1 00:00:05,914 --> 00:00:07,814 Zootopia 2 Explained. 2 00:00:08,714 --> 00:00:11,294 Judy Hopps, Zootopia's first rabbit cop, 3 00:00:11,754 --> 00:00:17,914 just put a corrupt mayor behind bars and joined the ZPD's detective division with Nick Wilde, 4 00:00:17,914 --> 00:00:20,974 a reformed fox hustler now carrying a badge. 5 00:00:21,694 --> 00:00:24,074 They're one week in, publicly celebrated, 6 00:00:24,634 --> 00:00:26,754 already on thin ice with Chief Bogo, 7 00:00:27,134 --> 00:00:29,354 their exacting water buffalo commander. 8 00:00:30,154 --> 00:00:31,794 The city is at its centennial, 9 00:00:32,354 --> 00:00:37,954 a hundred years since the Lynxley family built the weather walls that created Zootopia's climate zones. 10 00:00:38,694 --> 00:00:40,554 The founding myth is everywhere. 11 00:00:41,614 --> 00:00:43,894 So, it turns out, is a snake. 12 00:00:44,594 --> 00:00:49,294 Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde have been ZPD detective partners for exactly one week. 13 00:00:49,774 --> 00:00:51,454 They are the city's most celebrated duo, 14 00:00:51,994 --> 00:00:54,634 they just exposed and imprisoned a corrupt mayor, 15 00:00:55,134 --> 00:00:57,914 and they are already in very serious trouble. 16 00:00:58,474 --> 00:00:59,414 Right out of the gate. 17 00:00:59,814 --> 00:01:01,774 They crash a smuggling bust at the shipyard, 18 00:01:02,254 --> 00:01:04,074 Judy goes early, blows their cover, 19 00:01:04,074 --> 00:01:08,814 and the chase ends with a van destroying the centennial statue of Ebenezer Lynxley, 20 00:01:08,814 --> 00:01:09,754 Zootopia's founder. 21 00:01:10,154 --> 00:01:12,914 Gone. And Bogo gives them the ultimatum: 22 00:01:13,074 --> 00:01:15,394 partner therapy or the team is done. 23 00:01:15,754 --> 00:01:17,574 Dr. Fuzzby, the therapy animal, 24 00:01:17,954 --> 00:01:19,674 sees through them in sixty seconds, 25 00:01:20,234 --> 00:01:21,954 Judy controls every word Nick says, 26 00:01:22,334 --> 00:01:24,634 Nick deflects with humor to avoid anything real. 27 00:01:25,394 --> 00:01:27,974 What makes them charming is exactly what's pulling them apart. 28 00:01:28,374 --> 00:01:30,094 And the film earns that insight. 29 00:01:30,534 --> 00:01:31,934 It's not just comedy chemistry, 30 00:01:32,474 --> 00:01:36,414 Judy has a need-to-prove problem and Nick has a commitment problem, 31 00:01:36,774 --> 00:01:38,554 and neither of them is ready to name it yet. 32 00:01:39,274 --> 00:01:41,794 Dr. Fuzzby does it for them in a single session. 33 00:01:42,094 --> 00:01:44,674 Meanwhile, Judy found snakeskin in the smuggler's van, 34 00:01:45,154 --> 00:01:48,554 significant because no snake has been in Zootopia for a hundred years. 35 00:01:49,114 --> 00:01:52,054 What's a snake doing tied to a catnip ring in the centennial year? 36 00:01:52,574 --> 00:01:55,634 She turns on the TV and the Zootennial Gala answers it. 37 00:01:55,874 --> 00:01:59,794 The gala is where the Lynxley Journal goes on public display for the first time, 38 00:02:00,334 --> 00:02:02,574 original plans for Zootopia's weather walls, 39 00:02:03,054 --> 00:02:04,294 locked away since the founding. 40 00:02:05,214 --> 00:02:09,834 And the catering vans in the news broadcast are the same fleet from the smuggling operation. 