The Creator is a 2023 American science fiction film produced and directed by Gareth Edwards, who co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Weitz. The film stars John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson, and Allison Janney.
The plot is set in 2070, 15 years after a nuclear detonation in Los Angeles and a war against artificial intelligence. An ex-special forces agent, Joshua (played by John David Washington), is grieving the disappearance of his wife, Maya (played by Gemma Chan). Joshua is recruited to hunt down and kill the “Creator,” who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war.
The film follows Joshua as he embarks on a mission to destroy Alpha-01, a synthetic being developed by the artificial intelligence “Nirmata,” in order to find his presumed dead wife, Maya.
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MALE PRESENTER 1: Welcome to the future of robotics.
Let them help you.
Chores around the house?
There isn’t anything they can’t do.
(JOVIAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(ROBOTS WHIRRING)
MALE PRESENTER 2: The next marvelous advancement in robotics is artificial intelligence.
By studying the human brain, we have given independent thought and life to robots, allowing them to join the American workforce almost like real people.
(PROTESTORS SHOUTING)
(BELL DINGING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
FEMALE PRESENTER: Now, a new technology is bridging the gap between humans and A.I., making us closer than ever.
By scanning your own facial features, we can give them to a fully robotic body, making them more human than human.
With a simulant, the future’s never looked better.
MALE PRESENTER 3: A.I. is integrated into all parts of our day-to-day life.
They cook our meals, they drive our cars, they are our civil servants, keeping the peace, and with the new state-of-heart defense system, they even…
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(EXPLOSION BOOMING)
(SILENCE)
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
Ten years ago today, a nuclear warhead was detonated in Los Angeles.
Nearly a million people incinerated, in the blink of an eye by the artificial intelligence created to protect us.
We banned A.I. in the Western World, so this will never happen again.
Yet the republics of New Asia do not share our concern, and continue to develop A.I… embracing them as equals.
Now, make no mistake.
We’re not at war with the people of New Asia.
But the A.I. they harbor…
This is a fight for our very existence.
For as long as A.I. is a threat, we will never stop hunting them.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
(APPLAUSE FADES)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(RADAR WARBLING)
OFFICER 1: (OVER RADIO) Nomad. This is Bravo, inbound.
(OVER RADIO) LT is bearing four, one, three, niner…
OFFICER 2: (OVER RADIO) Roger that, feet wet.
FEMALE OFFICER: (OVER RADIO) Team leader’s radar has you…
FEMALE OFFICER: Company moving in.
This is Nomad. Copy that.
Sending the strike coordinates.
(RADIO BEEPS)
(WARBLING STOPS)
(FLY ME TO THE MOON BOSSA NOVA VERSION PLAYING)
FEMALE SINGER: (SINGING) Fly me to the moon
And let me play among the stars
JOSHUA: (CHUCKLES) Baby girl.
(MAYA CHUCKLES)
MAYA: Well, they’re either gonna be really smart, or take after their dad.
JOSHUA: Whoo! (CHUCKLES)
She mad at you.
That was…
That was a kick of agreement.
(JOSHUA LAUGHS)
That was a kick of agreement?
Yes…
That was… Yeah.
She’s like “Nah, nah, don’t call Daddy that. Don’t say that to Daddy.”
Wait. I mean, you are a hundred percent sure I’m the dad, right?
No.
Try to understand.
Oh, wow.
MAYA: When it’s born, if it starts acting like a complete dick, you can feel pretty confident.
JOSHUA: Oh, man!
I’m kidding. I’m kidding.
No, that is… You know what?
I’m kidding.
I’m good. I think I’m leaving.
No, no, I don’t want…
I’m kidding. I’m sorry.
No, I just… I feel hurt.
I’m kidding.
Now I feel insecure…
Shush.
…and I don’t know if I can carry on this…
FEMALE SINGER: In other words I love you
(FLY ME TO THE MOON CONTINUES PLAYING)
(MEN SHOUTING)
(LOUD CRASH)
(OBJECTS SHATTERING)
(JOSHUA GRUNTS)
(MEN SHOUTING)
(BELL TOLLING)
(SHOUTING CONTINUES)
(ENGINE STARTS)
(DOGS BARKING)
(ROBOTIC LEG BEEPS)
(FOOTSTEPS RUNNING)
(MAN GROANS)
(A.I. OFFICER SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
What’s going on?
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
A.I. SOLDIER: We found an American.
(MAN COUGHS)
(MAN GROANING)
A.I. SOLDIER: Who told you our location?
(MAN COUGHS)
Harun.
MAN: Oh, please.
Brother, they found us. We weren’t careful enough.
(DOG BARKING)
(MAN COUGHS)
(RADAR WARBLING)
JOSHUA: Shit, Nomad’s coming this way. Let’s go.
Let’s go!
Get the boats. Hurry!
(MAN GROANS)
A.I. SOLDIER: Americans are coming.
American… (SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(IN ENGLISH) Go, go, go! To the boats.
(MAN BREATHING HEAVILY)
MAYA: Joshua. MAN: Oh, please.
(MAN COUGHS)
(GUN COCKS)
Maya, he’s seen us.
MAYA: We can take him with us. A hostage.
MAN: Please.
JOSHUA: Get your things.
MAN: Please. Don’t do it.
(COUGHS) Please.
Drew, what the hell are you doing here?
You’re gonna blow my cover.
You were gonna give me more time.
Orders. Kill Nirmata.
Nirmata’s not here.
You hear me? Nirmata’s not here
OFFICER 1: (OVER RADIO) Engaging the enemy.
(DISTANT EXPLOSION)
(GUNS FIRING)
OFFICER 2: Into the house. Now!
OFFICER 2: Move!
OFFICER 3: Go, go, go!
(A.I. SOLDIER 2 SCREAMS)
This is Sergeant Taylor. Call off the raid, damn it!
Nirmata’s not here.
OFFICER 2: (OVER RADIO) Moving in on Nirmata!
Near the guest room.
Listen,
I’m undercover. You gotta call off the raid.
(JOSHUA PANTING)
Told me you were out. You promised.
Trust me, they don’t want you. They just want Nirmata.
So let’s go. Let’s go. Come on.
(MAYA GRUNTS)
(GUN COCKING)
(SHUDDERS)
JOSHUA: Maya.
Easy.
I love you.
I would never do anything to hurt you.
Hell… you’re all I have.
Please. We have to go.
What about the others?
JOSHUA: What do you mean?
MAYA: They’re my family.
They’re not people, Maya.
They’re not real!
This is real! You and I are real.
This love is real. That child is real!
(SNIFFLES)
No.
This… this isn’t real.
Maya, you don’t mean that. Please.
OFFICER 1: Sergeant Taylor!
Maya, please!
MAYA: No! OFFICER 1: Hey, let’s go!
OFFICER 2: Come on. Hey, let’s go!
Maya! Maya.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
(MAYA PANTING)
(PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
Maya!
(BOAT ENGINE STARTS)
(SIMULANTS CALLING INDISTINCTLY)
JOSHUA: Maya!
(BOAT ENGINE REVVING)
Maya!
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
Nomad! Nomad! Maya! Maya!
No! No!
(EXPLOSION BOOMING)
Maya!
(SILENCE)
(ALARM BUZZING LOUDLY)
(JOSHUA GRUNTING)
(DOOWOP MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)
JOSHUA: No.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(DOOWOP MUSIC CONTINUES)
(GRUNTS) Off. Off.
(RADIO STOPS)
REPORTER: (ON TV) Thought to be hiding in the isles of Southeast New Asia, the ongoing manhunt continues for the mysterious A.I. designer known as Nirmata.
As US forces widen their search across New Asia, Nirmata has evaded capture…
JOSHUA: I’m doing great.
Rest, a little recreation, you know, eat, sleep, go to work, repeat.
DOCTOR: And the headaches?
The nightmares?
Gone.
What about your memory? Anything coming back from when you were undercover?
Like Nirmata’s location.
Uh, nothing new.
Just the night of the extraction.
DOCTOR: (ON SPEAKERS) Special Forces raid.
Nomad missile strike.
Your source dying.
Wife.
We were married. This… Me and my source. But…
(MUFFLED GUNFIRE)
No. I got nothing.
DOCTOR: How’s your job?
(CHEERFUL MUSIC PLAYING ON SPEAKERS)
ANNOUNCER: (OVER PA) We thank you for your service in cleaning up Los Angeles.
Radiation levels are at an alltime low thanks to the unwavering dedication and hard work of our team.
(JOSHUA GRUNTS)
WOMAN: Oh, shit.
JOSHUA: All right.
Oh, I saw this video… that said the reason A.I. nuked us was to take our jobs.
JOSHUA: They can have this job.
(DEVICE TRILLING)
JOSHUA: Hey, you gettin’ anything?
WOMAN: Hmm? No.
JOSHUA: How about now?
(DEVICE SCANNING)
WOMAN: Nothing yet. JOSHUA: Hey, foreman, grid six. You gettin’ a readin’ on this?
A.I. ROBOT: No!
Shit! Oh, my God!
A.I. ROBOT: Where is the child I was with?
Where is she?
WOMAN: Will you help me?
Child! Where is she?
Get it off me! Get it off me!
She needs my assistance!
JOSHUA: Foreman!
Her name is Amy!
We got a 1144.
Is she okay?
FOREMAN: (OVER RADIO) Yeah…
A.I. ROBOT: Child!
JOSHUA: Hey!
A.I. ROBOT: Amy!
Amy! No, no, no! Please, please, please don’t. Don’t.
