1. EXT PARK -- DAY Open on Ari flying in the sky next to a cloud of monarch butterflies, all flying in the same direction. He flies down to land by Elinor, Olive, maybe a few other kids and Señor Tapir, who sits with his guitar on a tree stump. A butterfly lands on every single kid’s head . ARI Look at all the monarch butterflies! Butterflies fly past Senor Tapir as a butterfly sits on his nose. SENOR TAPIR And they’re all flying in the same direction ! Elinor giggles a butterfl y land s on the tips of her ears , while other butterflies flutter around . eLINOR Where are they all going? Señor tapir Good question, Elinor. I have a song about two scientists who figured that out. Señor Tapir starts to sing. After a line or two, we transition to a simpler style of animation that describes what he is singing. SEñOR TAPIR (CONT’D) Fred and Norah Urquhart were husband and wife, Who both really loved being outside. 2. EXT TORONTO -- DAY We see a map of North America, and a star appears on the city of Toronto. We zoom in quickly to that spot on the map, to see Fred and Norah Urquhart (who are Eastern cottontail rabbits in 1940s style clothing; Fred has a distinct mustache), holding hands as they stand in a field next to train tracks, where hundreds of monarch butterflies fly around the skies and land on plants around them. SEñOR TAPIR (CONT’D) They lived up north in Canada , where bright summer skies, Were filled with monarch butterflies, Thousands of monarch butterflies fly (in the same direction) through the sky over the trees, whose leaves have turned from green into fall colors. Fred and Norah look up curiously at the butterflies flying over their heads, as the last bunch of butterflies fly away, leaving the sky with zero butterflies. SEñOR TAPIR (CONT’D) But every year, before it would freeze, The butterflies all flew away in the breeze! So Fred and Norah decided to find Where butterflies spent their wintertime. Fred and Norah walk around different outdoor parks and fields, looking for any sign of the butterflies. Señor TAPIR (CONT’D) Fluttering butterflies, where are you flying? Where are going? Where could you be? Fred and Nora h never stopped trying To solve the butterfly mystery. In an outdoor park, Fred carefully wraps a small sticker-like tag (the kind used to put price tags on products) with a few numbers on it around the lower wing of a butterfly. He lets the tagged butterfly fly free. Señor TAPIR (CONT’D) They tagged lots of butterflies and told lots of folks, If you see where they went please let us know. A pair of beavers point at two tagged monarch butterflies on a milkweed plant outside their house. A kid squirrel points at a tagged monarch butterfly that lands on a fence. Señor TAPIR (CONT’D) They spotted a few, but not many more, So they looked even farther away than before. We see the same map of North America, and this time we see the path from Toronto, Canada down to the Monterey Peninsula, California(and perhaps we see a question mark appear here on the map), and then a path all the way down to southern Texas (and perhaps we see a question mark here on the map) . They drive around Texas in a vehicle (from the early 1970s ), looking at Texas trees/parks, without any butterflies. DESIGN NOTE: Fred and Norah are now much older (30 years older than when they started looking for the butterflies). Señor TAPIR (CONT’D) Fluttering butterflies, where are you flying? Where are going? Where could you be? Fred and Nora h never stopped trying To solve the butterfly mystery. Fred and Norah stand among a forest absolutely packed with monarch butterflies on every surface. Fred inspects a tree trunk covered in monarch butterflies. We see the same map of North America, with a path from Toronto to California to Texas and now down to the Sierra Madre mountains of Michoacan Mexico. After most of their lives, they finally found them! Millions of monarchs on the side of a mountain! Way down in Mexico, so far away! They finally figured it out! Hooray! Fred and Norah happily hug each other as millions of butterflies flutter around them. 3. EXT PARK -- DAY Señor Tapir finishes singing the song in front of the kids. All the butterflies on the kids’ faces start to fly away in the same direction and join the butterflies in the sky. Señor TAPIR (CONT’D) Adios butterfly amigos ! ELINOR Have fun in Mexico! END.

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ELINOR WONDERS WHY 120 interstitial: senor tapir Written by LAURA SAMS FOLLOWS: “BUTTERFLy babies” CURRICULUM: Fred Urquhart and his wife Norah followed their curiosity to discover where monarch butterflies go in the fall. LS4 . Understand that all animals and plants have a life cycle, can reproduce, and change and grow over time FIRST DRAFT: July 10, 2019 SECOND DRAFT: August 9, 2019 SENOR TAPIR Kids ELINOR SALLY BEAVER Silas (V.O.) (O.S.) (O.C.) (CONT'D) (SUBTITLE) INT EXT I/E 1 FOLLOWS: "THE AMAZING EXPANDABLE CLUBHOUSE" EXT PARK -- DAY DAY NIGHT AFTERNOON MORNING EVENING LATER MOMENTS LATER CONTINUOUS THE NEXT DAY CUT TO: FADE IN: FADE OUT. FADE TO: DISSOLVE TO: BACK TO: MATCH CUT TO: JUMP CUT TO: FADE TO BLACK.