Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Page #10

ROCKET:

Well, dying is certainly betterthan having to live an entire lifeas a moronic shitbag who thinks‘Taserface’ is a cool name.

Taserface goes to stab him, when

NEBULA:

That’s enough killing for today.

Taserface turns toward her, irritated.

TASERFACE:

Thought you were the biggest sadistin the galaxy.

NEBULA:

That was when Daddy was paying mybills. The Priestess wants to kill

the fox herself. And he

(re:
Yondu)

-has bounties on his head in at

least twelve Kree provinces.

Taserface glares at her. It’s obvious he’s consideringattacking her.

NEBULA (CONT’D)

I assure you, I am not as easy amark as an old man without his

magic stick or a talking woodlandbeast.

Taserface decides not to risk it.

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NEBULA (CONT’D)

I want ten percent of the take, anda couple more things.

INT. ECLECTOR DOCKING BAY HALL - LATER

Nebula is TRYING OUT A BRAND NEW HAND as Kraglin leads her

through this hall.

KRAGLIN:

We got a whole box of hands if thatone don’t work out.

NEBULA:

It’s fine.

KRAGLIN:

You think them Kree is gonna

execute the Cap’n?

NEBULA:

The Kree consider themselves

merciful. It will be painless.

Kraglin comes to an open doorway beside a huge DOCKING BAY,

and an M-SHIP decked out with lots of weapons.

KRAGLIN:

Well, there it is, best ship wegot. The location of Ego’s planet’sin the nav. We’ll wire you the tenpercent when we’s paid. What yougonna do with your share?

Nebula stops at the doorway.

NEBULA:

As a child my father would haveGamora and me battle one another in

‘training.’ Every time my sisterprevailed my father would replace apiece of me with machinery,

claiming he wanted me to be herequal. But she won, again and againand again. Never once refraining.

Because of them, I am this. So

after I murder my sister, I willbuy a warship with everyconceivable instrument of death.

(MORE)

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NEBULA (CONT'D)

I will hunt my father like a dogand I will tear him apart slowly,

piece by piece, until he knows somesemblance of the profound andunceasing pain I know every singleday.

Kraglin stares at her, weirded-out.

KRAGLIN:

Yeah... I was talking about, like,

a pretty necklace. Or a nice hat.

Something that’ll make the othergirls go ‘oooooo, that’s nice.’

Nebula gives him a look of pure death.

KRAGLIN (CONT’D)

Anyway, uh, happy trails.

INT. PALACE COURTYARD - DAY

Quill looks up at a GIANT SCULPTURE of his mother. He isupset. Ego is behind him, watching him, sadly.

QUILL:

My mother told everyone my fatherwas from the stars.

Quill turns to look at his father, somewhat accusatory.

QUILL (CONT’D)

She had brain cancer - so everyonethought she was delusional.

Ego looks sad, ashamed.

EGO:

Peter -

QUILL:

Listen. I’d love to believe all of

this, I really would - but you leftthe most wonderful woman ever, to

die alone!

Ego has tears in his eyes.

EGO:

I didn’t want to leave your mother,

Peter. But if I don’t return

regularly to this planet, and thelight within, this form will witherand perish --

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QUILL:

So why didn’t you come back?! Why’dyou send Yondu, a criminal, of allpeople, to fetch me?!

EGO:

I loved your mother, Peter! Icouldn’t stand to set foot on an

earth where she wasn’t living! Youcan’t imagine what that’s like!

QUILL:

I know exactly what that’s like! I

had to watch her die!

Ego stops, seeming to hear his son. He touches him.

EGO:

Over the millions and millions of

years of my existence I have mademany mistakes, Peter. But you’renot one of them. Please give methe chance to be the father she

would want me to be.

Quill looks at him, vulnerable.

EGO (CONT’D)

There are so many things I need toteach you. This planet, and thelight within... they are a part of

you.

QUILL:

What do you mean?

Ego takes Quill’s hands in his own, gently, putting them inthe correct position.

EGO:

Give me your hands, son. Here.

Hold them like that.

Quill holds his hands apart. Ego steps back, holding hishands in the same way.

EGO (CONT’D)

Now close your eyes andconcentrate. Take your brain to thecenter of the planet.

Quill concentrates. He holds his hand out. A white lightemanates from it.

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EGO (CONT’D)

Yes! Yes!

QUILL:

Whoa.

The light disappears as quickly as it came.

EGO:

Yes, yes - it’s okay. Just relax.

Concentrate. You can do it. Bringit back.

Quill concentrates and the LIGHT, once again, bursts up fromthe palms of his hands.

EGO (CONT’D)

Yes, yes, now - shape it

Ego shows him, pulling in the molecules around him, so thatthe light itself forms into the shape of a ball.

EGO (CONT’D)

Feel the energy.

Quill tries to pull molecules into the ball. And, little bylittle, they come, and the ball glows brighter.

EGO (CONT’D)

Yes.

Quill laughs. Ego is JOYOUS. He almost looks as if he’s goingto break down in tears.

EGO (CONT’D)

You’re home, Peter.

Ego cups his hands.

EGO (CONT’D)

Here.

Quill, smiling, THROWS him the ball. Ego LAUGHS. He inspectsthe cosmic ball of light, and he throws it back to Quill.

Quill LAUGHS, catching it, and throws it back. Ego movesback further.

And Ego and Quill continue tossing the ball back and forththere, LAUGHING, a friendly father and son game of catch inthe middle of a palace courtyard.

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EXT. PALACE - DAY

Drax and Mantis sit here, soaking in the sun and gazing atthe lush, flowing hills, like something an alien MaxfieldParrish would paint.

DRAX:

How did you get here?

MANTIS:

Ego found me in my larva state,

orphaned on my homeworld. He raisedme by hand, and kept me as his own.

DRAX:

So you’re a pet?

MANTIS:

I suppose.

DRAX:

People usually want cute pets. Whywould Ego want a hideous one?

MANTIS:

I am hideous?

DRAX:

You’re horrifying to look at, yes.

Mantis seems sad about this. Drax notice this, feels bad.

DRAX (CONT’D)

But it is a good thing.

MANTIS:

Oh?

DRAX:

When you are ugly and someone lovesyou, you know they love you for who

you are. Beautiful people neverknow who to trust.

MANTIS:

Well, then I am certainly gratefulto be ugly!

(thinking)

Poor Gamora. She can never trust

anyone.

Drax nods and stares out at spattered patches of water.

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DRAX:

Those pools remind me of a time Itook my daughter to visit theForgotten Lakes on my homeworld.

She was like you.

MANTIS:

Disgusting?

DRAX:

Innocent.

Drax stares out at them without expression.

Slowly, Mantis TOUCHES his shoulder.

And, as she does, TEARS INSTANTLY FLOW DOWN HER CHEEKS. She

stares with Drax at the hills. They feel the sadnesstogether: she cries while he’s stoic.

MANTIS:

I have never met anyone like you,

or your friends. You are filledwith such... love. It is a thing Idid not know existed, not like

this, and I think... I think it maybe the very finest of all things.

It both hurts and soothes the

heart.

She looks at Drax. There is something she wants to say, butshe is torn.

MANTIS (CONT’D)

Drax, there is something I musttell

GAMORA (O.S.)

What’s going on?

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