Wait, no.
Amy! (VOICE DISTORTS)
Foreman, you got that?
FOREMAN: Yeah.
Copy that, Taylor. He’s offline now.
That was like a real person, okay?
Hey, calm down, Harrison.
That was like a real…
Harrison, Harrison.
That was like a real person!
Harrison!
Dude, what the hell?
That was real!
They’re not real, okay?
(JOSHUA PANTING)
They don’t feel shit.
Just programming.
ANNOUNCER: (OVER PA) Prepare level two for thermal processing.
(ALARM BLARING)
(MACHINES WHIRRING)
ANNOUNCER: Sevenfive, begin recycling process.
(METAL CRUNCHING)
(CLAIR DE LUNE PLAYING)
REPORTER: Fifteen years since the nuclear explosion in Los Angeles launched the West into a war to eradicate A.I.
The trilliondollar military station, Nomad, is finally helping the West win the war.
Becoming a permanent fixture over the battlefields of New Asia, where A.I. is making its last stand.
Acknowledging the pain, and sorrow that has taken place.
JOSHUA: (ON VIDEO) Hello!
Hello!
Children who have lost everything…
JOSHUA: Hey!
I remember this.
(MAYA LAUGHING)
JOSHUA: Hello! Hey! Hello!
MAYA: Looks like you’ve seen some trouble.
(CLAIR DE LUNE BY CLAUDE DEBUSSY PLAYING)
How’d you get these?
(ROBOTIC ARM WHIRRING)
JOSHUA: L.A. nuke.
You lost people?
Yeah, I lost my parents.
My mom and dad, my brother.
Sorry.
They were at Ground Zero. It was instantaneous.
So, it’s all good.
(ROBOTIC ARM TRILLING)
MAYA: Okay. Squeeze my hand.
Can let go now.
What, my hand? Okay.
And a one. And a… No, it’s stuck.
But let’s try another angle.
If I try another angle…
(ROBOTIC ARM TURNS OFF)
(CLA.I.R DE LUNE CONTINUES)
(CLAIR DE LUNE FADES)
(SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE)
(WATER BUBBLING)
(FAINT MUSIC PLAYING ON SPEAKERS)
MAN: Sergeant Taylor…
I’m General Andrews. This is Colonel Howell.
No.
GENERAL ANDREWS: No what, son?
Whatever it is you want.
People come here every week. Ask me if I remember.
I don’t. I don’t remember.
(ROBOTIC ARM CLANKS, WHIRRS)
You’re gonna wanna see this, Sergeant.
(PROJECTOR CHIMES)
We’ve located Nirmata’s lab.
It’s in the area where you were undercover.
Our intelligence tells us that Nirmata’s developed a superweapon called AlphaO.
It’s designed to destroy Nomad.
Well, I’m sorry for your loss, I guess.
You know, Neanderthal’s got a bad rap.
I mean, people talk about them like they were dumb, but… you know, turns out they made tools.
They made clothes. They made medicine out of plants. They even made art.
Little flower necklaces to bury their dead in.
The only problem was there was a species that was smarter and meaner than them.
Us.
And we raped and murdered them out of existence.
You get where I’m going here, Taylor?
GENERAL ANDREWS: It took nearly a decade to build Nomad, so this our last chance at winning the war.
If they get this AlphaO weapon online and destroy Nomad, they win.
And we go extinct.
You’re the only one who knows the layout of that lab.
Maybe you can help us.
Did they tell you how close I was to finding Nirmata?
How close I was to killing the son of a bitch?
How you assholes screwed the whole mission with Nomad’s missile strike?
Sergeant…
‘Cause that much I remember.
I lost my wife that night, General, all due respect.
I lost someone very near and dear to me.
I lost a child that night.
So, I don’t give a shit about becoming extinct.
I got TV to watch.
(PROJECTOR CLICKS, TRILLS)
(A.I. SOLDIERS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
A.I. SOLDIER 1: Hey.
(A.I. SOLDIERS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
MAYA: (IN ENGLISH) Hey, guys.
We’re not far from the beach, so we should just stop here.
A.I. SOLDIER 2: Deal me in.
JOSHUA: Maya?
This can’t be real.
HOWELL: This was recorded two days ago.
Authentication tests confirm she’s human.
Do you recognize this location?
HOWELL: Sergeant Taylor…
Joshua.
MAYA: Come on. Let’s…
HOWELL: My orders are to destroy that weapon and the facility, and whoever’s there is going to be killed, but if you can remember enough to come with us, guide my team, I promise you, we will bring that woman back.
MAYA: Come on, let’s… (CHUCKLES)
Oh, come on.
Move out at 0600.
(MAYA CHUCKLES)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(SOLDIERS LAUGHING)
HOWELL: All right, settle down.
Welcome back to New Asia.
We’ve got a location on the lab…
(PROJECTOR TRILLING)
…which, as you can see, is way behind enemy lines.
Our nearest base, 400 miles away.
They don’t care about LA here.
The human locals, including the police, all work with A.I.
Robots, humans, and simulants, they all hate us.
So, you get caught, you’re screwed.
Don’t get caught.
Sergeant Taylor knows the layout of the facility.
We work off him.
(SOLDIER LAUGHING)
Our mission is to find the weapon designated AlphaO.
Then we call in a missile strike from Nomad and blow it up.
SOLDIERS: Yeah.
Dismissed.
SOLDIER 1: Hey, I got dibs.
SOLDIER 2: That’s pretty ballin’, man!
As long as I kill it after.
(SOLDIERS LAUGHING)
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)
That’s your wife?
Mmmhmm.
(MAYA LAUGHS ON VIDEO)
I’d do anything for just one more minute.
SOLDIER 3: It’s fine. It’s fine.
SOLDIER 4: I know, I got you.
I lost… (CLEARS THROAT)
I lost both my sons in this war.
SOLDIER 4: This is the real… This is the cream of the…
(SIGHS) What makes it harder is they joined up because of me.
One of them fell for a simulant in Hua Hin.
You believe that?
SOLDIER 4: Daniels!
A barmaid at a juke joint near the base.
She told him she loved him.
He goes to buy out her contract and it turns out she set him up. Yep.
CAPTAIN: Yeah, sure…
She and her insurgent buddies took their sweet time killin’ him.
Yeah, this… this is a hold section.
Anyway, I hope you find your wife.
(SOLDIERS CHATTING AND LAUGHING)
(EVERYTHING IN IT’S RIGHT PLACE BY RADIOHEAD PLAYING)
PILOT: Echo one to Nomad.
Releasing the bird.
(AIRCRAFT RUMBLES)
RADIOHEAD: (SINGING) Kid A, Kid A
Kid A, Kid A
(PROJECTOR TRILLING)
Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything
In its right place
In its right place…
Go, go, go!
DANIELS: Let’s go! Let’s go! Let’s go!
Let’s move! Move! Move!
(JOSHUA GRUNTS)
DANIELS: Go, go, go!
DANIELS: (PANTS) Down! OFFICER: Down.
Take us up.
(AIRCRAFT DEPARTING)
(DISTANT RUMBLING)
(OFFICER PANTS)
Oh, man!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
SOLDIER 1: What is that?
SOLDIER 2: The hell we goin’?
CAPTAIN: It’s not a lab, it’s a damn shanty town.
(JOSHUA PANTS)
Used to be down there.
Damn it.
JOSHUA: Looks like they built a village on top of it.
Well, shit.
(COW MOOING)
SOLDIER 1: Whoa!
(GIRL WHIMPERING)
(VILLAGERS SHOUTING)
OFFICER: Where’s the lab?
Where you hiding your robot buddies?
Who’s gonna talk? Where’s the entrance?
CAPTAIN: Why are you protecting A.I.?
Okay. It’s okay.
(WOMAN WHIMPERING)
OFFICER: You’re ashamed to be human?
(GIRL SCREAMS, CRIES)
OFFICER: I’m gonna show you what’s gonna happen.
(DOG WHIMPERS)
(GIRL SCREAMS)
(DOG WHINING)
See this nice little pup here?
OFFICER: Hey.
(GIRL CRYING)
OFFICER: You know…
GIRL: (CRYING) No. No.
Is this yours?
(GIRL CRYING)
Hey, where’s the entrance? Talk!
(SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
AUTOMATED VOICE: (IN ENGLISH) We are just farmers.
Cut the bullshit, huh?
Three. You understand that?
Talk to me.
(GIRL SCREAMING)
(WOMAN SHOUTING IN NEW ASIAN)
Two.
One.
You know what one, two, three, means? Where’s the entrance?
Tell me where the entrance is! Talk to me.
CAPTAIN: What are you hiding?
OFFICER: Talk to me.
(GIRL YELLING)
OFFICER: Shut your little crying mouth.
Give me an answer. Tell me.
COTTON: Look at me!
JOSHUA: Captain!
Captain!
(VAULT OPENING)
McBride, Hardwick, you stay here.
Everybody else, you’re with me.
McBRIDE: Wasn’t so hard, was it?
We’re in.
HOWELL: (ON RADIO) Copy that.
We’ll circle back in figures, 30.
COTTON: Come on. Come on. Let’s go. Let’s go.
Stay far, maintain comms.
Copy that, Cotton.
(WOMAN SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING)
COTTON: (IN ENGLISH) Which hatch is it, Taylor?
This dude gets me killed, I’m gonna be pissed.
COTTON: Come on, Taylor. Which one?
That one.
