Die Hard 2 Page #15

HOLLY:

(DRYLY)

I think you're closer than fifty

yards.

THORNBERG:

So is that plane... practically.

Despite herself, she looks out.

HOLLY:

Yeah. There's quite a few out there;

we're in a regular traffic jam.

THORNBERG:

There's nothing regular about it.

(TURNING)

I see you're intrigued. That's my

gift, Mrs. McClane. I make people

curious.

HOLLY:

Don't you mean nauseous?

THORNBERG:

The people have a right to know, Mrs.

McClane. You got in the way of that.

HOLLY:

You endangered my children... my

husband.. and me.

(MORE)

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140 CONTINUED - 140

HOLLY (CONT'D)

And you didn't do it for anything

as noble as "the people". The only

time you see the people is when you're

climbing over their backs.

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141 INT. ANNEX - NIGHT 141

McClane is doing a damn decent FIELD DRESSING on Barnes.

BARNES:

(into his cellular phone)

--me? I'll live. But Lorenzo's (X)

SWAT team is dead... and the antenna

array is toast. Start looking for (X)

a new miracle.

AN EERIE ALIEN TYPE VOICE makes them both jump; McClane raises

his GUN.

142 NEW ANGLE 142

It's coming from a TRANSCEIVER beside one of the dead men.

Curious, Barnes slides over, picks it up. LISTENS with McClane

to the GARBLED, spine-chilling NOISE.

143 INT. VIRGINIA CHURCH 143

GARBER:

I say again, Annex team... report

in. Annex team, report in.

He looks at Stuart, concerned.

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144 INT. ANNEX 144

Here, Garber no longer sounds human.

MCCLANE:

What...?

BARNES:

Some kind of scrambler so even if

we scan their frequency we can't

listen in. Descramble mode must

activate on this code panel.

(ALMOST ADMIRINGLY)

These guys are pros.

MCCLANE:

So are you. Break the code -

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(X)

144 CONTINUED - 144

BARNES:

Eight numbers - that's 8 X 7 X 6 times

-UN -

(THINKING)

40,320 possible combinations.

(WEAKLY)

Next time you kill one of these guys

- get them to enter the code first.

145 IN THE VIRGINIA CHURCH - NIGHT 145

Kahn descends from the choir loft and joins Stuart and Grant.

KAHN:

(TO STUART)

Sir, we just monitored a call from

their chief engineer. Our people

took out their Swat team...

completely.

GARBER:

You were right... they went for the

antenna array. We're right on

schedule.

STUART:

Except losing our own team wasn't

part of the plan.

He comes to a decision. Picks up the phone. Speaks. Voice

flat, firm, stern. Around and above him, his men hover over the

improvised screens and terminals.

STUART:

Attention, Dulles. You were warned

not to try and restore your systems.

146 INT. CAB 146

They listen, fearful -

STUART'S VOICE

You've wasted lives and time on a

futile and obvious target. Now you

have to pay the penalty.

147 MCCLANE - IN ANNEX - SAME TIME 147

They HEAR this too, over Barne's cellular tie in to the tower.

McClane grabs it.

MCCLANE:

There's five dead officers here,

Colonel Stuart - Isn't that penalty

enough?

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(X)

148 INT. CAB - NIGHT 148

This interchange is BROADCAST here - Lorenzo SHOUTS into the

PHONE-

LORENZO:

McClane! Keep out of this! You-

He stops, seeing the chilling look Trudeau is giving him.

149 STUART 149

has reacted to both the mention of his name and of McClane's.

His brow furrows. Ah, yes.

STUART:

McClave? John McClane? The...

policeman hero who saved the Nakatomi

hostages? I read about you in People

magazine. You seemed out of your

league on Nightline, though...

MCCLANE:

Yeah, Colonel. We were both famous

for five minutes. Saw you get sh*t

canned by Congress on TV. How much

drug money is Esperanza paying you

to turn traitor?

STUART:

I think Cardinal Richlieu said it

best:
Treason is merely a matter

of dates. And this country has to

learn it can't keep cutting the legs

off men. like General Esperanza -men

with the guts to stand up to Soviet

agression.

MCCLANE:

And lesson one starts with killing

policemen? What's lesson two - the

Neutron bomb?

STUART:

I think we can find something in

between.

(aside, off mike)

Give me a flight number - one low

on fuel.

Another man hands him a slip of paper. He reads it, switches to

another mike (or frequency).

STUART:

Windsor flight one-four-teen, this

is Dulles Approach... do you copy?

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