"RAMBO III" (1988)

ALMOST, COULD BE, NOT QUITE SURE, FINAL DRAFT.

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OPENING SCENE: THE MOON IS HALF FULL BUT BRIGHT ENOUGH TO REVEAL TWO ROVER JEEPS A?m PICKUP TRUCK WITH LOW WAT- TAGE YELLOW HEADLIGHTS APPEARING OVER THE RUGGED HORIZON.

THE LOCALE IS TRULY BAR..tU:N THAT OFFERS NO COMFORT AT ALL TO HUMAN EXISTENCE. THE ROVERS CONTINUE THEIR SLOW BUT TURBULENT PROGRESS OVER TH~ UNEVEN TRAIL~ THEIR STRAIN- ING ENGINES PROVIDING THE ONLY SOUND IN THIS DEATH-LIKE ARENA OF STONE.

IN THE FIRST ROVER THE IMAGE OF AN AMERICAN CAL~ BE SEEN DRIVEN BY A MAL~ GARBED IN TRADITIONAL AFGHAN CLOTHING. UPON CLOSER INSPECTION, WE SEE THAT IT IS COLONEL TRAU"rMAN, DRESSED IN KACKI CLOTHING. SEATED BEHIND HIM IS A THREE-MAN DOCUMENTARY CREW. • • THE C.Al.'1ERA MAN SITS POISED WITH HIS HAND-HELD, SIXTEEN MILLIMETER CAMERA, POISED ON HIS LAP. • • TRAUTM&~ IS READING A MAP WITH A FLASHLIGHT. .

THE SECOND ROVER HAS HAD ITS ROOF REMOVED AND IS CRAMMED WITH SEVEN ARMED AFGHAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS. FIVE MORE HEN ARE RIDING IN THE REAR OF THE PICKUP TRUCK.

AS THE MACHINES CONTINUE TO GRIND AHEAD, A THROBBING SOUND BEGINS TO FILL THE NIGHT .•. THE F~RBODING SOUND CONTINUES GROWING WITH UNNERVING INTE?iSITY. .

THE DRIVER OF THE FIRST ROVER SLOWS DOWN. HIS FACE A PORTRAIT OF MOUNTING CONCERN. • . TRAUTM.Al.~ RAISES HIS EYES FROM THE MAP, LOOKS OUT AT TH= DARKNESS THEN QUICKLY AT THE DRIVER.

TRAU'r'MAN Try to take cover!

4 WIDE ANGLE 4

AS TnE FINAL WORDS LEAVE" HIS LIPS, A MASSIVE MI-24 RUS- SIAN GUNSHIP, FOLLOWED BY TWO SMALLER CHOPPERS, EXPLODE OVER THE MOUNTAIN'S CREST, WITH BONE-RATTLING INTENSITY -- THEN SEARING WHITE SEARCHLIGHTS BLINDING THE MOTOR- CADE.

6 WIDE ANGLE 6

BEFORE THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS CAN BARELY RZACT, THE GUN- SHIPS, THE RUSSIAN BIRDS OF DEATH, OPEN FIRE.

IN A MATTER OF SECONDS THE ROVER AND ITS OCCUPA..~TS ARE TOTALLY REDUCED TO SMOKING MOUNDS OF TWISTED WRECKAGE ••• THE FIREPOWER IS SWIFT AND MIND-BOGGLING.

THE SEVERAL AFGHANS THAT MANAGE TO JUMP FROM THE SECOND ROVER ARE -LIFTZD OFF THEIR FEET AND SENT CAREENING THROUGH THE AIR.

THE GUNSHIPS' POWERFUL LIGHTS FLARE INTO THE LENS AS IT LANDS. ·

TRAUTMAN LAYS SEMI-CONSCIOUS WITH A SEVERE SHOULDER AND SCALP WOUND. A HAND COMES INTO VIEW AND TEARS THE ROVER DOOR OPEN. WE SEE.THE OUTLINE AND DECERNABLE FEATURES OF A HUGZ SOVIET SERGEA.J.~T NAMED_KOUROV. BZHIND HIM STANDS THE MAIN ?-1AN, COLONEL ZAYSAN, A PERFECT IDEALOGIC SOVIET COMM1u~DER.

WITH MUSICAL FLORISH AND VISUAL FLARE, THE SCENE ENDS.

ROLL TITLES OVER:

FADE IN:

CROWDED SIDEWALKS TEEMING WITH ASIANS, JITNEY BUSES ROLL BY. GOLDEN SPIRES OF ANCIENT SIAMESE PALACES RISING IN THE DISTANCE. A BUSTLING THIRD WORLD ?1ETROPOLIS.

AN AMERICAJ.~ FLAG RUSTLING PROUDLY OVER FORTIFIED GATES. AN EMBASSY STAFF CAR PU:.LS TO A HALT IN FRONT OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE. TWO MEN IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES HURRY DOWN THE STAIRS TOWARD THE CAR. A BODYGUARD, BLONDE, BLUE- EYED, 30, FOLLOWS.

9 CLOSE ANGLE 9

AS THEY GET INTO THE BACK SEAT, A MARINE EMBASSY GOARD POSHES THE GATES OPEH. HE SALUTES THE STAFF CAR AS IT RUSHES PAST HIM. ONE MAN IS AMERICAN, THE OTHER THAI. THE AMERICAN, GRIGGS, IS 35 TO 40, VERY CONSERVATIVE AND WELL-DRESSED. FIVE FEET NINE OR TEN WITH A STRONG BODY, SHORT HAIR,,AND IS QUITE ALL-AMERICAN LOOKING.

GRIGGS, NYON AND A BODYGUARD ENTER THE HOTEL .•• THEY CONFRONT THE MAN:AGER AT THE DESK. • • THE !i".LAHAGER SHAKES HIS HEAD NO AS HE LOOKS AT A PHOTOGRAPH PRESENTED TO HIM.

SUPER STAR BAR. PH.AT PONG DISTRICT ••• GRIGGS, NYON AND GU.n.RD IN A SERIES OF QUICK CUTS: IN THE DEPRAVED DIS- TRICT CONFRONTING A VARIETY OF KNOWLEDGEABLE AND COLOR- FO~L STREET-TYPES.

THE TRIO APPROACHES THE DOORJ."1.AN TO THE SEEDY CLUB.

HE IS A STRONG-LOOKING, EX-VET tiITH CLOSE-CROPPED HAIR. HE INSPECTS A ?ICTURE GIVEN TO HIM BY GRIGGS ••• HE NODS HIS HEAD IN RECOGNITION AND GESTURES DOWN THE STREET.

THE ARBA WOULD Pfil:SENT A PLEASAJ.~T STILL-LIFE. SCENE W:C:RZ IT NOT FOR THE OBVIOUS ACTIVITY E!1INATING FROM A LOCAL WAREHOUSE ..• SEVERAL THAI MEN ARE SEEN RUSHING IN AS IF LATE FOR AN EXCITING EVENT.

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THE 2, 000-SQUARE-FOOT BUILDING ~TITH 20-FOOT RUSTED TIN CEILINGS IS BURSTING AT THE ·SEAL"IS WITH HUMANITY ••• · I-T SZEMS 500 THAI ARE WAVING MONEY AND SCREAMING ALL AT THE SAME TIME •.• CLOUDS OF TOBACCO SMOKE PERMEATE THE AIR AS FOUR MEN STAND IN THE CENTER OF THE ROOM COVERING BETS IN FOUR DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. A FIGHT IS IN PROGRESS. TWO.THAIS BATTLE IT OUT WITH A PAIR OF WICKED-LOOKING STICKS ••• FINALLY ONE IS KNOCKED DOWN AND SUBMITS TO HIS OPPONENT, WHO IS HOVERING OVER HIM. CROWD CHEERS, MONEY CHANGES HANDS. THEY GUIDE THE FIGHTERS AWAY AND ~HE SELF-APPOINTED REFEREE, WHO IS DRESSED IN BASIC PEDESTRI- AN STREET CLOTHES MOTIONS TO· LEFT AND RIGHT, WHILE AN- NOUNCING THE NEXT FIGHT IN NON-STOP CHATTER.

A BATTLE-HARDENED, LARGE MAN WITH TEMPERED MUSCLES IS HUNI<ERED Dom~ IN ONE CORNER OF THE ROOM. HIS ONLY HAND- LER POURS WATER FROM A LADLE DOWN THE FIGHTER'S BACK, AND IT-SPILLS RANDOMLY ON THE LITTERED FLOOR. NONE OF THIS DISTRACTION CAN CAUSE THE FIGHTER TO REMOVE HIS EYES FROM HIS OPPONENT SEATED 20 FEET AWAY.

TIES ON HIS HEADBAND. STARES VACANTLY AHEAD. HIS EX- PRESSION IS ONE OF TRANCE-LIKE CALMNESS. HE IS HUNKERED DOWN IN THE ASIAN FASHION.

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THERE ARE NO ROPES OR ELEVATED RING TO SPEAK OF -- THI.S SETTING RESEMBLES MORE OF A LOCALE BEFITTING A DOG FIGHT RATHER THAN A SKILLFUL E~~COUNT:E:R BETWEEN TWO TRAINED ATHLETES.

THE INCREDIBLY LOUD .A..'TD SWEATY ANNOUNCER YELLS THAT ALL BETS ARE LAID AND BELLOWS FOR THE FIGH"rERS TO l;lIS.E ••• WHICH THEY DO. SOME RATHER VOLITILE WORDS AR::: BARKED BY THE DISHEVELED ANNOUNCER. AND RAMBO REACHES FOR A PAIR ·OF FIGHTING INSTRUMENTS THAT RESEMBLE A PAIR OF SHORT BATTLE STICKS THAT ARE FASHIONED FROM WOOD.

THE FIGHTER IS HANDED HIS STICK BY HIS UNSAVORY H&~DLER.

THEIR BODILS TIGHTEN AS THEY CIRCLE ONE .ANOTHER ..• THE CROWD YELLS FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE FAVORITES.

23 ANGLE 23

THE THAI FIGHTER MAKES THE FIRST CAT-LIKE LUNGE AND HACKS AT RAMBO WITH BRUTAL INTENSITY.

24 ANGLE 24

RAMBO PARRIES THE ASSAULT AND BACKS THE THAI UP WITH SUCH SMOOTH EFFICIENCY THAT HAS THE CROWD LOUDLY COM- MENDING HIS QUICKNESS.

25 ANGLE 25

SEVERAL OF THE LETHAL PARRIES GO BACK AND FORTH UNTIL THE THAI FIGHTER DECIDES TO INCREASE THE VOLITILITY OF HIS ASSAULT BY CHOPPING AT RAMBO'S LEGS, WHICH RAMBO BLOCKS, THEN CATCHES RAMBO WITH A BEAUTIFULLY-TIMED BACK SPINNING BACK KICK THAT CATCHES RAMBO COLD. HE KICKS RAMBO THREE MORE TIMES.

26 ANGLE 26

BADLY DAZED, RAMBO RAPIDLY BACKS UP AGAINST THE WARE- HOUSE WALL·. THE FIGHTER WILDLY SPINS HIS SWORD-CLUBS IN A .FLAMBOYANT GESTURE THAT SEEMS TO BE A BIT OF SA- DISTIC SHOWMAi.~SHIP.BEFORE DELIVERING THE FINAL BLOW.

27 ANGLE 27

RAMBO SMOOTHLY SIDESTEPS THE ENRAGED THAI WHOSE STICK SMASHES WITH A BONE-SHATTERING FORCE-AGAINST THE WALL THAT NEARLY SPLITS THE PLAi.~KING OF THE NEAR-DRY-ROTTED BUILDING. THE THAI KNOCKS ONE OF RAMBO'S STICKS LOOSE WITH A SLASHING BLOW.

28 ANGLE 28

RAMBO IS BACKED UP AND ' BEING KICKED BRUTALLY. IN THE LEGS, AND SIDE-STEPPING VICIOUS SWIPES OF TijE CLUBS.

29 ANGLE 29

AT THE RIGHT MOMENT, RAMBO SHIFTS INTO THE NEXT COMBA- TIVE GEAR ... HE BECOMES A WHIRLING, SLASHING BLUR OF ENBATTLED HUMANITY AND CUTS LOOSE WITH A BARRAGE OF KICKS AND PARRIES THAT HAS THE THAI FRANTICALLY RETREAT- ING.

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GRIGGS AND NYUN ENTER AND WEDGE THROUGH THE BELLOWING CROWD.

GRIGGS IS THE FIRST TO SEE RAMBO.

31 ANGLE ON RAMBO 31

RAMBO'S ASSAULT IS BEAUTIFULLY PARRIED Al.~D HE IS GIVEN A BACK-FIST .AJ.~D ELBOW SMASH BY THE THAI ••• RA.'GO DEFENDS AGAINST THE ASSAULT AND, WITH A SERIES OF DARING LEG SWEEPS, KNOCKS THE THAI TO THE GROUND ••• RAMBO SNATCHES UP HIS FIGHTING STICICS AND LEAPS TO HIS FEET ASTRIDE HIS MAN.

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••• THE THAI LOOKS AT RAMBO'S UP-RAISED STICKS AND SUB- MITS TO INEVITABLE DEFEAT.

35 ON THE AUDIENCE 35

EXPLODING WITH A GRINDING BLEND OF CHEERS AND GROAl~S.

RISES TO HIS FULL HEIGHT, BOWS TO HIS OPPONENT AND MOVES AWAY.

37 ON GRIGGS AND NYUN 37

TRAVERSING THE CROWD TOWARD RAMBO.

38 ON THE ANNOUNCER 38

REACHES INTO HIS SWEAT-SOAKED POCKET&"® HANDS OV~R A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF FOLDED MONEY TO RAMBO, WHO NODS AND MOVES AWAY, PASSING A PAIR OF STICK-CARRYING COMBATANTS PREPARING FOR THE NEXT MATCH.

39 ANOTHER ANGLE 39

THE ANNOtn~CER IS SHOOTING THE ODDS OF THE NE:CT MATCH TO THE INTENSE CROWD AS GRIGGS .AJ.~D NYUN ANGLE PAST.

RAMBO HAS JUST SLIPPED A .BAGGY THAI SHIRT OVER HIS WAR- SCARRED BODY AND IS HEADING OUT THE DOOR, RUBBING HIS BRUISED RIBS.

NOT HEARING, RAMBO CONTINUES EXITING.

RAMBO Tt.raNS AND FREEZES AS GRIGGS APPROACHES ... RAMBO

STARES AT GRIGGS WITH A BEWARE" :C:XPRESSION.

(softly) Who are you?

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RAMBO LOOKS AT HIM FOR A MO&~T THEN STARTS TO EXIT.

RAMBO BEGINS TO WALK AWAY AGAIN.

RAMBO STUDIES GRIGGS' NOW "OFFICIAL" EXPRESSION.

RAMBO TURNS AWAY, AND GRIGGS, NYUN AND THE BODYGUARD FOLLOW, DISAPPEARING INTO THE CROWD.

HE GESTURES FOR THE NEXT FIGHT TO BEGIN, WHICH IT DOES.

43 ANGLE ON THE CROWD 43

BEGINS SCREAMIN<;; WITH A DEAFENING ENTHUSIASM.

IT IS THE LOW CEILINGED, IMPOSSIBLY SEEDY LOWER DEPTHS OF THE WAREHOUSE THAT RAMBO JUST FOUGHT IN ••. RAMBO EN- TERS THE DIMLY-LIT ROOM AND MOVES TO ITS REAR. HE IS FOLLOWED BY GRIGGS, NYUN AND THE BODYGUARD.

45 CONTINUED: ( 2) 45

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RAMBO LOOKS AT HIM t'IKE HE COULD TEAR HIS HEART OUT ..

·GRIGGS (continuing) I'm talking about going after your friend.

RAMBO RAISES HIS DOWNCAST EYES AND SPEAKS IN RAPID THAI TO r,m. NYUN AND Sl'ARTS PAST GRIGGS.

THE MASSIVE ANCIENT BUILDING CUTS A FOR.BODING OUTLINE IN THE MOONLIGHT .•• IT IS THE LOCAL COMMAND POST FOR THE SECTOR .•• GUARDS WATCH FROM ELEVATED TOWERS AND r BARBED-WIRE SURROm~DS THE STRUCTURE.

