Neon Genesis Evangelion

Shinji Ikari:
NERV?

Misato Katsuragi:
Uh huh. It's a secret organization controlled by the U.N.

Shinji Ikari:
And that's where my father works?

Misato Katsuragi:
Well yeah. You do know what he does, don't you?

Shinji Ikari:
All my teachers told was that it was important to the future of mankind.

Shinji Ikari:
NERV, my fathers agency. Am I going to be working for him? Uh, what am I saying? He wouldn't have sent me a letter unless he needed me for something.

Misato Katsuragi:
Hmm, sounds like you don't get along with your dad. Uh, you sound just like me.

Shinji Ikari:
Ohhh! Awesome! It's a real Geofront!

Misato Katsuragi:
That's right! This is our secret underground base, NERV central. This city is the key to rebuilding our world. A fortress for all mankind!

Ritsuko Akagi:
So is this the boy?

Misato Katsuragi:
Right, according to the Marduk report He's the Third Child.

Ritsuko Akagi:
Hmm, pleased to meet you.

Shinji Ikari:
Uh, sure

Misato Katsuragi:
I'm afraid that's he's just like his father. The gruff and unfriendly part that is.

Shinji Ikari:
It's a face! I giant robot!

Ritsuko Akagi:
You wont find this in there.

Shinji Ikari:
What?

Ritsuko Akagi:
This is mans ultimate fighting machine the synthetic life form know as Evangelion, Unit 1. Built here in secret, it is mankind's last hope.

Shinji Ikari:
Is this my fathers work?

Gendo Ikari:
Correct. It's been a while.

Shinji Ikari:
Father…

Gendo Ikari:
We're moving out.

Misato Katsuragi:
Moving out!? But Unit 0 is still in cryostasis! Huuuu! Wait a minute! You're going to use Unit 1!?

Ritsuko Akagi:
There's no other way.

Misato Katsuragi:
No wait. Rei can't do it yet can she? We don't have a pilot!

Ritsuko Akagi:
We just received one.

Misato Katsuragi:
You're serious?

Ritsuko Akagi:
Shinji Ikari, you will pilot it.

Misato Katsuragi:
But even Rei Ayanami took 7 months to synchronize with her Eva. It's impossible for him to do it! He just got here!

Ritsuko Akagi:
He just has to sit in the seat. We don't expect more than that.

Misato Katsuragi:
B…. but.

Ritsuko Akagi:
Listen defeating that Angel is our ultimate priority, if we have someone that has a chance of synchronizing with an Eva then we've got to risk it. You do understand that don't you Captain Katsuragi?

Misato Katsuragi:
Yes mam.

Shinji Ikari:
Why did you send for me?

Gendo Ikari:
You know why I sent for you.

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.

Shinji Ikari:
But why? Why me?

Gendo Ikari:
Because there is no one else who can.

Shinji Ikari:
No I can't! I've never even seen anything like this before! There's no way I can do this!

Gendo Ikari:
You will be instructed.

Shinji Ikari:
But still! There's no way! I can't pilot that thing!

Gendo Ikari:
If you're going to do it, do it now! If not then leave!

Ritsuko Akagi:
Shinji we don't have much time!

Misato Katsuragi:
Get inside.

Shinji Ikari:
This is all wrong. I came all this way! Uh why did I come!?

Misato Katsuragi:
Why Shinji? Exactly why did you come here? You mustn't run away, you must confront your father, and you must confront yourself!

Shinji Ikari:
I know that! But… I just…. Can't!

Shinji Ikari:
I knew it! I'm not needed after all.

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!

Shinji Ikari:
Unfamiliar ceiling.

Seele So the angels have returned,. It's rather sudden

Seele It's the same as it was 15 years ago. That's the way of disasters; they come without warning.

Seele Still I wonder Mr. Ikari. Were NERV and Eva used efficiently?

Seele Repair costs for Unit 1 and the development cost for Unit 0 are simply staggering.

Seele We also understand that you gave that toy to your own son!

Seele Time, money and manpower. How much more will be wasted by you and your family?

Seele And that is not your only responsibility. The Human Enhancement Project that should be your top priority.

Seele Correct. Under these desperate circumstances that project may be the only real hope for the future of mankind. Do you understand?

Seele In any event, the Angels are no excuse for the delay in the schedule of that project. We may consider adjusting the budget.

Seele The rest of the meeting does not concern you.

Seele Your presence here was appreciated.

Seele Ikari, you do know that there can be no turning back.

Gendo Ikari:
I know. Mankind has no time left.

Misato Katsuragi:
Man air conditioning is the greatest thing. Mans triumph over nature.

Ritsuko Akagi:
Shinji's finally woken up!

Misato Katsuragi:
And…. How is he?

Ritsuko Akagi:
Well his memory seems a bit muddled bu…

Misato Katsuragi:
You don't think it could be contamination do you!?

Ritsuko Akagi:
Hmm, I don't think we should worry.

Misato Katsuragi:
Really? You're right he did have a pretty hectic day.

Ritsuko Akagi:
Poor little kid his cerebellum must have taken a lot of stress.

Misato Katsuragi:
Cerebellum? Don't you mean his heart?

Misato Katsuragi:
If Eva and this city both operate at their full potential we might make it through this.

Ritsuko Akagi:
You're such an optimist.

Misato Katsuragi:
Hey, Sometimes you need a little wishful thinking to keep on living.

Ritsuko Akagi:
I see your point. It's nice to hear a positive attitude. I'll see you later

Misato Katsuragi:
Okay., see ya.

Ritsuko Akagi:
They don't want to live together? Are you sure?

Kozo Fuyutsuki:
I think that living apart is natural to them.

