Detroit: Become Human

Chapter 31 - Night of the Soul (Markus)

NOV 10TH, 2038
PM 04:17

Alarm: Alarm deactivated. Welcome home, Markus.

Leo: Hi, Dad... I'm getting outta the hospital tomorrow... They told me that you stayed with me while I was asleep... I... um... I'm really sorry about everything that happened... I'm gonna stop all that shit... It messes me up, it turns me into somebody I hate... Hey, I'd like to come by and see you tomorrow... If that's all right with you... I... I just wanna let you know... I'm... I'm proud to be your son...

Android: Who are you? How did you get in?

Markus: I need to see Carl.

Android: Carl isn't seeing anyone. You need to leave.

Markus: Please. I need to see him.

Android: He's very weak... I'm not sure he'll be able to talk to you...

Markus: Carl... No...

Carl: Markus!

Markus: Hey...

Carl: I was hoping you'd come...

Markus: I've missed you so much, Carl... You don't know how much I've missed you...

Carl: What's wrong, Markus?

Markus: I'm completely lost, Carl... Completely lost... Whole world's falling apart around me... I tried to do the right thing... I looked for answers... Instead, I just find more doubts and more uncertainty...

Carl: World is ruled by fear, Markus... Fear of others... Fear of the future... It's like me... too old... It's time for it to end.

Markus: I don't want bloodshed... no matter the color... but I can't let them slaughter my people... I have to make a decision that's gonna affect millions of lives... And I'm telling you, I don't know what to do...

Carl: Being alive is making choices... between love and hate, between holding out your hand or closing it as a fist... I don't have any easy answers, Markus... You have to accept the world as it is... or fight to change it... You're my son, Markus... Our blood isn't the same color... but I know a part of me is in you... When the world falls into darkness, some men have the courage to lead it out... You're one of those men... Face the abyss... but don't let it consume you.

Markus goes to the church.

[JOSH slight_increase]

Josh: If it weren't for you I'd be dead... Thanks to you I might see our people free one day... You and I haven't always agreed, but I know that we're fighting for the same thing. Whatever you decide, I'm with you, Markus.

Connor: It's my fault the humans managed to locate Jericho... I was stupid... I should've guessed they were using me. I'm sorry, Markus... I can understand if you decide not to trust me...

[JERICHO slight_increase]

Markus: You're one of us, now. Your place is with your people.

Maddie: There are thousands of androids at the CyberLife assembly plant. If we could wake them up, they might join us and shift the balance of power...

Markus: You two wanna infiltrate the CyberLife Tower? Connor and Maddie, that's suicide...

Connor: They trust me, they'll let me in. If anyone has a chance of infiltrating CyberLife, it's me and I'll protect Maddie.

Markus: If you two go there, they will kill you two.

Maddie: There's a high probability... but statistically speaking, there's always a chance for unlikely events to take place...

Markus: Be careful...

[NORTH AND PIPPA slight_increase]

Markus: They say they don't wanna take any risks with the deviants... so they're rounding our people up and taking them to the camps... for extermination. In a few hours, we're gonna be the only ones left... How many of us survived the attack?

North: A few hundred? Maybe more if you count those hiding all over the city... If you hadn't triggered the bomb we'd all be dead.

Markus: What's your system status?

Pippa: I'm okay... The bullet didn't hit any biocomponents... You could have been killed trying to save me, Markus... You have to think of our people first. Nothing else matters.

Markus: The army built five different camps in the Detroit area...

North: They're building more all across the country... They're preparing for a genocide. In a few hours, it'll all be over... We'll have changed the world or the world will have destroyed us... You have to make a choice, Markus... But whatever you choose, we will follow you..

Pippa: I love you, Markus...

Markus: I thought you'd be safe staying with us... I was wrong... You need to leave the city, while you still can.

Kara: Getting Alice away from here is all that matters now... We have to catch the last bus... We might still have a chance to cross the border...

Markus: Well, I hope you make it. You really deserve some happiness, after all you've been through.

Kara: Markus... Save our people.

Markus: Humans have decided to exterminate us... Our people are packed in camps right now, being destroyed... The time has come to make a choice, one that very well may determine the future of our people. I know... I know you're all angry. And I know you wanna fight back... But I assure you violence is not the answer here. We are gonna tell them peacefully that we want justice. If there's any humanity in them, they will listen. And if not, others will take our place and continue this fight with help from rA9 who has come to us at last.

(Markus looks at Pippa who was watching with Connor and Maddie. He holds out his hand to invite Pippa to stand with him. Pippa takes his hand and stands next to him)

Markus: This is rA9. The Android that you've been waiting for since your awakening. She is proof that humans and Androids can live together and have equal rights. Let's show the humans this. Are you ready to follow us?

Androids: Markus and Pippa! YEAH! YEAH! YES! YEAH! YES!