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Circle 1, Arc


SURINTENDANT :: HELLO, TRAVELER. MOMBASA WELCOMES YOU! ANXIOUS? STRESSED? PLEASE REMAIN CALM. CONTROL CIRCUITS NOW OPEN -- WITH PRIDE!


[SOUND: Vergil chime.]

[SOUND: Trains whistle as morning commuters crowd the station.]

KIOSK: (from speaker) Hello, traveler! The Mombasa Transit Authority welcomes you to Kikowani station. How may I serve you?

SADIE: One ticket to Old Mombasa, please. Here's my card-- No, scrap that. Traceable.

SADIE: Damn it! Coins, need coins...[Puts coins in the kiosk.]

KIOSK: Thank you! What is your final destination?

SADIE: Magongo, if I don't get caught...Hell, if I do.

KIOSK: Thank you! Transport for one to Magongo!

SADIE: Let's go, let's go!

KIOSK: Please collect your ticket.

SADIE: Wait! Hold the doors, please!

[SOUND: train doors slid shut.]

TRAIN: (from speakers) All aboard Train number 14.

SADIE: That was close...

TRAIN: Next stop-- Makupa, Nairobi Road, Hope Station and Magongo-- end of the line.

SADIE: Almost there... almost--

[SOUND: Train squeals to a stop.]

SURINTENDANT :: (from train) EMERGENCY STOP. PLEASE REMAIN CLAM. EMERGENCY STOP --

SADIE: Damn it! He found me.


Circle 1, Arc 2

[SOUND: Train grinds to a stop.]

CROWD: Is something wrong?

CROWD: How long are we going to sit here?

SURINTENDANT :: (from train) EMERGENCY STOP. PLEASE REMAIN CLAM. EMERGENCY STOP--

SADIE: Vergil, you can't stop the train! There are other people on board!

SURINTENDANT :: (distorted) EMERGENCY STOP--

SADIE: Cut it out, Vergil!

PASSAGER: What are you doing, crazy lady? Talking to the train?

SADIE: (to Vergil) I wouldn't even be here if you hadn't kept turning all the traffic signals red!

SURINTENDANT :: [Vergil chime.] DETOUR! PROCEED WITH CAUTION!

PASSAGER: Whoa. Wait... Train's talking back to you now? What the heck's going on?

SADIE: Sir, I'm really sorry about this. I was just trying to get out of the city.

SADIE: (whisper) Vergil, I am going to enlist!

SURINTENDANT :: WATCH YOUR SPEED! CHILDREN AT PLAY!

SADIE: I'm nineteen.

SADIE: And besides, the UNSC is taking everyone it can get!

SURINTENDANT :: [plays recording of traffic accident.]

SADIE: That's exactly what Dad would say!

PASSAGER: You know...train's got a point. A lot of soldiers are dying these days.

SADIE: He's not a train, he's a city.

SADIE: (whisper, to Vergil) A bad, bad city!

SURINTENDANT :: [whines like a puppy.]

SADIE: That worked when I was a kid, Vergil. Open the doors, now!

[SOUND: Train doors hiss open]

CROWD: What was that all about?

CROWD: Great, so now we have to walk to the station?

CROWD: Out of my way! Let me through!

SURINTENDANT :: NOW DEPARTING, HOPE STATION. LEAVING, HOPE STATION--

SADIE: Vergil... go to hell.

[SOUND: Crackling roar of Covenant slip-space rupture]

CROWD: The Covenant! Run!

CROWD: Mommy! What's happening?

CROWD: They're! They've found us!

SADIE: Scratch that... Hell just came here.


Circle 1, Arc 3

[SOUND: Cars honk, crowd panics as a Covenant carrier passes overhead.]

CROWD: Move! The Covenant are coming!

CROWD: Please, mister, you gotta take me! Get me outta here! Please! Wait!

CROWD: Can I use your chatter? I gotta call my family!

CROWD: I told'em! I told'em this was gonna happen! They don't listen, and now we are all going to die!

SADIE: (into Chatter) Vergil? Can you hear me? I'm on my Chatter. But I'm off the train in Old Mombasa and--

SURINTENDANT :: (from Chatter) NO PARKING. VIOLATORS WILL BE TICKETED AND TOWED.

SADIE: I know! I can see it! A giant Covenant ship, just hanging above the city center!

SADIE: There's a kiosk on the platform! Makupa station. Meet me there, okay?

SURINTENDANT :: [Vergil chime.]

SADIE: (pushing through the crowd) Excuse me! Sorry. Hey! Watch it, mister!

KIOSK: (from speaker) Please state your destination.

SADIE: Vergil, give me eyes on Dad! Quick!

KIOSK: I'm sorry. I didn't recognize that-- [distortion]

DR ENDESHA: (from kiosk) Sadie? Where are you?

SADIE: Train station. Old Mombasa. Dad, there's a ship--

DR ENDESHA: Listen sweetheart. I wanted to tell you at breakfast, but you left so early...

DR ENDESHA: You know my latest project? The seismic survey for the new construction downtown?

SADIE: Dad! There's a Covenant ship--

DR ENDESHA: Well, Vergil found something under the city. I've never seen anything like it--

SADIE: Dad! Covenant are attacking the city! Do you hear what I'm saying! You've got to get out of there!

DR ENDESHA: Don't worry, I'm nine levels underground. And I built Vergil's data-center to be very, very secure.

SADIE: Fine. Then I'll come to you.

DR ENDESHA: No! Absolutely not! Stay exactly where you are! I'll have Vergil--

SADIE: Sorry Dad! (fakes static) There's, uh, something wrong...

DR ENDESHA: This is a video connection, Sadie. I can see you making those sounds.

SADIE: Right... Well, tough!

SAID: Vergil, get that train going in reverse!

DR ENDESHA: Sadie Endesha. I will not allow you to put yourself in danger--

[SOUND: Whistle of Covenant plasma fire]

DR ENDESHA: What's that noise?

SADIE: Uh oh... Incoming!

[SOUND: Covenant plasma fire slams into station.]


Circle 2, Arc 1

[SOUND: Covenant plasma fire slams into station.]

CROWD: They blew up the train!

CROWD: No! My husband was on board!

CROWD: Screw you! I'm outta here!

[SOUND: Siren wails as a police car pulls up to the curb beside the station.]

SADIE: (moves through the crowd to street, coughs) Ow! Hey! Stop pushing!

KINSLER: (from police car) Sadie? Miss Endesha, is that you?

SADIE: Commissioner Kinsler!? [to crowd] Ow! Get off of me!

KINSLER: Officer Branley! Control this crowd before they trample her into the sidewalk!

MIKE: (exiting car) Yes, sir!

MIKE: NMPD! Everyone back off!

CROWD: Lousy cops.

CROWD: Hey! Give us your car!

MIKE: I said, back off! (Fires pistol into the air)

MIKE: (to Sadie) Are you hurt?

SADIE: No, I'll be alright...

CROWD: Hey, why don't you help us?

CROWD: Yeah, give us your car, cops!

KINSLER: Branley! Get her inside!

MIKE: Take my hand. We gotta go.

[SOUND: Sadie and Mike enter the car and slam the doors.]

KINSLER: What the devil are you doing out in the old city?

SADIE: There was...something wrong with the train.

KINSLER: You don't say...

KINSLER: (laughs) I know all about Vergil and his overprotective urges, Sadie.

[SOUND: Angry crowd pounds on the car]

KINSLER: Branley! Drive!

MIKE: Yes sir! [Honks car horn.] What's our destination?

KINSLER: That's a very good question...

SADIE: My dad. He's at work.

KINSLER: The data-center below the ONI building?

KINSLER: No, I don't think so. There are too many Covenant in that district.

KINSLER: I'd like to take you someplace much more... private.

