Sound of Metal Page #23

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129.

EXT. CITY STREETS, STALSK-12 – DAY

Wheeler watches as the Leaning Ruin’s UPPER STOREYSREASSEMBLE, as its BASE EXPLODES...

EXT. CITY STREETS, STALSK-12 – DAY

The Protagonist takes cover as the Leaning Ruin’s BASEREASSEMBLES as its UPPER STOREYS EXPLODE... the Protagonistand Ives race at the tunnel entrance – the GREY TRUCK RACES

at them as they dive for the tunnel...

EXT. CITY STREETS, STALSK-12 – DAY

Wheeler ducks as the weight of the upper storeys COLLAPSESthe building...

Neil lifts his head after the EXPLO/IMPLOSION. Clear. He gets

up and starts RUNNING...

EXT. TUNNEL ENTRANCE, STALSK-12 – DAY

The Protagonist and Ives RACE into the tunnel, HITTING ATRIPWIRE WHICH BLOWS THE TUNNEL ENTRANCE DOWN BEHIND THEM AS

THEY JUMP INSIDE...

EXT. PRIVATE DECK, SATOR’S YACHT – LATE AFTERNOON

Sator hangs up. He holds a SILVER PILL in the sunlight,

studying it...

KAT:

What’s that?

SATOR:

I borrowed it from the CIA.

KAT:

But what is it?

SATOR:

The way the world ends, not with abang but a whimper.

KAT:

I don’t understand.

SATOR:

When I take this, it’s all over.

KAT:

Then don’t take it, yet.

Sator looks at her, needing her to care.

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SATOR:

Why not?

KAT:

We’ve got the sunset coming and alittle vodka left...

SATOR:

And Max will be here soon... theythought it was you, not Anna, onshore with Max.

Kat steps up in front of Sator, seductive...

KAT:

As long as you can tell thedifference...

Sator smiles appreciatively, but pulls out his phone –

SATOR:

A moment’s business, my love...

EXT. MAHIR’S BOAT – CONTINUOUS

Mahir checks his radio –

IVES:

(over radio)

Not clear. Repeat, not clear...

INT. TUNNEL, STALSK-12 – DAY

The Protagonist and Ives look back at the COLLAPSED ENTRANCE

–

PROTAGONIST:

We’re committed now.

They turn and RACE through the mining tunnel...

IVES:

(into radio)

Just hold tight – we’re almostthere...

EXT. CITY STREETS, STALSK-12 – DAY

Neil spots SATOR’S GREY MI8 OVERHEAD, a rope hanging down.

Across the street he sees VOLKOV REVERSE-EXIT the tunnel

mouth, CROUCHING to ‘DERIG’ a tripwired booby trap, carryingit towards the chopper, then LEAPING up onto the line –

RISING from the streets...

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Neil STARES. CONCERNED. Checks his watch – ‘4:10’, ‘4:09’...

Then TAKES OFF, SPRINTING –

WHEELER:

Neil!

She watches him go ahead, then signals Blue team to keeppushing forward...

INT. TUNNEL, STALSK-12 – DAY

The Protagonist and Ives run down the tunnel... they slow asthey see a BODY, blue armband, lying on the ground on theopposite side of a SET OF BARS at the end of the tunnel.

They can see into the hypocentre, the GIANT ATOMIC-HEWNCAVERN, daylight above, CAPSULE on the rock floor next to themouth of a BORE HOLE. The Protagonist checks his watch –

‘4:
06’, ‘4:05’ ... Ives checks the ELECTRONIC LOCK –

IVES:

We don’t have anything big enoughto blow this. Try him –

The Protagonist reaches through the bars and checks the body

– FREEZES:
attached to a zip, a TALISMAN – A COIN WITH A HOLEHANGING FROM A SMALL LENGTH OF ORANGE AND YELLOW STRING...

The Protagonist looks at it, quizzical, rises –

PROTAGONIST:

Nothing. Can you pick it?

