[unearthly, distressing music playing]
[energy crackling]
[wind rushing]
[groaning weakly]
[gagging, coughing]
[raspy breathing]
[breathing evens out]
As meeting places go, this spot suits you.
You may try to hide it,
but you've got as much of a flair for the dramatic as I do.
See?
[horned demon] You have it? All of it.
Your information was right.
Dante is the son of Sparda.
His necklace fit very nicely with the one you gave me.
I held up my end.
All I need now is the final piece.
As promised.
[tense music crescendoing]
[music halts]
[energy surging, whooshing]
[smugly] Uh-huh…
Well, I'd say that's good enough.
The blood of Sparda's other son.
You never know what will turn up in this realm.
It takes both brothers to destroy the barrier.
Oh, don't worry. I'm already working on completing the set.
[energy thrumming]
This sword…
Far too great a power for one like you to wield.
Maybe so.
But seeing as I'm about to use that power to undo the historic crime of its maker
and free every Makaian from our bondage,
how about I hold onto it for a while?
[energy resonating]
I know who you are.
[restrained growl]
There's only one way you could have gotten the amulet piece and this blood.
[dark, overwhelming synth music playing]
[White Rabbit cackling]
[growls]
Prepare yourselves!
Dante's coming.
[music trails off]
["Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" by Limp Bizkit playing]
♪ Your… your… your hands up ♪
♪ Throw your hands up Throw your hands up ♪
♪ Move in, now move out Hands up, now hands down ♪
♪ Back up, back up Tell me what you're gonna do now ♪
♪ Breathe in, now breathe out Hands up, now hands down ♪
♪ Back up, back up Tell me what you're gonna do now ♪
♪ Keep rollin', rollin' Rollin', rollin' ♪
♪ Hey, ladies, hey, fellas ♪
♪ And the people that don't give a **** ♪
♪ All the lovers, all the haters ♪
♪ And all the people That call themselves players ♪
♪ Hot mommas, pimp daddies ♪
♪ And the people rollin' up in Caddies ♪
♪ Hey, rockers, hip-hoppers ♪
♪ And everybody all around the world ♪
♪ Move in, now move out Hands up, now hands down ♪
♪ Back up, back up Tell me what you're gonna do now ♪
♪ Breathe in, now breathe out Hands up, now hands down ♪
♪ Back up, back up Tell me what you're gonna do now ♪
♪ Keep rollin' Rollin', rollin', rollin' ♪
[song trails off]
[groans]
[coughing]
[groans breathily]
You threw me through a fucking window!
In a dashing act of heroics that saved you from certain death.
That part seems important.
Spare me the jack-off session.
I would have got out on my…
[gasps]
Lady.
I know. They're gone.
Not just my people.
His too.
He'll stack as many corpses as he needs to prop the door to Hell open.
Where are you going?
To stop the Rabbit and beat little pellets of shit down his leg.
[Dante] No. He told me to come alone.
And you're actually gonna listen to him?
Before today, maybe I tried not to think about it.
Because if I had the idea of having anything in common with a demon…
When it was their kind who…
But Sparda, he was different.
Him being my father,
I thought the demon side of me would be different too.
Then it came out.
Turning demon showed me what my power really is.
Forced me to feel the rage and hatred that feeds it.
Rage and hatred?
Sounds about right.
Sparda, my dad, he must have felt the same thing.
But he found a way to fight it,
to turn his power back against the darkness it came from.
He created the wall that protects this world.
It was his amulet my mom gave me to keep safe.
Now the Rabbit is about to use that amulet
to tear the wall to pieces and let all of Hell walk through.
I have to be the one who stops him.
Yeah, fuck that.
[Dante groans]
You shot my leg!
Why would you shoot my leg?
As a courtesy.
Otherwise, it would have been between your eyes.
[Dante grunts]
[Mary] I mean, seriously?
Your blood is the exact fucking thing the Rabbit needs
to jumpstart his apocalypse,
you demonic dumbass.
And this isn't about your dad.
It's about whatever fucked up vendetta the Rabbit has against DARKCOM.
Which means it's my fight.
Ah, well that makes me feel way better!
I'm going in myself.
["Butterfly" by Crazy Town playing]
[funky, melodic rock/hip-hop playing]
♪ You're my pretty baby ♪
♪ I'll make your legs shake You make me go crazy ♪
♪ Come my lady, come, come my lady ♪
♪ You're my butterfly, sugar baby ♪
Hey baby, you need a ride?
Because I definitely need you to ride this dick--
[gagging]
[forcefully] Out of the car, now!
