From the writer of the show: How the show would have ended

I found this on a Jake 2.0 fan site/forum (http://p072.ezboard.com/How-the-series-would-of-ended-from-the-script-writers-blog/fj20fansfrm1.showMessage?topicID=136.topic) with a link to the script writer's blog.

I think the ending is fantastic! Extremely Satisfying!
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from Javier Grillo-Marxuach Blog
chaodai.livejournal.com/66753.html
Feb. 3rd, 2007 at 7:16 PM

...and i posted its title sequence, a few people have asked about the unfilmed series finale -- on the day the series was cancelled, the outline had just been approved and i was to begin writing the script...so how exactly was "jake 2.0" to finish?

click below to find out!...



JAKE 2.0
"Nano-A-Nano"
Outline 1/12/04
Javier Grillo-Marxuach

NOTE: This episode picks up minutes after the conclusion of episode 18, with DuMont dead - poisoned by Warner - and Jake's discovery that he has been infected by DuMont with a virus that will kill him in less than 24 hours.

TEASER

EXT. OUTER SPACE
An NSA satellite cruises over the Earth. ZOOM DOWN to find...

INT. NSA - DIANE'S LAB - DAY
DIANE briefs LOU and KYLE - JAKE has less than 24 hours to live. The only person who could have pulled this off is DuMont. Lou orders Kyle to go to the prison and interrogate DuMont while Diane works on a cure for the virus. Jake insists on going along - he wants to beat the cure out of him.

INT./EXT. FEDERAL PRISON - DAY
Jake and Kyle arrive at the prison and get the unfortunate news. DuMont is dead. Poisoned last night. A GUARD wheels DUMONT's body into a coroner's truck before Jake and Kyle's eyes. As Jake and Kyle watch their only lead turn into a dead end...

INT. CORONER'S TRUCK - DAY
DuMont's hand pops out from the body bag. He is still alive. As DuMont reaches for the Guard's neck...

EXT. ROAD - CONTINUOUS
With the CRACK of the Guard's neck, the truck veers off the road.

ACT ONE

INT. FEDERAL PRISON - DUMONT'S CELL - DAY
Unaware that DuMont's death was staged, Kyle and Jake investigate. All of DuMont's belongings are gone. The hard drives holding the security footage from DuMont's cell and interrogation room have been wiped. The WARDEN has no idea how this could have happened. Kyle asks to talk to the Guard who gave DuMont his last meal. The Warden explains that the Guard was driving the truck taking DuMont to the morgue. Jake gets a call from Diane - she thinks she's found a cure.

INT. NSA - DIANE'S LAB - DAY
Diane has a team, including FRAN, working nonstop. Diane prepares Jake for the latest treatment, confident that it will work. Jake asks what happens if it doesn't. Diane replies that they will keep looking... and there is one weapon of last resort. The NSA has access to a super-conducting magnetic field generator built by the government for particle research. Exposing Jake to its magnetic field would pull the nanites out through his skin. Jake agrees this should be a last resort. Not only could it kill him, Jake confides to Diane that he has no idea what he would be without nanites. He doesn't think he could be an agent on his own merits and there is no going back to IT. Diane performs the procedure - it fails. Jake's countdown to an unpleasant death is still on, a piece of news made worse by a call from Kyle:

INTERCUT

EXT. ROADSIDE - DAY
Kyle has found the coroner's truck. The Guard is dead inside. DuMont has escaped. As Jake reacts to the news...

INT. NSA - WARNER'S OFFICE - DAY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR VALERIE WARNER receives the news that DuMont is alive. Warner pulls out a bottle of Xanax and is about to take several, until her computer comes to life with the LUCHA LIBRE FIGHTER seen in DuMont's Federal Reserve robbery. A text message from DuMont follows, "I KNEW YOU WOULD TRY TO KILL ME. I GUESS THIS MEANS WE'RE BROKEN UP." The message ends with an ominous message, "I WILL BE SEEING YOU VERY SOON."

