BROKEN ARROW
by
Graham Yost
FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY
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FADE IN:
A FIST HITS A FACE
The fist is in a boxing glove. It belongs to VIC DEAKINS, 38. The face belongs to RAWLEY HALE, 28. They are in...
Hale and Deakins are sparring in a ring. Other people are lifting weights, shooting baskets.
IN THE RING
Hale and Deakins circle each other. Hale is shaking cobwebs out of his head.
Deakins laughs. Hale seizes the relaxed moment and suddenly launches into Deakins with a flurry of punches.
THE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE GYM
Take notice -- the fightis getting real. They move to the ring.
DEAKINS
Several of Hale's punches land. Deakins staggers back, caught off guard. It looks like he might even go down.
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HALE
He cocks his arm back. He could finish Deakins off. But he doesn't. He drops his fist.
DEAKINS
Seizes the opportunity and slugs back.
THE CROWD
Loves it.
HALE AND DEAKINS
Now Deakins has the upperhand. He backs Hale around the ring.
Deakins hits Hale hard in the face, sending him back.
THE SPECTATORS
Are circling the ring, following the fighters, cheering.
HALE AND DEAKINS
Deakins hits Hale hard. He's got Hale on the run.
Deakins fakes left, putseverything into one big uppercut. It connects.
HALE
Lands, dazed, blood trickling out of the corner of his mouth.
DEAKINS
He's in silhouette, the lights above him.
HALE
Looks up at Deakins, catches his breath.
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HALE AND DEAKINS
Deakins offers his hand. Hale pushes it aside. Deakins ignores Hale, grabs him and helps him to his feet. Deakins climbs out of the ring between the ropes.
Hale grabs the top rope and flips himself over, landing on his feet. Deakins gives Hale a look, laughs, shakes his head.
Hale lets the water rinse the blood off his face.
Hale and Deakins are sitting on the bench between their lockers, getting into their flightsuits, pulling on boots. Deakins is smoking a cigarette. The smoke curls up into the light slanting down across the room from high windows.
HALE'S LOCKER
Is in sunlight. On the inside of his locker door are pictures of exotic planes -- the SR-71, a swept-wing fighter, an artist's rendition of the Aurora,etc.
DEAKINS' LOCKER
On the shady side of theroom. Nothing on the inside of his locker door. The locker is spare, Zen-like in its neatness.
HALE'S HAND
Slams a twenty dollar bill down on the bench.
Deakins grins, folds thebill and jams it into his flightsuit.
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Deakins pulls out the twenty dollar bill; hands it back to Hale.
Deakins laughs, puts themoney away.
Planes taxiing, vehiclesmoving.
Deakins and Hale enter to find GENERAL BOONE, 50s.
DEAKINS/HALE General.
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A BOMB TRUCK carrying two B-83 nuclear weapons drives underthe wing of a big, black plane, toward the open bomb bays. GROUND CREWMEN are hurrying about.
HALE AND DEAKINS
Enter and walk under theplane, nodding to the ground crew. Hale and Deakins are royalty. Deakins and Hale climb up the airplane's Crew Entry steps and disappear.
Hale and Deakins climb into a very strange cockpit. There are two pilots' seats in this plane, with duplicate controls.
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But instead of the usualdials and gauges on the control panels, there are FOUR COMPUTER SCREENS in front of each pilot. Hale gets into the left seat;Deakins the right. They review information on their screens, flip switches.
INTERCUT WITH BOMBS
Being loaded into the bomb bays. When they've been clamped into place in the rotary bombracks...
Alarm horns sound, wheels roll on track and the huge hangar doors open revealing...
THE GHOST
An enormous black flyingwing.
Deakins looks at maps onhis computer screens. Hale looks over, sees the map of Utah.
Bright moonlight shows acampfire burning at the edge of an escarpment, the ColoradoRiver a thousand feet below. Near the campfire is an Army surplus tent. Next to it, an easel holds a painting in progress.
A PARK RANGER TRUCK
Drives up, stops. The driver's door open, and out gets...
A RANGER
We don't see his face inthe dark. He switches on a flashlight, walks over and taps on the tent.
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We hear a man and a woman -- JIM and WANDA, 60s -- wake up.
Jim comes out of the tent, the ranger's light in his face.
Jim grins. But the ranger pulls out a pistol and shoots Jim, who falls into the fire. He then puts three shots through the wall of the tent. Nothing moves. The Ranger -- call him BAKER -- pulls out a walkie-talkie, clicks on.
HEADLIGHTS
Come on and two Humvees roll in and four men get out. Three of them -- JOHNSON, a tech-whiz; LETT, gangly, grim, and NOVACEK, a wiry guy in a baseballcap -- start setting up what looks to be a high-tech missile launcher. The fourth man is...
MR. PRITCHETT
A neatly groomed man, 40s, with a perpetually sour attitude.He looks like -- and is -- a lawyer.
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The Ghost flies overhead, roaring.
Deakins and Hale check their screens.
Hale is stung. Pissed, he goes on the offensive.
Hale shakes his head, grins. Deakins clicks on his mike.
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Establishing shot of McMurran Air Force Base.
Jammed with MEN looking at radar screens and computer monitors. COLONEL WILKINS, 50s, seen it all, talks over a headset.
Deakins covers his mike,turns to Hale.
CU RADAR SCREEN
The Ghost makes a prominent blip on the screen.
Deakins turns to Hale.
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CLOSE ON CONTROL PANEL -THREE BUTTONS
The left, labeled TAKE OFF, is lighted. The other two buttons are MISSION and LANDING. Hale pushes MISSION.
THE COCKPIT
everything goes quiet.
The plane's running lights go out. The roar of the engines quickly drops to a low rushing sound. The plane in in full stealth mode.
CU RADAR SCREEN
The Ghost's blip disappears.
CU COMPUTER SCREEN
Half of the screen showsa waveform, like a voiceprint. The other half shows a triangle moving across a map of Colorado.
Deakins studies the mapson the computer screens.
Hale pulls back on the throttle. The plane descends.
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The Ghost drops away from us, a stark black cut-out againstthe moonlit Colorado landscape. The Colorado River is a winding silver ribbon five milesbelow.
A PARK RANGER TRUCK
Driving along the blacktop. The driver is not Baker. It's...
TERRY CARMICHAEL
Pretty, late 20s. Her radio squawks.
We feel the Ghost beforewe hear it. It rushes over, close to the river, below the ridgelines on either side of the valley.
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The triangle representing the Ghost disappears from a computer screen.
Deakins reads his computer screens.
Hale hits a button, letsgo of the stick -- they're on autopilot. It's a moment of peace. Hale looks out.
Deakins notices something odd on his screen. He checks between the screen and what he can see through the windshield.
Hale turns to look out the window on his side.
HALE'S POV
Looking out the window. There's some movement in the reflection in the glass. QUICK PULL FOCUS to see, distorted in the curve of the window, Deakins reaching inside his flight suit.
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HALE
Turns his head back toward Deakins.
But then Hale sees it's not a cigarette that Deakins is pulling out of his flight suit. It's shiny, metal. It's...
A GUN
And Deakins levels it right at Hale's head and his finger starts to squeeze the trigger.
HALE
Grabs Deakins' hand, pushing up as...
DEAKINS
Pulls the trigger and the gun FIRES.
HALE
The bullet cuts a line through the top of his helmet, punching a hole in the window by his head.
DEAKINS AND HALE
Deakins goes for anothershot, but Hale grabs the gun and pushes up, sending bullets through the ceiling of the plane, into the walls. Deakins forces the gun down, fires.
THE BULLET
Tears through Hale's harness, blowing apart a shoulder strap.
HALE AND DEAKINS
Hale brings Deakins' gunhand hard against Hale's own helmet. Deakins yowls and the gun goes flying. Then Hale sees something.
