[wind whispering] [latch clicking]
[footsteps tapping]
[gong ringing]
- Do not dwell in the past.
Do not dream of the future.
Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
My name is Smith. [eerie tense music]
Welcome to Flatland.
When I first met the devil, his name was Khan.
[serene music] Mine, St. Michael.
The war for the soul of mankindhas raged for 3000 years.
The battleground today,
[eerie singing] is Shanghai.
I have forced three young Americans to work for me.
JT, a gangbanger. [shutter clicking]
Mr. Mitchell,
a failed mob lawyer. [shutter clicking]
And Amy Li,
[shutter clicking] a beautiful young woman.
They will ultimately discover the history,
when present and past collide,
and where one miss-step, on either side,
of the 4th dimension, is fatal,
in the world of Flatland,
where nothing is as it appearsto be.
My name is Smith.
Welcome to Flatland.
[eerie dramatic singing] [dramatic music]
[thunder rumbling]
[haunting music]
[eerie rustling]
[tense music]
[haunting guitar music] [eerie music]
[mysterious music]
[energetic synthesizer music]
[haunting serene music]
[plucky enthusiastic music]
[saucy music]
[flames whooshing]
[sizzling]
[plucky enthusiastic music]
[eerie suspenseful music]
[latch clattering]
[eerie tense music]
[wailing guitar music]
[whooshing]
[eerie music] [wailing guitar music]
[eerie tense music]
[energetic music]
[door thumping]
- You look like you're having abad day.
- Yeah. - What's the deal?
- Samo samo.
- I know the sound of that bell.
- You mean tin-tin-nebulation?
- Uh-uh, Khan. [perky music]
- He's making a move.
- Oh that's enough to ruin any day.
- [Smith] I saw the news.
- [Linda] Who?
- The guy that plays Taps like Jimmy Hendrix.
- Okay, I think I need an explanation.
- He's tuning up the overture for the apocalypse.
- [Linda] You think, Khan's pulling out all the stops?
- I don't know what the son of a bitch is doing,
but it ain't good.
- Should I call in the troops?
- No!
If they don't get it by now...
- They're in trouble.
- Right.
[mysterious music] There will be signs.
[perky music] - There always are.
- Same old, same old, seduction,deceit.
- But what do you figure Khan's game plan will be?
- He'll come after Mitchell first, he always does.
- Attack the weakest link.
- In a sense.
- How?
[whooshing]
- Mitchell is a creature of habit.
- Wine, women and song.
- Exactly.
You've done your homework.
- And the one called JT? [whooshing]
- He's a warrior, and warriors fight.
Sometimes they lose.
- [Linda] Who will Khan send?
- Someone familiar.
A face we have seen before.
[whooshing] - Shao Min?
- Beautiful and deadly.
- Perfect talents, don't you think?
- I never thought of beauty being a talent.
- Oh, you better think again.
It's one of the best.
- So's emotion. [whooshing]
[perky electronic music] - Which is how he'll
come after Amy.
- Somehow I think that's the cruelest.
- Don't get soft on me kiddo.
- I'm not, I just wish there was something I could do.
- You can [laughs]. [ominous music]
Get ready to rumble!
[whooshing]
- You know something Uriel?
I think this is going to be wonderful.
- And final. - Final for Smith.
Just the beginning for us.
[wailing guitar music] [raspy whispering]
[funky upbeat music]
- Does this look like a beautiful lake to you?
- It looks like, about nine miles of tenements to me.
- I swear it was right here!
- [JT] Well you know, Shanghai does change every day.
- Well you know what, maybe thelake,
and this whole thing, we were in the Flatland.
- [sighs] But I lived there!
I mean here, muh, I was here every day!
- Well at least you're not confused,
- Yeah. - or you're cracking up.
[Amy sighing]
- She's right on the edge I think, you know?
Just kind of a, wacka-wacka thing?
[sighing]
[chuckling]
[upbeat music]
[whooshing] [shutter clicking]
[laughing]
[whooshing] [shutter clicking]
- [chuckling], whoa!
[whooshing] [shutter clicking]
[beeping] - Okay!
[whooshing] [shutter clicking]
[eerie music]
- I'm starving, so let's go getlike
a 30-course Shanghai snack.
- Uh, I am good. [relaxing music]
- Pasadena.
Every night is date night in myworld.
- Who's the unlucky lady?
- Anonymous as far as you're concerned.
A little foie gras and caviar [women chuckling]
and a bit of the ah-loo-la-la!
[Amy chuckling]
[laughing]
- You think women really go forthat crap?
