The Uruk-hai are marching, carrying Merry and Pippin on their backs. One of the big orcs signals to halt, and then sniffs the air.

Mauhúr : "What is it? What do you smell?"

Uglúk : "Man-flesh."

Pippin: "Aragorn!"

Mauhúr : "They've picked up our trail! Let's go!"

The Uruk-hai continue marching. Pippin tears his elven brooch off his cloak with his teeth, and drops it onto the ground.

Aragorn is lying down with his ear pressed to the ground.

Aragorn :"Their pace has quickened. They must have caught our scent. Hurry!"

Aragon runs off, followed by Legolas and Gimli.

Legolas : "Come on, Gimli!"

Gimli : "Three day's and night's pursuit… no food, no rest, and no sign of our quarry but what bare rock can tell."

The three of them run across plains.

The companions enter the valley where the Uruk-hai stopped. Aragorn bends down to pick up Pippin's brooch.

Aragorn : "Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall."

Legolas : "They may yet be alive."

Aragorn : "Less than a day ahead of us, come!"

Gimli stumbles and rolls to the ground.

Legolas : "Come Gimli! We are gaining on them."

Gimli : "I'm wasted on cross-country. We dwarves are natural sprinters. Very dangerous over short distances."

The three of them come over a hill and pause, gazing across the plains.

Aragorn : "Rohan. Home of the horse-lords."

Aragorn : "There's something strange at work here. Some evil gives speed to these creatures, sets its will against us."

Legolas scans the landscape before him.

Aragorn : "Legolas! What do your elf eyes see?"

Legolas : "The Uruks turn Northeast. They are taking the hobbits to Isengard!"

Aragorn : "Saruman."

The scene changes to Isengard.

Saruman is standing in his chamber, his palm over the Palantír.

Saruman : "The world is changing." "Who now has the strength to stand against the armies of Isengard and Mordor." "To stand against the might of Sauron and Saruman, and the union of the Two Towers."

On top of the tower of Barad-dûr sits the Eye of Sauron.

Saruman : "Together, My Lord Sauron, we shall rule this Middle-Earth."

Orcs are working in the caverns of Isengard.

Saruman : "The old world will burn in the fires of industry. Forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machinery of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orcs."

Saruman : "We have only to remove those who oppose us."

Saruman is standing in the middle of a group of Wildmen, who are holding torches and weapons.

Saruman : "The horsemen took your lands. They drove your people into the hills to scratch the living off rocks."

The wildmen murmur in agreement.

Saruman : "Take back the lands they stole from you. Burn every village!"

The wildmen roar with approval.

Saruman : "It will begin in Rohan. Too long have these peasants stood against you. But no more."

The Wildmen and orcs attack a village.

A woman calls out to her children.

Mother : "Èothan, Èothan! You take your sister. You'll go faster with just two."

She puts a little girl onto the horse in front of her brother.

Freda : "But Papa says Èothan must not ride Garold. She's too big for him!"

Mother : "Listen to me! You must ride to Edoras and raise the alarm. Do you understand me?!"

Èothan : "Yes mama!"

Freda : "I don't want to leave! I don't wanna go!"

Mother : "Listen to me. I will find you there."

Mother : "Quickly!"

She looks as her children ride away.

Mother : "Go child!"

The army sets fire to the village. Èothan and Freda look back from a distance.

Saruman : "Rohan, my lord, is ready to fall."

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