Top Gun Page #9

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GOOSE:

He's blind -- you got him!

JESTER:

NO JOY! NO JOY! WHERE ARE YOU?

I'VE LOST SIGHT.

GOOSE:

He's out of energy! You got

control? Unload!

The F-14 peels over the egg, in a backward dive. It rockets

down the outside, gaining energy. Over the ROAR of jets, the

SCREAM of the wind, Goose shouts data, but it is muffled, a

distant voice in a typhoon. Through the canopy, we see

Jester, and he hangs in the air like a sparrow in the path of

a falcon.

PILOT'S POV - HUD in windscreen - a diamond in a box.

Maverick lines up the diamond with Jester, and we hear the

high pitched tone BEEPING.

JESTER:

WE'RE BELOW THE HARD DECK. FIGHT'S

OFF.

GOOSE:

He's right. We're at ten thousand.

MAVERICK:

No way. I got you, sucker. You're

going down.

Jester maneuvers, but Maverick keeps him in the gunsight.

The BEEPING is louder, faster.

MAVERICK:

In the envelope. FOX TWO MISSILE

SHOT. YOU'RE GONE, JESTER, DEAD!

GOOSE:

(stunned)

Goddamn! We beat him!

There is an edge of anger in Jester's voice.

JESTER:

ROGER FOX TWO. GET YOUR BUTTS ABOVE

THE HARD DECK. RETURN TO BASE

IMMEDIATELY.

They are brought up short for a moment, then the thrill of

victory gets the best of them. Goose lets out a war whoop.

The F-14 sweeps up, rolls into an Immelman..

MAVERICK:

We did it!

GOOSE:

Look, Ma, top of the world!

52A. EXT. MIRAMAR - LANDING PATTERN.

Maverick's Tomcat breaks hard and high, rolls over on its

side, wings perpendicular to the ground. Goose sees the world

go sideways.

GOOSE:

Ahhh...A little high on the left,

don't you think?

MAVERICK:

Right.

He aileron rolls another quarter turn. Inverted, they pass

right down the runway. Goose looks out and insouciantly

watches the world go by at 300 knots, upside down.

GOOSE:

Right. Much better. ...Ahhh...what

do you call this?

MAVERICK:

It's a victory roll.

GOOSE:

I wouldn't call it victory. It's

more like...self immolation.

52B. INT. CONTROL TOWER

Controllers work. Officers watch the landing activity. One

old salt, turns from the coffee machine, a cup of steaming

Java microns from his lips. A ROAR. VABOOM! The Tomcat roars

over. He yelps as hot coffee flys all over his shirt.

52C.

EXT. MAVERICK'S F-14

They complete the roll, bank left, zoom right by the tower,

level with the observation window.

52D. F-14'S POV. Controllers look out at the F-14, mouths

drop open.

52E. ANGLE GOOSE

He waves jauntily.

GOOSE:

Hi...Hi there. How ya doing in

there? Mav... Ahhh...you know, at

one point I did want a Navy career.

MAVERICK:

Come on, relax...

GOOSE:

You see all those guys with gold on

their shoulders!!?... Oh, no, I

think that was Johnson, Air Boss of

the Kitty Hawk!

MAVERICK:

Come on, we beat an instructor. How

many times in your life do you get

to do a victory roll?

GOOSE:

Just once, if they take your plane

away.

They roll out, break over the runway.

***

52F. EXT. FLIGHTLINE.

Maverick and Goose walk by parking Tomcats...Ice is

unstrapping, Slider is climbing down. Ice looks at Maverick,

says one word.

ICEMAN:

Cowboys!

Maverick keeps walking...Goose hangs back.

SLIDER:

Nice. Always a good idea to show up

your instructors.

He nods toward Jester, glaring at them from his A4. Goose

indicates the backseat of the Tomcat.

GOOSE:

Hey, see any controls back there?

(thinks about team loyalty,

reacts to Jester's glare...)

And anyway...we beat the Son of a

B*tch!

He turns and runs to catch up with Maverick.

53. INT. LOCKER ROOM - DAY

Pilots half undressed. Maverick and Goose enter the room,

carrying their helmets. The students look up at them, and

Goose suddenly flashes a thumb's up sign with a grin. The

students react with clenched fists, ad libs, high fives,

victory punches.

WOLFMAN:

You won?!!!

MAVERICK:

Didn't everybody?

"Oooo" -- they all go "ooo" and laugh.

WOLFMAN:

No, we...got our butts kicked.

HOLLYWOOD:

Thirty seconds. That's all it took

to blow us out of the sky.

WOLFMAN:

We went like this, he went like

that. I say to Hollywood: Where'd

he go? Hollywood says: where'd who

go?

HOLLYWOOD:

And he's laughing. Right over the

radio, He's laughing at us.

Attention turns to the doorway as Ice and Slider enter. Ice

gives a brief dramatic pause, then flashes thumbs up and

smiles. The students celebrate Ice's win. Ice handles the

attention with the easy composure of one who is used to it.

Maverick ignores him and begins to peel out of his G-suit.

Ice moves toward his locker.

***

GOOSE:

You won.

Congratulations.HOLLYWOOD

Maverick and Goose won too.

Ice talks into his locker.

ICE:

That's not what I heard.

GOOSE:

We won!

Ice turns back, stares them down, then turns back into his

locker, dismissing them.

ICE:

Below the hard deck doesn't count.

You guys are the second team,

aren't you?

Maverick gets up, moves to him, starts to say something,

when Jester, breaks into the room.

JESTER:

Maverick, Goose. Viper's office. Now!

53A. INT. TOPGUN CORRIDOR OUTSIDE CO'S OFFICE.

SCREAMING AND YELLING. A lot of screaming and yelling,

muffled by the door.

53B. INT. ANTEROOM.

Enlisted Yeomen and Chiefs go about their clerical duties in

acute embarrassment mixed with curiousity. Behind the CO'S door,

someone is screaming his head off.

BOOM! The door bursts open. A big, brawling Officer - Johnson,

the Air Boss - blasts out, nearly smashing into a female petty

officer. She almost spills her coffee. Johnson looks right and

left in fury too strong for words. He looks like he wants to

smash something. They move out of his way, but he justs blasts

through the door and disappears down the hall.

The enlisted men turn to Viper's office.

53D THEIR POV

Jester stands inside stonefaced. Maverick and Goose are

rigid. Viper...with excess calm deliberation, softly walks

over, grasps the doornob. He glances in this direction. The

glance is totally without expression, and even scarier for

that.

***

53D. ANGLE ENLISTED (MEN)

In a flash, each man finds something totally engrossing in

his work, or something terribly important to do elsewhere.

Slowly, steadily, Viper swings his door closed.54. INT.

VIPER'S OFFICE

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