"FIRST BLOOD" (1982)

A single lane of parched earth, ground to dust by mili- tary truck tires -- single wheels, double axles, ROAR- ING low geared ENGINES as the --

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powers off the dirt onto the highway, truck after lunm- ~ UT bering truck packed with Kational Guardsmen. On all sides, patchwork farmlands, overshadowed by massive mountain forests. OVERSCREEN --

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NOVEMBER 1975, SOMEWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES --

Within eershot—of—the-epproezching conusy, we see the

solitery figure of the kid on the highway shoulder, walking TOWARD US. His jeans and Levi jacket are faded; on the back is an American flag. He wears péeratrooper boots that he tucks his pants into. He

,. carries 2 rolled-up sleeping bag over his shoulder -- ’ just a mothing kid, like the freaks and burnouts one ° ignores in Chicago or San Francisco. This, however,

is American heartland and we wonder if a kid looking like RAMBO is being reckless about his choice of geog- raphy. Reckless, too, that flet, unblinking, insolent ' yet faraway expression in his eyes. INTERCUT with --

19 RAMBO'S POV - BEND IN THE HIGHWAY 19s Ne Glimpses of countryside with the oncoming hulks and cy7 ROAR of the convoy. The sign: —

HOPE WELCOMES SAFE DRIVERS *

Riddled with bullet holes. Milk cows in adjacent farmm- ‘lends hung with red bunting. Fence post signs:

NO HUNTING

With it, the fallow gardens, junked front yards, chick- en coops and broken fences of the sparse “colored sec- tion" clinging to edge of a white town. A black woman of hurriedly pulls in her wash. A pair of mongrels race

to a fence at the highway shoulder, their BARKING MUF- wed FLED by the increasing ROAR.

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The Sheriff's car complete with TEASLE cruises through town. He nods genially to people.

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hesitates now and unshoulders the sleeping beg to ob- serve truck after truck heeving by him, spewing dust and engine exhaust. Glancing back, he sees --

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as it passes. A few Guardsmen have noticed him just ws

long enough to register resentment in their faces,

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stares back for a time, then slowly looks ahead, We Ox have no idea of what might be in his mind, as he re- shoulders the sleeping bag and resumes his walk.

Rambo walks up an uneven dirt path caused from tire Cade treads and erosion and approaches en old wood frame house with 2 cilepiceted front porch.

One room, perheps two. OPEN on the BLACK WOMAN, a (a.4-

Gish towel in her hands, stering past a young girl to --

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looks from Rambo to the girl. 4 WOMAN Not here -- (HORE)

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CONTINUED: () WOMAN (CONT'D) nde (to the girl) Go outside,

The child worriedly moves to the screen door, easing out and around Rembo. Rambo holds the door open, He can't seem to read the Woman's problem.

RA}IBO I wonder if I might trouble you for a glass of water.

INCLUDE the Woman.

... and heads toward her sink as Rambo shyly steps in- side, fishing out a pocket worn address book, thumbing it open to the appropriete page, wondering at the pos- sibility of a mistaken address... the little girl looks through the screen door with unabashed fascination.

The Woman hands Rambo a glass of water... He holds out the adcress book.

The Voman holds the eddress book end stares absently at the scrawled address.

Ram>do pulls a weathered snéepshot from his jacket. It is plastic coated and curled on the ends as thoush it has been in and out of his pocket a hundred times.

RAMBO

I told you I wasn't on his case -- He's a buddy -- we were on the same team --

(holds up picture) See, that's me there, That's Bronson, Ortega, Jorgensen, Czak, vantorth, Westmre, Jesus, Krakauer -- crazy bastard... Excuse that, please, and there's Delmar.

The little girl at the screen door eases her way in.

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i Rambo sets the picture on the table and seems to be searching for the right words, but none come. He looks very alone et this moment.

RA‘BO (weakly) Sorry -- I'm sorry.

Rezbo's eyes fill. with pein eas he turns in a defeated Ieshion and leaves. ,

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bighwey shoulder, forgotten in his hand the pocket- worn address book still thumbed open to the appropri- ate page. He steps from the porch and drops the book in the dust as he moves away.

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He stops and leans egainst the railing and stares into rte the water. With each second, the pain is building in Rambo,

at the same time. Two G.1.'s fall... The action is

insanely fast -- Rambo RAPID FIRES his M-16 and is hit

in the thigh. Still fighting, he writhes on the muddy benk es Delmar scoops him up with one powerful arm and Grags him to safety.

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Rembo, contorting his face, reflectively pounds the (wi tnigh that was wounded with his fist, once, twice, egzin, agein.

Teasle spies Rambo on the bridoe. As the car

epproaches, Rambo peuses at the ENGINE'S SOUND and

faces the soued car thet is twenty yerds away... Rembo

Sterts to move eway,

Teasle calls from his car.

Teesle stops the car end gets out, Rambo glances at him end seems to size up Teasle in a matter of seconds, then stares off to the other end of the bridge.

Rembo, ever so slightly, shakes his head no.

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Rambo remains lost in his own thoughts.

Get in the car. I1'11 make sure you don't head in the wrong direction.

Rambo gets into the car.

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Teasle veers the car to the curb. A sign reads:

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SHOT of police car with Teasle enc Rambo inside vpeassincg through town, past the police station, past the cas station.

\teasile and Rambo move down the hichway. c x. TEASLE — m Where are you headed? Pa a RAMBO ao ‘s+ Maybe Louisville. oN, TEASLE And maybe not .%. Where do you sleep? “In the woods? Y a “ \ RAMBO Sometimes. \ Y a TEAS LE It's safe enough now... Somebody from town give you a rixie in? ¢ RAMBO _— / ° “

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Where you headed? RAMBO

Portland. . TEASLE

I thought you said you were headed north. Portland is south.

kitchen in town.

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What'd you say?

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I don't want a guy like you around,..-” * bast thing I know, a bunch of your . * frientGe_turn up. Besides you’ wouldn'T * w like it e. It's boring, but it's * Oar the way we Itke it,--Tt's the way we'd * ~ “A like to keep iJ . * ee . Rambo says nothi ang gets out. TEASLE (continuing) I'll give you some free advice. Cut . your hair, clean up and you'll see * people won't bother you so much. we * Hope this ride helpea& you a bit. Good luck. il Bo A Teasle drives off. Rambo watches the car for 2 moment, x then starts back into town. Teasle sees him in the * rear view mirror and brakes suddenly. * 3B3B EXT. POLICE CHR & STREET ~ DAY 335 * Teasle pulls up eloncside Rambo. * TEASLE Where do you think you're going? : Teasle gets out of car and moves to Rambo. * TEASLE (continuing) Hev: I'm talking to you -- Where * do you think you're going? Try to * be nice to some people -- * {no response) * Alright, take out some I.D. -- *

Let's go.

Rambo just starts to walk away. Teasle moves after him and grabs his arm.

Rambo breaks Teasle's grip off easily and stares hard into the lawman's eyes.

Teasle puts his hand on the butt of his 9mm pistol.

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Rambo leans against the car... Teasle pets him down end - finds a throwing knife.

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Don't play games with me, understand? What the hell does anybody hunt with a knife?

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They lock stares and an unspoken challenge is

Get in.

Four officers: SHINGLETON,

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with a head on it,

his nails with 2 ba On the CUT, Teasle, with the eure ed Ram stuck counter gate

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rity, sits dispatch, reeding a paper. MITCH, pockmerked and not so very long out of his teens, is monkeying eround with the coffee machine. GALT, 2a thirty-yeer-old built like an upright freezer typing up a report. BELFORD cleens

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other prisoners.

that holds Rembo anG several

Rembo stands in front of the counter that divides

the room.

Talk about sorry-looking humanity.

Rambo quickly eyes surprisingly house unscoped automatic shot riot gums and

severel glass-front gun cases that some very powerfully scoped and pare-military rifles, several seven assorted pistols... on the wall are meny stuffed enimel heads with Teesle' S picture beneath each one posing with the dead animal.

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Tosses knife on the counter.

Ke herds Rembo toward the open security door. Galt rises belefully to lend a hand. Teasle starts toward his office, staring wiltingly at Rambo.

It shoots 2 heavy sprey écross the concrete floor, pest three empty cells towerd the drain at its far end, above it, a shower head. The man at the nozzle is PRESTON, a pensioner es much as a cop. Painter’s paraphernalia disorders this place too, and as Preston works, he keeps a knowing eye on the open door at the foot of the stairs through which he can see Mitch and Galt starting to process Rambo. :

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Filing cabinets, camera and mug shot screen, charts for fingerprint analysis, etc. i:

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Two small windows, with crossed bars, are set high on the wall of the basement. Shafts of light stream through. Mitch wncuffs Rambo es Galt rolls a fresh arrest sheet into the typewriter.

