The Shadow Effect Page #4
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- 2017
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(MUSIC PLAYING)
(SIGHS)
Jesus, what the f*** took you so long?
We took a nice scenic river drive.
He's good, but he ain't better than us.
I've been waiting all day to do that.
What happened to you, soldier?
(MONITOR BEEPING)
Let Reese know he's awake.
What happened?
Um, it's best if you just relax.
You've been here before,
nothing to worry about.
(GRUNTS)
Stop struggling.
I'm trying to help you.
(GABE PANTING)
(GRUNTING, PANTING CONTINUES)
We live in the time
No! You mother f***! F*** you!
Motherfucking f***er!
When no one knows how to live
Just let them all pretend
F***er.
Who they've never been Before
MAN:
If it's any comfort...Know that when you wake up,
you won't remember any of this.
What is my destination
It seems I have reached
(ELECTRICITY BUZZING)
The ends of my dream
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(GRUNTS)
(PANTING)
Betraying yourself
Don't forget who you are
Being themself
(GRUNTING)
You will be reborn
Into the world
You cannot avoid
Sharing your life
With the people you love
And give them the home
(MACHINERY SHUTS DOWN)
(BEEPING)
(PADDLES CHARGING)
Gabriel, stay with us.
(GRUNTS)
(CHOKING)
(EXHALES)
(MUSIC PLAYING)
(KNOCKING)
You motherf***er.
I want you to put your hands
behind your head,
interlock your fingers and turn around.
Slower.
Is anyone else here?
I'm unarmed.
Where are we?
This is where you were born, Gabriel.
You won't get out.
Right now I just need
a reason not to kill you.
Because you can't live
without knowing the answer
to the question that's
burning inside you.
Let's take a walk.
That's an awful lot of
oxygen and air to run
an underground facility, huh?
Hold up there.
Really only gonna ask one thing.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
Aah!
(GRUNTS)
An organization of American colonists,
British taxation
known for undertaking
I have a feeling that they still exist.
Oh my God, I'm killing people
who are fighting
for real liberty,
so they can keep control?
Jesus, f***.
Very good, Gabriel.
Get up.
(MUSIC PLAYING)
Everybody get out.
Before you go too far,
I need to show you something.
I know they're coming for me.
We need to keep moving.
You still don't know who you are.
Initially, I grew skin for burn victims.
research nobody would dare do.
Limb reanimation.
Brain tissue regeneration.
Trying to figure out
how the human body works.
And then learning how to duplicate it.
So you could bring back your wife?
She was everything to me.
Then the fine people at the
American Medical Association
had me arrested for
unsanctioned research.
Sons of Liberty had the charges dropped,
faked my death, and
wrote me a blank check
to continue my research.
Gabriel.
Meet Daniel.
Yes, it's you.
Daniel Lucas Forney, Navy SEAL,
noted for his exceptional
sharpshooting skills,
black ops in Iraq, Kuwait, Columbia.
First do no harm, that was my goal.
(DANIEL ON SCREEN)
There were dozens of them.
But they were all just
mothers, trying to...
Trying to protect their f***ing kids.
HODGE:
Cut the camera.Get a grip, boy.
Come on, sit up.
You're my b*tch now.
No, I'm not your b*tch now.
Okay, I volunteered for this sh*t.
HODGE:
Welcome to the program, Gabriel.Sedate him.
I'll f***ing kill him.
Oh my God!
Daniel Forney
was the best assassin
the American military ever had.
You erased my f***ing memory?
Programmed me like a f***ing machine?
Triggered to be active,
kill on demand now.
Wow, that's f***ing great.
F***ing great, Jesus!
Who the hell is Hodge?
Your commanding officer,
before he was recruited by SOL.
Brinn?
Her job was to be an emotional anchor
for the incarnations of Gabriel.
There are others?
(MUSIC PLAYING)
REESE:
We call them shadows,but yes, they are clones.
Thirteen shadows,
thirteen elimination targets.
But not yet perfected, which is why
you had to create a false life
in between missions.
Keep the shadows from going mad, right?
We had to reanimate immediately
on the death of the previous.
I had no idea that the memory threads
would jump from clone to clone
like twins.
Really, I didn't.
But you see, this is a pilot program.
My ultimate goal is to
eliminate human soldiers.
I'm sorry, Gabriel.
(ALARM BLARING)
HODGE:
You go on back.(VOICE OVER PA)
...to the nearest exit or...
your old self on the monitor.
But Gabriel, you're not Daniel.
There's more of you.
Your dream of freedom, it's over.
World's got too many people now.
Too few resources.
You're a damn good shot.
How many rounds you got left?
Twelve, maybe 15?
Enough.
HODGE:
The elevators are locked.There's 300 feet of earth
between you and the sun.
What the f*** do you care about
the rest of anything, anyhow?
I'm done being your puppet.
The last person I'm gonna kill
is you, sir.
(GRUNTS)
(PANTING)
(GUNSHOT)
(MUSIC PLAYING)
What are you doing here?
(GRUNTING)
(VOICE OVER PA) ...in this building.
Please cease operations
and leave the building,
utilizing the nearest exit...
(MAN GROANS)
I can handle it, sir.
(GUNSHOT)
(GRUNTING, CLATTERING)
Take Gabriel alive.
Once an animal escapes,
it'll never go domestic again.
I spent years of research on that boy!
I'm not allowing you...
(YELLING) Are you the hunter
or the scientist here?
Now get back to the surface!
(ALARM CONTINUES BLARING)
(VOICE OVER PA) ...in this building.
Please cease operations
and leave the building, utilizing
the nearest exit or fire...
Open this gate, you c*nt!
(VOICE OVER PA)
Do not use elevators.
Repeat, do not use elevators...
(MOANS)
Come on, Gabe, we've got to move.
Gabe, come on, we have to move, come on.
No, I can't make it.
Please, the gate is not gonna hold them.
It's not gonna hold them.
Look at me, I need you to do
something for me. Can you?
I need you to break him out, okay?
When one dies, the
other one's activated.
- Stay with me.
- Look at me.
I f***ing love you.
I wish it was different.
I...
Stay with me, stay with me.
Oh God, oh God.
(MUSIC PLAYING)
(ELEVATOR POWERING DOWN)
Dr. Reese.
Everything's gone to hell.
MAN:
I suspected.And Hodge?
No one's getting out of there.
You did what you could.
(CHUCKLES)
(MUSIC PLAYING)
Come on, Gabe, Gabe!
Gabe, Gabe!
Come on, come on.
(LOUD POUNDING)
Come on, two, three, four, five, six.
Come on, come on, Gabriel!
(BRINN CONTINUES COUNTING)
Come on.
Come on!
Oh, God.
You think I don't know every
trick you're going to throw?
Remember 15-year-old Malika?
Killed in Iraq?
I picked up that pipe.
She screamed, "What do you want?"
"Want me to tell you you can rape me?"
And I said, "We take what we want."
"And what we don't want, we kill."
Now I'm getting tired of this
cat-and-mouse bullshit.
We live in the time
Where no one knows How to live
Just let them all pretend
Who they've never...
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