"UNDER SIEGE" (1992)

UNO~R.. ~\eCe\e-- (DREADNOUGHT.J

by J.F. Lawton

Based on revisions by Steven Seagal

Mike Gray & John Mason

From an original Screenplay by J.F. Lawton

Revised 1/17/92

DREADNOUGHT

FADE IN:

Nine hundred foot dreadnought bristling with giant gun turrets, missiles and armor. MONTAGE as it sails for Pearl Harbor.

MONTAGE continues, a behind the scenes view as we meet crew members in the:

2A ENGINE ROOM running equipment and cleaning up oil 2A

2B BROADWAY CORRIDOR mopping the decks 2B

2C COMBAT INFORMATION CENTER (C.I.C.j tidying up papers, dusting 2C

In the background ·theship's television system plays coverage of the Pearl Harbor commemoration from Honolulu.· ·

20 BRIDGE touching up paint & shining.brass 2D

2E MARINE-QUARTERS gettj.ngin full dress & polishing swords 2E

This is not just a ship, it's a floating city.

SAILORS, decked out in dr.eas whites, hurry to take ·their stations as ship'prepares.to enter harbor. Among them Seaman Tack AKA TACRMAN, Petty Officer Third Class RAMIREZ and Gunner's Mate Chief GRANGER. Warrant Officer ~ENCE FLICKER. .

Walking in opposite direction: PETTY OFFICER FIRST CLASS CASEY RYBACK. In jeans and work shirt. carries clipboard.

January 17, 1991 2.

The sailors laugh as Ryback·continues on.

Dealing with last minute details: CAPTAIN JACK ADAMS, fit- looking fifty year old sea dog, in full dress. Looks damn fine. in it too. He signs something for his YEOMAN. Several officers ENSIGN TAYLOR, LT. SMART, LT. BALLARD, COMHANl)ER HARRIS and ENSIGN RIPE stand by. --Toweringby them is the ship's XO, COMMANDER KRILL, cold·,professional. Everyone in full dress.

Ryback enters. Adams spots him. Winces. Krill leaps down his throat.

January 17, 1991 3.

Krill backs off. Taylor has him sign some paper,.

January 17, ·1991 4.

Adams signs. Ryback salutes Captain smartly. Salutes Krill. Kind of a salute. Maybe a little too much middle finger there. Ryback exits. Krill's pissed.

Then don't.

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Missouri enters port, looking its best. Fresh paint and polish. cr.ew lined up at rails in f.ull dress.

In the background the CINCPAC Fleet gathers in raw display of naval power to commemorate the "Day of Infamy."

organized chaos. Ship is tied up. Gangplank is down. Secret Service men board and comb the decks. Officers and crew scurry a~ound preparing for ceremonies.

Krill notices a smudge on a brass rail. Chews out the nearest sailor, who happens to be Tackman. Tackman runs for the brass.

Young woman JOURNALIST, stands on the deck with video crew.

January 17, 1991 5.

Ryback, still in work clothes, orders groceries on phone. He -checks off a list of ingredients and quantities for a scrumptious meal. There's a TV playing in the background.

Finally the big moment arrives. Everyone stands at attention as

Ryback discreteiy slips off ship and down gangplank.

Captain Adams·sits in a VIP area amid sea of his own officers other Navy brass, .and veterans, including two imposing men wearing Veterans Organization hats, WILLIAM STRANNIX and ERNEST DAUMER. Strannix and Daumer survey the crowd as Strannix smiles and applauds patriotically. ·

ADMIRAL BATES sits.on the speaker's platform next to cabinet officials, as President GEORGE BUSH delivers keynote speech.

DISSOLVE TO,:

Ryback walks up to the window of an old Dodge pickup truck loaded with pineapples.. Inside is an old Japanese GROCER.

Climbing in.

January 17, 1991 6.

A van is driven into a warehouse and the garage door rolled down behind it.

··A team of MEN are spray painting lettering on the side of another van. Others begin unloading cases. Ingredients for a lavish party are being assembled. We see waiters' coats on a rack, an ice sculpture-of a battleship is being created, balloons and helium tanks, fancy silver. Still others have set up a·· temporary ·kitchen area.

Strannix,.now without his veteran's hat, has a menacing presence and an offbeat sense of humor. He opens up the cases and checks through them.

Strannix moves over to an area where a couple of cooks are making stuffed mushroom caps. He tries one.

Daumer pops open a large circular case.

Like a magician, with great style, he pops up a huge satin · ,birthday,cake,·.large enough. fora girl to appear out of.·Also included in the case is a sexy, matching outfit.

DISSOLVE TO:.

sun is rising as sailors return from liberty. Among them: CALAWAY a salty fellow in his severtties. He steps up gangplank and shows papers to Lt. Ballard.

January 17, 1991

on the dock Ryback and Ramirez, the cook's helper, are unloading a jeep. A couple sailors help carry crates of food aboard.'· Ramirez admires a perfect onion and a long string of garlic.

captain Adams sits in his chair on starboard wing of bridge. First l!ght silhouettes the great fleet spread across Pearl Harbor. Flashing signal lights wink from ship to ship.

World's largest warship prepares to get underway. A complex industrial ballet. Tugboats marry up fore and aft, crews on fantail and forecastle take in lines. Quarterdeck watch hoists gangplank.

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·Insweating engine room telegraph rings: all ahead one-third.

On bridge wing seaman takes bearing on harbor marker.

Ship's navigator turns to c_aptain Adams.

The islands start to recede in the distance.

In vast open sea, the giant ship becomes a tiny speck.

Deck SEAMAN SPOON mops grease from flight deck on fantail. Ensign Taylor speaks with BOATSWAIN'S MATE FIRST CLASS.JOHNSON who's in charge of .flight. deck.

·JOHNSON An.unauthorized helicopter landing?

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Taylor hands Johnson a folded piece of paper. Johnson opens it. It's a Playboy fold out. A st~nningly beautiful woman.

Taylor exits. Johnson shows the foldout to Spoon who whistles.

Krill is chewing out Commander Harris, the oncoming o.o.D., who holds a list of watches.·

KRILL· It's only for a couple hours. I'll take personal responsibility. The watches on this list will be secured.· That's a direct order.

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c.u. - Onions on chopping block. Expert strokes from razor sharp knife. PULL BACK to reveal Ryback, in a white uniform with coo~•s hat, handling blade as expertly as a Bennihana chef.

Ramirez watches Ryback with admiration.

Half dozen sailors eat at a t·able that used to be for galley staff but now serves remaining crew. Tackman strolls over.

Ryback shakes head, goes to simmering pot, tosses piece of toast on plate and pours a heap of slop over it.

Ensign Taylor enters. Enlisted men fall silent--not out of respect (Ensigns are fair game in the Navy) but to make hiin feel uncomfortable.

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Enlisted .men snicker. Taylor clears throat.

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_ RYBACK I knew Adams before you were born,_ Junior. He doesn•t like surprises. Tell Krill I don't give a shit what he planned. I'm not changing the menu unless the Captain directly orders it.

Taylor storms out. Ramirez whistles.

; Ryback grips knife by point and throws it. It flips gracefully ·and lands point fir.st into awood .block on t~e bulkhead.

Several Dozen CATERERS now dressed· in serving jackets load crates marked "Bean's Parties -Inc." into a Chinook helicopter. Supervising is Strannix, his Elton John glasses matched with clothes that wou·Ldmake Captain Fantastic proud.

Lime colored jacket, large purple p~rse, etc.

His voice has become a bit precious. Daumer stands nearby.

Catering van drives up. Painted on the side now is "BEAN'S - PARTIES PARTY HARDY."

ZIGGS and CATES, two·other big guys in overalls, drag out sleepy JORDAN TATE•. She doesn•t look like a Playmate. Frumpy bathrobe, goofy slippers, hair in curlers a mess. She has a slight Southern accent.

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-STRANNIX I hate tardiness. This is an very important function. The whole fate of Bean's catering rests on it. Those sailors expect a beautiful girl, not the creature from the Black Lagoon.

JORDAN· Don't worry, your goon grabbed my bag. I keep my face in it.

Strannix gives Jordan a spank on the rear and pushes her into the copter. ,

A NAVY PILOT in mirrored sunglasses and helmet, approaches with his CO-PILOT.

Strannix, with Daumer, Ziggs and Cates following, takes the pilot, co-pilot and his THREE PERSON CREW around to the back of the van. WAVE and PITT are waiting. ·

Strannix opens the doors and rummages through some trays.

He reaches in for a tray of caviar and cheese, and the crew digs in. In the background, a plane takes off.

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Using the sound as cover, Strannix grabs the pilot's head, twists his neck and drops him instantly. Before the rest of the stunned crew can even move, Ziggs knees the Co-pilot and snaps his neck. Meanwhile oaumer, wave, and Cates quickly dispatch the others with choke cords.

All five are dead before the sound of the plane has faded. Daumer and the others load the bodies into the back of the van. As they do, Strannix picks up a remaining hors d'oeuvre and walks away. His men close the van doors.

Daumer, Wave, Ziggs, and Cates walk toward the Chinook dressed in the uniforms of the dead crew.

They climb aboard with Strannix and his caterers and shut the doors.

The helicopter is towed out of the hangar.

~ Daumer and Wave start the engine.

Turboshaft engines start up and raise the helo into the air.

