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JAKE
Yeah. You gotta teach em. About honor. Bein' a man
QUARITCH
(gazing at Spider)
You musta done something right. He's a good kid
JAKE
He’s a great Kid.
They both watch Spider, breathing deep and slow in sleep. Two fathers. A LONG BEAT. Forest
QUARITCH
Look, we're not gonna start takin' long walks together. I'm still bringin' you in - dead if I have
to. Semper fi ain’t gonna cut it.
JAKE
All this time you've been out here, and you still don't get it. This world goes much deeper than you imagine [points to Spider] You witnessed it tonight.
This resonates with Ouaritch. but he's not about to admit it.
QUARITCH
Doesn't matter what color I am, Jake - I still remember what team I'm playin for.
JAKE
You've got new eves. Colonel. All you need to do is open them.
But Quaritch CLOSES his eyes. Going to sleep. Hand on knife.
TIME CUT - dawn blazes through the trees. CU Jake - asleep. Now he wakes quickly to the sound of a SCREECHING IKRAN...
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Jake is pulling Spider to his feet as IKRAN ... [text covered] over the clearing - the FWAP FWAP OF WINGS... [text covered]
VA'RU shouts a greeting as he FLAIRS to a landing... [text covered]
WARRIORS POURING IN behind him.
JAKE (CONT'D)
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It's okay! They're ours!
He turns to Quaritch but - QUARITCH IS GONE. ... [text covered]
The ores Jake scans the woods. then turns as... err covered
AVATAR NORM dismounts. Jake grins at his old friend... [text covered] sees - NEYTIRI, sliding weakly from her ikran.
Jake and the kids rush to her, He's shocked at her... [text covered the bloodstained bandages. He takes her in a gentle... [text covered] shaking with emotion - deep relief, love beyond... [text covered]
Neytiri kneels, hugging and kissing the Kids. SPIDER... [text covered] out. Jake pulls him under his arm.
HOLD ON JAKE, as tears well in his eyes. The long night of terror and miracles is over.
NORM gapes at Spider, breathing without a mask. WTF?????
SPIDER [shrugs]
I'm good on the whole air thing.
EXT. INSIDE HIGH CAMP GROTTO - DAY
SLOMOTION - many ikran landing. AVATARS and OMATICAYA villagers run to greet the Sulllys and returning warriors. TUK hops down and runs to MO'AT, her grandmother and TSAHIK of the Omaticaya. They collide in a deep hug.
EXT. BRIDGEHEAD - BETABRIDGE - DAY
QUARITCH and Wainfleet - muddy scraped, and bleeding - fly through drizzling rain, past an ominous STRUCTURE in the harbor - an oil rig crossed with a nuclear reactor.
THE BETABRIDGE - A SIREN echoes across the city. A BRILLIANT FLASH bursts from the structure, followed by a CONCUSSION like thunder. An acoustic SHOCK WAVE arcs out
across the bav.
WAINFLEET (COMMS)
Looks like they got that thing workin'.