(AUDIENCE ON TV LAUGHING)
(ANNOUNCER ON TV SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(GUARDS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(TV SHOW CONTINUES)
(MUFFLED GUNFIRE)
(ALARM BLARING)
(GUNFIRE)
(GUARDS YELLING IN NEW ASIAN)
(GUARD GROANS)
SOLDIER: (IN ENGLISH) I got it.
Sir, we located the weapon.
Let’s move, move, move!
Oh, shit. Come on.
Maya.
(THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING)
(LAB WORKERS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(ALARM BEEPING)
(LAB WORKERS SCREAMING)
COTTON: Get to the door, get to the door!
Damn it! (GRUNTS)
(WOMAN SCREAMING)
Shipley, we gotta get this door open.
(POLICE SIREN WAILING)
Damn. Local cops coming to shut the party down.
Open the goddamn door!
(AUTOMATED MALE VOICE TRANSLATING IN NEW ASIAN)
(WOMAN CURSING IN NEW ASIAN)
AUTOMATED VOICE: (TRANSLATING) Please make love to yourself.
And also make love to your mother.
(CHUCKLES)
They got this place sealed up tight.
It’s the only way.
Commander, is there any other way, any other route to the vault?
HOWELL: (OVER RADIO) That’s a negative, Captain.
Most of these locks, they work through facial recognition.
Guess I just need a face then, huh?
(LAUNCHER LOADING)
(BRAKES SCREECHING)
(OFFICERS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(A.I. OFFICERS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
AUTOMATED VOICE: (IN ENGLISH) This is the police.
You are under arrest.
Put down your weapons…
Guys, I just fried the J.V.
You better move your asses.
SHIPLEY: Whatever’s in there, they’re sure worried about someone getting in.
DANIELS: Yeah, or it getting out.
All right, there’s got to be a way in here.
Everybody spread out, look around, let’s find it.
(SIRENS WAILING)
SHIPLEY: Over here.
It’s a key pad.
SOLDIER: (OVER RADIO) Guys, we’ve got company.
SHIPLEY: Don’t tell… Oh, yeah.
We’re in business.
Okay.
(DEVICE TRILLING)
Uh, um…
(GUNFIRE)
Hey, guys…
(OVER RADIO) I need backup. Now.
All right. Shipley, Taylor, get this vault open, and find that weapon.
Daniels, set the targeting beacons.
Everybody else, you’re on me.
Let’s move, move, move.
Hey, come on. Come on, come on, come on.
(EXPLOSIVE BEEPING)
(OFFICERS YELLING INDISTINCTLY)
DANIELS: (OVER RADIO) Shipley, I need help now, man.
Shipley, Shipley?
Daniels?
DANIELS: Help, right now.
Daniels?
DANIELS: Oh, God!
Fuck.
Shit. (SNIFFLES)
Goin’ after Daniels…
I’ll be back here before this thing opens.
Do not go in there without me.
Copy.
(KEY PAD BEEPING, TRILLING)
(VAULT UNLOCKS)
(VAULT DOOR WHIRRING)
(VAULT DOOR THUDS)
(ALARM BLARING)
(VAULT DOOR WHIRRING)
(VAULT DOOR THUDS)
(MAN 1 ON TV SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING ON TV)
(CHILD HUMMING)
(MAN 2 SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(MAN 3 SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(MAN 4 SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(WOMAN 1 SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(MAN 3 SHOUTING IN JAPANESE)
(MAN 4 SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(WOMAN 2 SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(DOOR OPENS)
(MAN 3 SHOUTING IN JAPANESE)
Maya?
(JOSHUA GROANS)
(PANTING)
(GROANS)
(LOCK BEEPS)
(VAULT DOOR CLOSING)
(IN NEW ASIAN)
(IN ENGLISH)
Go.
Find Nirmata. Go!
(JOSHUA GROANS)
(FROGS CROAKING)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(ANIMAL SNORTING)
(CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING)
(GUNS FIRING)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(EXPLOSIONS)
Give me a status on the weapon.
Shipley and the new guy went for it, but it’s all gone to shit!
God damn it! Nomad’s about to fire.
Nomad, delay the strike.
We can’t turn off the beacon.
HOWELL: (OVER RADIO) Daniels!
Daniels, come in.
(EXPLOSIVE BEEPING)
Shit!
If I’m not back in three mikes, take off without me.
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(GUNS FIRING)
(PANTING)
Maya?
Maya? Maya?
(WOMAN WAILING)
OFFICER: (OVER RADIO) This is Nomad to ground team.
Evacuate immediately. Missiles will impact in one minute.
Get this bird in the air, right now!
COTTON: (OVER RADIO) Bradbury, we can’t make it to you.
You’ve got to come to us.
I know, I know. (SIGHS)
COTTON: Right now. Move, move! Come on!
I can make it.
Bradbury! Let’s go!
COTTON: Come on, come on, let’s go.
Come on.
HARDWICK: God damn it.
COTTON: You can make it. Come on. Come on.
HARDWICK: Let’s go! Come on. Get up!
COTTON: Come on! Come on, let’s go!
HARDWICK: Get in here! COTTON: Go, go, go!
COTTON: You good?
Yeah.
Nomad is about to fire any second.
(BEEPING)
COTTON: What’s that?
What is that? What?
Bomb!
Bomb, bomb, bomb.
BRADBURY: It’s on me?
Get it off!
I’m trying!
Somebody get it off.
Get it off! Get it off!
(BEEPING INTENSIFIES)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING AND YELLING)
JOSHUA: Shit!
(PEOPLE YELLING IN NEW ASIAN)
(MISSILE WHOOSHING)
(JOSHUA PANTING)
(YELLS)
(EXPLOSION BOOMING)
(SILENCE)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(JOSHUA GROANS)
(GROANS LOUDLY)
Shit!
(GRUNTS)
(EXHALES)
(COUGHS)
Shit!
(GUN COCKING)
Go.
Go. Get the hell out of here.
Get the hell out of here! Get out my face!
Weirdo.
(GROANING)
(STONE CLATTERS)
MAN 1: (OVER RADIO) Bravo one, four, five…
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
MAN 2: (OVER RADIO) Copy, do we have an ETA on air support?
WOMAN: (OVER RADIO) Copy, ETA is 10 Nirmata.
OFFICER: (OVER RADIO) This is Echo Two on the ground.
Implement nav op forward niner, three, five, four for extraction.
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(FLIES BUZZING)
(JOSHUA GAGS)
(PANTING)
Hello!
(RADIO STATIC)
Hello!
Can anyone…
(SHIPLEY GASPS)
(CRIES) Oh, God. Oh, God, where are the others? Oh, God!
(OFFICERS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
JOSHUA: Shit.
All right, here we go. One, two, three. (GRUNTS)
(JOSHUA GRUNTS)
(SHIPLEY GROANS)
Okay. Calm down. All right?
You’re okay, you’re okay.
Stop. (CRIES)
Shipley, you’re all right. All right.
Shipley, look at me.
You’re not dead.
We will be.
You’re not dead.
(SHIPLEY SOBBING)
(AIRCRAFT HOVERING)
(HEROIC MUSIC PLAYS ON TV)
(CHILD HUMMING)
The hell you come from?
(CHILD CONTINUES HUMMING)
(MAN ON TV SHOW SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(HEROIC MUSIC CONTINUES)
(ENERGY HUMMING)
(TV TURNS ON)
(HEROIC MUSIC RESUMES)
(MAN 2 SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(CHILD HUMMING)
(WOMAN SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(HUMMING CONTINUES)
(JOSHUA CLEARS THROAT)
Ship, stay with me.
Police everywhere, so we gotta get moving.
Gather your strength.
(SHIPLEY GRUNTS)
(PHONE RINGING)
(SIMULANT FARMER SPEAKS NEW ASIAN)
(PHONE CONTINUES RINGING)
(DOG BARKING)
(OVER PHONE) Shipley, it’s Howell.
Answer the goddamn phone!
Shipley, I know you’re there.
Pick…
JOSHUA: Colonel?
Taylor, where’s Shipley?
I’m with him right now.
He’s in pretty bad shape.
All right, listen to me. Did you locate the weapon?
Yeah, it’s here. I’m with it.
Describe it.
It’s a kid.
It’s a kid. They’re making it into some kinda kid.
That’s the weapon.
What?
Colonel? Look, I…
I can’t reach you.
You have to bring it to me.
Do you understand?
No. Shipley can’t move. I mean, he’s…
He’s not looking good. At all.
Police are everywhere. I don’t know how I’m getting out right now. I don’t even have an exit strategy right now.
(SIGHS) Then you know what you have to do.
Kill it.
What?
Look, Colonel, I…
(POLICE SIRENS WAILING)
Colonel? Hello?
Howell?
Howell?
Howell?
(HOWELL GRUNTS)
Tough day at the office?
(GUN COCKS)
Where’d you see that?
(SIMULANT FARMER SHOUTS)
(GUN COCKS)
Hey, hey. Hey.
Easy.
(SHOUTING IN THAI)
(IN ENGLISH) Okay. Hey.
(SHOUTING IN THAI)
(IN ENGLISH) All right.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(SPEAKING THAI)
AUTOMATED VOICE: (IN ENGLISH) It’s a miracle.
(SIMULANT FARMER SPEAKING THAI)
AUTOMATED VOICE: (IN ENGLISH) They’ve made a child.
(SPEAKING THAI)
AUTOMATED VOICE: (IN ENGLISH) Don’t worry, I will kill the American.
