Passenger 57 Page #6

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65 FLIGHT DECK 65

The Captain reacts to a throbbing emergency light.

CAPTAIN:

We've got a security problem.

WOLFGANG (0.S.)

Not anymore.

They turn as Wolfgang steps into the cockpit and FIRES three perfect headshots. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. He's just executed the flight crew!

Priest, still chewing peanuts, enters the cockpit. He shoves the Captain's corpse aside and settles into his seat. Priest puts on the Captain's headset and starts punching a new flight plan into the ship's computer.

Wolfgang puts on a headset and activates the P.A. SYSTEM. His voice BOOMS through the airliner. We INTERCUT:

66 SHOTS OF TERRIFIED PASSENGERS 66

WOLFGANG (V.O.)

Your attention please. By now you've noticed four people with automatic weapons. A word of advice for those of you too dense to grasp the obvious. These people are killers. Obey them and you will live. Disobey them and you will die. Have a nice flight.

67 FIRST CLASS 67

At gunpoint, Vincent and Fiona herd first-class passengers into the coach section.

VINCENT:

Don't worry. We're not gonna kill you. We're gonna do something a lot worse.

FIONA:

We're gonna make you fly coach.

68 COACH 68

As passengers scramble to find empty seats, Marti comes toward Fiona.

MARTI:

(can't believe it)

Fiona. What're you doing?

FIONA:

(a new and deadly person)

Sit down, b*tch, or I'll blow your tits off.

She means it, too. Marti sits down.

69 INT. LAVATORY 69

Cutter, eyes still closed, hasn't heard a thing in here, grooving on the music from his Disc Man. The last track comes to an end and Cutter opens his eyes. He looks at himself in the mirror. He smiles, feeling relaxed and relieved. The music has worked so well he's wondering why he was ever nervous in the first place.

Cutter removes his earphones. Feeling confident now, he opens the door, ready to return to his seat and ride out the flight. But before he's halfway out, he hears...

VINCENT:

(to the passengers)

Just be cool and maybe you'll live!

Instinctively, Cutter ducks down and crouches behind the partition. What the hell's going on? Cutter eases over to the edge and peers around the comer. He sees that the terrorists have re-located all passengers to the Coach section of the main cabin.

Cutter ducks back. Talk about a worst case scenario.

CUTTER:

(under his breath)

This is not happening.

But it is happening and Cutter knows he's got to do something. Thinking hard, his eyes drift up to the air phones.

CUTTER:

(to himself)

What're you gonna do? Dial 911?

70 FLIGHT DECK 70

Priest has altered the 747's course which gets an immediate RADIO REACTION.

TOWER (V.O.)

T.P. 694, this is Orlando Tower.

WOLFGANG:

Go ahead. Tower.

TOWER (V.O.)

Say reason for deviation of flight plan.

WOLFGANG:

(playful)

We felt like it.

TOWER (V.O.)

(cautious)

Who am I speaking to?

WOLFGANG:

You can call me... Wolfgang.

CUT TO:

71 & 72 OMITTED

73 INT. TRANS PACIFIC BOARDROOM - NIGHT 73

A large meeting room has been transformed into mission control to deal with the hijack situation.

Staff are busy dealing with the problem, shouting at each other and into phones. Video and communications equipment arrives. In the middle of this madhouse Stuart Ramsay arrives in mid-conversation with a top EXECUTIVE.

RAMSAY:

Who authorized his transit on our airline?

EXECUTIVE:

You know how it works. The f***ing F.B.I, shows up at the airport, they flash their badges and bully their way on board whatever flight they like. We're powerless to stop them.

RAMSAY:

They'll take full responsibility for this one, believe me.

VOICE:

Unfortunately, Stuart, the public will blame us.

Ramsay turns as a tall, imposing gray-haired man in his early seventies enters... ADDISON CALE, the Chairman and C.E.O. of Trans Pacific. Cale does not look pleased.

RAMSAY:

Addison.

CALE:

Who f***ed up?

RAMSAY:

Isn't it a little early to start looking for a scapegoat?

CALE:

Stuart, in my experience, it's never too early.

Ramsay sees a way out.

RAMSAY:

Sly Delvecchio's our V.P. in charge of airline security. Talk about a coincidence. Just today I was telling him how we need an anti-terrorism unit to handle situations like this.

CALE:

(sad)

Too bad. I always liked Sly.

An ASSISTANT carrying a telephone approaches them.

ASSISTANT:

Mister Ramsay, there's a Mister Cutter on the line.

RAMSAY:

I'm in the middle of a crisis here.

ASSISTANT:

He says he's on the hijacked plane and wants to speak to Sly Delvecchio.

Ramsay and Cale exchange looks of surprise. Ramsay grabs the phone.

RAMSAY:

Cutter, this is Stuart Ramsay. Where are you?

INTERCUTTING WITH:

74 CUTTER 74

Crouched behind the partition, whispering into an air phone.

CUTTER:

I'm camped out behind the left bulkhead on one of the air phones. Is Sly there?

RAMSAY:

No. Cutter, talk to me. What the hell's going on up there?

CUTTER:

Four terrorists have taken over the plane.

RAMSAY:

Cutter, don't do anything rash.

RAMSAY:

Just follow my instructions. I want you to make your presence known and contact the leader. Tell him you have the President of Trans Pacific on the line. I'm here with the Chairman and we're willing to negotiate.

CUTTER:

Ramsay, you don't negotiate with terrorists.

(the truth)

You kill them.

And so saying. Cutter knows what he has to do.

RAMSAY:

Wait. Listen to me. Cutter...

CUTTER:

(lying)

What's that, Ramsay? You're breaking up. I can't hear you.

RAMSAY:

Cutter, you have no authority. If you do anything to --

CUTTER:

(cuts him off)

Gotta go. Gotta get busy.

CLICK. Cutter hangs up. Ramsay turns to Cale in utter bewilderment.

RAMSAY:

He hung up on me.

That's when Sly enters in a rush.

SLY:

I got here as fast as I could.

RAMSAY:

You just missed your friend Cutter. He's on 694.

SLY:

He can't be. I put him on the six o'clock.

CALE:

(to Sly)

You know this man?

SLY:

(confident)

Yes sir. I do. But don't worry. Cutter's a pro. He won't do anything to jeopardize the safety of the passengers.

RAMSAY:

No? He just said he was going to kill the terrorists.

Now it's Sly's turn to look worried.

75 CUTTER 75

He returns the air phone to its cradle, removes his credit card and leans back against the partition, thinking hard. Directly in front of him are the two lavatory doors.

76 FLIGHT DECK 76

The bodies of the flight crew have been dumped outside the cockpit in the empty upper deck. Wolfgang and Priest are studying a map. The RADIO CRACKLES.

VOICE (V.O.)

T.P. 694. Do you read?

WOLFGANG:

(into his headset)

Go ahead.

NEW VOICE (V.O.)

This is Special Agent Stern of the F.B.I. First, I'd like to establish the status of Marshals Manning and Duncan.

WOLFGANG:

Their status is dead. They looked so lonely I had the flight crew join them. The passengers have not been harmed. So far.

STERN (V.O.)

(NEW VOICE)

What are your demands?

WOLFGANG:

We're diverting to Houston. Estimating arrival there in two hours. I want a small jet standing by, fueled and ready for take-off. Meet my demands and the passengers will be released.

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