Demolition Man Page #6

SMITHERS:

John Spartan. You've done great

deeds for the city of Los Angeles,

so it is with some regret that I

hereby...

SPARTAN:

Skip it...

Spartan shivers, contemplating one of his stiffening

hands.

SMITHERS:

John Spartan. You've been

sentenced to 70 years in the

California CryoPenitentiary for

the involuntary manslaughter of

thirty...

SPARTAN:

Skip it...

Spartan is beginning to shake from the cold. His lips

turning blue before our eyes. Color just drains away.

SMITHERS:

I'm sorry, John.

(then; a smile)

Don't catch cold.

SPARTAN:

Fuh... fuf... funny.

The technicians attempt to help Spartan into the chamber.

He shakes them off to stagger down on his own. Let's not

kid ourselves, he's scared --

SPARTAN:

See ya next century...

TITLES BEGIN as...

The casing door is closed over him. MONITORS down the

lining of the circular chamber show a digital rap sheet,

a dropping thermometer, a parole date, and today's date:

November 20, 1998. A super-chilled clear goo flows in,

packing and preserving isolated Michelangeloesque

segments of the defiant statue that is John Spartan.

But he's still conscious. Still even struggling a bit.

On the arm above the chamber, inside a vacuum bell a

small vial is auto unscrewed. LOCKED and SAFETY lights

cycle. We see a tiny white chip inside. The vial is

moved into place by a tiny robot arm. Bottom vent is

opened. The chip is dumped into the chamber. It's the

opposite of watching ice shatter. Instead, the whole

hockey puck goes solid in an instant and a half. The

thermo read-out drops in an instant to a half degree

above 0 degrees Kelvin. It's done.

The VIEWER makes a GENTLY DIZZYING JOURNEY AROUND the

chamber, SETTLING FOR A MOMENT ON Spartan's contorted-

into-a-defiant-sneer face.

INT. CRYO PRISON - MAIN ROOM - DAY (2042)

The VIEWER'S VIEWPOINT KEEPS PULLING OUT to see that the

date on Spartan's MONITOR now reads August 3, 2042.

Warden Smithers, now a bespectacled, gray-haired old

man, in a peculiar uniform, shuffles past the completely

unaged Spartan.

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