[engine revving] - Yes, girls maybe.
[engine roaring]
[energetic music] [motor rumbling]
[eerie howling] [energetic music]
[relaxing music]
- [yawns] Whoo, fresh air!
- [chuckles] Come on, you lovedit!
- Oh yes, yes, what a German opera?
Sung by an Italian, performed inChinese?
[chuckling] Remind me where am I?
- In a beautiful city, on a beautiful night.
- With a beautiful woman.
- You got that right [chuckles].
[saucy music]
[tense music]
[lips smacking] [crowd murmuring]
- Roses, roses!
Get your roses!
Buy one for the lady sir?
Rose, ma'am?
Roses, roses!
Get your roses!
For you sir?
Ma'am?
[explosion rumbling]
[energetic music]
[grunting] [scuffling]
- What are you doing?
- I...
I, I'm sorry.
[eerie suspenseful music]
[explosion rumbling] [screaming]
[dramatic music]
[wailing guitar music]
[perky lounge music]
[patrons chattering]
[laughing]
- Well, knowing a little bit about
Amy's history with men, I thinkshe'd
definitely go for another drink.
- I don't know.
- Come on Amy, perfect martini, or perfect sex,
which would be better?
- Okay, okay, okay.
How about this?
Perfect martini, shared with someone who's,
you know, then perfect sex.
Talk talk with.
Another belt. [chuckling]
- Hang on, hang on a second.
I didn't think you can have both,
[eerie tense music] you gotta make a choice here.
Amy?
[eerie whooshing]
[eerie tense music]
[poignant music]
[eerie whooshing]
- This is her ring.
It's all I can tell you.
- [Man] I told you years ago,
what would happen if you ever told her!
[dramatic music] - I didn't,
I only gave her the ring!
- Why? - She has a right to it!
She has a right to something!
[door clattering]
- She's right, the ring is mine.
That and a torn picture.
Your legacy.
[eerie whooshing] [cellphone chirping]
- [Linda] Amy, it's me.
[forlorn singing] - Hi Linda.
- [Linda] There's been an explosion.
It's really bad, I need you down here right now.
- [sighs] I'll be right there.
[cellphone beeping]
[eerie music] [energetic guitar music]
- The police say there was enough Semtex in that car,
to kill anyone within 100 yards.
- Damn.
- I can't believe he's gone.
- It was Khan.
Mitchell was at the opera, and the opera was Faust.
[sorrowful music] - He loved Faust.
That's the same way he died in the past.
- I want to know where the hellSmith is!
- I don't know. - What do you mean
you don't know? - I don't know.
- Are you choosing what you do and don't know, huh?
Because there only two of us standing here now!
Khan kills people all the time and he gets away with it!
[sighs] I can't believe this man.
- Well you have to, because it'strue.
[eerie pensive music] And Khan is still out there.
- And Mitchell isn't.
- [sighs] Look, there's a lot we can do about that.
For right now, let's just remember.
[beeping]
[poignant music] [beeping]
- Damn.
[sighing]
- You can spend the rest of yourlife
wondering what it could have been like between us.
- I'll just have to risk it.
[whooshing]
- Damn it, damn it...
'Course it was Khan.
He had a lot of help.
[sighs] Who knows how many.
- Does this mean the end?
- Just a heartbeat away kiddo.
- Then I want to help.
I liked Mitchell.
[eerie tense music] I like JT and Amy,
and I don't want to see that
son of a bitch get them too!
- Bravo.
You're sounding like me.
- I'm serious, Smith.
- Okay, what do you have on yourmind?
- I don't know, I don't know therules.
- I hate rules.
Even God, hates rules.
He only made 10 for the whole world.
- Okay so I don't need the rules!
But I can do something!
I mean, I can, I can help them, I can help you!
Yeah the way I feel right now I could kill!
- The answer's no. - They're my friends!
I'm even fond of you every now and then.
- There's a reason.
- It better be a good one. - It is.
[sorrowful choir singing] The down side is I lose.
Adios muchachos!
Mr. Smith uh, circles around the drain and, goes away.
Then somebody's gotta take all these pieces,
start over.
- Like, me?
That isn't gonna happen.
Smith, tell me that isn't gonnahappen.
[poignant music]
[eerie dramatic music] [wailing guitar music]
[plucky enthusiastic music]
[tense music]
[infernal whooshing] - It's a good start.
What about the others?
- Shortly.
- Smith'll strike back.
He always does.
- I wouldn't expect anything less.
- Does he know you're here?
- Well, probably.
