Prequel:
Starts with comic-book opening, as in current film, explaining, as Graverobber did, that "industrialization has crippled the globe". A short, live-action "re-enactment" of the start of organ failures, followed by Geneco's invention of engineered replacement organs. Switch back to comic-book form, with a quick explaination of Rotti's personal life, including the creation of his children in a lab, using his DNA. The combination of the industrial toxins which caused the organ failures, along with possible mistakes made in the "baby lab" during their creation, causes Luigi and Pavi to be psychotic from birth. Amber, though born "normal", is quickly corrupted by the people in her life.
Cut back to live-action:
Marni is a social worker who is alarmed when she meets Rotti's (then very young, but already quite disturbed) children. She gets close to Rotti so she can spend more time around the kids in an attempt to help them. She secretly confides to her best friend, Mag, all the concerns she has about the future of the Largo kids. It becomes clear that the children, due to their severe mental illnesses and Rotti's horrible influence, are beyond anyone's help, but, just as Marni realizes this, little Luigi attempts to murder her. Nathan (then Geneco's head surgeon, as well as head of the organ-engineering and pharmaceutical research departments) swoops in just in time to save Marni. He knows he can't take her to his apartment, which is supplied by Geneco and located in the large Geneco building, so he takes her to the old family home he inherited from his parents. He explains they both died of organ failure, which inspired him to become a Geneco surgeon and research specialist in the first place After he discovered how messed up things were at Geneco because of Rotti, and with growing suspicion about how much "unexplained profit" was rolling in, he stuck around to try to keep an eye on things and come up with a way to expose Rotti for what he really was. Marni says she knows what he is, and is exhausted from the effort of trying to exist as his significant other. She bursts into tears. Nathan takes her in his arms to comfort her. She looks up at him, their eyes lock, then they begin to kiss. Marni is so passionate, she practically "attacks" Nathan. He carries her upstairs. Cut to the next morning. They are talking in bed, and Nathan comments on her , um, intensity in bed the night before. She explains that Rotti lost the ability to make love during the first wave of organ failures, and by the time a "cure" was found for those with his condition, the ones, like him, who had been "dysfunctional" for a long time, were beyond help. Marni explains she had not been with a man in the physical sense in a very long time. She also explains that, not long after Rotti proposed marriage (to which she was afraid to say "no")... dissolve to flashback of Marni and Rotti (possibly in comic book form)... Rotti started talking about making a "lab baby" with her, using both of their genetic material, instead of just his, as was the case, he said, with his existing children. Marni was horrified with this prospect, fearing the creation of another psychotic Largo child, knowing that, even if the baby was "normal", she would be as powerless to protect it from its surroundings as she was in her attempt to "save" Amber. Cut to scene of very young Amber looking up at Marni, Amber's eyes wide and full of tears.
Fade back to Marni, her own eyes full of tears. She gasps and tells Nathan she probably got pregnant last night, because she hasn't been using birth control since she started dating Rotti. She is frightened because pregnancy has become very dangerous since around the time the organ failures began. An expectant mother is looking at about a 50-50 chance she will get sick and die before her baby reaches full term. Nathan tells her not to worry... that he has actually been working on a cure for this particular situation and promises to take care of her. Nathan gets up and goes to a jewelry box, takes out his mother's engagement ring and presents it to a beaming Marni. Pan back, and back... out of the house and away to a little nearby hill, where a couple of Gen-terns who followed them are spying on Nathan and Marni and taking photographs. Cut to a close up of the pictures hitting Rotti's desk. This shot morphs into "comic" form, moves up to Rotti's infuriated face, the "balloon" describing his vow to make them both pay in every way he can from that day forward. Comic segment goes on to show Rotti going to Nathan's old home, talking to Nathan and Marni, claiming he "just wants to see Marni happy" asking to be invited to the wedding, and telling Nathan that he "may just have a very special position open up for him soon".
