Beyond Existence (2022) Movie Script
1
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[WAVES SOFTLY LAPPING]
[WAVES CRASHING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DEBRIS INTENSELY WHOOSHING]
[DEBRIS CLATTERING]
[DEBRIS CONTINUES CLATTERING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DEBRIS CONTINUES CLATTERING]
[DEBRIS CONTINUES CLATTERING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[LIGHT WHOOSHING]
[DOORS INTENSELY SHUFFLING OPEN]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DOORS SLAMMING SHUT]
[DEBRIS CLATTERING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
[EERIE DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ELECTRONIC SIZZLING]
[ELECTRICITY BUZZING]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
[COMPUTERS CHIMING]
PROFESSOR: [SIGHS] All right.
[PROFESSOR SIGHS HEAVILY]
[COMPUTERS CONTINUE CHIMING]
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
[COMPUTERS CONTINUE CHIMING]
[KEYBOARD SHUFFLES AND CLATTERS]
[PROFESSOR SOFTLY SIGHS]
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
[COMPUTER CHIRPING]
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
[COMPUTER CHIRPS]
[KEYBOARD KEY THUDS]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
[KEYBOARD KEY THUDS]
Fuck!
[KEYBOARD KEY THUDS]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
[KEYBOARD CLACKS]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
[KEYBOARD CLACKS]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING CONTINUES]
[CHAIR SHUFFLES]
[COAT RUSTLING]
[COMPUTER CHIRPS]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CHAIR SHUFFLING]
[KEYBOARD CLACKS]
[COMPUTER ALARM BLARING]
[KEYBOARD KEY THUDS]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[GATE DOOR CLATTERING]
[MOTOR WHIRRING]
[CAR ENGINE RUMBLES]
[PROFESSOR SIGHS LOUDLY]
[KNOCKING ON WINDOW]
Sorry.
[KNOCKING ON WINDOW]
[WINDOW MOTOR WHIRRING]
You're not registered
to leave, Professor.
PROFESSOR: Call your
superiors.
And where exactly are you going?
[LIGHTER FLICKS]
Are you deaf?
Where are you going?
Jobsworth.
Just get back to work.
You know what's going to
happen next, don't you?
I'm going to phone
your boss's boss,
and before the end
of the day is out,
you're not only gonna
be out of a job,
but you're also gonna
be locked up in a cell
for putting this country
in jeopardy.
And that bike of
a wife of yours,
and your underachieving spawn,
will have no one to put
food on the table anymore.
Or you could just quite
simply open this gate,
and carry on living with your
useless existence in peace.
But the one thing you don't
want to do, sonny boy,
is make me finish
this cigarette here.
[WINDOW MOTOR WHIRRING]
[RADIO STATIC]
Let him through.
[GATE CLATTERS OPEN]
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CAR COMPUTER CHIMES]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[CAR COMPUTER CHIMES]
[ENGINE REVS]
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[GRAVEL CRUNCHING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[FLASK LID CLATTERS]
[LIQUID SLOSHING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[LIGHTER FLICKS]
[LIGHTER FLICKS]
[DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DEVICE INTENSELY WHIRRING]
[GATE CREAKS OPEN]
[DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
[DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[FOOTSTEPS PATTERING]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[FOOTSTEPS PATTERING]
[LOCK RATTLING]
[DOOR HANDLE CLATTERS]
[WHEEL SQUEAKING]
[DOOR RATTLES OPEN]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[LOCK CLATTERS]
[GATE CREAKS]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[FEET SHUFFLING]
It was only a matter of time,
I suppose.
ELLEN: Make your way up.
PROFESSOR: Yeah, put the
gun away.
[FOOTSTEPS ASCENDING]
Look, this isn't America, woman!
People just don't go around
carrying guns.
ELLEN: License.
Look, I don't feel particularly
comfortable with that-
ELLEN: License now.
[BRIEFCASE THUDS]
Do anything unexpected,
and I will put a bullet
through your brain.
PROFESSOR: Understood.
Whoa, whoa, back up!
Drop it.
[PROFESSOR SOFTLY SIGHS]
[ID THUDS]
Carry on back.
Yeah, I bet you love your job?
ELLEN: Idiot.
PROFESSOR: Why is that?
You should burn your trail,
and destroy all traces of
yourself when you go on the run.
PROFESSOR: I didn't run.
Yeah, at least not from
you, anyway.
You must have realized we
were tracking you?
I was counting on it.
Who's here?
PROFESSOR: What?
ELLEN: Are you alone?
You must be really popular
with your friends?
ELLEN: Answer the question.
What difference does it make?
The difference is a round
through your skull,
or you get to live life
a little bit longer!
I'm alone.
Good.
So how do you want to do this?
Do what exactly?
ELLEN: I'm not holding this
for fun.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Now, look, you don't
want to do this.
ELLEN: You knew this would
happen if you went on the run.
I didn't run!
What'd you call this then?
PROFESSOR: The briefcase.
Those are your last words?
The briefcase.
You need what's inside.
What's inside?
The Henco.
Get on your knees!
Look, I'll make a deal with you.
ELLEN: Shut up!
Yeah, I have him.
No, he says he has the Henco.
Confirmed.
Please tell me that was good
news?
ELLEN: Up.
Get up!
Well, okay, okay, okay, okay!
ELLEN: Pick up that briefcase.
Move.
Stop.
In.
PROFESSOR: Sorry, did you
just say in?
Get in.
What the hell?!
No, no, this wasn't part of the
deal.
There is no deal.
Put that down.
[BRIEFCASE CLATTERS]
You know, you have a real
personality problem,
you know that?
I'm about two seconds away
from knocking you out.
I bet you used to press
doorbells and run, didn't you?
You probably stole children's
ice cream as well.
[TRUNK CLATTERS SHUT]
[BRIEFCASE THUDS]
[BANGING FROM INSIDE TRUNK]
[BRIEFCASE CLOSES]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[CAR ENGINE RUMBLES]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
GUARDIAN: Afternoon, ma'am.
ELLEN: What's going on?
Just a routine road check.
Out here?
What are you hoping to find?
Where is he?
I'm sorry?
We're both here for the same
reason.
ELLEN: I don't know what your--
GUARDIAN: Get out of the car.
Out.
Last time.
All right.
[GEAR SHIFT CLANKS]
[SEATBELT CLATTERS]
[GUNSHOT FIRING]
[CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Who sent you, hmm?
[GUARDIAN GRUNTS PAINFULLY]
Who are you working with?
Who are you working with?
[GUNSHOT FIRING]
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[GRAVEL CRUNCHING]
[TIRES SKIDDING]
[BRAKES SQUEAKING]
[CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
[TRUNK CLATTERS OPEN]
[MOTOR WHIRRING]
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS]
ELLEN: You can get out now.
[PROFESSOR GROANS]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES GROANING]
PROFESSOR: Ahhhh...
You all right?
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS]
I've just been stuck in
the boot of a car
for god knows how long!
How'd you think I am?
You look all right.
Yeah, well, I'm not.
And you just shot someone.
It was necessary.
Oh, so you just killed him?
ELLEN: Yep.
There were no other options?
So you just killed him.
Are you gonna
cooperate with me,
or I can just shut you back in
the boot?
Is that your answer to
everything, is it?
When in doubt, shoot.
If there's a threat.
Oh, and I'm a threat, am I?
Me, an old man, yeah?
And what hope do I have against
you?
I'll be honest with you here,
I don't feel particularly safe
with a trigger happy lunatic
constantly waving a gun around.
ELLEN: Alright, I'm-
PROFESSOR: What are you doing?
Let's just try and get along.
You are nuts,
eh?
One second, you have your hand
on the gun,
the next, you want to make
friends.
I'm trying to make you feel
comfortable.
Yeah, well, why now?
You're still valuable to us,
even more now than you were
before.
We want what's best for you.
Yeah, and what's best
for me is not to be
in the enemy's hands, yeah?
ELLEN: Exactly. So I'm here to
protect you.
Yeah, until you're told
otherwise.
So what do I call you,
or are you just a gun for hire?
My name's Ellen.
PROFESSOR: Well,
screw you, Ellen!
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
Where are we going?
Ellen?
Ellen, Ellen, Ellen,
Ellen, Ellen-
What?
Where are we going?
A secure facility.
Oohh, that sounds ominous.
We'll be safe there.
PROFESSOR: What happens
when we get there?
I'll hand you to one of my
colleagues.
And then?
I don't know.
It works best if I don't know
what happens
or where you're moved to.
It's safer for
everyone that way.
I thought you said you
were going to protect me?
That's exactly what I'm doing.
You seem like a bright
girl, I think?
Yeah, let's assume that you are.
Let's assume you know exactly
who I am, that I'm not
just some old person
that your superiors have told--
ELLEN: Get on with it!
PROFESSOR: Look, whatever
they told you,
it's not safe there
for either of us.
You need to...
What is it you people say?
"Burn our trails."
"Throw away the phone."
"Ditch the car."
Look, we're both in danger.
If your people know
where we are, so do mine.
No one knows where we
are except for my unit,
and I can trust them.
You can trust them.
Really?
Trust me.
Now, how do I trust someone
who only follows orders, hmm?
[CAR ENGINE REVS]
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
[PROFESSOR SIGHS]
[OBJECT RUSTLING]
Don't even think about it.
I don't follow orders.
In my car, you do.
You weren't told to
stop me getting
lung cancer as well,
were you?
No.
But if you arrive with a few
broken bones,
it doesn't matter to me.
[LIGHTER FLICKS]
Don't!
[LIGHTER LID CLANKS SHUT]
Or?
I will punch you in the face
until that cigarette falls out
your mouth.
[SCOFFS] Seriously?
ELLEN: Try it!
See, normally I'd be curious,
hmm,
but not today.
Not with you.
You're the one that's going to
suffer anyway.
And why is that?
Because I get really
ratty when I don't smoke!
[PROFESSOR CHUGGING]
[PROFESSOR EXHALES LOUDLY]
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
[CAR ENGINE
CONTINUES ROARING]
Where is it?
You'll see when we get there.
No, my case?
In the back.
Well, considering its
contents,
you don't care very much, hmm?
[COMBINATION LOCK CLICKING]
ELLEN: Don't.
PROFESSOR: Don't what?
ELLEN: Open it.
Don't you want to see?
ELLEN: I still don't know what
you've got inside there.
PROFESSOR: What are you
scared of?
Do you think I'm like you, that
I carry a piece, hmm?
So aren't you going to ask?
Ask what?
What makes me so special,
and why your people wanted me
dead,
but now, they want me alive?
You are alive because of the
Henco.
Yeah, but that doesn't
answer why
you were sent to kill me.
You were trading
information with the government.
What type of information?
What type of information?
Oh, wait, [SUCKS TEETH]
it's above your pay grade.
ELLEN: I'm not going to
argue with you, old man!
Just out of curiosity, what do
you do?
ELLEN: What, my job?
PROFESSOR: Yep.
ELLEN: Oh, I'm a-
PROFESSOR: You know,
what's your job title?
ELLEN: I'm trying to tell-
PROFESSOR: I just want
PROFESSOR: to be clear.
ELLEN: Yeah, but if you listen-
PROFESSOR: I don't care
about you,
no one cares about you!
It doesn't matter what you do.
I'm the one who's important
here, not you!
You're expendable!
God, you're a nasty old drunk.
They left that out your file.
PROFESSOR: I'm hungover, yeah,
and this, [FLASK RATTLING]
this is the only thing
that's keeping my nerves at ease
since I was almost executed.
You're still an alcoholic.
Well, I'm not contesting that.
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
[CAR ENGINE CONTINUES ROARING]
What are you doing now?
PROFESSOR: Getting my file.
What makes you think I got it
with me?
PROFESSOR: [CHUCKLES] You
people are so predictable.
ELLEN: That so?
PROFESSOR: Yeah.
I bet you, my file is...
Oh, hang on, wait.
Don't tell me you don't bet?
So predictable.
[COMBINATION LOCK CLICKS]
ELLEN: You don't see me
ruffling through your things.
Ah-ha!
You tried to open my case.
The combination had changed.
You just didn't succeed.
You point that finger at me
again and I will break it off.
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
[CAR ENGINE CONTINUES ROARING]
God, you're like a child!
3-7-3-6-7-1.
PROFESSOR: What?
ELLEN: The code.
I didn't expect that.
That's the code to my case,
not my life.
[LOCK CLICKS OPEN]
No, that's not what I meant.
Well, we got off on the wrong
foot.
[BRIEFCASE LID THUDS SHUT]
PROFESSOR: I can read this?
ELLEN: Mm-hmm.
It's about you, after all.
[PAGES RUSTLING]
There's nothing in here about
the Henco.
Why would there be?
[PAPER RUSTLING]
Yep, that's me.
My life, my time on Earth.
[BRIEFCASE LID THUDS SHUT]
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
You know, I came here a
young man to begin my research.
I sacrificed everything for my
work,
and then some.
You know, I never got
homesick before-
ELLEN: Why are you
telling me this?
Do you know what it's like
to truly devote your entire life
to a cause,
and then realize, you didn't
believe in it?
Well, you were young and
ambitious.
You wanted to help mankind.
Yeah, but it was all lies.
And you turned into a drunk,
and now you are on the run.
Oh, is that right?
What a waste of a brilliant
mind.
Yeah, but you don't know me.
No, I don't know about you,
Professor.
I didn't just read your
file.
Well, I'll be damned!
I'm in the presence of a
fan.
I know about the
young, controversial scientists.
