Demolition Man Page #3

SPARTAN:

How 'bout some light, guys?

Half a beat later, blinding white light blows through

the windows.

EXT. FORTRESS - FROM ABOVE - NIGHT

The blimp casts down a wall of light. 32 million

candlepower pours straight down.

INT. FORTRESS - MAIN BUILDING - SECOND FLOOR - NIGHT

A wild melange of white, white light and dark, dark

shadows. The gas fumes ripple, refract in the air.

Lights bounce off the pools of gasoline. Spartan rolls

into the room. Both guns come up.

SPARTAN:

Simon Phoenix. You're under

arrest.

(then)

Where are the muni passengers?

PHOENIX:

F*** you, Spartan. They're gone.

I told the city no one comes down

here anymore. Cops figured it

out, postmen figured it out. Damn

bus drivers wouldn't listen.

Arrest me? You've got no

jurisdiction here. You're in my

kingdom now. Fifty blocks in

every direction. And it's mine.

SPARTAN:

(simply)

It's over.

PHOENIX:

It's over?!

(knows it's true)

Yeah. It's over. But I've been

king once, and I ain't ever going

back to jail.

Spartan keeps the guns trained on Phoenix. Simon

scratches his arm. It's a junkie's twitch. Or is it...

Spartan can't see it, but there's a kitchen match tucked

behind Simon's ear. Phoenix reaches up to scratch

another itch. Frees the match in one gestures, strikes

it and tosses it into the pool of gas. Smiles. A

friendly happy smile.

The room bursts into flames. He throws back his head and

laughs. Spartan dives on him. Tries to hurl them both

through the window.

But Phoenix is either stronger or just far crazier and

drugged up. Smashes the two of them into the wall

instead. They trade blows. The building gets worse.

AMMO starts to EXPLODE downstairs.

EXT. FORTRESS - MAIN YARD - NIGHT

A giant LAPD wrecker with a cow catcher front blasts

through the main gates. LAPD Humvees follow.

A young cop (ZACHARY LAMB) gets out, looks at the main

building, shakes his head in amusement at the

destruction --

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