"EDGE OF TOMORROW" (2014)

“What weak, inglorious fools we mortals are That war must be, or any need of war.”

Andrew Downing, "The Bluebird"

An OLD TICKING CLOCK.

TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK.

The SECOND HAND turning, unstoppable.Father Time having his way. As we find a SMALL BED in this ENGLISH COUNTRY BEDROOM. TWO LOVERS SLEEPING quietly within. At PEACE.

CHILD’S VOICE (O.S.) ... Dad?

Cage’s beautiful wife HAYLEY (30’s), sits up too.

Cage looking at the little boy’s FEAR.Unsettled.

An AWFUL SOUND intruding. The HIGH-PITCHED WHINE of RAMJETS laboring against HEAVY WINDS --

The sound DEAFENING NOW. Consuming everything as --

A PHOTOGRAPH. A photo of the BOY. WORN. Coveted. The ROAR coming from this cramped dropship’s RAMJETS outside.

He is surrounded by 12th SQUAD. TEN SOLDIERS, from 18 to 55 - FRESH MEAT to BURN OUTS. All wearing HUGE “EXOJACKETS” - EXOSKELETAL WEAPONIZED BODY ARMOR.

PVT. “YOBO” YONABURU (18, ASIAN AMERICAN, innocent) struggles with his exojacket. Yobo looks like he’s 12.

SGT. FARELL (40’s, TEXAN, muscle and sinew) glares.

Yobo SWALLOWS his vomit. WINCING. MUMBLING to himself.

Cage hits a PRESSURE RELEASE on Yobo’s jacket, stopping the complaining. GAS ESCAPING the joints. Relief.

Farell hits a BUTTON, the DROPSHIP BAY DOORS open, and we see OCEAN below. HUNDREDS of other DROPSHIPS streak by.

Cage ignores him. Yobo looking at the PHOTO of the boy.

Yobo looks at Cage’s BATTERED EXOJACKET.All DENTS and DECALS. Years of fighting. Cage a MAN OF WAR.

CONTINUED: (2)

Yobo holds up an antiquated SMITH & WESSON .357.

Cage, Yobo and the others slide their FACEPLATES down. FLOATING HEADS-UP DISPLAYS (H.U.D.) flicker up on visors.

Yobo looks over at Cage. CLEARLY HOPING TO TEAM UP.

As we see a BEACH coming into view BELOW.The DZ flashing on the HUDs. A TEAMING MASS of RED DOTS.

A DROPSHIP suddenly EXPLODES beneath.ARTILLERY STRAFING THE SKIES. Streaking past. The HORROR beginning.

The soldiers UNCLIP themselves. Preparing to DROP through the DROP DOORS. PRAYERS. Yobo now an ASH WHITE.

CONTINUED: (3)

Cage looks at the PHOTO one final time.CROSSING himself with the picture THREE TIMES. Superstitious routine.

The sound of ARTILLERY growing LOUDER and LOUDER as --

KERWHAM! The dropship is STRUCK. FIRE everywhere. A SOLDIER KILLED INSTANTLY BY SHRAPNEL in front of Cage.

SOLDIERS LITTERING OUT, tumbling like living ordnance.

As Farell pulls a KNIFE and CUTS Yobo’s CLIP.Yobo dropping. Farell following suit. Cage the LAST MAN OUT.

Cage drops like a HUMAN BOMB. The ship EXPLODING above. The sky filled with DROPPING SOLDIERS from a THOUSAND DROPSHIPS. A hail of falling warriors.

ARTILLERY STRAFES THE SKIES ALL AROUND THEM.Dropships EXPLODING. Cage’s body hitting TERMINAL VELOCITY --

WHUMP, THUMP, FHRUMP! SOLDIERS hit the beach, making CRATERS in the sand. Exojackets going into AUTOLAND at the last moment, tiny JETS cushioning the fall.Barely.

WHAM! Cage lands in a crater. Winded. Breathless. A RELIEVED SOLDIER getting out of the crater next to him--

BOOM! 12 TONS OF FLAMING DROPSHIP LAND ON THE SOLDIER. Cage THROWN BACK by the impact. Landing in 2 feet of SURF. CHOKING on the SEAWATER. Spinning --

Another SCREAMING SOLDIER stuck under the ship, on FIRE. Cage in shock. As ENEMY FIRE starts streaking in --

THAP! THAP! THAP! Cage RUNNING THROUGH IT ALL...

UP AHEAD:

BOOM! HUGE PIECES of the Normandy CLIFF FACE suddenly explode ahead. HUGE UDF CARRIERS lobbing HEAVY ORDNANCE into the coastline. SHELLS WHISTLING above as...

IN THE SKY:

WHOOSH! A litter of fast-moving STRIKE JETS SOAR through the SKY above as artillery PEPPERS the sky.Chaos in the clouds, mid-air COLLISIONS, AIRMEN EJECTING all around...

UP THE BEACH:

As HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JACKETED INFANTRY stream to meet-points. Thick as ants. ARTILLERY RIPPING THEM TO PIECES as they try to take cover. Nowhere to hide.

IN THE TRENCH:

Cage, Yobo and the survivors of TWELFTH SQUAD follow Sgt. Farell into this HUGE TRENCH. Farell screams to TAC COM:

BLAM! A SECTION OF TRENCH COLLAPSES. Cage COUGHING --

Cage watches in mounting horror as his HUD shows FOUR ENEMY approaching. And then TWENTY. Then a WALL OF RED. Enemy fire PEPPERING the trench. THAP! THAP! THAP!

THAP! A PROJECTILE hits the soldier square in the chest, sending him FLYING. His body landing at YOBO'S FEET --

The BIOMECHANICAL PROJECTILE isn’t of human origin.It’s streaked with silver, WRIGGLING. A “JAVELIN.”

As Cage looks up to see THE ON-RUSHING “MIMIC” HORDE.A horrific army of BIPEDAL ALIEN WARRIORS.The javelins literallygrowing out of their BIOMECHANICAL BODIES.

A FEMALE SOLDIER takes TWO JAVELIN HITS.Her jacket JITTERBUGGING off her brainstem's death-throes...

Her AUTOCANNON FIRING WILDLY. Blowing the soldier next to her to pieces. Point blank friendly fire...

Cage seeing 12th being WIPED OUT. Looking at Farell.

Cage seeing the HORDE almost to them.Lifting his gun, trying to PICK A TARGET. Too many. As he looks to RUN.

INTO NO MAN’S LAND:

And so Cage RUNS. Slaloming through the SCORCHED EARTH. DODGING FIRE as he takes cover behind a BURNED-OUT TANK.

Cage looking back at the trench to see the REMAINS OF 12th SQUAD. Custer’s last stand. As they are inevitably SWAMPED by the HORDE. Farell RIPPED APART.

Cage TURNING to see a RAMBLING Yobo, covered in BLOOD.

SHUP! HALF OF YOBO’S head suddenly disappears in a MIST of red. His jacket TWITCHING as his body falls.

As Cage sees a HUNTING PARTY approaching his position. Cage getting TARGET-LOCK. FOREARM CANNON firing --

TAKTAKTAKTAKTAK! SEVERAL MIMICS GO DOWN, Cage fighting desperately. A HEROIC effort until --

THWAP. The Javelin HITS Cage’s side. Cage in SHOCK. As a SECOND javelin hits his FACEPLATE.His HUD SHATTERING.

Cage going down, as everything goes SILENT.Cage SPITTING up BLOOD. Seeing ANOTHER MIMIC. And ANOTHER.

The WAVE OF DEATH coming at him. The end near.

As Cage GRITS his TEETH. CLOSES his EYES and --

A WALL OF FLAME SUDDENLY ENGULFS THE MIMIC FRONT LINE!

A BLOOD RED EXOJACKET leaping OVER CAGE’S HEAD as it SPITS GRENADES at the attack horde.An astonishing majestic sight. A ONE MAN CAVALRY coming to his rescue.

The WARRIOR’S MASSIVE SHOULDER ROCKETS OPENING FIRE, HUGE CARBIDE BAYONET BLADES extending from the jacket’s ARMS.

The blades SWINGING as four MIMICS become eight TWITCHING HEAPS. The warrior rolling into a PERFECT BATTLE STANCE.

Until the area is SECURE. The BATTLE CONTINUING UP THE BEACH, as the RED WARRIOR arrives at Cage’s side. Removing a GORE-SPATTERED FACEPLATE to reveal..

CONTINUED: (2)

Cage looks at her. SICKENED. Pressing a BUTTON...

His JACKET WHIRRING, releasing him like an insect’s carapace. His dying BODY slopping into the mud. As he UNHOOKS his POWER CELL and TOSSES it at her feet.

She plugs in his cell, her jacket HUMMING.

Cage SPITTING BLOOD. Rita heading off back INTO BATTLE. The RAIN drizzling down on Cage’s FACE.As he pulls out the PHOTO of his son, prepares for the end, and --

A NOISE intrudes... Cage FREEZING.As an INHUMAN LEG steps into the mud by his head, and he LOOKS UP to see --

A terrifying FOUR-LEGGED SPIDER-LIKE MIMIC.

ARCING over him. Like a MONSTER from a childhood dream. Its armor diffracting light in an OILY RAINBOW OF COLOR.

It LEANS IN OVER CAGE, SCANNING HIM.The thing’s head a HORRIBLE MAW -- no more functional a face than a black widow’s hourglass is a functional timepiece.

As, detecting no threat from this DYING MAN, the curious creatures shifts focus to something else...

RITA’S BACK. The Sergeant Major twenty yards away, calling in more AIR SUPPORT on her RADIO.Oblivious...

Not seeing this ODD MIMIC behind her start to VIBRATE.A WHIRRING JAVELIN forming in the center of its body --

And then Cage sees it, GLISTENING IN THE MUD...

CONTINUED: (3)

Yobo’s old SMITH & WESSON. Cage GRABBING the pistol. The Mimic LOOKING DOWN, too late. Only to see --

Cage getting it RIGHT BETWEEN THE PLATES.As with a hellish SQUEAL, the mimic STAGGERS --

Cage firing AGAIN. And AGAIN. INNARDS SPILLING OUT --

SILVER-BLACK BLOOD like melted plastic, CRACKLING with electrical charge, DRIZZLE ONTO CAGE’S BODY, at 600 degrees. CAGE SCREAMING as it BOILS HIM ALIVE. There are probably worse deaths, but this one’s way up there --

As Cage’s DEATH-SCREAM starts to DISTORT, squelching out like a bad RADIO SIGNAL. The IMAGE SHUDDERING as we --

CAGE SCREAMS, slapping his chest like he's putting out a fire. Waking as if from a NIGHTMARE. TEARING at his undershirt, revealing -- HIS SKIN, perfectly intact.

Cage sees YOBO sitting on his bunk, cleaning MRS. SMITH. Staring. His BARRACKS surrounding. Everything normal.

Cage sees all of 12th SQUAD staring at him.The same people he just saw being KILLED, all in the flesh.

Cage sees CPL. SKINNER (32, muscle bound, piss-and- vinegar AUSTRALIAN) LIFTING WEIGHTS.CHEWING TOBACCO.

Cage sees a RECRUITMENT POSTER on the wall: RITA in her red exojacket with the words: “BE ALL THAT YOU CAN BE.”

As Cage scrambles to his feet. Like he’s gonna PUKE.

Cage BURSTS IN. VOMITING in the SINK. SPLASHING water on his face. As he looks in the mirror, getting a grip.

Cage walks in, staring at the faces of the SOLDIERS he just watched die... A soldier playing a VIDEOGAME.A guy reading a CROSSWORD. A soldier THROWING an EMPTY SODA CAN at a TRASH CAN, missing the 3-pointer with a CLATTER.

PFC Moses “MOE” Jones (African American) SWAGGERS in.

Moe pulls out a BARRACKS MAP. DRAWING a CIRCLE around a section of the OFFICERS TENT. An ACCESS POINT.

PVT. Luther “TUB-TUB” Kimmel (22, all kinds of obese) looks up from his HANDHELD VIDEO GAME, munching on CHIPS.

Skinner looking at him, confused.

PFC. Marie “FRENCH” Garoux looks over (26, RIPPED FRENCH CHICK - Mona Lisa by way of Gold’s gym).

Cage watches on, CONFUSED. Like he’s seen it all before.

Everyone SCRAMBLES to attention as SGT. FARELL enters.

Everyone scrambles to GET DRESSED.Cage at HALF SPEED.

RAIN falls on a HUGE MILITARY BASE in RURAL ENGLAND. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of SOLDIERS preparing for war...

CHINESE, RUSSIAN, AFRICAN, INDIAN etc.This is truly a global army. MARCHING. EXOJACKET SPARRING. SHOOTING.