You forced physicists
to completely rethink
the science of black holes.
God, a Nobel Prize at the age of
23!
A genius of our time.
No university education.
A gift to mankind.
I read all about you as a child.
I read about your series.
Yeah, but you certainly
didn't appear starstruck
when you first met me.
Do you normally go around
trying to blow the brains out
of all your childhood
idols, hmm?
Who's next on the list,
Tina Turner,
Rolling Stones, Bruce
Springsteen, who?
You were a threat.
Threats have to be taken out.
You think you're Carrie
Mathison.
I am just doing my job.
Yeah, well, I failed at mine.
Obviously not,
I mean, if you've made
the Henco.
What's so funny?
There's nothing in
your briefcase, is there?
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES LAUGHING]
Do you think I would've
gone to such lengths to hide it,
if it wasn't real?
[PROFESSOR LAUGHS]
[CAR ENGINE RUMBLES]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
What is this place?
ELLEN: It was the test facility
the '50s.
[CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
PROFESSOR: What did they test?
ELLEN: The US had MK Ultra and
Britain had this.
Apparently, we were
more successful, though,
but I wouldn't know.
That was before my time.
And?
Oh, only a handful of us know
about this place now.
They did test on us during our
training.
What type of tests?
What type of tests, Ellen?
It's time for you to show me
what inside that briefcase.
Through there, go on.
Through there.
[BRIEFCASE THUDS]
[GUN SOFTLY CLACKS]
There's no need for that.
Don't try anything stupid.
I thought you were protecting
me?
I still don't know what's in
there.
[COMBINATION LOCK CLICKING]
[LOCK CLATTERS OPEN]
[DARK OMINOUS MUSIC]
PROFESSOR: The Henco.
ELLEN: So this is it?
What else were you expecting?
[DARK OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[FEET SHUFFLING]
[ELLEN PANTING HEAVILY]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[ELLEN CONTINUES PANTING
HEAVILY]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[FEET CLOMPING]
[ELLEN GROANS]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
Professor?!
[ELLEN GRUNTS]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[LIGHT RAYS CONTINUE WHOOSHING]
Professor?!
[LIGHT RAYS CONTINUE WHOOSHING]
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
[LIGHT RAYS CONTINUE WHOOSHING]
[FRIGHTENED GASP]
What the hell?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: Ellen.
[DISEMBODIED VOICE ECHOES]
ELLEN: How do you know my name?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: I
know everything.
Come on, where the fuck am I?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: Inside
the Henco.
ELLEN: Who are you?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: Soon, you
will know.
ELLEN: What am I doing here?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: You are
being prepared.
ELLEN: For what?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: It doesn't
matter now.
You're not safe.
You must go.
I don't understand.
DISEMBODIED VOICE: You're
in danger.
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[INTENSE BOOMING]
[COMBINATION LOCK CLICKING]
[LOCK CLATTERS OPEN]
PROFESSOR: The Henco.
So this is it?
What else were you expecting?
[DISEMBODIED VOICES WHISPERING]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[CHAIR CREAKS]
Something isn't right.
PROFESSOR: Ellen?
ELLEN: From outside.
[PROFESSOR WHIMPERS]
PROFESSOR: But where are
you going?
[BRIEFCASE LID CLANKS]
PROFESSOR: Oh, wait for me!
[WHISPERS] Ellen?
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
Ellen, what's going on?
[ELLEN SHUSHING]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC SWELLS]
What the fuck?!
[GUNSHOT FIRING]
[ELLEN GRUNTS]
[GUNSHOT FIRING]
PROFESSOR: Are you all right?
ELLEN: What is going on here?
PROFESSOR: Are you okay?
How did you know he was here?
[GUNSHOT FIRING]
[STAMMERS] Shit!
ELLEN: I had a feeling.
I told you it wasn't safe to
be here.
We need to go now!
ELLEN: What is going on?
[GUNSHOTS FIRING]
Tell me, what is going on?!
I killed him before.
PROFESSOR: No, you just simply
can't kill them.
ELLEN: Them?!
PROFESSOR: Yeah, my people.
ELLEN: Your people?!
Your people?!
Who are your people?!
Please!
[STAMMERS] Alpha Centaurians.
ELLEN: Is that the name of
your unit?
It's the name of my race.
Oh, come on!
PROFESSOR: Think about
it, Ellen!
That man back there, the Henco.
ELLEN: You're lying to me.
PROFESSOR: Oh, really?
ELLEN: I would've been told
about that.
[PROFESSOR LAUGHS MANIACALLY]
ELLEN: Why are you laughing?!
PROFESSOR: You're just a pawn!
So am I!
I mean, they want me alive,
but that's only because they
still need me.
Don't!
ELLEN: We need some support.
PROFESSOR: Think about
what you're doing.
They're only going to tell you
to go somewhere else,
and then you're gonna
risk being killed again.
You said it yourself,
"There's only a handful
of people who know
about this place!"
Something must have gone
wrong.
Yeah, what went wrong
was that your people
made a deal with mine,
and then they told them where we
were.
Yeah, we came close to being
killed.
[ELLEN HYPERVENTILATES]
PROFESSOR: Hmm?
I can't...
I can't...
ELLEN: Oh, god!
PROFESSOR: Ellen? Ellen?
Could you just...
It'll be alright.
ELLEN: Oh, god!
PROFESSOR: Ellen, come on.
PROFESSOR: Just keep calm!
ELLEN: This is crazy!
This is bullshit!
PROFESSOR: Oh, look...
Look, it'll be all right.
It's all right.
[ELLEN MUMBLES INDISTINCTLY]
Just deep breaths, Ellen.
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
Come on, deep breaths for me.
That's it, deep breaths.
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
Ellen, liste to me.
I can tell you the truth.
I can tell you what's really
going on here,
but I need you to be strong.
Ellen, I need you to keep your
shit together.
I need you to protect me.
What's the point?
Well, do it for yourself then.
ELLEN: It doesn't matter.
All right, well, then don't do
it for yourself!
Don't do it for me,
but do it for your race.
Do it for your humanity.
[ELLEN BREATHES SHAKILY]
Ellen, if he catches me,
if they take me back,
if he takes me back, then it's
all over.
ELLEN: [BREATHES SHAKILY]
What do you mean by that?
Let me...
Let me have a look at that, hmm?
Please.
[ELLEN CONTINUES
BREATHING SHAKILY]
[GENTLE DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ELLEN WHIMPERS]
[PROFESSOR EXHALES LOUDLY]
[ELLEN BREATHES SHAKILY]
ELLEN: What are you going to
do that?
Trust me, hmm?
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[ELLEN WHIMPERS PAINFULLY]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
Your arm's going to be numb for
a while.
[HAND TAPPING]
[ELLEN GASPS]
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
Let's go.
[ELLEN WHIMPERS SOFTLY]
Let's go!
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[MYSTICAL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[MYSTICAL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
What was that that you used
back there to heal me?
PROFESSOR: This?
ELLEN: Mm-hmm.
PROFESSOR: This is my Sennai.
ELLEN: Your what?
Look, it's kind of hard
to explain.
I guess you humans would say,
that part of my soul is in
the Sennai.
Are you pulling my leg?
PROFESSOR: Surely, your
understanding of what is
and isn't possible has changed?
So you're telling me that is
a part of your soul?
PROFESSOR: Yes and no.
A part of my soul exists in my
Sennai.
Why?
PROFESSOR: My soul powers
the Sennai
and the Sennai has the ability
to change matter.
Look, it's hard to explain.
Look, I guess the easiest way
to understand it is,
the Sennai can move protons and
electrons at rapid speeds,
allowing matter to be changed.
Show me.
PROFESSOR: All Sennai are linked
If I use this, you'll know
exactly where we are.
I don't know if I'd give up
part of my soul
for that ability.
[SCOFFS] I wouldn't either.
But you did.
Well, my whole civilization did,
but not for that.
No, they did it because
the Sennai is indestructible.
It can't be destroyed.
So you're immortal?
Part of me is, yes.
The part of me that exists in
my Sennai.
Nothing in the entire universe
can destroy it?
Except a black hole.
What I don't get is what you
were doing here?
I know you were trading
information with the government,
but what exactly were you
trading?
PROFESSOR: Information to help
your race to evolve,
evolve on a very specific path.
ELLEN: What kind of information?
Your cars, your TVs, your
weapons, your bombs, everything,
we gave it to you.
Then why?
Why help us?
The universe is a huge field
of potential.
Only a tiny portion of what
can happen actually does happen.
Anything in it, everything, is
possible.
I changed your civilization
and ensured that certain things
are never in existence.
Sounds very noble of you.
Yeah, but that's what your
people thought.
What's the real reason?
By controlling what comes into
your civilization,
we can ensure that you're ready.
For what?
Ready for what?
To...
To be enslaved.
The human race won't stand by
and let that happen.
We've set you on a path,
a very specific path,
a path of self-destruction.
The human race will destroy
itself,
or at least come close to
destroying itself,
and then we will come.
We will be your saviours.
We will be the gods you need.
Sounds like killing you
might be my only option.
[PROFESSOR SCOFFS]
Killing me won't change a
thing.
Your race is already in
self-destruct mode.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Anything's possible, right?
PROFESSOR: In most cases, yeah,
but not this one.
Either I get back to my people,
and we continue with our
plans to enslave the human race,
or I don't,
and then they will wipe out all
existence of this planet.
I thought you had a plan to
save us?
I do.
A third possibility.
Well, what is it?!
PROFESSOR: Look, I need to
show you,
but before I show you anything,
we need to disappear.
we need to disappear.
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[FOOTSTEPS PATTERING]
SCRAPYARD OWNER: You're late.
I was hopin' you'd been shot.
PROFESSOR: Yeah, but we got
caught up in something.
SCRAPYARD OWNER: Yeah, well, I
don't like waiting.
PROFESSOR: Yeah, well, we're
here now.
Yeah, I can see that.
Who's the bird?
Careful.
PROFESSOR: A friend.
You know a lot of people are
looking for you.
PROFESSOR: That's why
we're here.
Is everything ready?
[CAR LOCK CLICKS]
PROFESSOR: And?
In the glove box.
PROFESSOR: No, that's not
what I meant.
SCRAPYARD OWNER: [SCOFFS]
Look, you can take the car,
you're not getting anything else
of mine.
Understood.
Let's go.
Wait!
They're tracking your phone.
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Pass it.
[PHONE THUDS]
PROFESSOR: Feel lucky?
[CAR DOORS SLAMS SHUT]
[CAR ENGINE TURNS OVER]
[CAR ENGINE RUMBLES]
Some chance.
ELLEN: What's in the glove box?
PROFESSOR: Take a look.
[GLOVE BOX CLATTERS OPEN]
ELLEN: Oh, you've got to be
kidding?!
PROFESSOR: [CHUCKLES] Hand them
over. [PACKAGE CRINKLING]
ELLEN: What is so special
about those?
PROFESSOR: Bingo!
ELLEN: What?
Salt and vinegar.
ELLEN: Mmm, can I have one?
[CHIP CRUNCHING]
No, they're mine.
ELLEN: Nice.
PROFESSOR: Well, actually,
I could really use a nice
cold one
to wash it all down with now.
We're not stopping for
alcohol.
PROFESSOR: Yeah, well, you're
forgetting something, hmm?
I'm in the driver's seat.
[CHUCKLES]
ELLEN: I hope you know where
we're going?
Oh, we're off to meet someone.
Well, that's not part of the
plan.
PROFESSOR: What plan?
Well, I thought that
we were going to go-
PROFESSOR: Yeah, well, I thought
we were working together now?
You know, maybe it's because
you're still drunk,
you think I wouldn't see through
your bullshit?
I'm stone cold sober, that's
the problem.
You know, if I was drunk, I
might even fancy you.
Imagine that?
[ELLEN LAUGHS SARCASTICALLY]
ELLEN: Screw you.
If I was drunk, I'd see past
that hard exterior of yours.
ELLEN: Enough!
Look, I just want a drink,
hmm?
I'm a lot nicer when I have a
drink in me, I promise.
And I'm hungry.
People are hunting you down,
and you want to stop for food?
Yeah, well, they're hunting
you, too.
I know.
I still want some answers.
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE]
ELLEN: It's probably cold by now
PROFESSOR: It's rancid.
Who makes a roast chicken in a
diner?
[ELLEN SOFTLY SMIRKS]
ELLEN: You should eat.
You didn't!
I'm not hungry.
WAITRESS: That's it.
No one will bother us now.
We're good to go.
You like chicken?
This isn't chicken.
[DISH CLANKS]
Oh, and bring me a drink.
None of that soft drink shit
either.
ELLEN: And you call her a
friend?
Yep.
ELLEN: Doubt she calls you that,
though.
There's no need to be mean.
[CHIP BAG CRINKLING]
God, you're incredible!
I'm hungry!
[CHIP BAG CRINKLING]
Where's my drink?
This isn't a pub.
Yeah, I know that!
WAITRESS: Then stop asking for
the impossible.
But you're telling me,
there's no alcohol on these
premises?
I've got white spirit, that's
about it.
You're looking old.
Well, you're no sign of beauty
yourself.
It's this planet.
It's changed me.
I can see that.
[CHIP BAG RATTLING]
Who is she?
She was sent to kill me.
So you thought you'd bring her
along?
PROFESSOR: Oh, she's protecting
me now.
Of all the people on this
planet, you chose her?
What are you talking about?
It's fate.
I thought, after all these
years,
you'd a stopped that fate
malarkey.
It's the only option we have
left.
You said you wanted to help.
WAITRESS: That's right.
You sure you want to do this?
Let's get on with it.
What are you going to do?
[BRIEFCASE LOCK CLATTERS]
Be quiet!
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Are you ready?
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
It's happening.
What?
PROFESSOR: The Henco's absorbing
all of her memories,
experiences, everything about
her.
Why?
So that my people can learn
from her.
[STAMMERS] Why don't you just
ask her?
No, it would take
billions upon billions of years
to fully explain
everything she's experienced,
every memory, every thought,
conscious and unconscious.
Why do you need her memories
and her experiences?
Well, like me,
there are people here
gathering information,
information that needs to be
gathered.
God!
[BODY THUDS]
Leave her.
She's your friend!
Yeah, we need to go.
Her Sennai would've released a
massive amount of energy,
and he'll be able to track it.
ELLEN: Give me the keys then.
PROFESSOR: You don't even
know where we're going!
ELLEN: Well, it's time to
start sharing.
I am in this with you!
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
What happened to her Sennai?
The Henco absorbed it.
I thought nothing could
destroy a Sennai?
The Henco can.
When I was briefed,
I was told that the Henco
could provide
an endless supply of energy.
Just another lie, I guess?
Not quite.
It is an endless supply of
energy,
but it's much more than that.
It has endless possibilities.
What do you mean?
Well, I haven't
learned everything about it yet.
But you made it,
you must know what it can do?
Well, technically, I only made
the device.
I didn't create what's inside.
What's inside?
A black hole.
You made a black hole?
No, I encapsulated a black
hole,
and I found a way to harness its
energy.
ELLEN: Why?
PROFESSOR: Well, its energy sits
between existence
and non-existence.
No, no, no, no!
Why do this?
Because I believe it is
the keyhole to another universe,
the universe of non-existence.
I don't care about what you
believe.
I just want to know what you're
using it for.
I told you, to gather
experiences!
Yeah, but what are you using
those experiences for?
To help my civilization evolve
faster,
and then that way,
we can learn all there is to
know about your race,
so that we can truly manipulate
and enslave you.
I still don't know how I'm
helping Earth
by letting you do this?
For the first time,
my civilization has fully
experienced emotions,
and then by doing this, we will
learn compassion,
and hopefully, spare yours.
Hopefully?
Hope is all we have left.
[FEET SHUFFLING]
[CLOCK TICKING SOFTLY IN THE
BACKGROUND]
[FEET SHUFFLING]
You seem different.
It's this place.
It does that.
You know why I'm here?
Not a clue.
Really?
Why don't you tell me?
Why are you still pretending
to be human?
I'm not.
Very interesting.
Much to learn.
But now, I must carry out my
orders.
I don't want trouble.
This isn't just about you.
Then who is this about?
GUARDIAN: What's he doing?
WAITRESS: Who?
You must know.
The professor.
Carrying out his orders, I
thought?
Then why is he running?
Didn't think he was.
I don't understand.
What?
Why you're not cooperating.
You are different.
It's been a long time.
GUARDIAN: I need information and
you are not providing it.
Now, I must torture you.
You aren't authorized to do
that.
No, that's right, I'm not,
unless you're a traitor.
Are you a traitor?
I'm no traitor.
Your Sennai is gone.
He used the Henco.
I thought he was authorized to
use it.
He is not authorized to use
it without a guardian present,
you know this.
But you're here now.
You are providing me
with conflicting information.
You're a traitor.
I'm trying to help our people.
How?
I was warned about this.
Emotion, they call it.
That's a weakness.
I just don't suppress them
anymore.
So you are like them now?
You feel.
We all do.
You've just forgotten.
Love,
compassion,
joy,
all the feelings you feel now,
correct?
Yes.
And I feel better for it.
[GUN CLANKS]
What about fear?
Terror?
Complete utter despair?
Go ahead, shoot me.
GUARDIAN: I need
information first.
But if you do feel terror, then
I must use it.
What do you mean?
I'm going to drag you across
the floor.
I'm going to put that fryer on
high.
I'm going to hold your face in
it until you pass out.
And then, when you regain
consciousness,
I will start peeling off your
skin with one of your knives,
and the whole time, I will not
feel compassion.
I will have no sympathy.
I will not stop torturing you
until I have the required
information.
He's gathering experiences.
That is his mission.
You are providing me with no new
information.
WAITRESS: He thinks it can
change us.
How?
WAITRESS: He believes humans
have
changed us.
He thinks they can change us
further.
He says that, "When you see how
emotion has affected us,
you won't allow the Henco to
return".
You have been infected.
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL
MUSIC]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[WINGS FLAPPING]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
Do you ever feel guilty?
For what?
Well, of the things you've
done.
Sometimes, but I try not to
think about it.
Ever been in love?
[CHUCKLES] What kind of a
question is that?
It's a simple one.
Is there anyone special in your
life?
No.
Ever?
I'll take that as a yes then.
There was someone once.
Oh, what happened then?
It was a long distance thing.
And?
[SIGHS] Well, he gave up
everything for me, really,
and...
I have a job.
What about family?
[LAUGHS] Jesus!
Am I on a couch?
I don't want you inside my head.
I am not sharing my life with
you.
All right, then I'll share.
Ask me a question then.
ELLEN: I can't think of
anything.
PROFESSOR: Oh, try.
ELLEN: No.
All right, have you ever been in
love?
[SCOFFS] That's original.
Well... [SIGHS]
Look, love is new to me.
It doesn't exist where I come
from.
That's really sad.
Not really, not if you don't
know otherwise.
Yeah, but you do now, right?
Well, I've experienced emotions
since I've been on Earth.
So has there been anyone?
Well, you know there wasn't.
I mean, you've read my
whole life.
I have learned a lot of
things today
that were not included in
your report.
No, I was married to my work,
and booze was my mistress.
So yes, I am your typical
married old man.
Maybe you'll find a romance,
you know, your final crescendo.
Yeah?
You think that could happen?
Honestly, no, you're way
too grumpy.
[PROFESSOR LAUGHS]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
That's mean.
Mean, mean.
ELLEN: Nah, you're old.
ELLEN: Old, old.
PROFESSOR: Yeah.
And so are you!
ELLEN: I'm in my 30s!
PROFESSOR: Yeah, and so am I!
Just not here.
Just not now.
And you're old,
just not at this point in
space time.
But I am, and you are,
just as I am you, and you will
be me.
Infinite possibilities with
continuous circles.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
Sounds quite spiritual for a
scientific mind?
Yeah.
Isn't that the point of science
in this galaxy, hmm,
to prove your spiritual beliefs?
[CHUCKLES]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[CAR THUDS]
What the hell is that?
[TIRE IRON CLANKS]
[ELLEN GRUNTS]
So tell me about your next
victim.
[TIRE IRON CLATTERS]
What did you just say?
Who's the next person who's
soul we're draining?
Fuck you!
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
Well, don't be so sensitive!
[CROWS CAWING]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[CAR DOOR SLAMS]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES COUGHING]
Thanks for the help, grumpy.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS] Hey!
We are going to get back on the
road.
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS]
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
ELLEN: Oh, you look rough.
PROFESSOR: I feel like shit.
ELLEN: You haven't had a drink
in a while.
PROFESSOR: Death, Ellen.
Death is approaching.
ELLEN: I thought that wasn't
possible?
PROFESSOR: No, now, come.
Come sit.
ELLEN: No, we need to get
back on the road.
PROFESSOR: Now, come.
[ELLEN CLEARS THROAT] Sit.
[ELLEN SCOFFS]
PROFESSOR: Come on!
[ELLEN GRUNTS]
Just stop for a minute, hmm?
PROFESSOR: Look.
ELLEN: At what?
PROFESSOR: Look up.
[ELLEN SIGHS]
Imagine a sea of ideas, and
possibilities,
and potential outcomes,
so vast, so incredibly vast,
that it almost becomes physical.
Trillions of quadrillions of
tredecillion
of potential possibilities
and outcomes all crammed into a
tiny space,
that it starts to become like a
fog, and then like a gas,
and then like a liquid,
and finally, a solid.
It would be the most dense clump
of anti-matter in the universe.
How do you do it?
Do what?
Risk your life for others,
put your life on the line.
ELLEN: No, it's just part of
my job.
No! No, you could've left.
You could've left me behind.
And watch my planet be
enslaved?
Besides, what would you have
done without me?
Come on, let's go.
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS AND PANTS]
PROFESSOR: It's time.
ELLEN: Time for what?
PROFESSOR: I was hoping to do
this somewhere else,
but you need to do this now
before it's too late.
ELLEN: What are you doing?
[CAR DOOR SLAMS]
PROFESSOR: The Henco's gathered
all the info
it needs on Earth,
enough for my people to overtake
your planet,
but the one thing that it is
missing is real human emotion,
and it is that, I believe,
that will give my people a
chance.
It will make them change.
And that will, in turn, give
them compassion.
What about the lady back
there,
your friend?
PROFESSOR: No, no, no.
It's not enough.
They'll just simply say, "She
was infected with a disease".
Emotions aren't diseases!
It needs to be you.
[STAMMERS] Why?
Because you're here now.
Fate, Ellen.
Fate chose you.
ELLEN: I said, "No".
PROFESSOR: Please?
Well, what will happen to you?
PROFESSOR: I'll be mortal
like you.
ELLEN: But-
Don't worry about me.
How can you say that?
I've caused enough destruction
over so many civilizations.
It's time for me to help.
Ellen, focus on the Henco and
listen.
Follow my instructions.
ELLEN: [WHISPERS] What am
I doing?
Listen, Ellen. Inside of you is
your past, your future,
your essence, your everything.
The Henco just wants to learn.
Now, concentrate on your family.
ELLEN: I don't have a family.
PROFESSOR: The family you
never had!
I don't understand what
you mean by that!
PROFESSOR: Bring the
non-existent into existence.
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DISEMBODIED VOICES ECHOING]
That's it!
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DISEMBODIED VOICES WHISPERING]
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[ELECTRICAL STATIC]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[DISEMBODIED VOICES ECHOING]
I can see them, but they're
not real.
Focus!
[DISEMBODIED VOICES WHISPERING]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[DISEMBODIED VOICES WHISPERING]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[FOOTSTEPS CLOMPING]
[DISEMBODIED VOICES CONTINUE
WHISPERING]
I'm ready.
DISEMBODIED VOICE: For what?
I want to transfer all my
memories, my experiences,
everything about me, to you.
DISEMBODIED VOICE: But I know
you already.
I know everything about you.
How?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: You and
and I are one.
It is you who needs to learn
what I have gathered,
and let me be part of you once
again.
That doesn't make any sense.
DISEMBODIED VOICE: Silence.
Why is this taking so long?
Come on.
DISEMBODIED VOICE: You're
still not ready.
You must surrender yourself.
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Ellen?
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS]
[PROFESSOR MUMBLES]
Come on, Ellen.
Ellen, it'll be all right.
Come on! Huh?
Come on, Ellen!
[PROFESSOR GROANS]
There you go, Ellen.
Come on.
Lift your legs.
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
[CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES PANTING
HEAVILY]
[BRIEFCASE CLATTERS OPEN]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES PANTING
HEAVILY]
[CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
[CAR DOOR THUDS SHUT]
[MYSTICAL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
[INHALES SHARPLY] Oh, god!
[ELLEN YELLS OUT PAINFULLY]
Ellen?
ELLEN: Oh, what's happening?!
PROFESSOR: Ellen, Ellen?
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
Ellen, focus.
Ellen, we're here.
PROFESSOR: We're in the car.
ELLEN: Oh, I can't deal
with this!
Just breathe.
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
[ELLEN YELLS OUT PAINFULLY]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
just breathe, Ellen.
Breathe, that's it.
That's it, nice and slow.
[PROFESSOR SNAPS FINGERS]
Ellen, Ellen?
Ellen, it's me.
We're in the car.
That's it.
[ELLEN WHIMPERS]
That's it, breathe.
[ELLEN SOBS]
It's all right.
It's all right.
Come.
[PROFESSOR SNAPS FINGERS]
Ellen, stay focused.
[ELLEN SOBS]
I can't!
ELLEN: I don't want to-
PROFESSOR: Yes, you can.
PROFESSOR: You can.
ELLEN: I don't want to-
Tell me.
I just... [PANTS HEAVILY]
Mm-hmm.
I just remember staring at the
Henco.
Yeah, then what?
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
I don't know! I don't know,
I don't know! I don't know!
PROFESSOR: Well, [STAMMERS]...
Was there a haze?
Was there a light?
What was-
No, I can't!
I can't remember this!
Go on.
Think.
Slow down and think.
Slow and think.
That's it, go on!
[PANTS HEAVILY] I was staring
at the Henco, and then-
And?
[PANTS HEAVILY] Everything is
just...
PROFESSOR: What, blank, blank,
and blank-
ELLEN: No, no,
my mind doesn't feel blank. It-
PROFESSOR: Okay, okay.
Breathe, breathe.
It [STAMMERS] feels stuff,
and-
Uh-huh, stuff.
PROFESSOR: What stuff? Help me.
ELLEN: It feels like-
PROFESSOR: Help me here.
Everything!
[STAMMERS] I don't know!
[ELLEN GRUNTS PAINFULLY]
PROFESSOR: Look here. Look.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Ellen, Ellen?
We're here.
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
You and me.
[PROFESSOR SNAPS FINGERS]
ELLEN: Mm-hmm.
PROFESSOR: Yeah?
That's it.
That's a girl.
Just breathe.
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
ELLEN: Mm-mmm.
