AVP: ALIEN vs PREDATOR [2004]

It's Our Planet.... It's Their War


 Mr. Weyland: Seven days ago, one of my satellites over Antarctica hunting for mineral deposits discovered a sudden heat bloom beneath the earth, which outlined this.
The red lines indicate solid walls.
Through thermal mapping, we've generated a 3 dimensional image of the structure.
It's massive, containing hundreds of rooms, all built around a central core.
My experts tell me it's a pyramid.
What they can't agree on is who built it and when.
One experts tells me this has features reminiscent of the Aztecs.
Another tells me it's probably Cambodian.
What they all agree on is that the smooth side is definitively Egyptian.
Sebastian: I think your experts are right.
Mr. Weyland: Which one?
Sebastian: All of them.
Alexa: Meaning what, exactly?
Sebastian: This pyramid contains the features of all 3 cultures.
This might be the first pyramid ever built.
Miller: But built by whom?
Sebastian: By the first civilization.
Miller: But how could anyone possibly build a pyramid out here?
Thomas: Ancient maps show Antarctica free of ice.
It's likely the continent was once habitable.
Miller: I can't tell you who built it.
But if I could take a sample from it, I can tell you how old it is.
Mr. Weyland: Dr. Miller, I'm offering to put you right next to this thing.
Thomas: What caused the heat bloom?
Mr. Weyland: I don't know.
Alexa: Where exactly on the ice is this?
Mr. Weyland: Bouvetoya Island.
But it's not on the ice. It's 2000ft below it.
Quinn: You're looking at the best drilling team in the world. We'll chew to that depth in 7 days.
Alexa: And add 3 weeks on top of that to train everyone here.
Mr. Weyland: We don't have that kind of time, Ms. Woods.
I'm not the only one with a satellite over Antarctica. Others will be here soon.
Alexa: Maybe I wasn't clear. No one in this room is ready for this trip.
Mr. Weyland: That's why I asked you here.
Alexa: Boutevoya is one of the world's most isolated places in the world.
The nearest land is 1000 miles away. There's no help if we run into trouble.
Mr. Weyland: You're right, it's a no-man's-land.
But the train has left the station.
And I think I speak for everyone aboard this ship. This is worth the risk.

Alexa: Mr. Weyland, what I told you in there wasn't bullshit.
If you rush this, people will get hurt. Maybe die.
Mr. Weyland: I don't understand. We're not asking you to take us up Everest.
We need you to take us from the ship to the pyramid and back to the ship. That's it.
Alexa: And what about inside the pyramid?
Mr. Weyland: You don't have to worry about that.
Once we're on the site, we have the best technology and experts that money can buy.
Alexa: Mr. Weyland, when  I lead my team, I don't ever leave my team.
Mr. Weyland: I admire your passion. I wish you were going with us.
Alexa: You're making a mistake.

Miller: I wish you'd reconsider coming with us, Lex.
Alexa: Want my advice? Stay on the boat.
Sebastian: Let me ask you something.
Do we stand a better chance of surviving with you or with the number 2 choice?

It is my job to keep you alive on this expedition, and I need your help to do that.
Since I don't have time to properly train you, I'm laying down 3 simple rules.
One, no one goes anywhere alone. Ever.
Two, everyone must maintain constant communication.
Three, unexpected things are gonna happen. When they do, no one tries to be a hero.
Understood?
~AlexaWoods

Alexa: 7 seasons on the ice and I've never seen a gun save someone's life.
Rousseau: I don't plan on using it.
Alexa: Then why bring it?
Rousseau: Same principle as a condom.
I'd rather have one and not need it, than need it and not have one.

Alexa: My dad broke his leg 700ft from the summit of Mount Rainier.
He was like you. He wouldn't go back or let us stop.
We reached the top, and he opened a bottle of champagne.
I had my first drink with my dad at 14,400ft.
On the way down, he developed a blood clot in his leg that travelled to his lung.
He suffered for 4 hours before dying 20 minutes from the base.
Mr. Weyland: You think that's the last thing your dad remembers? The pain?
Or drinking champagne with his daughter 14,000ft in the air?

Only The Chosen One May Enter

Those that were chosen would lie here.
They weren't bound or tied in any way.
They went to die willingly.
Men and women.
It was considered an honor.
~Sebastian de Rosa

Alexa: We've been out long enough for today. 
We're gonna set up base camp at the whaling station and get back at it tomorrow morning.
Stafford: You can go back to the base camp, Ms. Woods, but we're staying here.
Alexa: No.
You wanted to leave without proper prep, we did.
You wanted to be the first here, we are.
You claimed the find, it's yours.
Now, we move as a team, and we're done for the day.