THE PLANE
Is banking towards a ridge-line cliff wall.
HALE
Sees it, yanks on the stick.
THE PLANE
Banks hard away from thecliff, just missing.
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Baker gives a sign. Johnson, standing beside the missile launcher-like device, hits a button. Instead of a missile, a brilliant light shoots out.
ARMAMENTS CONTROL BUTTONS
Buttons include ONE, TWO, LOCK, LEFT, RIGHT, OPEN, CLOSE, ARM and RELEASE. Deakins presses ONE and TWO, then RIGHT.
He pulls at Deakins' arms.
CU COMPUTER SCREENS
Graphics of bomb racks rotate, the B-83 nukes -- labeled and glowing red -- move intothe bottom spot. The word RELEASE appears on the screen. Next to it, the word UNARMED flashes.
HALE AND DEAKINS
Deakins hits Hale with the back of his hand, knocking him back. Hale grabs Deakins' helmet, yanks it off his head and smashes Deakins back with it. Hale keys the armament buttons.
CU COMPUTER SCREENS
The nukes rotate out of the release position. RELEASE and UNARMED disappear.
HALE AND DEAKINS
Deakins grabs a fire extinguisher, swings it, getting Hale in the face. Hale is almost knocked out, blood running from his nose.
Terry is standing by hertruck, talking on the radio.
She feels it before she hears it or sees it.
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THE GHOST
Rushes over Terry, no more than fifty feet above the ground.The jet-wash rocks the truck, almost knocks Terry down.
Hale groggy, hears a loud click. He looks down to see...
DEAKINS' HAND
AUTO to MANUAL. Deakins grabs Hale's EJECTION HANDLE.
HALE AND DEAKINS
Hale tries to push the handle down as Deakins pulls it up as...
Heads into the beacon light.
Hale and Deakins look ateach other as the plane enters the light and the light, in SLOW MOTION, washes across their faces.
DEAKINS
Suddenly lets go of Hale's hand, then hits Hale hard under the chin with the fire extinguisher.
HALE
His head snaps back as Deakins pulls.
HALE'S EJECTION SEAT HANDLE
Pop, hiss like a huge vacuum-sealed can is being opened.
The ejection hatch blowsand is ripped away by the wind.
HALE'S POV
As he rockets up out of the cockpit.
HALE
When the chute opens, healmost spills out because of the severed shoulder harness. He grabs the straps, holds on.
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Terry, on the radio withClyde.
Debris -- coffee cups, flight bags, anything not nailed down-- is whipping around the inside of the cabin. Deakins reaches through the maelstrom, then reaches to the ARMAMENT BUTTONSand punches them.
The the clamps snap backand the two B-83s drop toward the earth.
Deakins looks around, then gets an idea. He hits the LANDING mission mode button and the cockpit lights up.
The Ghost starts poppingup on everyone's screens. There's a chorus of "I got em!" and "They're ba-a-a-ck!" Wilkins looks at a screen, puzzled.
Deakins yells into his helmet mike as he gets ready to eject.
Deakins pulls his secondhandle. BLAM! WHOOSH! He's gone. He hear and feel the plane dropping, screaming toward the earth.
CU RADAR SCREEN
The Ghost's blip suddenly disappears from the screen. A chorus of "What the hell?" and "Jesus."
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Alarm horns blare. FIVE MEN are running to a waiting Blackhawk helicopter. Waving the men on is Wilkins. The last man up is...
LIEUTENANT COLONEL SAM RHODES
40s, short grey hair: hecould snap your neck with a look.
Wilkins pats Rhodes on the shoulder and Rhodes jumps into...
THE HELICOPTER
And it lifts up and flies off.
Hale lies, unconscious, his parachute whipping in the wind.
The helicopter glides over wind-whipped sand, searchlights on. Rhodes sits with MCKELLAR, the pilot. Lieutenants KELLY, REED and THOMAS are in the back.
IN THE SAND
Something glints in the searchlights but the helicopter moveson.
The lights sweep back, find...
THE TIP OF BLACK WING
Sticking out of the sand.
Establishing shot.
AKA "The War Room." Phones, faxes, computers, TV monitors, backlit maps and coffee. Present are GENERALS (including Air Force General CREELEY), the CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF (CHAIRMAN) and ASSISTANTS, all in uniform. They turn as...
BAIRD
Enters. Baird, 60s, is the White House Chief of Staff. His assistant stays in the b.g. as Baird walks in.
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The chairman nods towardRICK. Baird reads, mumbling.
Baird hands it to Rick, who starts for the door.
The room quiets. All eyes on...
GILES
Baird's intensely competent assistant.
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A few chuckles in the room. Baird looks at the Chairman -- well? The Chairman thinks for a second, nods. Baird turns to Rick.
Rick grits his teeth andhurries out. Baird looks at Giles.
Giles nods, heads out. Baird grabs his arm.
And out Giles goes.
Rhodes and his men are on the ground. Wind is whipping the sand. Rhodes is walkingunder part of the wing that is exposed. He's yelling into a headset microphone.
Wilkins talks to Rhodes over the radio.
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Rhodes walks up to his men who are in the process of openingthe bomb bay doors manually. The doors are open a foot. Rhodes signals his men to stop. Rhodes steps up, shines a light into the bomb bays.
INSIDE BOMB BAYS
Rhodes' light plays overthe bomb racks -- empty.
Stunned silence. They've just gotten the news. Baird doesn't know what it means.
Wilkins is on the radio with Rhodes.
Wilkins to the CORPORAL.
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CU COMPUTER SCREEN
Various views of a B-83 nuclear weapon. Creeley is briefing Baird on the nukes.
Baird stands, looks at apicture of a Ghost shakes his head.
Hale is still unconscious, lying beside his parachute. There's the crunch of footsteps and a FIGURE looms over Hale. The figure reaches down to touch Hale's shoulder and...
HALE
Spins, grabs the shirt of the figure and cocks his arm aboutto punch. He hesitates when he sees it's...
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TERRY
She seizes Hale's hesitation and punches him hard.
HALE AND TERRY
Hale is stunned. Terry starts to get up, reaching for her gun. Hale strikes out with a leg, getting Terry in the gut, sending her back. She hits the ground, still struggling for her gun. Hale gets up, runs, sprinting off over the rocky terrain.
HIS POV
Jarring, racing over rock and then...
HALE
Pulls up fast, almost not fast enough.
HALE'S POV
He's stopped right at the edge of a fifty foot drop.
TERRY
Is walking slowly, calmy, up behind Hale, pistol out.
Hale sticks his hands behind him. Terry handcuffs them.
Terry puts away her gun,spins Hale around and starts marching him off.
Terry reacts to that, but keeps Hale moving.
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Terry starts to push Hale along again and...
HALE
Jumps up and through thehandcuffs.
TERRY
Reaches for her revolver, but...
HALE
Grabs it from her, puts it to-her head, but not before...
TERRY
Whips a knife from her belt and puts it under Hale's chin.
HALE AND TERRY
Don't move. A beat while they catch their breath.
Terry taps her belt.
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CLOSE ON HER BELT
A line of bullets.
HALE AND TERRY
Terry holds out her hand. Hale lets the revolver swing down on his finger. Just as Terry takes it...
HALE
Moves fast, grabs Terry's knife hand, then kicks her legs out from under her. Hale lands on top of her, still holding her knife hand, putting the knife to her throat.
Terry nods, bewildered and more than a little scared.
Hale lets go of Terry's hand holding the knife.
Terry looks at Hale for a long moment. She's still holding the knife. She exhales, then sticks the knife in the dirt.
The helicopter flies low. Rhodes looks at a device on his lap.
