The Running Man Page #4

basking under the Maui sun, their debt to society...

paid in full.

Speaking of prizes, you don't have to be a menace

to society to be a winner...

You folks in the audience, you'll get a chance too.

Phil, tell our friends what they can win today.

Damon, how about a year's supply of

Orthopure Procreation Pills... both adult and kiddie

sizes, and the latest edition of The Running Man

home game.

Ben, I know you're just dying to get into that

game zone, and show us the same determination

you showed up in Bakersfield.

Well, first, I've got a little surprise for you.

We all know you're a big, tough guy, Ben,

but that doesn't mean that you're a loner.

And it takes a big man to admit that he needs

his friends.

We didn't want to break up a winning team, Ben.

so here they are, ready to go for broke, right

by your side.

Ladies and gentlemen, Ben's buddies...

Harold Weiss and William Laughlin.

Son of a b*tch!

You know how this works.

The game zone is divided into 400 square blocks

left over from the big quake of '97.

I don't think any of us will ever forget that.

Once inside the zone, the runners have three hours.

They've gotta go through all four game quads.

Three hours or less, and they're gonna need

every second. 'Cause you know who's on their tail?

- The stalkers!

- Who?

- The stalkers!

- And you know what happens then!

- Anything goes!

- What?

- Anything goes!

- Right! Without further ado...

it's time to start running!

On your marks, get set...

Killian.

I'll be back.

Only in a rerun.

Go!

Go!

- You son of a b*tch!

- Go!

Yes!

Two way catch team in position.

Lock down terminus impact net.

All systems go.

Vacuum sleds passing checkpoint one.

"Edited for television."

"Raw footage."

Come on, get up!

Edith Wiggins, come on down!

Yeah!

Whoa, whoa, Edith.

You look like you might've done a little

stalking yourself.

All right. Now, we need you to give me the name of

the stalker that we send out to hunt down those

three desperate criminals.

Give me 10 seconds, please.

Come on, come on. Place your bets. Place your bets.

On first stalk.

Come on, come on. That's Dynamo, 3 to 1.

Time's up.

No more bets.

Come on. Back off, back off! Come on!

I don't know. They're all so good.

Quickly!

My husband and my little boy, they have their favorites.

But I like my men big and cuddly.

- Yeah? Who is it?

- Subzero!

- All right! Okay!

We're looking for Subzero!

Yeah!

And now, our first stalker of the evening...

a Cadre trophy champion with over 30 lifetime kills.

Let's welcome the incredible iceman, who slices his

enemies limb from limb into quivering, bloody sushi...

Professor Subzero!

Yeah!

Let's move!

Go on!

Damon, here in the locker room...

there's a lot of excitement here, a lot of adrenaline.

The stalkers know there's 400 square blocks of

game zone out there...and anything can happen

in the next three hours.

I remember once when I was in the...

- Sorry, Cap. I've just been informed...

the runners have entered the first quad.

Let's go there now, live!

- Faster!

- Get going.

Come on, come on. Bring your money, come on.

Give it to me! Come on, come on.

First blood. You pay your money, you make your choice.

Come on. Hey. How about you?

It's cold.

What is this?

I guess they want us to stay.

Subzero does it again!

A triple hit!

Let's get out of here! Come on!

Weiss, come on! Go!

Banzai!

Oh, look at this. An ICS home video. Right here.

And The Running Man...

home version right here for you.

- I love you!

Look, get me out of here, you guys!

Hang on, Weiss. I'm coming.

Come on, big boy!

Yeah!

Richards?

Will! Look, get me out of here, you guys!

Will, look out!

Kill that son of a b*tch!

Kill him! Come on! Yeah! Yeah!

Hey, Killian!

Here is Subzero.

Now plain zero.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is... just horrible.

Words can't express what we're all feeling at

this very moment. A great champion has fallen.

We'll be back right after these important messages.

Pull!

- You all right?

- Yeah. Boy.

What the hell is that?

- It's gas.

- Let's get out of here.

Sure glad we took care of Subzero.

Yeah, he was a real pain in the neck.

Huh?|I know what a – I know a stalker died.

Well, it had to happen sooner or later.

Yeah, well, it is a contact sport, right?

Yes, but you guys at Justice, you cannot have

it both ways.

You want ratings, you want people in front

of the TV sets...instead of picket lines.

Well, you ain't gonna get that with reruns of Gilligan's Island.

Gilligan's Island.

Yeah. Yeah, the one with the boat.

Buzzsaw! Buzzsaw! Buzzsaw!

Fireball! Fireball! Fireball! Fireball! Fireball!

Yeah, Buzzsaw!

Leon.

I don't know. I think maybe Dynamo...

but Buzzsaw was last year's champion.

- I can't decide!

- Then don't decide, Leon.

Hard decisions call for hard solutions.

And here are two hard asses ready to step in and take charge.

You asked for 'em, Leon. You got 'em.

Here they are!

Buzzsaw and Dynamo!

Phil, tell us all about this champion tag team.

Let's give a down-home welcome to "Buzzsaw"

Eddie Vatowski, last season's leading stalker.

Buzzsaw's Hammond and Gage chain saws

are made of Trilon-coated Durasteel, and

can cut muscle, sinew, bone or even solid steel!

- Well?

- The ratings just jumped eight points right

across the board.

- Eight?

- Make that nine points.

- I love Ben Richards.

- Want another surprise?

- What?

- Remember the girl who was with Richards

at the airport?

- The one with the cute ass?

- This is cuter. They just caught her downstairs. She

was pulling the Bakersfield video.

Would you please welcome...

- Sensational.

- Our third stalker of the evening, Dynamo!

[ Dynamo singing from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro ]

Ah, thank you. You're beautiful. Well, it's been

an exciting show so far, right?

We've had shocks, we've had surprises.

And we thought, "Why not one more surprise?"

Will you please help me welcome our mystery contestant...

Miss Amber Mendez!

Let me go!

Amber! Now, I understand that you're

single, Amber...

and that you live on the west side.

And not surprisingly, she's flaunted the law...

and traditional morality all of her life.

Go ahead. Tell some lies about me now.

We don't lie. Phil, tell us all about her.

- It's clear. Come on.

- Weiss, what is it?

- The camera relay. It's pointing into the zone, not up.

- Who gives a damn?

Hey, where are you going?

- Later, she cheated on college exams...

had sexual relationships with two...

sometimes three different men in a year...

and then she met "Mad Dog" Ben Richards.

Her confederate, her lover.

That was a lie!

Dear, dear, dear. Let's reunite these little lovebirds.

Go!

- It's got to be here somewhere.

- You want to tell me what the hell is going on?

- All the relays are the same. They point into the

middle of the game zone. Now sooner or later

they're gonna connect – which means the uplink to

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