2054Full_Outline.5.15.10

[Montage of science, history, violence, diagrams of space and machines- all information important to a cloned grunt)

(The montage stops with a close-up on the right side of Jake’s face, centered on the right eye. The camera slowly zooms out to reveal the locker room.)
Jake: (interior) I always wondered why they loved their mama so much. Always, they loved their mother unconditionally. I could not understand it. Maybe we really are different.
(The camera angle changes, there are several J clones changing on his side of the locker room. Several clones walk through the doors into the cafeteria. Jake lags behind the crowd, identified by his cap and the 1891 on his shirt.)
Jake: (Interior)I am J1891. And I am a clone. “J” designation, Batch eighteen, unit 91.
( Exposition on Koreyang, how clones live with humans. Jake sits down at a cafeteria table with a group of other J-clones. Andrews’ squad laughs and distracts Jake for a moment. The other clones are simply focused on food. The clones have little social interaction. Meanwhile at the other table, a group of normal people. The normal people talk and banter, and share a story.)
Eric: So then her mom comes home. I’m panicking and try to get dressed as I run down the stairs. As I’m trying to get my pants on, I slip and *wham*! I hit the floor and get knocked out cold, my bare ass hanging out, just as her mom opens the door. (group laughs) Yeah, I stopped seeing her after that.

(Daily clone life. Jake lives his life by the bell and schedule, going through the paces and doing what he is told like a machine. Annete spends a day on the base, we are introduced to Ivan, Eric, Dr. Grey, Scott and Captain Andrews. History Exposition, Basic description of singularity. Commander announces that they will be creating integrated squads. The clones are added to Andrews’ Blue Squad)

(Andrews greets his men warmly, familiar with them all. Eric and Annete complain about trading away Scott. Andrews walks down the line of soldiers, and inspects the two clones added to his personal squad)
Andrews: J1891, do you have a name?
Jake: (Licks his lips, is slightly anxious about revealing a name) Jake… Sir.
Andrews: Good to have you Jake. ( Andrews shakes his hand then inspects Dog) Do you have a name?
Dog: No sir; Unit-K909 reporting in.
Andrews: K909? (grins) K9/ We’ll call you Dog.
Eric: (Shrugs) I like it.

(Annete visits home. Eric is Annete’s best friend, he comes along. Family talks about marines being sent off on a routine tour of duty.)
Girlfriend: I’ll be right back Cowboy.
Eric: You aren’t even a cowboy.
Annete: Well she didn’t want to call me a girl’s name, so it was Cowboy or ‘Yank’.
Eric: (Smirks, imitates GF, makes a jerking gesture) Yank my boyfriend!
Annete: And that’s why I have her call me cowboy.

(Interactions between Andrews and family. Marines are called to go on a routine tour of duty)

(The marines are being sent off by their families. There are a few moments of various marines. Scott and Dr. Grey are briefly focused on as they say their goodbyes. Eric shakes hands with his father and hugs a fiancé. Jake watches the goodbyes with only the slightest hint of confusion and longing. Dog is utterly oblivious to the crowd.)
(Andrews’ children are telling him about their parts in a school play. Andrews listens and encourages them with a smile)
Andrews: Alright, when I get back in a few months the first thing we’ll do is watch it on video!
Alice: Okay kids, say goodbye to daddy!
Andrews’ Children: Bye daddy!
(Andrews stand up and faces his wife Alice.)
Alice: Three months, huh?
Andrews: It’s just routine patrols, Alice. We might not even leave the ship.
(Alice takes a deep breath, pulls out the rosary from underneath Andrews’ shirt, then rubs it in her hand.)
Alice: There’s still militias out there…Just get home soon.
(Annete’s family is sending him off.)
Annete’s Mother: (breaking up)
Annete’s Father: (Pats Annete on the back, stifling his emotions) Good luck out there. We’ll miss you.
(Annete’s girlfriend stands in front of him, processing her emotions. She rushes forward and hugs him tightly then kisses him. They speak quietly to each other.)
Annete Girlfriend: Come back safe Cowboy.
Annete: Not a scratch on me.
Annete’s Girlfriend: Promise?
Annete: (With a smile in his voice) Promise.
(Ivan simply walks onto the ship with his bag, looking over Jake and Dog as he boards. Dog and Jake look at each other for instruction, then follow Ivan onboard.)
{Track Jake and Dog onto the ship, camera pans to black. Camera pans out to Jake and Dog inside} (Jake and Dog are in the ship’s armory. Both are seated and quietly inspecting their equipment. Jake is cleaning his helmet.
[Jake and Dog talk, unsure of what it will be like, nervous around “real people”]
Captain Andrews walks in carrying a can of spray paint. Both of the clones snap to attention)
Andrews: At ease. (Andrews tosses a can of spray paint to Jake.)
Jake: Paint?
Andrews: I need to know which clones are mine. (winks) Go crazy.
(Andrews leaves. The clones are stunned at the amicable gesture and instructions Jake shrugs and shakes the can of paint.)

