Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Page #16

INT. PALACE - NIGHT

EGO:

That was true. They never felt a

thing. But, one after the other,

they failed me. None of them had

the Celestial genes. Until you,

Peter. Out of all my spawn, only

you have carried the connection to

the light.

Peter smiles, an enchanted idiot, the cosmos in his eyes.

INT. DRAX’S SLEEPING QUARTERS - NIGHT

GAMORA:

We need to find Peter now and get

off this damn planet.

MANTIS:

Ego will have won him to his side

by now. He has a way of -

NEBULA:

Then we just go.

GAMORA:

No. He’s our friend.

NEBULA:

All any of you do is yell at each

other. You’re not friends.

DRAX:

You’re right. We’re family.

We leave no one behind.

(To Nebula)

Except maybe you.

NEBULA:

Oh my god.

INT. PALACE - NIGHT

EGO:

For the first time in my life, I am

truly not alone.

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Quill suddenly looks sad.

EGO (CONT’D)

What is it, son?

QUILL:

My friends.

EGO:

That’s the mortal in you, Peter.

QUILL:

Yes. I don’t need that.

EGO:

What are we?

QUILL:

Forever.

EGO:

What are they?

QUILL:

Temporary.

EGO:

You think you love them. But love

is merely an evolutionary trick in

the service of reproduction. We are

beyond such things.

QUILL:

Yes.

EGO:

Now -

QUILL:

But my mother.

Ego looks at him, questioningly.

QUILL (CONT’D)

You said you loved my mother.

EGO:

That I did. My river lily, who knew

the words to every song that came

on the radio. I returned to earth

to see her three times. I knew if I

came back a fourth, I’d never

leave.

(MORE)

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EGO (CONT'D)

The expansion, the reason for myvery existence would be over. So I

did what I had to do. But it broke

my heart to put that tumor in herhead.

QUILL:

Wh- what?

ZOLLY IN ON QUILL as the cosmos disappear from his eyes.

Tears stream down his face.

EGO:

I know that sounds bad -

QUILL PULLS OUT HIS PISTOLS AND FIRES; THE BLAST TEARS

THROUGH EGO, DISPERSING the MOLECULES forming his body.

Quill SHOOTS at him AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN. The flesh

disappears from Ego like bites from a cookie, exposing theangry alien skeletal form beneath.

But, as the charge on Peter’s blasters wears out, Ego justlooks at him, and, although he’s filled with holes, he’smerely disappointed.

EGO (CONT’D)

Who in the hell do you think youare?

QUILL:

You killed my mother!

EGO TRANSFORMS into DAVID HASSELHOFF.

EGO:

I tried so hard to find the form

that best suited you, and this isthe thanks I get?

And then, once again, BECOMES HIS USUAL FORM.

EGO (CONT’D)

You really need to grow up.

A SPIKY COSMIC LIGHT-PROPELLED TENDRIL SHOOTS UP from the

floor behind Quill, and JUTS into Quill’s body.

Quill is THRUST INTO THE AIR. He opens his mouth to SCREAMand WHITE LIGHT EMITS.

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EGO (CONT’D)

I wanted to do this together! But Isuppose you’ll have to learn byspending the next thousand years asa battery, ‘Star-Lord’.

INT. DRAX’S SLEEPING QUARTERS - NIGHT

THROUGH THE WINDOW to the PALACE - PAN TO Gamora watching asher TRANSMITTER - the one she was trying to contact Rocket on

-BEEPS. She answers.

GAMORA:

Rocket?!

Gamora follows Drax, Nebula, and a confused Mantis as they

move out.

INT. LASER DRILL - OUTER SPACE

Rocket, Yondu, and Groot are CRAWLING into a huge LASERDRILL.

ROCKET:

Keep that transmitter nearby so Ican find you. We’re in an old pieceof construction equipment Yonduonce used to slice open the Bank ofA’askavaria.

GAMORA (O.S.)

Ego’s unhinged

ROCKET:

I know. Get ready.

YONDU:

Drop it, Kraglin!

INT. QUADRANT FLIGHT DECK - OUTER SPACE

Kraglin YANKS a lever.

