THE MATRIX V 3.03
EPSIODE 5 : LOVE AND WAR
BY ROBERT ‘CHOI’ BOEHM
b4483@alltel.net
FADE IN TO:
INT. NOSTRADAMUS MAIN DECK
The main deck is dark, only the light from the control monitors aluminates
the room. Tachyon is at work at the
operators station. After he is done he
walks over to a loading chair, sits down and straps in his legs. He lays down and reaches for the jack. He grabs it and with two hands he rams it
into the back of his neck. Tachyon in
obvious agony reaches back, presses ‘LOAD’ on the chairs console screen, and
goes limp.
FADE TO WHITE
FADE IN TO:
EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING (NIGHT)
A woman exits the apartment complex.
The exterior is dimly lit from the street lights. The woman is Satin, she begins to walk down
the street. Tachyon steps out from a
dark corner behind Satin; of course wearing sunglasses.
TACHYON
Hello Sara; it’s been awhile.
Satin, startled; she turns around.
SATIN
Hello? Who’s there?
Tachyon underneath a street light and removes his glasses. Satin is dumbfounded.
SATIN
Gary? – Is that you?
TACHYON (GARY)
Yes.
Satin walks over to Tachyon.
SATIN (SARA)
Where have you been? You just disappeared. God, how long as it been. Everybody thought you were dead.
TACHYON (GARY)
It’s been nine years, but where
I’ve been isn’t important anymore.
SATIN (SARA)
I never had the opportunity to
explain myself.
TACHYON (GARY)
That’s okay. It’s not important now either.
SATIN (SARA)
Well then, what is important.
TACHYON (GARY)
That I still love you.
SATIN (SARA)
Gary, I still think about you,
but it’s been a long time. I’m sorry,
but I’ve gotten over you.
TACHYON (GARY)
I know, but did you ever
believe that this day would ever come?
SATIN (SARA)
I believed you were dead Gary.
Tachyon’s cell phone beeps.
TACHYON (GARY)
I’m out of time Sara. There are things that I want to show you,
but you have to want to see them first.
May I contact you in the future.
SATIN (SARA)
Yes.
Tachyon smiles and places his hand on her cheek.
TACHYON (GARY)
I like what you’ve don’t with
your hair.
Satin smiles in return.
TACHYON (GARY)
Sweet dreams Sara.
Tachyon puts on his sunglasses, backs away, and disappears into the
shadows. Satin turns around and walks
away.
FADE TO:
EXT ALLEY
Tachyon is running down an alley.
At the end of the alley is a street with a payphone. As Tachyon approaches the end of the alley
the phone begins to ring. Tachyon stops
at the payphone.
TACHYON
Just in time.
Tachyon quickley looks both ways, nobody is around. He picks up the receiver, places it on his
ear, and dematerializes.
FADE TO:
INT NOSTRADAMUS MAIN DECK
Tachyon wakes up in his chair.
He reaches for the plug and pulls it out of his neck and sits up and
looks around the room. Nobody has seen
what he has done. He stands up and
proceeds to turn off the equipment.
FADE TO BLACK
FADE IN TO:
INT. NOSTRADAMUS CABIN
Talon is lying in her bed. He
eyes open and she stretches her arms over her head; yawning. She throws off her covers and gets out of
bed. She is only wearing panties and a
long sleeve shirt cropped of just below her breasts. She stands up and locks her hands together above her head,
standing on her tip-toes, and lets out a yawn.
She then walks over to a shelf
where she grabs a sweater and pulls it on, then grabs a pair of pants, steps
into them, then proceeds out the door.
INT. NOSTRADAMUS HALL
We follow Talon down the hallway to the galley. Xandara is sitting there finishing her
breakfast.
INT. NOSTRADAMUS GALLEY
XANDARA
Morning Talon
TALON
Good morning Xandara.
Talon grabs a bowl and pours a meal for herself, then grabs a spoon,
sits down at the table and begins to eat.
XANDARA
Three more days and we’ll be
eating the sweet Zion wheat.