As Cage watches 12th squad in the middle of PT.

The fat Private STRUGGLES over an OBSTACLE, FARELL SCREAMING until... Tub FAINTS. MEDICS rush over.

PVT. MORTEN “ABBA” LJUNBERG (30, SWEDISH, male, blonde) hits three BULL'S-EYES, HOOTS IN SWEDISH.

PFC. HANS “OLD MAN” HEITZ (55, GERMAN, poster child for EXPANDED AGE conscription) gets his leg stuck in a rope.

French powers towards a wall, PUSHING someone in her way. A FIGHT BEGINNING. As Cage REMEMBERS IT ALL aghast --

As Cage suddenly sees RITA breaking up the fight.Out of her jacket, she’s SMALLER than you’d think, and PRETTIER too. MOE and SKINNER joining Cage, watching on.

They all jump to ATTENTION. Rita suddenly BEHIND THEM.

As we see Cage STARING. Remembering their last meeting.

As RITA WATCHES HIM LEAVE. Seeing Cage GLANCING BACK...

TEN THOUSAND TROOPS see a MAP on VID-SCREENS.AUSTRALIA, ASIA AND AFRICA all RED. The AMERICAS, GREENLAND and CANADA all BLUE. As a BRIGADIER GENERAL holds court.

RITA steps forward, holding a BIO-TRANSMITTER.A SUITCASE SIZED miracle of military technology.

Rita points at a HIGHLIGHTED AREA OF NORMANDY on a map.

She holds up the BIO-TRANSMITTER. Showing a SERIES of PINCER CLAWS on the back of it, like SURGICAL STAPLES.

The General takes over, as we reveal Cage watching it all. CLEARLY HAVING HEARD THIS ALL BEFORE.

CAGE BRIGADIER GENERAL

The element of surprise. The element of surprise.

Yobo looks at Cage confused, seeing him mouth the words.

CONTINUED: (2)

CAGE BRIGADIER GENERAL

We’ll already be in Paris. We’ll already be in Paris.

Yobo fascinated. Grinning. Loving the parlour trick.

As Cage gets up mid-speech. Hurrying out.

A LIQUOR RAID in progress. Skinner handing LIQUOR under the edge of the Mylar to the rest of the team.As Cage suddenly walks through, GRABBING A BOTTLE OF BOURBON.

Cage sits nursing the BOTTLE OF BOURBON.Staring at the BREAKERS on this HIDDEN BEACH at the BASE’S EDGE.

DRUNKEN SOLDIERS surround. Moe running NAKED through the SURF. Skinner, Tub, French and Old Man Heitz MID-DEBATE.

As Moe suddenly runs by NAKED. Holding a BOTTLE OF RUM.

Skinner running after him, TACKLING him into the SURF.

Cage turns to see Yobo sitting down, beer in hand.

Cage stays typically SILENT. Taking a tug of bourbon.

Yobo stops on a dime. Confused. Looking at Cage.

CONTINUED: (2)

Cage stands and WAVERS. Yobo going to steady him.

Cage turns to walk away. Indignant.

ALARMS BLEAT, RADIOS ECHO across the base, as STREAMS of SOLDIERS run to their deployments like ants.

EXOJACKETS line the walls as SOLDIERS pound in.Every exojacket custom fit, a SOLDIER’S NAME on each.

As 12th Squad STRIPS to their UNDERWEAR - jackets needing full body contact. Moe stripping off his UNDERWEAR TOO.

Moe’s jacket CLICKING around his body, SEALING HIM IN.

ABBA, the Swede, taking off his HEADPHONES and plugging his MP3 into his jacket. The ROLLING STONES echoing out.

Skinner and French WEDGE the OVERWEIGHT TUB into this jacket, as with a GROAN, Tub finally POPS into his suit.

As we see Cage, looking around at the optimistic troops. Saddened. An awful look of RESIGNATION. Lying.

Cage looks ill. Everything EXACTLY THE SAME. Only now WE RECOGNIZE THE FACES AROUND US. Knowing their names.

Farell hits a BUTTON, as the DROPSHIP BAY DOORS open.

Yobo LOOKS AT CAGE HOPEFULLY again.Cage ignoring him.

Yobo confused. Until he sees the RED DOTS on the HUDS.

Cage pulls out the PHOTO of his son.CROSSING himself with the picture THREE TIMES. The old routine.

BOOM! The dropship is STRUCK. As we see the FACE of the soldier killed by SHRAPNEL. Seeing it’s OLD MAN HEITZ.

SOLDIERS DROPPING. As Cage looks at Yobo. Knowing his fate. Letting himself FALL BACKWARDS out the dropship.

WHAM! Cage lands in a crater. Everything the same. Only now we KNOW THE FACES of 12th SQUAD as we see them die. As TUB gets out of the crater next to Cage--

PHLAM! 12 TONS OF FAMILIAR DROPSHIP LANDING ON TUB. ABBA stuck under the ship too, SCREAMING IN PAIN.As Yobo and Sgt. Farell land next to Cage and run to:

IN THE TRENCH:

Cage surrounded by the familiar scene.Grabbing Farell.

TOO LATE. AS... BLAM! A SECTION OF TRENCH COLLAPSES.

THAP! A JAVELIN hits Moe square in the chest. Another faceless victim given a name. Our team sitting ducks.

FRENCH the next one of our team to meet her fate.Taking TWO JAVELIN HITS. Her jacket JITTERBUGGING... The AUTO- CANNON FIRING, KILLING SKINNER. Cage having seen enough.

INTO NO MAN’S LAND:

Cage RUNS. TAKING COVER like before, as he sees FARELL being killed behind him, the team wiped out.

Cage turning, knowing Yobo will be following him --

Yobo STOPPING ON A DIME as Cage sees the javelin that killed Yobo last time now NEATLY MISSING HIS HEAD.

As YOBO suddenly FROWNS. Watching as Cage COUGHS. Something DARK spattering inside his faceplate.

Cage looking down at his chest to see a 90MM HOLE CLEAN THROUGH HIS CHEST PLATE. Cage in shock.

The image SWIMMING, the sound FUTZING like a HAM RADIO --

As the TRANSMISSION rises into a BUZZY ROAR and we --

CAGE WAKES UP on his BUNK, COUGHING AND HACKING AND GASPING, desperate for air. Everything normal.

Cage sees YOBO sitting on his bunk, cleaning MRS. SMITH. His BARRACKS surrounding. Skinner opposite him, staring.

Cage seeing the FAMILIAR DETAILS. Tub playing his VIDEOGAME. Heitz doing the CROSSWORD. Abba THROWING the EMPTY SODA CAN at the TRASH CAN, missing the 3-pointer.

As SLAM... Cage is suddenly across the room.RAMMING Skinner into a WALL. Angry now. Face to face.

Skinner PUSHES HIM BACK. The two men FACING OFF.

Moe entering to see the commotion.Cage glaring.

As Cage hurriedly takes some ASPIRIN.CHEWING FOUR.

CONTINUED: (2)

Cage sees his squad all staring. A caged animal.

They turn to see Farell entering. Full of mustard.

As... SLAM. Cage DECKS Skinner with a clean RIGHT HOOK. 12th squad JUMPING IN. Cage one man against the world.

A YOUNG UDF DOCTOR leads a UDF PSYCHIATRIST down a corridor in this ANTISEPTIC, cold building.

The Doctor and Shrink enter an OBSERVATION ROOM.A ONE WAY MIRROR providing a view of a BLOODIED CAGE next door.

As the Young Doctor MUTES Cage’s ramblings next door.

THROUGH WINDOW:

He looks at Cage’s BODY, covered in SCARS and CLAW MARKS.

As Cage breaks free, SLAMMING against the one way mirror.

BACK TO OBSERVATION ROOM:

The Psychiatrist watches Cage SLAM into the mirror REPEATEDLY. Inches from his face. HE LOOKS NUTS.

THWAP. The MEDIC shoots the FRANTIC CAGE in the NECK with a HYPO GUN. Cage groggy. Wavering. EYES FALLING.

The psychiatrist LEAVING, as the Young Doctor watches Cage FALL DOWN. Sympathetic. Cage SHAKING, defiant.

As the sound of SIRENS GROWS LOUDER ALL AROUND US and --

Panic. The sound of SIRENS. Cage’s WIFE trying to PACK VALUABLES. As Cage grabs their SON, PULLING her away --

Cage pulls his wife and child into this COASTAL VILLAGE. VILLAGERS running from the SEA. Cage GRABS a NEIGHBOR.

SCREAMING coming from the coast. Cage seeing a CONSCRIPT SOLDIER RUN PAST (19) with the villagers.Terrified.

As Cage sees a HUNTING PARTY of MIMICS in the DISTANCE. Unleashing LEGLESS SNAKE-LIKE MIMICS into the village. SLITHERING at HORRIFYING SPEED. Attacking the VILLAGERS.

Hayley grabbing her husband close.DESPERATE.

As the sound of MORE SCREAMING intrudes and Cage see the SNAKE MIMICS TEARING through the village towards them --

CONTINUED: (2)

Cage wakes, confused. Haunted. As the SOUP CLEARS, and he sees the Young Doctor, taking his VITALS.

Cage seeing he’s STRAPPED DOWN. As he’s UNBUCKLED.

As Cage sees a TELEVISION. MEDICS gathered, watching TV REPORTS. Awaiting news of the INVASION UNDER WAY!

Cage looking at the HOPE AND OPTIMISM in the room.Maybe it is all okay? Maybe it was all just an awful dream --

And then he hears a SCREAM. The LIVE FOOTAGE on TV --

As Cage sees the FIRST FOOTAGE of the invasion.An AERIAL SHOT of the devastation. The UDF ARMY WIPED OUT.

The footage showing THOUSANDS OF MIMIC SWIMMING ACROSS THE CHANNEL as the COUNTER INVASION BEGINS!LIVE IMAGES of the STREETS OF LONDON on the TV.PANICKED CITIZENS.

And so they come. HUNDREDS UPON THOUSANDS OF MIMIC. Streaming over the THAMES BARRIER, swarming over the bridges. SO MANY THEY’RE CHURNING UP THE WATER...

Cage stumbles out into the PANICKED BASE.Soldiers RUNNING. Seeing the PALE BRIGADIER GENERAL, leaning against a wall. Sick looking. Cage GRABBING him.

As it begins. The DRONE-LIKE WAIL. The sound of SIRENS ALL OVER ENGLAND. Cage instantly knowing what it means.

Cage seeing people SOBBING. PREYING. Panicking.

And then we see the first. A MUSHROOM CLOUD in the FAR DISTANCE. The awful PLOOM attacking the sky. A SHUDDER.

And then ANOTHER CLOUD in the distance.And ANOTHER. ENGLAND being PEPPERED with nuclear explosions until --

The awful sound of a MOMENTARY WHISTLE intrudes.

And then SILENCE overwhelms.

A WHITE LIGHT suddenly consumes everything.And this is what it feels like to be underneath a TEN MEGATON NUCLEAR BOMB. The BLAST-CLOUD, the SHOCKWAVE, the FIRE. As England is slowly blown off the face of the earth --

Cage OPENS HIS EYES. TEARS on his face. Not moving, just listening to the BARRACKS. Life, oblivious.

Yobo looks at him, cleaning Mrs. Smith.Cage STARING THROUGH YOBO. Yobo thinking he’s looking at his OLD GUN.

Cage looks in the MIRROR. The water pouring down the DRAIN. As Cage stares at it, looking awful. Spent.

Cage CHEWS ASPIRIN as talks. YOBO looking over.

Cage looks around the CAFETERIA. The RAVENOUS SOLDIERS. RITA eating at the OFFICERS TABLE.An oblivious world.

Moe looks over from the NEXT TABLE, interrupting.

Cage turns to see TUB at end of table.Head buried in his VIDEO GAME. SHOVELLING FOOD as he plays.

As he finally LOOKS UP FROM HIS GAME.Smiling. Sincere.

French DROPS a TRAY with a CLATTER in the BACKGROUND. Everyone CHEERING. Everyone but Cage. Doing the math.

CONTINUED: (2)

As Cage looks over at RITA EATING across the mess hall. The Sergeant Major SITTING AMONG HER TROOPS.

Cage FOLLOWS Rita out of the mess hall, across the base. As he sees her disappear into the ARMORY.Cage hesitating. NOT WANTING TO DO THIS. Until finally --

Cage walks into the ARMORY, looking for Rita.THOUSANDS OF EXOJACKETS lining the walls. An eerie quiet.

