Deep Rising Page #9

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Hanover's HEADSET comes alive with Mulligan SCREAMING.

HANOVER:

Mulligan?? What?? I can't hear you??

Repeat I...

-- Mason JERKS the vault door open. A FIRE-AXE SWING DOWN into his

head, WHUMP! Kills him instantly. Eyes wide open. Everybody freaks

out. Jumps back. Hanover lets go of Trillian, and stares into the

vault directly at Nigel Canton. Holding the axe.

CANTON:

Oh my God. I didn't mean to...

Behind Canton the Captain is on the floor, in severe pain, his clothes

are ripped up, REVEALING nasty looking RED SCARS, blistered and puffy,

all over his chest and arms.

CANTON:

I thought it was one of them!

Chin jams his rifle to the middle of Canton's forehead, and c*cks a

round into the chamber.

HANOVER:

Stand down soldier!

But this is one soldier who is slow to obey the order. Hanover grabs

Chin by both shoulders and gives a colossal yank.

HANOVER:

I said...

He slams Chin against the wall. In the process he loses his headset.

HANOVER:

Stand down!!

Chin and Hanover stare at each other, their chests heaving. Mason

finally drops to the ground. All she wrote.

CANTON:

I didn't mean to! I though it was

one of them!

HANOVER:

One of who?!

CUT TO:

81INT. MACHINE SHOP - NIGHT

The machinery is sputtering, and sparking, shorting, steaming as the

sea rises.

Mulligan, in a panic, has backed Finnegan and Pantucci into a corner.

He screams over his headset.

MULLIGAN:

Hanover!...Hanover! Come in! Come in

you son-of-a-b*tch!

No response. A sucking sound comes from the dark mass of pipes.

Mulligan spins.

MULLIGAN:

Hanover!! Hanover!!

FINNEGAN:

Forget them...

Mulligan spins back to Finnegan and Pantucci.

MULLIGAN:

(fried)

Shut up! You hear me!!

FINNEGAN:

...we gotta get outta here -- NOW.

MULLIGAN:

Shut up, man, just shut the hell up!

I gotta think! I gotta think!!

PANTUCCI:

What's there to think about?? That

THING back there...

MULLIGAN:

There ain't no thing here!! No

thing!! There's you him and me!! Got

it! You him and...

Suddenly, Mulligan's LEGS are suddenly JERKED OUT from under him. He

hits the floor hard. Starts FIRING WILDLY. Finnegan and Pantucci hit

the watery deck. BULLETS RICOCHET everywhere.

Mulligan is WHIPPED across the floor. SCREAMING in fear. His pulse-

rifle goes flying. He's SLAMMED into a metal pylon, then SUCKED into a

dark void in the pipes. All in the blink of an eye. Finnegan grabs

Mulligan's pulse-rifle. OPENS FIRE. BLASTING the sh*t out of anything

and everything that moves.

FINNEGAN:

Grab the parts!!

Pantucci grabs the knapsack, cramming as many parts as he can into it

as Finnegan keeps firing into the steaming, creaking, sparking

machinery.

FINNEGAN:

I'll cover! Move! Move!

Pantucci doesn't have to be told twice. He runs like hell, with

Finnegan firing a final burst, and following.

CUT TO:

82INT. VAULT - NIGHT

Everyone hears the MASSIVE GUNFIRE. Hanover looks around for the

source of the sound. He finds it in his disgarded headset.

HANOVER:

This is Red one! Come in Red two!

The gunfire stops, replaced by an ominous, horrifying, sucking sound.

CANTON:

(panicked)

It's them! We've got to get off!

He runs out of the vault. The Captain follows close behind. Hanover

listens to the sucking sound getting louder and louder.

HANOVER:

Let's find them!

CHIN:

What about the vault?

HANOVER:

It's not going anywhere...

Hanover rushes out with Chin right behind. Only Trillian remains,

breathing deeply, scared...but not scared enough to forget the reason

she came cruising in the first place. She goes right to the vault,

opens one of the boxes, removes the giant diamond, drops it down her

decolletage, pulls her high heels off, and runs out.

CUT TO:

83INT. ENGINE ROOM - NIGHT

Finnegan and Pantucci run to the end of a long section of metal

grating, right below a staircase, to catch their breath. Everything

has gone dead quiet, except for the billowing and clanging of the

engines. Smoke and sparks obscure their vision.

PANTUCCI:

Finnegan, what the hell was that?

FINNEGAN:

I don't know...you got what we need?

PANTUCCI:

If I don't, I ain't going back to

get it...you think we're safe?

Both of them listen to the silence. And then, at the far end of the

grating, one grate rises...and falls.

Finnegan and Pantucci watch, tranfixed. Then, like a locomotive

gathering speed, the grates start rising and falling, faster and

faster, clanking louder and louder, headed right for the two of them.

LOUDERFASTERLOUDERFASTER!!!

FINNEGAN:

Come on!!

Finnegan and Pantucci run up the stairs as fast as they can...just as

the grate they were standing on rises and falls. Silence returns.

Except for the steaming, creaking machinery...and an ominous sucking

sound.

CUT TO:

84INT. PASSAGEWAY - NIGHT

Trillian comes running down the passageway to a freight elevator.

Looking over her shoulder, she hits the button.

The elevator doors open to a freight elevator large enough to hold a

dozen people. Trillian rushes in and hits the up button. She breathes

a sigh of relief as the steel doors close...until the elevator starts

going down.

TRILLIAN:

Up!! I want to go up!

She panics. And starts pushing the up button frantically, her heart

pounding in her chest. There is not a sound except for the hum of the

elevator descending...until something drops on the roof with a THUMP!

Trillian screams. The elevator comes to a bumps stop.

TRILLIAN:

No...No...

Trillian shrinks from the ceiling of the elevator...and then the car

starts to move again.

TRILLIAN:

Go up...please go up!

Trillian pounds on ever button on the console, to no avail. The car

continues its inexorable descent. Finally, in desperation, she hits

the emergency stop button. The elevator stops. The emergency SIREN

WHINES. A LONG BEAT. Nothing moves...and then...WHAM! Something beats

on the roof, trying to break in. And again -- WHAM! The ELEVATOR

SHUDDERS and continues its descent. Trillian backs up against the

wall, staring at the ceiling, scared. The ELEVATOR DINGS! Startled,

TRILLIAN SCREAMS.

The DOORS start to OPEN. Panicked, Trillian raises the only weapon at

her disposal...a high heel. The DOORS OPEN.

-- SOMETHING LUNGES IN! Trillian swings her high heel...right into

Pantucci's face! Finnegan plows in right behind him.

PANTUCCI:

OWWW!! OOWWW!!!

Trillian tries to run out. Finnegan grabs her.

TRILLIAN:

I'm not staying here!

FINNEGAN:

It ain't any better out there!

Trillian struggles. Finnegan does not let go of her.

FINNEGAN:

Lady, I'm telling you...

Trillian buries her high heel into the back of Finnegan's hand,

breaking his grip.

FINNEGAN:

OWW!

Just then, the doors to the elevator shut, and the car starts to

ascend.

TRILLIAN:

Now look what you did!

FINNEGAN:

I saved your life is what I did!

TRILLIAN:

Who asked you to!

PANTUCCI:

What the hell's going on here?

TRILLIAN:

You're with that other bunch, right?

FINNEGAN:

What other bunch?

TRILLIAN:

The thieves.

FINNEGAN:

I'm not a thief.

TRILLIAN:

Then who are you?

FINNEGAN:

I'm their ride.

Trillian hears music to her ears.

TRILLIAN:

You have a boat?

Her demeanor changes, her voice goes to honey.

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