[Aragorn is lying down with his ear pressed to the ground.]

Aragorn: "Their pace has quickened. They must have caught our scent. Hurry!"

[Aragon runs off, followed by Legolas and Gimli.]

Legolas: "Come on, Gimli!"

Gimli: "Three day's and night's pursuit… no food, no rest, and no sign of our quarry but what bare rock can tell."

[The thee of them run across plains.]

[The companions enter the valley where the Uruk-hai stopped. Aragorn bends down to pick up Pippin's brooch.]

Aragorn: "Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall."

[Legolas stops and turns to Aragorn.]

Legolas: "They may yet be alive."

Aragorn: "Less than a day ahead of us, come!"

[Gimli stumbles and rolls to the ground.]

Legolas: "Come Gimli! We are gaining on them."

Gimli: "I'm wasted on cross-country. We dwarves are natural sprinters. Very dangerous over short distances."

[The three of them come over a hill and pause, gazing across the plains.]

Aragorn: "Rohan. Home of the horse-lords."

Aragorn: "There's something strange at work here. Some evil gives speed to these creatures, sets its will against us."

[Legolas scans the landscape before him.]

Aragorn: "Legolas! What do your elf eyes see?"

Legolas: "The Uruks turn Northeast. They are taking the hobbits to Isengard!"

Aragorn: "Saruman."