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Afternoon, ma'am,
and a fine afternoon it is.
Yes, sirree.
Is the man of the house about?
MRS.
CABOT:
What do you want from us?
Only your patience, ma'am.
Only the virtue of your forbearance.
Fine-Iooking children, ma'am.
Yes, sirree.
Deserving of all your hopes
and dreams on the New Frontier
far away from this Harsh Realm.
Transportation's included, ma'am.
You just leave us alone.
Maybe this is something
I should take up with the husband.
Dad! Dad!
Dad! Dad!
Dad!
Don't! Go back! No!
Not another step!
Right there!
- So, what's the bounty on my head?
- Huh?
[WHIRRING]
How much? How much
you getting for me?
I'm looking for a soldier
you served with.
- Friend of yours.
- You can go to hell.
We'll talk later.
HOBBES:
A world exists exactly like ours.
You live in this world.
Your family and friends.
And though you may not know it,
I was sent to save you.
It's just a game.
HOBBES: They call it the New Frontier,
but it's nothing less than a battleground.
A place where free men live
on the edge of a razor
in this place
called Harsh Realm.
Like me, these people are on the run.
And though I know none of it is real,
that it is only a virtual world I'm in
there's fear in the air here.
I can taste it
feel it in my lungs,
as pure as anything I've ever felt.
I'm living day to day
trying to make sense of all this,
trying to stay strong.
Trying my best just to stay alive.
I'm in the company of a soldier,
a man sent here on a mission like mine
who saved my life,
for which I am now in his debt
as I am to a woman
who doesn 't speak
but who healed me with a miracle
when I might have died.
[DOG BARKING]
Keep a real close eye on him.
If you're not careful,
somebody's gonna eat that dog.
HOBBES:
We're on the run from Omar Santiago
a renegade soldier who hijacked the
computer program that runs this world.
It was Santiago
the military sent me here to kill.
Their fear of him is real and great
though I have yet to understand why,
if all this is just imaginary.
PINOCCHIO:
We'd like to buy some gas.
You guys know anybody selling gas?
HOBBES: They say this is a re-creation
of the real world
down to every man,
woman and child
each of us with a double here
who can live or die
in the virtual reality
of Harsh Realm.
[CRYING]
Only those of us plugged
into the program know this
have any consciousness of the truth:
That it's only a game.
I pray that's all it is, Sophie.
I watched you die here,
never to exist again in Harsh Realm.
I'm doing everything in my power
to find my way out
to find my way home.
You said you'd have an answer.
I need answers from somebody.
I'm afraid I don't have any.
MAN:
Corporal.
It's okay.
Miss Green, please.
- Won't you have a seat?
SOPHIE: Pardon me
I've been trying
to get somebody to tell me
what happened to my fianc�.
- I understand.
No, I don't think you do.
You got no answers
because we had none yet to give.
- Tom's whereabouts were classified.
- He left the house with your men
was told to pack a bag
on the orders of his C.
O.
I'm not a troublemaker.
What I'm trying to say, Miss Green,
is that I have an answer.
It came across my desk this morning.
"On April 1 st, Lieutenant Hobbes
was given a mission
involving a sensitive military objective.
In the prosecution of his orders, it has
been learned that Lieutenant Hobbes"
No.
Lieutenant Hobbes
was killed in action.
Further information is classified.
We'll be transporting
the body home immediately.
We would like to offer
our condolences.
WOMAN:
Hey.
I hear you're looking for gas.
Yeah.
But if you're looking for protection,
I ain't no one's daddy.
I got my protection.
You want to buy gas or you don't?
- How you paying?
- Ammo.
Six rounds.
I'll pay at the pump.
What the hell is this?
[GUN ***]
[CHUCKLES]
[GUNSHOTS]
[GROANS]
You.
Long as you're here,
why not check the oil and tires?
Yes, sir, Mr.
Pinocchio.
No! Please don't take the children!
- No!
- Mom!
[MRS.
CABOT SOBBING]
MRS.
CABOT:
No! Don't take my babies!
No!
WATERS:
General Santiago.
