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3_S
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Production Privateer 2: The Darkening
Type Main Plot
Series Introduction
Disc CD1
Run Time 6m41s
Previous CREDIT_S
Next SINN_S


3_S is a live action cutscene from Privateer 2: The Darkening. It is part of the introductory series of cutscenes. It plays the first time the player clicks on Joe Kane at the Sinner's Inn on Hermes. The player is asked to choose whether or not to ask Joe for black market deals. Either choice enables access to the CCN Booth system.

Choice A: Sounds illegal... I don't like the sound of it       Choice B: Maybe I can get a bargain...

Transcript

Characters

Speaking

Non-Speaking

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.

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.

Storyboards

A collection of Privateer 2 Storyboards has been provided by Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum. They cover the Main Plot cutscenes.

Script

A Diane Duane's The Darkening Script Draft 7 used during the game's shooting has been provided by Erin Roberts.

SC.73 INT. SINNER'S INN ACCESS-DAY

An open area with "jetways" and pedestrian tubes running away
from it: a kind of crossroads. The door to Sinner's is
across this area.
The equivalent of a garish/tatty neon sign marks it, the
words "Sinner's Inn" appearing in several alphabets other
than Roman. Arris walks over to the door: it opens for him:
he enters, and it shuts.


5C.74 INT. SINNER'S INN-DAY

Again, telling it's day isn't easy: it's dark in here, only
occasional pinlighting breaking the gloom. The bar area is
the brightest in the place. A CCM booth and an STT booth are
off to one side, looking very beat up. Various shady-looking
characters lurk, skulk or slouch in corners and alcoves,
drinking and talking. A few of them look up at Arris as he
comes in, then away again. The looks are not particularly
friendly. In b.g. of the shot are a raddled-looking bunch of
barflies


5C.75 ON ARRIS

He walks up to the bar, stops there, uncertain. JOE THE
BARTENDER is there, polishing the bar. He looks up: also
not a particularly friendly expression.

JOE
You're a hungry man.
ARRIS
(A little taken aback)
Ah, yeah, I guess I could eat.
JOE
(glances under the bar)
Your starving. Don't deny it. A barman
nowadays...he'S got to have sixth sense
about his customers. And I'm nothing if
not a barman. Your credit's sweet enough..
(Looks up)
We got stew, we got lizard guts, we got
space bug gumbo...
ARRIS
I'll have the stew.
JOE
I could have told you that. And you
like your beer...lukewarm. Right?
ARRIS
Actually I prefer it...
(Arris notices the stare Joe
is giving him. Arris smiles)
Lukewarm. Right.

Joe turns away.


SC.76 ANOTHER ANGLE - BAR

Joe reappears, gives Arris his bowl of stew and his beer,
then leans on the bar, looking idly over at the barflies.

JOE
Don't mind them. They're loudmouthed
vicious cut-throats...but they're
decent loudmouthed cut-throats.
ARRIS
So they're no trouble?
JOE
Nothing I can't see coming. Though
some spacers...soon as they walk in
I smell it on them. So I break their
necks, just a little, to be on the
safe side.
(Eyes Arris, smiles)
That's not trouble I smell on you, is it?
ARRIS
Uh, uh. I left all my troubles outside.


SC.77 WIDER

Joe nods, looking satisfied.

JOE
Good. First time I saw you I thought,
there's one smart vertebrae. You hang
round here and I'll see you right.
Decent food and drink...maybe a coupla
juicy deals.
(Conspiratorial look)
Respectable guy like you gotta think
about where he's seen. You don't
wanna hang in some spit and sawdust
toilet with a liquor licence. You
need somewhere like this, a place with
a little refinement.

(At this moment we should witness some act of violence or
debauchery in the background of the bar)

ARRIS
(Seeing it)
Thanks for the advise, Ser.
JOE
My friends call me Joe...
JOE(Cont..)
(Pretend confidential)
Probably because that's my name!

He laughs loudly at his own joke as they shake hands:
(Not an Earth-style handshake: each man grips the other's
forearm.)

ARRIS
I'm Lev Arris.
JOE
Of course you are.


SC.78 INT. SINNER'S INN-DAY

The barflies continue their singing in b.g. Arris has
finished his stew -- pushes the bowl aside.

ARRIS
Joe, you mentioned some...juicy deals.
JOE
Not just juicy. Dripping. Suppliers,
wholesalers, jobbers. You could say
I run a very...moist establishment.
CHOICE 1:
     ARRIS (VO)
      CHOICE 2:
     ARRIS (VO)
Hmm...sounds more than
slightly illegal...don't
like the sound of it.
Maybe I can get a bargain
...something a little
'hot'....