39 S

39_S
Production	Privateer 2: The Darkening
Type	Main Plot
Series	Mission O: Code Breaker
Disc	CD3
Run Time	2m20s
Scenes	243-251
Locations	Sinner's Inn

39_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 Dimitri Avignoni at the Sinner's Inn on Hermes after viewing 38_S and returning with enough credits to pay Avignoni. This completes the mission.

• Download: 39_S.mp4

Transcript

DIMITRI AVIGNONI: Hey, Arris, have you got the funds?

LEV ARRIS: Yep.

DIMITRI AVIGNONI: Great. Let's get on with it. You get comfortable, I'll be back.

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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 in 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 someone quiet to read.

Characters

Speaking

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

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: 39_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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(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.

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.