25· EXT. MISSOURI - DAY 25

Giant ship maintains its course.

Adams watches panoramic sunset from window of his large cabin. Commander Krill,enters and stiffly salutes.

Adams takes a seat at his desk and motions for Krill to sit.

Painful silence. Krill avoids captain's stare.

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Another tense beat.· Krill looks him in eye.

Suddenly ·tensionevap~rates. Adams chuckles.

Pulls it out from around his neck.

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ADAMS , I think you're an excellent officer.· But to be a ship's captain you-need to inspire the loy~lty of the men below you.

Krill stands. Goes to door, pauses.

·KRILL Yes, captain. But concerning this. • • party.The Admiral wanted it to be a surprise. If you could · stay in your cabin until •••

Krill sharply salutes and exits. Adams mulls this over and picks up a phone by desk.

Ryback stands in his cabin as he talks to Adams on the phone.

January 17, 1991 17.

RYBACK

A Speaking of insubordination. Am v I cooking dinner tonight? Am I

the only one that slings hash in honor of your cursed birth?

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The helicopter flies by.

strannix and company are crowded aboard. Strannix munches on food.

Jordan steps out from behind a blanket hung up as a dressin~ room. She is transformed. · Hair perfect. Lips red. Beautiful, sexy.. She wears short shorts and a halter top. All eyes are on her. strannix is impressed.

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I~T. INNER GALLEY EVENING 32

Ryback adds spices to a steaming pot of bouillabaisse. Krill enters. Behind him, Ensign Taylor and four large Marines follow. One of them, NASH, is quite young.

Krill gives Ryback icy'smile. ,

~ILL Hello, Ryback.

Krill crosses over to Ryback's steaming pot of soup. The three older Marines follow.

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Krill spits in it. Turns to Ryback and smiles.

·BAM! ,Ryback'·&f.ist flies throughairand smashes Krill's face. Snaps Krill's head back and flips him to the deck.

Marines grab Ryback. POW. one of them goes down, CRASHING against a ~ounter. The other two throw Ryback roughly into the bulkhead~

Marines grab Ryback•,swrists. Handcuff him •

No one goes in the brig without the old man's sig.

Krill slowly stands. His right eye is swelling up bigger than a puff adder. Looks at Ryback dizzily.

Marines drag Ryback to one of the'ship's huge meat lockers •

takes large·serving spoon. Runs it throughdoor locks. Turns to NASH, a Marine.

KRILL · Private Nash? You ca•e aboard in Hawaii?

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KRILL {Cont'd) It's the captain's birthday and I don't want him ruining it. No one lets him out. No one talks to him. If he tries to escape, shoot him.

Ryback tries the door. Doesn't open, but then, he didn't expect it to. ~og floats from his breath. •

\ A HELICOPTER makes,pass by battleship. Moves down the entire v length of the port side. Hovers momentarily and returns at a forty-five degree angle on the starboard side.

Chinook lands, sweeping wind at NAVY FLIGHT DECK CREW. Already assembled are dozens of curious sailors. Helicopter stabilizes and shuts down. Ground. crew runs up and slides open cargo door. Sailors hurry up to have peek •

looks like 0a·pa·ckof starved tigers.

Marines react to Jordan's arrival.

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She turns it on. Huge main of hair flops back and forth.

Pushing and shoving. Six sailors offer her their hands. They lift her from the transport and set her onto the ground.

The saiiors rush forward. A sailor with a video camera follows her.

Caterers emerge from copter and start·unloading supplies. Strannix looks at his watch.

Krill comes out on the deck and approaches quickly.

-They join up a~d Strannix lowers his voice, noticing Krill's swollen eye.

Tackman opens up his locker. Inside is a neat stack of every single issue of Playboy.

He pulls out the correct issue. Flips it open. Spreads the page. Spoon looks down from an upper bunk.

January 17, 1991 22.

Spoon is about to grab it from him when the TV kicks on showing pictures of Jordan moving down the hallway. .)

TACKMAN I She's landed! The Bunny has landed·!

Spoon jumps down and takes off. Tackman quickly puts away his magazine and he~ds for the door. He's stopped by a CRANKY CHIEF who is standing.with Flicker who carries a tool kit.

·TACKMAN Who cares? We'll _worry about it tomorrow! The bunny is aboard!

TACI<MAN But·chief, we have strict orders from the x.o. to report to the mess decks promptly-•••

cranky smi,lesmeanly and heads off •. Tackman looks at Flicker.

January 17, 1991 23.

Jordan and a growing collection of sailors file down passageway followed by strannix, Krill, the cake and caterers.

38 MESS DECK 38

caterers wheel crates past the ship's R &B BAND, which is warming up as several hundred sailors get seated at tables. Banners strung everywhere read "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SKIPPER." Krill enters with strannix and Jordan. Jordan waves at the crowd, who hoot at her and start to che_er.

Krill leads strannix and company into a galley. They wheel the cake inside. strannix stops the sailors who want to follow.

Strannix goes down a. ,corridor..The disappointed sailors eye each other.

I knew I should have gone to college.

Kr.ill.locks .thedoor.behind them. Caterers assemble cake. ·Strannix,hands Jordan her costume.

He holds out a blue pill. She pops it in mouth. Jordan goes into a side room and closes door.

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J9A INT. FOOD STO~GE ROOM 39A

Jordan begins fumbling to get her costume on. She checks herself in the mirror and blinks a couple times. The pill is having an effect.

Strannix looks at watch and speaks in whisper to Pitt.

I STRANNIX .! Maybe I'd like some desert too.

Jordan comes out with a robe covering her skimpy costume. She's already yawning. Strannix escorts her into the cake.

Strannix zips up the back of the cake. His men begin to unload trays of food, and then from under the ice weapons. strannix steps over to Krill.

strannix hands him a silenced pistol.

OFFICERS and crew are gathering. StranniK's caterers lay out a · spread never seen in the u.s. Navy. Taylor admires the food with Lt. Smart and Ensign Ripe.

A fancy ice sculpture of the Missouri is surrounded by seafood.

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As Taylor wanders off, Smart whispers to Ripe.

Ryback tries to reason with Nash.

Krill appro~ches with Daumer who carries a covered tray of hors d'oeuvres. A MARINE stands guard at the captain's door. He salutes as Krill enters. Daumer waits outside. He offers out his tray to the Marine.

42. CAPTAIN'S CABIN 42

Adams reads book. Krill enters.

The Captain looks up.

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Krill reaches into his uniform and pulls out the silenced pistol. He aims at Adams.

Krill swallows. Face hardens. He takes step forward.

Adams takes a breath to yell for help. Gun fires. Adams• chest is hit, silencing him. Krill fires twice more.

The Marin~ hears the body falling and knocks on the door.

marine falls. Daumer throws open the door.

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44 CAPTAIN'S CABIN 44

Daumer drags the marine inside as Krill goes to Adams and pulls missile key from around his neck.

Krill wipes the sweat from face. Daumer crosses to the captain and checks him out. He fire an extra bullet through his brain. oaumer glances at.his watch.

Daumer pulls out a headset and radios through it.

Strannix is on the other end.

strannix.motions to his men. They fly out of the doors. Strannix heads out another door.

The cake sits alone.

January 17, 1991 27.

several commandos burst into the Marine quarters. TWO MARINE GUARDS are sprayed with automatic fire. '

Strannix preens by several hundred sailors seated at tables.

strannix exits noisy mess deck and scans hall. Sees late sailor come from around corner.

Sailor eyes this odd fellow but continues in.· Strannix pulls a submachine gun from purse and clicks off safety.

48 MESS DECK 48

Strannix enters with machine gun leveled on sailor.

:Everyone,watches, stunned. .Doors burst open from every entrance. Commandos appear at each door with assault rifles ready. ·

Barrel sputters flames. Bullets rip into the man's back. He's dead. several officers react and rise beginning to resist. A caterer sprays them with mace. They double over, sick and tearing. ·

Strannix tosses off his green jacket and phony glasses. His :>- voice returns to normal. ' ·,w

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The sailors are knocked to the ground by the caterers.

Wave pulls out his pistol and shoots the stern watch. He dumps the body overboard. He signals to the helo and other commandos and begins unloading extra equipment.

Hook, Slice, and several other caterers burst in. WATCH OFFICER looks at them in amazement. As gunmen approach he raises hands in surrender.

Sl,ice pulls PISTOLand.continues forward. Places barrel on of.ficer·•s ·temple and'FIRESsingle shot,assas~ination style. ' • Some take positions monitoring Main Control. Others begin spot welding certain hatches.

51 MESS DECK 51

Strannix speaks to the stunned crew, lying flat on their bellies.

Ryback is cold. And pissed off. He yells through the door.

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Door opens. Nash enters. Side-arm drawn. Shuts door behind him.

ANOTHER PASSAGEWAY 53

strannix and his men advance through passageway. Another team welds more hatches.

Flicker works on a drier. Tackman paces anxiously.

TAC:KMAN Yes! I'm out of here! Miss January come to your man!

Tackman takes off.

55 BERTHING 55

Tackman runs to the hatch that leads into main passageway. It won't open. Calaway is sitting nearby playing solitaire.

Tack.man throws himself against it. He slams on the dogs.

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Commandos slowly cross deck. They spot their target in the distance. A WATCH on bow, looking ahead into sea. A sharpshooter goes on one knee and sights through a scope.