(continuing) What’s the name?

Rembo remains silent.

Rambo looks eway.

Rembo just steres out of a barred window as the shaits of sunlight cut into the roon.

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catches Mitch’s hend. Mitch has noticed a section of chain at the base of Rambo's neck and tried pulling it out. The men are frozen eye-to-eye.

The tip of Galt's truncheon presses into the flesh of Rambo's cheek. His look invites camage.

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Rambo slowly relinguishes hold of Mitch's wrist. Galt tears off chain and reveals a2 set of Gog tags.

Silence. GALT You're going to talk to me, soidier, I promise you. Silence. GALT I'm beginning to dislike you. MITCH I'll run a make on him ~~ put his

name on the teletype.

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40 PROCESSING ROOM Galt and another large cop named WARD are trying to fingerprint Rambo. The ink is on Rambo's fingers, but he refuses to place his hand on the police print Gard. Ward tries to push Rambo's hand down.

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Rambo does not move... GALT (continuing; yells) Put it down!

Galt, massive with anger, expertly brandishes the

trumcheon. Rambo moves three yards back. His stance is slack, his eyes cold and calm.. Galt moves towards him. ,

TEASLE

Galt! What the hell's going on?

Galt's stained face tells it.

Rambo has taken measure of Teasle -- the crisp uniform, the special sidearm, the steely-eved authority.

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Now you're going into court at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. We're ponna try to make you a little more presentable, so between now and then you can impress the hell out of me by doing exactly whet you're told...

(to Gelr) Clean him up.

Exits room.

Mitch, Gelt and a pockmarked deputy named WARD stand outside a cell staring at Rambo.

Rembo slides his eyes toward Galt. They appear lazy anc heavy-lidded, like a lounging reptile.

Rembo looks away -- toward the adjacent cell block. At the precise moment Gelt starts to move in, Rambo glides back, slowly taking off his jacket and letting it fall to the floor. Slower still, he goes about removing his jeans. As he steps out of them, Mitch and Galt react to -- :

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It bears a cruel scar on a field of glazed tissues.

Rambo pulls ofr his sweatshirt, the lest of his

clothes.

Rembo does. His back is criss-crossed by dozens of small, jagged scars.

FIRST BLOOD - Fev. 21/24/21 17. 4&2 CONTINUED: 42 Nothing from Rambo. A beat, then --

Galt wields his truncheon into Rambo's enpOsed kidney, and he drops in agony.

Now the man saicé to clean him up.

High-pow vered firehoses -- spray is plastering Rambo against the cell wall. The hose is held by Preston.

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Preston sets a chair in the middle of the room. Mitch guides Rambo towards it. Ward is in the background. Preston crosses to the sink and captures some water in the mug which he starts whipping into lather. Rembo'’s eyes follow his every move.

Out comes the truncheon, prodding, jabbing. Kembo's eyes flicker dengerously as he ettempts to slide awey. But then both Mitch and Galt ere on him, musclings him into the chair. Galt gets his club éround Rambo's neck and pulls him back.

every muscle in his body tensing, his eyes on --

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Rembo is pinned to the chair -- Rambo is becoming crazed.

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He is filthy and emaciated. The V.C. officer stands 2longside Kembo, shouting and spitting on him. The officer pulls out a lerge knife.

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straining to the maximum. Every vein in his neck is swollen 2s the razorz moves closer.

(SUBLIMINAL - BLACK AND WHITE) RAMBO AND V.C. OFFICER

Just for kicks, the officer holds it up so Rambo can

see it end slices it across his back many times --

Rembo screams each time he is cut. The CAMERA MOVES IN. TIGHTER on Rambo.

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The screem is erupting from his mouth. It stuns the cops as intended. And ishet follcws happens with in- credible speed -~ a blurring flesh of action.

An unseen crack (like snepping bone) drops Preston like a seash-weignt. He goes down 2s Mitch rises, gasping from the kick to his balls. As he doubles up, 2 knee to the face snaps him erect, end back on his heels, smashing him into the wall. While Mitch is still reeling beck -~

Rambo is already deeling with Galt, who is furiously whipping the truncheon. So swift, so sure, so smooth are Rambo's moves one would swear he previously choreo-~- graphea them in his mind. He evades two swipes and catches Galt's wrist midway through the third. He primes it and lunges back against the grein, throwing the big man ass over heels into a violent smack of

cell bars. Ward is eliminated from the brawl with

equal alacrity.

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hes heard the cérnage and is now clammering down toward Rampo who is streaking up. Seeing Teesle, Rembo cives

and lifts, catapulting him over his beck. Teasle lénds hard et the foot ef the stéeizs. The inertie cerries

him to a sliding stop near Mitch, who is braying and Tetching with pain.

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Shingleton is coming in fest, his sidearm dréwn. Rembdo

dives from f.g. hitting the scaffolding supports that surround the door. . .

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teetering, twisting, disessembling, falling toward Shingleton who looks up in horror. He cries out, re- Tlexively FIRING the GUN as the scaffold Cisintegrates, planks, paint, cans and steel poles bouncing and roll- ing across the unconscious man.

races across the main office. Balford is dealt with. A late-arriving cop, LESTER, is coming through the front door with an armful of supplies. He reacts to Rembo in midair, vaulting the counter. Too late.

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Rambo chops the flat edge of his palm across Lester's nose. Lester drops. Rembo grebs his knife still ly- ing on the desk and hits the door without having broken

stride.

Clad to the waist, he bursts out into the hot glare of the efternoon sun.

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reacting as they discover the presence of the furious man.

Rambo looks around for his avenue of escape, sees one and sprints toward it.

A lerge, helmeted, tough-looking cyclist hes made the mistake of slowing down to look. Rambo shoves hard. Tne cyclist nits the pavement. The back wheel of the fallen bike is grinding angrily for purchese. KRembo muscles it up, mounts end roars off.

is cherging out of the stetion house. Galt is a dozen steps behind, cperating the bolt of a high-powered

rifle. He stops, shoulders it, éims --

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The kid sleloms treffic as if born to the bike. There are pedestrians everywhere, A smack BLURS us eround to --

Now, he sees Galt's face is wild with rage. One streaming eye presages a wicked mouse.

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Galt grits back his rage and hurries into the stetion house. During the above, a score of onlookers has pethered. Every eye is fixed on Teasle, es he dashes into a petrol car. introduce the ROAR OF THE MOTOP- CYCLE.

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Its wheels rip across the FRAME, spewing a curtain of gravel, dust and exhaust through which cars are swerv- ing, BRAKES SCREAMING. We hear CRASHING METAL, then see the car fishtailing into our laps, cutting our vista down to a hubcap.

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Rambo cycles on into the distance, leaving two wounded vehicles in his wake. A distant STREN is WAILING end now SCREAMING as Teasle's cruiser shoots by, pursuing the cycle.

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Ke zooms past the YOU ARE NOW LEAVING EOFS SIGN and hangs @ breékneck turn onto a dirt road which snekes up towerd the distant mountains. The SIREN persists, GROWING LOUDER.

grinding the bike uphill. Far behind him, just visible through the dust, Teasle's cruiser turns off the high- way to follow. Rembo glances beck and spurs the bike ovetlend through an open gate and down a narrow wagon road, This is rough, hilly meadowland, overshadowed

by massive mountain forests. Sensing freedom, Rembo glimpses back and reacts to --

The cruiser rockets through, demolishing rails with its sidespin, recovering and coming on.

Less sure of escape, he powers the bike uphill.

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The mountain forests are very close now, and the ter- rain is growing increasingly rugged. t a rise, Rambo slows, stops and REVS. He surveys what is ahead, then looks back.

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It is doggedly picking its way through the meadow, looking méan anc battered. We can hear the CYCLE REVS stocking up full power.

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ROARS off end down, leaping the bike over a nérrow stream 2nd heading into the drew between two densely brushed slopes. The woodland is rising abruptly and so is the draw. The bike is gasping and slowing. It is henging back before it falls and Rembo jumps free, let- ting it roll crashing back toward the stream where --

is appearing. Its front end drops with the land, skid- ding and braking herd to avoid the stream. The cruiser Spins to a violent stop, amid rocks and brush at the water's edge.