ON THE DEVICE'S SCREEN
Green, like a radar screen. It's blank, and then two dots appear on the outer edgeof the screen.
Terry unlocks Hale's handcuffs.
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Hale sticks...
A TWENTY DOLLAR BILL
Under a rock.
Hale walks off into the light of the rising sun. Terry looks at the $20 bill.
The helicopter is parkedat the edge of a deep crevice.
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DOWN IN THE CREVICE
Rhodes comes down the last few feet of rope to the bottom ofthe crevice. Kelly, Thomas and Reed are waiting, shining lights on a B-83 lying in the dirt, all in one piece.
Rhodes starts off along the bottom of the crevice.
McKellar is sitting in the pilot's seat, eating a candy bar.He turns at the unexpected sound of a truck-driving up.
A HUMVEE
climbs up the slope toward the helicopter.
MCKELLAR
Grabs his rifle, hops out of the helicopter.
NOVACEK AND LETT
Are in the Humvee. Novacek sticks his head out.
LETT
Whips out a silenced rifle and shoots.
MCKELLAR
Barely has time to raisehis rifle before he's hit. He drops.
ANOTHER HUMVEE
Drives up fast.
BAKER, JOHNSON AND PRITCHETT
Get out. Johnson wears radio headgear. Pritchett is furious.
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NOVACEK
Picks up McKellar's half-eaten candy bar, takes a bite.
Novacek, mouth full, shakes his head.
They all look over to see...
DEAKINS
Walk out of the shadows,smoking a cigarette. While soldierly with his men, Deakins iscourteous and polite with Pritchett.
Johnson walks up, pointing to his radio headgear.
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Deakins thinks it over, turns to Novacek.
Novacek nods, goes to the helicopter.
Hale and Terry are hurrying along a 4WD trail toward Terry's truck. Terry taken a look at Hale's ripped and torn flightsuit.
Hale nods. His feet crunch on something.
Terry gives Hale a look.
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Rhodes, Reed, Thomas andKelly move along the shadowy crevice.
Novacek flips switches in the helicopter, getting ready to start up. Deakins reaches in,flips off a switch marked COM LINK.
Rhodes hears the connection go dead. He taps his headset.
Suddenly, there's a softpopping sound and Reed drops.
Rhodes looks down, sees blood on Reed. Before he can say another word, there's a fusillade of soft popping sounds as silenced bullets ricochet off the rock around them. Thomas goes down.
Silence from the speakers.
Lett aims a sniper's rifle down into the crevice. He flips a switch and a red laser beam stabs out from the scope.
Rhodes and Kelly are pressed against the crevice wall.
THE RED LASER BEAN
Dances along the wall, heading for them.
RHODES
Raises his pistol and shoots at the source of the laser.
Lett pitches back, dead.
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PRITCHETT AND DEAKINS
Pritchett looks at Deakins -- another part of the plan? Deakins is unperturbed. He's holding an overnight bag. He unzips it.
Rhodes whispers to Kelly.
Rhodes scrambles off.
Kelly opens fire with his rifle. Rhodes is thrown back, dead. Kelly yells up top.
Kelly grabs the rope, climbs fast.
Mr. Pritchett looks at Deakins, surprised. Deakins -- putting on new clothes -- just grins. Deakins takes...
THE TWENTY DOLLAR BILL
From his flightsuit and puts it into his shirt pocket.
KELLY
Climbs into view.
Kelly's voice comes in over the speaker.
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Kelly talks over the helicopter's radio mike. Deakins is behind him, shaving with an electric shaver.
Deakins puts the shaver to the radio mike. There's a wash of 40 static. Deakins pulls the shaver away, nods to Kelly.
Deakins puts the shaver to the mike again -- more static. He reaches into the helicopter and flips off the COM LINK switch, then backs away, shaving. He nods to Novacek, who fires up the helicopter.
Wilkins slumps in his chair.
Novacek lifts off in thehelicopter and flies away.
Deakins turns to Kelly and applauds his performance.
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They look at him; he taps his radio headgear.
Hale and Terry are riding in Terry's truck. Terry drives. Hale is wearing work clothes. After some silence...
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Before Hale can answer...
THE SEARCH AND RESCUE HELICOPTER
Rises up in front of them, Novacek piloting. Novacek thumbs a button and machine guns on the sides open up.
TERRY AND HALE
Terry jumps on the brakes. She and Hale bail out as...
THE TRUCK
is riddled with bullets and explodes.
TERRY AND HALE
Sprint up the trail.
Terry leads Hale up a short slope. Hale scrambles over the top and is stunned. Terry runs out onto an open expanse -- no cover.
IN THE HELICOPTER
Novacek grins, shoots.
HALE
Looks at the helicopter as the bullets whistle in. When he turns back, Terry's gone.
Hale runs in the direction of her voice.
NOVACEK'S POV
Aiming at Hale's back. But then Hale suddenly drops from view.
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HALE
Arms flailing, drops fifteen feet, to deep sand.
Terry runs. Hale follows.
Not looking, Terry runs straight into a wall, smacks her head and drops like a rock.
IN THE HELICOPTER
Novacek can't see his prey. He gets an idea and reaches back.
TERRY AND HALE
Terry is trying to get her eyes to focus.
IN THE HELICOPTER
Novacek has a box of grenades beside him. He pulls the pin on a grenade and drops it.
TERRY AND HALE
Hale is helping Terry toher feet as BOOM -- the first grenade goes off. They run.
THE HELICOPTER
Chases them, strafing them. BOOM! -- a grenade goes off in front of them. They run back. They're cornered. Hale looks around, looks up.
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TOP OF CLIFF
Terry climbs up into view of...
NOVACEK
Who sees her.
TERRY
Pull herself up, stands,hands up.
THE HELICOPTER
Novacek swivels the helicopter around.
HALE
Is down in the fissure, pointing the revolver straight up atthe helicopter hovering right overhead, figuring out where to shoot.
Hale hesitates -- he's never shot at someone before -- then takes a breath and starts shooting.
IN THE HELICOPTER
The bullets fly up from below. One hits Novacek. He slumps, pushing the joystick to one side.
THE HELICOPTER
Starts to lean over sideways.
HALE
Is surprised -- it worked!'
TERRY
Watches in horror as...
THE HELICOPTER'S MAIN ROTOR BLADES
Angle toward her, slicing the air as the helicopter tips over.
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TERRY
Dives and rolls over theedge of the cliff as...
THE ROTOR BLADES
Hit the rock, sparking, grinding, right over Terry's head. The blades stop dead. But the torque of the motor brings...
THE TAIL OF THE HELICOPTER
Up and over, in a high arc.
TERRY
Looks up.
THE TAIL --SECTION
Is swinging over fast and the tail rotor is coming right forher.
HALE AND TERRY
Hale runs up, grabs Terry, pulls her to her feet as...
THE TAIL SECTION
Swings down, rotor spinning. It digs into the dirt and sand a split-second after...
HALE AND TERRY
Run clear.
Deakins and Pritchett watch a fireball from the exploding helicopter rise up in the distance.
Deakins shakes his head.
Deakins turns and walks away, over to...
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BAKER AND KELLY
Who have taken the three-foot, pointed, front section off each nuke. They are loading them into the back of one Humvee.
Pritchett walks up behind Deakins, still nagging.
Giles enters and is brought over to Wilkins.
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Wilkins shakes his head.
Wilkins nods to a CORPORAL who hands some papers to Giles. Giles reads them quickly.
CU TRANSCRIPTS
We see COLONEL DEAKINS: "This is Deakins! Hale lost it! Oh, God! I have to punch out!"
Baird has put Giles on speaker phone. The people in the Situation Room exchange looks.
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CROSSCUT WITH GILES IN MCMURRAN CONTROL ROOM
Murmurs of "That's insane" "No way" fill the room.