INT. NSA - SAT-OPS - DAY
Warner storms in, ordering a shoot-to-kill order on DuMont. He is to be found and eliminated - wherever he may be.

INT. NSA - FOYER - DAY
DuMont - hair slicked back and wearing a suit and tie - gives the entry GUARD a fake name. DuMont's fake name pops up in the database along with a picture and a high-clearance visitor's pass. DuMont enters the NSA, a sense of mission in his stride.

INT. NSA - DIANE'S LAB - NIGHT
Diane works. Jake grills Kyle about his investigation. Kyle has had the hard drives with the security camera footage from the prison sent for data retrieval. Kyle is convinced that DuMont had outside help. Finding out who helped him might lead to DuMont's personal effects and the computer he used to engineer the virus - which could hold the key to a cure. Sick and frustrated, Jake tells Kyle he just wants to live long enough to kill DuMont. Diane and Kyle exchange glances. Kyle suggests that he and Jake take a walk while Diane does her work.

INT. NSA - CORRIDOR - NIGHT
Kyle tries to reassure Jake and advises him to save his strength and focus: raging against DuMont isn't going to help with what lies ahead. Jake gets a strange feeling, a gut instinct that all is not well with Diane. Kyle asks Jake how the nanites could warn him of something happening with Diane. Jake tells Kyle it's not the nanites... it's an emotional response. Jake rushes away.

INT. NSA - DIANE'S LAB - NIGHT
DuMont enters and tells a frightened Diane that he will give her the cure - if she gives him the nanites. Diane stalls. Fran enters. DuMont puts a scalpel to Fran's neck. Diane opens the steel door to a vault in her lab -

- Jake appears. DuMont is no match for him. Jake is about to kill DuMont, but heeds his better instincts, tosses him into the vault and closes the door. Diane shoots Jake a dire look and explains that he has just locked DuMont in the safe with the nanites... and it gets worse, the batch of nanites in there are an experimental upgrade. DuMont will come out stronger, faster and better than Jake. A terrible BANG from inside the safe - the steel door buckles... DuMont is punching his way out.

ACT TWO

INT. NSA - DIANE'S LAB - NIGHT
DuMont bursts out of the safe - nanite-enhanced and ready to wipe the floor with Jake. A spectacular brawl ensues - two enhanced men going nano-a-nano. As the two destroy the lab, Diane calls Sat-Ops.

INT. NSA - SAT-OPS - CONTINUOUS
Carver gets the call. Warner overhears from her catwalk and orders armed security to the lab - but every automatic system has been activated to stop security from doing their job. And it's all being done by someone with nanites. Lou shoots Carver a look - someone with nanites? Jake?

The answer comes as the door to Sat-Ops SHATTERS -- Jake flies through, tossed in by DuMont. All hell breaks loose. Jake and DuMont trash the place.

The fight comes to a climax. DuMont overpowers Jake. DuMont is indeed stronger, faster and better than Jake. DuMont tells Jake that he would love to kill him right now - but he wants Jake to suffer the way Vanessa did. An ARMED GUARD finally enters the room. DuMont tosses Jake aside grabs Diane as a hostage, asking that everyone clear the room so he can escape. Warner demands that the guard shoot through Diane if he must. Jake reaches out and grips Warner's neck, tells her to be quiet. Jake looks to Lou, who gives the order to clear the room. Jake watches DuMont back away - still holding Diane - and vanish into a corridor.

INT. NSA - CORRIDOR - NIGHT
DuMont rushes through, tells Diane he couldn't help but notice something about the way she looks at Jake. He can tell she has feelings for him and hopes she has fun watching him explode. DuMont then lets her go, breaks into a major nano-run, and leaps out of a plate glass window. Off Diane...

EXT. NSA - NIGHT
Dumont SMASHES through a window, falls several stories, lands on his feet, and breaks into an unstoppable nano-run away from the NSA complex.

