Shin Seiki Evangerion

Shinji Ikari:
I mustn't run away. I mustn't run away. I mustn't run away. I mustn't run away. I mustn't run away.

[Misato's on the phone with Ritsuko]

Misato Katsuragi:
So, I said, I'll take care of Shinji. I've already got permission from the brass. Hey, it's not like I'm going to put the moves on him.

Ritsuko Akagi:
[Yelling into Misato's ear] Of course you're not! How could you even think of such a thing? You're always like that, shame on you!

Misato Katsuragi:
She just can't take a joke.

Ritsuko Akagi:
So, how was Rei today?

[Gendou does not answer]

Ritsuko Akagi:
You DID see her at the hospital this afternoon, didn't you?

Gend? Ikari:
She will be ready to work again in twenty days. By then, we'll be ready to reactivate Unit 00 from cryo-stasis.

Ritsuko Akagi:
It's so hard on these poor children.

Gend? Ikari:
There is no one else who can pilot the Evas. As long as they survive, that is what I'll have them do.

Ritsuko Akagi:
With no regard to what they might want?

[Shinji rescues Rei from her battered Eva]

Shinji Ikari:
Ayanami! Are you all right? Ayanami! Don't say... Don't say that you have nothing else. Don't say goodbye when you leave on a mission. It's too sad.

[Shinji weeps]

Rei Ayanami:
Why are you crying? I'm sorry; I don't know what to do of feel at a time like this.

Shinji Ikari:
Why don't you try smiling?

[Rei thinks of Gendo smiling, and smiles herself]

[repeated line]

Asuka Langley Soryu:
What are you, stupid?

Toji Suzuhara:
[after Asuka slapped him] What was that for?

Asuka Langley Soryu:
Viewing fee. Cheap wasn't it?

Toji Suzuhara:
Oh yeah? Well here's your change!

[He undoes his trousers and exposes himself to Asuka]

Rei Ayanami:
[to Shinji] You're the jerk who was staring at my panties!

Asuka Langley Soryu:
Hey, you were the one who was flashing them!

Rei Ayanami:
Why are you defending him? Are you riding his baloney pony?

Asuka Langley Soryu:
[sweatdrops] WHAT? We're just really good childhood friends!

Misato Katsuragi:
This is your home now, so make yourself comfortable. And take advantage of everything here, except me.

Makoto Hy?ga:
You look pretty worn to the bone, Major Katsuragi.

Misato Katsuragi:
I have reasons for being worn. Private ones.

Ritsuko Akagi:
Kaji's bone?

Misato Katsuragi:
SHUT YOUR FACE!

[EVA-02 will not start because Shinji is in the cockpit with Asuka]

Asuka Langley S?ry?:
It's mental static! I told you, if you HAVE to think, think in German!

[Rei is explaining why she doesn't recall her having saved Shinji the day before]

Rei Ayanami:
I think... I am the third.

[Shinji is moving in with Misato and putting away the groceries; Misato is in the other room, changing]

Shinji Ikari:
[Notices Pen Pen's habitat] Hey, what's in the other refrigerator?

Misato Katsuragi:
Oh, don't bother him! He's probably still sleeping!

Shinji Ikari:
Still... sleeping?...

[Toji is right in front of Asuka as the wind lifts her dress up; she slaps him]

T?ji Suzuhara:
Ow! What was that for?

Asuka Langley S?ry?:
That's the viewing fee! In fact, I think I'm charging a very fair price!

T?ji Suzuhara:
Oh? Well, don't worry, here's your change! [He pulls down his pants and undershorts in retaliation]

Asuka Langley S?ry?:
Ach! [She slaps him again]

Ryoji Kaji:
So, can I buy you a drink? Cup o' tea?

Shinji Ikari:
Kaji, I'm a boy.

Rei Ayanami:
[naked, with Shinji on top of her] Would you get off?

Shinji Ikari:
Are you asleep yet, Mr. Kaji?

Ry?ji Kaji:
No, not yet.

Shinji Ikari:
What kind of person is my father?

