Lamentis

**Loki**: Season 1, Episode 3

**Lamentis** is the 3rd episode of the 1st season of Loki and the 3rd episode overall.

## Previously on

**LOKI:** Is this the greatest power
in the universe?

**MOBIUS:** A fugitive Variant's been killing
our Minutemen.

[*Minuteman grunts as Sylvie / Hunter C-20 beats him.*]

**MOBIUS:** Whoever this Variant is,
we haven't been able to find him.

**LOKI:** The Time Variance Authority
and the gods of Asgard, one and the same.
Drunk with power, blinded to the truth.

**RENSLAYER:** The Time-Keepers are monitoring
every aspect of this case.

**LOKI:** He's hiding in apocalypses.

**THE VARIANT / HUNTER B-15:** You're the fool
the TVA brought in to hunt me down.

**LOKI:** Me, I presume.
I'm going to overthrow the Time-Keepers.

**THE VARIANT / RANDY:** I'm not interested in ruling
the Time Variance Authority.

[*Loki grunts as The Variant throws him in a fight.*]

**HUNTER C-20:** I gave it away.
The Time-Keepers, where they are.

**LOKI:** What do you want?

[*The Variant / Man laughs and collapses. Sylvie waves to Loki before stepping through the Timedoor.*]

**MOBIUS:** No! No! Loki, wait!
Wait! Loki, wait!
No! Wait, Loki!

[*Marvel Studios logo*]

## Restaurant

[*Demons by Hayley Kiyoko plays. In a restaurant, Hunter C-20 sits at a table with a drink in front of her. She looks over the menu. The Variant (Sylvie) sits across from her.*]

**HUNTER C-20:** We could do potato skins
or buffalo fingers...

**SYLVIE:** Or we could eat somewhere else.

**HUNTER C-20:** [*Scoffs.*] Why do you hate this place?

**SYLVIE:** I don't hate it, I fear it.
Do you know how many times
the health department has
closed this place down?

**HUNTER C-20:** Well, the drinks seem fine.

[*Hunter C-20 takes a drink and cringes. Sylvie laughs.*]

**HUNTER C-20:** Oh, God!
Ah, brain freeze!

**SYLVIE:** You know what brain freeze is, don't you?

**HUNTER C-20:** [*Sighs.*] Here we go.

**SYLVIE:** It's when you sip something so cold...

**HUNTER C-20:** Brain freeze associated with coldness...
Got it.

**SYLVIE:** Wait, I'm being serious.
So, it permeates the roof of your mouth
and it freezes the synapses in your brain.
So, your memories
are literally frozen in place.

**HUNTER C-20:** That is absolutely not true.

**SYLVIE:** It is!
Okay. Try it. Whatever you're thinking
about will get frozen in place.
I'm gonna ask you a question,
and you won't be able to answer
until the synapses have melted.

**HUNTER C-20:** Challenge accepted.

[*Hunter C-20 takes another drink and cringes with brain freeze.*]

**HUNTER C-20:** Okay, ask.

**SYLVIE:** How many people are guarding
the Time-Keepers?

**HUNTER C-20:** I'm sorry, what?

[*The scene shifts. It's now night and there's loud upbeat music.*]

**SYLVIE:** Hey, how long have we been best friends?

**HUNTER C-20:** Too long.

**HUNTER C-20:** Seriously though, you know you
can tell me anything, right?

**SYLVIE:** Of course.

**HUNTER C-20:** So why won't you tell me how many people
are guarding the Time-Keepers?

**HUNTER C-20:** Oh, well, there's...

[*Hunter C-20 stops. Confused. Looks around.*]

**HUNTER C-20:** This place, I...
I remember, I know this place.
But I don't know you.

**SYLVIE:** It's okay. You're just tired.

## Roxxcart 2050

[*Hunter C-20 sits on the ground, eyes closed. The Variant has her hand to Hunter C-20's template, her fingers glow green with magic.*]

**HUNTER C-20:** Yeah. I'm probably just tired.

**SYLVIE:** How do I find the elevators?

**HUNTER C-20:** They're gold.

[*Sylvie chuckles and releases the connection. She looks toward the CCTV cameras and sees Loki, Mobius, and the others walking to the store in the rain. Her smile drops.*]

[*Opening theme.*]

## TVA

[*A Timedoor opens into the TVA and Sylvie walks through. She pulls her hair back.*]

**ANNOUNCER:** [*Over speakers.*]
All Minutemen to armory.
Protect the timeline.
[*Alarm sounding.*]
All Minutemen to armory.
Protect the timeline.

