Linda Cardellini: Lylla

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Lylla

Rocket: [after arriving in the afterlife, sees Lylla, sobs] Lylla?
Lylla: [walks to him] Friend...
Rocket: [voice breaking] I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
Lylla: Rocket...
Rocket: I let you down. I got you killed. I got everybody killed!
[Rocket cries as Lylla comforts him]
Lylla: [smiles] We were right. The sky is beautiful, and it is forever. And I've been flying with our friends.
[Rocket sees Teefs and Floor waving to him, Rocket waves back]
Rocket: Can I come?
Lylla: Yes!
[back in reality, Rocket flatlines, back in the afterlife, Rocket slowly walks to his friends until Lylla stops him]
Lylla: But not yet. You still have a purpose here.
Rocket: [cries harder] A purpose for what? They made us for nothing! Just stupid experiments to be thrown away!
Lylla: There are the hands that made us, and then there are the hands that guide their hands.
[Rocket and Lylla caress and embrace each other]
Lylla: My beloved raccoon. The story has been yours all along. You just didn't know it.
Rocket: I'm not a raccoon...
[without warning, Rocket gets sent back to reality and wakes up]

[Rocket gathers pieces of gadgets from the cell]
Floor: Me and Rocket play now?
Rocket: I can't right now, Floor.
Lylla: [sees him building something] What are you doing?
Rocket: They ain't gonna set us free.
Teefs: Yes, they are, Rocket. We're going to the new world any day now.
[Rocket solemnly shakes his head]
Lylla: [realizes this] No, that can't be true!
Rocket: It is. They want to kill us all in the morning.
Teefs: What?
Floor: What?
Rocket: But I'm gonna fix it.
[Rocket finishes putting gadgets together]
Lylla: What is that?
Rocket: It's a key. I'm gonna use it to get us all out of here.
Teefs: [shakes his head in worry] I don't know if that's wise, Rocket.
Floor: [excitedly] Me, Rocket leave! Hurray, friends forever!
Rocket: Just down that hall, there's ships. I know that if we can get to one, I can pilot it. And then we'll all fly away together, the four of us. Just like we always said, okay?
[Teefs and Lylla look at him]
Rocket: Okay?
[Lylla nods]
Floor: WOO-HOO! Yippee, Rocket! Sky, sky, sky!
[Rocket slowly walks to the cage door and swipes the key, the door opens]
Lylla: You did it! You did it!

Lylla: [after Rocket frees her] It's so good to have fr...
[a loud bang is heard, Lylla sees she has been shot, she slowly collapses on the ground, the High Evolutionary is shown with a gun in his hand]
The High Evolutionary: Yes, I imagined you'd do something like this. Back in the cage, P13.
[Rocket goes devastated as Lylla looks up at the ceiling]
Lylla: [weakly] Sky...
[Lylla dies, tears begin to fill Rocket's eyes]
Rocket: [screams and cries in anguish] NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!