Escape from L.A. Page #4

EXT. CONTAINMENT WALL - FIREBASE SEVEN - L.A. - NIGHT

Searchlights sweep down across a column of policemen marching past

a concrete wall. Camera begins to crane up the wall. Sound of

roaring turbines. The howl of the Santa Ana wind.

Camera reaches the top of the wall. Armed police troops stand on

the battlements. Across what looks like an ocean is L.A. The view

is from the Newhall Pass.

Hidden by the Santa Monica Mountains, L.A. glows in the distance

with a hundred fires. Smoke surges from the jagged horizon. Above,

the sky is an angry orange.

ANOTHER ANGLE - TOP OF THE WALL

Res sensor lights glow in evenly spaced intervals. Searchlights

sweep into the darkness. Cannons are in place every 200 feet,

manned by police guards.

EXT. SAN FERNANDO SEA - NIGHT

Water stretches into blackness. This was once the San Fernando

Valley, but now it's all underwater. Pieces of debris - tops of

buildings, the tail of an airplane, a radio tower - stick up above

the surface. We can make out the letters of an old, half-sunken

sign:
"SAN FERNANDO VALLEY MALL"

EXT. THE WALL - NIGHT

The wall stretches to the northwest up to the Santa Susanna Pass.

Portions of the 118 Freeway arch up out of the water.

EXT. FIREBASE SEVEN - BEHIND THE WALL - NIGHT

Firebase Seven is a fortified base camp in the San Gabriel

Mountains. It is a sprawling police complex with low concrete

bunkers, gun emplacements, satellite communications, vehicles,

troops, the works. ON A LARGE ASPHALT FIELD, opposite the main

complex is Rotor City - row after row of black, multi-bladed,

totally evil police battle helicopters parked like giant bugs on

the ground.

A throng of policemen gather at the edge of Rotor City yelling and

cheering, their fists in the air. Cops with camcorders videotape

the event. A police anchor reports...

POLICE ANCHOR:

He's been the Force's Most Wanted Man for

10 years. Convicted of 27 moral crimes. I

can tell you, the excitement around here

is...

(a great roaring skyward)

Here he comes!

A MASSIVE 7-ROTORED, 40-BLADED HELICOPTER TRANSPORT comes slamming

down out of the black sky and lands. The growing crowd of cheering

cops goes nuts like fans at a football game. They slap hands,

dance wildly.

INT. COMMAND HQ - MAIN CONTROL ROOM - NIGHT

A mammoth room filled with high-tech instrumentation. A glowing

holographic map of L.A. fills one wall. Most of the control

personnel have left their work stations and gather around TV sets

all showing the Police Channel: a view of the helicopter transport

sitting on the asphalt and the cheering crowds at the edge of

Rotor City.

A tall, steel-faced officer sits at his desk. This is Firebase

Commander MAC "BIG DOG" MALLOY. Hard, battle weary features.

BRAZEN, a section Lieutenant, comes up.

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