TITLE
ACT 3
INT – OMEGA PLUG
ZERA is meditating before losing her calm trying to synch with the EVA. The colors around her shift from blue to orange. A red light starts flashing.
Background noise grows into the voices of the bridge crew losing control of the situation. Crossfade into the face of the Omega unit.
RACHEL (V.O)
Shut it down.
AUTUMN (V.O)
Overridden. We've lost
control.
JEFF (V.O)
Neural surge.
VANCE (V.O.)
Countermeasures failed.
She's going rogue.
ZERA opens here eyes in fear and defeat.
The EVA, being restrained in a testing area springs to life and breaks free from its' restraints. The EVA is contained within a giant white containment area with a windowed viewing deck where EARL, RACHEL, AUTUMN, JEFF and VANCE are observing. The EVA looks as though it is losing its' mind and attacks the viewing deck. As the other characters duck for cover, EARL still stands defiant. Shattering bulletproof glass falls around his feet.
RACHEL
Kill the power.
AUTUMN pulls an emergency lever that blasts the umbilical cable from Omega units' back. The EVA turns and tries to claw its way out of the room.
RACHEL
Bakelite. Pump it!
Nozzles reveal themselves and spray hot Phenol and formaldehyde in an acid solution onto the feet of the EVA. The Bakelite puffs and foams at the EVAs' feet and becomes a hardened pinkish spongy material quickly which hardens and holds the EVA in place. The EVA roars and clutches its' head. The fairing on it's back blasts off.
AUTUMN
Ejection sequence activated!
EARL
Damn it!
ZERAs' plug ejects, and rams into the ceiling before rocketing to the corner of the room, pinning itself there.
RACHEL
Vent the chamber!
JEFF
30 seconds activation remaining.
Vents at the top of the chamber engage fans and suck out the air from the area. The entry plug falls from the chamber and crashes to the ground.
EARL
Zera!
RACHEL, wearing a gas mask attempts to give one to EARL, who refuses the mask and runs from the room. The EVA ceases activation, left in an unnerving pose, clawing at the steel walls. Coughing, EARL runs to the Entry plug, and places his hands on the ejection hatch. This immediately burns him. EARL reels back, his glasses falling, and forming a crack. EARL bears the searing pain of the hatch handles and opens the hatch, dumping the LCL from the plug. From above, RACHEL removes her mask, mortified that EARL would bear such pain for someone else. EARL enters the plug.
EARL
Zera!
Badly injured, but still at the helm, ZERA makes eye contact with EARL.
EARL
Don't worry. We'll make this right.
EARLs' Glasses lay in the pool of LCL, and a deeper crack forms in the lens.
TITLE
ZERA
THE ECHO OF A DISTANT HEARTBEAT
EXT – MORNING STAR STREET – DAY
SHANE walks to a base entrance. He sees ZERA ahead and jogs a bit to catch up to her. They walk alongside one another awkwardly.
SHANE
Good morning.
ZERA does not reply.
SHANE
Yeah. I quit for a bit but
I hope you don't hold it
against me. After all that
happened I needed some time.
They walk to the base and enter through thick, tall doors that require a key card swipe.
SHANE(ctd.)
Why are there armored doors this size?
Angels are way bigger.
INT - PLATFORM
They board a bus gondola which departs for the base.
INT - GONDOLA
The Road and the miles to Dundee is playing by piano on the gondola's elevator speaker.
SHANE(ctd.)
It's a weird feeling being this high
up when I know I'm underground…This is
the road to Dundee. It's an old
Scottish folk song. On a winter
day, back when it used to snow,
the whole land was cold and
windy and a young lady asked a
man "How do I get to Dundee?"
He says "Can't tell you. Have
to show you." So they walk to
Dundee and he falls in love with her.
He Gives her his broach and kisses
her. But then he goes home and
they never meet again.
The gondola descends to the landing platform over an almost excruciating length of time. ZERA says nothing and SHANE finally just shrugs her off, accepting that she will not talk to him.
INT - LOCKER
SHANE gets dressed in his plug suit.
INT – THE CAGE
The entry plug is inserted into Unit Alpha.
INT – ALPHA UNIT
SHANE synchronizes with the EVA and on screen he sees ZERA inspecting Omega unit. EARL approaches and ZERA stops what she is doing and starts speaking with EARL. SHANE zooms the image to see their faces. EARL is apparently proud of her work and ZERA appears to enjoy speaking to EARL.
SHANE
Are you fucking kidding me?
INT – SONYAS' APARTMENT – EVENING.
SHANE lies on the couch in the living room. RACHEL and SONYA are serving up dinner, in front of him kneeling on the floor at at a cofee table with three set plates. SONYA presents terrible half-baked, half burnt casserole.
RACHEL
To know that there's food scarcity
in this world and there are monsters
like you who want to do this to
what's left of it!
SONYA
You don't like it? Leave. Shane!
Dinner!
SHANE
Not hungry.
SONYA
Suit yourself.
SONYA serves up slices and knowingly serves SHANEs' plate. SHANE gets up and comes to the table. As he is sitting SONYA is pouring beer on her casserole.
SHANE
Really?
SONYA
You have to make a sludge. The alcohol
emulsifies the flavor. You'll see when
you get older.
RACHEL and SHANE take a bite. They don't bother hiding their disgust.
SHANE
Wow.
SONYA
You like it?
RACHEL
I won't come back here unless Shane
is doing the cooking.
SONYA
Aw. I tried so hard.
PENNY approaches her bowl for her slice of casserole, she takes a bite, passes out and rolls over like a fallen bowling pin.
RACHEL
I've had bad roommates before, Shane
if you need out we can arrange new
digs.
SONYA
I'm right here, you know.
SHANE
I've settled in. Besides, if I
hadn't moved in this place would
still be a beer can junk yard.
SONYA
Yeah! Hi! Hi! Hello. Still here.
I mentioned that part, right?
SHANE
I'm not apologizing. Shape up,
Sonya. You want to live buried in
trash?
RACHEL
Sure. Have you seen her exes?
SONYA (Pouts)
Oh, leave me alone. I'm adapting.
We have a working living space here.
Relocating him now would mean
paperwork. We only just reissued his
ID.
RACHEL
OH! That reminds me.
RACHEL takes out an identification card. It's of ZERA. RACHEL hands it over to SHANE.
RACHEL
You know Zera, right Shane?
SHANE
What about her?
RACHEL
That's her card. I haven't had the
time to issue it to her.
In RACHELS' voice is a hint of indignity. SHANE takes the card and looks at it. It's an unassuming ID, and the photo is unremarkable, but he looks at her in curiosity.
SHANE
So you want me to drop it off?
