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Terminator 4: Bleak Future --Part5--
By Carnotaur3
EXT. DISPOSAL CAMP – NIGHT
KATE BREWSTER throws a human limb into the burning blaze in the middle of the dumpy camp. For a moment she looks to the sky. Her faith in CONNOR coming back looks to be small in comparison to what she had believed before. We can see that’s it’s been days since she had last seen him.
CARLOS stands on the far left and whispers.
CARLOS
Are you ok, Kate.
KATE
No.
CARLOS
What is it?
KATE
I’m dying Carlos. I feel it in my body.
CARLOS
You just need a lot of food.
KATE
I need John.
He nods.
CARLOS
He’ll be here. Don’t worry.
We get an aerial view of the camp, seeing thousands of people being pushed around by the T-400s.
JAMESON is seen brushing away some plastic objects from the ground when he hears the sound of a distant engine. He turns his ear to that direction.
With a last effort to walk to CARLOS, KATE falls to the ground, panting. Her face looks pale. By the looks of her body, she seems very thirsty.
The closest T-400 unit stalks to the scene with its gun aimed at the two POWs.
CARLOS looks up to it in a pleading manner.
T-400 UNIT
Work – or be killed.
CARLOS
Humans can only go so long without water. We die.
T-400 UNIT
Work – and get water.
CARLOS
She needs it now to rebuild her strength. I’m sure there are others with the same problem.
The T-400 momentarily stops and thinks. Then, it presses something on its arm.
The LOADING ALARM sounds throughout the camp. The numerous prisoners gather around in four single lines from point A of the camp to point B.
They stand with their left arms held out. Groups of five T-400 units g through each line, checking their codes singed into their arms.
Up ahead of the prisoner line up is three T700 H-K CARRIERS, their humongous cage doors opened for the humans.
Two T-400 units stand guard on the two sides of the cage, WESTINGHOUSE M-20 A Plasma Pistol in hand.
JAMESON looks to a mound next to an H-K, and watches an object flying through the air towards the H-K and T-400. It hits ground, in front of the T-400. It examines the object with its red eyes.
BOOOM!
Meta body parts zoom past the humans and onto the ground. The other T-400s look around in defense and shoot at the tips of the mounds.
Silence falls and the T-400s ascend up the dirt hills. In a matter of moments, more plasma tracers are shot and the machines fall down the hills. Immediately after, humans with gray uniforms descend down the mound, open firing onto the remaining scout endoskeletons.
JAMESON and GEORGIA run to KATE and CARLOS.
JAMESON
Come on lets go!
CARLOS lifts KATE up and all four turn to run behind a mound.
In the camp, the armors humans throw plasma pistols to the prisoner. The prisoners rejoice in the uprising and roar into the battle. In defense, the H-K CARRIERS fly up into the air.
As the group of four gain closer to the mound, JOHN CONNOR shows up in front of them. He’s wearing a gray uniform too, with rolls of grenades laid across his shoulder to the other side of his waist.
He smiles in spite of seeing KATE. KATE does what she can in happiness with the condition she’s in.
JOHN runs to her and embraces her. Behind him comes ENRIQUE SALCEDA.
SALCEDA
I’ll meet you up on top of the ridge, Connor.
CONNOR
Ok.
KATE looks at JOHN’S face, seeing a scar on his forehead, cheek, and lip.
KATE
What happened?
CONNOR
Just a little hold up.
JAMESON
I don’t mean to sound like a pussy, but were in the middle of a war here, let’s get behind the hill.
All five humans run around hill as tracers are sent through the air.
BEHIND THE MOUND
CARLOS sets KATE down.
CARLOS
John, I could stay with Kate while you fight. She’ll be fine.
CONNOR
Ok, Georgia and Jameson can come with me then.
(BEAT)
I’ll be back for you.
KATE
You always are.
JOHN smiles and then, takes off around the hill with GEORGIA and JAMESON following behind.