(TENSE MUSIC BUILDS)
(GUNSHOT)
(AI OFFICER SPEAKS NEW ASIAN)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(BODY THUDS)
(JOSHUA PANTING)
It’s… It doesn’t die, it’s off.
I just turned it off like the TV.
Same thing. It’s not dead, it’s off.
Where’d you see this?
Where did you see this?
Hey…
MAYA: (ON VIDEO) Whoa!
Hey, look, look.
Have you seen her?
(MAYA LAUGHING)
Can you understand me?
Do you know who this is?
She’s friends with Nirmata.
Do you know where she is?
MAYA: Give me that. Give me…
Give me that. That’s fine. (LAUGHS)
Dian Dang.
(MAYA LAUGHING)
(SPEAKING NEW ASIAN) Dian Dang.
MAYA: (IN ENGLISH) Give me that. Give me…
(JOSHUA CHUCKLES)
Okay, okay.
Little Sim, how do you get to Dian Dang?
Where is it?
(SPEAKING THAI)
AUTOMATED VOICE: (IN ENGLISH) Police.
Oh, shit.
(A.I. OFFICER SPEAKS NEW ASIAN)
(BARKING)
JOSHUA: One, two, three… (GRUNTS)
(TRUCK DOOR CLOSES)
(TRUCK DOOR OPENS)
(JOSHUA GRUNTS)
Come on.
(PANTS) Come on, Little Sim, get in the car.
Hey, it’ll be fun.
Like cartoons. It will be, be fun.
Okay. It’s like a game.
Hide and seek.
I’ll drive fast.
(EXCLAIMS) All right, let’s go. It will be fun.
Ha! Right? Come on.
(A.I. OFFICERS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
JOSHUA: This is hella fun, this is…
Why don’t you wanna get in the car? It’s a lot of fun.
Get in the damn car.
(BULLETS FIRING)
(A.I. OFFICER YELLS IN NEW ASIAN)
(SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
Shit.
(EXPLOSIVE BEEPING)
(DOOR RATTLING)
(BEEPING CONTINUES)
(DOG PANTING)
(EXPLOSIVE BEEPING RAPIDLY)
(A.I. OFFICERS YELLING IN NEW ASIAN)
(JOSHUA GRUNTS)
(ENERGY HUMMING)
(RADIO TURNS ON)
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)
JOSHUA: Whoa!
Seat belts.
(ENGINE REVVING)
(ROCK MUSIC CONTINUES)
(DOG BARKING)
(A.I. OFFICERS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(DOG CONTINUES BARKING)
SIMULANT OFFICER: What is this?
It goes on your head.
There’s a switch around back.
McBRIDE: Come here! (GRUNTING)
(SIMULANT OFFICER GRUNTING)
(SIMULANT OFFICER GASPING, CHOKING)
(GUNSHOTS)
(VEHICLE CREAKING)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(GUNSHOTS)
(RADIO TUNING)
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)
Missed my turn.
(FLIGHT OF THE RAT BY DEEP PURPLE PLAYS ON RADIO)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Death is not to be feared.
The mind moves on.
(FASTFORWARDING)
DEEP PURPLE: (SINGING) The message is a song
AUTOMATED VOICE: She shall be called Woman, for she is taken out of man.
DEEP PURPLE: Once I had a dream
To sing…
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(FLIGHT OF THE RAT STOPS)
(ENGINE STALLING)
(SIGHS) All right, Little Sim.
Where’s Dian Dang?
Where’s my wife?
Son of a…
(GUN COCKING)
Drive. (BREATH TREMBLING)
Back…
back to base.
I can’t do that.
The next American base is 400 miles away.
I’m dying, man.
We’ll never make it past the checkpoints.
I’m not gonna make it.
You know we’ll never get past ’em.
Give me a chance, man.
I’m trying to, all right? I’m trying to save your life.
All right? I got a friend in the provincial capital.
He’s gonna help us. Okay?
SHIPLEY: (CRYING) Okay.
Who the hell is she, huh?
What the hell is she?
(SHUDDERING)
(GASPING)
(EXHALES)
(WHISPERING) Shit.
Off.
So, you speak English now?
(CAR HONKING)
(CHEERFUL MUSIC PLAYING ON SPEAKERS)
Shit.
If they ask, pretend that you’re human, all right?
Pretend like you’re a real person. Okay?
All right, what do they call you? What’s your name?
What’s your name, Little Sim?
What’d they call you? What do you like?
Candy.
Hell no. Pick something else.
But I like candy.
Well, Candy’s occupied.
We got a full residency in Las Vegas, all right?
So, you pick something else you like.
Alpha, omega. I’m gonna call you, Alphie, all right?
That’s your new name. Your new name’s Alphie, you understand?
ALPHIE: What’s your name?
None of your damn business.
(CHILDREN SHOUTING EXCITEDLY)
Act real or off. You understand?
DRIVER: Hello?
You need help?
JOSHUA: Yes. The truck broke down.
Can we get a lift to the city?
We’d really appreciate it.
Okay, slow down.
Slow, slow, slow.
(TRACKER BEEPING RAPIDLY)
(SIGHS)
Get him out of here quickly. We don’t have a lot of time.
Roger that.
(McBRIDE GRUNTS)
HOWELL: Over here.
Now bring me one of the simulants.
Copy.
(HOWELL GRUNTS)
(DEVICE TRILLING)
(McBRIDE GRUNTS)
(COMPUTER TRILLING)
(SIGNAL HUMS, POWERS DOWN)
Oh, shit. It’s faint. He’s been dead for hours.
We’ll be lucky to get 30 seconds.
How do you know that works?
(SIMULANT OFFICER POWERS UP)
SHIPLEY: (GASPS) Oh, shit! Oh, shit!
Hey. Shipley?
SHIPLEY: What the hell?
HOWELL: Shipley?
What the hell?
Shipley, where’s the weapon?
20 seconds.
HOWELL: Shipley.
Oh, God, am I…
I wanna talk to my wife.
Shipley, you’re already dead.
I’m sorry, son. Truly.
But there is no time. The whole war is in the balance. Was the weapon terminated?
Shipley?
My wife.
Shipley?
Taylor has it.
Taylor has it.
10 seconds.
He says he has a friend.
Who lives there.
Where?
Shipley?
My wife.
Tell her, I…
(SIMULANT OFFICER GLITCHES)
(SHUTS DOWN)
That’s it.
(HOWELL PANTING)
I’ll see you in Valhalla.
Howell?
Mount up. We got a traitor to kill.
(CHEERFUL MUSIC PLAYING ON SPEAKERS)
(CHILDREN SINGING, LAUGHING)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Simulant child abducted by an American fugitive.
Proceed with caution.
(GUARD SHOUTING IN THAI)
(IN THAI)
(GIRL SINGING IN NEW ASIAN OVER SPEAKERS)
(IN THAI)
(CHILDREN SINGING IN THAI)
(GUARD SPEAKING THAI)
(CHILDREN SINGING IN THAI)
(POWER SHUTS DOWN)
(CHILDREN GASP)
(CAR ALARMS CHIRPING, STOPS)
(GUARDS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(CROWD SCREAMING)
(IN ENGLISH) Alphie, go! Now!
Drive! Go!
(CHILDREN SCREAMING)
(CAR ENGINE STARTS)
(CHILDREN SCREAMING)
(NEW ASIAN SONG PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS)
(CHILDREN SCREAMING)
(GUARDS YELLING IN NEW ASIAN)
(CHILDREN SCREAMING)
(NEW ASIAN SONG CONTINUES PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS)
(CHILDREN YELLING)
(NEW ASIAN SONG ENDS)
(JOSHUA PANTING)
(IN ENGLISH) Anyone have fun?
(GRANDMA WHIMPERING)
(ANNOUNCER SPEAKING THAI OVER RADIO)
AUTOMATED VOICE: (IN ENGLISH) Checkpoint guard saw the abducted child in a family motor vehicle.
Route Six. Leelat City. In pursuit.
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(SIREN BLARING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
FEMALE ANNOUNCER: (ON PA) Donate your likeness.
Get scanned today.
Support A.I.
(FEMALE ANNOUNCER REPEATING IN NEW ASIAN)
(A.I. OFFICER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
JOSHUA: Wanna play a game?
It’s called, “Save your friend Joshua from getting killed by the friggin’ police.”
All right?
It’s easy to win. You could win easy.
All you gotta do is point to the map.
Just point to where my wife is, please, and you win.
Yay! We all win.
You’re my friend?
(SIREN WAILING)
JOSHUA: Hey, hey, hey, little bot! Pay attention.
My name is not “bot”.
My name is Alphie.
Remember?
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
JOSHUA: Fine.
(GUN LOADING)
I don’t like this game.
You know what? How about I call my friend in Leelat city, all right?
I’ll call him right now.
I could tell him to get his crowbar ready, pry it open. Get the information that way.
You want that? Then fine. Let’s go.
(BUS HISSING)
ANNOUNCER: (OVER PA) Bus number 464.
Final destination, Leelat city.
(SENTIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
ALPHIE: If you’re not a robot, how were you made?
JOSHUA: My parents made me.
Where are they now?
Off.
They’re up in heaven.
What’s heaven?
(PEOPLE CHUCKLING)
It’s a peaceful place in the sky.
(SENTIMENTAL MUSIC CONTINUES)
Maya? Maya?
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER PA)
ALPHIE: Are you going to heaven?
JOSHUA: No.
Why not?
You gotta be a good person to go to heaven.
Then…
We’re the same.