Ritsuko Akagi:
And being together is unnatural?

Misato Katsuragi:
He'll be living alone?

NERV Official:
That's right. His room will be on the 6th block beyond this one. Is that alight?

Shinji Ikari:
Yes sir.

Misato Katsuragi:
Shinji, are you sure about that?

Shinji Ikari:
Living alone is fine with me. I'm alone anyway.

Ritsuko Akagi:
What did you say!?

Misato Katsuragi:
You heard me! I said I'll be taking Shinji home to live at my place okay!? It's already been approved. And don't worry I'm not gunna be making any passes at him.

Ritsuko Akagi:
Of course you're not! How could you think of such a thing! You've got no shame at all!

Misato Katsuragi:
Some people don't have any sense of humor.

Shinji Ikari:
It's so desolate, the city seems so lonely.

Misato Katsuragi:
This city is a fortress designed to stand against the angels. This is Tokyo3, this is our city and it's the city that you saved.

Misato Katsuragi:
Hey, come in.

Shinji Ikari:
Uh, I don't want to intrude.

Misato Katsuragi:
Shinji, this is your home now.

Shinji Ikari:
I'm… I'm home.

Misato Katsuragi:
Welcome home. (Cue Coheed)

Misato Katsuragi:
Um, as you can see the place is just a little bit messy but uh go ahead and make yourself comfortable.

Shinji Ikari:
This is a little messy?!

Misato Katsuragi:
Oh, sorry could you put the food in the fridge please?

Shinji Ikari:
Uh, yes mam. Ice, snacks and 50 gallons of beer! What kind of life does she lead?

Misato Katsuragi:
This is your home so feel free to take advantage of everything that's here, except of course of me that is.

Shinji Ikari:
Uh, yes mam

Misato Katsuragi:
Ugh, yes, yes, yes. Is that all you can say?! It's getting one my nerve! You're a boy act like one!

Shinji Ikari:
Yes mam!

Misato Katsuragi:
Hmm, I guess that's just the way you are. Why don't you take a bath? Yeah! Wash away your troubles. Bathing cleans the mind and soul.

Shinji Ikari:
Ah! Ma… Mah… Ma… Misato!

Misato Katsuragi:
What?

Shinji Ikari:
Pe… Peh… P…. huh!?

Misato Katsuragi:
Oh him!? He is one of those new warm water penguins.

Shinji Ikari:
Tha… That was a what!?

Misato Katsuragi:
His name's PenPen. He's your other roommate. Mmm… Why don't you cover up?

Shinji Ikari:
Uh? Oh!

Misato Katsuragi:
Uh, I guess I should be nicer but he's probably already made up his mind about me.

Shinji Ikari:
Misato Katsuragi, she's not a bad person. But bad memories always seem to find me in the bath. Like my father, and that girl Rei.

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

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

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

Shinji Ikari:
Another unfamiliar ceiling. Of course in this whole city there is no place that's familiar. Why am I here?

Ritsuko Akagi:
My god… berserker!

Misato Katsuragi:
Shinji, can I come in? I forgot to tell you something. You did something very good and very noble today. You should be proud. Goodnight Shinji. Hang in there.

Shinji Ikari:
Position target in the center, pull the switch.

Ritsuko Akagi:
How's it going? Are you getting along with him?

Misato Katsuragi:
Him? Oh, Shinji. Well, it's been two weeks since he started and he doesn't seemed to have changed. No one ever calls him.

Ritsuko Akagi:
Calls him where?

Misato Katsuragi:
Well, since I figured he'd be needing one I gave him a cellular phone. I don't think he's ever used it though… or received any calls. I'm not sure but I don't think he has any friends.

Ritsuko Akagi:
Well I would guess that Shinji isn't exactly the sort of person who makes friends easily.

Misato Katsuragi:
Mmmhhmmm.

Ritsuko Akagi:
Do you know the fable "The Hedgehog's Dilemma?"

Misato Katsuragi:
Hedgehog? You mean those animals with the spiny hair?

Ritsuko Akagi:
Even though a hedgehog may want to become close with another hedgehog. The closer they get the more they injure each other with their spines.

Misato Katsuragi:
Hmm.

Ritsuko Akagi:
It's the same with some humans. The reason he seems so withdrawn is because he's afraid of being hurt.

Misato Katsuragi:
Well, he's… just… going to have to learn… someday…. That part of growing up means finding a way to interact with others while distancing pain.

Toji Suzuhara:
Sorry newcomer, but I had to clobber you. I had to pop you one to work off my own anger.

Kensuke Aida:
He's mean huh? His little sister was injured the last time you and your robot fought a battle. Well that's his excuse anyway.

Shinji Ikari:
I didn't have a choice! They made me pilot the stupid thing!

Shinji Ikari:
Why am I piloting this thing again? Even though my fathers not here. Even though I was beaten.

Kensuke Aida:
Geez! Being beaten up must have really messed him up.

Toji Suzuhara:
Oh shut up!

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

Misato Katsuragi:
But he's only 14 years old. Making him bear the burden of the future of mankind seems so cruel.

Ritsuko Akagi:
But we have to use 14 year old children to pilot the Eva's.

Misato Katsuragi:
I know. But..

Ritsuko Akagi:
: So has he called or made contact? …Nothing?

Misato Katsuragi:
Nnnuunn. Nothing. I don't think he is going to come back this time.

Ritsuko Akagi:
: What will you do?

Misato Katsuragi:
Nothing. It's better for him if he doesn't come back.

Ritsuko Akagi:
: But why?

Misato Katsuragi:
Because of what happened after the last battle.

Misato Katsuragi:
Why did you ignore my orders!?

Shinji Ikari:
I apologize.

