Demolition Man Page #8

SQUAD LEADER:

Maniac is imminent. Request

advice.

STRATEGIC APPREHENSION COMPUTER (V.O.)

With a firm tone of voice, demand

maniac lie down with hands behind

back.

SQUAD LEADER:

Simon Phoenix, lie down and put

your hands behind your back.

Phoenix lets off a laugh.

PHOENIX:

Geez gosh. Six of you. In such

tidy uniforms. I'm so scared.

The cops look puzzled.

PHOENIX:

Don't they have irony anymore?

Phoenix turns back to the terminal. His fingers fly.

Under which --

SQUAD LEADER:

(hurt)

Maniac scoffs at us.

S.A.C. (V.O.)

Approach, and in an even firmer

tone of voice...

Phoenix finishes a final keystroke. The graffiti remov-

ing shock poles burst from the building beside them.

Fires. Electrocutes and cooks one of the cops.

INT. POLICE STATION - MAIN AREA - DAY

The cops are stunned.

EXT. HOLLYWOOD AND VINE - DAY

The nearest cops approach with their stun batons. Simon

kills them both. It doesn't take long. He breaks a

neck, he spearhands a sternum, drives a jawbone into a

skull. It's all very graceful. Death ballet.

PHOENIX:

Sarcasm?

(turns to two

terrified cops)

Will you be staying to die, or

running away in fear?

They turn and run away. Simon leaps over the squad car.

Now he's in front of them. They freeze.

PHOENIX:

Ahhh, I didn't say running away

would help.

Catches up with the two of them. Kills them both.

Effortlessly. Just for variety uses a different style

of martial arts this time. Two more are left. They're

frozen. Deer in the headlights.

PHOENIX:

Simon says scream.

INT. POLICE STATION - MAIN AREA - DAY

The cops watch in horror as the last two go down.

EXT. HOLLYWOOD AND VINE - DAY

Simon spots the SecurityCam. Comes towards it with a

leer.

INT. POLICE STATION - MAIN AREA - DAY

Despite the electronic distance, cops recoil in fear.

EXT. HOLLYWOOD AND VINE - DAY

Simon rips the cover plate from the camera stanchion.

Yanks out the transmission cables. Looks directly into

the camera. He's having a very good time.

INT. POLICE STATION - MAIN AREA - DAY

On the giant monitor Simon glares at them

PHOENIX (V.O.)

Everybody stand!

Half the cops in confusion and fear do.

EXT. HOLLYWOOD AND VINE - DAY

Simon looks straight at the camera.

PHOENIX:

(singing)

... and the home of the...

(holds the note for

all it's worth)

... brave.

Jams the spark wand in the main transmission cables.

Sign off.

INT. POLICE STATION - MAIN AREA - DAY

Every MONITOR in the station blows to STATIC. Huxley's

fingers fly.

HUXLEY:

We've lost every camera for six

blocks around.

(thinking fast)

Going to Cahuenga at twelve

hundred millimeters.

On the big screen -- Cahuenga Security Cam POV. When the

zoom starts, we can't even see Simon, when it ends, we

can see him highly compressed by one of the squad cars.

Under the hood. Jamming the stun baton around.

GARCIA:

He's going for the vehicle battery

core. Its capacitance gel.

TOUGH COP:

Why's he doing that?

Simon finds what he's looking for. He backs off. The

CAR EXPLODES. Smoke everywhere. It clears. No Simon.

Dead silence in the station. The car still burns

silently on the giant screen. Lenina punches it off.

EXT. COCTEAU COMPLEX - DAY

A tall, silver needle rising from a plaza complex.

INT. COCTEAU COMPLEX - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY

DR. RAYMOND COCTEAU lectures at the end of a conference

table. We don't see who he's talking to. He has that

weird serenity of the obscenely-wealthy or a President-

Elect-far-life.

COCTEAU:

The problem is not the defacement

of public buildings.

(turning to someone

else)

The problem is not the noise

pollution of the exploding

devices.

(turning to yet

another)

The problem is that these

hooligans who have left the

comfort of our society feel a

need to spew hostility at the

bosom they have relinquished.

We REVERSE to see, instead of chairs with people in them,

the table is surrounded by HDTV video monitors on

swiveling mounts. Each screen has the face of a San

Angeles department head and his/her sphere of responsi-

bility:
PublicWorks, Orderly Conduct, Public Dietary

Concerns, Litter... Twelve swiveling video heads, all

watching and listening.

PUBLICWORKS (IMAGE)

Yes, indeed.

The other video heads turn and nod in agreement.

COCTEAU:

And mar they may, these halfdozen

miscreants infecting the

public consciousness with their

bile and venom. And while I am

saddened, truly saddened, they

have left, we cannot allow them

to impair the harmony of San

Angeles. They are but vandals

and Visigoths.

(then)

Forty-four years ago when Los

Angeles exploded in violenceAnger,

violenceHatred and violenceFear,

a disease had erupted... A disease

not socio-economic, but behavioral.

People had simply forgotten how

to behave... We cannot allow it

again. That time, politics, law,

even force were useless to affect

change... We have triumphed over

all of that.

The same principles of B.E.,

Behavioral Engineering, I have

applied to cryo-prison were

expanded into the design and

execution of what we now call...

(gestures proudly)

San Angeles, a city as fine as any

one of the holding facilities

I've designed. We have a

peacefulSafe, and above all,

happyhappy population.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes