Just before the predator can get Jen Riddick knocks it out of the way.
The predator rears back its head, ready to bisect Riddick with its skull-blade.
Switchblade fast, Riddick drops a hand...
...yanks his shiv...
...and sweeps it over the belly of the beast. HOWLING, the predator falls, disemboweled.
REACTION SHOTS of Fry and Imam. Stunned.
"Didn't know who he was fuckin' with."
They regroup. Imam's head swivels back and forth: They're oneperson short. "Suleiman!"
Riddick looks at Jen and hands her light which got yanked off her back when Jack slipped. "Keep the girl with you. Keep Going!"
"SULEIMAN!"
"KEEP GOING OR I WILL!"
Suddenly he appears, thrust back into the light by unseen forces. He's still alive -- but shouldn't be. He makes a feeble attempt to grab onto Imam, to anyone, but he's gone again before they can even react, jerked out of the light. Out of existence.
They flail on. And now, finally...finally...
The canyon widens, opening up like some door to Heaven. The WORST SOUNDS fall behind. We can see it in their sweat-sheened faces: The faintest hope that maybe they've survived the Seventh Circle of Hell. But then...
The TORCHES SPIT AND SPUTTER.
Jen laughs quietly and says "How I love the rain."
Caught in a downpour, the survivors slog to a stop. One torch goes out -- and won't relight.
Riddick laughs and looks at Imam then says "So where the hell's God now, huh?" no answer from Imam "I'll tell you where! He's up therePISSING ON ME!"
"Riddick? How close?"
Riddick sheds goggles to look ahead. We don't know what he sees -- nor what he's thinking. Jen didn't see either because she was calming Jack down.
"Tell me the settlement is right there! RIDDICK, PLEASE!"
"We can't make it."
HOLD on Fry's anguished face, rendered in dying torchlight. Somewhere behind, the AWFUL SOUNDS RETURN.
"Here...hide here..."
He's found a crevice in the canyon wall.
"Inside...inside..."
Jen looks at Riddick and whispers so only he hears "I know what you're up to Riddick."
He looks at her and says "You're coming with me to take these then we come back."
Jen gives him a 'yeah right' look and says "You go I am not leaving Jack."
He nods reluctantly and her Jack, Fry and Imam enter the crevice.
When they're in Riddick covers the hole with a rock.
Jack then asks "Why is he still out there?"
Jen then says "Taking the cells to the skiff then coming back." The she says quietly "I hope."
Then there last goes out, Jack then says "He's not coming back, is he?"
Fry checks Imam's face. "Did Riddick say anything to you?" Imam wags his head. A bleak beat -- before Fry realizes she can see his face.
"There's light in here."
It's a soft glow from above. Imam climbs higher to discover small blue-white lights clinging to rocks. He plucks a few.
"What are they?"
"Larva..."
"Glow worms..."
Fry mind racing "How many bottles we got? Empty ones?"
They then fill three empty bottles with the glowing worms and Fry gets up to go and says to Jen "Look after them till I get back with more light and Riddick."
Jen nods and when Fry's gone lets her claws come out and Jack says "Is now the time to know the rest of the story."
Jen laughs then says "Well I killed the guy like I already told you. I nearly got out when I was caught by one of machine guards. They didn't have me on file but that didn't mean they were going to let me go, so they sent me to their boss the dumb asses.
He was one stupid fucker how he came to be the boss at a triple max prison I will never know, anyway he asked me who I where and I said 'Wildfire your worst nightmare.' He laughed and said 'Who are you?' 'Wildfire and your worst nightmare.' Repeating myself made him so fucking angry I thought I wouldn't have to slice his throat. He came up to me and said 'I don't recognize you.' 'Yeah no shit.' That comment got me a slap across the face, but then that got him all six claws in his chest.
He fell to the floor and I carved into him the name Wildfire, which I did to every guard I killed on my way out and well the name got stuck on them and in the minds who saw the bodies."
Jack looked at Jen and said "That is so cool."
Jen laughed and just then Fry and Riddick moved the rock and Jack said "I knew you would come back all along."
Then they all started going back to the skiff, Jack was with Jen again, they came upon a slope where at the bottom was a pool of water, where the predators began to go to and begin drinking from.
Riddick then tells them to make a chain and when the time is right they runt through a gap and start to climb the slope. Jack slips and falls back dragging Jen with her, Riddick hearing this grabs them both and pushes them up the slope and shouts to all of them "You know the way!"
Jen looks at Riddick one more before they all run to the skiff. Safe in the light of the
headbeams, Fry turns back, panting, waiting.
Waiting.
"Captain..."
He wants her to board the skiff. Fry gives it another beat, eyes sweeping the dark rain. And just when we think it's over for Riddick -- TERRIBLE SCREAMS are heard from both man and predator: There's a helluva fight going on out there. Close out there.
Fry snatches the glow-worms off Imam's neck and Jen grabs Jacks...
And they both plunge into the darkness, homing in on the SOUNDS until...
A blade flashes in their face. They duck and spot...
Riddick. Bloody, muddy, he's down on his knees, still trying to fight off the shadow-beasts that swirl and slash all around him. Around them.
Jen goes to him and says "It's me, it's me, it's me!"
She gets the light around his neck. They see his face clearly -- and see a very human expression there: Fear. Fry and Jen grab his armpits and tries to pull him up.
Fry then says "C'mon, Riddick -- said I'd die for them, not you."
He gets his feet under him. Gripping each other, they start moving, turning like dancers in a macabre waltz, hoping the predators can't fix on Riddick's blood.
"Just 10 steps...keep turning, keep turning...that's right...others're already 'board, waitin' for us right now...five steps...c'mon, almost there, Riddick... almost there...we're almost…"
Something jolts them. ALL CLICKING STOPS.
Searching each other's eyes. Someone just got slashed from behind, slashed bad. But who?
"Not for me..."
In an eyeblink she's gone, ripped from his arms. There was no scream. No cry. No final words. Just...
Blackness.
Jen keeps hold of Riddick and helps him walk, but just before they go she looks in the way Fry was taken.
When they get back Jen helps Riddick to the cockpit and sits down next him in the co-pilot seat.
Jack then joins them and sits on Jens knees.
Riddick then says "Probably okay to talk to me now."
"Not sure where to go. I was just runnin' away when this whole thing started. Where you goin'?" She says both to Jen and Riddick.
They both reply "Not sure. I was just runnin' away when this whole thing..."
Interior smiles. Stars sweep the windscreen as the skiff makes a course-correction. One very bright star comes into view.
"Might interest you..."
Imam moves forward. Seeing, his face lifts. "New Mecca..."
"Think a soul could get lost there? With all those pilgrim-types?"
"It's more a place where souls are found, Mr. Riddick."
As Riddick ponders the possibilities, while putting the skiff on auto-pilot.
The first sun flares out from behind the eclipsing planet. Its light feels cleansing. Renewing. Life-giving.
Both Jack and Imam go out of the cockpit and Jen looks at Riddick and says "I love you Riddick." With that she kisses him passionately, which he deepens when he pulls her onto his lap. Jen presses a button just behind Riddick and the door to the cockpit closes and they finally finish what they began on that planet.
