Scene 6
- Buttercup hears that Westley's been murdered and sulks in her room, vowing she will never love anyone again. Real nice, lady. Your horses are right outside your window. Harsh. We're sure she didn't mean it, horsies.
Scene 7
- It's five years later, and the big cheese in Florin—Prince Humperdinck—is getting ready to announce the identity of his new bride. Everyone in town has shown up to hear the news. Guess their TVs were in the shop.
- He then introduces "Princess Buttercup." She looks real happy about it, too. Maybe she fancied herself more of an "Elsa."
Scene 8
- As Buttercup is out riding a horse (her daily escape from being in the prince's company), she comes across three characters. There's Vizzini, a short, bald, Costanzaesque Sicilian gentleman; Inigo, a dark-haired, Spanish swordsman who looks a lot like that guy on Homeland; and Fezzik, a giant. Like, an actual giant, not one of those crazy beanstalk fellas.
- They claim to be circus performers, but circus performers aren't generally in the business of abducting princesses, which is what they do.
Scene 9
- As Vizzini, Inigo and Fezzik load up their boat and prepare to push off land, Vizzini explains how he's going to frame Guilder—Florin's sworn enemy—for the princess' death—once they've eventually killed her, that is. We also find out that he's hired Inigo and Fezzik to "start a war." Some people just have too much time on their hands.
- The trio, with their condemned prisoner in tow, head out to sea, as Inigo and Fezzik annoy Vizzini to no end with a rhyming game they use to pass the time.
Scene 10
- Later that night, they find they're being tailed by another ship, an idea which Vizzini finds "inconceivable."
- As the boys are distracted looking at their pursuer, Buttercup jumps into the water and attempts to make her escape. But there's just this little matter of "shrieking eels." We're not sure exactly why they're shrieking, but we suspect they caught a glimpse of themselves in a mirror. #notattractive