"HOBBES:" "My dearest Sophie, even as I write these words feeling my pen press against paper I struggle to make sense of the world where I am now prisoner." "A world that looks and feels like our own but was created not by God, but by man." "A world whose reality was written in bytes and bits Defense Department software running on a computer to which my consciousness has been chained." "My friend Pinocchio reminds me this is just a game a digital reality where all that matters is survival." "But there is more here, Sophie." "A woman named Florence saved my life with the power to heal." "Who gave her this power?" "Some programmer?" "For what purpose?" "Or could it be, even in the unreality of this strange world there exists a higher power?" "One whose call only Florence can hear." "[GRUNTING]" "Florence." "[WHISTLES]" "Hobbes, take a hand." "HOBBES:" "You see her?" "PINOCCHIO:" "No." " What the hell got into her?" " I don't know." " She ever just run off like this before?" " Something's up." "HOBBES:" "Florence had run to answer a threat." "Whatever gave her the power to heal gave her other powers as well." "The ability to sense dangers Pinocchio and I could not even suspect." "I've become used to running here, Sophie, used to living in fear." "Never stopping to think there might be a higher purpose behind all this." "A purpose no programmer could have imagined." "My friend Florence was on a mission of mercy relying on her faith in a higher power." "We did not know it yet, but so were we." "Hobbes, stop!" "Don't move!" " What?" " Stand still." " Minefield." "HOBBES:" "You sure?" "PINOCCHIO:" "Oh, yeah, I'm sure." " Retrace your steps, Hobbes." " Lf we follow Florence's tracks..." "[CLICKING]" " Son of a..." " What?" "Just get the hell away." "Hey, stand clear." " Don't move." " Oh, you think?" "Give me your knife." "What did you hear?" "A click." " Just one click?" " One click." "It's your lucky day." "It's an antipersonnel mine with a pressure-release trigger." "I'm gonna try to defuse it." "Put the knife between your boot and the pressure plate." "[CLICKING]" "Go!" "HOBBES:" "A world exists exactly like ours." "You live in this world." "Your family and friends." "And though you may not know it, I was sent to save you." "It's just a game." "God does not reserve his gifts for any one soul." "Florence's miraculous ability to heal was shared by others." "Women who, unlike her, lived in isolation." "Women whom Florence, sensing danger, had gone to find." "For here, just as in the real world, the darkness preys on the light on the innocent, the holy." "So Florence ran, praying she was not too late." "FATHER:" "Are you one of them?" "Don't shoot." "Don't, don't." "Don't shoot." "I'm just a man." "Just a little man trying to provide for his kith and kin." "You like to give me a heart attack." "I thought you were, you know, one of them." "Kind of short on conversation like them too." "You wouldn't happen to know where they went." "Sisters." "Sisters?" "Healers?" "A bunch of women, got the healing touch." "See, my little boy my little son, he's gut sick." "In a world of pain." "Terrible, terrible pain." "You're the answer to our prayers." "Can you heal our little boy?" "Poor thing, he's green with pain." "FATHER:" "We want to thank you very kindly." "HOBBES:" "Survival is the most basic of instincts." "By all rights, Pinocchio and I should have died in that minefield." "But the women Florence had run to save were closer than she knew." "As I lay in that field, feeling life slip away from me I became aware of a presence." "A presence to whom I owe my survival and to whom Pinocchio would come to owe something far greater." "Pinocchio." "PINOCCHIO:" "Florence." "Florence." "Who are you?" "Where am I?" "How did I get here?" "Hobbes." "Where's Hobbes?" "Is he dead?" "What are you doing?" "Oh, God." "Sorry, Sister." "It's my leg, isn't it?" "How bad is it?" "Let me see." "Where's my leg?" "Where's my frigging leg?" "[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]" " Hello, Sister." "FATHER:" "I told you." "What did I tell you?" "She's yours." "For my cut of the profits, of course." "I said the lot of them." "She could lead you to them, to where them other healers went." "BOUNTY HUNTER:" "What makes you think she knows?" "I know who can make her talk." "You being funny?" "I know someone." "You'll see." "Better happen fast, before Santiago finds them." "Leave me alone." "You people shouldn't have saved me." "You should have let me die." "You think you're doing me some big favor." "How long you think a one-legged guy's gonna survive in this godforsaken hellhole?" "This is all just too frigging rich." "I