His Dark Materials

‫Ma'am.

‫Lyra, this is your new home.

‫Is this all yours?

‫Goodness no, ‫just the one floor.

‫Go on .

‫I can't believe ‫this is our new home, Pan!

‫Look how shiny the floor is.

‫Right, let me show you around.

‫This is the living room.

‫- Wow! ‫- The Terrace.

‫Now, up here is my bedroom

‫and that's my study.

‫Which, I'd rather stayed ‫my private space.

‫And then here.

‫is the room I've prepared for you.

‫I'll let you get settled.

‫Oh, I'm drowning,

‫I'm drowning.

‫It is a lot more ‫comfortable than Oxford.

‫And it's new home.

‫Roger's too. When she finds him.

‫Home for us all.

‫- Billy? ‫- Roger!

‫Billy Costa!!

‫How are you with heights?

‫They don't scare me, never have.

‫I used to live on the roof ‫of Jordan College.

‫I slept out there every other Sunday.

‫- No, you didn't. ‫- I did!

‫Roger was there too; on the roof.

‫I've got my best ‫people looking for him.

‫We'll find him, Lyra. Soon.

‫I've never been sure about them; ‫heights.

‫I can never get away from ‫the occasional urge to jump.

‫Right, let's get to it!

‫Plenty to do before we lunch ‫at the Arctic Institute.

‫We're lunching at the Arctic Institute?

‫Yes, of course we are, Now chop-chop.

‫Plans to make, ‫clothes to get, lots to do. Come on.

‫Wow!

‫Is that the Skraeling, who mapped the ‫currents of the Great Northern Ocean?

‫Hello, Eliaser.

‫- You know him? ‫- Of course. Now come, Lyra.

‫Oxford only had so much.

‫But this...

‫Now, what will you eat?

‫I don't care about food.

‫Well, you might care ‫about food if you were starving.

‫Is that an armoured bear skull? ‫I've heard so much about them!

‫- Lyra. Lyra. ‫- It's huge!

‫Sit down.

‫Sweet breads.

‫Courtesy of the Chef, ‫Mrs. Coulter.

‫Thank him.

‫Mrs. Coulter, ‫I've been thinking about Roger.

‫And I think that I should ‫help you with the search.

‫Like you said in Jordan:

‫child's eyes; useful.

‫Lyra, look around this room,

‫how many women do you see?

‫In every room there are those ‫that would be-little you.

‫With my help, ‫they won't lay a scratch on you,

‫for you will have knowledge ‫that they won't.

‫And I can teach you to wield power ‫over all of them,

‫but you must let me mould you.

‫You must trust me.

‫I trust you.

‫Then will you ‫let me find Roger for you?

‫- But he's my best friend ... ‫- Lyra, I won't let you down.

‫- Alright. ‫- Good.

‫Now, who do you want to be ‫introduced to first?

‫A van has been seen ‫leaving and entering here.

‫We've not confirmed children on board.

‫We're not confirmed? ‫We need to be confirmed.

‫The Gobblers are efficient, ‫well-protected and well-funded.

‫I mean they're so good, ‫people think they're a myth.

‫So you're saying: we know enough.

‫I'd stake good odds ‫that the van is Gobbler

‫and it's being used to transport them.

‫We've been searching for days, ‫this is the best lead we've got.

‫So tomorrow we attack and ‫the morning we gather our best men.

‫Go in fast, through the front door; ‫take on whatever lies on the other side.

‫Prepare the men; ‫we strike with force.

‫Have you ever considered doing ‫something different with your hair?

‫I like my hair.

‫No, I don't think it ‫accentuates your face.

‫Maybe I should grow it?

‫I had long hair ‫and that was really useful.

‫Like this one time, when Roger ‫and I were caught in this grain silo,

‫we turned my hair into a rope;

‫he climbed up me and out ‫and then pulled me up.

‫- Lyra, please don't lie to me. ‫- I wasn't!

‫Yes, you were.

‫Lyra,

‫I think you can be extraordinary.

‫But being extraordinary ‫takes application.