Misato Katsuragi:
I'm the one who's in charge of your operations aren't I?

Shinji Ikari:
Yes.

Misato Katsuragi:
You do know you're supposed to obey my orders, understand?

Shinji Ikari:
Yes.

Misato Katsuragi:
I'm warning you! Do not do it again!

Shinji Ikari:
Yes.

Misato Katsuragi:
Hey! Are you even listening to anything I'm even saying?!

Shinji Ikari:
Yes.

Misato Katsuragi:
Oh no you don't! You're not gunna get out of this by just saying "yes" to everything I say!

Shinji Ikari:
I know Mrs. Misato. We won didn't we? Isn't that enough?

Misato Katsuragi:
Urgh! You know it may seem easy going along with whatever anyone else wants, but if you get into an Eva with that attitude it'll kill you!

Shinji Ikari:
You know I just don't care anymore.

Misato Katsuragi:
It'd be nice if I could say you've got the right attitude. But if you think you're going to get any praise out of me, you're wrong Shinji!

Shinji Ikari:
Ugh, that's not the point. Anyway I'm the only one who could pilot it. I'll just have to do.

Misato Katsuragi:
If getting into the Eva means nothing but pain to him, I don't think he should pilot again. Uhg, otherwise he'll be killed.

Kensuke Aida:
Toji was real sorry about everything. His kid sister really tore him a new one. She said it was the robot that saved her life. That must be pretty embarrassing, getting yourself chewed out by a second grader. Right?

Kensuke Aida:
I really envy you. I mean you live with such a beautiful woman and you get to pilot the Evangelion. Oh man! I wish I could get inside that lovely cockpit just once!

Shinji Ikari:
You really shouldn't you know? Your mother would probably be worried.

Kensuke Aida:
Huh? Oh, don't worry about my mother. I don't have one of those.

Shinji Ikari:
Oh.

Kensuke Aida:
I'm no different from you.

Kensuke Aida:
Only an idiot fights when he knows he can't win. Balls have nothing to do with it.

Misato Katsuragi:
Long time no see

Shinji Ikari:
Yeah.

Misato Katsuragi:
Do you feel any better after wandering around for 2 days?

Shinji Ikari:
I don't know.

Misato Katsuragi:
The Eva is on standby will you pilot it? Or wont you?

Shinji Ikari:
You're not going to scold me for running away? Of course you're not I'm not relation to you am I? If I say that I won't pilot Unit 1, what are you going to do?

Misato Katsuragi:
I suppose that Rei would do it. You wont pilot it?

Shinji Ikari:
It seems a little bit unrealistic for you to force everything on her. Don't worry I'll pilot it.

Misato Katsuragi:
But you don't want to do it.

Shinji Ikari:
Of course not. It's not something that comes to me naturally. But Ayanami and you and Mrs. Ritsuko…

Misato Katsuragi:
Stop that line of crap! This has nothing to do with any of us! If you don't like it get out of here! Just forget all about Eva and us and go back where you came from! We don't need someone with that attitude piloting! Ugh!

Toji Suzuhara:
Ikari look, I'm sorry about hitting you twice. Please, you gotta hit me back!

Shinji Ikari:
Uh! I can't do that!

Toji Suzuhara:
You gotta unless I wont be satisfied!

Kensuke Aida:
He's a pretty embarrassing guy isn't he? But if it'll put an end to this dispute why don't you go ahead and hit um!?

Shinji Ikari:
But I…

Toji Suzuhara:
Hurry up! You don't have much time do you!?

Shinji Ikari:
Okay… but only once.

Toji Suzuhara:
Right! Come on! …. Hey wait! Don't hold back.

Toji Suzuhara:
Of course if you're leaving, we'll have to leave this city sometime soon. But we can't really blame you for that. I mean… We saw how much you suffered in the Eva. And anyway… if anyone does try to blame you… I'm gunna give um a wop on the head!

Shinji Ikari:
I'm the one who deserved to be hit! Not you! I'm a coward! I'm dishonest! I'm sneaky! And a wimp!

Misato Katsuragi:
The hedgehog's dilemma, the closer we become the more deeply we hurt. Now I understand. I finally understand he can't let others know how he feels in any other way.

Shinji Ikari:
I'm home.

Misato Katsuragi:
Welcome home.

Ritsuko Akagi:
Rei Ayanami, Age 14. The first of the test subject's chosen is accordance with the Marduk Report, the First Child. Designated Pilot for the Evangelion Unit 0. Her past has been eradicated. All of her personal records have been erased.

Misato Katsuragi:
It can't be.

Ritsuko Akagi:
Yes. Although composed of a different form of matter their actual composition in terms in terms of the arrangement and coordinates of the pattern is a 99.89% match to ours.

Misato Katsuragi:
Nothing draws attention like evasive action.

Toji Suzuhara:
Hey, big shot! What are you staring at so intently?"

Shinji Ikari:
Um, nothing!

Kensuke Aida:
He's ogling Rei!

Shinji Ikari:
I… I… I am not!

Kensuke Aida:
Ah, come on! We saw you looking!

Toji Suzuhara:
Yeah, at Rei's mammaries! Rei's silky thighs!

Kensuke Aida:
Yeah!

Toji Suzuhara:
Her calves! Her...

Kensuke Aida and Toji Suzuhara:
(in unison)...naughty bits!

Shinji Ikari:
Uh, look it's nothing like that!

Kensuke Aida:
Then just what were you looking at?

Toji Suzuhara:
Can't fool us Shinji.

Shinji Ikari:
I was just wondering why she's always alone.

Toji Suzuhara:
Huh? Uh, come to think of it she hasn't had any friends since she started here in the 7th Grade.