He sees a HOLOBAY in the corner. A 3-D HOLOGRAPH showing MIMIC HISTORY on a loop. As Cage walks towards it...

A HOLOGRAPH of ONE BILLION STARS serenely floats around him. A METEOR SHOWER flying towards EARTH.

A HOLOGRAPH tracing their BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION appears.

As Cage sees the breadth of MIMIC SPECIES.From INSECT SIZED mimics to the SNAKE-LIKE mimics we saw earlier. From huge HEADLESS-ELEPHANT SIZED mimics to the BIPEDAL WARRIORS. A litany of CLUMSY BIOLOGICAL PERVERSIONS.

He turns to see Rita next him, watching the holograph.

Cage snaps out if it. SALUTING her, awkwardly.

She looks at his UNIFORM. Glancing him up and down.

CONTINUED: (2)

Rita looking at him. SIZING HIM UP. His sincere face.

As she walks off and Cage looks at his empty exo-jacket, “CAGE” on front. Like a coffin with his own name on it.

Cage steps in, wearing his JACKET.The bay a vast, ECHOING SPACE the size of an AIRPLANE HANGAR.

As he turns a CORNER to see Rita GETTING UNDRESSED.SEXY AS ALL HELL. Down to her UNDERWEAR. Cage taken aback.

Cage MORTIFIED, as she WALKS TOWARDS HIM.Fearless in her NEAR NUDITY. Confident. Empowered. Stunning.

Cage trying not to look as she SLIPS INTO HER SUIT and --

WHAM! She SMACKS him with a HUGE LEFT, Cage sent flying.

SLAM. She HITS him again. Cage FLYING into a wall.

As she goes to hit him again and... WHOOSH.He DODGES her blow, just in time. Evading the contact.

Cage suddenly SPINNING, landing a blow... WHACK!

SLAM. Rita KNOCKS CAGE OFF HIS FEET, landing on him. PINNING HIS ARMS BACK, sticking her 50mm in his face.

Cage SPITTING BLOOD as Rita rolls off of him.

As Cage GRINS through BLOODIED TEETH.

The familiar scene. Farell opening the BAY DOORS.

Yobo watches Cage REPROGRAM his HEADS UP.Entering ATTACK ZONE DELTA into the HUD MAP.30 SQUARE MILES.

He LOCKS AND LOADS. STANDING. Ready to jump.

Cage CROSSING himself with his son’s picture THREE TIMES.

As Tub looks up at him, confused.

Cage drops out of the drop ship. FIRST MAN OUT as --

KERWHAM! The dropship is STRUCK up above. Soldiers falling out. Cage PLUMMETING DOWNWARDS until --

WHAM! CAGE LANDS on the beach. Hitting the sand running. TAKING COVER immediately - breathing hard.

He checks his HUD. An ARROW indicating an ALTERNATE ROUTE. Pointing to an adjacent GRASS COVERED HILL...

Cage runs. The ARROW to ATTACK ZONE DELTA in Cage’s HUD pointing PAST THE CLIFFS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HILL.

A WAR ZONE between him and the cliffs.Half a mile of pure MIMIC CARNAGE. SCREAMING SOLDIERS everywhere.

Cage starts RUNNING. Still clunky in his jacket. DODGING JAVELINS. FIRING his 50mm, trying to run as --

WHAM! A Mimic SLAMS RIGHT INTO CAGE, knocking him sideways, JAVELINS BLOOMING across its body, arms SHARP AS RAZORS. CAGE ROLLING, TWISTING as it LEAPS --

And Cage RAMS his PILEDRIVER into the BACK of the MIMIC’S NECK -- KERWHAM! Cage having acted on PURE INSTINCT.

WHOOSH. STRIKE JETS suddenly ROAR in, laying down a WALL OF FLAME, close enough that CAGE is SENT FLYING.DIRT in the SKY, MIMIC PIECES FALLING. Up and down one and the same. As CAGE tries to stand, only to FALL BACK DOWN.

As he sees his LEFT LEG ten feet away.Cage DRAGGING HIMSELF away, FIRING with his one FREE ARM.SCREAMING.

Not seeing the fatal MIMIC BARRELING at him as a SICKENING CRUNCH is lost in the CACOPHONY of war and...

Cage WAKES UP on his bunk. Yobo cleaning Mrs. Smith next to him. As Cage’s BARE FEET hit the CONCRETE FLOOR.

He stands there, checking his LEGS.ENJOYING IT NOW.

Cage grabs a SHARPIE out of HEITZ’S HAND, interrupting the Old Man’s CROSSWORD. The old German clearly annoyed.

Cage writes a BIG “6” on his hand with the sharpie.

Heitz takes his pen back. WIPING it. Trying to get the crazy off. As Cage walks out. Nonchalantly LIFTING THE TRASH CAN - catching Abba’s SODA CAN SHOT from mid-air.

NOTHING BUT NET. Cage starting to get the hang of this.

Cage ROLLS, EVADING TRACER FIRE. AUGMENTED-REALITY-- MUNITIONS that can only be seen inside the faceplate.

Cage trying to get position. As we see a “12” WRITTEN on his hand. Cage gaining experience. Life by life.

As she walks up BEHIND HIM. Cage NOT SEEING HER. Rita all but BREATHING in his ear. Enjoying her power.

Cage SPINNING around to see her SMILING.SLAMMING him in the face as he unleashes his AUTOCANNON TRACERS and we --

-- Cage’s AUTOCANNON targets nine MIMICS at once.NINE MIMICS DYING, B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-BLAM!

As he sees MORE MIMICS LEAP off the hill above, LANDING ON the EXCITED SOLDIER, TEARING HIM TO SHREDS --

Cage ignoring him, SURGING UPHILL towards the CLIFFS. Closer now. LEAPING through the air towards a MIMIC --

-- ALMOST LANDING ON RITA. Firing his TRACER ROUNDS as she rolls evasively. A “28” now WRITTEN on his hand.

She CASTS her GUNS aside and DEPLOYS BAYONETS out of her jacket arms. POLYCARBONATE-KEVLAR BLADES stretching out of her WRISTS. Extending her ARMS into LONG BLADES.

As she LEAPS down into a DEATH BLOW, Cage rolling away, deploying his own BAYONETS as he attacks --

-- RIPPING into the THICK HIDE of a huge RHINO-LIKE MIMIC - Cage SLICING and DICING. Bayonets covered in BLOOD. Wiping his SWEAT-COVERED BROW. Clearly EXHAUSTED.

As, in the DISTANCE, he sees RITA at work UP THE HILL. WATCHING HER FIGHT with Nuriev-like PRECISION.An ANGEL OF DEATH. Cage still a clumsy brawler in comparison --

Rita SOMERSAULTS into an ATTACK POSITION.IMPOSSIBLY ATHLETIC. Cage TRYING TO ADJUST. A “46” on his HAND.

Rita looking at him. Sizing him up. Evaluating.

As... SLAM. She suddenly LEAPS on him. An immediate INTIMACY as they are FACE TO FACE.Rita even more BEAUTIFUL up close. Cage clearly a little FLUSTERED.

Cage NODDING, taken aback, as she suddenly SPINS him around like a RAG DOLL, RIPPING open a HATCH on his back.

Rita HACKING into the back of his jacket.READOUTS on his faceplate FLICKERING as she hacks into his system.

She pulls out a CHIP, shuts a PORT.The suit powers up. Readouts flashing “WARNING: AUTOBALANCER DISABLED.”

She helps Cage up. Cage STEPS, BOUNCING. Spring-loaded.

WHAM! Cage STRIKES a METAL, PYLON-SHAPED TARGET...

Sending himself FLYING ACROSS THE ROOM in the process, landing in a HEAP. OW. Rita grinning.

Cage seeing the target CRUMPLED AROUND HIS FIST.

As the sound of ALIEN SCREAMING overwhelms and --

CAGE is DECIMATING MIMICS, twice as fast and twice as strong as he was before. Soldiers WATCH, stunned.

Cage finally making it to the END OF THE HILL and the CLIFF FACE. Finally catching up with the battling RITA.

As Cage shows off with a display of DEADLY MARKSMANSHIP. Ten HEAD SHOTS on the spin. Ruthless accuracy until...

TAK TAK SPT SPT SPT -- His AUTOCANNON runs out of AMMO. A FRESH SWARM OF MIMICS heads his way--

As Cage JUMPS onto the turret of a HALF-EXPLODED TANK, TEARING off the main cannon and using it as a BLUDGEON. WHANG! WHANG! WHANG! Cage unstoppable now.

Cage SOMERSAULTS over Rita, his agility astounding, as for the first time we see Rita being OUTMANEUVERED.

As Cage suddenly gets the drop on RITA.THROWING her down. ON TOP OF HER NOW. In control.

Cage now controlling the SUDDEN INTIMACY.FACE TO FACE. The tables turned. Rita clearly a little FLUSTERED.

He lets her roll him over. Back into the POWER POSITION.

Cage looking at his mentor. A curious sadness. As if saying goodbye. The NUMBER “96” visible on his hand.

Cage sits EATING ALONE, as per usual.As Rita SITS down next to him - every grunt in the room looking over.

Cage walks through the base. Rita following him.

As Cage finally turns. Not wanting to engage.

Cage looks at her. Losing his patience now. Irritated.

Cage looking at her. A WHOLE WORLD OF THINGS UNSAID. As he BACKS AWAY. Rita watching him leave.

Cage walks through the RAIN. The NUMBER “152” on his hand revealing he’s done this walk MANY TIMES BEFORE. Cage knowing EVERY MOVEMENT of everyone on the base...

As he approached the MUNITIONS FACILITY.A GUARD turning to look at a PIECE OF PAPER BLOWING PAST just as...

CAGE STEPS IN BEHIND HIM, gliding THROUGH SECURITY.

A sea of WEAPONS and EXPLOSIVES. Cage STEPPING behind an OFFICER, whom he shadows, before then SPLITTING OFF...

Past a GUY and GIRL soldier secretly NECKING...

Into a WEAPONS BAY where TECHS are preparing Rita’s BIO- TRANSMITTERS from the briefing about the queen.

FIRST WAVE OFFICERS collecting their transmitters.As Cage effortlessly GLIDES past, hidden,GRABBING HIS OWN.

Cage STORES the transmitter in his jacket’s MINI-CARGO HOLD. As the ROLLING STONES plays out of Abba’s suit.

EVERYONE suiting up. As Yobo sees Cage REMOVING WEAPON AFTER WEAPON from his jacket, dropping them to the floor.

Cage slips on his exojacket. Man on a mission.

And so it begins. Cage DROPPING down onto the BEACH - as we see exactly what 152 PRACTICE RUNS gives you.

Cage SILENCING the Sarge on his RADIO.

Cage PULLING ABBA’S MP3 from his CORPSE’S JACKET. Loading it up. As the STONES’ “TIME IS ON MY SIDE” quietly fills the battlefield. Eerie and distant.

ACROSS THE BEACH:

We FLIP IN and OUT of SLOW MOTION as Cage walks across like the PROVERBIAL RABBI walking between the raindrops. An eerie SYMPHONY OF MOVEMENT AND SYNCHRONY - Cage HUMMING along to Keith Richards and Mick Jagger’s finest.

Our hero knowing EVERY MOVEMENT of EVERY MIMIC. Anticipating JAVELINS. Dodging FALLING DROPSHIPS.

UP THE HILL:

As Cage continues his path of least resistance.BAYONETS extended. SPINNING and SLICING as he climbs the hill.

His face EMOTIONLESS. As he PASSES by RITA, fighting with her fellow troops, NOT EVEN LOOKING AT HER...

UP THE CLIFF FACE:

Cage navigates the ROCKY PATHS. Following the ARROW on his HUD towards ATTACK ZONE DELTA.Checking the TIME on his HUD. Waiting at a CORNER. TIMING IT until --

He SHOOTS around the corner. Blind. Killing an INCOMING HUNTING PARTY of MIMICS without even looking...

Climbing higher and higher. PAST a gaggle of ELEPHANT- SIZED, dumpy ARTILLERY MIMICS as they launch HUGE ARTILLERY JAVELINS up into the sky...

Following the HUD ARROW away from the coast, towards a DENSE FOREST ahead. As it slowly BEGINS TO SNOW.

INTO THE WOODS:

A SNOW STORM descends on these THICK TREES.

Cage’s EYES WIDEN. Cage clearly LESS EXPERIENCED here. Exojacket pounding against the snow.As he sees a MIMIC HUNTING PARTY ahead. The Mimics oblivious until --

The Mimics looking up to see --

Cage DROPPING from a tree above. RIPPING them to pieces. Swivelling and slicing like a samurai.A choreographed ballet of death. Cage covered in BLACK BLOOD.