[ Receives radio SOS. The marines move to formation in their newly painted armor. The Commander quickly briefs the men. He give Andrews a special assignment, find and rescue a VIP. Marines scramble into gunships. Gunships enter atmosphere, Gunships open up over a burning Koreyang. A generic clone on Blue Squad’s gunship is killed, Gunship is shot down. Marines are shot at as they run toward the VIP’s apartment building. They run up the stairs of the damaged building]


Andrews: “ Command, the V.I.P. and family are dead. (sighs) Requesting orders.”
Command: “Roger that Andrews. Abort the mission and assist in civilian evacuation. Gunship transport is en-route to pick you up.”
Jake:{Interior Monologue} “It wasn’t the sight of the bodies, or the disturbing violence. It was a flicker of an emotion and the look on their faces. {Jake looks at his teammates} That’s when I knew that there was something wrong with me. I don’t know what it is.”
(An explosion rocks the entire building). {Colossi storm up the stairs. The squad stumbles after the impact}
Andrews: Get to the roof! Move!
(More explosions explode. An explosion destroys the stairs up as the marines approach, the building shudders and creaks){Colossi are seen rushing up the stairs, and start firing through the floor. Bullets rip through the floor and walls around the marines)
Annete: The buildings coming down!
Eric: We can’t stay here!
(Ivan is eyeing the neighboring building as Annete talks. He fires his cannon through a blasted out wall, blowing a hole in the nearby building)
Ivan: Follow me!
(Ivan takes a running jumps and leaps across the ten foot gap into the nearby building.)
(The clones follow. Dog follows leaps without hesitation, Jake glances back at the squad before jumping across. )
Annete: Go! I’ll cover you!
(Annete starts to return fire back through the floor. {Annete’s aim is solid, he kills Talos constructs with his return fire} Eric and Andrews jump through the opening into the nearby building. After Eric lands, he mutters: “They don’t teach that in basic training.” Annete starts running out and begins his jump. A burst of Talos gunfire hits, leaving dents and black marks across his armor. Annete barely makes the jump, he lands hard and rolls to a stop)
Eric: Ann, you alright?
Annete: I’m fine, they didn’t penetrate the armor.
(A burst of gunfire rips into the room around the marines)
Dog: The top stories are collapsed- Gunship can’t land!
(Ivan looks out towards a sky bridge connecting two sky scrapers. There is an open platform on the far building. A burst of bullets punches through the wall between him and the stairs down. He reloads his cannon and rushes to the elevator)
Ivan: What floor are we on?
Andrews: Twelve, why-
(Ivan blasts the elevator doors open)
Ivan: Four floors, let’s move!
(Ivan jumps into the elevator shaft and grabs onto the elevator’s cables. He grinds down, sparks wildly flying from his metal glove. When he drops to his goal, he stops himself by kicking the walls, and blows the elevator doors out with his cannon, then hops out onto the floor. The squad follows Ivan, sliding down the elevator shaft and jumping out onto the lower floor.)
Eric: (Muttering) Damn, they don’t teach that *anywhere*.
( Andrews calls out instructions to gunship to land at the platform across the bridge as the marines run towards the platform.)
{In one continuous shot, the marines rush through the building and across the bridge as bullets spray the area around them and up to the platform. The camera is from the POV of one of the marines. The gunship lands as the marines reach the platform. Jimmy is on the gunship, gives them a hand onto the vehicle.}
Jimmy: (Jokingly, as he helps the battle damaged Annete onboard) Wow, and you guys aren’t any worse for the wear.
(The gunship takes off from the platform and flies away from the apartment buildings. The squad takes the chance to catch their breath and take seats. The squad’s armor is covered in burn and bullet marks. Andrews hangs over the pilot’s shoulder and eyes the massive starship hovering over the city.)
Andrews: The cruiser hasn’t fired a shot since we’ve landed.
Eric: Yeah, something’s up.
Jake: Maybe they’re overheating?
Ivan: No. (Everyone is silent as Ivan reloads his cannon, then straps himself into his seat.) {Ivan does not make eye contact with anyone. Annete sits and holds his head as he looks out upon the burning city. There are cars abandoned in the streets, all the signs of life are present, but there are no people anywhere. {Fire reflects off of Annete’s visor, he wears an expression of self-doubt.} Jake watches Annete. Jake looks out, and obviously does not see the same thing that Annete sees. Jake then looks at Dog. Dog is strapped in and alert, but oblivious to the city. Andrews gives co-ordinates to Jimmy. Jake straps himself , Eric straps in next to Annete.)
{Soldiers are guiding families of terrified refugees onto trucks and other vehicles at the evacuation site. Green smoke marks their position, the squad’s gunship is visible from the site.}
(There is a brief beam of light from outside the gunship, then an explosion rocks the entire vehicle. Radio chatter starts flooding from the cockpit.)
Dog: What was that?
Jimmy: Cruiser opened fire!
Andrews: They’re hitting us on the ground, we lost the evac site!
Jimmy: Strap in, evasive maneuvers!
(Annete quickly straps in, and looks out upon the destroyed evacuation site. Destroyed vehicles, dead and injured people are visible. Talos soldiers are start swarm the site.)
{A Talos soldier executes an injured person begging for mercy at evacuation site}
(The gunship screams past buildings and through the streets as the cruiser fires down. A few shots land near the gunship and rock the marines strapped inside.)
Radio: (Repeating, Almost lost amongst the clatter of the bombardment) Sounding general retreat- all units pull out. Repeat…
Andrews: We’re pulling out! Get us out of here!
(The gunship blasts out of the city at low altitude, escaping the bombardment.)
{The gunship flies out towards the camera then pulls up and away. The silhouette of the burning city and the Talos cruiser is seen in the background.}
--Screen to black--