Ry?ji Kaji:
Well, that question is a surprise. I thought you were going to talk about Katsuragi.

Shinji Ikari:
It seems you're always with him.

Ry?ji Kaji:
The deputy commander is the one with him all the time. Have you been asking around about your father?

Shinji Ikari:
I haven't been with him for a long time...

Ry?ji Kaji:
So, you don't know.

Shinji Ikari:
But I have learned many things about my father recently. About his work, my mother...

Ry?ji Kaji:
No, you're wrong. You just think you understood. Well, that's why people try to know each other. That's why life is interesting.

Shinji Ikari:
So, you can't really understand Misato either?

Ry?ji Kaji:
The Kanji we use for the word "she" a woman far away. To us men, women will always appear to be on the shore across. It means there is a river deeper and wider than the ocean that divides men and women.

Shinji Ikari:
I can't understand grown-ups.

Kaworu Nagisa:
[to Shinji] You must seize the future. It is what you live for!

Shinji Ikari, Asuka Langley S?ry?:
[answer their apartment door wearing matching dancing outfits, part of training to work as a synchronized pair. Speak in unison] It's Misato's idea! She's got us eating, brushing, and sleeping together!

Hikari Horaki:
Oh no! You're living in sin!

Shinji Ikari, Asuka Langley S?ry?:
*It's not like that!*

Asuka Langley S?ry?:
It's time to get up, you dork! [pulls off blanket] Ach! You stupid pervert! I didn't need to get *that* up!

Shinji Ikari:
I can't help it! It's morning!

Asuka Langley Soryu:
It's about time you got up, idiot!

Shinji Ikari:
[yawning] Oh, it's you Asuka.

Asuka Langley Soryu:
What the hell does that mean? Cant' you appreciate that I went to the trouble of waking you up PERSONALLY? I don't hear any words of appreciation for your oldest childhood friend.

Shinji Ikari:
Thanks. Now let me sleep a little more.

Asuka Langley Soryu:
Hurry up!

Shinji Ikari:
Jeez, you're such a pain in the ass. Is that what happens when you start your period?

Asuka Langley Soryu:
WHAT? What did you say? [she slaps him]

Shinji Ikari:
[naked] Misato! There's a...

Misato Katsuragi:
Oh, him? His name's pen pen. He's just another lodger.

Misato Katsuragi:
So uh... heh heh heh... why don't you cover up?

Shinji Ikari:
So, you're asking me to take this thing and go out there and fight?!

Gendo Ikari:
Correct.

Shinji Ikari:
How could you do this to me?! I thought you didn't want me! Why?! Why did you have to call me now, father?!

Gendo Ikari:
Because I have a use for you.

Asuka Langley Soryu:
[EVA-02 will not start because Shinji is in the cockpit with Asuka]

Asuka Langley Soryu:
It's thought noise! I told you not to disturb me!

Shinji Ikari:
What do you mean?

Asuka Langley Soryu:
[sighs frustratedly] You're thinking in Japanese, aren't you? If you MUST think, do it in German!

Shinji Ikari:
Uh, well, I'll try... um, strudel, bratwurst...

Asuka Langley Soryu:
Ach! Dummkopf!

[Toji is right in front of Asuka as the wind lifts her dress up; she slaps him]

Toji Suzuhara:
Ow! What was that for?

Asuka Langley Soryu:
That's the viewing fee! In fact, I think I'm charging a very fair price!

Toji Suzuhara:
Oh? Well, don't worry, here's your change!

[He pulls down his pants and undershorts in retaliation]

Asuka Langley Soryu:
Ach!

[She slaps him again]

Ryoji Kaji:
[to Shinji] So, I understand you're living with Katsuragi.

Shinji Ikari:
Uh, yeah...

Ryoji Kaji:
So, is she still so... wild in bed?

Shinji Ikari, Misato Katsuragi, Ryoji Kaji, Asuka Langley Soryu, Toji Suzuhara, Kaworu Nagisa:
WHAAAAAT?

