiles at His cousin: "I understand.  And I'm grateful for your part."
(Season 2, Episode 5)

Simon the Zealot stands before Jesus: "You are Messiah, aren't You?"  Jesus: "Yes."  Simon kneels, pledging his allegiance: "I will do anything You ask."  Jesus: "I ask you to understand the nature of my mission, Simon."  Simon is prepared to do physical battle for Jesus, but that isn't what Jesus is wanting.  Jesus asks to see Simon's weapon.  Simon hands him his dagger.  Jesus looks at it, whistling: "Impressive."  He chucks it unceremoniously into the river, smiling at Simon.  Simon is shocked: "You have no use for that?"  Jesus: "I have a better sword.  You'll see.  We have much to discuss, just be patient."  Simon still doesn't understand that Jesus didn't pick him because of his skills of warfare.  Jesus: "I have everything that I need.  But...I wanted you."  Simon: "Why?"  Rather than answering, Jesus invites Simon to follow Him.
(Season 2, Episode 5)

Ramah and Mary are foraging for food for their group.  Ramah is surprised Mary knows so much about edible plants.  Mary: "My family has been poor my whole life."  Ramah: "But your Son…"  Mary: "My Son is a homeless nomad who no longer brings in income for carpentry."  Ramah: "And you're smiling about it?"  Mary: "I'm smiling because He is doing what He was born to do.  And maybe sometimes that means we will be hungry for a few days."  Ramah wonders why Jesus doesn't just use his power to fix all of their problems (food, missing Mary M., etc.).  Mary: "It doesn't work that way.  Sometimes He is as much of a mystery to me as He is to you."  Mary tells Ramah the story of an Egyptian pagan god who could be compelled by the people to act the way they wanted him to.  Mary: "It's not like that with our God."  Ramah doesn't think that anything good could possibly happen from Mary M. being missing.  Mary: "Do you know that?"  Ramah: "She could be dead or dying in a ditch somewhere!"  Mary: "We do not know that she is in danger."  Ramah: "She is a woman alone!"  Mary: "Ramah.  Some trust in chariots and some in horses but we trust in the Name Adonai, our God."
(Season 2, Episode 6)

Matthew and Peter find a disheveled Mary in an alley.  When they tell Mary that Jesus has sent them to bring her back, she refuses to come: "He already fixed me once.  I broke again.  I can't face Him."  Matthew: "I am a bad person, Mary.  My whole life, all for me.  Not faith."  Mary: "I do have faith in Him.  Just not in me."  Matthew reminds Mary of all the good she has been doing for others: "He saved you to do all these things."
(Season 2, Episode 6)

Mary Magdalene has returned to Jesus after a time of reverting back to her sin (see clip # CV11649).  She stands before Him, hardly able to look at Him she is so ashamed: "You redeemed me and I just threw it all away."  Jesus: "That's not much of a redemption if it can be lost in a day, is it?"  Mary: "I owe You everything, but I just don't think I can do it."  Jesus: "Do what?"  Mary, crying: "Live up to it.  Repay You."  Jesus: "Well, that's true.  But you don't have to.  I just want your heart.  The Father just wants your heart.  Give us that, which you already have.  And the rest will come in time.  Did you really think that you'd never struggle or sin again?  Someday, but not here."  Mary: "I'm just so sorry."  She hangs her head.  Jesus:  "Look up."  Mary shakes her head: "I can't."  Jesus: "You can.  Look at Me."  Mary looks at Jesus.  Jesus: "I forgive you.  It's over."  Mary runs into His arms.
(Season 2, Episode 6)

Ever since Jesus was detained by the Romans, His disciples have been worried and watching for Him.  So, when He returns to camp and says He's been there awhile, they are upset He didn't come to them immediately.  John: "So, what were You doing out here?"  Jesus: "Praying, John."  Jesus reminds them He told them He'd be back.  They will have to learn to trust Him and continue to do His work no matter what the circumstances are.  Jesus: "What are you going to do when I'm no longer here?"  The disciples are chagrined and express their willingness to do better and continue learning.  John asks Jesus to teach them a prayer.  Jesus: "This is what I like to see.  And prayer is the first step in getting the mind and the heart right.  It's why you see Me going to it so often."  Peter: "So, teach us to pray like You do.  Please."  Jesus: "When we pray, we want to be sure to first start with acknowledging our Father in heaven and His greatness.  So, you can say, 'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your Name.'"  Jesus continues to teach them the Lord's prayer.
(Season 2, Episode 7)

