Original subtitles

(light piano music)

♪ Look into the future ♪

♪ What do you see ♪

♪ I really need to know now ♪

♪ Is there a place for me ♪

♪ If we're gonna survive ♪

♪ The dream must stay alive ♪

- Authorities are appealing for calm

throughout the evacuation process.

(sad piano music)

- I thought you were hungry.

- I am.

- Then what are you looking for?

Six months on the Christmas pudding?

- Just get off my case!

I'm not a child!

- Well, you're behaving like one.

Little Miss Pepperpot.

Hey, this is actually quite good.

Allie, have you tried yours?

- More.

- What did you say?

- More, please?

- You can talk?

You too?

(laughs) They talk.

- I know.

They spoke to me.

Yesterday.

- Why didn't you tell us?

- She was going to jump.

From the roof.

(daunting instrumental music)

(people chanting)

- Get her inside!

(girl screaming)

I thought he had a weapon.

- No one carried weapons around here.

Just you people.

(groaning)

- Four men wounded in two days.

I say it's time they gave these Verts a lesson.

A don't-mess-with-us lesson.

- They're just kids, Ved.

- Yeah, they're kids with stones

and arms to throw them.

And every squad out there

that's checking to face two sides is getting the same.

- They're hungry.

Don't you remember what it's like to be hungry?

- You mean in the bad old days before I met Ram?

Yeah, I remember.

Best forgotten, eh?

- You don't I don't forget that.

Any of it.

- Hey, you two arguing again?

Ved, my boy, can you ease up the wheel?

It's doing that thing again.

- Sure.

- Strange without the girls, don't you think?

Yeah, I think we're missing those girls already.

Why don't we go visit them today?

See how they're all getting along together?

- It's not safe for you--

- Then make it safe, Jay.

'Cause I want to see them.

(chair whirring)

- I'll go on with him.

You carry on with the sites on the list.

- And if the Verts use their sticks and stones?

- You defend yourself.

- That's it?

- That's it.

- Well, what do you know?

Says here you're a traitor, Ebony,

filling your belly while the city starves.

I'll buy that.

Sure sounds like you.

Where are you going?

- To freshen up?

You wanna come along?

Scrub my back?

- This is stupid.

What are we supposed to do, be her nanny?

- You do what you want.

Stay, leave.

As long as you don't get in my way.

- What were you doing back there?

- The guy could've had a knife.

- And you stopped him?

- What if he'd got to her

and it got back to Ram?

He's serious about this, Java.

- So am I!

- Well, I'm not gonna be the one to cross him.

- You don't have to be.

We'll let Ebony do it for us.

She isn't exactly Miss Popular around here.

Sooner or later, someone is going to try to get rid of her.

- So?

- So, we're checking something out.

Or just don't see it coming.

Whatever.

We don't get in the way when it happens.

(daunting music)

(people talking indistinctly)

- What do we have here?

Give you half a loaf for the locker?

Hey, you wanna eat or you wanna starve?

That's my price.

You take it or leave it.

- That's enough.

- What are you playing at?

- The rest of the food's free!

- I wouldn't do that if I were you.

- You're gonna stop me?

- Yeah.

I think you've had a good enough morning as it is.

(grunts)

As the lady said, the rest of the food is free.

(people shouting)

- Thanks, Lex.

- You little fool!

You're think any of the trader's

gonna wanna risk bringing food into the city

once he spreads the word?

At this rate, we're all gonna starve anyway.

- Allie, what did the kids mean?

- Nothing.

- No, not nothing.

They said you were gonna jump.

- So I thought about it.

Didn't do it, did I?

Didn't have the guts.

- The guts?

There's nothing gutsy in that!

Just stupidity and cowardice.

- Well then, maybe I'm a coward.

- No, you're not.

But you can't give into despair.

I know all about that.

It tries to fool you.

It tries to tell you there's nothing and no one,

but if you listen to it, you're listening to a liar.

- It's okay.

I'm okay, Sal, honest.

- Promise me something, Allie.

Promise me that if you ever feel close to that edge again,

you'll talk to me.

Someone, anyone, just talk.

We're a family, Allie, and we love you.

- Okay.

- Maybe we'll get Jack back.

Maybe we'll get all of them back.

Maybe we won't, I don't know.

You've gotta fight through it with the rest of us.

Promise me that too, Allie, promise me that you'll fight.

("The Tribe Theme")

- I promise.

- Look, school's over kid.

Go run to your mommy and your little teddy bear.

You still have a teddy bear, don't you?

