Meet the Scout

Meet the Scout
Video Info
Released:	April 19, 2008
Run time:	1:35

"Meet the Scout" Video Transcript

[Faster Than a Speeding Bullet plays as the warehouse doors in Well rise, revealing a crouching RED Scout with other members of Red Team.]

[The Scout watches various BLU Team members stationed around center point: an Engineer industriously making defensive preparations, a smoking Spy, and a Soldier juggling rockets.]

[Scout pumps his Scattergun and RED runs out to attack center point.]

[The Scout charges into a fierce battle on Well, quickly outpacing all his teammates. He runs towards the center of the map dodging everything that BLU throws at him, then outruns and crosses a passing train as it crushes a BLU Soldier and Pyro.]

["Meet the Scout" text appears]

[Scout walks in front of the Meet the Scout text, from off frame.]

Scout: "Um... I don't even know where to start with you. I mean, do you even know who you're talkin' to?

[Cut to a scene of a BLU Heavy, sitting near the third Control Point in Granary about to take a bite of a Sandvich, when he is poked in the head by the Scout's Bat.]

Scout: "Yo, what's up?"

[Cuts back to Scout in front of text.]

Scout: D-Do you have any idea, any idea who I am?"

[Back to Heavy and Scout, who are in a fistfight while yelling. Cuts back to Scout.]

Scout: "Basically - kind of a big deal!"

[Back to fight. Scout is strangling Heavy with his Bat.]

Scout: [Flexes a muscle] "Oh man, that's beautiful. Heh!"

[Cut back to fight, Heavy now has the Scout in a headlock. Cuts back to Scout.]

Scout: " Ya' listenin'? OK. Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brotha'-[pokes the camera] I hurt people."

[Cut back to fight, The Scout whacks the Heavy in the gut with his Bat.]

Scout: "BOINK!"

Scout: [Back to Text] "I'm a Force-A-Nature!"

[Scout hits the Heavy in the chin.]

Scout: "BONK!"

[Cuts back to Scout]

Scout: "If you were from where I was from, you'd be f**kin' dead!"

[Cuts back to fight; Heavy is collapsed on the ground trying to reach for his Sandvich; the Scout runs up the side of a shipping container, jumps off and slams his Bat into the Heavy's head.]

[Cuts back to Scout]

Scout: "WOOO!"

[Team Fortress 2 ending flourish music plays]

[Scout sits on the twitching body of the Heavy eating the Heavy's Sandvich; the point is now RED's.]

Notes

• When the Scout pokes the camera during the line, "...and brother, I hurt people," he leaves a fingerprint which stays there for the rest of the video.

• The Sandvich in the video was later released as an unlockable item for the Heavy.

• The Heavy at around 0:40 is holding both the Shotgun and the Sandvich, which is impossible in-game (you must choose between one or the other in your loadout)

• The Force-A-Nature weapon is named after the Scout's description of himself in this video.

• The Faster Than A Speeding Bullet track first played in this video, after which it was patched into the game as main menu music.

• The Scout's line about himself was an homage to the boxing champion Muhammed Ali. He once said, "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

• At the end, the Scout is seen eating the Heavy's Sandvich. This was later referenced in the achievement, "Dodgers 1, Giants 0."