Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn/Transcripts/Part 1: Difference between revisions

''Scene opens up to various shots of the aft half of the {{UNSCship|Forward Unto Dawn}} adrift in space. [[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-[[John-117|Sierra-117]]."

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

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

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

*'''[[Urlin]]''': "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.''

''Cut to Lasky's right hand wrist, which is [[Freezer burn|bruised from quick thawing]].''

*'''Thomas Lasky''': “We'll find out."

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

*'''Vickers''': "Vickers, checkpoint!"

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

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

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

*'''Lasky''': "RV in fifteen seconds. ''(to Sullivan)'' Are you ready?"

''Lasky, Silva and Sullivan get up and continue running, with Silva taking point. They continue running. Sullivan is then shot by a [[tactical training round]] and falls backwards. Lasky and Silva notice this and turn around.''

''The two looks at Sullivan lying stunned on the ground and Silva begins to running again.''

*'''Lasky''' ''(coughs)'': "Ten seconds."

''Lasky breaks into a run. Cuts to his HUD. His motion tracker enlarges and moves to the center of his HUD, a red "X" appears over the green arrow representing Sullivan. A message appears over the motion tracker: <code>'''CASUALTY: SULLIVAN'''</code>.''

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

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

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

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

''Lasky runs amidst heavy gunfire and explosions; he is soon hit in the chest by a training round and falls.''

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

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

*'''Orenski''': "Unacceptable.''

''Orenski shoots Lasky twice in the chest with training rounds. Lasky grunts loudly in pain.

*'''Urlin''': "Game over."

*'''Orenski''': "Shoulder your weapon, cadet."

''Members of the opposing squad rise from the undergrowth. Orenski continues to stand next to Lasky, who continues to cough and grunt.''

*'''Vickers''' ''(off-screen)'': "Great job, Lasky."

*'''Urlin''': "Exercise complete. Zero wins. Hastati defaults."

*'''Lasky''' ''(exhausted)'': "Shit."

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

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

*'''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."

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

*'''Orenski''': "Axios!"

*'''Hastati Squad''': "Axios!"

*'''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.''

''The cadence fades out while the instrumental track playing in the background escalates, as an overhead shot of the road pans up over the forest to reveal the Corbulo Academy campus; a collection of predominantly concrete buildings dominated by a towering [[space elevator]], several massive satellite dishes and a number of large vertical-axis [[wind turbine]]s. Numerous cadets are seen running, marching or standing in formation on the open training grounds in front of the buildings. The academy is identified on-screen:''

''The cadets of Hastati Squad 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.''

*'''Male cadet''' ''(off-screen)'': "Sully, please, enough."

''Lasky takes that in and walks over to a locker next to Silva, who glances at him. Lasky sighs and turns to her.''

*'''Thomas Lasky''': "I'm trying to survive here, okay."

*'''Urlin''': "Cadet Thomas Lasky, report to [[Colonel]] [[Mehaffey]]'s office, immediately."

''Cut to Lasky walking through the courtyard briefly pausing at the statue of General Corbulo and continuing on. General Black is then seen giving orders to several Marines, while smoking a cigar the general looks off into the distance. An overhead view of the campus is shown passing by the space elevator as a car is sent up. Cut to Lasky in Mehaffey's office; both of them are listening to a recording of the training earlier.''

*'''Colonel Mehaffey''': "Pause. You don't care? You do realize your helmets transmit everything?"

*'''Mehaffey''': "I served under [[Lasky (colonel)|your mother]], I know what she's like, and I sure as hell don't need me to tell you Colonel Lasky is not going to let a son of hers leave this academy without a diploma."

*'''Hughes''': "Okay, well lets keep an eye on it."

''Cut to Lasky sitting on a wall near the space elevator, thinking. Below him, a graffiti reading "FORWARD UNTO DEATH" has been painted on a "RESTRICTED AREA" sign. The space elevator stands in the background; Lasky watches as a car descends to the bottom, with another beginning its climb along an adjacent elevator strand.''

''Silva is seen viewing several updates on the Insurrection on a holographic terminal. One is about an attack on a civilian spaceport in [[Troisi City]], [[Lodestone]].''

*'''Female cadet''': ''(off-screen)'' "Darren, get your filthy hands off me or I will kill you."

''Silva briefly looks at the other cadet and then continues to read updates on the Insurrection, switching to an article about UNSC forces preventing a plot by the [[Bandusa Insurrectionist group]] on [[Mars]].''

*'''Male cadet #3''': ''(off-screen)'': "I'm not a virgin!"

*'''Announcer''': "The latest from [[New Harmony (city)|New Harmony]], [[Mars]]. A pair of Insurrectionist operatives were apprehended while... ''(continues indistinctly)''

*'''Chen's father''': (in Chinese, subtitled in English) "Your academic performance is exemplary. However, your combat scores are disappointing."

*'''Cadmon Lasky''': "Hey little bro! Hello from [[Jericho VII]], it's day 131 of deployment. Uh... so I gotta show you something. All right, mom's gonna flip when she sees this. But whatever."

*'''Cadmon Lasky''': "It's still a little raw, but we got a drop on an Innie stronghold next week, and I wanted to get it done before then. Anyway..."

*'''Chyler Silva''': "So, you haven't been court-martialed yet then."

''Thomas, surprised, pauses the video and slowly turns around. Silva walks over and sits next to Lasky, who turns on his chair apprehensively. The two look at one another.''

*'''Chyler Silva''': "Yes you are."

*'''Chyler Silva''': "Farmers? That's what you think they are? You have no idea what the Innies are like."

*'''Cadmon Lasky''': "Uh... staying safe, doing my job."

''Thomas opens an ammunition box and takes out a chess board. Thomas begins to place different kinds of empty shell casings and shotgun shells on the board as pieces.''

*'''Cadmon Lasky''': "I just wanted to remind you to do your job. Oh, and by the way, nice checkmate bro, yet again. Okay, new game. Your move. And hang in there, I know it's tough with mom being gone all the time, being alone. She loves you, so do I. Miss you buddy."

*'''Urlin''': "Lights out. Doors closing."

''The camera drifts off over Lasky's chess set toward the window when Lasky's terminal screen flashes briefly, displaying [[Covenant languages|Covenant script]] characters. An [[Covenant|unknown object]] is seen flying through the sky, accompanied by lightning, and turning sharply. Cut to black.''