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Same Night: Los Angeles
Outside: Chinese Theater
Soos walks away. He's looking down at his hands and sees one of the items that he took from the suitcase after 'accidentally' bumping into Francis, who dropped his briefcase open, and Soos helped him pick the items up. Suddenly Giffany also 'accidentally' bumps into him.
Giffany turns to Soos and asks sarcastically, "What are you doing, buddy? Are you out by yourself? A little date night? Watching your favorite chick flick, maybe?"
Soos answers back just as sarcastically, "Yeah, a little movie called The Party's Over, starring you and your junkie boyfriend." He says with a bit of meaning by 'The Party's Over' as if she got caught and gestures to Nate behind Giffany, "Here's the ticket." Soos holds up and shows her what he took from Nate's suitcase.
Giffany tells Soos seriously, "No kidding. That doesn't belong to you." Giffany goes to take the item from Soos's hand, but Soos flinches, and Giffany grabs Soos's wrist instead, Soos goes and tries to punch Giffany but she swiftly moves her head to the side, making him miss.
Soos, looking at Giffany confused, yanks his wrist out of Giffany's grip and successfully punches Giffany in the face, making her jerk her head to the side before turning to face Soos again.
Soos notices Giffany's face glowing red and her nose healing. Soos's eyes widen a bit in shock. He goes to punch Giffany again, but Giffany grabs hold of Soos's arm and, with super strength, throws him in the air, making him smash a couple of booths and land on the ground.
People were now scared, running away screaming. Nate sucks in whatever is from one of the items in the briefcase, and the veins in his face immediately glow red. Bloody and bruised, Soos looks up as Giffany walks toward him. Nate glows redder.
Nate shouts out, "Giffany!" Giffany turns to Nate, annoyed, and Nate then growls out, "Help! Help me!" He reaches out for Giffany as he turns super hot. Giffany jumps for cover as Soos hides behind a cart. Nate suddenly explodes, causing a massive explosion inside the theater area, killing many people around and wounded Soos and a few other surviving people.
As the smoke clears, there are many shadow figures on the walls. Soos groans weakly as he gains consciousness while he lies injured on the ground and looks over to see Nate's dog tags a few feet from him. He weakly points his left hand out to it. Then he sees Giffany get up from the rumble on the ground, glowing red and healing, walking off and taking out a fresh new gum, chewing as if nothing happened.
TV Footage / Channels
A gunshot echoes in another TV footage from The Mandarin as he crushes a pile of fortune cookies with his fist. The Mandarin and his men step out of their cars in the middle of a deserted area, "True story about fortune cookies. They look Chinese. They sound Chinese. But they're actually an American invention." His men bring out a few people with a bag over their heads, bringing them to their knees, "Which is why they're hollow, full of lies, and leave a bad taste in the mouth." He smashes a few more fortune cookies with his fist, "My disciples just destroyed another cheap American knockoff, The Chinese Theater." Clips of the Chinese Theater in LA show Soos on a stretcher rushing to an ambulance, "Mr. President, I know this must get frustrating. But this season of terror is drawing to a close." A group of children runs to a hooded man, "And don't worry,-" His men raise their guns and cheer, "-the big one is coming. Your graduation." He aims and shoots at a poster of the President.
Day: Soos's Hospital Room
Soos lies in a hospital bed, critically injured and breathing through a tube. A nurse walks in to check on Soos, then turns and notices the TV is on and grabs the remote for it on the table at the end of Soos's bed.
Dipper's voice startles the nurse, "Hi."
Soos's nurse turns, "Oh." She sees Dipper and Mabel sitting behind a few machines in the room. Dipper chuckles at her reaction.
Mabel's eyes are swollen from crying, and she gestures to the remote tiredly with her hand but can't say the words, so Dipper steps in front of her, referring to the TV, "Uh... Do you mind leaving that on?"
Soos's nurse looks at the remote and smiles nervously as she encounters the Pines siblings, "Sure."
Dipper rises from his seat and grabs Mabel's hand as she sits on his left. He helps her stand. Mabel looks and tells the nurse, "Sunday nights. PBS. Downtown Abbey." She crosses her arms, "That's his show. He thinks it's elegant." She looks over at Soos and sniffles.
Dipper nods and then tells the nurse, "One more thing. Make sure everyone wears their badges. He's a stickler for that sort of thing. Plus, our guys won't let anyone in without them." Dipper turns to leave but stops when Mabel doesn't follow and watches as she walks up to Soos, grabs his right hand and squeezes it softly, sniffles, and goes into tears again as she sees the man who's been protecting her and Dipper all her life, lay in the hospital bed injured. Mabel breathes in a sob as Dipper gently grabs her arms and leads her away, telling her softly, "Come on, Mabel. Let's go." Dipper hugs her tightly when she turns around and starts crying on his shoulder, leading her out of the room.
