Demolition Man Page #28

INT. STOLEN POLICE CAR - NIGHT

Phoenix looks in the rearview and clicks into a means-

business mode.

PHOENIX:

Computer:
velocity control

override!

COMPUTER (V.O.)

State the nature of the emergency.

PHOENIX:

Arson.

(as car picks up a

little speed)

Armed robbery!

(as more speed; not

enough)

No, it's murder! An entire

family is being robbed in a

burning building and they're all

getting killed.

The car SCREECHES its TIRES in acceleration.

INT. GTO - NIGHT

Spartan watches the car jet ahead at an amazing clip.

HUXLEY:

He's accessed velocity override!

SPARTAN:

Don't worry. Punch it.

EXT. SOME OTHER SAN ANGELES STREET - NIGHT

Lenina really GUNS the GTO and races up on Phoenix's

rear. Spartan teeters out of the car to get a clear

shot.

SPARTAN:

Whoa, whoa, slow down!

But Lenina rams the car. Spartan flies off the GTO and

lands on the back of Phoenix's car. The BERETTA flies

from his grasp. CLATTERS away on the road behind.

INT. STOLEN POLICE CAR - NIGHT

Phoenix turns around to see Spartan hanging on. He

shoves a MACHINE PISTOL out his open side window and

FIRES back at Spartan.

EXT. SOME OTHER SAN ANGELES STREET - NIGHT

Spartan ducks back from Phoenix's stream of bullets.

Smashes the machine gun against the car, knocking it

from Phoenix's grasp. Just manages to trap it against

the side of the car as it falls. Snatches it up, lifts

it up to take aim as ---

INT. STOLEN POLICE CAR - NIGHT

Phoenix shouts at the car ---

PHOENIX:

Open doors! Emergency!

EXT. SOME OTHER SAN ANGELES STREET - NIGHT

Both gull wing doors slam open. The gun is bashed from

Spartan's hand. Spartan himself is smashed from one door

to the other on the roof of the car. A hundred miles per

hour and nothing to grab onto. He starts to slide off.

Completely aerodynamic.

Grabs onto a door. Shoves a shoulder underneath as ---

PHOENIX:

Close doors.

The right hand door slams shut. The left hand door

crushes against Spartan. The MECHANISM GROANS. Spartan

growls back. Spartan and the door strain against each

other. The man wins. Wrenches the door clean off.

Jumps in the car. Punches Phoenix square in the head.

Phoenix is knocked to his side. Sidekicks Spartan dead

in the groin. Spartan folds.

Phoenix leaps back up, triple-punches Spartan in the

chest. Spartan's hands come free, he falls back, as

Phoenix jumps on him and slams his head repeatedly

against the hundred mile an hour ground rushing by as

the car drives itself.

Spartan continues to fight back, smashing Phoenix, but

he's forced to avoid the close calls with cars, street

signs and the like. Finally, Phoenix grabs Spartan's

throat and holds him down in the road where an upcoming

futuristic fire hydrant is about to tear his head off.

Spartan sees it coming, has no choice. Lets go. Phoenix

thinks he's rid of him.

No. Spartan slides free for a moment on the road and

barely manages to hook a hand on the open door frame.

Shirt three-quarters torn off, blood streaming, he climbs

onto the back of the car. Brutally punches his hand

through what remains of the back window.

Phoenix screams in rage as Spartan's hand comes at him

and grabs him by the hair, yanking Phoenix's head back.

PHOENIX:

Computer! Disengage Auxilliary

Battery Pod now!

Spartan freaks as the back of the car suddenly separates

from the rest of the car. It shoots rearward while the

cab with Phoenix drops a third wheel in back and shoots

off. Spartan, hanging on for dear life, turns to see him

and the pod are jetting backwards for the front of a

truly massive freight truck. Four full trailers behind

a massive cab. The thing's gotta be eighty feet long.

It's more of a locomotive than a truck.

The burly TRUCKER also freaks when he sees he will impact

with Spartan. At the last moment Spartan leaps off the

pod.

Phoenix sees the truck collide with the pod, BLASTING it

to smithereens. He laughs as he enters a long tunnel.

INT. LONG TUNNEL - NIGHT

The Truck Driver is stunned and scared as he enters the

tunnel but gets another scare as Spartan suddenly pops

up at his door.

SPARTAN:

Move over!

TRUCK DRIVER:

Oh dear! Don't hurt me, please

don't hurt me!

Spartan pushes the burly Trucker over and climbs into

the driver's seat. The Trucker takes one look at this

mad man and decides his fate is safer elsewhere. Leaps

from the truck. Lands safely in some shrubbery. Sobs.

Spartan GUNS the massive TRUCK.

Phoenix thinks everything is A-okay until he looks in his

rearview and sees a bunch of streetlights being taken out

by the too huge truck and getting closer. The truck

harshly rams Phoenix, nearly jarring him from his seat

but for the restraints.

EXT. POLICE STATION - NIGHT

The truck and Phoenix's car ROAR out of the tunnel and

move straight for the police station. The truck smashes

him again. Phoenix's steering wheel locks up and his

seat restraint pops up as he races out of control for the

station. He screams in rage.

Spartan slams on the truck brakes, smokes, slips, slides,

into the most horrific jackknife ever seen. All four

trailers lock up and accordian in on him.

Phoenix's vehicle slaps the street curb and begins to

roll, convulsing into a spectacularly flaming series of

somersaults that violently climax at the base of the

SAPD sign in front of the station.

Half a beat.

A charring Phoenix bursts from the vehicle, sees the

approaching, out of control truck and turns and runs

like hell.

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