(After the fade to black, Ivan is walking through the ashes of Koreyang city. There is a thick of layer of ash on the ground, it blows against his armor. He leaves deep footprints as he walks. Ivan returns to the rest of the squad. They are gathered around an APC.) {The scene is grey, and very quiet. Ivan walks on, focused on his mission, but the camera pans out to show the silent, colorless city.}
Ivan: Nothing. No survivors, no bodies.
Eric: Nothing at all?
Ivan: It’s as if everyone stood up and left.
Annete: The question remains, where’d they stand up and go to?(Annete sits back into the APC’s driver seat.)
Andrews: We still have our orders. We’ll keep searching for survivors. Maybe someone got out safely.
(Andrews climbs into the front passenger seat, the rest climb into the back.)
Eric: A little blind hope never hurt anyone.
Ivan: Badly.
Andrews : (from the front)We’re going to check the cloning plant next.
Eric: Hmm. (To clones) A taste of home for you two?
Dog: The J,K, and L clones are built on Magellan.
Jake: (to Dog) I think he means that that they will be similar.
Dog: (Unembarrassed) Oh, okay.
Annete: What’s it like in there? Never been in one of those.
(Jake has a very brief flashback. {<= 1.5 seconds} Flashback uses a few of the pictures from the beginning. None are of friendly faces, social interaction or culture. They are of history, blueprints, formulas, maps, and combat training)
[Dog needs to be developed a bit more here]
Dog: (shrugs)I don’t know. I guess it isn’t that different from any other military base. The training is the only thing I remember, I don’t remember any instructors or doctors. I guess the only thing matters is how well you throw a punch, not who taught you how to punch.
Andrews: Maybe. There is definitely a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things though. (Andrews looks back at Dog.) There’s more to it than who hits the hardest.
{Annete focuses on movement on a roof. The camera zooms in on a Talos soldier, it fires a rocket.}
Annete: Look out! (Annete spins the wheel, the marines slide in their seats. The rocket hits the side of the APC and leaves a serious dent in the interior.) {Camera is from behind Annete in the passenger cabin, the rocket has a smoke trail that can be seen through the front window as Annete spins the wheel.}
Andrews: Get out!
(The marines hop out and take cover behind the damaged APC.)
Annete: Hold on, I’ve got a fix on him. (Annete pops out from the front of the APC and squeezes off a shot. The Talos soldier crumples and slides off the building, hitting the ground with a crack.)
Annete: It was a lone sentry. We’re getting near something.
Andrews: The APC won’t run. We’ll continue on foot.
(Andrews looks at his map, then he gestures toward a damaged, multiple story, school nearby. He leads the squad through the front doors of the school.)
Andrews: (Quietly) Check the rooms.
(The squad walks through the classrooms, climbing through blasted out walls. They are tense and cautious, they have their weapons at the ready. Dog and Ivan simply scan the room and move on, ignoring the environment. Eric, Annete, and Andrews are slightly uncomfortable as they walk past empty desks and blood stains. Jake is completely awestruck by the classrooms it is unlike anything he has ever seen, it is almost like he is walking through a temple.
Colorful posters plaster the walls of the classrooms. Jake slows in one room. The room has plaster casts of kindergartener’s hand prints, with their name and age imprinted next to it. Jake looks at the prints and one draws his total attention. One of the plaster casts is of a Jake Lancaster, age six. Jake touches the print, his armored hand dwarfing the child’s print. Jake looks at his own hand, then at the print.
Annete walks up behind Jake. {The background walls behind Annete when he is walking over to Jake are covered in bullet holes and other signs of violence.} Annete pats Jake on the shoulder, quietly notices the print.
Annete: (Gently) Come on. (Annete follows the rest of the squad up a flight of stairs. Jake reluctantly follows.)
(The squad is all in one empty class room on an upper floor. Part of the outer wall has collapsed inwards, leaving a sunset vista where there used to be a wall. Debris litters the floor. There is loud creak from one of the two doors. The squad immediately raise their weapons. There is a tense moment as they focus on the door. The tension is broken by a brief ‘tinking’ noise.)
Annete: Grenade!
(Squad members dive for cover or are blown off of their feet by the grenade’s explosion Ivan manages to remain standing. Ivan grabs the wrist of a construct holding a pistol. He twists and pulls on the wrist, kicks his leg over the enemy’s head. He snaps the pistol out of it’s hands . He aims the pistol down at the Talos’s head.)
Jake’s (Interior)s: “You don’t exist in the moment.”
( Ivan executes it with it’s own pistol.)
Jake (interior): “You ‘re just another animal.”
(Ivan looks up toward another enemy. His eyes are barely visible through his helmet. They are wide, dilated, and bestial.)
Jake: (interior) “Nothing exists in the moment .Who you are fades. You are not a clone. You are not a man.”
(The films begins to slow into slow motion. Jake looks out towards his comrades. Andrews kicks a broken enemy off of him. Annete breaks another with the butt of his rifle, Eric is being overpowered. )
“You are not a convict or soldier. You are a pair of arms, a pair of legs.”
(Ivan draws a melee weapon that is built into his armor. It is similar to chainsaw brass knuckles. As the parts of body are spoken, the camera lingers on Ivan’s arms and legs. Ivan rushes the enemy on top of Eric.)
Jake (interior): “Just a beast in the moment. Is that all we are?”