[SOUND: Police car accelerates away from the station.]


Circle 2, Arc 2

[SOUND: Police car accelerates away from the station.]

KINSLER: Branley? The partition, if you please.

MIKE: Yes, sir... [Raise the privacy partition]

SADIE: Where are we going?

KINSLER: The police department has an emergency bunker outside the city limits. We'll be very safe.

SADIE: That's very kind of you, Commissioner. But I can't, I'm sorry. If you would please take me to the city center--

KINSLER: Such a serious young women. Just like your mother... 'New Mombasa's most passionate public defender.'

KINSLER: Too bad her last client really was a sick, murdering bastard.

KINSLER: (sliding across the seat closer to Sadie) She had your eyes...

SADIE: (into her Chatter) Vergil, stop the car!

KINSLER: As police commissioner it’s my job to uphold the law. And I'm afraid this city has very strict, personal privacy statues.

KINSLER: My car is off the grid, Sadie. As far as Vergil is concerned, you just disappeared...

[SOUND: Sadie slaps Kinsler's face]

KINSLER: (laughs) Assaulting a police officer. That's a serious offence.

SADIE: Don't come any closer!

KINSLER: (laughs) Just like your mother...

SADIE: (struggling) Let go of me!

KINSLER: It's the end of the world...

SADIE: Vergil! Please! Somebody!

KINSLER: Nobody cares what happens to one...lost...soul!

[SOUND: Tires squeal as the car comes to an abrupt stop]

KINSLER: Officer! Why are we stopping! Keep going!

[SOUND: Mike exits the car and opens Kinsler's door]

MIKE: Get out.

KINSLER: What?!

MIKE: You heard me... [Grabs Kinsler]

KINSLER: Let go of my coat! What do you think you're doing?

MIKE: My job.

[SOUND: Mike punches Kinsler, knocking him to the ground]

SADIE: I hope that hurt, you son of a bitch!

KINSLER: (panting) Not as much as you're going to hurt when I--

[SOUND: Mike punches Kinsler again.]

MIKE: Commissioner, I'm taking the car.

MIKE: You want to get out of the city? You can walk like everyone else. [Enters car, slams door]

KINSLER: (spitting blood) You'll pay for this, Branley!

MIKE: It's the end of the world... Nobody cares what happens to you.

[SOUND: Tires squeal as the car pulls away from Kinsler.]


Circle 2, Arc 3

[SOUND: Mike lowers the privacy partition.]

MIKE: You okay back there?

SADIE: Thanks for...pulling him off me.

MIKE: Kinsler had it coming. I've been his driver for two weeks? Seen enough to last a lifetime...

MIKE: Name's Mike. Mike Branley.

SADIE: Sadie Endesha.

SADIE: You know for a cop, you make a pretty good guardian angel.

MIKE: Ex-cop.

SADIE: Yeah... Sorry about that.

MIKE: Ah, I was looking for a career change anyway.

SADIE: How about solider?

[SOUND: Distant explosions in the city.]

MIKE: Does seem like a growth sector...

SADIE: Mike. I need to get back over the bridge, to the ONI building downtown.

MIKE: Well that's a problem, because I need to keep away from Covenant plasma fire.

SADIE: OK...just drop me off here.

MIKE: Don't be stupid! What are you going to do?

MIKE: Fight your way through a few million refugees just so the Covenant can kill you a little faster?

SADIE: (whisper) And this is why you always bring cab fare on a first date...

MIKE: I'm trying to save your life!

SADIE: You're trying to save your own ass!

MIKE: And yours!

SADIE: I think I'm the only person in this car who needs to be thinking about my ass!

MIKE: Fine.

SADIE: Fine!

[SOUND: Tires squeal as the car comes to an abrupt stop.]

SADIE: (opening her door) Thanks for saving me for, like three minutes!

MIKE: You're welcome!

[SOUND: Sadie slams her door, Mike drives away.]

SADIE: Well...I sure showed him.


Circle 3, Arc 1

[SOUND: Tires squeal as Mike's car pulls away from Sadie.]

SADIE: Great. I'm stranded on the wrong side of the bridge in the middle of an alien invasion...

SADIE: And I just pissed-off the only person willing to help me out.

SADIE: Go me.

[SOUND: A goat near Sadie bleats.]

SADIE: My feeling exactly...

CROWD: Move those animals!

CROWD: Step aside! Let us pass!

CROWD: Clear those out of the street, we need to move!

SADIE: (into her Chatter) Dad?

DR ENDESHA: (from the Chatter) Sadie? Thank God! Vergil couldn't find you anywhere!

SADIE: Yeah, you can thank Kinsler for that.

DR ENDESHA: Police Commissioner Kinsler? What do you mean?

SADIE: I don't want to talk about it...

JONAS: Get your kebabs here!

SADIE: Oh my God!

DR ENDESHA: What? What is it, Sadie?

SADIE: The biggest man I've ever seen!

DR ENDESHA: Where are you?

SADIE: The Old Town Market. A butcher is giving away his food.

SADIE: Too bad it won't keep the Covenant from glassing the city...

DR ENDESHA: They won't glass the city!

SADIE: (walking to the butcher) Hang on, dad...

DR ENDESHA: I'm in contact with an ONI officer. She thinks these Covenant are just a reconnaissance force.

DR ENDESHA: And I think they are looking for the same thing Vergil found in his seismic survey!

SADIE: Dad, I'll call you back.

[SOUND: Honking car horn]

ANGRY DRIVER: Move, you oaf! Get that table out of the road!

JONAS: Calm yourself, friend. Stop honking (laughs) and have a kebab.

ANGRY DRIVER: For the last time, move your fat ass--

[SOUND: The car creaks as Jonas leans on the hood]

ANGRY DRIVER: Hey! Get off my car!

JONAS: My friend, I am an eight hundred pound man with a large cleaver who kills animals every day and chops them into pieces.

JONAS: (laughs) Do you really want us to be enemies? Or would you rather have a nice kebab?


Circle 3, Arc 2

[SOUND: Bleating goats and a honking car horn.]

CROWD: Mommy, that's too loud!

CROWD: Somebody make him stop!

CROWD: Move that car!

ANGRY DRIVER: (honks) For the last time, you blimp! Get out of the road!

[SOUND: Jonas hefts his cleaver and smashes it into the car.]

ANGRY DRIVER: You put your cleaver through the hood of my car!

JONAS: Oh, a thousand pardons. But it was either that or smash your windshield, pull you out...

JONAS: And make you into kebabs.

ANGRY DRIVER: What? No! No-no! Hey wait!

JONAS: Then please, stop honking your horn. It frightens the children.

[SOUND: The car backs-up quickly.]

SADIE: (into her Chatter) Sorry, Dad. There was sort of a...thing here. What where you saying?

DR ENDESHA: (from the Chatter) Sadie, New Mombasa is the only place on Earth the Covenant are attacking.

SADIE: What? Why?

DR ENDESHA: Vergil's survey! He detected some very unusual seismic activity all along the Great Rift.

JONAS: (to Sadie) Would you like a kebab, young lady? Chicken, mutton, beef! One free for every refugee!

SADIE: I'm not a refugee! I'm going...there!

JONAS: Across the bridge! To where the aliens are landing?

JONAS: Take two kababs...

DR ENDESHA: Sadie, stay out of the city center! I don't want you coming anywhere near the security zone!

SADIE: Sorry, Dad. Gotta go. I'll call you back.

DR ENDESHA: Sadie-- (Chatters disconnects)

JONAS: Come my friends, don't be shy! Free food for the journey!

CROWD: Thank you! Asante. Asante sama.

[SOUND: Distant explosions in the city.]

JONAS: Now young lady... If you are heading into in the war zone, you must eat! Curried lamb? Roast chicken?

