U.S. Marshals Page #4

Synopsis: When a prisoner transport plane crashes, one prisoner, Mark Sheridan, skillfully escapes and saves lives at the same time. Deputy Sam Gerard and his team of U.S. Marshals pursue relentlessly, but Gerard begins to suspect that there is more to the exceptional fugitive than what he has been told. Meanwhile, Sheridan struggles to avoid capture while seeking answers of his own. Until the final scene, both Gerard and Sheridan are in jeopardy of the unknown.
Director(s): Stuart Baird
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
26%
PG-13
Year:
1998
131 min
1,653 Views


MAN 2:
Right here.

Which one of you is the ugliest, most

inbred, country son of a b*tch here?

[ALL LAUGH]

You come with me.

How long will you be?

Okay, everybody,

com-check with me now on 3.

- Sam.

- Com-check 3.

COOPER:
Biggs.

- Com-check.

COOPER:
Newman. Cosmo.

RENFRO:
Com-check.

You get a visual, put up a flare...

...call for backup, stay in the boat!

How long will you be out?

I got PTA tonight.

We'll be out till we catch him.

PTA's on hold.

- You be careful.

- Always.

[BIRD SQUAWKS]

[MOSQUITO BUZZES]

I got a visual. It's him.

Put up your flare. Put up your flare.

He's moving. I'm going in.

Stay in the boat. Stay in the boat.

Wait for us.

[GRUNTING]

- There's a flare.

- Right in through there.

Pull up to that bank.

Get around to the other side.

Be careful. This man's mad

and he's got a gun.

It's him.

Go! Faster!

[BIRD SQUAWKS]

I'll take the gun. Walk.

Come on, move! Move, move!

Yeah. What happens now?

We dance. Walk.

Drop the gun, pal.

It's been a long day for everybody.

Let's end it on a positive note.

For me or for you?

Everybody walks away breathing,

everybody wins.

How long will I live

if I let you take me in, huh?

You forget about the plane?

Look around, you're caught.

It's over.

Let's go home.

No. You go home.

Oh, Lord!

- Hurry it up.

- Come on, move!

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[GUNSHOTS]

Gerard's been hit.

Come on!

RENFRO:

He's over there.

[ALL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

- How is he?

- He'll be fine.

How is it to nearly get killed?

[GRUNTS]

If he was trying to kill me, he'd have

shot me in the head, not the vest.

Ever occur to you maybe he just missed?

I don't think we're dealing with a guy

who misses. Yeah.

Maybe it's time to let someone else

catch this one, Sam.

- You don't think I'm incapable-

- You're capable, sure.

Okay, then let me do my job.

Don't make me wrong, Sam.

- You screw up and I swear to God-

- I know.

- I love you, Sam.

- I know.

But don't think I won't fire your ass.

[SIGHS]

Biggs, you and Cooper are staying here.

We're going back to Chicago.

We'll find out who put that gun

on the plane and who Mark Roberts is.

Take us to the airport. Who's got

my gun and credentials?

- Hi, can I get you something to drink?

MAN:
Diet soda, please.

Look, I made a mistake, okay?

I usually work alone.

No, we're lucky I got shot, kid.

- Lucky?

- Yeah.

If he'd shot one of my deputies,

you wouldn't see your mama again...

...I'd be in jail for shooting you.

We're lucky.

I thought we don't

take our work personally.

We don't.

I do.

[MARIE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

Decaf grande cappuccino and a biscotti.

- One Sidamo?

MARIE:
Plus tax.

[PHONE RINGS]

Just a sec.

Starbucks.

Yeah. Marie, some guy has a question

about a grinder you sold him.

- Excuse me.

CUSTOMER:
Sure.

- Hello.

- Marie?

- Mark?

- Can you talk?

Wait a minute.

Were you hurt? I saw the crash on TV.

- No, no, no. Baby, I'm fine. I'm fine.

- They keep saying you're a criminal.

You murdered two people.

No, no, it's a lie. Marie, listen to me.

[SIREN WAILS]

- Where are you?

- I can't tell you that right now.

I know there's some things

I didn't tell you about myself.

