The Hunger Games: Catching Fire


 * first lines; we see Katniss sitting by the lake watching the sun rise over the woods, suddenly she hears a sound behind her, she turns and draws her arrow]
 * Gale Hawthorne: Woh! Woh! Easy!
 * [Katniss lowers her bow]
 * Gale Hawthorne: I saw some turkeys on the way here. Crossed right in front of me like I wasn’t even there.
 * Katniss Everdeen: How rude of them.
 * Gale Hawthorne: That’s what happens when you spend six days a week working in the mines and the stupid birds start to think they own these woods.
 * [there’s a pause as they look at each other for a moment]
 * Gale Hawthorne: When does the tour leave?
 * Katniss Everdeen: Couple of hours.
 * Gale Hawthorne: Well, let’s go.
 * [Gale turns and starts walking off and Katniss follows him]
 * [as they walk in the woods, Katniss and Gale come across the turkeys Gale had seen earlier, Katniss draws an arrow and fires, but when it strikes her target, she sees Marvel, the tribute she killed a year earlier after he killed her friend Rue, Katniss starts to freak out]
 * Gale Hawthorne: You’re okay. You’re okay.
 * [Katniss screams then looks over to the where she’d hit Marvel but just sees the turkeys running off]
 * Gale Hawthorne: You’re okay. You’re safe. You’re safe. It’s okay you’re here with me. You’re with me.
 * [Katniss begins to calm down]
 * Gale Hawthorne: Okay. Okay.
 * Katniss Everdeen: I’m sorry. We…we should…we should go.
 * [they put their bows and arrows away and leave the woods and walk back to District 12]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Are you coming to the train station?
 * Gale Hawthorne: I think you have enough people saying goodbye without me there.
 * Katniss Everdeen: Only a few I actually care about.
 * Gale Hawthorne: It might be easier if I didn’t.
 * Katniss Everdeen: It’s only a few weeks. I’ll be back before the snow melts.
 * Gale Hawthorne: Yeah? Well, a lot can happen in a few weeks.
 * Katniss Everdeen: Are we gonna do this again? Gale, it was an act.
 * Gale Hawthorne: Yeah, it’s a good one.
 * Katniss Everdeen: I did what I had to do to survive. If I didn’t I’d be dead.
 * [Gale kisses her]
 * Gale Hawthorne: I had to do that. At least once.
 * [he turns and walks off]
 * [Katniss walks back to Victors Village and goes over to Haymitch’s house, she bangs on his door]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Haymitch!
 * [there’s no answer, Katniss opens the front door and enters the house]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Haymitch.
 * [she walks through the hallway and finds Haymitch passed out drunk at his dinner table]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Haymitch. Wake up, it’s tour day.
 * [she nudges him to wake him]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Haymitch.
 * [she nudges him again but he doesn’t wake, she takes the pitcher of water next to him and throws the water on him which immediately wakes him up yelling]
 * Haymitch Abernathy: Aaah! What are you doing?!
 * Katniss Everdeen: Cameras are gonna be here in an hour.
 * [he starts to walk past her but she stops him]
 * Katniss Everdeen: If you wanted to be babied you should’ve asked Peeta.
 * [she pushes him back and falls into the chair]
 * Peeta Mellark: Ask me what?
 * [Peeta walks in with some bread]
 * Haymitch Abernathy: Ask you to wake me without giving me pneumonia.
 * [to Katniss]
 * Haymitch Abernathy: You are strangely a dislikeable person.
 * [Katniss places two small bottles of alcohol on the table in front of him]
 * Haymitch Abernathy: But you do have your virtues.
 * Peeta Mellark: Would you like some bread, Katniss?
 * Katniss Everdeen: No I ate at the hall, but thank you.
 * Peeta Mellark: You’re welcome.
 * [Haymitch looks at the cold exchange between the two]
 * Haymitch Abernathy: Brrrr. You two have a lot of warning up to do before show time.
 * Katniss Everdeen: Which is in an hour, so. Take a bath, Haymitch.
