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Terminator 4: Bleak Future --Part8--
By Carnotaur3
INT. BUILDING – CHICAGO SPRINGS TOWN – DARK
A group of four soldiers are settled in a room of one of the building in the town. They are KENNEDY, SGT. MURPHY, COLMES, and HANKS. They peep through small openings to look at the view of the town and to see any indication of infiltration.
SGT. MURPHY
When they come through this town they’ll be unaware that we set something up for them.
COLMES
The machines will think something’s up with the blazes.
KENNEDY
It won’t matter; it will be a tough fight for them.
HANKS paces back and forth.
HANKS
This isn’t going to work. Are we sure they’ve taken over the satellite? Check it out.
He reaches over to the walkie-talkie.
KENNEDY
It’s no use, Hanks. They have taken it. Communications failure means battle.
Putting back the CB in its place, HANKS rubs his eyes.
COLMES
It’s just too damn quiet out there.
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EXT. ABOVE SEWER HIDEOUT – NIGHT
Skulls crush underneath the huge GROUND TACTICS H-K UNIT, as it rolls along the rough terrain. Its spotlights move randomly around the area.
FROM BEHIND THE H-K, a grenade flies from behind a mound and falls straight in back of it.
BOOM
The H-K turns quickly around and starts to shoot plasma rays onto the mound.
BEHIND THE MOUND:
JOHN and KATE wait patiently. He grabs another grenade from inside of his back pack.
BACK TO THE H-K:
As the H-K keeps firing, THE TERMINATOR comes from the hill above and opens the H-K’S back circuitry door. Seeing the tough metal security wall inside, THE TERMINATOR busts through it with his fist, then, unrolls it like it is tinfoil.
The T-850 pulls wires from the H-K unit and it seconds the firing of the machine ceases and the spotlights go blank.
JOHN and KATE run from behind the mound and meet up with THE TERMINATOR.
THE TERMINATOR
Get in. Hurry.
KATE jumps in first, then JOHN. THE TERMINATOR scans around, then, he steps into the chest of the H-K, closing the medium door.
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INT. H-K’S CHEST – DARK
JOHN and KATE are sitting on the floor of the chest, their backs up against the walls. THE TERMINATOR opens a small door and pulls out a thick chord.
CONNOR
What are you doing?
THE TERMINATOR
Hooking up into the H-K unit.
KATE
Of course, Skynet can’t tell the difference. We’ll get in easy as pie.
CONNOR
How do you know that?
THE TERMINATOR
She’s correct. Too much interference in the machine’s mechanism.
CONNOR
Well, I believe you then. Do you know what we should expect from Skynet?
THE TERMINATOR turns to him.
CONNOR (cont’d)
Uh, maybe I don’t want to know yet.
THE TERMINATOR places his arm on his leg.
THE TERMINATOR
Knife.
KATE reaches behind her shoe and reveals a switch blade. She hands it to the T-850.
The machine sticks the knife in his arm, slicing straight through. He proceeds cut a square. Afterward, THE TERMINATOR peels back the skin, and clicks the thick chord into an inlet in his arm.
THE TERMINATOR
It will take 3.7 minutes to get into the H-K’s CPU.
KATE turns to JOHN.
KATE
Are you scared, John?
CONNOR
(Without hesitation)
No. You?
KATE
Terrified.
CONNOR
Don’t be.
KATE tears up.
KATE
What if fate wants us to lose? What if fate doesn’t exist?
CONNOR
It’s time to ask yourself where you will be years from now. What do you believe? What do you see for yourself?
KATE
How do I do that?
JOHN points to his eyes.
CONNOR
Close your eyes. Imagine.
KATE does so with a glimmer of a smile forming on her face.
CONNOR (cont’d)
Now, what do you see?
KATE
I see a small comfortable house. You’re outside chopping wood. You see me and wave?
CONNOR
Where are you?
KATE
I’m on the porch. There’s a baby in my arms.
JOHN places his hand on her cheek. She opens her eyes.
CONNOR
Then, we will win the war.
She smiles joyfully.
They jump when they hear a strange sound coming from THE TERMINATOR. From his eyes, a blue beam moves right to left forming a picture of what THE TERMINATOR is seeing through the H-K. Immediately, the H-K moves towards the mountains.
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INT. CRYSTAL PEAK – BRIGHT
A siren goes off in the lobby; soldiers are running around like JUDGMENT DAY was starting all over again.
HENDRICKS
What do you see?
LANCE turns back around from the threshold of the entrance.
