Pacific Rim Page #2

Now, you know what I'd like to find?

I'd like to find a whole ship.

That's what I'd like to find.

Wait, wait! Wait, wait,

wait, wait, wait! Wait!

Right there, right there! Dig!

Hey, what is it?

It's just an old toy.

We never find anything good.

MAN:
Listen.

(BEEPING AND WAVERING)

Oh, my God.

(CREAKING)

(POWERING DOWN)

Stay here!

(PANTING)

Mister?

Can I help?

RALEIGH:
Yancy.

Yancy.

Run! Get help, fast!

It's gonna be all right.

(INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE)

MAN:
The Kaiju are learning our defenses.

They're adapting. Evolving.

And we're losing Jaegers faster

than we can build them.

Lima.

Seattle.

Vladivostok.

Category 4 Kaijus...

(OVER MONITOR)

...are now coming through the Breach.

I think even you can see,

marshal, this is no longer...

...a sound strategy.

The frequency of the attacks

has increased.

The Jaegers are not the most viable

line of defense anymore.

PENTECOST:
I am aware.

Those are my rangers that die...

...every time a Jaeger falls...

...which is why I'm asking you...

...for one last chance.

BRITISH UN REP:
Excuse me, marshal.

One final assault

with everything we've got.

The Jaeger program is dead, marshal.

On the other hand, the coastal wall...

program is a promising option.

AMERICAN UN REP:
The world appreciates

all that you and your men have done...

...but it's over.

We will authorize you to take

all remaining Jaegers...

...to the last battle statio: Hong Kong.

We're prepared to fund you...

...for the next eight months

while the coastal wall...

...is completed.

After that, you will receive

no further support.

You have your answer, marshal.

TENDO:
So that's it?

It's over?

HERC:
Suits and ties, flashy smiles.

That's all they are, Stacker.

We don't need them.

(MAN 1 SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY

OVER PA)

FOREMAN:
Eight hundred more beams.

Ration cards, guys! Come on, come on!

Let's go!

Now, I got good news and I got

bad news, fellas. Which one...

- ...you wanna hear first?

- Bad news!

FOREMAN:
Bad news:

Three guys died yesterday

working the top of the wall.

MAN 2:
What's the good news?

FOREMAN:
The good news is...

...I got three new job openings.

Top of the wall.

Okay, who wants to work?

Who wants to eat?

Come on!

REPORTER:
(ON TV)

I am here in Sydney, where earlier today...

yet another Kaiju attack took place.

The Kaiju, an enormous Category 4...

...broke through the coastal wall...

...in less than an hour.

(ROARING)

The Wall of Life had been deemed

unbreachable by its builders.

MAN 3:
Why the hell...

...are we even building this thing?

That thing went through the wall

like it was nothing.

Ironically, it was...

...the recently decommissioned Jaeger,

Striker Eureka...

piloted by Herc...

...and Chuck Hansen that finally...

...took the beast down.

(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

(GROANING THEN ROARS)

(CAR ALARM WAILING)

CHUCK:
Look, they decommissioned

the Jaeger program...

...because of mediocre pilots.

It's that simple.

That's Striker Eureka's tenth kill

to date. It's a new record.

And you're still going to Hong Kong,

even at a time like this?

Well, orders are orders.

What else am I supposed to do?

REPORTER:
Chuck Hansen,

one of the pilots...

...of Striker Eureka...

...the Jaeger that took down the Kaiju.

PENTECOST:
Mr. Becket.

Marshal.

Looking sharp.

Long time.

Five years, four months.

Can I have a word?

RALEIGH:
Step into my office, marshal.

PENTECOST:
Took me a while to find you.

Anchorage, Sheldon Point, Nome...

RALEIGH:
Yeah, a man in my position...

...travels with the wall,

chasing shifts to make a living.

What do you want?

I've spent the last six months activating

everything I can get my hands on.

There's an old Jaeger, a Mark 3.

You may know it. It needs a pilot.

I'm guessing I wasn't your first choice.

You are my first choice.

All the other Mark 3 pilots are dead.

Look...

...I can't have anyone else

in my head again.

I'm done.

I was still connected to my brother

when he died.

I can't go through that again, man,

I'm sorry.

Haven't you heard, Mr. Becket?

The world is coming to an end.

So where would you...

...rather die?

Here, or in a Jaeger?

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

Mr. Becket...

...this is Mako Mori.

One of our brightest.

Also in charge of the Mark 3

restoration program.

She personally handpicked

your copilot candidates.

(IN JAPANESE)

RALEIGH:
Hey.

(IN JAPANESE)

PENTECOST:
At ease.

We will tour the facility first...

...and then Miss Mori will show you

to your Jaeger, Mr. Becket.

GOTTLIEB:
Wait for us, please!

NEWT:
Hold the door...

...please!

GOTTLIEB:
- Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Stay back. Kaiju specimens

are extremely rare...

...so look but don't touch, please.

Mr. Becket, this is our research team.

Dr. Gottlieb and Dr. Geiszler.

Oh, no, call me Newt.

Only my mother calls me Doctor.

Hermann, these are human beings.

Why don't you say hello.

I have asked you not to refer to me

by my first name around others.

I am a doctor with over 10 years

of decorated experience...

(IMITATING GOTTLIEB)

Ten years! I'm very sorry.

GOTTLIEB:
Oh, please.

...Yamarashi?

Oh, this little Kaiju?

Yeah, you got a good eye.

My brother and I took him down in 2017.

You know he was one of the biggest

Category 3s ever?

He was 2500 tons of awesome.

Or awful. You know,

whatever you wanna call it.

Please excuse him. He's a Kaiju

groupie. He loves them.

Shut up, Hermann, I don't love them,

okay? I study them.

And unlike most people, I wanna see

one alive and up close one day.

RALEIGH:
Trust me...

...you don't want to.

So that's your Research Division?

PENTECOST:
Things have changed.

We're not an army anymore, Mr. Becket.

We're the resistance.

Welcome to the Shatterdome.

War clock. We reset it after every

Kaiju attack. Keeps everyone focused.

The frequency of attacks

is accelerating.

How long till the next reset?

PENTECOST:
A week, if we're lucky.

My experts believe

there'll be a Kaiju attack...

...even before that.

This complex used to lodge...

...30 Jaegers in five bays

just like this one.

Now we only have four Jaegers left.

I didn't know it was this bad.

It is that bad.

Crimson Typhoon, China.

One of the greatest.

Assembled in Changzhou.

Full titanium core, no alloys.

Fifty diesel engines

per muscle strand.

Deadly, precise fighter.

She's piloted by the Wei Tang

brothers. Triplets.

Local lads.

They've successfully defended

Hong Kong port seven times.

They use the Thundercloud formation.

RALEIGH:
Hell, yeah. Triple-arm technique.

PENTECOST:
Very effective.

That tank, last of the T-90s.

Chemo Alpha.

First generation Mark 1. The heaviest

and oldest Jaeger in the service.

But make no mistake, Mr. Becket,

it's a brutal war machine.

And those two:

Sasha and Aleksis Kaidanovsky.

Yeah, I've heard of them.

Perimeter patrol, Siberian wall.

PENTECOST:
On their watch it stayed

unbreached for six years. Six years.

(BARKING)

Herc! Chuck!

Gentlemen, welcome to Hong Kong!

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