While Hadad gloats over cheating a man out of his land, his partner Judas is filled with a sense of guilt.  Judas: "Did you see his tears?"  Hadad rationalizes their actions, glossing over their deception with visions of wealth for all parties involved.  Hadad: "We're going to live like kings."  Judas: "Kings of what?  There's only one true King in heaven and everyone else, even Caesar, is enjoying illusions of power and wealth.  Sooner or later, we all become dust."  Hadad: "I know that's right, but we have so few opportunities to get ahead in this world!"  Judas: "Opportunity?  It was a calculated deception!  And it didn't feel good."  Hadad switches tactics, claiming it was God's hand that gave them this wealth.  Hadad: "We used what God gave us.  And now we'll have greater choices, we'll live better lives.  More devotion!"  But Judas knows in his heart that what they did was wrong: "Man was formed from earth and eventually he returns to it.  The time in between...there has to be more to life than that.  What I need is a life I can be proud of!  Don't you want to do something that will really matter?"
(Season 2, Episode 8)

Matthew and Jesus look down on the camp, where the disciples are preparing to spread the word.  Matthew: "I hope they can find a way to work together."  Matthew tells Jesus the disciples are often in disagreement with each other.  Jesus nods knowingly, with a smile: "Oh, I've noticed."  Matthew looks surprised.  Jesus: "In some ways, it's to be expected."  Matthew: "But not desired, surely?"  Jesus: "No.  But it's bound to happen when you start something that's open to all, truly, all people.  Zealots, even tax collectors, people who have been through tough times.  People both hesitant and skeptical, as well as bold and confident.  People hungry to learn as well as those learned and knowledgeable."
(Season 2, Episode 8)

Jesus asks Matthew for his thoughts on the Sermon on the Mount.  Matthew, after a bit of hesitation: "If I do the math in terms of good news and bad, it seems like there's not a lot of good news."  Jesus smiles.  Matthew looks at his notes: "'Anyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery.'  Doesn't that make everyone an adulterer?"  Jesus nods.  Matthew, continuing: "'If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out.'  Wouldn't that lead to an entire population of people walking around with only one eye?  And this one...'If anyone were to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well?'  Trees that bear bad fruit being cut down and thrown into the fire, the gate is narrow and hard that leads to life, depart from Me I never knew you.  Do you realize how heavy-laden Your sermon is with these kinds of ominous pronouncements?  I haven't even named half of them."  Jesus, fervently: "It's a manifesto, Matthew.  I'm not here to be sentimental and soothing.  I'm here to start a revolution.  I'm talking about a radical shift.  Did you think I was just going to come here and say, 'Hey everyone, just, uh, keep doing what you've been doing for the last thousand years.  It's been going so great.'"
(Season 2, Episode 8)

Dallas Jenkins

Elizabeth Tabish

Shahar Isaac

Paras Patel

Jonathan Roumie

Chosen, The (S2)

Jesus and His disciples are in the midst of a angry crowd.  Knowing the disciples are fearful, Jesus sits them down to remind them about faith.  He asks them to recall what happened on the way to Jairus's house.  Thaddeus answers, saying that the bleeding woman was healed.  Jesus: "How?"  Andrew: "By touching the fringe of Your garment."  Jesus: "No.  My friends, you forget so quickly.  You are dear to me, but your memories are short."  Matthew looks at his notes, quoting Jesus's words: "Your faith has made you well."  Jesus: "Her faith.  Many of you are afraid right now, instead of choosing to have faith in Me."  Judas: "Rabbi, increase our faith!"  Jesus: "If you had faith the size of a grain of mustard seed, you could say to a mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.  Truly, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to a mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it would move!  Nothing will be impossible to you."  Nathaniel: "How?  How do we get there?"  Philip, to Jesus: "You increase our faith."  Jesus, pinching His fingers to show a tiny gap: "It's not about size, Philip.  It's about who your faith is in.  If your faith is secure in God, trusting His promises, choosing His will for your life instead of your own, this sized faith is enough."
(Season 3, Episode 8)