BREATHING HARD. As he finally DECAPITATES the last Mimic, the MUSIC comes to a CRASHING CLIMAX and...

INTO THE COUNTRYSIDE:

Cage is running through ATTACK ZONE DELTA.His HUD now FLASHING YELLOW, as he RUNS across WHITE FIELDS.

He pulls out a MAP of ATTACK ZONE DELTA.Thirty square miles of France. 90% of the TOWNS and VILLAGES CROSSED OFF. Only a few left. The next one CAMBREMER.

Cage sees the SNOW-COVERED CAMBREMER ahead - a CATHEDRAL TOWN covered in the OLD DEBRIS of a LAST STAND.BLOOD STAINS and BARRICADES. The FALLING SNOW kissing it all.

Cage seeing that the town is DESERTED.A GHOST TOWN. No one there. Cage about to CROSS it off the map when --

He hears it. A NOISE. Like ELECTRICITY CRACKLING.

Cage TURNING a CORNER to see the HUGE CATHEDRAL in the FAR DISTANCE. TENDRILS of ELECTRICAL CURRENT hitting the CHURCH SPIRE. As he sees the CHURCH DOOR WHINE OPEN...

And a FRESHLY BIRTHED MIMIC walks out.Disgusting. Slime-ridden. Cage seeing a GLIMPSE of an ENORMOUS CREATURE WITHIN. Huge, ominous, and unmistakable...

THE QUEEN.

Pay dirt. Cage seeing just a GLIMMER before the door SHUTS, and the BIRTHED MIMIC runs off.

Cage is BREATHLESS. Excited. As he readies the BIO- TRANSMITTER. INCHING towards the far-off cathedral.

And then he hears it. A SNARL. A LOW GROWL. As Cage sees something in the SHADOWS of a nearby building.

SOMETHING SO BIG that it takes a minute to stand upright, unfolding itself. A REAVER GUARD. 30 foot tall, like a cross between a MIMIC and a WALKING WARSHIP.

AS IT ATTACKS. Cage pivoting, turning to RUN --

And what happens next is almost impossible to fathom.We have never seen a creature this big move this fast.The Reaver is WHIP fast. INSECT FAST. Terrifying...

The ground SHAKING as Cage RUNS, DODGING HUGE LIMBS.A VOLLEY of JAVELINS whipping past Cage with MACHINE-GUN SPEED. Exploding out of this thing like a GATLING GUN --

Cage LEAPING up onto the creature’s HUGE LEG, CLAMBERING UP. Pulling his BAYONETS, preparing to ATTACK when --

SLIIICK -- One of the creature’s RAZOR SHARP TALONS SLICES DOWN. Cutting straight through Cage. His RIGHT ARM lopped off. As our hero FALLS TO THE GROUND...

Cage DRAGGING himself through the snow.A BLOOD TRAIL behind. As the Reaver prepares to FINISH HIM OFF.

Cage SPITTING BLOOD as the Reaver brings a TALON CRASHING DOWN through Cage’s chest like a SCORPION STINGER and --

Second verse, same as the first. Cage mid-battle. LEAPING up onto the Reaver’s LEG as before --

Only this time heDODGES the creature’s RAZOR SHARP TALON as it SLICES DOWN. Cage ON THE THING'S BACK NOW...

And now it’s Cage who attacks. As he CLEFTS AN ARM OFF. The huge stump SPEWING BLACK BLOOD everywhere.Cage HACKING OFF the OTHER ARM. Winning now. Heading for the NECK, about to deliver the death blow when --

SHTICHK -- the Reaver SPRAYS him with its BLOOD.The black liquid MOLTEN HOT, BOILING CAGE’S SKIN OFF as --

Third time lucky. Cage HACKING the Reaver’s arms off as before, only this time heDODGES the BLOOD. PLUNGING his BAYONETS into the REAVER’S NECK INSTEAD...

Until - THUD. The Reaver’s MASSIVE HEAD topples off into the snow below. Cage LANDING next to it. Victorious. The Reaver’s LIFELESS BODY landing behind him...

And then Cage sees it. ANOTHER REAVER appearing from the shadows. And then ANOTHER. And ANOTHER...

Cage seeing that he is now SURROUNDED by SIX REAVERS. The one he just faced nothing more than an amuse bouche.

Cage stands at the HOLOBAY, in front of him a 3-D HOLOGRAPH of a REAVER, STUDYING the creature.The number “188” visible on his hand. As Rita arrives behind him.

Cage stares at the 3-D Reaver. Annoyed.

Cage hesitates, stubborn, to the last --

CAGE is fighting like a MAN POSSESSED.SPINNING in the centre of an ORGY OF DEATH. Bouncing off the SIX ATTACKING REAVERS, parkour style. DODGING a MONSOON of RAINING BLACK BLOOD and FLYING JAVELINS...

He LANDS down in the SNOW in COMBAT POSE.Looking up to see that he’s BARELY MADE A DENT. Cage clearly STRUNG OUT. Twitchy now. The NUMBER “216” in his hand.

As he’s ATTACKED from EVERY DIRECTION, he tries to fight, and one simple fact starts to become HORRIFICALLY CLEAR --

Cage cannot win.

Until - PHWAP! PHWAP! PHWAP! A HAIL of JAVELINS pummel his chest. Our hero’s body CONVULSING with the IMPACT --

A SERIES OF DEATHS:

As we are forced to endure the HORROR OF THE INESCAPABLE. An awful medley of MISERY. CAGE’S BODY being RIPPED LIMB from LIMB by the Reavers. SLICED IN HALF. DECIMATED all over town. A HUNDRED FAILED ATTEMPTS ending in misery.

His fate sealed. All hope bleeding away...

And then the final DEATH. Cage on his KNEES. Having KILLED 3 of them. Spent. Nothing left to give. As the REMAINING THREE close in and one of them SNATCHES him up.

IMPALING CAGE on the Cathedral SPIRE.Matter-of-fact. The Reaver LOOKING AT HIM. STARING. EMOTIONLESS.

As Cage is forced to die a SLOW MISERABLE DEATH.The snow gently falling as he breathes his FINAL BREATH.

Cage’s eyes are OPEN. He looks sick. Barely able to get himself out of bed as he takes Heitz’s SHARPIE.

Cage looks at the pen. Writing the NUMBER “300” on his SHAKING HAND. Clearly having reached his wits end.

As he STANDS, looking over at Tub playing his VIDEO GAME.

Cage bitter. Saddened. As he TURNS HIS SON’S PHOTO AROUND so it FACES THE WALL. Ashamed.

Cage walks through the rain like a DRONE.His face BLANK. As emotionless as every Mimic he’s ever fought.

As he walks towards the OFFICER’S CLUB.Knowing the movements of the GUARD out front. Slipping inside --

Cage walks past a PRIDE of OFFICERS.Weaving in between them, unseen. Walking straight to the BAR AREA, GRABBING A FAMILIAR BOTTLE OF BOURBON. About to head out when --

Cage turns to see an OFFICER staring.Seeing his rank. GRABBING the bottle away from Cage.Cage dead-eyed.

The Officer looks around ANXIOUSLY.Cage clearly INSANE. As Cage pulls his SIDEARM, pointing it at the guy’s head.

The Officer doing as he’s told. As we see RITA watching on. THREE OTHER OFFICERS reaching for their GUNS as --

Too late - BANG BANG BANG. Cage SHOOTING the Officers in their SHOOTING HANDS without hesitating.GUNS DROPPED.

Rita and a flurry of OFFICERS HURRY out, GUN DRAWN, only to find Cage gone. A MASS OF SOLDIERS walking past ON DRILLS. Cage having DISAPPEARED IN THE CROWD.

Cage WALKS OUT into the OCEAN, SWIGGING from the bottle of Bourbon. Looking out at the WAVES as they come crashing in. Staring out to GOD. ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE.

As he CLOSES HIS EYES. His voice BARELY A WHISPER NOW.

Cage trying to SILENCE the sounds in his head.As the NOISE of SCREAMING starts to intrude.Unescapable.

The screaming LOUDER AND LOUDER. DEAFENING until --

It is a SLAUGHTER. JAVELINS flying. SNAKE-LIKE MIMICS attacking like GIANT BLACK RATTLESNAKES, tearing through the VILLAGERS as they fight with makeshift WEAPONS...

Cage RUNNING, keeping his family behind him.GRABBING WEAPONS from FALLEN VILLAGERS. A SHOTGUN. A PITCHFORK.

As a SNAKE-LIKE MIMIC surges at his son, and --

BLAM. He BLOWS the thing’s head off with the shotgun. Cage GRABBING his son, protecting his family...

Cage gets his family to a ROAD, SWARMING with ATTACKING MIMICS. Nowhere to go, no way out. Hayley PANICKING.

Cage seeing a Villager coming off of a MOTORBIKE in the distance. The BIKE SKIDDING TO A STOP. Salvation.

As the sound of SCREECHING TIRES suddenly intrudes and --

BOOM. An ESCAPING CAR suddenly BARRELS down the street towards them. As the car FLIPS. SPINNING OVER THEM --

CRASHING into a house with an enormous EXPLOSION.The GAS TANK going up. Cage KNOCKED off his feet. Until --

And then he sees her. On the GROUND behind him.

A PIECE OF SHRAPNEL having torn through her.Cage’s wife gritting her teeth, looking at her husband fatefully.

Cage SCRAMBLING to his BLEEDING WIFE’s side.Frantic. The sound of her SCREAMING overwhelming as --

Cage WAKES with a start. He is wearing his UNBUCKLED EXOJACKET, laying NEXT to the EMPTY bottle of Bourbon.

The FINAL DROP SHIPS are taking off for France all around him. The sound of the ATTACK on his HUD RADIO.

Cage stands up. Seeing RITA and THREE MILITARY POLICEMAN behind him. All with GUNS RAISED.

Rita pulling out a HYPO-GUN, carefully approaching.

As he hears the sound of the FAILED INVASION on his radio. A curious, tragic calm to him now.

Cage sad. Resigned. At peace with it.

The MPS suddenly GRABBING HIM. Rita reaching out with the HYPO GUN. Trying to TRANQUILIZE HIM --

The gun JABBING into his ARM as --

Cage suddenly RUNS. BREAKING FREE. Sprinting to a DROPSHIP. LEAPING onto the NOSE of the AIRCRAFT, PUNCHING through the GLASS, RIPPING the pilot out...

As he REACHES inside and FIRES the JETS --

The dropship SOARS upwards, as Cage forces the jet into a NEEDLE SHOT: straight up, ABOVE THE CLOUDS...

Cage LOCKING his faceplate. Securing his jacket. As he soars ABOVE THE ATMOSPHERE to the BLACK EDGE OF SPACE...

The DENSE FOG of war VISIBLE on the FRENCH COASTLINE BELOW, as the ROCKET starts to fail, and Cage lets go --

Cage floating in LOW-ORBIT. A single man SILHOUETTED against the green and blue below. And then he sees it...

A SINGLE MISSILE arcing ominously through the sky.And then another. MISSILE after MISSILE ARCING through the atmosphere. As a FIELD OF MUSHROOM CLOUDS DECIMATES the UNITED KINGDOM and beyond. Cage CLOSING HIS EYES.

His faceplate ICING OVER, ALARMS going off.One man on the edge of NOTHINGNESS. His FACEPLATE CRACKING --

And then... WHOOSH. His FACEPLATE finally SHATTERS, the VOID RUSHING IN, the world DISTORTING into STATIC as --

Cage’s EYES OPEN to see Rita LEANING OVER HIM.YOBO and 12TH SQUAD all looking on, in shock.

As a team of SCIENTISTS pull him onto a WAITING GURNEY.

Cage is WHEELED through the pouring rain into a WAITING APC TRUCK. Rita and the scientists following him inside.

As the BASE GATES OPEN in front of the truck.

The truck speeds over TOWER BRIDGE.London TRANSFORMED. THE THAMES choked with vessels seeking haven from the world - Japanese WHALERS, Panamanian TANKERS etc.

Rita and the scientists WHEEL Cage out of the truck.The surrounding streets populated only by OLD PEOPLE and CHILDREN. The once teeming city now EERILY EMPTY.

As they pull him into a huge nondescript SKYSCRAPER.

Rita and the scientists wheel Cage through this MAKESHIFT HEADQUARTERS. The building converted into their HQ.

Cage sees a HOLOBAY. A 3-D HOLOGRAPH of a WORLD MAP.

As Cage sees a 3-D HOLOGRAM of an OILY RAINBOW SPIDER- LIKE MIMIC. Like the one Cage killed at the beginning.