She lives down in Everett, I know that.
RACHEL
If you could?
SHANE
Ah, sure. I'll see her before you
do anyway.
SHANE is still transfixed by the image of ZERA.
SONYA
You like what you see?
SHANE
Huh?
SONYA
Zera. You seem to like her picture.
Feel like chasing some tail, hm?
SHANE
What the hell are you saying?
SONYA
Nya, Nya, Nya. I know what boys like.
SHANE
Oh my god, you think I see a girls
picture and instantly think 'goddamn
can't wait to what? I don't know…
plow that field.' Give it a rest.
RACHEL
Shane, Manners.
SONYA
I like watching him go ballistic.
RACHEL
Hey, remember Anthony?
SONYA
No! No! No! No! He is off limits!
Why would you even bring him up?
RACHEL
Because you go ballistic.
SONYA
You bitch.
RACHEL
Manners.
SONYA
Anyway, Shane, you guys are in the
same job, you see each other every
day. Why are you hung up on her?
SHANE
I'm not hung up.
I don't know. We don't talk.
She worried me when we first met.
She was all banged up, but she never
talked about why.
RACHEL
That was an accident that happened
during the Omega unit activation.
It was bad.
SHANE
She got hurt that bad but still comes
to work? So why does she pilot? Anyway, she
won't tell me, I'm sure.
SONYA
So she's introverted. Don't let
that stop you.
SHANE
But she's not though. Really.
She'll talk your ear off. I've
seen it.
RACHEL
Is that so?
SHANE sees something strange in RACHELs' demeanor. He doesn't want to tell any more about it.
SHANE
I just know it. She has a lot to
say.
RACHEL
Well…She's a lot like your father.
SHANE
They both never talk to me? Yup.
RACHEL
Everyday life eludes them. He built
his position from the ground up and
after Zera was selected by the Marduk
institute he made a place for her.
To the exclusion of everyone else.
They might know each other better
than any two people in Morning Star…
You ever hear of the hedgehogs'
dilemma?
SHANE
No.
RACHEL
Imagine hedgehogs in the cold.
the only way they can keep warm
is to bunch together. But when
they gather close their spines poke
each other. There's no good distance
for them. For humans it's the same
problem. The cold is called loneliness,
the spines are called identity…Or
something like that. Our very
identities stop us from being intimate.
SONYA
But without our identities what would
we be?
RACHEL
I don't know. But we wouldn't be
lonely.
SHANE puts ZERAs card on the table, face up.
SHANE
I'm more cynical.
SONYA
What do you mean?
SHANE
We can painfully pull the spines from
ourselves, make bleeding bald spots
to rub together, but we must hand
those spines to the ones we trust.
Then wait for them to inevitably,
deliberately stick us in the raw.
SONYA
That's stupid. If people were that
self-destructive how did we get this
far?
RACHEL
She said at the end of the world.
SONYA
Exactly my point.
SHANE
Pain is packaged in honesty and
pleasures can always lie. Maybe
it would be better if she doesn't
talk to me. I'm sure she'd be
brutally honest. Hedgehogs'
dilemma, huh?
SONYA pokes him.
SHANE
Stop. Stop. Stop it.
SHANE pokes back. SONYA laughs.
SONYA
No! No! I'm ticklish!
SONYA and SHANE wrestle while RACHEL scowls looking at the photo of ZERA. RACHEL hates ZERA.
EXT – ZERAS' APARTMENT - DAY
The dilapidated, almost makeshift post-apocalyptic emergency concrete building that houses ZERAs' apartment along with columns and stacks of identical slum housing stands indistinct from the other adjacent apartment complexes basking in the perpetual summer heat. The ten second delayed clanging of an unseen mechanical hammer in the nearby industrial district pounds constantly. The shuffling and humming of other distant mechanical drives and machinery absorb the low end of the audio.
SHANE climbs the stairway to ZERAs' apartment #0641 and he looks out over the veranda to the desolation downhill and the crippled Space needle. He breathes a sigh, turns and knocks on the door. The door gives no resistance and slowly opens with the force of his knock. Perplexed he leans in. He knocks on the open door.
SHANE (Timidly, expecting her nearby)
Zera?
SHANE walks in, quietly closes the door and removes his shoes. He proceeds past the entrance into the short hall and into the studio. There is a bed, more of a cot. Discarded bloody bandages overflow a cardboard box. There is a single half-glass of water on a nearby table with unwashed plate and cutlery. SHANE is drawn to a pair of glasses on the dresser; it's lenses cutting the sunlight. He approaches and picks up the glasses, seeing how they have been warped and cracked.
SHANE (Ctd)
Naa.
He puts on the glasses and behind him he hears a noise of footsteps. He turns to see ZERA, nude, holding a towel to dry her hair. SHANE freezes when their eyes meet. ZERA drops her towel.
SHANE(Ctd)
You're awake?
ZERA walks up to him. SHANE closes his eyes and holds up his hands.
SHANE (Ctd)
Zera, I'm sorry I-
She walks right into him, not even caring that it presses her left breast into the palm of his right hand. She backs him into the dresser and without even thinking right into his personal space, just because he was being forced, in panic he places his right left on her thigh, and they slip backward and against the counter at an angle that forces her body upon him SHANE has a solid foothold, but ZERA is off her toes. She presses closer to him. He's backed all the way up and his hand moves to her ass without him even knowing it.
SHANE
What do you want, Zera? Do you want-
ZERA
Don't move.
He looks away.
ZERA
Look me in the eyes.
Their eyes meet. SHANES' gaze is unbroken, but ZERA glances all over the glasses, checking everything, even the cracks. ZERA needs to make sure that SHANE did not damage them.
SHANE
Zera, I've never done something
like this I don't-
ZERA
Hold still.
ZERA takes the glasses off of his face, turns and examines them more closely. ZERA bends over shamelessly to pick up the towel. Then turns and walks back to SHANE.
SHANE
What do you want to do?
ZERA
Move.
SHANE
Make my move?
ZERA
Move over.
SHANE moves to one side. ZERA moves to the dresser and opens the glasses case. She places the glasses in the case and closes it.
ZERA (ctd)
Why are you here?
SHANE
Your ID is expired. I have the
replacement.
ZERA opens her drawer takes out a pair of panties and puts them on before turning to SHANE with her hand out.
ZERA
Give it to me.
SHANE cowardly snaps it face down onto the dresser before turning to leave the apartment.
EXT – STREET - LATER
SHANE is at the landing of the building. ZERA exits and he follows her. He follows her on a train, once looking in her direction. He follows her on the same sidewalk he had followed her the previous day. ZERA approaches the gate to slide her card. Just as an access granted read flashes on the screen SHANE grabs her hand from the next lane over.
