TITLE
ACT 2
INT – TERMINAL DOGMA LCL POOL
ZERA floats nude in LCL. EARL approaches. ZERA swims to him, and stands before him.
EARL
The time has come. This is the
day for which you were born, Zera.
EARL holds out his hand. The embryo of Adam is growing there. ZERA looks at the disfigured fetus and tentatively takes his hand.
EXT – MORNING STAR TOPSIDE
The EVA series, flying like buzzards around the BETA unit, descend, land and encircle the BETA unit. Each hideous, white painted, alien Evangelion carries a swallow bladed sword with a peculiar helix handle.
INT – BETA UNIT
AMANDA
Of course he couldn't bring himself
to say it. I should have guessed.
The BETA unit blows off its' umbilical cable and activates its' prog knife.
AMANDA
Alright. Nine of you? That's fine.
I can take you all down in just over
thirty seconds and be done with time
to spare. Goddamn did you catch me
in a bad mood.
AMANDA screams and charges. The BETA unit spikes the nearest angel in the face which explodes in blood, gore and brains. The BETA unit raises the carcass of the EVA and rends it asunder christening itself in the EVAs' blood.
AMANDA
Erste.
INT – BASE SHAFT
JACOB descends, hovering into the base. Close up on his ambivalent expression.
EXT – MORNING STAR
The beta unit charges at another of the EVA series, crashes it into the lake and crushes its' skull. The beta unit trudges from the lake and attacks another of the EVA series with its' prog knife. AMANDA screams. The beta unit stabs the EVA in the skull, but it comes to pieces. AMNADA sneers, reloads the blade to attack the next EVA to slash off the EVAs' arm, but the blade is now destroyed and the EVA gets a grip on the BETA unit. The Beta unit gets to the back of the eva and breaks its' neck. AMANDA looks up in time to see another of the EVA series leaping into the air, sword drawn. The Beta unit rolls away in time and seizes a fallen sword. AMANDA roars into battle, parrying the EVAs' next attack before burying the blade of the sword into the EVA. The Beta unit is charged into by the next EVA. With a bloodthirsty piercing glare, AMANDA unleashes a giant nail cannon from the EVA's right faring, firing twice into the EVA's skull.
AMANDA
Of course I can't depend on Shane
to play the hero today. But I
don't need him to take you down!
INT – TERMINAL DOGMA
The gravity sled carrying SHANE comes to a stop at the bottom of the shaft. SHANE drops to his knees and screams in despair, as he knows SONYA is dead. This is a long, tall corridor like a vaulted cathedral. In one direction SHANE can see the outlines of three people. RACHEL, EARL and ZERA. SHANE then turns to see the Alpha unit at the the other end of the hall, gritting his teeth, he runs to the EVA as fast as he can.
INT – THE GREAT CHAMBER
The giant angel, fallen face down into the lake of LCL. EARL and ZERA enter to see RACHEL standing at the side of the lake.
RACHEL
It's useless, Earl. I've already
reprogrammed the MAGI to follow my
exclusive commands.
RACHEL turns, draws the gun, pointing it at EARL. She produces a PDA that is ready to launch the self-destruct system for the entire base.
RACHEL (CTD)
What do you say, Mom? We killed
you, so you kill us? That's fair.
RACHEL shuts her eyes and hits the switch on the self-destruct system.
A pause.
Nothing happens.
RACHEL (CTD)
What? It's not possible.
RACHEL looks at the display, dropping the gun. The display reads. "CASPAR override of self-destruct. Priority: Commander Eastman"
RACHEL (CTD)
Mother…After all he's done to
us? You'd choose your lover over
your own daughter? You still won't
stop him?
EARL
Could you?
RACHEL looks at EARL, helpless in his eyes, drops the PDA. EARL draws a gun.
EARL (CTD)
Dr. Archbold…Rachel. I truly…
couldn't have done this without
you.
RACHEL takes in her total defeat.
RACHEL
Liar.
EARL fires. RACHEL tumbles backwards into the lake and as she falls, sees a ghost of ZERA. She dies, floating away in the blood of the angel.
INT – TERMINAL DOGMA HALL
SHANE gets to the base of the ALPHA units' scaffold and climbs the emergency ladder
EXT – MORNING STAR
The beta unit smashes an EVA series into a building, crushes its' head. Inside the BETA unit is a list of the nine targets, all but one has gone red and designated terminated.
AMANDA
There's nothing to stop me now.
Least of all you idiots!
AMANDA turns to see the last EVA standing some distance away. The timer for her activation is down to 30 seconds.
AMANDA
What are you waiting for?
On the list of targets, the colors start to flicker on to green. AMANDA does not notice. The BETA unit tosses the corpse of the crushed EVA into the standing EVA and rises to charge the EVA. The Beta unit punches through the corpse of the dead EVA and into the core of the standing EVA. BETA unit crushes the core and as the EVA dies, its hands paw the face of the BETA unit before going limp.
With a ferocious sneer, AMANDA stands above the slain EVA, not seeing that behind her one of the fallen EVAs' arms have lifted from its' death. As if by command, one of the swords leaps into the EVAs' hand. The helix handle of the sword morphs the entire sword into a spear of Longinus. The EVA throws the spear with such force that it blows over its' own limp corpse. The spear strikes through the AT field the beta unit and into its' lower back.
AMANDAs' body burst in a spray of blood. AMANDA screams.
INT – TERMINAL DOGMA HALL
SHANE enters the plug of the EVA and activates the EVA.
SOS as everyone realizes that the ALPHA unit is active. EARL, ZERA, JACOB, WINTERS, AMANDA and lastly the FIELD COMMANDER realize that the end has come.
EXT – MORNING STAR
The Beta unit collapses to its' knees. Inside the EVA, AMANDA sees SHANE appear before her.
SHANE
Amanda? Are you OK?
SHANE puts his hand on AMANDAs' face.
AMANDA
Shane, you got to the EVA. Good. What
are you going to do?
SHANE
I can help, Amanda. What do
you need?
AMANDA
Is the angel gone?
SHANE
Don't worry about that! I
need you. You have to tell
me, what do you want me to do?
AMANDA
Shane, you idiot!
The EVA series reanimate and rise from their fallen state.
INT - BASE
AUTUMN sees the EVAs reactivating on her computer.