[*Sylvie approaches a Minuteman reporting over the phone.*]

**MINUTEMAN:** I don't know, sir.

[*Sylvie touches his temple, but her magic fizzes, not working. The man stumbles from the brief connection and turns. They fight, Sylvie takes his pruning stick. He screams as she prunes him. More Minuteman hear it down the hallway. They fight with Sylvie. She drops two of them and prunes the third.*]

[*Back at the Timedoor, Loki runs through and the Timedoor closes behind him.*]

**ANNOUNCER:** All Minutemen to armory.
Protect the timeline.

[*Loki looks the locker where Hunter B-15 places his daggers. Loki follows after Sylvie, daggers out, past the fallen Minutemen.*]

[*At the gold elevator, Sylvie approaches the two guards.*]

**Guard:** Hey! Stop!

[*They fight. One screams as Sylvie breaks his hand, and she twists him in front of her so he's pruned by the other guard who was aiming at her. She knocks down the second guard. Loki walks into the hallway.*]

**LOKI:** A few questions.

**SYLVIE:** Have you really got nothing else better to do?

**LOKI:** Rude.
Are you sure you're a Loki?

**SYLVIE:** You're in my way.

**LOKI:** You *are* my way.

[*They start to fight.*]

**LOKI:** I thought perhaps we could work together.

[*Sylvie attacks again.*]

**LOKI:** [*Panting.*] But now I see you lack vision.

[*Sylvie groans and turns back to the elevators.*]

**LOKI:** So, either you'll come willingly...

[*Loki grabs her arm and they fight.*]

**LOKI:** Or you won't. Either way,
that's how I get to meet the Time-Keepers.

**SYLVIE:** Oh, God. Shut up!

[*They fight.*]

**RENSLAYER:** Hey!

[*Renslayer and two Minutemen power up their weapons. Sylvie twists in Loki's hold and puts her sword to him.*]

**SYLVIE:** Come any closer and I'll kill him.

**RENSLAYER:** Go for it.

[*Renslayer approaches. Loki grabs the TemPad from Sylvie's waist and opens a Timedoor beneath them. They fall through as Renslayer swings her weapon at them.*]

## Lamentis-1 2077

### Abandoned mining station

[*Sylvie and Loki land in a tent. Sylvie goes for the TemPad, which has landed on the ground. She and Loki struggle.*]

**SYLVIE:** Get off my leg!

[*Sylvie gets the TemPad.*]

**SYLVIE:** Goodbye, Variant.

**MISS MINUTES:** You're outta juice.

[*The TemPad shows a low battery.*]

**SYLVIE:** It's not working.

[*Loki teleports behind Sylvie and he knocks her down. He picks up the TemPad.*]

**LOKI:** Right...

**SYLVIE:** Just give it to me.
You don't even know how to Recharge it.

**LOKI:** Of course I do.
You're not the only tech savvy Loki.

**SYLVIE:** Don't ever call me that.

**LOKI:** Tech savvy?

**SYLVIE:** No, a Loki.

[*Sylvie grabs at the TemPad, but Loki disappears it with magic.*]

**SYLVIE:** So you're just fully a magician then?

**LOKI:** Fine. For my next trick,
I'll make you disappear.

[*They face off to fight again. A small meteor comes through the roof and strikes the ground between them.*]

**LOKI:** Is that one of your powers?

**SYLVIE:** Where did you send us?

[*Outside, meteors crash down all around them. A shattered planet looms in the sky.*]

**SYLVIE:** You idiot! This is Lamentis-1.

**LOKI:** I don't know what that means!

**SYLVIE:** The moon that planet is about to
crash into and destroy.

[*They begin to run.*]

**SYLVIE:** Of all of the apocalypses
saved on that TemPad, this is the worst!
No one makes it off here!
Watch out!

[*Sylvie grabs Loki to pull him out of the way of a meteor.*]

**LOKI:** I'm sorry, madam.
Didn't have time to scan the brochure.

[*They take cover under a large vehicle.*]

**LOKI:** By the way, I thought you wanted me dead.

**SYLVIE:** I don't know where you hid that TemPad,
but if you blow up, it blows up,
and then I end up blown up.
There!

[*She points at a mining shack and they begin running toward it.*]

