Transcripts
LOCATION: (Start of Game) (FMV) India - Calcutta - Imperial Hotel
(Lara is sat in the lobby of the Imperial Hotel, waiting for someone. A man called Larson approaches and drops down a magazine on the table called ‘Adventurer magazine’. It has Lara on the front cover, ‘stamping out Bigfoot’.)
Larsen: What’s a man gotta do to get that kinda attention from ya? Lara: It’s hard to say exactly, but you seem to be doing fine. Larsen: Well great, though, truth is, it ain’t me that wants ya. Lara: No? Larsen: No. (He places down a laptop in front of Lara. Natla appears on the screen) Miss Jacqueline Natla does, from Natla Technologies. You know, creator of all things bright and beautiful. (laughs) Natla: Seal it, Larsen. Larsen: Ma’am. (He steps back) Natla: (She throws money up in the air and lets it fall around her) Feast your eyes on this Lara. How does that make your wallet rumble? Lara: (She stands) I’m sorry. I only play for sport. Natla: Then you’ll like a big park: Peru. Vast Mountain ranges to cover; sheer walls of ice; rocky crags; savage winds... And there’s this little trinket – an age old artefact of mystical powers buried in the unfound tomb of Qualopec. That’s my interest. You could leave tomorrow. Are you busy tomorrow? (Lara smiles). |
LOCATION: (In Game) Peru – Tomb of Qualopec
(Lara defeats Larsen in a gunfight)
Lara: (She points her gun at him) Well, you have my total attention now. I’m not quite sure if I’ve got yours, though. Hello. Larsen: I’ll heel ‘n’ hide ya to a barn door yet. Lara: Of course. Larsen: You and that drivelling piece of the Scion. You want to keep it so bad, I’ll harness it right up yer… Lara: Wait. We’re talking about the artefact here? Larsen: Damn straight, we are. Right up… Lara: Hold on, I’m sorry. This piece you say…where’s the rest? Larsen: Miss Natla put Pierre DuPont on that trail. Lara: And where is that? Larsen: Ha! You ain’t fast enough for him. Lara: So, you think all this talking is just holding me up? Larsen: I don’t know where his little jack-rabbit-frog-legs are runnin’ him to. You’ll have to ask Miss Natla. Lara: (Larsen tries to reach for his shotgun, but Lara kicks him down) Thank you. I will. |
LOCATION: (FMV) New York City – Natla Technologies Headquarters
(Lara breaks into Natla’s office and finds the diary of an eleventh century Catholic monk who had heard rumours of a tomb underneath their monastery. She sits and reads the diary)
Lara: Relocated now to St. Francis’ Folly, new temptations torment me... Monk: (Voiceover changes) Rumour amongst my fellow brothers is that entombed beneath our monastery is the body of Tihocan, one of the three legendary rulers of the lost continent Atlantis, and that within lies his piece of the Atlantean Scion. The pendant divided and shared between the three rulers, which curbs tremendous powers; powers beyond the creator himself. My toes sweat at such possibilities, lying so close to my mortal self. Each night, I beat myself rid of these fantasies, but it is indeed a test. |
LOCATION: (FMV) Contd. Greece – St. Francis’ Folly
(Lara climbs up to the entrance of the Folly and sees a camp fire and an empty can of beans. She picks it up and tuts)
Lara: Pierre, tsk, you litterbug. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Greece – Tomb of Tihocan
(Lara confronts Pierre in a gunfight)
Pierre: A little late for the prize giving, no? Still, it is the taking part, which counts. |
LOCATION: (Cut scene) Greece – Tomb of Tihocan
(Lara enters the tomb and reads the mural on the wall)
Lara: Here lies Tihocan, one of the two just rulers of Atlantis, who, even after the curse of the continent, had tried to keep rule here in these barren other lands. He died without child and his knowledge has no heritage. Look over us kindly, Tihocan. (She looks down to the sarcophagus) |
LOCATION: (In Game) Egypt – Sanctuary of the Scion - Inside the Scion’s Resting Place
(Lara confronts Larsen once more in a gunfight)
Larsen: I still got a pain in my brain from yer, and it’s telling me funny ideas now, like to shoot you to hell! |
LOCATION: (FMV) Egypt – Outside Sanctuary of the Scion
(Lara exits the tomb and has been ambushed by Natla’s henchmen)