SADIE: They look delicious. Really. But I'm not hungry.

[SOUND: Another explosion near the market.]

JONAS: (biting into a kebab) My dear...

JONAS: The end of the world is nothing to face...(swallows) on an empty stomach.

[SOUND: Jonas chews, burps loudly and continues to eat his kebab.]


Circle 3, Arc 3

[SOUND: Jonas ignores nearby explosions and continuous to loudly chew his kebab.]

SADIE: Listen, what you're doing? Feeding all these hungry people? It's really a noble thing...

SADIE: But you can't stay here! The fighting is going to spread -- across the water, into the old city!

JONAS: (chews and swallows) Would you be a dear and run to the wine merchant?

JONAS: (burps) This lamb would be perfect with a twenty-three Ida Sirah...

SADIE: I understand you're...too heavy to walk very far. But there are other options!

JONAS: (laughs) You could carry me, perhaps?

SADIE: (into the Chatter) Vergil, you listening?

SURINTENDANT :: (from Chatter) [Vergil chimes]

SADIE: I need you to divert a city vehicle to my current location. A forklift, or maybe an Olifant--

JONAS: A garbage truck? I thnk I am insulted.

SADIE: If you stay here, you'll die!

SADIE: You need to get to the train station. Or the waterfront -- it's much closer!

JONAS: Look at me...

JONAS: Nobody is going to give me a place on a boat, a bus, or a train. I would take up five seats.

JONAS: I am not worth five people...

SADIE: You can't just give up -- throw away your life!

JONAS: And what about your life? You seem determined to go to the one place you are most likely to die.

SADIE: I'm going to find my father. He needs me. Just like all your customers need you!

JONAS: Very well, young lady. I am convinced. I to will leave Mombasa...

SADIE: Good!

JONAS: ...As soon as you do.

SADIE: No!

JONAS: First you make your father safe. Then you come back and rescue me!

JONAS: My brave warrior princess, riding her fearless fork-lift! (laughs)

SADIE: Deal. Just... don't give up.

JONAS: Well if I run out of hope? (laughs) I will still have kebabs!

[SOUNDS: Covenant plasma fire slams into the market.]

CROWD: The Covenant's getting closer!

CROWD: My shop! Everything is gone!

SADIE: (pushing through crowd) Excuse me. Ow! Sorry!

SADIE: (to Jonas) I'll be back soon!

JONAS: Of course you will.

CROWD: Wrong way, crazy girl!

SADIE: Please, just let me through!

SURINTENDANT :: (from Chatter) CAUTION ONE WAY STREET!

SADIE: Stop it, Vergil.

SURINTENDANT :: WARNING! NO U-TURN ALLOWED!

SADIE: I'll find Dad. Then I'll come back.

SURINTENDANT :: [whines like a puppy.]

SADIE: I'm not crying...

SADIE: I'm not.


Circle 4, Arc 1


[SOUND: Civilians scream as fighting rages in the city.]


CROWD: Oh God, Oh god!


CROWD: Out of the car! We'll go on foot!


CROWD: No! My bags! I have my whole life in there!


CROWD: I don't give a damn! Leave it!


LOOTER: Smash the machines! Take the money!


LOOTER: Get back! This one's mine!


LOOTER: Screw you! There's plenty for everyone!


ATM: (from speaker) Welcome to your African Trust automated teller machine! Banking with pride!


SADIE: Finally, an ATM that still works... Vergil, get Dad!


ATM: Please place your right hand-- (distortion)


DR ENDESHA: (from ATM) Sadie! Where are you?


SADIE: Outside one of the casinos, down by the river! I can barely hear you, dad! There are looters inside smashing everything!


DR ENDESHA: Covenant troops are spread all over the city center!


DR ENDESHA: I can see them on the monitors in my lab! You've got to get as far away as you can--


SADIE: Forget it! I'm coming to get you! End of discussion!


[SOUND: Smashing glass and a scream from inside the casino.]


SURINTENDANT :: (from ATM) INVEST WISELY! OPEN A PERSONAL SAVINGS ACCOUNT TODAY!


DR ENDESHA: Listen to Vergil, Sadie!


SADIE: This looting is just the beginning, dad!


SADIE: Pretty soon we won't need the Covenant to tear us apart -- we'll do that all by ourselves!


SADIE: Vergil, you've watched me all my life, kept me safe. Now, you've got to save the city!


[SOUND: Vergil plays a recording of a police siren over the PA.]


LOOTER: It's the cops. Run for it!


LOOTER: Crap. Grab what you can and go!


LOOTER: No way I'm getting busted!


SADIE: That-a-boy! Scare them all the way to the river! I know they can afford the ferry!


SADIE: Dad, can Vergil track the Covenant as they move? Stream positional data to the UNSC?


DR ENDESHA: Yes, I might be able to re-configure the traffic congestion cameras to isolate known Covenant vehicle profiles.


SADIE: Maybe the ARGUS sniffers can pick up their soldiers too?


SADIE: I've only seen vids of the different Covenant species, but I bet they all stink in their own, special way.


DR ENDESHA: That's an excellent idea! Vergil, get right on it!


SURINTENDANT :: (from ATM) [Vergil chimes]


DR ENDESHA: Sadie, I know I've been busy, and we don't always have time to talk.


DR ENDESHA: But sweetheart...you make me very, very proud.


SADIE: Well...I just figure if we know where the bastards are, we can at least run away better.


[SOUND: Shotgun pump.]


CRONE: That was a nice trick with the police sirens, girly. But I ain't so stupid.


CRONE: Step away from that cash machine, or I'm going to blow your pretty head off!


Circle 4, Arc 2


[SOUND: Distant explosions mix with the jingle of nearby slot-machines.]


CROWD: She's got a shotgun! Look out!


CROWD: Come on! She's old, we can take her!


CRONE: (shoots into the air) You think I'm deaf?! Last warning! Back away from my cash machine!


CRONE: (to Sadie) You too, girly!


DR ENDESHA: (from ATM) Sadie, get out of there!


SADIE: Look, I'm stepping back OK? Why don't you put down your gun--


CRONE: (shoots into the air) Time to break the piggy bank!


SADIE: Hey! You almost hit me!


[SOUND: The Crone smashes the ATM with her fist.]


SURINTENDANT :: (from ATM) AFRICAN TRUST--


CRONE: Open up!


SURINTENDANT :: BANKING WITH PRIDE!


CRONE: Open up!


[SOUND: As the Crone continues smashing, a drop ship flies toward the casino.]


SADIE: Everyone! Listen! That's a Covenant drop-ship!


LOOTERS: Commies! Let's get out of here!


LOOTERS: Leave the money! Run! Run!


CRONE: Forty years I've been coming to this place. Forty years of losing my hard earned cash...


CRONE: Well, today I hit the jackpot! You hear me, you damn machine? I... want...my...money!


[SOUND: The Crone shoots the ATM.]


SURINTENDANT :: [Vergil chime] INCORRECT PASSWORD. PLEASE REMOVE YOUR CARD.


SADIE: Vergil, give her the money! Then we've got to find some cover!


[SOUND: Money whirls out of the ATM.]


CRONE: (laughs) Out of the way, you little slut!


SADIE: (running) Gotta find a place to hide...There! Dumpster. Across the street.


[SOUND: Brutes exit the drop-ship and walk to the ATM]


SADIE: (whispers) Brutes! Look how big they are!


CRONE: Jackpot! I win! I win!


SADIE: (whispers) Move! They're right on top of you!


BRUTES: [Angry roar.]


SADIE: Oh my God! It just tore the ATM off the casino wall!


[SOUND: the Brutes slams the ATM into the Crone.]


CRONE: [gurgling scream.]


