SC 1300A

SC 1300A
Production	Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom
Type	Plot
Series	E - Orestes
Disc	CD3 (PC), Side A (DVD)
Run Time	1m
Choice A	Gotta admit. I did.
Choice B	This guy’s bloodthirsty.
Scenes	130
Locations	Combat Information Center

SC_1300A is a cutscene from Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom. It plays when the player selects "Talk to Hawk." in the Combat Information Center after Orestes E1. It is not included in the PlayStation version.

• Download: SC_1300A.mp4

Choice A: Gotta admit. I did.		Choice B: This guy’s bloodthirsty.

Transcript

COLONEL JACOB "HAWK" MANLEY: What? Oh. I'm awake.

COLONEL CHRISTOPHER BLAIR: Yeah, sure you are.

COLONEL JACOB "HAWK" MANLEY: Well, it's just that the last couple of days I haven't had much of a chance to sleep.

COLONEL CHRISTOPHER BLAIR: Yeah, well, nobody has. But you ought to try the hold.

COLONEL JACOB "HAWK" MANLEY: Oh, no...no... Eisen tells me Confed pulled you out of retirement. What's it like being back?

COLONEL CHRISTOPHER BLAIR: Well, you know, back in the cockpit with the enemy in my sights, everything's crystal clear.

COLONEL JACOB "HAWK" MANLEY: Yeah. Until the recent trouble, I almost missed the Kilrathi. Didn't you enjoy blastin' cats?

Characters

Speaking

• Colonel Christopher Blair
• Colonel Jacob "Hawk" Manley

DVD

The DVD Version of Wing Commander IV includes much higher resolution versions of almost every cutscene from the CD-ROM release.

• Download: SC_1300A.mp4

Translations

Wing Commander IV's cutscenes were dubbed for the French and German releases.

French

PC

• Download: SC_1300A.mp4

Choice A: Ah, le bon vieux temps !		Choice B: Ce type ne pense qu'à tuer !

German

PC

• Download: SC_1300A.mp4

Choice A: Ich muá zugeben: das stimmt.		Choice B: Der Bursche ist blutrnstig.

Script

Shooting Script

A Wing Commander IV shooting script has been digitized from the collection of the University of Texas at Austin. A digital version (extracted below) was posted to Origin's Wing Commander IV website in 1996.

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c.i.c. - Hawk (optional) -e2 Hawk's got his feet up on a control panel and appears to be napping. Blair taps him on the foot.

Hawk (waking) What--?--I'm--awake.

Blair (chuckles) Sure you are.

Hawk It's just I haven't had much chance to sleep in the last few days.

Blair Nobody has. You should try the hold.

Hawk cringes and waves that idea off.

Hawk Eisen tells me Confed pulled you out of retirement. What's it like? Being back?

Blair In the cockpit? With an enemy in my sights? Everything's crystal clear.

Hawk (nodding) Yeah. Until the recent troubles started, I almost missed the Kilrathi. Didn't you enjoy blastin' cats?