Avengers: Infinity War Page #8

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[Cut to Gamora And Thanos aboard Thanos’s ship.He brings a little cup of food and holds it out to her.]

Thanos:
I thought you might be hungry.

(Gamora takes it, the hurls it across the room where it bangs against Thanos’s chair with a loud clack.)

Gamora:
I always hated that chair.

Thanos:
So I’ve been told. Even so. I’d hoped you’d sit on it one day.

Gamora:
I hated this room. This ship. I hated my life.

Thanos:
You told me that too. Every day. For almost twenty years.

Gamora:
I was a child when you took me.

Thanos:
I saved you.

Gamora:
No. No. We were happy on my home planet.

Thanos:
Going to bed hungry. scrounging for scraps. Your planet was on the brink of collapse. I’m the one who stopped that. Do you know what’s happened since then? The children born have known nothing but full bellies and clear skies. It’s a paradise.

Gamora:
Because you murdered half the planet.

Thanos:
A small price to pay for salvation.

Gamora:
You’re insane.

Thanos:
Little one, it’s a simple calculus. This universe is finite, it’s resources finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist. It needs correction.

Gamora:
You don’t know that!

Thanos:
I’m the only one who knows that. At least, I’m the only one with the will to act on it. For a time…you had that same will…as you fought by my side. Daughter.

Gamora:
I’m not your daughter. Everything I hate about myself you taught me.

Thanos:
And in doing so, made you the fiercest woman in the galaxy. That’s why I trusted you to find the Soul Stone.

Gamora:
I’m sorry I disappointed you.

Thanos:
I am disappointed. But not because you didn’t find it. But because you did. And you lied.

[Cut to shot of a large metal door opening. Thanos and Gamora stand there as a set of inner doors made of interlacing metal slide away. Inside, we see that NEBULA is suspended horizontally in the air in the middle of the room.]

Gamora:
Nebula.

( the camera shifts to the right side and we see that Nebula has been partially disassembled so that she is still living, yet still slightly connected to each of her parts.)

Gamora:
Don’t do this.

Thanos:
Some time ago, your sister snuck aboard this ship to kill me.

Gamora:
Please don’t do this.

Thanos:
And very nearly succeded. So I brought her here. To talk.

(Thanos curls in both the power and space stones, causing Nebula’s already extended pieces to stretch further outward. She begins to scream.)

Gamora:
Stop. Stop it. I swear to you on my life. I never found the Soul Stone.

(Thanos signals a nearby servant who taps on a control pad. We hear Nebula’s voice say, “Accessing memory files” and a sort of hologram of Gamora’s face shudders to life.)

Memory Nebula:
You know what he’s about to do. He’s finally ready, and he’s going for the stones. All of them.

Memory Gamora:
He can never get them all.

Memory Nebula:
He will!

Memory Gamora:
He can’t, Nebula. Because I found the map to the Soul stone and I burnt it to ash. I burnt it.

(The memory ends)

Thanos:
(To Gamora) You’re strong. Me. You’re generous. Me. But I never taught you to lie. That’s why you’re so bad at it. Where is the Soul Stone?

( He resumes torturing Nebula for several seconds, Gamora wincing at her screams.)

Gamora:
Vormir!

(Thanos stops, and Nebula gasps in air. Gamora goes to her and caresses her face.)

Gamora:
The Soul Stone is on Vormir.

Thanos:
Show me.

[Cut to the pod where Thor, Rocket and Groot are.]

Groot:
(Irritably) I am Groot.

Rocket:
Tinkle in the cup. We’re not looking. What’s there to see? What’s a twig? Everybody’s seen a twig.

Groot:
(Still irritably) I am Groot.

Thor:
(While looking out the window) Tree, pour what’s in the cup out in space, and go in the cup again.

Rocket:
You speak Groot?

Thor:
Yes, they taught it on Asgard. It was an elective.

Groot:
(shortly) I am Groot.

Thor:
You’ll know when we’re there. Nivadellir’s forge harnesses the power of a blazing neutron star. (nostalgically) It’s the birth place of my hammer. It’s truly awesome.

(Rocket turns to see Thor sitting sadly beside the window, and sighs)

Rocket:
Okay, time to be the captain. (walks to a console near by Thor) So, dead brother, huh? Yeah, that can be annoying.

Thor:
Well, he’s been dead before, but this time I think it really might be true.

Rocket:
And you said your sister and your dad?

Thor:
Both dead.

Rocket:
Still got a mom, though?

Thor:
Killed by a dark elf.

Rocket:
A best friend?

Thor:
Stabbed through the heart.

Rocket:
Are you sure you’re up to this particular murder mission?

Thor:
(Smiling widely) Absolutely. Rage, vengeance, anger, loss, regret…They’re all tremendous motivators. They really clear the mind. So I’m good to go.

Rocket:
Yeah, but this Thanos we’re talking about…He’s the toughest there is.

Thor:
Well, he’s never fought me.

Rocket:
Yeah, he has.

Thor:
He’s never fought me twice. And I’m getting a new hammer, don’t forget.

Rocket:
Better be some hammer.

Thor:
You know, I’m 1,500 years old. I’ve killed twice as many enemies as that, and every one would have rather killed me, but none succeeded. I’m only alive because fate wants me alive. Thanos is the latest in a long line of *morons* and he will be the latest to feel my vengeance.

Rocket:
And what if you’re wrong?

Thor:
If I’m wrong then what more could I lose?

(Thor stands and seats himself at the front of the pod, beside Groot)

Rocket:
I could lose a lot. Me personally. I could lose a lot. (Rocket takes an eyeball from somewhere on his person) Okay. If fate does want you to kill that crapsack… You’re gonna need more than one stupid eyeball. (he gives Thor the eyeball)

Thor:
What’s this?

Rocket:
What’s it look like? Some jerk lost a bet with me on on Contraxia.

Thor:
He gave you his eye?

Rocket:
He gave me 100 credits. I snuck in later that night and stole his eye.

Thor:
Thank you, sweet rabbit.

(Thor proceeds to put the eyeball in his socket)

Rocket:
Hmm. Huh? Oh. I would’ve washed that. The only way I could sneak it off Contraxia was up my…Hey, we’re here!

Thor:
(Smacking his palm against the side of his head) I don’t think this thing works. Everything seems dark.

Rocket:
It ain’t the eye.

(Nivadellir is dark and motionless as the three near it)

Thor:
Something’s wrong. The star’s gone out. And the rings are frozen.

(Cuts to inside the forge, where Thor, Rocket and Groot walk through a seemingly abandon, and cluttered room)

Rocket:
I hope these dwarves are better at forging than they are cleaning…Maybe they realized they live in a junk pile in the middle of space…

Thor:
This forge hasn’t gone dark in centuries…

Rocket:
(Looking to a pedestal) You said Thanos had a gauntlet, right?

Thor:
Yes. Why?

Rocket:
Look anything like that?

Groot:
I am Groot.

Rocket:
Go back to the pod.

(Suddenly a large figure storms towards them fiercely)

Thor:
Eitri, wait! Stop! Stop.

Eitri:
Thor?

Thor:
What happened here?

Eitri:
You were supposed to protect us. Asgard was supposed to protect us!

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