FINAL FANTASY CRY OF THE PLANET
CLOUD STRIFE BARRET WALLACE TIFA LOCKHEART AERIS GAINSBOROUGH RED XIII SEPHIROTH RUFUS HEIDEGGER REEVE SCARLET
TIFA’S FATHER CLOUD’S MOTHER SHINRA SOLDIER #11 SHINRA SOLDIER #12 SHINRA SOLDIER #13
INNKEEPER PHOTOGRAPHER PROPRIETOR
ZANGAN
Interiors
SHINRA TOWER – PRESIDENT’S OFFICE SHINRA TOWER – OFFICE CORRIDOR SHINRA TOWER – SCARLET’S OFFICE BACK OF TRUCK KALM - INN – ROOM KALM – INN - LOBBY NIBELHEIM - INN – LOBBY NIBELHEIM - INN – SECOND FLOOR NIBELHEIM – INN – CLOUD’S ROOM NIBELHEIM – INN - HALLWAY KALM – SHOP CLOUD’S HOUSE MOUNT NIBEL – CAVES MOUNT NIBEL – MAKO FOUNTAIN MOUNT NIBEL – CLEARING MAKO REACTOR – WALKWAY MAKO REACTOR – CORE MAKO REACTOR – JENOVA SANCTUM SHINRA MANSION – PASSAGE SHINRA MANSION – LIBRARY SHINRA MANSION - BEDROOM
Exteriors
MIDGAR GATES OPEN WORLD – HILLTOP OPEN WORLD KALM – STREETS KALM – TAVERN OUTSIDE TRUCK NIBELHEIM – STREETS NIBELHEIM – NORTH END MOUNT NIBEL MOUNT NIBEL – BRIDGE MOUNT NIBEL – REACTOR
SHINRA MANSION
FADE IN
INT. SHINRA TOWER – PRESIDENT’S OFFICE – DAY
The body of PRESIDENT SHINRA is lifted off of the desk by a SHINRA SOLDIER and thrown into a cart. The new president of Shinra, RUFUS, enters with a bandaged shoulder.
SHINRA SOLDIER #11 Where shall I take the body, sir? Anything special?
RUFUS No. Just get rid of it.
SHINRA SOLDIER #11 With all due respect sir, he was the president of the company.
RUFUS Was! Not anymore.
(BEAT)
Throw him the in the furnace.
SHINRA SOLDIER #11 Yes, sir.
The soldier starts to push the cart away.
RUFUS Oh,
The soldier stops.
RUFUS (CONT.) And get a squad together and clean this place.
SHINRA SOLDIER #11 Right away sir.
The soldier pushes the cart toward the door and out of the room. Just as he exits, HEIDEGGER enters the office.
RUFUS (sitting down at his new desk) Heidegger!
HEIDEGGER Congratulations on the promotion, Mr. President.
RUFUS This desk still stinks of the old man.
A beat.
RUFUS What you don’t know Heidegger is that you too are getting a promotion.
HEIDEGGER Sir?
RUFUS You will continue as Head of Public Safety and Maintenance. However I’m putting you in as my right-hand man.
HEIDEGGER Vice President?
RUFUS No. I need no vice president.
(BEAT)
You and Scarlet are the only ones who truly have an understanding of the power of fear.
HEIDEGGER Then why not Scarlet? RUFUS She’s doing fine in her place as Head of Weapon Development. I don’t want to put any extra pressure on her.
HEIDEGGER I see.
Rufus stands up.
RUFUS AVALANCHE has escaped. Did you hear?
HEIDEGGER Yes. I hear that Sephiroth has escaped as well. He left quite mess.
RUFUS Shinra has two adversaries now, Heidegger.
HEIDEGGER We will crush them both with ease.
RUFUS If there’s one thing my father taught me, it’s to never underestimate your enemies. Sephiroth is quite powerful.
Rufus picks up Sephiroth’s bloody sword from off his desk.
RUFUS Look at this.
Rufus attempts to wave the sword around but it is too heavy for any swift maneuvers.
RUFUS Sephiroth is indeed strong. The only person who knows his secrets is Hojo.
Rufus hands Heidegger the sword.
RUFUS (CONT.) Which is why you are going to give him this. Have him analyze it. See if he can find its origin.
Heidegger props the sword up on his shoulder.
HEIDEGGER I’ll give it to Hojo.
The office doors open and REEVE enters. Rufus looks over and sees him.
RUFUS Reeve. I’m grateful you survived the attack.
REEVE Thank you.
RUFUS What can I do for you?
Rufus signals to Heidegger. Heidegger nods and leaves the room.
REEVE I’m sorry about your father. He was a great man at handling money. He always knew what he wanted.
RUFUS Enough about the old man. What do you want?
REEVE With your father dead, I want to know where Shinra is headed. Your father wanted to restart the Neo-Midgar project.
RUFUS I know.
Rufus sits back down in his desk.
REEVE I am concerned about the amount of money the attack on Sector 7 cost Shinra.
RUFUS What are you concerned about?
REEVE It will cost millions to repair the damage. Your father said he didn’t want to rebuild, thus eliminating all our outside income from the Sector 7 slums.
RUFUS I know.
REEVE Well, we need that extra income.