He's marking himself.
Ancient warriors would mark themselves with the blood of their kill.
It's a rite of passage.
~Sebastian de Rosa

Sebastian: This is a mental ritual.
The humans had once, they have been sent here to prove their worthy, to become adults.
Alexa: You're saying they are, what, teenagers?
Sebastian: That's why they didn't carry those guns with them. They have to earn them.

Sebastian: Thousands of years ago, these hunters found a backwater planet.
They taught humans how to build and were worshipped as gods.
Every hundred years the gods would return.
And when they did, they would expect a sacrifice.
Humans were used to breed the ultimate prey.
The hunters would battle with these great serpents, to prove themselves worthy to carry the mark.
But if the hunters lost, they made sure nothing survived.
An entire civilization wiped out overnight.
Alexa: So, the humanoids, the hunters... they brought those creatures here to hunt?
Sebastian: And they use us like cattle.
We're hosts for them to breed in.
The heat bloom was the sign to lure us down here. This whole thing was a trap.
Without us, there could be no hunt.

Sebastian: When that door opens, we're dead.
Alexa: Not if we set things right.
Sebastian: What do you mean?
Alexa: This pyramid is like a prison.
We took the guards' guns, and now the prisoners are running free.
To restore order, the guards need their guns.
When that door opens, we're gonna give that things his gun back.
Sebastian: Are you crazy?
During a big-game hunt, the animals being hunted don't arm the hunters.
Alexa: They're not hunting us.
We're in the middle of a war.
It's time to pick a side.
Sebastian: We are on our side.
Alexa: We have to consider the possibility that we might not make it out of here.
But we have to make sure, those serpents don't reach the surface.
Because if they do, everything everywhere could die.
Sebastian: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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RESIDENT EVIL [2002]

Survive the Horror

At the beginning of the 21st century
The Umbrella corporation had become the largest commercial entity in the United States.
9 out of every 10 homes contain its products.
 Its political and financial influence is felt everywhere.
In public, it is the world's leading supplier of:
computer technology, medical products, and healthcare.
Unknown even to its own employees, its massive profits are generated by:
military technology, genetic experimentation, and viral weaponry.
~Narrator

Alice: I want to know who you people are and I want to know what's going on here.
[One ignores her] Now!
One: You and I have the same employer.
We all work for The Umbrella Corporation.
The mansion above us is an emergency entrance to The Hive.
You are security operatives placed there to protect that entrance.
Alice, show him her wedding ring: What about this?
One: Your marriage is a fake.
Just part of your cover to protect the secrecy of The Hive.
Spence: And what is The Hive?
One, to Kaplan: Show them.
Kaplan: Accesing schematic of The Hive.
One: Racoon City, nearest urban center.
The mansion where we found you, and through which we gained acces to the train,
which, in turn, brought us to The Hive.
The Hive itself is located underground deep beneath the streets of Racoon City.
A top-secret research facility owned and operated by The Umbrella Corporation,
The Hive houses over 500 technicians, scientists and support staff.
They live and work underground.
Their research is of the highest importance.
Its nature is classified.
Our position on the map is indicated by heat signature.

Spence: Why can't I remember anything?
One: The Hive has its own defense mechanisms, all computer-controlled.
A nerve gas was released into the house.
Primary effect of the gas, complete unconsciousness lasting anything up to 4 hours.
Secondary effects are varied, but can include acute memory loss.
Spence: For how long?
One: Subjective.
An hour, day, week...
Matt: So you're saying this place was attacked?
One: I'm afraid things are a little more complicated than that.

Alice: Who's the Red Queen?
One: State-of-the-art artificial intelligence.
She is the computer that controls The Hive.

Spence: What happened here?
One: 5 hours ago, Red Queen went homicidal, 
sealed The Hive and killed everyone down here.
When we realized what was happening, my team was dispatched to shut her down.
Alice: Why did she do it?
One: That we don't know.
But outside interference is a possibility.

