Avengers: Infinity War Page #6

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Peter Quill:
Which is what the grenades are for. (GAMORA silences him with a look.) I’m sorry. What’s the favor?

Gamora:
If things go wrong… If Thanos gets me… I want you to promise me… you’ll kill me.

Peter Quill:
(A beat. Confusion.): What?

Gamora:
I know something he doesn’t. If he finds out… The entire Universe could be at risk.

Peter Quill:
What do you know?

Gamora:
If I tell you, you’d know, too.

Peter Quill:
If it’s so important, shouldn’t I?

Gamora:
Only if you wanna die.

Peter Quill:
Why does somebody always have to die in this scenario?

Gamora:
Just… trust me. And possibly, kill me.

Peter Quill:
I mean, I’d like to. I really would…(GAMORA silences him by covering his mouth with her hand)

Gamora:
Swear to me. Swear to me on your mother.

Peter Quill:
(beat) Okay.

(The two kiss, until an odd crunching sound startles them. DRAX is standing in the corner.)

Peter Quill:
Dude! How long have you been standing there?

Drax:
An hour.

Peter Quill:
An hour? Are you serious?

Drax:
I’ve mastered the ability, of standing so incredibly still… That I’ve become invisible to the eye. Watch.

(DRAX stands motionless- until he eats more of his snack.)

Peter Quill:
You’re eating a zark nut

Drax:
But my movement… So slow… And it’s imperceptible.

Peter Quill:
No.(Peter and Gamora shake their head)

Drax:
I’m sure I’m invisible.

Mantis:
Hi, Drax.

Drax:
Damn it.

(The group lands in KNOWHERE, in search of THANOS)

DRAX:
I’m reading movement. From the third quadrant.

PETER QUILL:
Yep. I’m picking that up, too.

QUILL:
Let’s put it down right here.

(The group enters the COLLECTOR’s collection room, which is in ruin. THANOS is threatening the COLLECTOR while the GUARDIANS hide behind the rubble.)

THANOS:
Everyone in the Galaxy knows you’d sell your own brother if you thought it would add the slightest trinket to your pathetic collection. I know you have the Reality Stone. Giving it to me will spare you a great deal of suffering.

COLLECTOR:
I told you. I sold it. Why would I lie?

THANOS:
I imagine it’s like breathing for you.

COLLECTOR:
Like suicide.

THANOS:
So you do understand. Not even you would surrender something so precious.

COLLECTOR:
I didn’t know what it was.

THANOS:
Then you’re more of a fool than I took you for. Last chance, Tivan. Where’s the Stone?

DRAX:
Today…

Peter Quill:
Drax. Drax.

Drax:
…he pays for the deaths of my wife and daughter.

QUILL:
Drax, wait! not yet, not yet, not yet. He doesn’t have the Stone yet. We get it, and then we can stop him. We have to get the Stone first. Yeah.

DRAX:
No. No. For Ovette. For Camaria.

MANTIS:
Sleep. (DRAX is knocked out, causing a ruckus.)

QUILL:
Okay. Gamora, Mantis, you go right. I’m… (GAMORA moves towards THANOS.)The other right!

(GAMORA attacks THANOS, stabbing him twice, seemingly killing him.)

THANOS:
Why? Why you? Daughter… (he falls down, holding his hand out to her, blood pooling out from his neck wound. GAMORA breaks down in tears.)

QUILL:
That was quick.

COLLECTOR:
Magnificent! Magnificent! Magnificent!

(Suddenly, THANOS’ disembodied voice fills the room, and the scene disappears- everything is leveled, and THANOS is more than alive. He has the REALITY STONE in the INFINITY GAUNTLET.)

THANOS:
Is it sadness I sense in you, daughter? In my heart, I knew you still cared. But one ever knows for sure. Reality is often disappointing. That is, it was. Now… Reality can be whatever I want.

GAMORA:
You knew I’d come.