41 00:02:10,154 --> 00:02:12,974 So there's a snake heading for the founding document at the centennial. 42 00:02:13,554 --> 00:02:16,214 Nick says if she's wrong, Bogo ends them both. 43 00:02:16,994 --> 00:02:20,074 Judy says Bogo ends them anyway if they can't prove themselves. 44 00:02:20,854 --> 00:02:24,714 That logic wins, and they show up at Lynxley Manor in formal attire, 45 00:02:25,174 --> 00:02:28,414 no backup, no authorization, no plan B. 46 00:02:28,414 --> 00:02:31,594 At the gala, Judy bumps into Pawbert Lynxley, 47 00:02:31,594 --> 00:02:35,434 Milton's youngest son, the warmhearted one who clearly doesn't fit his family. 48 00:02:36,094 --> 00:02:40,374 Then Nick accidentally kicks a spotlight that illuminates a robed figure on a chandelier, 49 00:02:40,874 --> 00:02:42,974 and a pit viper crashes onto the stage. 50 00:02:43,534 --> 00:02:45,114 Gary De'Snake, a pit viper, 51 00:02:45,454 --> 00:02:47,694 grabs Milton and the Lynxley Journal in the chaos. 52 00:02:48,494 --> 00:02:52,834 Judy chases them all the way through the manor and corners Gary in Milton's private study, 53 00:02:53,354 --> 00:02:55,554 where he tells her something Nick doesn't get to hear. 54 00:02:55,554 --> 00:02:58,434 His claim is that the Lynxleys are the actual villains. 55 00:02:59,194 --> 00:03:01,174 Snakes didn't steal anything a century ago, 56 00:03:01,634 --> 00:03:05,094 that incident was manufactured to drive every reptile out of Zootopia. 57 00:03:06,014 --> 00:03:07,614 What if the journal can prove that, 58 00:03:07,614 --> 00:03:09,554 and his family can finally come home? 59 00:03:09,914 --> 00:03:11,054 Judy believes him completely. 60 00:03:11,674 --> 00:03:13,494 Nick just caught up and heard none of it, 61 00:03:13,874 --> 00:03:15,594 he knocks Gary out with a frying pan, 62 00:03:16,014 --> 00:03:17,354 genuinely proud of himself. 63 00:03:18,014 --> 00:03:21,454 That information gap is the source of every bad decision that follows. 64 00:03:21,894 --> 00:03:24,974 Then Milton shows up and orders Gary killed and the journal burned. 65 00:03:24,974 --> 00:03:26,654 They get Gary out a window. 66 00:03:27,214 --> 00:03:29,494 He wakes from the cold, reflexes fire, 67 00:03:29,854 --> 00:03:31,514 and he accidentally bites Bogo, 68 00:03:32,094 --> 00:03:34,254 who picked that exact moment to barge in. 69 00:03:34,514 --> 00:03:38,174 Judy pulls the fang from Bogo's head as Hoggbottom and Truffler walk in, 70 00:03:38,474 --> 00:03:41,034 and Cattrick Lynxley frames them on the spot. 71 00:03:41,394 --> 00:03:43,074 By the time Mr. Big intercepts them, 72 00:03:43,414 --> 00:03:46,874 the news has already called them rogue officers who attacked their own chief. 73 00:03:47,574 --> 00:03:50,334 Mr. Big offers new identities and a way out of the city. 74 00:03:51,094 --> 00:03:52,134 Nick wants to take it. 75 00:03:52,354 --> 00:03:55,594 Judy refuses. Fru Fru, Mr. Big's daughter, 76 00:03:56,194 --> 00:03:57,894 points them toward Nibbles Maplestick, 77 00:03:58,414 --> 00:04:02,214 a beaver podcaster who's been covering reptile conspiracies for years. 78 00:04:02,854 --> 00:04:04,374 Nibbles brings them to Marsh Market, 79 00:04:04,794 --> 00:04:11,074 a neighborhood sealed off from Zootopia at the founding that secretly houses an entire reptile community. 