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rams his shoulder against the driver's door, but it is jammed. Ke scrambles across the front seat to the pas- senger door end out into @ réts nest of foliage. He hacks through, cropping end neerly losing balence as one leg sinks knee-deep into the stream. He wedes ahead, bringing into view the creshed motorcycle near the opposite bank. Teasle wades across, Graws his siceerm.

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wading to it, examines it cursorily, looks off toward --

TEASLE'S POV - MOUNTAIN FOREST (86) in the fading light, an impenetrable oceén of deep green,

knows Rambo climbed. Holstering his gun, he cups his hands, calls --

TEASLE an I know you can hear me. You're (gst ae over! You're going as far as \ | you're gonna go! AN i

Teasle's voice carries on the breeze, but there is no response, only the forest silence.

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89 OMITTED eg . 50 EXT, FOREST - DLY ~ RAMBO 90 catching his breath on @ craccy rise, his gaze scans throuch the forest and sbies an abandonec cuarry.

He rushes over éncé sees @én old piece of canvas. He guickly cuts a ierge square in the canves ané feshions @a poncho ... tying a worn piece of rope around his waist to cinch the poncho tighter to his body. He flees.

ers come to a jerky stop at the hillcrest. Mitch emerge. Teasle weces back toward rving how both are hurting. Lester's nese

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It passes overhead end circles toward enother high forest mass.

Now, CAMERA ANGLES DOWN AND SLOWLY MOVES IN on the undergrowth of the forest just passed. For a moment we seé nothing more than leaves end branches until they stir end e humen figure méeterializes. He watches the helicopter diminish in the distance.

Now, he moves out, heacing towerd the peeks. But it is obvious that the camouflege and the ‘copter's presence inhibits his progress.

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Three Doberman tracking dogs pull ORVAL, a young, hard- looking hunter, rapidly uphill. Teasle and Shingleton are next, followed by Mitch, Ward and Balford, a young reserve officer whose jocular spirits suggest a day of sport shooting with the boys. Teesle and Shingleton carry small walkie-talkies and both occesionally shoot worriec looks through the treetops to the géethering storm clouds. It is obvious that these men ere well accuginted with the terrain. They move cuickly and surely in contrast to Rembo.

Orvel's dogs swerve towards Werd. He recoils.

Just then, the dogs strain egainst their leashes and veer off in a radical direction change.

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moving cautiously bet steadily upgrade, huacing the trees for cover, his eyes constantly searching the sky for sight of the prowling ‘copter. Rambo stands there for @ moment, straining to hear, to fix the distance separating them, then removes a compass from the hendle ot his knife.

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Its pace is Getermined by the energy of the Gogs who have the scent anc are lunging furiously at it.

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They rise in a steep craggy wall where this stretch of forest ends. Cloven through the wall is a narrow Pess not much wider than a man's shoulders.

Ke again searches the sky for a chopper, then moves out and up through the rubble of rock toward the summit pess.

“ Rambo works his way up the chimney-like incline, te eventuzlly reaching -- RAMBO .». Faster!

Niche ane stands at the summnit’s edge, we see that it opens onto two thovsand yards of exposed, boulder- strewn crasslanc, surrounded on all sides by a orey, fuiminatine sky. It is running, not hiding country, ancé 2s Rambo leaves the pass, he is doing just thet, cressing the open ground at a full run.

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Rembo runs down a thickly wooded slope. Suddenly, he breaks out of the woods to find himself, to his horror, on the edge of a precipice looking down a Geep gorge with a ROLRING river at its bottom.

His head snaps around and he starts back in the direction from which he's come. But now he's brought up short by the SOUND OF THE DOGS, closer now, and augmented by the occasional SHOUT OF SOMEONE in the posse.

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reaching the edge of the precipice. He runs along the edge looking for a way down.

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cropping one hundred sneer feet to a knot of treetops enc rock. -

é the cliff face, looking for m@holds, crevices, out- croppings.

Slowly works his way down, finding holds and testing them, sometimes dangling by his fingertips, his shoes scratching for purchase.

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... enc ig inching slowly downward when the first WHAPPING SOUNDS OF TKE HELICOPTER ere heard. He looks around frantically. No sight of the chopper yet. Just the SOUND which places it somewhere in the vicinity.

hovers apove the forest edge near the pass.

KELICOPTER'S POV - POSSE 110 filtering into the pass. Teasle is signaling it onward toward the promontory.

descends punishing inches at a time, fingers bloody, sweat running into his eyes. The DRONE OF THE HELICOP- TER is gethering volume now end he looks frantically about, trying to spot it. It suddenly appeers ebove nim with @ ceefening CLATTER.

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hanging on the cliff face, looking back.

HELICOPTER - PILOT AND GALT 114

Galt tears off his glasses and drags out the high- powered H.K. 91 scoped rifle from behind the seat.

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Galt is expertly threading his erm through the rifle sling end twisting eround to keep Rambo in view.

The Pilot angles the chopper away from the cliff face, rising above the embankment. He indicates the welkie- talkie -- PILOT Just get on that redio and tell Teasle we spotted him.

Galt grabs the Pilot by the shirt collar. The Pilot is terrified by Galt's rege.

You listen, If that sonofebitch mekes it down, you've lost him end you'll answer for it! Heer!

115 CLIFF FACE ~ RAMBO 115 Given time by the inexplicable behavior of the choppez,

_he has worked his way several body lengths down. Now, the ROAR is back and he twists eround to see --

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THE HELICOPIER 116

shuttling around and hovering zlongside the face of the cliff. Galt is no more then twenty-five yards éwey, teking aim. The chopper is bouncing and jost- ling in the air currents of the cliff.

PILOT AND GALT 117

The pilot reaches over, touching Galt's forearm. Galt hacks the hand ewey and shoulders the rifle.

GELT'S POV ~ OVER RIFLE SIGHT - RAMBO 118

The target rises, falls and wanders with the unsteadi- ness or the heliccpter.

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GALT ll Steres balefully at the Pilot. GALT

You fly this thing right or I swear I'll break your neck!

.intimidated, the Pilot tries steadying the chopper.

Galt snaps off his seat belt to stretch for a cleaner shot. He puts his eye to the sight. He leans way out of the chopper.

CRACK. Galt FIRES.

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primaces, sets for another shot as the chopper drifts.

RAMBO 122

Rock explodes two feet from his head.

Teasle end the posse héve halted, reacting to whet they hear.

OMITTED 124

hollers into his walkie-telkie.

HELICOPTER - PILOT AND GALT 126

Through the walkie-talkie holstered on Galt's belt --, \ TEASLE’S VOICE Sound off! What's going on up there? What're you people doing? \

The pilot makes a vain grab for the walkie-talkie on Galt's belt, but it is holstered on the far side.

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RAMBO 127

Rock explodes above his head. CARANG! Inches from

his face, stone fragments nicking him. Rambo spits

away the dust only to see the chopper sway and drift a bit, then swing in and hover closer than ever. In desperation, he looks down.

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a lush fir, is yards from the cliff and thirty feet below him.

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As Galt FIRES, Rambo pusnes off and fells, spreading like a diver.

plunges down, crashing through top branches and cracking to a stop agzinst a stoct limb, and then fells to the ground. He bellows with the pain of impact and grabs

at his arm, which is baé@ly cut.

FELICOFPTER - PILOT AND GALT 131 PiLOT Oh, Jesus -- he's dead? GALT I cen't see him. PILOT He's deed! GALT Swing éround!] EELICOPTER 132

moves forward, rises, eres eround, swoops down end back towerd the treetops.

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fighting off pain, nausea, nestled acainst the tree

trunk. Now, in b.g., the chopper epproaches, skimming low. Alerted by the ONCOMING ROAR, Rambo's face con- torts with 2a rage so great that it seems to anesthetize the pain of the geping wound on his arm.

BELICOPTER - GALT . 134

scanning the ground, treetops. Suddenly he points down.

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136 ERELICOPTER ~ PILOT AND GALT 136 Galt is cirecting the pi lot with gestures: "Back it up! ~- Take it lower! -- Steacy the mother!"" Now he leans out of the cockpit for e@ closer shot.

Galt leaning out of the cockpit, setting himself

138 SUBLIMINAL - EXT. VIETNAM - DAY - RAMBO (B. & W.) 135 * imagining he is back in 'Naem and is being Firecé upon by @ sniper.

