Lone Survivor Page #11

From the right, a BELT FED MACHINE GUN opens up on their

position.

Marcus and Axe start moving left. Both shot during the move -

Marcus in his right butt-cheek, Axe in his right thigh.

65A.

47 INT. TOC. BAGRAM 47

Comms guy at radio. Checking wall clock. See’s Kristensen,

Shane, and some of the other Team 10 guys.

COMMS GUY:

Spartan 01 is about to miss a comms

second window.

66.

KRISTENSEN:

How long?

COMMS GUY:

2 hours 15 minutes.

Tight on Kristensen. Thinking. Checking the clock.

KRISTENSEN:

Call me if they miss two.

COMMS GUY:

Roger that.

48 EXT. ON THE MOUNTAIN 48

CHAOS.

A massive barrage of gunfire erupting from the right Talibanflank.

AXE:

Right is no good.

Murphy looks left. He can see twenty Taliban moving intofiring positions.

MURPHY:

F*** me.

The first RPG comes from the left side. Hitting just short ofDanny and Murphy. Blasting them backwards. Covering them withdirt and rock.

Luttrell swings his gun left and starts firing into the leftTaliban position.

LUTTRELL:

Mikey?

MURPHY:

Yea?

LUTTRELL:

You ok?

MURPHY:

We’re good.

A bullet slams in Murphy’s lower stomach.

MURPHY (CONT’D)

This is no good.

67.

LUTTRELL:

Roger that.

MURPHY:

Can we break that right flank?

LUTTRELL:

Negative. We got to go left.

MURPHY:

Negative.

From downhill, two RPG’s fire at their position.

Dietz takes a shot in his upper-right chest.

A massive double RPG explosion. Tears away chunks of granite.

Shrapnel cutting deep into all four SEALs. They are nowclearly under attack from all three sides.

LUTTRELL:

We can take ‘em Mikey but I’mthinking we’re gonna need a newspot.

Tight on Murphy.

MURPHY:

Roger that.

He turns behind him giving that 50 ft. cliff a second look.

The Taliban gunfire is relentless now. Coming from all threesides.

Luttrell, Danny and Axe returning constant fire. Reloadingmags. Firing away. Marcus hit for the first time in his rightass cheek.

Tight on Murphy:

MURPHY (CONT’D)

We gotta fall back.

Luttrell looks at the cliff behind them.

LUTTRELL:

You mean fall off.

68.

MURPHY:

Roger that. Fall off. Danny can you

move?

DANNY:

No problem.

MURPHY:

Axe?

AXE:

Good to go.

As the four shot up SEALs turn and start to move fast towardsthe edge of the cliff. The pitch causing them to run andstart falling immediately. Danny’s legs giving out, bucklingas he hurls himself up and over the ledge.

Marcus turns to Murphy.

Luttrell, Murphy and Axe do the same. For a second they looklike four country boys cliff jumping into a lake. Except forthe blood streaming from necks and guts and legs, the bullettracers flying all around them...

They fly off the cliff and it looks kind of beautiful.

Freeing...until.

48A IMPACT. BOTTOM OF 1ST CLIFF 48A

Bone crushing. Concussive. Violent beyond words. Human bodiessmashing into rock. Tearing through trees. Bouncing. Brokenbones and smashed faces. Helmets fly off. The SEALs crash andbounce and flip. Finally settling hard on a reasonably flatpart of the cliff. 300 yards below.

48B SILENCE. BOTTOM OF 1ST CLIFF 48B

Tight on Luttrell. Face down. The first to move.

Face lifts. Nose clearly broken. Luttrell looks to his left.

Murphy struggling to his knees. Broken teeth. Face shredded.

To the right, Danny and Axe.

MURPHY:

Hey Marcus.

LUTTRELL:

Yes sir.

MURPHY:

That sucked.

69.

LUTTRELL:

Yes sir.

MURPHY:

I mean that really sucked.

LUTTRELL:

Yes sir.