 * [she turns and walks out of the room]
 * Haymitch Abernathy: I just did.
 * [Katniss returns to her home in Victors Village and enters the house]
 * Katniss’ Mother: Did you have a good walk, dear?
 * Katniss Everdeen: Walk? I was just out…
 * Primrose Everdeen: We have visitors.
 * [two Presidential Guards step in front of Katniss’ mother and Primrose]
 * Presidential Guard: Miss Everdeen, this way please.
 * [they escort her to the study where President Snow is waiting, he has a projector that’s showing footage of the previous Hunger Games which ended with Katniss and Peeta nearly committing a double suicide by eating the poison nightshade berries]
 * Katniss Everdeen: President Snow. What an honor.
 * President Snow: My dear, I think we can make this so much simpler. If we agree not to lie to each other, what do you think?
 * Katniss Everdeen: Yes, I think that would save time.
 * President Snow: Sit down, please.
 * [they both sit down opposite each other, with the study desk separating them]
 * President Snow: I have a problem, Miss Everdeen. A problem that began the moment you revealed those poison berries in the arena. If our head gamemaker Seneca Crane had any brains at all, he would have blown you to bits then and there. But here you are, I expect you can guess where he is.
 * Katniss Everdeen: Yes, I think so.
 * President Snow: After that fiasco there was nothing left to do but to let you play out your little scenario. And you were very good. That whole down crazed besotted school girl routine. Impressive. Truly. You convinced the people in the Capitol. Unfortunately not everyone in the districts fell for it. I mean, you can’t know this, but in several of them. People viewed your little trick with the berries as an act of defiance, not as an act of love. And if a girl from District 12 of all places can defy the Capitol and walk away unharmed, what is to prevent them from doing the same? What is to prevent say an uprising? That can lead to revolution. And then in a fraction of time the whole system collapses.
 * Katniss Everdeen: It must be a fragile system if it can be brought down by just a few berries.
 * President Snow: Yes, it is indeed. But not in the way you imagine it.
 * Katniss Everdeen: How should I imagine?
 * President Snow: You should imagine thousands upon thousands of your people dead. This town of yours reduced to ashes. Imagine it gone. A radioactive buried under dirt as if it had never existed like District 13. But they were games. Would you like to be in a real war?
 * Katniss Everdeen: No.
 * President Snow: Good. And neither would I.
 * [picking up a small cookie]
 * President Snow: Did your mother make these?
 * Katniss Everdeen: Peeta.
 * President Snow: Ah, he’s a lovely boy. Tell me, at what point did you realize the depth of your indifference towards him?
 * Katniss Everdeen: I’m not indifferent.
 * President Snow: Don’t lie! You promised.
 * [Snow takes a bite from the cookie]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Why don’t you just kill me now?
 * President Snow: I don’t want to kill you. I want us to be friends. But if not friends then allies.
 * Katniss Everdeen: What do I need to do?
 * President Snow: When you and Peeta go on tour, you need to smile, you need to be grateful. But above all you need to be madly prepared to end it all in love, you think you can manage that?
 * Katniss Everdeen: Yes.
 * President Snow: Yes, what?
 * Katniss Everdeen: I’ll convince them.
 * President Snow: No. Convince me.
 * [he smiles and takes out a white rose from his pocket]
 * President Snow: For you, Miss Everdeen.
 * [he places the rose on the table in front of her and then rises]
 * President Snow: You convince me, for the sake of your loved ones.
 * [Katniss turns and sees that the projector is showing her and Gale kissing earlier on that day, as she watches Snow walks over to the door and leaves]
 * [Effie Trinket arrives to the Victors Village with her assistants Flavius and Octavia walking behind her]
 * Effie Trinket: Stop. Take it all in. This…is sacred ground. History was made here.
 * [the wind blows and Effie’s face grimaces]
 * Effie Trinket: You’ll get used to the smell.
 * [Effie arrives at Katniss’ home and is let in by Katniss’ mother]
 * Effie Trinket: Hello. Oh, there she is, my greatest triumph.
