The Last Assassins (2026) Movie Script
1
[strange undulating music]
[man] We'd tell the children
stories of the Old World.
Before "the event".
The fog.
The endless winter...
when summer still bloomed
and the old kings reigned.
A world of endless technology.
[electricity buzzes]
Until the event.
[electricity fizzles away]
It decimated cities,
crippled technology,
thrust us into darkness.
A once-powerful civilization
reduced to squalor,
with only traces of technology
from before the chaos
and the famine.
We tell the children
to take back what's theirs.
To bring honor
to their families.
We tell them
this is their destiny.
[dark, ominous music]
[wind howling]
[dark, ominous music continues]
[van rumbles past]
[indistinct child's voice
repeating words]
[indistinct child's voice
repeating words]
[inhales sharply]
[crackling]
[startling beat]
[system] Motion detected.
Warning.
[doors crash open]
[system] Perimeter breach.
[panting]
- What's happening?
- Come. Now!
[soft, tense music]
So sorry.
There are things
I should have told you.
- Dad?
- Anybody comes, kill them.
I love you.
- I love you too.
Wait. Wait!
[startling beat]
[mechanical suit whines]
[echoing footsteps thud]
[deep breathing]
[footsteps thud]
[sighs]
[slurps]
[deep breathing]
[mechanical suits whine]
[grunts]
[grunting]
[grunting]
[gasping]
[mechanical suits whine]
[grunting]
[sobbing]
[distant grunts]
[grunting]
[blade clangs on sheath]
[plastic crinkles]
[labored grunts]
[grunting]
- Where is she?
- Go to hell.
[gasping]
[sword clangs]
[man grunts]
[whimpering]
[man gurgles and chokes]
[gurgling]
[sighs]
[groaning]
- Where is she? Your friend?
[unsettling music]
[blade clangs on sheath]
[heavy breathing]
[door crashes open]
[music quickens]
[unnerving music]
[shaky breathing]
[distant thud]
[distant clang]
[grunts]
[mechanical suit whines]
[woman grunting]
[sword clangs]
[tense music intensifies]
- Hey.
[object thuds]
[grunting, swords clanging]
- Nobel.
- Shh.
[cage door rattles]
[door creaks shut]
[wind howling]
[breathing rapidly]
[soft uncertain music]
[Nobel] Come on.
- Where are we going?
- Countryside.
- Outside the city?
- Get in.
[car rumbles away]
[thudding footsteps approach]
[heavy breathing]
[gentle apprehensive music]
[car revving]
[gentle apprehensive music
continues]
[car revving]
[music stops]
[wind howling]
[engine revving loudly]
[brakes squeal]
[parking brake cranks]
[exhales]
- You can come out.
- I'll raise an army.
- Hmm.
- The cartels were loyal
to my family
and my vengeance will be--
- Listen to me.
Your father's dead.
There is no loyalty
outside this car.
It's just you and me, Kid.
Vengeance?
It's endless and it's empty.
- Swear the oath.
[scoffs]
Swear the oath.
Or do those words
no longer matter?
- I pledged my sword
to your father
and to your family
and all the shit
that comes with it.
And I do not need you
to remind me of what that means.
[deep inhale and exhale]
[dark threatening music]
[car rumbles away]
[alarm beeping softly]
[system] Check engine.
Check engine.
[unsettling droning music]
- Where are we going exactly?
- It's just an old scavenge run.
There's not too many eyes
on this road,
and just a few locals
who are too stupid to move.
- And then what?
- And then, I don't know.
Try the engine.
There's a switch
under the wheel.
Under the wheel.
[switch clicks]
[engine sputters]
- Okay. Okay.
[clacking]
All right, try it again.
[engine turns over]
[dashboard beeping]
- Why is the dash blinking?
[weighty somber music]
- Nobel, if you're seeing
this message,
then I have fallen victim
to our enemy's blades.
Their reach is long,
but it must never
find my daughter.
You have been a trusted
friend and protector.
There is something
should have told you long ago.I
Metiseaya is alive.
- That isn't possible.
- She hides at the old
flowing house
deep in the Foglands.
I trust you still
remember the way.
Bring Athena to Metiseaya.
She will protect her.
Goodbye.
[hologram beeps off]
- Who's Metiseaya?
- Your aunt.
- I have an aunt?
How far is the house?
- It's beyond the fog.
Get in.
[revving]
[wind howling]
[sighs]
Eat.
- Rations?
- Not much fresh
outside the city.
- Why was I never told
about my aunt?
Metiseaya...
You knew her?
- Very well.
- Very... well?
- She died a long time ago.
- Sounds like she didn't.
What else aren't you telling me?
[dashboard chimes]
[system] Check engine.
- We need a repair.
[The Kid] Is there
anybody out here?
[Nobel] There used to be an old
machine shop out this way.
- What if there isn't?
Will it make us sick?
- Eventually.
You're gonna want that
when it gets heavier.
[static crackling]
[tires crunch on snow]
[ominous music]
[Nobel] Stay here.
- Hmm.
[door rattles]
[sighs]
[knock echoes on glass]
[woman over speaker] You want
gas, you gotta pay first.
[ominous music intensifies]
[window creaks]
- These... will encrypt
ham radios. Huh?
Eh?
[coins clang in tray]
- What are you playing at?
- No games. Car needs fixing.
- We don't need your money.
[wind howling]
[car door shuts]
[coins clang]
- I just need to get
her back on the road.
[coins clang]
- Pull it in the garage.
[Nobel] We're staying.
[window shuts]
- That's an old car.
- Yeah, it gets me around.
- Well, I can take
a look at it.
Parts are pretty scarce
around here.
I got a little bunk out back.
Make yourselves comfortable.
[footsteps tap away]
- Come on.
[huffs]
[plastic door rattles closed]
- Hey.
- Ugh.
- You'll develop a taste for it.
- I won't.
- Huh.
- Last night, I heard
the guy say, "Where is she?"
They were looking for me.
Why?
- I don't know.
- Well, clan rivalry?
I'm the only heir.
Get me outta the way,
there's no one to compete with.
- Look, doesn't make
sense to me, okay?
Your father was useful.
He built tech.
You don't kill people
who are useful.
