Lone Survivor Page #13

of Luttrell’s neck.

Luttrell screams in pain spinning, dropping Danny.

80.

LUTTRELL and DIETZ separate. Danny falling onto the rock.

Luttrell falling backwards off the cliff.

53B

ON LUTTRELL FALLING. 53B

Another brutal fall.

SMASHING BACKWARDS DOWN THE CLIFF.

Luttrell tries grabbing for dirt, tree, or rock. Anything to

slow his fall.

He slams through trees snapping thick branches. Bouncing off

rock.

Luttrell disappears into the lower tree, brush line below.

53C

UP TOP. 53C

DANNY DIETZ:

On his back. M4 by his side.

Taraq and his fighters move in. More Taliban clearing the

tree line behind them.

Taraq looks down at Dietz’s body.

Turns and looks down the cliff.

Taraq reaches down, picks up Dietz’s M4. Looks it over.

Reaches back down. Takes one of Danny’s Grenades.

53D DOWNHILL. 53D

Luttrell on his side struggling to get to his knees. Murphtwenty feet away with Axe below him.

MURPHY (CONT’D)

Where’s Danny?

53E CLIFF ABOVE ROCK QUARRY 53E

Taraq pulls the pin on Dietz’s grenade. Hurls it down hill inthe direction of the three remaining SEALs.

53F DOWNHILL. 53F

His grenade comes in short. Blowing rock chunks and dirt overthe three SEALs.

81.

MURPHY (CONT’D)

Where the f*** is Danny?

54 INT. BAGRAM TOC 54

Tight on the watch clock. ZULU time.

Kristensen staring at it. Tapping his fingers on the table.

KRISTENSEN:

Try them again.

Comms guy in the back of the room keys his radio mic.

COMMS GUY:

Spartan 01, this is Anvil 1, do youcopy? Spartan 01 do you copy?

Radio Silence.

55 EXT. BELOW ROCK QUARRY CLIFF 55

Luttrell looking over to Murphy.

MURPHY:

We got to get him.

More grenades. RPG’s. Noise is deafening.

AXE:

What?

MURPHY:

We got to get him.

The three guys trying to communicate. All talking over eachother.

AXE:

Where’s Danny? I can’t see him.

MURPHY:

How do you know he’s dead?

LUTTRELL:

Danny’s dead.

MURPHY:

Where?

LUTTRELL:

His f***ing head blew off?

82.

AXE:

Do you have Danny?

LUTTRELL:

In my f***ing arms.

AXE:

We got to get down.

Deafening EXPLOSIONS.

LUTTRELL:

We got to get up there and get him.

AXE:

We got to get down now.

MURPHY:

Do you know where he is?

AXE MOVES CLOSER.

AXE:

Is Danny hit?

MURPHY:

Yes.

AXE:

Where is he hit?

LUTTRELL:

In the head.

AXE:

Where is he?

LUTTRELL:

Up on top.

AXE:

We got to get him.

More explosions.

MURPHY:

Let’s move right. Take the flankright. See if we can get back upthere.

LUTTRELL:

We’ll get Danny. Get him down withus. Get off this hill. Take them on

the flat ground.

83.

55A CLIFF ABOVE ROCK QUARRY 55A

Taraq now with twenty fighters. Firing down hill. Throwinggrenades. Ordering his men down the sides of the cliff.

55B AXE 55B

I think we can take them on the

flat ground.

LUTTRELL:

Let’s move. How much ammo do we

have.

Guys checking magazines.

AXE:

I got seventy rounds. Threegrenades.

MURPHY:

Fifty rounds. One grenade.

LUTTRELL:

I got three full mags. FiveGrenades.

MURPHY:

Let’s suck it up that f***ing hill.

LUTTRELL:

Roger that.

AXE:

Roger that.

MURPHY:

Move.

The three SEALs, guns up, firing up hill. As they attempt toget back up to Danny.