- Be careful then.
- I will.
But I have a more interesting question.
Does he even know who you are?
- No, but I want him to,
before I kill him.
- You two are amazing. [forlorn music]
All the hatred, all the violence,
focused like nothing I've ever seen.
- Or ever will.
- One more question.
For my own curiosity.
Flip the coin the other way.
We lose.
What happens?
- We'll be extinguished in the blink of an eye.
[energetic cacophonous music]
[funky somber music]
- [sighs] Can I ask you a question?
- Yeah. - This uh,
stuff about Flatland and Smith.
You think that's what really happened?
- I don't want to think it.
- Mitchell says Smith would burn us if he got the chance.
If from that he could get to Khan.
- He might not have a choice.
- No.
[tense music]
Want me to go with you, make sure?
- I'm good.
- All right well if you have any trouble you call me.
[car horn honking]
I mean it!
[pedestrians chattering] [car horns honking]
[eerie tense music]
[dramatic music]
[eerie guitar music] ["Taps"]
[energetic funky music]
[eerie suspenseful music]
- [Uriel] It's been a long timeJT.
- Who are you and what the hell are you doing here?
- Finishing business, with a friend.
- Your friend is very dangerous.
- [chuckles] That depends on whose side you're on.
- Really?
Now what's that supposed to mean?
- You've always been Smith's best fighter.
We could use you.
- You mean you and Khan.
This must be the same deal you offered Mitchell, huh?
- [chuckling] Mitchell wasn't worth a deal.
[suspenseful music]
- Come to think of it,
neither am I.
[energetic music]
[hits thudding]
[grunting]
[attacks whooshing] [hits thudding]
[eerie ringing]
[supernatural whooshing]
[weapons clanking]
[supernatural whooshing]
[weapons clanking]
[supernatural whooshing]
[weapons clanking]
[attacks whooshing]
[supernatural whooshing]
[grunting]
[foot thudding] [grunting]
[weapons clanging]
You like that move don't you?
[grunting] [eerie whooshing]
[thudding]
[tense energetic music]
[footsteps thudding]
[eerie suspenseful music]
- One last chance JT.
- Yeah.
Last chance for you.
[steel ringing] [suspenseful music]
[hits thudding] [grunting]
[metallic thudding] [gasping]
[dramatic music] [steel ringing]
[groaning] [suspenseful music]
[thudding] [eerie tense music]
[haunting guitar music] ["Taps"]
[poignant music]
[forlorn singing] ♪ Ah
♪ Ah ah ah, ah ah ah
[wind howling] ♪ Ah ah ah
♪ Ah ah ah ah [wings rustling]
[eerie music] [keening guitar music]
- Let me put it the way Smith would, two down one to go.
Two strikes on the batter, bottom of the 9th.
- Game's almost over.
- Except for one moment.
- And what would that be?
- My moment, when I see him,
and he knows he's lost.
- You're deliciously cruel.
You'd also better be careful.
- Of course, but it's too good to pass up.
Besides I think he expects it.
- Then you shouldn't disappointhim.
- [chuckles] Oh, I won't.
Two down.
One to go.
[forlorn guitar music] ["Taps"]
[energetic music]
[energetic guitar music]
[tense music] [wind whispering]
- Somehow it seems even emptier than usual.
- You know there's one thing I just don't understand.
I mean Smith is always talking about how,
life is a circle, and reincarnation keeps
the whole thing going but...
- Why didn't he step in and help Mitchell and JT?
- Yeah, why not?
- In the end you have to help yourself.
- But he could have done something.
- He is.
He sees a different world than we do.
Khan's in the center and everything around the edges,
everything in the shadows, doesn't matter.
We're in the shadows.
- Flatland. [somber music]
Doesn't seem fair.
- Never will.
Not until Khan is out of the picture and out of the world.
- It just seems hopeless.
- We try.
And if we fail, we pick up all the pieces and try again.
[sniffling] [mournful music]
[infernal whooshing]
[energetic music]
[wailing guitar music] ["Taps"]
[tense music]
[eerie suspenseful music]
[energetic dramatic music]
[supernatural whooshing]
[metallic thudding]
[supernatural whooshing]
[thumping] [tense music]
- Where did she go?
[eerie tense music] [eerie cawing]
[panting]
[tense music]
[otherworldly dramatic music]
[hits thudding] [attacks whooshing]
[supernatural whooshing]
[metallic thudding]
[grunting] [attacks whooshing]
[supernatural whooshing]
[hit thudding]
[supernatural whooshing]
[hits thudding]
[supernatural whooshing]
[attacks whooshing]
[otherworldly dramatic music]
[footsteps pounding]
[supernatural whooshing]
[dramatic energetic music]
- Well Amy Li.
