The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Katniss Everdeen: There you go. Oh, you’re breaking my heart.
 * [first lines; Katniss is huddled in a corner muttering to herself]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Start simple. Start with what you know is the truth. My name is Katniss Everdeen. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. Peeta…Peeta was left behind.
 * [Katniss is interrupted as she’s been found hiding]
 * District 13 Citizen: Miss Everdeen? You can’t be here. I had a nightmare, just five more minutes.
 * District 13 Citizen: You need to sleep. We can help you sleep.
 * Katniss Everdeen: Just five more minutes.
 * they come to get her
 * Katniss Everdeen: No. No, please, don’t. It’s just five more…
 * [Katniss is grabbed by her arms]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Don’t touch me! Don’t! No! No! Get off of me!
 * [Katniss is taken back to her hospital room where she’s lying in bed, she hears someone sobbing, she leaves her room to investigate and finds it’s Finnick crying]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Finnick.
 * Finnick Odair: I wanted to go back for Peeta and Johanna, but I, uh…I couldn’t move.
 * [he looks a Katniss]
 * Finnick Odair: They have Annie, too. They took her. She’s, uh…she’s in the Capitol. I wish she was dead. I wish they were all dead and we were too.
 * [tears start rolling down Katniss’ face]
 * [Prim is brushing Katniss’ hair when Colonel Boggs enters the room]
 * Boggs: Miss Everdeen, Colonel Boggs, District 13’s head of security. I know you’ve been discharged, but President Coin’s requested to meet with you first.
 * Katniss Everdeen: Is there any news?
 * Boggs: I’m just here to escort you.
 * [as Boggs escorts Katniss they step into the elevator and make their way down]
 * Katniss Everdeen: We were always told there was nothing left of 13.
 * Boggs: Capitol bombed the surface to rubble. But we’re military, so we learned to survive down here. Preparing and training. The war never stopped for us.
 * [he escorts Katniss to a room where she finds Beetee, Plutarch Heavensbee and District 13’s President Alma Coin]
 * Plutarch Heavensbee: There she is, our Girl on Fire. Madam President, may I present you with The Mockingjay.
 * President Alma Coin: What an honor it is to meet you.
 * [Coin shakes Katniss’ hand]
 * President Alma Coin: You’re a courageous young woman. I know how disorienting this must be. And I can’t imagine what it’s like to live through the atrocities of those Games.
 * Katniss Everdeen: Katniss, President Alma Coin.
 * President Alma Coin: Please know how welcome you are. I hope you’ll find some comfort with us. We’ve known loss in 13, too.
 * Beetee: This is history. Right here at this table.
 * President Alma Coin: I apologize. I wish you had more time to recover, but unfortunately, we don’t have that luxury. Please, have a seat.
 * [Katniss takes the seat next to Coin at the conference table]
 * President Alma Coin: Are you aware of what’s happened? When you fired your arrow at the force field you electrified the nation. There have been riots and uprisings and strikes in seven districts. We believe that if we keep this energy going we can unify the districts against the Capitol. But if we don’t, if we let it dissipate, we could be waiting another seventy-five years for this opportunity. Everyone in 13 is ready for this.
 * Katniss Everdeen: What about Peeta? Is he alive?
 * Plutarch Heavensbee: I don’t know. And I wish that I did. But there’s no way for me to contact my operatives inside the Capitol.
 * Beetee: The Capitol has always suppressed communication between the districts. But I know their system very well. I managed to break through. All we need now is the perfect message.
 * Plutarch Heavensbee: Katniss, here’s what we need to do. We need to show them that The Mockingjay’s alive and well and willing to stand up and join this fight. Cause we need every district to stand up to this Capitol. The way you did. So we’re gonna shoot a series of propaganda clips, propos, I like to call them, on The Mockingjay. Spreads the word that we’re gonna stoke the fire of this rebellion. The fire that The Mockingjay started.
 * Katniss Everdeen: You left him there. You left Peeta in that arena to die.
 * Plutarch Heavensbee: Katniss, there are so many…
 * Katniss Everdeen: Peeta was the one who was supposed to live!
 * President Alma Coin: Miss Everdeen, this revolution is about everyone. It’s about all of us. And we need a voice.
 * Katniss Everdeen: Then you should’ve saved Peeta.
 * [Katniss gets up and walks out of the room escorted by Boggs]
 * President Alma Coin: Maybe you should have rescued the boy instead.
 * Plutarch Heavensbee: Oh, no. No, no, listen to me. No one else can do this but her.
 * President Alma Coin: This is not the girl you described.
 * Plutarch Heavensbee: Well obviously, we need to make it personal. Remind her who the real enemy is.
 * President Alma Coin: She knows who the enemy is, that’s not the issue.
 * Plutarch Heavensbee: Unless she’s forgotten. There’s explaining and there’s showing. Let her see what the Capitol did to 12.
 * President Alma Coin: She can’t handle it. The Games destroyed her.
 * Plutarch Heavensbee: This is the only choice you have. People don’t always show up the way you want them to, Madam President. But that anger, that anger-driven defiance, that’s what we want. And we can redirect it. We need to unite these people out there that have been doing nothing but killing each other in an arena for years. We have to have a lightning rod. They’ll follow her. She’s the face of the revolution. Let her see it. Let her go home.
 * President Alma Coin: Send her.
 * [as Boggs takes Katniss to the aircraft that is to take her to District 12 Katniss sees Gale standing by the aircraft, she runs over to him and embraces him]
 * Gale Hawthorne: I can’t believe you’re going through with this. You can say no.
 * Katniss Everdeen: I need to see it for myself.
 * Boggs: This way.
 * [Katniss and Gale enter the aircraft and it takes off; they land in District 12]
 * Gale Hawthorne: 13 swept everything, top to bottom so you’d be safe. You sure you don’t want me to go with you?
 * Katniss Everdeen: Yeah. I’m sure.
 * Gale Hawthorne: We’ll have our eyes on you from above.
 * [Katniss steps off the aircraft and looks around to find District 12 is mostly ruins and rubble, she walks around and breaks down when she finds bones and human remains; she then goes to her house, grabs her jacket and as she starts to collect some herb bottles Prim’s cat, Buttercup, gives her a scare]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Figures.
 * [she goes to grab Buttercup]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Hey! Come on. Don’t you wanna see Prim?
 * [she puts Buttercup in her bag as he whimpers]mockingjay-4
 * [she goes to the office room, picks up the photo of her dad and puts in her bag when Buttercup whimpers again]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Shh.
 * [Katniss then notices a vase with wilted white roses, except for one that’s still blooming and realizes it must have been placed there by the Capitol]