- Then we hire
more people like you.
Soldiers.
I want revenge.
- Revenge is gonna lead nowhere.
All right, look,
we are gonna find your aunt,
and if she's still alive,
you're gonna have
a new life with her.
- I had a life.
[Nobel] Don't go out there.
- Why?
- Because everything outside
the city is death.
- That's absurd.
We didn't see a single
car on the highway.
- Oh.
- My father planned for me
to be a great leader.
My family is nobility.
From the old kings.
Before the event.
Back when they had summer.
- Kid, shut up.
Get some rest.
- I've had rest.
- Then suit yourself.
[Nobel huffs]
- Do you think
they have a daughter?
[poignant music]
[wind gusting]
[static crackling]
[door rattles]
- Hello?
[woman over speaker] It's open.
[buzzer honks, door clunks]
[buzzer honks, door clunks]
Sit where you want.
You hungry?
- Yeah.
- We can make you
runny eggs and toast.
- Got anything else?
- Nope.
- Then I suppose I'm having
runny eggs on toast.
- Runny eggs on toast!
[uncertain music]
Ahem!
Coffee?
- Yeah.
- There.
- Thanks.
- Mm-hmm.
- You guys seem really nice.
- Heh.
- Why do you live here?
- It's not much,
but it's ours, and...
and it's a lot more
than most people have now.
Where are you all from?
- East.
- City?
You have family there?
- No.
[music turns tender briefly]
[slurps coffee]
[inaudible conversation]
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
[music becomes ominous]
- Good, isn't it?
- Mm-hmm.
- Uh, your friend's asleep
in the garage.
- Yeah. He had a day.
[woman] Fix the car.
Some water?
- Yeah.
[jug rattling on glass]
[rattling steadies]
[beads jingle]
[The Kid inhales shakily]
- There's a proper bathroom
out back.
You can wash up there.
It's clean.
- Thank you.
[strange undulating music]
[light clicks on then buzzes]
[door closes]
[loud distant banging]
[banging]
[man over monitor]
Open the door!
[buzzer honks, door opens]
[slow inhale]
Friggin' right.
Yeah, don't mind if I do.
Mm.
Mm! Mm! Ah!
Fabulous.
Hey!!
[loud banging]
Come on, let's go!
Ah!
There she is.
- Is she okay? I have money.
- Oh, do you?
[shrieks]
Mm, then go get it.
[male owner] You don't need
to come in here like a maniac.
- Hey? Hey. Who's a maniac?
[female owner breathing shakily]
Just another walk
in the country!
[breathing shakily]
[bandit grunts]
[grunting]
[gasping]
Oh, wow, would you look
at this automobile?
You finally selling that old
crippled body for a trade?
- Please, stop. Stop. Here.
- What the hell is that?
- It's valuable.
- Oh, it's valuable?
- Look, it's valuable.
- It's... is it valuable?
- Really!
[bandit] See, something's
just not adding up now, is it?
Listen, I'm gonna take
double from you now,
or you'll never see her again!
- Please! No!!
[male owner gasping]
- Hey, hey, hey, hey.
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
- On your knees!
- I'll do whatever you wa--
- Oh, oh, and you? Watch?
[stammering]
- Oh, okay. Okay. Okay.
[grumbling]
- Good boy.
Open your mouth.
Open... your mouth!
[panicked breathing]
Wider!
[gagging]
Oh, yeah...
[bandit laughs maniacally]
You're gonna love
this part, bitch!
- No!!
- Stop!!
[bandit] Oh, my God.
What do we have?
[The Kid screams]
Oh, I love it.
[crazed laughter]
Oh, you're funny.
[Nobel] That's enough.
- Who the hell are you?
[thudding blow, grunting]
[bandit gasping]
[knife swishes]
- No, no, no, no! No!
[female owner] Please!!
- He has their daughter!
He has their daughter.
[crazed laughter]
[The Kid] Let him go. Please.
[bandit choking]
[bandit] Get outta my way!
[door opens]
[bandit coughing]
[door shuts]
- We're leaving. Come on.
[The Kid groans]
[The Kid] Get off me.
- Get your shit in the car.
- They need our help.
- Yeah, well we can't help them.
- You swore to my family.
I'm ordering you.
- I'm not your dog, Kid.
Get my car off this lift.
- Uh-huh.
[groans]
- Where is she?
[male owner] There's a building
to the northwest,
off the main roads,
at the edge of the Foglands.
Th-that's where their trucks go.
[door creaks open]
- Hey... what're you doin'?
What're you doin'?
[door shuts]
- I'm not afraid to die.
- There are worse things
out there than death.
[grunts]
Hey. Hey!
That kid is as good as dead.
Get in the car.
We're gonna find your aunt.
- And then what? Huh?
We just hide out?
How did that work out
for my father?
[stirring emotional music]
- All right.
You wanna live through this,
you're gonna do exactly
as I say.
You're gonna follow my lead.
Understood?
[grunts]
[stirring music builds]
[car rumbles]
[stirring music quiets]
[uncertain music]
[indistinct mumblings]
[The Kid] What're they
gonna do with them?
[Nobel] They sell them
to the highest bidder.
- For what?
- Donors.
[Nobel] Get ready to move.
[tense electronic music
building]
[Nobel] Go.
[The Kid panting]
Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
Can't save 'em all.
- We can try.
- Oh no,
where we gonna take 'em?
We came here for one girl.
- And I'm gonna find her.
- Be quick.
Come on.
[tense music intensifies]
[captives crying
and panicking quietly]
[man] Hurry up!
[knock on door]
[captives panic]
[tense music continues]
[The Kid] I'm looking
for a girl.
She lives around here.
- Come on. Come on!
[knock on door]
[captives panic]
[muffled] There!
- Shh! Shh!
[indistinct moans]
Shh! Shh!
[young man screams]
[captives screaming loudly]
Shh! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
[loud muffled cries and screams]
[all screaming]
[latch grinding]
[grunting]
[guard] Go check it out. There.
[tense music continues]
[captives screaming]
- Shut up!
[The Kid] Where's the girl?
[grunts]
[breathing heavily]
[heavy ominous music]
[bag thumps]
[Nobel sighs]
[ominous music]
[Nobel] You sure
you wanna do this?