Kensuke Aida:
There's just something about her that makes her hard to talk to. Like she's in her own world.

Toji Suzuhara:
She's probably just got a lousy personality.

Kensuke Aida:
You two are both Eva pilots right? You ought of know her better than any of us Shinji. You know what I mean?

Toji Suzuhara:
Yeah. That's right.

Shinji Ikari:
I suppose, but we don't talk.

Misato Katsuragi:
Never underestimate the ability of the human animal to adapt to it's environment.

Shinji Ikari:
I just find it strange I know so little about her even though were both Eva pilots.

Ritsuko Akagi:
She's a nice girl. But she's like your father, she's not very adept at…

Shinji Ikari:
She's not very adept at what?

Ritsuko Akagi:
Living I guess.

Shinji Ikari:
Aren't you going to have a reactivation test today? Aren't you scared Rei? Aren't you afraid of piloting Unit 0?

Rei Ayanami :
Why?

Shinji Ikari:
Well, I heard you were hurt pretty bad in an earlier experiment so… I thought… you might be…

Rei Ayanami :
Aren't you Commander Ikari's son?

Shinji Ikari:
Mmhhmm

Rei Ayanami :
Don't you have faith in your own fathers work?

Shinji Ikari:
No of course not! How could I ever trust him again!?

[Rei angrily turns to face Shinji]

Shinji Ikari:
What?

[Rei slaps Shinji]

Shinji Ikari:
Do I really have to pilot Eva again?

Rei Ayanami :
Yes, you do.

Shinji Ikari:
Uh, I don't want to! You can be so cool about it because you haven't had the kind of experiences I had yet! I don't want to go through it again!

Rei Ayanami :
Then you can just stay here in bed.

Shinji Ikari:
What do you mean by that?

Rei Ayanami :
I will pilot Eva Unit 1. Dr Akagi has already prepared to rewrite the personal data files for Unit 1.

Shinji Ikari:
Ritsuko is?

Rei Ayanami :
Captain Katsuragi and Dr. Akagi will be waiting for me in the cage.

Shinji Ikari:
Uh, hey…

Rei Ayanami :
Goodbye.

Shinji Ikari:
Maybe… this will be our last day alive.

Rei Ayanami :
Why would you say something like that? You won't die. I'll be protecting you.

Shinji Ikari:
Ayanami, just why do you pilot this thing?

Rei Ayanami :
Because I'm bonded to it.

Shinji Ikari:
You're bonded?

Rei Ayanami :
Yes, it's a bond.

Shinji Ikari:
You mean, to my father?

Rei Ayanami :
To all people.

Shinji Ikari:
You're very strong Rei.

Rei Ayanami :
I have nothing else.

Shinji Ikari:
What do you mean you have nothing else?

Rei Ayanami :
It's time, lets go. Goodbye Shinji.

Shinji Ikari:
Ayanami! Are you all right? Ayanami! …Don't ever say that! Just don't say that you have nothing else! Just don't say that! And don't say goodbye when you leave for a mission, it's just too sad.

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

Shinji Ikari:
Why don't you just try smiling?

Asuka:
[starting up Eva Unit 02] LCL Einlass. Anfang der Bewegung, bestätigt. Anfang des Nervenanschlusses, bestätigt. Anfang nächster die Herzmonitor, bestätigt. Synchro-start, nun! ("Input LCL. Start sequence: nerve connection, confirmed; heart monitor, confirmed. Start synchronisation!")

Shinji:
It's...a programming error?

Asuka:
It's thought-noise. I told you not to disturb me!

Shinji:
What do you mean?

Asuka:
Aggh! You're thinking in Japanese, aren't you? If you must think, do it in German!

Shinji:
Well, I'll try...strudel...bratwurst...

Asuka:
Dummkopf! ("Idiot!") Nevermind...we'll start over again, switch language to Japanese. Evangelion Unit 02, start!

Toji:
What'd you do that for?!

Asuka:
That's the viewing fee. Quite a bargain, nicht?

Toji:
It's overpriced. But that's okay, here's your change! [laughs]

Asuka:
Ahh! Unverschämter idiot! ("Impudent idiot!") [slapping Toji a second time] So, which one is the famous Third Child? [glances at a dejected Toji] Ach, nein... ("Oh, no...")

Misato:
[indicating Shinji] Don't worry, Asuka, it's him.

Asuka:
[examining Shinji] Hmmm... Not much to look at.

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

Shinji:
What...?

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

Asuka:
Y'know, this Type-D heat resistant entry plug suit doesn't seem that much different from our regular ones.

Ritsuko:
Press the switch on your right arm.

Asuka:
Okay. [She does and the suit ends up making her and her unit look fat] Wah!? AAAAGGGHHHH!!! Liebe Gott im Himmel!! (Oh, God in Heaven!!)

Ritsuko:
Unit 2 should be ready now.

Asuka:
(finds Unit 2 in a fatsuit as well) NOOOOOO!!!! HOW COULD YOU!!

Ritsuko:
The suit is designed to protect you. Type-D equipment is designed for combat under extreme high-environmental duress, not high fashion.

Asuka:
And my Unit Two? The poor thing... Forget it! I won't do it! I'm not appearing in public in this stupid thing! This is the sort of thing you have Shinji for!

Makoto Hyuga:
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!

Leliel:
Will you spend your life regurgitating and re-digesting those few pleasant moments?

Shinji:
If I trust their words, it's enough to keep me alive.

Leliel:
Even though you're deceiving yourself?

Shinji:
Everybody does it! That's how everyone survives.

Leliel:
If you will not believe that you can change yourself, you will be unable to continue.

Shinji:
This world is filled with too much pain and suffering to keep going.