} Slowly settling, steadying. Gelt settine to eim it = cown Rembo's throat. Rampe crebs 2 rock as Galt leans * . from the increGibdly close chorper. Rambo hurls the = rock with all his strencth. ) ' 140 PILOT AND GALT 140 | The rock hits the chopper's winéshield in front of the * Pilot. He recoils ané the chopper dips steeply to one * ‘ side. Galt, already leaning from the chopper, starts * to fall. The Pilot gepes in horror as Galt teeters, * -y * then lurches out -~ | The following occurs in RAPID SHOTS -- *

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jJecket. The SOUND OF THE POSSE is almo above @5 Rambo frees Gali's rifle. He

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Rembdo is huddleé zefeinst a rock. His erm is stained from @ constant Flow cl blooc. He wnscrews the hencle of his knize anced removes é@ length of nylon fishing line enc @ smell fish-hook. Withour @ moment's hesitation, he begins to sew the wound up.

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Rembo is shredcing his clothing and tying twigs and other cemnovflase onto his shirt.

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Tne rain is coming Gown puch more heavily now and the

sky is dark. CAMERA PANS Orval and the dogs as Teesle leacs the men. .

BALFORD AND WARD - OTKERS IN B.G. ; 167

ORVAL

They're lesing the scent. TEASLE

Keep moving! MITCH

Let's get out before it floods

over} BALFORD

Shut up end nove! MITCH

What if he cireled back. WARD

So whet. Move, you goddam

pensy.

Put your gun down end I'll show you wno's @ pansy.

Up ahead, in the flashing lightning, Rembo's outline is seen by Orval end the dogs.

PST ELOOD - REV. 11/24/E1- 43.

CONTINUED: 167 RéALFORD Kill him] TEASLE (to Orval)

Turn ‘ex loose!) Orvel frees the dogs.

Belford FIRES at the outline of Rambo es Orval and the dogs cherge forward. TWO SHOTS THUD into two of the dogs jolting thea beckwards. THREE SHOTS EXPLODE into Orvel's legs, catapulting him into the mud...

The wen flatten out eas the lest Doberman leeps at Re=bo, who is camouflesed. The other men ere FIRING at Rembe. Renbo retreats into the woods with the dog snerling viciously on his heels.

Suddenly the dog's demonic GROWLS and SNARLS are cut short... The lawmen ate consumed with the unnerving silence.

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Dore then 2@ shirt propped ecross @ pair of sticks,

theiz feces staring Gown et Belford in shocked silence

eas the sky unlozcs wpon them with venzgeence.

TEASLE 16s

Tezesle créewls over to Orvel in a2 combet fzeshion.

MITCH, WARD, BALFORD 170

hugging the growed.

1aASLe It's gotte be Gair's. But he's ut of enmo!

TEASLE

‘Ceuse whetever he stopped that lest dog with wesn't 2 bullet... I went everybody to spread out -- fifty yerds epart. There's

no way out of this canyon except throvgh us.

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pets just 2 glinpse of Balforeé moving too slowly.

TEASLE

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A pair of muddy hands reach around Mitch's neck in a ceatn lock. Mitch drops his weepon and begins to s@g, eves nearly bugging from their sockets. Mitch screams.

break chereing forveré to the WATLING of Mitch.

FOREST - RAMBO, MITCH Ae Rembo hits Mitch with @ pair of foreérm smzshes on

Mitch's collarbone that lezves him writhing on the eround. he empties Mitch's gum anc hurls it awey. “We see a glinpse of Rembo as he dodges awey.

WARD, BALFORD, SHINGLETON AND TEASLE 180 The men ere fifty yerds epart as they charge towards Mitch's screams.

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Werd is bolting full ahead when suddenly from whet appears es soaked forest ground cover, a hand rises up and grabs the back or Ward's foot. He tumbles. Rembo rises from the forest floor and blends into the night.

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TEASLE a It's Ward! Spread out -- I'll go this way -- you get to Ward! -

Teesle charges through the darkness and lightning.

Belford freezes end looks et Rambo whose form is agein €etectecd in the Fieshing lightning. Rando stends as

an inviting target delibderetely.

FOREST - TEASLE - NIGHT 184 With the skin-crawling SOUND of the woinces men's pleas Filling his ears, Teasle pauses.

FOREST - BALFORD - NIGHT 185

‘The young cop FIRES the lest of his clip in Kambo's

Girection and he heers a body fall... Ward cries out in pain. "

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CONTINUED: 185 Werd holds his side end collapses on the groiwnd holcing his sice. WARD (continuing) Get him! He's over herel ZASLE , 186

He heads for the gwmmfire.

He charges forward to claim what he thinks is the fallen Renmbo

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Renning towards the MOANING SOUND, Balforce plimses full force into 2 row of eight needie sharp branches thet heve been feshioned into spears and embedded across the trail.

The spears ere Griven deeply into Balford's thighs.

Re is pinned into en uprignt position.

As he wails in agony, Rambo's fa

Do’ ce comes INTO VIEW cleerly for the rirst time and it has en horrific eifect... Rembo's face is ceked with mud and so

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smeared that barely eny whi around his head is a headband t of blood from his oullet w d covered with forest cemouflage exce thet ere elso covered with mud... B teeth and almost snerls eat Rembo.

Go on -- kill me. Go on! I ain't beggin’ -- kill me! Go on!}

Rembdo empties Balford's gum and leaves.

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He follows Zeliord's wailing end sees him twenty yeres

FURSET = GHT 191 Shingleton is running towerd Teasle's voice. He rims pest @ wide tree. A meke-shifit gaerrot is suddenly

eroumc his neck and he is yenked beckwards.

eiforad is pushing his mind te the breaking point... né now hears the STRANGLED CRIES of Shingleton.

TEASLE

Shingleton! Where ere youl?

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Teasle moves away from the moening Belfore. TEASLE 23 instinctively makes 2a move to go out to him; is Griven

beck to cover by more lightning.

TEASLE'S POV ~ FAST PAN 194

.Rocks and trees. No life. No movement. The sky goes

dark egein. The THUNDER spends itself. Only the SOUND OF RAIN.

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Then, ad@ine to the nightmarisn quality of the moment,

a FRINT CRY -- A MON. It startles Teaslie. Shingleton?

Or Rembo -~ baiting? He swiftly menes his way to the

eGoe of the outcropping end loons. Shingleton is

pimneé to é@ tree by @ carrot that holes him by the *

neck to the tree. His hanés are festenec belhine his *

beck by @€ pair of handcutis. Each pitiful moén stabs >

at Teasle wno remains hunched, staring out at the *

Sight of Shingleton and the many cries for help. . 126 LOW ANGLE - PAST SHINGLETON - TEASLE IN B.G. 19¢é

An almost imperceptible struag¢ling of the body, the *

sporadic moans.

Finally the lightning comes. Rambo sprints INTO VIEW

and Cisappéars., Teasle srerings to a helf crouch ana

FIFES. BULLETS rain Gown on Rambo. Bark rips off

trees néar his heac&. The grounc kicks up near his feet. * 1o7 TOASLE Ace

charging away from the outcropping, past Shingleton,

FIRING his pistol in the cirection of Rambo. 168 OMITTED 18: * 122 OMITTED AG: #*

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FIRST BLOOD - REV. 1/6/82 52,

The CLMERA PULLS BACK to reveal Rambo kneeling in the Gownpour studying Teesle in Gériness ...

embo slowly fades back into the cerkness.

OMITIED 206

FADE IN:

208A

OMIT 207

A number of vehicles are haphazerdly parked -- cruisers representing both Hope ane the State Folice anc other local police, embuvlances, food wagon, army trucks and jeeps, etc. Two tents have been erected: a First Aicé tent anc @ three-wall affair will be Gesignatec es the Communications Centre.

State Troopers in ponchos keep traffic-cawkers moving along.

National Guarésman are in evidence, some hudééled aroune open fires.

A helicopter bearing the dead body of Galt rides over- head, then lanés on an improvised pad. TV newsmen rush up to film the scene.

Some of Teaesle's Ceputies, lvinec on stretchers are located into the waiting ambuiances.

tate Trooper vehicie pulls ur: Captain Kern gets out coes to the First Hic tent.

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An attendant works cn Teasle's cuts anc scrapes. He's chnangeé his cliothine. Kern enters.

Kern stucies Teasle closely, shakes his head.

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Kern stifles an immediate reply, rises.

Teasle's eyes are Glued grimly on the ambulances that are

driving up to take his men.

TEASLE

Go look at my men and you'll see how motivated I am. If that doesn't-do it, go talk to Art Galt's widow.

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get out. 209 202 thru OMITTED thru 213 243

A Government car pulls up. The driver, TRAUTMAN, leans out and addresses ea TROOPER directing traffic.