A LOOKOUT. on the bridge sees the bow watch go down.

Rear door bursts open. Strannix, Krill, and commandos enter, machine guns ready •

Hands up! Upl Now!

They raise their.hands. Some of Strannix's men lead them out. Other's take positions at the helm.·

Krill and Strannix and several more men continue down a staircase to C.I.C.

They burst through the door. Two lone men are watching over the monitors. They stare stunned at the raised guns. They lift their .hands.·

Strannix•s men take them out. Pitt goes over to the monitors and begins checking over equipment.

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Strannix turns to Krill.

Krill hands him captain's key and his own. Strannix hands them over to Pitt who uses them to unlock the nuclear console.

DaWller plops metal briefcase on chart table and opens it to reveal a state-of-the-art computer with a screen that fills lid. He punches a few commands and a COLOR CODED CUTAWAY OF THE. SHIP appears on the screen. Da\llllerand Strannix look over computer diagram of ship.

He turns to Krill.

S~IX

Krill smiles and steps over to the helm.

59 ENGINE ROOM 59

Strannix•s men are running the engines.

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The World War II built steam turbine engines come alive.

Despite their enormous size, battleships aren't slow, and the Missouri is the fastest ever built. With a top speed of thirty three knots, it rips though the water leaving an enormous wake, a six mile slash across the ocean. ·

·660A INT. HANGAR - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE - NIGHT 660A

A FLIGHT CREW grunt is standing by the hangar office. The abandoned catering truck sits alone on the other side of the hangar. A FLIGHT OFFICER yells at him.

The window is shattered by a wrench and the grunt opens the door. He steps inside and looks for keys. He notices something behind him.

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Lying in a pile of ice are the five half-naked dead bodies of the flight .crew.

The flight crew member runs through the huge hangar toward a

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phone. ~e _hear the following.

Where was its destination?

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An F·l6 lifts of.f arunway.

VOICE (0. S.) Missouri, this is CINCPAC headquarters, we want the status of the Chinook that was on route to deliver supplies to you. Did it land as scheduled?

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Four Commandos in position at various consoles. Pitt lounges casually in admiral •s swivel .chair·andspeaks into headset.

VOICE (0. S.) It appears to have been hijacked. Upon arrival you are to , immediately detain crew and all aboard. We're sending an F-16 in pursuit of it. It'll be passing through your airspace. over.

Pitt's voice comes over the intercom.

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65 WEATHER DECK 65'

COMMANDOS uncover and rearm Harpoon anti-ship missiles. They load up Phalanx anti-aircraft machine guns. Further down deck men prepare Tomahawk missiles.

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Most of the crew remain on the floor with their hands behind heads. Meanwhile C.ommandos .are grabbing up small groups and escorting them out hatches.

Commandos carefully guard the crew as they are moved through the ship. Seaman Spoon glances at a hatch, looking to escap~, but it iS·Welde~ tight.

66 ..INT. BROADWAY CORRIDOR OUTSIDE FORECASTLE 66

strannix supervises the.welding crew as it tears down the overhead I-bea~ piece at a time.

In the background commandos herd crew single file into Boatswain's Locker. '

Seaman Spoon rushes a Commando. No chance. He's shot in the head. Strannix notices, steps forward and shoots sailor next to him too.

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thru OMITTED thru

Ryback and Nash listen below.

Officers and crew .arepacked in like a slave_galley. Last man, Ramirez, is shoved ins1de. Hatches are dogged behind him.

_71 EXT. FORECASTLE 71

commandos weld the hatch shut.

72 BRIDGE 72

Daumer and Strannix. Krill in background. Wave enters.

Everyone turns to Krill. Strannix crosses to him.

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Krill, with Strannix and Dawner behind him, fumbles at intercom.

Strannix releases lever on mike and whispers.

KRILL" Private, stay>.where you are.· I'm sending someone to relieve you.

Krill shuts off the intercom. Strannix glares at him.

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Strannix turns to Daumer.

Dau.mernods and exits.

Ryback stands in~the cold. Nash calls through the door.

No answer. Ryback sighs~ He hopes he's wrong but ••• He slides the handcuffs from around his back to his front.

January 17, 1991 38.

Meanwhile Nash has second thoughts. He glances toward the door. He hears footsteps coming. His hand slides to his sidearm. He shakes his head.

In answer Cates leaps around the door and sprays Nash with his silenced weapon. Nash does a jerky dance·as.the bullets hit him. He .falls to the ground,dead.

From the other side of the door, Ziggs appears. He cautiously steps into the roo'Qland scans it for Ryback. He spots the meat locker with spoon lock. Nods at Cates.

The two step into the room and walk toward the meat locker. Ziggs takes Nash's pistol•. Cates pulls the spoon. Cates opens door and Ziggs sprays the meat locker with gunfire. They step inside •

Cates waits by the door ·asZiggs slowly walks. through, looking for Ryback. Nothing. Just boxes.

Suddenly a powerful kick explodes towards Cates. Ryback springs out from a hiding place behind some boxes and leaps out the door.

Ziggs spins to fire, but Cates is stumbling to his feet, right in the path of fire. Ryback slams the door shut.·

Ryback jams-the lock. Meanwhile, the two commandos aren't being quiet. They're punching a hole into the tin and old iron locking mechanism with precise blasts of gunfire.~

Ryback sprints to Nash and gets the handcuff key off his b•lt. He gets off the cuffs. ·

The commandos make Swiss cheese out of the meat locker door. It's kicked wide open.

CLICK. Ryback turns off the kitchen lights by the.door and quickly ducks behind the counters. ·

Silent FLAMING BULLETS rip through the darkness toward the sound. They SHA'ITERinto the_bulkheads around the light switch.

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Ryback creeps to the opposite end of the counter. The commandos stop firing and wait for their eyes to adjust to the darkness.

The counters aren't solid, as it might appear at first, but made up a a series of open shelves. Ryback can watch the commandos though the cracks. He snatches two large kitchen knives from a low shelf.

Ryback watches them silently split up, to make tougher targets. As they cross the room they head for opposite ends of the counter.

Cates takes a small concussion grenade and flips out the pin.

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Ryback's face registers the sound. He darts for Ziggs• ·side.

As Cates tosses the bomb. behind the middle of the counter, Ryback appears from one end and lets fly a knife.

As the grenade EXPLODES, Ryback' s blade rips into Z_iggs'throat. Ziggs' machine gun BLASTS AWAY, as he dies. In the chaos Ryback disappears behind another counter.

Bullets ricochet through the room and pots and pans clatter from the blast•. Cates scans the room, unsure what the hei1 happened. Ziggs has stopped firing. Cates looks at him•. Ziggs topples, · dead, the knife handle protruding from his throat.

There is a silence. Where did the blade come from? Cates fires blindly, dispensing a stream of bullets in a low arc across the room. He hopes to get lucky or force his opponent to reveal himself.

He stops firing. Silence. Nothing.

Cates starts to retreat, gun up. It's.time for .backup. His eyes scan the shadows. Something is o~t there. Somewhere.

As Cates steps backward, Ryback rises behind him, a living shadow. Ryback's right arm extends anc;lcontracts like a pocket knife closing. Suddenly Cates has a blade resting firmly across his throat. ·

Cates swallows. A tiny drop of blood slides from a hairline cut in his throat. He drops the.weapon.

As it hits the deck, Cates spins his head to one side, drops to his knees, grabs Ryback's arms and flips him over his back.

Ryback lands with a thud, loses his knife, rolls and lands next to Ziggs.

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The side of Cates' throat has been slashed in the process but not deep enough to kill instantly. Cates holds the bloody wound with one hand and pulls his pistol with the other.

Ryback has recovered from his roll. He grabs Ziggs' machine gun. He's got half a second. Cates won't miss. He spins.

Cates takes aim.

Ryback fires.

A·stream .ofbullets rise through Cates' mid-:.section.Ryback stops when a shot lands between Cates• eyes. Cates falls dead.

Ryback's eyes hunt the room for a new opponent. Nothing. He takes a breath. Half relaxes. Looks back at Cates' body.

He leaps back into action. He takes off his cooking apron. He goes through the commandos' 'pockets. He taJtesCates' small two- way radio.

e This done. Ryback looks up and pauses for a·moment as if contemplating. He searches through the cupboards and finds some containers· that look like salad dressing. He pours the liquid into a cup, puts a spoon in it, and places the cup in a microwave. The timer is set to five seconds. The microwave is closed.

An F-16 flies toward the Missouri.

The PILOT scans the dark shape of the ship below.

VOICE (0. S.) (on radio) Fly in for a closer look.

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81 CIC 81

Pitt watches the plot as the plane approaches.

82 BRIDGE 82

Str.annix picks up some binoculars and looks out the window.

F-i6 banks for a close fly-by of the.ship. Suddenly PHALANX GATLING GUNS BARK and the PLANE EXPLODES.

84 BRIDGE 84

Strannix watches pieces of the jet metal crash into sea.

Ryback moves fast and silent down the deserted passageway. He sees the door's lock is shattered. Not good. He kicks door and leaps in.

There on the floor he sees the body of the d.ead Marine guard and then Captain Adams. Ryback quickly shuts the door, runs to him.

Ryback is stunned.

He takes the officer's fou·1-weather jacket and ceremoniously covers the Captain's body.

Ryback stares at the body for a second and spins out of the room.