Looks like history's about to repeat itself.
- Did you kill Mitchell and JT?
- I certainly had a hand in it.
But I don't have to kill you.
- Why not?
- You know already.
Smith's finished.
Come with me, while you still have a chance.
Otherwise, it's London 1874, all over again.
- I don't think so. [eerie tense music]
- Neither did I.
[dramatic energetic music] [hits thudding]
[attacks whooshing] [hits thudding]
[grunting]
[thudding] [grunting]
[foot thudding]
[thumping] [hand thudding]
[grunting] [suspenseful music]
[forlorn singing]
[panting]
[steel hissing] [grunting]
[whimpering]
[bones cracking] [groaning]
[thudding]
[dramatic music]
- Ah! [glass breaking]
[grunting] [glass breaking]
[eerie whooshing] [eerie music]
[poignant music]
[whooshing] [shutter clicking]
[funky lounge music] [patrons chattering]
[singer grunting]
- Looks like you're having a badday.
- They're all bad days, some are just worse than others.
- You mind? - No.
- Well maybe I can help.
My major was in bad days.
I'm Victoria. [singer grunting]
- Well, my major was the femaleanatomy.
[singer grunting]
Duh, then I flunked out.
- Oh...
- Smith. [singer grunting]
- So was today personal or business?
- It was a double-header. - Oh.
[sighs] Well,
[liquid gurgling] the good news is that
it can only get better.
- Glass is only half full, huh?
- That's the way I like to lookat it.
Besides, it's only life.
- Yeah.
This it's true.
Then uh, maybe it's a little more.
- Yes.
I think everything we say,
everything we do,
is just shadows for something more important.
Something bigger.
[tense music]
- You know the trouble with shadows,
you can see right through 'em.
A little light, and they disappear.
[eerie music]
Like they were never here at all.
[funky lounge music]
[slamming] - Uriel!
[suspenseful music] [wailing guitar music]
[footsteps thumping]
- Uriel. [whooshing]
You always were a son of a bitch.
We're in overtime, sudden deathbaby!
You think you want me bad?
I want you so much worse.
- You make it easy, Smith.
[laughing]
[mysterious music]
You think so? [eerie tense music]
Remember the lady and the tiger,huh?
Remember that one?
You got one shot.
50, 50, which is a lot better than
you gave my friends!
Come on Uriel!
You said it was gonna be easy!
- Apocalypse, Smith.
Is that the biggest shadow of them all?
[eerie whistling] - Place your bet!
Take your chances.
Come on, baby!
[panting]
[suspenseful music]
[high-pitched whooshing]
Ooh, he made a bad choice.
[eerie tense music] [electricity sizzling]
[thunder rumbling] [electricity sizzling]
[eerie suspenseful music]
- What's this, the second string?
[supernatural whooshing] [hits thudding]
[grunting] [hits thudding]
[grunting] [supernatural whooshing]
Oof! [debris clattering]
[hands whooshing]
[hits thudding] [attacks whooshing]
[grunting] [attacks whooshing]
[foot thudding] [supernatural whooshing]
[grunting] [hits thudding]
[eerie somber music]
[supernatural whooshing] [footsteps clattering]
[supernatural whooshing]
[hits thudding] [grunting]
[eerie suspenseful music]
[wooden cracking] [clattering]
[hits thudding]
[supernatural whooshing]
[hits thudding]
[supernatural whooshing]
[hits thudding] [attacks whooshing]
[palms smacking]
[thudding]
[hits thudding]
[thudding]
[panting] [wind whispering]
[suspenseful music]
- The second, string.
[energy crackling]
[grunting] [thudding]
[wailing guitar music]
- It's still overtime and I guess
it's asking too much [heavenly choir singing]
for an immaculate reception or Montana throwing one
into the end zone, or Jim Brown off tackle.
But I can still see through your shadows Khan!
And as long as I'm breathing, this game isn't over.
[resolute music] I know you'll be back,
and when you are,
my warriors and I will be hosting the tailgate party!
[heavenly choir singing] [eerie resolute music]
Because there's no peace unto the wicked, Khan, you or me.
You think about that, whileyou run back into your shadows.
[water splashing] Until I find you,
somewhere in the mists of time,
and then I'll destroy you Khan!
I'll destroy you Khan!
[energetic dramatic music] [heavenly choir singing]
I'll destroy you Khan!