- What does the woman say, major?
- Says she doesn't know Mike Pinocchio.
She says her husband was taken
from here by a bounty hunter.
I think she's telling the truth.
Well, then
we should show some mercy.
GILOVICH: To give your life in defense
of a principle is to sanctify life.
To consecrate the soul
to honor those lives which gave life.
As he protected
and defended the many
Thomas enriched the lives
of everyone he knew or who knew him.
None more than Sophie,
his beloved bride-to-be.
Sophie has asked me
to read this today
to honor Thomas and their love,
which carries on.
[MAN SHOUTING]
GILOVICH:
"You live in me for as long as I live.
You are the life which does not die.
Through me, you speak.
Our love is everlasting.
"
Please accept our country's flag
as a token of appreciation
for Thomas' faithful service
to his country.
May God be with you and your family
in your time of grief.
WOMAN:
I'm sorry to bother you here.
I know that this is
a difficult time for you.
I met Tom briefly
just before he disappeared.
Who are you?
I can't tell you too much.
Just that you've been misled.
About what?
About Tom's death.
Why are you doing this?
I'm taking a chance by telling you now.
I couldn't come to you sooner.
You have to find out the facts
on your own.
You're telling me Tom's not dead?
I'm only telling you that
you've accepted a lie as the truth.
SOPHIE:
What is this?
I don't know anyone
named Mike Pinocchio.
Somebody does.
What the hell happened here?
Over here.
BOUNTY HUNTER 2:
Get in there!
[GROANING]
Okay, Hercules, I get the drill.
[GROANS]
- Hey, hey, hey, that thing hurts.
Hey!
- Huh?
[WHIRRING]
- What did he say?
- GI said he's gonna pay for that.
CABOT:
Pinocchio, is that you?
Who's that?
CABOT:
Cabot.
John Cabot.
Johnnie.
What happened to you?
Same as you.
Bounty hunter's gonna turn us
over to Santiago.
He's been looking for you.
They beat me, Mike.
I wouldn't talk, but when they
threatened my family
They got lucky, is all.
I'm gonna get us out of here.
HOBBES:
One man.
They got nothing.
[DEXTER WHIMPERS]
I want to go in as bad as you.
We don't know for sure
if he's in there.
We'll go in at nightfall.
[GROWLS]
[DEXTER WHIMPERING]
How the hell did you get in here?
You're gonna blow it,
you stupid mutt.
Just get out of here.
Get! Get!
[WHIMPERING]
Looks like we got rats.
[DEXTER WHIMPERING AND BARKING]
Dexter!
[WHIMPERING]
Thank you very much.
[LOCK CLICKS]
We're out of here, Johnnie.
The rest of your party's arrived.
PINOCCHIO:
What the hell were you doing?
- I was trying to get you out.
- Who asked you to do that?
I owed you.
You are one stupid
BOUNTY HUNTER 2:
Who taught you this?
- You did.
- Huh?
What?
- What does he want with you?
- The price on my head.
- From who?
- Who do you think?
Santiago?
How long are you gonna run
from this man?
You call me stupid.
I'm prepared to finish my mission.
At least I'm willing to fight.
[WHIRRING]
And what mission is that?
What's your name, boy?
You're looking for Mike Pinocchio.
A bounty to the man who brings
General Santiago his head.
And for the head of Tom Hobbes?
[CHILDREN YELLING]
Hi.
Can I help you?
I hope so.
My name is Sophie Green.
My fianc�, Tom Hobbes,
was an officer at Fort Dix.
What happened to him?
He was killed in action.
That's what I was told.
I'm sorry.
But why come to me?
I was given these dog tags.
They belonged to a soldier
named Mike Pinocchio.
I'm trying to find information on him
but the military won't help me,
and he has no immediate family.
- Your husband served with him.
- My husband was killed in action.
That's what I was told.
That's John with Mike Pinocchio
in Kuwait during the Gulf War.
Those men have all disappeared.
- All of them?
- Killed in action
on classified assignments involving
sensitive military objectives.
I pounded on doors
until I was blue in the face.