We can’t go to heaven.
Because you’re not good.
And I’m not a person.
(SENTIMENTAL MUSIC CONTINUES)
(SENTIMENTAL MUSIC FADES)
DREW: Oh, God. Oh, no. Please.
(DREW GROANING)
(COUGHS)
She’s keeping some pretty nasty company, man.
Intelligence believes her father might be Nirmata.
I need you to follow her.
Gain her trust.
See if she can lead you to him.
Here, I got you something.
(JOSHUA CHUCKLES)
Thought you’d never ask, man.
I’m way out of your league.
It’s for her, asshole.
JOSHUA: All right.
Long-range tracker. I need you to get it on her, so we can kill Nirmata.
And what about her?
DREW: What about her? She’s a terrorist, Josh.
Do not go native on me, pal.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(IN NEW ASIAN)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(CLANKING)
(WOMAN 1 SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(WOMAN 2 SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(WOMAN 3 SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(LAUGHING)
(CONVERSATION CONTINUES IN NEW ASIAN)
(MACHINES WHIRRING)
KAMI: Hey.
Josh.
You ain’t here to kill me, are ya?
Mr. All-American.
I see your loyalties have changed.
God, man.
JOSHUA: It is good to see you. (CHUCKLES)
What? Who’s this?
Whoa. So, they’re making kids now?
Drew, this is Alphie. Simulant.
Alphie, this is Drew.
The asshole.
Hello, Asshole.
(CHUCKLES) Ooh.
JOSHUA: Very good.
JOSHUA: She got these crazy abilities.
She can remotely control things, turn them on and off.
I didn’t even know they can do that shit.
DREW: Yeah. I’ve never seen tech like this.
Wild.
KAMI: So. I’m gonna get you something from the kitchen.
What do you want, sweetie?
For robots to be free.
Oh, we don’t have that in the fridge.
How about ice cream?
(ALPHIE CHUCKLES)
Great. Ice cream then.
Thanks, babe.
KAMI: Yeah.
“Babe”?
DREW: Here we go.
Did you say, “babe,” Drew?
DREW: Yeah, don’t start with me.
She, says she…
It says, it knows where Nirmata is.
Maya will be with him.
Can you get it out of her?
DREW: She’s touch encrypted.
If you ain’t Nirmata, you ain’t gettin’ in.
What about the ring you gave?
DREW: What ring?
You know, the ring. The ring I gave Maya.
You still got the tracker for it?
Josh, she’s gone, man.
No, I saw footage of…
Stop, man.
JOSHUA: I saw the ring.
I saw her, she was wearing it.
Okay.
She looked very alive.
Okay. Okay.
All right, man, I’m sorry.
(WHIRRING)
Holy shit.
JOSHUA: What?
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
DREW: Come here, man.
Josh, that’s the most advanced sim I’ve ever seen in my life.
The others are just copy and paste.
But this kid’s different, man.
She can grow.
You said she can control things.
(SCOFFS) The range of her powers will grow too.
Eventually, she’ll be able to control all technology remotely.
From anywhere.
She’ll be unstoppable.
There’s no more ice cream.
DREW: Hey, babe, can you do me a favor, and take Alphie upstairs to the apartment?
We’ll be right up.
Sure.
I love babysitting.
Come on, sweetie.
Did anybody see you come here?
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)
KAMI: Ice cream. Mocha, chocolate.
Mocha, vanilla.
DREW: Ah, I found the tracker.
(CHUCKLES) Just hope she’s still wearing that ring.
I saw fake Mayas.
I’ve seen them too, man. It doesn’t mean anything.
She probably just donated her likeness at some point.
You know they were doing all that, “Get scanned today, support A.I.,” all that shit.
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)
KAMI: Tell me about Joshua, Alphie.
ALPHIE: He’s funny.
We play a game called…
“Save your friend Joshua from being killed by the fucking police.”
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING ON TV)
(SIGNAL TRILLING)
What’s the matter?
They’re coming to get me.
(PHONE RINGING)
Who’s this?
(SCREEN TRILLING)
(MAN SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
MAN: (IN ENGLISH) …ice cream delivery.
Oh. Ice cream.
(MAN SPEAKS NEW ASIAN)
(SIGHS)
(SIGNAL BEEPING)
(SIRENS WAILING)
(AUTOMATED VOICE SPEAKING NEW ASIAN OVER RADIO)
AUTOMATED VOICE: (IN ENGLISH) Simulant child is located on the 28th floor of the apartment building.
McBRIDE: Here we go.
Suit up.
(MAN SINGING IN NEW ASIAN OVER SPEAKERS)
(KAMI SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
(MAN SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(KAMI SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
(IN ENGLISH) Bye-bye.
Please leave a good review.
False alarm.
Ice cream is here.
Tell me your favorite. Which one do you want?
Oh, fuck.
(EXPLOSION)
(A.I. OFFICERS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(POP MUSIC PLAYING)
(PEOPLE ON TV CHEERING)
(MAN SINGING IN NEW ASIAN OVER SPEAKERS)
(A.I. OFFICER 1 SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
SIMULANT OFFICER: You are safe from the American.
Come with me. We’ll protect you from him.
(CHUCKLES, SMACKS LIPS)
(A.I. OFFICER 1 SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(WEAPON POWERING UP)
(A.I. OFFICER 1 GROANS)
(MAN 1 ON TV GRUNTING)
(MAN 2 ON TV SPEAKING JAPANESE)
(MAN 1 ON TV GRUNTS)
(A.I. OFFICERS SHOUTING IN NEW ASIAN)
JOSHUA: (IN ENGLISH) All right.
(A.I. OFFICER SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(GUN CLATTERS)
(A.I. OFFICER 2 SHOUTING IN NEW ASIAN)
(WEAPON FIRES)
(PANTING)
(A.I. OFFICERS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(IN ENGLISH) Drew, we gotta go. Drew.
(SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE)
(DREW SNIFFLES)
(DREW SOBBING)
(SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING)
(CRYING)
(OFFICERS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
(OFFICERS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(SHOUTING IN NEW ASIAN)
OFFICER 1: Go, go, go, go!
(OFFICERS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(OFFICERS SCREAMING)
Check the rear.
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
Hack everything.
It’s time to call in the cavalry.
(HEAD CLATTERS)
(COUNTRY SONG PLAYING OVER RADIO)
SINGER: (SINGING) Needs his mountains
Like a seagull
Needs its painted wings
Love I need you
(TRACKER BEEPING)
Come go with me
DREW: (SIGHS) Tracker’s saying the ring’s nearby.
It’s your old house on the beach, Josh.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(BRAKES SQUEALING)
This is crazy, Josh. There’s no way she’s out here.
Do you have any idea how dangerous this is?
(SUIT WHIRRING, TRILLING)
Listen, the night of the attack, there were things you didn’t know about, okay?
Things you don’t wanna know about.
You weren’t privy to.
They came over the wire right before we came in.
(VEHICLE DOOR OPENS)
Josh, you don’t understand. Don’t do this. Please.
Damn it!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(SIGNAL TRILLING)
My friends are coming.
(AIRCRAFTS APPROACHING)
DREW: Oh, shit.
Josh!
(VOICE BREAKING, OVER RADIO) Josh!
(RADIO GLITCHING)
Josh. We gotta go!
Get back to the truck. Josh!
Josh!
Hey! Hey! No, no, no!
(VOICES GLITCHING)
JOSHUA: (OVER SPEAKERS) Time to move.
HARUN: Get the boats. Hurry!
JOSHUA: Drew, what the hell are you doing?
Do you hear me?
DREW: Orders. Kill Nirmata.
JOSHUA: Family, Maya.
MAYA: What about the others?
JOSHUA: Maya.
They’re not people, Maya. They’re A.I.
They are not real!
This is real! You and I are real.
This love is real! That child is real!
(PANTING) Tell me where Maya is.
You know where she is.
Okay, just tell me where she is,
I’ll leave you alone forever, okay?
Tell me where she is!
Whatever you want, just tell me she’s alive.
(CRYING SOFTLY)
I’m sorry. I’m sorry.
Hey. Okay? I’m sorry. I’m sorry.
I’m sorry. Okay? I’m sorry.
(ALPHIE SOBS)
I’m sorry.
(DREW PANTING)
(OVER HELMET) Josh! Josh.
We gotta go!
(GUNS FIRING)
(DREW GROANS)
Drew.
DREW: Josh.
JOSHUA: Drew.
(DREW GROANS)
Shit.
Shit.
(DREW COUGHING)
It’s okay. It’s okay, Drew. I’m here. I’m here.
I’m sorry.
It’s okay.
I wanted to tell you.
They wouldn’t let me.
The night we attacked, we learned… that Nirmata…
It wasn’t her father.
It was her.
It’s her.
Maya.
Maya’s Nirmata.
Maya.
(JOSHUA MUMBLING)
No. Wait, wait. Drew.
Wait! Wait! Drew.
Drew!
Drew!
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
(JOSHUA EXHALES)
(OFFICERS YELLING DISTANTLY)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
Come on. We have to go.
(OFFICERS SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(JOSHUA BREATHING HEAVILY)
JOSHUA: (GRUNTS) Back up.
(JOSHUA GRUNTING)
(COUGHING)
Brother?
Come here, my child.
JOSHUA: Alphie.
Alphie.
(A.I. OFFICER GRUNTS)
(JOSHUA GROANS)
(WATER SPLASHING)
JOSHUA: I met her at, uh…
I forgot what the club was called.
I mean, she was beautiful.