A flurry of looks aroundthe room.
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Creeley starts to stammer. Baird slumps. The chairman turns.
A sleek, very serious-looking helicopter.
SIX very serious-lookingSOLDIERS are in black radiation suits, listening to COLONEL HUNT, 45, over headsets.
Giles looks at Wilkins.
Wilkins reaches for a phone. Giles smiles.
The helicopter wreck burns. Hale looks over the terrain.
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Hale looks at Terry -- that's exactly what Deakins would do.
The two Humvees roll along the narrow, twisting trail.
IN THE SECOND HUMVEE
Kelly drives, Deakins beside him, Johnson and Pritchett in back.
Deakins grins; Mr. Pritchett steams.
Hale and Terry stand on an outcropping overlooking the 4WD trail.
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THEIR POV
The two Humvees make their way along the trail.
Hale takes Terry's gun from her.
Terry looks at Hale -- then what is he going to do?
He scrambles off over the rock.
THE HUMVEES
Come around a corner. The trail hugs the face of a ten-foot- high cliff. Suddenly, from off the cliff...
HALE AND TERRY
Jump down onto the roof of the lead Humvee. Hale looks at Terry, angry. But before he can say anything...
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IN THE HUMVEE
Baker swerves, trying tothrow them off. He pulls out a pistol, shoots up through the ceiling.
HALE AND TERRY
Bullets punch up. Hale pulls out the gun. It falls from his hand. Terry grabs it asa sharp swerve sends...
HALE
Flying. He lands hard behind the Humvee.
IN THE SECOND HUMVEE
Deakins points at Hale, getting to his feet.
HALE
Sprints after the leading Humvee. Deakins' Humvee closes fast.
TERRY
Looks back, sees Hale's predicament.
She slides the pistol along the truck roof.
HALE
Grabs the gun out of theair as...
BAKER
Slams on the brakes.
TERRY
Comes flying off the top, landing on the hood, barely holdingon.
HALE
Is going to be crushed between the Humvees. He jumps up, turning, as the bumpers come together. He lands on the tailgate facing backwards and fires into Deakins' windshield.
DEAKINS AND KELLY
Kelly ducks below the dash and slams on the brakes but Deakins doesn't flinch. The bullets bounce off the glass --bulletproof.
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IN THE LEAD HUMVEE
Baker sticks his gun outthe window and aims at Terry and starts to pull the trigger whenhe stops, feeling a gun against the back of his head.
HALE
Is behind him. Hale gets into the passenger seat.
Hale shoots Baker in thethigh. Baker howls.
TERRY
Reaches forward and grabs Baker's gun as...
HALE
Kicks Baker out of the Humvee.
BAKER
Bad timing for him. He tumbles out, right in front of...
DEAKINS' HUMVEE
And is run over.
HALE
Holds the steering wheel, yells to Terry.
TERRY
Climbs into the Humvee, takes the wheel from Hale. She jams Baker's gun into her belt.
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There's a look between them, then Hale climbs into the back.He finds what he is lookingfor -- a jerry can of gasoline and an emergency tool box.
IN THE SECOND HUMVEE
IN HALE AND TERRY'S HUMVEE
Hale keeps his back to the other Humves. He pulls gaffer's tape off a roll, tears it with his teeth, grabs...
A FLARE
Out of the tool kit.
IN THE SECOND HUMVEE
BETWEEN THE HUMVEES
Hale tosses the jerry can of gasoline out the back of the Humvee.
THE JERRY CAN OF GASOLINE
Flies through the air. There's a burning flare taped to the side of the plastic can.
ECU TIP OF FLARE
As the plastic of the can bubbles and melts and...
IN THE SECOND HUMVEE
But it's too late and...
THE JERRY CAN
Explodes.
THE SECOND HUMVEE
Skids to a stop, showered with burning gasoline. Deakins and his men bail out. Kelly, Johnson and Pritchett run for cover.
DEAKINS
Coolly grabs a fire extinguisher and starts spraying.
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IN HALE AND TERRYS HUMVEE
Hale climbs up into the front seat. Terry looks at him, genuinely impressed.
Deakins keeps spraying the burning Humvee with foam.
Terry and Hale have taken the Humvee to the parking area in front of an abandoned mine. The winch on the Humvee strains. The cable is attached tothe handles on the padlocked metal doors. The doors are slowly pulling out, groaning.
The hinges on the metal doors buckle and snap and the doorsrip loose. Hale shuts down the winch, unhooks it from the doors. He motions for Terry to drive it in.
Terry drives the Humvee into the mineshaft entrance. Hale uses a flashlight to look around. He finds a switch a flips it. A gas generator comes to life. Another click and lights come on. Now they can see the rest of the entry area, including a wire- mesh-enclosed elevator. As Terry looks around, Hale grabs the Humvee radio, tries to tune in other frequencies, gives up.
Hale goes to the back ofthe Humvee, pulls down the tailgate.
Hale grabs a screwdriverfrom the tool kit and pries open a panel on the side of oneof the B-83s.
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INSIDE PANEL
There's an LCD DISPLAY, a NUMERIC KEYPAD and a CLOCK showingthe current time. The keys are oversized and brightly colored.
He reaches in, hits a key and the LCD display lights up.
Terry goes for the radiomike. Hale sees something.
A PLASTIC NAME TAG
Sticking out from under one of the nukes.
HALE
Pulls it out, looks at it.
ECU NAMETAG
It's from "St. Judes Hospital, Radiology Department."
HALE AND TERRY
Hale turns to Terry as she pulls over the radio mike.
The fire is out. The radio crackles.
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Deakins and Kelly look at each other.
Deakins gets in the passenger side, grabs the radio mike.
Johnson pulls out a radiation detector scanner like the one Rhodes used. Kelly and Pritchett get back in the vehicle.
CROSSCUT BETWEEN HALE AND DEAKINS
Kelly drives Deakins' Humvee along the trail as they talk.
Hale holds the radio mike up to the keypad as he enters numbers.
Hale slows down -- something's wrong -- Deakins doesn't cars.
Hale curses to himself. Terry looks at him. He shakes his head they're in trouble.
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END SPLIT-SCREEN. Hale drops the mike; looks at the elevator.
Hale opens the elevator gate.
Terry's jaw drops.
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Kelly drives the blackened Humvee as fast as he can. Johnson looks at his scanner, grins.
Hale hurries to the backof the Humvee.
Hale grabs the straps around one of the nukes, pulls. He can barely move the thing. He turns to Terry.
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Terry looks at him -- you asshole. Hale looks at her, very serious.
Terry thinks, shakes herhead, steps up and grabs the nuke.
The Humvee takes the turn-off to the mine entrance.
Hale and Terry are goingdown with the nukes.
Deakins's Humvee comes into the clearing. The Humvee stops and Deakins and Kelly jump out, followed by Pritchett and Johnson.
The elevator comes down. Hale slides open the gate. He and Terry drag the nukes out.
They are startled when the elevator starts going up behind them
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They start hauling the nuke down the tunnel.
Deakins, Pritchett, Kelly and Johnson wait by the elevator.
Deakins' charm peels away for an instant and he fixes Pritchett with a stare. Pritchett shrinks back.
Baird, the Chairman and the others are watching large TV monitors. Creeley walks them through what they're looking at.
ON THE MONITORS
A wide-view, bird's-eye,thermal image of rocky terrain.
The image changes. There are four blotches, glowing a dull red.
A look between Baird andthe Chairman. The Chairman reaches for a phone.
Wilkins is on the phone. Giles looks at him.
Wilkins nods. Giles grins smugly for about half a second, then realizes what it really means.
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Flying over Canyonlands.
Deakins, Kelly and Johnson are in the elevator. Kelly holds a small metal briefcase.
