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37_S
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Production Privateer 2: The Darkening
Type Main Plot
Series Mission O: Code Breaker
Disc CD3
Run Time 5m11s
Scenes 230-241, 244-251
Locations Sinner's Inn


37_S is a main plot cutscene from Privateer 2: The Darkening. It is part of Mission O: Code Breaker. It plays when the player talks to Joe Kane at the Sinner's Inn on Hermes after completing Mission N: Galactic Gourmet. This completes the mission.


Transcript

JOE THE BARTENDER: Here you go. I thought you said you leave your troubles outside.

LEV ARRIS: Sometimes they just follow you in.

JOE THE BARTENDER: Looking for something special, huh?

LEV ARRIS: Yeah.

JOE THE BARTENDER: But first you want a drink. A big one.

LEV ARRIS: Right again.

JOE THE BARTENDER: Enjoy.

LEV ARRIS: Listen, I need somebody.

JOE THE BARTENDER: It's written all over your face, lad.

LEV ARRIS: Somebody who knows how to crack a password.

JOE THE BARTENDER: Is that all? Grab yourself a seat. I'll bend a few appropriate ears.

--

DIMITRI AVIGNONI: I'm known as Dimitri. I believe you're being called Arris.

LEV ARRIS: I beleive so.

DIMITRI AVIGNONI: Joe says you've got some nature of a problem. Ah-hah. Protected. Spiteful.

LEV ARRIS: Spiteful? How?

DIMITRI AVIGNONI: Well, the algorithm for breaking this little baby is going to be a technical headache on a major scale. We are talking problem.

LEV ARRIS: How many problems?

DIMITRI AVIGNONI: About 30,000 problem, I'd venture.

LEV ARRIS: That's a lot of problems.

DIMITRI AVIGNONI: So is this. Where I have to go for the algorithm, I may not be able to go again for awhile. I have to cover my lost business.

LEV ARRIS: 20,000.

DIMITRI AVIGNONI: Uh-huh. Take it or leave it. This one's hotter than a venturi chamber with an asshole.

LEV ARRIS: Okay, you're on.

DIMITRI AVIGNONI: Good. It'll take me a little while to get this sorted, time-wise. You hang limply and abuse yourself.

LEV ARRIS: Where you going?

DIMITRI AVIGNONI: Somewhere quiet to work.

LEV ARRIS: Oh, no, no, no. How do I know won't just run off with it?

DIMITRI AVIGNONI: Dimitri don't run. Unless there's a fight.

--

NEWSREADER: ... the ?Sumas Eye II? has turned up surprising new evidence of alien technology similar to that found on Karatikus. The ?Sumas Eye? is now officially being classified presumed lost after transmissions from its location is a previously unsurveyed star system...

LEV ARRIS: That was quick.

DIMITRI AVIGNONI: It is, when you know how. Go on.

LEV ARRIS: What's that?

DIMITRI AVIGNONI: Duodecaplylatomate.

LEV ARRIS: What?

DIMITRI AVIGNONI: Someone must have nervous body trying to force this out. There's enough duodec here to blow you, me, the Sinners and this whole goddamn side of this port into vaporsphere. And the hole wouldn't even smoke afterwards. Just goes to show you, it pays to spend money on quality work. Meanwhile, if I were you, I'd take that somewhere quiet to read.

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Speaking

Translations

Privateer 2: The Darkening's cutscenes were dubbed for the French, German and Spanish releases.

French

German

Spanish

25th Anniversary

On May 20, 2020, Privateer 2: The Darkening director Steve Hilliker released The Darkening 25th Anniversary Restoration which featured footage restored from Betacam tapes. The footage has been edited down into a cinema cut but where available it is of much higher quality than the game's files.

Betacam

A pair of Betacam SP tapes recovered from Digital Anvil have provided high quality versions of much of Privateer 2: The Darkening's Main Plot. These cuts are not final and digital effects are missing.

Origin Museum VHS

A VHS tape digitized by Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum included versions of edits 7 through 74.

EQ Magazine Interview

The EQ Magazine interview with John Hurt includes footage of 37_S being filmed.

The Making of The Darkening

The Making of the Darkening includes behind-the-scenes footage from this scene.

Bad Influence

The Bad Influence The Darkening featurette includes behind-the-scenes footage from this scene.

Film 96

The Film 96 The Darkening featurette includes behind-the-scenes footage from this scene.

GamesMaster

The GamesMaster Privateer 2: The Darkening featurette includes behind-the-scenes footage from this scene.

Mat psychophile

Mat psychophile has posted a video on YouTube identifying where he appeared as an extra in 37_S.

Storyboards

A collection of Privateer 2 Storyboards has been provided by Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum. They cover the Main Plot cutscenes.

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Script

A The Darkening Script Draft 7 used during the game's shooting has been provided by Erin Roberts.

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SC.230 INT. SINNERS INN - AS BEFORE

Arris walks in. When he clicks on JOE THE BARTENDER, the
following conversation ensues:

Joe comes over to him.

JOE
Thought you said you leave your
troubles outside?
ARRIS
Sometimes they just follow you in.
JOE
You're looking for something special
right?
ARRIS
Yeah.
JOE
But first you want a drink, a big one.
ARRIS
Right again.