[The Kid] Yeah.
[metal scrapes in distance]
[gasps]
[ominous music continues]
[sword swishes out of sheath]
[sword swishes, loud grunt]
[grunting]
[bandit] No, no, no,
no, no!
[grunting]
[grunting continues in distance]
[bandit grunting]
[shallow rapid breathing]
- Where is she?
[crazed laughter]
[bandit] All I got here
is donors and dog food.
[thud]
Oh, God!
[choking]
- The girl you took
from those people.
[shallow breathing]
- She's in the last one
on the left.
[thud]
Gah!
Hey... hey, man, I get ya
a lot on the West Coast
for a little piece
of spice like that.
- You just shut your mouth.
[bandit grunts in distance]
[tense gripping music]
[shaky breathing]
[strange undulating music]
[light clinking, buzzing]
[panicked breathing]
- Kid?
- Heh, heh.
Hey, you see something
you like, hey?
[crazed laughter]
[Nobel] Kid? Kid?
[sword swishes]
Kid?
- Surprise!!
[screams]
- No!!
[thud]
- Yah!
[sword clangs to floor]
[screams]
[wind howling]
[car revving]
[dark music]
- That man I killed?
He was horrible.
- Yeah.
- And he deserved to die.
- Yeah.
- So then why
do I feel like this?
Did you kill people
with my father?
- We're not the good guys.
- The tech, what was it?
- It was black-market stuff.
- Well, I know that.
Everything's black-market stuff.
What was it really?
- Cybernetics.
Life extensions,
transhumanist shit.
- Those people on the trucks...
...we're part of that,
aren't we?
- No. No.
You're not a part of any of it.
- And my father knew?
- Yeah. Yeah.
Can you live with that?
- I don't know.
[car revving]
[car rumbles to stop]
[ominous music]
- Stay here.
[breathing heavily]
[breathing heavily]
Get back in the car!
[car revving]
[tense electronic music]
[system] Vehicle detected.
- Shit.
[system] Warning.
- Okay.
[system speaking
foreign language]
[system beeps]
[strained breathing]
- C'mon. C'mon.
[tense music continues]
[breathing heavily]
- I feel sick.
- It's the fog.
Here, just um...
...put this on.
[The Kid] Put one on too.
- I'm fine.
- Please just put it on!
- I'm fine.
That's good.
[Nobel] Fine.
[engine revving loudly]
[The Kid coughing]
[parking brake clicks]
[tires screech]
[engine revving loudly]
[music quiets]
[The Kid] What are you doing?
[Nobel] I'm hiding.
I don't see them.
I think they missed the turn.
[The Kid] What was that?
[Nobel] I don't know.
I think we lost them.
[engine revving loudly]
[The Kid cries]
[Nobel] What's wrong? What?
[The Kid] We're gonna
die out here.
[Nobel] Yeah.
[sobbing]
[The Kid] This is all
completely insane.
[Nobel] It's okay,
it's not that bad.
[The Kid] No, it's horrible.
[sobbing]
Look out!
[Nobel grunts]
[tires pop]
[tires screech]
[grunting]
[wind howling]
[panicked echoey breathing]
[The Kid] Nobel?
Nobel!
Nobel!
[grunting]
[desolate music]
Nobel? Nobel, wake up. Wake up.
[dazed grunts]
Wake up. We're in trouble.
[Nobel] Are you okay?
[The Kid] I'm fine.
What about you?
- No, no, no, leave it on.
Leave it on. Leave it on.
I'm okay.
[Nobel] We gotta go.
[The Kid] What is it?
[Nobel] Cannibals.
Come on.
[desolate music continues]
[loud distant cracking]
[footsteps crunching in snow]
[loud distant crack]
[sword clangs out of sheath]
[rocks spatter]
[spattering]
[distant growl]
[chain jingling]
[grunts]
- Ah!
[grunting, swords clanging]
[grunting]
[light snarling]
- Come on.
[growls]
Yah!
[breathing heavily]
[panicked breathing]
Ahh!
Argh!
- Nobel!!
[snarling]
[Nobel grunting]
- Run!
[suspenseful music]
[grunting]
[footsteps crunch in snow]
[panting]
[growls softly]
[chain jingling]
[footsteps approach]
[panicked breathing]
[ominous music]
[growling softly]
[crying]
[intrigued growls]
[chain jingling]
[panting]
[growls softly]
[thudding]
[grunting]
[choked exclamations]
[The Kid panting]
[uncertain music]
[music fades]
[deep exhales]
[soft tense music]
[wind howling]
[eerie ethereal music]
- Los bienaventurados
sufren en silencio.
[Nobel] "The blessed
suffer in silence."
[teary exhale]
They're offerings...
from those that passed
through the land.
[wind howling]
Should leave something.
[tender music]
[The Kid] My mother,
what was she like?
[Nobel] She was a good person.
We were all born out here
near the fog.
Your mother, your aunt, and me,
we grew up together.
- My father told me
she died after she had me.
- It was the only time
I ever saw your father cry.
Not long after that,
he took you.
I went with him.
He was like a brother to me.
- And my aunt?
Why won't you talk about her?
- We were in love.
[door opens and creaks shut]
[music fades]
- I was expecting
more of a house.
- This is one of your
father's early labs.
[solemn music]
[clunk]
- What's happening?
- I don't know.
[hologram whines]
- She looks familiar.
- That's your mother.
And your aunt.
Not much older than you are now.
[hologram whines]
[The Kid] Is this here?
- This is right after
you were born.
[hologram whines]
[solemn music continues]
- Does it follow you too?
- No.
- Is that you... and my aunt?
- Yeah.
[hologram whines]
[The Kid] What are these?
- They're memories.
- Whose?
[loud buzz]
[woman] They're mine.
[gasps]
I'm your aunt, Metiseaya.
Nobel.
[voice echoes]
- How?
- You look just like
your mother.
- I do?
I've never seen one of these
before. Who is that?
Metiseaya] That's your uncle.[
- He disappeared.
[The Kid] My father never
mentioned my uncle.
Or you.
- Your father is
a complicated man.
- Was... complicated.
- Oh, child.