Leliel:
For example, you can't swim?

Shinji:
Humans aren't made to float!

Leliel:
That's self-deception.

Shinji:
I don't care what you want to call it!

Leliel:
You've been shutting your eyes to that which you wished to avoid.

(Flashes of painful moments)

Shinji:
No, I don't want to hear this!

Leliel:
See? You're running from reality again. No one can justify life by linking happy moments into a rosary. In particular, I cannot.

Shinji:
I've found something I can do to feel good. Something I want to do! What's wrong with that?!

Shinji Ikari:
What's wrong with running away from reality if it sucks?!

[Shinji is hallucinating in Eva-01]

Asuka:
[naked and smiling at Shinji] Hey Shinji, you idiot! Want to become of one mind and one body?

Chairman Keel:
Discovery may be joy, but knowledge is power.

Asuka:
I won't take a bath in the same water that Misato and stupid Shinji have used... And I won't use a washer that Misato and Shinji the dork have used, for washing underwear... And I don't want to use a toilet that's been used, not by the two of them... I don't even want to breathe the same air they do, not the two of them. I hate Misato, and I hate Shinji, and I hate that First Child bitch Rei! I hate my dad, I hate my mom! But mostly, most of all, I hate myself! I hate this! I can't stand it anymore! Why do I have to do this! Why me?!

[As Asuka is being mentally tortured by Arael]:

[Voice-over overlaying repeated footage of a door opening, followed by the German words for phrases such as "insanity", "strangled", "No!", "death", "suicide", "hatred", and "shame"]

Asuka:
Please look at me, I'm begging you, mama! Just don't stop being my mother!

[Asuka's mother, Kyoko, repeatedly giggles as she holds a doll she believes is Asuka in her arms]

Kyoko Soryu:
Asuka? Come to heaven with me.

Asuka:
Mama? No, mama, please don't kill me! No, I'm not mama's doll, I'll think for myself and I'll live for myself!

[Voice-over overlaying a doll hanging from a noose]

Kyoko:
Please, Asuka, die with me.

Asuka:
If that's what you want, I'll die with you, mama. Just don't stop being my mama! Mama! Mama!

Kyoko:
Mama? Who are you?

[repeatedly, quoting previous episodes]

Asuka #1:
I'm Asuka! Asuka Langley Soryu! Charmed, huh?

Asuka #2:
What are you, stupid?

Asuka #3:
And now's my chance!

Asuka #4:
[ripping her blouse open] Look at me, dammit, look at me!

[A sound effect of glass breaking]

Asuka:
No, none of this is the real me!

Asuka:
Help me! Help me, Kaji, help me!

Kaji:
Asuka... you're still a child. [still of Shinji besides Kaji. A sound effect of a train approaching and passing plays.]

Asuka:
Why are you there, damn you?! You don't do anything! You won't help me! You won't even hold me! You're no one! No one! No one!

Young Asuka:
Why won't you look at me?

[Asuka is curled up in the fetal position]

Doll-Asuka:
Are you lonely? Are you alone?

Asuka:
No! [the Doll-Asuka disintegrates] Stay away from me! I'm going to live by my own!

Doll-Asuka:
But do you love me?

Asuka:
I won't rely on anyone!

Doll-Asuka:
But do you really love me?

Asuka:
I can live by my own!

Doll-Asuka:
But you're lying.

[Asuka screams. The screen flashes the phrases for one frame each:
"Rejection", "Father", "Lack", "Anxiety", "Separation", "Evasion", "Attachment behaviour", "Dependence", "Pity", "I am not a doll!", "Mental contamination", "Don't violate me!", "Stop!", "Die with me!, "No!, "I hate you!, "Presumptuousness", "Latency", "Don't be.", "Manifest", "Reaction formation", "Don't be.", "Opposing will", "Compensation", "Don't be" "Rationalisation", "Oblivion", "Deception", "Raison d'etre", "Infantile experience", "Sense of loss", "Compensation", "Symbiosis", "Repression", "Death", "I hate you!!"]"

[After Asuka's torture, she curls up in her Eva Unit]

Asuka:
My mind is being eaten away... Kaji-san, it's unravelling my mind! What do I do? It's defiling my mind!

[The Angel Armisael is merging with Unit 00 while Rei is synchronized with it, and telepathically makes contact with Rei's mind, appearing as an image of Rei]

Rei:
Who is this? You? Myself and an EVA. No, I sense somebody other than myself. Who are you? An Angel? Are you one of the beings we call the Angels?

Armisael:
Don't you want to become one with me?

Rei:
No. I am me. Not you.

Armisael:
Hmm, but you shall. It's too late. I will share part of my mind with you. Let me share with you these emotions. This is pain. Do you feel this pain?

Rei:
This pain? No, it's different. Loneliness. Yes. Loneliness.

Armisael:
Loneliness? I don't understand.

Rei:
You don't want to be by yourself, correct? We are many but you are alone. You hate it don't you?

Armisael:
That is what it is to be lonely? That is what your mind is. It is what fills your soul. You are that sorrow.

Kaworu Nagisa:
Songs are good. Singing brings us joy. It is the highest point in the culture that Lilims have created.

Kaworu Nagisa:
Hello, you weren't waiting here for me were you?

Shinji Ikari:
No, Uh-well, not really waiting anyway.

Kaworu Nagisa:
So what are you doing for the rest of the day?

Shinji Ikari:
Well, usually when tests are over I'll just take a shower and go home. But I really don't want to go home these days.

Kaworu Nagisa:
The fact that you have a place where you can return, home, will lead you to happiness.That is a good fact.

Shinji Ikari:
You think so?