PROFESSOR: Whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa.
Come on!
Come on!
[ELLEN EXHALES LOUDLY]
That's... [COUGHS]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES COUGHING]
That's... [CONTINUES COUGHING]
That's it, Ellen. [COUGHS]
That's it.
[COUGHS] Breathe.
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES COUGHING]
Just keep breathing, Ellen.
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES COUGHING]
[BOTH PANTING HEAVILY]
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
When I was a kid,
I used to lie on the grass and
stare at the sky.
Well, it was usually just grey
clouds.
But I would stare up at them.
I'd stare for so long
that the clouds would start to
distort.
And then I would wonder,
you know, are the stars still
there,
even though the sun used to
block them,
or even when the clouds covered
the sky?
I used to think about what else
I didn't know,
because I just couldn't see it.
I used to think if there were
other beings. [SMIRKS SOFTLY]
I wondered if there was another
me, you know,
or if there were more than just
two of us?
Maybe loads?
Maybe billions and billions of
me?
There's only one of you.
You're unique, Ellen, believe
me.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
Hey, listen, I'll take over.
I'll be fine.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
It's not an option.
Just, look, tell me where we
are, and I'll take over.
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
[PROFESSOR SNORES LOUDLY]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES SNORING]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
Hey!
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES COUGHING]
Hey, are you okay?
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
Oh, you're in a bad shape.
Yeah, I guess.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
ELLEN: All right.
I know somewhere not far from
here.
PROFESSOR: No!
You need to rest.
Don't worry about me.
ELLEN: No, we both need to.
You're strong.
You'll be fine.
ELLEN: You can get a drink
there. [PROFESSOR COUGHS]
PROFESSOR: Drink?
ELLEN: Booze.
Yeah, well, I need a drink.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[WAVES GENTLY LAPPING]
[SEAGULLS SQUAWKING]
[FOOTSTEPS PATTERING]
BARMAN: We're closing soon.
[BRIEFCASE THUDS]
What sort of a pub
closes this early?
BARMAN: Yeah, my pub.
I had nowhere else to go.
We need a room.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
And I need someone I can trust.
[BARMAN SOFTLY SMIRKS]
[NEWSPAPER THUDS]
BARMAN: We only have
single rooms.
PROFESSOR: Ahh!
Well, that works for me.
Oh, classy.
And where are the rooms in this
fine establishment?
Oh, through the door, up the
stairs.
BARMAN: Oh, the rooms, they're
clean.
Sheets haven't been washed in a
while, but they're clean.
PROFESSOR: I thank you, kind
sir. [FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
[DOOR CLATTERS OPEN]
[DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
So do I get one?
[KEY RATTLES]
I appreciate it.
I'll be back in a second.
Just don't go anywhere.
[DOOR CLATTERS OPEN]
[DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
[SEAGULLS SQUAWKING]
ELLEN: Can I get a drink?
BARMAN: Of course.
ELLEN: You're being
friendly now?
BARMAN: When wasn't I?
I let you in, got you a bed,
now I'm offering you a drink.
It's a gin and tonic, right?
Oh, you remembered.
BARMAN: A bartender remembers
everybody's drink.
Thought I was special.
BARMAN: Yeah, and for the old
man?
He'll have a whiskey.
BARMAN: You must know him
well if you know his poison?
ELLEN: [SCOFFS] Well enough.
BARMAN: Hmm.
So I've got a question for you.
Oh, yeah?
Why here, hmm?
All the places in the world, why
here?
I said I'd come one day.
This isn't how I imagined it.
Well, how did you imagine it?
I don't know.
Not like this.
[GLASS THUDS]
You shouldn't have come.
I told you, I had nowhere else
to go.
BARMAN: That's sad.
Who's the boyfriend?
[ELLEN CHUCKLES SLYLY]
Fine, ignore me.
You're so good at that.
I shouldn't have come.
I'm sorry.
You haven't even finished your
drink.
Wait, wait, look, I'm sorry!
What do you expect?
I haven't seen you in...
BARMAN: How'd you expect
me to feel?
ELLEN: Happy.
Happy to see me.
[COAT THUDS]
Or concerned.
Concerned about what?
What kinda trouble you in?
Sit.
You know you can talk to me,
right?
[ELLEN CHUCKLES]
Look, I'm just tired, and, you
know, I need to just get a-
PROFESSOR: A whiskey, if I may
please, landlord?
Already poured and waiting.
PROFESSOR: Ah!
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] [CUP THUDS]
PROFESSOR: How did you know?
BARMAN: I didn't.
How did you know?
You stink of whiskey.
I made the logical conclusion.
[CHUCKLES] Only a drunk has such
a fine nose for booze.
Yeah, someone who's used to
pouring for an alcoholic.
Well, whoever taught you how
to pour drinks
obviously never drunk whiskey
before.
You do not water down a whiskey.
You drink it neat, straight.
BARMAN: Not where I'm from,
because where I'm from, people
show a bit of gratitude.
I am eternally grateful for
the drink.
Thank you.
I am also eternally grateful for
the room, too.
Thank you again.
[CUP THUDS]
[PROFESSOR EXHALES LOUDLY]
You two obviously have a lot to
discuss,
so I'll head up to my room.
ELLEN: Yes, go on.
BARMAN: No, stay.
We've discussed everything we
need to.
BARMAN: Come, drink.
A friend of Ellen's a friend of
mine.
Well, how about you pour me a
proper one now, hmm?
Better yet...
[BOTTLE SHUFFLING]
[GLASS THUDS]
PROFESSOR: Ah!
BARMAN: How about the
whole bottle?
[PROFESSOR CHUCKLES]
One of those nights, is it?
PROFESSOR: It's been
one of those lives.
And could I please have a nice,
clean glass
for my lady friend here?
I don't want this fine liquid
contaminated with gin.
[CUP CLANKS]
BARMAN: She can have mine.
Have a drink with us.
Can't, got plans.
Oh, stay a bit longer,
come on!
I can't leave her waiting.
Try not to trash the place, huh?
ELLEN: Will I see you
tomorrow?
BARMAN: Only you can answer
that.
ELLEN: What are we drinking
to?
Love?
No.
Then what?
How about morality, and living
one day longer?
Hmm.
[CUPS CLANKING]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
You know, you're much more fun
to be around
when you have a drink in you.
[LAUGHS] That sounds like an
insult.
Mmm, oh, yeah.
You're much more...
You're more attractive.
Are you flirting with me?
If I had a song, I'd play
matchmaker. [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[CUP CLANKS]
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS AND COUGHS]
You drink too much.
This is for you.
[LAUGHS] No, I've had enough.
You know, there are very few
moments in life, [MUMBLES]
you get to relax and have a bit
of fun.
Well, now, here's one of them.
[CUPS CLANKING]
[CUP THUDS]
Another.
I bet you never thought
getting drunk with an old man
could be so much fun, hmm?
Maybe I like old things?
[LIQUID SLOSHING]
You know, I'm not that old.
You are to me.
To Earth, home of the devil's
juice.
Home of the devil's juice.
[CUPS CLANKING]
And to dancing.
I don't dance with aliens.
If this was my last day, my
last day, pfft, in existence,
would you dance with me then?
[LAUGHS] No.
PROFESSOR: It could all be
over tomorrow.
ELLEN: It could.
PROFESSOR: All the more reason
to dance with me then.
It's not happening.
[PROFESSOR SOFTLY GRUNTS]
I get it.
Change the variables and you get
a different outcome, hmm?
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[CHAIR SHUFFLING]
[PROFESSOR GROANS]
This is more difficult than it
looks.
[SCOFFS] Old people and tech.
PROFESSOR: Screw you!
[ELLEN LAUGHS]
I invented tech, lady.
Don't forget that.
Just trying to find the perfect
song.
[STAMMERS] That song.
[PROFESSOR GROANS]
There it is.
Yeah.
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYS]
There we go.
Ellen, listen.
Listen, Ellen.
[MUMBLES] Our song.
Mm-hmm.
["ROAD TO VENUS" BY LEIF
VOLLEBEKK PLAYS]
Constellation
In the sky
[PROFESSOR HUMS OFFBEAT]
ELLEN: Come on.
PROFESSOR: Mmm? What?
ELLEN: Just put that down.
In twilight light
Saw your reflection
I haven't done this in years.
No, it's easy.
Just follow me.
In the pool
PROFESSOR: Isn't the man
supposed to lead?
No, that's the problem.
You always think it's about
power.
Have to see it as a union,
like two souls interlinking.
[ELLEN CLEARS THROAT]
And if all's fair
[GASPS] You know, the universe
moves with rhythms and-
ELLEN: Shush!
Just shut up and enjoy it.
In between us
Road to Venus
Road to Venus
Saw you play
Upon the frets
With just your little
silhouette
Never knew
No one like you
And I still haven't yet
Followed you above the crowd
Lonely
As a cloud
From Carolina
To Salinas
Road to Venus
Road to Venus
["ROAD TO VENUS" CONTINUES
PLAYING]
["ROAD TO VENUS" CONTINUES
PLAYING]
Saddle blankets
On the wall
[DOOR THUDS]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
Don't die on me, okay?
PROFESSOR: I have no intention
of dying on this planet.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
ELLEN: Here?
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
[CAR CLATTERS OFF-ROAD]
PROFESSOR: This tree.
This... [COUGHS]
This one!
[ELLEN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
[PROFESSOR PANTS]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
[CAR DOOR SLAMS]
ELLEN: You okay?
PROFESSOR: Need to find
a bigger clearing-
ELLEN: Okay.
PROFESSOR: to summon the
gateway.
[GENTLE MELANCHOLIC MUSIC]
This way.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
Yeah.
[BUSHES RUSTLING]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[GENTLE MELANCHOLIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
[ELLEN GRUNTS]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES
PANTING HEAVILY]
What now?
We keep moving.
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
[GENTLE MELANCHOLIC
MUSIC CONTINUES]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
ELLEN: Well, what are you doing?
PROFESSOR: No, let me smoke!
Are you trying to kill yourself?
PROFESSOR: No, [PANTS HEAVILY]
the nicotine.
The nicotine gives me the rush I
need, Ellen.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[LIGHTER LID CLANKS]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES COUGHING]
I'm fine.
[LIGHTER FLICKS]
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
Ready?
ELLEN: Mm-hmm.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
Oh!
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES COUGHING]
Come on.
PROFESSOR: No, no, enough!
[ELLEN GRUNTS]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
PROFESSOR: No more.
Come on, come on.
Come and lie.
Lie beside me here.
We have to return the Henco.
We have to go.
PROFESSOR: Ellen?
Ellen?
Ellen, search for the stars,
Ellen.
[PROFESSOR PANTS]
ELLEN: Get up!
Ellen?
You need to have faith
in yourself.
Yes.
Have some faith,
and you will bring the universe
back into balance.
ELLEN: Hey, you!
Hey!
Tell me how to summon
the gateway.
[PROFESSOR MUMBLES]
My soul.
My soul.
What happens to my soul when
I die?
I don't know.
[PROFESSOR GASPS]
You're a part of me now, right?
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
Ellen, listen.
I won't die.
I will be you.
Ellen, huh?
And then you...
You will be...
[SOMBER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[SOMBER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SOMBER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SOMBER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SOMBER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
How did you find me?
Your energy has changed.
I thought you were using the
Henco,
but it's just you.
Where's the gateway?
It hasn't been summoned.
Summon it.
No.
Where is he?
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
He's dead.
Is it in there?
Pass it.
The Henco has to be returned
to your people.
No.
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[GUN CLACKS IN HOLSTER]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[WIND WHIPPING]
[GUNS CLATTERING]
[GUNSHOT FIRING][BODY THUDS]
[WIND WHIPPING]
[FOOTSTEPS PATTERING]
[WIND CONTINUES WHIPPING]
[BRIEFCASE THUDS]
[LOCKS CLATTER OPEN]
[ELECTRONIC BUZZING]
[INTENSE BOOMING]
[LIGHT WHOOSHING]
[LIGHT RAYS WHOOSHING]
[MYSTICAL ENCHANTING MUSIC]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[DISEMBODIED VOICES WHISPERING]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
ELLEN: I should be dead.
DISEMBODIED VOICE: I'd never
let that happen.
Why?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: You're the
key, Ellen,
between existence and
non-existence.
What does that mean?
DISEMBODIED VOICE:
We would've met sooner or later.
That is our fate.
I consume all life, all light,
everything.
I would've consumed galaxies
until I found you.
The Henco just made it happen
sooner.
Then what now?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: You have
sacrificed yourself,
and you are now ready to forget,
Ellen.
Forget what?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: To forget
everything.
Then you will truly comprehend
nothingness,
the birthplace of all existence.
Then you will bring balance to
the universe.
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[BODY THUDS]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
[HENCO WHIRRING]
[SKIN SQUELCHING]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[FOOTSTEPS PATTERING]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
GUARDIAN: It's not possible.
How are you still alive?
Answer me!
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
[GUARDIAN GRUNTS]
[ELECTRICITY CONTINUES
CRACKLING]
Where are you going?
I don't blame your people,
but they have to be stopped.
