The Shadow Effect Page #4

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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,

a secret society to fight

British taxation

known for undertaking

the Boston Tea Party in 1773.

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.

Then I started doing the

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)

We cleared every room.

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...

I see Reese showed you

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)

(SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE)

(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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