CUT TO:
EXT. BATTLEFIELD – NIGHT
Dozens of vehicles descend down the hills with JERRY-RIGGED WESTINGHOUSE PLASMA CANNONS hooked onto the back of them. The humans jump up through the roof windows to fire them. Streaks hit the H-K Carrier heading their way.
The soldier on the roof yells.
SOLDIER 1
Canister 1 for bazooka!
The second soldier comes up with him and loads the bazooka, also hooked on the back.
SOLDIER 2
Ready to fire!
The canister shoots out and before we know it, hits the side of the huge H-K.
CUT TO CONNOR’S GROUP:
JAMESON fires away into the thick fog, hitting some T-400s. JOHN takes out the walkie-talkie inside of his pocket.
CONNOR
Enrique, this is Connor, over.
The CB crackles in his hands.
SALCEDA (V.O.)
Read you loud and clear, Connor.
CONNOR
Take those bombs I made for you and make a ditch. Get your people into the ditch and open fire on those bastards.
SALCEDA (V.O.)
Sure thing, Connor.
CUT TO ENRIQUE’S GROUP:
ENRIQUE sets the timer on the C4 bombs he has in his hands. TOD BURROW takes them.
BURROW
He wants a ditch, right?
SALCEDA
Right. More effective that way.
BURROW sets the bombs down and flips the switch.
BURROW
Fall back!
Immediately the group retreats behind some garbage. BOOOOOOM!
Dirt flies into the air and falls to the ground with the sound of water droplets.
CHAD CALAWAY smacks TOD’S shoulder.
CALAWAY
Not bad. Not too bad at all.
He laughs.
CUT TO RANDOM GROUP:
A HUMVEE turns around the bend and the PLASMA CANNON fires onto the same H-K. The rotating turbines explode. The H-K begins to descend onto the field. Groups of resistance soldiers scatter away.
The HUMVEE turns back around only to be fired on by a new aerial H-K unit in the area. The HUMVEE turns over on its side and explodes. The driver jumps out, his whole body engulfed in flames. Screaming can be heard as he falls on the field, burning to death.
CUT TO CONNOR’S GROUP:
GEORGIA hands the binoculars to JOHN. He peers through, studying the field and procedure of the machines.
JAMESON
Eat do you see, Connor?
CONNOR
The machines are trying to take the outside groups. Kill them off and they’ll go to the middle. We need to get everyone from the middle of the field to the sides of it.
JAMESON
Wouldn’t that be suicide? Quicker for groups to die?
CONNOR
No. More people, more effect. Less people on those sides, the more danger the middle group is going to be in. They won’t know what hit them.
JAMESON
Who is in the middle?
CONNOR
Two groups, and one of them is Enrique’s force.
JOHN picks up the CB.
CONNOR(cont’d)
Enrique?
SALCEDA (V.O.)
Yeah?
CONNOR
Pull your groups to the side.
CUT TO ENRIQUE’S GROUP:
SALCEDA
Yes sir. Come on, everybody, follow me!
ENRIQUE points the way, and his group follows.
CUT BACK TO CONNOR’S GROUP:
Plasma tracers hit the ground and onto GEORGIA’S feet. She screams in pain.
CONNOR falls to the ground, firing at the T-800 on the hill. The head pops off in the distance.
JAMESON runs to her aid.
JAMESON
You ok?
GEORGIA nods, but she’s caught unaware as a blast hits behind her. A ball of fire slowly rolls up in the air and disintegrates. A T400 H-K flies past them at high speeds, firing at a nearby TRUCK, coming across the field. A voice crackles on the CB.
CB
Connor.
JOHN raises the walkie-talkie to his mouth.
CONNOR
Yeah?
CARLOS (V.O.)
This is Carlos. I need to tell you something important.
CONNOR
What is it?
CARLOS (V.O.)
All the H-K units were designed with infrared sensors. It’s the only way it can distinguish between the living at night and day. If you create fires, it will distort the sensors and it’ll become useless to them.
JOHN nods in agreement.
CONNOR
Thanks, Carlos. Ok, guys, new plan. See the garbage down in the field?
JAMESON
Yeah?