SURINTENDANT :: (from Chatter) TRANSACTION COMPLETE! PLEASE COME AGAIN!


Circle 4, Arc 3


[SOUND: Slot-machines jingle inside the casino.]


CRONE: (dying) Jackpot...jackpot...


SADIE: (whisper) Oh my God! She's crushed under the ATM!


BRUTE: [Angry growl.]


SADIE: (whipser) Please, don't look behind this dumpster, you big dumb Brutes. Please, please, please...


BRUTE: [Angry roar.]


CRONE: Alien son of a bitch! Think I'd share any of this with you--


[SOUND: A Brute shoots the Crone then they all march down the street.]


SADIE: That's it... keep walking. Nothing more to see here...


DR ENDESHA: (from the Chatter) Sadie, are you all right?!


[SOUND: The Brutes turn and shoot Sadie's dumpster.]


SADIE: I was!


[SOUND: The Brutes are shooting at Sadie as she runs for cover.]


DR ENDESHA: I'm sorry! Run! Run!


[SOUND: Suddenly, a car races down the street, smashes the Brutes and then plows into the casino.]


BRUTES: [Dying growls.]


SADIE: Vergil?! I car just came out of nowhere-- smashed into the Brutes! Was that you?


[SOUND: The car door opens with a groan.]


MIKE: (exiting the car) My head...I thought air-bags where supposed to stop you from getting hurt.


SADIE: Mike! You came back!


DR ENDESHA: Who's 'Mike'? Sadie, what's going on?


SADIE: Hang on, dad...


SADIE: (to Mike) Let me help you out of there.


MIKE: (groans) I'm OK... Seriously.


SADIE: That whole macho tough-guy thing? It's never really worked for me.


SADIE: Give me your hand...


MIKE: Uhn... Be gentle.


MIKE: Take me around front. Let me see what I hit...


MIKE: Brutes huh?


MIKE: Well that's never coming out of the grille.


Circle 5, Arc 1


[SOUND: Jingle of slot-machines, groaning car metal.]


DR ENDESHA: Sadie, thank the gentleman.


SADIE: (whisper) Great etiquette tip, Dad! Let me get back to you... [Chatter disconnect]


SADIE: My father says I should thank you for saving my life.


MIKE: Couldn't save the car, though. I think there's something stuck in the.. Oh.


SADIE: That's a.. Eww.


MIKE: Paw... Yeah. I can see that.


SADIE: Mike. Seriously. Thanks.


MIKE: Hey, I didn't want to be the guy who leaves the damsel in distress.


SADIE: Plus all the lights turned red when you tried to drive away.


MIKE: How did you...?


SADIE: Vergil.


MIKE: Who's that? Your... boyfriend?


SADIE: (laughs) Not quite. You know the Superintendent?


MIKE: Sure. The AI that runs the city. Picks up the garbage, monitors the traffic. It helped me trace a license-plate last week.


SADIE: Well... Vergil is part of the Superintendent-- a subroutine my Dad wrote to look after me when I was a kid.


MIKE: Look after you?


SADIE: After my mom died, it was just Dad and me. He did his best. But his job...


SADIE: When Dad couldn't be there, Vergil was.


SADIE: He helped me get to school on time, made sure I bought a healthy lunch and didn't watch too much TV...that sort of thing.


MIKE: Must have been annoying.


SURINTENDANT :: (from Chatter) YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!


SADIE: It still is...


SADIE: Mike. Why are you helping me?


MIKE: I'm a cop. 'Service to All,' right?


SADIE: Uh-huh.


MIKE: Look, the city is under attack... A lot of people need help.


MIKE: Well... I can die a hero or I can die a coward but--


SADIE: Got any choices that don't involve dying?


[SOUND: distant explosions in the city center.]


MIKE: Not if you want to go back over that bridge.


Circle 5, Arc 2


[SOUND: Honking car horns and panicked screams.]


CROWD: Hold my hand, son! Don't look down!


CROWD: Is it true? That they've shut down the tether!?


CROWD: Officer? Where should we when we're off the bridge?


COP: Just keep walking! Get out of the city!


COP: Everyone try and stay calm! Marines will be here soon!


PROPAGANDA: (from PA) Citizens! Your neighbors are resisting!


PROPAGANDA: A popular uprising is inflicting heavy causalities on the invaders! We will prevail!


MIKE: How are we going to get across this bridge? It's packed!


SADIE: Good manners and pointy elbows!


MIKE: (whisper) Jeez, Branley. The things you do for a kiss...


SADIE: What?


MIKE: I said, I won't let you down, miss!


SADIE: Right!


CROWD: Ow, wrong way, girl!


CROWD: Hey! Watch where you are stepping!


SADIE: (pushing through crowd) Excuse us! Sorry!


MIKE: Hey, step aside! Police business!


SADIE: It's an emergency! Let us through!


MIKE: Step aside people!


SADIE: You know, if the panicked mobs would just stay in nice, neat lines we'd-- Ow! Watch it!-- get across this bridge a lot faster!


MIKE: Do you hear that?


SADIE: What, the water? Don't tell me you're afraid of heights!


MIKE: Pelican drop-ship. Hard to see through all this smoke. But its heading our way.


SADIE: (to Chatter) Vergil? Got eyes in the sky?


[SOUND: (from Chatter) Vergil chime followed by a tapping and barking.]


SADIE: Not good. Cane tapping. Seeing-eye dog. Means Vergil can't see it...


MIKE: And who do we know that likes to travel off the grid?


CROWD: That's a police drop-ship! We're saved!


CROWD: We can't all fit on that!


CROWD: Says you! I'm getting on first!


[SOUND: A Pelican drop-ship settles on the bridge and opens its troop-bay door.]


MIKE: Aww, crap...


KINSLER: Hello, Sadie... Remember me?


Circle 5, Arc 3


[SOUND: Kinsler's Pelican drop-ship settles on the bridge.]


CROWD: The commissioner! We're saved! He has a drop-ship!


CROWD: Yeah, and a sub-machine gun!


CROWD: Why's he pointing it at that girl?


CROWD: Not our problem! Keep moving.


KINSLER: (readies his weapon) It's so good to see you again Sadie.


KINSLER: But please, no sudden movements. This Pelican isn't the stablest thing to stand on. I'd hate to shoot you accidently.


KINSLER: Branley. Your service pistol. Remove it from your hostler. Slowly...


MIKE: Yeah, yeah...


KINSLER: Now toss it off the bridge.


[SOUND: Mike throws his pistol into the water.]


KINSLER: Good. Now, I must say, Sadie. You play very hard to get.


SADIE: Bet that makes you angry.


KINSLER: Oh... quite the opposite.


SADIE: (whispers into Chatter) Vergil... a little help here!


KINSLER: Your chatter made you easy to track. But I think you and Vergil have talked quite enough. Take it off.


[SOUND: Sadie rips her Chatter off her wrist.]


KINSLER: Now smash it!


[SOUND: Sadie crushes her Chatter with her foot.]


KINSLER: Do you know what I've learned in all my years in politics?


SADIE: That you're an asshole?


KINSLER: The value of escalation. For example, last time we met, Branley hit me with his fist.


MIKE: Keep talking. I might do it again.


KINSLER: I think not. This time, I have a sub-machine gun. You see? Escalation....


KINSLER: Goodbye, Branley.


SADIE: Do it and you're a dead man.


KINSLER: Sadie. You're such a bright, beautiful girl. You have no idea how much it pains me when you act so incredibly stupid.


[SOUND: Rattle of approaching treads.]


KINSLER: I have. The gun.


SADIE: Yes... But I have the garbage truck.


[SOUND: Metal crunch as an Olifant smashes into the Pelican.]


CROWD: An Olifant just hit that Pelican!


CROWD: Don't see that every day!