TALON
I can almost taste it. – How’s
the forecast in the sewers been?
XANDARA
I haven’t picked up a single
squid on radar for days. I guess I
should be relieved, but I’m starting to get worried. I like to at least see them so I know where not to go.
TALON
It will be alright. This isn’t the longest cold spell I’ve been
in. We’ve been getting enough action in
the Matrix as of late. We don’t need
any more excitement out here.
Talon finishes her breakfast.
TALON
Care to load me up for some
target practice?
XANDARA
My pleasure.
FADE IN TO:
INT. CONSTRUCT
Talon is standing in the construct.
She is wearing blue camo pants and a black long sleeve shirt with
sunglasses that are half-smoked. She has
is holding a silenced Uzi, has two 45’s holstered to her chest, a knife bound
to her left hip, and a fanny pack clipped on backwards.
TALON
Load the Murmansk map.
EXT. MURMANSK BASE (SIMULATION)
A snow covered tundra fades into existence miles below Talon’s feet
and rises up beneath her. She is on the
slope of a mountain over looking a naval base to the north. The sun just beginning to rise from the east
over the ocean and it is lightly snowing.
There are three large warehouses on the bases west perimeter. The main entrance to the base is on the
north side. The barracks are along the south eastern perimeter and there are
dry-docks to the north eastern side of the base. There is a two story building in the center of the base that apperas
to be the command center.
XANDARA (V.O.)
Talon, your mission – should you
choose to accept, is infiltrate Murmansk naval base and locate the underwater
dry-dock, and destroy the prototype submarine that is located there. This message will self destruct in five
seconds.
Talon quickly starts to descend down the mountain.
XANDARA (V.O.)
Boom!
Talon grins and shakes her head.
She approaches the perimeter fence, The south eastern warehouse is just
behind it. She retrieves a pair of wire
cutters from her pack, then quickly cuts a small gap in the fence, spreads it
open and slips through; quickly running up next to the warehouse for
cover. She sneaks to the edge of the
warehouse and notices a guard approaching from the side of the warehouse. Talon draws out her knife and waits for the
guard to approach the corner. As soon
as she sees the guards foot she darts out from the corner and slices the guards
throat instantly killing him. The guard
falls to the ground and dissolves away in matrix code. Talon replaces her knife in it’s
holster. There is a door to the
warehouse around the corner which Talon enters.
INT MURMANSK WAREHOUSE (SIMULATION)
Once inside the warehouse there are some crates for Talon to hide
behind. She makes her way through the
labyrinth of crates over to the catwalk, silently dismembering any guards that
get in her way. She scales some crates
and jumps over to the catwalk, then makes her way to a door along the northern
side of the building and exits out to an overpass which connects the southern
warehouse to the central warehouse.
Talon runs across the overpass and jumps up on to the central warehouses
roof.
EXT. MURMANSK COMMAND CENTER (SIMULATION)
Once on the roof she runs east and jumps a long gap over to the
command center roof, somersaulting on her landing and quickly proceeding to the
stairwell entrance. Talon opens the
stairwell door, and alarm sounds
TALON
Now’s when the fun begins.
INT. MURMANSK COMMAND CENTER (SIMULATION)
Talon jumps all the way down through the center of the stairwell, creating
a ripple effect on impact. A door in
front of her reading “B3” opens. Two
guards run out of the door, Talon quickly wastes them with her Uzi and runs
through the door into a small room before it closes. There is a third guard in that room that begins to fire at
Talon. She quickly dodges out of the
way and shoot him between the eyes. The
guard dissolves away just like the rest, but this time a keycard is left in his
place. Talon walks over and picks up
the card.
TALON
If only it were this easy in
the Matrix.
The only other door in this room is a thick iron door, just to the
right of the door is a card reader.
Talon takes her newly acquired keycard and swipes it though the reader,
and the door begins to open. It opens
onto a catwalk surrounding an underground hanger. In the center of the hanger is a large glass chamber which holds
an incomplete submarine. There are
doors on the sides of the hanger that lead to offices. As soon as Talon enters the hanger guards
are alerted to her presence.
