Divergent Page #5

(TRUCK ENGINE STARTS)

(GASPS)

-TRIS:
Mom?

(SIGHS)

-NATALIE:
Oh, my girl!

-TRIS:
Mom, what are you doing here?

-NATALIE:
I knew they'd assign you here...

sooner or later. Look at you! God,

you're so strong and beautiful.

-TRIS:
Mom, you can't be here.

- I know, but you're in danger.

-TRIS:
What?

-NATALIE:
I had to ask you something.

You weren't sick the day you took

your aptitude test, were you?

-TRIS:
Why?

-NATALIE:
What were your test results?

(WHISPERING)

Honey, it's okay. You can tell me.

-TRIS:
They were... They

were inconclusive.

-NATALIE:
Divergent?

You can't tell anyone. You can't

tell your friends, your instructors.

You can't trust anyone.

- (PA SYSTEM WHINING)

-TRIS:
I'm not.

-NATALIE:
People have always been

so threatened by Divergents.

But now Erudite is looking

for them everywhere.

- They're actively seeking them out.

-TRIS:
Why?

- (WHISPERING) Mom, what am I?

-NATALIE:
You don't conform.

Your mind works in a million different

ways. They're scared of you.

Stage two of training is

where you are most at risk.

They're gonna get inside your head

and watch how you respond to fear.

But you can pass. You can make it

through Dauntless. I have seen it before.

-TRIS:
How do you know so much

about this? About Dauntless?

-NATALIE:
Never mind about me. Do not

let them know who you are.

-TRIS:
Wait!

Wait! Were you Dauntless?

-NATALIE:
Listen.

- GUARD:
Hey!

What are you doing?

Truck's loaded. Let's go.

(GROANING)

-CHRISTINA:
What did they do to her?

-FOUR:
Tris.

Take a seat.

I'm going to inject you with

a serum that stimulates

the part of your brain

that processes fear.

-TRIS:
Great.

-FOUR:
It induces a hallucination,

and then transmitters in the serum allow

me to see the images in your mind.

-TRIS:
You can see inside my mind?

-FOUR:
Mmm-hmm.

Lay back.

(GROANS)

(SIGHS)

-FOUR:
Now, you're gonna be facing

your worst fears, Tris.

Most people have 10 to

15 really bad ones.

You have to calm yourself.

Slow your heart rate and your breathing,

and deal with what's in front of you.

Be brave.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(CROWS CAWING)

(PANTING)

(SQUELCHING)

(GRUNTING)

(CAWING CONTINUES)

(GROANING)

This isn't real.

(MUFFLED GROANING)

(GASPS)

-FOUR:
It's all right, it's all right.

- You okay?

- (GASPING)

(SIGHING)

How long do you think you were

in the hallucination, Tris?

-TRIS:
Twenty minutes?

- Three.

Four times faster than the average.

I've never seen anyone do

that well the first time.

How did you get rid of the birds?

The image wasn't clear.

-TRIS:
Um...

I just went into the water.

-FOUR:
Well, next time it'll

be a lot easier.

-TRIS:
I have to do that again?

-FOUR:
Yeah, you have to practice several times

before the final, but you're a natural.

You got nothing to worry about.

CHRISTINA:
My whole body was

covered in these little insects.

They were in my ears,

and my throat...

I couldn't breathe.

-WILL:
Yeah, I heard about this

guy, like two years ago...

So panicked he had a heart attack

in his chair and he almost died.

-CHRISTINA:
What?

-AL:
Yeah, so we've got that to

look forward to, right?

(ALL CHUCKLING)

-CHRISTINA:
You didn't seem to have

any problem at all.

-TRIS:
Me?

No, no, my God, it was awful.

-AL:
Oh, come on. No one even came close

to your time. You were amazing.

-PETER:
Yeah, what's amazing is that she's gonna

knock you right out of Dauntless.

-AL:
She's not gonna knock

me out of Dauntless.

-PETER:
Look, she's gone from being

the worst to one of the best.

