Airplane! Page #2

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GROUND CREWMAN #2

Hey, Joe, where's the forklift?

GROUND CREWMAN #1

The forklift? It's over there by the

baggage loader.

He points to the left with his flashlights. Flight 733

follows flashlights and CRASHES into terminal.

INT. TERMINAL - GATE 35 - NIGHT

Nose of Flight 733 CRASHES into terminal, scattering waiting

crowd. A woman tosses away her infant child as she runs off.

INT. TERMINAL BULIDING - ANOTHER AREA - NIGHT

Striker catches up to Elaine.

STRIKER:

Elaine!

ELAINE:

(surprised)

Ted!

STRIKER:

I came home early and found your note. I

guess you meant for me to read it later.

Elaine, I've got to talk to you.

ELAINE:

I just don't want to go over it any more.

STRIKER:

I know things haven't been right for a

long time, but it'll be different. If

you'll just be patient, I can work things

out.

ELAINE:

I have been patient and I've tried to

help, but you wouldn't even let me do

that.

STRIKER:

Don't you feel anything for me at all any

more?

ELAINE:

It takes so many things to make love last.

Most of all it takes respect. And I can't

live with a man I don't respect!

She leaves.

STRIKER:

(to CAMERA)

What a pisser.

INT. TERMINAL BUILDING - CONCESSION AREA - NIGHT

CAPTAIN CLARENCE OVEUR is standing at the magazine racks.

The first two sections of the display are books; the third

is girly magazines. The captions over the dis­play are

FICTION, NON-FICTION, WHACKING MATERIAL. He selects a

magazine entitled "Modern Sperm" and begins to page through.

P.A. SYSTEM (v.o.)

Captain Clarence Oveur, white courtesy

phone. Captain Clarence Oveur, white

courtesy phone.

Captain Oveur approaches telephones and picks up a red

phone.

OPERATOR (v.o.)

No, the white phone.

Oveur picks up the white phone.

OVEUR:

This is Captain Oveur.

OPERATOR (v.o.)

One moment for your call from the Mayo

Clinic.

P.A. SYSTEM (v.o.)

Captain Oveur, white courtesy phone.

Captain Clarence Oveur...

OVEUR:

(yelling at ceiling)

I've got it!

P.A. SYSTEM (v.o.)

All right. Thank you.

OPERATOR (v.o.)

Go ahead with your call.

TURNANSKY (v.o.)

This is Doctor Turnansky at the Mayo

Clinic.

INT. DR. TURNANSKY'S OFFICE - NIGHT

DR. TURNANSKY is seated at desk. Behind him are shelves

filled with mayonnaise jars.

TURNANSKY:

There's a passenger on your Chicago flight

two-oh-niner, a little girl named Lisa

Davis -- en route to Minneapolis. She's

scheduled for a heart transplant and we'd

like you to tell her mother that we found

a donor an hour ago.

On his desk is a beaker containing a beating heart.

TURNANSKY:

We have the heart here ready for surgery

and we must have the recipient on the

operating table within six hours.

The heart jumps out of the beaker, across the desk and falls

off the edge.

TURNANSKY:

I want you to make sure she is kept in a

reclined position and that a continuous

watch is kept on her I.V.

INT. TERMINAL BUILDING - PHONE AREA - NIGHT

TURNANSKY (v.o.)

Also, it's important that...

OPERATOR (v.o.)

Excuse me. This is the Operator, Captain

Oveur, I have an emergency call for you on

line five trom a Mister Hamm.

OVEUR:

All right. Give me Hamm on five, hold the

Mayo.

EXT. RUNWAY - NIGHT

Ambulance arrives at airplane. Attendants and MRS. DAVIS

unload LISA DAVIS into wheelchair.

INT. TERMINAL BUILDING - NIGHT

Elaine and Striker are walking together.

STRIKER:

Look, you'll be back in town tomorrow

night. We'll have dinner -- talk it over.

ELAINE:

I won't be back. I've requested the

Atlanta run.

STRIKER:

Elaine, not yet. I promise you I really

can change.

ELAINE:

Then why don't you take the job that Louie

Netz offered you at Boeing?

In the b.g. an airline PORTER is transporting an ELDERLY

COUPLE in an electric cart. They round the corner too fast

and the woman falls out. Husband doesn't notice.

STRIKER:

You know I haven't been able to get near

an airplane since the war. And even if I

could, they wouldn't hire me because of my

war record.

ELAINE:

Your war record? You're the only one

keeping that alive. For everyone else it's

ancient history.

STRIKER:

You expect me to believe that?

In the b.g. the Elderly Woman staggers to her feet and is

immediately run over by another electric cart.

ELAINE:

It's the truth. What's hurt you the most

is your record since the war. Different

cities, different jobs, and not one of

them shows you can accept any real

responsibility.

STRIKER:

But if you'll just give me...

ELAINE:

It's too late, Ted. When I get back to

Chicago, I'm going to start my life all

over again. I'm sorry.

She walks off. Dramatic MUSIC as Striker glares with

determination. The religious Zealot tries to pin a flower on

his lapel.

ZEALOT #3

Hello, we'd like you to have this...

Without looking, Striker decks the Zealot with one punch. He

walks after Elaine.

INT. COCKPIT - FLIGHT 209 - NIGHT

Clarence Oveur is in the pilot's seat. VICTOR BASTA is

seated at engineer's console. There is a St. Christopher's

statue on the dashboard.

BASTA:

Any word on that storm lifting over Salt

Lake, Clarence?

TEXACO SERVICE MAN is cleaning windshield.

OVEUR:

Unlikely, Victor. I just reviewed the Area

Report for 1609 hours through 2400 hours.

That's an occluded front stalled over the

Dakotas -- backed up all the way to Utah.

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