Parallels Page #6

Okay, but hurry.

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Aah!

Oh!

Oh.

[SIGHS THEN LAUGHS]

Honey, you scared me.

I thought you were

still at work.

God. Hey.

BEATRIX 2:

You know, the craziest thing

happened to me

on the way up to here.

I was walking up the stairs,

and I ran into this girl.

I swear,

she looked just like me.

Harry?

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Oh. All right. Okay.

All right.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Okay, everything's fine.

It was a misunderstanding,

okay? I was hacked.

I'm misrepresented, okay,

by a hacker.

Sir, get your microphone

out of my face, sir.

You're being

very aggressive, so--

Get that [BLEEP] microphone

out of my face!

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There's more than enough juice

in this thing

to kill us both

a thousand times over.

I suggest you let go.

You tried to shoot me.

If I wanted to shoot you,

you'd be shot.

[GRUNTS]

I thought you got nuked.

That was the idea.

So I had to wait inside.

Just in case.

What are you doing?

I'm ringing the doorbell.

What?

Somebody made

the building, right?

It didn't make itself.

Somebody, yeah.

Somewhere.

Not somewhere. Here.

And they're still here.

No. Bullshit.

What, you think

this is a ghost ship?

If you made this thing,

would you leave it?

Who's operating it?

Who keeps it running?

Who makes it jump?

You ask me? Somebody's home.

RONAN:
We've been up there.

You've been

to the seventh floor?

Well, there's

a hell of a lot more floors.

You don't believe me?

Go outside and count.

But there's no way up

past the seventh floor.

The eighth floor's

all concreted over.

Oh, there's a way.

There's always a way.

We just don't know

where the door is.

[RUMBLING]

Whoa. Whoa.

What are you doing?

POLLY:

Holy sh*t. He hacked it.

TINKER:

Little shock to the system.

Just enough

to get its attention.

[WHIRRING]

You know,

I think we have enough time.

I can figure out how to

control the building from here.

[GUN WHIRRING]

B, take it easy.

You touch that screen again,

and I'll shoot you with it.

B.

This a**hole tried

to kill all of us.

You take it so personally.

Shut up!

Beatrix.

Just let him finish.

What?

Yeah, seriously. What?

I want answers.

Don't you guys wanna know

what this place is?

Why did Dad

send us here?

If we have any chance

of finding Dad,

the people upstairs

have some explaining to do.

I'm sorry. Are we seriously

talking about

letting this lunatic

hotwire our only ride home?

It's up to you, B.

Well, fine.

Can I have my gun back?

[WHIRRING]

[RUMBLING]

Ohh.

[WHIRRING]

Come on.

[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]

[DISTANT THUD]

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[ELEVATOR BELL

CONTINUES DINGING]

[ELEVATOR ARRIVES]

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Dad?

TINKER:

You.

I've been looking for you

for a long time.

It's not me you want.

Oh, no.

You're exactly who I want.

The machine you made,

no one's ever tapped

into the building before.

How did you manage to make

a machine that could do that?

[WHIRRING THEN RUMBLING]

I wanna know

why you murdered my family.

I don't have

any answers for you.

[RUMBLING]

Listen. You wanna know why

your world was put to the torch?

You have to go upstairs.

That's the only way.

[RUMBLING]

You can tear

this place down,

or you can have

your answers.

But you can't have both.

They're waiting for you.

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[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS

Hey, Mr. Carver.

Hi, sweetheart.

Dad.

Ronan. It's good to see you.

It's been a while.

That's what you're gonna say

right now?

Dad, what the hell

is going on?

I spent my life trying

to shield you both from this.

Trying to shield us

from what?

From the building.

Dad, you're not

making any sense.

What are you

talking about?

You know that

we've been looking for you?

You've been upstairs

this whole time?

No. I've been traveling.

Since when?

For a long time.

Since before you were born.

The Earth you grew up on,

the one you think of

as home,

I wasn't born there.

What?

When we decided

to stop traveling,

we were looking

for someplace familiar.

Someplace safe.

Wait, who's "we"?

Your mom and me,

we wanted to protect you.

That was

the most important thing.

So Mom's not from here

either?

Do you still have

the device I left you?

Yeah, sure.

Keep it.

You're gonna need it.

For what?

You need to find

your mother.

Mom's dead.

No.

Dad, don't say that.

Mom's dead. I saw her die.

Not all of her.

What?

Listen to me.

She's the only one

that who knows how

to get to the Core World.

Find her.

Bring that device to her.

Why?

Son, the building's been

running for a long time now.

Whatever

its original purpose was,

whoever built it,

they're long gone.

Then who's running it now?

Nobody's running it.

There's nobody up there.

It's abandoned.

That's why this machine could be

the answer that saves us.

I know you both can do this.

This machine will help you

find your mother.

Look for the Core World.

[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]

Sweetheart,

can I borrow that?

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Don't listen to him!

He's lying!

[GASPING]

Oh!

BEATRIX:

Who are you?

I'm your father, Beatrix.

Dad.

Dad, no. Where are you going?

I wish I could go with you.

But I have my own war

to fight.

I'll see you both again.

BEATRIX:

Dad.

Dad. Dad!

[ALARM BLARING]

Well, that was

a weird family reunion.

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Are we jumping already?

Okay. What are we doing?

Learning how to drive this.

What if you--?

Don't just touch things.

We have to press something.

POLLY:

We don't know

what we're looking at.

Possibilities.

I think that's what these lines

represent.

Yeah, that could

actually be right.

Are we doing this?

For mom.

For mom.

RONAN:

Here goes.

[WHIRRING]

HAROLD:

Whoa!

What is that?

Is that the sun or--?

Shall we have a look?

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POLLY 2:

Damn.

All right, 3, you're up.

Hey.

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