The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Page #21

JOHN O'CONNOR

But John Whorfin said kill her.

JOHN BIGBOOTÉ

Damn John Whorfin--!

INT. CORRIDOR - NIGHT375

Bigbooté and O'Connor emerging in the hallway...seen by Buckaroo Banzai

and New Jersey as RED ARACHTOIDS...

JOHN PARKER:

Look out, Buckaroo Banzai!

Buckaroo turning and just in time, the alien JOHN GOMEZ right behind

him...and behind Gomez, John Parker and Perfect Tommy with flame

throwers...

...Buckaroo and New Jersey hitting the deck as the RED ARACHTOID gets

smoked, the aliens John Bigbooté and John O'Connor escaping in the

confusion...

INT. THE PIT - NIGHT376

The Secretary of Defense still on the floor, spotting the OVERTHRUSTER

in Penny's purse, taking it just as Buckaroo and New Jersey rush into

the room...lights swaying...shadows dancing...

...the Secretary struggling to his feet as Buckaroo cuts Penny

down...spraying her with a white insecticide, New Jersey checking her

vital signs, Buckaroo shocking New Jersey accidentally with a jolt of

STATIC ELECTRICITY, as the Secretary slips the OVERTHRUSTER under his

coat...

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

(to no one in particular)

It's not over yet...I'll bounce back...always have. I'll come through

this thing smelling like a goddamn rose-just watch me.

The Secretary limping out of the room...New Jersey trying to get

penny's pulse while Buckaroo peels back her eyelids...

NEW JERSEY:

Leave her to me. You take care of business.

BUCKAROO BANZAI:

Thanks.

Buckaroo looking at New Jersey, knowing he can trust him, rummaging

through Penny's purse...no Overthruster...

INT. YOYODYNE SHOCK TOWER - NIGHT377

Dr. Lizardo and the alien John O'Connor and the alien John Bigbooté

seeing their deteriorating position OVER A CLOSED-CIRCUIT TV...VIDEO

IMAGES OF THE INVADING FORCES...

DOCTOR LIZARDO:

Sound the call to board ship!

JOHN BIGBOOTÉ

Without the crucial missing circuit? We'll never make it!

JOHN O'CONNOR

They are only monkey boys! We can still crush them here--!

Lizardo picking up a primitive INCOMPLETE OVERTHRUSTER THE SIZE OF AN

APPLE CRATE...

DOCTOR LIZARDO:

You heard my orders! Activate the Special Horns!

INT. FLOODED CORRIDOR - NIGHT378

Buckaroo joining the alien John Parker, the two of them tearing down

one of the flooded passages...suddenly covering their ears from those

PAINFUL, EAR-SPLITTING HORNS!

INT. ANOTHER CORRIDOR - NIGHT379

Secretary of Defense McKinley makes his way through several RED

ARACHTOIDS running in blind panic...SIRENS WAILING...

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

Coming through! Clear it!

INT. LAUNCH HANGAR - DAWN380

...the light of a new day starting to glow through grimy windows...as

down on the floor, Dr. Lizardo is about to scale a spindly ladder into

his BIG SUSPENDED SPACESHIP...Lizardo spotting Buckaroo, John Parker

and Hong Kong Cavaliers entering this sacred space...

DOCTOR LIZARDO:

Massacre them! Without quarter!

Dr. Lizardo pushing his own soldiers aside, scurrying into his

SPACESHIP with John Bigbooté and John O'CONNOR.

INT. LIZARDO'S BIG SPACESHIP - DAWN381

no sooner inside than a cowardly order is issued to John O'Connor:

DOCTOR LIZARDO:

Close the doors!

INT. LAUNCH HANGAR - DAWN382

Meanwhile, the floor of the hangar...the alien John Parker using

strange judo, the amazing Blue Shields fighting like Samurai, ducking

STINGERS, FIREING into the enemy at point blank range...

383

BUCKAROO SEEING Dr. Lizardo's engine start up, CLOUDS OF BLACK SMOKE

pouring from the exhaust pipes...

384

John Parker fighting his way toward the ship...

385

WHILE OVER YONDER the Secretary of Defense spots the JET CAR unattended

amid that field of weird yellow totems...

