INT. LARA’S ROOM - NIGHT FADE IN Lara stands at the window, looking at the almost full moon. A BEEP tells that she has an incoming call. We see the laptop screen light up. Lara answers via her headset without turning away from the window. LARA Hello? MR.X’S VOICE Ms. Croft. I hear you are still looking for your mother. Lara turns halfway as if becoming interested. We see her face. LARA Who’s this? MR. X’S VOICE My name is not important. I suppose you have heard about the mythical city of Shiraz in ancient Persia. In the heart of the city palace, there is the Dead Well of Time. As Mr. X speaks, Lara turns and walks towards her laptop. MR. X’S VOICE The Dead Well of Time was used by the high priests of Shiraz for time travelling. However, about 2000 years ago, the Well stopped operating due to sudden disappearance of the high priest, Monshta. Although the city was abandoned ages ago, the Well is supposed to be still operational. We see a flash of the abandoned city as Mr. X mentions it. LARA Why are you telling me all this? MR. X’S VOICE You are the only one who is capable to reach the Well and reactivate it and see your mother again. If you succeed, I will follow your path. I lost my beloved wife in an accident, so I have my own reasons to return to the past. FADE TO BLACK INT. THRONE ROOM – NIGHT FADE IN Subtitle: 7 hours and 37 minutes later Lara walks carefully, looking left and right, into the Throne Room. Everything looks ruined and abandoned, the moon is the only source of light. The wind blows through. Bones of large animals and humans are scattered around the place. SNAKE POV We are looking at Lara as a heat image and approaching her from behind. At the last moment Lara turns around... EXTERNAL VIEW ... and fires her guns. Then she turns further rapidly and kills another snake. Everything goes quiet. She walks over towards the large door of the Well Room. There is a switch near the door. She hits the switch, and the door rolls up loudly. She walks through... CUT TO: INT. WELL ROOM - NIGHT In the middle of the Well Room, there is the Well, with an altar attached to it. Lara walks around the room, keeping her eye on the well. We see the Well from LARA’S POV. She finally returns to the altar and examines it. She climbs onto it. MR. X’S VOICE Nice work, Lara. Lara spins around and sees Mr. X pointing a gun towards her. MR. X Unfortunately, I forgot to tell you a few details. The legend says that a warrior man must be sacrificed at full moon to travel backward in time, and a warrior girl must be sacrificed to travel forward in time. You will make a perfect sacrifice. As Mr. X speaks, we see the story of the Dead Well of Time in still images showing Monshta raising his dagger to sacrifice a woman at full moon. We see the scene from the front then from the top, then from the side with a full moon in the background. Lara’s hand slowly moves towards her gun. MR. X I wouldn’t do that. By now, you probably have guessed that I have no intention to travel back in time. But with you as a sacrifice, I have a chance to see the future! He shoots the gun but Lara does a backward dive and disappears in the Well. Invisible to Mr. X at least... who runs to the Well and jumps onto the altar. We see Lara from behind, hanging at the edge of the Well. She jumps quickly up onto the altar and fires her guns without hesitation. Mr. X collapses on the altar, with the full moon in the background. And the Well is activated... FADE TO BLACK EXT. AND INT. SHIRAZ PALACE - DAY FADE IN Subtitle: 2036 years, 3 months and 27 days earlier The Prince wanders in the desert and arrives in Shiraz. He walks into the city, then among the merchants. He sees Sheela standing in a palace window and she also sees him. Sheela then disappears. THE PRINCE Such a beauty! I have to see her again. The Prince climbs onto the palace wall to find Sheela. He runs up the wall, gets hold, runs along the wall, swings on a pole, then finally runs up the wall. He waits for the guards to go, then runs on top of the wall to enter the palace. He searches for Sheela, keeping silent and invisible as the guards pass by. Finally, he finds a locked grid door. He strikes it with his swords, opens it and enters Sheela’s room. CUT TO: INT. SHEELA’S ROOM – DAY The Prince enters the room of Sheela as she prays her last pray on her knees. THE PRINCE Who are you, pretty one? Sheela rises and turns to the Prince. SHEELA My name is Sheela. THE PRINCE And why are you locked up in this cell? SHEELA Oh, stranger, this is a long story. It begins 23 years ago when I first opened my eyes to the world... FADE TO BLACK INT. SHEELA’S ROOM – NIGHT Subtitle: 4 hours and 52 minutes later SHEELA ... and so here I am, my life coming to an end. Nobody knows anything about the dark magic that Monshta performs except that young warriors must be sacrificed. But I have spoken enough about myself. It’s time that you also introduced yourself. THE PRINCE Boy, I thought you’ll never stop talking. They call me the Prince of Persia. And I usually have a romance with beautiful young warriors like yourself. But to get that far, I will have to save you first. The viewpoint slowly changes as Monshta and his helpers walk in. We see the Prince from behind Sheela with Monshta behind him. THE PRINCE They’re here, right? Without waiting for an answer, he turns and draws his swords. But Monshta simply raises his magic wand, draws a square of light in the air, then, with a movement of his wand, he throws the square to the ground to where the Prince stands. The floor disappears from beneath and the Prince falls through. He drops the Dagger of Time. Monshta picks it up, and examines it. CUT TO: INT. WELL ROOM – NIGHT CUT IN Subtitle: 12 minutes earlier