KINSLER: My drop-ship! That's city property, Vergil! What the devil do you think you are doing?


SADIE: Escalation.


[SOUND: The Olifant honks then drops its garbage on the Commissioner.]


KINSLER: [Chokes and gags]


CROWD: (laughs) It just dumped its whole load!


CROWD: (laughs) The commissioner is totally buried in garbage!


MIKE: Ugh... Man, what a smell!


SADIE: Come on! That's our ride!


MIKE: Oh, no... No, no, no!


MIKE: I am not getting into the back of an-- (gags) --Olifant.


SADIE: Think of it as an armored personal carrier, for the ... smell impaired.


Circle 6, Arc 1


[SOUND: Olifant engine and clanking treads.]


PROPAGANDA: (from PA) Stay strong, Mombasa! Our noble militia is hitting back hard! The enemy has begun to retreat!


MIKE: (groans) I think I'm going to puke...


SADIE: Might make it smell better.


MIKE: Why do we have to ride back here again?


SADIE: It's the safest way to get to the ONI building. If we sit in the cab, we're targets.


SADIE: If we let Vergil drive us to the ONI building, the Covenant thinks we are just a harmless machine.


SURINTENDANT :: (from Olifant radio) RECYCLING! DO YOUR PART!


[SOUND: The Olifant’s access-door cranks open.]


MIKE: Uh-oh... Company! Get behind me!


TOM: Finally! Something between me and all the shooting! Guess we all had the same bright idea, huh?


TOM: Name's Tom Umberti. Damn glad to meet you! Married, right? You two own a house? Of course you do!


TOM: Say, when this is all over, if you're in the market for new ceramic siding? Hey now -- I'm your man!


SADIE: Tom? Shut-up.


SADIE: Vergil, can you raise Dad on this Olifant's radio?


TOM: Wow, buddy. Is she a tough customer or what?


MIKE: You have no idea.


DR ENDESHA: (from radio) Sadie! You had me worried half to death!


SADIE: I'm okay. What about you?


DR ENDESHA: The fighting is spreading, damaging all sorts of systems. Power, data...


DR ENDESHA: The entire Superintendent infrastructure is close to collapse. I'm doing all I can but--


SADIE: Dad, you've done an incredible job of keeping Vergil together.


DR ENDESHA: Sadie, it's not me...


DR ENDESHA: It's the Covenant.


Circle 6, Arc 2


[SOUND: Explosions rock the Olifant on its treads.]


SADIE: Dad, it's hard to hear inside this Olifant. Say that again?


DR ENDESHA: (from radio) A plasma bombardment collapsed on of Vergil's tertiary data-centers.


DR ENDESHA: I was accessing the damage through the underground cameras, and I saw Covenant splicing cables, patching switches--


MIKE: Wait-- the Covenant are helping us?!


TOM: Well, I'll be damned!


SADIE: Dad, I just meet my first Brutes. They didn't seem too helpful.


DR ENDESHA: No. The ones in the data-center weren't Brutes-- or any of the Covenant I've heard about.


DR ENDESHA: It's a whole new species, Sadie. And they are actually quite... beautiful.


DR ENDESHA: They have some sort of automatic defense system, but so long as you don't get too close--


TOM: You know -- and I'm just thinking out loud here -- maybe this whole invasion is just one big misunderstanding!


SADIE: Shut-up, Tom!


DR ENDESHA: Vergil's observing another group of them now inside Kikowani Station.


DR ENDESHA: Hang on a second. I'll connect the audio feed...


TOM: Number one rule of sales? Understand exactly what the customer needs. Not what he wants -- what he needs. You understand?


MIKE: Tom. Seriously. Zip it.


DR ENDESHA: It's dark in the station. Switching the camera to thermal...


DR ENDESHA: Strange... There aren't any Brutes around. Usually they never leave them alone.


DR ENDESHA: Alright, I see six of the new aliens floating in a circle. They're surrounding a seventh, touching it with their tentacles...


DR ENDESHA: Amazing! You wouldn't believe how fast they can move their limbs!


DR ENDESHA: They're working... Doing something to the explosives in the seventh's aliens armor--


[SOUND: Series of loud explosions.]


Circle 6, Arc 3


[SOUND: Series of loud explosions.]


SADIE: Dad, what where those explosions?! Vergil, can't this Olifant go any faster?!


DR ENDESHA: (from radio) I'm not sure what just happened... Six of the aliens are dead. But I think...


DR ENDESHA: Sadie, I think they gave their lives to free their companion.


DR ENDESHA: Yes! Yes, I can see it floating away down the subway tube. Vergil, keep an eye on that one!


MIKE: Covenant with feelings, huh? That's a first.


TOM: What was I saying! Don't you see? We gotta negotiate.


SADIE: Negotiate?


TOM: We shoot at them, they shoot back at us! That's just bad business!


TOM: Hey! Hey aliens! We're in here! We want to surrender!


MIKE: Settle down, you idiot!


SADIE: Tom, don't you get it?! The friendly Covenant aren't the ones doing all the shooting!


TOM: To hell with demographics! This is a down market! Time to bargain if you want to make the sale.


[SOUND: Tom opens the Olifant's top hatch.]


TOM: You! Yeah, you in the tank! Over here!


SADIE: Close the hatch!


MIKE: Leave him Sadie. I'm opening the back hatch. We're out of here.


[SOUND: Mike opens the Olifant's ramp.]


TOM: That's right! Up here! Let's say you and me make a deal?


SURINTENDANT :: (from PA) DON'T WALK! DON'T WALK!


MIKE: Sadie! It's a Wraith! Move!


SADIE: Where to?


MIKE: Alleyway! Come on!


SURINTENDANT :: Clear the street! Oncoming traffic!


[SOUND: Wraith round hits the Olifant, killing Tom.]


SADIE: Surrender accepted.


Circle 7, Arc 1


[SOUND: The Olifant burns in the background.]


MIKE: (running) That Wraith blew the hell out of our Olifant!


SADIE: (running) Poor Tom...


MIKE: Poor Tom?! He almost got us killed!


[SOUND: Rain begins to fall.]


MIKE: Now what?


SADIE: Stay out of sight, find a kiosk. My dad's in the data-center under the ONI building.


MIKE: Basically right at the heart of the Covenant occupation.


SADIE: We are going to need Vergil's help getting him out of there.


MIKE: Here. Take my jacket.


SADIE: I don't mind the rain.


MIKE: It's fiber-armored. I mind you getting shot.


SADIE: Thanks.


KIOSK: (from speaker) Optican, health care on demand. Please place your hand on the touch pad-- (distortion)


SADIE: Vergil, get me dad.


SURINTENDANT :: (from kiosk) ELEVATED HEART-RATE. ARE YOU FEELING ANXIOUS? STRESSED?


SURINTENDANT :: TRY OPTICAN’S NEWEST MOOD-SETTLING DRUG "STATENIZOL."


SADIE: And stop playing doctor!


DR ENDESHA: (from kiosk) Finally, a kiosk with a camera! Now I can see that you are alright.


DR ENDESHA: But why are you dressed like a police officer?


SADIE: It's Mike's. (to Mike) Say hello.


MIKE: (clears his throat) It's good to meet you Doctor Endesha.


DR ENDESHA: You know... You are the first young man Sadie's ever introduced me too.


SADIE: Dad?!


[SOUND: Engineer sound followed by Vergil's imitation.]


SADIE: What's Vergil doing?


DR ENDESHA: Learning to whistle!


MIKE: Whistle?


DR ENDESHA: So he can communicate with the tentacle aliens!


SURINTENDANT :: STRESS HARMS RELATIONSHIPS. GOOD COMMUNICATION AND GOOD MEDICINE CAN HELP.