AUTUMN
Oh, my god. The EVAs are
coming back online.
EXT – MORNING STAR
The EVA series pick up their swords which become helix lances before the lot of them take to the sky, circling the Beta unit.
INT – BETA UNIT
AUTUMN (V.O.)
Amanda! Get out of there.
Eject! Eject!
AMANDA kills the communication feed.
AMANDA
I'll keep them busy.
SHANE
Anything you need, Amanda,
I'm here.
AMANDA
When will you ever learn Shane?
This isn't about us.
SHANE
Listen if it means-
AMANDA
Whatever happens, you make it
happen or I hope I never see you
again!
SHANE
But what if-
AMANDA pushes SHANE away and he vanishes. AMANDA looks up and her left eye explodes in blood.
The beta unit is struck with a spear in its' head. AMANDA screams. The power drains out of the Beta unit. AMANDA struggles to activate, revving the handles and crying in panic as blood streams from her skull. The EVA series surround the BETA unit and lumber forth like jackals before laying their hands on the BETA unit and sinking their teeth in.
INT – BASE
AUTUMN
The Beta unit is out of power.
JEFF
Oh my god. How is she?
AUTUMN screams and throws the PC away.
EXT – MORNING STAR
The EVA series feast on the carcass of the BETA unit before flying into the air and circling once more.
INT – BETA UNIT
AMANDA blocks the blood flow from her eye, and forces the Beta unit to reactivate. She reaches into the circle of the EVA series in the sky. The Beta unit feebly reaches upward.
AMANDA
I'll kill you. I'll kill you.
I'll kill you. I'll kill you.
I'll kill you. I'll kill you.
I'll kill you.
AMANDAs' arm splits in half.
The arm of the Beta unit is bisected by a spear. A rain of spears follow suit and repeatedly skewer the Beta unit into oblivion.
INT – ALPHA UNIT
SHANE is trapped in shock.
AUTUMN (V.O.)
Shane! Amanda! She's…She's
SHANE cuts the communication feed. He cannot internalize what has just happened.
SHANE
Jacob. Jacob. What the hell
man? It can't be this. No.
You son of a bitch.
SHANE grabs the handles of the EVA and begins to break out of the restrataints, which are much beefier here than above in the cage. SHANE screams.
INT – TERMINAL DOGMA
EARL and ZERA
EARL removes his glove. ZERAs' arm undoes itself and falls to the ground.
EARL
Your AT filed is giving out.
I knew that would happen if
I brought you here but we
have no options. They are
coming. Now you must take me
to Nadine. This is why you
were born, Zera. Accept me.
EARL opens his palm, revealing the embryo of an angel. ZERA closes her eyes. EARL places the embryo on Zeras' chest. ZERA can feel it entering her. She grits her teeth.
JACOB hovers down the hall toward the final gate. JACOB moves to ZERA and EARL.
ZERA
Hello, again.
EARL (looking away)
What?
ZERA strikes EARL and as EARL falls away and when this happens, ZERA absorbs EARLs arm into her.
ZERA
I am not your puppet.
EARL
What have you done? Zera?
ZERAs' arm regrows and she floats upward to face JACOB.
JACOB
I told you this is why we are
here. Now we can bring
silence to the chaos of humanity
ZERA opens her hand, upon which emerges the embryo.
ZERA
The way of Adam? Perhaps.
That's not for us to decide.
JACOB
Then whom?
The Alpha unit crashes down the corridor, and its blazing eyes pierce the darkness. EARL gets to his feet. In front of him appears a ghost of ZERA. He turns and sees NADINE standing with YOUNG ZERA.
NADINE
To think, Earl…You came this far
to lose me.
EARL shakes his head and runs to the EVA unit. The ghosts vanish without fanfare and without a trace. JACOB looks at the EVA, then back at ZERA.
JACOB
There's nothing he can do.
Without-
ZERA shows her palm to JACOB.
JACOB (CTD)
Wait…
ZERA
Through death and into rebirth.
JACOB
If that is Adam, then who?
(Jacob looks at the fallen angel in the LCL)
Lilith! I understand now. Oh,
what a terrible mix up!
You'd think such a thing could
never happen in a billion years!
ZERA
Yet, here we are.
JACOB
Then what about me?
ZERA
He will decide. For what it's
worth you being here was a good thing.
I'm glad I had something to do today.
ZERA floats backwards. The great angel arizes from the LCL and opens its' arms in front of the cross. ZERA closes her eyes floating up the giant angel, Lilith.
ZERA
I'm back.
SUBTITLE
Welcome home.
The Angel plants newly grown legs into the LCL with a splash. ZERA looks coldly downward at EARL.
EARL
Shane!
The EVA unit runs to ZERA and JACOB.
EARL (CTD)
Zera has betrayed us! We have
to stop her before she starts the
third impact. You have to save
the instrumentality project
Shane or else everyone will-
EARL is stomped flat by the EVA that continues on and grasps JACOB.
SHANE
You bastard! What are you
thinking?
Lilith raises her hand and the ALPHA unit is shot into the sky up a shaft of light through the hole made by the lance of longinous. The EVA hovers in the sky below the lance and the EVA series seeing it fly upward to encircle it.
JACOB
We made it, Shane. You did it.
SHANE
No. I haven't done anything.
Don't fuck with me. Not now.
JACOB
I am the last angel, Shane.
If you defeat me then all
of mankind can find rebirth
through you.
SHANE
That's not what I'm here for!
JACOB
That's the only reason you
are here. You may hate the
world, you may hate yourself
but your choice is clear,
change the world, change
yourself or die.
SHANE
I don't have to do shit!
JACOB
Then you will die! I don't
want that. Between the two
of us, of what I know about
you and what I have come
to understand about you then
what you do will make the
world I would want to survive.
SHANE
Do you know what you are asking?
JACOB
This world was meant to be mine,
to belong to the angels. Something
went wrong, Lillith landed here as
well. From her came you, and all
your kind.
SHANE
What does this have to do with
us?
JACOB
Because we cause each other pain.
The light of every soul of Lilith,
your very mind cries this upon you!
SHANE
Jacob...What about you?
JACOB
The gates of heaven will wait
no longer. She is on her way.
If I'm still here then it's over
for you. If it comes down
to you and me, then you should
live and I should die. I say
that with all the happiness
and gratefulness in my heart.
