Total Recall Page #11

MELINA (whispering) There's an explosive in the clipboard! He has a

dead-man switch in his hand!

Squeezing Edgemar's hand shut with one of hers, she holds up her other

wrist -- to show that the CLIPBOARD IS BOUND TO HER WRIST BY A CHAIN!

VOICE (O.S.) What do you say, Hauser? We haven't got all night! Hauser?

Quail (Hauser) SHOOTS OFF the chain.

QUAIL What happens it I come out?

Quail takes the CLIPBOARD from Melina and eases himself to the side of

the doorway.

VOICE (O.S.) We'll put in a word with the big boys. Maybe you'll just

get exile to Venus.

QUAIL All right. Here comes the weapon.

Quail reaches around the corner and SAILS THE CLIPBOARD into the

hallway. Melina lets go of Edgemar's hand --

There is a TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION in the hallway,

83INT. HALLWAY - NIGHT

Quail comes out in crouch, ready to shoot. On the floor lies a DEAD MAN

and the body of the Shoeshine Boy, sprawled grotesquely. The hallway is

filled with smoke. The floor covered with debris. Plaster falling from

the ceiling.

All over the hotel, ALARMS begin BLARING.

84INT. QUAIL'S ROOM - NIGHT

Quail strides back in, icy-furious. He seizes Melina by the wrist and

drags her after him into the corridor.

84AINT. CORRIDOR - NIGHT

Two more E.I.O. men appear but Quail shoots them while dragging Melina

down the hall in the opposite direction. He pushes open the door

leading to the staircase.

84BINT. STAIRCASE - NIGHT

Quail and Melina run down the stairs. On the next landing is a service

elevator, from which a waiter is emerging carefully carrying a tray

with hors d'oeuvres and champagne.

QUAIL Back in, quick!

WAITER Wouldn't you prefer your order in your room, sir?

QUAIL In!

Quail bundles the waiter unceremoniously back inside the elevator.

84CINT. LIFT - NIGHT

Quail presses the basement button. As he talks to Melina he opens the

champagne and pours two glasses. The waiter is too frightened to

protest.

QUAIL Okay. Answers! Now!

MELINA They kidnapped me. Said they'd kill you if I didn't cooperate. I

told them I didn't care, but then when I realized they meant it...

QUAIL I don't know why they're after me, but what's your connection

with all this?

MELINA We were together before.

QUAIL Believe me, I'm really sorry I can't recall the details of that

encounter.

The elevator has reached the basement. They rush out.

85EXT. ALLEY BEHIND HILTON - NIGHT

Quail and Melina run from a basement door into an alley.

A solar car whips out in front of them. Quail and Melina leap aboard.

MELINA Go, Bennie, for God's sake!

86INT. BENNIE'S SOLAR CAR - NIGHT

Bennie weaves as fast as he can in and out of the traffic, Quail and

Melina ducking out of view in the passenger seat.

BENNIE (glances in mirror) Bad news, boss lady.

MELINA What?

BENNIE Black cruiser just pull out behind us.

86AEXT. CITY STREET - NIGHT

A large gas-powered official-looking car is pushing its way through the

crowds and traffic behind them.

86BINT. BENNIE'S CAR - NIGHT

Quail is aiming his gun at the following car.

BENNIE Forget the shooter, boss. I lose 'em for you.

QUAIL Lose them? In this?

BENNIE Hang on!

Bennie reaches down, grasps a KNOB. He yanks it, like someone starting

an

outboard motor -- and an ear-splitting LOUD ENGINE roars to life.

Bennie opens the throttle and the solar car HURTLES DOWN THE STREET.

Quail and Melina are thrown back in the seat.

87EXT. STREETS - NIGHT

GUNFIRE blazes all around the car. Quail FIRES back at the pursuing

car.

QUAIL (shouts over GUNFIRE) You're gonna get a ticket for that engine,

Bennie --

BENNIE Yutani 650 -- you like it, boss? Nothing like the old gas when

you want a bit of speed.

BULLETS from the cruiser rip through the car.

MELINA You better have two aces, Bennie. (glances behind) There's a

second cruiser -- and it's gaining --

87AEXT. CITY STREETS - NIGHT

Bennie's car hurtles through the crowds with the official car gaining

on it. Bennie takes a corner sharply near a huge water selling stand.

The official car brakes to make the same turn, but clips the side of

the water stand. The water container tips and empties water through

the open roof (i.e. through which one of the Agents has been firing)

so that the car completely fills. The driver continues the chase, but

the occupants are now submerged. They frantic- ally open the windows

while continuing to follow Bennie's car.

88EXT. ALLEY - NIGHT

The solar car rushes down what appears to be a dead-end street, with

the official vehicle (water pouring out of the windows) in pursuit.

At the end of the street, however, Bennie doesn't stop but continues

going into a large opening. It is an abandoned mine. The bigger car

follows him, but won't fit. The roof is smashed to pieces as the

vehicle is wedged into the narrow opening.

The second official car pulls up behind. A chauffeur jumps out and

opens the rear door. Cohaagen steps out. He sur- veys the scene. The

four men in the wrecked car clamber their way backwards out of the

wreckage. They are covered in blood and their clothes are in shreds.

COHAAGEN I take it, then, you've failed to get him again.

Cohaagen turns to an associate, EMILE, a youngish, well-dressed

executive type.

COHAAGEN (continuing) Proceed with Operation Sphinx.

EMILE But, sir...

COHAAGEN With him... (gestures toward the mine) ...on the lose, I'm not

taking any more chances. Operation Sphinx will flush him out.

93INT. OLD MINE - NIGHT

The solar car proceeds along the tunnel. It enters an area full of

smoke. Dozens of men are sitting around smoking cigarettes, pipes and

cigars. Quail looks at them in amazement.

QUAIL What's all this?

BENNIE Nothin', boss. Just old smokies. Only place they can come for a

puff. It's all banned topside.

They have now climbed out of the car. Quail looks searchingly at Melina

and Bennie.

QUAIL So you two are into something a bit more serious than the taxi

and truck-stop business.

BENNIE That's right, boss.

He unzips his jacket to reveal a T-shirt with "MARTIAN LIBERATION

FRONT" (and an appropriate symbol) emblazoned on it.

QUAIL My God!... T-shirts. They died out on Earth years ago.

BENNIE (hurt) Well, maybe we ain't fashion leaders, boss.

MELINA No. But we still believe in a free Mars.

They walk as they talk - into a room off the main tunnel. It is adorned

with "FREE MARS" and "MARTIAN LIBERATION FRONT" posters. A group of

people are

printing T-shirts and leaflets. They exchange greetings with Melina and

Bennie.

QUAIL So where did I fit into all this?

MELINA You - when you were Charles Hauser with E.I.O - infiltrated our

group. I guess Cohaagen didn't trust you any more when you and I...

Her gesture suggests their liaison.

QUAIL Yeah. And I can't even remember it. We'll have to arrange a

return bout.

MELINA ...so he had your memory wiped and fixed you up with a new

identity.

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