They wheel Cage in, Rita pulling a SCANNER over the gurney. CUTTING his shirt open. LASERS surveying him.

Cage sees a READOUT. Shocked. Seeing an ELECTRICAL ENERGY pouring through his VEINS. His body charged.

Cage reeling. Trying to process it all. Doing the math.

She remove his RESTRAINTS. Cage sitting up on the edge of the gurney. TRYING TO PROCESS IT ALL.

CONTINUED: (2)

She pulls out a HYPO GUN like the one she used earlier.

As Cage BACKS AWAY. Not liking where this is going.

Cage walks through London. Rita following.

Rita stopping him. Looking at him in disbelief.

Cage looks at her. Annoyed now.

Rita leads Cage to the HOLODECK. Typing in the names of TWELFTH SQUAD. Cage seeing a 3-D HOLOGRAM of TUB appear.

Cage trying not to look at the hologram of the SMILING MOE, as she brings up a LIFE SIZE SKINNER.

Cage saying nothing, as Rita brings up FRENCH.

Rita looks at him. Bringing up ONE MORE. HERSELF.

Cage TURNS IT OFF. As if silencing a deafening noise.

The sound of SIRENS cuts through. Cage looking out a WINDOW at a PANICKING LONDON, the Mimic ATTACK beginning.

He sees THOUSANDS OF MIMIC CHURNING UP THE THAMES.

CONTINUED: (2)

She looks at him. The horrendous attack in the city framing the moment. Everything they’re fighting for.

She hears the sound of INCOMING. Facing Cage.

As the world is suddenly CONSUMED BY LIGHT, a ten megaton nuclear BLAST-CLOUD THUNDERING up into the sky as --

Cage opens his eyes with a START. Already up.

Cage sees SKINNER working out, seeing his LIVER SURGERY SCAR. He sees TUB shuffle past, seeing his LIMP. Cage suddenly looking at 12th squadin a whole new light.

Tub looks up from his VIDEO GAME.

As Cage sees Rita at the WINDOW. Writing the NUMBER “302” on his hand.

Cage watches 12th squad in the middle of their RAIN- SOAKED PT. Same as always. As Rita stands next to him.

He motions to the company. TUB FAINTING. ABBA FALLING through a ROPE OBSTACLE. FRENCH getting in a FIST FIGHT.

Cage irritated by Rita’s determination.

12th squad is approaching the drop.Farell getting them ready. As Cage looks around at his team.

Cage pulls out the PHOTO of his son.CROSSING himself.

Yobo looking at Cage hopefully. Cage NODDING THIS TIME.

Cage suddenly “drops” his photo at the feet of Heitz.

Heitz REACHING DOWN, bending over for the photo as --

KERWHAM! The dropship is STRUCK. Heitz looking up to see a HUGE SHRAPNEL HOLE where his head was.

SOLDIERS DROPPING. As Cage takes the decoy photo back.

WHAM! Cage lands in a crater. Immediately heading for TUB as he gets out of the crater next to Cage--

Cage HAULING TUB out of the way,SAVING TUB’S LIFE, as...

PHLAM! 12 TONS OF DROPSHIP LANDS beside them. Cage pullingABBA CLEAR. As Farell lands next to them.

IN THE TRENCH:

Cage looks around, surrounded by the familiar scene. Farell PANICKING, as we hear RITA on the RADIO.

... BLAM! The TRENCH COLLAPSES. Cage grabbing Farell.

As Cage GRABS MOE, pulling him down, just in time, as a JAVELIN flies past,right where Moe was standing.

Cage PULLING French down as... TWO JAVELINS fly past her position. No more JITTERBUGGING death-throes for her. CAGE NOW HAVING SAVED THE LIFE OF HIS ENTIRE TEAM.

Farell looking at Cage. Seeing Cage’s DETERMINATION.

Cage leads Farell, Moe and 12th squad through the CHAOS. Leading by example. DECIMATING MIMICS left and right.

RITA sees Cage KICK ASS as he leads 12th to her trench.

Cage suddenly seeing Farell still in NO-MANS-LAND.

Farell COWERING. Losing it. Not seeing a HUGE MIMIC as it comes up behind him and JAVELINS him without a second thought. Rita pulling out a THERMAL GRENADE.

As she ARMS the grenade, drops it at CAGE’S FEET and --

Cage leads 12th squad through the FIRE FIGHT.Leading by example. This time PULLING Farell along with him.

Cage leads ALL OF 12TH into the trench.Pulling Farell in behind him this time, the Sarge SNAPPING OUT IF IT.

Cage leads the BLOODIED 12th through his PREVIOUS ROUTE. “349” on his hand. It clearly having taken a lot of attempts to get this far. As Moe and the guys WHISPER.

Tub looking at Rita. Rita NOT WANTING TO ENGAGE.

As they approach CAMBREMER. Cage pointing at a MAP.

Rita sees Cage’s SHAKING HAND. Seeing his ANXIETY.

She puts away the map, smiling. Comforting.

Rita seeing an old CITROËN 2CV LAYING on its side nearby.

Cage walks forward. A lone gunfighter in the old west. The NUMBER “372” on his HAND. Seeing the FIRST REAVER --

Cage into the old routine. DODGING JAVELINS. HACKING OFF ITS ARMS. GUNNING off its head. Like he’s breaking down a chicken. LANDING in front of the OTHER REAVERS in a COMBAT POSE. Just another day at the office.

As the Reavers suddenly... ATTACK.Cage RUNNING. Sprinting off down a SIDE STREET, THREE OF THE REAVERS HANGING BACK. Cautious. Checking the perimeter.

The other THREE REAVERS HUNTING CAGE DOWN...

Cage RUNS to the WAITING 2CV. As RITA HITS THE GAS and they speed off. THREE HUGE REAVERS on their tail. Cage RIPPING OPEN the car’s cloth roof and FIRING BACKWARDS --

ANGLE UP THE STREET:

As we see YOBO and SKINNER, stretching a RAZOR SHARP WIRE across the street. Watching as the 2CV SPEEDS over it, then the FIRST TWO REAVERS, as the last approaches and --

They PULL THE WIRE TAUGHT. SECURING IT OFF until...

SCHHLLIICK - the sound of wire SLICING through the Reaver’s legs. The creature TOPPLING, its legs gone. As Yobo and Skinner come out GUNS BLAZING and finish it off.

Rita HAIRPIN TURNS into this NARROW ALLEY as the TWO REAVERS give chase. Getting closer and closer now...

ANGLE ON NEARBY ROOTOP:

As we see TUB with a REMOTE DETONATOR - watching as the 2CV ZIPS out the alley below, closely followed by one the Reavers until... CLICK, CLICK, CLICK--

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. A series of CHARGES DETONATE. Bringing the BUILDINGS on either side of the alley CRASHING DOWN. SMOTHERING the last Reaver --

As Tub watches FRENCH and ABBA run onto the RUBBLE BELOW. Guns BLAZING as they finish the CRUSHED REAVER off.

Rita SPEEDS across the TOWN SQUARE.One chasing Reaver remaining. The 2CV CAREERING across a PARK when --

The old car suddenly JOLTS TO A STOP, running out of steam under a HUGE TREE. Rita TURNING THE IGNITION.

The Reaver closing in. Knowing it has them. As it CRANES over the car, looking down at them STUCK WITHIN --

The Reaver looking up to see MOE IN THE TREE DIRECTLY ABOVE the car. Realizing it’s stumbled into a TRAP, too late. Moe LEAPING DOWN with a CHAINSAW BLARING --

As the 2CV SPEEDS away. Three down, three to go.

The 2CV SKIDS to a STOP in front of the THREE REMAINING REAVERS. Cage and Rita getting out, BAYONETS EXTENDED.

Cage nodding as he RUNS towards the Reaver on the left. Rita SPRINTING towards the one on the right.The two of them like BALLET PARTNERS. ATTACKING IN UNISON...

Rita a sight to behold. A dizzying WHIRRR of BLADES and GUNFIRE as she BOUNCES off the creature’s limbs. Impossibly fast. Cage not far behind on his side --

As Rita PLUNGES her BLADE into the creature’s HEART, Cage doing the same. BOTH CREATURES SLUMPING to their DEATHS. Cage and Rita a triumph of practiced concentration.

The rest of 12th squad walk towards them.All facing the ONE REMAINING REAVER. The ODDS FLIPPED, ten against one.

The Reaver backing up until - it is SWARMED by our team. Working together. The poor beast not standing a chance.

Cage, Rita and the rest of 12th approach the cathedral in ATTACK FORMATION. BLOODIED, covered in DIRT and DEBRIS.

As they SURROUND the PERIMETER. Cage smiling at Rita.

She pulls out the BIO-TRANSMITTER.Readying it.

Cage and Rita BURST THROUGH the doors, READY TO FIGHT as--

As 12st SQUAD see that the cathedral is COMPLETELY EMPTY. Cage looking at Rita, confused. Pleading innocence..

Rita sees a MERCURY-like METALLIC RESIDUE on the ground.

Farell looks up into the HIGH VAULTED CEILINGS.The old GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. A myriad SCULPTURES and GARGOYLES.

A LOUDER NOISE echoing out from above.A TINY MOVEMENT.

Sgt. Farell staring upwards, not seeing the TENDRIL-like BARBED TAIL descend behind him,hanging like a snake.

Farell finally HEARING something behind him.Slowly turning around, only to see the STINGER hovering as --

THTICK-- it PIERCES his SKULL, his body FALLING --

Asthey descend like gargoyles... At least 20 HUGE-WINGED “APOSTLES” swooping down. Each with RAZOR SHARP WINGS. STINGERS stretching out from TENDRIL-LIKE TAILS.

A stinger SLICING through HEITZ’S NECK.The Old Man’s body hitting the ground. Cage hearing another SCREAM --

A stinger hitting ABBA in the BACK as he runs.His HEADPHONES landing next to him. TINNY MUSIC echoing out.

As Cage FIGHTS BACK. Opening fire. RAT-ATAT-ATAT. Blowing Apostle wings off, SLICING through their tails.

CONTINUED: (2)

Our hero killing ONE, TWO, THREE MORE, as he is suddenly CORNERED by one of them, it’s stinger HOVERING above him. Like a COBRA HEAD waiting to strike.Barb exposed.

Cage suddenly seeing RITA AIMING her AUTOCANNON at him.

The stinger flying towards Cage’s head as...

BOOM -RITA SHOOTS OUR HERO BETWEEN THE EYES, beating the stinger to the punch. BLOWING CAGE’S HEAD OFF --

Cage wakes to the sound of PANIC. His fellow soldiers SCRAMBLING around TWO BUNKS. HEITZ’S BODY in one. ABBA’S BODY in the other. Both dead in their beds.

Cage runs out to see FARELL’S BODY on a GURNEY, MEDICS wheeling him to the SICK BAY. Rita hovering over him.

As she looks at him, saying nothing.

Rita DRIVES to London, Cage in shotgun.As she relents.

She SPEEDS across TOWER BRIDGE, into INNER LONDON.

Rita arrives at the UDF HEADQUARTERS, stopping the truck.

She turns off the IGNITION. A fateful silence.

A MASSIVE WAR in TOKYO. A fog of NEON and DEBRIS. Rita and her TWO HUMAN LOOPER COHORTS leading the UDF TROOPS.

As suddenly a SWARM OF APOSTLES attack.SWOOPING DOWN. Ripping through the UDF RANKS. Hunting Rita and the other two human loopers. BARBED STINGERS LASHING.

Rita POWERLESS as she sees her colleagues PINNED DOWN. STINGERS repeatedly STABBING them, SCORPION-STYLE.

As Rita is PULLED AWAY into an EVACUATING DROPSHIP.

Rita is surrounded by SCIENTISTS and EQUIPMENT.

We see her being surrounded by a HUGE THICK LEAD SARCOPHAGUS. Her BODY TEMP being lowered.

As scientists measure the ELECTRICAL ENERGY within the sarcophagus, watching the NEEDLE MAX OUT, before dying.

Rita watches the INNOCENTS of London walk past. Morose.

As she OPENS THE TRUCK DOOR.

The HQ is sparsely populated. Everyone at the base preparing for the attack, as Rita shows Cage a HOLOGRAPH.

He sees PATTERNED DOTS on a 3-D MAP.Surrounding an epicenter, like IRON FILINGS around a MAGNET.

He looks closer, seeing the epicenter’s the EIFFEL TOWER.

She looks at Cage.

Cage stands over LONDON at NIGHT. Rita joining him.

Cage about to pull the safety net.Hating the decision.

He looks at her. London stretched out beneath them...

As she looks at him. Smiling. Handing him TWO PILLS.