Voices screaming up the mountain.

48C

TOP OF 1ST CLIFF 48C

Taraq is at the jump point looking down the steep cliff.

Feels unsurvivable. Several fierce lieutenants flanking Shah.

SHAH:

Go.

Dozens of Taliban start making their way down the steepcliff.

48D AT THE BOTTOM OF 1ST CLIFF 48D

Murphy, Marcus Axe and Dietz struggling to their feet.

MURPHY:

F***.

Luttrell sees the blood pouring from Murphy’s gut.

LUTTRELL:

Let me see it.

Pulling up Murphy’s shirt revealing a decent gut shot. Marcuslooks for his med kit.

LUTTRELL (CONT’D)

Lost my med kit.

MURPHY:

Where’s your gun?

Luttrell looks down. To his left, then right. Spots his gunten feet away in the dirt.

70.

LUTTRELL:

God’s looking out for us.

MURPHY:

If this is looking out for us Idon’t want to see him pissed.

LUTTRELL:

We’re doing good Mikey we justgotta...

Luttrell interrupted by a series of severe incoming RPG’s.

Blasting all around them.

Luttrell and Murphy dive behind some fallen trees. Looking

up.

MURPHY:

We just got to get off this hill.

48E HALFWAY DOWN 1ST CLIFF. 48E

Shah’s Taliban are slowly moving down the cliff. Not nearlyas fast as the SEALs fall. But they are definitely coming.

48F ON LUTTRELL and MURPHY. LOG HIDE. 48F

Returning fire. Picking off a couple of Taliban but revealingtheir position. More incoming RPG’s tearing into the covertrees.

Trees start burning.

A metal hook - RPG debris - spears into Luttrell’s right

side.

He keeps firing when from the left...

A LOUD CRASHING.

Two bodies falling hard.

Axe and Danny. Falling hard like Murphy and Luttrell.

Slamming, flipping, landing 50 ft to the right of the tree

hide.

Axe shot up getting to his feet. The Taliban shooting down athim.

MURPHY (CONT’D)

Axe! Here! Move it buddy. Run!

Axe sees Murphy behind the trees. Charges to the hide.

71.

AXE:

This sucks.

No hesitation - Axe slams a fresh magazine into his M4 startsfiring up the hill. Marcus is looking back to Danny.

Danny is dead still. No movement.

Axe provides cover as Luttrell and Murphy, dodging RPG’s anda hailstorm of AK fire, grabbing an alive but seriouslyfucked up Danny.

Picking Danny up they start hauling him back to the tree for

cover.

TIGHT on Danny as a Bullet slams through his right rib cage

DANNY:

(eyes tight, through

mashed teeth)

Goddamn this sucks.

Luttrell and Murphy slam into the tree hide propping Danny

up.

The four SEALs back together ready to fight. Marcus tryingto treat Danny; pulling out his Burst Kit

Danny recovering staring down at his blood-soaked hand,

dazed, looks to Marcus

DANNY (CONT’D)

Marcus, I’m shot.

LUTTRELL:

We are all shot bro, can you fight?

Danny stares back down at his bleeding, mangled hand, then at

his gun.

DANNY:

(muttering to himself)

Mess up my drawing hand, that

pisses me off.

Danny raises his gun uphill, takes aim at a Taliban fighter

jumping from rock to rock. Danny fires killing the Taliban.

Re-aims, fires, kills a second. Re-aims, fires, kills a

third.

Looks to Marcus.

DANNY (CONT’D)

I can fight.

72.

The SEALs now packed into a burning LOG HIDE fighting as bestas they can from inferior position.

48G

UP HILL. 48G

Taliban starting to re-mass. Dialing in on the SEALsposition.

Thirty AK-47’s firing down on the SEALs.

48H IN THE LOG HIDE. 48H

The SEALs getting sprayed. A ceiling of AK fire. The SEALs

flat on their backs.

SEAL POV.

AK tracers streak over head.

MURPHY has his face next to Dietz.

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