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COLONEL ZAYSAN WALKS DOWN TH£ STONE l:IALLWAY, FOLLOWED BY SERGEh~T KOOROV, A MASSIVE, THOUGH NOT OVERLY TALL SADIST ..• ZAYSAN LOOKS ZVERY INCH A PROFZSSIONAL SOL- DIER. APPROXIMATELY 40 TO 45 YEARS OF AGE, SQUARE- SHOULDERZD WITH SLIGHTLY GREYING SHORT HAIR THAT IS SLIGHTLY PARTED. ZAYSAN PAUSES BEFORE A CELL.

A FLASHLIGHT BEAM PIERCES THE DARKNESS OF THE CELL·, EX- POSING THE WOUi~DED FIGURE OF TRAUTMAN. HIS SHOULDER IS WRAPPED WITH A BLOOD-CAKED BANDAGE.

I · THE LIGHT F~ASHES OFF, AND THE SCENE: I

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WE SEE GRIGGS AND NYUN IN A TAXI DRIVEN DOWN A BUSTLING STREET OF SMALL-TIME BUSIN:;;:ss &~ OF THE SUB-HUMAN LE- VEL. PEOPLE YELL AND HUSTLE THEIR WAY THROUGH WALLS OF ENTERPRISING HUMANITY. IT IS THE WAREHOUSE, BARGAIN BASEMENT EPICENTER OF THIS VERY SWEATY CITY.

PULLS UP BESIDE THE CHIPPED FACADE OF A SMALL SHOP. GRIGGS GETS OUT WITH MR. NYUN.

ENTERING THE SHOP.

THE ELDERLY OWNER SEES NYUN, WHO SPEAKS IN THAI. THE ELDERLY MAN POINTS TO THE RZAR OF THE SHOP.

GRIGGS AND NYUN ARE LEAD THROUGH THE SHOP BY THE OWNER. THE INTERIOR IS INCREDIBLY CLUTTERED WITH FORGED BRASS OBJECTS FOR SALE. A UEW SOUND BEGINS TO INTRUDE: ME- TAL AGAINST METAL. THE SOUND GROWS LOUDER AS GRIGGS AND NYUN ARE LED OUT BACK.

THE SOUND IS EMANATING FROM HERE. AS GRIGGS AND NYUN AR~ USHERED THROUGH THE DOOR •••

52 GRIGGS' POV 52

HE SEES A SMOKE-FILLED ROOM. BLACKENED WALLS. A FIRE BURNING BRIGHTLY IN TH= CENTER OF THE ROOM. SMOKE ES- CAPING THROUGH A HOLE IN THE CEILING. A MUSCULAR FI- GURE -- HIS BACK TURNED TOWARD US -- BRINGING A BMW.I.ER DONN UPON A RED-HOT PIECE OF ,r.,t.ETAL LAYIN,G ATOP AN AN- CIENT FORG:::.

A YOUNG THAI IS WORKING THE BELLOWS THAT'S STOKING THE WHITE-HOT FIRE. THE MUSCULAR MAN USES A PAIR OF METAL TONGS TO LIFT THE RED-HOT IRON OFF THE FORGE.

53 WIDER ANGLE 53

RIVULETS OF SWEAT ARE POURING DOWN HIS FACE AND BODY AS HE LOWERS THE GLOWING-:HOT METAL INTO A VAT OF WATER •••

RAMBO NODS AND TURNS AWAY TO PUMP THE BELLOWS OF THE COAL FIRE.

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GRIGGS STARTS TO GO, AND RAMBO LEAPS ON HIM Al'lD PINS HIM BACKWARDS ••• RAMBO SNARLS INTO HIS FACE:

RA.'-!BO Don't ever talk to me about combat; I've buried more reality than you'll ever know.

RA1'1BO TURNS AWAY AND FACES THE BURNING EMBERS.

A YOUNG, HUSKY GUARD WALKS HIS LONELY WATCH ALONG THE WALL. IN THE BACKGROUND ARE TWO OTHER GUARDS.

A GUARD PASSES DO'WN THE .DARKE!'!ED HALLWAY. • • EYES FROM INCARCZRATED AFGHAJ.~ PRISONZRS PEER FROM THE SMALL OPEN- INGS IN TnE DOORS ... THE GUARD FLASHES A LIGHT INTO A CELL.

WE SEE TRAUTMAN SITTING IN THE RECESSES OF THE DARK CELL. HIS BEARD HAS GOTI'EN HEAVIER AND HIS EYES TUR..~ SORELY FROM THE GLOWING LIGHT. : \ j

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LATE AT NIGHT, RAMBO IS WORKING THE BELLOWS, STOKING THE WHITE-HOT FIRE. ONCE DONE, HE CLANGS AWAY ON A RED-HOT PIECE OF GLOWING METAL. HIS FACE AND BODY ARE SHINY WITH SWEAT AS HE POUNDS A..~D SHAPES WITH A HEAVY METAL HAMMER.

THE SHAPING COMPLETED, HE LIFTS THE RED-HOT METAL WITH THE TONGS AND INSPECTS IT.

NEARLY 12-INCHES IN LEI~GTH, SLIGHTLY CURVED IN THE CEN- TER. AN INTIMIDATING HUNK OF METAL, TO SAY THE LEAST.

HE LOWERS THE GLOWING BLADE INTO THE WATER BARREL, AND. IT EMITS AL~ ANGRY HISS.AS S~EAM ENVELOPS ITS IMAGE.

THE SCENE FADES INTO THE CLOUDS, THEN PANS DOWN ONTO:

THAT'S LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A BAD DREAM. A MULTITUDE OF DIVERSE ETHNIC GROUPS (PATHANS, PUNJABIS, UZBEKS, ETC.), MANY WITH WEAPONS, SOME WITH BANDOLIERS ACROSS THEIR CHESTS. STARVING CHILDREN ANP WEARY MOTHERS FILL

TO A VARIZTY OF SKILLED, BUT MANUAL, JOBS, SUCH AS POT- TERY MAKING, GLASS BLOWING rum FLAGRANT I1ERCHA..~TS YELL- ING AT ALL WHO WILL LISTEN.

84 A.~GLE ON - RAMBO, GRIGGS AND MOUSA - TRACKING - DAY 84

THEY WALK THE CROWDED STREETS LEADING THEIR HORSES. A MILITARY BAG ON RAMBO'S BACK AND HIS NEW KNIFE AT HIS SIDE. A CANVAS-COVERED POUCH HOLDING A HIGH-TECH MILI- TARY RIFLE HANGS FROM EACH OF THEIR SHOULDERS. SOME OF THE LOCAL ROWDIES WATCH THEM t'lITH SUSPICION.

MOUSA IS A WIREY, INTENSE, EXTREMELY LIKABLE AFGHAN WITH GLOWING EYES THAT RADIATE A LOVE OF LIFE. MOUSA IS DRESSED IN TRADTIONAL AFGHAN GARB -- WHILE RAMBO AND GRIGGS WEAR AFGHAN SHIRTS AND MILITARY PANTS. GRIGGS WEARS AN AFGHAN HAT.

84A- MONTAGE OF SHOTS 84A

THEY PASS THROUGH THE MASSIVE REFUGEE CAMP. EVERYWHERE AROUND THEM IS A TESTAMENT TO THE HELLISH NIGHTMARE OF WAR ••• DYING, DISEASED CHILDREN, GRIEVING MOTHERS, AND BROKEN OLD MEN MORE DEAD THAL~ ALIVE .••

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RAMBO AND GRIGGS RIDE THEIR THICK-LEGGED HORSES. -UP AHEAD IS MOUSA, WHO LEADS ;,;_ PACK-HORSE. MOUSA ADDP.F.SSES THEM AS THEY ASCEND THE "STEEP MOUNTAIN TRAIL.

Sir, they make a good decision, to choose Mousa as guide. He show you best trail -- Soviets ·not find -- excellent guide.

THEY CONTINUE TH::::IR CLIMB TOt'lARD THE SUMMIT.

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MOUSA REACHES THE SUMMIT FIRST AND AWAITS RAMBO'S AR- RIVAL A SECOND LATER. WITH A CONFIDE?n', EXPANSIVE MOVEMENT OF HIS HAND, MOUSA DISPLAYS ALL THAT LIES BE- FOR HIM IN ONE WORD:

THEY SURVEY THE HARSH LAND BEFORE THEM.

STEEP MOUTAINS AND. RI"DGE LINES GOING ON AND ON; SCEl~ERY FOREVER. MAGESTIC, DEADLY.

DAY

RAMBO SIGNALS THAT THEY SHOULD MOVE OUT. HE AND MOUSA :BEGIN THEIR DESCENT TOHARD THE DISTANT BATTLE ZONE.

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LARS OF BLACK OUST FUNNELING INTO ROILING CLOUDS.

A) THE BLACK STORM RAGES. IT'S A STANDARD DUST. GALE.

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B) RAMBO, GRIGGS AND MOUSA CONTINUE TO.JOURNEY THROUGH

THE HARSH TE~IM. THEIR BODIES LEAN HARD AGAINST THE WIND, AS IF THEY DARE SIT UPRIGHT, THEY WILL BE BLOWN AWAY.

C) THEY PASS BURNT-OUT HULKS OF SOVIET TANKS AND APC'S.

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THE BLACK STORM HAS PASSED. MOUSA SIPS WAT!;R FROM A SKIN BAG. THEY PASS WHAT APPEARS TO BE THE RUBBLE OF A BURNT-OUT HOME FASHIONED FROM CLAY WITH SKELETONS OF LONG DEAD ANIMALS ROTTED BLE.ULY IN THE HARSH SUN.

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THEY HEAR WHAT SOUNDS LIKE DIST&\JT THUNDER. A SOVIET HELICOPTER GUNSHIP PASSES, WAY IN THE DISTANCE.

AT 5,000 FEET. RAMBO, GRIGGS ANO MOUSA WALK THEIR FRIGHTENED HORSES DOWN A NARROW FOOTPATH THAT DROPS OFF INTO A GORGE THAT APPEARS TO BE THOUSANDS OF FEET DEEP. LOOSE ROCKS PLUMMET TO WHAT APPEARS TO BE A ONE-WAY TICKET TO HELL.

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SCAPE. MOUSA'S HORSE IS PICKING ITS WAY PAST COUNTLESS ROCKS AND PEBBLES. SUDDENLY MOUSA YELLS:

RAl-IBO PULLS HIS HORSE UP SHORT. MOUSA GETS DOWN.

SMALL GREEN TOYS, OR 'WHAT SEEM TO BE, ARE SCATTERED BY

THE HUNDREDS BEFORE THEM. THESE DEADLY TOYS" BLEND QUITE WELL WITH THE GROUND. MOUSA CAUTIOUSLY PICKS ONE UP BY THE EDGE AND, INSPECTING IT AS THOUGH IT WERE A LOATHSOME INSECT, TOSSES IT ASIDE, .AJ.'ID IT EXPLODES. GRIGGS PICKS UP ANOTHER.

GRIGGS GETS BACK ONTO HIS HORSE.

THEY START TO MOVE AWAY.CAUTIOUSLY, WI'r'HOUT EVER REMOV- ING THEIR EYES FROM THE DEADLY GROUND.

THE UNNERVING SOUND OF APPROACHING MACHINERY BEGINS TO PERMEATE THE AIR. RAMBO LOOKS UP AND SEES IN THE DIS- TANCE A PAIR OF APPROACHING HELICOPTERS. THE THREE MEN GRAB THEIR HORSES AND LEAD THEM BEHIND A ROCK OUTCROP- PING.

RAMBO, GRIGGS AND MOUSA ARE SITUATED ONLY 400 FEET FROM A RIDGELINE. RAMBO SEES THE SOVIET GUNSHIPS APPROACH AND CIRCLE HIGH ABOVE THE RIDGELINE M"D THEN DIS}..PPEAR FROM VIEW ..•

... MOMENTS LATER, THOUSANDS OF BULLETS SEEM TO BE EX- PLODING AS THE GUNSHIPS ATTACK A DESIGNATED TARGET.

RAMBO AND GRIGGS GALLOP THEIR HORSES TO THE TOP OF THE RIDGELINE.

WHAT RAMBO AND GRIGGS SEE IS MINI-WARFARE IN A VILLAGE OF NO MORC: •rHAN SIXTY TO SEVENTY PEOPLE, AND A FEW SCAT- TERED HEAD OF SHEEP. THE WOMEN AND CHI!..DREN SCURRY IN VAIN FOR COVER, AS THE TWENTY OR SO MEN OF VARYING AGES SHOOT BACK WITH THEIR ANTIQUATED WEAPONS.

GRIGGS STARTS OFF IN ONE DIRECTION, WHILE RAMBO MOVES IN ANOTHER AND LEAPS OFF HIS HORSE.

AS THE.GUNSHIPS THROW FORTH A DEADLY STREAM OF FIRE, PEOPLE LEAP BEHIND ROCKS, DASH INTO THEIR MAKE-SHIFT TEN·rs, WHICH IS WHAT THE VILLAGE IS MOST!.Y COMPRISED OF -- SOME LEAP INTO AQUAFIERS THAT ARE COVERED WITH A FLAT STONE.

THIS ACTIVITY IS IN VAIN AS THE HELICOPTERS RAIN FORTH AN UNCEASING STREAM OF TARGETED HELLFIRE .•• SWIRLING DUST NEARLY BLOTS l'HE PICTURE FROM VIEW.

GRIGGS LEAPS FROM HIS HORSE AND REMOVES HIS ULTRA-MODERN RIFLE FROM HIS SHOULDER POUCH. MOUSA STEPS INTO VIEW iUT-H HIS RIFLE RAISED AT THE CHOPPERS.

CONTINUE TO FIRE AWAY AND MANAGE TO KILL FIVE AFGHANS IN RAPID SUCCESSION.

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MOUS~ IS TOTALLY CRAZED BY THE ATTACK AND BRAVELY RIDES FORWARD WHILE FIRING. HIS HORSE IS SHOT FROM UNDER HIM. HE IS THROWN HARD TO THE GROUND, AND IS UNCONSCIOUS.

RAMBO HAS ASSEMBLED HIS RIFLE AND REMOVES A TYPE OF MOR- TAR FROM ANOTHER POUCH.

GRIGGS, IN ALL THE HELLFIRE, TRIES TO LINE UP A SHOT WITH HIS WEAPON.

THE GUNNER SIGHTS HIM AND FIRES.

109B Ai.~GLE - FAVORING GRIGGS 109B

GRIGGS IS RIPPED APART. RAMBO SEES THIS AND RUSHES TO HIS SIDE.

109C RAMBO 109C

RAMBO ARRIVES AT GRIGGS' SIDE AND KNEELS BESIDE THE DEAD HAN. • • HE FACI:S THE CHOPPER Ai.~D RUSHES UP THE RIDGELINE.

AN OVERALL VIEW REVEALS THAT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS BEEN KILLED ••• HALIMA, A BADLY-WOUNDED (HEAD WOUND) YOONG GIRL OF TEN IS SEEN AT HER DEAD MOTHER'S SIDE CRYING WILDLY, PULLING VAINLY AT THE DECEASED WOMAi.~.

OUT OF THE CORNER OF HIS EYE, THE PILOT SEES HALIMA AND, ALMOS~ DISDAINFULLY, TURNS THE MACHINE AROUND •.• nALIMA STARTS TO RUN.

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CHOPPER i2 IS FIRING ROCKETS AT THE LAST REMAINING WAR- RIORS, WHO ARE SEMI-HIDDEN IN THE HILLSIDE.

THE GUNSHIP CHA:.~GES COURSE Al~D B~GINS TO ROLLER-COASTER TOWARDS THE FLEEING GIRL.

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WHILE IN ?-IOVEMENT, RAMBO ATTACHES THE MORTAR TO HIS RIFLE MUZZLE AHD SWINGS AROUND A LARGE ROCK AT THE TOP OF THE SUMMIT.

THE GUNNER LOOKS DOWN AT A RADAR SC~EN. WE SEE. THE GIRL'S GRAPHIC OUTLINE ON THE GREEN RADAR SCREEN.

RAMBO STEADIES HIMSELF BY PROPPING ONE LEG OP ON A ROCK EL~VATION.AND TAKES DEADLY AIM.

BECAUSE OF THE VALLEY CONTOUR, UPDRAFTS CAUSED BY THE CHOPPER'S PROP WASH BETWEEi.'1 RAMBO A?li"D THE CHOPPER.