Hale and Terry have stopped at the end of a tunnel. Hale has opened the guts of the nuke. He's pulling out a chip.
He stands, looks around. He sees...
EYEBOLTS
Screwed into the cross beaus on the ceiling.
The elevator descends into view. Deakins, Kelly and Johnson get out. They see the othernuke lying there.
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In one hand Hale holds Terry's sock, filled with sand. His other hand grips the eyebolt. Terry is giving Hale a log up, straining under the weight.
Hale has pushed the openend of the sock through the eyebolt. He tightens a belt around the open end of the sock.
Terry lets Hale down. Hale picks up a big rock and loops the free end of the belt around it. Then he picks up a smaller rock.
CLOSE ON NUCLEAR WEAPON
One chip has been pulledout of a circuit board. Hale very gingerly lays the small rock on top of the chip.
Hale finishes putting the small rock in position. He stands.
Hale is cut off by...
BULLETS
Flying in, ricocheting off the rock walls, fired by...
JOHNSON
Thirty yards down the tunnel.
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HALE AND TERRY
Dive to the ground. They pull pistols, start shooting.
THE SOCK
One of Johnson's bulletscuts through it.
HALE
Feels sand hitting his face, looks up.
HIS POV
Sand is draining out of the sock very fast.
HALE AND TERRY
Reaches up to grab the big rock, but Johnson sends a spray of bullets in. Terry grabs Hale.
More bullets. Terry pulls Hale. They run down a side passage. Hale and Terry fire backat Johnson as they run out of sight.
JOHNSON
Shoots after them, then runs up to the weapon. He reaches for the rock, stops -- maybethat'll set it off.
THE SOCK
The last sand pours out;the sock is sucked through the eye-bolt.
THE ROCK
Drops fast toward the nuke.
A HAND
Grabs it, stopping it just in time. The hand belongs to...
DEAKINS
He looks at Johnson in disgust, exhales, and tosses the rock.He pulls out a walkie-talkie, clicks on, talks into it.
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HALE AND TERRY
Running along a tunnel.
Terry nods. They hurry off around a corner and are met by...
A FLURRY OF BULLETS
Fired by...
DEAKINS
With his Uzi.
HALE AND TERRY
Run back down the side tunnel, bullets winging off the rockall around them, shooting back. Hale starts shooting out the lights, plunging the tunnel into darkness.
DEAKINS
Slows down.
BY THE NUKE
Kelly is there with Johnson. Kelly flips on a lamp on a headstrap, giving him better light as he opens up the metal briefcase he's been carrying.
INSIDE THE BRIEFCASE
An elaborate electronic timer.
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IN THE TUNNELS
Deakins pulls out a fresh clip.
Deakins jams in his clip, walks into the dark part of the tunnel.
HALE AND TERRY
In the dark, waiting to ambush Deakins and then...
DEAKINS
Opens fire -- but not atHale and Terry -- at the cable along the ceiling connecting the lights. The cable snaps and electrical sparks shoot out, flooding the tunnel with light, showing...
HALE AND TERRY
Suddenly exposed to Deakins' fire. The bullets whiz in.
DEAKINS
The muzzle flashes from his Uzi give away his position and Hale and Terry's bullets scream in at him. He backs around a corner.
HALE AND TERRY
Take cover. It's a stand-off.
Hale hears Deakins' footsteps start off.
The footsteps stop.
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DEAKINS' FACE
Grim, evil -- fades intodarkness as he turns and walks off.
HALE AND TERRY
They hear footsteps, receding. Hale bolts out of their hiding spot. Terry follows.
Deakins gets to the elevator, drags the other nuke in, shutsthe gate and starts up.
Kelly finishes keying innumbers into the nuke timer. An amber light comes on and...
THE TIMER
Starts ticking down fromton minutes.
KELLY AND JOHNSON
Grab their guns and run.
The elevator comes up. Deakins drags out the nuke, hits the DOWN button, shuts the gate. The elevator descends.
Hale and Terry are waiting for the elevator to come down when...
KELLY AND JOHNSON
Run in. A half-second of surprise is broken when...
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THE ELEVATOR
Comes down.
HALE AND TERRY
Make a move toward the elevator, but...
KELLY AND JOHNSON
Unload with their Uzis.
HALE AND TERRY
Back around a corner, side by side, shooting their pistols.
JOHNSON
Is shot, drops.
KELLY
Grabs Johnson's Uzi and,firing both guns, backs to the elevator, kicks open thegate with his foot and gets inside. He hits the UP button with the butt of one of the guns and the elevator starts to rise.
HALE AND TERRY
Step out of the tunnel and fire on the climbing elevator.
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Seven minutes and counting.
Deakins and Pritchett get the nuke into the back of the Humvee.
Hale looks at her.
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Hale takes Terry in his arms, holds her.
Hale nods, hugs Terry. Terry starts to say something else, but Hale puts a finger to his lips -- he's heard something -- a distant rushing.
Hale pulls Terry, running, down the far tunnel.
Deakins slams the tailgate on the Humvee shut. From the distance, he and Pritchett hear the whump-whump-whump of a helicopter. Deakins motions Pritchett to stay.
Deakins comes out, looksup, sees...
THE NEST HELICOPTER
Coming toward him, two miles away.
Hunt sees something, points.
HIS POV
The blackened Humvee andDeakins by the mine entrance.
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Hale and Terry run up. The tunnel comes to an end at a big hole. The rushing soundcomes from the hole. They step up to the edge and look down.
THEIR POV
Dark water rushes by tenfeet below them.
They look at each other. They don't have any choice. They flick on their flashlights and jump. They-hit the water and are swept from view.
Deakins enters, motions for Pritchett to get into the Humvee.
Deakins opens fire with his Uzi on the generator. Sparks fly and the thing shuts down.
Kelly is jarred when theelevator stops and the lights dim.
Deakins and Pritchett drive out of the mine in the Humvee. Deakins punches the tripodometer, setting it to zeroes.
Kelly switches on his headlamp.
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He pulls open the gate and climbs down.
THE ELEVATOR SHAFT
Kelly swings under the elevator.
He grabs the cable trailing off below the elevator and starts sliding down it into thedarkness.
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Two minutes and counting.
Hale and Terry are beingsucked along through the fast, turbulent water. Their flashlights show...
STALACTITES
Jutting down like knives, ready-to rip then open.
HALE AND TERRY
Dodge them, push off, duck under. And then they notice that...
THE CEILING
Is getting lower, getting closer to the surface of the water. They're running out of breathing room. Three feet, two feet, one foot. They take big breaths, maybe their last, and they're...
UNDERWATER
Tumbling along, pulled at by the eddies, flashlights showing their faces -- they are running out of air. And then, there's light above them in the water.
HALE AND TERRY
Lungs bursting, they start kicking up.
Terry and Hale come to the surface, coughing, sucking in air.
Deakins drives fast along the 4WD trail, glancing in his sideview mirror at...
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THE NEST HELICOPTER
Closing in on him.
PRITCHETT
Is holding on tight as Deakins drives wildly.
DEAKINS
Very suddenly and very violently lashes out. The side of his hand hits Pritchett in the throat.
PRITCHETT
Gags silently, suddenly unable to get any air. He pulls at his throat, even pounds himself in the back of the neck. No go. He slowly slumps, dying, skin turning blue.
Kelly is running as fastas he can, headlamp lighting the way.
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Thirty seconds and counting.
Hale and Terry are swimming toward the bank.
Deakins barrels along inthe Humvee, the NEST helicopter getting closer behind him.
IN THE HUMVEE
Deakins has a thought and looks over at Pritchett, dead, heldup by the seatbelt.
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ECU NUKE TIMER
Eighteen seconds left.
KELLY
Runs up, starts enteringnumbers into the timer keypad.