INT. UNDERGROUND HANGER (SIMULATION)
Talon quickly wastes the guards on the catwalk then jumps down to the
hanger floor, tossing aside her Uzi and pulling out her 45’s. Several guards on the hanger floor attack
Talon, but with no avail as they all soon disappear into matrix code as Talon’s
bullets rip through them. After all
threat is eliminated Talon proceeds over to the glass dry-dock, using her key
card. Once in the dry-dock she
retrieves a timed explosive from her pack, sets the timer to three minutes and
places it on the center of the submarine.
Talon then exits the dry-dock, then runs and jumps up on to the catwalk
and exits the hanger. Talon opens the
door the door to the stairwell and is shocked to see Carnan standing there with
his gun drawn right at her.
CARNAN
Game on.
Carnan winks as he pulls the trigger.
Just as the bullet is about to rip into Talon’s body she fades away in
matrix code and reappears in the construct.
INT. CONSTRUCT
XANDARA (V.O.)
Have fun?
TALON
Not yet.
XANDARA (V.O.)
I’ll
get him back for you.
INT. NOSTRADAMUS MAIN DECK
Xandara is working on the controls, we see Arbiter, Tachyon, Aquanis,
and Carnan all jacked in their seats.
INT. CONSTRUCT
Talon drops her clips in her 45’s, grabs two fresh ones, and loads
them in to her guns.
XANDARA (V.O.)
Ok, ready when you are.
Talon fires a round into the air and disappears in matrix code.
INT STAIRWELL (SIMULATION)
Carnan is running up the stairs as matrix code consumes his body and
Talon appears where he was.
INT. CONSTRUCT
Carnan appears.
CARNAN
What the hell was that?
XANDARA (V.O.)
It’s called a telegram, That’s
what campers get on my watch.
CARNAN
Whatever.
Carnan fires his pistol and disappears.
INT. CONSTRUCT
Carnan is standing in the Construct, he loads up a machine gun and
fires a round in the air. The Murmansk
Base appears miles below his feet. As
the base begins to rush up below his feet we see a small war going on between
the crew of the Nostradamus. Carnan
lands on a ship docked at the south-eastern end of the base, as soon as his
feet touch the ground he begins running toward the action.
EXT. MURMANSK NAVAL BASE (SIMULATION)
Carnan approaches the end of the boat and jumps off of it. Arbiter is running across the base below
Carnan. The two begin to fire apon one
another when the command center explodes in a massive fireball, bringing it
down to the ground. The camera slows
down to bullet-time and starts to
travel in a semi-circle horizontally around the command center from Carnan, traveling
westward. We see Talon flying through
the air as she has just jumped out of a window from the command center. As Talon is flying through the air her
attention is caught by Tachyon as he runs across the warehouse rooftops. Talon draws our her 45’s and begins firing
upon Tachyon. The camera continues
rotating around the fireball and we see Aquanis running south from the main
gate. The camera rotates around the
back of Aquanis and regains normal-time, she is wielding a rocket launcher in
one hand. As the dust from the command
center clears she sees Carnan land just in front of Arbiter. She fires a rocket right inbetween the two,
it explodes. Both Arbiter and Carnan
fly backwards and disappear in matrix code.
AQUANIS (Smiling)
Double Frag
Suddenly Tachyon jumps right over Aquanis from the Warehouse
rooftop. He fires his assult rifle upon
her, bestowing her the same fate that she gave Arbiter and Carnan. As Tachyon lands a knife flies right into
his back, causing him to fade away in matrix code. The camera turns to reveal Talon as the slayer, she disappears in
code.
INT. NOSTRADAMUS MAIN DECK
Everybody is awaking from the simulation. Phase and Xandara are there unplugging everybody.
AQUANIS
Over so soon?
ARBITER
We have work to do. Signat needs to drain before we head back to
Zion. Briefing in the war room in 15
minutes.
FADE TO BLACK
To Be Continued.