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
[ELECTRICITY WHOOSHING]
[BODY CRACKLING]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[TRIUMPHANT ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
[UPTEMPO SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[UPTEMPO SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[MUSIC FADES OUT]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[WAVES SOFTLY LAPPING]
[WAVES CRASHING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DEBRIS INTENSELY WHOOSHING]
[DEBRIS CLATTERING]
[DEBRIS CONTINUES CLATTERING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DEBRIS CONTINUES CLATTERING]
[DEBRIS CONTINUES CLATTERING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[LIGHT WHOOSHING]
[DOORS INTENSELY SHUFFLING OPEN]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DOORS SLAMMING SHUT]
[DEBRIS CLATTERING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
[EERIE DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ELECTRONIC SIZZLING]
[ELECTRICITY BUZZING]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
[COMPUTERS CHIMING]
PROFESSOR: [SIGHS] All right.
[PROFESSOR SIGHS HEAVILY]
[COMPUTERS CONTINUE CHIMING]
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
[COMPUTERS CONTINUE CHIMING]
[KEYBOARD SHUFFLES AND CLATTERS]
[PROFESSOR SOFTLY SIGHS]
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
[COMPUTER CHIRPING]
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
[COMPUTER CHIRPS]
[KEYBOARD KEY THUDS]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
[KEYBOARD KEY THUDS]
Fuck!
[KEYBOARD KEY THUDS]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
[KEYBOARD CLACKS]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
[KEYBOARD CLACKS]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING CONTINUES]
[CHAIR SHUFFLES]
[COAT RUSTLING]
[COMPUTER CHIRPS]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CHAIR SHUFFLING]
[KEYBOARD CLACKS]
[COMPUTER ALARM BLARING]
[KEYBOARD KEY THUDS]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[GATE DOOR CLATTERING]
[MOTOR WHIRRING]
[CAR ENGINE RUMBLES]
[PROFESSOR SIGHS LOUDLY]
[KNOCKING ON WINDOW]
Sorry.
[KNOCKING ON WINDOW]
[WINDOW MOTOR WHIRRING]
You're not registered
to leave, Professor.
PROFESSOR: Call your
superiors.
And where exactly are you going?
[LIGHTER FLICKS]
Are you deaf?
Where are you going?
Jobsworth.
Just get back to work.
You know what's going to
happen next, don't you?
I'm going to phone
your boss's boss,
and before the end
of the day is out,
you're not only gonna
be out of a job,
but you're also gonna
be locked up in a cell
for putting this country
in jeopardy.
And that bike of
a wife of yours,
and your underachieving spawn,
will have no one to put
food on the table anymore.
Or you could just quite
simply open this gate,
and carry on living with your
useless existence in peace.
But the one thing you don't
want to do, sonny boy,
is make me finish
this cigarette here.
[WINDOW MOTOR WHIRRING]
[RADIO STATIC]
Let him through.
[GATE CLATTERS OPEN]
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CAR COMPUTER CHIMES]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]
[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[CAR COMPUTER CHIMES]
[ENGINE REVS]
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[GRAVEL CRUNCHING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[FLASK LID CLATTERS]
[LIQUID SLOSHING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[LIGHTER FLICKS]
[LIGHTER FLICKS]
[DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DEVICE INTENSELY WHIRRING]
[GATE CREAKS OPEN]
[DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
[DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[FOOTSTEPS PATTERING]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[FOOTSTEPS PATTERING]
[LOCK RATTLING]
[DOOR HANDLE CLATTERS]
[WHEEL SQUEAKING]
[DOOR RATTLES OPEN]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[LOCK CLATTERS]
[GATE CREAKS]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[FEET SHUFFLING]
It was only a matter of time,
I suppose.
ELLEN: Make your way up.
PROFESSOR: Yeah, put the
gun away.
[FOOTSTEPS ASCENDING]
Look, this isn't America, woman!
People just don't go around
carrying guns.
ELLEN: License.
Look, I don't feel particularly
comfortable with that-
ELLEN: License now.
[BRIEFCASE THUDS]
Do anything unexpected,
and I will put a bullet
through your brain.
PROFESSOR: Understood.
Whoa, whoa, back up!
Drop it.
[PROFESSOR SOFTLY SIGHS]
[ID THUDS]
Carry on back.
Yeah, I bet you love your job?
ELLEN: Idiot.
PROFESSOR: Why is that?
You should burn your trail,
and destroy all traces of
yourself when you go on the run.
PROFESSOR: I didn't run.
Yeah, at least not from
you, anyway.
You must have realized we
were tracking you?
I was counting on it.
Who's here?
PROFESSOR: What?
ELLEN: Are you alone?
You must be really popular
with your friends?
ELLEN: Answer the question.
What difference does it make?
The difference is a round
through your skull,
or you get to live life
a little bit longer!
I'm alone.
Good.
So how do you want to do this?
Do what exactly?
ELLEN: I'm not holding this
for fun.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Now, look, you don't
want to do this.
ELLEN: You knew this would
happen if you went on the run.
I didn't run!
What'd you call this then?
PROFESSOR: The briefcase.
Those are your last words?
The briefcase.
You need what's inside.
What's inside?
The Henco.
Get on your knees!
Look, I'll make a deal with you.
ELLEN: Shut up!
Yeah, I have him.
No, he says he has the Henco.
Confirmed.
Please tell me that was good
news?
ELLEN: Up.
Get up!
Well, okay, okay, okay, okay!
ELLEN: Pick up that briefcase.
Move.
Stop.
In.
PROFESSOR: Sorry, did you
just say in?
Get in.
What the hell?!
No, no, this wasn't part of the
deal.
There is no deal.
Put that down.
[BRIEFCASE CLATTERS]
You know, you have a real
personality problem,
you know that?
I'm about two seconds away
from knocking you out.
I bet you used to press
doorbells and run, didn't you?
You probably stole children's
ice cream as well.
[TRUNK CLATTERS SHUT]
[BRIEFCASE THUDS]
[BANGING FROM INSIDE TRUNK]
[BRIEFCASE CLOSES]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[CAR ENGINE RUMBLES]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
GUARDIAN: Afternoon, ma'am.
ELLEN: What's going on?
Just a routine road check.
Out here?
What are you hoping to find?
Where is he?
I'm sorry?
We're both here for the same
reason.
ELLEN: I don't know what your--
GUARDIAN: Get out of the car.
Out.
Last time.
All right.
[GEAR SHIFT CLANKS]
[SEATBELT CLATTERS]
[GUNSHOT FIRING]
[CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Who sent you, hmm?
[GUARDIAN GRUNTS PAINFULLY]
Who are you working with?
Who are you working with?
[GUNSHOT FIRING]
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[GRAVEL CRUNCHING]
[TIRES SKIDDING]
[BRAKES SQUEAKING]
[CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
[TRUNK CLATTERS OPEN]
[MOTOR WHIRRING]
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS]
ELLEN: You can get out now.
[PROFESSOR GROANS]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES GROANING]
PROFESSOR: Ahhhh...
You all right?
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS]
I've just been stuck in
the boot of a car
for god knows how long!
How'd you think I am?
You look all right.
Yeah, well, I'm not.
And you just shot someone.
It was necessary.
Oh, so you just killed him?
ELLEN: Yep.
There were no other options?
So you just killed him.
Are you gonna
cooperate with me,
or I can just shut you back in
the boot?
Is that your answer to
everything, is it?
When in doubt, shoot.
If there's a threat.
Oh, and I'm a threat, am I?
Me, an old man, yeah?
And what hope do I have against
you?
I'll be honest with you here,
I don't feel particularly safe
with a trigger happy lunatic
constantly waving a gun around.
ELLEN: Alright, I'm-
PROFESSOR: What are you doing?
Let's just try and get along.
You are nuts,
eh?
One second, you have your hand
on the gun,
the next, you want to make
friends.
I'm trying to make you feel
comfortable.
Yeah, well, why now?
You're still valuable to us,
even more now than you were
before.
We want what's best for you.
Yeah, and what's best
for me is not to be
in the enemy's hands, yeah?
ELLEN: Exactly. So I'm here to
protect you.
Yeah, until you're told
otherwise.
So what do I call you,
or are you just a gun for hire?
My name's Ellen.
PROFESSOR: Well,
screw you, Ellen!
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
Where are we going?
Ellen?
Ellen, Ellen, Ellen,
Ellen, Ellen-
What?
Where are we going?
A secure facility.
Oohh, that sounds ominous.
We'll be safe there.
PROFESSOR: What happens
when we get there?
I'll hand you to one of my
colleagues.
And then?
I don't know.
It works best if I don't know
what happens
or where you're moved to.
It's safer for
everyone that way.
I thought you said you
were going to protect me?
That's exactly what I'm doing.
You seem like a bright
girl, I think?
Yeah, let's assume that you are.
Let's assume you know exactly
who I am, that I'm not
just some old person
that your superiors have told--
ELLEN: Get on with it!
PROFESSOR: Look, whatever
they told you,
it's not safe there
for either of us.
You need to...
What is it you people say?
"Burn our trails."
"Throw away the phone."
"Ditch the car."
Look, we're both in danger.
If your people know
where we are, so do mine.
No one knows where we
are except for my unit,
and I can trust them.
You can trust them.
Really?
Trust me.
Now, how do I trust someone
who only follows orders, hmm?
[CAR ENGINE REVS]
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
[PROFESSOR SIGHS]
[OBJECT RUSTLING]
Don't even think about it.
I don't follow orders.
In my car, you do.
You weren't told to
stop me getting
lung cancer as well,
were you?
No.
But if you arrive with a few
broken bones,
it doesn't matter to me.
[LIGHTER FLICKS]
Don't!
[LIGHTER LID CLANKS SHUT]
Or?
I will punch you in the face
until that cigarette falls out
your mouth.
[SCOFFS] Seriously?
ELLEN: Try it!
See, normally I'd be curious,
hmm,
but not today.
Not with you.
You're the one that's going to
suffer anyway.
And why is that?
Because I get really
ratty when I don't smoke!
[PROFESSOR CHUGGING]
[PROFESSOR EXHALES LOUDLY]
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
[CAR ENGINE
CONTINUES ROARING]
Where is it?
You'll see when we get there.
No, my case?
In the back.
Well, considering its
contents,
you don't care very much, hmm?
[COMBINATION LOCK CLICKING]
ELLEN: Don't.
PROFESSOR: Don't what?
ELLEN: Open it.
Don't you want to see?
ELLEN: I still don't know what
you've got inside there.
PROFESSOR: What are you
scared of?
Do you think I'm like you, that
I carry a piece, hmm?
So aren't you going to ask?
Ask what?
What makes me so special,
and why your people wanted me
dead,
but now, they want me alive?
You are alive because of the
Henco.
Yeah, but that doesn't
answer why
you were sent to kill me.
You were trading
information with the government.
What type of information?
What type of information?
Oh, wait, [SUCKS TEETH]
it's above your pay grade.
ELLEN: I'm not going to
argue with you, old man!
Just out of curiosity, what do
you do?
ELLEN: What, my job?
PROFESSOR: Yep.
ELLEN: Oh, I'm a-
PROFESSOR: You know,
what's your job title?
ELLEN: I'm trying to tell-
PROFESSOR: I just want
PROFESSOR: to be clear.
ELLEN: Yeah, but if you listen-
PROFESSOR: I don't care
about you,
no one cares about you!
It doesn't matter what you do.
I'm the one who's important
here, not you!
You're expendable!
God, you're a nasty old drunk.
They left that out your file.
PROFESSOR: I'm hungover, yeah,
and this, [FLASK RATTLING]
this is the only thing
that's keeping my nerves at ease
since I was almost executed.
You're still an alcoholic.
Well, I'm not contesting that.
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
[CAR ENGINE CONTINUES ROARING]
What are you doing now?
PROFESSOR: Getting my file.
What makes you think I got it
with me?
PROFESSOR: [CHUCKLES] You
people are so predictable.
ELLEN: That so?
PROFESSOR: Yeah.
I bet you, my file is...
Oh, hang on, wait.
Don't tell me you don't bet?
So predictable.
[COMBINATION LOCK CLICKS]
ELLEN: You don't see me
ruffling through your things.
Ah-ha!
You tried to open my case.
The combination had changed.
You just didn't succeed.
You point that finger at me
again and I will break it off.
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
[CAR ENGINE CONTINUES ROARING]
God, you're like a child!
3-7-3-6-7-1.
PROFESSOR: What?
ELLEN: The code.
I didn't expect that.
That's the code to my case,
not my life.
[LOCK CLICKS OPEN]
No, that's not what I meant.
Well, we got off on the wrong
foot.
[BRIEFCASE LID THUDS SHUT]
PROFESSOR: I can read this?
ELLEN: Mm-hmm.
It's about you, after all.
[PAGES RUSTLING]
There's nothing in here about
the Henco.
Why would there be?
[PAPER RUSTLING]
Yep, that's me.
My life, my time on Earth.
[BRIEFCASE LID THUDS SHUT]
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
You know, I came here a
young man to begin my research.
I sacrificed everything for my
work,
and then some.
You know, I never got
homesick before-
ELLEN: Why are you
telling me this?
Do you know what it's like
to truly devote your entire life
to a cause,
and then realize, you didn't
believe in it?
Well, you were young and
ambitious.
You wanted to help mankind.
Yeah, but it was all lies.
And you turned into a drunk,
and now you are on the run.
Oh, is that right?
What a waste of a brilliant
mind.
Yeah, but you don't know me.
No, I don't know about you,
Professor.
I didn't just read your
file.
Well, I'll be damned!
I'm in the presence of a
fan.
I know about the
young, controversial scientists.
You forced physicists
to completely rethink
the science of black holes.
God, a Nobel Prize at the age of
23!
A genius of our time.
No university education.
A gift to mankind.
I read all about you as a child.
I read about your series.
Yeah, but you certainly
didn't appear starstruck
when you first met me.
