Alex Rocco credited as playing...
Thorny
- [one of the ants fainted]
- Princess Atta: Dr. Flora!
- Dr. Flora: Oh, dear. Not another one.
- Thorny: Oh, this is insane.
- Cornelius: Insane.
- Thorny: There's just not enough food left on the island! No way we can make double quota before Hopper comes.
- Princess Atta: Well, we have to try, Thorny. We don't have any choice.
- Thorny: Yeah, I know.
- Princess Atta: Flik, what do you have to say for yourself?
- Flik: Sorry. I... I'm sorry for the way I am. I didn't mean for things to go so wrong. I especially didn't want to make you look bad, princess.
- Princess Atta: Well, Flik, you did.
- Flik: I was just trying to help.
- Mr. Soil: Then help us. Don't help us.
- Flik: Help? Help? Help? Helpers to help us. That's it! That's... . We could...
- Princess Atta: Flik, you are sentenced to one month digging in the tunnels.
- Thorny: Excuse me, Your Highness. Need I remind you of Flik's tunnel-within-a-tunnel project? It took the whole Engineering Department two days to dig him out. Send him to Health and Ant Services.
- Dr. Flora: Heavens, no.
- Flik: We could leave the island. The riverbeds dry now. We'd just walk right across the riverbed. We can go get helpers. We could! We can go find helpers to help us. It's perfect!
- Queen: Perfect? What's so perfect?
- Flik: Your highness, don't you see? We could send someone to get help!
- Queen: Leave the island?
- Queen: Now, why didn't I think of that? Oh! Because it's suicide!
- Thorny: She's right. We never leave the island.
- Cornelius: Never leave.
- Thorny: There's snakes and birds and bigger bugs out there!
- Flik: Exactly! Bigger bugs! We could find bigger bugs to come here and fight and forever rid us of Hopper and his gang!
- Mr. Soil: Ludicrous!
- Dr. Flora: Who would do a crazy thing like that?
- Flik: I'll volunteer. I'd be very happy to volunteer.
- Queen: You got a lot of spunk, kid, but no one's gonna to help a bunch of ants.
- Flik: At least we could try. Oh, I could travel to the city, I could search there.
- Princess Atta: If you went, you'd be on that silly search for weeks.
- Thorny: Royal huddle.
- [They all huddle]
- Thorny: great idea, princess. It's perfect.
- Cornelius: Exactly.
- Princess Atta: Wait a minute. What did we just decide here?
- Mr. Soil: To let Flik leave.
- Cornelius: While we keep harvesting to meet Hopper's demands.
- Dr. Flora: You see, with Flik gone, he can't...
- Princess Atta: He can't mess anything up!
- [They unhuddle]
- Princess Atta: Filk, after much deliberation, we have decided to grant you your request.
- Flik: Really?
- Queen: Really?
- Princess Atta: Really.
- Flik: Oh, thank you, Princess. Thank you so much for this chance. I won't let you down, I promise. I promise. I promise. But I should probably help repair some of the damage before I go don't you think?
- Queen, Mr. Soil, Dr. Flora, Thorny, Cornelius: No! No, no! Just go. Just go. Just leave.