**LOKI:** So we're a team now?

**SYLVIE:** Oh, God, no!

**LOKI:** Get down!

[*Suylvie gasps as Loki pulls her out of the way of a meteor.*]

**SYLVIE:** Didn't need your help!

**LOKI:** You're so weird!

[*Loki gets to the mining shack first and opens the door. Sylvie runs through and they both enter, breathing hard from the run. Loki leans against a wall. Sylvie walks up to him and touches his neck. Her hand shimmers green with magic. Loki looks at her.*]

**LOKI:** What are you doing?

**SYLVIE:** What are you doing?

**LOKI:** You trying to enchant me?
It won't work.

**SYLVIE:** Why? Because you're a magician?

**LOKI:** No, because my mind is too strong.

**SYLVIE:** Fine!

[*Sylvie pulls her sword and Loki pulls his daggers.*]

**LOKI:** [*Sighs.*] Look. Are we really
about to do this here? Again?

**SYLVIE:** Well what do you propose instead?

**LOKI:** I don't know. A truce?

[*Sylvie scoffs.*]

**LOKI:** Listen, neither of us
is getting off this rock
if we can't turn that TemPad turned back on.

**SYLVIE:** Where do you have it hidden?

**LOKI:** In my heart.

**SYLVIE:** Well, then, I'll cut it out.

**LOKI:** Nice. Very droll. Lovely.
Okay, yes, I do have the TemPad,
but I'm not gonna get very far
if you keep trying to kill me every thirty seconds.

**SYLVIE:** Well you're full of it because
you need me to get that thing recharged.
That's the only reason
you saved me out there.

**LOKI:** Maybe.
Yeah. I mean, sure. That too.
Or we could slaughter each other here
in this abandoned mining shack.
What do you say?

**SYLVIE:** Good for me.

[*Meteors continue to crash outside.*]

**SYLVIE:** The plan you interrupted
was years in the making.
Years!

**LOKI:** Okay, got it.

**SYLVIE:** And as soon as I turn that TemPad back on,
I'm going straight back to the TVA
to finish what I started.

**LOKI:** Good.

**SYLVIE:** I'll kill you then.

**LOKI:** Or I'll kill you.

[*Sylvie scoffs and heads for the door.*]

**LOKI:** Where're you going?

**SYLVIE:** There's power somewhere on this moon.
We just need enough of it to travel
through inter-dimensional time and space.

[*Meteors crash loudly outside.*]

**SYLVIE:** Jeez!

**LOKI:** Yep.

[*Sylvie leaves and Loki follows after.*]

### Walking to town

**LOKI:** [*Panting.*] So, what's the plan?

**SYLVIE:** There's a town near here.
And can you shut up?
Just because I have to work with you
doesn't mean I wanna hear your voice.

**LOKI:** All right, well... Slow down, Variant.

**SYLVIE:** What part of imminent death confuses you?
And don't call me "Variant."

**LOKI:** I'm sorry, but I'm not calling
some faded photocopy of me "Loki."

**SYLVIE:** Good. 'Cause that's not who I am anymore.
I'm Sylvie now.

**LOKI:** Oh you changed your name. Brilliant.

**SYLVIE:** It's called an alias.

**LOKI:** Well it's not very Loki-like.

**SYLVIE:** Yeah? What exactly makes a Loki a Loki?

**LOKI:** [*Sighs.*] Independence, authority, style.

**SYLVIE:** So, naturally you went to work
for the boring, oppressive time police.

**LOKI:** I don't work for them.
I'm a... consultant.

**SYLVIE:** You don't know what you want.

**LOKI:** Oh, yeah? What about you?
Your years-in-the-making plan
was to tear the place down,
create the ultimate power vacuum,
and then just walk away.
I'd never have done that.

**SYLVIE:** Yeah? Well, I'm not you.
Can we get on with this now?

[*Loki sighs and continues after her.*]

### Town

**LOKI:** It looks like everyone already fled.

**SYLVIE:** If they did, it was in vain.

**LOKI:** How long do we have?

**SYLVIE:** Twelve hours or so.
Things down here are only gonna get worse.
More meteors, gravity quakes,
and of course, the collapse of society
in the face of annihilation.