THANOS:
I counted on it. There’s something we need to discuss, little one.

DRAX:
Thanos!

(With a flick of his hand, both DRAX and MANTIS are ‘destroyed’ in rather comical ways. THANOS grabs GAMORA.)

QUILL:
Let her go, Grimace!

GAMORA:
Peter…

QUILL:
I told you to go right.

GAMORA:
Now? Really?

QUILL:
You let her go!

THANOS:
Ah, the boyfriend.

QUILL:
I like to think of myself more as a Titan-killing long term booty call. Let her go.

GAMORA:
Peter…

QUILL:
Or I’m gonna blow that nut-sack of a chin right off your face!

GAMORA:
Not him.

(PETER hesitates. He does not shoot.)

GAMORA:
You promised! You promised.

THANOS:
Oh, daughter. You expect too much from him. (To PETER) She’s asked, hasn’t she? Do it. (he shoves GAMORA towards PETER’s gun, egging him on.) Do it!

QUILL:
I told you to go right.

(PETER begins to tear up.)

GAMORA:
I love you, more than anything.

QUILL:
I love you, too.

(PETER pulls the trigger- but a stream of bubbles comes out. THANOS was playing him.)

THANOS:
I like you.

(THANOS teleports he and GAMORA away as a stunned PETER watches as his friends recover from their ‘deaths’.)

(Back on EARTH, COL. RHODES deals with the red tape.)

ROSS:
Still no word from Vision?

RHODES:
Satellites lost him somewhere over Edinburgh.

ROSS:
On a stolen quinjet with four of the world’s most wanted criminals.

RHODES:
You know they’re only criminals because you’ve chosen to call them that, right, sir?

ROSS:
My God, Rhodes, your talent for horseshit rivals my own.

RHODES:
If it weren’t for those Accords, Vision would’ve been right here.

ROSS:
I remember your signature on those papers, Colonel.

RHODES:
That’s right. And I’m pretty sure I’ve paid for that.

ROSS:
You have second thoughts?

RHODES:
Not anymore.

ROGERS:
Mr. Secretary.

ROSS:
You got some nerve. I’ll give you that.

NATASHA:
You could use some of that right now.

ROSS:
The world’s on fire. And you think, all is forgiven?

ROGERS:
I’m not looking for forgiveness. And I’m way past asking for permission. Earth just lost her best defender. So we’re here to fight. And if you wanna stand in our way… We’ll fight you, too.

ROSS (To RHODES): Arrest them.

RHODES:
All over it. (Turns off hologram) That’s a court-martial. It’s great to see you, Cap.

ROGERS:
You too, Rhodey.

RHODES:
Well. You guys, really look like crap. Must’ve been a rough couple of years.

SAM:
Yeah, well, the hotels weren’t exactly five star.

BRUCE:
Uh, I think you look great. Yeah. I’m back.

NATASHA:
Hi, Bruce.

BRUCE:
Nat.

SAM WILSON:
This is awkward.

(Cuts to a shot of Natasha, Bruce, Steve, Rhodey, Wanda, and Vision in another room.)

BRUCE:
So we gotta assume they’re coming back, right? And they can clearly find us. We need all hands on deck. Where’s Clint?

NATASHA:
After the whole Accords situation, he and Scott took a deal. It was too tough on their families.

BRUCE:
Who’s Scott?

ROGERS:
Ant-Man.

BRUCE:
There’s an Ant-Man and a Spider-Man? Okay, look… Thanos has the biggest army in the Universe. And he is not gonna stop until he… He gets…Vision’s stone.

Natasha:
Well then, we have to protect it.

VISION:
No, we have to destroy it. I’ve been giving a good deal of thought to this entity in my head, about its nature. But also, its composition. I think if it were exposed to a sufficiently powerful energy source, something, very similar to its own signature, perhaps… Its molecular integrity could fail. (VISION addresses WANDA as he nears her)

WANDA:
And you, with it. We’re not having this conversation.

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