Believe me when I tell you,

I did not do what they said I did.

You do believe me?

I want to believe you, Mark.

I'm just confused and scared.

Now, Marie, listen to me.

Before we met,

I worked for the government.

I was on a routine assignment

when it was ambushed.

I killed two men in self-defense.

Marie, I did not murder anyone.

You have to believe me.

I wouldn't lie to you.

What are you going to do?

I'll find the person who set me up

and clear my name.

It's something I thought

I could hide from, but I guess I can't.

Will I ever see you again?

Oh, come on now. Don't be crazy.

Of course you will.

Marie.

I hate involving you in this, but,

baby, I got nobody else I can trust.

- I can trust you, right?

- Of course you can, Mark.

I love you.

I need your help.

[CHATTERING]

Henry?

- Got the casebooks on Roberts?

- Yeah.

There was a woman at the hospital

when he was arrested. Paid his bill.

- In cash.

- Find her.

- U.N. garage has security cameras.

- Of course.

Get the date and time

of the murders, find the tapes.

We'll never get clearance.

[GERARD SCOFFS]

Get the clearance, get the tapes.

Don't tell me what we can't do.

I'll get it done.

GERARD:
What?

- Roberts' apartment was clean.

Been there six months,

neighbors barely remember him.

Where'd he work?

- I'm going there next.

GERARD:
How about right now?

[PHONE RINGS]

RENFRO:
Sam.

- What do you got on the zip gun?

RENFRO:
We covered all the workers

who could've planted the gun...

...except for one guy, Kevin Peters.

- Out on sick leave.

- Heh. Find him. Check them all out again.

I wanna go through their families,

their associates...

...changes in personal habits...

...bank records, medical,

the works.

- Stand on them till one squeaks.

- I'm on it.

[DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]

To see you walk in

was like a mainline of ego boost.

I must've done something right...

...to see you come all the way here

in one piece.

Yeah. It was all you, sarge.

You're a hot commodity. Little birds

talking about big dollars to bring you in.

Dead or alive?

Emphasis on dead.

On the plane, they tried.

Almost succeeded too.

You tempted?

If you're the traitor they say you are.

Oh, that's bullshit.

- I got set up from the word "go. "

- By who?

That's what I gotta figure out.

It's somebody on the inside.

Got instructions by the usual channels.

Supposed to make a drop-off.

Then all hell breaks loose.

Damn, I thought I could disappear.

Boy, was I wrong.

Your next move?

Find the Chinese bagman from the

U.N. garage and hope he leads me...

...to the person who set me up.

Then get righteous again.

- How do you intend to do that?

- I got a couple ideas. Got the stuff?

It's clean.

Where's the key?

Make sure you take it all.

I don't want you back here again.

You don't believe me?

I've gone as far as I'm prepared to go.

I'll catch the rest on CNN.

Good luck to you, man.

You're a lucky guy.

The old lady just kicked...

...day before yesterday.

I can move out anything you don't want.

MARK:

It's perfect.

[PHONE RINGS]

- What do you got?

BIGGS:
We're in Pennsylvania.

We got this guy

who says our fugitive...

...jumped him near Eddyville, Kentucky.

Tied him up and stuffed him

in his own camper.

- How long's he been there?

- Hold on, let me find out.

- How long was he in there?

- Six hours.

Six hours.

What do you want? We're exhausted.

We haven't slept for two days.

Stay on the trail.

You can sleep next month.

Biggs and Cooper found a guy

tied up in his truck.

He ID'd our man.

Harrisburg. Seems he is heading north.

Maybe now you'll start listening to me.

Explain why your ruthless assassin keeps

going out of his way to let people live.

[PHONE RINGS]

Hello.

- Yeah, we're right on it.

- What's up?

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Roy Huggins

Roy Huggins (July 18, 1914 – April 3, 2002) was an American novelist and an influential writer/creator and producer of character-driven television series, including Maverick, The Fugitive, and The Rockford Files. A noted writer and producer using his own name, much of his later television scriptwriting was done using the pseudonyms Thomas Fitzroy, John Thomas James, and John Francis O'Mara. more…

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