SHANE
Zera, I made a mistake. I'm sorry.
ZERA
About what?
SHANE
Look…That's not your card. I
accidentally gave you mine.
Don't know how, but they know
who is using what card.
SHANE offers the replacement. Overhead shot of ZERA who snaps down SHANES' card, takes her replacement leaving SHANEs' card behind. SHANE swipes in but the kiosk responds that SHANEs' card has a no double use error and since been used too closely with the previous swipe he has to jump into ZERAs' Kiosk and jump the gate before it closes. The two of them head to the platform and onto the gondola. They take seats, SHANE in the front and ZERA in the middle. They are on opposite sides. The gondola descends.
SHANE
Your activation test is today,
isn't it?
ZERA does not respond.
SHANE(ctd)
I know the Omega unit went haywire
last time they tried. That it was
how you were injured.
ZERA again gives no response.
SHANE(ctd)
Come on, Zera, talk to me. This
thing could kill you. Don't you
have any reservations?
ZERA stands and walks to SHANE and looks down at him.
ZERA
Do you think it can't kill you?
SHANE
No. I know it can kill me.
Do you know what that means?
It means I can't fail or else
it's all for nothing. Then what?
Do you know what that feels like?
Do you really want to know?
ZERA
Stop trying to talk me out of this,
Shane. This is what I want to do.
SHANE
No it's not. You're just like me.
You're doing this because he makes
you feel worthless if you don't.
ZERA
Your father has a vision and I am
privileged to be a part of it. But
that is not why I pilot, and you
wouldn't understand.
SHANE
Try me.
ZERA
You backed down, Shane. Both times
you backed away from piloting until
someone else was in danger and you
had to deal with the thought of
living with some guilt. To pilot is
to accept and to be a pilot is to be
accepted. Isn't that what you want?
Why, then, run away? I heard you.
"I mustn't run away." You said it
over and over again. You'll never
run away from yourself, Shane.
You'll always be attached to your
shadow but still you run away. That's
why your father was exactly, absolutely
right to leave you behind.
SHANE stands and slaps ZERA. They shoot each other a glare before ZERA resumes her seat and SHANE sits as well.
INT - NERV BASE
The gondola descends from a long way off as RACHEL steps up and waits for its' arrival. The door opens and she shuffles SHANE off.
RACHEL
Shane, hurry. I just received vital
orders from the commander.
SHANE
About what? Is there an attack?
I don't hear any sirens.
RACHEL
Don't even bother suiting up. Get
to the EVA.
SHANE
I'm going! Damn.
SOS - RACHEL gets SHANE into the ALPHA unit as soon as she can.
INT – THE CAGE
SHANES' entry plug is inserted into the EVA.
SHANE
Beginning synchronization.
Nothing happens.
SHANE (CTD)
Oh. OK. Uh.
SHANE checks a monitor on the plug. Red lights.
SHANE (CTD)
Hello? Command? Shane Eastman, unit alpha.
The launch safeties are still active.
No synch. Nothing. We're cold.
still no answer.
SHANE (CTD)
Well look. If we're not launching,
we're not even synched pop me out
of here. What are you doing?
I'd like to eject. Requesting an
eject-ulation. Rachel, Sonya,
Anybody are you out there?...Louder!
A sound only window pops up on the plugs' lining.
EARL (V.O)
You're on lockdown for three hours.
SHANE
What? What the fuck?
EARL (V.O)
Touch her again and you will be sent
away from this place if you're lucky.
The sound only window clicks off. SHANE attempts to reactivate the comm, then beats on the side of the sled.
SHANE
She started it! Don't hang up on
me! Son of a bitch! Get back here.
Fucking cocksucker! Asshole.
INT – TEST CHAMBER
EARL cuts off his son while he is still ranting. He walks up the corridor in the test chamber and turns to RACHEL who is calibrating the devices.
EARL
How long until confirmation on final
ganglion alignment?
RACHEL
Another hour and a half, I'm afraid.
Spinal synch, of course, suffered
the most.
EARL
Make sure you take your time, now.
RACHEL
Now? As opposed to what? Then?
That wasn't an error made in
haste, Earl.
EARL looks at her slowly intending to communicate to never call him Earl while they are in uniform.
RACHEL (CTD)
I promise she's going to be
just fine this time, Commander.
I know what she means to you.
EARL
You absolutely do not.
EARL returns his gaze back to the fettered Omega unit.
INT - WOMENS' LOCKER
ZERA dresses in her plug suit, doing her best to calm her Nerves, while still portraying her gray, implacable demeanor. From her pocket she draws up EARL's glasses in their case. She observes the glasses closely and is overtaken by the most reassuring sensation. She then closes the case and walks to the test chamber. She enters the chamber and crosses the room below her giant EVA, she enters a lift platform and is raised to a landing where the image tracks her until she takes a straight walk towards the Entry plug.
EXT – PACIFIC OCEAN SURFACE - DAY
The sea is a glassy blue and offers no sound but the softest breeze, not even gulls. From the surface of the sea silently slips forth a crystalline pyramid that rises with naught but gentle ripples and cascading rivulets across its' smooth azure surface. The pyramid stops its growth and it is an enormous sight, as though a pyramid of Giza had been made of flawless crystal. A wide angle image shows not just the pyramid itself, but the perfect reflection of the top half in the sea.
The pyramid rises again, extruding an inverse pyramid on its opposite side. The object rises above the surface of the sea and hovers in the light of the noonday sun. A red, spherical core lights up from within, at the exact center of the diamond shape; the familiar glow of the angel. The angel hums in many soft voices, one of them sings soft, crying siren notes.
CROSSFADE TO…
INT – ZERAs' plug.
The plug hums, it has its own musical drone. ZERA rests in the throne, waiting for her orders, calming herself in the silence.
EARL come on screen before her.
EARL
The test will begin shortly.
Dr. Archbold has made every
preparation.
ZERA
Understood.
EARL
You don't have to worry about
anything this time.
ZERA
I won't be long.
Earl cuts off the video feed. There is a soft moment of humming. Zera's plug then washes into a bright green color before displays open all around. First a green series of go aheads and confirmations, then a red series of charts and results for the test. ZERA is surrounded by displays indicating the synchronization progress right in front of her. By the handle is EARLs pair of glasses. From the observation deck EARL, SONYA and RACHEL watch the synchronization while AUTUMN manages the console. The red connections turn green and climb. ZERA closes her eyes and visualizes her imagination.