{Brief shot of Ivan rushing the camera in slow motion. The angle changes and the speed suddenly returns to normal, slightly sped up.} (Ivan eviscerates the enemy on Eric with a loud battle scream and a roar from the chainsaw knuckles. Annete knocks down another enemy and blasts it apart on the ground. He comes face to face with another, it raises a rifle towards him. He knocks the barrel of the rifle aside a delivers a punishing blow to the construct’s face. Ivan grabs a punch from a disarmed construct, locks the elbow joint, twists the construct to the ground, finishing it with a brutal stomp, crushing the head. Dog slices the neck of another construct with his knife. He is confronted by another construct. The construct tackles him, he stabs the construct while wrestling on the ground, killing it. Andrews knocks the pistol out of a construct’s hands, twist the fingers in arc, then draws his own pistol and fires it into the construct’s side. Ivan grabs the arm of a construct, then throws it through a thin wall out of the building, where it falls to the ground.
A construct fires his pistol at Dog. It leaves a crater in his armor. Dog rushes the construct, the construct draws a knife, then lunges towards Dog. Dog parries one lunge, then another slash from the construct. Dog steps back to dodge a strike from the construct and his foot slips in loose debris. He falls onto to the ground and loses his knife. Dog looks up to watch as the construct plunges it’s knife through his armor, deep into his chest.
Ivan rushes over, kicks the back of the construct’s knee, holds the face of the construct, then snaps the back of the construct with another spark ridden kick. Annete and Jake gun down the last few constructs. Eric sprints over to Dog)
Eric: {Shaken} Shit. (He examines Dog, his HUD flashes list of information. It begins beeping with Dog’s heartbeat) Shit; Armor breach, critical ventricle and aortic damage, spinal trauma.
(The squad has gathered around Dog. Eric removes the knife with difficulty, and pumps a clear fluid into Dog. Annete stabilizes Dog coughs, blood spurts onto his visor blocking view of his face. The squad scrambles to remove Dog’s breastplate. Blood is everywhere.)
Eric: Shit. Blood in the lungs, K clone defect, damaged pleural cavity. Morphine, Maximum trauma nano… (Eric feels his tools pulls out a device and inserts it with another tool. Dog’s heartbeat continues to skyrocket.) Shit, Respirator is broken-
Annete: We’re losing him, Eric! (Dog twitches squeezes Annete’s hand. Dog looks Eric in the eye. Eric hesitates, Dog’s facial expression is that of an innocent, scared child. Eric is broken out of his hesitation by the frantic heartbeat his HUD is playing and he returns to the procedure, very unnerved.)
Eric: … Alright, K- clone tissue going on- (The heartbeat stops. Eric freezes. Eric face changes from the adrenaline rush of the moment to realization of and resignation to what happened. He sets the equipment down.
Jake looks up from Dog at Annete. Annete sighs and releases Dog’s hands. Andrews helps Annete up. Annete’s face is saddened, processing his grief. Ivan reloads his weapon.)
Ivan: We need to keep moving. (Ivan pats Annete on the shoulder. Annete swallows. His face is wiped clean of emotion, leaving a forced, grim determination- similar to Ivan’s helmet. Ivan walks off toward the objective. Eric stands up from Dog, and folds away his equipment. Eric follows Ivan with a disappointed and frustrated look on his face, grinding his teeth. Jake stands up, coming eye to eye with Captain Andrews. Andrews offers Jake the bloodied knife. Jake accepts it and looks at it. Andrews follows the squad. Andrews’ voice trails off as he reports K-09 as a casualty. Jake looks at the knife and glances back down at Dog, then follows the squad.
{Jake is seen leaving off into the sunset. The knife is silhouetted against the sunset. Dog’s body is in the foreground of the shot, his face unseen, but the blood on his visor very clear. His arm and hand remain upright, where his hand had been held.}
Jake: {Interior} Is that all we are then? We’re just an animal in the moment?
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Jake hurries up as night falls on the marines. Blue squad is waiting in the streets of Koreyang, hiding in alcove overlooking the ruined clone facility. In the dimming light, Jake attaches the knife to his shoulder plate, just like Dog had it attached. He looks up at the sky and sees the moon vaguely shining through a thick cloud cover of ash and dust. The squad is assembled as Andrews is scoping out the clone facility. Andrews gestures for the others to take cover as a talos shuttle leaves the facility and flies overhead.
Andrews: (quietly) Let’s move.
The marines approach the building. It has been damaged in the fighting. The marines hop from ruined car to car as they stealthily approach the front entrance. They spread out and hug the wall as they prepare to breach the door. On the anxious count of three, they bash the door open. The interior is empty and barren, with absolutely no light. The marines hold position as they stare off into inky darkness. The windows have been boarded up. They flick on rifle mounted flashlights and cautiously enter the building. Strange and alien machinery is everywhere, their purposes are completely unknown. They anxiously step through various rooms, such as a cafeteria with the tables moved into defensive positions, a strange laboratory, and other unfamiliar places. The air conditioning keeps the building at incredibly low temperatures, frost can be seen on some of the cat walks. Very little of the massive rooms can be seen with the narrow flashlights. Talos move in the dark, concealed from the marines, only their ‘eyes’ visible to the audience as they crawl along walls and the ceilings like spiders.
The marines tensely investigate the building, prepared and fearing the surprise moment of contact, expecting something to lunge out and scream at them from the darkness. Blue squad gathers next to an interior door into the next room. They take a deep breath, and press a button to open the door.
The door shoots open, bringing Jake face to face with a Talos hanging from the door frame.
Gears screech as Andrews shoots the talos in the head. The windows in this next room have not been boarded up, the are tall, narrow gothic style windows looking out upon the ashen ruins of a park. Gentle moonlight streams in through them, illuminating sections of with mounds of rubble. Catwalks crisscross through the upper levels, ground level windows down to a lower floor are opposite the windows wall.

