Arcane (2021) s02e09 Episode Script
The Dirt Under Your Nails
Wait!
I just wanna talk to you.
Get out of here, Ekko.
I just
I just wanna talk to you, Pow
Jinx.
- You're too late, Ekko.
- Wait!
Always a dance with you.
I think I'm just gonna
sit here a minute.
You know, catch my breath.
See if I can talk an old
friend out of blowing us up.
- I'm tired of talking.
- No!
No! No! No
You know, I learned from someone
very special
that no matter what
happened in the past,
it's never too late
to build something new.
Someone worth building it for.
I need you and the Enforcers to
buy me as much time as you can
so I can shut down the Hexgates.
It's our only chance.
Viktor's at the center
of all this, isn't he?
We're meant to lose this fight.
If he reaches the Hexgates
Then we'd best stop him.
Move, move!
Reinforce the forward artillery.
We can't let them break through.
- Go.
- Let's go.
- Hold it.
- Go.
Reload.
- Give her some air.
- You're okay.
Down!
- Back!
- Come on.
Let's go.
Around the gate!
Bold, little one.
- Move your units and wait there.
- Stay.
Come on!
Let's go, let's go.
I warned you of the hazards
of professional entanglement.
Desperation is the
doorway to oblivion, child.
Let's get this over with.
I did appreciate your warmth.
If you care for me at
all, spare their lives.
There is nothing to gain
from this senseless bloodshed.
Still a fox.
Soldier.
Get in line.
Fire!
Let's run.
Hmm.
Where is Viktor?
Despite the circumstances, Jayce
I am pleased to see you.
There must be some part
of you still in there.
I am more than I ever was.
What other choice do we have?
Mother, look at the
price of your ambition.
You've sacrificed everything.
Rictus.
Kino.
This city I built for our family.
If it was for us, you
wouldn't have fought me.
You are no Medarda.
You remember your
Shut up and fight.
Vi!
Vi!
Vi!
It is the answer you and I
pursued all our lives.
An end to cruelty, injustice.
All of us our own authors
to an unbroken saga of progress.
To the benefit of all.
People deserve to
choose their own fates.
Choice is false.
It is how we clothe and forgive
the baser instincts
that spur us to division.
Death, war, prejudice.
Energy spent only to consume itself.
But we can be of one mind.
United.
You fought well, child.
Now!
A wolf has no mercy.
Your daughter is wiser than you credit.
I salute you, Ambessa.
For one without the gift,
you were quite a thorn.
What are you doing, sister?
I see your face, deceiver.
Sly girl.
You are the wolf.
Looks like you shouldn't have come back.
Still don't get it, huh, sis?
I'm always with you.
Even when we're worlds apart.
Stop this insanity, Viktor.
That is precisely my intention.
Your eyes won't lie
when your mind
is open, Jayce.
Vander.
Dad?
Do you see?
The sublime intersection
of order and chaos.
This is what you see?
This conflict.
This senseless waste.
I know their minds, Jayce.
They want better lives,
but emotion clashes with reason.
Humanity's self-corrupting
contradiction.
You've always wanted to cure
what you thought were weaknesses.
Your leg.
Your disease.
But you were never broken, Viktor.
There is beauty in imperfections.
They made you who you are.
An inseparable piece of everything
I admired about you.
That device can't be.
I thought I wanted us to
give magic to the world.
Now
all I want
is my partner back.
Why do you persist?
After everything I've done?
Because I promised you.
Why did you ever give me this?
Why?
I thought I could bring an
end to the world's suffering.
But when every equation was solved
all that remained
were fields of dreamless solitude.
There is no prize to perfection.
Only an end to pursuit.
In all timelines,
in all possibilities
only you
can show me this.
You must go, Jayce.
We finish this together.
Vi!
Vi, hurry, you can make the other ledge.
Vi!
What are you ?
Vi.
Vi?
You can't save him.
Vi!
Always with you, sis.
You may read about the war in Piltover.
But history is made palatably abstract.
For its truth
the agony of every sacrifice
the exaltation of every triumph
is more than one should bear.
We
whose decisions led us here,
will carry them forever.
Our only consolation
that with every loss,
we found some good,
some light,
worth gaining,
worth fighting for.
And though we are doomed to
revisit the error of our ways
spark ever more conflicts
our story isn't over.
Is that
singing?
It's just a tune my mother used to hum.
Are you still in this fight, Violet?
I am the dirt under your nails, cupcake.
