Die Hard 2 Page #4

26 TRUDEAU 26

lighting a cigarette, he hovers over BARNES.

BARNES:

We just lost FAA approach control.

TRUDEAU:

Weather may have screwed up the line.

Switch over to our own back up and

run a check.

Barnes hits a switch. The ALARM STOPS. Everyone relaxes.

CUT TO:

27 INT. AIRPORT BAR - NIGHT 27

WIDEN from McClane at the bar, his coat on a stool beside him.

He's on his second scotch. On the BAR TV, we SEE SAMANTHA

("SAM") COPELAND, a reporter with "live" super'd over her body.

She is clearly somewhere inside this airport

SAM:

(ON TV)

--here at Dulles, the quiet men from

the Justice Department wait to put

handcuffs on the man who has come

to symbolize the enemy in America's

fight against cocaine... This battle

may be almost won... but the war

is still in doubt. Samantha

Copeland... . WNTW for NightTime News.

CAMERA ADJUSTS to.show a MAN as he OPENS a PHONE BOOTH. It's

very quick, but we REALIZE that while in there he. wasn't using

the phone but one of the transceivers we saw before.

This is MAJOR GARBER, Stuart's second-in-command; but his

efficiency and chilly courage are second to none. CAMERA FOLLOWS

HIM to a TABLE.

C OC HRANE and MILLER - TWO MORE of those neat, trim young men-are

there, in neat_,--Eo'ring topcoats.

CONTINUED:

27 CONTINUED - 27

GARBER:

That was the Colonel: All perimeter

teams are in place.

(TO COCHRANE)

Weather?

'Cochrane covers one ear and we SEE that he has a RADIO EARPLUG.

other. He listens intently, then GRINS.

' OCH

Flurries all along h e Virginia

Coast... new storm moving in from

the Northeast.

GARBER:

(sharing the smile)

God loves the Infantry.

(SMILE GONE)

Carry out your assignment. We'll

regroup at field HQ.

(setting his watch)

Three fifty one... Mark.

They syncronize their watches, and then Mi l1e leaves the bar.

CAMERA PANS HIM out. He walks right past McClane, who doesn't

notice him.

A beat after Mil ergs exit, two AIRPORT COPS in snow-flecked

JACKETS come into the bar. Seeing, them, the bartender is

already pouring coffee for them. But-

28 GARBER AND COCHRANE 28

also see the cops - and very casually, Cochrane ulls the earplug

from his ear. Equally casually, Garber Vs-Wed-If-is- foot to slide

the two long Christmas package at his feet under the table.

29 ON MCCLANE - CAMERA PUSH 29

This gets his attention. His eyes narrow. He looks from the two

or d inary looking men towards the Airport cops, wonders why they

got fidgety. Now he watches

30 GARBER & Q HRANE 30

who looks at his watch, signals Cochrane. Both rise. But as

Cochrane bends to pick up his wrapped package... and as he moves,

something dangles inside his jacket. Is it a holster?

31 MCCLANE 31

turns to watch them exit, sees them SPLIT up outside the bar.

Quickly, McClane goes over to the Airport cops.

CONTINUED:

13

(X)

31 CONTINUED - 31

MCCLANE:

Excuse me, officers. This may be

a total wild goose chase, but I think

I just saw -

He STOPS. CAMERA ADJUSTS. The cop he's talking to is the

a**hole who towed away the car.

1

AIRPORT COP:

Saw what?

MCCLANE:

Elvis.

McClane turns, throws money near his glass and quickly exits the

bar.

CUT TO:

32 INT. TERMINAL - WITH THE MEDIA 32

trying to get the half dozen UNIFORMED US MARSHALS or the three

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LAWYERS to talk to them - without success.

But one reporter - Sam - NOTICES -

33 STUART - MOVING THROUGH AIRPORT -HER POV' 33

I as she watches, Garber joins him -

34 BACK TO SCENE 34

SAM:

(nudging her cameraman)

Hey. Colonel Stuart.

CAMERAMAN:

Old news.

SAM:

Better than these loxes.

Very quietly, Sam and the cameraman do their best to slip away

from the pack.

35 STUART AND GARBER - WALKING ALONG TOWARDS EXIT 35

STUART:

(SOTTO)

Everything on schedule?

GARBER:

Tapping airport phones right now.

Got a slight problem with personnel:

Last minute replacement. What's the

status of the security here?

I:

CONTINUED:

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(X)

35 CONTINUED - 35

STUART:

(nodding towards the

JUSTICE PEOPLE)

Like we figured. A joke -

But suddenly both men are in the GLARE of a portable light.

SAM:

Colonel Stuart! Can we have a few

words with you?

I:

STUART:

You can have two: "F***" and "you".

And the interview is over and he's out the door.

CUT TO:

36 INT. TERMINAL - ESCALATORS - NIGHT 36

McClane's head panning the holiday crowd - then SEEING Cochrane.

Quickly, he FOLLOWS Cochrane downwards - into

37 LUGGAGE AREA 37

where a TOURIST JUNKET gets between McClane and his quarry-

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