We see the scene from underwater POV as Lara swims towards the surface. As she climbs off the Well, the water begins to disappear from the Well. Lara realizes that the palace is not ruined, there are fires burning on the walls. She walks out of the Well Room carefully. CUT TO: INT. THRONE ROOM – NIGHT The Throne Room is dark, there is hardly anything to see. Lara walks out of the Throne Room without realizing multiple pairs of evil eyes glowing behind her in the dark. CUT TO: INT. PALACE CORRIDORS – NIGHT Lara, like the Prince before, searches the palace silently and invisible. She reaches Sheela’s room, but only listens to the events from a hidden corner. Then we see Monshta and his helpers take Sheela away. Lara follows them from a safe distance. CUT TO: INT. PALACE CATACOMBS – NIGHT The Prince lands in a prison cell. He looks up and sees that the cell door is opened by a switch high up on the wall. But he only escapes to find that the prison is protected by the skeletons of dead warriors. He fights them. “I am the Prince of Persia and the King of Blades!” During his escape, he must avoid deadly traps, moving sawblades, must run on walls, slide down cutting curtains :-). He slowly reaches the foyer of the Throne Room. He finds a lot of dead animals along the way. THE PRINCE Whoever badass did this, surely was not member of the Persian Humane Association. In fact, some animals were hurt here really badly. Nice work! CUT TO: INT. THRONE ROOM – NIGHT Lara shoots the skeletons as fast as she can. They fall over, but get up again and keep coming. It is obvious that she can not hold them any longer. The Prince appears behind her. THE PRINCE These magic weapons of yours are soo loud that you cannot hear any enemy coming from behind. Lara is too busy shooting to turn around. LARA Wanna help me? THE PRINCE Step back, princess of thunder. Without hesitation, he runs and jumps over Lara’s head to cut down the closest skeleton. He lets his double swords play, and kills them all one by one. Then he turns, and nods. THE PRINCE I am the Prince of Persia. I would be glad to join you for a further hunt on mythical creatures, but I am on my way to rescue my love who is to be sacrificed. LARA My name is Lara. I come from... aammm... far away. I suppose your love would be Sheela. THE PRINCE (SURPRISED) You know her? LARA I also thought it would be fun to save her, but these zombies held me back. I don’t think we have much time left. The sacrifice altar is in the next room. And the full moon is near... THE PRINCE Let’s go get the job done, then. (Almost singing) My love, I’m coming! LARA (SHAKING HER HEAD) Now isn’t that theatrical... FADE TO BLACK INT. WELL ROOM – NIGHT FADE IN Lara and the Prince enter the Well Room, to find Monshta and Sheela. Monshta wants to use the Dagger of Time to sacrifice Sheela to make the magic more powerful. Lara draws her guns and the Prince draws his swords. MONSHTA This prince kid just doesn’t know when to stop. And now he has another girl with him. (LOUD) If you go now, I will only kill her, but not you two. Lara and the Prince look at each other. Then back to Monshta. THE PRINCE Now I will take my dagger back. With or without your arm. LARA He means it. MONSHTA I like this dagger. It feels loaded with magic. Let’s see what happens if... Monshta scratches his own arm with the Dagger of Time to get its power and changes into Humungousaur, a giant and powerful creature with hammerfists... but he drops the dagger. Lara gets the Dagger by doing a roll and throws it over to the Prince. LARA Catch! Humungousaur hammers Lara down... The prince raises the Dagger and uses it to rewind time to before the hit. THE PRINCE Roll! Lara immediately throws herself to the ground and so manages to escape the hammerfists. She runs out of reach, and then shouts over to the Prince. LARA How did you know what will happen? THE PRINCE Eeemmm... it’s kinda complicated. Lara starts shooting. Humungousaur protects himself against Lara's bullets with his fists, but the Prince gets behind him using wall run, jumps onto his back, and stabs him. Monshta is down but not quite dead yet. FADE TO BLACK INT. WELL ROOM – NIGHT FADE IN The full moon is close now. Sheela is already freed from the altar. SHEELA Thank you both for saving me. Especially to you, princess of thunder. Where do you come from? LARA Eeemm... I come from the future. THE PRINCE Yeah, as much as I am a sand monster. LARA Later yeah, but first you must find the warrior within. (TO SHEELA) If you kill a warrior man on the altar, the Well is activated and sends you back in time. I wanted this way to meet my mother again... but I probably missed by 2000 years. SHEELA So how can you go back? LARA It takes a female sacrifice to travel forward in time. SHEELA I have an idea. THE PRINCE No way. SHEELA Sacrifice me to let her travel back to her time. And then kill him (SHE POINTS TO MONSHTA) to travel back in time and save me. LARA I like the idea. THE PRINCE I don’t. SHEELA That makes it two against one. So let’s do it! Sheela walks to the Prince and they embrace in front of the full moon. Then all of a sudden Sheela takes the Dagger of Time from the Prince and jumps onto the altar to sacrifice herself. The Well is activated. SHEELA Now! Lara jumps into the Well and disappears. The Prince slowly and sadly takes Sheela’s body and carries her carefully to the sidewall. Then he forces Humungusaur onto the altar and strikes him to death. CUT TO: INT. THRONE ROOM – DAY Subtitle: 2036 years, 3 months and 28 days later Lara arrives back in her age. She walks out through the abandoned rooms. She examines the throne, she finds a heart carved into it, with the name of Sheela and the Prince. She smiles. THE END