Do you normally go around
trying to blow the brains out
of all your childhood
idols, hmm?
Who's next on the list,
Tina Turner,
Rolling Stones, Bruce
Springsteen, who?
You were a threat.
Threats have to be taken out.
You think you're Carrie
Mathison.
I am just doing my job.
Yeah, well, I failed at mine.
Obviously not,
I mean, if you've made
the Henco.
What's so funny?
There's nothing in
your briefcase, is there?
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES LAUGHING]
Do you think I would've
gone to such lengths to hide it,
if it wasn't real?
[PROFESSOR LAUGHS]
[CAR ENGINE RUMBLES]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
What is this place?
ELLEN: It was the test facility
the '50s.
[CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
PROFESSOR: What did they test?
ELLEN: The US had MK Ultra and
Britain had this.
Apparently, we were
more successful, though,
but I wouldn't know.
That was before my time.
And?
Oh, only a handful of us know
about this place now.
They did test on us during our
training.
What type of tests?
What type of tests, Ellen?
It's time for you to show me
what inside that briefcase.
Through there, go on.
Through there.
[BRIEFCASE THUDS]
[GUN SOFTLY CLACKS]
There's no need for that.
Don't try anything stupid.
I thought you were protecting
me?
I still don't know what's in
there.
[COMBINATION LOCK CLICKING]
[LOCK CLATTERS OPEN]
[DARK OMINOUS MUSIC]
PROFESSOR: The Henco.
ELLEN: So this is it?
What else were you expecting?
[DARK OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[FEET SHUFFLING]
[ELLEN PANTING HEAVILY]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[ELLEN CONTINUES PANTING
HEAVILY]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[FEET CLOMPING]
[ELLEN GROANS]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
Professor?!
[ELLEN GRUNTS]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[LIGHT RAYS CONTINUE WHOOSHING]
Professor?!
[LIGHT RAYS CONTINUE WHOOSHING]
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
[LIGHT RAYS CONTINUE WHOOSHING]
[FRIGHTENED GASP]
What the hell?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: Ellen.
[DISEMBODIED VOICE ECHOES]
ELLEN: How do you know my name?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: I
know everything.
Come on, where the fuck am I?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: Inside
the Henco.
ELLEN: Who are you?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: Soon, you
will know.
ELLEN: What am I doing here?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: You are
being prepared.
ELLEN: For what?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: It doesn't
matter now.
You're not safe.
You must go.
I don't understand.
DISEMBODIED VOICE: You're
in danger.
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[INTENSE BOOMING]
[COMBINATION LOCK CLICKING]
[LOCK CLATTERS OPEN]
PROFESSOR: The Henco.
So this is it?
What else were you expecting?
[DISEMBODIED VOICES WHISPERING]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[CHAIR CREAKS]
Something isn't right.
PROFESSOR: Ellen?
ELLEN: From outside.
[PROFESSOR WHIMPERS]
PROFESSOR: But where are
you going?
[BRIEFCASE LID CLANKS]
PROFESSOR: Oh, wait for me!
[WHISPERS] Ellen?
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
Ellen, what's going on?
[ELLEN SHUSHING]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC SWELLS]
What the fuck?!
[GUNSHOT FIRING]
[ELLEN GRUNTS]
[GUNSHOT FIRING]
PROFESSOR: Are you all right?
ELLEN: What is going on here?
PROFESSOR: Are you okay?
How did you know he was here?
[GUNSHOT FIRING]
[STAMMERS] Shit!
ELLEN: I had a feeling.
I told you it wasn't safe to
be here.
We need to go now!
ELLEN: What is going on?
[GUNSHOTS FIRING]
Tell me, what is going on?!
I killed him before.
PROFESSOR: No, you just simply
can't kill them.
ELLEN: Them?!
PROFESSOR: Yeah, my people.
ELLEN: Your people?!
Your people?!
Who are your people?!
Please!
[STAMMERS] Alpha Centaurians.
ELLEN: Is that the name of
your unit?
It's the name of my race.
Oh, come on!
PROFESSOR: Think about
it, Ellen!
That man back there, the Henco.
ELLEN: You're lying to me.
PROFESSOR: Oh, really?
ELLEN: I would've been told
about that.
[PROFESSOR LAUGHS MANIACALLY]
ELLEN: Why are you laughing?!
PROFESSOR: You're just a pawn!
So am I!
I mean, they want me alive,
but that's only because they
still need me.
Don't!
ELLEN: We need some support.
PROFESSOR: Think about
what you're doing.
They're only going to tell you
to go somewhere else,
and then you're gonna
risk being killed again.
You said it yourself,
"There's only a handful
of people who know
about this place!"
Something must have gone
wrong.
Yeah, what went wrong
was that your people
made a deal with mine,
and then they told them where we
were.
Yeah, we came close to being
killed.
[ELLEN HYPERVENTILATES]
PROFESSOR: Hmm?
I can't...
I can't...
ELLEN: Oh, god!
PROFESSOR: Ellen? Ellen?
Could you just...
It'll be alright.
ELLEN: Oh, god!
PROFESSOR: Ellen, come on.
PROFESSOR: Just keep calm!
ELLEN: This is crazy!
This is bullshit!
PROFESSOR: Oh, look...
Look, it'll be all right.
It's all right.
[ELLEN MUMBLES INDISTINCTLY]
Just deep breaths, Ellen.
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
Come on, deep breaths for me.
That's it, deep breaths.
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
Ellen, liste to me.
I can tell you the truth.
I can tell you what's really
going on here,
but I need you to be strong.
Ellen, I need you to keep your
shit together.
I need you to protect me.
What's the point?
Well, do it for yourself then.
ELLEN: It doesn't matter.
All right, well, then don't do
it for yourself!
Don't do it for me,
but do it for your race.
Do it for your humanity.
[ELLEN BREATHES SHAKILY]
Ellen, if he catches me,
if they take me back,
if he takes me back, then it's
all over.
ELLEN: [BREATHES SHAKILY]
What do you mean by that?
Let me...
Let me have a look at that, hmm?
Please.
[ELLEN CONTINUES
BREATHING SHAKILY]
[GENTLE DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ELLEN WHIMPERS]
[PROFESSOR EXHALES LOUDLY]
[ELLEN BREATHES SHAKILY]
ELLEN: What are you going to
do that?
Trust me, hmm?
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[ELLEN WHIMPERS PAINFULLY]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
Your arm's going to be numb for
a while.
[HAND TAPPING]
[ELLEN GASPS]
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
Let's go.
[ELLEN WHIMPERS SOFTLY]
Let's go!
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[MYSTICAL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[MYSTICAL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
What was that that you used
back there to heal me?
PROFESSOR: This?
ELLEN: Mm-hmm.
PROFESSOR: This is my Sennai.
ELLEN: Your what?
Look, it's kind of hard
to explain.
I guess you humans would say,
that part of my soul is in
the Sennai.
Are you pulling my leg?
PROFESSOR: Surely, your
understanding of what is
and isn't possible has changed?
So you're telling me that is
a part of your soul?
PROFESSOR: Yes and no.
A part of my soul exists in my
Sennai.
Why?
PROFESSOR: My soul powers
the Sennai
and the Sennai has the ability
to change matter.
Look, it's hard to explain.
Look, I guess the easiest way
to understand it is,
the Sennai can move protons and
electrons at rapid speeds,
allowing matter to be changed.
Show me.
PROFESSOR: All Sennai are linked
If I use this, you'll know
exactly where we are.
I don't know if I'd give up
part of my soul
for that ability.
[SCOFFS] I wouldn't either.
But you did.
Well, my whole civilization did,
but not for that.
No, they did it because
the Sennai is indestructible.
It can't be destroyed.
So you're immortal?
Part of me is, yes.
The part of me that exists in
my Sennai.
Nothing in the entire universe
can destroy it?
Except a black hole.
What I don't get is what you
were doing here?
I know you were trading
information with the government,
but what exactly were you
trading?
PROFESSOR: Information to help
your race to evolve,
evolve on a very specific path.
ELLEN: What kind of information?
Your cars, your TVs, your
weapons, your bombs, everything,
we gave it to you.
Then why?
Why help us?
The universe is a huge field
of potential.
Only a tiny portion of what
can happen actually does happen.
Anything in it, everything, is
possible.
I changed your civilization
and ensured that certain things
are never in existence.
Sounds very noble of you.
Yeah, but that's what your
people thought.
What's the real reason?
By controlling what comes into
your civilization,
we can ensure that you're ready.
For what?
Ready for what?
To...
To be enslaved.
The human race won't stand by
and let that happen.
We've set you on a path,
a very specific path,
a path of self-destruction.
The human race will destroy
itself,
or at least come close to
destroying itself,
and then we will come.
We will be your saviours.
We will be the gods you need.
Sounds like killing you
might be my only option.
[PROFESSOR SCOFFS]
Killing me won't change a
thing.
Your race is already in
self-destruct mode.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Anything's possible, right?
PROFESSOR: In most cases, yeah,
but not this one.
Either I get back to my people,
and we continue with our
plans to enslave the human race,
or I don't,
and then they will wipe out all
existence of this planet.
I thought you had a plan to
save us?
I do.
A third possibility.
Well, what is it?!
PROFESSOR: Look, I need to
show you,
but before I show you anything,
we need to disappear.
we need to disappear.
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[FOOTSTEPS PATTERING]
SCRAPYARD OWNER: You're late.
I was hopin' you'd been shot.
PROFESSOR: Yeah, but we got
caught up in something.
SCRAPYARD OWNER: Yeah, well, I
don't like waiting.
PROFESSOR: Yeah, well, we're
here now.
Yeah, I can see that.
Who's the bird?
Careful.
PROFESSOR: A friend.
You know a lot of people are
looking for you.
PROFESSOR: That's why
we're here.
Is everything ready?
[CAR LOCK CLICKS]
PROFESSOR: And?
In the glove box.
PROFESSOR: No, that's not
what I meant.
SCRAPYARD OWNER: [SCOFFS]
Look, you can take the car,
you're not getting anything else
of mine.
Understood.
Let's go.
Wait!
They're tracking your phone.
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Pass it.
[PHONE THUDS]
PROFESSOR: Feel lucky?
[CAR DOORS SLAMS SHUT]
[CAR ENGINE TURNS OVER]
[CAR ENGINE RUMBLES]
Some chance.
ELLEN: What's in the glove box?
PROFESSOR: Take a look.
[GLOVE BOX CLATTERS OPEN]
ELLEN: Oh, you've got to be
kidding?!
PROFESSOR: [CHUCKLES] Hand them
over. [PACKAGE CRINKLING]
ELLEN: What is so special
about those?
PROFESSOR: Bingo!
ELLEN: What?
Salt and vinegar.
ELLEN: Mmm, can I have one?
[CHIP CRUNCHING]
No, they're mine.
ELLEN: Nice.
PROFESSOR: Well, actually,
I could really use a nice
cold one
to wash it all down with now.
We're not stopping for
alcohol.
PROFESSOR: Yeah, well, you're
forgetting something, hmm?
I'm in the driver's seat.
[CHUCKLES]
ELLEN: I hope you know where
we're going?
Oh, we're off to meet someone.
Well, that's not part of the
plan.
PROFESSOR: What plan?
Well, I thought that
we were going to go-
PROFESSOR: Yeah, well, I thought
we were working together now?
You know, maybe it's because
you're still drunk,
you think I wouldn't see through
your bullshit?
I'm stone cold sober, that's
the problem.
You know, if I was drunk, I
might even fancy you.
Imagine that?
[ELLEN LAUGHS SARCASTICALLY]
ELLEN: Screw you.
If I was drunk, I'd see past
that hard exterior of yours.
ELLEN: Enough!
Look, I just want a drink,
hmm?
I'm a lot nicer when I have a
drink in me, I promise.
And I'm hungry.
People are hunting you down,
and you want to stop for food?
Yeah, well, they're hunting
you, too.
I know.
I still want some answers.
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE]
ELLEN: It's probably cold by now
PROFESSOR: It's rancid.
Who makes a roast chicken in a
diner?
[ELLEN SOFTLY SMIRKS]
ELLEN: You should eat.
You didn't!
I'm not hungry.
WAITRESS: That's it.
No one will bother us now.
We're good to go.
You like chicken?
This isn't chicken.
[DISH CLANKS]
Oh, and bring me a drink.
None of that soft drink shit
either.
ELLEN: And you call her a
friend?
Yep.
ELLEN: Doubt she calls you that,
though.
There's no need to be mean.
[CHIP BAG CRINKLING]
God, you're incredible!
I'm hungry!
[CHIP BAG CRINKLING]
Where's my drink?
This isn't a pub.
Yeah, I know that!
WAITRESS: Then stop asking for
the impossible.
But you're telling me,
there's no alcohol on these
premises?
I've got white spirit, that's
about it.
You're looking old.
Well, you're no sign of beauty
yourself.
It's this planet.
It's changed me.
I can see that.
[CHIP BAG RATTLING]
Who is she?
She was sent to kill me.
So you thought you'd bring her
along?
PROFESSOR: Oh, she's protecting
me now.
Of all the people on this
planet, you chose her?
What are you talking about?
It's fate.
I thought, after all these
years,
you'd a stopped that fate
malarkey.
It's the only option we have
left.
You said you wanted to help.
WAITRESS: That's right.
You sure you want to do this?
Let's get on with it.
What are you going to do?
[BRIEFCASE LOCK CLATTERS]
Be quiet!
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Are you ready?
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
It's happening.
What?
PROFESSOR: The Henco's absorbing
all of her memories,
experiences, everything about
her.