Wedding scene from Repo replays, then gives way to a montage of a happy Nathan and Marni as her pregnancy progresses. Geneco, in the meantime, is making more "unexplained profit" than ever. Mag visits with the exciting news of a proposal from Geneco, asking her to take part in a new surgical procedure, which will not only restore her vision, allowing her to see for the first time since her eyes "failed" in her childhood, but also give her the ability to project images with them at will. Better yet, Geneco isn't charging her any money for the procedure. All she has to do is come into Rotti's office and sign some paperwork... standard pre-surgical legal release, etc., they say... and Rotti is so eager for her to get this surgery, he wants to oversee the whole process personally from beginning to end. Marni is thrilled for Mag. Nathan gives his warmest congrats, but, in the back of his mind, something doesn't seem quite right. He knows Rotti had assigned someone new to the organ department, and that Rotti had asked the new researcher to keep the developing research under wraps "just until the patent is set up". Nathan is expressing this concern to a very pregnant Marni later that night when, suddenly, Marni falls ill. Nathan tells her he is heading to Geneco for the ingredients he will need in order to mix her cure. He arrives there to find Rotti in the room that used to be the "baby lab" and informs Rotti of Marni's illness. Nathan then begins to gather the different bottles of pharmaceutical ingredients he had been working with, believing he did, indeed, know the cure. Rotti watches Nathan walk out of the room with all the bottles. The camera zooms in on one particular bottle, as if from Rotti's perspective, which morphs into the bottle from the "comic form" segment of Repo during "Rotti's story". Cut to live-action at Nathan and Marni's house. He puts down the bottles on his work table and leaves the room to speak with Marni. The live-action segment from Repo, "Nathan's Story" replays the scenes of him mixing the cure, giving it to Marni, and the beginning of Marni's final hour. We cut back and forth between "Nathan's Story" and moments of dialogue between Nathan and Marni, Marni saying things like, "No matter what happens, please save Shilo" and "I'm so scared, Nathan. So cold". Marni falls unconcious and we see the "stairs" scene in "Nathan's Story". Nathan lays Marni down, takes her pulse, and realizes her heart has stopped beating. He sings the line, "Shilo is all I have", then begins the emergency c-section, again cutting back and forth with scenes from "Nathan's Story". This is very gory and there is blood everywhere. We follow a trail of Marni's blood back to the spying Gen-tern who switched out the proper pharmaceutical ingredient with the powerful blood-thinning agent that killed Marni. She sends the alert to Rotti and his no-good crew. Cut back to Nathan cradling a bloody Shilo, crying, kissing Marni one last time, promising Shilo he "Will stop at nothing to keep you safe". Nathan hears footsteps. Cut to the scene in Repo when everyone broke in on Nathan in the immediate aftermath of the emergency c-section... dead Marni with her abdomen gaping wide open, Nathan holding blood-drenched Shilo. Screaming baby Shilo is ripped from her father's arms as he cries out for her, etc.
Rotti says that if he ever wants to see his daughter again, Nathan must come with him to Geneco immediately. This, of course, leads to the all-important scene in which Rotti explains why they are making such a disproportionately large profit. They are "harvesting" the financed Geneco organs of those who couldn't make their payments. They had set up the finance plans in a way that a person of average means would never be able to pay off their organs, and even one second's delinquency added huge additional fees, which would soon add up to more than many could possibly pay. The "harvested" organs were then re-used in other patients, for whom the financing of that organ would begin all over again. Rotti plops the "secret accounting files" in front of Nathan, who discovers that Geneco is charging hundreds of times what they'd really need to charge for the organs. Geneco could charge much, much less for the organs and still make an enormous profit. Rotti explains that his joys in life are:
1. Making as much money as he possibly can.
2. Having as much power over as many people as he can.
3. Most gratifying- Watching Nathan suffer.
Rotti goes on to explain that the "harvesting" from delinquent patients will no longer have to be a secret once it is legalized. He explains that Mag is undergoing eye surgery as they speak, and that she will be forced to tell the public that "harvesting" organs from delinquent patients is the only way Geneco can afford to continue financing life-saving organs. "Nathan",says Rotti," You have just been promoted", and pulls the Repo helmet out of the drawer. "Your uniform... wear it with Geneco pride, my boy! Here's your first assignment". Rotti hands Nathan some paperwork on a delinquent patient. "You want me to take this guy's heart out?", asks Nathan. "Have fun!", says Rotti, "Your baby daughter will be home waiting for you when you get back and we'll surrender Marni's body to you so you can give her a proper burial. After all, its the least you can do for her, after you killed her, right?".
We see Nathan arrive at the "harvesting" destination. He thinks to himself, "Oh, God, I can't do this". In his head, he hears the "Repo" aspect of himself for the first time, saying, "Then let me do it. Put your pain and heartbreak in me. Fuel me with your dispair, then stand back and let me do all the work". Repo sneaks up on his first victim, grabs him, and throws him to the ground. We get to watch our first Repo murder. After it is over, Nathan returns home, himself again, mounts eyeless Marni in the wall, and takes Shilo (who is left with a Gen-tern in his absence) in his arms. Nathan, cradling Shilo while looking at wall-Marni, begins to weep.
We pan back, out of the house, and cut over to a child with its back to us, and though everyone will know its "lil Graverobber" right away, it will be great fun for him to have the last word. He will turn around and give us a few verbal gems about the whole situation before the screen fades to black.
Roll credits.
(already know what I'd want for the sequel, but it will have to wait)
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