THE GUNN~R HAS LINED UP HIS TARGET. A GLOVED HAND IS ABOUT TO SQUEEZE A BOTTON THAT ACTIVATES THE MACHINE GUNS.

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WITH INHUMAN CALM, RAMBO LEVELS HIS RIFLE AND PREPARES TO BARE DOWN ON THE TRIGGER.

HALIMA LOOKS OVER HER SHOULDER AT TH~ HOVERING HOUND OF DEATH .•. THE WIND FORCE NEARLY TOPPLES HER FROM HER STRIDE.

-DOWN THE LENGTH OF THE GUN BA.~REL, WE SEE THE GIAi.~T SOVIET WAR MACHINE RAPIDLY APPROACHING. IT HAS THE SAME CONCEPTUAL FEEL OF A GREA~ WHITE SHARK ABOUT TO FEAST UPON A HELPLESS MORSEL.

THE PILOT SUDDENLY SEES RAMBO OUT OF THE CORNER OF HIS EYE AND YELLS TO THE GUNNER.

TH2 GUNNER WHIPS THE MACHINE GUN TOWARD RAMBO AND FIRES.

RAMBO SQUEEZES THE TRIGGER, AND THE MORTAR EXPLODES FORTH.

THE MORTAR COLLIDES INTO THE NOSE OF THE CHOPPER. THE MORTAR SHATTERS THROUGH THE NOSE-GUNNER'S PLEXIGLASS, AND, A HEART-BEAT LATER, BXPLODES. THE MACHINE ERUPTS.

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THE SECOND CHOPPER WATCHES ITS SISTER SHIP TRANSFORM IN- TO A SHATTERED, TWISTED, SCREAMING BALL OF FIRE THAT RAINS DOWN ON THE DECIMATED VILLAGE LIKE A MACABRE DIS- PLAY OF FIREWORKS.

THE GIRL PAUSES IN HER MOUNTING TERROR TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF RAMBO AT THE TOP OF THE RIDGELINE.

SWINGS AROUND AND ANGLES TOWARD RAMBO.

128 ANOTHER ANGLE 128

CHOPPER #2 FIRES A S!1ALL ROCKET THAT EXPLODES JUST AS RAMBO LEAPS FROM VIEW.

RAMBO'S FLEEING FORM· IS ALL BUT HIDDEN FROM CLEAR VIEW BY THE BLACK SMOKING REMAINS OF CHOPPER #1.

SWINGS THROUGH THE SMOKE AT THE TOP OF THE RIDGELINE. THE SOVIETS INSIDE ARB RIGID WITH ANTICIPATION.

A PANORAMIC SHOT OF THE RAVAGED VILLAGE SHOWS THE AREA FILLING WITH NEARLY I?ll>ENETRABLE BLACK SMOKE FROM THE DOWNED CHOPPER, MADE ONLY MORE BLINDING BY THE PROP WASH OF CHOPPER #2.

DROPS DOWN LOWER INTO THE VALLEY AS IT PROBES THE VALLEY WALLS FOR SIGNS OF HIDDEN HUHANITY.

THE GUNNER FIRES BLINDLY INTO THE SMOKE·, AS THE PILOT ROTATES THE CHOPPER ON AN INVISIBLE AXIS. THE BULLETS TEAR AT THE ROCKS, AND ONLY GLIMPSES OF THE. CRAGGY VAL- LEY WALLS CAN BE SEEN. AFTER WHAT SEEMS LIKE THOUSANDS OF BULLETS, THE GUNNER CEASES.

GU't-.~ER (in Russian) They're dead -- Let's go.

THE PILOT IS ABOUT TO GUIDE THE CHOPPER AWAY WHEN HE SEES SOMETHING IN HIS PERIPHERAL VISION •••

RAMBO IS SEEN THROUGH THE SMOKE THAT BLURS PAST HIS OUTLINE •.•

RAMBO HAS THE CHOPPER DEAD IN HIS SIGHTS.

THE PILOT TRIES TO TURN THE CHOPPER AROUND. BUT TOO LATE. RAMBO FIP..ES, AND CHOPPER #2 IS HISTORY.

THE VILLAGZ IS COMPLETELY DEVASTATED. CONTORTED BODIES LAY EVERYWHERE. OLD MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN, ANIMALS. A LONESOME WIND SOFTLY WHISTLES IN 'rHE MOUNTAIN PASS. DUST KICKS UP ALL AROUaD TH:i::M. THERE ISN'T A SIGN OF LIFE ANYWHERE.

THE ONLY SOUND IS TH3 BURNING, SCATTERED F·RA.."1ES OF THE SOVIET CHOPPERS.

RAMBO LOOKS DOWN AT THE SMOKING RUBBLE, RUBS HIS EYES. AFTER WHAT SEEMS TO BE A HONORED LIFETIMES OF COMBAT, HE IS STILL REVOLTED BY THE INSANE COMPLEXITY OF WAR.

RAMBO WALKS THROUGH THE DESTROYED AND SMOLDERING VIL- LAGE. HE HEARS MOVEMENT COMING FROM BEHIND A ROCK AND GOES QUICKLY TO INSPECT IT •••

OUT OF THE CORNER OF HIS ·EYE, RAMBO SEES THE LITTLE GIRL, HALIZ.1A, DASHING TO ANOTHER HIDING PLACE. SHE HAS A WOUNDED ARM.

THE WIND IS SLOWLY BUILDING UP ••• RAMBO HEARS THE RUMBLE OF APPROACHING HORSES. FROM OUT OF THE BLOWING SMOKE. AND SWIRLING SAND, A HOONTED AFGHAN TRIBE RIDES INTO VIEW AND CIRCLES RAMBO.

THE CHARISMATIC LEADER, KHALID, AGE FORTY-FIVE, GLARES AT RAMBO WITH HIS HARD, PROUD EYES. HIS BEARDED FACE LOOKS LIKE IT ROSE OFF THE·PAGES OF A HISTORY BOOK.

THEY PULL RANB0 S WEAPON F:RZE.

RA."1.BO

) I'm American!

A GUN BUTT SLAMS INTO THE REAR OF RAMB0 1 S NECK, AND HE STAGGERS FORWARD AND IS HIT FROM ANOTHER ANGLE.

THE HORSES TIGHTEN AROUND RAMBO, AND ROPES ARE THROWN AROUND HIS NECK AND BOTH WRISTS. THIS HAPPENS WITH GREAT FRENZY.

THE ROPES ARE FASTENED TO THE HORN OF TWO AFGHAN HORSE- MEN'S SADDLES AND RAMBO'S ARMS ARE SPREAD OUT AND HE!..D PAINFULLY TAUNT.

~OUSA STAGGERS TO HIS FEET A..'® VIEWS WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN .•• HE YELLS WILDLY, BUT THE. WIND CARRIES HIS VOICE AWAY ••• HE STRUGGLES TO RUSH FORWARD.

RAMBO, SEMI-CONSCIOUS, REALIZES THAT HE IS ABOUT TO BE PULLBD IN HALF, AND HE DESPERATELY TRIES TO STRUGGLE FREE. THE GIRL, HALIMA, LOOKS OUT AT THE SCENE AND STEPS FROM HER HIDING PLACE.

WITH HIS LAYERED CLOTHL.~G BLOWING WILDLY, KHAL.ID CURSES AT RAHBO AND SIGNALS FOR THE AMERICAN TO' BE PULLED APART.

KHALID AND ALL PRBSENT .TURN TOWAP.DS MOUSA, WHO PLEADS FOR RAMBO I S LIFE BY R.~PIDLY EXPLAINING WHO TH:C: AMERICAN REALLX IS. AS MOUSA CONTINUES TALKING; KHALID WAVES HIS HAND AT THE BURNING CHOPPER, AND MOUSA EXPLAINS THESE ARE THE AMZRICANS THEY WERE SUPPOS:ED TO MEET UP WITH.

'Bang''?

MOUSA GESTURES AN EXPLOSION WITH HIS HANDS.

THE LITTLE GIRL, HALIMA, STEPS INTO VIEW, AND SPEAKS.

THE STONEY~FACED GUERRILLAS LOOK AT ONE ANOTHER WITH ADMIRATION FOR RAMBO.. RAMBO !S RELEASED.

147 ANGLE ON KHALID 147

KHALID GETS OFF HIS HORSE AND GOES TO RAMBO. HE STARES HARD AT RAMBO AS THE WIND WILDLY WHIPS THEIR GARMENTS .••

KHALID EMBRACES RAMBO, THEN REMOUNTS AND PEELS OFF. A REBEL REACHES DO'WN AND PICKS UP HALIMA AND STARTS TO RIDE AWAY ..• MOUSA HANDS OVER THE REINS OF RAMBO'S HORSE.

RAMBO LOOKS OVER AT THE DEAD ~.&!:RICAN' NEAR THE ROCKS.

A LARGE ANCIENT STRUCTURE SITUATED UP ON THZ BROAD FACE OF A MOUNTAIN IS THE LOCAL COMl.'1AND POST FOR THE RUSSIANS CONTROLLING THIS SECTOR OF THE COUNTRY •.

ROLLED BARBED-WIRE RINGS THE FORTRESS, WHILE PATROLLING AFGHAN GOVERJ.~MENT TROOPS PACE ALONG THE TOP OF THE WALL ... IN THE TWO ELEVATED LOOKOUT TO'ilERS ARE YOUNG RUSSIAN SOLDIERS. THE FORT LOOKS TO BE ACTIVE, SINCE THE NEWS OF THE DOWNED CHOPPERS HAS BEEN PASSED AROUND ••• SEVERAL VEHICLES ARE SEID~ RAPIDLY ENTERING THE FORT.

OUT OF HIS OFFICE STEPS COLONEL ZAYSAN . .HIS EXPRESSION IS DRY PROFESSIONALISM. HE IS FOLLOWED BY THE POWERFUL SGT. KOUROV.

AS COL. ZAYSAN AND SGT. KOUROV TURN THE CORNER AND ARE GREETED BY A 25-YEAR-OLD LIEUTENANT NAMED TOMSK. TWO AFGHAN GOVERNMENT TROOPERS STAND BEHIND LT. TOMSK.

TnE DOOR OPENS AND LIGHT ANGLES IN EXPOSING TRAUTMAN ... TRAUTMAN LOOKS DRAWN AND DEHYDRATED. --

TRAUTMAN LOOKS AT THE COLONEL IN SILENCE.

ZAYSP.N GRASPS Hia BY THE HAIR·.

ZAYS.Ai'l EXITS.

NEAR THE BASE OF A MOUNTAIN WE SEE RAMBO, MOUSA, AND OF COURSE, THE BAND OF GUERRILLAS, ARRIVING AT THE REBEL CAMP. SOME CHILDREN RUN FROM THE NEARBY RIVER.

ONCE AT TH~ FRONT OF THE CAMP, KHALID BARKS SOME ORDERS, AND THE MEN DISMOUNT THEIR HORSES. CHILDREN GATHER AROUND KHALID. LIKE A TRUE FATHER-FIGURE, HE STROKES THEIR HEADS WHILE KISSING SOME. HE MOTIONS A.~D SPEAKS TO HOUSA AND GESTURES AT RAMBO.

THEY ENTER THE CONFINES OF THE CONCLAVE OF AFGHAN TENTS AND MAKE-SHIFT SHELTERS; SOME WITH OLD SURPLUS ANTI- AIRCRAFT METTING OVER THE TENTS.

HORDES OF WOMEN COVERED IN TRADITIONAL DRESS GO ABOUT THEIR CHORES OF MAKING BREAD, AND MENDING CLOTHING AND T:SNDING TO ANIMALS ••. A GROUP OF MEN SIT IN CIRCLES DRINKING TEA, DISCUSSING LIFE. SOME CLEAN THEIR OLD WEAPONS .•• ONE GROUP IS WATCHING A WRESTLING MATCH BE- TWEZN THE FULLY-CLOTHED YOUTHS.

NANY OF' THE WOMEN AND YOUNGER CHILDREN EYE RAMBO WITH

MORE CURIOSITY THAN SUSPICION AS HE PASSES. MANY WAVE AND OFFER COMPLIMENTARY EXP~ETIVES TO KHALID AS HE PASSES.

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TENT COVERED AND FASHIONED AGAINST A STONE ~ACADE OF THE MOUNTAIN IS AN EXTRAORDINARILY DEPRESSING PRIMITIVE IN- FIRMARY AREA. THE .AILING LAY UPON BLAL~KETS, SCATTERED STRAW AND BLOOD-STAINED RAGS OF YELLOWING LINEN.

HANGING ON A ROPE, APPEARS TO BE STOCKPILES OF ARTI- FICIAL LIMBS, SOME FASHIONED FROM STICKS, METAL; SOME APPEAR TO BE SLIGHTLY USED CHIPPED PLASTIC. ON AN AD-. JOINING TABLE OR COBBLER'S .BENCH IS AN ASSORTMENT OF WOODEN FEET. LANTERNS HANG FROM A ROPE HUNG DOWN THE CENTER OF THE TENT. ·

KHALID AND THE CHILD, FOLLOWED BY RAMBO AND MOUSA, MOVE TOWARDS A WOMAN AT THE REAR OF TSE INFIRMARY... .

MICHEL PILLAR, A SA.~DY-HAIRED, 35-YEAR-OLD DUTCH WOMAN., RISES FROM TENDING TO A SEVERELY-BURNED CHILD AND GOES TO GREET KHALID •.• MICHEL IS NOT GARBED AS A DOCTOR WOULD BE EXPECT:C:D TO BI::. IN THESE TIMES OF WAR, SHE HAS ADOPTED A RATHER DISHEVELED APPEARANCE, BEING GARBED IN A WRINKL:i:::D KHAKI MILITARY SHIRT AND PANTS. SHE HAS A VERY STRONG BUT PLEASANT CONTENANCE.

KHALID SHAKES HIS HEAD "NO." THE LITTLE GIRL IS STILL IN A HINOR STATE OF SHOCK AND 'itISIBLY WITHDRAWN. MICHEL INSPECTS HALil-"J.A'S SUPERFICIAL WOUND. THE CIGARETTE STILL HANGS LOOSELY FROM HER MOUTH. Al~ AFGHAN WOMAN IN A CHARDRI HELPS CLENSE THE CHILD'S WOUNDS.

MICHI:L (continuing) -- Who is this?

KHALID EXITS THE INFIRMARY. MICHEL GOES TO HALIMA. MOUSA MOTIONS TO RAMBO TO FOLLOW.

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THIRTY GUERRILLAS SIT IN A TYPE OF SEMI-CIRCLE FASHION WITH RAMBO BEING AT ONE END &iD CERTAINLY THE OBJECT OF ATTENTION. KHALID SITS TEN MEN AWAY FROM RAMBO. LIKE- WISZ, T1'/l0 OTHER CHIEFTANS, NAMED RAHIM AND A HEAVILY- BEARDED, FEARSOME-LOOKING HOLY WARRIOR NAMED MOSAAD. THE THREE TRIBAL CHIEFTANS DISCUSS IN A.~IUATED FASHION ABOUT THE ACTUAL INTENTIONS OF RAMBO. IS IT A KGB PLOT? DID HE REALLY RESCUE THE GIRL? IS HE TO BE TRUSTED?

MOUSA TAKES THE OPPORTUNITY TO BREAK INTO THE DIALOGUE AMONGST THE TRIBAL CHIEFTANS AND BEGINS A VERY ANIMATED STREAN OF CONVERSATION ru:.--r.ATING THE EVENTS OF EARLIER. IN THE DAY ...

... RAHIM RAISES HIS HAND FOR MOUSA TO STOP SPEAKING.

RAMBO PAUSES. MOSAAD SPEAKS WITH.BARELY AN ACCENT:

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RA!-1DO I don't know what to say -- I

• wish I could help more .

RAMBO STANDS, HODS HIS APPRECIATION AT MOSAAD, AND STEPS OUT WITH MOUSA.

TEN AFGHAN WARRIORS ARE PLAYI~G A GAME WHERE THEY CHARGE ON HORSEBACK WITH A I,A!;CE AND TRY TO SPEAR A THREE-INCH TENT PEG STUCK IN THE EARTH. IT IS A SKILLFUL AFGHAN SPORT OF NERVE A~lD DARING, WITH A TOUCH OF FLAGRANT IN..: SANITY.

RAMBO AND noliSA MOVE A BIT CLOSER AS THE GAf.!E PICKS UP WITH THE ANIHATED AFGHANS GALLOPING TO Ai'iD FRO, TRYING TO SPEAR THE PEG.