SOS – MOUNTAIN – MOUNTAINS
SKY – SKY
SUN – NOONDAY SUN
WATER – DROPLET, GLASS, OCEAN
I AM HERE – EARL
FLOWERS – FIELD
RED SKY – SETTING SUN
BLOOD – ZERA BLEEDING FROM THE ACCIDENT – BLOOD
DROPS FALLING INTO WATER
WOMEN – THE FEMALE FORM WITH WATER AND LIGHT
MANKIND – THE MALE FORM
CITY – CITY AT NIGHT
EVA – OMEGA UNIT, MONITORS, CLIMBING SYNCH RATE
PEOPLE – HUMANITY AND CULTURE
ZERA (V.O.)
Mountains, sturdy, enduring but
withered away by flows of time.
Blue sky, seeing all that is
below, seeing nothing within.
Sun, the singular star of our lives.
Water, a comfortable embrace.
I am here to be with you.
Flowers. Beauty and frailty,
alike, unnamed and temporary.
Red sky, the breaking of day, the
descent of night. Red, the
hateful color. Blood. Though
I bleed not, I know well your
smell. Women that may bleed
may birth their bloodline.
Mankind from out of red soil.
City, a thing made by people.
Eva, a thing made by people.
What and why and how are people?
Are people made by the universe?
Are people made by god?
Are people made by people?
I was made to possess my heart
and this soul.
By existence alone am I worthy
to exist.
But what am I? What am I?
What am I? What am I? What am I?
I am myself. I am an object that
is me and this object expresses
that which I am.
I will fade away from time and
others will go on. I know
others are beyond me, I know
there is another here.
You have your own mind and
you are reaching out even now.
Humans bond with one another.
Bonds can be painful. Bonds
can be joyful. Bonds may break.
Bonds build the future.
Who are you?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Make a bond with me now.
The synchronization meter clears the activation threshold and the Omega unit comes online.
AUTUMN
We have cleared the activation
threshold. The Omega unit is
active. Synchronization 27% and
climbing.
SONYA turns on her com and leans into the mic.
SONYA
Zera, EVA unit engaged. Well
done.
PLUG
ZERA
Roger. Beginning first interlock
test.
EXT – COUNTRYSIDE – DAY
The huge, crystalline angel hovers over the landscape, high above it all.
INT – TEST CHAMBER
The intercom phone rings and EARL answers.
WINTERS (V.O.)
Commander, we've detected an Angel
approaching from the south.
EARL
Understood. I'm on my way.
EARL hangs up the phone.
EARL (CTD)
Captain, angel inbound.
SONYA
I'll get Shane to the EVA
immediately.
EARL
He's already on standby.
Get to the command center.
SONYA
Yes, sir.
SONYA leaves.
EARL
Doctor, see to it that the
Omega unit is sent to the
cage.
RACHEL
Yes, sir.
EARL gets back on the comm.
PLUG
EARL (V.O.)
Zera, you may return now.
ZERA
Yes, sir.
ZERA breathes a sigh of relief.
INT – CATWALK
ZERA walks along the catwalk watching the Alpha unit being hoisted into the catapult. ZERA looks up to the EVA with confidence. The EVA is locked into place.
BRIDGE
The battle display show that the floating double pyramid is hovering towards the city.
JEFF
Alpha unit ready for launch
SONYA enters.
SONYA
It's already on top of us.
Fire him up there.
ALPHA UNIT PLUG.
SHANE is asleep.
The EVA launches and SHANE is shaken awake.
SHANE
What? What? Oh my god.
SHANE activates the EVA as it fires upward.
SHANE (CTD)
Sonya? What's going on?
SONYA (V.O.)
Shane? Were you paying attention?
SHANE
I just got up. What's happening?
SONYA (V.O.)
The target is entering our air
space above the south. Arm
with a cannon and take it out.
SHANE
Is this a drill?
SONYA (V.O.)
This is not a drill.
SHANE
Shit.
EXT – AREAL SHOT
The angel charges it's central polygon with energy.
BRIDGE
JEFF
Ma'am, the angel is building
some kind of internal energy
field.
SONYA
It's doing what?
JEFF
The energy is compiling on
itself. It will definitely
discharge.
SONYA
Shane!
EXT – CITY
The EVA clears the street, and locks into launch position.
PLUG
SONYA (V.O.)
Shane! Dodge.
SHANE
Dodge what?
EXT – CITY
From high above a laser beam emits from the angel and blasts the Alpha unit square in the chest. The beam melts through the armor plate on the EVAs' chest and reveals a white hot sphere, like an angels' core. SHANE screams in agony.
BRIDGE
SONYA
Withdraw the EVA.
VANCE
The ramp has overheated. It's
not responding.
SONYA
Launch a bulkhead. Give him some
cover.
STREET
An Iron bulkhead slab rises out of the ground. As it rises, the slab is melted by the beam. SHANE is at the mercy of the beam still.
SHANE
Sonya! It burns! Get me out
of here! Oh, God.
BRIDGE
JEFF
His vitals are dropping.
He won't last much longer.
SONYA
Fire the explosive bolts.
get him out of there.
VANCE
Yes, ma'am
STREET
The explosive bolts fire and the EVA drops into the shaft below.
BRIDGE
RACHEL enters and heads to JEFFs' terminal.
VANCE
The EVA is in free fall. ETA 20
seconds.
RACHEL
He's passed out. As soon as the
EVA lands give him a heart
massage.
SONYA
I'm headed to the cage.
SONYA runs to the cage, and from behind JEFF shouts at her.
JEFF
He's hitting the emergency
breaking system.
A clamor of screeching metal and slamming plates echo through the base. The EVA rushes down and hits the base of the launch pad with a quaking thud.
PLUG
SHANE is unconscious an electrical charging sound is heard and then discharges which convulses SHANEs' body.
CATWALK
SONYA runs to the EVA.
JEFF (Overhead)
The pilots' life signs have
stabilized.
SONYA looks back and screams.
SONYA
Eject the plug! Pop it!
Get him out of there.
SONYA reaches the platform of the EVA and ZERA is already there, waiting for her. The plug has ejected and is venting LCL which comes out steaming hot. The lid of the plug opens with a cloud of condensation. SHANE, blood dripping from his nostrils is unconscious within.
SONYA
Shane!
STREET
From high in the air the bottom of the angel projects a metallic bore that descends to the street and tunnels into the blacktop.
INT - ER
SHANE is being carted off on a gurney. SONYA keeps pace with the Doctors carting SHANE into treatment. Once SHANE gets within the door of the OR SONYA stops, watches SHANE being prepped before a nurse shuts the door on her. SONYA turns to see ZERA coming the other way.
SONYA
Why are you here, Pilot?
ZERA
I'll wait for him.