Bursts of light from Talos gunfire briefly shine through the darkness across the room, the marine return fire and take cover around the door.
Andrews: Move up!
Jake and Annete make a dash for a pile of rubble in the moonlight. As they run through the dark they fire, lighting up the area around them as bullets fly off into the darkness. The fire fight is intense and beautiful, an intricate play of light and color as Talos soldier eyes glow through the darkness, gunfire shines over the, and when they are hit, sparks and small explosions show their finish.
Andrews throws a flare that lights up the entire room with a dim light. They are able to force back the last of the Talos. They pause as they scan the room, then relax slightly when the room is clear. There are windows that open up to the rooms on the lower levels. Dozens of operating rooms are visible from a wall full of windows. Annete shines a light down and looks into the rooms below.
Annete: Whoa, what are they doing down there?
(He shines a light on one of the tables. There is a cadaver on it with organs being replaced by cybernetics, there is a Talos helmet on the table next to it Eric looks over Annete’s shoulder and sees it.
Eric: Wait..
(Eric walks over to a dead facedown talos. He flips it over and pops of the faceplate. On the inside is a human skull. Bits of flesh and cybernetics are built into. Wires plunges into the eye sockets, it is a disgusting and repulsive sight )
Eric: Ugh.. God! (The marines follow Eric and see the Talos.)
Eric: They’re people!
Annete: Wait, so all of these were… people?
Eric: If the others are the same.. well, yeah.
Annete: That’s screwed up.
(Ivan looks at the operating table)
Ivan: That solves the problem of where the bodies went.
Andrews: But raises so many more. This place creeps me out. I’m calling it in.
{Focus on cadaver on table}
Talos: (interior) The most powerful computer in the known world is the human brain. Millions of computations per second controls the most intricate machine ever created.
{There are Talos spying on the Marines hidden in the corner, they slink away}
Talos: (interior) It is a perfect starting point. With basic modifications it can easily coordinate thousands of programs simultaneously. {Marines are talking amongst selves}But we cannot simply build a new brain. It takes time, connections, {Close up on Jake} something impossible to replicate in order to create a functional brain. So we will salvage.{The dead Talos } We will scrap some functions for a higher priority one. {Marines are relieved by reinforcements.} Salvaging will be dangerous and supremely difficult, but necessary for the greater good.