Thank you, Shane, even as
I die, you give meaning to
me. Go and make this world
your own.
The ALPHA unit, clutching at JACOB and staring into his face is suspended in air for a long time in a shaft of light before the great spear as the EVA series circle in a halo around it.
Almost silence.
The EVA reaches the hand that holds JACOB into the sky and looks away.
BLACKOUT
A Ghastly crushing sound.
A rain of blood falls from the hand of the EVA along with the head of JACOB.
SHANE can barely comprehend what he has just done.
SHANE screams.
BLACKOUT
SOUNDTRACK: DINOSAUR JR. – FEEL THE PAIN
TITLE
I FEEL FINE
INT – BASE
JEFF
Angel destroyed! He did it.
VANCE
So it's over? Then now what?
AUTUMN
The eva series is resonating with
the Alpha unit.
WINTERS watches on the screen as the EVA series climbs and circles around the Alpha unit.
WINTERS
So that's it, then?
I'm sorry, Nadine. It was
supposed to be you. Or is
this what you wanted all along?
That's it.
TERMINAL DOGMA
ZERA looks up the shaft and smiles. ZERA floats to the back of the giant angel, who lowers itself obligingly, revealing an entry plug. The plug extends outward and opens. ZERA enters and the plug reinserts.
ZERA synchronizes herself up to 400% with Lilith. Her red blood, pale body and blue soul into the ANGEL. ZERA vanishes into the plug, which the ANGEL immediately ejects. The angel grows upward. The lights go out.
INT – BRIDGE
Lights out hit the bridge. Only AUTUMN on her laptop stays operational. Emergency lighting kicks in.
VANCE
What the hell was that?
JEFF
Autumn?
AUTUMN
It's the chalice! It's source was
uncoupled, but it's moving! Altitude
rising. Oh, my god! It's pattern blue?
JEFF
The chalice is an angel?
AUTUMN
No! It's a woman.
The body of Lilith floats up through the command center.
The hand of Lilith moves through AUTUMN, and the giant woman floats higher.
AUTUNM
Oh, My god! We made this!
We made it happen! What
Have we done?
VANCE
Oi! Autumn, it's out of
our hands.
AUTUMN
What is? What is this?
WINTERS
Man your station. Keep a
tight watch. He's in our
minds and he's in our
destiny. Our lives are in
Shane Eastmans' hands
now.
AUTUMN
We've got an energy reading.
Jeff?
JEFF.
All my meters are either going
crazy or they're going dead.
I don't know what the fuck
we're looking at.
WINTERS
Anti-AT field. The boundary
between all minds are going
to be destroyed.
VANCE
Sir?
WINTERS
It's not just the angels.
AT fields exist in all life
to keep our minds and bodies
separate, to make us individuals.
Now the seal between everything
will be broken. All will be one.
AUTUMN clutches at VANCEs' arm.
AUTUMN
Did we do the right thing?
VANCE
How the fuck should I know?
ALPHA UNIT
SHANE
Amanda? Amanda! Where are you?
SHANE looks at the ground and sees the remains of the BETA unit. Its' a gory mess.
SHANE
No!
Shane keeps screaming no until he's not screaming words at all.
The ALPHA UNIT extends its hands and cleches its' fists. The heads of the EVA SERIES are crushed. As if they did not care, the EVAs' fire their lances into the hands and feet of the ALPHA unit, crucifying it. The EVAs rise into the sky and form a Sephiroth which ignites into the sky.
COMMAND CENTER
JEFF
The energy is cumulating.
It's going to reach critical.
AUTUMN
Sir?
WINTERS
Hit the deck.
The bridge crew take cover.
ON THE GROUND
The SARGENT and the FIELD COMMANDER look into the sky as the Sephiroth cross rises.
SARGENT
What does it mean sir?
FILED COMMANDER
It means we failed.
SEARGENT
Sir?
FIELD COMMANDER
Say your prayers.
The Sephiroth explodes. Seen from space, the explosion bursts over Washington state, over to Canada and out to the Pacific. The explosion takes on the appearance of an eye.
From the crater of the explosion, Lilith rises, her eyes empty sockets.
The EVA is held in air for a long time in a shaft of light before the great spear as the EVA series circle in a halo around it.
ALPHA UNIT
SHANE takes SONYAs' cross into his hands, seeing it stained with blood. He puts his head in his hands.
SHANE
Dammit. Dammit. Dammit. Dammit.
Dammit. Dammit. Dammit. Dammit.
ZERA (V.O.)
It's time, Shane.
In terror, SHANE glances up and watches as the heads of the EVA SERIES regrow and many heads of ZERA replace them emerging from one grotesque outcropping.
SHANE
Zera?
LILITH blinks and ZERAs' red eyes come to life.
SHANE screams. The Alpha unit screams, and its' chest plate opens revealing the angelic red core before which the lance of longinus hovers, ominously.
SHANE
No! No! No! No! No!
SHANE struggles with the controls, desperately trying to get the alpha unit to respond.
JACOB (V.O.)
Shane?
SHANE looks up, there is JACOB siting above him in the plug. JACOB clambers down and sits on SHANEs' lap. SHANE covers his eyes,
SHANE
No. No. You're not here.
It's not true. Stop. Stop.
JACOB (Sighs)
Never meet your heroes.
SHANE
I killed you, you're gone.
JACOB removes the hands from over SHANEs' eyes.
JACOB
You're exactly what I knew
you were. From the first
moment I saw you, Shane.
The look in your eyes said
it all. You don't want to
be here.
SHANE
You don't know me. You
betrayed me. Then I had to
do it. I didn't want to do
it. It's not ending. I
can't face it. Just leave
me alone.
JACOB
Life goes on, Shane. It
might go on forever and
ever, amen. You're in a
unique position to reject
it as long as you live or
else you have to accept it
with all your heart.
SHANE
Jacob, why?
JACOB
I don't know, Shane. I don't
even care. But I'm not turning
away. Open it all up and let
it all out. What's left is
yours, and you, truly you will
remain. OK.
SHANE
I don't know.
JACOB
That's OK. It's why I'm here.
For you. I'll be waiting on
the other side. The best is
yet to come and it's all yours.
Give me a smile.
SHANE with trepidation looks over JACOBs' shoulder and into the eyes of LILITH.