[*Loki indicates a lit sign.*]

**LOKI:** Could that charge the TemPad?

**SYLVIE:** Maybe.

[*She hurries up the ramp to it.*]

**SYLVIE:** I'm just checking the coupling.
Making sure it can connect.

**LOKI:** Right.

**SYLVIE:** Okay. Hand it over.

**LOKI:** [*Snickers.*]
Pitiful. I'm not giving it to you.
You're gonna have to try harder than that.

**SYLVIE:** Then don't give me
your "tech savvy" ideas either.
The TemPad requires
a massive power source, not a night light.

### Homestead

[*They walk on, meteors falling around them. They approach a homestead. Sylvie draws her sword and Loki grabs her arm.*]

**LOKI:** Brute force is no substitute
for diplomacy and guile.

**SYLVIE:** Noted.

[*Sylvie kicks the door in -- and is immediately thrown backwards by an energy blast wielded by the woman living there. Sylvie groans.*]

**LOKI:** It's remarkable
that you ever made it as far as you did.
[*Calling into the house.*]
Sorry about that.

**WOMAN:** Don't be. I enjoyed it.

**LOKI:** Oh... [*Chuckles.*] I did too.
But I can assure you,
despite my acquaintance
behaving like an animal...

[*Sylvie scoffs.*]

**LOKI:** ...uh, we mean you no harm.
We're simply weary travelers.

**WOMAN:** Sure you are.

[*Loki looks through the window and see a photograph of a woman and a man. He uses his magic to appear as the photographed man, and steps in front of the door.*]

**LOKI / PATRICE:** Hello, dear.

**WOMAN:** Patrice?

[*Loki / Patrice nods and starts to cry.*]

**LOKI / PATRICE:** It... It's been a long time.
You're as beautiful as I've...

[*Loki is blasted backwards, and lands besides Sylvie on the ground. Sylvie chuckles. Loki sits up with a groan.*]

**WOMAN:** Patrice never said
a thing that nice in 30 years.
You're no travelers, you're devils.

**SYLVIE:** Which one was that? Diplomacy?
Or... [*Chuckles.*]

**LOKI:** Don't. Just don't.

**WOMAN:** What do you devils want with me?

**SYLVIE:** We just wanna ask you a question.
Where is everyone?

**WOMAN:** The ark.
The evacuation vessel.

**SYLVIE:** Something like that would have
enough juice to repower the TemPad.

**LOKI:** How do we get there?

**WOMAN:** Train station's the edge of town.
But you'll never get a ticket.

**SYLVIE:** Come on, let's go.

[*Sylvie and Loki continue on.*]

### Train station

[*At the train station, there's a long line of clamoring people.*]

**GUARD:** Quiet down!
Get back!

**WOMAN IN LINE:** What's going on?
The ark leaves tonight
and we've been waiting in line for hours.
For hours.

**LOKI:** Well, this looks fun.

**SYLVIE:** Come on.

**LOKI:** We can't fight our way onto that train.

**SYLVIE:** Who said anything about fighting?

**LOKI:** All your plans involve fighting.

**SYLVIE:** Not this one.
I'm going to enchant a guard,
have him lead us through the crowd,
and if anyone gives us any trouble...

**LOKI:** Make him start shooting?
And then what, kill every guard
and hijack the train?

**SYLVIE:** Whether or not there's a fight
is entirely up to them.

**LOKI:** We're doing this one my way.

[*Loki shifts his outfit into a guard uniform.*]

**LOKI:** How do I look?

**SYLVIE:** Like someone with a shit plan.

**LOKI:** It's a great plan.

**SYLVIE:** [*Doubtful.*] Hmm.

**LOKI:** Just follow my lead.

[*Loki leads her forward.*]

**WOMAN:** Why can't we get on?

**MAN:** Let us in! Come on!

**GUARD:** To Shuroo? This way, sir.

**MAN 2:** Let us in! Women and children...

**WOMAN IN LINE:** They're only giving tickets out
to the wealthy!
What about us?

[*Crowd continues shouting.*]

**PRIVATE HUDSON:** Tickets?

[*The people ahead of Loki and Sylvie hand tickets to the the guard Private Hudson, who checks them and lets them board. Loki tries to continue onto the train with Sylvie.*]

**PRIVATE HUDSON:** Whoa! Hey!

**LOKI:** Taking this one to Shuroo.

**PRIVATE HUDSON:** Okay. And the tickets?

**LOKI:** Orders come from the top
to get her on this train.

**PRIVATE HUDSON:** [*To another guard, Corporal Hicks*] Sir, this...

[*Sylvie touches Private Hudson, using her magic to enchant him.*]

**CORPORAL HICKS:** Everything okay?

**PRIVATE HUDSON:** Yeah, everything's fine.
Yeah, I just remembered
that headquarters radioed in
their request for them this morning.