The NEST helicopter closes fast on Deakins. They are a couple hundred feet above him, a quarter mile back.
A line of bullets kicks up dust in front of Deakins' Humvee.
Deakins looks at...
THE TRIP ODOMETER
It clicks over from 2.9 to 3.0 miles.
DEAKINS
Grins, steps on the brakes.
The Humvee stops and Deakins gets out, arms above his head.
THE NEST HELICOPTER
A hundred feet in the air, slowly coming in toward Deakins.
ECU NUKE TIMER
Eleven, ten, nine...
KELLY
Punches in the last two numbers of the code then ENTER.
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ECU NUKE TIMER
It stops with seven seconds left. The amber light goes off and the red light comes on.
KELLY
Sits back on the floor, takes a breath.
Deakins is watching the helicopter. Strangely, he is grinning. Then the camera CLOSES IN fast on...
DEAKINS' HAND
He's holding a small black box. He presses a button and...
Kelly hears a click. He looks over at...
THE TIMER
The red light goes out. The amber light comes on. A splitsecond later, the green light comes on.
The screen goes white.
DEAKINS
Watching the helicopter,listening to Hunt over the loudspeaker.
THE GROUND
Rises up beneath Deakins.
HIGH ANGLE - WIDE SHOT
The ripples of the shockwave shoot out from the mine, shaking dust and dirt into the air with an incredible, deafening roar.
DEAKINS AMD THE HUMVEE
Fly ten feet into the air.
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There's a roar of staticover everyone's headphones and then every light, every pieceof electronic equipment shuts down.
They plummet.
Terry and Hale are pulling themselves out of the water whenthe shockwave hits, knockingthem off their feet.
Wilkins and Giles hear the sudden rumble and then the shockwave hits, knocking stuff offdesks, swinging lamps.
Deakins and the Humvee land. In the b.g....
THE NEST HELICOPTER
Drops out of sight behind a rock formation. There's an explosion and a ball of fire shoots up.
Terry looks over at Hale-- holy shit.
The lamps are still swinging.
Deakins picks himself up.
Wilkins grabs a phone. Giles is pacing, freaked.
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Bedlam. People yelling. The Chairman is huddling with Baird.
Baird nods.
The Humvee races along the trail.
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IN THE HUMVEE
Deakins and the dead Pritchett motor along. Deakins turns to Pritchett as if Pritchett had just asked him a question.
Pritchett's body seems to nod from the motion of the Humvee.
BUTTERFLIES
Hover and dance over thewater in the early morning light.
HALE
Hale has his shirt off and is wringing it out.
He turns to see Terry trying to undo her buttons but unableto her fingers are too numb.
Terry suddenly starts crying. It's not the shirt she's upset about. Hale holds her.
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Terry looks at Hale. She knows he's bullshitting her, but she appreciates it. They look at each other. They could kiss ... but they both shy away from it. Terry gets her shirt off.
They start off along a trail by the river.
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Hale looks at Terry witha new appreciation.
Deakins pilots the Humvee along the trail.
Hale and Terry are crouching behind a rock, looking down.
THEIR POV
A zodiac raft has been pulled up on the river bank. A man with an Uzi -- SHEPPARD -- waits, duffel bag by his feet.
There's the sound of an approaching engine. Sheppard stands, gun ready. The engine stops. A few seconds later...
DEAKINS
Appears, walking down a footpath toward Sheppard.
Sheppard hurries to Deakins. They disappear up the footpath.
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HALE AND TERRY
Hale looks at Terry -- she's right. But it almost pisses him off more than it gives him confidence. He grumbles to himself and starts off down toward the raft.
They get down to the raft. They climb in. Hale grabs the engine throttle, slumps.
Hale looks around, spotsSheppard's duffel bag lying on the riverbank. He hops out and starts rummaging through it when they hear grunting and feet approaching.
Hale looks around for a place to hide. There isn't any. Terry tries to get out of the raft, but she trips on a tarpaulin bunched on the bottom ofthe raft. she drops.
WITH DEAKINS AND SHEPPARD
Coming down a path, lugging the last remaining nuke.
THEIR POV
Of the raft. Hale and Terry are nowhere to be seen.
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HALE
Is alone, in the water, on the far side of the raft, very silent. He hears Deakins and Sheppard load the nuke into the raft.
A few seconds later the engine starts up. Hale ducks down under water as the raft takes off over him. He surfaces to watch the raft zooming off into the distance. He is very worried.
ON THE RAFT - MOVING
The nuke is on a pallet in the middle of the raft. Sheppard pilots the raft. Deakins looks around, sees what he wants.
A TARP
Is lying on the deck of the raft along one side, all bunchedup. It'd be the kind of thing you'd hide under.
DEAKINS
Grabs the tarp and pulls.
UNDER THE TARP
There's no one there.
DEAKINS
Throws the tarp over thenuke. As he does, we PAN OVER to...
A LONG CRATE MARKED "LIFE JACKETS"
Strapped to one of the side pontoons. A small triangle of cloth is sticking out from inside the crate -- like the corner ofa shirt. It's quickly pulled out of sight from within.
BACK ON THE RIVERBANK
Hale climbs out of the water and looks around, not knowing quite what to do.
The zodiac boat is on the shore. Sheppard and four man -- call them the GUNMEN -- are hauling the nuke to the truck. Deakins walks with another man -- MAX, 50s. Max checks his watch.
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Baird, the Chairman, Creeley and the others are all staring slack-jawed at a TV screen.
ON THE TV
Camcorder shot of Deakins against a black backdrop.
The screen suddenly cutsto a flurry of images of nuclear destruction -- buildingsbeing knocked sideways, mushroom clouds, shockwaves, fires.
Hale runs along the shoreline, headed for...
A MARINA
Where houseboats are rented out. Hale's eyes focus on a sign with a picture of a phone on it.
The back gate of the truck is shut from the inside. The truck starts up and rumbles off, slowly at first.
TERRY
Jumps up from the raft and runs after the truck, staying right behind. She grabs a handhold and pulls herself up. She holds on tight as the truck bounces off down the dirt road.
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Loud voices and crosstalk. Baird is on the phone, nodding.
Creeley's phone rings. He answers it.
Army helicopters are landing near the marina. Two are already down. One has TROOPS standing outside of it.
HALE, WILKINS AND GILES
Are walking toward the second helicopter.
A brief look between Wilkins and Giles.
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Wilkins nods over at theother helicopter. The troops standing in front of it are MPs. Hale looks at Wilkins, astounded.
Wilkins is up front withthe pilot. Hale and Giles are in back. All wear headsets. Hale is yelling at Wilkins.
CLOSE ON THE NUCLEAR WEAPON
Dusty slices of light come through the truck's slatted walls. The nuclear weapon is lashed to a hammock, straps running offto D-rings on the sides. Max is hooking up an electronic timer.
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Giles and Wilkins share a look -- Hale is right.
Giles wants to help. So does Wilkins, but...
Wilkins turns away. Hale sits back, mind racing, not knowing what to do. He quickly grabs a pistol from the helicopter's weapons rack and puts itto Wilkin's neck.
Hale thinks, but there'sno way he can do that. He lowers the gun, sits back.
Giles gets Hale's attention, then points to his own head. Hale doesn't understand, so Giles grabs Hale's gunhand and puts the gun up to his head.
Wilkins looks back, seesHale holding the gun to Giles' head.
Wilkins grins.
Max finishes hooking up the timer. He looks at Deakins.
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Deakins goes to a ladderthat leads up to the ceiling.
Hale is looking back andforth between what he sees out the window and the map on his lap.
Wilkins doesn't understand.
Wilkins doesn't understand. Hale points outside, down at...
TRAIN TRACKS
On the ground. Old ones, half-covered by weeds.