TRAUTMAN Crives across the bridge and perks the car. With ne hat ancé with @ raincoat over his uniform we héve no iceéa wno he is, althouch his affable manner doesn't conceal

nis military bearing.

As Trautman walks towerés the First Rié T a T.V. commentetor taping @ news item, a) news people are in evidence.

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tenGant leaves.

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Ke Sieps the table angrily for emphasis.

. TRAUTMAN Goé Eidn't make Rembpo. I made him. Zll three men ere taken aback. Kern looks nervously at Teasle, wno is fascinateé.

He goes over and shakes both of their hands. Trautman hands Teasle credentials.

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CONTINUED 215

TRAUTMAN

I've come adout my boy. KERN

Yours? TROUTMAN

John Rambo. JI recruiteé him, trainec hin,

commandecé him in Vietnam for three years.

I’'c say that makes him mine.

Rambo is in a large tree. He is exhausted, but his eyes begin to grow wide. Voice comes over Galt's radio lying

on the ground beside him.

Rambo's attention is centereé on a butk moving below.

Teasle looks at Travtman’s credentials. Then back at Travitman. Teasle Goesn't like him. Trautman Goesn't

seem to mind.

TEASLE

Well, I Gon't know in what way. Rambo'’s a civilian now. He's my problem.

I'm

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Teasle nods. He appears to be less than overwhelmed. TEASLE

Well, Colonel. I appreciate your concern,

and I'l] try to be extra careful.

Moving through the underbrush and dense forest is the buck...Still in the tree, Rambo tenses his body and almost imperceptively removes his boot knife, never removing his eyes from the buck.

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Trautman takes a piece of vaper out of his pocket and hands it to Teasle.

Strictly speaking, he shouldn't have slipped up...I'm amazed he let you and your posse live. .

report.

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want to...you'v guerillé warfar guns, knives, Db

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pain - ignore weather, live off the land,

eat things that

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In Vietnam, his personnel. To by attrition.

would puke a billygoat.

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TEASLE " I'm not sure just which side you're on. Maybe you're here to cover your ass. But if you're serious about taking him out clean,

come with me.

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FIFST BLODD ~- Rev. 1/6/82 - 61a.

Rambo enters ané ¢rops the huge buck and from his pocket removes Gry weeds and unscrews the cap of his knife an@ removes a metal match...He strikes the match an@ lignts the Gry weed. The boreé voice of the state police redio cperator is hearé over the welhie-talkie laying nearby, Rambo ignores it.

Please -~- John Rambo, acknowledge please, over.

Ke waits for the response he knows isn't coming, then continues with the litany.

In the backgounc, we see Travtman, Teasie anc Kern prroaching.

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Tne approachine tric enter the tent.

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CONTINUED 224

OMITTED 222

Rambo scrunches close to the flemes, stretches out, cradles his nead on his 2mm end closes his eyes. We sense him drifting into heli-sleep, his face reflecting the circus of his nmind. He pertly mutters, partly sings the music in his head.

RAMBO

"Purple haze in my brain, "Bout to drive me insane ..."

FLASHBACK - INT. NEBRASKA BAR ~- SAIGON - NIGHT 226 Jimi Hendrix' "Purple Haze" blasting from the strob-

ing JUKEBOX es a dozen Saigon beauties (mini-skirts, shorts, tube éand tenk tops) mix it up with enlisted men in civvies -- dancing, drinking, blowing dope --

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Subjective CAMERA PANNING faces, old men of nineteen, sezsoned whores of sixteen before we find the pésiicu- ler, uncommonly beeutiful Vietnamese prostitute and ~-

HER £27

slowly cescending upon Ramdbo, ner rich heir felling forward, es his hends tenderly céress end stroke and give love, as if he were oretencing it weren't cesh and carry.

They begin to make love and he strokes her heir... zs he moves down to kiss her...

OMITTED 226

THT. WOURTLIN OVERERNG ~ NIGH 22¢

ambo is startlec, then instently fuerdec, es he pulis his henés Goim from fece. The code words are familier -- even the filrereé voice. Still, he throttles the im- pulse to responce. The static-punctuetec silence has an unsettling effect.

This is Covey Leeder to Reven. Talk to me, Johnny.

O¥ITTED 230

TRAUTM4SN'S VOICE

Covey Leader to icentify Baker teem.

Rambo -~ Messner -- Ortega --

Coletta -- Jorgensen --

Danforth -- Berry -~ Krackauer.

(beat) Confirm? This is Colonel Tréutman, please ecknowlecre.

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wom oy TRALTMAN'S VOICE - Rambo: Are you alright? Over? -- reve 07 | RAMBO - . Ree eee Baker team —~ onal re aa eee y sire _. : Not Delmar Berry -- “Berry made it. RAMBO | Berry's gone. + TREUTMAN How? - RAMBO

Got himself kille@ in Nam and gidan't

know it. Cancer ate him Gown to the

bone. Got defoliateé with orange once

too much. Deimar ate nails, man! He

t haé muscles in his shit. fter all he came thru...

TRAUTM! ’ I’m sorry to hear that. It's good to hear your voice, Johnny. ‘t's been a long

time.

Rambo stanés ancé paces. The radio stays on the ground. Rambo is Geep in his own mind.

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Rambo, you've done some damage here. , But they don't want any more trouble.

. That's why I’m here. I can come up and 7 fly you the hell outta there -- just you ' ; and me. We'll work this thing out together.

Nobody's going to bother you.

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. i RAMBO Where'd you come from?

” TRAUTMAN . (off-guard) --.FOrt Bragg.

Guys at Bragg just never knew where to find you.

; TRAUTMAN I'm your friend, Johnny. I know you. I ‘ was there, knee deep in it with you ...the / piss and blood. I kept watch on your ass.

Hell, Johnny, bailing you out of trouble f might get to be a whole life's work for me.

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-- umits of the Netienel Guard in cenjunction with stete and

locel police begen infiltrating the Tuggec, countainous terrein

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COnNt 220 237 PULL BACK to reveal the COTENTATOR being photographed anc recorced by the team of 2 mobile unit. The mecia hes been gren-ed access to an area on the opposite side of the -rvad from the rielé Headcuerters. Cars, reporters and tape recordsrs, photogrepners, and the Mobile TV unit. Mestly they're just milling eround, waiting for cevelepments. COSENTATOR (continuing)

Wnet still remains unexpleined

by locel guthorities is how and

where the former Green Beret

cam@ into pessession pi the

weapons with which he allegedly

tried to kill six policemen.

But only their skilled training

in lew enforcement techniques

saved their lives, and word has

it that tne Fugitive will be in

custocy in @ matter of hours, TRAUTHAN 236 ris €ves ere on -- Ta55L5 Z29 stanéing elone, watching truck efter truck of Netional Guerdsmen move past. One by one the trucks swing away From Field Keeccuarters. Travimen cones elong- side.

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Scare us the horseshit, Teasle!

t was @ matter of ‘field expeciency’ -- Our job was to kill. Feriod. Nothing else. That's what Rambo was trained to Go ané Gid exclusively for nearly three years. He did everything we asked of him and more. Including spencing the last four months as a

risoner in a@v.cC. tiger cage -~ which occesionally doubled as a letrine. But he hung tough. He was under control. That is, until you started him ur again.

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TES4SLe I éidn't stert anything. TRAUTHAN I didn't come here without any beckerounc. TEASLE What beckground? TRAUTMAN

Really gave them hell in Korea Gidn't you?

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Merine Corps Mester Sergeant

VWilirea feesle -- Purple Heart,

Bronze Stéer, exireoréinery brever

at the Chaisin Reservoir cerpaign,

ewercec tne Distinguished Service

Meéa@i -- only higher is the

Cengressionel cl Konor --

ena he got it. hrist, you're as

militery 2s he is -- thet’s how

this cata mesS Eot Started... And

for 211 your taik, I éon't believe

you've got the guts to meet him

eg2in one on one, beceuse no Detter

“what has heppened to his tind, he's

something vou could never be,

Teasle -- the best.

BASLE

.., wnat he is, is Gezé Teasle seems @lrost on the verge of striking Treucmen, bet insteecé turns end Doves awzy.

TROOPS cautiously probing the mounteins, forests.