**CORPORAL HICKS:** [*Sighs.*]
Okay.

**LOKI:** Okay.

[*Loki and Sylvie board the train.*]

**PRIVATE HUDSON:** Tickets?

### Train

[*Loki and Sylvie enter the passenger car.*]

**LOKI:** Good evening, passengers. Hi.

[*Sylvie takes a seat at a booth.*]

**LOKI:** Um, uh, look,
I can't go backwards on a train.

**SYLVIE:** Well, I never sit with my back to a door.

**LOKI:** What? There are doors on both sides.

**SYLVIE:** Oh, just sit down.

[*Loki sighs and sits down.*]

**SYLVIE:** FYI, that wasn't even a plan.

**LOKI:** Oh, really?

**SYLVIE:** Plans have multiple steps.
Dressing as a guard and getting on a train
is just doing a thing.

[*Sylvie yawns.*]

**LOKI:** Oh, you a bit tired?
Feel free to, you know, get some rest.

**SYLVIE:** [*Grunts.*]
I can't sleep in a place like this.

**LOKI:** You can't sleep on a train?

**SYLVIE:** No. I can't sleep around
untrustworthy people.

**LOKI:** [*Whispers*] Oh, right. That me?

**SYLVIE:** But you feel free to take a nap.

**LOKI:** Nice try.

**SYLVIE:** I'm not gonna waste my time
rooting around for the TemPad
when someone taught you
fairly decent magic.

**LOKI:** My mother.

**SYLVIE:** [*Scoffs. Pauses.*] What was she like?

**LOKI:** She was, um...
A Queen of Asgard.
She was good. Purely decent.

**SYLVIE:** [*Scoffs.*] Are you sure she was your mother?

**LOKI:** Oh, no, she's not actually. I was adopted.
Is that a bit of a spoiler for you?
Sorry about that.

**LOKI:** No, I knew I was adopted.

**LOKI:** What? They told you?

**SYLVIE:** Yeah. Did they not tell you?

**LOKI:** No.
I mean, I mean, they, they did eventually.
Hang on a second.
So, tell... Tell me about your mother.

**SYLVIE:** I barely remember her.
Just blips of a dream at this point.

**LOKI:** You know, when I was young, she'd do
these little bits of magic for me.
Like turn a flower into a frog
or cast fireworks over the water.
It all seemed impossible.
But she told me that
I'd be able to do it too because...
Because I could do anything.
You wanna see?

[*Loki sets off tiny fireworks over his hand.*]

**SYLVIE:** [*Sniffs.*] Not bad.

**LOKI:** She was the kinda person
you'd want to believe in you.

**SYLVIE:** Sounds like she does.

**LOKI:** Well, she did.
So, where'd you learn to do the...
You know, the... Whatever it is?

**SYLVIE:** I taught myself.

**LOKI:** You taught yourself that magic?

**SYLVIE:** Yeah, I did.

**LOKI:** What, do you just...
You just go into their minds
and project some sort of illusion?

**SYLVIE:** Really it'd be easier if I just... [*reaches for him*]

**LOKI:** [*leans back*] Enchanted me and take the TemPad
and leap out the train?
No, thank you.

**SYLVIE:** Well then, don't ask.

**LOKI:** [*Whispers*] Okay.

**WAITRESS:** Champagne?

**LOKI:** Ah, yes. Thank you very much.

**SYLVIE:** No, I'm good, thanks.

**LOKI:** Oh, I'll take hers. Thank you.
Cheers. [*Clinks both glasses together.*]
To the end of the world. [*Takes a drink.*]
A pity the old woman chose to die,
don't you think?

**SYLVIE:** She was in love.

**LOKI:** She hated him.

**SYLVIE:** Maybe love is hate.

**LOKI:** Should probably remember that.
[*Conjures paper and a quill.*]
What was that? [*Writing.*] "Love is... Love is hate."

**SYLVIE:** Oh, piss off!

[*Loki disappears the paper and quill.*]

**LOKI:** So, on the subject of love,
is there a lucky beau waiting for you
at the end of this crusade?

**SYLVIE:** Yeah, there is, actually.

**LOKI:** Oh.

**LOKI:** Managed to maintain quite a serious
long-distance relationship with a postman
whilst running across time from one apocalypse to another.