LANCE
Lieutenant Carlos spots them.
HENDRICKS
How many?
LANCE doesn’t say anything.
HENDRICKS (cont’d)
How many, Lieutenant?
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EXT. STEEL WALL – CRYSTAL PEAK - NIGHT
Over the walls of CRYSTAL PEAK, LIEUTENANTS PERRY and CARLOS watch dumbfounded.
Fifteen miles out, a whole line of rolling H-K UNITS and CENTURIONS are moving towards CRYSTAL PEAK.
They can’t find the end of that line.
PERRY
My God.
CARLOS
Yeah, He’s the only one that can help us now.
STONE is watching through binoculars. He pulls them down from his eyes very slowly. He’s awe struck and frightened.
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INT. BUILDING – CHICAGO SPRINGS TOWN – DARK
KENNEDY jolts back from a hole in the wall.
KENNEDY
I’ve got visual.
MURPHY pats him.
SGT. MURPHY
What do we got?
KENNEDY
It’s a tank. It’s inching its way down the square.
SGT. MURPHY
Others have probably seen this – soldier, don’t shoot unless I give you the order.
SGT. MURPHY points to another hole to where KENNEDY can place his plasma rifle and blast at it from there. MURPHY looks into the hole.
He puts up his hand in the air.
SGT. MURPHY
On my signal…
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EXT. BUILDING – NIGHT
Three soldiers stand beside a blaze watching the TANK H-K pass by. One of the soldiers up in front motions for the ones in back to stay there. He peaks around the fire, hoisting the gun towards the rolling machine.
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EXT. COLORADO TOWN – NIGHT
We know get a full view of the town’s building and the camera sweeps from window to window seeing the many guns focused on this machine coming down the town square.
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INT. BUILDING – CHICAGO SPRINGS TOWN – DARK
Everyone in the room holds their breath. COLMS braces his CROSS NECKLASS while HANKS stare blankly ahead.
COLMS
Aim for the chest, not the head.
KENNEDY
(whispering)
I know.
KENNEDY locks the aim on his rifle.
HANKS begins to sweat.
HANKS
I hope we come out of this thing alive.
SGT. MURPHY
Fire!
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EXT. COLORADO TOWN SQUARE – NIGHT
The H-K gets pelted by plasma rays, not just KENNEDY’S firing, but everyone else’s.
A soldier yells to his men.
SOLDIER
Destroy it all!
The H-K can’t even begin to aim for anything when it is dismantled by the rays and eventually damaged beyond repair.
SOLDIER 2
More coming down the street!
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INT. BUILDING – CHICAGO SPRINGS TOWN – DARK
COLMES laughs.
COLMES
They don’t know we’re in here. Everyone’s fired their rounds!
A plasma ray pelts him in the face from the wall beside them. Suddenly, three cybernetic endoskeletons break through the wall. COLMES cries out in pain but they show no mercy. They kill him off.
KENNEDY fires upon them as quickly as he can. SGT. MURPHY leaps out of the way, trying to pry the plasma pistol from his back pocket. HANKS falls to the ground and starts to crawl behind a pile of rubble.
From KENNEDY, his pistol barks back at the TERMINATORS. He manages to shoot off one of the heads and bodies. The two other ones turn to him, but HANKS sticks in two sticks of dynamite into their midsections.
KENNEDY, MURPHY, and HANKS jump out of the way when the explosion goes off sending parts of the roof falling on top of the disfigured metal objects.
Getting up from some plaster, HANKS marvels at his accomplishment.
HANKS
How about that for a little guerrilla warfare!
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EXT. COLORADO TOWN SQUARE – NIGHT
Another TANK H-K busts through a brick building right onto the street where a few soldiers had been gathering.
The body turns from side to side, shooting at the soldiers who are now running for cover. It kills eight people, then, continues to move forward towards the end of the town square.
From behind it, a dozen CENTURIONS creep over the asphalt scanning the area. CENTURIONS are a new type of H-K unit. Its body is slimmer and its head is wider. The legs of the centurion walk like spider legs, but with only four separate metal limbs.
The CENTURIONS creep around, shooting their plasma cannons like machine guns onto the fleeing humans. A rocket from a rocket launcher rams one of the spider machines and it explodes, sending pieces of it on top of the other machines.
An Aerial H-K 400 flies forward, then, lowers above the street, firing at helpless soldiers who can’t seem to retaliate at enough time.