I wrote my senator,
the V.
A.
, the Pentagon.
I got no clear answers.
Nothing.
But this is
It's beyond coincidence.
It's beyond belief.
That's what I kept telling them.
It doesn't do any good.
Somebody knows about this.
Somebody gave me these dog tags
because they want me to find out.
I hope you're right.
After all this time
I tell myself and my family
maybe it's best just believing
they might all be dead.
Mom?
I hope I never have to tell my family
the same thing.
HOBBES:
These were fighting men.
U.
S.
Soldiers trained to be the best.
But they are broken now
living a fugitive existence.
Who knows of this?
Do their loved ones
have any idea of this world?
Do you, my dearest Sophie?
Shut up, Hobbes.
- I didn't say anything.
- Yeah, well, I feel you thinking.
Your dog won't eat.
Put a leash on me, honey.
I'll eat anything you want.
Shut up.
PINOCCHIO: I offend your honor?
- You don't have to talk like that.
She's a thug's ***.
She'll sell your dog for hamburger
if she can ever fatten it up.
I would never hurt an animal.
She's got no problem
putting our heads in the chopper.
Come here, little dog.
HOBBES:
Please.
Please, we could use some water.
Big Daddy told me not to.
These men are hurt.
PINOCCHIO:
You're wasting your time, Hobbes.
- She'll bring us some water.
- For what, a kind word?
This is Harsh Realm.
Kindness is when your buddy robs you,
shoots you, doesn't *** your woman.
Hey.
Let us go.
- Lf I let you go, who'd pay us?
- There's a nice logic there, Hobbes.
What do you think will happen
if you turn us over to Santiago?
What will happen to me
if I let you go?
I'd eat that dog
before it gets too skinny.
What is wrong with you?
It doesn't matter, Hobbes.
Can you get that through your head?
She's VC.
A virtual character.
These people got no reason to help you,
no moral compunction.
They programmed the game.
They forgot one thing.
You die here, you disappear.
These people know no Christian virtues.
They know no god.
Judgment Day in Harsh Realm
is when somebody points a gun at you.
Ask Johnnie.
He'll tell you.
Get erased here, it's over.
These people got no notion
of an afterlife.
It's not even a concept.
What about the real world?
Don't they believe in that?
PINOCCHIO:
What good would it do them?
The only world they know
is Santiago's.
SANTIAGO: And when we take
these urban centers, our policy is this:
Repatriate only the healthy
and the strong.
Prisoners of war drain our resources and
are therefore subject to extermination.
General Santiago, this is the man
that wanted to see you.
This man is a bounty hunter.
Pay him the going rate and be done.
I've got men you're looking for.
WATERS:
At ease, sergeant.
Mike Pinocchio and two others.
I should have you thrown out,
if only for the reeking stench.
Tom Hobbes.
An assassin.
Obviously, an ineffectual one.
I give you Pinocchio as a gift.
For Hobbes
I ask a price.
Then I should let these men go?
You only ply your dirty trade
because I pay you.
You only survive in Harsh Realm
because I let you.
- I want out of Harsh Realm.
- There is no way out.
Don't give me that VC rap.
My body's on a freaking slab
up there in the real world.
You got a way out.
I know it.
A portal.
If I do, sir, then you might make
every effort to win my favor
to repair this patronage.
For I'd then have the power to destroy
you in not only one world, but in two.
Bring me this Hobbes.
I'll consider your request.
You know why he runs?
He wants to get out, back home,
back to the real world.
Last place he's going.
What are you talking about?
Pinocchio
what he knows
about Santiago.
His final solution.
Better stay alive
in Harsh Realm, lieutenant.
This very well might be
all that's left.
- I knew you'd come.
- You're strange.
- Why?
- The way you talk to me.
The way you treat me
so nice and polite.
It's because you want something.
All I want is to go home.
I was about to be married.
- What's her name?
- Sophie.
- I've got a picture
- Does she live in the real world?
Yeah.
You know about that?
I heard you talking.
I want to hear more.
What's it like there?
It's nothing like this.
Are there flowers there?
