37 S

37_S
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.

• Download: 37_S.mp4

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.

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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.

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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.

Characters

Speaking

• Lev Arris
• Joe The Bartender
• Dimitri Avignoni
• Newsreader

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.

• Download: 37_S-P2_25th_ANNIVERSARY_Hilliker_Cut.mp4

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.

• Download: 37_S-Priv2-betacam-roughcut.mp4

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

The 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.242 INT. SINNER'S INN

ARRIS

Sorry ain't got the readies.

DIMITRI

Sorry, man. Can't help ya.

He goes back to his snooker game.

DIMITRI (CONT'D)

But come back when you've

got the money.

SC. 243 ANOTHER ANGLE

As Arris leaves.

(Followed by sequence of Arris leaving Sinner's.)
(Dialogue for when Arris comes back:)

DIMITRI

Hey, Arris -- you got the

funds?

(If he does)

ARRIS

Yes.

DIMITRI

Great. Let's get on with

it.

(Takes the solid)

You get comfortable...I'll be back.

(If he doesn't)

ARRIS

No.

DIMITRI

Gotta give you this - -

you're a tryer, man. But no

lootitri...no Dimitri.

Sorry.

(turns away)

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.