Outside: Hospital Entrance
News reporters are all waiting for Dipper and Mabel outside the hospital. A woman news reporter is standing outside the hospital and talking live in the camera that her cameraman is holding, "We're awaiting Dipper Pines. We're hoping he'll give us a reaction. His reaction to the latest attack." Dipper and Mabel then walk out, and all the reporters swarm toward them, Mabel with her sunglasses on to cover her tearing eyes from the media and let Dipper lead her through the crowd with a protective hand on her back; him knowing how she hates the crowd and has been slowly getting used to it lately, but not today. The hospital-woman news reporter goes up to them and immediately starts asking questions, "Mr. Pines! Mrs. Pines! Our sources tells us that all signs point to another Mandarin attack. Anything else you two can tell us?"
Dipper and Mabel ignore the questions and walk toward Dipper's car, Dipper opens the driver's door and lets Mabel in first, and she climbs over and sits in the passenger seat.
As Dipper was about to get in the car, he stopped when he heard a pushy tabloid reporter guy say, "Hey, Mr. Pines! When is somebody going to kill this guy? I'm just saying." He shrugs carelessly like it's no big deal.
Dipper turns to face the reporter, his expression hardened, "Is that what you want?" He pauses for a moment as the man reporter films Dipper with his phone, "Here's a little Holiday greeting I've wanted to send to the Mandarin. I didn't know how to phrase it until now."
Inside: Dipper's Sports Car
Mabel looked out the windshield, listening to Dipper.
Outside: Dipper's Sports Car
Dipper is still facing the male reporter as he records Dipper with his phone. Everyone else is taking pictures, recording, and listening to him, "My name is Dipper Pines, and I'm not afraid of you. I know you're a coward. So I've decided that you just died, pal." He takes off his sunglasses, "I'm going to come to get the body. There's no politics here. It's just good old-fashioned revenge. There's no Pentagon. It's just you and me. And on the off chance you're a man, here's my home address, 10880, Malibu Point. 90265."
Inside: Dipper's Sports Car
Mabel sits in the passenger seat, listening to everything that Dipper says, and gasps when he gives his address, now angry at him.
Outside: Dipper's Sports Car
Dipper finishes as he gets filmed by the pushy male reporter, "I'll leave the door unlocked." He asks the male reporter, "That's what you wanted, right?" He takes the reporter's phone, turns around, and throws it. Some reporters that were trying to ask and film Mabel ducked, and the phone smashed against the wall. He turns back and tells the reporter, "Bill, me." As the reporters crowd the car and continue to shout questions while recording, Dipper gets in his car and drives off.
Dipper's House: Living Room
On the floor playing with Phillip, Pacifica has been watching the window TV and saw Dipper's message to the Mandarin. Pacifica's now with mixed emotions; shock, anger, confusion. She turns to Candy, who's sitting on a chair with her tablet in her lap and Bluetooth in her ear, beside Pacifica and Phillip, "Candy, I need to ask you for a big favor?"
The sudden question confused Candy as she answered, "Sure, what is it?" Pacifica looks at Phillip playing with his toys before turning back to Candy, looking at her in seriousness.
Inside: Dipper's Sports Car
Mabel looks at Dipper in disbelief. Dipper ignores her look and focuses on the road as he drives. A second later, Dipper tells her, "Don't say it, Ma-"
Mabel snaps, "Are you out of your mind?!"
Dipper glances at Mabel and says, annoyed, "Yep, you said it. I said don't say it, but you said it anyway."
Mabel says, frustrated, "I don't care." She looks away from Dipper as she mumbles, "I cannot believe you gave out your house address." She looks at him, her expression hard, "You know that you're not the only one who lives there, right?"
Dipper says nothing but sighs, knowing she's right. Mabel looks away from him, looks out from her window, and leans back in her seat as she crosses her arms, mad.
Later: Dipper's House
Garage / Workshop
Dipper alone in his lab, JARVIS's voice explaining as Dipper grabs a hologram-box of info, "I've compiled a Mandarin database for you, sir. Drawn from SHIELD, FBI, and CIA intercepts." Dipper turns around, facing his platform, widens the boxed hologram, and circles the data information, "Starting virtual crime scene reconstruction."
Dipper looked at all the data gathered from the crime scene, "Okay, what do we get here?" He stands in the middle of the hologram. He looks at all the data at eye-level around him and reads as he slowly circles around, "The name is an ancient Chinese war mantle meaning 'adviser to the king' South American insurgency tactics. Talks like a Baptist preacher. There's lots of pageantry going on here." He rubs the back of his neck, "Lots of theaters." Dipper turns and pushes the virtual information down to close, "Close." Dipper looks at the virtual crime scene reconstruction around the room as it pops up.
JARVIS's voice explained, "The heat from all the blasts was over 3,000 degrees Celsius. Any subjects within 12.5 yards were vaporized instantly."
Dipper asks as he stares at the shadows on the crime scene wall, "No bomb parts found in a three-mile radius of the Chinese theater?"
JARVIS's voice answers, "No, sir." The wall with the 3 shadows of the virtual-reconstruction closes.
Dipper looks down and mutters to himself, "Talk to me, Soos." In the virtual reconstruction, Dipper sees Soos lying down, looking and pointing his finger at something a few feet from him, and Dipper follows the direction, sitting down on a stool, looking at some dog tags, "When is a bomb not a bomb?" Dipper picks up the virtual image of the dog tags and pushes them up in the air to investigate them further, "Any military victims?"
JARVIS voice answers, "Not according to public record, sir."