SONYA
You're our only pilot ready
for duty now. We are going
to need you.
ZERA
I will do as I am ordered.
SONYA walks away.
EXT – MISSILE PILBOX – DAY
From a long distance, with the Angel still high in the sky a missile is launched from a launcher and hones in on the angel. With a flash of light from one of its tips zaps the missile out of the air and a follow up blast destroys the pillbox in a huge fireball.
BRIDGE
SONYA watches the angel as JEFF offers status updates.
JEFF
Missile pillbox destroyed at
five hundred forty meters
to target.
SONYA
Next.
EXT – AUTOMATED HOWITZER - DAY
An automated howitzer is aimed at the angel from a rise at a greater distance.
RADIO CHATTER (V.O.)
Area clear. Weapon hot.
RADIO CHATTER 2 (V.O.)
Fire.
The cannon fires and the shell is heard hurtling through the air. The shell impacts with an explosion on the angels' AT field. Immediately after the Explosion dissipates and the AT field face vanishes and the beam blasts the face of the hill away along with the cannon.
INT – BRIDGE
Same setup. SONYA fiddles with a pen.
JEFF
The automated howitzer has
been destroyed. They did manage
to hit the AT field this time.
Range was 2.6 kilometers.
SONYA
So if we are going to attack
we need to be at least outside
of that radius. What's the status
on the boring device?
JEFF
It is still active. The drill
from the bottom of the angel is
going to penetrate all 22 layers
of protective armor and breach
the geofront just after midnight.
STREET – DAY
The drill of the angel begins to grind against some unseen obstruction.
VANCE (V.O)
Captain, the drill has reached
the first armor layer.
SONYA
That's some sass, motherfucker.
JEFF
Ma'am, with our offensive pulled
back that far what exactly do you
plan to use for a strike?
SONYA
Something doesn't add up. That
beam could melt through to the
base in half the time as that
drill. Why is it choosing to
take so long?
JEFF
Maybe there's something here
it doesn't want to harm, so
this drill is a delicate
approach.
SONYA
Maybe, but anyway, I'm not worried
about the AT field. We have a
positron cannon that should be
able to handle the load of punching
through.
JEFF
We might have the gun, but where's
the ammo? You'll need at least 180
giggawatts to do the job. We don't
have that many DeLoreans.
SONYA
But I know something we do have.
Rachel is going to love this.
SMASH CUT
INT – COMMANDER EASTMANS' OFFICE – DAY
EARL and WINTERS are behind EARLs' desk, while SONYA and RACHEL are before them.
RACHEL
No! No! No! No! Commander,
the chalice is not part of our
official arsenal. It's out main
power source!
SONYA
Commander, I need you to understand
that this is our only available
offensive option.
RACHEL
Commander, tapping into the bases'
main power supply will wreak havoc
on our architecture, We'll have to
unplug just about everything. We
might need a week to recover.
SONYA
The Magi predict that we can have
everything reconnected in seven
hours.
RACHEL
Yes, and then days of rebooting
and recalibrations!
SONYA
If that drill makes it in here
there won't be a base to reboot.
RACHEL
This is my wheelhouse you're dancing
in, Captain.
SONYA
And this is my operation. I call it
Operation Academy. It has a 3%
chance of success, which is the
highest value that even the
Magi could calculate. We're
going to wire the Central energy
source of the base, code named
chalice to the main power grid which
will distribute and direct energy to
the positron canon which we will
establish at Mt. Si. We estimate
that full setup will take eight
hours. We take the shot at midnight,
and we're back for breakfast.
WINTERS
I knew when we promoted you to
command you would find a way
to shoot from the hip, Captain.
SONYA
This angel has given us more than
enough setbacks. it's time we made
an opportunity.
EARL
We don't have a platform that can
make that kind of precision aim for
that distance and with that large
of a weapon.
SONYA
Yes we do. The Alpha unit can
make the needed adjustments. I
know she can take the shot.
EARL
Supposing that the pilot is capable.
SONYA
Yes, sir.
EARL
I have no objections. Operation
Academy is go.
SONYA
Yes, sir.
INT – HALLWAY
RACHEL and SONYA walk to the bridge.
SONYA
Don't look so sour. You know
the chalice better than anyone.
RACHEL
I'll never forgive you for this
shit.
SONYA
I promise to give you all the
credit for-
KEVIN comes around a corner and bumps into SONYA.
KEVIN
Sorry, Sonya.
SONYA
Kevin. You're a long way from
strategies and logistics again.
KEVIN
Yeah. They're keeping me busy.
SONYA
I've already had my plan approved.
You'll be getting the outline within
the hour. We'll need to wire a cable
up Mount Si. If you had a different
plan well, better luck next time.
KEVIN
Oh, you bet. My luck always gets
better.
KEVIN leaves for EARLs' office.
RACHEL
You were very casual with him,
weren't you?
SONYA
Watch out for that one. start wiring
the grid to handle the chalice.
Let's plan for both EVAs operational.
Give me a defensive option for the
Omega unit and do whatever you have
to in order to get Alpha units' chest
plate replaced.
RACHEL
I'm on it.
SOS of trucks and crew moving all the needed infrastructure out of the base and onto the road. Cranes replace the front chest plate of Alpha unit. Techs wire up the extensive cables. Cooling units prime and vent heat exhaust. Cables spark and meters climb up gauges. At the top of Mt. Si, near the haystack, Chinook helicopters deliver the rear and barrel of the gun. ZERA waits by SHANEs' side.
EXT – BASE OF MT. SI – EVENING
SONYA and RACHEL watch the progress.
SONYA
I really have to hand it to everyone.
We're probably going to beat the
schedule by at least half an hour.
RACHEL
I managed to scrounge up a defense
for the Omega unit. A shield that
can stand up to the Angels' particle
beam for at least 10 seconds.
SONYA
Where did you find something like
that?
RACHEL
It's the underside heat shield of
space shuttle Endeavor.
SONYA
You never cease to amaze, Rachel.
Now everything we need is ready
to go.
RACHEL
Except our constant fatal flaw:
The pilot of Alpha unit.
SONYA
He'll be ready. I know it.
RACHEL
What if he refuses to pilot again?
SONYA
I'm going back to base for a final
checkup. Please wait for me at the
top.
RACHEL (Sneers)
I'll wait until they send up the
port-a-potties.
SONYA goes to her car.
SONYA
Oh, come on. You ain't lived until
you've shit in the woods.
SONYA tears off back to town.
INT – HOSPITAL ROOM – EVENING
SHANE awakens from unconsciousness. Zera, reading a book looks up to see him coming around. SHANE gasps and convulses and ZERA rises to check him. SHANE tears off his oxygen mask.
