Season 03: Echoes Within Intro Cinematic
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Cutscene transcript[edit]
The cutscene begins with Hieu Dinh lying down in a bed. Vital monitors beep around him as voices from the past begin to speak.
- Marine Medic: His neural link is corrupted, ma'am.
- Laurette Agryna: Eklund. What exactly did Spartan Dinh put inside his head?
The camera shows a brain monitor. The fingers on Dinh's right hand move.
- Eklund: A Banished AI. The first I've ever seen.
The camera shows the back of Dinh's helmet. The AI slot glows red. Dinh's head shakes.
- Iratus: (Furious roar)
The brain monitor beeps much more rapidly now. Dinh's entire body shakes, and his head violently shakes.
The scene changes to Dinh standing on a desert planet, armored, but without his helmet. A Forerunner vessel stands before him. The camera moves towards Dinh's face.
- Dinh: Why? Why here?
The camera shows Dinh's face, with closed eyes.
- Iratus: Because you refuse to see.
Dinh opens his eyes. A UNSC-designed door appears in front of him.
- Dinh: There's nothing you can show me that I haven't seen a thousand times.
Dinh walks in front of the door.
- Iratus: Except the truth.
The door slides open, revealing a gray fog inside. Iratus appears behind Dinh, then hovers in front of him.
- Iratus: Go on. I dare you.
Dinh walks through the door. He appears in front of the Forerunner vessel, now at night. A flaming Warthog is in front of him.
- Dinh: I told them. Go at night. Airborne. It would have been different.
Dinh crouches down and picks up an M392 Bandit.
- Iratus: Would it?
Iratus shows Dinh what would have happened in that scenario. He shows Dinh a Pelican being shot down by plasma shots. Dinh becomes infuriated at Iratus.
- Dinh: Get Out! Get Out! (angry roar) Get! Out!
- Iratus: (Cruel chuckle) But there is so much more to see.
Suddenly, Yanme'e emerge from the sand around Dinh and they pull him under the sand.
- Dinh: (Pained groan)
Dinh falls through the interior of a Forerunner structure and lands on the ground. He rises to his feet.
- Iratus: I smell...(sniffs) fear. How disappointing.
The same door from the desert is in front of Dinh. Iratus once again appears beside Dinh.
- Dinh: You weren't here. And I'm not gonna let you go any further!
- Iratus: Ah! There's that Spartan spirit! Delicious!
The door slides open, revealing a blinding white light. Dinh is forcibly pulled into the door.
- Iratus: But, in the end, pointless.
Dinh is taken into a room with dead Yanme'e littering the floor. Dead Spartan-IVs are scattered among the corpses.
- Dinh: You don't know anything.
Dinh walks to a pillar in the center of the room. A dead Spartan is against the pillar.
- Iratus: Because the truth is this: it always ends the exact same way.
Dinh removes the Spartan's helmet, revealing himself, but with shorter hair. His doppelganger opens his eyes.
- Doppelganger: Death for you. And triumph-
The doppelganger grabs Dinh.
Iratus, through Dinh: -for me!
Dinh rises in the bed, and the camera zooms into his helmet.
Cuts to black.
Gallery[edit]
Concept art of the Forerunner vessel in the desert.
More concept art of the Forerunner vessel in the desert.
More concept art of the Forerunner vessel in the desert, this time at night.
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