FOREST #68 ; Zee, in woodlencés GCense enowgh to squeeze out the sun. CAMERA MOVES DOWNHILL ecross the Cerkness toward the SOUND of @ RUNNING STREAM. Sunlight filigrees the heavy overgrowrh lining the bank STREAM BANK ~- BUSHES 242

We see no one until leeves rustle end the canourtleged figure of Rembo rises up from the sheggy bank. He Stands at the very point of 2a turn in the stream, gazing off et several huncred yarcs of current flowing down- stream. His senses é@re riveted there on something he heezs before we hear it, too -- bushes cracking, unintelligible voices, the stream waters broken with splashing.

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BttSO0'S POV - DOVISTREAM SKIRMISH LINE 245 A single Guerésméen seterielizes along the shallows,

then enother, tnen more along the opposite benk, then

the phelems: of Guercsmen, guicing on the stream as they ansie upland.

second ventege point which looks upstreem. VOICES, TARASHING ené SPLASHING emenete From nere, too.

RAM30'S POV - UPSTREAM - SKIRMISH LINE 245 Tne soldiers appeer in the distance -- an unflenkable

wall of then.

the streéen enc moves renicly uplend into the cerhness

of tne woodlands,

Turning, Rambo cores fece to face with 2 young boy who ireezes with fright.

BOY , 247 4&4 fourteen-year-old kid dressed in a red hunting ovttit, stancing on @ blufi, staring down. Ee is too trans- fixed °y the sight of Rambo to run or operate his

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Tne knife instinctively flies to his hend, aims. Frozen térget -- sure kill. But with a releese of breath end 2 muttered oath Raemdo's muscles slacken and the knife drops. He can't smack that stupid kid whose mouth is open a full second before the scream reverberates trom the bluff.

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even for them. Rembo's eyes cart beck towerd the woods and the skirmish line he knows is zévancing up from the streax Re tumms beck toxercés the rine es SHOTGUN

BLAST ssreys the ¢irt ebove nin.

their SHOTGUNS et the Fleeing Rambo.

FOREST - SKIRMISH LINE - SERIES OF CUTS 250 Guardsmen reacting to the SHOTS end the SHOUTING of t HUNTERS. Then soubdle-tining it towerd the source of

the commotion.

Ee serene S through the woocés trying to meke it to the ceves

Guareésmen seem to gether from every direction end take

wp the chase. Some FIRE et the fleeing Rembo.

EMT. MINE - DEY - REM3SO 253 He sprints towerds 2 Gilepicetred bricge thet lies at

the bese of the mine entrance. BULLETS kick up to the right end leit of Rembo as ne hurcles the missing

section of the bridge and rushes to the mine's entrence. The ground FIFE intensifies.

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Rembo's body segs 25 he stares helplessly athe the impenetrable well of stone scatronting him. Tnen he turns and looks back at the current he fought against

to get here. Swppressing a weve of claustrophobic panic,

he sterts wading back.

wading with the current, Guck velking low cleerance end once egein meeting up with the breeze which flutes its wey through the caverns end now moves zlong with the current until --

Tne rock ceiling abruptly ends, and the stream roéers into the echo chambering --

Mescles up from the rushing stream anc stops to rest

below the hole. Here the breeze whips et his heir end

beerd, and Rezbo imitates the whistling. He well knows

he's found the wey out, end his strength renews es he

begins making his wey into the bleck hole, feeling his say when --

4 black flurry explodes _—_ the hole, squeaking sough- ing wings, heads, teeth -- BATS -- hundreds of them spin crazily about him. Reba beets them away as he fells back to the ledge, flailing, swatting insanely, batting the pests ewey. His shirt! Something in there! He digs inside his collar, grabbing it, snapping its brittle back end violent ly heaving it away.

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A peroxyss of shivering betrays his thovghts. He looks up et the pest hole end his expression sours. RAMBO (@ husky whisper) Keep going -- keep going. Anchering his elbews in his groin, née hunkers over to scqveeze beck the shaking. He is gethering himself -- like a kerate-ist hyping himself to chop bricks.

Eis concentration intense, body rocking slightly, eyes clesec -- FAST DISSOLVE TC: ENT. CATAEDRAL - RAamso 252 cre profound feeling stirring inside him, rezéving hit ris eyes open end he is moving ~- up anc into the pest hole.

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Scueeking, swarming bets, bezetinge wings. Renmbo crawls, reeling his wey in tne blackness, Swatting the pests avey from mis face, cigging them out of his hair, beezra, shirt.

Sudéenly the bets swarm, es one, and lift off. Rembdo steps, looks up. Realizing he cén sténd, he does, gazes up into --

CHIMNEY 284

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FIRST BLOOD - Rev, 01/08/82 ° - * me 57,

TRE NATIONAL GUARD ENCAMPMENT 266

which is being set up near the collapsed mine. Supplies are being cerried into the eree by Guerdsmen, who are unloading trucks perked a couple miles away.

GUARDS!I=N'S POV ~ BLUFFS ; 287 CAMERA SLOWLY ZO00MS UP AND IN on the cleft. HOLD as

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FOREST HORIZON . 285

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Teesle comes in. There are murmurs of "Hello" and "Good job" from the bar.

Trautman studies his drink. Teasle appears next to him. Sits Gown.

Teasle hes an utterly preoccupied, subtly agitated manner.

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— TRAUTMAN It can get fairly confusing sometimes. In Vietnam, you can bet Rambo and me got pretty confused. Well, we had orgers. When in Goubt, Kill. It's all summed up in that immortal line: "I hae to destroy the town in order to save it." .... But hell, you're a civilian +++. You can go back to your house and vour wife énd your life now ... You aren't under any pressure to figure this all out...

TEASLE What about you ... what did you ficure out, Colonel? If I hac let you héve your way ' with the kid, what would you have Gone? ... Wrapped him in your arms and civen him a Dig sloppy kiss or wovlc you have biown his head off? ... When a machine malfunctions, you junk it, don’t you?

There is a long pause.

nice life, Colonel.

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3 TRAUTMAN Good luck!

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ANGLING DOWN from the cleft. Cenmpfires are going, pup tents being erected, etc. Tne lest of the supplies are getting heuled up irom the O.§. trucks as the guerdsnen are picking their wey through the forest.

FOREST - SUPPLY CARAVAN 292

Tne teil enc of it is passing us by; racios, digging equlpaent , tenting being pecked uphill by guardscen. CAMERA EASES past then, picks up Rembo concealed in the brush, spitting éistence awe 2y, obsezving the chain of men ecévencing from 2a now ciscernible fire road with a2

stopped convoy of Nationezl Guard trucks.

FIRE ROAD ~ TRUCK CONVOY . 293

The last cf the supplies is crossing the narrow, muddy, wheel-ruttec read on the backs of the last half dozen guercsmen, wriie four DRIVERS secure their 2 1/2 ton SLPS 202 Trevel.

the rifth end LEAD DRIVER stends et the open door of his truck, impetient to get rolling. FAN from his face across mounting crivers to CATRCART, who is fidélings with the tailgete cf the lest truck.

He secures the gete, races around to the cab, hops in. ENGINES ROAR. .

4s he fires his engine, then reacts to the sudden aeppeerence of Rambo. Terror freezes Cetheert as

Rembo opens the door enc maneuvers inside and puts the knife to his throat.

Cathcart seems incapable of functioning. The other trucks are elready rolling.

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NT. CATRHCART'S TRUCK - DAY 296

Rerm>o cranes 2 losk throvgn the wincshield, then settles bech. Ee emaetines the contents of the cad, with its civilisn anenities stashec epout: frvit, milk, ciger- ettes, zippo lighter, fig newtons, Caethcert's M-60

anc exnmo belt sit cGead in the reck, holcing demp sweet- socks wp to Gry. Rexzbo opens the milk carton end crinks hungrily. He fin ishes to finé Cathcart staring at hin.

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We see the fourth truck ciseppear eround the bend. Zese zround to pick ud Remdo és he cne-nands tne wheel anc stretches hig foot onto the brake over Cethcert's boot. The truck grinds to 2 stop.

Cethcert hurries out of the truck. Raesbo tekes the

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IkT. C43 OF FOURTH TRUCK - THE DRIVER 304 is reecting te the ebsence of Cethcert's truck.

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Oo}. FIRE ROAD - TRE CONVOY 396 threeGing its wey elong the switchbacks, down the moun- tain. 45 CAZRA PANS Seth convoy, it PICKS UP a Stete Foitice cruiser nezcing “Lp the roéec.: The leade truck pulis over to give the cruiser és much room 2s pesesible. The other trucks fellow suit.

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As the guareésmen work below, Teesle Ses hiked up the hill end insvects the rock fermetions fer pessible escere routes.

