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Assassins Page #7
- R
- Year:
- 1995
- 132 min
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The bus continues, Rath slams on the brakes. Bain bangs
into the glass as the cab shudders to a stop.
Rath is getting out of the cab, .22 at the ready. Bain's
got about three seconds to live and knows it.
Several blocks away a POLICE CAR -- LIGHTS FLASHING --
races towards them.
SIRENS WAIL. Gritting his teeth, Rath gets back behind
the wheel. A huge grin from Bain as he looks back at the
police car that's bearing down on them. Rath throws it
in gear, flips a U-turn and races off.
INT. CAB - ACCELERATING - NIGHT
BAIN:
You and me. We're teammates!
Companeros!
Rath speeds up. Faster and faster. Bain suddenly
doesn't feel so safe, beat. As Bain buckles his
seatbelt...
Where one of the OFFICERS is on the radio.
OFFICER:
number 5-0-1, reported stolen
near same twenty as officers
down. Proceeding west on...
Two police officers race to waiting HELICOPTER. As it
LIFTS OFF towards the skyline of the city. We LIFT OFF
next to it, RISING and SWINGING WITH it as it turns
towards the city skyline.
EXT. CITY STREETS - CHASE - NIGHT
The cab at 60. The cop car stays with. A hard braking
left and then a sliding turn and the cab is nearing a
street running under a viaduct.
INT. YELLOW CAB - CHASE - NIGHT
Bain smiles as they leave the cop behind.
Ahead, a second cop car turns off a side street and heads
right at them. Rath turns under a viaduct.
BAIN:
Can you feel it, Rath?! It's
real! We're alive!
RATH:
Don't count on it.
BAIN:
Before I went freelance, I was
an exchange student.
(smiles)
C.I.A. University. You were a
legend at Langley. Even if you
were Army.
(looks ahead)
I know this neighborhood. Turn in here.
EXT. ROAD UNDER VIADUCT - NIGHT
It's a race with the two police cars right behind.
INT. YELLOW CAB UNDER VIADUCT - CHASE - NIGHT
Down the straightaway, two sets of cop lights and SIRENS
behind them. Bain leans forward, right behind Rath.
BAIN:
I studied everything you ever
did, Rath. God damn you were
good. You and the Russian.
Nicolai Talinkov --
The name hits Rath like a hammer.
RATH:
Tachlinkov. How did you know
about Nicolai?
Rath turns, nearly broadsiding a train car.
BAIN:
They said he shaded you. Over
and over. And in the end, he
aced you. Shaded and faded.
They say he's living on some
Greek island, but I say you
were the best. I say Nicolai's
dead as a clavo.
(thinks; smiles)
A doornail. Am I right?
Rath doesn't answer.
BAIN:
I heard you guys played chess.
Coded in the New York Times
obituaries.
Rath's past is chasing him almost as hard as the cops.
BAIN:
Ten miles of microfilm, but I
found it. The last game ends
before anyone wins.
(smiles)
He thought you were his friend.
That's how you got him, right?
EXT. INTERSECTION - VIADUCT - NIGHT
Rath starts to answer when... Suddenly an enormous truck
appears, blocking their path. Rath is forced to brake.
He whips the wheel around, powerslides a grinding U-turn
in front of the truck.
BAIN:
Hey, Rath.
(opens door)
Black queen to king's bishop 4!
Bain throws himself out of the door. Rath whips a look
over his shoulder as Bain tumbles head over heels toward
the truck. What he said means something, but no time to
explain now. As he continues...
BACK TO BAIN:
Pushing himself to his hands and knees, Bain watches the
two cars disappear. He disappears into the darkness.
EXT. INTERSECTION - VIADUCT - NIGHT
The cab races away from the intersection with the police
cars in pursuit.
Rath takes another hard turn. But suddenly the cab is
bleached white by a searchlight.
INT. POLICE HELICOPTER - NIGHT
Where a HELI-COP trains the light on the cab below.
HELI-COP
We got you now, rabbit.
From above the chopper blades of the police helicopter
chasing the cab below -- we see the cab appearing, dis-
appearing, and reappearing from underneath a viaduct
below.
The cab passes under an overpass. They lose sight of it,
but it'll only be for a moment as they move up and
around.
The cab appears from around a corner sliding quickly into
a parking lot. Rath slips out the door and disappears.
EXT. CAB YARD - AERIAL - NIGHT
Down below we see a parking lot full of cabs and the
first police car to arrive.
The other cop cars pull up. As the police begin to
search, and the helicopter hovers overhead, we follow
the beam of the Zenon light up to the chopper where
everything becomes white...
DISSOLVE TO:
The white of Rath's computer screen.
Rath types, calls up a file. A chess game sets up in
four neat rows. A line reads: Game Started May 5, 1980.
The pieces move, accompanied by COMPUTER VOICE notation
of the move and the date they were made. Rath studies
the screen.
RATH:
Fifteen years and I still
remember.
(watches)
Those were good moves, Nicolai.
You were the best.
The screen and the computer voice both ask: ENTER NEXT
MOVE. A beat before Rath types in the move Bain gave
him.
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