[man] Good morning, Arcadia Oaks.
It's 4:30 a.m.
If you're still in bed, you are missing the most beautiful sunrise,
clear skies, and a beautiful morning ahead.
And big news...
[growls]
Yield, Kanjigar.
A Trollhunter never yields.
I'd rather die.
Terms accepted.
[yells]
[groans]
Your turn, Bular. Yield.
[gasps]
[grunts]
There is nowhere left for you to run, Trollhunter.
Give me the amulet.
[birds squawk]
[Bular growls]
[Bular grunts]
[grunts]
-[Bular growls] -[Kanjigar groans]
[Bular grunts]
[Bular laughs]
It all ends here.
[screams]
[laughs]
[grunts]
[screams]
It's me or the sun. Either way, you're doomed.
No. The amulet will find a champion.
We will stop you and your master.
I may end, but the fight will not.
[gasps]
No!
[screams]
[roars]
[alarm beeps]
[groans]
[beeping continues]
[screams]
[hums]
[bell dings]
[hums]
[moans]
Love you, Mom.
[groans] Raccoons!
We're late for school, Jimbo.
Sorry, Tobes. Busy with the lunches.
One for me, one for Mom, and...
Ah... [inhales deeply]
Balsamic mushrooms, meatloaf, chunky, sun-dried tomatoes.
-And cardamom. -Ooh! Taking a chance there, Chef Jim.
-What's life without a little adventure? -[inhales]
-[girl] Bye, Mom! -I can't eat this. I'm on a diet.
You've been on a diet for the past 14 years, Tobes.
-I know. -You're 15.
Long-term goals. My body's still changing.
[wheels squeak]
I'm right... I'm right... I'm right behind!
It's 8:00!
We're going to get suspended, on account of meatloaf!
Take the canal, Tobes. It'll save us five minutes.
[stammering] Not... the... canal!
Oh, live a little.
It's living that I'm worried about.
Come on, Tobes. Don't you ever want a little more excitement?
[chuckles] No.
Come on, Tobes!
[voice] James... Lake.
Whoa!
[Toby screams]
[whimpers]
Ha!
How awesome are we?
Awesome!
Hey! Hey, Tobes.
-Did you hear that voice? -What voice?
-[voice] James Lake. -[Toby screams]
That! That pile of rocks knows my name.
It's a pile of K-spar. Minerals don't talk.
There's got to be a walkie-talkie in here or something.
Huh. It looks like an amulet.
Who's doing this? Come out now!
Hello. I'm listening.
-[school bell rings] -[both scream]
[groans] Final bell!
[Toby] We're so late, our kids are gonna have detention.
Come on. Come on, Tobes. We can still make it.
I'm right behind.
It chose a human?
The Peloponnesian War was actually three wars
fought between Athens and Sparta.
The first war is known as the Archimidian War.
Type that into your search engines. A-R-C-H-I-M-I-D-I-A-N.
[sighs] Really?
Close your mouth. You're drooling.
No. No, I'm not. What are you doing?
-Research. -Hey, look up "talking amulet."
I already did that. All I got was toys. One of them was a plushie.
[plushie squeaks]
-Jim, would you agree? -Sir?
With Herodotus' opinion on his tactics of war, as I've described.
-Oh, uh... -[Toby whistles]
-Absolutely. -Excellent. Which tactics, specifically?
The, uh... winning ones?
-[school bell rings] -All right, all right.
Don't forget, Michaelson, chapters four and five.
Jim, may I have a word?
Oh.
Jim, you're distracted.
You fell asleep between the invasion of Attica and the Peace of Nicias,
and your attention wandered for the rest of the class.
Sorry. I didn't get a lot of sleep last night.
I know it's just you and your mother and you want to help her.
She's just really tired, Mr. Strickler.
She's been working double shifts at the clinic.
I believe I'm overdue for a conversation with her.
-Have her call me, please. -Uh--
And feel free to drop by my office if you ever need to talk.
Yeah, I'll do that.
Oh, and, Jim, if you fancy Miss Nunez,
I submit that talking to will be much more effective than staring at.
[school bell rings]
[boy grunting]
[straining] Hang on. Almost there.
So close. So close!
Come on, Tobes. You've got this.
[grunts] So close!
[yells]
What is that on my rope?
