Logan's Run Page #15

248FULL ANGLE - THE ICE SCULPTURE

Box has captured them perfectly...shimmering with life...filled with

emotion.

249WIDE ANGLE - INCLUDING LOGAN, JESSICA AND BOX

There are tears in Jessica's eyes as she reacts to the sculpture.

JESSICA (squeezing

Logan's hand)

It's glorious

Logan helps Jessica off the pedestal and they both start to dress.

LOGAN:

All right. Now you keep your

bargain.

BOX (rapt by his

work)

Wait for the wind! Wait and hear

the birds sing over you!

LOGAN (only interested

in getting out)

We're ready.

Box mumbles as he leads Logan and Jessica toward the rear of the Ice

Cavern.

250INT. - ICE ROOM

As Box enters followed by Logan and Jessica.

This room has a fairly low ceiling and it is not too wide.

It stretches back as far as the eye can see.

The ice along the left wall is frosted...but the ice along the right

wall is perfectly clear.

And embedded in the ice along the perfectly clear right wall are:

251WIDE ANGLE - MEN AND WOMEN

Standing in erect positions.

At first it appears that they might be more of Box's perfect works

of sculpture.

But as Logan and Jessica examine them closely through the clear

ice...it is soon apparent that they are real people...who have been

frozen.

252CLOSE ON LOGAN AND JESSICA

Horrified as they move slowly along the wall.

253ANOTHER ANGLE - INCLUDING THE MEN AND WOMEN FROZEN

IN THE WALL:

We can see that each of them has a black crystal flower in the palm

of their right hands.

Logan walks to the end of this wall. Each frozen body has a number

above it. The final body's number is 1056...That number which the

voice in Sandman's headquarters revealed as the number of missing

Runners.

The CAMERA PANS Logan back to Box.

254ANOTHER ANGLE - INCLUDING BOX

As Logan turns toward him.

LOGAN (stupefied)

How did they get in here?

BOX:

Regular storage procedure...the

same as the other food... The

other food stopped coming and they

started.

LOGAN:

What other food?

BOX:

Fish and plankton, sea greens and

protein from the sea.

(pointing to the frosted

ice wall)

It's all here - ready - fresh as

harvest day. Fish and plankton,

sea greens and protein from the

sea...And then it stopped coming

and they (gesture) came instead.

So I store them here. I'm ready.

And you're ready. It's my Job -

protein, plankton, grass from the

sea

Logan pulls out his gun.

LOGAN:

Tell us how to get out...or I¹ll

destroy you..I'll kill you!

Box laughs...The same LOUD, ROARING LAUGH we HEARD earlier. Then:

BOX (calmly)

Such a beautiful pair. I'll stand

you facing one another.

Box starts his saw hand BUZZING. He turns all the flesh parts of

his body away from Logan and starts advancing toward him and Jessica

who is now standing behind Logan.

Box is now like an armed vehicle.

Logan FIRES...the fire reflecting harmlessly off Box's metal frame.

BOX (advancing)

Resign yourself.

255MED. ANGLE - LOGAN AND JESSICA

Retreating...as Logan FIRES again and again...to no avail.

As Logan and Jessica retreat further and further toward the rear of

this room and:

256REVERSE ANGLE - BOX

Advancing

We can SEE PERSON AFTER PERSON...embedded in the clear wall of ice.

A strange mute audience to this to-the-death drama.

257TWO SHOT - LOGAN AND JESSICA

Finally reaching the rear wall of this room as:

258REVERSE ANGLE - BOX

Relentlessly moving toward them.

259TWO SHOT - LOGAN AND JESSICA

Seemingly pinned back against the rear wall.

Logan is FIRING his gun futilely with his right hand...while moving

his empty hand against the rear wall...trying to find a knob or

button which might open it.

The entire time he never takes his eyes off:

260REVERSE ANGLE - BOX

Getting closer. The saw is BUZZING LOUDLY.

BOX (chilling tone)

I make such a small, quick incision ...

you can hardly feel it.

261REVERSE ANGLE - LOGAN AND JESSICA

Against the rear wall...We can SEE...but they cannot...that above

them...on the ceiling...there are a number of exposed cables.

262FULL ANGLE - LOGAN, JESSICA AND BOX

Box is practically upon them. As he lunges forward with his

WHIRRING saw hand Logan pushes Jessica to the floor and drops down

alongside her.

Box cannot stop his forward thrust and cuts a sizable chunk of ice

out of the rear wall as:

Logan SHOOTS at Box from the floor Level...upwards ...trying to

penetrate some part of his seemingly impregnable body. He misses but

hits the exposed cables on the ceiling.

There is an EXPLOSION.

BOX (looking up;

screaming)

No! The coils!

Box rushes past Logan and Jessica toward the huge ice cavern

containing his sculptures.

BOX (still screaming)

All my work!' All my work!!

As Logan and Jessica stand:

263-270OUT

270x1ANGLE - THE REFRIGERANT COILS

Bursting open, discharging great streams of gases.

270x2LOGAN

Seeing the effect, shooting again and again at the ceiling and

walls.

270x3ANOTHER ANGLE

Coils bursting everywhere, vapor billowing into the cavern.

270x4ANOTHER ANGLE

Huge slabs of ice instantly loosening, crashing over.

270x5FULL SHOT

AS the effect multiplies--Ln the hissing vapor-sculptures crashing

over and enormous chunks of ice loosened and crashing.

270x6BOX

Careening around wildly in the growing ruin, as the lights dim and

flicker out.

270X7ANGLE

The ceiling full of birds loosening, crashing down upon Box. Again

and again like great spears and wedges

270X8BOX

Buried in his work, still feebly moving, then still as the roaring

ice crashes down, in the terrible darkness.

270X9LOGAN AND JESSICA

Cowering in the crashing maelstrom of ice blocks--saved only by

Being in an angle of the cave.

270X10FULL SHOT

The SCREEN blotted out by the cave-in, going out of focus. Silence.

Then:

SOUND:
Ice melting, water running.

270X11LOGAN AND JESSICA

Stir in the dimness, amazed to be alive.

SOUND:
A heavy crash and splash as another huge ice block falls into

the water.

As it falls, the cave is suddenly illuminated again. They look and

see the light is coming from a great fissure in the wall--opened by

the last ice fall. Water rains across the opening.

Logan and Jessica make their way to it, step out.

271-272OUT

273EXT. - HIGH LEDGE

Water is pouring down in a waterfall from the icemelt.

They are blinded by:

274SUNSHINE:
A HUGE RISING SUN

As Logan and Jessica shield their eyes...then realizing that the

dazzling light will not go away:

Standing together...in fear of the sunrise.

JESSICA:

Is there something on fire!!

Logan shakes his head...he doesn't know.

As Logan looks up at the sun.

LOGAN:

It seems to be moving away.

Come on...

274X1ANGLE - LOGAN AND JESSICA

clambering cautiously down from the barren ledge.

274X2LOWER - AN AREA OF BOULDERS

Suddenly, a FAIRLY STRONG WIND starts blowing.

JESSICA (frightened)

What's that?

LOGAN:

It feels like breath. It makes

everything move. Your hair is moving.

JESSICA (smiling)

And yours.

They reach the level below and pause, look around.

LOGAN:

Jessica -- we must be outside!

She looks at him, uncertainly, he puts an arm around her and they

set out again.

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