Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn/Transcripts

Part I
''Scene opens up to various shots of the. Cortana's voice can be heard, repeating one phrase over and over.''


 * Cortana: "Mayday, mayday. This is UNSC FFG-201 Forward Unto Dawn, requesting immediate evac. Survivors aboard. Prioritization code Victor 5-3-Sierra-117."

A computer screen is seen:

CREW CAPACITY: 782 CREW SURVIVING: 1

''The screen flickers. Cuts to John-117 inside his cryo chamber. His visor reflects off the blue light outside the chamber. The blue light is revealed to be emitting from a holotank. The light flickers red before turning back to blue. Fades to black. Fades in to the space, where a few stars are seen. Blacks out.''

'''HALO 4 FORWARD UNTO DAWN PART I '''

''Title fades out. Scene cuts to Commander Thomas Lasky, in front of a holographic screen, reviewing the distress signal.''


 * Bridge crew #1: "Lock on to frequency, tracking coordinates."


 * Bridge crew #2: "Crossing now."


 * Thomas Lasky: "Play it again, please."

As the signal plays again, Lasky starts to space out.


 * Bridge crew #2: "We have a lock."

The bridge is thrown into disarray as the crew begin to talk at the same time and an alarm sets off.


 * Bridge crew #3: "Shall I play it again, sir?"

Lasky starts to breathe deeper and louder, while the voice gets fainter.


 * Bridge crew #3: "Sir? ...Commander Lasky?"

''Lasky's breathing gets louder, his eyes begin to look around the room. Cuts to Lasky opening his eyes as a teen, inside a cryo chamber. He coughs ''


 * Announcer: "Cryo pods opening."

''Lasky falls out, vomiting bronchial surfactant. Next to him, Chyler Silva and Michael Sullivan are seen thawed out and vomiting surfactant as well.''


 * Chyler Silva: "Lasky? You okay?"

Lasky doesn't respond and continues to vomit.


 * Chyler Silva: "Are you alright?"

''Cuts to Lasky walking to his locker, still coughing. Cuts to Sullivan in his battle uniform looking at Lasky.''


 * Michael Sullivan: "Lasky, let's go!"

Cuts back to Lasky as he gears up, still coughing.


 * Walter Vickers (COM): "Hastati Squad, 4 minutes to rendezvous point!"

Lasky takes out his assault rifle.


 * Chyler Silva: "Copy, Vickers. T-Minus 4 minutes."

Cuts to Lasky's right hand wrist, which is bruised.


 * Michael Sullivan: "Will you be able to shoot with those hands?"

Lasky tightens his gloves.


 * Thomas Lasky: “We'll find out."

Chyler runs for the exit.


 * Chyler Silva: "Come on!"

Sullivan follows her.


 * Michael Sullivan: "Axios!"


 * Dimah Tchakova (COM): "10 seconds, closing in! First checkpoint. Almost there!"

''Lasky runs out of the building. Cuts to his heads-up display as the sunlight blinds his eyes. Lasky pants and coughs. He looks up at a small hill, where Silva and Sullivan are already climbing to the top.''


 * Michael Sullivan: "Lasky, come on, let's go!"

''Lasky walks a few step ahead before sprinting. Cuts to a forest with explosions.''


 * Vickers: "We're under heavy fire!"


 * Vickers: "Vickers, checkpoint!"


 * Sullivan: "Covering!"

''Sullivan fires his assault rifle. Silva fires hers for a short second before continuing.''


 * Silva: "Moving!"

''The three cadets move on to the RV point. Shot of Lasky running through explosions and gunfire in slow motion which then reverts back to standard motion.''


 * Tchakova (COM): "Take cover. Checkpoint!


 * Junjie Chen (COM): "Test, checkpoint."


 * Vickers (COM): "Checkpoint!"


 * Lasky: "Uh, fifty seconds."

A first-person view of Lasky's motion tracker, projected on his ballistic goggles, is shown.


 * Silva: "Go!"

The cadets advance forward and take cover momentarily.


 * Vickers (COM): "Silva, Sullivan, Lasky - where are you guys?"


 * Lasky: "RV in fifteen seconds. Are you ready?"


 * Sullivan: "See you at the party."

''Lasky, Silva and Sullivan get up and continue running, with Sullivan taking point. A few shots of them running are shown. Sullivan is then shot by a tactical training round and falls backwards. Lasky and Silva notice this and turn around.''


 * Lasky: "Sully!"

