Total Recall Page #15

122AA EXT. DESERT - DAY

Bennie is beside the vehicle. He implodes like a balloon with all its

air gone.

122AB INT/EXT. VEHICLE - DAY

Melina hides her face in horror. At that instant --

122A EXT. DESERT - DAY

Bullets dig into the sand all around the vehicle. The patrol cars are

only a few hundred yards away! Loud- speakers call for Quail's

surrender.

122B INT. VEHICLE - DAY

Quail lunges for the vehicle controls. Presses a buttonmarked "Dive".

The vehicle tilts.

122C EXT. DESERT - DAY

The vehicle burrows powerfully into the sand. As the patrol cars close

in and rake the desert with gunfire, the vehicle vanishes from sight.

In the distance, the Sphinx looms ominously.

A driver in one of the patrol vehicles (filmed from outside the

windscreen) is speaking into a microphone. He can't be heard but can

only be radioing a report.

123INT. SAND MOLE - MOVING - UNDERGROUND

The little mining vehicle moves powerfully, propelled by its BORER

NOSE.

Quail mans the controls while Melina struggles to shore up the gaping

hole in the side, into which SAND is POURING as the mole moves forward.

Quail looks at a compass in the control panel. He makes a correction.

QUAIL (shouts over engine noise) Hope I've got this direction right.

Sand pours over him from bullet holes resulting from the encounter with

patrol cars.

CU speedometer:
22 MPH. Every other gauge is overheating, flashing

WARNING LIGHTS --

124INT. SPHINX CONTROL ROOM - DAY

Cohaagen and a number of his associates, plus scientists and heavily

arms troops are present.

COHAAGEN The air supply is off under the domes?

EMILE Yes, sir. In a couple of hours it'll be all gone.

COHAAGEN Any trouble with the rabble?

EMILE Not much, sir. A lot of complaining. But they're all heading

towards the shuttle areas.

On some of the video screens a number of space shuttles can be seen,

ready for departure to Earth.

123INT. TUNNEL BENEATH SPHINX

The Mole bores through a sand wall, emerges into a cramped horizontal

tunnel. Quail and Melina leap out. The poor Mole is smoking like an

overheated drill bit. Its nose is worn to a nub.

MELINA We got in with this thing, but we'll never get back out.

QUAIL A shame. Such a pleasant trip.

There's a lighted area at the end of the tunnel. Quail and Melina hurry

toward it, moving silently, close to the wall.

126B INT. MAIN DOWNSHAFT

They draw up an abyss -- where their tunnel intersects the MAIN

DOWNSHAFT. Melina gasps at the colossal scale of the drilling, hundreds

of yards across, deeper than the eye can see, and crisscrossed by

catwalks, buttresses and super-sophisticated technology.

Quail and Melina are forty feet below the upper end of the main

downshaft. They can look up the shaft and see the first interior level

of the Sphinx itself.

QUAIL (points down shaft) This is the main tap -- straight down to the

core of Mars. When we trigger the mechanism, fusion reactors will

detonate down there -- four hundred miles deep.

MELINA Remind me not to slip.

QUAIL The new elements will come booming up through this shaft -- and

six

thousand others all around the planet.

He's right at home -- and full of confidence.

Quail climbs onto the ladder, which links various top levels.

He starts to climb. Melina follows him. They are tiny figures. The

space around them plummets down to infinity.

127INT. CORRIDOR AT TOP OF SHAFT - LOWEST MANNED LEVEL (LEVEL ONE)

A patrol of NINE HEAVILY-ARMED GUARDS appear from a corridor in Level

One -- directly above where Quail and Melina are climbing.

128ON THE WALL OF THE SHAFT

Quail and Melina's heads inch into view at floor level. They take one

peek at these formidable warriors and duck back swiftly out of sight.

129INT. TOP OF SHAFT - LOWEST MANNED LEVEL (LEVEL ONE)

GUARD LEADER (to two of his men) Stay in contact. I want to hear from

this checkpoint every four minutes.

Seven of the Guards move off, two remain in position.

We HEAR the FOOTSTEPS of the seven guards recede.

The two remaining guards realize their isolation; they glance tensely

to one another.

GUARD #1 Did you hear something?

GUARD #2 No. Where?

GUARD #1 Over there.

The First Guard points to the edge of the main shaft -- right where

Quail and Melina are hiding. The Guards cock their weapons, start

cautiously forward. Just as they're about to peer over the brink, guns

at the ready:

QUAIL'S VOICE (O.S.) (from behind the guards) I'm not there, boys. I'm

here.

The guards spin around, weapons poised. Standing in the shadows, near

the

corridor, is Quail! (Still with no gun)

Both guards walk quickly toward Quail, covering him with their weapons.

GUARD #1 (to Guard #2) Watch him. He was EIO trained. They're all full

of tricks.

GUARD #2 Yeah? Like...who was that guy? -- Fred Bond?? (to Quail) Keep

'em up, Fred, keep 'em up.

Quail has his arms raised high. Just as the Guards reach him, he fizzes

electronically, emitting a humming sound, then disappears.

GUARD #1 A hologram!

Before either Guard can react, the real Quail appears -- one foot

behind them. With two LIGHTNING BLOWS, he dispatches the Guards.

(Apparently Quail has climbed out of the shaft while the Guards were

distracted.)

Quail snatches both Guards' weapons, grenades and ammo belts. Melina

climbs out of the shaft. Quail tosses her one of the Guard's guns.

130INT. CORRIDOR - LEVEL ONE

ALARMS go off everywhere. Quail -- carrying a gun and all the grenades

and ammo belts -- and Melina (just carrying a gun) bolt down a corridor

past a sign:
"LEVEL ONE".

MELINA (running) Where'd you get that little trick?

QUAIL (running) Mail-order company. It's a great one for fooling the

wife.

131INT. CONTROL ROOM (LEVEL THIRTEEN)

Cohaagen and his Aides hear the ALARMS, see Quail and Melina on

MONITORS as they race down the corridor on Level One.

COHAAGEN How the hell did they get in?

SECURITY AIDE Up the fusion core.

COHAAGEN Up the fusion core??

He exhibits begrudging admiration for Quail.

SECURITY AIDE (studies monitor more carefully) They're on Level One. A

wall sign behind Cohaagen reads: "LEVEL THIRTEEN".

COHAAGEN Seal all upper levels.

A button is pressed and huge doors slide across in front of the

formidable doors already closing the Control Room off from the outside

corridors.

133INT. LEVEL ONE CORRIDOR

Quail and Melina are still racing through the corridors. He passes her

a fresh ammo belt.

QUAIL (indicates weapons) Know how to use one of these?

Melina expertly ejects her spent clip (that Guards fired at Quail),

slams in a fresh clip and c*cks the gun.

Quail has a half-second to react, impressed, then -- FOUR GUARDS pound

into view at the end of the corridor.

Melina opens fire, nails two. Quail heaves a grenade; as it EXPLODES,

he and Melina bolt down a side corridor --

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