Oblivion Page #3

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Just a quick scout.

Copy 49,

tasking 185 to Grid 22.

BEECH:
"And how can a man die

better Than facing fearful odds."

"For the ashes of his fathers."

"And the temples of his Gods"

I've been watching you, Jack.

You're curious.

What are you looking

for in those books?

Do they bring

back old memories?

You won't get anything from me.

- My memory has been... - Wiped to protect

the security of the mission. Yes.

You can't have

your precious memory

falling into the wrong

hands, now, can you?

Tell me.

Have you ever met

a scav up close?

Of course not.

You just repair drones.

"Don't go into

the radiation zone."

"Don't ask too many questions."

Not part of

the job description.

Lights.

We're not alien, Jack.

We're human.

Of course, for us,

being human is a problem.

Old stealth fighter tech.

Shields us from your scanners.

Vocal scrambling.

Can you hear me, Jack?

Keeps your drones confused.

Well, most of the time.

- The drones are programmed...

- To kill humans, Jack.

You saw what they did

to those sleep pods.

You almost got yourself blown

to bits protecting that woman.

Why did you do that?

Anyone would have.

"Anyone."

- Interesting.

- We're wasting our time.

The drone will track him here.

BEECH:
That's Sergeant Sykes.

He thinks I'm a fool for

having brought you here.

I hope you prove him wrong.

Mission,

I'm picking up a bio trail

somewhere near

the west canyons.

- Can you confirm the sequence?

- Stand by.

DNA confirmed. It's Jack.

Vika, are you okay?

Everything good

between you two?

Of course.

You're still an effective team?

We're great.

Never better.

BEECH:
We were running

a ground game, and losing.

So, we decided, "What the hell?"

"We've got to

throw the long ball."

It took us decades just

to crack the GPS codes.

That's how you brought

down the Odyssey.

Why?

BEECH:
The Odyssey's compact

reactor, courtesy of NASA.

Very hard to come by.

Did you like

the show last night?

That was just one fuel cell.

Imagine what 10

of them will do,

with a core of

weapons-grade plutonium.

We have a nuke, and we

have a drone to carry it.

But we can't access it.

It doesn't know who we are.

But it knows you, Jack.

We need you to

program the drone.

Have it carry our

nuke up to the Tet.

End this war.

There are people up there.

Sergeant.

Program the drone

to return to the Tet.

It needs to go

right to the center.

Screw you.

We haven't got time for this.

Hey.Hey!

No.

- Let's go!

- Get him up.

- Mission,185 just went off-grid.

- Copy, Tower, we're seeing the same thing.

Permission to task

two additional drones?

If one drone is here,

more will come.

And they won't stop

until they find me.

They'll turn

this place to dust.

But if you let us go,

I'll call them off.

It's your only chance.

I've been to your

"radiation zones."

If you're looking

for the truth,

that's where you'll find it.

You've risked all our lives.

Everything.

What makes you

think he's different?

She does.

VICTORIA:
Mission, I've found

my tech over in 37.

You can call off the search.

SALLY:
Copy that, Tower.

Glad Jack's safe.

Tasking the other drones

back to rig support.

Where are we going now?

Who are you?

What aren't you telling me?

- Jack, Jack.

- What were you doing on the Odyssey?

What was your mission?

It was a research flight

to Titan. My first.

That's what it was

supposed to be.

Six weeks to launch, deep space

scanners picked up an alien object.

We were reassigned

to investigate.

They put us all in delta.

They must have woken

you and Victoria first.

What?

That object

was the Tet, Jack.

The Tet was our mission.

That's impossible.

That's impossible!

Who are you?

I'm your wife.

I don't know what happened, but

you're not who you think you are.

Jack, we were here.

You asked me to meet you, brought

me up on top of the world.

I could tell

you were nervous that day.

It was right here, Jack.

You said,

"Look through here,"

"and I'll show you the future."

And I held up a ring.

- And you said...

- "Yes."

There you are.

There you are.

Hi.

Hello.

Come on.

JACK:
Vika, I'm coming in.

Do not report to Mission until I get back.

Do you copy?

Do you COPY?

Vika, open the door.

Stay away from me.

I don't want to hear it.

It's not safe here,

and we need to leave, now.

It was always her.

Wasn't it?

Vika...

She's my wife.

Mission, this is Tower 49.

SALLY:
Go ahead, 49.

No.

I'm having a problem

with my technician.

No, you don't know

what you're doing.

He found a survivor

at the crash site.

You've gotta listen to me.

She's impeding his abilities,

and he is unfit for service.

No, no, no.

SALLY:
I'm sorry to

hear that, Vika.

Are you still

an effective team?

Vika...

Open the goddamn door, Vika!

No.

We are not an effective team.

- Vika, please. We have to go now.

- I'm not going anywhere with you, Jack.

There's a place I know.

We'll be safe.

I'm going to Titan.

There is no Titan.

They lied to us.

Just stay away from me.

Vika, please,

there are things...

Things you need to know.

I don't want to know!

Jack!

Hi, Jack. I don't believe

we've had the pleasure.

What have you done?

You can't blame yourself for this.

Drones are unreliable.

Sometimes things go wrong.

"Go wrong"?

You killed her.

I know, it's tragic.

She was a wonderful person.

Jack, we want to bring you in.

I've been

authorized to tell you

we're going to

assign you a new mission.

You and the survivor.

There's a lot of interest up here.

Bring her up.

We can debrief,

then anything's possible.

It's time to come home, Jack.

Jack?

Jack?

Jack!

I'm sorry.

Hang on.

Lightning.

That's the plan.

We need cover.

There.

- Are you okay?

- No.

Don't worry,

we're staying out of there.

- Are we gonna die?

- No!

Maybe.

Jack!

Son of a b*tch.

Wait here.

Who is it?

Hey!

Wait!

Wait!

Hey!

Drop your weapon!

It's okay.

Don't move!

We have to shut

that drone down.

- Stop moving!

JULIA:
- Jack!

It's okay.

Julia.

Julia!

Don't.

Don't touch me.

Hold on.

Just hold on.

Jack Harper, Tech-52.

Hey.

There you are.

What happened? Are you okay?

That bogey came across the

border and then I lost you.

False alarm.

I should get back out there.

You come all the way home,

and I don't get a kiss?

What's going on up there?

I was thinking...

Why don't you

come down with me?

To the surface?

We could go right now.

Now?

Yeah.

Are you serious?

You won't believe

what's down there.

Jack!

You know the regulations.

Yes.

Can we not do this again?

I'm done talking about it.

Okay.

This is gonna hurt.

Hell of a day, huh, Bob?

You always loved this song.

I'm not him.

I know I'm not.

But I've loved you...

for as long as I can remember.

I don't know

how else to say it.

You know what

you said to me once?

You said when it was all over, you

would build me a house on a lake.

We would grow old

and fat together.

And we would fight.

Maybe drink too much.

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