SC.232 ANOTHER ANGLE

Joe vanishes and momentarily reappears, bringing Arris a
drink. Arris takes a long drink of it, leans over the bar.

ARRIS
Listen, Joe....I need somebody....
JOE
Written all over your face, Lev.
ARRIS
Somebody who knows how to crack
a password.
JOE
Is that all? You go grab a seat
while I bend a few appropriate
ears.


SC.233 INT. SINNER'S INN - BAR-WIDE

Arris sits down in an alcove, waits a few moments....


SC.234 ALCOVE

As Arris glances out into the bar. A nearby bright light is
suddenly eclipsed as a tall shadowy form moves slowly toward
him. A hint of menace. This is DIMITRI AVIGNONI.


SC.235 CLOSER - THE ALCOVE

As Dimitri slips into the seat opposite. He looks at Arris,
an evaluating kind of expression.

DIMITRI
I am known as Dimitri. I believe
you are being called Arris.


ARRIS
I believe so.
DIMITRI
Joe says you've got some nature
of a problem.

SC.236 DIFFERENT ANGLE

Arris produces the logic solid in its little case, shows it
to Dimitri. Dimitri takes it, turns it over in his hands.

DIMITRI (CONT'D)
Hmm. Protected. Spiteful.
ARRIS
Spiteful? How?
DIMITRI
Well. The algorithm for breaking
this baby is going to be a technical
headache on a major scale. We are talking
problem.
ARRIS
How much problem?
DIMITRI
About thirty thousand problem,
I'd venture.


SC.237 ON ARRIS

He looks astonished.

ARRIS
That's a lot of problems.


SC.238 DIMITRI

DIMITRI
So is this.
(beat)
Where I have to go for the
algorithms...I may not be able
to go again for a while. I
have to cover my lost business.


SC.239 THE TWO OF THEM

ARRIS
Twenty thousand.
DIMITRI
Take it or leave it. This (shakes his head)
one's hotter than a Venturi
chamber with an ulcer.

(At this point, the player either has the funds to pay, or
doesn't. If he doesn't...then SC 242. Otherwise,SC 240.)


SC.240 INT. SINNERS' INN - ON ARRIS

ARRIS
Okay...you're on.
DIMITRI
Good.


SC.241 ANOTHER ANGLE

Dimitri gets up.

DIMITRI
It'll take me a little while to
get this sorted, timewise. You hang
limply and abuse yourself.
ARRIS
Where you going?
DIMITRI
Somewhere quiet to work.
ARRIS
How do I know you won't just
run off, now I've paid you?
DIMITRI
Dimiti don't run. Unless there's
a fight.

He goes off.
(TO SC 244)


SC.244 INT. SINNER'S INN - WIDER

Arris gets up, walks off and sits down in front of a
holographic display, which is showing some kind of
commercial. This in turn fades to a news program. (We do not
actually see what's happening in the holobox: its active
sides are turned away from us - we see only its back.)


SC.245 ON ARRIS

He watches the news program...at first bored, then more
interested. It continues as PTO.

NEWSREADER (VO COMPUTER GENERATED)
packet from the ill-fated)
The last-received squirt
stellar exploration vessel
Silmar's Eye II has turned
up surprising new evidence of
alien technology similar to
that found on Caractacus...
(beat)
The Silmar's Eye has now
officially been classified
"presumed lost" after transmissions
from its location in a previously
unsurveyed star system were
abruptly cut off, and mission
specialists could not re-establish
contact.
(beat)
This tragedy follows hard on
the heels of the Eye's scientific
triumph a week ago, when its
archaeological team confirmed
discovery of artefacts of a
technologically advanced alien
species, possibly felinoid in
nature, and also possibly
spacefaring.
(beat)
Authorities are promising a
full investigation. Meanwhile,
allotropic iron futures plummeted
when...


SC.246 INT. SINNER'S INN

As Dimitri walks back in. Arris looks up at him
suspiciously.

ARRIS
That was quick.
DIMITRI
It is when you know how.


BC.247 CLOSER

He holds out the solid for Arris to see, and delicately
pinches its sides. Its top pops open, revealing another
slightly smaler solid resting inside it. Dimitri holds the
whole business out to Arris.

DIMITRI
Go on.

Arris takes the solid out, looks at it, looks into the tiny
box. There's something inside it.

ARRIS
What's that?


SC.248 INSERT - INSIDE THE BOX

A little silvery wafer plastered against the bottom of it.

DIMITRI (0.S.)
Duodecaplatylonate.


SC.249 BACK TO ANGLE - THE TWO OF THEM

ARRIS
WHAT?
DIMITRI
Someone must have nervous body
trying to force this honey.
There's enough duodec here
to blow you, me, Sinners',
and this whole goddamn side of the
port into vaporsville. And the hole
wouldn't even smoke afterwards...


SC.250 ANOTHER ANGLE

Dimitri smiles gently at Arris.

DIMITRI (CONT'D)
Just goes to show you...it pays
to spend money on quality work.
-- Meanwhile, if I were you, I'd
take that somewhere quiet to read.


SC.251 WIDER

Dimitri goes back to his game. Arris pockets the solid,
slips out.

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