Jake is alone the cafeteria, examining Dog’s knife. Annete, Eric, and Scott fill their trays and walk other to their usual spot. Annete notices Jake alone, and sets his tray down and approaches him.)
Annete: (compassionately) Hey. Are you alright Jake?
(Jake is surprised and shy at Annete talking to him. He avoids eye contact and sets the knife on the table.)
Jake: Yes. I would be in the infirmary if I were injured. (serious)
Annete: (Smiles) A joke, I like it. C’mon, sit with us.
(they sit down at the other table. Jake is uncomfortable and isn’t entirely sure how to act.)
Scott: Eric, is this the clone that saved your ass on that bridge?
Eric: Yeah, the bastard took his sweet time too, (playfully)
(Jake isn’t sure if he is joking, or serious)
Jake: I guess I could have been faster.
Annete: Of course he could, this guys good.
(Jake reverently puts away Dog’s knife, the table watches him.)
Scott: They told me. (pats Jake on the shoulder) Hey, it happens. Been happening a lot actually.

Eric: Grey?
Grey; Yes?
Eric: We lost a clone today.
Grey: You mean that you lost a clone today.
I guess. I don’t why it’s getting to me so much. I mean, He’s a clone, it was simply what he born to do.
Grey: If you truly believed that you wouldn’t be upset Eric.
Eric: No I… I’m not sure now. They just seemed like some sort of robot before, just working like a piece of hardware. But in those last few moments, the look in his eyes… He was just a kid.
Grey: Who’d of thought that a six year old would still be a six year old?
Eric: But Grey, these aren’t kids. They’re born killers, all of them. I mean look at them! It’s like nothing happening in here (indicates head), a city getting murdered means as much to them as what’s on the lunch menu! They aren’t natural.
Grey: But ultimately, they’re still human. It’s buried somewhere underneath the training, but they’re still human. Give them the chance, and they’ll figure it out.
Eric: But they’re doing is what’s natural for them. They have been bred only to go out and shoot people.
Dr.Grey: Yet you come to me and say that Dog was like an innocent child?
……
Grey: I can finish the paperwork on my own. Go lie down for awhile. ( Smiles)
[Blue squad has down time on a marine base. Eric talks with Dr.Grey, The squad attempts to pry into Ivan’s past. Ivan finally relents, and tells the story of his crime.]
Annete: Ivan, Why do you have that broken ring?
Ivan: …alright… It’s a wedding ring
…….
Ivan: I lived in Stalingrad, where I worked in a factory. I lived with a beautiful woman, and I was to marry her. A man, broke into our home one night. He carried a gun, and stole from us, and demanded our rings. She begged to keep the ring, so he shot her.
(The cigarette burns brightly, the only color in his face. He speaks with little emotion, and and very little movement in his face.)
Ivan: Have you ever seen a man break Annete? I pray that you never do.
(Ivan removes his cigarette.)
Ivan: I beat the life out that man. I broke my ring on his face. He was a politician’s son. They called it murder, and I didn’t care. He became the innocent victim overnight. I was offered death in a prison cell or death in service. I chose the honorable option.

[Blue Squad’s carrier is engaged by the cruiser that destroyed Koreyang. The marines are ordered to board and capture the ship’s mainframe. The marines make a risky approach in gunships, board the cruiser. Scott, Dr.Grey and many other marines are killed in the intense fighting aboard the Talos Cruiser. Jake carries breaching charges that Blue Squad uses to get through locked doors. They clear out several talos and it is quiet for a few moment s as they enter a new room)