[mechanical beep]
I'm so sorry.
- He was murdered.
- Murdered? By who?
- We don't know yet.
- What are you?
[hologram glitches]
- Have you ever seen
your father's work?
Come with me.
[voice echoes]
[heavy uncertain music]
[Metiseaya] Come in. Come in.
Make yourselves at home.
[The Kid] Is that water?
- There's still clean
water in the system.
It's perfectly safe.
It comes from the aquifer
beneath the building.
- I remember.
[water rushes]
[slurps]
- How is it?
- Yeah.
[water splashes in canteen]
- Would you like to see
how this works?
It was one of his first.
t records and replays memories.I
- Yeah.
- Sit.
[Metiseaya] He started by
ecording the neural activationr
of the visual cortex.
As he told it,
that wasn't enough.
Go ahead. Try it.
[voice echoing]
It's okay. It's safe.
You hold it, both hands.
- Hey, Kid,
your dad didn't want you
anywhere near this stuff.
I don't like this.
- Well, it's not
your decision to make.
[tense music]
Now what?
- Close your eyes and...
think of a memory.
- Anyone's?
No. They must share your DNA.-
Me. Your father.
Your mother.
- I want to see my mom.
- Just let the memory
absorb you.
[mechanical whoosh]
[light buzzing and clinking]
[mechanical whoosh]
[sighs]
- Kid?
- I saw her.
- And how do you feel now?
- Keeps playing
over and over again.
Like it's stuck inside me.
- Memory is multidimensional.
The threads of it,
hey are created in your brain.t
When you experience
the memory of someone else...
[Nobel grunting]
...essentially they become
a part of you,
as you become a part of them.
Something wrong?
[soft gasping]
- I don't feel well.
- Nobel?
[ominous music]
[groaning]
- What did you do?
- Your father knew
you were the solution.
Before he left me
to rot in this prison.
But if consciousness
can be moved
from a living body
into a digital system...
[groans]
...then the process could be
reversed with the right donor.
[rapid breathing]
You, my darling niece,
you are the right donor.
I just had to show you
how to find me.
[strained breathing]
[ominous music]
[body thuds]
[heavy breathing through mask]
[footsteps thud]
[sword clangs out of sheath]
[sword squelches]
[pained groan]
[sword slices]
[strained exhales]
[Nobel groans]
[footsteps thud heavily]
[eerie music]
[ominous music]
[knife rasps on sheath]
[knob clicks]
[electrical humming]
You couldn't even begin
to understand
what it is to be
without form.
[clicking, whirring]
I've been kept alive
to live in this cage.
I've been bound to this place.
To that...
withering body.
[heavy breathing]
[strange ethereal music]
This is where
you are meant to be.
[knob clicks]
[rapid breathing]
- That's no way
to treat your uncle.
[rapid breathing]
[knob clicks]
[system] Neural pathways
engaged.
- Let's begin.
[system] Initiating
cognitive transfer.
Memory synapses secured.
eady for personality migration.R
Extracting consciousness.
[loud clunk]
[strange squelching]
[gasps sharply]
- Are you okay?
[rapid breathing]
- Mom?
How?
- We found you out in the fog.
[The Kid grunting]
You've been unconscious
for weeks.
- How is that possible?
[Mom, disembodied voice]
Who are you to say
what is possible?
[The Kid] What are you?
- I am a digital apparition.
- Who else is here?
- Just your father and I.
- He's alive?
[plastic crinkles]
[Dad, echoing] Athena?!
- Dad?
This is all a lie.
None of this is real.
[plastic crinkles]
[mechanical whirring]
What's happening?
- I don't know.
- Well then, I can't trust you.
- Don't be stupid.
We're basically family.
[sword clangs]
[system] Detecting synaptic
parameters.
- What's happening?
[electrical crackles]
[gasps]
- Let me show you our memories.
[electrical sizzles]
[sword clangs]
- Ah!
[The Kid gasping]
- Shh...
[system] Uploading
identity matrix.
- Huh?
[system] Initializing
identity protocol.
- You are far greater,
far greater...
[panting]
...than anyone has
ever told you.
Far greater.
[electrical sizzling]
- Ah!
- You have a river within you.
It... it flows
out into the world.
[heavy breathing]
[faint groans]
- You can feel destiny.
Can't you? Can't you?
[echoing] I don't understand.
I don't understand.
[mom] Your father
has left you...
a dynasty.
Our past.
[thrusts knife]
- Ah...
[groans]
[system] Optimizing
neural efficiency.
[electrical sizzling]
[system] Beginning
host integration.
[faint groans]
[mechanical whooshing building]
- No. This isn't right.
- It is.
It is!
Let... me... in!
[strange mechanical babbles]
- There's no oath.
[bandit grunting]
[system] Processing.
- Nobility, destiny...
sworn protector shit.
It's just a better story
to tell your little girl
than the one about how
the world's shit
and she has no future.
[low undulating]
[system] Uploading.
[boom]
[panicked breathing]
[sobbing]
[sobbing]
[calm, ethereal music]
[sobbing]
[ominous music]
[pulsing mechanical
whooshing]
[system] Identity
transfer status.
[deep breathing]
[heavy breathing through mask]
[deep inhale and exhale]
[thrusts knife]
- For my father.
[thrusts knife]
[grunts]
[gasping]
[thudding to ground]
[determined breathing]
- Well, you have
your vengeance now.
So how does it feel?
- You're bleeding out.
[rips fabric]
- You should go. You should go.
[Nobel winces]
- I can't leave you.
You're family, remember?
[The Kid grunts]
- Tighter.
[Nobel winces]
[mechanical buzz]
- Please...
You can't leave me like this.
[The Kid grunts]
Athena...
I'm sorry.
He wouldn't let me die.
You have to kill me.
- I could.
But you deserve your prison.
- No.
Athena, no!
[screams]
No! No! No!
[foot thudding]
[unsettling music]
[Metiseaya sobbing]
[warbled glitching screams]
[hologram glitching]
No, no!
No!
No!
Someone!
[breathing deeply]
[intense music]
[instense music continues]
[instense music continues]
[grim music]
[grim music continues]
[tense, thumping music]
[tense, thumping music
continues]
[tense, thumping music
continues]
[music fades]
[strange undulating music]
[man] We'd tell the children
stories of the Old World.
