Demolition Man Page #2

INT. FORTRESS - MAIN BUILDING - STAIRWELL - NIGHT

Spartan creeps quietly down. Looking, watching,

listening. Suddenly, the stairs are racked with MACHINE

GUN FIRE. Chips of concrete fly from around his feet.

Spartan flattens against the wall. Half a beat. Steps

out FIRING. The machine gun stops. A body plummets by

down the center shaft of the stairs.

SPARTAN:

That's a warm welcome.

INT. FORTRESS - MAIN BUILDING - SECOND FLOOR - NIGHT

Phoenix is dumping can after can of gas all over the

floor, the walls, everything.

ANOTHER ANGLE - STAIRWELL AND LANDING

Spartan steps onto the landing. Checks high and low.

Room is clear. He can smell the gas.

BACK TO PHOENIX:

Simon pries open the fuse box. Flips off all the

breakers. Building is plunged into darkness.

BACK TO SPARTAN:

Spartan quietly speaks into the LAPD button mike on his

lapel.

SPARTAN:

How 'bout some light, guys?

Half a beat later, blinding white light blows through

the windows.

EXT. FORTRESS - FROM ABOVE - NIGHT

The blimp casts down a wall of light. 32 million

candlepower pours straight down.

INT. FORTRESS - MAIN BUILDING - SECOND FLOOR - NIGHT

A wild melange of white, white light and dark, dark

shadows. The gas fumes ripple, refract in the air.

Lights bounce off the pools of gasoline. Spartan rolls

into the room. Both guns come up.

SPARTAN:

Simon Phoenix. You're under

arrest.

(then)

Where are the muni passengers?

PHOENIX:

F*** you, Spartan. They're gone.

I told the city no one comes down

here anymore. Cops figured it

out, postmen figured it out. Damn

bus drivers wouldn't listen.

Arrest me? You've got no

jurisdiction here. You're in my

kingdom now. Fifty blocks in

every direction. And it's mine.

SPARTAN:

(simply)

It's over.

PHOENIX:

It's over?!

(knows it's true)

Yeah. It's over. But I've been

king once, and I ain't ever going

back to jail.

Spartan keeps the guns trained on Phoenix. Simon

scratches his arm. It's a junkie's twitch. Or is it...

Spartan can't see it, but there's a kitchen match tucked

behind Simon's ear. Phoenix reaches up to scratch

another itch. Frees the match in one gestures, strikes

it and tosses it into the pool of gas. Smiles. A

friendly happy smile.

The room bursts into flames. He throws back his head and

laughs. Spartan dives on him. Tries to hurl them both

through the window.

But Phoenix is either stronger or just far crazier and

drugged up. Smashes the two of them into the wall

instead. They trade blows. The building gets worse.

AMMO starts to EXPLODE downstairs.

EXT. FORTRESS - MAIN YARD - NIGHT

A giant LAPD wrecker with a cow catcher front blasts

through the main gates. LAPD Humvees follow.

A young cop (ZACHARY LAMB) gets out, looks at the main

building, shakes his head in amusement at the

destruction --

LAMB:

It's Spartan again...

INT. FORTRESS - MAIN BUILDING - SECOND FLOOR - NIGHT

The battle continues. The two trading blow for blow in

this fiery arena. The two men are practically on fire.

Finally Spartan knocks Phoenix cold, a clean shot

straight in the face. Phoenix drops in a heap to the

floor. Spartan shakes his head, sighs, bends down to

retrieve his prisoner and...

INT./EXT. FORTRESS - MAIN BUILDING - NIGHT

The BUILDING EXPLODES. Long and LOUD and high and

mighty.

OVERHEAD POV:

The fireball rockets by the blimp.

INT. BLIMP - POD - NIGHT

The Pilots with mouths agape as the fireball crashes by.

EXT. FORTRESS - MAIN YARD - NIGHT

The EARTH RUMBLES. Those who aren't thrown to the

ground dive for cover. The SECONDARY EXPLOSION kicks

in. Everything that didn't blow straight up in the air

blows out what remains of the sides of the building.

Nothing's left standing.

EXT. FORTRESS - MAIN YARD - NIGHT (AFTERMATH)

The dust begins to settle. Flaming wreckage and embers

are still dropping from five hundred feet up. A beat. A

beam shifts in the wreckage. It's a big beam. It moves

aside. Spartan emerges dragging his prisoner out behind

him. As he's being dragged along, Phoenix comes to.

Spartan hands him off to another officer to be booked.

Captain STEVE HEALY, Spartan's long-suffering captain and

friend, comes out of the crowd of officers.

HEALY:

What's the matter with you?

That's why nobody ever invites

you over.

SPARTAN:

I hate small talk. You sent me to

do a job, I did it. It wasn't even

me who blew everything up this time.

HEALY:

Yeah. Sure.

Healy continues to shake his head in consternation. No

way he believes that... Spartan ignores him. Wipes the

soot from his face. Shakes his head in disgust, walks

away...

The Tactical Fire Response vehicles have arrived. Fully-

armored firemen wearing bulletproof gear fight the blaze.

Spartan continues to stride away. And then everything

fucks up. One of the TFR OFFICERS in the wreckage calls

out --

TFR OFFICER:

Captain. Captain!

(shocked)

There's a lot of bodies in here.

Spartan stops dead. He looks sick. Healy's not

thrilled, but he knows what's required of him --

HEALY:

(to Spartan)

You have the right to remain

silent.

SMASH CUT TO:

INT. CRYO PRISON - STARK WHITE CORRIDOR - DAY

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