RUFUS I understand your concern, Reeve. However, we won’t need that extra income when we reach the Promised Land.
REEVE But your father—
RUFUS (interrupting) You don’t work for my father! You work for me now.
(BEAT)
I don’t care about this money bullshit. We’ll have all the money in the world when we harvest the Promised Land. Right now, fear is the most important thing, not money. Now will that be all, Reeve?
Reeve sighs.
REEVE Yes, sir.
EXT. OUTSIDE MIDGAR GATES – DAY
A steel rope-like twine wiggles as CLOUD climbs down. After Cloud reaches the bottom, BARRET with RED XIII clinging onto his back climbs to the ground. When they reach the ground Red XIII jumps off Barret’s back.
BARRET (sarcastically) Could you hold on any tighter?
RED XIII Well it was a long climb down, my friend.
TIFA and AERIS climb down and reach the bottom. Tifa looks at the gates of Midgar.
TIFA So this is it?
AERIS This is what?
TIFA We’re leaving Midgar. I spent the past eight years there.
CLOUD We should get going.
RED XIII Where exactly?
Cloud looks out into the open world and sees nothing but hills and plains.
CLOUD Wherever Sephiroth is going, I’ll follow.
BARRET Alright I’ve had enough. What’s the deal with you and this Sephiroth?
Cloud stares at Barret briefly before answering.
CLOUD I’ll tell you all,
(BEAT)
Soon.
RED XIII This doesn’t quite answer my question. Where are we going?
BARRET There’s a small town called Kalm, northeast of here. We should stop there for some food.
TIFA He’s right. I haven’t eaten all day.
CLOUD Okay then. When we get there, I’ll tell you about me and Sephiroth.
AERIS How far away is Kalm?
BARRET Couple hours.
RED XIII Enough talk, please. Like all of you, I’m hungry. So can we please?
The group starts walking out into the open world northeast toward Kalm.
EXT. OPEN WORLD – HILLTOP – (LATER THAT) DAY
The group walks to the top of a hill. They see a small village about two miles away.
BARRET (pointing) Kalm.
CLOUD Let’s go.
The group continues its journey to Kalm.
EXT. KALM – STREETS – DAY
They enter the town of Kalm. The streets are made of black stone and the buildings are built in an old Victorian style. An old windmill blows in the center of the town. Townspeople walk about the streets.
AERIS So this is Kalm, eh?
RED XIII It would appear so.
TIFA Nice place.
Aeris walks inward a bit and smiles at the sight of the people.
AERIS It’s so peaceful.
Some tears develop in her eyes.
CLOUD What’s wrong?
AERIS It’s so great to see people who aren’t suffering.
(MORE)
AERIS (BEAT) My whole life I’ve been around the suffering of the slums. Seeing this place gives me hope that those people can live in a better place.
BARRET That’s what this whole mission is about, Aeris.
TIFA Yeah. We’re here to save the planet and end Shinra’s oppression.
Cloud starts to walk toward the shops.
BARRET Where you goin’?
CLOUD You said you were hungry. Get some food then.
(jokingly)
If not, we can resort to eating Red, here.
RED XIII How about not?
INT. KALM – TAVERN – DAY
The group walks over to an open table and sits down. Barret unscrews his gun-arm and places it next to him on the floor. Cloud places his sword up against the wall.
AERIS (looking at Barret’s missing right hand) How it happen?
Barret looks up.
AERIS Your hand, I mean.
Barret sighs.
BARRET Long story.
Cloud stands up from the table.
CLOUD You guys wait here.
TIFA Where you going?
CLOUD To buy a few things.
As Cloud starts to leave, Red XIII goes to follow.
RED XIII Mind if I join you?
CLOUD No.
(to Barret)
Save some for us.
Barret waves and Cloud and Red XIII leave.
EXT. KALM – STREETS – DAY
Cloud and Red XIII walk out onto the streets of Kalm.
RED XIII So tell me my boy, why’d you really leave?
CLOUD To avoid all the annoying small talk.
RED XIII Fair enough. I’d do the same.
CLOUD I hate it when people ask questions and that that “get to know you” stuff.
RED XIII So where you headed?
CLOUD There’s got to be a shop that sells materia here.
Cloud and Red XIII walk into --
INT. KALM – SHOP – DAY
Unlike the shop in the slums, this one has a few customers inside. Cloud and Red XIII walk up to the counter. Everyone inside stares at Red XIII.
PROPRIETOR What are you supposed to be?
RED XIII Does that matter now?
The PROPRIETOR squints his eyes at Red XIII then looks to Cloud.
PROPRIETOR What can I do for ya’?
CLOUD I’m with a group,
(BEAT)
A traveling group. We need some sleeping materials if you’ve got them.
PROPRIETOR A traveling group, eh? Well you’re in luck.
The proprietor goes to the shelves and grabs several blankets. As he grabs them Cloud notices two green materia spheres hidden in the back.
PROPRIETOR (placing blankets on front desk) Here you go. It’s not much but good enough I’d say.
CLOUD And how much for that materia in the back?
The proprietor looks and sees the two spheres. A few beats; then
PROPRIETOR You’re the second guy to ask me about them.
CLOUD Who was before us?
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