Assault on Precinct 13 Page #3

We should be figuring a way to get out of...

You got any suggestions?

We're gonna stay here and hold

until somebody comes. Okay?

We're in the middle of a city,

inside a police station.

Someone is bound to drive by eventually.

It may take 15, 20 minutes. They'll come.

It doesn't look like they cut our phone lines.

They're still connected to the pole.

I'll bet they took out

a whole pole down the block.

What does that mean?

If phone lines are down in the area,

no one nearby can call in.

But doesn't the phone company

automatically know

-where there's a line down?

-Wait a minute. There they are.

-They've set up a road block.

-Someone's coming!

What does that mean?

I think

we've just been marked for something.

-Let me guess what it is.

-This is a siege. It's a goddamn siege.

He's the one they want.

Why don't we give him to them?

Well, don't give me that civilized look.

This is my station tonight.

He came in here for help.

He's gonna get all the help we can give him.

-Very nice, Lieutenant.

-Thank you.

No!

Get them out of the cells.

Come on, baby. Hurry it up.

Okay. Get out front. Quick. Move!

Hide!

Give me a gun!

They're coming down the hall.

-I can't hold it.

-Sh*t!

The windows!

Watch the front.

Julie?

Wilson?

We gotta barricade that door.

Give me a hand.

Wells, you watch the front

and the two offices.

You saved my life. Twice now.

Twice?

First time outside by the bus.

I figured that was a mistake on your part,

so I let it go.

Then you did it again

when you pulled us out of the cells.

You must be serious

about keeping me alive.

I want all of us alive.

This time I know somebody heard us.

There'll be squad cars here in five minutes.

Acetylene.

-If a stray bullet had hit this...

-Come look at this.

How is it?

I can't move it,

and it hurts like a son of a b*tch.

That was close timing in there.

You were good.

If I'd been any good in here,

maybe she'd still be alive.

They moved the cars.

Can't believe it.

They parked them where they were before.

-Why'd they do that?

-From a distance, the street looks normal.

-Like nothing happened.

-Like nothing happened?

They gunned down five police

officers, a secretary, one prisoner!

We killed a dozen of them,

and that's "nothing happened"?

Where are the bodies?

They took them away.

-How'd they do it so fast?

-Maybe they got the good fairy to help them.

You really are a smart ass.

-Prison bus is gone and so are the bodies.

-They dragged old Starker away.

Too bad. I promised to tell him something.

What's going on?

What are they doing out there?

They're hiding every single sign that

there's been an attack on this building.

What I wanna know is

what started all of this?

He came running in here,

-Jesus Christ, 30 minutes ago!

-Now, all of this about one man?

Don't forget the Cholo.

They delivered it to us.

You look like somebody spit in your socks.

No one said anything about the Cholo.

All right, all right. What does it mean?

What does it mean?

It means they don't care.

They're not afraid to die. Any of them.

They want to rip us apart,

no matter what it costs.

-It means to the death.

-How do you know so much about it?

I spent some time in a cell with one of them

crazy young bastards once.

This can't happen.

Not in the middle of a city.

-Not today.

-Then let's pinch each other and wake up.

There was gun fire for a minute and a half,

two minutes.

-I can't believe no one heard us.

-Maybe they heard it. What do they see?

An empty street? An empty police station?

Maybe somebody from

the new precinct will come by.

In the meantime, I've got this plan.

Now, it's called save ass.

Now, the way it works is this.

I slip out of one of these windows,

and I run like a bastard.

Wells.

-You know I can't let you do that.

-I'm not asking you to let me.

They'll cut you down before you get 10 feet.

-Are you on his side, Wilson?

-No sides to it. We're all together.

I've been shot once tonight.

I don't feel like a second time.

I just wanted to say one thing to you

before you jump out that window.

When they drag you off,

I'll lean out and ask them

if they wouldn't mind saying a little prayer

as they dump you in some vacant lot

next to the five other police officers

and your sick, handcuffed friend.

I go through all that

and his gun isn't even loaded.

Goddamn silencer.

I've been clicking off empty shots all night,

and I didn't even know it.

Very close timing. You are good.

Sometimes.

Problem is he's not alone.

This goddamn thing's

got three shots left in it.

-Wilson?

-Three rounds.

-Leigh.

-Two shots.

If there's any spare ammunition

around here, I don't know where it is.

Anybody got a smoke?

Got a light?

One-X-Five,

we have a series of reports

of firecrackers and/or gunfire

between Ninth and Warren.

The telephone service is still out in

the fourth quadrant from Warren to Vermont.

Telephone repair vehicle does not

respond to radio communication.

Jesus Christ. We got a war going on

down here and we can't find the damn thing.

This is Unit Seven. We are making

a rapid circuit of Quadrant Four.

Everything looks quiet and normal.

Nothing unusual to report at this time.

We're gonna make another full circuit.

Suggest backup vehicles

and helicopter surveillance, over.

One-X-Five,

as soon as other units are available,

they will be sent into your area.

All helicopters are in use at this time.

How the hell do they expect us

to find anything without backup?

-It's that damn Saturday night overload.

-This is Unit Seven, 10-4.

Hey, don't you want to check that street?

-That's Gramercy, wasn't it?

-Yeah.

-Nothing down there but the old station.

-Don't you wanna cruise it?

What for?

-It'll work.

-You guys are crazy.

-You sure about the basement?

-I'm sure.

-What if you're wrong?

-I said I was sure.

But what if you're wrong?

I've worked here for five years.

I ought to know the place.

-Looks pretty good to me.

-Looks like hell, but it's all we got.

Who goes?

I gotta tell you,

I don't know how to hot wire a car.

I'm a cop.

-Between me and Snow White.

-Sh*t! Sh*t, sh*t!

What's wrong?

We haven't flipped a coin yet.

I'm gonna lose.

-You got a bad attitude, Wells.

-I always lose.

Had bad luck all my life.

How do you think I ended up in here?

-Maybe it'll change.

-It might. If we don't flip a coin.

-Let's do something else.

-What?

Potatoes.

All right.

One potato, two potato,

three potato, four.

Five potato, six potato, seven potato, more.

Eight potato, nine potato, ten potato,

eleven. Kiss my ass and go to heaven.

Y-O-U spells you.

I told you I'd lose.

God damn it, we're gonna do it again.

Hey, hey. There isn't time.

-Well, how come she's out of it?

-All right, if I can do it with one arm.

Still no sign of them. Let's get moving.

-You want me to show you where it is?

-I'll take him down. You stay up here.

It's right next to the furnace.

You can't miss it.

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