Bald Guy: You just pulled the tough end of a wishbone. Cowboy: Howdy. Lara: Afternoon. Natla: (Steps out of her expensive white Mercedes) Left Larsen sucking wind then, eh? Lara: If that is the phrase. Natla: Well, your little vacation riot’s over now. Time to give back what you’ve hijacked off me. Lara: (Is grabbed by Bald Guy) Ow! Bald Guy: Let’s try the lunchbox. (He takes the Scion from Lara’s backpack and shoves Lara against a wall) Natla: (Inspects the piece of the Scion) Well? Kill her! (Lara makes a break for it, pushing the Cowboy aside and diving into the water below) Cowboy: Hey! (Lara has escaped) Natla: You morons! (She looks over the ledge but Lara is nowhere to be seen) Let’s go. (Lara emerges from the waters and sees the white Mercedes heading off. She returns to her motorbike and follows, seeing them upon Natla’s yacht, which is just leaving land. Lara uses her bike to propel herself closer to the escaping yacht, her bike landing in the water with a heavy splash. Bald Guy and Skateboard Kid come out to investigate) Bald Guy: What was that? Skateboard Kid: What? Bald Guy: That-a-way! (Lara uses the distraction to climb on board and sneaks below deck) Skateboard Kid: Probably just a fish. Bald Guy: That had to be some fish, kid. Skateboard Kid: Man, you have got to learn to chill. I’m going back inside. You coming? (Lara takes a nap for a few hours but wakes when she hears noise) Bald Guy: Steady. Skateboard Kid: Here she goes. (A small boat is released into the water) Natla: We’re ready yet? (Lara returns to top deck and sees Natla and her goons making their way towards the island of Atlantis. Lara dives into the water and follows them) |
LOCATION: (In Game) Atlantis – Natla’s Mines
(Lara confronts the Cowboy in a gunfight)
Cowboy: Ain’t nothin’ personal. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Atlantis – Natla’s Mines
(Lara confronts the Skateboard Kid in a gunfight)
Skateboard Kid: You firin’ at me? You firin’ at me, huh? Ain’t nobody else, so you must be firin’ at me! |
LOCATION: (In Game) Atlantis – Natla’s Mines
(Lara confronts the Bald Guy in a gunfight)
Bald Guy: Say Cheese! (When Lara defeats him) Bald Guy: Scump-sucker! |
LOCATION: (Cut scene) (FMV) (Cut scene) Atlantis – Great Pyramid
(Lara steps up to the altar. As she touches the Scion, she sees a vision from centuries, possibly even millennias ago, of Natla being imprisioned by Qualopec and tihocan for misuse of the Scion’s powers)
Natla: You can’t do this! Qualopec: We condemn you Natla of Atlantis, for your crimes, for your flagrant misuse of your powers and for robbing us of ours. Natla: You can’t! I… Qualopec: Breaking the free bond of consent that our people are ruled and secured under, and invading Tihocan and myself with our army, our warriors, emptied from our pyramid so that you could use the pyramid – its powers of creation – for your own mindless destruction. Natla: Mindless!? Look at you! Neither of you have one squirt of inventive juice in your heads. Wasters! Qualopec: (turns to Tihocan) Let’s just do it. Natla: (She tries to plea) Tihocan! Tihocan: You used the sacramental place as a source of individual pleasure, as some freak factory. Natla: They’re survivalists! A new generation. Tihocan: A slaughter heap now. And you, we’re going to lock you in limbo. Make your veins, heart, feet, and that diseased brain stick solid with frozen blood. Greet your eternal unrest, Natla. (Qualopec gestures to an Atlantean to flip a switch, which locks Natla into a confinement chamber and flood it with a gas that causes cryonic freezing) Natla: You won’t rest either, or your damned continent of Atlantis! (An electrical shock wakes up Lara, back in to present day) Natla: (has entered the room) Back again? Lara: And you. For a grand re-opening, I assume. Natla: Evolution’s in a rut; natural selection at an all time low. Shipping out fresh meat will incite territorial rages again, will strengthen and advance us. Even create new breeds. (points to a huge incubator pod) Lara: A kind of evolution on steroids then. Natla: A kick in the pants. Those runts Qualopec and Tihocan had no idea. The cataclysm of Atlantis struck a race of lankering wimps; plummeted them to the very basics of survival again. It shouldn’t happen like that. Lara: Or like this. Computer Voice: Hatching commences in fifteen seconds. Natla: Too late for abortions now. Lara: Not without the heart of the operation. (points her gun at the Scion) Natla: No! (Natla lunges at Lara, but Lara manages to grab a ledge opposite and pull herself up to safety whilst Natla falls down into the lava below) Computer Voice: Ten…five…four…three…two…one. (Lara just manages to get to her feet in time) |
LOCATION: (In Game) Atlantis – The Great Pyramid
(Lara confronts Natla in a gunfight)
Natla: You can’t bump off me and my brood so easily Lara! |