SHRIKE: Sixty minutes is all it took
for the Ancients to bring humanity to the brink of extinction.
Those who survived mobilized their settlements
to begin life anew upon a poisoned Earth.
In the hunt for food and fuel,
the weak perished,
and the strong grew ever more powerful.
Until a new age arose.
The Age of the Great Predator Cities of the West.
(BUZZING) (HEAVY BREATHING)
(WIND WHOOSHING)
(GASPING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Two.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER AND LAUGHTER)
(PANTING)
LOOKOUT: (THROUGH SPEAKERS) Predator! Predator City! Six miles and closing!
(ALARM BLARING) (PANTING)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
BURGERMEISTER: Hurry! Fire up the engines!
Move it, Dietrich! Fire them up!
DIETRICH: Crank all engines! Come on! Come on!
DIETRICH: Engine one is down!
Switch to auxiliaries!
(ENGINE SPUTTERING)
Hurry! Hurry!
(CROWD CHEERING)
Start them up!
Full throttle!
(INDISTINCT YELLING)
(ENGINE REVVING)
(GRUNTS)
(MEN CLAMORING)
(GRUNTS)
Full power! (GRUNTS)
(ALL CHEERING)
MAN: Yeah!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON PA)
WORKER: Lord Mayor on deck.
Lord Mayor. Mr. Valentine. What have we got?
Small Bavarian mining town, powered by C20 land engines.
Usual store of brick, coal and iron.
And 75 tons of salt.
Barely enough fuel to last us a week.
We've left the safety of Britain, we've crossed the land bridge, for what?
To feed upon the scraps of Europe.
Run it down. CHIEF NAVIGATOR: Aye, aye, sir.
(ENGINE REVVING)
(GRUNTS)
They're gaining on us!
Empty the silos. All of them!
Do it!
(MEN CLAMORING)
(GASPS)
(ALL CHEERING)
(ALL BOOING)
It's madness out there.
You'd think they'd never seen a chase before.
Well, it has been a while, sir.
Morning, Clytie. Morning, Dr. Pomeroy.
The news is not good from The Hall of Ceramics.
I'm afraid we've suffered some casualties.
Damn these bloody vibrations! (RUMBLING)
Oh! Steady on, Arkie!
No, no, no. Don't worry about me!
We're about to lose our American deities!
KATHERINE: Excuse me, Dr. Pomeroy.
Good morning, Miss Valentine.
I've been waiting outside the Manuscripts Room for quite some time.
Your 9 o'clock?
I do apologize.
This is not good enough.
Where the hell is Tom?
TOM: Coming through!
(ALL CHANTING)
Whoa!
Watch it, bud! Sorry.
(CHUCKLES, GROANS)
Sorry. Sorry.
(GRUNTING AND PANTING)
(CROWD CHANTING)
Give me everything you have!
(GRUNTS)
They're heading for the foothills. Stay on course.
Sir... Stay on course.
(GRUNTS) (PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(GRUNTING)
Take the shot.
MAN: Incoming!
(MEN GROANING)
(ALL CHEERING)
Well done, everyone!
Prepare to ingest. CHIEF NAVIGATOR: Aye, aye, sir!
(WHIRRING)
(PANTING)
Ah, Mr. Natsworthy! Nice of you to join us.
I'm so sorry I'm late, sir.
You look nice. Have you had a haircut?
I don't want to hear it, Tom. Is that a new cologne?
You're already on your third warning. This is your last.
ANNOUNCER: (ON PA) Citizens of Salzhaken, welcome to London.
Bring only your personal possessions with you.
Old tech is to be deposited in the bins provided.
Citizens of Salzhaken, welcome to London.
TOM: So, you're studying the end of the Ancients?
KATHERINE: What I really need are firsthand accounts of the Sixty-Minute War.
Journals, books, personal papers.
Very few written records survived during that period.
It may very well be they forgot how to read and write altogether.
But if it's the Sixty-Minute War you're after, follow me.
Just give us a minute.
Strange to think this is what it looked like.
Twenty-first century? Yep.
KATHERINE: It's so different.
That's what happens when the Earth's crust gets shattered into 1,000 pieces.
Check this out.
Did you make this? (CHUCKLES) Yeah. Bits of old scrap tech I found.
The power system was a little bit tricky,
but luckily, I got my man Matthew there limbered up and ready to go.
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
This is what I wanted to show you.
(GASPS)
(KATHERINE GASPS)
TOM: It's a Quantum Energy weapon.
There were dozens of them, all over the globe.
My God.
They called it Medusa.
How can a society so advanced, so scientific, be so stupid?
Well, no more stupid than people today. They just had far worse weapons.
And far more sophisticated control systems.
What a nightmare.
Well, the Ancients felt the same way. That's why they created this little fella.
A crash drive to shut down the weapon.
Doesn't this stuff creep you out? Let me tell you something.
We come across dangerous tech
that's in way better condition than this junk all the time.
Now, I've noticed that pieces have started to go missing.
I notified my boss, who notified his boss, and of course nothing happened,
so I decided to take a few precautions of my own.
(EXHALES)
TOM: All of it is viable weapons-grade tech.
KATHERINE: God help us. The next time we cross the marshlands,
I'm tossing the entire bloody lot over the side.
Just let it sink to the bottom of a swamp where no one will ever find it.
HERBERT: Miss Valentine! You should have told me you were coming.
I would have laid something on for you.
Hello, Herbert.
What are you still doing here, Natsworthy? You're on Gut Duty.
No, I'm assisting Miss Valentine.
Not anymore. You've been demoted. What?
Uh, by who? By me.
You're just a skivvy from the lower tiers with no family and no prospects.
If those dim-witted Spanner-heads beat you to the bins again,
you'll be back to cleaning the bogs.
