Final Destination Page #5

BILLY:

I didn't do anything! I have

my ticket right here!

Arriving SECURITY OFFICERS quickly have control of the situation. Alex is

taken to a seat at the gate and dropped there by the co-pilot, who, winded,

eyes the officers.

CO-PILOT

You got this?

The officers nod. One moves toward Carter as he dropped in a seat away from

Alex. Terry sits behind Carter.

The co-pilot and attendants start back toward the plane. Ms. Lewton hustles

over to them and an airline representitive.

CO-PILOT

No one get's back on board.

That's my call.

MS. LEWTON

PLEASE... I've got forty

students going to Paris...

As these negotiations... CAMERA MOVES PAST Ms. Lewton and the Co-Pilot to

the boarding ramp door...

Clear Rivers exits and takes a seat away from the others, aware she is

unnoticed in the confusion. CAMERA INCHES IN as she looks up toward...

ALEX:

CAMERA MATCHES THE MOVE TO HIM AS TOD and Mr. Murnau attemp to calm him

down.

TOD:

It's alright. It's alright.

You're off the plane. You're

the plane...

Rattled, Alex is attmpted to compose himself. Ms. Lewton appears, hurriedly

pulling aside Mr. Murnau.

MS. LEWTON

Airlines not taking this very well.

They'll let one of us back on and

the rest can grab a six ten flight

Get's in two hours later at DeGaulle.

It's alright. It's not that big of a

deal.

MR. MURNAU

I'll stay.

MS. LEWTON

No, you know the whole French

thing. Get on the plane.

Murnau understands this point and takes off toward the boarding ramp door.

Pleading his case, Billy follows Murnau.

BILLY:

I was in the bathroom.

The lock was stuck. I didn't

fight with anyone!

Hustling toward the door. Mr. Murnau gestures toward Ms. Lewton as if "talk

to her." He disappears down the ramp. CAMERA PUSHES IN as airline personnel

CLOSE THE DOOR...with an ominous THUD.

EXT. GATE 39 - AFTERNOON - CARTER, TERRY & BILLY'S POV

Flight 180 pulls out of gate, taxiing toward the runway.

INT. GATE 39 - OBSERVATION WINDOW - AFTERNOON

Carter turns over his shoulder, looking back angerily towards Alex. Terry

wraps a calming/restraining arm around Carter's shoulder, but he starts

towards Alex, seated with Ms. Lewton.

MENS ROOM ACROSS FROM GATE 39

Tod races out of the bathroom with a dampened paper towel.

CAMERA FOLLOWS as he hands it to Ms. Lewton seated next to Alex. The teacher

places it on Alex's forehead.

TOD:

I called your mom and dad

and they're on their way.

MS. LEWTON

Alex, talk to me. What happened?

Alex looks at Tod, sho nods. His friend's expression is soothing and open.

With lowered tense tone, meant for only two people beside him...

ALEX:

I... I saw it... like, I don't

know... the plane took off. I saw

it leave the runway... I looked down

and saw the ground...

Ms. Lewton and Tod exchange concered glances.

ALEX (CONT'D)

And then the cabin banged and the

left side exploded. The the whole

plane... blew up. It was so real.

Exactly how everything goes.

TOD:

Been on many planes that blew

up, have you?

Good point. Alex looks away.

MS. LEWTON

You must have fallen asleep.

CARTER:

We get thrown off the plane

and blow a half day in Paris

because Browning has a bad dream?

(Mocking Alex)

It's going to explode! It's

going to explode!

TOD:

F*** off, Horton.

MS. LEWTON

Tod...

A raw nerve, Alex stands.

ALEX:

Only trip you're gonna take

is to the f***in' hospital.

Carter scoffs while moving aggressively toward Alex.

Carter makes a quick move and grabs Alex. The two sicurity guards rush in to

break it up. Chaos erupts agian as the two boys wrestle in the terminal.

