Escape From New York Page #2

Call me Snake.

Some of them have cars. They took

old junkers, converted them to steam.

We think they may also have

a gasoline source in there.

And power. Greenhouses, rigged-up

generators, some areas have street lights.

The "crazies," they live in the subways.

Complete control of the underground.

They're night raiders.

Tracer. Sends a radio signal for 15 minutes.

If you push it, we can track you on radar.

Just like Leningrad.

But they added something.

A safety catch.

- Where am I landing?

- Top of the World Trade Center.

Only place you can land. They won't see

it and you can take off from a free fall.

On the roof is a service elevator.

It's still operational.

We use it to infiltrate the prison.

There's a power box.

It'll activate the elevator down to 50.

From there on down, you walk.

You can locate the president

by his vital-signs bracelet on his wrist.

Sends off a synch pulse. Use this.

Homing device.

Shows direction and distance.

Strong antitoxin, stops bacteria

and viral growth for 24 hours.

- Take off your jacket.

- I'll be all right.

Let's go, Plissken.

I don't like needles.

- Twenty-two hours, 59 minutes.

- We talked about 24.

In 22 hours the Hartford Summit

meeting will be over.

China and the Soviet Union

will go back home.

Now, the president was on his way

to the summit when his plane went down.

He has a briefcase attached to his wrist.

The tape recording inside

has to reach Hartford in 22 hours.

What's on it?

- You know anything about nuclear fusion?

- All right.

It's the survival of the human race,

Plissken.

Something you don't give a sh*t about.

I'm gonna inject you.

It'll sting for a second or two.

That's it, Plissken.

Tell him.

Tell me what?

That idea you had about turning

the Gullfire around 180 degrees...

...and flying off to Canada...

What did you do to me, a**hole?

My idea, Plissken.

Something we've been fooling around with.

Two microscopic capsules

lodged in your arteries.

They're already starting to dissolve.

In 22 hours the cores

will completely dissolve.

Inside the cores

are a heat-sensing charge.

Not a large explosive.

About the size of a pinhead.

Just big enough

to open up both your arteries.

- I'd say you'd be dead in 10 or 15 seconds...

- Take them out now!

They're protected by the cores.

...we can neutralize the charge

with x-rays.

We'll burn out the charges

if you have the president.

- What if I'm a little late?

- No more Hartford Summit...

...and no more Snake Plissken.

When I get back I'm gonna kill you.

The Gullfire's waiting.

- I'm ready.

- 21 hours.

Suppose he's dead, Hauk.

If I come back without him...

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