[engine revving]
♪ Come and dance with me Come and dance with me ♪
♪ Uh-huh, uh-huh ♪
♪ Come and dance with me Come and dance with me ♪
[buzzing]
[taut, suspenseful music playing]
I did everything you asked. We're done.
[White Rabbit] You did.
An obedient soldier, through and through.
Unfortunately, I've hit a snag in my final plan.
[line disconnects]
Steady!
The traitor's spawn is almost here.
Remember, you just have to land one blow.
He'll come.
[grumbles]
[demons snarling]
[White Rabbit] Hmm.
[growls]
- We attack now. - [White Rabbit] Wait!
- He will come. - [engine revving in distance]
[energetic industrial music building]
Bloodstryke!
Sorry, it's not personal.
[bellows]
[engine revving]
[horns honking]
[splat]
[Mary] Who'd you expect?
Some dickhead in a musty leather trench coat?
[White Rabbit chuckles]
Arkham.
Nice trade.
But you're out of cars.
And I've got a lot more warriors.
[Mary] Lucky for them,
I'm here to negotiate.
With what, exactly?
Dante's life.
I press this button,
and the most irritating member of both our species
gets turned to a fucking cinder.
Might be hard to take a DNA sample from him after that.
I see.
So, in exchange for not eradicating my blood supply,
you want me to call off the attack.
And give me the amulet.
[White Rabbit guffawing]
How do you fit those balls in that skintight uniform?
Laugh your fucking cottonpuff tail off,
but if Dante burns, his blood is gone.
Forever.
You put these demons through torture,
fucked with their genetic codes, all for your cause.
You should take the deal to keep the hope for the cause alive.
Unless you have another agenda they should know about.
Take it.
A pleasure, as always.
Aren't you forgetting something?
If this wasn't just a bluff,
if you really had Dante locked up somewhere,
you would have incinerated him the second I gave you that.
Don't tell me you've grown fond of the half-breed.
Not fucking likely.
["Butterfly" playing]
♪ So come and dance with me, uh-huh ♪
[horde wincing]
♪ Come my lady ♪
♪ You're my butterfly, sugar… ♪
[White Rabbit sighs]
Kill her.
[frenetic industrial music spiking]
[rocket launcher cocks]
Anyone else?
All right, everyone else.
[gasps]
[grunting]
[panting]
[trigger clicking]
[grunts]
[guns trill]
[grunts]
A formula I developed based on Echidna's natural toxin.
It won't kill you, only paralyze you for a while.
All of my warriors' blades are doused with it.
It'll give us plenty of time to extract Dante's blood from him.
We just have to land one blow.
I do regret that you won't be getting what you deserve,
since you'll feel no pain as you die.
Oh, well.
[tense, drawn-out music intensifying]
[rowdy, swaggering techno music plays]
Yeah, and I've got some bad news.
You didn't get that callback for the Chuck E. Cheese band auditions.
Dante! You made it.
[Mary struggling]
Before we start,
let me at least show you what you're fighting for.
Is that…?
Your father's homeland,
where Mundus, the king who had your family murdered, still rules.
Fitting of Fate's dark humor,
it was Mundus who gained the most from Sparda's wall.
It has allowed him to bleed dry a captive, terrorized populace,
while she and the rest of her DARKCOM barbarians
ensure Paradise stays sealed off for their own kind.
They and Mundus are two sides of the same blood-stained coin.
[Dante laughs]
I'm sorry, but Paradise?
You call this world Paradise?
Compared to my world, yes.
Come with me and see for yourself.
[music trails off]
Your dad was a brave warrior.
But wherever he is,
I know he's still fighting to keep us safe.
Anyone touches her in this world, then you'll die in that one.
Hands off the lieutenant!
That's an order.
[tense, eerie music playing]
[Dante gasps]
[thunder booms]
[gags, coughs]
A scorched earth, and air turned to poison.
Centuries' worth of devastation,
wrought by tyrants who make sapien stories of the devil seem quaint.
Look and see your father's wall for what it is.
An artificial construct raised by a man with immense power
to do what all such constructs are designed to do.
Keep the powerless in their place.
I created this device to detect and prolong
the random tears that naturally appear in the wall.
It's let me save handfuls of refugees.
But with Makai's air in your lungs,
you can understand that will never be enough.
The only true answer is to let all Makaians cross over.
Now, the wall must be destroyed.
[struggling] You're… You're talking about genocide.
If every demon can cross into this world,
humans won't stand a chance.
Millions will die.
You aren't listening.
Millions already die.
Yes, with the wall gone,
the monsters of Makai will come through along with the oppressed.
But in its wake,
the worlds will reach a new, rebalanced equilibrium.
What's the sacrifice of a generation or two if it means
ending suffering for those who come after?
You can right your father's injustice, Dante.