Before "the event".
The fog.
The endless winter...
when summer still bloomed
and the old kings reigned.
A world of endless technology.
[electricity buzzes]
Until the event.
[electricity fizzles away]
It decimated cities,
crippled technology,
thrust us into darkness.
A once-powerful civilization
reduced to squalor,
with only traces of technology
from before the chaos
and the famine.
We tell the children
to take back what's theirs.
To bring honor
to their families.
We tell them
this is their destiny.
[dark, ominous music]
[wind howling]
[dark, ominous music continues]
[van rumbles past]
[indistinct child's voice
repeating words]
[indistinct child's voice
repeating words]
[inhales sharply]
[crackling]
[startling beat]
[system] Motion detected.
Warning.
[doors crash open]
[system] Perimeter breach.
[panting]
- What's happening?
- Come. Now!
[soft, tense music]
So sorry.
There are things
I should have told you.
- Dad?
- Anybody comes, kill them.
I love you.
- I love you too.
Wait. Wait!
[startling beat]
[mechanical suit whines]
[echoing footsteps thud]
[deep breathing]
[footsteps thud]
[sighs]
[slurps]
[deep breathing]
[mechanical suits whine]
[grunts]
[grunting]
[grunting]
[gasping]
[mechanical suits whine]
[grunting]
[sobbing]
[distant grunts]
[grunting]
[blade clangs on sheath]
[plastic crinkles]
[labored grunts]
[grunting]
- Where is she?
- Go to hell.
[gasping]
[sword clangs]
[man grunts]
[whimpering]
[man gurgles and chokes]
[gurgling]
[sighs]
[groaning]
- Where is she? Your friend?
[unsettling music]
[blade clangs on sheath]
[heavy breathing]
[door crashes open]
[music quickens]
[unnerving music]
[shaky breathing]
[distant thud]
[distant clang]
[grunts]
[mechanical suit whines]
[woman grunting]
[sword clangs]
[tense music intensifies]
- Hey.
[object thuds]
[grunting, swords clanging]
- Nobel.
- Shh.
[cage door rattles]
[door creaks shut]
[wind howling]
[breathing rapidly]
[soft uncertain music]
[Nobel] Come on.
- Where are we going?
- Countryside.
- Outside the city?
- Get in.
[car rumbles away]
[thudding footsteps approach]
[heavy breathing]
[gentle apprehensive music]
[car revving]
[gentle apprehensive music
continues]
[car revving]
[music stops]
[wind howling]
[engine revving loudly]
[brakes squeal]
[parking brake cranks]
[exhales]
- You can come out.
- I'll raise an army.
- Hmm.
- The cartels were loyal
to my family
and my vengeance will be--
- Listen to me.
Your father's dead.
There is no loyalty
outside this car.
It's just you and me, Kid.
Vengeance?
It's endless and it's empty.
- Swear the oath.
[scoffs]
Swear the oath.
Or do those words
no longer matter?
- I pledged my sword
to your father
and to your family
and all the shit
that comes with it.
And I do not need you
to remind me of what that means.
[deep inhale and exhale]
[dark threatening music]
[car rumbles away]
[alarm beeping softly]
[system] Check engine.
Check engine.
[unsettling droning music]
- Where are we going exactly?
- It's just an old scavenge run.
There's not too many eyes
on this road,
and just a few locals
who are too stupid to move.
- And then what?
- And then, I don't know.
Try the engine.
There's a switch
under the wheel.
Under the wheel.
[switch clicks]
[engine sputters]
- Okay. Okay.
[clacking]
All right, try it again.
[engine turns over]
[dashboard beeping]
- Why is the dash blinking?
[weighty somber music]
- Nobel, if you're seeing
this message,
then I have fallen victim
to our enemy's blades.
Their reach is long,
but it must never
find my daughter.
You have been a trusted
friend and protector.
There is something
should have told you long ago.I
Metiseaya is alive.
- That isn't possible.
- She hides at the old
flowing house
deep in the Foglands.
I trust you still
remember the way.
Bring Athena to Metiseaya.
She will protect her.
Goodbye.
[hologram beeps off]
- Who's Metiseaya?
- Your aunt.
- I have an aunt?
How far is the house?
- It's beyond the fog.
Get in.
[revving]
[wind howling]
[sighs]
Eat.
- Rations?
- Not much fresh
outside the city.
- Why was I never told
about my aunt?
Metiseaya...
You knew her?
- Very well.
- Very... well?
- She died a long time ago.
- Sounds like she didn't.
What else aren't you telling me?
[dashboard chimes]
[system] Check engine.
- We need a repair.
[The Kid] Is there
anybody out here?
[Nobel] There used to be an old
machine shop out this way.
- What if there isn't?
Will it make us sick?
- Eventually.
You're gonna want that
when it gets heavier.
[static crackling]
[tires crunch on snow]
[ominous music]
[Nobel] Stay here.
- Hmm.
[door rattles]
[sighs]
[knock echoes on glass]
[woman over speaker] You want
gas, you gotta pay first.
[ominous music intensifies]
[window creaks]
- These... will encrypt
ham radios. Huh?
Eh?
[coins clang in tray]
- What are you playing at?
- No games. Car needs fixing.
- We don't need your money.
[wind howling]
[car door shuts]
[coins clang]
- I just need to get
her back on the road.
[coins clang]
- Pull it in the garage.
[Nobel] We're staying.
[window shuts]
- That's an old car.
- Yeah, it gets me around.
- Well, I can take
a look at it.
Parts are pretty scarce
around here.
I got a little bunk out back.
Make yourselves comfortable.
[footsteps tap away]
- Come on.
[huffs]
[plastic door rattles closed]
- Hey.
- Ugh.
- You'll develop a taste for it.
- I won't.
- Huh.
- Last night, I heard
the guy say, "Where is she?"
They were looking for me.
Why?
- I don't know.
- Well, clan rivalry?
I'm the only heir.
Get me outta the way,
there's no one to compete with.
- Look, doesn't make
sense to me, okay?
Your father was useful.
He built tech.
You don't kill people
who are useful.
- Then we hire
more people like you.