SHANE
I can't blame you. OK.
SHANE closes his eyes and the lance pierces the core of the ALPHA unit. The ALPHA unit and the lance combine and becomes the tree of life. LILITH raises her hands and the Tree of life ascends to the sky. JACOB dissolves away.
LILITH
Through the valley of death the
river of life flows. One shapes
the other, as it has been for all
time. Now make it something new.
Everlasting or oblivion it is
yours. Show us our future.
SHANE closes his eyes and the scene dissolves.
EXT - ALLEY - NIGHT - RAIN.
SHANE awakens in a barrel. The rain pelts outside as he nestles himself into the back of the drum, trying to stay warm.
SHANE (V.O.)
Right after my teacher died.
Just before I came here.
When I was rightfully nobody.
SHANE forces his eyes to close. He plays a song through his DAT and sleeps through the downpour.
SOUNDTRACK (faintly): Smashmouth – Walking on the sun
MORNING.
SHANE awakens, his walkaman playing to see the rain coming down so he leaves the flooding barrel.
EXT – PARK – DAY
The Rain has stopped. Damp Sand castle. Three children, a boy and two girls play in the background. A swing keeps rhythm.
SHANE enters and sees the playing, happy children. SHANE turns off his music and kicks down the sand castle. The children are shocked by SHANEs' actions.
SHANE
The fuck are you looking at?
The children run away. SHANE starts to move on, then returns to rebuild the sandcastle as best he can remember it. He gives up and tries to build his own version of the sandcastle. He goes until nightfall. The swing slowly stops keeping rhythm.
SHANE looks at the sand castle. It is a pyramid with obelisks surrounding and even extruding from the central pyramid. SHANE kicks down the sandcastle, just as he had at first. He kneels and weeps at what he had done and that he could not reproduce the purity of the vision which the children had made.
SOUNDTRACK: POE – ANGRY JOHNNY
AMANDA (V.O.)
You're not even worth the misery!
INT – SONYAS' KITCHEN – EVENING
The table is overturned. It is as it was when AMANDA had thrown it before.
The radio in the kitchen is playing.
SHANE
We have to make it work out.
SONYA (V.O.)
We can't. You push everyone away.
INT – SHANES' ROOM – EVENING
SONYA is on the bed, bearing her scar to SHANE. SHANE looks away.
SHANE
This isn't right. This isn't the
way you want it. Not the way you
would have me.
ZERA (V.O.)
You have no right to declare my
desires.
INT – ZERAS' APARTMENT – EVENING
SHANE
You don't know what I want! You
won't even listen to my desires!
You keep yourself distant to keep
yourself from harm.
INT – SONYAS' KITCHEN
AMANDA moves up to SHANE
AMANDA
You've been doing the exact same!
I can't be expected to understand
anything if you don't tell me!
SHANE
And what about you? You think you
can be ambiguous with me and I am
to blame for not reciprocating?
INT – SHANES' ROOM
SONYA has risen and grabs SHANE by the collar.
SONYA
How am I being ambiguous? What more
do you want from me? My home, my
lead, even my very self and you won't
let me in?
SHANE
You don't know what you're doing! You
just want something else, something
that's gone. Something I can't give
you! No matter what, I'm not enough.
INT – ZERAS' APARTMENT - EVENING
ZERA
That's why you need to go.
SHANE
I don't want to! I know I need something.
I know I need someone. So what if I need
you for now? Just stay with me until I
know.
INT – SONYAS' KITCHEN
AMANDA
Why should I be your shoulder to cry on?
Don't you think I have my own problems?
My own needs? My own fears? You want me
as just a crutch until you find something
else?
SHANE
So what? Don't you do the same? Do you
really want to be with me?
FLASH of AMANDA and SHANE having sex.
INT – SHANES' Bedroom
SONYA
You can't just use people and discard them
when you feel comfortable. Not without
knowing that you are causing pain.
SHANE
No. You can't put how I live on me. If you
want to be this way, then how can I be
to blame? You're not even meeting me
halfway.
ZERAS' APARTMENT
ZERA
I'm not meeting anyone halfway. I go
where my heart commands. What do you
owe to me? I to you? I must be myself,
and I must be true.
The image of all three girls appear.
THE WOMEN
I'm all you have.
The images shatter.
SHANE
Liar!
BLACKOUT
SOUNDTRACK: Oncoming train. The train passes.
INT – TRAIN – EVENING.
SHANE (CTD)
You deceive me with your smiles
you use me for your own comfort. You
take joy in my misery and are snide
at my victories. I did everything to
stay near to you but it is never,
never enough. You use me for what
pleasures you think you need and I
keep trying to keep up. The second I
need to know you are there for me and
truly needed you run away.
SONYA
Just like you.
ZERA
Just like you.
AMANDA
Just like you.
SHANE
Stop! Stop! STOP! You can't turn
this on me! When I was reaching out
to you-
IMAGES in negative of SHANE leaving ZERAS' apartment, AMANDA turning over the table, SHANE pushing SONYA away.
THE WOMEN
You hurt me.
SHANE
No! No! No! I didn't want to hurt
you!
ZERA
So you abandoned me.
SONYA
So you rejected me.
AMANDA
So you betrayed me.
SHANE
When you wanted someone
else!? Who am I, if you don't
want me? This is too much. I can't do
this. It's all of you against
me.
SONYA
There are so much more than
us, Shane.
ZERA
You are connected to all people.
AMANDA
This is why you pilot. You want
to be connected to everyone, right?
SHANE
I don't want this! I don't want
to be a savior! I don't want to
be a crutch! I don't want to be
a god!
SONYA
You want to be nothing?
SHANE
YES! I want everything to be
nothing! It's not fair that
I was born. It's not fair that
we would need each other! We
should be free of such hurt or
we should never have been born
at all!
ZERA
You can't run away from this.
SHANE
Why not?
AMANDA grabs SHANE and pins him to a chair in the train.
AMANDA
Because you were born. Because
this is the way things are.
Because everything we do is to
work through the pain of
everything we do. We can't be
alone. We can't run away. We
need each other. You want me,
right?
Negative image of SHANE overturning AMANDAS' body in the hospital.
FLASH of AMANDA and SHANE having sex once more.
SHANE
No.
