Blade Runner Page #25

Deckard has to shoot or be kicked to death, he's already

badly battered by her furious feet.

BOW! BOW! Pris is blown away

hits.

BOW! The third hit catches her in the back of the neck

as she spins away from Deckard... and that's it, she

goes down in a limp heap, leaving Deckard standing there,

bloody and stupified.

He's still staring when he hears it... the drone of the

elevator ascending.

Deckard frowns. He starts toward the door, reaching in his

pocket as he goes and pulling out a cassette.

INT. CORRIDOR - NIGHT

Deckard slams the cassette into his blaster as he steps

intop the corridor and looks toward the sound.

He sees the elevator coming up.... glowing.

Deckard doesn't like this. He glances quickly as the

various possible routes for escpe.

Not the stairs.

Nothing else.

The lift is almost to Sebastian's floor.

Deckard retreats hastily into Sebastian's apartment.

CUT TO:

INT. SEBASTIAN'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

Deckard steps into the room with Pris' body in it.

He hears the elevator stop. Then footsteps.

Deckard considers.

The footsteps are getting closer.

Deckard walks silently toward the other door leading into the

next room and steps through it.

The footsteps keep coming.

And the breathing has started. Asthmatic, rasping.

CUT TO:

INT. BILLIARD ROOM - NIGHT

Deckard slides around the door and puts his back to the wall,

blaster ready.

INT. SEBASTIAN'S APARTMENT NIGHT

Deckard comes running into the lobby (hand held)through

the billiard room and into the darkened area the other

side of the billiard room and stands breathing heavily

gun aimed towards the lobby.

INT. LOBBY - NIGHT

Batty's shadow appears in the doorway (Deckard's POV) he

stares at Pris' dead body.

His body walks into the shadow.

Deckard fires, but Batty is faster, he ducks back and

disappears.

Deckard's bullet smashes into the dresser in the bedroom,

the mirror explodes.

Deckard runs into the billiard room.

INT. BILLIARD ROOM - NIGHT

He ducks back behind the wall.

Suddenly a hand comes tearing through the wall, and pulls

Deckard's hand through.

Systematically, Batty breaks two of Deckard's fingers.

BATTY:

For Pris... for Zhora....

Proud of yourself little man....

As Deckard screams, Batty puts the gun back in Deckard's

broken hand and pushes it back through the hole.

Batty's head peers through the hole, and Deckards fires at

him grazing the side of his face and blowing off his ear.

Deckard starts running (hand held) through the rooms

looking for an escape.

BATTY(OS)

Not very sporting to fire on

an unarmed opponent. I thought

you were supposed to be good...

arent you the man.

CUT TO:

INT. DARK ROOM - NIGHT

Batty in semi darkness is

streaming down in his from his wounds. He starts to daub

his face with his own blood, like a commanche warrior.

Then he starts to strip down - a tribal ritual.

INT. DARKENED ROOM (re-dressed lobby) ARMOIRE - NIGHT

Deckard runs into the darkened room. Rats scuttle across

the floor.

He hears footsteps coming. There are no other exits.

He looks at the armoire. His only escape.

He runs to a table and with great pain bends his fingers back

then runs to the armoire and starts to climb it.

Batty walks into the room looks up at Deckard and starts

to laugh.

BATTY:

Where are you going ?

Deckard continues towards the ceiling, the armoire

starts to tilt, water drips on his head.

Thunder and lightning erupt.

INT. FLOOR B - TOILET - NIGHT

Deckard's head pops up through the floor next to an

overflowing toilet.

All of a sudden he too starts to laugh, as he lays down

on the floor, his laughter becoming hysterical.

He looks around for some tape and starts to wrap his broken

fingers.

Suddenly, with a resounding crash Batty's head comes through

the marble above the basin.

Deckard gets up and makes a run for the door at the end of

the room, as Batty, animal like, starts slurping the water

out of the basin.

Deckard pulls and tugs at the door, frantic with fear.

The other door opens and Batty walks in, as Deckard manages

to open his door.

INT. CLOSET - NIGHT

Two hundred objects (pigeons) burst out of the room into

Deckard's face as he runs into the closed off room.

There is no way out except by the

proceeds to tear down.

BATTY:

Now where are you going?

Deckard climbs out the window, as Batty watches.

EXT. ROOF - WINDOW LEDGE - NIGHT

Deckard slowly eases himself around the window ledge

and edges his way around to a cornice.

Batty appears at another window, as Deckard scrambles

up the cornice and on to the roof, wind and rain hindering

his climb.

EXT ROOF - NIGHT

Wind and rain. Deckard dashes onto the roof and looks

frantically over his shoulder. Batty isn't in sight yet.

He looks around desperately. The roof is a desert no

shelter. Deckard looks across at the next building.

Suddenly a rooftop door opens and Batty steps out.

Deckard looks back at the next building. Is it possible ?

A long jump. But what choice.

Decision time. Deckard decides to go. He runs directly

towards Batty, turns, pumping like crazy, going for the gap.

CUT TO:

EXT. THE ROOF - LOW ANGLE - NIGHT

Looking up from way below, two buildings loom into the

dark with a gap between them and a tiny figure running

like hell and... jumping!

Deckard leaps across the gap, flies through the air...

almost makes it... catches a cornice on the second

building... hangs many stories up over the street and we:

CUT TO:

EXT. THE SECOND ROOF - NIGHT

Deckard hangs onto the cornice in the wind and rain.

One hand is almost useless, the other's strained to

the limit. He looks down. A long, long fall to the

ground.

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