- Thunder and Lightning.

(giggling)

Salt and Pepper.

(giggling)

Oh, come on, you guys.

I just wanna know what your names are.

- I know what their names are.

Poo and Pong.

- No, I'm not!

- Yes, you are.

You're Poo and you're Pong.

So, welcome to the Mall Rats.

- Poo and Pong, our newest recruits.

- Where's Allie?

- She's in her room.

- I'm not Poo!

- How long do you think they're gonna keep this up?

- End of the day?

- Not so sure.

- Then a bet.

End of the day and they won't be out of standard anymore

and we'll know their real names.

- You're on.

What's wrong?

- Those kids.

They could've been mine, either one of them.

It's up to us, isn't it?

To make a future for them.

For everyone.

- Boys, get over here.

- What are you doing?

- You always were too curious, weren't you, Java?

You just had to know.

Maybe that's why you were always getting

your pretty little fingers burnt.

- Don't you ever leave off?

- No, Siva.

Not ever.

- Who are they?

- My bodyguards.

- [Siva] We're your bodyguards.

- [Ebony] But you're nothing compared

to them in martial art.

- I should have buried you long ago.

- Then why don't you try?

Come on.

Let's do this now.

They will not interfere.

I can take you both.

Are you afraid?

- Am I seeing things here?

It can't be.

- Stay out of this, Lex.

- Three Ebonys.

You know what they say.

Bad things always come in threes.

(melancholy orchestral music)

- Okay.

Next place is couple of blocks down.

(valiant instrumental music) (people yelling)

Get down!

Power up, all of you.

(moves into slow disco music) (grunting)

- [Ram] What is going on here?

Jay, break this up now!

- Three of 'em.

(people yelling)

- Had enough of this?

We'll take them out.

All of them.

- You go and get into a fight

with the person I tell you to protect.

- Get these two vipers off my back.

- I'm doing this for you.

I hear you've been getting hate mail.

Obviously, you need protection.

I would simply hate to lose you.

So, from now on,

Java and Siva

are going to take their job seriously!

That's right, isn't it?

Otherwise, they answer to me.

- Then we get one thing clear.

I give the orders.

- Absolutely.

In fact,

go ahead, give one now.

Go on.

- I want some coffee.

Black and no sugar.

- You still got coffee here.

You hear, girls?

It's coffee time.

(slow piano music)

(moves into intense orchestral music)

- See?

I told you there was trouble.

- Stupid kids.

They just make trouble for the rest of us.

- [Ved] I counted eight.

There are two more of them.

- What you think he's doing?

- Hey man, they're just kids.

Hungry kids!

- That's the second time somebody said that to me today.

Take him.

And I want those other two found.

Get up.

Get up!

- Lex.

- [Lex] Just terrific.

- What are you gonna do?

You're not gonna hand them over.

- I am the sheriff, remember?

- But you can't.

- Just shut up.

(wind howling)

- You want this?

So, where are they?

- She's showing 'em 'round.

Why, Java?

- Why what?

- This hatred.

- Go on, tell him.

(intense orchestral music)

- She was always trouble, right from the start.

Always trying to climb over you.

But when the virus came,

we said we'd look after each other, the three of us.

And we did for a time.

'Til we found him with this guy Ebony knew, Zoot.

He was crazy, like really crazy.

But he had this gang, the Locos.

And as long as we were with them, we were protected.

Or so we thought.

Only Ebony couldn't leave it there.

No, she had to climb up the top of that tree too.

So, she turned him against us.

- He was gonna get rid of us.

Have us wiped out, because of her.

- But he didn't.

- Someone let us out.

We never found out who,

but I swore if I ever came back here--

- This place is just so cool.

There's ISDN lines,

every room is linked to a central server.

If you got this system back online here,

you could dial straight out into the net.

If it still existed.

Hey, the coffee.

See, we've even got room service.

- [Guard] We may have a problem.

- What is it, Ved?

- There are some Verts throwing stones.

- You two get 'round back to HQ,

then come straight back here.

Ebony, I need you with me.

- But--

- We do this my way, okay?

(melancholy piano music)

(chain clanking)

- You can't do this, Lex?

- Who says, you?

They're troublemakers.

- Trouble for who, you or the Technos?

Or isn't there any difference now?

- They get what's coming to them.

- You hand them over and they'll get what Tai-San got.

- Get outta my face, Dee?

- Is that what you want?

- You guys better come quick.

- What is it?

- That guy, Ved, he's gonna do something.

- That's the guy I was telling you about.