[groans]
Every student here should be able to climb this rope and ring that bell.
I want all of you to be made of iron. Iron! You have got to be kidding me.
-I don't know what I feel more sorry for. -[laughs]
-You or the rope. -[Jim breathes deeply]
-[laughs] -Buenas noches.
You speak Spanish?
-[coughs] -Um... um... uh...
-Come on, Claire. -[bell dings]
-Uh... -[girls giggle]
-Do you like Shakespeare? -What?
-Do you like Shakespeare? -Shakespeare?
The school play. We're having trouble getting boys to audition.
Uh... Oh!
-Hasta huevo. -It's like a flabby piñata,
and I'm pretty sure you're filled with candy!
[grunts]
So close! [yells]
[grunts]
-You talked to her? -Yep.
[continues grunting]
Like, actually spoke to her? Not just, you know, in your head?
I unleashed my Español on her.
Oh, no. You should totally do it.
What? The play? I'm not an actor.
Come on. You're always saying how you want your life to be more exciting.
Right?
I don't think Romeo and Juliet is exactly the answer, Tobes.
I don't mean just, you know, exciting. I mean... more.
I just need to know that there's something more to life than high school.
-[Toby grunts] -[locker door clatters]
[grunts] Something more?
-[Toby yells] -[water rushing]
Hello?
Anybody in there?
Hello?
-[Toby] Got one! -[gasps]
[Toby] Whoo-hoo! Finally!
Success, success.
So, good news, dude. My orthodontist says I'm almost done with my braces.
Only four more years.
[chuckles]
Okay. Nothing to see here.
-We can't just let him do that. -Oh, yes, we can.
If Psycho Steve's terrorizing him, he's not terrorizing us.
Jim? Jim! Oh, no.
Tell me again, dweeb-face.
Tell me about the creatures and maybe I'll let you out!
Or you can let him out right now. I mean, you know, it would be nice.
Nice would be you minding your own business.
[boy in locker] Oh, hi, Jim.
So, where were we? Um... Oh, yeah, okay.
You were telling me about the monsters you saw this morning, with fangs and...
-What was it, again? -[boy] Stone for skin! In the canal!
Stone for skin? Man, Eli, you've got some imagination. [chuckles]
Look, Steve, seriously, just let him out.
-Or you'll do what? -Okay, do it. Punch me.
[gasps]
[chuckles] You... you're asking for a beating?
Yeah. Just go crazy.
In 20 years, you're gonna be fat and bald and you'll be working in a muffler shop,
and Eli will have a career in software and he'll be a billionaire.
[Eli] I do like computers.
Let him out. Let him out! Let him out! Let him out!
[all chant] Let him out! Let him out!
Let him out!
-Palchuk, what's going on here? -Uh, nothing, sir.
-[coach] Why aren't you at practice? -I was helping Eli, here.
-Hey, guys! -He was stuck.
[coach] On the double! Now!
Friday, at noon. You and me.
Tick-tock. Tick.
[Eli knocks on locker door]
[screams]
[Eli] Thank you.
That was awesome, man. Did you see how I did that chant?
"Let him out. Let him out." [laughs]
I mean, you probably won't live past Friday, but it was awesome.
-[car horn honks] -Good thing your mom's a doctor.
-Hey, boys. -Hey, Mom.
Looking sharp, Dr. Lake. [grunts]
-Thank you, Toby. So are you. -Oh! Does it show?
-You're going to be out all night? -[sighs] Dr. Gilberg is out with bursitis,
and Dr. Lenz has a wedding out of town this weekend.
-Okay, well, don't forget to bring your-- -Dinner. Thank you.
Right. And try to find an oven to reheat it in instead of nuking.
It takes all of the flavor and nutrients away.
Jim, there must be a million things you'd rather be doing than looking after me.
-Can't think of one. -Love you, honey.
Bye, Mom.
-You mother your mother a lot. -Ha!
See you tomorrow, Tobes.
Hey, and by the way, don't use mayo on the sandwich. It's the wrong note.
Do you ever wish you could find something that would make your life easier?
The ability to do the amazing?
Well, look no further because Food Magic is here. That's right, Food Magic...
[robotic voice] I am Gun Robot. Pick up your phone--
Hey, Tobes.
Did it talk again? Did it do anything interesting?