You don't have to live like this.
Hey, Daytag, where are you?
Help us.
Come get this damn mutt!
[DOOR CLOSES]
[CLANGING]
[DOOR OPENS]
[GUNSHOT]
Where do you think you're going?
We're leaving.
[DEXTER WHIMPERING]
- I'd like my dog.
- Hobbes!
It's my dog now.
Drop the gun.
Go on.
Shoot me.
Hobbes
Shoot all of us.
What will we be worth to you then?
You're in charge now.
I don't see anybody
telling you what to do.
You've got the power now.
The power
to do the right thing.
Let us walk out of here.
You can walk out of here too.
Traffic, fast moving!
Look, I just want to go home.
I just want to see my girl.
MAN: First squad, go to the left.
Second
squad, take the back of the building.
BOUNTY HUNTER 1:
Let go my ear! Let go!
Where is he?
Where's Hobbes?!
BOUNTY HUNTER 1: I don't know.
I don't know where they are.
BOUNTY HUNTER 2:
Get down here!
[DEXTER WHIMPERS]
BOUNTY HUNTER 2:
Come here.
- I want some answers here.
- I don't know anything.
What?
I don't know!
You and Santiago had a deal.
- They're here.
WATERS: Fan out.
Find them.
Get in the vehicles,
check the roads.
You men, on the trail.
MAN 1:
Go, go, go!
- Come on, let's go!
MAN 2: Move it!
Hey, quiet!
What are you doing?
We're standing in six inches of
boom-boom, in case you haven't noticed.
- She put us here to protect us.
- This is protecting us?
If brains were alligators, you couldn't
get one to bite you on the ***.
I convinced her to let us go.
Letting us go?
Only place she's letting us go
is for a ride on this fireball.
- It don't make no
- Shut up!
If you didn't see nothing
how come this gun's been shot?
If you was making deals,
how come you didn't bother to tell me?
I asked you a question.
Yeah, maybe you were planning
on leaving and never coming back.
Going to the real world.
Where did you hear that?
You don't know nothing about that.
You were just gonna leave me here.
You can't go.
It won't work!
What do you know, you stupid VC?
Some guys think about going home
just to see their girl.
Who has been talking to her?
You have till 0600
to turn up your prisoners.
I'd hate to disappoint
General Santiago.
[RATTLING]
You better hurry.
They'll be back soon.
- You can't stay here.
- He'll just hunt me down.
Come on.
Get in the cab.
Come on.
[GUNSHOT]
[SHOUTING]
MAN:
Cut him off!
Ma'am, can I help you?
- I can't just let you in there.
- I don't care.
Lieutenant colonel?
I'm sorry, general.
I didn't hear what you just said.
Then that's what I'll do, sir.
- I am owed an explanation
- You are out of line.
because I am being lied to.
- What on God's Earth is this all about?
My fianc�, Tom Hobbes.
We buried his body.
All you buried was a box.
- We'll have to transport it.
- No.
I don't want it taken anywhere.
GILOVICH:
Seen enough, Miss Green?
You did this all wrong.
You should have asked me.
- I don't need your permission.
- It's not him.
- That is not your fianc�'s body.
- I got an inquest.
Think I'm not gonna
make them run DNA?
Who do you think's
gonna run those tests?
This is insanity.
No one
How far will these people go?
One step farther than you.
I can get word to him.
I can deliver a message to Tom.
SOPHIE: Dear Tom, I'm writing not quite
believing you'll ever read this.
But if there's a way
I hope to God this news
will somehow bring you back to me.
I love you, Tom.
And if there's a doubt in your heart
know that our love is greater now
than the both of us.
I'm pregnant, Tom.
I'm pregnant with our child.
Please come home.
Find a way.
[DEXTER BARKS]
GIRL:
Daddy's home!
Daddy's here!
MRS.
CABOT:
Oh!
A man runs, returns and fights.
What are you running from?
Why are you afraid of Santiago?
I thought you wanted to go home.
I'm not letting Santiago stop me.
Either way, there's only one sure thing.
We're gonna need gas.