said, leave me alone!" "HOBBES:" "Harsh Realm is a faithless world, one where God is not believed to exist." "And yet, how else to explain my survival?" "The faith that sustained Florence and the healers was a threat a silent challenge to those who preached faithlessness." "So they were to be hunted down destroyed by those who built their empire on fear." "MAN 1 OVER RADIO:" "Kilo Six, this is Kilo Base." "Report status." "Repeat." "Report status." "MAN 2:" "Kilo Six to Kilo Base." "I'm solo on the edge of a field in grid 4-4-8-9." "No sign of target." "MAN 1 OVER RADIO:" "Kilo Base to Kilo Six." "Kilo Base to Kilo Six." "Stay put." "Your unit's on the way." "Roger that." "Hold position, wait for my unit." "Kilo Six out." "[GUNSHOTS]" "Don't move." "The next shot's a kill shot." "MAN 1 OVER RADIO:" "Kilo Base to Kilo Six." "[CLICKING]" "Hold it!" "Lie still!" "Move and we die." "You're lying on a mine." "That was the trigger we just heard." "It's a pressure-release." "One wrong move, it's gonna go." " You die too." " I'm not offering it as a choice." "MAN 1 OVER RADIO:" "Kilo Base to Kilo Six." "Kilo Base to Kilo Six." "Confirm location." "Come in, Kilo Six." "Over." "What are you doing out here?" "I heard you referenced a target." " Kiss my ass." " Kiss it goodbye." "My unit's on its way." " They're never gonna find you out here." " They'll find me." "They'll find the jeep running or hear the radio." "This area's gonna be crawling with Republican Guard in just a short matter of time." " I got friends who will find me first." " Oh, yeah?" "Where are they?" "[DOOR OPENS]" "Are you coming or going, honey?" "Right, whatever." "I know I'm fascinating." "Stare at the freak all you want." "I don't want to be no cripple." "I don't want to be no gimp." "You want to help me, grow me a new leg." "You can't do that, can you, healer?" "Can you?" "[RATTLING]" "You're scared, aren't you?" "[CAR STOPS RUNNING]" "The radio's dead, the car's dead." " Screw you." " You're gonna die out here, soldier." " For what?" "Santiago?" " Sure as hell not for you." "Brave man, aren't you?" "Out there killing innocent people in the Realm." "You mean vermin like you, and this phony Sisterhood?" " Who?" " Group of women." "Healers." " Claim there's some higher power." " It's a fact." "I've seen it." " There is no higher power than Santiago." " You're so wrong." "Yeah?" "Prove me wrong." "Let go of my wrist." "Let go, and I'll prove you wrong." "Not a chance." "I got someone wants to see you." "Bring him here to me." "You can get her to talk?" "We need the location of a group of Sisters." "Healers on the lam." "She knows." "She's one of them, but an outcast." "Come to warn them." "But she knows where they are?" "Where we can find them?" "Yes." " That ain't no answer." "FATHER:" "Let me just talk to him a little." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "There's been some kind of misunderstanding, see." "What we..." "[WHISPERING]" "He needs payment." "[HORSE NEIGHS]" "MOTHER:" "What are you doing?" "BOY:" "Let me go!" "FATHER:" "No." "MOTHER:" "Let him go." "Let him go!" "BOY:" "Put me down!" "FATHER:" "No." "You can't take him!" "He's not a slave." "He's just a kid." "You'll have another." "They'll feed him." "At least they'll feed him." "HOBBES:" "You're shaking." "You're gonna get us both killed." "ESCALANTE:" "Go on." "I can save your life." "Prove there's a higher power." "All I want is to get off this thing in one piece." "Okay." "All right." "You've gotta let go of my wrist." "Lesson number one:" "Grace." "Hey!" "Hey!" "This is mercy." "Now we're gonna learn about prayer." "[GASPING]" "You people don't understand." "I can't live like this." "It's what a soldier fears most." "What he can't see." "A piece of metal buried in the ground." "Boom." "You're not a soldier anymore." "You're half a man." "People look you in the eye your good eye, and say it don't matter." "Spirit matters." "That's a lie." "You may do okay if you can believe it." "But, no, not me." "Ah!" "God!" "My third day in Yugoslavia, a military action, not even a war." "They said the mine had been planted by rebels." "The guys we were fighting for." "It took my leg at the knee half of my face." "You believe that?" "Not even a good story." "I volunteered for Harsh Realm." "Be a real hero, both legs back." "Maybe this is God's way of punishing me for thinking I rated a second chance." "You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?" "No matter." "It'll all be over soon." "All right." "Nice and slow." "Easy." "Easy." "[GROANS]" "All right, I need a rock." "A good-sized one." "This is called faith that you don't run off on me." " Trust is another