80 00:04:11,534 --> 00:04:16,374 Jesús explains it. The journal's metal cover holds a secret only snakes can see, 81 00:04:16,894 --> 00:04:19,234 important enough that a tortoise died over it, 82 00:04:19,414 --> 00:04:22,494 and afterward every reptile was driven out of Zootopia. 83 00:04:23,154 --> 00:04:27,994 The Lynxleys plan to do it again by burying Marsh Market under Tundratown. 84 00:04:27,994 --> 00:04:31,194 Before Judy can act on any of it, the ZPD raids. 85 00:04:31,934 --> 00:04:33,954 Gary reappears and re-steals the journal, 86 00:04:34,414 --> 00:04:36,854 swallows it whole, then flees into the Red Line, 87 00:04:37,034 --> 00:04:39,554 a water tube that can drown non-aquatic animals. 88 00:04:40,234 --> 00:04:43,014 Judy follows; Nick pulls them out through an exit valve. 89 00:04:43,794 --> 00:04:47,234 One lead left, a flower on a matchbox from Gary's bag, 90 00:04:47,614 --> 00:04:48,794 pointing to a cliff lodge. 91 00:04:49,234 --> 00:04:50,834 They climb arguing the whole way up. 92 00:04:50,834 --> 00:04:52,654 Nick takes out the carrot pen, 93 00:04:53,094 --> 00:04:54,854 the toy recorder from the Bellwether case, 94 00:04:55,214 --> 00:04:57,454 the symbol of everything that started this partnership, 95 00:04:58,194 --> 00:04:59,834 and the argument becomes a real fight; 96 00:05:00,354 --> 00:05:02,474 the pen falls, shatters. 97 00:05:02,974 --> 00:05:05,854 The lodge splits when ZPD officers breach the wall. 98 00:05:06,594 --> 00:05:09,814 Pawbert suddenly appears with Gary and urges Judy to come with them, 99 00:05:10,214 --> 00:05:12,614 she gets hit by a tranq dart before she can decide, 100 00:05:12,854 --> 00:05:14,774 and Nick watches her get carried off. 101 00:05:15,054 --> 00:05:18,874 Nick is in the back of a police truck and Milton Lynxley is in there demanding answers. 102 00:05:19,574 --> 00:05:22,794 Nick stays silent, so Milton retaliates: 103 00:05:23,414 --> 00:05:26,614 the Tundratown expansion into Marsh Market begins immediately, 104 00:05:27,234 --> 00:05:30,314 he calls Nick a lower-class predator nobody will protect, 105 00:05:30,894 --> 00:05:34,714 and promises him a cell where his only news will be Judy's death. 106 00:05:35,094 --> 00:05:38,454 Meanwhile, Judy wakes in Pawbert's motorcycle sidecar in the desert. 107 00:05:39,254 --> 00:05:40,934 Gary De'Snake introduces himself, 108 00:05:41,314 --> 00:05:42,894 shows her his anti-venom pen, 109 00:05:43,274 --> 00:05:45,014 and they reach Pawbert's hideout, 110 00:05:45,154 --> 00:05:47,294 where the whole case finally cracks open. 111 00:05:47,294 --> 00:05:49,694 Right. Gary reads it with heat vision, 112 00:05:50,274 --> 00:05:51,614 pit vipers see infrared. 113 00:05:51,954 --> 00:05:55,874 He draws the hidden images and Zootopia's founding unravels. 114 00:05:56,234 --> 00:05:58,714 Agnes De'Snake, Gary's great-grandmother, 115 00:05:58,714 --> 00:05:59,754 designed the weather walls; 116 00:06:00,254 --> 00:06:02,194 the journal and patent were always hers. 117 00:06:03,054 --> 00:06:04,654 Ebenezer Lynxley stole the journal, 118 00:06:04,974 --> 00:06:08,234 burned the patent, killed the tortoise maid who tried to save it, 119 00:06:08,534 --> 00:06:09,854 framed Agnes for the murder, 120 00:06:10,274 --> 00:06:13,314 and buried Reptile Ravine to expel every reptile. 