**LOKI:** [*Chuckles.*] And with charm like that,
who could resist you?

**SYLVIE:** Well, people are quite willing
in the face of certain doom.

**LOKI:** I'm sure they are.

**SYLVIE:** It was only ever just to keep me going.
How about you? You're a prince.
Must've been would-be-princesses
or perhaps, another prince.

**LOKI:** A bit of both. I suspect the same as you.
But, nothing ever...

**SYLVIE:** Real.

**LOKI:** Mmm... [*Takes another drink.*]

**SYLVIE:** Love is mischief, then.

**LOKI:** No.
Love is...
uh, something I might have
to have another drink to think about.

[*Loki chuckles and finishes the second drink he took.*]

**SYLVIE:** You do realize
we're about to try and hijack
the power source
to a civilization's only hope?

**LOKI:** I do.

**SYLVIE:** It's not gonna be easy.
We should rest.

**LOKI:** All right. You relax your way
and I'll relax mine.

[*After some time, Sylvie wakes where she fell asleep at their table, to the sound of Loki is singing and the whole train car clapping along. Loki is no longer in a guard uniform, but back in his TVA clothes.*]

**LOKI:** [*singing in Asgardian*]

...nÃ¥r hun synger hun synger kom hjem,

men tranene danser og fosserne stanser.

**LOKI & EVERYONE:** [*singing in English*]

When she sings, she sings come home

When she sings, she sings come home

**LOKI:** [*singing in Asgardian*]

Men tranene danser og fossene stanser

nÃ¥r hun synger hun synger kom hjem,

men tranene danser og fosserne stanser

[*Sylvie waves at him for attention. Loki waves back.*]

**SYLVIE:** Where's your uniform?

[*Loki keeps singing and swings side to side to her.*]

**LOKI & EVERYONE:** [*singing in English*]

When she sings, she sings come home

When she sings, she sings come home

When she sings, she sings come home

When she sings, she sings come home

[*Loki shushes everyone. A man stands up and Sylvie watches him leave the train car. Loki leans on the bar, facing Sylvie.*]

**LOKI:** [*singing softly*]

I stormsvarte fjell, jeg vandrer alene

Over isbreen tar jeg meg frem

I eplehagen stÃ¥r mÃ¸yen den vene

og synger â€œnÃ¥r kommer du hjem?â€

[*There's a pause as Loki and Sylvie look at each other. Loki brings the music back to upbeat, clapping with the others in the train car.*]

**LOKI:** [*singing*]

Men tranene danser og fossene stanser

nÃ¥r hun synger, hun synger kom hjem

men tranene danser og fossene stanser

When she sings, she sings come home

**LOKI & EVERYONE:** [*singing in English*]

When she sings, she sings come home

**LOKI:** To Sylvie, everybody!

[*Everyone in the train car cheers.*]

[*Loki downs a drink.*]

**LOKI:** Another!

[*He throws the glass down, breaking it. Sylvie gets up and brings him aside.*]

**SYLVIE:** You're drunk.

**LOKI:** No, I'm just full.
But bear in mind, I'm *very* full.
Now, I need you to try this. [*Picks up a small dish for her.*]
It pairs very nicely with the Figgy Port.
Who's got the Figgy Port?
Well you'll just have to take my word
on the Figgy Port, but...

**SYLVIE:** Where's your uniform?
We're meant to be laying low.

**LOKI:** Nobody cares. It's the end of the world.

**SYLVIE:** I think something's happening.

**LOKI:** Yes.
Uh, that planet is about to crash into us.

**SYLVIE:** Don't be an ass.
I saw some people looking at you weirdly.

**LOKI:** What?

[*Loki sets the dish down on the edge of the bar, but he misses and the dish clatters to the floor.*]

**LOKI:** When did you get so paranoid?

**SYLVIE:** Oh I guess it must have started
when I spent my entire life
running from the omniscient fascists
you work for.

[*Lok sighs and looks down at the fallen dish.*]

**LOKI:** It's a shame to let that go to waste.
Hey! Change of subject.
I thought of an answer.

**SYLVIE:** To what?

**LOKI:** Your question.
Love is a dagger.
[*He conjures a dagger to his hand.*]
It's a weapon
to be wielded far away or up close.
You can see yourself in it.
It's beautiful.
Until it makes you bleed.
But ultimately, when you reach for it...

