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EXT. HELICARRIER, SKIES - NIGHT 73
The helicarrier flies through the clouds.
74 INT. HALL, CARRIER - CONTINUOUS 74
Loki is escorted down the halls by a troop of armed guards. He walks past a window -- the wishbone lab, where Banner is working. Loki smiles through the window at him. Banner removes his glasses and rubs his temples.
75 INT. CYLINDRICAL GLASS CAGE, CARRIER - CONTINUOUS 75
Loki is locked in a cylindrical glass cage. Fury walks inand over to a control panel.
FURY In case it's unclear, you try to escape- you so much as scratch that glass --Fury pushes a button and the floor beneath the cell drops away to nothing, the wind screams. --Thirty thousand feet straight down in a steel trap. You get how that works?-- He pushes a button and closes the floor. He gestures first to Loki.--Ant.-- (gestures to panel)-- Boot.
LOKI It's an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me.
FURY Built for something a lot stronger than you.
LOKI Oh I've heard.
INT. CONFERENCE TABLE, BRIDGE, CARRIER - CONTINUOUS
On the glass table a monitor is up -- Loki on it, watching it is Natasha. As Loki talks she looks up at Banner. Banner looks at her, smirking about her cage comment earlier....A mindless beast- makes play he's still a man...We see Thor listen intently....How desperate are you, that you call on such lost creatures to defend you?
FURY (V.O)How desperate am I?...
INT. CYLINDRICAL GLASS CAGE, CARRIER - CONTINUOUS (NIGHT)
Fury moves toward the cage slowly....You threaten my world with war, you steal a force you can't hope to control, you talk about peace and you kill 'cause it's fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did.
LOKI Ooh. It burns you to have come so close, to have the Tesseract, to have power- unlimited power, and for what? (smiles and faces the camera) A...
INT. BRIDGE, CARRIER - CONTINUOUS
Hill is watching Loki on a screen too....warm light for all mankind to share?
INT. CYLINDRICAL GLASS CAGE, CARRIER - CONTINUOUS (NIGHT)
Loki faces Fury again. And then to be reminded what real power is.
Fury smiles.
FURY Well, let me know if 'real power' wants a magazine or something.
"Good one" Ginny said
Fury exits.
INT. CONFERENCE TABLE, BRIDGE, CARRIER - CONTINUOUS
The monitor on Cap's side of the table turns off. Steve, insuit with no cowl, looks up.
BANNER He really grows on you doesn't he?
STEVE Loki's gonna drag this out. So, Thor, what's his play?
THOR He has an army called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard nor any world known. He means to lead the against your people. They will win him the Earth, in return, I suspect, for the Tesseract.
STEVE An army, from outer space?
BANNER So, he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvigfor.
THOR Selvig?
BANNER He's an astrophysicist.
THOR He's a friend.
NATASHA Loki has them under some kind of spell
ANYA along with one of ours.
Sirius clenched his jaw, he couldn't help but feel jealous he was suppose to be Anya's uncle not this guy.
STEVE I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here.
BANNER I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats, you can small crazy on him.
THOR Have care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason but he is of Asgard, and he is my brother.
NATASHA He killed eighty people in two days.
THOR He's adopted?
IVANNA I'm adopted!
The avengers gave her a confused look.
IVANNA What? I wanted to feel included
Anya shook her head at her sister as she went to hug her from behind.
Harry couldn't help but feel a bit angry that Anya showed love to a girl who wasn't even her real sibling.
BANNER I think it's about the mechanics. Iridium, what do they need the Iridium for?
Tony and Coulson come walking in.
TONY It's a stabilizing agent.(to Coulson, quietly)I'm saying, take a weekend; I'll fly you to Portland. Keep love alive.
"Seriously Tony?"
"What? I wanted him to find love."
"Sure" Anya said her voice dripping with sarcasm.
Coulson peels off from Tony, who is heading over to Thor. Means the portal won't collapse on itself like it did at SHIELD.(to Thor) No hard feelings point break, you got a mean swing.
Thor gives Tony a look as he walks to the control panels.
TONY Also, means the portal can open as wide and stay open as long as Loki wants.(to SHIELD personnel)Ah, raise the mizzen mast, ship the top sails. The personnel look at him strangely. That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did. Standing now at the command area of the ship, Tony coversone eye.(to Hill)How does Fury even see these?
MARIA HILL He turns!
TONY Sounds exhausting! He begins messing with the screens, sticking something to the underside of a desk. The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. Only major component he still needs is a power source of high energy density. Something to- kick start the Cube.
MARIA HILL When did you become an expert inthermonuclear astrophysics?
TONY Last night. The packet, Selvig's notes, the extraction theory papers- am I the only one who did the reading?
STEVE Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?
BANNER He's have to heat the Cube to a hundred and twenty million kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier.
TONY Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the Quantum Tunneling effect.
BANNER Well, if he could do that he could achieve heavy-ion fusion at any reactor on the planet.
TONY Finally. Someone who speaks English.
ANYA (Whispers to Ivanna) Is that what just happened?
IVANNA (Whispers back) I have no idea.
Stark and Banner shake hands.
TONY It's good to meet you, Doctor Banner. Your work onanti-electronic collisions isn unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of. the way you- lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster.
