Wonderwoman Page #8

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Steve makes a decision, knowing it could cost him his

life -- he grabs the notebook.

STEVE:

Dammit.

Maru turns to see her notebook gone! She looks around

just in time to see Steve leaving. They lock eyes

briefly as he exits --

32 EXT. MILITARY INSTALLATION - AIRSTRIP - CONTINUOUS ACTION 32

An ALARM BLARES as Steve -- pursued by a dozen German

soldiers -- runs to a FOKKER, props already rotating.

33 EXT. SKY ABOVE THE MILITARY INSTALLATION - CONTINUOUS 33

ACTION:

Steve's plane takes off, but he doesn't fly away.

Instead, he doubles back toward the warehouse, where

Ludendorff and Maru escape in a MILITARY VEHICLE.

34 INT. STEVE'S FOKKER - CONTINUOUS ACTION 34

Steve uses the Fokker's 12-BARREL ROTARY CANNON to FIRE

on Ludendorff's vehicle -- but it gets away.

Steve trains the gun on the evacuated military

installation's glass roof, whose WORKERS have just

evacuated. He STRAFES it, taking out all of the glass

panes before dropping HAND-BOMBS into the complex.

The factory EXPLODES in a fire ball as he flies off into

the sky!

END FLASHBACK.

35 INT. PALACE - THRONE ROOM - DAY 35

Steve tries to resist the lasso again, but can't --

(CONTINUED)

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STEVE:

I was on my way back to London

when the Germans shot me down...

Steve's eyes firmly on his BAG at Hippolyta's feet.

Diana removes Dr. Maru's notebook.

STEVE:

But if I can get those notes to

British Intelligence in time, it

might make a difference...

(emotional)

... stop millions more from

dying... Stop the war...

DIANA:

War? What war?

STEVE:

... The War to End All Wars. Four

years, twenty-seven nations,

twenty-five million dead --

soldiers... and civilians...

Steve swallows hard, forced by the lasso to reveal all.

Not just the facts, but also his feelings about them.

STEVE:

(with difficulty)

... Innocent people. Women and

children. Slaughtered. Their

homes -- villages -- looted,

burned. Weapons deadlier, more

horrifying than you can imagine.

Like nothing I've ever seen...

It's like...

(absolute truth to

him)

... like the world is going to

end.

Steve's head hangs low, Diana looks at him with sympathy

and sadness.

HIPPOLYTA:

(stoney-faced)

Take him to the infirmary.

Diana tenses, clearly shaken by this.

36 EXT. PALACE - COURTYARD - NIGHT 36

Diana follows Hippolyta and the cortege into the

courtyard, trying to lend voice to their debate.

(CONTINUED)

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PHILLIPUS:

Should we let him go?

HIPPOLYTA:

And risk him bringing more men to

our shores. Phillipus...

DIANA:

(quiet)

Mother -- ?

PHILLIPUS:

We can't hold him forever, my

Queen.

DIANA:

Excuse me, Mother. But after

everything the man said... this

must be Ares.

They all stop and face Diana.

SENATOR ACANTHA:

What are you talking about, child?

DIANA:

Forgive me, Senator Acantha,

but... the man called it a war

without end. Millions of people

already dead. Like nothing he's

ever seen. Only Ares could do

such a thing. We cannot simply

let him go.

(then)

We must go with him.

HIPPOLYTA:

We are not deploying our army and

leaving Themyscira defenseless to

go and fight their war!

DIANA:

It is not their war.

(repeating the

history lesson)

Zeus created man to be just and

wise, strong and passionate.

HIPPOLYTA:

That was a story, Diana. There is

much you do not know. Mankind is

easily corruptible.

(CONTINUED)

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DIANA:

But Ares is behind that

corruption. It is Ares who has

these Germans fighting. And

stopping the God of War is our

foreordinance --

HIPPOLYTA:

We must care to our wounded, honor

our fallen!

DIANA:

Themyscira has seen death for the

first time, Mother. Ares must not

be allowed to threaten us again.

We know only too well what happens

if he finds us -- and he will.

Never again shall we be enslaved.

And now mankind must be freed. As

Amazons this is our duty!

HIPPOLYTA:

You are not an Amazon like the

rest of us, Diana.

That strikes Diana in the heart. Hippolyta stops herself

from revealing more, covering --

HIPPOLYTA:

You don't know war like we do.

DIANA:

(accusatory)

You may be afraid to face Ares,

Mother, but I am not.

HIPPOLYTA:

(angry; for her own

good)

Afraid? You know nothing of fear,

child. Nothing of war. Nothing

of pain. Nothing of sacrifice.

So you will do nothing.

(beat)

Your Queen forbids it.

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