Ramah has just died.  Thomas is beside himself with grief.  He looks up and sees Jesus standing close by.  Thomas: "Heal her!  Fix this!  Please!"  Jesus simply looks at him with compassion: "Thomas, I’m so sorry."  Thomas: "Rabbi, you don't have to let this happen!  Just take it back!  Just take it back!"  Jesus shakes His head: "It is not her time."  He steps closer to Thomas: "I love you, Thomas.  He loves you.  I'm so sorry."  Thomas falls to the ground, weeping.
(Season 4, Episode 3)

Ayelet Zurer

Young Claressa enters the boxing gym, hoping against hope she'll be allowed to train.  She watches Coach Jason teach the boys and does some shadow boxing outside the ring.  Zay sees her and taunts: "Ain't no cheerleading practice up in here!"  The other boys laugh.  Coach quiets them, but tells Claressa he can't coach her because she's a girl: "You wanna hang around the gym, that's fine, but we don't train no girls here at Berston Field House.  You hear me?"  Claressa nods, but puts on the head gear anyway.  The boys continue their teasing, but Coach decides to give her one shot in the ring.  He leads her in a spar against Zay.  At first, Zay quickly backs her against the ropes.  Coach Jason takes her aside: "Don't you hang your head, you hear?  You can lose a fight, but you can't let nobody take your heart, okay?"  Claressa nods.  Jason quickly shows her a few moves.  Claressa picks them up quickly.  This time, when she faces Zay, she is the victor.  Coach Jason smiles at her: "You done real good."  Claressa beams.  (Caution: a-word)


Jason asks Mickey what she thinks about girls boxing.  He tells his wife that a little girl named Claressa has been running all the way to his gym daily, hoping to learn how to box.  Mickey thinks for a few moments: "Don't see no reason why she can't.  She got hands."  Jason laughs: "Yeah, she do.  I just never..."  He shakes his head.  Mickey: "You never what?"  Jason: "I just ain't never thought about no girls boxing."  Mickey looks at him pointedly: "And, why is that?"  She raises her eyebrows, daring him to say girls aren't good enough.  Jason's daughter Keisha raises her own brows at her dad.  Jason looks silently back at both women, knowing he's beat.


It is the night before the U.S. Women's Boxing Championships and Coach Jason is talking to Claressa.  "You win tomorrow, you goin' to the Olympic trials.  You don't get many opportunities like this, so, when you do, you go all the way."  Later, Claressa sits alone in her hotel room, thinking back on Coach Jason's words.  Jason: "You've seen more in your sixteen years than most people seen in their entire lifetime.  You a survivor, Ressa.  You got this fire inside of you.  I want you to take all that pain and turn it into something good."


Claressa has just won the national championships and is on her way to the Olympic trials.  She is being interviewed by the press.  Reporter: "So, Claressa, tell me, why boxing?"  Claressa, her arms folded across her chest: "I like to beat people up."  Reporter, thinking she's joking: "You like to beat people up?"  Claressa: 'That's right."  After that comment, Nicole takes Claressa aside: "You might wanna rethink your strategy.  People expect female athletes to behave a certain way, look a certain way.  Boxing's no exception.  It sucks, I know, but the reality is, if you wanna succeed outside the ring, you gotta play the game."  Nicole takes Claressa into a different room, where another female boxer is posing for photographs.  She is dressed in an evening gown, her long, styled hair blowing in the breeze from the fans pointed at her.  Claressa is confused to see the girl in full makeup: "Ain't she got a fight today?"  Nicole tells her it's a photo shoot for a major fashion magazine.  She implies that this is the image that is required in order to get sponsorships.  Claressa looks disgusted: "I'm a way better boxer than her."  Nicole: "That is exactly my point.  It's not fair, but for women, it's not just about how skilled you are."  Later on, in the solitude of her hotel room, Claressa stands in front of the mirror.  She tests out some mascara and lip gloss, but almost immediately wipes it off.  She just wants to be herself.  (Caution: s-word, a-word)


