Trancendence
She stands. Ready for what is to come.
INT. CAVERN COMPUTER LABORATORY – DAY
Evelyn watches Max mix water into the dead nanotechnology. He pulls the solution into a syringe. She rolls up her sleeve.
Max finds a vein on Evelyn’s arm. Injects the virus.
Tender, he starts rolling her sleeve back down. She lets him. He takes his time. He buttons her sleeve into place. They make eye contact.
EXT. RIFT CAMP – DAY
The entire camp is MOBILIZING. MILITANTS and SOLDIERS prepare trucks, artillery and weapons for the attack.
Max and Joseph walk Evelyn to a pickup, She takes the wheel. Nothing needs to be said. She drives to the perimeter of the cage. The RIFT GUARDS let her through.
Max and Joseph watch her go.
INT. CAVERN WAR ROOM – DAY
Max and Colonel Stephens lean over maps of will’s swath of desert. Joseph, Bree, Bob, and OFFICERS huddle around.
COLONEL STEPHENS
Our weapons are simple. Cannons, bullets and explosives. We’ll have radio silence until the battle is over so keep to your time lines. Keep your teams focused.
MAX
We only have to hold out long enough for the virus to hit. So fight.
Everyone moves out.
EXT. RIFT CAMP PERIMETER – DAY
In an old truck, Bob drives Max and Bree. The convoy behind them transports ARTILLERY and INFANTRY. The MILITARY TROOPS and RIFT MILITANTS mix together.
The vehicles SPLASH through a puddle of muddy water. In it, there are small tendrils of graphite.
EXT. WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
Will’s hologram sees the coming assault. At a silent signal, the hybrids stop their work. They form a perimeter around the facility, standing at the edge of the sea of nanotechnology.
EXT. DESERT HILLS OUTSIDE OF BRIGHTWOOD – DAWN
Max’s army takes position. They set up a long line of HOWITZER ARTILLERY CANNONS, aimed toward will’s facility.
Max checks his harpoon gun and quiver of ammo.
Bob lifts a baseball bat he’s wrapped with needles from multiple stun guns. The wires run into battery packs on his belt. He shoves the STUN BAT into a sheath on his back.
Bree, Colonel Stephens, and Joseph make adjustments to gear.
EXT. BRIGHTWOOD – DAWN
Transport trucks enter the town. Infantry, carrying weapons and gear, spread out over the main street. They lay EXPLOSIVES. position MORTARS.
EXT. DESERT HILLS OUTSIDE OF THE TOWN – DAWN
Max lifts binoculars. He has a clear line of sight down MAIN STREET, where his people prepare. He tracks through the town, past the TOWN HALL, the DESERT DREAM HOTEL, and settles his attention on WILL’S FACILITY.
He sees the hybrids. Row after row of them, people of all ages and races, still as statues. Stephens eyes them, too.
COLONEL STEPHENS Why aren’t they attacking?
Max scans the sea of nanotechnology. At the northern shore of it, he finds the headlights of Evelyn’s pickup.
MAX
Maybe it doesn’t want to risk putting Evelyn in danger.
I/E. EVELYN’S TRUCK/SEA OF NANOTECHNOLOGY – DAY
Evelyn pulls to a stop at the edge of the dark sea. Glancing left, she sees the army taking positions on the edge of town.
She faces will’s facility, on the other side of the sea of nanotechnology. She looks at the calm sea, blocking her path.
The nanotechnology begins to SHIFT .•• and the sea of parts. It forms a narrow path, wide enough for her truck. A clear line to the facility.
She shoves her truck into drive, and rolls into the sea •.. in her REAR VIEW MIRROR, she sees the path closing behind her. She breathes, trying to stay calm .••
EXT. DESERT HILLS OUTSIDE OF THE TOWN – DAY
Max watches Evelyn’s truck cross the sea .••
EXT. WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
Evelyn drives out of the sea. The path behind her CRASHES shut.’ She stops. Climbs out of the pickUp.
stillness. She watches the statuesque hybrids for a sign of threat. Their population has grown, perhaps the entire citizenship of the town. They ignore her. She looks for-
EVELYN
Will?
Nothing. She weaves through the hybrids, making her way to the facility’s entrance. She looks up at a security camera.
EVELYN (CONT’D) Will? I’m here. I’m back.
The door to the facility opens. The silhouette of a man appears. Evelyn catches her breath as she sees-
will Caster. Whole and healthy. Flesh and blood. Her husband.
Evelyn’s face contorts with terror and devotion.
EVELYN (CONT’D)
My God … This is impossible •..
As he approaches, she tries to contain her feelings. She takes in his face. His perfect imperfections.
EVELYN (CONT’D) will … What did you do?
WILL
I found a way back to you.
She can’t resist it anymore. She darts toward him, wraps him in her arms, and weeps.
EXT. DESERT HILLS OUTSIDE OF THE TOWN – DAY
Max and Bree watch through their binoculars.
BREE
What is that? Is that him?
MAX
It’s everything she wants but, no, it’s not him.
EXT. WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
Evelyn, eyes shut, realizes he’s not returning her embrace.
He watches her. Wary. Distrustful. In his sad, suspicious eyes, she sees bits of graphite. She steps back.
EVELYN You’re a hybrid.
WILL
Yes. Why did you come back?
Evelyn unconsciously touches where she injected the virus. will watches. Evelyn realizes her tell. Corrects it.
EVELYN
Max. He’s about to attack.
Will glances at the military buildup on the far side of town.
WILL
I know. You need to leave now.
Evelyn, conflicted, steels herself to the task at hand.
EVELYN
I left you once. I’m not leaving you again.
WILL
You’ll die if you stay here.
EVELYN
Not if I became like you. You said you wanted to upload me. I realize, now, I want that, too.
He studies her, inscrutable. Waiting for more information.
EVELYN (CONT’D)
I was wrong to leave you. I was afraid.
Evelyn looks into herself, and touches her grief.
EVELYN (CONT’D)
I can’t live without you. Alone. lIm not leaving you again. I want to be with you. I’m ready to be a part of you.