RAMBO NODS Ai~D LOOKS BACK OUT AT ...

157 RAMBO'S POV 157

... A HORSEMAN DEFTLY SPEARING A TENT PEG AT FULZ.. GALLOP.

/,--'>\ ... :, __,) MOUSA WALKS A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO THE CHARGING HORSEMEN.

159 ANOTHER Al~GLE - DAY 159

ANOTHER PLAYER GALLOPS PAST, BUT MISSSS THE PEG; AND THE OTHER PLAYERS JEER HIM IN A GOOD-NATURED FASHION •••

AS RAMBO APPROACHES, THE PLAYERS AND BYSTANDERS EYE HIM WITH SUSPICION.

ONE OF THE PLAYERS HHO HAS DROPPED OUT OF THE AC7ION MO- rmNTARILY YELLS TO MOUSA THAT THE A?'1ERICAN SHOULD TRY THE GAME. A LARGE PLAYER SMILES, MAKES AN EVEN LOUDER CHALLENGE TO RAMBO.

TWO MORE PLAYERS ALONG THE SIDELINES YELL AT MOUSA, WHO PAUSES AND YELLS BACK ~1I·rH OBVIOUS ANNOYANCE.

MOUSA YELLS BACK AT THE MEN IN THEIR NATIVE TONGUE.

RAl-1BO GOES FORWARD. HE IS HAND:::D THE REINS BY A GROUP OF [-10CKING HORSEMEN. RAMBO EXPERTLY MOUNTS THE HORSE AND IS GIVEN A PIN-POII-lT SHARP LANCE.

RAMBO GOES PAST A GROUP OF SKEPTICAL HORSE?-!EN AS HE FACES •rHE PEG NEARLY FIFTY YARDS AWAY.

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IS VERY WORRIED ••. HE YELLS ENCOURAGEMENT.

OBSERVES ·rHE ACTIVITY DO':im BELOW.

RAMBO CHARGES FULL AHEAD AND LOWERS HIS LANCE INTO PO- SITION. EYES STARE UNBLINKINGLY AT THE MINUTE TARGET.

FLASHING PAST.

RAMBO'S HORSZ'S DIGGING HOOVES.

LEANS FURTH=R DOWN TO SPEAR THE PEG AND MISJUDGES THE DISTA.~CE. HIS LANCE DEEPLY IMPALES THE GROUND IN FRONT OF THE PEG.

RAMBO IS JOLTED OFP THE HORSE AND FLUNG FORCEFULLY TO THE GROUND.

STUNNED FOR A MOMENT. NOT KNOWING IF ~.BO IS DEAD.

SLOWLY SITS UP. DUSTY AND E¼BAR..~SSED ••• HE COLDLY EYES THE BEMUSED MUJAHIDEEN WARRIORS.

WATCHES WITH KEEN INTEREST; LIKEWISE, MANY OTHER AFGHAN WARRIORS WHO HAVE BROKEN AWAY FROM THEIR CIRCULAR CON- VERSATIONS TO WATCH THE A.M.ERICAN MAKE HIS UNIMPRESSIVE DEBUT.

RAHBO RISES AND PULLS OFF HIS.AFGHAN SHIRT AND GETS BACK ON THE HORSE, HZLD BY MOUSA.

RAMBO NODS Ai.~D PULLS THE HORSE AWAY. AlmTHER REB:CL GOES TO HAND HIM A LANCE.

SHAKES HIS HEAD "~,m," AND LINES UP TO CHARGE.

THEY ARE TOTALLY CONFUSED BY RAMBO'S REFUSAL OF THE j' LANCE. . . MOUSA LOOKS AT THEE AND SHRUGS.

176A GROUPS OF CHILDREN 176A.

RUN TO OBSERVE THE AMERICAN.

RAMBO CHARGES AT FULL GALLOP AND STARES WIDE-EYED AT THE BARELY VISIBLE PEG ••• AS HE NEARS THE PEG, RAMBO DRAWS HIS LONG KNIFE AND POINTS IT AT THE PEG •••

THEY CANNO'r BELIEVE WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.

STARES WITH KEEN INTEREST.

RA!'.iBO REACHES TO THE GROU?tD AS HE THUNDERS PAST;

181 CLOSEUP - KNIFE BLADE - TR.'Z\CKnrn - DAY 181

RESEMBLES A ·SHARK ~SIT TRAVELS PARALLEL TO THE ROCKY GROUND.

RAMBO SPEARS 'I'HB TENT PEG AND HOLDS IT HIGH AS HE CIRCLES AROUND THE PLAYERS •••

••. TH~ PLAYERS YELL THEin APPROVAL •••

A RELIGIOUS HOLY MAN YELLS DOWN AT THI:: PLAYING FIELD IN A SORT OD DRONING WAIL.

184 ~x·r. ROCKY GROUND - DAY

THE PLAYERS CE.'Z\SE UPON HEARING THE MULLAH'S COMMAND.

RAMBO GLANCZS AROUND AT THr: DEPARTING PLAYERS.

MOUSA RENDERS A CONFUSED EXPRESSION. AND RAMBO SMI~ES BACK AT HIM.

A SURVEILLANCE HELICOPTER ~ITH SOVI~T MARKINGS HOVERS OVER THE BURNED, SKELETAL REMAINS OF THE TWO DOWNED CHOPPERS.

OF THE DOWNED CHOPPERS.

WE SEE THE PILOT REACH FOR THE MICROPHONE.

A GROUP OF A HUNDRED MUJAHIDEE~J' GUERRILLAS, INCLUDING THE THREE LEADERS, MOSAAD, KHALID AND RAHIM, ARE ALL KNEELING IN PRAYER. THE !10LLAH IS LEADING THE PRAYER CHANT .•. RAMBO WATCHES THE RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY FOR A MOMENT, THZN TURNS BACK.TOWARDS THE HOSPITAL SECTION.

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RAMBO WALKS AMONG THE INFIRMED, MOVING TOWARD THE BED OF STRAW UPON WHICH LIES THE 10-YEAR-OLD GI~, HALIMA.

RAMBO LOOKS DOWN AT HALIMA. THE DUTCH DOCTOR WEARILY APPROACHES FROM OVZR RAMBO'S SHOULDER. HALIMA SPEAKS TO RAMBO IN HER NATIVE TONGUE.

RAMBO REACHES DOWN AND STROI<ES HER HAIR, THEN FACES THE DOCTOR, WHO DRAGS ON HER HAND-ROLLED CIGARETTE AND SIGHS WITH DEEP WEARIN~SS.

n; THE DIS'rANCE, MICHEL SEES AN ELDERLY MAN WITH NO LEGS AND CRUDE STICKS FOR LEGS.

MICHEL SMILES AS SHE DRAGS DEEPLY ON HER CIGARETTE. THE OLD MAN HOBBLES ON CROTCHES IN THE BACKGROUND.

R.:n.MBO A..""ID MICHEL START TO MOVE AMONG THE WOUNDED. A LARGE MAN WITH BLONDE HAIR AND BLUE EYES PASSES ~Y, CARRYING WATER. RAMBO STARES A~ EIM FOR A MOMENT.

RAMBO SMILES.

WE SEE A SEARCHLIGHT SMOOTHLY SCA..~ING THE BARREN SUR- ROUNDINGS.

TRAUTMAN SITS' BEN'r AND BOmID, IN HIS DAMP CELL ••• ONCE AGAIN THE FLASHLIGHT GLARES INTO HIS EYES. HE SEES THE HIGHLIGHTED OUTLINE OF ZAYSAN WHO STANDS BEFORE HIM. SGT. KOUROV, WHO IS OFF TO ONE SIDE AUD LT. TOMSK WHO IS ON THE OTHER; ALONG WITH SOME AFGHAN TROOPERS ••• TRAUTMAN HAS BE:C:N .ROUGHLY MANHANDLED AND LOOKS EXHAUSTED A..f\JD IN PAIN •

ZAYSAN MOTIONS TO SGT. KOUROV TO TIGHTEN A LEATHER STRAP THAT IS AROUND TRAUTMAN'S NECK. THE AMERICAN REDDENS AND GAGS. KOUROV LOOS~NS THE STRAP.

TRAUTMAN RE?-1AINS SILENT.

ZAYSAN TURNS TO SGT. KOUP.OV AND SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN. SGT. KOUROV SMASHES HIS FIST INTO TRAUTMAN'S ALREADY BRUISED FACE ••• THE AFGHAN GOVERNMENT SOLDIER GLANCES AT THE DE- TERMINED EXPRESSION OF ZAYSAN.

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A WEDDING IS TAKING PLACE ON A HIGH POINT OF THE CAMP SITE. CHILDREN ARE LEAPING INTO THE WA'!'ER. WO.MEN FEED T8E ANIMALS AND PREPARE THE FOOD.

REBELS CLEAN THEIR OLD WEAPONS AUD CONVERSE AMONG THEM- SELVES. SOME ARE HAVING A TYPE OF MASCARA APPLIED ••• OTHERS HAVE POT A FEW DESERT FLOWERS IN THEIR TURBANS.

RAMBO SITS WITH MOUSA. HE IS PREPARING SMALL EXPLOSIVE CHARGES ... MOUSA GESTURES AT THE WEDDING CEREMONY.

RAMBO

SUDDENLY THE SOUUD OF AN ARRIVING HORSE CAUSES THE WED- DING CONTINGENT TO TURN. RAMBO WATCHES AN AFGHAN DRESSED IN A GOVER..~MENT UNIFORM, DISMOUNT AND ENTER MOSAAD'S TENT. RAMBO EYES THE GOVERNMENT TROOPER WITH CONFUSION.

CU'l' TO:

A COUPLE OF HUNDRED MEN ARE PREPARING THEMSELVES FOR BATTLE. SOME CLEAN THEIR WEAPONS: SOME SIT MEDITATIVE- LY; SOME ARE GEARING UP THCIR ANIMALS. WOMEN GATHER AROUND TO CONVERSE RAPIDLY WITH THEIR SOON-DEPARTING HUSBANDS.

MEN ARE IN A LINE,·DANCING IN UNISON AS SEVERAL DRUMS AND SITARS POUND OUT A STEADY BEAT.

RAMBO, WITH MOUSA, WALKS OVER TO AN AREA NOT FAR FROM WHERE THE BULK OF HUMA..~ITY IS CONGREGATED. RAMBO WATCHES THE WARRIORS DANCE.

MOSAAD, KHALID AND RAHIM ARE ENGAGED IN ANIMATED CON- VERSATION.

HIS PLAN IS THE WISEST.

MOSAAD TURNS AND NOTICES RAMBO'S PRESENCE WHILE HE'S IN MID-SENTENCE WITH THE OTHER TWO CHIEFTAN LEADERS. MOSAAD APPROACHES, FLANKED BY SEVERAL OF HIS MEN.

RAMBO

before the convoy with six men.

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MOUSA STATES RAMBO'S REQUEST. MOSAAD THINKS FOR A MO- MENT, THEN NODS HIS CONSENT.

RAMBO HAS ARRIVED WITH MOOSA AND SIX OTHER MUJAHIDEEN WARRIORS. PULLING UP HIS HORSE SHORT, HE SURVEYS THE MASSIVE STONE FACADE THAT BORDERS BOTH SIDES OF THE VALLEY WHERE THE CONVOY WIL!.. SOON BE.

PLACING DETONATORS UPON THE LETHAL OBJECTS AND STRATEGICALLY SETTING THEM AGAINST CERTAIN ROCK OUTCROPPINGS.

B) WE SEE RAMBO HAND AN ALREADY "DOCTORED" EXPLOSIVE

TO ANOTHER WARRIOR, At-10 HE POINTS TO A DISTANT LO- CATION... .

C) WE SEE MOUSA PLACING PRIMER CORD AND EXPLOSIVES AT

WITH PRIMER AND LEADING PRIMER,CORD IN THE OPP0SITE DIRECTION. THEY CONTINUE TO DO SO UNTIL THEY COME OP TO WHERZ RAMBO IS STRATEGICALLY POSITIONED. RAMBO NODS AT THEM IN AN AFFIRMATIVE MANNER.

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RAMBO IS HIGH ATOP ONE OF THE ROCK OOTCROPPINGS WHEN HE SEES THE DUST OF THE APPROACHING MUJAHIDEEN WARRIORS. MOUSA NOTICES THEIR ARRIVAL.

204 ANGLE 204

THE WARRIORS, BEING LED BY KHALID A...'m RAHIM, ARRIVE AND BEGIN TO SPLIT UP INTO THREE SECTORS, EACH TAKING A DIF- FERENT STRATEGIC LEVEL ON THE VALLEY'S FORMATION: LEFT, RIGHT AND IN THE MIDDLE.

205 ANGLE 205

MOSAAD COMES UP TO RAMBO AND LOOKS DOWN FROM HIS HORSE.

RAMBO NODS. MOSAAO RIDES OFF.

THE RUSSIAN CONVOY, COMPRISING OF TWENTY VEHICLES AND TWO TANKS, COMES INTO VIEW OVER THE HORIZON. TEN EARTH- COLORED MOTORCYCLES LEAD THE WAY.

RAMBO, ALONG WITH MOUSA.ARE TWO OF THE FIRST TO SPOT THE ON-COMING ENEMY.

MOSAAD NODS AN AFFIRMATIVE "GET READY" TO HIS FIRST IN COMMAND.

ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE VALLEY, MAKES A MOTION TO HIS MEN TO PREPARE.

SITS HIGHER UP ON THE MOUNTllN S FACE, POISED NEXT TO THE PAIR OF SOLDIERS THAT MAN THE 12.SMM GUNS.

THE CONVOY IS ONLY A HUNDRED METERS FROM ENTERING THE MOUTH OF THE VM.LEY.

KHALID'S EYES ARE THE EYES OF A HUNGRY HAWK AS HE STARES DOWN.

FROM HIS VANTAGE POmT, RAMBO DOES NOT LOOK AT 'THE CON- VOY AS MUCH AS HE STARES ABOVE.

THE TANK CONVOY HAS NOW MADE ITS APPEAaAJ.~CE IN THE CEN- TER OF THE VALLEY.

2l5 EXT. ROCKS - FEATURING MOSAAD - DAY 215

MOSAAD RAISES HIS ARM AND EMITS A BATTLE CRY. AND ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE. I J

GUNFIRE ERUPTS FROM ALL THREZ DIRECTIONS. REBELS YELL INSTRUCTIONS TO ONE ANOTHER. THEY APPLY A TYPE OF FREE FORM BATTLE.

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THE CONVOY TRUCKS ARE CAUGHT COLD.

RAM.BO MOTIONS TO MOUSA TO SET OFF THE FIRST CHARGE, WHICH MOUSA DOES; AND ANY CHANCE OF RETREAT IS· REMOVED AS:

HUNDREDS OF THOOSA.TWS OF TONS OF ROCKS CASCADE DOWN AND BLOCK THE VALLEY'S ENTRANCE.

THE SOVIET SOLDIERS THAT. POUR OUT OF THE REAR OF THE TRUCKS -- SPETSNAZ SPECIALISTS START TO TAKE TO THE HILLS AFTER THE REB~LS.

AT PRECISELY THE RIGHT MOMENT, MOOSA, UWDER RAMBO'S CO~.A.~D, FIRES OFF THE HEXT VOLLEY OF EXPLOSIONS.

Cu'"T TO:

SUDDENLY APPEARS FROM THE REAR OF THE VALLEY.

It s a trap! Get behind cover!

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RAMBO MOTIOHS TO MOUSA, 'WHO HAS MOVED INTO POSITION ON AN OPPOSITE PEAK.

BEGINS TO SPIT RAPID DEATH FROM ITS MACHINE GUNS.

Sl:."VERAL AFGH&~S ARE RIDDLED AND ARE STREWN UPON THE BEDROCK.

MOSAAD AND KHALID YELL WILDLY AT THEIR MEN TO RETREAT TO SAFETY, BUT SAFETY IS IMPOSSIBLE ON THESE EXPOSED ROCKS.

PREPARES TO MAKE ANOTHER PASS •••

CONTINUE TO CHASE THE MUJAHIDEEN WARRIORS TO HIGEER ELE- VATIONS.

HE TAKES HIS AUTOMATIC RIFLE AND MANAGES TO PICK TWO SPETSNAZ TROOPERS OFF FROM HIS LOFTY POSITION.

