Athletes Who Rock the World

Genre: Short
Year:
1996
24 min
40 Views


We can't hold out much longer, sir!

General Hummel, you've gotta

get us outta here now!

I won't let you down.

I won't let you down, son.

Goddam it, sir! How long do we have

to wait? I've lost 15 men already!

Sir, they're lightin'us up

like a firestorm!

This is General Hummel.

You gotta get my men outta there!

We don't have clearance

to go behind enemy lines, sir.

They're not coming for us,

are they, sir?

Congressman Weaver

and esteemed members of the

Special Armed Services Committee,

I come before you to protest

a grave injustice.

Aim!

It has to stop.

I miss you so much.

There's something I've gotta do, Barb.

Something I couldn't do

while you were here.

I tried.

You know I tried everything.

And I still don't have

their attention.

Let's hope this elevates

their thinking.

But whatever happens,

please don't think less

of me.

Marine,

inform the garrison C. O...

that General Hummel's coming on board

with a security inspection team.

Yes, sir. Sir, it's an honour

having you, sir.

Ya know, at least

we can get some...

- A long time before guard meeting, huh?

- Yeah, I'll tell ya.

I got the access card. We've got

Move it!

The access card, sir.

Let's do it.

Twenty-four hundred

magazine check.

- Man, it's wet out there!

- Check me through, will ya?

Clear!

- I want 16, Major!

- Move it!

Evac!

Seal the door!

- No!

- Come on, man!

- No!

- No!

- Seal it!

- Help!

Let me outta here! Oh, God!

Let me outta here! Oh, God!

Let me out! Let me out!

Clear out.

Get outta here!

Sorry.

Let's move out.

Two more cc's

of acetylene chloride.

- That'll be five dollars, Isherwood.

- You suck.

You guys have too much time

on your hands.

Yes! She's here! Bring it

to me now. Thank you, Phil!

What's that?

Why'd you get it sent here?

Carla wouldn't approve. She thinks

it's dumb to spend $600 on an L.P.

Carla's right. Why don't you

just spend $ 13 on a CD, man?

First of all,

it's because I'm a Beatlemaniac.

And second,

these sound better.

Could be serious.

Could be sarin gas.

A dog out of JFK caught a whiff

of something in this package...

postmarked to

a Bosnian refugee camp.

It could be detergent,

or it could be sarin gas.

Bosnian refugee camp?

Half a million Serbians reside

in the U.S., Marvin.

Serbians don't like Bosnians.

You guys wanna get

suited up?

- You bring the cockroaches?

- Got 'em.

We have air lock, Stanley.

You're all set to go.

October 1, 0900 hours.

Agent Stanley Goodspeed,

Agent/Trainee Marvin Isherwood...

initiating exam

of wooden crate.

Suspicion of

sarin gas inside.

- Marvin, sarin is a...

- G.B. Aerosol.

That is correct.

Now, let's see.

We have some dirty magazines.

Stone Age Cave Girls

in the Raw. Kinky.

And, uh...

Not a good sign.

Hello, little baby doll.

Lookit, Stan.

- Hi there,

- Marvin!

- Stanley.

- Hi, Stan.

- Sh*t! Move back! Move back!

- I want the exhaust.

- Hang on, guys.

We'll have that room clear

in 50 seconds! You're gonna be okay.

Jesus Christ!

Okay, I've got some bad news

and some really bad news.

The bad news is that the gas

is corrosive and it's eating our suits.

- It's all over my hand, man!

- The really bad news...

is there's enough C-4 explosive and

poison gas to blow the whole chamber...

- and kill everybody in the building.

- Detonation too heavy.

- Everybody, out of the room now!

Seal us inside.

- Where are the sprinklers, Lonner?

- The acid's eating my su...

It's eating my f***ing suit!

All right? Sh*t!

- Just wash us off!

- Where are my sprinklers?

We're working on it. It's coming.

It's just a flow problem.

Well, that's a pretty big

friggin' problem, Lonner. Fix it now!

- We're working on it! How much time

do you have on that detonator?

- A minute ten.

- Look at this!

- We're gonna have the room clear.

- Tell 'em to take the atropine, now!

- The atropine, Isherwood.

- What?

- Where's my water, Lonner? One minute!

- Marvin, the atropine, now!

- Inject it in your heart

before your suit melts.

Sh*t!

Make him take his dose.

- Where's that water?

- Get that away from me!

Come on, Phil, fix it

for Christ's sake!

- Take the atropine now, Stan,

for Christ's sake!

- We're f***ed.

The poison's mixing.

What the f*** are you

waiting for, Stanley?

You take the f***ing needle now!

- F***! Sh*t! Oh, f***, sh*t!

- Forty seconds!

If that suit melts...

If you die, we all die!

Inject your heart

and then diffuse the bomb!

- Come on, just do it, Stan!

- Sh*t! What if I miss my heart?

I can't see sh*t!

- Do it now!

- Look how big this is.

You want me to stick this into my heart?

- Are you f***ing nuts?

- The sprinkler's coming! It's coming!

Okay, here we go, man!

Sprinkler activated.

How much time left?

Twenty seconds!

We're not gonna make it.

Fifteen.

Oh, come on.

Clear!

Get me the f***

out of this gas chamber!

I almost stabbed myself

in the heart with this thing.

Please lock me away

- Stan?

- Hey, darlin'.

Hi, baby.

Here inside where I hide

with my loneliness

I had such

an interesting day today.

Yeah, I had kind of

an interesting day myself.

Oh, okay, you go first.

Oh, just some terrorists decided to send

a little care package, box of goodies,

which had to be neutralized

before blowing up the office.

So I took

the rest of the day off.

Glass of wine, little guitar.

Just relaxing.

- Wow!

- I mean it, honey. The world is being

Fed-Ex'd to hell on a handcart.

I really believe that anyone

who's even thinking about

having a child in this world...

is coldly considering

an act of cruelty.

I know, I'm rambling,

I'm complaining. I'm sorry.

- What's your news, baby?

- I'm pregnant.

I'm sorry?

I'm pregnant.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- Wow!

- Is that all you're gonna say, is "wow"?

- You're pregnant?

- Three weeks.

How do you know? I mean,

h-how do you know?

Blue! Just turned blue

so I went to the doctor.

- Well, you didn't mean what

you just said, did you?

- When?

Uh, just right now when you were talking

about bringing a child into the world...

and having it be

an act of cruelty.

- I meant it at the time.

- Stanley, at the time? You said it

seven and a half seconds ago.

Well, gosh!

Kind of a lot's happened since then.

Look, we're not even married.

- I know. It's funny

you should mention that.

- It's funny?

- Do you love me?

- Of course I love you.

Good.

- Will you marry me?

- Whoa! Whoa! Wai...

Hey, Marriage Police, pull over!

Come on, Stanley.

I'm proposing to you right now.

The Rock is the most famous and was

the most feared prison ever built.

Is it really true that

there's never been an escape?

Ah, that's true. From 1936 until

'63 when the prison closed,

there were 14 attempts.

No one is believed to have made

it to shore, alive at least.

No, uh, h-h-hey, hey, fellas. I'm sorry,

but tourists are not allowed back here.

- I don't really give a sh*t!

Do you give a sh*t?

- No.

- Come here, fruity.

- Move!

- Hey, girls? Hi.

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