The Rock Page #13

The S.E.A.L.s emerge in the cistern and climb out. The room

. has one exit, sealed with a HEAVY IRON door.

COMMANDER ANDERSON Thank-you very f***ing much, Mr. Mason, you've led us to=

a room with no exit.

S.E.A.L. BOYER

Skipper, blow it or burn it?

COMMANDER ANDERSON

No time for the torch. Explosiveslll bring the f***ing world down on=

us.

(turns to Mason)

An idea, please, we're tight on time.

MASON:

Wait for me to unlock the door.

COMMANDER ANDERSON You do not look like Jesus Christ, Mr. Mason, so I'm=

havin@ a hard time how you're going to accomplish=

that.

MASON:

(points)

Under there.

UNDERNEATH THE STEAM ENGINE is a tiny crawl space. 10 STEAM

RELEASE VALVES periodically emit BURSTS OF STEAM.

COMMANDER ANDERSON

You are shitting me. You catch one

of those steam bursts and you're a corpse.

MASON:

True.

(unshoulders his

equipment)

I memorized their timing.

Mason sits on the edge of the crawl space. F.B.I. looks inside the crawl=

space:
WHITE HOT BURSTS of 500 degree Fahrenheit steam BLAST=

DOWN.

S.E.A.L. SHEPHERD

Uhh sir, you said never leave his

side ...

COMMANDER ANDERSON

You're not required to follow,

Lieutenant Shepherd. This man is going

to die.

MASON:

(grumbles to himself)

That's been said to me before ....

Mason takes a deep breath and he rolls --

INTO THE CRAWL SPACE - Mason logrolls one revolution... STEAM

BURST another evolution STEAM BURST another

revolution STEAM BURST

Mason rolls to a stop on his side. STEAM BURSTS on either side of him. =

Mason collects himself. Breathes deeply and rolls again. His movements=

are precise, from memory. He rolls past.each burst, any imprecision=

certain death ...

IN THE CISTERN ROOM - GOODSPEED, ANDERSON AND THE S.E.A.L.s

watch Mason, amazed.

S.E.A.L. REIGERT

Who the f*** is this guy? Houdini?

IN THE CRAWL SPACE - MASON rolls past the STEAM RELEME

VALVE and disappears.

IN THE CISTERN ROOM - Several seconds pass. We HEAR THE

DOOR being unbolted. It CREAKS open. There stands Mason.

MASON:

Welcome to the Rock.

The Incursion Team files through the door and CUT TO:

INT. TUNNELS UNDER ALCATRAZ - NIGHT

Here, the tunnel moves up a steep incline to a LOCKED STEEL

BULKHEAD. S.E.A.L.s REIGERT and DANDO check it out.

S.E.A.L. DANDO

She's at least three inches thick sir.

COMMANDER ANDERSON

Sh*t. Burn it.

Dando unpacks an ACETYLENE TORCH. Reigert turns on the ACETYLENE VALVES=

(tanks rigged to Dandols gear) and sparks the torch. IT FLAMES UP, white=

hot.

Dando starts toward the bulkhead. MASON steps past him, .bending his=

KITCHEN FORK into an awkward shape. He fishes the fork in the lock; twists=

it, and...... POP.

Mason throws open the thick bulkhead door. And climbs

through the bulkhead.

MASON:

(muttering)

Guys are worthless.

COMMANDER ANDERSON

Who is this guy... ?

INT. DRAINAGE PIPES LTNDER MAIN CELL HOUSE - NIGHT

The team arrives at a series of concrete drainage pipes.

Mason points up to one of them.

COMMANDER ANDERSON

The shower room?

(Mason nods yes)

After you.

Mason and the S.E.A.L.s climb into the drainage pipe.

INT. DRAINAGE PIPE UNDER SHOWER ROOM - NIGHT

The S.E.A.L. team, Mason leading the way, climbs toward a

FAINT LIGHT emanating from a DRAINAGE GRATE above.

S.E.A.L. REIGERT readies a FIBRE OPTIC SEEING DEVICE; he

pushes the fibre-optic camera up through the grate.