THE _ROARING ENGINES OF THE CIRCLING GUNSHIP· GROWS IN VOLUME AS IT PREPARES FOR ITS SECOND PASS.

IT FIRES THP..EE OF ITS 128 ROCKETS AND PREPARES TO FLY PAST RAMBO'S HIDDEN POSITION.

RAMBO TENSES; MOUSA TE!~SES ••• ONLY A SPLIT SECOND MORE .

• . . AS THE GUNSHIP FIRES AT THE AFGH&~S, RAMBO FIRES ALMOST IN UNISON •••

••. A SPLIT SECOND LATER, MOUSA FIRES OFF HIS EXPLOSIVES.

THE RESULT IS: THE GUNSHIP IS LITERALLY OBLITERATED BY ROCKS TRAVELING LIKE MET~ORITES INTO ITS FLANKS. THE V.A..~GLED CHOPPER ~XPLODES AND FALLS TO THE GROUND.

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THIS VICTORY RALLIES TH~ AFGHANS; AND THE RUSSIANS ALL BEGIN TO FALL BACK-.

RAMBO FIRES OFF ANOTHER PRE-SET CHARGE •••

A RUSSIAN TA!~K EXPLODES AS IT ATTEMPTS TO MOVE AGAINST THE REBELS.

MOUSA FIRES OFF ANOTHER CHARGE THAT CAUSES:

A SUBSTANTIAL LANDSLIDE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE •VALLEY .•• AND, OVER TEN SPETSNAZ TROOPERS ARE HISTORY.

RAMBO MOVES RAPIDLY DOi1N THE HILL FIRING ••• HE HITS A SOVI:ET SOLDIER, WHO HAD HAD HIS SIGHTS ON THE AMERICAN.

AS RAMBO STARTS TO GO PAST THE DEAD RUSSI&~, HE IS FIRED UPOH •••

MOSAAD A..~ HIS ?'~N CHARGE FOR;'lARD. • • RAMBO IS RUNNING TO JO IN THEM.

SUDDENLY THE TA.i.~K GRINDS OUT OF THE CLOUD OF DUST. IT WAS NOT DESTROYED AND OPENS FIRE ON THE REBELS.

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THE TANK'S CANNON BLASTS A GROUP OF REB:tLS, AND OTHERS ARE CUT DOWN WITH ?-~CHINE GUN FIRE.

242 ANGLE 242

MOSAAD CALLS HIM MEN TO RET!'~T.

243 ANGLE 243

RAMBO YELLS OVZR ro MOUSA, FIFTY FEET AWAY:

R..~0 Throw the charge!!!

244 A.L~GLE 244

MOUSA SWINGS THE CANVAS BAG FROM HIS SHOULDER AND IS ABOUT TO HEAVE IT WHEN HE IS PINNED DOWN BY INTENSE Y.ACHINE GUN FIRE FROM COT OF VIEW •••

245 A..~OTHER ANGLE 245

R.Z\MBO RUSHES AND TAKES THE SATCHEL FROM MOOSA AND GOES TO THE TANK'S FIA~K WITH THE SATCilEL CHARGE. 'THZ MA- CHINE GUN FIRE RIPS OVER HIS HEAD, AND HE MANAGES TO TOSS THE CHARGE ONTO THE TOP OF THE TANK, THEN HE DIVES BENEATH THE TANK.

246 THE TANK 246

RAMBO IS· N:::ARLY CRUSHED BENEATH THE FIFTY TON MACHINE AS IT SLOWLY MOVES OVER HIM.

THE TANK GRINDS FORWARD, CLEARING RAMBO, WHO GETS OP AND RUNS AS TH~ TANK FI~S ITS CANNON A SPLIT SECOND BEFORE:

248 FULL SHOT - THE Tiu~ 248.

THE SATCHEL CHARGE BLOWS OFF THE TANK'S TURRET ••• IT BE- COMES A FLAMING INFERNO.

249 ANGLE ON MOSAAD 249

MOSAAD LOOKS AT RAMBO WITH EXTRAORDINAR~ RESPECT AND YELLS FOR HIS REBELS TO ATTACK.

250 THE BATTLE GROUND 250

THE FIGHT CONTINUES WITH NEITHER SIDE TAKING GROUND. THE AFGHANS RE?10VE THEIR WOUNDED AND DEAD, AND THE BAT- TLE RAGES ON.

RAMBO LOCKS EYES t·1ITH MOSAAD, WHO LOOKS GRIEF-STRICKEN OVER THE LOSS OF LIFE. RAMBO TAKES UP A RIFLE A?m . FIGHTS ON.

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WE SEE THE OMINOUS ANCIEN~ STRUCTURE IN THE FADING LIGHT OF DAY •.. THE SOUND OF RUSSIAN VOICES IS HEARD.

INSIDE THE WALLS OF THE FORT, SOVIET AND AFGHAN GOVERN- MENT TROOPS ARE HERDING TEN AFGHAN POLITICAL PRISONERS TOWARD THE CENTER OF THE BARE, BLEAK COURTYARD. SGT. KOUROV LEADS THE DETAIL.

TRAUTMAN IS EYE:I?iG PRISONERS BEING PULLED FROM THEIR CELLS.

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IN THE FADING LIGHT, THE COLONEL IS AGGRESSIVELY AD- DRESSING HIS TWO AIDES, MAJOR AZOV AND LT. TOMSK. '.

ZAYSAL~ (bellowing) No Those resoonsible must be eliminated at once --

Do as ordered

COLONEL ZAYSA.L~ EXITS.

HE IS SITTING IN THE OPPRESSIVE CONFINES WHEN HE IS· AROUSED BY A VO!.Lzy OF AUTOMATIC GUNFIRE.

THE MAJORITY OF THE CAMPSITE IS GATHERED AROUND TWENTY COVERED BODIES. THE MULLAH P.ECITES A PRAYER WHILE THE CONGREGATION MOU1U1S THE DEAD.

MOUSA RISES &"'ID STA&."WS BESIDE RAMBO IN THE DISTA?;cs.

RAMBO PASSES THE DEFECTED RUSSIAN, WHO IS ATTENDING THE FEEDING OF A WOUNDED SOLDIER. RAMBO ANO THE LARGE, SHORT-HAIRED RUSSIAN LOCK EYES FOR A MO~T, THEN HE NODS A GREETING AT RA?'J.BO •.

THE RUSSIAN AND RAMBO STANO ON AN OUTCROPPING NEAR THE HOSPITAL OVERLOOKING THE PRAYING MOSLEMS. THE RUSSIA..~' S ~AME IS ANDRE. • • MOUSA STA?IDS IN THE BACKGROtn~D.

ANDRE

prisoners. If 1-iosaad want me to show you, I will show you how to find.

ANDRE· Many Soviets defect. Many die -- friends die; in Moscow · nobody know. They think we win; nobody win in war ••• hate what we do here. No, you can trust Andre; can I trust you, American?

THE DUTCH DOCTOR COMES OVER, POINTING AT HALIMA WHO IS IN BED.

MICHEL TURNS AL~D SPEAKS TO THE CHILD IN PATHAN, ANO SHE SPEAKS BACK TO THE DOCTOR IN HER NATIVE TONGUE.

RAMBO SMILES AND TOUCHES HA.LIMA'S HAIR.

and OMITTED and

RAMBO PACES WITH MOSAAD NEAR THE HORSES. MOUSA IS NEAR- BY; LIKEWISE ANDRE.

261 CONTINUED: 2-61

MOSAAD LOOKS AT RAMBO FOR A MOMENT AND NODS HIS CONSENT.

BENEATH THE SHADOWY REFLECTION GIVEN OFF BY A HALF MOON L'l THE MOUNTING SAND STORM, RAMBO, MOUSA, ANDRE THE RUS- SIAN, ANO A BAND OF FIVE MEN ARE SEEN ARRIVING WITHIN THREE HUNDRED YARDS OF THE FORTRESS. STATIONED IN FRONT OF THE FORTRESS ARE TEN TANKS.

RAMBO DISMOUNTS, LIKEWISE THE AFGHAN REBELS AND ANDRE.

SEARCHLIGHTS FROM THE FORTRESS RAKE THE AREA. MOUSA IS RUBBING A TYPE OF JELL ON HIS EXPOSED AREAS ••• ANDRE RUBS I.TON.

RAMBO RUBS SOME ONE HIS ARMS: THEN REMOVES A LONG, WOOND ROPE FROM THE SADDLE ••• THEN HE REMOVES HIS AFGHAN CLOTH- ING ••• HE IS TOTALLY COVER.ED IN DARK, CAMOUFLAGE MAKEUP. HE AND ANDRE START TO MOVE OUT. MOUSA ADDRESSES THE FIVE RESELS IN PATHAN.

WE MOVE WITH RAMBO, MOUSA AND ANDRE AS THEY MOVE CAU- TIOUSLY UP TO THE PERIMETER OF THE BUILDING -- ANDRE GUIDES THE WAY.

265 RAMBO 265

RAMBO SURVEYS THE GROUND AND IMMEDIATELY SPIES A VAST ASSORTMENT OF ANTI-PERSONNEL BUTTERFLY MINES ••• ANDRE POINTS THE WAY ••.

• • • THE CAMERA PULLS BACK AS RAMBO, MOUSA AND ANDRE STEP FORWARD, CAREFULLY AVOIDING THE PRESSURE MINES. RAMBO LOOKS UP •.•

266 RAMBO'S POV 266

RAMBO SEES A RUSSIAN SOLDIER PACING ON THE WALL ••• THREE MORE SOVIET GUARDS PACE AT THE BASE OF THE WALL ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE FORTRESS. THEY HAVE DOGS. THE WIND CON- TINUES TO MOUNT.

267 BACK TO ANDRE 267

HE LOOKS DOWN AND SEES • • • RAMBO LOOKS DOWN :

... A HAIRLINE TRIP WIRE CONNECTED TO A PAIR OF LIVE GRENADES.

269 ANGLE ON ANDRE AND RAMBO 269

ANDRE MOTIONS FOR RAMBO TO STOP.

THEY STEP OVER THE LETHAL W~RE AND CONTINUE ON.

THE RUSSIAN GUARDS W~TH THE DOGS CONTINUE WALKING. THE DOGS PAUSE AND SMELL THE AIR ANO TURN AWAY IN FEAR OF THE LEOPARD SCENT.

THE REBELS MOVE SILENTLY TOWARDS THE NORTH WALL.

THE RUSSIAN GUARD STARES L~STLESSLY OUT INTO THE NIGHT ••.

• • • UPON CLOSER INSPECTION, WE SEE THAT HE IS WEARING A SONY WALKMAN AND MUSIC, EVER SO FAINTLY, ESCAPES HIS EAR- PHONES.

RAMBO, MOUSA AND ANDRE START TO ASCEND THE WALL.

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A VIEW OF THE STARK CORRIDOR, LINED WITH MEDIEVAL CELLS.

2~5 · INT. FORTRESS -·TRAUTMAN'S CELL - TRAUTMAN - NIGHT 275

TRAUTMAN IS AWAKE IN HIS CELL ••• MUMBLING OR PRAYING CAN BE HEARD COMING FROM OTHER CELLS.

ONE FLOOR BELOW TRAUTMAN IS THE TORTURE ROOM, A BARBARIC STONE-ENCASED ENCLAVE OUTFITTED WITH MODERN ELECTRICAL AND PRIMITIVE IMPLIMENTS OF TORTURE. THE MOST OUTSTAND- ING BEING AN ELECTRIC CHAIR WITH A METAL HOOD. .

PRESENTLY, TWO AFGHANS ARE UNDERGOING TORTURE. COLONEL ZAYSAN IS CONDUCTING THE PROCEEDINGS. WITH HIM ARE LT. TOMSK, THE POWERFULLY-BUILT SGT. KOUROV, ANO TWO AFGHAN GOVERNMENT TROOPERS.

TRAUTMAN TRIES TO SEE OUT OF THE SMALL OPENING IN THE DOOR.

OFF SCREEN, THE AFGHAN SOLDIER REPEATS THE QUESTION. THE BEGGING VICTIM DOES NOT KNOW.

TRAUTMAN RECOILS AS THE MAN SHRIEKS IN AGONY •••

RAMBO, MOUSA AND ANDRE ARE HALF WAY UP ·THE WALL WHEN RAMBO SEES THE SEARCHLIGHT SLOWLY BEING SWUNG TOWARDS THEIR VULNERABLE POSITION.

STILL LISTENING TO HIS WALKMAN, HE LISTLESSLY GUIDES THE LIGHT.

MANAGE TO MOVE AROUND THE CORNER OF THE WALL AS THE LIGHT PASSES OVER ••• ANDRE LOOKS DOWN BELOW AND SEES •••

ANDRE TAPS RAMBO'S LEG TO STOP. RAMBO FREEZES, AS DOES MOUSA, UNTIL THE DANGER CLEARS •••

283 WIDER ANGLE 283

ON THE OUTER PERIMETER, THEY MOVE CAUTIOUSLY TOWARDS THE WALL'S NORTH SIDE.

RAMBO, FOLLOWED BY MOUSA AND ANDRE, SLIPS OVER THE TOP OF THE WALL AND CROUCHES PROTECTIVELY IN THE SHADOWS. THEY EYE 'l'HE TWO OTHER SEARCHLIGHT GUARDS. RAMBO RE- MOVES A SMALL, RIGGED BOMB WITH A TIMER.

RAMBO SETS THE TIMER AND PLACES IT AGAINST THE WALL ••• HE HANDS A SECOND TIMER CHARGE TO ANDRE, WHO PLACES IT AGAINST THE WALL. RAMBO CHECKS HIS WATCH; THEN THEY MOVE ON .•. MOUSA ALSO HAS A SMALL BACKPACK FILLED WITH TIMED EXPLOSIVES.

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DOWN BELOW ARE SEVERAL TANKS, 2~-TON TROOP TRUCKS, AND OTHER TYPES OF PERSONNEL CARRIERS.

ANDRE APPEARS HIGH ABOVE THEM, LEADING RAMBO AND MOUSA. THEY MOVE OUT OF SIGHT. . MOUSA !-IOVES IN ANOTHER DIREC- TION.

ANDRE MOVES AMONG THE MACHINERY AND PLACES A TIMED EX- PLOSIVE ON THE BOTTOM OF A TANK •••

• • • LIKEWISE, MOUSA, WHO MOVES LIKE A GHOST PAST SEVERAL GUARDS WITH DOGS. AGAIN, THE GUARDS TAKE NO NOTICE.

• • • WE SEE THE UNDERBELLY OF A TROOP TRUCK AS RAMBO SLIDES SERPENTINE-LIKE INTO VIEW .••

WATCH Ai.~D LOOKS OVER AT •••

289 ANDRE 289

... WHO NODS, EVERYTHING IS FINE, AND PLACES ANOTHER BOMB.

289A MOUSA 289A

MOVES NEAR A FUEL DUMP AND PLACES TWO CHARGES.

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SEEN IN THE DISTANCE, AND THROUGH A S~.iALL OPENING IN THE DOOR, IS A YOONG PRISONER WHOSE HANDS ARE BOUND BEHIND HIS BACK. A ROPE HONG OVER~ BEAM IS USED TO PAINFULLY HOIST THE YOONG MAN'S BODY NEARLY OFF THE GROUND. SGT. KOUROV DOES THE PULLING.

WE SEE COLONEL ZAYSAN PACING, HIS PATIENCE IS WORN.

RAMBO PLACES Ai,-qOTHER TIMED EXPLOSIVE UNDER AN ARCHWAY LEADING TO THE LOWER RECESSES OF THE COMPOUND WHILE MOUSA AND ANDRE GUARD WITH THEIR A.K.-47.

FOOTSTEPS ••• !

292 ANGLE ON - A GUARD - TO INCLUDE RAMBO, MOUSA AND ANDRE 292

A GUARD APPEARS AROUND THE CORNER AND STOPS NO MORE THAN THREE FEET FROM RAMBO AND MOUSA, WHO HAVE SLIPPED AS FAR BACK IN THE SHADOWS AS POSSIBLE .•• RAMBO LOOKS DOWN, CAMERA PANNING DOWN AND IN •••

••• THE GUARD'S FOOT IS ONLY INCHES AWAY FROM THE BOMB.

THE GUARD MOVES ON. THEY LOOK AROUND FOR A...~DRE. HE IS GONE.

