Tron Page #10

RAM:

(into mike)

Recognizers!

252A SHOT OF RAM252

heading for a smaller opening in one wall, labeled "Game Storage."

253 SHOT FROM BEHIND253

as the three cycles race into the opening. The Reco's are blocked,

way too big to fit through the opening.

254 INT. WEAPONS STORAGE - SERIES OF SHOTS 254

FROM FLYNN'S POV as they rush through long narrow rooms filled with

rows of tanks and missiles. As they speed past, the rows of tanks

REV UP, turn in formation, one after the other, like the Rockettes,

and follow.

255 EXT. MAZE 255

Outside the game area, an electronic desert reminiscent of the Grand

Canyon, with giant pillars rising high into the air, lined with

narrow ridges and ledges. The cycles rush around corners of the

ledges, pursued by the tanks, high above the flat surface. They come

around a corner onto a wider ledge with several dark openings in the

face of the cliff. They stop for a moment.

255A ANGLE ON FLYNN 255A

256 CLOSE UP - TRON'S FACE256

listening.

TRON:

(into mike)

Game Tanks! Come on

257 SHOT FROM ABOVE 257

as the three cycles rev up and race off, headed for one of the

narrow openings in the cliff face, and plunge into it, disappearing

from view.

258 INT. OF THE CAVE258

We see the three cycles descend a long sloping ramp into the

darkness, down, down into the dry rot section. The cycles come to a

stop and de-rez. Leaving each man standing with just the handlebars

between his fists. They all let out a long SIGH and relax.

FLYNN:

Oh man...when you're on the other side

of the screen...it all looks so easy...

Ram and Tron look at Flynn as if he's crazy, then start smiling and

grinning, until all three are LAUGHING.

259 DESERT LABYRINTH259

as the force of tanks RUMBLES through the terrain, the aircraft

carrier hovering overhead.

260 BRIDGE OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER 260

Sark is staring feverishly out over the barren landscape.

SARK:

(to one of the bridge

personnel)

Get the pursuit force back into 404A.

There's no place else they could be...

Sark's lieutenant is watching the wall-sized screen behind Sark,

where we can see a diagram of the area, with the tanks visible,

moving through it. He turns to Sark.

LIEUTENANT:

(confidently)

We'll have them in no time, sir. Long

before the interrupt interface.

SARK:

(whirls on him)

We better, null unit. I'll be lucky if

the MCP doesn't blast me into a dead zone.

I want those programs!

261 INT. CAVE 261

Ram, Tron and Flynn are climbing up to an opening in the wall of the

cave. Beyond them we can see a cluster of structures, like a

cityscape, and one enormous TOWER with a golden beam of light rising

from it, farther up than the eye can see. No tanks are visible.

FLYNN:

(looking out)

It's all circuits...

(points at tower)

Must be an input/output component...

RAM:

The tower, yes -- Flynn, have you

remembered anything else about

yourself -- like what sector you're

from?

FLYNN:

(sitting down

against a rock)

Well...my home "sector" was called

Paramus ...

RAM:

(sits also)

PARAMUS... wonder what those initials

stand for ... (starts counting them

off on his fingers) ...probably Program

Assist Routine -- well, it sounds like

a lovely place.

FLYNN:

(shrugs)

It grows on you.

He notices that Tron is not listening to them any longer, but is

gazing upwards.

TRON:

(murmuring)

I can feel it ...

Flynn and Ram turn.

FLYNN:

Feel what? You okay?

RAM:

Alan-One...

TRON:

Yes... he's got something to tell me...

Ram and Tron look out at the distant tall tower.

RAM:

You think we can make it there?

TRON:

We have to.

FLYNN:

(pointing to a corner

of the cave)

Hey, what's that?

They all look back, into the darkness behind them. A glowing stream

can just be seen. Ram gets up.

RAM:

it's just what we need.

262 INT. NICHE 262

Ram and Tron are drinking, kneeling at the stream of flowing,

brilliant LIGHT.

TRON:

Oh, that's nice. You always forget how

good fresh energy feels, till you get

to a pure source...

(to Flynn)

Have some...you'll need it.

Flynn goes to the stream, dips his hands in, takes a drink.

FLYNN:

(wiping his mouth)

well... when do we pay a call on the ol'

Master Control?

Tron and Ram are taken aback.

TRON:

What, just the three of us?

FLYNN:

(shrugs)

You know anybody that's got an army for

rent, that's fine...but my, uh, User said

to go take that sucker out. An' let's

face it, the big ox isn't gonna get any

weaker. I feel like hittin' him now,

while I'm good an' mad. Some nerve...

what does he care whether you guys get

killed, long as he keeps rakin' in

quarters?

RAM:

(to Tron)

Do you know what he's talking about?

TRON:

(to Flynn)

I have to find out what Alan wants...

that comes first.

FLYNN:

Okay, that's first. Maybe he knows

what to -

Suddenly, we hear a RUMBLING SOUND. Flynn looks up sharply.

FLYNN (CONT.)

What's that?

TRON:

Tanks...coming back. Let's go.

With that, there's an EXPLOSION from outside the cave. Each of the

men holds up his cycle handlebars, and the three cycles SIZZLE back

into shape and race up the ramp, and on out.

263-265 OMIT 263-265

266 EXT. CAVE 266

The three cyclists pause at the cave opening, sizing up possible

avenues of escape in the terrain below.

FLYNN:

(points)

How about over there...that empty

memory?

TRON:

(shakes head)

No good...they might block off the

old chip.

(points)

This way.

The cycles race out of the cave entrance and head down, away from

the approaching tanks, through the electronic canyons, shells

EXPLODING around them. We see the tanks close behind.

267 POV OF A GUN SIGHT 267

from inside of the tanks, of the three bikes heading into a narrow

arroyo.

268 SHOT OF THE CYCLES 268

They just make it around the corner when an EXPLOSION boasts the

entrance to the arroyo, entering what appears to be a maze of very

narrow canyons with short walls. They turn another corner and come

to the edge of a gaping ravine.

Several hundred feet to their left a narrow bridge connects their

ledge with another canyon wall, and a wider ledge, which leads down

to the floor of the entire area, and on to freedom.

TRON'S VOICE

The bridge! Come on!

The tanks are following through the maze, smooth gray automatons,

lifeless, inexorable nemesis. Tron's cycle is in the lead as all

three race for the bridge, but behind them, we see the first tank

turning the corner.

CUT TO:

269 POV OF TANK GUNSIGHT 269

as the turret swings around and focuses on the bridge.

270 SHOT OF THE BRIDGE 270

Tron races out on it, Ram and Flynn behind. Just as Tron reaches

the other side and Ram has just started to cross, there's a

tremendous EXPLOSION of electronic FLAK, blasting Ram and tossing

him back on top of Flynn. Both cycles de-rez. The bridge disappears,

and a mass of rubble falls, partially Obscuring Ram and Flynn. Tron

SCREECHES to a halt and swings his bike back around.

He looks around -- Ram and Flynn are nowhere in sight. in the ravine

below, he SEES a pile of motionless rubble.

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