It takes only a drop of your blood.
My father was a hero.
And how would you know that?
All the deep, meaningful moments you had together?
[Mary groans]
Don't… Don't be a fucking idiot!
Do I have to shoot you again?
She makes a compelling point.
I'm gonna have to go with
the not-murdering-all-of-humanity side on this one.
Then I guess we'll have to get your blood out the traditional way!
Careful, their blades are poisoned!
Good thing none of them are gonna touch me then.
Let's rock.
[raucous metal music playing]
[Dante grunting]
[energy pulses]
Son of Sparda.
Son of… a really ugly guy with a weird thing for bats?
[Dante gasps]
[raucous metal music continuing]
Commander!
[demons, Dante gasping]
[Dante] Harsh, but fair.
You'll fight better this way.
A drop of blood! I just need a drop!
[Mary groaning]
[frenetic techno music playing]
So, how come none of you guys get cool Alice in Wonderland-themed identities?
I bet you'd really fill out a nice Queen of Hearts dress!
[gun trills]
[White Rabbit] Hmm?
Lady!
[Mary grunts]
Go! I can handle the sapien.
It appears the dosage wasn't quite strong enough,
but let's focus on the positive.
Maybe you will get to feel the cold grip of death take you!
[Mary grunts]
You're so full of shit.
I saw your DARKCOM hate shrine.
- That's what you really care about. - [seethes]
If you were fighting for the oppressed, you wouldn't be holding them prisoner.
I feel every bit of pain that I cause for my people.
But how much crueler a fate would they have met at your hands?
I adopted the methods I was forced to by an enemy willing to do worse.
[Mary] DARKCOM isn't abusing orphans to turn them into brainwashed soldiers.
Really?
Is that not how you would describe yourself?
Why did you think DARKCOM recruited you?
Only those who have lost all connection to their world
are truly free to fight for a different one.
It is no coincidence that our whole little unholy trinity
had our families taken from us.
Dante, you and I.
[Mary gasps]
["Afterlife" by Alex Seaver and Amy Lee playing]
[moody goth rock playing]
[blood pumping steadily]
I am your masterpiece, Lieutenant Arkham.
♪ I'm all out of tears to cry ♪
♪ Today, I'm not afraid to die… ♪
That's impossible.
You survived.
[rowdy industrial metal playing]
[guns clicking]
[confused clamoring]
[panicked clamoring]
[Dante panting]
You die here, in our world.
- [snarls] - [energy thrumming]
[muffled grunt]
[White Rabbit] You and your team left me crippled,
barely able to keep myself alive.
Now I require a constant transfusion
of this cocktail of demon blood with its healing abilities
to buy myself the time I need
to destroy every piece of architecture of injustice that killed my family.
We didn't do… this.
You were trying to help demons that night,
but now…
I should have known you were human from the start.
Your brand of pure, psychotic ruthlessness?
That's all humanity.
On that, we agree.
[frenzied industrial metal playing]
[gasps deeply]
[Dante straining]
[energy crackling]
How does this thing work?
Uh…
Do you just…
[high-pitched ringing]
Whoo! That was crazy! Too bad your eyes weren't here to see it.
[White Rabbit] One way or another,
you are going to bleed.
You're human.
[White Rabbit grunts]
[growling]
[bellows]
[Dante] You were never a demon at all.
Just a man wearing a screwed-up bunny mask to hide an even more screwed-up human face
that has a bunch of weird tubes sticking out of it.
To be fair, I can see why no one considered that.
[labored breathing]
I gave you the chance to end this.
[ragged panting]
I want you to remember that.
When what will happen next happens,
I want you to remember…
that you could have stopped it.
What do you me--
[dark, brooding music playing]
[Mary grunts]
I guess you got your mom's necklace back after all.
Yeah.
[helicopter blades whirring overhead]
Hey, Dante!
Your buddy Enzo brought the cavalry for ya! Ha!
I mean, they actually brought me as a prisoner, but in spirit!
Huh?
What the hell happened here?
Our first strike in the Holy War.
The first of many to come.
["Devils Never Cry" plays]
♪ Bless me ♪
♪ With the leaf off of the tree ♪
♪ On it, I see ♪
♪ The freedom reign ♪
♪ We are falling ♪
♪ The light is calling ♪
♪ Tears inside me ♪
♪ Calm me down ♪
♪ Midnight calling ♪
♪ Mist of resolving ♪
♪ Crown me ♪
♪ With the pure, green leaf ♪
♪ Praise to my father ♪
♪ Blessed by the water ♪
♪ Black light, dark sky ♪
IN MEMORY OF KEVIN CONROY (1955-2022)
♪ The devil's cry ♪