Soldiers.
I want revenge.
- Revenge is gonna lead nowhere.
All right, look,
we are gonna find your aunt,
and if she's still alive,
you're gonna have
a new life with her.
- I had a life.
[Nobel] Don't go out there.
- Why?
- Because everything outside
the city is death.
- That's absurd.
We didn't see a single
car on the highway.
- Oh.
- My father planned for me
to be a great leader.
My family is nobility.
From the old kings.
Before the event.
Back when they had summer.
- Kid, shut up.
Get some rest.
- I've had rest.
- Then suit yourself.
[Nobel huffs]
- Do you think
they have a daughter?
[poignant music]
[wind gusting]
[static crackling]
[door rattles]
- Hello?
[woman over speaker] It's open.
[buzzer honks, door clunks]
[buzzer honks, door clunks]
Sit where you want.
You hungry?
- Yeah.
- We can make you
runny eggs and toast.
- Got anything else?
- Nope.
- Then I suppose I'm having
runny eggs on toast.
- Runny eggs on toast!
[uncertain music]
Ahem!
Coffee?
- Yeah.
- There.
- Thanks.
- Mm-hmm.
- You guys seem really nice.
- Heh.
- Why do you live here?
- It's not much,
but it's ours, and...
and it's a lot more
than most people have now.
Where are you all from?
- East.
- City?
You have family there?
- No.
[music turns tender briefly]
[slurps coffee]
[inaudible conversation]
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
[music becomes ominous]
- Good, isn't it?
- Mm-hmm.
- Uh, your friend's asleep
in the garage.
- Yeah. He had a day.
[woman] Fix the car.
Some water?
- Yeah.
[jug rattling on glass]
[rattling steadies]
[beads jingle]
[The Kid inhales shakily]
- There's a proper bathroom
out back.
You can wash up there.
It's clean.
- Thank you.
[strange undulating music]
[light clicks on then buzzes]
[door closes]
[loud distant banging]
[banging]
[man over monitor]
Open the door!
[buzzer honks, door opens]
[slow inhale]
Friggin' right.
Yeah, don't mind if I do.
Mm.
Mm! Mm! Ah!
Fabulous.
Hey!!
[loud banging]
Come on, let's go!
Ah!
There she is.
- Is she okay? I have money.
- Oh, do you?
[shrieks]
Mm, then go get it.
[male owner] You don't need
to come in here like a maniac.
- Hey? Hey. Who's a maniac?
[female owner breathing shakily]
Just another walk
in the country!
[breathing shakily]
[bandit grunts]
[grunting]
[gasping]
Oh, wow, would you look
at this automobile?
You finally selling that old
crippled body for a trade?
- Please, stop. Stop. Here.
- What the hell is that?
- It's valuable.
- Oh, it's valuable?
- Look, it's valuable.
- It's... is it valuable?
- Really!
[bandit] See, something's
just not adding up now, is it?
Listen, I'm gonna take
double from you now,
or you'll never see her again!
- Please! No!!
[male owner gasping]
- Hey, hey, hey, hey.
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
- On your knees!
- I'll do whatever you wa--
- Oh, oh, and you? Watch?
[stammering]
- Oh, okay. Okay. Okay.
[grumbling]
- Good boy.
Open your mouth.
Open... your mouth!
[panicked breathing]
Wider!
[gagging]
Oh, yeah...
[bandit laughs maniacally]
You're gonna love
this part, bitch!
- No!!
- Stop!!
[bandit] Oh, my God.
What do we have?
[The Kid screams]
Oh, I love it.
[crazed laughter]
Oh, you're funny.
[Nobel] That's enough.
- Who the hell are you?
[thudding blow, grunting]
[bandit gasping]
[knife swishes]
- No, no, no, no! No!
[female owner] Please!!
- He has their daughter!
He has their daughter.
[crazed laughter]
[The Kid] Let him go. Please.
[bandit choking]
[bandit] Get outta my way!
[door opens]
[bandit coughing]
[door shuts]
- We're leaving. Come on.
[The Kid groans]
[The Kid] Get off me.
- Get your shit in the car.
- They need our help.
- Yeah, well we can't help them.
- You swore to my family.
I'm ordering you.
- I'm not your dog, Kid.
Get my car off this lift.
- Uh-huh.
[groans]
- Where is she?
[male owner] There's a building
to the northwest,
off the main roads,
at the edge of the Foglands.
Th-that's where their trucks go.
[door creaks open]
- Hey... what're you doin'?
What're you doin'?
[door shuts]
- I'm not afraid to die.
- There are worse things
out there than death.
[grunts]
Hey. Hey!
That kid is as good as dead.
Get in the car.
We're gonna find your aunt.
- And then what? Huh?
We just hide out?
How did that work out
for my father?
[stirring emotional music]
- All right.
You wanna live through this,
you're gonna do exactly
as I say.
You're gonna follow my lead.
Understood?
[grunts]
[stirring music builds]
[car rumbles]
[stirring music quiets]
[uncertain music]
[indistinct mumblings]
[The Kid] What're they
gonna do with them?
[Nobel] They sell them
to the highest bidder.
- For what?
- Donors.
[Nobel] Get ready to move.
[tense electronic music
building]
[Nobel] Go.
[The Kid panting]
Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
Can't save 'em all.
- We can try.
- Oh no,
where we gonna take 'em?
We came here for one girl.
- And I'm gonna find her.
- Be quick.
Come on.
[tense music intensifies]
[captives crying
and panicking quietly]
[man] Hurry up!
[knock on door]
[captives panic]
[tense music continues]
[The Kid] I'm looking
for a girl.
She lives around here.
- Come on. Come on!
[knock on door]
[captives panic]
[muffled] There!
- Shh! Shh!
[indistinct moans]
Shh! Shh!
[young man screams]
[captives screaming loudly]
Shh! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
[loud muffled cries and screams]
[all screaming]
[latch grinding]
[grunting]
[guard] Go check it out. There.
[tense music continues]
[captives screaming]
- Shut up!
[The Kid] Where's the girl?
[grunts]
[breathing heavily]
[heavy ominous music]
[bag thumps]
[Nobel sighs]
[ominous music]
[Nobel] You sure
you wanna do this?