As Cage bites the bullet and finally SWALLOWS the pills.

Back at the base, Rita leads Cage through the OFFICER’S BARRACKS. A CONTAINED area of SIMPLE mini-apartments.

They arrive at Rita’s PERSONAL BARRACKS.Cage confused.

Cage frowning. Looking at her. UNSETTLED now. As he sees her looking through her BARRACKS WINDOW.

And then he sees it. Someone SITTING ON THE BED inside. Patiently waiting. A SMALL SILHOUETTE. Like a CHILD.

As Cage sees his SON (now 6) sitting patiently within.

Cage immediately NERVOUS, not knowing what to do, worried Unprepared. As she helps him FIX his COLLAR.

Rita SOFTENING for the first time.Calming.

Cage looking inside. Adjusting his clothes. Anxious.

As Rita looks at him. Sincere. Meaning every word.

CONTINUED: (2)

Cage seeing Rita’s face. Her sadness. NODDING. As he straightens his shirt, OPENS the door.And walks in.

Rita watching through the window. Seeing ADAM’S JOY, the little boy RUNNING OVER to Cage. Father and son, finally REUNITED. EMBRACING. The moment theirs.

As Rita CLOSES THE DOOR and gives them their privacy.

Cage TURNS ON THE LIGHTS as he leads little Adam into the armory. THOUSANDS of EXOJACKETS lining the wall.

As Cage leads him over to his JACKET.Adam RUNNING HIS FINGERS over the BATTLE SCARRING. Every SCRATCH and DENT. Seeing his Father’s NAME on front.

Cage helping his son in. Adam DWARFED inside the jacket.

Cage looks at his son. Adam avoiding eye contact.

As Adam finally looks at his Father.

Cage looking at his son. Eye to eye. Protecting him.

Cage trying to smile. Trying to hide any fear.

Adam GRINNING. As Cage helps his son out of the suit.

CONTINUED: (2)

The little boy NODDING, excited, as Cage watches him WALK AWAY. Seeing a SCAR on the back of his son’s NECK.

Our hero trying to QUIETEN the NOISE.Clearly riddled with GUILT. As we hear the sound of SCREAMING interrupt.

The sound of SCREECHING TIRES gets louder...

BOOM. The ESCAPING CAR suddenly CRASHES into the house next to Cage. The GAS TANK immediately EXPLODING --

Cage seeing his wife on the GROUND behind him.SHRAPNEL having torn through her. Hayley in trouble.

Cage turning to see Adam is OUT COLD.A HUGE GASH on the side of his neck. Cage grabbing him, checking him.

Cage trying to HELP HER UP onto her feet, only for Hayley to SLUMP back down, her LEGS RIPPED APART.

As she looks back to see a wave of SNAKE-LIKE MIMICS and WARRIORS MIMICS approaching. Getting closer.

Cage LIFTS HER UP. Trying to lift his son up too. An impossible feat. Cage knowing HE’S NOT STRONG ENOUGH.

Cage trying to lift them both again.No use.

He looks around, seeing they’re cut off now, ALL THE OTHER VILLAGERS GONE. The MIMICS COMING. Closer.

Cage looks at his wife, knowing she’s right.Knowing he has to choose. Wife or child.

Cage panicking, on auto-pilot. Unable to do it.

Cage looking at her. Seeing the Mimics ALMOST TO THEM. Trying to LIFT HER one final time as she PUSHES him --

Cage recoiling. Sickened...

CONTINUED: (2)

As he finally does as he’s told. STOIC. Becoming the man we once met in front of our very eyes.CRADLING his only surviving family, as he RUNS FOR HIS LIFE...

Trying to ignore the SCREAMS of his wife behind him.

Cage WAKES with a start on a BED to find himself CRADLED AROUND ADAM, his son sleeping soundly in his Father’s arms. Rita’s simple BEDROOM surrounding them.

As Cage hears the nearby sound of CLASSICAL MUSIC --

Rita SLEEPS on a COUCH in a SIMPLE LIVING AREA, the sound of CLASSICAL MUSIC wafting out of a RADIO next to her.

She OPENS HER EYES to see Cage in the DOORWAY.She LOWERS the music, apologetic.

She sees his face. Ashen. The nightmare still fresh.

Cage sits. A sinner at confession. Head down.

She pulls a chair in front of him, looks him in the eye.

Cage finally meeting her gaze. His eyes softened.

Cage looking at her. Two broken souls. Face to face.

The two of them closer now. INCHES APART. Too close, when... THE SOUND OF SIRENS SUDDENLY INTRUDES.

CONTINUED: (2)

As she looks THROUGH THE WINDOW and we see it begin.A SWARM of APOSTLES descending. The base’s CANONS FIRING.

Cage reaching for her SIDEARM, putting it to his HEAD.

Cage realizing how much trouble they’re in.

CHAOS. SOLDIERS defending the base. The sky filled with FLAPPING WINGS and WHIPPING STINGERS.Every Apostle suddenly TURNING IN MID-BATTLE towards --

CAGE AND RITA. Our heroes run through it all. Cage HOLDING ADAM TIGHT. Rita SHOOTING their way through --

Cage and Rita run in. HUNDREDS OF SOLDIERS trying to get into jackets. APOSTLES CRASHING into the door outside.

Cage HIDES Adam in a LOCKER. Keeping him safe --

Cage SECURING the door. Locking Adam safely inside. As Cage and Rita run to their jackets.LOCKING and LOADING.

Cage and Rita burst out of the armory to find SKINNER, TUB, FRENCH, MOE and YOBO already in jackets, fighting in the chaos... 12th squad fighting back.GUNS BLAZING.

Cage and Rita CARVING their way through the fighting, as YOBO sees them run past, towards the DROPSHIP HANGER.

HUNDREDS OF DROPSHIPS line the hanger.Cage and Rita fighting their way inside. Yobo following.

The Apostles CRASH through the HANGER DOOR.A wave of violence. Almost through. Cage and Rita TRAPPED.

As Cage sees Yobo RUNNING TO A COCKPIT.

Yobo climbing inside. Cage looking at the encroaching mimics. Knowing he has no other options.

Cage seeing Rita CLIMB INSIDE, manning a GUN TURRET.

Skinner, Tub, French and Moe are losing the fight, in trouble when - the Apostles suddenly STOP FIGHTING.

As... KRRAANG. A DROPSHIP comes CRASHING through the HANGER DOORS - GUNS BLAZING. Soaring up into the sky.

Yobo SPEEDS across the English countryside at NIGHT.ALL OF THE APOSTLES FOLLOWING THEM. A SWARM. At least 30. As the dropship PITCHES and ROLLS.All over the place --

Cage and Rita manning the PULSE CANONS on the FLANKS.

Yobo SPEEDING THROUGH TREES AND VALLEYS as they OPEN FIRE. WHOMP, WHOMP, WHOMP. The huge canons THUMPING out PULSE ROUNDS, lighting up the NIGHT.The SCREECHING of APOSTLES filling the air as they take them down...

THIRTY BECOMING TWENTY. TWENTY BECOMING TEN.

Cage picking off the remaining Apostles one by one. WHOMP, WHOMP, WHOMP. Unleashing hell --

Rita spinning around to see the final apostles SCREECHING towards her as... FIVE LEFT. THEN FOUR. THEN THREE --

As she turns and... BOOM. She blasts the final apostle out of the sky. The winged mimic FALLING TO THE GROUND.

THE SKY EMPTY. Cage and Rita looking, seeing NOTHING. Yobo TURNING THEM AROUND, HEADING BACK FOR BASE.

THUMP. THUMP. THUMP. Cage and Rita looking at each other confused. Hearing a SCRATCHING on the HULL of the dropship. Cage looking out the BAY DOOR to see...

THREE REMAINING APOSTLES ATTACHED to the side --

Too late, as they DART INSIDE. LIGHTNING FAST. JAWS SNAPPING. STINGERS JABBING. CLOSE QUARTERS fighting --

Rita SLICING the head off the first.Cage using his BAYONET to SLICE the TWO WINGS OFF the second - kicking its carcass out. As they TURN TO THE THIRD and --

BANG. A SINGLE SHOT to the head puts it down. Cage turning to see Yobo LOWERING MRS. SMITH.

Yobo GRINNING as he prepares to land and --

His face suddenly FALLS. Confused. As he LOOKS DOWN to see an APOSTLE STINGER in his chest... Suddenly panicked.

Yobo suddenly SLUMPING OVER DEAD, one of the Apostles REARING UP. STILL ALIVE. The DROPSHIP starting to PLUMMET TOWARDS THE BASE. Rita GRABBING THE CONTROLS --

The dropship comes CRASHING DOWN into base.An orgy of SPARKS FLYING as it SKIDS up off the BLACKTOP.Cage and the final Apostle TUMBLING OUT OF THE BAY DOOR...

As RITA CRASHES the ship into the MESS HALL.TEN TONS OF METAL SCREECHING to a stop in a FOG of DUST.

Cage SHELL SHOCKED. As Adam coming RUNNING out of the Armory, seeing his Dad on the ground, BLEEDING.

Too late. As THE LAST APOSTLE REARS UP OVER CAGE.

ANGLE ON RITA:

Rita PULLS HERSELF out of the COCKPIT to see the SURVIVING APOSTLE still alive in the distance...

The mimic backing CAGE INTO A WALL, as Rita GRABS an AUTOCANNON. Lining up her SIGHTS. A THOUSAND YARD SHOT.

BACK TO CAGE:

Cage keeps Adam behind him. STARING the Apostle in its BLACK EYES. As the STINGER comes flying toward him and --

TTHHHHWAP -- Rita’s SHOT BLOWS THE APOSTLE’S HEAD OFF.A BLACK MIST. The stinger left inches away from his face.

Cage turning to see Rita running over, all-business. Cage distracted. Looking off at YOBO’S DEAD BODY.

Rita PUSHES all kinds of TECH EQUIPMENT in a CART to a HUGE DOOR. Cage following her. Adam at his side.

As she sees SKINNER, TUB, MOE and FRENCH waiting.

She hands a MONITOR and a WALKIE TALKIE to Tub.Cage holding Adam’s hand. Kneeling next to him.

An old BOMB SHELTER. The huge STEEL DOOR SLAMMING SHUT. As Rita leads Cage, Skinner, Moe and French through.

Cage TAKES OFF HIS CLOTHES, as he walks into a CRAMPED DEEP FREEZE room. Surrounded by OLD FREEZER BURNED FOOD. Rita putting an ELECTRICAL MONITORING DEVICE inside.

He NODS. As she CLOSES the door and turns the FREEZER DIAL. Seeing Cage through a WINDOW in the door.

Cage putting his HAND TO THE GLASS.Rita placing her HAND AGAINST THE OTHER SIDE. Facing each other.

Cage SITTING. The TREMORS beginning. His EYES going.

Cage nodding. As she sees the TEMPERATURE tick down to 64 degrees. Cage’s EYELIDS falling. His head SHAKING.

His FINAL BREATHS escaping him. TREMORS subsiding. Cage and Rita exchanging one final LOOK.A GOODBYE MOMENT.

As his heart finally STOPS BEATING and DANIEL CAGE DIES.

Rita looking at the READING inside.Watching a NEEDLE RISE as Cage starts to TRANSMIT. She grabs a WALKIE.

Adam watches Tub reading a MONITOR.The NEEDLE at “0.” As he talks into the WALKIE TALKIE, confused --

Rita looks at her maxed-out needle.Watching as it SLOWLY STARTS TO FALL. A TIMER ticking along. Two minutes, two and a half, THREE MINUTES...

The needle getting CLOSER AND CLOSER TO “0” until --

Skinner and French OPEN THE DOOR. DRAGGING Cage onto the floor. Onto a waiting HEAT PAD. As Rita shoots an ADRENALINE SHOT into his heart, grabbing a DEFIBRILLATOR.

She tries to get a rhythm. Performing CPR. CHARGE AFTER CHARGE. BREATH AFTER BREATH. Over and over...

Rita using her hands. POUNDING his CHEST, SKIN TO SKIN.

As Moe and Skinner look at each other.Nervous.

Tub plays his VIDEO GAME with Adam, trying to keep the boy entertained. Adam looking at the DOOR.

Tub INTERRUPTED as the DOOR suddenly OPENS.Adam turning to see RITA. Her face hard to read for a second...

Until we see CAGE behind her. WRAPPED in BLANKETS. Adam jumping up, HUGGING him tight.

Moe, French and Skinner arriving in the background, seeing the family scene. Moe HAVING FINALLY HAD ENOUGH.

Cage watches BODY BAGS being zipped up.HUNDREDS of DEAD SOLDIERS. As he looks down at YOBO’S FACE. Humbled. Laying old MRS. SMITH on his chest.SHINY and CLEAN.