Chop-chop.
Well, it's been lovely chatting. I have to go.
(SCOFFING) It's rush hour. He'll never make it.
Wait! Tom!
(SIGHS)
Tom! Wait! I can get you down there.
You what? I can get you down there.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
ANNOUNCER: (ON PA) Citizens of Salzhaken, welcome to London.
(ALL GROANING) Bring only your personal possessions with you.
Old tech is to be deposited in the bins provided.
Okay.
Excuse me. Sorry.
Really? On you go.
Sorry about that.
TOM: And that's it? We're through? KATHERINE: Just like that.
ANNOUNCER: Stay in your allocated line.
Possession of any form of weapon is strictly prohibited.
Hold up. Hold up. What's this, then? We'll have that.
ANNOUNCER: Incomers failing to follow instructions will be detained.
(ALL CLAMORING)
(WHIRRING)
So what's the rush?
Well, gotta get down there, and go through all the artifacts
taken off the Catch.
And anything of historical importance goes to the Museum.
But if I'm late,
the Gut workers shovel everything into the furnaces.
All they care about is feeding the beast.
(LOUD THUMPING)
ANNOUNCER:...failing to follow instructions will be detained.
No weapons allowed. MAN: You cannot do this!
Are you stupid? No weapons!
ANNOUNCER: Be aware, children may be temporarily separated from parents.
(BEEPING)
MAN: (ON PA) Nether Borough Station.
Disembark here for Digestion Yards, Incomer Processing and Main Engine Rooms.
Mind the drop.
They still haven't caught her? Who, Anna Fang?
TOM: Yeah. Bloody Anti-tractionists.
Should be locked up, in my opinion.
Next one. Move it. What about you, eh? What are you hiding?
Yeah, all right. Go through. Next.
ANNOUNCER: Incomers failing to follow instructions will be detained.
All belongings must be presented...
We're the enemy. Anti-tractionists loathe everything we stand for.
Yeah, what, like progress?
It's not progress, not to them. To them, our way of life is unsustainable.
They see Tractionism as a... Oh!
KATHERINE: Oh! (GASPS)
Bevis! Mate, your tools are all over the floor! (CHUCKLES)
I'm so sorry.
You all right, Tom? On bins again?
Yeah. What are you doing down here?
Waste chute maintenance. I got it. Just leave it.
I really am sorry. I didn't see you.
Why would you?
Bevis, this is Katherine...
Yeah, I know who she is. I'll catch you later.
TOM: No, no, no, you don't!
Stop! No! Stop! Stop!
That is a Sunbeam TA200. That's a classic radiant-controlled
double-slice toaster with automatic bread ejection.
We have to...
And you've lost the knob!
Oh, for Quirke's sake.
VALENTINE: Someone knows their small appliances.
Here.
Very, very nice.
I've dug up a few of these in my time, but none as good as this.
Couple of small dents, a little bit of tarnishing.
Springs gone, but they always are. Yeah, well...
That is far better than anything in the Museum's current collection.
Well done.
That's high praise coming from you, sir.
You know, I just want to say I've read all your books.
Oh, don't encourage him. His head's quite big enough.
(LAUGHS)
Hi, Dad.
(GASPS)
Kate, what are you doing here?
I thought you were going to the Museum.
I did. That's where I bumped into Tom.
Tom?
Tom Natsworthy, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
I knew your parents.
They were lovely people. First-class Historians, both.
I thought you had plans to be an Aviator.
Oh, yeah, I was. But then I gave it all up.
I mean, history's more my thing, sir.
KATHERINE: I'm surprised they called you down here for such a small Catch.
Don't underestimate what's buried out there in the salt flats.
These mining towns have a way of digging up really interesting...
Old tech.
No way! What is that?
That is a fusion inverter cell.
Incredibly rare and really dangerous.
Do you know the Guild of Engineers
nicked all the ones we had in store at the Museum
just a few months ago?
Pomeroy was furious.
Well, they won't get their hands on this one.
I'll make sure it's disposed of properly.
Engineers, eh, they think they run the place.
They don't know what they're playing with.
Fire.
Sorry?
They're playing with fire.
I said get your hands off!
(ALL CLAMORING)
(GRUNTING) (GROANING)
VALENTINE: Oye!
What's going on?
Take this gentleman to the medics.
I want that man on a charge.
Move it.
VALENTINE: That should never have happened,
you all deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
You will be given food, shelter and employment.
A chance to build a future, make a new life.
(ALL APPLAUDING)
Hey! Watch out!
HESTER: Valentine.
This is for my mother. (GRUNTS)
(GROANS)
This is for Pandora Shaw.
(GASPS)
Dad!
(GROANS)
(GRUNTING)
No!
(GRUNTING)
(ALARM BLARING) (GASPS)
(EXHALES)
(CLAMORING)
MAN 1: They're down here!
MAN 2: Hey, you!
No! Stop her!
MAN 3: Hey, come back here! Stop!
Get out of the way!
(GRUNTS)
(GROANS)
Dad!
Stay here.
(PANTING) (GRUNTS)
(GRUNTS, PANTS)
(WHIRRING)
(PANTING)
(GROANS)
No! Wait!
(GRUNTS)
Come on! Come on!
(PANTS)
(GASPING)
No!
(GROANS) (GASPING)
I've got you. Let go of me!
VALENTINE: Tom!
Tom!
Look at me! Look at me.
This is what he does when you get in his way.
Ask him why he murdered my mother.
Ask him about Hester Shaw.
(BOTH GRUNTING)
No! No!
(PANTING)
I tried. I tried to stop her.
It's not your fault.
She was saying the craziest things, and then she just...
What did she say?
You need a doctor. No, no. What did she say, Tom?
She said you murdered her mother.
Murder?
That's an ugly word.
