Logan's Run Page #12

201LOGAN, JESSICA -- SANCTUARY HQ

As he pushes her through the opening then moves instantly to the

side, pulling her with him.. The move fails. Both are pinned

helplessly in the blinding glare of the spotlight and the sudden

appearance of glass-silver spear points pressed against them. Logan

is unable to draw his gun.

VOICE:

Hold still, Sandman, or die where

you are.

2ND VOICE

Is she the one?

OTHER VOICES (like angry

stage whispers)

She betrayed us. Kill him. Kill them both.

Jessica you sold us. Sandman butcher.

Sandman murderer.

Logan and Jessica stand rigid against the spear points, only their

heads turning to the echoing sibilants.. The spotlight goes off.

202-204 OUT

205INT. - SANCTUARY HQ. - LOGAN, JESSICA - CLOSE

In the darkness we see the glass-silver spear points are glowing all

around them, the long shafts falling away into darkness, the points,

steaming gently when they touch--making an instant, wincing burn.

Logan moves--a spear point presses--he flinches.

LOGAN:

I'm a runner. She brought me here because

I begged her to help me.

He turns his palm. The red crystal blinks impressively in the

darkness.

At the sight, a BABBLE of SOUNDS. Argument.

VOICE:

He's lying. No Sandman ever ran.

2ND VOICE

You don't run. You kill runners.

You have killed runners all your life.-

LOGAN:

Yes I have.

(beat)

Now it's my turn. And I want to

live.

Another angry murmur of VOICES. Over it Jessica suddenly:

JESSICA (shouting)

What's the matter with you. He's a runner--

he's blinking. We must help anyone who

asks...we must-or we're the same as they

are--deciding who lives and dies.

One of the points lifts and touches Jessica's cheek. A quick, fierce

burn. She shrieks--a tiny sound--and is silent.

206LOGAN

Reacts fiercely, spinning against the spear points, he is Jabbed and

pierced in a dozen places as he manages to get Jessica closer,

shielding her with his body. But the spear points are too much. He

subsides, as VOICES rise angrily "Kill him now".

Suddenly a RINGING ALARM. All sound stops at once and we hear a

CLATTER of FOOTSTEPS down the iron stair and across the outer floor.

The spotlight bursts on again and a figure staggers into the

chamber, straightening into the light, hair dishevelled, hands in

front against the glare. It's Holly.

HOLLY:

Holly. Holly, New You 483... He's dead.

Doc's dead and the Sandmen came...

VOICE (gentle)

Holly--Holly. Remember the code.

The code, please Holly...

HOLLY (hysteria)

They smashed everything and I barely

got away.

(beat)

Holly. Station 12, Sanctuary 7.

Holly. Holly...

She lowers her hands and we see her, tattered, frightened--the

bright smile strange. She comes to herself a bit, looks to the side

and sees Logan and Jessica, pinned against the wall.

She reacts with fear at the sight.

HOLLY:

It's him! The first Sandman. He

killed...Doc.

JESSICA:

No, Holly--wait! He's running.

Tell them the rest!

HOLLY (suddenly

exhausted)

He's the one. You too. I remember.

He was in a hurry. Just a face job.

Dark hair, I said. Then he killed

Doc and you grabbed me--and the

machine blew up and I ran...I ran

JESSICA:

Holly. Holly! Please...The other

Sandman. Remember the one who came

after--

Holly suddenly remembers and the shock makes her lucid.

HOLLY (pouring

it out)

That's right. The other one came after.

The older one. Smashing, killing, burning!

JESSICA (coaching

desperately)

...and he was hunting the first one,

this one. Wasn't he? Wasn't he? This

one was running, the other one was

hunting him...

HOLLY (remembers)

Yes. Oh yes.

(to Logan)

He was after you. I remember. You're

running!

207-208 OUT

208X1ANOTHER ANGLE 1

The spear points are withdrawn. Logan and Jessica relieved but

shaken, wary.

LOGAN:

May we move?

A long beat. Then--

VOICE:

I saw we pass them through.

Somebody help Holly.

Other VOICES mumble agreement. Holly moves off into the dark room,

hands reaching out to help her.

VOICE:

You two. Just go straight ahead.

Follow the corridors with the pipes

overhead to the end. Then use the key.

As the voice speaks the spotlight finally goes off and by a dim glow

around the perimeter, we see we're in some kind of large underground

chamber--some part of the vast undercellars of the city. The light

is enough to reveal that there are perhaps twenty people in the

room, reds and greens both--but all are silhouetted, no face seen.

There's a kind of aisle open down the room's center and it's

obviously the way they are to go. Logan and Jessica move off. Logan

pauses.

LOGAN:

I don't know who you are. I'd

like to thank someone.

VOICE:

It doesn't matter who we are. Follow

the tunnel to the end.

LOGAN:

I Will there be someone to tell us

where to go from there...?

A murmur of discussion then:

VOICE:

Someone will follow. When you come to

the lock, he will tell you how Co go

on the other side. Jessica may go with

you as far as the lock.

LOGAN:

(a deep breath)

No. Jessica goes back now. Take her back.

(suddenly his tone is

urgent as he speaks to her)

Now! Go on back. Back outside, Jessica.

She is bewildered by the change.

JESSICA:

Why?- No...no...I'm going with you.

VOICE1

Only to the lock. After that

there's no way back.

JESSICA (small voice)

I don't care. I'm going to Sanctuary.

With you.

A BABBLE of VOICES. "Impossible"...She ignores, watches Logan.

JESSICA (cont'd)

Will you take me with you?

LOGAN:

Why, Jessica? You're still a green.

JESSICA shakes her head. She doesn't know why.

Logan puts his arm around her, marveling, trying to understand,

moved. But suddenly he remembers the urgency of the moment. He

wheels, pulling her with him.

LOGAN:

Come on then--they'll be here any

minute!

Uncomprehending, she starts to run with him. Too late. An EXPLOSION

shakes the chamber--the wall bellies inward and a group of Sandmen,

led by Francis, burst into the room, firing as they come.

Panic. Turmoil. PEOPLE running, SCREAMING--the ALARM BELL RINGING,

RINGING as Sandmen methodically slaughter the people in the wreckage

of the room.

209 OUT

209X1LOGAN AND JESSICA

As the brief, one-sided battle rages, echoing SHOTS and SCREAMS in

the dust filled room, Logan pulls her down out of the way. They

watch, helplessly. Suddenly the figure of a Sandman looms before

them. He stares at Logan, unsure. Logan reacts, draws, fires. The

Sandman is smashed away, burning.

209X2LOGAN

Suddenly aware that he has killed a Sandman. Jessica pulls him down

again into the shadow. Neither realizes chat the soft pulsing of his

crystal can be seen from the room.

210ANOTHER ANGLE

Francis, quartering the room like a hound, searching, searching,

stopping as he sees

211FRANCIS P.O.V.

The crystal blinking red, eerie in the darkness.

FRANCIS:

(believing the

blinking crystal is Jessica's)

Logan. I know you're in here.

What've you done...gone crazy over a

Runner?

(whispering)

Nobody knows except me. You know I

won't say anything. I should have

turned you in but I couldn't. Leave

her. Come on out with me. It'll look

like you're part of the group that

hit this nest.

(pleading)

Logan...you're a Sandman!

(slightest beat)

Logan...now...now...Logan...

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