TRAUTMAN IS STARTLED BY THE SEARING SCREAMS COMJ:NG FROM THE INTERROGATION CELL.

294 REBEL CELLS 294

THE GROUPS OF MORE THAN FIFTY PRISONERS YELL IN PROTEST.

AFGHAN SOLDIERS POUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE PRISONERS' CELL DOORS WITH RIFLE BUTTS. THE IMPRISONED REBELS QUIET DOWN.

THE RUSSIAN GUARD NONCHALANTLY MOVES ON AS THE SCREAMS FAINTLY REACH HIS EARS.

RAMBO AND MOUSA SLIP OFF IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.

29·6 INT. FORTRESS - CORRIDOR - MAJOR AZOV - NIGHT 296

MAJOR AZOV MOVES RAPIDLY DOWN THE HALLWAY LEADING TO THE INTERROGATION ROOM.

MOUSA AND RAMBO MOVE QUICKLY DOWN THE STONE STEPS LEAD- ING TO THE HOLDING CELLS FOR POLITIC.AL PRIS.ONERS ••• · THEY SEE •••

RAMBO REMOVES A DAGGER-LIKE BOOT-KNIFE, AND ALSO REACHES INTO HIS SHOULDER SACK.

300 CLOSEUP 300

RAMBO'S HAND IS SEEN WITHDRAWING A SMALL EXPLOSIVE CHARGE.

YELLING IN PASHTO COMES FROM THE INTERROGATION ROOM.

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PULL BACK TO A WIDE SHOT, AS RAMBO AND MOUSA ARE ABOUT TO MOVE; WHEN THEY ARE SUDDENLY SPOTTED 'BY AN AFGHAN GOVERNMENT SOLDIER, WHO HAS STEPPED OUT OF A DOOR THRITY FEET AWAY.

THE GUARD STARTS TO YELL AND LIFT HIS RIFLE. RAMBO IS

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ABOUT TO THROW HIS KUI.FE. ANDRE S HUGE RAND SUDDENLY APPEARS FROM AROUND THE CORNER AND GRABS THE SOLDIER AND SNAPS HIS NECK.

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301 ANOTHER ANGLE 301

ANDRE LOOKS AT RAMBO. HIS EXPRESSION SUDDENLY BECOMES FEARFUL AS RAMBO THROWS HIS KNIFE DIRECTLY AT ANDRE •••

302 ANGLE 302

••• THE KNIFE BURIES ITSELF INTO THE NECK OF A RUSSIAN SOLDIER WHO HAD SUDDENLY APPEARED BEHIND ANDRE.

303 ANDRE AND THE RUSSI.A..~ SOLDIER 303

THE GUARD C:RIES IN PAIN, BUT THE SCREAMING OF THE TOR- TURED VICTIMS ,DROWNS HIM OUT. ANDRE GRABS THE STRICKEN SOLDIER.

ANDRE DRAGS THE GUARD INTO THE DOORWAY HE HAD JUST STEP- PED OUT OF AND NODS TO RAMBO.

THE LAST VICTIM IS BEING REMOVED BY THE TWO AFGHAN TROOPERS.

SGT. KOUROV IS DRAGGING AWAY ANOTHER AFGHAN POLITICAL PRISONER, WHO COULD BE NO MORE THAN ·13-YEARS-OLD.

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304 CONTI.NUED: 304

AZOV EYES THE TERRIFIED BOY AS HE IS DRAGGED AWAY ..• AZOV EXITS.

RAMBO, MOUSA AND ANDRE STEP OUT OF THE DOORWAY AND MOVE DOWN TO THE CORNER •.

306 ANOTHER ANGLE 306

TRAUTMAN I.S BEING LEAD, FORCIBLY, BY TWO AFGHAN SECRET POLICE.

307 TRAUTMAN AND TRAUTMAN'S l?OV - TRACKING 307

HE LOOKS AT THE LINE OF TEN CELLS LINING THE FIFTY FOOT CORRI.DOR AS .HE IS DRAGGED l?AST THE OTHER PRISONERS. HIS VI.SI.ON IS BLURRED.

308 RAMBO 308

I/\ . ' / HE QUICKLY .EYES HIS WATCH.

... DIGITAL SECONDS COUNTER: 56 - 57 - 58

310 ON A?IDRE AND MOUSA 310

THEY SLIP INTO A &HADOWY ALCOVE •••

311 ~.BO 311

LOOKS AT HIS WATCH.

50 -. 60!

AN EXPLOSION BLOWS DEBRIS FROM THE TOP OF THE WALL.

THE AFGHAN SECRET POLICE FREEZE WITH TRAUTMAN •••

••. RAMBO STEPS FORWARD AND BLASTS THEM WITH RAPID-FIRE MACHINE GUN FIRE.

THROUGH THE SMOKE, TRAUTMA..~ SEES RAMBO APPROACHING LIKE DEATH INCARNATE AND CANNOT BELIEVE HIS EYES.

IN A PANIC, THE GUARD AT THE SEARCHLIGHT SWINGS THE BEAM OVER .••

316 HIGH FULL SHOT 316

SOLDIZRS ARE STARTING TO POOR OUT OF THE DIFFERENT SEC- TORS OF THE COURTYARD.

ZAYSAN IS STUNNED BY THE EXPLOSION ••• HE RUSHES OUT, FOLLOWED BY SGT. KOUROV ANO LT. TOMSK.

MOUSA RUNS OP AND PULLS THE CELL KEYS FROM THE SECRET POLICE ••• ANDRE COVERS HIM.

THEY HEAD BACK TOWARDS TRAUTMAN'S CELL.

AS THE SOLDIERS RUSH AROUND IN CONFUSION •••

THE TIMER ON THE 2½-TON TRUCK REACHES ZERO, AND •••

321 FULL SHOT 321

••• THE TRUCK EXPLODES, Ah"D A HALF-SECOND LATER. THE GASOLINE IGNITES, SPIRALING DEBRIS ANO FLAMES GRANDLY UPWARD, TAKING AT LEAST FOUR SOLDIERS, TWO AFGHANS Al-~ TWO SOVIETS, WITH IT. THREE MORE EXPLOSIONS.

THE REBELS HOLD THEIR POSITION NEAR THE NORTH WALL.

RAMBO REACHES TRAUTMAN'S CELL AND FIRES AT THE LOCK,

WHICH SHATTERS; AND RAMBO TEARS OPEN THE DOOR.

RAMBO HANDS MOUSA THE CELL BLOCK KEYS, RAMBO GESTURES TO THE OTHER CRAMMED CELLS OF YELLING AFGHANS.

RAMBO HAN S TRAUTMAN THE SMALL MACHINE GtJN. ANDRE

RAMBO REACHES INTO HIS CANVAS BAG.

324 CELL BLOCK HALLWAY 324

MOUSA STARTS OPENING UP CELL DOORS AND PRISONERS POUR OUT, HEADING UP THE STAIRS.

COLONEL ZAYSAN IS ON THE SECOND LEVEL, SCREAMING ORDERS WHEN THE EXPLOSIVES UNDER THE THREE TANKS ERUPT, KILLING MORE TROOPERS. • • TWO HORE CHARGES RIP THE HEART OUT OF THE .MAIN GATE.

ZAYSAN IS IN A TOTAL STATE OF PANIC AS HE LOOKS AROUND FOR THIS INVISIBLE ENEMY.

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RAMBO HAS JUST FINISHED SETTING A LARGE QUANTITY OF EX- PLOSIVES AGAINST THE NORTH WALL.

MOUSA CONTINUES TO OPEN DOORS, AND THE POLITICAL PRISON- ERS RUSH OUT WITH INSANE :e;NTHUSIASM. MOUSA YELLS FOR THEM TO FIGHT.

THE FIRST WAVE OF PRISONERS HITS THE COURTYARD Ai.~D PRO- CEED TO ATTACK, BARE-HANDEDLY, SEVERAL PASSING RUSSIAN • AND AFGHAN GOVERNMENT TROOPS.

ZAYSAN TUR.~S FROM THE UPPER WALL LEVEL AND SEES THIS AND BELLOWS ORDERS TO THE WATCH TOWER.

IT SWINGS ON THE CHARGING AFGHANS A."m THE TOWER GUARD FOLLOWS COLONEL ZAYSAN'S ORDERS AND FIRES -- KILLING AFGHANS AND AFGHAN GOVERNMENT TROOPS AT THE SA.i.'1E TIME.

THE MUJAHIDEEN WARRIORS WANT TO ATTACK, BUT THEY HOLD FAST.

THE FINAL EXPLOSIVE CHARGE SET BY RAMBO BLOWS WITH A VENGEANCE, AND THE ANCIENT ARCHWAY COLLAPSES, BLOCKING THE WAY FOR ANY MODE OF TR&~SPORTATION TO EASILY EXIT THE FORTESS.

333 ZAYSAN 333

MACHINE GUN IN HAND, IS YELLING INSANELY AT HIS TROOPS TO CHARGE FORWARD. HE SUDDENLY TUR..~S TO SGT. KOUROV:

334 LT. TOMSK 334

YELLS AT HIS MEN TO START CLEARING THE RUBBLE BLOCKING THE ARCHWAY EXIT AT THE FORTRESS. YET ANOTHER EXPLO- SION DRIVES THEM BACK.

335 SGT. KOUROV 335

HE SHOOTS A FLEEING AFGHAN IN THE BACK AND PHYSICALLY ASSAULTS ANOTHER .•• ZAYSAN RUNS TO HIM:

THE FORT IS A BLAZING INFERNO ••• TWO SOVIET SOLDIERS TURN THE CORNER DIRECTLY IN Ln7E WITH THE ESCAPING PRISONERS.

THE SOLDIERS FIRE ••. FIVE AFGHANS CRUMBLE.

331 TRAUTMAN AND ANDRE 337

STEP INTO VIEW AND FIRE IN RETURN.

338 ANGLE 338

CAUGHT OFF GUARD, THE SOLDIERS ARE RIDDLED INTO THE NEXT WORLD.

HE COMPLETS SETTING THE CHARGE AND LEAPS INTO THE COR- RIDOR.

MOUSA IS WOUNDED AND WEAK. TRAUTMA..'l RUSH:E:S .UP TO RAMBO CARRYING ONE OF THE DEAD SOLDIER'S RIFLES.

·340 CONTINUED: 340

RAMBO MOVES TRAUTMAN BACK AGAINST THE WALL~ THEN LOOKS AT HIS WA"rCH.

341 ONE END OF THE HALLWAY 341

THREE SOVIET TROOPERS ARRIVE WITH COLONEL ZAYSAN AT ONE END OF THE HALLWAY.

342 THE OTHER END OF THE HALLWAY 342

THR!:E MORE SOLDIERS ARRIVE AT THE OTHER END OF THE HALL- WAY.

343 ANGLE ON ZAYSAN 343

THE SOVIETS FIRE ••• BULLETS RIP OFF PI~CES OF STONE •••

RAMBO PULLS THE PIN ON A SMOKE GRENADE, HEAVES IT AND DROPS LOW AND FIRES. • • ONE DECEASim TROOPER. • . A?IDRE ELIMINATES A SECOND ••• THE BLACK SMOKE RAPIDLY FILLS THE ROOM.

ZAYSAN RECOGNI.ll:S ANDRE.

FEATURE ANDRE, PRESSED AGAINST THE WALL. RAMBO FIRES TO KEEP THEM BACK. TRAUT~l LOOKS WEAK, AND ANDRE SUP- PORTS HIM.

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347 ANGLE FEATURING COLONEL ZAYSAN AND SOVIET TROOPERS 347

ZAYSAN YELLS FOR HIS MEN TO MOVE IN, WHICH THEY DO.

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SET, READY TO GO OFF AT ANY MOMENT ••.

AS IF BLOWN FROM A CANNON, THE STONE WALL SHATTERS INTO BLASTED STONE! THE FORT .IS A WRECK.

THE MUJHAIDEEN WARRIORS OPEN FIRE.

THE SEARCHLIGHT STARTS TO SPIN TOWARDS THE EXPLOSION ••• REBEL BULLETS SHATTER IT AND KILL THE GUARD.

WHAT IS INCREDIBLE IS THE AMOUNT OF RED TRACER BULLETS THAT STREAK THROUGH THE NIGHT.

RAMBO, MOUSA, ANDRE AND TRAUTMAN HAVE ENTERED. RAMBO MOTIONS TO ANDRE.

ANDRE GRABS A HOLD OF TRAUTMAN AND AIDS HIM OUT.

RAMBO PULLS A GRENADE FROM HIS POUCH AND TOSSES IT OUT INTO THE:

THE GRENADE EXPLODES IN FRONT OF SEVERAL SOLDIERS, KILL- ING THEM •••

SGT. KOOROV SAVES ZAYSAN. THEY CREEP AHEAD, RIFLES IN HAND.

RAMBO, TRAUTMAN, MOUSA ANO ANDRE EXIT THE HOLE IN THE

WALL.

REMAINING AFGHAN PRISONERS STILL BATTLE WIT-H THE SOVIET TROOPS ..• SOME OF THE PRISONERS ARE NOW USING RIFLES

THEY HAVE MANAGED TO TAKE FROM THEIR CAPTORS.

THE COURTYARD IS IN TOTAL DISARRAY -- STONES AND DUST

IS SHOVING TROOPS TOWARD THE EXPLOSION.

RAJ.'1BO AND COMPANY MOVE RAPIDLY TOWARDS THE REBELS.

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ZAYSAN AND SGT. KOUROV STEP INSIDE THE SHATTERED CELL. ZAYSAN FIRES, LIKEWISE SGT. KOUROV. TWO TROOPERS RUSH INTO VIEW.

ASSISTING TRAUTMAN, ANDRE IS STRUCK IN THE SHOULDER AND SPINS PAINFULLY TO THE GROUND.

ANDRE STRUGGLES TO HIS ~EET AND KILLS THE TWO SOLDIERS, BOT IS GUNNED DOWN IN RETURN FIRE FROM SEVERAL MORE TROOPERS.

RAMBO DROPS AND RETURNS THE FIRE AND KILLS THE TWO RUS- SIAN TROOPERS WITH A HAIL OF FIRE POWER.

362 ANOTHER ANGLE 362

MOUSA AND TRAUTMAN ARE LY~G FACE DOWN AS ZAYSAN CON- TINUES TO FIRE. RAMBO DIVES BESIDE THEM. ANDRE IS MORTALLY WOUNDED.

TRAUTMA1~ Let's get the hell out of here!

THEY CRAWL AWAY, HIDDEN FROM VIEW BY MOUNDS OF ROLLING TERRAIN.

HIS GROUP HAS CLEARED ENOUGH DEBRIS TO SEND SOVIET-BUILT JEEPS THROUGH AN OPENING.

NIGHT

SITTING IN HIS OFFICE, ALMOST IN A STATE OF METAL RE- MORSE. HE COULD NOT CARE LESS ABOUT THE ABSURDITY OF WAR ANY LONGER.

ZAYSAN YELLS ORDERS AS SOVIET TROOPS POUR OUT AFTER RAMBO •• ~ THE SOVIETS ARE CUT DOWN BY THE MUJAHIDEEN

WARRIORS.

MOUSA HELPS TRAUTMAN, WHILE RAMBO FIRES BACK AT THE AFGHAN AND SOVIET TROOPS THAT POUR OUT OF THE GAPPING

HOLE IN THE NORTH WALL •••

..• THESE TROOPERS FALL MORTALLY WOUNDED.

367 JEEPS 367

RAMBO AIDS TRAUTMAN ONTO A HORSE A..'IIID LEAPS ON ONE HIM-

SELF. MOUSA FOLLOWS. TOGETHER WITH THE REBELS, THEY

GALLOP AWAY.

IN THE COURTYARD FIVE MORE JEEPS ROAR OUT, THE LEAD

JEEP CONTAINS SGT. KOUROV.

THE GUN-MOUNTED JEEPS ARE SEEN ROARING OVER THE RUBBLE AND TOWARDS THE AFGHAN REBELS.

THE REBELS GOING FLAT OUT. THE SQUAD OF JEEPS IN HOT PURSUIT •••

THE JEEP SQUAD IS GAINING ON THE REBELS. THE LEAD JEEP WITH SGT. KOUROV FIRES.

373 RAMBO 373

HE STOPS AND FIRES BACK WITH AUTOMATIC FIRE. MOOSA JOINS. IN.

