Demolition Man Page #9

The VIDEOHEADS nod and MUTTER their approval.

COCTEAU:

Even now I am positioning actions,

postulating proceedings. I expect

your trustConfidence and certitude.

LITTER (IMAGE)

As always Mayor/Gov Raymond Cocteau.

Cocteau's assistant, ASSOCIATE BOB, comes in the room.

Gives Cocteau a significant look.

COCTEAU:

(to the VideoHeads)

If you will excuse me.

He waves dismissively at the MONITORS. The SOUND MUTES.

The video freezes. Bob is a large man with an oddly

high-pitched voice and a strangely-officious manner.

ASSOCIATE BOB:

Mayor/Gov Raymond Cocteau, a

cryocon has effected self-release

from the penitentiary.

(shaken)

It is quite horrific. Murder-

Death-Kills. All categories of

chaos...

Bob shudders.

COCTEAU:

Enhance your calm... Enhance your

calm.

Cocteau gestures to the frozen video heads.

COCTEAU:

Be well them for me. Get Captain

Earle on the Holo.

CUT TO:

INT. POLICE STATION - MAIN ROOM - DAY

Earle nods and shudders in front of the shimmering image

of Raymond Cocteau. He's really shook.

EARLE:

It was just... I mean it was so...

INT. COCTEAU COMPLEX - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY

Earle's image appears on all the VideoHeads.

COCTEAU:

I want you to do everything in

your power to get this madman.

Cocteau clicks off the Holo. Rolls his eyes. As if

the cops have a chance against Phoenix...

INT. POLICE STATION - MAIN ROOM - DAY

Earle nods. He has no idea what that might entail. He

looks really ill.

EARLE:

BE well.

Silence reigns. No one knows what to say. Lenina has

her head in her hands in shock.

EARLE:

(aghast)

He M.D.K.'ed everyone in a six

man squad. With a Strategic

Apprehension Computer. Destroyed

an official government vehicle.

'Everything in our power,' what

else is there?

Nobody has a clue what to do. Lenina looks up. An idea

forming --

HUXLEY:

Zachary Lamb. How did they

apprehend this fiendish Simon

Phoenix back in the 20th?

LAMB:

Twelve-state manhunt... Satellite

surveillance... A video-bite on

'Unsolved Mysteries'... None of

it worked. In the end, it took

one man. One cop. John Spartan.

Lenina looks at him with a pleased and spooky smile.

INT. POLICE STATION - LENINA'S OFFICE - DAY

Garcia, Earle, and Lamb are huddled before Lenina's

console.

ON SCREEN:

Shot after shot of Spartan emerging from the wreckage of

destroyed buildings dragging his prisoners behind him.

Everytime:
Wreckage, Spartan, Prisoner. Wreckage,

Spartan, Prisoner.

GARCIA:

Are you sure this is real life?

HUXLEY:

Barely. Spartan's a legend. I

did an historical study on him

last year, which I guess none of

you swallowed. One thousand arrests

in three years. All real criminals.

LAMB:

There was a lot more business

back then.

MORE WRECKAGE:

This time Spartan is marching away from a flaming, over-

turned police car, carrying a young girl. A TV camera

crew scrambles up.

FEMALE REPORTER (IMAGE)

How do you reconcile the fact you

destroyed a three million dollar

mini-mall to rescue a girl whose

ransom was only 10,000...

LITTLE GIRL (IMAGE)

F*** you, lady!

SPARTAN (IMAGE)

Good answer.

LENINA:

smiles at the screen --

EARLE:

This is a recommendation? Your

'Demolition man's' an animal, a

muscle-bound grotesque who...

HUXLEY:

He is clearly the man for such a

job as this. You could reinstate

him. He hasn't worn a shield in

over forty years. Or much else,

for that matter.

GARCIA:

He must be seventy years old by

now.

A smile slowly unfolds on her face. Lamb knows where

she's going as we...

CUT TO:

INT. CRYO-PRISON - MAIN ROOM - DAY

ON a Status panel: Cellular activity: Null. Tempera-

ture:
.5 degree K. Lights begin to cycle. A SERVO

WHINES. The CAMERA MOVES TO the chamber as the autolock

begins to unwind. Unlock. The arm moves aside. The

frozen puck rises from its chamber. Spartan hasn't

moved, blinked in 40 years.

Two Techs in insulated suits and gloves stand on either

side. Both wear tiny flip-up welding goggles. The

first, takes out a Durameter. Tests the puck. Harder

than steel, a little less than a diamond.

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