Kaworu Nagisa:
I want to talk to you some more. May I come with you? To the shower I mean. Aren't you going to the shower?

Shinji Ikari:
Yeah.

Kaworu Nagisa:
Or do you mean no?

Shinji Ikari:
No, I don't mean no…

Kaworu Nagisa:
You are extremely afraid of any kind of initial contact aren't you? Are you that afraid of other people? I know that by keeping others at a distance you avoid a betrayal of your trust, for while you may not be hurt that way, you mustn't forget that you must endure the loneliness. Man cannot erase this sadness, because all men are fundamentally alone.

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:
Uh-no! I think you have your own room that they gave you I mean!

Kaworu Nagisa:
Okay. You know pain is something man must endure in his heart, and since the heart feels pain so easily some believe life is pain. You are delicate like glass, especially your heart.

Shinji Ikari:
I am?

Kaworu Nagisa:
Yes, and worth earning my empathy.

Shinji Ikari:
Empathy?

Kaworu Nagisa:
I'm saying I love you.

Seele:
The NERV organization was established to execute the wishes of Seele.

Seele:
It was intended to enact the scenario we had created.

Seele:
However, it appears to have become dominated by single cellued individuals.

Seele:
Yes, it has. We must take it back into our own dominion.

Seele:
It is time.

Seele:
We must restore NERV and the Eva series to their proper roles. Ikari! You will take responsibility for betraying Seele.

Gendo Ikari:
I'm afraid there's not much time left for accomplishing our goal, however. The Lance Of Longinus, which would have impeded the realization of our plan, is now gone forever. The last angel shall soon appear and with its destruction our wishes may be born. Soon, Yui; please have patience.

Rei Ayanami:
Why am I here? Why am I still alive? For what purpose? For whose purpose? The Fifth Child? Why? In what way are he and I alike?

Kaworu Nagisa:
What did you want to say to me?

Shinji Ikari:
Wha… What?

Kaworu Nagisa:
You wanted to tell me something didn't you?

Shinji Ikari:
So much has happened since I came here. Before this I lived with my teacher. It was calm and boring in those days. I wasn't really doing anything, but I was fine with that. There was really nothing I had to do.

Kaworu Nagisa:
Did you hate dealing with people?

Shinji Ikari:
More or less. But I didn't really care as much, however I really hated my father. [Says to himself] Why am I telling all this to Kaworu?

Kaworu Nagisa:
I think I may have been born just to meet you, Shinji Ikari.

Kaworu Nagisa:
Humans cannot create from nothingness. Humans cannot accomplish anything without holding on to something. Humans are not gods.

Seele:
But there is one man trying to obtain the power of god.

Seele:
There is a man, who is not one of us, who seeks to re-open Pandora's Box.

Seele:
There is a man attempting to close the box before the hope at the bottom appears.

Kaworu Nagisa:
The hope? You're saying this is the Lilim's hope?

Seele:
Hope exists in as many forms as there are people.

Seele:
For the human heart is the only place where hope exists.

Seele:
However our hope is becoming substantiated.

Seele:
That is Lilith the progenitor of mankind. The false successors from the black moon.

Seele:
And also Adam, progenitor of the angels, who are the true successors of the lost white moon .

Seele:
His salvaged soul exists only within you.

Seele:
Yet his resurrected body exists within Ikari.

Kaworu Nagisa:
Shinji's father? So he also is the same as me.

Seele:
That is so. And that is why we entrust you with our wish.

Kaworu Nagisa:
All of this I know. Is that why I am here after all?

Misato Katsuragi:
The Fifth Child -- what is he?

Ritsuko Akagi:
He is probably the last Sngel.

Seele:
Humans forget their foolishness and repeat their mistakes.

Seele:
If humans do not redeem themselves willingly, they will not change.

Seele:
We must not rely on Adam or the Angels.

Seele:
We have no choice but to make changes with our own hands. I pray that Unit 01 will accomplish its task.

Shinji Ikari:
You betrayed me! You betrayed the trust I placed in you! You betrayed me just like my father did!

Kaworu Nagisa:
The Eva series was born from Adam, born from mans antithesis. And yet the Lilim will utilize that which they hate most in order to survive. I do not understand.

Shinji Ikari:
Kaworu stop! Why is this happening!?

Kaworu Nagisa:
Your Eva's and I are composed of the same matter. Born from Adam, I can synchronize with it easily as long as there is no dominate soul. Unit 02's soul is now hiding itself. Thus Eva 02 is mine!

Shinji Ikari:
You've got your own A.T. Field?!

Kaworu Nagisa:
Yes; at least, this is what you Lilim call this thing. This is the light of my soul. A sacred territory in which no one may intrude. Aren't you Lilim even aware that your A.T. Field is merely that wall that encloses every mind that exists?

Shinji Ikari:
I don't understand what you're talking about!

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

Kaworu Nagisa:
Adam, that from which we came. Must one who was born from Adam return to Adam, even though it would destroy man? But wait… This isn't… Lilith?! I see! I understand now! The Lilim, Lilith!

Kaworu Nagisa:
I thank you friend Shinji, I wanted you to stop Unit 2 and take her from me. Otherwise, with her, I might have survived much longer.

Shinji Ikari:
Kaworu, but why?

Kaworu Nagisa:
It is my destiny to live forever, though my survival will bring destruction to the human race. However, it is possible for me to be killed, and whether I live or die makes no great difference. In truth, death may be the only absolute freedom there is.

Shinji Ikari:
What are you? Kaworu, I don't understand. What you are talking about, Kaworu?

Kaworu Nagisa:
This is my wish: please, destroy me. Otherwise, you will be destroyed. Only one life-form can be chosen to evade the destruction and seize the future! And yours is not the existence which should die. You need the future; it is what you live for! Thank you Shinji, my life was meaningful because of you.