Asuka Langly Soryu:
[threatening Shinji through the dividing wall between her room and his] This is the unbreakable Wall of Jericho, Third Child.

Shinji Ikari:
What...?

Asuka Langly Soryu:
Take one step over this wall and you'll be a dead man!

Shinji Ikari:
Don't leave me.

Misato Katsuragi:
Don't ignore me.

Asuka Langley S?ry?:
Don't kill me.

Naoko Akagi:
Did you need me for something, Rei?

Rei Ayanami:
I lost my way, doctor.

Naoko Akagi:
Is that so? Well, do you want to come with me then?

Rei Ayanami:
No thanks.

Naoko Akagi:
But how will you get home all by yourself?

Rei Ayanami:
That's none of your business, old hag.

Naoko Akagi:
Old hag?

Rei Ayanami:
I can find my way home by myself, old hag.

Naoko Akagi:
Uh... you shouldn't call someone and old hag, Rei.

Rei Ayanami:
But you're an old hag, aren't you?

Naoko Akagi:
I'm getting mad. Commander Ikari will spank you for this, you little...

Rei Ayanami:
But the commander is the one who calls you that. He says "That old hag is annoying. That old hag is no use anymore."

Misato Katsuragi:
You fool. You were always such a fool.

Gend? Ikari:
So, you're running away again. You disappoint me. I assume we will never meet again.

Shinji Ikari:
Yes. That's my intent.

Gendo Ikari:
You disappoint me.

Ry?ji Kaji:
Shinji, the only thing I can do is stand here and water. But you, you have something you can do. That only you can do. Nobody is forcing you. Think for yourself and make that decision by yourself. Think about what you have to do now. Think about no longer having any regrets.

[Rei is explaining why she doesn't recall her having saved Shinji the day before]

Rei Ayanami:
I think it's because I am the third one.

Shinji Ikari:
No one can justify their existence by linking their happiest moments into a kind of rosary. In particular, I cannot.

Gend? Ikari:
Shinji, you must not run away.

Asuka:
It's about time you got up, idiot!

Shinji:
[yawning] Oh, it's you Asuka.

Asuka:
What the hell do you mean by that? Can't you appreciate that I came to wake you up PERSONALLY? I don't hear any words of appreciation for your oldest childhood friend!

Shinji:
Thanks. Now let me sleep a little more.

Asuka:
It's time to get up, you dork! [pulls off blanket] Ah! You stupid pervert, I didn't mean to get THAT up!

Shinji:
I can't help it! It's morning! I gotta take a whizz or something...

Asuka:
Hey, don't point it at me!

Shinji Ikari:
It's time.

Kaworu Nagisa:
Time to go?

Shinji Ikari:
Yeah. I have to go to bed.

Kaworu Nagisa:
With me?

Shinji Ikari:
[stutters] No!

Kaworu Nagisa:
You are delicate, like glass.

Kaworu Nagisa:
Humans constantly feel pain in their hearts. Because the heart is so sensitive to pain, humans also feel that to live is to suffer. You're so delicate, like glass, especially your heart.

Shinji Ikari:
Me?

Kaworu Nagisa:
Yes, and you have my regard for it.

Shinji Ikari:
Regard?

Kaworu Nagisa:
In other words, I love you.

[Kaworu is seen sitting on an Angel-shaped piece of rubble. He is humming the Symphony No.9 in D Minor 4th Movement:
Presto, 'Ode of Joy.']

Kaworu Nagisa:
Singing is great. Singing enriches the soul. It's the crowning achievement of the civilization that the Lilim created. Don't you feel the same? Ikari Shinji-kun?

Misato Katsuragi:
If Unit-01's signal disapears and another change occurs...

Makoto Hy?ga:
I know. We set this place to self-destruct, right? It'll be better than letting them set off the Third Impact.

Misato Katsuragi:
I'm sorry.

Makoto Hy?ga:
It's okay, as long as I'm with you.

Misato Katsuragi:
Thank you.

[Unit-01 grips Kaworu in its left hand]

Shinji Ikari:
Kaworu-kun, why?