I'm sorry you had to hear that.
Yeah.
(SIGHS)
I should go.
Yeah. You should.
(SCREAMING)
KATHERINE: Dad!
Dad!
It's all right. It's all right. I'm okay. I'll be okay. I'm okay.
Kate, I'm sorry. There was nothing I could do.
What do you mean? They were fighting. Tom and the girl.
(GASPS) The railing broke.
(LOUD THUMPING)
I'm sorry about Tom.
I really am.
We have airships out there looking.
If he's alive, we'll find him.
What is it? The girl, who was she?
Honestly, I don't know.
Been wondering about that myself.
But she knew you.
I have never seen her in my life before.
I thought maybe she was an Anti-tractionist.
God knows they hate us enough.
(SIGHS)
I know you want to believe that Traction Cities and Static Settlements
can live together in peace, but it'll never happen.
You don't know that.
Then why do they hide behind the Shield Wall hoarding their resources?
They mean to see us starve out here, Kate.
Never underestimate their will to destroy us.
There'll never be peace with Shan Guo.
This is ruined. I'll get rid of it.
(WHIRRING)
(WHOOSHING)
(GASPING)
(GROANING)
Oh, my head!
(COUGHING)
What?
(GASPS)
(GROANS)
Wait!
(COUGHING)
What's going on?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hang on! Hang on! You can't just leave me here!
HESTER: You shouldn't have followed me.
I didn't follow you. I fell.
He pushed me.
Hey!
Wait!
(GRUNTING)
Oh, for Quirke's sake.
Oye!
I'm talking to you. Hello?
What am I supposed to do, eh?
Where am I supposed to go? I need to get back on London.
Six months. Six months it took me to get on that city.
I had one shot at Valentine!
And you ruined it.
Okay, all right. All right.
(GRUNTS)
(SIGHS)
I have money. No, you don't.
(SIGHS)
Please, please, help me get back on London.
Help me find a trading town, you'll never see me again.
CROME: We're running low on food, fuel, basic resources.
We can't survive out here much longer.
We should never have gone into Europe. Biggest mistake we ever made.
We have other options.
Ah, yes. Your long-awaited energy project.
It'll work. I've heard that before.
I just need a little more time. Always so sure of yourself.
Thaddeus Valentine, the great Archeologist.
Man of the people. One of the reasons I took you in,
why I allowed an Outsider from nowhere to have power above his station.
But my patience is wearing thin.
I raised you up...
I can tear you down.
(BUZZES)
How can you stand him?
He's afraid.
He's trying to hang on to a way of life that doesn't exist anymore.
Municipal Darwinism.
It's a dying system. Prey has all but gone.
Soon there'll be nothing left.
I'm trying to build this city a future, but Crome's stuck in the past.
Where are you going? Dad, you can't go to work!
VALENTINE: I'm fine, Kate.
KATHERINE: You're not fine. You're injured. You need to rest.
I've spent 15 years developing this power system.
I'm not having Magnus Crome or Hester Shaw stop me now.
Who's Hester Shaw?
No one.
No one you know.
(TOM AND HESTER GRUNTING)
TOM: Could you slow down, please?
HESTER: You wanna find a trading town? Keep moving.
(TOM SIGHING)
TOM: My feet hurt. Get used to it.
That's what I like about you. Your boundless sense of empathy.
What did you say? Nothing.
You're right. Look, I talk too much.
Especially when I'm nervous. I'm not gonna talk anymore.
Zipped.
No more talking.
Don't worry about me.
I'm more than capable of looking after myself.
Might surprise you to learn that I was gonna be an Aviator.
I have a faultless sense of direction.
HESTER: All right.
Which way?
Oh.
My navigational instincts tell me...
We should go...
That way.
That way. Definitely.
Those tracks head south.
Yeah.
You never head south in the Outlands.
Not ever.
VALENTINE: I reconfigured the metrics.
You can amplify the magnetic resonance using materials on hand.
What else do you need? Several more weeks.
Unless you can find me more old tech.
All the old tech comes to you.
I'll need more than one to stabilize the isotopes.
Make it work.
I hear you suffered an injury this morning.
You never told me Pandora Shaw had a daughter.
She could be a problem.
She won't stop until I'm dead.
Unless you kill her first.
I received a message from Sharkmoor Prison this morning.
They claim to have captured a Stalker.
One of the Resurrected. A bounty-killer gone rogue.
Well, it's no use to us. Too hard to control.
They say it was hunting something.
Or someone.
It appears the two of you share a common interest.
This thing is so fixated on its prey,
all it does is pound the walls of its cell,
shrieking her name.
Hester Shaw.
Where to, boss? Sharkmoor Prison.
No fires.
Unless you want every Scav Town from here to Rustwater to find us.
(SIGHS)
That doesn't look clean enough to wash in. I wouldn't...
(SLURPING)
Oh, my God! That's disgusting!
Thirst will kill you before hunger.
Ugh!
It's either this or you can drink your own urine.
I'll take my chances.
"Best before 2118"?
It's an Inkie.
It's over 1,000 years old.
Doesn't matter. The food of the Ancients never goes off. It's indestructible.
(SIGHS)
It's so quiet out here. Doesn't that bother you?
I like the quiet.
I grew up with the sound of engines.
I've never known anything else.
It's funny, you know. I've spent my whole life dreaming of getting off London,
seeing the world.
And now I'm out here talking about drinking my own urine.
(SCOFFS)
Careful what you wish for, eh? I thought you wanted to be an Aviator.
Oh, I did. But then my parents died.
Eight years ago now.
When Tier Four collapsed in the Big Tilt.
(SIGHS)
Yeah.
What about you? How old were you when your mother died?
We're not gonna do this. Do what?
We're not gonna tell each other our sad stories.
