Die Hard Page #7

MCCLANE'S VOICE

The vote's not in yet.

41 INT. PHONE ROOM - SAME 41

Karl cuts through the four tubes one at a time.

42 INT. ELLIS' BATHROOM - SAME 42

McClane on the phone.

ARGYLE'S VOICE

(mocking)

'Vote's not in yet?' What's that

supposed to mean.

MCCLANE:

What do you want, 'All My Children'?

We're making progress. After I get my

foot out of my mouth, we'll really be

cooking, and then I can --

He stops and gently taps the phone cradle. No dial tone.

43 INT. LIMO 43

Argyle looks at the phone.

ARGYLE:

What?...Mr. Mac, you there?

He turns down the music but there is on one on the line.

ARGYLE:

(to himself)

Well, call me back, John. You got

the number.

He hangs up and turns the volume back up.

44 ELLIS' OFFICE 44

McClane hangs up the original phone and then tries the other

one on the desk. It, too, is dead.

45 INT. SERVICE ELEVATOR 45

Hans and the others approaching the 30th floor. As they grow

closer, we hear the noise of the speakers growing louder and

louder. The men cock their weapons and brace themselves as the

car stops and the elevator doors open. ON THE SOUND OF GUNSHOTS

AND SCREAMS WE:

CUT TO:

46 INT. ELLIS' OFFICE 46

McClane grabs his shoulder harness off the back of the chair,

moves quickly to the doorway. He looks down the hall.

47 MCCLANE'S P.O.V. 47

Two terrorists, FRANCE and FRITZ, armed with M-5 machine guns

searching the offices on the hall one by one. They open a door,

look in from the hallway, and move on quickly to the next.

They are four offices away and moving fast.

McClane looks across the corridor and sees the stairwell door

-- too far to reach without being seen.

48 MCCLANE 48

steps back, throws off the safety on his Beretta and braces

himself. He opens the door, peers through a crack at:

49 HALLWAY - FRANCE AND FRITZ 49

QUICK CUTS as McClane's eyes SCAN their weapons...he's totally

outgunned, and he knows it.

Franco and Fritz reach the office just before Ellis' and throw

open the door REVEALING the man and woman who interrupted Holly

and McClane a few minutes before, now in the throes of

passionate lovemaking on the desk. The two terrorists smile

at each other, then enter the office.

A moment later the man, (trying desperately to pull up his

pants) and the woman (buttoning her blouse) are pushed out

into the hall and toward the larger group by Fritz. The other

terrorist, Franco, goes to Ellis' office and opens the door.

It is...empty.

50 INT. STAIRWELL - SAME 50

CLOSE ON McClane's bare feet padding quickly up the concrete

stairs, two at a time. We FOLLOW him up, then out onto the:

50-A 31th FLOOR 50-A

This is the mezzanine floor immediately above the main

Nakatomi lobby. McClane sees Theo and KRISTOFF wheeling carts

of equipment. McClane ducks back into the stairwell, he runs

up another flight and out onto:

51 UNFINISHED FLOOR 51

Eventually it will be one large secretarial pool, but only a

portion is completed. Half-finished partitions and office

furniture in its original plastic wrappings are everywhere.

One end has a few lonely finished working areas.

McClane moves quickly to a desk and picks up a phone. It's

out.

MCCLANE:

Sh*t...

He looks out the window at:

51-A NEIGHBORING BUILDING - MCCLANE'S P.O.V. 51-A

A high-rise apartment building a half-block away sparkles with

lights. McClane stares at a PRETTY GIRL in her bedroom. She's

wearing drop dead underwear right out of the Victoria's Secret

catalog. As we watch, she flops down on her bed, and with

one long leg in the air, effortlessly dials

a call on her high-tech phone. It seems so easy.

51-B BACK TO SCENE 51-B

Frustrated, he watches this, knits his brow.

MCCLANE:

Think...

52 INT. 30th FLOOR (HOSTAGE FLOOR) - SAME 52

The employees have been herded to the center of the room where

the desks have been pulled back. Many people are whimpering.

52-A HOLLY 52-A

She looks around the room for McClane. She's so intent on

this that she doesn't see one TERRORIST waving her forward.

Exasperated, he SHOVES her. Her glare at him shows us her

mettle.

52-B WIDER 52-B

As the employees are bunched together, Ellis seeks out Holly.

He's clearly scared but trying to fake courage. He pats her

hand "reassuringly."

Hans steps up on top of a desk and looks over the group. He

reaches into a pocket...several people CRINGE...but what he

comes out with is a Bottega Venata pocket notebook. He checks

his own scribblings like a dais speaker.

HANS:

(soothing, in control)

Ladies and gentlemen, due to the

Nakatomi Corporation's legacy of

greed around the globe, it is about

to be taught a lesson on real power.

You...will be witnesses.

If our demands are not met, however --

(sad smile)

-- You may become participants instead.

(beat, checking notes)

Now, where is...'Takagi'? Where is

the man who...

(slight smile)

...used to be in charge here?

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