Unity Day/Transcript

Clarke (voiceover): I was born in space. I've never felt the sun on my face or breathed real air or floated in the water. None of us have. For three generations, the Ark has kept what's left of the human race alive, but now our home is dying, and we are the last hope of mankind. Each of us is here because we broke the law. On the ground, there is no law. All we have to do is survive, but we will be tested. By the Earth, by the secrets it holds, and most of all by each other.

Previously on the 100

Raven: Ark Station, please come in. We need you.

Jaha: Are you saying there are survivors on the ground?

Clarke: Yes. The Earth is survivable.

Finn: The Grounder saved Octavia's life, and Bellamy brought him back here and tortured him.

Lincoln: My name is Lincoln.

Bellamy: Let's go. With the Grounder escaping, we should expect retaliation.

Jaha: We are going to the ground, but not all of us are. There are two thousand, two hundred and thirty seven people on this Ark, and there are only enough dropships to carry seven hundred.

End of Introduction.

Jaha: My friends, this is a historic Unity Day. Every year, we mark the moment our ancestors of the twelve stations joined to form the Ark, but this is the last time we do so while aboard her. Next year, on the ground.

Miller: Right. After we did all the work.

Delinquent: Someone shut him up.

Raven: You shut up, Miller. No one's forcing you to watch.

Jaha: For ninety-seven years, we have eked out an existence, hoping that someday our descendants would return to Earth.

Clarke: Don't tell me you don't like Unity Day.

Finn: Unity Day is a lie. The Ark only came together after the thirteenth station was blown out of the sky. Just not the version of history we like to tell each other at parties.

Clarke: The Unity Day story gives people hope, though, and peace came out of that violence.

Finn: Yeah, but did there need to be violence at all?

Jasper; Whoo! Yeah! Monty strikes again! Hey! Call this batch Unity Juice! Who's thirsty? Monty! There you go.

Monty: Hey. Save me some.

Jasper: Happy Unity Day. Pass it around.

Jaha: To our sons and daughters on Earth listening to this message, we will see you soon. The first Exodus ship will launch in under sixty hours, carrying you the reinforcements that you need, so stay strong. Help is on the way.

SCENE CHANGE

Diana: Hello, Abby.

Abby: Diana.

Jaha: We have seen the true soul of our people.

Diana: I hope there are no hard feelings about me taking the Council seat.

Abby: No hard feelings about anything at all today.

Diana: That's right. You'll be able to see your daughter soon.

Jaha: But enough from me. You are all here for the pageant anyway, right?

Diana: He's cutting his remarks short.

Abby: What's that?

Diana: Oh, nothing. I helped him with his speech. He's leaving the best part out.

Jaha: Without further ado, I present the story of us.

Vera: They tell me you'll be on the first Exodus ship.

Kane: Yes. I'm overseeing security on the ground.

Vera: Will you take the tree down for me?

Kane: Mom, I have a job to do.

Vera: Well, at least come to the departure ceremony. You could give the traveller's blessing. Think of it as a good-bye gift for your mother.

Kane: I don't remember it. Excuse me.

[Fanfare]

Girl: Long ago when the Earth was on fire, through space all alone. Then one day, Mir floated by Shenzhen, and they realized life would be better together. The other stations saw this, and they wanted to be together, too. When all the stations were formed, they called themselves-

[Bomb goes off]

[People screaming]

[High-pitched alarm]

[Muffled voices]

Girl: Daddy?

Abby: I'll go and find your daddy. Jaha, are you okay?

[Screaming]

Abby: Get him to medical now! Kane! Find out who did this.

Kane: Mom, mom, mom. [sobs]

Abby: We need triage supplies now!

Guard: Doctor Griffin, we need your help over here.

Kane: In peace, may you leave the shore. In love, may you find the next. Safe passage on your travels until our final journey to the ground. May we meet again. [Vera dies]

Jaha: [finding Kane next to his dead mother] Marcus. I'm so sorry. We need to get you out of here.

Guard: Sir. This was a coup. Councilors Cole, Kaplan, Muir, and Fuji are dead. If you hadn't cut your speech short-

Jaha: Where's Councilor Sydney?

Guard: She left before the blast. I'll find her.

