Trancendence
will’s eyes narrow in fury. He faces Max’s army, SCREAMING in rage and agony.
EXT. WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
Paul, Roger, Carla, Glen … every single one of the hybrids turn toward Max.
EXT. DESERT RIDGE – DAY
Max sees, through the binoculars, every single hybrid, hundreds of them, staring right at him. They’re furious. Max swallows whatever just caught in his throat.
MAX Here they come.
EXT. WILL’S FACILITY/BRIGHTWOOD – DAY
The hybrids CHARGE. Running faster than humanly possible. LEAPING from the roofs of the buildings.
MORTAR TEAMS and infantry with RPGs fire into the hybrids. BOOM. BOOM. Explosives slow down the hybrids. Some fall, but most reach the infantry and fall into close combat.
EXT. MAIN STREET – DAY
– A hybrid LEAPS to a mortar’s position. It grabs the weapon, BASHES the surrounding soldiers, and CRUSHES the mortar.
– A hybrid BARRELS for a squad, dodging the HARPOONS they FIRE. The men drop behind a car to reload. The hybrid SLIDES the car out of the way and CRACKS the soldiers unconscious.
– A SQUAD of eight men fire into hybrids from behind a low wall. Two hybrids CRASH through it and BLUDGEON the squad.
EXT. DESERT RIDGE – DAY
Max watches the infantry being overrun. He focuses on will’s facility, where will holds Evelyn. A SOLDIER races past him. A MILITANT shoves by. Max realizes the ENTIRE ARMY is sprinting toward the town. He turns-
A MASSIVE WAVE OF NANOTECHNOLOGY CRASHES into the remaining artillery. It CRUSHES the last cannons ••• PULLS men under its current •.• and moves directly for .•• Joseph.
Joseph starts to run, but the graphite REACHES OUT – GRABS Joseph – and TENTACLES of the graphite material pin him to the ground.
Max moves to save Joseph, but Bree and Bob grab him. And run.
EXT. WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
will focuses on Evelyn. He cradles her in his arms. Tender. She touches his face.
will looks into his hand. Nanotechnology seeps out of his skin and pools in his palm. He pours it onto her wound. She makes a weak, fearful MOAN.
WILL
It will take some time, but it will heal you.
EVELYN’S POV of will’s face. Calm and comforting.
WILL (CONT’D) Don’t worry. I have you.
We FLY, at LIGHT SPEED, into will’s PUPIL and thrust into his universe ••• we see everything he does. The perspective of every hybrid, every processor, security camera, speck of nanotechnology .••
ON EVELYN awed by the transcendent experience of glimpsing the vast scope of Will’s mind.
EXT. MAIN STREET – DAY
Max, Bree, Bob and Stephens take cover among the vehicles stationed on the outskirts of town. Max checks the state of the facility. Craters, smoke, fires .•• But the structures still stand.
MAX
The machine is uploading the virus. We have to blow those processing centers and slow it down.
B~E
How? We lost our artillery.
All along Main Street, the battle rages. Bullets, explosions, and hybrids swarming everywhere. Max, looking for options, points to the surrounding vehicles.
MAX
We drive explosives into the facility. Detonate everything.
Bob and Bree nod. Stephens runs back along the line, barking orders. Troops climb into four old trucks.
Max, Bob and Bree load themselves with gear. Max shoves C4 into a kit bag. Bree stuffs EMF grenades into a bandolier. Bob arms himself with an RPG and spare rockets. They scramble into an old Bronco, leading the small convoy.
I/E. WILL’S CONSCIOUSNESS/WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
Evelyn’s eyes open. will shines with radiant light. She finds the liquid saturating her wound shines like will.
EVELYN
It’s incredible. This is your network?
WILL Part of it.
The SOUNDS OF BATTLE bring her back to the mission at hand.
EVELYN
I want you to connect me to everything.
will gets a sad smile.
WILL
You’re talking to me like a computer again.
EVELYN
I ••• I just want to see you. The whole of you. Please?
will nods. Closes his eyes. A PULSE OF ENERGY shoots out of him. It flies in all directions, illuminating everything in its wake.
The light cascades over the facility. The buildings ignite with energy. As it waves over the valley, the nanotechnology fills with energy. Each of the hybrids ILLUMINATE, becoming bright as stars.
The wave of energy circles the entire Earth. Every aspect of will, the world over, shines bright with sentient thought.
Large parts of the world are dim, but around the major hubs of human civilization, Will’s awareness blazes with life.
ON EVELYN who can barely process what she’s seeing •.• She faces the world, awed, scanning the horizon of this world.
EVELYN (CONT’D) I can see ••• Everything ..•
Evelyn spots something beyond the horizon.
EVELYN (CONT’D) What’s that?
EVELYN’S POV races, at the speed of light, over deserts, cities, hills, and stops, in a SATELLITE VIEW, to hover over-
A patch BLACKNESS in the shining world. Part of the mountains has been redacted from her vision.
ON EVELYN AND WILL seeing hundreds of miles away with the ease of looking across a room.
EVELYN (CONT’D) Why can’t I see there?
WILL
That’s the RIFT Camp. They’re blocking my signal.
EXT. MAIN STREET/THE CONVOY – DAY
The convoy of four old vehicles moves out.
IN THE BRONCO: Bob leans out a window with his RPG. Max secures the bag of C4 and readies his harpoon gun. Bree readies an EMP grenade •.•
SCREAMS from behind them. Max shoves his head out the window and looks back.
AT THE END OF THE CONVOY: the flanking nanotechnology spreads over the TRUCK at the end of the convoy. Soldiers escape as the nanotechnology DISASSEMBLES the vehicle.
MAX
Let’s go 1
Bree SLAMS the accelerator … Max looks into the side-mirror and sees ••• Nanotechnology LIFT and CRUSH another vehicle.
Max looks in front of them ••• where the hybrids are charging.
Bob FIRES his RPG. The EMP grenade ROCKETS into the enemy’s charge. BOOM. Hybrids fly in all directions from the blast. still more come.
Max leans out the window and FIRES a harpoon. Drops one. Bree lobs an EMP grenade. BOOM. More hybrids fall.
EXT. MAIN STREET/TOWN HALL – DAY
A DOZEN HYBRIDS see Max’s success. Sharing a wordless communication, they leap into activity and fill the street with large debris – old CRT monitors, TVs, computers, and an old telephone booth.
I/E. HUMVEE/MAIN STREET – DAY
Max and Bree see the hybrids piling debris.
MAX
They’re making a roadblock.
She accelerates, ROARING the humvee faster. Max gives a look.
BREE
Fuck it.
Bob, seeing she intends to breach the roadblock, straps in.
OUTSIDE: The hybrids, seeing the Bronco about to ram into them, calmly walk out of danger. We hear the BEEP-BEEP-BEEP of a LARGE TRUCK, backing up .••
IN THE BRONCO: Max and Bree go stiff as the LARGE TRUCK moves to reinforce the roadblock. They brace themselves as-
They SLAM through the barrier, only to IMPACT the truck – CRASH – it stops them, dead.
IN THE BROCO: Max, groggy, is dimly aware of MOVEMENT. He lifts his harpoon gun – FIRES – one of the hybrids goes down.