‫It means being prepared to change.

‫And that takes guidance.

‫We shouldn't change just ‫so we can fit in here.

‫She's being very kind to us, Pan.

‫She's nice, she treats me nice.

‫Don't we deserve to have nice things,

‫- for once? ‫- Of course we do.

‫No one's ever said ‫I could be extraordinary before.

‫Lyra!

‫Lyra!

‫- What? ‫- Lyra, wake up,

‫listen to that noise.

‫What is it?

‫It's just the pipes, Pan. Its fine.

‫It's something, listen.

‫It's nothing.

‫I don't think it's the pipes.

‫Hey! Stop!

‫Stop at nothing, ‫we will rescue these children!

‫Come On!

‫We're in, sir.

‫That's Billy's.

‫This proves they were here.

‫The Gobblers must have ‫known we were coming and moved them.

‫What do they want the children for?

‫- Do you see anything? ‫- No, nothing.

‫Just a brick wall.

‫I miss my Ma.

‫I don't have a Ma to miss.

‫My aunt brought me up for a bit

‫and then she found a good job ‫for me in Jordan College.

‫And then I met Lyra.

‫I know she won't leave us here.

‫She'll be looking for us right now,

‫wherever she is.

‫I will be having a party for ‫a few friends and fellow explorers.

‫And Lyra, I'll need your help, ‫serving drinks.

‫Stop!

‫That's it! Perfect.

‫There ain't much give in it.

‫I like running around, you know.

‫The clothes you wear ‫determine the way people see you.

‫Now come.

‫Look in the mirror.

‫I like it. I think.

‫Blue is quite your colour. ‫Did you know that?

‫I didn't know I had a colour at all.

‫It'll allow me to wield power.

‫Looks like it'll allow you ‫to wield a cake knife.

‫If my Uncle could ‫see me like this.

‫Oh, he'd be delighted.

‫I am sure.

‫I've heard your request.

‫And I'm unable to grant it.

‫I simply asked to examine ‫what remains of the head

‫Asriel presented to you before it's ‫treated and placed in your crypt.

‫Grumman was a ‫scholar of this college.

‫Word is; you've already allowed ‫his head to be thawed and treated.

‫Vital information might have been lost.

‫Boreal, as you are aware; ‫scholastic sanctuary...

‫As an executive ‫of the Consistorial Court,

‫I must understand where he's been.

‫They say that he crossed ‫between the worlds.

‫That's heresy.

‫That's an interesting ‫word for you to use.

‫Especially considering what I've heard ‫of Asriel's visit to this college.

‫Is it true he spoke of dust

‫and that you're funding ‫his investigations?

‫Whatever you're threatening...

‫I threaten nothing.

‫What do you hide?

‫The only rights The Magisterium ‫has here are the rights I grant it!

‫His skull is in our crypt. ‫It will stay there.

‫As is his right and our responsibility.

‫Of course...

‫Master.

‫Lyra, you're still not concentrating.

‫Books aren't what I'm best at.

‫And what you best at?

‫Can't you mould ‫me into someone who...

‫reads some books,

‫but who travels mostly?

‫Who adventures?

‫Who looks for people when they're lost?

‫Lyra, did you not agree to trust me?

‫Now, where were you?

‫Yes, electrons.

‫Now, the thing about ‫electrons is that they are...

‫They're negatively ‫charged particles.

‫Sort of like Dust, ‫but Dust might not be charged.

‫- Dust? ‫- You know, from space dust.

‫That dust.

‫You see, I do know some things.

‫What do you know about Dust, ‫Lyra?

‫It comes from space, ‫it lights people up

‫if you have a special camera to ‫see it by.

‫And...

‫Yes, it doesn't affect children.

‫And who did ‫you learn this from?

‫Just a visiting Scholar from ‫New Denmark, who came to Jordon.

‫He was talking to the Chaplain ‫and I was passing

‫by and I couldn't ‫help but listen.

‫Is it right? ‫Will you tell me?

‫Well, I'm sure you ‫know much more about it than I do.