[The Kid] Yeah.
[metal scrapes in distance]
[gasps]
[ominous music continues]
[sword swishes out of sheath]
[sword swishes, loud grunt]
[grunting]
[bandit] No, no, no,
no, no!
[grunting]
[grunting continues in distance]
[bandit grunting]
[shallow rapid breathing]
- Where is she?
[crazed laughter]
[bandit] All I got here
is donors and dog food.
[thud]
Oh, God!
[choking]
- The girl you took
from those people.
[shallow breathing]
- She's in the last one
on the left.
[thud]
Gah!
Hey... hey, man, I get ya
a lot on the West Coast
for a little piece
of spice like that.
- You just shut your mouth.
[bandit grunts in distance]
[tense gripping music]
[shaky breathing]
[strange undulating music]
[light clinking, buzzing]
[panicked breathing]
- Kid?
- Heh, heh.
Hey, you see something
you like, hey?
[crazed laughter]
[Nobel] Kid? Kid?
[sword swishes]
Kid?
- Surprise!!
[screams]
- No!!
[thud]
- Yah!
[sword clangs to floor]
[screams]
[wind howling]
[car revving]
[dark music]
- That man I killed?
He was horrible.
- Yeah.
- And he deserved to die.
- Yeah.
- So then why
do I feel like this?
Did you kill people
with my father?
- We're not the good guys.
- The tech, what was it?
- It was black-market stuff.
- Well, I know that.
Everything's black-market stuff.
What was it really?
- Cybernetics.
Life extensions,
transhumanist shit.
- Those people on the trucks...
...we're part of that,
aren't we?
- No. No.
You're not a part of any of it.
- And my father knew?
- Yeah. Yeah.
Can you live with that?
- I don't know.
[car revving]
[car rumbles to stop]
[ominous music]
- Stay here.
[breathing heavily]
[breathing heavily]
Get back in the car!
[car revving]
[tense electronic music]
[system] Vehicle detected.
- Shit.
[system] Warning.
- Okay.
[system speaking
foreign language]
[system beeps]
[strained breathing]
- C'mon. C'mon.
[tense music continues]
[breathing heavily]
- I feel sick.
- It's the fog.
Here, just um...
...put this on.
[The Kid] Put one on too.
- I'm fine.
- Please just put it on!
- I'm fine.
That's good.
[Nobel] Fine.
[engine revving loudly]
[The Kid coughing]
[parking brake clicks]
[tires screech]
[engine revving loudly]
[music quiets]
[The Kid] What are you doing?
[Nobel] I'm hiding.
I don't see them.
I think they missed the turn.
[The Kid] What was that?
[Nobel] I don't know.
I think we lost them.
[engine revving loudly]
[The Kid cries]
[Nobel] What's wrong? What?
[The Kid] We're gonna
die out here.
[Nobel] Yeah.
[sobbing]
[The Kid] This is all
completely insane.
[Nobel] It's okay,
it's not that bad.
[The Kid] No, it's horrible.
[sobbing]
Look out!
[Nobel grunts]
[tires pop]
[tires screech]
[grunting]
[wind howling]
[panicked echoey breathing]
[The Kid] Nobel?
Nobel!
Nobel!
[grunting]
[desolate music]
Nobel? Nobel, wake up. Wake up.
[dazed grunts]
Wake up. We're in trouble.
[Nobel] Are you okay?
[The Kid] I'm fine.
What about you?
- No, no, no, leave it on.
Leave it on. Leave it on.
I'm okay.
[Nobel] We gotta go.
[The Kid] What is it?
[Nobel] Cannibals.
Come on.
[desolate music continues]
[loud distant cracking]
[footsteps crunching in snow]
[loud distant crack]
[sword clangs out of sheath]
[rocks spatter]
[spattering]
[distant growl]
[chain jingling]
[grunts]
- Ah!
[grunting, swords clanging]
[grunting]
[light snarling]
- Come on.
[growls]
Yah!
[breathing heavily]
[panicked breathing]
Ahh!
Argh!
- Nobel!!
[snarling]
[Nobel grunting]
- Run!
[suspenseful music]
[grunting]
[footsteps crunch in snow]
[panting]
[growls softly]
[chain jingling]
[footsteps approach]
[panicked breathing]
[ominous music]
[growling softly]
[crying]
[intrigued growls]
[chain jingling]
[panting]
[growls softly]
[thudding]
[grunting]
[choked exclamations]
[The Kid panting]
[uncertain music]
[music fades]
[deep exhales]
[soft tense music]
[wind howling]
[eerie ethereal music]
- Los bienaventurados
sufren en silencio.
[Nobel] "The blessed
suffer in silence."
[teary exhale]
They're offerings...
from those that passed
through the land.
[wind howling]
Should leave something.
[tender music]
[The Kid] My mother,
what was she like?
[Nobel] She was a good person.
We were all born out here
near the fog.
Your mother, your aunt, and me,
we grew up together.
- My father told me
she died after she had me.
- It was the only time
I ever saw your father cry.
Not long after that,
he took you.
I went with him.
He was like a brother to me.
- And my aunt?
Why won't you talk about her?
- We were in love.
[door opens and creaks shut]
[music fades]
- I was expecting
more of a house.
- This is one of your
father's early labs.
[solemn music]
[clunk]
- What's happening?
- I don't know.
[hologram whines]
- She looks familiar.
- That's your mother.
And your aunt.
Not much older than you are now.
[hologram whines]
[The Kid] Is this here?
- This is right after
you were born.
[hologram whines]
[solemn music continues]
- Does it follow you too?
- No.
- Is that you... and my aunt?
- Yeah.
[hologram whines]
[The Kid] What are these?
- They're memories.
- Whose?
[loud buzz]
[woman] They're mine.
[gasps]
I'm your aunt, Metiseaya.
Nobel.
[voice echoes]
- How?
- You look just like
your mother.
- I do?
I've never seen one of these
before. Who is that?
Metiseaya] That's your uncle.[
- He disappeared.
[The Kid] My father never
mentioned my uncle.
Or you.
- Your father is
a complicated man.
- Was... complicated.
- Oh, child.
[mechanical beep]
I'm so sorry.