Cage turning to see Rita waiting for him.

Rita holds court in front of Cage, Moe, Skinner, French and Tub in the EMPTY THEATER. VIDSCREENS showing the APOSTLE PATTERN around Paris and a LOOPER MIMIC IMAGE.

Rita looks at Cage. Surprised by his intrusion.

Rita smiling. As Cage looks at her.

Rita watches on as ACROSS THE ROOM we see Cage saying goodbye to his son. The kid HUGGING his Dad tight. As Cage stoically walks away, trying not to look back...

Cage looks at her, confused. Rita pulling out some SERGEANT STRIPES. THREE CHEVRONS. Matter-of-fact.

Cage looking at her. TAKING THE STRIPES. Nodding.

Rita, Cage and the rest of 12th STRIP DOWN, putting on EXO-JACKETS. GEARING UP. French putting on WARPAINT.

As Cage GRABS the BIO-TRANSMITTER.Rita grabbing a “BIG DADDY” CLAYMORE and REMOTE DETONATOR.Ready for war.

Cage WEDGING Adam's photo into his breast plate.

Cage and Rita BRIEF the remains of 12th squad as their DROPSHIP is LOADED UP behind them.PILOTS getting in.

As Skinner sees an MVC ATTACK BOAT being SECURED into the DROPSHIP. A NIMBLE TRICKED OUT AQUATIC WAR MACHINE.

Rita PATS the “BIG DADDY” CLAYMORE.

CONTINUED: (2)

The quiet before the storm. Skinner, Moe, French and Tub waiting, sitting in the BOAT, ARTILLERY THUMPING outside.

Skinner offers Cage CHEWING TOBACCO.Cage taking some, appreciating the gesture. Secretly spitting it out.

Cage sees Rita looking at him. Trusting him with her doubt. Needing to near it. As he smiles.

As she SMILES and the BAY DOORS open to reveal FRANCE below. The BLUE RIBBON of the RIVER SEINE visible.

Cage and the others slide their FACEPLATES down.CLOCKS COUNTING DOWN on the visors: “1h 36m 28s”

Cage CLOSING HIS EYES as TWO HUGE CLAMPS suddenly CLICK.

The DROP SHIP ZIPS TWENTY FEET over the SEINE as the ATTACK BOAT suddenly DROPS out of the hull.PLUMMETING --

THUMPING down. BOUNCING off the water’s surface as Skinner HITS THE THROTTLE, kicking out a huge WAKE...

Skinner drives the boat UP RIVER, Tub NAVIGATING.Moe manning a PULSE CANNON at the back of the boat, as Cage, French and Rita survey the FRENCH TOWNS and COUNTRYSIDE.

French looking at the DEVASTATION.The remnants of OLD BATTLES as they enter OUTER PARIS.SCARRED and EERIE.

Tub trying to get her attention. Her face ASH WHITE.

Cage seeing a SWARM OF APOSTLES above, policing the skies. Skinner STOPPING the boat, as they slide...

UNDER A BRIDGE:

Our team HIDING in the SHADOWS. SILENT. Listening.

Baited breath. Everyone on TENDER HOOKS. The Apostles SCREECHING above. The tension palpable until --

A RUSTLE interrupts. Cage seeing Tub UNWRAP a CANDY BAR.

Everyone staring anxiously upwards until --

The flock passes by, not seeing them, continuing it’s SWEEP. Everyone RELAXING. The boat CHUGGING forward.

Moe seeing SOMETHING in the WATER behind them.

As a SHADOW becomes pronounced under the water.

The SHADOW suddenly surging CLOSER and CLOSER until --

WHOOSH. It LEAPS out of the water. An AQUATIC-MIMIC. Segmented, 9’ long, INK BLACK. LONG ARTICULATED FINS covered in POISONOUS SPINES... SLICING through the air.

WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH. More AQUATIC-MIMICS attacking. SLAMMING the sides of the boat. Like TORPEDOES.

As Cage SLAMS the THROTTLE. The CHASE beginning.

Everyone handing him their GRENADES.Cage removing the SAFETY as he throws one in the water and --

BOOM! Mimic PARTS rain down all around them. Like fishing with dynamite. The grenades like DEPTH CHARGES. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! Fish in a barrel until --

THUD. One of the Aquatic-Mimics LANDS on the boat. FINS acting like SPIDER LEGS, as it runs SIDEWAYS along the walls. OVERHEAD on the CABIN CEILING, LEAPING for Rita --

SCHLAPP -- Moe SHOOTS it out of the air.Just in time.

As they see the PONT MIRABEAU BRIDGE COLLAPSED ahead. The REMNANTS of an OLD FIREFIGHT. The RIVER BLOCKED...

CONTINUED: (2)

Rita seeing the water FROTHING with MIMICS, no way out.

The remains of 12th squad RUNS through the streets of Paris. MIMICS running towards them on all sides.

Our team MOVING AS A UNIT. Cage on point. Rita bringing up the rear. Moe, Skinner, French and Tub moving in DEFENSIVE FORMATION, rotating, covering the perimeter.

Cage seeing they’re CUT OFF. Both EXIT STREETS BLOCKED with MIMICS. As Cage sees an OLD RESTAURANT AHEAD...

SIX FULLY LOADED U.D.F. SOLDIERS in EXO-JACKETS come CRASHING into this tiny restaurant.TABLES and CHAIRS flying as they HAUL ASS through the NARROW KITCHEN into --

Cage SMASHING through the BACK DOOR, as he sees MORE MIMICS running down the alley. Cage UNLEASHING his AUTO CANNON on the WALL AHEAD, shooting a MAN-MADE DOOR into --

Cage BURSTS through the wall into an old BAR.DUST and MASONRY everywhere. 12th keeping the MIMICS at bay. For now. As Cage looks out the WINDOW to see MORE MIMICS.

CRASH. A MIMIC jumps in through a WINDOW. French BLOWING it to pieces. Another DROPPING DOWN from the ATTIC above. Rita SLICING it in half, breathless --

Rita looking around, knowing they’re in trouble.As Moe takes a huge SWIG from a BOTTLE OF COGNAC.

They see her pointing outside at JAVEL METRO ENTRANCE. As Cage GRINS. Kissing French on the head.

Our team HAULS ASS inside. Mimics right behind them. As RITA GRENADES the ENTRANCE. DEBRIS sealing them in.

SHOULDER FLASHLIGHTS automatically ACTIVATING on the EXOJACKETS. As they look through the PITCH BLACK DARK.

French shining her light on a METRO MAP on the wall. POINTING at the EIFFEL TOWER STOP.FOUR STOPS away.

Soldiers stream like ANTS. The UDF preparing to invade. EXOJACKETS POUNDING against tarmac.As the BRIGADIER GENERAL checks his WATCH. Grabbing a LIEUTENANT.

As the Lieutenant nods and walks away.

The sound of BREATHING. SHOULDER LIGHTS illuminating 6 soldiers running in formation. French stopping as she SHINES HER LIGHT, and they see what she’s looking at...

ROW after ROW of DECOMPOSED HUMAN BODIES.Some STRUNG UP. Some LAID ON THE GROUND. Some in CAGES. The ROWS EERILY SYMMETRICAL. Mathematical. Going on for MILES.

As we see the bodies have all been EXPERIMENTED ON. DISSECTED. STUDIED. The remnants of TESTING.

French silent. Surrounded by what remains of her FELLOW COUNTRYMEN. Looking more and more DISTRAUGHT. Detached.

As she sees the TOUR EIFFEL STATION PLATFORM AHEAD.

Cage, Rita, Moe, Skinner, Tub and French all head up the METRO STAIRS into the LIGHT. Peaking out...

SEEING the HUGE EIFFEL TOWER ahead.A QUARTER MILE away. TENDRILS of ELECTRICAL CURRENT sporadically hitting it.

Cage stops her, seeing a PACK of REAVERS standing guard.

As we see French LOOKING AROUND HER.Looking at what has become of her city. HOLDING ON HER FACE.

And then French suddenly STANDS UP.Distant. Calm.

She slowly starts WALKING OUT into the STREET.

As she LOCKS AND LOADS. SCREAMING in FRENCH. Getting the Reavers’ attention. DISTRACTING THEM.

The BRIGADIER GENERAL stands facing the entire UDF ARMY. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS. As he talks into a PA SYSTEM.

Cage watches French MID-FIREFIGHT.RUNNING through her hometown, taking on the Reavers. UNLEASHING HELL.

Cage leads our team through the HUGE EIFFEL TOWER. French having CLEARED THE WAY. FIGHTING in the distance.

French sees her comrades make it to the tower in the DISTANCE. Seeing they’re clear. Relieved.

As the Reavers CLOSE IN. French smiling. At peace. KNEELING DOWN on the streets of Paris.CLOSING HER EYES.

Cage and the team RUN up a STAIRWELL to LEVEL ONE, 95 metres up. Hearing FRENCH’S SCREAMS over the RADIO.

Skinner, Tub and Moe DETACHING THREE PULSE CANNONS from their jackets. Forming three CANNON NESTS, SECURING THE TOWER BASE BELOW. As Cage and Rita head up to LEVEL TWO.

The General finishes up, looking at his army.

As the UDF ARMY CHEERS and the General CHECKS HIS WATCH.

Cage and Rita arrive 150 METRES UP in LEVEL TWO.Rita checking her HUD CLOCK: “22m 36s” left.As they SEARCH THE STRUCTURE. The METAL CRACKLING with ELECTRICITY.

Cage CARRIES the BIO-TRANSMITTER. The TOWER EMPTY. Rita seeing more MERCURY-like LIQUID on the ground.

As we see rows of HUNDREDS of eerily SYMMETRICAL AMNIOTIC SARCOPHAGI. Like VERTICAL COCOONS. Methodically laid out. ELECTRICAL CURRENT SPARKING around them.

Cage looking within the TRANSLUCENT COCOONS to see ALMOST FORMED SPIDER-LIKE MIMICS inside, unmistakable.LOOPERS.

As a LONG NEEDLE protrudes out of her EXO-JACKET WRIST.

Rita PIERCING the cocoon. EXTRACTING a SILVER-BLACK BLOOD SAMPLE from the creature as it STIRS within.

She loses the words. Seeing the BIO-ANALYSIS POP-UP on her HUD. Rita looking instantly NERVOUS.

Rita running a SECOND TEST. Anxious. CROSS CHECKING. As the sound of GUNFIRE suddenly interrupts --

Skinner, Moe and Tub LAY DOWN FIRE from their PULSE CANNON NESTS. PICKING off LONE MIMICS below. A HUGE HORDE of MIMICS flooding towards them in the distance.

Rita looks at the analysis, aghast.Cage impatient now.

She pulls out the “BIG DADDY” CLAYMORE.Prepping it.

Cage takes back the REMOTE DETONATOR.

As she looks at him. She NODS...

And then he suddenly HESITATES. Seeing something behind her. A GLISTEN at first. A DROP of MERCURY LIKE OOZE. And then a TENDRIL-LIKE LIMB, reaching around her --

Too late. Rita suddenly HOISTED INTO THE AIR, as our GUEST OF HONOR finally arrives and we meet our QUEEN...

Size does indeed matter. The JET-BLACK QUEEN IMPOSSIBLY HUGE. UNPACKING herself from the GIRDERS above. Her torso a STORM of SPINDLED LIMBS. Like RAZOR-SHARP TREE ROOTS, surrounding us. ELECTRICITY SPARKING...

CONTINUED: (2)

A 60 FOOT NIGHTMARE COME TO LIFE.

The WAVE of MIMIC SOLDIERS SWARM over one another like RATS ESCAPING A SHIP. Clambering up the tower’s LEGS.

The soldiers DRAGGING their GUNS to a UNIFIED POSITION.

Cage hears the sound of GUNFIRE as he looks up at Rita, being suspended THIRTY FEET in the air in front of him.

Cage seeing the HORRIFIC MAW of a FACE extend out of the body. EMOTIONLESS. The creature STRETCHING a long POINTED ROOT to Rita’s NECK. Threatening. CRUSHING her EXOJACKET. The jacket MALFUNCTIONING. ALARMS.

As a ROOT snakes over to the CLAYMORE, sliding the bomb over to CAGE’S FEET. Rita TALKING THROUGH HER RADIO.

Cage OPERATING a KEYPAD on his exojacket.

As Cage sees her jacket’s PRESSURE RELEASE kick in.

Rita suddenly EJECTING from her jacket.Her BODY PLUMMETING THIRTY FEET down to the ground as...