374 A JEEP 374

THE WINDSHIELD SPLATTERS, AND,THE JEEP SPILLS ROUGHLY OVER THE TERRAIN, ELIMINATING THE OCCUPANTS.

375 THE MUJAHIDEEN WARRIORS 375

THEY ARE YELLING THEIR FURY. THEY PUl.L UP AND FIRE BACK •••

37.6 WARRIOR_ 376

IS TORN FROM HIS HORSE.

MUJAHIDEEN HORSEMEN WITH THE JEEP SQUAD ONE HAIR-PIN TURN BEHIND THEM. IT IS APPAR.i::.~T THAT THE HORSEMEN ARE DOOMED.

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378 FIRE POWER 378

THE NIGHT EXPLODES WITH A MASSIVE WHITE FLARE: THEN WITH MACHINE GUN FIRE THAT COMES FROM THE HILLSIDE DIRECTLY BEHIND THE·CHARGING HORSEMEN.

379A THE HORSEMEN 379A

POLL OP AND LOOK ABOVE THEM.

380 THE REBELS 380

IT IS MOSAAD WITH THIRTY ARMED REBELS FIRING AUTOMATIC WEAPONS AT THE JEEPS. I.

381 SGT. KOUROV 381

SUDDENLY PULLS TO A SHUDDERING STOP.

SINCE THEY ARE PURSUING IN A BASICALLY FLANKING FOR- MATION, THEY FAIL TO SEE SGT. KOOROV WAVING THEM BACK.

383 JEEPS 383

ROAR HEADLONG INTO THE FIREPOWER •••

384 RAMBO AND THE WARRIORS 384

RAMBO AND COMPANY REACH THE ROCK FACE OF THE CLIFFS.

385 MOSAAD 385

MOTIONS FOR HIS MEN TO.OPEN UP WITH SEVERAL BAZOOKAS.

386 THE JEEPS 386

THREE JEEPS EXPLODE IN A STAGGERING PATTERN THAT LASTS NO MORE THAN A FEW SECONDS.

WATCHING WITH MOUNTING FURY ••• MANAGES TO SPEED AWAY.

HE WATCHES THE SINGLE JEEP BELONGING TO SGT. KOUROV PULL AWAY IN THE DISTANCE ••.

TRAUTMAN IS WINDED AND EXHAUSTED AND LEANS ON HIS HORSE.

RAMBO STARES UP AT MOSAAD AND_ RENDERS A SEDATE WAVE OF HIS HAND.

389 ANGLE 389

RAMBO, MOUSA, TaAUTMAT ANO MOSAAD'S MUJAHIOEEN WARRIORS RIDE OFF WITH THE FIRES IN THE FORTRESS SEEN WAY OFF IN THE B.G.

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WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE SEEN PACKING THEIR MEAGER BELONG- INGS ONTO MULES AND HORSES. THE AREA IS OHE OF MUCH COMMOTION.

A GROUP OF THIRTY AFGHAN REBELS ARE SEATED IN A SEMI- CIRCLE;.

RAMBO IS PRESENT, LIKEWISE MOUSA.

MOSAAD, RAHIM AND KHALID ARE ENGAGED IN A VERY HEATED DEBATE ••• WE CAN DEFINITELY SEE THAT THE GATHERING IS BROKEN OP INTO THREE SEPARATE ISSUES OF DEBATE.

KHALm POINTS AN A.~GRY FIMGER AT MOSAAD, THEN ·POINTS IN ~OTHER D:tRECTION. RAHIM LOUDLY RETORTS.

SEVERAL OF THE SUPPORTERS YELL ACROSS AT ANOTHER GROUP OF WARRIORS ••• THE ARGUMENT RAPIDLY ESCALATES.

KHALID RISES, DIRECTING A VERBAL BARRAGE AT RAMBO, THEN BACK AT RAHIM.

392 ANGLE ON MOUSA 392

STANDS BACK NEARLY TWENTY YARDS MONITORING THE DEBATE, WHILE SLIGHTLY PACING.

393 KHALID AND HIS MEN 393

KHALID LEAVES. HIS MEN LEAVE •

.. 394 RAHIM AND HIS MEN 394

RAHIM RISES. HIS MEN RISE WITH HIM.

ALL THE AFGHANS BEGIN TO EXIT WHILE STILL DEBATING.

RAMBO WALKS WITH MOSAAD AMONG THE AFGHANS TOO INJURED TO MOVE •••

TRAUTMAN'S WOUNDS ARE BEING DRESSED BY MICHEL.

MOSAAD LOOKS AT MICHEL, WHO IS TENDING THE WOUNDED. MICHEL RISES AND GOES TO THE LEADER. MOSAAD, HIS MIND FILLED WITH A MILLION THOUGHTS, STARTS TO EXIT.

MOSAAD MOVES OUT. MICHEL TURNS TO TRAUTMAN.

/\ i i \ __,/ TRAUTMAN

Better ... Is there anything we can do?

TRAUTMAN SHAKES THE WEARY DOCTOR'S HAND AND 'GLANCES AT THE AILING AFGHANS AND DEPARTS. RAMBO GLANCES AT THE BEDRIDDEN HALIMA THEN GUILTILY EXITS.

PATROLS ARE SEEN MOVJ:NG OUT ••• THEY ARE CARRIED BY 2~- TON TRANSPORT TRUCKS, FOLLOWED BY OTHER HEAVILY-ARMORED MODES OF TRANSPORTATION. SEVERAL TANKS FOLLOW.

FULLY DRESSED FOR BATTLE, COLONEL ZAYSAN IS YELLING OR- DERS TO SEVERAL JUNIOR OFFICERS THAT ARE MOVING AWAY WITH THE MOTORCADE.

SGT. KOUROV STANDS BEHIND ZAYSAN.

Si.

C) ZAYSAN

We have enough gunships, we have enough menl No more sup-port is needed, Azov! And you'll carry out orders, or you'll be shot! Sgt. Kourov will join your for enemy interrogation.

AS ZAYSAN STARTS TO MOVE OUT, HE PAUSES AND FACES AZOV.

A WIDE SHOT OF THE GROUPS LEAD MY MOSAAO, KHALIM AND RAHIM. DUST CLO.UOS RI.SE AS KHALIM AND RAHIM LEAD THEIR TRIBES IN SEPARATE DIRECTIONS.

400 ANGLES TO COVER 400

THE. BADLY-CRIPPLED ARE FASTENED TO ANIMALS IN RIGGED 11 AFGHAN AMBULANCE'S. n BASI;C LIVING UNTENSILS ARE STRAP- PED TO CAMELS AND MULES •••

•. . WARRIORS CARRY PORTABLE MISSLES STRAPPED ACROSS THEIR BACKS •••

402 MOSAAD 402

MOSAAD APPROACHES ON HIS HORSE AND SPEAKS RAPIDLY TO MOUSA IN THEIR NATIVE TONGUE.

{CONTINUED)

MOSAAD NODS AN AFFIRMATION TO MOUSA AND THE GUIDE MOUNTS UP.

403 MOSAAD 403

GESTURES TO HIS TRIBE, AND THEY ALL BEGIN TO MOVE OUT.

404 VARIOUS ANGLES 404

•.• THE DUST FROM THE PROCESSION BEGINS TO CLOUD RAMBO'S IMAGE AS HE, TRAUTMAN AND MOOSA MOVE AWAY.

A GROUP OF A HUNDRED MEN, FOOR TRUCKS AND SIX MOTOR- CYCLES, BACKED BY SEVERAL TANKS.

LT. TOMSK SPIES FOUR PEASANTS CARRYING THEIR MEAGER BE- LONGINGS AS THEY TRUDGE ALONG.

FOUR YOUNG SOVIET SPETSNAZ TROOPERS LEAP OUT OF THE TRUCK AND BLOCK THE PEASANTS' PROGRESS.

THE GROUP CONSISTS OF A MOTHER AND THREE CHILDREN.

AN AFGHAN GOVERNMENT SOLDIER ROUGHLY GRABS THEM AND BARKS OUT A QUESTION.

RAMBO, MOUSA AND TRAUTMAN ARE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE ORIGL~AL BASE CAMP. THEY LOOK AT A DISTANT SNOWY MOUNTAIN PASS.

RAMBO PULLS UP AND FACES TRAUTMAN.

CU'l' TO:

401 407 and OMI.TTED and

HIS GROUP IS MOVING TO THE SAFETY OF THE HIGHER GROUND ••• MOSAAD AND THE AFGHAN REBELS SCAN THE SKIES FOR ANY KI.ND OF ENEMY CRAFT.

PAUSES AT A HIGHER ELEVATION AND SPIES IN THE DISTANCE SWI.RLS OF DUST.

IN THE DISTANCE, DOWN BELOW, HEADING IN ANOTHER DIREC- TI.ON.

412 BACK TO SCENE 412

KHALID'S EYES REFLECT CONSTERNATION OVER THE SPLITTING , UP OF THE LARGE REBEL GROUP.

RAHIM IS TOUCHED BY A TRIBE MEMBER, WHO INDICATES:

414 RAHIM'S POV 414

KHALID'S GROUP ON THE MOUNTAIN PLATEAU.

414A RAHIM 414A

RAMBO HAS THE THREE BADLY WOUNDED ON STRETCHERS RIGGED FROM THE REAR OF THE HORSES. TRAUTMAN HAS GOTTEN OFF HIS HORSE. MICHEL IS ATTENDING THE WOUNDED IN THE STRETCHERS.

I

.. HALIMA SITS ASTRIDE RAMBO S HORSE, WHILE MICHEL IS HELPED

ONTO THE BACK OF MOUSA S HORSE.

{CONTINUED)

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COLONEL ZAYSAN'S IDLING GIANT GUNSHIP KICKS UP DUST IN THE F.G. AS A GROUP OF 25 NOMADS WITH SHEEP AND SEVERAL MULES ARE BEING ROUGHLY LINED UP ••• THE VILLAGE, COM- PRISED MOSTLY OF TENTS, BUR..~S WILDLY IN THE B.G.

AS AFGHAN TROOPERS Y:!LL AT THE PLEADING NOMADS.

AFGHAL~ TROOPER Where is the American? Where?! Where?

417 ANOTH_ER ANGLE 417

OFF TO THE SIDE, WE SEE AFGHANS BEING PULLED ROUGHLY FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS AND BEING THROWN IN LINE.

418 BACK TO SCENE 418

THE ELDERLY MAN SAYS THEY HAVE NO INFORMATION. OTHER NOMADS PLEAD FOR HIS, AND THEIR, LIVES •••

THE AFGHAN TROOPERS CURSE THEM AND SPRAY MACHINE GUN FIRE NEAR THE FEET O.F THE LINED-UP NOMADS , WHICH CAUSES THEM TO SCREAM AND SCATTER.

A CHILD RUNS UP TO THE AFGHAN TROOPER HOLDING SOMETHING TO HIS CHEST.- ····THE CHILD HANGS ON TO THE SOLDIER. THE SOLDIER PANICS; THEN THEY BOTH EXPLODE.

THE NOMADS ARE SHIEKING AND SCATTER.

COLONEL ZAYSAN LOOKS IN DISDAIN AT THE GROUP AND Tt;.JRNS -BACK TOWARDS HIS CHOPPER IN F~AR THAT HE COULD BE NEXT.

• RAMBO, TRAUTMAN, MOUSA, MICHEL AND TSE FIVE INVALIDS START THEIR PERILOUS ASCENT ••• THEY ARE LEADING THEIR HORSES.

TRAUTMAN LOOKS DOWN AT THE STEEP DROP THOUSANDS OF FEET ABOVE THE VALLEY.

RAMBO LOOKS UP ANO SEES THE ICE FORMATIONS OF THE PASS THEY MUST GO THROUGH.

RAMBO LOOKS AT TRAUTMAN, WHO NODS THAT HE IS ALL RIGHT.

ANOTHER HALF-TENT, HALF-DEMOLISHED VILLAGE IS NOW OCCU- PIED BY MAJOR AZOV'S TROOPS. SGT. KOUROV'S MEN HAVE LINED UP TEN AFGHAN CHILDREN ON TSE GROUND IN FRONT OF A T-54 TANK.

THE FIFTY OR SO WOMEN, HELO IN A CONTAINED CIRCLE OF SOLDIERS, WAIL IN HORROR -- THE SOLDIERS YELL OBSENITIES ANO SHOVE THEM BACK.

THE WAILING CONTINUES. MOVE IN ON SGT. KOUROV AS HE STRONGLY MOTIONS TO THE TANK DRIVER TO MOVE FORWARD. HIS FACE IS FLUSHED WITH THE EXCITEMENT OF WAR.

THE AFGHAN AND SOVIET TROOPS HOLD BACK THE HYSTERICAL CROWD.

SGT. KOUROV GLARES AT THE OFFICER AND WAVES THE TANK TO MOVE FORWARD.

424 THE TANK .TREADS 424

THE TANK TREADS GRIND SLOWLY FORWARD.

425 THE CHILDREN 425

THE CHILDREN WHO ARE STAKED DOWN AND BLINDFOLDED STRUG- GLE IN VAIN.

426 SGT. KOUROV AND MAJOR AZOV 426

SGT. KOUROV PULLS HIS PISTOL AND POINTS IT AT AZOV.

427 THE TANK TREADS 427

THE TANK TREADS GRIND CLOSER TO THE CHILDREN.

428 MAJOR AZOV AND SGT. KOUROV 428

AZOV TRIES TO STEP FORWARD. BUT THE POWERFUL SGT. KOUROV PULLS HIM ROUGHLY .TO THE GROUND. SGT. KOUROV ADDRESSES THE AFGHAN TROOPS:

THE AFGHAN TROOPS YELL THE QUESTION AT THE NOMADS.

429 ANOTHER ANGLE 429

A DARKLY-CLAD MOTHER BURSTS FROM THE RANKS ANO FALLS PLEADING TO THE GROUND -- SHE IS SCREAMING IN AFGHAN. THE AFGHAN SOLDIER YELLS TO STOP THE TANK.

SGT. KOUROV MOTIONS TO THE TANK COMMANDER.

430 CLOSEUP 430·

THE TANK'S GHASTLY TREADS GRIND TO A HALT INCHES FROM A CHILD'S FACE.

CUT TO:·

RAMBO, TRAUTMAN, MOUSA, MICHEL AND THE INVALIDS ARE PAST THE SNOW L:tNE. THEY ARE BUNDLED WITH CRUDELY-FASHIONED SHEEPS HIDE JACKETS AND WQR?l BLANKETS. MICHEL WALKS ALONGSIDE, TRYING HER BEST TO MONITER THE INJURED AFGHANS' CONDITION.

SUDDENLY THEY ARE FIRED UPON ••• ICE RIPS OFF NEXT TO MOUSA' S HEAD. • • THEY ALL LEAP TO COVER. ONE OF THE HORSES CARRYING A STRETCHER IS SHOT AND CRUMBLES. RAMBO PULLS HALIMA OFF THE HORSE AND DIVES FOR COVER.

MICHEL DRAGS AN INJURED AFGHAN BEHIND A ROCK OUTCROPPING FOR PROTECTION.

,'' /

BULLETS KICK !JP AROUND TRAOTM&~ AS HE PULLS ANOTHER TO SAFETY. RAMBO GOES TO GET ANOTHER INJURED AFGHAN WHO FIRES AT THE BORDER GUARDS FROM HIS STRETCHER.· THE AFGHAN REBEL IS KILLED IN HIS STRETCHER.

TRAUTMA...~ Do they have radio contact?

432 AFGHAN TROOPS 432

THE GROUP OF SIX SPREADS OUT.

433 RAMBO, TRAUTMAN AND MOUSA 433

RAMBO IS SIGHTING DOWN HIS RIFLE, WHILE TRAUTMAN SCANS THE SURROUNDINGS ••• MOUSA RUSHES TO A BETTER POSITION. MICHEL ATTENDS TO THE WOONDED.

MOUSA LOOKS AT RAMBO AND POINTS AT:

434 A SNOW SHELF 434

RAMBO TAKES HIS RIFLE AND TWISTS ON A GRENADE. HE GES- TURES TO THE SNOW F:!ELD JUST ABOVE THZM.

TRAUTMAN LOOKS DOWN, THEN BACK UP AT THE SNOW FIELD.

RAMBO MOVES OUT.

436 AFGHAN SOLDIERS 436

START TO FIRE AT RAMBO. ONE TROOPER FRANTICALLY RADIOS IN TO HEADQUARTERS.