- He was murdered.
- Murdered? By who?
- We don't know yet.
- What are you?
[hologram glitches]
- Have you ever seen
your father's work?
Come with me.
[voice echoes]
[heavy uncertain music]
[Metiseaya] Come in. Come in.
Make yourselves at home.
[The Kid] Is that water?
- There's still clean
water in the system.
It's perfectly safe.
It comes from the aquifer
beneath the building.
- I remember.
[water rushes]
[slurps]
- How is it?
- Yeah.
[water splashes in canteen]
- Would you like to see
how this works?
It was one of his first.
t records and replays memories.I
- Yeah.
- Sit.
[Metiseaya] He started by
ecording the neural activationr
of the visual cortex.
As he told it,
that wasn't enough.
Go ahead. Try it.
[voice echoing]
It's okay. It's safe.
You hold it, both hands.
- Hey, Kid,
your dad didn't want you
anywhere near this stuff.
I don't like this.
- Well, it's not
your decision to make.
[tense music]
Now what?
- Close your eyes and...
think of a memory.
- Anyone's?
No. They must share your DNA.-
Me. Your father.
Your mother.
- I want to see my mom.
- Just let the memory
absorb you.
[mechanical whoosh]
[light buzzing and clinking]
[mechanical whoosh]
[sighs]
- Kid?
- I saw her.
- And how do you feel now?
- Keeps playing
over and over again.
Like it's stuck inside me.
- Memory is multidimensional.
The threads of it,
hey are created in your brain.t
When you experience
the memory of someone else...
[Nobel grunting]
...essentially they become
a part of you,
as you become a part of them.
Something wrong?
[soft gasping]
- I don't feel well.
- Nobel?
[ominous music]
[groaning]
- What did you do?
- Your father knew
you were the solution.
Before he left me
to rot in this prison.
But if consciousness
can be moved
from a living body
into a digital system...
[groans]
...then the process could be
reversed with the right donor.
[rapid breathing]
You, my darling niece,
you are the right donor.
I just had to show you
how to find me.
[strained breathing]
[ominous music]
[body thuds]
[heavy breathing through mask]
[footsteps thud]
[sword clangs out of sheath]
[sword squelches]
[pained groan]
[sword slices]
[strained exhales]
[Nobel groans]
[footsteps thud heavily]
[eerie music]
[ominous music]
[knife rasps on sheath]
[knob clicks]
[electrical humming]
You couldn't even begin
to understand
what it is to be
without form.
[clicking, whirring]
I've been kept alive
to live in this cage.
I've been bound to this place.
To that...
withering body.
[heavy breathing]
[strange ethereal music]
This is where
you are meant to be.
[knob clicks]
[rapid breathing]
- That's no way
to treat your uncle.
[rapid breathing]
[knob clicks]
[system] Neural pathways
engaged.
- Let's begin.
[system] Initiating
cognitive transfer.
Memory synapses secured.
eady for personality migration.R
Extracting consciousness.
[loud clunk]
[strange squelching]
[gasps sharply]
- Are you okay?
[rapid breathing]
- Mom?
How?
- We found you out in the fog.
[The Kid grunting]
You've been unconscious
for weeks.
- How is that possible?
[Mom, disembodied voice]
Who are you to say
what is possible?
[The Kid] What are you?
- I am a digital apparition.
- Who else is here?
- Just your father and I.
- He's alive?
[plastic crinkles]
[Dad, echoing] Athena?!
- Dad?
This is all a lie.
None of this is real.
[plastic crinkles]
[mechanical whirring]
What's happening?
- I don't know.
- Well then, I can't trust you.
- Don't be stupid.
We're basically family.
[sword clangs]
[system] Detecting synaptic
parameters.
- What's happening?
[electrical crackles]
[gasps]
- Let me show you our memories.
[electrical sizzles]
[sword clangs]
- Ah!
[The Kid gasping]
- Shh...
[system] Uploading
identity matrix.
- Huh?
[system] Initializing
identity protocol.
- You are far greater,
far greater...
[panting]
...than anyone has
ever told you.
Far greater.
[electrical sizzling]
- Ah!
- You have a river within you.
It... it flows
out into the world.
[heavy breathing]
[faint groans]
- You can feel destiny.
Can't you? Can't you?
[echoing] I don't understand.
I don't understand.
[mom] Your father
has left you...
a dynasty.
Our past.
[thrusts knife]
- Ah...
[groans]
[system] Optimizing
neural efficiency.
[electrical sizzling]
[system] Beginning
host integration.
[faint groans]
[mechanical whooshing building]
- No. This isn't right.
- It is.
It is!
Let... me... in!
[strange mechanical babbles]
- There's no oath.
[bandit grunting]
[system] Processing.
- Nobility, destiny...
sworn protector shit.
It's just a better story
to tell your little girl
than the one about how
the world's shit
and she has no future.
[low undulating]
[system] Uploading.
[boom]
[panicked breathing]
[sobbing]
[sobbing]
[calm, ethereal music]
[sobbing]
[ominous music]
[pulsing mechanical
whooshing]
[system] Identity
transfer status.
[deep breathing]
[heavy breathing through mask]
[deep inhale and exhale]
[thrusts knife]
- For my father.
[thrusts knife]
[grunts]
[gasping]
[thudding to ground]
[determined breathing]
- Well, you have
your vengeance now.
So how does it feel?
- You're bleeding out.
[rips fabric]
- You should go. You should go.
[Nobel winces]
- I can't leave you.
You're family, remember?
[The Kid grunts]
- Tighter.
[Nobel winces]
[mechanical buzz]
- Please...
You can't leave me like this.
[The Kid grunts]
Athena...
I'm sorry.
He wouldn't let me die.
You have to kill me.
- I could.
But you deserve your prison.
- No.
Athena, no!
[screams]
No! No! No!
[foot thudding]
[unsettling music]
[Metiseaya sobbing]
[warbled glitching screams]
[hologram glitching]
No, no!
No!
No!
Someone!
[breathing deeply]
[intense music]
[instense music continues]
[instense music continues]
[grim music]
[grim music continues]
[tense, thumping music]
[tense, thumping music
continues]
[tense, thumping music
continues]
[music fades]