I can't help you.
And you can't help me.
(SIGHS)
(PANTING, GROANING)
(SCREAMING)
(GASPING)
(CREAKING IN DISTANCE)
TOM: Hello!
Hello! Over here!
Tom! Hey!
Get down!
It's a trading town. Look! Look! Look! Look!
(MEN SHOUTING IN DISTANCE)
Look!
(CREAKING)
HESTER: Oh, God.
They're Southies!
(LOUD THUDS)
(GASPS, GRUNTS)
(GRUNTING)
(BOTH GASPING)
That was close. Too close. Get off me!
HESTER: Run!
(CREAKING)
(GRUNTING)
What the hell are Southies?
Scavs on a night hunt.
What are they hunting?
Us.
(CREAKING) (MEN SHOUTING)
(BOTH PANTING)
(GRUNTING)
(GROANS)
(GRUNTING)
(HARPOONS FIRING)
(SCREAMS)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
I've got you.
Come on!
(PANTS)
Hester?
Hester!
(MEN YELLING INDISTINCTLY)
(YELLS)
Are you in one piece? Yes.
(SHUSHING) (RUMBLING)
(MEN YELLING IN DISTANCE)
(PANTING)
(GROANING)
Couple more seconds and you'd have been fender meat!
Lucky for you we was here.
(HISSING)
How bad is it?
(WHIRRING)
(HISSING)
(RUMBLING)
(GROANS)
She needs a doctor!
No quacks here! Not on Scuttlebutt.
Could you take us to the nearest town?
Chipping Sodbury! That'd be the nearest, wouldn't you say, Mr. Wreyland?
I would, my love.
Well, go on then, set a heading north. We must look after our guests.
Tea?
Don't mind if I do.
I make it myself. The algae's fresh.
(SIGHS) It's actually not bad. It's not bad! Bottoms up!
Funny you should say that.
We grow it in the run-off under the sewage room.
(GAGS, SPITS)
Oh!
Nasty. That's gonna leave a scar.
You don't need any more of those, do you, Petal?
(LOUD THUMPING)
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER PA)
Bevis! Bevis Pod! I need to speak to you.
I can't help you.
The girl that attacked my father...
I don't know what you're talking about.
What do you mean? You were there. You saw what happened.
Are you trying to get me arrested?
The first rule down here is "keep your mouth shut."
My father's in some kind of trouble. He's lying to me. I need to know why.
Your father lies to a lot of people.
What's that supposed to mean?
Please. I just wanna know the truth. No, you don't.
I promise you, my father's a good man. No, just stop. Stop.
He pushed him. Your father pushed Tom off the city.
Why? Why would he do that to Tom?
Because he got in the way.
BEVIS: It's a lie. A cover-up.
They're building something in there.
Something they don't want anyone to see.
I tried to get inside, but there are guards at every entrance.
There's no way in.
What if there was?
(WHIRRING)
MRS. WREYLAND: Here we are then.
It's not the Lord Mayor's suite at the Boggy Regis,
but it's better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick.
(CHUCKLES)
(BOTH PANTING)
Make yourselves at home.
I'll be back bright and early to empty your slops.
Thank you.
Not much of a talker, is she? Your girlfriend.
Oh, no, no, no, no. She's not my girlfriend.
Of course not! Handsome boy like you, you can do much better.
All right. Well, good night, Mrs. Wreyland.
Oh, dear! There I go putting my foot in it!
I didn't mean... No, I know what you meant.
You take the bed. I'll take the...
(TOM SIGHS)
Floor.
(GROANS)
(SIGHS)
This is all my fault.
I'm sorry.
I was eight.
I was eight years old when my mother died.
She was an Archeologist.
She loved traveling the world
and digging up the past.
(BOTH CHUCKLING)
They're beautiful.
(ENGINE ROARING)
HESTER: He used to visit all the time.
(VALENTINE LAUGHS)
HESTER: He'd spend hours poring over the things that she had found.
(YOUNG HESTER GIGGLING)
Then one day,
everything changed.
She'd found something, on one of her digs in Lost America.
Something he wanted.
(GASPS) Pandora, what are you doing?
No. No.
What was it?
I don't know.
VALENTINE: Stop this! Don't do this! PANDORA: Let go of me!
VALENTINE: I'm taking it! PANDORA: No!
(GRUNTS)
(GROANS)
(SCREAMS)
(YOUNG HESTER SOBBING)
Mama! Hester, take this.
Keep it safe.
(VALENTINE GRUNTING)
YOUNG HESTER: Mama!
But he killed her for it.
(GROANS)
(GRUNTING)
(SCREAMING)
(GRUNTING)
(SCREAMING)
Run, Hester!
Hester!
HESTER: He would have killed me, too.
(WHIMPERING SOFTLY)
But I got away.
(THUNDER BREAKING)
PIERREPOINT: We caught it on the edge of the Marshlands.
It had torn apart a whole town, murdered them all.
I lost a dozen good men bringing it in.
(SHRIKE HOWLING)
There've always been rumors that a few had survived,
the ones that turned rogue after the Nomad Wars.
But I never thought I'd live to see one in the flesh.
(POUNDING ON METAL)
Not that there's much of that left.
(POUNDING CONTINUES)
SHRIKE: Hester!
(POUNDING ON METAL)
(GROWLING)
(POUNDING STOPS)
The last of the Lazarus Brigade.
Resurrected from the sleep of death.
(GASPS) SHRIKE: I do not sleep!
No, you've been hunting her, haven't you?
Hunting Hester Shaw.
Why?
(CLUNKING)
Answer me.
She broke her promise.
(POUNDING ON METAL)
(HOWLING)
What happens when you find her?
What happens when you find Hester Shaw?
I will kill her.