SADIE: We just meet a guy that tried the whole 'communicate' with the enemy thing. It didn't work so well, Dad!


DR ENDESHA: These new aliens are different. Inquisitive, not violent. They are searching for something under New Mombasa. I'm sure of it!


DR ENDESHA: And if Vergil can learn to speak with them, we'll be able to determine whether or not they can-- (static)


SADIE: Dad!


PROPAGANDA: (from PA) Attention citizens! The enemy has infiltrated our data systems!


SURINTENDANT :: IRREGULAR PULSE. HEART RATE FALLING. REPORT TO THE NEAREST-- (static)


SADIE: Vergil!


PROPAGANDA: All civilian chatter is restricted!


SADIE: No!


MIKE: Whoa-whoa! Calm down!


SADIE: They killed him!


MIKE: Who?


SADIE: The police! They just pulled Vergil's plug!


MIKE: No way. The whole city would shut down. The evacuation would ground to a halt. No one would be crazy enough to--


SADIE: No one?!


MIKE: Aww crap...


Circle 7, Arc 2


[SOUND: Rain and distant thunder.]


MIKE: (running) Police Headquarters! Straight ahead!


SADIE: (running) How does a level one blackout work? How do we bring Vergil back?


MIKE: Emergency Communications department. But we can't just--


SADIE: Kick down the door? Plug Vergil back in?


SADIE: You bet your ass we can!


MIKE: Sadie! Wait!


SADIE: Here's a directory... Emergency Comms. Fourteenth Floor. Elevators are--


MIKE: Hold up! Look... the lobby's all shoot up. And over by the elevators...


SADIE: Are those cops?


MIKE: All dead. Probably a Brute kill-squad...


MARSHALL: Howdy, folks.


SADIE: ...Or not.


MARSHALL: Sorry about the mess. Since it appears we are all going straight to hell today...


MARSHALL: I figured I'd send some of my old pals on their way myself.


MIKE: Listen, buddy. We don't want any trouble.


SADIE: We just need to get upstairs--


MARSHALL: Stay right where you are!


MARSHALL: Here comes another one now...


[SOUND: Elevator appears. Jim walks into the lobby.]


JIM: (into Chatter) Mmm-hmm... Yeah. I don't know why they shut the Super down. We'll keep broadcasting as long as we--


MARSHALL: Hey there, Jim bo!


JIM: What the... Officers down! There may be Covenant--


MARSHALL: Come now. Get off your Chatter and pay attention.


JIM: Marshall? What are you doing here? Didn't you get fired?


MARSHALL: Remember how often I asked you not to use my half-and-half? And remember how often you didn't listen?


JIM: You? You did this?!


MARSHALL: Should have stayed in the elevator, Jim.


JIM: No! Please!


MARSHALL: I wrote! (fires) My name! (fires) Right there on the carton! (fires)


JIM: (dying gurgle)


MIKE: Sadie, let's go.


MARSHALL: According to this department, I have issues with anger management...


MARSHALL: If I we're you? I'd stay right where you are.


Circle 7, Arc 3


[SOUND: Marshall reloads his rifle.]


MARSHALL: You two are my hostages. Sit tight, or you're gonna end up like these old buddies of mine.


SADIE: Mike, we have to get upstairs -- turn Vergil back on!


MARSHALL: No talking!


MARSHALL: You work for the NMPD?


SADIE: Uh...


MIKE: No.


MARSHALL: Oh yeah? Where did you get the jacket?


SADIE: I stole it. From the trash.


MARSHALL: A thief, huh? Got a record, you little punk?


MIKE: Look. Why don't you put down your rifle and--


MARSHALL: Why don't you shut your goddamn mouth!


[SOUND: boots in the stairwell.]


MARSHALL: Hear that? SWAT pussies finally woke up. They'll be wearing body armor, so you have to take the head-shot.


MIKE: Get down, Sadie! Now!


[SOUND: SWAT officer kick-opens the stairwell door.]


SWAT COP: Drop your weapon!


MARSHALL: Come and get it! [fires]


SWAT COP: (dying gurgle)


SWAT COP: Damnit! Take him down!


SWAT COP: Cover me!


SWAT COP: Man down! Man down!


SWAT COP: We're blocked in!


[SOUND: SWAT cops and Marshall exchange heavy fire.]


SWAT COMMANDER: Bang and clear!


[SOUND: SWAT commander tosses a flash-bang grenade.]


MARSHALL: (screams) My eyes! Awww, you lousy sons of bitches--


[SOUND: Marshall dies in a hail of bullets.]


SWAT COMMANDER: Got him! Suspect down!


MIKE: Sadie? Sadie?! Are you, OK?


SWAT COMMANDER: You! Hands where I can see them!


MIKE: Don't shoot! I'm NMPD damnit!


SWAT COMMANDER: Let me see your badge! Nice and slow!


SADIE: The whole city's crawling with Covenant, and we're killing each other.


MIKE: Here, see! Metro pee-dee!


MIKE: I need to get her to the fourteenth floor. It's an emergency!


SWAT COMMANDER: OK. Take her up. We'll deal with this mess...


SADIE: There must be a dozen bodies here...


MIKE: We can't save them, Sadie. But we can save Vergil.


MIKE: We have to go.


Circle 8, Arc 1


[SOUND: Sadie and Mike running up the stairwell.]


MIKE: Emergency Comms. Fourteenth floor. Should've taken the elevator...


SADIE: After what just happened? I don't think so.


MIKE: So... what exactly are you going to say to make them re-initialize Vergil?


SADIE: I'll think of something.


MIKE: 'Hi! I'm cute! Break the law for me!'


SADIE: That's not funny!


MIKE: I'm just saying... It worked on me...


[SOUND: Police communications officers type and answer phones.]


COMM COP: Still no Covenant activity outside the city!


COMM COP: I need a medivac! Nyali bridge!


COMM COP: I've got three more evac points at 200% capacity!


COMM COP: Somebody answer that damn Phone!


MIKE: Where's the duty officer?


COMM COP: Big desk. At the back.


MIKE: Thanks.


COMM COP: No way we can get everyone out!


COMM COP: Reports of another riot starting at Kikowani!


COMM COP: I need someone else to man these comm lines!


DUTY OFFICER: (talking into chatter) As I've been trying to tell you Captain, I don't have the authority to override--


DUTY OFFICER: What do you mean 'gross misconduct?' Captain Dare, I assure you. People are dying down here!


SADIE: Excuse me....


DUTY OFFICER: Yes, of course I could turn the Superintendent back on. But Commissioner Kinsler gave me explicit instructions--


SADIE: You're busy, so I'm just going to borrow this stapler...


DUTY OFFICER: Listen, Captain, there is a Covenant carrier hovering outside my window!


DUTY OFFICER: There's a sniper in my lobby and you're threatening to have me fired!? [Slams chatter into desk.]


DUTY OFFICER: Office of Naval Intelligence. Now there's a contradiction in terms...


DUTY OFFICER: (Sees Sadie and groans) What do you want?


SADIE: I need you to turn Ver-- the Superintendent back on.


DUTY OFFICER: Not you, too! I am telling all of you, the commissioner--


SADIE: I know. But I'm making you do it! At gunpoint!


DUTY OFFICER: What gun?


SADIE: This one!


DUTY OFFICER: You're holding my stapler inside your pocket and pointing it at me.


SADIE: You don't know that.


MIKE: It might be a gun.


SADIE: Or a rifle!


MIKE: Or a rocket launcher!


SADIE: And if it was, why, you would have to turn the Superintendent back on.


MIKE: Nobody could blame you.


SADIE: Or fire you...


DUTY OFFICER: If it was a gun...


DUTY OFFICER: Oh, no... Please don't shoot. I'll do.. anything!