Kaworu Nagisa:
Because it's my destiny to continue to live, even if it may result in the destruction of humanity. But I can also die here. Life and death are of equal value to me. Dying of your own will. That is the one and only absolute freedom there is.

Shinji Ikari:
What? Kaworu-kun, I don't understand what you're saying! Kaworu-kun...

Kaworu Nagisa:
And, you are not a being who should die. Your people need the future. Thank you. I'm glad I met you.

[for a long, long moment, Shinji and the EVA hold still, as Kaworu looks up at them. Then, the fist closes with a loud crush]

[last lines]

Shinji Ikari:
Kaworu-kun said that he loved me. It was... it was the first time someone told me they loved me. He was like me, and Ayanami. I loved him. Kaworu-kun was the one who should have survived. He was a much better person than I am. Kaworu-kun should have been the one to survive.

Misato Katsuragi:
You're wrong. Only those who have the will to live get to survive. He wished to die. He abandoned his will to live, clinging instead to a false hope. You did nothing wrong, Shinji-kun.

Misato Katsuragi:
You're cold, Misato-san.

Kaworu Nagisa:
This is mankind's fate. The thread of human hope is spun with the flax of sorrow.

Rei Ayanami:
Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire.

Shinji Ikari:
[naked] M... M... Mis... Misato!

Misato Katsuragi:
What?

Shinji Ikari:
A p-p... A pe... pe... A p... A p... Huh?

Misato Katsuragi:
Oh, him? He's one of those new warm water penguins.

Shinji Ikari:
That was... what?

Misato Katsuragi:
His name's Pen-Pen. He's your other roommate. [takes a sip of beer] Um... why don't you cover up?

Rei Ayanami:
Mountains. Heavy are the mountains. But that changes with the passage of time. Sky. Blue sky. What your eyes can't see. What your eyes can see. The sun. One, only one. Water. It is agreeable. Commander Ikari. Flowers. So many the same. So many without purpose. Sky. Sky of red. Red the color, the color I hate. Liquid flows, it drips, ripples, and pours. Blood, scent of blood, woman who does not bleed. From the red soil the humans come. Humans made by man and woman. City, a human creation. Eva, a human creation as well. What are humans? Are they creations of God? Humans, that which is created by humans. This is that which is mine. My life, my heart. I am a vessel for my thoughts. The entry plug, the throne of the soul. Who is this? This is me. Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? I am I. This object that is, is myself, that which forms is me. This is the self that can be seen, and yet this is not like that which is myself. A strange feeling. My body feels as if it is melting. I can no longer see myself. My form, my shape fades from view. Awareness dawns of someone who is not me. Who is here? There? Beyond me, here? Shinji? This person I know, Major Katsuragi. Dr. Akagi. People, my classmates. The pilot of Unit Two. Commander Ikari? Who are you? Who are you? Who are you?

Rei Ayanami:
Mountain. Heavy are the mountains, something that changes through the ages. Sky. Blue sky. Something visible, something invisible. Sun. Something unique. Water. Something comfortable. Commander Ikari. Flowers. So many of them alike, so many of them useless. Sky. Red, red sky. Red color. Red is the color that I hate. Flowing water. Blood. The smell of blood. A woman that does not bleed. Made from the red soil are humans. Made by Man and Woman are humans. Town. Something that humans made. Eva. Something that humans made. Humans are what? Something that God made. Humans are things which humans made. The things I possess are my life and mind. The vessel of a mind. Entry plug, the throne of a soul. Who is this? This is me. Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? I am myself. This object is me, the figure which forms me. This is the me that is visible, though it feels as if this is not me. A strange feeling. My body seems as if it is melting. I cannot see myself. My figure is fading away. I am aware of someone else. Who is there before me? Ikari-kun. I know this person. Major Katsuragi. Dr. Akagi. People, my classmates. The pilot of Unit Two. Commander Ikari. Who are you? Who are you? Who are you?

Misato Katsuragi:
What good is your goddamned science? It can't even save one small life! Give me back my Shinji! Give him back!