Grives, keeping one eye fastened on the rearview mirror. He reechnes for Cethcart's sock~adorned N-16 and the exmo belt. With cone nend, he expertly sterts loecing.

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Rembo's truck prelling out of line, powering 2long the outside, passing truck,after truck. The drivers react to whet they suppese is Cathcart going nuts.

SHOULDERS of the Stete Folice Troopers es the étrears eheac. He turns, sees the cop car, weves his ermms Irantically Tre cops trecée @ look.

Lester is brewing some cofiee, Preston is dozing at the Cispetcner's cesk Teesle rezezins in his office, benind clesedé Goors., The RADIO COMES TO LIFE with some introductory STATIC TROOFPER'S VOICE S.P, cer one Cnerlie five to Centrel. We still on thet three- wey hook-up?

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catches first sight of the Netional Guerd roadblock,

still some Gistance away. Tne news is obviously out.

Ee tromps on the gas.

skiccing onto it from the fire roac, eccelereting

rere, turning on its fleshers end SIREN,

crouched, rifles up. The monster hurtling down the highway towerd them is moving faster than any deuce and 2 halier wes ever meant to -- end showing no sign of being intimideted by the roadblock.

A DOZEN BURSTS OF RIFLE FIRE teer into it but miss the vitel orgéens as the truck plows through the crates end jeeps, heaving them eside. The truck céreens, fish- tails, regains balance and ROARS ahead.

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GUKFIRE is still clip pping Bt the beck of the rig. The ceb hes been snot up, the windshield spicer-webbed, and Steam pours from the hood Rembo checks the Tearvier mirror, sees nothing in pursuit, bur knows it won't be long. Déerkness is felling repidly.

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sguints through the céméged windshield toward -- FAMB0'S POV - ROAD SICN

Ir rezés: " HOPE TSLCOMES SAFE DRIVERS"

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Zrom the hood, ROARS PAST CAMERA.

cwing Gérknéss, he cén see mM the mirror. They ere st

The stétion, which sits on the edge of the highway, is closed and nignt lights cast pele illuminetion across the cenopie ed drive. In distant b.g. the headlights of

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RAMSO'S POV - THE GAS STATION 332 as the truck closes in on it!

breces himseli, floors the accelerator.

The massive two and a half tonner suddenly veers in irom the highway, heading directly for the pumps at full speed. The first impact shears the pumps from the

island Tne truck then cresnes hard into the canopy struts, bringing the overheng twisting end smeshing Gown éround the rig which hangs up in the fallen beens,

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Gzsoline gxshes from the severed pucps, coursing down

the drive towerd the highway.

WRECKAGE CATHCART'S TRUCK/CGAS STATION - RAMBO 336 serenples from the cab. He can heer the faint SOUND

OF SLTRENS WAILING in the distance. He sneps Cathcert's zippo lighter open, spéztks the flene end tesses it. WRECKAGE 337 It bursts into fleme., Gesoline treils ignite into

fire streams that streek across the drive onto the highwey.

RAMBO 338

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339 TRE GAS STATION 329 soes up in a series of THREE EAR-SHATIERING EXPLOSIONS thet hurl a ball of fleme enc cebris acress the high- wey, turning it into an inpesseble inferno.

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iliucineted py the Fletes, peuses For a Fleeting look, then turns end tékes off across the fieicé towaerce the cistant lights of Mettison. EOLD until he is sw2liovec up by cerkness.

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Guarcsmen end worker look et the Ilemes boiling into the bieckness of night severel riles ewey. CAERE MOVES IN on Teesle, who stands oy hinself.

343 TEASLE'S POV 343 across the forest towarés town, tiles ewey, the dbril- lient glow of the bleze lighting up the night sky.

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where Teasle drives up and gives some hurried in- structions to Lester and Preston. They scremble into Lester's cruiser, dig out end speed down the mein céres, heading for the fire.

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At the periphery of Hope; paddock and chicken coop territory carked by junked cars, EOWLING DOGS end cay- lé mod. Firelisht jillucinates the fer norizon, the ishts of town the near. ee ee “Till the connect- ng highway 2s vehicles race out to bettle or witness

he blaze, and this tadlezeu concer S$ tO be our focus mtil the night bleckensde Tigure exploces into f.g., TLLING THE FRAME. It is -- RAT3O - 254 running hard end low, threeding his wzy through this meverick terrein which coule embush him with an open trench or wire fence. He is perhers half e rile from the reer of the buildings lining MAIN STREET. FOLLOW hin past @ paetchwerk of clothes-lined yerds end smoke- shecs end fellow gerdens. Suddeniy the loucspeaker voice jumping out of nowhere brings him to é dead stop. TEASLE'S VOICE Attention 211 pedestrians -- cleer the streets irmeciately pa Te pein incoors until further instruction Tnis is a Police CeparraeAc. scien 7.

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and renain incooers until further instructions. : (beat) Tnéet meens everyore!] Let’s move ao The nencéiul of hangers-beek outside the Antlers, ériftc beck into the ber, @5 GO the cewkers Ferther on cown the street.

Tne voice is ummistaékeably Teesie's and it confirms end sintplifies like no road mép ever could, The perverse humor of it rises into Kambo's eyes.

357 RAtSO'S POV -~ TRE TOWN 357 over the continuing BULLHORN VOICE. Corricors of light anc ectivity eppear between the beck of builé- ings which essentialiy stendé in cerkness. S56 EXT. POLICE STATION ~ KIGHT - TRAUTMAN S5e Tne Colonel, exmmed with én H-16, moves around the perimeter of the 3eilhouse., 35¢ EXT. GAS STATION .- FIRE SCENE - NIGST 359 Vehicles are bottieneckec et botn sides of the fire wnieh continues to block the highway. Netionel CGuerc trucks anc Stete Police cruisezts heving tried their hends at circling the bleze ere hopelessly bogsed doen o x oc in the sodcéen fields, On the town side of the highway, Lester end Freston heve been unsuccessiully trying to unclog civilien treffic which hinders the activity of the firefighters. Lester stends at the door of his cruiser, talking into the radio mike. a

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Lester's voice filters threugh the refio speeker. LESTER'S VOICE ~> we cén't £€t enyvhere close enowgh to Fine ouc.

Canmeht FANS FROM the reéio TO the beck oF the tein teen where Teesle is methodically csuble-bolting the rear Goer. Fe kills the lights beck there, toe, the: process towerT¢c ine Cesns anc cispetch area where, i: the canner cl 2 tan with @ plan, he concentretes harsh light on the enirence. Ke reises the volume on the recio, enlerging Lester's voice which hes continued throvzrhout the édove. LESTER'S VOICE (continuing)

Will, nobocy knows how pany

reservoirs ere undet these ges

pumps, end i've EOt “tretFic jeccin'

up. We cen'’t push ‘ez beck ~- No

one's listening te me, Will -- if

thet plows esein -- Deesle Bas starieé towered the icit ledder, but he ue roves ouickiy to the recio anc Flips the switch. Teasle Flips back the switcn. Lester's voice is replecec by REAVY STATIC which is broken into by State Police CROSS-TALK, such oF it coming irpez units trespec on the Netionel Guerdé sice ef the fire, Uncer this skrit, Teasle takes @ Finel eporeisel of The Toon anc stérts up the staicwaey to the loft.

Teasle cpens the bolt enc throws the hetch open to 2 rectenzie of nmignt sky. With nis sideerm end rifle, he stérts up the ledcer to the root.

ent windows, perheps

burn brightly from the it : K ALONG the corridor

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early cesertec Mein Street -- PAST eerie anti-

ne feces behine see end window glass -- ALONG

osed shops with window end cheerful edvertising

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MAIN DRAG - REVERSE ANGLE 363

A chain of overhead streetlights (the sort J.C.' Festoon for Cnristtes) extends the length, termin-ting just beyond the zece of the jail. Call (the jail end Surrounéings) the south of town. Renbo is advancing

from the north.

STREETLIGHT (NORTH END) 365

ss SHOT erases it, sending 2 shower of pless onto the ae

tec feces beniné windows.

A Dréve men bDrandishes e shotgun, ané his sane wife struggles hin beck.

positicned behiné the pezrapet etop the jzil roof, looks north, observing the chunk of cerkness in the chein of streetiisnts. It hes truly oegun ane es puch es his hanes tremble om the rifle, Tezsle won't be suckered. RAM3SO0'S POV - TAIN DRAG 36§ From the cover of shadow, we view the closed store- fronts, the bank, the grocery, the brightly lighted

jeil still a block or two to the south. CAMERA ANGLES

AROUND TO Rambo's fece, intense with calculation. He well knows Teasle is laying for him. He knows, too, that the Chief is annealing his fear, but how long -- how much can the monkey take.