(WHIRRING)
VAMBRACE: Are you sure about this?
There's no telling what that thing might do.
I know exactly what it will do.
Hold it steady.
(BEEPING)
(CREAKING)
(EXPLOSIONS IN DISTANCE)
(SCREECHING)
(GASPING)
Oh. What's wrong?
We've changed direction. We're heading south.
Get the door.
It's locked!
(GRUNTS) We're locked in.
(SIGHS)
Must be something around here.
All right. Maybe.
You have my knife?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE)
(GRUNTING)
(HESTER GROANS)
(PANTING)
(CLUNKING)
If we climb along that ducting, we can jump from the back.
It's not more than, like, 20 feet.
(SIGHS) I can't. Yes, you can.
No, I can't. I'll never make the jump.
You will. I'll help you.
Head due north.
There's a Way Station called Ramskate. You can catch an Air-freighter from there.
(WOMAN SCREAMING) (WHIP CRACKS)
MR. WREYLAND: Move it! Go!
Fine!
MR. WREYLAND: Ah! Stop your sniveling.
(GASPING)
MAN: Help!
(CLATTERING)
What are you waiting for? Go!
(WOMAN YELPS)
MR. WREYLAND: Come here. Come here.
(INDISTINCT YELLING)
Time to check out, folks.
Out you come.
(WOMAN WHIMPERING)
Move it!
(MEN CLAMORING)
That was your chance!
I couldn't do it. I couldn't leave you.
Well, then you're a fool. I would have left you.
(SIGHS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
STIGWOOD: Ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to Rustwater Market. (CACKLING)
STIGWOOD: This next item is a vintage piece! (LAUGHTER)
Now, she may look a little tatty around the edges,
but she's a little ripper!
(LAUGHTER)
So, who'll give me 12 quirkes?
(ALL LAUGHING, DISAGREEING) Aye?
Oh, come on!
Last chance to secure this genuine antique!
10 quirkes, or I'm chucking her in.
Two! Sold!
(LAUGHTER)
Next!
(CROWD EXCLAIMING)
STIGWOOD: Stone the crows!
Full disclosure to my valued clients at the back.
This one is a real swamp donkey and priced accordingly.
Do I have 10 quirkes? Three!
STIGWOOD: Oh, you stingy bastard, De Groot. You can do better than that.
I'm fully aware of the exorbitant margins currently enjoyed
by the sausage-making sector.
Hester! Stay still!
Five quirkes and she's yours!
Four. Four quirkes to my left. Do I hear five?
Hester! Shut up!
Cheer up, love.
You'll look considerably better as a roll of salami.
Going once, going twice...
WOMAN: Fifty!
STIGWOOD: An unregistered bidder.
Please, approach the stage.
Fifty quirkes for this soggy dollop
is an extraordinarily generous offer, madam.
Normally, that would be enough to make me self-pollinate. (SCATTERED LAUGHTER)
But my problem is this.
50 quirkes is not 50,000 quirkes.
Get to the point. Well, it's quite simple really.
There is a bounty on your head, Miss Fang.
So, either you pay me 50,000 quirkes for the girlie,
or I claim it from the authorities when I hand you in.
(CHUCKLES) Why don't we settle this with "buy it now"?
(GASPING)
(WOMAN SCREAMS) (CROWD EXCLAIMS)
Hester! Come!
(MEN GROANING)
Wait! Hester!
Hurry!
(GROANS) (DINGS)
(GASPS)
(GASPING)
See, I knew you wouldn't leave me. Shut up and run.
(GASPS)
This way!
(WHIRRING)
Whoa!
(GRUNTING)
(SCREAMS)
(SCREECHING)
That's a Resurrected Man.
Shrike.
His name is Shrike.
You made me a promise, Hester Shaw.
Now you must keep it.
Go, now! Run! This way!
(GRUNTING)
HESTER: Come on!
(ALL GRUNTING)
(WHIRRING)
(YELLING)
(GRUNTS)
(GROANS)
Hester! Come on!
(HESTER GRUNTS)
(BOTH GRUNT)
Come on!
(WHIRRING)
(SIGHS)
Hester!
(ENGINE ROARING)
Get on!
I've got you!
Wait! Leave him!
(FOOTSTEPS THUDDING)
Tom!
(GRUNTS)
(TOM SHOUTS)
Cut the rope! Do it!
Catch!
(GRUNTS)
(CRACKLING)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(BOTH SIGH)
(WIND WHOOSHING)
Where are you taking us? Just stay behind me. I'll handle this.
(SIGHS)
How? How exactly will you handle it?
Easy, all right? Just...
I'm just messing with you.
Sit down. Both of you.
That means you, too, City Boy. Sit.
You're injured.
(WINCES)
(HISSING)
HESTER: You saved our lives.
Why?
You don't trust anybody, do you?
Just like your mother.
You look like her, too.
You knew her?
Pandora Shaw was the bravest woman I ever met.
After she died, I looked for you.
I looked for a long time.
Like everybody else, I thought you were dead.
When I heard you were alive, made me wonder...
How did an 8-year-old girl survive all alone in the Outlands?
Now I know.
(GASPS SOFTLY)
You were raised by that corpse.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Actually, I do. I've studied them. No, you don't.
You've studied them? I know a lot about the Resurrected.
You don't know anything about him.
The people who created them were insane.
Off the charts crazy!
They took all the worst parts of themselves...
Shut up.
...all the savagery, cruelty and hatred
and poured it into these machines! These monsters!
Shut up! He saved my life.
You're an idiot.
Mr. Valentine! Not now.
I'm sure you know who I am. No, I don't.
Herbert Melliphant.
Your daughter's a very good friend of mine.
No, she's not.
Sir, I have something that may be of interest to you.
A cache of old tech. High quality. Military grade.
I'm overdue a promotion myself.
