Season 03: Echoes Within Intro Cinematic

Cutscene Transcript
{Introduction Cutscene}

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

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

''The scene changes to Dinh standing on a desert planet, armored, but without his helmet. A Forerunner structure stands before him. The camera moves towards Dinh's face. The camera shows Dinh's face, with closed eyes. ''Dinh opens his eyes. A UNSC-designed door appears in front of him.'' Dinh walks in front of the door. 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 structure, now at night. A flaming Razorback is in front of him.''
 * Dinh: Why? Why here?
 * Iratus: Because you refuse to see.
 * Dinh: There's nothing you can show me that I haven't seen a thousand times.
 * Iratus: Except the truth.

Dinh: I told them. Go at night. Airborne. It would have been different. ''Dinh crouches down and picks up a VK78 Commando. ''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. Suddenly, Drones emerge from the sand around Dinh and they pull him under the sand. The same door from the desert is in front of Dinh. Iratus once again appears beside Dinh. ''The door slides open, revealing a blinding white light. Dinh is forcibly pulled into the door.'' ''Dinh is taken into a room with dead Drones littering the floor. Dead Spartan-IVs are scattered among the corpses. ''Dinh walks to a pillar in the center of the room. A dead Spartan is against the pillar.'' ''Dinh removes the Spartan's helmet, revealing himself, but with shorter hair. His doppelganger opens his eyes.'' The doppelganger grabs Dinh.
 * Iratus: Would it?
 * Dinh: Get Out! Get Out! (angry roar) Get! Out!
 * Iratus: (Cruel chuckle) But there is so much more to see.
 * Dinh: (Pained groan)
 * Dinh falls through the interior of the Forerunner structure and lands on the ground. He rises to his feet.
 * Iratus: I smell...(sniffs) fear. How disappointing.
 * Dinh: You weren't here. And I'm not gonna let you go any further!
 * Iratus: Ah! There's that Spartan spirit! Delicious!
 * Iratus: But, in the end, pointless.
 * Dinh: You don't know anything.
 * Iratus: Because the truth is this: it always ends the exact same way.
 * Doppelganger: Death for you. And triumph-

Iratus, through Dinh: -for me!

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

Cuts to black.