Why?
So that my people can learn
from her.
[STAMMERS] Why don't you just
ask her?
No, it would take
billions upon billions of years
to fully explain
everything she's experienced,
every memory, every thought,
conscious and unconscious.
Why do you need her memories
and her experiences?
Well, like me,
there are people here
gathering information,
information that needs to be
gathered.
God!
[BODY THUDS]
Leave her.
She's your friend!
Yeah, we need to go.
Her Sennai would've released a
massive amount of energy,
and he'll be able to track it.
ELLEN: Give me the keys then.
PROFESSOR: You don't even
know where we're going!
ELLEN: Well, it's time to
start sharing.
I am in this with you!
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
What happened to her Sennai?
The Henco absorbed it.
I thought nothing could
destroy a Sennai?
The Henco can.
When I was briefed,
I was told that the Henco
could provide
an endless supply of energy.
Just another lie, I guess?
Not quite.
It is an endless supply of
energy,
but it's much more than that.
It has endless possibilities.
What do you mean?
Well, I haven't
learned everything about it yet.
But you made it,
you must know what it can do?
Well, technically, I only made
the device.
I didn't create what's inside.
What's inside?
A black hole.
You made a black hole?
No, I encapsulated a black
hole,
and I found a way to harness its
energy.
ELLEN: Why?
PROFESSOR: Well, its energy sits
between existence
and non-existence.
No, no, no, no!
Why do this?
Because I believe it is
the keyhole to another universe,
the universe of non-existence.
I don't care about what you
believe.
I just want to know what you're
using it for.
I told you, to gather
experiences!
Yeah, but what are you using
those experiences for?
To help my civilization evolve
faster,
and then that way,
we can learn all there is to
know about your race,
so that we can truly manipulate
and enslave you.
I still don't know how I'm
helping Earth
by letting you do this?
For the first time,
my civilization has fully
experienced emotions,
and then by doing this, we will
learn compassion,
and hopefully, spare yours.
Hopefully?
Hope is all we have left.
[FEET SHUFFLING]
[CLOCK TICKING SOFTLY IN THE
BACKGROUND]
[FEET SHUFFLING]
You seem different.
It's this place.
It does that.
You know why I'm here?
Not a clue.
Really?
Why don't you tell me?
Why are you still pretending
to be human?
I'm not.
Very interesting.
Much to learn.
But now, I must carry out my
orders.
I don't want trouble.
This isn't just about you.
Then who is this about?
GUARDIAN: What's he doing?
WAITRESS: Who?
You must know.
The professor.
Carrying out his orders, I
thought?
Then why is he running?
Didn't think he was.
I don't understand.
What?
Why you're not cooperating.
You are different.
It's been a long time.
GUARDIAN: I need information and
you are not providing it.
Now, I must torture you.
You aren't authorized to do
that.
No, that's right, I'm not,
unless you're a traitor.
Are you a traitor?
I'm no traitor.
Your Sennai is gone.
He used the Henco.
I thought he was authorized to
use it.
He is not authorized to use
it without a guardian present,
you know this.
But you're here now.
You are providing me
with conflicting information.
You're a traitor.
I'm trying to help our people.
How?
I was warned about this.
Emotion, they call it.
That's a weakness.
I just don't suppress them
anymore.
So you are like them now?
You feel.
We all do.
You've just forgotten.
Love,
compassion,
joy,
all the feelings you feel now,
correct?
Yes.
And I feel better for it.
[GUN CLANKS]
What about fear?
Terror?
Complete utter despair?
Go ahead, shoot me.
GUARDIAN: I need
information first.
But if you do feel terror, then
I must use it.
What do you mean?
I'm going to drag you across
the floor.
I'm going to put that fryer on
high.
I'm going to hold your face in
it until you pass out.
And then, when you regain
consciousness,
I will start peeling off your
skin with one of your knives,
and the whole time, I will not
feel compassion.
I will have no sympathy.
I will not stop torturing you
until I have the required
information.
He's gathering experiences.
That is his mission.
You are providing me with no new
information.
WAITRESS: He thinks it can
change us.
How?
WAITRESS: He believes humans
have
changed us.
He thinks they can change us
further.
He says that, "When you see how
emotion has affected us,
you won't allow the Henco to
return".
You have been infected.
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL
MUSIC]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[WINGS FLAPPING]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
Do you ever feel guilty?
For what?
Well, of the things you've
done.
Sometimes, but I try not to
think about it.
Ever been in love?
[CHUCKLES] What kind of a
question is that?
It's a simple one.
Is there anyone special in your
life?
No.
Ever?
I'll take that as a yes then.
There was someone once.
Oh, what happened then?
It was a long distance thing.
And?
[SIGHS] Well, he gave up
everything for me, really,
and...
I have a job.
What about family?
[LAUGHS] Jesus!
Am I on a couch?
I don't want you inside my head.
I am not sharing my life with
you.
All right, then I'll share.
Ask me a question then.
ELLEN: I can't think of
anything.
PROFESSOR: Oh, try.
ELLEN: No.
All right, have you ever been in
love?
[SCOFFS] That's original.
Well... [SIGHS]
Look, love is new to me.
It doesn't exist where I come
from.
That's really sad.
Not really, not if you don't
know otherwise.
Yeah, but you do now, right?
Well, I've experienced emotions
since I've been on Earth.
So has there been anyone?
Well, you know there wasn't.
I mean, you've read my
whole life.
I have learned a lot of
things today
that were not included in
your report.
No, I was married to my work,
and booze was my mistress.
So yes, I am your typical
married old man.
Maybe you'll find a romance,
you know, your final crescendo.
Yeah?
You think that could happen?
Honestly, no, you're way
too grumpy.
[PROFESSOR LAUGHS]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
That's mean.
Mean, mean.
ELLEN: Nah, you're old.
ELLEN: Old, old.
PROFESSOR: Yeah.
And so are you!
ELLEN: I'm in my 30s!
PROFESSOR: Yeah, and so am I!
Just not here.
Just not now.
And you're old,
just not at this point in
space time.
But I am, and you are,
just as I am you, and you will
be me.
Infinite possibilities with
continuous circles.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
Sounds quite spiritual for a
scientific mind?
Yeah.
Isn't that the point of science
in this galaxy, hmm,
to prove your spiritual beliefs?
[CHUCKLES]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[CAR THUDS]
What the hell is that?
[TIRE IRON CLANKS]
[ELLEN GRUNTS]
So tell me about your next
victim.
[TIRE IRON CLATTERS]
What did you just say?
Who's the next person who's
soul we're draining?
Fuck you!
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
Well, don't be so sensitive!
[CROWS CAWING]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[CAR DOOR SLAMS]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES COUGHING]
Thanks for the help, grumpy.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS] Hey!
We are going to get back on the
road.
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS]
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
ELLEN: Oh, you look rough.
PROFESSOR: I feel like shit.
ELLEN: You haven't had a drink
in a while.
PROFESSOR: Death, Ellen.
Death is approaching.
ELLEN: I thought that wasn't
possible?
PROFESSOR: No, now, come.
Come sit.
ELLEN: No, we need to get
back on the road.
PROFESSOR: Now, come.
[ELLEN CLEARS THROAT] Sit.
[ELLEN SCOFFS]
PROFESSOR: Come on!
[ELLEN GRUNTS]
Just stop for a minute, hmm?
PROFESSOR: Look.
ELLEN: At what?
PROFESSOR: Look up.
[ELLEN SIGHS]
Imagine a sea of ideas, and
possibilities,
and potential outcomes,
so vast, so incredibly vast,
that it almost becomes physical.
Trillions of quadrillions of
tredecillion
of potential possibilities
and outcomes all crammed into a
tiny space,
that it starts to become like a
fog, and then like a gas,
and then like a liquid,
and finally, a solid.
It would be the most dense clump
of anti-matter in the universe.
How do you do it?
Do what?
Risk your life for others,
put your life on the line.
ELLEN: No, it's just part of
my job.
No! No, you could've left.
You could've left me behind.
And watch my planet be
enslaved?
Besides, what would you have
done without me?
Come on, let's go.
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS AND PANTS]
PROFESSOR: It's time.
ELLEN: Time for what?
PROFESSOR: I was hoping to do
this somewhere else,
but you need to do this now
before it's too late.
ELLEN: What are you doing?
[CAR DOOR SLAMS]
PROFESSOR: The Henco's gathered
all the info
it needs on Earth,
enough for my people to overtake
your planet,
but the one thing that it is
missing is real human emotion,
and it is that, I believe,
that will give my people a
chance.
It will make them change.
And that will, in turn, give
them compassion.
What about the lady back
there,
your friend?
PROFESSOR: No, no, no.
It's not enough.
They'll just simply say, "She
was infected with a disease".
Emotions aren't diseases!
It needs to be you.
[STAMMERS] Why?
Because you're here now.
Fate, Ellen.
Fate chose you.
ELLEN: I said, "No".
PROFESSOR: Please?
Well, what will happen to you?
PROFESSOR: I'll be mortal
like you.
ELLEN: But-
Don't worry about me.
How can you say that?
I've caused enough destruction
over so many civilizations.
It's time for me to help.
Ellen, focus on the Henco and
listen.
Follow my instructions.
ELLEN: [WHISPERS] What am
I doing?
Listen, Ellen. Inside of you is
your past, your future,
your essence, your everything.
The Henco just wants to learn.
Now, concentrate on your family.
ELLEN: I don't have a family.
PROFESSOR: The family you
never had!
I don't understand what
you mean by that!
PROFESSOR: Bring the
non-existent into existence.
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DISEMBODIED VOICES ECHOING]
That's it!
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DISEMBODIED VOICES WHISPERING]
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[ELECTRICAL STATIC]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[DISEMBODIED VOICES ECHOING]
I can see them, but they're
not real.
Focus!
[DISEMBODIED VOICES WHISPERING]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[DISEMBODIED VOICES WHISPERING]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[FOOTSTEPS CLOMPING]
[DISEMBODIED VOICES CONTINUE
WHISPERING]
I'm ready.
DISEMBODIED VOICE: For what?
I want to transfer all my
memories, my experiences,
everything about me, to you.
DISEMBODIED VOICE: But I know
you already.
I know everything about you.
How?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: You and
and I are one.
It is you who needs to learn
what I have gathered,
and let me be part of you once
again.
That doesn't make any sense.
DISEMBODIED VOICE: Silence.
Why is this taking so long?
Come on.
DISEMBODIED VOICE: You're
still not ready.
You must surrender yourself.
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Ellen?
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS]
[PROFESSOR MUMBLES]
Come on, Ellen.
Ellen, it'll be all right.
Come on! Huh?
Come on, Ellen!
[PROFESSOR GROANS]
There you go, Ellen.
Come on.
Lift your legs.
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
[CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES PANTING
HEAVILY]
[BRIEFCASE CLATTERS OPEN]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES PANTING
HEAVILY]
[CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
[CAR DOOR THUDS SHUT]
[MYSTICAL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
[INHALES SHARPLY] Oh, god!
[ELLEN YELLS OUT PAINFULLY]
Ellen?
ELLEN: Oh, what's happening?!
PROFESSOR: Ellen, Ellen?
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
Ellen, focus.
Ellen, we're here.
PROFESSOR: We're in the car.
ELLEN: Oh, I can't deal
with this!
Just breathe.
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
[ELLEN YELLS OUT PAINFULLY]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
just breathe, Ellen.
Breathe, that's it.
That's it, nice and slow.
[PROFESSOR SNAPS FINGERS]
Ellen, Ellen?
Ellen, it's me.
We're in the car.
That's it.
[ELLEN WHIMPERS]
That's it, breathe.
[ELLEN SOBS]
It's all right.
It's all right.
Come.
[PROFESSOR SNAPS FINGERS]
Ellen, stay focused.
[ELLEN SOBS]
I can't!
ELLEN: I don't want to-
PROFESSOR: Yes, you can.
PROFESSOR: You can.
ELLEN: I don't want to-
Tell me.
I just... [PANTS HEAVILY]
Mm-hmm.
I just remember staring at the
Henco.
Yeah, then what?
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
I don't know! I don't know,
I don't know! I don't know!
PROFESSOR: Well, [STAMMERS]...
Was there a haze?
Was there a light?
What was-
No, I can't!
I can't remember this!
Go on.
Think.
Slow down and think.
Slow and think.
That's it, go on!
[PANTS HEAVILY] I was staring
at the Henco, and then-
And?
[PANTS HEAVILY] Everything is
just...
PROFESSOR: What, blank, blank,
and blank-
ELLEN: No, no,
my mind doesn't feel blank. It-
PROFESSOR: Okay, okay.
Breathe, breathe.
It [STAMMERS] feels stuff,
and-
Uh-huh, stuff.
PROFESSOR: What stuff? Help me.
ELLEN: It feels like-
PROFESSOR: Help me here.
Everything!
[STAMMERS] I don't know!
[ELLEN GRUNTS PAINFULLY]
PROFESSOR: Look here. Look.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Ellen, Ellen?
We're here.
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
You and me.
[PROFESSOR SNAPS FINGERS]
ELLEN: Mm-hmm.
PROFESSOR: Yeah?
That's it.
That's a girl.
Just breathe.
[ELLEN PANTS HEAVILY]
ELLEN: Mm-mmm.
PROFESSOR: Whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa.
Come on!
Come on!
[ELLEN EXHALES LOUDLY]
That's... [COUGHS]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES COUGHING]
That's... [CONTINUES COUGHING]
That's it, Ellen. [COUGHS]
That's it.
