12 Monkeys Page #7

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JEFFREY:

LAST CHANCE! LAST CHANCE! HEY -- OW!

ANGLE ON COLE, moving to the door. He reaches it and tries to

insert the key in the lock.

ANGLE ON LOCK, as the key keeps missing the hole.

ANGLE ON COLE, glancing nervously over his shoulder.

COLE'S POV:
ORDERLIES swarm over JEFFREY, don't notice COLE.

ANGLE ON COLE, managing to insert the key. It won't turn.

A PATIENT, close at hand, startles COLE, speaking into his ear.

PATIENT:

Place to go would be...Florida. The

keys are lovely this tine of year.

COLE, unnerved, desperate tries the key again. It turns.

PATIENT:

Be careful. J. Edgar Hoover isn't really dead.

COLE pauses, stares, not understanding. Then, he opens the door.

INT. CORRIDOR/COUNTY HOSPITAL

Stepping through the door, COLE finds himself in an ante-room

facing several elevators.

A uniformed SECURITY MAN sitting at a near-by desk doesn't even

lock up from the magazine he's reading.

Barely daring to breathe, COLE steps toward the elevators so his

back is to the SECURITY MAN. But he doesn't know how to control

this elevator. What should he do?

SECURITY MAN'S VOICE (o.s.)

Two's not working today. Use one.

COLE freezes, sneaks a glance over his shoulder.

COLE'S POV:
the SECURITY MAN continues his reading. He's a big

guy with reading glasses perched on his nose. He looks exactly

like the MENACING GUARD IN THE FUTURE...SCARFACE!

ANGLE ON COLE, stunned!

Just then, an elevator door slides open. The elevator's empty.

COLE steps into it.

INT. ELEVATOR/COUNTY HOSPITAL

The door closes, isolating COLE in the elevator.

COLE finds the down button, is about to push it when the elevator

springs to life. The numbers on the indicator over the door

start to rise. 7...8...9.

Then, the elevator stops and the door opens.

Two DOCTORS and an AIDE stand in front of the door, waiting.

COLE hesitates.

They look at him. They seem to expect him to exit.

Avoiding eye contact, COLE exits the elevator.

As they enter the elevator, the DOCTORS look back at COLE and frown.

INT. RAILLY'S OFFICE - MORNING

RAILLY has just arrived for work. She's slipping on her white

doctor's coat when...

DR. CASEY, one of the other residents, sticks his head in the

door waving a crayoned message on a page torn from a magazine.

DR. CASEY

This was in my box, but I have a slight

suspicion it wasn't meant for me.

CASEY enters the room, reading the scrawled words dramatically.

DR. CASEY

"You are the most beautiful woman I have

ever seen. You live in a beautiful

world. But you don't know it. You have

freedom, sunshine, air you can breathe."

RAILLY:

(smiling)

Cole. James Cole -- right?

She reaches for the note but CASEY moves it out of her grasp.

DR. CASEY

"I would do anything to stay here, but

I must leave. Please, help me."

RAILLY:

Poor man...

CASEY is handing her the note when another resident, DR. GOODINS,

sticks his head in the door. He's upset.

DR. GOODINS

Hey, Kathryn, James Cole is one of

yours, right?

RAILLY and CASEY stare at him.

DR. GOODINS

He got out. Took off. Last seen, he

was up on nine.

INT. X-RAY DEPARTMENT/BASEMENT - DAY

A PATIENT is being swallowed by a large tube, a CAT SCANNER,

while a DOCTOR in a white coat speaks reassuringly.

DOCTOR:

Just relax -- don't fight it. We have

to know exactly what's there so we can...

The DOCTOR stops, astonished, as the door bursts open.

It's COLE! He stares at the PATIENT and the Cat Scanner.

The PATIENT lifts his head up and stares at COLE.

DOCTOR:

Eh, excuse me. Can I help you?

COLE turns and rushes back out the door.