Jaha: You do that, and double the guard at the dropship. I'm putting the Ark on lockdown!

[Broken electrical wire sparks, causing people to scream]

Jaha: We are not missing that launch window!

SCENE CHANGE

Guard: They suspect it was you.

Diana: The way I see it, we got two choices. Stay and fight, in which case maybe we win if we can get enough workers to join us.

Guard: And if we don't, what's the second choice?

Diana: Take the Exodus ship now.

Guard: It's not ready.

Diana: Can our engineers get it ready?

Guard: To charge the batteries on a ship that size without causing a disruption to The Ark takes time.

Diana: Then cause disruptions.

Guard: It'll get cold. With the lockdown, even if they find a way to isolate the lesser populated stations, people will die.

Diana: So there's casualties either way. Take the Exodus ship. We should have built a bigger bomb.

SCENE CHANGE

Clarke: Hey. The comms are still dead. They cut out during the pageant.

Bellamy: Best Unity Day ever.

Clarke: Do you really think now is a good time to be having a party? I mean, the Grounder is out there.

Bellamy: Grounders. By now, he's made it home. He's probably putting together a lynch mob. Relax. I got security covered. Why don't you go get a drink? You look like you could use one.

Clarke: I could use more than one.

Bellamy: Then have more than one. Clarke, the Exodus ship carrying your mother comes down here in two days. After that, the party's over. Have some fun while you still can. You deserve it.

Clarke: Yeah. Okay. So do you by the way.

Bellamy: I'll have my fun when the Grounders come.

Clarke: All right.

Jasper: Unity Day. Making bullets on Unity Day.

Raven: The Grounders don't know it's Unity Day.

Jasper: How did Bellamy get you to help?

Raven: I volunteered. We have to be ready to fight, right?

Jasper: Or we could try talking to them.

Raven: They seem to prefer stabbing.

Jasper: Violence is the only thing those people understand.

Raven: You know, they could say the same thing about us. If we keep going on this way, we'll never stop digging graves.

SCENE CHANGE

Raven: You didn't see him, Finn. It didn't matter what we did to him. He was ready to let you die.

Finn: He was protecting himself.

Raven: Why are you defending him? Never mind.

Finn: Hope you know what you're doing.

Raven: I know what I'm doing.

SCENE CHANGE

[Octavia sneaks up on Lincoln with knifes in her hands. Lincoln whips around and grabs her wrists at the last second]

Octavia: Better?

Lincoln: We'll make a warrior out of you yet.

[they have sex]

Octavia: Finn?! Lincoln, wait, wait! He's my friend.

Finn: I think you lost this.

Octavia: So, what the hell are you doing here?

Finn: I could ask you the same thing. I could also ask how long you've known he speaks English, but I won't. [shows Lincoln his horn] You blew this when your people were hunting us. You saved our lives. I have to believe there's more like you.

Lincoln: I stabbed you.

Finn: And we tortured you. If the two of us can get along, then maybe there's hope. Learn from history instead of repeating it, right?

Octavia: How's that gonna happen?

Finn: For starters, no more killing.

Lincoln: I don't have the power to call a truce.

Finn: Then bring me to someone who does. Hey, look. The rest of our people are coming down here. The first ship lands in two days.

Octavia: It's true.

Finn: And because of the attacks, they're sending mostly soldiers, the people that enforce our laws. The Ark is about survival at any cost, and they'll kill people who fall out of line. When those people get down here if they feel threatened, they will start a war, and I don't want that. Neither do you, and I think that's why you blew that horn. Once the soldiers get here, it will be too late, and we'll have no power to stop them, but if they see that we're at peace, then maybe we have a chance to stay that way.

Lincoln: All right. You bring your leader, I'll bring mine.

Octavia: What, Bellamy? He'll never go for this.

Lincoln: No. Not your brother.

Finn: Clarke.

SCENE CHANGE

Guard 1: Check.

Diana: Make sure everything's cleared out.

Guard 2: All right. It's clear back here. Sir, the dropship's clear. We did a full security sweep.

Ridley: Okay, boys and girls. Play time's over. Back to work. Let's get this ship ready to launch.

Abby: I should be in medical, not packing first-aid supplies.

Ridley: The injured have been taken care of, and we can do nothing for the dead.

