[Slowly, Gollum loosens his grip on Sam and as the latter disentangles himself, Gollum wails. In the next scene, Gollum is being dragged with Sam's Elvish rope around his neck, wailing and writhing in pain.]
GOLLUM:
It burns! It burns us! It freezes! Nasty Elves twisted it. Take it off us!
SAM:
Quiet you!
[Sam tugs fiercely at the rope. Gollum cries some more and collapses onto his back. Sam turns to Frodo in dismay.]
SAM:
It’s hopeless! Every Orc in Mordor’s going to hear this racket! Let’s just tie him up and leave him.
GOLLUM:
No! That would kill us! Kill us!
SAM:
It’s no more than you deserve!
FRODO:
Maybe he does deserve to die, but now that I see him, I do pity him.
GOLLUM:
[Begging] We be nice to them if they be nice to us. Take it off us. We swears to do what you wants. We swears.
FRODO:
There’s no promise you can make that I can trust.
GOLLUM:
We swears to serve the master of the preciousss. We swears on... on the precious.
*Gollum. Gollum.*
FRODO:
The Ring is treacherous. It will hold you to your word.
GOLLUM:
Yes... on the preciousss. On the preciousss.
SAM:
I don’t believe you! [Gollum backs away, frightened, and climbs onto a boulder] Get down! I said, down!
[Sam jerks strongly at the rope as Gollum tries to get away from him. He crashes onto the ground, choking.]
FRODO:
Sam!
SAM:
He’s trying to trick us! We let him go he’ll throttle us in our sleep!
[Gollum lies panting and holding his throat. He backs away, frightened, as Frodo approaches him.]
FRODO:
You know the way to Mordor?
GOLLUM:
[nods warily] Yes...
FRODO:
You’ve been there before?
GOLLUM:
[nods again] Yes... [Frodo reaches out and takes the rope noose off Gollum’s neck. Gollum seems surprised and relieved.]
FRODO:
You will lead us to the Black Gate.
[Gollum scrambles off in the direction of Morannon and the hobbits follow in his wake.] [A band of Uruk-hai marches across the plain, with two hobbits bound to the backs of two Uruk-hai. Pippin tries to call to Merry, who is unconscious with a gash on his right brow.]