I/E. LASER DRILL - OUTER SPACE

An ugly, bulbous and uneven craft PLOPS from the Quadrant,

and heads toward Ego’s surface.

ROCKET:

I got a plan.

YONDU:

What is it?

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ROCKET:

It’s pretty simple.

INT. PALACE - NIGHT

Ego walks calmly up beside the trapped Quill. He snatches theWalkman off of him. He stares at it. Quill can barely speak.

QUILL:

NO.

EGO PRESSES PLAY. A distorted version of “Brandy” plays. He

stares at it - perhaps he’s feeling wistful sadness, orperhaps nothing at all.

‘Brandy, you’re a fine girl. What a good wife you would be.’

EGO:

‘My life, my love, my lady is thesea’? Peter, THIS IS THE SEA.

EGO CRUSHES THE WALKMAN IN HIS GRIP as Quill watches

helplessly.

The POWER SURGES from Quill through the TENTACLE andthroughout the entire PALACE -

EXT. PALACE - NIGHT

As Gamora, Mantis, Drax, and Nebula run toward the Palace it

BURSTS WITH COSMIC LIGHT, so brightly they have to protecttheir eyes.

INT. PALACE - NIGHT

EGO basks in the power and we TRAVEL down his legs -

INT. RED PLANET/SELF CHAMBER - NIGHT

We FOLLOW THE ENERGY THROUGH THE SURFACE OF THE PLANET -THROUGH

THE TWISTING VEINS OF LIGHT BENEATH --

And INTO an ENORMOUS, METAL ORB, the SELF CHAMBER, which

EXPLODES WITH LIGHT.

Boom.

EARTH - EXT. WOODS BEHIND DAIRY QUEEN - MOMENTS LATER

We PUSH INTO the small plant - now a bit larger - that Egoplanted at the very beginning of the film.

It LIGHTS UP and GROWS, INSTANTLY BURSTING UPWARDS -

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EARTH - EXT. DQ - MOMENTS LATER

The PLANT BURSTS UP BEHIND the Dairy Queen (now a modern DQ),

a huge ORGANIC, BLOB-LIKE MASS OF LIGHT that comes downinstantly on the building, CRUSHING it and everyone inside -

AND CONTINUING TO SPILL FORWARD, SPREADING.

INT. PALACE - NIGHT

EGO SUMMONS all his energy, when, SUDDENLY, a DOOR beside him

SMASHES APART.

Drax has kicked through it and Gamora, Nebula and Mantis are

with him. Ego turns to see them, then hears a RUMBLING above

him.

He turns to look at a window on the palace wall behind him.

AND THE GIANT LASER DRILL COMES SMASHING THROUGH THE PALACE

WALL.

YONDU:

Hey there, Jackass.

Ego looks surprised.

The LASER DRILL lands on Ego, SQUASHING HIM.

The tendril retracts from Quill as he falls and heaves for

breath.

EARTH - EXT. STREET - DAY

The cosmic plant, barreling down the street, suddenly STOPS.

INT. PALACE/LASER DRILL - SUNRISE

Drax, Gamora, Nebula, and Mantis rush into the crumblingpalace.

The door on the side of the Laser Drill SLIDES OPEN. BabyGroot is standing there, smiling, and waving.

DRAX:

Out of the way, dumber, smallerGroot.

As Drax crawls in, Groot starts PUNCHING Drax as hard as he

can. Probably because he called him dumb, but who’s to say.

Gamora helps up Quill.

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GAMORA:

I told you something didn’t feelright.

QUILL:

‘I told you so.’ That’s really whatI need right now.

GAMORA:

I came back, didn’t I?

QUILL:

Because there’s an unspoken thing.

GAMORA:

There is no unspoken thing.

INT. LASER DRILL - NIGHT

Drax, Mantis, Gamora, and Quill step inside the door.

DRAX:

What are you doing? You could havekilled us all crashing in here likethat!

ROCKET:

Uh, ‘Thank you, Rocket’?

DRAX:

We had it under control.

MANTIS:

We did not. That is only anextension of his true self. He will

be back soon.

QUILL:

(re:
Nebula)

What’s Smurfette doing here!?

NEBULA:

Back rubs, dishes, killing gods,

whatever I need to do to get a damnride home.

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