Divergent Page #6

we need to overcome.

-TRIS:
You think that human

nature is a weakness?

-JEANINE:
I think human nature is the enemy.

It's human nature to keep

secrets, lie, steal.

And I wanna eradicate that.

That's how we'll maintain a

stable, peaceful society.

You would help me with

that, wouldn't you?

-TRIS:
How would I help you?

-JEANINE:
You're aware that

Abnegation is undermining

the faction system

and breaking laws

harboring Divergents?

-TRIS:
I didn't know that.

(CLEARS THROAT)

But if that's true, then

I'm glad that I left.

-JEANINE:
See, I need to know

that I can count on you

to enforce the law,

even if it's been broken

by someone close to you.

Someone you care about.

-TRIS:
Of course.

-JEANINE:
Good.

Then I'll have my car take

you back to Dauntless.

(DOOR OPENS)

(DOOR CLOSES)

(MUFFLED SCREAMING)

(GRUNTING)

MAN:
Come on!

-BOY 1:
Get her over!

-AL:
Come on, do it!

Do it!

FOUR:
Hey!

(GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

(MEN GROANING)

You all right?

-TRIS:
Yeah.

-FOUR:
Come on. Let's go.

Here, put this on.

-TRIS:
Thank you.

-FOUR:
You'll be safe here.

(SIGHS)

(BASIN CLATTERS)

(GASPS)

-TRIS:
Sorry.

I can't believe Al...

-FOUR:
You're moving up through the

ranks, and he's failing.

It makes him hate himself

and it makes him hate you.

He's just afraid.

-TRIS:
Everyone's afraid.

-FOUR:
I know, but fear does something

strange to people like Al.

But not you.

Fear doesn't shut you

down, it wakes you up.

I've seen it.

You should lie down.

- Get some sleep.

-TRIS:
Yeah.

-FOUR:
I'll take the floor.

The next day:

-FOUR:
How you feeling?

-TRIS:
Better.

-FOUR:
Good.

(TAPPING)

Where'd you go yesterday?

-TRIS:
To see my brother.

-FOUR:
It's getting a little

boring for you here, is it?

-TRIS:
My brother said that...

He thinks Erudite is planning

to overthrow Abnegation.

Do you think they could do that?

-FOUR:
Yeah, I do. I think it's possible.

Depends how far they're

willing to go.

-TRIS:
I'm worried about my parents.

-FOUR:
Yeah.

But I think you got other

things you need to worry about.

Don't you?

-TRIS:
Yeah.

I should go.

(FOOTSTEPS RECEDE)

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

CHRISTINA:
Hi.

-TRIS:
Hey.

-CHRISTINA:
Is that your sweater?

-TRIS:
No.

-CHRISTINA:
So what happened

to you last night?

AL:
Tris, can I talk

to you for a second?

Listen, I just wanted

to say that I'm sorry.

I don't know what's wrong with me.

Please, can you ever forgive me?

-TRIS:
If you ever come close to

me again, I will kill you.

-AL:
Tris...

-TRIS:
You need to stay away from me!

You are a coward.

-WILL:
I just can't believe

he would do that.

-CHRISTINA:
It's not like him at all.

WILL:
What's that?

BOY 1:
Come on.

(ALL GRUNTING)

(GASPS)

-TRIS:
Oh, my God!

BOY 2:
Guess he just jumped.

(GASPS)

-FOUR:
Tris.

Tris!

-TRIS:
Leave me alone.

-FOUR:
I'm sorry about Al.

-TRIS:
It's my fault that he's dead.

-FOUR:
No, it's not because of you.

He made his own choice.

He would have been factionless.

He was not gonna pass

that final test.

TRIS:
Neither am I.

-FOUR:
Why do you say that?

-TRIS:
You know why.

And as soon as all the others

find out, they're gonna kill me.

-FOUR:
I'm not gonna let that happen.

Shut the door.

You're gonna practice.

-TRIS:
In my fear landscape?

-FOUE:
No.

In mine.

We go in together.

-TRIS:
Have you ever done this before?

-FOUR:
No, I haven't.

-TRIS:
You sure you want to?

-FOUR:
Why wouldn't I?

-TRIS:
I don't know. You haven't told

me anything about yourself

and now you're just gonna

let me inside of your head?