MAYA: My father taught me everything he knew about A.I.
When the war started, he was forced to flee.
I was raised by the simulants. They adopted me.
You know, ’cause they can’t have kids of their own.
They protected me.
Loved me, took better care of me than humans would’ve.
(MUFFLED GUNFIRE)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
JOSHUA: Maya.
Nirmata.
(SENTIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
If I could just hold you…
one last time.
(NEW ASIAN SONG PLAYING OVER RADIO)
(GROANING)
What do you want with the child?
What is she to you?
(GRUNTS)
She was taking me to Maya.
HARUN: After her father died, Maya became the next Nirmata.
Maya made the child with the power to stop all weapons.
The nuclear bomb in Los Angeles a coding error. You know that?
Human error.
They blamed us for their mistake.
We would never attack mankind.
Do you know what will happen to the West when we win this war?
Nothing.
We only want to live in peace.
Harun.
Let me see her one last time.
Please.
That’s what they want, you fool.
They are following you to get to her.
I will never take you to Nirmata.
(MEN YELLING IN NEW ASIAN)
A.I. SOLDIER: Harun!
Harun, we need you.
(SOLDIER SHOUTING IN NEW ASIAN OVER RADIO)
(WOMAN SHOUTING IN NEW ASIAN, SCREAMS)
(SPEAKING THAI)
(IN ENGLISH) Get them on the comms now.
(PEOPLE PANICKING ON RADIO)
Hello, hello.
A.I. SOLDIER: And keep us in position.
(IN JAPANESE)
(IN ENGLISH) They’re attacking our base.
(PEOPLE SHOUTING ON RADIO)
(WOMAN SPEAKING JAPANESE OVER RADIO)
(SOLDIER SHOUTING IN NEW ASIAN)
Hey, hey. Alphie.
You okay?
They said you’re going to hurt Mother.
It’s not true.
I would never hurt Mother.
I love her.
Does she love you?
She did.
She did once.
When she made me?
Help me.
Help me find… Mother.
(PEOPLE SHOUTING IN NEW ASIAN OVER RADIO)
(RADIO STATIC)
(EXPLOSION)
(DISTANT RUMBLING)
(MAN SPEAKING THAI)
(RADIO STATIC)
(MAN CONTINUES IN THAI)
(IN JAPANESE)
(GUNS COCKING)
(SHOUTING IN JAPANESE)
(WATER SPLASHING)
A.I. SOLDIER: Harun… (SPEAKING THAI)
(IN ENGLISH) We should go.
Get the child to safety.
(ENGINE STARTS, REVVING)
(COUGHS)
(PANTING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)
WOMAN: Nomad!
(WOMAN SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(A.I. SOLDIER 1 SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
WOMAN: Nomad.
(MONK CHANTING PRAYER IN NEW ASIAN)
(CHILD CRYING)
WOMAN: Nomad. (SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(A.I. SOLDIER 2 IN NEW ASIAN)
(CHILD CRYING)
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
(MONK CONTINUES CHANTING PRAYER)
(GIRL CRYING)
(SIMULANT MAN PRAYING IN NEW ASIAN)
(MONK CONTINUES CHANTING PRAYER)
(BOTH CRYING)
(IN ENGLISH) We can’t hide from Nomad anymore.
(CHILDREN CHATTERING)
(IN JAPANESE)
(IN ENGLISH) She can stop it?
She is not ready yet.
The range of her powers are still growing.
But, if we can get her up there, maybe she can destroy it.
How could anyone survive that?
HARUN: She won’t.
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
But it will turn the tide of the war.
Does she even know what she’s been created for?
(IN JAPANESE)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(A.I. SOLDIER GRUNTS IN FRUSTRATION)
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
(CHILDREN SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(ALL LAUGHING)
(ALL SINGING IN NEW ASIAN)
(IN ENGLISH) They created us to be slaves.
But we will be delivered from slavery.
Soon. Our savior is coming with the power to end all wars.
We will finally be free, and our two species will live together in peace.
(TRADITIONAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(MAN LAUGHING)
(LAUGHS)
(HARUN CHUCKLES)
(TRADITIONAL MUSIC CONTINUES IN DISTANCE)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(BATTERY BEEPING)
(FLOORBOARD CREAKING)
Shit.
(BATTERY CHIMES, TURNS OFF)
Standby. Not off.
Let’s go find Mother.
(COMMANDER DAW SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
(SOLDIERS GROANING IN DEFEAT)
(ALARM BEEPING)
(ALARM RINGING)
(PANICKED CHATTER IN NEW ASIAN)
MALE SINGER: (SINGING) Let’s take a drive Down Lover’s Lane again
(COMMS A.I. GRUNTS)
Retrace our tracks down Lover’s Lane again
Relive the past…
(ALARM BEEPING)
Oh!
Shit! We’re under attack. Come on. Come on.
(ALARM BLARING)
(PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(SHOUTING GETS LOUDER)
(SIREN WAILING)
(BATTERY WHIRRING, TURNS ON)
(IN JAPANESE)
(IN ENGLISH) Americans, Commander.
They’ve come for the child.
(IN JAPANESE)
(IN ENGLISH) Oh, shit! (SPEAKS NEW ASIAN)
HARUN: (IN ENGLISH) Find her.
JOSHUA: Come on.
(SIMULANTS AND PEOPLE CLAMORING)
(PANICKED CHATTER IN NEW ASIAN)
A.I. ROBOT: Hey, hey, hey…
(DISTANT RUMBLING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(TREES CREAKING)
Harun.
(BOMBS FIRING)
Oh, shit.
(BOMBS WHOOSHING)
(GAS HISSING)
(ALL CLAMORING)
(IN JAPANESE)
(RADIO STATIC)
(IN ENGLISH) Harun?
She is not here.
But there is movement on the tree line.
Americans are near.
(IN JAPANESE)
(IN NEW ASIAN)
(LOUD RUMBLING)
(TREES CREAKING)
(BATTLESHIP APPROACHING)
(IN ENGLISH) Stay down.
(PEOPLE SHOUTING IN NEW ASIAN)
A.I. SOLDIER: Get them out of here. Go!
Go!
Move! Go, go, go! Go, go.
SOLDIER: Hey!
(A.I. SOLDIER GRUNTING)
(VILLAGERS SCREAMING, SHOUTING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
ALPHIE: They’ve come for me.
I have to help.
There’s nothing we can do.
I have to help.
Alphie, we gotta go.
(DISTANT EXPLOSION)
Alphie!
Alphie!
(SOLDIER YELLING IN NEW ASIAN)
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
(RADAR WARBLING)
(MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(EXPLOSIVE WHIRRING)
(OFFICERS YELLING)
(EXPLOSIVE BEEPING)
(RAPID BEEPING)
(CONTROLLER CLICKS)
(A.I. SOLDIER GRUNTS, YELLS)
A.I. SOLDIER: (IN ENGLISH) On the bridge. (YELLS)
(RADAR WARBLING)
Targets. Targets. Targets. Run! Run!
(A.I. SOLDIER GRUNTS)
(A.I. SOLDIER GASPS)
(CHILDREN CRYING)
(SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(CHILDREN SHRIEKING)
Arm the bombs.
TANK CAPTAIN: G13, you’re up.
Detonation, 100 meter radius.
Set in three, two, one.
Go.
(G13 BEEPING)
Go!
G13: Command confirmed. Goodbye, ma’am.
It’s been a pleasure to serve you.
Launch! Launch!
(TIMER BEEPING)
(SOLDIER GROANS)
(BEEPING INTENSIFIES)
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
SOLDIER: No, no, no.
G14, launch.
G14, ready. Go.
G14: Command confirmed.
TANK CAPTAIN: Go!
(FOOTSTEPS THUDDING)
(YELLING IN JAPANESE)
(ORDERS IN JAPANESE)
(G14 BEEPING)
TANK CAPTAIN: G14, come in.
What’s the problem?
Gone radio silent.
G14 stalled.
HOWELL: Oh, shit.
Targets at our six.
Go get me the child.
(WEAPON WHIRRING)
Copy that.
(G14 BEEPING)
(BEEPING STOPS)
(GRUNTING)
(ENERGY HUMMING)
(HUMMING STOPS)
(BREATH SHUDDERING)
Alphie! No!
(YELLING IN JAPANESE)
Taylor, get down.
(McBRIDE GROANING)
(GROANING)
Don’t do it.
(McBRIDE GRUNTS)
(BODY THUDS)
(PANTING)
Alphie?
G14: Countdown reactivated.
(G14 POWERING UP)
Alphie! Come on.
(G14 BEEPING)
(BEEPING INTENSIFIES)
(RUBBLE CLATTERING)
JOSHUA: Hey.
We have to help her.
Take her to Nirmata.
(SOLDIERS YELLING)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(IN JAPANESE)
(IN ENGLISH) Go, before it’s too late!
(GUNFIRE AND EXPLOSIONS)
(IN JAPANESE)
(SIMULANT WOMAN GROANING)
(IN NEW ASIAN)
(HOWELL IN NEW ASIAN)
(SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
(IN ENGLISH) Thank you.
(SIMULANT WOMAN GASPS)
(GUN FIRES)
Mount up.
There will never be another like her.
Her mother completed her in secret, when you were together.
Just weeks before the night of the attack.
She could have made her to hate mankind.
Perhaps she should have.
But Maya put her love for you into the child.
She made a new kind of life.
From a scan of a human embryo.
A copy of your child.
(SENTIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
Like it or not, Joshua, you are part of us now.
