Logan's Run Page #2

As Francis starts out:

LOGAN (one last look;

joining Francis)

All right, Francis...I'm with you.

They move off down the corridor...the lights behind them DIMMING as

they pass cubicles suffused with soft pink light, CHILDREN

automatically tended.

CHIMES...soft. A lullaby and a soothing impersonal VOICE.

VOICE:

Sleep time...go to sleep.

Sleeping time, little ones.

As they exit Nursery...Logan stops and takes one final look

backward.

FRANCIS:

You need a lift. Let's go

to Arcade and celebrate...

(teasing tone)

your alert successor...Logan-6.

LOGAN:

Has anyone ever broken in to

where the babies are?

FRANCIS:

(putting a card key into a door

which opens soundlessly)

Not in my time...

They move through the door which closes.

20EXT. - MAZE STATION - NIGHT

They are now on a kind of enclosed platform with widely spaced

doorways, each glowing faintly. They pause, waiting.

FRANCIS (peering

at Logan curiously)

Why?

LOGAN:

just wondered...what happens?

FRANCIS (shrugs)

Dunno...flameout maybe. Whatever

happens, you can bet it's final.

But who would want to find out?

One of the doorways brightens and the word ARCADE _ appears on it.

The two men move to the spot as a maze-car stops. They enter it

through the doorway which dims behind them as the maze-car WHOOSHES

softly off into a kind of twilight.

21INT. - MAZE-CAR - LOGAN AND FRANCIS

The door slides shut. They sink into seat forms which yield to them.

They move off.

22EXT. - MAZE- CAR

Moving through the city at terrific speed. Giving us glimpses of the

city as it goes. slowing finally as we see:

23THE CITY - FEATURING ARCADE

Brightly lit, garish. We get only a glimpse as the maze-car

disappears into a tunnel.

24MAZE-CAR STATION - ARCADE

As the maze-car stops, opens and Logan and Francis exit into a

gathering CROWD.

25FULL SHOT - ARCADE

Glittering, crowded. Throngs of people moving on many levels, some

walking, some on moving platforms. It's The Great White Way, Luna

Park -- you name it. Gaudy booths and entrances, featuring every

delight -- too much to take in at a glance.

26WITH LOGAN AND FRANCIS

As they thread their way through a crowd which admires them when it

notices them, across halls and up moving platforms, the good-natured

argument continuing...

LOGAN:

but you don't know, you Just

say what everyone says. One for

one. One for one."

FRANCIS:

Well, why no!? That's exactly how

everything works. How else could

the city stay in balance -You have

a better idea?

LOGAN (laughs)

No, but at least I wonder sometimes --

instead of doing that "one for one" song

of yours. You sound like a sleepteacher

With a stuck tape.

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