AMANDA
Take what you want and go. That's
what I told you. You took your fill
of the shape of me and then left to
squeeze your meat! I am not just an
image in your eyes or hide for your body.
I may not be much but I am better
than that!
AMANDA straddles SHANE and forces her bust into his face.
SHANE
It wasn't like that.
AMANDA
It was just that! You left me! You
don't care about me? You feel nothing
but a glance for me, then I want nothing
from you. How am I supposed to be with
you if this is all we are?
SHANE
You have no right. You evade me with
everything you have. You turn away
from me and rebuff my emotions. I try
and every time you put yourself in the
way.
AMANDA
Because that's what you want. You
see me and you have desires. I know.
You jerk off and you think of me.
You think I care...
...Deeply. It maddens
me that I'm nothing but a stain in
your sheets, when I am always here.
Even with you inside of me there is
nothing that brings us together. I am
always being denied. Exactly what more
do you want? If I can't have all of
you then I want nothing from you.
SHANE
Then just be nice to me
THE WOMEN surround and caress SHANE.
THE WOMEN
I am nice do you.
SHANE is in darkness alone.
SHANE
Liars! You can't hide it now. I
see through your smiles. I know your
true intentions. You just need someone
to, what, complete you? Where do I come
in? What do you have for me? What more
is there that I need that you can't offer?
Do you mean just enough deceit to make
yourselves happy? Will you still be happy
when I am miserable? Will you still be
happy when you betray me? Will you still
be happy after you've done away with me?
ANSWER ME!
FADE OUT.
SONYAS' KITCHEN – INT – DAY
SOUNDTRACK: CD PLAYER (still playing faintly) – MEAT PUPPETS - Oh, Me.
The chairs and table are overturned. AMANDA sits. SHANE enters and places the table upright.
SHANE
We need to work this out, Amanda.
You more than anyone know me. We
Can make it work.
AMANDA
Then don't talk to me. All we
do is hurt one another. It has
to stop.
SHANE
Don't say that, Amanda. Just
help me. You're the only one
who can help me now.
AMANDA
Liar.
SHANE backs away from AMANDAs' cold gaze. Amanda rises and pursues SHANE around the table.
SHANE
Help me.
AMANDA
You don't care who. Me or
Sonya or Zera or even your
lost mom. You'll seek and
cling to anyone to erase
the pain that you wish you
were never born! You hate
yourself. You can't live
with yourself but you only
care about yourself!
AMANDA pushes SHANE to the ground, then returns to her seat at the table.
AMANDA (CTD)
It's pathetic.
SHANE rises.
SHANE
Help me. Someone, somewhere,
let me know it's alright. I
know it's not for nothing.
SHANE picks up a chair and beats it on the table. SHANE pushes AMANDAs' chair back into the wall.
SHANE (CTD)
I know you. I'm too much to
you. Through everything, when
you need me You won't lie to
me. You won't abandon me.
You won't kill me.
AMANDA (After a hollow consideration)
Wrong.
SHANE loses all hope in safety, compassion or security in this world. He strangles AMANDA.
SOUNDTRACK: SOUNDGARDEN - LIKE SUICIDE
SOS
Images, scratched, random, scattered, confused. Loss, Sadness, loneliness, misery.
Montage in corrupted, distorted images of the series. Pictures of human souls released from the bounds of mortality.
SHANE (V.O.)
This isn't a world that's fair.
ZERA (V.O.)
But it's the world you choose to face.
SHANE (V.O.)
Nothing lasts and no one stays.
ZERA (V.O.)
This is what you made with it.
SHANE (V.O.)
Everything is a tragic mistake.
ZERA (V.O)
But you have done so much.
SHANE (V.O)
People only hurt each other. They
should all die.
ZERA (V.O.)
Then why do you reach out your hand?
SHANE (V.O.)
I'm no better than anyone else. I
should die.
ZERA (V.O.)
But your heart beats on.
SHANE (V.O.)
Is it OK if I just stay here?
TITLE
Silence.
SHANE screams
SOS of the Images of the series being rapidly destroyed.
INT – BASE
Incredible shaking.
JEFF
We've been dislodged! The Geofront
is rising!
WINTERS
And now it returns, the dark moon
of death, the true form of this
castle.
VANCE
The Anti-AT-field is dispersing.
It's rematerializing. Oh my god,
It's going everywhere! It will
kill us all!
WINTERS
The plan. What a relief. It's a
success at last.
AUTUMN
What plan?
A Ghost of ZERA descends to the deck and stands before WINTERS.
WINTERS
I know it's been too long.
I'll never have what I wanted
with you. But it's such a relief
to see you again.
The ghost of ZERA has turned into NADINE. WINTERS reaches out his hand to her, and as soon as they touch NADINE vanishes and WINTERS bursts into LCL. JEFF scrambles under his desk, screaming. The hand of the ghost of ZERA hushes his mouth, and transforms into the hand of SONYA. JEFF is delighted to see her again and she kisses him. He bursts into LCL. VANCE is in a panic, trying to get out the door of the base, but a crowd of ZERA ghosts close in on him and he bursts as well. AUTUMN in barely registering shock, stares at her computer screen, watching the world come to an end.
AUTUMN
What have I done? If only
I had known.
The hands of ZERA wrap around her and transform to the hands of RACHEL and her hands type "I need you." on the keyboard. AUTUMN places her hand on RACHELs' head, and smells RACHELs' hair.
AUTUMN
I knew you wouldn't forget me,
Doctor.
RACHEL
Autumn.
AUTUMN
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
AUTUMN bursts.
The tree of life rises into space. Lilith places her hands around the dark moon.
SHANE (whispered V.O.)
What day is it? Is it Tuesday?
Is it Thursday? Does it matter?
Every day, birthdays holidays,
weekends, funerals, vacation,
the big game, my first time,
Everything is just another goddamn
day on the stone in the sun.
EARL (V.O.)
Monday, January first two
thousand eighteen. I've been
waiting for this my whole life.
INT – TERMINAL DOGMA
The spirit of EARL sits in the puddle of his own splattered remains.
EARL
This is the day I was going to
see you again.
NADINE stands before EARL. The ghosts of ZERA, the child, ZERA and Lilith who is piloting the very end of the world stand around him.
NADINE
Shane needed you and you needed
him, but you walked away.
EARL
You never knew what a monster
I was, Nadine.