A freight train -- engine, a car carrier (carrying a load of Toyotas), several boxcars and a caboose. A hatch opens up an the roof of one of the boxcars near the tail of the train and...
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DEAKINS
Climbs out and we discover that indeed they are not in a truck, they're in a train. The "nuke boxcar" has a small satellite dish mounted on the roof.
THE FOUR GUNMEN
Are in position at points along the train, ready with Uzis.
Wilkins hangs up the radio mike.
Giles nods. Hale is thinking. Wilkins starts to tell the pilot.
Giles and Wilkins look at him like he's nuts.
They look at him, then Wilkins grabs the map.
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ECU MAP
Wilkins' finger follows the train line on the map. It goes right into Las Vegas.
Wilkins' finger keeps moving on the map.
Wilkins' finger stops.
Deakins jumps the gap between two boxcars and walks on. We ANGLE DOWN to reveal...
TERRY
Crouching down between the two cars.
Sheppard is working witha torch, welding the brake and accelerator controls. Deakins enters. Sheppard turns the torch down. Deakins lights a cigarette off it.
Behind the driver's compartment is the engine itself, with walkways along either side.
TERRY
Creeps-up to one of the doors that lead into the driver's compartment. She hears...
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Deakins turns to go.
Deakins opens the door and strides along beside the engine.
TERRY
Is hiding on the other side of the engine, very quiet and still. As Deakins goes out the back door of the engine, Terry follows.
Terry comes out the doorand is about to step across to the ladder on the boxcar when we PULL BACK to reveal...
DEAKINS
As he puts a gun to the back of Terry's head.
A RANCHER comes out of the mini-mart with a cup of coffee and heads for his old pickuptruck. He starts to open his door when he hears, incongruously,whump-whump-whump. He looks up as...
WILKINS' HELICOPTER
Comes in, gets about three feet off the ground and Giles jumps out. As Giles runs to apayphone, the helicopter pulls up and flies away, leaving the Rancher agog.
Terry comes down the ladder from the hatch, followed by Deakins with a gun.
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The room is silent. Everyone is looking at video monitors showing a map of Las Vegas. They are listening to a nervous ASSISTANT as he uses a telestrator to diagram the blast effects.
Terry is shaking, tears in her eyes, as she slowly-enters the numbers Deakins tells her to in the nuke timer keypad.
ECU TERRY'S EYES
Filled with tears. She blinks and...
QUICK CUTS
Terry has visions of RETIREES in Vegas, watering potted plants outside their motor home, of TEENAGERS ragging on each otheras they walk to school, of CHILDREN in a playground.
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And Terry shakingly pushing each button and then...
The images of the retirees, the teenagers and the children each bleach out to white, fast, as if hit by a nuclear blast.
TERRY
Her finger hovers over the ENTER button, almost pushes it, then shifts to CANCEL and pushes that.
ECU NUKE TIMER
The display goes blank.
DEAKINS
Stunned. He shakes his head.
Deakins shrugs -- he sees her logic. He puts his gun to Terry's head. Terry shuts her eyes.
Deakins is about to pullthe trigger when Max stops him. Max gestures -- listen. They hear a helicopter approaching. Max checks his watch.
Just then, they hear gunfire. Max gives Deakins a look.
Deakins starts climbing up the ladder to the hatch.
The GUNMAN at the caboose is firing on Wilkins's helicopter, hanging a hundred yards off the back of the train.
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Max holds a pistol on Terry with one hand while he quickly sets the timer with the other.
TERRY'S HAND
Rests on Max's tool tray. Her fingers creep over to a vrench.
MAX
Presses ENTER and finishes setting the timer.
TERRY AND MAX
Terry swings hard and fast with the wrench, knocking the gunout of Max's hand. Max spins, and when Terry swings at him again. Max kicks the wrench outof her hand, then steps up fast and hits Terry under the chin with the heel of his hand. She drops straight back.
Max goes for his gun.
TERRY'S HAND
Grabs onto something. It's the wrench.
TERRY AND MAX
As Max turns back with the gun, Terry heaves the wrench. It hits Max square in the forehead. He drops like a rock.
Deakins joins his man ontop of the caboose, firing on Wilkins, helicopter.
Wilkins and Hale are returning fire. Hale points at Deakins.
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Deakins and the gunman keep firing on the helicopter as...
THE HELICOPTER
Comes swooping in.
DEAKINS
Sees what's going to happen and turns and runs as...
THE HELICOPTER
Drops down beside the train. The rotor blades whip about three feet over the train roofand the pilot starts forward.
DEAKINS AND THE GUNMAN
Run from the blades as fast as they can.
THE HELICOPTER
Closes fast.
DEAKINS AND THE GUNMAN
Jump from car to car. The gunman passes Deakins. Just when the helicopter blades are about to catch up to Deakins...
DEAKINS
Jumps down between two boxcars and the rotor blades go right over his head. Deakins hears an awful sound and a scream cut short.
HELICOPTER POV
Swooping fast over the train when suddenly...
TERRY
Pops up out of the hatch, her back to the helicopter.
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THE HELICOPTER
Pulls up fast.
TERRY
Watches the helicopter bank away. Bullets-start whizzing by her.
DEAKINS
Has climbed up and is shooting at her.
TERRY
Runs away from Deakins, shooting Max's pistol behind her blindly.
TWO GUNMEN
Appear two cars ahead ofTerry and start toward her, shooting.
TERRY
Is caught between Deakins and the gunmen with no way out when...
THE HELICOPTER
Comes along the length of the train, flying low. It rises up and there's...
HALE
Hanging from the helicopter on a cable hooked to a harness and he's firing a pistol, shooting right over Terry at...
THE FIRST GUNMAN
He's hit, falls off the train.
THE SECOND GUNMAN
Aims at Terry and startsfiring.
TERRY
The bullets rip up the boxcar roof around her. She jumps up and grabs onto...
HALE
As he swings in on the cable, shooting his pistol.
HALE AND TERRY
Are lifted up and over...
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THE SECOND GUNMAN
Who turns, firing a shotgun. Hale's bullets find him. He falls.
SHEPPARD
Appears, firing an Uzi at Hale, Terry and the helicopter.
IN THE HELICOPTER
Bullets rip through. Wilkins is hit, knocked back.
THE CABLE HOLDING HALE AND TERRY
Is severed by one of Sheppard's bullets.
HALE AND TERRY
Drop ten feet to the roof of a boxcar. Hale shoots as they fall.
SHEPPARD
Is hit and drops.
THE HELICOPTER
Banks away fast, making ugly sounds, smoke billowing out. The engine cuts out and the helicopter drops to a hard landing beside the tracks.
HALE AND TERRY
Watch the helicopter land as the train rolls on. They look at each other.
Hale nods. Terry starts forward, then turns.
Hale grins. They hear a helicopter in the distance. They look over to see...
A RED CROSS HELICOPTER
Coming in fast.
HALE AND TERRY
Any excitement turns to confusion when they see...
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A MAN
Standing in the doorway of the Red Cross helicopter, holdinga gun.
Terry nods. They share a last look, then Terry heads off. Male coils up the winch cable, slings it over his shoulder and heads for the nuke boxcar and his old friend Deakins. He picks up...
THE SHOTGUN
Left by deceased Gunman #2.
Makes her way past the Toyotas.
Wilkins and the pilot stand outside their disabled helicopter. The train is way off in the distance. They hear honking and turn to see...
A PICKUP TRUCK
Tearing toward then along a dirt road, horn honking.
CLOSE ON PICKUP
The RANCHER from the mini-mart is driving; Giles beside him.
Terry comes into the driver's compartment. She tugs at the brake and accelerator levers. It's useless. She looks around, spots a cigarette lighter.