-Nope. -[woman] Toby Pie! Dinner!
[Toby] In a minute, Nana! I've got to go. Text me if it does anything cool.
[man on TV] ...setting the table, setting the china, going to China...
Um...
Hi. How you doing? I'm Jim.
But then, you knew that because you spoke my name, which is... weird.
Hello? Anybody in there?
And now, I'm talking to an inanimate object.
Come on! Talk again, or you are going up on eBay.
[loud clattering]
-[clattering] -Raccoons!
[footsteps retreating]
[screams]
[yells]
[sighs]
Master Jim!
[screams, groans]
-Master Jim! -[screams, groans]
-We have found you! -[screams]
I am known as Blinky.
[screams]
-Hi. -[screams]
It's Aaarrrgghh. Three Rs.
[groans, screams]
-[screams] -Hmm. He says...
[screams]
...a lot.
It's more of a yelp, I believe. A greeting, perhaps.
-[screams] -[screams]
Master Jim, you have been chosen.
-Hmm. Blinky, he looks scared. -[yelps]
Uh, Aaarrrgghh, my good fellow, would you mind?
-This is a moment of some solemnity. -Hmm? "Solembily"?
- It means serious and dignified. -Hmm. "Dig-oo-nified."
[stammering] P-P-Put me down, please?
-Oh. -[screams]
-Thank you. Now, where was I? - Uh, "Master Jim... found you..."
Yes. Thank you.
-[groans repeatedly] -Master Jim, you have been chosen.
The Amulet of Daylight challenges you to ascend to the most sacred of offices.
Orifices? What orifices?
Offices. It means responsibility.
Unbeknownst to your kind, there is a secret world,
a vast civilization of trolls lurking beneath your very feet, hidden from view.
-Tro... Tr-Trolls? -Trolls. Yes, trolls.
And it is now your charge to protect them. For you, Master Jim, are the Trollhunter.
-[Jim yelps] -Trollhunter.
This honor is yours to accept. So, what say you?
[moans]
[body thuds]
Is that a yes?
[screams]
[phone auto-dials]
Pick up, pick up.
-Hey, Jim. -Tobes, it's me!
You're never going to believe what happened last night.
Yeah, I'm kind of in the middle of something, Jimbo.
I am freaking out here! Seriously freaking.
-I need to talk to somebody. -Chillax. What's going on?
Okay, last night, I heard something in my basement.
I thought it was raccoons, but then--
Yeah, hang on a second-- [screams]
Sorry, Jim. I'll have to call you back.
[screams] No, not that one!
[orchestral battle music plays]
Ah, hello, Jim. What can I do for you?
-Um, do you have a minute? -Are you all right? You look peaked.
-[music stops] -Here, sit.
[Jim exhales]
Okay. I don't really know how to say this,
but last night, something incredible happened.
Actually, unbelievable. Completely unbelievable.
As in, you won't believe me, but I'm telling you it's true.
I promise you it's true.
All right. Just calm down. I'll believe you.
Uh, okay. Last night, two, um, things showed up at my house.
Things?
You know, things. Guys. But really weird.
[stammers] One had these eyes, and the other one was huge and hairy.
-And they said that they were tro... -Tro...?
Tr... trainers! Trainers, who want to train me in...
ch... uh... chess. [chuckles softly]
And why would that have you so perturbed?
They really weirded me out. [chuckles]
[grunts]
[exhales]
Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
Now, I think I know what has you so distraught, Jim.
You do?
It's like I told you yesterday, you have a lot on your shoulders.
Too much, in my opinion, for someone your age.
-And I think this opportunity... -Chess?
...I think it's causing you anxiety.
I know you want to be there for your mother,
but it's as a great poet once wrote,
"Do what's good for you, or you're not good for anybody."
[school bell rings]
Hey, thanks for the advice. I like talking to you.
Always.
[dog barks in the distance]
[woman] Parker! Parker, come here, bud!
"For the glory of Merlin, Daylight is mine to command."
[meows]
[yells]
This is so freaking cool!
[grunts]
[Strickler] It's been taken.
You failed. You let it go. Your father will be displeased.
[roars]
Whoever holds the Amulet of Merlin, I shall destroy him,
just as I have done with every single one of them.
Worry not, you brute. I know where to find it.
[Strickler] I believe the amulet has found its champion.