Dr. Griffiths:
[Lizzy has unintentionally trashed her room after her first flying attempt]
Look at this room! It looks like a cyclone hit it!
Lizzy:
It's not that bad.
Dr. Griffiths:
Not that bad? Your books are all over the floor, your toys are everywhere, and you've torn your curtains!
[looks up]
Dr. Griffiths:
What? HOW did you get FOOTPRINTS on the CEILING?
[exasperatedly]
Dr. Griffiths:
This is simply too much. A temper tantrum of this magnitude is unacceptable.
Lizzy:
But I wasn't having a tantrum!
Dr. Griffiths:
Then how did this happen? And the TRUTH this time.
Lizzy:
[nervously]
If I tell you the truth...
[sighs]
Lizzy:
you still wouldn't believe me!
Dr. Griffiths:
[sternly]
Elizabeth, the truth.
Lizzy:
...I was flying! My fairy showed me how.
Dr. Griffiths:
Oh, for goodness sakes! Your make-believe fairy did this. You've got to stop this nonsense!
Lizzy:
But it's not nonsense, Father! It's the truth!
Dr. Griffiths:
You have a real fairy, living in your room.
Lizzy:
Yes! And I can prove it.
[picks up the fairy field journal she and Tinker Bell made and holds it out for her father]
Lizzy:
Just look at the research we did.
Dr. Griffiths:
[takes the field journal and flips through a few pages]
Oh, Elizabeth, *this* is what you've been doing?
[closes the journal]
Dr. Griffiths:
Field journals are to be filled with FACT, not fairy tales!
Lizzy:
[desperately]
But Father, these ARE facts!
Dr. Griffiths:
I just don't understand this foolishness, Lizzy. You have such talent. Why would you waste it this way?
Lizzy:
[visibly hurt and shocked by her father's words]
Why can't you just...
[sighs]
Lizzy:
*believe* me?
Dr. Griffiths:
I believe in what is real. And it's about time *you* started doing the same.
[goes to her wall of fairy art and starts tearing it down]
Lizzy:
[fighting back tears]
Father, wait!
Dr. Griffiths:
I know this is difficult for you to understand. But... this... is all make-believe!
[throws some of Lizzy's pictures into the trash]
Lizzy:
No! They're real!
Dr. Griffiths:
Elizabeth! This discussion is over!
[throws away the fairy field journal]
