42 S
| 42_S | |
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| 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.
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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.
Storyboards
A collection of Privateer 2 Storyboards has been provided by Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum. They cover the Main Plot cutscenes.
Script
The The Darkening Script Draft 7 used during the game's shooting has been provided by Erin Roberts.