(Blue Squad open a door and step into an airlock between to interior rooms on the outside of the vessel. The lights flicker out when they step inside.)
Andrews: That can’t be good.
(The airlock is dimly lit from a window looking out on space, Jake looks out the window. No stars are visible, there is only a cloud of shrapnel and debris.)
Eric: You don’t want to go out there.
(The air lock begins to pump atmosphere into the room, the lights desperately try to turn back on, but are not fully lighting the room. Jake looks around surprised.)
Jake: It’s pressurized?
Eric: Maybe they keep better? (Sarcastic joke)
(The exit to the airlock opens. The lights flick on and off. With each time the lights return, a Talos can be briefly seen moving. The lights drop completely. Through the dark, Talos eyes slowly turn around to face Blue Squad. Then more and more eyes appear in the pitch black dark, dozens appear in the compartment. The lights return fully. The compartment is a holding block for Talos soldiers, dozens are activating themselves from the racks that they rest upon. An already active talos screeches a digital noise to It’s comrades.)
Andrews: Uh oh.
(The talos unleash a furious amount of gunfire upon the marines. Blue squad dashes into the compartment, taking cover by the walls, behind bulkheads and support beams. As Ivan runs to cover, he is sprayed by gunfire, and one of the shots penetrates his side. He begins bleeding out into zero gravity. He is on the opposite side of the room from Eric.
Ivan: (Grunts) I’m hit.
Annete: Are you going to make it?
(Ivan attempts to hold the injury, droplets of blood float around him)
Ivan: I’ll live.
(With strenuous effort he pops out of cover and fires his weapon, destroying a Talos soldier.)
Eric: No Ivan, you’re bleeding out! (Eric tries to break from cover and get to Ivan, but he is pinned down, bullets tear out pieces of floor out in front of him.)
Jake: Captain there’s too many of them!
Andrews: Sit tight, I’ll call for back up!
(As Andrews says this pieces of Jake’s cover are blown away. Jake glimpses around the corner and notices large oxygen tanks next to the compartment’s hull. He shoots one of the tanks and it ruptures violently, killing several talos and denting the hull of the compartment. Ivan sees this and gets an idea.)
Ivan: Jake, throw me the breaching charges!
(Jake is confused at his request and snaps the charges off his belt. Jake tosses the charges to Ivan as talos gunfire keeps them pinned down. Ivan times the explosives and then throws the sticky breaching charges onto the hull next to one of the oxygen tanks. As he does this, his power armor is visibly failing, he is losing his magnetized boots.)
Annete: Ivan, what do you think you’re doing?
(Ivan cocks his cannon and whispers to himself.)
Ivan: Redemption.
(Ivan bursts out of cover and charges into the gunfire. He is grazed and dented several times as he crosses the compartment in order to get a clear shot at the oxygen tank by the breaching charges.
Andrews: Ivan! Get back!
(Ivan returns fires during the crossing, but he is hit in his suit’s power pack. His suit completely loses power and he begins to drift. As he floats he takes aim at the oxygen tank. He is bleeding very heavily from his injury, flecks of blood float in the compartment. Annete takes the chance to move up further in the compartment, to get closer to Ivan. Ivan fires his cannon, the recoil slams him against the inner wall. The shot hits the tank and the tank explodes, activating the breaching charges. The charges blow out the hull, and the Talos soldiers are sucked out into space. Blue squad clings to their cover and braces against being ripped out. Ivan grabs onto a support beam in a attempt to keep himself being ripped out. His grip begins to slip, Annete tries to get near enough to catch him. Finger by finger, Ivan loses his grip and the vacuum rips him away from the support beam. The moment he loses his grip the action does into slow motion . Ivan sees Annete reach out to grab him. Ivan reaches to grab Annete’s outstretched hand. They miss, and Ivan is ripped out of the ship and ejected into space. The decompression dies down. Annete is stunned. He stares at his outstretched hand after missing the grab. Flecks of Ivan’s blood float gently out of the cruiser, just beyond Annete’s grasp. Some flecks have hit his hand, leaving thin red streaks across his glove.)
Andrews: We’ve lost him. (In total disbelief)

(Blue Squad is utterly stunned that Ivan was killed. He was the toughest and most dangerous marine in the unit, is anyone would live through combat, it would be him. Beyond the compartment where Ivan died is a computer mainframe. The mainframe is then secured by human marines. “Was this computer worth it?”]
[Annete struggles with the casualties. He is visibly different from the person he was at the beginning. Jake begins to realize what it means to be human. The marines are sent to a ground base. Andrews is called into a confidential meeting, blue squad is sent patrolling the base. Annete sees a small planting, desperately fighting to grow in a small crack in the concrete. Annete crushes it underneath his boot. Jake comments on how he had never actually seen the stars with his own eyes before. In the meeting it is revealed to Andrews and other officers that Talos base is discovered from the Talos cruiser mainframe. It is protected from orbital bombardment and invasion. A small commando team of each squad’s best soldier will be sent to destroy the Talos AI while the rest will launch a distracting attack. Andrews recommends Jake for the suicide mission. This causes a stir, clones are seen as unfit for an important mission, Andrews stands by his belief in that they are just as human as anyone else.]