ANOTHER ANGLE386

John Parker reaching the BIG SPACESHIP to find Buckaroo already there,

Buckaroo taking the lead up a tall ladder that seems to reach to a REAR

ENTRANCE.

INT. THERMOPOD - DAWN387

Buckaroo settling into a weird little chair, John Parker at his side,

facing the opposite direction in a love-seat arrangement...at a wall

cluttered with confusing instruments and a framed photo of LIZARDO...NO

WAY INTO THE BIG SHIP FROM HERE...

BUCKAROO BANZAI:

What is this thing? A fighter?

JOHN PARKER:

Don't look at me, Buckaroo Banzai. I failed flight school.

INT. LIZARDO'S BIG SPACESHIP - DAWN388

John Bigbooté in the co-pilot's seat, as Doctor Lizardo attempts to

connect his clumsy overthruster.

DOCTOR LIZARDO:

Overthruster in place.

JOHN BIGBOOTÉ

It won't work! It won't!

DOCTOR LIZARDO:

Shut up, John Bigboote, you coward!

John O'Connor pushing John Bigbooté aside as Lizardo hits another

switch and for a fraction of a second ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE, A BLINDING

GREEN LIGHT!

INT. LAUNCH HANGAR - DAWN389

The spacecraft lurches forward twelve feet! Stops.

INT. LIZARDO'S BIG SPACESHIP - DAWN390

DOCTOR LIZARDO:

Again, John O'Connor! Again!

INT. LAUNCH HANGAR - DAWN391

...AS WITHOUT WARNING LIZARDO'S BIG SHIP LURCHES AGAIN LIKE A TETHERED

BEAST!

ANGLE ON THE WALL PULSING!392

INT. THERMOPOD - DAWN393

BUCKAROO BANZAI:

They haven't got enough power. They'll never penetrate!

INT. LIZARDO'S BIG SPACESHIP - DAWN394

Dr. Lizardo, a raging madman in the cockpit, using a RADIO MIKE:

DOCTOR LIZARDO:

Almost! Almost! Lower my vehicle onto the runway!

JOHN BIGBOOTÉ

No! Please!

INT. THERMOPOD - DAWN395

THE DOOR SLAMMING SHUT, TRAPPING THEM...

JOHN PARKER:

We're going down! Onto the runway!

BUCKAROO BANZAI:

The door's locked.

INT. JET CAR/LAUNCH HANGAR - DAWN396

Meanwhile, unnoticed, Secretary of Defense John McKinley reaches the

JET CAR, starts to climb in...

SMALL VOICE:

Another step, I'll drink your blood--!

The Secretary turning, not seeing anyone at first...then little Scooter

Lindley with an M-14 trained on him...

SCOOTER LINDLEY:

Get 'em up!

Scooter means business...as he suddenly demonstrates, blowing away an

oncoming ARACHTOID before turning the gun back on the Secretary, who

raises his hands...

SCOOTER LINDLEY:

What's that?

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

Can opener...just a...

Scooter taking the CURIOUS OBJECT from his prisoner, not fooled for a

second.

INT. LIZARDO'S BIG SPACESHIP - DAWN397

AWFUL THUMPING VIBRARIONS as John O'Connor hits the Overthruster switch

again!

INT. LAUNCH HANGER - DAWN398

THE HANGER WALL BEGINNING TO OOZE...GLOWING.

INT. LIZARDO'S BIG SPACESHIP - DAWN399

Dr. Lizardo and John O'Connor ecstatic...John Bigbooté terrified...

INT. THEMOPOD - DAWN400

Buckaroo and John Parker rattling in their seats! No escape...

INT. HANGER WALL - DAWN401

The sudden "expulsion" by the wall of a TWEEDY, FLESHY OBJECT

RESEMBLING A LUMP OF CLAY which rapidly begins to define itself as the

real, 1938-MODEL BLACK-HAIRED DOCTOR LIZARDO, standing in total

bewilderment, SEVERAL 15th CENTURY BUCCANEERS spit out next, equally

disoriented...

INT. LIZARDO'S BIG SPACESHIP - DAWN402

The "other Lizardo" (Whorfin) meanwhile undergoing a painful reverse

transformation:
FROM OLD MAN BACK TO RED ARACHTOID! HIS EYES

GLOWING...LIGHT ENERGY GLOWING INSIDE HIS MOUTH!

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