Half Past Dead Page #2

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Welcome to la Isla de los Alcatraces.

The Island of Pelicans.

You've been transferred here as part

of a work program to retrofit my island.

But your free time will be spent

in a six-by-nine-foot cell.

I urge you:

Unplug. Kick your feet up.

You will leave a big chunk

of your lives here.

MI nombre es Juan Ruiz Escarzaga.

My first summertime job was walking

a super-maximum tier 30 years ago.

I walked it for over 15 years.

Been spit on, stabbed, burned.

And I'm still standing.

You think you're hard.

I'm harder.

You think you're mean.

I'm meaner.

Alcatraz es ml casa.

You are my guest.

I expect you to act like one.

Son of a b*tch!

- What hole are you on, Little Joe?

- Seventeen.

How you hitting it?

Like a mother. Just can't putt.

Little Joe here has a constructive

way of passing his free time.

I suggest you find something

of the same. Be creative.

Remember, this is the first day

of the rest of your life.

Ain't that right, Twitch?

Same old, same old, man.

Get a new rap, comprende?

I like my rap.

And here's the end of it.

You got two llbros in your bundle.

The rules and regs,

and the King James Bible.

I highly recommend

you read them both.

Now for those stupid enough

to think about escaping, go ahead.

Climb the razor wire.

Do the breaststroke.

Freeze your ass off.

If the bay doesn't kill you,

we'll pick you up in a Zodiac...

...and add five years

to your sentence.

There's only one way

off this rock, homeys.

And that key is under my pillow.

I'm a fair man. You come to me

with a problem, I'll listen.

Dead man walking.

This man is about to make history.

He will be the first to die

in Alcatraz's execution chamber.

It is unfortunately my duty

to carry this out...

...at midnight tonight.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Jane McPherson has just landed...

...at New Alcatraz to witness

the execution of Lester McKenna.

She Is the judge

who sentenced McKenna...

...In the now Infamous heist of almost

$ 200 million of U.S. Gold brick.

Here's the twist. McKenna stashed

the gold before he was apprehended.

He vowed never to divulge

its whereabouts...

...which led to the treasure hunt by

the FBI thats gone on for 17 years.

Now Its looking like McKenna just

might take his secret to the grave.

Reporting live from Pier 39

on Fishermans Wharf...

...I'm Kelly Lange

from San Francisco.

Hey, Mark.

Hey, William.

Here we are.

Now, lets check in your guns.

- I think we'll keep our guns.

- Then get off my island.

- Its okay, Juan. I'll sign off on it.

- No, Frank. I won't.

I don't care if she is

a supreme court justice.

- No disrespect intended.

- None taken.

This is my island.

As long as its my watch,

only me and my boys go strapped.

What is it they call you?

- El Fuego.

- The fire?

Do what he says.

Yo, Sasch!

Yeah.

I really messed things up

this time, didn't I?

Yes, you did.

I'm starting to miss the love

from the streets.

Thats gonna be an issue, isn't it?

What you think, man? I can't

do no five years in this joint.

Here, player. Read a book.

Whats this, man?

- When Lovers Collide.

- Its a good book.

You can't be serious.

Petrosevitch, get up.

Someone wants to see you.

Hello, Jenny.

- Please Identify yourself.

- Kestner, Damon J.

Voice and handprint

recognition confirmed.

- How much time do you need?

- Phones are easy. Alarms worry me.

I gotta crack the firewall,

decode and override.

I don't care how you do it.

Do it in 90 seconds.

- Tie me off.

- Ninety seconds.

- Welcome to Slaughterhouse Five.

- Why they call it that?

A man can be executed five ways.

Lethal injection's the most popular...

...followed by gas chamber, hanging,

firing squad and my favourite:

Electrocution.

We do It all here In this totally

soundproof Isolation chamber.

We even let

the condemned man choose.

- Who is that?

- Number 1137.

Whats he doing here?

When a man asks for someone

to spend his last hour with, you do it.

Access granted.

Security protocols disabled.

Take me up!

- 49er Six to 49er One.

- This is One. Over.

- That was a hell of a sunset.

- They're always nice before a storm.

- You believe in God, Sascha?

- Most of the time.

Ever fly in your dreams?

- Who is this guy?

- I'm a man with 50 minutes to live.

What does that have to do with me?

Change the view, will you?

I'm tired of this one.

- What would you prefer, Lester?

- The desert.

- How does that sound?

- Hot.

The rumour is you went

half past dead and came back.

Took a ride on the flat line

for 22 minutes...

...and lived to tell.

Thought we could play some cards

and talk about that.

Whoever wired this place was good,

but you're the best.

- Thats why you hired me.

- Exactly.

If you're waiting on us,

you're back and up.

Lets party, boys.

- Excuse me, sir. I need to talk to you.

- Whats up?

- I can't reach the control centre.

- What about the alarms?

I ran a systems check.

The radar's reading normal.

- Cell houses?

- No breaches.

The storm must have knocked out

the phone lines. Okay. Gracias.

Billy Ray, check it out.

I'm with y'all. I'm one of y'all.

- Sorry.

- Check this out. Let me out of here.

- Cell house secured.

- Thats my girl.

Hey, whats up, doll?

Give me one of them pistols, man.

- Whats that?

- Whats it look like?

Its the suit I promised you.

Its not first-class,

but its a good knockoff.

You know, I volunteered for this.

I got tired of parading in and out of

court, hawking appeals, filing writs.

What am I doing?

I'm displacing blame.

So I decided to accept

my karmic payback.

Now I'm not so sure.

Dying's not the hard part.

Its knowing that your life

doesn't belong to you.

That your death has an exact time and

date takes all the mystery out of it.

Thought about doing it myself,

but I couldn't.

Whats waiting on the other side?

Not too many people

know that, Lester.

Come on. Be generous.

My time's precious.

Tell me how it feels

to be embraced by the light.

Do your loved ones come for you?

Got any jacks?

Anybody hit?

Seven's down.

He's your man.

Sleep tight, friend.

- Wanna know why I'm in that chair?

- No.

I hit a U.S. Money train...

...and ripped off 200 million worth

of U.S. Gold brick.

- You must have done more than that.

- The deal went sideways on me.

Train got accidentally derailed.

Five U.S. Treasury agents got killed.

Feds have been coming all week...

...promising me serenity

if I tell them where I hid it.

You think Goll go easier

on me if I do?

I think you must have done

something very bad...

...and now you're gonna pay

for it with your life.

But I think God will forgive you.

- Air 49er, whats your air to ground?

- I got zero visibility.

- Give me a ballpark ETA.

- My ETA's been pushed.

- We're getting close. Push back.

- I'm on my way.

Lester, there is someone

here to see you.

Hello, Lester.

"Whosoever sheds man's blood,

by man shall his blood be shed."

Genesis 9, verse 6.

You read that the day you decided

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