Cage RUNS, JUMPING forward as he GRABS her.CRADLING her body as he ROLLS to a stop, GRABBING THE CLAYMORE --

Cage pulls Rita inside, SLAMMING the door shut.The QUEEN’S ROOTS SLAMMING against the surrounding girders.

Cage GRABS the BIO-TRANSMITTER off of his suit.EJECTING his guns. Pulling out his BAYONETS.

Cage psyching himself up. The prize fighter before the big bout. Rita seeing THERE’S NO STOPPING HIM.

Cage exits to see the ENORMOUS QUEEN unfurling in front of him. His HUD analyzing her BODY MASS, isolating the SPINAL COLUMN. TARGETING the sweet spot ON HER BACK.

As he ENGAGES MAG-LOCK on his HUD.His jacket’s BOOTS ADHERING to the METAL TOWER STRUCTURE.

A flurry of RAZOR SHARP LIMBS suddenly SNAPPING towards him as Cage JUMPS - BOUNCING off of a GIRDER --

The “mag-lock” allowing him to RUN VERTICALLY UP THE SIDE OF THE GIRDERS. Even run UPSIDE DOWN...

As Cage SPRINTS upwards. The rules of physics no longer applying as he gets HIGHER AND HIGHER.

Looking down as the Queen starts to GIVE CHASE.LEAVING THE COCOONS DOWN BELOW. Following the bait.

The WAVE of MIMIC SOLDIERS is infiltrating. Skinner, Tub and Moe’s HUDS showing their AMMO COUNT depleting.

Tub laying down a COVER FIRE as Moe falls back with Skinner. Tub going to join them, when--

Tub turning to see the MIMICS CLIMB UP the structure BEHIND HIM. Tub LOOKING BACK AT THEM FATEFULLY...

As... SLAM. Tub is suddenly RIPPED APART. LIMB FROM LIMB. Skinner seeing MORE MIMICS coming BEHIND THEM TOO.

THAP! A JAVELIN suddenly SLAMMIMG into Skinner’s SHOULDER. Skinner going down. Moe PULLING HIM BACK. DRAGGING him away. As the MIMICS close in for the kill.

Rita SETS the big daddy claymore in the middle of the GRID OF COCOONS. PREPPING the REMOTE DETONATOR. BEEP.

As she sees the new species starting to STIR WITHIN THE COCOONS. One of the sarcophagi slowly STARTING TO HATCH.

Cage is MID-BATTLE. FIGHTING at the TOP OF THE TOWER. The Queen like a sci-fi nightmare of KING KONG.Cutting a TERRIFYING SILHOUETTE against the PARISIAN CITY SCAPE.

Cage follows his HUD to the TARGET AREA on the Queen’s back. Fighting on the QUEEN HERSELF. Running from LIMB TO LIMB. DODGING the razor-sharp ROOTS. Impossible.

A storm of JAVELINS and ELECTRIC TENDRILS surrounding him, a MAZE OF DEATH. Cage trying to get position when --

SHHHICK... A JAVELIN suddenly RIPS through his side.

Cage sent FLYING BACK. Our hero GRABBING a GIRDER just in time. Now HANGING over the 300 foot DROP below.

Rita sees Cage DANGLING way up above.As the COCOONS all start to CRACK and HATCH around her.Closer and closer.

Moe DRAGS Skinner so their BACKS ARE TO THE WALL.Moe unloading their REMAINING AMMO. Final rounds.

Moe saying nothing, watching his AMMO as it slowly counts down. Almost gone. Moe the LAST MAN STANDING.

The Queen SLITHERS over to Cage. His FINGERS starting to SLIP. The Queen bringing her head CLOSER.

She stares blankly at him. Emotionless. Watching on as a SINGLE POINTED ROOT extends towards Cage’s HANDS.

And then she calmly SLICES OFF his LEFT HAND.Cage SWALLOWING the PAIN. Now hanging by one hand. DEFIANT.

The Queen’s face EXPRESSIONLESS. Devoid of sympathy or life. As the root reaches for Cage’s other hand and --

PFFFT. The root suddenly DISAPPEARS. BLOWN TO PIECES.

The Queen looking down, confused, to see Rita below on LEVEL TWO. Wearing her BATTERED OLD DISCARDED EXOJACKET. Sniping with her jacket’s AUTOCANNON.

The distraction all the opportunity that Cage needs.As in a final feat of strength he suddenly PULLS HIMSELF UP with his GOOD ARM, HAULING himself upwards...

Climbing onto a GIRDER - running UPSIDE DOWN along it...

DROPPING DOWN ONTO THE QUEEN’S BACK - following his HUD to the TARGET AREA, pulling out the BIO-TRANSMITTER, RAMMING it down onto the QUEEN’S SPINE --

The QUEEN REELING as the bio-transmitter’s PINCER CLAWS attach like STAPLES, connecting to her NERVOUS SYSTEM --

This monstrous beast letting out an awful SCREECH as electricity CHARGES around her like a TESLA BALL.Cage RUNNING. LEAPING off of her, CATCHING a GIRDER just as --

BWAAAMMMM -- A THUNDEROUS PULSE of ELECTRICITY suddenly circles out of the enormous Mimic’s VIBRATING body. Rippling out into the PARIS CITYSCAPE and FRANCE BEYOND.

Moe’s AMMO COUNT hits ZERO. The WALL of MIMICS now just feet away, a FEROCIOUS MIMIC reaching out for them as --

It’s HEAD is suddenly RIPPED OFF by another Mimic.

The Mimics all suddenly TURNING ON EACH OTHER.RIPPING each other to pieces, tearing each other LIMB FROM LIMB.

And sure enough, the Mimic armyis destroying itself. THOUSANDS of Mimics ripping into one another in a mass of WRITHING BODY PARTS. Like a huge CARNIVOROUS SNAKE PIT.

The BRIGADIER GENERAL watches a huge BANK OF MONITORS.A myriad CAMERA VIEWS on the BATTLE.The entire control room in SHOCK, watching the MIMICS TURN ON EACH OTHER.

As we see the UDF soldiers OPENING FIRE on the exposed Mimic army. Helping the rabid enemy DEFEAT ITSELF.

Cage hurries down the Eiffel tower.DODGING LIMBS as the LIVID QUEEN gives chase. The awful SCREECH continuing.

Rita checks the claymore. Pulling out the REMOTE DETONATOR. RUNNING through the HATCHING COCOONS.

As she sees Moe PULLING SKINNER UP from level one.

Moe shaking his head. As the WHINE of RAMJETS intrudes and they see a UDF DROPSHIP SWOOPS DOWN.BAY DOORS OPEN.

ANGLE ON CAGE:

As he all but FALLS DOWN the tower - LEAPING PARKOUR STYLE. CLOSER AND CLOSER TO LEVEL TWO...

Cage seeing his team ALREADY INSIDE the dropship ahead. SPRINTING to them. The Queen CLOSER TO HIM NOW.

Cage running for all he’s worth. Almost to the edge of the tower as a LONG BLACK ROOT reaches out to grab him --

And Cage JUMPS. Leap of faith. FINGERS OUTSTRETCHED...

Rita GRABS CAGE’S HAND. Not letting go. Pulling him in.

The drop ship LIFTING AWAY. Our team almost clear when --

THAP! THAP! THAP! The ship is suddenly RIDDLED WITH THE QUEEN’S JAVELINS, the aircraft PITCHING sideways --

As Rita sees the REMOTE DETONATOR SLIDE OUT HER JACKET!

The detonator TUMBLING out of the ship, DISAPPEARING down into the innards of the tower. LOST FOREVER. GONE.

Rita looking at him. Shaking her head. As she grabs a GUN. Getting ready to go back in, YELLING at the Pilot.

As Cage gets ready to go back in. TAKING THE GUN.

Rita looking at him. Skinner and Moe watching on.

Cage HANDING HER SOMETHING. Pressing it into his hand.

Rita not knowing what to say as --

He KISSES her.

The STOLEN MOMENT lingering for the TINIEST OF SECONDS. A WORLD IN THEIR PERFECT KISS. FINALLY TOGETHER for the briefest of moments. Rita BREATHLESS, as he pulls away.

CONTINUED: (2)

As Cage suddenly lets himself go. FALLING BACKWARDS out of the dropship doors. Cage getting SMALLER AND SMALLER as he DISAPPEARS DOWN BELOW. Rita left ALONE above.

Looking down to see his SERGEANT STRIPES in her hand.

Cage SLAMS into the IRON FLOOR. His AUTOLAND kicking in. As he looks up at the QUEEN. CURLING AROUND HIM. His old nemesis. Cage pulling his BAYONETS with a smile.

Rita looks back at the Eiffel Tower, getting SMALLER in the distance. Skinner and Moe flanking her. ALL THAT REMAINS OF 12TH SQUAD. As they look back...

Cage FIGHTING HIS FINAL BATTLE. And never has he fought with more grace. As he SPINS and SLICES his way through the MIGHTY QUEEN’S LIMBS. Impossible to defeat...

LANDING next to the CLAYMORE. The Queen seeing the BOMB. Cage EJECTING from his SUIT. One TINY MAN, dwarfed by her magnificence. One HUMAN FINGER on the BUTTON.

As Clay KNEELS DOWN and pulls his SON’S PHOTO from his jacket. Crossing himself with it THREE TIMES.

The Queen SCREECHING a DEATH CRY, as --

A FLASH OF WHITE. And then a BOOM. The Eiffel Tower INCINERATED. A SQUARE MILE of PARIS removed from the face of the earth, as a DEMI-SPHERE of IONIC CHARGE spreads from the epicenter. Rita HOLDING ON TIGHT.

Not wanting to let go.

The dropship soars over the REMAINS of occupied France. Every SPECIES of MIMIC attacking each other below.HUGE REAVERS wiping out THOUSANDS OF ROACHES.ARTILLERY JAVELINS attacking APOSTLES. Mimic bedlam.

As we see the BEACHES OF NORMANDY.The UDF INVASION already a HUGE SUCCESS. The threat of counter invasion, or nuclear reprisal, nothing more than a DISTANT DREAM.

Adam SITS on his Father’s bunk. Waiting patiently.

Adam looking up to see RITA standing in the DOORWAY.The young boy curiously calm. Almost like he expected it.

Rita SITTING next to him. Putting her ARM around him. Saying all the things she never had the chance to say.

As she hands the little boy his Father’s STRIPES.

The Brigadier General follows Rita across the base.

And then she stops. Somewhere between DISBELIEF and EXCITEMENT. Looking over at the ARMORY.

Rita RUNS in, seeing MECHANICS repairing her JACKET.As she pushes through, opening the JACKET ARM to find BIO- SENSORS within. The NEEDLE Rita used to test the COCOON.

As attached to the needle we see a VIAL OF BLACK BLOOD.

Rita BURSTS in. Grabbing a HYPO-NEEDLE. Inserting it into the VIAL. Pulling the BLACK BLOOD through.

As Rita PULLS UP HER SLEEVE and SMACKS a VEIN.Going to INJECT the blood into her system, as she SPIKES BLOOD.

The General looking at her confused, until...

Rita standing back. CLOSING HER EYES.

Rita FOCUSING HER ENERGY. ELECTRICITY SPARKING...

As the IMAGE SUDDENLY SHUDDERS with a STATIC WHINE and --

Rita SKIPS A BREATH.

Getting her bearings. As she sees Cage saying goodbye to his son. The FAMILIAR SCENE. Cage leaving, SEEING HER.

She looks at him. SMILING. Gathering her breath.

Rita watches 12TH SQUAD get ready.Abba PLAYING THE STONES. Tub WEDGED into his jacket. Moe STRIPPING OFF.

Rita sees Cage grabbing the BIO-TRANSMITTER.

We hear the familiar KEITH RICHARDS guitar.“TIME IS ON MY SIDE” beginning. Rita smiling at Cage.

Cage looking at 12th SQUAD gearing up all around him.

As she smiles and JAGGER’S VOCALS FINALLY KICK IN and --

The quiet before the storm. 12th SQUAD preparing to go into battle. As we see the FAMILIAR FACES on our team.

SKINNER chewing tobacco. TUB chewing a CANDY BAR.

MOE telling a joke. FRENCH LAUGHING, loading a GUN.

And then RITA herself. Looking at Cage. Content.

As she PLACES SOMETHING in his hand for safe keeping.

Cage looking down at his hand, confused.Looking at her.

As she suddenly STEALS A KISS while no one is looking. Pulling him closer. Eyes closed.

Cage lost in the kiss. The only two people in the world.

As we reveal TWO REMOTE DETONATORS in his hand, Mr. Jagger kicks us into SECOND GEAR and we --

CUT TO BLACK:

The End