January 17, 1991 42.

Establishing shot of the Pentagon.

BREAKER, CIA Liaison for JCS, enters hallway as AIDE briefs.

, AIDE William Strannix.

Break~r steps up.to communications station. DOZENS OF MEN AND WOMEN IN SUITS AND MILITARY UNIFORMS.are patched into wireless console by maze of cables. A presidential Aide, TRENTON is on the net. As is Admiral Bates.

Breaker rushes up to the mike.

January 17, 1991 43.

Strannix talks on the radio. Oaumer stands by.

'BREAKER (O.S.) Wait, Bill. Think about what you' re •••

Daumer grins. ..

Incredulous reactions as others begin to pull out their hair.

January 17,'1991 44,

Everyone starts to really sweat. Navy aid flips through book. He nods weakly. Breaker steps to the mike.

_BREAKER (,nervously) Yes, yes you have. You've always been a hell of a patriot ••• you've done great things., ••

' curious to see how you ride this

one. Because it's going to be fucking messy. Believe me.

January 17, 1991 45.

For an instant there is silence._ Then everybody's talking at once.

He reaches for the red secure phone.

92 92- thru· OMITTED thru

94 CIC 94

8 Strannix hangs up. Dawner looks at him.-

Pitt hits the button.

A harpoon missile blasts out of its launch tube and roars across the sky.

January 17, 1991 46.

Cit 96 CRISIS ACTION CENT~R 96

The tracking systems shows the missile going across the sky.

A tiny island in a barren sea. An 18 ft. satellite dish sticks out of concrete pillbox with-.acouple radio towers. The Harpoon missile HITS AND EXPLODES.

No more island.

Ryback slips into mess deck and searches around empty room. He finds chaos, party decorations, and dead body of a sailor.

99 - INT. WARD ROOM 99

Ryback enters and quickly scans opened crates and empty room. About to leave, he pauses, hearing something. He stares at the big, cheerful cake. Ryback steps closer to·examirie it. He lightly kicks it.

Suddenly the room is filled with a STRIP TEASE VERSION.OF "ANCHORS AWAY;" coming from the sound system hidden within the cake. Ryback's surprised and less than thril·led with loud noise exposing his position. Ryback darts to a door and locks it, then turns to shut cake down.

Jordan pops out of the top, in a sexy sailor outfit, arms waving cheerfully overhead. Still clearly drugged, she gyrates sensuously, and begins her routine.

(:~ Ryback stares at her, worried that someone is going to come in ~:i and kill them.

January 17, 1991 47.

Jordan peels off her jacket and tosses it to an imagined crowd. Tosses off sailor cap. It lands at Ryback's feet. She sways, dizzy. Slowly stops dancing and looks around room. Her eyes focus.

She sees Ryback,and his guns. Wakes up fast. Terrified, she vanishes back into the cake·.-Ryback reaches in and pulls her out. He throws his hand over her mouth and puts his-pistol firmly to her head. She sees it and stops struggling. He quickly drags her from the room.

Ryback drags Jordan. Takes her to dead Nash. Aims her head so she sees bloody body. She tries to scream, but Ryback keeps hand tight on her mouth.

101 RYBACK'S QUARTERS 101 ~ v Ryback and Jordan enter the small room. Ryback sternly sits her down, never moving his pistol from her head. ·For a moment he just stares at her, sizing her up. Jordan starts to hyperventilate and tears begins to roll down her face. She trembles slightly. We don't know if this is an execution or not.

Ryback lowers his gun. He's done enough interrogations and "interviews." He knows. she's telling the truth.

Ryback grabs a long sweater and tosses it at her. Jordan pulls it on.

January 17, 1991 48.

Ryback grabs her by the wrists, firmly. His manner is hard.

·anything •••

He grabs another.shirt and tears it into strips.

Ryback grabs her hands and ties her up. '

January 17, 1991 49.

Ll \JJ!J101 CONTINUED: (2) 101

Ryback stuffs cloth in her mouth and ties gag around her. He ·pushesher into his locker. Closes door. S'hepounds·on it.

Jordan stops pounding.

- 102 INT. CRISIS ACTION CENTER 102

~ Trenton, Breaker, and Bates talk at a small table.

January 17, 1991 50.

Breaker pulls up Strannix•s file on video. Trenton scans through it.

January 17, 1991 51.

102 CONTINUED: {2) 102

Breaker looks at Trenton. Clearly-, the thought never occurred to him before.

..

The dark silhouette of a WW II diesel submarine THRUMS through the water. ,we over,ne,rits radio signal.

CAPTAIN DAMIANI, formerly of the Italian Navy, talks on the radio. The old ship is manned by a crew of irregular mercenaries, pirates .who look like they know what they're doing.

He straightens and crosses to the chart tabie. On the chart two lines of position intersect at a point 500 miles northwest of Hawaii near French Frigate Shoals. ~

January 17, 1991 52.

The radio shuts off.

Wave approaches Strannix.

Strannix's men work amidships with cutting torches. They remove a section of overhead I-Beam, sling it onto the remaining rail and run it to the stairwell.

~ .Ryback silently slips out of the hatch from a servi9e trunk. He sneaks through the shadows towal:'dallthe activity. As he does he listens to the radio traffic from the earphone of Cate's walkie-talkie. He passes by the bqdy of Spoon. ·

He watches the commandos work on the rail. Wonders what they are doing. A message comes over the radio.

Ryback reacts and slips back toward t~e service trunk.

Ryback slips into ship's hospital. He breaks into the medical cabinets.· Picks through contents. Takes bottle and hypo.

He pulls a small co-2 fire extinguisher from the wall.

Injects hypo into a bottle and sucks out the contents. He stabs needle through the extinguisher's rubber seal. •Injects the contents inside.

January 17, 1991 53.

Silently, four commandos enter room from different entrances. They try lights, but switches don't work.

' COMMANDO Private Nash?

Flashlights come on and commandos search room. Strannix enters with Krill.

ANOTHER·.COMMANDO Ziggs and Cates are both dead •

first.

Ryback appears with his gas device. He climbs up a ladder and slips into a ventilation duct.

It's still dark as Strannix leans over and examines bloody bodies. He takes special note of the knife in Ziggs' throat.

107C VENTILATION DUCT 107C

Ryback slides through toward the kitchen. He can see Strannix just below. He raises the gas device, but strannix crosses to Krill. out of range.

(j) Strannix crosses to Krill.

January 17, 1991 54.

, 07D CONTINUED: 107D

strannix stands and grabs Krill by the shirt collar.

strannix ·throws him off.

A Commando finds the breaker and switches it. The lights come

....

on.

Strannix hears something· clicking. It's the microwave timer. Went on with lights. FLASH IN TO: a coffee cup with spoon inside it.

strannix leaps for cover. BOOOM! Microwave explodes.

Dust settles. Two men dead. Rest alive but shaken.

107E VENTILATION DUCT 107E

Ryback crawls slowly and silently forward to get to Strannix.

Strannix stands up. Krill rises too.

January 17, 1991 55.

Str.annix_·quicklywalks out with a couple commandos. Krill follows.

Up high we can see Ryback's face appearing through the grill. He misseq them.

Meeting of heavy weights. Trenton and Breaker sit at table with GENERALS and ADMIRALS. Included among them: CAPTAIN JOHN TAIKO, Japanese-American s.E.A.L ...officer. Standing at large map of Pacific ocean, Breaker points-out current position of Missouri •

•

recapture of the Missouri. If we fail to do so we are to sink it. With the crew aboard if nece•sary.

Admiral Bates steps up.

He points to their positions on the map.

January 17, 1991 56.

'·

He leans over and Susan and hands him some Maalox.

It's clear that Taiko doesn't like the idea.

TAIKO " A helicopter landing is risky. My advice was a scuba team but •••

January 17, 1991 57.

CONTINUED: ( 2 ) 108

thru OMITTED thru

112 RYBACK'S QUARTERS 112

Two of Strannix's commandos slip into the room. They start to rummage through Ryba~k•s belongings •

• 113

113 OMITTED

Jordan is tied up inside. She listens in terror as the commandos tear the room apart. one o·f them starts to fiddle with the locker.

115 AREA JUST OUTSIDE RYBACK'S CABIN 115

Ryback has crawled over head to the grill just in front of the door. He is wearing a tiny oxygen mask. He puts the nozzle of the extinguisher through the grill and sprays a long blast downward.

116 RYBACK'S CABIN 116

The commandos hear the sound of the extinguisher and they abandon the locker and leap out the door with their guns ready.

January 17, 1991 58.

~ ~17 AREA JUST OUTSIDE RYBACK'S CABIN 117

The commandos come out, look around, get dizzy from the fumes and pass out.

The grill falls down and Ryback swings out onto the deck.

118 RYBACK'S CABIN 118

Ryback opens locker. Jordan's inside, covered with mascara streaked tears. Ryback pulls gag off.

You sure? I can't promise you won't be shot.

He debates for a second.·.He cuts her hands and legs free. He tosses her some thick socks. He grabs some tape and tapes the soles of her fa.et.

RYBACK

·Alright, if you• re going to come

with me you have to be invisible. Noisounds. Nothing. Breath through your ~outh. Don't move without thinking. When someone walks by, disappear into whatever•s near you. If we're standing by a hatch imagine you are part of the hatch. Don't look at them directly. Just look off to the side. I know it sounds like bullshit but it works.