ZERA
Eastman?
SHANE
Bathroom! Get me to the
bathroom now.
ZERA helps him to his feet, and he is naked as he lets the blanket slip away. Staggering, ZERA brings him to the bathroom. SHANE dives into toilet, lifts the lid and starts heaving into the bowl. ZERA pulls back to the corner as SHANE continues heaving. Finally, SHANE rolls over, drops the toilet seat and looks her in the eyes.
SHANE
Nothing came out.
ZERA
They pumped your stomach.
SHANE
Fuck.
ZERA takes a pamphlet from her back pocket.
SHANE (CTD)
What are you doing?
ZERA
At 22 hundred hours pilots are
to report to the top of Mt. Si
for the execution of Operation
Academy. Signed Captain Sonya
Quinones. I have a spare plug
suit for you. I advise that you
wear it.
SHANE
I don't even know what happened.
I just woke up and I was on fire.
ZERA
The Angel has an effective range
of less than three kilometers and
we will be operating well beyond
its' area of attack.
SHANE
I just wake up. I just wake up.
ZERA
Alpha unit is required for this
operation. You are expected to
pilot the Evangelion.
SHANE struggles to his feet. He approaches ZERA in an intimidating manner, pinning her to the wall.
SHANE
I just wake up and I get blasted
by one of those things. I wake
up and I get ordered what to do.
I wake up and I don't want to.
I don't want to wake up to this.
I can't do this anymore. I can't-
ZERA slaps SHANE.
ZERA
Get a hold of yourself.
SHANE sits on the toilet.
SHANE
I'm sorry. I'm sorry about earlier,
too. I just didn't know what to do.
I lost control.
ZERA
There is time. Would you like dinner?
SHANE
I'm not hungry.
ZERA
Pilot Eastman.
SHANE
Shane. Just Shane. I won't
answer to Eastman.
ZERA
Shane, if you aren't up to it I want
you to stay here.
SHANE
Did your Eva activate?
ZERA
Yes.
SHANE
Then you are a pilot now.
ZERA
I can take your place. You need to
recuperate. Goodbye.
ZERA walks out of the bathroom, leaving SHANE to sit and ponder.
INT – CENTRAL DOGMA, DEEP BELOW THE BASE
In a cavernous, enormous hall there is a great door. On the right hand side, raised up is a catwalk with a personnel door. There, KEVIN is working on a console, hacking into a subsystem in the base, sipping on a can of ice coffee. He hears some noise in the hall behind him. The Shadow of SONYA slinks out of sight. When KEVIN looks he sees nothing down the hall. From his pocket, KEVIN takes a spool of fishing line. He ties the line onto the tab of the can before setting the can down. KEVIN then stands and walks to an armored door at the end of the hall. He steps on the line and tightens it. Then, reaching into his pocket he takes out a key card for the card reader at the gate. He begins to punch in the numbers for the entrance when from behind him a gun cocks and is pressed against the back of his head.
SONYA
Are you ever in your office, Kevin?
KEVIN lifts his hands.
KEVIN
What brings you all the way down
here, Sonya?
SONYA
A hunch. I figured that with everyone
preoccupied it might be a good time for
someone to sneak around unnoticed.
KEVIN
You are an amazing woman.
SONYA
No flattery. Who are you working for?
KEVIN
I told you, Winters. I'm being
employed for the ends of two parties.
Us and, well, elsewhere.
I assure you that NERV has a great
deal of intel from my operation.
SONYA
And your other bosses can say the
same.
KEVIN
True. But I don't worry because I'm
not working alone. My partner is right
behind me.
KEVIN kicks his foot forward, pulling the line and the can, making a clattering sound. SONYA turns drawing her gun and KEVIN bars her arm and disarms her. He ejects the magazine of the pistol and unloads the chamber before tossing the gun. KEVIN forces SONYA to the gate.
SONYA
This won't accomplish anything,
Kevin. You're going to get found
out for this.
KEVIN
I'm not worried about that. I need
you to see this.
KEVIN slides the card through the reader and the gate opens. When the interior is exposed, SONYAs' eyes go wide.
SONYA
Impossible.
SONYA is let go by KEVIN and she enters the chamber. In the center of a pool of liquid is a giant, ghostly white being, crucified upon a great metal cross. Its' torso ends with a swarm of human sized legs, and upon its' face is a mask of seven eyes above a series of triangles. An eerie orange blood trails from the cross which appears identical to LCL.
KEVIN
I'm glad you came. You deserved
to know this. Why NERV exists,
why the EVAs were made. Why the
Angels are coming here.
SONYA
It's Adam. They're coming for Adam.
KEVIN
That's right. Now ask yourself: If
NERV has Adam, what plans do they
have for him? When the Angels are
destroyed what will NERV then do?
SONYA
Second impact.
KEVIN
Third.
SONYA
Oh my god.
KEVIN walks away.
SONYA
What are you going to do?
KEVIN
I don't know. I'll leave that up to
my partner. She's right behind me.
KEVIN leaves, SONYA shuts the Gate.
STREET – NIGHT
The angel continues to burrow into the base, and is illuminated from all sides by spotlights.
INT – GARAGE - NIGHT
SONYA walks to her car where ZERA is waiting for her. SONYA confronts her, let down that she is alone. They both hear footsteps and look to see SHANE walking toward them.
The three of them get into the car but SONYA does not start the car.
SONYA
Shane, before we go you need to know
something. What caused the second
impact?
SHANE
A meteor hit Antarctica.
SONYA
No, Shane. What caused the second
impact was an angel. It was called
Adam. It released so much energy
that it wiped out most of the world.
SHANE
Then the angels we're fighting now?
SONYA
They could cause a third impact, so
they must be stopped.
SHANE
But if we don't stop them, what then?
SONYA
That's why we need pilots, Shane.
That's why we need you. You also,
Zera. You have to save the world.
I only wish I had told you sooner.
SONYA starts the car and rolls out into the night.
EXT – BASE OF MT. SI – NIGHT
RACHEL is diagraming the assault, while calculating the effective formula for the shot. SONYA enters with the pilots.
SONYA
The port-a-potties?
RACHEL
We're taking them up in the
chopper.
SONYA
Good.
RACHEL
Pilots, have a seat.
SHANE and ZERA take their seats.
RACHEL
The target is well above Morning
Star and is currently burrowing
into the base. Shane will be
taking the shot with a 200 gigawatt
positron blast from the summit
of Mt. Si. at 00:02 hours. Be
warned, Shane. The angel's core
is focused in its' thinnest central
plane. You must hit that target.
A second shot will require a reload
of the firing fuse and a 30 second
barrel cool down.