Finally, a soldier jumps behind a pile of rubble his companion loads a rocket into the rocket launcher. The companion passes it to his other soldier, and he fires the rocket straight to one of the H-K’S turbines.
It crashes to the road.
The soldier yells victory over one H-K, knowing they will bounce back in this battle.
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INT. H-K’S CHEST – DARK
From the small right side view of the H-K image, CONNOR notices plasma beams flying.
CONNOR
Is that the town? It’s in the distance.
THE TERMINATOR zooms on the image.
THE TERMINATOR
Yes.
CONNOR
Wow, they’re really fighting it down there. Can you tell who is winning?
THE TERMINATOR
Yes. What is the soldier count?
KATE jumps in.
KATE
I believe around 12,000.
Immediately the image goes into a different color and yellow dots appear in the town.
THE TERMINATOR
They’re outnumbered.
JOHN and KATE exchange uncertain glances.
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EXT. MOUNTAIN EDGE – NIGHT
The TANK H-K rolls up the side of the mountain, and in the distance we see a town being lighted by blue streaks.
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INT. CRYSTAL PEAK – DIM
LANCE, HENDRICKS, and a few others, armed with every weapon imaginable, push open the door to the elevator, then, shut it once everyone has scrambled in. HENDRICKS pushes down the lever.
LANCE
Something to remember, guys. Be ready for anything. Imagine everything that can happen. Never underestimate the enemy at hand.
They nod at his statement as the elevator ascends up the levels of CRYSTAL PEAK.
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EXT. STEEL WALL – NIGHT
On surface path of the wall, soldiers prop up WESTINGHOUSE 25D3s around the walls, aiming it towards the oncoming line of machines.
The soldiers yell commands, everybody isn’t in a panic, but they are in a rush.
CARLOS
Put in the chargers!
STONE and FORD unload a case of chargers onto the floor. Soldiers take what they can, sticking them in the back of the PLASMA CANONS.
PERRY
Hurry, everyone!
From behind them, the doorway at the end of the wall’s top path opens revealing LANCE, HENDRICKS, and the group of soldiers. They peer over the wall seeing the machines in the distance. One of the soldiers vomits below.
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INT. H-K’S CHEST – DARK
KATE leans forward at the beamed image from the H-K and her mouth drops.
KATE
John – look.
JOHN, after charging up his phased plasma rifle, slowly lifts his eyes towards the image. There, in the drop off, surrounded by mountains, is the SKYNET base. Triangular in shape, its massive structure looks like it goes deep into the ground, and that they are only seeing the tip of the iceberg so to speak. From what material the outside surface is made out of is uncertain.
THE TERMINATOR
I have detailed files on the schematics of the facility.
JOHN ignores the statement uttered by THE TERMINATOR. He’s awed by this complex that they are coming towards.
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EXT. SKYNET FACILITY – NIGHT
As the TANK H-K in the distance rolls toward it, surrounding plasma cannons monitor movement and cautiously follow the object. They are there to mark the perimeter of the complex.
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INT. H-K’S CHEST – DARK
KATE’S eyes glimmer.
KATE
Do you suppose it goes into the ground? That’s why we never saw it.
CONNOR
Yeah.
And that was all JOHN could muster from his mouth.
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EXT. COLORADO TOWN SQUARE – NIGHT
SGT. WILLIS yells to his men, who are loosing the battle at the town square.
WILLIS
Retreat! RETREAT NOW, MEN!
As his words he utters get drowned out by the horrendously loud explosions and screaming, the group of soldiers fall back into the cluttered rubble of the town’s buildings.
RANDLE, FLASK, and JENKINS, three soldiers in SGT. WILLIS’ team, turn towards one of the buildings.
They start to crawl on the ground when an explosion pops out of the ground near to them.
RANDLE stops scrambling around and lays on his back. He turns to his companions and points to a hole inside one of the buildings.
RANDLE
There. Let’s go.
FLASK and JENKINS lowly follow him to the hole and they enter.
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INT. BASEMENT – BUILDING – DARK
They see a bright light ahead, as they move toward the center of the basement. Men are gathered at a table from what they can see, and there’s a lamp on the table.
It’s JAMESON, the man we’ve not seen for a good while, but it’s presumed he’s been keeping busy.
JAMESON
It’s not going to be any more affective as it is right now if we stay on that ground. We need to get up on these buildings. We have to do the best air raid attack we can do.
With JAMESON are HANKS, MURPHY, and KENNEDY.
KENNEDY
You’re crazy, one H-K bomb hits one of the buildings, one third of our men are dead.