NADINE
I knew all along. It's part of
what I liked about you. But we
both needed our son and I wanted
him to have parents.
EARL
I only hurt people. It was better
if he never got close to me. It
would save him some pain.
CHILD ZERA
You ran away from him.
ZERA
You thought he would hurt you
more than you hurt him.
EARL
It had to be done.
LILITH
Can you face him now?
NADINE
The same choice you've had
all along, and even now you
refuse.
NADINE puts her hand on EARLs forehead and presses him into the pool of blood that converts into LCL.
EARL
So this is the price I
finally pay? You were always
right, Nadine. I'm so sorry,
Shane.
NADINE pushes the last of EARL into the blood and he vanishes. ZERA takes up the broken frame of EARLs' glasses and looks up as though she can see SHANE fulfilling his destinly.
SPACE
The tree of life descends to the forehead of LILITH. The EVA series take their lances and kill themselves with it by piercing their cores. They cry in agony and ecstasy at being penetrated and released.
A drop of water sideways.
With the last of the EVA series dead, the anti-AT field spreads across the world. Cross flares ignite over the surface of the earth and even over the oceans. All of life is liquefied into LCL as the EVA frees them from their bodily form and from each one emerges a sprit like a tiny spark that floats into the heavens.
INT - DARK ROOM
The SEELE monoliths disappear one by one. KIHL watches, elated.
KIHL
The year at the spring.
And the day is at the morn.
Morning at seven.
Hillside's dew pearled.
Lark is on the wing;
and the snail is on the thorn
God's in his heaven.
All's right with the world.
KIHL melts away and his spirit is released. His cybernetic body is left a mechanical shell doused in LCL.
All the souls of the world swell and rise and swirl into a tempest around the black moon where they are absorbed. It's the black hole sun video.
A third eye, in the form of a vulva opens upon Liliths' forehead. The tree of life pierces the eye and enters Lilith.
ALPHA UNIT
SHANE looks out to see all the souls of the world swimming and drifting in the form of the ghost of ZERA.
SHANE
No. You come to me for death
and then demand from me new life?
I can't do it. I can't.
Ghost of ZERA surround him. He shuts his eyes and when he opens them every ghost his head.
SHANE
No!
All the ghosts from everywhere rush into him.
CHAOS
SHANE can hear the voices of SONYA, AMANDA and ZERA rejecting him. Over and over they tell him he is worthless, that he cannot be their one. He hears them call him useless garbage. He is forced to endure the rejection of the world in the form of this barrage of scorn.
SHANE(V.O.)
I never asked to live. I was
always told to. I've always
just listened. I've always
just obeyed. I can't tell anyone
their life. I never wanted this
and I don't want it for anyone.
SHANE recollects in his head the sound of AMANDA having sex with him.
SHANE (V.O. CTD)
There is no level of pleasure
to fulfill this longing. Even
oblivion cannot undo the misery
we make.
ZERA
Is it too much, Shane?
SHANE
If I don't want to live this
life for myself, then I should die.
ZERA
But you listen to your heartbeat.
SHANE
Everyone who says they don't feel
this way are dumb, crazy or liars.
Admit that Thanatos must win. It
can all just end. We all die…
…Anyway.
ZERA
But you hold fate in your hand.
SHANE
Can I just stay here?
TITLE
SILENCE.
SHANE screams and the images break down. Ordered and recognizable but shattered and indiscernible. The color palettes of the film, broken into familiar shapes as collapsing and rebuilding and deconstructing and reconstructing mosaics.
LILITH is reborn from herself. She emerges like a butterfly from a chrysalis, except of continental size. She is an angel.
The tree of life emerges on her brow, a crown, twisted into golden thorns, dripping with blood and covered with eyes.
At the top of the crown emerges Alpha unit with a single thorn of the tree of life wrapped around its legs, then protruding through its' chest. The ALPHA unit raises its arms and in response the surrounding EVA series, even miles away, present their Spears. The ALPHA unit takes hold of the spear in its chest and twists it, over and over. The Eva series pierce their own cores and twist their spears into them. The faces of Zera moan and cry in the blissful, but painful penetration, and the series dies.
With the EVA series gone, there are no more AT fields in the world to protect the creatures of earth.
A drop of water.
A wave of red spreads across the globe and giant cross flares explode into every sky, and the souls of all living things are swept to Liliths' black moon.
SHANE, eyes wide, is afloat in an ocean of blood in a blood rain.
A Montage, wrecked and shattered of all that SHANE has been through in the past few months races across the screen, along with the sounds and the sights that he has come to know, but all he can hear are ZERA, SONYA and AMANDA rejecting him over and over again.
AMANDA (whispered)
How do you live with yourself?
The world is being destroyed, covered with blood and falling apart. SHANEs eyes are forced to see it all. For a moment, SHANE blocks it out.
SONYA
You can go wherever want to go.
ZERA
You can be whatever you want
to be.
SONYA
But you have to face this first.
ZERA
Is it too much for you to take?
SONYA
The world is a flowing and
swirling storm of emotions
The heights of joy and
the depths of sorrow are
cascading into one another.
ZERA
Make of it whatever you want
but make it. Don't despair
understand the pain and you
can overcome it.
AMANDA
I'd rather die than do it
with you.
BLACKOUT
'Just like suicide.'
EXT – BENCH - DAY
SHANE wakes up. He looks around at an ordinary sunny day on the street. He looks next to him. LINDA is there. SHANE takes a moment to calm himself.
SHANE
OK. OK. Hey.
LINDA
Hey.
SHANE
Been here long?
LINDA
No. I saw you asleep.
I wasn't going to wake you.
SHANE
It's OK.
LINDAs' iphone rings. She answers.
LINDA
Hey babe.
SHANE gets his bearings.
LINDA (CTD)
Well you should see me. Oh, there
you are. Look to your left. There
I am.
TOMMY is at the intersection. He sees LINDA. TOMMY hangs up and waves LINDA to come over. LINDA leaves without looking back and runs to TOMMYs' side. SHANE breathes a sigh of relief and puts on his headphones, pushing play on his DAT.
SOUNDTRACK: SUBLIME – BOSS D.J.
SHANE walks down the street in a town where nobody knows his name.