DASHES TO A LOCATION A LITTLE FURTHER UP.

439 TRAUTMAN AND MOUSA 439

MOVE IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OF RAMBO. MOUSA IS AL- MOST HIT.

MICHEL IS PULLING TWO WOUNDED AFGHAN REBELS TO A SAFER AREA.·

440 SCENE 440

THE AFGHAN SOLDIERS CONTINUE TO SPREAD TOWARD RAMBO.

441 RAMBO 441

SETTLES ON A FAIRLY LEVEL AREA AND LOOKS DOWN AT THE APPROACHING SOLDIERS.

442 TRAUTMAN AND MOUSA 442

PAUSE TO CHECK OUT RAMBO'S STRATEGY. TRAUTMAN PULLS HALIMA ALONG ••• MOUSA FIRES AT THE TROOPS. MICHEL USES ONE OF THE AILING REBEL'S RIFLE TO FIRE BACK AT THE TROOPS.

44 3 RAMBO 443

AIMS HIS GRENADE-MOUNTED GUN AT THE SNOW FIELD ABOVE HI-.M AND FIRES. ·,

THE GRENADE CAUSES A MAJOR EXPLOSION, BUT DOES NOT CAUSE THE SNOW MASS TO MOVE.

445 SOLDIERS 445 /-~ I . . . . CONTINUE THEIR ASCENT, FI.RING AS THEY GO •

446 RAMBO 446

FIRES BACK AND QUICKLY MOUNTS ANOTHER GRENADE ••• HE FIRES.

THE GRENADE EXPLOSION CAUSES THE SNOW FIELD TO MOVE AL- MOST IMPERCEPTIBLY AT FIRST •••

448 THE SOLDIERS 448

CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD UNTIL A MOUNTING SO.ONO STOPS THEIR PROGRESS.

449 THE SNOW FIELD 449

IS SHI.FTING AND BEGI.NNmG TO CRUMBLE.

450 RAMBO 450

STARTS TO SPRINT AWAY AS THE AVALANCHE BEGINS.

451 ANGLE 451

MILLIONS OF TONS OF SNOW BEGIN TO MOVE DOWN THE MOUNTAIN SIDE .•. THE SOUND IS DEAFENING.

452 FAVORING THE SOLDIERS 452

THEY BEGIN TO RETP.EAT, BUT THE STEEP AMGLE OF THE GROUND THEY ARE SITUATED ON PERMITS ONLY REVERSE MOVEMENT RATHER THAN LATERAL.

453 THE AVALANCHE 453

IS TEARING OUT EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH.

454 TRAUTMAN, MI.CHEL AND MOUSA 454

ROLL AND CARRY THE WOUNDED AS THE AIR AROUND THEM BEGINS TO FILL WITH CRYSTAL SNOW PARTICLES, WHICH GROWS STEADILY INTO A MINOR SNOW HAZE.

455 RAMBO 455 -~ / \ DASHES FOR HIS LIFE, DESPER..~TELY TRYING TO MANEUVER OUT _j

OF THE SNOW'S PATH.

IS A THUNDERING DE..?wtON, A CASCADING WHITE HELL DESTROYING EVERYTHING THAT DARES TO STAND IN ITS PATH.

457 RAMBO 457

JUST MANAGES TO REACH A ROClC OUTCROPPING AT THE VERY OUTER EDGE OF THE AVALA..~CHE •••

THE SNOW ROARS PAST HIM AND OVER THE ROCK SHELTER.

458 THE AFGHAN SOLDIERS 458

ARE DOOMED AND SOON DEVOURED BY THE AVALANCHE.

459 TRAUTMAN, AND MOUSA 459

FROM THEIR VANTAGE POINT, THEY THINK RAMBO IS SURELY DEAD.

460 WIDE SHOT 460

THE SNOW FIELD THUNDERS DOWN TO THE VALLEY BELOW AND SOON THE ROARING SUBSIDES.

CAL'rnOT BELIEVE THEIR EYES AS RAMBO EMERGES FROM HIS SAFETY AREA.

MOSAAD IS LEADING HUNDREDS OF HIS PEOPLE TO SAFETY ••• THE PLAINS IN THE DISTANCE SEEM CLEAR ••.

iI

TAL~KS , ETC • ) •

A LONE REBEL GALLOPS FRANTICALLY TOWARD THE CARAVAN. HE PULLS UP IN FRONT OF M0SAAD AND BEGINS TO FRANTICALLY RELATE WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE VILLAGE.

THE SOVIET GUNSHIP, Wu.~D BY COLONEL ZAYSAN HAS LANDED.

466 GUNSHIP #2 466

THE GUNSHIP CARRYING SGT. KOUROV AND MAJOR AZOV LANDS.

and OMITTED and

SOVIET SOLDIERS POUR INTO THE EMPTY HOSPITAL WITH SAVAGE PRESENCE.

COLONEL ZAYSAN STORMS IN, FLANKED BY SGT. K0UROV AND

MAJOR AZOV. HE KICKS AT AN EMPTY BED OF STRAW.

TEN SPETSNAZ TROOPERS START TO BURN THE TENTS DOWN WITH FLAME THROWERS •••

COMES RUNNING IN AND SPEAKS RAPIDLY TO ZAYSAN

IT IS NEARLY TWILIGHT AS RAMBO, TRAUTMAN AND MOUSA MOVE DOWN THE STEEP TRAILS LEADING OUT OF THE SNOW LINE. MICHEL STILL OBSERVES THE TWO REMAINING AFGHAN REBELS AND HALIMA WHO IS ON RAMBO'S HORSE.

THEY LAND ON THE NEAR-LEVEL VALLEY FLOOR AND START TO MOVE AROUND A ROCK OUTCROPPING ••• ONLY TEN MILES FROM THE PAKISTAN BORDER.

472 DIFFERENT ANGLE 472

WHEN THEY TURN AROUND THE ROCK OUTCROPPING, THEY SUD- DENLY COME TO AN ABRUPT HALT •.

473 THEIR POV 473

AT FIRST, WHAT ALMOST APPEARS TO BE A MIRAGE IN THE RIS- ING HEAT •••

474 LONG SHOT 474

WE SEE A COMMAND OF NEARLY EIGHT HUNDRED SOVIET AND AFGHAN GOVERNMENT TROOPS SEALING THE VALLEY EXIT TO THE PAKISTAN BORDER. COLONEL ZAYSAN STA?tDS ELEVATED IN AN ARMORED VEHICLE BEHIND THE TROOPS. HE IS SEPA- RATED FROM THEM BY A TWENTY-FOOT GORGE THAT ~ROPS A THOUSAND FEET •••

•.• FLANKING THE TROOPS ARE EIGHT TANKS .••

475 RAMBO 475

EYES DIM IN THEIR INTENSITY. ALL IS LOST.

476 WIDER ANGLE 476

TRAUTMAN LOOKS AT THE MASSIVE BLOCKADE AND SHAKES HIS HEAD .•• MOUSA COMES AROUNDi SEARCHING HIS BRAIN FOR SOME MIRACULOUS EXIT; THERE IS NONE. .

MICHE;L Let's go back!

477 ZAYSAN 477

HE ADDRESSES THEM WITH A BULLHORN THAT IS MOUNTED ON HIS TRANSPORT CAR.

478 RAMBO, TRAUTMAN AND MOUSA 478

THEY EYE EACH OTHER.

(to Mousa) Undo the stretchers.

RAMBO LIFTS HALIMA DOWN FROM HIS HOURSE AND MOUNTS.

479 ZAYSAN 479

480 MEDIUM SHOTS 480

THE TANKS, THE FOOT SOLDIERS, THE Aru10RED PERSONNEL CARRIERS, THE MOTORCYCLES, ETC.; OFF TO THE SIDE IS THE RIFLE TROOP TRANSPORT CHOPPER.

481 WIDE SHOT 481

BEHIND THE BLOCKADE A RUMBLING IS HEARD AS ONE SOVIET HIND GUNSHIP RISES FROM BEHIND THE VALLEY WALL, FOLLOWED

• BY FIVE SMALLER ONES. THEY HOVER LIKE DEATH-BIRDS A

HUNDRED METERS BEHIND AND TO EACH SIDE OF ZAYSAN.

482 RAMBO, TRAUTMAN, MOUSA AND MICHEL 482

483 ZAYSAN 483

484 RAMBO, TRAUTMAN, MOUSA AND MICHEL 484

TRAUTMAN

taking orders.

RAMBO STARTS TO RIDE FORWARD: AND HE IS FOLLOWED BY TRAUTMAN AND MOUSA.

485 ON ZAYSAN 485

SUDDENLY A RUMBLING OF WHAT SOUNDS LIKE THE BEGINNING OF A SUMMER THUNDER STORM.

486 RAMBO, TRAUTMAN AND MOUSA 486

TWO HUNDRED MUJAHIDEEN WARRIORS ON HORSEBACK APPEAR, LED BY MOSAAD.

488 ZAYSAN 488

LOOKS THROUGH HIS BINOCULARS AND CANNOT BELIEVE HIS EYES.

489 RAMBO AND HIS GROUP 489

LOOK AT TH:S MASSIVE DISPLAY OF MANPOWER THAT HAS COME TO THEIR AID.

490 THE SOVIETS 490

THE SOVIET FORCE BEGINS TO SHIFT WITH MOUNTING ANXIETY.

491 ANOTHER VALLEY ENTRANCE 491

THROUGH A SECOND ENTRANCE TO THE VALLEY, KHALID APPEARS WITH TT.40 HUNDRED MORE HORSEMEN A..l'ID SEVERAL CAPTURED AR- MORED VEHICLES. MANY OF THE MUJAHIDEEN WARRIORS ARE LOADED WITH RUSSIAN-MADE R.P.G. 'S &'® HAVE BROUGHT OTHER HEAVY FIREPOWER.

492 RAMBO &~D COMPANY 492

EYE THE JOINING FORCES WITH MOUNTING OPTIMISM.

493 WIDE AL"'llGLE 493

THE UUJAHIDEEN WARRIORS BEGIN TO SPREAD OOT IN A FULL CHARGE FORMATION.

HIGH ON BOTH SIDES OF THE VALLEY WALLS, MUJAH~DEEN WAR- RIORS HAVE POSITIONED THEMSELVES WITH HIGH-POWERED ANTI- TANK AND GUNSHIP WEAPONS.

495 Zl'i,YSAN 495

496 MOSAAD 496

RAISES HIS RIFLE, A..'iD T.HE WARRIORS START TO MOVE FORWARD~ SLOWLY AT FIRST.

497 AZOV 497

LOOKS TO THE FLANK AND SEES RAHIM'S TWO HUNDRED WARRI- ORS APPROACHING FROM THE SOVIETS' WEA!< SIDE.

498 RAHIM 498

RAISES HIS RIFLE, AND:

499 MOSAAD 499

RETURNS THE GESTURE. LIKEWISE:

500 RAMBO 500

PULL BACK. RAMBO, MOUSA AND TRAUTMAN CHARGE.

501 ZAYSAN 501

TAKES UP HIS MICROPHONE AND ADDRESSES HIS COMMANDERS.

(NOTE·.: THE BATTLE SCENES -- WILL BE STORY-BOARDED AS PER THE DIRECTOR, WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE TANKS AND GUNSHI.PS BEING DESTROYED BY THE REBELS HIGH ABOVE, ON THE VALLEY WALLS.)

502 SCENE 502

THOUGH WOUNDED, TRAUTMAN CHARGES AHEAD AND IS KNOCKED DOWN AND CAPTURED BY SOVIETS WHO QUICKLY TRAi.~SPORT HIM VIA SGT. KOUROV.

503 TRAUTMAN AND HIS CAPTORS 503

CROSS A SMALL, STONE BRIDGE THAT TRAVERSES THE GORGE TO ZAYSAN.

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504 SCENE 504

RAMBO SEES THI.SAND CHARGES AHEAD ••• MOUSA IS BEHIND RAMBO.

sos SCE:-:rE sos

SGT·. KOUROV, WHO HAS CROSSED BACK OVER THE BRIDGE, SHOOTS AT MOUSA.

506 SCENE 506

MOUSA, WHO IS WOUNDED IN TWO PLACES, GUIDES HIS HORSE TOWARD SGT. KOUROV. MOUSA PULLS OUT A HAND GRENADE AND LEAPS FROM HIS HORSE AND LANDS ON SGT. KOUROV.

507 SCENE: 507

AFGHANS BLOW THE CHOPPER FROM THE SKY.

508 SCENE 508

AFGHANS HAVE TAKEN COMMAND OF A TANK AND ROAR TOWARDS THE SOVIETS.

510 SCENE 510

ZAYSAN TRIES TO GET AWAY FROM THE BATTLE SCENE, BUT A MUJAHIDEEN SNIPER KILLS THE DRIVER AND WOUNDS ZAYSAN IN THE LEG.

511 SCENE 511

THE MUJAHIDEEN SNIPER IS KILLED BY HEAVY RETURN FIRE.

512 SCENE 512

THE BATTLE HAS SWUNG IN THE REBELS' FAVOR.

513 SCENE 513

••• THE SOVIETS ARE FIRED UPON AND KILLED.

thru OMITTED thru

517 SCENE 517

RAMBO CHARGES WILDLY AT ZAYSAN.

518 SCENE 518

ZAYSAN TAKES UP AN AUTOMATIC RIFLE AND OPENS FIRE ON

RAMBO IS HIT IN THE LEFT SHOULDER.

520 SCENE 520

ZAYSAN FIRES AGAIN, AND HITS RAMBO. IN THE LEG.

521 SCENE 521

RAMBO NEARLY FALLS FROM HIS HORSE AND HANGS ON AS THE ANIMAL CHARGES BLINDLY FORWARD.

522 SCENE 522

RAMBO RIDES LOW TO AVOID CREATING A LARGER TARGET •.•

524 SCENE 524

525 THE GORGE 525

RAMBO IS GOING FULL-STRIDE AS HE LEAPS IN A TRULY MIND- BLOWING, DARE-DEVIL.MANEUVER OVER THE GORGE.

526 ZAYSAN 526

TA-~ES AIM AT RAMBO, AS .••

RAMBO'S HORSE IS ONLY YARDS AWAY FROM ZAYSA.~'S VEHICLE.

ZAYSAN TAKES AIM •.•

•.• TRAUTMAN, THOUGH STILL BLEEDING AND PROSTRATE ON THE VEHICLE FLOOR, SHOVES ZAYSAN.

529 ZAYSAN 529

FIRING AND MISSING.

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530 RAMBO 530

GUIDES HIS HORSE IN AND JUMPS TOTALLY OVER THE VEHICLE.

AT THE VERY HEIGHT OF THE JUNP, THE MORTALLY WOUNDED RAMBO THROWS HIS HUGE KNIFE DOWN AND IMPALES ZAYSAN.

531 RAMBO 531

RAMBO TUMBLES FROM HIS HORSE AND CR..~SHES TO THE ROCK SURFACE .•• HE IS BARELY ALIVE.

STILL IN THE THICK OF BATTLE SEES THIS AND GRABS HIS MICROPHONE AND ORDERS ALL SOVIETS TO RETREAT.

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533 TRAUTMAN AND RM-".BO 533·

TRAUTMAN CRADDLES RAMB0 1 S HEAD.

RAMBO NODS, THEN STRUGGLES IN LABORED BREATHES.

MOSAAD AND HIS MA.i."n MUJAHIDEEN WARRIORS SURROUND A TRANSPORT VEHICLE THAT CONTAINS AN AFGHAN DRIVER, TRAUT.MAN, AND A HEAVILY-BANDAGED RAMBO, WHO SITS IN THE REAR.

RA!-1BO LOOKS AT TRAUTM&~ THEN BACK TO MICHEL.

MICHEL NODS AND KISSES RAMBO ON THE CHEEK. MOSAAD HUGS RAMBO, AS THE OTHER REMAINING CHIEFTA?;, KHALID, NODS HIS APPROVAL.

HALIMA STEPS UP AND KISSES RAMBO, WHO TOUCHES HER HAIR. MOSAAD NODS TO THE DRI~R, WHO PULLS AWAY. TRAUTMAN FACES RAMBO.

11.0.

THE VEHICLE IS SLOWLY ENVELOPED IN SWIRLING DUST AND GRADUALLY BECOMES JUST A SMALL OBJECT ON THE MAJESTIC L&~DSCAPE.