At the casino.

- I know him.

- You met him at the casino?

- Yeah.

Why, you been going to the casino, Chloe?

Wait a minute, did this guy do anything to you?

(melancholy orchestral music)

- Come on, let's go.

Where is it?

- Outside the mall.

- So what'd they tell you?

I'm an ex-murderer?

- (laughs) Something like that.

- You believe that?

- Shouldn't I?

- Well, there's their version and there's mine.

- And what's yours?

- What'd you do after the virus, Jay?

- Survived.

- Well, that's all there is.

- You know why these people are here?

Because they defied the rules

that there will be no violence against us.

So here's a little lesson for all of you,

so you can see what happens to those who defy us.

- Lex, no, don't.

There's nothing you can do.

- Get on your knees.

I said, get on your knees!

- Put that down, Ved.

That's an order.

Get your people to leave here, Ebony,

and no one will get hurt.

- You heard him.

All of you, out of here.

(people groaning)

And you!

- Haven't you done enough for one day?

Let 'em go.

- They attacked us!

- So you bring the whole crowd together

to witness your punishment.

You little fool!

You'd activate and that crowd

would've torn you to pieces.

You know how close you came?

This close.

Now, get out of here!

- Keep that little Rottweiler brother

of yours on his leash.

- Then do your job and keep the city under control.

("The Tribe Theme")

- I want a word with you, Sheriff, inside, now.

- Get those two idiots out of the cage

and get 'em out of here.

- Sure.

- You wrote for a newspaper?

- Yeah.

- On a computer?

- This one right here.

- You must be really clever.

- (scoffs) No, I had a clever friend.

He showed me what to do.

- There you are, Poo and Pong.

- Who?

- These two, that's what their names are now.

Poo and Pong.

- No, it isn't!

- He's Pong.

- No, I'm not!

- Well, what's your name, then?

Suit yourselves, but that's just what I'm gonna

have to tell everyone.

Your names are Poo and Pong now.

- So, Pong, do you wanna go?

- I'm not Pong!

(melancholy string music)

- [Allie] What is it?

- It's my lucky whistle.

If you ever need help, you just whistle, see?

- I'm telling you, there was three of them.

Bad things always come in threes.

- Like?

- Like three bad monkeys.

- Wise monkeys.

- And buses.

- There aren't any buses, Lex.

- Well, I will tell you one thing.

I'd like to get my hands

on that evil little Techno, Ved.

Get him away from his zapper

and let me at him for just one minute.

So what were you doing?

- Does it matter?

- You bet your butt it matters.

I'm the one that upholds the law around here.

Not you, Pride.

- And whose law would that be?

- What's that supposed to mean?

- Well, there's their law and Ebony's law.

Looks to me like you're just some guy

waiting to be caught in the middle.

- What's wrong with him?

- Maybe we should tell them

about Ebony seeing that Techno leader.

- When the time's right, but not yet.

- Okay, you're the boss.

(owl hooting) (dramatic orchestral music)

- Looks like I'm gonna lose the bet.

- Huh?

- The kids, they're holding out.

- What am I doing here, Sal?

Put me anywhere, the woods, the hills.

I know.

I know what I am, what I have to do.

But here, in this city?

I feel useless, useless!

And I have to do something.

One way or another, I have to.

(crickets chirping) (owl hooting)

(daunting orchestral music)

(knocking)

- This is my room!

- I know, Chloe.

I want you to know something.

That Techno, Ved, he humiliated me too.

- What are you talking about?

- I'm just saying.

If he did something to you, you're not alone.

You wanna talk about it?

- Leave me alone.

- Okay.

But if you ever do, maybe we could do something about it.

- Like what?

- You know what they say.

Don't get mad, get even.

So maybe you and I could get even together.

(intense orchestral music)

(timer beeping)

- Come on, Java.

It's a dive.

This is where Ved goes to get his kicks.

- Let's try and whip up some action in here.

Who knows, maybe something hunky

will come through the doors.

So, who's for a game of poker?

Come on.

You gentleman can't be afraid of two little bad girls

looking for a wicked time.

You, you, and you, poker, now.

(people murmuring) (lively music)

(owl hooting)

♪ Listen to the wind blow ♪

♪ Look inside, what does it show ♪

♪ Time passing so very slow ♪

♪ I see ♪

♪ Dark clouds across the sky ♪

♪ Children asking why ♪

♪ Is there hope above for me ♪

♪ Where is up now ♪

♪ Light in my life, let it be ♪

(singing in foreign language)