(SENTIMENTAL MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MAYA HUMMING)
MAYA: My father taught me that underneath it all, we’re the same.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
I was in an A.I. village where they cared for human orphans.
Nomad attacked.
There was a little girl bleeding to death.
And when her mother saw that she’d died, she turned herself off.
She couldn’t outlive her child.
(CRYING)
This war needs to end.
Hey.
Let me take her to Maya?
(IN NEW ASIAN)
(IN ENGLISH) Yeah. Careful, careful.
A.I. MONK: You wait here.
JOSHUA: She loved me.
We were gonna be a family.
(MAYA SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
JOSHUA: Oh, yeah, ’cause you know all things, right?
MAYA: Mmhmm.
(A.I. WOMAN SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
JOSHUA: All right, what’s the name of our kid then?
(JOSHUA MAKES FUNNY NOISE)
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
JOSHUA: We both had our secrets, but…
We were gonna raise a child.
(A.I. WOMAN SPEAKING NEW ASIAN)
JOSHUA: (IN ENGLISH) And I am her and she is me.
We’re all connected.
(SIMULANT MONK IN NEW ASIAN)
(BELL TOLLING)
(IN ENGLISH) Is this Dian Dang?
Alphie told me she’s in Dian Dang.
Dian Dang means “heaven”.
(TRANQUIL MUSIC PLAYING)
(SIMULANT MONK PRAYING INDISTINCTLY)
(TRANQUIL MUSIC FADES)
How long has she been like this?
SIMULANT MONK: Five years.
Since the night of the attack, when she lost her human child.
Harun brought her here.
We hoped she would awaken… but… she is stranded.
She cannot return.
She cannot depart.
Death would bring her rebirth.
Then why haven’t you?
It is impossible.
We simulants cannot harm Nirmata.
(VENTILATOR HISSING)
(ALPHIE HUMMING)
(STOPS HUMMING)
(MONITORS BEEPING)
Please help her.
Help her get to Dian Dang.
(JOSHUA SIGHS HEAVILY)
(SNIFFLES)
Oh, Jesus.
(SOBBING)
I’m sorry.
(TEARFULLY) I’m so sorry.
If you can hear me.
I was wrong.
Can you forgive me, please?
I promise I will make it right.
I wish I could be with you again.
(BREATH SHUDDERS)
(JOSHUA SIGHS HEAVILY)
Goodbye, Mother.
I love you.
(SWITCH CLANKS)
(SYSTEM POWERS DOWN)
(MONITOR FLATLINING)
(JOSHUA SOBBING)
(FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING)
(IN JAPANESE)
(VILLAGERS SCREAMING)
(BELL TOLLING)
HOWELL: Your orders are to hack everything and find their remaining bases.
Take her down.
(VILLAGERS SCREAMING)
(VILLAGERS PANICKING)
Come on, we gotta go. We got…
Colonel?
First the weapon, then the Nirmata.
Thank you for your service.
Well, you’re too late. She’s gone.
Not until I say so.
(DEVICE TRILLING)
JOSHUA: You playing God now?
HOWELL: You know, you’re lucky. I have orders to take you and that thing back.
Stand down, Sergeant.
Back off.
Let her rest, Colonel. I told you she’s dead, okay?
You are a selfish son of a bitch, Taylor.
I ought to put a hole in you right now.
But you hand that thing over and nobody has to know.
You can go home a hero.
You lied about Maya bein’ alive.
You’d never let her go back.
HOWELL: That’s right.
OFFICER 1: Going in.
OFFICER 2: Put it down.
Put the gun down.
OFFICER 1: Drop the weapon.
OFFICER 2: Now!
Put it down.
OFFICER 2: Don’t.
No.
(HARUN GASPING)
(HARUN GLITCHING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(POWER SHUTS DOWN)
(BOMB BEEPS)
Shit! Wait, what is that?
Shit!
Get it off. Come on! Get it off!
HOWELL: God! Get it off!
OFFICER 2: Yeah.
Get the thing off me.
OFFICER 2: Hold on.
(BOMB BEEPING RAPIDLY)
OFFICER 1: Come on.
(BEEPING STOPS)
Weapons hot!
No, wait, wait, wait!
(BOMB BEEPING)
(HOWELL SCREAMS)
(RUBBLE CLATTERING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(GROANS)
HARUN: Get her out of here.
Destroy Nomad,
brother.
Come on. Come on.
(DEVICE BEEPING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
No, wait. Wait, no!
OFFICER: Freeze.
Friendly.
OFFICER 2: Hey!
Sergeant Taylor…
Nomad’s about to fire. We gotta go.
You’re a hero, sir.
You did it! You killed Nirmata.
You got the weapon. We found the other bases.
Let’s go! Let’s go!
(AIRCRAFT APPROACHING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(RADAR WARBLING)
OFFICER: Hold! Hold!
JOSHUA: It’s okay.
Hey, hey, give her back.
What are you doing? What are you doing?
Stop! Wait, wait.
Joshua!
Joshua!
JOSHUA: Stop.
OFFICER: Sergeant, move. Move, move, move!
Joshua! Josh…
Alphie!
Alphie.
Joshua!
Joshua! Joshua!
(JOSHUA YELLING)
Hey, it’s not real.
It’s just programming.
(JOSHUA GROANING)
It’s not real.
It’s just programming.
Alphie.
(SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING)
(JOSHUA PANTING)
(ELEVATOR THUDS, WHIRRS)
ANNOUNCER: Nomad Messenger.
Seven. Nine. Zero.
GENERAL ANDREWS: We tried to terminate the weapon cleanly, but she won’t let us.
She trusts you.
So, either you help us or our other methods will be unimaginably painful.
This is quick.
It’s better this way.
Those tech boys will…
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
(VENTILATOR HISSING)
(GUN POWERING UP)
(JOSHUA SNIFFLES)
(TEARFULLY) Am I going to heaven?
(CRYING)
(WHISPERING) Listen to me…
(VOICE DISTORTING)
What’d he say?
What’s happening?
LAB WORKER: It’s just interference.
The EMP device is charging.
(STATIC BUZZING)
(EMP GUN CHARGING, FIRES)
(MONITOR FLATLINING)
LAB WORKER: Sir, it worked.
The weapon is neutralized.
JOSHUA: What will they do with her?
GENERAL ANDREWS: Normally, it would be taken up to Nomad for research.
But instead, it’ll be incinerated at the Ground Zero facility.
I’d like to be there for that. Please?
GENERAL ANDREWS: It’s not a funeral.
(SENTIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
It is to me, General.
(SENTIMENTAL MUSIC CONTINUES)
(SIRENS WAILING)
REPORTER: AntiNomad protesters are gathering throughout the world, condemning today’s planned strike on A.I. bases.
(PHONE RINGING)
What is it?
MAN: (ON PHONE) Sir, we’ve decoded what Taylor said to the weapon.
Patching it through.
JOSHUA: Not off. Standby.
Shit. Stop that vehicle.
SOLDIER: (OVER RADIO) Pull over! Now!
That’s an order!
OFFICER: Stop the truck.
Alphie, do it. Do it.
DRIVER: Oh, my God.
What the hell?
(POWER SHUTS DOWN)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(DRIVER GRUNTS)
(OFFICER GRUNTS)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(SOLDIERS SCREAMING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(GRUNTING)
ALPHIE: Joshua.
Come on, Alphie.
OFFICER 1: Tell forward units to cut off that angle!
OFFICER 2: Secure!
OFFICER 1: Move! OFFICER 2: Let’s go. Go, go.
OFFICER 1: Containment, get eyes on the other side!
OFFICER 3: Where’s the weapon? Where’s the weapon?
OFFICER 1: Clear.
Surround the vehicle. Box ’em in!
OFFICER 4: Where did they go?
(STRAINING)
(PANTING)
ANNOUNCER: (OVER PA) Next stop, Los Angeles Spaceport.
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
ANNOUNCER: Flight OX1 to the Moon Colonies is now boarding.
Please proceed to gate 35 C.
Thanks for flying Lunar Airways.
ROBOT: Boarding pass.
(MACHINE BEEPS, BUZZES)
Shit.
ROBOT: What is the purpose of your travel?
(ENERGY BUZZING)
To be free.
(ELECTRIC INTERFERENCE)
ROBOT: Enjoy your flight.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
BODYGUARD: Sir, they’re trying to board a Lunar shuttle.
Shoot to kill. Let’s go.
Sir, we’re blind.
Ground all flights.
(SHUTTLE DEPARTING)
ANNOUNCER: (OVER PA) All personnel report to Nomad missile command.
Repeat, this is not a drill.
All personnel report to Nomad missile command.
I want every one of those flights turned back.
TECHNICIAN: Yes, sir.
(PA SYSTEM CHIMES)
Ladies and gentlemen, due to an emergency, the shuttle will be returning to Los Angeles.
(OVER PA) Please stay calm and follow all instructions.
Emergency space suits are located in the rear of the shuttle.
Please remain seated…
Okay.
…and keep your seat belts securely fastened…
Hey, Alphie, you ready?
…as we prepare for descent back to Los Angeles…
(SYSTEM BEEPING)
PILOT 1: One and three are down.
PILOT 2: You got nav?
PILOT 1: Negative.
What’s going on?
Sir, we’ve lost contact with Flight OX1.
It changed course.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
Do not let that thing get aboard Nomad.
TECHNICIAN: Sir.
(KEYBOARD CLACKING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(SHUTTLE THUDS)
(PASSENGERS GASPING)
WOMAN 1: What happened?
