Die Hard 2 Page #13

(INTO PHONE)

I'm sending the SWAT team over for

Barnes now - we don't need the Goddamn

Christmas tourists seeing guns and

flipping out so they'll take him the

long way around...

107 IN BASEMENT - TIGHT ON ALLIGATOR CLIPS 107

We WIDEN as Marvin connects them to one set of bolts, then

another. 'McClave shakes his head. No... no...yes!

LORENZO'S VOICE

Through the annex skywalk to the new

terminal... that way nobody sees them,

we don't have any panic.

TRUDEAU'S VOICE

And we don't want any disasters.

Barnes has five minutes to check out

that antenna array.

MCCLANE:

(aside to Marvin)

Christ. They're gonna try something

cute... where's this annex skywalk?

MARVIN:

Annex skywalk...? Sounds like the

pissant World's Fair...

He rummages around, finds a big wrinkled MAP, smoothes it out.

MARVIN(CONT'D)

Lemme see... yeah, must be this...

connects to the new terminal -

Marvin points to an ELEVATED WALKWAY connecting the two

complexes.

CONTINUED:

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107 CONTINUED - 107

MCCLANE:

(looking at map)

Sh*t, it's a f***ing bottleneck.

Anybody smart enough to shut down

the airport is smart enough to figure

this... it's a perfect place for an

ambush...

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108 INT. TERMINAL ENGINEERING OFFICE - NIGHT 108

Barnes, nervous, throws things into a metal case.

His fellow engineers watch, curious, as he EXITS with the FIVE

SWAT COPS. CAMERA FOLLOWS the four men past -

A) BANKS OF COMPUTERS -

B) COMPUTERIZED WEATHER MAPS -

C) AN L.E.D. DULLES MAP -

all of it useless, all of the operators watching their only hope

Barnes.

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109 BASEMENT 109

A MOUND of CRINKLED PAPERS is FLATTENED against the card table.

We WIDEN, see it is an architect's PLANS of the entire Dulles

netherworld, cribbed by Marvin and now festooned with his various

multi-color jotes and notes.

MARVIN:

Now, see? Here's you. And here's

the skywalk.

(POINTING)

Now, check this out...

MCCLANE:

Tunnels.

MARVIN:

(NODDING)

Like the Japs had all over Iwo Jima.

That's where I got wounded. But we

put those little twerps in their place

once and for all.

(pointing to the map)

These are air ducts for all the

terminals. Heating, cooling. Whole

shebang.

(MORE)

CONTINUED:

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109 CONTINUED - 109

MARVIN (Cont'd)-

So I put you in the boiler room

where they start, and you come out

there.

MCCLANE:

Looks like... maybe a mile. Easy

jog.

MARVIN:

(AMUSED)

Uh-uh. It's a pisser of a crawl.

And that's the easy part; firs

you gotta be an acrobat.

110 INT. BASEMENT -- DUCT ACCESS 110

With a cordless drill, Marvin unhinges the access door. Last

bolt, it falls with a sheet-metal SLAM.

McClane WINCES as a BLAST of AIR hits him - and, as. perspiration

breaks out on his forehead, we realize it's hot air.

MCCLANE:

Whoa.

MARVIN:

Winter up there... Summer down here.

He aims Marvin's flashlight down there, isn't enchanted with what

he sees. He turns, takes Marvin's map.

MCCLANE(CONT'D)

I owe you one, Marvin. How about

a sixpack of malt liquor?

MARVIN:

How 'bout a case of Johnny Walker?

(on McClane's look)

Hey, I may be homeless, but I ain't

tasteless.

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111 INT. LONG TERMINAL GALLERY - NIGHT 111

A big "history of flight" MURAL high on the wall here HALF

FINISHED, ceilings PARTIALLY OPEN; A WORKER on the scaffold

and THREE OTHERS on the floor still hammering and. fiddling.

Barnes and the cops come in. Barnes looks OUT the WINDOWS here

AT -

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112 SATELLITE ARRAY - THROUGH GLASS - FAR END OF GALLERY 112

still covered with FACTORY PLASTIC and TAPE.

113 BACK TO SCENE 113

BARNES:

(into his cellular phone)

We're in the annex skywalk. I can

see the dish! I'll call you as soon

as it's hot for a protocol test.

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114 MCCLANE - IN BOILER ROOM - NIGHT 114

McClane moves forward - stops immediately. Looks up at Marvin,

who GRINS.

114A MCCLANE'SPOV DOWNWARD 114A

He's HIGH ABOVE the huge boiler room. The only way across is on

a narrow beam.

114B BACK TO SCENE 114B

McClane takes a breath, starts across the beam. There's a scary

moment at first but he gets quickly confident - a bit too

; 7-7 confident midway - he starts to lose his balance and all-but runs

to the far end, JUMPS to safety.

As he pulls himself up he HEARS Marvin CLAPPING behind him.

With a scowl, McClane checks his map, pushes on.

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115 INT. ANNEX CORRIDOR - NIGHT 115

Barnes and the SWAT cops run forward, get on the SLIDEWALK;

impatient, they run even while on it.

116 A WORKER - AT FAR END OF SLIDEWALK 116

reaches into the open slidewalk CONTROL PANEL-hits a SWITCH.

117 THE SLIDEWALK 117

JERKS to a halt -the( six men n it almost TUMBLING. Oblivious,

the worker turns his-bwCk on them again.

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