SHANE
But what if I do miss?
RACHEL
Don't even think about it. The
targeting computers will help you
center the sights. You only need
to act at the correct moment.
SHANE
So I just pull a trigger?
RACHEL
Alpha is the only platform that
can make this shot. You're the
only one who can take it. Don't
downplay your importance.
ZERA
My orders are to defend the
Alpha unit?
RACHEL
That's right.
ZERA
Understood.
SONYA
Your EVAs are here, standing by.
Once you're dressed march them
up the hill. Take whatever downtime
you can and then we'll get underway.
Get dressed.
ZERA & SHANE
Yes Ma'am.
INT – TRAILER
SHANE and ZERA dress in their plug suits with a thin sheet separating them.
SHANE
This could be the last day we have
alive.
ZERA
Why would you say that?
SHANE
I felt that beam on me. It's too
much.
ZERA
You have nothing to fear, Shane.
I will protect you.
EXT – MT. SI BASE STATION – NIGHT
The Alpha and Omega units activate, and head up the hill.
INT – COMMANDER EASTMANS' OFFICE.
WINTERS looks up at the already damaged roof of the Geofront. EARL sits waiting. A grinding sound is heard rumbling through the walls.
WINTERS
You can hear it, can't you?
This perhaps our biggest gamble.
Without the last key to the human
instrumentality project the
angels winning here will make
everything a fools' errand.
EARL
The delivery from Germany will
take place within the week.
The project will continue. As
for the angel, do not worry.
Shane is too important to her.
She will not allow him to fail.
WINTERS
I imagine that is what worries
you the most. Would she still
commit to the project even if
it means we lose him?
EXT - TOP OF MT. SI – NIGHT
The mountain top base is set up with tents and Command vehicles. There is a trailing power cable going back down the hill. The gun rests against the haystack of the mountain. In the distance, high in the air is the Angel, still drilling down. The Evangelions stand at the edge of the mountain and there are two scaffoldings standing next to one another where SHANE and ZERA sit.
SHANE
Zera, why do you pilot this thing?
ZERA
I'm bonded to it.
SHANE
Bonded? To my father?
ZERA
To all people. It's how we met.
It's that simple.
SHANE
You're very strong, Zera.
ZERA
There's nothing else in my life.
SHANE
What do you mean?
ZERA stands.
ZERA
We need to launch. Goodbye,
Shane.
INT - COMMAND VEHICLE ATOP MOUNT SI – NIGHT.
SONYA calls out at the console of the command truck to ZERA and SHANE. She's accompanied by RACHEL. JEFF, VANCE and AUTUMN are at terminals.
SONYA
OK, Shane. Your operation is
simple. We will be pushing your
synchronization as hard as we can
so you can make the needed
adjustments. Every variable, from
muzzle climb to the earth's rotation
and gravitational field has been
accounted for but you will have to
wait for the capacitors. Keep the
target in your sites until you get
the green light.
SHANE & ZERA
Roger!
SONYA
Prime the weapon
JEFF
Roger.
JEFF flips on the switch. SOS of cooling units kicking in, electrical convergences.
AUTUMN
Discharge capacitance at 30%
VANCE
First safety released.
Monitors guage the convergence of the energy streams as Alpha unit acquires the target. SHANE dons a visor and shakily gets a view of the high flying angel. Alpha Unit cocks the barrel and sets the gun to fire mode.
AUTUMN
Discharge capacitance at 85%
VANCE
Second safety released.
Sparks fly near cooling units. Cables headed into the EVAs' weapon steam hot.
AUTUMN
Capacitance at 100%.
JEFF
All energy transferred to
the Alpha unit.
VANCE
Third safety released.
Weapon hot.
The angel charges up a blast.
JEFF
The angel is prepping another
blast.
SONYA
Shane, acquire and fire.
Don't hesitate.
JEFF
Incoming!
SHANE (V.O)
Fire in the hole!
SHANE squeezes the trigger and at that moment the angel fires a volley, and the two blasts deflect one another on their way and both blasts hit far behind their targets.
The blast jostles everyone but ZERA who stabilizes herself on the shield. SONYA and the others look to see that the angel is still there.
SONYA
Second shot! Hurry!
VANCE
Barrel cooling in action.
AUTUMN
Capacitors recharging.
JEFF
T-minus 25 seconds.
The angel is preparing a
second shot.
VANCE
We're not going to make it.
Omega unit stands up with shield ready and a hand cannon.
ZERA
Stay on target, Shane.
Omega unit leaps off the hill and runs. ZERA brings a cannon weapon to bear and fires. The shell hurtles through the air and misses its mark, but Zera got the desired result. A blast from the Angel targets her instead of the ALPHA UNIT which forces her to run, and the blast blazes like the fires of hell behind her, while balancing the unwieldy shield.
SHANE
Zera!
ZERA
Make the shot!
SHANE
Goddamn it.
SHANE attempts to reacquire the target while ZERA continues to run and gun as a diversion.
JEFF
15 seconds.
SONYA
Do it, Shane.
SHANE
Come on.
OMEGA unit stumbles and ZERA rights herself just in time to use the shield to block the beam. As ZERA holds strong under the heat SHANE focuses his attention to the angel.
The angel projects a shaft of blue light at ALPHA unit.
Inside the plug, SHANE is blinded for a moment. He then stands and walks out of the plug and onto a platform of crystalline. He walks towards the form of a tall, handsome man wearing a sheer cloth. ALPHA unit stands and begins to levitate.
SONYA
What's going on?
AUTUMN
The angel has connected some
kind of beam to Alpha unit.
VANCE
The wavelengths of the Angel
and Eva AT fields have resonated
with one another.
SONYA
What does that mean?
RACHEL
It's making contact.
SONYA
What?
ALPHA UNIT PLUG
SHANE walks towards the ANGEL figure.
SHANE
Who are you?
ANGEL
I am here to fulfill my destiny.
SHANE
What destiny?
ANGEL
You have been chosen by the Nephilim.
Come closer.
In the Base, the drill punches through the ceiling. WINTERS approaches the window to see the falling debris of the penetrating drill.
SHANE walks forward on the crystal surface and the ANGEL hovers above it.
SHANE
I was told to destroy you.
The angel traces his finger down the center of his chest.
ANGEL
Yes. Because only one of us can
have this.
A crimson core emerges from the chest of the ANGEL.
SHANE
What is it?
ANGEL
The fruit of life. You may consume
it or destroy it. Become or destroy
the power of God. What do you intend
to do?
SHANE approaches, and floats upward. SHANE puts his hand on the sphere.