[*Loki offers the hilt to Sylvie. She reaches to take it, but the dagger disappears.*]

**SYLVIE:** It isn't real.

**LOKI:** Yeah.

**SYLVIE:** Love is an imaginary dagger.

**LOKI:** ... It doesn't make sense, does it?

**SYLVIE:** No. Terrible metaphor.

**LOKI:** Damn. I thought I had something there.

[*The train car doors open. The man who left earlier returns with guards, and he points at Loki.*]

**MAN:** That's him.

**SYLVIE:** Stay cool.

**LOKI:** It's gonna be fine.

**CORPORAL HICKS:** Sir, can I see your tickets?

**LOKI:** [*Chuckles.*] You again. Hello.
Um, tickets.
Yes, of course. Here they are.

[*Loki lifts his hand, and small fireworks burst over his open palm.*]

**LOKI:** Oops.
Still, it looks lovely, doesn't it?

[*Corporal Hicks grabs Loki's arm to apprehend him.*]

**LOKI:** Look, is this really necessary?
There is a simple explanation... Hey.

[*They start to fight.*]

**GUARD:** Get out of the way.

[*The other occupants of the car flee.*]

[*Sylvie begins fighting the other two guards. Loki blasts one with his magic. Sylvie takes down one, but the other grabs her around the throat. Loki pulls out a dagger, aims, and throws. It lands in the wall beside her.*]

**SYLVIE:** Awful throw.

[*Loki turns to one of the guards who's getting back up.*]

**LOKI:** Oh, will you stop it?

[*They fight. Loki kicks him, and he crashes out of the train window.*]

**LOKI:** Bye.

[*Sylvie gets out of the hold of the guard. Two guards grab Loki and throw him out through the shattered window.*]

**SYLVIE:** TemPad.

[*Sylvie grabs her sword, and runs past the guards and jumps out the window after Loki.*]

### Outside the train

[*Loki gets up and walks up to Sylvie, who's getting up. The train speeds away.*]

**LOKI:** Well, that's not ideal.

[*Sylvie pulls her sword on Loki.*]

**SYLVIE:** Give me the TemPad.

**LOKI:** All right all right. All right. Okay.

[*Loki conjures the TemPad. It's broken and smoking.*]

**LOKI:** Well, I did take quite the tumble.

**SYLVIE:** You asshole. You killed us.

**LOKI:** Maybe we can fix it. Okay? Um...

[*The TemPad falls apart in his hands.*]

**SYLVIE:** You're not a serious man.

**LOKI:** You're right. I'm a god.

**SYLVIE:** You're a clown.
You got drunk on the train.

**LOKI:** I'm hedonistic. That's what I do.

**SYLVIE:** I'm hedonistic.
A lot more than you, I assure you.
But never at the expense of the mission.

**LOKI:** Oh, the mission? The mission?
What, your glorious purpose?
Give me a break. You can't beat them.

[*Sylvie walks away. Power glows in her hands as she screams, and release an energy blast. She sits on the edge of a meteor crater with a sigh.*]

**LOKI:** [*to himself*] Okay.

[*Loki walks over and sits next to her.*]

**LOKI:** Did the, uh, scream make you feel better?

**SYLVIE:** Yes, it did.
You should try it sometime.

**LOKI:** [*Sighs.*] What now?

**SYLVIE:** I don't know. You broke the TemPad.

**LOKI:** Well...

**SYLVIE:** And that planet is about to crash into us.

**LOKI:** Well, yes, but...

**SYLVIE:** Yes, but what?

**LOKI:** Well, the entire moon is destroyed, right?

**SYLVIE:** Yep. And everyone on it is killed.

**LOKI:** Including us.

**SYLVIE:** Yes, including us.

**LOKI:** What about the ark?

**SYLVIE:** The ark never leaves
because it's destroyed.

**LOKI:** Never had us on it.

**SYLVIE:** [*Scoffs.*]
So what? We hijack the ark
and make sure it gets off this moon?

**LOKI:** I mean, sounds like a good idea to me.

**SYLVIE:** Okay.

[*Sylvie gets up and starts walking.*]

**LOKI:** Really?

[*Loki gets up after her.*]

### Walking to to Shuroo

[*They approach the city Shuroo in the distance.*]

**LOKI:** You know, I don't think
I've ever walked this much in my life.

**SYLVIE:** That's a pretty good life.

**LOKI:** Well, you're lucky you missed it.
Here's an idea. What if you enchanted me
and you could walk for both of us?
I take a nap in my subconscious,
and then you could just wake me
when we arrive. Yeah?