Jaha: Marcus. I'm sorry. Vera was an amazing spirit.

Sydney: This launch should be delayed at least until you've questioned the terrorist that set that bomb. I put word out to my people and just heard back. His name is Cuyler Ridley. He's a mechanic who lost his wife in the culling.

Abby: Yeah. I recognize him. So what makes you think he did it?

Diana: He turned himself in.

Abby: Where have you been, Diana? Why did you leave the pageant early?

Diana: Well, thank God I did, or I'd be dead right now. I guess we're both lucky.

Abby: Stay where we can find you. Where am I gonna go, Kane?

Kane: Be careful. Ridley's dangerous.

SCENE CHANGE

[A table with Delinquents around it flipping metal parts into cups}

Clarke: You're not gonna get this one.

Delinquent: Yes I am.

Clarke: No. It's not happening.

[cheering]

Delinquents: Whoo! All right.

Delinquent: What do you know? Her highness can actually party. I like it.

Clarke: So, what are you gonna do when the guard come down and commandeer Monty's still?

Delinquent: Build another.

Clarke: All right. You ready? [tries to balance metal piece on nose] Oh. No. Wait. I have done this before, I promise. What is it?

Finn: Let's take a walk.

Clarke: Sorry. Did something happen?

Finn: I need you to come with me, but I can't tell you why, okay?

Clarke: Finn, tell me why. [Finn tries to pull her away from the crowd] Hey. Don't.

Finn: I set up a meeting with the Grounders.

Clarke: A meeting? I don't understand. With who? How?

Finn: I was just with the Grounder that we had in the dropship. His name is Lincoln.

Clarke: Wait a second. He spoke to you?

Finn: It's not important.

Clarke: If we want to live in peace Finn, we can't live in peace with people who've done nothing but kill us.

Finn: Can you think of a better way to stop the bloodshed?

Clarke: Yeah. With the guns that the guard bring down.

Finn: You really want a war? Because at this rate, that's what's coming. Look. I know it's a long shot, but this is our world now, and I think we can do better than the first time around. I trust him.

Clarke: I don't. But if we go, we have to bring backup.

Finn: No way. We're not bringing guns. Those weren't the terms, and if we're gonna do this, we got to give it a fair shot.

Clarke: Okay. Okay. I'll- I'll get my pack, and I'll meet you at the gate.

Finn: Okay.

Clarke: Hey. I need to talk to you.

Bellamy: Having fun yet, princess?

Clarke: I'm serious.

Bellamy: You always are, so talk.

Clarke: Finn's set up a meeting with the Grounders. I'm leaving to go talk to them.

Bellamy: Because you think that impaling people on spears is code for "let's be friends"? Have you lost your damn mind?

Clarke: I think it might be worth a shot. I mean, we do have to live with these people.

Bellamy: They'll probably gut you, string you up as a warning.

Clarke: Well, that's why I'm here. I need you to follow us, be our backup.

Bellamy: Does Finn know about this?

Clarke: Finn doesn't need to know, and, Bellamy, bring guns.

SCENE CHANGE

Jasper: Hey, hey! There you are! All right. Listen. We're playing drunkball. I bet Monroe my team's gonna win the Unity Day title. That's for you. I know you Zero-G mechs have crazy hand-eye skills, so, huh? What do you think? Must be better than whatever you're doing.

Raven: I'm checking the gunpowder in these rounds so that if the Grounders try to kill us all maybe we can get a few shots off beforehand.

Jasper: Hmm. That's intense. Sure you know what you're doing?

Raven: Why does everyone keep asking me- [A round explodes] Oh, whoa! Damn!

Jasper: You need now that, you know, you almost blew one off?

Raven: I got this.

Jasper: Hey. No one's a better mechanic, all right, but this stuff requires a chemist. How'd you do in chemistry class? Hmm. Ahh. Well, the fates are smiling upon you, my friend. I was great in chemistry. Hmm. [smells gunpowder from a bullet] Oh! Nope. [coughs] Oh, it's gassed off. Pretty sure the acidic smell means that the gunpowder's degraded.

Raven: Better start a dud pile.

Jasper: You know, when my parents get here, they can mix us up some new gunpowder. My dad's gonna flip for this scrap metal. "My kingdom for a soda can."