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Panic Room Page #18
They look at the wall.
Somebody is on the other side, pounding like hell.
RAOUL:
The walls are steel, right?
BURNHAM:
Not that one.
RAOUL:
NOT THAT ONE?!
BURNHAM:
Hey man, it's the neighbor's house,
who breaks in through the neighbor's
house?!
WHOMP! CRUNCH!
Louder. Closer. Burnham turns, SCREAMS at the wall.
BURNHAM:
WHO THE F*** BREAKS IN THROUGH THE
NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE?!
RAOUL:
We've got the Kid!
(shouting at the wall)
WE'VE GOT YOUR KID!! What the f***
is she thinking?!
WHOMP! CRUNCH!
BURNHAM:
She's got your gun, that's what
she's thinking! The F*** you had to
bring a gun for?!
Burnham throws himself back on the floor, goes back to work
on the safe. Fires up the drill again, it SCREAMS into the
metal.
BURNHAM:
Almost there...
The POUNDING keeps up from next door. We hear sheetrock torn
away on the far side. Bricks, SCRAPING out of place.
Sarah, in the corner, is energized, excited. While Burnham
and Raoul are distracted, she grabs the leather pouch, palms
the three syringes that are left in there.
BURNHAM:
ALMOST THERE...
Finally, the door to the safe CRUNCHES in on one side,
yielding to the drilling --
-- at the very moment that the head of a sledgehammer CRASHES
through the wall of the panic room. Raoul grabs hold of
Sarah, Burnham maintains his focus, throwing open the safe,
revealing --
-- nothing.
CRUNCH!
The sledgehammer head strikes again, opening up a hole about
a foot across. Light spills through from the other side, as
well as the voice of the hysterical Neighbor.
Raoul hurls Sarah against the far wall, leaps over to the
side of the hole, and waits, poised above it.
At the safe, Burnham doesn't lose his cool, just opens a
false bottom in the safe, revealing a manila envelope.
He snatches it up, RIPS it open, and his eyes dance as he
holds up fourteen individual one million dollar U,S, Treasury
Bearer Bonds. He fans them out, eyes drinking from his
Grail.
BANG!
A gunshot whizzes right through one of the bonds, setting it
aflame before it SLAMS into the far wall, sending up a little
cloud of plaster dust.
BURNHAM:
JESUS!
He whirls, sees an arm poking through the hole in the wall,
gun extended.
But Raoul is standing just above the hole, and already has
his boot raised, over the hand. He brings it down, a
CRUNCHING blow that stomps right on Meg's wrist.
Meg SCREAMS, loses her grip on the gun, and it CLATTERS into
BETWEEN THE WALLS,
the gun falls into oblivion, the space between the walls,
where no one can get to it.
Burnham shoves the loose bonds into his jacket.
BURNHAM:
Raoul grabs Sarah and turns, jabs the green button to open
the door.
Behind them, Meg SCREAMS in anger and wriggles through the
opening. Before she's even all the way through, she gets
hold of Raoul's leg and pulls herself into the panic room,
scraping and bloodying herself on the edges of the too-small
hole.
BURNHAM:
GO, LET'S GO, OUTTA HERE!!
But Raoul is deep in a violent rage. Still holding Sarah
with one hand, he bends down, grabs Meg by the hair, and
drags her toward the doorway.
RAOUL:
YOU KNOW HOW THIS IS GONNA GO!
BURNHAM:
F*** YOU, I'M GONE!
He bolts out of the room, through the metal door, which is
just finishing its slow crank open, its heavy spring coiling
in the wall.
Raoul drag Meg across the floor by the hair, right into the
track of the open steel door.
She looks up, sees the infrared safety beam over her head,
and realizes with horror what his intention is.
Still with one arm holding Sarah, who is kicking and
struggling viciously, Raoul holds Meg's head down on the
floor, below the safety beam that would prevent the door from
closing. He reaches for the "close" button.
Sarah raises her arm, stuffed with three syringes, and jabs
them into Raoul's neck. Raoul SCREAMS in pain.
Meg manages to raise her head, breaking the beam.
INT. HALLWAY - NIGHT
On the stairwell, Burnham, stops, frozen, his face twitching
with indecision. He hears the murder taking place just above
him.
He runs down three steps.
Stops again.
Runs down the rest of the stairs.
Raoul stretches to push the red "close" button for the door,
but he has to hold Meg's head down, out of the lower beam
with one hand, all with Sarah savagely attacking him at the
same time, and three syringes hanging out of his neck.
Finally, he gets Meg's head all the way down, onto the floor.
Looking up, Meg sees the red beam become complete again.
Raoul jabs the button --
-- just as Sarah throws her hand into the upper beam, the one
at shoulder level. Sarah's hand turns red, the beam is
broken, the door will not close.
Raoul ROARS in anger and twists violently, sending Sarah
flying across the room.
Meg strains, gets her head off the floor again, breaking the
beam. Raoul starts jamming the close button, over and over
again, the beam completes, then breaks, completes, then
breaks, never the button and the beam at the same time.
But it can't go on forever. Meg's tiring, she can't keep it
up, her head trembles --
-- and collapses onto the floor.
The beam completes --
-- Raoul SMACKS the red button --
-- and Burnham appears on the other side of the door. He
reaches in, grabs hold of Raoul, to pull him off her, but
Raoul loses his balance, falls forward --
-- into the gap --
-- and his head is crushed by the spring-loaded steel door
that SLAMS forward just as Meg draws herself back.
Meg falls across the panic room, grabs Sarah, and holds on
tight.
The door detects the obstruction and opens again, slowly.
Raoul's body slumps to the floor, dead.
Burnham stands there, looking down at Meg and Sarah.
They stare at each other, wordless, their first face to face
contact. She sees the bonds protruding from his jacket.
She just looks at him. There will be no understanding here.
He zips his jacket, turns, and hurries away.
Burnham races down the steps, hurries to the entry door,
throws it open --
-- and finds a gun barrel pointed directly into his nose. He
blinks, tries to focus on whoever's on the other end of that
gun.
It's the Cop, the first Cop, the one who came to the door and
was so suspicious of Meg. The Cop looks down, sees blood
smeared all over Burnham's jacket, sees more than enough to
know his suspicions were correct.
COP 1
Put your hands up.
Burnham freezes, silhouetted in the doorway. Wind and leaves
blow into the house, a real gale outside.
From behind Cop 1, MORE COPS SHOUT, all at once, must be a
half dozen of 'em there, but Burnham can't see anything in
the stinging light, and can't hear much either, over the
ROARING wind.
Burnham moves suddenly, flinging the door shut right in the
Cop's face. The door SLAMS hard, Burnham turns to run but
doesn't get more than a few paces before three sharp GUNSHOTS
CRACK through the door behind him.
Brilliant white light spills through the bulletholes in the
door, but it's not the light that gets you, it's the chunks
of lead. They rip through Burnham's back and come out his
chest, a triangle pattern.
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