121 00:06:13,674 --> 00:06:15,794 Exactly, and the proof is still down there. 122 00:06:16,614 --> 00:06:19,374 Agnes's house, buried in Reptile Ravine. 123 00:06:19,534 --> 00:06:20,554 And while this is happening, 124 00:06:20,914 --> 00:06:22,074 Nick is in Prederal Prison. 125 00:06:22,754 --> 00:06:25,554 He admits to Nibbles that Judy is his first real friend, 126 00:06:25,974 --> 00:06:29,934 that he told her the case wasn't worth dying for because he was terrified of losing her. 127 00:06:30,194 --> 00:06:32,314 Nibbles had already gnawed a key from a mop handle, 128 00:06:32,314 --> 00:06:33,754 so they're out in minutes. 129 00:06:34,534 --> 00:06:36,994 Nick accidentally trips every cell release in the building, 130 00:06:37,454 --> 00:06:40,554 200 inmates pour out, steal the police cruisers, 131 00:06:40,734 --> 00:06:42,334 and one of them is Bellwether, 132 00:06:42,814 --> 00:06:44,914 apparently redecorating her cell in her own wool. 133 00:06:45,614 --> 00:06:47,534 That problem goes on a list for later. 134 00:06:47,774 --> 00:06:49,394 They call Flash Slothmore. 135 00:06:49,854 --> 00:06:51,434 Fastest driver in Zootopia. 136 00:06:51,754 --> 00:06:53,674 His initial answer begins as a refusal, 137 00:06:54,234 --> 00:06:56,734 delivered so slowly that by the time the sentence finishes, 138 00:06:57,414 --> 00:06:59,594 it has become enthusiastic agreement. 139 00:06:59,594 --> 00:07:03,734 Clawhauser covertly traces Hoggbottom to the Burning Mammal festival, 140 00:07:04,214 --> 00:07:05,474 and Nick has a destination. 141 00:07:05,774 --> 00:07:07,154 The festival is chaos. 142 00:07:07,794 --> 00:07:11,074 Judy smashes Pawbert's phone once she realizes it's tracking them, 143 00:07:11,454 --> 00:07:14,534 Gazelle fights off the ZPD officers who barge into her tent, 144 00:07:14,534 --> 00:07:19,914 and Milton learns they're headed for the weather wall and orders Hoggbottom to stop them by any means. 145 00:07:20,694 --> 00:07:22,534 What does that look like for Hoggbottom? 146 00:07:22,534 --> 00:07:24,154 She aims at Judy and freezes. 147 00:07:24,714 --> 00:07:26,454 An accidental bump fires the dart, 148 00:07:26,874 --> 00:07:28,594 and Flash's car rolls in front of it. 149 00:07:29,194 --> 00:07:30,494 Inside the weather wall, 150 00:07:30,834 --> 00:07:32,614 Gary's presence clears the station workers, 151 00:07:33,194 --> 00:07:38,654 they restore power: the clock tower lights up and shows them exactly where Reptile Ravine is. 152 00:07:38,894 --> 00:07:41,834 And that's when Pawbert stabs Judy with a venom injector. 153 00:07:41,834 --> 00:07:44,814 He throws Gary outside, grabs the anti-venom, 154 00:07:44,814 --> 00:07:47,894 and explains himself: both he and Judy are underdogs, 155 00:07:48,414 --> 00:07:52,294 but his answer is destroying Agnes's patent to win his father's acceptance. 156 00:07:53,114 --> 00:07:55,154 He injects Nibbles on the way out and goes after Nick. 157 00:07:55,874 --> 00:07:57,874 The trio needed Pawbert to find the location, 158 00:07:58,434 --> 00:08:00,174 once they had it, he was done. 159 00:08:00,694 --> 00:08:02,974 But Gary is cold-blooded, in the snow, 160 00:08:03,134 --> 00:08:07,474 he's losing fast. He remembers Judy is warm-blooded, hugs her, 161 00:08:07,614 --> 00:08:09,134 and absorbs enough heat to recover. 