Cuts to a brief shot of Sullivan 'dead' and then to Silva running.


 * Silva: "We have to leave him!"

Lasky hesitates.


 * Vickers (COM): "Lasky, what the hell?!"


 * Silva: "Come on!"


 * Vickers (COM): "Lasky!"


 * Lasky (coughs): "Ten seconds."

''Lasky breaks into a run. A view of his motion tracker, now displaying Sullivan as a casualty, is shown.''


 * Vickers (COM): "Lasky, hurry up!"


 * Lasky: "Landing in 3... 2... 1."

Lasky makes it to the rendezvous point, a small concrete shelter under fire where the rest of Hastati Squad are taking cover.


 * Chen: "Enemy inbound. They'll be on us in 35 seconds."


 * Vickers: "Fresh mags in your weapon, prepare to attack."

Lasky turns to Vickers in disbelief.


 * Lasky: "What?"


 * Vickers: "Our objective is to neutralize the Insurrectionists and acquire the target. We move on my mark."


 * Chen: "30 seconds."

Another view of Lasky's motion tracker, now displaying enemy contacts inbound on two sides.


 * Lasky: "We should flank them and force a surrender."


 * Vickers: "We're too close to flank and Innies never surrender!"


 * Silva: "It would be more like a circle round. There's still time."


 * Tchakova: "We can make it."


 * Chen: "25 seconds. Guys?"


 * Lasky. "It's our best move."


 * Chen: "20 seconds."

Vickers contemplates for a moment.


 * Vickers: "No, we're sticking to my plan, okay? On my mark."


 * Lasky: "It won't work."


 * Vickers: "You're not in charge anymore, Lasky!"


 * Silva: "Tom, just do what he says."


 * Chen: "15 seconds."

Vickers shots an urgent look at Lasky.


 * Vickers: "They're my orders."


 * Lasky: "I don't care."


 * Chen: "10 seconds!"

''Lasky and Vickers look at one another. The contacts on Lasky's motion tracker continue to converge on their position.''


 * Chen: "5 seconds!"

Lasky charges out of the shelter.


 * Lasky: "Axios!"


 * Vickers: "Lasky!"

Shots of Lasky running amidst heavy gunfire and explosions before being hit in the chest by a training round.


 * Lasky: "Augh!"

''Lasky lies on the ground, breathing heavily. April Orenski appears from behind a reflective barrier.''


 * Announcer: "Hastati Squad leader on the field. Exercise paused.''

Orenski walks to Lasky, still laying on the ground, aiming her rifle at him.


 * Orenski: "Let me guess, Lasky - you ignored orders."


 * Lasky: "It's just... another strategic casualty, sir."


 * Orenski: "Unacceptable.''

Orenski shoots Lasky twice in the chest with training rounds.


 * Lasky: (grunts in pain)


 * Announcer: "Game over."


 * Orenski: "Shoulder your weapon, cadet."

''Members of the opposing squad rise from the undergrowth. Orenski continues to stand next to Lasky.''


 * Orenski: "Your little escapade kept Hastati Squad from achieving its objective..."


 * Lasky: (coughs and grunts)


 * Orenski: "...again."

Orenski leaves and Lasky slowly gets up, groaning.


 * Vickers (in background): "Great job, Lasky."


 * Announcer: "Exercise complete. Zero wins. Hastati defaults."

Lasky stops to look at his reflection on the wall of the opposing team's shelter.


 * Lasky (exhausted): "Shit."

''Lasky leaves. The view focuses on the reflective combat barrier, which is shown to be labeled with the following:

UNSC CORBULO FIELD DEPOT 7 - NNE

The cadets of Hastati Squad walk across a field at the forest edge.


 * Sullivan (to Lasky): "The Robot tag you?"

A shot of Orenski standing at attention on a concrete-paved road, with cadets walking by and a UNSC officer standing nearby.


 * Lasky: "Yeah, once from two meters... Twice from one."


 * Sullivan: "I'm still numb from all those stun rounds."


 * Lasky: "I'm always numb."

''General Black's Warthog approaches along the concrete road. A dam can be seen in the background. Orenski walks to face Hastati Squad, now standing in formation as the general's Warthog pulls to a stop and Black climbs out.''


 * Orenski: "Hastati... Port ARMS!"

''The members of Hastati Squad do as ordered. Orenski turns to face General Black.''


 * Orenski: "General Black, sir!"

