The great barrier reef

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The camera fades into a shot of the deep ocean. A vast empty blue void. Anything could be out there

Male voice: wow

Female voice: Hmm

Male voice: wow

Female voice: mm-hmm

A pair of clownfish, Marlin and his mate Coral, look out from their tranquil anemone home on the Great Barrier Reef. It rests on the cliff face of the Drop-off, where the shallow water falls steeply to the deep. Light dances over everything as it sways with the rhythm of the undercurrent

 Light dances over everything as it sways with the rhythm of the undercurrent

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CORAL: Yes, Marlin. No, I see it. It's... beautiful.

MARLIN: So, Coral, when you said you wanted an ocean view, you didn't think you were gonna get the whole ocean view, did you? Huh?

Be swims out of the anenome, before breathing deeply.

Marlin: Oh, yeah. A fish can breathe out here! Did your man deliver? Or did he deliver?

Coral rolls her eyes and smiles.

CORAL: My man delivered.

MARLIN: And it wasn't so easy.

CORAL: Because a lot of other clownfish had their eyes on this place...

MARLIN: You better believe they did! Every single one of them.

CORAL: Mm-hmm. You did good. And the neighborhood is awesome.

Coral steers Marlin's focus back to the coral reef, where their neighbors, an array of multi-colored marine life, happily go about their business amidst the exotic foliage that blankets the reef. Marlin soaks it in and turns to Coral, who seems concerned.

MARLIN: So you do like it, don't you?

CORAL: No, no, no. I do. I do. I really do like it. [Leads him out to the edge.] But Marlin, I know the Drop-off is desirable with the great schools and the amazing view and all that. But do we really need so much space?

MARLIN: Coral, honey, these are our kids we're talking about. They deserve the best. Look, look, look... [Swims into the anemone, before acting it out.] They'll wake up, poke their little heads out and they see a WHALE passing right by their bedroom window!

CORAL: Shhh... You're gonna wake the kids.

MARLIN: Oh right. Right.

Marlin follows Coral down to a small grotto in the rock below. They peek in at a bed of fish eggs nestled within the rock. The nuclei of the eggs quiver at random

CORAL: Aw, look. They're dreaming.

Marlin and Coral, soon to be parents, lovingly observe their babies from the entrance of the grotto.

CORAL: We still have to name them.

​MARLIN: You want to name all of them, right now? All right, we'll name, uh, this half Marlin Jr., and then this half Coral Jr. Okay, we're done. [Swims out of the grotto.]

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