I'm thinking a university post, or an honorary degree.
A position with a title.
You have a supply of old tech?
Where is it?
(SIGHS)
(WIND WHOOSHING)
Shrike saved my life.
(GROANING)
(WHEEZING)
(FOOTSTEPS THUDDING)
(MUSIC BOX PLAYING OUT OF TUNE)
(WHIRRING)
HESTER: He took me in.
He looked after me...
(WHIMPERS) In his own way.
SHRIKE: Eat.
The living must eat.
(GASPS)
HESTER: He liked to collect things.
Broken things.
Things that others had thrown away.
I think he saw in those strange machines
a reflection of himself.
Where is his heart?
It has no heart.
Like me.
HESTER: I think somewhere deep inside a memory remained.
A memory from another life.
I think he had a family once.
(FOOTSTEPS THUDDING)
SHRIKE: You are sad.
Always sad, Hester Shaw.
Your heart is broken.
I will take away the pain.
(GASPING)
I will remake you,
as I was remade.
You're gonna kill me.
For a little while.
I made him a promise.
I would become like him.
My flesh, steel.
My nerves, wire.
My mind wiped clean.
No thoughts. No!
HESTER: No feelings. No!
Nothing.
I would be free.
If that's what you wanted, why did you leave?
Because six months ago, London crossed the land bridge
and Thaddeus Valentine came within my reach.
SHRIKE: Hester!
(GROWLING)
(SCREECHING)
That's it.
That's my sad story.
Where are we going?
Have you heard of The Cat's Cradle?
BEVIS: The Cat's Cradle? I thought it was a myth.
KATHERINE: It's not a myth.
It was built by the Scriven in the first days of London.
It's the sort of thing Historians know about and everyone else has forgotten.
DR. POMEROY: You're too late.
Dr. Pomeroy?
DR. POMEROY: They came in this morning.
A couple of thugs from the Guild of Engineers.
I tried to stop them. They knocked me to the ground.
They knew what they were looking for.
They cleaned the place out. Took it all to St. Paul's.
(CLANKING)
DR. POMEROY: There are over 1,000 stairs in the Cradle.
Turn upon turn.
But eventually they lead to the crypt beneath St. Paul's.
Be careful, child.
Whatever it is they are doing in that church
has nothing to do with God.
(DOOR CLOSES)
(CLICKS)
Hold her steady for a second.
Uh... Uh-huh.
(SIGHS)
(ENGINE ROARING)
Not bad.
You've done this before? Yeah. A bit.
ANNA: Good. You can take her in.
TOM: Take her in where?
MAN: (ON RADIO) You are cleared for landing, Jenny Haniver.
Dock seven. Welcome to Airhaven.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(IN ENGLISH) What are they saying?
Captain Khora was just offering to buy you dinner.
Weren't you, Captain?
Sure. Why not?
DR. TWIX: Magnetic resonance is climbing. Holding at full capacity.
All systems are active. She's ready.
It will all be for nothing unless we act now.
London must turn east.
CHIEF NAVIGATOR: New bearing confirmed, 90 degrees.
Coordinates set. 51 degrees north by 71 degrees east.
Why are we altering course?
We're executing the new order, sir.
Whose order?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
Windflower.
(ENGINE ROARING)
(DOOR OPENS)
Whoa. What's going on?
They're the Ruh-shan. The Anti-Traction League of Shan Guo.
This is about my mother, isn't it?
Before she died, Pandora found something.
Something dangerous.
She was afraid of Valentine, of what he might do.
She said if anything should happen to her, I was to find you.
That you could stop him.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Think. Think hard. You must remember.
He took something from her.
What? What did he take?
A piece of old tech.
What kind of old tech? I don't know.
She was eight years old. She doesn't remember.
Then perhaps you can help us, Londoner.
Hey! Hey!
Get off me! Get off!
What are they building in that cathedral?
(DOOR CREAKS)
Six months ago, Valentine started buying up
fusion inverter cells from Scav traders.
Wait! Fusion inverters? You know something?
No, that's impossible. He'd have had to have found...
That piece of old tech that Valentine took from your mother,
did it have a symbol on it? Like...
Like this.
Yes.
TOM: Your mother found a computer core.
The control system of a Quantum Energy weapon.
(WHIRRING)
MEDUSA: Medusa is live.
Go! Go! Go! Go!
How do we shut it down? TOM: You don't.
Well, not without the crash drive.
(SPEAKS OTHER LANGUAGE)
It's a type of key.
A kill switch that overrides the firing sequence.
Once it's initiated, the weapon would self-destruct.
This key, does London have it?
No, it will be long gone. Lost.
Why should we care about those barbarians?
Let Valentine burn every Traction City from here to the Ice Wastes.
He didn't come here looking for prey. Valentine has another target in mind.
You dare countermand an order of the Lord Mayor?
My God.
VALENTINE: Nothing can stand in the face of this.
Not the battle-hammers of Arkangel, not the howitzers of Panzerstadt.
Not even the guns of the Anti-tractionists.
In the great game of survival, this is checkmate.
London's heading east. They're moving at speed towards Shan Guo!
I last saw them near the Tannhauser Mountains.
They will have reached the Eastern Plateau by now.
How much time do we have? A few hours at most.
CROME: You mean to go to war?
You cannot ignore the lessons of the past as if they count for nothing.
There are no lessons to be learned from the past.
History doesn't care. It is dead.
This is the future.
The man who controls this controls the world.
Is there no end to your ambition?
You control nothing.
Shut this down!
I want all codes and operational controls
handed in to my office immediately.
Didn't you hear me?
I said...
(DOOR CRANKING)
You cling to the past as if it can save you.
You're a relic of a dying age. A dinosaur.
What does that make you?
Me?