KEVIN and SONYA are making love in an apartment. SHANE can see them in the throes of their passion, but he can't take the image for long and so SHANE walks away. EARL and NADINE sit in a coffee shop, reading reports. SHANE walks past a university and inside WINTERS is teaching a class, while in the same school, RACHEL and JUDY are working on their latest breakthrough. ZERA cruises by on a long skateboard, smiling in a world that might be OK. SHANE boards a bus, showing that existing in this world is taking a lot out of him. The bus drives out of town.
LATER
AMANDA boards the bus and sits in the back near SHANE.
SHANE
Hey.
AMANDA
Good morning.
SHANE
Do I know you?
AMANDA
No. I'm Amanda.
SHANE
Where are you headed?
AMANDA
South. Seeing family. You?
SHANE
Getting outside. Hiking Mount Si.
AMANDA
Great view. You can see cows
for miles.
SHANE
You're not really seeing
relatives are you?
AMANDA
Are you sure about that?
SHANE
Educated guess.
AMANDA smiles.
AMANDA
There's a farm house party, outside
of North Bend.
SHANE
How do you feel?
AMANDA
What?...I feel fine.
SHANE
OK.
AMANDA
What is it?
SHANE
Nothing.
AMANDA
Well, whatever. You want to go?
It's an open party.
SHANE
I'd love to.
The bus drives on.
BUS - LATER
AMANDA
So then the barmaid says "Oh, yeah.
The line takes forever!"
SHANE laughs.
SHANE
Of all the jokes I've heard, that's
the worst one!
AMANDA
Then stop laughing, Jesus.
SHANE
Oh, God, Amanda. You know what?
AMANDA
What?
SHANE
No. Nevermind.
AMANDA
No, go on what?
SHANE
It's weird. One of those weird
thoughts I have.
AMANDA
Well, my stop is coming up, so
you better decide if you want
to tell me.
SHANE
Ants.
AMANDA
What about ants?
SHANE
If you piled all of the ants in
the world in one place, they'd
make a mountain that could bury
a city.
AMANDA
Yeah, and?
SHANE
That's just the ants. There are
termites, aphids, cicadas, all kinds
of insects and that's just the insects.
AMANDA
And?
SHANE
Then there are all kinds of other
animals, Whales, buffalo, pigs, birds,
sharks, cats dogs, squirrels, fish
and that's just in the here and now.
What about all the creatures that ever
lived? Millions of years of creatures,
all with their own minds, come and
gone.
AMANDA
OK, yeah, sure.
SHANE
But in all of it, you got to be you,
I got to be me and we got to meet
each other.
AMANDA
Yeah, well, that's the way it is.
At this point AMANDA is worse than disinterested.
SHANE
I just, it bothers me that I…
Forget it.
AMANDA
You know, I have this one friend
who is a real bitch. She's going
to be at the party. I'm going to
have to keep an eye on her. This
might not be the best party for
you to show up. Sorry. Just how
she is.
SHANE
Yeah. I understand. Fuck.
(To himself)
Me and my big mouth.
The bus comes to a stop.
AMANDA
Hey, it was nice talking to you.
AMANDA gets up to leave. SHANE stands.
SHANE
Amanda, I'm sorry for talking too
much. The truth is, just for having
been born and meeting people like you
I feel like I'm the luckiest thing ever
to live, but I don't know how to be
happy.
AMANDA
Not my department, man. Good luck.
Goodbye.
AMANDA leaves the bus. SHANE hits himself in the head.
SHANE
Stupid! Stupid! Son of a bitch.
I'm not cut out for this. I fucking
suck.
The bus drives on to the base of Mt. Si. SHANE disembarks and puts on his headphones
SOUNDTRACK: LEO KOTTKE – JESUS JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING
Shane hikes into the mountains, SOS filming the beauty of nature on this hike into the mountains. Birds. Overlook. Nature. Calming shit. The song ends.
Wind.
SHANE reaches the top of Mt. Si and climbs the haystack top of the mountain.
AMANDA
Shane!
SHANE looks down and the human race is on the mount and in the valley where there should be cows. AMANDA, ZERA and SONYA stand just below him on the mountain below the haystack.
SHANE
What do you want?
AMANDA
It doesn't have to be like this.
Is this really what you want?
SHANE
I'm no savior. The future is cold.
I can see it. It's haunting.
it's empty. Helium seas drying up on
iron stars teeming in a vast and
eternal darkness. This place is better
What you have is
in your beating chest. What you
want is at the tips of your fingers.
Is it me? I don't think so!
AMANDA
Shane, please.
SHANE
It's all yours, Amanda. I give it
all to you, for you, with you and
in you. God, for a while I really
felt like someone special.
AMANDA
It's not right, Shane.
SHANE
Yeah. I know.
SHANE jumps off of Mount Si.
He falls fast against the wall of the mountain, headed to the bottom. Then he slows. He drifts. The world fades around him, in and out, slowly, soon he is adrift in a sea. He comes to full awareness, and he is being straddled by ZERA. They are both nude. ZERAs' hands are inside SHANEs' chest as though merged into one.
EXT – A breathable sea in space, the color of sunrise.
SOUNDTRACK – BLIND MELON: CHANGE
SHANE
Zera?
ZERA
You're free here, Shane. This
is the blood sea of angels and mankind.
An ocean where all hearts can connect.
The boundaries between you and others
are gone. The walls have fallen.
All are one.
SHANE
Does it have to be this way?
ZERA
Don't you want this? Don't you
want to be free from pain?
SHANE
Can you believe it? Here.
Now. I'm sick of the way it's
been. But I'm tired of failing
in spite of myself. I want
to change.
ZERA
This is not a place where things
can change.
SHANE
Then I better go.
ZERA
You'll return to a place that can
bring you pain?
SHANE
Yeah, but I want pleasure in my
life. Remember, I asked you what
you did for pleasure?
ZERA
This place can last forever.
SHANE
Yes. But it's not true.
After all I've seen, what I see
now is that pain is the land you
are given. It's rough and hostile,
but you don't have to die on it.
SHANE takes ZERAs' hand.
ZERA
What will you do?
SHANE
The land of pain is the only
place where one can build the
house of pleasure. From there
anyone can feel the thrill of the
moment. Maybe even build a pyramid.
But if you want it you have to accept it.
Would you like to try? Even just for
kicks?
ZERA
Yes. Please. Even for just now.
