Collateral Damage Page #2
5.
10 CONTINUED:
10Gordy swings over the hole on the axe handle.
He hits the other side running. Drives a shoulder into
the door at the end of the hall.
Gordy bursts in. It's an inferno. He looks up. Knocks
his axe on the ceiling. Hears desperate POUNDING back.
Gordy climbs a table. Starts whacking upward with theaxe, attacking the peeling, crumbled plaster overhead.
Gordy is trying to hack a hole into the room above, buthe's not doing it fast enough. He won't beat the fire.
Gordy calls down to his men.
GORDY:
Give me the hose!
Beat.
MIKE:
This place is gone! It could
flashover any second!
GORDY:
Give me the goddamn hose!
Mike and Junior pass the hose up.
Gordy aims the nozzle at the hole he started in theceiling. Turns it on full jet.
Gordy's barely able to hold the hose as the high-pressurestream bites into old, decayed plaster.
Bit by bit the ceiling falls away. Gordy's almostthrough to the room above, when...
Falling debris severs the hose. Gordy's lost pressure.
He hasn't broken through. The building's coming down.
Gordy's not going anywhere. Picks up the axe. Attacks
the hole again furiously, until finally...
6.
14 GORDY 14
breaks through! A small hole, which he quickly widens,
to reveal... a terrified Latino family gaping down athim, their room ablaze around them. Gordy reaches up.
Speaks to them in Spanglish -
GORDY:
It's okay... Esta bien, esta
bien... Come with me... Con mio...
Gordy lowers the family through the floor hole.
16 EXT. TENEMENT 16
Gordy carries the family's small child outside. He
passes the child to its grateful parents, while...
The rescued Firefighter sits on a curb looking at a heroand shaking his head in disbelief and admiration.
17 INT. UPPER WEST SIDE APARTMENT - BEDROOM - MORNING 17
ANNE PITT, thirties, reaches out and KILLS the ALARM.
She rolls over. The other half of the bed's empty. We
hear a CHILD'S VOICE from another room.
18 INT. MATT'S BEDROOM 18
Anne opens the door to find an exhausted Gordy sitting onthe floor with their four-year-old son, MATT. They're
building a K'nex spaceship.
MATT:
Look what we made!
ANNE:
Nice rocket... That took a while.
GORDY:
He was awake when I got home. His
throat still hurts.
ANNE:
Sh*t.
MATT:
That's a bad word.
GORDY:
You're right.
(CONTINUED)
7.
18 CONTINUED:
18Sorry.
ANNE:
She feels Matt's forehead. Gordy's done it already.
No fever.
GORDY:
ANNE:
(to Matt)
You better see Dr. Bob.
(to Gordy)
And this time, no opening firehydrants to play in till he'scompletely well.
Yes, ma'am.
GORDY:
She leans down and kisses him. There's passion in it.
ANNE:
How was your shift?
GORDY:
(shrugs)
The usual.
She yawns. Starts heading out.
ANNE:
Dreamed I did a triple axel in anice skating championship.
GORDY:
(beat; calls afterher)
Come back and let me see those
legs again.
Gordy holds Matt in his arms as water pours over them.
It's the second child he's held in the last few hours.
This one is his, this one is safe at home and unafraid:
what a father wants for his child. We see the deepaffection Gordy has for his son. He holds Matt tightly,
skin to skin, and kisses the boy's wet head...
Anne opens the shower door. She's on the phone.
(CONTINUED)
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