56 EXT. DANNY’S POSITION (CLIFF ABOVE QUARRY) 56

He’s not dead. Close. Shah, Taraq and his men staring overhim as he struggles back to his knees. Staring up at Taraqthrough blood soaked eyes, broken, dying. Defiant. Dannyrefusing to go gently...His right hand fumbling for his flipknife in his front pocket.

Taraq just stares at Danny’s broken mangled fingers trying toopen his knife. Drops it.

84.

Danny looks down past his knife. The “Tile” samples page has

fallen out of his pocket. Blood stained. Danny stares at the

paper.

Taraq slowly lifts his foot, pushes against Dietz’s chest.

Pushes him back down flat on his back..

Tight on Dietz dying, staring up at Taraq. Dietz slowly

raises his blood soaked right hand up to Taraq.

56A BELOW ROCK QUARRY CLIFF 56A

Murphy is out in front. Clawing his way into the left side of

the descending Taliban flank.

Luttrell and Axe trying to lay down cover fire, shooting up

at Shah’s soldiers as they move down the right side of the

Mountain.

Even the Taliban are having a slow go of it on account of the

radical pitch.

TIGHT WITH MURPHY.

A leader desperately trying to make his way straight into the

teeth of the enemy to recover one of his men.

A torrent of incoming gunfire blocking his advances.

Luttrell twenty feet to his right trying to do the same.

Axe staying below. Firing up the hill. HITS two TALIBAN as

they move down the hill towards Murphy and Luttrell.

ON LUTTRELL.

The incoming fire has him pinned against a rock.

He is desperate to find a way back up the hill. Peering

around each side of the giant boulder.

TWENTY FEET to his left Murphy is doing the same.

They start moving and covering for each other. One shoots

while the other moves fast to a higher covering rock.

This is a desperate, clawing uphill mountain scramble. Two

men, like animals brutally determined to reclaim their fallen

brother.

Tight on their hands, eyes, feet, sweat, blood and tears as

they crawl their way, inch by inch back up this brutal rockmountain.

85.

They are able to ascend about thirty feet before they run outof cover.

MURPHY and LUTTRELL side by side.

Bullets exploding all around them.

Murphy’s got SAT phone out again trying to get a signal. He’sgot no line of sight. Can’t make the call.

LUTTRELL:

I don’t know Mikey.

MURPHY:

There’s just so f***ing many ofthem.

LUTTRELL:

I don’t think we can get him.

MURPHY:

F***.

LUTTRELL:

We got to get down.

MURPHY:

Yea.

LUTTRELL:

Got to get to flat ground.

Tight on Murphy taking in the entire situation. Taliban allaround them. His gun shots. Axe. Down hill fighting. Coveringthem.

Murphy studies the terrain. A jagged rock peak sticking outin the clear about fifty feet to his left.

MURPHY:

I know.

LUTTRELL:

We can’t get him Mikey.

MURPHY:

We can get him.

LUTTRELL:

We’re gonna die if we don’t get offthis mountain.

MURPHY:

We’re gonna get him.

86.

Murphy’s fixated on the exposed rock area fifty feet abovehim.

He looks down hill to Axe. Desperately trying to keep theTaliban from getting at Luttrell and Murphy.

MURPHY (CONT'D)

I’m gonna get us some help Marcus.

AXE:

Mike, they’re coming straight above

you and to your right.

Murphy, SAT phone in hand, looks below to Marcus.

MURPHY:

I’m gonna get this call out.

LUTTRELL:

Good luck on that one brother.

MURPHY:

Marcus, look at me.

Luttrell turns locks eyes with Murphy.

MURPHY (CONT’D)

I’m gonna make the call.

Marcus looks past Murphy to the clear rock face above him.

Luttrell gets what Murphy is saying, what he’s about to do.

LUTTRELL:

I’m sorry Mike.

MURPHY:

For what bro?

Marcus takes a beat, looks away, then back at Murphy.

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