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Hero Page #7
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2002
- 107 min
- 2,130 Views
Murmurs in the cabin. What does this mean? SUSAN looks a
question at GALE, puzzled as Flight Attendants LESLIE and FREDDY
take their positions to demonstrate safety procedures.
LESLIE:
First make sure your seat belts are
fastened securely. Then brace your
arms against the seat ahead at you
like this. You can use pillows
or blankets...
KELLY:
(waking up)
Mommy, what's going on?
SUSAN:
Everything's going to be fine,
honey.
GALE'S eyes meet SUSAN'S eyes. Fear. Brave smile.
INT./EXT. BERNIE'S CAR/EXIT/HIGHWAY - NIGHT
Pulling off the freeway, BERNIE peers at the signs that greet
him as he slows to a stop at the foot of the exit.
Unable to read them through the windshield he has to open the
door and stand in the rain.
Even then, the sign is obscured by torrents of rain.
INT. MAIN CABIN/727 IN FLIGHT - NIGHT
All eyes are on LESLIE as she continues her instructions...
LESLIE:
-- when you reach the bottom of the
chute you should immediately move
as far away from the plane as
possible in the event of a fire on
the aircraft.
Glancing around, GALE glimpses pale, strained FACES.
She sees the ELDERLY WOMAN holding the arm of a man, her SON.
She sees a MRS. BROWN squeezing a MR. BROWN'S hand tightly.
Looking back down the aisle she sees MR. FLETCHER putting his
arm around RICHIE'S shoulder, father and son united against
fate.
Beside her she sees SUSAN trying to comfort KELLY.
LESLIE:
Those of you who can should help
others who may be unable to move
quickly.
GALE is acutely aware that everyone around her is comforting
someone else. Only she is alone.
INT. TOYOTA/HIGHWAY - NIGHT
Back at the wheel, BERNIE is turning right onto an unlit
highway, his single headlight stabbing weakly at the storm ahead
while his useless wipers clatter loudly and the engine chugs...
farts... misses.
BERNIE:
I'm late already! Don't quit on me
now, for Chrissake! This ain't the
time!
The engine struggles, continues.
BERNIE:
Come on, come on !
The engine surges to life again... then begins to throb with
downright vigor.
BERNIE frowns. It's getting louder.
AND LOUDER! AND LOUDER! IT'S ROARING.
BERNIE'S eyes bug with the realization that either he's about
to take off... OR THAT ISN'T HIS ENGINE THUNDERING, THUNDERING.
A great shadow blurs in the rain ahead.
BERNIE brakes hard, skidding, sliding wildly.
BAWHOOOOOOOOM! HUGE NOISE. IMPACT! GRINDING!
BERNIE skids to a halt, eyes shut tight to prevent himself from
dying.
But he's not dead. He opens his eyes. Stares out the
windshield.
A blank wall greets him, bouncing back his headlights in a blur
of rain.
BERNIE:
Now what?
EXT. HIGHWAY - NIGHT
BERNIE gets out of his car. Everything is spooky quiet.
The tail section of a huge aircraft blocks the road directly
in front of Bernie's car. He skidded to a stop two feet short
of ramming the twenty-five foot high vertical fin. The rest
of the craft is sprawled off the low bridge and into the water,
lost for the most part in the darkness.
Suddenly, a VOICE calls out... from somewhere forward along the
fuselage.
VOICE:
Hey! Help! Somebody! Help.
BERNIE frowns. Helping is not his instinct. Approaching the
edge of the bridge, he peers into the darkness.
The plane is corkscrewed through the bridge at such a freak
angle that the tail rear doors are wedged shut by the metal
super-structure, the wing exits are blocked by the up-bent wing
stubs, and the right forward doors are canted hopelessly toward
the sky while the left exit is partially jammed in the mud near
the river bank in three feet of water.
VOICE:
Please! Help us. We're stuck.
Hello! Anybody!
BERNIE:
Whatsa problem, pal?
INT. MAIN CABIN/727 AT REST - NIGHT
Engulfed in darkness except for strings of floor lights leading
to the exits, the cabin is a confusion of GROANS, COUGHS, CRIES
and the piercing WAIL of a screaming BABY. The floor lights
seem to be on the walls, high on one side and low on the other,
as the cabin is dramatically canted, making movement along
aisles nearly impossible.
LESLIE, battered from the impact, her uniform torn, is
struggling to open the forward emergency exit. Angled downward,
the door will only open six inches before being blocked by mud.
Water pours in around her ankles as she shoves furiously.
LESLIE:
Somebody give me a hand.
A VOICE:
We're on fire.
LESLIE:
Let's stay calm, everybody.
Everybody, stay calm, please.
Please stay calm. Everything will
be all right if we stay calm.
Somebody give me a hand with this
door.
Her flashlight stabs the darkness, reveals frightened FACES.
Slumped, motionless forms.
LESLIE:
everybody. Please help each other.
AAAAAAAAAH! SCREAMS as the plane suddenly shifts violently from
the interior movement, canting further.
ANGLE ON GALE:
Staggering from her seat. WHAM! Hand luggage slams into her
from an overhead rack. As GALE goes down, a PASSENGER lands
on top of her catching her arm at an angle, breaking it. The
PASSENGER climbs off her and struggles down the slope.
GALE realizes she can't get up, her leg is wedged in the
framework of a seat. PASSENGERS are climbing past her, heading
forward.
SUSAN is fighting her way out of her canted seats, clutching
GALE:
I... I can't move. I'm caught.
SUSAN glances at her and their eyes meet. KELLY is screaming.
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