42 S

42_S
Production	Privateer 2: The Darkening
Type	Main Plot
Series	Mission R - Rhinehart Redux
Disc	CD3
Run Time	6m17s
Previous	HADES_T
Scenes	263-273
Locations	Prison Pits

42_S is a main plot cutscene from Privateer 2: The Darkening. It is part of Mission R - Rhinehart Redux. It plays when the player visits CIS Offices on Hades after rescuing David Hassan. This completes the mission.

• Download: 42_S.mp4

Transcript

PRISON POLICE OFFICER: Access, ser.

RHINEHART: Wait... so you made it through after all? Bravo.

DAVID HASSAN: Bravo? You know how many people have died?

RHINEHART: Oh, who the hell cares?

LEV ARRIS: Who are you?

RHINEHART: Well, I suppose we're all friends around here. My code name is Rhinehart.

DAVID HASSAN: You sure you're not Malakai

RHINEHART: Don't be absurd, Malakai's dead. Do I look dead? Malakai and I we ah, well let us say we used to be Kronos' right hand men..

DAVID HASSAN: Used to be?

LEV ARRIS: So, uhm, where do I fit in all this?

RHINEHART: Please, please, let us proceed in an orderly fashion. Information is a valuable commodity. Before I tell you anything I will require certain assurances. I find myself being sought by both the Kinred and the CIS.

DAVID HASSAN: And you think we're the softer option?

RHINEHART: Positively sponge-like, David. I require a CIS protection plan and new identity on one of the more idyllic outer worlds.

DAVID HASSAN: Mm, that can be arranged.

RHINEHART: I never doubted it

LEV ARRIS: So who am I?

RHINEHART: Do you reember your brother?

LEV ARRIS: My brother?

RHINEHART: Your twin brother. You were born just moments before him, which made you the oldest, going by the proper.

LEV ARRIS: My brother, Sar.

RHINEHART: How he hated the way your mother doted on you. Then when you got sick with the AOS virus and they froze you and it broke her heart, Sar always blamed you for her death.

DAVID HASSAN: This is bullshit it can't be.

LEV ARRIS: Wha-what can't it be what?

RHINEHART: When your father's heart gave out on him you were still in deep freeze, so the mantle of power went to your little brother.

LEV ARRIS: My father?

RHINEHART: Vel Ricaud. You are Vel Ricaud the Second.

DAVID HASSAN: But he died, twenty years ago.

RHINEHART: No, he was put into a cryopod twenty years ago.

DAVID HASSAN: Lev, your, your father was founder of Ricaud Planetary.

RHINEHART: Which became the Kindred. Since taking over, Sar has turned himself into Kronos.

LEV ARRIS: Kronos. That was a board room nickname for my father, the old man.

RHINEHART: Now it's your brother, who was always unstable. The constant use of revive.

LEV ARRIS: What, the the anti aging drug? That stuff's dangerous, isn't it?

RHINEHART: Only as so far as it eventually makes you age faster and as an added bonus turns the mind to jelly. Which is whats happening to little Sar, much to our distress.

DAVID HASSAN: So, things got too messy, even for you? My heart bleeds.

RHINEHART: Yes it does bleed. Its bled profusely since little accident we arranged. Do you ever wish that it was you that died and not your...

DAVID HASSAN: Shit, Rhinehart!

LEV ARRIS: Wait! He's trying to wind you up.

RHINEHART: Succeeding, it seems. To think, if you hadn't been frozen you'ld have been part of our war against the CIS. There wouldn't have been quite such buddy love between you then, eh?

LEV ARRIS: Yeah, whoever I was I've changed.

RHINEHART: People don't change that much. Some are born wolves. Some are sheep. You might be wearing sheep's clothing, but your fangs are showing through.

LEV ARRIS: Yeah, well, uh, maybe, uh, losing my memory was the best thing that could have happened to me. Its, uhm, its given me a chance to choose who I am.

RHINEHART: God, this is becoming dangerously close to being a religious experience. Forget it. As soon as all your memories return you'll be just like you used to be, your father's son.

DAVID HASSAN: Maybe he's right.

RHINEHART: Your old man was a wise one. When he had Jan Mitorr freeze you he also stored all the company access codes with you.

LEV ARRIS: Yeah he did. I'm remembering that now.

RHINEHART: When Sar went off the rails, Malakai and I knew we needed the son and heir back, but Sar found out and had Malakai killed with the Canera.