INT. NSA - SAT-OPS - NIGHT
Kyle enters. Warner takes Lou to task for not letting the guard kill DuMont. Kyle points the finger at Warner: he has been doing some checking and DuMont got his bogus entrance pass using her security clearance. How exactly did he get that, and how strange that it should be the topper to the many suspicious events surrounding his escape? Warner turns the tables: DuMont was Kyle and Lou's responsibility: DuMont's escape, infiltration of the NSA, and theft of the nanites will be the end of Kyle and Lou.

As the confrontation with Warner ends, Carver notices something strange - one of their satellites is starting to malfunction.

EXT. OUTER SPACE
The satellite seen at the top of the show fritzes. Its maneuvering jets fire in a strange, almost random pattern... and the satellite begins a downward spiral toward Earth.

INT. NSA - CORRIDOR - NIGHT
Jake knows his time is winding down. He takes out his cell phone and calls his parents. Although he cannot say anything specific, he tells them that he loves them.

INTERCUT WITH

EXT. JAKE'S PARENTS' HOUSE IN AKRON - NIGHT
As his parents pull up in their car, trying to figure out what is wrong with their son...

INTERCUT WITH

INT. SAT-OPS - NIGHT
Lou and Kyle watch Carver's console with growing concern as Carver tracks the malfunctioning satellite's reentry. Kyle asks where it's going to crash...

... and as Jake talks to his mother and father...

... the two of them react to the horrible CRASH as a satellite falls on their house before they can enter!

Off Jake, hearing the sounds on the phone, not knowing if his parents are dead or alive...

ACT THREE

INT. NSA - SAT-OPS - NIGHT
Jake's parents narrowly survived the impact... but DuMont is using his nanite-enhanced hacking ability to bring down more NSA satellites. DuMont took the codes from Sat-Ops even as he fought Jake: he is that good. More satellites will fall if he is not stopped. Now, more than ever, Jake needs a cure.

A call comes in: it's DuMont. Jake grabs a console and uses his nanites to try and track him. DuMont laughs Jake off and asks to be put on the Big Board. Jake keeps tracking, but DuMont is multitasking, talking to the NSA while using his superior nanite skills to prevent Jake from finding him. Lou asks DuMont for his demands. DuMont makes a series of outrageous demands: 50 billion dollars to his Swiss Bank Account, the codes to the Pentagon Mainframe, a Golden Girls reunion movie... No one appreciates DuMont's joke, so DuMont makes it clear that he has no demands. He just wants them to know that this is his revenge. Jake looks up - he's close, very close - but DuMont smiles and vanishes from the Big Board. Jake has failed.

Kyle enters - holding the hard drive from the prison security cameras - tells Jake that maybe the way to find DuMont is to use his powers on someone else.

INT. WARNER'S OFFICE - NIGHT
Warner gives instructions to a group of BODYGUARDS - who are to cover her at all times - when her computer lights up. It's DuMont, demanding that she return the computer he used to engineer Jake's virus. A window opens on Warner's screen - it shows a security tape of them having sex in the interrogation room. DuMont threatens to release the tape. Trumped and outwitted, Warner types in an address.

Lou and Kyle then enter, as does Jake, holding a laptop. That wasn't DuMont on her computer - it was Jake, stinging the information out of her and getting an admission of her complicity with DuMont. Lou steps up and punches Warner in the face as a group of GUARDS enter. Lou turns to the guards, tells them that Warner is under arrest for treason and is to be taken to a cell. As the guards put the defeated Warner in irons...

INT. NSA - DIANE'S LAB - NIGHT
Dawn rises over the NSA. The place is still in a state of emergency as two more satellites have fallen from the sky. Jake and Diane have been studying DuMont's computer (which they found through Warner) but the code to the virus yields no clues to save Jake. The clock is down to less than a half hour. Jake insists that DuMont's equipment will eventually yield its secrets. Diane insists that the time has come for Jake to go into the magnetic field generator. It is their last hope to save his life.