Deakins and the one remaining GUNMAN hear the helicopter. They start toward the ladder to the roof hatch when they hear footsteps on the roof ofthe car. Deakins gestures to the gunman. He raises his gun, trying to figure out where to shoot. Then they hear someone tugging at the hatch handle. The gunman opens fire on the hatch.
Bullets stream up through the hatch cover, but Hale is nowhere in sight. One end of Hale's helicopter winch cable is tied to the hatch cover.
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We follow the cable fast, over to the side of the boxcar to find...
HALE
Standing, tugging on thecable, still attached to the harness. Hale racks a load in theshotgun and jumps back off the side of the train.
The gunman hears a sound, starts to turn, just as...
HALE
Swings into the boxcar on the cable, firing the shotgun.
THE GUNMAN
Is picked up by the blast and smashed back through the woodslat wall of the boxcar and out of the train.
DEAKINS
Climbs up fast through the hatch to the roof.
HALE
Shoots at Deakins, misses. The shotgun clicks empty. Hale tosses the gun then unhooks the cable from the harness. He drops to the floor-of the boxcar and runs to the ladder.
Terry has a three-foot length of gasoline-soaked cloth stuffed into the gas tank opening of a Toyota on the lower level ofthe car carrier. She lights it and hurries off.
Deakins steadies himselfas...
THE RED CROSS HELICOPTER
Hovers in sideways toward the train. The MAN in the doorway holds out a hand to Deakins.
DEAKINS
Is reaching for the man's hand and grabs it when...
HALE
Reaches out of the hatchand grabs onto Deakins' foot.
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HALE AND DEAKINS
Deakins kicks free of Hale, holds onto the man in the helicopter and is pulled onboard.
THE HELICOPTER
Moves sideways over the train.
IN THE HELICOPTER
Deakins turns, pulling his gun and shoots down at the trainas...
THE HELICOPTER
Moves back sideways overthe train.
DEAKINS' POV
No sign of Hale on the train roof.
THE PILOT
Nods and starts to lift and bank. Then he gets an odd expression. The helicopter isn't doing what he wants.
THE HELICOPTER
Is hovering over the train, but it can't fly away because...
HALE
Is hanging onto the skids and he's hooked the cable to the skid. The other end of the cable is still attached to the hatch.
THE HELICOPTER
Strains against the cable, but it doesn't snap.
IN THE HELICOPTER
POWER LINES
Cross the track, a quarter-mile ahead.
DEAKINS
Leans out of the helicopter with his Uzi, shooting down at...
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HALE
Who grabs onto the cableand slides down it to the roof of the train, bullets plugging in all around his. He jumps down through the hatch as...
DEAKINS
Sees what's coming and jumps.
THE HELICOPTER
Hits...
THE POWER LIKES
Which snap, shoot sparksand wrap around the helicopter's rotor.
THE HELICOPTER
Breaks up and flies apart as the train rolls on.
The flame burning up thegas-soaked cloth goes into the Toyota gas tank and...
THE TOYOTA
Explodes.
Hale gets to his feet, goes to look at the nuke.
ECU NUKE TIMER
Five minutes and counting.
HALE
Looks at it, trying to figure out how to disarm it. He hears the whoosh-thump of someone jumping down into the boxcar. He turns.
DEAKINS
Stands there, trying to smile, trying to be cool, but...
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Deakins pulls out...
THE TWENTY DOLLAR BILL
Then pockets it.
HALE AND DEAKINS
Share a look. Deakins puts up his fists.
Hale puts up his fists.
It's a chain reaction, with one flaming Toyota setting off the one above it or next to it.
BETWEEN BOXCAR AND CAR CARRIER
Terry is looking under the car carrier.
TERRY'S POV
The train car axle is smoking, grinding, glowing red in theheat from the flaming Toyotas.
Hale and Deakins circle each other.
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Deakins fakes a right, jabs with his left, catching Hale onthe chin. Hale is jarred. Blood runs from his mouth.
Again Deakins fakes right, jabs left. Hale half blocks it, but is sent back.
CU TRAIN AXLE
The axle is bending, grinding, groaning.
TERRY
Is between the car carrier and a boxcar, looking down at the axle, not knowing what the hell she's going to do when she hears a horn honking. She turns.
Deakins steps toward Hale, about to finish him off. Deakins swings. Hale ducks, comes up hard with all he's got, gets Deakins under the chin and Deakins sails up and back, landing prone, seeing stars.
HALE
Stands over Deakins, in silhouette, the light of the hatch above him. And then...
Snaps and...
THE TRAIN
Jumps the tracks.
Hale is thrown off his feet.
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THE NUCLEAR WEAPON
Swings wildly in the hammock webbing.
THE STRAPS
Securing the webbing to the walls of the car start to snap.
The front cars accordionsideways off the tracks, down a short, steep, embankment. It's all grinding, twisting, groaning metal.
FLAMING TOYOTAS
Fly, tumble, explode.
Hale tries to get to hisfeet, but then the floor starts dropping below him as...
THE NUKE BOXCAR
Goes down the steep slope of the embankment and stops.
THE TRAIN
The sounds of the crash cease. Dust and smoke. Burning Toyotas.
Flickering light from a burning Toyota comes in through the slatted walls. In this weird light, Hale sees...
THE NUCLEAR WEAPON
It's above him, at the end (top) of the car. It's hanging in mid-air, tangled up in the webbing. Two straps are the only things keeping the nuclear weapon from dropping twenty feetto the bottom of the car.
DEAKINS
Is lying at the bottom (end) of the car, directly under the nuke, not moving.
HALE
Looks around for something. He sees it --
DEAKINS' REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE
On the floor.
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DEAKINS' EYES
Flicker open. He sees...
A PISTOL
Lying a few feet away.
HALE
Hale turns to see...
DEAKINS
Pointing a gun at him.
ONE OF THE STRAPS
Holding the nuke tears through. One strap left.
HALE
His finger hovers over the amber button.
Hale looks at Deakins.
Hale presses the amber button.
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DEAKINS
Shoots.
HALE
Spins back, blood spraying from his shoulder.
THE REMOTE
Falls from his hand.
DEAKINS
Is about to shoot again,then hears a tearing and looks up as...
THE LAST STRAP
Rips through and...
THE NUKE
Drops toward him, point first.
HALE'S BLOODY HAND
Grabs the remote and hisfinger presses the RED button.
ECU NUKE TIMER
Mid-air, dropping, the clock and display go blank as...
DEAKINS
His eyes fill with true terror as...
THE NUCLEAR WEAPON
Punches into Deakins, point first, crushing him.
HALE
Gets to his feet and stands over Deakins. He reaches down, opens Deakins' pocket and pulls out the twenty-dollar bill.
He heads out of the boxcar.
Hale climbs out of the boxcar and starts running through the train wreckage and burning cars, looking for Terry.
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A TV NEWSVAN
Pulls up and a REPORTER and CAMERAMAN jump out.
HALE
Keeps running through the wreckage. He stops, unable to breathe when he sees...
A FOOT
In a boot, sticking out from under a burning Toyota.
HALE
Runs to the car, pulls at the foot, tries to push the car off the body underneath. O.S. another vehicle drives up.
Hale is pulling hard on the foot when...
Hale turns to see...
TERRY
Walkins over from the Rancher's pickup truck.
WILKINS AND GILES
Are behind her, grinning.
HALE AND TERRY
Run to each other. They embrace, start smoothing each other's hair, start wiping bloodoff each other's faces, start kissing, only to be interrupted by...
THE TV REPORTER AND CAMERMAN
Hale and Wilkins and Giles share a look.
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The reporter asks more questions. Hale and Terry walk off, arms around each other. As they go, Hale sticks out his hand to Terry.
They shake hands and walk on as we...