SHANE approaches ZERA and they kiss.
SHANE
Thank you.
FADE OUT/FADE IN
EXT - THE SEA
The sea is now blue.
Both still nude, SHANE rests his head on ZERAs' lap and ZERA looks at him with a satisfied smile.
SHANE
I came to the end of myself so many
times. Always asking why I brought
myself there, and then asking what I
was meant to be in the moment, not even
realizing that I was starting all over
again. I really didn't know what I was
doing. How can have done so much not
even knowing myself?
JACOB appears, clothed.
JACOB
You needed others in your life.
SHANE is now standing and dressed, as is ZERA. They are standing and the world is alive below them.
SHANE
I needed to be needed.
ZERA
Is that why you chose to pilot?
SHANE
But I didn't need to. Just
being alive made me something
that others could accept. Just
the courage to face the day was
enough to make me worth knowing.
I've been a coward. I've been
a troublemaker. I've failed and
hurt others and been hurt by
others. But when I slip myself
back into that moment, I know
my longing is true.
Scene of the cast in against a blue sky coming together and smiling.
SHANE
What I want now is for everyone to
have the chance. You come back
from being as far gone as me
and you see...Well, I just wanted
to see them all one more time.
JACOB
That is hope in your heart, and it
shows the courage I, we…everyone
should see.
ZERA
This is the promise that others will
always find a way to be together.
SHANE
So that's it?
ZERA and JACOB look at one another.
ZERA
We don't know.
JACOB
Yeah. You tell us.
SHANE
I guess I'll see for myself.
Maybe I'll get back to you.
'When life is hard you have to change.'
SHANE smiles, the song ends and SHANE drifts into the black abyss of the sea. NADINE appears behind him, and embraces him.
SHANE
Mom?
NADINE
It's time, Son. You don't need
me anymore.
SHANE
So what do I do now?
NADINE
This was my lifes' work, Shane.
It is finished, but what I've
wanted from the moment you were
born is everything yet to come.
I want you to see how bright the
future can be.
EXT - PARK – DAY
NADINE and WINTERS speak as NADINE cradles baby SHANE.
WINTERS
Your plan is for the contact to
absorb you into the Alpha unit?
NADINE
That's right. Humanity must cling
to the earth to survive, but we
can build an ark to set sail into
the flood of the night. Then,
when all hope for life is lost, the
Eva will live on, perhaps it will
find a distant shore, and life beyond
will go on and on.
WINTERS
It will be a lonely voyage.
NADINE
Even so, we will until the end
of time declare our existence
and even if the candle is small,
even if only one can carry it,
It will never be extinguished.
For now though, as long as the
sun and moon and earth exist
everything will be alright.
SOUNDTRACK – Hum: Stars
THE DEEP, DARK ABYSS
SHANE and NADINE.
SHANE
Is there anything else I can do?
NADINE faces SHANE and embraces his face.
NADINE
Just let me look at you. You
are such a handsome man.
NADINE embraces SHANE for a moment, and then, her hand trailing from his cheek, drifts off into the blackness once more and vanishes.
SHANE
Goodbye, Mom.
SHANE rushes upward. He races to the surface of the sea and splashes through it right when the guitar hits.
EXT - DAY - Mt. SI
SHANE is no longer drifting, he is falling fast, and he is about to hit the ground.
SHANE screams and with his fingers bared rips through reality. Red and black shreds through the mountain, the horizon, shooting blue sparks across the landscape.
The air, the ground, the sky, the mountain, everything is shredded and SHANE falls into a storm of light, shadows and colors.
EXT – SPACE
Lilith, the Eva series, the black moon, the Alpha unit all are in space between the earth and the moon.
The song kicks in.
The Alpha unit awakens. It screams and its wings unfurl to their maximum. The Alpha unit grasps the spear piercing its' chest and the crown of the tree of life spreads through Lilith, going through its' right eye, shredding the flesh of its' neck, over its' left shoulder, breast and flank, tearing everything apart and leaving only a tangled structure of the tree of life as it goes. Lilith's eyes weep white cream, her left arm is consumed, and from her hand, the tree of life spears the black moon, that sheds the blood of mankind into space, before exploding. A ring of blood drifts over the planet. The cross flares of earth float into the heavens, the false Lances burst and the EVA series fall back to earth.
The Alpha unit pulls upon the lance from its' chest, and the lance withdraws from the destroyed body of LILITH. Alpha unit uses so much energy that it's wings burn away, until only their singed vestiges remain. The spear pulls all the way through the EVA, and plucks the core from the chest of the alpha unit. With the last of its' strength, the Eva unit lifts the spear above its' head, and growing from the core, The Alpha unit folds its' hands before the spear and the core, and prays.
During the Bridge of the song the cores divide, glowing orange. The spear and cores together becomes an orange glowing sephiroth. Each core beams out memories and moments of SHANEs' trials and tribulations. His victories and his failures emerge from the Sephiroth with equal brilliance. When the sephiroth is complete, the song peaks the orange light flashes over blue and branches explode from the sephiroth which then grows into a tree of infinity, and it sets itself alight, burning white. as brightly as a sun. The Alpha unit closes its' eyes at long last.
What's left of the Alpha unit, along with the tree of infinity drifts off into space, a ghost of ZERA looks at the death mask of the cold EVA.
The earth and the moon take on swaths of blood stains.
Song ends.
Blackout.
EXT – BEACH – DUSK
SHANE comes to, washed up on the shore of the bloody ocean. He stands and looks around to get his bearings, then walks along the beach.
LATER
SHANE lies on the beach. Nearby are ten long pieces of driftwood and debris that have been erected as graves. SONYAs' cross is hammered into one of them. AMANDA, her eye patched and her arm bandaged walks toward the grave site. She pushes over one of the graves. SHANE is startled and she sees AMANDA walking toward him. SHANE freezes.
SHANE
Amanda, is that you?
AMANDA
Ja.
SHANE
I thought you were-
AMANDA
Yeah. Me too. But here we are.
So now what?
SHANE
Can I just stay here?
AMANDA
Well...For a while I guess.
SHANE
That's all I need.
Oh my God.
AMANDA sits next to SHANE.
AMANDA
So what happened?
SHANE
It was fucking crazy. I-
I brought the world to an
end.
AMANDA
Oh…Congratulations.