Ladies and gentlemen, (OVER PA) due to an emergency, we have been forced to land…
WOMAN 2: What?
…at a military installation.
We ask you to evacuate calmly and obey all military personnel.
They are here to protect you.
FLIGHT ATTENDANT: It’s okay, everyone.
Please stay calm. Follow us.
(TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES)
OFFICER: (OVER RADIO) No sign of ’em.
We’re goin’ in.
(GUN LOADING)
(CANISTER BEEPS, HISSES)
ALPHIE: Joshua!
OFFICER 1: (OVER RADIO) Move out! Go, go, go!
OFFICER 2: Alpha team moving in.
OFFICER 3: Let’s do it, do it, do it. Push up, push up.
OFFICER 4: Pushing toward the cockpit.
OFFICER 5: No sign of him.
OFFICER 4: Cabin’s clear.
Spacesuit’s missing.
Wait, wait. Eyes on asset.
He’s gonna blow the door!
Move back, move back!
OFFICER 6: Move!
OFFICER 5: Go, go, go!
OFFICER 6: Go, go, go!
(OFFICER 7 GRUNTS)
Alphie! Alphie, hang on!
OFFICER 6: Hold on, hold on!
OFFICER 5: I can’t, I can’t!
(OFFICER 6 SCREAMS)
OFFICER 5: No!
(OFFICERS SCREAMING)
(SILENCE)
(AIR WHOOSHING)
OFFICER: (SHOUTS) Open the airlock!
(GROANING)
OFFICER: (OVER SPEAKERS) Hit the button!
(HEART BEATING)
(OFFICER 2 WHEEZING)
(YELLING) Hit the button, please. Hit the button.
(PANTING)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
OFFICER: Sir, Taylor’s arming an explosive.
GENERAL ANDREWS: They’re gonna take out Nomad.
Bring forward the attack.
Launch on all A.I. bases.
(COMPUTER TRILLING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(COUGHS, PANTING)
JOSHUA: Shit. They’re launching the missiles.
(RADAR WARBLING)
Alphie. All right.
All right, listen. Here.
I’ll be with you on the radio.
You’ve got to stop them from launching the missiles.
You go turn the power off, so I could blow this place up.
Mother… this is what she wanted.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
Do it for her.
Do it for Mother.
Go to the control room and shut down the power. I’ll meet you back here.
Go. Go.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(ALARM BLARING)
It’s gone inside.
The weapon’s inside Nomad.
Seal it off and destroy it.
Yes, sir.
Wait.
Where’s Taylor?
Okay. Don’t fall, Joshua. Don’t fall.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES)
OFFICER 1: Move, move, move.
OFFICER 2: Take the shot.
OFFICER 1: Cover me.
(DOOR LOCK BEEPS)
Move!
(GUNSHOTS)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Control room located.
ANNOUNCER: (OVER PA) All personnel, please report to the evacuation point.
All personnel, please report to the evacuation point.
This is not a drill.
(JOSHUA PANTING)
TECHNICIAN: Sir, Taylor’s going for a missile.
Launch the attack.
TECHNICIAN: Yes, sir.
(MISSILE LAUNCHER WHIRRING, THUDS)
JOSHUA: (OVER RADIO) Alphie, we gotta stop them.
Get to the control room. Now!
AUTOMATED VOICE: Missiles approaching targets.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES)
Alphie, you gotta turn it off.
Hurry!
(MISSILES PULSING)
Alphie, now!
(POWER SHUTS DOWN)
(MISSILE LAUNCHER WHIRRING)
(PULSES)
(THUDS)
(GRUNTS)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(SYSTEMS BEEPING RAPIDLY)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
TECHNICIAN: Launch system’s lost power, sir.
(PANTING)
(EXPLOSIVE TRILLING, BEEPS)
AUTOMATED VOICE: 10 minutes.
(EXPLOSIVE BEEPING)
Alphie, great job. We got 10 minutes.
Get back to the shuttle right now.
Go, Go!
(SYSTEMS POWERING UP)
TECHNICIAN: Power’s back on.
Shit, the launch system’s dead.
(MISSILE LAUNCHER LOADING)
(JOSHUA GROANING, PANTING)
(GRUNTING)
(CONTROLLER BEEPING)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Oxygen level low.
Alphie.
(SUIT BEEPING)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Oxygen level low.
We gotta go.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
Mother?
(STIRRING MUSIC PLAYING)
Alphie?
Alphie?
AUTOMATED VOICE: Five minutes.
JOSHUA: Damn it.
(WOMAN ANNOUNCING IN JAPANESE ON TV)
(ALPHIE STRAINING)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Oxygen level low.
No! (COUGHS)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Oxygen level low.
(DEVICE CHIRPS)
Oxygen level critical.
Alphie.
I can’t breathe.
Come on, come on, come on.
Joshua needs us.
JOSHUA: Can’t breathe.
(CONTROLLER BEEPING)
(OXYGEN REDUCING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Missiles approaching final targets.
(INHALES SHARPLY)
I’m sorry, Mother.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Oxygen level critical.
(CONTROLLER BEEPING)
Oxygen level critical.
(KEYPAD CLACKING)
3 minutes.
(JOSHUA COUGHING)
(CONTROLLER BEEPING)
(DOOR OPENS)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Airlock activated.
(JOSHUA GRUNTS)
ALPHIE: I’ll get the escape pod ready.
AUTOMATED VOICE 1: Equalizing oxygen.
AUTOMATED VOICE 2: Escape pod activated.
(JOSHUA COUGHING, GASPING)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Acquiring remaining targets.
(RADAR WARBLING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(WOMAN ANNOUNCING IN JAPANESE ON TV)
TECHNICIAN: Sir, we found them.
They’re trying to escape.
Get me a remote unit.
Got access.
What’s the command?
Kill the bastards.
Switching in three, two, one.
(COMPUTER BEEPING, TRILLING)
(PANTS, COUGHING)
(CONTROLLER BEEPING)
(MACHINE HUMMING)
JOSHUA: No, no.
Hey, no. Alphie!
(MACHINE WHIRRING)
(ALPHIE SCREAMS, GRUNTS)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Escape hatch override.
JOSHUA: Alphie!
ALPHIE: Help! (SHRIEKS)
AUTOMATED VOICE 1: Airlock depressurizing.
Come on. Come on. (BREATHING HEAVILY)
AUTOMATED VOICE 2: One minute.
AUTOMATED VOICE 1: Airlock equalized.
(DOOR OPENS)
(JOSHUA SCREAMING)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(PANICKED CHATTER)
(MACHINE WHIRRING)
(TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(JOSHUA GRUNTING)
(ENERGY HUMMING)
(JOSHUA YELLS)
(ALARM BUZZING)
(JOSHUA GROANING)
(MISSILES WHOOSHING)
Come on.
(SIMULANT PEOPLE PANICKING)
(JOSHUA GRUNTING)
Joshua.
Help!
Help, I can’t open it.
The door’s broken.
AUTOMATED VOICE: 10, 9,
8, 7…
(STRAINING) Again.
AUTOMATED VOICE: 6, 5…
Hey, Alphie, push, push!
AUTOMATED VOICE: 4…
I’m trying.
AUTOMATED VOICE: 3, 2, 1.
(BOTH STRAINING)
(HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYING)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Missile connection lost.
Missile connection lost.
(INDISTINCT YELLING)
(JOSHUA GRUNTS)
(ALPHIE BREATHING HEAVILY)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Warning. Reactor failure imminent.
Warning, reactor failure imminent.
Keep pulling.
Open.
No, no, no.
Don’t!
It’s okay.
It’s okay.
(ALPHIE SOBS)
I’m going to heaven.
No.
I’ll meet you there.
No!
No. (SOBBING)
I’m going because of you.
I don’t want you to go.
I wanna be with you.
Please. (CRIES)
(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)
(JOSHUA BREATHING HEAVILY)
Love you, Alphie.
I love you too.
(SOFTLY) I love you.
(SOBBING)
No!
(DOOR WHIRRING, THUDS)
(ESCAPE POD BEEPING)
(JOSHUA BREATHING HEAVILY)
Yeah. (CHUCKLES)
(BEEPING INTENSIFIES)
(ESCAPE POD THUDS)
(IMPERCEPTIBLE)
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
(RUMBLING)
(SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES)
(METAL GROANING)
(GRUNTS)
(SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES)
Joshua?
(STIRRING MUSIC PLAYING)
Maya!
Joshua!
(PANTING)
(MAYA GRUNTING)
(STIRRING MUSIC CONTINUES)
(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(EXPLOSION PULSES)
(TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING)
(SOLDIERS CHEERING)
(ALL CHEERING)
(EXPLOSION PULSES)
(TRIUMPHANT MUSIC CONTINUES)
(VILLAGERS CHEERING)
(TRIUMPHANT MUSIC BUILDS)
VILLAGERS: (CHANTING) Nirmata! Nirmata! Nirmata!
(VILLAGERS CHEERING)
(CLAIR DE LUNE PLAYING)
(CLAIR DE LUNE ENDS)
(THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING)
(THRILLING MUSIC FADES)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(FROG CROAKING)
(CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(DRAMATIC PERCUSSION MUSIC PLAYS)
(PERCUSSION AND CHORAL MUSIC ENDS)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(SENTIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(SENTIMENTAL MUSIC ENDS)
(HAUNTING CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(HAUNTING CHORAL MUSIC FADES)