Black surveys Hastati Squad disapprovingly and slowly walks in front of the cadets.


 * General Black: "Let me remind you, cadets... this academy bears the name of the Roman general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo. Because he represents honor, valor, allegiance! General Corbulo was to take his own life in the name of the Empire. Corbulo did not hesitate nor question. He loyally obeyed, screaming 'Axios!' as he fell upon his own sword. Axios: I... am... worthy."

Black stops to face Lasky, who continues to stare forward.


 * Black: "But I'm afraid, cadets, today you have proven to be anything but. We are at war with Insurrectionists. Terrorists, who would like nothing more than to see all of us dead. Had this been a real firefight, the rebels would have likely killed every member of Hastati Squad."

Black goes on walking in front of the formation.


 * Black: "Every single one of you at this academy was sent here because your parents are the upper echelon of the United Nations Space Command. Because all of you are its future."

General Black stops next to Orenski.


 * Black (to Orenski): "And I expect you to act like it."


 * Orenski: "Understood, sir!"


 * Black: "Well, what are you waiting for? Lead them on tour, Orenski."


 * Orenski: "Axios!"


 * Hastati Squad: "Axios!"

General Black leaves in his Warthog.


 * Orenski: "Hastati... Right, face. Double, march!"

The cadets break into a jog, signing the UNSC Marine Cadence as they follow Black's Warthog along a dirt road.


 * Orenski: "One early morning 'bout zero-five!"


 * Hastati Squad: "One early morning 'bout zero-five!"


 * Orenski: "The ground will rumble, there'll be lightning in the sky!"


 * Hastati Squad: "The ground will rumble, there'll be lightning in the sky!"


 * Orenski: "Don't you worry, don't come undone!"


 * Hastati Squad: "Don't you worry, don't come undone!"

The cadence fades out while an instrumental track begins to play as an overhead shot of the road pans up to reveal the Corbulo Academy campus, which is identified on-screen:

CORBULO ACADEMY OF MILITARY SCIENCE: CIRCINIUS-IV

The cadets continue their jog across a field with cadets performing various physical exercises, training close quarters combat as well as firing pistols in a shooting range.


 * Orenski: "Helljumper, Helljumper, where you been?"


 * Hastati Squad: "Helljumper, Helljumper, where you been?"


 * Orenski: "Feet first into hell and back again!"


 * Hastati Squad: "Feet first into hell and back again!"


 * Orenski: "Don't cry for me, don't shed no tear!"


 * Hastati Squad: "Don't cry for me, don't shed no tear!"

Lasky begins to pant and falls behind the others.


 * Orenski: "Just pack my box with PT gear!"

Brief cut to several cadets in uniform walking in a staircase within the academy.


 * Hastati Squad: "Just pack my box with PT gear!"

''Cut back to Hastati Squad, now running across the main courtyard of the school, with a statue of Roman general Corbulo in the foreground. UNSC Marines stand guard nearby.''


 * Orenski: "Helljumper, Helljumper, where you been?"


 * Hastati Squad: "Helljumper, Helljumper, where you been?"


 * Orenski: "And I wanna drop and drop again!"


 * Hastati Squad: "And I wanna drop and drop again!"

Lasky continues to pant and runs several meters behind the squad.


 * Orenski: "One, two, three, four, oh..."


 * Hastati Squad: "One, two, three, four, oh..."

Cut to Hastati Squad's locker room.


 * Sullivan (in background): "I'm getting lunch in the cafeteria, man, and then... (indistinct)"


 * Male cadet (in background): "Sully, please, enough."

Lasky fidgets with his locker.


 * Sullivan (in background): "No, seriously, I'm on to something here."

Sullivan is shown conversing with another cadet.


 * Sullivan: "The comms are messed up and I'm decoding something kick-ass."


 * Female cadet (in background): "Nobody wants to hear it, Sully."

Lasky tries to wipe the red TTR round smear from his chest armor piece in his locker.


 * Sullivan: "ONI's hiding stuff from us, I'm positive. They've got secrets, man."

Vickers roughly shoves Lasky as he passes.


 * Walter Vickers: "Stop stepping on our dicks, Lasky."


 * Michael Sullivan: "Hey, ease up, Gingerbread."


 * Junjie Chen: "No, Sully. Vickers is right."

Chen approaches Lasky.


 * Junjie Chen: "My combat scores suck because of you."


 * Dimah Tchakova: Don't bother, JJ, he's gone soft. He's an Innie-lover now."