Die Hard 2 Page #10

TECHNICIAN:

Back up systems won't come up-!

TRUDEAU:

Shunt to another terminal!

TECHNICIAN:

This ain't software, boss -

LORENZO:

Maybe we should call the power

company...?

TRUDEAU:

We're on the same Goddamn grid and

we're hot!

Already the SPEAKER BOXES are beginning to CHATTER -

PILOT'S VOICE 2ND PILOT'S VOICE

(panicked) Dulles Tower, this is TWA

Dulles, what's going on? 23 -what the hell happened

I'm in approach - - to you -?

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CONTROLLER 2ND CONTROLLER

604, pull up. Return to You're not in approach, 23.

holding altitude. Stand by for instructions...

BARNES:

(COMING OVER)

Checked all systems. It ain't

happening.

And now, God help us, all REACT to ANOTHER ALARM.

89 IN THE VIRGINIA CHURCH 89

A CABLE yanked from the ground gets CUT, SPARKING -

90 THE CAB 90

WHIP PAN to an ENGINEER -

ENGINEER:

(PANICKED)

Approach control backup! It's gone!

91 IN THE CHURCH'S BACKYARD - SAME TIME 91

GLOWING FIBER OPTIC CABLE stretched like a sacrifice on a BLOCK

-AXE BLADE swoops down - SPARKS. The LIGHT DIES -

92 IN THE CAB - SAME TIME 92

2ND ENGINEER

Jesus! Instrument landing system

i s c l own!

BARNES:

Confirmed! ILS is dead - every

Goddamn system is dead!

TRUDEAU:

(quick, commanding)

Jacoby, Strauss. Get your controllers

on the horn - every plane approaching

our Vortacs that's not in our pattern

yet gets turned away'now. Everyone

already inside our patrn holds at

the outer marker. Stack 'em, pack

'em, and rack 'em. Move.

(to another man)

I want every off duty controller and

technician here in five minutes.

Page the terminal - no, better, beep

them.

(TURNING)

McClane. This what you were

expecting?

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MCCLANE:

This? This ain't it, pal. This is

just the beginning.

A PHONE RINGS. CAMERA ADJUSTS. It's a prominent RED PHONE.

BARNES:

(HOPEFUL)

FAA hotline -!

I:

LORENZO:

How could they know already -?

MCCLANE:

Maybe they don't.

(TO TRUDEAU)

Maybe... it's them.

TRUDEAU:

(a look at McClane, then;)

Put it on speaker.

STUART'S VOICE

Attention, Dulles Tower. Attention,

Dulles Tower -

93 INT. VIRGINIA CHURCH NIGHT 93

Stuart is using a phone that's PATCHED IN to the cables ripped

from the earth -

STUART:

(DRYLY)

I think by now I've got your

attention. I know your recorders

go 24 hours around the clock, so I'll

be quick -you can play me back later

all you want.

94 INT. CAB - INTERCUT 94

TRUDEAU:

How. did you get on this line? Who

is this?

STUART:

Who I am is unimportant. What I

want... well, if you don't want those

planes overhead to start dropping

like flies when they run out of

fuel... what I want is very

important.

All REACT - McClane as much as anyone.

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STUART(CONT'D)

A plane is going to be landing at

this Airport in 58 minutes. It is

FM 1 - Foreign Military 1.

MCCLANE:

Esperanza?

Trudeau nods -

STUART:

This plane is scheduled to be met

by a continigent from the U.S.

Justice-department. But now there

will be a change of plans. This plane

will not be met by anyone. It will

land on a runway of my designation

where it will not be molested. That

will conclude my interest in that

plane and your responsibility for

it. At the same time, I want a 747

cargo conversion fully fueled.

95 FAVORING MCCLANE 95

As Trudeau tries to make headway with Stuart, McClave leans over

to Barnes.

MCCLANE:

What's all that about?

BARNES:

A 747 has the furthest flight

capacity of anything we've got here.

Take out the seats and save some

weight, add the wing tanks and it

could go to Australia, Africa, Asia

- hell the whole Goddamn world.'

MCCLANE:

Meaning they pull Esperanza off his

plane and take him anywhere there's

no extradition treaties.

LORENZO:

They're talking to us on our own

Goddamn system! They gotta be close

- I'll have my men tear this airport

APART -

MCCLANE:

About time, Carmine. Guess you have

to light a fire under your ass to

light a fire under your ass.

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CD:

LORENZO:

McClane, I got a first class unit

here, SWAT team and all, and we don't

need any Monday morning quarterbacks.

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