CONNOR
Burn it. Make sure each blaze is spread out enough to where the whole field can have some space for us to maneuver around.
JAMESON
Yes, sir.
JAMESON and GEORGIA move into the field. They come up to some more soldiers and tell them the same plan. More members join up to burn.
CUT TO CARLOS AND KATE:
CARLOS sets his walkie-talkie to the side and walks to KATE.
KATE
I’m feeling a bit better.
CARLOS
You’re in no condition to get out there.
KATE
But he needs me.
CARLOS
Him seeing you again after this battle will make him fight just as hard.
KATE reluctantly agrees.
CARLOS (cont’d)
We’re going to win this one.
CUT TO RANDOM GROUP:
On a truck, a soldier unlocks the cap from his bazooka while another soldier sticks in a canister.
SOLDIER 1
Canister 4, locked and loaded.
SOLDIER 2
Prepared to fire.
With the truck bouncing up and down, SOLDIER 2 squints and tries harder to focus on the target in the sky: the T400 aerial H-K.
SOLDIER 2
(Through the aimer)
Come on, baby. Come on!
He sees the hit and his squinting eye opens wide as he fires the canister into the air. Immediately after that, it hits smack dab into the middle of the H-K, sending all its broken and burning pieces onto one of the TANK H-Ks.
A cheer rings around as the truck decelerates in front of some soldiers. SOLDIER 1 and 2 exchange some relieved looks.
CUT TO ENRIQUE’S GROUP:
CALAWAY puts down the binoculars from his eyes and turns to ENRIQUE, who is behind a burned car. CALAWAY presses up against the ditch.
CALAWAY
Sir, we’ve got more company coming our way.
SALCEDA
The robot warriors?
CALAWAY
Looks like it, sir.
SALCEDA
Fucking pain in the necks. Fire at them!
CALAWAY
Fire away.
Obviously, the group of twenty men fire upon the machines with their plasma pistols. Some get killed though throughout the procedure. One soldier gets his arm blown off because he couldn’t keep it down low enough in the ditch.
ENRIQUE fires through the cracks of the vehicle. He knocks one down.
SALCEDA
Oh, that made my day.
CALAWAY and BURROW jump up from the ditch.
BURROW
Retreat!
The group starts to run back as a loud hiss rings in the air. ENRIQUE looks up towards the sky, seeing the T1 H-K fly over. He runs away seconds later.
BLAM. The blast knocks some of them off their feet.
ENRIQUE fires up with his Plasma pistol. It hits the H-K, parts of it hitting the ground next to him.
CUT TO JAMESON’S GROUP:
Fire engulfs some broken wood in he field. We get a full shot of how many fire blazes there are. From what we see, there are fifteen of them. JOHN runs past some and to JAMESON, standing against one of the blazes he just lit.
JAMESON
You think this is enough?
CONNOR
It’ll do. Come on!
JOHN motions for the group of twenty-five to follow him through the fires.
GEORGIA begins to run as she sees JOHN, but a T-800 moves in front of her, shooting. She’s stricken three times in the chest and falls to the ground, dead.
A TANK H-K moves in front of them and they begin to scatter behind the blazes. One of the H-Ks sees CONNOR and fires at him. It strikes the side of his arm.
JAMESON
(Behind the blaze)
John, you ok?
CONNOR
Just a flesh wound. I’ll live.
JOHN unhooks the grenade from his belt and flips the pin out. Cautiously, he throws the grenade up in the air. Seconds later, the front of the TANK H-K is blown, but it keeps moving and the arms are still firing away at other soldiers.
Around the fire, JOHN moves closer to the H-K unit and rolls another grenade to the rolling track. BAM!
The track is destroyed along with the rest of the H-K unit. Coming through the fire are the T-800 endoskeletons. Some of the soldiers caught unaware are decimated by the blasts of their Plasma Rifles. One soldier begs for his life to be spared by an oncoming machine after the half of his body is blasted away. He crawls towards the fire, his intestines trailing with him.
