SCENE 1 | STEEL MILL, LOS ANGELES | NIGHT |
We see the final battle with the T-1000 again. The robot emerges from the liquid nitrogen and begins to fall apart from brittleness. The final defragmentation occurs as a result of a gunshot. Only the robot is in the frame. As the T-1000 shatters, a fragment of its liquid-metal body the size of a fist flies off and lands inside a tire that came off a freight truck carrying liquid nitrogen when it fell. The camera shows it trying to get out and failing.
The next shot begins with an extreme close-up—an orange, bubbling sea of molten steel. In it, the fragments of the T-1000 are sinking, dissolving. Only the hissing and the low-frequency hum of the furnace can be heard.
The sea of molten metal is replaced by a blue sky. Workers are cleaning up the mess made at the plant, lifting the truck with a crane, loading the tires into a separate vehicle.
A worker, cursing, tosses a tire on top of the trailer. A MUTED THUD. The fragment rolls around inside it and, bouncing, tries to jump out. It fails.
The lens slowly zooms in on this fragment. It lies motionless. Suddenly, its surface distorts for a second, trying to take on the microscopic form of a spider, but it lacks the energy. It freezes, turning into an unremarkable metal flake.
(Cinematographer: The sunlight creates shimmering reflections on the fragment's surface, as if it were still alive.)
SCENE 2 | PORT OF LOS ANGELES | EARLY MORNING | MONTAGE |
A short, dynamic montage:
Used tires are loaded into a container.
The container is placed onto a cargo ship, "SUCCESSFUL DRAGON", by a crane.
The ship sails away, a panoramic view. A drone camera shot shows it receding against the backdrop of a huge, indifferent city.
SCENE 3 | WATERS OF THE SHANGHAI PORT | EARLY MORNING | FOG |
Thick, milky fog envelops the waterfront. The horns of ships warning each other can be heard. The container ship "SUCCESSFUL DRAGON" slowly emerges from the fog. On the bridge is CAPTAIN LI (50), experienced but tired, drinking coffee.
The radio hisses.
DISPATCHER (V.O.)
(in Chinese)
"Successful Dragon", reduce speed to slow ahead. "WHITE CRANE" is exiting channel 12 ahead of you. Passing on your port side.
He approaches the radar, then the window, trying to see something in the fog.
CAPTAIN LI
(into the radio microphone)
Understood, dispatcher. Reducing to slow. "White Crane", I do not see you, confirm your course.
The lights of another container ship – "WHITE CRANE" – appear from the fog. It is on a sharp angle relative to the "Successful Dragon".