INT. ALCATRAZ - PRISON SHOWER ROOM - NIGHT

The FIBRE-OPTIC CAMERA turns, looking in a 360 degree

radius, and transmitting images of --

THE PRISON SHOWER - a tiled room with shower heads and a 20 160A ft.=

ceiling. Above, a mezzanine circles the showers; here Alcatraz's guards=

once watched inmates below..

INT. DRAINAGE PIPE UNDER SHOWER ROOM - NIGHT

Commander Anderson views the shower room images on a TINY (2 inch by 2 inch)=

WRIST-HELD VIDEO MONITOR. The shower is deserted, but there's something of=

interest ~-

A MOTION DETECTOR (a blue beam flashed from a transmitter to 161A

a receptor) across the grate.

COMMANDER ANDERSON

Motion sensor.

Anderson gingerly lifts the grate. Reigert wiggles his hands past the edges=

of the grate and nudges the beam transmitter (with one hand) and the beam=

receiver (with the other) away from the grate.

INT. INFIRMARY COMMAND CENTER - NIGHT

A SILENT ALARM next to Pvt. Royce blinks on. Royce turns to

Maj. Baxter.

ROYCE:

Sir. Anti-disturbance temblar tripped

in the shower. We got visitors.

INT. MAIN CELL HOUSE - SHOWER ROOM

The grate pops open. S.E.A.IL.s BOYER and REIGERT, wearing NIOHT VISION=

GLASSES, emerge taking defensive positions back-to-back. Commander=

Anderson follows. Then, one by one, the rest of the S.E.A.L.s=

emerge.

COMMANDER ANDERSON

(to Lt. Shepherd in the

drainage pipe)

Stand fast. We'll secure the area.

ANDERSON directs Boyer and Reigert to a TILED COLUMN. They creep across the=

tiled floor, taking "check and defefid" positions behind the shower's TILED=

COLUMNS. But suddenly, shockingly.....FLOODLIGHTS flash on. Coming from=

the mezzanine above.

The S.E.A.L.s whip off their night vision goggles.

165 INT. PIER 3-9 - MOBILE COMMAND TRAILER - NIGHT

ON THE VIDEO MONITOR - We see the illumination of the shower

room (transmitted from the S.E.A.L.s cameras.)

SANCHEZ:

What's that...what the hell is that?

INT. ALCATRAZ - DRAINAGE PIPE UNDER SHOWER ROOM - NIGHT

Goodspeed, Mason, and Lt. Shepherd react to the sudden

illumination above. Goodspeed whispers:

What's going on?

S.E.A.L. SHEPHERD

(whispers)

Don't know.

INT. SHOWER ROOM - NIGHT

The S.E.A.L.s whirl around, startled, unnerved, squinting

into the blinding whiteness of the floodlights.

HUMMEL (V.O.)

Drop your weapons.

The S.E.A.L.s, terrified, hesitate but do not drop their weapons They stand=

back-to-back, weapons trained at the catwalk. squinting into the white=

light.

The S.E.A.L.s behind the tiled columns take cover. we cannot yet see Hummel=

and the marines. This plays with as much tension as possible. The=

situation is chilling:

COMMANDER ANDERSON

Anderson here, General Hummel.

Commander. Team Leader.

HUMMEL (V.O.)

Commander Anderson, if you have any concern for the

lives of your men, you will order them to safety their weapons

and place them on the deck at their feet-

INT. PIER 39 COMMAND CENTER - NIGHT

ON THE VIDEO MONITOR - We see the floodlights above on the

Mezzanine and hear Hummells voice:

SANCHEZ:

Oh Christ this isn't happening.

INT. ALCATRAZ - SHOWER ROOM MEZZANINE- NIGHT

HUMMEL looks down at the S.E.A.L.s. Baxter's text to him. The other marines=

are at positions around the mezzanine perimeter, M-16's trained and=

ready.

COMMANDER ANDERSON

Sir, we know why you're out here. God knows I agree with you sir, but like=

you sir, I swore to defend this country against all enemies. Foreign, sir,=

and domestic.

(shouts now)

General, we've spilled the same blood in the same mud. You know goddamn=

well that I cannot give that order...

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