Shinji Ikari:
Kaworu said he loved me. I've never heard such kindness before. He was like me. And he was like Ayanami. I liked him, too. Kaworu should have survived. He was much better than I am. Kaworu should have survived, not me! He deserved to live.

Misato Katsuragi:
No. The one who deserves to survive is the one who has the will to make it happen. He wished for death. He ignored his will to survive and chose to die for a false hope. Your survival is not a mistake, Shinji.

Shinji Ikari:
Misato, how can you be so cruel?

Misato:
If you take that into consideration, then perhaps this world isn't that bad.

Shinji:
Still, the reality itself might not be bad, but I could still hate myself.

Hyuga:
: But it's your mind which takes reality and separates it into what's bad and hateful.

Aoba:
It's only the mind which separates reality from truth.

Maya:
Any new position from which you view your reality will change your perception of its nature. It's all literally a matter of perspective.

Kaji:
There are as many truths as there are people.

Kensuke:
But there is only one truth that is your truth. That's the one that's formed by whatever point of view that you chose to view it from. It's a revised perception that protects you.

Toji:
That's true. And one can have a perspective that's far too small.

Hikari:
However, a person can only see things from the perspective that they chose to see them from.

Asuka:
One must learn to judge things via the perceived truths that one receives from others.

Misato:
For example, sunny days make you feel good.

Rei:
Rainy days make you feel gloomy.

Asuka:
If you are told this is so, then that is what you believe is so.

Ritsuko:
But you can have fun on a rainy day as well!

Fuyutsuki:
Your truth can be changed simply by the way you accept it. That's how fragile the truth for a human is.

Kaji:
A person's truth is so simple, that most ignore it to concentrate on what they think are deeper truths.

Gendo:
You, for example, are simply unused to what it is to be liked by others.

Misato:
You've never learned how to deal with fearing what others feel about you and so you avoid it.

Shinji:
But, don't the others hate me?

Asuka:
What are you, stupid? Haven't you realized it's all in your imagination, you megadork!

Shinji:
But, I hate myself.

Rei:
One who truly hates himself cannot love, he cannot place his trust in another.

Shinji:
I'm a coward. I'm cowardly, sneaky and weak.

Misato:
No, only if you think you are, but if you know yourself, you can take care of yourself.

Shinji:
[introspectively] I hate myself. But, maybe, maybe I could love myself. Maybe, my life can have a greater value. That's right!. I am no more or less than myself. I am me! I want to be myself! I want to continue existing in this world! My life is worth living here!

[Shinji's room cracks open and he finds himself on a small blue globe with the cast of the series]

Everyone:
[applauding] Congratulations!

Shinji:
Thank you all!

[last line of the series]

"Oh, this is- this is nice, I, uh- This is the end, okay... Where exactly am I?! Uhm... Oh, grea- here's the song, oh good. Uhmmm, there's some things that are still unresolved here, guys! How- How do I get home? Ah- whaddo I eat?? Was... Rei my- my mom, or... a clone, or... hell- was this all in my mind? What- What's an EVA? Is that- sort of a Freudian... thing, er... um... am I real? Oh, hell- does the bus run through here? I mean, I'd like to go home now, but, uhm... oh, God, where's home? Okay, okay, okay. I mustn't run away, I mustn't... Okay I got that, good, okay. Now, if I were to run away, let's analyze that—where the fuck would I go?! I'm on a big blue ball!! Ahh, is this how you end a series? I mean, is this- where we go from here? Okay, the movie better sure as hell make up for this, I'm tellin' ya right now, cuz I'm stuck in nowhere-land... You ran out of Ink too, didn't you, you bastards?"

Shinji Ikari:
I hate myself... But maybe I can learn to love myself!

American Seele member:
So the angels have returned. It’s rather sudden.

French Seele member:
It’s the same as it was 15 years ago. That’s the way of disasters; they come without warning.

British Seele member:
On the positive side, our previous investments would appear to be not such a waste after all.

Russian Seele member:
You can't be sure about that yet. If it doesn't pay off, it's still a waste.

French Seele member:
Correct. Now that news of the angels has become common knowledge, NERV must take steps to control the manner in which this information is received by the general public.

Gendo Ikari:
You may rest assured that it's already taken care of. Don't worry.

Shinji Ikari:
I’m the one who deserved to be hit! Not you! I’m a coward! I’m dishonest! I’m sneaky! And a wimp!

Russian Seele member:
An A17? You want to make an offensive attack!?

Gendo Ikari:
That is correct.

American Seele member:
No! It's too dangerous. Have you forgotten what happened fifteen years ago.

Gendo Ikari:
No, but consider this: This is our chance to move from a state of perpetual defense to an offensive posture

Keel Lorenz:
The risks would be enormous.

Gendo Ikari:
However, I am sure that you must aware of how important it is to obtain a living angel as a sample, am I correct?

Keel Lorenz:
We will not tolerate failure! [he disappears with the other Seele members]

Kōzō Fuyutsuki:
Failure. If we fail it will result in the extinction of the entire human race. ...Are we really going to do it commander?

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

Shinji:
[after masturbating over Asuka's comatose body] I'm so fucked up.

Russian SEELE member:
The fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth.

[Asuka's Eva is sitting in wait at the bottom of the lake. Asuka is still near-catatonic from her experiences in "Don't be."]

Asuka:
[repeatedly] I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die... [Asuka's mantra becomes louder until she finally screams it over an image of her rotting corpse]

Ritsuko:
I've been waiting for you. I'm sorry, but when I installed the firewall, I changed the MAGI's programming without telling you. A loving daughter's final request; mother, let's end it together. [presses a button, expecting an explosion.] It's not working?! Why?! CASPER betrayed me?! Mother, how could you chose your lover over me?!