January 17, 1991 59.

119 AREA JUST OUTSIDE RYBACK'S CABIN 119

Ryback picks over the commandos. Jordan steps out and watches. Ryback hands her various weapons. Jordan is impressed.

He checks the breach of an assault rifle.

120 BRIDGE 120

Strannix and Dawner are in the bridge as Krill enters with file folder. Looks pale.

For the first time, Daumer raises his voice, ha loses it.

...·STRANNIX Did you think he was working undercover for ·theGalloping Gourmet?

January 17, 1991 60.

·sTRANNIX (straightening) Panama?

strannix takes the file .fromKrill and stares at it.

DAUMER ·' I'll form a team to hunt him down.

:Strannix goes to.the computerized map of the ship •.

121 PASSAGEWAY 121

Jordan, loaded up like pack mule with assault rifles, bags of /~ grenades, pistols and ammo, follows after Ryback. He carries ( --

January 17, 1991 61.

~ \11'..121 CONTINUEp: 121

, JORDAN Only when it works in my favor.

Ryback silently opens a hatch just a crack. He peers through.

1'22 'CENTRALSTAIRWAY / ·BROADWAY 122

Strannix•s men haul pieces of I Beam up the stairwell with a pulley system.

123 PASSAGEWAY 123

Ryback slowly shuts the hatch. He looks puzzled.

January 17, 1991 62.

Ryback and Jordan enter the enormous powder room. They pass by ·giant sacks of gunpowder.

They climb up the ladders inside to the top. He motions for her to stop.

6,4A INT. ·PROJECTILE ROOM 124A v· A circular platform filled with huge, one ton shells. They climb through.

Jordan ·rests the weapons·as Ryback sneaks out.

Ryback slips out of a small hatch on the stern gun turret. Searchlights are scanning the deck.

He makes his way through the shadows to the deck and stays hidden as he watches a sentry pass by. He silently slips in behind him, walking in exact step so his footsteps can't be heard.

He gets right up behind him, cracks with a couple blows that immobilize _him and rips one arm behind his back. In a smooth single motion Ryback tosses him over the railing and off the ship.

January 17, 1991 63.

The body sails out and hits the water. It disappears instantly, sucked right under into the ship's wake.

)

Ryback finds the Zodiac boat he was searching for. He.rips it open. Inside is a full complement of S.E.A.L. .equipment. He takes a sophisticated, compact satellite radio and aims the dish up. He turns it on. He takes the portable headset. He also grabs a kit containing explosives and various detonators. He covers the canvas back up over the boat and the radio· dish.

Sentries' footsteps approach. Ryback ducks back into the shadow. He waits for them to pass. As he does, he notices the crews welding up on the missile deck.

128 MISSILE DECK 128

Strannix•s men weld the pieces of I-beam track removed from broadway above Tomahawk launchers~ Strannix stands nearby, checking on.their progress.

The sentries pass on. Ryback'darts back to the gun turret.

Ryback returns to Jordan. He silently closes the hatch behind him. He pulls on portable headset.

Admiral Bates and Breaker approach Captain Taiko.

January 17, 1991

CONTINUED: 131

Taiko on line with Ryback. Breaker and Bates listen in.

Breaker not happy with this development. Talks to Bates.

Breaker shakes his head. frantically.

•

January 17, 1991 65.

CONTINUED: 132

Breaker rips the mike away from Taiko.

Breaker hands-the mike to Bates.

• (CONTINUED)

January 17, 199·1 66.

CONTINUED: 133

133A CRISIS ACTION CENTER 133A

Bates turns. to Taiko.

TAII<O Y.es, sir.

133B GUN TURRET 133'.B

Jordan looks at Ryback.

Ryback checks his submachine gun.

RYBACI<: This time I'm not waiting.

Bates listens as Taiko reads-from a report. Breaker sits nearby.

January 17, 1991 67.

Okay,,we get the point. What's he doing on the Missouri?

, had his,,securityclearance e ,

revoked •••

,BREAKER We will. For surveillance.

TAIKO , What if Ryback'& right?• What if they take the missiles before the strike team arrives?

January 17, 1991 68.

CONTINUED: ( 2) 134

They both look to Bates for the final word.

Jordan and Ryback slip down from the gun turret. Above them, Strannix's men sweep decks with searchlights, keeping an eye out

they can see the Chinook on the flight deck. Jordan's face lights up.

Ryback nods. She smiles cheerfully.

8 Ryback shakes his head. -He checks his weapon_s.

Ryback stares at her, fascinated, it's hard to tell when she's joking. Maybe she can't even tell. Ryback hands her an assault rifle.

January 17, 1991 69.

Ryback pats her shoulder and takes off. Dodges sweeping searchLights. Dashes across wind-swept deck and slips over side.

With RUSHING WATER twenty feet below, Ryback. clings to gunnelby fingertips. Hand over hand he makes his way astern.

137 FLIGHT DECK 137

Near stern gun tubs, Ryback pulls himself onto afterdeck and crawls toward Chinook Helicopter.

138 UPPER DECKS 138

Commandos sweep stern with searchlights. One of them thinks he sees something. He moves searchlight.

139 FLIGHT DECK 139 A v Ryback huddles.behind deck hatch as BLINDING 'SEARCHLIGHT sweeps across him. When it passes, he inches toward helicopter.

140 MISSILE DECK 140

Strannix and Krill watch as first missile canister is opened. strannix runs his hand over it, delighted.

··STRANNIX Just look at them, commander. Twenty megatons each. Easy to ..lau,nch,can-fly a thousand miles under radar and kill a lot of people. A lot.of people. Iraq will bid at a hundred million each. Iran offers twice that just to keep them from Iraq. Libya, North Korea. By the time the bidding is over we.'11 net at least two billion for the four we can fit aboard. Planning on retiring to Switzerland?

January 17, 1991 70.

141 CHINOOK HELICOPTER 141

Ryback ieans up against helicopter~ He quickly fashions a Semtex bomb near the fuel tank. It's clear he's done this kind of thing before. Takes him seconds. He sets timer for fifteen. Turns and runs~back over the gunnel.

141A STERN 141A

Ryback is--hanging over the ·stern as the copterBLOWS UP in.a huge fireball. Flames spread over the flight deck. He slowly starts to go hand over hand back around.

Almost immediately, he hears gunfire. Stops. A SCREAM. Jordan. He quickly climbs back onto the stern.

142 UPPER DECK 142

welding crew doesn't know whether it's safe or not.

143 FLIGHT DECK 143

Ryback runs toward the gunfight. Spots the.flames heading for the fueling station. 'Not good. Runs and leaps past the burning copter. ANOTHER BOOM! The fuel station blows.

Ryback runs as swirling ball of flames spreads across deck. inches behind him. His submachine·guns sputters fire at commandos above, taking them out and shooting apart spotlight.

144 MISSILE DECK 144

Dau.mer and strannix watch the burning chopper. The copter is half on the flight deck and half dragging in the water behind ··it. They•pull their weapons and run aft toward gunfight.

145 AFTERDECX 145

Jordan fires wildly forward at three commandos behind hatch cover. They return fire toward her. one tosses grenade.

Lands right next to Jordan. She stares at it, frozen.

Bam! (Not Booa.) Ryback's foot kicks grenade off starboard side of ship. It sails away safely and BOOM! Ryback stands over Jordan, back to bulkhead, I-beam providing cover.

Two commandos pull pins on another pair of grenades and raise them over heads to throw. Ryback fires from submachine gun.

January 17, 1991 .71.

CONTINUED: 145

BOOM! He blows apart the grenade in one commandos• hand. It goes off and takes other one with it. Kills the two of them •

•

Ryback's submachine gun is empty. He pops out the old mag and reaches for a new one. Remaining commando sees this and leaps up for clean shot.

Like a master gunslinger, Ryback's hand drops the mag, whips out his pistol and he fires •••

He hits right in the middle of forehead.· Commando falls dead.

146 PASSAGEWAY 146

Ryback and Jordan get inside~ Ryback dogs hatch. Whips out Semtex.

Ryback quickly fashions booby trap.

She·turns and runs. Ryback follows after her, covering her back.·

AFTERDECK 147

Several more of Strannix•s men run toward hatch where Ryback escaped. Strannix comes up behind them.

January 17, 1991 72.

No! pon't follow him! Keep •••

Too late, one of them has already opened hatch. BOOM! Hatch blows overboard and takes two more men with it. Strannix stops, wearily. Wave approaches from behind.

148 CORRIDOR 148

Ryback and Jordan slip through another hatch. Ryback shuts it and sets booby-trap.

Ryback finishes the trap and moves on.

·Ryback .g.lances at his watch.

He becomes aware of a tapping sound down hall. He cautiously moves toward it and Jordan follows.

January 17, 1991 73.

They round corner and find source of sound. Behind welded hatch.

149 PASSAGEWAY 149

Tackman idly taps against the wall with a hammer. Flicker and Calaway are in the background playing cards with Granger and Johnson.

·TACKMAN Get •••me ••• the •••fuck •••out ••• of ••.

•v

Someone taps from other side.

Tackman leaps up and backs away. Explosion blows apart the hatch hinges. It falls over with crash.

Ryback is on other side, with Jordan. They step in. Tackman runs to Jordan and falls to his knees.

/

January 17, 1991 74.

