Free Guy Page #8

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ANTWAN:
Bye-bye, Blue Shirt.

No, no, no.

(SIGHS)

(REBOOT MUSIC PLAYING)

(WHISPERS) It’s okay. Come on.

(KEYBOARD CLACKING)

Come on.

Come on, come on, come on.

(ALARM BEEPING)

(SIGHS)

Good morning, Goldie.

(LAUGHS)

NEWS ANCHOR:
(ON TV) Front of warm, dry gunfire… mixed with late afternoon stabbings… could leave you in the streets wet with the blood of innocents… by early Tuesday night.

(EXPLOSION)

What really is the difference between a light roast and a dark roast?

Nobody knows.

(FLASHES)

Don’t have a good day, have a great day.

Guy, can we talk?

How does the sunglass girl know your name?

I don’t know. Keep walking.

MILLIE:
Come on, Guy! You know me.

You know this.

You said this clip showed a place you’d seen before.

I need to know where.

The data’s been erased, but it’s in your head.

Please try to remember. This is really important.

Please, Guy, think. The ice cream, the swings?

Oh, my Guy loves swings.

At Free City Harbor Park, there’s a great swing set there.

Have you been?

MILLIE:
Yes.

We had bubble gum ice cream.

OMG, I love bubble gum ice cream!

He loves the bubble gum ice cream.

Yes, I know. We had it together, remember?

Please, Guy, you’re all I’ve got.

I’m sorry, lady. I think you have the wrong guy.

Don’t have a good day, have a great day.

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Hello?

KEYS:
(ON PHONE) I might’ve found something.

I’ve been going through Guy’s code and there is something there… even now, after the wipe.

What’s the point?

Guy was, like, a one-in-a-billion miracle. We can’t replicate that.

I tried, okay? You were right, it’s over.

No, Millie, Millie, you’re not listening to me, all right?

A reboot, it doesn’t erase his AI coding… you literally would have to destroy the servers to do that.

His AI is still there, it just needs to be accessed.

I’ve seen him, Keys. He’s forgotten everything.

Just look at the trace log I sent you.

It’ll explain everything.

(SIGHS)

(THROUGH LAPTOP) Now, from the beginning…

Guy’s behavior is much more complex than it should be, thanks to our code. (CHUCKLES)

But he’s still stuck in Free City. He’s still stuck in this life, this loop.

And then, something changes. He comes to life. Why?

And then I remembered.

One of the characters from Life Itself was this guy that I nicknamed Lovelorn.

And he was someone who was designed to never meet the right person.

It was essentially the building blocks of the character.

But he never stopped hoping that he would meet “the girl of his dreams.”

So I had to base this girl off of someone… and who better than the person that I was sitting next to every day?

You.

But then, one day… he meets you in Free City, and once he sees you… he can never be the same.

He was supposed to feel doomed, but instead, he feels alive… until eventually, he is alive.

You changed him, Millie.

You changed his code. And I think you can do it again.

You brought him to life, Millie.

You brought him to life.

And he was alive because he met the one person…

(TURNS VIDEO OFF)

Don’t have a good day… have a great day.

CUSTOMER:
Thank you.

Take care. (CHUCKLES)

FEMALE VOICE:
Everybody down on the ground!

Nobody try to be a hero. This will all be over soon.

Okay.

FEMALE VOICE:
Everybody except you.

Door, door, door. I got it.

(GRUNTS) Please, I have a goldfish.

Look, I don’t have long.

I just took you hostage, so there are three badges on me.

GUY:
Badges? Is that like a Girl Scout thing? What is that?

MILLIE:
There is something inside you, Guy.

GUY:
What? I don’t want anything inside of me.

MILLIE:
They stuck you in that bank and… expected you to just follow the rules…

GUY:
I love the bank.

…and do the same thing every day.

You are so much more than that.

I don’t wanna be more than that.

No, and I need you to remember it.

Why have you been following me and how do you know my name?

Put these on.

I don’t have to do anything that I don’t wanna do.

True. The choice is totally yours. (C*CKS GUN)

Okay. Okay. Fine.

(GASPS)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

GUY:
What is that?

What are these? Trick glasses or something?

Listen carefully.

In 24 hours, this world, everyone you know, it’s all gonna disappear for good.

Can you please just let me go?

I mean, I haven’t really even seen your face.

I mean, I’ve seen the general area, but I’m not really good with descriptive words.

Not really good with words in general.

(DISTANT SIREN WAILING)

Screw it.

What? Oh!

(GRENADE WHISTLES, EXPLODES)

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

(UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES)

(SOFTLY) I remember.

Welcome back.

No. I remember everything.

Come with me.

I do this every day so much, I’d forgotten why.

Do you see that?

Right there.

MILLIE:
Oh, my God.

(EXCLAIMS) Oh, my God!

Antwan hid our original build past the horizon, making it invisible… but he forgot to scrub the reflections.

It’s still out there, Guy. We just can’t see it.

If we can get there, that is the evidence we need.

You can’t go past the water line. I tried.

We need help.

KEYS:
Antwan found a way to hide it in plain sight in the one place no one can even get to.

(CONTINUES OVER PHONE) I can’t even believe he’s smart enough to be this diabolical.

Keys, I need you to focus.

Okay. So, the reflection shows the build past the southern horizon.

But the game physics won’t allow you past the beach.

But you think you can find a way to get us past the collision mesh?

KEYS:
We’re gonna need a bridge.

You just get to Hitman’s Beach and I’ll figure out the rest.

And, Millie?

Be careful.

Antwan may be an a**hole, but he’s not stupid.

He’ll figure out what you’re up to and he’ll throw everything he’s got at you.

You’re right.

(OVER SPEAKERS) Um, hi, Millie, and other person I can’t see… well, I have an idea.

What if he has nothing to throw?

GUY:
Everyone! Gather around!

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

Thank you for coming.

Now, you know me, I’m Guy.

NPCS:
Hi, Guy.

GUY:
Hi.

What I’m about to say may be hard to understand.

Really hard to understand.

But, are you sick of living in the background?

(NPCS AGREEING)

Aren’t you sick of being shot at?

Enough.

Taken hostage?

No more.

Run over?

We done with that.

Robbed? Stabbed? Used as a human shield?

(EXCITEDLY) We are tired of being stabbed!

Buddy!

Sorry.

What are you trying to say, Guy?

I’m tryin’ to say that things in this city don’t have to be this way.

Things can be different.

Different how?

For starters, you can put your arms down.

Yeah.

(GRUNTING)

GUY:
There you go. You got it. Yeah.

Keep pushing. There you go.

(CONTINUES GRUNTING)

GUY:
Breathe through it. There you go.

BANK MANAGER:
Do it. Do it. Do it.

HOSTAGE:
No, not gonna happen. Nope.

That feels unnatural.

I mean, what about when someone runs in with a gun?

Having my arms up is just a real time saver.

Except, what if the guy with the gun doesn’t come?

OFFICER JOHNNY:
What?

OFFICER 2:
What?

There’s always a guy with a gun.

So many guys with guns.

People, what if our world doesn’t have to be so scary?

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