 * [she goes over and embraces Katniss]
 * Flavius: Superstar. Sweetie, we’ve missed you.
 * [Octavia and Flavius kiss Katniss on the cheeks]
 * Effie Trinket: Oh, what a cute little house! It’s so quaint, isn’t it? Of course you’ve heard about Cinna.
 * Katniss Everdeen: What happened to Cinna?
 * Effie Trinket: Oh, dear. He’s a fashion star. You’re his muse. Everyone in the capitol is wearing him. Everyone. Everyone!
 * Cinna: Well, not everyone.
 * [Effie turns and sees Cinna standing by the doorway, Katniss goes over and hugs him]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Cinna.
 * Primrose Everdeen: Katniss?
 * Effie Trinket: Katniss, is this your sister?
 * [Katniss nods her head]
 * Effie Trinket: Oh, sweetie!
 * [Effie goes over to hug Primrose]
 * Cinna: Are you okay?
 * Katniss Everdeen: Yeah.
 * Cinna: Ready to work?
 * Katniss Everdeen: Yeah.
 * Cinna: Alright, good.
 * [Caesar Flickerman appears on stage as his show begins]
 * Caesar Flickerman: Welcome. Welcome. Last year in the 74th Hunger Games, promised the greatest love story of our time. Two brave young people against all odds chose to die rather than to lose each other. As a nation we shared their agony. But we had so little time to revel in their joy…
 * [back at Katniss’ home, Effie and Cinna are finishing preparing Katniss to be presented on Flickerman’s show]
 * Effie Trinket: Oh, it’s time!
 * [to Octavia and Cinna as they finish doing Katniss’ makeup and costume]
 * Effie Trinket: She’s done, she’s lovely. We must feed the monster. Alright now.
 * [Effie takes Katniss over to the front door]
 * Effie Trinket: You’re excited, you’re in love. Big smiles for the camera in three…two…one.
 * [Effie opens the front door and Katniss steps outside]
 * Caesar Flickerman: There she is, Katniss Everdeen, the girl on fire.
 * [Katniss notices the camera set up outside her house and smiles]
 * Caesar Flickerman: And there he is…Peeta Mellark, the baker’s boy.
 * [Peeta steps out of his front door, Katniss and Peeta start walking towards each other, when they reach each other as they go to embrace each other they slip on the ice and fall to the ground, with Katniss on top of Peeta]
 * Caesar Flickerman: Uh-oh, trouble in paradise.
 * [Flickerman laughs]
 * Caesar Flickerman: I hope they’re alright.
 * [Katniss looks at Peeta for a moment and then kisses him]
 * Caesar Flickerman: Um…uh-hum. Anyone at home? Should we come back later?
 * [Katniss stops kissing Peeta, they both look into the camera smiling]
 * Katniss Everdeen: Sorry, Caesar.
 * Caesar Flickerman: No, please. It’s alright. It’s your day. How’s it going?
 * [Peeta and Katniss smile into the camera]
 * Peeta Mellark: We’re good.
 * Caesar Flickerman: That’s it? That’s all we have? “We’re good.” So tactful all of a sudden. Peeta, give me some details.
 * Peeta Mellark: Things are uh…things are great here in 12.
 * Katniss Everdeen: Thanks to the generosity of the Capitol we’ve never been closer.
 * Peeta Mellark: Twenty-five yards, to be exact.
 * [Flickerman laughs]
 * Caesar Flickerman: Fantastic! We’ll be checking on both of you throughout the victory tour. Thank you so much Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark.
 * [the audience on Flickerman’s show cheers as Katniss and Peeta give a farewell wave to the camera and they stop filming them]
 * Effie Trinket: Wonderful! Everybody in motion we are out of here in ten!
 * [Peeta turns to Katniss]
 * Peeta Mellark: That was nice acting.
 * Katniss Everdeen: You too.
 * Peeta Mellark: Almost thought that kiss was real.
 * [he looks at her for a moment before walking off towards his house]
 * Effie Trinket: Come along children, we are on a schedule. The train awaits!