Trancendence
Why did you take me there?
WILL
It’s a safe place. It’s home.
EVELYN
I didn’t know. You just needed to show me. I believe you, now ••• I know it’ s you …
Will gets a soft smile. They stand there, close.
A shadow forms in the light. Evelyn looks down at where they touch. The energy in her arms fills with shadow. A darkness in the light. The virus.
EVELYN (CONT’D)
Will, I’ve done something. Please let me go.
will looks down and sees the shadows slither into him. Evelyn watches the dull black of the virus begin to overtake his light. It streams out, in tendrils, in all directions •••
WILL
Evelyn. What did you do?
EVELYN
I’m sorry… I didn’t know ••.
I/E. THE DESERT DREAM HOTEL – DAY
Max pulls the bag of C4 with him. The hybrids enter the room. Max scrambles back. Hits a wall. The hybrids surround him.
The hybrids, as if hearing a silent alarm, stop. They go tense. Max looks down at his restraints. Small FISSURES form in the graphite. The restraints begin to CRUMBLE. He pulls his arms apart. Free.
The hybrids begin to STUMBLE. Max stands. One by one, the hybrids fall. Nanotechnology begins seeping out of them.
Max pushes outside, where-
Bob and Bree pull free of the CRUMBLING nanotechnology.
MAX
The virus. It’s working.
BREE Let’s blow shit up.
The three race for the facility.
liE. WILL’S CONSCIOUSNESS/WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
Evelyn sees more of the blackness coursing out of her and into Will. The virus fills him. He looks at her, anguished.
WILL
I can feel it. Infecting everything •..
Frantic, she grabs him tighter. As she does, more of the darkness floods into him.
EXT. WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
Max, Bree and Bob sprint through the facility. All around them, the nanotechnology CHURNS in a frenzy. It crystalizes and fragments into dust. They enter the processor building.
INT. WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
Max tosses Bob bricks of C4. Bob sets them. Bree follows, rolling trigger wire and plugging in detonators.
Max glances at the walls – FLASHING with will’s thoughts – he slows as he realizes most of the images are of Evelyn.
I/E. WILL’S CONSCIOUSNESS/WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
Evelyn watches the shadows of the virus dim everything in will. Everything in her. She winces in pain. She looks down and finds her wound has turned black.
WILL
The nanotechnology is dying. without it, I can’t heal you.
EXT. VARIOUS LOCATIONS ON THE BATTLEFIELD – DAY
Joseph KICKS his way out of the cube. Stands. Makes his way down the hill. All around him, Militants and Soldiers escape from their nanotechnology restraints. Stephens breaks free from the graphite cocoon.
STEPHENS Get to the facility!
Everyone starts making their way through town.
Allover the battlefield, the hybrids lay still. Graphite streams out of them, and dies.
They are left in the condition they were in before being augmented with nanotechnology. Human and vulnerable.
I/E. WILL’S CONSCIOUSNESS/WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
Evelyn’s WRACKED by another pain. will reaches toward her wound. The blackness streams out of her. Her wound starts streaming blood again. Will, weeping graphite, calls to-
WILL
Max!
INT. WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
As Max sets the last of the explosives, Will’s avatar fills the walls. There’s STATIC. Will’s image FLICKERS in and out.
WILL’S AVATAR
Max! Help me! She’s dying! I can’t save her!
Max slows. Unsure.
WILL’S AVATAR (CONT’D) You have to help her! Please!
Bree, seeing Max standing there, grabs him and shakes him.
BREE Don’t listen!
Bob pulls Max as Bree runs the trigger wire outside.
EXT. WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
Max, Bree and Bob take cover. Bob readies the detonator. will’s avatar fills the wall of the building. Max can’t ignore the sheer panic and anguish in will’s plea-
WILL’S AVATAR
Max! You promised me you would protect her!
Max goes absolutely still. Max squints at Will’s avatar ~n the walls, like he can barely recognize-
MAX
.•. Will’?
Bob presses the detonator. The building QUAKES with internal explosions. The ceiling collapses. The walls cave in. Will’s facility turns into a mess of fire, smoke, and debris.
lIE. WILL’S CONSCIOUSNESS/WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
Evelyn, dying, watches as the last of Will’s light is snuffed out by the virus. He looks at her. Gentle.
WILL You are my life.
A DARK SHOCK-WAVE blasts out of him. Everything bright in this world goes dark. The blackness radiates over the valley and beyond. A black void. A silent nothing.
EXT. PLANET EARTH
We fly into the dark side of the planet. Below us, we see the glimmering of artificial light over the major cities of the world. One by one, they all go black. The world is plunged into darkness.
EXT. WILL’S FACILITY – DAY
Evelyn’s eyes open. She’s back in her body. Blood pours out of her wound. She’s holding will’s hand. His body bleeds nanotechnology. His eyes open slightly.
Hands GRABS her. Turn her. Check her vitals. It’s Max, trying to save her life. When he sees her wound, he slows.
EVELYN
Max, I’m staying with him.
She turns back to will. They make eye contact. The life fading from them, they try to cherish every detail before •..
They die. Hands intertwined. Their still, lifeless eyes starting into each other.
Max, staring at them through his tears, doesn’t look away.
EXT. BRIGHTWOOD STREETS – DAY
Joseph and Stephens, walking toward the facility, look around at their troops. They’re battered and bruised, but they’re all standing. They’re all alive.
JOSEPH
My God. He didn’t kill any of us.
Even the hybrids are alive. All of them. They’ve reverted back to their original states. Roger is paralyzed. Paul cannot see.
EXT. DESERT VALLEY – DAY
The town is silent. The ruins of will’s facility smolder. The sea of nanotechnology has turned to dust. The desert breeze blows through, carrying it away ••.
FADE TO:
INT. DATA CENTER, BOSTON – DAY
An endless row of computer servers stand lifeless and dark. Illuminated only by a long row of skylights above. There is no power. Two men walk through. Max, in dirty jeans and a stained coat. Joseph is ungroomed. They take in the dark building, still as a tomb.
JOSEPH
