Pacific Rim Page #3

HERC:
Wait here.

Max! Come here!

- Remember me?

HERC:
- Don't drool...

...over Miss Mori. Sees a pretty girl...

...and he gets all wound up.

PENTECOST:
Raleigh, this is Hercules Hansen,

an old friend from the Mark 1 glory days.

I know you, mate.

We rode together before.

We did, sir. Six years ago.

My brother and I.

- It was a three Jaeger team drop.

HERC:
That's right. Manila.

Sorry about your brother.

Thank you, sir.

Herc and his son Chuck'll be running

point using Striker Eureka.

Fastest Jaeger...

...in the world.

First and last of the Mark 5s.

Australia decommissioned it

a day before the Sydney attack.

HERC:
Yeah, it was lucky we were still around.

PENTECOST:
Yep.

- Now it's running point for us.

RALEIGH:
Wait, running point on what?

You haven't told me

what I'm doing here yet.

We're going for the Breach, Mr. Becket.

We're gonna strap a 2400 pound

thermonuclear warhead to Striker's back.

Detonate an equivalent of 1.2...

...million tons of TNT.

And you and two other Jaegers...

...will be running defense for them.

RALEIGH:
Thought we were the resistance.

Where'd you get something that big?

See the Russians back there?

They can get us anything.

Herc, shall we?

- Good to have you back.

- Thank you, sir.

- I'll show you to your Jaeger now.

- Miss Mori...

...will you give me a minute?

Marshal!

Sir, we've hit the Breach before.

It doesn't work. Nothing goes through.

What's changed?

I've got a plan. I need you ready.

That's all.

Let's go, Herc!

CHUCK:
Max, come here!

WOMAN:
(OVER PA)

Crew 17...

please report to the fifth floor.

Zero minus two.

XY minus two. R-E-Q...

In the beginning, the Kaiju attacks

were spaced by 24 weeks.

Then twelve, then six,

then every two weeks.

The last one in Sydney was a week.

In four days...

...we could be seeing

a Kaiju every eight hours...

...until they are coming

every four minutes.

Marshal, we should witness a double

event within seven days.

Mr. Gottlieb, I'm to drop a 2400 pound

thermonuclear bomb...

...I need more than...

...a prediction.

NEWT:
- Well, uh...

...that's a problem, then...

...because see, he actually can't give

you anything more than a prediction.

No Kaiju entrails over my side

of the room. You know the rules.

- Every bloody day. It's incessant.

- Gents! On point.

Numbers do not lie.

Politics and poetry, promises,

these are lies.

Numbers are as close as we get

to the handwriting of God.

- What?

- Would you give me a moment?

There will be a double event.

And then, shortly thereafter,

three. And then four...

PENTECOST:
And then we're dead.

- I get it.

GOTTLIEB:
- Alas.

This is where the good news comes.

Here is our universe...

...and here is theirs.

And this is what we call "The Throat,"

the passage between the Breach and us.

We know that it's atomic in nature.

I predict that the increased traffic...

...will force the Breach to stabilize...

...and remain open long enough...

...to get the device through...

...and collapse its structure.

NEWT:
Yeah, and that's...

...where I gotta chime in because,

really...

...I wouldn't wanna go in there with

that limited amount of information.

Newton, don't embarrass yourself.

Just hear me out for a second.

Give me a second.

Please.

Why do we judge the Kaiju

on a category system?

It's because each one...

...is completely different

from the next, right?

You see what I'm saying? Like, one looks

like a shark and one looks like a fish...

Dr. Geiszler. Just get to the point.

- Yes.

NEWT:
- The point is...

...I don't think they're all

completely different after all.

These are some samples

I collected, all right?

Now, this one here

was harvested in Sydney.

And this was harvested in Manila.

Six years ago.

They have the same exact DNA.

They're clones.

GOTTLIEB:
And this is...

...the point where he goes

completely crazy.

NEWT:
There's so much more

to the Kaiju than we understand.

And we've really only scratched

the surface.

This is a piece of a Kaiju's brain.

Now, unfortunately, it's damaged.

It's a little bit weak.

But it's still alive. Now, I think...

...I can tap into it...

...using the same technology

that allows the two Jaeger pilots...

...to share a neural bridge.

Now, think about that.

I could tell you exactly...

...how to get through

the Breach yourselves.

You're suggesting that we initiate

a Drift with a Kaiju?

No, no. No, no. Not like a whole Kaiju,

you know, just a tiny piece of its brain.

HERC:
The neural surge would be too much...

- ...for the human brain.

- I agree.

- I don't agree.

- Gottlieb...

...I'd like your data on my desk ASAP.

Sir.

- No, but his is so...

PENTECOST:
- Thank you, Newt.

Guys, now, this is the most amazing

thing...

Newton, I know that

you're desperate to be right...

...so you've not wasted your life

being a Kaiju groupie...

...but it's not going to work.

It is going to work, Hermann.

And I'll tell you...

...something else.

- Fortune favors the brave, dude.

- You heard them.

They won't give you the equipment

and even if they did...

...you'd kill yourself.

Or I'd be a rock star.

There she is.

(SIGHS)

RALEIGH:
Oh, my God.

Look at her.

Gipsy Danger.

God, it's so beautiful.

She looks like new.

MAKO:
Better than new.

She has a double-core

nuclear reactor.

She's one of a kind now.

She always was.

TENDO:
How do you like

your ride, Becket boy?

Solid iron hull, no alloys.

Forty engine blocks per muscle strand.

Hyper-torque driver for every limb

and a new fluid...

...synapse system.

Come here.

RALEIGH:
Tendo. It's

good to see you, buddy.

TENDO:
It's good to see you too, brother.

It's just like old times.

RALEIGH:
So, what's your story?

Restoring old Jaegers,

showing has-beens like me around.

That can't be it.

You a pilot?

No. Not yet.

But I wanna be one...

...more than anything.

What's your simulator score?

Fifty-one drops, 51 kills.

Wow, that's amazing.

But you're not

one of the candidates tomorrow?

I am not.

The marshal has his reasons.

Yeah, he always does, doesn't he?

But with 51 kills,

I can't imagine what they could be.

I hope you approve of my choices.

I've studied your fighting techniques

and strategy.

Even Alaska.

And what do you think?

I think you're unpredictable.

You have a habit of deviating

from standard combat techniques.

You take risks that endanger

yourself and your crew.

I don't think you're the right man

for this mission.

Wow.

Thank you for your honesty.

You might be right.

But one day, when you're a pilot,

you're gonna see that in combat...

...you make decisions.

And you have to live

with the consequences.

That's what I'm trying to do.

MAKO:
The candidates are ready.

We will commence

the trials immediately, sir.

- Good.

- But there is one thing.

Mako, we have talked about this.

We will not be talking about it again.

You promised me.

(IN JAPANESE)

Mako.

Vengeance is like an open wound.

You cannot take that level of emotion

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