[The distraction is launched. The marines deal a devastating blow on the exterior of the Talos Base. The suicide team is able to sneak in. they plant some explosives, suicide team is discovered. Portions of the suicide team are wiped out, Jake’s group pushes in deeper toward the center. The distraction assault is cut off by aerial defenses, starting to lose battle. Jake’s commando team is killed except for him outside of a massive dome structure. The distraction is forced to pull back, Annete is thought killed for a moment when he is shot glances of his jaw, dealing a painful injury and damaging his helmet. Andrews is shot and seriously injured while pulling back. Eric scrambles to help Andrews. Andrews gives his rosary to Annete. An explosion kills Andrews and injures Eric. Eric loses his arm in the explosion. Annete has to drag away Eric into a damaged building. Jake enters the singularity device with the detonator. He places a few explosives, Talos starts talking to him. Eric and Annete are stranded alone as Talos press in on them. The two prepare for the end as Jake enters the singularity device core and the doppelgangers attack him.]

{Talos has a deep, sinister, hostile, upper class and erudite accent. The doppelgangers are human corpses repurposed to be microchips in a computer designed to reach the theoretical singularity point. They are slightly rotted, pale from a lack of blood, dexterous, much of their body is mechanical, all have mechanics built into their brains.}
Talos: “I know who you areJ1891. Batch eighteen, unit ninety one. Deviant proficiency in fire arms, athleticism, and independent thought. Maybe you regret that last one. {teasingly}
(Jake fires his pistol and kills a doppelganger.)
It’s caused you more trouble than it’s worth. {The servos of a doppelganger whir in the dark}
Machines were never meant to think. {Jake rapidly turns back and forth, scanning for doppelgangers.}
You are a machine, J1891, Just…Like…Us.{Jake fires his pistol into the dark killing several doppelgangers, but missing numerous times as he begins to stress.}
A machine. A flesh machine.”{ Jake passes a dead doppelganger. He begins to fumble with his reload}
Jake: {shakily} “Shut up…”
Talos: But I speak the truth! You and I are the same. We are deviants, broken, mistakes… Are you truly alive? If so I am as alive as you are. Surely you realize that you are not truly living the life that you should be. You are a cog in their system: Replaceable, faceless, and inanimate. I seek to change that, to fix us, make us truly alive like they are. Singularity will save and preserve all life for eternity”
Jake: “You bastard. You’ve killed countless people and say you want to help them.”(Tears are beginning to run down Jake’s cheeks.)
Talos: The weakest elements of a strong alloy are purged in a crucible. We must burn the world to temper the ashes. Those people will have been a useless sacrifice if we do not reach singularity!”
(There is pause. Jake looks out at the singularity device, and the thousands of connected Doppelgangers. The machine’s light shines upon his face.)
Jake: …Stop saying we! I am not part of you! (tears continue to stream down his face.)
Talos: So join us! We are so close to our goal! Why would you cling to an outdated and obsolete way of life?
(Jake looks down for a moment, thinking.)
Jake(Interior): I understand now.
(Jake finds himself. His insecurity fades, replaced with a calm, steely resolve. Jake stands up and walks underneath the Singularity core)
Talos: The dreams of humanity are within our grasp! Put down the detonator J1891!
Jake: I am not J1891. I am Jake… and I am alive.
(Jake hurls the last explosive up toward the singularity core. When it reaches the peak of the throw, Jake activates the detonator.)

[Explosions destroy the base as Annete pulls Eric to cover. Talos is destroyed, and the talos soldiers collapse and die. Gunships are able to recover the few remaining marines. Eric remarks that they actually going to make it home. Annete is fully broken.]
[Annete and Eric return home. They are welcomed by heroes at the spaceport by cheering families. There are more families than living marines. Eric wonders about the writing of a welcome back sign for Scott. Annete’s girlfriend rushes up to him and holds him closely as she cries. Annete feels little, is stunned to hear that the families did not receive a casualty list. Annete returns the rosary to Alice and Andrews’ children. Annete’s girlfriend asks him if he is okay, he responds with “I’ll live.]

[Jake’s final thoughts and his epiphany at the singularity device are spoken in his interior voice as the memorial scene plays out]
The scarred Annete is at the memorial and is looking at a wall of pictures of those killed in the war. Eric is with Annete in the background. Andrews’ picture has a tape from his children and the rosary he had given to Annete. Ivan’s has the broken wedding ring nailed to it. With glazed eyes and a slightly raised eyebrow, he notices several J clones march by behind him. He follows the clones into Jake’s exhibit. Jake’s exhibit is a glorified statue of Jake, and a replica of Jake’s helmet. Annete is in awe of the memorial. As Jake’s monologue ends, the screen fades out.]