One final sweep of the eyes before the N-60 comes to his shoulcer end he tekes ain.

BANK (NORTH END) 369

A barrage of N-60 FIRE EXPLODES ITS WINDOWS and trig- gers the ALARM

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The care ELRR4AGE DEFTLY BLASTS SERITS OF LIGHTS froa their wiret, pitching this end of town into near Gerk- ness

Teaczts, signting nis rizle to the north, straining every sense for signt of him. GUNFIRE AND Siaed LEPLWE LASS snap Teesle's nheecé to the south. The street lights there ere gone anc enother ALARM 1S CLENCING, 2ll of it confusing his sense of the kid's appr cach.

He quickly sweeps around from south to north. The street is deserted of 211 life save the meddening ALARNS. A game of nerves. Sweet is soeking Teasle's shirt end standing on his fece. His mouth works acsainst its dryness and his tongue traces his upper lip, savoring the taste of sweet. Tne vividness of his eyes describes the irignteningly delicious advance from Tear to ‘battle high.’

crovehnes in déerkness one block north of the cGaezzling jail lights. he anticiseted rerum fire by now end is recther puzzled by the silence. A crooked little szile works across his mouth. Ferhaps the Chie=l is leering.

ReE>o moves low across the pavement, using the cover of @ parked car to get the nerrow angle on the neon tube- work of the Antier's Ear, nearly ecress the street fron the jail. Ke FIRES a covering volley end races silent- ly to the opposite pavement wnich runs flush with the jail still one block south.

reacts to the gless still falling from the front of the Antlers.

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COne heres: S12 He rises te ene knee, sighting the ifle elong the

street below but seeing no one, The en he freezes es

plete glass SHATTERS, setting oft 2 third. ALAPM. Close

~- half a block north. He scrambles eleng the parapet

to the roof corner, signting the rifle berrel into the sliver of pavement he can cover iron this close angle.

he waits.

Several cecedes of highwey wrecks form én auto greve- yard which hepnazardly covers the scrubby fields of

fifty yerds or so behind this section of Mein Street. Treutmen and his weepon heve been stationed here for

some time, guarding Teesle's beck, but ON THE CUT, Trautman is circling from south to north, reposition-

ing on the ezinuth of the third alarm to intercept

Rambo. .

tne windows are SEATTLIRED and the burglar ALAR! is ceartening. Wheat we see on SEVERAL aan is four swiit

anc cistinet pieces of ection INTERCUT WITH Teesle and TrLEVvlmsn.

Tne butt of the M-60 crashes display cases loadec with hunting eaxcmunition.

Rezdo's hand is on the roll of wrepoing peper, unreel- ing yard upon yard onto the floor.

Lamp oil and kerosene tins are upended, pouring their contents over the ezsunition boxes.

Tne Zippo lighter ignites, putting fleme to the wran~ ping peper.

sighting toward the pevement 2es Tire slow begins spread- ing its halo. Sensing a shot, he edges out, craning te increese his angle.

EAT. TOWN - NIGET - TRAUTMAN 377

moving north, stops as the fire glow illuminates the back windows of the gunshop.

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COT ee Se: S00 His cere instinctively snaps towerd the rooftops, Loz

some ciimose of = silheuette. The kid should be maneu- verin, for tre high angle, but he isn't. He's £0t

enotner route in mind.

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bso (SveIeCi ive Carers) 376 running through yerds, past the backs of buildings, hurtiing hecéges end low fences. We have no icea of his course or geosraepnay until the lights of the jeil loon up across the street anc a guerter oF 2 block north.

Rez>o has circled back behind the Antlers and well pest it. He checks his H-60.

Fire enguiis the interior end the esmunition cebinets

etTé white with hezt. Shorgun shells ere the first to heet enc EXPLODE ane CONTINVOULS ARIUNITION DISCHARGES Wiil SCnEimwe TRrewenGut fhe Following,

EMT. ROOFTOP - NIGHT - TERSLE 380 Cisorienteé et first by the BARRAGE OF SHOTGUN SHELLS sutcenly uncerstaencs whet has been done end almost

grins with rueful respect.

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Firelisht streans fren the crashed windows es the BAR- RAGE increases, Gischerging 2 lethel KATLSTORM into Main Street which comes alive with RICOCHETS. Two seconds -- four seconds -- the shop's voletile con-. tents (kerosene, alcohol, propane, black powder -- take your pick) end the fire combine into an EXPLOSION which funnels fFlane out across hein Street, beckiight- ing --

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RAMBO runs and hides behine a garbage can. The explosion,

TEASLE pokes his head up from the corner of the roof, to see what has happened, then cucks down again.

Rambo spots him, then runs back down the allevw. OMITTED

We are in CLOSE on the carkened front windows as they SHATTER under a rain of M~60 FIRE.

M-60 FIRE RIPS the light fixtures TO SHREDS, throwing

the room into halfi-liaght licke@ by the firelight from the cun shop,

M-60 fire explodes the front doors and the window next

to them. TEASLE rums across the roof, reacting to the cunfire.

siams e@ fresh ammo belt into the M-60 ané nesitstes for an instant, straining for some souné of movement from the root. His eves have already found the open trapdoor.

Rambo's form is outlined in the shadows and Teasle raises his rifle. As he positions himself, his foot makes a4 scraping sound.

RAMBO walks from the corner to the filine cabinet and stoops down. TEASLE spots him and fires. Rambo runs. Rambo shoots up towarée the skylight. Teasle falls down through the skylight.

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EXTREME CLOSEUP RAMBO raises the rifle slowly to his shoulder. CLOSEUP ~ RIFLE

Rambo's finger slides deftly into place.

TEASLE

Contorts in pain, but never removes his eyes from Rambo's insane expression.

RAMSO

Eis body tenses. The rifle is positioned perfectly. His eves burn with anticipation.

TRAUTMAN {0.5.) ..-Rambc!!

REMBO

He whips aroune with his heart in his mouth staring Geac into Traviman's eves. He turns back to Teasle.

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CLOSEUP - RAMBO 405E

The veins in his neck bulge, the anticipation of the Sure kill starts to overwhelm him.

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His bocy shakes more violently es he struagles to ouveich the urge to destroy his enemy.

Ram>o lowers the gun ané turns in a fury to Trautman.

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All the spotlights are trained on the building -- what appears to be a small army waits to move in ---

Trautman moves towarcés Rambo...Trautman essumes an attitude of @ not-so~confident father trying to regain the confidence of a disinherited son.

+ TRAUTMAN I'm here now. No one's going to hurt you out there. Let's wind this up.

Rambo still remains frozen with his weapon at PORT arms. His eyes glaring with frightening intensity into Trautman's.

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A spotlight shines through the window. Rambo ducks.

The National Guard and Troopers stand outside waiting. OMITTED

Rambo is pulling guns out of the cupboard.

armed with M-16's. Why the hell dic you

have to start this?

TRAUTMAN

The hell you Gidn't. This cop pushecé hard, but you could've walked. Let me tell you something, Rambo, you did everything you

could to make this private war happen.

Well now you've done enough damage. It's

over, Do you understand? He walks toward the window.

TRAUTMAN (continuing)

Take a look at them out there. Look at them Rambo. Look at them. If you don't end this now, they're gonna kill you. You are going

to die here. Is that what you want?

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There's blooc anc pieces of him all over me, I trieé to holé him together, but his insides kept slipping through my hands. Joey screamed, ‘What about my Cnevy! I wanna drive my Chevy:' 1 said, ‘With what? I can't find your fuckin’ legs: He got guiet and ciecé quiet. I Still dream about it. Listen man, I cream this shit almost every night ~ sometimes I wake up and don't know where tne fuck I am. I gon’t talk to anyboeéy for hours ...Gavs sometimes. I try to block it out of my ming, but I can't...

Rambo begins to sob uncontrollably and Trautman guides him by his shoulder.

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FIRST BLOOD - Rev. 12/21/81

Rambo is escorted out of the Police Station by Trautman followeé by Kern and Guard.

They reach the bottom of the stairs where Teasle is being attended to by ambulance men.

They walk down the street, where the National Guard and Police have surrounded the building.

Rambo looks at the National Guard and Troopers as he walks to the jeep.

They watch him. Treutman and Rambo get in the jeep. They drive away.

The Trocpers anc ambulance leave and begin to resume order.