Nothing's gonna clean me out.
I just wanna talk to you.
Get out of here, Ekko.
I just
I just wanna talk to you, Pow
Jinx.
- You're too late, Ekko.
- Wait!
Always a dance with you.
I think I'm just gonna
sit here a minute.
You know, catch my breath.
See if I can talk an old
friend out of blowing us up.
- I'm tired of talking.
- No!
No! No! No
You know, I learned from someone
very special
that no matter what
happened in the past,
it's never too late
to build something new.
Someone worth building it for.
I need you and the Enforcers to
buy me as much time as you can
so I can shut down the Hexgates.
It's our only chance.
Viktor's at the center
of all this, isn't he?
We're meant to lose this fight.
If he reaches the Hexgates
Then we'd best stop him.
Move, move!
Reinforce the forward artillery.
We can't let them break through.
- Go.
- Let's go.
- Hold it.
- Go.
Reload.
- Give her some air.
- You're okay.
Down!
- Back!
- Come on.
Let's go.
Around the gate!
Bold, little one.
- Move your units and wait there.
- Stay.
Come on!
Let's go, let's go.
I warned you of the hazards
of professional entanglement.
Desperation is the
doorway to oblivion, child.
Let's get this over with.
I did appreciate your warmth.
If you care for me at
all, spare their lives.
There is nothing to gain
from this senseless bloodshed.
Still a fox.
Soldier.
Get in line.
Fire!
Let's run.
Hmm.
Where is Viktor?
Despite the circumstances, Jayce
I am pleased to see you.
There must be some part
of you still in there.
I am more than I ever was.
What other choice do we have?
Mother, look at the
price of your ambition.
You've sacrificed everything.
Rictus.
Kino.
This city I built for our family.
If it was for us, you
wouldn't have fought me.
You are no Medarda.
You remember your
Shut up and fight.
Vi!
Vi!
Vi!
It is the answer you and I
pursued all our lives.
An end to cruelty, injustice.
All of us our own authors
to an unbroken saga of progress.
To the benefit of all.
People deserve to
choose their own fates.
Choice is false.
It is how we clothe and forgive
the baser instincts
that spur us to division.
Death, war, prejudice.
Energy spent only to consume itself.
But we can be of one mind.
United.
You fought well, child.
Now!
A wolf has no mercy.
Your daughter is wiser than you credit.
I salute you, Ambessa.
For one without the gift,
you were quite a thorn.
What are you doing, sister?
I see your face, deceiver.
Sly girl.
You are the wolf.
Looks like you shouldn't have come back.
Still don't get it, huh, sis?
I'm always with you.
Even when we're worlds apart.
Stop this insanity, Viktor.
That is precisely my intention.
Your eyes won't lie
when your mind
is open, Jayce.
Vander.
Dad?
Do you see?
The sublime intersection
of order and chaos.
This is what you see?
This conflict.
This senseless waste.
I know their minds, Jayce.
They want better lives,
but emotion clashes with reason.
Humanity's self-corrupting
contradiction.
You've always wanted to cure
what you thought were weaknesses.
Your leg.
Your disease.
But you were never broken, Viktor.
There is beauty in imperfections.
They made you who you are.
An inseparable piece of everything
I admired about you.
That device can't be.
I thought I wanted us to
give magic to the world.
Now
all I want
is my partner back.
Why do you persist?
After everything I've done?
Because I promised you.
Why did you ever give me this?
Why?
I thought I could bring an
end to the world's suffering.
But when every equation was solved
all that remained
were fields of dreamless solitude.
There is no prize to perfection.
Only an end to pursuit.
In all timelines,
in all possibilities
only you
can show me this.
You must go, Jayce.
We finish this together.
Vi!
Vi, hurry, you can make the other ledge.
Vi!
What are you ?
Vi.
Vi?
You can't save him.
Vi!
Always with you, sis.
You may read about the war in Piltover.
But history is made palatably abstract.
For its truth
the agony of every sacrifice
the exaltation of every triumph
is more than one should bear.
We
whose decisions led us here,
will carry them forever.
Our only consolation
that with every loss,
we found some good,
some light,
worth gaining,
worth fighting for.
And though we are doomed to
revisit the error of our ways
spark ever more conflicts
our story isn't over.
Is that
singing?
It's just a tune my mother used to hum.
Are you still in this fight, Violet?
I am the dirt under your nails, cupcake.
Nothing's gonna clean me out.