It is the semifinals and if Claressa wins, she secures a spot on the Olympic team.  Claressa's coach tells her that her opponent has the advantage of a longer reach.  Claressa has an uphill battle in front of her.  This is evident from the start of the match, as Claressa's normal fighting style just isn't working.  She goes to her corner at the end of the round, discouraged.  Her coach tries to advise her, but panic sets in and Claressa just doesn't hear what she is saying.  She begins to breathe faster, fear of failure taking her over.  Claressa has yet another disappointing round.  She spends most of the match on the defensive and struggles to land any blows.  Finally, she loses.  Later, she sits alone backstage, her head in her hands, her dreams of the Olympics shattered.


Claressa has made the Olympic boxing team, but now she has to train her body for the task ahead.  She gets up early in the morning to run before school.  She runs more after school.  All day, every day, she trains every spare minute she has.  She spars with her coach and the other boxers at the gym.  She jumps rope, does sit ups, and practices with the punching bags.  She does speed drills in the hallways at school.  She continues training into the night, doing pushups and sparring even at home with her coach.  A song plays in the background: ♪ "You gotta make the decision to be the one difference in your life and turn it around.  Said I would do this back when I was nine.  Said I would do this before I got signed.  Said I would give all these lost kids and doubters a reason and purpose to question their lives.  Look where I am and then look where I've been.  Tell me that I am not destined to win." ♪ Finally, all of Claressa's hard work pays off.  She stands proudly in her Olympic uniform at the opening ceremonies in London.


It is the end of round one in the Olympic finals, and, although the score is tied, Claressa is struggling.  She is discouraged and it shows.  From far away in the stands, Coach Jason tries to yell advice, but he is too far away to be heard.  Seeing that Claressa could really use his support, Nicole quickly rushes Coach Jason (who is not sanctioned by the Olympic committee as a coach) down to the floor to a closer spot.  Claressa continues to struggle her way through the second round.  Finally, the bell rings and she goes to her corner.  Jason finally gets to his spot on the floor and begins to yell encouragement: "Ressa!  Stay with her!  Don't let her out on the right!  She ain't never seen nothin' like you!"  His words cut through the noise around Claressa and she hears him cheering her on.  In the next round, she is like a new boxer.  She dominates the final two rounds.  Back in Flint, people all over town are cheering for her, their eyes glued to their television sets.  At last, the bout is finished and the judges announce the victor: "Gold medalist and Olympic champion, representing the United States of America, Claressa Shields!"  All of Flint celebrates.  Later, Claressa stands on the top platform at the podium, watching the American flag being raised above the crowd.  She holds up her gold medal, beaming. (Caution: d-word)


A desperate Claressa sits in the pawn shop, hoping to trade her Olympic gold medal for money to help feed her family.  Her mom enters the building just as the pawn shop owner approaches with the medal: "I apologize for the betrayal.  Weren't no way I was gonna let you pawn this medal."  (The man had called Claressa's mother to let her know of the situation.)  He hands her the case with the five gold rings embossed on the front and then returns to the back room of the shop.  Claressa, tearing up: "I just wanted to help, Ma."  Jackie: "I know baby, I know.  But there's certain things we can't just be giving away."  Claressa says she doesn't care about the medal, that it doesn't matter: "What good did it do?  It ain't special."  Jackie: "No, it ain't special.  But you is.  You having this medal lets folks round here know that if Claressa Shields can do it, they can too.  So, it ain't about a medal.  It about you."  (Caution: f-word)


Rachel Morrison

Ryan Destiny

De'Adre Aziza

Fire Inside, The

Po and Zhen cautiously infiltrate the Chameleon’s Fortress, tiptoeing past hundreds of slumbering Komodo dragons. Their success is short-lived when Po, on the verge of sneezing, has his nose plugged by Zhen. Unfortunately, the sneeze finds an alternative exit…


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