SURINTENDANT :: (Loud Engineer whistle) SADIE! SADIE! SADIE! SADIE! SADIE!


SADIE: It's OK, Vergil. I'm here.


MIKE: He sounds...different.


SADIE: Vergil? What have those aliens done to you?!


[SOUND: Loud Engineer whistle.]


Circle 8, Arc 2


[SOUND: Loud Engineer whistle.]


COMM COP: You hear that crazy noise?!


COMM COP: No clue. Must be a corrupted signal!


COMM COP: We've lost the connection with the UNSC orbital command!


MIKE: Sadie, what's going on?!


SADIE: I don't know. Those aliens have been working on Vergil and now that he is back on he sounds...


MIKE: ...Different.


SADIE: Vergil? It's still you, isn't it?


SURINTENDANT :: [barks like a dog]


SADIE: Can you get Dad for me?


SURINTENDANT :: [frightened Engineer whistle.]


SADIE: Vergil can't reach him! Something's wrong...


PROPAGANDA: (from PA) Reports are coming in from all over the city! Covenant forces are pulling back in the face of furious resistance!


MIKE: Man, I have had it with his crap!


PROPAGANDA: Our enemies are cowards! Battle on, brave citizens, and victory will be ours!


MIKE: Hang on... That's coming from inside the building!


SADIE: Mike? Wait! Where are you going?


PROPAGANDA: This hour we will pay tribute to our fallen heroes. Jim Odingo Roberto Burstomenta and Marshall Glick.


MIKE: This is his office. Public Service Announcements Division...


PROPAGANDA: These officers were gunned-down in the very lobby of this building by Covenant snipers.


PROPAGANDA: But moments ago members of our citizens militia wiped out the sniper nest with a homemade flame-thrower...


PROPAGANDA: Made from nothing more than an old leaf blower and a can of gasoline! Keep fighting, Mombasa! Fight and we will win!


[SOUND: Stephen turns-off his microphone.]


STEPHEN: Off the air...


MIKE: Covenant Sniper nest? Those people were massacred by a crazy ex-cop! Hell, one of those people was the crazy ex-cop!


STEPHEN: And your point is?


MIKE: People are dying out there and you're feeding them this...this garbage? None of it is true!


STEPHEN: Yes, well... [Stubs out cigarette.]


STEPHEN: Some days, truth really isn't a luxury we can afford.


Circle 8, Arc 3


SADIE: Come on Mike... He's a propaganda officer. He's just doing his job.


MIKE: His job?! More like lying to people for a living!


STEPHEN: Do you know who is still listening to my announcements? An old women, to weak to leave her bed...


STEPHEN: A man, bleeding in the street. A teacher, hiding with her students in the school's basement.


STEPHEN: They are all going to die.


MIKE: Maybe, maybe not. The marines will be here soon...


STEPHEN: They are all going to die!


STEPHEN: My job before they die is to fill their life with truth... with hope.


STEPHEN: But maybe you can do better... [Exhales cigarette smoke.]


STEPHEN: On the air... [Turns-on microphone.]


STEPHEN: A special honor, New Mombasa! I have here in studio uprising Commander Harris "Two Shot" Kabaki.


STEPHEN: Commander, tell our listeners the latest news from the city center.


STEPHEN: Commander? Go ahead. Speak the truth.


MIKE: Well, things aren't as good as they could be. But they're looking up. We're... we're fighting hard.


STEPHEN: Good to hear it! Any words of advice, Two Shot?


MIKE: Just... keep fighting. We can win this battle if we stick together. We can save this city. We can win this war.


[SOUND: Stephen turns-off his microphone.]


STEPHEN: Off the air... Now, you are also a hero.


SADIE: You are, you know.


MIKE: I feel sick.


STEPHEN: No. What you feel is hope.


[SOUND: Stephen's control-console chirps.]


STEPHEN: Ah, See! You already have an admirer!


STEPHEN: (hitting a switch) Go ahead. You are on the line with Harris "Two Shot" Kabaki.


KINSLER: (from console) That was truly inspiring Officer Branley. Sadie must be very impressed.


SADIE: Kinsler!


KINSLER: But I think she will be much more interested in this...


KINSLER: Sadie. I now control the fire fighting systems in your father's lab. If you want to see him alive again...


KINSLER: You'll do exactly as I say.


Circle 9, Arc 1


[SOUND: Sadie and Mike run down a broken escalator.]


SADIE: Kinsler told me to meet him at the train station. That's what I am going to do.


MIKE: Come on Sadie. You can't trust him! You know that!


SADIE: My father is still in Vergil's data-center.


MIKE: I've been listening to your dad all day. And the one thing he wouldn't want you to do? Put yourself in even more danger by--


SADIE: You're not listening at all! Kinsler said he'd trigger the emergency fire response!


MIKE: And that will -- ?


SADIE: Flood the data center with argon!


MIKE: Can people breath argon?


SADIE: No, Mike. It freezes you! Dead!


MIKE: Look, I didn't know. I'm sorry.


SADIE: Vergil? Are you there?


SURINTENDANT :: (from PA) [Engineer whistle.]


MIKE: I know that look... What's your plan?


SADIE: Escalation.


Circle 9, Arc 2


[SOUND: Frightened civilians crowd the station.]


CROWD: Out of my way, I'm getting on that train!


CROWD: Not before me you're not!


CROWD: There's not enough room!


CROWD: My wife, has anyone seen my wife?!


CROWD: There getting closer, we have to go!


KIOSK: (from speaker) Trans-bay express train now departing Kikowani station.


KIOSK: All passengers must depart from platform fourteen-- (distortion)


[SOUND: (from kiosk) Loud Engineer whistle.]


SURINTENDANT :: PLEASE REMAIN CALM! NO TICKETS -- NO PROBLEM! SLOW CHILDREN -- USE CAUTION!


SADIE: Maybe dad was right... The tentacle aliens he found? I think they are helping Vergil. Bringing him back from the dead.


MIKE: Why would they do that?


SADIE: Dad said they were looking for something... Something Vergil found.


SURINTENDANT :: KEEP IT CLEAN! LEAVE ALL LUGGAGE ON PLATFORMS!


SADIE: Maybe they're sick of fighting, just like us. I don't know.


SADIE: Dad would know the answer...


MIKE: We'll ask him when we see him, OK?


SADIE: OK.


MIKE: Now where are you suppose to meet the Commissioner?


SADIE: Platform nine. He's got a private train.


MIKE: I still think you should let me--


SADIE: If I don't come alone, my dad will die! Kinsler made that clear!


SADIE: You and Vergil know what you have to do?


MIKE: Yeah...


[SOUND: Covenant plasma fire slams into the station, crowd panics.]


CROWD: Mommy! What's happening?!


CROWD: I won't let them get me! I won't!


CROWD: Quiet! You're scaring my children!


MIKE: The Covenant are closing in! People are panicking. This is gonna get ugly...


SADIE: This day is a nightmare! It all keeps getting worse! Everything's falling apart!


MIKE: Not everything.


SADIE: Listen. I know I'm just a girl who got you fired...


SADIE: I might also be the girl that gets you killed!


MIKE: Maybe. But not today.


SADIE: Mike... I want you to live.


SADIE: I need you to live... For me.


Circle 9, Arc 3


[SOUND: Covenant plasma fire slams into the station, crowd panics.]


CROWD: Let us aboard!


CROWD: The Commissioner’s got plenty of room!


CROWD: And goons with guns...


CROWD: At least take my children!


CROWD: Selfish devil! To hell with you!


SADIE: Platform nine...


MIKE: There's Kinsler's private train. Guarded by corrupt cops with machine-guns.


SADIE: I'm going in. My father's life is on the line.


MIKE: Be careful.


SADIE: You too.


CROWD: What? Wait your turn!