Far away the beam relents on OMEGA unit. The shield falls to pieces and the unit is melted and fused into place. In great pain, ZERA still raises the cannon into the air and the angel charges its core once more.
SHANE sees energy building in angel and that his gaze is set in the distance. SHANE looks to see OMEGA unit making a last stand.
SHANE
No.
SHANE points a finger gun at ANGELs' core.
SHANE
Target in the center. Pull the trigger.
Back in the EVA he opens his eyes. The gun leaps into the air and into Alpha units hand and aligns perfectly. The shaft of light vanishes. SHANE sees he has the center of the Angel targeted. SHANE pulls the trigger. The blast flares out and punches right through the center of the angel. In his minds' eye, SHANE can see ANGEL, blasted through and ANGEL dissolves. The Angel above Morning Star Screams and tumbles out of the sky and crashing into the mountain side, it fires its' last beam that wipes across Omega unit, sending her reeling.
SHANE
Zera!
Immediately, Alpha unit drops from the sky, feet planted it starts running. Alpha unit ejects its' umbilical cable and runs to the Omega unit.
In the base, the drill shuts down. WINTERS looks up in both relief and disbelief. He looks back at EARL.
EARL
I told you. She would not fail me.
Alpha unit rips the back off of the injured Omega unit, and extracts its' entry plug. As the LCL vents from the plug, Alpha unit gently sets down the plug, before kneeling.
EARL (V.O.)
And though I doubted him, my
son was the right man for the job.
SHANE runs to ZERAs' plug and grasps at the emergency ejection handles. The superheated metal simmers on the gloves of SHANEs' plug suit, but still he torques the hatch open, and looks inside.
SHANE
Zera!
ZERA, knocked out, comes around.
ZERA
Yes?
SHANE tears up.
SHANE
Don't ever say that. Don't tell
me that you have nothing else
in your life. Don't tell me
goodbye when you go on a mission.
I don't know what I would have
done if we never saw each other
again after that. I can't handle
that much pressure.
SHANE weeps.
ZERA
Why are you crying?
I don't know what to do Shane.
I don't know how to act when
things are like this.
SHANE weakly smiles.
SHANE
If we can smile through this
we can smile through anything.
ZERA looks at him and recalls the smiling face of EARL. She smiles back at SHANE. Shane reaches out and ZERA takes his hand.
SOUNDTRACK – ALICE IN CHAINS – BROTHER
Credits roll as SHANE and ZERA walk back up the hill together. They make their way to a road, where SONYA and RACHEL pick them up. SHANE and ZERA fall asleep in the back seat, leaning on each other's heads.
INT – SHIPS' CABIN – DAY
AMANDA, a red-haired, very athletic and competitive EVA pilot from Germany, but a fluent English speaker rests her head on KEVINS' lap, looking up at him teasingly.
AMANDA
I hate you.
KEVIN
Why?
AMANDA
You left me in Germany to run
off to the Morning Star base.
KEVIN
It was only a month.
AMANDA
I missed you and you didn't care.
KEVIN
I cared, I was just busy.
AMANDA
I had to wait until we crossed
Panama to see you.
KEVIN
Well soon we'll both be in Morning
Star, and you'll get to meet the
other pilots.
AMANDA
Who needs them?
KEVIN
I hope you like Shane. I haven't
met him but he's really gifted.
AMANDA
I bet he's boring.
KEVIN
Forty percent synchronization
on his first try.
AMANDA sits up.
AMANDA
What the fuck?
KEVIN
He's killed off three angels
as well.
AMANDA
We don't have to talk about this.
KEVIN
I know. I just think you should
make friends with them.
AMANDA gets on all fours on the bunk.
AMANDA
Why are you being so boring?
Tell me a secret.
KEVIN
I don't have any secrets to tell.
AMANDA
Liar.
KEVIN
Well nothing that would interest
you.
AMANDA
Double liar.
KEVIN
Why are you so wound up today?
AMANDA leans her head on KEVINs' shoulder.
AMANDA
I'm just happy you're here and
we can spend time together.
See? Nothing could ruin this
moment.
The ships alarm goes off.
OVERHEAD (V.O.)
Attention all staff. Incoming
unidentified submersible object.
Depth 50 meters and rising.
Speed 40 knots. A blue pattern
has been detected.
AMANDA
An angel!
KEVIN
They'll have to call for
reinforcements.
AMANDA
No. I'm already here. Watch
this.
AMANDA leaves the cabin and KEVIN breathes a soft sigh of relief. KEVINs' Cell phone rings. He picks up and EARL is on the other end.
KEVIN
Hello?
EARL (V.O)
Do you have it?
KEVIN
Yes.
EARL (V.O)
Check it.
KEVIN opens a containment case which reveals a living embryo encased in a plastic block. Gages and meters show the life signs of the embryo.
KEVIN
The package is in working order.
EARL (V.O.)
Take the jump jet and get here.
KEVIN
There's an angel attacking the
fleet right now.
EARL (V.O)
That will make an excellent
diversion for your escape.
Let the second child and the
Beta unit handle the angel.
You just get moving.
EARL hangs up.
KEVIN
I won't be here to cheer you on,
Amanda. Good luck.
SOUNDTRACK: ABSOLUTE BEGINNER – HAMMERHART.
AMANDA dresses in her plug suit while KEVIN heads to the top deck. AMANDA moves to the cargo hold of the freighter, where the giant, quad eyed, red colored Beta Evangelion unit is moored in a pool of coolant. KEVIN has the tarp pulled from the helipad of the ship, and there is a vtol jet underneath. AMANDA enters the plug of the EVA, and starts it up. KEVIN boards the plane and takes off, and a moment later Beta Unit jumps out of the hold and takes to the air. KEVIN watches as the EVA lands on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. AMANDA plugs in the umbilical cable of the EVA and turns to see, barreling towards the ship the gigantic aquatic angel.
AMANDA
This is pilot Amanda Langley
Wellmont. Leave the angel to
me.
Beta unit expands its' AT field, which interacts with and neutralizes the Angels' AT field. AMANDA can see the core on the crest of the angel, which opens its mouth bearing sharp, enormous teeth. AMANDA leaps into the oncoming angel, passes it's closing jaws and plunges the progressive knife of the EVA into the angels' core. The angel shrieks and dives, taking the Beta unit below with it until Beta unit twists the knife, shatters the core and the Angel gives a dying underwater scream before plunging into the depths to lay across the submerged ruins of some forgotten coastal city. The beta unit is strung from its' umbilical cable up to the Aircraft carrier, and hanging there in the water, AMANDA looks at her slain foe with satisfaction.
AMANDA
Just you, wait, Shane. I'll
show you what I can do.
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To be continued…