I'm the meteor.
(GASPING)
Katherine, come on. Come on!
No! No! Katherine!
You can't go back.
I know he's your father.
You have to let him go.
He's not my father.
Not anymore.
They're gonna attack the Shield Wall. Get word to Governor Kwan.
(GENERATOR POWERS DOWN)
MAN 1: (IN DISTANCE) Hey!
WOMAN 1: Hey! MAN 2: Check the fuel line!
Power's out everywhere.
What is it? What's going on?
It's a diversion. WOMAN 2: Fire!
HESTER: To create chaos. MAN 3: Fire!
(WOMAN 3 SHRIEKS)
Shrike is here.
(PEOPLE CLAMORING IN DISTANCE)
(FOOTSTEPS THUDDING) (GASPS)
Hester Shaw.
(GRUNTING)
Shrike, get out! No! No! Stop shooting!
Anna! Get off of me!
(GRUNTS, SCREAMS)
HESTER: Stop! Stop!
Shrike, no! Anna, no!
(GRUNTING)
(GROWLING) (SCREAMING)
(ALL GRUNTING)
(YELLING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
(MEN SCREAMING)
(YELLING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
(GRUNTS)
Get to the Jenny! Now!
Go! Go!
Hester!
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
TOM: Watch out!
(ALL GRUNTING)
(SCREAMING)
(GRUNTING)
(GROANING)
(HISSES)
Nils!
Get down!
(BEEPING)
(GROWLS)
(BEEPING RAPIDLY)
(SHRIKE GROANS)
Everybody, move!
(ALL CLAMORING)
MAN: (ON PA) All Aviators, evacuate now. I repeat, evacuate now!
(EXPLOSIONS IN DISTANCE)
(SHRIKE SCREECHING)
Come on!
(ALL SCREAMING)
This way!
(MAN YELLING INDISTINCTLY)
(BOTH GASP)
Hester.
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(YELLING)
(CHOKING)
(GASPS) (GROANS)
Tom! No! No! Stop! Stop, Shrike!
Stop! You're gonna kill him!
You will not remember him.
No. I'm the one.
I'm the one you came for.
Let him go. (SOBS) Let him live.
You are crying.
He hurt you! No!
He can't die! He can't!
He can't!
(GROWLING)
He can't.
(CRACKLING)
(GRUNTS)
(WHEEZES)
You...
You love him?
(SNIFFLING)
(GROANS)
(GASPING)
Shrike?
(WHIRRING)
(GROANS)
(POWERING DOWN)
No! No, Shrike!
(GASPING)
(SOBBING)
(GROANS)
This belongs to you.
I release you
from your promise,
Hester
Shaw.
(LAUGHS)
Shrike.
(GASPS)
(POWERING DOWN)
Shrike!
(METAL CREAKING)
(EXPLOSIONS)
(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
(CHUCKLES)
(LAUGHS)
(GIGGLES)
(GASPS)
(WHIRRING)
VALENTINE: The world is changing.
London must now look beyond Municipal Darwinism
and move into a new age.
Tonight, we set a course for the savage heartland
of the Anti-Traction League.
The Shield Wall of Shan Guo
and the lands beyond will become our new hunting ground.
(ALL CHEERING)
(SIGHS)
VALENTINE: For centuries, Traction Cities have attempted to breach the Wall.
Their rotting carcasses lie at its base.
But that will not be our fate.
Tonight, London is going to demonstrate its new power.
A power that will sweep all before it.
Tonight, we take the fight to Shan Guo.
(ALL CHEERING)
(RUMBLING)
MAN: (THROUGH SPEAKERS) Hold your formation on approach, Jenny Haniver.
Welcome home, Windflower.
Windflower?
I was once kept as a slave on the Ice City of Arkangel.
I vowed never to be owned by another again.
I made my friends swear an oath.
When this body is done,
throw my ashes to the wind.
And I can face anything, even death, as long as my spirit is free.
The Allied Fleet.
The great Defenders of the East.
(MEN YELLING INDISTINCTLY)
KHORA: Governor Kwan is waiting.
(WHIRRING)
London is fast approaching.
Governor...
Launch the fleet. We cannot wait.
What are you suggesting? A preemptive strike?
Destroy Medusa before it destroys us.
No, no, no. You can't do that. What choice do we have?
We didn't start this, but we will finish it.
Hang on a minute. All right? Listen to me. There has to be another way!
There are thousands of innocent people on that city. They don't deserve to die!
No. They do not. Nor do we seek to harm the innocent.
Understand, life is precious to the Shan Guonese.
So believe me when I say this...
If there was another way,
I would take it.
No. It's my home.
Summon Fleet Command.
We strike first.
(SIREN BLARING)
Tom.
(ALL MURMURING)
(ALL CLAMORING)
MEDUSA: Entering enemy kill zone in six minutes and 39 seconds.
Raise it up!
(POWERING UP)
(CREAKING)
We target the searchlights. Take out their forward defenses.
London's gun turrets are deadly. Don't underestimate them.
We'll have to destroy all fixed artillery to access the cathedral.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Get them into the air. Now!
(ALL CLAMORING)
HESTER: Tom!
Tom! Wait!
(ALL CHEERING)
What have they done?
(POWERING UP)
Confirm target coordinates.
MEDUSA: Coordinates confirmed. Target is locked.
(PRAYING INDISTINCTLY)
(INDISTINCT YELLING)
Tom!
(PANTING)
MEDUSA: Initiate firing sequence.
(CRACKLING)
Tom!
I have it.
Where did you get this?
Go dark.
They're preparing to fire.
Sound the alarm! Everybody off the Wall!
Run!
(SIREN BLARING) (BELL RINGING)
(ALL CLAMORING)
We need to find Anna.
Now, Twix.
