Die Hard 2 Page #11

MCCLANE:

(pissed, moving in)

Monday morning? My wife's on one

of those planes these aasstards are

f***ing with! That makes me a player

on the f***ing field, you putz! And

if you got off your fat ass when I

told you to, maybe we wouldn't be

knee deep in sh*t right now!

LORENZO:

(turning, shouting)

Security!

(back to McClane)

You're out of here!

And already two big Airport cops are trotting over. As Trudeau

REACTS, unsure -

LORENZO:

Mr. Trudeau. Do I have to remind you

about FAA regulations regarding

unauthorized personnel in the control

tower?

TRUDEAU:

(TO GUARDS)

See Mr. McClane out.

96 AT THE ELEVATOR 96

It opens. Someone's inside., but we don't feature them yet.

MCCLANE:

(as he's muscled in)

Trudeau, can't you see you're dealing

with pros? You can't f*** with these

GUYS -

Sam comes out of the elevator, holding up her ID.

SAM:

(TO TRUDEAU)

Sam Coleman, WNTW news. Mr. Trudeau,

there's a lot of rumors flying around

THE -

LORENZO:

Oh, no, no way -

CONTINUED:

37

(X)

-96 CONTINUED - 96

TRUDEAU:

This is off limits, Coleman, you know

that!

Together with McClane she's shoved into the elevator.

MCCLANE:

Anything you can think-of, they'll

think of, too!

But the elevator DOORS CLOSE on him and now Lorenzo turns a KEY

on the control panel, then SPEAKS into his walkie talkie.

LORENZO:

Lobby Security, come in.

96A AIRPORT - LOBBY - INTERCUT 96A

LOBBY COP:

(into RADIO),

Tomlinson here -

LORENZO:

And Lorenzo here, with two

unauthorized personnel in the f***ing

tower! Get your thumb out of your

ass and get over to the elevator.

Get them out and post a guard or

you're gonna have a pink slip in your

Christmas stocking!

Rattled, the guard signals a comrade, hustles to obey.

97 IN THE ELEVATOR 97

SAM:

Anything who can think of? Can't

f*** with.what guys?

McClane punches buttons. But it's on override.

MCCLANE:

Sh*t!

SAM:

Big drug dealer on the way to prison.

Gunfight in airport. Every controller

in the coffee shop getting beeped

and hauling ass, and you rocking the

boat. A connection? Come on, McClane

-Just a few words -?

CONTINUED:

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97 CONTINUED - 97

MCCLANE:

(opening the control

PANEL)

How about "f***" and "you"?

SAM:

I already got that from Colonel

Stuart, thanks -!

McClane STOPS as if zapped by a Taser.

MCCLANE:

(REALIZING)

Stuart! The guy who got canned by

Congress - that's who he was-

SAM:

Huh? Who he who?

But McClane has already jumped up and grabbed the light fixture,

and now in a gymnast's move KICKS out the ceiling hatch and

disappears through the roof! (X)

98 NEW ANGLE 98

The door opens. The GUARDS there REACT to the open ceiling. (X)

Sam shrugs.

SAM:

Claustrophobic, I guess.

CUT TO:

99 INT. CAB - NIGHT 99

TILT UP from a big map of the airport. Lots of AD-LIB

BRAINSTORMING, some of it breaking through - some how one reedy

hesitant voice cuts through with nothing but confidence

BARNES:

--guys, guys, all we have to do is

find a way to transmit - (X)

1ST ENGINEER

(SARCASTIC)

Yeah, right. Somebody run down to

Radio Shack and get a transmitter-

BARNES:

We have one.

(POINTING OUTSIDE)

The new terminal wing they're

building? Twenty airlines when it's

done?

(MORE)

CONTINUED:

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(X)

CONTINUED - 99

BARNES (CONT'D)

All with their reservation computers,

all tied into a nice big antenna

array so they can talk to their home

offices- it's just sitting there

waiting to go on line -

I 2ND ENGINEER

That's VHF - it'll scatter -

BARNES:

I:

Doesn't matter; The planes we want

to reach are right overhead. I could

rig our frequency in - 30 minutes...

wire in a crossover and we're hot.

The planes wouldn't even know the

difference.

TRUDEAU:

Get what you need. Borrow, steal,

kill.

LORENZO:

(heading for the elevator)

I want my Swat team to go with him

as cover.

(firm, tough)

Whatever we can think of - they can

think of, too.

He says it like he thought of it himself. Then -

STUART'S VOICE

Attention, Tower. You have two more

minutes to stack the planes in your

inbound pattern over your outside

radio marker. After that you will

be able.to receive only. Any attempt

to restore your systems will be met

by severe penalties.

At the elevator, Lorenzo pauses - stage WHISPERS -

LORENZO:

He's bluffing -

Lorenzo leaves. Trudeau ain't so sure.

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