149 CONTINUED: · 149

Starts kissing her hand. Ryback grabs back of his shirt and lifts him up. Hands him an assault rifle. Tackman looks at it.

Ryback hands out weapons. He looks at Calaway.

strannix and Daumer are in a foul mood. wave approaches.

(CONTINVED)

January 17, 1991 75.

CONTINUED: 150

He stares down Krill.

Krill goes to the computerized picture of the ship. He points to the boatswain's locker.

Even strannix and Daumer are a surprised by Krill's cold- bloodednes•.

Krill hits the fire control button.

January 17, 1991 76.

Looks like hold of slave ship. Crew sits on the floor sweating in the stuffy air.

Water begins shooting down from the fire sprinklers. It drenches the crew and starts to fill the deck.

Ryback leads his team through service tunnel.

Ryback nears a particular set of cables.

January 17, 1991 77.

Flicker points up and Ryback cuts the first auxiliary line.

e152 INT. CIC - NIGHT 152·

Pitt monitors systems. Phalanx readout flashes briefly.

thru OMITTED thru

Ryback and Flicker work on another power supply as team stands guard. Tackman tries to make time with Jordan. Ryback finishes, wiring last line.

January 17, 1991 78.

CONTINUED: 156

one of the ship's TV monitors suddenly kicks on. The screen is filled with a video picture of the inside of the forecastle. It is filling with water and the crew is scrambling.

A couple of Strannix's ~en are shooting with a view camera down through a hatch into the forecastle.

Water continues to flood the compartment. Everyone scrambles up the ladders for higher ground. There isn't enough room and some are falling back into the water.

Ryback and his team watch in horror.

Ryback turns to his team.

January 17, 1991 79.

~ \g159 CONTINUED: 159

Ryback and his men start off, locking and loading. Tackman watches them go.

She heads off. Tackman runs after them.

Ryback checks over his ragtag team. He hands out magazines, checks their weapons and give..everyone last minute pointers. Granger's a ·pro. Flicker wi11·be alright. Johnson's okay.

Calaway•s a question mark and Tackman is trembling in his Gj sneakers. Jordan, well, Ryback l~oks at her •••

Janu~ry 17, 1991 80.

,JORDAN I'm going. You need everyone you've got.

Ryback nods. She's right.

He crosses over to an electrical panel.

They exit down a ladder.

thru OMITTED thru

Strannix•s commandos wait in hiding for Ryback. Suddenly, all the area lights kick off, plunging it into darkness.

Before they know what hit them, Ryback's team is everywhere, ,blasting.away, tossing,grenades.

It seems that gunfire is coming from everywhere. The commandos fire. They are hit right and left. They quickly retreat in the face of what seems to be overw:helming numbers.

Tackman fires like a madman. Suddenly the red emergency lights kick on. Ryback' steam keeps charging toward the'forecastle entry way.

Strannix's men have retreated a safe distance. As Ryback's men take over the forecastle hatch area, they begin to see that he only has a few men.

January 17, 1991 81.

Ryback and Johnson try to open the hatch.

Gunfire is ·sprayed after them. Ryback and his men scatter to cover. They manage to ·holdtheir position, but the commandos keep them pinned in. Ryback glances fltFlicker.

FLICKER

e

Over there. Turn-right past the bullets.

He points right across the line of fire. There's no way to get there without getting shot.

163 BRIDGE 163.

·. ·Strannix listens tohis menona two-way radio.

strannix turns to Krill.

January 17, 1991 82.

Water is· continuing to rise,and the crew starts POUNDING for help.

RyQack and his team hear the POUNDING. Ryback and Flicker exchange looks.

·RYBACK We're going to have to chance it.

Flicker nods.

Ryback flings -agrenade out and leaps into the line of fire, blasting away. Flicker runs past to the valve. Flicker turns the valve as Ryback covers him.

The water stops spraying down, it's not risi~g anymore. The crew breathes a sigh of relief.

168 BRIDGE 168

Krill approaches Strannix.

Ryback and Flicker make it back to the others. They suddenly hear the sound of the anchor chain rolling out.

crew reacts to sound of anchor.

The ship slows.

January 17, 1991 83.

(Ii-~-.. "·'·70A EXT. USS Miss·oURIDECK - NIGHT 170A

The chain slides out.

..

The ship backs down and the anchor l.Sset.

The engine telegraph CLANGS and the needle points to: "FINISHED WITH ENGINES." 'l;'heCommandos head for the ladders.

Ryback and his team. are still pinned in by gunfire. Ryback changes magazines and fires back.

Jordan is a few feet back. She's carrying his satellite radio headset. It beeps. She puts it on.

BATES· (0. S.) Umm••• who is this?

Trenton, Taiko, and Breaker react as Bates talks.

There's a fumbling sound.

January 17, 1991 84.

Ryback pulls the headset away from Tackman.

January 17, 1991 as.

CONTINUED: ·.172B

Ryback looks at his team.

Tackman and the others fire back at the commandos as Ryback sprints down broadway~

With the crew safe behind him, Ryback goes into action like we haven't seen him before.

Three commandos are shot down in his first wave. Another finds Ryback on top of him, and Ryback kills him with a few quick A blows. Yet another ·tries to.fireat him and-Ryback takes him v out barehanded. ·

Ryback continues down broadway quickly, taking evasive action but •oving steadily forward. Jordan leaps out and chases on his heels.

The almost completed rail system is tested with a large welding tank instead of missile.

Pitt's voice comes in over the intercom.

Apache Helicopter skims along water with Chinook following.

January 17, 1991 86.

AN ELITE STRIKE TEAM prepares.

177 CENTRAL STAIRWAY/ BROADWAY 177

Ryback blasts his way into the staircase just as Strarinix'smen are hauling up the last piece of railing on the·pulley system.

Ryba,ck'fires and kills two men above who fall down the stairwell. He sprints up the ladders to the next level, encounters another Commando and kills him barehanded.

As he reaches the top he suddenly notices Jordan coming right up behind him.

Gunfire bounces against the railing. Another of Strannix's men is firing from below. They duck back.

Ryback pulls a rope and releases the hanging piece of rail.

It crashes down and cuts right into the man firing.

' . .

Two commandos burst in from the hatch next to Ryback and Jordan. Ryback.gets the jump on them and kills one, sending him falling down the stairs. The other he kills with a sharp blow and sends flying over the railing. · ,

His body falls and tangles into the pulley system, dangling in the middle of the stairwell.

Jordan looks around at the one sided slaughter.

~ They spring off.

January 17, 1991 87.

Screens flash and go blank. He hits button. Nothing happens.

Nothing.· Pitt slams the computer with his fist.

The two helicQpters are continuing onward.

The pilot -is watching his scopes.

January 17, 1991 88.

6j

Strannix's commandos continue to fire over Ryback's team's heads.

Ryback and Jordan come out onto.the deck. They hear the sound of choppers nearing • ..

The copters are within sight of the ship.

AN ELITE STRIKE TEAM prepares.

Suddenly a missile rockets from the black sea and blows up. Apache.

We see missile travel and explode.

C

January 17, 1991 89.

Reveal the sub, surfaced with TWO STINGER TEAMS on deck. First has blown up the Apache. Other fires. Stinger rockets through air.

Interior explodes.

Ryback and Jordan watch helplessly as the Chinook is blown apart.

strannix spins as oaumer approaches.

·DAUMER The rail isn't quite finished. We've got a problem below deck.

Lines are tossed between the sub and the Missouri and the two vessels are married up. Immediately a fresh ho~de of commandos start up rope ladders and begin to swarm onto the ship.

Ryback and Jordan watch as a new-army boards the ship. Jordan's face falls.·

January 17, 1991 90.

They slip back inside the turret, just as the sub's reinforcements .begin to comb the decks.

The entire room is in shock. Breaker, looking dazed, approaches

They are all devastated.

Trenton nods.

•

194 CENTRAL STAIRWAY/ BROADWAY 194

A few new commandos burst in followed ~y strannix and Dau.mer. Strannix surveys the hell Ryback hath wrought on his men. As he goes down the stairs watching one of his men dangling from a rope in the stairwell.

January 17, 1991 91.

He reaches the bottom floor and finds one of his men skewered by the piece of railing.

Daumer nods.

As Jordan watches, Ryback pulls "ingredients" from a rucksack. Like a master chef preparing his "favorite dish," Ryback has delicately organized his tools and ingredients on a large shelf. There •sa Navy s •E. A. L.wet suit on the ben.ch infrontof-him;

We see the large 16" warhead tip come first, then a small blue tool box. From the bag comes a large plastic food container, Ziplock baggies and some prophylactics. He takes out M2 · · grenades and duct tape. Jordan is dumbfounded.

Ryback opens the blue tool box and remov,esa small drill bit.· He marks a spot on the warhead and then takes a large common pot and fills it with water. He puts pot on a hot plate and tUrns it on. H~ takes the drill and slowly begins drilling on the spot he marked.

She quickly returns with one.

She pours the water over the spot as Ryback continues to drill. Finally the drill breaks through the cavern. Ryback takes the warhead over to the boiling water and uses the steam to melt the explosive compound. ·

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This take only a few seconds and he proceeds to·pour the now liquid into the plastic food container. He carefully puts the lid on.

He then places the container into a plastic Ziplock bag and takes it with a M26 Grenade and tapes it around the device. He then takes this whole unit and places it inside the prophylactic, tying it shut.

