World War Z Page #3

THIERRY:
Gerry.

GERRY:
Thank you.

THIERRY:
Good to see you, my friend.

CONTROLLER:

Tango five, this is Argus command.

Cleared for take-off.

PILOT:
Tango five. Wilco.

THIERRY:
Karin, to the right.

This is good, right?

GERRY:
Bunk beds!

Your bunk beds

are number two, three and six.

Please make yourself at home.

You want to get up here?

- There you go, sweetheart.

- KARIN:
That's good.

THIERRY:

We're not dropping anchor again.

You're safe.

It's not me I'm worried about.

They're safe.

KARIN:
Baby.

It's bigger than

our old apartment on 72nd.

Need anything, Karin?

Water.

I'll organize.

Is this worldwide?

Is anyone doing better than we are?

(SIGHING)

Baby. Go talk somewhere else.

Okay.

The President is dead.

Four of six Joint Chiefs. V.P. missing.

Reports of gun battles

in the streets of the capital.

Your parties are panicking.

The bigger cities are the worst off.

The airlines

were the perfect delivery system.

Carnival cruise vessel Dream

has been given permission to join.

Twenty seven knots south and closing.

How soon are they showing

symptoms after contact?

TECHNICIAN 1:
The provisional

government currently considers

northern Minnesota

to be a potential safe zone.

TECHNICIAN 2:
Have you recorded

any instance where a person

was bitten but not infected?

How the hell do I know

if Russia's fallen?

Sir, I cannot action that order.

Colonel, I'm sorry,

but we cannot facilitate

an evacuation for you or your men.

Sir, there is nowhere to evacuate you to.

Malnutrition. Dirty water.

No gas for the winter or transportation.

No bullets to fight.

And it has spread

to all corners of the globe.

MICHAEL:
The question

that we have got to address

is what the hell is it?

About 5% of the population

aren't affected immediately.

It is viral. It has to be viral.

There is no plausible alternative.

And like any virus, once we find its

origin, we can develop a vaccine.

- We find it, contain it...

- That's Dr. Fassbach.

Virologist from Harvard.

The analogy I keep coming back to

is Spanish Flu.

Spanish Flu?

It didn't exist in 1918, but by 1920,

it killed 3% of the world.

He's our best bet

at figuring out what this thing is.

You all read the same email I did,

- and it said "zombies."

- (SCIENTISTS PROTESTING)

Are you completely out of your mind?

So, the earliest mention

of the word "zombie"

was in a memo

from Camp Humphreys in South Korea.

We haven't had contact with them since.

But this could lead us to the origin.

If we knew where this thing started,

then we'd have a chance

of developing a vaccine to stop it.

So we send in Dr. Fassbach

there to look for the source.

He's just a kid.

You're right.

SERGEANT:
Attention on deck!

At ease!

Mr. Under-Secretary.

The Under-Secretary

here says you were

his best investigator

when you were at the U.N.

I want to send you in. With a team.

Help Dr. Fassbach

find whatever it is he needs.

You brought...

I wanted for the circumstances

to speak for themselves.

No.

Captain, I'm not your guy.

You were on the ground

during the Liberian Civil War.

Investigated Chechen war crimes.

Sri Lanka in '07.

Places you and I both know

Dr. Fassbach wouldn't last a night in.

Gerry, a handful of SEALs

will go with you as security force.

No.

My guys will get you in,

you assist the doctor,

pursue any leads,

my guys will get you out.

We do the heavy lifting.

I can't help you. I can't leave my family.

Take a look around here, Mr. Lane.

Each and every one of these people are

here because they serve a purpose.

(INDISTINCT SPEECH)

There's no room here

for non-essential personnel.

There's a long line of people

waiting for one of those bunks.

You want to help your family,

let's figure out how we stop this.

It's your choice, Mr. Lane.

Simple.

KARIN:

You don't work for them anymore.

- Karin...

- You might not remember

what this job did to you, but I do.

So do not ask me to say yes to this.

I have to go.

They're going to kick us off the ship.

What?

If I go, you, the girls, Tommy,

have a place to stay.

If I don't, we're back in Philly tonight.

(STAMMERS) What about Thierry?

Can't he do anything?

Men like Thierry

aren't in charge of anything anymore.

You keep this with you.

I'll call in once a day.

As long as I make that call,

everything's gonna be okay.

I'm coming back.

Okay?

We're going to make the best of it.

As we do.

Like we do.

Okay, baby doll,

Daddy's got to go to work.

I'm not a baby.

Okay.

Tall, beautiful, tiny adult.

I'll be back soon. (KISSES)

Yeah?

All right, tough guy...

Take care of the ladies for me?

Yeah.

Deal.

You're awesome.

(WHISPERING) Daddy's coming back.

This way, sir.

GERRY:
Look.

We don't know what we're walking into.

So we do what they say. Okay.

If they move, we move.

If they stop, we stop.

If things were to get crazy,

just focus on their boots,

focus on their voices,

and we'll be all right.

- FASSBACH:
Mmm-hmm.

- These guys are hammers.

And to hammers,

everything looks like nails.

I heard that.

You were meant to. (CHUCKLES)

So, you see something that's important,

you call it out and we'll make it happen.

Okay.

You think we're gonna find anything?

Yeah.

Yeah, we're gonna find something.

Mother Nature is a serial killer.

No one's better.

More creative.

But like all serial killers,

she can't help the urge

to want to get caught.

What good are all those brilliant crimes

if no one takes the credit?

So she leaves crumbs.

Now, the hard part,

why you spend a decade in school,

is seeing the crumbs

for the clues they are.

Sometimes the thing you thought

was the most brutal aspect of the virus,

turns out to be the chink in its armor.

And she loves disguising

her weaknesses as strengths.

She's a b*tch.

(CHUCKLES)

NAVY TECHNICIAN:
Attention.

D.C. has gone dark. I repeat,

D.C. has gone dark.

The Capitol evacuation

has been suspended.

All available resources should be

directed to Naval Station Norfolk.

WARRANT OFFICER:

All non-essential personnel

given F-6 status

and in groups A through E

need to report

to the flight deck for relocation.

Groups A and B relocating to Orlando

should be on the stern

clear of the landing zone.

(TALKING IN DISTINCTLY)

I say again, all non-essential

personnel given F-6 status

need to report to the flight deck.

Choppers are inbound

for immediate relocation.

Mommy, is this dinner?

Yes, sweetheart.

Water here tastes funny.

It's jet fuel, young lady.

He's joking.

I wish. Desal has trouble filtering it out.

Probably because

there's too many people on this ship.

PILOT:
Everybody wake up.

We're on approach

to Camp Humphreys.

Most of the base is dark,

and no one is manning the tower.

We're running on fumes,

so there's really no choice,

I've got to put us down.

So buckle up.

GERRY:
Hold up.

Keep your finger off the trigger.

(DISTANT SCREECHING)

Okay.

- (ZOMBIE SNARLING)

- (GUNSHOT FIRING)

(GASPS)

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