The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Page #6

COCKPIT POV...Buckaroo's windshield CRACKLING AND THE COCKPIT TURNING

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CLOSE ON DASHBOARD: wildly spinning dials, Buckaroo punching the

OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER again, amid fire and smoke!

INT. HELICOPTER - TEST RANGE - DAY71

The TV crew in their fancy helicopter first to witness an astounding

sight.

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THEIR POV:
the JET CAR EMERGING FROM SOLID ROCK AS THOUGH THE CRAGGY

MOUNTAIN WERE MUSH!

CLOSE ON:
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HELICOPTER NEWSMAN

(in apoplexy)

He's through it! He's gone through the mountain without a scratch!

Oh, my God! Oh, my God in Heaven!

INT. MISSION CONTROL - DAY74

An overjoyed Professor Hikita, surrounded by chaos and confusion,

throws both arms skyward in triumph...

PROF. HIKITA

Banzai!

INT. JET CAR - DOWN RANGE - DAY75

Fifty miles downrange, Buckaroo tries to slow the speeding, smoke-

filled JET CAR.

EXT. JET CAR - DAY76

A parachute popping out its back, at once ripping off in the high

velocity wind...

INT. JET CAR - DAY77

BUCKAROO BANZAI:

Chute negative. I'm gonna try and lay her sideways.

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ANOTHER ANGLE as he reaches for the hand brake and simultaneously spins

his Brodi knob hard to the right!

EXT. MIDDLE OF NOWHERE - DAY79

Buckaroo doing the impossible, somehow bringing the racing JET CAR to a

spinning, skidding halt in a thicket of dry brush! AS OVERHEAD THAT

NETWORK HELICOPTER CIRCLES...

EXT. JET CAR - DAY80

The battered JET CAR, exhausting smoke, Buckaroo rolling its window

down, opening the door and emerging, checking the damage to his

vehicle, noting a STRANGE GELATINOUS SUBSTANCE on the cracked

windshield, touching it and turning his nose from the smell...his glove

steaming!

THE NEWS COPTER LANDING IN THE DISTANCE.81

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ANGLE ON Buckaroo as he lowers himself under the Jet Car, coming face-

to-face with one ugly SPHERICAL PARASITE, THE THING SUDDENLY SHOOTING

OUT at Buckaroo as he's about to touch it...A MOBILE PHONE starting to

BEEP back in the cockpit...the PARASITE coming to rest on the

ground...dead?

INT. BLOCKHOUSE - DAY83

Pandemonium, people cheering...General Catburd on the phone...

GENERAL CATBURD:

This his frequency? Nobody's home.

EXT. JET CAR - DAY84

Buckaroo ignoring the phone, taking his lunch bag from the front seat

and removing a sandwich, taking a bite of it, and using the foil to

pick up the BIZARRE PARASITE from the desert floor...wrapping the weird

thing up...now at last reaching for the car phone...

INT. BLOCKHOUSE - DAY85

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

(Taking the phone)

Gimme that! You tell me, Buckaroo, what in the hell is this going-

through-solid-matter-and rendering-all-conventional-defense-perimeters-

useless-over-night bullshit?

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