Final Destination Page #4

The cabin buffets, as if passing mild turbulance. Then...

The cabin sharply JOLTS! Everyone tenses, GASPS. CAMERA SWEEPS BACK TO ALEX.

And just as he clenches his backpack... the cabin BANGS, ROCKS. THE ENGINES

SPOOL TO A STALL. METAL TWISTS under extreme PRESSURE. The cabin dips,

angles, sharply to the right.

ALEX'S POV - THE CABIN

Passengers SCREAM! Unrestrained personal belongings fly across the aircraft

INTO CAMERA, which BUFFETS and SHAKES...

OXYGEN MASKS:

deploy from the overhead compartments. A prerecorded message, like that

recorded by the black box of the crash of JAL# 123 August 12, 1985, BLARES

over the P.A., with erie calm...

MESSAGE (V.O.)

Fasten seat belts...put on

oxygon masks...

ALEX:

his hand trembles as he reaches for the oxygon mask and places it over his

face. The ENGINES resuscutate. SCREAMING. WHINING. Alex checks out his

window.

ALEX'S POV - OUT OF WINDOW

The plane is on it's side losing altitude. A slow, sick spin.

ALEX:

breaths deep into his oxygon cup.

The JET ENGINES GRIND AND WHIR, as if the craft were in the midst of a last

ditch effort to regain stability; the sounds DEAFENING over the PASSENGERS'

cruelly hopeless SCREAMS.

Then...

KA-BOOM

A DEVASTATING EXPLOSION ERUPTS across the cabin, blasting a five foot hole

in the fuseluge. Human limbs and blood sprays, craft and passengers torn to

shreds.

Dead students sit lifeless in their seats.

Every unrestrianed object on board flies to the hole and through the fire;

paper, books, luggage, pillows. A PARENT and a STUDENT clutch their seat in

terror, SCREAMING before they are pulled into the sky.

Wind. Screams. Dying Engines, a deafining blare.

ALEX AND TOD:

SCREAM, pale, knowing there is no hope, no escape as the ENGINES DIE. The

cabin begins to tilt downwards... then straight down. Debris tumbles toward

the flight deck as if falling from a cliff.

OUTSIDE... the sick familiar SOUND of an aircraft going down.

ALEX is strapped to his seat, upper body facing downward toward the water.

FIRE, WIND, AND BLOOD WHIP across him. A BUILDING WHINE CRESCENDOES before a

second EXPLOSION RIPS ACROSS FRAME...

CUT TO:

CLOSE - ALEX'S TERRIFIED EYES

dilating rapidly, as the shock of what appears to be happening before him

washes over his every psyche.

CHRISTA (O.S.)

Alex?

ALEX:

Drenched with sweat, trembling in his seat, his eyes dart toward Christa and

Blake. They look great and the're workin' the sex appeal.

CHRISTA:

Could you trade seats with

Blake so she and I can sit

together? I asked Tod, but he's

got some medical thing.

Alex turns sickeninly disoriented. His eyes dart about searching for

evidnece of the catastrophe. There are none to be found. Alex blots from his

seat, startling the two girls. He scrambles toward Tod, who looks at his

friend, concerned.

TOD:

Dude, what up?

Frenzied, Alex climbs over his friend, on top of the seat. Alex's panic has

alerted the other students and a MALE FLIGHT ATTENDANT who makes his way to

the row.

ALEX:

grabs the tray table latch before the vacent seat. IT BREAKS OFF, JUST AS

BEFORE. CAMARA PUSHES INTO ALEX, terrified. He begins to hyperventilate.

FLIGHT ATTENDANT

Is there a a problem, sir?

Alex's wild eyes and expression convey "no f***ing kidding there's a

problem." The flight attendant realizes this passenger is expiriencing a

serious episode.

Directly across the aisle, Carter Horton and Terry look at him with severe

expression.

CARTER:

What's your f***in' problem?

Mr. Murnau and Ms. Lewton unfasten their seat belts and rush toward Alex.

MR. MURNAU

Alex? Qu'est-ce se?

ALEX:

Qu'est-ce se?! THE PLANES GONNA

EXPLODE!

Obviously, no one ever wants to ever hear that. The students tense.

THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT

immediatly turns to other attendants, sighaling for assistance with a quick

definite gesture. In the b.g., attendants hustle toward the economy class

cabin.

CARTER AND TERRY

CARTERTERRY:

Shut up, Browning!You're not funny.

ALEX:

frenzied, begins moving toward the aisle.

ALEX:

We have to get out!

This frightens everyone. Not the " prophecy," but his panicky, irrational

behavior.

ALEX (CONT'D)

We have to get off this plane!

CLEAR RIVERS:

CAMARA PUSHES INTO HER, hearing Alex's declaration.

ALEX (CONT'D)

Now! NOW!!

RETURN:

Alex is desperately climbing over Tod, who is trying to calmly restrain his

friend. Across the aisle, Carter Horton stands ready to quiet Alex, with

force.

CARTER:

Sit! DOWN! Browning!

TODFLIGHT ATTENDANT

Alex. Alex! Easy, man. Take itSir, if this is a joke, we

easy.don't tolerate such humor.

The flight attendant restrains Crter with an extended forearm.

ALEX:

I'm not joking! I'm not joking!

Ms. Lewton and Mr. Murnau move to the seats. Flight attendants try

restraining Alex from reaching the aisle.

MS. LEWTONMR. MURNAU

Alex, Knock it off. It's alright.Settle down, Alex.

ALEX:

Listen to me! This plane will explode

on take-off!

FLIGHT ATTENDANT

Sir, we will remove you from the

aircraft if this continues.

CARTER:

I'll remove him.

ALEX:

F*** you! I'll remove myself!

Carter reaches for Alex, who pushes back, trying to get out. Carter

responds aggressivly and now the flight attendant, Tod, and the two teachers

are in the midst of the melee.

The Co-Pilot arrives to secure the situation. He grabs Alex and begins

forcibly ushering him up the aisle.

A male flight attendant choke holds Carter from the back. Carter struggles

but the attendants postioning has the advantage. He begins removing Carter

from the plane as well.

TERRY:

He didn't do nothin'!

She follows the attendant, hitting him to help her boyfriend.

Just arriving in the cabin, Billy Hitchcock tries to fight passed a

STEWARDESS to get to his seat. He is blocked by the mass of compatants as

they are escorted out.

FLIGHT ATTENDANT

(he's had it)

Anybody in the aisle is off the plane!

BILLY:

No, wait, I was late... that's

my seat right there!

Inder protest, Billy gets pushed back off the plane. Mr. Murnau and Ms.

Lewton follow the pack of students and airline personnel as they move toward

the exit, calling out to seated teachers and parents while hustleing up the

aisles.

MS. LEWTONMR. MURNAU

Everybody just stay where you Mr. Carpenter, keep an eye on

are. Just sit tight.things for a moment.

Tod watches, amazed and concerned for his friend. He looks across the cabin

to...

TOD'S POV - GEORGE

his brother gestures, mouths... "you should go with him."

TOD:

starts off down the aisles. CAMERA COUNTERS... ADJUSTING TO CLEAR RIVERS.

Amongst the chaos, she considers for a beat, then grabs her backpack, stands

and moves into the aisle to exit the plane.

CUT TO:

INT. BOARDING AREA/TUNNEL - GATE 39 - DAY

Alex, the co-pilot, Carter, the attendant, Mr. Murnau, Ms, Lewton, Terry,

Tod and Billy proceed down the tunnel. Billy is confused by the chaos.

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