Red Queen: Get out! Get out! You can't be in here.
Kaplan: Don't listen to anything she says.
She's a holographic representation of the Red Queen.
Red Queen: You have to get out.
Kaplan: Modeled after the head programmer's daughter.
She'll try to deceive us, confuse us.
Red Queen: I wouldn't advise this.
Disabling me will result in loss of primary power.
Kaplan: She'll say anything to stop us from shutting her down.
Red Queen: I implore you.
Kaplan: Implore away.
Red Queen: Please? Please...
You're all going to die down here.

Kaplan: What was all the shooting?
Rain: We found a survivor.
Kaplan: And you shot him?
Rain: She was crazed. She bit me!

[found some spills of blood on the floor]
Matt: Looks like it's coagulated.
Alice: Yeah.
Matt: It's not possible.
J.D: Why not?
Matt: Because blood doesn't do that till after you're dead.

Kaplan: Where are the bodies? Where did they go?
Rain: Whatever they are, there's too many of them out there.
Kaplan: Whatever they are?
It's pretty obvious what they are.
Lab coats, badges... Those people used to work here!
Rain: All the people working here are dead.
Spence: Well, that isn't stopping them from walking around.
Kaplan: Where did they come from?
Why didn't we see them on the way in?
Rain: When you cut the power, you unlocked the doors.
You let them out!
Kaplan: We're never gonna make it to the surface.

Matt: Corporations like Umbrella think they're above the law.
But they're not.
There are hundreds of thousands of us who think the same, all over the world.
Some of us provide information, others give their support.
Some take more direct action.
Alice: Like you.
Matt: If your friends had been a little more thorough, 
they would've seen right through my false ID.
Then all the red flags would've gone off... Quantico, NSA, VICAP, all the rest.
There's no way I could've infiltrated The Hive.
Alice: So you sent your sister.
Matt: We needed something concrete.
Anything to expose Umbrella to the press.
Proof of the research that was going on down here.
Alice: What kind of research?
Matt: The illegal kind.
Genetic.
Viral.
My sister was going to smuggle out a sample of the virus they were developing.
Alice: So how was she going to make it out of here?
Matt: She had a contact within The Hive, someone I never met.
They had access to security codes, surveillance, everything she needed.
Alice: So why didn't she make it?
Matt: Maybe she trusted the wrong person.
Maybe they set her up.
Kept the virus for themselves.
Do you have any idea how much the T-Virus would be worth on the open market?
Alice: What, worth all this?
Matt: Yeah.
To someone.

Kaplan: Where are you taking those?
Alice: I'm turning her back on.
Kaplan: That is not a good idea.
Alice: She'll know a way out of here.
Rain: That homicidal bitch killed my team.
Alice: That homicidal bitch may be our only way out of here.

Rain: Tell us what's going on down here.
Red Queen: Research and development.
Matt: What about the T-Virus?
Red Queen: The T-Virus was a major medical breakthrough,
although it clearly also possessed highly profitable military applications.
Kaplan: How does it explain those things out there?
Red Queen: Even in death, the human body still remains active.
Hair and fingernails continue to grow.
New cells are produced 
and the brain itself holds a small electrical charge that takes months to dissipate.
The T-Virus provides a massive jolt both to cellular growth 
and to those trace electrical impulses.
Put quite simply it reanimates the body.
Rain: It brings the dead back to life?
Red Queen: Not fully.
The subjects have the simplest of motor functions.
Perhaps a little memory.
Virtually no intelligence.
They are driven by the basest of impulses, the most basic of needs.
Kaplan: Which is?
Red Queen: The need to feed.

Rain: How do you kill them?
Red Queen: Severing the top of the spinal column or massive trauma to the brain 
are the most effective methods.
Rain: You mean shoot them in the head.

Matt: Why did you kill everybody down here?
Red Queen: The T-Virus escaped into the air conditioning system 
and an uncontrolled pattern of infection began.
The virus is protean, changing from liquid to airborne to blood transmission 
depending on its environment.
It's almost impossible to kill.
I couldn't allow it to escape from The Hive, so I took steps.

Red Queen: Those who become infected, I can't allow you to leave.
Spence: Whoa, we're not infected.
Red Queen: Just one bite, one scratch from these creatures is sufficient.
And then, you become one of them.

Spence: We work for the same company.
You knew what they did.
Alice: I was trying to stop them.
Spence: You really believe that people like him will ever change anything?
No. Nothing ever changes.

One of the Hive's early experiments
produced by injecting the T-Virus directly into living tissue.
The results were unstable.
Now that it has fed on fresh DNA, it will mutate, becoming a stronger, faster hunter.
~Red Queen

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