Gendo:
Ritsuko Akagi, the truth is... [his answer is muted]

Ritsuko:
Liar.

[Gendo shoots her]

Gendo's line in this scene is highly debated. Anno wanted the line muted at first with an explosion, but he still wanted the line cut. When the scene was being recorded, Anno gave Ritsuko's voice actress Yuriko Yamaguchi a hint as to what Gendo was telling her. To this day, only Anno and Yamaguchi know the hint. The line is probably "I needed you", as when the Rei clones take away Hyuga, Ibuki, Fuyutsuki and Aoba, they appear as the person the victim trusted the most, and then kill the victim in a similar manner to the apparition's death. When Ritsuko takes away Ibuki (who was in love with her), Ibuki's computer reads "I NEED YOU". However, the line must be in the past tense, as Gendo cannot need Ritsuko if he is shooting her. Ritsuko calls him a liar because Gendo handed her over to SEELE previously in the series; when Ritsuko seems stunned and then becomes more composed, she is remembering Gendo's betrayal.

Shinji:
Nobody understands me.

Rei:
You never understood anything.

Shinji:
I thought this was supposed to be a world without pain, and without uncertainty.

Rei:
That's because you thought that everyone else felt the same as you do.

Shinji:
You betrayed me! You betrayed my feelings!

Rei:
You misunderstood from the very beginning. You just believed what you wanted to believe.

Shinji:
Nobody wants me, so they can all just die.

Rei:
Then what is your hand for?

Shinji:
Nobody cares whether or not I exist. Nothing ever changes, so they can all just die.

Rei:
Then tell me, what is your heart for?

Shinji:
It would be better if I never existed. I should just die, too.

Rei:
Then why are you here?

[Flashback image of Shinji as a child, abandoned and crying]

Shinji:
I-is it okay for me to be here?

[White text on black:
"Silence". Shinji screams]

Gendo:
I've waited so long for this moment to arrive. I will finally be with you again, Yui. When Shinji is near me, all I ever do is cause him pain. I thought it was better when I did nothing at all.

Yui:
Were you afraid of Shinji?

Gendo:
I didn't believe that anyone could love me. I never deserved to be loved.

Kaworu:
So, you were running away. And you rejected the others around you, so there was no chance that you would ever be hurt.

Yui:
And you were terrified by the invisible bonds that people form.

Rei:
You were afraid and so you closed off your heart.

[Gendo is being held by Eva Unit-1]

Gendo:
And so, this is my retribution. Forgive me, Shinji.

[Unit-1 bites Gendo in half]

Shinji:
Hey.

Rei:
What is it?

Shinji:
What are dreams?

Asuka:
Dreams?

Rei:
Yes, dreams.

[A shot of people in a movie theatre. After a few seconds, a white text, reading "Does it feel good?", appears. Afterwards, a shot of the three voice actresses for Rei, Asuka, and Misato (from left to right, respectively:
Megumi Hayashibara, Yuko Miyamura, and Kotono Mitsuishi) is shown]

Shinji:
I don't understand. I don't understand what reality is.

Rei:
You can't bridge the gap between your own truth and the reality of others.

Shinji:
I don't know where to find happiness.

Rei:
So you only find happiness in your dreams.

Shinji:
Then... this is not reality? This world where no one exists?

Rei:
No. It is only a dream.

Shinji:
Then I don't exist here either.

Rei:
This convenient fabrication is your attempt to change reality.

Shinji:
Is that wrong?

Rei:
You were using fantasy to escape reality.

Shinji:
Why can't I dream that I'm alone?

Rei:
That is not a dream. That is a substitute for reality.

[Another shot of the theatre. A few seconds later, the scene dissolves into a shot of the same theatre, now empty]

Shinji:
So where is my dream?

Rei:
It is a continuation of reality.

Shinji:
But where is my reality?

Rei:
It is at the end of your dream.

Yui Ikari:
Anywhere can be paradise as long as you have the will to live. After all, you are alive, so you will always have the chance to be happy. As long as the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth exist, everything will be all right.

Kouzou Fuyutsuki:
When Man created Evangelion, were we trying to create a clone of God?

Yui Ikari:
Of course. Humans can only exist on this Earth. But the Evangelion will be able to exist forever, along with the human soul that dwells within it. When the Earth, the Moon and the Sun are all gone, EVA will exist, so long as one person remains. It'll be lonely, but as long as one person still lives...

Kouzou Fuyutsuki:
...it will be eternal proof that Mankind ever existed.

Shinji:
Goodbye, Mother...

Asuka:
気持ち 悪い. ("Kimochi warui"; English dub: "How disgusting".)

Last line of the movie. Could be translated as "I don't feel well," "I feel sick," "This sucks," "what a disgusting feeling," "I feel bad," etc. This line could have several different implications depending on context, so the proper translation is debated; no interpretation has been offered by Gainax. Even the identity of the speaker is often disputed, with many fans claiming she is an amalgam of Asuka, Rei and Misato, rather than simply Asuka. One of the last lines that were originally suggested was — in Japanese — "No way I'll let you kill me!", but Anno wanted to find a better one. "Kimochi warui" was eventually chosen by Asuka's seiyuu Yuko Miyamura after Anno asked her what she would say if she found out a stranger had masturbated to her sleeping body. The official English version renders the line as "How disgusting".

General:
God's in his heaven, all's right with the world. NERV motto; Pippa Passes by Robert Browning, (1841)

General:
NERV motto; Pippa Passes by Robert Browning, (1841)