LEV ARRIS: Those uhm, those guys in the hospital?

RHIENHART: The first two were mine. I didn't tell the idiots to trash the whole place, just to get you out of there.

LEV ARRIS: And the second two were Sar's come to blow me away and when that didn't work he sent Kindred ops to tail me to finish off the job.

RHINEHART: He knows you could replace him.

LEV ARRIS: That's right I will.

RHINEHART: Well you may have a chance to test that resolve, he's coming to take someone out himself.

LEV ARRIS: Who, me?

RHINEHART: His boss, the head of CIS

DAVID HASSAN: Shiela Nabakov. The security conference.

RHINEHART: The very same.

LEV ARRIS: David this is my war too

DAVID HASSAN: What side are you on?

LEV ARRIS: The right side.

RHINEHART: Ser Arris,remember - once a wolf, always a wolf.

Characters

Speaking

• Lev Arris
• David Hassan

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: 42_S-P2_25th_ANNIVERSARY_Hilliker_Cut.mp4

Origin Museum VHS

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

• Download: 42_S-P2_OM_Tape.mp4

EQ Magazine Interview

The EQ Magazine interview with Christopher Walken includes footage of 42_S being filmed.

• Download: EQ_Magazine_Interview-christopher_walken.mp4

Film 96

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

• Download: Film_96_Report_-_The_Darkening.mp4

Trailer

The Privateer 2: The Darkening Trailer includes a clip from this scene.

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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.263 INT. HADES PRISON "PIT" AREA - WIDE

The design of the cells is that on Hades. A POLICE OFFICER
leads them over to one pit in particular.

POLICE OFFICER

Access, ser?

Hassan nods.

SC.264 ON THE PIT

The officer touches a control, and a forcefield springs into
life in the cell, bisecting it and separating the prisoner
from the area where the visitors will be. The other side is
occupied by RHINEHART, who looks up at them quizzically.

SC.265 ANOTHER ANGLE ON THE PIT

A "stair" of energy forms itself out of the forcefield,
leading dowm from the edge of the pit to the floor. First
Hassan, then (a little reluctantly) Arris, walk down it. In
the pit, CAMERA PUSHES IN on Arris as he looks at Rhinehart.
This man, too, he plainly recognizes.

SC.266 ON RHINEHART

He stands up, walks over to just by the forcefield, peers
through it, gets a wry and slightly nasty look on his face.

RHINEHART

So you made it through after all Bravo.

HASSAN

Bravo? do you know how many people have

died?

RHINEHEART

Oh, who really cares?

Hassan and Arris glare at each other. They've got a real
arrogant sicko here.

SC.267 WIDER —

ARRIS

Who are you?

RHINEHART

Well, I suppose as we're all friends

here...my codename is Rhinheart.

HASSAN

You're sure you're not Malakai?

RHINEHEART

Don't be absurd. Malakai is dead.

Do I look dead? Malakai and I, we...

let's say we used to be Kronos' right

hand men.

HASSAN

Used to be?

ARRIS

So where do I fit into all this?

Rhineheart lifts his hands, quietening them.

RHINEHEART

Please, let us proceed in an orderly fashion.

Information is a valuable commodity. Before

I tell you anything I will require certain...

assurances. I find myself being sought by

both The Kindred and the CIS...

HASSAN

And you think we're the softer option?

RHINEHEART

Positively sponge-like, David. I'll require

a CIS protection plan, a new identity on

one of the more idyllic outworlds.

Hassan hates giving anything to this creature, but after a
few beats he shrugs, and...

HASSAN

That can be arranged.

RHINEHEART

I never doubted it.

SC.268 WIDER

ARRIS

So who am I?

Rhinehart smiles.

RHINEHART

Do you remember your brother?

ARRIS

My brother?

RHINEHEART

Your twin brother. You were born just

moments before him, which made you the oldest.

Therein lay the problem.

SC.269 ANOTHER ANGLE

Arris struggles with memory...

ARRIS

My brother...Sar?

RHINEHART

How he hated the way mother doted on you. Then

when you got sick with the AOS virus and

they froze you...it broke her heart. Sar

always blamed you for her death.

HASSAN

(understanding)

This is bullshit. It can't be this.

ARRIS

(to Hassan)

What? What can't it be?

RHINEHEART

When your father's heart gave out on him

you were still in deep freeze so the mantle

of power went to your little brother.