INT. NSA - MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATOR - DAY
Diane preps Jake. It is an emotional moment. Jake looks at Diane: there is something he wants to tell her. Before Diane can ask, Jake embraces and kisses her. He loves her, and needed her to know before he dies.

Jake steps into the machine. Diane powers it up. The magnetic field ROARS to life... after a horrible, painful moment...
... the nanites erupt out of Jake, tearing violently through his skin and exploding against the glass walls of the superconductor like silver bullets.

Diane shuts off the machine. Jake collapses. Is he dead?

ACT FOUR

INT. NSA - MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATOR - DAY
Diane rushes in to help Jake. He is still alive, but tremendously weakened. For the first time in a year, he is without the nanites - powerless. Diane wants to take Jake to the hospital wing - but all Jake wants to do is to continue to examine DuMont's equipment... as everyone wonders why...

INT. NSA - DIANE'S LAB - DAY
Struggling against emotional and physical fatigue as well as his recent loss of the nanites, Jake boots up DuMont's prison computer. Something struck Jake just as he thought he was going to die - the computer could yield the location DuMont used to broadcast the virus to Jake. Broadcasting the virus required a tremendous amount of bandwidth and energy - he would need the same to do what he is doing to the NSA's satellites. Jake plugs away at DuMont's computer... this would have been so much easier to do when he had nanites... but eventually, Jake comes up with an answer...

EXT. A SATELLITE DISH IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE - DAY
Jake steps toward the radio shack at the base of the dish...

INT. RADIO SHACK - DAY
... and finds DuMont, God-like, surrounded by computers, all doing his bidding. Jake stands at the doorway. DuMont turns to Jake - the only way he could still be alive is if someone figured out a way to get the nanites out of him. Jake nods, then tells DuMont that the place is surrounded, he can either surrender or be killed by NSA sharpshooters. DuMont laughs - with his nanites, he is happy to take his chances against anything the NSA has to throw at him. First he is going to tear Jake limb-from-limb, and then he will go out and kill every NSA Agent he can. Jake bows his head, tells DuMont that all he is going to do now is die, and pulls out a rocket-powered grenade launcher. Before DuMont can react, Jake hits the trigger -

- and blows DuMont into a billion pieces. No amount of nanites is going to help him come back from this. Jake walks out, having finally vanquished his nemesis, and meets Kyle, who congratulates him. Jake looks up at Kyle grimly - this is probably the last thing he will ever do as an agent, isn't it? Without his nanites, there is no reason for Jake to remain an agent. Off Jake's grim look...

SIX MONTHS LATER

INT. HIGH-TECH OFFICE - DAY
Jake wears an IT badge, fixes a computer for an overbearing EXECUTIVE. The executive realizes that Jake has uploaded all of his hard drive - before the executive can do anything, Jake pulls out a gun and arrests the executive for selling secrets to the enemy. All of the evidence Jake needed was in the hard drive. Kyle steps up, gun also drawn, to finish the collar - Jake is still working as an Agent.

INT. NSA - SAT-OPS - DAY
Lou, who has been promoted to Warner's old post, steps down from her catwalk to congratulate Jake on the bust. Jake may get a presidential commendation for this - even without the nanites, Jake is a methodical, intuitive and thorough operative who has done great work in the field. Because of everything he learned when he had the nanites, Jake has finally come into his own as a man. Kyle smiles at Jake, asks him how Diane has been since she quit the NSA and went to work in the private sector. Jake replies that she was doing well the last time he asked. Off the moment...

INT. JAKE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT
Jake comes home. The television is on. Diane steps out of the kitchen, asks him if he had a nice day. It is clear that these two have been together romantically for a while. Diane tells Jake that she has been cooking dinner - but maybe he'd like dessert first. Jake smiles. The two head for the bedroom. As Diane enters, she tells Jake to turn off the TV. He looks at the television... we hear a faint nanite sound and the television turns itself off.