This is an excerpt from the script for The Labyrinth.

Quote:

Sarah: What am I supposed to do?
Red Guard (Bottom Head): Well, the only way out of here is to try one of these doors.
Blue Guard (Bottom Head): One of them leads to the castle, at the centre of the Labyrinth, and the other one leads to—
Blue Guard (Top Head): Ba ba ba bum!
Blue Guard (Bottom Head): Certain death!
All: Ooh! Ooh!
Sarah: Which one is which?
Red Guard (Bottom Head): We can't tell you.
Sarah: Why not?
Red Guard (Bottom Head): Uh... I, uh... We don't know.
Blue Guard (Bottom Head): But they do.
[Both Bottom Heads look up to Top Heads]
Sarah: Oh. Then I'll ask them.
Red Guard (Top Head): Ah, no. You can’t ask us. You can only ask one of us.
Blue Guard (Top Head): It's in the rules. And I should warn you that one of us always tells the truth, and one of us always lies. That’s a rule too. He always lies.
Red Guard (Top Head): I do not! I tell the truth!
Blue Guard (Top Head): Oh, what a lie!
All: Ha ha ha!
Red Guard (Top Head): He's the liar!
Sarah: [To the Top Head of the Red Guard] All right. Answer yes or no. Would he tell me that this door leads to the castle?
Red Guard (Top Head): Uh...
[Confers privately, at length, with Bottom Head behind shield]
Red Guard (Top Head):: Yes.
Sarah Then the other door leads to the castle, and this door leads to certain death.
All: Ooooh.
Red Guard (Top Head): How do you know? He could be telling the truth.
Sarah: But then you wouldn't be, so if you told me that he said yes, I know the answer is no.
Red Guard (Top Head): But I could be telling the truth.
Sarah: But he would be lying. So if you told me that he said yes, I know the answer would still be no.
Red Guard (Top Head): What a minute. [To Blue Guard (Top Head)] Is that right?
Blue Guard (Top Head): I don't know. I've never understood it.
All: Ha ha ha ha ha!
Sarah: No, it's right. I've figured it out. I could never do it before. I think I'm getting smarter. This is a piece of cake.



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Sarah opens the door behind the Blue Guard and enters. She looks over her shoulder, smiling. A trap door opens. Sarah falls down into the pit of Helping Hands. But her formulation seems correct. What went wrong?

Discuss.

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