ARRIS

My father?

RHINHEART

Vell Ricaud. You are Vell Ricaud the

second.

HASSAN

But he died twenty years ago.

RHINEHEART

(Looking at Arris)

No. He was put into a cryopod twenty

years ago.

HASSAN

(To Arris)

Lev. (Beat) Your father was founder of Ricaud

Planetary.

SC.270 ON RHINEHART

RHINEHART

Which became...The Kindred. Since

taking over, Sar has turned himself into

Kronos...

SC.271 ON ARRIS

ARRIS

(slightly bitter)

Kronos...it was a boardroom nickname

for my father. "The old man..."

RHINEHART

Now it's your brother. He was always...

unstable. But constant use of Re-vive...

ARRIS

The anti-aging drug...that

stuff's...dangerous, isn't it?

RHINEHEART

Only insofar as it eventually makes

you age faster and, as an added bonus,

turnms the mind to jelly. Which is

what's happened to little Sar...much

to our distress.

HASSAN

So things got too messy even for you?

My heart bleeds..

SC.272 ANOTHER ANGLE

Arris looks more and more like someone to whom things are
coming back, all in a rush, triggered by Rhinehart's face,
and the course of events.

RHINEHART

(to Hassan)

Yes, it does bleed. It's bled profusely

since that little accident we arranged

for...Do you ever wish it were you that

died and not...

Hassan PULLS HIS GUN OUT, aims at Rhineheart.

HASSAN

You murderous little...

Arris stands between them.

ARRIS

David, he's just trying to wind you up.

RHINEHEART

Succeeding, it seems.

(To Arris)

But think - if you hadn't been frozen,

you'd have been a part of our war against the

RHINEHART (CONT)

CIS. There wouldn't have been quite

so much buddy-love between you then, huh?

Hassan and Arris glance at each other, this logic sinking in.

ARRIS

Whoever I was...I've changed.

RHINEHEART

People don't change that much. Some

are born wolves, some are sheep.

You might be wearing sheep's clothing...

but your fangs are showing through.

ARRIS

Maybe losing my memory was the best

thing that could have happened to me.

It's given me a chance to choose who

I am.

RHINEHEART

Oh god, this is becoming perilously close

to a religious experience. Forget it.

As soon as all your memories return you'll

be just like you used to be. Your father's

son.

HASSAN

Maybe he's right.

Arris looks at Hassan, shocked by this.

RHINEHEART

Your old man was a wise one. When

he had Jan Mitorr freeze you, he

also stored all the company access

codes with you...

ARRIS

(slightly secretive)

Yes... I'm remembering that now.

ON HASSAN

He steps back, looking at Arris and Rhineheart, who suddenly
seem in collusion.

RHINEHART

Now that Sar is really off the rails, Malakai

and I knew we needed the son and heir back,

but Sar found out. Had Malakai killed in

the Canera.

ARRIS

Those guys in the hospital?

RHINEHEART

First two were mine. I didn't tell the

idiots to trash the whole place, just

to get you out of there...

ARRIS

So the second two were Sar's...come to

blow me away. And when that didn't work

he started having Kindred ops tail me...

to finish off the job.

RHINEHART

He knows you could replace him.

ARRIS

That's right. I will.

He realizes what he's said. Rhineheart smiles..

ARRIS

I mean I could do...But won't. Not

interested.

RHINEHART

You maybe have a chance to test that resolve.

He's coming to take someone out

himself.

ARRIS

Who? Me?

RHINEHART

(RE Hassan

His boss. The head of CIS.

SC.273 NEW ANGLE

Hassan looks stunned. So does Arris.

HASSAN

Shiela Nabokov! Shit! The

Security Conference!

RHINEHART

The very same.

Hassan moves to the exit.

ARRIS

David!

Hassan turns, he and Arris stare at each other.

ARRIS

This is my war too.

HASSAN

But which side are you on?

Arris looks back at a smiling Rhineheart, then back at
Hassan.

ARRIS

The right side.

Hassan nods, though maybe not completely convinced. He
sprints up the stairs...Arris starts to follow, but...

RHINEHEART

Ser Arris...

Arris looks back at Rhineheart...

RHINEHART

Remember, once a wolf always a wolf...

ARRIS

You don't know what you're --

But Rhinmeheart turns his face to us. closing his eyes, his
face suddenly serene. Conversation over...

Arris leaps after Hassan...