"How could anybody be a fan of something like that!" Molly Weasley spoke up
"Sorry mum but if I could turn into a green monster it would be pretty awesome"
"I got to agree with my twin mom it would be cool."
Molly looked at her sons in disbelief
BANNER...Thanks.
Fury enters.
FURY Doctor Banner is only here to track the Cube. I was hoping you might join him.
STEVE I'd start with that stick of his. It may be magical but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon.
FURY I don't know about that, but it is powered by the Cube. And I like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys.
THOR Monkeys? I do not understand
STEVE I do! The entire room goes instantly silent, staring at Steve.
STEVE I...I understood that reference.
IVANNA Want a medal?
TONY Shall we play, Doctor?
BANNER This way, sir.
The two men walk off. ON A SHIELD WORKER: He resumes play Galaga again. 1Banner and Stark are working on tracking the Cube. Banner is scanning the scepter with a device.
BANNER The Gamma readings are definitely consistent with Selvig's reports on the Tesseract. But it's gonna take weeks to process. Stark works on a screen.
TONY If we bypass their mainframe and direct route to the Homer cluster we can clock this at around six hundred teraflops.
BANNER All I packed was a toothbrush.
TONY (giggles a bit)You know, you should come by Stark Tower some time. Top ten floor sall R and D. You'd love it, it's a candy land.
BANNER Thanks but...last time I was in New York I kind of broke...Harlem.
The hall sent frightened looks towards Banner
TONY Well, I promise a stress free environment. No tension, no surprises.
He zaps Banner in the side.
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!" Lily screamed
"If I'm being honest probably a lot of things."
BANNER Ow!
STEVE Hey!
TONY Nothing?
Steve approaches.
STEVE Are you nuts?
TONY Jury's out!(to Banner)You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz, bongo drums, huge bag of weed?
STEVE Is everything a joke to you?
TONY Funny things are.
STEVE Threatening the safety of everyone on this ship isn't funny. No offense, Doc.
BANNER No it's alright. I wouldn't have come aboard if I couldn't handle pointy things.
TONY You're tip-toeing, big man. You need to strut.
STEVE And you need to focus on the problem, Mister Stark.
TONY You think I'm not? Why did Fury call us in? Why now, why not before? What isn't he telling us? I can't do the equation unless I haveall the variables.
STEVE You think Fury's hiding something?
TONY He's a spy. Captain, he's the spy. His secrets have secrets. He gestures to Banner. It's bugging him to, isn't it?
BANNER Uh, Aah, I just wanna finish my work here and
STEVE Doctor?
BANNER A warm light for all mankind,"Loki's jab at Fury about the Cube.
STEVE I heard it.
BANNER Well, I think that was meant for you.
He gestures to Stark, who offers him a blueberry.
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Even if Barton didn't tell Loki about the tower, it was still allover the news.
STEVE The Stark Tower? That big ugly --Stark gives him a look.--building in New York?
BANNER It's powered by an arc reactor,self-sustaining energy source. That building will run itself for, what, a year?
TONY It's just the prototype.(to Rodgers)I'm kind of the only name in clean energy right now, that's what he's getting at.
BANNER So, why didn't SHIELD bring him in on the Tesseract project? What aret hey even doing in the energy business in the first place?
TONY I should probably look into that as soon as my decryption program finishes breaking into all of SHIELD's secure files.
STEVE I'm sorry did you say
TONYJ ARVIS has been running it since I hit the bridge. In a few hours I'll know every dirty secret SHIELD has ever tried to hide. Blueberry?
STEVE Yet you're confused about why they didn't want you around.
TONY An intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically, not awesome.
STEVE I think Loki's trying to wind us up. This is a man who means tostart a war and if we don't stay focused he'll succeed. We have orders, we should follow them.
TONY Following's not really my style.
STEVE And you're all about style, aren't you?
TONY Out of the people in this room, which one is "A" wearing a spangly outfit and "B" not of use?
BANNER Steve, tell me none of this smells a little funky to you?
STEVE Just find the Cube. Cap exits the lab, pauses and turns, walking off in another direction.
TONY That's the guy my dad never shut up about? Wondering if they shouldn't have kept him on ice.
BANNER Guy's not wrong about Loki, he doe shave the jump on us.
TONY What he's got is an ACME dynamite kit. It's gonna blow up in his face, and I'm gonna be there when it does.
BANNER I'll read all about it.
TONY Mhm, or, you'll be suiting up with the rest of us.
BANNER Now, you see I don't get a suit of armor. I'm exposed, like a nerve, it's a nightmare.
TONY You know, I've got a clustershrapnel, trying every second to crawl its way into my heart. This stops it --He taps the arc reactor.--this little circle of light. It's part of me now, not just armor. It's a terrible privilege.
BANNER But you can control it.
TONY Because I learned how.
BANNER It's different.
Tony wipes clean the screen between them that Banner was working on.
TONY Hey, I read all about your accident. That much Gamma exposure should've killed you.
BANNER So you're saying that the Hulk- the Other Guy- saved my life? That's nice. That's nice sentiment. Save dit for- what?
TONY I guess we'll find out.
BANNER You may not enjoy that.
TONY And you just might.
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