thing." " You're full of BS." "The only way we make it out of this field is together." "Now, give me the rock." "Right here." "On top of the knife." "What is this lesson?" "Humility." "[GASPING]" "Okay, go that way, one step at a time." "Lead the way." "Where's the clip?" "One bullet, that's all I ask." "Damn it!" "Where's my ammo?" ""Manus Domini."" "The hand of God." "Manus Domini." "You believe this crap?" "You think God gave you these powers?" "There's no God here." "It's a freaking computer game." "Some guy made you, writing computer code." "Yours is the hand of man." "Who would give you the power to heal, but not to speak?" "God?" "This is some man's perverse fantasy that you went and made a religion out of." "It's all making sense to me now why you banished Florence." "You think you're special." "But she knew you weren't." "She knew you'd have to take up arms to fight, to survive to outlast Santiago." "He'll tolerate no greater power, no religion, no threat to his rule." "My advice to you:" "Run." "Keep running." "Because Santiago will find you." "And when he does you're all gonna die." "ESCALANTE:" "What are you doing?" "HOBBES:" "Stay there with your hands on your knees." "I'm taking any chance you wouldn't return me the favor of saving your life." "I spent the last four hours on my hands and knees making sure that you didn't get killed." "There's a big difference where I come from." "Oh, yeah?" "Where I come from, we shoot first and talk about it after." "Glad to see I've had an impact." "My unit comes out and finds me like this you're gonna wish that you had shot me." "Tell them you had orders from a higher power." "Oh, you think that you proved something?" "All you proved to me is why we're winning out here." "Hey!" "We're lost." "We're going the wrong way." "Smile, Sister, you're going home." "[GROANS]" "I could have killed you three times already, and I'd kill you now but there's no profit in it." "Santiago pays when you and your Sisters are delivered alive." "You looking for them too?" "Don't shoot, I'm just a man." "Just a little man trying to provide for my kith and kin." "Looking for who?" "You about made me have a heart attack." "Who are you looking for?" "Sisters." "Healers, they say." "Uh, I got my wife around back." "Gut sick." "Terrible, terrible pain." "Just over here." "Maybe you could just have a look-see." "I'm afraid I can't help her." "Well, you know, maybe she just needs to see a kind face." "I got to find these Sisters." "He knows where they are." "They took my boy." " No." "You see, she's delirious." " They took my son!" "He knows!" "He sold my son into slavery." "[MOTHER SOBBING]" "Anytime." "Finish the job." "Come on, damn it." "Come on!" "Come on!" "What are you putting me through?" "!" "Why are you doing this to me?" "!" "[SHOUTING]" "I'm gonna help you." "HOBBES:" "Faith cannot be meek." "Faith must be strong." "What Pinocchio now knew was the truth that had made Florence an outcast from her Sisterhood:" "That the innocent must not only be cherished they must be defended." "PINOCCHIO:" "Take it easy, huh?" "One false move, you'll end up like me." "What?" "I guess you are special." "[GUN COCKS]" "He made me do it." "He pulled a gun on me, and I like to have a heart attack..." "Quiet." "Florence, stand up." "This is a lesson in humility." "My orders are to search and destroy." "No mercy." " I still expect to be paid by the head." "FATHER:" "What about my cut?" " He took my boy." " You'll get what you got coming to you." "You just make sure there are no survivors." " Untie us." " I was just thinking that." "[GROANS]" "[CLICKING]" "[COUGHING]" "Careful." "HOBBES:" "The ability to heal is a gift but bestowing that gift takes from the healer, weakens her." "It is self-sacrifice, motivated by love, even for one's enemy." "Perhaps Florence and her Sisters are merely virtual characters." "But if that's true, then what of their love?" "Is it any less real than our own?" "I'm dying." "You're not gonna die, soldier." "[COUGHING AND GROANING]" "What is it?" "HOBBES:" "The events of these past days have changed little in Harsh Realm." "The Sisters are still on the run from Santiago, as are we." "And yet, everything here seems different to me now, Sophie." "I now look at this strange world through the eyes of a believer knowing that where there is darkness, there is light." "Where there's fear, there is hope." "That our cause is worth fighting for and worth winning." "[NEIGHING]" "I'm taking the boy home." "There are other boys." "You're Tom Hobbes." " How do you know my name?" " The healer believes you're the one." "She's wrong." "Subtitles by SDI Media Group" "[ENGLISH SDH]"