-JORDAN Seems like a waste of a perfectly good prophy.lactic. What are you going to do with it now?

Ryback finishes a bomb. It has a digital timer and a magnetic plate.

Ryback reaches for his wet suit and starts putting it on.

Daumer superv.ises as the last piece of railing is welded to the system.

Damiani is yelling to Strannix and Krill.

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Tackman and the rest of Ryback's team are in hiding. We hear POUNDING behind them from the crew trapped in the forecastle.

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Tackman tentatively waves his cap out of cover. Bull,ets fly past from the other end of Broadway.

In the shadows behind the burning aft deck, Ryback finishes securing a line and heaves it over the rail. Jordan watches.

He heads forward.

Contrails of Navy bombers streak through the night sky.

Ryback has his bomb on a strap over shoulder. In the background

drops into the huge anchor port and .climbs down it silently into water.

Water is choppy and cold. Minute Ryback hits it, he's thrown by a wave right into hull of ship. He fights rough waves and swims round the huge ships bow. This is going to be a bitch.

Water is really rough. Ryback· hasmade it aroun.d bow and sees sub, but it's a battle to get anywhere. Lookouts stand on sub, as the hatches are opened and the rail system is tested. No one notices the figure in the dark freezing water, fighting to get near them •.

January 17, 1991 94.

Ryback is along side now. Waves smash him into the hull. ·He has to make it to the bow of sub. A wave hits him. He bangs into sub and his bomb clatters against the metal.

one of the Guards hears it and spots Ryback in the water. He OPENS FIRE. Ryback dives underwater.

Ryback dives, blood trailing around him. He•s·been hit! He rips off bomb and throws magnetic plate up against hull. Hits the timer. It counts down. He swims off.

Five or six guards are on the deck, f~ring where Ryback was.

Ryback pops up further back then they would have imagined. He gasps for air and dives under again. The guards fire after him.

Daumer rushes up and sees the guards firing at Ryback.

Ryback is cornered. He'll never make it back around bow. His only chance is to dive under hull of submarine.

Daumer watches sea. Guards search for Ryback but spot nothing. ··Where could he.have•••Daumer•s face lights up with wonder, Ryback couldn't be swimming.under the ship ••• he'd never make it.•• but then •••

Daumer rushes off to the other side. As guards with flashlights check the hull.·~. BOOM! The bomb impacts on the side of sub.

Flames flash light behind him as Ryback swims past gigantic propellers. He struggles onward, hi~ lungs about to burst.

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Ryback emerges on other side gasping for air. He swims aft and finds line. Grabs hold of it desperately. As he pulls himself up we see blood running from shoulder wound. His skin is white ··v from cold. We wonder if he's going to make it up the rope.

The work crews are shaken by the blast. Strannix, Krill, and Damiani go down to inspect ·thedamage.

Ryback drags himself over railing. Collapses onto deck. He removes his wet suit hood. Gun barrel is thrust in his nose. Ryback looks up, wearily. Daumer looms over him.

· Back of Daumer's head is poked with barrel of an assault rifle. Jordan is on the other end.

Daumer tosses it off.

Daumer tosses, it away.

That's all it takes for Daum.er. He spins and grabs the rifle from her. He grabs her head and tosses her off like a doll.

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He spins around to fire at helpless Ryback ••.

But instead a fist explodes in his face. Knocks him silly. Ryback doesn't seem so helpless anymore. Ryback punches him in stomach. And again in face.

Daumer drops the rifle. Staggers back. He focuses on Ryback.

Ryback hits him in the face, hard. Another hard ~ab. Dawner staggers, falls on his ass. Ryback stands over him, ready to finish him.

But oawner just happens to fall on his pistol. Dawner grabs it out from under him and •••

Silenced autofire. Oaumer is taken out by a quick burst from a machine gun. Jordan had retrieved her weapon. Her face is as shocked as Daumer•s was.

Ryback stands, frozen, fists up. He's a little dazed. Takes him a second to.realize fights over. His eyes glaze.

Every last ounce of his.strength was expended on fight.· He collapses. He stares ahead. Doesn't look too good.

Jordan runs to him. Ryback lifts himself up and throws an arm around her shoulder•. She helps him off.

- JORDAN You did your best. Are you okay?

strannix stands by as the others check out the damage.

Krill and Damiani approach Strannix.

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strannix supervises as the first of the missiles run down the finished railing system to the sub. Krill also watches with satisfaction.

The Missile is taken aboard through torpedo loading hatch.

Strannix -watches as a new missile is cranked up. The missiles move out quickly. He looks over at Krill.

Jordan and Ryback are hidden in a storage room. Ryback lays in a blanket, shaking horribly. He's clearly slipping fast. His face has gone from white to blue. Jordan pulls out his knife and starts cutting-off the wet suit.

Jordan slides under the blanket and pulls off her clothes. She envelopes him with her bare body.

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RYBACK ; I always .••wondered •••where little Eskimos ·came from.

The last missile is aboard the sub and the torpedo loading hatches are closed. Most of Strannix's remaining men climb down a ladder to the sub. Krill joins them.. '

Krill and Damiani come down the ladder. Krill looks oddly out of place in his shiny uniform amongst this rough and ragtag international sub .crew.

The unsavory crew of pirates stare at Krill as if he fell out of a tree. A nasty looking fellow with a large scar, looks over at Damiani. He half pulls out a long knife.•

Damiani motions for him to put away the knife. He motions' for

Strannix hurries in and stands over Pitt who is sitting in front of a console.

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strannix pulls CZ-75 pistol, cocks it and aims it in Pitt's face.

PI'rl' That·<nll work. That~ definitely work.

Strannix -lowers his gun.

Tackman and the other are still waiting. All is quiet except for the men in the forecastle behind them.

January 17, 1991 100.

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_ GRANGER You and Johnson stay here. I'll take Tak and find something to blow the hatch. Game?

They all shout war cries and charge astern. They fire wildly

No one's there.

,TACI<MAN Hey! we scared them off.

They run back to the hatch, join the others and call in.

·GRANGER Hold tight. We'll be back.

Jordan clings to Ryback. His eyes are closed but his face is showing signs of human color. Jordan gently touches it. Ryback's eyes flutter open. She kisses him excitedly.

She showers him with kisses. When a particular one hits the lips Ryback returns it.

Ryback pulls out of kiss. His face is full of color. He sits up in the blanket.

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Ryback toys with the idea.

Ryback stands and starts to stretch, he seems to be gaining back his strength. He reaches for a flight deck jump suit.

Ryback and Jordan wander across the deck. No sign of the sub, or strannix •s men. But they do come ·across •• ·•

Tackman and the gang run up.

Ta.ckman points on the horizon.

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Ryback notices long shadow across deck. Spins. Looming behind them are the 16 •inchguns.

CALAWAY

.. That's for all three guns. Hell,

back in WW-II we did emergency drills with only ten on a barrel.

Ryback heads for the turrets. The others follow.

CALAWAY :I Hell, I haven't blown up yet.

\ I'll show you. I know how to do

it.

January 17, 1991 103.

The sub $teams away. Krill supervises as a crew works to fix the bow plane.

come alive.

Strannix exits.

--2·3 INT. POWDER ROOM 223 v~

Ryback and his men scramble in. Equipment is activated. Calaway moves from station to·station, explaining the operation. Ryback and Granger nod.

Ryback's team of misfits begin doing the work of twenty. They get the powder up the elevator and head to the next level.

A shell is slid across the floor to its elevator. The elevator is activated and the crew heads up the hatch.

January 17, 1991 104.

The projectile is inserted, and Ryback and all catch and arrange powder as it arrives. (Afterthree bags of powder a giant ram packs them into place. ·.They repeat procedure until six requisite bags are in place.

Granger lowers the cradle. Calaway puts primer in the breech. The cradle is removed. Ryback closes the breech with another , air pedal. He hits the "ready and safe" switch and the guns go back to bristance.

The turret comes alive. Its giant barrel raises and ~gins to track·the sub.

Strannix approaches the captain's launch. He spots the turret moving.

He raises his submachine.gun and runs toward it.

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-227 INT. GUN DIRECTOR'S STATION - NIGHT 227

Calaway and Granger are manning the two optic stations, Ryback stands by.

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Ryback jumps into chair. Granger grabs Tackman by the collar and hurries off.

He turns the gun handles and looks through optics. Ryback locks 'in the exact coordinates, his face tenses.

227A FIVE INCH GUN 227A

The five inch gun swings around. It fires. Strannix is startled; he looks a bit confused.

The sub continues on course. The work crew is struggling. A star burst shell explodes in the sky in front of them. Damiani stands ·behind Krill.

-228A EXT. NUMBER 3 TURRET - NIGHT 228A

Strannix reaches the turret and'tries to open the-hatch. It's locked. Another star shell explodes, from the five inch gun, on the horizon. He realizes the big g\,lnis about to fire. Strannix better 9et the hell away. He runs.

January 17, 1991 106.

Blackness. And then as another star burst shell reveals the silhouette of the escaping submarine. The cross hairs move until the ship is center~d.

SALVO WARNING ALARM goes off three times. At sound of third alarm,.team braces themselves against equipment around them.

Ryback hits the switch and Gun Room shakes with a MUFFLED ROAR.

