Alien Nation Page #4

Sykes rises and runs across the street toward the getaway

car, firing toward the store as he goes.

Kipling and Raincoat dodge behind cover.

Tuggle seizes the opportunity, jumps from behind the lamp

post and runs to the stalled civilian car. He slides

across the hood and drops behind the car for cover.

Tuggle slowly pokes his head up to peer through the car

window. His gaze is met by the face of the OLD MAN driver

who is still inside the car.

OLD MAN:

Can I get out now?

TUGGLE:

Move it!

Sykes doesn't have a clear firing line on the aliens in

the store. As he considers his next move--

Tuggle fires at the two aliens. They return fire and he

slides down to safety behind the car. Or so he thinks.

Glass rains down on him as the car windows are cremated by

the shotgun blasts. He flinches as another blast hits the

car. He looks over. There's a big exit hole in the

fender beside him. THE SHOT WENT RIGHT THROUGH THE CAR.

Another exit hole is BLASTED, inches from his shoulder.

Panicked, he scrambles along the side of the car -- BLASTS

and exit holes following him until he reaches the front of

the car. He has nowhere left to go and--

-- a BLAST comes through the car and catches him squarely

in the chest throwing him back onto the street.

Sykes' head jerks around -- in time to see his partner of

nine years blown away.

Kipling keeps firing in Tuggle's direction until his

shotgun CLICKS empty.

INT. MINI-MART - NIGHT

Kipling grabs Raincoat and throws him toward the back exit

of the store. The shotgun falls from Raincoat's hands.

The two of them run out the back.

EXT. STREET - NIGHT

Sykes runs to Tuggle's spread-eagled body. One glance is

enough. Nobody ever looked deader.

SYKES:

Aw sh*t, Tug, Jesus! Goddamn it!

He stares, shocked and incredulous. He can't find a way

to think or feel about this. Then we see him going crazy

right before our eyes, the rage revving. He takes off

toward the store as SIRENS are HEARD rapidly approaching

in background.

INT. MINI-MART - NIGHT

Sykes moves through like a locomotive skidding on broken

glass, bangs through the exit.

EXT. ALLEY - NIGHT

Sykes catches sight of the two aliens just as they round

the corner at the far end of the alley. He takes off,

quickly cranking up to full speed.

EXT. BACK STREET - NIGHT

Sykes rounds the corner. Doesn't see them anymore. He

slows... moves along this street with some caution. Lots

of shadows, lots of hiding places. Sykes HEARS a NOISE,

looks up... just in time to see Raincoat on a high, huge

billboard. He cuts loose with the shotgun. Sykes dives.

Huge chunks of the crate he dives behind fly off into the

night. Sykes, on his belly, scrambles deeper among the

crates.

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