162 00:08:09,794 --> 00:08:12,234 The film's central idea in one image: 163 00:08:12,654 --> 00:08:15,354 a reptile and a mammal keeping each other alive. 164 00:08:15,914 --> 00:08:18,674 Nick and Pawbert fight for the anti-venom on a crumbling ice ledge, 165 00:08:19,434 --> 00:08:22,294 Nick throws it to Gary regardless; Gary cures Judy; 166 00:08:22,914 --> 00:08:25,814 she sprints to the roof and pulls Nick from the edge as the ice breaks. 167 00:08:26,894 --> 00:08:27,934 Does that moment land, 168 00:08:28,234 --> 00:08:29,374 coming at the end of all this? 169 00:08:30,034 --> 00:08:31,854 Completely, the film earned it. 170 00:08:32,354 --> 00:08:35,074 Nick confesses Judy is the most important animal to him; 171 00:08:35,074 --> 00:08:38,834 she says her relentlessness is about needing to be seen as capable, 172 00:08:39,394 --> 00:08:41,234 and Nick was the first who believed she was. 173 00:08:41,874 --> 00:08:44,774 He came to the ZPD to find a pack, not be a cop. 174 00:08:45,274 --> 00:08:46,514 Two films of groundwork. 175 00:08:46,934 --> 00:08:47,614 It lands. 176 00:08:48,214 --> 00:08:49,974 Then the four head to Lynxley Manor: 177 00:08:50,374 --> 00:08:53,614 Gary subdues Pawbert in the hedge maze, Winddancer, 178 00:08:53,614 --> 00:08:56,734 convinced by Nibbles to stop playing a hero and actually be one, 179 00:08:57,174 --> 00:08:59,434 takes down the rest of the Lynxleys. 180 00:08:59,434 --> 00:09:02,134 They find Agnes's original patent in a music box. 181 00:09:02,134 --> 00:09:04,814 Pawbert tries arson as a last move. 182 00:09:05,414 --> 00:09:07,174 Right, and Hoggbottom ends it with a frying pan. 183 00:09:07,894 --> 00:09:09,634 She couldn't shoot Judy at the weather wall, 184 00:09:10,214 --> 00:09:12,214 and she chose differently at the manor too. 185 00:09:13,034 --> 00:09:14,894 Coerced throughout, but when it mattered, 186 00:09:15,274 --> 00:09:16,314 she went the other way. 187 00:09:16,874 --> 00:09:18,034 The Lynxleys are arrested, 188 00:09:18,354 --> 00:09:20,574 Agnes is credited as Zootopia's true founder, 189 00:09:21,194 --> 00:09:23,934 Reptile Ravine reopens and the reptiles come home. 190 00:09:24,794 --> 00:09:28,114 Nick gives Judy the repaired carrot pen and tells her he loves her; 191 00:09:28,414 --> 00:09:30,094 she unknowingly records it. 192 00:09:30,094 --> 00:09:32,034 The win gets complicated, 193 00:09:32,554 --> 00:09:34,994 those 200 escaped criminals are still out there. 194 00:09:35,574 --> 00:09:38,954 First target: Bellwether. Nick and Judy catch her at the airport, 195 00:09:39,394 --> 00:09:42,634 watching in disguise as she waits for what she thinks is her getaway flight. 196 00:09:43,314 --> 00:09:45,774 A feather on Judy's windowsill at the very end. 197 00:09:46,274 --> 00:09:47,394 Something flew past. 198 00:09:49,034 --> 00:09:52,754 Agnes De'Snake is officially Zootopia's true founder.. 199 00:09:53,614 --> 00:09:59,494 Bellwether is recaptured. The other 199 escapees remain at large.. 200 00:10:00,474 --> 00:10:02,474 A feather on Judy's windowsill. 201 00:10:03,394 --> 00:10:04,954 The owner is unidentified.