SATOR (O.S.)

I hope not. I paid a lot for thatlock...

WHAM! Ives goes down – SHOT BY VOLKOV, bullet SPARKING off

his helmet – on the other side of the bars – gun pointed atthe Protagonist, FIELD RADIO held out... Sator’s voice ECHOESthrough the tunnel –

SATOR (CONT'D)

(over phone)

How do you like where my journey

began, and yours ends?

Volkov takes the Protagonist’s gun. Forces him to push Ives’sgun through the bars.

PROTAGONIST:

A little radioactive for my taste.

Volkov drops the guns into the water, places the radio by thebars...

132.

EXT. PRIVATE DECK, SATOR’S YACHT – LATE AFTERNOON

Sator steps away from Kat as he speaks quietly into thephone.

SATOR:

My fate was always bound up withradiation. We’d work where no one

else would. We made a devil’s

bargain – money for time. We soldour futures.

Kat looks at Mahir’s boat. Nothing. She looks to the shore.

Far in the distance, she can see the TENDER APPROACHING...

INT. TUNNEL, STALSK-12 – DAY

The Protagonist looks at Volkov. At the bars between him andthe capsule...

PROTAGONIST:

Now you’re making the same mistakefor the entire world.

SATOR:

(over phone)

It wasn’t a mistake. I made the

bargain I could. What was yours?

You fight for a cause you barelyunderstand. With people you trustso little you’ve told them nothingabout what you’re doing. When I diethe world dies with me. And yourknowledge dies with you. Buried inthe tomb like an anonymous Egyptianbuilder sealed in the pyramid tokeep his secret...

INT. TURNSTILE BUILDING, STALSK-12 – DAY

Neil comes into the turnstile room... he watches ENEMY TROOPS

enter/exit the machine, inverting to join the battle. Hewaits for his chance... the room is empty... he sees himselfthrough the proving window, and RUNS at the machine...

EXT. PRIVATE DECK, SATOR’S YACHT – EVENING

Sator speaks into his phone –

SATOR:

Your faith is blind. You’re a

fanatic.

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PROTAGONIST:

(over phone)

What’s more fanatical than tryingto destroy the world?

Kat moves towards Sator, but he raises a finger...

SATOR:

I’m not. I’m creating a new one.

Somewhere, sometime, a man in a

crystalline tower throws a switchand Armageddon is both triggeredand avoided. Entropy inverts thesame way the magnetic poles haveswitched 183 times over the

millennia. Now time itself switches

direction.

Sator looks out at the lowering sun...

SATOR (CONT'D)

The same sunshine we’ve basked in

will warm the faces of our

descendants generations from now.

Kat looks at Mahir’s boat. Nothing. She looks to shore,

watching the TENDER APPROACHING...

INT. TUNNEL, STALSK-12 – DAY

The Protagonist looks at his watch – ‘2:12’, ‘2:11’...

PROTAGONIST:

How can they want to destroy us?

SATOR:

(over phone)

Because their oceans rose and their

rivers ran dry. Don’t you see –?

Their world shrivelled because of

us. They have no choice but to turnback, there’s no life ahead of

them. And we’re responsible.

Knowing this, do you still want meto stop?

PROTAGONIST:

Yes. Each generation looks out forits own survival.

EXT. PRIVATE DECK, SATOR’S YACHT – CONTINUOUS

Sator looks out at the glittering water –

SATOR:

That’s exactly what they’re doing.

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PROTAGONIST:

(over phone)

Sure, but not you. You’re atraitor. Bringing death to allbecause you have no life of yourown left.

SATOR:

When I’m done, life continues.

PROTAGONIST:

(over phone)

Not your son’s.

SATOR:

My greatest sin was to bring a soninto a world I knew was ending...

do you think God will forgive me?

PROTAGONIST:

(over phone)

For killing your son? No.

SATOR:

He should understand – he killed

his own.

EXT. CITY STREETS, STALSK-12 – DAY

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