Annie Auerbach - Despicable Me 2

BAM! The car, with the Minions at the wheel, strikes Eduardo. When he starts to recover, the car zooms past him—with Gru and Lucy hidden inside.

The car crashes through the mall again. Gru screams hysterically, but Lucy just hits a button. The car transforms into a jet. They fly off into the night sky….

Gru and Lucy hide in separate garbage cans in the food court, looking for their next possible suspect. They talk through earpieces.

Gru is still annoyed about last night’s break-in. “I mean, who puts salsa in a safe? What kind of person does that? That’s weird, right?”

“Very weird.” Then Lucy spots someone in her binoculars. She whispers, “All right, there he is. Suspect number eight, Floyd Eaglesan.”

Gru recognizes him and sighs. “I told you, that’s not the guy.”

Lucy urges him on. “See if you can get closer. Go, go, go!”

Gru stands up in the garbage can, and his legs stick out as he makes his way over to Floyd. Just as he’s about to get close enough to investigate, a man approaches the trash can with a steaming-hot cup of coffee.

Gru sees that the man is about to throw it away and quickly backs up. The man continues toward him. Gru backs up again. The man is determined and lunges toward Gru’s garbage can with his hot coffee. Gru stands up and runs away.

Unfortunately, he doesn’t see the escalator behind him. He falls down the moving staircase and lands with a thud. The garbage can pops off his head. Then he hears someone call his name. He looks up to see Margo, Edith, and Agnes standing above him. Gru attempts a smile. “Girls, what’re you doing here?”

“We thought we’d come visit you at work. So, you’re saving the world in a garbage can?” questions Margo.

Lucy walks over to join them. “Hey, there you are. Oh, who’s this?”

Gru introduces Lucy to his girls. Agnes stares at this new woman in Gru’s life and asks, “Are you single?”

Lucy falters. “Oh… goodness.”

Gru is also uncomfortable, so he claps his hands together to get everyone’s attention. “Hey! I have an idea! Since Lucy and I have lots of work to do, why don’t you girls go and explore the mall?” He quickly shuffles the girls away from Lucy. “Here is some money. Go buy some useless mall junk.”

“Are you going to marry Lucy?” asks Agnes.

“Are you out of your gourd?” replies Gru. “No! She just works with me.”

“On what? Love?” Agnes offers.

“No!” Gru tells her. “She is just my partner!”

“Plus you love her,” continues Agnes. Then she begins to sing, “You love her, you love her, you really, really love her, and you’re gonna get married, and I will be the flower girl, and—”

“Okay, stop!” orders Gru. “This is a song of lies. I don’t even like her!” He points to the mall. “Now go have fun!”

Lucy watches as the girls give Gru a hug and run off. Gru sighs in relief and walks back over to her. “Ha, ha, ha! Kids, right? They’re… funny.”

Lucy lets him off the hook. “Those girls totally adore you. I bet you’re a fun dad.”

Gru lets down his guard and can’t help but smile. “I am pretty fun.” Then he’s all business again. “All right, let’s get back to work!”

Lucy looks at the list of suspects and points to the Eagle Hair Club.

Back at Gru’s house, an ice cream truck makes its way down the street. A couple of children run to meet it as it stops. But before they can, a mob of Minions rush out of Gru’s house toward the truck. They shove the children aside and clamor around it, holding out their money.

“Gelato! Gelato! Gelato!” the Minions chant.

Suddenly, the metal ice-cream cone from the top of the truck opens up and begins sucking the Minions into it! One by one, the Minions disappear until there is only one left. He tries to make a run for it, but the truck lowers an ice pop in front of him. The Minion can’t resist and licks it. His tongue sticks to the treat, and he is yanked into the truck!

As the vehicle drives away with all the Minions, the children look at one another with puzzled faces.

As the girls sit on the edge of a mall fountain, Agnes closes her eyes and concentrates for a few seconds. Then she tosses a penny into the water. She opens her eyes, waiting for her wish to come true.

Instead, Edith emerges from the water wearing a diving mask and snorkel. Her hands are full of coins. Agnes asks, “Is that stealing?”

Edith answers coyly, “Not if my wish was that I would get a lot of free coins.”

Margo sits nearby, busily texting someone, when something catches her eye: It’s a boy! Suave, cool, and a bit dangerous, he wears black skinny jeans and a black leather jacket. She watches as he strolls behind the fountain and then disappears in its spraying water.

Getting up, Margo goes to look for the mystery boy… and slips on a patch of spilled soda. “Whoa!”

The boy quickly appears as if from nowhere and catches her.

“Cool glasses,” he tells her.

Margo laughs awkwardly, having never been complimented by a boy her age before.

“I’m Antonio.”

“I’m Margo,” she says nervously, as if she has forgotten her own name.

“I was just going to get a cookie,” Antonio says. “Care to join me?”

Margo’s stomach flip-flops. “Uh, sure,” she says as casually as she can.

They begin to walk away together when Margo is reminded of her sisters. “I’ll catch up with you guys later,” she calls over her shoulder. “Bye!”

Agnes and Edith stare after their sister.

Edith makes a face. “Can I be the first to say ewwwwww! ”

Agnes shakes Edith. “We’ve got to tell Gru!”

Gru approaches Floyd’s Eagle Hair Club and adjusts a device on his belt buckle that scans for traces of PX-41. Lucy is in the cupcake shop monitoring the results. She talks to Gru through a Microscopic Transmitter in his ear.

“If it picks up any traces of the serum, the sensor in your belt buckle will make a sound like this: MEE-MO-MEE-MO-MEE-MO!”