INT. CORRIDOR/COUNTY HOSPITAL

COLE steps into the corridor, turns to his right, freezes.

A POSSE of SECURITY GUARDS is headed in his direction.

COLE turns to his left.

Four ORDERLIES are coming that way.

COLE'S trapped. A beat. He attacks the nearest man. BILLINGS.

INT. TECH ROOM/PSYCH WARD - SHORTLY (DAY)

RAILLY prepares a hypo, turns to COLE who is strapped tightly on

a gurney with BILLINGS and an RN standing on either side, tense

for more trouble. One of BILLINGS' eyes is starting to swell shut.

RAILLY:

It's just a shot to calm you.

COLE:

No more drugs. Please...

RAILLY:

I have to do this, James. You're very

confused.

RAILLY pushes the needle into COLE'S skin.

INT. CONFERENCE ROOM/PSYCH WARD - LATER (DAY)

DR. FLETCHER faces RAILLY across the conference table. DR.

CASEY, DR. GOODINS, DR. MARILOU MARTIN are also there.

DR. FLETCHER

Don't be defensive, Kathryn, this isn't

an inquisition.

RAILLY:

I didn't think I was being defensive.

I was just...

DR. FLETCHER

He should have been in restraints. It

was bad judgment on your part, plain

and simple. why not just cop to it?

RAILLY:

Okay, it was bad judgment. But I have

the strangest feeling about him -- I've

seen him somewhere and...

DR. FLETCHER

(impatient, not interested)

Two policemen were already in the

hospital and now we have an orderly

with a broken arm and a Security

Officer with a fractured skull.

RAILLY:

I said it was bad judgment! What else

do you want me to say?

DR. FLETCHER

You see what I mean? You're being defensive.

(to Dr. Casey)

Isn't she being defensive, Bob?

But just then, BILLINGS sticks his head in the door.

BILLINGS:

Uh, Dr. Fletcher -- we got another...

situation.

INT. CORRIDOR/PSYCH WARD - MOMENTS LATER (DAY)

DR. FLETCHER looks into an empty padded cell as RAILLY, MARTIN,

GOODIN, BILLINGS, PALMER and the NURSE crowd behind him.

DR. FLETCHER

He was in full restraints? And the

door was locked?

BILLINGS:

Yes, sir. Did it myself.

DR. FLETCHER

And he was fully sedated?

RAILLY:

He was fully sedated!

DR. FLETCHER

Then are you trying to tell me that a

fully sedated, fully restrained patient

somehow slipped out that vent, replaced

the grill behind him and that he's wriggling

through the ventilation system right now?

DR. FLETCHER indicates an impossibly tiny vent high in the wall.

INT. CONCOURSE/AIRPORT - DAY (THE DREAM)

Seen through the glass windows, a 747 takes off, climbing into

the sky as the airport P.A. System drones...

P.A. SYSTEM

Flight 784 to San Francisco now

boarding at Gate 38...

YOUNG COLE, watching the 747, whirls at the SOUND of a COMMOTION.

MR. PONYTAIL bumps him.

The BLONDE MAN sprints past. The WOMAN'S VOICE calls out!

WOMAN'S VOICE

NOOOOOOOOOO!

TRAVELERS dive for cover briefly revealing the mysterious BRUNETTE

running after the BLONDE MAN! But this time, YOUNG COLE catches

just a glimpse of her face. She looks a little like RAILLY except

for the dark hair, the make-up. and the flashy earrings. She

calls out, her VOICE blending weirdly with the P.A. SYSTEM...

BRUNETTE/P. A. SYSTEM

The Freedom For Animals Headquarters

now boarding on Second Avenue. The

Army of the Twelve Monkeys...

ENGINEER'S VOICE (o.s.)

Cole, you moron -- wake up!

INT. ENGINEERING OFFICE - ETERNAL NIGHT OF THE FUTURE

As COLE blinks awake, the digitized monotone of the P.A. SYSTEM

continues to drone in an unearthly VOICE...

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