Somebody's gotta take her

place at the bottom.

Who's it gonna be? You.

-CHRISTINA:
Do you ever stop talking?

-PETER:
I just want to know

how she does it.

What's your trick?

-TRIS:
I don't have a trick.

-PETER:
Nobody gets through it that fast.

Why don't you tell

us how you do it?

At least tell your friends.

What's he talkin' about?

-AL:
Is there some way to make it easier?

-TRIS:
No.

No, I... (STAMMERS)

I'm not doing anything.

(PANTING)

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

(GROANS)

(WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY)

(LAUGHING)

-TRIS:
Hey! Hey!

(PANTING)

(GRUNTS)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(GASPING)

-TRIS:
This isn't real.

(GASPS)

(SIGHS)

-FOUR:
How'd you do that?

-TRIS:
What?

-FOUR:
How'd you break the glass?

(SIGHS)

-TRIS:
I don't know. Just did it.

-FOUR:
You just did it?

(BEEPING)

What were your test results?

Your aptitude test.

-TRIS:
Abnegation.

-FOUR:
I don't think so.

-TRIS:
What?

-FOUR:
I think you're lying to me.

-TRIS:
Why would I lie to you?

-FOUR:
I'm gonna ask you one more time.

What were your test results?

-TRIS:
Abnegation.

-FOUR:
Time for you to go.

Tris?

Just so you know,

Dauntless don't break

the glass like that.

TORI:
My brother was like you.

During the second stage,

he got good really fast.

Last day of the simulations,

one of the Dauntless

leaders came to watch him.

Then the next morning, we found his

body at the bottom of the chasm.

They got rid of him.

-TRIS:
Who did?

Dauntless leadership.

You can't let them

find out about you.

-TRIS:
And what if they already know?

Then you're already dead.

-CALEB:
Beatrice.

What are you doing here?

TRIS:
I'm in trouble.

-CALEB:
What happened?

-TRIS:
I'm not gonna make it at Dauntless.

I don't fit in there.

-CALEB:
You have to fit in there.

-TRIS:
I can't.

(STAMMERING)

I'm just... I'm not like them.

(CHUCKLES)

-CALEB:
I mean, who is? They're crazy.

-TRIS:
Maybe I can go back to Abnegation.

-CALEB:
You can't go back. I know, but...

They're never gonna let you do that.

(SIGHS)

-TRIS:
Who?

-CALEB:
Erudite.

They're not gonna let Abnegation

break any more rules.

(SCOFFS)

-TRIS:
They actually think that they're

running the government now?

-CALEB:
They might be soon.

-TRIS:
Wait. Really?

-CALEB:
Erudite should be in charge.

Certainly not Abnegation.

-TRIS:
Wait, hold on, Caleb.

How can you say that?

-CALEB:
It's what all the other factions

want, now that Abnegation failed.

-TRIS:
No. That's just what they're

telling you here...

-CALEB:
It's true.

-TRIS:
It's not true.

- (MAN SHUSHES)

- (QUIETLY) It's not.

-TRIS- There are liars here.

There are people who know

how to manipulate you.

You need to understand that.

-CALEB:
Beatrice.

I think you should go.

-TRIS:
Faction before blood. Yeah?

Got it.

-BOY 1- I need you to come with me.

- (GRUNTS)

- JEANINE :
Stop!

Are you all right?

-TRIS:
Yeah, I'm fine.

-JEANINE:
Please, sit down.

-TRIS:
Thank you.

-JEANINE:
I'm glad you came here today.

-TRIS:
You are?

-JEANINE:
Are you happy with

your new faction?

-TRIS:
Yeah.

-JEANINE:
But you came to see your brother.

-TRIS:
I just... I just

wanted to talk to him.

-JEANINE:
Have you seen your parents?

-TRIS:
No.

-JEANINE:
It's hard to let go.

- (CUP CLATTERS)

Faction before blood.

It's an important ideal,

but sometimes difficult to fulfill.

It goes against our

fundamental human nature.

But that's exactly the weakness

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