Chill Factor Page #2

LONG:

No!

LONG:

No!

BRYNNER:

(shouts indistinct)

LONG:

You'll kill us all!

BRYNNER:

Damn you, Long! My people are out there!

Your people are out there!

LONG:

(overlapping) It's too...

LONG:

...late! It's too late!

SCENE:

EXT. BLOCKHOUSE - DAY.

TELSTAR:

(gasps and pants - continues under

following scene)

TELSTAR:

(yells)

SCENE:

INT. BLOCKHOUSE - DAY.

TELSTAR:

(off) (sobbing) Let me in!

GENERAL:

(voice over) Captain Andrew Thomas

Brynner.

TELSTAR:

(off) (overlapping) (sobbing) Please let

me in! (sobs indistinct - continues under

following scene and dialogue)

ADAMS:

(voice over) It is the opinion of this

review panel...

ADAMS:

(voice over) ...that the verdict

delivered in this case is justified, and

that you are in fact...

ADAMS:

(voice over) ...guilty of criminal

negligence resulting in the deaths of

eighteen members of a military research

team...

SCENE:

EXT. JUNGLE/TEST SITE - DAY.

ADAMS:

(voice over) ...on the date of August

eighteenth, nineteen seventy-seven.

SCENE:

INT. MILITARY COURTROOM - DAY.

ADAMS:

(reading) "It is also this panel's

opinion that the sentence of reduction in

rank...

ADAMS:

(off) (reading) ...forfeiture of all pay

and allowances and twenty years in the

United States disciplinar-...

ADAMS:

(reading) ...-y command at Fort

Leavenworth is justified.

ADAMS:

(reading) Furthermore, you are advised

that, while you are a prisoner, you

remain bound by the National Security Act

of nineteen forty-sev-...

ADAMS:

(off) (reading) ...-en. If you divulge

classified information or discuss the

nature of the project in which you were

involved...

ADAMS:

(reading) ...you will face further

prosecution." Do you under-...

ADAMS:

(off) ...-stand?

GENERAL:

I assume your silence indicates assent.

Transfer to Leavenworth will be

immediate. You're dismissed.

LONG:

(off) Andrew...

LONG:

...I wish they would've let me say

something...

LONG:

...about--

BRYNNER:

(interrupting) There's nothing to say,

doctor. Someone had to take the fall,

and they still need you, whereas...I've

never been anything more than a thorn in

their collective side, as you once said.

BRYNNER:

So I'll be locked safely away in some

hole along with my secret sins. And

yours.

SCENE:

INT. FORT LEAVENWORTH/CELLBLOCK - DAY.

NARRATIVE TITLE:

FORT LEAVENWORTH

SCENE:

INT. FORT LEAVENWORTH/BRYNNER'S CELL -

DAY.

BRYNNER:

(sighs)

SCENE:

EXT. FORT LEAVENWORTH - TEN YEARS LATER

- DAY.

NARRATIVE TITLE:

TEN YEARS LATER:

SCENE:

INT. FORT LEAVENWORTH/BRYNNER'S CELL -

DAY.

YOUNG GUARD:

Ready?

SCENE:

EXT. RIVER - DAY.

MASON:

(grunts)

MASON:

Been trying to figure out your secret.

LONG:

My secret?

MASON:

Yeah. Ten months we've been fishin' this

river together. We use the same

equipment, more or less...

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