Lone Survivor Page #16

SEAL LT.

Now!

As the SEALs on the chopper start breaking out the windows

firing their M-4’s out the window, Airforce gunmen open up

the 50 cals. Massive fire power blasting out from the

choppers.

76

MOUNTAIN ABOVE VILLAGE - LATE DAY 76

Marcus looking cross mountain at Axe who has managed totransverse one hundred feet of the mountain and is leading asmall pack of Shah’s men away from Luttrell.

Axe starts taking heavy fire. Shot twice through the throat.

Falling backwards. Trying to get up. Back to his weapon.

AXE DYING.

Marcus watching helpless from across the mountain. Trying tocover Axe as the Taliban move in on him.

Not all of them have followed Axe because as Marcus turns

back an RPG blows ten feet in front of him. Shrapnel and rocksmashing into the side of his head.

His Helmet tears off his head.

101.

Tight on Marcus rolling backwards. Falling. Tumbling further

down the mountain.

Tight on his helmet, Texas flag painted bold across it.

Rolling and smashing down the mountain.

He comes to a hard stop slamming the back of his exposed head

into a rock.

Tight on Marcus. Close to unconscious. Very dazed, Very

confused.

MARCUS POV.

Distorted visuals. Triple vision. No sound except emerging

high pitched ringing. Marcus is deaf.

He stares up at this apoplectic mountain in dazed wonder.

76A OMIT 76A

77 INT. 47 - AIRBORNE 77

The SEAL Lt. screaming at the Airforce Pilot.

SEAL LT.

Open the ramp.

PILOT:

Negative.

SEAL LT.

Open the goddamned ramp.

The Lt. has to be restrained, physically pulled back by two

SEALs. Everyone screaming at each other.

Co-Pilot on radio putting out distress signal calling in the

downed 47 to Bagram.

CO PILOT:

We have a downed 47, repeat a

downed 47.

102.

78

INT. BAGRAM - CJSOTF 78

This is the big command center. Not just SEALs, everybody-

Army, Navy, Airforce, Marines.

Shots of a massive response mobilization.

AWACS, C-130s, Choppers filling with Delta, Green Berets, DEV

Group.

Aircraft taking off. F18 fighter jets vectoring towards

downed chopper.

79

EXT. LOWER MOUNTAIN 79

Marcus, hearing utterly f***ed....getting closer to thevillage. Picking his way down hill.

CUT TO:

80 OMIT 80

80A EXT. AIRBORNE 47 80A

The chopper slow banking a mile off the crash sight.

81

EXT. BLACKHAWK QRF - AIRBORNE 81

The two Apaches pulling ahead of the Blackhawks. Passing the

47.

82 INT. APACHES 82

Pilots star warred up. Flying straight at the burningmountain top.

82A OMIT 82A

103.

83 OMIT 83

83A ON THE MOUNTAIN: 83A

Taraq and his men hear the incoming Apaches.

Shah orders his men to take cover. The Taliban quicklybecoming invisible from the sky.

83B DOWN HILL:
83B

Marcus deaf to the incoming Apaches. Has no idea how closethey are. As he falls, gets up, off balance stumbles off a 30ft drop.

This time not so lucky with his landing, comes down hard,

shatters his right shin, bone tears through his skin,

compound fracture.

Screaming in pain, Luttrell crawls into a rock crevasse.

Hiding, he attempts to clear his head.

We play all of Luttrell’s audio perspective here as deaf.

Abstract surges of sound. He’s basically deaf.

The Apaches fly high over head. Missing Luttrell.

Disappearing over mountain tops as they keep moving to avoidenemy ground fire.

Struggling to silence his hysterical breathing, Luttrellhides as Taraq and his men move all around him. Luttrell seesshadows of the fighters. He silently starts covering himselfwith rocks and dirt.

Luttrell well hidden.

We slowly push in on him as his head starts to nod forward.

He lifts it. Fighting the powerful urge for sleep. It fallsagain. He lifts it. Leaning his head back against thecrevasse wall.

Taraq and his men back on the hunt. Searching rock to rock.

Tight on Luttrell. Head back. Breathing slower. As Luttrellfalls to sleep.

FADE TO BLACK.

104.

SILENT.

A84

OVER BLACK A84

The faint singing of morning birds.

Growing louder.

SLOW FADE UP.

WIDE:

Looking out at entire Hindu Kush Mountain range as the sun

slowly rises behind the tallest peak.

STUNNING SUNRISE.

84

INT. LUTTRELL’S HIDE 84

TIGHT ON MARCUS. Looks DEAD.

EYES TWITCH. SLOWLY OPEN.

LUTTRELL wakes up.

Disoriented. First thing he notices is the bird sitting up ona rock above him. He hears it. Sort of. Faded. Loud then

silent. His hearing has partially returned.

LUTTRELL very slowly clears himself from the dirt and rockhide.

Inventories himself, his weapons.

Two magazines, two grenades. No food. No water.

Bleeding has stopped from his gunshot. Leg is f***ed up. Shinbone busting out.

Luttrell sits down. Examining his leg. Probing the bone. Ripsoff his pants exposing his broken leg in UA shorts. Tears

welling he bites down on his lips as he resets the brokenbone. Jamming it back inside his skin.

Tucking back the bone.

Luttrell packs the puncture wound with dirt. Starts massaginghis dead legs. Forcing blood back into them. Deep powerfulbreathing as he starts to will his body back into life.

105.

85 EXT. LUTTRELL’S HIDE 85

Luttrell slowly moves out of the hide scanning the area for

any sign of Taraq or Shah.

Luttrell sees nothing.

The village is close. Couple of hundred yards.

LUTTRELL moves out. Slowly picking his way down towards the

village.

At fifty yards Luttrell pulls up. Takes cover behind some

rocks. Stares down at the village through his M4 scope.

LUTTRELL’S POV

Early morning. Women light fires.

Buckets of water.

Tight on Luttrell’s blistered, cracked bone dry lips as he

stares through his scope at the water.

We can feel his desperate thirst.

He stares at the water. Then voices pull his scope left.

LUTTRELL’s POV.

The two goat boys moving through the village.

Tight on Luttrell.

LUTTRELL:

(whispering)

Motherfuckers.

He’s got the kids in his scope. Dead to rights.

Luttrell’s finger on the trigger.

The older teenage goat herder’s face fills his scope...

Then more voices.

Luttrell pans right.

TALIBAN:

Five men.

Armed.

106.

Moving through the village. Passing the boys.

Tight on Marcus.

His finger slowly off the trigger.

Luttrell lowers his weapon. Looks to his left.

LUTTRELL’S POV.

A faint dirt trail below him leading away from the village.

Slowly and silently Luttrell moves out towards that trail.

Away from the village.

TRACKING with Luttrell. Slow going. He starts to put distance

between himself and the village.

86

INT. BAGRAM - CJSOTF 86

The main control center.

The recovery of the dead chopper team and speculation over

the fate of the four man recon team.

ARMY INTEL GUY:

We can confirm that there are no

survivors from the 47 and we think

we have recovered the bodies of

Murphy and Dietz.

Army Captains stare in furious silence.

ARMY INTEL GUY (CONT’D)

Axelson and Luttrell still

unaccounted for.

87

OMIT 87

87A

Unarmed predator drones circling the area. As Special Ops87A

move in and secure the area around the downed chopper.

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