JAMESON
May-be, but we need to take care of the Aerials by launcher and leave the ground units to try and get us from down there. The ground units won’t be able to reach us from building due to the rocky perimeters surrounding the roof. How many of those launchers do we have, Sergeant Murphy?
MURPHY
Roughly twelve launchers and thirty-four canisters left.
JAMESON
Sounds like enough.
KENNEDY
Eventually those ground ones will take down the building with their blasts.
JAMESON pounds on the map which is laid out on the table.
JAMESON
We don’t have much of a choice, Kennedy! Stick with the harder units first and take out the easy ones last. That’s the plan, and that’s how it will go!
KENNEDY shuts up. Maybe he didn’t understand how huge this fight was going to be.
WILLIS, FLASK, and JENKINS enter in font of them.
JAMESON (cont’d)
Who goes there?
WILLIS steps forward out from the dark.
WILLIS
Sergeant Willis - reporting for duty, sir.
JAMESON
Alright, Saddle the men up for me, will you Willis?
WILLIS salutes.
WILLIS
Yes sir.
JAMESON points to a building on the map.
JAMESON
We’ll need three men with launchers here, four there, two here, and three there. You got it? Report on roofs of the buildings too.
WILLIS salutes again.
JAMESON (cont’d)
Also, if you want, Kennedy, you can be apart of a small ground raid team.
KENNEDY
Why not.
JAMESON
We’ll need some distraction, so lead away.
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EXT. STEEL WALL – NIGHT
The soldiers on the wall are staring at the line of machines, now within a few miles from CRYSTAL PEAK. One of the young soldiers panics and yells at the top of his lungs.
YOUNG SOLDIER
NO! THERE’S TOO MANY OF THEM. WE’RE ALL GOING DOWN TONIGHT.
Some tend to agree and yell for PERRY to somehow get out of CRYSTAL PEAK and run. PERRY nods to CARLOS.
CARLOS walks to the center of the wall and bravely speaks out.
CARLOS
Men. Women. Our fears are common. Our emotions are the same. Yet, we are willing to give up, this very night, the chance to live without them!
Pointing out the line of MACHINES in front of him, CARLOS lowers his finger and speaks fluently and loudly.
CARLOS (cont’d)
Are you willing to give up the chance to tell your children, and your children’s children, that you were there that day when you fought. You were there when we won; when Humanity gained back their world. You aren’t just doing this for yourselves. You’re doing this for humanity’s existence. My children, who are in this facility are waiting for their daddy to win the war. What are your children going to think when you tell them that we lost because of you? It’s love that gets our race to where it is today. Tomorrow, we’ll be free. Tomorrow a light will be shown. Not coming from us, but coming from the sky. We’ll see day because the war will be over. Are you with me? Are you willing to take the chance and make it happen?
EVERYONE yells. A reaffirmation has swept through every soldier there. They don’t think they will win, they know it.
Suddenly, amongst all the cheer and holler, a sudden blast of plasma tracers zips past the soldiers on the wall. A woman soldier falls dead to the ground while another woman soldier gets onto the PLASMA canon igniting a full force of plasma fire into the machines below the wall.
CENTURIONS below try to hook their mechanical arachnid type of limps onto the steel wall. They attempt to climb up it. Things are getting bad now. The Aerials are showing up in the distance.
A CENTURION fires on HENDRICKS, who’s just thrown a timed bomb over the wall. The plasma tracer hits him in the shoulder. While he falls back onto the wall path, the bomb explodes over the wall and more enthusiasm of cheering is heard.
HENDRICKS, in pain though, clenches his fist and makes the sort of victory gesture one would have over a brave deed.
CUT TO A WIDE SHOT of the whole view of CRYSTAL PEAK. We now see what the resistance has. CRYSTAL PEAK is surrounded by rock to the sides and in the front are three gates and a wall that stretches around the gates and arches up a tad. The steel wall is sort of a reminder of ancient battles fought on castles.
A CLUMSY SOLDIER is carrying armory across the WALL’S PATH, and he stumbles to the floor with. It’s certain he’s doing so because of the amount of weaponry he has slung over his shoulders.
The YOUNG SOLDIER grabs two Phased Plasma Rifles from the CLUMSY SOLDIER and moves off.
A CENTURION actually makes it up the wall, but is pelted by plasma blasts into its midsection. It falls over the wall and is forced right on top of some TANK H-KS, which are trying to dismantle the wall by firing into the same exact spots over and over again.
