Logan's Run Page #13

After the slightest beat, Logan FIRES and Francis falls, a great

chunk of the cave roof falling between him and Logan -- all vision

obscured while EXPLOSIONS and SCREAMS continue.

212LOGAN AND JESSICA

As he pulls her shakily to her feet. She nods, she's okay. He leads

her off down the tunnel.

213WITH LOGAN AND JESSICA - TUNNEL

following the tracks. The way leads down, curves, recurves, but

always down.

214ANOTHER ANGLE - INCLUDING LOCK

As Logan and Jessica rush toward it. The corridor has widened into a

kind of chamber which ends in a great metal door like an immense

submarine hatch.

The tracks run straight to it and beneath it. The base of the door

tands in a couple of inches of water.

With great urgency, Logan and Jessica examine the huge door. Logan

gives the wheel a tug...nothing.

SOUND:
A WHIRRING like clockwork...A METALLIC BELL SOUND and then a

RECORDED VOICE.

VOICE:

Runner, this is the last gate. Use

your key now. When the Bell sounds

again...use your key. Good luck,

Runner. May you find Sanctuary.

SILENCE. Then the BELL CHIME SOUND and a light illumines the center

of the wheel where there's a kind of keyhole. The WHIRRING continues

for about ten seconds. Then it stopsand the light goes out.

214X1LOGAN AND JESSICA

Hearing a SOUND they turn and see:

214X2ANOTHER ANGLE - P.O.V.

Far behind them, in the wet glisten of the tunnel, a bobbing light

and shadow -- the SOUND of RUNNING

215-216CLOSE ON - LOGAN AND JESSICA

As Jessica takes the ankh from her neck - fumbling with the chain.

JESSICA (breathlessly)

Every key only works once...and only

a Lastday key must open this door....

They said it would fit - but....

She tries to fit the ankh into the glowing one, but her hand shakes.

Logan tries to steady her - and in helping, she drops it into the

dark pool of water. They fall to their knees, searching desperately.

Then Logan remembers.

LOGAN:

Wait - I have the one I took from

the Runner.

SOUND:
The same as before as Logan searches his pockets for the

Runner's ankh.

Logan finds it just as the WHIRRING SOUND has STOPPED again...and

the light has gone out again in the center of the wheel.

As Logan and Jessica wait for the sound, etcetera to repeat again

another TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION is heard rocking everything. In the

distance, Jessica can see the shadow of a FIGURE approaching.

As the SOUND, etcetera, repeat-s once more...Logan pushes the ankh

into the lighted center of the wheel. The ankh fuses and the lighted

center becomes brighter as the door opens.

There is a hesitation...in which Logan turning his head back...

realizes what he has done and is shaken.

As the shadowed FIGURE looms LARGER:

JESSICA:

There's no turning back, is there?

Logan turns and pushes Jessica through the door... following her...

as the door closes and they are:

217ON THE OTHER SIDE

now, they can still hear the SOUND, etcetera for the last time.

Beyond the lock is the ruins of a vast undersea complex in which

food was raised and harvested. What we see is an endless shadowy

labyrinth of breeding pens which stretch off into the green darkness

-- a kind of mammoth aquarium with catwalks and ramps intersecting

the huge tanks. The levels are multiple and everything is slimed,

rusted, rotted and wet.

In the tanks themselves are shoals of fish, gardens of seaweed, etc.

The machinery for harvesting and winnowing has long since gone to

rust -- and visible in the great tanks are the wrecks of vessels and

gear -- the kind of stuff Cousteau and Co. are using now.

Footing is dangerous -- a slip from any catwalk means a plunge into

water and some of the walkways are well under water anyhow. From an

invisible ceiling comes a steady dripping and everything is crusted

and smells of salt and decay and life in the darkness.

217X1WITH FRANCIS

As he arrives at the door, the ankh glowing as before.

But Francis has a light. He examines the door with it, and as it

lights the pool of water on the ground, it picks out Jessica's ankh.

FRANCIS stoops, gets it and looks from it to the one glowing

128LOGAN AND JESSICA

Bewildered -- uncertain, as their eyes adjust to the dim light.

Finally, Logan gestures ''this way" and sets out.

(NOTE:
The action of the sequence is the action of people groping

through a labyrinth. They go along, gripping a rail where possible,

sometimes sinking deep into water, sometimes rising above it. They

run into blind endings and retrace to the last junction -- always

trying for what looks driest and seems to stretch farthest along the

great wall...)

219-224WITH LOGAN AND JESSICA - SERIES OF CUTS

A. Making their way along the walkway side by side.

B. Stopping as the walkway disappears under water. Logan wading in

while she waits -- until he re-emerges. She follows.

C. Choosing between diverging ramps. Having to return.

JESSICA:

How do we know this is the right

way?

LOGAN:

It's the only way.

D. POV an alley way full of machinery. Logan gives a wheel a half

turn -- great rusty net-combs start to winnow the water.

E. Helping Jessica, Logan slips...falls into darkness. Jessica's

fear until he emerges, hand over slimy hand. The water is cold.

F. POV ancient signs - PROTOPLANK...DEPOT NO #11 DO NOT DECANT...

HABITAT MARITIME...ETC.

They speculate.

JESSICA:

What do you suppose this was...?

LOGAN:

Some kind of breeding pens...I

suppose...They say people used

to breed animal s, fish, anything

(at her disbelieving look)

To eat, of course.

JESSICA:

Ycch.

(shudders)

To kill things and then eat them.

It must have been a savage world.

Logan shrugs, but the idea makes him queasy, too.

G. They stop, tired. Peer through at the wreckage of a small

inspection vessel and suddenly hear:

SOUND:
FOOTSTEPS, coming, halting, WATER sloshing. Steps again.

225POV - THROUGH THE MAZE OF TANKS - A LIGHT

moving, hunting.

LOGAN (alert)

Stay here, while I see what it is.

Jessica nods, frightened. Logan slips off into the darkness. In a

moment he's back. His face - is grim.

JESSICA:

It's Francis, isn't it?

He nods.

226LOGAN AND JESSICA

Trying to move faster now, Logan makes a wrong turning and they must

go back. But as they do so, Francis is ever closer -- a gigantic

distorted SHAPE now visible through the eerie glass -then suddenly

seeming small and distant.

As they emerge from the blind alley once again close to the wall,

suddenly:

227FRANCIS

looming huge, gun drawn, apparently only a few feet away.

228LOGAN AND JESSICA

Logan desperately claws at machinery, succeeds in starting motion,

somewhere what sounds like a GENERATOR begins laboring, ancient

machinery GROANS.

They turn and run as they HEAR:

FRANCIS (distorted;

echo; etcetera)

LOGAN N N N.

229POV - FRANCIS' LIGHT

is splashing the walls ahead and in it they suddenly see:

THE DOOR -- a waterlock with a wheel. As the light passes, Logan

heaves desperately on it. It starts to give as the light comes back

and they are revealed.

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