View source for Season 03: Echoes Within Intro Cinematic

==Cutscene transcript==
''The cutscene begins with [[Hieu Dinh]] lying down in a bed. Vital monitors beep around him as voices from the past begin to speak.''

*'''Marine Medic''': His neural link is corrupted, ma'am.
*'''[[Laurette Agryna]]''': [[Sigrid Eklund|Eklund]]. What exactly did Spartan Dinh put inside his head?
''The camera shows a brain monitor. The fingers on Dinh's right hand move.''
*'''Eklund''': A [[Iratus|Banished AI]]. The first I've ever seen.
''The camera shows the back of Dinh's helmet. The AI slot glows red. Dinh's head shakes.''
*'''Iratus''': (Furious roar)
''The brain monitor beeps much more rapidly now. Dinh's entire body shakes, and his head violently shakes.''

''The scene changes to Dinh standing on a desert planet, armored, but without his helmet. A [[Forerunner]] [[Lifeworker terraforming vessel|vessel]] stands before him. The camera moves towards Dinh's face.
*'''Dinh''': Why? Why here?
''The camera shows Dinh's face, with closed eyes.''
*'''Iratus''': Because you refuse to see.
''Dinh opens his eyes. A [[UNSC]]-designed door appears in front of him.''
*'''Dinh''': There's nothing you can show me that I haven't seen a thousand times.
''Dinh walks in front of the door.''
*'''Iratus''': Except the truth.
''The door slides open, revealing a gray fog inside.''
''Iratus appears behind Dinh, then hovers in front of him.''
*'''Iratus''': Go on. I dare you.
''Dinh walks through the door. He appears in front of the Forerunner vessel, now at night. A flaming [[Warthog]] is in front of him.''
*'''Dinh''': I told them. Go at night. Airborne. It would have been different.
''Dinh crouches down and picks up an [[M392 Bandit]].
*'''Iratus''': Would it?
''Iratus shows Dinh what would have happened in that scenario. He shows Dinh a [[Pelican]] being shot down by plasma shots.''
''Dinh becomes infuriated at Iratus.''
*'''Dinh''': Get Out! Get Out! (angry roar) Get! Out!
*'''Iratus''': (Cruel chuckle) But there is so much more to see.
''Suddenly, [[Yanme'e]] emerge from the sand around Dinh and they pull him under the sand.''
*'''Dinh''': (Pained groan)
''Dinh falls through the interior of a Forerunner structure and lands on the ground. He rises to his feet.''
*'''Iratus''': I smell...(sniffs) fear. How disappointing. 
''The same door from the desert is in front of Dinh.''
''Iratus once again appears beside Dinh.''
*'''Dinh''': You weren't here. And I'm not gonna let you go any further!
*'''Iratus''': Ah! There's that [[Spartan]] spirit! Delicious!
''The door slides open, revealing a blinding white light. Dinh is forcibly pulled into the door.''
*'''Iratus''': But, in the end, pointless.
''Dinh is taken into a room with dead Yanme'e littering the floor. Dead [[Spartan-IV]]s are scattered among the corpses.
*'''Dinh''': You don't know anything.
''Dinh walks to a pillar in the center of the room. A dead Spartan is against the pillar.''
*'''Iratus''': Because the truth is this: it always ends the exact same way.
''Dinh removes the Spartan's helmet, revealing himself, but with shorter hair. His doppelganger opens his eyes.''
*'''Doppelganger''': Death for you. And triumph-
''The doppelganger grabs Dinh.''

'''Iratus, through Dinh''': -for me!

''Dinh rises in the bed, and the camera zooms into his helmet.''

''Cuts to black.''
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