**SYLVIE:** Yeah, that's not how enchantment works.

**LOKI:** All right, how does it work?

**SYLVIE:** Doesn't matter.

**LOKI:** You know, I feel like
I've told you so much about me.
I really don't know
the first thing about you.

**SYLVIE:** Thanks for the tactical advantage.

**LOKI:** Ah, so, you want to use
that tactical advantage to kill me
when the TVA shows up.

**SYLVIE:** Worried, are you?

**LOKI:** I just need to know if I can trust you.

**SYLVIE:** Okay, fine.
You want to know how enchantment works.
I have to make physical contact
and then grab hold of their mind.

**LOKI:** How?

**SYLVIE:** It depends on the mind.
Most are easy
and I can overtake them instantly.
Others, the stronger ones, it gets tricky.
I'm in control, but they're there, too.
In order to preserve the connection,
I have to create a fantasy
from their memories.

**LOKI:** And you call me a magician.

**SYLVIE:** That young soldier from the TVA,
her mind was messed up.
Everything clouded.
I had to pull a memory
from hundreds of years prior,
before she even fought for them.

**LOKI:** What? What'd you say?
Before she joined the TVA?

**SYLVIE:** Yeah. She was just
a regular person on Earth.

**LOKI:** A regular person?

**SYLVIE:** Loved margaritas.

**LOKI:** I was told that
everyone who works for the TVA
was created by the Time-Keepers.

**SYLVIE:** That's ridiculous.
They're all Variants, just like us.

**LOKI:** They don't know that.

**ANNOUNCER:** All ticketed passengers, report to...

**SYLVIE:** That's our ride.

**ANNOUNCER:** Ten minutes until launch.

### Shuroo

**ANNOUNCER:** Final boarding call.

**SYLVIE:** Do we trust each other?

**LOKI:** We do and you can.

[*They enter the city to a mass of clamoring people. The ark is in the distance ahead of them.*]

**SYLVIE:** Good. Because this is gonna suck.

[*They hurry forward through the crowd.*]

**GUARD:** Remain calm. We're now at capacity.
Please return to your homes.
Stand back!

**CROWD:** [*Chanting*] Let us on!
Let us on!

**ANNOUNCER:** Five minutes until launch.

**LOKI:** They're gonna let these people die.

**ANNOUNCER:** Five minutes until launch.

**SYLVIE:** We have to get on that ark
and make sure it takes off.

**LOKI:** How?

**SYLVIE:** We go around.

**LOKI:** Okay.

[*They run together through the shouting people.*]

**GUARD:** Return to your homes.

[*People clamoring, a man screams.*]

**GUARD:** Get back!
Stand back!

[*There's an explosive sound overhead as the approaching planet breaks apart. Meteors shoot down. One lands nearby. People run and scream, and Loki and Sylvie run forward. A meteor lands ahead of them, throwing them back. They pull each other up and run for cover.*]

**LOKI:** You okay?

**SYLVIE:** Yeah.

[*A guard grabs at Sylvie, pulling her cloak from her. Loki blasts another guard with magic.*]

**GUARD:** Hold it! Stop right there.

[*They fight past the guards.*]

**SYLVIE:** Just go.

[*They run outside.*]

**SYLVIE:** Over here!

[*Man screams.*]

**MAN 2:** You're gonna be okay.

[*A woman runs past.*]

**MAN 3:** No! No, wait!

[*Loki and Sylvie run as a communication tower falls. Explosions all around.*]

**SYLVIE:** Run!

[*They run. A large portion of a building falls toward them.*]

**SYLVIE:** Watch out!

**LOKI:** I've got it!

[*Loki stops the falling tower with magic, and pushes it back.*]

**SYLVIE:** Come on. Let's go!

**LOKI:** We can still make it!

[*They fight more guards as they approach the gates to reach the ark just ahead.*]

**LOKI:** Sylvie, come on!

[*They get past the guards and run toward the gate. The ark, just ahead, is struck by a large meteor from the planet, and is destroyed. Loki and Sylvie stop and stare ahead at it. The street around them has quieted. Sylvie turns and walks away, as Loki continues to stand there and stare ahead.*]

[*Dark Moon performed by Bonnie Guitar begins. End credits.*]