•\-:::, A SHEET OF FLAME thunders from the port gun barrel.

strannix has made it away, but not ·farenough. The concussion blows him across the deck.

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It misses! The shell explodes in the water at a safe distance from the submarine. Krill's face falls •••

Krill rips off his jacket. He runs over to the bow plane and helps the work crew.

January 17, 1991 107.

Strannix lies on the deck. His ears are bleeding from the blast. He starts crawling back toward.C.I.C.

The sub team is frantically trying to finish. Krill has taken over. The bow plane moves.

DAMIANI

a \_J (from below)

It's working. It's working.

Ryback and his crew do it again. Granger and Tackman run in to help. once they help load the elevators they take off again.

Calaway and Ryback.finish the process.

January 17, 1991 108.

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Krill takes over the com.

A star burst shell explodes in the sky. The sub begins to take on water.

240A P.o.v. THROUGH 16",GUN SIGHT 240A

The sub is diving.

SALVO WARNING ALARM goes off three times again. The team braces themselves.

He hits the trigger again. Gun Room shakes.

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Submarine disappears under water with only conning tower visible. ·

A SHEET OF FLAME thunders again from the gun barrel. There is a moment·of silence •••

Krill hears the incoming. Grits his teeth.

FLASH OF LIGHT as Submarine is hit. Secondary EXPLOSIONS rip through U-Boat lighting water up.

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Everybody is CHEERING. Ryback falls back into the chair.·

Strannix is further from the gun turret. He sees sub sinking. His face falls.

Stunned, he manages to crawl to his feet and stagger back for C.I.C.

Ryback and team come out to watch. Oil burns on surface of sea, marking sub's grave. Ryback leans heavily on Jordan.

Ryback lowers himself to the deck and sits.

Strannix bursts in. His ears are still bleeding.

strannix looks at Pitt.

Strannix slams his hand down on it.

January 17, 1991 110.

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BLOOOM1 A missil.e explodes from deck above and a flaming trail of hellfire propels it into sky. Ryback and bis team watch, stunned.

BLOOOM! Another missile blasts into sky.

The missiles roar out and disappear across the sky.

TACKMAN· (quietly, to himself) Someone radio Hawaii and tell them to kiss anq make love.

Ryback grabs Tackman•s digital watch and sets the timer.

Strannix sits by console, lost in thought.

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Pitt and the others stare at him. strannix's eyes look a little funny. But then, maybe they always did.

Pitt and others hastily exit. Strannix watches computer screen. Missiles are getting closer to their destinations. He chuckles.

The room ·explodes with the news.

Two staggered missiles roar across the sea at over Mach 3 toward Hawaii.

Fighters take off ,inhopes of intercepting the missiles.

Ryback's team head for C.I.C.

They encounter Strannix's men coming out from it. A gunfight ensues. Everyone takes cover. Ryback is ~inned in with his men. Glances at his watch. Twenty five minutes. No time.

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Flicker and Ryback head for hatch. Slip into superstructure. Tackman, now a hero, rises, flevels his weapon, and drops Pitt.

Ryback and Flicker dart down hall.

Ryback and Flicker cautiously approach the blacked out hallway to C.I.Cr A wall of steel seals it off.

Flicker nods. As Ryback stands guard,·Flicker removes a plate on the door and shunts terminals. Door flies up so fast it almost takes off his fingers. Ryback stands ready with submachine gun for fire from the other side. It's empty.

They move to the next door and do the same thing. It flies open. The other side door to C.I.C is wide open.

But he doesn't have a hel:lof a lot of time.

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Ryback runs and leaps into room.

Ryback rolls into room and lands on hi• feet, gun up, ready. Room is empty. His eyes adjust to bright light. Nothing. Ryback slowly rises. No time for a complete' search.

January 17, 1991 113.

Flicker comes in. He and Ryback run to controls. They're all smashed apart.

Suddenly door from fire exit flies open (Strannix had it just the tiniest bit ajar) and Strannix sprays them with fire.

Ryback is.hit. Flicker hit several times. They both fall to the ground.

strannix strides over. Ryback reaches for his assault rifle. Strannix kicks it away. Ryback grabs for his pistol, Strannix kick$ him in the face and knocks the pistol loose.

'1RY·BACK All go?

Strannix kicks Ryback again.in·the face.

Fighter fires stream of tracer bullets after Tomahawk. BOOM!

Strannix grabs Ryback up from the back of shirt.

As soon as Ryback is up Strannix punches him in the stomach where he was wounded. Ryback buckles in pain. But he manages to get. strength to spin and sweep Strannix to.floor with one leg.

January 17, 1991 114.

strannix falls. Laughs~ Jumps up. Ryback tries to punch him. Strannix catches it.

He kicks him again. Ryback:flies. Rolls, whips out his knife.

Strannix pulls a knife and the two face off. Ryback is sinking fast from multiple wounds, but he still guards himself.

'RYBACK Why? You've already lost the missiles.

He stabs at Ryback. Ryback dodges, stabs. Strannix evades him.

strannix stabs back. Ryback dodges. Strannix back hands him with the other hand. Ryback staggers.

He stabs at Ryback, but Ryback gets inside and stabs strannix's gut. Strannix screams as Ryback rips the blade out.

·strannix desperately stabs at Ryback's throat.

Ryback lowers his head, simultaneously grabbing the knife hand with his free hand. As the knife is almost slowed to a stop, Ryback bites down on the blade, freezing it in place.

(~~ With both hands free, Ryback uses one band to pull Strannix's ~ head forward and with the other hand he raises his knife and slams the knife straight down through the top of the.skull and into his brain.

,January 17, 1991 115.

strannix falls into a dead heap. Ryback staggers back.

He runs over to the consoles. The controls are completely ripped up. But the missiles can still be seen on the screen.

Bates goes to Trenton.

Ryback rubs his bloody hands on his shirt and hits a button. He pops out the c-map disk with the individual missile codes. Tackman runs in with the rest of the team.

TACI<MAN Ryback. We got them all.

Ryback is shaking from the lack of blood.

Tackman grabs him. They stagger for the door. Jordan helps.

Ryback and Tackman and Jordan hurry 1;othe bridge.

He puts on the headset.

January 17~ 1991 116.

Ryback pops in the disk. He looks at his watch. Four minutes. The screen comes to life. It shows the remaining missile a couple minutes from Hawaii.

The remaining cruise missile rockets across the waters.

Navy bombers streak through the night sky.

• 267 INT. CRISIS ACTION CENTER - NIGHT 267 \:7J Breaker and Taiko are on the line with Ryback.

Ryback punches in the code.

January 17, 1991 117.

The Tomahawk cruises over the ocean. We can see the lights of Hawaii in the distance.

Ryback punches in the code.

Ryback hits send button. Looks at his watch. Zero. It beeps.

Suddenly the Tomahawk's engines kick off. A parachute deploys.

satellite radio indicates that chute was deployed. He hears a sound. Jets approaching. Leaps up.

For the first time in ho1.1rsthereis a sense of relief.

In ..·:tbebackground orders terminating the bombing of theUSS MO are barked.

Ryback limps along in Jordan's arms. We HEAR Jets pass high above.

The hatch blows off. The stunned crew-emerges from the spilling water. They are greeted by Granger, Tackman, Johnson.

January 17, 1991 118.

73A ·OMITTED 273A

Jordan and Calaway watch as the ship's medic finishes bandaging Ryback. The stunned crew and officers stagg~r out on deck. They surround Ryback, shaking his hands, cheering, some near tears, thanking him.

TACKMAN, Submarine sandwiches.

Ryback smiles faintly as Jordan and the crew walk him into the ship.

~ The USS Missouri returns.

276 INT~ BRIDGE 276

Commander Harris is temporarily in command. Lt., smart approaches.

Granger enters the bridge.

Granger is looking for Ryback. The SHIP'S DOCTOR is tending F'licker.

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A dozen crew bodies are lined up in simple steel caskets draped with flags. Granger passes by them.

A Marine stands guard at the door. Waiting with him is Tackman, Calaway, Ramirez, and Johnson. Granger nods to them as he walks past and ·enters ·the cabin.

Granger steps inside. Ryback-is here. Sitting by the casket of Jack Adams.

Granger steps closer. Ryback doesn't acknowledge him.

Ryback looks at him.

·TheUSS Missouri is anchored. The decks of other ships are lined with saluting sailors as they pass.

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We see The Missouri in her final glory; proud 16-inch guns now quiet forever. The crew man the rails, dressed in Naval blues. We come in close on a very impressive array of high ranking naval officials. The Navy and Marine Corps color guard stand at attention.

VICE ADMIRAL BARRETT, Commander of Surface Forces Pacific Fleet, stands next to Rear Admiral Bates and Captain Taiko.

Slowly·and ceremoniously the commanding officer is brought on deck for the last time. We see the flag-draped coffin come into frame. There are eight Navy enlisted pall bearers in ceremonial

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The crew all watch. Tackman, Granger, Johnson, Ramirez. Jordan watches from the side, wearing a turtle-neck and Naval blues. Flicker is fixed up and recuperating in a wheel chair.

As the casket is laid down we notice that the lead pall bearer has his arm in a sling. As he turns we see that it is Ryback. For the first time, we see him in full dress blues with an impressive set of medals of valor, and pinned above is the Navy cross.

Admiral Bates steps over to salute him and shake his hand. Ryback shakes his hand.

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