SADIE: (pushing through the crowd) Excuse me! Sorry! Coming through...


CROWD: Watch it, girl! Quit shoving!


CORRUPT COP: [Shoots into the air.] Get away from the train! You hear me! Everyone back off!


KINSLER: Steady, officer. Not yet.


CORRUPT COP: I can't hold the crowd back much longer, sir!


SADIE: (from crowd) Kinsler!


KINSLER: You won't have to. My passenger has arrived.


KINSLER: This way, Sadie! Push right on through!


CORRUPT COP: Make some room! Let her through!


CROWD: Why does she get to come on board?!


CROWD: It's not fair! We all deserve to live!


CROWD: Now's our chance! Rush the train!


[SOUND: Corrupt cops fire into the crowd.]


CROWD: I'm hit! Please... someone help!


CROWD: Murdering bastards!


KINSLER: Any other objections?


CROWD: Why?! Why?!


KINSLER: Careful, Sadie, watch your step.


SADIE: You ever worry there might really might be a hell?


KINSLER: Oh I know there is, my dear. And you and I are leaving it.


KINSLER: Officer, close the doors.


CORRUPT COP: Button-up men! We're out of here!


[SOUND: Train doors clanks shut.]


CROWD: (muffled) Stop the train! Block the tracks!


CROWD: (muffled) Jump for it!


KINSLER: I don't want any of that on board!


CORRUPT COP: Yes sir!


[SOUND: Corrupt cops fire into the crowd.]


SADIE: You can't just kill them!


KINSLER: Why? I'm getting quite good at it. For instance...


KINSLER: I killed your father an hour ago.


Circle 9, Arc 4


[SOUND: Corrupt cops fire into the crowd.]


SADIE: You... killed my father?


KINSLER: My men near Vergil's data-center tripped the fire response system. He suffocated and froze.


KINSLER: Not a bad way to go, all things considered...


KINSLER: I wanted to tell you face to face.


SADIE: [Cries softly.]


KINSLER: (pouring a drink) Please, get all your tears out now.


KINSLER: It's a long ridem and I don't want to hear you moaning all the way to Nairobi.


KINSLER: Well, come to think of it... I might.


CORRUPT COP #1: (on radio) No sign of it yet, sir.


KINSLER: It's a pink, airborne octopus. How hard could it be to find?!


CORRUPT COP #1: The tunnels are crawling with Buggers, Commissioner. We've lost a lot of men. Maybe we should--


KINSLER: No one leaves until I get that alien! Do you hear me, officer?


KINSLER: It found a way to hack a Superintendent-class A.I.! Knowing how it did that is vital to the war effort!


SADIE: Like you ever cared about anyone besides yourself!


KINSLER: Just because I'm a murderer, doesn't mean I am unpatriotic.


[SOUND: Covenant plasma fire hits the station, rocking the train.]


CORRUPT COP #2: Covenant armor approaching the station sir. What do we do?


KINSLER: (slamming his drink) We wait!


KINSLER: (sighs) Don't you see the beauty of it, Sadie? Whatever you think of me, whatever I have done...


KINSLER: I will leave this city with vital intelligence about the Covenant.


SADIE: Bastard!


KINSLER: Call me what you like...


KINSLER: But the world will call me a hero.


Circle 9, Arc 5


[SOUND: Corrupt cops fire into the crowd.]


MIKE: (muffled) Listen to me! The Covenant are coming!


CROWD: (muffled) [Angry shouts and panicked screams.]


MIKE: (muffled) Listen to me if you want to live!


KINSLER: I've killed your father, Sadie, and now we're leaving the city. No one is coming to save you.


KINSLER: Not Branley. Not Vergil. It’s the end of the line!


[SOUND: (from train) Engineer whistle.]


[SOUND: Sparks fly from the train's control-panel.]


KINSLER: What the hell is that?!


SURINTENDANT :: (from train) WARNING, FIREWALL DOWN! CONTROL-CIRCUITS NOW OPEN TO REMOTE ACCESS!


KINSLER: That damn machine is dead! I killed it!


KINSLER: It doesn't matter. Anything he does to this car happens to you too!


MIKE: (muffled) Are you ready to die?


CROWD: (muffled) No!


MIKE: (muffled) Do you want to live?


CROWD: (muffled) Yes!


MIKE: (muffled) Are you ready to fight?!


CROWD: (muffled) Yes!


[SOUND: Crowd pushes past the cops, pounds on the train.]


SADIE: That's it, Mike!


CORRUPT COP: We need to move now, sir!


KINSLER: Yes...go... The rest of your men will have to--


SADIE: Die?


CORRUPT COP: Sir? We aren't moving. I've lost engine control!


KINSLER: Listen to me, Vergil, or whatever you are now! Move this train out of the station or Sadie dies!


KINSLER: You hear me? The Covenant will kill us all!


[SOUND: (from train) Angry Engineer whistle.]


CORRUPT COP: I'm locked-out the system! The train is not responding!


KINSLER: There is nothing you can do that will hurt me that won't kill her!


SADIE: Almost nothing...


SADIE: Vergil. Open the doors.


[SOUND: Train's doors open, the angry mob claws inside.]


KINSLER: What? No! No! Get back! Get back! Get away from me!


[SOUND: Furious, blood-thirsty shouts.]


KINSLER: [screams as the crowd tears his apart.]


Circle 9, Arc 6


[SOUND: Crowd climbs onto the train.]


CROWD: Let's go! Covenant's coming!


CROWD: Up we go, baby! Hold momma's hand!


CROWD: Help her up, c'mon, there we go!


MIKE: Sadie! Sadie! Are you alright?


MIKE: What about Kinsler?


SADIE: They tore him to pieces... I gotta go, Mike!


SADIE: Excuse me! Sorry! Let me through!


MIKE: Where are you going?!


SADIE: Underground!


MIKE: What!?


[SOUND: Covenant plasma fire slams into the station.]


SURINTENDANT :: (from PA) DO NOT EXIT, PLEASE!


MIKE: Sadie, stop! We are getting on that train, and getting the hell out of town!


[SOUND: (from PA) Engineer whistle.]


SADIE: That creature helped Vergil! It helped you and me! It helped all of us!


MIKE: Sadie...


SADIE: Dad knew how important it was! That's what he died for! I'm willing to die too!


SADIE: Let me go, Mike!


SURINTENDANT :: [Engineer whistle.] EMERGENCY STOP!


SURINTENDANT :: (as Jonas) 'I am not worth -- your life -- my brave warrior princess!'


SADIE: If you don't find you, who will?


SURINTENDANT :: (as Duty Officer) 'Office of Naval Intelligence--'


SURINTENDANT :: YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!


SURINTENDANT :: (as Stephen) 'Fallen heroes -- on the air.'


SADIE: Vergil, I--


SURINTENDANT :: (as Sadie) 'I need you to live... for me.'


CROWD: Get on the train, you two!


CROWD: Brutes! Coming this way! Hurry!


CROWD: No time! Argue later!


MIKE: We gotta go.


SADIE: Vergil! You're all I have left of this place!


SURINTENDANT :: (as Dr Endesha) 'Sadie-- Sadie-- Sadie-- Sadie!


SURINTENDANT :: (as Dr Endesha) 'Sadie, sweetheart... You make me very, very proud.'


SADIE: You're all I have left of him...


MIKE: Sadie. Take my hand.


SADIE: OK...


SADIE: I'm ready.


[SOUND: Train whistles as it leaves the station.]


SURINTENDANT :: ALL ABOARD! LAST TRAIN NOW DEPARTING!


SURINTENDANT :: NEXT STOP-- MAKUPA, NAIROBI ROAD, HOPE STATION...


SURINTENDANT :: And beyond.


[SOUND: Final train whistle and a Vergil chime.]