CUT TO ENRIQUE’S GROUP:
As ENRIQUE’S force enters the field where the blazes are burning, BURROW shoots his automatic PLASMA RIFLE at the fire.
From up ahead, CALAWAY calls out in surprise of the T-800s entering the area.
CALAWAY
Tod!
BURROW is trapped by the amount of T-800s and his head is blown completely off.
ENRIQUE pushes CALAWAY back and open fires onto the group machines. He screams with honor as their bodies are dismantled by the plasma rays.
CUT TO JAMESON AND JOHN:
The plasma rays are sent through the fires, making JOHN and JAMESON fall to the ground, crawling. JOHN pulls the CB to his mouth again, speaking harshly.
CONNOR
Anybody have visual here?
No response.
CONNOR (cont’d)
Repeat. Anybody have visual?
The smoke from the fires is thickening around them. They begin to cough.
CARLOS (V.O.)
Visual here, Connor.
CONNOR
Carlos?
CARLOS
That’s right, John. Me and Kate are looking down the hill.
CONNOR
What do you see?
CUT TO CARLOS AND KATE:
Up on the hill, CARLOS gazes around the battlefield. He sees the H-K TANKS going down the left of the field.
He speaks into the walkie-talkie.
CARLOS
There’s three tank H-Ks and two T400 H-Ks. I believe all the carriers are down.
CONNOR (V.O.)
Good.
JOHN coughs.
CARLOS
The H-Ks have lost visual of you guys, but the endoskeletons are moving into the fire.
CONNOR (V.O.)
I’m well-aware of that.
CUT TO CONNOR’S GROUP:
JOHN sees the silhouette of the endoskeletons penetrating the fire.
JAMESON points his plasma pistol towards the flames, ready for the metal skeletons to take action, but the two are caught by surprise when a huge fire erupts.
Endoskeleton parts fly into the air.
Suddenly, a whole batch of explosions begin. JAMESON and JOHN stare behind them. They witness ENRIQUE’S team heading in, and they’re firing their bazookas at the machines.
JOHN smiles. ENRIQUE and CALAWAY help them up.
SALCEDA
C’mon, you’re missing the fun.
Smirking, JOHN grabs one of his plasma rifles from his shoulder. He fires into the fires, yelling.
The heavy black smoke from the fire fills the screen and then, fades away revealing an endoskeleton eye. There’s no red pupil, it has faded. The camera pans back revealing the head to be carried in the hand of JOHN CONNOR. He’s holding it up in the air, hundreds of soldiers chanting his name over and over.
He tosses the metal head into the fire and immediately the crowd cheers. Proudly, he jumps on top of some wreckage, possibly of a car.
The crowd’s noise descends in volume, and JOHN is given a chance to speak.
From up ahead, KATE and CARLOS are pushing through the crowd, and they are soon up in front of JOHN. He stares down and smiles. KATE does the same.
CONNOR (cont’d)
The machines had planned it out. They had waited for the right time to attack. They used a virus to get there. Now, thewy are attacking. They considered us ‘Predictable’. Today, they found out just how unpredictable we were!
The soldiers hoist their guns in the air.
CONNOR (cont’d)
The war isn’t over, it has just begun. And I say to you, what’s your reason for the fight? Why are you helping me? What is there to lose? This isn’t just for us, it’s for our generations after. These machines want us to die, and that’s not going to fucking happen! We will fight… and we will win the war. The costs will be great, and that’s not a reason to not fight. It’s a reason to keep going. All these men that are laying there on the soil, they are honorable! Their cause is felt. They will not be remembered on a plaque. They’ll be remembered every time we fight on the battlefield! We will not go into darkness, we will prevail. We will rise above our machines. Together we will live. Together we will fight!
JOHN steps off the wreckage, and embraces KATE. From the looks of it, she’s sobbing.
The soldiers cheer and chant, yell and scream. They’re movements are energetic. Hope has spread through the dark night, and the sun is about to rise.
12/13/2003 1:35:22 PM
(Updated: 12/13/2003 4:26:55 PM)
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