(POWERING UP)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
(ALL SCREAMING)
(CRACKLING)
(WOMEN SCREAMING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(ALL CHEERING)
Hit them again. Recharging accumulators.
(PANICKED YELLING)
Anna!
We have to get to London! KHORA: Are you crazy?
They're gonna fire that weapon again. Not if we shut it down.
The crash drive. My mother gave it to me.
Come on, we have to go! They destroyed the Allied Fleet!
They didn't destroy us.
Nils, you lead!
Yasmina, stay on his wing.
Khora!
We're gonna be under heavy fire.
I'll need you to clear a path for me.
Anna. Go.
Where's Tom? Tom?
Tom?
You sure you wanna do this? Once we go in, there's no going back.
I have to...
For my mom.
For Pandora.
Let's go!
(RUMBLING)
They're gonna fire again!
HESTER: Pull up! Pull up!
(ALL SHOUTING)
Recharge!
(METAL CREAKING)
(ALL CHEERING)
(GASPING)
Khora!
(GASPS)
Khora!
(PANTING)
Stay low, Windflower!
We'll draw their fire!
Let's do this!
(YELLING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
(GRUNTING)
(ALL SCREAMING)
Anna, leave it to me.
Nils! Watch out!
(GROANING)
Nils! No!
(GASPS)
(GRUNTS)
Toa! Cover Yasmina!
I got this one.
We're hit, Anna! We're hit!
KHORA: Yasmina, take out the last one!
We're going down. Hang on! (GRUNTING)
(GASPING)
(SCREAMING)
Toa! Toa! Come on! Come on, get up!
(GRUNTING)
(COUGHING)
Okay, okay.
(RUMBLING)
Hester! Take this.
And stay out of sight until I give you the signal.
What signal? How will I know?
Trust me, you'll know. I'm not that subtle.
(PANTING)
MEDUSA: Warning. Core temperature rising.
Increase the coolant! Recharge!
Over there!
Okay, City Boy. Take her from here.
What? I gotta go. I'm late for church.
Hey. Look after her.
Lock target coordinates.
MEDUSA: Target is locked.
DR. TWIX: Wait! Temperatures have to stabilize!
Prepare to fire! MEDUSA: Firing sequence initiated.
VALENTINE: Do it, Twix!
Watch out!
(GROANS)
(GUNSHOT) (GROANS)
(GUNSHOTS IN DISTANCE) (PANTING)
(GROANING)
MEDUSA: Warning. Core temperature critical.
Deploy system override. Fire again. One more strike, that wall comes down.
Take cover!
(INDISTINCT YELLING)
MEDUSA: System override initiated. Firing will commence in 59 seconds.
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(LOUD WHIRRING)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
MEDUSA: Firing will commence in 45 seconds.
(VALENTINE GROANS)
(GRUNTING)
MEDUSA: Firing will commence in 30 seconds.
Come on!
(YELLS)
(GRUNTS)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
MEDUSA: Firing will commence in 15 seconds.
(GROANING)
MEDUSA: Ten, nine...
HESTER: Come on. ...eight...
Come on. Come on. Come on. ...seven...
...six, five... Just let go.
...four... It's over.
...three, two... Not yet.
Come on. ...one.
(HESTER GRUNTS)
(POWERING DOWN)
MEDUSA: Firing sequence terminated.
(BOTH GRUNT)
Go.
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
MEDUSA: System overload.
Unstable. Unstable.
Now it's over.
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
Kate. Thank God you're safe.
We need to go. How could you?
How many lives have you taken?
And for what? I did what I had to.
This city was dying. I tried to save it.
Stop lying to me.
You didn't do this for any noble cause.
You did it for yourself.
For the power that it gave you!
That's not true. Kate, we have to go. We have to go now.
Trust me as you once did.
I can save us both.
Save us from what?
The weapon's destroyed. The Wall is still standing.
You've failed.
Failed?
You really don't know me, do you?
That wall is coming down.
(ALL SCREAMING)
What have you done? Don't go up there.
Katherine!
(CRASHING)
(GASPING)
Let's go, Gench. Roger that.
(WHIRRING)
GENCH: We must be tethered, boss!
(ALARM BLARING)
(GRUNTING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
TOM: (ON RADIO) Come in, London Wheelhouse.
London Wheelhouse, do you read me?
Come in, London Wheelhouse.
Tom? Tom, is that you? TOM: Katherine?
What the hell's going on down there?
We're on a collision course. He's driving the city into the Wall!
The brakes are gone. They're dead.
You're gonna have to cut London's engines!
I can't. The controls are shot to hell.
Katherine, I need you to do something. Are you listening?
You're not going anywhere.
You're not gonna hurt anyone else ever again.
Tom, are you sure about this?
Do it!
(GRUNTS)
(LAUGHING MANIACALLY)
I will kill you.
I know you will.
Whatever the world throws at you, you fight it, claw your way back.
You don't give up.
You are so like me.
Your mother never told you, did she?
But then, I guess she didn't need to, because...
You already knew.
Hester.
(GASPING)
(GROANS)
You let your guard down.
(ENGINE REVVING)
(TOM GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
(GRUNTING)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(EXHALES)
(SIGHING)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(CHOKING)
(GROANS)
Is this what you want? You wanna die?
Come on, let's finish it.
No.
I'm gonna live.
(GRUNTING)
(GASPS)
Hold on!
Come on!
You're history.
(ALARM BLARING) (ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
Gench!
(SIGHING)
(GASPING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(VALENTINE SCREAMS)
(GASPING)
(CLANKS)
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
(PANTING)
(SIGHING)
(LAUGHING)
(SIGHS)
So what happens now?
We go where the wind takes us.
See the world.
What do you say?
I'm coming with you.
(CHUCKLES)
(BOTH LAUGHING)