Air Force One Page #21

Lights flicker and the plane rocks side to side.

HOSTAGES are bounced around the conference room.

INT. GANGWAY -

Marshall and Bazylev are slammed against the ceiling and

then the floor.

Marshall seizes the moment. Grabs Bazylev's gun. The two

struggle and Bazylez instinctively pulls the trigger. A burst

of richocheting gunfire sparks across the bulkhead.

The turbulence worsens. Bazylev manages to wrest away the

rifle, but the plane pulls into a climb, sending Bazylev

tumbling down the gangway into the rear baggage hold.

Marshall manages to pull himself up the grating and into the

galley. He's free, for the moment.

INT. AFO, COCKPIT.

Gibbs steadies the plane as the shock wave from the explosion

* subsides.

GIBBS:

We're okay.

Korshunov examines the Tactical Countermeasures Computer.

KORSHUNOV:

Remarkable aircraft. Remarkable.

GIBBS:

why did they do that?

KORSHUNOV:

Psychology. They're trying to unnerve

us.

GIBBS:

Well it worked.

Korshunov smiles and puts his hand on Gibbs shoulder.

KORSHUNOV:

Relax, my friend. Apparently they

cannot harm us. Even if they wanted

to. rNT. FRONT GALLEY.

67.

Marshall Struggles to assemble the hypodermic and the

container of adrenalin.

INT. REAR BAGGAGE HOLD.

Bazylev pulls to his feet, heads back down the gangway.

INT. FRONT GALLEY.

Marshall greets Bazylev with a spray of hot coffee from the

Simmering pot as he enters. Bazylev covers up, but the spray

sears him pretty bad. He yells in pain, turning.

Marshall springs, imbedding the hypodermic needle into

Bazylev's neck. A full dose of adrenalin. Bazylev pulls the

empty needle from his neck. Marshall steps back, waiting for

a reaction.

A pregnant pause as they both wait to see what happens.

Then Bazylev smiles and slowly turns toward Marshall.

Marshall backs away as Bazylev levels his gun.

He fires once, hitting Marshall in the arm. Marshall winces

off the pain.

BAZYLEV:

(disgust)

The leader of the free world.

He backs Marshall against a wall and holds him in his sights.

But he doesn't shoot. His breathing becomes faster and faster

as the adrenalin takes hold. Building... building... He

screams and clutches at his throat.

His eyes spin back and then his heart explodes.

Bazylev is caught frozen, suspended in a moment of disbelief.

Death reflex. He fires off several rounds from the gun as he

collapses.

Marshall waits a beat, half-expecting Bazylev to rise. He

slowly approaches the body and retrieves the KP5.

EXT. SKY - NIGHT

The F-lSs pull back into formation around the Jumbo Jet.

INT. REAR BAGGAGE HOLD -

Marshall retrieves the phone, then wedges himself behind a

waste storage tank, out of view.

INT. PILOT'S REST AREA -

Rose and Alice On the bunk. Alice's eyes are Watering.

Korshunov examines tOPographic maps in the adjacent M1C.c.

and speaks into a phone in Russian.

ALICE:

Mom?

ROSE:

Yes dear?

ALICE:

I'm sorry I was so mean to you

earlier.

Rose smiles sadly.

ROSE:

I know, sweetie. I know.

(beat)

You're being very brave.

Alice nods. She's trying.

INT. MAIN CABIN.

Serge finishes his sweep of the upper level.

SERGE:

(to Zedeck)

He's not up here. I'm going down

below.

INTERCUT:

INT. REAR BAGGAGE HOLD/INT. WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM

Marshall rips his sleeve off, swabs the blood off his arm.

Bazylev's bullet took out a good chunk of flesh when it grazed

him.

MARSHALL:

Did they say anything about my family?

V.P. CHANDLER

They're still alive, but the loyalists

plan to start killing hostages in

forty minutes.

MARSHALL:

Then tell me there's a rescue

operation underway.

Marshall opens a travel bottle of Vodka and pours it over

the wound. He winces from the pain.

V.p CHANDLER 69.

I think we're okay, sir. flow that we know You're alive we

can force Petrov to release Stravanavitch.

MARSpari Don't tell me you plan to give in to these f***ers.

GENERAL NORmwOOD We plan to do whatever it takes to keep you

alive, sir.

V.P. CHANDLER

and if that means negotiating...

MARSHALL:

You know my policy. We don't negotiate

with terrorists. If we start now,

all of America becomes a target.

V.P. CHANDLER

But this is different, sir. You're

the President.

* MARSHALL

And what happens when Stravanavitch is freed and discovers

he's got the President? You think for a second that that

crazy bastard is just gonna turn me over? He'll ask for the

goddamn moon before he's done.

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