[COUGHS] Breathe.
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES COUGHING]
Just keep breathing, Ellen.
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES COUGHING]
[BOTH PANTING HEAVILY]
[CAR ENGINE ROARS]
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
When I was a kid,
I used to lie on the grass and
stare at the sky.
Well, it was usually just grey
clouds.
But I would stare up at them.
I'd stare for so long
that the clouds would start to
distort.
And then I would wonder,
you know, are the stars still
there,
even though the sun used to
block them,
or even when the clouds covered
the sky?
I used to think about what else
I didn't know,
because I just couldn't see it.
I used to think if there were
other beings. [SMIRKS SOFTLY]
I wondered if there was another
me, you know,
or if there were more than just
two of us?
Maybe loads?
Maybe billions and billions of
me?
There's only one of you.
You're unique, Ellen, believe
me.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
Hey, listen, I'll take over.
I'll be fine.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
It's not an option.
Just, look, tell me where we
are, and I'll take over.
[CAR ENGINE SOFTLY ROARS]
[PROFESSOR SNORES LOUDLY]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES SNORING]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
Hey!
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES COUGHING]
Hey, are you okay?
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
Oh, you're in a bad shape.
Yeah, I guess.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
ELLEN: All right.
I know somewhere not far from
here.
PROFESSOR: No!
You need to rest.
Don't worry about me.
ELLEN: No, we both need to.
You're strong.
You'll be fine.
ELLEN: You can get a drink
there. [PROFESSOR COUGHS]
PROFESSOR: Drink?
ELLEN: Booze.
Yeah, well, I need a drink.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[WAVES GENTLY LAPPING]
[SEAGULLS SQUAWKING]
[FOOTSTEPS PATTERING]
BARMAN: We're closing soon.
[BRIEFCASE THUDS]
What sort of a pub
closes this early?
BARMAN: Yeah, my pub.
I had nowhere else to go.
We need a room.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
And I need someone I can trust.
[BARMAN SOFTLY SMIRKS]
[NEWSPAPER THUDS]
BARMAN: We only have
single rooms.
PROFESSOR: Ahh!
Well, that works for me.
Oh, classy.
And where are the rooms in this
fine establishment?
Oh, through the door, up the
stairs.
BARMAN: Oh, the rooms, they're
clean.
Sheets haven't been washed in a
while, but they're clean.
PROFESSOR: I thank you, kind
sir. [FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
[DOOR CLATTERS OPEN]
[DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
So do I get one?
[KEY RATTLES]
I appreciate it.
I'll be back in a second.
Just don't go anywhere.
[DOOR CLATTERS OPEN]
[DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
[SEAGULLS SQUAWKING]
ELLEN: Can I get a drink?
BARMAN: Of course.
ELLEN: You're being
friendly now?
BARMAN: When wasn't I?
I let you in, got you a bed,
now I'm offering you a drink.
It's a gin and tonic, right?
Oh, you remembered.
BARMAN: A bartender remembers
everybody's drink.
Thought I was special.
BARMAN: Yeah, and for the old
man?
He'll have a whiskey.
BARMAN: You must know him
well if you know his poison?
ELLEN: [SCOFFS] Well enough.
BARMAN: Hmm.
So I've got a question for you.
Oh, yeah?
Why here, hmm?
All the places in the world, why
here?
I said I'd come one day.
This isn't how I imagined it.
Well, how did you imagine it?
I don't know.
Not like this.
[GLASS THUDS]
You shouldn't have come.
I told you, I had nowhere else
to go.
BARMAN: That's sad.
Who's the boyfriend?
[ELLEN CHUCKLES SLYLY]
Fine, ignore me.
You're so good at that.
I shouldn't have come.
I'm sorry.
You haven't even finished your
drink.
Wait, wait, look, I'm sorry!
What do you expect?
I haven't seen you in...
BARMAN: How'd you expect
me to feel?
ELLEN: Happy.
Happy to see me.
[COAT THUDS]
Or concerned.
Concerned about what?
What kinda trouble you in?
Sit.
You know you can talk to me,
right?
[ELLEN CHUCKLES]
Look, I'm just tired, and, you
know, I need to just get a-
PROFESSOR: A whiskey, if I may
please, landlord?
Already poured and waiting.
PROFESSOR: Ah!
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] [CUP THUDS]
PROFESSOR: How did you know?
BARMAN: I didn't.
How did you know?
You stink of whiskey.
I made the logical conclusion.
[CHUCKLES] Only a drunk has such
a fine nose for booze.
Yeah, someone who's used to
pouring for an alcoholic.
Well, whoever taught you how
to pour drinks
obviously never drunk whiskey
before.
You do not water down a whiskey.
You drink it neat, straight.
BARMAN: Not where I'm from,
because where I'm from, people
show a bit of gratitude.
I am eternally grateful for
the drink.
Thank you.
I am also eternally grateful for
the room, too.
Thank you again.
[CUP THUDS]
[PROFESSOR EXHALES LOUDLY]
You two obviously have a lot to
discuss,
so I'll head up to my room.
ELLEN: Yes, go on.
BARMAN: No, stay.
We've discussed everything we
need to.
BARMAN: Come, drink.
A friend of Ellen's a friend of
mine.
Well, how about you pour me a
proper one now, hmm?
Better yet...
[BOTTLE SHUFFLING]
[GLASS THUDS]
PROFESSOR: Ah!
BARMAN: How about the
whole bottle?
[PROFESSOR CHUCKLES]
One of those nights, is it?
PROFESSOR: It's been
one of those lives.
And could I please have a nice,
clean glass
for my lady friend here?
I don't want this fine liquid
contaminated with gin.
[CUP CLANKS]
BARMAN: She can have mine.
Have a drink with us.
Can't, got plans.
Oh, stay a bit longer,
come on!
I can't leave her waiting.
Try not to trash the place, huh?
ELLEN: Will I see you
tomorrow?
BARMAN: Only you can answer
that.
ELLEN: What are we drinking
to?
Love?
No.
Then what?
How about morality, and living
one day longer?
Hmm.
[CUPS CLANKING]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
You know, you're much more fun
to be around
when you have a drink in you.
[LAUGHS] That sounds like an
insult.
Mmm, oh, yeah.
You're much more...
You're more attractive.
Are you flirting with me?
If I had a song, I'd play
matchmaker. [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[CUP CLANKS]
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS AND COUGHS]
You drink too much.
This is for you.
[LAUGHS] No, I've had enough.
You know, there are very few
moments in life, [MUMBLES]
you get to relax and have a bit
of fun.
Well, now, here's one of them.
[CUPS CLANKING]
[CUP THUDS]
Another.
I bet you never thought
getting drunk with an old man
could be so much fun, hmm?
Maybe I like old things?
[LIQUID SLOSHING]
You know, I'm not that old.
You are to me.
To Earth, home of the devil's
juice.
Home of the devil's juice.
[CUPS CLANKING]
And to dancing.
I don't dance with aliens.
If this was my last day, my
last day, pfft, in existence,
would you dance with me then?
[LAUGHS] No.
PROFESSOR: It could all be
over tomorrow.
ELLEN: It could.
PROFESSOR: All the more reason
to dance with me then.
It's not happening.
[PROFESSOR SOFTLY GRUNTS]
I get it.
Change the variables and you get
a different outcome, hmm?
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[PROFESSOR GRUNTS]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[CHAIR SHUFFLING]
[PROFESSOR GROANS]
This is more difficult than it
looks.
[SCOFFS] Old people and tech.
PROFESSOR: Screw you!
[ELLEN LAUGHS]
I invented tech, lady.
Don't forget that.
Just trying to find the perfect
song.
[STAMMERS] That song.
[PROFESSOR GROANS]
There it is.
Yeah.
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYS]
There we go.
Ellen, listen.
Listen, Ellen.
[MUMBLES] Our song.
Mm-hmm.
["ROAD TO VENUS" BY LEIF
VOLLEBEKK PLAYS]
Constellation
In the sky
[PROFESSOR HUMS OFFBEAT]
ELLEN: Come on.
PROFESSOR: Mmm? What?
ELLEN: Just put that down.
In twilight light
Saw your reflection
I haven't done this in years.
No, it's easy.
Just follow me.
In the pool
PROFESSOR: Isn't the man
supposed to lead?
No, that's the problem.
You always think it's about
power.
Have to see it as a union,
like two souls interlinking.
[ELLEN CLEARS THROAT]
And if all's fair
[GASPS] You know, the universe
moves with rhythms and-
ELLEN: Shush!
Just shut up and enjoy it.
In between us
Road to Venus
Road to Venus
Saw you play
Upon the frets
With just your little
silhouette
Never knew
No one like you
And I still haven't yet
Followed you above the crowd
Lonely
As a cloud
From Carolina
To Salinas
Road to Venus
Road to Venus
["ROAD TO VENUS" CONTINUES
PLAYING]
["ROAD TO VENUS" CONTINUES
PLAYING]
Saddle blankets
On the wall
[DOOR THUDS]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
Don't die on me, okay?
PROFESSOR: I have no intention
of dying on this planet.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
ELLEN: Here?
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
[CAR CLATTERS OFF-ROAD]
PROFESSOR: This tree.
This... [COUGHS]
This one!
[ELLEN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
[PROFESSOR PANTS]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
[CAR DOOR SLAMS]
ELLEN: You okay?
PROFESSOR: Need to find
a bigger clearing-
ELLEN: Okay.
PROFESSOR: to summon the
gateway.
[GENTLE MELANCHOLIC MUSIC]
This way.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
Yeah.
[BUSHES RUSTLING]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[GENTLE MELANCHOLIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
[ELLEN GRUNTS]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES
PANTING HEAVILY]
What now?
We keep moving.
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
[GENTLE MELANCHOLIC
MUSIC CONTINUES]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
ELLEN: Well, what are you doing?
PROFESSOR: No, let me smoke!
Are you trying to kill yourself?
PROFESSOR: No, [PANTS HEAVILY]
the nicotine.
The nicotine gives me the rush I
need, Ellen.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[LIGHTER LID CLANKS]
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES COUGHING]
I'm fine.
[LIGHTER FLICKS]
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
Ready?
ELLEN: Mm-hmm.
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
Oh!
[PROFESSOR CONTINUES COUGHING]
Come on.
PROFESSOR: No, no, enough!
[ELLEN GRUNTS]
[PROFESSOR COUGHS]
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
PROFESSOR: No more.
Come on, come on.
Come and lie.
Lie beside me here.
We have to return the Henco.
We have to go.
PROFESSOR: Ellen?
Ellen?
Ellen, search for the stars,
Ellen.
[PROFESSOR PANTS]
ELLEN: Get up!
Ellen?
You need to have faith
in yourself.
Yes.
Have some faith,
and you will bring the universe
back into balance.
ELLEN: Hey, you!
Hey!
Tell me how to summon
the gateway.
[PROFESSOR MUMBLES]
My soul.
My soul.
What happens to my soul when
I die?
I don't know.
[PROFESSOR GASPS]
You're a part of me now, right?
[PROFESSOR PANTS HEAVILY]
Ellen, listen.
I won't die.
I will be you.
Ellen, huh?
And then you...
You will be...
[SOMBER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[SOMBER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SOMBER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SOMBER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SOMBER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
How did you find me?
Your energy has changed.
I thought you were using the
Henco,
but it's just you.
Where's the gateway?
It hasn't been summoned.
Summon it.
No.
Where is he?
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
He's dead.
Is it in there?
Pass it.
The Henco has to be returned
to your people.
No.
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[GUN CLACKS IN HOLSTER]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[WIND WHIPPING]
[GUNS CLATTERING]
[GUNSHOT FIRING][BODY THUDS]
[WIND WHIPPING]
[FOOTSTEPS PATTERING]
[WIND CONTINUES WHIPPING]
[BRIEFCASE THUDS]
[LOCKS CLATTER OPEN]
[ELECTRONIC BUZZING]
[INTENSE BOOMING]
[LIGHT WHOOSHING]
[LIGHT RAYS WHOOSHING]
[MYSTICAL ENCHANTING MUSIC]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
[DISEMBODIED VOICES WHISPERING]
[LIGHT RAY WHOOSHING]
ELLEN: I should be dead.
DISEMBODIED VOICE: I'd never
let that happen.
Why?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: You're the
key, Ellen,
between existence and
non-existence.
What does that mean?
DISEMBODIED VOICE:
We would've met sooner or later.
That is our fate.
I consume all life, all light,
everything.
I would've consumed galaxies
until I found you.
The Henco just made it happen
sooner.
Then what now?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: You have
sacrificed yourself,
and you are now ready to forget,
Ellen.
Forget what?
DISEMBODIED VOICE: To forget
everything.
Then you will truly comprehend
nothingness,
the birthplace of all existence.
Then you will bring balance to
the universe.
[INTENSE WHOOSHING]
[BODY THUDS]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
[HENCO WHIRRING]
[SKIN SQUELCHING]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[FOOTSTEPS PATTERING]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
GUARDIAN: It's not possible.
How are you still alive?
Answer me!
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
[GUARDIAN GRUNTS]
[ELECTRICITY CONTINUES
CRACKLING]
Where are you going?
I don't blame your people,
but they have to be stopped.
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
[ELECTRICITY WHOOSHING]
[BODY CRACKLING]
[EERIE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[TRIUMPHANT ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
[UPTEMPO SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[UPTEMPO SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[SUSPENSEFUL DRAMATIC MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[MELANCHOLIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
[MUSIC FADES OUT]