-FOUR:
Are you afraid of that?

-TRIS:
You're not?

-FOUR:
No.

(PANTING)

-TRIS:
Fear of heights.

I'm not surprised.

It's not real.

No. We could just jump.

-FOUR:
Divergent would jump.

Dauntless would get

to that building.

If you want to pass, if you

want to avoid discovery,

you have to do everything the

way a Dauntless would do it.

You have to find some tool,

some method to survive.

(DOOR CLOSING)

(FOUR GROANS)

Fear of confinement.

You have to find a way of stopping it.

What would a Dauntless do?

Good!

- (GRUNTS)

- Take your time.

I'm just enjoying myself

in this shrinking box.

(PANTING)

As a Dauntless soldier, you have to follow

orders you don't always agree with.

-TRIS:
Who is she?

-FOUR:
She's an innocent.

I have to kill her.

But I can never do it.

Unless I look away.

(GUNSHOT)

(FOUR BREATHING HEAVILY)

-TRIS:
Why are we in Abnegation?

-FOUR:
Your last fear is your worst fear.

It lives in the deepest

part of your mind.

-TRIS:
Marcus had a son.

What was his name?

-MARCUS:
Tobias.

MARCUS:
Tobias.

Tobias...

(ECHOING)

Tobias...

Tobias...

I'm just trying to

help you to be better.

TRIS:
No!

(GASPS)

(PANTING)

(SIGHS)

-TRIS:
Four?

Four fears?

-FOUR:
Four then, four now.

I keep going in there, but I

don't think you ever lose them.

-TRIS:
Can I ask you something?

-FOUR:
Sure.

-TRIS:
What's your tattoo?

-FOUR:
You wanna see it?

-TRIS:
It's amazing.

The factions.

Why do you have all of them?

-FOUR:
I don't want to be just one thing.

I can't be.

I want to be brave and

I want to be selfless...

Intelligent and honest and kind.

Although I'm still

working on "kind."

-TRIS:
I don't wanna go too fast.

-FOUR:
It's okay.

I've already got my

spot on the floor.

-TRIS:
(CHUCKLES)

TRIS:
Morning.

-FOUR:
Hey.

Come on. I'm gonna

show you something.

-TRIS:
Okay.

-FOUR:
Look.

-TRIS:
Erudite.

-FOUR:
Yeah.

They're here every morning.

I've been watching them for weeks.

-TRIS:
What are they doing at Dauntless?

-FOUR:
Loading in supplies. Computers.

And these.

TRIS:
What is it?

-FOUR:
I think it's some kind of cognitive

transmitter. You inject it like a serum.

-TRIS:
Why?

-FOUR:
It's supposed to make you more

susceptible to suggestion,

but as many as they have,

they could create an army.

MAN:
(ON PA) Attention, all

initiates report for final testing.

All initiates report

for final testing.

-FOUR:
You're ready.

You can do this.

Simulation test scene:

-FOUR:
They can see your

hallucinations on the screen.

So you get past your fears

the way a Dauntless would,

but do it quickly.

-TRIS:
Right. If I'm too good, then they'll kill

me, and if I'm too slow, then I'll die.

-FOUR:
Right.

Good luck.

-TORI:
Good luck, Tris.

Hope you make it.

(CAWING)

(PANTING)

(GRUNTING)

(PANTING)

FOUR:
Congratulations.

-TRIS:
Whoa. Four!

Stop! Four!

-FOUR:
Aren't you Dauntless?

(GRUNTS)

- (GASPS)

- (AUDIENCE APPLAUDS)

-TRIS:
Please tell me that you

weren't watching that.

-FOUR:
Would you feel better if I said no?

-JEANINE:
You did well.

Now...

One final test.

You know what to do.

-TRIS:
What?

-JEANINE:
If you want to be Dauntless.

-TRIS:
No.

-JEANINE:
Do it.

(GASPS)

- (PANTING)

- FOUR:
You all right?

That looked good to me, okay?

Come on. Let's go.

- MAX:
Congratulations,

new members of Dauntless.

(ALL CHEERING)

ALL:
(CHANTING)

Dauntless! Dauntless! Dauntless!

(ALL SPEAKING EXCITEDLY)

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