OBSERVATION DECK

CAMERA PUSHES INTO Billy Hitchcock, depressed as he watches the plane take

off...

BILLY:

There they go and here we stay.

AIRPORT TERMINAL

One guard restrains Alex; another Carter. In the b.g. out of the observation

deck window... Flight 180 lifts off the runway.

CARTER:

You're payin' for my trip

Browning!

ALEX:

I wish you were on the plane!

In the b.g. the 747 head and taillights suddnely, violently, ERUPT into a

gigantic fireball of flame.

It takes a few seconds for the CONCUSSION to hit the terminal, but when it

does... BOOM! A window SHATTERS! Chairs rock! People are knocked off their

feet.

CAMERA SWEEPS INTO ALEX... stunned as he turns to the window...

ALEX'S POV - FLIGHT 180

The unceremonious speed of obliteration of hundreds of lives as cruel as

flaming debris plummets from the early evening sky.

CLEAR RIVERS:

CAMERA PUSHES IN ON HER, rattled, afraid, but aware of Alex as she is first

to turn her eyes toward him.

GATE 39

Billy Hitchcock walks backward from the window, shocked by shocked step. Ms.

Lewton drops to her chair as her legs give out.

O.S., ALARMS BEGIN. The two security guards tear off toward more urgent

duties. O.S., OUTSIDE, SIRENS WAIL as emergency vehicles race to the

tragady.

CAMERA BEGINS TO MOVE toward ALEX... as Tod's head turns toward him, then

Terry's... then Carter's. In the chair, beginning to cry, Ms. Lewton eyes

Alex, as if afraid of him.

CAMERA CONTINUES. SIRENS PIERCING. The emergency vehicles' strobing red

lights reflect in Alex's eyes, now in TIGHT as he looks out, frozen with

shock... upon the doomed FLIGHT 180.

CUT TO:

INT. JFK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - PRESS ROOM #10 - NIGHT

SILENCE:

A pair of Airline REPRESENTATIVES sit with the seven survivors, each numb

with shock. Everyone is too raw with reidual fear to show any emotion. They

sit on folding metal chairs in an empty room, too bright from the

fluorescent lights. Beneath their obvious trauma resulting from the

catastrophe... each feels uneasy by Alex's presance.

The others sit away from Alex and Tod. Alex appears wrought with guilt. He

checks the others out of the corner of his eye.

ALEX'S POV - THE ROOM

Ms. Lewton, Carter and Billy glare at Alex. Terry averts her eyes from Alex

to bury her face in Carter's shoulder.

ALEX:

frightened as anyone over what has happened, tenses, defensive and scared.

With soft spoken strength...

ALEX:

You're lookin' at me as if I

cuased it. I did not cuase this.

LEWTON, CARTER, TERRY, AND BILLY

maintain their uncertain expressions. With strained apprehansion, as if not

wanting to "dabble in the occult," but needing in immediate answer.

MS. LEWTON

Is everyone dead? Are there any

survivors?

WIDER:

Alex is taken back by the question, yet even his best friends looks at him

for an answer.

ALEX:

How would I know? You think I'm

some sort of...

CLEAR:

He's not a witch.

CAMERA PUSHES IN ON Alex, relieved and thankful, as he turns to her...

CLEAR RIVERS - ALEX'S POV

CAMERA MATCHES the move INTO HER as she looks up at Alex, not with fear or

repulsion... but with knowledge of an unwanted but irrefutable connection.

WIDER:

Causing a startle, the DOOR OPENS. Everyone's head whips reflexively toward

the entrance. The strange event of the flickering lights is quickly

forgotten.

A half dozen MEN and WOMEN enter the room, displaying official badges and

passes. All but two are dresses in casual clothing, having been called in

from home; the pair being F.B.I. Special Agents WEINE and SCHRECK. HOWARD

SEIGEL and DON HAWKS are representatives of the National Transportation

Safety Board. EILEEN WHALE and JACK ARNOLD are members of the Euro-Air

"Trauma Team."

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