SOLDIERS step back from the wall, as the heat and fire rise from below, rolling up the steel.
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INT. H-K’S CHEST – DARK
Through the blue H-K image, they are moving forward into an opening of the SKYNET building. JOHN CONNOR looks around inside the chest and turns towards the door.
THE TERMINATOR
No. Not yet.
JOHN freezes in his spot.
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INT. SKYNET BUILDING - BRIGHT
As the H-K TANK moves into the building’s rectangle opening, it passes by a marching group of ENDOSKELETON CYBORGS, and stops immediately.
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INT. H-K’S CHEST – DARK
KATE grabs JOHN’S shoulder, like a frightened child.
KATE
(To the Terminator)
What’s going on?
THE TERMINATOR
Other Cybernetic Organisms are to the side of us. We must wait here for them to clear out and the entrance door to shut.
CONNOR
While we wait, we need to look at the schematics.
THE TERMINATOR changes images, and the layout map of the facility immediately pops up.
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EXT. ROOF 1 – BUILDING 1- COLORADO TOWN – NIGHT
Groups of soldiers ascend up side stairs and take their positions of the roof. In the background, we see four more buildings with soldiers racing up to them.
As the soldiers with the rocket launchers motion for some others to put in the cartridges, JAMESON and MURPHY step up onto the roof.
JAMESON
Hurry, men. They see us.
The TANK H-K’S below fire at the roofs, but can’t reach the soldiers.
JENKINS
Rocket 1… fire away!
JENKINS falls back as RANDLE shoots the rocket towards a near flying Aerial 400 H-K. It hits the underside of the machine and falls to the ground in a gulf of flames.
On the rubble, T800s and T900s and walking towards the buildings, their mission is to terminate the men on those roofs.
As JENKINS goes to HANKS to put in a cartridge for him, an ASSUALT T700 H-K suddenly lifts up from below right in front of them. This is similar to the CARRIER only no cage, numerous PLASMA CANNONS, and a few more spotlights attached to the underside of it.
JENKINS freezes with fright.
HANKS
Someone, shoot the damn thing. I have no time!
The H-K begins to turn toward the building like a huge animal with so much weight it has to take it slowly to twist around.
JAMESON runs desperately and grabs a rocket launcher that already has a cartridge in it. He puts it on his shoulder and starts to aim.
From behind JAMESON, a soldier begins to run. A T800 is coming from the staircase and firing at the poor soldier. He wants to fire back but he can’t seem to do it with tracers coming from all sides. The soldier trips on JAMESON as he fires the rocket.
The rocket misses the T700 ASSAULT H-K and blows up in the air.
JAMESON
NO! OH FUCK!
The H-K is finally facing them, and blasts its plasma rays all over the roof. Soldiers scramble in all directions. Some are taken out, but others leap right behind some rocky objects.
JAMESON is stunned and watches as an H-K bomber releases its missile to the side of the building, knocking out part of the structure.
MURPHY grabs a hold of his phased plasma rifle and begins to fire right into the group of T800s and T900s, but by then it was too late, the building collapses with no structural support on the side that the explosion damaged.
Everyone on the roof screams.
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EXT. ROOF 2 – BUILDING 2 - COLORADO TOWN – NIGHT
On the next roof, SGT. WILLIS, FLASK, and the rest of the group watch in horror the building next to them fall. FLASK glances but goes right back to his PLASMA CANNON and starts to pelt the TANKS below.
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INT. CONFERENCE ROOM – CRYSTAL PEAK – BRIGHT
The only one in a chair in this room is LIEUTENANT FORSYTHE. He’s hearing the numerous sounds of bombs and firing coming from outside. He’s sort of in a trance. This was not what he wanted.
FORSYTHE
Damn you, John. Damn you.
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INT. LOBBY – CRYSTAL PEAK - BRIGHT
In the lobby next to the CONFERENCE ROOM, soldiers are running around. One soldier stares at FORSYTHE. We can see him thinking of this guy as coward.
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INT. CIVILLION HIDEOUT – CRYSTAL PEAK – DIM
Thousands of people are on the floors of the CIVILLION hideout. These are the people who don’t fight in the wars. Most of the population are children and a small percentage are adults, which watch over them. Some soldiers are hanging in there too.
A child whispers in a soldier’s ear.
CHILD
My daddy’s up there.
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3/19/2004 2:13:54 PM
(Updated: 3/19/2004 4:48:53 PM)
(Updated: 3/21/2004 10:00:54 PM)
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