Cyrus/Quotes

**Farzeen Shahmed**: Thank you.

**Jafar**: It was not a compliment but an observation. You have a bounty of fresh vegetables in your garden. And I couldn't help noticing you have two camels outside. Few men in Agrabah can afford even one. And yet here you are, with two.

**Farzeen Shahmed**: I have been very fortunate.

**Jafar**: Indeed. It seems you have everything a man could possibly wish for. Perhaps you've met someone who can grant them. *Wishes*.
**Farzeen Shahmed**: I'm not sure what you mean? My good fortune is due to a family investment that has finally begun to pay off.

**Jafar**: Is that so?

**Farzeen Shahmed**: Yes. I can explain further if you allow me to turn off the stove?

**Jafar**: Yes. Yes, we wouldn't want you to overcook water. Go on.

**Farzeen Shahmed**: (*enters kitchen and closes door*) Genie?

**Cyrus**: Master mine, my will is thine.

**Farzeen Shahmed**: He's here. The one you spoke of, the man with the serpent staff.

**Cyrus**: Steady. It's not you he's after.

**Farzeen Shahmed**: My third wish! I want it now.

**Cyrus**: Have patience. I can help you.

**Farzeen Shahmed**: I wish you gone -

**Cyrus**: Don't!

**Farzeen Shahmed**: - As far from Agrabah as the earth from the sun! (*Jafars enters as Cyrus is sent to Wonderland*)

**Jafar**: *No*! (*telekinetically chokes Farzeen*) Where did you send him?

**Farzeen Shahmed**: I don't know. Please...

**Jafar**: What is it you desire?

**Farzeen Shahmed**: Just mercy!

**Jafar**: Well, then. It seems neither of us is going to get what we want today.

### *Down the Rabbit Hole* (Wonderland, Episode 1)

(*Alice meets the genie Cyrus*)

**Alice**: Agrabah sounds beautiful.

**Cyrus**: I hope one day to see it again. What place do you call home?

**Alice**: England. Although it hasn't exactly felt like home, lately.

**Cyrus**: So we're both strangers in this most strange land.

**Alice**: Strange is one word for it.

**Cyrus**: Wondrous.

**Alice**: Dangerous.

**Cyrus**: I sense that you can take care of yourself. And you have to go back to your land soon?

**Alice**: Well, I do have what I came for.

**Cyrus**: Which is what?

**Alice**: Proof that all of this is real. (*pulls the White Rabbit out of her bag*)

**White Rabbit**: Proof? You want proof? Come here and I'll give you proof!

**Cyrus**: A talking white rabbit with a jacket and trousers?

**Alice**: No one can say I imagined that.

**Cyrus**: Yes, that much is said. So tell me Alice, who is this proof for? You've risked much to come back here. Is it a husband?

**Alice**: No. It's no one like that.

**Cyrus**: Good.

**Alice**: Good?

**Cyrus**: I just mean that you're not separated from your love. That would be a terrible fate.

**Alice**: Yes, that would. The proof is for my father. He thinks I'm insane.

**Cyrus**: Really? So you're risking your life for someone who doesn't believe in you? You know, when you really love someone you don't need proof. You can feel it.

**Alice**: Maybe where you're from. But in my land I'd wish things would -

**Cyrus**: You'd wish things would what? You found my bottle, Alice. Anything is possible. Mistress mine, my will is thine. Tell me your wishes three.

### *Trust Me* (Wonderland, Episode 2)

**Alice**: So I can wish for anything I want?

**Cyrus**: There are a few restrictions. The Laws of Magic as it were.

**Alice**: Laws of Magic?

**Cyrus**: Yes. There are four of them. I can't kill anyone, I can't bring anything from the dead, I can't change the past, and I can't make anyone fall in love.

**Alice**: Reasonable enough. After the third wish what happens then?

**Cyrus**: I get returned to my bottle. Then someone else finds me.

**Alice**: So you spend your entire life -

**Cyrus**: Serving the pleasures of my masters, yes.

**Alice**: What if I wish for your freedom?

**Cyrus**: It's been tried, and it's never gone well for either party. Wishes come with a cost, Alice. The bigger the wish, the greater the consequence.

**Alice**: Sounds dangerous.

**Cyrus**: I get the feeling you like a little danger. You're still not sure what to wish for? Perhaps we could take a walk. I could give you some suggestions.

**Alice**: I'd like that very much.

**Alice**: Is something wrong? You seem a little on edge.

**Cyrus**: Sorry. Being a genie is a lot like being a wanted man.

**Alice**: Someone's always after you. Do you know who that someone is?

**Cyrus**: At the moment, a man called Jafar. He carries this staff with the head of a serpent. If you ever see him...

**Alice**: What?

**Cyrus**: Let's just hope you never do.

**Alice**: What does he want with you?

**Cyrus**: What everyone wants. What they don't have.

**Alice**: You don't have to stay out here on my account. If your safe in your bottle you should -

**Cyrus**: No, this is the closest thing I've had to freedom in a long time.

**Alice**: I could say the same.

**Cyrus**: If your home is such a prison, why make your mission to return?

**Alice**: I have nowhere else to go.

**Cyrus**: You have the whole world, Alice. I can show it to you. All you have to do is wish.

**Alice**: But I have more questions.

**Cyrus**: What else would you like to know?

**Alice**: Everything. The people you've met, the things you've done. Have you ever slain a dragon?

**Cyrus**: Once. I can't recommend it. Required some deft swordplay.

**Alice**: I've never been comfortable with a sword.

**Cyrus**: You've never felt comfortable with a sword? Then how have you survived here for all this time.

**Alice**: There's other ways to fight. And in Wonderland you just have to be creative.

### *Down the Rabbit Hole* (Wonderland, Episode 1)

(*the Red Queen arrives with her soldiers to take Cyrus*)

**Red Queen**: Sorry to interrupt. Mind if I borrow him?

**Alice**: Cyrus! No, Cyrus!

**Cyrus**: Alice!

(*the Red Queen telekinetically pushes Cyrus off the nearby cliff*)

**Red Queen**: Oops.

**Alice**: Cyrus!

## After First Curse

### *Nothing to Fear* (Wonderland, Episode 9)

**Cyrus**: Those other genies, they're my brothers. The three of us were cursed into the bottles at the same time. I spent a hundred years searching for them. Eventually, I assumed they were lost. But if Jafar truly has them -

**Alice**: Then we'll stay. And we'll save them.

**Cyrus**: Alice, are you sure?

**Alice**: Happily ever after can't just be for us. It has to be for *everyone*, all of Wonderland.

**Will Scarlet**: I guess this is where we part company, then.

**Alice**: Why is that?

**Will Scarlet**: Because I don't think this one's sticking around for any of that. And with her being my master and all...

**Red Queen**: Will, since when have I been to give up a fight?

**Will Scarlet**: Since, as long as I've known ya. You've always looked for the easy way out, Ana. The shortest way to get what you wanted, no matter who else it hurt. Now you got the three wishes in your pocket, you've got the mother of all short cuts. Seems to suit you perfectly, don't it?

**Red Queen**: We're staying.

**Will Scarlet**: We are?

**Red Queen**: Yes, we are. I have been a terrible queen. These people, they deserve better than what I gave them. So we are staying, and we are *fighting*. Besides, there's four of us. Jafar's on his own. He doesn't stand a chance!